Hi, my name's Mike, and if you're sitting there watching this tape smoking your cigarette, well, hit the fast forward button, because I don't smoke, and I don't like people who do smoke on this episode of the Commercial Break, hey, everybody, it's Brian, coming to you with some very exciting news. Chrissy Hodley will be in her rightful place here in the studio with me on the very next episode, Code. But here's a special Tuesday episode where my wife, Astrid and I discuss all things. Shitty music, shitty TV, shitty movies, and shitty concerts. It's a real live marital dispute here on the Commercial Break. If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in the Green household, here's your opportunity. And Chrissy and I will be back tomorrow with some very special news about the commercial break. You don't want to miss it. As the kids say, it's going to be crunk here's astron and I to put a little crunkle in your Funkle on this Tuesday. Enjoy. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. I'm going to go jelly to see diploma. Yeah. Cats of kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break.

I'm Brian Green. This is the director of Divorced Attorney research, my wife, Astrid. Best to you, Astrid.

Best to you, Brian.

And best to you out there in the podcast universe as we round the corner on a very long and extended break by Chrissy Hodley, of which we're going to dock her pay, certainly. Astrid sits in the chair one more time. Hi, wifey.

Hi, honey.

How are you doing?

So good to see you.

Thanks for calling me honey. That means that I am not that you are not mad at me today.

No, actually, I was just thinking about that voice that you do of your mom.

Hi, Brian.

It's your mom. Maybe when you were, like, playing her and Irving, you did like, hi, honey.

Hi, honey, it's your mom. That's what I was thinking about.

I never call you honey.

You do call me honey. No, babe.

Babe.

Babe. Sometimes you call me no. No, you don't. That's the other chick.

Must be you.

Yeah, yeah, that's the other chick. So you're here in the chair one more time. I really appreciate it. Chrissy's coming back.

Thank you.

And she's had a little bit of a break because her grandfather, Papa Joe papa the Eagle Joe, as we call him, passed away suddenly. But he was old, so he was older, so he lived a very storied life. He was a Coxman and an international man of mystery. And we all went to the funeral on Friday, which is a very nice service. It was small, but it was a very nice service. And they had these pictures running in the background of Papa Joe in certain times in his life. And one of those pictures was from the day that I met Papa Joe at this Christmas party. And I just hope I'm remembered as fondly as you know, I don't know if you ever thought this or have ever had this thought in your head where someone passes away or something happens to somebody and then memories come pouring in and people guffaw and they gush over how wonderful that person was and how lovely. But Papa Joe is really remembered very fondly by almost unanimously by everyone who met him. And I can only hope that I get remembered that way by you and the children.

What do you think the chances of that are? Slim to none.

Well, listen, I do have to say you earn marriage miles here and there.

I do, yeah, maybe. What is the thing that I do? You brought this up a long time ago. You brought up the marriage miles concept where I get miles and I put them in the bank. The program. The marriage miles program, and I put them in the bank. What is something that I can do more often to earn more marriage miles?

Take me to more Jonas Brothers concert.

Oh, lord, babe.

No, I'm kidding.

Well, I do have to say, as I shared on the program on Friday, that I actually didn't mind the Jonas Brothers concert.

I hear that. Yeah, you told me that. And I was actually surprised.

Were you surprised?

I was, yes. But I do get.

My rationale.

Yeah, your reasoning for that, and it does make sense, but I don't know, maybe I was not looking at it from that point of view. Yeah, I just thought you were going to be annoyed the entire time.

Listen, I'm not going to get a Jonas Brothers poster and put it on the wall, know, fawn over Joe Jonas.

I was not expecting you to do that either.

But were you upset that Christina and I were talking about Joe Jonas in a not fashionable way? See, in Spanish, babe. In Spanish. Why?

Because you guys were just talking shit about him and it was all the wonderful things about Sophie. I mean, when it comes to the divorce. Right. And also from you, from the show, you were saying that he looked like he was drunk.

He did look like he was drunk. I told you that during the show.

Have you seen him before live?

No.

Okay, so what's your reference?

Well, my reference is I've seen a lot of drunk people in my life, and I've been a drunk person in my life.

No, he did not. Look, I mean, to me. And of course, I'm not an expert either. Like, I don't know him personally, right. I don't think he was drunk. Maybe he could have been high. Maybe, but whatever, I don't know.

While I love you, babe, you don't have a good reference point for drunk or high. Right. How many times you've been drunk in your life? One, two times. Okay, so you don't have a good reference point. It just seemed to me that he was like a beat off.

He was like but the way I see it more, it's like, that's just how he is. Yes.

Okay. He just seemed to kind of be, like, sliding around the stage with his eyes half closed.

No, that's not true.

I think so.

No.

Okay. That was my perception of what was going on.

Okay, well, if you're performing on stage, what do you expect him to do? Just stand up straight like a statue?

Well, no, I expect that's what he.

Does even when he has talked at in the press or whatever, he has mentioned that he cannot sit still, that his brothers already know that when it comes to doing a show, they need to give him freedom of. Like, he walks around and he moves and he dances back and forth and jumps and he says he does whatever his body feels. I got to get some cocaine.

Driving me crazy. Babe, babe, listen. I don't know because I don't know Joe Jonas, and that is literally the first time I have seen Joe Jonas in more than one continuous minute of anything live on stage. However, having a reference point, that's pretty good when it comes to people who are inebriated, because I've been one more than I care to admit here on the show, and I've done it a lot, and then I've seen more inebriated people than I care to admit that I've done a lot here on the show. That's kind of embarrassing. The truth to me was, you know that song lean back? Lean back? How? Like, you just kind of lean backwards. You're tilting a little bit, tilting at windmills a bit when you're drunk. It seemed to me that he was doing that from time to time when he was trying to stand still. He seemed like he was a little bit stumbly, a little bit bumbly. But again, I could be totally I.

Mean, listen, fair enough. He's a performer. I guess a lot of them. That's what they know. Maybe. Yes.

We don't know what goes on backstage. Right. He could have a lot of pain from dancing all of these years in his knees. Maybe the doctors are giving him something. I'm totally making this up out of my ass. No one has ever said, this is obviously just Brian talking out his butt, but I just noticed that he seemed like he was a little sleepy eyed. He was a half step off when he talked. It seemed like there was a little mumbling going on.

Correct. So what I'm saying is, all the marriage, Miles, you earned by taking me to the concert yes. You lost them.

The next day, Christina and I got.

On the microphone by doing a show.

And talking about, well, I blame Christina. She started the conversation.

I don't defend either of them because actually, I don't really know none of us really know what's going on in their relationship, and I am a firm believer that when there are issues in a marriage, it's 50 50, because takes two to tango. Correct.

Yeah. I don't think that's always 100% true. I think there are levels.

No, of course. Maybe like if one cheated or one was abusive or something like that. Of course.

If the wife cheats but the man is beating her up, there's clearly like a level of right and wrong. Right. Wrong to cheat, but it's abhorrent to beat somebody up.

There are cases where none of that is happening, and it's just like they're not getting wrong or they lost a connection or whatever it is. Right. But oftentimes it just upsets me when in those cases, people come and say, oh, she's the worst, or he's the worst, and it's like, okay, what about the other person? Yeah, no, it's our relationship.

But what I thought was interesting about Christina's take is that a lot of people have said, and you mentioned to me in the car that one of the reasons, apparently, why Joe Jonas felt strongly that this was not the relationship for him is because she likes to go out and party and he's a homebody. But Christina pointed out and then I backed that up with some research of my own, that Joe Jonas, during the Pandemic, that Sophie was the one who said Joe needed to go out all the time and she just wanted to stay home and be a homebody. So the pandemic was know, who fucking knows at the end of the day. But I thought it was weird. But getting down to the bottom line, I did actually find a little bit of enjoyment in the concert because the music was so good, the band was so good. They were really, really talented. Anytime there's a horn section and the horn section is rocking, I think I'm going to enjoy the music. So while I didn't download any of their albums on, I don't know what.

To look for in a concert.

Look for a horn section. Taylor had no horn section. Taylor had no horn section. Taylor barely had a band. And they were off in the corner and they were in the dark and you couldn't see them.

Yeah. Two guitars. A piano, I guess.

Yeah.

And the singer.

Yeah, the guitars came out for a minute and did a solo, but it wasn't anything.

Yeah, it was mainly about her.

The Jonas Brothers Band. It seemed like at times they were the performance that was going on.

Well, I think they unlike Taylor, clearly, she has, like, a whole show. I mean, it's a whole production. The Jonas Brothers, they don't have that. But I don't think that concept goes well with them either. That's not the style of singers. I mean, they're just three brothers, kind of like a boy band type of arrangement. And they don't dance. So I think they do rely a lot, and that's why they bring their.

Band and the band is very lively, and they're all over the place.

Somehow they try to make they got.

To spice it up. Yeah, it can't be just about those three. If it had been just those three with background music or with a band behind a screen or something, and not at all, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. And then Taylor's music lends itself to that kind of big production because it's very much storytelling, where she can rap.

And she has dance and she has.

Dancers, all the outfits. I was impressed by the production, but not as impressed by the music. Right. Whereas it was the opposite. And I want to say I was super impressed with the music. It's the Jonas Brothers. Like, it wasn't all that fantastic.

I mean, yes. So embarrassing to say, oh, I don't give a shit.

I don't give a shit. However, I did notice that there were so many more men at the Taylor Swift concert, because I think it was an event. It was a place to be and be seen.

I disagree, actually.

Well, you saw a lot of guys at the concert.

I saw a lot of couples, like, clearly, the husbands, the boyfriends, the fiance. I guess I did see a lot of couples.

There's a lot of guys that are trying to earn their marriage.

Miles whereas in Taylor Swift, I saw also couples, but not as many. And when I saw men, I think they were more like gay couples, which, listen, no, I'm all about it. I don't care, whatever. But I do think that Taylor swivez to me, it was a lot more women than the Jonas.

I saw it the opposite way. I saw that, if I had to guess in my eyeshot, a third of the Taylor Swift audience was men, and that's my opinion. Right. There were a lot of guys around us at the Jonas Brothers concert. I saw a couple guys in front of us, but they looked younger and they were with their parents. And then I just noticed that it was but there is no doubt in my mind at all that at Sofa Stadium, when we went and saw Taylor Swift, the loudness in that room was 50 times louder than it was at the Jonas Brothers concert.

I mean, the screaming going on, like, 50,000 people more.

Yeah, that's true.

Screaming.

Yeah. You couldn't fit that Taylor Swift stage in that in the arena that we went to to go see the Jonas Brothers.

Bigger.

It's huge so far, is what, like, 75,000 people can fit in that thing or something. And then we went and saw them here at the basketball arena, state Farm arena, which I think is like, 25,000 people, 30,000 people, maybe. In either case, I'm glad that I earned some marriage. Miles how do I use them, is the question. Can I now go on an? Well, you already lost them vacation to the Spearmint Rhino strip club. I already lost them. I told you. What did I do?

Talk about it.

Talk about what? I talked about Jonas Brothers. I thought you were going to be excited about that.

Well, you were not talking any positive things. How am I going to be excited about that?

Babe, I got to make observations. I'm here on the show. That's what I do for a living is make observations.

Correct. And what I do at home is either add or subtract marriage.

Miles, what you do at home is everything else.

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Okay, so let's move away from Jonas Brothers for a second, and I have a question for you. We haven't talked about this previously, but I think it's very interesting. Let me read a story first, and then let's talk about it, okay? This is from the ever reliable New York Post. Ex Missouri teacher who ditched classroom for OnlyFans, has no regrets, and earns nearly a million dollars since she left the classroom. A former Missouri teacher who resigned after school administrators found out about her Only Fans account, told Fox Digital News that she made close to $1 million selling porn and related pictures on Only Fans since she's left the classroom. Brianna Copage, 28 years old, was an English teacher at St. Clair High School excuse me about an hour outside of St. Louis and was placed on administrative leave before ultimately quitting once the administrators discovered her racy side hustle. Copage, who made only $42,000 working as a teacher, said she used OnlyFans to make extra money that would help her pay off her student loans from her advanced degrees. I started it, one, just to supplement my income and see what happens, and two, possibly make a little extra money, like I have student loans.

I was working on my third degree, so I also have a master's degree in education. And while I was working on my specialist degree, the bills piled up. So here's a question. She's teaching high school kids, right? But let's assume that one of our children had a teacher who was doing Only Fans and people found out about it. First of all, how anybody found out about it is beyond me, because she claims in this story later on in the story that she didn't use her real name. And obviously you would be a dumb dumb to use your real name on Only Fans.

Well, it's just clearly a parent.

Perverted parent.

I mean, not necessarily perverted. I mean, someone that I'm kidding.

Okay, some horny dad or some horny high schooler finds out about it right. Connects the two dots and then tells the administration.

I mean, it's very unfortunate for the teacher. It's just like, what are the chances that out of I don't know how many kids you teach? 30 kids, 40 kids. One of those parents is going to come across. But listen, that's how the world is nowadays.

Absolutely.

With social media. Right. So I don't know. I feel like I'm kind of torn on one hand. I feel like if it was my kid, I would also probably freak out. But then that might be, like, my immediate reaction. Right. But then I think a little bit more, and I'm like, well, if she was doing her job as a teacher.

Just fine, efficiently yeah.

And she's not sharing with the kids anything of what she does after school. Right. In Only Fans, I don't think that should be a problem. But at the same time, putting it from a company perspective, any company would have fired you.

Well, I don't know if any company would have fired you, but I will say this when you sign on to be full time, any company right. Most companies have a policy that they would prefer that you not work for another company, especially if it's in the own space. Here's where I think things get gray. If this was my elementary school child and this teacher was trying to pay off her bills for a few years, doing Only Fans pay off her degrees, $42,000 is not a lot of money. It's under the poverty line of $50,000 per person per year. The reality is she's a high school teacher, which I think changes the equation just a little bit. And let me explain why. Because it's very likely that now that the cat's out of the bag, that her male or maybe female high school students are then going to go look at her only fans subscribe to her only Fans. Because the novelty of my teacher being naked on the Internet correct. Is too much. It's too provocative not to go look. So I think in that sense, I can understand how it could cause problems inside of the classroom.

It's hard to well, but I don't think yeah, I think it would be.

Hard for me to concentrate if my hot school teacher was naked on the Internet. And I think it could cause problems in the classroom where maybe some students lose respect for the teacher. What she's saying and what she's doing. Because they're children. They don't know how to manage their emotions. Right. If it's an elementary school child where there's zero chance of them, at least there should be zero chance of them finding her on only fans. Like, I can't see my five year old being on only fans, but let's assume that they don't find her on only fans. I think in that case, fuck it. Teachers, they're so underpaid. How in the world are they supposed to survive?

I agree and I support all of that, but I just think I think it comes more from the reputation that the school wants to have, which would come with I mean, in my head, with any company, with any company like Coca Cola, salesforce, whatever you name it, right. Any big company or even not too big would be like, well, hold on, you're we understand that when you're done with your responsibilities, know you need to or you want to have another job to have more income or a side hustle, right, that's fine. But one thing is like you're doing, I don't know, socks and selling them on Etsy. And then a different thing is that you're actually selling you're selling cock socks. A different thing is you selling your naked body online. Right. Even though I don't care, like what you do. And good for her if she's making millions dollars only fans and she's up for it. Okay, fine. That doesn't bother me.

I agree.

But I'm not sure. I have to admit I would have a conflict if that was my kid's teacher.

I think the only way that I see it as being problematic is that if your extra work then travels into the classroom and causes problems with elementary school children I don't think it does. With high school children who are very internet savvy. I think that it could be problematic in the school, and that's where I see that it could be a challenge. But I agree with you. There's lots of companies that have moral clauses and what they determine as of bad moral character could really be anything. It could be subject. Yeah, there's lots of things that you could do. I mean, you could be a part of a political group and they don't like it, so they fire you. You could be part of a correct certain religious you could work for the.

Commercial break you could work for the.

Commercial break and never have another job in your life. That's right, because this shit ain't going away. That's the problem. That's the challenge of the society that we live in. It's very real, is that you put it out there, it's never coming back. The cat is officially out of the bag and it's not coming back. I wonder how many people, how many women or men that are on only fans selling their feet on footfinder.com or whatever. How many men or women actually, probably most of them have some kind of day job where they're just hoping, praying that no one finds out that they're on one of these websites. I'm sure.

But that's different though, because if you're not showing your face, I don't know. They would have to hack you or something. I don't know your identity or something.

I don't know if you're smushing phallic objects with your toes and trying to get guys off by that. I don't know.

Apparently oh, that's a real that's a market.

Of course I told you I put my foot on feetfinder.com or footfetish.com or whatever it was.

You didn't tell me you told the commercial break audience.

I told the commercial break audience, which is how I talk to you most of the time, babe. Don't you? I'm just praying that you listen to the show so you understand me a little bit.

Follow Brian for more.

Listen, there are people on thatfootfinder.com that are making millions of dollars selling pictures and images of their feet. Wouldn't you like it if I didn't have to do the commercial break and I could just take pictures?

I think my feet are prettier than yours.

I think I think your everything is prettier than mine, for sure. And if you want to do your feet, let's do it. Should we try and do it? Should we see what happens? No, you don't want to do that.

I mean, maybe, I don't know.

Okay, let's talk about it. I think that's a private marriage conversation that'll happen between Chrissy and I here that then you can listen to discussion about it. I wanted to share with you that your family members are going to be real pissed over the next couple of weeks. Your family members, my family members, extended family members that we don't even know because Netflix has officially rolled out their password sharing crackdown. And here's the part that sucks. I thought to myself when this started.

To happen, we just have to pay, like, an extra $4. You can't make it like a family.

You make it a family plan, but they only allow one other IP address outside your own house.

There's only one more.

Well, that's true. I've got two on my side, too. Here's the thing. I thought for sure that people were going to revolt, and then they were going to not pay the extra money, and then they were not going to buy extra subscriptions. And Netflix was going to be so pit. They were going to be so downtrodden when the world revolted against them and decided, no Netflix, you're not getting any more of my money.

Guess what interesting? Because I would have never thought you would go through that train of thought. No, especially you, Brian Green, the guy who's the guy who pays whatever he has to pay to have access to cable channels. Oh, I'm sorry, a thousand cable channels. Even though you only watch, you know, God forbid you don't have a thousand channels available. Plus Netflix, plus HBO, plus okay, we get it.

We get it.

But I'm the guy to were you going to know, make a protest against Netflix?

I thought that other people who were getting the passwords for free. Were going to stand and make a.

Protest against you can start it. Cancel your Netflix.

No, I'm not going to cancel my Netflix account. Everybody else that's sucking off my tit. Why am I going to change my mind? I have to tell you that I'm upset because no one stood and revolted. Netflix had an incredible quarter. They made more money than they've ever made before. And people are paying the extra additional money. So now guess what? Disney plus is going for it. HBO is after it.

But I mean, it was only yeah, I know. It was only a matter of time from like a know, point of of like, I don't want to be paying any more dollars for any of I mean, what they're doing really does make sense if you think about it.

It really does.

I signed up for Netflix, but I didn't sign up for 20 people to see Netflix. And I know actually, I think all in all, we're pretty decent.

Yeah, I know we only share that.

It's really just one extra IP address, but I actually know people who get together in groups of friends, like five friends.

Oh, really?

And they are like, you pay Disney, I pay Netflix, the sports one, so that they're able to watch all the ESPN or of. So everyone is like, each member pays one of the things, and they have access to everything.

And then they just share them in.

A WhatsApp group or whatever. Fraction.

You're kidding me.

Oh, no. And I actually know people.

It's organized.

I personally know them.

So like, ten people will get together. They'll say, let's buy these five platforms. I'll pay for this, you pay for that. He's going to pay for this, she's going to pay for that. And then they share them the username and password in a group. And then everybody watches off one account.

Correct.

Holy shit. Really? Why didn't we think about this a long time ago? I think one of my cheap brothers to go ahead and pay for HBO or something like that, right? Yeah, I think I'm sharing the HBO password with dad and the Showtime password and the Cinemax password.

But I think he actually doesn't use it.

No, he doesn't use it. He never logs in. The only way that I know that we share the password is because when I log into my own account, I'll see movies or television shows being watched that I never watched before, ever. And I don't know what ridiculous programming.

Or maybe you forgot to log out in one of.

Logged into every account on that one airbnb in Spain. And I don't think I ever logged out of it. So I'm sure that they're currently watching it too. I did notice that someone was watching something in French, and I was like, who the fuck is watching something in French? I don't think any of our family members speak French all that. Well, I don't know. Maybe they were interested in it. But this does portend to an issue that I think was going to come to a head anyway. Because, of course, they're corporations. They have to make money, and they suck you in by giving you all this free shit and making it seem so easy and so wonderful and so reliable, and then eventually they just cut it off.

Well, I don't see it that way.

That was a strategy.

No, but they're not giving you stuff for free. You're paying for a service. Right. And I do think that I mean, I actually support what they're doing. Of course, I don't want to be spending more money, but at the same time, it's like it's the right thing to do.

Well, listen, in this sense, netflix had been in trouble at the end of the pandemic, right? They were losing subscribers left and right. They weren't making as much money as they thought they were going to. They had started cutting out lots of the catalogs that they had purchased from other people. You'll notice that Netflix now has more original content than it ever has and less of other people's content.

And also they take them out that the movies don't stay there forever.

No, they rotate them. Know, Netflix used to be the place you would go to. It's kind of like Amazon. Yeah. Blockbuster.

Yeah.

You would go and you would find movies, rent them, or watch them on Netflix, and they would stay there for a couple of years and you could go back and you could watch them. Now they're there less time than ever. There's less of that content. You have to watch more Netflix original content.

Well, I think they're encouraging the users to actually use a like, you want to watch this movie? Watch it now, because in three months, it's going to be gone.

Yeah, that's right. So I agree with you. I see how this makes good business sense. And if I'm the head of Netflix, I'm probably saying, okay, party's over, guys. We got to actually make some money doing this. They are supposed to spend 72 was it 72? $72 billion in original content over the next couple of years. 72 billion. It's like a mind boggling amount of money to spend on original content. And what's the best show that they produce right now? Love is blind. In my opinion, the best show that they produce is Love Is Blind. What show is okay, tell me, smart ass.

Bridgerton.

Bridgerton. They don't produce bridgerton.

Virgin river.

Virgin river?

They do. It's a Netflix original.

Bridgerton is a Netflix original?

Yes.

Have you watched it? I don't know. You've watched bridgerton.

I have read the books, actually.

You've read the books, Bridgerton, and you're watching it on Netflix and I don't know.

Yeah.

Geez, babe, we got to get together every once in a while and talk about our television discussions. Okay. What is the other one. Virgin river.

Yes.

What is Virgin River?

Netflix original.

I got that part.

It's also based on a book.

Oh, is it really?

And actually, you can talk about this more with Chrissy, because she's the one who introduced me to that on hold.

On, you're watching Bridgerton and Virgin River and she's watching Virgin River?

Yeah, she was before I actually I mean, she was the one who told me about the show.

It's like, I don't even know the woman I'm doing the commercial break with.

But I don't think Virgin River is like, the best show produced by Netflix right now.

I would say not, no.

But Bridgerton is probably in the top.

Yeah, I think Love is Blind is probably the best show that I know that they're producing right now.

Okay, sure. How many shows on Netflix are you watching?

None. Okay. Don't watch any of them. Netflix right now is my least favorite television watching application.

I was watching the Beckham the Beckham documentary. I'm watching it. It's really cool.

Yeah, I like it. You like it because you like Beckham?

No, I was never a crazy fan, was my best friend. She was crazy for Beckham when we were growing up. She was like it got to the point where he was I don't know if you remember this, but back in the, I don't know, 2002, something like that, he was a Pepsi star. So he was in all this very popular commercials, like Gladiator style commercials. Beckon was one of them.

Really?

So in Venezuela, like stores, like grocery stores or CVS type of pharmacies, that kind of thing, they started having this, like large cutouts. Yeah, cutouts. Like real size Beckham. And my mom worked for this company, and my best friend wanted one so bad just to have it in her bedroom. And so I told my mom, and she was able to get her once they were done, they had to throw them away or whatever. We gave her the beckham.

Oh, my God.

She was crazy for him. But I am watching documentary, and it's cool because it takes me I am part of the Beckham generation. Generation. I mean, he's much older. Of course. He's like you.

He's not like me. He is. I thought he's older than I am.

He's 40.

He's my age.

He's 40 something.

He's similar in age. Really? I think Beckham has a lot more wrinkles than I do. I just noticed that on a close up picture of him. But he also probably had a lot more stress in life than I well.

And also because he married Victoria. Victoria Posh.

Posh Spice.

Oh, Spice.

I'm sorry.

I was a Spice Girl fan, too, when I was growing up. So it's just cool. It's like going down memory lane.

I just don't care for that lady. I don't care for the way she comes across on television. I don't know.

I agree with you. She's never been my favorite person.

She seems a little uppity, right? Like she's not in touch. What was that one?

Well, he called her out.

I know. I found that to be incredible because.

She was sitting there saying that she.

Grew up lower middle class.

They grew up yeah. No, they grew up working class. Right.

Oh, my God.

And he was like he came from the back. And he was like, that's not true. Tell them the truth.

Tell them which car you took to high school.

And then she was like, that is the truth. And he said he was like, no, tell them which car your dad used to take you. And it was a Rolls Royce.

Yeah. There's no working class person that can afford a RollsRoyce, of course.

But who knows? She did make a comment like, well, complicated. Yeah, she was like, there's an explanation for that. But she didn't.

The only explanation that is acceptable is that her dad worked at a RollsRoyce dealership as a mechanic, and he got to take one of the cars home occasionally.

Lottery. I don't know.

Who fucking knows? But you don't drive up. But if you won the lottery, you're not working class either, because you're instantaneous. You might have been there, maybe, but who knows?

I don't know.

I don't know either.

I do think clearly, Beckham's family, they were working like a true working class.

I believe that.

And he was just not only, of course a good soccer player, but he was lucky enough that he discovered by a coach or whatever.

So besides the Beckham Virgin River Bridgerton, don't you think the Love is Blind.

Is probably the best show? Love is Blind, even though this last season was the worst.

Strange. I didn't think it was the worst. I thought you thought it was really strange.

It was the worst because they only had two cobbles. Turns out they had spoiler alert.

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They only showed the story of two couples, couples that got engaged when actually.

More there were like six couples that.

Got engaged and like, two more were actually went down to Mexico. I didn't know this. I was just reading about it.

How they cut those people out, I have no idea.

Because when they get even, I don't know, maybe already in Mexico, they knew that maybe it was a boring storyline. I don't know. I don't know.

First of all, you saw less of the couples together than you ever have in any of the other previous seasons. And second of all, I'm sure that there are, like, on site story editors as it's happening every day. They're looking through the footage and they're saying, okay, this one is interesting.

We're following this, or these two are having this problem. So let's bring the third one.

You know, the girl that was at the okay, so Love is Blind, season five. Season five, was it? Or season four?

Season five, I think.

Okay, so this most recent season that just ended with the live reunion last week or a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was very interesting the way that the stories were weaving together when they were in the pods, but then when they got outside the pods, I found it to be kind of weird that I agree with you that there were only two couples when they got to the honeymoon. There were three couples, actually, but one of them broke up during the honeymoon.

Correct.

Then I see a podcast, the Honeymoon, but like the yeah, the whatever.

The trip after engagement.

The trip after engagement. But what I found, like you to be strange is I saw a podcast with one of the girls who was featured in some of those episodes. She had actually gotten married and she went down there to Mexico. But then when they got home, they broke up because he had a girlfriend or something they figured out. Right? Why wouldn't they show that? Wouldn't that be super fucking interesting?

Who knows? I have an idea.

I don't understand.

But I do think I mean, listen, it was exciting to watch because there was so much drama in those two cobbles. Or not like so much drama, but whatever. They make know.

Fucking Uche.

Yeah.

Fucking uche. I mean, fucking uche. I'm sorry, but Uche's an asshole, and he really came across very poorly there. And I'm surprised that he didn't show up to the reunion to defend himself since he was so oh, no, he.

Just acted like a cohort.

Like a what?

A cohort.

A cord.

Cohort. Cohort.

Cord.

A coward.

A coward. Say cohort. I'm like, what's a cohort have to do? You're doing great on your English, fave. High five. Some of those words still come out funky. I agree with you. He was a total coward. He decided not to show up because he knew what a shithead he was going to end up looking like, and he didn't want to do it. But uje was like he was the most interesting character I think they've had on Love is Blind since the drunk guy in season one. Do you remember the big hunky drunk guy that got together with that girl and just ran around like a chicken with his head cut off? Do you remember that guy? I wish I could remember his name. This is more a commercial break.

The ones from Chicago.

The ones from Chicago.

That was not the first season. That was the second or third season.

Astrid, over here. It's taking notes on all the Netflix blind seasons. But this is coming from the same girl who watches Love in paradise. Is it love in paradise? Bachelor island. What's it called?

Oh, bachelor in paradise.

Bachelor in paradise.

I don't understand how you don't like it.

I think it is.

You liking every reality show there is. Yes. I know why you don't like it. Tell me it's not broadcasted by TLC.

Yeah, it's not on TLC. It was TLCC show I watched.

It so much fun. It's like so much drama.

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I think that the reason why I don't like it. And I'm not saying that there's not manufactured drama on TLC, because of course there is, but I think that the angle is more interesting on TLC. It's less hands on. Where bachelor in paradise? I don't even know what the fucking point of the show is.

Listen, I still find the bachelor shows, Bachelorete or whatever. I do find them entertaining, even though there are seasons, depending on who the person is sometimes I'm not interested. But the best show that the franchise has by far is bachelor in paradise.

What is the point of the show? What are they doing?

It's like all the single, you know how they call there's like bachelor nation. That it's. All the guys and girls that have been on the show, on the show. Or maybe they made it, but then they broke up or whatever.

Okay.

Just like the pool of people been.

On the bachelor or bachelor.

So you're part of bachelor nation. Listen, I'm not an expert either because.

I haven't there's a big rabbit hole to go down.

They they have bachelor in paradise. It's filmed down in Mexico.

Right.

So from that pool of people from the most recent seasons, right, they grab I don't know, they invite all those singles.

Yeah, right. Men and women, the biggest train wrecks, probably.

Yes. Or the most popular. And they bring them down to the beach and it's like a reality show, like the real World or Yershi Shore, where they actually are there for, I don't know, in reality, but a month or whatever. So initially on the first show, I don't know, maybe eight singles come down, or five women and five men.

But then they keep adding people in.

They keep adding people because this is now a thing. Let's say you were in bachelor nation and you were going down to paradise, but because social media and all of that, you already know. Oh, I hope. Oh, I like Astrid. Maybe she's going to be down there. You come already with a mindset. So of course they play with all of this because they asked them all this information. So you are waiting know you got down to the beach. Astrid is not of like you flirt with somebody else. Correct. And whatever, you started having a connection. Then the very next day Astrid shows up, stuff like that. So it's like one week the girls have the roses, okay?

They give the rose to somebody.

There whichever gender has the roses that week. There's normally like nine women with roses. So nine roses, and there's like twelve men.

So they're constantly shedding people off the shelf.

Yeah.

And then if you don't get a rose, you have to go home. And then they bring in new people.

To fuck it all up. That's how also they're feeding the drama because people are fighting for roses, manufactured drama. So some people actually are players. Right. They are not really making a connection with you. They're pretending to make a connection with you to get a rose and stay on the show for the next week. Because maybe next week there's someone that's going to show up that you're actually going to make a connection with.

Well, I agree with you on one point about Bachelor in paradise, of which I've watched just a couple of episodes with you, is that the most interesting character on Bachelor in paradise has nothing to do with the Bachelors of the Bacheloretes. It's the fucking bartender who's making smart ass comments. His name is Wells.

Wells Adams. Yeah. I love him.

Wells, who's he married to?

You were telling me Sarah Henland Highland.

Sarah Highland.

Who's she?

Some chick.

She was in Modern Family. She's one of the actors, one of the younger actors.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Oh, very interesting. Sarah Highland. I think she was the one who got the boob reduction and she caught like a bunch of I don't know. I don't know. I know one of the people on that show, they were being portrayed as a teenager. They were supposed to be teenager, right? Yeah, but her breasts were so large they were causing her discomfort that she had to get a breast reduction. And then a bunch of jack holes because we live in the United States of fucking Ass clowns decided to send her like threatening mail and death threats over her boob reduction. It's fucking ridiculous. I can't even believe yes, it was a whole thing.

Maybe this is like ten years ago.

But it was a whole thing at the time. Listen, it's not that I wouldn't probably like Bachelor in paradise if I decided to pay attention to it. My time is limited, and I don't want to see that kind of manufactured.

My time is limited. So let me go ahead and watch that's right. The worst shows.

Listen.

The Seven Little John like my gypsy wedding.

My gypsy wedding is fantastic. It's fantastic. Astrod is fantastic. It's a fantastic show showcasing the underbelly of the United States of America. And it's pretty fascinating how these people operate too. How the gypsies operate. It is fascinating. You don't think I am Shyna? Ray is fascinating. You don't think I am Shyana Ray is fascinating for so many different reasons.

No.

Seven little Johnstons. Okay, what is it?

The little my little family. The little world. Little People.

Little people, big world.

Well, yeah, but that one is the original one for little people.

Yes.

Right. Then seven little johnson and that came out. I mean, I was twelve when I.

Was twelve.

Plus 20.

Remember my mom watching that when I was young? I don't know, maybe I was 20 years old when that came out or whatever. But that's a fascinating show.

Okay. That one I like.

Okay. All right. So Whitney, my big, fat, fabulous that's okay. It's okay. I think Whitney gets on my nerves, though.

It's not my favorite show, but I don't sister Wives.

I know you like that one. I know you like that one. I know it. I know it.

Yeah, but also lately, it's so don't.

Well, it's boring now because they're all well, it's not Sister Wives anymore. It's the wife is what it is.

Because they actually open their eyes and.

They realize they realize what a shithead this motherfucker is.

Now it's boring.

I can't stand that guy. That guy, Cody, he has no clue how to be one husband, let alone five husbands. He is terrible. He's clueless. I'm not saying he's a bad human being. I don't know the guy personally. But what I am saying is he's a really terrible husband, and I can understand 100%, but this is not fair.

Because you're mentioning all those shows that are either okay or good shows.

Okay?

So the super bad ones that you.

Like, what are the super bad ones?

My Gypsy Wedding.

Okay. My gypsy weding.

You don't like franchise?

There's only one. Only one. My Gypsy Wedding.

The other weddings.

All right. That's a Saturday morning thing I do when I'm vacuuming. I'd like to okay, listen, here's my point.

Awful.

I can watch any TLC television show with one ear on the television and one ear paying attention to the kids, to the editing, to whatever, and not.

Miss a beat and the house going on fire while you're doing that.

The reality is, these reality shows take no investment of time or emotion. Though you may get wrapped up in some of the storylines, they take no time. There's no investment whatsoever.

And what's the investment in Bachelor in paradise?

I have to pay attention to who's getting married to who, and who likes who, and who wants to be with who, and who's going off the island. Who's coming on the island.

Same thing in love is blind.

What? Love is Blind is four fucking episodes. That's all you have to commit to is four weeks of episodes.

Well, it's the same.

Okay, that's it. How many episodes of Bachelor of paradise?

I don't know. It goes on for a month.

And a half.

No, babe, like a month and a half.

Okay. Let me ask you a question, golden bachelor, have you watched that?

I have, yes.

And what do you think? You don't like it?

It's interesting to me. It's weird. And this I'm all about older people finding love and getting married. Of course.

Thanks. All us older people. Thank you, Astrid. Thank you for giving us permission.

But the episode I watch, it looks like the exact same drama between the girls that are waiting for rose and all of that. Yes, but we're talking about 70 year old ladies instead of 20. Right. So it just looks weird. Like almost like immature in a sense.

Like these older women are fighting in.

Why are they acting like this? But I don't know.

I have read reviews of the show. Don't even apparently the most popular one. It's the most popular one. It's the most interesting one, and some people say it's the most sexed up one. Like it's the one where the people are really like the guy. Maybe because they're older and they just don't give a shit. They're like, whatever, we can handle it. But I do get what you're saying. When 60, 70, 80 year olds are acting like late teenagers, 20 year olds being caddy and bitchy and all this other stuff, it looks a little out of place.

Yeah. And I'm not judging them. Like maybe it's just part of being a human. Right, of course not. Because they're that age doesn't mean they don't have emotions. Of course. But just kind of like realizing that because of course, I've never had that perspective. It just felt weird. But it was still fun to watch. I mean, the episode that I watched, I was entertained.

You watch it, and you keep me apprised of what's going on. If golden bachelor is interesting enough, that is something that I think I would invest time in, because I think it would be funny to talk.

I think the guy is cute, though, the bachelor.

Oh, is he? Yeah. Well, good for you. You like older men. We know that. We know that much. Are you going to go off with the golden bachelor?

No.

You know what would be good? Sugar daddy bachelor. That's what I want to see. Or sugar mama bachelor. I think that would be interesting. Take someone that's much older. I mean, age appropriate.

You just want to make it tacky.

Totally.

That's what you like?

Totally.

Oh, my God.

Baby, it's not tacky in the first place. To put 20 women in a room and then ask them to all pretend like they like the same guy and tell me that this is just not a caricature. Like, you put 20 girls in a room with any guy, any handsome dude. Right. Tell me that all of them are going to fall in love to the same degree within five minutes of meeting him, the same guy. You've seen these. We've watched this together. These women and men are acting ridiculously about one person that they've never spent any time with. They're already in love with them. The women are crying. The men are sad.

Yeah. It's so dramatic.

It's so dramatic. And the reality is they just want to be on TV and they're sad they have to go home.

Of course. They know they can become real influencers.

Of course. How many of those bachelor or bacheloretes are married still to this day?

Actually, there are a lot.

A lot or a few?

No, there are a lot. Especially after they started doing bachelor in paradise. Okay, that's a show. My understanding that's a show that has the most marriages, like marriages, I mean, now couples have babies and all that from bachelor and bachelor and pattern.

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while. But married at first sight? I think they have a few, too, but they have a miserable track record. Love is blind fucking forget about it. Can't think of one of those. There's a couple from the first season. Yeah, but now, I mean, I think whatever happened to pilot Pete that you were so in love with?

No, he's single, I think.

Did pilot Pete ever go on the bachelor in paradise, any of that?

No, he like I feel like some of them that maybe feel like they're now kind of like celebrities, quote, unquote. They don't go on paradise.

Is pilot Pete think he's a celebrity?

I don't know. I guess.

Is he like an know? I don't know.

Yeah. Some of them do get so popular.

That I guess when you have millions of people watching you I mean, there.

Was this one you watched that season with me, with Hannah.

Hannah. Hannah barbera. Hannah Montana. Whatever her name.

Alabama.

Alabama hannah.

So the guy like the runner know, the runner up, the guy she broke up with. Apparently he was dating Kristen cavallari.

Kristen cavalieri. God bless America. Yeah. Kristen Cavallieri is my favorite of any of those cast members.

Oh, no, I'm tim elsie.

Well, I liked Elsie, too, but Kristen was a bad girl, and, you know, I was just attracted to the bad girls. That's it. That's why I got attracted to you. We didn't even get to the movies. I wish we had gotten to the movies, but I'll save you the embarrassment. We'll save it for the next time. I really appreciate you coming on, and I love you very much. Thank you very much. Astrid making one final appearance before Chrissy returns for the next episode of the commercial break. I do want to shout out real quick because I don't think we do this enough. I want to shout out to my polyamorous trucker chick who thinks our producer sounds like a sex phone operator. Christina. That's what she said. George h. Is eating donuts and doritos in a hotel room watching bad infomercial says he loves the commercial break. Thank you so much. Christina has a soulmate. I think her name is Anne. Anne christina. I don't know. Maybe Christina will pay attention to you at some point. Jessica wants a who's hot who's, not sticker. Hannah H has listened to too many episodes. Skip is one of our favorite listeners.

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