Now, marriages didn't always look incredible to me. I mean, some of these dude's Instagram anniversary posts, my God. You're the strongest woman I've ever known.

What did you do to hurt Kyle? On this episode of The commercial break.

How come in the entire history of our planet has not one person has walked off the edge of the Earth, Mark? How come not one person has walked off the flat edge and fall into their death? And he said, he genuinely said, Oh, yeah, there's an ice barrier, so it catches them. And I was like, Oh, no.

There you go. But it makes sense now.

There you go. Oh, thank you.

The next episode of The commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, kids and kittens. Welcome back to The commercial break. I'm Ryan Drain. This is the badass bitch boss, Krista Joy. Hoodley, best to you, Krista. Best to you, Ryan.

And best to.

You out there in the podcast universe. I never know what it's.

Going to be.

You never know. My head's always turning in the shower at night. I want to master, but I'm currently on the sideline from exacerbating. But it's not I'm thinking about you. I'm thinking about what nasty words can I call you. But I thought Badass Bitch Boss was cool. I like it. So I said, Badass Bitch Boss. I like it. Because it's true. It's all the girls that are running in this place. Don't let me fool you. I do all the talking, but the real success of this show is with this crew of- Behind the scenes. Yeah, all the other people that are working on my behalf. So thank you. Thank you. Best to you, Krista. Best to you. When I say best comedy movie of all time, what is your go to? Just think of one. We don't have to quantificate about it. Just give me the first thing that comes on top of your head. Do you have one of your favorite.

Movies to watch comedy with? Well, I mean, I think that Animal House is always up there with more of them. Yeah, but as far... I mean, we're in the Christmas season right now, and I love that. I love that one.

Vacation?

Well, I do love vacation, and that one has quite a few memorable moments. Oh, my God. It's so funny. But the, what's the Suthrogen one?

The Last Night Before Christmas? Night Before? Night Before. Yeah, Night Before. It's pretty funny. Oh, it is pretty funny, mainly because they are just torn up. I mean, the amount of drug use that goes on in that movie is incredible. Harold and like Christmas, the White Castle Christmas, or the Christmas movie with, who's Neil Patrick Harris is really fucking funny, too. And I always think of those two movies because, I don't know, they have similar sense of humor. But what I think of when someone says best comedy movie of all time, certainly best mockumentary of all time is Spinal Tap. Oh, of course. Spinal Tap is brilliant. And if you haven't seen Spinal Tap, I don't know who the fuck you are, don't bother.

Those Christopher Guffman movies in general are really fun.

All of them, waiting for Guffman. Best in show. Best in show.

That's really funny.

Yeah, all of them. They're all funny. But the single funniest line, in my opinion, that I laugh at so hard every time is in the movie Spinal Tap, when they're standing outside of that little arena in the kids' area, and it says Clown show tonight. Or whatever it says about the kids, it's on the Marquee. It says Clown show tonight, and then Spinal Tap on the bottom. And he says, I tell them every time. It's Spinal Tap, then Clown show. Spinal Tap, then Clown show. What are we going to do now? We're opening up. The one guy goes, Well, we could do Jazz Odyssey. He's like, We're not going to do a free-form jazz exploration in front of a bunch of fucking children. I just can't get over it. Sometimes I'll say to Astrid or whoever when we're having some debate or argument, and I'm like, We can't do a free-form jazz exploration in front of the children. I love it. It's so funny. Amongst all the other million other one-liners in that- Oh, yeah. -brilliant, brilliant movie. Well, I never wanted there to be a Spinal Tap 2 because I thought Spinal Tap 1 did the trick.

But.

35 years later, they're going in for Spinal Tap 2 with all of the original cast members, well, the original four cast members of the crew, I think including Rob Reiner. I think Rob Reiner is going to direct it. They're all back. They're all going to put gear up in their leather... What's it called? What was that? Spank the glove?

Yeah, we have Spinal Tap action figures. You do? Jeff did, yeah.

Oh, my God. You know what to get me for Christmas? Spinal Tap action figures. And I want Jeff's, actually. So if you take them off and.

Just- One leg keeps coming off. I have to.

Keep gluing it. What if you just take it apart piece by piece and you bring it to my house for Christmas, and then we'll see if Jeff notices. Yeah, we'll shank it. That's your Spinal Tap is gone. That's right, shank it. Spinal Tap Two is in preproduction right now. I don't know what to think about this because that Bob Beiger, he's running that Disney right now, and Disney has all kinds of troubles financially and problems with the parks and all this other stuff. They're having a moment over there at Disney, the Disney Corporation. But he said in a shareholder's meeting, which I thought was pretty smart of him, but then also he should have thought about this 10 years ago, he's like, I think we may have IP'd it to death. Meaning they have so many number twos, number threes, number fours, Star Wars this, Star Wars that, Galactic Galaxy this, Marvel that, all this other stuff. They have basically buried their IP in so many sequels, prequels, and trequels, or whatever the fuck they call them, that now they just robbed all the joy out of it. I watched Star Wars as a kid, and I just loved that my mind could go to crazy places thinking about what was going on outside of the movie.

Well, now I don't need to worry about that because there is literally a movie for every question I ever had about Star Wars.

I know, about every character, and then it's before and it's after, and it's in between. I know, I'm the same way.

It's like we asked Felicia, what do you think about fanfic? And fanfic has often become some lure, some thread that they pull on that then becomes a movie or a television series to answer the questions left by the original material. Well, I got news for you. You don't need to answer every fucking... I find that to be a little bit too much sometimes, certainly with the Star Wars. And then I worry about it with Spinal Tap too. Can you ever really be better than the first one? Especially 35 years later. Maybe, because Christopher Guest is so fucking funny. So maybe they can be- I'm.

Going to.

Watch it. Oh, no doubt. I'll be the first one in line. Are you kidding me? I'm like a 13-year-old boy. I can't wait for Spinal Tap 2 to come out. But I'm a little bit concerned about the quality of Spinal Tap too. I hope. Elton John's already signed up to be in it. Who else did they say? Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney is going to be in it, so I would be in it. Hey, here's a plot line for you. Spinal Tap is on the way down. They're on the out. They're getting back together 35 years, reunion to her, but no one really knows or gives a fuck about Spinal Tap. I'm imagining this is how it starts. In my head, this is what they're writing right now. Since podcasting is so ubiquitously terrible and wonderful at the same time, everybody hates them and loves them at the same time, and so many podcasts are out there. If you need a thread to pull inside of that storyline, Spinal Tap announces their new tour on the commercial break, and no one hears about it. How about that? So Rob, Christopher, I'm talking right to you.

If you need a place to announce that Spinal Tap is going back on tour in your.

Mockumentary- To non-announce.

To non-announce. To announce to nobody that you're coming back. It will be the truth if you do come to the commercial break. So you won't be lying, it would be a mockumentary moment of truth. You know what I'm saying? Yes. I'm hoping. Let's start a petition to get Spinal Tap to the commercial break. Spinal Tap reunion tour, commercial break. Although I think they've already done a reunion tour. Didn't they go out on tour at one point maybe 10 years ago? Maybe. Yeah, they got the actual band together and they went out there and did shows as Spinal Tap. I would love it. I'd absolutely love it. Listen, there have been a few sequels, a few, and movie history that have turned out okay, like Empire strikes back. Some people think that's the best Star Wars movie out there. Not that I would know. I'm not that into it. Gremlin's Two. Gremlin's Two was good. Rambo, Part Seven was good, I thought.

Predator.

Predator Seven was awesome, starring old Steven Segel. Steven Segel is ridiculous, by the way. I just got to tell you that. I don't want to fuck with him. So I'm not going to talk too much shit, but he's ridiculous. Godfather, part two, of course. Well, that was for sure. I think that's a clear example of the best of the set, even though it was number two. You know, what other movies? My Little Ponies 2 was awesome, or Trolls Two was good. I got to say that, the kids' movie, Trolls Two. Trolls Two. Not the Trolls scary movie that we have often made fun of here in the commercial break, but Trolls the actual cartoon I thought was good. My kids went and saw that Trolls band together when the in sync gets back together and does the song and the whole nine yards. And the kids are running through the house singing that song because I thought, This song is not so good. For 15 years away from each other to come back to do a song for the Trolls movie, and they're all voicing some character in the movie. I get it. It seems exciting.

I think it could have been a good way to reintroduce yourself into the world, and we're going to go on tour, we do this whole, You know the reunion tour for inSync is coming. I realize Justin Timberlake is a bit out of style right now, and a lot of people are at his throat. But I got to be honest.

You think he would join the tour?

Yeah, and I'll tell you what. Even though he's going on his own tour next year, it's not going to happen next year. I was reading about this because I'm keeping up on all the in-sync actions. But he's going on tour, I think next year. He's dropping an album, going on tour. I don't think he's going to be part of that reunion if it happens next year. But there is no in-sync tour without just reunion tour, without Justin Timberlake. How are they going to sell out those big arenas? But if they do get back together, when they do get back together, because you know they are, Justin is going along for the ride, there's probably a billion dollars worth of money to be had left on the table selling out those arenas, don't you think? Maybe. Did you like and think? I don't even know one of their songs. I'm embarrassed.

Yeah, it wasn't.

Really a bit. Oh, Bye Bye Bye. Is that the one? Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye. I think they're the Backstreet Boys. Is that.

Backstreet Boys? They were around the.

Same time. They were definitely around the same time. Yeah, I think they were both coming up under Lou Perlman. Oh, God. Anybody named Lou Perlman is bound to be a creeper. Oh, dude, he was crazy. But in-sync, when they go on reunion tour, they're getting Justin Timberlake with them. I'll say, I said to myself, it can happen with this trolls movie. That's not the thing that... And then I got these kids running around here singing this new and sink movie. So maybe they're reaching a whole new generation of fans. They're being smart about it. They got the older fans, they got the teenagers.

With the kids and they're the kids. They're the original fans, and then the fans had kids.

That's how you do it. That's how you get Taylor Swift famous. I don't think anybody's going to be Taylor Swift famous. Let's just be honest about it.

She's time as woman of the year.

It's.

Unbelievable.

Person of the year, I think. Person of the year. Who else would it be, though? Honestly, who else would it be? Who has occupied more of our brain space? And quite frankly, more of the commercial break than Taylor Swift has? Frankie B, maybe. I mean, everybody's talking about that girl 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She got the best PR firm in the world. She's a badass bitch out there making a bunch of money, making everybody happy, or making most people happy if they can afford to go to a $10,000 concert. But the point is, of course, it's Taylor Swift. Who else would it be? There is no one else comparable. But if there was to be another person who was time's person of the year, you know who it'd be? Blaire Saki. Blaire Saki, the comedian, is coming on our show today, and I'm very excited. I love her. I watched her special last night. I had a ton of fun to watch. It's on Veeps, by the way. There's a link in the show notes. I highly recommend.

That you go- And Cates is the new Live Nation, right?

Yeah, Live Nation, they do live shows, and then they.

Record them. They've started a comedy channel.

Yeah, and it is brilliant. It looks like Apple TV. It really does. It looks like Apple TV when you're watching it. Live Nation, of course, I'm not going to do anything cheap, I guess, because they made... Because the reason why the Taylor Swift's $10,000 tickets were so expensive is because of Live Nation. But that's a different story for a different day. Weeps is their new platform. They've been doing music for a while. Now they've got comedy on there. Blaire is one of the first to do a comedy special on there. And we're super happy to have her here today. So why don't we do this? Let's take a little break and then let's get with Blaire so we can have a conversation. Let's do it. You're going to love this girl. Blaire Saki, on the way after this. What? Commercial break. Yeah, I did that. I did that. Yeah, I've been waiting three months to do that, but I finally got up the bravery. I got up the bravery to say that joke. All right, we'll be back.

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And we're here with Blaire now. Blaire, so nice to meet you.

So nice to meet you guys. This is a thrill. Thank you so much for having me on.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

For joining. I have one question. It's very important for Christine and I to understand this. You have an angle on something that we've been trying to get into for a long time, and it seems like you've had some success. And I want you to tell me how you did this. Chrissy and I have been trying to sell feet pictures for a long time.

We talked about it for a long time. Shouldn't we just try it?

I actually started a foot finder account, like Feat finder or whatever. Oh, you did? Yeah, but I think my hairy toes weren't anybody's particular go-to foot pictures. No matter what I smashed. Honestly, I.

Think you'd be surprised. There's so many freaks out there. I honestly had no idea.

How did... You put feed on your Instagram. You talk about it in your special, which is on Weeps right now. Very funny. I watched it last night, and I had a couple of stitches in my side. How exactly did you get wrapped up in this foot thing? Explain to me how your Twitter did some weird foot thing.

Yeah, well, I mean, I talk about it at length in the special, so go watch that. But it would just started as a joke. And I say this in there, but I had no idea the foot thing was real. You didn't? No, I just tweeted out one day because I just treat my Twitter as something very non-precious, silly, and I tweeted out. I said, on OnlyFans, does anyone know? Can you just do feed or do you have to show a hole? I just walked away, didn't think anything of it, and I came back and it had thousands and thousands and thousands of re-tweeted.

Oh, wow! I was like, I really was so perplexed what's going on here. And then I read the replies and I was like, Oh, this is a real thing that I was just joking about. And so, yeah, I started Only Fans within 45 minutes, and I typed-You're pretty smart. And I titled it, Blaire Socky, ankles down, no holes, so that everybody would know. But then I had to take it down after 24 hours because my agents found out about it because I was pushing it all over my socials, having a great time. They were like, Yeah, this is great, except for you audition for Disney a lot. I had it for 24 hours only. That's awesome. All my dreams were crushed.

Has Iger called you yet to explain to you why he's not hiring you in the next version of Star Wars, whatever they're doing now?

I have not gotten the call. I do think that that's probably they never found out about it, but I do mention this to my agents regularly. I said, Okay, my foot career was really stopped in its tracks, in its infancy, so you better pay up with the Disney job.

That's right. My genuine curiosity is, did you actually make money on OnlyFans? When 25 hours of OnlyFans or whatever it was? Did you actually like-.

I.

Did. Holy shit.

Yeah. Brian, we got to do this. We've got to. We're doing this all wrong. We've got to.

Well, if you already have a little following. And then I just tweeted out these purvy men, and they were like, they subscribed. I remember my manager being like, I'll pay you all the money that you made to take it down. I said, Oh, my God.

You said, Oh, my God, send me the check. That's what I'm.

Going to do. I didn't take the money because I'm too prideful I should have, Bill.

Did you grow up? Where did you grow up? Southern California?

Yes. How could you tell? I grew up in Orange County, little surf kid.

Did you enjoy growing up out in Southern California?

Yeah, you know what? I'm the youngest, only girl of all boys, and my whole life was just hardcore sports growing up. And then I took a dramatic turn into the arts.

How many brothers did you have?

I have two older brothers, 11 months apart. But I grew up in this neighborhood of 13 families with boys, is the exact same age as my brother. So it's like this bizarre mob that I lived with, with nobody else around my age.

And when you were a little kid, you just ran around with all boys in the neighborhood playing sports.

Yeah, I was like Mowgley. I genuinely wanted to... My family still talks about this all the time. When I was a child, I always said I wanted to be the first woman in the NFL. Oh. Nice. Honestly, not all dreams do get to come true, but that was what I.

Wanted as a child. I like.

That aspiration. But listen, you're auditioning for Disney, so maybe dreams do come true, as they say.

Yeah, maybe I'll be Rudy in the next reboot or something.

Such a wonderful movie. But how do you take a turn into the arts? If you're sports-oriented, what happens that turns you on to comedy?

Well, in Orange County and just everything, it was just so hardcore, the sports from such a young age. And I did love it. I did go on to play Division 1 volleyball at UCLA. I was training with the Junior National team and all this stuff. But when I was a kid, I always loved... I would audition for the plays at school and I would get parts, but I wouldn't be able to do it because of my sports schedule. I was always a book nerd, and then I ultimately decided I wanted to be a writer. I went to grad school to be a novelist. And while I was there, accidentally started comedy without ever thinking it was going to.

Be my career. So you just got up on stage. Did you go to Open Mikes and just decide that you were going to get up and start writing some jokes?

Well, as the tale as old as time, I started dating a guy who was starting comedy from my hometown, and he showed me comedy. I had never been exposed to really any comedy. No specials, no shows, nothing. Then I just became a fan. Then we broke up. Then one day in the shower, I had this thought, Oh, I should do this. Then I started a week later or something. Good for you.

Holy shit. You're so brave. I'm so lazy. What am I doing with my life over here? I always think about stand-up comedians who I have a great admiration for. No matter how wonderful or terrible or growing or not growing or whatever, I have an admiration for that 15 feet that you walk from the side of the stage to the front of the stage or from the back of the club to the front of the club, whatever it is, that 15 feet would kill me. I don't know if my knees would let me get up there. Does that feel particularly unnerving to you? The first 100 times you do that, but you still get that take-your-breath-away feeling before you walk on stage?

You know what? My leg shook for about the first eight months, and people that were there at those first open mics literally remembered were my leg shaking while I was on stage. I really don't know why I continued doing it while that was happening. I really don't understand the whole thing or how it happened or what. But that's nice that you admire stand-up comedians. I feel a lot of the feedback on the internet is bizarre.

But I think here's, if I may, mansplain to you for a second. I feel like part of the issue is, because I love mansplaining here on the show. It endears me to our mostly female audience. I feel like a lot of your material you talk about reading comments and looking on the internet and being on the socials. You got to fucking ignore those comments, man. People go fucking bananas there. They're so mean. People are so mean on the internet. They're so mean on social media.

Because they're behind.

Of screen. Yeah, that's true. They're probably also 13-year-old boys.

I know. I find that bizarre, and I actually talk about this in therapy. You know what's funny is that I get very few mean comments. Like, so few.

That's great.

But typical comedy and you remember the mean ones, thankfully, and I don't even want to put this out there, the sick thing is most of them are all about my voice. Then when I read those, my sick, sick, poisoned brain from childhood goes, At least they didn't call me ugly. That's a win.

Isn't that sick? It's so true. When Chrissy and I started the show, we had no listeners for the longest time. I'm not sure we have any currently, but somebody tells us we do. But we get these comments in 99.1-99.9 % of them are just lovely. People are good for the show. You're so funny. We love you. You wake us up on whatever it is, right? But it's that one asshole every week or two that leaves that comment where you can't shake it out of your head. Even though you read a hundred nice comments, the one bad comment always sticks with you. But you're right about something. I even try and find the good in that. Well, I do too. At least.

They're listening. I'm trying to pull out the good in that. Well, I do too. At least they're listening.

That's true. Yeah. You know what another thing about it is to me? I think that it's less about even what they're saying and more like I cannot ever fathom going on someone's page and saying something mean to them. So it's really just a non-acceptance of the act versus actually the material of what they're saying.

That's really smart.

You know what I mean? I've said the same thing. I'm like, the fact that they actually took the time to go on there and write something bad is amazing to me.

Yeah. I'm like, Why would you want to intentionally hurt someone? Because they're hurt. Yeah, I don't understand the whole thing.

Well, that's true. Hurt people hurt people. I think someone said that one time. Yeah. I honestly also believe that it is a large amount of probably younger people that just have too much fucking time in their hands. They don't know how to regulate quite yet. So they feel like if I can say something nasty, then the whole world will know how bad they are. Yeah. So I just ignore. Well, that's not true. I read the comments, I try to ignore them.

I try so hard not to read any. And now I did see this one creator or something on TikTok because TikTok is the social media that I enjoy. I love it. I mean, I've got the dogs, the babies, the chiropractors.

On there.

The chiropractors. I love it. I love it. And it's so non-toxic to me. My feed is so wholesome. Oh, and the recipes. I'm watching these women with their French music in their gorgeous kitchens with their Dutch ovens. They're cutting the garlic in the most gorgeous ways. But I did see there's one creator that said, Yeah, we just respond, thank you, to every single comment. Smart. Even the meanest comments, and it just drives the algorithm. I'm thinking, That's a beautiful sentiment. However, I do not want to be spending that much time online, but I respect that they're just like, Oh, I will not take any of this personally, and I.

Will use it.

Yeah, exactly. Good idea. I got to talk to my therapist about that. I feel like I need a couple more therapy sessions around the comments, actually, because it does hurt. I couldn't sit there all day and say thank you because I just don't want to go through the act of reading all of it. Maybe that's why our social media does so pathetically poorly. You have this new Weeps special. Like I said, I went and purchased it last night. It is so very good. How long does it take you to write an hour of that material? How long have you been banking this around?

Well, you know what? I've been doing comedy for 10 years, and they say that your first hour special usually takes 10 years because there's so much material that was not included in that that you can see that. I can see that. You can see that. You can see that. You can see that. You can see that. You can see that. It's really like the most polished stuff, your best stuff. And there was a lot I didn't include. There's things that I could have included that I had on in my late-night set with James Corrydon or Comedy Central sets that were taped. And I really was so intentional about what I put in there. But yeah, I think most people like their best, it's the best stuff after about 10 years. That's why the debut special is such a big deal. And then everyone says that it takes way less long to write the material for the next special because you're just a much better writer and you're much more skilled.

Yeah, and it's in demand. I can see that. It's in demand. You're under a little bit of pressure to perform. And you're in a flow. Yeah, you're in a flow.

You've got the flow too.

The flow, that's right, Chrissy. We're in.

The flow. Yeah, and you know yourself better. You are a more lived-in person and probably more true to your authenticity and voice at this point.

Chrissy, I feel like this is coming right around the corner for us. We're on our 62,000th episode, by the way, so I feel like this is coming right around. No, I'm kidding, but we do like- It feels like that. -it feels like we've been in here forever, stuck. I have to ask you about this because Chrissy and I have done a couple of episodes on this Yahoo, Mark Sargent, who runs around doing the Flat Earth thing. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yes. While I would love to have him on the show, I don't know that I could stomach anything that he says because it's just ridiculousness. And, Chrissy and I had this theory that Mark Sargent only believes in flat earth because he can find women there at these flat earth conventions. Yes. He seems way too smart to believe in this shit, right? But he's a noodnick. How did you meet Mark Sargent? Under what circumstances are you around Mark Sargent?

Sure. I mean, what a bizarre thing. I was co-host of the Trevor Moore show on Comedy Essentials, rest in Peace Trevor, my dear friend who passed away two years ago, incredible comedian. But the show was basically around, Trevor loved the weirdest stuff, just the fringes of society. So we had on the most bizarre people to interview, and we had him on. And he was really like, you're going to go watch the episode if you want. It's online on Comi Central called The Trevor Moore show. I'm going to go watch that. Basically, my role on the show was like the needler, the little sidekick, needle bully... You were.

The squeaky.

I don't know how because I'm really not the bully type, but that was my role on the show, and I was pushing back with him a lot of what he was saying. That was true. He said to me that we were too young to understand why the earth is flat. What? I was just like, I could not believe that that was his pushback.

That makes no sense.

It made no sense. I was like, Oh, thank you. I really appreciate that. You know what? It's funny that you bring up the women because he did talk about the merch that he sells for an inordinate amount of time during the interview. You're just like, Okay, wow, what an incredible, spiritually-led cause that you're leading.

He's doing it for all of the right reasons. And, Chrissy and I picked up on this immediately. Even four years ago when we started the show, we picked up on this immediately. He was talking about girls and how he was meeting girls or meet me after the show or whatever, on stage in videoed, YouTube episodes that he posted himself, the merch, the conferences, Pay $19.99 a month. I was like, This guy knows fucking better. He must know better. He is clearly just.

Doing this for money.

But yeah, it's a persona. But I get the sense that there's a lot of people out there right now that know better about whatever they're talking about. They just know the money isn't talking about the bullshit, right? So that's exactly what they do. And I believe that Mark is one of those people. But how condescending. You're too young. What he probably meant to say was, You're too dumb to understand this, and there's nothing to understand. The world is round. We've been in an airplane. We can see it.

Yeah, we have satellite photography. I said that to him. I said, Oh, Mark. Oh, Mark. Have you heard about a little thing called satellite photography? Because we have some factual record that disputes your theory.

Yes, astronauts. But Mark has no reportory. And he just thinks they're all fake. Well, what he says is that big space, the big and NASA Corporation is here to keep us all under control. When people are presented with factual evidence, and they believe in this hokey-pokey bullshit, they go anywhere to twist and wind away from the question that you're asking them because they know they don't have any really good response. I say you're doing good work. You're not needling or bullying, Mark, in my opinion. You're just telling the truth. You're just trying to be the honest one.

Yeah, I mean, I say this in the special, but his answer, he genuinely said, because I asked him, I was like, Okay, Mark, how come in the entire history of our planet has not one person walked off the edge of the Earth, Mark? How come not one person has walked off the flat edge and fallen to their death? He genuinely said, Oh, yeah, there's an ice barrier, so it catches them. I was like, What?

There you go. Well, it makes sense now.

Oh, thank you. There you go. Okay, good.

Right? It all came together in that moment. I had been a round-earth guy until Mark said, The ice wall. I said, Oh, now it all makes sense. That's what we've all been up against.

Yes, then.

I understood. Yeah. Does your family, are they supportive of the comedy? Are they supportive of your artistic side, so to speak, even though they were.

Big-and-large, four days growing up? Very interesting question that you raised. Thank you. Well, I can tell you they did not like it. Yeah, and it was actually my parents' first time ever seeing me perform was at my special taping.

You were kidding me.

Wow, they came around finally.

I'm not kidding you. I mean, my brothers had seen me over the years, and of course, I started in New York and lived there for about half of my career, so they wouldn't have seen me there. But it's not what they wanted. They dreamed of me just being married and pregnant young next door to them. And I'm very family-oriented, too. And as I age, I understand where they're coming from. And yeah, they were like, Why do you want such a hard life? And I'm like, I don't know. I can't really answer that for you.

Well, you're Italian. I am, too, right? Which is very family-focused. I'm part Italian as well. Yes. It is. It's a big deal to be around family and have big gatherings and cook lots of food and just all be around each other. So I can see that.

Yeah, I go home on Sundays a lot, and we cook all day. Sunday dinner. And then I come back up.

Yeah. So is this literally like a push and pull through most of the 10 years that you've been doing this? It's like push and pull between you and your parents. Hey, Itry to figure out how to do this. And, hey, you should go get a real job or find a real job.

It's what we've done with our.

Spouses, Ryan. Yeah, by the way, we go through this all the time.

You should get a real job. No, I think it's about to work.

Everything's going to have popped for us.

Yeah, know, I can't say it was easy. It was very painful at so many times, but they were so proud at my special. My dad had tears in his eyes, which I can't even explain what that was like after this 10-year thing. It took a lot of forgiveness. It was hard because this thing I felt so passionate about, it was hard to understand why they wouldn't... I can't imagine not wanting to see my kid, but also it's generational, and it's a different generation. And now I think everything's all good that they saw this special and they were like, Okay, I guess it's legit. But it is hard. All the times I had been on TV in my career and they were still like- Wow.

You were on fucking James Corden and they didn't tune in. I want to tell you something, a little something. When we started this, my father had said, I loved you. I'm proud of you. He just wasn't that dad. He grew up in a different generation. I thought maybe he did, but he wasn't giving me any outward indication. Then I had children, right? Occasionally, my dad would say, I'm proud of you. You're being a good father, so I'm really proud of you. But he never really loved what I did for a job. He was like, he never said I was proud of you until very recently when we've seen some success. And my dad came to me and he genuinely said to me with, I think, a tear in his eye, I'm really proud of you, son. You're doing a good job. -and me something. -you're doing a good job. Let me tell you something. There were two full therapy sessions dedicated to those five words that he said to me because there's something about when a father and I guess when a mother, but my mom always shared the praise. But when my father said that to me, There's really something about that that touches you in a way that it's hard to describe, especially if you've been starving for that for your entire life.

Even if you don't know it, when you get it, it's like, Holy shit, a whole other world opens up. Honestly, now the earth is flat. My dad said he's proud of what I do for a living. Did you feel that? That's so beautiful. There's something about... I also think being a grandfather for him has turned him into a different human being altogether. Oh, yeah. And it's one of the great joys of my life is watching my father be a grandfather to my kids. But when he shows up at your show, when they say, Hey, we're going to come, we're going to come watch you. This is really important, and we think we want to be there, does that just fill you with some weird sense of absolute pride and joy? You're like, Oh, my God, this is awesome. I feel so proud of myself now.

Well, look, I still had to invite them and say, Hey, which was very vulnerable to me, this is my one-hour special typing. I'd love for you guys to be there. It wasn't like, We're dying to… Well, when is your next thing? We can't wait to be there, whatever. Yeah. But they were so proud and supportive and sweet, and it was just really special. I have beautiful pictures from the night. I've always been close with them. It's like it's never been like we had a rift during the last 10 years, but I've always been super close to them despite this thing. But yeah, it was just so- Despite.

Most of my life being dedicated to comedy, they don't.

Appreciate it. They were probably too like, Oh, this is like a hobby type thing. It's a fan. Yeah, she's going to get over it. She's going to do something else. But now that it's really real, that's a touching moment.

For you guys. And now something makes sense. There's a certain lightning in a bottle about what happens when you're special, there's energy about it. And now knowing this story makes me look at that special a little bit differently, too. So now I feel a little bit.

Sentimental about.

Your.

Special. You know what? I honestly forget that. It was a really charged night for that reason, because it was honestly the first time that they were seeing me. And also it was wild, the emotions of that night. It really was. I haven't even thought about that, I guess.

You caught lightning in a bottle. There's something energetically there. And now that I know the backstory, I think I can connect the dots, but I'm no therapist, but I'm just sharing with you that it's very energetic, right? There's a lot of it. And we appreciate that because there's nothing Chrissy and I do better than loud and obnoxious. And you're loud and funny. So we're almost in the same room.

You know what? That's interesting. I'm pretty introverted in my regular life. I'm a homebody, all these things. And I look at my on-stage presence as my id, where I'm just like a maniac on stage. It's really different from who I am in real life.

Do you think this is like... I feel this way sometimes, too. I go outside in the world and I'm not looking to put on a show for anybody. I'm an outgoing person, but I think, Chrissy, would agree with this. This is not how we normally act, but you turn on the microphones and our sense of humor gets exacerbated. There's a microphone and a megaphone.

We're agging each other on.

Yeah, we're agging each other on. But I feel it's like it's in me. It's in me. When the microphone goes out, it just naturally comes out. It is the it, I think. Do you just get that sense? Let me ask you a question. When you're on the side of the stage and you're about to go on for your first special, is it like something just turns on? The energy just comes. You just feel it. You're getting yourself charged up. Then when you get out there and you see the crowd, I don't know, do you go to some different places? Like, Christy said, the flow, you're in the energy, you're in the flow?

Sort of, yeah. I would definitely describe it as a flow. I mean, I've been on the road since January, and honestly, for the last five years. But since January, I've been on the road about three weekends out of the month. And so my schedule this year of how many reps that I got and just being on the stage and being at the comedy store on the days that I'm back, I'm getting so many reps and doing so many shows that it's more was before the show that I'm nerve-wrecking because I'm like, This is my first special, all this stuff. But once I'm on stage, once I'm on stage, I'm completely comfortable.

I love it. Go check out Veebs. We'll put a link in the show notes for you. You and I have something in common, and I'm going to pull out something from way back. I also am in love with Owen Wilson. You have to tell me, because I didn't get.

A chance to listen. Who isn't? Who is not in love.

With him? Are you a huge Owen Wilson fan? You must be. You dedicated a whole podcast to it.

You know what? I love Owen Wilson. This is crazy. I was actually... Okay, well, I'll just give you the short synopsis. Basically, I was in college around the height of his wedding crash or all this stuff, and I thought he was the funniest, most unique person. I was like, No one has his sensibility at all. He's so funny and just one of a kind. And when he had those mental health problems and that suicide attempt or whatever, I was so struck by it. I'm very clearly very sensitive person, but I was so struck by it. I felt so sad that this person that I thought brought so much joy to the world could be experiencing that, that I wrote him a letter saying, I hope you feel better, and you are so talented and you make such an impact on the world. And I just looked up an address on the internet, the best one I could find. I'm sure he never received it. And then years later, somehow came up to someone and one of my friends were like, That is so bizarre. And I was like, Yeah, I guess it is really bizarre.

And then I thought of the idea because this was back when podcasts were becoming popular about 10 years ago. And I was like, You know what? I would love to... And I was just finding comedy. And I loved hearing comedians on podcast versus learning who they were in real life versus seeing them on stage. And I was like, I would love to hear comedians write letters. Everyone's a super fan of someone. I would love to hear comedians write letters to the person they're a fan of. And so then I started this show called Dior and Wilson, and comedians would come on and they'd read a letter, a funny letter to someone they're obsessed with or loved growing up. And then I would interview them with the help of my private detective, Lucian Wickles. It was a between two fern style interview. I love that. A lot of questions that Lucian thought of and that I would say. But yeah, it was interesting because Full Circle came to L. A. Then Demi Moore happened to come to the show a few times. She texted him in front of me, telling him about the show, and I just.

Couldn't do that. You're kidding me.

Yeah. That's incredible. He said, I can't believe anyone comes to that typical humble Owen Wilson fashion. Then a month ago, I was at a party, and he was there. My manager was like, You want me to go introduce him to you? I said, No.

I don't want that. No, you don't want to meet your hero.

No, I don't.

You don't want to meet the guy who you made a whole podcast about.

No, I don't. I don't want to.

I don't blame you. I don't blame you. I love Owen Wilson. And when I saw that you had created this, this podcast, it reminded me that Owen Wilson, I don't know if you've seen the movie bottle Rocket. Have you seen the movie bottle Rocket?

Yes, of course I have.

Yes. Thank you. So, bottle Rocket to me is the best Wilson Brothers movie ever, period, end of sentence. Owen is so brilliant in that movie, and I'd never heard of him. No one had ever heard of him, I don't think. But when I saw that movie when I was in my early 20s, some friend of mine put it on, it literally changed my life. It changed the way that I looked at comedy. It changed the way that I looked at comedic movies because it is so dry and so witty, and so you have to watch it 10 times to get every joke that's in it. It is so brilliantly made. And Owen, in my opinion, drives that movie. He's so good at being like, I don't know, he's a character that has a lot of depth, but he's so dry and funny, and he always plays that similar type of character. Owen is playing Owen, and I just love him for it. I'm glad that he's better, too, because there was a period there where he.

Might not have been doing so good. I just saw him.

Here in Atlanta. Yeah, I met him in Atlanta one time, too. I think he's here a lot. Oh, really? What was he up.

To.

In Atlanta? I think he was filming Luki, actually.

Oh, yeah. Luki's so good. You know what? I would love to meet him in a circumstance where we were working together or something, I wouldn't want to just bother him at a party, you know what I'm saying?

Right. You wouldn't want to make.

Small talk about.

Your letter? Absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no.

But you got the perfect opening line. You just say, Hey, you never responded to my letter, and then you go from there. But I hear you. If I was in your shoes, maybe I would- I.

Would never tell him. I don't think. -on the spot at a party. That's right.

Then you, yeah. The only way I would reveal that is if we somehow bizarrely became very close, and I think about two years into our relationship, I would tell him. It's funny. It's like when I first started comedy, or before I started comedy, I was writing for this website, Split Cider, for about six months, and I was interviewing comedians before they had a special come out doing profiles on them. I met a lot of the people that I know now, and they don't know that I interviewed them. I've been touring with Anthony Jeselnik for the past year since January. Oh, I.

Love Anthony Jeselnik.

Yeah. For the last 12 months, I've been touring with him all over the country. I just told him last week. I said, Do you know that I interviewed you 10 years ago when your came out? And he goes, What? What?

Why are.

You just.

Telling.

Me this? Do you know why I find this funny? Because five years from now, Blaire is going to come on the show, and we're going to have to have some reminder that we did the commercial break in with you. I know a few years ago. Do you remember a few years ago when we had that stupid podcast? Yeah, I think- No.

Way I'll never forget you guys. I will never forget you guys, no matter what.

We love you. We love you. Best of you. You're touring with Anthony, and then you tour with Ron a lot also, don't you? Or do you do a podcast with Ron.

I do, yes. I don't do a podcast, but we've been friends for years. He was the first guy to take me on the road. Yeah, it's headlining time now, but I have been so grateful to be on the road with some of the best in the business and be taken under the wing of some really good people because it's not like that for everyone. A lot of people have stories about, especially women in the road and people like that. I have just been so lucky and blessed with the people who have believed in me and helped me along.

I feel like when we talk to the comedians who succeeded, they all have someone who took them under their wing. I know a lot of people who are still doing open mics 10 years later who have nobody taking them under their wing. There might be a reason for that, too. Not everybody can be Babe Ruth, right? But at the same time, it feels like there's always that important mentor story in comedy. And I think when you're on the road, you're vulnerable, you're learning, you don't know the ropes, you're trying to just put one foot in front of the other, make the new joke, make the next thing. And if you have somebody that's next to you that's saying, here, let me tell you my version that made it a little bit easier for me. Yeah, you're a little champion in your corner. Yeah, the champion in your corner. And I think that in the comedy world, even though we're not in the stand-up comedy world, I feel like the that we do interview always have a good mentor story, right? They always have someone that was behind them that gave them their first break or took them under their wing.

So how long does the tour go on for? Are you in the middle of it right now? Do you take a break for the holidays and you get back on the road?

This coming weekend will be my last date with Anthony. I mean, we've been going since, and it'll be in San Diego, and I think it's sold out, unfortunately. Otherwise, I'd say come on down to commercial break listener. Yeah. But yeah, this man is a beast and it's sold out thousands and thousands of tickets. But yeah, that's the conclusion of that. Honestly, I'll be on the road next year, but I'm hoping a little less. This year was insanity, but it ended up being great for shooting the special. But I do a lot of voice-over. I'm always auditioning for acting and writing and hoping to do some more of that as well.

This year. And so-.

Well, best to you.

Yeah, best to you.

When you go- That's our tagline. That's our tagline.

We just say to each other for ridiculous reasons. When you are on the road, is that tough for you, like being out on the.

Road- Well, three weekends every month, that's a lot.

That's a lot.

Yeah, I would just say it was a lot. I mean, and I was doing... I was on the road in basically the best circumstances that you could be in. But still, it's that amount of travel, and then you come home for two days and you do your gym, you do your laundry, and it's all jammed in your auditions. It's all jammed into two days. It's hard. It is hard to go for that long, that much travel.

Yeah. Yeah, you need some buffer days to lay in bed and watch TV.

I feel like I'm worried.

About-.

Yeah, I'm going to take two weeks off and just rest. I really need it. I really, really need it. Yeah, that's no-.

It's.

Needed. Good for you. If you feel like you want to do something two weeks off, you feel free to come sit here and do this microphone so I can take two weeks off. Because I'll tell you what, if I take a freaking shower in the morning, sometimes I feel accomplished. I got so many children, I don't know what to do with. I travel, and I always need a vacation from my travel because I always feel like it exhausts me. It's the planes and trains and automobiles. Then I'm like, God damn, I do this once a year, and I feel like I want to take another week off just to get myself what you said. I don't envy that travel part of it, because the other thing, too, is it's not like you're going to Paris to go sightseeing. You're going to do a job, and you do it usually probably later in the evening. So you see the inside of a hotel room. That's exactly what you're trying to have a hotel room and a couple of bars. Yeah, living out of a suitcase. Living out of a suitcase.

Yeah, like two weekends ago, I did Three Cities. We did Portland, Seattle, Vancouver within three days. So it's just you wake up and travel to the next and then do that show. So it's not a lot of sightseeing. Anthony always says it's like, I get paid to travel because the shows are so fun. The shows are great. It's just the travel part that.

Is hard. It's a lot of shit punctuated by a little bit of fun at the end of each evening. Yeah.

Well, at least you know the places you want to go back to, right? Maybe as you're traveling through some of these places, then you could go back to them on actual vacation.

That's right. If and when you get that family, your mom- Like.

Vancouver, for instance, I'm going to Vancouver City, and I can't wait.

It's going to be beautiful. Vancouver is going to be beautiful. I had.

Never been. It was gorgeous.

That's what everybody says. They say that Vancouver is one of the cities that you absolutely have to go to. The Veepe special is available on the Veepe's website. We will have a link in the show notes to it. I got to tell you, I caught it last night. It was really funny. It's an hour of... You're a different comedian, and I really appreciate what you're doing on stage. Yeah, it's a fresh take. Yeah. And so for all those who want to make comments about her voice, she was born with it. What do you fucking want her to do? Honestly. You got to add it. I'm fine.

With the voice comments.

And I think the voice is like a musical punctuation to your comedy. I don't think it's distracting. I think it, at times, actually makes the joke even funnier. So go check out the Weeps special. It's incredible. We loved it. Blaire, will you come back and see us sometime?

It would be my highest honor to meet you, Tom. I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to meet both of you, and I had such a nice time. And thank you so much for watching the special. That means so much to me. It put my whole heart and soul and last decade of my life into it. So I'm just so grateful to.

You guys. Now, you lazy listeners out there, you got to go and check out our special. Do us a favor. Check out the special. It's worth it. It's worth it. Link in the show notes, and we'll talk more about it over the next couple of days. Blaire, we say this always. You're a friend of the commercial break. Best to you.

Best to you.

Thank you, and also with you.

Yeah, thank you.

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Wow, I loved Blaire. Oh, my God. Blaire was awesome.

Oh, my God.

She was amazing. I mean, listen, I've loved all the guests that have been here so far.

They really have.

All been really great. Well, the good news is we've been blessed enough to be able to say yes or no. So when we have somebody on, we probably have a premonition that we're going to like premonition. I'm sitting here like Theresa Caputo having a premonition. We probably have a premonition that we're going to like them. But Blaire was fantastic. And that story about her dad honestly makes me want to go watch the show in a different light. That's such a good feeling when your dad says I'm proud of you. I lied. My dad's never said I'm proud of me, so I just said that story for a fact. No, I'm just kidding. He did. He did. He said I was proud of you. Honestly, it brought a tear to my eye. I was like, Wow, my dad said he's proud of me about something that doesn't have to do with nothing I had control over, like the personality of my children. You know what I'm saying? That wasn't happen. But go watch Blaire's special on Weeps. Again, there's a link in the show notes that we would appreciate it. She would appreciate it if you would go watch that special because that's how they get paid.

I'm sure there's some split on that or something that Veebs does. And why don't Veebs have the commercial break on, do you think?

Soon. Soon. I can only imagine.

Can we talk to Jeff? He knows, must know, some people at Live Nation, doesn't he? Does he have a Live Nation connection somewhere there? Yeah, he does. Do they do the ticket handling for MenFO?

Yeah, well, yes.

Yes. Okay, that's the answer.

Okay, yeah, I got it. Yeah, there's so many subsidiaries.

Of- There's companies upon companies upon companies.

But it all does lead back.

Yeah. Is he already getting ready for MenFO number two? He is. I mean, Menfo number five or whatever it is, Menfo number six. He is. God, bless that. That sucks that you get done with one and then you got to worry about the next one immediately the next day. There's a lot going on. You're still wrapping up. Yeah. Thank God we have a lazy job like this where we just come in and talk on the microphone, shut it off, go home. It's not true. This is a stupid show. It takes so much work. Just like Blaire's comedy special take took her 10 years. Ten years, she said, yeah. Ten years to make her material. She said it's like a cliché or a saying in the comedy industry that it takes 10 years to get your first special worth of material, and then you quicken up after that. So if it's going to take us 10 years- To get the flow. I think we're going to be at the villages before we're actually in the flow. Don't you imagine the villages is right around the corner?

Oh, we're going to skid right into the villages.

Skid right into the villages is right. Skid right into the villages with my big boy pants on already. In her cab. Hey, listen, there's only so much that I can do, Chrissy. There's only so much that I can do. Hey, I wanted to take a minute, and I wanted to say thank you to everybody who has left those kind reviews in the year of 2023, everyone who's texted us and everyone who sent us a voicemail. It's Christmas. It's the holidays. We're going to take a break. We'll keep on bringing you fresh episodes, but we're going to take a break. I thought before we exited for the holiday season, I did want to let everybody know that we love you. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. The commercial break has had one hell of a year in so many different ways. Lots of highs, lots of lows, lots more lows. Still waiting for some more highs. But we have had one hell of a ride, especially this year in 2023. And it's largely due to the fact that you keep listening, whether you like it or not, we keep putting out these episodes. I did want to say thank you before we get out of here for the year.

Okay, that's it. As Blaire Saki would say, what would she say? That's a wrap. That's a wrap. There you go. She's in the biz. She's in the biz. I still wish we could get that Featfinder thing going on. You know what.

I'm saying? Yeah, we needed to check into that. Goals for 2024. You got pretty feet.

The commercial break foot page on Featfinder. Because if Blaire made money in 24 hours on her feet, you could make money in 24 hours on your feet. Yeah, let's do it. Now, she actually has people that follow her Instagram, so there might be a little bit of a dip. We might have to ask Blaire to promote it for us. So do us a favor. Before the end of the year, go hit those socials in that YouTube account. You can also go to the website, tcbpodcast. Com. More information about the show, all the audio, all the video right there from one location. We made it easy for you, tcbpodcast. Com. You can also get your piggy-fronting sticker. That's right, your Theresa Caputo. Piggy-fronting sticker, to be clear, I did not use her image or her likeness or her name on that sticker. I'm giving it away for free anyway, so who really gives a shit? Hit the Contact Us button on the website, drop down menu, I want my sticker, send us your physical address. Whoop de dip de du, it's on the way via the magic of USPS, who's working extra hard. You know what my wife did?

She set up a little stand outside for the delivery people. I saw that. I thought that was so nice of her. I loved it. I know.

I thought it's so thoughtful. I have some more chips and.

Refreshments, bottled water. That's right. It says, hey, delivery people. Thank you. You did a great job this year. Take a break on us. I think they're afraid it's poison because I don't find a lot of them taking it.

They're probably like, Is.

This a joke? Yeah, is this a joke? Is there LSD in here?

Am I? There's the camera?

Yeah, actually, I wouldn't take any either, but it's the thought that counts, and I get to eat all the leftovers. So don't worry about taking it. Add the commercial break on Instagram. Tcb podcast on TikTok. Please go follow us at YouTube. Com slash the commercial break for all of our interviews, clips every day of the show. And you can do us one last favor this year. 626, ask TCB the number three. That's 626, ask TCB the number three. Tell free from anywhere in the world: questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. Ask Brian's mom, we're taking it all. 626, ask TCB the number three. Okay, Chrissy, that is certainly all I can do today. I got to go waste my balls. But I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I always say, we do say, and we must say, goodbye.