Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 756: King Fuck of Bastard Mountain About this episode Even though the three of us are openly displaying the inevitable crawl towards the grave with our greying hair and our outdated references, we are still here to help. We still know all the cool things, like the amount of wrestling one can watch with 2 kids, new and creative curses, and how many sides are in a square.
Suggested talking points: Shakeup in the Curse Rankings, Set Faisons to Stun, A Square is a Half Octagon, Do You Suffer From Need?, Story-Driven Panting
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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 up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother, Travis Vroom Vroom McElroy.
1:22 Griffin McElroy? Hey, what's up? This is Griffin McElroy, the youngest brother, built Ford Tough. What are we doing today, guys?
1:26 Travis McElroy? Did you see that I shortened?
1:28 Griffin McElroy? I did. I felt good. And I'll be honest, Trav, I felt like you were giving me a little bit more room to play because sometimes I worry about, you know, catchphrase fatigue by the time it gets around to me. But it does feel like I have, you're leaving me a little bit of corn on the cob for me on the big corn cob we share.
1:46 Travis McElroy? I'm going to be faster than fear of my someone, of someone else talking.
1:50 Griffin McElroy? Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. You would describe your relationship with other people talking as a, as a fear?
1:56 Travis McElroy? Well, because it's so boring, you know, when someone else talks and it's just not as good. Hey, we got an update from Jimmy O. regarding our... Our swear data.
2:08 Griffin McElroy? Okay, I was gonna say, much, much love Jimmy O. I don't remember who that is, but now.
2:13 Travis McElroy? Jimmy O. gave us our, at that point, I think only a couple years on what curse words he'd said the most. And I think last episode, we talked about like curse words we used the most and things like that.
2:25 Griffin McElroy? Can I just say before we get to it, Jimmy O., thanks for sending all that stuff to our dad. Got me in a lot of fucking trouble, Jimmy O.
2:31 Travis McElroy? That is true.
2:32 Griffin McElroy? When dad found out how much I cuss, I got in so much trouble, Jimmy O. I'm coming for you.
2:37 Travis McElroy? I do like, now I have an image too of like every time we cuss, Jimmy being like, and having to like go into like an abacus and like sliding one bead over to the right.
2:47 Griffin McElroy? Dark, sticky abacus.
2:49 Travis McElroy? So at this point, Jimmy has gone through 443 episodes where, where he could find the transcripts from 2010 to 2024. So in 443 episodes collectively.
3:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
3:05 Travis McElroy? 9,811 swears.
3:08 Griffin McElroy? Well, once we get to 10,000, Malcolm Gladwell says we'll finally be pretty good at it.
3:12 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Interestingly, there's been a shakeup in the rankings.
3:18 Griffin McElroy? No, no freaking way.
3:21 Travis McElroy? Um, I am no longer in those, in that count, the cleanest brother.
3:26 Griffin McElroy? Wow. Is it me?
3:28 Travis McElroy? No, Griffin. No, God, no. Justin, Justin, 2088, Travis, 2,282, Griffin, 4,952.
3:40 Griffin McElroy? I need to get, I gotta get right with Christ. There is no other way to say it.
3:47 Travis McElroy? That is not, that is not, okay, that's not a slight difference. That's not a.
3:53 Griffin McElroy? It's a doubling.
3:53 Travis McElroy? You know, it's more than both of me and Justin put together.
3:57 Travis McElroy? Together. What's wrong with you?
3:59 Griffin McElroy? I am worried sometimes that the things I'm saying aren't gonna hit. And I do feel like sometimes putting a little bit of cursing in there is like putting a little bit of putting putting an extra shot of espresso in it. A little skewed humor. It's not even skewed Travis, there's it does nothing to change the perspective or content of the thoughts.
4:24 Travis McElroy? I'm a little worried honestly that my number is higher just from how much we've talked about Griffin's language.
4:31 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:32 Travis McElroy? On the show, like to discuss Griffin's language, I I I'm cautious about even participating.
4:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:39 Travis McElroy? Because I don't want to get down in the gutter where his mind is.
4:43 Griffin McElroy? Now.
4:43 Travis McElroy? It scares me.
4:44 Travis McElroy? Jimmy does say, Justin, that you have the most variety in your swears.
4:49 Griffin McElroy? Well, that's even that's even I almost did it just there. That's even worse for me. Because that means that I'm cussing a lot with the same with the same ones. I'm guessing F is up there.
4:58 Travis McElroy? Well, Justin's the only one brave enough to say anal escort and cocksucker on the air.
5:04 Travis McElroy? Wait, hold on Jimmy. Now, hold on.
5:08 Griffin McElroy? Anal Jimmy, anal Jimmy O?
5:11 Travis McElroy? Now Griffin talks about escorts a lot, but I don't think of that as a profane act.
5:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I also call my proctologist my anal escort because he is the one who kind of guides me down that strange and winding path.
5:25 Travis McElroy? Griffin also doesn't know how to pronounce analgesic and I don't know if there is some sort of AI thing in the works here that maybe is misinterpreted.
5:34 Griffin McElroy? And I talk a lot about the just sort of insufferable escort missions for Metal Gear Solid Two Sons of Liberty. A lot and yet are these being counted against me Jimmy O? Anal Jimmy O?
5:47 Travis McElroy? I will say.
5:48 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna have to see the dictionary you're plugging these into to get this sort of.
5:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Now, they would let you say anal and escort on Club Penguin. So I think it's probably okay on my brother, my brother in me, don't you think?
6:01 Travis McElroy? Now for a stock analyst, for market analyst.
6:05 Griffin McElroy? Analysts.
6:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah, surprising news, anus is on the rise 79% per year.
6:12 Griffin McElroy? That's exciting.
6:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah, my ear, anus is, yeah, anus is really expanding.
6:17 Griffin McElroy? Weirdly, yeah, anal is down, anus is up. So we're talking about it in the, what is that? Present participle tense, uh, a lot more often these days, which is cool.
6:28 Travis McElroy? Let's just say, let's, uh, let's get the witch hazel out. The anal's really expanding.
6:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:32 Travis McElroy? We've gotta bring it in.
6:33 Travis McElroy? So ass, okay, we've got some breakdown of the top three.
6:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:38 Travis McElroy? Ass.
6:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:39 Travis McElroy? 728 total.
6:41 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
6:42 Travis McElroy? Eight percent of Justin's swears are ass. Eight percent of Griffin's are ass. Five percent of Travis.
6:48 Griffin McElroy? Jimmy O?
6:50 Griffin McElroy? That's pretty deep intel, my friend. You've really crunched the numbers on this one, Jimmy O.
6:56 Travis McElroy? Now, interesting, a shocking, I would say, uh, upset shit, outpaced fuck.
7:05 Griffin McElroy? No way.
7:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah, shit, 3,610. Now, who do you think said shit the most?
7:12 Griffin McElroy? I don't know. Probably me, just because it's just law of large numbers.
7:16 Travis McElroy? Forty-three percent of Griffin's curse words are shit.
7:19 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:20 Travis McElroy? Twenty-nine percent of Justin's swears are shit.
7:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:23 Travis McElroy? Thirty-seven percent. So I outpaced Justin on shit.
7:26 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
7:27 Travis McElroy? Right behind Griffin. Now, fuck.
7:30 Griffin McElroy? I'm still king of bastards, right?
7:32 Travis McElroy? I have to imagine.
7:33 Griffin McElroy? I'm still riding high on Bastard Mountain, right?
7:36 Travis McElroy? I have to imagine. Fuck, 2,189.
7:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:41 Travis McElroy? Twenty-one percent of Justin's swears are fuck. Interesting, Griffin and I, neck and neck, 24% of our swear. Now, Griffin is still, can't stress enough, almost 5,000, where I'm at like 2,000. So per capita, a lot more fucks for Griffin.
7:57 Griffin McElroy? I'm king fuck of Bastard Mountain. Yeah, absolutely. Um.
8:01 Travis McElroy? You guys are at, I, I would ask Jimmy, I think that these conversations should be excised.
8:09 Travis McElroy? Yeah, this is clinical.
8:11 Travis McElroy? Because I feel like.
8:13 Griffin McElroy? This doesn't count, Jimmy. We can't talk about this unless, unless we use those.
8:17 Travis McElroy? I'm allergic to bad science, Jimmy. Well, give me one moment. You see, James, this is a clinical discussion, and by inserting yourself into the data, you have compromised it.
8:27 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
8:28 Travis McElroy? We are needing to quarantine off this fucking hot fucking jizz joint.
8:34 Griffin McElroy? Fuck ass. Wait, yeah, wait, Jimmy's not listening?
8:37 Travis McElroy? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
8:38 Griffin McElroy? I'm a real piss dick.
8:42 Griffin McElroy? Travis, crotch chop Jimmy O with us.
8:47 Travis McElroy? Hey Jimmy.
8:48 Griffin McElroy? Hey Jimmy, what you got about that shit?
8:49 Travis McElroy? Starting to lose all meaning, the crotch chop, though. If I do it too much.
8:53 Griffin McElroy? Are you kidding me? I never see a crotch chop out there. Whenever anyone I see hit anyone else with a crotch chop, it takes my breath away.
9:01 Travis McElroy? Especially I, I love a lackadaisical crotch chop.
9:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, oh, just so walk around that. When I see someone bust out a, while I am just like out in public, it's like the, the, the food critic scene in Ratatouille. Just like the camera zooms into my face and I remember myself telling everybody.
9:18 Travis McElroy? In ninth grade, I thought our band's drum line invented the crotch chop. I thought that our, because I didn't watch wrestling. So I thought that we just had a really cool drum line that had the really vibe all their own.
9:30 Griffin McElroy? The crotch chop is so cool for so many reasons. I think the best reason is because traditionally, when you cross your arms X over something, you're saying like, no to it. So the crotch chop would be like a sort of a cool.
9:44 Travis McElroy? For TikTok, Griffin, can you demonstrate the crotch chop? Because I feel like people don't know.
9:47 Travis McElroy? You can also.
9:48 Travis McElroy? What it is. You have to visibly.
9:50 Travis McElroy? Yeah, move the mic.
9:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
9:54 Travis McElroy? That's better. Thank you. Yeah.
9:56 Travis McElroy? Powerful. Whoa. He's doing it.
9:59 Travis McElroy? That's good. It's really good.
10:01 Travis McElroy? And what's great, hey Griffin, can you get back on headphones for a second?
10:04 Travis McElroy? Just for the podcast.
10:05 Travis McElroy? So Griffin, as you know, vampires are very popular. Can you go from like a vampire rising from the crypt to a crotch chop in one fluid kind of swing? Because I think that that could be the next thing.
10:16 Griffin McElroy? So it could be like.
10:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah, right? I think that that could be a powerful new thing in vampire mythology.
10:24 Griffin McElroy? There's so many wrestlers across the WWE and AEW who are flirting with being a vampire. And I really wish someone would finally just like, fucking do it.
10:36 Travis McElroy? It'd be cool if they did like a. Just like wrestling, but they were monsters like.
10:42 Griffin McElroy? I mean, there is Kaiju Big Battle. There's, there are some folks fucking with that, but I do, I would love to see that in the mainstream.
10:47 Travis McElroy? Universal, you're trying to get that Monsters Universe going.
10:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:51 Travis McElroy? Have they, this is a wrestling idea for free.
10:54 Travis McElroy? Oh, please.
10:55 Travis McElroy? Had one that is supposedly AI yet?
10:58 Griffin McElroy? Oh, that's cool. Like their body.
10:59 Travis McElroy? They had a wrestler who's like, is just, is AI, like is.
11:02 Travis McElroy? So not a robot?
11:04 Travis McElroy? No, is like, is, it does, is powered completely by AI.
11:08 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay, cool.
11:09 Travis McElroy? Powered wrestler, like in.
11:14 Travis McElroy? Meet Dave?
11:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah.
11:17 Travis McElroy? Now, what would be great, Justin, is if they did that, but for the first like 20 or so matches, they kept just like walking aimlessly into like a turnstile, like turnbuckle, right? And like the ropes and everything. And it took the, it took the AI a while to figure out like what, what, how to wrestle, right? How to do it right?
11:37 Griffin McElroy? Apparently there was a tag team, uh, Bill Eady was super machine and the, there's a giant machine dressed up like robots. Giant machine played by, of course, Andre the Giant.
11:47 Travis McElroy? Oh.
11:48 Griffin McElroy? That went down, I bet that went down pretty smooth.
11:50 Travis McElroy? I would love that. Uh, sorry, I, you're saying somewhere, is there an image of Andre the Giant dressed as a robot? Or are we just like, are you keeping that to yourself or where you at?
12:01 Griffin McElroy? I mean, let's go ahead and check it. No.
12:04 Travis McElroy? No, that's been wiped from the internet for being too hot for TV.
12:06 Griffin McElroy? God damn it, AI, you're so fucking foolish all the time. This is, I searched Andre the Joe, Andre the Giant.
12:16 Travis McElroy? Andre the Joe Bot dressed as a wrestler.
12:18 Griffin McElroy? Andre the Giant Robot Wrestling. Fucking Google AI was like, well, Andre the Giant never wrestled robots. He was a highly successful professional wrestler. Is that, is that what you thought I was asking? Did Andre the Giant ever wrestle robots? Did, it sounds like AI got scared by the question and then like answered too fast and then was probably like, well, nobody wrestles robots. What the fuck am I talking about?
12:42 Travis McElroy? I'm dumb. Uh, last data point. By the end of the 443 episodes, our average swearing went from 20 swears per app to 22 swears per app and counting.
12:55 Griffin McElroy? That's just inflation.
12:56 Travis McElroy? I think we, yeah, that's true. That's just.
12:58 Travis McElroy? We're gonna see more about how much things cost. So that's inflation.
13:01 Travis McElroy? That's how inflation works.
13:02 Travis McElroy? That's how inflation.
13:03 Travis McElroy? Read a book.
13:05 Travis McElroy? How would you guys feel about helping people?
13:07 Travis McElroy? Oh, I'd love it. Justin, I would love to.
13:10 Griffin McElroy? For me? Thanks.
13:11 Travis McElroy? I'm a fast paced girl and I love making plans with my friends.
13:15 Griffin McElroy? Same, same.
13:16 Travis McElroy? Yeah, unfortunately.
13:17 Travis McElroy? I love this book that you're writing, Justin, this teen fiction.
13:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
13:21 Travis McElroy? About like a girl who turns into a car or his parked car and it was going.
13:25 Travis McElroy? I'm a fast paced girl and I love making plans with my friends. Unfortunately, they're not always glued to their phone waiting on my every word. How long is it polite to wait for confirmation to plans before I reach out to another friend to see if they're free instead? Is there a polite way to say there's an extended timeframe I need a response by? Probably not. Please help, brothers. That's from impatient Indiana invite.
13:45 Griffin McElroy? I love.
13:46 Travis McElroy? I, this gets me.
13:47 Griffin McElroy? It gets me too, and I really love how much you just own it. My friends have to get on my fucking level if they want to get with me.
13:56 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
13:57 Griffin McElroy? How quickly can I drop these fucking zeros?
14:01 Travis McElroy? The word chill is not in this question.
14:03 Griffin McElroy? No, not chilled off, but I, but that's cool because you're like, this is, this is me, this is us and I'm, this is how I roll. Help me.
14:09 Travis McElroy? And there are times where time is of the essence.
14:13 Griffin McElroy? Absolutely.
14:14 Travis McElroy? Right? Where like you have two tickets to a thing happening that day or something, right? And it's just like, I, I asked you, I haven't gotten an answer yet. Time is ticking and you run the risk of asking someone else and then person one comes back and they're like, I'd love to. And then you gotta be like, oh, you missed, you missed it.
14:34 Griffin McElroy? Donald Faison is at this farmer's market.
14:37 Travis McElroy? Yes.
14:37 Griffin McElroy? Get your ass down here. It looks like he's wrapping up. If you don't get a response to that in 60 seconds, first of all, you need to really consider whether or not that person is a true acquaintance or not.
14:50 Travis McElroy? And a true Faison fan.
14:52 Griffin McElroy? A true Faison and then also.
14:55 Travis McElroy? Text notifications set up specifically for.
14:57 Griffin McElroy? Oh, you can disturb, you can break the do not disturb firewall if there's any kind of Faison encounter at all. Do not sweat it, guys. I will not be.
15:06 Travis McElroy? Let's talk about the do not disturb firewall specifically in context with Clinton, Emel, McElroy.
15:12 Griffin McElroy? That's an interesting one. And I, can I say?
15:14 Travis McElroy? I've been waiting to unpack this for a while.
15:16 Griffin McElroy? I like this strategy a lot.
15:19 Travis McElroy? And I love my dad.
15:21 Travis McElroy? I love my dad too. And this is, okay, so dad, it says, when you try to text dad. And it has been this way for a very, I'm just going to double check. Okay. When you try to text dad, it says dad has notification silenced.
15:34 Travis McElroy? Yes.
15:36 Travis McElroy? Always.
15:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
15:37 Travis McElroy? Like always. And this is not, that's not that surprising.
15:40 Travis McElroy? No, no.
15:41 Travis McElroy? Right? Because, okay, that's just whatever. I get it. That's a very visible symbol you're sending to the world. Dad insists that he doesn't know how it keeps happening.
15:49 Travis McElroy? This is the claim.
15:50 Travis McElroy? This is the thing.
15:51 Travis McElroy? This is the thing. This is the thing. And this is a man who routinely pretends to be bad at things that I know he has done.
16:01 Travis McElroy? Yeah, like.
16:02 Travis McElroy? Like he is not, he's at least 10% not as bad as he appears to be.
16:07 Travis McElroy? This man is, this man has beaten the Elden Ring videotape. Like he has, has solved more complex things. He programmed many VCRs in his day. He knows how to work it.
16:17 Travis McElroy? And phones only do certain things.
16:20 Travis McElroy? More than that, this man has handed me his phone and said, I don't know, Juice, it just keeps happening. And I'll see the do not disturb is turned on and I'll go into his phone and I'll turn it off.
16:31 Travis McElroy? A swipe and a tap, literally all it takes.
16:33 Travis McElroy? There's a schedule.
16:34 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
16:34 Travis McElroy? To see that it's like turning, but no schedule, nothing like that. It's off. And then I'll go to text a man, literally an hour later. Yeah. Do not disturb is on. And it's not a glitch. He doesn't respond to text messages.
16:49 Travis McElroy? Yeah. The only possibility is that dad swipes up to do something else. And then he goes, I like the moon. And just hits the moon button.
16:57 Travis McElroy? Probably does get stoked.
16:58 Travis McElroy? Activate moon mode. I like the moon?
17:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
17:03 Travis McElroy? Lunar powered.
17:04 Travis McElroy? Anti-gravity, go.
17:07 Travis McElroy? So every time you text dad, you then have to push the button. It's like notify him anyway.
17:11 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
17:12 Travis McElroy? I'm not gonna play the game.
17:13 Travis McElroy? I kind of enjoy having your phone be sort of like a P O box that you can go and interact with other people at your leisure. And that is what is expected in, in society. That would be dope. You boys have a lot better grasp on interacting with human beings in a normal way than I do.
17:35 Travis McElroy? Bold of you to say, but sometimes, please continue.
17:38 Travis McElroy? In this regard, how gauche would it be to group text people to say, I got one ticket. First come, first served.
17:48 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's cool.
17:49 Travis McElroy? Right? Like.
17:51 Travis McElroy? Private me off the chain, off thread.
17:55 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
17:55 Travis McElroy? Right? But you have four tickets.
17:58 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
17:59 Travis McElroy? So you're creating urgency where there is no urgency.
18:02 Travis McElroy? That's not what I was doing, but yeah, man.
18:04 Travis McElroy? Sorry, Trav. I misunderstood. I thought we were lying.
18:07 Travis McElroy? Oh, no, but I'm just saying like, I'm pitting people against each other for my love.
18:13 Travis McElroy? Right.
18:13 Travis McElroy? The other one would be to text with the phrase, this is a limited time offer at the end. And I don't know how you guys feel about that.
18:21 Griffin McElroy? There should be, well, I guess.
18:23 Travis McElroy? Wild supplies last, maybe?
18:26 Griffin McElroy? I know everybody's like wild about using these alternative messaging programs to coordinate war and stuff, but also like people are like, yeah, man, you can do it super secret. So the thing disappears really fast. Is this why it is? Because then you can be like, hey, what's up? Heading to the, the, uh, the Donald Faison show. Got one ticket left. Are you in? Two minutes.
18:52 Travis McElroy? Faison's to Stein.
18:54 Griffin McElroy? That's the name of his one man comedy show that he does. Are you fucking in? This message will self-destruct in two minutes.
19:01 Travis McElroy? That's a inner, maybe we should normalize unsending messages a few minutes after you send them.
19:07 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:07 Travis McElroy? Like, maybe it's like you get it. It's like, nope, I deleted it.
19:10 Griffin McElroy? You didn't get that one.
19:11 Travis McElroy? I don't know what it said.
19:12 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:12 Travis McElroy? Weird.
19:12 Griffin McElroy? If I said, hey, Justin, do you want to go to the fucking Faison show with me tonight? And then you stood there and looked at me silently for two minutes? Uh, do you think that I'm going to continue to offer this social engagement?
19:26 Travis McElroy? Offer rescinded.
19:27 Griffin McElroy? No.
19:29 Travis McElroy? This is also why we should, and listen, it's a bit of a throwback, but normalize valets who go to your friend's home with a silver platter with the invitation written on it. And then they bring back a response, you know, and you just get the card right there. One, jobs creator. That's number one. Two, a lot more silver trays moving about in the world. So that's production right there.
19:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:55 Travis McElroy? You know what I'm saying? This is going to be good for the economy in a lot of ways.
19:58 Griffin McElroy? I feel uncomfortable.
20:01 Griffin McElroy? When I doordash like some Pepto Bismol because I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to the CVS and back. In my condition, I'm so self-conscious about that, the idea that I would ever use a similar service. So that someone could roll up to a friend's house and be like, hey, you can go and be on COD tonight. Griffin asks, he paid me, he paid me $6 plus a $9 service fee to ask you COD tonight?
20:28 Travis McElroy? I will say though, man, Jobs creator, the other day, that remind me of a funny, the other day, uh, the girls and I took girls to Lowe's. We needed some gardening stuff and I got the girls those extra large lollipop things that they have at checkout.
20:42 Griffin McElroy? Love those.
20:43 Travis McElroy? Then later.
20:43 Griffin McElroy? Big spherical ones or like.
20:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah, like the ones that are like wrapped, you know, that are like, uh.
20:49 Travis McElroy? The ones where they have flavors other than cotton candy and bubble gum, but what's the point?
20:53 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. But the flavors also slap ass. Why don't they make smaller lollipops taste that good?
20:58 Travis McElroy? It's the kind of lollipop where it's like, no child could finish this in a day, let alone a single setting.
21:03 Griffin McElroy? Anyway, it could finish a child though, with what a huge choking hazard.
21:07 Travis McElroy? One of my dogs, Lily, destroyed one of those lollipops where my child wasn't looking. So I.
21:14 Griffin McElroy? Good on your dog, man. That's an ambitious thing to take.
21:17 Travis McElroy? Powerful. And so I had to go back to Lowe's before my child discovered this to replace a lollipop. So what this looked like from a Lowe's perspective, because it was different checkout people. I walked in, walked straight to the checkout, got a single lollipop at Lowe's.
21:36 Griffin McElroy? Did you say anything like, uh, uh, I'm just here for the, for the pops?
21:40 Travis McElroy? Thank God self-checkout was open, but still there's an attendant there, scanned the lollipop.
21:46 Travis McElroy? Sorry, sorry, Jobs reviewer. Yeah.
21:47 Travis McElroy? Sorry, good. Just want to keep track. We've gotten rid of one and we add in one.
21:52 Griffin McElroy? Get on this.
21:53 Travis McElroy? The woman who was the attendant did strike up a conversation with me about my purple hair as I was checking out. A single blueberries and cream lollipop.
22:01 Griffin McElroy? Travis, I don't feel like you, you're so far gone. I don't think you can appreciate how fucking stealth mode. I am able to go at a, at a Lowe's or a Home Depot. I have nothing to comment on.
22:13 Travis McElroy? Breaking news.
22:13 Griffin McElroy? Nothing to comment on.
22:14 Travis McElroy? I'm going to grow back out to regular hair color.
22:17 Griffin McElroy? Is this true?
22:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Cause I wanna see, so it's getting pretty long now and I can see-
22:23 Travis McElroy? Wait, you know we're recording, right?
22:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah.
22:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. We can do aesthetic, we can do aesthetic updates here on the show.
22:28 Travis McElroy? I can see some gray in there and I wanna see what I'm rocking with. I'm excited to go gray.
22:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
22:33 Travis McElroy? And I'm already pretty grown out.
22:35 Griffin McElroy? I'm looking forward to some of those comments Travis Sturtin to erk away from my direction, where every comment is mostly about my progress on my slow inevitable march to the gray.
22:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you all know we read those comments like they look so old I can't even look at them.
22:52 Griffin McElroy? It makes me sad to look- Fucking Crypt Keepers, what does this mean?
22:55 Travis McElroy? It makes me sad. They've aged. We're on the internet every fucking day. Come look at it.
23:02 Griffin McElroy? We are Truman showing ourselves. How are you not noticing these things?
23:06 Travis McElroy? Blame the algorithm if you don't see how we're aging, cause we're laying it all out there.
23:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man. There ain't no hiding.
23:13 Travis McElroy? We are a shitty time lapse of a, of most of a life.
23:18 Griffin McElroy? I hope, Jesus Christ, we can keep this thing going that long.
23:21 Travis McElroy? It's like, it's like boyhood but for old men.
23:24 Travis McElroy? It would be nice to have that sort of job security. Uh, my boss is a he/him dude in his mid 50s and I, a she/her gal in her early 40s, keep twinning unintentionally. The accident is made more awkward by the fact that we don't like each other and thus we avoid acknowledging the mistake. It's happened three times and every time it's more embarrassing. Going forward, how can I avoid dressing like my boss? Please limit advice to solutions that do not involve me not directly addressing him. That's from Drab, dressed recurringly as boss. I wanna thank you for the guardrails you've put on this from the word go. I appreciate it.
24:02 Travis McElroy? It's nice to have bumper bowling sometimes, you know what I mean?
24:05 Griffin McElroy? I lost track of the double negative a little bit of please limit advice to solutions that do not involve me not directly addressing him.
24:13 Travis McElroy? I think there's an extra not in there.
24:16 Griffin McElroy? Oh, okay.
24:16 Travis McElroy? She's not gonna talk to her boss, period. That's out.
24:19 Griffin McElroy? Okay, I thought she must talk to her boss. She's ready to really drag his ass down and is looking for some tips, um, some great shit to say and we're, we couldn't do that, so it's probably the other one.
24:31 Travis McElroy? There's an, okay, listen, I know this isn't what you asked and I normally don't do this, answer a question that wasn't asked, but who wore it better?
24:40 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yes.
24:41 Travis McElroy? You know what I mean? If you don't like your boss- And when you twin, you're outdoing your boss?
24:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:48 Travis McElroy? Is that so bad?
24:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I mean.
24:53 Travis McElroy? I still feel threatened. You know how men are.
24:55 Travis McElroy? I do.
24:56 Griffin McElroy? You can't limit your own like, style adventure based on the, the adventure of another. I don't think that that's fair to ask of, of anyone. I think that you might raise the boss up. That might be what the boss needs. Maybe the boss has reached the threshold of what he's able to do aesthetically. And he would actually appreciate someone to show him a new way, a new path. Uh, and maybe you'll get the big promotion you've been going for.
25:29 Travis McElroy? You know what we need to bring back and need to normalize reversible clothing?
25:34 Griffin McElroy? Oh, man.
25:35 Travis McElroy? Right? A reversible jacket. I feel like that was a thing in the eighties where it's like you could turn the jacket inside out. And now it's a different jacket.
25:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. I'll tell you, kick ass reversible jacket, one side denim.
25:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
25:49 Griffin McElroy? Some kind of fabric, but then you flip it and then it's a rain, then it's a rain jacket and it's waterproof.
25:55 Travis McElroy? Oh shit.
25:55 Griffin McElroy? One side outside is gonna be like a khaki, a canvas, traditional outerwear sort of fabric. Inside that, that slippery, loud nylon shit that keeps you nice and dry.
26:08 Travis McElroy? This is interesting because.
26:09 Travis McElroy? We've moved away from the question now because I love this.
26:12 Travis McElroy? Yeah, this is a good garment because no matter what, you're uncomfortable. Like you are either locking it all in, right?
26:20 Griffin McElroy? What do you mean?
26:21 Travis McElroy? And you're like, if it's a, if it's a look on a day where you don't need the rain slicked.
26:27 Griffin McElroy? Then it would be, sorry, I think you're confused. In that case, it would be in canvas mode. It would be in denim.
26:33 Travis McElroy? And you just have slippery gross feeling moving against your body on the inside.
26:39 Griffin McElroy? Moving against my shirt. I'm wearing a shirt under the jacket. I'm not like.
26:42 Travis McElroy? So you need a third layer, a tear away layer.
26:45 Griffin McElroy? I'm sorry Travis, are you, are you? No, you're being an asshole right now because are you frequently leaving the house wearing only a jacket and no shirt underneath it?
26:54 Travis McElroy? How the jacket moves against my shirt.
26:56 Travis McElroy? Short sleeve thing with a long sleeve jacket. So it can't be plastic on the inside? No!
27:01 Griffin McElroy? It's not plastic. This is a nice sticky nylon. It's gonna be a-
27:05 Travis McElroy? It's like a soft breathable waterproof-
27:08 Griffin McElroy? I was close though. I think we can all agree. I was close to something there. There's something there.
27:13 Travis McElroy? If it didn't rely on a non-existent fabric, like a sort of-
27:17 Travis McElroy? A comfortable raincoat fabric that feels good against your skin.
27:21 Travis McElroy? It drives in-
27:25 Griffin McElroy? We're so far away from the office life.
27:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I don't even know if I'm a Jim or Dwight anymore.
27:33 Travis McElroy? What about an accent piece?
27:35 Travis McElroy? Ooh!
27:36 Travis McElroy? That you make sort of like a recurring thing, that it doesn't even really matter what the rest of the look is doing because the-
27:48 Travis McElroy? Riddler Kane from Batman and Robin?
27:51 Travis McElroy? From Batman and Robin is a part of every look.
27:54 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
27:54 Griffin McElroy? I think it'd be good to send a little, uh, little depth charge down there, little sounding, sounding wave, little test experiment to see if your boss chomps that fucking steez. It's important to know, if you start wearing a fascinator to work and you're like, let's fucking see, and the next day the boss has like a little fascinator or fascinator adjacent thing,
28:16 Travis McElroy? You're gonna wear two fascinators.
28:18 Griffin McElroy? It's gonna, it's, we're gonna be in-
28:20 Travis McElroy? Arms race.
28:21 Griffin McElroy? Mm-hmm.
28:22 Travis McElroy? It ain't a scene.
28:24 Griffin McElroy? It is, I mean, it is kind of a scene. If I see someone, if I see multiple people wearing multiple fascinators, that's, that is a scene.
28:31 Travis McElroy? That's what I want to ask Monsieur Stump and Fallout Boys. Can't it be both a scene and an arms race? Think about it.
28:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
28:42 Travis McElroy? I work as a cashier at a grocery store and there's a-
28:44 Griffin McElroy? Should we go to money zone? Should we go to money zone?
28:47 Travis McElroy? Griffin, if I thought we should go to the money zone, I would not have started another question.
28:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah, wow shit.
28:52 Travis McElroy? That is really, that's, that's really passive aggressive of you.
28:55 Griffin McElroy? I was, I think if anything, aggressive, aggressive, but it wasn't just regular.
28:59 Travis McElroy? Aggressive, passive.
29:02 Travis McElroy? Let's go to the money zone. Okay.
29:03 Griffin McElroy? Alright.
29:16 Travis McElroy? Justin and Griffin, can we have a serious conversation for once?
29:19 Griffin McElroy? Oh, thank God, yes.
29:21 Travis McElroy? You guys have no virtual online presence to speak of whatsoever.
29:27 Griffin McElroy? Certainly none that, certainly none that I am, uh, under any amount of control of.
29:33 Travis McElroy? Exactly. And I know you're afraid. I know you're afraid of the internet. I know you are. Because you're like, I don't know how to do it. I don't even know how to set up an internet, right? First of all, it's called a website. It's not called an internet, right? The internet is what you use to set up and how you get to things, grandpa, but it's called a website. And with Squarespace?
29:56 Griffin McElroy? What's a website?
29:57 Travis McElroy? Okay. Oh, my God.
29:58 Griffin McElroy? What's a website? Tell me now.
29:59 Travis McElroy? A website is-
30:00 Griffin McElroy? Cause you're over there, you're over there max fucking headsroom like, what's up cyber, cyber cowboys? You can't fuck with me. We don't know about it. We're such dumbasses. So what's a website, Trap? Tell me that.
30:08 Travis McElroy? Well, a website is like, you know how you're always putting up, um, kinda like poster board signs on like lamp posts and walls and stuff? That tell people about what's going on in your life, or if you're selling things, or like, to talk about stuff that you're into, you know? So a website is like that, but it lives in the computer and other people with computers and phones and stuff can see it.
30:31 Griffin McElroy? Okay. All right.
30:33 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
30:33 Griffin McElroy? That sounds, that sounded right. I was just, you were really riding, you were really riding us pretty hard there about-
30:38 Travis McElroy? Well, I'm a cyber jockey, man. You know what I mean? So I gotta, I gotta ride you analog, you analog dorks as hard as I can and-
30:47 Griffin McElroy? Ride us analog dorks as hard as you can, man?
30:51 Travis McElroy? And put you up wet? I don't think that's accurate. I'm just trying to juice my numbers.
30:58 Griffin McElroy? Just trying to ride you as hard as you can and put you up wet?
31:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah, cause I'm a cyber jockey and you guys-
31:05 Griffin McElroy? Travis, I take it back. Maybe your social abilities are somehow deficient. And I, I think it's probably because of the, like, how jacked into the web you are, it sounds like. That you've forgotten how things work out here.
31:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I, it's been a long time since I've spent time in MeatSpace.
31:23 Griffin McElroy? I think that's probably, I mean, MeatSpace is fine. Squarespace is better.
31:27 Travis McElroy? I need to touch ass. Is that what they say?
31:34 Griffin McElroy? You can touch ass.
31:35 Travis McElroy? Touch ass.
31:36 Griffin McElroy? You can touch ass, you can touch grass, or you can touch gas. That last one, a lot of people don't.
31:41 Travis McElroy? Nobody touches for free.
31:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. You can touch gas for free.
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31:57 Travis McElroy? I have.
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32:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
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32:20 Griffin McElroy? This is what happens when we do the drive and we go two weeks without doing ads. I feel like it takes a bit of a run up again. It takes like you gotta spin up that engine just a little bit. Um, I do think we delivered a quality product to Squarespace, just like they deliver quality products to their users, uh, day in, day out.
32:37 Travis McElroy? That's right, Squarespace, you're welcome.
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34:11 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
34:19 Travis McElroy? I want a munch squad.
34:23 Travis McElroy? I want to munch squad.
34:28 Travis McElroy? Welcome to Munch Squad. It's a podcast, so then a podcast profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating. And I wanted to tell you guys, first of all, we mentioned it on Clubhouse, but I wanted to say it here, that the BW3s at the mall did close.
34:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Sitting empty currently?
34:46 Travis McElroy? As far as I know, yes.
34:49 Griffin McElroy? So you're saying it's available?
34:51 Travis McElroy? Saying there's an opportunity for an enterprising young wing fan. Yes, that's right. They left all the wings.
34:58 Travis McElroy? You're gonna need to do sort of a wing-based business.
35:05 Griffin McElroy? It's gonna stink like, it's gonna stink like wings. So you may as well sell wings there. Cause you can't,
35:11 Griffin McElroy? you can't have a dentist office there that stinks like buffalo wings. People are not gonna come frequent that.
35:16 Travis McElroy? I'm excited to open my church slash restaurant combination, Wing and a Prayer. Come on in.
35:23 Griffin McElroy? That's fucking, can I tell you something? That idea is not only strong from a sort of like comedic gag standpoint, it's also strong from a like, anytime we left church as kids, I would have definitely gone for wings. I for sure would have gone for wings.
35:36 Travis McElroy? That's what I'm saying. So why not combine the experience?
35:38 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
35:39 Travis McElroy? The collection plate? That's right. It's the plate of wings.
35:41 Griffin McElroy? Big plate of wings. I will say transsubstantiation.
35:46 Travis McElroy? Jesus is a chicken.
35:47 Griffin McElroy? On a bone in Buffalo wing is a little too visceral for my, for my taste.
35:53 Travis McElroy? That's part of it.
35:54 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
35:54 Travis McElroy? It gets, it gets.
35:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, man, we don't have to even get in there any deeper. Oh, Justin just sent us a little multimedia.
36:01 Travis McElroy? Okay. Uh, all right. No, never mind. Don't click that link. I got it to work now.
36:05 Griffin McElroy? Hold on. Okay. Cause I clicked it and the scariest thing I've ever seen.
36:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it sucks.
36:09 Griffin McElroy? Do you suffer from need?
36:12 Griffin McElroy? Do you struggle to decide which one of the many TVs playing March Madness and Buffalo Wild Wings to watch? Not anymore. Introducing the B-Dubs Vision Goggles, the perfect way to watch every single game at the same time. With its patent pending mirror vision technology, you get a full 360 view. And with desire inspired fashion aesthetics that rival the Baroque era of Paris, you'll be the coolest guy at Le Bar. And I'm so crazy, I'm practically giving them away. Let's go sports bar. So you can actually buy these March Madness, um, vision goggles? First of all, can we just address the fact that if you are not seeing this in real time, this Buffalo monster screaming, are you inflicted with need? Is that what he said? Cause that sounds like a Dark Souls character.
36:54 Travis McElroy? Do you have need?
36:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
36:55 Travis McElroy? Ash, ash.
36:57 Griffin McElroy? You have a dark. Ashen one, do you suffer from need?
37:01 Travis McElroy? Do, do, okay.
37:03 Griffin McElroy? Can we get the exact, can I, can we get the exact wording on that, uh, extremely?
37:08 Travis McElroy? Sorry, is it?
37:09 Griffin McElroy? You should see it. At the very beginning, I want to hear his phrasing of, do you have need? Do you suffer from need? Do you suffer from need is like, uh, sounds like something you would hear at the like sleepaway camp cult, like. Ash wanderer, do you suffer from need? Perhaps my cinders could provide some supper.
37:35 Griffin McElroy? You're stricken with desire. I can cure your desire, stranger. Abandon these foolish minds. Suck on this chicory root. Let the, let its pulsing vapors penetrate. There are no needs within the great snake.
37:53 Travis McElroy? That is, of course, if my, unless my eyes mistake me, my, unless my ears mistake me, that is JP Akarliak. Best known for being the boss baby in the boss baby TV show.
38:06 Griffin McElroy? Oh, is it? Because I was trying to narrow that down.
38:09 Travis McElroy? It took me several listens, but I'm pretty sure.
38:12 Travis McElroy? JP Carlik, I've also been more than Hulk in the X-Men 97. There were like eight SNL cast members from the last decade, I thought that could have been.
38:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure.
38:22 Travis McElroy? And I was trying to like hone in on which one. These glasses. Yeah, talk about that part of it.
38:29 Griffin McElroy? Are these real things you can get?
38:30 Travis McElroy? I haven't been to the URL, I, um, so I don't know, man. I was kind of afraid to get on the list. A hundred. Go there if you want. I actually saw this, a clip from this prior to this, uh, on, I believe, a, a TikTok or something similar. And immediately what I thought of was the bit in How I Met Your Mother, when Ted goes to pick up wings from a restaurant and he's attempting to avoid seeing the outcome of the Super Bowl.
38:59 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:59 Travis McElroy? That's, oh, what I'm getting from this.
39:02 Griffin McElroy? An extremely specific reference.
39:04 Travis McElroy? Indeed, indeed. But it looks stupid in both cases, I guess is what I'm trying to say. So they really did sell it.
39:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, it sold, it is sold out now.
39:16 Travis McElroy? It's sold out now, but they sold something for no reason. But it looks like duct taped together garbage. It looks like garbage that they were selling people.
39:25 Griffin McElroy? It's goggles and then they have straps, they have attached to the straps, a lot of maybe like small, uh, side view mirrors on a car, like six of them, so that you can watch all the games, if you can watch all the games at once. If, yeah, I think that Buffalo Wild Wings is the worst imaginable restaurant to wear such a silly looking contraption. Cause I do think that per capita, the number of people who would walk up to you and, and just scissor kick that thing right off your dork face is probably higher than the average restaurant.
39:56 Travis McElroy? I've adjusted your guys' view, sorry.
39:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
39:59 Travis McElroy? I've adjusted your view, guys. This, so you could, Griff, can you talk about some vital stats on this, on this?
40:05 Griffin McElroy? Yes, please.
40:06 Travis McElroy? Buffalo Wild Wings national.
40:07 Travis McElroy? Chain.
40:08 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:08 Travis McElroy? This video.
40:09 Griffin McElroy? This is, and I have to imagine this is running on a lot of collegiate basketball competitions.
40:14 Travis McElroy? Can you go top to bottom, please?
40:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah. So we're looking at, first of all, B-Dubs channel's got 27.2K subscribers. That's pretty good. 22 likes on this video, not the best, but we all have off ones. 4.8 thousand views on this one that came out two, two weeks ago. Um, and then there are, it looks like two comments, one of which says, I want those goggles.
40:34 Travis McElroy? And the other one's. Is the first comment. That was made alongside the videos launched two weeks ago.
40:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, this one's.
40:40 Travis McElroy? For two weeks, there were no comments because people went to comment on it and they looked at that comment. I want those goggles.
40:47 Griffin McElroy? Now that.
40:47 Travis McElroy? Thought that sums it up. I actually don't need to add anything.
40:49 Griffin McElroy? And then four hours ago, it looks like we have someone who says, this made people leave the restaurant. They said the wings are too hot.
40:55 Travis McElroy? Boom.
40:56 Griffin McElroy? Goddess.
40:56 Travis McElroy? Roasted.
40:57 Griffin McElroy? That's it.
40:58 Travis McElroy? Only other comment on this.
41:01 Griffin McElroy? There's the, the, there's nothing wrong with the private sector.
41:11 Griffin McElroy? Doing great, darling, over here.
41:14 Travis McElroy? It's good.
41:15 Griffin McElroy? I, we have lots of kick ass jobs doing lots of amazing stuff for everyone.
41:20 Travis McElroy? It's all good stuff. That's the important thing. It's all good stuff. And this, some people, I think, get a little worked up about. A lot of restaurants, I think, are worried about packaging and they're worried about the environmental footprint.
41:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:37 Travis McElroy? And I just want to say that I am very glad that B-Dubs had the foresight to make these trash goggles. To put straight in the landfills.
41:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:47 Travis McElroy? I wish they had made more of them. It's a, it has nothing to do with Buffalo wings.
41:54 Travis McElroy? It's not selling the food. It's not a commercial for food and the garbage paraphernalia they're hawking. Doesn't even promise to improve your enjoyment of the food.
42:04 Griffin McElroy? And yet, and yet.
42:06 Travis McElroy? I want those goggles.
42:09 Griffin McElroy? And also, yeah, and yet further, those three fucking saps, rubes, marks. Patsies are here talking about it on our, on our enormous.
42:22 Travis McElroy? God damn it, Griffin, you're right.
42:24 Griffin McElroy? I hate to always play that card here on the munch squad, but BW3's.
42:29 Griffin McElroy? Did get, I mean, they done, they got us again. Like they, they know what, what we like and we're like, what we're all about. And so.
42:36 Travis McElroy? So I need everyone, I need everyone to go to that video and comment, I also want those goggles. Bring those goggles back. Sell those goggles some more. Just turn it into my brother, my brother, me chat room. There's no one watching. You can go to the BW, go to the video. It's got, I don't know, hopefully more views by this point.
42:54 Griffin McElroy? The amount of engagement you're going to give that is going to save someone's job.
42:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
43:00 Travis McElroy? What am I gonna do if, if another one shuts down? No, they'll have to open BW fours. Did we all wear red? We didn't communicate beforehand. We're, we're all in a color palette.
43:12 Griffin McElroy? There's like seven colors, man. Statistically, we were gonna match up someday. You know what I mean?
43:19 Travis McElroy? I have a question. My partner and I have seen many clips from WWE on Instagram. We genuinely think it seems hilarious and we should watch the show for real. However, we have no clue how and where to start. In your opinion, how should we start watching professionally, professional wrestling? That's from wistfully wondering about wrestling in Ontario.
43:36 Travis McElroy? Okay, this is great because I think Justin and I can kind of act as audience surrogate here to ask Griffin, do they have like seasons, Griffin?
43:46 Griffin McElroy? Seasons of hitting, seasons of. Yeah. I'm the wrongest guy to ask this question.
43:56 Travis McElroy? Well, you're the rightest one on this show.
43:58 Griffin McElroy? I know that much, but I do want to stress this by saying I'm the wrongest imaginable dude to ask this question. I fell off wrestling pretty hard. Pretty much right when we had the second kid. Pretty much that was, it turns out like the amount of time you have to invest in wrestling to follow it is exactly one second kid's worth. Not one first kid's worth. That's a little bit bigger of a commitment. Although there is a multiplicative sort of exponential effect when you start tossing more, more kids on the pile there. So that's, I'm, I'm well outside of it. Um, the honest, probably best answer is probably just like, start looking at TikTok, like wrestling TikTok. I bet it's out there.
44:38 Travis McElroy? Okay, you say that, but I occasionally get served up some hot wrestling TikToks. And I've seen that Mr. Cena has recently made a big character change.
44:47 Griffin McElroy? Mr. Cena, again, this is something I've absorbed from clips on TikTok. I did not see this happen live. It does sound, it does sound like a very exciting idea, but Mr. Dwayne Johnson did hypnotize The Rock to turn him evil. As far as I can tell.
45:03 Travis McElroy? No, no, sorry.
45:04 Travis McElroy? Say that again, sorry.
45:05 Travis McElroy? He hypnotized Mr. Cena.
45:06 Griffin McElroy? Oh, sorry, sorry. Mr. Mr. The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, did hypnotize John Cena to turn, to turn him evil, to make him evil.
45:12 Travis McElroy? Can we talk about the alternate view of the, the, that Dwayne Johnson hypnotized The Rock?
45:19 Travis McElroy? In like a Jekyll and Hyde kind of situation?
45:21 Travis McElroy? That would be so, that would, that would be like way cooler. Anyway, go ahead.
45:24 Travis McElroy? So what I'm asking Griffin is, do you think I need to start back at the beginning of Mr. Cena's career? And track through?
45:32 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no, no, that's not, that's not important. Pretty much you can just watch that one episode of SmackDown. And I bet you're gonna be okay. Gang, gang, gang. The shows are called Raw and SmackDown. It ain't Severance. You don't gotta watch a bunch of supplemental shit online to like, find out like, here's the deeper meaning between John Cena being activated Manchurian Candidate style to attack Mr. Rhodes, his best pal, I guess. You really don't need all that shit. You just, you need to see 40 seconds of someone on TikTok saying, check this out.
46:08 Travis McElroy? I want to challenge you on that, Griffin.
46:09 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
46:09 Travis McElroy? Because what you just said.
46:10 Travis McElroy? To a wrestling match?
46:12 Travis McElroy? No. What you just said a couple of minutes ago is that the, the time required
46:18 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:18 Travis McElroy? to keep up with wrestling is commensurate with that of caring for a small child. So either we do need the context to enjoy the product, or we don't. And I'm asking you,
46:28 Griffin McElroy? This is, okay.
46:30 Travis McElroy? It sounds like if, if, if the advice is just watch the show and enjoy it, it sounds like you yourself could be just watching the show and enjoying it.
46:36 Griffin McElroy? But it is, it is a difference between saying, I got this podcast for you called My Brother and My Brother and Me. It's a million fucking episodes. And someone being like, how do I get into it? How do I get into it? And you say, I don't know, man. Probably just watch a best of, compile, get on YouTube, find some of their biggest clips. That takes 10 minutes. Listening to the entirety of our podcast is, you can't do it, you'll die, you'd be dead by the end.
46:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah, don't do it.
46:58 Griffin McElroy? Just from time and aging.
46:58 Travis McElroy? There's so many curse words, dude.
47:00 Griffin McElroy? So I, I could update myself on the present status of just the WWE Universe in a good 20 to 30 minutes of cursory Googling. But then I would have to watch the eight to nine hours of wrestling content released every single week. Uh, in order to consider myself sort of literate in the space. That's not even factoring in AEW, which has also of course, a lot of extremely exciting stuff.
47:25 Travis McElroy? And delicious, delicious root beer and hot dogs.
47:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, they do. I mean, that's a joke, but they definitely probably do sell root beer and hot dogs to most wrestle, wrestlegoers.
47:37 Travis McElroy? And to wrestlers. They make them pay for their own hot dogs, which I think is really fucked up.
47:41 Griffin McElroy? Now, the anatomy of a wrestling match is 70% panting and I can't blame them for that.
47:48 Travis McElroy? Panting?
47:49 Griffin McElroy? Panting. 70% panting. If you're doing it right, you're getting about three quarters panting. Uh, and then about 20% setup and then 5% people, you know, flipping through the air and stomping and punching and hitting and kicking. And catching a highlight of those is the best way to consume one of those matches because the panting with rare exception is not the, not the highlight of the event.
48:11 Travis McElroy? It's not story driven panting?
48:12 Griffin McElroy? No, it's biologically driven panting. They just, it hurts to do this stuff and it gets you tired.
48:19 Travis McElroy? As a casual fan of wrestling, by which I mean, you know, sometimes I've watched it, sometimes I haven't.
48:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
48:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah. It's just like seems neat.
48:27 Travis McElroy? Wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.
48:29 Travis McElroy? I've been to wrestling events in person before, casual fan wrestling. Yeah, I, you know, saw Brutus, the barbeque beefcake live.
48:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I've seen, I've seen Jake the Snake Roberts live.
48:40 Travis McElroy? We've met Jake the Snake Roberts in person. Like, I don't wanna.
48:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, we don't have to talk, we don't have to drop names, but when the name is as fun as Jake the Snake Roberts, you know I'm gonna be dropping it.
48:50 Travis McElroy? I one time saw Sergeant Slaughter in the Best Buy that I worked at.
48:53 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Sorry, Juice, was there an ending to that sort of thought?
48:56 Travis McElroy? There was initially Griffin, but I kind of vamped too much and forgot it.
49:01 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Curseful age, I guess, man.
49:05 Griffin McElroy? No, but also, I mean, that is-
49:06 Travis McElroy? It's so sad. I can't even listen to them anymore without knowing how old they are.
49:10 Griffin McElroy? That is, though, just in a statement on wrestling, too, because that happens on that, in that great octagon, half octagon, all the time, doesn't it? Of someone getting up there and it's just like, "I'm gonna stomp your ass so hard."
49:20 Travis McElroy? Did you just describe a square as a half octagon?
49:24 Griffin McElroy? "I'm gonna stomp your ass so hard, I'm gonna take you back to the town you grew up in. My name is Dr. Dirt, and I'm gonna fuck you up tonight because of what you did to my
49:37 Griffin McElroy? wife." I, fuck, man, I, it's been a long time.
49:40 Travis McElroy? As a, as a casual fan of wrestling,
49:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:43 Travis McElroy? I really like it when the, uh, uh, the wrestling happens with some sort of extra flair.
49:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:50 Travis McElroy? Or sometimes, uh, especially like when there's a cage.
49:53 Griffin McElroy? Oh.
49:54 Travis McElroy? Or, uh, death is part of it.
49:58 Griffin McElroy? Part of it. Death or being killed is like a thing that might happen, yeah.
50:02 Travis McElroy? I like about the cage, too. It makes me feel safe as the fan, knowing that the wrestlers are contained.
50:08 Griffin McElroy? Can't, can't get out.
50:09 Travis McElroy? The risk of the wrestling spilling over into the audience, or my home even, is very reduced.
50:16 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
50:17 Travis McElroy? Uh, that the violence and the wrestling is contained.
50:20 Griffin McElroy? When I would see Dean Ambrose do an extreme cage match, I would think, "That man, who is just a lunatic for denim jeans, is not gonna come out and hurt me or try to take my jeans away." He can't get my jeans away from me now. He is incarcerated. And also about to get his ass stomped by Bray Wyatt, and it's gonna be great to see.
50:40 Travis McElroy? I, one other thing that I did, what I asked about wrestling as a casual fan of wrestling-
50:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, go ahead, Juice.
50:46 Travis McElroy? It does, it does seem a little bit unnerving that I could spend a lot of time learning about a wrestler, and it could just turn out that I should never know or speak of them ever again. It seems like a lot of wrestlers do get memory-holed in a way where it's like, "Not only was that time wasted, it would be better if I didn't know of them, just because I might accidentally mention them when I'm trying to talk about them."
51:11 Griffin McElroy? But the great thing Juice is that is only true of wrestling and no other art form or performance whatsoever.
51:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah, but I don't, yeah, it might be a little more true in wrestling if we ran the numbers, right Griff?
51:26 Griffin McElroy? I don't know, let's get Jimmy O on it, Jimmy O.
51:29 Travis McElroy? Jimmy O.
51:30 Travis McElroy? Jimmy O, we need a catalog of cancelled problematic people.
51:34 Griffin McElroy? In wrestling.
51:35 Travis McElroy? As compared to all other fields.
51:37 Griffin McElroy? And I want to see different columns for AEW and WWE, please. In fact, if you could split it up between the Raw and SmackDown rosters, that would be probably the most helpful data points for us.
51:49 Travis McElroy? And we're not gonna pay you for this.
51:51 Griffin McElroy? Jimmy, no.
51:52 Travis McElroy? So important.
51:53 Griffin McElroy? Jimmy, no.
51:54 Travis McElroy? Don't do it Jimmy.
51:56 Griffin McElroy? I support art and artists, but this is just math Jimmy O.
52:00 Travis McElroy? That ain't art.
52:01 Griffin McElroy? That's, that's just math Jimmy O.
52:04 Travis McElroy? I mean, listen, Griffin can figure out that a square is half an octagon, math ain't art buddy.
52:08 Griffin McElroy? Why should I pay someone to do math for me? I'm clearly pretty good at it. I knew I would reach a point where my son would bring home math homework too difficult for me to fucking hang with. I thought I would get a little bit farther than the second grade. I thought I would get, I thought I would hit third, fourth. As soon as I saw that long division line, I was like, hello, you old fucker, remember me? Cause I don't to you.
52:36 Travis McElroy? I, I've been, I've become instantly unhelpful saying like, listen kid, if I don't know how to do this, you don't need it. Like you will not need this again.
52:44 Travis McElroy? The problem I find with helping.
52:46 Travis McElroy? I don't know how to break it to you, cause it's like, if you don't know, I don't know it, so clearly you don't need it to be a happy, well-adjusted adult. I don't know.
52:53 Travis McElroy? The problem I have with helping BP with math homework is so much of it's just stuff I have like kind of memorized. Right? That when I look at those numbers, I know the answer. But then when it's like, I'm supposed to tell her how to do it. And it's just like, oh yeah, you just need to look at it and know that the answer is four.
53:11 Travis McElroy? That's too, yeah, too good at math.
53:13 Travis McElroy? Now, listen, I was a National American Scholar, man, I don't know what to tell you.
53:17 Griffin McElroy? I want to say, and I feel like I don't say this enough when we talk about wrestling, if you're a huge wrestling stan and you do spend nine hours a week watching all that programming, I support you immensely. I watch probably more than that in hockey and that isn't even fun. Like there's not even like fun costumes and like the threat of killing.
53:35 Travis McElroy? I spend more time than that on hobbies.
53:36 Travis McElroy? That I actively think are embarrassing.
53:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
53:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure.
53:40 Travis McElroy? I spend about nine hours a week accidentally watching a lot of Paw Patrol and like shimmer. If you want to know about the storylines.
53:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Shimmer and shine on the screen.
53:51 Travis McElroy? If you want to know about the storylines in in like construction pubs or whatever, you just ask me.
53:57 Griffin McElroy? Hit up Trav.
53:58 Travis McElroy? That one's not real.
53:59 Griffin McElroy? Hey, you're so low, dude.
54:02 Travis McElroy? Sort of lean back, relax him, because I'm saying, hey, thanks for listening to the podcast. I'll also remind you, Griffin, even though I've had to remind you a few times lately, this isn't for them. I want to say, I want to say. The commentary. Thanks. True. I want to say thank you to everybody who supported us in the Max Fun Drive.
54:20 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yeah.
54:21 Travis McElroy? It was wonderful, filled us with all the positive, good, grateful feelings. Thank you. Now, Justin, you're teasing us to make us comment on it. I just put my finger in my mouth. That's not about. Well, you put your finger in your mouth to see if we want, but you were seeing if we were coming. There's no gerund. It's just in my mouth.
54:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
54:42 Travis McElroy? And it's not for them. It's irrelevant.
54:43 Griffin McElroy? If they do clip this juice, you're gonna look crazy, dog.
54:47 Travis McElroy? Okay.
54:49 Griffin McElroy? Hey. Justin's eating his fist. We gotta hurry through this, man. Um, thank you so much to Montane for the use of our theme song. My Life is Better With You. Uh, it's a, it's a powerful track of, uh, authentic, um, friendship and.
55:05 Travis McElroy? And power.
55:05 Griffin McElroy? Love and power and love. Montane's got some new tunes, uh, that I'm very excited about. Um, so support them.
55:13 Travis McElroy? I'm excited.
55:13 Griffin McElroy? Where you can.
55:14 Travis McElroy? I'm excited because we're coming to Richmond, Virginia with a My Brother, My Brother and Me, Charlotte, North Carolina with an Adventure Zone in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a My Brother, My Brother and Me this week.
55:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, baby.
55:25 Travis McElroy? If you have questions you want answered or a faster than fear you won't read aloud, you can email it to MBMBAM at maximumfun.org and put which city you're gonna be at in the subject line. Uh, later, we're coming to Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio, so make sure you check that out, too. All the Taz shows are gonna be Taz versus this one. This week is Taz versus Hamlet.
55:44 Griffin McElroy? Very excited.
55:45 Travis McElroy? Check that out. Get your tickets now bit.ly/macroitours. We also have a bunch of new merch, including a Miggy Spinner pin and Etherseed Dice.
55:54 Griffin McElroy? The Etherseed Dice are so dope. They are definitely gonna be my, my new to-go Roland buddies. Those were designed by Evelyn. Thank you so much, Evelyn Workshop on Instagram. 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to the National Immigration Project, which litigates, advocates, educates, and builds bridges across movements to ensure that those who are impacted by our immigration and criminal legal systems are uplifted and supported. Once again, that is all at macroimerch.com.
56:22 Travis McElroy? Justin, do you want to do the faster than fear this week?
56:24 Travis McElroy? Um, yes.
56:28 Travis McElroy? Okay, please do.
56:29 Travis McElroy? I believe I can do that for you this once. This year, I want to be faster than my fear of the thumb thumbs from Spock Kids.
56:39 Griffin McElroy? Absolutely.
56:42 Travis McElroy? Hundred percent.
56:43 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin McRae.
56:44 Travis McElroy? I'm Travis McRae.
56:45 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McRae. Fuck Fluke. Fuck Fluke for bringing these things into the world.
56:49 Travis McElroy? This is my brother, my brother, me kissing your dad's square on the lips.
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