I don't need potential at this grown big age. Come already, potential. On this episode of the Commercial Break. No one's giving free Fentanyl to the kids. That's not happening. Stop it. It might have happened one time where some junky threw out some whatever. Here's some Fentanyl pills. Have a nice day. But no one's giving free drugs away. That doesn't happen because if that would happen, I wouldn't be here right now. I would be getting the free drugs. That's what I would be doing. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the girl who sits on our Bonhomie board of directors, Kristin Joy. Hopefully, best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. He used Bonhomie. I used Bonhomie because I figured we were going to do word of the There's no use in throwing it out in the trash then. I got to then use it.

Exactly. Incorporate it into daily life.

So I told one of my daughters last night that she wasn't being very Bonhomie. She had an 80-minute meltdown over an outfit that she had to wear. Not even an outfit, pajamas. And I was like, Honey, you have to wear pajamas to bed. She wanted to wear this full Easter dress. She loves her dresses. I know. She does love her dresses. And I don't want to kill her spirit, but at the same time, it's your Easter dress. It's for Easter. It's not special if you wear it all the time. It's just not. We got to... Some stuff we got to save for the rainy day, you know what I'm saying? Or a special day. We just can't do that. But an 80-minute meltdown, and then at the end, I just said, You're not being very bonhomme. She looked at me like, Huh? I said, Don't worry, I just learned the word also. Both of us are learning new words. Exactly. What's your word of the day today? You got a word of the day over there?

I do have a word of the day today. All right, let's keep it going.

Why not?

I know.

Dying for content. Let's go for it.

Okay, you ready?

Yes, I am.

Okay, the word for today is Quotidian.

Oh, quotidian. Quotidian. That's when you draw quotes on someone's tits. It's quotes. And then you say, literally. That's when you go literally with your hands on someone's nipples. Literally. Quotidian.

Would you like me to give you a quotidian?

I'm going to assume this is derived from Greek language.

Closed, Latin.

Latin? Okay. All right. I think Greek is Latin.

Exactly. What are you thinking? The Greek language.

All right. It is from the 14th century. Okay. Wow, it's an old word. I've gone my whole life without quotidian.

Yeah, but it's a good one here.

All right, so give me it in a sentence.

Well, it means- Hold on.

Give it to me in a sentence. Let me see if I could figure out what it means. I'm usually good at this stuff. Okay.

Washing the dishes was a quotidian task, but she made the time pass quickly by listening to the commercial break. Okay.

Boring or tedious?

It close. It's occurring every day, daily.

Oh, a daily task. But mundane.

But mundane.

Like the commercial break.

Exactly. I thought it was very fitting.

Yeah, there you go. I'm going to call it the quotidian break. That's the new... I literally am going to put that on a banner. I'm going to put that on a banner and I'm going to send it out to the universe. The commercial break, quotidian. It's quotidian. It's boring and mundane and you have to listen to it every day. All right. Okay. That's a good one. I like quotidian. That's right. Okay. Well, I wasn't right about the boobs, but I'm a three-year-old in my head.

Well, that could maybe be the urban dictionary version of this word. Yeah, okay.

Quotidian is where you do the air, the literally on someone's boobs. Yeah. With permission, of course. Yes. Okay, I don't want anybody running around quotidian-ing They're getting in trouble.

Don't get crazy in your quotidian.

Yes. Yes. So quotidian has gone wild. Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. It's quotidian. If we put that on a banner ad, I think people would click on... I mean, They would click on it and then they would quickly figure out that it is quotidian.

Get Bonhomie with our quotidian podcast.

That's right. It's quotidian, but Bonhomie. There you go. Look at us. We're bringing words to the people. And that That's desperately needed. It is. Because even I find my language is getting dumbed down by all the stupid shit that I read on the internet. It's like I'm using always or amazing or the best or the most. Nothing can be the most. Perfect. It's perfect. Is it really? Is it really? That's my favorite. I say that every three minutes. It can't be your favorite every time or it's not your favorite. Favorite denotes it's one of us, a thing that can never be replicated because it is your favorite. You don't have multiple favorites. I guess you can have favorites, or that's when you're favoring something, and that's a different way to use the word.

Jeff called me out on that a little while back. It was like, Yeah, but you said that the other song was your favorite song. Yeah. I know, but this one is It's my favorite. It's one of my favorites.

It's my favorite. This is another favorite.

I tried to say it's one of my favorites now.

I dated a girl, and we went to the high museum thinking that, just to throw a little class into the whole situation. I love that place. Classless relationship. We decided to class it up a little bit.

We go there and- Was it that nighttime jazz?

No, this was daytime. Okay. It was regular hours. It was actually a cool exhibit in the sense that it was a Ferrari exhibit.

Oh, yeah. I remember when that came. Do you remember when that came?

So it had the original Ferrari or whatever. It was all about Ferrari.

Were you calling on the high museum?

Yes, I was quote-titting my quote-titting.

So that's how you got there during work hours? Yes.

Got it. Yeah, exactly. It took me a minute to pick up on what you were saying, but yes, I'm going to talk to the dry cleaner down the street. I'll be back in 3-7 hours.

I'm going to talk to the decision maker at the Hype Museum. Probably drunk. They're probably good. They absolutely I absolutely want to do some advertising with this.

I have to go to the Cheetah again. They're already a client. I know, but a lot of relationship management going on there.

Exactly. You got to keep up with that.

If I don't show up at least once a day, they're going to think, What do we think of them? They're spending $2,000 a month. We got to keep that relationship going. I'm also spending $2,000 a month on the corporate card. We go to this particular event. It's like a Saturday afternoon. That's fine. It doesn't really matter what day it was. Why Why are you saying that? That's no relevance in the story. I'm checking myself as we talk. We go and I find a lot of things amazing. I'm like, Wow, that's amazing. Wow, amazing. Wow, amazing. I realized that maybe I say that word a little bit too much. It's like a crutch word for me, right? That's amazing. This is amazing. That's amazing. Or, Wow, wow, wow.

I do it, too, though.

Me and this girl that I was dating, we get into a huge argument Because at one point, she walks away from me. While we're looking at the exhibit, she walks away from me. I can just tell that- She's irritated. She's irritated. She doesn't like me anymore. She never liked me in the first place. She was just there for my house. Whatever. Okay. I walk over and she's like, I just need a minute. I'm like, What happened? She goes, I can't. If you say the word amazing one more time, isn't there another word in your vocabulary to use to describe this art or these cars or whatever? I'm like, Are we really arguing about the word amazing? She's like, It wouldn't be an argument if you didn't say it 500 times in the last hour. I'm so annoyed. I was like, Wow, this is amazing that you... It's amazing you're getting mad of me about this. But it was an argument that lasted, I think, like a day and a half. Oh, God. Over my limited vocabulary, my limited agitive vocabulary.

That was the first of many red flags.

It wasn't the first of many red flags. It was like the last of many red flags.

It was the 50th of the red flags.

Yes, 50th red flag. I wanted to talk about this. I go to Starbucks yesterday, and I know all the people at the Starbucks because I go there every morning. It's your little getaway. It is my getaway. It really is. It's my 15 minutes alone in the morning, check myself before I wreck myself thing. I get a little pop of caffeine. I feel good. I check the download stats, and then I feel bad. Then I look at how much money we're making. I want to crash into the Starbucks. But I don't because there are people there who I know now who are very friendly, and I like them. As a A collective group. They're very nice.

Do they spell your name with a Y?

They do know how to spell my name.

All right.

But they don't even have to spell my name. Half the time I walk in and they're already making it. It's already there for me. That's amazing. It is amazing. You're amazing. It's amazing. This is amazing. Everything's my favorite. I go in and one of the younger ladies that's working there is there with her boyfriend, but she's not working. She's sitting at one of the tables and she's like, Brian. She's one of these happy smiley, Brian, good morning. I'm like, Oh, Hey, how are you? Yeah, I'm good. I'm sitting there talking to her and her boyfriend, who also works at the Starbucks, by the way. She says, You've got to try our new EVOO Creamy Latte Frotte.

I've heard about those.

I'm like, What?

She goes, Our new- The extra virgin olive oil.

She goes, Our new EVOO cold brew and cream. I'm like, Did you say extra virgin olive oil? She's like, It's amazing. I go, Why in the world would they put olive oil in coffee? She says, They put it in the foam to make it extra creamy. I thought to myself, Cream is already extra creamy. We don't need extra creamy cream, and then you're going to fluff up some EVOO and put it on top of my cream. The only thing that I could think at that moment was if smelling coffee makes me run to the bathroom every morning, taking extra virgin olive oil, foam and cream inside of my coffee is a way to slide every bit of food that came into me in the last 24 hours out. I was all about it. I'm like, All right, okay, I'll try it. Try it. I have not tried it. I didn't try it this time because a cup of coffee was already ready. I was like, I don't want two cups of coffee. But I'm going to try it tomorrow. I'm going to let you know how it goes. Please do.

I have heard about this, and hey, I go through tons of olive oil on a regular basis. Yeah, we do, too. I cook with it. I put it in dressings, salads, the whole thing. I use it for my hair, my skin.

You put Jizzle Drizzle in your hair?

Yeah, it's a good mask.

You're like that guy, Ed, on 90 Day Fiance, who puts mayonnaise in his hair.

Yeah, once a month.

Once a month? Mm-hmm. You put olive oil in your hair?

Yeah, and just do a little mask, like a little homemade mask. Anyways.

Do you pour it on yourself?

Well, I usually just do, pour it in my hands and then put it into the ends. Do you- Don't step into the shower and douse myself.

I'm just curious how this goes. I didn't know you put olive oil in your hair. Yeah, you can. You got beautiful hair. Thank you. So I can't argue with the results. But the question is, How does this all go down? Do you go to the kitchen, take out your EVO that you just cooked you and Jeff dinner last night naked from the way down? Then Jeff's waiting there in his kitchen. I imagine he has a kitchen frock, a little apron, with a hole cut out in the bottom. It said, D's nuts are cooking tonight. D's nuts are for dinner.

What's for dinner? D's nuts.

D's nuts. Okay, so the whole scene going on. Then you say, Honey, I've got to do my EVO O'O tonight. Yeah. And he says, Great, I'll participate. And so then do you guys, you go into the bathroom?

He doesn't participate.

Oh, he doesn't help you with the hair? No. Oh, okay. All right. Maybe he should.

I could do it on my own.

I know, but maybe this could be a little foreplay. You're right.

Then we can just get all oily and oil up.

Listen, this is what I'm thinking is that let it just drip off your hair. Like, literally do an EVO shower where you guys just pouring EVO all over each other. I am so excited about this.

Honestly, I love this.

I hope you try this because I'm- I'm going to.

Because I'm too germophobic to do. It's about time for that mask.

It's some mask. Then you pour a little bit in your hands and then you just run it through your hair?

Yeah, and comb it through. Then you could twist it up and just leave it to sit for 30 minutes or so. Really? I'm going to watch the show. Then you wash it out. Yeah. Wow. They do hot oil scalp massages, too. Sometimes when you go to a spa.

Okay. They put warm oil in your hair, and it's EVO is what they're doing, or is it some specialized hair product?

Yeah. The last one was the EVO. Wow.

I had no idea this was going on.

Evo has been a staple in my house, but I have never tried the coffee.

Well, I've never tried it with coffee.

I'm very interested to hear.

I am interested, too. Who came up with this idea? Are the Italians Are the French doing this? Are the French doing this?

I did not have EVO in Italy in my coffee when I went.

But now I'm thinking about something. When I went to- Must be something to it. When I went to London- Starbucks. When I went to London at the Starbucks, the very big Starbucks in train station, of which there was three people in this huge Starbucks, and then there was a hundred people in the local coffee shop that was also right across the hallway. No one cares for Starbucks across. I mean, I don't say no one cares, but it's certainly not as popular. If there was a Starbucks here and a local coffee shop, the Starbucks would be packed in a local coffee shop would have a couple of people in it.

But they like to support local, usually outside of- I think they feel like Starbucks is just another crappy American thing that's been transported over here, like McDonald's and Kentucky fried chicken for whatever reason.

That's a hit over there. Anyway, I go to London, I go to the train station, and the couple of days that I was there, the four days mornings that I was there, I went, I walked, and they had EVOO bottles. They had this huge circular setup, and all around the glass, they had bottles of EVOO. Now I'm wondering if this is a thing that was being done across the season. They just brought it over. Maybe. But I am so happy to try it. I just have to try it near a bathroom that I like, not the actual Starbucks bathroom, because I know that's getting blown up three times an hour. You don't know how many times I'm sitting at that Starbucks.

Why don't you just get it and then take it home? That's what I'm going to do. Yeah.

Then I'll drink it here.

Then you can have your conference as well.

My morning press conference. I drove the kids to school today. I'm driving the kids to school now just because of the way that schedule works out. It's an addendum to the morning press conference is when the tough questions are asked. You know what I'm saying? If the White House press secretary- They've had some things to think about from the morning press conference, and then they follow up. They follow up. There's so many things flying by the window that then there's a lot of questions to be asked. Why is the moon out? Why is there only one moon? Why can't I look at the sun? Why are the trees green? So many questions, of which I like to answer, and I'm probably getting so much of it wrong. They're going to be just as dumb as I am because I don't know, but I make it up as I go along. I'm like, Oh, chloroform. That's why the trees are green. They're going to go to school and be like, Daddy uses chloroform to make the trees green. People are going to be like, What? Daddy uses what?

Just start telling them to ask their teacher.

Yeah, but You're on the way to school. I also want to be looked at as the cool dad that answered all the questions. I try my best to be really... I want them to have knowledge, and I want that knowledge to come from somewhere. They're too young. They'll have a chance to get the facts later. I'm just going to share some information that they can think in their heads right now. We're going on a two-night getaway to my parents house. We do this often. It's the one place we can go without spending any money, which is exactly how much money we have right now. Yes, exactly. So, unbelievable.

That's a nice little getaway, the lake.

Yeah, we love it. It's so much fun. It was the right move. My dad had originally gotten a mountain house, which you and I visited a number of times, and we really liked that. But it's limited in scope in the sense that you go there for the weekend, but you're staying there for the weekend. It was literally on top of a mountain. You had to get up a dirt road. It was not easy to get down. Even when you did get down, there was nothing within 30 miles. You had at least an hour to drive.

There's the tiniest little convenience store that has old stuff.

Yeah, stuff that hasn't been touched. Like Moonpies from the '70s, right? But they're still valid because Moonpies don't expire. Twinkies. I don't know if you're sure they make those anymore, but there's Twinkies in there. Yeah, that convenience store was nothing. Then they had a Piggly Wiggly down the street. Oh, right.

No, the Piggly Wiggly is big.

The Piggly Wiggly was big. That's the big hit in this particular part of the world, North Georgia Mountains. Anyway, but my dad and my stepmom started to realize that as we all got our own lives and wives and all that other shit that comes along with being an adult, that the trips up there were becoming less and less frequent. They, as they retired, didn't want to live there because they were afraid that we wouldn't come up as often and it would be boring. They don't have a chance to have friends or anything. They moved to a lake in a big community with a lot of other boaters and retired people and whatever, near a major-My dad did the same. Yeah. It's a smart move because now you can guarantee that the kids are going to come up at least during the spring and summer because there's lots of fun. There's boating and lakes and pools and all that stuff. It's not too far off the beaten path. In 30 minutes, you can be in downtown Clemson area, right? There's a lot going on there. We're going to this. We go there often because we have kids, and that's just an easy couple hour drive up there, spend the weekend, see- Change the scenery.

And the grandparents love the kids, so Astrid and I get a little bit of a break. Yes. They both have, or a couple of my kids have suitcases, like Mickey and Elsa. We just got them these suitcases. They're not suitcases. They're just plastic boxes. It looks like a suitcase, but it's just really a cheap piece of crap. But they are so excited because now they have in their heads that they, too, can pack their own suitcase. So they get out their suitcases. Last night, they're so excited. Can I pack my own suitcase? Can I bring my suitcase? And so usually we try and just take as little as possible. But this time I'm like, Okay, permitted. You guys can do this for sure.

Let's see what you got.

Yeah, let's see what you got. Well, Now, it was five days before we go to this fucking place, right? We're packing a little bit early. I said, Let's pack a little bit at a time, right? We'll pack our underwear tonight and our socks. I get in this discussion with one of my kids, and he's like, How many underwears do I need to bring? I'm like, Let's bring three. One for each day, the two days that we're going to be there, and then an extra just in case you shit yourself. Which isn't likely to happen, but also isn't out of the realm of possibility. Daddy also brings extra underwear on his trips in case I shit myself. This is a good rule of thumb. It's a good rule of thumb to always have underwear. Even though there's washers and dryers up there, it would be good if we had an extra pair of pants. He goes, he brings three, and then he brings three socks. We have that discussion. Then one of my other kids, she is going behind him. I'm paying attention to the one suitcase and not paying attention to the other suitcase. I turn around and literally the entire bedroom is in this kid's suitcase.

It's overflowing with clothes and shit. I'm like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, honey.

She's starting early.

She is.

I'm like, babe. The overpacking.

We don't need three pairs of... We don't need three swimsuits. We don't need twelve stuffies. We don't need six books. Then she's like, Oh, but what should I bring? I'm like, Well, I said, let's pack underwear and socks today, and then tomorrow we'll get to other stuff. I'm like, How many? I go, Three. Three is good. It's a good rule of thumb. She goes over, she's got a bunch. She's got like 10 pairs of underwear in this thing already. She takes them out, she throws them all over the place, and she's like, Okay, I'll count. I go, Okay, good. She goes, One, one, one, one, two, two, three, three. I go, Hey, that's not how it goes. It's not one, one, one, one, one Exactly. We did the wrong counting. It's day one, one, one, one, one. I'm like, One, two, three. That's how you do it. You do it, one, two, three. And this kid is like, No, no, no, dad, dad, dad, dad, let me do it. Let me do it. One, one, one. And I'm like, No, it's one, two, three. One, one. She goes, this is what she said to me.

She goes, My suitcase, my counting, I get to do it. I was like, Oh, Mrs. Attitudey Rudy, what is going on with you? Are we going to have a meltdown? If we don't have 70 pairs of underwear, what do we need? Eventually, she told me that she wants color. She wants multiple options.

I was like, options. Well, no, the options thing is for real.

What is she doing? Going on a date? She needs multiple underwear options? Who's she going to meet up there? I mean, come on.

I'm just saying I like to have multiple options.

You probably do, too. Oh, Christie, I'm the worst packer ever.

You know, because you check the weather before you leave, but anything could happen.

But I mean, there's no weather in my vault.

You don't want to be too cold. You don't want to be too hot, you don't want to be wet. You need to have... Also, you may just, Man, I feel that shirt. Yeah. Not one day. I know.

I'm with you this, and this is why Astrid hates me so much. Astrid is so organized, and she's like, one outfit for each day. Then we'll bring a couple of little extra things. We went overseas for a month over the summer to go visit relatives and stuff. Big trip. Everyone's going. We didn't want to bring as few suitcases as possible because it's just a matter of carrying them all around Europe. We're going to make multiple stops and go to multiple places. It's just we don't want it to be a big pain in the ass. Asgard starts to get packing, and then she says, put all the stuff that you want over here in this specific area, and I'll fold it up and I'll pack it. I'm going to try and get both of our stuff into one suitcase. I'm like, okay. That's a task. Yes. Every day, I just keep adding adding to the pile and adding to the pile and adding to the pile. She's like, You have 32 T-shirts. I go, I know we're going to be gone for 28 days. She's like, But you don't need a T-shirt for every single day.

I go, I know I might need two. She goes, You're going to have to get it out of your head that you need to change T-shirts every time that perspiration even thinks about coming out of your body. You don't have to do that. I'm like, But, honey, what if I don't like the blue shirt on a Tuesday? She's like, Do you not think they have washers and dryers over there? We'll be okay. Bring five T-shirts, bring a week's worth of T-shirts, and then we can We can always wash them and dry them. We're going to be in multiple Airbnbs. We can do this. I'm like, But, honey, this makes me nervous. It makes me nervous.

Just one, one, one, one, one. I wonder where she got it from.

Oh, she got it from Daddy. Listen, to be fair to me, I am a complete fucking moron. Well, let's be fair to you. Let's be fair to me because if their show is anything, it's fair to me.

Quotidian.

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That ending makes me laugh every time.

What? Give me something that I look forward to.

After I get out of the studio.

Yeah. I'm not... We do commercials. Magic Spoon. Listen, Magic Spoon is good. If you just heard the Magic Spoon commercial, Magic Spoon is good. It's tasty. It's very tasty, high in protein. I don't need to repeat the commercial here, but they're a sponsor of the show, and I do like their product. I really do. I've got a bunch of it in my, whatever you call that, the pantry, the area where the kids yell and scream. The pantry is like a congregating plant. Beg for candy. Yeah, beg for candy and sweets and juices and all that shit. I don't know if you've been keeping up with this, but the five biggest social media platforms are currently sitting in Capitol Hill being grilled by those senators of the Internet Select Committee or whatever. I was watching some of it this morning and I was thinking to myself, wow, social media has changed our lives in so many ways. The Internet in general, if you've been alive that long, has changed our life in so many ways. In social media, a lot of it is negative. It's not good. I think we can objectively say that. There is a lot of joy to be found on social media.

A lot of sharing, a lot of good news stories, a lot of good ways to keep up with people that you may not- Seek pictures. All that other stuff. But in general, you have to weigh that with all of the negativity that goes on there, the bullying and the propagation of misinformation and drug dealing and driving kids to suicide and all this other stuff. It's really terrible. For the people who are affected by this in a negative way, there is nothing that they can do because the social media companies are held harmless. They cannot be sued. There's no organization There's no trade organization. There's nothing. It's basically the Wild Fucking West. Some people say that drives innovation, I might agree. But at the same time, I think it was one of the senators said this, and I can't remember which senator said this. By the way, this is like there's bipartisan support, unanimous bipartisan support to do something to rein these companies in and make them be held responsible for some of the stuff that goes on in their platform, some of the stuff that goes on in their platforms. We're talking about when it comes to children.

When it comes to adults, you make your own case, you do your own thing, you're big boys and girls.

You feel jealous at the Instagram post.

That's right.

When you're a big boy- You're free to feel jealous.

Feel free to look at as many nipples as you want with inspirational posts under them. Quotidian. That's what a quotidian It's a post underneath an inspirational quote underneath a picture of tits. It's quotidian. There you go. We figured it all out. It came full circle. I'm watching this and I'm like, okay, all right, there's Zuckerberg and Shuchu, the guy from TikTok, and there's Evan from Snapchat, there's the dude from Discord, and then there's someone from Twitter. They're all up there and they're all getting real.

Not Musk.

No, Musk is not going to show up to that. No, no, no, no, no, I think you would be hard-pressed to find him dragged in front of Congress because he has Congress over a barrel. He's controlling a lot of the Internet with his fly-in-the- sky bullshit. Starlink. Starlink that you could see basically with your blind eye. Anyway, I digress. There's one of these senators says, bolts fell out of a door on a plane and 700 to 800 aircraft were grounded immediately and no one objected because someone could have died. One person could have died, and that would have shocked the world. We would have all been super upset about this. We grounded the planes to try and figure out what we should do about this. But many, many, many people can attribute death, somebody's death, to social media, a direct correlation between these two, and we do nothing about it. She said this. She said, Because the social media companies are so powerful, so vastly rich, that they can It basically impose their will by just lobbying. Mark Zuckerberg gets up there and this lady says, Why don't you support this particular bill? He says, Well, we support a lot of what the bill is, but we have our own bill that we would like to submit.

We regulate ourselves. We regulate ourselves. We're doing it ourselves. Can't you guys see this?

We're doing such a good job.

Don't worry. You don't trust this face?

Don't worry about us. Happy face. We've got it under control.

It's all good, Christie. I don't know why you're bothering.

Look at me.

I have a friendly face. What do I do? What's the problem? It's like that guy, Su-Chu from TikTok. He's like, What? I'm here. I protect everybody. I care about your children. Look, your child right now is in her elementary school in the restroom. I've got a camera there. I can see her. I'm taking care of the kids. I got the kids.

It's just data.

Please. Those fentanyl pills, they're being sold everywhere. What do you want me to do? Is this a reflection of everything else that's going on in town? Mark Zuckerberg the balls to say, not only do I not support your bill, but I don't support your bill because I wrote my own bill and I would like you to support my bill. You're not in Congress. What the fuck is going on? I realize these companies talk with congressional leaders and they find a way to make it happen. But it's amazing to me that ZuckTuck up there can get up this fresh face, baby face, freckled little face. I have freckles, too. So by the way, I'm not sure. Freckled little face up there. And he can tell the ranking members that basically, I don't support your bill because I wrote my own bill. How crazy is that for that kid to be in that position?

Guess you never know until you try, but jeez.

I mean, I am so agaced at what he said.

They don't want to change. They'll do whatever they cannot, too.

The big thing is, is that the only way that things are going to really change for these companies is if the courtroom doors open, if someone's allowed to go in there and sue and be in front of a jury and give the facts, give the evidence. My child was on Snapchat. He bought medication that he thought was safe, and then it was a fentanyl pill, and he died. That was because Snapchat didn't take the appropriate action to stop the drug dealing from happening. This person has been obviously doing this for years on your platform and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah A hundred other cases like this. Now we're talking about billions of dollars, and that's a problem. We better take action on this. I had a friend who... I have two friends who worked for social media companies. I won't say which, worked for social media companies in Europe, and their job was to be on the safety and regulation teams. When a post got flagged or an incident message got flagged, it got sent through some AI. Then if AI decided that that post looked like, it could be whatever. Think of all the bad things in the world that you can think of.

It got sent to human beings who then reviewed the post with their eyeballs.

I've heard horror stories about the people that have to look at all the stuff. I was floored at the process in which these folks to work in that division have to go through.

First of all, they separate it into multiple bad things. Think of all the bad thing piles that you can see on the internet or anywhere in the world, and then they separate that into multiple bad thing piles, and they make a determination about how bad things are. Then you get swapped in and out so that you don't have to be subjected to certain types of things for long periods of time. We're talking like, you might be there for three months and then you move on to the next thing, and then you might come back a couple of years later or whatever. They also have to take mandatory mental health breaks where they go and they talk to therapists and take a couple of days off so they can go see the world, not through this lens that they've been seeing it through. If it's that fucking bad, if it's that fucking bad, then isn't... I'm not talking about grown-ass adults who can make the decisions about what they see and what they don't see. This may contain sensitive content. Do you want to see it? Yes or no? I'm talking about children who are being exploited by these companies and then advertised to because they can make money off of them.

Then all these bad things are rolling through the screens of the kids, and it's like, holy shit. The worst thing that I saw before the age I was 13 years old, the worst thing that I saw was a knockoff soft core porn, Cinemax, horror movie and the Sears catalog, where I thought I saw a shape of a nipple on one of the bra section things. That's the worst thing I was subjected to, right? I can't imagine.

Well, let's not forget about your encyclopedia collection. Oh, yeah, I had the encyclopedia. Where you looked up the mass murder.

I did. Well, that's when I turned. Yeah, okay, all right. The worst thing I saw before I was 10, because when I was 12, I got the Time Life serial killer collection. My dad let me get it. I was like, Yeah, dad, who's John Wayne Gacy? Because he grew up, he lived right down the street from us. At the same time when I was around, I was being born. I was in the same neighborhood. I thought to myself, Why not me? What was wrong with me? What was wrong with me? Why didn't he pick me? Why didn't he pick me? My dad was like, You're obnoxious. From the day that you were born, son. If Time Life serial... And by the way, there were no particularly gory images in that Time Life series. It was just a lot. There were descriptions of stuff, but it wasn't particularly gory.

Yeah, no. I mean, you can see so much. It's crazy. It's scary.

But I don't want to- Glad I don't have a small- I know. God damn. Esther and I were talking about it while I was watching this, and it's so depressing. It's just so depressing. I'm talking to my chiropractor the other day, and the guy says he has teenage children. He's like, Bro, I wish my kids were your age because when they get big, the problems get super complicated, and there's no easy answer. They're having existential crises at 13 years old now because of social media, AI, the internet, all this stuff. They're questioning their existence because there's so much bad shit coming at them at all times. They are like, Am I really just going to work a job for the rest of my life and then die? Yes, that's what you're going to do. That's what happens. I said, Yeah, our parents probably said that, too. He goes, I strongly disagree with you. He convinced me that I was wrong. He said, We have more in common with how our grandparents our parents, raised our parents than we do with our own children at this age because we didn't have any of this. We didn't even have phones in our room.

Some of us didn't have phones in our room. We certainly didn't have them in our pocket 24 hours a day where we could be subjected to anything and everything. It's just like, it's so scary. But there was one CEO that was missing from this group that I really think needs to be up there, and that is the next door CEO. Where is the Next Door CEO?

Well, that's true.

If we're going to protect our children, we need to protect our elderly, too, from that fucking Next Door app. Let me explain why.

I think it started off as a good idea. I remember getting on it years ago and thinking, Okay, great. Somebody wants to get rid of a table. Great. They left it out, and anybody can come pick it up.

Car broken into down the street. Good information to know.

Right. Then I moved and got on it again. I was like, What the hell is happening on here now?

Chrissy, we have to protect our elderly. We have to protect our elderly. This app is fucking insane. People are fucking looney-tuned on this app.

Anything where people can comment and say what they want behind a screen just becomes crazy.

But the crazy thing is that it's anonymous, but not really, because most old people put their actual names on there. Like, Mary Jane Rooketogel, 3575 in no, Zipsop Lane. That's their username. You're like, What? I go on this next door because there's some alert about some action happening down the street or something. I'm like, Oh, okay. I haven't been on next door in years. Then I start scrolling and I realize that the elderly people are just as crazy as the teenagers. They really are. There's this old lady, Mary Jane Rappelpoppel, whatever her name is, right? Lives down the street. I don't know. She's in the neighborhood that we live in. She goes, I ordered groceries to my house and they were delivered somewhere else. If anybody knows where they are, please call my cell phone. 3444-744. Then she puts a picture of the last time groceries got delivered to her house and what they looked like. She's like, apples, milk, tampons for my young daughter. I'm like, Oh, my God, lady. She puts the picture and it's got her fucking mailbox address right there. I'm like, Have you no in your head? Another lady is like, Is this a tiger in our neighborhood?

It's a fucking racoon. She's like, I spotted tiger. Has anybody heard of loose animals from the zoo or a circus? I spotted a tiger. She's got this picture. It's got this picture of a raccoon. But it's not a joke. It's not a joke. She's like responding to people. Someone's like, Someone goes, they go, Oh, yeah, that's a trash tiger. They're all over the place.

Trash tiger.

I thought it was so funny. I saw two of them this morning, and she's like, I didn't know there was such a thing as a trash tiger. Please tell me more. I'm in danger. One lady wrote, I don't know what to do. My oven won't turn on. Can someone please help me call this number? She's got this selfie where she's half in, half out of the photograph. She's taking a picture and she's like, We must save the elderly. The next door is driving them crazy. It's insane.

Yeah, it's their social media platform, isn't it?

Then they post pictures of random people walking down the street like, This Mexican, spotted. I'm like, Okay, all right. What the fuck? All right. Suspicious Mexican, spotted. I'm like, Suspicious Mexican? What? Suspicious old lady posting random racist shit on next door. It is so crazy.

I know.

I never get on that. I posted one time on that. One time, the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote this little thing. I'm like, This is a crazy time. I just wrote it. I wrote it on a bunch of platforms. I don't know why I wrote it. Maybe for attention. I don't know what I was doing. That was lonely. It was the early pandemic. We had no listeners. I was just like, Okay, let me write something nice. I was like, Oh, what a mixed up crazy time. I think we'd all come together and help each other in this situation. Neighbors be neighbors and friends be friends, and let's all gather. Kumbaya moment, right? Whatever, they're by the campfire. Little that I know, it turned into the biggest shit storm that's ever happened. But it's like day two of the pandemic. I'm like, Okay, I'll send a little love out there. I got hundreds of comments. You're so blind. You don't know that the government is trying to overtake us. Steve Jones, 770-555-555-555. At Steve Jones, 555-555. Because the people are putting their phone numbers on the news. I'm like, What are you doing? Stop. I want to stop you from doing this.

I think we should actually do a segment where we read next door posts because they are so insanely insane. You can't believe it.

Now there's ads on it, too. I've noticed to where, you know.

Of course, they got to make money. Yeah. They got to make money. One lady said she spotted a prostitute at the Starbucks. That was the most. Spotted prostitute at Starbucks. She took a picture. It was like a lady in a dress. This lady has been frequenting Starbucks. I've seen her with multiple We must protect our children. Protect our children? Let the lady do her work if she is a prostitute. Second of all, she's probably just a lady.

She's just having meetings or something.

Yeah, she's just going to Starbucks. That Hot Stone massage place up to the Japanese, whatever it is, a massage parlor that's given hack jacks or whatever. You should see the posts on. Everybody's a flame about the jackshack down the street. These men are ruining our society. Stop them. Whores and tramps and sluts, all of them. It's like, Okay, grandma, settle down. Spot it on O-A-N.

My favorite is that multiple things are happening in I'm not saying this doesn't happen.

I'm saying, I'm sure this doesn't happen as frequently as I see it on next door. That like, spotted pamphlet on my car. This is how they traffic you. I'm like, How do they traffic you? They put the pamphlet there to indicate that you're the one they got to take down? You're 78. I don't think they're trafficking 78-year-olds. I mean, I'm sure there's a market for it, but I don't think they're trafficking you, Grandma. You're okay, right? I read it on OAN. Oh, you did. Okay.

Wow. Then it must be true.

Must be totally legitimate if you read it on OAN. We definitely have to do something about the kids. We've got to protect the elderly, too, because they're just as crazy. They are going insane on this next door. If you haven't been on next door and you want a real nice night of hilarious, get on next.

You should have seen the one after Halloween. I got on there after Halloween for something. Because it's like someone said, Here's your post, and whatever. I look on the side. It Nuts. Nuts. Nuts. Hoodlums, Vandlums, people. Fentanyl. Some people were nice. Yeah, but Fentanyl. I had my bucket of candy stolen. Look, here's that kid that did it, and they show a rain camera.

I know. They will post pictures of people.

I'm like, You're the one who left a bucket of candy out there? Yeah.

One time there was a UPS guy with a brown uniform, but she couldn't see the UPS sign, and she was like, Call the police. Ups man with no UPS patch. I'm in danger. These are not jokes. They're real. One lady was like, Did your children get any of these? And they're like, Sweet tarts, right? They look exactly like fentanyl pills. Don't give to children. Report to police immediately. I'm like, What the fuck? They're sweet tarts, lady. No one's giving free fentanyl to the kids. That's not happening. Stop it. It might have happened one time where some junky threw out some whatever. Here's some fentanyl pills. Have a nice day. But no one's giving free drugs away. That doesn't happen because if that would happen, I wouldn't be here right now. I would be getting the free drugs. That's what I would be doing. I want my candy. I want my candy, candy, candy. I'm literally shaking and sweating, Daddy. I'm I'm joking. I'm in the fetal position. We should do a next door read. We should. A next door comments. That's what we're going to... Oh, we put it in the notebook. Please do. Actually, let's not put it in the notebook because we'll never do it.

No, actually- But then we really will never remember. Yeah, we'll never remember it.

I'm going to put it on our- I think we need to do a segment on the notebook.

Well, we said we were going to do that this season, so we're going to do that. Put that in the notebook and we'll never do the notebook notebook segment. All right, you write that down. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more fun and more fentanyl for you. There you go. Finally, I feel like I was waiting forever for my turn to talk. Now that I have you, go to tcbpodcast. Com to find all of our audio and video content and follow us on Instagram at the Commercial Break and on TikTok at TCB podcast. Want it to be your turn to talk? Call us and spill the tea at 626 Ask TCB 3, and you may hear your voice on the show. You can also text us your tea at 855 TCB 8383. And boy, do we love to hear it. Anyway, take a listen to our sponsors, and let's get back to the show. This episode is sponsored in part by Prizepicks. Everybody out there in the podcast universe knows what a huge NFL fan I am and exactly how much I know about the sport. However, I'm getting into it, and I'll tell you why.

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Has anyone else noticed? Are the birds in danger? Should I call animal control? That's a flock of fucking birds, Lee.

I know. I just saw it happen actually in our park the other day, and I just thought it was cool looking. I didn't ride on next door.

You didn't ride on next door? I did not even have to scroll to find that post. I didn't even have to scroll. It's a crazy... This is right there for you. So much fun. Hey, I read a Deer Abbey type column. I may even read Dear Abby. I read a Dear Abby, and I thought it was an interesting topic to bring up now. I'll tell you what Dear Abby said. Do you want me to just read it? Yeah. Okay. Sorry, Abby. Let me take your material here. Okay. Oh, it is Dear Abby. Dear Abby, after 17 years of marriage, I learned to my dismay that when he was 22, my husband had a long-term relationship with a 16-year-old girl. He insisted that she lied about her age and told him she was 20. But even after finding out her true age, he went on to date her. Her mother was okay with it, as well as other family members who all knew she was underage. It makes me so sick to my stomach. They engaged in sexual activity when she was underage. They were even engaged until she cheated. I'm livid because he tried to say that he told me she was underage, but he never did.

I know this. I would never have dated or married someone- I know this. I know this. I would never have dated or married someone who knowingly had sex with an underage girl. I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage, but this sent me over the top.

How many years have they been married?

17 years. Oh my God. So this guy is at least in his 50s, I would imagine. 40s, 50s? Am I overreacting because he was young and dumb and did something stupid that he'll never do again? As he puts it, signed, can't get over it. Sounds like you're already over it. Sounds like you're already heading for divorce. Right. Even before the underage story. If someone is making you sick to your stomach like that, then... I mean, listen, it's not a good thing. I don't suggest any A 22-year-old date a 16-year-old. That's not what I'm saying.

What state was this in?

I don't know. I'm not going to give that identifying information. I think the whole point of Dear Abby is to keep everything real anonymous.

I'm just saying. Yeah. True. Southern states, I think it's still legal to get married at 14 or something.

With parents permission, in some Southern states or some states, it's still legal to get married. The age of consent, at least in the state of Georgia, is 16 years old, which can't be in a power of authority. You can't be a coach, a teacher, a bus driver, whatever. You can't have some position of authority over that child because then that's considered a grooming. I don't think it's legal for 22-year-olds to have sex with 16-year-olds. I don't know. I think age of consent means you can have sex with other 16-year-olds, basically, is what it means. But I don't know. I don't know all that stuff. I haven't checked the law. I'm not checking the law for any particular reason. But dear Abby- I'm curious as to what she says because I know what I would say.

I was surprised. Is he like, Yeah, get That's what she said. Get over it. It's happened a really long time ago. You guys have been married for 17 years. What? Now?

Yeah. Why now? Why now are you upset about this? I think you're right about this.

Also, how was this discovered 17 years later? What does he have? No. If he's got a little box of her 16-year-old underwear or something, he's been saving.

Tiger Beat.

Yeah, that's a little different. How was this discovered?

Don't know.

17 years later.

I have no idea. I did that. Literally, I read what was written. It says, Deer can't get over it. The most important line in your letter, as far as I'm concerned, is this one sentence. I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage. The first item on your agenda should be to make an appointment with a licensed marriage and family therapist so you and your husband could start working on what's wrong with your relationship. His feelings for that girl were sincere. He would have married her had she not cheated on him. If he has been faithful to you and a caring husband since the beginning of your marriage, it's time to forgive him for his youthful indiscretion, which was encouraged by the girl's entire family. Yeah. Period into sentence. That's all she says. Yeah. What are you I do. This wasn't like he groom her. I mean, I don't know because there's such limited information, but it sounds like everybody was on board with us at the time. They were all like, Yeah, you guys are in love, whatever. I'm not saying that that makes it right.

I'm just saying that- Yeah, well, she lied at the beginning, too, as you would do, as I did when I was 16, talking to a cute older guy.

This happened to me also. I dated a girl, said she was 21, and I found out when we went to Blockbuster that she wasn't 21 because you needed to be 21 in order to have a Blockbuster card or whatever it was. Do you remember this story?

For those of you who don't know what Blockbuster is.

Oh, yeah, that's true. For some reason, she was under the age of having a blockbuster card, and I didn't realize that she was that age. She had lied about it, basically. That startled me, and I discontinued the relationship because I was like- No movie for you. Yeah, no movie for you. I really wanted to see Fatal Attraction. That's right. I wanted to see Family Zoo, too. That was my favorite movie of all time.

Family Matter.

Oh, Family Matter. For that matter. Oh, Family Matter. Yeah, Family First.

Family First. Family First.

Fly by Night. Fire by Night.

Family First. That was crazy.

Oh, my God. Oh, by the way, I found more episodes, and that's the least crazy of the episode. We didn't even get to the heart of what happened. We may have to go back to that one. I just don't know if I can get to digest it two episodes in a row. No, no, back to back. It's a little much. Yeah, that guy screaming at the time. I say that as a guy who just screams into the microphone the whole episode, but you like it. I don't. Okay. Yeah, it's a complicated topic, but let's put aside the fact that she had a relationship with a 16-year-old girl. When you are so fluffed about something that happened so long ago, it's clear that you're just not interested in your husband anymore, anyway. You're finding a reason. You're finding a reason to be upset with him. I don't know, but could be completely opposite. Maybe she thinks for some reason he did coerce this girl into a relationship, or she has some reason to believe he was grooming her or something like That was not based off what she said. Not based off what she said, yeah.

Who's to say that he's lying or he's not lying. But I was surprised by Dear Abby's reaction.

I was. That was my reaction. Yeah.

But I was a little surprised because when I read it at first, I was like, Oh, shit, that's gross. But then she pointed out that this is one sentence in the whole thing was, I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage lately. I imagine that's what Astrid is thinking all the time. She's probably, I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage. Not because of my youthful indiscretions, but because of my- Current? Yeah, my current indiscretions. My current situation. My business acumen. Or a lack of era. I can cut both ways. It also made me think about our Ask T-C-B from the other day. Yes. Where the girl had a sister who wanted to date their step brother. There was a multiple marriages involved, but just know they're not blood-related. There was a divorce involved and some time had gone by. One of her stepsister had another... They had another step brother from another marriage, and they all remained friendly. Then the stepsister wanted to date the step brother, who they were not blood related. They were related by marriage. The divorce had happened, so they were no longer family members, technically.

They were soulmates.

They were soulmates. That's what she said, and that's how she described it. I thought to myself, Yeah, why the fuck not, actually? The more that I thought about that, the more entrenched I got in that position. I don't know why, but it stuck with me. I was like, Fuck that. Okay, it's a little weird. It's a little unconventional. Yeah, I admit that. But it takes all kinds, and you find people everywhere on Earth. Technically, when Astrid and I married, we became family members and family members. That's true. We became like step-second cousins. Yes. Then we're also married. I entrenched myself in this position because I don't want anyone throwing stones in my direction when I became ex-step-second cousins-in-law or something like that. You came into the family. I came into the family, and then I came into the family. I came into the family two different ways is basically how it happened. You did. Yes. It's weird, but whatever. Don't ask me how to explain how exactly that happened because no one knows. We just know that there's some... It's like true detective. There's a lot of circles involved. That's true. There's in so many circles, and I don't understand.

But there's no corpsicle, so that's good.

No, no corpsicle. There's no shriveled-up dicks and clot-out eyeballs in that new true detective. I wanted to piggy front off this. Get your piggy fronting sticker now. Yes, she can. I need mine. Now available with a microscope. Yeah, I'll give it to you one. You can have one. But thanks. You're welcome. Times are tough. We got to save all the stickers. Love Is Blind is coming back.

Let me think about which one. The one with the pods? The pods. I'm over that one.

You are? Mm-mm. Oh, I thought this last season, they only had two couples that even survived through the fucking honeymoon. But I did find myself engaged in this particular episode.

I've moved on now to the Married at First Site or whatever.

Married at First Site? Yeah. Is the latest season?

Yeah, I think... I don't know. Okay. But I've stuck with it so far. I think that is crazy. I mean, that's really wild.

It's really wild.

But they have professional people that are doing the matching. They've got like the... There's somebody from the religious, and then there's the licensed-Licensed sex therapist, like a psycho-psychologist. Yeah, there's like three.

Yeah, there's three professionals.

They do extensive interviewing, and they match people. It is very interesting.

It's very interesting. But their hit rate is still about the same as it is out there in the real world, meaning that the divorce rate is similar.

Which is very interesting.

Yeah, it's very interesting. But it's very interesting in the sense that, arranged marriages do work. That's the truth. They work about as much as a marriage in any other way that you would meet. Right.

Well, that's the thing. It makes me... It's thought-provoking to me because I think, well, these people really do have a lot of things in common, and maybe If they had met on their own or in a different circumstance where you don't all of a sudden you're married and you're moved in with each other. It's the real deal. Living with somebody just in itself can drive you apart. But if you had built organically on that, maybe they would have lasted. I don't know. It brings up a lot of little questions.

I agree with you. I think it's a very thought-provoking show. I think it was from the beginning, a very thought-provoking show. Married at First Sight, America, Married at First Sight, Australia. I'm sure they have different versions. I think they have maths in England, too. They call it maths. It's short. We're all talking code here about Married at First Sight. But the reason why MAPS- I just learned that. But the reason why I'm soured a little bit on Married at first sight is because it's not sensationalized, and I wanted to be sensationalized.

See, that's why I've soured on the love is blind.

Okay, that's why you soured. I don't know. I want to be entertained also, and I'm not always entertained with MAPS anymore because it's just a little dry sometimes. They go in the regular rigmarole meeting the family. I don't really get along with his mother. I don't really... Well, I can deal with that in my own life. I see that in my own life. What I want is over dramatic, clearly mentally ill human beings dating each other so that I can make fun of it. I can feel better about my own relationship.

Well, I might dip my toe back into that pod.

Let me tell you why I think it might be a good idea. Let me tell you why I might think that be a good idea. That might be a good idea this season. They are bringing back couples that didn't work out from previous seasons.

Okay. Well, I did watch the previous seasons, except for this past one. Okay.

I think you should watch the last one. I think it was really interesting, actually.

I thought you said it was horrible.

No, I think I said that about maths. I'm not sure I said that about Love is Blind. Actually, we did like the Love is Blind season in general.

The one they were trying to do the live reunion or something.

Oh, that was two seasons ago. Yeah.

God, they're just churning these things out. What's that? They're just churning these things out.

It's a Netflix hit. They have them in seven different countries, seven different languages. A lot of people are watching them. I can't do it with all the fucking reading. I just can't do it. Or they have terrible... They do overdubbing, and it's just terrible. It's horrible. But I can't do it in the other countries. But here, Love is Blind, there's been hit or miss seasons. There's four, five, six, seven, something like that seasons now. The first couple were great. There was a couple of duds now. I think this last season was okay. But I am super interested to see what happens when they put people who have already been in the pods together because now they've sharpened up their game. They know what's going on. They're Fame hungry, and they want to get that screen time, and they're willing to probably to do anything to get it. I am all about it. Bring those rejects back, and let's have a good time.

Okay, I'll dip my toe in there. The one that I really got it irked me, was the one about the marry me or not one to where they... Do you know what I'm talking about? No. The one where they couples, say 10 couples who have not married yet. The one wants to get married, the other one maybe doesn't want to. Then they switch couples? Yes. They switch them with somebody else. It's crazy.

For First of all, can we talk about how much money this nick Lachet and Vanessa are getting paid to do absolutely nothing? Absolutely nothing. That's the bachelor guy. That's the bachelor. Now they got a new bachelor guy. Here's your final rose. Ladies, there's 26 roses left. Prepare to say your goodbyes. Go ahead. I'll be hiding behind the curtain. He goes and hides behind the curtain. Then he's like, Ladies, 21 roses left. You're probably going to get rejected. I'll be back here. I know. Ladies, you all just got drunk on this first night. There's lots of B-roll footage we're going to use to embarrass you and your family. Prepare to say goodbye. Four roses left. And then final rose comes out. I was watching this the other night with Astrid. I went to go take a shower and I got stuck in the final rose ceremony.

Oh, yeah.

And these catty-ass women. I mean, I swear to They are. Well, it gets down to the last four roses, and these girls are literally throwing a fit. They're like, and then they have the cut aways, right? And it's like, I'm just sitting there and I'm like, What is, whatever his name is, What is Clayton doing? What is Clayton doing? Why am I not been picked yet? I thought we had a connection. In this season, they have two sisters on the same bachelor.

I'm not getting into it.

And Astrid goes, One of those sisters is a total bitch. There's no way that he gets her. There's no way. I just watched the whole episode. There's just no way. He doesn't like her at all. And I go, Astrid, you are watching a television program. The Sisters Will Continue. Yes. Probably until the bitter end.

It'll be against the two.

Yes. If the producers have their choice, it'll be the two sisters with the final rose. I promise you. And guess what? I was right. And she's like, Oh, I would have never guessed that. And I'm like, Honey, it's a television show. The producers are in this guy's ear all the time. And the guy knows what he signs up for. He doesn't sign up to find love. Maybe that happens. He signs up to make entertaining television. That's the point. But I did watch that other where they mix the couples up and Nicola, Shay, and Vanessa- Well, would you like to get married now after you just slept with the other guy from the pool? Exactly. Did any one of those couples work out? I didn't see the end because I only watched two episodes and I was bored. I was bored because the premise is ridiculous. Take a situation where you're questioning everything about the relationship and then put some hot ass in front of them and apply them with liquor and a television camera and see how things work out. Well, I could already I telegraphed that one a mile away. Guess what? None of these couples are walking away any healthy.

I would dare, dare you to go Google those couples and see if one of them is still together to this day. I promise you, my guess is they're not. Because how do you go through something like that?

Or they are because they planned it. I mean, that's the other thing when I watch some of these shows, I'm like, How planned out did they do that? To a certain extent of like, Look, we're going to go apply for this show separately. We're going to try and get on and see if we can get on. Then, I don't know, they're just like, a step ahead.

This is why you got to watch the last season of Love is Blind, because this exact quandary presents itself in the season. Two people who had been dating each other show up on Love is Blind. There's a lot of questions about how both of them got on there, how this slipped by the producers, how no one knew this, and it becomes a big blow up. I want you to watch that season because I think that this was the most interesting part about that season is it's like, oh, holy shit, they had actually dated before, and then they connected in the pods on the first episode. But what you don't see, and I'm just going to like a little spoiler alert, what you don't see, the producers don't show you that they discover. Almost immediately, within 30 minutes, they discover, oh, my God, your voice is familiar. Everything you're saying is familiar. Are you so and so? Yes. But it's not until the fifth episode that you learn this and you're like, Wow, that's crazy, and the shoe drops. I like that sensationalized bullshit. I want to be entertained. I want to be entertained. That's why I watch my Thousand Pound Sisters and all this other stuff.

It's because it's highly entertaining. It's just entertaining. It's the exact opposite of my life. And math is too close to it because they're actually trying to put couples together.

That's why I like the housewives and all the Bravo stuff.

I love the bullshit. You love the real shit. Now we know.

None of it's real.

Well, that's true, too. So if it's not real, then let's just have some fun. Let's just be entertained. Yeah. See? I'm right, again. To be fair. To be fair. I'm right this one time today. Okay. Yeah, listen, Protect the elderly. Protect that next door app. Get that next door app. Get that CEO. Pull him in front of Congress and ask him what he's doing. He or she, whoever it is. Okay, we're going to do a next door episode. We should. Where we just find a good next door post and we read them. I need to look at my app. Yeah. Oh, Chrissy. That is entertaining. That should be a television show. We should follow these people around who are posting the next door and see what they do on a daily basis. My groceries got dropped off somewhere else. Let me know if you find them. What? Seriously?

I love the turtle notifications to stay up to date. No. No. I will not be doing that. I don't need to. Because when I first signed up years ago, I got 1,000 notifications every day. Of course.

Every day. Because Grandma Jean is literally talking into Siri, telling her everything she's doing. Right. I took a shot. It came out purple. Call 911.

I call animal control.

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