Episode #654: The 12 Days of TCB begins, and we are starting this off the only way we know how: drama dropping some hot goss about our guests! Donate to St. Jude & The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund Happy 12 Days of TCB! Bryan isn't into The Bear Billy Strings The end of the Eras Tour We are supporting St. Jude! DRAMA DROP! Our favorite and least favorite guests Yule Logs & Tree Lightings Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the 12 Days of TCB?
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4 Uhr, Wallow in Self-Pity. 4.30 Uhr, Stare in den Biss. 5 Uhr. Solve world hunger. Tell no one. 5.30 Uhr. Jazzercise. 6.30 Uhr. Dinner with me. I can't cancel that again. 7 Uhr. Wrestle with myself. Loathing. I'm booked. Of course, if I want the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?
The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
And we're gonna have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Finn Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kane.
Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Greene, this is the Jingle to my Jungle. Chris and Joy, holy best to you, Chris.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe, welcome to the first annual, the inaugural... 12 Tage TCB, fühlst du dich nicht privilegiert und speziell?
Klingt das nicht wie ein völlig anderer Episode als normal? Ja, es tut. Ich trage meine feste Kleidung, Kristen hat ihre feste... Was ist das, ein Shirt da drüben?
Das ist seine feste Shirt mit einem Beutel.
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Chapter 2: What are the hosts' thoughts on The Bear?
I was hoping you were going to wear a bra. A sparkly Christmas bra? Like in the vacation movies. What was her? Beverly D'Angelo would always come out with some festive negligee on. I was hoping you were going to wear a festive negligee. Well, I guess we all lose on this one. We all lose except for Jeff. Jeff's the only winner of this one. The 12 Days of TCB, thank you very much.
This will start the first of 12 episodes of the commercial break every single day. Why I agreed to this, I have no fucking clue. But here we are doing it as we all rake ourselves over the coals. Ja, es ist eine der Dinge, wo es eine gute Idee klingt, bis du es machst. Hör auf. There's pressure on inventory in December and we're going to need to get extra bonus episodes out there.
And I'm like, sure. And they're like, so can you come up with an idea for a bonus episode or two? And then I come up with the 12 days of TCB. 16 extra episodes. There you go. There's like only two days of December where we're not putting out an episode. I know.
It's fantastic.
Yes.
I was thinking about the 12 days of TCB and I was watching The Bear, which I have started now. Good for you. Hot take, not my favorite show in the world. Years later. Yeah, six years later, Brian starts The Bear. We actually had like a night with nothing. I mean, a night where Astrid and I put the kids to bed and we were both still awake with a little bit of energy left in the tank.
Right, which is rare. Yeah, so she says, let's watch a show. Let's get into a show. I'm like, alright, which show? The Bear. Okay, sounds great. I like that idea. Everyone's been talking about it since 2017. Let's get into that show. And here's my hot take. Loved the music. I mean, the music. Yeah, the music's great. This soundtrack to The Bear is fucking fantastic.
Anytime Wilco, Pearl Jam and Beastie Boys is in the first episode, you can pretty much be guaranteed that the soundtrack is incredible. But I didn't love the show itself. I liked it. I didn't love it. But, you know, I don't know.
Maybe there's been build up for you because everybody's been saying how great it is and it's fantastic. And then now you have these huge expectations.
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Chapter 3: How did the Billy Strings concert go?
Bluegrass isn't my favorite go-to genre of music.
I think Billy Strings has kind of made it a thing.
Yeah, I can appreciate it though. Where did he play? He was in Memphis at the FedEx Forum. So big arena for two nights.
24.000.
Ich glaube, Memphis wäre ein Ort, wo Billy Strings gut wäre. Ein großer Lichtschau. Billy Strings spielt Bluegrass. Ich mag Bluegrass. Er spielt mehr eine Mainstream-Version von Bluegrass. Er macht es in vielen Fällen verfügbar. Er ist auch der zweite Fiddle, keine Worte. Er ist der zweite Fiddle zu vielen anderen musikalischen Arten. Er zeigt sich an anderen Orten und steuert die Show.
Und ich denke, das macht die Leute wollen gehen. Ich meine, es gibt Videos, wo Billy Strings spielt, wie ein Wohnzimmer am Ende eines Partys, bis es 2.30 Uhr ist. two people playing a song and they're blown away and the videos are grainy and awful and he's just, he's really amazing at what he does.
I agree, I agree. So I encourage people to check him out.
So I would imagine that everyone was sober at the Billy Strings concert?
Yeah, of course. I got handed a double tequila right when I first got there.
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Chapter 4: What happened during the Eras Tour?
I think there's definitely a bass that is following him around.
Is he doing like 200 nights a year? I mean, I know he's doing 200 nights a year somewhere, like with somebody. He's showing up places and he's doing things. But I'm interested to know if Billy Strings is like a fish-type tour person. Is he really hitting the road a lot? I guess you must be, if you have a light show and all that, you must be doing a lot of shows in a row. Right.
Because that's a big investment that you gotta make. Speaking of big shows, Taylor Swift ended her Heiress tour. Oh, it As we're recording this over the weekend. I mean, yeah, you'll hear this on Friday. So over the weekend, and apparently that left a lot of people distraught, including myself, because now what's my wife going to talk about?
I mean, what's going to go on for the... What an amazing thing to go.
I mean, how long has it been going on for?
Almost two and a half years, I think. I don't have all the details, but it certainly is. So Astrid was sharing with me, I said, you know... Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. True. True. Das ist süß. Das ist süß. Ich denke, ich kann verstehen, wo Astrid herkommt. Sie ist wirklich involviert in diese kleinen Details. Und es hat Spaß gemacht, um zu sehen, welches Dress sie trägt.
Die Gemeinschaft von Leuten, die darüber sprechen.
Welche Song spielt sie? Wer ist der kleine Junge, der das Hat in der Mitte des Sets bekommt? Und alle anderen kleinen Dinge. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass die Michael Jackson-Bad-Tour, ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass Leute so verrückt über ein musikalisches Event gehen, wie sie es haben. Über die ERAs-Tour. Die ERAs-Tour kommt zu einem Ende.
Astrid sagte, es ist schade, es wird kein weiteres ERAs-Show geben. Ich werde nicht sehen, dass diese Person darüber sprechen wird. Und die Inhalte, die sie online ingestellt hat. Ich erklärte ihr, ich sagte, nicht so sicher sein, dass das das letzte ERAs-Show ist, das es je gegeben hat.
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Chapter 5: Who were the favorite and least favorite guests?
Chapter 6: What are the highlights of the charity efforts?
And unbelievably, the guests came. And they came... Ich bin 100% sicher, dass die Gäste kamen, die keine Ahnung hatten. Eigentlich kamen ein paar von ihnen. Ja, sie kamen. A couple of them did. Like Hannah Berner said that she had listened to the show and she had mentioned that. And that felt very nice to me because Hannah was one of our first interviews and a big celebrity.
Like Hannah Berner doesn't have to stop by the commercial break, but she did. And she could not have been more pleasant as well as her husband, Des Bishop, who was one of my favorites for the year. Des Bishop, I thought, was Hannah and Des. They were both lovely.
They were a great couple.
Do you need me to remind you of who has shown up to the commercial break? Yeah, let's do it. Oh, you want me to tell you? Yeah. Okay, starting backwards. I'm just going to name a few. I'm not going to go through every single one. Ron Funches, Nicky Jam, Jay Pharoah, Reggie Watts made two appearances, Kelsey Cook, Morgan Jay, Doug Bass, Natasha Leggero, Doug Bass.
Das ist einfach unglaublich für mich. Kein Knack auf Doug Bass, aber aus all den Namen, die ich dir jetzt erzählen werde, ist Doug Bass wahrscheinlich einer, den du nicht kennenlernen wirst. Oder vielleicht bist du es. Ich weiß es nicht. Wer weiß. Louis Black, Dulce Sloan, Gina Gershon, Fortune Fimster.
a lot of good ones.
Brian Moses, Scott Seas, Maz Jabroni, Tom Papa, Sam Murill, Rachel Feinstein was a ton of fun, Mo Welsh I loved, Dez came in, Dez Bishop, Hannah's husband, Margaret Cho, the great and powerful Margaret Cho, Mo Gilligan, Henry Hall and Daniel Thrasher from the television show Dinner with the Parents, Joe Dombrowski, Preacher Lawson, Brad Williams, Leslie Liao, Kyle Kinane, Paul Scheer, Lunell,
Joanna Hausman, so viele. Und natürlich die, für die du nicht hier warst, die war Steve-O.
Oh, das ist richtig, Steve-O.
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Chapter 7: What drama unfolded with Veer Das?
And when you have like a legend on the show, you... It's a little intimidating. Well, you wonder if they come with legend attitude. No legend attitude about Margaret Cho whatsoever.
No, she was like laying down, I think. She was laying down, petting her doll.
Yes. In San Francisco. I love it. And she was like, hey guys. And we're like, hey, Margaret Cho. I know. And there was just no pretense about her whatsoever. And I found that to be... She was very easy to talk to. Yes. Steve-O was an interesting interview.
Yeah, I wasn't here for that.
Chrissy had been called away, so I called Tina and I said, Tina... I know you grew up watching Steve-O, so you'll know who Steve-O is. Can you please come in and do this interview with me? It was our second interview ever. And Steve-O's walking in the door. So Tina comes in and I said, okay, Tina, I'll take it. I'll ask the questions. Just jump in whenever you want to. You do whatever you want.
And Tina said, okay. Not only was it Tina's first time ever meeting a celebrity, it was Tina's first time ever on a microphone. So Tina... I don't know any way to put this. It was a deer in the headlights for 63 minutes. But something so comforting about having my good friend in the room when I was doing an interview with someone.
It had to be a little intimidating, too.
I think Steve-O was one of the more intimidating ones, simply because Steve-O, you think of Steve-O, he's a wild card. What are you going to get with Steve-O? He staples his balls to his leg for a living.
I mean, what are you going to get with Steve-O?
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Chapter 8: How did Reggie Watts change the interview dynamic?
That's hard to narrow down.
It doesn't have to be forever.
I love Tom Papas.
Tom Papa was very good.
He was really good. I loved Hannah Berner. I loved Natasha Lejaro. Lejaro.
Lejaro.
Oh, ich meine, Heather McMahon.
Heather McMahon. Heather McMahon. I've learned now that we've done a number of these. I've learned. People come in one of two ways. One of three ways. They come in, they can see it's amateur hour, and they become the professionals and help guide us. In other words, they're the ones interviewing us. They're taking the lead and just making sure that everything is okay.
They don't sound like idiots and we don't. Nummer zwei, sie kommen rein und machen sich ein bisschen weg. Jetzt ist es Amateurzeit und ich werde sie fühlen, als wäre es Amateurzeit. In anderen Worten, sie sind nicht so nett. Oder Nummer drei, sie wissen nicht, was sie denken, also sind wir alle Freunde. Sie wissen nicht, was sie denken. So they just end up having a conversation.
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