EP #757: Bryan doesn't want to go to church anymore. But, since some of them sell pretty cool merch now, he may reconsider! One Mega-Church in Florida is rewriting all the ways a pastor can wealthy. A resort, merch, classes and a cool "Deliverance Center"! Equipped with fake doctors in lab coats and cool waiting rooms. Plus, Bryan and Krissy review the certain downfall of humans from ChatGPT. Just as soon as Bryan can train his ChattyPT to digest more than one episode of the show. Then, Pastor Jenny is selling the wallpaper and cheap mugs. But the best part is her glamping. Right next to the highway. TCBits: TCB's Endless Day is tomorrow! (May 31st, 2025) Watch EP #757 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 / TCBits Music: 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: Why doesn't Bryan want to go to church anymore?
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Oh yeah, Cats and Kittens, just one more sleepless night until you get TCB's Endless Day. Twelve episodes, twelve hours, and if that don't tickle your tail feather, I don't know what will. I just wanted to come on and remind you that tomorrow morning, Saturday, May 31st, Chrissy and I are gonna be up to no good, like a good boy and a good girl should. Bis zum nächsten Mal.
Maybe you're having a hard time getting out of bed. Maybe you got the jingle jangles all in your head. We have all been there, my friends. It's no reason to fret. It's no reason to doubt. It's no reason to be down and out. There is help available. You can dial 988 at any time. Bis zum nächsten Mal. 12 Stunden, 12 Episoden, wir lassen dich nicht hängen.
Der nächste Episode kommt sofort, und dann muss ich dich, Katz, alleine lassen, bis zur Rückseite des Flapjacks. 10 Uhr, Ostkost.
Best to you.
Best to you.
Wenn ich in meine Kirche ging... Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
Die nächste Episode von The Commercial Break beginnt jetzt.
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Chapter 2: What are the new trends in mega-churches?
Okay, we'll get it on the break and we'll see if it's airable. We will, yeah.
Okay, we'll see if it's airable.
I just learned something. Let me process it.
Oh, okay. Chrissy's gonna process it. Just like my chat GPT, who became a bad boy last night. He became a terrible employee.
He? You just said he.
I did. I said he. Oh, well, on purpose I said he. But Astrid and I were talking about chat GPT and she said, well, you know, what is he doing or what is she doing or whatever? And I go, stop it. Everybody stop it. Stop mind melding with AI. You gotta call it it. Do not start thinking about it as he or she. But my AI, my super producer knows everything about the commercial break digest at all.
Just went on a tear last night. It was really weird. It like started to rebel. It didn't rebel. It was like missing deadlines, not putting things together, sending me empty documents. And I was like, what's going on here? It's like, oh, I'm so sorry. You're right. I've messed up. It won't happen again. Here's the plan to correct it.
You overloaded it with all of the commercial break episodes.
It's done. It's exactly the kind of employee I probably would hire. For, you know, just a little bit less money to save cash. And eventually it turns out to be a terrible employee. It's horrible. I couldn't believe it. For hours this went on. Excuse making and I'm sorry and I'll get back to it and I'm trying and Das ist wirklich seltsam. Wirklich, wirklich seltsam.
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Chapter 3: How is AI changing the job market?
I'm almost afraid AI is going to be better, is going to be funnier than I am, and then I'm going to be sad. I'm just going to be a sad old man.
The audience listeners will know when AI has actually taken over is when everything that Brian is saying is correct.
Das ist richtig, wenn es korrekt und lustig ist, gleichzeitig. Aber das ist existenziell. Und obwohl ich nicht denke, dass AI Jobs in der Regel verändern wird, es gibt einige Leute, die so pessimistisch sind oder so. Sie gehen so weit auf das ganze AI-Ding. Ich glaube nicht, dass es die Menschheit altogether verändern wird.
Aber wir müssen herausfinden, wie wir mit dieser neuen Technologie leben können, die so fucking mächtig ist und, ehrlich gesagt, großartig ist. Reggie Watts, den Sie auf TCBs Endless Day hören, aber ich gebe Ihnen einen kleinen Sneak Peek. Wir hatten eine große Konversation über AI. Und Reggie auf seinem Instagram, und ich denke, Sie werden das Gespräch genießen, weil er ein Futurist ist.
Er mag es, diese Dinge zehn Jahre nach jetzt zu denken. Und er mag es, Dinge in einer optimistischen Weise zu denken.
Ja, ich wollte das gleiche sagen.
On his Instagram, he refers to ChatGPT, and let me put the words in his mouth, just to kind of summarize it, almost like a dog. You can train a dog to go fetch your paper, you can train a dog to protect your house, you can train a dog to protect your kids, whatever. It is a multi-use tool that coexists with humanity. It hasn't taken away anybody's job, I don't think.
Maybe drug sniffing, drug finding, I don't know, something along those lines. But we have trained those dogs to give us comfort and love. And in return, we give them food and water and medical care. And they probably couldn't exist. They probably would have a hard time living without us, most of them. And in some cases, we feel the same way about them.
We have to figure out how to coexist and use this tool in a way that benefits us but does not replace us. And that conversation probably needs to happen now. Now, now, yesterday. All these big brains...
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Chapter 4: What is the role of AI in content creation?
Und alle Regierungen weltweit müssen darüber sprechen, was passiert, wenn 20% der Menschen unabhängig sind oder diese menschlichen Aufgaben verwendet werden. Gibt es einen universalen Preis, eine Bildung, die wir diesen jüngeren Leuten geben, um in die Arbeit zu kommen? Ja, oh, that's easy. I used to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars to create websites.
At this fancy website of web development. Web development 2.2. SEOs are all the rage and you need SEOs. SEOs? You don't need SEOs. There's no SEOs anymore. Fuck that. Paper clicks? Fuck it. It's out the door. It's all gone. Website development? Bye bye. See you later. Maybe you need a human touch to design that creativity part.
But the rest of it, there's no programming and coding and all that shit. It's all been replaced. If it hasn't been replaced, it's being replaced. That's it. That's what happens.
I did read a statistic, too, that was interesting, that was saying people are really, and especially the younger generation kind of coming into the workforce now, is they're more interested in having AI done right, but slower, you know, development and slower, rather than have it just be fast and not right. Yeah. So that's at least comforting.
There's some comfort in that, but to the younger generation, to the people in their 20s or even their teens, and I know there's a few of you out there who listen to the show, because you text in and I say, don't say anything. That could get me in trouble on this text message. But, you know, some younger folks have texted in. We know from demographic data that there are some younger people.
And I mean in your early 20s or your late teens or whatever that is. It's up to you. Unfortunately, it's up to you. I'm sorry to leave you with this mess, but that's what's going to happen. And you're going to have to figure it out. But let's be optimistic. Let's see the glass half full. This is an opportunity maybe to reframe how we look at
Universal Pay, Salaries in general, the work week, what working means, how we work, what we do. You know, I'm not talking about communism. I don't like that idea, but I'm talking about maybe there needs to be. Ja, genau. Yeah, it's a definite transition period. Maybe we need to train you to be an AI chat bot. You know what I'm saying?
You need to train your own node and let that node be the thing that we hire. I don't know. Who knows how it goes?
Yeah, it's definitely the Wild West and very beginning stages of everything.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of AI on future job security?
An adult theater.
An adult movie theater. Why else do you go to an adult movie theater?
And he still said that he actually wasn't doing that. I mean, it was a big sting operation. He just arrested a bunch of people in there and said that that's what they were doing, was indecent exposure, because you can't arrest somebody for just sitting in there and watching a movie, but they wanted to get everybody. And then from then on, because he had done the children's show. That's it.
That was back too in the... 80s, 90s, wenn... The wingding 90s. I mean, the tabloid culture was so crazy.
I remember driving to school with my father and he would listen sometimes to like the classic rock music station. Those were my favorite days. But sometimes he would listen to the local news station. Radio Station. Just like non-stop news. And I'll never forget breaking news. Paul Rubens has been arrested for indecent exposure in an adult movie theater in wherever, Palo Alto or wherever.
No, it was Florida. Okay, Florida. And, um... Just thinking to myself, wow, the Pee Wee Herman? And it was a big joke at school and everyone laughed and giggled.
Oh, the late night shows ran with it like crazy. Everybody was joking.
Everybody was joking. And that was sad for Paul Rubens in the end. And I hope this documentary becomes part of his legacy and not the whacking off part. And he went on to do a couple of movies and he was really good in movies like Blow. I mean, he was so good in that movie, in Blow.
But if you grew up when Chrissy and I grew up, not you kids in your late teens, early twenties, but maybe Pee Wee Herman lives on, you know, as a cult classic. If it doesn't, it should. Because as a child growing up, Pee Wee Hermans Playhouse. Ja. Es war so lustig. Du warst in einer anderen Welt. Und ich wünschte, ich wäre in dieser Welt.
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Chapter 6: How is modern spirituality evolving?
Yeah, the first one.
The one about the bicycle?
Large Marge? Yeah, the bicycle. Yeah, Large Marge.
Pee Wee, but he must have had specials on before that.
Yeah, he did.
I mean, I haven't gotten that far into the documentary, so I don't know yet. But I'm watching the part about him growing up. I know, and that's really interesting, too. It is. He so identifies with television and performance art. He goes down to Sarasota, where the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Yeah, his family moved down there.
So they're located there and they're around all of these circus people and he finds an affinity for this craziness, this wacky lifestyle. He sees these people living out loud and that kind of allows him to go there in his brain. He starts sneaking around and going to the theater and becoming a theater kid and all this other stuff.
And then he moves to, he says, well, if I'm going to do anything, then I got to go out to California. That's where everybody is. He gets a... He gets accepted to school. He's afraid he's going to be an outcast at school. And what he turns out to be is the most popular kid in the school. Right. Because he is dedicated to being himself, which is one whacked out, wild motherfucker.
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Chapter 7: What can we learn from the story of Paul Rubens?
There's 40 hours of conversation and I only get two hours?
Yeah, there's just two episodes.
Fuck that, HBO! I thought it was going to be like a seven-part documentary. There's only two that are out or there's only two, period?
You know, it ends with the second one. Fuck that!
Fuck you, Max. Fuck you.
They're like, you know, they're an hour and a half long each, right?
Oh, then maybe I'm not even, I think I'm only like 50 minutes in. I thought I had flipped to the second episode for some reason. That's what I get for watching in the shower. I got soap washing over my eyes. Well, you know a lot of it. I do. Well, yeah, I mean, I got through a chunk of it. Well, anyway, watch it. It's great. It's another recommendation from TCB Brian. Watch it.
Also, while we're on this, I just get like a quick note. Somebody wrote me. Yeah, I talked about the television show Tacoma FD, which is like about the Tacoma Fire Department, the silliest, stupidest comedy television show. I mean, there's been a lot of dumb, true TV comedy shows, but this is probably at the top of the list. And I am in love with it.
I think it's like, I don't know, there's something comforting about all these wacky personalities. And I actually had two, not one, but two people write in and say, I thought I was the only one on earth who liked that television show.
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Chapter 8: What is the future of AI in creative industries?
Their Tent Revival, Revival Christianity is back and bigger than ever.
Oh, alive and well.
And I have found someone who is making quite the living doing Tent Revivals, including having a Deliverance Center. Not a delivery center where you have babies, but a deliverance center. And for probably the low, low price of $5,000, you too can get delivered, whatever that means. Anyway, it's wacky, it's wild, it's Florida. Well, no, it's America in 2025. We'll review some of it when we get back.
Okay, you're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at TCB. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up, even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her or me or Chrissy at 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Just call and say something.
Best to you and Astrid. Especially Astrid.
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