Chapter 1: What milestones did The 700 Club podcast achieve?
And welcome back to WSHIT. It's 2.15 in the morning and you're listening to the Holy S*** It's Early Show. Your first source for news when you wake up or right before you go to bed. All week we'll be celebrating our 700th episode of this show. And we couldn't be happier to have a very special message from a very special listener indeed.
Michael Tito's Vodka Schlaugenhauser, the mayor of Crabapple, had these kind words to say coming out of Crabapple Tavern. Baby, I love you. With everything I got. I swear to God, I don't care about nothing. I don't care about nothing. Okay? You're all I need in life. You're all I need. I promise you. Don't need nothing else. All this other shit's for the birds, man. It's me and you. Forever.
Till death do us part. Okay? Ain't no turning back now. They ain't gonna respect us. They ain't gonna hate us. That's whether to death. Well, Mayor Tito's, I can confidently say a nickname has never been more rightfully urged. It's just for the birds, man.
On this episode of the commercial break, there's just a couple hundred thousand podcasts, I think, that have put out more than 100 episodes. You get up to 700. I don't know. Maybe there's a couple hundred of us.
We need to look into that.
We do need to look into that.
It's a hard thing.
It is.
It's a hard thing to do, and I can only imagine, too, if somebody's doing it by themselves. Oh, yeah. At least you and I have each other to be accountable to.
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Chapter 2: How did Bryan & Krissy celebrate their 700th episode?
But hey, you know what? There is something to be said for longevity. I think there's something to be said for reps. Even ChatGPT agrees that the show, the consistent content that is put out on a frequent basis.
Consistent, mediocre content.
Yeah, the consistent, mediocre content put out on a consistent basis is better or worse than really good content put out just a few times a year. You know, there are some podcasts who literally put out one or two episodes a year. I think there's a very famous podcast. I wish I could remember the name of the guy. He's a famous author.
He puts out two podcasts a year, and they're less than 60 minutes each time. And people fiend over them, and sponsors pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be attached to those two episodes. Let's do that. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I mean, if we had that kind of cachet, maybe we could. But let's be real.
If the last 699 episodes have been any example of what we would put out twice a year, no one's paying $100,000 to be on that show.
We could really work on them. You know, we could spend the rest of the year really working on those.
If I could make the money that we're making now. Which would still leave me in debt. But at least we, you know, at least it's something. It's better than some podcasters. If we can make the money we're making now, only putting out two episodes a year, you believe you me. I would be in Mallorca. Well, not on this paycheck, but it's on some paycheck.
I would be in Mallorca for three months of the year. I would be at every school. My kids would hate me by the end of it because I would just be lounging around the house. Yeah, bothering them. Listen, I... You know, there is a small sense of pride about hitting 700. I don't know what it is about the number 700, but it feels like we've really accomplished something. I think there are. It's a lot.
I think there have been three and a half million podcasts, the individual podcasts that have been put out there. I think if the statistic that I remember correctly is less than 50 percent of them will make it past episode number 10. Less than 50 percent of that will make it past episode 50. And the numbers just dwindle after you get past 100.
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Chapter 3: What significance do coca leaves have in the discussion?
Are cocoa leaves illegal to eat? To have, to possess. I have to imagine they are.
Yeah, I would think so.
Like unprocessed, not cocaine, but cocoa leaves. I wonder, I wonder if that's true. We'll have to take a look at that. I know that it's legal. I think it's legal to grow poppy, but I think you have to grow it for like food purposes, like the stuff that comes out of heroin. Like poppy seeds. Like poppy seeds. So I think you can grow the poppy seeds, but only if you use them for tea.
Speaking of poppy seeds, just on a totally different note, did you know that a lot of people buy poppy seeds in bulk and then make tea out of it to get high? Isn't that weird? That seems like a lot of effort. I don't like effort getting high. I want Dee to show up at the front door. Yeah, I didn't even like leaving my house to get the drugs.
Like I had someone come to me and I paid extra for that. A lot extra for shitty drugs that came, you know, to my house. But anyway, I digress. 700 episodes, Chrissy. Congratulations.
I'm going to go to Mexico soon. I'm going to investigate the cocoa leaf thing, though.
And whether or not you can bring them back? Mm-hmm. Why? Are they legal in Mexico?
I don't know.
Oh, okay.
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Chapter 4: What happened during a breakup story at Machu Picchu?
zipping on a car up onto Machu Picchu. It didn't take like three days to get up there or something, right? You have to hike into the woods. Yeah, anyway. I know that there's a squirrely motherfucker or two out there who grow cocoa leaves. There's got to be here in the United States. I mean, I don't know how you grow them or you get a hold of cocoa seeds, but you know there's a squirrely...
son of a bitch out there you would think so yeah because you know if you look at it i don't even know what a cocoa plant looks like i think it just looks like a plant like a fern so you know we should do go to mexico get yourself a hold of some you know cocoa stems like you know the just pluck a couple out of the ground or find somebody who can do that for you bring it back say it's a fern and let's start growing them in my house as ferns and then uh you know the kids will never go to sleep
I hate chewing on the ferns. It kind of does look like a fern, doesn't it?
I'll investigate.
It looks like a bay leaf. It looks like a bay leaf. Yeah. See, I told you. We should have these right next to the bay leaves. I think you're on to something with that.
In the public.
Yeah. I back it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I'm just going to bring them back and put them in a bay leaf package. No one will be the wiser.
No, officer. Except for the drug dogs. They're bay leaves. Yeah, they're bay leaves.
I use them in my stew. That's right. I don't want you to get an anal cavity search like I had that one time. So don't bring bay leaves back. I'm going to need you because we need to get on with the next 700 episodes. We're about to sign another contract. This time I might be a little smarter and I might say, well... I promise to try. How's that?
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Chapter 5: How has The Commercial Break evolved over time?
Yeah.
We were doing a whole lot of videos. I think the nature of the podcast, really, quite frankly there, I think for like a string of 100 episodes, I would say that 70 of them had videos in them. We were doing a video every single day. But also, we were only doing two episodes a week. So it was a little bit different, right? And even then...
I found that the improv was where the freedom was to have some fun and to be funny. So by the time we turned the corner on like episode number 350, I felt like I, at least from my sitting in my chair, I felt like the podcast had a personality.
I don't know necessarily what that was kind of goofy and ADHD and all over the place, but I felt like it had a personality and all we needed to do was just have the freedom to find the funny and, And eventually we would get there. It might take us 10 or 15 episodes, but we would find a good episode in there somewhere. Yeah.
And I think after episode, like, let's say 500, I felt like we knew what we were doing. We could turn on the microphone. We could figure out an hour of content. We could talk, you know, incessantly for 45 straight minutes and not have to worry about it. And now at episode number 700... You know, I think the episode has a following. I think the commercial break has a following.
I think there are people who really enjoy hearing us talk for whatever crazy reason. Yeah. And I think the podcast has taken on a personality of its own.
Aw, our little baby is growing up.
And then Brian died in a tragic cream and cereal accident. Chewing cocoa leaves with his cream and cereal, Brian had a massive coronary right there at the kitchen table. His children cried, but the listeners did not, for their long suffering is over. The commercial break. The worst podcast ever. Yeah, that's how I feel about the podcast. I feel like it's taken on a life of its own.
It has.
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Chapter 6: What are Bryan's rants about podcasting and its challenges?
Somebody said to me the other day, they go, he's an old kook. And I go, what's a kook? He goes, I don't know. It's a crazy person. I said, okay. I call him a kook, not a kook. But anyway, he's an old kook. The guy was just a looney tune. And he had been for years. And the older he got, the more strange he got.
Him and that Kenneth Copeland, they both just got old and got crazier than they ever have been. And it's just amazing to me the way that he takes Scripture and he interprets it. He one time told a man, wrote in and asked if he should divorce his wife who had Alzheimer's because he didn't recognize her anymore.
And Pat said, yes, if she was still in her right mind, she would agree that you needed to go on and find a wife who could, you know, fulfill her wifely duties. And unfortunately, the time was up for whatever. I mean, just a crazy... AIDS had caused, you know, or I don't know, the tsunami and the hurricane was coming for Florida because that's where the gay people live.
I mean, the guy was just all over the place. Terrible human being, terrible human being. But there is comedy in some of these situations, as we found over our 700 episodes. I waited respectfully at least a year or two after Pat Robertson died. But now I think it's fair game. I think it's probably fair game the day after he died. But you know what? Here we are. The CBN Network, the 700 Club.
Let's review one of my favorite segments with Pat, which was when Pat took phone calls and answered questions. You ready?
Yes, let's do it. I was trolling on the internet. As you do.
As I do like to do. Here's some 700 Club. Oh, is there... Do we have that on mute? Let's... Yeah. Let's try that again. Oh, that's weird. Bye. Oh, there we go. Some life's biggest issues, such as why does God heal some and not others?
How can you love a toxic family member? Do pets go to heaven? Has the Ark of the Covenant been found? Ha ha ha ha ha!
Yes, it has. Indiana Jones number four. It was found. Actually, the first Indiana Jones Ark of the Covenant was found. What about Noah's Ark and more? Your questions take center stage. Look at this stock photography guy on the phone, very concerned about whether or not the Ark of the Covenant has been found. Hey, Jim, it's me, Bob. Hey, did they find the Ark of the Covenant?
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Chapter 7: What insights does the episode provide about listener engagement?
It'll come off later. What do you do with that blessing? Well, you can give more away. That's the way I think. Oh, he found a way to make it about it. Oh, he totally did.
Yeah, give more to us.
Yeah, give more to the church and less to your family.
Hey, amen. An interesting question from a viewer in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hello, Pat. I like to think that we live at a pretty good time in history. If you could choose any other time throughout history, when would you want to live? Oh, here we go.
You know something? I think this is as good a time as we could possibly have had.
By the way... I'm the richest I've ever been. Yeah, yeah.
Pat, there's no problem with the time you're living here because you have done very well for yourself. I will say this about Pat and take this for what it's worth, but I think it's important to point out. In 2020, Pat Robertson did correctly predict that Donald Trump would be president. There would be attempted assassinations on his life twice.
He predicted it would happen in 2020, but he predicted it would happen. Now, he was wrong about the year. But when I heard that, I was like, wow. Can you imagine? I was thinking today as I was eating. I ate oatmeal for breakfast. And I'm thinking it runs right through me like a hot fire. But I love that oatmeal, Chrissy. It's soft. It's soft and it's lovely. It's like my mother's bosom.
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Chapter 8: What humorous moments stand out in this episode?
I did not do that. That was Pat Robertson farting.
That's incredible.
It sounded like a demon trying to escape. Oh, my God. Oh, I got an unholy monster in my anus. Do that again. Turn that back. Go three swipes. Three swipes. Let's lead up to it. I want to see what happens. Everybody looked at me. I also think it's the wrong way to finance a country or a state with having legal gambling and all these get-rich-quick things. Ha! Oh, my God.
They caught that on the hot mic. Someone just let out an unholy wind. That was an unholy wind, my friends. Okay, I think that's a good place for a break. Everybody looked at me. I was like, that wasn't me. No. Oh, my God. That was funny. That was good. Good job. All right. Praise God. He dropped a bomb. I dropped my phone. There we go. All right. We'll take a break. We'll be back.
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I'm going to go help Brian get back up the stairs while you listen to the sponsors. And then we'll all meet back here and get back to this episode of the commercial break. I'll take a raise now, bitches. Bye.
Ooh, Rachel sounds good on those liners. Yes, she does. She's a laugh-a-minute. All right, we're listening to Pat Robertson try and digest his oatmeal.
Yeah, that might have been his stomach.
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