Four o'clock, wallow with self-pity. Four-thirty, stare into the abyss. Five o'clock, solve world hunger. Tell no one. 5.30, judge-sercise. 6.30, dinner with me. I can't. Can't cancel that again. 7 o'clock. Wessel with myself, loathing. I'm booked.

Of course, if I want the loathing to nine,

I could still be done in time to lay in bed,

stare at the ceiling,

and slip slowly into madness.

But what would I wear?

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

And we're going to have the half-happ, happiest Christmas since Finn Crosby tap dance with Danny fucking Kay.

Oh, yeah, cats and kittens.

Welcome back to the commercial break.

I'm Brian Green.

This is the jingle to my jangle.

Chris and joy, hodley.

Best to you, Chris.

Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Welcome to the first annual, the inaugural, 12 days of TCB. Don't you feel privileged and special? Doesn't this feel very like a totally different episode than normal? Yes, it does. I'm wearing my festive clothing. Kristen's got her, Christy's got her festive. What is that? A shirt over there? It's his festive shirt with a bow. I was hoping you were going to wear a bra. Like one of those. A sparkly Christmas bra? Like, you know, in the vacation movies, how, what was her, Beverly DeAngelo would always come out with some festive negligee on? That's right. I was hoping you're going to wear a festive negligee. I'll, you never know. Well, I guess we all lose on this one. We all lose except for Jeff. Jeff's the only winner of this one. The 12 Days of TCB, thank you very much. This will start the first of 12 episodes of the commercial break every single day.

Why I agreed to this, I have no fucking clue. But here we are doing it as we all rake ourselves over the calls.

You know, our network comes to us with great ideas and I just agree. I just agree. I don't know why. I'm just an agreeable guy. I'm like, yeah, that sounds great. How many bonus episodes you need 30? Sure, why not? Yeah, well, you agreed months ago. So, you know, it's one of those things where it sounds like a good idea until you're doing it. Well, listen, it sounded like really good news when they came to me because they were like, listen.

There's pressure on inventory in December, and we're going to need to get extra bonus episodes out there. And I'm like, sure. And they're like, so can you come up with an idea for a bonus episode or two? And then I come up with the 12 days of TCB. 16 extra episodes. There you go. There's like only two days of December where we're not putting out of episode. It's fantastic.

We're in it now.

Well, listen, we're going to take it with a smile and grab your mistletoe and your missile blow and we'll all get through it together.

I was thinking about the 12 days of TCB and I was watching The Bear, which I have started now.

Good for you.

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