Chapter 1: Why do relationships struggle with communication?
She always tells me I don't listen. She's like, you don't listen, you never listen. I've heard that every time, but... It's the other stuff. And I don't think I listen to everything, but I also don't think she says everything she thinks she says. There's just no way. 17 years of marriage, you're bad in a thousand, I'm over. I've never heard anything.
She might say it all in her mind, but I mean, not everything makes it out of that maze up there. On this episode of The Commercial Break... And I open it up an hour later and it says seen two minutes ago. And I'm like, OK, here he's just now he's plotting exactly how he's going to hang out with the commercial break after his show at the State Farm. I'll leave passes. I'm the guy with the jeans.
I'll leave passes. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. 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 Holden, the one and only. Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Happy Monday or Tuesday. What day is it? I don't know.
It's Tuesday when we're recording this. It is? Okay. Because we don't record usually on Mondays. My Tuesday feels like a Monday. And I hate both those days. Do you get the Sunday blues? Do you get the Sunday depression blues? I used to when I had a job I hated going to. I get terrible anxiety on Sunday nights. I hate it, but not this Sunday night because I went and saw Nate Bargetzi.
That's right. Bargatze? Bargetze? I don't know. He made a whole big deal about making sure that everyone knew what his name was. He had a video that played ahead of time. Making sure that people knew that it was not Nate Bargatze, but Nate Bargetze. Oh, Bargetze? Yeah. And I don't know why it matters. When you're that famous, does it really matter? Right.
You could call me, I don't know, forehead dick. I really wouldn't matter. You talk and tell us about your weekend while I continue to figure out why our sign won't leave my microphone alone. Well, once again, I have my throat issues here when I walk into this.
studio why is that i don't know i don't know you got a problem with your throat you think blue is a problem i don't know i'm always i blame everything else on blue just go ahead throw in jump on pile on yeah cares i went to uh greenville south carolina and saw my nephews greenville south carolina that's right south kakalaki it's a good little town is that where they're arresting everybody ice is arrested no that's north carolina charlotte yeah
Yeah, you saw your little ones. Yeah, my little nephews for a soccer tournament. They won the whole thing. Good for them. Congrats to the little giants. Good pounding down on the little shithead other team. Get him! Is the coach one of those? Get him! No, he's just firm enough. But very encouraging. You know, everybody's very encouraging now. Until they get on the team bus.
You ever seen that video? I think I played the audio a few times of that video of the guy. They're on their way to like a baseball tournament. And he's like, we're going to kill the other team. And anybody who doesn't tell you to kill the other team is just a bunch of pussies. When your dad says lose gracefully, he's a pussy. Yes, I said your dad's a pussy. Oh, my God. Oh, it was crazy.
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Chapter 2: What insights do we gain from attending a live comedy show?
A month from now. And the answer is, I don't know. But, you know, I get it. We're feeling each other out. You know, we're kind of an unknown entity. But as we've become, you know, I guess as we've kind of driven… Even some rivets into the road. Yeah, they're like, okay, they've done a few. You know, maybe it would be nice of me to throw a ticket. And it's very nice.
And of course, if they want to offer us a ticket, I'll accept. But I just got in my head on Friday and Saturday that for some reason, Nate Bargetzi owed me a bunch of tickets to his sold out show. That's like good tickets, right? Yeah, the best. Even though we already had good tickets. Side stage. We bought these months ago and they sold out months ago and all this other stuff.
So in my head, or not in my head, but in the house, I keep walking around telling Astrid, we should have asked for tickets. We should have asked for, we should have called Bella, our agent. We should have called Bella and had her reach out and gotten tickets. And Astrid's like, we already have tickets. What are you talking? Why would we need extra tickets?
We already have tickets and they're pretty good tickets. Why, what are we doing? And I'm like, I don't know, but if we get tickets, that makes me feel more important. So we should get tickets. Anyway, so I'm saying that to myself, right? I would never say that out loud except here on this episode. Right, to everyone else. Streaming to 12 people out there in the universe.
So Sunday, you know, so Friday and Saturday, I was sick. I didn't feel good. I was actually really sick and not really sick, but I was sick enough that like, you know, Astrid had to deal with me. He had to stay in bed. Astrid had to deal with me. I'm such a child, such a two-year-old. I don't feel good. So Sunday, I'm like, I'm not missing Nate. I'm going to put a little pep in my step. And I do.
And my parents are going to come over. My parents are going to come over and watch the kids for the night. It's very nice of them. Very nice. And I'm like, well, who's opening up for Nate? We had a friend who went and saw him on Friday night. So we knew that he had openers, but the girl who went couldn't tell us the names of the openers.
And as much as I looked online, I couldn't find any official information about who was opening. So I asked chat, who's opening up for Nate in Atlanta? And what chat spits out is an Instagram post. And it's Aaron Weber and a couple of other people. So I'm like, that's it. If Aaron Weber is going to be there, then I deserve tickets. We loved Aaron. Aaron loved us. That was a good interview.
Yeah, it was. I loved Aaron. Aaron is great. So listen to this bullshit. Listen to how much egg I have in my face. Aaron, let this let this stand as my official Maya Copa to you, my friend, who's probably you looked at your Instagram and was like, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
Because as soon as Chad GPT spits out that information, I click on that and I see Aaron Weber on stage waving goodbye on Friday night, what I thought was Friday night. I go to Aaron's Instagram and I write from our commercial break account. Hey, Aaron, super excited to learn you'll be at State Farm Arena tonight. Look for me. I'll be the one in the jeans.
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Chapter 3: How does the experience of attending a concert differ from a comedy show?
Are you sure? I am sure. Okay. Cause I could have sworn. He had his doppelganger. I could have sworn that his doppelganger was there and he got pointed out by this MC to be talked to. I'll explain that to you later. Okay. I'll tell you why some of those details. I, I instantaneously was like, that's Simon.
I would not have known that he for sure wasn't there, but he was, he literally left for Argentina on Thursday. Different Simon doing something very similar to what your Simon does was pointed out in the crowd. Okay. Looked like Simon. Had an accent the whole nine yards. Anyway, okay. So one MC, then three openers. The openers were fine. They were fine. They were all effective at getting laughs.
But here's what I liked about this whole thing. None of them stayed on the stage longer than seven minutes. It was seven minutes. Boom, boom, boom. Seven minutes, MC came back, did two minutes. Seven minutes, MC came back, did two minutes. So essentially you had 30...
40 minutes of opening stuff and then the big show right here comes nate walks through the crowd you know high-fiving the whole nine yards gets up on stage the crowd You have to. He was in the round. So it's like this round stage right smack in the middle. Two, three huge screens. Looks like what they had is some cameras set up around the stage to get him at any angle.
And I think, if I'm not mistaken, AI was doing the editing. Right. It was like cutting when he would turn his face, it would cut to him. So it's always tracking him. So even though we had good seats, I was still watching the screen on the screen because I wasn't close enough to see the facial expressions. And Nate came on at eight thirty sharp. And he did 60 minutes on the tits of material.
60 minutes. And that was 60 solid minutes of hilarity. There is no comedian right now that I'm aware of that is using timing, space, and or their body, i.e. facial expressions, better than Nate Bargetti. Okay. None. I like this. Zero. And he has been doing these crowds, these large crowds, for so long that the timing... You know, we've talked to comedians about this before.
Like, I talked to... You'll hear this coming up, but I talked to Paul Chowdhury about doing Wembley. And I'm like, what's the... And he said, listen, the difference is the timing. Like, do you... You have to be slower, right? He said you have to know that it's going to reach the back a little bit later. And so the reaction can be a little bit delayed.
And if you're not aware of that, it can throw you off. In a club where there's, you know, 15 rows, everybody laughs at the same time. But it's different. And you have to pace yourself, right, a little bit differently. Nate had it down to a science exam. He knew exactly what to say, exactly what facial expression, exactly what hand gesture to make to wiggle the crowd in his direction.
And even in a couple jokes where he was kind of slowing down a little bit, like you tell the crowd, like maybe wasn't as hype as it was just a minute ago. He brought it all back with the simplest gesture, the simplest word. He would drop one little facial expression and everybody would be busting out laughing. He doesn't do it. There's not a cuss word in the thing.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of large venues for comedians?
I've only seen the beautiful ones where they do, like, what is that sunrise one where it shows all of the hot air balloons going up? It looks so beautiful. We saw it one time. We were coming home from Indianapolis, and we were driving through back roads in North Georgia because of whatever, and It's seven in the morning.
And then we see 50 hot air balloons in the middle of like, you know, Dahlonega, Georgia or whatever. And I was like, what is that? It's like the hot air balloon fest. My parents went out to the one in wherever, San Antonio. I don't know. They have a famous one out there. Yeah, there's one out west. Yeah, there's one out west. And they have like 2,000 of those balloons.
They all go up at the same time. They all come down at the same time. That just seems dumb. Like, I feel like people are going to get hurt. And now they have trackers on the balloons. Like, you go to websites and track balloons. Oh, really? Yeah, but I'd rather track them than fly in them. No, thanks. No, thank you. Yeah, Jeff said no. No. So I was like, well, I'm not going to do it by myself.
This is when we were in Colorado. Yeah. I took Astrid on one of those airplane rides, the biplane rides. Yeah. I won't make that mistake twice. You told that story. That's a funny story. My grand romantic gesture turned into a double panic attack for me and my fiance at the time. Yeah. Both of us. Literally, there was a hole in the floor. You could see a mile down.
And you could step, and the whole plane would shake. There's no top on it. I'm good on those. What if a bird hits you? And it was like a teenager driving the plane. It was like seven years old. He was like, hey, y'all ready to go? And I'm like... Where's the pilot? It's like, I'm the pilot. Where do you want to fly to?
How about we just go up and down the landing strip one time and come back and park and give us some pictures and we'll call it a day. Can you Photoshop it in? And it was 98 degrees on the ground and minus 10 below when you get up in the air. There's nothing fun about it. It really wasn't. I think we both just decided, hey, listen, we tried it. That wasn't for us. Yeah, you did it. All right.
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Chapter 5: How do comedians adapt their performances for big audiences?
They're closing. Well, yeah, Wendy's is closing. I told you. I told you last week. You didn't respect. You didn't. Do enough to keep Wendy's around. This is why we can't have nice things. It's because you didn't go to Wendy's and now they're all gone. Okay? So if you like Burger King, get over there. I never liked Burger King. Burger King was always lower. Yeah.
When they put those fake hash marks on the burgers to try and make it taste better. You know what I'm saying? Or the chicken nuggets looked like a chicken. I wouldn't eat a chicken nugget from Burger King if you paid me. What's going on over here? I don't know. I'm all bothered. I'm all bothered. I'm just jittery today. I don't know. Okay.
So there's all this to say that, you know, McDonald's then announced they're going to do a slash of prices. They're bringing back the $5 value menu, all this stuff. They're probably going to start supersizing shit again. McDonald's is up to its old tricks. It's going to get us again with all the cheap food, probably Dick Tracy collectible items so that we all drive through. I hope. I hope.
Oh, my God. If they brought back Dick Tracy. They brought back Monopoly. Well. They brought back Monopoly. Yeah. After a whole fucking investigation. There was that documentary. 15 documentaries about how it was just a rigged game and you couldn't win it if you tried. they're bringing it back. They bring it back. Okay, good. That's something we liked.
We didn't like that only one guy was winning all the stuff, but we liked that we were playing the games. We like the Monopoly. Good for you. And now bring back the Dick Tracy collectible cups and I'm on board. Don't give me none of that fucking Avatar shit. I don't care. I need avant-garde Warren Beatty type stuff. The 90s are in. The 90s are in. Bring back Dick Tracy cups at McDonald's.
You got me, baby. You got me. Warren Beatty probably just wouldn't allow it. Warren Beatty. Is Warren Beatty still alive? Mm-hmm. He is? Good for him. Is he still dating people? No. He's been married to Annette Bening for a long time. Oh, yeah. Annette Bening's in that movie, too, isn't she? Dick Tracy? Whatever. Doesn't matter. I'm just not Dick Tracy. Okay. So McDonald's is slashing prices.
Trying to get people back on board. And, you know, McDonald's was involved in one of the best publicity stunts of the entire 2024 campaign. Not McDonald's, the corporation, but McDonald's somewhere out there in the universe. I forget where it was, Ohio or something.
When Donald Trump showed up, closed down an entire McDonald's, put on an apron and pretended to hand out burgers, claiming that, you know, Kamala Harris never worked at a McDonald's. Some people do claim that she never worked at a McDonald's. She just said that I worked at a McDonald's. I actually worked at a McDonald's. So I don't want anybody talking shit about this.
But man, did that publicity stunt. I think it I think it did him some good. You know, I don't know why, but it didn't. I don't know why. Congratulations. You can put on a fry frock and look good. But Trump is out there doing his best to sell to the American people that things are just going great in the economy. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What makes Nate Bargatze's comedy unique?
Wow. How do you survive like that? How do you eat? I wish I could do that. I know. And I mean, is the guy in the greatest shape? No, but he's 79 years old and he's still walking around. Now he's got the best doctors. Yeah, some people think he's not walking on his own, but okay, it's a different conversation for a different day. Has he had a stroke? I don't know. I don't know.
But he goes to the franchisees convention. And I just want to show you the state of affairs inside of the head of the guy that's leading this nation of ours, Chrissy. Are you ready for this? Okay. I know we don't talk politics on the show, but I think this might transcend politics a little bit. I want you to listen to him. We want to take you out now live to D.C.
That is where we see President Trump about to make keynote remarks this evening at the McDonald's Impact Summit, where franchise owners from all over the country are at this summit right now. So we are going to be listening to President Trump's remarks on the economy. Of course, we'll probably talk about his brief stint as he's waving his hand. He's doing his dance. Everyone comes for the dance.
Yeah, he's whacking himself off in midair. Two dicks. He's got two dicks. Donald's worker on the campus. And by the way, when I say that, you know what I'm talking about. You can visualize it in your head. He's literally yanking on two dicks. That's what he's doing. Where did he get that dance from? Aintrail in 2024. Let's listen in here on Live Now from Fox.
I hate to turn that phone, that beautiful song off, but let's get to business, right? And I want to congratulate you. You are with an incredible company, and I'm thrilled to be here with the men and the women who are really the heart and soul of one of the greatest, most admired, and most successful companies.
Things are going so well throughout the country, I thought I could take time to visit and get a couple extra cheeseburgers. Companies in the history of the world, frankly, the one and only McDonald's. I've gone there a couple of times. And I'm honored to stand before you as the very first former McDonald's fry cook ever to become president of the United States. Opening up for Nate Bargesi, 2026.
Donald Trump. Who writes these jokes? I actually was there for about 30 minutes, and that was 30 minutes longer than Kamala was there. Despite her job at McDonald's, that didn't work out too well. And the person at McDonald's that informed us off the record that she never worked there, whoever you are, we appreciate that. He's still litigating the fucking election. Get over it, dude. You won.
Take yes for an answer, bro. But I want to thank, you know, the... Listen, this keeps going on. I want you to listen to the manner in which he's talking and the tone and strength of his voice. Now, I know he said he had something wrong with his voice he was yelling about. He said he blew out his voice because he was yelling at a country about tariffs. I love it. And Sergey, Sergey Brin.
These are two guys that own and run a place called Google. They called me the following day after I did that McDonald's little skit because it wasn't a commercial. You got it for nothing. It was a skit. And they told me that I didn't know them. Guaranteed there's an invoice coming, McDonald's. Guaranteed there's an invoice coming. First of all, Sergey and Bryn called you after you did that skit?
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Chapter 7: How is McDonald's adapting to changing economic conditions?
Yeah. Watch the movie and you can see that Ray Kroc may not have been the champion that Donald Trump would like him to have been. But, you know, I'm not sure that Trump did any of that kind of research. We got a very serious, there's a lot of problems in this country right now. Yeah. And I don't think he needs to be at the franchisee thing. I just don't.
I think he needs to be in the White House figuring out with other members of Congress and the Senate how we're going to keep our health care at a reasonable cost and then fix the systemic problem that is American health care. Yeah. Keep us on the edge of innovation, but keep the cost down. Figure out that problem.
Figure out how we're going to put more money in people's pockets, not by subsidizing billionaires, you know, tax breaks and all this other stuff. Or a 50-year mortgage. A 50-year mortgage. If I get a 50-year mortgage right now, the mortgage company is going to end up on the losing end of that deal. I'm just saying. Can you only get that when you're 19 years old? I don't know.
I mean, how do you do that? Yeah. But that guy, Pulte, he's another. I mean, Pulte Homes is huge, right? It's huge. It's the single largest builder in the United States of America. And this guy, Pulte, now is inside the White House running around like a bull in a china shop, just, you know, ah, 50-year mortgage, ah, ah. 100% interest rebates. Let's do it.
You realize you're going to pay an extra $700,000 on like a $100,000 mortgage. It doesn't make any sense, except unless you're my age. And then you go, yeah, sure. Why not? 50 year mortgage. I'm starting to think about, you know, three or four year car loans. Will I even be alive to pay them? Yeah. You got to underwrite me that way. These are dumb ideas. They're unserious ideas.
They're not, you know, I just don't know. I don't know what we're doing. We've jumped the shark here. Let's get our shit together. Let's stop taking people from the streets and kidnapping them all over this country. And let's get out of the Caribbean and stop bombing boats that we don't even know who's on the boat. And let's, you know, let's get back to figuring out how we make America, you know,
a better place for everybody, not just Elon Musk and his cronies. That's just it. That's my opinion. I'm not a politician, but I would like that. Thank you very much. Best viewers, thank you very much. Best viewers from Streambo, thank you very much. Um, I would like to, uh, I would like to figure out how we do that.
And I think that's why some people on the more conservative end of things right now are getting frustrated is because this kind of America first agenda, it is, it is a sad state of affairs when even I start to agree that, Are you seeing the total makeover of Marjorie Taylor Greene right now? The total makeover of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It is a sad state of affairs when even I am going, I mean, I think a lot of people are saying the same thing. She might be making a little sense. Now, I realize she's doing this for political points. She's a political animal. She understands where to go to get her food. She knows where her bread is buttered. But someone who's talking common sense is someone who's talking common sense.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of fast food pricing on society?
It's just, it's kind of sad. But the truth is, we've jumped the shark on this one. Yeah. Like, we've jumped the shark on this one long ago. And so, you know, MJT, not on my favorites list. She's not on my family list on my iPhone, Chrissy. None. In your group chat? No, not in my group chat, but I will say this. Hey, when you're talking sense, you're talking sense.
And I can agree with... We'll give it to it where it's due. I can agree with you talking sense. All right. Blue's not talking sense. What the fuck is she talking about this time? Honestly. All right. Streaming on YouTube, streaming on Twitch. At the commercial break on YouTube, at TCB Podcast on Twitch. We'll come back. We'll come back. For anybody watching, we'll come back in like 15 minutes.
Anybody who's not watching who's listening to this on the replay or the recorded version of this, you can follow us on Instagram, at The Commercial Break, and then you'll be notified when we go live. If you have anything to say, 212-433-3TCB. I got a new phone today. So our phone's back. Oh, you got the other new phone. Yeah, one of my kids broke the old phone. The TCB phone.
The TCB phone was broken. People were freaking out. They were like DMing me on Instagram. Are you okay? I haven't heard from you. Yeah, I just, I have kids. They broke the phone. And I don't have like on that phone, I don't have like the go into the store plan. You got to like send it in and then they send you one. And it's a whole thing. You know how I am. I take my time.
I don't like to get too excited about anything. I'm not very excitable. I don't know if you noticed. Thanks to Aaron Weber and Nate Bargatze. Aaron Weber. Sorry to Aaron Weber and Nate Bargatze. I'm so fucking embarrassed. I'll never live that down. Oh, forget about it. No, he's probably went to the club that night and was like... I probably did, too.
He's like, you went on the commercial break, right? Right? What is he talking about? We got a reputation to uphold, Chrissy. All these comics are in the clubs talking about me. Ghost texting. I'll be the one in jeans. Aaron's probably like, is he hitting on me? Right. Is he hitting on me? Does he want me to come to State Farm Arena? Yeah. Does he know I know Nate? Is he asking me on a date?
Does he have an extra ticket? Erin, I was trying to see if you needed an extra ticket. That's why I was texting you. You should have called me back. I could have gotten you into the Nate show. So anyway, 212-433-3TCB, 212-433-3822. Questions, comments, concerns, content ideas. Give me a couple days. I've got to go through 1,000 text messages. I was going to say, how many loaded up?
Oh, I don't know. 120 or something like that. Yeah, TCBpodcast.com. All the audio and video in your free sticker. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for right now. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast universe and streaming. We'll be back in about 20 minutes. Until then, we will say, we do say, and we must say.
Goodbye. I get ass.
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