Chapter 1: What is the significance of the Walmart Associates Gathering?
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Chapter 2: Who were the celebrities featured at this year's event?
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This episode of the Commercial Break. 2024 starred Lizzo, Backstreet Boys, Peyton Manning, and Robert Downey Jr. Wow. Was like an emcee of the event. Okay. But this year, pop country superstar Post Malone. Okay.
Chapter 3: What unique experiences are offered during Walmart's Associates Week?
They're bringing in the big guns. Yes. Post Malone, Noah Kahn, Kamiya Cabello, and Jimmy Fallon were in attendance to entertain the good folks of Walmart, starting at 8 a.m. in the morning. It's a day-long celebration where Post Malone is playing for you at 8.15 in the fucking morning. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
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, Chrissy Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy.
Best to you, Brian.
And best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. I got some schmutz in my throat.
Chapter 4: How does Walmart's podcast studio initiative impact content creation?
I know, I've had it in mine.
Yeah, every time you walk into the studio, you start coughing. I know. Yeah, maybe it's the studio.
Maybe it is.
Maybe all the years of wires and God knows what else in here. It's time for a change of scenery. It is time for a change of scenery. Just let you know that Chrissy and I will soon be doing some in-person recordings with some of our guests. Thanks to the good people at Odyssey. Odyssey is our network. They essentially... They handle a lot of stuff on our behalf.
But, you know, when you're a podcast, you can't do everything, although we try. You can't do everything.
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Chapter 5: What are the after-hours activities at the Walmart Associates Gathering?
And so they do some of the business stuff for us, including, you know, find sponsors and put them into the show and all that. But they're wonderful people, all of them. And Odyssey has hundreds of local radio stations across the country or maybe thousands. I'm not sure.
They have one here in Atlanta, and they have offered the use of their studios, their professional studios, for Chrissy and I to host people in person. So we're going to be starting that in July. We'll be in person. And so here's what I want to say.
God, it's been a long time since I've stepped into a radio studio.
It's going to be really weird. It's going to be really weird. You know, we got a video last night from one of the operations people saying, And, yeah, just looking at the video made me feel weird. I know. Because there are some similarities.
Chapter 6: How does Walmart celebrate its employees during Shareholder Week?
There's some PTSD there.
There is some PTSD there. I just hope we don't run into anybody we used to work with. I know. Yeah. Like you two idiots?
Well, I think we do know a good friend.
Okay, but those people we know and we like, right? I hope we don't run into anybody we don't like. How's that?
Yeah.
Anybody that made our radio experience so miserable, I hope they're long gone out of this town and not at Odyssey. I don't think they are. And the people at Odyssey are great. So maybe we'll give them a pass if they are with Odyssey.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges faced by Walmart employees regarding pay and benefits?
But here's why I bring this up. I think in the future, not anytime soon, but I think in the future, there may be an opportunity for people who live close to see us record in person. So do us a favor, 212-4255. 433-3TCB, 212-433-3822. If you live like within an hour of the Atlanta area, let us know and we'll start putting a list together.
And if that happens, if it comes to fruition, if we're allowed to do it, if we decide to do it, we'll pull out that list and we'll start emailing. So 212-433-3TCB. Let us know you're interested. And seeing a live taping of the commercial break. Also, we're going to be doing that on Twitch and kick. And we'll start that probably in July at some point, too. So stay tuned.
Follow us at the commercial break on Instagram. If you would, if you could, if you don't mind. So one of the weirdest things I've seen in podcasting in a long time, I found this morning.
Chapter 8: What are the wild stories shared about Walmart Associates Week?
I passed it around. This is crazy. And this parlays into another topic I want to talk about. So there is a guy here in Atlanta who claims to be the podcast guru, you know, launch your podcast, whatever, with a million and a half Instagram followers. Mm hmm. But, you know, like sidetrack just for one second.
Chrissy sent me this article the other day and she's like, oh, I guess now they're just telling you where to find fake followers.
Mm hmm.
Chrissy sent me this article that it appeared that it was from the AJC or an adjunct like, you know, the AJC can own these smaller newspapers around town or business.
Rough Draft or something was the name of it.
Something. Yeah. And she sends it to me. It takes a keen eye, but you would realize that this is really just an advertorial, which means that it's. It looks like it's a real article, but what it really is is an advertisement for a service where you can buy fake followers. And it's giving you the pros and cons to buying fake followers.
Like, oh, if you're a business, then juicing your followers could lend some credibility. If I thought that was true, I would have done that a long time ago. No, because fake followers are only going to get you so far. People are going to realize they're fake followers, and then they're not going to want to follow you because you have a bunch of fake followers.
I'd rather have 7,000 real followers than 7 million fake followers. I mean, let's be real. I'd rather have 7 million any followers, but I'd rather have 7,000 real followers because at least we know that, you know, they're out there somewhere. And, you know, it is what it is. Okay, we have 7,000 followers. So pathetic.
Tens of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of listeners, and only 7,000 of them could see fit to go to Instagram, which I know you have, to go to Instagram and press follow. Please do that. And that's the only way you're going to find out if we do special stuff like live recordings at Odyssey or on Kik or Twitch. So go follow us, please.
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