Chapter 1: Who is James Van Praagh and what is his significance?
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Chapter 2: What are the hosts' thoughts on attending live shows?
Welcome back to the Commercial Brink. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this incredibly ad-lib here podcast, Kristen Joy Holdley. Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. That's my favorite sound. I love it. I love it. I do, too.
Every time I hear that noise, it reminds me of the podcast panel on someone's father dying while this guy's outside.
Yeah.
So bad. It was so bad. All right, so here we are. It's Friday, so we are going to pick up where we left off with James Von Praugh. Praugh. Who is Praugh. Is it Praugh? Prague. Oh, maybe it's Prague. I thought the GH was silent. Uh, James Everett Prague is a telepsychic. That's what he does. He does just like Teresa Caputo. We reviewed some of his, uh, cold reading last week.
We're going to finish it up this week as it is Friday. We do like to break down videos on Friday. So super excited about that. Also like to remind you that it does appear Chrissy and I will be making our way to South Florida, central and South Florida. In September, September 25th and 26th, Orlando and Tampa. Orlando first, then Tampa.
If you're going to be in the area, if you live in the area, if you want to come to the show, please do let us know. 212-433-3TCB. Text us and let us know you'll be there. And we're going to have more information on how to get those tickets very soon. So I just wanted to shout that out. We'll probably be saying that ad nauseum until we actually get there.
Because if we can sell just six tickets, Chrissy...
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Chapter 3: How does James Van Praagh conduct his psychic readings?
We're going to fill half the place. Yes. Yeah. We're going to start off small. Yeah, we're going to start off small. And then we'll see how many people we can actually get in the room. Yeah. It's exciting. It's exciting. It's a whole new thing for the commercial break. And I don't know exactly how it's going to go, what we're going to do, or how we'll get there. That's kind of the exciting part.
I agree. We are definitely flying without a net on this one. I mean, that is for sure. We'll put something together. We will. We'll work on something. What are we going to do? I don't feel like this is the right event to invite any special guests. No.
But I have this dream that we're going to be playing, like, I don't know, Madison Square Garden, and we're going to get Frankie B to come out and do a little number for us. Teach us how to make those tuna eggs he's so famous for. We'll do a cooking demonstration. I would love it. I would love it. Make a smoothie for us. Take up an hour of our time and make a smoothie for us.
Put as much shit as possible into your smoothie. So anyway, 25th, 26th, Orlando, and then Tampa. If you're interested in coming, let us know. Because we'd love to meet you. If you're one of our listeners and we communicate with you, we'd love to meet you. But we have to let security know. So... We'd let security know that you could get access to us. Right.
We'll probably be the two people at the bar. Yes. Drinking, wondering what exactly just happened. Do they give us a tab at those places? I hope so. Is that negotiated in the contract? I don't know. We need to look back at that. Well, the good news is, like in some instances, they give you a piece of the bar, right? They'll say, okay, you can take 20% of the bar or 30% of the bar.
I say we just negotiate 50% of the bar, which essentially means we'll just be drinking at 50% off. Yes. That's what I say.
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Chapter 4: What are the hosts' critiques of psychic readings?
That sounds like a good deal. I like it. Don't worry about paying us anything. Just give us half-price drinks all night long. Yeah. We promise it'll be entertaining. For who, I don't know. Probably more for us than them, but that's okay. So... I wanted to shout out to a few of our listeners who have been writing in and calling in, and we just don't do this enough, I feel like.
And I wanted to say hello to a couple people out there in the podcast universe who actually have been communicating pretty frequently, and I do appreciate it. I want to say hi to Sean Morris. We've seen S. Morris on our reviews here and there. I think he changes his review every once in a while, and they're always pretty funny. So say hi to Sean here in Georgia, actually. He's down in Georgia.
Hello, Sean. Hello. I want to say hello to someone like Darren. Darren and I assume his wife, they were flying through Atlanta. So they let us know that they were coming to Atlanta. It wasn't going to work out that I would actually be able to go and meet them right down at the airport because Darren may not be aware, but getting to the airport is like an act of Congress. Yeah.
It doesn't matter if it's Saturday at 3 a.m. in the morning. It's going to take you seven hours to get to the airport and it's a big ordeal. And since 9-11, they don't let you actually go into the airport and do anything. Correct. But Darren was here and he was kind enough to let us know. Darren from St. Louis.
I want to say hello to Tiffany, who actually found that our possum hatred goes much deeper than the episode just a month ago. She found another episode where we were talking about possums and our dislike for them. I'm not going to play that content because I'm getting a little sick and tired of the possum thing. But I did want to say hi to Tiffany. I had a dream last night about a possum.
Did you really? Now that I think about it, yeah. Did you really? Now that you brought it up.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts feel about casual racism in discussions?
I saw one when I was walking to Starbucks. I saw one on the side of the road. It was dead. Yeah, usually that's the way you usually see them, really. Well, yeah, because they scurry around in the corners and stuff. They walk up against fences. They're like in the shadows. That's the thing I think that bothers me maybe more than anything is that you never quite know when the possum's around.
You know what I'm saying? They kind of sneak up on you. They do, like the little baby. Yeah. You know, the first thing that you see and the thing that freaks you out the most is those beady little eyes. Yeah. And aren't they blind? Yeah. I think they're blind, like mostly blind or something like that. Partially. Yeah.
Evolution hasn't kept up with their... Evolution and their eyeballs haven't, you know, married each other. So anyway, want to say hi to Tiffany. And then, of course, our good friend Caitlin is always writing in. Love me some Caitlin. And then someone wrote in Spanish to us, which I thought was very nice. And I want to make sure I get their name right. They knew that Astrid could translate.
What's that? They knew that Astrid could translate. Or I guess your phone. They knew that Astrid could translate. Yeah. Okay. I want to say hi to Jennifer from Wyoming. I want to say hi to Bill, Bob, and Darren. Another Darren from Chicago. Bill, Bob, and Darren. Thanks for listening. Bill, Bob, and Darren. Nice. There's three guys from Chicago who keep on texting me.
Chapter 6: What humorous anecdotes do the hosts share about their experiences?
And then a bunch of people from New York are texting me. We have Julia. We have Synth. His name is Synth. Synth. What is your parents' name? You have to...
1983 Casio keyboard yeah that's okay kind of weird huh there's Karen hey Karen she's from New York want to say hi to Ryan and then Ryan from New York and then Ryan Brewster all these people texting in and saying hello so I want to just shout out I don't feel we do that enough yeah I mean, we talk to everybody on the text message, but I don't feel that they get enough on-air love.
So I'm going to do that. We have an Ask TCB that I put together. We'll do that next week. And then I think my mom is coming in the first week in July. Okay. She'll be on. We'll be on vacation, but we'll run an episode. That's exciting.
I can't wait for that vacation.
Yeah, mom's doing, you know. Mom had an accident. She fell. And because of her age and some other things, she ended up in one of these like long-term rehabilitation facilities, which is very nice. It's a lovely place. I mean, lovely-ish, you know, as lovely as a rehab facility is going to get. And she's doing fine. She's well taken care of. She's fed, roof over her head.
The people there are very nice. But it's been a long, slow recovery. It has. She got a bunch of pins in her leg. Yeah. And I don't have any metal. Do you have any metal in your body? I don't. You don't have any metal in your body. Mm-mm. Okay. I'm getting to that age where I fear I'm going to need some metal in my body. Do you know what I'm saying?
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Chapter 7: What are the hosts' opinions on the ethics of psychics?
Yeah. Mainly in my penis. But if it goes somewhere else. Penis rod. They got to have something. I know that people that transition, they can get like one of those balloons inserted where they can pump it up. It's kind of like... The people that transition. People that transition. Like to death? To from female to male. Oh, I thought you meant transition like out of this world.
No, transition out of this world and then you can get. I was confused, as you can see. No, but they have like, I've heard, I haven't seen, but I've heard that they can like, you know, you have a mechanism by which you can pump up the new penis to then get hard. So I imagine I'll get one of those inserted any day now. Or a metal rod that works on a little servo that just goes up and down.
Wouldn't that be cool? Sure. Get on that. Who's a urologist out there who can help us out with that venture? Oh, my God, Chrissy. I just heard the noise again. I have to tell you. Last night, I was dead asleep. It's like two... There it is. Yep. It's the smoke detector. It's the fucking smoke detector. That sneaky noise of the smoke detector is really very, very sneaky. It's sneaky.
It's obnoxious. Because it's just beep. Yes. And then it's a weirdly long time again before it does it again. That's it. It's like you forget about it and then it does it again. So here I am. I'm asleep at like 2, 2.30 in the morning. The whole house is asleep, right? And I wake up. And I got my phone pillow and I'm watching something. So I turn off.
You know how you wake up sometime and you think you woke up because you heard something, but now you're awake so you don't know if you heard it or if it's just in your dreams? Well, I wake up and I thought I hear something, but I really don't know what it is. So I turn off the phone and then I just kind of sit there laying down listening. And I'm like, what? What is that?
I know, you forget about it. Yes. And then it starts accelerating. It's right outside the baby's room. Baby is dead asleep. Never wake a sleeping baby. And I'm like, oh, my God, it's 2.30 in the morning. I have 10-foot ceilings. What am I going to do? Get out a fucking ladder at 2.30 in the morning, turn on all the lights in the house to figure out what's going on with the alarm?
Because I know for a fact that if I touch that alarm and I press the test button, it There it is again. It just did it again. I know for a fact, if I touch that alarm, it's going to go off and it's going to go off for like at least a minute, right? Anytime you touch those alarms, they go off by default. That's what they're supposed to do. They do. So I'm like, holy fuck. What do I do now? So...
After a couple more beeps, and now I know it's accelerating, it's letting me know that the battery is low, right? Of course. And so it's accelerating. And so I'm like, oh, fuck, I guess the baby's going to wake up. Everybody's going to wake up if I don't do this because it's really fucking loud. And annoying. And annoying.
2.30 in the morning, Brian in his underwear, gets up, goes into the storage closet, pulls out the ladder, sets it up, turns on as few lights as possible, which is every light in the fucking house. And now this thing is really going. Does it accelerate? It accelerates. So now I'm like, fuck.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts have about the episode?
I get up on that ladder. And then the second that I touch the button to turn it, to take it off so I can see if I can undo the batteries. Yeah. Oh, no. I'm like, oh, no. Please don't wake up the baby. Your heart starts beating fast. My heart starts beating fast. You're sweating. Yeah, now I'm trying to do all this stuff. And finally, I get the thing. I notice that there's a button.
When I twist it, there's a button, and the button says test silence. So I'm like, okay, that's the thing that I need to test. Silence, silence. So now it's just going off. And I touch the button. And even louder, this is what I hear. You ready for this? Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Your monitor will be muted for 12 hours.
In 12 hours, your monitor will alert once more. Silence has been pressed. Thank you. Go back to bed now. He gives me this whole fucking like spiel. Announcement. For like a minute. And I'm like, I'm like standing in front of the baby's room trying to protect her from the sound waves. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even try it because silence has been pressed. Oh my God.
In 12 hours, I will bother you again. And there it was. And there it was. There it goes again. So you're right on time, about 2.15. That's right. There it is. Look at that. 12 hours later, it starts going. And I knew it. The second I heard it, I was like, yep, she warned me. In 12 hours, you dumbass. I will say this again.
great did anybody wake up what's that did anybody wake up no nobody woke up no luckily nobody woke up you got away with it I did I got away with it it only took me about 15 minutes for this whole thing and then of course I can't go back to fucking sleep because now my mind's going about what am I going to talk about on the show and you know who's going to call me tomorrow that I owe money to and you know what's next what's next
I feel like the older you get, it's just a series of just waiting for the other shoe to drop. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I really do feel that way sometimes. I'm like, as you get older, you realize that life does not always roll in your direction. As a matter of fact, it's about 50-50 if you're fucking lucky. And so all I know is I'm just waiting for the other 50%.
If I had like a kind of a good day, I'm like, well, it's going to be shitty tomorrow, so just wake up. You can't think like that. No, I don't think like that. But when you get woken up at 2.30 in the morning. Your mind just goes there. Your mind goes there because you're like, yep, it starts with the fire alarm. That's where it all starts. Now I just silenced it.
The house is going to set on fire in an hour. Right. And it's going to go, there's a fire. But I can't tell you about it because silence has been pressed. Exactly. Oh, my God. We had a whole fire alarm situation, too, while we were at Jeff's last festival. All of a sudden, we're like, I mean, he's in the middle of working. We're in the middle of talking to some people.
All of a sudden, he's getting phone calls that the smoke alarm is going off. And our daughter was there at the house. Oh, really? She didn't know how to turn it off. She's freaking out. She was cooking something that smoked up. Did the fire department show up? No, we were able to not get them to show up.
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