The Commercial Break - Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, Au Poivre On The Block!

Episode Date: August 25, 2023

Prepare to get hard and get this mashup stuck in your head for the rest of the day... I am rectangular Puff Daddy Who's hot who's not Happy Anniversary Bryan & Astrid! Bryan was at the same restaurant as Tom Sandoval Fame is a double edged sword Bryan’s motto: open legs, open book Want PR? Call people! Send us your favorite dive bar Don't advertise your podcast on a billboard LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us or leaving a voicemail at: 1.855.TCB.8383 Speak to TCB LIVE by calling 775.TCB.LIVE (1.775.822.5483) Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-5pm EST Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Written By: Bryan Green Exec Producers: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Content Production & Research: Tina Khano YouTube Producer & Editor: Morgan Please Producer & Audio Editor: Christina A. Executive Director: Astrid B. Associate Producer: Gustavo Episodic Contribution: Marianne, Diane, Natalie, Will The Champ, Will D** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You dirty bitch! Look what you've done to my penis! They're miracles! God, I think she's right. They are miracles. I may not know my flowers, but I know a bitch what I say one. On this episode of the Commercial Break, it goes hard, but the lyrics are nonsense. I am rectangular. I feel it in my bones. Your bones feel rectangular.

Who's not? Who's a square or a block? A block. Got a hole in your cock. A pop on the block. I am Raktangular! The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now! The party in the morning!

Oh yeah, guys and kittens! Welcome back to the Commercial Break! I'm Brian Green! This is the director of Raktangular Bones! Chris, enjoy Hulley Bestie Eucrissy! And Busy Bryan! Bestie you out there in the podcast universe. I am Raktangular. Feelin' in my bones. I feelin' in my bones is what I do.

There's no hole in my soul, because I'm rectangular. Ha ha. I know you, I just, Chrissy just listened to this, but you have got to understand that there is a phenomenon happening right under your nose, children. You gotta go to Instagram, you gotta look up. I think it's Stephen A music Hold on let me make sure I get this right Steve Sean Stevens dot music You have to look this up on Instagram. He has put out a song that has basically changed the landscape of music forever

And I and the lyric the lyricism going on in this song is I guess the best way to The lyricism going on in this song is I guess the best way to Describe it is just to let you listen to it. I mean, it's very it's he's a storyteller. He's like Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Eddie Vetter. Yeah, you know pink Floyd Who else is is a great storytell P Sean Diddy coms? Oh, yeah, Puffy Puffy Was Puffy for a minute and then Puff Daddy what happened to him? He was like the most famous guy on the earth for like Still very around he is I just I guess I'm just not in the circles where I would see that But who's ha who now? Remember he did that song with me. Who's ha who's not?

Drop your cock on the block or whatever you say I Loved it. I loved it. It's a great song. Every time that song came on with that video with all the fireworks and mirrors, I was like, wow, I want to get into that. What's that? It was like 25 years old and I was like, wow, I just want to be a part of one of those music videos because it seems so cool. And then Maze would come in, you know, who ha, who not?

Who's selling out the stores? Drop a pop on the block. Whatever he gun the pot whatever he said who's out who's not got pop you shot whatever he was saying it was awesome it felt like I was hard when I was working in the restaurant in the show be like who not drop a pot gun the block would you like peppercorn sauce with your steak. What'd you like, oh, poh? Who not? Oh, poh. Oh, poh, on the block.

It's very catchy. Very, very good. So hard. Bride so hard. Alright, let me let you listen to a little bit of I am rock dong. Here we go. Ready? Alright, let me let you listen to a little bit of I am Raktangula. Here we go, ready?

I was in the glomerates in New York City to do this. I am Raktangula. I am Raktangula. I feel it in my bones. I am Raktangula. I feel no hole. I am Raktangula. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who's Raktangula on the block? Oh Oh Who now who's back Tanguero on the block?

I am rectangular in your circle. I don't want to play too much. I don't want to get I don't get any of it I'm sure he won't mind because I'm letting you know, go to Sean Stevens music, Stevens with the ph.o. music on Instagram. Look him up. It's like people are going fucking bananas over this song. Everyone is in agreement. We have no idea exactly why he says rock, thang, oon, er, like it sounds like a puppet almost in a sesame street commercial.

It's going to be because that's what everybody else says. I don't know why this goes so hard, but it goes hard and it shouldn't. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know those Instagram things, or TikTok, you know, songs that went hard when you didn't think they would. It goes hard, but the lyrics are nonsense.

I am rectangular. I feel it in my bones. Your bones feel rectangular. Who's ha, who's not? Who's a square or a block? A po'al. Got a hole in your cock. A po'al, on the block. I am rectangular. Is he promoting anything? Yes, promoting his music. He's telling you to go to Spotify.

No, he's got, oh, do I know? As a guy who digs around the internet got, oh, do I know? Ah. Ah. As a guy who digs around the internet for a living, you should hear the music. None of his lyrics make much sense whatsoever. But the music ends up getting stuck in your head. It's almost like, I don't know, he's like a... The earworm.

He's a rainman of Instagram music. He puts together these lyrics that make no sense whatsoever. He's talking gibberish. But the music, all of a sudden the sudden it stuck in your head. The other day I'm in the bathroom and asked, you know, we're getting ready for something and I walk in and I take off my clothes to get in the shower and I'm like, I'm rick-tangued, and the ass went, what the fuck are you saying? And she has to say that a lot. Yeah.

What are you talking about? Well, I think she was saying that during our wedding vows, the fuck are you talking about? Thought this was a birthday party. No? Oh, you're way. Just say I do. Yes.

Happy anniversary. Thank you very much. Yes, many years together. I don't know how many, but that's not my job to keep track. Now we've been together for a hot minute, longer than I've ever been in any other relationship. That's for sure. And-

It's a good choice by the way. I agree, I agree. I'm not sure she agrees, but I agree. It's a good choice. And I don't, you know, you just know when you know. You do. You know when you know. There has never been any friction that makes this difficult.

There's never, we very rarely argue, we never fuss and fight like screaming, yelling all that. And I realize that some people do that and that's a good outlet for them. That makes, that's their way of communication, right? A little, a little, row every once in a while or maybe every day or whatever.

That makes them feel connected in some way or at least like they're doing a little push and pull. It makes them alive, I guess is the best way. It's like jumping out of a plane. You know it's a dumb idea, but you do it so you feel alive. So sometimes I think people fight so they remember why they love each other so much. It's a pattern, but our pattern relationship is much more lazy than that. We just choose not to argue with each other because it wants all that.

I got to raise 12 children. I know. I don't have time for all that. But I love her dearly. I love her very much. Happy anniversary to my beautiful wife. And I will say this before we get into the meat and potatoes. And maybe I'll share more later on down the road. But, Aster and I took a trip to Los Angeles for our anniversary. Yes. And while we were out there, we went to dinner with our rep, with our agent. And he took us to a nice restaurant in WeHo or West Hollywood

where Tom Sandy-Vall has his restaurant. Oh, Sandy-Vall. And what I did know is that we were having dinner on the same block. Who, no, Sandy-Vall on the block. So we had dinner on this in the same neighborhood that Tom Sandy-Vall's restaurant is at. So Sandy-Pants. Sandy Sandy Pants was at the restaurant we were eating at. I saw. I saw.

Chrissy, I walk into the restaurant, it's absolutely packed, it's a pretty well-known and popular restaurant and apparently well-known and popular for both locals, celebrities, and then people, it's like one of those places, it's a staple, you got, oh, go to this restaurant, right? So we were all obnoxious. We were all obnoxious with big wigs. Why was? Well, obnoxious with big wigging with me.

What are you talking about? That's big wigging. Big wigging, big foot is in a quarter, and rushed us out of there. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Remember how I told you we had two hour dinners in Spain? Yeah, yeah. We had a 90 second meal in WeHo.

They were like, okay, times up. Yeah, they probably have on their meal and we hope they were like okay Times up. Yeah, they probably have on their little like you know table map You know I've read restaurant has a table map not important important. They color code the tables based on importance I guarantee we were like fuchsia Basically ignored they didn't even mark that there was a table there They were like I don't worry about those guys just give them some bread tell them dinner all about soon Don't free appetizers for us They were like, I don't worry about those guys. Just give them some bread and tell them dinner all about soon. Don't free appetizers for us. Son of a bitch.

So we go to the restaurant, it's very busy. We go up to the bar, we sit there for a minute, and then they explain to us that they apologize. They can't get us a table right now because there are more important people eating in this restaurant than you. And I understood, I've worked in the restaurant industry, okay, they kept up profusely apologizing,

but we didn't really care. We only standing there for like 10 or 15 minutes. They get us a table. We're walking back toward a private dining room. They've opened up for everybody to eat in. It's not that people. All the unimportant people. Yeah, all the unimportant people.

I did not see any famous people within the ear shot of us. I did, however, no, my not gonna say that. I'm just gonna say that. But, you know, it was the Hollywood type, right? Everyone's looking good and fancy and eating their food. And then there are, where are the Italian restaurants? So there are a lot of what I would call like older, there's a number of older Italian men and women

that are there. So this is a place that you feel like it's authentic and you're there. You're getting the real experience. Nice. So as we're walking to this private dining room, that again, it's opened up for everybody. It's not that we got a private dining room.

We're walking past there. And I see a little cowboy hat. A cowboy hat that's too small for the size of the head upon which it's sitting. And I'm like, well, that's weird. It looks like a whole native place. Yeah, like a toy storey hat. Yeah, like Woody from Toy Story.

You know when the kid puts on his little hat and it's like, and my kids run around and they take the hat off Woody and they put it on top of their head and the hat is two inches wide. It was the weirdest thing. I thought to myself, well, that's strange, right? But for then, I just kind of turned my head a little bit

and this was not to gawk or guffle over this particular situation. So I walk and I look and here's what my mind identifies and that one second glance. Hat too small for the head. Vest, leather vest on mustache. That's what I ingest. Go sit, have dinner, about an hour later, I get up to go use the restroom as the meal's coming

to a conclusion. I'm like, I got a P.I.L. go restroom. I walk, I got a pee-pee get up to go use the restroom as the meal's coming to a conclusion. I'm like, I got a P.L. Go restroom. I want, I got a P.P. Pupu. So I'll go over there. I was like to drop a doose wherever I go. That way, they remember me. But not to let you come back. One of the astros chief complaints about

Brian at restaurants is that he always has to visit the restroom. She goes, it's like you're on a tour of restrooms. What do you do? I don't know. I just like to go to the bathroom sometimes. Check it out. So it's going on. The bathrooms are cool.

Yeah, I'm hoping there's a glory hole in there. I just think my day can get a blowjob or something. I don't know. Bathrooms are cool. It's a little pro. Bathrooms can be cool. Let's see, decompress from what's going on at the table. You know what I'm saying?

It gives you a little breather. And that's the kind of brain that I have. It works real hard and then it takes a couple of days off and then it works hard again. So I'm walking over there and I got a cut in front of this table where the cowboy hat man is. And as I'm walking toward it, I go from head to toe, hat, mustache, vest, back to mustache,

to eyes, Tom Sandivall is sitting there in the restaurant and I'm like, holy shit. Clearly, he must know who I am. I'm a Brian Green of commercial break fame. commercial breaks. You have the commercial breaks. He has over 12 listeners on a monthly basis. We'll please welcome the guest host

of the commercial breaks. It's so good. It's so good. My forgettable panel at podfest. So which I'm going to go do again next. Yes, I saw that. Yeah, I'm a podcast movement next week. So, I'm like, holy shit, it's Tom Sandivall.

So I get in the bathroom and I'm like, well, what do I do in this situation? I came to the conclusion that what would I think I would do? I know. Hey, Tom Sandivall, I have a clip on Instagram that what what what I think I would do. I know what hey Tom Sandivall. I have a clip on Instagram that's currently going viral where I'm making fun of you. I just wanted to introduce myself. Brian Green, the commercial breaks. How are you? We're so sorry. So please don't speak to the other guests. Thank you. I'm so sorry, Mr. Sandy, all we put him in the back room in the unimportant room. Sometimes the people in the unimportant room get into the important room.

First class. Yes, we're getting a they were in code. That's right. We're getting a porta potty put in the back of the building for the unimportant people. I'll have him sanitize next time. What was your name? Mr. Green? Mr. Greens. Please don't go in the important room. I forgot your name already. I'll be back with your free bread, which I'm sure you're here for.

We make extra bread for the unimportant room. And by the way, we'll send you a bottle of Keon-te-Casico. I was gonna say that too. This $3 bottle of wine comes from Costco. It's Keon-te-Casico. We eat it with some fava beans. It's still good.

We'll be charging 50. So I saw Tom Sandivall. I'm not a Sandivall, it was unbelievable. I was in WeHo with Tom Sandivall, and I was unbelievable. I was in WeHo with Tom Sandivall. Look at me. It's always kind of weird when you see somebody that's famous, you've seen on TV. Yes.

In real life. Yeah. We came across a number of different famous people while we were in Los Angeles. We were in the vicinity of some famous people, like not in the same room hanging out with them, but they were around and it was weird to kind of be in the orbit because it was like people taking pictures of them

and all this other stuff. And there wasn't, had somebody been there that I actually really gave a shout about, I probably also would have been faunting over them, but there was no one I really cared about at the end of the day. So I was, but I like to watch, I was gawking. I was, I also tried to take a picture. Like I don't want to be that asshole like everybody else. There were literally people standing there as if they were in a zoo taking pictures of this girl.

Hillary Duff, I'll say that. Hillary Duff. They were literally taking pictures like she was in a zoo. And she was obviously not having it. She was just, she had her head turned. She wasn't being this, she wasn't being unpolite. She just wasn't having it. I guess I have, but like I kind of ignore it. She had her head turned. She wasn't being unpolite. She just wasn't having. I guess I have to kind of ignore it. She ignored it. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, you know, and I think Atlanta is becoming somewhat of a little, you know, Hollywoodish here because we have some people filming. It's a little hotspot. I blame us for this. I think we are the reason that people now call us the Los Angeles of the East The commercial break studios. Is that what they call it? Yes over 12 square feet of studios space

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You can't, you have no privacy. As a guy who's really famous, it's really hard to get noticed once every four years. By Jeff. Hey, aren't you Brian Greens from the commercial breaks? But I think you're right. I think people think they want the fame, but the fame is a double-edged sword. Because it can cut positive, it can cut negative,

and Hillary asked Hillary Duff, she's been through it all, right? She was a child star, and then she got famous, and then people hated her, and now people love her, and now then people hated her, and now they love her again. And you know, the other person we saw that was famous is the lady from this is us, the very famous lady, the little lady, I can't remember her name, but wonderful actress.

She's so good. And she was there. I love that show. And she had the exact opposite approach as Hillary Duff and I'm not saying one is right and one is bad. If I was Hillary, I would not have appreciated all of the attention like that either. I would have been like, I just want to be left alone. Yeah.

But the other lady, which I wish I could remember her name, but is it Melissa something? It's Melissa something I think. I don't know. Anyway, she took the opposite tact. She took selfies with everybody who was standing there and she was really very sweet about. It appeared that she was being very sweet about it. And you know, she just gave them a picture and then they went away. Right. standing there and she was really very sweet about it appeared that she was being very sweet about it. And you know, she just gave them a picture and then they went away, right?

So there's kind of two ways to diffuse the situation, completely ignorant. And what I think you're doing is encouraging people to get a little bit more aggressive, like people really want to be paid attention to. So they start taking pictures like she's in a zoo. She's just like taking, putting phones literally in her face and snapping photographs. I was thinking about that the other day, it does the paparazzi still really exist on the level that it did say Britney Spears 90s.

Oh yeah, it does. Oh, it's a bigger business than it's ever been, I think. Really? Everybody is paparazzi now. Before you didn't have the camera phones. But the difference is from those people. True. Now everybody has a picture. Well, I think it's a different,

I think fame is a different thing now because everybody senses and can access so much information about your life that if you choose this road, you better be ready for it all to come out. That's why in the commercial, that's why Chrissy, I have taken the tax since day one to just be completely honest about everything that's happened.

All the ugly, all the ugly, all the everythings because the truth is, should someone really want to find out? They're gonna find out anyway. It doesn't matter. I'm an open book. I am literally an open book. My legs are open 24 hours a day. I'm an open book for you guys.

But there's a different type of fame, but the difference today, I think, then back then, while people can take photographs of anybody anywhere, they can be paparazzi themselves, they don't know how to get money for it. They just put it up on their Instagram instantly. I think only a few hep cats understand that for a really good picture of Tom Sandivall

with or Sandy Pants at a restaurant in WeHo with another lady besides the one he's supposedly dating could be worth $10,000 to TMZ or New York Post or whoever. They, the paparazzi, the actual paparazzi have relationships where they can sell those pictures and know how to copyright them and know how to get digital rights management and all that other stuff. When I'm Brian Green and I just take a picture of Hillary Duff like she's a horse and a barn,

in 30,000, 3,000 other people are doing the same. It's first of all it's not a good photograph. Second of all, I'm not really sure that Hillary Duff is even someone that they would pay to have her picture. So am I just wasting my time? The real paparazzi are like fucking just people who just follow everybody around until they catch them

in a human moment, and then they sell that human moment because everybody else likes to laugh at celebrities who are having human moments. So my opinion is the paparazzi are bigger and better than they ever were because it's big business to get those photographs of those people in those human moments. But yes, you're right.

Right? That's a human moment stage. I feel like the human moments are staged. Oh, that's the other thing. Well, that's a different thing altogether. That's PR. That is specifically placed in a way. Like you see these girls, I don't know.

Let's take just take an example. Real housewives of Atlanta star in Jamaica showing off her brand new buns, right? It's like 24 photographs of her and some string bikini, which looks, they're perfectly clear shots. She's rolling around on the beach. She's got her leg up, she's oiled up,

she got her makeup on. That is somebody that calls the paparazzi and says, calls the paparazzi and says calls a paparazzi and says, Hey, you think you could sell put out a few photographs for us. We're going to be at, you know, Venice Beach, three p.m. at this pier. Meet us there. Never got about the calling. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

You call and you just you you stage it essentially. Who do you call people? Yeah, people. You call people people back in. Yeah, that's what you call people. We need to be calling people. That's right. People magazine, how can I help you?

Yes, I'm calling, my name is Bob Smith. And I'm calling on behalf of Brian Green from the commercial break. Brian Green, the commercial break. I just wanted to let you know, he's going to be walking the streets of Atlanta, starting at 3 p.m. today. Ha! Don't you want these photographs? Uh, no.

It could be worth big money. It probably won't be, so we'll pass on that. Do you have any photographs of Hillary Duck? Yes, I do, I'll send them right over. Like you call and then you just set it up and then there's lots of other stuff that stage, too. There's PR plants and you know, there's a whole big machine behind there that we will never get involved in. We will never know the inner working. No, we will never know the inner working is a fame because I just don't think that's in the cards for us, but that's okay with me.

Absolutely. I don't want that. No, you know what I need? I need a good, healthy pad on the back from our listeners every once in a while, keeps my tank full. I don't need to see my name and lights. I'm not interested in all of that.

And it will never happen anyway. Yeah, the reviews are perfect for me. Love it. Yeah, reviews are good. That's the notoriety that I want. It's the knowing that people are enjoying the show. I've really thought about this long and hard. I am not interested in, you know, having security around me

or being famous in that way. I, because that's not me, it's not who I am, I'm not interested in any of that. I'm too old for all that bullshit. Plus like I said in the last episode or a couple episodes ago, we are in a different, like you and I serve the 25 to 54 crowd, not the 16 to 25 year old crowd. It's not generally the people who listen to the commercial

right based on the information that we get. And so I think there's just when you get to a certain age, you're like, do I really need to get all worked up about a pod guest there? You know what I'm saying? But I've known it all, Brian. Do I really need to get worked up about Brian? And Are you still not saying that? And I've co-known O'Brien. Do I really need to get worked up about Brian? And he was on TV forever.

So yeah. So if you see me out on the streets, let me repeat. Let me respond. I am a nice person. And by a nice person, I mean, when I am not bothered, and by bothered, I mean talk to you. So just don't bother me.

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ready to rock. And then we'll be back to this episode of the commercial break. Listen, I told some people last night about our dive bar tour idea, and it went over big time. Viral, then it go viral inside the... It went viral on the table? Yeah, at the table. Yeah.

With all five of us. I got five out of five legs! Hahaha. Yes, so I like the idea of people sending in their ideas of their favorite dive bar in different cities. Yeah, that's what we're looking for right now. We want to understand if Chrissy and I were to put together a small and by small, I probably mean one city. One bar one time.

Yeah, two, maybe. Two city tour. Two open mics in a row, Thursday and Friday night at the last, you know, Jolly Rogers and Charleston, South Carolina. If we were to put together a little small, you know, couple city dive bar will come and we'll do some kind of performance. We'll do the show, right?

I will sing the song. I will sing the song. I am rock, don, goola. Well, that's the big debate right now is that if we do where to do a show live, would we do a live episode of the commercial break? If we were in a dive bar, maybe, maybe that's what we do. Come up for an hour and a half, two hours, do what we do.

If we do an actual show, like in a venue somewhere, then I think we would probably not get away with just sitting on the couch. I mean, I think the live taped show, right? Yeah. We tried to do this at Mimpo, that one here. No, that was yeah. Live from Mimpo. Live from Mimpo.

Mimpo! It's too loud, too noisy, too distracting, and we're next to the bathrooms, it smells bad. Yeah. Oh, and it's 112 degrees outside of joy yourself. Yeah, we went to men's phone number a year ago and that went over like a wet fart in church. We had big ideas and a big tent. But nothing else in it,

that for me and Chrissy. And really at the end of the day, me and Chrissy had other things to do. Chrissy quickly realized this was not the idea. And she had other places to go. But Jeff was like, I need somebody in that tent, man. He did. He did.

He was like, I need to hear it 8.30 in the morning. We got home at like 2.45 the first night. And he's like, I need to hear it 8.30 in the morning. Make sure someone's staffed the tent. Staffed the tent? What staff do you think you there at 8.30 in the morning. Make sure someone's staffed the tent. Staff the tent! What's staffed you think we have? We didn't realize the commitment to put along with it.

You were gonna do the show and then go enjoy the music. Yeah, I did about halfway through day number two. I realized what kind of commitment it was as I couldn't leave the tent. He could get some audio though of people. I did, but it was unusable because we were right next to the stage. What was I thinking when I put this idea together? I mean, honestly, when Jeff and I started talking about this, what were we thinking?

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Yeah, but it all worked themselves into some magical. I'm over here today. I saw a billboard for a podcast. Oh, you did? I couldn't tell. Like the shit not have done. All I could make out because it was dark. It was like blackish on the, you couldn't see the name of the podcast,

but it did have podcast, white type letters. And I was like, but which one is it? And I was like, oh my God, somebody else is doing a bill for the podcast. Stop, stop. Don't do it. Stop. No.

No. No. No. No. No. Warning. Warning. Bad marketing idea. No! Warning, warning, bad marketing idea. The five second flashing billboards. The money towards wires. That's right.

Head to microphones. Put the money toward your family. Do anything besides. I mean, my family didn't know where the next meal was coming. But Brian had to have a billboard onHalland Drive at 237 in the morning during the lockdown of coronavirus. What a dumb idea. What am I friends got a billboard on in New York Times Square?

Wow. And so she posed a picture of it, and I am impressed because I'm like, wow, I looked into Times Square billboards. How much is it? It's sunshine. It still is way out of our price range. Oh God, wow, I looked into Times Square billboards. And it's sunshine, it still is way out of our price, right? Oh God, no, I know. I'm not saying we should do that. I don't want to do that.

I think it's like, do not do that. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's somebody else can do that for us. That will be cool to take a picture with it, but that'll never happen either. Because with that, you'd have to be famous if we don't want all that. So it's like $10,000 for a minute billboard

that rotates in 20 seconds or whatever it is, So it's like $10,000 for a minute billboard that rotates in 20 seconds or whatever it is, right? That's $10,000 minimum, I think, depends on which billboard you're on because there are hundreds of billboards. And that's why it's such a bad idea. It's because how do you expect that someone is gonna give two fucking shits

about your podcast when they are driving by at 72 miles per hour, or they're in the middle of time square? Do you really think they're taking the time to subscribe to your podcast? So I say, how did it do? Well, she was gifted to her by, I think by her network or something.

It was gifted to her. And she's like, listen, I think we ran like, you know, 30 times in 10 days or whatever. It was 20 second, at 20 second pacing. So 20 seconds at a time on the digital board. How many clicks did it get? Well, people were up there just hitting the button all left and right?

Smashy to get down off there. What are you doing? I'm sorry. Smash the subscribe button. I'm writing down www.thecommercialbrakespodcast.com. I'm writing down www.thecommercialbrakespodcast.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . course not, of course not, because it's a ridiculous notion. Now, I know that billboards do work for some companies, but it's like a brand thing. It is. You can't expect that people are gonna call a phone number

right away. The QR codes that were on those while back, drove me crazy. I'm like, who's taking out their phone right now? No, right. They're driving to a QR code on the billboard. No one's doing QR code. I mean, QR codes, like, at a restaurant,

when they have a menu, or in a hotel, when you need more stuff. When you're forced to do them, like, at a restaurant. At a menu for a menu. Yeah. Or in a hotel when you need for. But when you're forced to do them, sitting down at a table. Yeah, and I mean, that's such a bad idea too. It's, I really dislike that. I mean, I understand you're saving paper and all that, but it really drives me crazy when you go to like a super nice restaurant

and they want you to open up your phone. It automatically sets the tone for the night that I don't like. Everybody's looking at their phone and, you know, scrolling through. I agree, it does set the tone for looking at your I don't like. Everybody's looking at their phone and scrolling through the menu. I agree. It does set the tone for looking at your phone. And let's be honest about it.

Of all the websites in the world, I think restaurants do it the poorest. Like restaurants have such a mishmash of different types of websites. They're usually all a WordPress site where most of the links are broken. The menu is outdated. You know, you click to make a reservation and you never can make a reservation. It's like restaurants just, I don't know. They should just have a huge large menu where everybody can see it from their table. Totally agree. I got a friend who's got a bar and Athens.

Yeah. And he just writes the menu. He has all the walls have big chalkboards on the very top. There you go. And so he just writes little things on them. But then he puts his menu on there every day. So you can look at it and also talk to the person in front of you or the people that you're with and you have to look at your phone. It's like a little social thing. Everybody's talking to each other and they're having fun.

It's great. But for a podcast and you're putting it together, a one-off billboard where people are driving by. Now, to be clear, we did, how do I know this? Well, let me explain how I know this. I'm gonna give you a little marketing magic here We had no listeners Anyway, we had just like done two episodes or something two episodes 90% of the three downloads we got came from Atlanta and then won from Venezuela

Because my mother-in-law wants to be supportive even she has no idea what I'm saying How is sweet? I think I said this story too when it happened? I just wanted to tell her friends about it. That she put it out on LinkedIn. You and I are talking about, you know, Cox for Christ or whatever. And my mother and I sent it to all 5,000 people on LinkedIn, like, personal message or whatever. Check out my son-in-law's new podcast. We got hundreds of downloads in a week,

and I was so excited. I'm like, wow, then I look at where the traffic's coming from Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, and I'm like, why are we getting all this? And Asher goes, well, I told my mom, and she threw it out there and linked in, and I'm like, no, no No. No. No. So anyway, how I knew that Cox for Christ. I had to change that title because I got a little nervous. So how do I know the billboards work because I picked places where we did not yet have any listeners like Davenport, Iowa and Los Angeles, New York and all these other places.

So we did see some traffic from those places after we ran the billboards, but it did not in any way shape or form. Yeah. Chrissy. We're constantly trying to fill the bucket back up. People are always just like, I'm out. Cox for Christ. See you later. I love when we get a new Instagram just like, I'm out, Cox for Christ, see you later.

I love when we get a new Instagram follower and occasionally I'll go look, I wanna reciprocate, maybe I'll give their, you know, one of their posts to heart or whatever. But I wanna go reciprocate. And every time I see people have put, you know, Jesus lover or, you know, Christianity forever or whatever, every time I see that, I'm like,

well, I just, I subtract that from our follower count because I see that, I'm like, well, I just subtract that from our follower account, because I know that one's going away. Well, Theresa Caputo is my, you know, Theresa Caputo is my favorite. Well, that was fun while it lasted. Oh, man. It's just a day back. I was just doing your podcast.

Crickets. You know, crickets, that's right. Someone the other day, like from the podcast industry, a rather kind of, I wanna say, like in the podcast industry, the business of podcasting, I would consider them a relatively important person. An executive? Yeah, kind of, yes.

An executive, a CEO of a business that does a lot of things in podcasting that people everybody knows. He's one of those people that everybody knows if you're in the podcast business. So he texted me the other day, every time he texted me, I'm like, wow, this guy's, you know, he likes us. And he goes, so we're talking about something else. And then he says, oh, I heard your story about your Airbnb in Spain.

I listened to your show. And I'm like, oh, yeah, thanks, man. I'm glad you found it funny. He has not responded since. He could have at least said, yeah, it was, or no, it wasn't, but he just said nothing. Then does never respond. Nothing.

A good, fast respond. Well, listen, I can't expect that everyone's gonna be a fan of the break. I'm just hoping that more than 10 of you eventually will like the commercial break. That's what I'm going for. We're talking about fame and the little, literally no one listens to this show.

I think we suffer from a little bit of delusion sometimes. This is what happens when you sit in this fucking thing. It's like that guy, Kai. Remember, we were talking about him yesterday. I always run around New York with 50,000 people. Yes. He probably suffered from the same delusion. Only there's a difference between him and us.

He actually had people watching his show. Yeah. Yeah, he was popular. Yeah. So I get back, I circle all the way back to the point that if you find yourself with an idea for a dive bar, the Chrissy and I could do a show at Send In. I can't believe it was that the originator of this. That was the originator.

And now we're almost at the end of the episode and We've talked about nothing for 45 minutes. Glad you stuck around with us We've always said it's just like just it's the two of us like at a bar at a dive bar. That's right We Well, I guess there's only one way to end the show, Chrissy. And that is... This. Tangular!

A rectangular... Like dangular... Circle! Feel no hole I am like dangluna Circle What'd you call me I'd call you a circle Hey babe my cocks rectangular what do you say jump on come over here and jump on it no, okay I just want to become famous with my own wife. That's all I'm looking for yes My wife I've been the same with Jeff my Quinn I'm the list of the commercial break. I know. Oh, he's likeer. And I'm like, we did four fucking episodes on feet finder. My feet are on feet finder because of the commercial break.

What are you gonna listen? And I can play, I can, I can understand Jeff. He doesn't work with the commercial break. God save, bastard. It's the reason for the commercial break. Oh, Lord. All right, tcbpodcast.com. That's where you go.

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