EP #748: Bryan gets invited no where. But when he does, he is the "guest of dishonor" walking the red cardboard carpet for a wanna-be MTV Reality star! And...As the 12 Hours of TCB approaches, Bryan and Krissy are halfway between excitement and existential crisis. This episode kicks off with updates about the event’s May 31st launch—including the herculean logistics involved, the guest lineup, and whether Apple Podcasts will let them get away with hitting the RSS feed with 12 episodes in one day. Later in the episode, Bryan recounts a bizarre party experience involving a couple who brought their own snacks (uninvited), lingered way too long, and talked about spiritual healing until everyone else left. He uses this encounter to illustrate why “open invite” parties are dangerous—and how saying “you can bring a friend” can escalate into a full-blown hostage situati TCBits Music: WSHIT studio sponsor, Tina, Tan & Tweeze Watch EP #748 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 is the special event '12 Hours of TCB' and how are the hosts preparing for it?
Will she, won't she?
I'll be here.
I'm excited. I'm excited too. I am excited. I like a good challenge. This is a big one, but we're going to tackle it. For those of you that don't know, the 12 Hours of TCB, May 31st. That's a Saturday. We're going to be starting 9, 10 a.m. Keep your phones close, and you'll get that ding.
Make sure you're following us, and then you get that ding when the first of many episodes comes into your phone that day. Ding, ding, ding. So many episodes we had to contact Apple to make sure that they wouldn't delist us on the RSS directory if we put out 12 episodes in one go. But... So a little bit about the minutia of the 12 hours of TCB, which we're talking about this week.
So everyone get used to it. So Chrissy and I are actually going to be doing six or seven episodes on that day, just about an hour before you hear it, so that then we can edit it later. And publish it on the hour, on the next hour. And in between those hours, when we're recording, you're going to be hearing an episode with a celebrity guest that we are pre-recording.
Because God bless us, that would never work out in our favor should we try and do that on the day. Though we did have some guests that offered. Yeah. And one of those guests was Tom Papa, who I like very much. He's like, I just think he's one of the coolest guys out there. Another middle-aged white man saying Tom Papa is cool.
Tom Papa is cool I like Tom Papa he is I've loved him for a long time yes And so I wanted to share that I'm like keeping an eye on Tom Papa and all his social media. I have been for a long time. I was following him.
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Chapter 2: Who is Tom Papa and what is his connection to the Commercial Break podcast?
We had him on last year.
Yeah, we had him on last year.
So, yeah, we've certainly been following him closely.
Well, the commercial break has at least been following him since then. We have this like sly move that we do on the commercial break, which might be part of the reason why no one follows us, is that we only follow the people who come on the show. Why? I don't know. I don't know. Some strategy we were told to do. I don't think it's working out in our favor.
I don't think any social media strategy is working out in our favor. But we are desperately trying. Just know that. We are cutting up the exact same content we put everywhere else and putting it on Instagram. There you go. So much of it. So much of it. So much.
So I'm watching his social media, and I think, you know, you and I have been talking about this, the Grateful Bread Tour, which he is doing right now. It's his stand-up tour. He's running around doing theaters, and he's got all the imagery and iconography of the Grateful Dead. And very interested to hear whether, I think he is, he must be a fan of the Grateful Dead.
Yeah, he must be.
He must be. But I love that so much. And I was telling Astrid, I'm like, we should do this. We should do like a Grateful Dead kind of thing for merch for the commercial break. To which she said, don't you think Tom might be a little bit upset if you just took his idea and ripped it off? And I go, it's the age of AI, babe.
Everybody's ripping off everybody.
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Chapter 3: How is AI being used to create music and logos for the podcast?
However, we have been getting a lot of feedback on the songs that we have been playing that I have been making through AI. Now, to be clear, I write all the lyrics, I give it some direction, and I tell it to go out there and do that. None of these lyrics are written by AI because if there's one thing I've been known for in my life, it is my lyricism. I am a poet at heart.
Sunny side up!
Sunny side up is all you need to know. That's right. Exhibit A. Exhibit A, sunny side up. Exhibit B, dapper dialogue. Oh, it's not total shit, says the producer. Yeah, just tie-dyed shit. So lest you think that I am just asking Chad GBT to do this whole cloth or Udio Studio, whatever I'm using. Udio Studio is a weird name for it, by the way. Udio Studio. But anyway, I give it the lyrics.
I give it some direction and I tell it to go. Well, the other day I decided, what if I just went out there? What if I just found a bunch of reviews and and to ask ChatGPT or Udio Studio to make me a pop song based on nothing but the reviews.
Now, if you've been listening to the commercial break, you'll know that this song played in front of an episode earlier this week because it was just too good to even let it wait one minute. Hot off the presses, it had to go out the door.
He sent that out in the evening, and it was a rousing hit.
Yeah.
The worst to you. It's very catchy and hilarious.
Oh, my God. And we have so much feedback about it. People were going wild. They loved it. And somebody said, are those really reviews? Well, you can't get reviews to rhyme. So I had to take lines from certain reviews and piece them together. And I took a little artistic liberty with some of the wording around some of them so that I could get it to be like a catchy song.
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Chapter 4: What are listener reactions to the AI-generated song 'Worst to You'?
I remember that one. That's good. This podcast is fucking sad.
Is this what we think is funny now? How do I turn it off? My ears are saying ow. Stop laughing at yourself. Are these two making sense? At least I didn't pay. I'm deaf in my defense.
In my defense.
Both the hosts are idiots. They left the funny behind. What is this show about? It's offensive to my soul. Brian is a hack. These two aren't funny and so old. Why all the hype? How did this get made? So many episodes.
None of which are great.
TCB is terrible. Worst show you could do. TCB is terrible. Worst to you.
I like the harmonization afterwards.
Oh, it's great. It was fantastic. I love it.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding the P. Diddy trial mentioned in the episode?
Oh, my God. So great. Thank you, Udio Studio, for one of the laughs I'm getting this week because that was great. And by the way, someone actually did say that in an email. Worst to you? No. Well, worst to you, that's a joke that many people have said. That's not particularly original. We say best to you. They say worst to you. Worst podcast ever. But they said, I'm deaf in my defense.
So the actual comment went, I kind of like this show, but I'm deaf in my defense. So if you're reading it, I guess it's okay.
We just talked about the in my defense, too.
Yeah, in my defense. In my defense. If you have to be defended, if you're starting in my defense, then it's already bad. Like Chrissy said, in my defense, I have to be drinking at all these. I have to stay up till four in the morning. So anyway, thanks to everyone who's written in. We're having a lot of fun with it. It's a week full of musical charm here on the commercial break.
Musical charm and disarm. Yes, and experimentation for sure. So the P. Diddy trial started, in case you didn't know. In case you're living under a rock, the P. Diddy trial has started. And wow. Wow. Yeah. Wow. I mean, if one third, one tenth of what is being said is even close to the truth, and we're only on like day one or two.
Yeah.
But if one, first of all, the video with Cassie of her being dragged down the hallway by her hair.
I saw it once and I can't watch it.
It is in fucking tenths, man. It's intense and it's awful. And I'm sorry if you're a man. You're not a man if you treat somebody that way. You're not a man if you treat another human that way, let alone a woman. And I know that chivalry is dead and equal and all that other bullshit, but I just am a firm believer in chivalry.
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Chapter 6: What insights are shared about the alleged parties linked to P. Diddy?
But then all of the other drama that has come out around this is so many people saying so many things that are just, quite frankly, base, violent and nasty. P. Diddy was is not the superstar, you know, R&B mogul that we thought he was. I mean, I don't know who we thought he was, but and I don't know what he was that. Yeah. Who hot, who not? You not, P. Diddy. He just wasn't.
And now this is making me, I say all this.
No, he seemed like a fun-loving guy that liked to party. Maybe he was a little bad boy. I mean, he had the whole bad boy records. Yes. I mean, I did not know all of that was hiding underneath the surface for years. Decades.
Decades. Yeah. He certainly had a reputation. for having a strong arm when needed. He certainly had a reputation for not shying away from threats or violence when he wanted to get something done or he thought you were wronged. I mean, that was the guy's whole image, Bad Boy Records. And people who worked for him said he was a real tyrant at times.
Mm-hmm.
But until a year or two ago, I don't think anybody really could have conceived the depths at which the depravity that was going on. And here's two things that I just think this makes me think. Number one, did Diddy have anything to do with Tupac Shakur's death? Because if you're capable of all this, aren't you capable of that?
And a lot of people for a long time have believed that he had something to do with it.
I'm sure there's some kind of involvement.
Some kind of involvement. But then number two, and I think maybe even more damning, How many people went to these parties and knew that this shit was going on and have not ever and not now said a fucking word? Nobody. Nobody. No famous person. No Beyonce. No.
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Chapter 7: What is Bryan's personal party story related to being the 'guest of dishonor'?
And they just look like they're in a different frame of mind altogether, like not their right mind. So anyway, listen. I guess it's all going to come out. Whatever the prosecution has against him. And listen, if this is a witch hunt, this is all alleged and innocent until proven guilty. I think one thing he's clearly guilty of is battering. That's for sure.
Assault and battery without any doubt, like aggravated assault and battery without any doubt. And for that, there is. Indisputable evidence, indisputable proof that that happened. And he needs to have some time to think about that on his own. Right. And he needs to make amends for that. But if any of this other stuff is true, throw away the key.
Now, if he's innocent, I'll be the first one to come on here and say they had it wrong.
There's no way he's innocent. Where there's smoke, there's fire. There's like so much evidence and so many people. That's it. That's it.
And you know there's videos.
He's not innocent.
No. And you know there's videos. You know there's videos.
Videos, pictures.
Pictures. Whatever. Videos. People went home and took pictures of themselves battered, bruised in different states. You know that there's all kind of shit that's just going to come up through the woodwork. And I think he knows. I think he knows that this has now got to be a trial of public opinion.
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Chapter 8: How does Bryan describe the early days of online radio and his encounter with a Nigerian oil man?
I sure hope the retirement village is listening. You can bet Judy is.
Joan. Joan. Yeah. Joan is definitely not listening. Yeah, I'm not worried about Joan. Well, that's true. Joan is on to me.
She's going to keep tabs on you.
I bet you a thousand bucks that Joan hates me, but Owen thinks the show is great. Owen's listening.
He's like, I'll be right back, Joan. Yeah. I got to go to the grocery store. That's funny. He hasn't been to the grocery store by himself in 26 years. He's sitting out in the public's parking lot. Best to you, Brian. Best to you.
All right, let's take a break. And I'll tell the story about my sweet 16 party. I can't wait. We'll be back.
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This episode is sponsored in part by Liquid IV. I love a beach trip and I'm going on one. Can you hear in my voice just how excited I am to get out of this studio? That family beach trip is right around the corner and there will be no rest for the weary there either.
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