on this episode of the commercial break and there is a dad there and he's got two children and he's got

his children in the showers and he's giving them a full shower he's got a bar of soap shampoo a conditioner and a toothbrush and he's giving them a full shower. He's got a bar of soap, shampoo, a conditioner,

and a toothbrush. And he's telling them to take a full, that's not the intended use of the shower.

Right. It's not to replace the shower at your home. It's just a rinse off. It's a spritz, if you

don't mind, right? I mean, I could even go with, okay, shampoo, all right, okay, you know. Yeah, well, maybe they were going somewhere afterwards. Maybe, maybe. And they needed to be like... These didn't look like the kind of people would be invited anywhere. But, okay. All right. I'll give them the benefit of that now. Where are you invited, too? How did you get invited somewhere?

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The 30 in the morning!

Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Chris and Joy Haudley. Best to you, Chris.

Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. Update on the pool. The algae is winning. That's the first thing I asked today when I saw you. The algae is winning. It was bright blue yesterday and it's turning back a little murky. I think for an hour there yesterday, like right before the sun went down.

It almost looked clear. It almost looked clear. In the right light. Yeah, no. In the right light,

like no light. Asher goes, after the sun went down, it looked great. Yeah. It looked great.

Asherd goes, I think it looks better. And I'm like, it does. It does.

And I woke up this morning and I'm like, ah. I was explaining to Chrissy that the truth is that, you know, if you have any algae in your pool, any green in your pool on the walls or anywhere, really, it means there's not enough chlorine to fight the algae. So the algae is winning the battle already. You can't just have a little spot of algae you can clean up. You've got to shock the whole thing. So there we go. Brian's back at Home Depot. It's buying more acidic chemicals. Are you by the rewards? I was a turpentine in there. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I'm the only one who buys stuff at the pool section at Home Depot. They've had the same fucking chemicals there for 12 years. I swear to God they have. No one buys chemicals at Home Depot, except for Brian. Because I just don't want to go into that pool place again. That guy fucking screwed me last time. I mean, I really spent a lot of money

trying to get the pool straight. And he sent it in one direction, then he sent in the other direction. Then I had to call the professionals to clean it up, which is exactly what will happen this time too. Right. But at least I'll be like $150 in instead of like $1,250 in. So, you know, I'm going to get it right one of these days. You'd think after 10 years of owning this pool, I would have

figured it the fuck out, but I have not at all figured out how to keep those chemicals in balance. But there's also salt, because there's a salt cell on it. So then you've got to, you know, the salt turns into chlorine, so you got to know how much salt equals chlorine, but then is your salt cell working? Is it working effectively? I don't know. I don't know all this.

That's one simple piece of the puzzle I can probably figure it out. Multiple moving parts at the same time.

Right. That's difficult. Yeah, I admire those bull guys. It's a whole dance.

Yeah. I admire those 27 guys. It's a whole dance. Yeah. I admire those 27-something

stoners who spend their entire weeknight drinking at the shadiest bar you've ever been to. And then wake up in the

morning and drag themselves from pool to pool, helping people, you know, have a good time. And it's almost

guaranteed they do not have a pool.

So they're just figuring it out as they go along, too. True. There must be like an apprenticeship

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