EP #752: Bryan gets up close and personal with Tom Papa! (But not too close because...it's Bryan and he is bad at being a regular human). After an invite to Tom's Atlanta Grateful Bread Show, Bryan can't decide whether or not to say hi. He has a panic attack and bails on the simple act of speaking to someone he already knows! Plus, it's a weekend full of flavor, frights and fun for both the TCB hosts. Krissy goes to SmokeSlam in Memphis to party at the country's largest BBG contest but doesn't get to taste the BBQ. Bryan takes the kids to the Zoo scarring and scaring his children in the process. Then, it's a daddy-daughter day with lizards, gizzards and Sonic (a) hedgehog! Catch up on the mundane lives of your favorite mediocre comedy podcast...or take a nap. Taking a nap would be nice. TCB Clip: Knock Three Times! Watch EP #752 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: What song is featured at the beginning?
Out your window tonight Holding the string With the note that Attached to my heart Read how many times I saw you How in my silence I adored you And only in my dreams Did that wall between us Come apart Oh my darling Knock three times on the ceiling If you want me Twice on the pipe, if the answer is no. Whoa, my sweetness, means you'll meet me in the hallway.
Whoa, whoa, twice on the pipe, means you ain't gonna show.
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I kind of darted in and out of the room for a second, having a conversation with myself as Astrid was like, what do you want to do? What do you want to do? I mean, are you going to do it or are you not going to do it? If you want to do it. And I'm like, should I do it? I guess I should go. Is that kind of douchey move?
Like, hey, thanks for the free, you know, you know, hey, I just spent two hours, but now I got more. I need more of your time. I didn't know. And does he want to talk to me? Like. Is he looking for Brian Green? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, is Tom Papa? Is Brian in the audience? Yeah, is Brian in the audience?
Well, that's the ultimate dream is that I was on this podcast, the commercial break. Here, let me pull it up on the big screen right now and we'll get everybody to follow. That's like the dream.
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oh yeah cats and kittens welcome back to the commercial break i'm brian green this is my dear friend and the co-host of this show chris joy holy best to you chris best to you out there in the podcast universe thanks for joining us just a few moments away chrissy from the tcbs endless day sponsored by five hour energy in which we put out 12 episodes in a 24 hour period and hope amongst hope that we don't ourselves end up in a mental institution that's correct
But I have a plan. I've got a plan. And if we stick to the plan, it's less likely that we'll go to the mental institution. So there you go. And I did offer you a hotel room. You said no. I thought, hey, Chrissy, why would you want to stay here? Why would you want to be subjected to all of this bullshit when you can just take a break from time to time and run over to a luxurious suite?
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Chapter 2: What happened during Bryan's visit to see Tom Papa?
I mean, the people that do these competitions a lot, I mean, they travel around doing it.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I had... There's a guy that was married to a stepsister of mine at one point, and he likened himself one of these, you know, pit master dudes. The barbecue was always terrible. But, you know, we we smiled and ate it. Humored him. Yeah, we humored him. He but that's what he wanted to do.
He wanted to take a bunch of the money that she had earned because she was working and he wasn't that she had earned to buy a trailer and a hitch and go around. And he was going to be the next, you know, smasmic, phantasmic barbecue guy. And no one had the heart to tell him. It's kind of like American Idol. No one had the heart to tell him that you probably shouldn't do that.
Luckily, they divorced before he spent their money on some barbecue hitch in a wagon. I'll never forget like. We all – it was Thanksgiving, and my dad and my stepmom had slaved over a turkey. And so we were all going to – oh, no, it wasn't. It was a turkey or it was a ham. I can't remember. In any case, it was something. They had slaved over it.
It was what it was.
Yeah, it was memorable. They had slaved over it and everybody and they said to everybody, we're cooking. We got it. No problem. Everything's on the table. Don't bring anything. Bring yourselves, you know, an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, of course. And that's how it goes. Right. Some people cook whatever. Anyway.
So before I got there, there was a big to-do, a dust-up, if you will, because this guy who likened himself to Spasmic Fantasmic, the next barbecue pitmaster... He brought an entire barbecued pig or whatever it was. He brought it over after they had slaved to make Thanksgiving dinner. He brought it over thinking that everybody would like his better than they liked theirs.
Like some douchey move of just you trying to steal the show, so to speak. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I thought it was rather – to me, it was rather rude. I thought to myself, that's not the right thing to do. If you want to bring your own barbecue, you should communicate that you want to bring your own barbecue. I mean, unless you have some kind of, like, food allergy or something like that.
Like, I can't eat that food, so I'm bringing my own food. There's absolutely no reason to do that. And anyway, he brought it over, and we didn't get ended up tasting it, but that was all to our – we all were excited about that because we didn't like his food anyway. It was just not all that good. Hey, guess what I did this weekend? What? I went to go see Tom Papa.
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Chapter 3: What was Krissy's experience at the BBQ contest?
From 15 feet high to all the way to the ground, just four slinky little wires. But they're electrified, so those elephants aren't going anywhere. And the giraffes, I don't think anybody's afraid of the giraffes. Like, what are the giraffes going to do? You know what I'm saying? They don't want them to get out, but they can stick their head right down in and grab you with their tongue.
Oh, yeah, you can do the feeding.
You can do the feeding.
Of the giraffes.
I forgot about that. And we did do the feeding. We did. And I got some pictures. And it went about exactly as how you would have expected. Let's talk about that when we get back.
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So we turned the corner. We're back. So we turned the corner. Some guy wrote in and he was like, And by the way, do you remember Will the Champ? Of course. Will the Champ, longtime listener. Not sure that he listens anymore. I think he went through something. And anyway, we wish Will the best.
I thought about Will the Champ actually this weekend at Smokeslam because they had an eating contest.
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