12 Days of TCB: Don't Stare At The Red Rocket

Summary

Podcast Summary: "12 Days of TCB: Don't Stare At The Red Rocket"

Podcast Information:

• Title: The Commercial Break
• Host/Author: Commercial Break LLC
• Episode: 12 Days of TCB: Don't Stare At The Red Rocket
• Release Date: December 14, 2024

---

Introduction to the 12 Days of TCB

In this special episode, hosts Bryan and Chrissy embark on the second day of their "12 Days of TCB" series, a festive marathon running from December 13th to 25th. Committed to delivering fresh content throughout the holiday season, they promise daily episodes filled with humor, reviews, and engaging discussions.

Bryan [01:36]: "Sometimes podcasts like ours will take off a lot of time during the holidays, but not us. We're gluttons for punishment."

---

Reviewing Top 20 Christmas Movies

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Bryan and Chrissy reviewing their top 20 Christmas movies. They draw inspiration from Town and Country’s rankings, offering personal insights and humorous critiques of each film.

• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and It’s a Wonderful Life are highlighted as perennial favorites, with Bryan emphasizing the latter's timeless appeal despite personal reservations.

  Chrissy [05:03]: "That's on there."

  Bryan [05:05]: "It's a Wonderful Life is on there."

• Elf emerges as Bryan’s unequivocal favorite, lauding Will Ferrell’s performance and the movie’s universal charm.

  Bryan [15:15]: "Elf is an instant Christmas classic. I have met people who do not like this movie. I do not like them."

• The hosts also discuss lesser-loved entries like Christmas with the Kranks, where Bryan critiques its premise and execution.

  Bryan [07:27]: "Christmas with the Kranks was not very good."

Throughout the discussion, Bryan and Chrissy balance their critiques with affectionate nods to the films' cultural impact and nostalgic value.

---

Exploring Holiday Monsters

Venturing beyond cinematic reviews, Bryan and Chrissy delve into the realm of holiday folklore, introducing listeners to a variety of mythical creatures associated with the festive season.

• Merry Lil and Belschnickel: They explore European traditions, describing these figures' roles in dispensing rewards or punishments based on children's behavior.

  Bryan [33:44]: "A Christmas zombie horror."

• Cherokee Devil: A particularly eerie figure from Welsh tradition, known for its ghostly presence and menacing demeanor.

  Chrissy [35:07]: "They have a thing in the trolls over there."

The hosts blend factual folklore with their signature humor, making the segment both informative and entertaining.

---

Commentary on Mountain Monsters

A recurring favorite, the discussion shifts to the TV show Mountain Monsters. Bryan and Chrissy offer a comedic take on the show’s premise and episodes, parodying the exaggerated hunt for mythical creatures like Bigfoot.

• Critical Analysis: They mock the show's dramatic confrontations and implausible scenarios, such as armed ambushes in North Carolina's wilderness.

  Bryan [37:03]: "You guys notice that no one said one single word for the last hour?"

• Humorous Roleplay: The transcript reveals snippets of their playful enactment of a Mountain Monsters episode, complete with exaggerated fear and absurd tactics.

  Brian [43:12]: "And all the guys that are in the group that and the gang."

This segment highlights their camaraderie and ability to infuse humor into cultural phenomena.

---

Charity Highlight: National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund

Demonstrating their commitment to social causes, Bryan and Chrissy dedicate a segment to the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund (NBCC). Recognizing its vital role in supporting breast cancer research and aiding those affected, they encourage listeners to contribute during the holiday season.

Chrissy [22:25]: "The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, the NBCC, they do good work."

Bryan [22:47]: "If you know a man or a woman in your life, it's likely you're going to know breast cancer at some point in your life."

By integrating this charitable message seamlessly into the episode, they underscore the importance of giving back amidst the holiday festivities.

---

Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

As the episode draws to a close, Bryan and Chrissy reflect on the day's discussions, reiterating their appreciation for their audience and the topics covered. They tease future segments in the "12 Days of TCB" series, maintaining the festive momentum.

Bryan [65:22]: "We might have to find the second part to that. He walked in the shed. Did you see that, Christina? That was crazy."

Chrissy [67:25]: "I think so."

Their warm sign-off leaves listeners anticipating the next day's episode, eager for more humor, reviews, and insightful conversations.

---

Notable Quotes from the Episode

• Bryan [05:37]: "I don't like My own dog, that doesn't mean I don't like dogs in general."

• Bryan [15:48]: "And Wilford Brimley. Isn't Wilford Brimley in that movie?"

• Chrissy [22:25]: "If you know a man or a woman in your life, it's likely you're going to know breast cancer at some point in your life."

• Bryan [55:42]: "This isn't that a branch you just walked by. I mean we're talking like, with little tiny twig."

---

Conclusion

In "12 Days of TCB: Don't Stare At The Red Rocket," The Commercial Break seamlessly blends humor, cultural commentary, and heartfelt advocacy. Bryan and Chrissy engage listeners with their dynamic chemistry, offering a comprehensive review of Christmas movies, exploring intriguing holiday folklore, and promoting vital charitable causes. This episode exemplifies the podcast's unique ability to entertain while fostering a sense of community and giving during the holiday season.

Transcript

[Brian]

This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too. With the name your price tool from Progressive, it works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote [e-mail] to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law this episode of the Commercial Break is sponsored by Ring. The holidays are almost here and between traveling, hosting family and finding the perfect gift, it's such an exciting, busy and yes, sometimes stressful time. Ring helps you stay connected to the home for all the merry moments. Even when you're on the go. With Ring, you've got the whole home covered. Their video doorbells alert you when gifts arrive, and you can even chat with the delivery people to let them know where to leave the packages. The Indoor cam. It's a game changer. So easy to set up. You can use it to check in on your pets when you're away. And with two way talk, you can even talk to them. Plus, if you want some privacy, you can just flip the manual cover to turn off the camera and microphone. Wherever the holidays take you, Ring makes sure that you're always home for the holidays. So head to Ring.com to find the latest deals on Ring, video doorbells, cams and alarm kits. Ring makes the perfect gift for everyone on your list. And thanks to Ring for being a sponsor of the Commercial Break. Hey Chrissy, Best to you.

[Chrissy]

Best to you Brian.

[Brian]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe and Happy Holidays. Sometimes podcasts like ours will take off a lot of time during the holidays, but not us. We're gluttons for punishment. So we have the 12 days of TCB coming at you December 13th through the 25th. Brand new episodes every single day and live fresh episodes during the entire holiday season. As the great Clark Griswold once said, Holy.

[Chrissy]

Where's the Tylenol?

[Brian]

Find it quick and join us this entire holiday season for brand new episodes of the Commercial Break.

[Christina]

I just wanted to let you know that December is international. You can catch these Hands Awareness month. And don't speak to me sideways because you'll give me an excuse to toss these hands around, which might put me on the naughty list, but it'll feel pretty nice.

[Brian]

The next episode of the commercial bo break starts now and we're gonna have the hap hap happiest Christmas since Finn Crosby tap dance with Danny fucking Kats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. This is the jingle to my jangle, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen.

[Chrissy]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Merry Christmas, happy holidays and all that jazz. We're on day number two of the 12 days of TCB, reviewing our favorite content, stories and events of 2024. I know you don't like the camera CRE, Christina, but don't kick it over. I spend a long time on those wires. Welcome back. We're in the brand new studio. Christina is here with us and we're celebrating and enjoying the holiday, the very festive holiday time with you by, I don't know, by just generally being festive, we're a little less boring than we normally are. How's that? There you go.

[Chrissy]

I like it.

[Brian]

And Chrissy, best to you, best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. You. Thank you for joining us. How are you feeling?

[Chrissy]

I'm feeling good.

[Brian]

This is a marathon, not a sprint. So I don't want you to get. I want you to get burnt out. Yeah, I'm gona make sure you have lots of coffee. You've taken your magic mushrooms and all that good stuff.

[Chrissy]

Vitamins.

[Brian]

Yes. I was just watching. I can't remember who the celebrity was. I want to say it's Pete, not Pete Davidson, but there's another gangly looking Pete with blonde hair. Do you know? I'm talking about the comic. He had a HBO show for a while of his own. He was talking about magic mind. Have you heard about this drink, Magic mind?

[Chrissy]

I have not. But there's a lot of different stuff out there that includes thc, psilocybin, all kinds of different stuff.

[Brian]

I think, I don't, I'm not sure magic mind has psilocybin in it, but it is like apparently some drink that a lot of people that are taking and they feel very good about themselves and the world around them when they take Magic mind. Yes. So I snorted crank this morning and that has made me feel awful Good.

[Chrissy]

Chrissy, you're pretty calm for crank.

[Brian]

Well, listen, it just hasn't kicked in yet. My third eight ball has not kicked in yet.

[Chrissy]

Okay, got it.

[Brian]

All right, top 20 Christmas movies of all time as ranked by who? I don't know, but give me three of them. Tell me three of the top 20 Christmas movies we're going to review them real quickly.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Brian]

As ranked by town and country.

[Chrissy]

Because they are the experts.

[Brian]

The Martha Stewartist, stewardess magazine that ever lived.

[Chrissy]

Well, let's see. I mean one that's got to be on there is National Lampoon.

[Brian]

You're right about that.

[Chrissy]

That's on there. Yes. How about It's a Wonderful Life?

[Brian]

It's a Wonderful Life is on there.

[Chrissy]

A Christmas Carol.

[Brian]

Christmas Carol I think is on there also. Are you ready for him?

[Chrissy]

I'm ready.

[Brian]

Okay, I'm gonna go 20 to 1. Here we go. There's. They ranked the top 65. How they even came up with 65 movies to rank. I don't know. I'm sure they're out there. But it probably includes Hot Frosty.

[Christina]

I'm national treasure. Okay.

[Brian]

National treasure of your algorithm. Yes. Your Netflix algorithm. Number 20. A family. The family stone.

[Chrissy]

Ah, the family stone. Your favorite.

[Brian]

2025. A holiday flick about a dysfunctional family that features an all star cast including Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson and Diane Keaton. I do like it. It's very good. Last holiday from 2014. Last holiday, the heartwarming rom com starring Queen Latifah plays a small town saleswoman who spends her life savings on a holiday trip to Europe and that she is terminally ill. Except there's a twist. Oh, congratulations. Sounds wonderful.

[Christina]

Movie is incredible.

[Brian]

Is it really?

[Christina]

I love it.

[Brian]

Never seen it.

[Christina]

It's in my top five Christmas movies.

[Brian]

Is it really? It's a good one. Okay, maybe I'll have to watch it. This Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas comes up 18. It's so fun. Now Charlie Brown Christmas is not my favorite Christmas movie. I wouldn't even put it in my top 10. But I do.

[Chrissy]

It's a classic.

[Brian]

I do understand it's a classic. There's a lot of nostalgia around it. And what is fun is watching my children now get into A Charlie Brown Christmas. So we've all seen it as a timeless cartoon starring Charlie Brown as he seeks out the true meaning of Christmas with the help of his friends and his curious dog, snoopy. Okay, number 17, going exactly the opposite direction. Harold and Kumar Christmas. A very Harold and Kumar Christmas. Which is super fun, very funny and unbelievably like even a little bit festive. I think you'll like this one. Yeah. Looking for something to watch before the after little ones go to bed. Press play on this Bowdy Holiday. Bowdy Holiday comedy which is the third installment of the Harold and Kumar series. Neil Patrick Harris is in it. A very funny cocaine filled child is in the movie also. It's a lot of fun. You'll like it. Watch that one. Number 16. I disagree with this completely. Christmas with the Cranks, I don't even think that would show up in my top 65. And I don't even know 65 movies. Christmas with the Cranks was not very good.

[Chrissy]

Jamie Lee Curtis.

[Brian]

Jamie Lee Curtis. Tim Allen. Speaking of cocaine, Tim Allen. Did you know that Tim Allen spent like we talked seven years in federal prison for cocaine distribution?

[Chrissy]

Crazy. Before what?

[Brian]

Yeah, it's true. Before he became a standup, he spent a period of time for and not a small amount of cocaine. It was like 20 pounds of cocaine or something. Can you believe that? Isn't that crazy?

[Christina]

Santa?

[Brian]

Yeah, I know. Santa, indeed. And then, you know, listen. And then he's Buzz Lightyear, right? Okay, so he's Buzz Lightyear. And then he makes a couple of comments during the pandemic.

[Christina]

Tom Hanks.

[Brian]

No, Tom is Woody. Yeah, he's Woody. Buzz Lightyear. Tim Allen. He makes a couple of comments during the pandemic that rile the people up over there at Disney and they say, no more. Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear. He's not going to appear in any movies moving forward. But I guess Tim had the last laugh as they're currently making Toy Story Number five with Tim Allen.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

So the Christmas at the Cranks is a light hearted comedy. The funny flick follows a couple played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis who anger their neighbors by making plans to skip Christmas in favor of taking a Caribbean cruise. It's a ridiculous premise and it's not very funny. Dan Aykroyd is in the movie also. I'm sorry, I just don't like it. But anyway, okay.

[Chrissy]

It's okay.

[Brian]

Number 15, A Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Chrissy]

Not A Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Brian]

I know people who go crazy over this movie who go nuts over this movie. I dated a woman for a period of time and she. It was like right when I think it was in 2000, like the early 2000s. And she like. Everything was about A Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Chrissy]

And people do go crazy over it. I mean, it's an interesting take on the Christmas classic.

[Brian]

I can appreciate where Tim Burton is coming from. He's never been my favorite director in the world, but I understand, like, I can appreciate the creativity behind Tim Burton movies. And this one is claymation. So it's really, really like, I guess a huge feat of animation that he did and I think it took him a long time to do it. Not my favorite, but I can appreciate that it's in the top 20. Almost Christmas is number 14. Almost Christmas Christmas from 2016 starring Danny Glover. Omar Epps. I have not seen this. Okay, I don't think Danny Glover is a retired who. Who doesn't love a little Danny Glover.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

How did I. How have I never heard this? How have I never heard of this? Danny Glover is a retired widower who only wants one thing for Christmas. His grown children in the families to get along for the holidays. This performances from his. This talent. The performances from this talented ensemble cast will make you grateful for your folks this December. Okay, well, all right. Mo'nique.

[Chrissy]

Put it in there.

[Brian]

Jt. Jesse T. Ushers in it. DC Young Fly. Nicole Allen Parkway. Oh. Oh, the. Oh, it's okay. Oh, I see there's a little break in the curtain.

[Christina]

I was trying to be discreet.

[Brian]

No, it's okay. Listen, we've never been an episode. We've never been a podcast that's particularly discreet. So there you go. There you go. All right. This is right up your alley, Christina. Number 13 is a Christmas prince from Netflix. Have you seen this movie?

[Christina]

Actually, I hate that movie.

[Brian]

You hate that movie? Surprise.

[Christina]

The hair and makeup was atrocious.

[Brian]

Oh, really? Yeah, it's the hair and makeup. We have a problem.

[Christina]

So dirty.

[Brian]

Really?

[Christina]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Wow. A Christmas prince packs every rom com cliche that you can think of into 90 minutes. And that's exactly what makes it so delicious to watch when a junior and when a journalist is assigned to cover a handsome but mysterious prince of a small country named Aldovia, she gets more than she bargained for. Nice. Yeah. Not. Not a movie I would watch, but okay. All right. Number 12 is Santa Claus number two. Not a fan of the Santa Claus movies.

[Chrissy]

They're okay.

[Brian]

I like some Tim Allen movies like Toy Story, but I am not a fan of the Santa Claus series.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, no, I liked. What's the other one, though? That's with Kurt Russell. I liked that one.

[Brian]

That's Santa Claus, like five or something, isn't it?

[Chrissy]

No, no, it's. It's called something different, but it's got Goldie Hawn in it, too. In, like, the second installment of it. Anyways, I thought those were cute.

[Brian]

Wait, Kurt Russell plays Santa Claus and Goldie Hawn appears? Well, I gotta say this. Oh, really?

[Chrissy]

It's super cute.

[Brian]

Okay, all right, well, I'll find out what that name of that movie is. Number 11 is the original Santa Claus. When a divorced businessman accidentally kills Santa. Nothing like the holidays to send the writers and directors into overdrive. Trying to Figure out the most ridiculous premise. Yes. Number 10, the Dr. Seusses. The Grinch. The animated one from 2000. 2018. No list of Christmas movies is truly complete without an appearance from the Grinch. And the new ish animated version deserves a place in the holiday movie canon thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch's memorable take on everyone's favorite green holiday grump. I agree with that.

[Chrissy]

It's a good one.

[Brian]

This is the best version of the Grinch, I think is the new one from 2018. Number nine is Claus Claw by Netflix. An animated original. The Netflix original, about a postman who befriends a reclusive toy maker is a great family Christma film, especially with the beautiful animation that will leave you really feeling the holiday magic. Haven't seen it. I guess I'll have to see it. Have you seen this one?

[Christina]

No, but I've heard really great things about it.

[Brian]

Okay, I'm gonna watch this. This is from 2019. Number nine, Scrooged.

[Chrissy]

I love Scrooge.

[Brian]

This is a movie. We've talked a couple times about holiday movies and we have not put Scrooge in there. Scrooged is fucking fantastic. A modernized version of the Christmas Carol stars Bill Murray as a curmudgeonly New York City TV executive who learns the meaning of Christmas in hilarious fashion. And sometimes a bit scary. But I love this movie.

[Chrissy]

Oh, it's a great movie.

[Brian]

I remember seeing it as a kid. This came out in 1988. I remember seeing this as a kid.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And I loved it from the beginning. I thought it was great. Bill Murray really does play the best screen.

[Chrissy]

He does that.

[Brian]

That has ever been the Christmas Chronicles, starring the Christmas Chronicles.

[Chrissy]

That's what I was thinking of. Those are good.

[Brian]

The Original is number seven. Number six is Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, starring Donald Trump. Kevin McAllister's family manages to leave him behind yet again in Home Alone 2. And this time around, he winds up in New York City, where he managed to outwit the bandits one more time.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

I'm going to say it again. Hot take. I just don't like the Home Alone series. I just find it. I find it to be absolutely ridiculous premise. How you could leave a child behind and then that child, through no fault of their own, is then left for days on end to outwit bandits with, you know, Cracker Jacks and sound effects.

[Chrissy]

I know. I do love it, though. I love the first one.

[Brian]

Home Alone is. Comes in at number five. Number four. I would have put this a Little bit higher. But number four is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Of course, watching this Chevy Chase movie will make you and will make anything your family does at Christmas seem totally normal by comparison. It is probably. Probably the best vacation movie.

[Chrissy]

I think so, too.

[Brian]

A Christmas vacation. But a very close second is the regular vacation movies. I actually liked the Vegas vacation. Vegas Vacation, too. I thought that was pretty fun.

[Chrissy]

I remember watching it. I didn't love it, but I could be up for watching it again.

[Brian]

Okay. Number three is Elf with Will Ferrell.

[Chrissy]

I do love Elf.

[Brian]

Of course. This is a Christmas instant Christmas classic. I have met people who do not like this movie. I do not like them. It's like people who don't like dogs. I don't trust them. And even though I don't like my own dog, that doesn't mean I don't like dogs in general. I just don't like that one that sits outside my room. But if you don't like Elf, I think something's wrong with you. Like, how do you not like Elf? I can understand you maybe not being a fan of Will Ferrell, but if you take your dislike for Will Ferrell out of it, how can you not love the sheer innocence and joy of the character he plays? And Will Ferrell was born to play Oscar.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah, he was born to play, for sure.

[Brian]

An adult child essentially looking at the world in such a. Like, an awestruck way and seeing everything. And then add to it that he's a very physical comedian. He just does this role such justice.

[Chrissy]

He does.

[Brian]

And while the ending is a little kafuckeda, I always will stop and watch Elf when it's on television.

[Chrissy]

And Bob Newhart. Oh, I love him in it, too.

[Brian]

In one of his last movie appearances. Bob Newh. Newhart was great in that movie, as was. Who's that guy? Wilford Brimley. Isn't Wilford Brimley in that movie?

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian]

Yeah. Okay. And diabetes. Diabetes. Number two is It's a Wonderful Life.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Brian]

Which is a Christmas classic. Not my favorite Christmas movie, but it's a Christmas classic. It is.

[Chrissy]

It's been around forever, and it's. It's got a good story.

[Brian]

And number one, Mai would say that the three Elf Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. Well, jockey for position in my heart. A Christmas Story is the sentimental favorite. I think this is a.

[Chrissy]

It's a great one. Leg lamp.

[Brian]

Yeah, the leg lamp.

[Chrissy]

Fragile.

[Brian]

Fragile.

[Chrissy]

It must be Italian.

[Brian]

Yeah. Such a quotable movie, y'all. Shoot your eye out, Ken.

[Chrissy]

Yep.

[Brian]

Such a Quotable movie and the story of a Christmas story. The movie itself is just, I think, as charming as the actual movie, which is this was a book that was written back in the 30s or 40s, I think, about the writer's childhood and kind of a fictionalized version of his Christmases and how he really wanted this Red Rider BB gun. His mom said, you'll shoot your eye out. And he grew up in Cincinnati, I think it was Cincinnati, Ohio. Somewhere in Ohio. And so the movie gets made after the book kind of banters around for a couple of decades trying to find the right writer and director. The movie finally gets made in the early, early 80s, I think it was 1983. And it is a flop at the movie theaters, basically. Not a flop, but it doesn't do very well at the movie theaters until a burgeoning network cable network called TBS decides what can we do for Christmas? It's not going to cost us a lot of money, but might get people to tune in.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And they start running it. They run it on a loop for 24 hours and. And the rest, as they say, is history. As a bunch of children my age and younger and older decided that was the movie that we were going to watch because it was on, just on a loop. So you could essentially, you could do anything. You could go and eat some Christmas cookies and come back and it was on again. And it just got embedded into our minds. And now it is a Christmas classic. I think there will other Christmas movies will come along for other generations, but for our generation, for a large, like a 20 year period, that was the Christmas tradition that made us. Your mom hated it.

[Chrissy]

She hated it.

[Brian]

Why?

[Chrissy]

I don't know. It just would run all that, you know, it would just run over and over again. I think after a while she just hated that movie.

[Brian]

She just.

[Chrissy]

Plus, I think as a kid, if you watched it while when you were a kid, you kind of like identified with the kid a little bit. Yeah, yeah. So I think that kind of, you know, stuck.

[Brian]

I think it reminded me a little bit of growing up in Chicago. The snowy winters, the being bundled up, the, you know, growing up in 1942, you know, the kind of things that I did.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

But it's because it's so quotable and the lines are sparse but funny. And you can get it as an adult and you can get it as a kid. I think that's why we as children started to really identify with it. And even though the toys that they are obsessing about were nothing like the toys we Were obsessing about. There's something charming about this. Has. This is less about the Christmas spirit and more about what Christmas really was about when we were kids. No matter what you thought, which was getting a present, getting that present that you wanted. And then when you're an adult, you see that this really becomes about parenting children and how you. How these moments are special and how they're fleeting and how they come. And so as a parent, I have a new appreciation for it. However, my children do not have an appreciation for it. They don't like that movie whatsoever.

[Christina]

Yeah, I've never even seen it.

[Brian]

You've never seen A Christmas Story?

[Huckleberry]

Wow.

[Christina]

I know. That's weird.

[Brian]

I don't know.

[Christina]

I've seen it.

[Brian]

Where did you grow up? Scotland.

[Christina]

Same place we are right now.

[Brian]

Yeah. Yeah. But you've never seen A Christmas Story.

[Christina]

No, no. I think. I think just because it wasn't part of my, like, parents culture, it was very American. So I think it's just one of those things that we never really would have watched. But I did watch the Christmas special of a singing. The Singing Kettle.

[Brian]

The Singing Kettle? Yeah. What in the fuck is the singing kettle?

[Christina]

It's like, it's a British, like children's sing along TV show. Oh, it's like a live performance, though. It's cool.

[Brian]

It's a live performance with puppets and stuff. Yeah, that's okay.

[Christina]

No, with people.

[Brian]

Oh, with people.

[Christina]

Yeah. They do a sing along show. Like a singing show. It's like spout, handle, lid of metal. What's inside the singing kettle?

[Brian]

Oh, very interesting. Okay, now I'm seeing it has some.

[Christina]

Great classic hits like you canny shove your granny off a bus. Bus.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Christina]

Which is a good song.

[Brian]

You can shove your granny off a bus.

[Christina]

No, you can't. But the song goes, you can shove your dad's mom off a bus, I think, but you can't shove your mom's mom off a bus.

[Brian]

Well, that's fair.

[Christina]

And then every time after you say, like, you can you shove your granny off a bus? You go, push, Push.

[Brian]

Wow.

[Christina]

Isn't that silly?

[Brian]

It is very silly. And so I'm glad I didn't grow up in Scotland. I will say that my children have. Speaking of silly songs, my children, I have introduce them to grandma got run over by a reindeer, which is a Christmas classic. And so now they are running around the house saying, grandma got run over by a reindeer, which the Venezuelans don't understand.

[Chrissy]

No, they don't.

[Brian]

No, they certainly don't. Okay, so we're Getting close to a break here. I want to remind you that each day during the 12 days of Christmas we are going to be asking or we're going to be telling you about a essentially a charity that we have done a little research on and we feel strongly are doing good work out there in society and we feel strongly that they should be supported in their mission. So Chrissy has chosen one. Chrissy, today you are choosing.

[Chrissy]

Yes, the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, the nbcc.

[Brian]

We will put a link up there on the show notes. The National Breast Cancer Coalition and their fund, they do good work. Apparently most of the money goes to the work that they are doing to support women and breast cancer research, help.

[Chrissy]

Find a vaccines, all kinds of stuff.

[Brian]

Yes. So yeah, a cause that is near and dear to. I know Chrissy's heart and my heart too. So check your tits, check your balls and support the foundations that are trying to find a cure for this extraordinarily terrible disease that affects many, many women and men. And men. That's true. If you know a man or a woman in your life, if you know a man or a woman in your life, it's likely you're going to know breast cancer at some point in your life. It is. So please go to the link in the show notes. We have not to do. We are not authorized by them. We are just saying this out loud that we would love it if you would go and visit and if you find it a worthy cause, please donate a few dollars this holiday season to support the women and men in your life who may or may not be affected by breast cancer. Yes. Okay, so that's it. So let's take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina]

In a shocking turn of events, it's me again, Christina, your producer and resident rom com lover here at the commercial break and I just have one thing to say. I'm just a producer standing in front of an audience asking you to follow us on Instagram hecommercial break and on TikTok CBP podcast, text us or call us and leave us a voicemail. Because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with tcb, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. And while you're at it, go to our website, tc bcbpodcast.com but you don't have to because we like you just as you are now if you immediately got those references, you're my kind of person. But it's time to take a break and listen to some sponsors and then we'll get back to the show.

[Brian]

This episode is sponsored by pre alcohol from ZBiotics. I am not one to imbibe a whole bunch anymore. I've got 13 to 15 children, checklists to get done and jobs to do. But even with with moderation, I don't bounce back like I used to from a night of drinking. I find myself having to make that choice. Can I have a great night or a great responsible day tomorrow? A tough choice to make indeed. That is, until I found pre alcohol. ZBiotics Pre alcohol Probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. It was invented by a PhD scientist to tackle rough mornings after drinking. And here's how it works. When you drink, alcohol gets converted into a toxic bipolar product in your gut. It's this byproduct, not dehydration, that's to blame for that rough next day. Free alcohol produces an enzyme to break down this byproduct. And just as long as you remember to take pre alcohol as your first drink of the night, then drink responsibly, you'll feel your best tomorrow. We've now been out for a few nights of drinking where pre alcohol is the first thing that I drink. Let me tell you when I can get up in the morning, take care of my 12 to 13 children, still record an episode of the commercial break, and make it to bedtime with a little bit of energy left in the tank to watch bad television. I know that pre alcohol has done its job. And with the holiday season upon us, I know I'm going to be consuming just a little bit more alcohol than usual. But with pre alcohol, I can stay on track and not let the holiday season throw me off course. Go to ZBiotics.com commercial to learn more and get 15 off your first order when you use the code COMMERCIAL at checkout. ZBiotics is backed by a 100% money back guarantee. So if you're unsatisfied for any reason, they'll refund your money, no questions asked. Remember to head to zbiotics.com commercial commercial and use the code COMMERCIAL at checkout for 15% off. Thank you to Zbiotics for being a sponsor of the commercial break and for making my mornings after drinking just a little bit easier. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Okay, the year is early 2000 and something and I got my first real office job at a company that was selling websites and search engine optimization. We came up with this pitch that the website was the business card of the Future and now 2020 something years later is not the business card for your business, it's just your business. And that's why I highly recommend Squarespace. It's an all in one website platform for entrepreneurs to succeed online. You don't have to be a programmer or a coder or a designer to develop your presence online. Just as unique as you and your business are three really important reasons why I believe Squarespace is the leader in this industry. Design Intelligence they combine two decades of industry leading design and expertise with cutting edge AI technology to unlock your strongest creative potential. Number 2 Squarespace payments this is the part that befuddles a lot of people who go out and try and build their own website. Onboarding is fast and simple and you can take payments from some of the most popular payment methods. Klarna Ach, Apple Pay afterpay, clearpay. If you're going to put your business online, people have to be able to pay you online. And number three, but no less important, SEO tools. If you want to be noticed, you have to be found. And with Squarespace's integrated SEO tools, every Squarespace website is optimized to be indexed with meta descriptions, an auto generated site map, and more. Check out squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're Ready to launch squarespace.com commercial to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. Again, squarespace.com commercial to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain using that code Commercial Thanks Squarespace for being a sponsor of the commercial break. This episode is sponsored in part by Live Nation. All right, you're a fan of the commercial break, so I know you're a fan of comedy. And good news for you, some of the best comedians in the world are touring right now. In my humble opinion, the best way to see comedy is to see it live. It's that energy in the room. It's the infectious laughter. It's the sense that someone is doing a high wire act right in front of your face and at any moment the train can come off the track tracks. And that is always just as entertaining as when your favorite comedian sets the room on fire. Nasser and I have become big fans of watching live comedy. Never once have we walked out of a comedy show regretting the $300 we're about to pay the teenage babysitter to obsessively text her boyfriend and doomscroll on Instagram. Never once. Let me punch up a few of the comedians I know are on tour right now. There's the ever lovely Sarah Silverman, Hilarious. Brian Reegan, Chelsea Handler, who I kind of have a crush on, Sarah Milliken, Kevin Hart, the always funny Atsuko Okatsuka, and the literal man of the hour, Sebastian Maniscalco. If that guy doesn't give you a tickle, you just don't own a funny bone. There are all kind of live shows, there are all kind of venues, and there are all flavors of comedy. So head over to livenation.comcomedy to get your tickets today. That's livenation.comcomedy. times are tough. The entire world's stressed out. You deserve it. Go see some live comedy. Live nation.com comedy. And thanks to Live Nation for being a sponsor of another kind of comedy show, the commercial break. Okay, the 12 days of TCB. And we are reviewing 12 of our favorite news events, content, ideas, guests, all. We've we reviewed guests yesterday and now we're going to get into some meat and potatoes. Chrissy. We did this in 2023 and we did this in 2022. We did a little year in review and we kept that. We managed for one episode on those other two years, but this year we stretched it out to 12 hours of TCV. Hey, why not bigger, better and more complicated than ever. So this year we're reviewing some of our favorite content as we've done before. And no year would be complete without discussing one of our favorite the mountain monsters in our lives. We love the mountain monsters. What a ridiculous premise. What an absolutely ridiculous show that really has taken the world by storm. Quite frankly, there are so many people.

[Chrissy]

Who like this show and it's been on for forever.

[Brian]

I think they're on season number 27 or something. They have to be good for Buck. I agree. At this point, I'm rooting for him. You know what I'm saying? So Buck and Huck and Chuck and. And all the guys that are in the group that and the gang. But before we get to reviewing a mountain monsters for our second day of the 12 days of TCB, I wanted to ask you if you've ever heard of any. Are there any holiday monsters that you have heard of besides Krampus? Are there any holiday monsters that you know?

[Chrissy]

Holiday monsters, I mean, Grinch, I guess, is one.

[Brian]

Well, I mean, any but, like, monsters that might actually exist.

[Chrissy]

Oh. Oh, no.

[Brian]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

I'm not familiar with a lot of them. Christmas monsters.

[Brian]

You've never heard of the Merry. The Merry l. The Merry Lil. Yes, The Christmas zombie horror. All right, here it is. The macabre skeleton mayor of the Welsh tradition. Rises from the dead and wanders the streets with her attendants who are fresh from the grave. To remind the living of their existence. Mary. Lwyd. Lwyd. L, W, Y D. They should put some vowels in there. L, W, Y, D. L WID has only one goal in mind, and that is to get in your house. To keep the zombie horse out, you must engage in a battle with the zombie horse. Yes.

[Chrissy]

I thought you said zombie whore.

[Brian]

No. Oh, the zombie whores. That's a whole different. I met one of those on Christmas Eve. They met the mirror on the side of my car. To keep the zombie horse out, you must engage in a battle of wits. In rhyme, no less. Usually on New Year's Eve where the undead mare is represented by a puppeteer parading a horse skull on a pole draped in a white cloth. Sounds like a ton of fun.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

That is so weird. Weird. The Babushka Chrissy. In Italy, Russia and parts of Europe, we encounter a witch like lady rooted in the fairy tale figure of Mother Holy who doles out punishments for the lazy and riches for the hard working. In Italy she is known as Le Befanya and in Russia, the Babushka. Each January she packs up and sets off on a broomstick to join the three kings who are seeking the Christ child. She searches every house and if she finds a child there, she leaves cookies and gifts behind. Well, that's the kind of babushka I like.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian]

Doesn't sound very scary. How about the straggle? Have you ever seen the Straggle? Look at that Christmas. Look at that forefinger. The straggle.

[Chrissy]

In many places, kind of possum like.

[Brian]

I know this one simply because I was in Switzerland for a while with Astrid and I had seen something on TV about this. In many places such as Switzerland, Perchta rides with a throng of demonic looking helpers known as Straggle who love to participate in the feast of offerings left out for them on Christmas by people hoping for purchase, blessing of wealth and health in the new year. In some places, Straggle get to dole out punishments themselves and aren't terribly discerning as they rob all the bad children and tear them to pieces flying through the air. Oh, nothing like the straggler. Don't be a straggler. That is scary.

[Chrissy]

That is scary.

[Brian]

Jesus, people are weird. People are weird. How about the Belschnickel? In some German and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. Bellschnickel. The Bell Snickel shows up a couple weeks before Christmas, filthy and dressed in rags. And furs. Like my mom used to dress me up for Halloween. To beat children who have misbehaved. In 1872, a Philadelphia newspaper recounted Mr. Belsnickle his personal appearance. Dressed in skins. Skins or old claws. His face black. A bell, a whip, Silence of the Lambs and a pocket full of cakes or nuts. And either the cakes or nuts or the whip are bestowed upon those around. Back in the 19th century, it was popular for rowdy revelers to go bell snicking and get drunk, vandalize the city, whip children and play planks. What the fuck?

[Chrissy]

That's awful.

[Brian]

Back when different kind of corporal punishment. Back when it was fun and there were no consequences. Unbelievable.

[Chrissy]

Drunk adults whipping children.

[Brian]

One more here. One more here, Chrissy. Then gorilla. The G R Y L A the gorilla. One of Iceland's most renowned figures associated with Christmas. The gorilla is a giant troll who is in a perpetual bad mood due to their insatiable hunger.

[Chrissy]

They have a thing in the trolls over there.

[Brian]

They do. It's one of those things they. They swear they see. They believe in them. So they're in a perpetual bad mood due to their insatiable hunger. This sounds like both of my children and my wife. Each Christmas gorilla comes down from her mountain dwelling to hunt for naughty children. She places them in a sack, drags them back to her cave where she boils them alive for her favorite stew.

[Chrissy]

That's one way to make your kids behave.

[Brian]

Oh, and she has 13 sons called the Yule Lads. There you go. That's where the Yule logs come from. The Yule Lads.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Oh my God, that's terrible.

[Christina]

Hottest new boy band.

[Brian]

We wish you a merry Christmas. We tear apart your small children.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

And eat them for lunch.

[Chrissy]

Boil them.

[Brian]

Yeah, we boil them alive. All right. But listen, the Mountain Munsters know better than to talk about eating children on their show. They want to get rid ratings. So the mountain monsters are out it again. Chrissy and I just thought because we have done so many mountain monsters over the years, in 2024, we've done the fewest amount of mountain monsters that we have since the show started in our five year history. Four year, four and a half year history. This has been the year where we've addressed the mountain monsters the least. Maybe we should have done more of them, the Mountain Monsters. But it's still one of my favorite. I think we have to agree, and I think the audience agrees also that the Mountain Monster is classic tcb. There are now whole podcasts dedicated to making fun of the Mountain monsters.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

And it makes me wonder. Let's take the good part of TCB and let's just do that all the time.

[Chrissy]

Smart idea.

[Brian]

Smart idea. I wish we had done that cow killing.

[Huckleberry]

Bastard.

[Brian]

Exactly. All right, so here the mountain monsters are. There's no preface on this particular video except to say that the mountain monsters are literally in a nightmare. So let's see. Okay, let's see what happens. Here we go.

[Huckleberry]

You guys notice that no one said one single word for the last hour?

[Brian]

You guys notice that I just said some words, and those were the only words we said for the entire hour. Now you're gonna make me believe that these four yellers, screamers, and yappers didn't say a word for an hour?

[Chrissy]

Something's a mess.

[Brian]

Yeah, Videoer. Didn't happen a lot on our minds, Buck.

[Huckleberry]

Well, guys, I'm none too thrilled to be heading to Ash County, North Carolina.

[Brian]

No, nothing good happens in Ash County, North Carolina.

[Chrissy]

That's what I've heard.

[Brian]

Yeah. Got a lot of things on our mind, Buck. It's Christmas, the kids are out of control, Got to pay for private school, and I don't know what to wear. This year's Emmys.

[Huckleberry]

This is a place that I never thought I'd see again. I keep dwelling on what can happen.

[Brian]

After I took a hot in the local waffle house, I thought they'd run me out for good.

[Huckleberry]

Keep dwelling on what has happened. This rogue team's drawn us in here for whatever reason it may be. I'm not sure. But the other thing is we got a badass Bigfoot to steal in these woods. I'll guarantee.

[Brian]

Yeah, we got a badass bigfoot.

[Chrissy]

Oh, there's a picture.

[Brian]

Hey, there he is. Wow, that's. I've never seen something so realistic. Chrissy, look at that picture. That's straight out of a canon rebel eso 7.

[Huckleberry]

All I can think about whenever I think about that that red shed is the Cherokee devil. I can't even think about the rope team, whether they're in.

[Brian]

Oh, I can think about the Cherokee devil. Chrissy, you ain't never seen the Cherokee devil.

[Chrissy]

How do they keep up with all the names of these different creatures?

[Brian]

He's down by the wagon post, Chrissy. Or the red shed, as they called it. That's because my red rocket comes out every time I get in that red shed. That's where the local gals go to make a few extra bucks. Some people have lonely fans. We have the red shed ratchet trying.

[Huckleberry]

To draw us in for an ambush or whatever the hell they're setting up.

[Brian]

Ambush, ambush. Of course they know ain't like anheuser.

[Huckleberry]

Bush that this Cherokee devil's going to be on the back of our head the minute we walk in them woods. Try to get our minds right, get focused on what we have ahead.

[Brian]

Yeah, they're going to pull over and meditate. Yeah. Get our heads right. You got to get in the right mindset before the big game. You can't go off willy nilly into Ash County, North Carolina without getting your head right. Let's pull over and smoke a little Mountain Dew. Meth. Before we get into the game, shall.

[Huckleberry]

We try to find out why this rogue team wants us back to that little red shed?

[Brian]

What is a rotine? You know, roti is a certain kind of food they make traditional holiday food in Venezuela. The roti.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Brian]

I don't think that's what they're saying. I think they're saying rotine. If they're taking rotines to the red shed. We might want to censor this episode before it cells starts. Scary, scary sound effects. That's my favorite is that they just. They just don't sound effect over sound.

[Chrissy]

They do.

[Brian]

But my favorite is when that. That whatever wild cat.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Huckleberry]

We just got North Carolina. We came here straight from Trappers.

[Chrissy]

Trappers?

[Brian]

Yeah, Trap Trappers. It's a local bar. Chrissy, we found our. We found Billy down there.

[Chrissy]

I bet Billy was there.

[Brian]

I'm sorry guys. I just can't take it anymore. We've been done chasing these monsters for a long time and ain't seen my wife wants me to get a real job. I like how it said night two of the investigation.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Investigation indicates that, you know, you're actually doing serious investigating.

[Chrissy]

Well, just drop a headlamp on. Oh, that makes it real.

[Brian]

I don't think this is the first thing Buck is strapped on. I'm just saying I bet Buck likes pegging.

[Huckleberry]

Pretty quiet drive. Long drive. The thoughts never crossed my mind. I'm coming back in these woods somewhere. I've never wanted to.

[Brian]

Bring in the base boys.

[Chrissy]

They're going back.

[Huckleberry]

And yet here I am. You brought extra firepower tonight, I see.

[Brian]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I brought me an AK47. If we decide to shoot anything, I'm going to be ready. But we haven't really shot Anything in the 72 seasons of Mountain Monsters.

[Huckleberry]

Ready?

[Brian]

Balls.

[Huckleberry]

Yeah, but other team thinks they're going to get us in that shed and ambush us. They're going to find out why I'm.

[Brian]

Parked I'm going to tell you what's going to happen down. Down there. They think you're going to ambush out. They got nothing. I got a water pistol. 4000 here. Scorching water. 72ft in the air from three states.

[Huckleberry]

And two county fairs. Until we can find out.

[Brian]

What did he say? Did he said two states and three county fairs?

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian]

Oh, funnel cakes. What's he talking about?

[Huckleberry]

Who these people are and what they want. We're never going to be able to fully prove that Bigfoot exists.

[Brian]

Oh, wait, hold on. They're talking about people. They're ready to go meet people and they're bringing loaded guns. So now we've just turned into. Ash county is just lawless. You just bring your guns. Ready for a gunfight. It's. This is the real Hadfield and McCoys right here. Yeah.

[Huckleberry]

Right now we have to focus 100% on this rogue team. Yeah.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Huckleberry]

However, the devil lives in them woods. Yeah.

[Brian]

Yes, he does.

[Huckleberry]

And we're going right in there with.

[Chrissy]

A rogue team and a bigfoot.

[Brian]

There's a rogue team and a bigfoot and Satan is protecting them all. But luckily we have water. What look like real guns, but are probably water pistols prepared at any moment to go firing upon anything that moves in the woods. Because that is both legal and reasonable to film a reality television show.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

First of all. Second of all, who are these camera. If there's any reality to this, who are these camera guys agreeing to just go behind armed men who are ready to shoot at the rogue team? The rogue team of who?

[Huckleberry]

It's not something that I prefer to do. There's only one way to find out what they want and what they're.

[Brian]

By the way, they're working with a skeleton crew today.

[Chrissy]

Well, that's what I was saying. I'm thinking maybe that the other half of them. Maybe that's the rogue team. Oh, maybe.

[Brian]

I don't know. You think they've been divided?

[Chrissy]

I don't know. There's only three.

[Brian]

Well, listen, when Satan is running through the woods, he's bound to catch a couple of you. Right?

[Huckleberry]

And that's to head right back to that little red shed.

[Brian]

Yep, Yep.

[Huckleberry]

Let's do it.

[Brian]

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Chrissy]

The red dead.

[Huckleberry]

I don't know what lies ahead of us.

[Brian]

I think they've. I think they've cocked their guns 12 times. Yeah. Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck. What's that? I want more gun loading sound effects, please.

[Chrissy]

And they look so fit. Oh, there go chasing after things.

[Brian]

Listen, when you think about guys you want Running after Satan. You think about Huck Chuck, and it.

[Huckleberry]

Could be an ambush. It could be a fist fight. It could be a gunfight. I don't know. But what I do know is in these woods, as the Cherokee Devil, he still haunts me every day.

[Chrissy]

The red eyes.

[Brian]

The red eyes? Yeah, the red glowing eyes. Well, listen, to be fair, if there is a red devil, probably gonna have glowing eyes.

[Huckleberry]

Does this look familiar, guys? Oh, yeah. Hell, yes.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah, it does.

[Brian]

I think we're a couple yards down from the qt. I used to smoke cigarettes here after high school. Oh, what? No. Okay. All right, I'll shut up.

[Huckleberry]

Guys, we found that totem pole laying down right there in that brush.

[Brian]

A totem pole?

[Chrissy]

A totem pole.

[Brian]

A totem pole. Yes, a totem pole. We found a totem pole hole. We're now mixing Indian ufology with our. Yeah, with our monsters. Okay, fair enough. Hey, listen, to be fair, Indians did believe in a lot of this shit, too. That looks like something straight out of Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World, Florida. That was the fakest looking totem pole I've ever seen. It's Huckleberry. Oh, my God. See? Oh, wow. You are right, Christy.

[Chrissy]

Huckleberry.

[Brian]

Huckleberry is naked in the rain.

[Chrissy]

Oh, no.

[Brian]

Oh, wow. Oh, my God. I gotta take my hat off for this. I cannot believe this. The band is broken up and three of them are on the side of Satan. Oh, no. And he's dressed in a hula hoop or a hula skirt or whatever you call those things.

[Christina]

He looks like Mr. Tumnus. Like, you know what he's wearing? Some, like. I don't know, he's covered in mud or something.

[Brian]

It looks like he's wearing a grass skirt. What happened? It looks like he got.

[Chrissy]

I don't know, he's crouched.

[Brian]

It honestly looks like he got lost in a Polynesian resort costume department. Is he.

[Huckleberry]

Huckleberry?

[Brian]

Huckleberry.

[Chrissy]

Oh, my God. Poor Huckleberry. Is this a flashback? What is happening?

[Brian]

This is a flashback.

[Chrissy]

That was a flashlight, baby. To where? They were there before.

[Brian]

They were there before.

[Chrissy]

We didn't see part one for a second time.

[Brian]

We didn't see part one. We're catching up on part two, but now we think we're understanding that the team has literally been split up. The guys are no longer working as one. They are two. So there's.

[Chrissy]

Are they ever.

[Brian]

Well, I. Hey, listen, Chrissy, far be it from me to get in the minds of genius. I don't know. I'm just a mere mortal. I Can't talk about all these, the comings and goings of the mountain monsters. But I will tell you this much. This is going to be an interesting episode. If these guys are fighting against each other dead drawers.

[Huckleberry]

Maybe we'll find them tonight, Huck. And if we want them now.

[Brian]

It's. It's the teacher from the Peanuts.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Huckleberry]

The trail's still active. Hey, guys, see them trees right there, Guys? Right here.

[Brian]

Oh, the boat trees.

[Huckleberry]

Yeah. The ben over tre.

[Brian]

Branches on the ground in a forest. Yes. This. This trail is still active, boys. I don't even know what that means. It's still active. All right. I think this is a good place to stop. We'll take a break and then, you know. But I do want to remind people that we are focusing a little bit today on one of an organization that's near and dear to Chrissy's heart, the National Breast Cancer Coalition. We'll put link down inside of the show notes. If you're feeling in the holiday spirit and you'd like to save some tatas and some lives, go ahead and donate to the nbcc. We're going to give a direct link. We are not getting in the middle of this. You go there, you donate what you will. That's between you, God and the nbcc. We'll take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina]

In case you guys were wondering, I am currently trapped in the closet in the studio being forced to record liner after liner and I never get to leave. So help me by following us on Instagram at thecommercial break and on TikTok CBP podcast and go to our website tcbpodcast.com for more information about Brian and Chrissy and access to our massive catalog of video and audio episodes. Now, please text us at 212-4333, TCB. And tell Brian and Chrissy to let me out of the closet.

[Brian]

This Christmas. Give the gift that truly keeps on giving. A lifetime membership to Rosetta Stone. It's perf. Anyone looking to learn or improve their language skills and deepen their connections and open a world of experiences. Imagine being able to converse with family members in their native language or making the most of that dream international holiday trip. With that in mind, there's no better.

[Christina]

Tool than Rosetta Stone, the most trusted.

[Brian]

Language learning program available on desktop and mobile. Rosetta Stone immerses you in the language so you truly learn to think, speak and understand it naturally.

[Christina]

With Rosetta Stone's intuitive approach, there are no English translation.

[Brian]

Congratulations.

[Christina]

You're fully immersed and the built in True accent feature acts like a personal.

[Brian]

Accent coach, giving you real time feedback to make sure you sound just right. Don't put off learning that language. There's no better time than right now to get started. Today listeners can get Rosetta Stone's lifetime.

[Christina]

Membership for 50% off.

[Brian]

Visit rosettastone.com Rs10 that's 50% off. Unlimited access to 25 language courses for the rest of your Life. Redeem your 50% off at rosettastone.com RS10today for yourself or as a gift that keeps giving At Alma. We know the connection between you and your therapist matters, but if you're already feeling stressed and burnt out, the idea of trying to find a therapist you really connect with can be overwhelming. That's why Alma's focused on helping you find the right therapist for you. When you browse their online directory, you can filter your search based on the qualities that are most important to you. Then you can book a free 15 minute consultation call with any therapist you're interested in. See, so you can get a feel for whether they're the right fit before you commit to a full length session. Alma also makes it easy for mental health care providers to navigate insurance. That's why 95% of therapists in their directory accept insurance for sessions, so you can find care that's affordable without stressing about the paperwork. You want to talk to someone, but not just anyone. Alma is there to help you find the right fit. Visit helloalma.com therapy60 to schedule a free consultation today. That's hello a lma.com therapy60 all right, we're back here with our boys, the mountain monsters who apparently Satan has divided so he can conquer. They are in the woods of Ash, North Carolina. I've never heard of Ash, North Carolina. I haven't either, but I get. Is it near Asheville? Could be North Carolina. Makes some sense, huh? They just ran out of names. So they put a ville on the end of ash. There's ash and then there's the ville of ash. Okay, there you go. Huck, buck, Chuck and Fuck. There's one team of three. It's Chuck or huck Buck. And who is it?

[Chrissy]

Huckleberry.

[Brian]

Huck, Buck and Huckleberry. And then you've got the other guys, the one that screams. And the other guys, they're all on the other side doing something. So they're running through the woods chasing each other with loaded guns, I might add, you former teammates, soon to be murdered by their former teammates.

[Huckleberry]

Fresh. Yes, it is. That's real fresh. That's some definite bigfoot sign, right?

[Brian]

How do you know it's fresh? Like a branch is fresh when it's falling on the ground? I mean, I'm sure there's a way to tell, but how does one acquire those skills? I guess when you spend all your time by the creek in the wacking tree, you know, when a fresh stick is, you can tell that's a fresh stick, Chrissy. There.

[Huckleberry]

This is so fresh, the limbs want to start degrees leaves. Look where you picked this log up.

[Brian]

And set it on top of it to hold it down.

[Huckleberry]

Look at that.

[Chrissy]

Look at that.

[Brian]

That looks like a fallen tree to me. But I guess that's where I guess he knows he's clued into some special investigatory powers allow him to know that bigfoot has picked up the log and thrown it on the ground. And it's fresh. It's still active, Chrissy. This is still an active investigation. Yeah, they can't give us much information yet, but they do know they're hot on the trail.

[Huckleberry]

Without a doubt, Bigfoot's on. He's still here, guys. The bigfoot that actually grabbed me is still right here.

[Chrissy]

Of course, something quickly happens.

[Brian]

Yes. Oh, did you see that? Right where I stopped it. They seem to have a photograph of a small miniature bigfoot. Yeah, look like a miniature bigfoot. Look like a child in a bigfoot costume. Oh, they're going to shoot. Oh, got their guns out.

[Huckleberry]

Come on, Jeff, get on your feet. That tree just come down. Yes, it did.

[Brian]

Right behind. Come on, Jeff, get on your feet. In case we have to outrun the seven and a half foot red eyed bigfoot with claws that'll tear into human flesh. We can do this quick. That weight watchers is paying off now, Jeff.

[Huckleberry]

I don't see anything.

[Brian]

Holy.

[Huckleberry]

He's here.

[Brian]

We're standing there looking at those ben over trees.

[Huckleberry]

Then all of a sudden the biggest.

[Brian]

Tree in this forest falls over right behind us.

[Huckleberry]

This cherokee devil tried to knock us out. We're right here at hysterical forest.

[Brian]

Luckily he did not. We came mere inches from certain death. Oh my God.

[Chrissy]

Biggest tree in the forest.

[Brian]

The biggest tree in the forest fell. Only we didn't capture it on camera, unfortunately. But that is fresh. Chrissy. I will tell you, if a tree falls right next to you, that's a fresh fall.

[Huckleberry]

Go, Jeff, go.

[Brian]

I'm going. Let's go back. Let's go.

[Huckleberry]

Stay together. You guys there? Yeah, I'm here.

[Brian]

Yeah, we're here. Did you just do this, buck? You guys there? All those lights and Cameras behind me. Are those you?

[Huckleberry]

No, you do that. No, wait, look at this. This is.

[Brian]

Oh my God. They're literally pointing to a branch.

[Chrissy]

Like the tiniest branch. Like the tiniest branch ever.

[Brian]

Look at this.

[Huckleberry]

Broke off. This is. That's what I'm saying that this is human sign. Yeah. If this was that Cherokee devil, he's tall. His face would have been right here. He'd have broke this out of his way.

[Brian]

This isn't that a branch you just walked by. And I don't mean to throw shade or anything, but you're a big boy. If you walk, you're gonna break a few tiny little branches. So he walks by the twig of a tree. I mean we're talking like. Yeah. With little tiny twig. The smallest of twigs blooming out of it. And he's pointing to one broken one. It's probably no longer than 3 inches long. And he's saying that because one is broken on the bottom but not on the top. That's a human sign and not the Cherokee Red Devil. What is it? The red rocket.

[Chrissy]

Cherokee Red rocket.

[Huckleberry]

That's human scientists. They've been here. They've been here. We think there might be somebody else out here. I don't know what they want.

[Chrissy]

Well, maybe it's not the other part of the team then. Cuz they would be calling them by their names.

[Brian]

Yeah, maybe they. Yeah, or calling them by their cell phones.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Huckleberry]

But we have to find out why this road team wants us to go to that little red ship. We have to keep pressing on. Right here. This exact where I stand and when I seen him.

[Brian]

How do you know that? By putting the butt of your gun on the ground. How do you know that's exactly where.

[Chrissy]

You are standing like a year ago too. Right. Or whenever he was there last.

[Brian]

These are some wild investigative like investigative techniques that I think should be shared with the rest of the country.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, they could be awful.

[Brian]

If you really could tell where someone was standing a year ago by putting the butt of your gun on the ground and going, this is exactly where it happened. It's almost like his gun was magnetically drawn to that point.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

It has a memory.

[Huckleberry]

I looked up and right at that grapefruit. He was standing right there.

[Brian]

It's all right, buddy.

[Chrissy]

Oh, he's got ptsd.

[Brian]

Yeah. We got to stop and cry for a moment. Let us all give a moment for Buck and the time when he was standing exactly right there, staring off at the vine and he saw the red eyed red rocket monster.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And it's tough to talk about, really. It's.

[Chrissy]

It's emotional.

[Brian]

It can be.

[Chrissy]

It can be Chrissy bringing up old memories.

[Brian]

It does, but I think it just might be the Taco Bell I had earlier. But just need a second. I'll be okay.

[Huckleberry]

They knew bringing us out here. Guys, I got a light.

[Brian]

Oh, wait, hold on. He was having a moment.

[Chrissy]

He was so rude.

[Brian]

Can we just get. Can we just let him have his moment?

[Chrissy]

He found a light, though.

[Huckleberry]

I just seen a flicker. Right straight through here. Turn your lights off. Turn your lights off.

[Brian]

Turn the lights off.

[Huckleberry]

Turn.

[Chrissy]

What about the camera lights?

[Brian]

Camera lights?

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Huckleberry]

You see red eyes, dark.

[Brian]

Look.

[Chrissy]

Don't look.

[Brian]

Don't look. Like.

[Chrissy]

Is it gonna turn you to stone, like Medusa?

[Brian]

Well, it hypnotizes you, Chrissy.

[Chrissy]

Okay?

[Brian]

That's really where you get the PTSD from. I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen red eyes from a red rocket ash monster, but it's. It can really send you. Yes. It's like, don't stare at the commercial brake sign either. Same thing happens.

[Huckleberry]

You got it?

[Brian]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Huckleberry]

Where? Where? Right behind right, Jeff. Look straight up the hill. You got to look real easy. You got to turn away and look.

[Brian]

Oh, what was that? I'm.

[Huckleberry]

Turn my light back on. I ain't playing this game. Don't let them get to you, Jeff. That's not them I'm worried about right now.

[Brian]

Come on now, guys. Come on, guys. Get our together. We're trying to kill the red rocket. If we kill the red rocket, we'll go down in fame. But right now, all you guys want to do is bicker and complain about your light bulbs. Turn them on, don't turn them on. Don't give a. Just don't look in his red rocket. You still stare at the red rocket. It's like a dog humping your leg. If you don't stare at him, he red rocket will go away. Put this together here, Jeff.

[Huckleberry]

There's someone there. Well, then let's hustle around there and find out. Let's get toe to toe with them. This rogue team's into psychological warfare.

[Brian]

They sent us back where we never.

[Huckleberry]

Wanted to go back to again, but we've.

[Brian]

Is that psychological warfare? Is that. Is that the definition?

[Chrissy]

And why have they sent them and.

[Brian]

Why have they agreed to go back?

[Chrissy]

Why? I know.

[Brian]

Yeah. What is the point? Guys, can I ask a question? I know you got episodes to make just like we do.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

But can I ask, why are we going back to the place where Buck almost got killed, putting him through all of this ptsd. Don't look at his eyes. And then you're claiming it's psychological warfare. You're the dum dums that decided to go back there. It's not like they're a rogue team. There's a rogue. Let the team be rogue.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

Let them go do their thing. You do your thing. There's plenty of room in Ash County. You don't have to go right back exactly to the city or Kentucky. Oh, the Kentucky seems to be your hunting grounds. Why not go back there? A man up and go to that little red shed. That's what I say. Take a break. Get the anheuser bush and go back to the red shed.

[Huckleberry]

There it is.

[Brian]

What? What? I don't see what happened. Where'd it go? Everyone's crying now. I don't know what's going on.

[Huckleberry]

The emotions are overwhelming. Right where I'm standing at. I look over and that's where I seen that little Cherokee girl. Whoa. Look, look.

[Chrissy]

Cherokee girl.

[Brian]

A Cherokee girl.

[Huckleberry]

Do you see that?

[Brian]

Do you see that? How's that?

[Huckleberry]

Little Wendy?

[Brian]

Oh, he's in love.

[Huckleberry]

Where'd she go? Where'd she go? She was right here.

[Chrissy]

They're flashing back.

[Brian]

They're flashing back. When he was there. Yes, before, in the red shed. There was a Cherokee girl that he fell in love with briefly, but she ran off. She ghosted him. They connected on Tinder or Grinder. I'm not sure which one it was. But they connected. And all Buck wanted was just a moment, moment more with the Cherokee girl. And who doesn't, quite frankly, Chris? But yet, Nay, she was gone. Off in the wind. Probably eaten by the, you know, redhead. Red.

[Chrissy]

The red devil.

[Brian]

Red devil.

[Huckleberry]

Where'd she go? All right.

[Chrissy]

Oh.

[Brian]

Oh, God.

[Chrissy]

Bugs throwing up.

[Brian]

What's going on there? Geez.

[Chrissy]

That's not gagging.

[Brian]

Yeah, that's not a sight for anybody to see. God, please pull out your airplane bag.

[Huckleberry]

Come on, P.

[Chrissy]

I thought that was like a baby making noise or something.

[Brian]

I don't know. Maybe it's a burrito baby or something. Poor Buck.

[Huckleberry]

Keep with him, Jeff. Keep with him. I'm gonna keep an eye out right now.

[Brian]

I'm gonna keep an eye on him. You go get the seven and a half foot red devil. I'll stay here. Yeah, what is it? You're like at a. What is a bachelor party in Nashville. I'll stay here. You go back and make sure we get the boys phone numbers.

[Huckleberry]

I'm really Concerned about my little buddy Buck. He's having a hard time to get through this, but deep down, I know he's going to push himself cuz he knows this has to be done.

[Brian]

What has to be done? What is pushing you so hard to get.

[Chrissy]

I don't know.

[Brian]

You got. There's an episode in the can somewhere.

[Chrissy]

Look at his face.

[Brian]

I know. Look at his face. All that fake throwing up's got him upset.

[Huckleberry]

I'm sorry, guys. No, you be sorry. Not at all.

[Brian]

The longer we stand, there is some love between.

[Chrissy]

Absolutely.

[Brian]

You know, there's some compassion. They're just a bunch of friends trying to chase deadly creatures through the woods of Asheville here.

[Huckleberry]

And look at this shed. The harder it's going to be to go in it. So there's only one thing left to do. It's time to do it. All right, Buck, Jeff, you stay with him. All right, you stay close, Huck, I'll be right behind you guys.

[Brian]

Do you think they're, like, in a pitch meeting and they go, you know what we should do? Make a big drama about that Cherokee girl that ghosted you that one time and make it emotional for to go back to the Red Shed? And do you think. Not only do you think that there's like a pitch meeting where they have to write all of this out, but then do you think that there are people out there somewhere in cable television land who actually are buying into the drama that Buck has to, you know, go and face his demons at the Red Shed in Ash, North Carolina?

[Chrissy]

I think so.

[Brian]

You think so?

[Chrissy]

I think there's some people out there that might believe it.

[Brian]

There's a lot of people in this world. Some of them are not. Well, right, Okay. I do believe that there's. But I don't believe it's a majority of the audience.

[Chrissy]

No.

[Brian]

If the comments underneath the YouTube videos are any indication, most people take it like we do. It's a good comedy show if you watch it that way. And. And it's funny. You know, it can be really funny. But there are some comments under there where, you know, people are really into this show and they hang on every scene.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Huckleberry]

This could be an ambush, guys.

[Brian]

Oh, yes.

[Huckleberry]

Oh, my gosh. We got.

[Brian]

We got.

[Huckleberry]

What the hell you got.

[Brian]

What is this?

[Huckleberry]

How do they know my real name?

[Brian]

Oh, and that's the end. We might have to find the second part to that. He walked in the shed. Did you see that, Christina? That was crazy. Christine is blown away. She can't believe it.

[Christina]

This is like one of the first times I've actually seen the video. Yeah, I was giggling.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian]

This is funny for me. This is high entertainment. If you screw the 12 days of TCB. If you really want to have some.

[Chrissy]

Fun this Christmas, go America.

[Brian]

Put yourself on a marathon of the mountain monsters. Nothing gets you in the Christmas spirit like the red rocket. But what happened was he went back to the shed where he had seen the Cherokee girl. And when he walked inside of the shed, there were a bunch of manila envelopes tacked to the wall with all of their real names.

[Chrissy]

That looked pretty pret. Professional, actually. It's typed out and everything.

[Christina]

I mean, red rocket printer.

[Brian]

Exactly. I know. Yeah. I don't think it was a red rocket. Well, listen, maybe we'll find out, maybe we won't. Stay tuned to the 12 days of TCB.

[Chrissy]

We're on the edge of our seat.

[Brian]

It wouldn't be a year in review without our mountain monsters. That's all I gotta say. I love it. I love.

[Chrissy]

I know.

[Brian]

I love the boys.

[Chrissy]

They're a good group.

[Brian]

I wonder if they do an episode, like a holiday episode. Do they chase holiday monster? They should. If they don't, they should. I'll look into that. I'll see if it is. I'll see if we can't do that.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Sometime shortly after the 12 days of TCB. All right, Chrissy. The NBCC, the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, will put in a link to their official website. Website, where you can donate directly to them in the show notes. If you could be so kind as to do that. It is a cause that's near and dear to our hearts. We certainly would appreciate it. I know Chrissy would. I would. And hey, if you have tits, check them. That's all I gotta say. Men and women. Because it does affect men. Also, men do get breast cancer. And at a more alarming rate, I think, than ever before. I was reading. So There you go. TCB, podcast.com. that's where you go to find more information about the show. All the audio, all the video, which includes now every episode of the commercial break, is available on video on the website YouTube.com the commercial break, and soon Spotify video, if it's not up there already. It'll be up there soon. And those episodes, just to let you know, get released a day or two after they get released on the audio feed. Can't cannibalize our own, you know, sponsors, Chrissy, because we don't have.

[Chrissy]

Right, yeah, exactly.

[Brian]

We don't have many. We got to keep them around. 212-433-TCB 2124333822 questions, comments? Concerns? Content? Ideas? We're taking them all right there. You can call. Leave us a voicemail or text message that phone number and we will get back to you. We promise. Promise. I don't know when, but we'll get back to you sometime soon. Ask tcb. We might get to that in sometime in the year 2025. Ask TCB is on the list of 12 days of TCB. Okay, so there you go. Do a little foreshadowing for you.

[Chrissy]

Chrissy.

[Brian]

Nice again. YouTube.com the Commercial Break subscribe like and comment on your favorite videos. Add the commercial break on Instagram TCB podcast on TikTok. At least for right now on TikTok. We'll see what happens in a couple of days. TikTok might go away. You never know. Yeah, okay, Chrissy. I guess that's all I can do for now.

[Chrissy]

I think so.

[Brian]

But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy]

I love you.

[Brian]

Best to you.

[Chrissy]

Best to you.

[Brian]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until tomorrow. We always say, we do say. And we must say goodbye when it comes to hiring, don't search for a great talent match with them thanks to Indeed. Indeed is your matching and hiring platform with over 350 million global monthly visitors, according to Indeed data, and a matching engine that helps you find qualified candidates fast. And Indeed doesn't just help you hire faster. 93% of employers agree Indeed delivers the highest quality matches compared to other job sites, according to a recent Indeed survey, leveraging over 140 million qualifications and preferences every every day. Indeed's matching engine is constantly learning from your preferences, so the more you use Indeed the better it gets. Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide that use Indeed to hire great talent fast. Just go to indeed.com listen right now and listeners of this show will get a 75 sponsored job credit. To get your jobs more visibility, go to indeed.com listen and tell them you heard about them from this podcast. Terms and Conditions Today's podcast is sponsored by Midi Health. At any given time, 61% of adult women say they want to lose weight. But for many, that's easier said than done. If you've had trouble losing weight, don't lose hope. Midi Health uses a deep understanding of women's hormones and a combination of weight loss medications to create a customized plan for each user. Midi Health can help you achieve more effective and sustainable weight loss by addressing hormone imbalance. MIDI can also prescribe proven weight loss medications that help you experience reduced appetite and increased feelings of fullness. When paired with hormone optimization, you're not just managing your weight, you're also supporting your body's natural processes, which means you can overcome those weight loss plateaus that in the past have been so difficult to move beyond. So if you're ready to combine the power of hormones with the power of weight loss medication, visit join MIDI.com today. Discover how this innovative approach can lead you to lasting success. That's Join m I d I.com that.

[Huckleberry]

Cow killing bastard.

[Brian]

Have no family to celebrate Christmas with this year. The commercial break is live the entire holiday season to make you even more miserable than you currently are. So put your Christmas pajamas on, gather around the Christmas tree, and listen to brand new episodes of the Commercial Break.