Bryan

So, answer me.

Okay, Alison Hare, who is a friend of the show.

Really, I think the commercial break actually owes Alison Hare quite a debt because I'm not sure we would be the commercial break if Alison hadn't encouraged me to get behind a microphone and get behind it.

The...

For those of you that don't know the history of the commercial break, like going way, way back is that Astrid had said that I should do a YouTube channel based on like just talk to the camera about commercial real estate in an entertaining way.

And so I started to do that and I found that commercial real estate could not be done in an entertaining way.

It bored me.

It bored me.

So I said to Astrid, you know, I don't want to do that.

I think, first of all, like my clients are really secretive, like the commercial real estate is kind of a sketchy, shady, can be a sketchy, shady business.

And so a couple months after that.

Allison, who had been podcasting for a year at that point, said, I'm going to put together a cohort, like a class where I'm going to teach other people how to stand up a podcast, which I knew how to stand up a podcast, but I just didn't know what to do.

And so through that four, six week cohort, where other people were trying to get their podcast up and running, we came up with the idea of the commercial break, a comedy show.

And that's where we got the name.

And that's where, you know, all this stuff happened.

And then

I said to Chrissy, I don't want to do this by myself.

At least not for the first episode or two.

A thousand episodes later.

Whoever slapped that bass says, yes, I do play bass.