Episode #745: Bryan and Krissy arena rare form , and chaos is on the menu—served with a side of mistaken identity and a heaping scoop of AI-generated nonsense. In this episode, Bryan nearly crashes the show with a rogue software update, accidentally confuses Bill Belichick with Bill Bellamy (yes, really), and proudly unveils a brand-new jingle segment: “Bryan Got It Wrong… Again.” But it’s not all confusion and caffeine—there’s a revealing look behind the scenes at how AI (hi, ChatGPT!) now fuels their frantic interview prep for the 12 Hours of TCB. The team digs into their no-holds-barred approach to interviews, jingle writing, and life on a podcast that makes exactly zero dollars and thrives in beautiful disarray. Mistakes were made. Jingles were born. Nobody’s sleeping in this episode of The Commercial Break. The episode opens with a race (literally) to the studio Bryan’s Mr. Bean impression meets studio disaster A rogue computer update nearly tanks the whole production Astrid calls Bryan out on a missing episode (before sunrise!) Bryan puts episodes out “at midnight for your pretty little ears” Bill Belichick vs. Bill Bellamy: The mix-up of the century A new segment debuts: Bryan Got It Wrong… Again! Bryan explains how ChatGPT helps with guest research and jingle work Krissy tries to keep Bryan focused—it almost works Behind-the-scenes of the 12 Hours of TCB interview marathon Why TCB interviews are more barroom banter than biographical deep dives The team’s low-budget, high-effort approach to comedy podcasting “You’re not talking to Terry Gross—this is The Commercial Break” TCB Intro Clips: Hawley Smoot Tariffs didn't work! Watch EP #745 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits Written, Voiced and Produced by Bryan Green 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 chaos unfolds in the studio?
I just locked it, and you have to press in the numbers before you lock it, or else it's the last person's code. And then it just started yelling at me. It was like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, red, red, red. And I was like, okay, all right. So here I am, you know, fat, you know. At least you had your underwear on. Man boobs. Like, yeah, at least I had my underwear on.
So then she comes in, and she was like this. She literally put her hands like horse blinders. And she's like, I just want to make sure no one else is in here. And I'm like, no, I'm the only I'm the only old fat guy you're going to see today. So thank you. I mean, she was like young, too. And I think she was like, oh, God, this is not I don't get paid enough for this.
I don't get paid enough to look at this guy naked.
The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
Ah, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green, this is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris Joy Holdley.
Best to you, Chris.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Why not? Start off with a race. A race. Do you remember that movie with Mr. Bean, like the Great Race or whatever it was called?
Yes, yes, that's right.
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Chapter 2: How does Bryan confuse Bill Belichick with Bill Bellamy?
Yes, I did. Let me tell you what happened. Let me tell you what happened.
So chat GPT, you know, we're all getting a little used to this AI thing and we're all trying to figure it out. So chat GPT as we're moving into doing 36 interviews in one month because of the 12 hours of TCB and it just happens to be interview season. I have trained AI to do one thing really well, and it's really the only thing that I use it for. Well, there's two things that I use it for.
Chapter 3: What is the 'Bryan Got It Wrong… Again' segment about?
One is I ask it to do chapters on our show. So I'll say, hey, can you take this file and do chapters on the show that I can then put into YouTube or – Or into our hosting system called Megaphone. The other thing that I ask it to do is I ask it to do deep research on our guests because that's a really hard thing to do. We used to have like five people doing the research for the guests.
And since we make no money here, we can't afford those five people anymore. Right. So what I said, what I trained ChatGPT to do was anytime that we have a guest, I ask it to go do deep research on the guest.
Chapter 4: How does ChatGPT assist in podcast production?
And then a couple of days ahead of time, I can start digesting that information, going and watching links and specials and the highlights of someone's career, which, you know, we don't tend to be like if you listen to the commercial break, then you'll know that our interviews are not the this is your life type of interview, which a lot of people do. But we don't have the time.
We only request an hour from our guests because, quite frankly, that's my attention span limit is one hour. But also, we don't want to tax the guest with some lengthy interview, especially when we don't know them.
And a lot of times they've already done it somewhere else.
They've done it a million times somewhere else.
It's like, okay, recount. How did you get started?
Yeah, exactly. I want to get something else out of them. I would rather pretend like I just met them at a bar and we were having a conversation. If you met... Margaret Cho at a bar or Kyle Kinane at a bar. You met Margaret Cho at a bar?
Yeah, Barcelona down in Edmond Park.
Oh, that's right. You did say that to her when she came on. But if you met Kyle Kinane or Margaret Cho, Des Bishop, Hannah Burke, whoever, what a name the person that we've had on the show. If you met them at a bar, you wouldn't say so. You started your career in 1983 with a cameo appearance on Silver Spoons. I mean, you just wouldn't do that. Or where were you born? Yeah, where were you born?
What were your parents like?
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Chapter 5: What is the unique approach of TCB interviews?
Yeah.
So all this leading to the fact that you got.
Yeah, but listen. OK, so chat. So I'm asking this AI system to do it. So I say, hey, please tell me what some of the most the biggest running themes of the show are. And what I wanted to tell me is what are the things we've talked about most like mountain monsters, whatever. You know what it said? Brian gets it wrong. Number one theme.
Brian gets it wrong.
And so I was like, so I literally responded to it.
I love it.
I need a song for that. And it goes, I can help create a song for that. Here are some suggestions. So I wrote the lyrics and then I said, okay, make me a song in this style. Make it 80s cheese rock. And there it goes. I wrote a song about Jackie Beans. I wrote a song about Bestie. I've always wanted to have like this kind of like, you know, fun songs on the show.
Yes.
But it's really expensive to get musicians to do it. And I've paid some musicians and it's failed miserably. It's just been terrible. I mean, terrible. But God bless them. They're trying to take what's inside my head and put it on sheet music. It's really hard to do that.
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Chapter 6: Why are massages like food, sex, and dating?
Um, but I instantly get this picture in my head of this lady who I really just did not like, not her, but the massage, the experience I did not like. And I go, oh, thanks, babe. You know, she was like, no, really? I said, actually, I think this lady was really kind of obnoxious last time I was there. I did not like her at all. And so now I'm freaking out a little bit and Astrid's freaking out.
I know, right? Astrid was so excited. Yeah.
But also, you don't want to blow a couple hundred dollars. Now I'm not getting a 50-minute massage. I'm getting a 90-minute massage. Double the time, double the aggravation as far as I'm concerned. So I explained to Astrid, and then I said, but you know what? It's a massage, and it's better than sitting here and listening to the kids scream and listening to Blue bark at me. So I'll take it.
Like, I'm not going to complain. No worries. She said, let me call the place. You know, I will call the place. I will find another masseuse. Don't worry. I go, listen, it's an 80, 90 minute massage. They don't, there's only like three of those available a day. They're not going to have some other person that's going to be able to fill in.
And I'll probably get some dude, you know, that wants to fucking, you know, break my back. No, just don't worry about it. I'm good. I'll just tell her at the beginning, like you do on an Uber ride. I want deep tissue. Yeah, I want deep tissue.
Deep tissue, no talk, 70 degrees.
No talky, no ticky, no tacky, 70 degrees, deep tissue, pick me up at the bar. Yeah. Raphael. She's like, I'm on my way out the door. I'll call. No, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. So I get in the car and I'm driving there and I'm a little like... Anxious. Anxious is the right word to say. I'm not upset, but I'm also not totally relaxed because I'm remembering this experience.
And I'm thinking if I had to do this for 90 minutes and kind of bat this lady back with all her questions. Great. So... As I'm pulling in.
I wonder if you could put like in your earbuds too, maybe just to kind of be like, hey, look, I just want to listen to my own music.
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Chapter 7: What unusual relationship does Bill Belichick have?
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So 74-year-old Bill Belichick is dating 24-year-old, 24-year-old? 24-year-old Jordan Hudson.
Yes, that's been good. We talked about that, I think.
A year ago. A year ago, yeah. Back in Christmastime, because it was Thanksgiving Day, I think, that he was kind of caught on a ring cam, like leaving some shitty apartment complex in his underwear or something. In a bathrobe. He looked like Brian leaving the masseuse.
Yeah.
And so, you know, rumors fly as they do. And then fast forward. Now it's well known because they've taken a lot of photographs together. Bill Belichick.
And she was in a commercial. Remember?
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