Marriage. Marriage is what brings us together today. Marriage, that wetted arrangement, that dream within a dream. On this episode of the commercial break why are you here? Are on the show. How did this turn of events happen? Because so many times so many times you have said to me, I will never go on the microphone on the commercial break ever. Yet here you are with me.

I guess the same reason why we're married. I still don't know.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, my God.

Or should I say baby?

You can say baby. It's okay. Every once in a while, I slip a baby in there on Hodley, too, and I think she's a little taken aback by it. And I'm sure Jeff just loves that when I slip out a baby to.

Chrissy, it's just weird to me to call you Brian. In fact, it's one of the things that when you call me Astrid, I'm like, Why? Are you upset?

Yeah, no, I totally agree with you. There is certain things in a marriage that I'm sure everybody experiences this. I wonder if people use Terms of endearment as much as we use terms of endearment. So, like other couples that we hang out with, I see them calling each other by their proper names. Right, Astrid? Brian, I'm not going to give examples here on the show, but you understand what I'm saying. You and I always use baby honey, something like that. Unless we're angry with each other and so much.

Yeah.

Or there's two reasons why I get nervous when you use the word Brian. Number one, I know I'm in trouble. Number two, somebody else is in trouble. Like, since we have so many children, ten to twelve children, to get each.

Other'S attention, I would say we go. Brian.

Yeah. Astrid, I need you to change the baby. I don't want to touch shit. Why are you here on the show? How did this turn of events happen? Because so many times, so many times you have said to me, I will never go on the microphone on the commercial break ever. Yet here you are with me.

I guess the same reason why we're married. I still don't know.

You don't know why we're married?

I mean, I know why we're married.

Okay, admitted, it was for the green card. Now you're a citizen and you're going to leave. Yes.

I just didn't want to go on 90 Day Fiance. Like on the TV show.

Yeah. No.

So I just took a sure cod.

I don't think we're interesting enough to be on 90 Day Fiance.

True.

I think that all those people on that show are such shit shows that you and I just couldn't compare. I look at that show because I think there's so many comparisons between you and I. So those of you that don't know, and you must know if you've been listening to the commercial break for any period of time that Astrid is Venezuelan. We had an international love story for a long time. I called it a love story. You might call it torture just to get here to the United States. But in any case, I look at our love story and I don't see any comparison between the stories that go on in that 90 Day Fiance. It seems like everybody is such a shit show.

True. Yeah. And even their families. I don't know. It all looks so weird to me because even though we are from different countries, that's not how our story unfolded.

No. Well, first of all, we didn't do the K One, or whatever they call it. Right. What do they call that? The 90 day they call it the dog visa. Yeah. They call it the K One or the K Nine or something like that. Yeah. But we didn't do that. So first and foremost, there's little comparison in that. We didn't feel pressure to get married.

Came multiple times just visiting to see you and spend some time with you. I think people in that show, mostly they met once and then they kept maintaining like a long distance relationship. Correct. And then when they saw each other again after, I don't know, six months, they got engaged or they got married and that's it.

Or they got the K One visa, and then they have to come over here and they feel pressured. 90 Days, the only semblance of real humanity is the first season of that show when I think nobody knows what a huge hit it's going to become. And now I think the producers have the pick of the litter. I've spoken about this before on air. Somehow we've become the 90 Day Fiance show. But I feel like the producers have so many options to choose from at this point. Everybody who has this kind of love story or is going through this kind of relationship probably thinks at least once in their head, maybe I should apply for 90 Day Fiance, the show. Because these people have become I wouldn't say superstars.

They're not like but they're kind of like influencers. Yeah, if you want to use that.

Term again, nothing like Angela talking to me on Instagram. That crazy woman on 90 Day fiance.

I think Angela must be most one of the highest paid in the franchise of sure.

She's on every version of that show.

And Ed, I don't know, there's a couple of them.

Well, I think it's really Angela, ed, maybe Jovi and his fiance Yara are getting popular. But other than that, I think that everybody who goes on that show at least has a chance for fame. Oh, those twin sisters, darcy and Stacey. Oh my god.

Those two have their own show.

How do they get their own show and we don't have our own show? I mean, I guess we do have our own show, just no one pays us to do show. I do definitely have my own show. Well, I'm glad to have you here nonetheless. I was so excited when you agreed to do this because I don't know, I feel in a lot of ways that you're responsible for all this crap, and I think it's high time that you get your comeuppance, that you come on the show, and we can all blame you for the commercial break. What I wanted to mention before we kind of get into the meat and potatoes of the show is that Chrissy is not here right now because Chrissy is dealing with a family emergency, essentially. And it's touch and go back and forth. I'm sure everyone can kind of put two pieces together if you listen to the show enough. But Chrissy is fine, and she hasn't gone anywhere. And despite her protestations, she will come back to the show. Despite disliking me, she will be back at the show, and she will come soon. But until then, we're doing special guest hosts.

We're doing special episodes of canned material that we have never ran before on the commercial break as a way to just kind of keep it bouncing along until Chrissy can come. So I'm so glad because while I have you here, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions that I know you are an expert on the subject matter.

Oh, really?

Yes. When you said you wanted to ask me about Venezuela I'm not going to ask you about Venezuela.

Keep doing this show.

Do you like or dislike the voice that I do for you?

I think it's funny. I don't think that's how my accent.

No, it's way exaggerated. I'm not even sure I'm doing a Venezuelan accent.

I really hope it doesn't sound like that.

No.

But the thing to me is that I feel like when I hear you doing it, that's also the accent you used to for your aunt. For my aunt or for your friend's mom? You see what I'm saying? So it's like, well, you're just repurposing.

I am repurposing the same accent for your aunt, for my friend's mother, and for you. For most female Venezuelans, that's the voice that I use. But I can only do so much. There's only so many voices in my head, you understand? And I'm not even sure I'm doing a Venezuelan accent. I think I'm just doing some goofy Latin accent, but it's all in good fun. Not that it's any of our business. Shouldn't be any of our business, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And I feel like Taylor Swift has become kind of the female Pete Davidson, so to speak. Right. She is on a tear.

I'm in. You're going to get the whole billions of Swifties out there against you just by saying that Taylor Swift has become the Pete Davidson. Like, if he was more popular than.

She is, he dated Kim Kardashian.

Okay, you want me to tell you the list of people Taylor Swift has?

What I that's what I'm asking. The question is more pointed than that. I don't want to get into it doesn't matter how many people Taylor Swift has dated, and I don't give a shit about her dating. I mean, I don't give a shit.

The names and know celebrities that she has dated.

Here's the comparison. Pete Davidson is on an epic run dating beautiful women. And it seems oddly misplaced. Right, with Pete. But with Taylor, it doesn't seem odly misplaced, at least physically, because she's a beautiful woman and she's in the prime of her life and she's single, and she should be out there having fun. But with Travis Kelsey, do you think that there's any ulterior motive to dating Travis Kelsey? You don't want to say?

Well, the reality is that I don't know. I didn't even know who Travis Kelsey was.

I don't think a lot of people knew who Travis Kelsey was.

I understand now that he is a superstar.

He's a really good football player, football community.

But I don't know one thing about football, so of course I didn't know about him. Now that I've seen all the posts and everything, they have talked about him. He's handsome. I think he's handsome.

I think he's a good looking dude.

Yeah. I don't know if it's PR or not in my brain. Why? Like PR. For what? She doesn't need it.

I think you're giving us an example of why you have nothing to do with the NFL. You don't care. You have no understanding of what the game's all about.

So you think it's more of from his side than her side.

I wonder if maybe the relationship is earnest. You don't know anything about the NFL, but now all of a sudden, you're paying attention to Travis Kelsey. I don't know if the relationship is fake. I don't think it's, like, all a PR stunt. But I wonder if the NFL has really I mean, it's obvious they have really taken this opportunity to welcome in people who otherwise may not have anything to do with the NFL. I've heard that the NFL is trying to cater to mothers who may not have ever wanted their children to play football, and they're trying to soften up the image a little bit.

Well, I'm not solved on that.

No.

Even after no, I don't care.

No.

And also, I'm not like a crazy Swifty, which no, I'm not. You think I am, but I am really not.

Well, I don't think you're a crazy swiftie.

No. Meaning? I love them. I think what they do, it's very nice. It's very fun. I don't even get the emails that I know some real Swifties, and you know them. Not like I'm not following Kelsey. Like, I now know who he is. I know his face, but I'm not doing research about him or anything like that. I don't care. Okay. Whatever.

Well, I've watched so many videos about this now, and it seems like there are many people, mostly men, mostly white, mostly middle aged, like me, who are not falling for the bait, so to speak. They think that the NFL is paying too much attention to this relationship. They think that the newscasters, the broadcasters of the NFL games are paying too much attention to the relationship. And they think it's just a circus that is intended to bring attention to the NFL in general. Taylor Swift, maybe. Travis Kelsey. He's a rising star. He's been a star in the NFL for a while. Maybe that's a reason to focus in on the relationship. And all of the excitement that goes with my never ending curiosity around what these huge superstars do or don't do to get press. Like, is this a press stunt? Is this a could be, maybe? Yeah. Like Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson. Is that a press stunt?

I mean, the reality is, like, we would never know.

We will never know.

I just feel like, from her perspective, what amount of PR do you need more than all that you have gotten this year with your tour?

If you want to bite on the apple, if you want to bite on the conspiracy apple. Right. Some people are saying that Taylor is already so incredibly popular that there's only one base of people that she can pull more fans from, and that would be men. Right. Guys. Dudes who would listen to her music or who would otherwise not feel comfortable saying, I like Taylor Swift's music. But let's be honest about that. I don't think that that I don't.

Think that how much is enough?

I mean, you have a billion people that listen to you.

And also yeah. Do you want every single person on Earth to like your music? I get it. Well, that could be a dream, right?

Yeah.

But I don't know her personally. Clearly, I'm not her friend.

I wish you did.

I wish, too, but I would assume that I don't think she's worried about losing fans or getting more fans. I mean, I think she's done well.

Had I can't imagine being Taylor Swift for a day right now. I just can't imagine it. She is so incredibly well known. She is so popular. She is so rich. She is so powerful. But it's got to be like living in a fishbowl, you know what I'm saying? It's got every moment of your life is scrutinized. Everything that you do, everything that you say. You have almost no personal freedoms that you can't plan out ahead of time. That has to be tough, I imagine.

Especially also in the dating world, because then someone that's going to date you, they really have to be confident on themselves. I mean, they're really exposing their entire lives from the moment they decide to date you.

Travis Kelsey was already very popular amongst those who were in the no, no.

It's like what? I saw this r1 of guys, like in a podcast that they were talking about this topic, and one of them said kind of like defending the NFL side. He was like, yeah, but Travis Kelsey, he's like a superstar. He's won this and that, Super Bowls and all that. And he has like 20 million followers on Instagram. Of course. I mean, clearly he is a star, right? But then the other guy says, yeah, dude, but Taylor Swift has 300 million followers on Instagram. It's more like Taylor Swift is famous worldwide.

Absolutely.

Whereas Travis, he's famous in the United States, which granted is a huge country, right. And therefore he's very popular. But he's popular here. Like, if you talk about Travis Kelsey I don't know, in Madrid, in Asia or something, wherever, they're going to be.

Like, who the fuck is Travis Kelsey? If you say it's a guy that's.

Dating Taylor Swift, then they're going to.

Be like they're going to be like that. You're so right about this. And 20 million followers. I mean, we're lucky to have 2000 followers on Instagram, you know what I'm saying?

Not even.

Yeah. And I know what it's like to live in that fishbowl, that fame fishbowl. It's difficult. I mean, that one time I was noticed by someone here locally, and it was uncomfortable. It was an uncomfortable feeling. It was kind of exciting. It was kind of interesting. But it was also an uncomfortable feeling that you could be picked out in a crowd for something that you do that I consider my work. Now, Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are both living in this fishbowl that is the Taylor Swift world, and it's got to be insanely intense to do that. I can't imagine. I personally think my take on this is that Taylor and Travis have a real relationship. They are dating. I don't think this is a pre planned press stunt. I don't think the NFL is paying her money to do don't. I don't believe in all the conspiracy bullshit. I believe that they had a relationship and that she has drawn a lot of attention to the relationship because she shows up at the games and she's in the box with other famous just like that's good PR on behalf of Taylor.

But that's something like, let's say you were a football player, right, and we were dating. Well, of course at some point I want to go and support you and watch you play your game. That's what you do, right? Sure. Just like if I was, I don't know, a dancer or a singer or something, you would want to come to one of my shows eventually if their relationship is serious enough, I guess. Yeah. That's the attention she gets. She's just doing something normal. If she's really dating him and they've been dating for a couple of months or whatever, well, it only makes sense.

It's only natural for her to want to go and support him and for.

Him to have her there. Right. And of course, his family also goes. I would think that's very normal.

Sure.

The difference here is that Taylor Swift cannot take one step without no.

Yeah, she can't take one step anywhere. That movie that she has of the concert tours, it's like hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you going tomorrow? It's hundreds of millions of dollars that movie has already made. There are movies with Jennifer Aniston in it and Tom Hanks in it that have not made hundreds of millions of dollars.

I saw a post last night that she made yesterday was like the premiere. So she was in La. Doing all of that event. And she posted that because unprecedented sales. They had to add another date. So that movie is actually available now. Today. Starting today, because they had to at Thursday. It was coming out on Friday.

Wow.

And they had to at Thursday. Right now the movie is available. Those tickets for today are going to be she said she was releasing them at 10:00 a.m. Jesus Christ.

What an incredible story this woman has. She is the most famous person on earth right now. I mean, besides Jesus Christ and a couple of others.

Right.

But she is getting to Michael Jackson level fame. I think this is once in a generation, once in a lifetime. Do you see this kind of superstar come out? And I applaud it. I think it's fantastic. I think it's great.

I love she's very talented.

She's very talented. It's not my favorite music in the world.

Fair enough.

But I can listen to some of her songs and not want to turn off the radio. Like, there are some songs that I think are catchy. She smells wonderful. That's a know have you smelled her? Yes, I have. Taylor Swift.

That's right.

Taylor Swift came to a radio station that I was working I was working in a cluster of radio stations on the business side. And Taylor Swift, right. When her first album came out and it was a country album, she came to the local country station and a couple of us got to see her. And then she did a performance of that album inside of a room. And so we got yeah, but at.

That time, she was not even half.

No, at that time, it was crazy in the building. It was crazy. No, I'm telling you, it was crazy in the building. People were fighting to get upstairs to see Taylor Swift. She has been a rocket engine.

That's like the moment that she ate something like that.

2009, I was like, in senior year, I remember. Yeah. I was 52 years old.

Yeah.

The age difference between us is crazy. All right, so we're going to take a quick break, and then I want to play a game with you. Let's play the Newlywed Game. You and I have answered some questions ahead of time. It's the Newlywed Game. We're far from Newlyweds, so we should be able to answer these questions. Okay, we're going to take a short break. We'll be right back.

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All right, we're back from break. I'm here with Astrid, my wife, the woman who said she would never be on the commercial break, but is responsible for the commercial break. It's all your fault. I blame you. So does Chrissy.

Hello. Hello.

And just to remind everybody, Chrissy will be back soon. She's taking some time to be with family during a tough time, so we are giving her that space to do that. Astrid has volunteered to come on the show, and what better way to prove me? What's that? Do you drug me? Many times. But for today, no, not at all.

I don't even understand how I'm hearing.

You've never even done drugs. You wouldn't even know if you were drugged or not. It's true or not true. You've never done a narcotic in your life?

Never.

Never. And she's saying that just for air. She's not even crackhead off.

Ever smoked a cigarette in my life?

You've never smoked?

Tried nothing.

That's just amazing to me. That seems amazing to me. I don't know, when someone offered me all that kind of stuff, I just felt like it was my obligation, my duty, my responsibility as a human being, really, to see what it was all about. No, I just wanted to get fucked up.

I think we just need to ask my parents strategy to making me feel such big fear of trying any of those things.

They did it, right? Our kids are going to watch this and they're going to be like, well, dad did it, why not me? Think we should take the commercial break off the internet before any of our children get old enough to understand. Because this is the thing that keeps me up at night. It really does.

We might be late.

We might be late for that. Yeah. The kids now are born. They come out of the womb knowing how to work an iPhone. Did you notice that the youngest of our eleven or twelve children now knows how to point to a phone and swipe left or right? She's already on tinder. Basically. She's already practicing for Tinder. I want to go. And after Christina's nightmare stories about being on just I'm telling you, lock him in the basement. That's the only option we have astrid, we don't. Yes.

I mean, listen, I know you talk from your own experience.

I do. It's the only one I have.

Clearly, there's a lot of wild things that you did when you were growing up.

I might have been a bit of a hellcat.

However, there are other people like me whose childhood and teenage years were not as crazy as yours. So there's hope for our kids.

There is hope for our kids.

They can turn out just okay.

And this is now the only episode of the commercial break. They're allowed to listen to one where their mother tells them not to do drugs. All right, what better way to prove that we are actually married than to do a little game that we've put together? And we took some time last night to answer some questions. So, without further ado, we are going to play do you know your spouse? A series of questions. I think there's 20 of them here. We have independently answered these questions so as not to trick each other, so to speak, so not to change our mind here on air. Whatever's on the paper goes. There's. A couple of these I answered. I gave two answers just to give you a chance at actually winning, because I don't think you know me at all.

But I did it, not because I was thinking about giving you options, but because my brain is so indecisive.

It's true. When I was writing these down, I'm like, I can't think of just one. I need a couple of them. All right, so here we go. Do you know your spouse? Let's go. You ready? You want me to ask questions or you ask questions?

We can do one in one.

Okay, I'll go. You go first. Ladies first.

No, you do first.

Okay, Astrid, the question is, what is your favorite ice cream flavor?

So now I say yours.

Now you tell me what you think mine is.

Yours is definitely mint chocolate chip.

It's mint chocolate chip or it's Snickers. You got that one right. I think we need a pen so that we can keep score or something.

Yeah, but I have to clarify the Snickers. True, but I think that one's temporarily. But, like, your overall favorite, it's mint chocolate chip.

My overall favorite. Anywhere we go in the world has got to be mint chocolate chip, because they don't have Snickers and mint.

Currently, you're on a Snickers kick.

Yes. I am an obsessive eater. So when I get one thing in my head, I start eating it for months and months in a row till I throw up, and then I stop eating that. I move on to the next thing. But don't worry. I'll be back. Cereal and cream is coming back. It's all the rage with the kids. This is a very difficult question for me to answer for you, because you change your mind every single time that we go to the ice cream store or the ice cream shop, you have.

To get a new flavor because that's how you do it. That's why they sell 50 ice cream flavors, so that every time you go, you enjoy a different flavor.

I don't know. I'd like to stick with the I mean, I do. I like to dance with the girl who brought me.

I do have, like I would say like an overall, but well, I would say my overall favorite thing. It's ice cream.

So that's what I was going to say. Astrid likes ice cream. Any flavor?

No, there's one that I actually hate. And you know which one it is?

Mint chocolate chip. Yeah. My favorite is your least favorite.

You Americans are so weird.

Well, be careful now. Be careful now. Don't get yourself in trouble. I know that mint chocolate chip is not a thing.

No, but with that specific, like the mint chocolate stuff, like or mint candy or candy, and then Christmas calm peppermint, peppermint milkshake. It's like, how gross.

I know my dad likes that shit. But there is a difference between mint chocolate chip and peppermint. You realize that, right?

I know, but in Venezuela, those are things we use for a mojito. We don't really use mint for cooking.

It's so good. I can't explain.

Or like sweets. It's just to me, that's a weird thing. Why would you put on a like, to me, you ruin the chocolate if you put mint on it.

I think it's a compliment. I love a mint chocolate chip milkshake. You know I do, girl. Okay. All right. I was going to say I that.

One it's not really your favorite. You just get it so that I don't take a sip.

Well, that's true. Because ever since the day that we met, you have been taking the food off of my plate. I know I'm not the only one who suffers from this.

That's basic marriage.

I'll never forgive you for drinking the last of the orangeina in France. Never. I'm never going to forgive her for taking the last sip of orangeina in France. I was thirsty. And astrid. What? I went to the bathroom, drank the rest of my orgina. Damn you. I'm still pissed.

You know, they had more in the restaurant. Like, we could have ordered more.

Well, don't try and talk common sense to me, girl. I married you.

Okay, so which one is my favorite ice cream flavor?

Well, I think that chocolate would be your favorite overall flavor. Like, if you could only have one ice cream for the rest of your life, I think you would just have regular chocolate. What? Which one is it?

I already knew I was going to win this.

Well, what did you put?

Cookies and cream.

Cookies and cream. Oreo.

I do like chocolate ice cream, but my favorite ice cream, it's always something that has something crunchy on it.

Okay, fair enough. And you do often get cookies. And cream ice cream. So I should have thought about that one, but I didn't because I'm a boy and we don't think all that hard. Go. All right, question number two.

Question two. What is your most humorous irrational fear or phobia? I think I didn't read that.

What is your most humorous irrational fear or phobia? Okay, what is my most irrational fear or phobia? Tell me.

Well, I wrote two.

Okay, go ahead. Poop. It's so true.

And blue.

And blue. I'm not scared of blue. I don't have an irrational fear of blue.

No, but you do have, like, a phobia.

I wouldn't call it a phobia. I call it a high irritation. I get so stressed out when blue starts barking and won't shut. It stresses me out to no end. And then also when she poops all over the house. So you're right about this. And I do not like poop. It is an irrational fear. I don't think it's an irrational fear, actually. Poop is not something we're supposed to be welcoming into our I'm not saying I like it.

Yeah, but you really I really hate it. Don't get me wrong. It's not like, oh, my favorite hobby is changing my kids diapers full of poop. No, but I'm like, okay, well, I'm okay to deal with it. And if I get I just wash my hands and that's it. Whereas you you really freak out. You get stressed.

I do. No shit. All this poop or whatever, every time. Example the other day, one of our daughters, I went to go change her diaper to put her into I took off her diaper to put her into the bathtub. And when I took off her diaper, I hadn't realized that she had pooped. So then she kicked the diaper off of the changing table and the poop went everywhere. Me, her, everywhere. And I literally freaked out. Bitch.

I know. You start calling.

Take it. Yeah, I have to call in and help. I probably should have thought about this before I had children or a fucking dog. All right, I know what your most irrational humorous fear or phobia is. It's insects? Is your most irrational fear or phobia? Oh, look, bugs and weird animals. But the other thing that I put is my driving. You have an irrational fear of my driving? Yes.

No, it's not irrational, though.

It is irrational. I'm a perfectly legitimate driver. I drive very well. I am. I drive well. My foot is a little heavy. I do drive fast.

Sure. You want us to do no, I don't want you to know people that we know.

No, I do not people that we know. Who else do you think doesn't like my driving? Who else doesn't like my driving? Tell me.

Brothers.

My brothers don't like my driving. Since when?

Since baby, if I know it. And I've only known them for eight.

Years, that's like a lifetime to some people. Did they say they don't like my driving. Did they say that behind my back?

No, not behind your back. They say it in front of you.

Well, I did wonder why no one wants to drive with me. It's like, people are just like, I'm not driving. I'm not driving with Brian. Okay, fair enough. I'm a little heavy footed, but I'm a safe driver in general. Maybe not. Okay, fair enough. All right, question number three. What reality show were you obsessed with as a teen?

Okay, this is a hard one for me. I know, because we're from different generations.

And we're from different countries.

Correct. So, of course I know mine. I know yours, and it might be actually.

I know mine is one that I liked. Yes.

But I have no idea. I almost was going to text your twin brother to ask him.

He wouldn't have known that because he was not into the reality shows at first. I think it took him a while to get onto it. I'm not even sure he likes reality shows anymore. So which one did you oh, no.

What about yours was probably one of.

Like, the Yershi Shores, jersey Shore. No, I wasn't in my teens. Okay. Yeah, I was just in my 20s. Maybe like, my mid twenty s I think yours is The Hills or Laguna Beach, one of the two.

Laguna beach.

Laguna beach, which I also liked. I liked Laguna Beach, but that's not my teens because reality television did not come along until I was well into my teens, really late teens. And that would actually no, when I was 15 or 16. The real world. Do you even know what the real world is? The very first reality show.

I have, like, a little picture, like.

A little memory of it.

But I think I was really young. And also I don't even think you were born yet. Cable in my house was, like, on and off, like, spotty. Yeah.

Third world problems. Third world problems. Yeah, I think no, reality real World is the very first reality considered. The very first reality show where they put a bunch of strangers into a house and see how they reacted to each other. It was interesting. Interesting concept. And I was fascinated from the moment that it came on television. I was a reality show guy from the moment that reality shows came on the scene. Okay, question number four.

Okay, if you were only allowed to watch one streaming platform for the rest of your life, which one would it be for you?

It's Netflix.

Yes, true. It's the one that I like. I have, like, the most amount of shows that I like.

Yeah, they have those sappy, cheesy love movies on.

For you, though, it's really hard because I think you really cannot live without all the streaming platforms.

I love all of them. It's my job. It's my job to review media.

Well, yeah. Now that you have the commercial break. But even before the commercial break, I wrote for you. Not wrote. I thought HBO.

HBO Max is what I wrote. That's what I wrote. HBO Max plus minus turner classic cartoon network television, whatever they call that these days. I don't think I could live with it. I think some of my favorite shows are on that. HBO Max. And one of my favorite series in general. If I could watch that television series for the rest of my life, I would watch that television.

Are you talking about west?

I'm talking about the West Wing.

Oh, Lord.

It's such a great show. It's such a great show.

I hear you, but you've watched it, like, 100 times.

Not 100 times, but I've probably been through it at least five times the entire series.

Five times?

No, I don't think so. But I've been through it a lot. I mean, there's like, 68 episodes.

The West Wing for you is like Friends for other people.

I guess it is. And I just like I don't know. Remember we tried to watch Friends when they did that reunion, and it just didn't I don't know. It didn't age well to me.

I mean, I can rewatch episodes, like, here and there of Friends, but yeah, when we actually tried to sit down.

And redo the whole astrid and I tried to go do, like, a rewatch during the pandemic, and we didn't get through episode one, we were both like, this is boring. This is stupid. Yeah.

I just felt like we could be using our time to watch something new.

Like The West Wing. No. All right, question number five. If you were to enter an eating contest, what food would be your number one pick?

You could ask any member of my family your answer, and they all know.

They all know burgers. Burgers is not what I wrote. What I wrote was cereal with cream or milkshakes. One of the two. But burgers is a good it's a good second option. I could see why you would think that. Because I do love a good cheeseburger every third day. Like a walking heart attack waiting to happen.

What about mine?

I think that yours would be Tecanyos or sushi. One of the two. No, I didn't get it right.

No.

What? Cookies and ice cream.

Cookies or ice cream?

Cookies or ice cream. I would have guessed.

When I think about there's nothing in this world that I eat more than cookies, and you know this.

I know, but you really love Sushi, and you really love no, but I.

Really love one specific roll from the place we buy it, and I don't.

Even think technically that's sushi. I think it's because fried fish.

I don't like anything raw.

Yeah. No, I'm with you. Like, real, for sure. All right, question number six.

If you could redesign Mount Rushmore which any four faces. Oh, sorry. If you could redesign Mount Rushmore with any four faces. Who would you choose?

Oh, God, I really had a hard time with this because I have no idea. I'm thinking, I don't know, for you, taylor Swift, the Jonas Brothers, maybe all three of them, I don't know. Juan Guido? I'm not sure.

No way.

You don't like Juan? Good old Guido.

I know this is a tough question because I thought, well, should I go like the funny route?

Yes.

Or always go to funny route. Well, I did it like the serious.

Okay, tell me what you think my serious ones were. Wait, I want to hear yours. What were yours?

I wrote Nelson Mandela.

Okay.

Anne Frank.

Okay.

Amelia Earthheart and Walt Disney.

Oh, wow. Very interesting. I would well, no, I have okay, go ahead.

So, for you, I thought you would definitely put Howard Stern, eddie better. Walt Disney.

Okay.

And I don't know jennifer aniston I don't know.

So that would have been a good that you got one of them right, which was Eddie Vetter. And I'm thinking of this know, obviously sarcastically, right? Eddie Vetter anthony Bourdain mahatma Gandhi and Rosa Parks. But if we put a fifth face, I put Frankie B. I made a living off Frankie B. Yeah, those are very interesting, well thought out choices on your behalf. I would have guessed something different. I would have guessed you would have gone like pop stars or something like that. But you went with some very serious choices. Listen, you're a Renaissance woman, a woman of the people. I love you. I really do.

Thanks, babe.

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All right, go ahead. Question number seven. Oh, it's my turn. Is it my turn? Okay, what food best describes your partner's personality? Salty, sweet, spicy or sour?

For you?

Yes.

I think for you, it's a combination of sweet, salty, and spicy.

Sweet, salty and spicy. Oh. Why do you think that? Explain.

Really?

No, okay, don't explain. Never mind. I put sweet and sour is what I put.

This is what I thought.

Okay, but then I also put sweet and sour for you, too. That's what I was going to say. I was going to say I think we're both sweet and sour. Yes, I got it right.

Oh, that's what you wrote for you.

That's what I wrote for me that I was sweet and sour.

Right. The sweet.

Yeah, you got right, the sweet. I got the sour. But for you, I put sweet and sour because you're a very, very sweet woman. But when you get sour, just like all of us, when you get sour, you get very sour. But you don't get angry. You just get sour. Okay, your turn.

This is a funny one. Okay, I like this one. Which movie do you most regret wasting 2 hours of your life on now? For you, it's very easy for me to guess yours.

Okay.

Because I clearly know that I've made you watch movies.

That terrible, terrible movies. I have PTSD. It's like I'm a prisoner.

Most recently, I would say, the one that we watch in the movie, all.

The Love, all of the stars falling down through the stars, or whatever it was called. What was it called?

Happy Everything.

Happy Everything. You don't even remember the name of the movie. That's how bad it was?

Well, it's based on the after books, but yeah, I have to say I'm a fan of the books.

But the last movie, Astrid, that movie was so comically terrible, it had no.

Plot because it's really not. Even though that's a sequel. That's the fifth movie. But there's only four books. So the fifth movie, it's based on nothing. They just decided to drag the whole.

Thing out for one extra movie that they only showed for one night. And we were one of 16 people that were sitting there watching it, at least in our local movie theater. And let me explain to the audience, just to give you some frame of reference, because I'm sure you did not see this movie, the actress in this movie also thought the movies were so bad, she refused to show up for.

The last movie because of what I'm saying.

Yeah, she did not want to take it.

And one step further, both the author and the actress, she said no, she.

Didn'T want to do it.

I'm not doing a fifth because that's not really the books.

Listen, the actress and the author decide that they're not a part of this fifth extra movie that they're going to write. Just drag out the ending, this whole thing, for literally 2 hours. All you see is flashbacks of this woman from the old movie and this guy drinking, bruising himself, finding peace and serenity. It's a meandering piece of shit movie that is comically bad. And if I didn't have such a good sense of humor, I would have walked out of the movie because it was terrible. But I also put 50 shades of Gray, which is also extraordinarily.

That was better.

No, I don't think so, babe. Yeah, it was okay. My opinion no, listen, I like a good love story. I can get into it every once in a while. There's some that we've watched that I thought are really good 50 Shades of Gray is a class in bad acting. It's a class of bad acting.

It's not.

Oh, come on. You got to admit baby, you got to admit it's a little funny. No, you're not going to admit that you just want to fuck date Jamie Darna. That's all you want to do. All right, so what movie did you waste 2 hours of your life?

Well, you have to answer for me.

I think you would probably say, what movie did you fall asleep to when we first met that I was so excited for you to watch and then you fell asleep during it?

Oh, no, the one we left.

No, not the one we left. Oh, that was a waste of 4 hours of our time. I don't even want to say that out loud because we're going to garner a bunch of hate about that.

I'm about to gain a lot of haters.

Oh, you are?

By my response.

Oh. Let's answer this next question. Yeah. What is your response?

Star wars.

Star wars. Babe, Star Wars is one of the best movies ever made.

Seriously? No, I just don't get it.

I don't know. It might be a generational thing. Maybe you weren't all caught up in the hype.

I might be, but there are plenty.

Of young people that love that movie.

The only Star Wars movie I watched was, like, the one that came out, like, five years ago or something that we went to the movies.

Oh, yeah.

And I was counting the minutes down.

Okay. That movie was terrible. That movie was terrible. I did not like it. That you're talking about the second Star Wars in the series of new movies.

Yeah.

Okay. I didn't like it. It was terrible. I agree with you. Okay, go ahead.

What's your best hidden talent?

I don't know. That's a really hard one because it's not hidden to me. Yeah. I will say this. You sing in the car. When we first met and we were coming back to Atlanta and we had our tunes going on and we were madly in love and holding each other's hand and driving down the road, you were singing, and I actually thought you had a good voice. Like, I thought your singing voice was good.

You're the first and the only person.

Well, I might be the first and the only person that's ever heard you sing. I don't know. I thought it was good.

I do like singing. Yeah, but I don't think I have.

A good you don't think you have.

A good singing voice?

You got to give yourself some I.

Don'T think I could have been a singer.

Okay, well, I wouldn't take it that far. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying I think you have a good voice. Okay. What do you think my hidden talent is? It I put podcasting.

Well, yeah, because but it's not hidden anymore.

Well, not anymore, but I'm sure lots.

Of people will disagree with, but I don't know if this is hidden, but I wrote baking.

All right, ready? If you could pick up and go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?

I think you would go to somewhere beachy.

Yes.

Majorca.

Majorca was my answer, for sure. Majorca polencha, probably more specifically, is where polencha is where I would spend my time if I could be there right now. Literally, I would fly right there right now and spend a month there, and it would not bother me. I think you also would go to a beach location, but I think it would be different. I think you would go to Aruba.

You know, I thought about writing that. I didn't write it, though, but it was on the list.

Oh, it was what did you put?

I actually have a whole list.

Okay, tell me your whole list.

Yes. I would say I would rather be on a beachy area.

Yeah.

I wrote I don't know the Maldives. Greece.

Okay.

Majorca.

Majorca.

And this is not beachy, but it's on my top three list, the places I want to go. Iceland.

Iceland. Very interesting. But is that a place you've never been there? So you don't know what it's you.

And I've never been to the Maldives?

Yeah, we've never been to the Maldives. God, I would love to go to the Maldives. That would be awesome. All right, what is your partner's first job? What was your partner's first job? Well, I know this for you. You're an HR coordinator.

No, you don't know it, because that was not my first job.

What was your first job?

I was a French teacher to a little kid.

Okay. Wow.

You were yeah, when I was in college.

So you did a little tutoring on the side. That was your first job, but your first real job, like, real job was HR coordinator.

No. A step down from coordinator.

Well, I know you. Okay. HR something. You were in the HR department, general. I was all impressed with your job position. I thought it was impressive, but you have since told me it was not impressive. What was my first job?

Your first job was at McDonald's.

That's right. My first job was at McDonald's. Okay, you go.

What did you want to be as a kid?

I think you wanted to be an event coordinator for a long time.

No, I mean, that is true. That's what I love, but I think.

That came later on in life.

Yeah. Like in my young adult years.

Okay.

I discovered that yeah.

You wanted to be a cashier at a grocery store. I remember this. God damn it. Look at me. I'm so good. I am so good. I am so good. A cashier at a grocery store. I remember the one conversation we had about this, that your mom bought you this little cash register and that you were so excited about it, you played with it forever. And you kept telling your mom, I want to be a cashier.

I used to go to the groceries with my mom, and every time we would check out, I would like, you'd be fascinated. I just thought the cashier, the way they touched the keyboard or whatever they had from the cashier and how the drawer with the money opened and they had to take the bills, I just thought that was so cool. You loved it that I even told my mom one time, I'm like, Mom, I want to be a grocery store cashier.

I love it. I think it speaks to who you are as a person very humble. I don't know how to say this without sounding. What you see is what you get with you. And I think you're like a very humble, very grainy, very beautiful human being. And I could see how you would, as a little kid, your personality now as an adult, I could see how, as a little kid, you would think that something so simple would be something that you would want to do. And I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Yeah. I just think that that's like, for me, what do you think I wanted to be?

Oh, you?

Yes.

You wanted to be a singer. That's right.

Yes. From the moment I can remember, I was putting on little shows in my bedroom. I really wanted to be Bruce Springsteen. Then Michael Jackson, then Eddie Vedder. That's right. Okay. If you could spend a day in the life of someone else, who would that be? I think this is very easy for me. I think you want to be a day in the life of Taylor Swift.

You're right.

Yes.

I mean, very basic. But I don't want to be Taylor Swift. I don't want her live. But I think it would be cool to be her for just one day.

One day.

And if I get to actually play one of her concerts of course, with her talent.

If you had her voice, you'd have her talent. Right, okay.

So I think that would be cool.

Yes. All right, so who do you think I'd want to be?

Howard Stern.

No. Wrong. So I gave three answers here, right. Howard Stern is not one of the people that I would actually want to be for the day. I would want to be Anthony Bourdain for a day. I'd want to be Hunter S. Thompson for a day. Or and I say this with all sincerity I'd want to be a woman for a day. And here's why I'd want to be a woman because I'd just like to experience what it's like to be a female for just one day. I think that would be interesting. I think it would give me a lot of perspective that I maybe don't have as a guy, as a dude of the have. I try and empathize and put myself in people's shoes, but you don't know until you actually put yourself in someone's shoes. So as a guy with seven to nine brian for president, as a guy with seven to nine children, some of which are female, I'd like to just be a woman for one day.

Well, that's really nice.

Thank you. Okay, go.

What reality show would we be terrible at competing on together?

Oh, it's hard to tell because we don't watch reality shows that have competitions.

Well, yeah, but I mean, like Master Chef, all the games.

Oh, yeah. We would be bad at Master Chef.

What I wrote was all of them, because we would both want to lead.

That's right. Yeah. I wrote 90 Day Fiance as a joke. But I agree with you. Like, Amazing Race, Master Chef, Top Chef, any of those competitions where we would have to work together, one of us would have to sit behind the other one while the other one made decisions. And that's just not something we do all that well.

I mean, unless it was something like, clearly one of us had the lead, is the one that has the knowledge about that topic. But otherwise, I feel like we would be like, no, let's do it this way.

No, let's do it that way. No, let's do it this way. No, don't use the screwdriver. Use the wrench. I mean, honestly, we get along so swimmingly. We really do. I can count the number of arguments that we've had that I would consider a blowout. On one hand, however, it's amazing that we get along this well, because we don't agree on anything. You say hot, I say cold. You say left, I say right. You say go faster. I say slow down.

I think it comes from our rebels souls.

Totally. I don't want to be controlled. I don't want to take direction from anybody control.

But we want to control the other.

One, control everybody and everything. Okay, last question, because we're running out of time. Last question, if you had okay, go ahead.

Let me see which question is more interesting for the last question.

Oh, okay. Now that she's making decisions about the show, all of a sudden she's leading the show. I think this one is the most interesting. If you had to take one thing to a deserted island, what would that one thing be?

Oh, for you?

Yes.

I mean, other than, clearly your iPhone.

Yes.

Your safety coffee cup, water cup.

Okay.

And your ecigarette.

I would take my phone pillow with me. That's what I would take. If we had our phones with us, I would take my phone with it. My phone pillow. I can't live without it. I need it. I need to put my phone somewhere where I'm falling asleep. I put you that's. The one thing I would take with me is you.

Only I'm not a thing.

Well, you're not so radical. All right. You're not a thing, but you are my wife, and I wouldn't want to do it without you.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Love you so much. Thank you for doing this. I know that it was literally the last thing on your list of things that you wanted to be doing, but when you volunteered to help out while Chrissy's with her family, I really appreciate it. And honestly, it was fun. Yeah, it's fun. You see, you broke the seal. Now you can come in more often and talk to us.

And we love you, Chrissy.

And we love you, Chrissy. Chrissy will be back. There is nothing wrong with Chrissy and the show. We've already had a couple text messages from people who are asking if Chrissy's okay. Will she come back to the show? Yes, she will. And she'll be back soon. It's not going to be a long time. We just have a couple episodes to get through while Chrissy gets through her family situation. We love you, Papa Joe. We wish you well on your journey. We love you, Chrissy Jeff, the whole Holdley family, we're with you. Our hearts are with you. And even though you're not here in studio with us, your spirit is omnipresent. Chrissy. Yes. Like Nico. Just like Nico. Only Chrissy's not dead. Yeah. So. Oh, Nico. I was thinking about Nico last night. I don't know why, interesting, but I was thinking about Nico last night. Probably because our kids still don't understand that Nico has actually passed away. And they continue to ask me when's Nico coming home? Yeah, well, that's a tough question to answer, kids. So, Chrissy, we love you. The seats warm. Come on back when you get a chance. Or she will be back when she gets a chance.

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