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Chapter 1: What unexpected events happened at the start of the episode?
The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
Oh my gosh, Brian, the entire front of the episode got cut off. Where in the world is the intro to our episode? I'm always keeping you on your toes here at The Commercial Break. Eight wonderful years ago, my wife pushed me out into the podcasting universe in an effort to get me to shut the fuck up. It worked! Now, for at least six hours a week, I'm talking to Chrissy and not Astrid.
However, that's not the entire story. It took a little extra nudge from a former co-worker, good friend, wonderful human, and podcasting queen, Alison Hare. Alison's been doing her own podcast for about a year longer than Chrissy and I have been doing ours. It took on different forms and fashions over the years, but the name is Culture Changers.
It's nothing like the commercial break, and that's a good thing. She usually talks to serious people about serious subjects, thought-provoking, sometimes controversial, and it's likely that her serious podcast gets more laughs than our comedy podcast. I'm not jealous. Swear to God I'm not. Allison is a thoughtful, self-aware, interesting, and restless human that I find endlessly fascinating.
Besides all of our podcast connections, she is really a dear friend of ours. Celebrating her seventh year of doing the show, she decided to do seven hours of live streaming. She asked me to join and help kill some time. And I said, I'll do you one better. Let's do a co-show. A co-show with the bro show. And I hope I can get the technology to work so we're not a no-show.
So we're going to take a short break early in this episode so you can hear our conversation with Alison Hare in its entirety from her live stream celebrating seven years of culture changers. We'll be back right after this.
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I got you. Hi. Wow. This appears to be working, except our camera on our feed is not on. Hold on one second. Let me see if I can turn it on. There we go. Okay.
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Chapter 2: Who is Allison Hare and what is her role in podcasting?
All right. You can see us?
Yes.
Okay, great. Hi.
Hello, Allison. I'm going to shut off this Instagram live feed because we're on a marathon right now. So if you're watching on Instagram, go on YouTube, and I'll be back in an hour.
Hey, guys. Hey, how are you?
I'm great. I'm excited.
Yeah, we're excited too.
Congratulations on your big anniversary. Seven years.
Wow. How many hours are you into this now?
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Chapter 3: What unique approach does Allison take in her podcast, Culture Changers?
Volume up.
No one's dumb enough to be commercial break level, Allison. That's just silly. We were just talking on the intro. We were talking about how this kind of all coalesced, like your role in standing up the commercial break, your role. And I was saying to everybody that I'm not sure that the commercial break in its current form would exist without you putting out the siren song. Yeah.
The siren call to do this cohort that I ended up joining. And then, you know, I think if I remember correctly, it was you who said, hey, you know, you should do a comedy podcast, right? That's what you should do. And then in my mind, it all took a turn. I was like, okay, well, I guess, you know, I have a sense of humor. Maybe somebody wants to hear it.
And then I invited Chrissy to come on because, you know, it was about three and a half months between the end of that cohort and And the first episode of the commercial breaks. It took me a while, even still, to get up the courage to go on the microphone and do it. And I didn't want to do it by myself. So I found that Chrissy was a good backstop. Yeah, that's exactly what I thought.
I said, hey, well, if you're around, you could do it. Yeah, jump on for one episode.
You look like you have nothing better to do.
Well, it was April of 2020. Yeah. We were all stuck at home.
You really literally did have nothing better.
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Chapter 4: How did the hosts celebrate Allison's podcast anniversary?
Literally.
Yeah.
Wiping off groceries.
I think we recorded our first episode on March 15th, exactly, is when we recorded it, and I put it out about three weeks later. It took me about three weeks to edit that first episode.
Are you going to do a seven-hour livestream on March 15th, 2027? Yeah, could youā
Well, we've already done the 12 hours of TCB. Yeah. Yeah, we've been there, done that.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do the hosts face in their podcasting journey?
And then we did the 23 days of TCB for Christmas. So there was that, too.
I literally was driving. You guys are glutton for punishment. I know. I was driving an hour to Roswell.
I think she was here on Christmas Eve, if I'm not mistaken.
All through December.
Yeah, it was crazy. How many hours are you into the marathon now? Are you just a couple of hours in?
I'm just a couple of hours in, so I started at 1. It's 3.08 now.
Okay.
My voice is getting ragged, but I'm good. I'm doing fine. But, you know, like waiting for you, I'm like... All right, I got to think of something.
I got to think of something to say.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts maintain authenticity in their content?
There's been iterations of the show. I was doing the bits for a long time, and I still do them on occasion, but it takes so much time. It's just not something that I'm afforded right in this moment. But I was going to say, to answer your question, my advice to people is you and I had chemistry in a different way.
We were doing those rooms night after night, day after day, time after time, and we were good in those rooms together doing what we were doing Regarding podcasting, you find the right person for the right tone that you want to set. You have lots of people in your life. You're probably they're probably good at different things.
Like, you know, the friend you're going to go to the Grateful Dead concert with and you know, the friend you're going to go to the Jonas Brothers concert with. Right. My friend is Astrid. That's why I go to the Jonas Brothers concert with. But I would go to the Grateful Dead concert with Chrissy. Yeah. So you have those people in your life. You've got to find the person that sets the tone.
I know Chrissy will laugh at my jokes. I've known her for a long time. She finds me incredibly enduring and charming and handsome. Who doesn't find me handsome? That's right.
Well, I find it most funny when we're making fun of you.
Yes, which is most of the show. Yes. Most of the show is me making fun of me and Chrissy laughing. Brian's misadventures. Yeah, the misadventures of Brian Green.
Oh, no.
This is the next podcast we're going to start. The misadventures of BG.
That would be a good one, actually.
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Chapter 7: What lessons have the hosts learned about podcasting over the years?
Tell the culture to do that.
Oh, yeah. Frankie B is Frank Bernardo.
You found him, what, five years ago?
I found him, I think, late season one. Yeah. Yeah. In late season one, so five or six years ago almost now. And I found him on YouTube. I was trolling around on YouTube looking for pickup artists specifically. And even though I don't call Frankie a pickup artist because I don't think you could pick anybody up with his advice. But what he was was an old ā Fashion.
Fashion, music, fitness, and fun. Yeah.
I'm Frank Bernardo. Well, it was advice for men over a certain age. Over 40 when we started, and that's over 60.
We've only been doing this for six years, but now it's for men over 60. He was giving advice to men over 40, 50, and 60.
Who had just become divorced? And we're trying to get back in the game.
He didn't even say that. He said still trying to live your best life or whatever it was. But the first video I found from him was five signs your wife is cheating on you. And I saw the first three minutes of it. And I was so fascinated and laughing so hard at this guy. And it had like 12 views. I mean, it was nothing. Yeah. And I said, Christy, we got to listen to this guy.
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