We don't care.

All shapes and sizes are fine.

Preferably, I like the bigger pickles.

Well, big little, darker, lighter, it don't matter. There are darker pickles than lighter pickles, okay?

Go look it up.

Gurkins are darker than a deal.

She's been around a lot of pickles. I'm actually talking about pickles, you all.

A Gurkin is darker in color than a dill. And it's a big dill. You're a dill, no.

No, a dill, no. Fuck you. On this episode of the Commercial break. 33p may make a special appearance just because. You know you want it. Just write into them and tell them. Anybody who happen to be at the Shady O'Kers. Shady O'Kers. O'kers. O'kers. O'kers. Shady O'Kers Retirement Center. Shady O'Kers.

I like Shady O'Kers.

The Shady O'Ker Retirement Center. That's where I'm going. Shady O'Ker. That's some Shady O'Ker you got on your plate right there. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, boy. Oh, yeah, guys. Again, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green, and this is the master of the universe, Shera. Chris, enjoy. Totally best to Chrisy.

Best to you, Brian.

And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Well, what is there to say, really? I think we should wrap the show. That was a good episode of the Commercial Break.

Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for joining. Nothing left to say. So many episodes. Just go back and listen to them. That's all you got to know. I'm out of stories. No, I'm kidding. I'm definitely not out of stories. You'll never be out of stories. I know. I look at the world in a very fanciful way. My perspective. My dad asked me this weekend. I was over to my dad's and he's like, How do you come up with so much content? I said, Well, first of all, I mostly make it up. So that's good. As long as I have an active imagination, I figured we'll have episodes forever. But then he said, Do you look at the world when you go around on the daily basis? Do you look at the world in a way where you're putting together a story for the show. And I said, No, not necessarily. I don't go through the world like that, but quickly after a day happens, I'll review, right? What happened? Exactly.

Was that?

Is this chewable material? Can I make something out of it? And then I make it up. So there you go.

I do think of things throughout the day. I'm like, Oh, we should talk about that. Yeah.

Well, I'm in a terrible... I mean, not a terrible. I'm in a really auto mode of writing everything down. I see a news story I I write it down. I have a funny thing happen, I write it down. I have a not funny thing happen that I think I can make funny, I write it down. And so I'm always constantly taking notes because it is a lot to fill. Yes, it is. And then I think about people like Howard Stern who are doing four or five hours a day, three days a We're just doing four hours, maybe five hours of content a week. Stern is doing like 15 hours of content a week. Now, he has a cast of characters, and I think he can dig into it. Plus, he's been doing it for what, 80 years or some shit like that? I mean, the guy is getting old. I wonder when we stop. I think he's 75 years old, 72, 73, something like that. Is he going to... Will he stop anytime soon or is he still culturally relevant, or do you die when you stop? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I had a grandfather, and he was an FBI agent before FBI agents could carry guns.

He was an FBI agent way, way, way, way, way armed services. They didn't carry guns for whatever reason. This is what he told me. So into his 90s, the guy would tell the nurses to send off his resume at his senior care home where he was in a bed because he had broken both his hips and had colon cancer. He would literally give his resume to the nurses and ask them to send it, fax it to a certain phone number to see if he could get a job, like a consulting job as a security assistant or something. He told me once, he said, When you stop working, you start dying. That's what he said to me. I think it was true for him. I think when he lost that purpose, he was like, he just started to go downhill.

Yeah, for a lot of people.

But I am under no illusion that I want to do this into my '90s or even '75. No. I'm thinking another good year and a half is what we're obligated to do. Then we just sail off into the sunset to do the, I don't know, to do the next thing. Hopefully, retire. But at the current rate, I think we're going to break even in 2036. We might have to do it a little bit longer than I anticipate.

We might have to keep going for a little bit.

I was hoping it'd be like a five-year run. We'd make $600, $700 million, and then we'd just sail off into the sunset.

I'd get our plane.

Yeah, we'd be like those smart list guys. We'd get our $100 million our payday, we'd fulfill the obligation, and then we'd sail off into the sunset. But having done the math, I'm now convinced that sailing off into the sunset happens well after the world ends, actually, which might be soon. Hey, I don't know. Maybe the things are looking up. Do you think people will listen to us?

Be your own motivation, Ryan.

Yes. Be your own motivation. Here's my labia.

I got that.

I'm coming to you live from the carnival, Shithouse of the Sees. Ready to inspire people with purpose and focus. Are you? We're talking about some Instagram folks. We like to, even though we're clearly trying to do the exact same thing in a different way. We like to make fun of the influencers, especially the beauty queens who are out there showing their ass and their tits, and they put some inspirational quote behind it, right? You have to float before you fly. Do you have to float before you fly? Is that how birds do it? They just spread their wings and hope that things turn out or what's going on there. Then they're showing their nipples. Or the other kind, which is just people who think they're way too... They think they're way too important.

They have to update everybody about everything that they're doing.

Yes, that's right. The inspirational quotes coming from the influencers, not only do they not inspire, I'm not sure they influence at all unless they're influencing my nether regions. We've got one guy that I just, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I hate watching them. That's it. And another check that I hate watch. I don't hate watch because I hate them. I hate watch because I hate their Instagram posts. They make no sense whatsoever. They literally take a picture of a half-eaten bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. Jam, jam. What the fuck does that mean? Are you assured that I'm looking at this in the morning? First of all. Second of all, do I really need to hear good morning while looking at your half-eaten breakfast? It makes me sick to my stomach. Here at the airport, so early, no one's here. A picture of thousands of people in the airport. And by the way, this particular person takes more bathroom selfies than I've ever seen anybody take. It's like she purposefully goes to the bathroom to take a selfie wherever she's going. And I'm wondering, do I really want to know that you just shit and now you have a brand new haircut?

Is that what you're going for? You're going for the, I just had diarrhea from my bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich at airport.

That feels so much better now. Here's a selfie.

Just use half a roll of toilet paper here at LAX. Jam, jam. Jam, jam, do you? Fuck twad. I swear to God. The Earth is the human psyche is just coming apart at the seams, and we're all watching it, and we're all participating in it in our own little way. I'm not claiming that we are not, because we certainly are. If there is anything less important in the world the commercial break, I'm not aware of it. Maybe the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory with Travis Kelsi, and they're getting Joe Biden elected. Maybe that's dumber than the commercial break, but that in and of itself is a high debate. I don't know. But what I do know is I don't care if you just took a shit. I'm not sure your highlights in your hair excite anybody. And GM GM to nobody. Nobody fucking cares GM GM. The morning is the worst time. Say, G-N-G-N, like Good night, good night. I could take that a little bit more. Anyway, let's move on with the commercial break. Word of the day.

Word of the daytime.

Yeah, I'm liking this. I feel like I'm expanding my vocabulary just a little bit.

That's right. Now we'll write it down in the notebook, too, because I've been keeping track in the notebook. Did you see my new pen, by the way? Oh, I did.

Disco ball. There you go.

I know. I really like it.

Oh, it spins? It spins. Oh, it's like a little... What do they call those? The fiddle sticks or the fiddlers? I don't know what they call them. What are they?

Yeah, something like that. Fidgets.

Fidget Fidget spinner. Fidget spinner. Fiddle sticks. Fiddle sticks. That's what they used to... They had a toy called a fiddle stick. I know.

It's not this.

No, it's not. I bought a fiddle stick with that pocket pussy I got. You did. It came with a free fiddle stick. I have to use both of them. All right. All right, go.

I thought I'd start off with a little something. We'll ease this back in here today. Okay, please do. Blarnie.

Oh, Blarnie means bullshit. Blarnie What was it? Well, the Blarnie Stone. I think kiss the Blarnie Stone. Doesn't that mean the bullshit Stone or something? You're full of Blarnie. I don't know. I've heard it a couple of times.

I mean, I guess it could mean bullshit, but it means to talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade.

Yeah, it's bullshit. That's what it means. It means bullshit.

Amusing and harmless nonsense.

The commercial break is most definitely Blarnie. We should call it the commercial Blarnie.

We should. Here's an example in a sentence. She certainly was a charmer as she relied on Blarnie to persuade her coworkers to share details about their lives.

I just love that word Blarnie. It's fun. Yeah. That's an Irish word, right?

It sounds like it's got to be. Yes. It's got to be. It's got to be. Yeah. Origin Irish from the 18th century.

From the 18th century? Mm-hmm. Well, that's almost as old as I am. That's how long the Howard Stern show has been I turned it on this morning. I don't listen to it very much anymore. I used to listen to it a lot, but I don't listen to it much anymore just because I don't have time. Now I'm doing my own fucking weird- Your own show? Song and dance here. I turned it on this morning, and I How do you have that much energy? I mean, honestly, how do you have that much energy? It's a lot. It's a lot.

The money is a big motivator.

When you're getting $100 million a year, I guess that prods you along. He can't stop. I think his contract comes up at the end of 2025, and I'm just so curious to know whether or not Stern renews. Here's why I'm curious to know. I think the over 70 crowd that's currently listening to him may come over in our direction should he decide to retire. I'm hoping to get the Stern in a sloppy seconds. Well, Blarny, there you go. The commercial Blarnie, now a very Bonhomie podcast. If you're interested, it is quotidian also as it comes on every day and it's completely terrible. Mondane. It's terrible. All right, let's get to some headlines. The Grammys were a few days ago, and so I thought I would touch on the Grammys, which I'm now referring to as the grannies because- You are. I just used to be so excited about the Grammys. The Grammys was like the one night a year. I had to watch network... I mean, back in the day, you had to watch network television because that's all there was. But I mean, when cable came, it was the... The MTV Music Awards were the absolute best, coolest music related.

Edgey. Yeah, a live television show that you could watch. But then the Grammys were a close second. It was like the respectable. If someone won a Grammy, they were like, Wow, a Grammy. I guess it's still like that. There are- Yeah, now it is. So many artists that want to win one, and I never will. I guess maybe that's why it's lost some luster with me. I thought for sure.

You finally accepted it.

Chrissy, you don't know how many times- That you're not going to get to the Grammys. No. You know how many times when I was 13, 14, even 15 years old in my bedroom by myself when my parents weren't home, that I would pretend that I was winning a Grammy and I was up there. Really? Yes, absolutely. I know. I had this whole map drawn out in my bedroom, in my mind, not actually drawn out. Okay. But the bedroom was big. Would you stand up on your bed? I would stand up on my bed. Those were the speakers. Those were the towers. So I'd have the guitar and I'd jump off it. The legend told me, man, you'll finally hear another moment. I'd put my whatever it was, Pearl Jam, Allison James, whatever. I like it myself, the Eddie Vender. I would just oftentimes do the whole routine. I'd pick a song and I go through it the whole time and I do the thing. Then I had a little line that was the edge of the stage and I would...

Girls would be, That didn't help you in your later years when you fell off the stage.

No, that's probably why I fell off the stage, because it was just instinct to know that there actually was no stage, and no matter how far I I wasn't falling off. Yeah. That's true. But after 62 tequilas on a three and a half foot tall stage somewhere in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Brian took a nose dive in the fog of war. Literally the fog of war. The combination of second-hand cigarette smoke that probably came from me and then the fog machine. I just walked right off stage. Just, oh, there. Look at that guy. Oh, there you go. There go. And meanwhile, the two people who were in front moved out of the way. Pardon. Yes, they didn't try and catch me. They moved out of the way. They literally took a step to the right. So there I am, bleeding on the floor, microphone, squiling with feedback.

I'm shocked that the Grammys were not alerted to this performance.

I think the Grammys were alerted to this performance. I think I've currently blacklisted or ever and ever from any Grammy-related activities. I'm a liability. I'm really not that good. But I mean, listen, so here we are. It's so stupid. I'm so stupid. I look back on that and I think, What are you doing with your life? You could have been studying to try and pass high school in any meaningful way. You could have played this saxophone, which you might have been good at. Had you given it any actual time or effort? But no, I was up there with my broomstick or whatever, up there, pretending I had a guitar in my hand. I was actually trying to make my fingers move to the guitar solos, too. So not only did I sing along and pretend that there were thousands and thousands of adoring fans, but I had to make it technically accurate by moving my fingers up and down the broomstick in a way. I never forget. I was at a party. I'm like, maybe like 19, 20 years old. I'm at this party. I think I've told this before, and Me and this guy, we figured out how to play one song together, and we thought we were the next best thing in rock and roll.

One song went on for twelve and a half minutes. It was three cords. At one point, we would play the cords so fast, but together in opposing directions, but it was like melodic. I swear we thought we… Chickadee, Chick, to the Chicky chicken. Take my dick out and you don't stop licking. I mean, I don't know what we were singing. But We get in this room at this party. It was really good, though. Yes, it was so good in which everybody is super high on coca, and we're playing this song, and there's a little crowd. There's 12, 13 people in a bedroom. We're sitting on a bed, we're playing it, and we're doing this number. We get done and everybody's like... The obligatory golf clap. I'm not sure what that was. It went on for 12 minutes. No cord changes. It's pretty good. So I get it. So I get out. Now I'm feeling all proud of myself. Probably just a little cocaine confidence running through me, right? I'm like, Hey, yes.

Did you have the sweat towel?

No, I didn't have the sweat towel, but I put my head down. I just acted like I was humbled. I put my head down. I walked around. But in my head, I was flying 300 feet high, right? Because someone had actually put their hands together for something we had done, which was a new experience for me. Right. So I get out.

You got that first brush, that I know, that first taste.

I know, that first taste of Fame. That tasty teener of Fame. That tasty teener of Fame. Now I also get noticed, mainly by the parents at school. Stay away from me. Oh, there he is. Oh, yeah. I heard your podcast. You did? I did.

I did.

Yep. All right. Well, this is awkward, so I guess I'll just walk away. What do you do for a living? What does it you do for a living? Oh, I'm a neurosurgeon. Oh, yeah. . I hear they're doing great things in that surgery room. Well, I guess this has been awkward enough. I'll walk away now. I'm going to go, Let our kids play together. I'll be the opposite side of the room.

Yeah, look how fun.

That was fun. Did I What are you about? My kid's birthday party coming up soon. I'll get an invitation for you. I walk out of the room and then the party's going on and some song comes on. The song comes on, I know the song, and I'm doing a little guitar in the corner? Like, and I'll never, ever forget this. A girl comes up to me who I thought was rather attractive. I remember eyeing her at the party. Oh, shit. She saw my three-chord song for 37 minutes that we just played. She's into me, right? She walks up to grab another beer. I'm standing in the kitchen. She walks up to grab another beer, and she says, Wow, it looks like you're actually fingering the solo correctly. I'll never forget thinking to myself, all those years of fake air guitar- Paid off. Paid off. This girl likes me. She likes me. Never spoke another word to me the entire time. Never saw her again. But that one moment, I was shining in the sun. Four years of pretending that I was on stage in my bedroom have paid off. I'm going to get laid because of it.

You know what? You got to start somewhere. Never once happened. We're going to talk about the Grammys at one point, but then Brian just went off on his own little He's in his own little world. Hey. Oh, there's Blue. Hey, Blue. How are you doing?

The Grammys made me think of your career.

My burgeoning music career that never quite took off. As noted by the 600,000 episodes of the commercial break. We reviewed my music one time here on the show.

We did.

We never got one- Sunny Side Up. Sunny Side Up.

We never got one. That was my jam.

Sunny Side That was your jam? Yeah.

The Sunny Side Up song.

What was the other one? The song? Yeah. She's lying on the floor. No, She's Lying on the Lawn. I like this moody song about a girl who was trying to commit suicide. Lying on the ground. Yeah. Live on the... Living on the ground. When will she be found? Oh, my God. Beaten by her dead. Things are sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad.

In all fairness, that was the mood of that time. It was. With a lot of the Allison Chains and Paul Jayman.

Mid to late '90s. Well, actually, it had already passed. The grunge was way over. We were now into.

A Chikadee Chinese Chinese ticket.

Chikadee Chinese with a Chinese chicken. Looking at the clock because it don't stop ticking. Getting French fries with your shoes on. I got no booze on. How can I love you when you I might be mad at you. Whatever the fucking song is. I don't know. I hate it. I hate it. To be fair, I think we were more in limp biscuit territory. Brian was trying to bring like... Limp biscuit territory. Limp biscuit territory. Brian was going back to Collective Soul Days. I was pulling from early Matchbox 20. People had moved on. They were on to rap rock or whatever the fuck that shit was. Yeah.

It was all the stuff that was at the Lollipool or not.

99. Woodstock 99.

Woodstock99. Woodstock, yes.

Woodstock. I'm not going to Woodie Stock at 99. Mass death and rape. Woodie Stock. Come on down to Woodie Stock. We're going to set fire to the stage. I did.

That was the craziest documentary.

That was the nuttiest documentary.

I'm glad it didn't go. I know.

And then it's like the producer of the concert is like, Well, I did see a lot of tech. I know. You didn't think to put a little extra security in the middle?

That was crazy.

It all went to hell in a handbasket. Yeah, I mean, I think we reviewed this on the show, but that Woodie Stock '99. That was a shit show. Even MTV had to leave. Even they thought it was too much. Who's the other guy? Moby or whatever his name. Remember Moby? And Moby went and played, and he was like, We're out of here. We are not doing this. There are too many tits and too many dicks. When I watched that, I feel so, so sad for a generation of music fans and lovers who just went to that show to have some fun and the absolute greed of the Woodstock producers, who, by the way- They were sitting backstage, too, in these velvet couches, every lose they wanted. Telling everybody everything's okay, doing blow. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, They had their own set of tits in their face. The truth was, the Woodstock producer... I want to just share this right now. I know we're not... We're supposed to be talking about the Grammys. We'll get to it, obviously, in the next segment of the show. But I just want to share this. The Woodstock producers, especially that one guy, Michael Levy, I think is his name.

Was his name Michael Levy? I can't remember the name. The one guy who had the mastermind of Woodstock, the original 69 Woodstock, was never in it for peace or love. He was never in it for peace or love. He only let the gates fly wide open when he realized what a nightmare he had on his hand. Hundreds of thousands of people had shown up because the word had gotten out on Jasper's farm that everybody was going to go there for three days of peace, love, and whatever the fuck. The only reason why he flung the doors wide open is because people were already climbing the fences. There was chaos anyway. He was trying to make the best of a very, very difficult situation. He wanted to make money. He did it again in 1992, 94. 94 Woodstock, I think. Then he did it again in '99. 94, he got away with it, made kab billions of dollars. Then for some dumb ass reason, he decided to rent an Air Force base that is all cement so that he could make yet more money off the goodwill of the Woodstock name. By the way, there are lots of people who went to the original Woodstock that did not look upon it very favorably.

They had a really tough time just surviving for four or five days.

Yeah, water was scarce and the heat and the sun. Yeah.

Yeah. In '99, it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. You put a bunch of kids with a bunch of booze and drugs on a hot tarmac, and then you asked them to listen to music that sometimes was good natured, but at other times was super aggressive. Yeah, ragey. Yeah. With little to... Literally rage against the machine, right? Yeah. With little to no security or or Oversight.

Yeah, that was a whole other part of the documentary was the security people that were basically like... They were kids. Yeah, they were just kids that wanted to go to the show.

They didn't care. So as soon as they got their T-shirts, they just walked into the show and threw the T-shirt away, gave it to somebody else. Here, you go backstage. I don't know. I don't want to do that. Then these poor teenage girls and 20 something girls who are just hot as shit, and they see one girl take their top off, and then everyone's doing it because they're feeling pressured by the crowd. Groupthink takes over real fucking quick. If you don't think you can be subject to it, you are mistaken. So all these girls with their tops off, it's just a recipe for fucking... I'm not saying it's anybody, the girls' fault that they took their tops off. No. What I'm saying is that booze, drugs, tits, sexual energy, a violently aggressive energy. All of a sudden, that is just a terrible disaster. Recipes are a disaster. Meanwhile, Michael, whatever his name is, is sitting in the background telling everybody everything's cool, and let's let Limp Biscuit go on next. Let's let Limp Fucking Biscuit go on next. He even told the guy, he said, someone told the guy, some producer told the guy, Could you please calm it down?

We need you to calm it down. Well, Fred Durst. I know he's trying to make a comeback to her and everything, grandpa come back to her, whatever Limp Biscuit is. But Fred Durst went the absolute opposite direction. You shouldn't probably trust a 20-something rock and roll God to then calm the crowd down because that's exactly the opposite of what he did. You know what I have to say to that? Fun to watch on TV, terrible documentary. I don't know. I was at Sunnyside Retirement Center trying to let people know that it's Sunnyside Up. Come on, guys. Sunnyside Up.

You had your own little festival.

I did. I had my own little festival.

At the Retirement Home.

One person stayed in the room after we began playing. There were 20. One person stayed. We have to review that music again. I think it's long overdue that Brian breaks out that tape.

Yeah, because we were talking about it, and this is the early days of TCV, but we were talking about it for a while. Then your friend that was in the band with you, was that what happened? He contacted you and got you the tape.

He came to my birthday Yeah, he got me the long lost live tapes of TCB of 33P. The Archive. Yeah, the Archive. I'm telling you what, I thought, I knew it was going to be bad. I had no idea how bad. It was terrible. I'm not afraid to poke fun of myself. However, I did see recently, over the holidays, I saw two of the other members of that band at a little reunion. Oh, you did? Not like a band reunion, but like a reunion of friends, a band reunion. 33p, back for one night only. Live at Shady Acres Retirement Center. Get ready to have your dick pounded inside out. Brian Green. That other guy. The third guy who doesn't want to be named. I think they were all a little pissed at me, actually, if I'm being honest. Because one of them is a very successful musician, a very successful A successful studio and touring musician. I think he would rather that just die where it died that day.

At the retirement home.

At the retirement home. Let it die at the retirement home where it belongs, please. But no, Brian's commercial break needs content ideas. I guess we all have to suffer. All right, we've gone on way too long. Let's take a break. We'll talk about the Grammys, I promise. I always have to put me first. Oh, my God. All right. We'll be back.

Sorry to interrupt, but that's my thing these days. If you're sick of me interrupting Brian, give us a call at 626 Ask TCB 3. Leave us a voicemail, and maybe I'll interrupt you on the show instead. You'd love that, wouldn't you? You can also text us at 855-TCB-8383, and check out our website, tcbpodcast. Com, for all things TCB. You know what's coming next. Follow us on Instagram at the Commercial Break and on TikTok at TCB podcast. And now let's listen to some sponsors because they're the real ones around here.

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I did. I had it on just... I forgot that it was even going to be on. Me, too. Then I got reminded of it somehow, and I thought, Oh, I'm at home, and I need to organize and do some stuff. And so I just turned it on in the background.

Well, I would have never known it was on had Asterid not told me, or I saw it in one of the Trade Rags, because the truth is, while I used to get really excited about the Grammys, the last number of years, I found it to be really underwhelming, just in general, like the production value and the hosts and the- I mean, I used...

Some people might still be of the mindset that they really love to watch those award shows, but I just don't.

I don't know who those people are.

I really don't. Some people get really excited about them. It's like a tradition to watch it, but I don't keep up with that.

Well, I do have to say this. Let's start at the beginning. I saw Heather, our friend Heather, McMahon.

Oh, I wanted to I see her. That was the thing.

I saw her on E. She's doing the red carpet. She did them- Good for her.

Best to you, girl.

You go get it. That girl became super famous.

Yeah, right after she was on our show.

Two minutes after our show. You couldn't have waited, Heather, a couple of weeks to come on the show so that we can piggyback off your Fame. Come on.

That's the piggy front.

Yeah, piggy front off our Fame. But no, congratulations. She does a great job. She's very funny. She did the Golden Globes, I think, too?

She did, yeah.

All right. She did that. What I noticed was they stuck her behind a railing with E-entertainment. They stuck her behind a railing?

She was talking about that on her podcast with the last show, too.

She didn't even have an opportunity to... They were all walking by her, and she was just saying things. She was saying things at them. She would shout a question or a thing or whatever, right? Like, Oh, it's CeeLo Green. Then she would turn around to the iPhone camera on the Instagram reel that I saw, and then she would be like, That's CeeLo Green. I thought to myself, Did they not let her interview the people? Their publicists pull them over or something?

I don't know. I missed that.

I don't know. Maybe E doesn't have as much cachet at the Grammys as they do at the Golden Globes. Anyway, she was funny, no doubt about it. Congratulations to Heather. But then I watched some of the program. I'll say this. I think some of the live music was good. I really do. I think they did a good job of stuffing a lot of live music in there, which is what the Grammys should be. It shouldn't be this talk fest where everybody jacks themselves off and congratulations to you and you're the best that ever lived and all this. I understand doing one or two of those per program, but in the last 10 years, some of that got a little lengthy and a little wordy. Trevor Noah is great. He knew how to work a crowd. He did a good job, I think. Taylor Swift actually smiled at one of his jokes. I'll say that he was certainly in better favor than the last guy who did the award show. What was his name? Chelsea Handler's old boyfriend. Oh, yeah.

Joe Coy.

I think Trevor Noah did the best with this situation that was given to him. Trevor's a very likable and funny human being. He is. He keeps it light. There were so many production gaps, it seemed like to me in the live show that I found it to be hard to watch. The in memorandum part of it. Stevie WNDYR, for those of you that watched or didn't watch, Stevie WNDYR, they put him in a piano in the middle of the crowd with a band. He gives this lengthy speech about Tony Bennett, because Tony Bennett died this year, and he's going to be the big name that we all talk about, Tony Bennett. So Stevie does a rendition of Stevie's song that Tony Bennett liked to do live on stage. And they interspersed Stevie singing, and then Tony was in the background on a video singing. Then Stevie sang a line, and then Tony sang a line, and then Stevie sang a line, and then Tony sang a line, and then Stevie sang a line, and then Tony sang a line. I realized that Stevie is blind, and so he doesn't have any visual cues to tell him what is going on, but he's pretty fucking good at music.

And I absolutely love Stevie Wonder. Absolutely love him.

Oh, yeah, 100%.

This is by far the most terrible singing I have ever heard from Stevie Wonder and really, really bad in general. He was in a different key altogether, somewhere there in outer space. I'm not sure where he was. He was stepping on Tony at times. They shut off Stevie's microphone at other times because I think he was singing, but Tony was supposed to be singing. Oh, God. I realized the minutiae of this must be difficult, right? But then I also noticed that he was playing piano But at times he would raise his hands and make these weird gestures to the crowd for five or six seconds at a time when you could hear the piano beneath it. So you think it was pre-recorded? It was a track, but clearly his voice, the singing that Stevie did, was not a track, and it was just bad. I don't know the way to say it, bad. Then 15 seconds into the performance with Stevie, they show a picture of Jimmy Buffet, but the picture quickly goes away, and then Tony Bennett is back. I'm Wait, are we doing a Stevie Buffet tribute here? Or Jimmy Buffet? Are we doing Tony Bennett?

Or are we doing Stevie Wonder? I'm not really sure.

I remember hearing the Jimmy Buffet. It was like, Come Monday.

Come Monday, I'll hate my life. Come Monday, I'll interview Matt Wright because he's not so famous anymore. And he's at TCD, the entertainment floor. So, yes. So then Stevie finishes up, wraps up. Everyone's befuddled. They're all like, Oh, okay. Thanks, Stevie. And then on to Jimmy Buffett. Now, clearly, what happened was there was a production Snap view. They showed Jimmy early. They pressed the wrong button or whatever. Now, they do a little video montage to Jimmy Buffett. Then all of a sudden, Annie Lennix is up there singing, Nothing compares to you, which was a beautiful rendition. Nothing Annie Lennix does is bad to me. She is She's so good. Good, good, good, good, good. While her voice isn't the voice from the '80s, it's still beautiful. She did a great job. Nothing compares to you. She mixed the Stevie Wonder, the Prince, Shanae versions together. It was really good. But then they're putting all these people- I like the Fantasia Tina. Oh, yeah. Okay, that was good. She did Tina, she did. Yeah. Now we've showed more faces, many of which no one is familiar with composer, singer, pianist. Okay, they're probably academy members, and they deserve their due.

But then out comes John Batiste. Now John Batiste is giving a tribute to this African-American executive in music known as the godfather of Black music. John Batiste is wonderful. He's wonderful. Yeah. But then all of a sudden, his brother who died, Ronald Batiste Jr, the percussionist who died earlier in the year, is it got a picture of him, and then John is singing this song, and then John goes, Yeah, whoa. And I'm like, Whoa. Are we happy about that? Is that a good thing? I didn't know. I didn't know what you had to feel about that. I was like, Are we happy he died? Or that was the brother that we didn't like? I'm not sure. Or were they even related? I don't know. Maybe they weren't even related. They just shared the last name.

The brother we didn't like.

Yeah. Then we got Jay-Z up there, bitching and complaining because Beyoncé didn't win Album of the Year. She's won the most Grammys ever by any- She wasn't up for Album of the Year.

Oh, she wasn't?

No. Oh, well, then there you go. Why are we complaining, Jay-Z? I don't understand.

I think he was saying in general. But yeah, I don't know.

We got Lenny Kravitz, who will always be cool in my mind. Oh, God.

We talked about him the other day.

Yeah, he's the most interesting man in the world. He really is. I mean, this- Screw the white guy with the beard.

The sunglasses, I think, are- Doesn't. He's always got a sunglas.

It's also smart because he's got a He's a little older and it hides his lines. You know what I'm saying? So he always looks young and those dreads just always look good on him. But he's got this... His nipples are peering through this shirt. He's got this big Prince cross on and he's like, The godfather of black music, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, What better way to respect the godfather of black music than to show your nipples on TV? I mean, come on. You look good in a suit, bud. Put on a suit. What are we doing? You get through that whole number. Then you got Miley Cyrus winning her first Grammy all in dolly parton. What was she wearing? What was that hair? Did you see the hair? Yeah. That hair was like a lion's mane.

It was. It was real poofy. I think it was like a '70s type look. Or something?

Yeah. If everyone's going for the mob wife esthetic, that's the new thing. I've been reading about that. I got an Instagram friend that's all new to that.

I've been reading about that.

Activate mob wife. I don't know. Jim, Jim. Whatever. I don't know. But okay, I'm down with it. Okay, mob wife esthetic, I get it. But she came out looking like half Tina Turner, half Dolly Parton, half mob wife. That's 150% cent, which is impossible. But anyway. Mesh. Yeah. Yeah. She had her nipples hanging out, too, and they didn't sense her.

She even said she forgot her underwear. She always forgets her underwear.

I think she's just like one of those naked babies. Yeah. I got a kid that's a naked baby. It just wants to walk around naked all the time. The naked baby. Listen, I'm here for it. Whatever. It's 2024. Do we really fucking care what people are wearing anymore? Not really. If they're showing their tits, okay, fine. No. Whatever. Just don't put an inspirational quote down below. Then you've got Tracy Chapman. That was really good. Coming out of what seems like a very long period of not being around.

I don't know. Yeah, you don't see her very much.

No, I think I was watching a fast car performance from 2016, maybe a couple months ago. So good. Tracey Chapman is so fucking good. Yeah, she really is. She did it with Luke Holmes, am I right? Yeah. Such a good song. Then who else was up there? Can we just let Travis Scott go? Can we just let him go? He's dating that Kardashian girl. Bunch of kids just died at his concert not too long ago. Now we got him closing out the Grammys or late in the Grammys show. Why do we care?

Yeah, when I saw that, I was like, Okay, time for me to go back to do that.

Yeah, I'm just I'm over as dark underlord, jump all over the place thing. Travis has some good music. It's a music that I think is good, nice to the ear, right? But I don't care for Travis personality. He's always out there. I don't know. I just felt like it was like, why are we giving this guy props? We waited the obligatory year after the kids died, and now we have to put him back on the Grammys. Do we really have to put him back on the Grammys? Do we really? But then again, CeeLo Green was there, and he's had his troubles, too. But I noticed that CeeLo Green wasn't anywhere to be found on stage, at least not while I was watching. The killer Mike gets arrested. I saw that. The fuck?

I know. I really don't know. Maura is going to come out probably by the time that this airs.

Yeah, well, it was an altercation with a security guard is what I heard. Okay. There was altercation with a security guard. Some people said it was because he had a warrant for a nonviolence, something that happened in LA. But I don't think the police go after somebody at the Grammys like that. I just don't. For a nonviolence bench warrant. Some altercation is what was said. Well, somebody probably didn't... Some bullshit happened, and I imagine rightfully- Anyway, kudos to him.

We won three.

Three Grammys. Three Grammys. Do you know how old that guy is? 48 years old. It gives us hope, Chr. Yes. It gives us hope that someday we, too, may be recognized by somebody for something. I'm not saying it's going to happen. I'm saying there's a chance it might at our advanced age.

We're running up on that time.

Are we? In total, I think that the Grammys were filled with production snafus that made it sometimes difficult to watch. Performances that were good and bad, and that a lot of reflecting was going on, and it made it feel not so youthful. Does that make sense to you?

It does. Yeah.

Not that I'm the guy who should be talking about what's youthful or not youthful, but I used to get really excited about the Grammys. They would have exciting performances by Guns & Roses and Madonna.

It was a big deal. Also, there were not 5 million, billion channels of other things.

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All right, and we're back. I just want to say this. I think I owe an apology. And I'm going to... Amaya Copa, right here on the commercial break, which I don't do very often, but I seem like I'm doing more and more.

I know, I was going to say.

It seems like I'm doing more and more. I think you did it last week. I just did one last week. I don't know if I own an apology or if I'm just totally off base about this. The other day, I'm scrolling through Insta Twitter or whatever the fuck I'm on, and I catch a DJ, a young female DJ, and it says, French Riviera DJ. I made a joke and was mixing this, doing a house remix on this song, and all of a sudden, it's my jam or something along those lines, right? But I had the volume off. Then I turn on the volume, and you know what it is? She is house remixing, Creed, the band's song, into a house music song, which everyone is dancing at and going crazy. There's probably 150 people in the room of this club, this daytime beach club or whatever, and they are just going bananas. None of them over the age of 25, none, not one, that I could see. They were going crazy. I'm 6 feet on the edge and I'm thinking.

I was going to say, I think they probably were too young to catch Cree in the first iteration.

Everything old is new again. Exactly. Yes, you're right about this. Everything old is new again. And apparently, Creed is coming back into fashion because it wasn't one day later when I saw Paramount Plus, I think is what it was, had a commercial, and that commercial had Creed in the commercial. Drew Barrymore. Who's the guy, Captain Picard. What's his name? You know what I'm talking about? From Star Trek? From Star Trek.

The bald guy?

The bald guy. Can't ever remember his name. Yes. Yeah, okay. Captain Picard, Lieutenant Picard, whatever his name was. Family guy. The kids whose little heads are shaped like footballs. Anyway, a couple of football stars, and they're all in this massive, probably way huge much budgeted commercial. And up at the top of this mountain is Creed singing their song. And it's hip. It's cool. It's interesting.

Best of Creed.

No. What are we talking about?

You had your Creed done.

Bad I had no Creed time. My creed time was never. Even if Scott Stapp came on this show, which he's been pitched, right? Even if he came on this show, even if we said yes and everything worked out in his favor, and I say his favor, our favorite. But even if that happened, I would still have to tell him directly to his face, Scott Stapp, the lead singer, I'm assuming, is the one that would come on the show. Even if he came on the show, I would still have to share with him that I am not the world's biggest Creed fan. I think that's okay to say. I don't have to like everybody's music. I don't have to like everything about everybody for them to come on the show. I am not the world's biggest fan. I will say this, and I've said this before in the show, and I'll say it again now. He did move his guitar case so I could put my stroller in an airport. That's right. I'll have to say that. That he seemed like a nice guy. That's right. I know that Creed played arenas around the world, and they were like- A lot of people liked Creed.

A lot of people liked Creed, including a lot of my friends. A lot of my friends were into Creed.

They were hot for a while.

Yes, they were hot for a minute, and they definitely were the band of the moment for, I don't know, maybe a year or two. But what? What are we doing? They're now headlining Paramount Plus commercials. Either Paramount Plus has no content whatsoever, or I am just stumbling upon the fact that Creed is having a resurgence in popularity in the underbelly of America, and I am not understanding this. I mean, I have not. I say best to Creed on that. Okay. You be nice to everybody. I'm going to tell you how I really feel. You be disingenuous. I'm going to be honest. Here it is. Creed. Yes. There are some catchy tunes in there, and I get it. There's some earwigs.

They've been hustling for a long time. You got to give them that.

Chris, do you know the story? Do you know what happened to Creed? No. Okay, let me just share with you what I think the story is based on my- What you think. Bullshit version of the story. The version of the story is, Creed was the hottest thing since slice bread, and then they quickly fell apart.

Well, the one thing I didn't care for about Creed was that it sounded very- Religious. No.

Even though it wasn't.

I know. I wasn't going to say religious. I was going to say he sounded a little too much like he was trying to sound like Eddie Vedder.

Oh, yeah. But there was a million people. There were. You did it. You did it. You did it. Scott Wieland, I did it. Scott Wieland did it. Scott Wieland did it to great effect. Stone Temple Pilates, one of the better bands that came out of the '90s, right? Yeah. Still like the Stone Temple Pilates music. At first, you swore to God, that was a Pearl Jam song. You were like, No, that first song that came out, you were like, No, that's a Pearl Jam song. No, it's not. It's a band called Stone Temple Pilots. Whatever the fuck that means. Yes, he did sound a lot like Eddie Vedder or tried to sound a lot like Eddie Vedder. What turned me off was all this shirtless, flying in the air, pretending he's God, Jesus Christ lookalike, Jesus Christ superstar, bullshit. When they didn't even intend to be a Christian band, they became a Christian band. Why?

What was the Christian part about? I don't remember that.

Because a lot of the lyrics started to take on meaning to some people in the audience. It caught on that they were a Christian band, even though they never intended to be one, and then they ran with it. They were like, Oh, okay, we're a Christian band. Sure, why not? I think Scott Stapp was religious at one point in his life. Can you take me higher? It was all weird.

It was What is there in the background for me.

Jesus, fetish, bullshit, right? Mm-hmm. Okay. I went to one of their concerts. Do you know why I went to one of their concerts?

To hate concert?

Because my drug dealer was there. That's why I went to one of their concerts. Literally, the guy was like, Hey, you're going to come to Creeg with me? I was like, No. He's like, You owe me 80 bucks. Okay, sure. Are the tickets for free? Yes. I need someone to go with. Meanwhile, there were like 30 people that went with the guy. I don't know why I showed up there. I ended up standing around just like, Okay, all right. Can you take me higher? I guess so.

People- Was it an outdoor show?

No, it was an indoor show. A lot of lights, a lot of fire, a lot of Scott Stapp's chest. I mean, it was a lot of just stuff that I just... It wasn't for me. It was a little too flashy for me. I like my rock and roll a little bit more Eddie Vedder-ish. I don't know what else to say. Put your head down. You're not supposed to be famous. Be humble. But okay, so they had their moment and there were a lot of people that liked them. I get that. I don't have to like everything everybody else likes. I don't have to like... Just because you like it. It's not for everyone. It's not for everyone.

Just like this show.

Just like this goddamn show. But I swear they are making a comeback and it is working working, whoever their PR agent is, whatever talent agency they're working with.

Wait, you didn't do the story of what happened with Creed. Oh, okay.

So, Creed fell apart when Scott started to get a little strange. He was flying off- Ego. Ego, drugs, and alcohol by his own admission. I had known this because I had a friend that worked at a dance club. She was a manager at a dance club, a shoe show, a lady of the Night Club. Oh, a dance club. The Cheetah. She was a manager of the ladies at The Cheetah. She would see him. It was her boyfriend was the dealer that I went to the Creed show with, but he had shown up a couple of times after shows in Atlanta or for whatever reason.

Yeah, because was he from Atlanta? No.

No, I think he's from Michigan or something. I don't know. I don't know where he's from. But she would report back that things were not all Christian with the Christian rock band, if you know what I mean. I'm just sharing that. I don't want to get into She said, she said, bullshit. Every time she said that, the guy that I was hanging out with, doing a lot of drugs with, he would get all angry and upset. He's like, No, I'll never do that. His girlfriend was like, Yes, I was just there two hours ago. That's what happened. Things started to fall apart. The band fell out of favor, and Scott had some mental health issues, which I don't want to make fun of, but apparently it included not being so nice to his wife and his children. There are many, many phone calls that he made to 911, to his wife, to these other places, where he is clearly coming apart at the seams because of drugs and alcohol or because of mental health issues or because of a combination of all of them. He was doing a lot of self-medicating. And so Creed found another singer.

They started Alterbridge, I think was the name of the band. They became Alterbridge.

Do you know way more about Creed than I do?

Listen, as a guy who trolls the internet, this is just what happens. You start to osmosis. You start to read this stuff. But then after many years swearing that they would never work together, all of a sudden, they make this announcement six months ago that now they're going to do not a tour, but a series of cruises Cruisehip.

Everybody's doing those cruiseships.

Everyone's doing their cruiseships, and I think they're doing a festival or something like that. Well, you know the world tour is now coming because they are now back in favor. When the 20 somethings are remixing your music every It's house music, dubstep, whatever the fuck. You know you're coming back into favor. Then Paramount Plus ask you to be the lead in their promo commercial or one of the leads in their promo commercial. Things are looking great for you. You have an official fucking comeback.

You don't like it.

I said that I don't like it. It sounds like you don't like it. I'm not going to their concert. I don't know why anybody else is, but that's okay. That's neither here nor there. Yes, I don't like it. I'm angry with them. I want the 33P come back to her, but no one's looking for it. I want to know who their PR agent.

Well, maybe you need to get in touch with the DJ.

I need to get in touch with their PR agent. Sunny... Hold on. Sunny's Out Of. Sunny's Out Of.

Yeah. People are clamoring. You need your own remix.

Yes. I wish somebody would remix that song for me, but I don't know who owns the rights to the song, so we're all just staring at each other going, should we reissue that? Reissue it? I think you have to issue it in the first place in order to reissue it, Brian. But I have to say this, because on this show, not but two years ago, when we were talking about Creed. I claimed that they would never make a comeback. This would never happen. Creed was in the annals of history where it should be.

This is where your apology comes in.

I'm sorry, Scott. I'm sorry, Scott. I'm sorry I ever doubted the power of Creed.

Never doubt.

The Lord. You have risen again after three days or 30 years in the tomb. The boulder is moved. You have risen again. You are, in fact, taking us all higher. While I may not be rooting for you directly, just know that through Chrissy, I am rooting through you. Yeah.

Chrissy says- I don't know if I'm rooting. I think I'm back to the same way I've always felt about them. That is not one way or the other. Yeah, listen. They're there. You know what? If they're making some come back, it's been a long road.

Well, that's true.

You know, best to them on their travels up the mountain.

I will be grudging Only say. It's like the Barenaked Ladies are playing some festival here in Atlanta, and my brother got all excited about it, and I'm like, Really? The come back no one's looking for. But I will say this. If they have a comeback, as they're making their comeback, I guarantee that they will be sold out show after show after show because they had enough fans back then, and now the kids are getting into them. Fuck, we're all fucked. We're all fucked. We're all going for another round of greed. We're all going to say, take me higher for the rest of my life. I, for one, am not necessarily down for it, but to each third.

That's right. To each third.

I kid. I act like an angry old man, but I'm really not. I know. I know. It's a put on. It's all a put on. I really love Creed. I've got Creed posters all over my room right here.

It sounds like you had a little bit more of a personal investment in what what their persona was to everybody else versus what it was.

Yeah, you know what? That's right. I think I was a little angry at the fact that they looked like the do-gooder rock band bringing it higher.

But behind closed doors or behind the doors of the strip club.

That's right. I think I got angry at the hypocrisy that I've learned since was never even there because they never even intended to be a Christian rock band. Exactly. I got mad at someone else saying they were a Christian rock band, and then I got mad at them for being a Christian rock band doing lines off stripper's tits. You know what I'm saying? That's what happened. All right? It's not complicated when you think about it in my mind, but it might be complicated when you think about it in your mind.

I can tell that was the underlying thing.

Thank you. I'm just an angry little pissant hoping that one day I'll have anybody cheering for me in the manner they cheer for Scott Stout.

I'll always cheer for you.

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I love you.

I'll say best to you. Best to you. And I'll tell you best to you out there in the audience, even Scott Stapp. Until next time, we do say, we must say, and we will say goodbye.