Episode #699: Its time to pack the kids and start the car, Bryan's neighbor have uncovered his podcast secret! Maybe they can just head to the Gulf Of America for a little sun & fun while the world crashed around them! The Gulf of America… Thanks Google Maps! Severance: The greatest tv show! We all need a form of escapism The meat trading business The Armie HammerTime podcast Separating the art from the artist: Woody Allen Canceled artists getting a second chance: Louis C.K. Harvey Weinstein & Rob Schneider are still in the dog house Is gameover for Kanye Bryan’s secret is out Life coaches or therapists? Becoming Led Zeppelin movie Another plane crash Watch episode #699 on Youtube Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Bryan's neighbors discover his podcast?
One of the neighbors comes out, one of the adults in the house comes out, and she says, hey, you have been a source of entertainment at our house. I just want you to know that. And I thought to myself, here we go. The cat's out of the bag. The good neighbors know, and now it's time to move. I almost put a for sale sign out in front of my house immediately after this conversation.
I swear to God, I did. I was like, well, that's it. We're done. They're going to know about all my drug abuse, all my whacking off, and all my sex. It's over.
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Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Oatley. Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Coming to you live somewhere north of Atlanta. Somewhere near the Gulf of America. Right by Lake Micropenis. We're all here. We're all doing it. We're doing the thing. Thanks, Google. One day at a time. Another service. Another tech oligarchy folding, bending the knee. Yeah, unbelievable. Wow. Wow. And Rob Bogoyevich is going to get out of jail, too.
Do you know who that is? No. You don't know who that is? A young and up-and-coming senator named Barack Obama. decided he was going to run for president. He was the senator of Illinois.
Yeah, I know that.
Yes. And the governor, Rob Bogoyevich, was being the governor of Illinois. And now listen, the city of Chicago and Illinois has a long history of corruption, scams, misdeeds, misangles. By the way, that's nothing new in government. It's always been happening. But Rob was one of the clearly more scammy governors that the state of Illinois had ever had. And that's saying something.
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Chapter 2: What is Severance and why is it so popular?
I don't even know what to think about the latest episode.
I know.
It feels... It was probably the best episode yet of Severance, in my opinion. And I'm not going to give anything away. And I think this would be known even from the trailer of that particular episode. Because we go outside of the Lumen Walls in a way that only Severance could do. And then we have another explosive episode in only the way that Severance could do.
This is turning out to be one of the best television shows I have ever seen.
I completely agree.
And there are a lot of people I've seen online who are like, I don't believe the hype. Fuck you. The hype is real. It is. Severance is good. It is well written. There are so many double entendres and secret meanings and Easter eggs and things to be discovered. And that has caused an entire community of people to try and figure out what Severance is all about.
There's like a Severance wiki. I think. Oh, yeah. And there's all kinds of forums on Reddit, and it's wild. And then they analyze everything.
I'm following them all on Instagram. If you're a good analyzer of severance, I am currently following you on my personal account because I have to digest all of the different theories.
That's a good idea.
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Chapter 3: How do people find escapism in today's world?
I'm not advocating for addiction, but some escapism here and there.
Seems necessary.
It seems necessary. And the fact that we all get shunned for a lot of different versions of escapism is just yet another kind of Puritan, conservative Christian type of downer that's been put all over us. And I want to break free from the chains, Chrissy. I want to break free from the chains. Do a little bit of cocaine. When you're watching your children, it makes you feel so much better.
I got so much more energy with cocaine. Cocaine has been around for a long time. People have been chewing that leaves. My dad told me a story. My dad used to, he was a commodities trader. But when I say commodities trader, he wasn't like a commodities trader that would trade in paper. He was a commodities trader that would trade in actual commodities.
Example, he would buy 100,000 head of cattle from Mexico and buy it, ship it, slaughter it, chop it up, package it, sell it somewhere else in the world, right? And then make money on the spread, essentially. So, and he did this very successfully for many, many years. Poultry, pork, beef, mainly.
And so he would visit South American countries often to go make deals with farmers or cattlemen or herders, ranchers, whatever. And so he went down there one time and they were driving up a hill and they stopped for some reason up in the mountains of I can't remember where. I think it was Columbia, but I'm not really sure.
So he's driving up the mountains in dirt roads and they stopped for a few minutes to do whatever. And they see these men who are carrying these huge bundles of whatever it is they are picking, whatever, you know, produce they are picking up the mountain and barefoot. And they're just going and they're just going and they're going and they're going.
And so my dad noticed that they had huge wads of leaves in their mouth, chewing them. And of course, the next question is, what are they chewing? What is that? Is that tobacco or what is that? No, it was cocoa leaves. Mm-hmm. they were getting paid, some of them, in cocoa leaves. That's what they did. They would just chew on cocoa leaves all day, and they would just go, go, go.
Little ants marching up and down and up and down. And that was the life that they lived. Day after day, night after night, they would go to work. They would get paid a little bit of money. And I'm not glorifying this. I'm just saying this is the way it was. They would chew these leaves, and they would march up the mountain doing the work that they needed to
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Chapter 4: What is the controversy surrounding Armie Hammer?
He got shunned by the whole Hollywood community because there was a lot of talk that he was into cannibalism, that he had brought some girls to a random motel in the desert and mistreated them, potentially sexually assaulted them. I don't know that that was ever brought to a conclusion. He's not in jail. I'll tell you that much right now.
And then somebody he like went down to his family's estate in the Caribbean. Yes. And then people were finding him. Being a real estate agent, like trying to sell timeshares down in the Caribbean. Am I right about that story?
Yeah. I think I got that right. Yeah. And then he left. He got divorced.
Yeah.
And she stayed down there and was on this reality show that I watched.
What was the reality show?
It's like Paradise. Yes.
All at the Grand Cayman. Yeah. Yeah. I just watched it recently, too. Paradise and Grand Cayman.
I found it on Hulu. I was like, what's this? Oh, okay. And it was Armie Hammer's ex-wife. Oh, very interesting.
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Chapter 5: Can we separate art from the artist?
I think it's on Hulu, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if it's out or it's coming out. I saw a trailer for it where one of the girls was saying, yeah, it was pretty well known. You'd go to a party. Louis C.K. was there. You know, some people in the corner doing coke. A couple people over here smoking weed. You know, a couple of the people having one too many cocktails.
And then Louis would be in the corner whacking off. And it's like... really yeah I don't get it I don't get it at all that's a weird predilection if there's one thing that I'd rather no one ever see including my wife it's me whacking off do you know what I'm saying If there's one thing that's uglier than Brian's sex face, it's Brian's sex face in the mirror, okay?
I just don't—no one needs to see that. And why you would think that that's like—why that turns you on, I have no idea. Who wants to see you wet? No one. It's not a thing. It's not a thing. But Louis C.K. back on the road, you know, a lot of these people who were canceled are getting a second shot at— at reclaiming some of that magic that put them there in the first place.
Now, I don't know that Louis C.K. will ever be the draw he was before. I just think there's too many people who think that what he did was kind of creepy, and there's no amount of apologies that's going to wash that away from their brain. But there's also a lot of people who just don't get, you know, it's like, whatever. He did what he did, and he apologized, and I guess we all move on.
How do you feel about that?
I mean, I was never a big Louis C.K. fan, so...
He was never my favorite comedian. Yeah. But I mean, how do you feel about some of these people coming back into the lexicon, like coming back into the fold? Does that bother you? Do you think if someone is canceled for reasons that that are enough to cancel them, they should stay away?
No, I mean, I think he people can try.
Yeah, they can make the apology to her. Yeah, I agree with you. I think that, you know, there's some things you can't come back from marrying your daughter. There's some things you can't come back from.
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Chapter 6: What happened with Louis C.K. and his return?
Right. And then there's other things that while disgusting and weird are forgivable at some point, whacking off in front of people, probably not my first choice of a party trick, but I totally understand, but I totally understand that everyone's into their own thing. Right. And, uh,
Might be rope tying, might be whacking off in a plant at a party.
Do you get consent? Do you walk around to the other people at the party? Do you mind if I jizz in the plant?
I don't think so. I think it was spontaneous jizzing.
You think it was spontaneous jizzing?
I think so.
You think he just got off stage and in the green room, he's like, hey, just give me a second. I'll be over here pulling my puns.
It sounds like it.
That's so weird. So weird. And what is he thinking about? And what is going? Is there lubrication involved? Is he just spitting on his hand? Like all the minutiae behind that really got me thinking one night. It was like a couple of years ago when this whole thing came out. I was like, what is he doing? Like. What is the whole process here? He goes in the corner. He drops Trout.
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Chapter 7: Why are some celebrities still canceled?
But that guy can rot in jail for all I care. He doesn't need to come back and produce any more movies on my behalf, no matter how many apologies he has. It doesn't seem like the guy's got much longer to go anyway. Rob Schneider is another example. You remember that Rob Schneider?
Yeah, I mean, I remember Rob Schneider. What happened with him again?
Copy guy. Rob Schneider. went total, like, crazy conspiracy theorist extremist on the right side. Okay, whatever. Whatever your political beliefs are. But he has gotten, he has left or gotten kicked out of multiple venues For like yelling and screaming crazy shit. I'm talking like shit. I don't even want to repeat here on the show. Crazy, crazy shit.
And people walk out of his appearances, even people who are inclined to. feel the same way about his political beliefs, walk out of the show. It's too much for them. It's way too much for them. So he walks out. But Rob Schneider, but he keeps on getting gigs. People keep on setting him up with more gigs. Now, listen, that in and of itself, you know, whatever.
I guess you just have to be into that kind of comedy if you're into that kind of comedy. But he's been canceled by both the right and the left. The guy
I know. I'm surprised he's still getting bookings.
You know who's still in the doghouse? Kramer. Kramer's still in the doghouse. Oh, Kramer. Yeah. He did an apology to her there for a while there. That didn't seem to soothe anything over.
No.
But he went haywire one night, too. He really did. This all leads me to say, Kanye, yay. Yay. Are you reading about yay?
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Chapter 8: Is it game over for Kanye West?
Okay, so she made an apology. And now Bianca, what's her last name? Sensori. Sensori. Let's read about this. For just one second. Kanye West's children with Bianca Sensori argued on Grammy night. Sensori rep denies cry for help after husband's Kanye hate-filled tirade. Yeah, okay. So... Yes, we have reached out to X to get the account unverified or banned.
Apparently, a dummy account is running around saying things on behalf of Bianca. Yeah, there's no amount of apologies, Bianca, to soothe over your dumb, dumb boyfriend's... trolling bullshit. It's just over. I agree with you. Enough with Kanye. Let's just be done with Kanye.
Maybe we take a decade-long break from Kanye and check back on his mental health after he has, and this is no joke, after he gets some medication that can clearly set him straight. The interesting thing about Kanye is that I read that He obviously deals with mental health issues.
He said that before, right?
And he said that he was once diagnosed with bipolar, but then another psychiatrist came in and said, no, you're not bipolar. There's a different thing going on with you. And you should take this different set of medications. To which Kanye said, I don't really want to take those medications because they stomp on my creativity. Which, okay, I get it. But when...
Your creativity is the vehicle upon which you're delivering the message, and your unchecked mind is going haywire. You might need to find a balance there between medications and your creativity, because the things you are saying...
are absolutely disgusting and if you're trolling us cool whatever then i'm just going to ignore it all together but if that's really where your brain is going then i think you definitely need to find some new medications that can help you straighten that out and mental health is no joke we've talked about it a lot on the show and i don't want to make fun of you know i don't want to make light of somebody's mental health issues but
But when you're that far off the gravy train, someone's got to pull you back on the tracks. Something has to pull you back on the tracks. Therapy, medication, friends and family, a combination of. And I think that's probably part of the part of the problem, too, is that Kanye is so famous. He in his own mind, he probably can't trust anybody. And he's like he's just so in his own bubble.
There's no one there to burst it. No one is going to burst it. Because everybody else around him is probably on the Kanye gravy train too. They put up with it because they're getting paid to put up with it. And they want to be around Kanye. And I'm sure there's some people that actually love Kanye and know that somewhere deep down, there's somebody in there that they like.
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