MBMBaM 823: Seasonably Effective

Our Sound Boy will get right on it to turn up the summer hits you love! Everyone wants to hear about dishwasher repair cosplayers, financial scams from the proto-Riddler, audio descriptions of popcorn gifs, and the fan favorite, How Big Is Your Toilet, How Little is Your Lamp? Suggested talking points: What I Like Best About Your Undercarriage, Griffin's Secret Texas Money, Snacking on the Main Character, Cherry is the Crab Legs of Fruit, Sauce Apology Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/

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?

• 0:20Speaker 01

  One, two, three, four. It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has got it, it's rapid into a precious friendship. 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.

• 1:03Speaker 01

  My life, ah, it's better with you.

• 1:09Travis McElroy?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother, Travis Big Dog Wolf Wolf Vroom Vroom, the heater, award-winning McElroy.

• 1:21Griffin McElroy?

  What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin, Bill Ford Tough McElroy. Which year is it? It's not the car one.

• 1:31Travis McElroy?

  Is it?

• 1:33Griffin McElroy?

  It's not the car one anymore.

• 1:35Travis McElroy?

  It's not?

• 1:36Griffin McElroy?

  I guess that's true. Well... No, it's the baseball one.

• 1:39Travis McElroy?

  You're still Bill Ford Tough.

• 1:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Yeah, no, I guess, yeah, no, for sure. I could, I can run over a bunch of loose boulders and splash through a creek and I won't get anything in my undercarriage.

• 1:52Travis McElroy?

  No, that's one of the things I like most about your undercarriage.

• 1:55Griffin McElroy?

  And my bed is fucking huge, dude. You could store 12 whole things of lumber or sheet rock or other sort of...

• 2:06Travis McElroy?

  You could put two race car beds in his bed.

• 2:09Griffin McElroy?

  Ah, yeah. Yeah, I think that's true.

• 2:13Travis McElroy?

  Hey guys, good news, bad news, just news, some news, any news that isn't bad news is good news. How is that?

• 2:21Griffin McElroy?

  If it's not, if it's not about-

• 2:23Travis McElroy?

  Bad news.

• 2:24Griffin McElroy?

  If it's not about my pal Mitch, I don't wanna fucking hear about it.

• 2:28Travis McElroy?

  Oh Griff, I have bad news.

• 2:30Griffin McElroy?

  If it ain't about my pal Mitch, I don't wanna hear about it. I've been on tenterhooks.

• 2:35Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah Griff, I will say this, I don't know, I don't know what to tell you about Mitch. Uh, the jur- the jury is still out on that one. Um, we haven't gotten any new leads there. But what I can tell you is that, uh, daylight savings time, uh, has just been voted by the US House of Representatives to be a, a permanent thing in a 308, 117 vote, 308 to 117. Finally getting to the most important issues of the day.

• 3:08Griffin McElroy?

  I'd love to meet those 117 goddamn vampires who love the, who love the moon's embrace.

• 3:15Travis McElroy?

  Well-

• 3:16Griffin McElroy?

  Night monsters.

• 3:17Travis McElroy?

  This is, um, so this is, we got, we got a lot of responses across the political spectrum. Gus Billarocas from Florida says that Americans are ready to-

• 3:28Griffin McElroy?

  Affiliation?

• 3:30Travis McElroy?

  Gus Billarocas said Americans are ready to ditch the switch, saying that changing the clock twice a year creates unnecessary disruption. I agree with you Gus.

• 3:40Griffin McElroy?

  Good Gus.

• 3:41Travis McElroy?

  In my home state of Florida where tourism is a cornerstone of our economy, having more predictable daylight hours is a practical improvement that benefits workers, businesses and visitors alike. So there we go. Extra magic hours, government mandated. Listen, we politicians pride ourselves on listening to people for, that have been saying shit for the last 40 plus years about how we don't like daylight savings time. And if it tells you anything about the backlog of stuff we have to get to-

• 4:14Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:15Travis McElroy?

  We went ahead and took care of that one.

• 4:17Griffin McElroy?

  This is like a 1985 thing. This is, we've been, we've been cooking, I know the wheels turn slow, but we've been cooking on this one for 41 long years. We have to get it done.

• 4:28Travis McElroy?

  This is the man, now Mary, Mary, Mary Gay Scanlon's against it. She says millions of Americans will wake up during the winter months. She's from Pennsylvania, I hear you. In complete darkness with the sun not rising until long after people get up and travel to school or work and have to go about their days. Thanks, yeah, that's right. Both of these times are bad.

• 4:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, wait a minute, yeah.

• 4:49Travis McElroy?

  Wait a minute.

• 4:49Griffin McElroy?

  Can we split the dip?

• 4:50Travis McElroy?

  What about this? How about we all stop working?

• 4:53Griffin McElroy?

  That's a cool one, I like that.

• 4:56Travis McElroy?

  Now Jim McGovern takes the Travis approach. He did support the bill, but didn't know why they were talking about it.

• 5:04Griffin McElroy?

  Awesome.

• 5:05Travis McElroy?

  Jim said, you know, for folks getting crushed by rent, groceries, utility bills and healthcare costs. Is this really the best majority can do? Is this really the most pressing issue before the American people at this moment?

• 5:17Griffin McElroy?

  Hey, listen, hey, listen. You guys have done like four things in the last like 12 years. It, you, you need to fucking aim low and really kind of work up some momentum, I think. You can't just hop back into it and fix all the shit in one go. Y'all need a softball. It's bad to change the clocks.

• 5:36Travis McElroy?

  I guarantee you that this has been sitting in a drawer. That's like, hey, when we have had just, what can only be described as a record book length of losses. We're gonna pull this one out and just slam dunk it.

• 5:56Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:57Travis McElroy?

  And then everyone will be like, oh, the government's good again. Just you watch. They already got rid of the penny. They'll get rid of the nickel, just anything. Is this what you guys want? No coins. No, here's a list of things we want. No, listen, we heard you. Daylight savings, time and the penny. Done. Don't you, don't you think it sucks? If we want another easy win. Uh, let's get back to normalizing dollar coins. If we got rid of the penny,

• 6:24Griffin McElroy?

  Cool.

• 6:24Travis McElroy?

  Can I please get a pocketful of treasure? Please? Works for like every other country. Yeah, can I please lay some like doubloons on a counter and get a chocolate bar and a newspaper? Please?

• 6:36Griffin McElroy?

  Make them, make them big and uneven too.

• 6:39Travis McElroy?

  Big and chunky.

• 6:39Griffin McElroy?

  I want uneven currency that you, each one has different bumps and lumps on it.

• 6:44Travis McElroy?

  It's like the pirate things where you get the gold coins, but it's not like an even thing. There's like chunks out of the side.

• 6:49Griffin McElroy?

  The chunks missing.

• 6:51Travis McElroy?

  That feels good.

• 6:51Griffin McElroy?

  That feels cool. Our coins suck, dude.

• 6:54Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, we want pieces of eight. Yes, we do. That's what we want. We deeply want that. And more shopkeepers with parents that acknowledge that we're using pieces of eight would be incredible. That's not gonna be mandatory in the law, but encouraged. I'm glad for this, I think. I think it's the right step for the. I don't know.

• 7:18Griffin McElroy?

  Summer's forever. Ju- Justin, they made summer forever. Yeah.

• 7:21Travis McElroy?

  I guess what they're saying is it's summertime forever.

• 7:23Griffin McElroy?

  They said, gang, we know it's fucking tough out there and we know where to blame for it, but we can't do anything about that. But now it's summertime forever, guys.

• 7:31Travis McElroy?

  You can have the summer. Endless summer? It did. Moon dog? Anybody? My friend Paul, who is British, we were recently, it blew my mind. I only realized like within the last calendar year that daylight savings time is an American only thing. That like the time difference has always been five hours and then suddenly the time difference between me and my British friend Paul was six hours. And I was so confused until I realized like, oh, Americans are like, we have control over time.

• 8:03Griffin McElroy?

  We are time kings, all of us, and now we've decided to fix it. And I'm just, I'm gonna open up the vents on my back and I'm gonna blast the seasonal affective disorder out. I, this news is hot off the presses to me. I learned about it seconds before we started recording. And it's like, oh, there's a disorder I don't have it? The government fixed one of my disorders? They can do that?

• 8:28Travis McElroy?

  Killed you.

• 8:29Griffin McElroy?

  They, the government healed me? That's the sad fucking pulsing out of my vent.

• 8:35Travis McElroy?

  Oh shit. You've made Griffin too powerful now.

• 8:38Griffin McElroy?

  Maybe so strong.

• 8:39Travis McElroy?

  You can't put him back in the bottle?

• 8:40Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 8:40Travis McElroy?

  Now he's, now he's Seasonably effective with an E.

• 8:45Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, I'm, I'm ordered, my effectiveness in two of the four, half the seasons of the year are so ordered.

• 8:52Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, he's got SEO now.

• 8:55Griffin McElroy?

  I'm gonna take my light therapy lamp, I'm gonna put it, I'm gonna put it in the toilet.

• 9:01Travis McElroy?

  Well, that's not gonna be safe. Yeah, how big is your toilet or how little is the lamp?

• 9:05Griffin McElroy?

  Well, I got a special one that extra big hole, didn't I?

• 9:07Travis McElroy?

  How big is your toilet? How big is your toilet? How little is your lamp? How little is your lamp? You remember, guys remember that from the eighties? How big is your toilet? How little is your lamp?

• 9:17Griffin McElroy?

  Hmm, I don't, I don't remember that.

• 9:19Travis McElroy?

  That was a big dance hall thing when I was growing up. Oh, was it? I didn't go to dance halls like you did. When the sound boy was.

• 9:25Griffin McElroy?

  When the sound boy.

• 9:29Travis McElroy?

  We would put that one on, the sound boy would say, turn it down. And I would say, and the sound boy would get mad at me because I would always be cranking it up.

• 9:36Griffin McElroy?

  Who's the sound boy?

• 9:37Travis McElroy?

  Why are you putting it on? Were you a DJ in the eighties? I learned about the sound boy from Wyclef Jean and it's who we get mad at in dance hall culture. When it's too loud, the guy who's like running it and you're like, he's like, I can't take it any higher. You know what I mean? Like I can't run, I can't take the speakers any higher, you're gonna explode them with how hard your party rocking. So that's like, if you're mad at the sound boys, because you're going, this is the way I understand from Wyclef contextually. Is that if you're mad at the sound boy, it's because you are, you know, you murdered a sound, like remember when on Pharoah Minogue's plate, when Whitney Houston sang, Wyclef murdered the sound boy? The implication is that Wyclef goes so hard that the sound boy was killed.

• 10:18Griffin McElroy?

  Is Paul ours, is Paul our sound boy?

• 10:22Travis McElroy?

  I would never.

• 10:26Travis McElroy?

  Hmm.

• 10:28Griffin McElroy?

  I've never heard your indignation melt away to solemn consideration before. That was cool. I wish we had video of this one, so I could have seen what that looked like.

• 10:38Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, just a realization overtake.

• 10:41Griffin McElroy?

  Wait a minute.

• 10:41Travis McElroy?

  The closest, the closest parallel we have to this relationship is before live shows, we have a sound check and that experience is always very interesting because it's us judging how much we want to hear ourselves.

• 10:55Griffin McElroy?

  And each other, right.

• 10:57Travis McElroy?

  And each other, even less, and how much we think we'll be able to do that when there's a bunch of people in the audience and kind of imagining what that is like. And then we constantly enter into this thing where we're like, uh, we could do like more monitor, right? Like 10% or 20%.

• 11:13Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 11:13Travis McElroy?

  And then you kind of wait, because they don't say, yeah, I did it. So you just kind of have to listen.

• 11:18Griffin McElroy?

  I'm always thinking they're trying to trick me and trying to catch me.

• 11:20Travis McElroy?

  Always thinking I'm trying to trick me.

• 11:21Griffin McElroy?

  Trying to trick me up saying like, oh, it sounds way better, guys. They didn't fucking touch the board.

• 11:26Travis McElroy?

  They haven't done anything. That's the sound boy? So that's, I'm not gonna say that either because we might, no. They're professionals. They're sound men and women.

• 11:35Griffin McElroy?

  Damn, we need to bring Wyclef in to the studio to help us identify some of these, some of these guys.

• 11:41Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. And as a intermediary, let's, if anyone's gonna murder him, let it be Wyclef. This is an advice show. I teach summer school, which is a half-day program through the district I'm with. As soon as I get home, I like to change into my work clothes and into something more comfortable, such as pajamas. I also have a broken dishwasher. The maintenance man in my apartment is actively replacing it and it is only 5:15 local time. Is it weird that I'm already in pajamas? And would it be weirder if I went to the bedroom and changed into actual pants? That's from Perplexed in Pajamas.

• 12:18Travis McElroy?

  Hmm.

• 12:20Griffin McElroy?

  Can I sit with this for a minute?

• 12:22Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah. I'll say this, regionally.

• 12:27Travis McElroy?

  We don't draw a lot of these lines. You gotta understand, I live in a land where this barrier is very permeable. The sweatpants to sleeppants to pajama pants. It's a, it's a real spectrum down here and it's, it's very blurry.

• 12:45Griffin McElroy?

  It's a college, it's a college town.

• 12:46Travis McElroy?

  It's a college town.

• 12:47Griffin McElroy?

  Maybe.

• 12:48Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, the sleeppants especially. I think sleeppants are such a amorphous place in the like clothes area. Where it's like, it's got pants right there in the name, right? If I'm walking around in sleeppants, I'm clearly not nude, right?

• 13:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 13:04Travis McElroy?

  Now, there is a kind of pajama.

• 13:07Griffin McElroy?

  Sure.

• 13:07Travis McElroy?

  Where you would see them and be like, look at that, look at that Abini's Scrooge looking ass wearing his, you know, long.

• 13:14Griffin McElroy?

  If you have like a bunch of My Little Ponies on them and stuff, right? Like anytime, once there's a print, it's like a print judgment.

• 13:19Travis McElroy?

  Or if you can see it. Okay. Okay. This is, he's always on about, sorry, he's always on about eye traps and shit. Let him clear, let clear his space for him. I'm just gonna say. If I'm looking, if I'm in there to fix your washer and I can see it. I don't think so. Okay. Yeah, it's like, we're just trying to keep it biblical, right? Yeah. Now, I will say, I think that if you then go and change into pants, you are admitting.

• 13:52Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 13:52Travis McElroy?

  An improper, you're creating, like you're saying, it was inappropriate because I had to change it, right?

• 14:00Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 14:00Travis McElroy?

  Now, you have planted a seed in their mind of like, oh, now I think it's weird.

• 14:06Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, this is a quantum, you've, you've engaged this thing in a quantum way.

• 14:11Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 14:11Griffin McElroy?

  Where now you've locked it into be, if you had just simply not acknowledged it, then it would be, it could pass by like a, like a specter. But by acknowledging it, now it's real in your mind and their mind and you, you've, I'd be fucked. Hopefully you haven't done that yet. They're probably waiting on further instructions from us, I would hope.

• 14:30Travis McElroy?

  There's also an amount of presence, I think, that makes this. Work like leave the room as quickly as possible. Let them work. You should be interacting with them 30 to 60 seconds. In the beginning and 30 to 60 seconds at the end. During that time in the grand scheme of the day. That's not going to stick in their permanent memory.

• 14:52Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 14:52Travis McElroy?

  You're okay, but if you hang out in there sipping your coffee. In your bathrobe and pajamas, uh, you know, 6:30 PM. Yeah, it's gonna, it's gonna jump out at them.

• 15:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 15:04Travis McElroy?

  One, one crucial detail that they might have left out of this is if the. Summer school program that they are teaching is dishwasher repair. Oh. And if their work clothes reflect that, that might make for an uncomfortable environment if they have.

• 15:20Griffin McElroy?

  Put, put, put principal waverly like. You can't have that happen when they show up to your place. And I know what you.

• 15:30Travis McElroy?

  Or if you have like, if you dress like the Maytag repairman, you know, day in, day out, you're just hovering over him. Oh, maybe that's your work clothes is you're the guy who plays the Maytag repairman in commercials. And then they're like, why aren't you fixing it? And you're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. I am but. What they're not telling you is that they're, they're, what they do at summer school is that they're a nude model in a life drawing class. So they get home from work and it's like, should I put on pajama pants or? When I'm at school, I dress as a dishwasher. It's a. I'm doing an art installation. Yeah, it's a very abstract art school. Wait, wait, are you saying they're, they, that their outfit is a, is an actual washer.

• 16:10Griffin McElroy?

  Machine.

• 16:10Travis McElroy?

  Correct. Or, or the machine. Okay.

• 16:12Griffin McElroy?

  And they've done it up cars style.

• 16:14Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 16:14Griffin McElroy?

  And this is in, this is said in the broader cars universe. Obviously we have planes, fire and rescue. And I think if you zoom out a few more levels, maybe a dozen or so, you end up at appliances. And that's, I mean, now we're in, that's actually, is Brave Little Toaster in the Cars verse? Something to chew on.

• 16:31Travis McElroy?

  That might be the missing link. That takes it. Cause people are always wondering how the, how humans evolved into cars, which is the only explanation. And I think that Brave Little Toaster, that era is like where we see the machines taking over.

• 16:46Griffin McElroy?

  Well, I mean, RoboCop sort of are. Our, you know, our keystone there, I think, like you take any like Bridges of Madison County is a purely human movie, then you get Robocop, now we're kind of halfway there.

• 16:59Travis McElroy?

  I think Robocop is too early to be the bridge because that's still a human form robot.

• 17:06Griffin McElroy?

  Oh.

• 17:07Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean?

• 17:08Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 17:08Travis McElroy?

  These aren't cars, these aren't transformers, right? They're not cars as people, they're people as cars.

• 17:14Griffin McElroy?

  You need a brain computer or something.

• 17:15Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 17:17Griffin McElroy?

  Is there a movie with a brain computer in it? Transcendence?

• 17:20Travis McElroy?

  I work at the state for the unclaimed property office. This is a field that I didn't know existed until I was offered an interview and I didn't really understand until about six months into the job. As a boss, you love to hear that. Long story short, I get to return money to folks. The problem is whenever I tell people about it and money that they have, they think I'm trying to scam them. Brothers, I'm not an MLM or trying to steal data, simply trying to get folks their hard earned money back. How do I convince old friends, contacts and acquaintances when I offer them $5,000 in exchange for their social security number? I'm doing so with the purest of intentions. This email might.

• 17:58Griffin McElroy?

  I know. I had the same thought. We may be, we may be complicit.

• 18:02Travis McElroy?

  If folks just go to this URL, they could find out. Question asker, I'm also going to point out, you didn't, you were offered an interview. They reached out to you. You might be complicit in a scam.

• 18:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 18:17Travis McElroy?

  It doesn't seem right. I'm really helping a lot of people. Yeah. I'm investing their money and somehow they're making more back and I don't really understand how it all works, but it's all legit. How do I convince people? I, you know, in the nineties, there's a guy named Matthew Lesko who wore a suit covered in question, or was it question mark? No, that's the Riddler. Covered in money signs, I think, maybe, maybe it was question mark. Anyways, he was in a bunch of infomercials about how like the, there's government programs to give you money for stuff and I never.

• 18:49Griffin McElroy?

  Matthew Lesko did wear a suit covered in question marks.

• 18:51Travis McElroy?

  Okay.

• 18:52Griffin McElroy?

  So he did kind of chomp the Riddler's.

• 18:54Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 18:55Griffin McElroy?

  The Riddler's flavor a little bit.

• 18:56Travis McElroy?

  Batman Forever was huge, you know, so he was just trying to get in on that train. But I think that. There that I don't think people questioned whether that was legit or not because he was so enthusiastic and wore a suit covered in question marks, which in retrospect should have made it seem.

• 19:14Griffin McElroy?

  Should have raised a flag, yeah, for sure. Well, I say that Travis, but if if if Lesko or really anyone wearing a suit, a shiny suit, gemstone colored, covered in question marks and starts screaming at me, screaming, screaming about the free money that the government wants to give me, that's actually pretty far from the usual pitches.

• 19:30Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 19:31Griffin McElroy?

  That I get that I get um from from scammers and and the like. I do think actually I'm gonna ride. I'm gonna ride hard with with this guy.

• 19:39Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, you should pitch it to them as like, hey, you have a bunch of unclaimed money. Can I keep it?

• 19:47Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 19:47Travis McElroy?

  And once you start.

• 19:48Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, that's awesome.

• 19:49Travis McElroy?

  Now they're like, no, I want it.

• 19:50Griffin McElroy?

  No.

• 19:51Travis McElroy?

  I want it. It's mine. Because you shouldn't be pushing the money on them. That seems like a scam, but trying to withhold it from them?

• 19:58Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 19:59Travis McElroy?

  Now they want it.

• 20:00Griffin McElroy?

  You either take this or I'm gonna turn it into a jet ski and I suck at jet skiing, man.

• 20:05Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I'm gonna get hurt.

• 20:06Griffin McElroy?

  Do you really want that on your conscience?

• 20:08Travis McElroy?

  And it'll be your fault. See if you have any unclaimed property once. I already did, baby. The second I made the question list.

• 20:14Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 20:14Travis McElroy?

  I got a couple of things in there.

• 20:16Griffin McElroy?

  I got a lot of messages from the state of Texas when I left it.

• 20:21Travis McElroy?

  Come back, please.

• 20:23Griffin McElroy?

  File those away under nice try. It's gotta be fucking Teddy or like one of the set down there that I've shit talked quite a lot and are just trying to, you know, get me on the way out. I haven't heard from them lately, so I I am actually now hesitant to Google this in any capacity because if I find out that I lost a a great sum of money, that that's I don't actually need that energy in my life right now.

• 20:45Travis McElroy?

  You didn't lose it. That's the amazing thing.

• 20:47Griffin McElroy?

  It's unclaimed.

• 20:48Travis McElroy?

  You just have to say, it's me. Here's all my information. I'll wait for my money. It goes against every single impulse.

• 20:54Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 20:55Travis McElroy?

  You've spent like decades, chitinously building up around you to protect you from the internet. You have to have this one crack in your heart where it's like, no, every once in a while.

• 21:04Griffin McElroy?

  Maybe they just shouldn't give it back.

• 21:06Travis McElroy?

  It, hey, listeners, listeners. If you're finding out about this process through this episode. And you have unclaimed money that you learned about through this episode. You are legally required to become a Max Fun subscriber.

• 21:22Griffin McElroy?

  I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can have your name read on a brush stream. You just have to kick in some of your, your winnings to us.

• 21:29Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it's a finder's fee kind of deal that needs to go to us. Um, that is, I'm sorry, it's not up to me. It was actually, it was part of the daylight savings time bill. It was just included in there. They squeezed it in at the last moment. So.

• 21:48Griffin McElroy?

  I have so much Texas money.

• 21:52Griffin McElroy?

  I didn't know. Texas is, damn, Texas. Listen, Texas. I may, I may have something of an acrimonious relationship with you on sort of a holistic level. But man, Texas, Texas has got my back on this one. I had no idea. Guys, what an episode for me.

• 22:11Travis McElroy?

  What a helpful episode. This is our first helpful episode.

• 22:14Griffin McElroy?

  I've, everybody, I've vented my disorder. I fucking made bank in a, in the state in which I used to, can I get this back? How do I get this?

• 22:23Travis McElroy?

  You've got to call him up.

• 22:25Griffin McElroy?

  Call him up and say, what's stopping anyone from calling him up?

• 22:28Travis McElroy?

  What? Well, that's the social security number part, isn't it?

• 22:31Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, fuck.

• 22:32Travis McElroy?

  It's the crime aspect.

• 22:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's right.

• 22:34Travis McElroy?

  It's illegal.

• 22:35Griffin McElroy?

  All right.

• 22:36Travis McElroy?

  It's the crime part.

• 22:37Griffin McElroy?

  Well, I'm gonna, I mean, I'm in my own personal pan money zone right now.

• 22:42Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 22:43Griffin McElroy?

  Um.

• 22:44Travis McElroy?

  Wow. Congratulations, Griffin. What a big moment for you personally. Yeah, I'm glad your Texas oil fields are finally paying off. You just left them all down there.

• 22:53Griffin McElroy?

  You promised you wouldn't say.

• 22:54Travis McElroy?

  I'm sorry, Griffin. You're right. It's, it's olive oil. He's drilling for olive oil and we gave him such a shit time for it. We're like, Griffin, that's not how it works. And then he struck olive oil.

• 23:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, because if you go deep enough.

• 23:07Travis McElroy?

  Yep.

• 23:08Griffin McElroy?

  From Texas, the shine from the Tuscan sun does shine down through it initially.

• 23:13Travis McElroy?

  It's right on the other side there. Yeah.

• 23:15Griffin McElroy?

  Got to get through it.

• 23:16Travis McElroy?

  Can we take a brief sojourn to the money zone? Would that be okay?

• 23:20Griffin McElroy?

  I'd love that, Justin.

• 23:21Travis McElroy?

  Okay, Griffin. Step right this way. Here, hop on my back. I'll carry you.

• 23:24Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 23:26Travis McElroy?

  Wait, what about me? Come back. I'll walk.

• 23:39Travis McElroy?

  What if I don't have a bunch of money squirreled away in unclaimed thing? How am I gonna make money like online the same way I would by claiming? I don't know anything.

• 23:51Griffin McElroy?

  Damn, I lost my wallet at a Bill Miller's barbecue like seven years ago? That's on here.

• 23:57Travis McElroy?

  Oh, okay.

• 23:58Griffin McElroy?

  Fucking crazy, man.

• 24:01Travis McElroy?

  But I'm saying like I have like services and goods and stuff that I could offer people, but I don't know how to do that and get paid, you know, like on time and like all in one place. And like with invoices and online payments and how to like streamline my workflow and do like appointment scheduling. I don't know any of this shit. So I guess I'm shit out of luck? No, Travis, you're not because there is a service that has been helping people with your challenges to build incredible websites that look like they were created by people who really knew what they were doing instead of you. Uh, it's called Squarespace. I don't know if you've heard about it, but everything. Now, this is the first I'm hearing about it.

• 24:45Travis McElroy?

  If you want to offer services and get paid, it's all in one place with your Squarespace website. You can also get paid on time. What? I mentioned that. That's wild. Professional on-brand invoices. This is Squarespace, Travis. Yeah, man, this is the one. How come you guys have never told me about Squarespace before? I'm so sorry, Trav. I keep meaning to mention it to you specifically, but it, uh, it just hasn't come together. You're terrible brothers and people. Wow, that's so. You've been withholding Squarespace from me all this time and our listeners.

• 25:17Griffin McElroy?

  You weren't ready. You weren't ready for it. Our listeners have been ready and they, they should go to Squarespace.com/MyBrother. And they should do this because it helps you make a great website and they look beautiful.

• 25:28Travis McElroy?

  If they head on over there right now, Griffin, you know, they'll get a free trial. And when they're ready to launch, they can use offer code MYBROTHER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. Can I do that too?

• 25:42Griffin McElroy?

  I guess so, yeah. I mean, I guess the money comes straight back to us? Is this a laundering scheme?

• 25:50Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 25:52Griffin McElroy?

  Could be. Hey, speaking of laundering, um, I love some new clothes that I got from the Bonobos brand. The Bonobos brand I have looked at from afar coveted lots of my stylish friends. When I see them looking so fly, I do say to them like, what, what's, you know, what's the fit? And it's, it's almost always Bonobos, um, because they got all kinds of summertime duds that are, you know, linen, light, breathable, feels good to have it on your body, but also the fit is so nice. Um, I got a, a new, uh, very, very lightweight button down that I wore to a wedding that I went

• 26:32Griffin McElroy?

  to like a month ago and I got some compliments on it and I didn't sweat. I mean, I did sweat like a lot because I, you know, I got on the, the dance floor and I fucking destroyed for like five straight hours. Um, and, but I was so comfortable the whole time. Uh, I got some, uh, like boardwalk pants, light linen pants that can go from day to night and I wore them on a boardwalk very recently and it felt like, woo.

• 26:59Travis McElroy?

  Are you the Great Gatsby?

• 27:01Griffin McElroy?

  Um, I mean, this is the Rahabith Beach Boardwalk. I would not call it, I would not call it Great Gatsby sort of.

• 27:08Travis McElroy?

  It's not Newegg.

• 27:09Griffin McElroy?

  It's not. Yeah. So, um, they got everything, man. They got, they really do, uh, they're, they're able to sort of set you up with your, your entire wardrobe. They got polos, everyday shirts and shorts and everything in between. Um, I, I, I really am excited. I, I got a few pieces of Bonobos clothing and I've, I've been wearing them hard and, um, I've gotten compliments. I look great in them and, um.

• 27:35Travis McElroy?

  If you do say yourself, huh?

• 27:36Griffin McElroy?

  No, I mean, I, I empirically like I've, I got a signed affidavit.

• 27:42Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 27:43Griffin McElroy?

  Uh, saying how good I looked in them. Um, I took it, the shorts off and they tore up the affidavit. They said it was contingent on the, on the pants that I was wearing. So.

• 27:53Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, Griffin.

• 27:54Griffin McElroy?

  So put on Bonobos, feel good and get on with your day right now. Head to bonobos.com slash my brother and use code my brother for 25% off your order. Once again, that's B O N O B O S dot com backslash my brother for 25% off and make sure you use our promo code my brother so they know we sent you.

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• 29:43Travis McElroy?

  Deli-li-li-li. Yeah. I wanna munch. Squad! I want to munch. Squad!

• 30:01Travis McElroy?

  Welcome, Munch Squad. It is a podcast within a podcast profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating, and I have really exciting news for you guys today because the rumors are true. Oh. The rumors are true.

• 30:21Travis McElroy?

  Popcorn chicken is back at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

• 30:23Griffin McElroy?

  Holy shit, I gotta go.

• 30:25Travis McElroy?

  KFC has brought back popcorn chicken, first introduced in the early 90s.

• 30:33Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 30:33Travis McElroy?

  Popcorn chicken quickly earned cult status for being an endlessly craveable crispy bite before disappearing from menus in 2023.

• 30:43Griffin McElroy?

  I had eaten them all.

• 30:45Travis McElroy?

  That's on me. I'm so sorry, everyone.

• 30:47Griffin McElroy?

  Travis went beast mode. He went Mr. Beast mode and he slammed all the popcorn chicken in America.

• 30:52Travis McElroy?

  I said, Mr. Beast, I'm eating a million nuggets.

• 30:55Griffin McElroy?

  Not nuggets, Justin. Popcorn chicken is for people who look at nuggets and they say too much of a commitment.

• 31:00Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I don't want to be too, I want to have eight of those at a time.

• 31:04Griffin McElroy?

  I need to be done eating chicken at the most precise amount of chicken consumed and nuggets leave far too much sort of room for variation.

• 31:14Travis McElroy?

  For years, KFC has heard directly from fans clamoring for popcorn chicken's return.

• 31:20Griffin McElroy?

  So Travis McRae, stop calling. Stop it, Travis.

• 31:24Travis McElroy?

  Travis, we read every comment, every DM.

• 31:28Griffin McElroy?

  Sorry about those.

• 31:29Travis McElroy?

  And every online petition signature and the message was impossible to ignore, said Melissa Cash.

• 31:33Speaker 06

  I'll fucking kill you if you don't bring back popcorn chicken. Do you know who I am? This is all I have. Do you know what I'm capable of?

• 31:39Travis McElroy?

  Well, it's funny you should joke about that because I was thinking if Melissa Cash was going to read every single comment on every single petition about KFC popcorn chicken, then the least I could do is also do the same thing because I wanted to see what Melissa Cash had been through.

• 31:54Griffin McElroy?

  Huh.

• 31:54Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. So, yeah. So like, I want you all to come with me and imagine that your job as Melissa Cash is to, uh, Chief Marketing Officer of the KFC brand.

• 32:08Griffin McElroy?

  This feels below her station. I feel like there should be interns or someone working on this.

• 32:14Travis McElroy?

  Like, you want to get on the net, see like, what are people saying about KFC? Because I would love to see what I could do to help. So let's first check in on the petition to bring this back. This ravenous petition was signed by 98 individual people.

• 32:27Griffin McElroy?

  No, just saying, I thought for sure we were gonna get a-

• 32:30Travis McElroy?

  The biggest petition is 98 verified signatures.

• 32:34Travis McElroy?

  And I will now read to you- Couldn't get it to a hundred, so close. Yeah, I will now read to you every comment on this petition. Awesome. Popcorn chicken is a KFC staple for me. I've grown up eating KFC and popcorn chicken makes me so happy. I actually squealed seeing it. That's from Nico. I need it back, please.

• 32:52Griffin McElroy?

  Been a long three years for Nico, it sounds like.

• 32:55Travis McElroy?

  Nico's had a rough time. I would eat KFC popcorn chicken at least two to three times a month. Much better than nuggets. Bring them back, arcane. Two to three times a month, isn't that big of a commitment?

• 33:06Griffin McElroy?

  Justify it. You need to be bigger than that.

• 33:09Travis McElroy?

  I think a lot of human beings on earth might accidentally eat KFC popcorn chicken two to three times a month without thinking about it.

• 33:17Griffin McElroy?

  In an indoor public space, the amount of popcorn chicken you're just breathing in.

• 33:22Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 33:22Griffin McElroy?

  It accumulates in the lungs.

• 33:24Travis McElroy?

  Bring back popcorn chicken. Those nuggets are absolutely gross. They taste rubbery. Because literally the only reason I've ever eaten or liked KFC besides their root beer floats. It's not just the same in the famous bowl. It was my favorite. Not so much now. Uh, two more comments on this petition. Hashtag no more discontinued. That's for muscle. And then the last from Elizabeth says, yup, popcorn chicken, yup.

• 33:50Griffin McElroy?

  Do you know how wasteful it is financially and agriculturally? That these freaks have had to, you know, order a couple dozen famous bowls every time they go? Just so they can pick through the bones to find the sweet popcorn chicken within. Now they are getting an option that is free of corn kernels and mashed potatoes and gravy and cheese and what have you. What all is in a famous bowl? Now they're just getting it raw dog as God intended.

• 34:19Travis McElroy?

  Uh, so then I went over to Reddit to see what people have been talking about in the intervening years. Um, to see how, cause like you're still Melissa Cash, right? You're still trying to fix, fix, uh, your brand. Um, here's one comment. Uh, about the, this is about the nugs. People were talking about the nugs. Uh, they, they don't work in the famous bowl. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Huh.

• 34:46Travis McElroy?

  I miss the popcorn chicken.

• 34:47Griffin McElroy?

  Zoolander reference there, topical.

• 34:49Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, just throw one in. I missed the popcorn chicken. They were so good with honey, but I also missed the green beans and the grilled chicken breast.

• 34:56Griffin McElroy?

  And one battle after another, huh?

• 34:59Travis McElroy?

  It just never stopped. They just never stopped.

• 35:02Griffin McElroy?

  We got fucking daylight savings time. We got popcorn chicken back and you're already, give us a moment to reconnoiter, to regroup a bit.

• 35:11Travis McElroy?

  It's been, it's been constant in Australia.

• 35:16Travis McElroy?

  It's still been there. So everybody in Australia is like, I can't believe you guys are getting so excited. Why don't you just move to Australia? And then several folks said, I'm not going to move to Australia for popcorn chicken, which I grant them. That's fair. Not move, but visit. How good was that? How good? What made it so good? Well, here's one comment that said, I think the inconsistency was the best part of the popcorn chicken. Sometimes you got big meaty chunks and sometimes you got little crispy slivers of chicken that were just a vehicle for breading. I honestly love getting like five big meaty chunks, 10 mediumish chunks, and then just a little handful of the little ones to keep things all balanced. That's from

• 35:59Travis McElroy?

  Oh, I love five big meaty chunks, 10 mediumish chunks, and then just a little handful of little ones to keep things all balanced.

• 36:06Griffin McElroy?

  Am I asking for so much? Really?

• 36:09Travis McElroy?

  It's kind of fandom. As we continue, this is Melissa Cash. The next thing she says is, as we continue our Kentucky Fried comeback journey.

• 36:18Griffin McElroy?

  Awesome.

• 36:19Travis McElroy?

  Which had to be inspired by reading these many, many, many, many, many comments from people who say everything about yours is trash, except for the one thing you don't have anymore. That's gotta be a tough road for Melissa Cash to walk. This menu item return shows our commitment to listening to our most passionate fans by giving them exactly what they're craving. We're nodding to nostalgia as we simultaneously modernize the brand and how it shows up throughout the world. Yeah, I got some popcorn chicken on my porch. I'll be right back.

• 36:53Griffin McElroy?

  Do you? Okay.

• 36:55Travis McElroy?

  I'm looking right now to order some. Think about it.

• 37:01Travis McElroy?

  I'm back.

• 37:02Griffin McElroy?

  Hi.

• 37:03Travis McElroy?

  Hi.

• 37:04Griffin McElroy?

  Any sauce?

• 37:05Travis McElroy?

  So I don't like sauce, but they do have a lot of Supergirl themed sauces.

• 37:10Griffin McElroy?

  Cool.

• 37:12Travis McElroy?

  So I requested all those, but I guess they're out because they didn't bring any.

• 37:14Griffin McElroy?

  That's true.

• 37:15Travis McElroy?

  I guess I thought I was joking. Um, no, no, no, here it is. I got Ruthie's Sweet Chili Revenge.

• 37:23Griffin McElroy?

  That's a cool name for a sauce. I haven't seen this.

• 37:25Travis McElroy?

  I haven't seen the flick, but.

• 37:26Griffin McElroy?

  But it's a cool name for a sauce.

• 37:28Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, they also got Lobos.

• 37:29Griffin McElroy?

  What now?

• 37:30Travis McElroy?

  Ruthie's Sweet Chili Revenge.

• 37:33Griffin McElroy?

  That's fucking cool. That's the coolest thing KFC's ever done. I'm gonna start a petition when these sauces are out of, out of commission. Say, bring back Ruthie's.

• 37:41Travis McElroy?

  There's also a Jason Momoa presents Lobos Wild Ranch.

• 37:46Griffin McElroy?

  Give me Lobos. What the, I don't care that the movie came out seven years ago.

• 37:50Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 37:50Griffin McElroy?

  I want Lobo Ranch.

• 37:52Travis McElroy?

  Please send two packets.

• 37:53Griffin McElroy?

  Give me Jason Momoa's special Lobo Ranch, please.

• 37:56Travis McElroy?

  It's Jason Momoa presents Lobos Wild Ranch is what it says on here.

• 38:00Griffin McElroy?

  Awesome. I want Jason Momoa to present me with so many different sauces.

• 38:05Travis McElroy?

  It's like he produced it. Um, boy, these are really damp cookies in the box. Why would they put the cookies in the box? They've been dampened by the.

• 38:13Griffin McElroy?

  It's all part of it, Justin. That's the inconsistency.

• 38:18Travis McElroy?

  I found the popcorn chicken.

• 38:20Griffin McElroy?

  Great.

• 38:21Travis McElroy?

  The good news for, for 90's kids is that I will remember with 100% accuracy what the nuggets tasted like and I will be able to tell you with 100% certainty whether or not they are the same.

• 38:34Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, no, Justin is for sure about to rat a toey out on us, by which I mean have a sort of reverie into his past, not have a right to control his actions.

• 38:43Travis McElroy?

  Nope, they're not as good.

• 38:44Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 38:45Travis McElroy?

  It's not the same. Sorry.

• 38:46Griffin McElroy?

  Is it possible, and I hate to do this live on air, but is it possible that you are not the same and that the nug, the chicken, the popcorn chicken is the same, but your capacity to enjoy it?

• 38:59Travis McElroy?

  The feel of joy.

• 39:00Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Do you think that's? Never been so glad to have the camera not be working.

• 39:05Travis McElroy?

  I know, man. I definitely would not have planned this whole thing had I known that we would not be employing video today. And I certainly would have ordered this fucking Supergirl drink with boba in it.

• 39:16Griffin McElroy?

  You did that so clearly for the vine.

• 39:18Travis McElroy?

  That was just for the vine.

• 39:20Griffin McElroy?

  Juice.

• 39:21Travis McElroy?

  Just for the vine. Oh, man, that's really disappointing. They're not as good. That doesn't surprise me. The original popcorn chicken nuggets were hand bred and these are quite obviously.

• 39:33Griffin McElroy?

  Uniform cubes.

• 39:34Travis McElroy?

  They're uniform cubes. There's no big meaty chunks. I mean, I gotta count. I'll just.

• 39:40Griffin McElroy?

  Line them all out on the table and give us a fine count.

• 39:43Travis McElroy?

  Okay, so my six ounces, I mean, they're just so clearly made in a chicken popcorn chicken factory. I mean, it's a heartbreaker. I can't, I can't tell you guys. I'm gonna line them all out here and I'm gonna tell you what we got. Why did this auto select comeback sauce as what I would want with my popcorn chicken? Oh, are you ordering some, dude? Of course I am, Justin. What a stupid idiot I am, huh?

• 40:08Griffin McElroy?

  He just told you it sucked.

• 40:09Travis McElroy?

  I don't care.

• 40:11Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 40:13Travis McElroy?

  It's all I can think about now. Guys, comeback sauce is real. I saw it when I was ordering too, and it is like the admission in a sauce format of a, I've never seen a sauce apology, but that is really, I mean, it could only be that, right? Like, we've been on the ropes for a while. God, that drink is fucking vulgar. I died. It's un- impossible.

• 40:38Griffin McElroy?

  Did you even get a boba in it?

• 40:40Travis McElroy?

  There's no bobas in that. I avoided that boba bite, but I still.

• 40:45Griffin McElroy?

  Well, maybe the boba sort of is a sort of catalyst for the flavor. The boba has to be present in order to activate it.

• 40:52Travis McElroy?

  This kind of fandom, guys, this kind of fandom doesn't happen by accident. It's the same obsessive energy sports fans bring to nail biter games or reality TV lovers. Again,

• 41:02Griffin McElroy?

  You are off your fucking nut, dude.

• 41:05Travis McElroy?

  Ninety-eight fucking signatures. Are you crazy? This is a, if you, Justin, if you cancel the football team, you'd get about ninety-eight signatures to bring that football team back. Yeah, I bet. I bet that's right.

• 41:20Griffin McElroy?

  The desire for these tiny nuggets equals the, the fandom of all sports, of all sports combined.

• 41:28Travis McElroy?

  Popcorn chicken has one of the most obsessive fanbases KFC has ever seen, and the brand is meeting that obsession head on by inserting itself into the internet's favorite reaction, the popcorn GIF.

• 41:42Griffin McElroy?

  What are you, what are you?

• 41:44Travis McElroy?

  What are you talking about? Through a new partnership with Giffy. What? KFC is rolling out a collection of exclusive popcorn.

• 41:55Travis McElroy?

  Popcorn chicken gifs starring the Colonel himself, giving fans a Kentucky Fried way to react to the exact moments they're already reaching for a popcorn meme. The collection is now available on Giffy. You know that moment, we've all been there, when you're reaching for a popcorn meme.

• 42:13Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 42:14Travis McElroy?

  And you're like, yeah, but I don't know what it's gonna be.

• 42:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 42:19Travis McElroy?

  And then.

• 42:19Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, you're trying to decide between the like MJ Thriller one.

• 42:22Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 42:23Griffin McElroy?

  Or I think there's like.

• 42:23Travis McElroy?

  Popcorn meme, and then you're like, what about the one where it's like?

• 42:26Griffin McElroy?

  What about the sponsored chicken?

• 42:28Travis McElroy?

  Wouldn't you be fucking crazy? Like, truly unhinged if I went with the sponsored KFC?

• 42:34Griffin McElroy?

  You guys give me, it, let's, let's brainstorm right now, because I don't want this person to lose their job. Whoever came up with this.

• 42:41Travis McElroy?

  Melissa Cash.

• 42:42Griffin McElroy?

  Melissa, I don't want anything to happen to Melissa, because if Melissa's boss listens to this episode, I think that they will receive the context they need to understand that this is a total nothing burger. So if we could come up with, for Melissa, just a few kind of encounters, online, social, digital encounters, where a, a GIF of Colonel Sanders eating popcorn chicken would be an appropriate response. My mind immediately jumps to a million inappropriate ones, but is there any way to split the uprights?

• 43:11Travis McElroy?

  Maybe like one where you like recreate the like, oh, I'm settling in, because something dramatic's about to happen, and I've got a popcorn bucket. Except this popcorn chicken bucket, you do that, that'd be, that would, I bet that would get some use.

• 43:24Griffin McElroy?

  No, because if I do that, if like, two of my friends are having a fight. In the, in the group, in the group thread. If two of my friends are having a fight, and then I'm like, I know how to diffuse this situation, I'll hop in there with a eating popcorn gif.

• 43:36Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 43:36Griffin McElroy?

  Or GIF.

• 43:37Travis McElroy?

  Or GIF, depending on which way you want to do it.

• 43:39Griffin McElroy?

  Depending on which way you want to do it.

• 43:41Travis McElroy?

  There's actually no wrong way.

• 43:42Griffin McElroy?

  If I put in the one of Colonel Sanders eating popcorn chicken, it may look a lot like one of the other famous popcorn GIFs. But my friends immediately are gonna be like, what's with the chicken?

• 43:52Travis McElroy?

  Is that Colonel?

• 43:52Griffin McElroy?

  Is that Colonel Sanders? Why did you?

• 43:55Travis McElroy?

  Colonel Sanders? A great way to, I was right. Oh, no. I was right. Justin sent me the exact gif I was describing. I was right. You were exactly. Exactly right Travis. Oh no. But don't worry, if you get onto the Giffy Jiffy service. Giffy's in a jiffy with Giffy Jiffy. You can search up KFC and get their official account and you can see all of these. They did, uh, let me count here, but it's too many.

• 44:25Travis McElroy?

  Too many. I am gonna challenge myself to only communicate with these chips. This is my new sort of semaphore. Like you guys will know when I post like Colonel laughing and then eating a chicken. You will know, like, I enjoyed what you said. Yeah. But this more sort of solemn faced one, this kind of Citizen Kane-esque one, you know, I don't like what you said. Each one is more upsetting than the one before it. Honestly, I think they did a great job with. They should make one of Brenda Fricker feeding the birds in Central Park, but instead of scattering bird seed, it's popcorn chicken. That's cool. And like throwing the popcorn chicken on to the wet bandits, the sticky bandits at that point. Yeah. So that I need to finish, then a bunch of people, 98 people attack them.

• 45:10Travis McElroy?

  I forgot to, I got, I forgot to do this whole fucking lead in. This kind of fandom doesn't happen by accident. It's the same obsessive energy sports fans bring to nail biter games or reality TV lovers have for can't look away plot twists. Turns out the biggest moments in pop culture and biggest cravings have one thing in common. They both start with popcorn. KFC is just bringing chicken to the party. Huh. That is why, that's the whole fucking long walk is that like popcorn is the whole thing. From sports finals taking place on the world stage. A week. To summer's. To summer's juiciest reality TV moments. KFC is making sure.

• 45:52Travis McElroy?

  Pick a fucking thing dude, you can't just be like, whether it's the disappearance of Mitch McConnell, the whole thing with the reflecting pool, whether it's Pizza Rat. Bris. Fucking, maybe it's balloon boy. Maybe it's Chewbacca mom. Ritz back in the west end gets in KFC. KFC is making sure that popcorn chicken is back just in time. It's for the summer moments that make you say, grab the popcorn. Because if you're gonna watch the drama unfold, you might as well be snacking on the main character. Fuck. What? What? Wait, hold on. Wait. I gotta start reading these to the end. Jesus. If you might as well be snacking on the main character?

• 46:37Travis McElroy?

  Guys, check your wording. Guy, you gotta calm down.

• 46:41Griffin McElroy?

  Maybe this is a thing. Hold on. Snacking on the main character?

• 46:45Travis McElroy?

  No. Snacking on the main big dick energy sliving.

• 46:54Travis McElroy?

  Smack, smacking on this. Smacking on the six, seven, four, nine kid?

• 47:03Griffin McElroy?

  Those Giffy Jiffies are out now for free.

• 47:06Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. Treat yourself. Treat yourself. It is wild, the unforced error of like, it hasn't been an air, like, these were out three years ago. People remember what they taste like. This isn't, that's, they don't taste like this. They did a bad job. They did a, people are gonna be really mad about it. I feel really sad for them. Damn. Here's a question for you all. Salient due to the time of year. My boyfriend and I have neighbors with a peach tree. I really wanted some and I thought I'd wait until I saw them picking some to ask since we've never really spoken. But nobody ever picked them. Now a bunch of overripe peaches have fallen on the grass between our houses, attracting flies. We noticed too late and a big old bunch of flies snuck into our house through the garage.

• 47:51Travis McElroy?

  No. Wow, this really broke bad for you, huh? This was, this was really a journey. You went from wanting some free peaches to having an infestation.

• 48:00Griffin McElroy?

  You did the right thing and were punished for it. This almost feels like, uh, we would have told you not to touch the peaches, but now we know that that was a mistake also.

• 48:09Travis McElroy?

  Well, thanks in advance. A not so peachy predicament in Alabama. What do we do? What can we do next summer? To prevent this is the rest. What can we do?

• 48:16Griffin McElroy?

  You did skip the question.

• 48:18Travis McElroy?

  I will say that like the mayor, the Smarls have a peach tree in their backyard and their main thing every year seems to be, how can we unload all these damn peaches?

• 48:28Griffin McElroy?

  Sure.

• 48:28Travis McElroy?

  I think your neighbors might be stoked if you're like, hey, we're peach fans and whenever like you want a little harvest help, we're right here. And I don't want to be that guy, but it's over your fence. It's in your property. Those are your peaches.

• 48:44Griffin McElroy?

  I don't, does it say? No, it says between our houses.

• 48:46Travis McElroy?

  What if they fell into your yard? Yeah, I mean, that's like, if it's growing into, I mean.

• 48:54Griffin McElroy?

  If you build a little Hot Wheels track going from the tree into your yard and the peaches just happen to roll down it, into your yard.

• 49:04Travis McElroy?

  Into your mouth.

• 49:05Griffin McElroy?

  Into your mouth that you've got at the bottom of the tracks. There's only so much you can do about that. Blame Isaac Newton on that, for that one.

• 49:15Travis McElroy?

  Can you guys imagine wanting to eat fruit? I like, I like a fruit.

• 49:18Griffin McElroy?

  Sometimes, very rarely. Sometimes I want sweet wet and that's the combination that I typically I get one way or the other. A lot of the times I want sweet and bread. Those two kind of like food ideas combined.

• 49:31Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. There's a certain, there's a certain amount of psychological proud of myself fulfillment I get from eating a banana. Specifically a banana because they're like good for like sore muscles and stuff. And I know like eating a banana is really investing in my future in a way that I'm like, I'm proud of you. Future Travis is proud of you.

• 49:52Griffin McElroy?

  I, I tell you guys, I tell you gang, I've been really into a cherry lately.

• 49:56Travis McElroy?

  Too much work.

• 49:57Griffin McElroy?

  Cause it's, well, no, I like the work. It's like the crab legs of fruit. Cause you're like having to get the, the bones out. And I, I do like that. It's just a, it's just a quality control gang. This fruit, we need different names. This needs to be, we need to break up big cherry into several smaller categories.

• 50:14Travis McElroy?

  Your meaty chunks, your kind of middle chunks, and then the ones that are just breading.

• 50:19Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. That's, I don't think that's too much to ask. I, I want to know if they're going to be the tartest things I've ever tasted or the, the sweet juicy things that I crave.

• 50:29Travis McElroy?

  Any consistency there would be great.

• 50:31Griffin McElroy?

  Any consistency would be great. Call them different things, please.

• 50:34Travis McElroy?

  I don't think you want to complain about the flies because that's just part of the circle. You can't complain about the circle.

• 50:40Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 50:41Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean? That's part of the circle.

• 50:42Griffin McElroy?

  That's part of the, they're part of the circle. Think about.

• 50:45Travis McElroy?

  Are you letting bears in to eat the peaches? Because if you are not letting, if you're not letting bears in to eat the peaches, then you broke the circle.

• 50:54Griffin McElroy?

  This is your fault for not bringing any bears in. Yeah. And maybe these guys are frog ranchers. They need the flies.

• 51:02Travis McElroy?

  Oh shit. Or fly ranchers, you know, they harvest the flies and they sell the flies to fly collectors. Or to frogs. Maybe there's a whole frog economy going where they're selling them to frogs.

• 51:14Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:14Travis McElroy?

  In exchange for peach seeds.

• 51:17Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool. That's cool. That's more of a triangle of life.

• 51:20Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. It's a, it's a pyramid scheme. That the frogs are set up because they're bringing the flies in to eat the peaches.

• 51:30Griffin McElroy?

  It wouldn't be as rhythmically kind of satisfying, I think, but a triangle of life. I do think to take, to take some of the abstraction out of that would really help me with the concept a lot.

• 51:40Travis McElroy?

  It does kind of seem, the circle seems like it was set up by the lions to explain why they're, why they're eating the zebras that they ostensibly also rule over.

• 51:48Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:49Travis McElroy?

  You know, it's like, I'm your king, but I do need to eat you. It's part of the circle of life.

• 51:53Griffin McElroy?

  It's very lopsided.

• 51:55Travis McElroy?

  We don't eat.

• 51:56Griffin McElroy?

  Mm-hmm.

• 51:57Travis McElroy?

  You.

• 51:58Griffin McElroy?

  It's a really lopsided circle where like most of the circle is this, is the gazelles and zebras being eaten. And at the very tip, the very tip of the circle, one lion goes down and becomes, I guess, more grass.

• 52:09Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. You gotta understand, here's what happens. We, the lions, eat you, right?

• 52:13Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 52:14Travis McElroy?

  And then we shit you out and then grass grows and you eat the grass and then we eat you again. It's all balance. And the zebra's like, wait, we shit too. We shit out and the grass grows from our shit.

• 52:28Griffin McElroy?

  It's different. Ours is better because you're in it.

• 52:32Griffin McElroy?

  It's not your fault, but you make better shit than we did than.

• 52:35Travis McElroy?

  I don't have to tell you, man.

• 52:37Griffin McElroy?

  Your nutrients are like insane.

• 52:38Travis McElroy?

  Really? Cause all you eat is meat and I see how hard you're straining.

• 52:42Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, it's harder to make goods. Yeah, thank you. You're right. It's harder to make good stuff.

• 52:47Travis McElroy?

  You're welcome.

• 52:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 52:49Travis McElroy?

  Do you see how hard I'm working out here making a shit? I'd love to have some fiber. Are you kidding me?

• 52:53Griffin McElroy?

  I hate turning you guys into shit. It sucks.

• 52:57Travis McElroy?

  And I also eat a lot of cheese. That's not part of it, but it's just my picadillo. I love cheese. I'm just saying like, I didn't really clock it when I was ordering this, but this meal with the popcorn chicken.

• 53:12Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 53:13Travis McElroy?

  Includes six ounces of popcorn chicken and it's the, this is the, the popcorn chicken big box. The popcorn chicken big box has six ounces popcorn chicken. I just noticed in here, there's two chicken tenders. What has gone on in your day? What has gone on in your day? We're halfway through eating your popcorn chicken. You're like, fuck, I gotta switch up this.

• 53:36Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, now for the main.

• 53:37Travis McElroy?

  I gotta change up this form factor. What an admission of guilt that is, right? If they're like, we have a second consolation.

• 53:45Griffin McElroy?

  It's just safety net.

• 53:47Travis McElroy?

  You like these, right? They're underneath it.

• 53:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 53:50Travis McElroy?

  Lift it up. They're in here. Look. These are the structural ones. These are load bearing.

• 53:56Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, people are load bearing tenders. It's like how I'll order french fries at a pizza restaurant I've ever ordered from before. In case the kids hate the pizza. I know my friend french fries is going to be in there for.

• 54:06Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's two choc- chunk cookies. Is that a double chunk chocolate?

• 54:14Travis McElroy?

  Damn.

• 54:14Griffin McElroy?

  Damn.

• 54:15Travis McElroy?

  Damn. Damn. Damn, I hate Popeye.

• 54:19Travis McElroy?

  Thank you so much for listening to this podcast called My Brother, My Brother and Me. I hope you've enjoyed yourself. Hope you learned. I hope you grew. I hope you don't get the KFC popcorn chicken because it's not gonna hold up.

• 54:30Griffin McElroy?

  Too late.

• 54:31Travis McElroy?

  Sorry Trav. Yeah. Let me know what you think though. I will. When it arrives, but I'm, no? No, I will. No, I will. I said I will. Okay, good.

• 54:39Griffin McElroy?

  Um, you know what else you can get right now? Not just bad popcorn chicken. You can get good book, which is The Adventure Zone Story and Song. It's out now, gang. Our final graphic novel, adaptation of The Adventure Zone Balance Saga. You can get it right now at bookstores or at theadventurezonecomic.com. Um, it's, I'm so proud. I'm so proud of this book. It's so surreal. Uh, if you read it, let, send us a message. Send us Blue Skies or, or Instagrams or what? Something, uh, where we are actually exist. Cause it's, uh, it's, it's, it's been really lovely kind of following people along as they read it. I'm, I, I'm, I'm so proud of this book. Please, please, uh, get yourself a copy if you.

• 55:18Travis McElroy?

  Also, it's a big book. So like pages for your buck. It's a good ratio.

• 55:23Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it's a great ratio.

• 55:24Travis McElroy?

  And thanks to everybody who came out, uh, to see us in Boston. That was great. Um, and if you enjoy seeing us.

• 55:31Griffin McElroy?

  We haven't done it.

• 55:31Travis McElroy?

  We haven't done it yet, but they don't know that. I know, but like, it's just really seems like tempting fate to say it went great. I mean, I don't know. But the transition is if you like seeing things live.

• 55:42Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 55:42Travis McElroy?

  You could also see the besties live on Broadway, October 9th at the Town Hall in NYC. Tickets on sale now, bit dot L Y slash besties on Broadway.

• 55:54Griffin McElroy?

  Um, hey, we got some merch over in the McRoy merch store at mcroymerch.com. If you're a super McRoy brothers fan, like watching us goofballs play video games, you, why not get yourself a magnet frame of, of the design?

• 56:06Travis McElroy?

  Coward.

• 56:07Griffin McElroy?

  Why not? You've earned it. You've earned it.

• 56:10Travis McElroy?

  Coward. Also, we did have to reschedule the graphic novel clubhouse. So that's going to be this Tuesday instead. So make sure hop over to the McRoy family YouTube channel, uh, noon PM Eastern, uh, on Tuesday and check it out.

• 56:26Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, I had, there's no video. I have, guys.

• 56:30Travis McElroy?

  Make a big loud clunk.

• 56:32Griffin McElroy?

  I have hu, I have two big Faberge eggs.

• 56:36Travis McElroy?

  Oh dude, don't do it. Do it.

• 56:38Griffin McElroy?

  No, I've got two big ones. They're covered in Swarovski crystals.

• 56:41Travis McElroy?

  Well, so you're gonna throw one and save the other one, or are you gonna throw them both? Or what are you thinking?

• 56:46Griffin McElroy?

  Well, I've got the big unit here, and I was thinking I could kind of pitch a pitch one up into the air, and then the big unit could throw his egg into the other one midair, and they would just collide sort of in in.

• 57:01Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I think that's a great call. It is a shame he lost his voice right before today.

• 57:06Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. You doing okay, big unit?

• 57:15Griffin McElroy?

  I do. All right. I don't fucking know.

• 57:18Travis McElroy?

  That sound like the mummy. Are you sure that's Randy Johnson?

• 57:22Griffin McElroy?

  I don't remember which one the big unit is.

• 57:24Travis McElroy?

  That might be the mummy. Okay, throw them.

• 57:26Griffin McElroy?

  Here we go.

• 57:33Griffin McElroy?

  Whoa, holy shit. Whoa, it's still going.

• 57:40Travis McElroy?

  That's good, dear, my brother.

• 57:46Travis McElroy?

  Why are you just? I'm your middle-aged brother Travis Zachroyd.

• 57:51Griffin McElroy?

  It's still going.

• 57:56Travis McElroy?

  Shrimp, my brother, my brother, make your dad squirm the lips.

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