Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 744: The Naming of 2025 About this episode It’s the longest episode ever (so far) and we’re determined to play with the format, and push the year naming further than ever before. Get ready to learn how to live your life for the next 365 days!
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0:00 Speaker 00 The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
1:10 Travis McElroy? Hello, everybody, and welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
1:17 Travis McElroy? I'm your middlest brother, Travis "Big Dog Wolf Wolf" McElroy. What up, Trav Nation?
1:23 Griffin McElroy? Do you guys ever feel like nobody understands the pressure that it requires to be Hollywood it boys carrying the immeasurable burden of naming the year?
1:43 Travis McElroy? Powerful Hollywood it boys and powerful internet influencers.
1:48 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
1:49 Travis McElroy? Griffin, let me answer your question with a question.
1:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:52 Travis McElroy? Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
1:57 Griffin McElroy? I do, and not like the sexy kind from American Beauty, just a normal, latty ass.
2:02 Travis McElroy? That's not a totally fuckable plastic bag, like just a raggedy ass.
2:07 Griffin McElroy? Last night, we were going to bed and I was like, I'm gonna stay up and prep some prep some stuff, prep some stuff for this episode.
2:15 Travis McElroy? Just prep a little bit.
2:15 Griffin McElroy? Rachel was surprised that I would do that, that I would voluntarily work in the evening on this?
2:24 Travis McElroy? Really?
2:25 Griffin McElroy? And so she was surprised and she just leaned in and she said, 20 funny guys, be yourself. And that was really sweet, but also the pressure, like that obviously can't be it. The pressure is so much, guys.
2:40 Travis McElroy? I've had, I've gotten, I've gotten so many texts from so many different huge multi hyphenate talents that are asking like, where, where is it?
2:52 Griffin McElroy? I need to know.
2:53 Travis McElroy? Where's the name? I've had, I've had my wife, my kid, one of my kids. You know what I mean? Like everyone is demanding.
3:03 Travis McElroy? Which bothers you more? One of your kids asking you or the other one not?
3:06 Travis McElroy? It's equal. It's exactly equal.
3:09 Travis McElroy? It's like my kids don't even know what I'm doing. They care about fungal lore. They love fungal lore.
3:14 Griffin McElroy? Let, let me, let me tell you, can I talk about where my heart's at? I love fungal lore. We discussed 20 fungal live. I think we can keep that branch, a branch universe. I think that can be our question of, but where's fungal lore? Cause we love him. I don't want to kill him. We can just say 20 fungal live, but that's not the name of the year.
3:34 Travis McElroy? Here's, here's what's interesting about fungal lore. Can I speak on fungal?
3:38 Griffin McElroy? Please, he's so strong.
3:40 Travis McElroy? Before we get into it, I'd like to say a bit about fungal lore. The weird thing about fungal lore is it was when we did it, I thought the worst we'd ever done.
3:51 Griffin McElroy? The worst ever.
3:52 Travis McElroy? It was the worst job that we had done. And I thought the, well, we said as much, Travis. This isn't.
3:56 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no, no, no. It's just, it's hard sometimes to tell what the kayfabe is in the moment, but part of our touring this year has been like a video thing in the middle of the show.
4:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
4:06 Travis McElroy? And I've gotten to see Justin's face over and over again, as he asked to say, this year is a guy. 20 fungal or you heard your wish. And I've been trying to really read through like, oh, well, what's the Justin behind the Justin? And what's he really feeling here? Is it a bit?
4:25 Travis McElroy? I like fungal lore a lot. I mean, I.
4:28 Griffin McElroy? It took us a long time to get to fungal lore.
4:29 Travis McElroy? But it took a long time to get there and we were all mentally and spiritually exhausted. And I thought like, I don't know if this is it. Cause there's a lot riding on it. And I feel like what was interesting about fungal lore is. It was the best job we've ever done. Interestingly, everyone loved him.
4:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:46 Travis McElroy? Great. We love this. The other thing is that weirdly, and I didn't actually get confirmation on this from other people until December or so, but also mushrooms just aesthetically became hugely on trend.
4:59 Griffin McElroy? Amazing. Was that, was that us? Was that us?
5:02 Travis McElroy? Was that us?
5:02 Travis McElroy? Here's my theory.
5:03 Travis McElroy? To ask.
5:04 Travis McElroy? When people are worried about this year ending and what's gonna happen to Funglor, I don't think we created Funglor. So much as I feel like we encountered Funglor.
5:15 Griffin McElroy? Good.
5:15 Travis McElroy? Right.
5:16 Griffin McElroy? We can't kill Funglor because we didn't.
5:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah, he's not ours.
5:19 Travis McElroy? He's like, we went on the Haunted Mansion ride to find the name and we got, went through the whole ride and we didn't find the name. And then there's like a hitchhiking Funglor that rode out with us.
5:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:30 Travis McElroy? There's a ghost.
5:31 Travis McElroy? And I don't wanna say I discovered Funglor, cuz that sounds like a thing you say when you found like a cafe that hundreds of people have been to already.
5:38 Griffin McElroy? We encountered him for the first time.
5:40 Travis McElroy? We encountered Funglor. I wouldn't be surprised if in some annals of like, uh, foraging, like, history books, there has been tale of.
5:50 Travis McElroy? He's been found before.
5:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
5:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, sure.
5:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Um, other cultures have known me by, you know.
5:56 Travis McElroy? Right, exactly.
5:57 Travis McElroy? Like whatever it is, like.
5:58 Griffin McElroy? It kicks ass. It kicks ass that we did a guy last year. I don't think we could do that. I don't think we can do it.
6:04 Travis McElroy? We can't. And that's the thing about it, right? It has to be.
6:07 Travis McElroy? I don't think we set out to.
6:09 Travis McElroy? But how do you follow a guy?
6:12 Travis McElroy? Then let me start off strong with a strong bit.
6:14 Griffin McElroy? Wait, wait, wait. We have to before, we have to stand on precedent here and go through the list of previous year names.
6:20 Travis McElroy? From memory. I was doing this last night.
6:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that's fun.
6:22 Travis McElroy? From memory.
6:22 Griffin McElroy? Juice, can you pull it up just to check him?
6:24 Travis McElroy? I'll pull up the real.
6:26 Griffin McElroy? The real ass shit.
6:28 Travis McElroy? Oh, man.
6:30 Griffin McElroy? This is always such an uncomfortable segment for us. I understand cuz we just laugh at our own jokes for a good, I mean, it gets longer, like two minutes now.
6:36 Travis McElroy? It gets longer every time.
6:37 Travis McElroy? I know 2010 was Zolo.
6:39 Griffin McElroy? Zolo.
6:40 Travis McElroy? Correct. Meant nothing.
6:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:41 Travis McElroy? Then was it 20 heaven?
6:44 Griffin McElroy? I mean, Zoo only live once. Like, you, you.
6:47 Travis McElroy? That's right, yes.
6:47 Travis McElroy? I don't think the best version of this is Travis butchering it and then me saying it right. So Travis, you either get it clean.
6:54 Travis McElroy? 20 heaven, get right with, get right with Christ.
6:57 Travis McElroy? 2000 in heaven.
6:58 Travis McElroy? 2000 in heaven.
6:59 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:00 Travis McElroy? Um, and then it was 20 does.
7:04 Griffin McElroy? Getting it.
7:05 Travis McElroy? Getting it.
7:06 Griffin McElroy? Getting it. Correct.
7:07 Travis McElroy? Uh, 20, 2013, dig it up.
7:11 Griffin McElroy? Dig it up, get it out.
7:12 Travis McElroy? Okay. Um, this is the one I always stumble.
7:16 Griffin McElroy? 20 grifting, the con is on.
7:17 Travis McElroy? That's 15. 14 was, uh, 24 word.
7:22 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
7:23 Travis McElroy? Yes. Then 20 grifting, the con is on.
7:27 Griffin McElroy? Correct.
7:28 Travis McElroy? What was 24 word? Was there a subtitle?
7:30 Griffin McElroy? There was no subtitle. That's strong. I want to encourage us to play with the form like we did in 20.
7:37 Travis McElroy? That's 20 grifting and then 20 16 building bridges.
7:40 Griffin McElroy? Yikes.
7:41 Travis McElroy? 20 serpentine zag on them.
7:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Collaborating stronger.
7:46 Griffin McElroy? Okay, it's actually technically 20 serpentine, keep them guessing.
7:51 Travis McElroy? Keep them guessing.
7:51 Griffin McElroy? In parentheses. We didn't follow keep them guessing at all.
7:56 Travis McElroy? Well, just because I can't remember the subtitles always keeping me guessing.
7:59 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:59 Travis McElroy? 20 serpentine then, uh, uh, collaborate teen stronger together.
8:05 Griffin McElroy? This is where we start to get into the ones I actually, uh, remember.
8:08 Travis McElroy? Frankenstein teen become the monster. And then.
8:12 Griffin McElroy? Now here we get it.
8:13 Travis McElroy? Here this was 20 funny, fill your life with laughter and love would then change to 20 honey. Down to beesness and then.
8:21 Griffin McElroy? Awesome.
8:22 Travis McElroy? Funny honey, fill your life with laughter and bees.
8:25 Griffin McElroy? Right. Never at any, okay, now the thing the history is gonna have a hard time figuring out. Yeah.
8:31 Travis McElroy? Is that we.
8:34 Travis McElroy? We changed the theme of the year three times in 2020, but at no point was it a reference to the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in America that really reoriented all of the global society. It was not.
8:50 Griffin McElroy? Or a lot of social unrest that was also going on during.
8:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's a hugely.
8:54 Griffin McElroy? I'm just ashamed. I feel like people lean on these names for guidance, for direction, and I think people probably could have used more laughter and love in 2020 and we.
9:04 Travis McElroy? Or more bee related shit.
9:06 Griffin McElroy? We were cowards. We were like, we don't got it no more, gang. Sorry. We're stepping back. You're on your own. Here's some fucking bees to play with. So.
9:14 Travis McElroy? And then it was 20 big dog run, no bones about it.
9:18 Griffin McElroy? Right.
9:19 Travis McElroy? 20 rendezvous fancy takes flight.
9:21 Griffin McElroy? Amazing.
9:23 Travis McElroy? Twenty Sun and Sea Surf the Vibe.
9:26 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, we're only getting better at this. This sucks.
9:28 Travis McElroy? And then Twenty Fungalore, He Heard Your Wish.
9:31 Travis McElroy? Your Wish.
9:32 Griffin McElroy? This sucks. We're getting better at it as the years go on, which means that there's all we are-
9:37 Travis McElroy? You have to trust it.
9:38 Travis McElroy? And this year will be Twenty Honey Hive, Back to Business.
9:43 Griffin McElroy? Now, I have written here, Travis will suggest Twenty Honey Hive first.
9:47 Travis McElroy? Hi. That's on the bingo card.
9:50 Griffin McElroy? You're stuck on, you're stuck on bee stuff, and I feel like-
9:54 Travis McElroy? Okay, but what do you think about it?
9:57 Griffin McElroy? What are you encouraging me to do with Back to Business?
10:00 Travis McElroy? Get back to business? Now, I also thought about Twenty Honey Hive. Twenty Honey Hive, What's the Buzz?
10:09 Griffin McElroy? What, and what are you trying to communicate with that, Travis?
10:12 Travis McElroy? We should all start talking together, right? Build a hive. What about Twenty Honey Hive, Dance It Out?
10:17 Griffin McElroy? There's so much stuff about bees working together that you could have, Twenty Honey Hive, Sweeter Together. There's so much stuff, Build a Network. That's like what they do in there. There's so much stuff you could have done.
10:30 Travis McElroy? Twenty Honey Hive, The Needs of the Many.
10:33 Griffin McElroy? I mean, you're getting Andrew, Andrew Ryan in there.
10:38 Travis McElroy? It's getting worse. No, that was Spock. Don't, don't, how dare you?
10:42 Griffin McElroy? All those fictional-
10:42 Travis McElroy? Spock invented the idea of The Needs of the Many. You know that.
10:45 Griffin McElroy? Fictional smart guys. They all-
10:47 Travis McElroy? No one said it before him. Okay, so we'll put that at the top of the list for now.
10:50 Griffin McElroy? I just-
10:51 Travis McElroy? For right now, Twenty Honey Hive is our best option.
10:54 Griffin McElroy? Let's-
10:54 Travis McElroy? And I just, I like to start off at a place where Twenty Honey Hive is our best option.
10:58 Griffin McElroy? It was the only option to start with. I think that's great, Travis. And I, what I do like about Twenty Honey Hive is that, and I, this is becoming increasingly important to us, Hollywood it, boys, is it's also an aesthetic. Bee stuff. I can see myself dressed up like a big bee on stage.
11:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I can see that too.
11:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we've done a lot of bee-related stuff over the years, though, right? This doesn't feel like a new direction for us so much as-
11:23 Griffin McElroy? Have we?
11:24 Travis McElroy? Of a harkening. I feel like I've seen us dressed as bees 10, 15 times-
11:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:31 Travis McElroy? In my life.
11:32 Griffin McElroy? Have we?
11:33 Travis McElroy? Now, wait, are you thinking about when we were the bee, in the bee mascot costume for the local oldies radio station?
11:41 Travis McElroy? Oh, Travis, this is something I would never-
11:45 Travis McElroy? I would never dress as the bee.
11:48 Travis McElroy? Oh, you were cow, cow bung only?
11:50 Travis McElroy? No, I would never lower myself to dressing as the bee, Travis. I only dressed as the cow. A mammal, thank you.
11:56 Travis McElroy? I, I, I'm sorry, Justin. I didn't mean to offend your species ways.
12:01 Griffin McElroy? Hey, guys, can we focus up a little bit? Can we fucking dial in a little bit?
12:06 Travis McElroy? You're right, Griffin. Sorry.
12:08 Griffin McElroy? Just, I, I hate to be the, I hate to start cracking the whip already, but it just, this is a serious job that we're doing here.
12:14 Travis McElroy? Okay. Travis's throat, does someone have a list going?
12:18 Griffin McElroy? Yes, I shared it with you. It's a Google document. Now.
12:21 Travis McElroy? I'm looking at it.
12:22 Griffin McElroy? Travis suggested a sequel. I want to get my sequel out of the way.
12:26 Travis McElroy? Now, what you've written here, Griffin, though, not to start on the what we've written in the doc jokes, but you've written 20 Honey Hive colon blank, blank, blank, something shitty.
12:35 Griffin McElroy? Well, you don't have a good outro for it. So what do you want me to put in there? What do you want me to commit to? What do you want me to commit to written history, Trav?
12:45 Travis McElroy? No, something shitty works for now. Maybe something shitty. Back to business.
12:50 Griffin McElroy? Back to business is good. Here's my.
12:52 Travis McElroy? What about 20 Honey Hive bees nuts?
12:55 Griffin McElroy? Travis, my oldest son hits me with about eight to 10 D's nuts jokes a day at this point.
13:01 Travis McElroy? I witnessed it at Christmas. That's true.
13:04 Griffin McElroy? And there's so many I know that could fucking, that would annihilate this kid, that I would get in a lot of trouble for saying out loud to him. They say, they talk about Imagine Dragons a lot, and there's an amazing D's nuts coda, D S Alcota, you can put at the end of that, but I can't and I won't. Can I, I got a sequel that I feel pretty good about.
13:28 Travis McElroy? Okay.
13:29 Griffin McElroy? Since Travis just did his. 20 It's Alive, Rebuild the Monster.
13:35 Griffin McElroy? Here's what I want you to think about. 2019, become the monster strong. We all wanted to become the biggest, strongest, best, nastiest, boldest versions of ourselves. And then the novel coronavirus happened, and we kind of had to put that away for a little while, didn't we? We all had to put that away a little bit and be, be sort of, put the walls up. And what I'm suggesting is in 2025, we can smash through those walls and rebuild the monster you once became.
14:05 Travis McElroy? Hmm. I'm, I like the 20, it's alive. I think that maybe there's a better tagline to capture. Because rebuild the monster, I think embraces too much failure.
14:20 Griffin McElroy? You haven't had any of that stuff, baby?
14:23 Travis McElroy? Personally, no.
14:24 Griffin McElroy? Oh, man.
14:26 Travis McElroy? All I do is win.
14:27 Griffin McElroy? Right, I know, cool. Most of us, though, failures, that's frequent thing, man. So, taking back some of what we've lost.
14:38 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
14:39 Griffin McElroy? Something to think about.
14:40 Travis McElroy? Okay. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Are you ready for another one?
14:45 Griffin McElroy? I want Justin.
14:46 Travis McElroy? Justin, you got one?
14:47 Travis McElroy? No, not yet.
14:48 Travis McElroy? Okay.
14:48 Griffin McElroy? Hold on, wait. Let's stop on that for a second. You didn't, you didn't, you don't have anything.
14:54 Travis McElroy? No, I have some here, but I feel like.
14:58 Travis McElroy? You want to get the chaff out of the way?
15:00 Griffin McElroy? Well, we never go with the first few, so you don't want to.
15:03 Travis McElroy? We're not gonna go early, are we?
15:04 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, you don't want to, no, if anything, now, I would push back to what I've found.
15:08 Travis McElroy? You guys, you guys, uh, sometimes you gotta burn off a little fuel to get into orbit, you know?
15:13 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:14 Travis McElroy? I've found that 50% of the time, I want, every other time, it tends to be, we say one in the first 10 minutes, and then we circle back to it in the last 10 minutes.
15:24 Travis McElroy? I was telling Sid in the car, the thing about the year theme is that you have to prepare for it.
15:31 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:32 Travis McElroy? But we'll never, ever use a name that one of us has picked beforehand because we all want to feel like we've.
15:40 Griffin McElroy? We found it together, we built it together, yeah.
15:43 Travis McElroy? A little brush stroke on the Sistine Chapel.
15:45 Travis McElroy? Now, for the next one, do you guys, I've, we've done this so many years now.
15:49 Travis McElroy? I'll give you one.
15:50 Travis McElroy? Okay.
15:53 Travis McElroy? 2045, welcome to the future.
15:56 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome.
15:58 Travis McElroy? I know, I know.
16:00 Griffin McElroy? 2045.
16:02 Travis McElroy? Welcome to the future.
16:04 Griffin McElroy? Welcome to the future. Okay, so Justin's playing with form, which I really like.
16:09 Travis McElroy? I love that.
16:10 Griffin McElroy? Because it's like-
16:11 Travis McElroy? What I'm saying is-
16:11 Travis McElroy? I never in a million years wouldn't have thought of that, Justin.
16:14 Travis McElroy? What I'm saying is, it's a shift in continuity for my brother, my brother me.
16:19 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
16:20 Travis McElroy? That rockets us-
16:22 Travis McElroy? It's Tokyo Drift, is what you're saying. This is our Tokyo Drift.
16:25 Travis McElroy? This rockets the continuity 20 years into the future, so you can see how they've all grown and changed.
16:30 Travis McElroy? And for the rest of time, people will look back and be like, where does that fit in?
16:34 Griffin McElroy? Right.
16:35 Travis McElroy? In the bigger scheme of things.
16:36 Griffin McElroy? Well, but then they'll get to the actual year 2045 when we do 2025.
16:39 Travis McElroy? And we'll just go right past it, though.
16:40 Travis McElroy? We'll skip that year.
16:42 Griffin McElroy? Oh, interesting.
16:42 Travis McElroy? Cause we already did it.
16:43 Travis McElroy? So we would already do 2045 ahead of time, right? And then, when 2026 starts, we'll just pick back up-
16:54 Griffin McElroy? Where we left off at the end of 24.
16:55 Travis McElroy? Where we were before.
16:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah, sure.
16:56 Travis McElroy? Now, here's the beauty part.
16:57 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
16:58 Travis McElroy? When we do get to 2045.
17:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:00 Travis McElroy? The theme of that year is 2025.
17:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:05 Travis McElroy? Remember when?
17:06 Travis McElroy? Oh, a look back, yeah.
17:08 Travis McElroy? It's a look back, it's a retro year.
17:10 Griffin McElroy? That's cool, man. I like this one a lot. I would love to dress up like, uh, like Robocop.
17:15 Travis McElroy? Alright.
17:17 Travis McElroy? For my next bitch.
17:18 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, go ahead, Trav.
17:20 Travis McElroy? For my next bitch, we've been doing this together for a while. So I've kind of mentally categorized these in three different ways.
17:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:27 Travis McElroy? So do you want one that I like that-
17:29 Griffin McElroy? Just say, I have 30 ready to go, we gotta just-
17:32 Travis McElroy? I like that you won't, I like that you won't, one you might like, three playing with form.
17:38 Griffin McElroy? Three playing with form, easy.
17:39 Travis McElroy? Okay, great. Um, we've done a guy.
17:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:43 Travis McElroy? Right? That was powerful. Now I'd like to pitch to you, an action movie franchise.
17:51 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force Five, the Omega Continuum.
17:54 Griffin McElroy? Okay, no, no, no, no, no, Justin, Justin, don't you dare, don't you dare, Justin. You don't get to play with form and then when Travis plays with form.
18:00 Travis McElroy? Griffin, we have a production slate extending to 2045 already on the docket.
18:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
18:05 Travis McElroy? I have no room to put in another tiered universe project.
18:09 Griffin McElroy? Now, hold on.
18:09 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force Five.
18:11 Griffin McElroy? Thunder Force Five.
18:11 Travis McElroy? Omega Continuum.
18:13 Griffin McElroy? The Omega Continuum. How's it start? Start, me and Juice are in the room with you. Hit me with your best shot.
18:20 Travis McElroy? So, the Thunder Force Five.
18:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
18:23 Travis McElroy? Who we know is Snarky Bobo.
18:25 Griffin McElroy? Timeout, timeout, timeout, timeout. Let me stop you right there. We don't know these guys.
18:29 Travis McElroy? Okay.
18:30 Griffin McElroy? So like, if we're building a world, we need to build it. We actually need to like, show people this is.
18:35 Travis McElroy? They're space adventurers, half pirates, half gods.
18:38 Travis McElroy? Say it again?
18:39 Travis McElroy? Space adventurers who are half pirate, half god.
18:42 Griffin McElroy? Are you flexible on that? Because there's a lot of people who don't like gods.
18:45 Travis McElroy? I'm open to notes.
18:46 Travis McElroy? Janice, it's me, clear my day.
18:49 Travis McElroy? And.
18:49 Travis McElroy? Janice, clear my day. Something really hot just came in the room.
18:53 Travis McElroy? The five of them travel around.
18:55 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
18:55 Griffin McElroy? What are their names?
18:56 Travis McElroy? With. Again.
18:57 Travis McElroy? So it's Snarky Bobo.
18:58 Griffin McElroy? Is that like?
18:59 Travis McElroy? Palace Jan.
19:00 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
19:01 Travis McElroy? Dink Blastar.
19:02 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
19:03 Travis McElroy? Big Hork.
19:04 Griffin McElroy? Who's the pilot?
19:04 Travis McElroy? Yes, Dink Blastar.
19:06 Travis McElroy? Wait, did you say Dink Blastar?
19:07 Travis McElroy? Dink Blastar.
19:09 Travis McElroy? Hey, Janice, refill my day.
19:11 Travis McElroy? Big Hork.
19:12 Travis McElroy? Get out of here in about 30 seconds.
19:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:15 Travis McElroy? And Jack's Sensation.
19:17 Griffin McElroy? Jack Sensation?
19:19 Travis McElroy? Jack Sensation.
19:20 Griffin McElroy? Say that last one for Juice again. Catch this last one.
19:22 Travis McElroy? Jack Sensation?
19:23 Travis McElroy? It's Big Hork and Jack Sensation.
19:25 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
19:26 Travis McElroy? And their butler slash mascot actor Jonathan Frakes.
19:30 Griffin McElroy? I don't like that.
19:31 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
19:32 Griffin McElroy? Travis, you're like, really doing something really good here and then you lose confidence in it and you throw Frakes in there.
19:37 Travis McElroy? They're trying to stop, we see them, we saw them trying to stop the Glumlock contingent. Who has stolen the Omega Continuum. They're racing through the cryon clouds of space.
19:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:47 Travis McElroy? What's that? Oh, no. A black hole combines with a cryon cloud. They're both pulled through it.
19:53 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, yeah.
19:53 Travis McElroy? Right? Then they land on Earth in 2025. But then it turns out the glumwoks arrived on Earth in 2015. They've been blending in seamlessly.
20:04 Griffin McElroy? That would make so much sense, Travis.
20:07 Travis McElroy? They're nine foot tall robots, but they've blended in seamlessly. We we've landed in Martha's Vineyard.
20:12 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
20:13 Travis McElroy? And we're trying to, oh, what's that? Turns out Snarky Bobo is half glumwok. He just found out, right?
20:19 Griffin McElroy? Okay, cool.
20:19 Travis McElroy? Which is creating some tension in him, but he ends up working his way through it. And from a safe distance onboard the ship, the killer pacifist.
20:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
20:29 Travis McElroy? They blast the world. Earth explodes.
20:32 Griffin McElroy? They blast the world. Earth explodes. Thunder Force V does this?
20:35 Travis McElroy? Yes, which ignites the Omega Continuum. And starts us back. Wait, Justin, this is the best part.
20:42 Griffin McElroy? Juice, it's almost back. It's almost back, Juice.
20:44 Travis McElroy? This is the best part.
20:45 Travis McElroy? I'm listening. Go ahead.
20:46 Travis McElroy? The Omega Continuum began at 2015. Our world resets to 2015.
20:52 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
20:53 Travis McElroy? And now we're able to relive those following 10 years with all the knowledge we had previously.
20:58 Griffin McElroy? Of the 10 years that that's cool.
21:00 Travis McElroy? Of the 10 years.
21:01 Griffin McElroy? So in order to save, to save Earth, Thunder Force V has to obliterate Earth.
21:06 Travis McElroy? Correct.
21:07 Griffin McElroy? That's a big gamble they took.
21:08 Travis McElroy? And it's a big choice for Snarky Bobo.
21:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah. The name sucks. If you had a different name, Travis, I would be totally, totally, totally.
21:15 Travis McElroy? Is it Snarky Bobo or Thunder Force V or?
21:18 Griffin McElroy? Thunder Force V is really strong, really cool.
21:21 Travis McElroy? I'm open to different names.
21:23 Griffin McElroy? You can't have a cool team name and then have their names be weird shit. I we love Dink Strong. What was his name?
21:30 Travis McElroy? Dink Blastar, Big Hork, Jackson Station, Talus Jan, and Snarky Bobo.
21:36 Griffin McElroy? The Omega Continuum does not drip off the tongue. Thunder Force V, I'm gonna put. This is our first Astrisk, boys. Cause that's, I like Thunder Force V. Can they have different colored armor and then they have robots that get bigger than them that are the same color?
21:49 Travis McElroy? Because they're half god, they all have different powers.
21:52 Griffin McElroy? Awesome.
21:52 Travis McElroy? That's cool. Yeah, a lot of merch merchandise offered.
21:56 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
21:57 Griffin McElroy? I'm gonna bust out like six in the time it took Travis to do one. Is that a?
22:01 Travis McElroy? Thanks, Griffin.
22:02 Travis McElroy? Well, I give quality, quantity.
22:04 Griffin McElroy? Um, so let's just start uh here. 2020 knives, 400 blades.
22:12 Travis McElroy? Huh.
22:13 Griffin McElroy? This is, a lot of mine guys are pretty fucking out there, okay? If you don't like it, just say I don't like it.
22:20 Travis McElroy? And so is it 20x?
22:22 Travis McElroy? I don't like it is so, I don't like it feels so final to me.
22:27 Griffin McElroy? Just say it.
22:27 Travis McElroy? And I don't wanna say I don't like it.
22:28 Griffin McElroy? I have so ma- I have so much shit juice.
22:31 Travis McElroy? Now, I've written this Griffin as 20x 20 knives.
22:34 Griffin McElroy? Could be that, yeah. I have 20 sets of 20 knives for 400 blades.
22:38 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm trying to make the math work here.
22:39 Travis McElroy? Uh, um, the, why 400 knives, Griff?
22:44 Griffin McElroy? Uh, 400 blades, it's 2020 knives because knife rhymes with five. That was where I started with the idea.
22:50 Travis McElroy? 400, okay.
22:51 Griffin McElroy? That was the seed I nurtured into 2020 knives.
22:54 Travis McElroy? Is your problem with just, Justin, the math of it?
22:57 Travis McElroy? No, it's not math. I didn't, I was trying to understand why he picked 400.
23:00 Griffin McElroy? Pure, pure aesthetic. 400 knives. Can you imagine the set decor of these fucking live shows? All the knives and blades.
23:08 Travis McElroy? Oh, man, it would look exactly like Knives Out.
23:11 Travis McElroy? But 20 times 20 is 400, right?
23:14 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
23:15 Travis McElroy? Okay, so it's not, it's not cuz it's 2020 knives, 400 blades. It's.
23:22 Griffin McElroy? 20 sets of 20, how are you struggling with this so fucking much?
23:26 Travis McElroy? I don't understand what you're not getting here, Justin.
23:28 Travis McElroy? I didn't understand why.
23:29 Travis McElroy? There's 20 times 20 knives.
23:31 Travis McElroy? Right, I understand now. At first, that didn't occur to me. So the selection of 400 blades.
23:37 Travis McElroy? See, my first thought, Justin, was that's too many knives. But your thought is, is it enough knives for the math to work out?
23:43 Griffin McElroy? The discussion that has followed the name's introduction tells me, of course, this can't be it.
23:52 Griffin McElroy? 20 Joni Ive, Mind the Bezels.
24:06 Travis McElroy? What I like about it is it's timely.
24:08 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
24:11 Travis McElroy? And I like that everyone will get it. I like that. Here's the other one I like, Griffin.
24:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:17 Travis McElroy? Easily trademarkable. We can own that name, Joni Ive.
24:22 Travis McElroy? I'm not sure I've spelled any of this correctly.
24:25 Griffin McElroy? Uh, no, you misspelled Joni. The rest of it was kicks ass. Um, mine, the bezels I like more than 20 Joni Ive. Mine, the bezels is like, look on the, keep your eye on the, keep your eye on the perimeter. Like, keep your, keep your, you know, your sight lines open.
24:41 Travis McElroy? So, let's do like a, um, a minus, like minus an asterisk. That'll help us remember that we don't like the first part, but we do like the second part.
24:52 Griffin McElroy? This is a good system we've come up with.
24:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
24:54 Griffin McElroy? Uh, 20, this is just a joke for the podcast. This won't be it. So we'll just say it and then we'll move on. 20 do it live. Fucking thing sucks. Now, we can't obviously do one that Bill O'Reilly.
25:04 Travis McElroy? I had 20, I said 20 do it live, no rehearsals.
25:08 Travis McElroy? Man, I like rehearsals.
25:09 Griffin McElroy? I'm letting it, I'm letting it mull in my palate.
25:14 Travis McElroy? What about 20, 20 do it live curtains up?
25:20 Griffin McElroy? Say, say that shit with your chest, Justin.
25:24 Travis McElroy? How about 20 do it live curtains up?
25:29 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. Curtains means death to me. Like, I, you could.
25:35 Travis McElroy? But that's when the train closes.
25:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I guess so.
25:40 Travis McElroy? Fuck.
25:42 Griffin McElroy? I don't know if you guys have watched that video of Inside Edition, Bill O'Reilly.
25:46 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
25:46 Griffin McElroy? Close it out.
25:46 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
25:47 Griffin McElroy? I don't know if you've watched it. I don't know if you've watched it lately. Still fucking hits. Still hits so hard.
25:53 Travis McElroy? It's actually so funny. It's actually the best thing that Bill O'Reilly has ever done.
25:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. I mean, that's not a very high.
25:59 Travis McElroy? Low bar.
26:00 Griffin McElroy? Bar. Yeah.
26:02 Griffin McElroy? You guys want to bust one out? That was three for me.
26:04 Travis McElroy? Justin, you want to give one?
26:05 Travis McElroy? Yeah, here's what I got for you. 20 superdrive. Pedal to the metal.
26:11 Travis McElroy? Ooh. Hey, can I tell you what I love, Justin?
26:14 Travis McElroy? What?
26:16 Travis McElroy? When we think I had 20 overdrive, full throttle, full throttle, baby.
26:21 Travis McElroy? I have overdrive too.
26:22 Griffin McElroy? 20 overdrive I also had. 20 overdrive feels fucking amazing.
26:28 Travis McElroy? What was your tagline?
26:30 Griffin McElroy? For 20 overdrive?
26:31 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
26:32 Griffin McElroy? No limits. But then also, because that's not a great, that's not a great motto for this day and age. It can also be K-N-O-W limits.
26:45 Travis McElroy? Oh.
26:47 Griffin McElroy? It's a choose your own motto adventure. It can be like K-
26:50 Travis McElroy? And what was with superdrive?
26:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah, superdrive is old news. I think if you're gonna do superdrive, you might as well do overdrive, right? What does superdrive even mean?
27:00 Griffin McElroy? Let's bust all our drive stuff right now. Let's get drive out of the way. Because I think overdrive is the superior drive word. I had 20-
27:07 Travis McElroy? I agree.
27:07 Griffin McElroy? 24-wheel drive off the beaten path. Then I had 20 front-wheel drive on the beaten path.
27:13 Travis McElroy? Oh, I like that.
27:16 Griffin McElroy? That one I kinda like.
27:17 Travis McElroy? I had 20 hit warp drive, land among the stars.
27:22 Griffin McElroy? Hold on, we are not writing these fucking things down. 20 overdrive.
27:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I shouldn't be doing it. I'm the slowest typer.
27:29 Griffin McElroy? So we're just getting all of our 20 drives out? Okay.
27:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah, just all the drive stuff.
27:34 Griffin McElroy? Who, is someone else editing the document in real time?
27:37 Travis McElroy? I'm not even touching it, baby.
27:38 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
27:38 Travis McElroy? I was, but I'm not doing it right now.
27:42 Griffin McElroy? Superdrive. Pedal. I can't spell this word right anymore. Pedal to the metal. And then 20 four-wheel drive, front wheel, that's not gonna make it, so I'll just stop there. Okay, Travis?
28:01 Travis McElroy? Uh, 20 hit warp drive, land among the stars.
28:07 Travis McElroy? There's a very Star Trek, very in right now. There's more Star Trek than ever before.
28:12 Griffin McElroy? Hit Warp Drive doesn't, Hit Warp Drive.
28:13 Travis McElroy? Hit Warp Drive doesn't.
28:14 Griffin McElroy? Hit Warp Drive. That doesn't hit, that doesn't feel good.
28:17 Travis McElroy? Twenty Sunny Drive, a weekend away.
28:20 Griffin McElroy? Okay, I also had twenty Sunny Drive. I had twenty Sunny Drive. We can't make it a weekend away when it's a whole year's theme.
28:30 Travis McElroy? That's fair, but it's attainable.
28:32 Travis McElroy? It's nice to take a weekend.
28:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, not a weekend.
28:35 Travis McElroy? A cheeky weekend.
28:36 Travis McElroy? You can take a weekend throughout the year several times.
28:38 Griffin McElroy? You're suggesting we take a cheeky weekend together.
28:41 Travis McElroy? Take a cheeky.
28:42 Travis McElroy? Perhaps.
28:43 Griffin McElroy? I had a, I had twenty Sunny Drive, The Road Is Calling. This is more of a-
28:48 Travis McElroy? Now see, for that, I had twenty Take a Drive, ah, oh, sorry.
28:52 Griffin McElroy? You really yelled at, you really, really yelled at me.
28:55 Travis McElroy? Sorry, I was just, I get excited when we sync up.
28:58 Griffin McElroy? Okay, I know, I know that for sure, but you yelled and let's just watch that. The energy's already kinda tense.
29:03 Travis McElroy? I didn't mean to yell. I'm so sorry, go phone.
29:05 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
29:05 Travis McElroy? What was your twenty Sunny Drive, The Road Is Calling?
29:09 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
29:10 Travis McElroy? I like that.
29:11 Griffin McElroy? But then, you know what happened after that? You yelled. And so the energy around that one, Travis, is a sort of dark and cloudy energy, if I'm being honest.
29:19 Travis McElroy? It wasn't, it wasn't an angry yell. I'm so sorry.
29:21 Griffin McElroy? If we pick that one, every time it comes up, like on the screen as we walk out on stage, we'll have to react.
29:26 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna stand up and turn around three times to clear.
29:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, clear that. I'll just be scared every time I see that name now, because of how scared I got when you yelled. Okay. Well, that's not actually, if you hurt someone, you can't actually just turn around three times and then it's better.
29:40 Travis McElroy? Oh, wait, I have to say sorry too. I'm sorry that I yelled.
29:43 Travis McElroy? Oh.
29:44 Griffin McElroy? I did it.
29:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's, it's fine. Okay, no problem.
29:46 Travis McElroy? Twenty Take a Drive, ah, the open road.
29:52 Griffin McElroy? Ah, the open road sucks, and you know it does, and you know better than that.
29:55 Travis McElroy? Wait, does it? Because I like punctuation in there. The ah, comma, the open road.
30:01 Griffin McElroy? That's playing with form, but not in a way that feels like, mm.
30:04 Travis McElroy? Okay.
30:05 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
30:05 Travis McElroy? The Road Is Calling is better.
30:08 Griffin McElroy? But do we want to lean into a driving sort of aesthetic, right? If we talk about driving a car, there's a lot of people who don't like that stuff.
30:17 Travis McElroy? If we were willing to commit to like a long ass tour with a bus, then, then I think we could get into it, but we know we're not gonna do it.
30:27 Griffin McElroy? I also don't want to pick a name that people are gonna clock us on. You just picked that because it's a good tour name, you know? 20 Sunny Drive, The Road Is Calling, The McElroy's Four Month Long Tour of These Great United States of America.
30:40 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
30:40 Griffin McElroy? Is, is a little transparent.
30:42 Travis McElroy? Seems self-serving.
30:43 Griffin McElroy? A little bit.
30:45 Griffin McElroy? 20 Overdrive.
30:48 Travis McElroy? 20 Overdrive, I, my, even though, yes, it's like, I wrote it down because you kind of have to. I'm not sure that we can live up to 20 overdrive.
30:58 Griffin McElroy? That's stinking thinking.
30:59 Travis McElroy? I feel like with 20 overdrive, I've known you guys for a long time. And like, even though we can get pretty riled up right now.
31:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
31:06 Travis McElroy? What I'm saying is come like August, you know what I mean? I'm like, are we all three of us gonna feel like pushing it into overdrive? Or by that point, might we feel like, boy, it'd be nice if we had a few, just to be able to like, you know what I mean?
31:24 Griffin McElroy? For a second.
31:25 Travis McElroy? I've always thought of it as a sliding scale where, where maybe your new maximum is 15%. And then you give 16% and that's overdrive, man.
31:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, no.
31:39 Travis McElroy? Cause if I give full throttle on a Hyundai Lantre, it ain't the same as doing in a Lambo. You know what I mean?
31:44 Griffin McElroy? I guess so. Are you the Lambo in this analogy?
31:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm a Lambo guy now.
31:49 Griffin McElroy? Okay, you're a Lambo guy?
31:50 Travis McElroy? Yeah, now.
31:51 Griffin McElroy? That's kind of cool.
31:52 Travis McElroy? It's not up to me. I don't want to drive a Lambo. It's horribly inefficient. I have children. There's no room for car seats or anything. How am I supposed to look pulling up to my kid's school, dropping off a Lambo? And I just have to pop the trunk and they're rolling around in there. But I, as an influencer, I have to.
32:09 Travis McElroy? Can I, can I pitch one of you guys that I'm, was not mine? It was made up by a member of my family, uh, my daughter Cooper, who suggested Freddie Fright Guys.
32:19 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
32:20 Travis McElroy? 20, 20 Freddie. Now, now, shh, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. 20 Freddie Fright Guys.
32:27 Travis McElroy? What is 20 Freddy?
32:30 Griffin McElroy? Before you ask, try to, let's try to fill it in. 20 Freddy fight, fright guy. 20 Freddy fright guys.
32:38 Travis McElroy? Now you have it.
32:40 Travis McElroy? So is this much like 2020 knives, right? Is this saying that there are 20 of these Freddy fright guys? Or is the 20 not part of it?
32:49 Travis McElroy? There's 20 Freddy fright guys. Now, you might be thinking that like it kinda sounds like Five Nights at Freddy's.
32:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
32:57 Travis McElroy? Cause that's probably why Cooper said it, right? But like, it's not. So that's huge for us.
33:03 Griffin McElroy? It's not about Five Nights at all.
33:04 Travis McElroy? Sounds like that very popular thing, but it's not that. It is like smells like Freddy fright. You know what I mean? Five Nights at Freddy's, but it's not. It's 20 Freddy fright.
33:15 Griffin McElroy? I would love some of those.
33:17 Travis McElroy? It's also not Freddy Krueger.
33:18 Travis McElroy? No.
33:19 Griffin McElroy? No.
33:19 Travis McElroy? But what's more evocative?
33:21 Travis McElroy? It's more evocative à la Freddy Krueger.
33:24 Travis McElroy? Like you get the idea of it.
33:26 Travis McElroy? As, as made famous by Freddy Krueger.
33:29 Travis McElroy? Yes, yes, yes.
33:31 Griffin McElroy? I would love to start.
33:32 Travis McElroy? Freddy Krueger.
33:33 Griffin McElroy? I would love for our work to start popping in some kids' FNAF algorithms.
33:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's true. We're never gonna be on like a kids', like. Kids still do Trapper Keepers and stuff?
33:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, they are definitely doing that.
33:47 Travis McElroy? When they have our faces on them.
33:48 Griffin McElroy? But I can say things like, I'm gonna snap Huggy Wuggy's neck if you don't hit the subscribe button and they'll just do it. I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen them do it. That would be so huge and sick for us. I'm gonna put two asterisks next to 20 Freddy fright guys.
34:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I like that one.
34:05 Travis McElroy? 20 jump and jive, swing is back.
34:08 Travis McElroy? It, I knew, okay, Griffin.
34:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that one's also on my list.
34:13 Travis McElroy? Come here, link, wait, no, what? I thought we had prepared for Travis.
34:17 Griffin McElroy? No, that one's on my list of things that I knew Travis was going to say. I'm not going to go with 20 jump and jive.
34:22 Travis McElroy? Like ours with me, he's gonna try to push through us to bring swing back.
34:25 Travis McElroy? You were talking about an aesthetic. You could see the look, you could see yourself dressing as bees.
34:31 Griffin McElroy? Now.
34:31 Travis McElroy? Well, here you are, wallet chain.
34:33 Griffin McElroy? My.
34:34 Travis McElroy? Big dance.
34:35 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yikes. My disappointment in you is so complete right now, but mostly because you have the subtitle.
34:45 Griffin McElroy? And you're ready to wail. Now you're, now you're ready to wail. Now get ready to wail? How the fuck does that song go? And that's kinda cool.
34:53 Travis McElroy? And you're ready to wail.
34:54 Griffin McElroy? And you're ready to jump and drive. Get ready to wail. What's that mean? What does it mean to wail in 2025?
35:02 Travis McElroy? Griffin, Griffin, how did it feel to tell Travis how disappointed you were of him and then just absolutely shit your pants?
35:10 Griffin McElroy? Listen, I think wailing is strong.
35:13 Travis McElroy? I really enjoyed it over here as a bystander.
35:14 Griffin McElroy? I think wailing is strong. Scream a primal scream against this bad world. That's something, there's something there aesthetically.
35:23 Travis McElroy? Hmm. Here's one I think you guys will like. Monkey with a knife, chaos reigns.
35:33 Travis McElroy? I mean, it will. And like, can we not have a counter? I mean, I don't think I want chaos to be a prime, primary theme. I like stability. I, you know what I mean? Like, I don't want chaos to reign. I like showing up for our live shows at the right time. You know what I mean? Like, I don't want people to shoot us with silly string and be like, chaos reigns, like.
35:54 Griffin McElroy? I mean this as a compliment. Travis, it's really, really, really gonna seem like it's not. I just wanna set that up.
36:03 Travis McElroy? Okay, go on.
36:05 Griffin McElroy? It's a compliment to your craft. It's giving Family Guy a little bit Monkey with a Knife is.
36:15 Griffin McElroy? I mean it as a, I mean it as a compliment.
36:18 Travis McElroy? That I'm better than that? Is that what you mean? Is that the compliment?
36:22 Travis McElroy? Not a compliment.
36:23 Griffin McElroy? Monkey with a knife, I can see on a T-shirt at Spencer's Gifts and it gives me the, it gives me the yucks. I, the chaos reigns stuff is also rough. I don't wanna instill that in the world, but Monkey with a Knife.
36:36 Travis McElroy? Justin, thank you for adding the little bit Family Guy parentheses to remind me why not to bring it up again?
36:42 Travis McElroy? It's a little bit Family Guy.
36:42 Griffin McElroy? It's not not to bring it up again, cuz I did mean it as a compliment. I'll put one asterisk and a plus sign.
36:49 Travis McElroy? Hmm, okay.
36:50 Griffin McElroy? Next to this one.
36:53 Griffin McElroy? Asterisk plus.
36:54 Travis McElroy? I have about three more that I really like. If anybody else wants to go next, though.
37:00 Griffin McElroy? I look, I got on rhyming dictionary and I got some that are like so clearly like you got on rhyming dictionary and it's like not words like people. No. So like 2020 shrive, confess your sins. To shrive, I guess, means to say the unspeakable things that you've done. 2020 skive shedding layers. That's like if you peel leather. If you, when you skin something, I guess that's um skiving. Um, I had 2020 chive, ramp it up.
37:36 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's cute.
37:36 Travis McElroy? That's clever.
37:38 Travis McElroy? That's clever.
37:39 Griffin McElroy? But do we want to do another plant one?
37:41 Travis McElroy? Well, so I also had a tribe.
37:43 Travis McElroy? A lot of Appalachian energy in that.
37:46 Griffin McElroy? There is good Appalachian energy in there. I do agree.
37:48 Travis McElroy? I like that.
37:49 Travis McElroy? Can I share my uh tribe one as well?
37:52 Travis McElroy? Hmm, sure.
37:54 Travis McElroy? I had. I had cream cheese lox and chive. It's bagel time.
38:02 Travis McElroy? You had it where? In your head and then decided, where did you have it?
38:06 Travis McElroy? I wrote it down on my list.
38:08 Griffin McElroy? 25.
38:08 Travis McElroy? It was on your list.
38:09 Griffin McElroy? Cream cheese lox and chive. It does. The meter is correct.
38:14 Travis McElroy? Was this, sorry, was this one of the year themes you were suggesting?
38:17 Travis McElroy? Yes, cream cheese lox and chive.
38:20 Griffin McElroy? How hard are you fighting? How hard are you fighting for this one, Trav?
38:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
38:23 Travis McElroy? Well, I was gonna fight for it as hard as the room.
38:26 Travis McElroy? Can I ask you a serious question? Is there a bar?
38:30 Travis McElroy? No, here's the thing, boys.
38:31 Travis McElroy? Is there a bar before it gets to us or is it just sort of a uh a funnel?
38:36 Travis McElroy? Here's the thing, boys. I don't like to limit myself because I, I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but I don't have a good filter.
38:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
38:45 Travis McElroy? And so that means that some, some, the occasional whiff makes its way through. But if that means the rest of the gold is able to make it out, that's fine.
38:56 Griffin McElroy? There's gold in here. There's absolute gold in here.
38:57 Travis McElroy? I don't want to stop the gold from coming out.
38:59 Griffin McElroy? Thunderforce 5 is one of my front runners right now.
39:02 Travis McElroy? I haven't even given you guys, I have two more and I'm saving the best for last.
39:07 Griffin McElroy? Okay, fuck yeah. Fuck yeah, man. I like that energy. Um, did we put 2020 chive, ramp it up? No, we didn't, of course. I'm the only steward.
39:15 Travis McElroy? I'll add that. I haven't added any yet.
39:17 Griffin McElroy? I just think if I'm speaking, you could type mine in.
39:21 Griffin McElroy? So I don't have to talk and type at the same time.
39:25 Griffin McElroy? What is 20 chive though? Like, what's that mean? What is that trying to tell?
39:29 Travis McElroy? I don't know. You said it.
39:31 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
39:32 Travis McElroy? Right.
39:36 Griffin McElroy? 20 power dive coming in hot.
39:40 Griffin McElroy? A power dive is a term in aviation.
39:45 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
39:45 Griffin McElroy? To use the engine to go down faster than gravity is pulling you down.
39:52 Travis McElroy? Yes, I learned about it from tailspin, I believe.
39:55 Griffin McElroy? 20 power dive coming in hot. A lot of people feel like they are going down to the bottom. I'm saying, push it harder. Push it to the bo- push it to the bottom.
40:09 Travis McElroy? I don't think, Griffin, if I may, I'm not a pilot.
40:13 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:15 Travis McElroy? True. Justin, it appears is a sea captain. I can tell by his hat.
40:19 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:19 Travis McElroy? But I don't think that a power dive ends with you crashing into the ground.
40:24 Griffin McElroy? And there's nothing in my thing about crashing.
40:27 Travis McElroy? You said to the bottom.
40:29 Griffin McElroy? To land. There's something about, if you feel a downward trajectory in your life, take control of it and blast the engine down.
40:37 Travis McElroy? Use it. Let me mention this then. Let me go ahead and throw out 20 take a dive. I meant to do that.
40:45 Travis McElroy? Okay. So.
40:48 Travis McElroy? In 20 take a dive, you may, maybe it looked to the outside observer like you failed, but actually it's all part of the plan.
41:00 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
41:01 Travis McElroy? 20 take a dive. I meant to do that. So here's my pitch. I love 20 take a dive. It's my favorite one.
41:08 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
41:09 Travis McElroy? Here's my pitch. Funglor, best one we've ever done.
41:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
41:13 Travis McElroy? As Griffin pointed out, we've been slowly ramping up quality of years every time.
41:18 Griffin McElroy? Are you guys, by the way, starting to feel the dread that we're not going to get it? Cause I'm sorry.
41:22 Travis McElroy? To reach an unsustainable point.
41:24 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
41:25 Travis McElroy? So this year is 20 take a dive can all be winners. And this year, yeah, it's not good. It's not good. It's not good.
41:34 Griffin McElroy? No, choose your mouth.
41:35 Travis McElroy? Resetting. And we're resetting the expectations of the year so that by 2026, we're back, no pressure, ready to start over and rebuild from there.
41:49 Griffin McElroy? I wasn't sure what the aesthetic of 20 Take a Dive is.
41:54 Travis McElroy? It's one big shrug.
41:55 Griffin McElroy? Until you framed it that way. A shrug, a fourth place medal.
41:59 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
42:01 Griffin McElroy? There's some, there's something, there's something there. I think that's a message I want to give to people, like, take a dive and lower your expectations. I don't know that I could do it myself.
42:15 Griffin McElroy? I want everything that we work on to be the best that it can be and that I know it can be every time. And that informs a lot of my personality.
42:22 Travis McElroy? That's why the, the, the tagline is can't all be winners.
42:27 Griffin McElroy? But to me, I think they can and they have to be, or else, or else, or else, people won't like me anymore.
42:38 Travis McElroy? They'll discover that he's a phony. You're the type of person who really needs to take a dive and see how it turns out.
42:44 Griffin McElroy? For sure Travis, for sure Travis, for sure Dr. Travis. I know this. I've heard this, been told this.
42:54 Travis McElroy? We are never going to recover from the formatting of you putting a sub bullet into this list. I don't know how we come back to our beautiful list since you put an indented sub bullet into our bulleted list.
43:06 Griffin McElroy? I apologize. This is the sub, this is like an addition, a suggestion for a subheading.
43:11 Travis McElroy? Here we're gonna do slash, like earlier, like earlier in the document. I meant to do that slash, can't all be winners.
43:21 Griffin McElroy? Can't all be winners.
43:25 Travis McElroy? The, here's our, uh, uh, uh, uh, okay. So we got 20 Take a Dive. I think we all kind of saw that coming. What about 20 Clear Your Drive? No, seriously.
43:36 Travis McElroy? Because I think we all have some things on that drive that we're like, I do need to clear it. But you don't have a sign from the universe. It's like, no, really, it's time.
43:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
43:48 Travis McElroy? This is like, kind of a, plant your flag, like, we, the podcast are telling you, you have to this time.
43:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
43:57 Travis McElroy? You have to.
43:58 Travis McElroy? Will we get angry emails if it's not blast your own cash? It does feel a little bit kind of.
44:06 Griffin McElroy? It feels winky.
44:08 Travis McElroy? It feels winky, doesn't it? Oh, deleted.
44:12 Griffin McElroy? I know, I do. There's something about 20 Blast Your Drive, 20 Clear Your Drive, is that what you said? 20 Clear Your Drive, not because like you've got secret naughty shit because you've got Looney Tunes Hintai on your computer. You gotta get rid of that stuff.
44:29 Travis McElroy? Deep pull.
44:30 Griffin McElroy? It's just sort of informational hygiene. Sometimes I look at my desktop and I wanna be sick because of how I've held on to so much digital garbage.
44:42 Travis McElroy? I do. One time Bebe came in, I have dual monitors and they're filled with so many weird JPEGs from like abnormal stuff.
44:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
44:49 Travis McElroy? And just like, a lot of JPEGs from things I've pulled of like bits from my brother, my brother, me and Clubhouse and stuff, and they're all just loose.
44:57 Griffin McElroy? Just loose WAV files just drifting about.
45:01 Travis McElroy? And Bebe was like, why does your computer look like that? And I was like, oh, it's just a bunch of files. She was like, why don't you get rid of them?
45:06 Griffin McElroy? And a lot of dang time, my computer doesn't work so good or fast. And almost always, I go in and I clear up my drive.
45:16 Griffin McElroy? And then it starts working a little bit better. And this can be more of a metaphorical thing too, right? Like, clear your life drive. What's in your life drive filling it up? Now I'm feeling sort of a reboot aesthetic, just a sort of like digital avatars. And it's like, what's in your life that you need to get rid of to get right with Christ? What is, what would Jesus not like that you do in your life every day?
45:41 Travis McElroy? I think it would be powerful to be like, 20 Clear Your Drive, reboot. Big exclamation point, reboot.
45:48 Griffin McElroy? I mean, that's embracing the rebuild the monster energy that I aesthetically was drawn to. A reclaiming, a reclaiming vibe.
45:58 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay. Can I just say to jump back to the monster, something about 2.0 as a mindset? Right? Of it's not rebuilding because of failure. It's an iteration improvement, you know what I mean? This isn't like starting from scratch.
46:14 Griffin McElroy? No.
46:15 Travis McElroy? Because it was wrong. This is like a 2.0 iteration.
46:20 Griffin McElroy? 22.5. Kind of mixed. 22.5.
46:24 Travis McElroy? Doesn't mean anything.
46:28 Griffin McElroy? How long are we going? Forty-seven minutes, huh? That sucks.
46:32 Griffin McElroy? Let me, let's crack this, let's crack this baby wide open. Let's crack this baby, let's go to money's, do we have money zone?
46:40 Travis McElroy? I mean, okay, if there's a money zone, it's here.
46:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
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47:11 Travis McElroy? Why, why did you say that like you were talking about me?
47:13 Travis McElroy? Oh, I, that wasn't intentional, Travis.
47:16 Travis McElroy? It felt very pointed.
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47:55 Travis McElroy? We're recording this. Do you have a brother who's like real stupid and like not good with money? No, this is just in general, Justin. This is just in general. And like, it's not good with money and like you wouldn't trust it.
48:06 Travis McElroy? The character's name is Justin General?
48:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's Justin General.
48:10 Travis McElroy? Okay.
48:10 Travis McElroy? He's a Lance Corporal.
48:12 Travis McElroy? Okay.
48:13 Griffin McElroy? Um, clearly a captain.
48:15 Travis McElroy? He's a captain?
48:16 Griffin McElroy? Oh, I see. Fucking hat.
48:17 Travis McElroy? Cause.
48:18 Griffin McElroy? He's wearing a hat that says captain on it.
48:20 Travis McElroy? Listen, it's a good time, in all seriousness, folks. New year's starting. Everybody's looking for new things to work on, things to get in order. It's a great time to get your finances in order.
48:32 Griffin McElroy? 20 unsubscribe. I don't know if we've said that yet because we're recording this after we finished recording.
48:37 Travis McElroy? Oh, this is great.
48:38 Griffin McElroy? But that would have been really powerful for this.
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48:52 Griffin McElroy? And I want to say, I want to say we don't go with 20 unsubscribe. Me saying that wasn't me saying that's what we end up going with. What we end up going with is going to kick your fucking ass, man.
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49:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Is this exhaustion or is this disappointment with the name we ended up with?
49:33 Travis McElroy? This is, I have strep throat and my throat is killing me.
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49:49 Griffin McElroy? Before we get back, we gotta tell you about, we got some new tour dates in Florida.
49:54 Travis McElroy? Nude tour dates?
49:56 Griffin McElroy? Nude, all nude in Florida. February 20th and 21st, doing a bim bam in Taz in Tampa. It's our first ever live Taz in Florida. And then February 22nd.
50:05 Travis McElroy? And our best ever.
50:06 Griffin McElroy? And our best one, February 22nd, we're going to be in Jacksonville doing a bim bam. Tickets go on sale this Friday. January 10th, 10 a.m. local time. For more info and ticket links, go to bit.ly/macroitours. We got a new episode of Clubhouse coming out for you, January 7th. Make sure you catch that and go to macroitmerch.com. Check out all the new stuff we got for the new year. 10% of all merch proceeds this month get donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. So, so head there to macroitmerch.com. We got an energy dragon pin. We got a new wake up and do good shirt. It's gonna be, it's gonna be. Great. So.
50:35 Travis McElroy? And we just did a reveal of we're doing a plushy Miggy on YouTube's. If you go to, uh, if you go to our TikTok profile while active, you can see it there and check that out. Just go to McRoy Family on TikTok and you can see the new Miggy plushy.
50:52 Griffin McElroy? Hold on to your ass. Here it comes.
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52:20 Griffin McElroy? I'm gonna crack this baby white, this coconut open and drink this sweet juice inside and we're all gonna drink it. Let me take this conversation and blow it up into manifold galaxies.
52:33 Griffin McElroy? XXV. Get rid of 2025. XXV.
52:42 Griffin McElroy? If we want to go with a subtitle, a naming, rhyming scheme, it can be, it then rhymes with V, which is.
52:51 Travis McElroy? That would just be 25, Griffin.
52:53 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, no, I know, but we're not going to be alive in the 22nd century, Travis.
52:57 Travis McElroy? But what he's, but what he's, what Travis is pointing out, Griffin, is that that isn't that, I mean, it isn't 2025. You're just saying 25.
53:07 Griffin McElroy? Okay, MCMXXV. Oops, it's ruined. Or should we do the other one that's fucking cool and sexy?
53:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah, but like. I think it would actually just be MMXXV.
53:17 Travis McElroy? XXV.
53:18 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yeah, MCM was, so MMXXV. That doesn't.
53:21 Travis McElroy? MMXXV.
53:22 Griffin McElroy? Five letters is kind of cool. I feel like XXV is where it's at.
53:26 Travis McElroy? If we can figure out a thing like that it stood for, like an acronym, that MMXXV, but what, put, give me two words back to back and start with X that make sense. Xerox, Xerox.
53:37 Griffin McElroy? Vape.
53:41 Travis McElroy? Wait, guys, listen.
53:41 Travis McElroy? Machine Monster, Xerox, Xerox Vape.
53:45 Travis McElroy? If you could get me to Mighty Morphin, that's, we got Mighty Morphin right there, right?
53:51 Travis McElroy? Mighty Morphin Xerox Vape. New from Bandai.
53:54 Travis McElroy? Mighty Morphin X-Ray Vapors.
53:57 Griffin McElroy? XXV, I could see in a silver embossed font on the side of a bottle of fancy men's cologne sold at the, sold at the Nordstrom Rack. XXV, XXV Serenity. Like, that's the name of a cologne by Dior.
54:18 Travis McElroy? Right.
54:20 Travis McElroy? So your suggestion is Roman numerals, just the idea of Roman numerals.
54:24 Griffin McElroy? It's never going to be this short and tight and hot again as XXV. Never going to be that succinct.
54:32 Travis McElroy? Is there a subtitle to it? Or you're just saying just XXV?
54:34 Griffin McElroy? XXV. XXV. The next one's me.
54:39 Travis McElroy? XXV, classy boys.
54:42 Griffin McElroy? We already did a classy year and it was awesome.
54:47 Travis McElroy? Dignified.
54:48 Travis McElroy? XXV Rome if you want to.
54:51 Griffin McElroy? And that's R O M E? Good.
54:56 Griffin McElroy? Now, we have to, I want to foster a space where what you just said is cool. Cause we're not gonna get there if we don't, if we think that that sucks.
55:04 Travis McElroy? XXV Rome.
55:07 Griffin McElroy? We should all be able to say shit like that, Juice, is what I'm saying.
55:10 Travis McElroy? No, listen, listen. XXV Rome if you want to, like, we all know the numerals. And they're cool, right? But what are those Rome stuff?
55:20 Griffin McElroy? I'm gonna start a new bullet pointed list.
55:22 Travis McElroy? What if we, I'm saying, I'm saying, I want to make a year theme where every day, people will think about Rome. You know what I mean? Like, think about their...
55:31 Travis McElroy? Like, what's your Roman Empire kinda do?
55:34 Travis McElroy? Yeah, like, it'll be like, they're, like, I want people's Roman Empire to be the, the Roman Empire. You know what I mean? Where they're like, thinking about, they're thinking about it again.
55:44 Travis McElroy? So, thinking about what they think about a lot will become...
55:47 Griffin McElroy? Bit of a lot.
55:48 Travis McElroy? No, I'm just saying, like, everybody can think about the Roman Empire this year.
55:51 Travis McElroy? Not just men?
55:53 Travis McElroy? Rome if you want to.
55:55 Travis McElroy? Huh.
55:56 Griffin McElroy? Can I stretch?
56:02 Travis McElroy? We should, we should have taken a break at the money's a...
56:04 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I thought that's what we were gonna do, and then we rolled right through it.
56:07 Travis McElroy? Let's take a, let's take an actual break.
56:09 Griffin McElroy? No, cause we already did it.
56:12 Griffin McElroy? I'm starting to feel that sort of frenetic panic, and I think we can use that.
56:21 Travis McElroy? Guys, while I was pissing, I had an idea.
56:25 Griffin McElroy? Can you give it a little bit more gravitas than that?
56:29 Travis McElroy? It struck me, an epiphany.
56:31 Griffin McElroy? An epiphany?
56:32 Travis McElroy? An epiphany struck me, guys. Like the record show, excuse me, excuse me, judges. Like the record show, I be driven by upon three points. And it's a poor manteau that I love.
56:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
56:45 Travis McElroy? Choose your own adventure year.
56:47 Griffin McElroy? Okay, hold on.
56:48 Travis McElroy? No, hear me out, hear me out. Because my last suggestion was 20 strive to thrive. Better than ever. So what if we split the year?
56:59 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
56:59 Travis McElroy? It's a, it's a hybrid year of 20 take a dive and 20 strive to thrive. And you choose which one you want to embrace.
57:07 Griffin McElroy? The naming convent, the rhyming convention of 20 strive to thrive is so deranged.
57:16 Travis McElroy? It strains cajolity.
57:18 Travis McElroy? Well, I didn't want, I didn't want strive or thrive by itself.
57:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
57:25 Travis McElroy? But strive to thrive really hit me.
57:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
57:27 Travis McElroy? In my heart. But if you, but if you're like, I don't have it in me to strive to thrive this year.
57:33 Travis McElroy? I feel like.
57:33 Travis McElroy? Then you take a dive.
57:35 Travis McElroy? I feel like to make another different.
57:41 Griffin McElroy? Different five rhyme.
57:42 Travis McElroy? Use the rhyme, to use the different rhyme before it.
57:45 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
57:45 Travis McElroy? It just really calls attention to how rhymes.
57:48 Travis McElroy? So it can be like. To thrive and or take a dive. It's all one year.
57:52 Griffin McElroy? The fact that take a dive doesn't have two five rhymes in it also, like kind of, uh, it makes it a little bit.
57:59 Travis McElroy? To dive.
58:02 Travis McElroy? Strive to thrive or dive. Your choice. That's the.
58:07 Travis McElroy? Strive or dive.
58:08 Travis McElroy? Your choice.
58:09 Travis McElroy? Strive or thrive.
58:11 Travis McElroy? Thrive or dive. Your choice.
58:13 Griffin McElroy? How, how much do we care about that? How much do we give a shit about that?
58:19 Travis McElroy? How important is the?
58:20 Griffin McElroy? If we take that.
58:21 Travis McElroy? Never die.
58:22 Griffin McElroy? 20 never die, like it really, 20 funny guys, be yourself. Like a lot of these things come back.
58:27 Travis McElroy? I mean, if we look back to 24 word, 24 word.
58:31 Griffin McElroy? Way out there.
58:31 Travis McElroy? Seems like if we can't do I've sound, what are we doing? You know what I mean?
58:36 Travis McElroy? It's one of the easiest. Yeah.
58:38 Griffin McElroy? It's not one of the easiest. It's not one of the easiest.
58:41 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived. Take it or leave it.
58:46 Travis McElroy? Oh.
58:48 Travis McElroy? I'm, or I will also accept 20 I've arrived. You may begin.
58:53 Travis McElroy? Oh.
58:55 Griffin McElroy? What's that mean?
58:56 Travis McElroy? What that means is I've arrived.
58:58 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
58:59 Travis McElroy? Whatever it was, I've arrived. You may begin.
59:04 Griffin McElroy? You gotta give me, you gotta tell me what it is.
59:07 Travis McElroy? I think it's pretty self.
59:08 Griffin McElroy? It's cool. I, I'm.
59:10 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived.
59:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
59:11 Travis McElroy? You may begin.
59:13 Griffin McElroy? I'm asking follow up questions because I'm interested.
59:16 Travis McElroy? Okay, good. Good, good, good. Okay.
59:17 Griffin McElroy? What is it? What are you talking about?
59:18 Travis McElroy? Okay, so let me, I'm hearing, I'm hearing what you're saying.
59:21 Travis McElroy? Hold on. Janice?
59:22 Travis McElroy? I hear.
59:23 Travis McElroy? Clear my schedule.
59:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I hear what you're saying, Griffin.
59:26 Griffin McElroy? You guys have gotta get different secretaries at some point, by the way. That's.
59:29 Travis McElroy? Well, Justin and I have the same schedule.
59:31 Travis McElroy? We do.
59:32 Travis McElroy? We share a calendar.
59:35 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived.
59:38 Travis McElroy? You may begin. You asked me, what is it? Right?
59:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
59:41 Travis McElroy? So I'm gonna do something interesting. It's a thought experiment.
59:44 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
59:45 Travis McElroy? I'm going to take that question, I'm gonna turn it around. I'm gonna ask you, Griffin, what is it?
59:49 Griffin McElroy? Awesome.
59:51 Griffin McElroy? The part, the function.
59:53 Travis McElroy? Exactly. The meaning, the intervention, whatever it is.
59:59 Travis McElroy? It's more than those two options, though, right?
1:00:01 Griffin McElroy? It's one of those two.
1:00:02 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived. You may begin. A funeral, whatever.
1:00:06 Griffin McElroy? Be cool energy to say, don't start the intervention until I get there. I get there.
1:00:11 Travis McElroy? The intervention don't start till I walk.
1:00:14 Griffin McElroy? We're all really worried about.
1:00:15 Travis McElroy? Because it's for me. I'm the one benefiting from it. Or because I'm the paid therapist who's late. So sorry. It's probably awkward to.
1:00:25 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived.
1:00:29 Travis McElroy? I like it because it does imply like a, I'm in my power. I'm taking this like.
1:00:35 Griffin McElroy? It's I if I don't like.
1:00:38 Travis McElroy? You don't like the double rhyme, I think is what we're learning here.
1:00:41 Travis McElroy? Twenty I've arrived. Is that what it is?
1:00:43 Griffin McElroy? Twenty.
1:00:44 Travis McElroy? We've arrived?
1:00:47 Travis McElroy? In our power.
1:00:48 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, we've arrived. We've arrived. We've arrived.
1:00:52 Travis McElroy? Arrived to have I've. Does that work better?
1:00:55 Travis McElroy? Twenty, they've arrived. Let's deal with it.
1:00:58 Travis McElroy? Oh, like an aliens thing?
1:00:59 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
1:01:00 Travis McElroy? Like it's aliens.
1:01:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:01:01 Travis McElroy? Twenty, they've arrived.
1:01:02 Travis McElroy? You seen them drones?
1:01:05 Travis McElroy? Twenty drones, twenty drones arrived.
1:01:07 Griffin McElroy? Twenty drones arrived.
1:01:08 Travis McElroy? Twenty, twenty Cs arrive.
1:01:11 Travis McElroy? Twenty drones arrived. No more fireworks.
1:01:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:01:14 Travis McElroy? Cause really, they're better.
1:01:14 Travis McElroy? That is true. Okay, listen.
1:01:16 Travis McElroy? Right?
1:01:16 Travis McElroy? You're on to something there. Who's, what, who's fucking using fireworks anymore?
1:01:20 Travis McElroy? Maybe someone would do a drone show for us for free if we called the year twenty drones arrive, no more fireworks.
1:01:26 Griffin McElroy? That's, there's, I'm feeling good about twenty, twenty, they've arrived. Something, the outer space aesthetic is kinda cool to me. I also feel like it might be this year.
1:01:39 Travis McElroy? Then could it be twenty, they'll arrive? Like it's a prediction?
1:01:42 Griffin McElroy? I don't like the prediction.
1:01:44 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:01:44 Griffin McElroy? It would be like if twenty fungal or was called twenty mushrooms are gonna get so hot. Like, we don't wanna put our, our, our name on the line.
1:01:52 Travis McElroy? We do, if you read the news, there has been a fun thing for quite a while now where a lot of the big government people are kinda like, yeah, yeah, yeah, aliens the whole time. Absolutely. And everyone's kinda like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we thought, the government guys are just kinda sitting there like, you guys got any follow-ups?
1:02:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you were right.
1:02:10 Travis McElroy? You're right. Okay.
1:02:11 Travis McElroy? What are you doing with that now?
1:02:12 Griffin McElroy? I do know.
1:02:14 Travis McElroy? You got us. Okay, you got us.
1:02:15 Travis McElroy? It does seem like a lot of people who are like, I think there are aliens, didn't have a second step to that plan.
1:02:20 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:02:21 Travis McElroy? So that when government guys are like, yeah, they're like, oh, okay.
1:02:25 Griffin McElroy? I imagine there is a sort of.
1:02:27 Travis McElroy? Can we see him?
1:02:27 Travis McElroy? No.
1:02:27 Griffin McElroy? No way.
1:02:28 Travis McElroy? Absolutely not.
1:02:29 Travis McElroy? Well, now I don't think there are aliens. That's my new conspiracy theory. You're lying about there being aliens.
1:02:35 Griffin McElroy? I, I imagine there's a, a class of sort of nomadic podcast listener. Who wants to show that they're following starts talking a bunch about aliens. They're like pack, they start packing it up and they say, well, good, well, we will find our way to less alien rich waters. Um, I think a lot of shows go this route and it's a slippery slope.
1:02:58 Travis McElroy? Now, but this is also a chance driven for us to establish a new base of listener with aliens.
1:03:04 Griffin McElroy? I'm not even interested.
1:03:05 Travis McElroy? So if it was 20, they've arrived, open arms.
1:03:09 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to espouse that.
1:03:11 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:03:12 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to espouse.
1:03:13 Travis McElroy? You don't want aliens to like our show?
1:03:16 Griffin McElroy? I don't think there's any chance aliens.
1:03:19 Travis McElroy? You don't want to court, you don't want to court that demographic.
1:03:21 Griffin McElroy? I think it's pointless. I've, I worry what it says to humans more than what it says to aliens. If I'm like, come on aliens, come and give it, this is a, this is cool for you. Come and get it. Um, I'm, that sends a message to real humans. That's what I'm more concerned about.
1:03:34 Travis McElroy? 20 they've arrived, characters welcome.
1:03:37 Griffin McElroy? What are you doing right now, Juice?
1:03:39 Travis McElroy? I was thinking.
1:03:40 Griffin McElroy? What are you looking at?
1:03:41 Travis McElroy? What? My finger. I was thinking, look at my finger. I got a splinter. I got a splinter in my finger.
1:03:48 Travis McElroy? You seem so philosophical in that moment. I was thinking like Justin's going through something. Justin's processing.
1:03:55 Travis McElroy? That's like, that's why like Stanislavski, when he was teaching people acting, he would have people stand on the stage and they wouldn't do anything. And then he'd have them count the floorboards and then instantly become more captivating. We just love to see people, you know, in their element, really living their lives.
1:04:10 Travis McElroy? I don't know that I'm, I don't. Do you guys think you see it on here?
1:04:15 Griffin McElroy? No, no fucking.
1:04:16 Travis McElroy? Now there's a base level of 20, we'll survive, just get through it.
1:04:21 Travis McElroy? No.
1:04:21 Travis McElroy? But I don't think that.
1:04:22 Travis McElroy? I know.
1:04:23 Travis McElroy? I know, but I didn't want, do you ever get to a point in the name of the year where you start thinking what's going to be the thing that people like message us later? Yeah.
1:04:31 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I don't, I, yeah.
1:04:34 Griffin McElroy? What about 20 Honey Hive back in business?
1:04:38 Travis McElroy? Okay, what about, you know what? Let's, that's not a bad idea Travis. Let's, let me read through the list real quick.
1:04:44 Griffin McElroy? Oh, have I already said that one?
1:04:46 Travis McElroy? 20, uh, It's Alive, Rebuild the Monster. These are two like retro themes. 2045, Welcome to the Future.
1:04:53 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
1:04:54 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force 5, The Omega Continuum.
1:04:56 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
1:04:57 Travis McElroy? 2020 Knives, 400 Blades.
1:04:59 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
1:05:00 Travis McElroy? 20 Journey Ives, Mind the Bezzles.
1:05:02 Griffin McElroy? Cool, fuck, these all rule, damn it.
1:05:04 Travis McElroy? Um, 20 Do It Live, No Rehearsal. Fucking thing sucks. Curtains up. 20 Overdrive.
1:05:14 Griffin McElroy? 20 Overdrive, I will say, is my most phonetically, I, I think pleasing one. The most, the most, uh, opportunity-rich option.
1:05:23 Travis McElroy? 20 Overdrive, and there's no subtitle.
1:05:26 Griffin McElroy? I had no, I had, here, I'll add the subtitle to that.
1:05:29 Travis McElroy? 20 Overdrive, no subs, all dubs.
1:05:33 Travis McElroy? 20 Super, 20 Superdrive, Pedal of the Metal.
1:05:36 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
1:05:39 Travis McElroy? 24 Wheel Drive.
1:05:43 Travis McElroy? Okay, No Limits, that's with both a K, and yeah, that's aesthetically great. 20 Sunny Drive, The Road Is Calling. 20 Freddy Fright Guys. 20 Jumpin' Jive, And You're Ready to Whale. Monkey With a Knife, Chaos Reigns. I think you've been hearing it, we know that's not right.
1:06:00 Griffin McElroy? No, it's a little bit Family Guy here.
1:06:02 Travis McElroy? 2020 Chive, Ramp It Up. 20 Power Dive, Coming in Hot. 20 Take a Dive, I Meant to Do That slash Can't All Be Winners. 20 I've Arrived, You May Begin.
1:06:13 Griffin McElroy? XXV, Rome if you want to, XXV, and then there's like an awaiting, like, there's gotta be more on this XXV vine. Uh, some meat on the bone, if you will. 20 Strive to Thrive, I See Travis's And/or Dive.
1:06:29 Griffin McElroy? XXV, Tex Mex Me. That's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. Tex Mex Me.
1:06:38 Travis McElroy? Okay, you got the emphasis right.
1:06:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:06:40 Travis McElroy? That time, it's like, it's like, Tex Mex Me.
1:06:45 Griffin McElroy? But then you'd have to say it like XXV.
1:06:48 Griffin McElroy? Tex Mex Me.
1:06:54 Travis McElroy? It's quite simply XXV.
1:06:57 Travis McElroy? XXV, Tex Mex Me.
1:06:59 Travis McElroy? Hmm, I like that.
1:07:00 Griffin McElroy? Tex Mex Me sounds like you're about to do a character that is gonna get you kicked out of whatever friend group you're in. And this is a character I call Tex Mex Griffin. Here he goes.
1:07:12 Travis McElroy? Can I just say?
1:07:15 Travis McElroy? This is, and this is Polish me. Here we are. All right.
1:07:18 Griffin McElroy? Here we go.
1:07:19 Travis McElroy? Here we go.
1:07:21 Travis McElroy? I don't want to use up Roman numerals because 2030, we could make it XXX too hot for TV.
1:07:30 Griffin McElroy? You are saying, let's not do this joke now. Let's let it ripen on the vine for five more years and then definitely bust it out.
1:07:37 Travis McElroy? I don't think XXV is, because I'm looking at it like, oh, it's disappointing that that last letter is not also X.
1:07:42 Griffin McElroy? Ah, I think it's kind of cool, actually. It's what makes it, why you would see it on a cologne bottle of Dior.
1:07:48 Travis McElroy? So it would be like XXV almost too hot for TV.
1:07:51 Griffin McElroy? I'm trying to play with form.
1:07:54 Travis McElroy? I understand that. That's why I added Thunder Force 5, The Omega Continuum.
1:08:00 Griffin McElroy? Can you give me another, can you give me something a bit more phonetically pleasing than The Omega Continuum? Do you have other subtitles prepared?
1:08:09 Travis McElroy? That is what I'm, the problem that I have with Thunder Force 5 is that part is good.
1:08:15 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:08:15 Travis McElroy? And then when I get to The Omega Continuum, I feel like it's nerd shit. You know what I mean? Like it's not cool anymore. I want it to be something cool. Like a cool thing.
1:08:27 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force 5, Dink Blastar begins?
1:08:32 Travis McElroy? Again, every time you say Dink Blastar, I want to quit and Joe go join pods.
1:08:37 Travis McElroy? The Rise of Big Hork?
1:08:39 Travis McElroy? Say it again.
1:08:39 Travis McElroy? The Rise of Big Hork?
1:08:41 Travis McElroy? Now unsay it.
1:08:42 Griffin McElroy? I like, I like Dink Blastar. And I just want to put that out there and say that I like Dink Blastar. It's toyetic is really good for me.
1:08:52 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force 5 is toyetic, but I feel like The Omega Continuum, it's getting a little bit Michael Crichton.
1:08:58 Griffin McElroy? Well, then let's do what we do every year. Let's take a subtitle from a different one and put it on there. Thunder Force 5.
1:09:07 Travis McElroy? And you're ready to whale.
1:09:08 Griffin McElroy? Can't all be winners.
1:09:14 Travis McElroy? Text makes me.
1:09:16 Griffin McElroy? I like Thunder Force 5 Can't All Be Winners because it references itself.
1:09:23 Griffin McElroy? It like fails and then acknowledges the failing, which is cool.
1:09:28 Travis McElroy? That is cool.
1:09:29 Travis McElroy? It's like how it took Marvel until like Iron Man for it to really kick off.
1:09:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:09:35 Travis McElroy? Give it time.
1:09:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:09:38 Travis McElroy? 400 blades. Mine the bezels.
1:09:42 Travis McElroy? No limit. 20 overdrive, 20 line drive?
1:09:46 Griffin McElroy? It's not the meter.
1:09:49 Griffin McElroy? Meter's all fucked up.
1:09:54 Travis McElroy? How about medium overdrive? Me, like middle throttle?
1:10:01 Griffin McElroy? Middle, middle drive.
1:10:02 Travis McElroy? Well, because everybody does maximum overdrive, full throttle.
1:10:06 Travis McElroy? Too long, too long of a walk.
1:10:10 Travis McElroy? Is it?
1:10:11 Travis McElroy? 2045.
1:10:14 Griffin McElroy? Pretty good. I don't know how we, how actionable 2045 is aesthetically, obviously.
1:10:22 Travis McElroy? Thunder Force 5, welcome to the future.
1:10:26 Travis McElroy? The future is now.
1:10:27 Griffin McElroy? I'm, I want to put Thunder Force 5 on, as, as the world's biggest Thunder Force 5 fan. I do think we need to set it aside for a second to, to sample the other flavors.
1:10:37 Travis McElroy? Maybe we need to come at this from a different way.
1:10:39 Griffin McElroy? I'd love that.
1:10:41 Travis McElroy? Of thinking about like, in the past, the kind of messages we've embodied with the year.
1:10:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:10:48 Travis McElroy? And like what messaging do we really want to encapsulate this year and work from there?
1:10:53 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:10:57 Travis McElroy? It's been a while since we talked about Christ.
1:11:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, it's a good streak. I'd like to keep that.
1:11:03 Travis McElroy? Okay, great, great, great.
1:11:06 Travis McElroy? 20 find your, 20 find your drive.
1:11:15 Griffin McElroy? I am drawn to technological ideas.
1:11:21 Travis McElroy? Is it because 2025 sounds like such a future year?
1:11:25 Griffin McElroy? Possibly, possibly.
1:11:29 Griffin McElroy? I feel like a lot of my sort of abstract leanings are becoming strong, becoming the monster, becoming the machine. What if instead it is more destroy, destroy the monster, destroy the machine? 20 overdrive, destroy the machine. Rage against, but I guess that's what rage against the machine means, huh?
1:11:56 Travis McElroy? No, to be fair, I've always thought rage against the machine was too passive.
1:12:01 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:12:02 Travis McElroy? You're raging against it. Time to take action.
1:12:05 Griffin McElroy? What if it's 20 overdrive?
1:12:06 Travis McElroy? Rage within the machine.
1:12:09 Griffin McElroy? 20 overdrive, actually rage against the machine.
1:12:13 Travis McElroy? No, but really now. Rage against the machine parentheses, actual.
1:12:17 Griffin McElroy? Really rage against the machine.
1:12:19 Travis McElroy? Really do it.
1:12:21 Griffin McElroy? Really rage against the machine, comma, guys.
1:12:25 Travis McElroy? 20 honey hive.
1:12:28 Griffin McElroy? You can't take us back.
1:12:30 Travis McElroy? 20 don't deprive, I want to throw out some bad ones, okay?
1:12:33 Travis McElroy? Whoa, hey.
1:12:34 Travis McElroy? 20 don't deprive.
1:12:35 Travis McElroy? You can't include 20 honey hive and throw out some bad ones?
1:12:38 Griffin McElroy? It's a bad one, yeah.
1:12:40 Travis McElroy? No, no, no.
1:12:41 Travis McElroy? I think it's the best one we have so far.
1:12:42 Travis McElroy? I'm putting out some bad ones. 20.
1:12:50 Travis McElroy? They're all good.
1:12:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:12:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I feel like when this show ends, it will be during one of these.
1:12:58 Travis McElroy? Right, like this.
1:13:06 Travis McElroy? This'll be the moment.
1:13:07 Travis McElroy? It's so.
1:13:08 Travis McElroy? Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
1:13:10 Travis McElroy? At this point, it has built to a point where it's like, I can see a distant, far future version of myself. It's like, I, no, I'm not, I can't, it's not there.
1:13:21 Griffin McElroy? Johnny Wonderknife.
1:13:24 Travis McElroy? Huh.
1:13:25 Griffin McElroy? Johnny Wonder Knife.
1:13:28 Griffin McElroy? No subtitle.
1:13:30 Travis McElroy? Johnny Wonder Knife?
1:13:32 Griffin McElroy? This is a new guy.
1:13:33 Travis McElroy? That's another character. I really don't want to do that guy.
1:13:36 Travis McElroy? Hold on, it doesn't have to be a character. It could be something like that you would have seen on Amazing Discoveries? Where we're selling an item called the Johnny Wonder Knife?
1:13:45 Griffin McElroy? Oh, cool.
1:13:47 Travis McElroy? What about Twenty Johnny Five? Short Circuit Reboot.
1:13:51 Griffin McElroy? I don't even want to reference the ghost.
1:13:53 Travis McElroy? Justin got so half excited though, Justin. When did I lose you?
1:13:57 Travis McElroy? I thought you were about to, what? The subtitle? I thought you had something good.
1:14:01 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Johnny Five.
1:14:04 Travis McElroy? You need input.
1:14:05 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Johnny Five.
1:14:06 Travis McElroy? It's like, that's not universal enough. Only like, three people like that, and even they will only smirk at it. Oh, man.
1:14:17 Travis McElroy? Twenty Throwing Knife.
1:14:22 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
1:14:25 Travis McElroy? Let me look around my room.
1:14:27 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:14:30 Travis McElroy? Twenty Scary Guy in Corner.
1:14:42 Travis McElroy? Twenty gives me hives. Twenty, no more hives. Allergies are in the mind.
1:14:47 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. That's cool. I don't like it, but it's cool. I'll tell ya. I'll tell ya. Let's, let's explore this, because we're going through every crack and crevice of this fucking booger is... I like hive. I don't think I like honey.
1:15:06 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, is there another type of hive? Or another word we can toss in there?
1:15:14 Travis McElroy? Could it be something about, instead of a beehive, like a wasp hive that you need to destroy?
1:15:20 Griffin McElroy? Twenty.
1:15:20 Travis McElroy? Now, wasp hives are fine.
1:15:21 Griffin McElroy? Twenty burn the hive.
1:15:24 Griffin McElroy? 20 burn the hive.
1:15:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:15:27 Griffin McElroy? Eat.
1:15:27 Travis McElroy? Yeah, cuz the one thing our fans are notable for is their hatred of bees.
1:15:31 Travis McElroy? Not bees, not bees.
1:15:32 Griffin McElroy? Bees.
1:15:33 Travis McElroy? In, oh, I mean, like.
1:15:35 Griffin McElroy? Wasps.
1:15:36 Travis McElroy? Okay, I know, I know wasps are not just angry bees.
1:15:42 Travis McElroy? They're bad.
1:15:44 Griffin McElroy? 20 guard the hive, surround, protect the queen.
1:15:50 Travis McElroy? No, I don't wanna embrace monarchy.
1:15:53 Griffin McElroy? But it's the queen inside.
1:15:56 Travis McElroy? Be the queen.
1:15:57 Travis McElroy? The queen inside is, okay, hold on, wait.
1:16:01 Travis McElroy? 20 honey hive to be the queen inside.
1:16:03 Travis McElroy? 20 I've arrived, the queen inside.
1:16:06 Travis McElroy? Ooh.
1:16:08 Griffin McElroy? You're, you're writing an awfully big check right now, Justin, with the, with the aesthetics of that, that I don't know that any of us are willing to cash.
1:16:19 Travis McElroy? I, okay.
1:16:20 Travis McElroy? 20 funny drive.
1:16:23 Travis McElroy? Listen to this funny podcast I found.
1:16:25 Griffin McElroy? We're getting close.
1:16:25 Travis McElroy? 20 funny drive, my brother, my brother.
1:16:28 Griffin McElroy? We're getting close. This is at least a year, this is a year.
1:16:30 Travis McElroy? 20 max fun drive, consider supporting.
1:16:36 Travis McElroy? The theme of this year is, uh, giving us money.
1:16:39 Griffin McElroy? 20 funny drive, put your, put the boys back in the car, feels pretty good to me cuz people don't listen to podcasts in their car anymore, and it's not putting my kids through college.
1:16:49 Travis McElroy? 20 funny drive, boys back on the menu.
1:16:52 Griffin McElroy? Boys back on the menu is cool. Boys back on the menu? Quick, keep going, we're hot right now, Justin, keep going, don't stop saying it.
1:17:01 Griffin McElroy? I feel like I'll say things that I can't not say. Bill, you're hot right now, Juice.
1:17:05 Travis McElroy? 20, 20, 20 funny drive.
1:17:08 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
1:17:09 Travis McElroy? Boys are back in sound.
1:17:11 Griffin McElroy? Boys are back in sound, it's awesome.
1:17:14 Travis McElroy? That's really good.
1:17:15 Griffin McElroy? That sounds like one of the taglines they came up with for our tele, our short-lived television show.
1:17:25 Travis McElroy? It was just a short season, Griffin, we're gonna get him back.
1:17:28 Griffin McElroy? 20 mega drive. Mega drive.
1:17:35 Griffin McElroy? Time 20 mega drive.
1:17:38 Travis McElroy? 20 bunny drive.
1:17:41 Travis McElroy? Bunny honey hive.
1:17:45 Travis McElroy? Funny honey drive. Fill your life with laughter and bees to the max.
1:17:52 Travis McElroy? Maximum bees.
1:17:54 Griffin McElroy? 20 mega drive, a new genesis.
1:17:59 Griffin McElroy? Uh, the Sega genesis was called the Sega mega drive outside of North America. So this would be a very, um, you know, very 1990s sort of vibe. I guess I'm.
1:18:13 Travis McElroy? I just want to say a new genesis would also be a great subtitle for Thunder Force 5. Just saying Thunder Force 5, a new genesis would be.
1:18:23 Travis McElroy? But that would work for us. I'm talking with my PR team over here and they're all nodding.
1:18:28 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:18:30 Griffin McElroy? Juice, what are you exploring right now?
1:18:32 Travis McElroy? 20 give me five.
1:18:33 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay. This actually occurred to me. I'm so glad you reminded me of this because I had this idea last night of 20 give me five in which we expanded out the language of high fives to not just be celebration or greeting, but depending on what angle your arm was, like the arm of a clock would indicate different emotions.
1:18:53 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
1:18:54 Travis McElroy? So 20 give me five more than words. And so like, if you went fully like.
1:18:58 Griffin McElroy? Done more than words before. We've done more than words. We've cooked with that spice so many times.
1:19:05 Travis McElroy? I just like the idea of if someone's like, how was your weekend? And you like hold your arm out straight to the right and it's like, it was okay.
1:19:12 Griffin McElroy? Think about that. Think about that.
1:19:13 Travis McElroy? You guys need to get back to writing these down because I've thrown out some really good ones.
1:19:17 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:19:21 Travis McElroy? I'll add some of these myself while you're coming up with, coming up with more.
1:19:26 Travis McElroy? Huh.
1:19:29 Travis McElroy? Now I also thought, and I'm, I'm worried about the first blessed messaging of 20 give me five slap around the world.
1:19:39 Travis McElroy? But my idea being that we try to do like a hands across America kind of thing. But it's that we encourage our listeners to like high five in every country.
1:19:48 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to touch people more than I already am, which is not much.
1:19:52 Travis McElroy? No, we wouldn't do it.
1:19:56 Travis McElroy? Now, Justin, I enjoy this one you've thrown in here now.
1:20:00 Travis McElroy? That's one that we've already done, talked about.
1:20:02 Travis McElroy? Twenty Pennywise, quit clowning around, buster.
1:20:05 Griffin McElroy? Oh, no, that's new.
1:20:06 Travis McElroy? Oh, is that new, Travis? Did you just come up with that yourself?
1:20:09 Travis McElroy? Well, Justin, if I did, it was planted in my brain by my brother, inception style.
1:20:15 Travis McElroy? You're the first person to say it in the podcast, so I feel like you must have come up with Twenty Pennywise, quit clowning around, buster. And Travis, I love it.
1:20:24 Travis McElroy? What I love about that is the image of one of us standing at a sewer grave while Pennywise is standing like, "I've got balloons." And you're like, "Quit clowning around, buster."
1:20:33 Travis McElroy? Yo, that's got me, Pennywise. Where you going, Griffin?
1:20:41 Travis McElroy? Twenty, sleep deprived. Twenty, I hate to pry.
1:20:49 Travis McElroy? Twenty, hate to pry is really tough to be actionable, but I, is fun.
1:20:55 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:20:57 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
1:20:58 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, love my wife.
1:21:01 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, love my wife. A true romance.
1:21:06 Travis McElroy? Twenty, love my life.
1:21:07 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, love your life with laughter and love. Twenty, fill your life, colon.
1:21:13 Travis McElroy? Twenty, love your life, down to business.
1:21:18 Griffin McElroy? I'll look back. Twenty, fill your life with laughter and love as like a second called shot, something of.
1:21:29 Travis McElroy? And even less, even less.
1:21:31 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, fill your life, colon, purpose, meaning, laughter.
1:21:37 Travis McElroy? Bees.
1:21:37 Griffin McElroy? Love, bees.
1:21:42 Travis McElroy? Twenty, live your life, no theme, only love.
1:21:47 Travis McElroy? Twenty, live your life.
1:21:48 Travis McElroy? Gap year.
1:21:50 Travis McElroy? Gap year. Twenty, live your life, they can't all be winners.
1:21:54 Travis McElroy? They can't all be winners.
1:21:55 Travis McElroy? Just do whatever you want.
1:21:58 Travis McElroy? Twenty, now it's such a, can't short-deed you like that. People need it.
1:22:08 Griffin McElroy? I feel like the answer lies in playing with the form and it's so, that's the hardest fucking part of this whole god dang endeavor.
1:22:18 Travis McElroy? Is there something we can do? Playing with the choose your own adventure thing? Where we're making it like, open ended with guidance? Allowing people to tell us? Almost like a Mad Lib of a year?
1:22:36 Griffin McElroy? That's-
1:22:36 Travis McElroy? Where it's like, because this is what I think so magical about Fun Glor. Yes, he heard your wish, but the wish is for you to make, for you to accomplish. He doesn't do it. He's gonna hear your wish and once you've spoken that wish into existence, you're gonna do it, right? We need something like that, that isn't telling people what to do, but rather giving them an opportunity to do the thing they need to do.
1:23:05 Travis McElroy? I have the strangest sensation that it was delivered to all three of us simultaneously during the break.
1:23:10 Griffin McElroy? Holy shit.
1:23:11 Travis McElroy? I feel like we all know it.
1:23:13 Griffin McElroy? You're kidding me?
1:23:14 Travis McElroy? No, I think it was sent to all three of us.
1:23:16 Griffin McElroy? Well, I have one that I feel pretty good about.
1:23:19 Travis McElroy? I do too.
1:23:20 Travis McElroy? Okay. Or I'm gonna count to three and then we'll all say it.
1:23:23 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:23:24 Travis McElroy? One, two, three.
1:23:27 Griffin McElroy? Honey, you've arrived.
1:23:29 Travis McElroy? Can food drive. Okay.
1:23:31 Griffin McElroy? So let's go in order, Justin, Travis, what was yours?
1:23:34 Travis McElroy? Twenty canned food drive act locally.
1:23:37 Griffin McElroy? I like the energy, I like the intent of it.
1:23:40 Travis McElroy? Imagine this, every live show, as people come in-
1:23:43 Griffin McElroy? Don't say, "We're gonna have to do this now, Travis! We're gonna have to do a canned food drive now, Travis!"
1:23:50 Travis McElroy? We can still do that even if it's not the year.
1:23:53 Griffin McElroy? We got to now because you said it.
1:23:54 Travis McElroy? That's the worst case scenario.
1:23:57 Griffin McElroy? We don't even get the joke out of it and we have to do a canned-
1:23:59 Travis McElroy? Do the work.
1:24:00 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
1:24:01 Travis McElroy? You condemned us.
1:24:01 Griffin McElroy? Do you know how to do one of those, Trav? Hey Trav, quick question, do you know how to do a canned food drive, Trav? Because now we gotta do them.
1:24:08 Travis McElroy? When we do a live show, we find a place in town.
1:24:12 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh. Who's gonna do that? You're gonna do that, you're gonna find a place and get all the cans?
1:24:16 Travis McElroy? No, we'll make tour manager Paul do it.
1:24:17 Travis McElroy? Okay, thank you, Paul.
1:24:20 Griffin McElroy? So fucking wild.
1:24:22 Travis McElroy? Hey, listen, hey, listen, I'm excited to announce right now-
1:24:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Here's my year, right?
1:24:28 Travis McElroy? I'm excited to announce, no, listen, no, listen, I'm excited to announce right now that every, my brother, my brother- There'll be live show in 2025. We'll be participating in the Paul Suburban Food Drive.
1:24:38 Griffin McElroy? Memorial.
1:24:39 Travis McElroy? The Paul Suburban Memorial Camp Food Drive.
1:24:41 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
1:24:42 Travis McElroy? It's the Paul Paul Suborial Memorial Food Drive.
1:24:47 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome. He doesn't have enough stuff to do at the show, so it's gonna be fucking psyched. Here's mine.
1:24:52 Travis McElroy? He sets, he sets that all up and the, the beauty part about the Paul Suborial Memorial Food Drive. It's that we don't even do anything.
1:25:01 Travis McElroy? We are, we are merely the conduit.
1:25:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:25:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we get all the credit.
1:25:05 Griffin McElroy? My year theme is 20 free sunglasses. And if you come to our show, you get free sunglasses.
1:25:11 Travis McElroy? Delivered to you by Paul.
1:25:15 Travis McElroy? All right. So, wait, Griffin, what was yours?
1:25:19 Griffin McElroy? I forget. Oh, yeah.
1:25:22 Griffin McElroy? Honey, you've arrived. Cool subtitle. Honey, you've arrived. This one's for you. Honey, you've arrived.
1:25:31 Travis McElroy? That's, that, that's good. That's a better version of 20 I've arrived.
1:25:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:25:35 Travis McElroy? Honey, you've arrived is really good.
1:25:37 Griffin McElroy? Honey, you've arrived.
1:25:39 Travis McElroy? Honey, you've arrived. But what, but what's the subtitle?
1:25:43 Griffin McElroy? I don't know, but it feels like a strong bass.
1:25:45 Travis McElroy? Stand in your power.
1:25:46 Travis McElroy? 20 hit, 20.
1:25:47 Travis McElroy? You've arrived. Stand in your power.
1:25:50 Travis McElroy? 20 hit subscribe, gold play button. I like a lot.
1:25:53 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's good. That's the first time someone said that on the show. What do you think? That's one that I, I just saw.
1:26:01 Griffin McElroy? 20 likes, subscribe. Smash it. 20 likes, subscribe.
1:26:05 Travis McElroy? Like, subscribe. 20 likes, subscribe. Brothers, hit it big.
1:26:11 Travis McElroy? Ooh. If we couple that with a camp food drive, that's okay. As long as we do the camp food drive too, we can ask people to do things for us. A little give and take.
1:26:20 Travis McElroy? Most of the year is 20 like, subscribe, brothers, hit it big.
1:26:24 Griffin McElroy? Hold on.
1:26:24 Travis McElroy? The theme of our live shows is 20 camp food drive. Thank you, Paul.
1:26:28 Griffin McElroy? No, we can't do, we can't bifurcate like that. I'll get too.
1:26:31 Travis McElroy? No, yeah.
1:26:32 Griffin McElroy? All right. Follow, like, subscribe. Support the arts.
1:26:44 Travis McElroy? And Justin, what was yours?
1:26:50 Travis McElroy? Mine was 20 Sunny Life. It's beautiful outside.
1:26:53 Griffin McElroy? We did sun and sea. It's too close to sun and sea for me. We did one that was extremely sun, sun focused.
1:26:59 Travis McElroy? I don't even put it down. Honey, you've arrived.
1:27:02 Travis McElroy? Stand in your power.
1:27:03 Griffin McElroy? Not stand in your power. It has to, this is where we can play with the form, I feel like, in the subtitle. Honey, you've arrived.
1:27:11 Travis McElroy? Honey, you've arrived. What do you need? How can we support you? 20, honey, you've arrived, and we're loving it.
1:27:17 Griffin McElroy? Honey, you've arrived.
1:27:19 Travis McElroy? Can I say right now what's sparking joy within me? Can I talk about follow, like, subscribe, support the arts?
1:27:27 Griffin McElroy? But that's, oh, man.
1:27:29 Travis McElroy? Human create, what, something about human creators.
1:27:33 Travis McElroy? Pay the artist.
1:27:34 Griffin McElroy? Follow, like, subscribe, destroy the machine is cool. Follow, like, subscribe. Just
1:27:44 Griffin McElroy? take, take down the machi, take down the machine.
1:27:46 Travis McElroy? The human element.
1:27:48 Griffin McElroy? The human element. That's interesting.
1:27:50 Travis McElroy? Are we at all concerned about the fact that follow, like, subscribe, sounds almost nothing like the words 2025?
1:27:57 Travis McElroy? I'm not worried about that at all.
1:27:58 Griffin McElroy? No, because we've been recording for an hour and a half?
1:28:01 Travis McElroy? So, yeah, I don't, uh, it feels too self-serving, guys.
1:28:05 Travis McElroy? Follow, like, subscribe. Humans are perfect.
1:28:08 Travis McElroy? No, we are. No, listen.
1:28:09 Travis McElroy? What?
1:28:13 Travis McElroy? Creators unite.
1:28:15 Griffin McElroy? 20, 20 unsubscribe.
1:28:21 Travis McElroy? Huh.
1:28:21 Griffin McElroy? 20 unsubscribe.
1:28:23 Travis McElroy? Touch grass.
1:28:26 Griffin McElroy? The road is going.
1:28:28 Travis McElroy? The road is calling.
1:28:29 Griffin McElroy? 20 unsubscribe.
1:28:37 Travis McElroy? 20 unsubscribe.
1:28:40 Travis McElroy? Life is the greatest video.
1:28:45 Travis McElroy? Life is the art.
1:28:48 Griffin McElroy? 20 unsubscribe. This is cool. Travis is doing his fucking thing now, which is to say a bunch of garbage and one of them is gonna be like, "Yep, ding dong."
1:28:56 Travis McElroy? No, because you've said that. You guys say how it's gonna work. God is the greatest creator.
1:29:02 Griffin McElroy? Almost, Travis. Keep jazzing. You're close to the Surf the Vibe kind of magic. That's where I want you right now. That's where I need you. 20 unsubscribe.
1:29:11 Travis McElroy? 20 unsubscribe. Real life Minecraft.
1:29:16 Griffin McElroy? Craft your life. 20 unsubscribe. Are we saying unsubscribe? Okay, hold on.
1:29:21 Travis McElroy? Not from us.
1:29:22 Griffin McElroy? Not from us, clearly.
1:29:23 Travis McElroy? No, this is what I'm saying. 20 unsubscribe, colon, not from us.
1:29:26 Griffin McElroy? Not from us, though. 20 unsubscribe could mean get rid of the stuff in your life that you don't use, that you don't need anymore, as parts of your life you don't want to have anymore. Get rid of those. It can also mean unsubscribe from your, from email newsletters, text messages that you don't, that you don't do. Or are we saying like unplug from, unplug from it all and, because I don't give a shit about that. I'll never unplug from it all. I need this stuff.
1:29:53 Travis McElroy? You live for it.
1:29:54 Griffin McElroy? I live for this fucking tech shit.
1:29:56 Travis McElroy? 20 come to life, escape the machine.
1:29:59 Griffin McElroy? 20 come alive.
1:30:00 Travis McElroy? 20 come alive. What about that? 20 come alive.
1:30:05 Griffin McElroy? 20 come alive. It sounds so, you sound, 20 come alive.
1:30:10 Travis McElroy? Buddy come alive.
1:30:11 Griffin McElroy? Buddy come alive.
1:30:13 Travis McElroy? Honey come alive. Wake up with me.
1:30:15 Griffin McElroy? Honey.
1:30:16 Travis McElroy? Funny come alive.
1:30:17 Griffin McElroy? Funny comes alive.
1:30:21 Travis McElroy? Cry brothers, colon, funny comes alive.
1:30:28 Travis McElroy? Before your very eyes.
1:30:31 Travis McElroy? See, that puts the subtitle at the beginning.
1:30:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. And it can be like us climbing out of a computer screen like, whoa.
1:30:41 Travis McElroy? Funny come to life.
1:30:42 Travis McElroy? In your face.
1:30:44 Griffin McElroy? It's a great tour. Guys, it's a fucking killer tour.
1:30:47 Travis McElroy? Tour, but doesn't mean anything.
1:30:49 Griffin McElroy? Funny come alive. Funny come alive. What could it mean to people who aren't
1:30:55 Travis McElroy? Right.
1:30:56 Griffin McElroy? Professional comedy guys?
1:30:59 Travis McElroy? Funny come alive. The joke is in you.
1:31:02 Griffin McElroy? Funny come alive. Become the Joker.
1:31:08 Travis McElroy? That? Thanks.
1:31:12 Griffin McElroy? I feel like a cool Joker.
1:31:13 Travis McElroy? Become the, become the chuckle.
1:31:20 Travis McElroy? Twenty come alive. Your subtitle here.
1:31:23 Griffin McElroy? We gotta stop passing the buck.
1:31:25 Travis McElroy? No more buck passing.
1:31:26 Griffin McElroy? This is the only work we do all year and we can't make the subtitle, do our work.
1:31:32 Travis McElroy? That, so you don't want to make it like a sad lib, where's twenty come alive? Give me a noun and an adjective.
1:31:37 Travis McElroy? No, what I want to do is eat the bun. Me, I got the fridge, Travis. I can't do that.
1:31:43 Travis McElroy? That's why I had biscuits and gravy before this, because I knew I needed the brown.
1:31:46 Griffin McElroy? I always think next year, carbo load.
1:31:50 Travis McElroy? Farmer's instinct.
1:31:52 Griffin McElroy? Twenty come alive.
1:31:54 Travis McElroy? Funny come alive. A new genesis.
1:31:57 Travis McElroy? Gravy drive.
1:31:59 Griffin McElroy? Twenty.
1:32:00 Travis McElroy? The trains are coming.
1:32:01 Griffin McElroy? Come alive.
1:32:02 Travis McElroy? Twenty gravy drive. The trains are coming.
1:32:06 Griffin McElroy? Twenty gravy drive? What the fuck? What did you say?
1:32:08 Travis McElroy? I just got hungry, man. I'm sorry.
1:32:12 Travis McElroy? Wavy gravy drive.
1:32:16 Travis McElroy? Thirteen dead in drive. Who did it?
1:32:19 Griffin McElroy? Who done it?
1:32:20 Travis McElroy? Who done it?
1:32:21 Travis McElroy? Who fun it?
1:32:27 Griffin McElroy? Thirteen Dead in Drive, who fun it? It's fucking garbage, bro. It does. It's just words.
1:32:36 Travis McElroy? It's also like.
1:32:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, man.
1:32:44 Travis McElroy? Claiming thirteen.
1:32:47 Griffin McElroy? Full dookie.
1:32:48 Travis McElroy? Thirteen Dead in Drive. It's ours now. You're not using it. Thirteen Dead in Drive, who did it to me?
1:33:03 Travis McElroy? Squatters rights.
1:33:08 Travis McElroy? No one's living in thirteen Dead in Drive.
1:33:10 Griffin McElroy? No.
1:33:12 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:33:15 Travis McElroy? Oh, man. It's nice to, sometimes when you record your comedy podcast for long enough, you gotta remember to have, to.
1:33:22 Griffin McElroy? Have fun.
1:33:22 Travis McElroy? Lift your spirits.
1:33:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, absolutely.
1:33:25 Travis McElroy? To do a joke or two, you know?
1:33:27 Travis McElroy? Okay, I want us to look at the list that we have here.
1:33:29 Griffin McElroy? Oh, okay. This list.
1:33:31 Travis McElroy? And I want us to each pick two. That we think there's something within.
1:33:36 Griffin McElroy? I, okay.
1:33:38 Travis McElroy? What's wrong, Griffin?
1:33:41 Travis McElroy? I'm not saying that they're it.
1:33:42 Griffin McElroy? I just don't think we're there yet.
1:33:45 Travis McElroy? But is there something refinable within them?
1:33:48 Travis McElroy? Twenty Freddy Fry guys.
1:33:52 Griffin McElroy? Still like twenty overdrive.
1:33:59 Travis McElroy? Twenty jump and drive, now you're ready to whale.
1:34:02 Griffin McElroy? Oh, God. I'll be, there, there may be something actionable and cool in there. The aesthetic is tough for me to get, for me to get.
1:34:12 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I know.
1:34:13 Griffin McElroy? It'll be hard for me to buy this outfit.
1:34:15 Travis McElroy? Here, okay, can I tell you guys a thing about it?
1:34:20 Travis McElroy? Here's where I, here's where I'm at, okay?
1:34:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:34:22 Travis McElroy? Here's where I'm at. I came in really nervous about Jive, you know? And I think that that's, that's fair. I think that we all saw that Jive was gonna try to, to rear its head. And I do think the swing aesthetic, I was very, very on guard for it. And I agree with, but the more I think about Griffin dressed in a
1:34:43 Griffin McElroy? Oh.
1:34:44 Travis McElroy? swing style outfit at a live show, it starts to get funnier to me, the idea that we would try to
1:34:52 Travis McElroy? that in all of our marketing.
1:34:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:34:54 Travis McElroy? For the year.
1:34:55 Griffin McElroy? This is crazy.
1:34:55 Travis McElroy? We are attempting to bring back.
1:34:58 Griffin McElroy? It's chilly, it is chilly here in DC. We have our furnace going full blast. I just got cold all over my body from the, from all my blood inside me.
1:35:08 Travis McElroy? I'm saying, I'm saying it's like to the outside.
1:35:11 Griffin McElroy? My high heart rate warning has activated on my Apple watch.
1:35:15 Travis McElroy? When you look at the marketing for our shows in this year, you would swear to God, it's gonna be a cherry popping daddy's tribute act. Like it is just full, full swing.
1:35:31 Travis McElroy? New swing. And here's what I'm saying, here's what I'm saying. If we do that now.
1:35:36 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:35:39 Travis McElroy? And then by the end of the year, swing is back. Then I think we could say definitively, we are steering the ship.
1:35:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:35:45 Travis McElroy? Cause that didn't happen on accident. Right. That style wise, that one is more, this is, I would say it's almost an experiment.
1:35:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, man.
1:35:56 Travis McElroy? We could shift the culture. Like I need to know if the fungal or thing was a one off or if we can really put some English on the ball. So I think we're ready to call it.
1:36:07 Griffin McElroy? There's no chance in fucking hell or heaven or earth.
1:36:19 Travis McElroy? Simply won't do it.
1:36:22 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:36:23 Travis McElroy? That's interesting. That's a good energy.
1:36:25 Travis McElroy? So interesting. Now, we don't vote here on this show, so let's not vote, but Griffin, I would love to know.
1:36:30 Travis McElroy? No.
1:36:32 Travis McElroy? You, you know what's hard, Griffin?
1:36:33 Travis McElroy? What's tough?
1:36:34 Travis McElroy? I can, I feel like I'm standing next to you on a stage somewhere in this great nation of ours where we're watching this on a screen.
1:36:42 Travis McElroy? Oh, no, just simply no. We're not, we're not, we're not, we're not. We're, we're not.
1:36:47 Travis McElroy? I feel like there's a hard cut coming, though. Like, this is where there's no way. Absolutely no.
1:36:52 Travis McElroy? We are gonna be.
1:36:53 Travis McElroy? And there's Griffin.
1:36:54 Travis McElroy? We'll be recording for another hour before we get even close to this. This will be a footnote in what is already a long and.
1:37:02 Travis McElroy? But what Griffin didn't know.
1:37:03 Travis McElroy? Nope, this isn't one of those moments. I can feel it.
1:37:06 Travis McElroy? You're probably wondering how I got here. Twenty. Jump and jive. Five. Five.
1:37:15 Travis McElroy? Twenty twenty five. Two more hosts. Oh. Just trying to get some fresh heat.
1:37:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:37:23 Travis McElroy? Some new heat.
1:37:24 Travis McElroy? Who?
1:37:24 Travis McElroy? Here's, how about this?
1:37:25 Travis McElroy? Who?
1:37:26 Travis McElroy? How about this?
1:37:26 Travis McElroy? Can I ask who?
1:37:28 Travis McElroy? Well, that would be with the years. Oh, it's like a, well, a building the band kind of thing.
1:37:32 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:37:33 Travis McElroy? I would like to, maybe what, Griffin, what you need to get your juices flowing is a little pressure. And what if I said, if we don't find one we like in fifteen minutes, then it's twenty jump and jive. Now you're ready to whale.
1:37:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we've been going for so long, Griffin. You're gonna have to give us something that's better than the idea of us trying to force a swing aesthetic back in the year twenty twenty five.
1:37:56 Travis McElroy? And into our youngest brother's heart.
1:37:58 Travis McElroy? Into, well, it's not, I really don't want it to be a theme. If the theme is funny because Griffin hates it, that's not funny to me. It is funny, the idea that we would, I like the idea that we are trying to test the theory as to whether or not we have the amount of power that Funglor made it seem like we have. But we would be making the world measurably worse, demonstrably worse. If we do have that power.
1:38:26 Travis McElroy? This, this time, we get to shape it, Griffin.
1:38:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah, no, it's, it's.
1:38:33 Travis McElroy? Okay, wait, what if it's twenty jump and drive swings last chance?
1:38:39 Travis McElroy? And we give swing one more.
1:38:40 Travis McElroy? One more chance.
1:38:41 Travis McElroy? One more chance.
1:38:42 Travis McElroy? And if it doesn't happen this time.
1:38:44 Travis McElroy? If it doesn't happen this time, we're.
1:38:46 Travis McElroy? Twenty jump and dive, three strikes, you're out.
1:38:48 Travis McElroy? Swing's last chance. It's the last chance for swing, Griffin. You give it one more shot, one more bite at the apple.
1:38:54 Travis McElroy? Twenty jump and dive, swing and a miss.
1:39:00 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
1:39:03 Travis McElroy? Could we do something with give?
1:39:08 Travis McElroy? No, no Travis, we can't get some.
1:39:12 Travis McElroy? On paper.
1:39:14 Griffin McElroy? But we can say it like 2020 dive.
1:39:20 Travis McElroy? Wait, no, wait. Now, if it's 2020 dive, charity, some sort of like charitable aspect, I think that's great.
1:39:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:39:29 Travis McElroy? Twenty money, twenty money dive.
1:39:32 Griffin McElroy? Support your, support the arts.
1:39:35 Travis McElroy? Twenty money dive.
1:39:37 Travis McElroy? Do it, you can.
1:39:39 Travis McElroy? Twenty money dive, spread it around.
1:39:42 Travis McElroy? This shaping up to be our longest one.
1:39:45 Griffin McElroy? I'm so fucking hungry. Can this be the first episode where we eat on the episode?
1:39:49 Travis McElroy? No, because I got a wedding here tomorrow. I gotta go click, take down all my Christmas decorations.
1:39:55 Travis McElroy? Do we need to stand up?
1:39:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I don't think I can.
1:39:59 Travis McElroy? Well.
1:40:00 Griffin McElroy? I have strep throat, Griffin.
1:40:01 Travis McElroy? That'll mess up the video.
1:40:02 Griffin McElroy? And I'm standing up. I'm gonna lower my desk slowly in case any cables just fucking snap.
1:40:08 Travis McElroy? Okay, how about this?
1:40:10 Griffin McElroy? Let's see.
1:40:12 Travis McElroy? Bye Griffin.
1:40:13 Travis McElroy? Oh, fuck.
1:40:17 Travis McElroy? Hey, how about this?
1:40:20 Travis McElroy? Twenty front wheel drive. Here's how cars work. And it's, you're also learning this year how cars work. It's like education.
1:40:28 Griffin McElroy? Cars? I like cars as a thing.
1:40:33 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay. The idea of cars you like.
1:40:35 Griffin McElroy? Uh oh, one of my monitors moved. I'm gonna stop right there. I like cars as an aesthetic.
1:40:41 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
1:40:41 Griffin McElroy? Gearhead shit, like.
1:40:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:40:44 Griffin McElroy? I think that's kinda cool. I had to put my lamp on the ground and now it's, my lighting is, has gotten extremely dramatic.
1:40:50 Travis McElroy? Twenty learn to drive. Twenty earn to drive.
1:40:56 Griffin McElroy? Feel the drive.
1:40:58 Travis McElroy? Feel the drive. That's powerful.
1:41:02 Travis McElroy? Twenty live the drive.
1:41:04 Travis McElroy? Live the drive. Live to drive. Live to drive.
1:41:08 Travis McElroy? Live the drive. Twenty live the drive.
1:41:11 Travis McElroy? Thrive to drive.
1:41:12 Griffin McElroy? Guys, I just took a few steps back and now I can see my heavy power strip through which my entire like shit is routed is hanging off the ground by the tension of the wires at any moment.
1:41:27 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
1:41:28 Griffin McElroy? They could slip and give and I will disappear.
1:41:31 Travis McElroy? Twenty slip and give.
1:41:35 Travis McElroy? So we did.
1:41:36 Travis McElroy? Twenty time to drive. Twenty like subscribe.
1:41:38 Travis McElroy? Is there anything vibe?
1:41:40 Travis McElroy? Twenty surf the vibe.
1:41:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah, what was that?
1:41:44 Travis McElroy? That was twenty sun and sea.
1:41:46 Griffin McElroy? Subtitle for twenty sun and sea.
1:41:48 Travis McElroy? How about twenty, twenty surf the vibe colon suns.
1:41:51 Griffin McElroy? Oh, all right.
1:41:53 Travis McElroy? A look back. A macaroni retrospective.
1:41:57 Travis McElroy? Twenty forty five. You're not gonna find it in silence.
1:42:01 Griffin McElroy? We will.
1:42:01 Travis McElroy? One thing I could say, can't find it in silence, silence, silence. Count the magazine twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty. Twenty funny drive. Boys back on the menu. Boys back in the car. Twenty funny drive.
1:42:17 Travis McElroy? Oh, I do like boys back on the menu, frankly, but.
1:42:22 Griffin McElroy? What's it mean? What does any of this mean? The menu mean?
1:42:27 Travis McElroy? What do you mean?
1:42:29 Griffin McElroy? Justin, does your, Juice, does your camera not go up? There, there he is.
1:42:32 Travis McElroy? Who are you, Griffin?
1:42:34 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, thrive, thrive.
1:42:36 Travis McElroy? Twenty justified.
1:42:42 Travis McElroy? Twenty twenty crime.
1:42:45 Griffin McElroy? Clive. Twenty twenty Clive. Uh, Owen. Or.
1:42:54 Travis McElroy? Oh, you're so close, Griffin. Clive, we need some more Clives.
1:42:58 Travis McElroy? Wasn't there Monkey?
1:42:59 Griffin McElroy? Twenty gunman Clive, a lesser known DSI ware hit from Nintendo, from the Nintendo company.
1:43:10 Travis McElroy? Twenty Heavy Si.
1:43:12 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Heavy Side? Side? Can we sign?
1:43:17 Travis McElroy? Twenty Heavy Side Ascending.
1:43:20 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Heavy Side. Off into this, off to death. Twenty Heavy Side, Death with Dignity.
1:43:33 Travis McElroy? Okay, what about Monkey with a Knife: A Little Bit Family Guy? This year, we really leaned in.
1:43:40 Griffin McElroy? Real McFarlane on it?
1:43:43 Travis McElroy? More singing, like a lot more singing.
1:43:51 Travis McElroy? Twenty Little Cry, Let It Out.
1:43:55 Griffin McElroy? New Mummies Alive. This, we're relaunching the Mummies Alive cartoon.
1:44:03 Travis McElroy? Twenty Mummy Dive. Uh huh. Twenty. Twenty Money Dive, Scrooge McDuckett.
1:44:14 Travis McElroy? Huh.
1:44:14 Travis McElroy? Hmm. Twenty Money Dive. I wanna, I wanna do anything else. I have a family, have I told you guys? A wife, two daughters. They are counting on me to come back.
1:44:32 Travis McElroy? And you know, time goes by so quickly. Who knows how old they are now?
1:44:36 Griffin McElroy? That Daddy Mummy Live. Daddy Mummy Live. Your Parents on Display.
1:44:43 Travis McElroy? Buddy Funny Live. Twenty Funny Live. Please come to our shows. Twenty. Twenty Brothers Live. You guys have gotta let go of this self surfing thing. I don't know what to tell you. Oh, I thought you had it.
1:45:09 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Underside.
1:45:15 Griffin McElroy? Flip it over. Twenty, twenty under drive, twenty under side.
1:45:20 Travis McElroy? Under drive.
1:45:21 Griffin McElroy? Flip it over. Flip that shit.
1:45:24 Travis McElroy? Take her sleazy, twenty under drive, take her sleazy.
1:45:27 Griffin McElroy? Under drive, what's that mean?
1:45:29 Travis McElroy? It's the opposite of overdrive.
1:45:36 Travis McElroy? Kick it into underdrive.
1:45:40 Travis McElroy? Pedal off the metal.
1:45:43 Griffin McElroy? Your full throated endorsement of failing to live up to your potential is-
1:45:49 Travis McElroy? I'm just saying, we had so much aspirational shit, we put so much pressure on people.
1:45:53 Griffin McElroy? Can I say something? Every year, we also say, every year, we keep doing these aspirational ones. I don't necessarily think we are.
1:46:02 Travis McElroy? I just think people want to aspire.
1:46:06 Travis McElroy? Is there something about? Okay. Okay.
1:46:13 Travis McElroy? Honey, now you drive.
1:46:15 Griffin McElroy? Wait.
1:46:16 Travis McElroy? Give up control.
1:46:18 Griffin McElroy? Honey, now you drive.
1:46:20 Travis McElroy? Now you drive.
1:46:23 Griffin McElroy? It's cool, because it's like a, it's like a script that you're supposed to read when you're driving.
1:46:30 Travis McElroy? Honey.
1:46:31 Griffin McElroy? And you say to your partner, honey, now you drive.
1:46:33 Travis McElroy? Well, it doesn't have to apply to just driving, or just partners. It could be a friend, a family member, something where it's just like, you know what? I've been making all the decisions, now you drive.
1:46:45 Griffin McElroy? Buddy, buddy, buddy, bye.
1:46:48 Travis McElroy? Buddy, now you drive.
1:46:49 Griffin McElroy? Buddy, now you drive.
1:46:51 Travis McElroy? Jesus, take the wheel.
1:46:53 Griffin McElroy? Buddies are for life.
1:46:56 Griffin McElroy? Buddies are for life.
1:46:57 Travis McElroy? Buddy, buddy, twenty, no, it sounds so much, it sounds nothing like twenty twenty five. Buddy, you're my life. Worse.
1:47:06 Griffin McElroy? Buddy, buddy. Buddy, buddy life.
1:47:09 Travis McElroy? Buddy, buddy life.
1:47:10 Griffin McElroy? Buddy, buddy life. Friends to the end.
1:47:15 Travis McElroy? Buddy, there's something about buddies for life.
1:47:19 Griffin McElroy? No, but there is buddy, buddy life.
1:47:22 Travis McElroy? Buddy, second life. Funny, funny tummy life. Huh.
1:47:30 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life. To find your tummy buddy.
1:47:36 Travis McElroy? Now, as the one Griffin who keeps asking, what's that mean? I'm gonna have to turn it around on you here.
1:47:44 Griffin McElroy? So this is a guy. This is a character, obviously, named Tummy Buddy.
1:47:52 Travis McElroy? And everybody has one?
1:47:55 Griffin McElroy? Everybody has a tummy buddy. And this is their life.
1:48:02 Griffin McElroy? You live life, it's an enjoy, it's aspirational, cuz it's telling you to live your life like a tummy buddy.
1:48:12 Travis McElroy? So isn't tummy buddy a person, a character?
1:48:16 Griffin McElroy? I'm so glad you asked, Justin. Tummy buddies eat their meals backwards. That means dinner at the beginning of the day, lunch in the middle, and breakfast at the end. One of the crazy idiosyncratic thing about tummy buddies.
1:48:28 Travis McElroy? Funny tummy buddy?
1:48:29 Griffin McElroy? Not funny tummy buddy, what are you talking about?
1:48:32 Travis McElroy? That doesn't make any goddamn sense, Justin. It's tummy buddy life.
1:48:35 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:48:37 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:48:38 Griffin McElroy? Back to the pa, back to the pasture. I don't know, wherever tummy buddies live.
1:48:44 Travis McElroy? The patch.
1:48:45 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:48:54 Griffin McElroy? I feel like we're so close to jumping off the edge. We just need a good subtitle to catch us there.
1:49:00 Travis McElroy? I feel like you, if you, it was right there, Griffin.
1:49:03 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:49:05 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life, no one eats alone.
1:49:09 Travis McElroy? Twenty buddy life.
1:49:10 Griffin McElroy? A tummy buddy is not someone you eat meals with.
1:49:14 Travis McElroy? Right.
1:49:14 Griffin McElroy? Or could it be?
1:49:16 Travis McElroy? Why not? Why isn't it?
1:49:17 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life. Tummy buddy life, no one eats alone.
1:49:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah. And that, and that is like, if you see somebody alone, it's like, hey, tummy buddies?
1:49:28 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:49:29 Travis McElroy? Make a new friend.
1:49:30 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, gather round, gather round.
1:49:33 Travis McElroy? Gather around.
1:49:34 Griffin McElroy? Table. Room at the ta, tummy buddy life, room at the table.
1:49:39 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:49:40 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, tummy buddy life.
1:49:42 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:49:45 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:49:47 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:49:48 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:49:49 Griffin McElroy? Tell me buddy life. Room at the table.
1:49:52 Travis McElroy? Set the table, fix a plate.
1:49:56 Travis McElroy? Everybody eats.
1:49:57 Travis McElroy? Room for more. Tell me buddy life.
1:50:00 Griffin McElroy? Tell me buddy life. Got a seat, got a plate for ya.
1:50:05 Travis McElroy? Pull up a chair.
1:50:06 Griffin McElroy? Pull up a chair.
1:50:07 Travis McElroy? Pull up a chair.
1:50:08 Travis McElroy? Pull up a plate.
1:50:10 Travis McElroy? Pull up a plate, grab a plate.
1:50:11 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life, pull up a plate.
1:50:13 Griffin McElroy? Tell me buddy life is awesome, and I'll tell you why. It can mean generosity of spirit.
1:50:20 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:50:20 Griffin McElroy? Be a tummy buddy and give. Tummy buddy could mean, uh oh, I don't have any adult friends.
1:50:27 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:50:28 Griffin McElroy? Oops, I need to make a few tummy buddies.
1:50:30 Travis McElroy? I need some tummy buddies.
1:50:31 Griffin McElroy? Maybe that means I go out to lunch every now and then with one of my peripheral social contacts.
1:50:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:50:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:50:38 Griffin McElroy? Cause there's room at the, pull up a seat. There's room at the table. What's more actionable? Room at the table isn't. That's very passive. I want, I want tummy buddy life.
1:50:48 Travis McElroy? I really think the alliteration and the forcefulness of tummy buddy life, pull up a plate.
1:50:54 Griffin McElroy? Pull up a plate. That's not the verb you do with plates though, is my only.
1:50:59 Travis McElroy? I know, that's why it's a comedy show, you fucking.
1:51:02 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no, don't, don't please use, we're so close.
1:51:04 Travis McElroy? Tie went on, tie went on, dig in.
1:51:06 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life, tie went on is, I think that's about.
1:51:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah, drink, dig in. Get your fill.
1:51:13 Travis McElroy? Get, my.
1:51:17 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life, fixins come free.
1:51:21 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:51:24 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:51:25 Travis McElroy? Chew on it.
1:51:27 Travis McElroy? Uh huh, tell me buddy life.
1:51:28 Griffin McElroy? I don't wanna tell people how to eat or how much to eat or any of that.
1:51:31 Travis McElroy? Take a bite.
1:51:32 Griffin McElroy? I wanna invite people to dinner.
1:51:33 Travis McElroy? I don't even think it wants to be about food.
1:51:36 Travis McElroy? Take a bite out of love.
1:51:37 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life, pull up a chair.
1:51:39 Griffin McElroy? Pull up a chair at the tables, set the ta, the tables.
1:51:42 Travis McElroy? Breaking bread.
1:51:43 Travis McElroy? Pull up a ta, pull up a story.
1:51:46 Griffin McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:51:48 Travis McElroy? Pull up a smile.
1:51:49 Griffin McElroy? Pull up a smile.
1:51:59 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, now you're ready to whale.
1:52:04 Travis McElroy? Find the bezels.
1:52:06 Travis McElroy? No, listen.
1:52:07 Travis McElroy? Pull up a smile.
1:52:08 Travis McElroy? Now, listen, tummy buddy life, pull up a smile. I think it's a very low bar.
1:52:12 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, sweeter together. Tummy buddy life, yummy together. Together, tummy buddy.
1:52:19 Travis McElroy? Yummy together.
1:52:20 Travis McElroy? We already did stronger together. We can't do another. Yeah, what about this? Tummy buddy life.
1:52:31 Griffin McElroy? And then nothing?
1:52:32 Travis McElroy? No. I just said it a second ago. It's very good.
1:52:36 Griffin McElroy? You did.
1:52:36 Travis McElroy? Yummy buddy, tummy buddy life, no seconds till everybody eats.
1:52:43 Griffin McElroy? I'm inviting you to the table. I want you.
1:52:46 Travis McElroy? Open invitation.
1:52:49 Griffin McElroy? This is literally, I think, the actionable part of this year. Generosity of spirit and also have a meal with your friend.
1:52:57 Travis McElroy? Yes.
1:52:57 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:52:58 Griffin McElroy? Be my tummy buddy.
1:53:00 Travis McElroy? Open arms, open mouths.
1:53:02 Travis McElroy? Twenty buddy life, tummy buddy life, pull up a smile.
1:53:07 Griffin McElroy? I thought you were gonna say something else.
1:53:09 Travis McElroy? Pull him a smile.
1:53:10 Griffin McElroy? Justin just took two and a half minutes of body work that he just did off screen and he came back and said the same shit.
1:53:17 Travis McElroy? Is really doing it for me. It makes me happy in a way I can't explain. Maybe it's because I'm broken by two hours of this. But tummy buddy life, pull up a smile.
1:53:27 Travis McElroy? This is a, this is a, not just a, this is a, is this our longest episode ever?
1:53:32 Travis McElroy? Hundred percent.
1:53:33 Travis McElroy? Hundred percent. We, listen, how about this? Tummy buddy life, pull up a smile.
1:53:39 Griffin McElroy? Why are we talking about pulling up smiles? Why do we care about smiles? Have anything to do with meals or?
1:53:45 Travis McElroy? It's like pull up a chair or fill up a plate.
1:53:48 Travis McElroy? You pull up a smile. And if it's like, if you don't feel it for your fellow.
1:53:52 Travis McElroy? Pull up a smile.
1:53:52 Travis McElroy? Your fellow human, the least you could do is like, pull up a smile.
1:53:56 Travis McElroy? Pull up a smile.
1:53:56 Travis McElroy? Just pull up one smile. Ha. Hey, I can throw you that.
1:54:00 Travis McElroy? Smiles are free.
1:54:00 Travis McElroy? Smile for you. Hey, there it is. You know, I'm pulling up smiles right now, Griffin.
1:54:08 Travis McElroy? Pagliacci over here pretending he doesn't have a bond me upstairs just calling his name.
1:54:13 Griffin McElroy? No, we're all giving up a lot right now, for sure.
1:54:16 Travis McElroy? Is it, is it also maybe showing our hand that two out of three of us are very hungry and we're landing on tummy buddy life?
1:54:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that's gonna happen.
1:54:23 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life. May art triumph. Tummy buddy life, truth and art, cuz it's the art.
1:54:33 Travis McElroy? Twenty buddy life.
1:54:34 Griffin McElroy? You keep saying.
1:54:35 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:54:36 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:54:41 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, we're so close. We're so close. My body is seizing up from, from the, I need a tummy buddy now.
1:54:53 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:54:56 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life, coming in hot.
1:54:59 Travis McElroy? A side of smiles.
1:55:06 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:55:10 Travis McElroy? Making room. Tummy buddy life.
1:55:13 Travis McElroy? Um.
1:55:14 Travis McElroy? Scooch on over.
1:55:15 Griffin McElroy? Share.
1:55:15 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
1:55:16 Griffin McElroy? Share, share. Tummy buddy life, share.
1:55:19 Travis McElroy? Da- t- tummy buddy life, dare to share.
1:55:22 Griffin McElroy? Twom- twenty buddy, twenty.
1:55:24 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life, dare to share.
1:55:26 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, dare to share.
1:55:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah, okay. It encapsulates everything we're going for. Generosity of spirit, share a meal, share a story.
1:55:37 Travis McElroy? Share a feeling.
1:55:38 Travis McElroy? Share a feeling. Pull up a smile.
1:55:41 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddies, you know what I mean?
1:55:43 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life, dare to share.
1:55:45 Griffin McElroy? We all love tummy buddies a lot.
1:55:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:55:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Yeah.
1:55:50 Griffin McElroy? We can't step away from tummy buddies cuz if we, here's the, hey, listener, you might be at home and you might be thinking, there's no way they're going with tummy buddies, right? Let me tell you what tummy buddies is. Tummy buddies is a, like, eight inch by eight inch rock that the three of us are standing on, we're sharing this small rock together. If we take a step away from tummy buddies, we fall into an abyss of po- possibility cuz like, I don't know what the fuck we laying on if we go away.
1:56:18 Travis McElroy? If you don't like tummy buddies life, you should stop listening cuz it's definitely.
1:56:22 Griffin McElroy? It's definitely gonna be tummy buddy life.
1:56:24 Travis McElroy? I was just picturing.
1:56:26 Griffin McElroy? It's not tummy buddy life.
1:56:27 Travis McElroy? I was just picturing us standing on that eight inch rock and thinking about mutually assured destruction. And then I thought about like mutually assured smiles. Tell me buddy life mutually assured support.
1:56:37 Travis McElroy? Tell me a buddy life.
1:56:41 Travis McElroy? Dare to share is really getting me.
1:56:42 Travis McElroy? Twenty, twenty. Tell me buddy life. Dare to share.
1:56:48 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I think you're just digging your heels, man. I
1:56:50 Griffin McElroy? No, man, I think it's good. I think it's good. I think it's good. I think it's good. I'm trying to imagine it. I'm trying to imagine seeing it. I want to see it.
1:56:57 Travis McElroy? Then maybe it's a question.
1:56:58 Travis McElroy? Whoa. Care to dare to share?
1:57:01 Travis McElroy? Well, here's what I like about
1:57:02 Griffin McElroy? Care to share is a question. That's playing with form a little bit.
1:57:06 Travis McElroy? Ha, ca- oh. Tell me buddy life. Care to dare to share?
1:57:14 Griffin McElroy? Tell me buddy life. Share. Tell me buddy life. Share your chair.
1:57:18 Travis McElroy? Care to dare to share?
1:57:22 Travis McElroy? Do you care to share?
1:57:27 Travis McElroy? Dare to share a care?
1:57:31 Griffin McElroy? I lost it.
1:57:33 Travis McElroy? Twenty buddy life. Dare to care.
1:57:39 Travis McElroy? Twenty buddy life, truth or dare?
1:57:41 Travis McElroy? Now, here's what I like about care to share. Care to share would apply in both. You're walking up to a table. Someone's eating alone. You're eating alone. You can say care to share, right? Share the meal together. But I'm also asking you, the listener, do you care to share with people who need it?
1:57:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Or do you care to share your life and time with your friends? That's the thing I'm most drawn to because it involves me eating with a friend, which I do like, and I don't really do that much anymore. Care to share? Dare to ki- dare to ki- dare to care also hits good for me because that's not like caring about it. It gets harder to do in these troubling times.
1:58:18 Travis McElroy? Dare to care is powerful.
1:58:21 Travis McElroy? Buddy, twenty buddy life.
1:58:22 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life. You keep saying twenty buddy, which makes me worry. This is not meant.
1:58:27 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life. No, I said tummy. Tummy buddy.
1:58:30 Travis McElroy? Now, is ta- is twenty buddy life care, dare to care?
1:58:33 Travis McElroy? Say it again.
1:58:34 Travis McElroy? No, no, no. Hear me out. Is tummy buddy life making it too much about food?
1:58:39 Griffin McElroy? No.
1:58:41 Travis McElroy? Okay.
1:58:42 Travis McElroy? Tell me buddy life.
1:58:43 Travis McElroy? Dare to care.
1:58:44 Travis McElroy? Dare to care.
1:58:45 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy doesn't have to mean food. I want to say that out loud first. You can just be tummy buddies with someone.
1:58:50 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life, dare to care.
1:58:52 Griffin McElroy? It's a special friendship. Tummy buddy life, a special friendship.
1:58:57 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life. Dare to care.
1:59:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah?
1:59:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I'm sitting back down.
1:59:12 Griffin McElroy? I just feel like the form could be played with a little.
1:59:15 Travis McElroy? No, shut up, Griffin.
1:59:19 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I, here's what I'll say to you, Griffin.
1:59:24 Travis McElroy? When you go into the chat of our staff and we tell them that the year's theme is tummy buddy life.
1:59:34 Travis McElroy? Dare to care.
1:59:35 Travis McElroy? Dare to care. It is going to hit in a pretty major way, I think, Griffin.
1:59:41 Travis McElroy? It's all gonna be worth it.
1:59:42 Travis McElroy? It's all gonna be worth it, Griff. You wait, you wait.
1:59:46 Travis McElroy? And when we tell our wives, our children, our friends.
1:59:50 Travis McElroy? They're gonna think.
1:59:51 Travis McElroy? We have to text MacArthur Genius Award winner Lynn Maila Miranda and tell him what we settled on. Cause he asked us yesterday.
2:00:03 Travis McElroy? I'm worried about Griffin.
2:00:05 Travis McElroy? I'm always worried about Griffin, no more so now than usual.
2:00:09 Griffin McElroy? Dare to care is obviously.
2:00:11 Travis McElroy? Oh gosh, I haven't been recording. No, I'm just, I just.
2:00:15 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life is good, that stays, obviously.
2:00:21 Griffin McElroy? Dare to care is a beautiful sentiment.
2:00:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, balanced out by tummy buddy life.
2:00:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, there is balance there.
2:00:31 Travis McElroy? Isn't there? Because you hear tummy buddy life and you're like, what the fuck? And then you get to dare to care and you're like, oh shit.
2:00:38 Travis McElroy? Huh, maybe I should care about what tummy buddies are. I wasn't gonna learn about this.
2:00:42 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it really pulls you back in, just as you start to think like, that's really weird. Oh, wait.
2:00:48 Griffin McElroy? I'm gonna really quickly go on Urban Dictionary and look up tummy buddies.
2:00:57 Travis McElroy? And that was the last episode, other than my brother and me.
2:01:03 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life, dare to care.
2:01:09 Griffin McElroy? Tummy Buddy Life. I feel like I always dare to care. I care too much, if anything.
2:01:16 Travis McElroy? Okay, well, but maybe-
2:01:17 Travis McElroy? It's not about you!
2:01:18 Travis McElroy? It's made me care about different things?
2:01:22 Travis McElroy? Or care in a better way?
2:01:24 Griffin McElroy? Share your care.
2:01:26 Travis McElroy? It's Dare to Care, Griffin!
2:01:28 Travis McElroy? Dare to Care is what it is.
2:01:29 Griffin McElroy? You know what, guys?
2:01:30 Travis McElroy? You keep saying it wrong and that's scaring me.
2:01:32 Griffin McElroy? You know what, guys? I'm not 100% on it. I'm like 94% on it. I'm- Dare to Care is great. I planted my flag so fucking hard with "It's not gonna be jump and jive, now you're ready to whale."
2:01:43 Travis McElroy? And you also pitched Tummy Buddy Life! And we were with you!
2:01:47 Griffin McElroy? I just, I feel like I used up my one black ball on that one. I think Tummy Buddy Life Dare to Care is, is, is very, very good.
2:01:59 Travis McElroy? Thank you. We're calling it.
2:02:02 Griffin McElroy? There's a balance there.
2:02:04 Travis McElroy? He said he's 94%-
2:02:06 Travis McElroy? We are?
2:02:07 Travis McElroy? It's not-
2:02:08 Travis McElroy? That's an A, Justin. We're calling it. Justin, call it.
2:02:16 Travis McElroy? Say it, Griffin. Here's what I want from Griffin.
2:02:19 Travis McElroy? I'll call it.
2:02:19 Travis McElroy? Here's what I need from Griffin is, I want Griffin to say the year's theme one time like he means it and like he likes it. That's what I want to hear. I want Griffin to call it, is what I'm saying.
2:02:31 Travis McElroy? Griffin, call it.
2:02:34 Griffin McElroy? Tummy Buddy Life.
2:02:37 Griffin McElroy? Dare to Care.
2:02:38 Travis McElroy? Yes! Okay, okay, okay. I'm Justin.
2:02:43 Travis McElroy? Yep, I'm Travis.
2:02:44 Travis McElroy? Thanks, Fontaine.
2:02:45 Griffin McElroy? We gotta say there's other stuff we should say here.
2:02:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm Travis.
2:02:49 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's it. I'm-
2:02:50 Griffin McElroy? Are we sure, though?
2:02:51 Travis McElroy? Say it, Griffin. We're not doing this. We can't keep doing this. Say it.
2:02:56 Griffin McElroy? The year's theme is Tummy Buddy Life Dare to Care.
2:03:01 Griffin McElroy? It feels preachy. It feels a little preachy.
2:03:04 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life feels preachy?
2:03:06 Griffin McElroy? Dare to care feels a little preachy.
2:03:08 Travis McElroy? It's balanced.
2:03:09 Travis McElroy? It's about balance, Griffin.
2:03:11 Travis McElroy? That's the goddamn balance, Griffin.
2:03:12 Travis McElroy? It's the balance of it, Griffin. Dare to care, Griffin.
2:03:16 Griffin McElroy? It can't be silly shit and silly shit.
2:03:20 Travis McElroy? That's peanut butter and peanut butter.
2:03:22 Griffin McElroy? You're so off, Mike.
2:03:23 Travis McElroy? He always rocks hard.
2:03:25 Griffin McElroy? I wanna be with you guys. I wanna get, I wanna dare to care about this. Maybe that's, maybe I should follow the thing.
2:03:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
2:03:33 Griffin McElroy? That's cool, actually, because...
2:03:35 Travis McElroy? Because it's cool to care. You're worried that it's too serious.
2:03:37 Griffin McElroy? Okay, and now I'll just put all the cards on the table. I think dare to care kinda sucks. But, I'll follow it into itself. I'll dare to care so hard this year. By the end of it, I'll be unrecognizable.
2:03:54 Travis McElroy? That's cool, man. Yeah, that's cool to care.
2:03:56 Griffin McElroy? I think it sucks, but if I used it, then I wouldn't think it sucks.
2:04:05 Travis McElroy? This is my thing, is we live in a world with too much jaded...
2:04:10 Griffin McElroy? Preachy, preachy, preachy, preachy.
2:04:11 Travis McElroy? Griffin thinks there's too much caring. That's our problem. Griffin thinks it's like everybody's caring so much.
2:04:15 Griffin McElroy? It's not that it's super preachy. I hate that, but...
2:04:21 Griffin McElroy? If I use it, I'll get on board with it. By the end of it. Do you, does that make sense? It's immediately actionable to the people making it.
2:04:32 Travis McElroy? Okay.
2:04:33 Griffin McElroy? And that is really strong and it plays with form.
2:04:36 Travis McElroy? What about this?
2:04:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:04:38 Travis McElroy? We were done.
2:04:39 Griffin McElroy? If you're about to change the juice, I'll lose my fucking...
2:04:40 Travis McElroy? We were done.
2:04:41 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I know. I agree. I agree. Truth or dare to care?
2:04:47 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy time, dare to care.
2:04:49 Travis McElroy? Nope.
2:04:50 Travis McElroy? You fucked it up.
2:04:51 Travis McElroy? Tummy buddy life.
2:04:52 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life. Tummy buddy time, though, can we...
2:04:56 Travis McElroy? No!
2:04:57 Griffin McElroy? Well, hold on, because now it's, now it's time for...
2:05:00 Travis McElroy? Then it's buddy tummy time.
2:05:01 Griffin McElroy? That's not so much like time for Teletubbies. And that's not our...
2:05:04 Travis McElroy? Buddy tummy time, strengthen your core, but we're not doing that.
2:05:07 Griffin McElroy? Tummy buddy life. Dare to care.
2:05:10 Travis McElroy? Thank you. My name's Jess Mc...
2:05:12 Travis McElroy? I'm Travis McRoy.
2:05:13 Griffin McElroy? I'm about to go eat three hot dogs.
2:05:16 Travis McElroy? My brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad, swear on the lips.
2:05:24 Speaker 04 It's better with you. My life, ah. It's better, it's better with you. It's better with you. My life, ah. It's better, it's better with you. Is it true? Ah. It's better, it's better with you. My life, ah. It's better with you.
2:05:52 Speaker 04 Maximum Fun.
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