Chapter 1: What is the significance of Spring Break for the hosts?
Hey, it's the captain of this rusty ship, Brian. And despite all of your musings, concerns, and text messages, and probably the wishes and desires of some of the audience, Chrissy and I are just fine. It's our spring break and we deserve it. We're almost a thousand episodes into this son of a bitch. And I swear on all that's holy, we've earned our break.
So in the meantime, we're running some of our favorite recent episodes to get new listeners up to speed and to irritate the old listeners. Anywho, Chrissy and I will be back next week, bigger and better than ever, as we return to three new episodes each and every week for the absolute foreseeable future. I need to pay my car off. You can see Chrissy and I back at it live March 31st.
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Chapter 2: What are the hosts' plans for future episodes?
Eastern Standard Time. Until then, enjoy this TCB Spring Break classic.
I did try to jog once, but it makes the wine just jump right out of your glass.
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Two for the rope scores. Great. I see you have the blue wristband. That means it's only $29.99 per minute for you to do the rope score. And I'm like, I have the rawr. I'm roaring. I'm supposed to have the rawr here. And he's like, you just get a fucking discount. And I'm like, you got to be kidding me. And he's like, well, the activities that are included are putt-putt. And putt-putt.
And putt-putt. And I'm like, I don't want to play putt-putt. Putt-putt's everywhere. No one likes putt-putt.
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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 Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for listening. We'll get back to Great Wolf Lodge just here in a short, hot second.
But I picked up the studio phone and I want to make it a habit of checking in more often with our listeners and like talking about them on air because they really are a great group of people. We don't get too much hate, at least not here on the text message line. That is saved for the reviews where everybody can see them.
Yes, thanks for that.
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Chapter 3: What experiences did the hosts have at Great Wolf Lodge?
So did you go down to Johnson City and hang out down there?
Maybe once or twice.
Yeah, did I? You know that Raphael, my best friend, his cousin owns a string of restaurants, liquor stores, bars down there. That guy is fucking killing it. Houses, rental houses, taxi cabs.
Good for him. Best to you, Raphael's cousin.
Sex workers. I mean, that guy's into everything over there. He is really, like, he's just into everything.
Man. A man about town.
How is it that one guy, like in the same circle of people, one guy can miserably fail at every business opportunity that comes his way. And another guy can literally turn shit into gold. He turned a string of restaurants, bars, and liquor stores in Johnson City, fucking Tennessee into a huge success.
I'm down here in Atlanta where literally money's growing on trees, and I can't plan to plumb to save my life. I mean, I swear to God. Good for you, Fosse. Good for you. He does have a great set of restaurants. And Fosse, if you want to call and tell me the names of those, I'll shout them out here on air. Yeah, so I love that Johnson City area.
It's lovely.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts feel about the cleanliness at Great Wolf Lodge?
I think that's Sean.
Was that our Naked Attraction?
Yeah, our Naked Attraction episode. So, you know, sorry to hit you over the head with a bunch of balls to start the year off. But, I mean, what else are you doing? You know what I'm saying? Well, bam. Our favorite trucker says, can never do too much Frankie B. I'd listen to a podcast if they strictly did only Frankie B content.
That's almost us.
Well, just go back, listen to season number two and three of the commercial break, and you'll get what you want. You'll get what you want. We talked about Sidney a couple of months ago. Sidney had written in. He had written us a letter, asked for some advice, talked about some things. And we didn't know whether or not to refer to Sidney as a girl or a boy. I have found out that Sidney is a boy.
Sid is a boy. Okay. Sid listened to the 12 Days of TCB. He says we're crushing it. And he just wanted to let us know that he and his girlfriend give each other gifts. Him and his lady give each other gifts. How do you keep it a secret? Remember we talked about that? And we said you don't keep it a secret because we just talked about it on the commercial break. Taj says, happy holidays.
This is back from the holidays. We're just getting to some of these now. But that's better than we used to be where we would get to it six months later. That's right. She volunteers with the local SPCA. They foster cats and dogs throughout the year. And this Christmas, she'll be alone. But she's got TCB in the 13 days. She thanks us for putting together the 13 days.
By the way, everybody in the text messages referred to it as the 13 days of TCB because that's actually what it was. And someone says, where have all the PUA's gone? Can we do some more Frankie B? Then we did some more Frankie B. She says, you read my mind. Love you. Love TCB. Keep it going forever. You're welcome, of course.
So just a small snapshot of some of our listeners out there writing in and saying wonderful things about us. Thank you for writing. I do, do, do love our listeners. They are. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, listen.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did the hosts face during their visit to Great Wolf Lodge?
I've said this before. We'll say it again. Podcasting can be a lonely venture because part of the reason ā let me share this. We have Gustavo coming up on a special episode on Saturday in celebration of the USA versus Venezuela international soccer match that will take place here in Miami.
I was thinking about that. Hopefully there won't be any more ā what was that that happened yesterday?
That was Columbia, I think.
Okay, where the people were storming it? Yeah, that was the... Crawling through great, like, air docks?
The America's Cup Final at the Hard Rock down there, which is the same place they're going to play this. People were literally creating stampedes to get in without tickets. And, like... It's just beyond me. There are families there. There are children there. There are people who paid good money. And I understand that ticket prices are out of control.
But that doesn't mean that then you can go put everybody else's life in danger. You're a fucking moron. Don't do that. That's just ridiculous.
Go watch it on TV.
Go watch it on TV like the rest of us poor people. Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How did the hosts handle their children's expectations at the water park?
Special episode with Gustavo coming in as a guest. Here's why I bring it up. Because Gustavo has this fear of the microphone. He has a real fear of getting on the microphone. And the way that I talked him off the ledge was to explain to him that podcasting is an extremely lonely venture. There's literally no one on the other side. It's a camera, a microphone, and no one else in the room.
There's nothing to be scared of. No one's going to give you instant feedback. You're not going to feel embarrassed by being in front of a bunch of people. You'll just feel that way later. You'll feel that way after the episode comes out. You'll beg me to take it off the RSS feed, and I'll say, ah, ah, ah. But podcasting can be a lonely venture.
And when you guys text in and you let us know about your lives and, you know, how TCB interacts with that life, it really is something special. It is something that I'm grateful for. I think that this would be... I think it would be a different vibe for me if I didn't know that there were people on the other end and some of them... Loving us and hating us. Yeah, loving us and hating us. Listen...
It's hard sometimes not to take the criticisms and internalize them. And that is why I never, ever read the reviews anymore. I don't Google the commercial, Blake. Blake. I don't do any of that because I just don't, you know, whatever. But when on the odd.
We'll just live in our happy little bubble.
That's right. On the odd and off chance that we get like somebody writes in and it's not so nice, I just ignore it. You know, I'm like, whatever. I say thanks for listening. What am I going to do? I can't make everybody happy.
No, you can't.
Speaking of not making everybody happy, do you remember the podcaster Bobby Althoff? The Atloff. Is it Atloff? Bobby Atloff. You remember, Christina? This young girl who was like a homemaker. She was doing videos about...
cooking food in her house and stuff like that and then one day all of the sudden she gets an interview with a celebrity i think it was a celebrity rapper and this interview goes viral because her way of interviewing people was extraordinarily weird dry maybe even a little bit off-putting she was very quiet she was very confrontational but she wasn't like loud about it she would she would be like you're kind of ugly
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Chapter 7: What humorous incidents occurred during their time at the Great Wolf Lodge?
She does a famous interview with Drake in a bed.
Yeah, I'm remembering that now.
Okay. In a bed. She starts kind of hitting on him. She is married with a child. That husband soon files for divorce. Oh, God. For a long time. People in the people had been like whispering, like a whisper campaign that WME, the agency who represented her, the William Morris Endeavor Agency. Who are very big players in the podcast space. Oh, yeah.
Reality wasn't real?
Reality wasn't real.
I can't believe that.
It's hard to believe. And early on, a very well placed source in the podcast industry had told me that she was an industry plant. Now, I don't even know what that means, really. Because at the end of the day, you know, you could say that, like, our views manufactured, our downloads manufactured, whatever. I don't know. Who cares? It doesn't really matter.
If people like the content, is she really an industry plant or is she just someone that kind of struck while the iron was hot? But people have been... kind of eulogizing her over the last couple of weeks or month because her views have plummeted. She's like not the hot thing anymore. As time went on, people started to understand that Bobbi was not the person that was on the podcast.
She had a much different personality in real life and that a lot of this stuff was just kind of for the cameras. She also made a few comments like ā I heard that somebody else was making half a million dollars podcasting. So I'm going to that's what I need to do so I can make half a million dollars. In other words, people felt like she wasn't doing it for the love of the podcast.
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Chapter 8: What reflections do the hosts share about parenting during the trip?
Bobby was playing a character on a podcast. Everybody's playing a character when the camera turns on. It doesn't matter who you are. Yes, of course, to some degree, to all degrees. I can promise you, when I am not here, looking like a stud, high fade, Done to the nines. I am literally in my pajama pants farting and eating cereal and cream. Yelling at my children, kicking my dog around the house.
Dating high schoolers. Now, this is a difficult endeavor to go out there and to put yourself out there and to create in any way, shape, or form. And when you create for a long time, you know, yeah, maybe you find some, like... Maybe you find something organically that works. Maybe you become more natural to your own creative style. You have to find that. It only happens over time.
I don't fault Bobbi for doing her thing, right?
No.
I don't find that particular shtick interesting. It's not interesting to me, but I think it's a little mean-spirited to go stomp on her grave because she's no longer getting the views when Bobby was just trying to create like the rest of us. That's my personal opinion. Now, you want to get me on the Hawk Tua girl, that's a different story altogether.
I will dance on the Hawk Tua grave because that was a shitty thing that she did. That was super shitty. And Hawk Tua is nowhere to be found. Did you hear about, I told you about Hawk Tua?
Oh yeah, no, I read a whole article about it.
And her Hawk coin, her Tua coin, Tua!
Yeah, I think I mean, I I kind of think in that instance, she got in got involved with some bad players.
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