The Commercial Break - 2024: Not On Fleek

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Episode #669: It’s New Year's Eve! Our New Year's clock strikes "midnight" at 48 minutes and 42 seconds, which means if you start playing this episode (after the ads) at 11:11 and 18 seconds, our clock will strike midnight AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! Who are you watching? Grandma Green Venezuelan New Years Red underwear, 24 grapes, and a dollar bill soaked in champagne Widespread Panic new years concerts Uvula Our loves from 2024 “On fleek” Our hates from 2024 Our regrets from 2024 Our desires for 2025 Astrid is banned from tiktok COUNTDOWN TO NYE! Bryan got cockblocked at a Braves game Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB 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

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I'm off to gloke-shampers through a funnel. Drop an out. On this episode of The Commercial Break... What did you regret in 2024? This one, I'm hoping will be introspective. Oh, okay. Let me see. But Chrissy says, no, it's going to be Teresa Caputo.

I said that Jeff and I didn't cook naked enough. Oh, there you go. Hey, that's a good one. That is a good one. Goals, 2025 goals. That is a good one. And when you guys cook naked, please videotape it. I'll Instagram it for you since you don't like to do that.

I'll put it up there and I'll even put little blurbs. I'll blur it out for you. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, boy! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is the Dick Clark to my Ryan Seacrest. Kristen Joy Oldley.

Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. And happy New Year's Eve to you. The countdown is ticking. The countdown will be ticking. Stay tuned because at the end of this episode we will do a countdown for you So if you want to like Pink Floyd and Wizard of Oz you can sync up your countdown with our countdown and everything will be

Wonderful in the world who are you gonna watch on New Year's Eve? Chrissy I usually watch Andy you watch Andy you go Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper I go I choose Miley Cyrus. That's just me. I switch back and forth a little bit. Yeah, I like Miley. I think Miley's got a thing going that I'm into. Is she again this year? Don't know, but I imagine. Right. I think it went so disastrously wrong the first year with Pete Davidson that how could you look away? Yeah. And then you're, I think they did it last year, didn't they? I think so. I think they did it last year. I think Dolly was involved, maybe two. Dolly Parton was involved. I think Pete took a break for rehab and a show in Conyers, Georgia.

And then, yeah, I like Ryan and I like Andy. I like both of them. I think they're good. But since they stopped drinking, you know, it's not as interested. Is it? I thought that they weren't allowed to drink. I thought they told them no more drinking. Well, they got a little crazy with it they're allowed

again now they're allowed again. Well fine finally you see an end coming to their senses doing something to improve the ratings over there at CNN what a fucking train wreck that's that channel has become honestly I haven't even watched I mean Anderson Cooper's the only reason to watch if we're being real about it Anderson Cooper I think is the only interesting one that's still over there. But anyway, and of course, you know, Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark Productions is the sentimental favorite because that's what I've been watching since I was a child. My grandmother, we would always spend New Year's Eve with my grandma, Green, on my dad's

side, my mother, my dad's mom. And while I think my dad would argue that he wasn't her biggest fan, I always enjoyed being around my grandma Green because she always made it a big deal to be at her house. And she, I've told you this, she had this house in Melrose Park, Illinois in Chicago, and in this house, it had a basement like a lot of houses in Chicago do. And in this basement was a bar. And we're not talking about a bar like most people have a bar, they've got a little nook with a couple of bottles and glasses on it. We are talking a full-cheers bar downstairs in the basement with cocktail tables and a TV and things hanging on the wall and a little fireplace.

You could literally belly up to this bar. And there could be a bartender back there serving you drinks. I love that. It's so fun as it is. And they had all kinds of booze and beers and everything. So when my grandfather was alive, apparently this was the place to go for smoky bones and, you know, Guns Magoo and Fishneck Rogers, you know, all these gangsters that used to live in Melrose Park, all these Italian guys used to come over and drink at my grandfather's bar. My grandfather, of course, was Irish. The Speakeasy.

The Speakeasy, that's right. The Speakeasy, even though it was illegal to drink. But, you know, still, they had their neighborhood little bar and they would come down there and they would have parties. So, when my grandfather passed away when I was very young, my grandma took it upon herself to take us for New Year's Eve so that my parents could go out and we would go to Party City, the party place down the street. My grandma would let us spend some loot. We get the poppers and the streamers and the Happy New Year banner and all that stuff. We would spend the afternoon setting up the basement, the bar. And then at night, my grandma would allow us to stay up and watch on the little tiny

little shit TV she had down there, we would watch Dick Clark as he rolled in the New Year's with that ball drop in New York. So for me, that's very much a sentimental favorite because I just remember as a kid having so much fun with my grandma Green and doing that. They also had a live grenade down there from World War II. You said that before. Which was crazy, crazy. I had to check myself with my brother one time. I'm like, that thing was live, right?

He's like, pin in, live grenades, sitting down. Pin in. Yeah, but I think that was pretty common, that guys came back from the war and they took souvenirs, like their guns, their medals, a grenade, you know. I don't know why my grandma kept it, but my grandma kept it too, sitting down there in the basement. My grandma also, one year, she bought Weird Al Yankovic. You ever heard the song, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?

Of course. Okay, it's a very famous song. I can't remember the name of the artist, but he had a whole comedy album. Elmo something? I think his name was Elmo something. He had a very famous comedy album, and Weird Al Yankovic, of course, had, in the 80s and the 90s, was doing a lot of comedy albums too. So my grandma bought us these two albums. And I just remember one New Year's Eve, Kevin and I burning the shit out of those cassette tapes, just listening to them over and over and over again. Weird Al and Elma, Weird Al and Elma, back and forth, back and forth till midnight,

trying our best to stay up for the ball drop. And I think we accomplished it. I have such fond memories of being down in that bar for- It sounds like a really good time, especially for a kid. I mean, how old were you up until, like, this was the tradition? I would say seven through moving here to Atlanta. So I would, I mean, remembering, right? Of course, I was probably there much younger, but I would say she started to do this party tradition,

seven through 13, seven through tradition, seven through 13, seven through 12, seven through 13, good five or six years. And then we came here, moved here to Atlanta, there were a few odd years where we would be up there for whatever reason. And she would do it and she would always make it a big deal. Kevin and I would play down in that bar. They had a match collection, a match book collection. Yeah, like the little boxes. Yes, because that was what you did back then. If you had a restaurant, it was like a business card. Instead of a business card, you'd have a match book, right?

And so they had thousands of these match books. So Kevin and I used to go down there and be little pyros and burn the matches and set the match books on fire. And play on loop, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer? Grandma got run over by a reindeer, coming home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such thing as Santa. So now I have passed on that tradition. Both of my grandparents were into, is it Elmo?

Is that his name? It's Elmo and Patsy. Elmo and Patsy. Elmo and Patsy. Elmo and Patsy. He was like a comedy artist, that's what we did. Before Weird Al Yankovic, there was Elmo and Patsy, and I'm sure there was lots of others too. But both of my grandparents were into Elmo and Patsy. That was like, their sense of humor was very much like dad jokes. And if you listen to an Elmo and

Patsy album, it's very dad jokey. Like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, there's a song, there's a line in this song that goes, now we're all so proud of grandpa, he's been taking it so well, watching football, watching football and drinking beer and playing cards with cousin Mel. Playing cards with cousin Mel. What? It's so weird. I know, that was a bizarre song. It was. But it's catchy. So now I pass this down to my children and you would not believe they're huge Christmas music fans and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is on the top three.

It's like they're always like, Dad, play Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. My wife hates it. Astrid's like, God damn it. They need to be listening to Caitas. Caitas are like Venezuelan holiday songs. So for- Well, speaking of Venezuelan, so what is Astrid's tradition over the years of celebrating New Year's?

So New Year's Eve for them is a big deal. Venezuelans love a good party. And if you've ever been to, yeah, I mean, everybody loves a good party, right? But the Venezuelans just do it different. They do, like the culture, the party culture there is so ingrained with- They celebrate life.

Everything, everything. You had a good day at work, get the barbecue going, invite 30 friends over. You had a bad day at work, get the barbecue going, invite 50 friends over, you know? You get the rum out, you drink, you get to tequeños, tequeños, tequeños. It's just one of those things that everything needs to be a party because they like to celebrate everything. And I really love that because us Irish folks, we don't celebrate anything. The most fun we have at a gathering is usually at a funeral or a wake, right? We like to celebrate death.

Ah, you got out early. Good for him, that son of a bitch. It's not really ingrained in my family to do that. We didn't even really have birthday parties. So for Astrid, New Year's Eve is special. It needs to be a big party. She wants everyone to have a good time. And if you've ever been to a Venezuelan party, you know two things. There's going to be tequeños, number one. And number two, it's never going to start on fucking time. And

there are waves of the party. Wait, let's say the party starts at- I love party waves. Party waves are the best. Our wedding was a party wave, right? You've got the pre-party where everyone's out stunning themselves, getting a cocktail, then you go and you do the thing, and then you have the cocktail hour, and then you sit down and you eat, and then you go out and you party, and then here comes the, and then you do the crazy hour, and then after that they're serving breakfast, like it's a whole thing. I know, I remember.

So if they say the party starts, so a party on New Year's Eve doesn't start till 10 PM, period and a sentence. Like here in America, you get there at eight o'clock and by the time New Year's rolls around, you're ready to go home. For the Venezuelans, it starts at 10 o'clock and then you celebrate at midnight and then you celebrate again at one o'clock and then you celebrate again at two o'clock. I like that a lot. Yes.

And so this is just the way they do it. It's a big deal. Do they have any kind of like ball dropping scenario? Is that just in the US? I think they have like democracy drop. Democracy drop! No, they're not democracy drop. No more democracy for you. I don't think they have a ball drop necessarily, but like, just a big party. Yes, it's a big party. That's what they do. But they do like the ball drop. They, at least my family does, they like to watch that thing. They eat grapes. So, for every year,

they eat a grape. Every year of the millennial, they'll eat a grape. So, 2001, you eat one. And then, so this year we're gonna have to eat 24 grapes. And I couldn't even imagine what it was in 99. Well, I know, that's what we were talking about, Christina and I said. You have grapes, you have a dollar bill, you must wear red underwear. It's a whole thing. Red underwear. If you don't wear red underwear, it's bad luck.

If you don't wear red underwear on New Year's Eve, you have to have a dollar bill that you soak in champagne and then you keep it throughout the year. So there's actually a dollar that's sitting around here. I wondered what that dollar was. It's a dollar from last year. I soaked it in champagne and then you keep it throughout the year. So there's actually a dollar that's sitting around here. I wondered what that dollar was. It's a dollar from last year. I soaked it in champagne, hoping the commercial break would be solvent

by the end of this New Year's Eve. We'll see, we got 10 more days to go. We'll see how it goes. And that's what they do. There's just a couple of traditions that they like. Well, that reminds me too of a tradition like right at New Year's. So this was passed down and Christina, I want to ask you about this because I think it's

a some type of Scottish derivative of something that's done at midnight is that a dark haired man is supposed to pass through the doorway with bread, salt, and coal. Oh. My grandmother always did this, and so then my dad did it with my mom, and now I have Jeff doing it with me, and I looked it up, and it is a thing. It is?

So, yeah. Have you ever heard of that? I've never heard of that. You've never heard of it? No, I mean, maybe it's a thing, but no. When I was a kid, I do remember this, when I was a kid, when I was like in my early 20s, I would pass through the door with cocaine,

Bud Light, and dollar bills for the ladies. I mean, it's the same thing. Beth Dombkowski It's a very, very similar. Jared Sussman It's a derivative of it. Yes, very similar. It's an Irish twist. Beth Dombkowski That's an Irish tradition. Jared Sussman I have a question about the dollar bill soaked

in champagne. Jared Sussman Yes. Beth Dombkowski Does it count if it's sparkling wine, or does it have to be champagne from champagne vines? Well, I think you'd have to ask an actual Venezuelan about this, but I believe that the tradition is champagne, but I think you can get away with anything, like as long as you're, as long as it's in the same vein.

I'm wondering, I'm like, maybe the luck is in the shampoo. Yes, I am making my own, I'm just making up my own rules right now. I say sparkling wine is okay, Christina, go ahead and do it. There you go. I brought some champagne for us today. You brought some champagne. We're all dressed very lovely. Yes, we are, got my sparkles on. Well, okay, Christina, we're gonna pretend like you're dressed lovely.

Christina has a martini on her shirt. Yeah, I have a martini glass on my shirt. That counts. Ready to drink. Kind of. That counts. Yeah, that's another thing that Venice Waylands do. You must dress up on New Year's Eve.

If you're not dressed up, you're not doing it right. You're doing it wrong. Yeah, that's another thing that Venezuelans do. You must dress up on New Year's Eve. If you're not dressed up, you're not doing it right. For years, like, I mean, I took this stance for years before I met Astrid that New Year's Eve was really for amateurs, you know, and I didn't like to go out and I didn't want a party. I was okay staying home and not doing anything. Halloween and New Year's Eve. I don't remember you being as Debbie Downer-ish throughout our friendship. If I went to a New Year's Eve party, it was under duress.

I went under duress, just know that. I didn't wanna be there, I was there. If I looked like I was having a good time, I was pretending. For years I wanted to see music for New Year's. Yeah, I did that for a couple of years too. I thought that was a good one. That's what I'm doing this year.

What are you doing? Who are you going to see? I'm going to a Hoogel too. I thought that was a good one. That's what I'm doing this year. What are you doing? Who are you going to see? I'm going to a Hoogail concert. Ooh! Afrobeats, baby! Afro, drop the Afrobeats! Yeah, I'm excited. Is it a New Year's Eve concert they're going to play through midnight?

It starts at 10. So I'm pleased. We're having a little pregame. Are there friends coming? Yeah, yeah. We're going to do a little pregame and then we're going to go. Are there friends coming? It's literally called like... I just want to know. She's going on her own. Why? I've It's literally called like... I just wanna know. She's going on her own.

Yeah, by myself. I've been to concerts by myself. Well, I know, but on New Year's. Yeah. I mean, the only other, well, the only other person I specifically invited cannot go. So I am kind of going alone, not really. I'm going with my sister and her boyfriend and then some of our other friends. Well, hopefully you'll meet people there.

That'll be a lot of fun. Oh, no, it'll be great. It's literally called Make the Girls Dance. Ooh, I love it. Make the Girls Dance. And I said, count me in. Well, if they had Make the Girls Dance parties, then I might have not stayed home all those years.

Well, here's the thing, I went to those fucking hotel parties for a couple years in a row. I went to the clubs for a couple years in a row. I worked in the restaurant business so many years on New Year's Eve that I got real sick of it real fucking quick because everyone becomes a raging asshole by 10.30

and then you have to deal with them for the next four hours, kick them out at three in the morning. And it's just true, like there's amateurish behavior that goes on because of how much alcohol. You were going to the wrong party. No, I was at the party serving people. You were working at the party. Yes, so that's how I got,

so a little cocaine and some, you know, Jägermeister made the medicine go down. I'm sorry. That's just the way it was. But then when I wasn't working in the restaurant business, hotel party, okay, I paid $1,000. It was terrible. I mean, so I remember one year, it was me, it was the girl I was dating who would eventually become my ex-wife. my ex-wife, eventually become my ex-wife. Your wife and then your ex-wife. Yeah, my wife and then my ex-wife. And a couple friends.

I paid $1,000 for four of us to go to this hotel party, big, big hotel in downtown Atlanta, do it every year, where there's like 12 rooms, 12 different types of parties. And what ended up happening is we stood in the lobby because it was the only fucking place we could get a drink and talk to each other at any reasonable decibel level. Every room was obnoxious, everyone. And I became real turned off to that idea. And then a couple of years later, after I got a divorce, I went to a hotel party, paid a lot of money, same type of situation. Two rooms were empty, one room was terrible, like just terrible human beings in there. And so we ended up staying out in the lobby bar.

You should have come to me with widespread panic. I wish I had gone to a couple of widespread panic shows. At least there, you know, you know, dibbity dabs. Finger dip, finger dip, finger dip, finger dip. Yeah. A widespread panic concert on New Year's. Kevin used to do that every year. Oh yeah, it was so much fun. And then I wouldn't hear from him for three days. Yes, because you need that time to recover. I remember my parents calling me being like, are you alive? Didn't they do like 25 years in a row at FIPS or Omni in the FIPS? There was a consecutive amount of sellout. They got a banner. There's a banner up there. Widespread panic. And

then they went to the Fox or something like that. they do the Fox Oh very interesting. Yeah, one of the ones I I missed I wish I had gone to I had an opportunity to was the fish Millennial concert as a big one. They do a big one. I don't know if they're are they doing it this year Oh, you know what? I just saw I just saw that the dead is coming back to the So I'm like, okay, I'm not missing it this time. It was such a big fucking deal. I'm not missing it $4,000 for a fucking package. It's insane. It's insane. Let's talk off camera. Okay, I'm gonna talk off camera.

Can Jeff give me tickets? Thank you, thank you, Jeff. I love you. I'm gonna send you red underwear, some grapes, and anytime you want your bell rung, call me and I'll, ding dong! I'll come over with my gloves and some warm lube. I do promise. All right. We're dressed to the nines. 12 days of TCB is long behind us. Thank you. Everyone just supported us and loved us and kept us going. I just

can't thank you enough. Everyone said really nice things. The response was great. So unfortunately that probably means we have to do it again next year. Fuck you. We're planning that differently next year. Next year we're going to do one a week for 12 weeks. I was thinking one, I think it still would be an option to do one each month. And then it's kind of like a time capsule too. It could be. You could look back then and we can review it. It could just be a, it could be like one of those still, you know, one of those stop motion photography's on how much weight I'm going to gain over 2025. We'll change the studio, we'll have different music, everything will go different, and by the time we get to 12 days, we're going to rush again to get it done. I promise you.

Let's do the 12 weeks leading up to, I think that sounds good. That's three months. That's three months. We divide it into three months. I'm down three months. We know it's coming. We'll give everybody some chance to get ready, and then we can talk to our audience and get their ideas about what they would like to hear. So, okay, so let's do this. We're going to start a timer on the third segment of the show. We'll start a timer. We'll do a countdown. We'll celebrate together. We've got a little game to play when we come back. We're going to see how Christina and Chrissy measure up their year when we return. We'll celebrate together. We've got a little game to play when we come back. We're gonna see how Christina and Chrissy measure up their year when we return. We'll be back.

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What do they call them? A uvula. What? What do they call them? A vulva? A vuvuzela? A vuvuzela. I thought Chrissy was talking about just one of those like little curly things.

Yeah, like curly things that pop out. Yeah. But also a voovalala, a eucala. A voovalala? Yes, we need a voovalala right here right now. Unfortunately, I'm married. All right. Hey, I want to say one quick thing. Today, as you're listening to this, will have been the 10-year anniversary of one of the greatest television shows in late night history going off air the Craig Ferguson show I late night with Craig Ferguson. You don't like that show. Well, I mean I watched it sometimes I don't know. It was so fucking you have to you'd have to watch a lot of it to get into it It's one of those shows It's an acquired taste like the commercial break and I acquired the taste and I loved it

He had the masturbating bear and the robot. It was just like, he was just so funny. He was sober, so he'd always, you know, talk to the camera, do these long soliloquies. He was really good at what he did. Now he has a podcast, not as good as the television show, I do have to say that, but I can still listen to it every once in a while. All right, let's size up our year together. What do you think? Let's size up 2024. Here we go. We're going to play love, hate, regret, desire. Love, hate, regret, desire. I want you to name a few things you loved about 2024, a few things you hated about 2024, some things that you regretted, and some things you desire moving forward in 2025. So, Chrissy, let's start with you. Okay, give us two or three things that you loved about 2024.

Chrissy Riss Let's see, you did spring this on us pretty quickly. Well, I actually gave you more notice than I've ever given you on content ideas. So there you go. Let's say, you know what? I loved Taylor Swift's tour. And her love with Travis Kelce. I have to admit, it has been very,

I think we talked about it at the beginning of the year. I said, I'm rooting for them. I hope it works. And everybody just gets so much joy, has gotten so much joy out of her tour. And I have to say I love that. Certainly consumed a fair amount of minutes here on the commercial break talking about Taylor Swift and Taylor and Travis. And I do have to say, I also am rooting for them because I think it's very difficult probably, it's certainly gonna be difficult now for Travis to find anybody else. He's now just as famous as she is.

It's hard to make that work under those streaming lights, and it seems, at least a year and some change in, that they are doing well. So good for Taylor Swift! Yeah, that was like a bright spot, I think, in a lot of people's lives. I have a house full of Swifties, not gonna say a bad word.

Taylor Swift is a badass boss bitch, and congratulations for all of her success, And Travis seems to be the right fit, I guess is the right way to say it. Okay, Christina, let's go, let's bounce to you. Something you loved in 2024. Okay, something I loved in 2024 was, and this is personal to me, but I ran a 30K for my 30th birthday. What? And yeah, I ran, well, I actually ended up running 20 miles because I did my map wrong.

Were you going for the marathon and you did 30K? Well, no, I was going for my, okay, well, my original plan. So I had knee surgery last year and then my original plan was, oh, I was going for my original plan. So I had knee surgery last year, and then my original plan was, oh, I'm going to run 30 miles for my 30th birthday. And then I was like, actually, I've had a lot of health issues this year, and I don't think I've been able to train properly to run that distance. So I was like, let's do a 30K instead. And it's like 18.6 is a 30K.

And then I did the map wrong and ended up running 20. Well, congratulations. That's incredible. It was a massive deal. Yes. Huge accomplishment. And it was like a year after the surgery and it was really big and really emotional and I'm super proud of myself. So that was a big love. Best to you. That's fantastic. I also am into running and I don't do it as much as I did before the children, but I love running and I got into distance running and the most I've ever run was 13.5 miles.

I felt really accomplished and it only took me half a day to do that. So it took me so long to run a half a day. I did not like to run. Okay. All right. So something that I loved in 2024, it's very personal and it's true. The commercial break survived

what I think probably would have been the demise of most other podcasts. And listen, a lot of other podcasts had very similar drama. It's not the podcast world got shaken up in 2023, and I'm not gonna get into all the minutiae, but then we kind of took two smacks in the face. And I will tell you what, we survived it and we came out the other end, maybe a little worse for the wear, a little bit more tired.

We got a few calluses. A few calluses, a little less cash in the bank, but we actually survived and thrived. That has a lot to do with the new contract we signed. And of course, Christina and everybody else around us that's been very supportive and helpful. I'm really proud of the commercial break that it got to the end of 2024 solvent. Let's put it that way. We always said we were the little, the little caboos that could. Yes. And still by some people's measure, doing very well, I guess, by some people's measure. I'm not sure it's mine, but- It's mine. Tough year for us, but we made it.

The first half of the year was, we scraped our knees, that's for sure. But I'm proud of us. We did it and I am very grateful for that. Okay. Another thing that you loved in 2024, then we're going to get on to hate, because that's the fun of it. Oh, God. Well, no, I mean, personally, I was happy that, I mean, finally, the mountain monsters called Bigfoot Hey, there you go. They did they did this year. They did didn't they no Not that I saw they said they did. Oh, they said okay They they they did capture a glimpse of something on video

But we I think determined that that was not a monster, but a man with a hand. I know. I know. I know. There's no show if I catch him. I don't. Yeah. Season number nine, people are begging for season nine. That's one of my desires. Oh, that's one of your desires? It's season number nine of Mount Monsters? I'll tell you what, me too. Because contractually, we have another 222 episodes to go. I need some content ideas. All right, another thing that you loved in 2024, Christina, that's a good one, actually.

I loved Below Deck this year. I got really into it. I watched all of Below Deck Med. I watched all of regular Below Deck. It really got me through some of our tougher times. Yachting, sailing. Yeah, I have watched sailing yet. Down under. Yes, down under I've watched.

Also the adventure one. I haven't watched that one yet either. I've kind of been saving some. All right, I'll be back in a few minutes. Everyone take a break and we're gonna let Christina. All right, Below Deck was good for Christina this year. It's a good escape. And it's beautiful scenery.

Yes, it's so beautiful. Which is what I was telling Brian. It brings me a lot of these. It's like you see all the places. And you would really relate to the whole serving aspect of it. Because if you've worked in the restaurant industry at all, you're just like, you have to smile and be happy. You relate to them in this way.

OK, below deck, putting that on the list of things that I probably will never watch, but it's on the list. You should. I will say that I loved in 2024, I did love my Instagram algorithm, which is on fucking fleek. You love that. And Christina hates when I say that,

but I'm telling you right now, it is so good. It is so original. It is so dedicated to the weirdness of the world. It is so, I don't know, Instagram, I've fallen in love with Instagram this year because that algorithm is amazing. And the content that it serves me up is delicious in so many ways, horrible in other ways, sexy in a lot of ways because I like those photographs. But I'm being honest, Instagram's,

my algorithm on Instagram is something to behold. I think it's a national treasure, quite frankly. But I think a lot of other people think that too. I think Instagram will work the way you ask it to work. Eventually, yeah. And tailored to your specific likes. AI, all right, let's move on to hate. What is something that you hated in 2024?

Something I hated in 2024, Let me look at this. Traffic on the way home after the Christmas episode. Yes. Honestly, almost killed me. It almost killed me off. Yeah, that's, you know, there's no, there's no getting around it. That is not the greatest part of working at the commercial break is driving where the actual studio is. I don't have to drive anywhere. It's all good. But just feel, just know this. I have a lot of empathy for where you're coming from. I understand the traffic is not fun. And if I was sitting in that traffic, I would blow a fucking gasket. This is very flash in my head.

Where was it? Just yesterday? Yes. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. It was terrible. That is one of the worst traffic days of the year. It is. Is the Wednesday before Christmas.

Yeah. Which also made me think that next year we should plan out our time that we're recording then. We will. Well, we will do it. Well, listen, because of medical issues and other things, we just couldn't get it earlier than it needed to get. And we also took a couple extra days off for shits and giggles. I'm not sure why.

Ah, we'll get to it. It's all good. It's all good. It's over now. It's in the past. And every day, the plan compacted just a little bit more. It's in the past. It's all good.

All right, something you hated in 2024. Me? Yes. Okay. I hated not having air conditioning in my past. It's all good. All right. Something you hated in 2024. Me? Yes. Okay. I hated not having air conditioning in my car. Oh. And I refuse to fix it.

It's my own fault, but I just, these Atlanta summers, they are not getting cooler. No. They're not getting cooler. The world is not getting cooler. And I'm getting sweatier and I'm getting more irritable. Yeah. You need to get that fixed. I'm not going to.

My car is 22 years old. You're out of principle. I'm not putting any money that I don't have to in my car is 22 years old. You're like out of principle. I'm not putting any money that I don't have to in it. I get it. Hold on, hold on. How much does it cost to fix the air conditioning? It's like a grand.

It's like what my car's worth. Okay, but you need air conditioning or a new car. You can't go without air conditioning and here in Atlanta, you're gonna die. It gets me from point A to point D. Okay, fair enough. And I will. And yeah.

This is coming from a guy who had half a car and I was driving it down the highway. I was talking about it. I was like, look, we have all, I mean, I drive around with half the side of my car scraped for like three years. I was like, I refuse to get it fixed. Okay. What did you hate? I'll tell you what I hated in 2024. And this is a bit on the serious side. I really hated the election season. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.

It made me stressed. It made me anxious. People treated each other with disgust and disrespect, and it continues. And I got to be real frank about this. I don't give a shit who you voted for. It's your right to vote for whomever you want to. But if we don't start calming down in this country, we are going to come unglued. If it's not too late already, it will be very soon.

And I just wish, I hope, I just pray and, I mean, meditate, whatever. I pray that in 2025, there is some adult in the room, adults in the room, all of us being adults in the room, that can take it down a couple of degrees. Rev down. Rev down because we are going to rip each other apart and it's not needed. It's not necessary. We can fight for what's right. We can fight for what we believe.

We don't have to literally kill each other. That's all I got to say. And I hated that about 2024 and I'll never forget it. It's like a scar that I think we'll all wear for a very long time. And that's not just because the outcome wasn't my favorite. I can deal with that part. It's how everybody on both sides of the aisle treated each other. Running up to that election, it was just terrible. Okay. So now, things you regretted in 2024. What did you regret in 2024? This one, I'm hoping will be introspective. Oh, okay. Let me see. But Chrissy says, no, it's going to be Teresa Caputo. I said that Jeff and I didn't cook naked enough. Oh, there you go. Hey, that's a good one. That is a good one. Goals, 2025 goals. That is a good one. And when you guys cook naked, please videotape it. I'll Instagram it for you

since you don't like to do that. I'll put it up there and I'll even put little blurbs. I'll blur it out for you. All right, something you regretted in 2024. Okay, something I regretted. This is a joke. It was all the hours I listened to TCP. It was a joke. But my serious one is not being able to figure out my health stuff sooner. Yeah, like if I think not following my gut, I guess. Well, literally and figuratively. Because I went to like my first doctor months ago saying I think this is the problem. He did not believe me. He told me like, he did not let me do the test for it.

It was like a horrible experience. And then like come December, turns out it was the thing I thought it was at the start. So that sucks. This is like, kind of funny, but at the same time, not funny. But this is a true, I think this is something that I learned in 2024. There is absolutely no one on this earth who is going to care for you. Like, you are going to care for you. You have to be your own advocate at every turn, at every corner, at every question mark. And if someone in the medical field is not giving you the attention or the answers that you think you

need, then you go somewhere else or you do something else until someone does. That's it. Period. End of sentence. And I will tell you what, it is the same thing with me. For 20, maybe 20 years, I had a tumor wreaking havoc on the chemicals in my body and I had no idea. And for at least seven or eight years, someone did have an idea and chose not to say anything. Whether that was a mistake, I'm sure it was an honest mistake, I don't think they were trying to kill me, but they didn't say anything. And even when I noticed, I thought, oh well, if the doctor's not saying anything, then I shouldn't say anything. So that's a good

one. I'll tell you what I regretted this year. I regret that Astrid and I did not get more time as a couple, and I hope that changes in 2025. So many children, so many things, so much chaos, so much drama with the commercial break. And we just had a lot going on in 2025. And I think we got like a total of like 10, you know, hours alone together. That wasn't after the kids went to bed. And in 2025, babe, that's going to change. Eleven hours coming your way in 2025. I promise you, because I love you. You're upping the ante. I am upping the ante. All right. Okay, so let's do this.

I know it's a little bit early. Let's flip to a break. And then after we flip to the break, we're going to start a clock and we're going to talk about what we want moving forward in 2025. The desires, Chrissy, the desire, my desire to see you and Jeff naked more in 2025. That's one of them. We'll talk about a couple of them. Henry Fonda is there, you know, filming.

Oh, man. Henry Fonda is there, you know, filming. Oh man, Henry Fonda hasn't made an appearance on this show in three years. He's been away. Maybe that's what I regret. Henry Fonda wasn't here enough in season number five. Me too. You know what I regret? 3,000 episodes of the commercial break. I regret I didn't say no. All right, let's take a break and when we get back, we'll all count down to the new year together. Brian might have just said it's time to take a

break, but some of us have to work right now. And by work, I mean, gently nudge you, nay, beg you to follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at TCB Podcast because listen, the more followers we get, the more clout I get with Chrissy and Brian. If you've got something to say, give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 212-4333-TCB or shoot us a text. One more thing, check out our website, tcbpodcast.com,

where you can find all of our audio and video and even request a new sticker from the contact us form. Bye. All right. For those of you that home that want to do this with us, feel free to start your 10 minute timer. I'll give you like 15 seconds to get your clock out and start your 10 minute timer or to start this episode when 10 minutes on that whatever, whatever you're watching,

however you do it starts. So I'll give you a couple of seconds. We've got our champagne here. We do. We dress very nicely. We're talking about all the things we love, we got our red underwear on. I don't have my red underwear on, but I don't have anywhere underwear on. So there you go. I'm free balling it. Spicy. Yes. I'm hoping that Jeff comes in and jingles my jangles. I was listening to one of the episodes we did.

We were talking about ringing the bell and I'm like, Brian. Oh, I came up and told Jeff. No wonder the parents hit you at the school. No wonder. I told Jeff that it got a lot of miles. It did get a lot of miles. It got 15 minutes of conversation. Yes.

And then I got to go pick my kid up from school later. I could just see, like, you know, all those cars parked in the parking lot. I got to imagine at least two of them are listening to the most recent episode of the commercial rig, listening to me talk about a finger in my anus. Yeah. Your secret shh is not secret anymore. Did the teacher come out and go, I know, I know? is not secret anymore. Did the teacher come out and go, I know, I know. Yes, a teacher came out and said, I know, at one of the schools and then at the other school they printed our email addresses. I don't even put my work email address on

a doctor's office. I'm so embarrassed. I'm like, no, give them that personal Gmail. That's right. Can't let that cat out of the box. Because we all do it, right? We all get an email from somebody and we go, let me check out that website and see what's going on. Yeah, what does that guy do? TCB podcast, what is that? Let me see that.

Oh, oh, oh. Well, I guess they're letting anybody in the school now. I guess there's no more, there's no more checks and balances at this school. All right, so let's start that 10 minute timer now. Well, where is that? Where is that 10 minute timer? What happened? Timer, hold on, stop, don't start your 10 minute timer yet. I can put a timestamp in the episode for when everyone needs to start it.

We need to have a time. No, I know, but I'm just saying like, don't stress about it. People will know when to... Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Go watch this on YouTube. 11.49. Here, I'll start the timer. I got it. I got it. 10-minute timer starts right now. All right, here we go. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

All right, things we want to accomplish in 2025, the things that we desire or desire, accomplish or desire. Go, Chrissy. Well, I think I said it earlier, the mountain monsters. I mean, more episodes. More episodes, season number nine. And also, I'd like to see a little bit more of a shakeup in the Monsters.

Yeah, that's true. They keep on going after the same four monsters all the time. I want a good witch, a good... A witch, a ghost. A ghoul. A ghoul, a goblin, a Kabul goblin. What is that? Yeah, yeah, the Kabul goblin. The Kabul ghoul. The ghoul of Kabul. Yes, that's what I want to see too.

I want to see that guy kneeling with the five, you know, I want to, yeah, I agree with you, but you know, to be fair to mountain monsters, they do branch out. There's the little Indian girl that's walking through the cornfield. I mean, they have a lot of stuff. There's people leaving a messages, there's blood, pig blood on the wall. They found a couple of dead animals. I mean, you know, they try and switch it up, but let's be real about it. After nine seasons and 130

episodes of the commercial break, we were having trouble with content. Five huckleberries. Five huckleberries later. They do have at least two huckleberries. I swear they do. Because if you look at the early huckleberry and the most recent huckleberry, they just don't look alike. I'm sorry. I'm not convinced at all. All right, Christina, desire in 2025. I want my cats to get along. I got a new kitten recently and my, my OG cat, the big boss of the house, she is not very happy right now. And she's been very, very stressed out yesterday. And it made me so sad. Okay. They'll to. Okay, they'll get along eventually. They will, I said that. Eventually they'll come together.

So nervous. My emotions are her emotions. You know, we are one woman. Aww. I know. She's been with you for a long time. I desire in 2025 a couple things. First of all, a lot more massages. I didn't get enough massages in 2024. I want massages, not the Bosco though kind. I just want a regular nice massage every once in a while, maybe once every other month, I'd like that. Number two, I wanna see the commercial break

raised to new heights. And by that I mean- That was on my list. In the positive and not in the negative. Yeah, that was on my list too. That was on mine too. Yes. We can all agree.

Number three, and most importantly, and only you can help us do this, I want to get to 10,000 YouTube subscribers. I have a mild goal here, guys. A mild goal. And I realize we've been terrible about social media, but for the last couple of weeks, you'll have to admit things have been much better. So if you could, please follow us on Instagram and YouTube. TikTok I really don't care about because I mean, I care about TikTok, but I'm not sure TikTok is going

to be around. I got to be real honest. I think they may move forward with that ban. And I think we may not have TikTok because I think they're going to, they want to kind of step on on China's neck a little bit. So I hope all of that goes- Astrid's banned from TikTok. Astrid's banned from TikTok? She's banned from TikTok and we have no idea why. And we know people who work at TikTok and we have no idea how to get her back on TikTok. She never made one post, never.

And they kicked her out and now they won't let her back on. And no one knows why. No one can answer the question. Maybe she was cyber bullying you. And you just didn't know. You thought you had a troll but it was Astrid. Yeah, she was logging into my account, checking out all the girls in bikinis that I have. Yeah.

She's like, I'm banned. Yeah. TikTok's not as bad. My TikTok is not as bad as my Instagram. Brian, we can't get on it. I'm banned. Yeah. You're banned. Right. Exactly. You didn't even know what TikTok was until July. And that's fair enough. That's fair enough. Well, listen, we do have to say, it's been a very eventful year here at the commercial break from Tabriza Caputo to the mountain monsters, all the content, the time off the live shows that didn't end up happening that may end up happening in the future, the switch of the studio, Christina in here with

us. It has been a wild and wacky year for the commercial break. And I do have to say, we are extraordinarily grateful for everyone that has listened to the commercial break. Because by listening to the commercial break, believe it or not, you actually make us a little bit of money. And that helps us create that content over and over and over again. We do four episodes a week. It's not the world's hardest job. It's not even a hard job. But it does take a lot of time and we put a lot of care and effort into doing it, despite what it may sound like, we actually try. But the best part of TCB, the best thing, the thing that I will never regret is all the wonderful people that listen to us and write in and say, you know, like this job can be lonely.

You talk into a microphone, you don't hear anything back, except for the people in the room. You don't hear anything back. And so the only feedback that you don't hear anything back except for the people in the room. You don't hear anything back. And so the only feedback that you ever really get is either yourself or the other two people that now sit in the room. And so it's not like comedy or doing a concert where, you know, you can see in people's faces what's going on. And sometimes like when you're in July and you're on your 700th episode and you don't know what you're going to talk about and you hope it's funny and you're just your 700th episode and you don't know what you're going to talk about

and you hope it's funny and you're just trying to, you know, be funny. It can get, I guess it can be lonely. Even when you have somebody that you're doing the show with, it can be a little lonely because you have no idea. But what keeps me going every time is when I pick up the phone, the TCB phone, or when I look at our reviews or our comments and I see that people say something nice. And some of the best messages we've got is, my life is not really great right now, but I can count on the commercial break for a laugh and that has kept me going. You guys are a worst train wreck. Yes, yes. Just like your reality shows, you guys are, I'm fetish watching you for your shitty content.

I'm saying, well, my life's pretty bad. I lost my job, my car don't work, my wife left me, but look at Brian and Chrissy. They still think they're going to make this work. They're still holding out hope, so can I. Exactly! They think they have a chance. I might as well, too. Why not? Hey, listen, anything's possible.

If the commercial break after five seasons has shown everybody one thing, it's that blind faith will either lead you off a cliff or up the mountain. One of the two. We haven't really figured it out yet, but, you know, I have a feeling. You know, as I'm watching, I was telling the girls before we came on that I'm watching a lot, and I mean a lot of Everest porn right now, Mount Everest porn. Is porn the right word? Yes, it is. Because it's just me watching for disaster to happen. I'm just like, at any moment disaster could happen.

And some people die, a lot of people die actually trying to go up that fucking mountain. And I think the reason why I like it is because it's something I will never do. I would never want to be up that high. I don't want to be on a ladder, let alone Mount Everest. Oh, I could be flown in up to the top. I'd like that. I don't want the trek. No, you can't.

You can't even fly up to the top. I don't want the track. No, you can't. You can't even fly up to the top. I don't want the track. No. And apparently it's a very easy mountain to climb, technically, but it's, you know, without the oxygen, you know, not having any oxygen because there's a number on the body, apparently. But I've been watching it and I'm like, you know what? Blind faith. Blind faith will either get you killed or it will get you your name in the record book. One of the two. All

right. Two minutes and 30 seconds left before the new year's girl. Should I pop the champagne? Well, I guess it's, but now's a better time than any. Don't hit me with that fucking cork. I'm a professional champagne popper. Oh, you are? You're a professional champagne popper? I've had lots of experience. Well, I believe that. That I believe. I'll take your word at face value. Do you and Jeff drink a lot of champagne?

No. No? But on occasion. Yeah. On New Year's Eve, I always end up with a fucking headache because of the champagne, and that drives me crazy. Some good stuff. Woo!

I love that sound. Hey, what is that? Vuv Le Cro? No, it's not Vuv. I didn't spring for that. We're not making that Vuv money. That's right. We're not even making that money. What is that that Voov money. I thought we were. That's right.

We're not even making that money. What is that? Saint Hilaire. Saint Hilaire. You gotta watch out guys. Sir, your Saint Hilaire is here. Hey, would you like to do the tasting with your tasties? Yes, I'd like to taste my tasties, please.

Thank you. Just a dash there, I don't wanna get my balls too wet. Oh, it's fantastic. Fantastic. Lovely. This is a dash there. I don't want to get my balls too wet. Oh, it's fantastic! Lovely. This is a fine year. What is that? 2023? Your balls are straight on. Yes, a wonderful year for Saint Hilaire Champagne. I love how Chrissy pours half a bottle. Watch it. Watch your ears. Yeah, yeah. Oh, look at this. All right. Here we are with a glass of champagne. And we should make a toast. We should.

We should make a toast. I don't know what toast to make, but I'm trying to think of one, but I'll make it up as we go. Here's to those that aren't here. Here's to those that are near and dear. And here's to those who we're going to cheer. There you go. Cheers. Cheers, everybody. I love you guys.

47 minutes, 45 seconds on the clock now, ladies and gentlemen, I wish you a fond new year. I bid adieu to 2024, you shitty fucking year. Yes, that's right. Go in the trash, never come back. We'll see you in 2028. We'll do it again then, if democracy is still around. If democracy is still a thing, we'll be in 2028. Sorry, year. I feel it. I can feel it. All right. 20 seconds left here on the clock. 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, happy new year!

Oh, cheers, cheers. I forgot I was supposed to do something here. There you are, it's one of those years. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. Look, it says done. There you go. Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers, my friend. Till next year. Till next year. Cheers to you, listeners. I want to cheers you at home, no matter what you're doing, no matter where you are. I hope your new year brings you luck and love and wealth and health. And I also hope you listen to the commercial break because I want those things also.

I want those things. I have desires too guys. Tell a friend, tell a family member. Yeah, more massages and more listeners. Those two things. We got a vision board over here. I really do want more massages. You should do a vision board for the studio.

Yeah. Yeah, we should. Wait, that's so cute. Let's make a group vision board. Oh my god. I love it. Please, alright. Dollar Shave Club is one of our sponsors. I'm trying to keep any of the men around listening. Although I think that might be a lost cause at this point,

if our Spotify is any indication. I think that might be a lost cause at this point, if our Spotify is any indication. I think that might be a lost cause at this point. Well, by 2024, OLA 2025. My son doesn't like the fact that it's turning 2025 because he doesn't want to have to learn how to write a new year. And I said, Hey, listen, get used to it, kid. It happens all the time. All right. Well, listen, I don't know how much more we can do today, but we will be back tomorrow to nurse your hangover with you. A brand new episode of The Commercial Break on New Year's Day. What else could you ask for? Wow. And that is in the books. I think 226 episodes of the commercial break. This year? This year. Oh my God. In December, we will have broadcast 24

of the 31 days of the month. There are 24 episodes. That's 50% more commercial break in December than any other month of the year. Congratulations to us. Congratulations to you and all the good tidings and all the good cheer. Well, you know, some things remain the same

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I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you. Best to you. Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe and YouTube, Kristy. Until next time, we all say, we do say, and we must say.

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