MBMBaM 811: New At Yeast

We’re on pace to answer as many questions as humanly possible before these lawsuits from Justin McElroy catch up to us. We’re talking self-branding, Muppet roller coasters, a slightly different Garfield, and Travis’s weirdly accurate predictions. Suggested talking points: Vore Apologetics, Every Day a Single Butterscotch, What Do We Leave bBehind if Not a Brand, Don't Talk People are Trying to Tingle Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.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?

• 1:10Travis McElroy?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me, an advice show for the modern era.

• 1:15Travis McElroy?

  Get out of the town!

• 1:16Travis McElroy?

  Brother.

• 1:16Travis McElroy?

  Get right out of the town with this. How is this possible?

• 1:20Griffin McElroy?

  Who is that guy?

• 1:21Travis McElroy?

  Griffin, do it!

• 1:22Griffin McElroy?

  I don't have...

• 1:22Travis McElroy?

  Raise your mug.

• 1:23Griffin McElroy?

  I don't have...

• 1:24Travis McElroy?

  Give us your mug. We have matching mugs.

• 1:26Griffin McElroy?

  I don't want to show you my mug. I don't want to show you. I don't want to show you my mug. It's incriminating.

• 1:30Travis McElroy?

  We have matching mugs.

• 1:31Griffin McElroy?

  It's incriminating.

• 1:32Travis McElroy?

  That has to be.

• 1:32Griffin McElroy?

  It represents a, it represents an older part of my brand that I don't necessarily embody anymore, but I like the coffee mug.

• 1:39Travis McElroy?

  That could be so many things.

• 1:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, well, then maybe if folks go to maximumfun.org/join, I'll reveal my shameful mug to everyone by the end of the episode. Hmm, it's, it says Vore Squad on it. I don't know. Someone sent it to my P O. Box a long time ago and I was so humbled by the fact that they made a logo for my fake podcast and it's a night, I like this sort of, what is this? Like a 12-ouncer? I like a bigger pour.

• 2:05Travis McElroy?

  That's a 16-ounce.

• 2:05Griffin McElroy?

  A 16-ouncer, even better. I like a bigger pour.

• 2:08Travis McElroy?

  Did we say our names?

• 2:10Griffin McElroy?

  No, no, we sort of immediately got into vor apologetics.

• 2:13Travis McElroy?

  What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother Travis, Big Dog, Wolf, Vroom, Vroom, The Heater, Big Dog, award-winning McElroy.

• 2:20Griffin McElroy?

  Too much stuff, man. If you can't remember it.

• 2:22Travis McElroy?

  No, if I, if I hiccup even for a second, it's gone.

• 2:26Griffin McElroy?

  I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30. Media luminary. Sorry, I just turned 39 and so I'm running out of time to hit that 40 under 40 list.

• 2:35Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:35Griffin McElroy?

  I'm worried that I don't have the kind of cash that I did a decade ago, but I'm Griffin McElroy.

• 2:40Travis McElroy?

  At the blank page before you open up the dirty window.

• 2:45Griffin McElroy?

  Wow.

• 2:45Travis McElroy?

  The sun illuminate the world.

• 2:47Griffin McElroy?

  Natasha, welcome Natasha.

• 2:48Travis McElroy?

  Write, reaching for something in the distance so close you can almost taste it. Release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin. No one else can feel it.

• 3:01Griffin McElroy?

  Fuck yeah, what are we doing?

• 3:02Travis McElroy?

  Can let it in.

• 3:04Griffin McElroy?

  Hi, everybody.

• 3:06Travis McElroy?

  There were lyrics in there that I've never intellged before. It's like, there's a part where like staring at the blank page before you, we all know it.

• 3:14Griffin McElroy?

  Right, right.

• 3:14Travis McElroy?

  We love it.

• 3:15Griffin McElroy?

  Open up your dirty. Why is your window so dirty Natasha? That's crazy.

• 3:21Travis McElroy?

  It's when you hit the, when the, let the sun illuminate, everybody's kind of looking at their friends like, do you know? Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot write. Reaching for something in the distance. It's week two of Max Fun Drive, maximumfun.org forward slash join support the art and artist you love. And I'm living in my power.

• 3:43Griffin McElroy?

  Sure.

• 3:44Travis McElroy?

  I'm living in my power for.

• 3:46Griffin McElroy?

  I don't, I don't know what star is in proto grade in the cosmos that has lent you this power, but there is an apotheosis that's happened that is shining directly, a beam of pure energy right down on Travis that is making anything possible for him.

• 4:01Travis McElroy?

  Like Pitbull said, I don't know about you, but I feel good because uh, within the last month, I would say, I called, I said, I called to the universe and said, I think it's time for a Phantom reboot.

• 4:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yep.

• 4:17Travis McElroy?

  And within a 28 day span.

• 4:21Griffin McElroy?

  Crazy.

• 4:21Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. It was announced that there's a Phantom TV series.

• 4:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:26Travis McElroy?

  In production.

• 4:28Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, we're, who's doing it?

• 4:30Travis McElroy?

  Who? That stuff doesn't matter.

• 4:32Griffin McElroy?

  You know fucking Billy Zane's gonna roll up like into pilot like.

• 4:36Travis McElroy?

  I want to say.

• 4:38Travis McElroy?

  Trav, do you want to be in this TV show?

• 4:42Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, my God, please, no. Are we gonna burn it on this?

• 4:45Travis McElroy?

  No, here's what I'm saying.

• 4:48Travis McElroy?

  We're in an increasingly fractured media environment. There's not going to be a lot of engagement on Phantom-based social media posts.

• 4:56Griffin McElroy?

  Correct.

• 4:56Travis McElroy?

  If on every Phantom social media post degraded into without Travis McElroy, there is no Phantom.

• 5:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:05Travis McElroy?

  Then I think we, I think maybe we could maybe get Travis in this thing.

• 5:11Griffin McElroy?

  You're saying we could flood the zone in a cool way.

• 5:14Travis McElroy?

  In a cool way.

• 5:15Travis McElroy?

  Brought to you by Travis McElroy's power.

• 5:18Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 5:19Travis McElroy?

  Unless, until they get, I mean, here's what, here's what I'm thinking. Trav is like the shop owner that, you know what I mean? Like, they walk past his shop and he waves from inside the shop.

• 5:32Travis McElroy?

  I'm perfectly happy if there's a shot where they talk about, like, if there's a map even, and you see a country called Trav Nation, right? I'm fine with that being an easy.

• 5:42Travis McElroy?

  That would be good. The idea would be, of course, Travis is trying to smuggle 20 to 30 kilos of premium, premium Colombian coca, and then the Phantom slams evil.

• 5:55Griffin McElroy?

  Slams his ass, yeah.

• 5:56Travis McElroy?

  And Travis, like, gets beat up by the Phantom.

• 5:58Griffin McElroy?

  I always got murdered. Murdered by the Phantom.

• 6:02Travis McElroy?

  You can see, already has the whole costume and the whole thing already lined out.

• 6:07Griffin McElroy?

  Do you guys think it was weird that the Phantom was one of the most sort of fervent soldiers in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs? I thought that that was a crazy way for him to sort of expend his energies.

• 6:18Travis McElroy?

  I kind of feel like he was already in a war on drugs, and then Ronald Reagan was like, that's a great idea.

• 6:23Griffin McElroy?

  Let me get up on that, yeah, yeah.

• 6:24Travis McElroy?

  I'm gonna do that, too. Nancy, Nancy, do some PSAs.

• 6:28Griffin McElroy?

  Call the guy. Listen, I want to say first, I'm sorry, Travis, because sometimes you bring stuff to the intro, and I'm like, this is, no one knows what the fuck you're talking about. The Phantom, that's that ancient, old, crusty ass IP that no one's gonna touch with a 100-foot pole. And then within 28 calendar days, 20, 20 business days rounded up, we had the announcement. Travis, that's crazy. You're more plugged in than I am, and I, I'm sorry for doubting you.

• 6:56Travis McElroy?

  I just know a lot of- About trash TV. I know what people want.

• 7:01Griffin McElroy?

  What's next? What's next? Is it time?

• 7:03Travis McElroy?

  Like, like, look at the pulse. What's on the? Well, my next wish is that they bring back Choco Tacos. That's not really a media property.

• 7:10Griffin McElroy?

  But Travis, can I just say, that feels, that feels right. That feels like by the end of May, we're gonna have a Choco Taco announcement. That feels right. It feels like the public consciousness is ready.

• 7:21Travis McElroy?

  The last five years.

• 7:23Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, we're ready. Ready.

• 7:25Travis McElroy?

  Bring back Choco Tacos. In Jason Robert Brown's hit musical, they stopped making Choco Tacos. It's about Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years is about the Oh, I see. Production of Choco Tacos.

• 7:39Griffin McElroy?

  That's great.

• 7:40Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:41Griffin McElroy?

  We've got jokes for every type of person out there.

• 7:44Travis McElroy?

  The Max Fun Drive. Can we circle back to that real quick?

• 7:47Griffin McElroy?

  Please, yes.

• 7:47Travis McElroy?

  This is a time we come to you once a year and we say, hey, do you like the stuff we make? Cause we like you. We like making it for you. If you like the stuff we make, could you help us make it? Just, just a little bit of help. Five bucks a month. If you could do that for us, we would really appreciate it. You go to maximumfun.org forward slash join. You say, hey, I got five bucks. I'll help these shows, make these shows possible. Now, what do they get in return, guys? That's the question for you.

• 8:13Griffin McElroy?

  They get just a shit ton of boko, man. More boko than you can consume in your lifetime.

• 8:18Travis McElroy?

  More bacon than the, more boko than the pan can handle.

• 8:21Griffin McElroy?

  Absolutely. We're talking about every show on the network.

• 8:25Travis McElroy?

  Hey, stop for a second. Two times this past week, I said boko to civilians. And they were like, you gotta stop, my man. What do you mean? It was rough twice. These are friends. You know what I mean? Friends.

• 8:39Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 8:40Travis McElroy?

  Colleagues. And I, and I said boko and they, they had to pull over the van and say, what is boko? Now, what does this mean?

• 8:47Griffin McElroy?

  Listen, if you can kick in five bucks a month to, to us and the Max Fun Network, you're gonna get access to hundreds of hours of bonus content for all the shows, for the, what, 15? Is our 15th Max Fun Drive, I think, from a Bimbam? This year, we did a, a voice acting masterclass with Janet Varney to try and find out why we don't get cast in stuff anymore. Um, but we've done all kinds of stuff.

• 9:09Travis McElroy?

  Plato's rave. She will say, guys, surprisingly frank. Yeah.

• 9:14Griffin McElroy?

  Extraordinarily right over the plate.

• 9:16Travis McElroy?

  Janet Varney, she did not pull her punches.

• 9:18Griffin McElroy?

  She told us what it would be a lot more laughing. Yeah, told us what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to hear necessarily.

• 9:25Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, and what she needed to say, maybe Janet was harboring something.

• 9:30Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 9:31Travis McElroy?

  Get out of her soul.

• 9:31Griffin McElroy?

  I didn't know she had been harboring that against us this whole time, but it was nice to sort of, I don't know, squash all that beef. We're talking Plato's rave, we're talking pranky doodle dandy. We're talking about that episode of that we rerecorded the blue carpet premiere of the Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville musical with Matt Doyle and us reading each other's, but it's very high concept. Um, hundreds of hours, hundreds of hours of bonus content. Uh, there's other pledge levels that you can, uh, that you can join at and you'll get different rewards for doing that. We'll talk more about those later, but seriously, uh, it's our, it's our 15th Max Fun Drive. And the reason it's our 15th Max Fun Drive is because we've been doing this for super long because you all continue to support it. So please, please help us out. Don't just assume that someone else will do it.

• 10:14Griffin McElroy?

  Uh, because you know, the podcast market is a challenging one in the current space. We're fighting tooth and nail out here. So if you enjoy our show, uh, help be responsible for its existence. Truly full stop by going to maximumfun.org/join, please.

• 10:30Travis McElroy?

  When you're listening to this, if you're listening to this on Monday, on Tuesday's clubhouse stream as part of Max Fun Drive, I will be doing a book report on season two of Yellowstone.

• 10:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 10:43Travis McElroy?

  It, it's an experience, it's a thing.

• 10:46Griffin McElroy?

  I've heard, I've heard rumor of a, of a FBI investigation, sort of only murders murder board.

• 10:53Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, a real flow chart of depression. Within the next calendar year.

• 10:59Griffin McElroy?

  Here we go.

• 10:59Travis McElroy?

  It will be announced a live action remake of Don Bluth's Anastasia. Oh, that's trav.

• 11:07Griffin McElroy?

  Trav, that feels.

• 11:08Travis McElroy?

  That's so good that it feels like it might be, I'm like looking for the.

• 11:13Travis McElroy?

  Can I, can I be so bold as to say I would really be into an all dogs go to heaven that is indeed all dogs?

• 11:23Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 11:24Travis McElroy?

  Real dogs this time.

• 11:26Griffin McElroy?

  Real dogs, real dogs, really dying.

• 11:30Travis McElroy?

  No, hold on.

• 11:30Griffin McElroy?

  That's what Justin, Justin's gotta see real dogs dying and their ghosts go up to heaven. You gotta see it.

• 11:38Travis McElroy?

  Like in that, uh, uh, you know, the dog's life movie that they were like, yeah, there was some, um, animal rights issues with that one.

• 11:46Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that they didn't like that one so much.

• 11:49Travis McElroy?

  Hey, how about a question?

• 11:51Travis McElroy?

  I think for Max Fun Drive, we should answer all six questions on the question list.

• 11:55Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, my God.

• 11:55Travis McElroy?

  It's never been done before. My partner and I recently moved. Our new place is better than our old one in every way, except that we're in a different city and thus have a new primary postal person. We had a great relationship with our old mail lady. Terrible. Why would you say that about her? We get a lot of, it's ageist is what it is.

• 12:15Griffin McElroy?

  Old mail lady is like, wow, man.

• 12:17Travis McElroy?

  So mean.

• 12:18Griffin McElroy?

  So would you, you should learn her name. Did you have a great relationship?

• 12:22Travis McElroy?

  Our postal professional.

• 12:24Griffin McElroy?

  Did you have a great relationship with Janet? Janet?

• 12:28Travis McElroy?

  A person?

• 12:29Travis McElroy?

  Janet Varney?

• 12:30Griffin McElroy?

  Postal Janet Varney, a much, a mature postal worker.

• 12:36Travis McElroy?

  We got.

• 12:41Travis McElroy?

  We got a lot of packages. So she gave us her phone so she could meet her mid route to get packages that need signing when we weren't home that day or hold for when we would be.

• 12:51Griffin McElroy?

  You her phone?

• 12:53Travis McElroy?

  I'm, I bet they meant phone number.

• 12:55Griffin McElroy?

  Number. Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

• 12:57Travis McElroy?

  We get.

• 12:58Travis McElroy?

  Cool. Take my phone and wait for the message, then dead drop at the corner.

• 13:02Griffin McElroy?

  Here's my phone. I'll be back when I'm done with my route. This is an accountability thing. Sometimes I get tired. I am an old, old, old lady, but if I know my phone's here, I'll make my way back for sure.

• 13:12Travis McElroy?

  Get my steps in for me. I'm not doing that enough as a postal worker.

• 13:16Griffin McElroy?

  Feed my Pikachu, please.

• 13:18Travis McElroy?

  Did you say, does this person saying meet her mid route as though it's like? Hey Dan, I got a hot one for you. Are you at home? Nah, nah, nah. Sorry. Where are you at? Where are you at? It's like I'm at the sheets. Sheets on 17th. Let me roll up. Let me roll up. Let me roll up on there and I'll get my package from you. Question asker, I know I'm trying to relate in a way that I could connect.

• 13:45Griffin McElroy?

  It's just, this is a, this is a sort of rhetorical puzzle. I'm enjoying unwrapping it. Does she text you like, I'm on main Ave, moving west?

• 13:53Travis McElroy?

  Oh man, come get your porno. I'm gonna drop a pin. I'm gonna drop a pin, come get this vacuum. I'm gonna haul this vacuum all the way. It's a typo. It's supposed to be drug dealer, not postal worker.

• 14:04Griffin McElroy?

  I never like, I, I don't get exciting mail as much anymore. So I don't, I don't get excited about opening it. If I had to go find it, hell yeah, dude. I'll get more excited about that fucking, you know, Lands' End catalog or Chubby's catalog or just any sort of.

• 14:19Travis McElroy?

  My problem is always when the postal worker delivers the mail, but then also wants to sit with me while I open it. And pass if I have any snacks and watch Rick and Morty.

• 14:29Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Or if I laugh at a letter I got, he'll be like, pass it. And I'm like, dude, it's, that's a federal offense. You can't actually ask to read my mail.

• 14:38Griffin McElroy?

  So let's, what was the question?

• 14:38Travis McElroy?

  So we're about to get to the question. Here it comes. You ready?

• 14:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 14:42Travis McElroy?

  I started with our new mail guy on the wrong foot. I keep forgetting to close our mailbox and forget the keys hanging on the lock. This has happened four times and every time he brings it over and records a little, hey, be careful, heads up message on our doorbell, then leaves it near our door. How can I salvage this relationship with my mailman and get on good terms enough that I can have back what I've lost? That's from forgetful and package full in Seattle. Hmm. I'll give you my, my hot take while you guys formulate something, because I've been alive a lot longer. So I feel like I can solve these things faster. I, in my opinion, you maybe are worried that this mail person is going to see you as you are. Because my friend, you did leave the keys in the mailbox, you know, like you did need a little bit of help.

• 15:28Travis McElroy?

  And it's okay that you were that person then, you know? And if. The male person won't let you evolve. They won't let you grow over time. You got a lot on your plate. If you do a ranking of high stress situations to add your stress levels, moving way up there, near death of a loved one. Okay? You got a lot going on. Let your male person buoy you. Appreciate this gift, because that could be a real foundation, being needed and allowing someone to need you.

• 15:59Griffin McElroy?

  That's beautiful.

• 16:00Travis McElroy?

  Justin, I agree. My take was let yourself be a project for this mail carrier. Right? Oh, I'm.

• 16:08Griffin McElroy?

  People do love that.

• 16:10Travis McElroy?

  While also giving them like treats, because everyone likes treats.

• 16:14Travis McElroy?

  Butterscotch from time to time never goes astray.

• 16:17Travis McElroy?

  Not just one butterscotch, though, Justin. I'm not gonna just leave a butter. Maybe if I put a stamp on it and write in really little letters for you from me.

• 16:26Travis McElroy?

  From time to time clearly implies an ongoing stitch, Travis. This is not a one scotcher.

• 16:31Travis McElroy?

  Butterscotch?

• 16:32Travis McElroy?

  No, it's a, it's a, Trav, it's like, not everything's a multi-scoacher job. Some things as a one-scoacher, like if I ask my kids to go get my socks from the den, you know, that's a one-scoacher. If I ask my wife, Sydney, if I ask my wife Sydney to stay home from Harmony House today to darn my socks because the kids, you know, that's, that's a multi-scoacher kind of deal. I'm gonna have to give her four to five butterscotches to get that done. No problem.

• 17:02Travis McElroy?

  Hmm, I see.

• 17:04Griffin McElroy?

  Mail carriers, I assume the scotch I'm giving them is a tip. I assume that they are being paid handsomely in butterscotches by the United States government.

• 17:12Travis McElroy?

  They can only accept butterscotches.

• 17:14Travis McElroy?

  And if every, if every house gives them one butterscotch a day, that's a lot of butterscotch.

• 17:20Griffin McElroy?

  That's too much butterscotch.

• 17:22Travis McElroy?

  That's true. You got varied up.

• 17:24Griffin McElroy?

  With all that fucking butterscotch.

• 17:25Travis McElroy?

  And you don't want to do it every day, I'm retrospect, because then they'll come to expect it. You want to do it at random intervals.

• 17:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 17:33Travis McElroy?

  And maybe one day throw a red hot in there and they're like, oh, I didn't want cinnamon candy. And then the next day you're back to butterscotch and it makes the butterscotch all the better.

• 17:41Griffin McElroy?

  I think it's a good mantra for a lot of different people. And I'll go ahead and guess a lot of people who maybe listen to our program and sharing some of our anxieties, our proclivities, that just because you made a mistake, doesn't mean someone's mad at you. It doesn't mean that people are mad at you just because you made a little mistake.

• 18:02Travis McElroy?

  Four times.

• 18:06Griffin McElroy?

  Why would the mail person, the mail person I don't think is materially sort of going to be affected if your mail is taken by someone else. Obviously, it's not great, but it's not like they're gonna be like, "Oh, curse you! You made a mistake!" And they try to help you. They're not, probably not mad. They can't, they can't have that kind of relationship going with their whole route where they're just mad.

• 18:29Travis McElroy?

  Griffin, if I went in for an organ transplant and then as I was leaving the hospital, I let someone mug me and steal that organ out of my chest, the surgeon is gonna be pissed.

• 18:39Griffin McElroy?

  I guess there is a certain amount of like, "I carried, I carried that Chubbies catalog on my back for 15 blocks. And it was a thick one. It was the fall special. You would think summertime is when Chubbies makes their banquet, how short those shorts are. No, man."

• 18:55Travis McElroy?

  They gotta move product at the end of the summer.

• 18:58Griffin McElroy?

  They gotta move it at the end. That is a three-pound Chubbies catalog that I carried 15 blocks for your ungrateful ass. No, I don't, I still don't think they're gonna be mad at you. It's, it's probably.

• 19:09Travis McElroy?

  I don't know that they're mad at you, but I think four times you've recently moved and in that time, four times left your key. They have formulated a separate opinion of you of being very forgetful. And you can play that up and be whimsical and maybe leave a sandwich in the letterbox and put your mail in your lunchbox. And then when they see it, you're like, "Oh, what was I thinking?" And now you're like a comical, you're a character in their life.

• 19:35Griffin McElroy?

  To salvage this thing. If you really are invested in salvaging it, you need to show yourself to your new mail carrier, being forgetful in other disciplines in your life, so that he knows it's not just him, that you're just not just ignoring him, a lowly mail guy.

• 19:51Travis McElroy?

  Your solution is to submit the opinion.

• 19:54Griffin McElroy?

  I'm saying, next time your mail carrier comes around, when you know they're coming around, maybe you slip an air tag on the bottom of their vehicle. So you know when they're about to roll up and then you go outside and you open up all your car doors and then you go back inside. You leave the garage door open and your front door open and just a lot of doors open. And then when they're like, "Hey, man..." You left all your doors open, then they'll know it's not just me. They're not just ignoring me.

• 20:16Travis McElroy?

  You just do one shoe on, one shoe off.

• 20:17Travis McElroy?

  This, this is also a good rule when starting a job. Don't give a hundred percent at your job. Always give like 50% when you start a new job and then one day start giving like 70%. And everyone's like, whoa, whoa, this guy's really stepping up. Cause if you always give a hundred percent, you got nowhere to go from there.

• 20:37Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta wait to, you save a hundred percent until you can show up with the big spiky blonde wig and then the boss is like, guys, we're not meeting our annual quarterly goals. And you go like, and you do super say and, and then you go out and, you know, fire off those mail champ, mailers or whatever it is that your thing is.

• 20:53Travis McElroy?

  So you give 50% to your mail carrier and then start getting 75% and your mail carrier is like, wow. They've really improved their game. They must've been taking some ginkgo biloba or something because they're remembering everything. They're so on it. And they're going to be so impressed with you. They're going to give you the most improved mail, uh, accepting person award and it's going to be incredible.

• 21:14Travis McElroy?

  Can I suggest one other plan? And if this, I don't want it to be like normal where we'll do jokes about it. If it's a bad plan, you guys should tell me. What if you forget the keys one more time?

• 21:26Griffin McElroy?

  Just once.

• 21:26Travis McElroy?

  This time. And then they, and then when they bring them to you, you say, congratulations. You passed. I've been looking for somebody I can trust and I think that somebody is you. And then you start closing the door and you say, stay by the phone.

• 21:45Griffin McElroy?

  Dude, stay by the phone is such a powerful conversation, Ender, that you can deploy in so many different situations.

• 21:53Travis McElroy?

  I think that what you do is you give them a stay by the phone.

• 21:57Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 21:57Travis McElroy?

  You don't see them again for several weeks. And then the next time you see them, you say, we called. You weren't there. We called.

• 22:04Travis McElroy?

  I said, I said, stay by the phone.

• 22:08Travis McElroy?

  Cause they, what did you do?

• 22:09Travis McElroy?

  If you see them, they're not by the phone. So at some point they've left the phone, right? So you have to assume that they. Hang up your phone as they deliver the man like, I just.

• 22:20Griffin McElroy?

  Guess someone doesn't want to join the men in black.

• 22:24Travis McElroy?

  It's actually a good idea. It sounds like it probably, probably work. Yeah, Minute Black sounds like a lot of work. Is that what you mean? Cause I wouldn't want to do it. It sounds like a high-stress job.

• 22:33Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 22:34Travis McElroy?

  I recently started a new job and while I don't expect to make friends with my coworkers.

• 22:38Griffin McElroy?

  Fuck, we are not on pace for six questions, dudes. Not even close to on pace.

• 22:42Travis McElroy?

  Well, that certainly helps, Griffin. That certainly helps.

• 22:45Griffin McElroy?

  It's coaching. You gotta coach.

• 22:46Travis McElroy?

  Spend more time talking about how we don't have enough time.

• 22:48Griffin McElroy?

  This is a timeout. This is a coaching, an open coaching job.

• 22:51Travis McElroy?

  Hey, listen, an open coaching job. Listen, I already cut a planned segment where I was going to read the tracklist for the new Muppets Mayhem Roller Coaster Ride. That segment's already being cut to try to make space.

• 23:03Griffin McElroy?

  Can you blaze through it? Cause I am deeply, I do kinda wanna, damn it. Is moving, is moving right along on me?

• 23:07Travis McElroy?

  It's not a joke. Cause the problem with the segment, the reason it was cut is that I don't have a joke. I just wanted to talk to you about the tracklist.

• 23:12Griffin McElroy?

  Do you have a big box? Do you have a big box on your desk or something? Big white box? I'm seeing a big white box to your.

• 23:18Travis McElroy?

  Yes, you're right, Griffin. I'll move faster. I will not mention this.

• 23:22Griffin McElroy?

  Moving right along.

• 23:23Travis McElroy?

  I'm not gonna pull over the wheel and tell you the whole tracklist.

• 23:26Griffin McElroy?

  Let's make a rainbow connection right now with each other.

• 23:29Travis McElroy?

  No, what we're gonna do, I'm gonna intersperse them throughout the show. It's a momentum builder, song two.

• 23:36Griffin McElroy?

  Cool.

• 23:36Travis McElroy?

  By The Electric Mayhem.

• 23:38Griffin McElroy?

  Fuck, yes. Holy shit, dude. By Blur? By The Electric Mayhem?

• 23:43Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, actually, you know what? I could probably spot you one clip. I could probably spot you a clip.

• 23:51Griffin McElroy?

  There's clips already?

• 23:53Speaker 04

  Error.

• 23:53Travis McElroy?

  Song two, that's your first one. We don't have to include, uh, I thought that would be the Muppets doing it, but it was in fact just a recording of Song Two.

• 24:00Griffin McElroy?

  It's just blurred, dude.

• 24:01Travis McElroy?

  By Blur, so we will get copyright stricken for that. You didn't hear it.

• 24:04Griffin McElroy?

  Maximumfun.org/join. Help us fend off Blur and their lawyers. But get some great bonus content.

• 24:09Travis McElroy?

  Blur's got that Gorillaz money again. They're gonna be tough to beat. I don't think that we can stand against them right now, but Song Two, that's your first. First treat. Okay. I recently started a new job and while I typically don't expect to make new friends with my coworkers outside of work, it turns out I got a lot in common with one of my team members. We both like D and D. We both like to make clothes. She even offered to sell me one of her used sewing machines. There's just one problem. We have the same first name. I'm interested in getting to know this person, but I'm worried that our other coworkers will boil down our budding friendship to us just having the same name. Is there any way to get ahead of this? Or is there something I can do when they inevitably comment on it? I feel like I

• 24:52Travis McElroy?

  can only awkwardly laugh myself out of so many conversations in life. And that's from befriending in Florida.

• 24:58Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta stop your screen share. You are showing us the most strung out member of the Muppet's band. And it's truly bumming me out. I don't know that one's name, but he looked really like he was having a really, really tough year.

• 25:12Travis McElroy?

  First, just to get it out of the way, don't let the fact that people might comment about having the same name stop you from making a new friend as an adult. The chances of finding a new friend. Oh, yeah.

• 25:23Griffin McElroy?

  Don't blow it. Don't blow this for us. We need this.

• 25:27Travis McElroy?

  I'm so curious. What does it feel like to make that connection as an adult? Don't blow it. Don't blow it. You know, I do a little bit. I'm a little bit worried about the situation because I don't feel like the question asker is really understanding the, the issue, right?

• 25:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:47Travis McElroy?

  There is someone at their new workplace that has the same name as them and many of the same interests.

• 25:55Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:56Travis McElroy?

  You need to start, you need to start thinking about your brand. You know what I mean? Like right now, let's say Julie. Is that fair, Julie?

• 26:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yep.

• 26:04Travis McElroy?

  If the Julie brand is like, is already being pretty much monopolized and you're not doing anything to take the brand in a bold new direction?

• 26:14Griffin McElroy?

  You always have to innovate. You have to be innovating always.

• 26:18Travis McElroy?

  Is this economy? You may have to accept that you can't handle the brand. Maybe you need to rename. Maybe you need to drop the vowels from your name.

• 26:26Griffin McElroy?

  Do something.

• 26:27Travis McElroy?

  Julie, I think that's just JL is left.

• 26:30Travis McElroy?

  Oh, sorry, Trav. Say it again. JL.

• 26:34Griffin McElroy?

  Here comes JL.

• 26:35Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 26:35Griffin McElroy?

  JL feels fucking great, dude.

• 26:37Travis McElroy?

  That does feel good.

• 26:38Travis McElroy?

  It feels good, right? That's what you have to be willing to innovate. JL, what's JL about? It doesn't matter. It's different. It's new, it's today.

• 26:47Travis McElroy?

  It's hip, it's now.

• 26:48Travis McElroy?

  It's not labels.

• 26:50Travis McElroy?

  Now, ooh. If you can figure out a way to be complimentary, but separate from the new Julie, right?

• 27:01Travis McElroy?

  Are you saying JL, a Julie? JL, a Julie joint? And you're like a gen of the other Julie?

• 27:09Travis McElroy?

  JL X Julie.

• 27:11Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 27:11Travis McElroy?

  A crossover event, right?

• 27:13Travis McElroy?

  You don't have, your brand cannot handle a crossover with Julie right now.

• 27:18Travis McElroy?

  Not right now, not right now.

• 27:20Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta work your way up to it.

• 27:21Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 27:23Travis McElroy?

  You want people to get excited when this drops.

• 27:26Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, exactly. JL has to be about something else.

• 27:30Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta, you gotta have the scent ready to deploy. You gotta have the scent ready to deploy. You'd need the, the cross media, sort of like Burger King partnership, JL X Julie.

• 27:41Travis McElroy?

  Maybe you do, you do a verse on a Julie track, right? And people lose it. Featuring JL, get the fuck out. You got JL on the track, right? It's gonna blow people's minds.

• 27:54Griffin McElroy?

  It's gonna blow up.

• 27:56Travis McElroy?

  And at that point, you've raised both of your, uh, stand, your standings in the community. Check this out. Maybe a staged beef.

• 28:05Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 28:06Travis McElroy?

  Julie likes D and D. JL, D or D?

• 28:13Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 28:13Travis McElroy?

  Pathfinder.

• 28:14Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean? Why are we? Huh. Julie likes to make clothes. JL.

• 28:23Griffin McElroy?

  You didn't have one for that one.

• 28:25Travis McElroy?

  I was hoping for, for a fucking, maybe, I was hoping for once, that just for once, just for once, you guys would do.

• 28:33Griffin McElroy?

  Would, would help.

• 28:34Travis McElroy?

  But when I do, you yell at me.

• 28:36Travis McElroy?

  You yell at us when we steal your punchline. That's the show. Yeah.

• 28:41Travis McElroy?

  That's the show. Griffin, that was a great limb reference.

• 28:45Griffin McElroy?

  Thanks. Thank you. Um, this is, I think, gonna be fine. I think that people, if you become good friends, this is the subtext of our answers, is this'll be fine. And it's not funny, but like, if people say, "Oh, you both are named Julie," that's crazy. They're probably not gonna do it every time you two are in the same, "Here come the Julies," although they did do that shit on West Wing, and that probably hurt those guys feelings.

• 29:08Travis McElroy?

  All you gotta do is if somebody's like, "Oh, you're both named Julie," you just go, "Oh, yeah, great observation."

• 29:14Griffin McElroy?

  Great observation. Enjoy being alone. Enjoy not having any friends in this office. I'm the only fucking one who does. So, go ahead and say your mean shit about our names.

• 29:24Travis McElroy?

  Do you guys feel, as you're saying this, like, these are the words of a beloved office member? Like, do you think this is the-

• 29:30Travis McElroy?

  If someone's giving you a hard time about making an adult friendship-

• 29:34Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:35Travis McElroy?

  It's because they're jealous!

• 29:37Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:38Travis McElroy?

  Every opportunity to brand that you miss is a little bit of your life that you've let slip away. Cause if you're not branding, what are you doing?

• 29:48Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:48Travis McElroy?

  What do we leave behind if not a brand, Griffin?

• 29:50Travis McElroy?

  Thank you. That's, I think Hamilton said that.

• 29:54Travis McElroy?

  I think it was Lynn Menzel Miranda that wrote, "What do we leave behind if not a-

• 29:59Travis McElroy?

  A brand is a garden.

• 30:01Travis McElroy?

  Uh, we talked about the Max Fun Drive briefly earlier on, but, uh, I wanted to say, right now, real quick, the short version is, if you go to maximumfun.org forward slash join, right, then you're on Easy Street.

• 30:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 30:16Travis McElroy?

  That's where you can go and say, "Hey, I can pledge five, or 10, or 20 bucks a month to the shows that I love on this podcasting network and the creators on, on the network."

• 30:29Travis McElroy?

  And in the internet landscape, one of the things, you know, we've been doing this now for a decade and a half, and the way that we're able to get information out to people has drastically changed in that time. Um, there's less- Thank you, Elon! Thank you Elon for making it so shitty and hard Elon. Thank you Elon for fucking it all up in so many ways. And so like, we're not gonna get a lot of chances to remind you, like this episode's gonna come out on Monday. Uh, and then there's not gonna be another-

• 30:58Griffin McElroy?

  And then you'll forget about us until Monday again. That's fine. That, if that's the way you want this relationship to go, we're not gonna grouse about it.

• 31:03Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, we're fine with that, but we're not gonna get a chance to remind you before the Max Fun Drive ends through My Brother, My Brother and Me again. And so if you're considering it, if you're like, listen, I love My Brother, My Brother and Me, I've been listening for years, I'm ready to support. Go right now, maximumfun.org/join. Don't wait or it's gonna slip right out of your brain. There's a lot of other stuff going on. You've got that test tomorrow. Don't forget about that.

• 31:26Griffin McElroy?

  For five bucks a month, that's the price of one gallon of gasoline. For five bucks a month, you get access to hundreds of hours of bonus content. This year, we did the Janet Varney acting masterclass. We did another episode of Cousinverse. Where five of our six kids planned a one-shot RPG for us to go through, which is fully, fully wild. Uh, on Wonderful, we watched The Mummy, which was only Rachel's second Brendan Fraser movie. Um, she had never seen before. Yeah, that's a wild flick anyway.

• 31:55Travis McElroy?

  Spoiler, what's the rating?

• 31:57Griffin McElroy?

  Um, a fun, hugely problematic romp. A fun, wee, cowboy romp, yay, in the desert. So, such a rough ride in 2026.

• 32:09Travis McElroy?

  Oh, good to know, okay.

• 32:11Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, so be, be, strap in, be ready.

• 32:13Travis McElroy?

  Teresa and I discussed Zombies 1, the Disney Channel original movie.

• 32:17Griffin McElroy?

  Holy shit, yeah.

• 32:18Travis McElroy?

  Which was Teresa's first Disney Channel original movie.

• 32:22Griffin McElroy?

  So many gaps in the cultural knowledge just getting filled in.

• 32:25Travis McElroy?

  And I, I started with under wraps, speaking of The Mummy, and so I've come at it with all of the context leading up to it. And, uh, along those same lines, Griffin, uh, I would say an hour and a half of nuanced discussion of the implications of zombies.

• 32:41Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's, there's a lot of conversation topics that come out of anyone fucking- Brank with Eric Von D.

• 32:48Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 32:48Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta, you gotta, you gotta sit down, you gotta talk to your family after this. You gotta have those hard conversations.

• 32:53Travis McElroy?

  The cloning movie starring the youngest Lawrence brother?

• 32:56Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, no one can remember.

• 32:58Travis McElroy?

  I don't need to tell you that the media landscape is difficult and ever changing. And sometimes we have advertisers and sometimes we don't, you know?

• 33:07Griffin McElroy?

  Sometimes we have the same four advertisers for years and years and years. And those four advertisers absolutely.

• 33:14Travis McElroy?

  Ride or die.

• 33:14Griffin McElroy?

  We love. Ride or die, we love them to pieces. And a lot of the other advertisers went to the famous show.

• 33:21Travis McElroy?

  But that being said.

• 33:23Griffin McElroy?

  Louded though we are for our advertising deliveries, it simply doesn't pay the bills. It really is not that much money. We, we really get our, our, the lion's share of, of our income from, from you all.

• 33:36Travis McElroy?

  People fall off over time, you know, credit card numbers change. People decide that they.

• 33:41Griffin McElroy?

  People change.

• 33:42Travis McElroy?

  We suck now and they canceled stuff. But if you've been listed for a while and you are not a member.

• 33:47Griffin McElroy?

  Old men.

• 33:47Travis McElroy?

  Why not?

• 33:48Griffin McElroy?

  Why am I paying for these old men?

• 33:50Travis McElroy?

  I hate these idiots. If you've been listening for a while, you, you, uh, uh, you know, wanna kick in, support the show? Five, 10 bucks a month, we'd really appreciate it. Go to maximumfun.org/join. Genuinely, thank you so much.

• 34:03Griffin McElroy?

  And if you have enjoyed the like YouTube stuff we've been doing, video clips we post, all of the stuff that we've added, you know, all the streams, all that stuff. It's because of your support. We couldn't do that stuff without you.

• 34:13Travis McElroy?

  We've hired people to help us with that. We have a team, gang.

• 34:16Griffin McElroy?

  For real, we're small business owners.

• 34:17Travis McElroy?

  We're small business owners, thanks to you. So I guess you're a small business owners in a sense.

• 34:22Griffin McElroy?

  We don't just take your money and buy an Xbox with it.

• 34:25Travis McElroy?

  No. We can buy Xbox. I didn't even know they sold those.

• 34:29Griffin McElroy?

  I do that with my other earnings from my babysitting businesses that I run.

• 34:34Travis McElroy?

  Lawn mowing.

• 34:35Griffin McElroy?

  The lawn mowing that I do. But for the rest of it, we like hire staff and buy new equipment and try to make the show look and sound good. So maximumfun.org/join, you go there, you pick the shows you listen to, your money. Some of it goes to Max Fun to help with the administrative side of things that we don't know how to do. And they've been doing for a long time and are extremely good at. And the rest of it just goes to the shows that you listen to. Five bucks a month gets you all the, the bonus content. 10 bucks a month gets you a, a really nice enamel keychain customized for the show of your choosing. There's other.

• 35:02Travis McElroy?

  Born to be wild, Born to be Wild, The Electric Mayhem versus Camilla the Chicken.

• 35:08Griffin McElroy?

  I like that.

• 35:09Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 35:10Griffin McElroy?

  That's gonna be funny too.

• 35:11Travis McElroy?

  Versus?

• 35:12Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, they're gonna fight.

• 35:13Travis McElroy?

  Oh, okay.

• 35:15Griffin McElroy?

  Even if you can just do five bucks a month, truly, that is where I think a bulk of our support comes in, and it is what helps us, helps us keep doing this thing. So MaximumFun.org/join is gonna be one of our last chances to talk to you about it. So if you're thinking about doing it, please, please, please do it.

• 35:31Travis McElroy?

  Okay, fine, you win. I'm going to share the brush that increases desire, or at least I'm going to tell it about you.

• 35:39Griffin McElroy?

  Oh.

• 35:39Travis McElroy?

  If you are someone that is a listener of my brother, my brother and me, and you join up during the Maximum Fun Drive, I'm going to be whispering your name into the brush.

• 35:48Griffin McElroy?

  Well, holy shit.

• 35:50Travis McElroy?

  During live streams.

• 35:51Griffin McElroy?

  Holy shit.

• 35:52Travis McElroy?

  This week, if there's ever been a better incentive to become a member of this beautiful network, I don't know what it is, go to MaximumFun.org/join right now, and I will whisper your name into the brush that increases desire live before your very eyes.

• 36:10Griffin McElroy?

  Haunted Doll Watch. We're just not getting through six questions. We've got an exciting delivery on the desk right now. Holy shit, dude. Holy shit.

• 36:20Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 36:20Griffin McElroy?

  Justin's got a box.

• 36:21Travis McElroy?

  This is a large box that I received in our, my P O. Box, P O. Box.

• 36:27Griffin McElroy?

  You're really cradling it.

• 36:28Travis McElroy?

  Huntington, West Virginia, 25704.

• 36:32Griffin McElroy?

  You're snuggling it.

• 36:33Travis McElroy?

  Sending your cereal from across the globe. The box label says trick or treat with Garfield.

• 36:41Griffin McElroy?

  Amazing.

• 36:42Travis McElroy?

  This is the note that I received. Hi, boys. Longtime listener since 2015. First time mailer of definitely haunted dolls. When you see her, you'll understand. She's been traveling around with me, new in box, through at least four different moves. I've been meaning to ship her for ages. I finally found a box perfect for it, so here she is. So I guess maybe the Garfield box is a misleading thing. I don't know.

• 37:07Griffin McElroy?

  Have you opened this bad boy yet, or is this amazing?

• 37:10Travis McElroy?

  It's been sealed, sitting on a shelf. I've been waiting for an opportunity, and the Max Fun Drive is such an opportunity. I finally found a box.

• 37:16Travis McElroy?

  If I could interrupt Justin real quick.

• 37:18Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah, there's only two sentences left. Sure.

• 37:20Travis McElroy?

  I noticed above your right shoulder, I believe.

• 37:23Travis McElroy?

  I was clearly being ironic, Travis. Clearly, I didn't want to be interrupted.

• 37:28Travis McElroy?

  Cradled by a crocheted count donut is the brush that increases desire?

• 37:33Griffin McElroy?

  I see.

• 37:36Travis McElroy?

  Okay.

• 37:37Griffin McElroy?

  God.

• 37:38Travis McElroy?

  So, uh, this is, she's in your hands now. Take care of her. Steph D.

• 37:44Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 37:45Travis McElroy?

  Fork first into the void in PA. I have no idea what's gonna be in here.

• 37:51Griffin McElroy?

  It's, I'm not 100% sure what Garfield's pronouns are, but it does sound like, just based on sort of context clues. Maybe it's normal.

• 37:58Travis McElroy?

  You know what Garfield's pronouns are?

• 38:01Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, he's him, man. It's Garfield.

• 38:03Travis McElroy?

  Do you think it's because Justin got the brush that increases desires? That's why they're making the Phantom reboot?

• 38:09Griffin McElroy?

  It's possible that you guys fucking worked together on this.

• 38:13Travis McElroy?

  Okay.

• 38:13Griffin McElroy?

  And I had no part in it.

• 38:15Travis McElroy?

  Here we go. So I'm opening the box. I'm gonna...

• 38:20Griffin McElroy?

  Is there a...

• 38:20Travis McElroy?

  That's a smell. It's like the smell. There's always...

• 38:23Griffin McElroy?

  It's like a smell.

• 38:24Travis McElroy?

  It's transportative.

• 38:25Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. The ghost comes out hot and fast. It fills in. It's pressurized.

• 38:29Travis McElroy?

  Uh, we have some really nice wrapping paper. I'm gonna try to remove.

• 38:36Griffin McElroy?

  Man, I hope it's not like a trap.

• 38:39Griffin McElroy?

  Be crazy to get that on camera.

• 38:40Travis McElroy?

  Oh, gosh. Okay, you know what?

• 38:42Griffin McElroy?

  Who's in there? Okay, that's just paper. And...

• 38:47Travis McElroy?

  Oh!

• 38:48Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, for sure. Wait, but there's, no, hold on, wait. There is something going on with Garfield. There's something going on with that doll that I don't...

• 38:56Travis McElroy?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 38:57Griffin McElroy?

  That feels custom to me.

• 38:59Travis McElroy?

  So exciting. This is exciting. Wow, this is really exciting.

• 39:08Griffin McElroy?

  We got a little trick or treat bag. That's cute.

• 39:10Travis McElroy?

  Trick or treat bag.

• 39:11Griffin McElroy?

  That's really cute, actually.

• 39:13Travis McElroy?

  Novelty stand.

• 39:15Griffin McElroy?

  That's incredible.

• 39:19Griffin McElroy?

  The doll seems aftermarket, Juice. I'll be honest.

• 39:22Travis McElroy?

  No, dude. The doll's not. It's...

• 39:28Travis McElroy?

  Oh my god!

• 39:31Griffin McElroy?

  Down, beauty blogger, I can't see the face, I need the face.

• 39:34Travis McElroy?

  Does that have a hairnet on?

• 39:36Travis McElroy?

  Uh, that's, I think that's packaging material.

• 39:38Griffin McElroy?

  So what we're looking at right now, folks listening at home, is a child, a little doll child, that is wearing a Garfield suit. So it's like...

• 39:45Travis McElroy?

  Sort of a onesie, yeah.

• 39:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, oh wow, that's...

• 39:49Travis McElroy?

  And the child is cheesing so hard, like it's just been told, as soon as they get a picture with a smile, you can take it off.

• 39:56Griffin McElroy?

  But it also looks like while it was going through R&D, a focus group was like, can you make the eyes deader? Deader eyes, deader eyes, deader eyes, deader, deader, deader.

• 40:05Griffin McElroy?

  Now if you guys are ready to have some Halloween fun. Dude.

• 40:09Travis McElroy?

  Oh!

• 40:14Travis McElroy?

  Why?

• 40:15Griffin McElroy?

  Is it good like that? It's so much better like that, you put the Garfield eyes on it, and now...

• 40:19Travis McElroy?

  It's not to scale at all!

• 40:21Griffin McElroy?

  It's not to scale even a little bit, but that's okay, the child's having a great time. He's got, he's super dumpy, which I imagine is maybe just all the can't, fun-sized candy bars he's stuffed inside the suit with him, which is crazy.

• 40:33Travis McElroy?

  A specific dumpy-ness too.

• 40:35Griffin McElroy?

  A huge, sort of, uh, bottle-shaped dumpy-ness. Is there a tail?

• 40:41Travis McElroy?

  I'm trying to figure out...

• 40:43Griffin McElroy?

  How to, how to, how to display. Yeah, I mean, this, this guy's a, this guy's a permanent fixture, I imagine, in the background.

• 40:48Travis McElroy?

  Oh yeah, he's gonna get right...

• 40:49Griffin McElroy?

  You put him next to Frish's big boy in the brush that increases desires, and you're...

• 40:57Griffin McElroy?

  Why does the brush look like that?

• 40:58Travis McElroy?

  I guess my question is, why is the mask so big and chunky?

• 41:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 41:05Travis McElroy?

  It's, dude, I, listen, I don't think I can...

• 41:08Griffin McElroy?

  It's hard to, you're, you're trying to beauty...

• 41:10Travis McElroy?

  It's like, it's porcelain, it's like, it's really hard and heavy.

• 41:14Travis McElroy?

  It's like they had the mask first, and crafted the rest of the idea around it.

• 41:20Griffin McElroy?

  The sound, actually, that the mask makes touching the child's doll face is, sounds really good, can you give us that just a couple times? Listen, because it sounds fucking, get it right up on the mic.

• 41:29Travis McElroy?

  We'll get it clean.

• 41:33Travis McElroy?

  Because it's not molded to it.

• 41:35Griffin McElroy?

  Travis, don't talk, people are trying to...

• 41:36Travis McElroy?

  And it's too heavy for the elastic, like, this is naturally...

• 41:38Griffin McElroy?

  It's sort of sagging, like a cool sagging style.

• 41:41Travis McElroy?

  Sagging, sagging.

• 41:42Travis McElroy?

  Cars will watch out for him!

• 41:45Griffin McElroy?

  That's awesome.

• 41:48Travis McElroy?

  Port lasagna in bag. Lasagna in bag.

• 41:54Griffin McElroy?

  That's awesome. Wow.

• 41:56Travis McElroy?

  This is a beautiful piece. Thank you so much.

• 41:59Travis McElroy?

  I'm saying this is apparent.

• 42:01Travis McElroy?

  This is good. This is actually very Halloween realistic. Got like a black long sleeve thermal and some sweatpants.

• 42:07Travis McElroy?

  That kid is gonna be sweating their fucking ass off. I don't care what the weather is outside. They're wearing a bearskin rug.

• 42:16Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah. No good.

• 42:17Travis McElroy?

  No good. Thank you so much.

• 42:19Griffin McElroy?

  But extremely good.

• 42:21Travis McElroy?

  But also very good. I just gotta, I'll look at the instructions later. We'll have it properly mounted.

• 42:26Griffin McElroy?

  I feel like I need to say for your sake, do not let this kick off a wave of you saying, well, I've got a haunted doll for Justin. Unless it's a fucking stone cold heater like this. Really take a look at that doll, because sometimes we get sent dolls.

• 42:38Travis McElroy?

  I'll find a place for him. I'll find a place for him. No problem. I'll take care of it. No problem.

• 42:43Travis McElroy?

  How about another question?

• 42:44Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, sure.

• 42:44Travis McElroy?

  This is an advice show, and I feel like sometimes we lose sight of that. I work with yeast, but most of my friends are not in the yeast community. Recently, my friends have started referring to me as the yeast guy and telling me about any yeast related things they come across. I'm still pretty new at yeast.

• 43:01Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, hold on, wait. This is really good.

• 43:04Travis McElroy?

  I'm still pretty new at yeast work, and so I have a bit of imposter syndrome at being given this title. How should I best accept and embrace my new identity as the yeast guy? And this is from the yeast guy.

• 43:21Travis McElroy?

  That's a good start.

• 43:22Travis McElroy?

  It's a good start.

• 43:23Griffin McElroy?

  That is a good start, owning it.

• 43:24Travis McElroy?

  Start.

• 43:25Travis McElroy?

  Maybe you could start talking about like the yeast games and yeastables and your boss, Mr. Yeast, and just see.

• 43:33Griffin McElroy?

  Mr. Yeast is such a.

• 43:35Travis McElroy?

  You can keep that up before they're like, this sounds a lot like Mr. B. You're like, yeah, Mr. Yeast today said he would give away like a million dollars to the first hundred yeast that stayed alive. And then they're like, that sounds like something Mr. Beast would do. And you're like, different brands.

• 43:52Travis McElroy?

  We're actually probably the best people at like making jokes about Mr. Beast that I know of. I don't think any but yeah, I don't think like we do a lot of actually very.

• 44:01Travis McElroy?

  You hear that iHeartRadio? New category.

• 44:04Travis McElroy?

  New category. I just think we make a lot of very good Mr. Beast jokes. Uh, that I don't feel like our audience. I think our audience is uniquely positioned to not enjoy. Like the demographically speaking.

• 44:16Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 44:17Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean? Like I have, I do to my life has been exposed to so much Mr. Beast that I feel like I could do a pretty good five to 10 on on Beast stuff. Travis's yeast thing right there was like so good.

• 44:28Griffin McElroy?

  It's really good. But we also, I mean, it's the same reason we are all like routinely pitching blippy gags to crickets. Just absolutely no one, because it's tough. It's tough. What do you got there?

• 44:41Travis McElroy?

  The the bag is labeled accessory package. This is how they used to do things, kids. People used to be professionals.

• 44:48Griffin McElroy?

  That's awesome.

• 44:48Travis McElroy?

  The nice thing is, you, one should not have imposter syndrome when they know any amount of stuff. While the people talking to them knows zero amount of about that stuff. Right? You are inherently an expert above them. Your friends who know nothing about yeast, who are telling you about yeast because they're excited they found out a single fact about yeast, aren't judging you that you don't know more about yeast than they think you do.

• 45:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 45:18Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, but, yeah, but on the other hand, Trav, this person is admittedly new to yeast work. We gotta start being careful about imposter syndrome, folks.

• 45:30Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

• 45:31Travis McElroy?

  No, listen, hold on.

• 45:32Griffin McElroy?

  Something's about to get said. Yeah.

• 45:33Travis McElroy?

  No, no, no, no, no. Listen. No, listen.

• 45:35Travis McElroy?

  Own it.

• 45:37Travis McElroy?

  If you have imposter syndrome about something because people think you know way more about it than you actually do, that's not imposter syndrome. That is a, that is a discrepancy of information.

• 45:52Travis McElroy?

  Right?

• 45:52Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 45:53Travis McElroy?

  You get imposter syndrome.

• 45:54Griffin McElroy?

  It's not your fault.

• 45:55Travis McElroy?

  No.

• 45:55Griffin McElroy?

  It's their fault for thinking that much.

• 45:57Travis McElroy?

  You get imposter syndrome about things that you are an expert in.

• 46:02Griffin McElroy?

  Like, yeah.

• 46:03Travis McElroy?

  Recently, I've been taking on some new challenges. And I've been thinking, I've been really doubting myself. And these are untested things, things I haven't tried before, right? I've really doubted myself. And I thought, man, I got imposter syndrome. And then later, I rethought that and I had to reframe it and say, you don't have imposter syndrome. You have regular wondering if you're going to fuck up or not. That's just a normal amount of wondering that. I think you have a very normal amount of worrying. Someone's going to ask you a question about yeast and you're going to look like an asshole. And that's like, that's not imposter syndrome. That's just being alive. That's like a normal part of being alive.

• 46:39Griffin McElroy?

  Fully, fully.

• 46:39Travis McElroy?

  As someone who takes on a lot of new hobbies constantly, I started reintroducing some, um, I would say archaic terminology to give us a level betwixt novice and expert, journeyman.

• 46:54Griffin McElroy?

  Journeyman is great. I like journeyman a lot.

• 46:57Travis McElroy?

  An enthusiastic. Right? I'm still learning. I love that.

• 47:01Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. I can't answer all your questions.

• 47:04Travis McElroy?

  I know more than I did on my first day. I'm no longer a novice. But I'm not an expert. I'm a journeyman.

• 47:11Griffin McElroy?

  Did you guys have any COVID hobbies that you kind of like got into with someone else? And then like they kept going with it and you fell off? Or like they were already an expert and you came to them like, hey, I want to get into your thing. And then you fell off immediately because that's just how we're built. And it was COVID and we were all trying a lot of stuff. And then they check in with you like, hey, how's it going with that? And you say, I did stop. It's boring.

• 47:35Travis McElroy?

  I would say absolutely. If I am always the other person.

• 47:40Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 47:41Travis McElroy?

  I know exactly what you're talking about.

• 47:43Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 47:43Travis McElroy?

  But like.

• 47:44Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 47:45Travis McElroy?

  Or flip, flip it.

• 47:47Travis McElroy?

  It happens with my children. Well, they will inadvertently shame me by saying like, hey, do you still do blank hobby that I haven't touched in six months? Cause I'm three hobbies further along now.

• 47:57Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 47:58Travis McElroy?

  Or they'll say like, when are you gonna play Stardew Valley again? You're always playing that Beaver game, which is Timberborn. Or like, what happened to the video store game? And I'm like, oh, I lost interest in that. And I can only play one video game at a time because of my brain disease.

• 48:13Griffin McElroy?

  Sure. Daddy, make me some hard candy. I haven't done that shit.

• 48:17Travis McElroy?

  I don't.

• 48:17Griffin McElroy?

  In like four years.

• 48:18Travis McElroy?

  Dot asked me the other day, Dot said, my six year old, why do you have so many unfinished projects?

• 48:25Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. What a great question, Dottie. Absolutely.

• 48:28Travis McElroy?

  And I said, well, the fun's not in finishing them. The fun is in chasing the interest as long as it exists. And she said, yeah, there's just a lot of stuff around the house. Fuck, yeah, man. You're right. You're right.

• 48:42Travis McElroy?

  I think Travis, the next time you gotta come back and say, I don't know, Dot, it's because some of my unfinished projects are real chatty.

• 48:50Griffin McElroy?

  So wow, yeah.

• 48:52Travis McElroy?

  Unfinished projects got a lot of attitude.

• 48:55Travis McElroy?

  Cause I spent a lot of time making you chocolate milk.

• 48:58Travis McElroy?

  I'm trying to drink my chocolate milk, Dot.

• 49:01Travis McElroy?

  No, I, no, I'm making her chocolate milk.

• 49:04Travis McElroy?

  Sorry.

• 49:04Travis McElroy?

  Chocolate milk isn't my escape.

• 49:06Travis McElroy?

  You're slurping down a big, refreshing chocolate milk while your daughter tries to get your, I get it. Okay.

• 49:11Travis McElroy?

  Let daddy finish his medicine.

• 49:13Travis McElroy?

  I will, I will tell you guys, I have the legitimate hardest one of these to, to come back from. And I would love, I would still love your advice on this.

• 49:21Griffin McElroy?

  Sure, sure.

• 49:22Travis McElroy?

  I did Taekwondo for a year.

• 49:25Griffin McElroy?

  A big one. We all knew that was a big one.

• 49:27Travis McElroy?

  It was a big one. That was in zag on them. So that would have been.

• 49:31Griffin McElroy?

  Twenty serpentine, seventeen?

• 49:33Travis McElroy?

  Twenty seventeen, okay. So I did Taekwondo for a year, kind of lost interest, picked it up a couple of years later with Charlie and we did it for a couple of years and I became a blue belt in Taekwondo, which is like, you know, about middle, right?

• 49:46Griffin McElroy?

  Journey.

• 49:47Travis McElroy?

  Journey to. And then I stopped going because I don't know.

• 49:52Travis McElroy?

  You didn't want to.

• 49:53Griffin McElroy?

  Why does anyone stop doing Taekwondo?

• 49:54Travis McElroy?

  I don't know. Why does anyone just stop doing anything? It got cold or hot. Who knows?

• 49:59Griffin McElroy?

  Too cold or hot to go outside, so you stopped your journey.

• 50:02Travis McElroy?

  Right? Hurt. Something hurt.

• 50:03Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 50:04Travis McElroy?

  Someone died. You know, stuff happens. So we stopped going for some amount of time. The amount of time now is such that I am left in this impossible scenario where I feel like it is something I should be doing, would enjoy returning to, would get a lot out of. But I, for the life of me, do not know how I go back with my blue belt and say, I've forgotten it all. Take this from me.

• 50:30Griffin McElroy?

  You find and.

• 50:31Travis McElroy?

  And take, take me back to the, to the white belt. Cause that's the, they don't want to do that. They don't.

• 50:37Griffin McElroy?

  They don't want you.

• 50:38Travis McElroy?

  They don't get anything out of that, right? They don't want to go back and teach you. And honestly, if I had a tutor, an intensive two week tutor to Miyagi me through.

• 50:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 50:49Travis McElroy?

  To catch me back up, you know, maybe that, maybe I'm a blue belt again. I don't know.

• 50:55Griffin McElroy?

  Maybe.

• 50:57Travis McElroy?

  I don't know how to get back on board. And Master Kim, I paid a good amount of, this is the last, this is the other thing. This other, this other problem. Okay. I was really enthusiastic about Taekwondo and I paid for a year in advance.

• 51:16Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh. Sure.

• 51:16Travis McElroy?

  And then we used about three months of that. And now if I go back, I cannot have a conversation with Master Kim where he's like.

• 51:24Griffin McElroy?

  You owe me this many Taekwondo's.

• 51:28Travis McElroy?

  I, I, I mean, I don't know. It's gonna at least be a conversation. And of course I will defer to whatever. He is the master, right? Like I'm gonna, I would obviously defer to whatever he said. But there would be this question of, I did, I mean.

• 51:43Griffin McElroy?

  I, yeah, sure.

• 51:44Travis McElroy?

  You can't really say that I was using those months, Master Kim. Like, was it? You know?

• 51:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 51:49Travis McElroy?

  But is it possible, Justin, that simply by paying for the months, even if you didn't go to the class, you were still benefiting from the Taekwondo? Like kind of just being there for you if you needed it?

• 52:02Griffin McElroy?

  Interesting.

• 52:03Travis McElroy?

  And then maybe when that nine months ran out, that's why you can't remember how to do any of it? Cause you're. Your time ran out.

• 52:12Travis McElroy?

  No, but Trav, I would say, I don't know that to be true. But upon further reflection, I would say that by paying for a year and then just not being present for nine months, I've got to be like the top 10% of Master Kim's favorite students.

• 52:26Griffin McElroy?

  That's true.

• 52:27Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, pretty good deal.

• 52:28Griffin McElroy?

  It would be.

• 52:29Travis McElroy?

  Students go.

• 52:30Travis McElroy?

  Certainly upsetting on some level, but can you imagine if you had a full roster of paying students, but none of them ever came and you just got to sit there and like fucking play Halo all day?

• 52:42Griffin McElroy?

  They're like, and these suckers are at home feeling guilty.

• 52:45Travis McElroy?

  Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. They're doing the same thing I am, except the money's flowing this way.

• 52:50Griffin McElroy?

  That you might show up and be like, uh, Master, can you, it's been so long, can you teach me? And he'll be like, man, I haven't, I also haven't done it in like nine months. No one shows up to these things.

• 53:00Travis McElroy?

  Uh, that would explain why whenever I was early for class, he would always be like, oh, Christ, this guy.

• 53:07Travis McElroy?

  Fuck.

• 53:10Griffin McElroy?

  Wheeling the TV out of the room.

• 53:14Travis McElroy?

  One more question.

• 53:15Travis McElroy?

  Cool.

• 53:16Griffin McElroy?

  Heroic effort.

• 53:17Travis McElroy?

  Can't stop, won't stop, just like the old days. I'm a college student suffering through a heat wave. Yesterday I saw a, uh, love roller coaster by the Electric Mayhem, featuring Jennifer Hudson and Questlove.

• 53:34Griffin McElroy?

  Ooh, dude, how long is this fucking roller coaster, dude? Is it like a Guardians of the Galaxy thing where you get a different track?

• 53:40Travis McElroy?

  You never know what track you're gonna get.

• 53:41Griffin McElroy?

  Hell, yes.

• 53:43Travis McElroy?

  Yesterday I saw a very large lawn sprinkler spraying water over one of the turf fields on campus to cool it down for a sports game happening later in the day. It looked very refreshing.

• 53:58Travis McElroy?

  Do you think it'd be okay for me to?

• 53:59Travis McElroy?

  No.

• 54:02Travis McElroy?

  Do you think it's okay for me to run through the giant sprinkler to cool off? That's from melting in Massachusetts.

• 54:09Travis McElroy?

  Well, I'd say right now, you're staring at the blank page before you.

• 54:13Griffin McElroy?

  Okay. I can't see through that window.

• 54:16Travis McElroy?

  Might I recommend, open up the dirty window?

• 54:19Griffin McElroy?

  Open it.

• 54:19Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 54:20Griffin McElroy?

  Don't clean it.

• 54:20Travis McElroy?

  Illuminate the words that you cannot find.

• 54:23Griffin McElroy?

  What if the words were, what if it was, clean up that dirty window? And then you, all of a sudden, it's functional no matter which state.

• 54:29Travis McElroy?

  Well, when you're reaching for something in the distance, it's wind ducts.

• 54:32Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 54:33Travis McElroy?

  So close, you can almost taste it, but don't, because it's wind ducts.

• 54:36Griffin McElroy?

  Is there advice in here?

• 54:38Travis McElroy?

  Release your inhibitions.

• 54:40Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 54:40Travis McElroy?

  Feel the sprinklers on your skin. No one else can feel it.

• 54:44Travis McElroy?

  There's a reason it doesn't, the meter doesn't work. It's because it's not rain, you know, it's sprinklers.

• 54:49Griffin McElroy?

  What if, yeah, someone put that there.

• 54:51Travis McElroy?

  What if instead of frolicking, you're like, looking at your phone, pretending to look at your phone? And you walk in and start getting sprayed and you go, oh, oh, man, oh, no. And you like, oh, kind of befuddle your way through getting sprayed, but not like you enjoy it.

• 55:06Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, okay, imagine the person that spent some of their day setting these sprinklers up, okay? Now imagine they are watching this field. And now imagine yourself striding across it and beginning their freshman. Do you think there was a reality, which they look at you and extend the double thumbs up like, yes, this is what I wanted?

• 55:25Travis McElroy?

  I'm glad someone's getting use out of it.

• 55:27Travis McElroy?

  I was, yeah, I was hoping, this is good for the field that I'm in charge of. Thank you so much. This is good.

• 55:33Travis McElroy?

  Roll around a bit, maybe pull some grass up.

• 55:36Travis McElroy?

  That's what this is for. I, it doesn't, I don't have a problem. Uh, you know, this is not about inhibitions. I don't, I don't care about that. I think that, you know, you could do whatever, you know, you, you feel like, as long as you're not hurting other folks or yourselves, uh, but like,

• 55:55Travis McElroy?

  people are gonna assume you don't know that the sprinklers for the grass.

• 55:58Travis McElroy?

  For you.

• 55:59Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 55:59Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, people are gonna assume that you think it is a fun activity for everyone to enjoy.

• 56:05Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 56:06Travis McElroy?

  Because you're doing that.

• 56:07Travis McElroy?

  Dousy castle. I don't get it.

• 56:09Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, right.

• 56:09Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 56:09Travis McElroy?

  I thought this was the church fete.

• 56:12Travis McElroy?

  Here's a good standard. If you do something that if 30 other people did it at the same time, they'd write a story about it in the newspaper.

• 56:23Griffin McElroy?

  That's a really good sort of catch all.

• 56:25Travis McElroy?

  It's like a pretty good, like you do it. Yes. Two people Mentos commercial. And then it's like 30. It's like, get the press. Something's gone wrong, but you know what I mean? Something's happened.

• 56:36Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. You need to be careful also because if we're talking about one sprinkler that is servicing an entire sports lawn and it's covering that entire place. The pressure that that thing is putting out is going to absolutely flay. If you get too close to it, like a doggy trying to get a silly drink, it's going to absolutely rip you to shreds. It's gonna blast you apart. So don't be even close to this thing.

• 57:02Travis McElroy?

  But the good news with that is no matter how precisely this thing's been set up, there's no way it stops like at the end zone or whatever. You're gonna stand with a headset on, a visor, a clipboard, right on the edge of the field, and you're gonna catch the sprits. You're gonna catch the mist, right?

• 57:24Griffin McElroy?

  Gently, gently on the, on the precipice of the thing.

• 57:27Travis McElroy?

  And you're gonna sit there like you're planning plays for the later game while you get a light misting.

• 57:35Griffin McElroy?

  Dude, yes. Visor, visor on, sports shirt, maybe a jersey. What do coaches wear? Not the jersey.

• 57:42Travis McElroy?

  A polo.

• 57:43Griffin McElroy?

  They wear like a polo, yes. And you're, you got your clipboard, you're drawing, doodling X's and O's.

• 57:51Travis McElroy?

  I don't know if you could sell this as a performance, but what if you're like on your phone? Or, but it's like a fake phone because you can't, you don't like it to real. So it's like a fake phone. Okay. And you're walking, you're like, huh, what?

• 58:06Griffin McElroy?

  Wait.

• 58:06Travis McElroy?

  Like you did, you walk into it, right? Okay. I'm still doing it. I'm still doing it. Like huh? And you're like, yeah, some weather we're having. And then you like pop your hood up and you're like, oh, well, when in Rome? And then you like really live it up. So it's like you accidentally did it. And then people see you like being fully not pissed off about it.

• 58:26Griffin McElroy?

  Wait.

• 58:26Travis McElroy?

  You know, like not even sweating it. You know what I mean?

• 58:30Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 58:30Travis McElroy?

  But I pitched, but Justin.

• 58:32Griffin McElroy?

  Think about it.

• 58:33Travis McElroy?

  I pitched this.

• 58:34Griffin McElroy?

  No, no, no. Mine was shorter. Think about it. His was way shorter.

• 58:37Travis McElroy?

  Think about it.

• 58:39Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, yours was. Let me, let me pitch this. What if you pitch this? Let me pitch this. Let me do this. What if you're close, but not too close, a little wet?

• 58:47Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. But I.

• 58:50Travis McElroy?

  But I said, but I-

• 58:51Griffin McElroy?

  Not too wet.

• 58:52Travis McElroy?

  A little sweaty, like a mist-

• 58:54Griffin McElroy?

  A little sweaty. It looks cool, it's gonna feel good.

• 58:59Griffin McElroy?

  And, you gotta, can't get too close, because I'm looking at some stats, guys. I'm looking at the Nelson Big Gun SR200. The PSI, it throws up to 310 feet and flows up to 1,200 gallons per minute. You'll be ripped asunder. You'll be killed by this sprinkler.

• 59:16Travis McElroy?

  And I think a good rule is if you do something that if, like, 25 people did it, they'd write about it in the newspaper, you shouldn't.

• 59:24Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh. Yeah. Holy shit, the Nelson Big Gun SR200, absolutely fucking blast. I'm looking at a video of this bad boy. They're like covering crops with this goddamn thing.

• 59:36Travis McElroy?

  What if you see the lawn guy like, "No, don't!" You think like, "Oh, he's worried about his lawn."

• 59:41Travis McElroy?

  Cuts you in half. Not again! "No, I had to spray the field off again." This is just like the bite of 87. It bled everywhere. When we used to use goats to mow the lawn.

• 59:55Griffin McElroy?

  Look at this fucking thing.

• 59:56Travis McElroy?

  Shit, dude!

• 59:57Griffin McElroy?

  Holy fucking shit.

• 1:00:00Griffin McElroy?

  That's covering an entire highway. You would be absolutely-

• 1:00:03Travis McElroy?

  Oh my god!

• 1:00:03Griffin McElroy?

  You'd be killed, graveyard dead by-

• 1:00:11Travis McElroy?

  Holy shit.

• 1:00:12Griffin McElroy?

  Dude, you would blast off the face. Fucking forget about it. Look at how hard that shit's blasting.

• 1:00:17Travis McElroy?

  Why do you think this is the one that you're saying?

• 1:00:22Travis McElroy?

  It's so powerful.

• 1:00:24Griffin McElroy?

  Can you imagine trying to hold on to this thing? And operating it, you would go absolutely zooming.

• 1:00:29Travis McElroy?

  Large volume sprinkler. That's, that looks like a hose that Bruce Willis would use in Armageddon. That's not like a sprinkler.

• 1:00:38Griffin McElroy?

  That shit's crazy. I didn't even know they made hoses that big.

• 1:00:40Travis McElroy?

  I love that when you're developing a sprinkler like that and you're trying to come up with a name for it, the only name that fits is "The Big Gun."

• 1:00:47Griffin McElroy?

  The Nelson Big Gun. Fuck yeah, dude.

• 1:00:51Travis McElroy?

  Folks, thank you so much for, for listening to our podcast. You know, we've been doing it for quite some time now, uh, but we're only able to keep doing it because of your support. Like, uh, if you go to maximumfund.org forward slash join and you say you'll give us $5 a month, we'll keep doing podcasts. No problem. Otherwise, whoa.

• 1:01:11Griffin McElroy?

  That's crazy. We've never tried this tactic before.

• 1:01:14Travis McElroy?

  It's a real nice podcast you got here. Be a shame if.

• 1:01:17Griffin McElroy?

  We are a little bit behind pace while we're recording this. So maybe threat, like a protection racket, I guess is the next logical step. Justin just threw.

• 1:01:27Travis McElroy?

  Real nice place you got here. Nice podcasts.

• 1:01:30Griffin McElroy?

  This would be more threatening if we didn't end every episode with us throwing something really, really hard.

• 1:01:35Travis McElroy?

  This is also like if I owned a store and I told customers they had to pay me more money or I would destroy my own store.

• 1:01:43Griffin McElroy?

  Store. Yeah.

• 1:01:44Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. Well, that's the way it works. Sometimes you like a nice store, but you don't pay it what it's due. Sometimes things get broken at the store.

• 1:01:54Griffin McElroy?

  That's not, that's how it works.

• 1:01:56Travis McElroy?

  Sometimes if you're not careful about shopping and giving your money to the store, it'll stop recording podcasts.

• 1:02:02Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 1:02:03Travis McElroy?

  Be a shame if that happened here, wouldn't it?

• 1:02:05Griffin McElroy?

  I guess.

• 1:02:06Travis McElroy?

  You got a nice dice you got here. Nice dice, dork.

• 1:02:10Griffin McElroy?

  And you just threw that too.

• 1:02:11Travis McElroy?

  So that's your stuff, man. I hit my elbow on this and I'm going to sue you. Now you got that on your podcast.

• 1:02:16Travis McElroy?

  The old slip and fall.

• 1:02:18Travis McElroy?

  Oh, I've hurt my elbow. My brother, my brother, me, Jesse Thorne. I'm coming. My lawyers are coming.

• 1:02:28Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool, man. You've really thought this strategy out too, which is my favorite part about it. We don't know how to make, we don't even know how to scam people out of money. Please, please help us. Please help us.

• 1:02:38Travis McElroy?

  We're scamming ourselves and if we can't pay ourselves, something terrible is gonna happen.

• 1:02:43Travis McElroy?

  Our legal bill is defending us from Justin.

• 1:02:47Griffin McElroy?

  Maximumfun.org/join. We have a lot of people who've been listening for a long time, have been members for a long time. Your support means the world to all of us. The fact that this is our jobs is wild, and that's only true because of you all. And I'm so grateful. I'm so, so, so grateful. And if you've been listening for a while and you've never joined, make this the year that it happens, because it is, it is a challenging time in the podcast sort of business. And the way we are able to weather that and have weathered that in the past is because of the drive.

• 1:03:20Travis McElroy?

  The sad thing about our award for best ad read is that we have to be the best, or our kids will go hungry. That's how competitive it is out there. We have no choice but to be the best.

• 1:03:30Griffin McElroy?

  Take that, Conan. Take that. Five bucks a month gets you all the bonus content, hundreds of hours. 10 bucks a month, you get the keychain and the Boko and everything. There's other levels too, but just, just, you know, supporting us in such a material way and saying, hey, I like the stuff that you do. I like Max Fun. I think it's great. You can be responsible for its, its creation and its existence. And I've been a Max Fun member for, for quite a long time, and it does feel good knowing that, you know, this, this, this thing's still.

• 1:04:06Travis McElroy?

  I have been too, but I only read it for the articles.

• 1:04:10Griffin McElroy?

  All right. So you can be sort of, you can be like that if you want to be like that, as long as you go to Maximumfun.org/join. And, and please help us out. Thank you so much.

• 1:04:22Travis McElroy?

  We also have to thank Montane.

• 1:04:24Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, yeah, I gotta thank Montane for the use of our theme song, "My Life Is Better With You." Montane did a really nice TikTok talking about doing, doing that song for our show. And it made me, made me real happy because they're so talented. We're doing streams every day this week. If you're listening to this on release day, I got a Fuser stream coming out. Maybe this is coming out after the Fuser stream, but those are always a treat. I DJ, I mix up some nasty shit. Banana phone with fucking brain stew. Forget about it. You know that's in there. Also, we're going to be doing a live Monster Factory Tomodachi Life. That is going to be Thursday at noon.

• 1:05:01Travis McElroy?

  Live Monster Factory. It's gonna be a big week. A lot of exciting stuff. Updates are on Instagram or our website and you can follow along on YouTube. Thank you so much.

• 1:05:10Griffin McElroy?

  Uh, but we're doing stuff every, every day this week. So, uh, follow the Macro Family YouTube channel to, to stay abreast of, of all of our, our schedule and stuff.

• 1:05:18Travis McElroy?

  We're, we're also gonna be at, uh, the Huntingdon, West Virginia Ren, Ren Fair this weekend. And so I was thinking I could throw this Magnus shoulder pauldrin that I made.

• 1:05:29Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:30Travis McElroy?

  That I'm gonna wear.

• 1:05:31Griffin McElroy?

  I could throw that. I'm a bit of a journeyman. You wanna throw your shoulder pauldrin that you made?

• 1:05:36Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:36Griffin McElroy?

  Your work, wow, you're pretty confident in your craftsmanship.

• 1:05:38Travis McElroy?

  I'm a journeyman. I'm a journeyman leather worker.

• 1:05:41Griffin McElroy?

  Okay. That's, that's good. That's like 50 stat points. Where are you gonna throw it? I bet he's not gonna throw it hard juice because he's afraid he'll break it.

• 1:05:50Travis McElroy?

  Did, did you guys know I got bit dot ly forward slash Ren Fair 2026?

• 1:05:55Griffin McElroy?

  No, that's a great hyperlink.

• 1:05:56Travis McElroy?

  Isn't that good?

• 1:05:57Griffin McElroy?

  Alright, he's gonna chuck it now.

• 1:05:58Travis McElroy?

  Okay, with an E.

• 1:06:01Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, he hit our YouTube award, dude.

• 1:06:03Travis McElroy?

  That was chunky, dude.

• 1:06:04Griffin McElroy?

  That was a chunky. And it did not, that's a good award. It did not fall down.

• 1:06:08Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it was really good, dude. Hey, congratulations, Trav. Congratulations, us. Uh, that's gonna do it for us for this week on My Brother, My Brother and Me.

• 1:06:15Griffin McElroy?

  And it's still intact. Beautiful, dude. Journeyman craftsmanship.

• 1:06:19Travis McElroy?

  My name's Justin McElroy.

• 1:06:21Griffin McElroy?

  I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy.

• 1:06:24Travis McElroy?

  This has been My Brother, My Brother and Me. Kiss your dads where I'm at.