Transcript of Good Gas Almighty

Some people just aren't meant to amount to anything.

What if everyone amounted to something?

Then amounting to something wouldn't be special. Your constant failure allows other people to shine.

On this episode of The Commercial Break. When I was into coke, I would go over to the dealer's house and he'd have like half a brick or something, and he'd be like, cutting it off and weighing it. What if I had $7 on me? You know what I'm saying? And I'd be like, Man, if I only, if I could only. If I could only. Do you see when a gas truck passes by, this lady's like, If I only.

If I only. If I only.

Yeah. If I only had that. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittons, welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Greene. This is the take to my Taylor, Chris Dejoy, Holy. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Do you know Tate McRay? Have you heard of Tate McRay?

I don't think so.

Woonele. Woonele, Tate McRay. She's a singer.

Yes.

Can't say that I love her music because that wouldn't be a true statement, but she's not a bad-looking woman. Tate McRay, check her out on your Instas and your TikToks. Wow. Tate McRay, she's a very beautiful woman. Very beautiful. It reminds me of Brittany Spears. Not the way that she looks, but the trajectory of her career. She dresses flashy, and she was just at the VMAs, and this low-cut, half-cut, dressy thing. It reminds me of something that Brittany would have worn back in the '90s, right? Or the 2000s. When was Brittany around? 2000s? Yeah. Do you see that people go fucking- '90s. '90s, 2000s? Late '90s, early 2000s? Yeah. Do you see how people go fucking bananas over trying to figure out whether Brittany Spears is actually Brittany Spears on Instagram? No. This is a bananas theory that is going around. Of course, I think this started off with someone trolling somebody and it's just taken on a life of its own. People are so incredibly dumb. I just have to say that.

I mean, I don't know what- There's a lot of people in this world, and not all of them are well.

Not all of them are well, and I'm starting to think that most of them aren't well, actually. I think we might be in the minority. I'm not saying I'm well either. I'm not. I'm full of calcium, and my brain doesn't work so well. But I do have to say that people who are like, they take the Instagram posts and the TikTok videos that Brittany makes, and then they stop them, and then somebody photoshopps like one of her fingers is a little bit longer than the last video, and then they catch her at a certain angle and she looks like a man, and then they look at her, they superimpose another image of a lookalike and say this must be a lookalike.

I feel like that time could be spent way better.

Yeah, of course. But these are 13-year-old boys that are probably starting these rumors, and then it becomes some internet It's a conspiracy theory. It makes me go bananas because I know the truth is a very delicate thing, and it's hard to keep a hold of.

Everybody's- Of course, yeah, especially in the times we're in.

In the times that we're in. There was a recent study that said 54% of Americans don't know what the... Don't believe, don't understand what the truth really is when it comes to our politics and the news. They don't understand what- I can see why. They don't believe it. They don't understand it. I can also understand why, too, is because you turn on one channel and you get one thing, and you turn on another channel and you get a completely different thing. It's hard to understand, how do you know which one is right and which one is wrong? Where are the facts? Then it's hard to say who's to blame for that because both sides of the at least the political aisle, are both guilty of doing the same thing, and that is twisting up real facts to fit their own narrative. So it's hard to figure out what the facts are. But when it goes all the way down to Brittany's Spears, I mean, come on, guys. Really? Brittany's Brittany. She just likes dancing crazy in her underwear on Instagram videos. There's no lookalike. Why? I don't know. Who is benefiting? I tend to think that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one because that's how life works in general, right?

So when I hear these crazy conspiracies about George Bush knocked down the Twin Towers, it's like, really? It would take thousands and thousands of human beings would have to be involved in that in some way, shape, or form. People can't even keep their mouth shut about... Anything. Yeah. Look at that Ben and Jen or whatever. You can't even keep your mouth shut for two seconds about those two idiots are out running around with each other. There's a million No one can keep a secret. That's basically what I'm saying. Who would benefit from having a Brittany double on Instagram? Who? Tate McRay? No one. I don't know. Tate McRay.

Tate McRay.

Tate McRay. I need to look up Tate McRay now. Tate McRay. Look her up. Look up Tate McRay and see what you think. See if I'm off on this one. Because I think... Listen, I'm not trying to be machismo here. I'm just saying I think she's an attractive woman.

Okay, here she is. You're appreciating a beautiful woman.

I am appreciating the human form. That's what I'm doing.

Oh, yeah, the dancing. I can see how it is, Brittany Spears.

You see what I'm saying? Yes. She She is very beautiful. The reason why I bring it up is because she just did a video where she's completely buck naked being arrested. I'm not really sure what the premise of the video is because I've only seen clips of it. But...

Sex sells.

Sex does sell, and Tate's got it. Whatever that is, she's got it. There you go. Why couldn't I have been blessed with one of those bodies? I see those guys out there. I see those guys out there with these big chiseled bodies, and they've beautiful, handsome faces. I'm like, wow, like that guy who played Eric Menendez on that show, Monsters. I'm like, why couldn't I have had a penis that long or had that chiseled body with the 13 pack or whatever, and a nice jawline and good hair? Why couldn't I have had that? I'm stuck, balding, fat, too much calcium in my blood, hairy thighs. I mean, what's going on with me? I don't know. Then I read that Lana Del Rey, that beautiful Lana Del Rey, married some local Yokel Alligator farmer from Florida. Did you see that?

No, I thought that she was getting married, but I didn't know who it was, too.

God damn it.

The hot ones with the hot ones.

The hot ones with the hot ones. How did those two get connected is what I want to know. I know. Where did the Alligator farmer meet Lana Del Rey? And where was I? Trust me, I got my own Lana Del Rey and Astrid. I want to be clear about this. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to Astrid. We both can... Astrid tells me all day long who she thinks is hot. She's dreaming that someday somebody else will walk in the door. I'm not dreaming that somebody else will walk in the door, but I'm just saying it is fucking insane that this, by all accounts, local yokel, an elevator farmer married Lana Del Rey.

It had to be through friends.

Where in the world does Lana Del Rey have friends that know an Alligator Farmer? I know. I mean, isn't she at Mr Chow's or something in New York? I mean, it's Lana Del Rey. She's so exotic, and her voice is beautiful. Oh, yeah. She seems so sultry. She's like, I don't know. It's like I imagine that girl from Portishead only goes to secret clubs in London and meets other very- Secret club people. Secret club people, guys who wear eye shadow and have secret blood ceremonies and only have candles for lighting and can have sex for hours on end without help from a medication or a penis pump. You know what I'm I do. And so then I look at this locally local farmer and I go, he must have a 10-foot dick. That must be what's going on. Because how else does Lana Del Rey connect with the guy who's writing a fucking hovercraft for work? I mean, it's crazy. It's insane. It's insane. But that Lana Del Rey, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, whenever it fucking was. I don't know. My brain doesn't work correctly right now.

No. But we talked about this, that sometimes people who are super famous like to have people who are not super famous because Because they don't have to deal with all the industry bullshit.

I can see why. Also, I can see how that would be taxing on the relationship down the road.

I'm going to guess, and I'm just going to throw this out there, and I don't want to bet on somebody's demise, but I'm going to guess this doesn't last very long. Because if you're an alligator farmer, if that's what you do for a living, and then you get all of this attention super quickly, nine times out of 10, you probably are going to handle it very well.

Ben couldn't even handle it.

Ben can't even handle it. He's one of the most famous people on Earth. It's Ben fucking Affleck. He's been famous since he was a teenager in his early 20s when he did the Goodwill hunting or Whatever that show was, whatever that story was. When you're 46 years old and you're going to work and you have your big cup and you're driving your monster truck around down in South Florida and you're wrangling or whatever they do. You got your good old boys and you watch the Florida game on TV on Saturdays and some shack in a swamp or whatever that guy does. Then all of a sudden, Lana Del Rey shows up for a tour of your Alligator farm, and your guys are married three weeks later. It's going to be the pressure's on, dude. The pressure is on.

That's true.

Most of us do this. Most of us are guilty of putting the best foot forward at the beginning of a relationship. Then slowly but surely, just like Astrid found out what a fucking shithead he really is. But now there's 17 kids involved.

Things start to unravel.

Things start to unravel real quick. I'd say about after year number one, you start slipping a little bit. You know what I'm saying? You let a fart out here and a fart out there. And pretty soon, they know about all your crazy ex-girlfriend.

It just takes a little naked cooking to keep things going.

Well, yeah. I mean, listen, everyone's got their ways, their ways and means. But I'm just saying that this guy's going to get an enormous amount of pressure. Everybody's What I read the other day is I saw this about two weeks ago. I saw the first article that said Lana Del Rey connected to or seen with this guy. I looked at the guy and I go, It's very tan, but besides the tan, I mean, he's better looking than me, but that's a low bar to set. But then I see this about two weeks ago, and I go, Uh-oh, because he's a little bit older than she is, I believe. And this guy probably has a lot of, like we all do, has a lot of secrets and a lot of skeletons in the closet. Or in the swamp. In the swamp. And what I read the other day, just yesterday, what I read was that they had gotten a hold of his ex-fiance. Apparently, he had been engaged once.

Yeah, that's what first pops up when I'm just did a search for Lana Del Rey husband.

It only took two weeks for the ex-fiance to come out and start talking shit. And I don't know that she's talking She's just saying basically she's really surprised that Lana Del Rey- Yeah, it's a shock wedding.

Of course, because she's like- A boat captain from Louisiana.

Oh, he's a boat captain from Louisiana? Yes. Oh, I thought he was in Florida. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Boat captain, but he's an alligator boat He's a tour guide, right? I think he is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sounds like it. He rides around showing you alligators. He's a tour guide, basically, is what he does. He's a tour guide. He was engaged to this girl, and it didn't take two weeks for her to start talking. She probably got paid handsomely to have that conversation. Just my guess. She got paid handsomely to have that conversation. Everybody that knows this dude is going to look to cash in, or 90% of the people that know this dude in any interaction, in any way, shape, or form.

Oh, yeah. Good, bad, or different. Oh, yeah. He doesn't even own the company. No. It's Arthur's Airboat tours.

How lucky is this guy, at least for a little while. How lucky is he? At least for a little while. Private planes and champagne and all this other stuff. This guy is going to be living high on the hog for about another two months.

This says, According to the bio, he was previously worked at a chemical plant, but found his true calling as an airboat captain.

Well, hey, listen, the world needs airboat captains, too. Not arguing his profession. He's working for a living. That's good enough for me. I don't give a shit what you do. As long as you're not hurting other people, I don't give a shit what you do. But at the end of the day, the pressure is going to come down on him and his friends. There are going to be investigative reporters that these little shitty little TMZ want tobes, they're going to be sniffing up everybody's asses looking for a good story about this That Lana Del Rey, she must know this. She's been famous for a long time. She must know. That's why if I ever get in this situation, let's say that Astrid kicks me to the curb tomorrow. Then on Thursday, Tate McRay shows up at my front door for some reason. I'm at the Starbucks and Tate McRay is sitting there, and we get hooked. I'm telling her all the bad shit first. I'm saying, before we get involved, I might as well just tell you this now because it's going to come out pretty soon.

It's going to take a while.

Yeah.

Actually, just listen to my podcast.

There's about 612 episodes of the commercial break. I need you to listen to about 598 of them, and you'll hear my life story. Then if you're good with it, come back to me in a month and let me know. Two months, three months. It's six days for the information to get it from server to server. I know. It's going to take years to listen to this entire podcast. But it's very interesting. It's very interesting that Tate McRay thing is very interesting. Tate McRay is apparently, I mean, not Tate McRay. It's very interesting that Lana Del Rey. Is it Lana Del Rey? Lana Delray? Lana Delray? I say Lana. I say Lana. Like I say Lana. It's my lazy tongue. But that Tate McRay is friends with Chapelle Roon, Chapel Roon. Chapel Roon just canceled two big festivals after then canceling some European shows, too. I caught the announcement right when it came out. Don't ask me why. I don't know. It showed up on my Instagram. But that All Things Together or at All of Us Together or something, the festival, ATM, ATM, ATO, ATA, I don't know what it is. But they have two of them, one in DC and one in New York.

The reason why, according to a lot of people, why they're able to do two festivals, two weekends in a row in two different places and sell it out, because festivals are hard to put on. They're hard to make money. They are. It's only their 10th year, and it takes a long time for a festival to build up momentum. But the reason why is because Chaperone agreed to play both festivals, and then she canceled, the first one being last weekend. She canceled Thursday, and the festival started on Friday, or she canceled Wednesday and started on Friday. A lot of people, a lot of people were very upset. I mean, first of all, the festival turned off comments on the posts. Bad idea. Just a bad idea. Just not a good look. The next post down is where all the comments went, right? The next post down is like, Oh, site map available now. Everybody goes crazy about the fact that Chapel has now canceled this. Chapel has been, I struggling a little bit with all this newfound fame.

That's what I've heard.

I didn't know this. Yeah, me too. I didn't know this, but she's been around for seven or eight years, a decade making music. It's just recently that with this, what is it? Midwest, whatever that album that she put out. It's a great song. It's a good album. I like a lot of the songs on there, and I'm with her. Then she puts out this post where she explains that I don't owe you every bit of me. She's getting some stalkers. She's getting people that are getting upset because she won't take pictures or she won't sign it, or she's out at the coffee shop and people want to bother her. She's like, I don't owe you every bit of me. I enjoy what I'm doing. When I'm on stage, I'm entertaining, you can have that part of me. When you're listening to my album, you can have that part of me, but you can't have every part of me. I agree with her 150,000 %. As a famous person myself who has on three occasions has been approached, I don't want to be bothered. Just kidding.

No photos, please.

No, I don't give a shit. But I don't give a shit because I don't have that pressure and fame. It's got to be a lot. Yeah. If once a year somebody comes up to me and recognizes me. Life-changing. Life-changing. Totally life-changing. And not everybody's going to handle it the same way, and not everybody wants that fame. We talked to Nicki Jam, who was one of the world's most famous musicians, and he says, I don't like it either. That's where the devil is. You make a deal with the devil. That's where the devil is. He says, But I don't like it. I like my privacy. I like to be alone sometimes. I don't want to always be on. I get what she's saying, but people are silly and stupid and sycophantisch, and they get these weird ideas in their head, and they just don't stop. They expect that... There's an old saying, never meet your heroes. The reason why is because they're just going to be human like you. And humans get irritated and upset and don't want to be bothered and need some privacy and need some alone time. And Chappell said this clearly a couple of weeks ago on Instagram, said, I don't owe you every bit of me.

Stop it. I want to be able to go to the mall and do what I want to do. I want to be able to go to the coffee shop, out shopping, out to dinner with friends, and I don't need you along with me. And no, I'm not going to sign your silly shit. Now, I'm not going to take a photograph with you because I am being myself, and that's just what I want to be. Unfortunately for Chapel, that's not going to happen because there's a lot of people in this world, and most of them aren't well.

That's how it goes. Yeah, exactly.

That said, canceling last minute like that is a bit, I think, unprofessional. Now, her mental health comes above all else. I will say that.

Yes, definitely.

But to do it multiple times in a row, days before the show, feels to me to be a tad bit unprofessional. The festival, it probably needs to refund people some money, which they are asking for. Hey, I made these plans. I paid hundreds of dollars for these tickets just to see Chapel, and now I'm not going to get to do that. Are you going to compensate us or at least put somebody else on her place? I can understand the anger behind this. Two things can be true at the same time. Chapel can have her mental health vacation that she obviously needs. And the festival- Is it Chapel or Chapelle? I've heard it said both ways, but I think it's Chapel Rhon. Okay. I don't know. Today on this episode, I'm saying it's Chapel Roon, and then I'll say it's Chapelle Roon tomorrow. But two things can be true at the same time. She needs to prioritize her mental health, but then people have the right to be disgruntled about the fact that they just made plans just to see this one artist, and that's where they went. Obviously, of all the people at that festival, she is the draw right now.

I would be upset, too. If I paid 10 Who do I go see? If I went to go see the Beach Boys, it was like people in the higher area, and Brian Wilson didn't show up, I'd be upset. That's the truth, right? You would be, too. I see all the kerfuffle out there, and I can understand it. I really can. I can understand how it is. How would Jeff handle that if someone canceled last minute?

Well, it wasn't last minute, but they did have someone that canceled due to health reasons, the Queens of the Stone Age. Oh, yeah, that's right. Then they were replaced with Jack White. So, yeah, you have to replace.

Okay. All right. I'd say you got the better end of the stick there, but that's my personal opinion. I love the Queens of Stone Age. But I would also say those are two very similar typish artists. If you like Jack White, you're likely to like Queens of the Stone Age. And so he's fitting in a good alternative there. Good for Jack stepping in there last minute. I know. I mean, he got paid a lot of money, but good for him anyway to step in there last minute. I guess Jack wasn't doing anything that weekend.

It just happened to be a bit of- He loves Memphis, for one. Then, yeah, he was happy. He's actually been filling in a little bit with the health issues for Queens of the Stone Age. Oh, he has?

Yeah, he's done it before. He's been jumping into the festival circuits and stuff like that? Yeah. They're good. They're friends, I think, aren't they? Yes. They're friendly, friend-ish. That guy from the Queens of the Stone Age, the only reason... I mean, I like their music. But then, additionally, why I like him. Listen, I know he's not a perfect human being. There's a lot of stuff that he's done that's not great. He's also a rock star, and I don't expect rock stars to be perfect human beings because they're just guys who play guitar. But the reason why I think I will always have a little bit of an affection for him is because he was good friends with Anthony Bourdaine, and he was always great when he was with Anthony Anthony Bourdaine. I miss Anthony. Oh, man, do I? I have this on my personal. I follow this, Anthony Bourdaine Every Day, I think is what it's called. And so they send out a photo or a clip or something every day, and every day, I miss that guy. I wonder what he would be saying about where we are in 2024. He just always had a way of summing it up.

He did. He did. Summing it up, but with no conclusion whatsoever. He didn't pontificate. He wasn't telling everybody what to do.

Yeah, it was a short Short and sweet reaction.

Short and sweet. Yeah. He spoke inisms and platitudes, but not the platitudes you would expect. Like, it is what it is. But the platitudes that he made up that were original, and I always liked his point of view. I always felt like there was a kinship there. I understood who Anthony Bourdaine was, and I liked him from the very beginning, from the very first time I read his book. His books are great, too. Oh, his books are fantastic because he tells it like it is. The only person I was talking about this with somebody, the only person who has ever, in my opinion... Was I talking to you about this?

We have talked about this.

About the bear?

Oh, yeah, we talked about the bear.

The only person, in my opinion- Did you watch the bear? I haven't watched the bear yet. It's on our list.

We're getting it. It's been on the list for a while.

I might get to it after the surgery, to be honest with you. The only person, the only television show, the only person who has ever gotten the restaurant industry right is Anthony Bourdaine. Like, showing showing it to the world, telling you like it is, having you come along with on the ride that is the craziness in the restaurant industry.

Well, that's why it was so popular, Kitchen Confidential. I agree.

Read it. It's like a prerequisite of eating.

It really is.

If you eat and you go to a restaurant and you want to know what it's like for those people that are serving you three times a day, the misery that they go through and the craziness and the just absolute insanity that is a restaurant kitchen and a restaurant in general, read Kitchen Confidential because he gives you the unvarnished truth from his point of view, and I think it's really accurate. All right. It's so good. Speaking of things that smell good and taste good, let's take a break, and I got a video for you here today. Okay? Okay. All right, we'll be back.

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Yeah, my whole body is just breaking down, basically. They may all be connected, who fucking knows? But at the same time, I put this stuff on my back called Tiger Balm. Do you know what Tiger Balm is? You've heard about it, probably. If you lived in the '80s, there were commercials about it. Tiger Balm. Ancient Chinese medicine, Tiger Balm. I I love Tiger Balm. Tiger Balm works. You put it on your sore muscles. It makes it feel nice and cool. It numbs the whole area. It's wonderful stuff. It's probably full of stuff that's terrible for you. It probably caused my hyperparathyroidism, but who cares? I use it. I slather it on my back. It stains all the clothing that I have in my bedsheets.

It makes everything smell. Yes.

It makes everything smell. But I love... I hated that smell at first, but I have come to love that smell.

Well, if you associate it now with you feeling better, then yeah. True.

Yeah. Maybe that's why. I don't know. I'm it.

I'm a guy who smells- Scent is a very big part of memory.

Oh, it is? Mm-hmm. Oh, well, then I wonder why my memory doesn't work so good, because I can smell. If blue poops in this house and it is all the way on the other end of the house, within seconds, I will smell it. My sense of smell is so keen. My eyesight and my hearing, not so good, and my touch and my feel and my taste and my tasty teeners, not so good. However, my smell is excellent. Anybody who knows me for a long time will know that I'm highly sensitive to smell. You are. As I snored into the microphone. I reminded me- Despite all the drugs that you've done. Despite all the cocaine I've done, despite all the things that have been up this nostril.

The smell made it through.

Yes, the smell still remains strong. That's my super... Imagine if I hadn't done all the drugs, I'd probably be going crazy over every smell ever. But this reminded me of an episode I saw once of my Strange addiction, which we haven't reviewed an episode of this in a very long time. I found a compilation video of all the people who do weird smelling stuff, right? Because that's a big thing. It's an actual psychiatric disease. But of course, everything's an actual psychiatric disease these days, right? That's true. I mean, honestly, everything has a name. Everything is a curse. Everything is a reason why you should do this or why you shouldn't do this. But anyway, I'm sure the people who suffer from this legitimately, not like me who just claims I suffer from something because I did it once, but like people who actually suffer from it, like the people we're about to hear from, that this must be terrible. But there are people out there who sniff, who like the smell of some rather strange shit and do it a whole bunch. And so I thought we'd take a look at some of these people on this compilation video.

Can't imagine. What do you think?

Yes. All right, let's go for it. This is my Strange addiction, Compolation. I am sniffing gasoline once every 10 minutes.

That's the first thing that came to my mind with people doing this. Gasoline. Gasoline is a thing to smell.

Gasoline is a thing. Apparently, you know, sometimes you go to a gas station and I'll see a bottle, a water bottle full of gas. You think it's a piss, but then it's gas. It's gas. It's gas is what it is because people huff it because it makes them high. Gasoline to me, the smell is fine, whatever. It doesn't bother me necessarily. I'm glad it doesn't because I have to fill up my car a couple of times a week. But at the same time- It makes me on high alert when I smell that smell. I would. Yeah, of course.

Of course.

Flammable. I know. Then I see these morons that smoke at the gas station. Oh, God. Even when I was a smoker, I never thought to light up at a gas station. No. Never.

Matt, I have a bottle with me. Nobody can get through to her.

Now we're smelling gas while you're cooking.

And your point is, I'm afraid you could die. And your point is, I've done been cooking with gasoline for five years.

Ain't nothing bad happened. Oh, honey, I'm on fire.

I don't want to do it for myself, and there's no point of doing it.

Jesus, stop. Yeah, because your brain is going to rot from the inside. I mean, honestly. Yeah, that's the fumes. Yeah. Oh, God, this drives me crazy, these people. My strange addiction, the scent addiction.

My name Gillian. I'm 33 years old, and I'm addicted to smelling pine cleaner.

Pine-sau.

She's driving down the road.

She's sniffing it.

Pine cleaner.

Didn't we do another episode where We talked about the Pine Sol. Somebody liked to eat it or drink it or something.

I don't think they were drinking pine-sau. I think they were drinking... I think they were drinking gasoline. I think that's what they were doing. We did that episode like, years ago. Yeah. Yeah, they were. They were drinking a couple of liters of gasoline every week. The doctor was like, You realize this is really bad for you? She's like, Is it? Really?

Pine Cleaner is my Holy Grail. Oh, look at her.

She's got bottles and bottles sitting around the table. Bottles and bottles.

She's like, rocking back and forth, snorting it. It's like my nightmare is to become one of those people in old days where I'm just like, I'll be in pine cleaner.

I'll keep an eye on you. Thanks. If I could dose my soul in pine cleaner, I would.

The first thing I do when I wake up, I smell my pine cleaner.

Does your mom ever used to clean with pine soil? Oh, of course. Mine did. Oh, yeah, the mopping.

There was a- There was a whole mop, the floor. There was a pine salt decade from '83 to '93, when Pine Saul just took over the world. It was everywhere. Every house smelled like pine salt because it was supposedly cleaned everything. It was just made of gasoline and Pine scent. It was terrible. It was terrible. Everything smelled like pine salt. I remember being like maybe a child, like a small child. Some of my first memories are sitting on my linoleum floors in Chicago and smelling that pine salt. To me, it doesn't smell all that great. I'm not a fan of it. How this lady can have it around her house? Thousand bucks she's not married.

I will smell a pine cleaner. I will use it as laundry detergent. What?

Oh.

What? Dude, if I'm the guy who has to sit in the cubicle next to this lady- She needs to clean the- Yeah, she needs to clean the laundry. The washer. Oh, my God. Look at that washer. It's so dirty. How does a washer get that dirty? How do you do that?

I don't know.

Oh, Chrissy.

I went for it. Yeah, just use some of that pine sel on that.

Oh, this is whole, it's keeping me out.

Into a pot on my stove here so that it permeates the whole house.

Oh my God. I will use it as an air fresher, too. Oh my God.

Like an air fresher, too? She's using it as an air freshener. She's spraying it around the house and she's boiling a pot of it so that it... Can you imagine the guy who hooks up with this girl on Tinder?

Surprise.

Hold on one second. I'm going to get the pine salt and douse my vajayj in it.

When I leave the house, I will take a little spray bottle in my purse. I will also put it on a bandana to keep in my pocket.

She's walking down the road starting a bandana full of pine salt.

Oh, wow.

Oh, my God. Remember when I made that statement a couple of months ago on the show? I said, There's a lot of people in this world, and some of them aren't well. I was thinking about this lady. This is fucked up.

For as long as she can remember, Gillian has always loved the smell of pine cleaner.

She had a bandana, like a black bandana, wrapped around her face like an old bank robber, like in one of those Western. Put your hands up. Give me all the pints all you got. This is a good defense for Diddy. I I like snorting the lube, your honor. I was addicted to the lube, your honor.

But two years ago, her love affair turned into a full-blown addiction after a stressful divorce.

The pine cleaner absolutely did give me solace. It was a soft, calm spot amidst all the chaos.

Now, she's so dependent on the smell.

Don't you think for all the money you spend on pine cleaner, and I mean, you have hundreds of bottles of pine cleaner, you could get a good fucking therapist to get He's going to get you through the divorce?

Yeah, that's what needs to happen. Honestly.

Yeah. You need Tinder and a psychiatrist, not anymore, a pine salt. And a cat, that poor cat. There's a cat in the house. That poor cat.

He needs a fix every 15 minutes and can't function without the scent.

It's a very strong vapor. Like if you took a pine tree and you dipped it in a- Dipped it in gasoline.

Cat of bleach.

Gillian goes through up to six bottles of pine cleaner a week.

How do you- How much is the bottle a day.

Yeah, but how do you go through it? I was going to say- You're just snorting it. What are you going through? I mean, I know you pour a little bit on a cloth to smell it, but still.

May I guess between the cloth and then the burning and the spritzing?

She's at a restaurant. They literally showed her in a restaurant, spritzing the restaurant with pine cleaner. Jeez. 300 bottles a year, what do you think a bottle of pine salt cost? $8? 2024. I guess, yeah. Okay, $8 times 300. That is $2,400. You can pay a therapist $100 an hour and go twice a month at once every other week.

I have pine cleaner added to a soft squirt bottle. It concentrates the aromas and the vapors, and it directs the spray directly into my nose or my mouth. I also I used the surgical mask with the pine cleaner. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, Chrissy.

She's putting it on like, Yeah, that's surgical mask.

Obviously, and not making fun of, obviously, this lady has mental illness right now. Maybe not always, but right now in her life, she's mentally ill.

At home, I just strap it to my face. But my favorite way to smell pie and cleaner is to have a bottle that has maybe an inch or two left at the bottom. The harder I crunch the bottle, the harder the scent is being forced into my nose. I almost feel like it's burning.

She's got her own addiction habits. You know what I'm saying? You have your favorite bong or your favorite way to roll a joint or your favorite way to shoot crystal mess. You know what I'm saying? Right. You know what I'm saying, Chrissy? I do. Do you have your favorite way to shoot crystal? Yeah.

Yeah, okay. Everything does.

Side of my sinus cavities and my nasal passages, but I couldn't imagine a happy life without it.

But Gillian isn't the only one who constantly smells pine cleaner. Her ex-husband and current roommate is also subjected-What?

Oh, my God.

Husband and current roommate. No, no. Hell, no.

We wonder why this lady- That's a certainly healthy situation, I'm sure. They're all addicted to pine cleaner. I got a feeling they're addicted to more than pine cleaner. I think so, too. I think the pine cleaner helps them get through the times when they don't have the real deal. The scent. The smell really gets to me. It hurts my nose. Sometimes it'll give me a headache. Oh, he doesn't like it. Why are you living with her?

Why are you living there? Yeah.

You guys are divorced. You don't have a mom or a dad or a brother or drug dealer, you're going to live on their couch. Pine Cleaner contains a toxic chemical called Ethyl alcohol exolate. Repeated exposure can cause severe respiratory damage in cancer. You don't say.

I have asthma. Sometimes I do have shortness of breath.

You have asthma and you're doing this? Mm-mm. Oh, man. That's like me when I was 26 years old and I get a terrible sinus infection, I'd be smoking cigarettes like he's going out of style.

I'll wake up with that cinder block on my chest feeling.

And recently, Gillian's addiction has started to escalate.

It's not just quick sniffs anymore. It's sessions. I will rhythmically crunch the bottle.

A Pine Cell session. Yeah. We got to try this. Maybe this will make us feel better.

I'm not trying that.

Maybe I can get over my hypercalcemia with a little bit of Pine Cell and clean my brain right out.

And go into a translike state.

This scary behavior. A pine trans?

A pine trans. A trans all. Pine Trance? A Pine Trance. A Trancel. Pine Trancel. It's a witness. I try to tell her to stop, and she's just ignorant to it and believes that it's not doing her any harm at all.

It's been a part of me for so long. It's not something that I can ever foresee wanting out of my life.

Well, you've only been doing it for two years, so it's not been a part of your life for so long. You're 36 years old. It's been for a small part of your life. You got to stop this, lady. Call me. I'll talk you. I'll talk you through this. I'm a professional. My name is-Oh, my God. Okay, let's take a break, and then we'll get to the lady who's... We'll get to another lady who's thinking something. Having gas. Yeah, okay. But I wasn't ready for the break. Why did I say I'm going to go to the break if I wasn't ready for the break, Kirstie? I don't know. I don't know. I blame it all on my pine soul. We'll be back.

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All right, we're checking out weird scent addictions. We just listened to the girl with the Pine-Sol addiction, which was... That's about as strange as it gets, I think. But here's a lady who's addicted to smelling gasoline, and I think this one is more mainstream. I think there's a more mainstream angle to smelling gasoline. I do know some people who, when I was younger, they sniffed gasoline to get high. I wonder where those people are now.

Risa, I'm I'm 34 years old. I'm from William Sport, Pennsylvania, and I'm addicted to smelling gasoline.

She's so proud.

I'm so proud. William Sport, Pennsylvania. By the way, William Sport, Pennsylvania is one of the cities that's going to determine the next election. So thank God.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is I roll over, sit up, and smell my gas bottle.

Bedcoin.

Then I'll get up, take another.

Did you see that right next to her gas bottle is prescription pills? Yeah, that house.

Whoa.

Yeah, not my house. Not where I would look, Lucy.

Snip of the gasoline, and then I'll come downstairs, and a couple of minutes later, I'll take another sniff of it.

She got a printer next to her bed. I always wonder why people would have printers in their bedroom. You know what I'm saying? I think I had a printer in my bedroom once because that's the only room that I was allowed to be in, in a roommate situation. But why else would you have a printer? Why else would you have a printer sitting next to your bed?

To do what? To print stuff out?

I print so many things. I need to have it next to my bed. When I wake up in the morning, all my prints are done.

Theresa has been addicted to smelling gasoline for over 30 years. She takes a sniff every 10 minutes and even wakes up in the middle of the night for a fix.

I don't even know how to explain how it smells. I just love the smell of it.

No, you're getting high. That's what you like. Just be honest about it.

It makes my nose feel inside the back of my throat.

She's like, orgasmic while she's doing this. You see that look on her face? Jeez. Wow. Weird.

Theresa was only 13 years old when her dad asked if she wanted to smell his gas can.

Hey, honey. What? You want to smell my ass can? I meant gas can. Sorry. Don't tell your mama.

I smelled it that one time, and that was all it took.

Hooked. Now she stashes four water bottles filled with gasoline throughout the house for easy access. That's safe.

Yeah.

No matter where I'm at, I have a bottle.

Yeah, because in case there's a fire, you want to have some random gas cans around. Yeah, put it out real quick.

With me. I keep it either in my purse or in my jacket pocket. When I eat, it's sitting right there at the kitchen table. What do she does if she flies? I guess.

Well, first of all, I'm going to guess that this The lady hasn't left her house in a couple of decades. Second of all, I guess, is it illegal to fly with gasoline? Yes. Probably.

You can't take it through. No, of course not. The screening, and then you can't get it.

I mean, but if you put Would they put it in a bottle, would they know? Yeah. They would?

Yeah, you can't take liquids through the screening.

Oh, that's... But you can take soap through and stuff like that, right? What if you just put it in a soap bottle?

Yeah, but she's talking about... I mean, it's water bottles.

Well, then you got to get to a gas as soon as you land. That's all I got to say. Well, they have lots of gas at the airport. You know what I'm saying? She's stopping mid-interview so she can huff gas.

That might make me feel better.

A hundred.

Theresa takes, what? A hundred and twenty times a day she takes a sniff. Four 43,800 times a year. I love how TLC does the math for you. I know.

I was going to say. It's a nice touch.

When I walk in a door, the first thing that hits me is the smell of gas. It smells like you're walking into a garage. Theresa has a boyfriend. Theresa has a boyfriend, and there were periods in my life where I was single. Theresa has a boyfriend, and the dude with the downward penis curve can't get a girlfriend. This world is not fair. It's That's not fair. Life is not fair.

How did it even progress to boyfriend status is what I want to know if you didn't like it.

How do you get past the first date when she's sniffing every seven minutes? I know. Seriously. How many hours is there? Twelve hours a day? She's sniffing every six minutes. She's taking a snort. If it's 120 times a day, that's assuming you're up for twelve hours a day. Okay.

And your point is, if you don't like it, go upstairs.

When Teresa doesn't have gasoline, watch out. No, she doesn't get very angry.

Watch out.

Watch out. Every morning, I get up, make myself a cup of coffee and some gasoline.

Pour a cup of gas.

Pour a cup of gas and get her her morning fix.

What do you think it's doing to your health?

You know how they always like the shows I watch where they're trying out different vacation homes or different homes, and they always say the same thing. If it's a beautiful view, they'll go out there and go, I can picture having my morning coffee out here. I can picture my morning gas I can picture having my own gas pump right here.

I don't know. I can't answer that. But I'm not going to sit here and have you throw it in my face when...

Please don't throw it in her face. It's literally.

You want to know something? This is terrible to admit, but I would go to like D. D would come over or something. Or when I was into coke, I would go over to the dealer's house and he'd have half a brick or something, and he'd be like, cutting it off and weighing. What if I had $7 on me. You know what I'm saying? And I'd be like, Man, if I only, if I could only. Do you think when a gas truck passes by, this lady's like, If I only. If I only had that. I can quit. That's why- You've been saying that for years, but you're still smelling gas. Years. They've been together for years.

And is supported by her boyfriend. She spends almost $400 a month on her addiction.

Jesus.

Frank, fight over it. She's in the wrong profession. She should go into being the gas... Yeah, the pumper. The people that deposit the gas. Yeah. Or a pumper.

A pumper. They still have- Attendant. There's one gas station here in Atlanta. You pull up, they still have full service. If she could get that job, she's one for me, one for you. One for me, one for you.

I'm going to go get the gasoline can filled because I have to have my gasoline to snap. I come to the gas station about twice a week. The more I go to the gas station, the fresher the gas is. I've heard her talk about situations where she chose the gas.

Well, I mean, she's been hooked on gas for years. I mean, what did she do with the daughter? Her daughter was just talking.

I don't even... Yeah. I mean, how do you even have a baby? She having...

Well, yeah, I know.

I mean, the daughter seems like nothing's wrong. I mean, I don't know, but she doesn't seem like anything's wrong, at least physically.

In food or something like that. She just needs her fixed.

I'm pet. If I'm the gas station guy, like I'm the guy turning on the pumps, don't you think at some point I'd call the police? Yeah. I'd be like, That lady is out there rubbing her hands all over the gasoline and putting it to her face.

I've had memory loss since about 1995. Because of my memory loss, I have to use...

Ginko Balopa?

Ginko Balopa. I use Prevogen. Prevogen.

I have to use little notes and leave them tacked up on my steering wheel of my car. Oh my God, that's how I feel.

These people give cat owners bad names. Yeah. This woman has a cat, too.

Why do all the people on My Strange Addiction have a cat. Well, probably because the dog has died. They can't take care of a dog. Cats can fend for themselves. Dogs cannot.

Even outside of my purse sometimes.

Oh, my God.

It causes brain damage, nerve damage, and death. Death.

I am actually surprised this lady is still alive.

I can't believe it.

The past six years, I have had major stomach problems. I've had anemia problems. To think about the gas thing could be killing her.

What's her doctor saying about this?

Well, I don't think she goes to a doctor. She must not tell the doctor this, or maybe just like with her boyfriend, she's defiant. She's like, I'm not going to stop doing it. Because if you're a doctor, what do you do? 5150 on her? Maybe that holds her for a couple of days. But she doesn't seem like she's like, schizophrenia or something. You can't hold somebody indefinitely. God damn, dude. People, this world is so wacky.

It It just makes me just want to curl up in a ball and cry somewhere because I can't get through to her. Nobody can get through to her. I never really thought about going a day without it. I don't know if I could or not. I'm ashamed of it.

Well, at least she's got some self-awareness. I mean, that's a one token of hope there.

She just needs to know that she's very loved.

She needs to stop. Oh, Wow. Look at her mouth. It's so weird how she moves her mouth all happy like that, all orgasmic after she sniffs the gas. I wish I was that happy once in my life.

My name's Danielle. I'm 33.

Oh, here she comes. Oh, here's your vapor rub. Here's my girl.

Three years old. I live in San Antonio, Texas.

Yeah, be careful. But vapor rub is meant to be snorted.

Be careful. He said you like to smell it now.

I don't do it like that. At least I don't think I do.

I am addicted to vapor rub. If I see you carrying around a handkerchief. I know.

If I come in here one day and I smell like Tiger Balm, look out. Yeah, oh, and by the way, sometimes I'll get up in the morning, I might take kids to school. I shower afterwards when I get home. If I'm in a rush, whatever. But now that I have this going through this back issue and I'm rubbing Tiger Balm all over me, I have to take a shower every time because I'm afraid to walk into Starbucks smelling like a fucking Tiger Balm. This lady's snorting vapor rub, but vapor rub was meant to go in your nose.

I use all kinds of vapor rubs. The inhaler, the patches, the candles, but the rub is my favorite.

The candles.

The candles. They make candles?

I did not know that.

That's not a scent I want burning through my house, I don't think. I don't think I want that for Thanksgiving dinner.

I'd like to put it on my eyelids. When somebody squirts lemon in your eye, but it's a good burn.

Yeah, that's like this vape, but you cannot get it anywhere near your eyes. No, it says it right on the bottle.

Call 911.

Danielle has been addicted to vapor rub for over 20 years. It started innocently as a child when she had a cold.

I remember the first time I put it on my chest because I was sick, and it just smelt so good to me. I wanted to taste it, and it just went on from there.

Now, Danielle can't go more than 30 minutes without a fix and spends up to $350 a month to satisfy her. A month?

That's a lot of vapor rub.

Her cravings.

I like to use my inhaler as much as a full minute, just sitting there inhaling. It's like when you're somewhere really, really cold and you breathe, it like steams a little, but the good steam.

But sniffing inhalers isn't the only way Danielle satisfies her addiction.

Oh, she eats it. Oh, no, Danielle. I was with you until the eating part.

Oh, she's putting it in the back of my tongue. She's putting it all over that.

It's going to go in her tongue. Actually, the inside of her tongue.

It's hot, and then it turns cold, and it keeps going back and forth. I like to feel it melt in the back of my throat.

Oh, my God. Danielle, what are you thinking?

Danielle is so hooked. She even needs vapor rub in her morning tea.

Oh, no, Danielle.

I usually coat the bag with a little bit of the vapor rub.

Just get the pepperman.

Yeah, just get the pepperman and put a couple of tea bags in there. A candy cane or something. I'll do a full teaspoon.

It coats your throat and it stays there.

It makes the house smell really nasty. Just gross. It's paper rub. It's not what you eat.

Oh, my God. These people have children. That's what makes me upset.

I know.

That's got to be traumatizing. All right, I can't get through the rest. I can't watch someone eat paper rub. It makes me sick to my stomach, actually, if I'm being honest. God, I'd rather be in a cult than eat vapor rub. Oh, man, what is wrong with people, Chrissy? Not well. We can complain about a lot of stuff, but at least we don't drink gasoline or sniff it or eat vapor rub or- Pine-sol. Pine-sol. That's the worst of the worst is the Pine-sol. I do have to admit. Of all the things that I want to be addicted to, Pine-sol is not the one. Gasoline, I don't love the smell of gasoline, but I think I could deal with it. Vapourub, I already like Tiger Balm, so I'm just one step away from vapor rub. Oh, my God. Oh, Lord.

If any of you out there have some strange smell.

Oh, I know at least one of our audience members is addicted to snorting something. You have a strange addiction. I want to know about it. You don't have to tell me your name unless you've already texted us and told me your name. But you know. Text from another phone number. Tell me. All All of these people seem to have children, so text from your child's phone number. Okay, I want to thank everybody again for being so understanding about canceling the TCB Live in Florida.

And by the way, I wish to everyone in Florida that they're okay. Yeah. The storm. Wow. Which was happening right as we were doing the shows.

Well, yeah, it would have been a day after we were doing the shows, but there would have been a lot of drama. And Tampa got hit and all threw up the arm pit of Florida. Really got it. Thank God it's not extremely populated, but for those who do live there, it probably was a freaking nightmare. So everybody from Florida to South Georgia to- And Carolinas. Carolinas, to Buckhead. I mean, even Buckhead is on the water. Oh, I know. What a weather week. And guess what? I just looked. There's another storm forming in the same place the last one did.

I thought I saw something about that.

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