Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
In the 90s, we didn't have Google. Like, we had to do this really weird thing, which was just believe people. Such an odd concept. And in fifth grade, this boy, he told me, Mo, if you want to have an orgasm, you have to find your clit. And your clit is in your butt. And I believed him for way too long.
On this episode of The Commercial Break. So your daughter does this too? She just snacks the entire time?
Yeah, and I think she knows that she could break us.
Chapter 2: What unique background does Mo Welch bring to her comedy?
She already knows that we're not that difficult. We would give up so much information in an interrogation immediately. Fine, we'll buy you McDonald's.
The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the captain to my crunch, Kristen Joy. Totally best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe.
I like that one.
Sometimes I just make shit up right before I turn on the microphone. I'm like, what should I say? Captain to my crunch. That sounds good. Okay. That's a little insight into how Brian's brain works. A little insight into how the entire show works, actually. It just comes into my brain and I say it out loud. For better or for worse, that's how it goes, kids.
Chapter 3: How does Mo's upbringing influence her comedic style?
Welcome to another episode. TCB infomercial today with Miss Mo Welsh. Well, Mrs. Mo Welsh. Yes. Who we're excited to have in. Her brand new special, Dad Jokes, on 800-pound gorilla channel on YouTube. Please do check it out. I watched it, and I thought it was really funny. Let me give you a little insight before she comes on, and then we can dig into it. Okay.
So, Mo comes from a large Catholic family. She's got four siblings. So, she's one of five. Grew up in this tiny little town in Normal, Illinois. And her dad... Normal. Normal. I know. She talks... I don't want to give any of the... You know, let the jokes be hers. But... But it's not a normal town. Basically, it's how it goes. And none of her siblings turned out to be normal.
You have to watch the special to kind of get to the bottom of it. But just let's say this. One of her siblings is a furry. One of her siblings is a stripper. And one of her siblings, I think, is in jail or something like that. You can check the special out and watch it. Sounds normal. Yeah, sounds normal.
Chapter 4: What is the premise of Mo's special 'Dad Jokes'?
Here's why I think this special is really interesting. It's like a docu-comedy, I guess, because it intersperses her stand-up comedy with documentary footage.
Of her life.
Not of her life, of her pilgrimage to find her father and have a chat with him after 20 years of not speaking with him. He was in jail at some point, and then he comes back. Go watch it. It's really funny and interesting. It's an hour, so it's a good digestible bit. And she's got that dark humor that we are such a big fan of here at the commercial break.
So Dad Jokes, aptly named Mo Welsh, writer, stand-up comedian. And yeah, we'll talk to her in just a few minutes. Yeah. She does those New Yorker cartoons. I think she's done a few of those. I love it. Those are great. I wish I understood them. They're very highbrow, and I wish I got them, but sometimes I just don't.
I agree.
Do you ever look at that New Yorker and go, yeah, that's too smart for me? I don't know that Mo's done that kind of work, but I'm just sharing that I've seen those cartoons sometimes, and I'm like, I don't get it. Where's the joke? Where's the punchline? But then I remember that, you know, I probably should have gone to college. Yeah. I want to talk about something quickly before we have Mo on.
What in the good fuck is going on with Creed? I know Mo's going to be so happy to hear this at the beginning of her episode. Do you know that band Creed?
Of course.
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Chapter 5: How does Mo describe her experience visiting her father after 20 years?
And we did a show a while back, right? Where there was like a DJ playing Creed over in Ibiza.
Ibiza. No, it was actually in like some little hotel in California or somewhere in Italy or something. Okay. Maybe it was an island. Let's pretend it was an island. Because I don't remember. But I do remember the reel you're talking about.
Well, where she, like, mixed Creed with, you know... Yeah.
With... Hold on one second.
Dance music.
Yeah. It was like... Right. And people were going nuts. Hold me now. I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking... Maybe six feet ain't too far down. She mixed this set into Creed, and no one over the age of 26 is in that crowd, and they are all just jumping up and down, going crazy. And here's why I ask. Maybe it's the algorithm, the strange algorithm that I have going on on Instagram.
But, man, am I getting fed a lot of content about Creed and the Creed revival and Creed's back and Creed's the best and who knew Creed was a Christian band and, you know – New metal, which I don't know if Creed would... I don't think Creed qualifies as new metal, but that genre of bands, Creed, Limp Bizkit, other new metal... Spin Doctors. Spin Doctors. I think Spin Doctors are a little...
I think spin doctors now are officially spin doctors. Do you know what I'm saying? That poor bastard. But I'm seeing all these younger folks. I say younger. I sound like I'm an old man. 20-somethings that are listening to, going to concerts of this genre.
It's a 90s revival.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does Mo face as a parent?
There's probably some bands that don't have the same members, but... Yeah.
But that Limp Bizkit, what's that guy's name? Buckethead? The bucket dude? You remember he used to wear a bucket on his head? No. I mean, there was an era of music where the most popular band had a guy with a bucket on top of his head. I mean, there also was a kiss phase, too. So I guess I shouldn't cast dispersions. My curiosity really lies in the band.
Creed, they have some catchy tunes, there are some earwigs there, but why are they getting so much attention? So here's my question to you. Do you think this is just a big corporate marketing push to, like, this is being manufactured in some way, pushed hard on behalf of some label, some corporation, some PR agency, to... make money on content that at one point was popular. I mean, I understand.
I'm not dumb-dumb. I understand there's some PR machine behind this.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think it's a combination of your algorithm on Instagram, because I'm seeing none of this, and also some PR going behind it.
So there's a Paramount commercial for Paramount+. And it's got Stewie from, what's that fucking show? Family Guy. Stewie from Family Guy. Jean-Luc Picard, the guy who plays Jean-Luc Picard. And Creed is in it also. And the guy is like, the lead singer, Scott Stapp, is like singing on top of a mountain with his hair flowing.
Yeah.
And I'm like, hmm, this is a little suspicious that all these things are coming together at the same time. I find it not to be a coincidence. Probably not. Somebody's got a hold of their catalog and needs to make money out of it.
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Chapter 7: How does Mo balance her career and parenting?
So they're really hitting it hard. Also, they got that tour that's going to go on and they got to sell tickets. There's a lot of tours out there not selling tickets right now. Yes. It's kind of scary.
I know.
It reminds me. Please come to our show. Please come to our show in Florida.
Yes, please.
Yeah, but there's a lot of concerts that are having a hard time selling tickets. And it just feels suspicious to me. It feels suspicious to me that all of a sudden there's this resurgence of this particular band that I thought was just asleep, like they would never come back. And they come back. I'm not hating. If you like Creed, cool. Cool, dude. Awesome. Go. Put a chain on your belt.
Get your Creed on.
Yeah, put a chain on your wallet and get back to jamming. But I just, I don't know. You know, you might be right with the advent of the internet. I think that we have all become ultra pessimistic. And we think that now we can like... Now we can see through the bullshit. No more corporate lies. No more fancy PR campaigns and MTV pushing shit down our throats and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I think it's happening. I just think it's happening in a different way.
Exactly. That's what I'm trying to say. Definitely.
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Chapter 8: What role does humor play in Mo's relationship with her family?
Stay tuned. You could win Creed tickets.
Stay tuned. You could win Scott Stapp's Bronco. Yeah. At the 6 o'clock hour. And at the 7 o'clock hour, we're giving tickets away to the Gwinnett Spiders. What a fun weekend you'll have with three other people watching semi-professional lacrosse. And 115 degree weather here in Atlanta, Georgia.
God, it really is so hot.
Oh, my God, Chrissy. 100 degrees today.
I was driving home yesterday. It said 102 in the car.
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it felt like 102. I think it was like 98 yesterday. It's supposed to be... I mean, here, 98. And it's supposed to be 100 degrees today.
No rain.
None. Yeah, it's kind of miserable. Thank God I got that big hole in the ground out there that cost me a ton of fucking money so that we can go... And the other day... Follow my reasoning here. The other day, the kids were like, oh, pool. It's so hot. Let's go in the pool. Let's go in the pool. And I'm like, it's too hot for the pool. It's too hot for the pool, Brian.
It's too hot for you to be outside watching the kids in the pool. It's too hot.
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