MBMBaM 749: Christmas for Consumers

By the time you hear this, everyone will already know what all the cool new commercials at the Big Game were, but we have to make our own predictions. Was Indiana Jones in one? How about one about welding perfect dimes? Or maybe burning pictures of Baby Yoda? Suggested talking points: Which Side is Your Property On, In the Pocket of the Vibe, I've Discovered Burning Things, The Sacred Secret Menu, Fancy Milf Frother World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Speaker 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?

• 0:21Speaker 01

  It's the start of something beautiful.

• 0:27Speaker 01

  A small acquaintance has blossomed, it's rapid into a precious friendship.

• 0:33Speaker 01

  I could have never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. Life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. My life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. This is true, ah, it's better, it's better with you. My life, ah, it's better with you.

• 1:10Travis McElroy?

  You have failed yourself, Griffin. Your job is to stay happy, clown. Get out there and dance in your big shoes.

• 1:19Griffin McElroy?

  I'll dance. I'll dance, but the dance is gonna be like when someone dances in the background of the big bar in Twin Peaks. Like a lot of, they'll be shuffling and it will be, the performance I give will be arresting. It will be captivating.

• 1:40Travis McElroy?

  Hi, welcome. Welcome to my brother, my brother meeting, if I show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

• 1:45Travis McElroy?

  Vroom, vroom, ka-chow. It's me, Trav Nation, your middlest brother, Travis Big Dog Wolf Wolf McElroy.

• 1:52Griffin McElroy?

  It's Wednesday, February 5th, the morning of Wednesday, February 5th. And I'm Griffin McElroy. That's when we're recording this. I feel like saying that is a good idea. Like, holding up the newspaper with the sports score is a good idea.

• 2:05Travis McElroy?

  There's two things, very important things I want to talk about. Topical.

• 2:08Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, okay, good. Is one of them that it is Wednesday, the February the 5th, and that the show comes out on a different day? Where we don't, we're not there on that one.

• 2:18Travis McElroy?

  Well, whenever it was at the Grammys this past weekend, Benson Boone performed. Benson Boone performed his hit song, Beautiful Things.

• 2:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:26Travis McElroy?

  And as he did the intro, Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser tore his suit off. And he was wearing a blue, deep v-neck, glam rock jumpsuit. And as this man's singing, he runs up onto the stage and he did a flip off the top of the piano.

• 2:44Griffin McElroy?

  Cool. What's her name?

• 2:45Travis McElroy?

  And apparently, he does this at his live show.

• 2:48Griffin McElroy?

  What's his name?

• 2:49Travis McElroy?

  What's this guy's name?

• 2:51Travis McElroy?

  Benson Boone.

• 2:52Griffin McElroy?

  Beautiful things that I've got. Oh, yeah.

• 2:56Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, that guy?

• 2:56Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, yeah. That song always gets, that song always gets me going.

• 3:01Travis McElroy?

  I think it's unfair that he can sing so beautifully and do a cool flip off of a piano.

• 3:06Griffin McElroy?

  You shouldn't be able to do both things where you get to sing way high up, which is so fun, and be able to do a flip off of a piano or anything.

• 3:14Travis McElroy?

  That is unfair. I can't do either of those. And he can, and the only way that I can live-

• 3:20Griffin McElroy?

  Is he like wicked ugly?

• 3:22Travis McElroy?

  No.

• 3:23Travis McElroy?

  No, he looks cool.

• 3:24Travis McElroy?

  He's a cool looking guy.

• 3:26Griffin McElroy?

  God damn.

• 3:27Travis McElroy?

  It's like if Miles Teller decided to be a little softer, a little cooler.

• 3:32Travis McElroy?

  A little cooler, a little more glam rock, yeah.

• 3:34Griffin McElroy?

  Man, God gave, God gave with three hands on this one. Damn Benson Boone.

• 3:38Travis McElroy?

  I can only exist happily by believing that he sings that good because he has fully dedicated 100% of his energy towards that. And then seeing that he can also do flips, and I'm like, what else can he do? He's probably a good baker. And then he later apologized for aggressively adjusting himself in that jumpsuit during the performance. And I feel like that's unfair that he should do. Should he gently adjust himself? Is that better than aggressively adjusting himself?

• 4:05Griffin McElroy?

  Travis, that's, can I say something, man? It's such a really good question, because what happened is Benson Boone is wearing a tight jumpsuit that is-

• 4:13Travis McElroy?

  Restricting.

• 4:14Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:15Travis McElroy?

  Okay, I'm sorry. It's restrictive. So it is that question of a fast, aggressive.

• 4:22Griffin McElroy?

  It's the best version. He's not a laborer yet.

• 4:24Travis McElroy?

  Because if you think about a slow tender adjustment, that's not appropriate. Yeah, right? Like, that's not appropriate for an audience.

• 4:31Griffin McElroy?

  And that's his privacy. That's his bathroom stuff. And I, and, and, and I, it's, everyone's got them. So calm down. Sometimes you never have to adjust your bathroom stuff. That's, that's weird.

• 4:41Travis McElroy?

  Unlikely.

• 4:42Griffin McElroy?

  Unbelievable.

• 4:44Travis McElroy?

  The other thing I want to talk about is this occurred to me, when you guys were children, we babbies.

• 4:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:49Travis McElroy?

  Did you believe that when you grew up to be an adult, that Groundhog's Day would take on a greater significance as a holiday to you? And it's like, oh, this must be a thing that like grownups have built deeply into their psyche and I as a child simply don't get it.

• 5:06Griffin McElroy?

  It needs some, it needs a shot in the arm, doesn't it?

• 5:10Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:12Griffin McElroy?

  It needs something, because it's not, it's, and I get there's a whole town where they're probably wild about this fucking thing, but for the rest of us, the shine is coming off the apple.

• 5:19Travis McElroy?

  It just doesn't extend beyond that.

• 5:21Griffin McElroy?

  No. It's a, it's a single, it's a single skeet that I see. It's like, saw a shadow. And I'm like, okay, put him away. And the whole holiday in my mind? That seems weird. It needs something else.

• 5:31Travis McElroy?

  No other traditions around that.

• 5:34Griffin McElroy?

  Work off. You get work off. That would be sick. That's a big one. Presents.

• 5:38Travis McElroy?

  Some kind of feast?

• 5:39Travis McElroy?

  That's why if you ever see Rod Stewart turn around and do the butt shake, what he's actually doing is like.

• 5:45Travis McElroy?

  Seeing his shadow to see if there's six more weeks of winter?

• 5:48Travis McElroy?

  That's exactly it. He's shaking his little butt and saying like, is that my shadow or not?

• 5:53Griffin McElroy?

  There's so much.

• 5:54Travis McElroy?

  Can see his butt shadow. If a, if a groundhog comes out of Rod Stewart's butt.

• 5:59Griffin McElroy?

  Think about this. What's the best part of any holiday? That's right. Hiding Easter eggs. Because it's the only part of any holiday where you get to go on a little adventure. Think about the opportunities that Groundhog Day would provide if we started to include little adventures in it. Because these guys, they bury themselves in the ground like treasure already.

• 6:17Travis McElroy?

  Ever since David the gnome, I've dreamed of crawling through an underground like cavern and finding, like, why not provide that for me to find the groundhog and ask him like,

• 6:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 6:28Travis McElroy?

  Did you see your shadow?

• 6:29Griffin McElroy?

  Let's go down there one, once and bring a camera crew and go down there.

• 6:33Travis McElroy?

  There's a lot of conversations that would be hard to have with the aliens, but I think this one. Would be hardest.

• 6:39Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah.

• 6:39Travis McElroy?

  You have to say like, yes, the day is called Groundhog Day. Yes.

• 6:42Travis McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 6:42Travis McElroy?

  So what's the deal? Well, we do every year, ask a groundhog if it's gonna be cold for a while.

• 6:49Travis McElroy?

  Oh, the groundhog speaks?

• 6:51Travis McElroy?

  Huh?

• 6:51Travis McElroy?

  The groundhog speaks?

• 6:52Travis McElroy?

  The groundhog, no, groundhog sees the shadow. That's, it's like a

• 6:55Griffin McElroy?

  On our planet, on our planet, all the animals can't talk to each other.

• 6:58Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. So it's like different. And then they're like, so that's wild. What's the second most notable thing about Groundhog Day? It's like, sometimes you live it over and over again for 10,000 years.

• 7:08Griffin McElroy?

  What?

• 7:08Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:09Griffin McElroy?

  Alright, speak up again.

• 7:10Travis McElroy?

  We know you learn to be a good person.

• 7:12Travis McElroy?

  The second thing about Groundhog Day is sometimes you live it over and over again.

• 7:15Griffin McElroy?

  The only other thing. In our culture, that's the second most notable thing about Groundhog Day.

• 7:19Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:20Griffin McElroy?

  Is that

• 7:20Travis McElroy?

  And for some people, those flip flop.

• 7:22Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 7:23Travis McElroy?

  For some people, the significance is

• 7:25Griffin McElroy?

  So it's a holiday about living it over and over again?

• 7:28Travis McElroy?

  No.

• 7:29Griffin McElroy?

  It gets to that point sometimes. It does feel like that a little bit, but yeah.

• 7:33Travis McElroy?

  It has much more cultural significance, I would say, for a demographic of people. That it's a day where one self reflects for 10,000 years, um, to think about

• 7:44Griffin McElroy?

  What I wish.

• 7:45Travis McElroy?

  And how they can do better and have a healthier relationship with Andy McDowell.

• 7:49Griffin McElroy?

  Can you even imagine? That movie paints that to be like a terrible thing to happen. Can you imagine 10,000 years of free time? Holy shit dudes. I'm catching

• 7:59Travis McElroy?

  I would flip off pianos constantly.

• 8:02Griffin McElroy?

  I would do it. It would take 8,000 straight years of snapping my spine. And was it worth it? No, it wasn't because it looks cool, but that was really, really torturous. That is how long it would take.

• 8:14Travis McElroy?

  One, cool. I wish that there was a different version of Groundhog Day where it, the day fell on the day right before they released the finale of Traders. And so the show is about him trying to like reconstruct how he thinks it's gonna be exactly. And then film it for himself. Like let him, he wants to film his own finale of like TV shows. He's writing his own endings.

• 8:38Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 8:38Travis McElroy?

  So when the actual finale does come out, he'd be like, well, actually I think this would be more satisfying.

• 8:43Travis McElroy?

  I think it's a little something like this.

• 8:44Travis McElroy?

  I think it's a little bit more.

• 8:46Griffin McElroy?

  Wouldn't mind taking a second pass at that lost ending, right, guys?

• 8:49Travis McElroy?

  Oh, wow.

• 8:51Travis McElroy?

  This is an invite show.

• 8:53Griffin McElroy?

  Does it have to be? Cause I'm really kind of, I feel good in the vibe right now. I feel like I'm in the pocket of the vibe.

• 8:58Travis McElroy?

  What if the groundhog came out and aggressively adjusted himself?

• 9:02Griffin McElroy?

  That would be cool.

• 9:03Travis McElroy?

  Does that mean a monsoon's on the way?

• 9:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that has to have happened in the hundred years we've been doing this thing that the little guy comes out and then like grabs his bathroom stuff as animals, most animals are want to do all the time.

• 9:16Travis McElroy?

  When I was traveling recently, it was very, very early in the morning. It was like an 8 a.m. flight. So I was going through security at like 6 a.m. And I, uh, forgot that the boots that I was wearing always set off the metal detector. So I had to get scanned. And I just take the boots off and the TSA agent looked at me as he was like scanning me with the wand. And he said, which side is your property on? And my first thought was what a cute way to ask me where my dick and balls is.

• 9:39Griffin McElroy?

  That's a hundred percent what I assume when you said that.

• 9:41Travis McElroy?

  Thank you. And then I realized he was talking about where, which conveyor belt my stuff was on to put my shoes with them. And luckily both things were true. So when I said the right, that was also where my stuff was, but it was such a cute way.

• 9:55Griffin McElroy?

  I don't wanna know you. That felt like a long walk to tell your brothers the current state of your.

• 10:02Travis McElroy?

  It's not always there. That's just where my property was at the moment.

• 10:06Griffin McElroy?

  A needlessly fanciful walk.

• 10:08Travis McElroy?

  To talk about my property?

• 10:10Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Cause now I'm thinking like, I'm thinking about what's going on in there, Trav. You may not want me to, but I'm thinking about.

• 10:14Travis McElroy?

  Sometimes I split the uprights or the down rights.

• 10:17Griffin McElroy?

  That is the.

• 10:18Travis McElroy?

  That's one ball on either side.

• 10:19Griffin McElroy?

  Give him the old droopy dog.

• 10:21Travis McElroy?

  Do you know what sucks? Here's what's actually hard. Can I tell you guys what's actually sucks?

• 10:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, please.

• 10:26Travis McElroy?

  Is that everybody has seen all the new ads. That's all they're thinking about right now.

• 10:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 10:32Travis McElroy?

  Is they've seen all the new ads.

• 10:34Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, they know how it all. Oh, fuck. We forgot the big game. God dang it.

• 10:38Travis McElroy?

  So the thing is.

• 10:39Travis McElroy?

  Did the big game happen?

• 10:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 10:41Travis McElroy?

  The big game just happened yesterday. We all forgot about it.

• 10:44Griffin McElroy?

  We were spinning.

• 10:46Travis McElroy?

  We forgot about that.

• 10:48Travis McElroy?

  It couldn't have. The big game couldn't have just happened.

• 10:51Travis McElroy?

  Let's hope it happened.

• 10:52Travis McElroy?

  Okay, wait. Oh, you're saying it just happened?

• 10:55Travis McElroy?

  I think it probably happened.

• 10:55Travis McElroy?

  It, okay. God bless.

• 10:57Griffin McElroy?

  Why wouldn't it happen, Travis?

• 11:00Travis McElroy?

  Griffin, I don't know, brother.

• 11:00Travis McElroy?

  No, it will have had happened.

• 11:03Griffin McElroy?

  I can see a few scenarios where it didn't happen.

• 11:05Travis McElroy?

  This is what I'm saying, brother.

• 11:06Travis McElroy?

  You guys broke my brain and for a moment I believed that the Superbowl had come and gone.

• 11:12Travis McElroy?

  I can see something happen where the commission would be like.

• 11:14Griffin McElroy?

  Like, let's do it next week.

• 11:16Travis McElroy?

  It's fucking wild out there.

• 11:18Travis McElroy?

  Hey, hey, players, players, coaches, you're not in the mood.

• 11:23Griffin McElroy?

  We're not in the mood. We're not in the mood to make a silly podcast joke. I can't imagine these forty strapping men are ready to catch balls and throw them at each other.

• 11:31Travis McElroy?

  You guys don't want to play football this week. We don't want to watch football this week. It's cold.

• 11:36Griffin McElroy?

  We'll get them next time.

• 11:38Travis McElroy?

  We'll get them next time. We're gonna play it out on like a Tecmo Bowl kind of thing and just see how it goes to broadcast that. We're doing the Puppy Bowl. We already filmed that.

• 11:46Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's easy. That's a light, that's a light.

• 11:48Travis McElroy?

  Puppy Bowl for three hours.

• 11:49Griffin McElroy?

  The puppies don't know. The puppies don't know.

• 11:51Travis McElroy?

  Everyone agreed to do the Puppy Bowl.

• 11:52Griffin McElroy?

  The puppies aren't on Blue Sky. They're not. They're simply not.

• 11:56Travis McElroy?

  Is there a big Las Vegas style betting?

• 11:58Travis McElroy?

  Before we started, I said, let's just do a normal one.

• 12:01Griffin McElroy?

  The guys, the guys aren't into, we'll just run the Super Bowl from two years ago because it was the same guys.

• 12:07Travis McElroy?

  And no one will remember it already happened.

• 12:09Griffin McElroy?

  No one.

• 12:10Travis McElroy?

  Hey guys, I wouldn't. Hundred percent that would get me.

• 12:14Griffin McElroy?

  Um.

• 12:14Travis McElroy?

  This is what I'm saying.

• 12:15Griffin McElroy?

  So this is advice.

• 12:16Travis McElroy?

  Ran, can I bet on the Puppy Bowl is what I want to know. Who runs, what, Justin?

• 12:21Griffin McElroy?

  I have a bit of frustration I'd like to talk about with the Super Bowl.

• 12:24Travis McElroy?

  Hey, yeah. Yeah, this is a safe space. No one's listening.

• 12:26Travis McElroy?

  It used to be, it used to be that the Super Bowl was a real buffet for fans of branding. Like if you're a brand fan, you love commercials, you love to see what like Madison Avenue has cooked up for us, right? It's Christmas Day.

• 12:42Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 12:42Travis McElroy?

  For consumers.

• 12:43Griffin McElroy?

  Hey, is that why the show Mad Men's called Mad Men? Because of Madison? Okay. Never knew that.

• 12:48Travis McElroy?

  I'm in, but they made it mad.

• 12:50Travis McElroy?

  It's all those things. Um, so.

• 12:52Griffin McElroy?

  They are actually also, most of the men in that show, from what little I've seen of it, are, are pre PO'd most of the time.

• 12:58Travis McElroy?

  But now, you gotta be a little mad to work here, kind of thing.

• 13:01Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it's for, it's working four ways.

• 13:03Travis McElroy?

  Oh, my God.

• 13:04Travis McElroy?

  Now, these days though, to rise above the den, you're seeing a lot more brands release their Super Bowl commercials.

• 13:12Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, man.

• 13:13Travis McElroy?

  Before the big game to try to get ahead of it. And this drives me crazy.

• 13:19Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 13:19Travis McElroy?

  Can I have?

• 13:20Travis McElroy?

  Here you go. Go off game.

• 13:21Travis McElroy?

  Fucking night that I look forward to where. The real joy for me is getting to see 10 new commercials. Like, that's what I'm excited for. Getting to see if like, if like, they figure out a way to put like Indiana Jones in one or something. Like, that's the one. I'm looking forward to that for weeks.

• 13:41Travis McElroy?

  It's the silver lining to seeing a player get hurt. We're like, oh my God, I hope he's okay. Oh my God. They will, they will take a commercial break. They will take a commercial break though.

• 13:51Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, this, what Travis is saying is not an A clause underneath my sub point one.

• 13:57Travis McElroy?

  No, Justin, I'm reading between the lines. You get happy when a player gets hurt.

• 14:02Travis McElroy?

  You're in a different page, man.

• 14:04Travis McElroy?

  See.

• 14:04Travis McElroy?

  You're in the index.

• 14:05Griffin McElroy?

  I'm, I'm, I'm bummed out by the, the, the commercial trailers that we get. One of them is a beer and I don't know which one, so.

• 14:13Travis McElroy?

  It's a trailer for a commercial?

• 14:15Griffin McElroy?

  It's a trailer for the David Beckham's got a twin brother. I remember that. I don't remember the product it's advertising because they don't say it. So a billion dollars well spent Guinness, maybe I think.

• 14:26Travis McElroy?

  They do, they did Harry Met Sally. They got Billy and Meg back for it and it's Miracle Whip. Like, that's why it's so good.

• 14:35Griffin McElroy?

  That's good. I can see that.

• 14:36Travis McElroy?

  That would have been so good though.

• 14:37Travis McElroy?

  She eats a sandwich.

• 14:38Griffin McElroy?

  Save that for me. Save that.

• 14:40Travis McElroy?

  Save it for me on the Super Bowl. I need that. When that pops up, I can't shush my family.

• 14:46Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 14:47Travis McElroy?

  If it's already been online.

• 14:49Griffin McElroy?

  If it's streaming. Yeah.

• 14:51Travis McElroy?

  That's why I've been doing an online blackout for the last like three weeks.

• 14:55Griffin McElroy?

  Um, this bit's not gonna have any legs.

• 15:00Travis McElroy?

  Just so I don't miss commercials. I have no idea what's going on.

• 15:03Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:04Travis McElroy?

  So I, so the commercials will all be a surprise. Don't tell me.

• 15:07Griffin McElroy?

  You're in for a big surprise. He's trying. Oh, Juice is on board too. They're trying, guys. They're on one of those things on the train tracks pumping it up and down. They're trying to get her there.

• 15:16Travis McElroy?

  Since I've looked online, I have no idea what's happening.

• 15:19Travis McElroy?

  Okay, listen, this is an advice show. And I, this first question's about welding, which

• 15:24Travis McElroy?

  It's not even a question, Justin. It's feedback from a previous episode.

• 15:27Griffin McElroy?

  I love feedback. This should be a new segment on the show.

• 15:29Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. I'm welder. I'm a welder by trade, and I wanted to chime in on the question from episode 747. Truthfully, I'm at the end of the, at the end of the day, a welder really just wants commiseration for how big of a pain in the ass it looked to weld. Or if that fails, just say, hell yeah, laying dimes. Really loud, and that should cover most interactions. That's from Kevin. Laying dimes is good. I like that.

• 15:54Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool.

• 15:55Travis McElroy?

  I'm gonna try to say that at least once during the episode, cuz that, that I like. But if you want to appreciate welding, there's an actual answer for you. I don't know why we've been helpful this week, but there you go.

• 16:06Griffin McElroy?

  Laying dimes is cool. It means when you, when you create a smooth weld without ripples, and it looks like a bunch of dimes laying on each other.

• 16:14Travis McElroy?

  That's sick.

• 16:15Griffin McElroy?

  That's fucking cool. Welding is so neat.

• 16:18Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, man.

• 16:19Griffin McElroy?

  I've done, I did a little, when I was doing my little Game Boy toys, I

• 16:24Travis McElroy?

  Game Boy toys?

• 16:25Griffin McElroy?

  I was doing little, I was doing soldering, which is kinda like welding. Don't you guys think, agree with that?

• 16:31Travis McElroy?

  It's plastic welding.

• 16:33Griffin McElroy?

  There's, but there's little metal, you know, it comes on a little spool, and you melt it.

• 16:37Travis McElroy?

  Actually, I've done plastic weld. It's not actually plastic welding, I guess.

• 16:40Griffin McElroy?

  No, no, it's real metal.

• 16:42Travis McElroy?

  I've done fusion weld.

• 16:43Griffin McElroy?

  I've seized Prometheus's fire and used it to make metal into different shit. So that's, I'm, I'm laying dimes over here myself.

• 16:54Travis McElroy?

  It's welding for babies.

• 16:55Travis McElroy?

  Baby welding, baby first welding.

• 16:58Travis McElroy?

  Okay. I have an urgent and pressing question. I am a collage artist.

• 17:02Griffin McElroy?

  You wanted to say collage, didn't you? I heard the, I'm not even looking at the camera right now. You did.

• 17:06Travis McElroy?

  I was thinking about, I was thinking he was gonna say college.

• 17:09Griffin McElroy?

  Stinker.

• 17:10Travis McElroy?

  I'm a collage artist, and I'm going to incorporate part of a puzzle into a piece I'm working on.

• 17:15Travis McElroy?

  Ooh, your gage is Christmas hell, Jamie.

• 17:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:18Travis McElroy?

  Well, I almost got tripped up, so I'm being very careful now.

• 17:21Griffin McElroy?

  I'm sorry.

• 17:21Travis McElroy?

  This person is working against me. This question asker has laid many traps, and I'm aware of all of them. I'm unstoppable. The issue is, what do I do with the rest of the puzzle? It's a puzzle of Baby Yoda that I got at my fiance's family's white elephant at Christmas two years ago, and the part I'm using is the part that doesn't have Baby Yoda on it. But it is a fairly large chunk of the puzzle. I obviously can't like donate the puzzle since it's incomplete, but I don't want to keep the Baby Yoda parts because it was kind of a sucky.

• 17:54Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 17:55Travis McElroy?

  I'm, here's a, I'm gonna tell this person to throw it in the trash. Okay, let's, I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. I like keep Baby Yoda parts because it's kind of a sucky puzzle and I only want the chunk I'm using my painting, but it also feels wasteful to throw in the garbage. Help. How do I best utilize the five, six of a puzzle without having to do the puzzle? That's from puzzled puzzler in peril P's. I also lost a piece of the puzzle that's not the chunks. Oh, puzzled puzzler in peril P S.

• 18:27Travis McElroy?

  I also lost a piece from the puzzle that's not in the chunk that I'm taking.

• 18:30Griffin McElroy?

  That's, that elevates it, actually.

• 18:33Travis McElroy?

  That makes it even more that I'm gonna tell you to throw this away. What else do you have?

• 18:37Travis McElroy?

  I bet if you're a collage artist, it's very difficult to throw away flat things.

• 18:43Griffin McElroy?

  Anything. You gotta always have your head on a fucking swivel looking for flat stuff that would look cool cut up.

• 18:50Travis McElroy?

  You ever think about how much work kidnappers must put in to finding the right letter?

• 18:55Griffin McElroy?

  It must take hours.

• 18:57Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 18:58Griffin McElroy?

  To find letters better than that.

• 18:59Travis McElroy?

  Cut them all out of the same Cosmo. You know what I mean? You gotta mix it up.

• 19:03Travis McElroy?

  Wait, yeah, that's a really good point. What kind of, what kind of shitty collage artist has a bunch of tiny pictures of parts of Baby Yoda and throws it away? Hello?

• 19:13Griffin McElroy?

  Welcome Justin, welcome Justin to the other side of the seesaw, buddy. Unbelievable.

• 19:19Travis McElroy?

  Now, maybe you can make a collage. A puzzle's kind of like a do it yourself collage, wouldn't you think about it?

• 19:25Griffin McElroy?

  Wow, yeah.

• 19:26Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, man.

• 19:27Griffin McElroy?

  A solvable collage, for sure.

• 19:30Travis McElroy?

  Have you ever wanted to 100% a collage?

• 19:33Griffin McElroy?

  I've always wanted to get the platinum on a art, art, on a art piece that I do.

• 19:39Travis McElroy?

  I think when you put a puzzle together, no one's ever like, you did it wrong.

• 19:43Griffin McElroy?

  First of all, you have the stuff to make two pieces of art. You've doubled what you have. One is the piece that incorporates the big chunk that you took out of the puzzle. That's cool. I'm gonna sit up. I don't know why I'm like fucking gobbling out in my chair. The second one is the rest of the puzzle with the piece missing. And that's saying something because it's about the Yoda that's not there. But also from that, there will be a small piece missing. When the people look at that and say like, but what's the small piece mean? All of a sudden they're trying to get to the bottom of your art story, which is really the secret to art is tricking people into paying very close attention to it.

• 20:20Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, into thinking there's meaning in it.

• 20:22Griffin McElroy?

  Right, they'll see that. They'll be like, is this really a piece of artwork about the baby Yodas that aren't there? But wait, what's this little piece missing? That's the secret. I'm a fuck up. That's the message.

• 20:34Travis McElroy?

  I lost it. That's my favorite thing about art is that when people say like, well, it means this to me, or it means this to me. So it means different things to different people. And that means you didn't know what it meant when you made it. You saw it looked nice.

• 20:46Griffin McElroy?

  I would be sick if water lilies just had a big hole in it. And they were like, what happened? He's like, he put his elbow down and it went through the painting. I see that. I'm like, wow, artists are just like us.

• 20:58Travis McElroy?

  We're all fallible. We really are all just people.

• 20:59Griffin McElroy?

  We all make mistakes and mess up sometimes. And you don't gotta let it not bring you down.

• 21:05Travis McElroy?

  This is, this puzzle, uh, this puzzle question is a good, good example of why I am so happy I recently discovered burning things.

• 21:14Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, sure.

• 21:15Travis McElroy?

  Uh, I got a, you know, it's cold weather outside, but it's been a little bit more temperate. And it's a great time to go outside and start a fire. Burn your puzzles.

• 21:25Travis McElroy?

  And I think, and I hate wasting stuff. Really, I, I do. I hate wasting things. I have a big problem with that, right? If I have something, I don't want to waste it.

• 21:33Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 21:33Travis McElroy?

  But here's what I've recently discovered, because a lot of the waste that I have, I've been struggling with lately, does happen to be woodworking waste. So that is-

• 21:43Griffin McElroy?

  Some of God's most burnable stuff.

• 21:45Travis McElroy?

  Right. So what I've decided though, is that if you burn it, you didn't waste it, because you got enjoyment from the fun and warmth.

• 21:55Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 21:55Travis McElroy?

  So you're not wasting it. If you, what I'm saying is, if you burn this puzzle,

• 22:01Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 22:01Travis McElroy?

  and then you watch this puzzle of Baby Yoda warm,

• 22:04Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 22:04Travis McElroy?

  and you take pleasure in like the warmth of Baby Yoda and the-

• 22:09Griffin McElroy?

  It's not waste.

• 22:10Travis McElroy?

  Just like watching it.

• 22:11Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 22:11Travis McElroy?

  It's not a waste.

• 22:12Griffin McElroy?

  Well, in fact-

• 22:13Travis McElroy?

  It was good. You did that. It was good. Like, it was good.

• 22:16Travis McElroy?

  I'll take a step further, Justin. I recently saw a physicist-

• 22:19Travis McElroy?

  Don't huff it.

• 22:20Travis McElroy?

  No, don't huff it.

• 22:21Griffin McElroy?

  Do not huff this Baby Yoda.

• 22:22Travis McElroy?

  Don't do this indoors. Did I say that? I should have started with-

• 22:25Travis McElroy?

  I saw a physicist talking about that if you were to burn like a piece of paper, you can't create or destroy energy. So hypothetically, if you collected all the warmth, and ash, and water, and everything that was made by that fire, you could put it back together. So you're taking this sucky puzzle, and you're making it into a much more challenging puzzle.

• 22:43Griffin McElroy?

  What the fuck did you ju- what the fuck did you-

• 22:45Travis McElroy?

  What you just said made not a damn lick of sense, Trav.

• 22:49Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, but history will prove me correct. If you grabbed all the, if you siphoned the paper energy, the paper energy?

• 22:56Travis McElroy?

  Energy? Like, what are you saying?

• 22:57Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, man. All of that stuff still exists. You didn't destroy-

• 23:00Griffin McElroy?

  No, I know, but I transformed it. I burned the paper and it created heat, which is a type of energy.

• 23:05Travis McElroy?

  So hypothetically, all the pieces of the paper still exist.

• 23:08Griffin McElroy?

  May I please?

• 23:09Travis McElroy?

  May please.

• 23:11Griffin McElroy?

  Before that, it didn't have paper energy. That's crazy.

• 23:15Travis McElroy?

  Picture of Baby, it was a part of a picture of Baby Yoda.

• 23:18Griffin McElroy?

  It was a part of a picture of Baby Yoda. It was paper and paint.

• 23:21Travis McElroy?

  Baby Yoda has, uh, has stored energy.

• 23:25Travis McElroy?

  What energy?

• 23:27Griffin McElroy?

  The energy that's, the energy that's holding the molecular bonds together. Baby Yoda vibrating on the table?

• 23:33Travis McElroy?

  When you burn Baby Yoda, you are releasing the bonds that hold the molecules together.

• 23:39Travis McElroy?

  Everything for- Every picture of baby Yoda is energy and dirt. It's just fire and dirt.

• 23:46Travis McElroy?

  What do you think Gambit does when he picks up the puzzle pieces of baby Yoda and he turns them into little bombs?

• 23:51Travis McElroy?

  Who's the Shavagno? He turns it into fire and dirt. That's his power.

• 23:55Griffin McElroy?

  Right, but what energy could the paper possibly have? If I plug my phone in, but it doesn't. If it did, I would be in some real trouble because I got some envelopes on my desk.

• 24:07Travis McElroy?

  You're lucky.

• 24:08Griffin McElroy?

  I'm looking at them.

• 24:09Travis McElroy?

  I can't remember the opposite of kinetic energy. Because that's what it is, but I can't remember it.

• 24:14Griffin McElroy?

  Potential.

• 24:15Travis McElroy?

  Potential energy. Thank you, Justin.

• 24:17Griffin McElroy?

  Sorry, guys. I just got a note of a low battery notification on my phone. Let me plug it into my books.

• 24:26Travis McElroy?

  Oh, my God, Griffin. It's potential energy and you need Gambit to turn it into kinetic energy.

• 24:32Griffin McElroy?

  I know about potential energy. It's when you look at a rock and you're like, I could throw that. It would go so fucking fast. I'm turning arm energy into throw energy into move energy. I mean, I understand all that. If I look at a piece of paper and say, if I burn that, it'd be hot. That's not energy. It's an idea.

• 24:50Travis McElroy?

  This is the times when science lies to us. What Travis is saying is that if you burn all the stuff from baby Yoda and you put it all together.

• 24:58Griffin McElroy?

  Picture, picture, picture of baby, a picture of baby.

• 25:01Travis McElroy?

  What I'm saying is if you burn a picture of baby Yoda, you get ashes and nothing. And that's the truth.

• 25:07Griffin McElroy?

  You get heat?

• 25:08Travis McElroy?

  That's the truth.

• 25:08Griffin McElroy?

  I'm not going to short sell here to Travis here. You do get the heat.

• 25:12Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. And what's heat, Griffin?

• 25:14Travis McElroy?

  Baby Yoda, that's the picture of it.

• 25:16Travis McElroy?

  No, heat is energy.

• 25:17Griffin McElroy?

  It's energy that comes out when it gets too hot.

• 25:21Travis McElroy?

  Why does it get hot?

• 25:22Griffin McElroy?

  The temperature moved up too much and the thing freaked out. And it created an incredible fire from the energy stored within it.

• 25:31Travis McElroy?

  Right.

• 25:32Griffin McElroy?

  Am I energy?

• 25:33Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:34Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:34Travis McElroy?

  You're Star of Self, baby.

• 25:36Griffin McElroy?

  I know that I'm, I know I'm stuff. Like, I think about that all the time.

• 25:40Travis McElroy?

  But you're also energy.

• 25:41Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool, man.

• 25:43Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, dude, science rocks.

• 25:45Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, there's fire inside you.

• 25:47Griffin McElroy?

  You don't need to be like that to me. This is a moment of wonder and excitement.

• 25:51Travis McElroy?

  He's not stupid. He's not the quarterback. You know what I mean? Like, we don't have to. He's not the wood shop teacher. We don't have to like.

• 26:02Travis McElroy?

  You don't have to be a dick about it. He's on a lacrosse coach.

• 26:06Griffin McElroy?

  This is a cool.

• 26:07Travis McElroy?

  For fuck's sake.

• 26:07Griffin McElroy?

  This is a cool moment for me.

• 26:09Travis McElroy?

  I wanna alienate. Hold on, there's gotta be somebody else I didn't alienate.

• 26:12Griffin McElroy?

  Come on, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it.

• 26:13Travis McElroy?

  It's not a geologist.

• 26:15Griffin McElroy?

  A geologist, wow.

• 26:17Travis McElroy?

  That was a bad pull.

• 26:18Griffin McElroy?

  Rock scientists. We were all thinking it, Juice.

• 26:23Griffin McElroy?

  I have energy. That's gonna get me, that's gonna get me through today, Trav. I do appreciate that.

• 26:29Travis McElroy?

  You are. You're just fire matches.

• 26:31Griffin McElroy?

  Because sometimes they clip ones we don't want them to clip, and I'm not excited about people getting in the comments and telling me the things I don't know about middle, middle grade science.

• 26:38Travis McElroy?

  Does that mean, could Gambit touch Griffin and turn him into a human bong?

• 26:43Griffin McElroy?

  I think that's what you're suggesting.

• 26:45Travis McElroy?

  Gambit should be doing that more. He doesn't talk about it, but like, the other thing he could do is melt your fucking clothes and blow you up.

• 26:51Travis McElroy?

  Blow up Magneto's whole clothes. One thing I didn't try that I could try, everybody.

• 26:57Travis McElroy?

  One thing I could try is touch that dude.

• 27:00Travis McElroy?

  I could blow up his pants, Mosherie.

• 27:01Travis McElroy?

  Wait, sorry, what?

• 27:03Travis McElroy?

  I could blow up Magneto's pants.

• 27:05Travis McElroy?

  One thing I could try, Mosherie, is touching his helmet and blowing his fucking brains up.

• 27:11Travis McElroy?

  Wait, Gambit, don't do that. I'm just saying I could.

• 27:15Travis McElroy?

  He wouldn't see that shit coming, Mosherie. Why does it, why is it Nightfall is like, "I could teleport inside of him."

• 27:21Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 27:22Travis McElroy?

  Just once. It would be so bad for me, but like.

• 27:25Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know.

• 27:26Travis McElroy?

  I can hold a big stick, teleport, so I land kind of in front of him, so the stick is through him. By the way, it's Wednesday, February 5th.

• 27:35Griffin McElroy?

  It is Wednesday, February 5th today.

• 27:37Travis McElroy?

  So Magneto might be good right now. I don't actually know, but if Magneto's bad, that's the example.

• 27:42Travis McElroy?

  A Sentinel. Well, yeah, couldn't, couldn't Gambit just touch a huge Sentinel and then like, okay?

• 27:50Griffin McElroy?

  What if he touches the ground?

• 27:53Travis McElroy?

  What if he aggressively adjusts himself?

• 27:55Griffin McElroy?

  What if he aggressively adjusts himself on the Grammy stage?

• 27:58Travis McElroy?

  Oh, no.

• 27:59Griffin McElroy?

  On night, on music.

• 28:00Travis McElroy?

  My balls.

• 28:01Griffin McElroy?

  Music's biggest night. Gambit makes his balls explode on stage. We're all excited for Sabrina Carpenter, but I just watched Gambit. You know, Remy, blow his balls up on stage. Really overshadows Beyonce's accomplishment, if you ask me, when we had to watch Gambit blow up his balls on the Grammy stage music.

• 28:21Travis McElroy?

  And then weep.

• 28:22Griffin McElroy?

  He weeped for, of course he weeped, like, yeah.

• 28:25Travis McElroy?

  He probably died.

• 28:27Griffin McElroy?

  I think Gambit died on stage.

• 28:29Travis McElroy?

  Unless they cauterized.

• 28:32Griffin McElroy?

  Let's go to the money zone.

• 28:44Travis McElroy?

  This podcast, this one right here, why it's sponsored by Squarespace. Come on in, have a seat. Welcome to Squarespace Presents, My Brother, My Brother and Me, a Squarespace endeavor.

• 28:56Griffin McElroy?

  Mm hmm.

• 28:56Travis McElroy?

  No, what do you guys think about this? I'm thinking if I say Squarespace enough, they'll have to pay us more.

• 29:01Griffin McElroy?

  That's, yeah, I mean, that is.

• 29:02Travis McElroy?

  Love that.

• 29:03Griffin McElroy?

  We've literally never talked to our ad people, but I do think that that is an unwritten rule of advertising.

• 29:09Travis McElroy?

  We were created by Squarespace.

• 29:11Griffin McElroy?

  We came out of Squarespace.

• 29:13Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:13Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:14Travis McElroy?

  We were a dream that Squarespace had.

• 29:17Griffin McElroy?

  One big egg.

• 29:19Travis McElroy?

  It cried a single tear.

• 29:20Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. The tear became an egg. We all three came out of it six years apart.

• 29:25Travis McElroy?

  Name was thought. We leapt from the egg, fully formed. And we suckled at the teat of Squarespace.

• 29:30Griffin McElroy?

  This is cool. This is a cool ad.

• 29:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:32Travis McElroy?

  It's a cool legend.

• 29:33Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. And that's how we became.

• 29:35Griffin McElroy?

  I'm like willing to let my brain go to more out there places now that I know I'm made of energy. Like, that's sick.

• 29:41Travis McElroy?

  Do you know Squarespace is made of energy?

• 29:43Griffin McElroy?

  It is. It's made of internet energy and it can share that with you. You can harness it. You can grab it with both hands and harness the power of Squarespace.

• 29:50Travis McElroy?

  And accept payments, the easiest, like the easiest way possible.

• 29:54Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, with all the different payment methods.

• 29:55Travis McElroy?

  Squarespace Payments puts the energy in your hands.

• 29:58Griffin McElroy?

  That's right.

• 29:59Travis McElroy?

  You can get started with just a few clicks and give your customers a whirl away with popular payment methods like Klarna, ACH and Apple Pay. You can grow credibility and engage visitors. What?

• 30:11Travis McElroy?

  I want to grow my visitors.

• 30:13Travis McElroy?

  I want to grow, yeah, okay. I want to engage credibility and grow my visitors.

• 30:16Griffin McElroy?

  I bet they can do that, too.

• 30:18Travis McElroy?

  Whoa. My credibility has never been better and my audience is bigger than ever with my incredible Ray. Whoa, you have so many people in your audience? No.

• 30:27Griffin McElroy?

  No.

• 30:27Travis McElroy?

  Just five of them, but they're all 12 feet tall. Um, and they have an unrivaled suite of visual design effects built in and ready to go on any Squarespace website. Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, go to HTTPS colon backslash backslash WWW.Squarespace.com backslash my brother to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

• 30:55Griffin McElroy?

  I don't want to do this ad because I don't want a bunch of people out there who chomp my flavor because I got these glasses at Warby Parker.

• 31:06Travis McElroy?

  Oh, okay.

• 31:07Griffin McElroy?

  I did get these glasses and I've gotten a lot of compliments on these glasses. They are assertive. They're statement glasses. They are saying, yeah, I need corrective eyewear in order to party in this world, but I look good doing it. But if there's a bunch of people out there walking around

• 31:22Travis McElroy?

  Mm hmm.

• 31:23Griffin McElroy?

  with this, with these Lisa Loeb beauties on their, well, those are more of a cat's eye.

• 31:27Travis McElroy?

  Griffin has glasses and he's king and he doesn't want to stop being king.

• 31:31Griffin McElroy?

  No, I'm not saying that. Warby Parker's great. I, the app is genuinely, I have fun when I use it, which is, sounds like bullshit.

• 31:39Travis McElroy?

  It's a pleasant experience.

• 31:40Griffin McElroy?

  But when you use it, you see like all these different style opportunities and you press a button and then you can see what they look like on your face. It's magical. It's incredible. Then you get the five pairs of the home try on program so you don't buy a pair of shitty glasses.

• 31:52Travis McElroy?

  Well, they have a ton of options, Griffin. Just tell people not to get your specific glasses.

• 31:57Griffin McElroy?

  I won't even say, nice try. I won't even say mine. Good luck, treasure hunters. It's out there. Uh, it's, uh, they just got some new frames in also for the, for the new year. I'm not even reading, gang, I'm not reading the copy points. I just like Warby Parker. Uh, let me make sure I didn't skip anything though. No, okay, we're good. Uh, get started with Warby Parker's virtual try on. You can try on glasses and sunglasses, seeing the realistic color, texture and size of each style right from home, right now, or head over to warbyparker.com/mybrother right now to take the home try on quiz and pick five pairs of frames to try on at home for free. That's warbyparker.com/mybrother. Warbyparker.com/mybrother. It's a shame I'm, I'm a little bit under the weather because I feel like that one was pretty solid and the kind we could send to like one of our companies to advertise for it.

• 32:42Travis McElroy?

  Or that, that could have been.

• 32:43Griffin McElroy?

  Sometimes we do it good. Sometimes we do it. We really do it.

• 32:46Travis McElroy?

  That could have been in our highlight reel when we win the iHeart Podcast Best Ad Root Award.

• 32:51Griffin McElroy?

  We are never, ever, ever.

• 32:54Travis McElroy?

  Not if people don't vote for us.

• 32:56Griffin McElroy?

  No, I don't even actually want people to waste their energy on it.

• 32:59Travis McElroy?

  What?

• 32:59Griffin McElroy?

  There's nothing you can do.

• 33:01Travis McElroy?

  I would just love to earn Conan's respect for once.

• 33:04Travis McElroy?

  Never happen.

• 33:04Griffin McElroy?

  Never happen. There's simply, audience, we love you, there simply isn't enough of you to move the needle on this one. So save your, save your efforts.

• 33:13Travis McElroy?

  Don't even try it.

• 33:14Griffin McElroy?

  Please, thank you.

• 33:15Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, what are you gonna do?

• 33:15Travis McElroy?

  I know what you're thinking, that maybe you're gonna try any way and get everybody together and work really hard.

• 33:22Griffin McElroy?

  Deadass, deadass, don't bother.

• 33:26Travis McElroy?

  But don't bother, there's no chance. I know, I know, I know, it would be pretty cool.

• 33:31Travis McElroy?

  And we're an underdog and sometimes people root for those.

• 33:33Griffin McElroy?

  I'm not, I'm on, I'm going to the other side of the seesaw and I know it's a futile effort.

• 33:40Speaker 05

  Who's ready for some science? With sources and nuance.

• 33:48Speaker 06

  And some funny jokes from me.

• 33:52Speaker 06

  And some funny jokes from me.

• 33:54Speaker 05

  Well, let's learn everything we learn about science and a bit of everything else too. From super heavy elements to super heavy pumpkins.

• 34:00Speaker 06

  From quantum physics to the history of swearing.

• 34:03Speaker 05

  As well as special guests like Tom Scott and Hank Green.

• 34:06Speaker 06

  And some funny jokes from me.

• 34:08Speaker 05

  Me, Caroline Roper. Dr. Ella Hubber.

• 34:10Speaker 06

  And Tom Lum.

• 34:11Speaker 05

  So join us next time where we will learn about.

• 34:15Speaker 06

  Everything.

• 34:19Speaker 05

  Hey, are you playing a video game right now?

• 34:22Travis McElroy?

  Maybe you put on a podcast while grinding in an RPG.

• 34:25Speaker 06

  Or maybe you just don't want to hear that boss fight music one more time.

• 34:28Speaker 05

  Been there. I'm Maddie Myers.

• 34:30Travis McElroy?

  I'm Jason Schreier.

• 34:31Speaker 06

  And I'm Kirk Hamilton. We're the hosts of Triple Click, a video game podcast.

• 34:35Speaker 05

  A podcast you can listen to while you do other things.

• 34:38Travis McElroy?

  Like driving, or cooking, or playing video games.

• 34:44Speaker 05

  On Triple Click, we share our thoughts on the latest games.

• 34:46Travis McElroy?

  And breaking news out of the video game industry.

• 34:49Speaker 06

  And we also talk about other stuff besides games.

• 34:52Travis McElroy?

  So while you're doing something else, make sure to check out Triple Click.

• 34:56Speaker 06

  Listen on MaximumFun.org or wherever you find your podcasts.

• 35:10Travis McElroy?

  Break down the system. Holy shit. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. It's February 5th, but by my calculations, it's also our Valentine's Day episode.

• 35:23Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, man, and our Groundhog's Day episode.

• 35:25Travis McElroy?

  And our Groundhog's Day episode. Isn't that something?

• 35:28Travis McElroy?

  And our Super Bowl and our Grammys.

• 35:31Travis McElroy?

  I'm actually pretty mad about this, uh, first one, cause I completely missed the opportunity to buy this Duncan capsule collection for Valentine's Day. You know what? I'm not even gonna give them the satisfaction. Fuck them.

• 35:44Griffin McElroy?

  Fuck those guys. That's awesome juice.

• 35:47Travis McElroy?

  More energy like that.

• 35:47Griffin McElroy?

  Do that more of just like, that's right, KFC's got a new chicken pizza. You know what? Fuck those. No way.

• 35:55Travis McElroy?

  I don't mean that, KFC. It's good.

• 35:57Travis McElroy?

  Uh, they're missing, and you know what? To fuck KFC, all they're missing is you.

• 36:02Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 36:03Travis McElroy?

  True.

• 36:03Travis McElroy?

  No, I just wanted to.

• 36:04Travis McElroy?

  There's a K and F and a C and fuck as well, but not a U.

• 36:08Travis McElroy?

  No, no, it's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. Uh, no, I just wanted to, uh, uh, real quick, mention that for the big game, uh, BW threes is doing it again. Probably. It's kind of, this is one of the weirder press releases. I don't think I've ever read a press release that's kind of equivocating. Uh, you're even after paying up on the, on the deal last year, B-Dubs once again offers America free wings. If the big game goes to overtime. Now, for a little context, last year, there was this contest from BW threes did where, not even a contest, but like a promotion where if the game went into overtime, everybody gets free wings. And you know what happened? The game did go into overtime, so everybody in the world ate free wings there the next day.

• 36:53Griffin McElroy?

  How did they stay extant as a?

• 36:56Travis McElroy?

  That it's, it's in them. It's a miracle. You read that right. Football fans can rest assured that Buffalo Wild Wings is bringing back its iconic overtime deal for the seventh consecutive year. When the thrilling big game went into overtime in 2024, fans across the nation were able to celebrate with free wings. After making good on its promise last year, Buffalo Wild Wings is daring to once again put a wager on the line. If the big game goes into OT, B-Dubs is ready to do it again. Free wings.

• 37:24Travis McElroy?

  Now, what I love there is that they talk about it like there's a risk associated with it. As though like, yeah, man, listen, it fucked us up real bad last year. Oh, my God, we had to lay off half of our employees.

• 37:39Griffin McElroy?

  We had to drop the WEC, which is BW's, twos.

• 37:42Travis McElroy?

  But now, man, we just can't help ourselves. Like, we're doing it again.

• 37:48Griffin McElroy?

  The only way we can get our rocks off is by almost blowing it big time.

• 37:53Travis McElroy?

  And do we win anything if they don't go into overtime? No.

• 37:57Griffin McElroy?

  You guys have to, maybe you guys would come in and buy some wings if they don't go into overtime.

• 38:01Travis McElroy?

  You give us free wings, then we sell back to you.

• 38:04Griffin McElroy?

  We like wings. We don't get, we don't actually get to eat that many wings here, which is fucked up.

• 38:09Travis McElroy?

  Gave so many of them away.

• 38:11Griffin McElroy?

  Cause we give them all away. We like wings, but we don't get to get them.

• 38:15Travis McElroy?

  If it doesn't go into overtime, you have to come work one shift unpaid.

• 38:20Griffin McElroy?

  At the wing factory. It's spicy work, gang.

• 38:22Travis McElroy?

  Everybody. If the air is full of spices, the ground is filled with salt, uh, sauce. We have, we have constant injuries here. Please come.

• 38:32Travis McElroy?

  So, last, so here's the quote. Um, are we crazy for bringing our overtime deal back after last year's turnout? Maybe. What? After giving away 2.5 million wings last year, we know it's a bold move to bring it back.

• 38:47Griffin McElroy?

  That's 1.25 beautiful birds.

• 38:50Travis McElroy?

  Now, think about this for a second. Okay, wait, let me finish the quote. For us at B-Dubs, it's all about the thrill of the game, and we're pumped to give all football and wing fans another chance at scoring big, no matter who they cheer for. So, here's, my question is this, each chicken's gonna give you four wings, by my math. Uh huh. So, 2.5 divided by four.

• 39:12Griffin McElroy?

  You're right.

• 39:13Travis McElroy?

  It's like 600,000-ish, right? Six, 625, 625,000 chickens. How is Mr. Mahomes and his friends supposed to?

• 39:27Travis McElroy?

  Handle the pressure. Imagine you're kicking guy. Yeah. You're gonna kick it for the tie. And if you kick it for the tie. You're committing over a half million chickens to death. So here's the stakes. To be fair, kicking guy. Either you get your duckets, or you send 625,000 fucking chickens to the cemetery. Kicking guy from Kansas City has some questionable opinions. He might fucking hate you.

• 39:55Griffin McElroy?

  He might actually want very badly for this to happen. Oh, fuck, man.

• 40:00Travis McElroy?

  It's huge steak.

• 40:01Griffin McElroy?

  Huge, huge steak.

• 40:02Travis McElroy?

  Here's, here's what I'm gonna say. If BW3s had had the sheer power to be willing, they should take it a step further and include a lot of side bets. Where it's like, if the first thing is a field goal, the first point scored is a field goal. Then we will cover the windows with sauce, right? Have more random bets, right? Everybody gets, uh, like a beer mug full of ranch. If, if, you know, if, if the game is tied at halftime.

• 40:35Griffin McElroy?

  If it's, if it's, if it's tied at halftime, our VP has to get his butt out. Something like, really like fun, low stakes.

• 40:44Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, whoever our mascot is will eat a whole live chicken.

• 40:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 40:49Travis McElroy?

  If Patrick Mahomes cries.

• 40:52Griffin McElroy?

  Once.

• 40:53Travis McElroy?

  Out. And is like, on camera.

• 40:55Griffin McElroy?

  Mm-hmm.

• 40:57Travis McElroy?

  Out of sadness. It can't be a happy cry.

• 41:01Griffin McElroy?

  Can't be, I just won the Super Bowl for a ninth time in a row. God, what a boring fucking sport. Are you kidding, guys?

• 41:06Travis McElroy?

  My hands are so heavy. Too many rings. They should make, if the quarterback has won before, he should have to wear his Super Bowl rings during the game.

• 41:15Griffin McElroy?

  During the game. I've always fucking said that. I've always said that. Let's see if, let's see if superstar Tom Brady can get out there and take home another one. If every time he throws it, a couple of his rings go off and they have to go find them in the grass.

• 41:29Travis McElroy?

  That's the future the liberals want for you. That's true.

• 41:32Griffin McElroy?

  That one sounds good, though. That one sounds really good, though.

• 41:36Travis McElroy?

  If you get 10 of them, can you cash them in for a bracelet?

• 41:39Griffin McElroy?

  You should be able to get one big, like a girdle. Something.

• 41:42Travis McElroy?

  Or a belt. I mean, at that point.

• 41:45Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, cool.

• 41:46Travis McElroy?

  I'm gonna complain about this one real quick. Hungry Howie's, this is a press release on QSR magazine.com, the number one spot. Hungry Howie's launches a secret menu for Big Game.

• 41:56Travis McElroy?

  For big boys.

• 41:58Travis McElroy?

  Hungry Howie's is kicking off National Pizza Day and the Big Game with a new addition to its secret menu, the Hangry Howie Pizza. Perfect for game day gatherings and pizza parties, the Hangry Howie's packed with bold flavors and toppings designed to tackle even the fiercest hunger and cravings. Starting February 9th, fans can order the Hangry Howie exclusively through the secret menu for delivery and carryout. What the fuck do you think a secret menu is? Cause I'll give you a hint, it's not a thing you write press releases about.

• 42:25Griffin McElroy?

  No.

• 42:26Travis McElroy?

  All it is is- It's not a secret menu!

• 42:28Travis McElroy?

  We didn't print off new like, you know, plastic whatever signs to go in the lighted things that you see behind the counter that tell you what it is.

• 42:37Griffin McElroy?

  Yes, this is a good point, especially when McDonald's used to really iterate fast and hot and would just toss shit on the menu. They did effectively have a secret menu insofar as every time I went to McDonald's and was like, yeah, let me get that bratwurst, let me get that bratwurst that hits so good. Most of the time they're like, what are you fucking talking, you can't order a hot dog in here, are you out of your mind? You do have them back there, I promise.

• 42:57Travis McElroy?

  At Hungry Howie's, we know that National Pizza Day and the Big Game are sacred occasions for pizza fans, says Jeff Renkey.

• 43:05Travis McElroy?

  What? Sacred?

• 43:06Travis McElroy?

  Sacred Travis, sacred, much like language is sacred to those of us that care.

• 43:12Travis McElroy?

  I thought you were saying secret menu, but you've been saying sacred menu this whole time.

• 43:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yes, that's right.

• 43:17Travis McElroy?

  Right, passed down on tablets. As part of our sacred menu, it highlights our commitment to the sanctity of marriage. No, that's not what it said. Hungry Howie's began as a thousand square foot hamburger shop in Taylor, Michigan, and now-

• 43:33Travis McElroy?

  We ran out of buds.

• 43:35Travis McElroy?

  Making a mockery of the word secret. My partner and I received a fancy MILF frother for Christmas. I'm, man, I said MILF.

• 43:48Griffin McElroy?

  I know.

• 43:48Travis McElroy?

  And-

• 43:48Griffin McElroy?

  No one said anything though, did you catch that, how me and Travis are growing?

• 43:52Travis McElroy?

  Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm very excited about it and I've been making frothy milk drinks at home. When we have friends over, I make frothy milk. I offer to make frothy milk drinks for them, but they often turn it down. I worry this is because they're worried it'll be too much work for me. I want to share froth with the world. How can I encourage my guests to accept a frothy drink? And what should I try frothing next? That's from frothing in the big city.

• 44:24Griffin McElroy?

  Man, we, it's been a while since we've had a full blown mad person up in here. It's been a while since we've had a real wild one like this.

• 44:35Travis McElroy?

  Um, I would like to, I would like to try to help this person.

• 44:38Griffin McElroy?

  Please.

• 44:39Travis McElroy?

  Because I feel like I have often been the person in their situation, right?

• 44:43Griffin McElroy?

  Sure.

• 44:44Travis McElroy?

  I'm excited about something like that I think is very fun and decadent. That maybe others aren't as like necessarily charmed by. And like recently, when a lot of people in my life, sort of like friends and family have around me have started to communicate is that they do not like this.

• 45:02Travis McElroy?

  Right. So this is an unenjoyable way for me to be behaving.

• 45:06Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 45:07Travis McElroy?

  Friends who I try to like, who are maybe like, to use this example, I'll make a frothy milk drink and just shove it in their hands. Stuff like that, they've expressed to me, sort of everybody I know is like, that's not something that they enjoy or indeed will continue to tolerate.

• 45:21Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 45:21Travis McElroy?

  Um, yeah.

• 45:22Travis McElroy?

  So you're working on making new friends or?

• 45:24Travis McElroy?

  I don't think you came to me for me to say, stop it. But I have learned recently from a lot of people around me that the answer might be.

• 45:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 45:32Travis McElroy?

  Stop.

• 45:33Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool. Like, it's like the welder.

• 45:35Travis McElroy?

  Just like cut it out.

• 45:36Griffin McElroy?

  It's, it's like the welder thing, like you have experience with this specific thing. So you can give kind of like evidence of the best course of.

• 45:43Travis McElroy?

  A younger me might've had some different advice, but this new me is at his eyes open quite a bit.

• 45:48Travis McElroy?

  And this is fun because in many ways I am a younger Justin and I was going to say a different thing.

• 45:54Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, let's hear your thing, Trev. My thing was.

• 45:56Griffin McElroy?

  And I like judge is like sort of third party because I don't, I don't, I don't give a fuck. So I'll judge for both of you guys.

• 46:03Travis McElroy?

  Here in the Midwest, we have kind of a secret menu of conversation.

• 46:06Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 46:07Travis McElroy?

  Um, where like you offer once and then they say no, because they think it would be an inconvenience. And then you offer again.

• 46:14Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 46:15Travis McElroy?

  And then they say yes.

• 46:16Travis McElroy?

  That's when it's clear you need it.

• 46:18Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 46:19Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, no, it's really no trouble.

• 46:22Griffin McElroy?

  If I was a guest in someone's house and they said, do you want a frothy milk drink? First of all, my answer would be, of course, no. I don't want to drink any milk drink, but especially one that you thickened. One that you sort of carbonated a little bit. That's going to be a no for me, dog. If they offered it to me a second time, I would leave. That is, that person hasn't, has a bad relationship with the thing that they're trying to give you. And I, I want to be out of, I want to get out of that. I already did say no. I have to get out of this.

• 46:52Travis McElroy?

  One, one time for Christmas, I think Theresa got like one of those, uh, like whipped cream canister things where you put like the CO2. And like, we were so excited, like we had people over and like had made like pie and like hot chocolate and stuff. And we're like, and we have this thing. And I believe it was only used by Theresa and myself. And it was like an audition for the, uh, for the whipped cream canister to become a permanent fixture in our lives. And it failed the audition.

• 47:24Travis McElroy?

  In the cabinet you go, goodbye forever.

• 47:27Griffin McElroy?

  My favorite game is watching Top Chef when someone pulls one of those out and being at home like, like a wise asshole, just like, that's going to fucking explode. And it does every, it never works. It explodes every time.

• 47:38Travis McElroy?

  Don't work. It's a pain in the ass. And then at the end of the day, no one is trying to solve the problem of like, I'm really not getting enough whipped cream. Yeah. Like you're not making, I need to get better, higher volume whipped cream day to day in my life. Have you noticed that when someone uses the, even like just a can of whipped cream? There is a second of such terror as you push on the nozzle of like, what, what pressure is about to spray out of here and just fling hot chocolate everywhere? Or like, it's never like a gentle buildup. It's like, right the first time and it like you, everybody gets nervous for a second.

• 48:15Griffin McElroy?

  I, I think, I think you can't, you simply can't offer it a second time. I'll leave the house. I'm your guest now in this instance. That's wild. You don't ask a second time. You need to work on your first sales pitch. You can only really get this question out the door one time. I'm kind of a tea guy now. That's like my new thing. I get nice teas and I have fancy pot for making it and I like it. I drink it every night. Love a tea. Um, and so when someone comes over and I want to give them tea, I'll be like, do you want some tea? I got the really good shit. Or like I'll say something to let them know like it's gonna be good tea. So what could you say sort of about frothed milk?

• 48:52Travis McElroy?

  One thing is like, I'm doing one already. Like I'm already frothing. Like you could be mid froth, like whoa, this is looking pretty good. Do you want one?

• 48:58Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 48:59Travis McElroy?

  Like that. Here, take this one.

• 49:00Griffin McElroy?

  You say, don't make me be the only one frothing over here.

• 49:03Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 49:04Griffin McElroy?

  Peer pressure.

• 49:06Travis McElroy?

  Also, you could just go ahead and have a barista like outfit on and like have a counter set up with like a register and write their name on a cup. And like, what'd you want?

• 49:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 49:17Travis McElroy?

  One thing I've tried is if they say no the first time, kind of being pouty and petulant for an hour.

• 49:21Travis McElroy?

  Ooh, I like that. Show me how that works, Justin.

• 49:24Travis McElroy?

  Well, here's what you do. You do that and then every 20 minutes or so, your, your wife will ask you if anything's wrong. You say, no, no, no. Seriously, nothing. It's fine.

• 49:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 49:33Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. And yeah, then eventually you snap out of it. I don't know. Someone else catch.

• 49:36Travis McElroy?

  And you kind of spin the frother sadly in the air, just like.

• 49:40Travis McElroy?

  Someone quietly knocks on your bedroom door and says, actually, you know what? I'm actually kind of jonesing for some frothing if that's still.

• 49:46Griffin McElroy?

  It's way too late. It's way too late at that point.

• 49:48Travis McElroy?

  It's too late. No, I threw that thing away. No.

• 49:50Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, that's stupid.

• 49:51Travis McElroy?

  Stupid. That's stupid. I didn't even actually have one.

• 49:54Griffin McElroy?

  Based on what you said earlier, Juice, I didn't know that this was an option to do what I'm about to do, but I don't like when you do that.

• 50:01Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 50:02Griffin McElroy?

  I don't like when you do that.

• 50:03Travis McElroy?

  I know.

• 50:04Travis McElroy?

  I do. It makes me feel superior to you.

• 50:06Griffin McElroy?

  I don't say that enough to hope, hope that you change.

• 50:10Travis McElroy?

  But the reason that I know that I have this insight is that I have started to become in this year of our Lord 2025, my. My way that I'm being faster than fear.

• 50:22Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 50:23Travis McElroy?

  I'm kind of like, I know we're getting ahead of things a little bit with finale. It's like, I'm just telling people what's happening up there now. I'm just telling people.

• 50:30Travis McElroy?

  Awesome.

• 50:30Travis McElroy?

  Exactly what's happening.

• 50:31Travis McElroy?

  You're sharing thoughts and feelings with people?

• 50:33Travis McElroy?

  Not sharing.

• 50:34Griffin McElroy?

  Travis, you're doing the energy thing.

• 50:36Travis McElroy?

  No, that was an audit. See, that was a wonderful girl.

• 50:40Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. No, what I'm saying is that I'm just telling people that, like, for example, in this milk frother, I, if I were in this situation, I would say, hey, can I froth you a milk drink? It's really all I think about anymore. And if I don't make someone a milk frothing drink, I'm gonna actually think about it all day.

• 51:01Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:02Travis McElroy?

  And you will say, what, what that frees people in your life to say is, yeah, I will take one.

• 51:07Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:07Travis McElroy?

  For future reference. I don't like this.

• 51:10Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:10Travis McElroy?

  And that frees me from ever having to think about it again. Because they have said, I don't want it. And I'll say, okay, sounds good. But they didn't know to tell me to cut it out.

• 51:21Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:21Travis McElroy?

  Unless I told them how weird I was being.

• 51:23Travis McElroy?

  This is something I started doing with my wife, because there are many TV shows and books and things that I enjoy that she does not. And I desperately need to talk about them with someone.

• 51:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:32Travis McElroy?

  And I will say, hey, I know you don't care about this thing. I just need to like, say my feelings about it out loud for like, two minutes. And then I won't bother you about it again. And she's like, okay, go. And she'll listen and go, oh, cool. Whoa, that sounds nice. And then we're past it.

• 51:47Griffin McElroy?

  So you're saying, next time I offer someone tea, I should walk in and be like, hey, I say I'm kind of a tea guy now, but I feel like such a fucking phony about it.

• 51:56Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 51:56Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:56Travis McElroy?

  Okay, good. Griffin, you're so close. Keep going.

• 51:58Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 51:58Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 51:59Griffin McElroy?

  Hey, I say that I'm kind of a tea guy now, because I buy it, but I buy a lot of shit. And I feel like a total phony. I think the tea is really good, but if I don't get someone to mirror me a little bit and tell me if my judgment about the tea is accurate or not, I'm gonna feel like this for, for as long as I drink tea, which may be a minute and maybe the rest of my life. I don't know. Will you help me? Help me drink this tea and tell me if I'm full of shit or not? And if you say I am, cool, man. Um, next hobby. I'll get back into candy making or some shit.

• 52:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 52:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Authentic, authenticate me.

• 52:34Travis McElroy?

  Whatever the thing is, it doesn't have to be a hobby, be like, literally anything. You just say. Just say how you're feeling. I know, I know. Yeah, but like honestly saying it, right? Like not a way where you think people are gonna be scared because a lot of other people are thinking pretty wild stuff too, you'll find. Once people just start saying it all the time, it's a, it's pretty liberating.

• 52:54Griffin McElroy?

  That's the energy, huh? That's the energy.

• 52:56Travis McElroy?

  That's my energy.

• 52:57Griffin McElroy?

  I've finally figured it out. That's all the energy.

• 52:58Travis McElroy?

  Tell people, hey, here's what's going on. And I'm honest with myself a lot more in that sense too, because hey, it's been this way upstairs the whole time. I have no reason to think they didn't. I might as well start, listen, listen, if the landscape ain't gonna change, I better start printing maps.

• 53:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 53:17Travis McElroy?

  Cause it seems like things are gonna be this way for a while.

• 53:20Griffin McElroy?

  They might, they might add new guys to the Inside Out movie, but the old ones are still there.

• 53:26Travis McElroy?

  Hey, where's the hyper fixation guy? By the way, I wanna see that guy in my brain, in my Inside Out brain. That guy's just like, man, 3D printing though, like it's all we've ever loved, right? It's all we've ever talked about.

• 53:38Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 53:38Travis McElroy?

  We can go broke on filament, right? Right? We all love this.

• 53:42Griffin McElroy?

  Do the Inside Out guys have littler Inside Out guys inside their heads?

• 53:45Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 53:47Griffin McElroy?

  I, I, I didn't see Inside Out.

• 53:49Travis McElroy?

  It's the Cars universe.

• 53:51Griffin McElroy?

  Wait.

• 53:52Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, the Cars are inside the Inside Out guys. Cars is happening inside one of the Inside Out guys.

• 53:57Griffin McElroy?

  And it's telling them how to feel?

• 53:59Travis McElroy?

  Yep. What's the thing? It's Miles Teller.

• 54:02Griffin McElroy?

  Got him stuck in your craw, huh? What a weird one.

• 54:05Travis McElroy?

  Inside, inside the Cars guy.

• 54:06Travis McElroy?

  Miles a lot, Miles and Miles today.

• 54:08Travis McElroy?

  Inside of, uh, Lightning McQueen is Wally telling him how to feel. And inside of Wally is Joseph Gordon Levitt trying to get him out of there, trying to give him the kick to get him back up to the surface.

• 54:19Griffin McElroy?

  That's awesome. And the surface is the little girl in Inside Out.

• 54:22Travis McElroy?

  Yes, correct.

• 54:23Griffin McElroy?

  Okay, cool.

• 54:23Travis McElroy?

  Yes. Hey, thanks for listening to our podcast. Another great normal one. Uh, we really appreciate you being here with us. If you wanna come laugh together.

• 54:34Travis McElroy?

  February 20th and 21st, we're going to be in Tampa with my brother, my brother me and Taz, respectively. First Taz live in Florida. And we got, that's going to be Taz versus Romeo versus Juliet. That's going to be really good. On February 22nd, we're in Jacksonville with my brother, my brother me. For more info and ticket links, go to bit.ly forward slash McRoy tours. Also, right now, we've got just a few more cabins for Champions Grove available now. That's going to be Memorial Day weekend in May. I believe it's May 22nd, 23rd, or 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th. We're doing a four day weekend. Come hang out with me and a bunch of other great role play, actual role play creators, and a bunch of wonderful people playing games in a castle in Ohio.

• 55:18Travis McElroy?

  We also have the scholarship application form up now at championsgrove.com. Come check it out. Get your tickets, get your packages before it's too late.

• 55:27Griffin McElroy?

  We got some new merch over at the merch store over at macrow merch.com for you to peruse. Also, if you missed our Candle Nights special last year, you can still watch it video on demand. It's pay what you want. All proceeds go to Harmony House and 10% of all of our merch proceeds this month will be donated to World Central Kitchen over at macrow merch.com. Thank you to Montane for the use of our theme song, "My Life is Better With You." It's a fantastic one with a steady beat that you can really bop to.

• 55:56Travis McElroy?

  Now, Justin, we had a listener submitted Faster Than Fear. Would you read it this week?

• 56:02Travis McElroy?

  Yes, I would be happy to. Should we make some like vroom vroom noises or like drum?

• 56:07Griffin McElroy?

  I'll be honest, doing noises last year really got played out for me real fast.

• 56:10Travis McElroy?

  Okay, yeah, then Justin just read it.

• 56:11Griffin McElroy?

  Let's play with silence.

• 56:14Travis McElroy?

  Whoa, Griffin, say that again.

• 56:16Griffin McElroy?

  Let's play with silence. Did you like that?

• 56:19Travis McElroy?

  That's, I think there's something there.

• 56:20Griffin McElroy?

  I say shit like that all the time, man. I gotta start wearing one of those little recorders.

• 56:25Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I love that. Hey, listen, in this, the year of our Lord, 20th Thunder Drive, I'm releasing my fear of birds. Just because a parrot cussed me out at Pet Store when I was seven, doesn't mean all birds hate me. It just means that local hooligans taught the parrot how to cuss.

• 56:39Griffin McElroy?

  That's a good fear to have. I actually wish you did still. Some birds are.

• 56:43Travis McElroy?

  That you're afraid that all birds hate you and want to cuss you out.

• 56:45Griffin McElroy?

  Some of them are out to get that. Some, just a little bit. A little bit of that's good. It's the salt that makes the chocolate taste sweeter.

• 56:52Travis McElroy?

  Birds have to have their own cuss words that we don't know about.

• 56:57Travis McElroy?

  I'm Travis McRoy.

• 56:57Griffin McElroy?

  I'm Griffin McRoy.

• 57:00Travis McElroy?

  Make this your dad's grow on the lips.

• 57:04Speaker 01

  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. This is true. Ah. It's better, it's better with you. My life, ah. It's better with you.

• 57:34Speaker 07

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• 57:35Griffin McElroy?

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