Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
On this episode of the Commercial Break.
I want to read a few next door posts to you that I've been collecting and we'll all comment on them together.
We rarely touch on next door and I feel like that is like prime content. So good on you. That's a great bit.
Everyone is worried about TikTok and the teenagers with TikTok. Everyone is. Snapchatting, you know, they're worried about 16-year-olds Snapchatting their ding-dongs and willy-hoo-hoos. And Facebook has become a cesspool for, you know, the greatest generation that never was.
Oh, no.
To, you know, continue to suck up more billions from the poor people.
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Chapter 2: How do Xandy and Christine feel about user-generated content?
Nextdoor is the most dangerous application available today.
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Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green and I'm Brian Green. And here we are the week after Thanksgiving. You know, there comes a time in every young boy's life when he must venture out into the wild and go find himself another podcast to be on. And no, I'm not talking about after the break, which has picked up production.
And you can check that out after the break on any one of the podcast players you're listening to this to or follow me at Brian W. Green on Instagram. Links in the show notes. And I'll let you know when I'm going live during the evenings. You can get involved in the conversation.
I am talking about the podcast Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet, which is a fine podcast that has been doing very well for itself. in this kind of bootstrapped creator economy that we live in. These are not pre-baked celebrities that have some big fancy podcast with millions of dollars and a fancy network and billion dollar contracts with Spotify. These are a brother and a sister.
who got together a number of years ago and decided to create a podcast that is called Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet, Name Too Long. Now, they will admit that themselves, but it's still pretty catchy. You got to admit. So what is Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet about? Well, think about it. It's about reviews.
Funny, interesting, bad, terrible, provocative, sometimes sad reviews on the Internet of many different things. And according to Christine and Zandy, the brother and sister who do this podcast, there was actually a review of an Airbnb or something like that. Motel, hotel, resort. And someone complained that the beach was too sandy, the water was too wet.
Now, that could have been a troll, but it's pretty fucking funny. It's pretty fucking funny, no matter what it is. And we do something very similar here on the show every once in a while with our next door. But these two do it.
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Chapter 3: What are the dangers of using Nextdoor according to the hosts?
That's exclusively what they do. And they have garnered quite an audience, quite a large community. And they've even been on tour. And when I had a chance to be with them a couple of weeks ago... They had just gotten back from their very successful tour. I encourage you to go to beach2sandy.com where you can get all the information.
You can follow them on any of the podcast players you're listening to the commercial break on. It's just a great show. It's a great show. I've known about it for years. I know we have audience members that listen to it for years. When I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was going to be on their show.
We got lots of text messages mentioning how excited they were about this particular collab, if you will. And I was excited when we had the opportunity come along. So I've been on their show. This is kind of like my show, their show, your show. We all got together one afternoon. And now we're sharing it all. in the larger diaspora that is the internets.
And so now it's my turn to share what we created together one lazy afternoon. Now, Chrissy was not available when this happened, but she gave me her blessing. She said, go do it. Go be on it. And I did. And here's what, well, not here, but in a few minutes, you'll hear the result of that. Beach2Sandy.com, all the podcast players, I encourage you to go follow them.
We didn't do this for our health. We would like to get these. We know you're listening to both podcasts. Some of you, we want to get you on our RSS feeds. So please go over there. I know I have to do my part and push you over in that direction because I'm sure they've done their part and push people in our direction. I should probably go listen to that. I don't think I've heard it yet.
But I will tell you this about my time. with Zandy and Christine. I really enjoyed it. I had a great deal of fun. It was a laugh a minute. They're great people, good human beings, and they're really fucking funny to boot. And Christine also has a number of other projects also that you can check out. I'm sure you can get connected to all of that with links in my show notes on this episode.
So as I recover from my annual, traditional Thanksgiving stomach bug, And Chrissy stays at a far... the hell away from me as possible. We will put one more episode out and then we'll be back to the normal course of business tomorrow for you. Now, couple things. You can now watch all the recordings of non-interview episodes, non-infomercial episodes of The Commercial Break.
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Chapter 4: How did the Beach Too Sandy podcast originate?
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Lots of changes coming for season number seven. So stay tuned. Stay with us. Also, after the break, now pick back up a more raw version of after the break. You go listen to it. I'm not going to make this all about after the break, but you can go listen to episode number two.
And then also get involved with live recordings, chat with me, text with me, and possibly jump on with me during those recordings. Follow me, Brian W. Green at Instagram. I mean, at Brian W. Green on Instagram. You know what the fuck I'm saying? Why do I have to repeat myself a million times?
Not like you asked me to, but I just feel like, I don't know, I feel like I need to repeat things a million. I'm in the old radio standard. The old radio standard was you needed to repeat things 3.5 times in order for people to get it through their heads, in order for them to actually pop up and pay attention. So I'm now in this kind of
I have this wheel in my head going that anytime I say something like a phone number or an Instagram address or a URL, I have to repeat it three times. But the truth is, you're smart enough. We're all big boys and girls. We can remember things, right? Brian W. Green, at Brian W. Green, at Brian W. Green. There you go. And beach2sandy.com, beach2sandy.com, beach2sandy.com.
I'm going to take a short break. And when I get back, the results of a long afternoon. with Christine and Zandy from Beach to Sandy, Water to Wet. I will share those with you. We will all have a laugh, probably at my expense. We'll be back.
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Chapter 5: What kind of reviews do Xandy and Christine read on their podcast?
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And Zandy and Christine are here with us now. Here with me now because Chrissy's not here. Hey, I know. But, you know, sometimes this does happen. She's just the lazier of the two of us. I get it. Yeah, you've been saying that. No, she had something happen.
People say that about her, you know.
People do say that about her. What people say about her is, when will Brian let her talk? That's what people say about her. Interesting. Not today, apparently.
Not today, yeah.
Today everything will be just fine. Today it's our turn. To that, I usually retort with a couple paragraphs, reinforcing the message that I don't shut up. Congratulations on the success of the podcast. So successful, as we were discussing just a few minutes ago that the commercial break has actually done advertising on your show. And so how long are we into the show now?
How long have we been doing this? Oh, by the way, for those who don't know, who are listening, and you should go tune in, brother and sister. Yes. So this is how the two of them got together.
So we've been working together since 1991 and 1993, our respective births.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts react to negative reviews?
Yeah. Because those are always so funny. People are so ridiculous. So it's usually us making fun of these reviewers or trying to defend these poor employees at all these different businesses who have to deal with the worst people ever. But we end up having a lot of fun because we are also siblings. So we bicker a lot.
People will be like, stop arguing. And I'm like, it's not possible.
Yeah, no, that's I think that's part of the having tuned in. I think that's part of the fun. Part of the fun is that you as someone has a lot of siblings. Yeah, you can understand where you're coming from. It's a debate or argument that I would see myself having someone else. How many siblings do you have? I've got a twin brother, and then I've got two younger brothers.
So we're a good, solid Irish Catholic family, almost a basketball team.
I heard about the parasailing or whatever. No, the skydiving. I listened to that episode recently.
Oh, yes.
And your twin brother, you found out your brothers were skydiving with help.
That's right.
I am terrified of heights.
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Chapter 7: What humorous anecdotes do they share about their experiences?
And I am as white as I have ever been as they are just about to push me out of a plane. I can't believe I did it. I still can't believe I did it.
You did it though? Oh, great.
That's so good.
Hey, listen, we went skydiving because our mother guilted us into skydiving with her for her like 60. No.
No?
no that's not what happened you and our you yeah you and our this was i was getting flashbacks i was a little shaky just hearing this story because i can relate you and our mother you and our mother for your birthdays which are both in the summer decided to go skydiving together uh and we do have a younger sister but she was too young to go for me i don't know why you didn't invite me you just didn't so of course i got upset and i was is that real
Yeah. And then the next day or something, you said, surprise.
No wonder that story from your podcast really stuck with me.
Yeah. Because you've done this before, basically.
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Chapter 8: What are the funniest posts shared from Nextdoor?
And so at least the place where I worked, they really ā kind of ingrained into our heads that customer service was the most important thing. And I feel like that's kind of tailed off in a lot of ways in a lot of places. And we also understand that the people working behind the counter are people too. And the customer is not always right. But that was what was kind of banged into my head.
When I read some of these reviews, I think about that. I go, you know what? The bad reviews... are the people who just don't like the show. And they take the time. Yeah, you can't win. You can't. They take the time to bitch and complain because that's who they are. And that's what they do. And we try to take it with a grain of salt.
But I will read, you know, 10 great reviews about the show or me or Chrissy or whoever. And I forget all of those. Immediately. The second the bad review comes in. I'm like, well, that motherfucker.
It's like shocking how that happens. Even just as an instinctual reaction. Then you can pull away from it. But at that first, like.
But still, it's always that case. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So it's been it's been a it's kind of broke broken open a lot of conversations around that.
Yeah. And like, I found the people who really have feedback will email us or something will like actually want to have a conversation with us rather than just post on a post a one star review shitting on us in some way like the people who actually. If you actually have concerns or feedback that is useful, we'll usually reach out to us in other ways.
But I do find it's so true that there's so many one-star reviews we read where people will say, oh, I always loved coming here except today. And it's like, well, so you finally wrote a review and it was only because you hated what happened today.
Truly, I've been coming here for 10 years and today I had a terrible time and I'm writing a one-star review.
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