Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I am in to ginger ladies. All the gingers in the world, hit me up. Appreciate you. Very sorry for this confession here. On this episode of the Commercial Break. I don't want to discourage you from using your account, your expense account, but you wrote meeting with Hoadley on it.
And he's like, where do you spend $150?
We're talking internet things.
Yeah, internet. The interwebs.
Chapter 2: What dental issues is Bryan experiencing?
We're going to make money on the interwebs.
I am strategizing with Chrissy Hoadley about how best to get cocaine. If that's not important, I don't know what is. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene and this is my Martha to my Donnie. Chris the Joy Holdley. Best to you, Chris.
Best to you, Brian.
She doesn't even know what I'm talking about. Best to you in the podcast universe.
I was like, Donnie.
You're the Martha to my Donnie. I'm baby reindeer and you're my stalker.
Oh, okay.
Just keep coming over to my house. Bothering me. Annoying. Walking right in my door.
And then you just spy on me.
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Chapter 3: How does Bryan feel about his upcoming tooth extraction?
I do. Oh, yes, I do. Well... Newsflash. If you watch Baby Reindeer, I can't believe you didn't stick with Baby Reindeer. We were just talking about this right before we came on.
Yeah, I saw two episodes, but then I got distracted by other things.
I can't believe it.
There's so much content.
I know. I know. But I'm telling you. I mean, I think. My personal opinion is Baby Reindeer is simply one of the best miniseries I have ever seen in my entire life.
That's strong.
And maybe it's because it feels like it hits home. Because I also am looking for... I'm also looking for trans relations. Yeah, I have experienced some of it and it's scary and it doesn't feel good. And it's hard to explain to people except for you, who I did explain to. I kept a secret from everyone because I'm like, I'm gonna sound like a crazy fucking...
You know, my judgment is going to be questioned because of who I chose to get involved with. It's weird how it twists everything up. And a true stalker, someone who has that kind of obsessive personality or bipolar or whatever it is, whatever the mental health issue that causes that kind of obsessive compulsive need to be around somebody and have them in your life is really unnerving.
It's really unnerving. It's not like normal love. It's like love bombing followed by very dangerous activities that But Baby Reindeer, on the surface, as a piece of art, is just simply brilliant. It really is. I love the way it's constructed.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Baby Reindeer series?
I love the story. I think it's brilliantly told and brilliantly acted. Why? Because the guy who wrote it and acts in it is the guy that it happened to. And Martha, who is the stalker, is...
really well acted by the actress also i can't remember her name now but is well acted by the actress but she is just unnerving in that roles it just it's on the nose they hit it on the nose a hundred percent what it's like to be stalked in that manner and it is disturbing and to get it right and in the end uh and spoiler alert for anybody who's not watched the entire series i think like me yes like you
i'm sorry i gave you warning i gave it three months that show has been out i've given everybody warning though i'm gonna talk about it so here's a spoiler light spoiler alert turn it off for the next five minutes or fast forward if you don't want to hear but in the end and i don't think i'm really giving too much away but in the end the question is was donnie obsessed with martha or was martha obsessed with donnie and how easy is it for someone to kind of get in that mind frame that like the
Needing the attention.
Needing the attention. Loving the attention. The whole thing is about this guy who just can't come to grips with his own reality, his own life, his own... Because he's like a comedian, right? He's wanting to be a comedian. He's a bartender. He's wanting to be a comedian. He has been struggling with his sexuality. He was abused. And he has a lot of confusion around who he is as a human being.
I think a lot of people go through these moments, right? And he has no clarity. And he feels so shitty about his own life. That he can't come to terms with reality. And so he allows, in some sense, this to go on because he likes the attention. He doesn't want to hurt anybody else's feelings. And he has empathy for another lost human being who is Martha.
But Martha is obviously dangerous, obviously obsessed, obviously just a, you know, strange person. has strange behavior around Donnie. I love this television show. If you haven't seen Baby Reindeer, I highly suggest that you go watch it. And yeah, so, and here's why I want to bring it up now. I watched Martha.
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Chapter 5: What are the main themes discussed in the Love Is Blind article?
They, of course, people on the internet found out who Martha was. It was bound to happen. It was never going to stay a secret because she has publicly stalked other people before. She has been in jail. She has been accused of it. She was accused of stalking a government official in the UK before she even met Donnie.
This is how Donnie found out that... Donnie, the character in the television show, this is how Donnie found out that she was dangerous because he Googled her and he figured out that she... was in fact a true life, real deal stalker who had been not convicted, but had been accused of stalking this government official. And now this government official is backing up what Donnie said.
He said, yeah, she sent like thousands of weird emails to me and she wouldn't leave me alone and all this other stuff. But Martha, the real Martha, was outed, and then she goes on Piers Morgan's show, and she spends an hour with Piers Morgan. The lady is disturbed. She is obviously lying. She says one thing, and then three minutes later, she says the exact opposite. You kind of feel bad for her.
Listen to me. I'm dying.
You kind of feel bad for her. You kind of do feel bad for her in some way, shape or form. But she claims she hasn't seen the show, but she knows a lot of details about, you know, it's like she's she's trying to pretend like this all came out of left field. And she has no idea why this guy is making a television show. But it's pretty obvious why this guy is making a television show about her.
It is so good. It is so fucking good. It's so good that I wish I could go erase my mind of all baby reindeer related content and then watch it again for the first time. I watched it in like two sittings and it's, I don't know, a total of four hours of content. It's half hour, 40 minute episodes. Yeah. And so I really wish I could erase my mind.
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Chapter 6: How do reality shows manipulate contestants?
Then I just thought to myself, Brian, you're like an old fucking dude. You just have to wait six months and it'll be completely erased from your brain and then you can go watch it fresh again. Just wait six months. It'll be fine. And I told you to watch that show, and you ignored me.
You ignored me. Now I'm on Dark Matter and on Apple.
Okay, I'll get on that. I'll get on that. Yeah. I tell her to watch 90 Day Fiancé. She runs and watches seven seasons. The shittiest show ever. It took me like two years.
In fairness, it did take me like two years to come around to that show. But when I did.
You were like, oh, I see what Brian's season is. But now I'm done. Yeah, now I'm done. Completely done with 90 Day Fiancé. Forget about it. Not interested. Now there's one storyline maybe in each season for the last three seasons that I'm interested in. And it's just like they're just regurgitating the same characters, the same people. I saw that.
And this kind of piggy fronts off something we wanted to talk about yesterday, which was the Love is Blind, Big Hubba Lub, the New Yorker article that was written, I think fairly well, actually, about reality show stars and what they go through.
when they sign up for a reality television show and how people like, what's her name, Bethany Frankel, are trying to start a union, have actors and actresses, quote unquote, for reality shows unionized, like some standard of pay, some standard of living, some standard of hours worked and protections on set and all that.
Now, I'll say about this New Yorker article, and maybe, Christina, you can put the link to the New Yorker article about the Love is Blind drama that went on behind the scenes.
say this about the article the article shares a number of stories from specifically the love is blind cast and how they feel they were mistreated during the filming they were misled and mistreated during the filming of love is blind they thought they were going to get one thing and they got another i'll address that in a minute but one of the things they address in the article is a supposed sexual assault that happens i want to make clear i make no fun of anybody who has been sexually assaulted
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Chapter 7: What insights are shared about parenting in Spain?
And no one's going to watch it.
No one.
People watch for the drama. No one's going to watch it if it's not interesting. And the storyline plot twists and things like that and the arguments.
Yes.
I mean, yeah, you kind of know what you're signing up for at this point.
If they put a sheet up between the two of you and put you in a fucking pod and then all you do is fall in love and make kissy kissy smoochy noises, it's not interesting. Yeah. We don't watch because of that. We watch for the blowups and the drama and the walkouts and the throwing of the chairs. That's why we watch. It's a storied reality show.
Favorite pastime to go ahead and just be an asshole or throw things against the wall or kick over a table, whatever it is. Since real world. On MTV. Yep. Came into our lives a long time ago, which is the first, not the first ever reality show, but credited with really bringing reality television to the United States in a big way.
Since the first season of The Real World, just where there was no storyline producers, they were literally just sitting around an apartment staring at each other. And there was drama, drama, drama in that. We couldn't believe it. We were amazed at how dramatic people were. Why? Because it's manufactured drama. They put alcohol in the room.
They put seven strangers in the room and they said, let it fly. Let it rip. And of course it did. There was racism and yelling and name calling and people screwing other people, people fucking other people. That's what happens because it's not interesting if that doesn't happen.
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Chapter 8: What challenges do single parents face?
And the fact that you had to work a 20 hour day, boo hoo. You know how many free 20 hour days I've worked on this podcast alone? Most of them. Most of them. And I'm still not half as famous as those people. That's the truth. Some of these people go on to live incredible lives of wealth and fame because that's what, it's a pipeline. It's a shortcut. You don't have to go to acting classes.
You don't have to go to auditions. You don't have to wait tables while you're trying to, you know, do, who was it?
Hone your craft.
Yeah. You're going to hear this episode next week, but we had an interview with Wendy Covey McClendon. Wendy McClendon Covey. Is that? Yes. Yeah. Okay. who is the blonde lady in Reno 911. She is the mother on the Goldbergs. She's so good. She is in Big City Greens.
She was in the girls. I'm sorry. I'm drawing a blank right now.
Bridesmaids. Bridesmaids. Yes. She was Sergeant Clementine in Reno 911. You know her. She's like a super legend of comedy shows. And you know what she said to us? That she just quit her day job. Like, when she got the Goldbergs. That lady was on one of the most hilarious comedy shows when I was a kid, Reno 911, for years. And she just quit her day job when she got the Goldbergs.
Like, well into her 30s or 40s. I don't know. And you know what? That's because it's really tough to be a famous person and just like head to the mainstream. But with reality shows, you can cut all that drama out and just go on reality show. And the tradeoff is, is that it's not going to be all that comfortable.
And the producers are going to manipulate your story and you could be a bad guy or you could be a good guy. It doesn't, you don't know because that's what you're signing up for. And if you don't know that, then you have been hiding in a cave like Osama bin Laden for the last 40 fucking years. I mean, I'm dead serious about this. Yeah. I'm all about protections and safety.
Like you can't be physically. For sure. Physically harmed during taping.
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