The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

Oh my gosh, Brian, the entire front of the episode got cut off.

Where in the world is the intro to our episode?

I'm always keeping you on your toes here at the commercial break.

Eight wonderful years ago, my wife pushed me out into the podcasting universe in an effort

to get me to shut the fuck up.

It worked.

Now, for at least six hours a week, I'm talking to Chrissy and not Astrid.

However, that's not the entire story.

Took a little extra nudge from a former co-worker, good friend, wonderful human,

and podcasting queen, Alison Hare. Allison's been doing her own podcast for about a year longer

than Chrissy and I have been doing ours. It took on different forms and fashions over the years,

but the name is culture changers. It's nothing like the commercial break, and that's a good thing.

She usually talks to serious people about serious subjects, thought-provoking, sometimes

controversial, and it's likely that her serious podcast gets more laughs than our comedy podcast.

I'm not jealous. I swear to God I'm not.

Allison is a thoughtful, self-aware, interesting, and restless human that I find endlessly

fascinating.

Besides all of our podcast connections, she is really a dear friend of ours.

Celebrating her seventh year of doing the show, she decided to do seven hours of live

streaming. She asked me to join and help

kill some time, and I said, I'll do you one better. Let's do a co-show, a co-show with the bro

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