Transcript of The 700 Club!

And welcome back to WSHIT. It's 2: 15 in the morning, and you're listening to the Holy Shit, It's Early Show. Your first source for news, when you wake up or right before you go to bed. All week, we'll be celebrating our 700th episode of this show, and we couldn't be happier to have a very special message from a very special listener indeed. Michael Tito's Vodka Schlaugenhauser, the mayor of Crab Apple, had these kind words to say coming out of Crab Apple Tavern.

I love you with everything I got.

I swear to God, I don't care about nothing.

I don't care about nothing, okay? You're all I need in life.

You're all I need?

I promise you. I don't need nothing else. All this shit is just for the birds, man. It's me and you. To forever to death do us part, okay? Ain't no turning back now. They ain't going to respect us. They ain't going to hate us. That's really the death, you hear me?

Well, mayor Dinos, I can confidently say a nickname has never been more rightfully earned.

All this stuff is just for the birds, man.

On this episode of the Commercial Break. There's just a couple of hundred thousand podcasts, I think, that have put out more than 100 episodes. You get up to 700. I don't know. Maybe there's a couple of hundred of us. Yeah, we need to look into that. We do need to look into that. It's a hard thing. It is It's a hard thing to do, and I can only imagine, too, if somebody's doing it by themselves. Oh, yeah. At least you and I have each other to be accountable to. Yeah, that doesn't even work all that much. I don't want to record today. Okay. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is the Christie to My Brian, Chris and Joy, Holy. Best to you, Christie. And best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. You made it to 700 episodes of the commercial break. It's un fucking believable that this podcast made it to seven episodes, let alone 700 episodes. And you've been here with us for some of it. So thank you very much.

We appreciate it. There's a few out there. I think there's a few. Tina is one. Tina might be one that's been listening since the very beginning. I think there's a couple of others who claim that they've been listening since the beginning, so that's good. I know one or two that write in often. I think Maryanne has probably been around since the beginning. Roxanne. Roxanne has been around since close from the beginning. Gustavo has been around, but those are family members, so I don't know if we can count them. Rachel. Rachel. Rachel has been around since the beginning. Rachel was on at the beginning, actually. She was on episode number, I don't know, 10 or 11 or 12 or something like that. Anyway, here we are, 700 episodes into the commercial break. Thank you for all of the love, the support, the kindness, the downloading on a consistent basis. It has been a wild ride, to say the least. I don't want to get too celebratory. A thousand episodes. That's when we go fucking bananas. But 700, every time we hit another 100. It's amazing. It's something to be said for it. Of course, we just hit 500 three months ago, so now we're at 700.

It's also unbelievable how much content we put out. It's really a grind. It can really be a grind. I mean, not that I'm complaining. We don't dig ditches for a living. It's just anything you do. The beast has to be fed. The beast has to be fed. No rest for the weary. That contract does not flex. It just does not flex. It says, We are obligated to be here for a certain amount. Actually, I was the one who told them we would be here for a certain amount of time, so it's my fault. I agreed to it. Honestly, he was actually willing to let us be a little bit flexible, but I was like, No, we'll be here every day for the next three 3,300, 1,000 years. Don't worry about it. We'll figure it out. But hey, you know what? There is something to be said for longevity. I think there's something to be said for reps. Even ChatGPT agrees that the show, the consistent content that is put out on a frequent basis. Consistent mediocre content. Yeah, the consistent mediocre content put out on a consistent basis is better or worse than really good content put out just a few times a year.

There are some podcasts who literally put out one or two episodes a year. I think there's a very famous podcast. I wish I could remember the name of the guy. He's a famous author. He puts out two podcasts a year, and they're less than 60 minutes each time. People fiend over them, and sponsors pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be attached to those two episodes. Let's do that. Yeah, that's what I was going to think. I mean, if we had that cachet, maybe we could. But let's be real. If the last 699 episodes have been any example of what we would put out twice a year, no one's paying $100,000 to be on that show. We could really work on them. We could spend the rest of the year just really working on those. If I could make the money that we're making now, which would still leave me in debt, but at least it's something. It's better than some podcasters. If we can make the money we're making now, only putting out two episodes a year, you believe you me. I would be in Majorca Well, not on this paycheck, but on some paycheck.

I would be in Majorca for three months of the year. I would be at every school. My kids would hate me by the end of it because I would just be lounging around the house, bothering them. Listen, There is a small sense of pride about hitting 700. I don't know what it is about the number 700, but it feels like we've really accomplished something. I think there are- It's a lot. I think there have been three and a half million podcasts, the individual podcasts that have been put out there. I think if the statistic that I remember correctly is less than 50% of them will make it past episode number 10, less than 50% of that will make it past episode 50, and the numbers just dwindle after you get past 100. There's just a couple of hundred thousand podcasts, I think, that have put out more than 100 episodes. You get up to 700. I don't know. Maybe there's a couple of hundred of us. Yeah, we need to We need to look into that. We do need to look into that. It's a hard thing. It's a hard thing to do. And I can only imagine, too, if somebody's doing it by themselves.

Oh, yeah. At least you and I have each other to be accountable to. Yeah, that doesn't even work all that much. I was going to say something. Hey, I don't want to record today. Okay. We'll just make it up on another day. Yeah, we'll just do it on another day. But I was sharing with Chrissy and Tina, when you do a podcast that is largely dependent on your personality, you do have days where it's just like, I'm not feeling it today. I'm just not feeling it. I don't want to be funny. It's ready, set, funny. That's hard to do. That's not obvious by some of the episodes, then I don't know what else to tell you. I mean, there's sometimes when it just falls flat, but you get to do another rep tomorrow and you get to hit it out. There's one around the corner. This is how I feel about the podcast now. Most of them, I would say 65 to % of the shows I find to be okay, listenable, right? There's like an additional 20. If we're saying 70 % are okay, listenable. In other words, I think it's worth listening to, but I'm not sure it's the funniest thing the best thing ever.

There's another 20 % of them that I think are funny. They're good episodes. Their belly laughs. Their belly laughs once or twice in the episode. There's 10 %, so maybe 70 of our episodes that I think I would consider really good TCB episode, shining example of what we can do on our best days, motivated, not feeling like shit. Just all the stars aligned, something funny comes along, and we hit it out of the park. I think 60 of those include Frankie B. But anyway, Okay. Then there's probably 10 episodes, 10 to 15 episodes of the commercial break that I would think I would call classic, really fucking great episodes of the commercial break, hitting on all cylinders at all moments. We're just going. If someone has lit a fire under us and we're just going. This is not one of those, but we are at 700, so that's how it rolls. But I also know that at any moment, we can hit one of those episodes. So I feel like the more reps that we do- Chasing the dragon. Yeah, I'm always chasing the dragon. It's like a heroin addiction. I'm always looking for the next high.

That high. Yeah, I'm always looking for that high. That first line of cocaine, that first hit of acid, that first time you take mustard. Cocoleaf. Cocoleaf. Yeah, I'm still up for... I'm still up for someone wants to go into a Cocoleaf business. Are Cocoleaves illegal to have, to possess? I have to imagine they are. Yeah, I would think so. Like unprocessed, not cocaine, but coco leaves. I wonder if that's true. We'll have to take a look at that. I know that it's legal. I think it's legal to grow poppy, but I think you have to grow it for food purposes, the stuff that comes out of Maryland. Like poppy seeds. Like poppy seeds. So I think you can grow the poppy seeds, but only if you use them for tea. Speaking of poppy seeds, just on a totally different note, did you know that a lot of people buy poppy seeds in bulk and then make tea out of it to get high? Isn't that weird? That seems like a lot of effort. I don't like effort getting high. I want Dee to show up at the front door. Make it easy. Yeah, I didn't even like leaving my house to get the drugs.

I had someone come to me and I paid extra for that, a lot extra for shitty drugs that came to my house. But anyway, I digress. 700 episodes, Christie Congratulations. I'm going to go to Mexico soon. I'm going to investigate the cocoa leaf thing, though. In whether or not you can bring them back? Mm-hmm. Why? Are they legal in Mexico? I don't know. Oh, okay. I'm going to investigate. They are illegal here. They're a schedule 2 substance. You have to have clearance from the DEA to grow the plant. That makes sense. To grow the plant, to own it, to have them? Yeah. Okay. I imagine there's- Don't bring them back, Chrissy. Don't bring them back. I love you. That was weird. He's like, I'm going to go to Mexico and investigate. Why? Why not investigate Okay. She's got to go to Mexico. Because I don't think I could get my hands on any here. That's what I was thinking. That's where my thought process was. I don't think you would probably get any in Mexico. It's got to be illegal in Mexico, too. I would think so. But I'm sure it's more likely that you could get your hands on some in Mexico.

I I don't think there's any drug dealers running around with coco leaves in their pocket. Hey, man, you got that coco leaf? You can clean them out of their jaws, though. Yeah. Like, reboiling the same tea leaves. Yeah, but you'll lose your teeth. That's the part about it. How do you lose your teeth with it? Well, here is a fun fact that I believe is actually true. This will count as something that I said that might be a fact. Novocaine is a derivative of cocaine. It has the same structure as cocaine. That's the reason why it numbs your mouth. That's also the reason why your doctor might say to you, your dentist might say to you, you may feel your heart race a little bit after I give you this lot of Novocaine. It may raise your blood pressure a little bit. It's because it's doing some of the same things that cocaine does to your body. Essentially, we are still using this cocaine, some derivative of cocaine in our medical procedures because it does provide anesthesia. Some people say it takes care. You know that when you go to... Another thing that my dad told me, when you go to, say, Peru, because parts of Peru are a mile above sea level, they will give you cocaine tea.

Or coca leaves. Yeah. Tea made of cocoa leaves. My dad went to a hotel once where they prepared it. Turned down service, they prepared it for you because you could get altitude sickness, and they wanted to prevent you. They were trying to help you from getting altitude sickness. I don't want that before my turndown service because I'm never turning down. You know what I'm saying? I'm turning right up. That's turn up service. Turn up for what? But it's a product that's used throughout the... Anyway, whatever. I think, apparently, at Machu Picchu, they give it to you or used to give it to you on your ascent up. Oh. I just read a story about a couple that broke up while going to Machu Picchu, which I think is a weird place to break up. I know. The guy broke up with somebody at Machu Picchu. It was like, I didn't want to date her. I didn't know what to say. We ended up on the trip and I thought, well, Machu Picchu would be a good place. It's like Machu Picchu. You're going to break up with somebody to Machu Picchu? No. Just text her, bro.

Listen, that's a story you don't want getting around, that you broke up with somebody while you were on a trip to Machu Picchu, one of the most remote places on Earth, by the way. It's not like you just zipping on a car up on to Machu Picchu. It didn't take three days to get up there or something, right? You have to hike into the woods. I think it takes a little while. Anyway. I know that there's a squirly motherfucker or two out there who grow cocoa leaves. There's got to be here in the United States. I mean, I don't know how you grow them or where you get a hold of coco seeds, but you know there's a squirly son of a bitch out there. You would think so. Yeah. Because if you look at it, I don't even know what a coco plant looks like. I think it just looks like a plant, like a fern. You know what we should do? Go to Mexico, get yourself a hold of some coco stems, just pluck a couple out the ground or find somebody who can do that for you. Bring it back, say it's a fern, and let's start growing them in my house as ferns.

Then the kids will never go to sleep. They'll be chewing on the ferns. It does look like a fern, doesn't it? I'll investigate. It looks like a bay leaf. Looks like a bay leaf. Yeah. See, I told you we should have these right next to the bay leaves. I think you're on to something with that. In the publics. Yeah, I back it. I'm just going to bring them back and put them in a bay leaf package. No one will be the wiser except for the drug dogs. No officer. They're bay leaves. Yeah, Bayleaves. I'm using my stew. That's right. I don't want you to get an anal cavity search like I had that one time. So don't bring bayleaves back. I'm going to need you because we need to get on with the next 700 episodes. We're about to sign another contract. This time I might be a little smarter and I might say, Well, I promise to try. How's that? I'm going to put it in the verbiage in the contract. I promise to try to make these many episodes per year. It's been It's been a ride. It has a lot of good times.

How do you feel the evolution of the podcast has taken hold? Good. Well, we'll be here for the next couple of days, folks. I was even going to take a sip of Okay. Take your sip of water. I should be sipping champagne. We should be celebrating. No, no, no, no, no, the evolution of the podcast over the last 700 episodes. I love it. Yeah? Yeah. Cool. I mean, I don't know. It started off with us telling crazy stories, and we're still doing that. Yeah, we're still doing that. Remarkably, there's still a story or two left in us. And dissecting videos, and we're still doing that. We've added in some interviews, which I love. That's been very interesting. I think that's probably been one of the biggest changes about the content is the interviews, and it's something that I found myself really enjoying. Me too. I haven't enjoyed every moment of every interview, but I've enjoyed in general having people come in and breaking up the content a little bit and allowing us to talk and find other people's perspectives and just talk over the guests, as Bob would say. Yeah, learning about different people. Yeah.

I think the first... If I had to... Let's pretend we were doing a documentary, right? Like a VH1 behind the podcast. He's behind T-C-B. T-c-b behind the podcast. The interviewer was like, Tell us about your journey on the podcasting. I would say that for the first 10 or 15 episodes, I had a loose thought that this would be sketch, comedy, satire, and maybe a little bit of improv. I felt like maybe we could structure it a little bit, and at times we tried. But that was work. Yeah, but that was work. It was work, and it felt constricting. I don't feel that I found the funny in... When I was doing the bits- I remember that. For the first 20 or 30 episodes, that was fun because I got to manufacture that out of a whole cloth, but it took a lot of time, and I had to write everything down, and I had to practice, and then I had to do it over again. It took hours to create those things, sometimes days to create those things. Then when I tried to structure the show, put more structure to the actual content of the show, I found the more that I put structure to it, the less I felt there was freedom to have fun with it.

I always It felt like we had to hit the next beat, hit the next beat, hit the next beat. Then after 50 episodes, I think it got really loose. I would say that in that 100 to 200 range, I think we relied a lot on other people to bring the funny. I don't I mean, other people like guests. I mean like videos, right? We're doing a whole lot of videos. I think the nature of the podcast, really, quite frankly there, I think for a string of 100 episodes, I would say that 70 of them had videos in it. We were doing a video every single day. But also we were only doing two episodes a week, so it was a little bit different. Even then, I found that the improv was where the freedom was to have some fun and to be funny. By the time we turned the corner on episode number 350, I felt like, at least sitting in my chair, I felt like the podcast had a personality. I don't know necessarily what that was, goofy and ADHD and all over the place, but I felt like it had a personality. All we needed to do was just have the freedom to find the funny, and eventually we would get there.

It might take us 10 or 15 episodes, but we would find a good episode in there somewhere. I think after episode, let's say, 500, I felt like we knew what we were doing. We could turn on the microphone, we could figure out an hour of content, we could talk incessantly for 45 straight minutes and not have to worry about it. Now, at episode number 700, I think the episode has a following. I think the commercial break has a following. I think there are people who really enjoy hearing us talk for whatever crazy reason. I think the podcast has taken on a personality of its own. Our little baby is growing up. Then Brian died in a tragic cream and cereal accident. Chewing cocoa leaves with his cream and cereal, Brian had a massive coronary right there at the kitchen table. His children cried, but the listeners did not, for their long suffering is over. The Commercial Break, the worst podcast ever. Yeah, that's how I feel about the podcast. I feel like it's taken on a life of its own. It has. There is a weird thing that has happened with the commercial break that I've, over the last 50 episodes, I've really noticed it does have a life of its own.

There are people out there who really enjoy the show, and They have- God bless you. I know. God bless you. Seriously. Thank you. What are you thinking? What are you doing? What are you doing with your life when you're just listening to us? I mean, I thank you from the bottom of my heart because it provides us a living, but I cannot imagine. I never listen. When I'm editing, I listen to parts of our episode, but I used to listen to every episode because I wanted to hear it and I wanted to listen to what we were doing and see if we could make it better. I gave up on making it better. I just decided, I don't need to listen I just did it. What do I need to listen to it for? Just raw dog it. Yeah. Thank you, Chrissy. Raw dog it. Exactly. That's our new tagline. Raw dog it. Just raw dog it. Raw You're going to get a dog. Chrissy and Brian, raw dog you every Tuesday through Friday. We're going in bald, baby. Going in bald. No hat needed. Yeah, that should be our new tagline, raw dog it, with the Commercial Break.

Yes, I like it. Those have changed. The commercial break, we jizz on it. Our tag lines have certainly changed over the years. Oh, God, we have a tag light every 50 episodes. We find something different to say. It's not for everyone. It's not for everyone. Thank God we don't do that anymore. I'd have to add We Raw Dog it to the end of that. Welcome back to another episode of this, The Commercial Break. Hey, it's not for everybody, but at least it's free. Back news or fiction, 15 minutes or less or your money back. Go to tcbpodcast. Com to collect your earnings. Tcb, We Raw Dog It. Raw Dog It with the commercial break, Brian and Christie. The intro would just be the whole first segment. Oh, yeah, it was. Well, that was also a way to kill minutes. I mean, I think we were doing three minutes of intro for about 180 episodes there. Brian was just blabbering on, If you know, you know. I-k-n-y-k-d-y. I know you know. Oh, my God. I was on Instagram the other day, and the worst offender of I-K-N-Y-K-Y-D-Y, or whatever that is, if you know, you know, the worst offender, literally put it four stories in a row.

I-k, whatever that is, If you know, you know. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. Showing an inside of a random bar or restaurant on every photo. It's like, well, I don't know because not everybody lives in your fucking town. So why don't you let us know so that way we're on the joke also. This must be the coolest place on Earth. If you know, you know, are the only people that know. I'd like to know, too. Can you let me in? It doesn't have the name of the place, doesn't say why they're there, doesn't give any information about why or why not it's cool or not. It's like, it's so dumb. And then Astrid puts it on our Instagram post just to piss me off. Yes, she does. Astrid, you're fired. After 700 episodes, Astrid's fired. All right, let's take a break. We'll be back. Celebrating 700 with 700. I'll explain after this break. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears, and I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail.

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There's no specific stats on over 300, so they're not really tracking that. But you have to imagine that if you double that, at least half of those are out, at least half of those are out the door, and then you add some more. I would say we're probably one of a couple thousand that have gotten to episode number 700. If we get to a thousand, which if we're here and we're kicking and the fans are still listening to us, I hate saying that word, hate saying that word. If the listeners are still here, then we will, I think- Be in the operation. We will win just because we did it for this long. Do you know what I'm saying? I mean, at some point, Joe Rogan just became famous because he was 7,000 episodes in. People were like, There's so much of Joe Rogan. How can I ignore it? Do you know what I'm saying? We will win just by staying steady, staying the course, mediocre all the way. It doesn't matter that only 15 episodes are good. We're going to keep on going. We'll add a 16th by episode 1,000, I promise. When we get to episode 1,000, at least 0.

15% of our episodes be ones you want to listen to. Also, I wanted to say this, and I got lost in my thought, which happens often here. The podcast has taken a life of its own, and for the listeners, who at least the ones that interact with us, it's interesting to see what the podcast means to them, how it affects them in their daily life, how when they listen, they get a giggle, or it helps them through their workday, or it's helping them through a divorce, or whatever the situation may be, the stories are endless. But that, to me, feels I don't feel like we're saving little kittens from trees, but we're doing something. Yes, no. We're doing something. I can appreciate that. Brian's ranting all the time about something or other. Brian's getting more miserable in his old age, and you're listening. Okay, I guess we're all going to get cranky together. Let's do that. 700 episodes. Christie, there's only one other content creator that I can think of where the number 700 really means something. That's, of course, the 700 Club. Yes. Yes. The Venerable Morning Show that is bought and paid for on your local, CBS, NBC, CW.

Your own personal Jesus. Cw. Your own personal Jesus. That's a good one. That's a good way to put it. It's your own personal Jesus. The televangelists that have enough money to take over an hour of morning television every day. It's not because the network wants that content, it's because they pay for that airtime. The 700 Club, of course, is headed up or was headed up, I think now his son does it, by the Robertson family, Pat Robertson and his whole Pat Robertson Ministry bullshit. He's one of the few televangelists from the '80s that survived the downfall of all the '80s televangelists who were in some way, shape, or form, upscaling with cash. I guess you give him a little bit of credit there. But Pat Robertson has got to be one of the biggest idiots that ever lived in this entire world. He's dead now, and I'm not going to dance on somebody's grave, but I don't miss him because he was a bigot, a racist, an interpreter of the Bible, and any which way he saw fit to twist the words to make sure that it fit his narrative. His narrative was always crooked.

It was always wrong. It was always weird. Pat Robertson was an old kook, if you ask me. He was just a weirdo. An old kook. He was an old kook. I mean, he was. He was an old kook. Somebody said to me the other day, they go, He's an old kook. I go, What's a kook? He goes, I don't know. He's a crazy person. I said, Okay. I call him a kook, not a coot. But anyway, he's an old kook. The guy was just a looney tune, and he had been for years. The older he got, the more strange he got. Him and that Kenneth Copeland, they both just got old and got crazier than they ever have been. It's just amazing to me the way that he takes scripture and he interprets it. He one time told a man, wrote in and asked if he should divorce his wife who had Alzheimer's because he didn't recognize her anymore. And said, yes, if she was still in her right mind, she would agree that you needed to go on and find a wife who could fulfill her wifely duties. Unfortunately, the time was up for whatever.

I mean, just a crazy. Aids had caused I don't know, the tsunami and the hurricane was coming for Florida because that's where the gay people live. I mean, the guy was just all over the place. Terrible human being, terrible human being. But there is comedy in some of these situations, as we found over our 700 episodes. I waited respectfully, at least a year or two after Pat Robertson died. But now I think it's fair game. I think it's probably fair game the day after he died. But you know what? Here we are. The CBN Network, the 700 Club, Let's review one of my favorite segments with Pat, which was when Pat took phone calls and answered questions. You ready? Yes, I'm doing it. I was trolling on the internet. As you do. As I do like What to do. Here's some 700 Club. Oh, is there... Do we have that on mute? Yeah. Let's try that again. That's weird. Oh, there we go. Some life's biggest issues such as why does God heals some and not others? How can you love a toxic family member? Do pets go to heaven? Has the Ark of the Covenant been found?

Yes, it has. The Ark of the Covenant. Indiana Jones, number 4. It was found. Actually, the Indiana Jones, Ark of the Covenant was found. What about Noah's Ark? And more. Your questions take center stage. Look at this stock photography. This guy on the phone, very concerned about whether or not the Ark of the Covenant has been found. Hey, Jim, it's me, Bob. Hey, did they find the argument of the Covenant? I got a meeting letter on today. I need the answer. All show long on today's 700 Club. Showing young people on the telephone. Hey, what up? Flippity flop, jizzity jizz. I'm on fleek. Did they find you out in the Covenant yet? Well, I think Pat got liberal in his old age because there was stock photography of a Black person. So there you go. That times do change. Old couts get a little less cooody in their old age. You know what I'm saying? Welcome, folks.

It's really wonderful.

Look, he's back. Tails from the Crip. He does look like the Cripkeeper. He is the Cripkeeper. What are you talking about? And a blue sweater. Yeah, this is right before he died, by the way. I think this is from 2020 or 2021 or something like that. But that blue sweater is something straight out of Mr. Rogers, and that face is something straight out of hell. I mean, listen, everyone's going to get old and nasty at some point. It just happens to us, right? Could have happened to a nicer person. Let's put it that way.

Be back with you at this particular place and to talk today about your questions and hopefully some honest Messers.

Hopefully my chin don't fall off. His jaw. Hopefully my jaw don't separate from my face.

You call from all over America and you left your voicemail questions. Today, we're going to hear your voices on the air, and I will do my best to answer.

I'll do my best to offend as many people as possible so I can make the news tomorrow. That's what he did. He'd like to make the news It's true, Chris. It really is true how the ears get bigger. The ears got huge. Have you not noticed Brian's ears are getting big? Because he's a sinner, Christie. A sinner.

Wendy's here with us, the lovely lady.

She's got tits, I enjoy.

Just back from the Ukraine, he's been in the war zone.

There's so many killings and murders going on. It wasn't the same without you because you and I were in the war zone in Israel one time.

If the smell of cornade in there, it's no But it's good to be caught.

The smell of dead bodies doesn't get you going, I don't know what will. She's like, I smell a dead body right now. I think it's yours, Pat. Great to have Pat with us today. We've got a question we're I'm going to start with Patricia. She's from Hawthorn, California.

Go ahead. My question is, can people get saved when they're on their deathbed and go to heaven? Because I'm confused there because in In that case, we could all just sin our whole lives and then just get saved when we're ready to die.

Could you please clear up that? Well, that's what I'm hoping for, Katherine. She's like, Damn it, I wanted to sin all of this my life, but I didn't. She's like, My husband is a fuck nut, and he's been sinning his entire life and now claims he wants to be saved. Can you please explain why he's going to go to hell?

Confusion for me. Thank you, Pat.

Clear up the confusion for me. Like, Pat knows. Like anybody knows. Yeah.

Well, the thing of it is you never know when you're going to die. So if you decide you want to spend your life sinning, death may come sooner than you thought. But you remember the thief on the cross? He said to Jesus, he said, Remember me, Lord, when you come into your kingdom? And Jesus said, This day you will be with me in paradise.

So the answer- We can all go crazy. Yeah, I love it. But remember, you never know when you're going to die.

It's He didn't say, And have you said the sinner's prayer? Do you go to church? Have you done this? He said, This day, because it was a confession of faith in Christ, and yes, you could make it on your deathbed, but I wouldn't presume on saying, Well, I'll send boldly that Grace Mayo Brown. Don't even- I wouldn't presume Grace may, Bradley Brown, and Bobby Brown, and Whitney Houston.

I wouldn't presume. Does that answer your question? What did he just fucking say? I don't Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston? That's what I heard.

I think of that.

Good advice. All right. Great advice. Great advice on the Bobby Brown there, Pat. She has to say that. She's so beholden to him. Thanks, Pat. Phyllis from Cincinnati, Ohio, has this question for Pat.

I was calling to ask a question about retirement savings and investing.

Oh, my God.

His perspective on that, and is that important or are we being too worldly when we think that way?

God forbid, we'd be too worldly, Phyllis, from Cincinnati.

I don't think there's anything close and worldly. I think we're all supposed to manage our affairs properly, and I think we should give to the church and tithe and buy another airplane and put me in these pretty blue sweaters and get me Viagra and a pretty co-host and wheel me around from strip club to strip club when no one's looking.

Hope my teeth fell out.

Invest for their retirement. There's nothing in the world wrong with that. I believe- Sounds like Daffy Duck.

In the stock market, I believe in investing.

I think that we should be intelligent with our hand.

You are one of the richest Christian preachers that has ever lived. Of course, you believe investing. Investing investing in you, tithing to the church to make you and your family personally wealthy without taxation. Congratulations, Pat. You have pulled off one of the biggest con jobs in television history.

How money We're stewards, and we're stewards of our life. We're stewards of what we do, and we're stewards of who we are. So you are a steward.

I'm not. I'm a Phyllis.

Not a steward? When Jesus said, When you render to Caesar with Caesar, you render to God with God.

When you buy little Caesars and little Caesars, then you get pizza with God. Christie, just remember those words. You paused it on right where his tongue is sitting. Excuse me. My lips are dry. Give Uncle Pat a kiss, Chris. Give Uncle Pat a kiss on his penis. Don't let me picture that. Do you remember when Pat was a younger man and he had the nipples of a bodybuilder? I'll show you.

Well, I mean, for example, giving, you've got to have some money to give. The more you get, the more you can give away.

The more you get, the more you can give Uncle Pat for his kiss on his penis.

That's what I think. I thank God and said, Look, if you prove me with ties and offerings, you read Malachi, I'll open the windows of heaven and pour you such a blessing.

Open the windows with Malachi and pour the water out the blessings. Don't you see? Come Come here. Give me a good pat of of their kiss on the lips. Let me get them. Let me moisten them for you. Don't mind the makeup. It'll come off later.

It contained. What do you do with that blessing? Well, you can give more away. That's the way I think.

Okay? That's right. He found a way to make it about it. No, he totally did. He found a way to make it about it. Yeah, give more to us. Yeah, give more to the church and less to your family. Hey, Amen. An interesting question from a viewer in Norfolk, Virginia. Hello, Pat. I like to think that we live at a pretty good time in history. If you could choose any other time throughout history, when would you want to live? Oh, here we go.

You know something? I think this is as good a time as we could possibly have had.

By the way- I'm the richest I've ever been. Yeah. Pat, there's no problem with the time you're living here because you have done very well for yourself. I will say this about Pat and take this for what it's worth, but I think it's important to point out. In 2020, Pat Robertson did correctly predict that Donald Trump would be there would be attempted assassinations on his life twice. He predicted it would happen in 2020, but he predicted it would happen. Now, he was wrong about the year. But when I heard that, I was like, wow.

Can you imagine? I was thinking today as I was eating. I ate oatmeal for breakfast. It runs right through me like a hot fire.

But I love that oatmeal, Christie. It's soft. It's soft and it's lovely. It's like my mother's bosom. I was thinking the other day, if I could be alive in the time of the Romans, I could have bathed with other men without promiscuity. But I'm not alive then, so I bathe with other men in secrecy. It's just a little bit different, Chrisair.

We live in a world of plenty. We have warm clothes, we have beautiful food. We have the abundance of food in the grocery store where you can get, and we have freedom in America.

That's right. When you live in Carmel, California, you get anything you want, Pat.

I really think heaven is going to be wonderful. But I do think that he's given us a right nice world to live in right now. I don't think... If I lived at the time of Jesus, I wouldn't have believed in him. He was an itinerant preacher, and I wouldn't have believed in him. So many feel, only a few did.

They had- Flappy, flabby, flippity, flabby. I believe in Jesus. I wouldn't have believed in him, but I believe in him now. What does he say? I don't know. He wouldn't have believed in Jesus back then, but he believed in him now. Too much of a hippie, I is what he's saying. He's an itinerate preacher, which I think means liberal. Wait to see the fulfillment of prophecy even then.

So what time?

What time is it? Unless Lunchtime? I believe. What are we doing? We're reading emails? Okay, let me put my teeth back in.

This is as good a time in this country as you could possibly have. I'm very grateful that I was born as was said, I won the ovarian lottery.

I'm white and I'm smart and I'm living in heaven. The ovarian lottery. Yeah, he's so evil. I love on the ovarian lottery. Look at that face. Oh, that's a face of a lover.

I could have been born in India to a poor family.

How highly offensive. I mean, I know. How highly offensive, Pat. You could have been born a different color and poor. You're right. You could have. Now, listen, to defend what he's trying to say, I think, means he's taking some realization that he, in fact, has been lucky in his life. But since I know Pat Robertson, and I've heard all of the terrible things he's ever said as a noted racist and bigot and homophobe, I think he's just pouring more salt in the wounds people who can't afford a pretty television studio in three private planes. That's right. God says he appoints the times and the seasons. Exactly. We're all supposed to be here. That's right. I love the fashion and the '40s. If I could go back- I love Tradwise. I love Tradwise. It's so awesome.

I go back to the '40s. I don't care about the fashion. I care about life and health.

I don't care about you, you silly little bitch. Who's this A woman talking over me? Snap it.

We've had so many breakthroughs in health care and everything. I mean, this has been a wonderful time to live. Amen.

I'm trying to keep my job. Amen. Let's move on. Lee from Kenner, Louisiana, has this question. Hello, Pat. My question for you today is, I understand loving unconditionally and to love your neighbor as yourself. But, here it goes. How do you love a family that is very toxic and still glorify God?

What boundaries do I have and still walk into question value?

Thank you, God. I can't wait for this one. Watch the hypocrisy flow through the scripture now, kids.

I think you can love them yourself if they've hurt you. If you have all against any, you forgive them. But you don't have to be in the presence of somebody that's toxic. The apostle Paul says you don't even to eat with certain people. I think if somebody is a Christian, for example, but- If you eat with a homosexual, Christie, Paul says you don't have to eat with a homosexual, but you can lay with a homosexual if I'm understanding the scripture correctly.

While Jesus said unconditional love to everyone, there were some conditions on that love. Ezequiel 3: 4. 4 said, He who has dark skin He need not love. He needs a shunning. So just remember that. And by the way, I need an eyebrow trimming.

You don't have to expose yourself to people who are unpleasant. They'll tear you down always. You get in the presence of a negative thinking, Well, this is terrible. I feel so bad. Isn't the weather awful? Isn't the government terrible? They're all a bunch of crooks. You don't want to listen to that junk, so you're better to- He would not have been a fan of the commercial break.

No, not at all.

It's like, Would you want to take a garbage can and pour it on your- God, was that his hand?

Jeez, that was his hand? God. That looked like from Lord of the Rings. Yeah, it's Golem. Yeah. She puts the peaches in the basket.

Every morning, the answer is no. You don't have to be around them. The fact that they're there in the neighborhood, just avoid them. You go someplace. There are lots of people in America. Around the world, there are about seven billion people. So surely you can find companions that are, not toxic.

Unconditional love doesn't mean without condition. That's not what that means. It's not the definition. From a distance.

I love them from a distance.

All right, is this stupid bitch still sitting next to me? Somebody get my hand and fell on the floor. I made a booboo in my pants. Can I get a clean up? I'll, too. From New York City. Hi, Pat. My name is Luke. Is it okay for a Christian to play Lotto and play press game for money being that it's legal? I'm interested to hear this answer, actually.

The question about money is, are you depending on, for example, Are you praying? Before I came to the Lord, I played poker. I'd sit there praying to pull to an inside straight or to get a heart.

I'm picturing him at a table with Kenny Rogers. I know. You got to know when to hold them, know when to photo. Praying for an inside straight. Know when to pray for help. Oh, God. What an interesting life Pat has lived.

We have a flush. Did you ever get one? I mean, sometimes yes, sometimes no. But I mean, if you put all your money out and you're gambling, that way is so destructive. I also think it's the wrong way to finance a country or a state with having legal gambling and all these- Sending all the poor people to college and giving them meals before for school and helping out with different things.

This isn't that, Christie. I just think that's the wrong way to finance things. What you need to do is ask people to send you money in an envelope for Holywater That I basically got out of my sink. That is a better way to go about things, Chris.

Rich, quick skip. What was that? No, that wasn't.

That wasn't me. Roll it back. Roll it back. Take your finger, roll it back. Hold on one second. Honestly, I want to hear this. Hold on one second. Yeah, what was that? Yeah, just swipe your finger backward just a little bit, like over to the left. There you go. Okay, one more time. Just swipe it over to the left. Okay, listen to this.

And all these get-rich quickscap.

That was not me. I did not do that. That was Brad Robertson farting. That's It's incredible.

It sounded like a demon trying to escape.

Oh, my God. Oh, I got an unholy monster in my anus. Do that again. Turn that back. Three swipes. Let's lead up to it. I want to see what happens. Everybody looked at me.

I also think it's the wrong way to finance a country or a state with having legal gambling and all these get-rich-quick Oh, my God.

They caught that on the hot mic. Someone just went out an unholy wind. That was an unholy wind, my friends. Okay, I think that's a good plan. It's for a break. Everybody looked at me. I was like, That wasn't me. I thought it was you. No. Oh, my God. That was funny. That That was good. Good job, Beth. All right. Praise God. He dropped a bomb, I dropped my phone. There we go. All right. We'll take a break. We'll be back. Rachel here. While Brian takes his old man bladder to the little boys' room, Let's talk turkey. Tcb needs your help. If you love the show, do us all a favor and share. Sharing is caring, and we know you care. Don't you? Well, don't you? Oh, that was some childhood trauma. Rearing its ugly head. Do you want to be on the show? Leave us a voicemail at 212-433-3822, and you could be the next TCB disembodied voice. What'd you do today? I was a disembodied voice? You know, that sounds more dangerous than it actually is. Find us on Insta @thecommercialbreak. On the web at tcbpodcast. Com, and all the episodes on video are available the same day at youtube.

Com/thecommercialbreak. I'm going to go help Brian get back up the stairs while you listen to the sponsors, and then we'll meet back here and get back to this episode of the Commercial Break. I'll take a raise now. Bitches, bye. Oh, Rachel sounds good on those liners. She does. Yes, she does. She's a laugh a minute. All right, we're listening to Pat Robertson, trying to digest his Oatmeal. Yeah, that might have been his stomach. Yeah, it was his Oatmeal. I don't know what that was, but that was unholy. That's either someone in the behind the scenes with a hot mic or the lady just farted or he just farted, and it just sounded terrible. I mean, terrible. All right, let's get back to Pat answering whether or not we should be playing lotto. Scratch off. His answer so far, nonsensical.

I think the best way to achieve money is little by increase the law of use. That's financial curve. If you do that, there'll be plenty of money.

The law of use. The law of curves, Kirstie. The law of curves. I've been following them my entire life, the law of curves. Curve. What is that? What is the law of curves? The law of financial curves. The law of use, the financial curve, little by little. Is that how you did it, Pat? Yeah.

Well, playing the games, if you want to take $5 and put it in a thing like that and don't worry I mean, I can't say that's a sin. That's your business. But if you begin to pray and let that be the source of your income, it is such utter foolishness. It's such an utter foolishness to spend your money on the scratch cards and the lap dances and the booze and the beer and all the wine and the women.

Send it to me and I'll do that on your behalf. Lynn from Clarey, Pennsylvania, has this question for Pat.

My name is Lynn, and I'm from rural Pennsylvania.

We have a bunch of rural churches in our area that have anywhere from 15 to 100 people in their congregation, and it seems like people are not wanting to come into the church building.

My question is, what are some ideas on how to take our church out in the community that you might have for us?

I don't know. Well, people don't want to come into the church building because they don't want to get sanctified in your fucking, in your hypocrite box. That's just what's going on. People are becoming less and less secular because they feel like religion is not very modern. It doesn't fit the modern idea of spirituality. I think that while religion in and of itself is not always harmful and that there's lots of people who go to churches and different religions, and they make great use of their time here on Earth doing lots of good for other people, I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think religion has done a lot of good. I also think it's done a lot of not so good. When you walk in and all you're doing is getting a lecture from somebody about how wrong your life is, and they're sitting there probably doing the same thing or worse, Why are you so connected to God that you can talk down to me, but I have to sit here and give you my money and listen to the beat-up session, feel guilty, walk out? Listen, it's all a big racket.

That's what it is. It's a big fucking racket. It's been going on since the beginning of time. I'm not saying every single piece of religion should be tossed out or whatever, but I just think the way that it's been interpreted, Chris. It's out foolishness. Praise Jesus, brother. Praise Jesus in this oatmeal getting down my tummy. I think the way it's been interpreted, it leaves power and money to a few while the rest of the people feed into it. It's another MLM. That's all it is. But the product they're selling is your soul. That's it. It's like life coaching.

I think one of the biggest churches, I think, was out there in Arizona, where the pastor read in busses, and he went out in the neighborhood to bring the kids to Sunday school. A lot of people were- No, sounds perfectly safe.

Religion has a track record of being great for kids. Bust those kids on in. Hey, kids, come on the happy bus. We're going to go to church.

Go to church, but they love to have their children go to church. So if you've got a bus in the church and you say, I'll pick up your children at 9: 00 AM on Sunday morning, How tone deaf is this?

How absolutely tone deaf is this? Yeah. Also, he's saying that the parents don't want to go to church, but they want to send their kids to church. I'm sorry. As a parent, that does not ring true to me. I don't mind my kids learning about religion. As a matter of fact, we have considered bringing them to non-denominational church or even the Catholic church, just so they can go and get an idea of what God is and Jesus and how it all came, Mother Mary and all that other shit. They want to believe in that. If that's what they choose to do, I'm not going to stop them, nor am I. They might listen to the commercial break and think I'm not a big fan, but I'm not going to tell them to their face they shouldn't be doing that as long as I think it's healthy and safe for them. But what's not healthy and safe, it's sending your kids on a random bus to a church because you feel too lazy to go. Then again, that is two hours alone with my wife. Where's the local church bus when you need it? Yes. Sorry, kids, we're taking our chances.

We're gambling in a different way.

The next thing that mom and dad will follow. I think that's how one pastor in Phoenix grew to one of the biggest churches in America by having a fleet of busses. I got some old busses.

I'm sure a little rural church in Pennsylvania that has 15 people going can afford a fleet of busses. Well, you don't need a bus, Christian. That's right. Second off, the kids. The whole kid thing is weird. You get an old ice cream van and you paint a dark color so the kids know you're coming, and then you slide open the door. Maybe you put a water bed in there so that the kids can have some fun. You slide open the door and you say, Come, kids, come with me. Come with Uncle Pat. Kiss his penis. I kiss me on the penis.

Picking up people. That's very creative. Yeah. It worked. It worked.

You know what's creative? Is that lady's hairdo? That's what's creative.

Tell me more on that. Tell me more on that. Okay.

Okay, well, here's Cindy from Louisville, Kentucky. She's there to just keep him moving along. She is.

My question is, concerning the art of the Covenant, do you think it's still out there?

Will it ever be found or has it been lost forever?

Thank you.

Why, Cindy, are you thinking about this in Louisville, Kentucky? What are you thinking about? Have you been watching Indiana Jones? I'm thinking about things. She says, My question is considering the Ark of the Covenant. Is that the question? We're considering the Ark of the Covenant? I don't get the beginning of the question, but do you think it's still out there will ever be found? Something that pertains to the Ark of the Covenant. My question has to do with, pertains to, is about the Ark of the Covenant, not considering. But I get where you're going, Cindy. I'm just wondering exactly why you're going there. What made you wake up on this side of the bed this morning?

It made Steven Spiel Spielberg a pretty good movie in search of the missing mark of the Covenant. I think it's long gone. I don't think there's any hidden arc, but it did make an interesting movie, and that's where you got In Search of the Lost Art. Sure was a good movie.

She Good movie. Good movie. Let's move on, sinners. Okay, this question from a viewer in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Yes, my question for Pat is on the second Coming of the Lord. On the one side, the word says Jesus is coming as a thief in the night. On the other side, Jesus is coming back and the whole world will see him when he descends from heaven onto the Mount of Olive. I'm a little confused. On the one hand, a thief, on the other hand, everybody will see him. Pat, could you explain the differences in the two statements I just mentioned?

Again, what made you wake up on this side of that? People are really trusting Pat to have all answers of everything. People think Pat is on to something here that he has some wisdom. Pat, life coach Pat. Would you take Pat as a life coach? Me personally, no, but some people apparently put a lot of faith in his answers. So much.

Appreciate the show. I think the idea of a thief in the night means you're sleeping and you're not paying attention, and all of a sudden this thief comes and you weren't expecting him. I think that's the concept is that he's going to come at a time when we're not really awaiting him, the world is not going to expect Jesus to come back again. But in terms when he does come, he will come with a shout of command, with the voice of the Ark of Able, the Trump of God.

The Trump Because the dude, the Ark of the Gable, and the fields in the fable, and Hicory dichory dach. She was stuck in my cock. Listen, I don't really know. I'm almost dead, so I'm not too concerned about any of this right now. Did he just say Trump?

He said Trump something. But it's going to be a big, big deal. It's not going to be quiet. It's going to be a big one. He will descend from heaven.

Or trumpet. Oh, the trumpet. The second coming of Christ. I mean,. Please welcome Thief in the Night. Jesus Christ. All the way from the Mount of Olive, coming down from top of Mount Rushmore. The big guy himself, the one, the only, preaching on an empty dick, Jesus Christ. Let's get ready to mumble. My dick.

With the trumpet of God. But the thief the knife out here is that he's going to be unexpected.

Even for believers? Will we have a sense of the time? Yes, we'll get a text message. There's a national alert system out for this event, you see.

Paul said he won't come upon you unawares because we are expecting. We know the scriptures, but the world doesn't know the scriptures. In the days of Noah, they were spending their time with all kinds of marriage and giving in marriage and having parties and all the rest of it.

It sounds like a great gets me time. You know what I'm saying, Bridget? Yeah. It sounds like you and Jeff over there in your little house. Are you, Jesus?

Partying it up.

You're waiting for the... What are you waiting for? Two camels and two girafes and Jesus Christ on the mountain of the olives with little jalapenos and blue cheese in them?

Then he said, The flood came and swept them all away. That's the unexpected part Got you.

Interesting. Be careful. Got you. I totally understand. Thanks. All right, one more question for Pat before we wrap it up here. Judy from Chico, California has this question for Pat. Chico.

My question is, who are the clouds of witnesses in the Book of Hebrews? That's my question.

Hope I can get an answer. Thank you so much. Wow, she sounds very serious. My question is, who are the clouds of witnesses in the Hebrews? That's my question. Answer it now.

The cloud of wishes of those who have gone before, who have known the Lord. He lists some of the champions of the faith. They're like the witnesses that have lived before us. Mike Tyson, Tiger Budge. An example. When we read the Bible, we read about these champions of the faith, one after the other, that are in these wonderful experiences with God.

Here's an interesting question from Vincent. That was a very short answer. I didn't understand. All right, one more.

My question is, what has been the greatest battle that the Ministry, the 700 Club has had?

Well, that was the battle of 1912, I think.

I think the biggest one was getting started. I started this thing with I had a U-haul trailer, four kids, and no money. I think we were up against it month after month after month. We didn't have enough money to do anything. We were just crying, dependent on God for his mercy. That was the big struggle.

Well, after 700 episodes, Chrissy, and reviewing the 700 Club, I can now confirm, Pat Robertson and the commercial break do indeed have something in common. We are up against it month after month. Getting started was the hardest part. We had $70 in our pocket, trailer full of kids, and we're just trying to make it work. Well, congratulations, my friend. Congratulations to you. After 700... Here's to 700 more. Cheers. I hope you're sitting right there next to me at 1400, just like you were at 700. That's right. Thank everybody out there for taking part in a part of the TCB history. Listen, I don't have any answers for you on Jesus or God or the second coming or the clouds of wisdom or whatever it is, but I will tell you this, it's highly likely we'll be here tomorrow. All right. What else can I say? Pat Robertson, still a kook. He is kookey, man. By the way, this is Pat Robertson rather tame. Some of the stuff he've said I thought about some of the more-He was fiery. Some of the more fiery clips, but I just didn't want to piss everybody in the entire audience off.

I felt like it wouldn't be as funny if he was talking. No, he's funny or he's a crip, Keeker. Yeah, I agree. This must be right before he died. I mean, he really does look very old. How old was he? He died, 90 something? I mean, listen, if you're 90 something and still rolling in the TV studio and answering questions, I guess you got something to say for yourself, All right. Okay. Well, I hope that you're happy out there in heaven, buddy, looking down on all of us. Send me a message. Tell me what it's like. Theresa Caputo it. Oh, yeah. Piggy from me. That'd be interesting. Oh, it would be interesting. You get Theresa Caputo with Pat. Yeah, I'd like to know what Pat's up to. Is he still rolling- He's piggy fronting. Is he piggy fronting around here? That's right. Okay. All right. Hey, listen, Ari Shafir was our guest last week. We would appreciate it you go watch his news special America's Sweetheart on Netflix, available now for you to consume. Ari was certainly one of the more interesting guests we've had in here. Interesting conversation. I agree. Go take a listen to that episode if you haven't heard it.

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