TCB'S Endless Day... Ends! #12

Summary

The Commercial Break – “TCB’s Endless Day… Ends! #12”

Date: June 1, 2025
Hosts: Brian Green & Krista Joy Hoadley
Episode Theme: The “Endless Day” marathon closes—a celebration of five chaotic, humorous years and 750+ episodes, with heartfelt thanks, inside stories, and a peek at the road ahead.

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Overview

This special episode captures the winding down of TCB’s “Endless Day” podcast marathon. Bryan and Krissy reflect on the journey, from awkward tech misadventures to heartfelt fan engagement, doling out self-deprecating humor paired with genuine gratitude. The pair acknowledge their signature brand of improvisational, slightly shambolic comedy while taking a victory lap for their longevity and teasing what’s next.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrating “Endless Day” and Surpassing Expectations

• [02:14–02:55] Hosts open the final episode, surprised at how manageable the endless day ended up being, despite both over-preparing (“I had teeth flossers…I had touch up makeup…I had lube, I had the vibrating vagina that I bought when I got my, my ball sniffed the Volkswagen VW bus…” – Brian, 03:09).
• Engage in playful banter about being over-equipped and the day’s relative ease, compared to their initial mental build-up.

2. Fan & Team Appreciation

• [02:14–03:09] Both Bryan and Krista offer heartfelt thanks to their production/support team (Astrid, Jeff, Rachel McGrath, Tina, Marianne, Jenny) and frequent contributors.
• [06:29–07:33] They’re genuinely moved by the volume of listeners who claim to have heard “every episode,” celebrating this support with humility:

  “It does mean a lot to us. It's a funny show. We joke. We're self-effacing as we can be...but I think we should be proud of ourselves because not many people get this far in any venture.” – Brian (06:51)

3. Retrospective on Live Platforms & Missed Opportunities

• [03:41–06:08] Recounting experiments with Clubhouse and Fireside as potential breakout opportunities—ultimately amusing tales of overblown expectations gone awry:

  “What it was was an immense waste of time, energy and effort.” – Brian (04:55)

• Memorable mention of a two-hour Wally Green interview that never aired but remains one of the show’s “most interesting” moments:

  “From like gang member to international ping pong sensation. And he opened all of those ping pong places…the Church of the Holy Roller, Jesus, whatever, with Susan Sarandon.” – Brian (05:40)

4. Marking Five Years & 750+ Episodes

• [07:10–08:02] With humor and a touch of disbelief at their own success, they mark milestones few podcasts attain (750+ episodes, 5 years, ongoing contract with Odyssey):

  “Most podcasters bail out before episode number five. Very few have done more than 100 episodes, let alone 750 episodes.” – Brian (07:17)

• Emphasize the genuine, non-celebrity nature of their fanbase:

  “You're not sycophants. We're not superstars. You're just some cool people that listen to us yammer on. And we yammer on a lot.” – Brian (07:40)

5. Looking Forward: More Chaos, More TCB

• [08:02–08:54] Announcement of signing with Odyssey for three more years—commitment to continue and “at least making it to year number eight.”
• [10:07–10:54] Teasing future live broadcasts on Twitch and YouTube, and new “stunts” in future seasons, with Brian unveiling plans that Krissy hasn’t even heard yet:

  “I have yet to tell Chrissy about it because I didn’t want her to say no before she said yes.” – Brian (10:51)

6. Laughs, Love, and Not-So-Serious Goodbyes

• [11:00–12:22] Spirited closing with inside gags (“Ryan got it wrong...again. Instant classic!” – Brian, 11:21) and their signature send-off:

  “Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you.” – Both (11:32)

• Playful thoughts about a TCB Spotify playlist and a possible third podcast (“Astrid’s looking at me like I have four heads. She’s like, don’t you dare.” – Brian, 11:49)

7. Final Fan Engagement Calls

• [12:22–14:31] Social plugs, urging fans to follow and engage, email for stickers, and text comments/thoughts about the endless day.
• Poking fun at their own ambitions and the nature of “endless” content:

  “16 episodes every day for an entire month. What do you think?” – Brian (13:52)

8. Warm, Earnest Farewells

• [14:44–14:54] Sincerity at the core:

  “I love you.” – Krista
  “I love you. Best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe.” – Brian

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Overpreparing:

  “I had lube, I had the vibrating vagina that I bought when I got my…ball sniffed the Volkswagen VW bus. I had all of it. I was ready to go.”
  — Brian, 03:09

• On Clubhouse Hopes:

  “Clubhouse was…I thought this was going to be our claim to fame, our instant ticket to success…What it was was an immense waste of time, energy and effort.”
  — Brian, 04:36–04:58

• About Fan Dedication:

  “More people than I ever thought had listened to all the episodes of the commercial break have listened to all of the episodes of the commercial break.”
  — Brian, 06:32
  “You’re not sycophants. We’re not superstars. You’re just some cool people that listen to us yammer on. And we yammer on a lot.”
  — Brian, 07:40

• On Longevity:

  “Very few have done more than 100 episodes, let alone 750 episodes. I think we’re one of just a couple thousand…”
  — Brian, 07:16

• Sticking to Their Bit:

  “Yeah, Ryan got it wrong. Yeah, Ryan got it wrong. Yeah, Ryan got it wrong.”
  — Brian & Krista, 11:11

• On Future Chaos:

  “Brian’s got the next one planned, and I have yet to tell Chrissy about it because I didn’t want her to say no before she said yes.”
  — Brian, 10:51

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Chapter Timestamps (Key Segments)

• [02:14] – Kicking off the “Endless Day” wrap
• [03:41] – Reflections on Clubhouse, Fireside, Wally Green interview
• [06:29] – Listener appreciation and five-year reflection
• [08:02] – Plans for the future (contract, “year eight” of TCB)
• [10:07] – Upcoming livestreams and hints at new stunts
• [11:00] – Inside jokes, shoutouts, and musical musings
• [12:22] – Socials, sticker drives, fan engagement
• [14:44] – Closing sentiments

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a love letter to loyal listeners (and each other), full of inside jokes, personal gratitude, and the unpolished oddball wisdom that defines TCB. As “Endless Day” ends, Bryan and Krissy promise that the lunacy—aided by their “TCB universe”—will continue, “at least” for three more years.
“Best to you!” – TCB

Transcript

[Ryan]

Just a guy who rants. Not funny at all. The co host is asleep. She's pretty dark. People like the show. Why are they on the charts? What's the fuck are you talking about? I showed it off as soon as dad. TCV is terrible. This show is fucking bad. I'd like to punch Brian in the mouth. This podcast is kinda sad. Is this what we think is funny? Now how do I turn it off? My ears are saying ow. Stop laughing at yourself. Are these two making sense? @ least I didn't pay. I am deaf in my defense. CCB is terrible. That is being kind. Both the hosts are idiots. They left the funny behind. What is this show about? It's offensive to my soul. Brian is a hack. These two aren't funny and so old. Why all the hype? How did this get made? So many episodes, none of which are great. TCB is terrible. Worst show you could do. TCB is terrible. Worst to to you. The next episode of the commercial break starts.

[Brian Green]

Now. Oh yeah. Cats are kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Krista Joy Hoadley. Best to you.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Chris. Best to you.

[Brian Green]

Brian. Best you out there in the podcast universe. As we enter the last episode of today's endless day. It will end and it will end shortly for the good of everyone involved. Thank you to five Hour Energy, our sponsor, who has brought us this day with limited commercial interruptions. Thank you to Astrid, thank you to Jeff, and thank you to everybody else who has been so supportive. Rachel McGrath gets a special shout out. Tina gets a special shout out. Marianne, Jenny, you all, you all know, you all know who you are. I don't want to do it again. I don't want to go through the whole roster again. We're just coming on real quick to say thank you very much. It's been a very interesting day. It's been a lot less torturous than I thought it would be. I do have to say I.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Think we built it up in our.

[Brian Green]

Head. I think we.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Did. I brought like five bags of.

[Brian Green]

Stuff. I know you never, you should.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Have just got the hotel throat lozenges. I had teeth flossers. I had touch up makeup. I had all kinds of.

[Brian Green]

Stuff. I had lube, I had the vibrating vagina that I bought when I got my, my ball. Sniffed the Volkswagen VW bus. I had all of it. I was ready to go. I thought if I'm gonna do this, let's just do it. Slip, slide, slip, and Slide, slip, slide. In a way, yeah. But the truth is it really hasn't been that bad. And a lot of the people who have texted and have kept us going, it's been interesting. We got to read some comments, we got to respond to some text messages. We got to go live for the first time ever since.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Clubhouse and.

[Brian Green]

Fireside and Fireside for a brief time there and in. In our favor, in our defense, in our defense, we had more people join us today, which was few on our live than we did combined on Clubhouse and Fireside.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Together. So we're winning, winning.

[Brian Green]

Winning. What season was fight? Was Fireside two one or two? One or.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Two. We were in the other.

[Brian Green]

Studio. We were in the other studio. Yeah, that's for sure. And we were on Fireside. Fireside still exists today. And it is a terrible mishmash of I don't know what. Clubhouse still exists today. They went to like a system just to get, like. Give me. Let me give you an update on Clubhouse from season one now. And now that we're, you know, kind of wrapping this up, Clubhouse was. We were on Clubhouse very early on in the podcast's existence and we thought this was the answer.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

To. You were on.

[Brian Green]

Clubhouse? Well, I was on Clubhouse early on and I thought this was going to be our claim to fame, our instant ticket to success, our golden ticket, if you will. Success and fame are in to massive. Yes. And what it was was an immense waste of time, energy and.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Effort. That's what some.

[Brian Green]

People. Do we know any of those people still? Is one of those people still listening to us? Do we know any of.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Them? Someone on as an interview that you had met back in.

[Brian Green]

The. Wally Green. Wally Green. Another episode that never ran and that was a two part two hour interview. We wasted two hours of that guy's life and I never ran that episode. And I'll be real with you, that was probably one of the more interesting interviews we've ever.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Had. It really was a very interesting.

[Brian Green]

Interview. Interesting. And I need to dig it out and run it. Yes, I do. I need to reframe it, repurpose it. Because Wally deserves that. Wally is one of the most interesting people I've ever.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Met. He's a great.

[Brian Green]

Guy. From like gang member to international ping pong sensation. And he opened all of those ping pong places. The Church of the Holy Roller, Jesus, whatever. With Susan Sarandon. Yep. And just very interesting. Met him on Clubhouse. He was nice enough to give us two hours of his time. Two separate one hour interviews. Brian never ran it. For what reason? Still can't remember to this day, I think, because I just never got around to editing it. It was taking like a month to edit every.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Episode. I think you were kind of critical of.

[Brian Green]

Ourselves. I was critical of me, yeah. It was very. Astrid's reminding me that it was a very serious interview. But, you know, we've gone on to do much more serious interviews. We didn't run those either, to be fair. There you go. All right, so listen, so glad that everyone joined us on this.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Tcp. Thank you from the bottom of.

[Brian Green]

Our hearts, honestly, and thank you for listening for five years. I have gotten a number of text messages over the last week since I said, if you've listened to every episode, let us know. And more people than I ever thought had listened to all the episodes of the commercial break have listened to all of the episodes of the commercial break. And so thank you very much. It does mean a lot to us. It's a funny show. We joke. We're self effacing as we can be. It's hard for us to take ourselves seriously. Yeah. It's hard for us to even say out loud that we're the hosts of the commercial break, let alone give ourselves any pat on the back. But I think we should be proud of ourselves because not many people get this far in any.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Venture. Here's to five.

[Brian Green]

Years. To five years. Most small businesses fail after just a year or two. Most podcasters bail out before episode number five. Very few have done more than 100 episodes, let alone 750 episodes. I think we're one of just a couple thousand who have done more than 750 episodes. And so I think we should be proud of ourselves, but more proud of the cool fan base. I don't say fan base. The cool TCB universe that we have acquired along the way. You're not sycophants. We're not superstars. You're just some cool people that listen to us yammer on. And we yammer on a lot. So thank you very much for that. And to you, my friend, for five years, a friendship of dedication. The ups and downs, the ins and.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Outs. Thank you. I love.

[Brian Green]

You. Yes. And so I love you. It's good to go out on a high note. We'll not be back on.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Tuesday. 30 of your children.

[Brian Green]

Too. All 13 of those kids are loved by Chrissy and Chris, and they love Chrissy too. And we will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. So I think this is a good time to tell everybody. It is likely we will sign with Odyssey for another three years of the show. And that means we're contractually obligated to be here for another three years. So we're at least making it to year number eight, let's put it that way. And that's only good news for everybody involved. And so we want to thank Odyssey, our network, who's been ultra supportive of this stupid stunt, this silly idea. Of course we're thanking five Hour Energy left, right, and sideways. We want to thank ctb, Bella at ctb, more specifically Joanna and Antoine, too. But Bella for her super support in putting this all together. When I asked her if she could just go ahead and book it 6x her guests in May, she didn't even blink an eye. She went to work and got us some great guests. And then Covert Creative, who is our agency, who tells people so we don't have to that we do the commercial break. Thank you to Rachel Bloom. Thank you to Michael Ian Black. Thank you to Reggie Watts. Love you, Reggie. Thank you for coming on and for always being interesting and bringing us into your life. Thank you to Tom Papa. Thank you for being interesting talking to us like we need talking to, like, an actual adult. And thank you to Tig Notaro, who gave us all of her energy, effort, and emotional, I guess, her emotional support during that.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Interview. Yeah, she was.

[Brian Green]

Great. I thought we were going to do a funny interview. And it ended up that Tig Notaro just became our therapist for an hour. So thank you, Tig. We appreciate that very much. And again, thanks to all of the listeners who have ever listened to a commercial break episode. If you're hearing me now and this is your first episode, welcome aboard. If it's your 770 68th episode, thank you for listening to all of them. We really appreciate it. It's been one hell of a ride and it looks likely to continue at least for a couple more.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Years. And we might be going live.

[Brian Green]

More. Yeah, I'll say that. I'll say that. You know, we have no one watching us right now in the.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Twitch. Well, I have to say I did not get a notification that we were going live.

[Brian Green]

So. Oh, very interesting. Okay, we'll figure it.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Out. Yeah, we'll figure it.

[Brian Green]

Out. Yeah, we'll figure it out. It's a work in progress. We'll figure it all out. We will be going live on twitch and likely YouTube if we can figure that part out of it more often. Coming up in season number six and lots more exciting stuff in season number six. Lest you think this be the last stunt that the commercial break polls in 2025. You would be wrong. Brian's got the next one planned, and I have yet to tell Chrissy about it because I didn't want her to say no before she said yes. So, Chrissy, will you do the next stunt with me? Won't be 12 episodes, I.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Promise. Serenity.

[Brian Green]

Now. Serenity now. So I leave you with one last.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Thing. I'll never leave you.

[Brian Green]

Hanging. Thank you very much. I love you. I'll leave you with one last thing. Two last things. You ready for this first one? Ryan got it wrong. Yeah, Ryan got it wrong. Yeah, Ryan got it wrong. Yeah, Ryan got it wrong.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Again. Instant.

[Brian Green]

Classic. Instant classic. But what I'll really leave you with is this. To all of you and to you, and to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

You. I love that.

[Brian Green]

One. I love that song, man. I can't get enough of it. And I don't think the listeners can either. You know what I'm thinking about doing? Don't stop me now, kids. You know what I'm thinking about doing? Putting together the TCB playlist on Spotify. What do you think about that? Putting some of these songs out on Spotify. Astrid's looking at me like I have four heads. She's like, don't you dare. Don't you dare think about doing one more thing. I'm also thinking about doing a third podcast. Babe, don't worry about it. It'll all be fine. The first two worked out great. Why not the last one? All right, there you go. That's it. Tc. Endless day comes to an end, as all good things must. And bad things.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Apparently. And mediocre.

[Brian Green]

Things. And mediocre things. We love you. We love you. We love you. All the things at the commercial break on Instagram. Please, please, please follow us. We're gonna do our best to put more interesting content out there, clips of the.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Show. Think about.

[Brian Green]

Trying. Yeah, we're gonna think about trying. We're well on our way to thinking about trying to put more interesting content out on Instagram, YouTube.com the commercial break for all of the episodes on video. All of the celebrity guest episodes are out now. The first week in June, you will get the rest of the episodes. Whenever you're listening to this, they'll probably be out. We'll put them out just as quickly as we can. Tcbpodcast.com Email Astrid. Tell her you want a sticker. Say please, please, please. Email her twice. If it doesn't get there tomorrow, email her a couple ones. Yes, she likes when you email her one day after you didn't get your sticker. 212-433. TCB. 212-433. 38. 22. You can go ahead and text us your questions, comments, concerns, contents, ideas. What'd you think about TCB's endless day? Would you like another Endless Day? Not this year, but would you like one next year? Because we'll think of it. The next time you get 12 episodes is the 12 days of TCB, which we will do again, but that's in December, so we'll worry about that in December. 12 episodes. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. This bastard's giving me more hand signals like a baseball first base coach. 12 episodes every month. There's 16 episodes every month. Oh, the endless month. Astrid says one every day. 16 episodes every day for an entire month. What do you think I told Chrissy? I said we only did, really seven hours of content today. Howard Stern does that, like, twice a week. Anyway, you know the phone number, you know the Instagram, you know the.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

YouTube. There's millions of millions of dollars attached.

[Brian Green]

To. Yeah, well, five Hour Energy, you're up to bat. Your move. All right, until next time, Chrissy, I think this is all we can do for.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

Today. I think.

[Brian Green]

So. I love.

[Krista Joy Hoadley]

You. I love.

[Brian Green]

You. Best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time we decide to show up on your RSS feed, we will say we do say we must say.

[Ryan]

Goodbye.