Chapter 1: What impact did the Category 5 hurricane have on Jamaica?
Just a guy who rants, it's not funny at all The co-host is asleep, she's pretty dull Why people like this show, why are they on the charts? What's the fuck are you talking about? I turn it off as soon as it's dead TCB is terrible, this show is fucking bad I'd like to punch Brian's mouth, this podcast is kinda sad Is this what we think? It's funny now How do I turn it off?
My ears are saying ow Stop laughing at yourself Are these two making sense? At least I didn't pay I am deaf in my defense PCB is terrible That is being kind What is this show about? It's offensive to my soul. Brighton is a hack. These two aren't funny and so old. Why all the hype? How did this get made? So many episodes, none of which are great. TCB is terrible. Worst show you could do.
TCB is terrible. Worst to everyone. On this episode of the Commercial Break. I watched one episode and I just couldn't understand why this was interesting. And I don't know one person who does. Do you know one person who watches the Kardashians? No, not anymore. Like I said, I think I watched it. You befriended them? Yes.
Yeah, I mean, I think it was just a natural thing that I'm probably just not going to be friends with the people I used to watch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I'm just not that interested in being friends. I mean, listen, if someone watched it as a guilty pleasure, okay, whatever. I watch dumber shit. I promise you I watch, well, maybe not. I watch just shit just as dumb.
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, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thank you for joining us. A lot of stuff going on. A lot of drama.
A lot of drama out there in the world. Least of which is the Category 5 hurricane in Jamaica. Ah, so sad. Crazy. I mean, did you see the video of the hurricane hunters that went in, you know, the guys who fly into the eyewall? Oh, right. Yeah. So there's a group of, they call them the hurricane hunters. It looks like a stadium, right? Inside of it? It's just insane.
The eye wall is so perfectly formed. It looks so tame in the middle of it, but so violent on the outside of it. But these guys, they fly right into the middle of these storms. They fly over top of them, then they drop sensors into them to get information about where the storm is going, what it's doing, whether it's strengthening or weakening. What a job. I know. What a job.
And they do it with some of the most advanced technology and some, you know, obviously one hell of a plane, right? Yeah. And they've been doing this for years and years and years. It's nothing. Nothing stops these guys. They've flown into the most dangerous of situations and they fly right over top of it and they do their thing.
And it's like a plane filled with computers and people monitoring computers and sensors and all this. There was a video that they showed where the plane was so violently shook that that the pilot made the decision to turn around. And that's not something the hurricane hunters do. They don't turn around. They go. They keep going. They're used to the turbulence. That's what they do.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about the Kardashians on Disney+?
We need a little chime. Yeah. It'd probably be more like this. That is what I'm up to. Or for some people. So... Is that ever going to stop? There you go. I don't know that sound effect too well. My first wedding, we got married, and then the very next day we took off to go to Cabo San Lucas.
But a couple of days ahead of time, you know, hurricanes happen over in the Pacific also, and they don't happen as often. They don't hit those coasts as often, so you don't hear about them as much. But the Baja Peninsula is subject to a hurricane every once in a blue moon.
And it just so happened that a Category 3, maybe Category 4 storm was headed straight for Cabo San Lucas when my ex-wife and I were to be at this resort down there. So I stressed over this a lot for the days leading up to my wedding because we were leaving literally the next morning to get on a plane. So I stressed about this quite a bit and I consulted with a bunch of people.
It was out in the ocean at that time and it wasn't a hundred percent, you know, it was also a long time ago when they weren't as good as predicting these things. Um, But I got really nervous at a couple different things. Number one, being in a strange land with such a devastating event happening, knowing that hurricanes are not something to be fucked around with.
But then number two, I was concerned about being a tourist Right. Right. So, as we got to the morning of, we checked the weather. It looked like it was going to miss Cabo by, you know, or Cabo was going to not be the worst of the worst, right? And we consulted with the hotel. We called other people.
I talked to my father who had spent a lot of time down in Mexico, and he basically said to me, hey... if they're telling you to go and they say it's okay to be down there, then go, be down there. And if for some reason something happens, you let me know and I have friends in Mexico and we'll figure out how to get you out, right? And I was like, okay. So we made the decision to go.
And when we got there the very first night, the resort that we initially were staying at,
was pretty empty actually there weren't a lot of people there and they were kind of boarding up things to get ready just in case they they had boarded stuff up days before thinking it would come we then moved to a second hotel and then we rode out what would have been like a category one hurricane like those kind of winds that kind of rain those kind of storms it ended up being a whole bunch of
Wind and rain. That was it. It didn't even really do any damage to the property. Like the palm fronds were all over the place, but they were pretty quickly cleaned up. This is not that. This is people making a specific and conscious decision to go down there because of the hurricane. I'm talking about a couple of influencers who I'm not even going to name.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind Bryan's car troubles?
So I'm just going to, even though it's going to suck and I wish I could be down in Jamaica, you know, enjoying the sun while it lasts, I'm going to say this is probably a no-go. Well, this is also not usually the time that you want to go down to those places. Honestly, it's like rainy season. Yes. During all that time. And there's a chance this could happen. It makes me incensed. It really does.
Because... I understand why people are doing it, but I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Excuse me. I can understand why people think, oh, I can go down there and create content and this will be funny or this will be fun or this will be interesting. I can see how your head might go there. Right. But I go one step from that in my decision making process. And I go, but I could get hurt.
And the people that are have to help me might get hurt and something really bad could happen. And I could be stuck in a flood or the people that are there could be whatever it goes. Like a power lines could explode. That building could sell. I don't know. It all could go to shit. And I just put myself there on purpose for 60,000 views on my tick tock. Yeah, it's not that worth it.
You're not Kim fucking Kardashian. Okay. Okay. Speaking of Kim Kardashian, you and I talked about the other day how we were saying that Mama Kardashian... Kris. Kris... Jenner. Kris Jenner. What a wonderful facelift or whatever she had had. So...
I did some further investigation on this, and all the pictures that you see of Chris after this particular facelift that might have happened a couple of months ago, because apparently it takes a long time to recover from this, and she was out of the limelight for a little while, and, and, and. Apparently... Those photos, every one of them, including the red carpet ones, were doctored. What?
Were doctored photographs. And that she does not, in fact, look like that. Now, she doesn't look bad. That's for sure. Even the undoctored photographs don't look bad. Yeah, well, I read that she'd spent $100,000. I got to imagine it's a lot more. Don't you think a facelift is a lot more than that? I don't know. Like a really good one? I don't know. I haven't done the research on it.
I don't know either. But, yeah, well, you know, on the one hand, I'm not surprised they were doctored. Don't they doctor all photos? They do. That has to do with anything with any of them. With most celebrities. Like if they can control the situation. Especially the Kardashians. Yeah, especially the Kardashians who are now on Disney Plus. I saw that. Which just makes me. I saw that. Yeah.
Because of Hulu, right? Because of Hulu and FX and Fox and yeah. But how did they go from E! Entertainment to fucking Hulu? I don't know why that change was made. I don't know. And is that show really that interesting? I don't watch it. I don't watch it either. I've never. It's like the first couple of seasons that we're on E, and that feels like that's been 20 years ago at this point.
It was 20 years ago at this point. It must have been 20 years ago at this point. When did that sex tape come out? Early 2000s? I think it was. I think it was in 20. Yeah, like it came out in the early 2000s, and then quickly Ryan Seacrest had them filming their lives. I think I watched one whole episode, and here's how far back it was. Bruce Jenner was still Bruce Jenner. Yeah, me too.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can be learned from hurricane preparedness?
It is on my list. Everybody is talking about it. And I'll get into it just a little bit. I won't give anything away, but I'll get it. I mean, if you watch the promo, then you already know what it's about. I saw like a little making of. Oh, you did? Yeah. Okay. It seems like they really took time to, you know, the White House, the CENTCOM, the whatever.
Anyway, we'll talk about it when we get back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears, and I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail.
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Oh, just a quick update here on a conversation we were having last week. 37 donors are giving to Trump's new bloated ballroom, which people have pointed out. They look at the renderings, the drawings. People have pointed out that architecturally, like, stairs go nowhere. Windows are on top of each other. Corners are askew. Like, it's a total hot fucking mess.
Whatever renderings they've sent to the public are, like, clearly there's some architectural issues already with this thing. It's going to be a shit show. You know that it is. Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, T-Mobile. And then there are individuals like the crypto bros, the Winklevoss twins. Oh, those guys. The bad guys in the social network. I know, right?
The shithead canoeing twins. Yeah. Those are the guys? Those are the guys building the bloated ballroom for T-Mobile? The T-Mobile? Oh, my God. And I think Comcast was also a part of that group.
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Chapter 5: How does House of Dynamite portray decision-making during crises?
Also, I had heard. Anyway, so job well done on everybody's behalf. Job well done. Bought and paid for. Sold to the highest bidder. House of Dynamite is a new number one movie on Netflix. At least it was a couple days ago when I started it. House of Dynamite is about the 19 minutes from different perspectives. The 19 minutes from the appearance of
of a ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile, being launched, in this case, somewhere from the Pacific toward the United States. The 19 minutes, what happens in those 19 minutes? What is the decision-making process? How might it go down if this particular situation was to come about? And how might we try and defend it? What would we be able to do?
Who would be involved in the chain of command? How would we deescalate if we needed to? And what would happen if a major city like Chicago was targeted with one of these ICBMs? And it shows you what a fucking shit show it all is when that kind of crap, if that kind of shit were to ever happen, which I think now we might be closer than ever to that kind of shit happening. How... Delicate.
The whole situation, how fragile it is. So you watched it? I watched, I watched the, I haven't watched the last 30 minutes of it. So I don't know the conclusion yet. And some people are saying that it's a terrible ending and then other people are saying it's a befitting ending, whatever. I don't know because I haven't seen it.
But basically, it's like the first 20 minutes is from the White House Situation Room. Uh-huh. What happens at the White House Situation Room and Defense Base in Alaska. In Alaska, right. So those two— And they have, like, real people that were ex-government working on this movie. It's the same director that did The Hurt Locker. The Hurt Locker? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's Cameron's wife, ex-wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dang it, I can't remember. I don't know. But, yeah. Yeah. What was her name? I know. She won an Oscar. Yeah, she won. For The Hurt Locker, right? Yeah. It is Catherine Bigelow. Catherine Bigelow, who is not Kirk Cameron. Kirk Cameron. Kirk Cameron. It's Kirk Cameron's next fight. Kirk Cameron. What a shithead he turned out to be.
I know. But, you know, if you wanted to, you can tune him in on what's on, not Lifetime, but Hallmark. James Cameron. James Cameron, that's it. James Cameron's ex-wife and apparently very talented director herself. This movie is very well done. It is very interesting. She directed Point Break? Yes. I think she did. Yeah, I thought she did. The new Point Break. No, from 91. The old one? Yeah.
Really? That's what I was like, oh. Who would have thunk it? I know. Wow. Zero Dark Thirty. Zero Dark Thirty was good. Never saw that. Crime drama Detroit. Never saw that. Mm-hmm. Wow. Okay. Cartel Land. Anyways, she's big. I heard Cartel Land was good. I didn't watch it. Okay. So the first, it pops off right from the beginning. I'm sorry, I'm laughing about Kurt Cameron. And Kurt Cameron.
Kurt Cameron. Married to the lady who made Point Prey in a hurt locker. Kurt Locker. James Cameron seems more. Way more befitting. And they didn't work out either. No, they were only married for like two or three years. Yeah, they were. But I think it was the Avatar years. So I think she did all right. I hope she did all right. She seems to be doing fine for herself.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of AI in nuclear decision-making?
Everybody should watch this movie because the next person that you elect from whichever municipality or district or, you know, senator. Parish. Parish, parish. Parish. Parish. I thought that was a weird name for an area. An area. Geographical. Yeah. Because I was in a – I went to Catholic school and I was in a parish. Right, right, right. I think that's where it comes from.
But everybody should watch this because you should be – we should be asking these questions of the people who are going to be making decisions about the rules and the regulations that go on in the future about this. Now –
the good news is that I learned, uh, during the watching of this and researching of this is there's actually been a law enacted already that AI can have no decision-making when it comes to nuclear weapons. It's enacted in law. So that's the good news. Do I trust that's going to be the case? Probably not, but you know, I'd like to think so. Yeah. Some sort of comfort. Yeah.
But if we're going to give that button and those codes to one person, uh, It just seems dumb to me. It seems so dumb to me, regardless of who the person is. We should have multiple people that have to sign off on this. Or like turn the key at once. There are many people that have to turn the key. Okay. Right. But the actual decision. Okay. To turn the key. Yes. The person who holds the codes.
with many different scenarios, right? It's either shoot them all off right now. The world's ending. We got to, we got to try, we got to see what we can do. Yeah. Strategically shoot one, shoot one in this direction, shoot two in that direction, whatever. All those are mapped out. I imagine they're discussed.
As soon as your butt hits the chair, maybe even before your butt hits the chair in the Oval Office, they discuss all of this with you as well as the protocol. And the protocol is there are people at very high levels of the military that also have the other side of the code, right? And when you give that code, when you say those words, Foxtrot, Zulu, Tango, 1-7-8, whatever it is, right?
When you say those words... They look at their list and they confirm that that's the same thing they have on their list. And then that runs down the chain of command. And then there are people who have to turn the keys to shoot things off. The thing is, in order to shoot a nuclear weapon from a ground-based station... There has to be like two or three people involved in the process.
It can't just be one person. There's at least two people that have to turn a key. They have to say some words to each other. They both have to confirm in their secret book that their secret letters match their secret letters, all this other stuff. But then one dude can just be sitting up at the top and say, shoot them all off and do it. Yeah, do it. And when they say do it, You know.
They got to do it. They got to do it. You never know what's going to happen. So it's a very unnerving thing altogether. And I think this movie does a great job of kind of spelling out. I would expect nothing less from Mrs. Bigalow. Yeah, because that Hurt Locker had me sweating within five minutes of watching it. I had underarm sweat. I smelled bad. I was like, oh, my God. I don't want to be.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts reflect on their personal experiences with travel?
It wasn't funny then. It was irritating me. Yes. Yeah, if I'm honest, I was a little off my game because I'm having this debate in my head back and forth. I'm trying to also understand what kind of bark it is. I'm like, well, it doesn't sound like I'm a hurt bark. It sounds like I need you for something. Like ringing a bell. What a dumb dog. Yep, she'd be the one to survive all of it.
All the nukes could be blown off. All of them. And Blue would be like, right? standing on my dead head taking me taking it into the next version trying to get me to wake up to give her a treat Where's Nico when you need him? Oh, Nico. Oh, my God. I almost sent you an article the other day. I actually ended up sending it to Rachel, but it was a whole article about how dogs can sense ghosts.
Oh, really? And that made me think of Nico because – Ideal meal. Yeah, he could – Sense a ghost. Yeah. He was a ghost, but he also could sense them. He was dead when he was walking around here for the last couple of years. I'm sure of it. I know it. I think in an alternate universe, he died when he jumped into the pool when he first got here. But his dead bones just kept walking around.
Well, his breath smelled like it. Well, now Blue's getting that way, too. So, you know, I think that's the way dogs go after a while. Animals smell like animals eventually. I guess we all smell bad eventually, right? We've all met some old people. They're kind of like, eh, eh. I don't think it looks too good for them. They kind of have that scent. You know what I'm saying? All right.
Well, go watch House of Dynamite if you need a laugh tonight. Family, family. A family-friendly giggle factory. Turn on a couple episodes of Miss Rachel as a palate cleanser and then watch House of Dynamite. Tell your kids this is your future. It got realistic. Yeah. Wow. That got fast. That ratcheted up fast. It is good, though. It was done well. Okay. I'm going to watch it.
And it presents an opportunity, I think, for all of us. You know, like back in the 70s, they would have those disaster movies like Earthquake. And I think they had a couple about nuclear meltdowns and nuclear bombs and all that. Mm-hmm.
And it started a conversation in the collective consciousness about the de-escalation, the arms race, or, you know, what do we do in this situation or that situation? You know, really corny, cheesy disaster movies. Some of them tried to be realistic, but it was the 70s, so there's really so much you could do. But it started a national conversation.
And House of Dynamite seems to have done that in some circles also about what we as a society want when it comes to these kind of weapons and who should be in charge of sending them off and how that process should go down in those 19 minutes. Everybody vote. Vote. All right. We'll be back.
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Chapter 8: What Halloween plans do the hosts share at the end of the episode?
And it was like 42 degrees. It wasn't snowing. It wasn't that cold, but it was pretty close. But we got there at night and we ended up riding the roller. We ended up going into the park at night, into the parks at night and riding outdoor roller coasters. And we were not the only ones. There were like lots of other people.
I know, but then they had all these bonfires everywhere and these fire logs. And, you know, it was really well done. Really well done. The people in Germany, they're used to this. Oh yeah, that's true. 40 degrees, it was like warm. People in t-shirts. Right. Anywho, okay. So we bring, so we go and then we bring the car back, right? And in that time, I only fill up the car one time.
I fill it up in Germany and then I come back because these things get, they're like, you know, they're diesel cars. They get like 89, you know, gallons to the, or miles to the gallon. It's crazy. So we get back and I'm supposed to return the car the next day. But I got to drop it off at the rental place, but I got to fill it back up with gas.
I go to this gas station in Switzerland and finding a gas station in Switzerland, first of all, is a feat in and of itself, especially in the cities, in the older, you know, the older, nicer cities. Yeah. But then I did not understand for the life of me. This is before you could like take a picture and translate it with chat GPT.
I did not understand for the life of me what it said and how to work the machine. And the ladies in behind the counter did not understand a lick of fucking English. None of us could communicate. It took me almost an hour to figure out for me. I think what ended up happening was there was a someone who came pulled up and I was like begging for mercy. So it wasn't like our normal pumps here.
No, it wasn't. It wasn't like our normal pumps. You had to pick like the particular type of diesel. And I didn't know which type of diesel it took. And I didn't know where to find that information. And dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. And finally, somebody showed up who had enough running English to get me through the process. We had to like look in the book and get me through the process.
And finally, I got out of there because I was dead on empty. Dead on empty. Like I wasn't getting anywhere. And... Of course, they were going to charge me 7 million francs for bringing it back without gas in it. And so it was just like a whole fucking nightmare. But I am so glad that I spent the hour to get it right because I knew someone who put diesel in their car. And guess what? Like in a –
In a unleaded car. Oh, no. And guess what? It completely fucked the engine. Just destroyed it. Completely destroyed the engine to the point where I think they had to get a new car, if I'm not mistaken, if I remember correctly. They just didn't know, and they took that yellow nozzle out, and they thought, yep, that's the one. Oh, I don't want to start the show again. Do you? All right.
Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. All right, well, everyone have a good Halloween. Yes, happy Halloween. Happy Halloween for Halloween tomorrow because everyone's going to be all wrapped up in their own thing. We're going to run an interview tomorrow, TCB infomercial tomorrow, special episode just for Halloween because everybody's got things to do.
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