Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Would you rather have a radish than sex?
If it was good sex, then I would rather have sex. But if it was bad sex, I'd rather have a radish.
On this episode of the Commercial Break. Well, what if I do need some help? You know who needs some help? Blue. What are we going to do with this dog thing? That's my last question for the show.
Maybe we should launch a giveaway.
I thought about this a long time ago.
I would love to give them blue.
I just don't think that would be fair to the person we're giving the dog away to. That's not a giveaway. That's like being punished. It's like you can go to jail or take blue. I'd go to prison. I think I'd go to prison. I'm being serious. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the greatest achievement of my life.
My best friend, my lover, my wife, the person who raises my children so wonderfully. Astrid, Astrid, best to you. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. I'm earning marriage miles. Marriage miles, is that what we're calling it now?
You forgot to say I'm the best... The person that makes the best ayakas.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of 'marriage miles' in a multicultural relationship?
I mean, I don't want to offend my friends and family.
No, no, no. This is the perfect place to do it. No one listens to the show.
You don't have to worry about that. True.
No one listens here.
No, I think you're better. Oh, look at that. Look at you. I think you're a very good husband.
Well, thank you. I really appreciate that.
You're welcome.
On average.
Listen, I also know how to accumulate. Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 3: How does Astrid's background influence her perspective on marriage?
She thinks I'm a good... I don't know. I just assume that I always have... I don't know.
You've never had trouble with my mom.
No, I've never had trouble with your mom. I've never had trouble with your mom. And there's a reason why I've never had trouble with your mom. I feel like I have to play it cool because I want her to think I'm a fantastic partner for her one and only daughter. And I think she does. Okay, good. On average, better or worse, what do you think your dad thinks of me as a husband?
Because if we're just going on the amount of times in any particular visit or when we're together, physically together, the amount of times your father says... aye, Brian, even when he's not in my space.
When you're not near him.
Babe, he'll be in another room altogether, and I'll hear him go, aye, Brian. And I'm like, what did I do? I didn't even do anything. Not even in the same fucking room.
You have to, you know, there's got to be some context here.
Okay.
So, okay. So let's say my dad was giving you a report card. Like a progress report. Yeah, like in the school.
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Chapter 4: What are the cultural adjustments Astrid faced moving to the U.S.?
Or you can hire someone.
Or I hire someone to then do it badly so your dad can come and fix it later. We oftentimes will look at each other and say, well, we'll save it for when your dad comes. Yeah, we'll add it to... And your poor fucking father. I mean, he has a list.
He shows up in the door. And we're like... Hey! Hey, Dad!
Yeah, a little hug, like a little air hug, and then you're like, Hey, Dad, can you do me a favor? I need that picture hung. I need to put a roof over there. I need to move that wall six inches. The studio needs some attention. My tires are low. Can you change the oil? Do you mind getting up there and plugging the roof?
He loves it. I think it's part of... It's become like... It's part of his love language. And it's certainly also... It's certainly also the way... The reason why I also get OCD with...
things related to that like let's hang a picture in the wall yeah and i'm like okay we need the tape measure you know because i learned from him yeah and i wanted i think i i consider myself like i have a very like my eye you know when you hang a picture i can tell like it's a it's a inch off drives me fucking crazy and you and i are the opposite totally which drives me crazy too i am big picture type of guy like if you need me to i don't know
Come up with a marketing strategy, right? I can do that. But when it comes to the minutiae and the details... You're not detail-oriented. No, no, no. I really have to focus on that stuff. Some things.
On certain things. But I am very detail-oriented, which is not always good, right?
sometimes no there are pluses and minuses i think every personality type like i know i don't know too many people who are as bad at details as i am but there are i know there are people out there who are uh but then i know people who are like singularly focused on details and i think that can paralyze some people yeah but like for example
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Chapter 5: What stereotypes do Astrid and Bryan discuss regarding Venezuelans?
She's African of some descent, and I know it for sure. I mean, I know this accent so well that I'm like, no, no, honey, that lady, there's no way that that lady is Asian. No way.
I could have sworn.
Yeah, well, you were wrong about that. But people have asked over the years in different ways and had different conversations, asked about what it's like to have a multicultural marriage, which I think is so common these days. I find it hard to understand how someone can't conceive that. I mean, not like they're being racist or saying that's a bad thing. Some questions are really dumb, actually.
Well, it's just something different for most people, I would think.
Yeah.
And then they find it like, I guess, interesting. Like, oh, you know, what is it like? Which it also depends on what culture or different religions. But I think ours overall, it's not very... I don't think we're that dissimilar.
Yeah. First of all, I'll say this. Astrid is not a mail-ordered bride. So that's not the situation.
Correct. That is going on.
Yeah, because when we did that mail-order bride breakdown, we did like, you know, three episodes and we reviewed that whole movie about the Russian mail-order bride scam that was going on. Someone had the audacity to text and say, well, this coming from the guy who has a mail-order bride. I do not have a mail-order bride. I got her on the internet and that's completely different.
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Chapter 6: How do language barriers affect communication in their relationship?
Yeah.
That includes your family. Your family is part of that extended family that I have been with for years. And I have been called gringo and pelones and pinche maricon and all kind of different stuff. And let me tell you something. I know what all of it means, and I take it as intended with love. I think that we all need to desensitize just a little bit. I know you don't mean, I know.
And nobody means any harm when they say gringo, unless it's coming at me from like an angry place. And then it's a different story, right?
You got to understand the context. So if we're arguing and yelling at each other, and then I'm telling you, you know, pinch a gringo. Even though we don't say that. That's very Mexican. The pinching. Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, what were we saying?
Well, I want to qualify first. I want to say this real quick, and then I want to move on to other parts of multicultural marriage. But I want to say this. Astrid and I were not like, this was not some weird love story that came. It is a very strange love story in and of itself.
But in a good way.
But in a good way. We didn't meet on the internet. It wasn't on Tinder. I didn't go to some mail order service. Astrid and I met through mutual family members. And then I fell madly in love with her and chased her around the world until she agreed to marry me and come back to the United States. So there you have it. Stop fucking around. But the other thing that I want to say is...
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Chapter 7: What insights do they share about cultural differences in food?
I think it's a Friday afternoon episode. I'm just guessing. Friday afternoon episode for you out there. We're going to talk about multicultural marriage and we'll be back.
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OK. Most difficult thing about marrying a gringo. What's the most difficult thing about having married a gringo? Besides being away from your natural environment.
Hmm. Most difficult thing.
Is it my penis size?
Is it... Well, I was going to say, I was going to ask you.
Is it my lovemaking abilities?
I'm not sure if you're making the right question.
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Chapter 8: How do they navigate family dynamics in a multicultural household?
So, I don't know. In Venezuela, we eat a lot of, like, fresh stuff.
Fruits, vegetables, proteins. Yeah, I think... When you go to Spain, you see a little bit of this. Not much, but you see a little bit of this. Or certainly places in Spain.
But also, we are, in that sense, food-wise, we're more like Spain. So when we've been there, it feels more... Authentic. And it's always more of homemade food, but like... When I say homemade food, it's not like mixing a bunch of like different cans in a crock pot.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, I mean, in Venezuela, you don't even have the option to get like chopped onions in the store. No, you have to buy the onion and chop it, you know. Yeah. So it's like... And I see the pros and the cons to, you know, both. Yeah.
I think we fill our grocery stores with fillers, right? The appearance of choice makes us feel good, but the actual fillers, the stuff that we don't really need to eat but we eat anyway, makes us feel bad. It makes us sick and it makes us feel bad. And I've heard this from a lot of people in a lot of different cultures around the world.
which is americans eat like shit and the availability of that shit is so voracious that it's hard not to make those choices when you can pick up the phone and have a pizza at your door in 10 minutes when you can go to any corner and go to chipotle i mean i guess chipotle is better than some but you know mcdonald's or wendy's or or whatever it is i can see how food would be a big deal
For your culture. And you bring the Venezuelan food into our house. Now, I've eaten a lot of Venezuelan food before I met you. But now that I'm married to you, we eat a lot of Venezuelan food. I fucking love it. I think it's all very delicious. And no, it's not tacos. So let's just take that thought right out of our head. Or rice and beans. I think that's got to be my opinion.
That's a misconception, too. It's a stereotype is what it is. Well, it's like, yeah, I think people... Well, listen, fair enough. If you don't know, you don't know.
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