TCB Classic - EP #754: Because Bryan & Krissy are prepping for 12 or 13 grueling hours in the studio, they need a break before it even begins! They're older, weaker and less intelligent than they used to be... so let's give them that break. Instead, Bryan rolls out a "TCB Classic". This episode turns back the clock to April 22' when Carl Lentz made his first visit to the show (well, Bryan as Carl Lentz). Let the absolutely crass and blasphemous joking begin! It's a throwback to EP#173, Hey Girl, Its' Me....Carl! 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: What is a TCB Classic episode?
episode of the commercial break if you ask me today memorial day 2025 whether or not i regret having a wise idea to do 12 episodes of the commercial break in a 24-hour period i would tell you no nay no i do not because my original idea was to do 24 episodes in 24 hours to which my longtime and very faithful co-host said, fuck you. And cooler heads prevailed.
I dug my heels in for a few days, but when she just flat out refused to go along with the idea, I figured it might be hard to do 24 episodes in 24 hours if I had no co-host. So 12 of them. That's what we settled on. I still think there's a chance she might not show up, but I'm hoping you do. DCB's Endless Day at the end of this week. We'll be right back. So, in return, I give you a TCB classic.
Every time I do that damn Carl voice, you know the one. Hey girl, it's Carl. That one. Based on the infamous preacher Carl Lentz, we get a slew of messages on our TCB hotline. 90% of them are from you, the good-natured listener who takes comfort in the laughable hypocrisy of megachurches.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Carl Lentz's voice?
Chapter 3: How did Bryan and Krissy prepare for their studio sessions?
I dug my heels in for a few days, but when she just flat out refused to go along with the idea, I figured it might be hard to do 24 episodes in 24 hours if I had no co-host. So 12 of them. That's what we settled on. I still think there's a chance she might not show up, but I'm hoping you do. DCB's Endless Day at the end of this week. We'll be right back. So, in return, I give you a TCB classic.
Every time I do that damn Carl voice, you know the one. Hey girl, it's Carl. That one. Based on the infamous preacher Carl Lentz, we get a slew of messages on our TCB hotline. 90% of them are from you, the good-natured listener who takes comfort in the laughable hypocrisy of megachurches.
However, there is a small segment of the audience that gets really annoyed when I go after these guys and girls. I don't know. Call me a throwback. Call me a classic. I got a soft spot in my heart for the kind of satire that can actually open eyes to the world around us. Now, I don't place any importance on that satire that I'm doing. I just find it funny myself.
We're throwing this back to April 15th, 2022. If you even remember that far back when Chrissy and I reviewed me reviewing a documentary about Hillsong where Carl was a preacher. This is the first time that Carl voice makes an appearance. along with some other noteworthy commentary on megachurches in general.
You'll also note in this episode that the actual commercial breaks inside of the commercial break, the liner where Rachel tells you how to find us on social media and our phone number, and the commercials that follow those liners actually just come out of nowhere. They're random places in the episode because this episode was made before we even had advertisements. That's how long ago this was.
And yes, I do have to pay some bills, so you'll excuse me for dropping in a couple of advertisements. All right, enjoy this TCB classic, also known as Hey Girl, It's Carl. Episode 173, for those that are counting. We'll be back tomorrow with a fresh episode, and at the end of the week for 12 or 13 fresh episodes. Enjoy!
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Yes, ma'am. That's another episode of the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend Kristen Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian. I almost just said Happy New Year.
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Chapter 4: What are the themes discussed about Hillsong Church?
You pick another partner and you try them out. And you decide if you really want to be with the first partner, which is absolutely fucking wackadoodle. It makes no sense. It does. There's no real life application for this. This is just a drama. This is just a shit stirring show, which I get it. That's what Netflix needs to do in order to drive ratings.
I don't hear the same kind of scuttlebutt about this as we did about Love is Blind in either season. Yeah. But I watched the first episode, and it's just so unbelievable to me that I can't get into it. And here's what I told Astrid within three minutes of the show. I said, not one of these couples is not already broken up. They're already broken up.
And they're coming on here as like a last-ditch effort or because they want some fame. Because you do not send this person that you're ready to get married to into a home to live with some hot fucking stud for the next three weeks and see if his dick happens to make it into your vagina.
I already see some jealousy happening. Of course. The one girl came over and sat down right at the table that the new girl and guy were talking.
I read somewhere. Listen.
I will watch it. There's plenty of content I can focus on.
There are – I just want to give this disclaimer again. There are lots of shows and programs that you can go to to get fucking facts. This is not one of them. Do not take anything that we say here with any degree of seriousness because we do not know what we're talking about.
We're two friends as if we were sitting at a bar shooting the shit, and one of us really doesn't know what facts are, and that's me. So let me explain. I read somewhere – so let me explain.
Similar to what do you call the place where the captain of the boat sits down?
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Chapter 5: What was the impact of music on the Hillsong Church's appeal?
Yeah, and if you listen to an upbeat, happy chord progression, major chord progressions, then you're going to feel good. If you listen to major, minor chord progressions and they swoop, it goes from soft to loud, you're going to feel – it could be a religious experience. It could be considered a religious experience.
You're getting chills.
Think of Celine Dion hitting some huge high note in a minor key after a major. You're going, oh, or Adele, Whitney Houston. All of us who've been to a concert can probably describe a religious type experience at a concert because music does that to us. And I do believe there is some God in music.
Like there is some universe, you know, computer in the sky, whatever spirit, whatever the fuck you want to call it, that music is a communication tool that we don't quite understand yet.
It's been used through the ages. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Kids can learn how to read faster if there's music set to it. There's a whole thing, right? It's a thing. Something goes on with music, and it really hits us at our core. It's a communication tool that we don't quite understand all the power of. But what people who are in the know have been doing for many years, and especially preachers, is they – like if you go to a Benny Hinn –
You know who Benny Hinn is? No. Okay, Benny Hinn is this huge evangelical preacher on TV, and he's the guy who will hit you on the head and then tell you you're cured of MS or some bullshit.
Right.
Stuff that's never been true, right? It's all bullshit. It's fake. It's a big show. But he puts on this big show, big lights, big show, and what he does is he starts the music the second you walk in the door, and he swoops to a crescendo. Really? An hour later, yes. You have been manipulated.
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Chapter 6: What dating advice does Carl Lentz give?
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One of the things he's really known for is giving a lot of dating advice, like sex advice. And it's all about purity. Purity, purity, purity. He shames people who have sex before marriage.
I can guess where this goes.
Exactly.
He was saying purity, purity, purity.
Let's listen to his dating advice.
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Chapter 7: How do Bryan and Krissy critique reality shows?
You know what I'm talking about, girl. So Beeb's writing a song for you. I'm going to send it to you a little bit later, but you don't mind if I stop by your house, your work, your parents' house, you see? Yeah.
going to check out, see what's going on. I'm going to bring some security over. We're going to lock you down. Lock it down like we did last night. You know what I'm talking about, girl? Do me a favor. Don't tell anybody about this. I'm going to put it on video and send it to you, but don't tell anybody about it.
Yeah, I might get in a little trouble. I'm married. I don't know if I told you that, but don't worry about it.
I'm with the Lord. The Lord walks with me. I'm walking with the Lord, my Savior. Remember that song, that girl singing Oceans, 435 billion views? I wrote that for you, girl. Girl. Girl. It's me, Carl. It's Big Lance and Little Lance.
Big Carl, Little Carl, just here shouting out to you, girl. I got my Yeezys. I got my Chanel scarf wrapped around my vocational V. You know what I'm talking about, girl.
B is for victory.
Uh-huh.
Can I get an amen? Listen, do me a favor. Don't post this one on Instagram like you did last time. Appreciate it, girl. The NDA I had you sign? Don't worry about it, girl.
I'll rip it up. I'm going to leave my wife here in a couple months. Run away and get married. Okay, so that's all for now, I guess. You know, I'm just trying to chill. I'm just like, if it's okay that I call you, you let me know. You call me, you tell me that it's okay to call you when I'm thinking about you. But, you know, because I just, I'm hurting. The Lord has a big hole in my soul right now.
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Chapter 8: What is the role of humor in discussing serious topics?
Oh, my God. I just almost spit my way out. That was a good Carl performance.
Thanks. I appreciate it, girl. I got to go. Talk to you later. This is me, Mr. Carl. Talk to you later.
So Carl has a big blow up at the whole church and you know how it goes. It's, um, it's a whole to do, right? But that is not the worst of the offenses.
So now this is a couple, this is like a year ago that this happens in, but the, what is really going on behind the scenes is that Frank Houston, I think his name is Frank Houston, Frank Houston, who is Brian Houston's father, who originally brought the church to Australia from New Zealand.
Okay.
Was actually having sex with young boys, uh, in the original church, and Brian Houston covered it up for years and years and years. Like, they found out about it, it became a thing, but essentially it just slapped him on the wrist and told him to, you know, go away, don't come back to the church, and please don't be in any other positions that may put you in front of children. Well, of course...
Of course. I thought he listened. Yeah, he didn't listen, and nor did Brian Houston try and stop him. Now, you know, that's a complicated relationship. I understand son and father and all that whole bullshit. But recently, like this week, all of the sudden, some of these Hillsong churches across the United States, 50% of them, by some estimations, just closed the doors or changed their name.
They moved away from Hillsong.
Mm-hmm.
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