Episode #674: Welcome to Season 6!!!!!! We're back and Bryan is a famous Venezuelan who will show his body for the right cause. Bryan is the most famous Venezuelan in this household The old democracy drop Bryan the Hulkomaniac Netflix finally fixed their shit Hulk Hogan’s beer? Bryan got Poppy’s last name wrong WWE Monday Night RAW Streaming and appointment viewing Say Nothing on Hulu The Troubles Naked Attraction The Golden Globes Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify 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 is Bryan's connection to Venezuela?
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I don't know how many years on this earth I got left. I'm going to get real weird with it.
On this episode of the Commercial Break.
I think I would show my naked body if it was for a good reason.
What?
I knew that question was coming and I can't think of one. Like charity, PETA or something like that, right? But no one's asking for my naked body. No one. No one's going, I'd really like to see Brian naked.
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Chapter 2: How did Bryan become known as a famous Venezuelan?
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Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Grain, this is the Hogan of Mycena. Chris and Joy Hoadley, best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. Here we are, season number six. Rounding the corner into our fifth year of the commercial break, Chrissy.
That's incredible.
Why, why, why? Why is my life taking such a desperate turn? If you were writing a book, this would be the last chapter. The fifth year. How long can we continue is the question. It's like a marathon. How long can my feet continue to roll us along? I don't know. We'll figure it out as we... as we jump into close to 700 episodes of this show. Can you believe that?
That's insane.
It really is insane. This is the 675th episode, although on the RSS feed, you'll find this to be the 674th episode. We were just talking about how I deleted one of the episodes. I don't even have a copy of that episode. Did you know that?
That's good.
Yeah, it's probably not necessary. No one asked for it. No one wants it. I always thought, I always felt like, I mean, listen, when you have 675 episodes, it's unlikely that anyone would start at the first episode, I think. I don't know, because that's not how it presents itself inside of any application.
That's a lot to go back through.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of the democracy drop remark?
We really have... taken big breaks from posting anything on social media, maybe a month sometimes. So then at the end of the year last year, we decided, okay, we got to get our shit together because every other human being knows how to do social media except for us. And every podcast is growing because they have social media that share, you know, that people discover them.
So let's get in the game six years later. Let's get in the game. It's 2024. Facebook and MySpace has been around since 2004. Let's get in the game. So we... That's what we did. We got some video cameras and, you know, we hired an editing team and Christine is here with us in the studio. We did the studio. And...
We have this video editor now, and he goes through the episodes, and he'll cut up clips for us. And he's really good at this. He's really been really talented at what he does, making us seem funny in otherwise not funny situations. So he cut up this clip from our New Year's Eve episode where you asked me, what do the Venezuelans do for New Year's Eve?
Do they have a ball drop?
Do they have a ball drop? And I said, no. Struggling for something to say, I said, no, they have democracy drop, like no democracy for you. This was then cut up in a certain way by our editor. And then we put it out there on New Year's Eve, just as the episode was releasing. And it went fucking bananas in the Venezuelan community. Hundreds of thousands of likes, tens of thousands of shares.
Comments.
Comments. Venezuelans are fighting with each other in the comments section of this particular reel. And it really surprised us. And here's why it surprised us. We have never had more than a thousand views on any one of our reels. And to get hundreds of thousands of them in a short period of time was quite surprising. And it caused a lot of excitement around the house because Gustavo is here.
His fiancée Ale is here. And Astrid, of course, is Venezuelan. So the most... Common comment, I think, has been, what is this? If it's a negative comment, has been, what does this guy know about Venezuelans? Like, fuck that guy. He doesn't know anything about Venezuelans. Yes, I do. I have lived with them for half of my life. My best friend is Venezuelan.
Listen, my family disowned me a long time ago. I'm not exactly the best person in the world. I'm kind of a miserable sack.
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Chapter 4: How does Bryan feel about social media engagement?
It's been on forever because I used to work in cable advertising. And it's, I mean, definitely been on since 2000, I would say.
Yes. Well, I mean, I think Monday Night Raw has been on for a very long time.
Yeah.
I don't know. I'm not into the WWE. Me neither. I can't claim to know a fucking thing about it. I was certainly a Hulkamaniac back in the day. But when you're eight years old and guys in tights are throwing themselves around the ring all oiled up going, Oh, what are you going to do when the Hulkamaniac comes down on you?
Well, it was entertainment. It still is. It was entertainment. But...
Yeah. Everybody, every young man, I think, and maybe some young women wanted to be a professional wrestler back in the 80s when it was kind of cartoonish and everybody loved it. That is my landscapers showing up right on time as we need desperately.
I understand now. I can't.
You can't. It's crazy. These guys, and this is the new landscaping company that agreed not to do this between so and so and so and so here at the house. And what they're going to do pretty soon is they are going to blow this window off for the next seven minutes. And we're going to be unable to record anything. Welcome to the new season. Welcome to the new season of the commercial break.
Just like, welcome to the new old, new old shit. We've got to get a studio, like an actual studio, outside of this shack I call my house. I mean, honestly, it's crazy.
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Chapter 5: What changes have Netflix made to WWE programming?
Yes, Ted Sarandos finally got his shit together and decided we better fix this. Technical. But, you know, I don't know that as many people. Actually, WWE is so wildly popular. I mean, wildly popular.
It always has been.
And I think it's seeing probably like every dog's ass gets a little sunshine. And I think right now it's probably seeing this incredible popularity because the mood, the tone and the texture of the country is right there with it. Right. Aggressive, aggressive, very male focused. You know, the us guys, our balls are just a little bit bigger than they used to be. I need more testosterone.
It's me, Ted Sarandos. Put more testosterone in our streams. And I don't say that, you know, listen, I'm making a joke, but it really is sometimes the moment meets the man, so to speak, or the man meets the moment. And that's where the WWE is right now. It's really seeing its day in the sun, except for Vince McMahon, who no longer can step Actually, you know what?
I think he's now the CEO of the company again, isn't he?
Wasn't there also a documentary on Netflix about him?
How he was terrible? Yes. And this is the crazy part. This is what I wanted to point out. Well, first of all, celebrities of all kinds showed up to this WWE Netflix debut. Hulk Hogan showed up to the WWE Netflix debut. Hulk Hogan got booed. At the WWE Netflix debut. Yes, because he turned his appearance. First of all, he's 70 something years old. He's listen. I don't want to be in quite.
Yeah, I don't. Yes. I mean, did you see him at the Republican National Convention? He struggled mightily to get that little T-shirt off of his chest. First of all. Second of all, I'm not an ageist, but at 70 something years old, I think it's time to start wearing sleeves. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, just like be kind of act your age a little bit. I will always love the Hulk.
I will always love the Hulk. I don't have to love his, you know, I don't have to love everything that he thinks or everything that he stands for, but I can love who he was when I was like, I can love that memory of the Hulk. Listen, I don't agree with everything Michael Jackson did either, but I can agree that, you know, Billie Jean is a good song for sure. I can compartmentalize in that way.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of binge-watching vs appointment viewing?
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New season, same smoke machine. All right, so... You do love your smoke machine. I do love my smoke machine. So, yeah, it's like, it seems... Can you Google this, Christina? Is Vince McMahon still a part of the WWE? Because I believe that he was kicked out of the WWE because he was some sexual harassment allegations. Mm-hmm. Number three.
He resigned January 20. Wait, as of January 26, 2024.
It's of January 26, 2020. Okay, so he's back out. I think he was in, then he was out, then he was in, and now he's back out again.
Yeah.
But they put together this scathing documentary. I mean, it really was a scathing documentary about him. Seven parts, really fascinating to watch. And then Netflix then buys the rights to WWE Raw. You've got to give something to Ted Sarandos. Ted Sarandos, who's the guy who runs Netflix?
I think it's Saranos.
Sarandos or Saranos? Sarandos. Let's figure this out before.
Sarandos. Sarandos.
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Chapter 7: What shows are Bryan and Krissy currently watching?
Sports.
they have Thursday night football on Amazon Prime sports they have football soccer you know football in Christina's country so I think I think if I have to like sum this up they broke something that wasn't
broken and now they're fixing it by making it the way that it was and it seems really strange to me i know i'm gonna sound like an old man when i say this but i just think that cable tv in general sometimes was better with a dvr cable tv sometimes was better i'd like it that way i do like binge watching stuff and i love the ability to have everything under the sun but now
You know, television stations and in general, streamers are making less and less good television and they're making less and less of it. Now you only get two seasons of something. That's it. And then they go away. Yeah. You don't want to know why? Because there's no way to economically to make it economically viable to have season three, four, five or six.
Someone comes to the platform and they're paying their fees. They don't give a shit. Two good seasons and then you're out. That's it. It's like the BB fucking C. And I hate that about the BB fucking C. They only make three seasons of anything. that.
You love your BritBox.
I do love my BritBox. Astrid hates it because we have to pay for it every month, but I love it. I keep fighting for BritBox. Every month we have the same conversation. Yes, I will.
My mom literally got that for Christmas.
BritBox?
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