Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 763: The Revenge Pope About this episode It's everyone's favorite badass podcast featuring Arkansas Spike, Potato Dog, and The Wizard of Bikes. We've got all the cool news about Walton Goggins, advice about which Ghostbuster to marry, and a warning for the American Pontiff.
Suggested talking points: Forty over Forty, Kill Kill Marry, Are Minions Smurfs Without Souls, Notice Me Goggins-Senpai
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0:00 Speaker 00 The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
1:10 Travis McElroy? Hello, everybody, and welcome to my brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
1:17 Travis McElroy? What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother, Travis, vroom, vroom, McElroy.
1:22 Griffin McElroy? And it's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30 media luminary Griffin, built for tough McElroy. Another tough, another tough week for the 30 under 30 crowd, by the way, I don't know how close you guys keep tabs on this, but every once in a while, a think piece does get written about how many dang many of us went to jail for fraud and other bad stuff. And it's like, yeah, man, I mean, I barely squeaked on there. I don't like, I know I say it a lot, but I don't really own that. You know what I mean?
1:48 Travis McElroy? Do you feel bad, Griffin, that you haven't committed fraud or ended up in jail yet? Like, that, like, maybe you haven't squandered your potential enough?
1:55 Griffin McElroy? I cannot stress to you enough, Travis, how disruptive to my whole life jail would be.
2:03 Travis McElroy? Well, that's why they're called disruptors, Griffin.
2:07 Griffin McElroy? Well, they should be called disrupted if they are being the ones imprisoned. But no, I don't regret that. I don't want to do that stuff. I live in fear of the fact that I don't want to accidentally do fraud.
2:21 Travis McElroy? I thought you were just gonna stop at the end of I live in fear.
2:25 Griffin McElroy? Sure, sure, sure. Yeah.
2:27 Travis McElroy? You're afraid you might accidentally commit fraud?
2:30 Griffin McElroy? I'm afraid I might accidentally commit fraud because I don't know what it is.
2:35 Travis McElroy? It's basically you say you're gonna do something and then you don't do it. Have you ever done that?
2:39 Griffin McElroy? I mean, all the time.
2:41 Travis McElroy? I.
2:43 Griffin McElroy? All the time, all the time. Little stuff.
2:45 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I'm wearing a wire. This has all been.
2:48 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
2:48 Travis McElroy? I'm part of the 40 over 40 that are sent to collect the 30 under 30 and bring them in.
2:54 Travis McElroy? It's kind of like that old, like, which is libel and which is slander thing.
2:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:58 Travis McElroy? It's a conversation I've had so many times that I start to wonder, like, am I publicly lying about people too much?
3:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
3:05 Travis McElroy? Is that too much a fixture of my life that I'm having to figure out? I have to remember all the time which, which, which crime is which.
3:12 Travis McElroy? It's, is it too late to add that into our intro to like add it and like if any of this sounds like libel?
3:19 Griffin McElroy? It's slander. It's just slander. And I think that's the good one. This is one of those things that I definitely, definitely learned in my journalism ethics classes. And now I just think I remember, but I bet you if I did even a cursory Google search, I would realize I don't know either.
3:35 Travis McElroy? I don't remember any of the botany class I took in college, but yours seems more important to your everyday life.
3:41 Griffin McElroy? For this exact moment, yeah. Okay. I mean, let's keep each, let's mirror each other because we have so few other support systems in our lives. Um, and I'll let you guys know if it seems like you're starting to do fraud and you guys check me too.
3:55 Travis McElroy? Yeah, cool, man. Because I know it would be disruptive to your life, Griffin, but in many ways it would also be disruptive to my life if you went to prison because I don't think they let you podcast from there.
4:04 Griffin McElroy? It would wreck our whole shit, man. Yeah. And God, I hope this clip isn't like, I have no intention of committing any kind of major crimes and I'm saying that now.
4:12 Travis McElroy? Say it, though.
4:13 Griffin McElroy? No, I know it sounds suspicious. The more I kind of emphasize it, but. This clip is gonna be uncomfortable.
4:18 Travis McElroy? Are we on a similar haircut schedule, guys? I'm looking around.
4:23 Griffin McElroy? I think we have synced up, yeah.
4:24 Travis McElroy? I think we've synced up, guys.
4:26 Travis McElroy? Well, it's that time of the year when a young man's fancy turns to haircuts, you know?
4:30 Travis McElroy? I think it's about a week or two before we go to do live shows, is about.
4:35 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah. We should probably go get a haircut.
4:38 Travis McElroy? Hey, guys, is this anything? American pontiff, stay away from JD.
4:44 Travis McElroy? Is that anything?
4:45 Griffin McElroy? Stay away from JD?
4:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah, JD Vance, he kills popes.
4:49 Griffin McElroy? Oh, American pontiff, stay away from JD. It's something.
4:53 Travis McElroy? It is something.
4:54 Travis McElroy? Cause the other one was, he is an American pope.
4:59 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no, no, no, the Lenny Kravitz, keep the, stay on Kravitz. Always bet on Kravitz.
5:04 Travis McElroy? American pontiff.
5:05 Griffin McElroy? How bad do you guys wish that Protestants also had, like, a king? How dope would that be? Like, I'm so jealous of my Catholic, um, friends. I have so many Catholic friends, you guys.
5:20 Travis McElroy? All right, we get it.
5:21 Griffin McElroy? Because they have, like, the one guy who's like, it's cool. But on Protestants, it's like, we got like 80 different people.
5:28 Travis McElroy? It must be nice to have a religious king that you can, one, point to, to justify things, but also to blame things on.
5:36 Griffin McElroy? Right. Is Justin leaning out of frame? And anytime we talk about the Pope for like, it kinda seems like you were afraid there would be a Sinead O'Connor sort of situation. Is it, is it real? Are you that uncomfortable with it? Or what do you think is gonna happen?
5:51 Travis McElroy? Okay, it's an audio podcast, they're doing a ham puppet.
5:54 Griffin McElroy? No one can see you're making a little sneak up there.
5:55 Travis McElroy? No, the truth of the matter is, gentlemen.
5:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:59 Travis McElroy? I did something to my chair this morning. I pulled the lever.
6:03 Griffin McElroy? Justin, I thought for sure you were hiding from the bit.
6:07 Travis McElroy? No, I did something to my chair this morning during Besties, this morning. And I podcast so. Consecutively.
6:16 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
6:17 Travis McElroy? But I don't have the time to get in here and really figure out. So the problem is, if you review the video footage that has been taken of me today, there are at least four of me leaning back a little bit and then absolutely falling.
6:31 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
6:31 Travis McElroy? And then there's a couple of minutes of me fiddling with the chair and saying, what fucking lever did I pull that made it so I can't lean back without falling anymore? And guys, that's the truth of the matter. That's, that's where I'm at.
6:43 Travis McElroy? It's not that you're uncomfortable discussing the Pope?
6:46 Travis McElroy? No, I love discussing the Pope. I love discussing the Pope. Um, Sydney's actually a little disappointed that I don't, I'm not following, I wasn't following it more closely. She texted me like, white smoke. I'm like, oh, man.
7:00 Travis McElroy? They cracked it. I, I don't know a ton about the process.
7:04 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:04 Travis McElroy? Um, but it seems like they cracked this one pretty fast, huh?
7:08 Travis McElroy? I think that all the popes looked at America and thought they have been crushing it.
7:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah, sure.
7:16 Travis McElroy? That is, we have got to get on board the hype.
7:20 Travis McElroy? Leaders are doing it right.
7:21 Travis McElroy? We gotta get on board the hype train, America fever, which is what they should call COVID. America fever is just sweeping the globe and we gotta get, America, you've earned it, says God.
7:33 Travis McElroy? You've heard of the American, the British invasion. Now it's time for American fever. Here's what I think happened. JD killed the old Pope, right?
7:42 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:43 Travis McElroy? JD Vance. Well, I'm not saying he directly did it, but I'm saying he was there and then three days later Pope was dead. So I'm saying.
7:51 Travis McElroy? He may have killed the Pope in the sense that like a spoonful of sugar could cure your hiccups. If you happen to, the hiccups leave you after you eat some sugar.
8:00 Travis McElroy? I'm just saying that in some way JD Vance is attached rather either causally or historically to the Pope's death.
8:08 Travis McElroy? Right.
8:08 Travis McElroy? And then they looked through American Pope's tweets and saw him badmouthing JD Vance at some point. And then they were like, oh, cool. We're gonna put him in. Take that Pope killer Vance.
8:20 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
8:20 Travis McElroy? And now, now he's there for payback. This is a revenge Pope.
8:25 Travis McElroy? Oh, cool. I, guys, here's my most embarrassing thing. That when I will say when the, the new Pope got up to, uh, to do his address, I, uh, had a moment where I thought, oh, man, he knows Italian.
8:42 Travis McElroy? I was so impressed. I thought he was about to bust out like a fully American like.
8:48 Griffin McElroy? You guys.
8:49 Travis McElroy? Exactly.
8:50 Griffin McElroy? Hey dudes, thanks a ton. I'm like, gas.
8:54 Travis McElroy? When I heard American Pope, I think in my head, I was picturing John Goodman.
9:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that this was a like, we look through the Pope family tree and it seems the last living Pope is John Goodman.
9:06 Griffin McElroy? Everyone, everyone cares so much about the nationality of the Pope. I want to talk about Pope size. Give us a huge Pope. Give us a John Goodman sized Pope. A big burly Pope.
9:18 Travis McElroy? Just a mount, a wall of Pope.
9:20 Griffin McElroy? A huge mound of Pope. Big old wall of Pope. Big old wad. Give me that. But I'm proud that he did. What are you doing? What are you doing?
9:30 Travis McElroy? You think he learned Italian after becoming Pope?
9:33 Travis McElroy? No, I think that he learned Italian way before that. I'm just embarrassed to think that it like, I was really impressed by how good his Italian was. And I thought, you probably don't get to that level unless you've gotten pretty good at Italian.
9:46 Travis McElroy? He would probably have a hard time getting around in Vatican City instead of asking for directions, trying to find where the bathroom is, ordering food if he didn't speak Italian.
9:54 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's true. That's probably, that's.
9:56 Griffin McElroy? I actually heard guys the night before they sent that smoke up to say, it's Leo bitch. Uh, they.
10:04 Travis McElroy? It spelled that out when it went up.
10:05 Griffin McElroy? It spells it out like a skywriting thing. He didn't know any Italian, but then they were like, hey, we're going to pick you tomorrow. But first you gotta cram for this big Italian test. He learned it all in one night.
10:16 Travis McElroy? Morpheus showed up and put the chip in his brain.
10:18 Griffin McElroy? Put the chip in his brain and he took that test the next morning and the principal of the Vatican came up and said, you did it. You did it, son. And then he became the Pope.
10:28 Travis McElroy? The whole thing's just so neat. I just wish we had some.
10:31 Griffin McElroy? Anything, any kind of neat stuff.
10:33 Travis McElroy? I've gone, I've gone to Catholic mass with Teresa a couple of times, you know, when I was trying, still trying to impress her parents before they found out what I did for a living. And, um, I love all the showmanship, the pageantry.
10:47 Griffin McElroy? You should.
10:48 Travis McElroy? All the dogma stuff I'm not wild about, but I like the incense and stuff. That's chill.
10:53 Griffin McElroy? When you roll up to the mass, you should be given a little like punch card and you tell them like which parts of it you wanna like.
11:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:01 Griffin McElroy? Cause like all the stuff about like the chanting and then you pass a cup around or whatever. It's like, whoa, this is, this is like arcane magic. But then when you talk a long time about.
11:12 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm not wild about that part. If I could leave before that part starts.
11:16 Griffin McElroy? The censures, the braziers. Fuck, yeah, dude. Here for it. Dark souls, man. I'm here for it.
11:21 Travis McElroy? Hell, yeah, dude.
11:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:22 Travis McElroy? When you can trade in all the souls you've collected for upgrades. I love that part.
11:27 Griffin McElroy? And you can always tell too, the transitions need a little bit of work. Cause it'll be like, oh, Miss Dionne Flaubert. And they have like the censures throwing smoke around. They're like, this weekend I went to Denny's with my kids. Like, oh, man. Can we not get, take a smoother step from ritual into?
11:43 Travis McElroy? I think even if the priest starts talking about hanging out with his kids, there's a lot of question marks happening in the room at that point.
11:52 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I guess they're not really supposed to have those darn things, huh? Not extended family, so.
11:57 Travis McElroy? They could have a couple kids, but they get like a lot of kids. It starts to get like. I think the kids have to happen before the priesthood part. You can have kids grandfathered in, I think.
12:07 Griffin McElroy? Well, where are we getting new priests, guys? This doesn't make any fucking sense.
12:15 Travis McElroy? They just keep finding them.
12:16 Griffin McElroy? They just keep finding them.
12:17 Travis McElroy? My papaw was a priest. Hold on, wait.
12:19 Griffin McElroy? Wait, hold on, hold on. That should have ended his line.
12:22 Travis McElroy? This summer, I'm going to meet Walton Goggins at a convention. I'm absolutely petrified. I'm gonna shit the bed. The last convention I went to in 2023, I waited in the autograph line for hours to meet an actor I really admire. As soon as I got up to the table, I completely froze. I barely remember the conversation. We share a name. He asked how I was finding it. And all I remember saying was, it's misspelled a lot, actually. And he was kind enough to laugh. My question is this, how do I face down Walton Goggins and not completely blackout like last time? Or maybe even make a good impression?
12:57 Griffin McElroy? Hmm. Who's that from?
13:00 Travis McElroy? That's from in a to- well, in a total hizzy in Texas.
13:04 Travis McElroy? But I assume it's from a Travis. They talked about having the same name as an actor they admire. Must be me, right?
13:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
13:11 Travis McElroy? I imagine. They've seen my work in Seesos, My Brother, My Brother and Me.
13:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, Tex Arcana Waltz.
13:17 Travis McElroy? Tex Arcana Waltz in college, yeah.
13:19 Griffin McElroy? In college. They definitely got me on the stage there.
13:22 Travis McElroy? I feel, I think it's because of the accent. Walton Goggins is like one of the very, very few celebrities that I feel like I would say hey to. Like, I feel like I would, just from the, just from the accent, I feel like it would be a rare enough thing for him to encounter, somebody from, from, from, you know, has a little bit of a twang, if you will.
13:45 Griffin McElroy? Right.
13:45 Travis McElroy? And I feel like it would really put him in ease and I think we'd connect.
13:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
13:50 Travis McElroy? I will say, it's hard for me to separate, having first become aware of him through Justified, as I believe a lot of people did.
13:56 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
13:57 Travis McElroy? That I think of him as kind of a hometown hero-esque thing, and then I have to remind myself, he's a very famous, successful actor and he doesn't, like, live in Ashland.
14:07 Griffin McElroy? He's not from A-holler.
14:09 Travis McElroy? Travis, okay, yeah, you're hitting on it, Trav. Uh, yeah, I tend to think of Walton-
14:14 Griffin McElroy? You just said so confidently that Walton Goggins has like, maybe a bit of an Appalachian twang, but then I saw you second guess, like, does he actually have that, or am I thinking of his character in Justified?
14:24 Travis McElroy? He's from Atlanta, Georgia, I believe.
14:26 Travis McElroy? I mean, yeah, but like, I'm saying,
14:31 Travis McElroy? yes, okay, that's fair. I am projecting a little bit. I think that that is, that is accurate. But, he does seem pretty relaxed.
14:41 Travis McElroy? Do you think if you rolled up wearing a pair of Walton Goggins goggles, that-
14:45 Travis McElroy? Walton Goggins goggle glasses.
14:47 Griffin McElroy? Put some respect on the name, please.
14:49 Travis McElroy? If you roll up wearing Walton Goggins goggle glasses, is that a point in your favor?
14:56 Griffin McElroy? I'm gonna grab mine, I'm gonna grab mine real quick.
14:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah, get it for the clip, because I would love, I've been trying so hard to get the brand going. I feel like it's a brand deal that's just waiting to happen for my brother, my brother and me. I, I would love to have Walton on the clubhouse to pitch the Walton Goggins goggle glasses. Um, it's another free ad for Walton Goggins goggle glasses here on My Brother, My Brother.
15:20 Griffin McElroy? I don't know if they make them.
15:21 Travis McElroy? You just became so much more likeable.
15:24 Griffin McElroy? I don't know if they make them in a jumbo size for gentlemen of perhaps a larger, larger head carriage.
15:31 Travis McElroy? You look great.
15:32 Griffin McElroy? But I love the way I look. I don't, but can I swim with them? Like if I showed up to the, to the meet and greet with Walton Goggins and was like, love them, but can I swim in them?
15:44 Travis McElroy? Can I weld in them?
15:46 Griffin McElroy? Can I weld in them? You call them goggle glasses. You need to be very clear about what these things can do.
15:52 Travis McElroy? I mean, they are a little pricey for Walton Goggins goggle glasses, but if you did go to the meet and greet wearing them.
15:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:59 Travis McElroy? You're right that that would, I mean, that gets you through the interaction.
16:02 Griffin McElroy? That gets you, you need nothing else.
16:03 Travis McElroy? You need nothing else. Hey, I see your glasses. Point. Hey, I have the glasses. The connection's been made. I tell you the, the, when I've done meet and greets with folks before, I tell you the only problem that I ever have is the hearing. If the story, if the thing that they're trying to communicate is too complex. My brain is not in a place where I can process that.
16:23 Travis McElroy? A lot of sensory stuff going on there. Yeah.
16:26 Travis McElroy? There's a lot. So keeping it tight. I love you. Acting fantastic.
16:32 Travis McElroy? I love you acting.
16:34 Travis McElroy? Fa- fantastic acting.
16:37 Griffin McElroy? Keep it up.
16:38 Travis McElroy? I saw Walton Goggins recently say that the secret to acting is you read it 250 times and then you give yourself over to imaginary circumstances.
16:47 Griffin McElroy? Damn, that's good.
16:48 Travis McElroy? That's pretty good.
16:49 Griffin McElroy? Hey, can you see everything I'm doing on my computer while I'm wearing these? Because now I'm realizing that from an opsec perspective, I'm, the, the Walton Goggins goggle glasses may not be very good for this type of telecommuting.
17:00 Travis McElroy? I can tell exactly how disengaged you are for the conversation by the flicker of your monitor tabs.
17:06 Travis McElroy? You could also find like the most obscure project that Walton Goggins has ever participated in. And then specifically compliment that. That has worked for me.
17:15 Travis McElroy? Walton Goggins goggle glasses.
17:18 Griffin McElroy? I don't know that it gets me. Much more obscure than that. Hey, when I wear them up on my head like this, do I look like a cool, like Final Fantasy character? Like a, like.
17:25 Travis McElroy? I was gonna say like a pool ski guy.
17:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you look like Egon too. Like if they did a new Egon in a new Ghostbusters, he would look like that.
17:34 Travis McElroy? They've done that a couple of times.
17:35 Griffin McElroy? Was he a sort of conventionally agreed upon attractive character?
17:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah, lots of glasses. Like he found new places, glasses everywhere on Harold Ramis, glasses on glasses.
17:44 Travis McElroy? I would argue Griffin that Harold Ramis as Egon Spangler did it for a lot of people.
17:50 Griffin McElroy? That was the, who's the hottest Ghostbuster?
17:53 Travis McElroy? Vinkman.
17:54 Travis McElroy? No, I think it's Egon.
17:56 Griffin McElroy? I'm sorry I asked this question. I don't want to know the answer to it.
18:00 Travis McElroy? Okay, hey, listen.
18:01 Travis McElroy? If you're talking about personality wise, yeah, Vinkman. But if we're just talking about looks.
18:06 Griffin McElroy? Body.
18:07 Travis McElroy? Oh, body?
18:08 Griffin McElroy? Ernie Hudson.
18:08 Travis McElroy? Ernie Hudson is the sexiest.
18:10 Travis McElroy? Fuck, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:12 Travis McElroy? Ernie Hudson is the se- my fit, like, okay, okay, okay. Physical body.
18:18 Griffin McElroy? Why did I fucking say this, man?
18:20 Travis McElroy? Right, Ernie has it, right? Now, Vinkman, good time, not a long time.
18:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
18:26 Travis McElroy? You know what I mean? We're having fun with Vinkman. If you want to marry someone, you marry Ray.
18:32 Griffin McElroy? There's gotta be a name for this game.
18:33 Travis McElroy? I can fix him. You know what I mean? He's a little distant.
18:36 Travis McElroy? You're gonna try to fix Egon and then he's gonna ghost you. And I mean that literally.
18:40 Travis McElroy? I'm just saying that profile though, like he, he's cutting a look so hard, like his face, face card, hundo, right?
18:48 Griffin McElroy? Okay, there's four of them. So let's do, we'll do fuck, fuck, marry, kill.
18:53 Travis McElroy? No, I hate fuck. I, I hate that game.
18:56 Griffin McElroy? That's a shame because you're playing it, you are playing it right now without conching the name of it.
19:01 Travis McElroy? I kill Ray.
19:01 Travis McElroy? It's like, it's like Brock Toon, right? We can find people sexy and want to marry them and not include killing.
19:08 Travis McElroy? I kill Ray.
19:09 Travis McElroy? Like.
19:10 Griffin McElroy? That's the, that's.
19:11 Travis McElroy? We don't need to kill any Ghostbusters.
19:12 Travis McElroy? I kill Ray.
19:13 Griffin McElroy? That's gotta be tough, huh? Conflict of interest at that point.
19:16 Travis McElroy? How do you do, hey, Trav, how do you kill, Trav, describe to me in detail how you kill Ray Stantz?
19:22 Travis McElroy? Slowly.
19:22 Griffin McElroy? And describe it and then with every other sentence, just tell me how you want to fuck Slimer or whatever.
19:28 Travis McElroy? No, Slimer wasn't, I didn't know that was available. I would kill Slimer.
19:32 Griffin McElroy? Juice, you gotta get that chair fixed, man. It's a.
19:34 Travis McElroy? I know, Griffin, I know. But when I try to fix it, my brothers think I'm ducking Pope jokes.
19:38 Travis McElroy? I'm marrying Ernie Hudson. I'm fucking Vinkman.
19:42 Travis McElroy? Right now?
19:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I'm fucking Vinkman. I'm fucking Egon. I'm killing Ray.
19:48 Travis McElroy? This version of the game is a lot easier.
19:51 Griffin McElroy? You still have to kill someone.
19:53 Travis McElroy? Why can't we fuck three Ghostbusters, kill Nud, and marry one of them for life?
19:59 Travis McElroy? And I'm taking, I'm taking Janine on a date, a lovely date where I'm being very respectful.
20:04 Griffin McElroy? I'm taking Janine and Slimer on a pizza, not date, but hang.
20:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I'd, I'd watch the game with Slimer. I think that that would be fun as hell.
20:15 Griffin McElroy? I'd smoke up with Slimer and watch the game.
20:17 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'd smoke up with Slimer. Are you kidding me?
20:20 Griffin McElroy? Cause then you could just like, get it from him. Like he puffs it in and then it just leaves his body.
20:26 Travis McElroy? Oh, imagine putting your head inside Slimer. Like Slimer encases your head while he takes a huge drip.
20:32 Griffin McElroy? You'd die. You would suffocate and die in the worst imaginable.
20:35 Travis McElroy? That's how I'd kill, that's how I'd kill Ray.
20:38 Griffin McElroy? Put Slimer on his head?
20:40 Travis McElroy? I'd put Slimer on his head.
20:41 Griffin McElroy? You'd make Slimer complicit in the murder.
20:44 Travis McElroy? Are you kidding me? That nasty dog?
20:46 Travis McElroy? And that's how I killed Ray.
20:51 Griffin McElroy? That was Slimer.
20:53 Travis McElroy? I have an indoor slash outdoor cat. One day when I was following him around outside, he went down in the outdoor stairs of my multi-complex home and to my alarm, headed inside the open and screenless window of my downstairs neighbor. I went to grab him, saying, no, don't go into someone else's house in a very high pitched voice. And to my extreme alarm, neighbor, who I hadn't noticed, said, no, it's okay. He's done this before. Brothers, is there a social code for my cat occasionally visits your home? I was so freaked out that I fear I may have flunked it. I said, well, as long as you don't feed him, and stood by anxiously watching my cat, unsure of what to do with myself. That's from anxious cat mom in Michigan.
21:38 Griffin McElroy? It, your cat wants an open relationship, but can't communicate that to you. Because it's a cat. Um, this isn't a matter of pride. The cat's gotta get what the cat is gonna get. And sometimes that means fresh tinned sardines from your cool downstairs neighbor.
21:58 Travis McElroy? That's interesting. I didn't take it as pride.
22:01 Griffin McElroy? What do you mean?
22:02 Travis McElroy? I would take the anxiety of like, I hope they behave themselves. What if the cat, like, the cat makes a mess? Or like, messes something up? And that reflects poorly on me.
22:14 Griffin McElroy? Cause that's not, but then he's not gonna do it in my house. Like, sorry the cat, sorry the cat shitted in your house that I didn't know he was going to, but that's one shit that's not gonna be in my house, so thank you so much.
22:24 Travis McElroy? They're habitual creatures, though, aren't they? What if they get so used to pissing at the neighbor's house that they can't go anywhere else? And they, you have to go downstairs and knock on the door like, hey, listen.
22:34 Griffin McElroy? Listen.
22:34 Travis McElroy? Mr. Mittens has got a, he's got a full biter. Yeah, you gotta come in. Lay out the jacket, lay out your favorite jacket like he likes it, please. Thank you.
22:43 Travis McElroy? This seems like a meet cute from a movie. I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but it seems like something from a movie where it's like, oh, my cat went in your window. And it's like, that's your cat? I've been calling it my cat.
22:54 Griffin McElroy? Right, yeah. In one shard of the multiverse, I think it's a meet cute. I think in every other shard is just sort of an uncomfortable social situation. I don't want them thinking it's a meet cute because.
23:07 Travis McElroy? No, I'm not saying this is a meet cute. I'm saying that this is movie level wild to me. Like, you don't have this problem with a dog, right? My dogs, if I found out my dogs were in someone's home, they've been dog-napped. Or they're loose.
23:23 Travis McElroy? For a cat, it's too powerful, I think, to give them the ability to go to someone else's house that isn't your house. That's the great injustice of a cat's life is that when it finds you distasteful, it cannot abandon you and go somewhere else to teach you a lesson. Now that it has had a taste of that, I don't think you're gonna get them off of it. I think that they're hooked.
23:43 Travis McElroy? And this step owner now has no responsibility, right? They can give this cat ice cream, let him stay up late to watch the movies.
23:50 Griffin McElroy? Do the fun stuff.
23:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah, like get him a new bike or whatever. And then when the cat is having homework trouble or like fighting with a friend at school or whatever, you, it's gonna come back to you and you gotta deal with it. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta seal that neighbor's window.
24:06 Travis McElroy? Yep.
24:06 Travis McElroy? Nail it shut.
24:09 Griffin McElroy? Would have, would have enjoyed any kind of information on the neighbor before the three of us dove into this one, because that could be a real minefield.
24:17 Travis McElroy? They don't seem to have any.
24:19 Griffin McElroy? What?
24:20 Travis McElroy? They said they don't know them.
24:22 Griffin McElroy? Right, but they probably got to know a little bit of the, like, you can clock a vibe pretty quick and they've encountered each other. Give us anything about the vibe, like, anything to work with. Um, because what if they're a fucking creep? I don't know.
24:35 Travis McElroy? Or a giant, like, coyote or something.
24:38 Griffin McElroy? It could be a big coyote.
24:40 Travis McElroy? I keep imagining them standing there, talking to the neighbor and trying to decide if they should leave or stay. And man, it's just giving me palpitations.
24:49 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
24:50 Travis McElroy? Because you think, once the neighbor's like, it's okay, you've done this before, there's part of you that's like, well, I'm gonna go?
24:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I mean, so you, please enjoy my cat? I mean, like, or if you, I guess you stay? And then they're like, well, I told you it's fine.
25:05 Griffin McElroy? But it's not a playdate. You don't have to stay.
25:08 Travis McElroy? Right? I'm not, I'm not gonna get to know you.
25:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. No, I mean, that is why they wrote into this advice podcast.
25:15 Travis McElroy? I know, but it's really hard.
25:17 Griffin McElroy? I don't think it's doing us a lot of favors to have our shit so completely fall apart at the premise of one of the questions. We have to keep a stiff upper lip here.
25:23 Travis McElroy? No, I know, but I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be honest, Griffin. I think that, like, empathy is maybe the first step in trying to say this is hard. And maybe that's, and Griffin, maybe in 2025, we need to be comfortable with, like, sometimes that's all people need. Maybe people don't need answers. They need just to have their feelings affirmed.
25:40 Travis McElroy? They ask, yeah, did you do anything wrong? No, that's exactly what we would have done. Felt weird.
25:46 Travis McElroy? That was very hard.
25:47 Griffin McElroy? But it's an advice podcast, not an affirmation podcast.
25:50 Travis McElroy? Yes, but I'm trying to-
25:51 Griffin McElroy? And we have to be able to fix our problems.
25:53 Travis McElroy? I'm trying to make space for the fact that movies and TV have taught us that, that social interaction should be smooth and effortless.
26:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
26:00 Travis McElroy? What I'm saying is, it almost never is, you know?
26:04 Travis McElroy? A meat ugly, if you will.
26:07 Travis McElroy? Yeah, most, most meats are ugly. And that doesn't mean you should have to feel, be good at it. But it does mean that maybe you can't be good at it. You know what I mean? Maybe you can't. Maybe you can't, maybe most things you just can't fix. And you just gotta say, huh, that was the pits.
26:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
26:25 Travis McElroy? Absolutely the worst. I'm glad that was finite, because, man, it was a bit-
26:29 Travis McElroy? I only hope it was as bad for them as it was for me.
26:32 Travis McElroy? No, a hundred percent of the time, they never thought about it ever again.
26:35 Griffin McElroy? No, it's fully, fully imagined in your own.
26:38 Travis McElroy? Yeah, a hundred percent.
26:39 Griffin McElroy? Wonder Emporium up there. I thought we were gonna get past all this stuff. Once everyone had email addresses, because then you could just be like, oh, cats in your house? This is a weird situation. What's your email? I will hit you up digitally.
26:51 Travis McElroy? I think the reason that didn't happen is because of the at and then the URL. Because people don't know.
26:58 Griffin McElroy? Too long.
26:59 Travis McElroy? It's too long and you don't know when it's over. Like, it's feeling pretty good when you're giving someone your email address. It's feeling pretty good. And then you say the at and then you think, man, I hope they don't judge whatever I say next.
27:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
27:10 Travis McElroy? Because whatever I say next, they're gonna have a feeling about, you know?
27:13 Griffin McElroy? And there's so many terms that we could use, had they not been already sort of co-opted, where you'd just be like, in an uncomfortable situation and say like, let's, this is uncomfortable. Let's just cyber. And that means like, we're gonna communicate cyber in cyberspace with typing and stuff, instead of having to talk about it right now.
27:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah. What's your pulse ID? By the way, pulse is the name I came up with for the software, but it would be like, pretty slick.
27:37 Griffin McElroy? Subdermal cuff, right?
27:39 Travis McElroy? The pulse ID is a subdermal.
27:40 Travis McElroy? And as your, as your pulse races, because you're in an anxious situation, it just automatically pings the person to say, they're gonna leave now.
27:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, and you're allowed to just turn mid-sentence and bounce. And is there a version of the show Black Mirror, but where everything works out good and cool?
27:57 Travis McElroy? White Mirror.
27:58 Griffin McElroy? That's what it sounds like.
27:59 Travis McElroy? White Lotus.
28:02 Travis McElroy? The opposite of Black Mirror, so I love it. Hey, everybody, it's me, Travis McQuarrie, and I'm taking my brothers to the money zone.
28:21 Travis McElroy? Ah, dang it, Travis, when we went to the money zone, I broke my ass.
28:25 Griffin McElroy? Oh, what?
28:27 Travis McElroy? When we fell into the money zone, I broke my ass.
28:29 Griffin McElroy? This is great. I don't have the ad copy-ups, but I'm, my mind is racing, trying to figure out what.
28:34 Travis McElroy? There's no doctors, there's no doctors here in the money zone that I know of. I've never had to find a doctor in the money zone, but I do have a broken ass.
28:41 Griffin McElroy? The infrastructure is not there in the money zone.
28:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:45 Griffin McElroy? I just need a partner to help me navigate.
28:47 Travis McElroy? We don't have a lot of electricity.
28:49 Travis McElroy? What?
28:50 Griffin McElroy? Is it Zocdoc?
28:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, Griffin.
28:53 Travis McElroy? Zocdoc's the one.
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29:05 Travis McElroy? Okay, I'm gonna go to Zocdoc real quick and type in broken ass.
29:09 Travis McElroy? Yep.
29:10 Travis McElroy? Stuck in money zone, not mine, brothers. Oh, yeah, it came up with like four of them.
29:16 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
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30:11 Travis McElroy? It'll take too long, Travis. It'll take too long.
30:13 Travis McElroy? You need the food now?
30:14 Travis McElroy? No, yeah, it'll take, to make a nutritious, delicious meal takes hours and hours.
30:19 Travis McElroy? No, Justin.
30:19 Travis McElroy? I'll be dead by then.
30:20 Travis McElroy? Justin, you dumb, stupid idiot with your broken ass that you deserve now because they're so stupid. It won't take that long.
30:27 Travis McElroy? Ah, you re-broke my ass!
30:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I burned your ass so hard it got broken.
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33:19 Travis McElroy? Recently at my local mall, a VR game was opened up that takes you on a virtual roller coaster ride. Since its opening, I've really wanted to try it, but I can't convince anyone, including my eight-year-old little sister, to do the ride with me. As an adult, there is no way I could do the ride by myself.
33:36 Travis McElroy? So how do I get in on this VR game while retaining my dignity? Note, I have never actually seen anyone using the VR machine, and it sits in the middle of the main strip of the mall. So if I were to go ride it, I would basically be on display for any and all passersby. That's from Vexed by VR, West Virginia. Well, Vexed by VR, West Virginia. Now, unless there's a rule that says, no adults without children, you can't. When you say there's no way, you could ride it.
34:04 Griffin McElroy? You can go to, arcades are actually all right. Like, you can go in an arcade. You're totally fine.
34:09 Travis McElroy? I would argue, in fact, that by doing that, you've made, you've given someone else permission to enjoy their life, you know?
34:17 Griffin McElroy? As long as, before you get on the roller coaster machine, you do have to sit at the Willy Wonka coin drop machine and spend about three hours dropping quarters in there. And then people will be like, that's a fucking grown ass person. Then you can go on the roller coaster.
34:32 Travis McElroy? I think where you're, where I would actually start to second guess myself a lot is not the riding it, but the extent to which I should really lean into the experience. Because I think that virtual reality is best when you are bringing your whole self to the illusion. When you're saying, I am immersed in this. This is me. This is my reality. Me and the Rabids are running through Santa's workshop, hurling snowballs at each other. I'm part of this. It's like, just like Walton Goggins says, you know?
35:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
35:02 Travis McElroy? He says, I love chasing- Just like Walton Goggins says, you put the goggles on and you immerse yourself in a imaginary experience.
35:08 Griffin McElroy? And then you chase a baby Gru through Santa's workshop.
35:11 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
35:11 Griffin McElroy? I'm Walton Goggins, and that's the plot of the Rabids roller coaster ride at arcades.
35:16 Travis McElroy? And these are the Apple Vision Walton Goggins Goggle Vision Goggle Glasses. They're $6,000.
35:22 Griffin McElroy? Amazing.
35:23 Travis McElroy? Worth every penny. Worth every penny. Yeah, I mean, I would, I would, should you keep a straight face? I mean, that looks worse.
35:31 Griffin McElroy? Well, don't go we.
35:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah, don't yell. Well, now, hold on. Okay, so you don't go we and don't yell, but you don't give a straight face. What do you want from me? Demonstrate proper, yeah. Oh, my. Oh, a hell.
35:43 Travis McElroy? Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, titillated.
35:46 Travis McElroy? Griffin's putting the Waddle and Goggins goggles glasses back on.
35:49 Travis McElroy? Okay, Griffin's gonna demonstrate.
35:50 Griffin McElroy? I'm thinking you hit him with like a wow, whoa.
35:55 Griffin McElroy? No way, wow. A lot of sort of like whispering under your breath.
35:59 Travis McElroy? Maybe you reach out and try to touch something at some point.
36:01 Griffin McElroy? Oh, people love that when it's like, hey, try out the fucking virtual cyber world. It's so, so cool. There's like five Hatsune Mikus in a little SpongeBob SquarePants. You're gonna love this shit. And then they, you see him reach and try and like, sit down on the chair and they fall down. That shit's so funny, dude. You could be that for someone.
36:21 Travis McElroy? Open it up. I also, I'm worried because when I picture, here's a VR machine in the middle of a mall. No one's using it. And maybe I just watched too much Are You Afraid of the Dark as a kid. But you're gonna get sucked into that thing. Why is no one else using it? What do they know that you don't? It's cursed.
36:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
36:39 Travis McElroy? You're gonna get pulled into a virtual world and have to fight your way out against maybe Bobcat Goldthwait, I'm guessing.
36:45 Griffin McElroy? I think you're right, yeah.
36:46 Travis McElroy? Something like that. You're gonna be trapped in there, maybe forever. You're gonna leave there. You're not gonna be sure if you're really out or not.
36:53 Griffin McElroy? You'll, that's the fucked up part. You can never really tell when you took the headset off.
36:57 Travis McElroy? So realistic. It's gonna be a, it's gonna be a whole thing, man.
37:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
37:01 Travis McElroy? Zardo's gonna show up.
37:03 Griffin McElroy? There's a bit in The Rabid's roller coaster ride where Gru takes the headset off, but it's still like a cutscene in the game. And you're like, how many fucking layers deep do they have these guys going?
37:13 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna give you one chance, and it's gonna have to be elegant and tasteful for you to excise yourself from it with grace.
37:20 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
37:20 Travis McElroy? But you're gonna need to explain to me why you keep mentioning Gru in the context of The Rabids.
37:28 Travis McElroy? This is the second, maybe third. I need you to explain to me what happened, where we went wrong.
37:34 Travis McElroy? This is, we're, we're opening this up. This is a safety zone here, Griffin.
37:38 Griffin McElroy? It doesn't fit, can I say, it feels extremely not safe, this zone. It feels, I feel like I'm a-
37:43 Travis McElroy? Narrow sliver. It's a narrow sliver. It's an infinite, it's deep.
37:47 Griffin McElroy? I would need you to to stand up from your computers and walk away 25 feet before I would feel like this is a safe space. The the the rabbits are minions with long ears. Hello, if you need me to tell you that, you don't, you not keeping your fucking eyes open. And and keeping a look at at these corporations, because I'm pretty sure it's the same one that does both these guys.
38:12 Travis McElroy? Okay.
38:14 Griffin McElroy? It's a definitely illumination, but minions are rabbits without the ears and bunny like sort of characteristics. They're they are little horrible tic tac men, and that's basically also what a rabid is. So that's why I kept talking about Gru, who is like the minions dad.
38:32 Travis McElroy? Okay. Do you think that minions are Smurfs without souls?
38:36 Griffin McElroy? No, different looking shape completely, but really the whole only thing with the rabbits is the ears.
38:45 Travis McElroy? Okay.
38:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:46 Travis McElroy? Thank you.
38:47 Griffin McElroy? Hey, let's go to the wizard. He's got something for us here. Um, this one was sent in by Christian. Thanks, Christian. Um, and it is 200 plus motorcyclist names to help you stand out on the road.
38:58 Travis McElroy? Oh. As a motorcyclist, right? Not like I'm standing on the road yelling at them as they go by.
39:05 Griffin McElroy? Hey jerk, hey jerk. Yeah, they have 200 mean names to yell at passing motorcycles.
39:11 Travis McElroy? That would make you stand out.
39:13 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure. I bet they wouldn't like it, though. If they can get off those bikes so dang quick, it is not a great idea to yell at them.
39:22 Travis McElroy? Some of them don't even need to stop the bike. They can just jump up, bike keeps going, they land.
39:26 Griffin McElroy? They land, they deploy the parachute. Do you need to find the perfect biker names for your tough as nails motorcycle persona? Am I supposed to have one of those?
39:35 Travis McElroy? Well, not without the name.
39:37 Griffin McElroy? That's a good point. We'll start there. Don't choose your biker moniker randomly. Check out our list of over 200 biker names from the uncommon to ones that are ideal for Instagram.
39:47 Travis McElroy? What?
39:48 Griffin McElroy? No idea what that
39:49 Travis McElroy? Thing?
39:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, you also
39:51 Travis McElroy? I'm not saying bikers can't be on Instagram, but I didn't know that that was like a major thought when going into that lifestyle is will this look good on Instagram?
40:02 Griffin McElroy? No.
40:04 Travis McElroy? Well, I think that they're thinking about like, can you get the handle, right?
40:06 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
40:07 Travis McElroy? You want to be like
40:09 Travis McElroy? Arkansas Spike.
40:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:11 Travis McElroy? And there's already a bunch of Arkansas, at Arkansas Spikes.
40:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
40:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:14 Travis McElroy? Take up the handle.
40:15 Griffin McElroy? I'm Potato Dog, but then you go and Potato Dog is definitely.
40:19 Travis McElroy? Well, then you could be the real Potato Dog. Potato Dog real, Potato Dog real, 69420.
40:25 Griffin McElroy? You'll also find help for creating a name for your motorcycle club and get answers to questions about biker names. Do you guys feel like you know enough about bike culture that you could comfortably pick a biker name right now and like really own it, get it stenciled on your hog or whatever?
40:40 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I had to pick one with no prep and came up with Arkansas Spike, I think. So, no, I don't.
40:47 Griffin McElroy? Potato Dog, like we.
40:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I mean, I have very little fat. Neither one of those was.
40:52 Travis McElroy? I would be the Wizard of Bikes.
40:54 Griffin McElroy? Wizard of Bikes is actually Kick Ass, that's the best of the three trap?
40:56 Travis McElroy? I do think that you should have to get the moniker from the biker gang. Because I think that if you roll up to a new gang that you're not in and you're like, hey, I'm the Texas Torch. They're like, um, I'm not sure that that's right.
41:11 Travis McElroy? We already got two of those, man.
41:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
41:13 Travis McElroy? You can't be.
41:14 Travis McElroy? Let's take it on Instagram.
41:15 Griffin McElroy? At what level of organization are you expected to have a motorcycle persona with a, with a, an original name? Because if it's like a, like a Facebook group meetup bike event, I don't think you get a biker name for that. There has to be a certain amount of membership involved. When, and when do you cross that threshold?
41:36 Travis McElroy? I love, I love the idea of a delay. And can I tell you why? Because I feel like it is a biker solve to one of the biggest problems in life is when you wait too long to find out someone's name.
41:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:49 Travis McElroy? Cause you don't realize they're going to be important in your life.
41:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:52 Travis McElroy? Until a few too long. Bikers have a fucking kick ass one where they're like. I'll catch them next time. I'll learn it next time.
42:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure.
42:01 Travis McElroy? And I'll learn it on, yeah, next go around, I'll learn the, the new one.
42:04 Griffin McElroy? But you don't even.
42:05 Travis McElroy? Griffin is saying, if I may, and I kind of love this, and we could all adopt this in everyday society, is that you will earn a name from the group when they have decided that they are, that you are important enough to them.
42:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
42:18 Travis McElroy? They need to remember your name, so much so, they are now giving you a new one.
42:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. And then if you ever forget that name, it's fucking stenciled on the front of their vest or whatever.
42:29 Travis McElroy? Exactly.
42:30 Griffin McElroy? And you can be like, oh shit, it's been a minute. Buzzard?
42:35 Travis McElroy? With four Z's.
42:36 Griffin McElroy? It's bizarre. Damn. I'm cheating because that's the, one of the first names in hardcore biker names. Use names that show you're tough. Biker names that are considered badass or hardcore are often just one word names that describe something strong or sound rugged. Let's hit, let's just go through these warrior cat style. Armor, Axel, Barbarian, Blaze, Boulder, Brick, Buzzard, Claw, Conqueror.
42:59 Travis McElroy? Such a curious.
43:00 Griffin McElroy? Dynamite's cool.
43:03 Griffin McElroy? Dynamite could be like a tough name, but it can also be like, I'm about to dazzle you with my incredible bike skills.
43:09 Travis McElroy? You could probably just go through a list of like the top 200 X-Men name.
43:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
43:14 Travis McElroy? Come up with like the same kind of list, you know?
43:17 Travis McElroy? I keep coming up, like, my brain gave me Dynamite, like a pun. And then I was like, and then I had to remind myself, like, brain? I'm not sure bikers would like puns.
43:26 Travis McElroy? Hey, yeah.
43:26 Travis McElroy? I don't name Mike. I don't think it's a good idea.
43:30 Travis McElroy? I don't think you should call yourself Dynamite if your first name was John.
43:35 Griffin McElroy? One of the names on here is Rabid, spelled like if you, a dog goes foamy or whatever. But you, you could throw an extra B in there and be like a real, like a rabid fan on the motorcycle.
43:48 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
43:48 Griffin McElroy? And you got too lost in the sauce on the ride at the mall. And now you have to live that life for real. Stone Cold is one. That's two words, but that's fine.
43:56 Travis McElroy? I don't think you can do that. That one's famously belongs to Mr. Austin.
43:59 Griffin McElroy? Can you fucking believe if someone rolled up to your new awesome biker club? And was like, yeah, I decided to go with Stone Cold. Here's my vest and everything. The amount of work they would have to put in. For me to consider them when I think of the word Stone Cold and not the other guy would have to be, I don't know, you could do it in one lifetime.
44:19 Travis McElroy? Unless you are like Stone Cold Steve Austin, like I was just thinking if the Undertaker.
44:25 Griffin McElroy? Issue.
44:26 Travis McElroy? But if the, if the Undertaker rolled up to your biker gang and said, I'm the Undertaker, you wouldn't be like, well, you have to earn that. You'd be like, yeah, man, you absolutely are.
44:35 Griffin McElroy? I can't see any scenario in my future, Travis, where I would invite the Undertaker to my biker club. I do, I simply do not think the man qualifies for an invite. Um, how about some cool names?
44:48 Travis McElroy? Stone Cold Steve Austin would get mad if he joined the club and they're like, we're gonna call you danger. Well, Americans actually got a pretty good, like, I'm not a whole thing. I'm gonna just go with the Stone Cold thing, cause it's like, sorry, pretty scary and everything.
45:03 Griffin McElroy? Here comes Shotgun. I'm, I told you guys already.
45:06 Travis McElroy? No.
45:07 Griffin McElroy? They Stone Cold, I got on a shirt and everything, like I. Cool names. I'm gonna skip the fucking explanation of what is cool. Arsenal, Berserk, Cobra, Enigma.
45:18 Travis McElroy? Now, hold on.
45:19 Griffin McElroy? That's, that's the, I like like mystery, like when you, I cruise past you on the bike, if it says like Mad Dog, you're gonna be like, I know that guy's whole deal. But when he rolls through and he's like, conundrum. You have no fucking idea what I'm about.
45:34 Travis McElroy? If you put a question mark on the stencil and it's like Enigma.
45:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:39 Travis McElroy? Wait, was it? Exactly. I thought you run a danger of like your, your crew started to turn into a bunch of Batman, Rogue Scout, or they're like, this is the perplexer. Here we go. Ice King.
45:51 Griffin McElroy? Got Street.
45:52 Travis McElroy? The Paralyzer. He's great.
45:54 Griffin McElroy? Got Thunder Dog. That's one of the names actually provided here. Um, I'm just gonna rip through some of these names, cause there's a lot of filler shit in here. Uh, we got Axeman, Buzz, Cougar, Hannibal.
46:09 Travis McElroy? Cougar's a thing. Once again, if there's already like slang, like that is attached to that name, I don't think I'd wanna be Cougar. Because then everyone's like, oh, hey, it's a. It's Cougar, right? Like, I don't need that.
46:26 Griffin McElroy? You could be Cougar Town, and that would be cool. Yeah, named after the hit ABC.
46:30 Travis McElroy? Uh, how about? Desperate Housewives.
46:34 Griffin McElroy? I've been thinking, I've been thinking a lot about, um, what these names would look like emblazoned on a vest, and I don't know why my head is there, but thinking that way, I am interested in the name Kevlar. Because that's one of the names provided here, and if you put that on your clothes, and another biker, road rash style, tries to get up on you, you can point to your vest and be like, sorry, bud.
46:57 Travis McElroy? This is among the worst ideas I've ever heard in my entire life. It doesn't even hold up to, like, narrative scrutiny, even for, like, a comedy construction.
47:07 Griffin McElroy? No.
47:07 Travis McElroy? Fucking nonsensical. The idea that you would goad someone in the fake out of a fake armored vest is so, is so decrepit. Maybe it's real, maybe it's fake. Do you wanna risk it? Wait, what am I risking? Hold on, why, why is the risk on me at this point?
47:24 Griffin McElroy? You would be getting jumped in an on-the-road surprise attack. Okay. This is not something you court, you don't coordinate a badass.
47:32 Travis McElroy? It's a surprise attack where you wanna encourage the opposition to shoot you in the head.
47:36 Griffin McElroy? No.
47:36 Travis McElroy? You wanna make it extremely clear that they wanna go for a headshot.
47:39 Griffin McElroy? I don't think that's what the vest is meant to do, is to encourage them to shoot other cooler parts of your body. I think it's meant to say, they see it, and they're like, shit, this one's got armor.
47:48 Travis McElroy? Don't waste your time. They're completely Kevlar out. I would, once again.
47:55 Griffin McElroy? My name's also Kevlar. Fuck, guys.
47:57 Travis McElroy? Damn it.
47:58 Griffin McElroy? All these guys are Kevlar. Shoot.
48:00 Travis McElroy? I think if I was in a biker gang, and I met someone named Kevlar, and then I found out their real name wasn't Kevin, I'd be very upset.
48:08 Griffin McElroy? Really, really disappointed.
48:09 Travis McElroy? But I also think that that kind of impulse is maybe why I'm not in a biker gang.
48:14 Griffin McElroy? Exactly.
48:14 Travis McElroy? That idea of like, well, I'll tell you what really pisses me off. Kevlar over there, his real name's not even Kevin, and they're like, what the fuck are you talking about, Travis?
48:23 Griffin McElroy? What are you talking about? There's. There's a, there's a category of names that is not really siloed off here in this WikiHow article, but I would like to discuss sort of the power, the potential power of them. One of the names on here is Warlord. I'm thinking of like, can you get a name in your motorcycle club? That's like King, or Ruler, or Head Honcho, or?
48:48 Travis McElroy? Boss Man.
48:49 Griffin McElroy? Boss Man.
48:50 Travis McElroy? Boss, boss guy.
48:51 Griffin McElroy? Big President, but you're not in charge of the biker club?
48:55 Travis McElroy? They probably would hate that if you're like, hi, I'm Secretary Treasurer. I'm ready to run. They would, they would already have one of those.
49:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:04 Travis McElroy? Do you think when you're picking, I bet that when you're picking a biker name for yourself, the amount of introspection that it takes to match up the level of badass that the name is with like, what you think you can achieve?
49:19 Griffin McElroy? What you can deliver on?
49:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah, well, because I don't want to put up a big check that I can't cash, you know what I mean? Because I was thinking Warlord, and then you get in there and it's like, I, yeah, I'm not actually, I'm kind of, I'm kind of like threat averse. I'm not really into the fight. I feel like I'd have to pick.
49:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you'll be reasonable.
49:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah, Mantis, I think would be good for me.
49:42 Griffin McElroy? Mantis would be cool. I'm, there's a list of, there's a list of women biker names on here.
49:49 Travis McElroy? Oh, good, okay.
49:50 Griffin McElroy? And they're about as rough as you can imagine. There's two on here I would like to dive into a little bit though. One is Torque Mistress.
49:59 Travis McElroy? Nice.
49:59 Griffin McElroy? That could be, now Juice, what was your reaction to that?
50:03 Travis McElroy? No, it's good. It's Torque Mistress.
50:05 Griffin McElroy? Torque Mistress is like?
50:06 Travis McElroy? Torque Mistress.
50:07 Griffin McElroy? Is cool. I don't?
50:09 Travis McElroy? You're gonna meet the exact people you want to with a name like that. You're gonna, it really narrows the, uh, the demographic. Torque Mistress.
50:17 Travis McElroy? It will, unfortunately, it will signal to Torque's wife what's, what's going on between the two of you.
50:25 Griffin McElroy? Torque is just standing in the middle. Uh oh, I don't know.
50:29 Travis McElroy? Torque wife gonna be so mad.
50:32 Griffin McElroy? Who's Torque?
50:32 Travis McElroy? No, Torque's always like, I really hate this, but I'm not sure Torque does at this point, honestly.
50:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, if Torque hated it, he would have done, he would have made his choice by now. The other one I wanted to talk about is Smooth Wheels, which is like
50:45 Travis McElroy? Huh.
50:45 Griffin McElroy? Fucking crazy because you'll die.
50:49 Travis McElroy? Those are bad. We don't want those.
50:51 Travis McElroy? Ball tires. No, don't do that. I'm gonna pick one for Griffin and I wanna nail it. I wanna nail it.
51:01 Griffin McElroy? You do that and I'll give you one from the list of funny biker names they provided, which I did not even know was an option. Does each biker club have, I can't, I don't know anything about this world. I never watched a Sons of Anarchy or anything in that vein. Is there always like kind of a funny one?
51:17 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
51:17 Griffin McElroy? In the club?
51:18 Travis McElroy? There's always a funny one.
51:19 Travis McElroy? They usually get killed, though.
51:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's true.
51:22 Griffin McElroy? I guess I don't know what they're doing most of the time, like obvious.
51:26 Travis McElroy? So normally they yell, I watched some of Sons of Anarchy and then I quit. So here's what I can tell you. Mostly they're yelling at each other.
51:36 Travis McElroy? That's Justin.
51:37 Travis McElroy? And then they're fighting amongst each other, which is wild because they only know like 10 motorcycle guys. I wouldn't fight with them.
51:43 Griffin McElroy? And their whole thing is that they all really like riding motorcycles.
51:46 Travis McElroy? Yeah, they can't live in a cage, which is a car.
51:48 Travis McElroy? Justin, when you stopped watching Sons of Anarchy, did the cast show up to beat you up to let you out? Is that what happened?
51:55 Griffin McElroy? But then the cast of Yellowstone showed up and was like, stay back.
51:59 Travis McElroy? We touched our back.
51:59 Griffin McElroy? That's our boy now.
52:01 Travis McElroy? Family. Griffin, I'm gonna call you porcelain.
52:04 Griffin McElroy? Porcelain's cool.
52:05 Travis McElroy? It's us, the cast of Leverage. We were pretending to be the cast of Yellowstone this entire time.
52:10 Travis McElroy? Dude, I'd love that. Are you kidding me?
52:12 Travis McElroy? I know. It'd be cool if more shows turned out to be Leverage.
52:15 Griffin McElroy? I'd rock with porcelain so hard, Trav. I think you got me in one because something, one, it's true. I would be so, I can't fall off a bike. That's it.
52:24 Travis McElroy? And you like the toilet.
52:26 Griffin McElroy? Horse line. One, I, well, I don't, I would love to shed the toilet thing, but there is just like, that's the, that's that club's beauty boy. I would, I would love to be the beauty boy, the bike.
52:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man. I think they would call you taxman.
52:39 Griffin McElroy? Shit.
52:40 Travis McElroy? Cause it's like, maybe like, no one likes you. So you're kind of like a bad boy. I mean that in a biker way, like taxman.
52:47 Griffin McElroy? Oh, I just thought you were being the meanest to me you've ever been in your life.
52:51 Travis McElroy? It's like tax, like, but like also you look like you could be the.
52:53 Griffin McElroy? I thought you just casually dropped and no one likes you.
52:59 Travis McElroy? I mean, like a bad boy, like no one gets on your bad side, like the taxman, like they're coming after you. But it's also like, you look like you would be good at doing, like you would probably end up doing the taxes for the biker gang if they have taxes from like their farmer's market sand or whatever, like whatever they are doing.
53:15 Griffin McElroy? I don't know how they, how are they getting money?
53:17 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I don't know. I sell like heritage butter. I don't, I don't know. Facebook has taught me that bikers, when they're not doing biker stuff, are like accompanying children to scary places. That's what Facebook shows me all the time.
53:30 Griffin McElroy? Do they get a stipend from the government to be riding bikes around? Cause I think that's their job and I don't know why.
53:37 Travis McElroy? They're influencers, they're bike influencers. So they see people riding around. You see cool people in a big biker gang. They've got a Motorola motorcycle, one of the good ones. And then. A Motorola big honker. Yeah.
53:53 Griffin McElroy? I think they call them Motorola cycles.
53:56 Travis McElroy? Justin, I'm gonna call you bootleg. Bootleg is good.
54:00 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
54:01 Travis McElroy? Cause I bet you know how to get movies, um, that like maybe aren't available in stores. You know a lot about like VPN and like how to, like if I'm in America and I want to watch like British TV, how I could do that.
54:14 Griffin McElroy? And then when they do like biker club movie night, which may or may not be a thing. Again, I don't know fucking anything about this entire subculture. You are the one who gets to pick the tapes.
54:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
54:25 Griffin McElroy? When everyone gets together to watch movies after every great bike. This sounds cool. I kind of want to be a part of this now.
54:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I have an. You want to be in motorcycles.
54:32 Travis McElroy? I'd be in.
54:35 Griffin McElroy? I mean, I have an e-bike. I think that's.
54:37 Travis McElroy? Can you do, could your personality in the biker gang be like bikeless, bikeless Barry? Or something like the one guy in it that doesn't do the motorcycle.
54:46 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sidecar.
54:49 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
54:49 Griffin McElroy? They look.
54:50 Travis McElroy? Toe and toe and toe and Terry, the guy.
54:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shoe leather. They, I'm gonna, I'm gonna call myself.
54:57 Griffin McElroy? You're talking about sketch over there? Yes, the weirdest thing. He hates motorcycles, scared to death of it, but he can draw them.
55:04 Travis McElroy? Have you heard his poetry?
55:06 Griffin McElroy? You should hear him.
55:07 Travis McElroy? You're talking about skitch? Yes, the weirdest thing. He just hangs onto the back of our motorcycles and then rides a skateboard. He sketches everywhere.
55:14 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. He's like our pet.
55:16 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna call myself Grimace.
55:19 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
55:19 Travis McElroy? Cause I have purple hair, but also it's kind of like, oh, you're, oh, it's like a grimace of pain or whatever.
55:24 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. Yeah.
55:25 Travis McElroy? Mostly because I have purple hair.
55:26 Griffin McElroy? These are all good names, Trav. I think you have, you have a calling here. Um, I don't want you on a motorcycle. I don't want to either of you guys on a motorcycle.
55:34 Travis McElroy? Teresa will be so mad at me.
55:36 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
55:37 Travis McElroy? But I would work as they're like naming Oracle. If they would, like, I'm.
55:41 Griffin McElroy? Oracle, that's a cool fucking, that's a cool.
55:43 Travis McElroy? Oracle's cool.
55:44 Griffin McElroy? Do biker clubs have?
55:45 Travis McElroy? Okay.
55:46 Griffin McElroy? Biker clubs have like an operator who like hangs out at the lair and like tells them where to ride and stuff? Cause that would be cool.
55:52 Travis McElroy? I'm in a little motorcycle chair that zooms around the office?
55:56 Travis McElroy? Taxman would probably handle like logistics.
55:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
55:59 Travis McElroy? Well, the taxman's the numbers guy. He's doing the money.
56:03 Griffin McElroy? If we're being honest, the three of us can only fill that role. And no, there is not a biker organization alive that wants three operators back at home base. So we're gonna end up on different clubs, I'm afraid.
56:16 Travis McElroy? I, well, you can do different shifts.
56:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's true.
56:19 Griffin McElroy? You're not 24 hours in a pop.
56:20 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I would also bartend if they needed that.
56:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
56:24 Travis McElroy? I'd be happy to do that. Listen to their troubles.
56:26 Griffin McElroy? Let me get a Grimace shake.
56:28 Travis McElroy? Report them to the police for a week B.
56:30 Travis McElroy? Do you think sidecars are a big part of biker gangs? Like, like finding buddies for your sidecar? Like, maybe you could sit in the, cause I.
56:38 Travis McElroy? I was thinking about the problem with having a sidecar is if it's ever empty, people are gonna assume that you're in a fight. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like they're like, it's like, hey, what happened? It's like, nothing. It's just, I just was going out by myself right now.
56:53 Griffin McElroy? I want, I want to be clear. You keep using the term biker clubs and biker gangs interchangeably. The organization I'm running is just a, a, a team of bike enthusiasts who have no, there's no criminal element to it whatsoever. They get paid by the government to ride their bikes around the city.
57:11 Travis McElroy? Right.
57:12 Griffin McElroy? And.
57:12 Travis McElroy? Mostly for flavor?
57:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
57:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I think that if you want to join a biker club, you should have to ride in the sidecar for the first year to see if you like it before you get your first motorcycle. Right? Because what if you get your first motorcycle, you hop on, you ride your motorcycle for five minutes, you're like, ah, wait.
57:33 Griffin McElroy? Sorry, guys. I don't, I'm sorry, guys, I tried. I don't like this. I know you worked really hard to come up with a name for me.
57:40 Travis McElroy? You don't like taxman?
57:41 Griffin McElroy? It's cool. A taxman is great. It's a shame. I would love to be taxman. I just really didn't like that.
57:46 Travis McElroy? I didn't like riding on the motorcycle. It was scary. It was loud.
57:50 Griffin McElroy? Hey, guys, no one told me how windy it was gonna be. That's fucking crazy. You guys deal with that every day.
57:54 Travis McElroy? What if we put a windshield on it and some like doors, maybe a seatbelt to protect? I'm describing a car. Fuck!
58:01 Travis McElroy? You put a helmet on my head, but I have other parts than heads.
58:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
58:05 Travis McElroy? And my Kevlar vest isn't gonna protect my, what's that? It's just the name? Fuck!
58:10 Griffin McElroy? What the fuck? That's confusing.
58:13 Travis McElroy? What if someone shoots at me thinking, oh, I see.
58:15 Griffin McElroy? Oh.
58:17 Travis McElroy? God.
58:17 Griffin McElroy? Wait, is there much shooting in this biking enthusiast club?
58:22 Travis McElroy? The idea of the three of us joining a biker gang is the most.
58:25 Griffin McElroy? You did it again.
58:26 Travis McElroy? We still have a TV show.
58:28 Griffin McElroy? A biker gang? Or a biker club?
58:31 Travis McElroy? Of enthusiasts.
58:32 Griffin McElroy? I don't see any reality where I join a biker gang, but I can see one where I buy a motorcycle when I turn 40 because I have a panic attack.
58:40 Travis McElroy? I imagine that this distinction, if you are a member of one of these clubs, is extremely important to you. So I apologize for, for running afoul. I think I could join a biker. Biker gang as kind of a mascot.
58:50 Griffin McElroy? Travis, Travis.
58:51 Travis McElroy? Mascot slash pet kind of thing. No, I'm saying gang.
58:54 Griffin McElroy? Do those.
58:55 Travis McElroy? I'm saying gang.
58:57 Griffin McElroy? I'm over here in the playground. I'm over here in the playground. I'm having fun with the question. The question's a big, beautiful balloon and I'm bouncing it around in the air. You guys are playing in traffic right now. I'm in the playground where it's fun and safe.
59:11 Travis McElroy? I could definitely, you're not listening. I could definitely join a biker enthusiast club.
59:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
59:16 Travis McElroy? I'm saying the only way I'm making my way into a biker gang is as a pet slash mascot kind of character like Peewee Herman in Peewee's Big Adventure.
59:25 Griffin McElroy? Back in the street.
59:28 Travis McElroy? I don't think any of us are cut out for this life.
59:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you're right. We can't even get the terminology right.
59:33 Griffin McElroy? I hope there's not many clips that come out of this episode because there's going to be constant continuity errors with wearing of the Walton Goggins goggle glasses.
59:41 Travis McElroy? If it just gets him to notice us and say, boy, those guys sound just like.
59:45 Griffin McElroy? Notice me, Goggins.
59:47 Travis McElroy? Notice me, Goggins.
59:51 Griffin McElroy? Put on your glasses.
59:54 Travis McElroy? We are not at a place in our careers.
59:56 Griffin McElroy? Friend Griffin calling.
59:59 Travis McElroy? Yep, here's our surgical parody. We're done.
1:00:02 Griffin McElroy? Hey, five, hey, five people who got that, you're, you, you're in.
1:00:07 Travis McElroy? So welcome.
1:00:07 Griffin McElroy? Welcome to the fucking real, real club.
1:00:10 Travis McElroy? Thank you for listening to my brother, my brother and me all these years. Really appreciate it. This one too. Especially this one, but all of them. We really appreciate it. Thank you. If you've never seen us in, in live and in person, you should.
1:00:22 Travis McElroy? It's even better.
1:00:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we're coming to Michigan and Minnesota, uh, next week and we got new dates in California, Texas, Georgia and Utah. All those Taz shows are going to be Taz versus, except for the Anaheim Taz show, which will be Daddland's with Brendan Lee Mulligan. All tickets are on sale now. More info and ticket links are available at bit.ly forward slash McElroy tours.
1:00:45 Travis McElroy? I'm also so excited. This week is Champions Grove. I'm excited to see everybody there. It's going to be a blast.
1:00:50 Travis McElroy? I hope everyone's fun.
1:00:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm excited.
1:00:53 Griffin McElroy? Um, hey, we got some merch over at the McElroy merch store. Guys.
1:00:59 Griffin McElroy? I brewed my first cup of the flaming, not poisoning, raging tea of doom last night. That we collabed with Good Store. It's a wonderful loose leaf tea. And guys, I'm not just saying this because it's sort of our thing, but it's a good fucking brew. Oh, man. It treated me just right. Wonderful notes of clove, spicy, a spicy finish, which I really do enjoy.
1:01:26 Travis McElroy? Spicy finish is also a good biker name.
1:01:28 Griffin McElroy? Flavorful, but not cloying, which is a really difficult balance to stick the landing on. Herbal, no caffeine for a nighttime come down. It's a, it's a beautiful.
1:01:40 Travis McElroy? Nighttime come down is another good biker name.
1:01:43 Griffin McElroy? It's a beautiful brew. And you can find it over at macroymerch.com. 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Thank you so much, Montane. You're the best. The music is so good. Keep that new shit coming. We're eating good over here.
1:02:02 Travis McElroy? Um, I've got a fear here. I'd like to read faster than fear. This year, I'm moving faster than my fear of my partner's worm farm. The worms aren't strong enough to open it and get me.
1:02:15 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin McElroy.
1:02:16 Travis McElroy? I'm Travis McElroy.
1:02:18 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McElroy.
1:02:19 Travis McElroy? It's me, my brother, my brother me. Kiss your dad.
1:02:21 Griffin McElroy? Square on the lips.
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