MBMBaM 838: Five Increasingly Less-Convincing Feed-the-Birds Ladies

This week we’re figuring out how to import ghosts, how to make the most cursed wings imaginable, and how to visually distinguish famous poisoners from run-of-the-mill victorians. Gather your best 60-70 disciples and join us, won’t you? Suggested Talking Points: The Exact Number of Mommies as Promised, Loose Schwarma, Damn These Foul Jellies, A Medium’s Dozen, Nice Try, Moriarty, Buffalo Wing Textural Experience, Too Slow Savvy?

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

• 0:00Speaker 00

  The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?

• 1:10Travis McElroy?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome to my brother, my brother and me, an advice show for the Monchera. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

• 1:16Travis McElroy?

  What up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother Travis, Big Dog Wolf Wolf Room from the heater award-winning McElroy.

• 1:25Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, boy. Hey, hey, Trav Nation. It's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin McElroy.

• 1:31Travis McElroy?

  That's a big yawn, buddy. What's wrong, bud?

• 1:34Travis McElroy?

  You not sleeping good?

• 1:35Travis McElroy?

  Why are you so tired?

• 1:36Griffin McElroy?

  I haven't been sleeping very good, you guys. Thanks for noticing.

• 1:40Travis McElroy?

  Why you been, why you been sleeping so bad, dude?

• 1:43Griffin McElroy?

  Well, I mean, you guys know, because I imagine you guys haven't been sleeping good either because of other mommy.

• 1:51Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 1:51Griffin McElroy?

  I can't, I can't imagine anyone's been getting their 40 wank since other mommies read her twisted head.

• 1:57Travis McElroy?

  Like the mom from Coraline. Oh, you watched Coraline, you got spooked.

• 2:00Griffin McElroy?

  I've never actually seen Coraline. Um, but, uh, I, and I also haven't, I haven't seen other mommy, but just kind of knowing she's out there.

• 2:09Travis McElroy?

  Knowing she's out there.

• 2:10Griffin McElroy?

  Knowing she's out there and seeing her and she's kind of like Jessica Chastain. And I see, usually when I see Jessica Chastain, I breathe a sigh of relief.

• 2:18Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:18Griffin McElroy?

  I think I know what I'm.

• 2:19Travis McElroy?

  Strong, competent woman in control.

• 2:21Griffin McElroy?

  Strong, competent woman, and she's gonna deliver. She always delivers.

• 2:25Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:25Griffin McElroy?

  But now this movie does a trick on you, which is you start to think, I can relax because that's Chastain.

• 2:33Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:33Griffin McElroy?

  But now I'm always going to be thinking, is it Chastain or is it other ma- other mommy?

• 2:39Travis McElroy?

  She's pulled a digger. She's pulled a bit of a digger on us.

• 2:43Griffin McElroy?

  A lot of people are doing a digger this year.

• 2:44Travis McElroy?

  A lot of people are saying like, Jessica, you have, you have done as Tom did, destabilized us at the time when we needed you the most.

• 2:51Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, we trusted you.

• 2:53Griffin McElroy?

  We trusted you. Now, how am I, how am I supposed to trust you ever again?

• 2:57Travis McElroy?

  I haven't really learned much about the movie, so I assume just from the title alone and the fact that it's a scary movie, it's about like a kid and she gets, her dad gets remarried and she's like, I'm scared of having a stepmom.

• 3:12Griffin McElroy?

  No, no, no. I don't know, man.

• 3:14Travis McElroy?

  No, it's like, it's, it's more like, from what I can get from the poster, it's more like, you know how like most people had a mommy?

• 3:22Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 3:23Travis McElroy?

  Probably. This is kind of asked a question like, who's that over there?

• 3:28Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:29Travis McElroy?

  It's like, it's another, it's other mommy.

• 3:32Griffin McElroy?

  Juicy stepmom with Julia Roberts.

• 3:35Travis McElroy?

  Juicy stepmom, dude. Dude, I didn't know you saw Juicy stepmom.

• 3:39Travis McElroy?

  Juicy, juicy stepmom.

• 3:40Travis McElroy?

  We don't normally talk about having seen those guys in the movie.

• 3:43Griffin McElroy?

  Juicy Roberts, it's like that.

• 3:46Travis McElroy?

  Did you see Juicy stepmom's four, juicier than ever and steppier than last time?

• 3:51Travis McElroy?

  Juicy stepmom's five, the juices loose is my favorite because they get out of the, the house that they've all been living in together and they're out in the city.

• 4:01Griffin McElroy?

  Now, juicy stepmom six, the matriarch paradox, I actually liked a lot because I thought it.

• 4:06Travis McElroy?

  No, matriarch paradox, part two fucks.

• 4:09Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:09Travis McElroy?

  Matriarch paradox.

• 4:10Griffin McElroy?

  One is a lot of buildup to part two. It's, I think it should have been one movie, but it probably would have been five and a half hours.

• 4:16Travis McElroy?

  I mean, part one fucks, but it like.

• 4:17Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it doesn't.

• 4:18Travis McElroy?

  It's just sort of than usual.

• 4:19Travis McElroy?

  Now, Juicy stepmom 19, Juicy stepmom's day out, where Juicy stepmom like wanders through a construction site.

• 4:28Griffin McElroy?

  It's different.

• 4:29Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I think they were trying to make it for a younger audience at that point. It felt like they had lost a lot of the edge that I kind of associate with the franchise.

• 4:37Griffin McElroy?

  And then there was 12 juicy stepmoms.

• 4:40Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:40Griffin McElroy?

  Where they were deciding a legal case as a jury in a trial.

• 4:45Travis McElroy?

  And juicy stepmom babies where it was like younger versions and they could talk now.

• 4:50Griffin McElroy?

  But anyway, to finish my point.

• 4:52Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 4:54Griffin McElroy?

  Other mommy is nothing like stepmom with Julia Roberts.

• 4:57Travis McElroy?

  Okay.

• 4:58Griffin McElroy?

  It's the same, it's, she looks exactly the same and, but she's fucked up and she likes to hide and she likes to jump out at you. She's like the Babadook. If the Babadook was your mommy.

• 5:09Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 5:10Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:11Travis McElroy?

  I think some people might call Babadook mommy or daddy. I'm not sure.

• 5:17Griffin McElroy?

  Hmm. Speak on that.

• 5:19Travis McElroy?

  Well, I'm not sure where the Babadook lands in the gender universe.

• 5:23Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:23Travis McElroy?

  And let's decide it now officially.

• 5:26Griffin McElroy?

  Let's decide it now. We're the ones to do it.

• 5:27Travis McElroy?

  No, I think, uh, I, I'm not sure it's our place.

• 5:32Travis McElroy?

  I think that maybe it's like I, the beholder.

• 5:36Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 5:37Travis McElroy?

  The Babadook is to you whatever you need them to be.

• 5:40Griffin McElroy?

  Well, Babadook's not real, so like.

• 5:42Travis McElroy?

  So that's a great out.

• 5:43Travis McElroy?

  Then who's in my house right now?

• 5:45Griffin McElroy?

  Is it, is, okay, Travis, can I ask you a question? Is the, is the other mommy, does it, is, is it other mommy? Is it Jessica Chastain? I'll twist it up and fuck it up.

• 5:52Travis McElroy?

  It might be other mommy in a Babadook costume. Mama Duke.

• 5:54Griffin McElroy?

  All right.

• 5:56Travis McElroy?

  Mama Duke.

• 5:56Griffin McElroy?

  Mama Duke is something, yeah, no, I get, we understood.

• 5:59Travis McElroy?

  Marmaduke.

• 6:00Travis McElroy?

  If it's in a, if it's in a word or it's in a duke, you can't get rid of the Marmaduke? Is that something?

• 6:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, something, yeah.

• 6:07Travis McElroy?

  Like when Marmaduke falls asleep on your couch and you're like, hey, this is my couch. And then Marmaduke haunts you forever, I guess.

• 6:15Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Man, I just, I just gotta find another place to put magpie, huh? I just can't have magpie sitting on my shoulder like that. If you didn't watch our latest clubhouse, we all got new haunted dolls. Magpie's my boy and, um, just making sure his spirit light is not lit up.

• 6:29Travis McElroy?

  So my kids, I, my kids are playing with mine, but at least I got my copy of Bunker's Fellini.

• 6:35Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it was an all time episode. Y'all gotta check it out. McElroy family, get there, like and subscribe and smash it.

• 6:41Travis McElroy?

  Like and subscribe.

• 6:42Griffin McElroy?

  We have no other mommies hiding on our YouTube channel. We give you exactly what we say we're gonna give you.

• 6:46Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, the exact number of mommies, as it says on the tent.

• 6:50Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, what if there was another podcast we did on Halloween? It was called like Other Bubbies and it was, uh, and, but we all got to be like twisted, fucked up versions of ourselves.

• 6:59Travis McElroy?

  My other, my mommy and me.

• 7:02Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:02Travis McElroy?

  Oh, I'm getting scared over here.

• 7:04Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I'm spooked out.

• 7:05Travis McElroy?

  Apparently.

• 7:06Griffin McElroy?

  Just about our brands, like.

• 7:08Travis McElroy?

  Viewers are spooked out too because they only gave other mommy 19% of Ron. It made it too scary.

• 7:12Griffin McElroy?

  Well, yeah, man, if a movie scares you so bad that you almost die and you shit in your pants, you're not gonna be like, I loved it.

• 7:18Travis McElroy?

  Hey, I went on a date and I peed my pants on my date with my very nice date, Vanessa Winklevoss.

• 7:24Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:25Travis McElroy?

  And I've got piss on my pants.

• 7:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:27Travis McElroy?

  No stars.

• 7:28Griffin McElroy?

  I went to check out, you can see everything with Vanessa Winklevoss and it made me barf all over myself 100%. No, you're gonna say you didn't like it.

• 7:36Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. Dang, I need to get rid of this image. I was looking for stuff for Munch Squad and there was this walking shawarma. This place is a bag of pita chips with shawarma. Oh, man.

• 7:45Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:45Travis McElroy?

  I gotta.

• 7:46Griffin McElroy?

  Bag of pita chips with just loose jingling shawarma.

• 7:49Travis McElroy?

  Chicken and cabbage on top.

• 7:51Griffin McElroy?

  All right.

• 7:52Travis McElroy?

  Yummy, yummy. This is an advice show. We come to you and we say, hey, what you got going on? And we try to help as best we can.

• 7:59Travis McElroy?

  So, yeah.

• 8:01Griffin McElroy?

  Sometimes we do, sometimes we glance off, sometimes we get to the end of one and I'm like, I think there's something, a takeaway there.

• 8:07Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, if you read every fourth word kind of deal, there's a, it's an ARG advice podcast.

• 8:13Travis McElroy?

  I work in an academic library. Other libraries in our state have ghosts. We have none. I would like to bring them here, but I would settle for ghosts of my very own. How do I get the ghosts up in here with no crime involved?

• 8:29Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 8:31Travis McElroy?

  I wish people would stop putting that in emails.

• 8:34Travis McElroy?

  It really hamstrings us.

• 8:35Travis McElroy?

  I know. What's the best ghost bait? Do you think they'd send me a ghost via interlibrary loan?

• 8:43Travis McElroy?

  Like flat family.

• 8:45Travis McElroy?

  That's from fandomless menace in Oklahoma.

• 8:49Griffin McElroy?

  There's um, there's a guy on this season of Love is Blind who is scared of ghosts. And he talks about it and it's very serious for him and his now fiance. If you're not familiar with the premise of the show, people get engaged and they, but they don't see each other beforehand. And gouge their fucking eyes out. Birds come and peck their eyes. But.

• 9:08Travis McElroy?

  Damn these foul jellies. Let me find love.

• 9:12Griffin McElroy?

  But then he's like telling his, his soon to be spouse like, hey, I am scared of ghosts. And I don't like when you talk about ghosts because it is talking about ghosts that conjures them. It is the discussion of ghosts that invites them in. And then she proceeds to say, that's crazy. Let me tell you about this really scary time I saw a real ghost. I don't think these two are gonna make it. I don't think these two are gonna make it to decision day.

• 9:38Travis McElroy?

  Was she being sincere, Griffin, about her ghost story?

• 9:42Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it was a very sincere ghost story, but still.

• 9:44Travis McElroy?

  They're at least operating, they might be on different, like deep end, shallow end of the pool, but they're in the same pool.

• 9:52Travis McElroy?

  No, no, no, no. You've discovered what it is, Trav. They both believe in ghosts. She lacks empathy.

• 9:58Travis McElroy?

  Oh.

• 10:00Travis McElroy?

  Like it's, you know, this is the problem.

• 10:02Travis McElroy?

  But I think it's easier to find some, I think it's harder to find someone who will believe in ghosts at your level. That you might have to compromise on the empathy thing.

• 10:12Griffin McElroy?

  Well, certainly without seeing them. Like if I can see the person and read their body language, I'll have a much easier idea, a better idea if they're ghost people or not.

• 10:21Travis McElroy?

  Everyone should be afraid of ghosts. Not because I think they're real, but if you were to somehow see one and you were like, eh. This is, eh, no, you should be freaked out by that for a lot of reasons.

• 10:34Griffin McElroy?

  You're saying if you see a ghost and you know it's a ghost.

• 10:36Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 10:37Griffin McElroy?

  Cause sometimes you don't, some in like Sixth Sense, sometimes he doesn't like, you don't exactly know. Cause sometimes they just look like normal people, but maybe they've had an accident on their shirt or something. You're just like, that's just Misha Barton and she's had an accident on her shirt. But you don't know, like, actually she's fucking dead.

• 10:56Travis McElroy?

  You might see someone with someone else's blood on them, right?

• 10:59Griffin McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 11:00Travis McElroy?

  And you don't need to be scared of them.

• 11:02Griffin McElroy?

  But you're saying you see a ghost, you know it's a ghost. Of course you'll be scared. Of course you'll be afraid.

• 11:06Travis McElroy?

  I think that to some degree, everyone is afraid of ghosts. It's whether you're passively afraid of ghosts or actively afraid of ghosts.

• 11:13Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know if my first reaction would be to be afraid of ghosts as much as it would be to contemplate the sudden kind of upending of my understanding of the human soul.

• 11:23Travis McElroy?

  And that wouldn't be scary. That wouldn't be scary.

• 11:26Travis McElroy?

  I have become one of the most important figures in all of human history. I am the one link to.

• 11:33Griffin McElroy?

  To the spectral realm.

• 11:34Travis McElroy?

  To the spectral realm, to the afterlife. And I'm the first to have glimpsed it for real. I think at this point, Trav, I'm not in, my fear is, do I have enough time? Do I have it in me to become the vessel I need to, to spread the good word? Like, do I have, can I reach them all?

• 11:50Travis McElroy?

  How do I craft a believable narrative and share it to the masses? But that's a lot of pressure and I think that's scary. This is what I'm saying, whether you're.

• 11:58Travis McElroy?

  How many disciples? How many disciples?

• 11:59Griffin McElroy?

  How many disciples do you need?

• 12:01Travis McElroy?

  At least 13 to one up J-Man. You know what I mean? You call it um, a medium's dozen.

• 12:07Griffin McElroy?

  I'd go with 30, just so that like, if there are Judases in there, I have like a bigger crew of road dogs who can see them out.

• 12:15Travis McElroy?

  Well, you can all agree, you gotta get some broads. Son, too, right?

• 12:18Travis McElroy?

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

• 12:21Travis McElroy?

  And some inbies in there. Let's cover it. You know what I mean? Here's what I think we need to do.

• 12:26Griffin McElroy?

  60 to 70 disciples then.

• 12:27Travis McElroy?

  60 to 70 disciples, just like get all of our quadrants. I want, yeah, I want everybody represented.

• 12:32Griffin McElroy?

  And these are all ghost people, which is great. That's a cool gathering.

• 12:36Travis McElroy?

  And you need people who speak other languages other than English, right? So you're ready to spread those around. I think what we need to do, we need to look at the population count in Jesus's time, divided by 12, right? And then take that number, divide the current population.

• 12:53Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 12:54Travis McElroy?

  By that number, that's how many disciples you need. Cause Jesus was like, I only need 12 to cover.

• 13:00Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, if we're scaling with population inflation, we're gonna, we're gonna have easily like 26,000 disciples.

• 13:07Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 13:07Griffin McElroy?

  Which is, that's, I can't manage. Well, you want me to moderate that Discord server? That's fucked.

• 13:12Travis McElroy?

  We're gonna need to tier them. There can't be a flat level. It can't be a flat structure. Obviously there's us at the top, me at the top.

• 13:20Griffin McElroy?

  Well, the ghost, the ghost, the ghost, the ghost is at the top.

• 13:23Travis McElroy?

  The ghost is like a circle at the top around Justin.

• 13:26Travis McElroy?

  And I'm like the conduit, but there has to be this, a tiered, sort of like a group that's close to me, that's like higher in the tier. And then there's like a bigger group that's gonna spread it out.

• 13:38Griffin McElroy?

  Junior disciple, junior disciple.

• 13:39Travis McElroy?

  And I think your disciples, like rising disciples, or you like rise, the more disciples that you kind of bring in to the 6,000.

• 13:46Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 13:47Travis McElroy?

  The more the ghosts will like give you rewards.

• 13:50Travis McElroy?

  Ghost blessings. We'll have ghost goods.

• 13:52Travis McElroy?

  Ghost cards.

• 13:53Travis McElroy?

  The whole bit.

• 13:54Travis McElroy?

  Oh yeah, you'll have to have retreats and stuff, conferences.

• 13:58Griffin McElroy?

  I guess you should be excited to see a ghost then, cause this sounds pretty, this sounds pretty sweet. I wouldn't scream and run away in my immediate.

• 14:04Travis McElroy?

  The question now, they actually wanted to see a ghost, so I.

• 14:07Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, we're getting back to that.

• 14:08Griffin McElroy?

  This is good.

• 14:09Travis McElroy?

  Dang it.

• 14:10Griffin McElroy?

  We're just selling like, yeah, it would be rad to see a ghost. You become the famous leader of a new, new ghost-based religion, but they know that.

• 14:17Travis McElroy?

  The answer is simple. You go to another academic library that is haunted. You go in with a carved out book where it's got a hole in the center. You're gonna catch the ghost in that book, in the carved out hole. Keep it closed till you get back to your academic library, then release it like a pokeball. Now you have your own ghost.

• 14:34Griffin McElroy?

  But it's gonna take it like a week to reform. Cause when you squish the ectoplasm like that and you get it trapped inside of a book, it's gonna take it about a week for that ectoplasm to take its original shape.

• 14:45Travis McElroy?

  And if you then add any new ghosts, you're going to have to keep them in the bag, kind of float it in your library for like 15 minutes so that they can kind of acclimate there. Make sure you introduce your new ghost to the, your existing ghost. Uh, keep a door closed so they can like sniff at each other through the bottom of it.

• 15:02Griffin McElroy?

  That they can, yeah, really cover in their scent. I think, I think, I have two thoughts that align on this question. One is that it's almost certainly easier to import a ghost than to create a new ghost.

• 15:17Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 15:18Griffin McElroy?

  Cause I don't really know, I don't know that anyone knows how to do the latter. Obviously if you kill someone in the heat of a terrible passion, like there's some people who think that's, that's your best bet.

• 15:27Travis McElroy?

  Well, you would also need to make sure that they have a significant amount, yeah, unfinished business. I think the more unfinished business, the more likely that they become a ghost.

• 15:37Griffin McElroy?

  But I also think importing is your best bet here because, and I love libraries. I understand they're besieged on all sides by this administration. But a library ghost would be the boringest fucking ghost to ever stroll the haunted halls. I think that that would not be a fun, cool ghost. I think it would be a, it would not be a party ghost or a scary ghost. It would just be a kind of their ghost.

• 16:00Travis McElroy?

  Well, good luck, Griffin. You get a party ghost or like a scary ghost or something and you import it into your library? You're gonna have to listen to that thing, be like, so what do you guys do? Like, how many people come through that I can scare or like, let me possess some young, like college kids.

• 16:18Griffin McElroy?

  If you're a ghost, a library is probably one of the sweetest places to haunt. Cause you have access to endless literature and learning. You can become the world, you could have died in fucking 1604. But you come back and you're in a library and you start to catch up on stuff.

• 16:35Travis McElroy?

  That's assuming that you can interact with the books. You might need someone to turn the pages for you.

• 16:40Griffin McElroy?

  That should be easy enough.

• 16:41Travis McElroy?

  Okay. Any sucker to do that. What if you're in the middle of a series that you gotta try to lure somebody into reading it?

• 16:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 16:48Travis McElroy?

  Hey, no, you're not missing anything. Just pick, pick up three.

• 16:52Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 16:53Travis McElroy?

  Start with three.

• 16:55Travis McElroy?

  It's better actually if you finish the series and then go back to read the first two books.

• 17:00Griffin McElroy?

  Hey, have they made any more of those 50 shades books yet? We're not reading those.

• 17:05Travis McElroy?

  Fuck. I don't have these.

• 17:07Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, 49 other shades. We're out of luck.

• 17:11Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know how to get on the internet yet.

• 17:14Travis McElroy?

  Thanks, Trav.

• 17:17Griffin McElroy?

  Did you say you like that?

• 17:18Travis McElroy?

  No, cause Justin said shades. I said, sorry, 49 other shades were out of luck. Cause it's like porno for ghosts.

• 17:25Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, yeah. Shades, shades.

• 17:28Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, I currently work at a diner as a food server. With it being the scary season and Halloween falling on a Saturday. My boss has given us permission to dress up for our shift that day. The only problem is I've worked there for six years and almost nobody has ever committed to wearing something except me. Brothers, I still wanna celebrate my favorite holiday while making dough, but not when I'm the only one who's dressed up. How can I convince my coworkers to dress up? And/or what's a subtle but effective Halloween costume that I can wear in case they all bail? That's from Eggs Mummy Side Up from New Jersey.

• 18:06Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know that there's, it's 2026. I don't know. There's a ton of people who, when they see someone dressed up in a costume on Halloween, they're thinking like, you fucking dork. I think that most people are pretty stoked to see, even if it's in a setting where no one else is dressed up, you see them and you think like, oh, that's festive. And I think people who don't think that way are bad people and you don't need to worry about whether or not they think you're a dork or not.

• 18:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, you don't want to impress somebody who doesn't like a costume.

• 18:34Griffin McElroy?

  Who's a bad person.

• 18:35Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, man.

• 18:35Travis McElroy?

  Your opinion isn't worth considering.

• 18:37Travis McElroy?

  Anyone who's impressed by apathy is not worth impressing.

• 18:41Griffin McElroy?

  Not worth impressing at all.

• 18:42Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, but, but I think there are some pretty good guidelines you can go with. No one's gonna think you a fool if your costume is more comfortable than your usual uniform.

• 18:53Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 18:54Travis McElroy?

  That is always gonna be a good decision. You're gonna feel great about that, especially if other people are in their uniforms. They can't give you a hard time if you're dressed as, I don't know, the genie from 11?

• 19:06Griffin McElroy?

  And that's comfortable.

• 19:08Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, Griffin.

• 19:09Griffin McElroy?

  Painted all blue?

• 19:11Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, dude. No shirt and hammer pants? I'm having a pretty good day at work, I think. A pretty relaxing day.

• 19:18Griffin McElroy?

  Body paint? Body paint?

• 19:20Travis McElroy?

  Uh, sorry dudes, I'm not gonna appropriate the genie. I'm just gonna go regular tone, okay? I know my role. I know my place.

• 19:28Travis McElroy?

  I don't think at that point though, Justin.

• 19:31Travis McElroy?

  No, Justin, Justin.

• 19:32Travis McElroy?

  At that point, you're wearing hammer pants and gold bracelets and no shirt. I don't think that reads as genie.

• 19:39Griffin McElroy?

  I'm not gonna, yeah. It's not the blue body that is the cultural.

• 19:43Travis McElroy?

  The friar that day, it's this guy, guaranteed.

• 19:47Griffin McElroy?

  I guess.

• 19:48Travis McElroy?

  I'm not, and I can't make, be customer facing.

• 19:51Griffin McElroy?

  And you can't touch food, cause you're covered in blue paint. You're gonna get it everywhere.

• 19:55Travis McElroy?

  There's no paint. God, guys, seriously, I'm not gonna get, I'm not gonna get frigging canceled, even theoretically, okay?

• 20:04Griffin McElroy?

  I don't think blue is, I don't think blue, I don't think, I don't, I just don't know who would, unless it's like Avatar people, I don't know who that's gonna, I don't know.

• 20:13Travis McElroy?

  I'm just saying, yeah, I'm just saying like, beautiful white genie.

• 20:17Travis McElroy?

  Whoa.

• 20:18Travis McElroy?

  It's just my normal thing. Huge gold bracelets. The hair, I don't know with the hair, you know what I mean? But huge, the important thing is the billowing pants. The huge billowing pants. The comfort unmatched.

• 20:32Griffin McElroy?

  Zubas for days.

• 20:33Travis McElroy?

  Your straws, I've got your straws here.

• 20:37Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool.

• 20:39Travis McElroy?

  Lebowski?

• 20:41Griffin McElroy?

  Lebowski is another comfortable Halloween costume. Yeah, for sure. You want something that looks, if you're looking for something that would let you pass as a normal server who is not dressed up for Halloween, I mean, do we have a ton of those? I guess it's just Jennifer Aniston's character in a, a office space.

• 21:01Travis McElroy?

  Good Burger.

• 21:02Griffin McElroy?

  Or someone from Waiting, the hit Dane Cook comedy. Those are the only sort of server characters.

• 21:07Travis McElroy?

  Was Dane Cook in Waiting or was that Ryan Reynolds?

• 21:11Griffin McElroy?

  I think both had to be.

• 21:12Travis McElroy?

  Both?

• 21:13Griffin McElroy?

  Like you can't, you can't, and Andy Milonakis was for sure in that fucking flick.

• 21:17Travis McElroy?

  Good Burger too.

• 21:18Griffin McElroy?

  Good Burger, yes, yeah. No, for sure.

• 21:21Travis McElroy?

  Moby? Clerks 2?

• 21:24Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clerks 2, yeah, another, another character.

• 21:27Travis McElroy?

  You could just do like full, like 50s diner, roller skates.

• 21:33Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, cool. No, you can't be the only one in the business wearing skates.

• 21:37Travis McElroy?

  Beginning of Half Baked?

• 21:40Griffin McElroy?

  What?

• 21:41Travis McElroy?

  Beginning of Half Baked, you ruined the place.

• 21:44Travis McElroy?

  Burger King, I think.

• 21:45Travis McElroy?

  You're cool, you're cool, you suss.

• 21:47Griffin McElroy?

  Let's move on from thinking.

• 21:49Travis McElroy?

  You just said there weren't a lot of them, so I'm just trying to help you come up with.

• 21:51Griffin McElroy?

  And you've proven me wrong. You've proven me an ass.

• 21:53Travis McElroy?

  I mean, they hit musical based on the movie The Waitress.

• 21:55Travis McElroy?

  It's not about this. Griffin did that one. So now, Griffin, he wasn't listening to you. Quick, you can flip it on him. Quick. This is your moment, guys.

• 22:02Griffin McElroy?

  No, I didn't say waitress. This is a different one. Travis actually.

• 22:05Travis McElroy?

  So you weren't listening. Double reversal.

• 22:08Travis McElroy?

  Waitress, you said waitress.

• 22:10Griffin McElroy?

  I said Waiting, which is different. That's the Dane Cook, Andy Milonakis.

• 22:13Travis McElroy?

  They did not make a musical based off of Waiting starring Ryan Reynolds and Dane Cook.

• 22:17Travis McElroy?

  What if they made a musicals off the Andy Milonakis show? Is that what you were gonna say?

• 22:21Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's, that was, and that was what we were building up to. Dress up like how you wanna dress up. It's Halloween, it's Halloween. Anyone who says shit is a fucking loser.

• 22:32Travis McElroy?

  It's not, I mean, yeah, you're right. But that's not gonna help at, when you're feeling, I, you won't be there. You know what I mean?

• 22:41Griffin McElroy?

  I won't be there for me to say that.

• 22:42Travis McElroy?

  Dress up like you work at a different diner.

• 22:45Travis McElroy?

  That's good.

• 22:46Travis McElroy?

  Like if you, like, dress up like, get an IHOP uniform. You know what I mean? And then dress up like an IHOP employee.

• 22:53Griffin McElroy?

  That's cool. Just don't dress up like a famous poisoner.

• 22:57Travis McElroy?

  Oh, no, no, no, no, yeah.

• 22:58Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know who that would, who that would be.

• 23:01Travis McElroy?

  Moriarty.

• 23:03Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, but you'd need like a, like a name tag that says like Moriarty, the famous poisoner.

• 23:08Travis McElroy?

  I think if you went all out on a Moriarty costume, they'd know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with what Travis said, Griffin. It makes good sense.

• 23:15Griffin McElroy?

  You're saying if an old timey Victorian mustachioed man came up and was like, and here's your tater tots, you'd be like, these are fucking poison. Nice try, Moriarty? That would be your first thought?

• 23:25Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 23:26Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 23:26Travis McElroy?

  What would your first, wait, what would your first thought be?

• 23:30Griffin McElroy?

  I would think this is a, what a weird anachronistic gentleman that's just showed up to serve me at my table. I wouldn't think this is poison, cause that's fucking definitely.

• 23:37Travis McElroy?

  So your first thought is this guy exists in a different timeline than me?

• 23:42Griffin McElroy?

  Is it Halloween? Sorry, is it Halloween when this happens?

• 23:45Travis McElroy?

  Obviously Halloween.

• 23:46Griffin McElroy?

  Okay, I would think, well, if someone's dressed up, like, like a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Halloween or something, I wouldn't.

• 23:51Travis McElroy?

  So your mind goes to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

• 23:55Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know. That would go to Moriarty and it definitely wouldn't go to therefore poison, like.

• 23:59Travis McElroy?

  You could do Jekyll and Hyde and every time you go back into the kitchen to grab something, you change character and then come back out to them.

• 24:08Travis McElroy?

  That would be fun, cause you gotta be back there smashing stuff. You gotta knock over, you don't have beakers, but you gotta have like full, like drink cups that you could like slosh against the wall like, no, I'm a monster.

• 24:20Travis McElroy?

  And if you get orders wrong, you can blame it on the other guy.

• 24:24Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 24:25Travis McElroy?

  Ah, Hyde.

• 24:27Griffin McElroy?

  There's like, no, and I'm not encouraging, I'm not saying there should be, so everyone get out there, but there's like no famous poisoners. I just Googled famous poisoners and I don't know fucking any of these people. They are all from ancient times.

• 24:43Travis McElroy?

  It sucks to be doing a show with you and judging how the show is going based on your facial expressions in part, and then finding out you've just been reacting to information about famous poisoners for the past.

• 24:55Griffin McElroy?

  Well, it's Jermaine. It's Jermaine to the, it's an enhancement to the conversation.

• 24:59Travis McElroy?

  Jermaine.

• 24:59Griffin McElroy?

  I just, I thought it was interesting that there were no famous poisoners.

• 25:02Travis McElroy?

  Besides Jermaine. Besides Jermaine, apparently. Well, here's the thing, Griffin.

• 25:07Griffin McElroy?

  Don't tweet, don't X at me and be like, uh, you forgot Locust, Locusta, clearly. And, cause I don't know who that, I don't know who any of these people are. They're not really super duper famous.

• 25:19Travis McElroy?

  The best poisoners, poison, it's a subtle art.

• 25:22Griffin McElroy?

  I guess.

• 25:23Travis McElroy?

  It's a subtle art and the best poisoners, you never hear about them.

• 25:27Griffin McElroy?

  A famous poisoner is probably pretty shitty at poisoning. Yeah. Tough, tough.

• 25:33Travis McElroy?

  You could know a famous poisoner, you'd never know it.

• 25:37Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:37Travis McElroy?

  They might be famous for different reasons.

• 25:40Travis McElroy?

  Ah, yes.

• 25:41Travis McElroy?

  Perhaps they starred in Van Wilder or Waiting or Deadpool or Free Guy.

• 25:48Griffin McElroy?

  Sorry, you're suggesting.

• 25:50Travis McElroy?

  Perhaps they are Bret Michaels.

• 25:53Griffin McElroy?

  You think Bret Michaels is doing, oh, cause, oh, yeah. Man, Juice, I'm sorry. I'm just not on the same wavelength today, man. You keep making these kick ass jokes.

• 26:00Travis McElroy?

  What about Bell, Biv and Devoe?

• 26:02Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, that's another, they're beloved poisoners.

• 26:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 26:06Travis McElroy?

  That girl was poisoned.

• 26:09Travis McElroy?

  I know the clues anywhere. It was Bell or Biv or Devoe. Use our logic puzzle to solve it.

• 26:16Travis McElroy?

  One of us always tells the truth, one of us always lies, one of us always poisons.

• 26:20Travis McElroy?

  This grid is poisoned.

• 26:24Travis McElroy?

  One of us is wearing a red hat, one of us has a green hat, one of us has a blue hat. Bell never stands next to Devoe.

• 26:37Griffin McElroy?

  Never trust Devoe. He's the lying brother.

• 26:41Travis McElroy?

  Or am I lying?

• 26:43Griffin McElroy?

  Or am I telling the truth? I love a Bell Devoe logic puzzle. Drink this.

• 26:49Travis McElroy?

  I, uh,

• 26:53Travis McElroy?

  it's better than Tic Tac TLC. That's, that's.

• 26:56Travis McElroy?

  Hey. I, let's go to the money zone. Let's do it, coward.

• 27:02Griffin McElroy?

  We definitely should go to the money zone.

• 27:11Travis McElroy?

  Got a bearded dragon a couple of months ago and in Blaze and

• 27:15Griffin McElroy?

  Love this fucking

• 27:16Travis McElroy?

  Yeah Blaze

• 27:17Travis McElroy?

  Love Blaze Blaze Blaze rules uh but the cats Amelia and Olive have taken it Uh upon themselves to monitor uh Blaze 24 hours a day basically one of them is almost Always watching Blaze just to make sure that she stays in her cage and that

• 27:34Travis McElroy?

  I watched Olive by the way I watched Olive and she does the same thing that my cat does at The window when there's a bug on the outside of the window which is repeatedly be surprised That their paw cannot pass through glass like 30 times in a row like maybe this time

• 27:50Travis McElroy?

  I have to reward that level of dedication though with the finest kitty food money can Buy and that is Smalls that's what they love they love these packages they come frozen You defrost what you need uh and then you open up a packet of fresh delicious food Uh my cat loves

• 28:09Travis McElroy?

  Crystal goblet you put a little mint leaf on it you set it down

• 28:12Griffin McElroy?

  You don't have to do you don't have to do that but it's good enough stuff that it like Deserves a goblet I think

• 28:17Travis McElroy?

  Um it's been uh we switched them to it oh god years ago but it's been really good For their uh coats uh it's been easier to maintain both their weights um it's makes Serving sizes a lot easier to keep track of um and I feel good about giving it to Them I mean uh and I am the one that does it

• 28:36Griffin McElroy?

  Do you think do you think Blaze looks out through the glass and sees them eating This goods these good Smalls and thinks like oh man I just gotta eat all these little Bugs well I gotta eat all these little powdery bugs

• 28:46Travis McElroy?

  Forward to a day when they can both enjoy tiny frozen baby rats your cats health And longevity starts with what they eat for a limited time because you are a my Bim Bam listener get 60% off your first order plus free shipping and free treats for Life when you head to Smalls.com slash my brother that's 60% off your first order Plus free shipping and free treats for life when you head to Smalls.com slash my brother

• 29:14Travis McElroy?

  I find myself in need of a new primary care physician because my former primary Care physician has switched to a different uh genre of practice I believe doctors call It a different genre um and then I found a different primary care and she left that Practice and now I need a new primary care physician and thank god Zocdoc exists because

• 29:39Griffin McElroy?

  Thank you so much Zocdoc I started with a new dermatologist like last month I rolled Up and they were like we can't do we can't give you Sky Rizzi and I was like I need This fucking junk to live man like I can't fucking feel it without the riz so now I gotta Find a new goddamn dermatologist who likes to fucking party and I know that Zocdoc is Gonna help me get there

• 30:02Travis McElroy?

  Somebody's gotta riz you up

• 30:04Griffin McElroy?

  Someone's gotta riz me up and I do believe that Zocdoc is the best way for me to find That find my my new plug

• 30:10Travis McElroy?

  Griffin have you thought about of the nickname the Sky Rizler

• 30:14Griffin McElroy?

  I think about it I think about it four times a week Zocdoc lets you search and compare Local in-network doctors it's free to use you just pop on in there they got over 150,000 Providers within 200 plus specialties across all 50 states and DC I'll throw that in There I live here I use Zocdoc all the dang time we're not a state but we we're Do we're doing our best we're bigger than a couple states I think I got a lot of thoughts On this but Zocdoc I don't have a lot of thoughts on I have one thought and it's it's The best it's the best it's the best

• 30:49Travis McElroy?

  Best your health matters and taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated find And book the right doctor with Zocdoc head to zocdoc.com slash my brother to get started And check that appointment off your to-do list that's z o c d o c dot com slash my Brother

• 31:05Griffin McElroy?

  Love you Zocdoc

• 31:06Travis McElroy?

  It's the best

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• 31:24Speaker 04

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• 31:30Speaker 05

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• 31:33Speaker 04

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• 32:09Speaker 07

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• 32:32Travis McElroy?

  Shut up

• 32:36Griffin McElroy?

  Well now hold on

• 32:42Griffin McElroy?

  Munch munch what do we

• 32:46Travis McElroy?

  Cause for October I went like a little scary

• 32:54Griffin McElroy?

  Quick around the horn

• 32:55Travis McElroy?

  You'll get it just hold you gotta wait your turn

• 33:16Griffin McElroy?

  Munch nope

• 33:17Travis McElroy?

  Yep that was it

• 33:18Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah

• 33:19Travis McElroy?

  Welcome to Munch Squad

• 33:20Griffin McElroy?

  Hey what's everyone's favorite riff from Frankenstein if we can just go around The horn cause there's a lot of riffs like every

• 33:25Travis McElroy?

  There's like so many really good riffs and other than the main one Cause everybody loves

• 33:31Griffin McElroy?

  When the sax comes in and hits you with that

• 33:40Travis McElroy?

  I like it when he sings out

• 33:45Griffin McElroy?

  That song sucks so bad and I hate that I have to hear it every time I watch Wayne's World it sucks so bad

• 33:51Travis McElroy?

  Um you two I'd like you two to get together when I'm not around and practice a Munch Squad riff where Griffin does the talk box does the mouth uh box and while Justin does It and you guys can like surprise me with it and I'd love

• 34:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah we can do that

• 34:06Travis McElroy?

  Jesus fucking Christ dude

• 34:08Griffin McElroy?

  You gotta warn me if you're gonna put up a picture of the new Sour Patch Kids guys Cause they are

• 34:13Travis McElroy?

  It's fine it's fine

• 34:14Griffin McElroy?

  It's not fine guys

• 34:15Travis McElroy?

  This is mascot horror This was sent to me at the official address of Justin at mybimbam.com

• 34:24Griffin McElroy?

  This is a threat that was sent to you Justin

• 34:26Travis McElroy?

  Yes this is uh by Anna and Riley thank you um Wingstop and Sour Patch Kids uh dared Fans to try Halloween's most unhinged flavor Sour Patch Kids Wicked Punch

• 34:40Griffin McElroy?

  Okay I can like I can like phantom feel the tummy ache that eating Sour Patch Kids And spicy buffalo wings would give me

• 34:48Travis McElroy?

  The sugar and sour burn on my tongue mixed with a spicy whip like

• 34:53Griffin McElroy?

  It hurts inside to even imagine it yeah

• 34:56Travis McElroy?

  Also I uh the connection here we're looking at an image if I may describe where It is shot like an urban explorer like that singular front light they're in an abandoned Place except instead of young people going on adventures and I think oh I don't think That's a good idea it is instead a red Sour Patch mascot person and a blue Sour Patch Mascot person threateningly pouring Sour Patch Kid candy into a Wing Wingstop bag They are Sour Patch Kids pouring smaller Sour Patch Kids into the bag

• 35:31Griffin McElroy?

  That's fucked yeah no that's fucked for sure

• 35:33Travis McElroy?

  That's crazy that's always been wild yeah

• 35:36Griffin McElroy?

  Is it their babies

• 35:37Travis McElroy?

  I mean it's youth and advertising it's a flavor of

• 35:42Travis McElroy?

  It's the ultimate candy meets, it's the ultimate candy meets wings crossover.

• 35:48Travis McElroy?

  Finally.

• 35:49Travis McElroy?

  A clause that is utterly without meaning, devoid of meaning.

• 35:53Travis McElroy?

  We've dallied at it for years. We've done some casual candy meets wings collaborations. Finally, the ultimate one.

• 36:02Travis McElroy?

  So created by Wingstop's flavor experts, who I assume have now been put in the Hague. Wicked Punch for extreme dereliction of duty.

• 36:12Travis McElroy?

  They didn't stop to think if they should.

• 36:14Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, right.

• 36:17Travis McElroy?

  Wicked Punch features a mischievous sour then sweet red berry glaze. And is then finished with Sour Patch Kids bits.

• 36:27Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, you've lost me. I mean, you lost me from the moment the image appeared, but.

• 36:33Griffin McElroy?

  Do we have an image of the wing itself? Cause I don't know how one incorporates Sour Patch Kids bits.

• 36:38Travis McElroy?

  So I'm gonna try, if you could see. There, that's the best I got for you.

• 36:44Griffin McElroy?

  These are very, very, very red buffalo wings and there are little flecks of.

• 36:48Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, like the wing fell on the floor of your car after a car trip with your children.

• 36:53Griffin McElroy?

  It really does look like the carpet of a movie theater, uh, right after of, you know, a kid's flick has let out.

• 37:00Travis McElroy?

  Um, Halloween has a way of bringing unlikely duos together.

• 37:04Travis McElroy?

  Hmm.

• 37:05Travis McElroy?

  Does it?

• 37:05Travis McElroy?

  Fucking just stop saying stuff.

• 37:08Griffin McElroy?

  No, it does. It does. It does. Halloween is when weird duos come together. It does.

• 37:13Travis McElroy?

  Anything should happen on Halloween.

• 37:15Travis McElroy?

  It may be the.

• 37:16Travis McElroy?

  It's the day.

• 37:16Travis McElroy?

  Wingstop and the Sour Patch Kids candy may be the most unexpected yet. It's surprising, a little unhinged and exactly the kind of flavor. A little, exactly the kind of flavor experience only Wingstop could pull off. A mashup that is equal parts trick, treat and dare. Here comes the quote. Are you ready?

• 37:33Travis McElroy?

  What's fun here, when they, when they use the word a little unhinged, I like to think I've just gone over to a friend's house. Maybe to watch the big game, maybe just to sit down and talk about how life is going. And they said, I made dinner and they set these down in front of me and they say, yeah, the thought just came to me. And I made a sauce out of Sour Patch Kids and then sprinkled extra Sour Patch Kids on top. And I'd say, oh man, so things haven't been going that well, huh?

• 38:00Griffin McElroy?

  I'm already staging the intervention at that point, I think.

• 38:04Travis McElroy?

  Uh, I have two quotes for you. Uh, the first is from Michael Skipworth, the president and CEO of Wingstop.

• 38:11Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 38:11Travis McElroy?

  Is here to be accountable for this. Candy on wings? We know exactly what you're thinking.

• 38:16Travis McElroy?

  I wish it stopped there. I wish it was just.

• 38:18Griffin McElroy?

  Candy on wings, you're fired.

• 38:21Travis McElroy?

  This is the first I'm hearing about this.

• 38:23Travis McElroy?

  But no, seriously, it has no business being this good.

• 38:29Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 38:29Travis McElroy?

  Sour Patch Kids wicked punch wings bring sour and sweet together in a way only Wingstop can. It may sound unexpected, but one bite is all it takes to understand why this one is a treat.

• 38:43Travis McElroy?

  Why are they using such like hedging language?

• 38:46Griffin McElroy?

  They really are. Yeah, I noticed that too. Like all it takes is one bite and you will know it.

• 38:52Travis McElroy?

  But they say like, it may be a little surprising. It's a little unhinged. Like go for it. Say it. This is fucking dumb.

• 39:01Griffin McElroy?

  You've lost your goddamn minds. The textural experience? When I'm eating a buffalo wing, I'm like so concerned about efficiency and I wanna get it down. And I don't wanna get too messy and I wanna do a good job getting all the meat off.

• 39:15Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 39:16Griffin McElroy?

  And I, and I wanna.

• 39:17Travis McElroy?

  So dad will be proud.

• 39:18Griffin McElroy?

  So dad will be proud, right? I don't need other exciting, more persistent textures joining the fray. That are gonna, that are gonna just slow me down and confuse me.

• 39:30Travis McElroy?

  I would also point out to Mr. Skipworth here that the phrase, it doesn't have any business being this good.

• 39:36Griffin McElroy?

  It also mean bad.

• 39:37Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, isn't doing anything for you? Because I wasn't looking at it assuming any level of good whatsoever. So even if it's 1% good, it doesn't have any business being this good.

• 39:50Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 39:51Travis McElroy?

  And then here's a quote from the candy side. For the Sour Patch Kids brand, Halloween usually means owning the candy bowl. This year, the Sour Patch Kids brand decided candy wasn't enough. That's Lauren McDonough, the senior director of candy at Mondelez International. This is the first taste of the Sour Patch Kids 13 Days of Mischief program. And transforming our signature sour then sweet flavors into a wing flavor is exactly the kind of unexpected mischief. Our fans love. It brings both brands together in a way that's surprising, playful and delicious.

• 40:33Travis McElroy?

  Says Sour Patch Kids CEO Tyler Durden.

• 40:38Griffin McElroy?

  And yes.

• 40:39Travis McElroy?

  Project mischief has begun.

• 40:41Travis McElroy?

  The word brand is used nine times in this press release.

• 40:45Griffin McElroy?

  This is. So is there 12 other sort of pranks that the Sour Patch Kids company, like 12 other brands?

• 40:51Travis McElroy?

  They added Sour Patch Kids to insulin. That's step 13.

• 40:57Griffin McElroy?

  What else are we chopping up and putting fucking Sour Patch Kids on? How are these bad boys even gonna stay on a wing?

• 41:03Travis McElroy?

  Oh, they melted Sour Patch Kids down to make the sauce. So it is.

• 41:08Griffin McElroy?

  The stickiest sauce in, in the history of sauces.

• 41:11Travis McElroy?

  Oh, 100%.

• 41:12Griffin McElroy?

  Forget about it too. And the sour, once the sugar starts to, oh, oh.

• 41:17Travis McElroy?

  Hey guys, this is a fun thought experiment because usually it's very obvious when we have weird brand collaborations like this. Which brand was more excited than the other to get to be included in this? Which of these brands do you think sought this out?

• 41:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, I, it feels like the, it feels like the, uh, uh, Sour Patch Kids brand is calling Wingstop a little thirsty.

• 41:41Travis McElroy?

  Is, I feel like they're making them a little desperate.

• 41:45Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, a little bit. I think they've, I think they've embarrassed them. I don't think that Wingstop would voluntarily put chopped up bits of Sour Patch Kids on their wings. I have to think that this was a Sour Patch Kids led effort. That's my opinion.

• 41:58Travis McElroy?

  See, but I also feel.

• 42:00Griffin McElroy?

  I'm not gonna eat these and then come away feeling different about Sour Patch Kids. I'm definitely going to feel different about Wingstop after eating these.

• 42:06Travis McElroy?

  So you think Wingstop reached out to Sour Patch Kids or Sour Patch Kids reached out to Wingstop?

• 42:10Griffin McElroy?

  Sour Patch Kids got up on Wingstop, mounted them.

• 42:12Travis McElroy?

  Oh, see, I think.

• 42:14Griffin McElroy?

  Fucking dominated them.

• 42:16Travis McElroy?

  I think, I think Wingstop contacted Sour Patch Kids. In a, and like, oh, we need this way. We gotta stand out in the weird news kinda way. Cause Sour Patch Kids, they could add weird Sour Patch Kids to everything. They've been adding weird shit to stuff. They've been doing weird commercials. They've had a whole brand of like, our candy will fuck up your hair or get you fired or whatever. Like, don't you wanna eat it now for years? And I think Wingstop was like, we need to get in on that weirdness. Can we please have some of your weirdness?

• 42:48Griffin McElroy?

  You're referencing those sour than sweet commercials, which have always bothered me where like a big Sour Patch Kid will come and cut off your hair. And you'll be like, what the fuck?

• 42:55Travis McElroy?

  Or like steal your dog. Yeah.

• 42:57Griffin McElroy?

  Or steal your dog, but then like it turns out that it's actually a good thing. And we don't see like the Geico Gecko that like fucking shanking you with like a little pipe, like a little sharp pipe. And then just being like, and now let's save 15% on your car insurance in 15 minutes or less.

• 43:11Travis McElroy?

  You're confusing with Mentos Griffin because it is not actually a good thing. The, they cut your hair off, but then they look kinda bad about it and you're like, oh, you're okay. It's gaslighting. The Sour Patch Kids gaslight you.

• 43:23Griffin McElroy?

  They're emotionally manipulating you. Yeah. I fucking hate these guys.

• 43:27Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, fuck these guys. They're pouring their babies onto your wings.

• 43:31Griffin McElroy?

  They're putting their babies on your wings. That's yucky dude.

• 43:33Travis McElroy?

  You wanna do another question?

• 43:35Griffin McElroy?

  I would love that.

• 43:35Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, get this off the screen though, please. Oh, I don't want to look upon it any longer with my human eyeballs. I wish I was on Love is Blind so I wouldn't have to see them anymore.

• 43:44Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 43:45Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. Um, I've noticed there is a coffee machine in the lobby of my dentist's office. I typically schedule my appointments for the first thing in the morning and I'm always hankering for a cup of that good, good bean juice. I can't imagine coffee breath is pleasant for my dentist or my hygienist. Brothers, can I drink some coffee before my cleaning or is it just there for looks? Now that seems like a wild thing to ask, but follow up.

• 44:12Griffin McElroy?

  Great question.

• 44:14Travis McElroy?

  For added context, there are no to-go cups that I can see.

• 44:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yep. That's gotta be a mistake. That's gotta be, they ran out.

• 44:21Travis McElroy?

  It is a curated coffee machine and there is a sign that says, but first coffee. It's from Pick Me Up in Denver.

• 44:29Griffin McElroy?

  This is a really fantastic question.

• 44:31Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it is.

• 44:31Griffin McElroy?

  Because I, I go to, you know, a lot of doctor and dentist appointments now that I have two rambunctious boys. They're always getting in the little scrapes and, uh, you know, scruffles and then we gotta take them in. Teeth getting just absolutely blasted, uh, cause of how they're playing like, you know, tackle football and stuff.

• 44:51Travis McElroy?

  Street hockey.

• 44:52Griffin McElroy?

  And they always do have coffee machines in the lobbies of dentists and doctors, pretty much all of them here. And I always feel like, well, I can't have a, I can't, I can't make a coffee. I can't have a hot beverage because they might call me in any second. And then what? I just have, I just have coffee now?

• 45:09Travis McElroy?

  Do you, is this like?

• 45:10Griffin McElroy?

  It's appealing though. I do like coffee and I like to drink it.

• 45:13Travis McElroy?

  They're gonna be right in your mouth. Is it a business generating thing?

• 45:16Travis McElroy?

  A trap. It feels like a trick.

• 45:19Travis McElroy?

  Well, maybe it's to get more bacon and then they can sell you on like tooth whitening.

• 45:23Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, definitely.

• 45:24Travis McElroy?

  Look at this. Look what we did. Oh, do you think maybe they take a before photo as soon as you come in? And then they like clean your teeth and they're like, look at us, right?

• 45:33Griffin McElroy?

  I wish they did. That would be, that would get me going to the dentist more if I could see the, the effect of it.

• 45:39Travis McElroy?

  Can you imagine how bad your breath would have to be for a person who spends their days wrist deep in someone's gullet? To notice.

• 45:50Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Oh yeah. Coffee is the least of their concerns, I bet.

• 45:53Travis McElroy?

  I mean.

• 45:55Travis McElroy?

  I would have heartily disagreed with you before this machine was placed in this lobby. To me, I felt like the last thing I do before I go to the dentist would be to brush my teeth at the house, right? And then you show up.

• 46:08Griffin McElroy?

  Cause they're so fucking stupid. They fall for it every day. They're like, you must be a good toothbrush every day. Fucking dummies.

• 46:16Travis McElroy?

  Oh yeah, twice a day.

• 46:17Travis McElroy?

  My dentist has disposable toothbrushes in the bathroom that you can use. I brush my teeth before I leave home and when I get there.

• 46:24Griffin McElroy?

  And when you get there, good.

• 46:25Travis McElroy?

  Something snuck in.

• 46:26Griffin McElroy?

  Prepare yourself. Yeah. But dentists hate nothing more than a good clean mouth that shows up.

• 46:32Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 46:32Griffin McElroy?

  Because I do think they enjoy telling you just how receded your gums are and how fucking gnarly your plaque. Like they love that shit. Well, it's not even a needing the work thing. It's a perversion. It's a deep perversion.

• 46:46Travis McElroy?

  Can you imagine the like cloud nine high you would ride if you had a, your dental cleaning? And the dentist like stopped me way through and just said, you have the best smelling breath I've ever smelled. Like that, the rest of my life I'd be.

• 47:04Griffin McElroy?

  I would carry that forever.

• 47:05Travis McElroy?

  I think you, if you're a dentist, I think you have shut down the part of your brain that detects breath smells. Like it just, you shuffle that. I don't need that anymore. That's not doing me any good.

• 47:14Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 47:15Travis McElroy?

  I just think like you have shut that part of your brain down.

• 47:17Travis McElroy?

  Like a homicide detective is to like violence where you're just like, it's all work. It still gets me when I'm there with the teeth. Oh.

• 47:27Travis McElroy?

  It's kind of like you feed enough roaches to bearded dragon. Eventually roaches crawl in your hand. You don't even notice.

• 47:33Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it's exactly like that.

• 47:35Travis McElroy?

  I think that if I was a dentist and I, I put my, you know, mask on to go, I just smear like mentholated, just some Vicks VapoRub inside there.

• 47:45Travis McElroy?

  Sure. Yeah.

• 47:46Travis McElroy?

  Just to feel.

• 47:47Travis McElroy?

  A sachet of, sachet of good smelling herbs.

• 47:50Travis McElroy?

  I'd have a nose gay in there.

• 47:52Griffin McElroy?

  Like a plague doctor.

• 47:53Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just an orange with cloves shoved in it that I'm just like huffing the whole time. Like an old timey bishop.

• 48:02Travis McElroy?

  I like those. Guys, before we, before we wrap up, I, I, I had a, a story, like a news story. I wanted to, if you guys want, would indulge me for a couple of minutes. Um, I don't normally talk about Disney much because I feel like that's like my private perversion and I, and I don't need to.

• 48:21Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 48:21Travis McElroy?

  You know, spread it around, but um, I have a headline I'm going to tell you. And by the end of the story, it will make sense to you. Okay?

• 48:28Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 48:29Travis McElroy?

  Due to Aristocats and Feed the Birds lady, runners ejected from Wine and Dine 5K by balloon ladies and Jack Sparrow.

• 48:41Travis McElroy?

  What?

• 48:42Griffin McElroy?

  So that's the whole, that's the whole headline? Okay.

• 48:46Travis McElroy?

  One more time.

• 48:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, I'm gonna.

• 48:47Travis McElroy?

  Due to Aristocats.

• 48:48Griffin McElroy?

  Wait, hold on. I want to see if I can count off the who, what, where and why.

• 48:51Travis McElroy?

  Don't parse it because we are going to parse it afterwards. Don't, we're not going to get hung up, but. Due to Aristocats and Feed the Birds lady.

• 49:00Travis McElroy?

  Why?

• 49:01Travis McElroy?

  Runners ejected from Wine and Dine 5K.

• 49:05Travis McElroy?

  Where?

• 49:05Travis McElroy?

  By balloon ladies and Jack Sparrow.

• 49:08Travis McElroy?

  Who?

• 49:08Griffin McElroy?

  I think the win is probably in the Wine and Dine 5K too. And is this, this is Washington Post? What is the source on this?

• 49:14Travis McElroy?

  From the Washington Walt Disney World news today. Um, so the, the, there are run Disney events. Uh, which I is already, every step of this story is more alienating to the one before, like to me personally, from my place in the world. Okay. But there are people run events at Disney, five Ks, 10 Ks. They get special medals. There are things that happen at them. They do.

• 49:41Travis McElroy?

  Do they still have to pay for Disney tickets to go run a 5K?

• 49:45Travis McElroy?

  Travis, I have to imagine the answer is an unqualified yes. I've never looked into the particulars, but I'm sure. If you're getting a medal out of the deal, I bet a lot of money's getting extracted. Anywho.

• 49:58Travis McElroy?

  They had a theme for every different race. This year was the Aristocats. And I'll be damned if people didn't go ape shit for these guys. Apparently they love these crazy cats. They opened up more positions in the race to a point where people had to come at four 30 in the morning. Lining up for the 5K and 10K because there were many different, they call them corals of runners.

• 50:27Travis McElroy?

  What a humanizing word.

• 50:29Travis McElroy?

  What a lovely, humanizing thing. And along the route, there are some events you could do, like fun little things. Like, uh, uh, at the beginning, uh, as well, where you can meet characters for the first time ever. They had a face, a new face character and it was the Feed the Birds lady from Mary Poppins.

• 50:49Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah.

• 50:51Travis McElroy?

  In front of a.

• 50:51Travis McElroy?

  Feed the Birds.

• 50:52Griffin McElroy?

  So people were.

• 50:53Travis McElroy?

  Feed the Birds lady.

• 50:54Travis McElroy?

  Feed the Birds lady. People were lining up to have their picture taken with the Feed the Birds lady and the Aristocats.

• 51:02Travis McElroy?

  If you've paid enough, if you've paid money to do a 5K at Disney World, of course you're not the type of Rosa to say. I'm actually not a big enough fan to stop at the Feed the Birds lady. Of course you're like, I will line up for the Feed the Birds lady.

• 51:17Travis McElroy?

  I'm going to line up for the Feed the Birds lady. Absolutely.

• 51:20Travis McElroy?

  The birds meet and greet fifty dollars a shot.

• 51:27Griffin McElroy?

  No touching.

• 51:29Travis McElroy?

  The, the Feed the Birds lady and the Aristocats were meeting all these guests who had showed up at four 30 to, uh, but. They got hung up for so long for some of the, for some of these events, waiting in as long as an hour. For some of these photo opportunities that it got them a late start on the race. So.

• 51:54Griffin McElroy?

  That's going to bump, that's going to bump me out of my, my splat zone. I gotta, I can't keep my heart rate high for an hour as I stop to meet the, meet the Feed the Birds lady.

• 52:02Travis McElroy?

  Especially if I've carefully timed the carbo drops in my stomach.

• 52:08Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, dude. Yeah.

• 52:09Travis McElroy?

  Like, like the train and Back to the Future three, where you're throwing the logs in and they fire at different times. That's what I do at a level of breading that I've put around the pasta bakes in my tummy where those, they will erode.

• 52:22Griffin McElroy?

  When you shit your, when you shit your shorts on leg three.

• 52:25Travis McElroy?

  Yep.

• 52:25Griffin McElroy?

  You're, and there's just countless runners screaming like, thanks, Feed the Bird lady.

• 52:29Travis McElroy?

  Aristocrats.

• 52:32Travis McElroy?

  Wrap it up, Jeremy. Some of us have got to run. So, so for the first time, they've apparently struggled with similar things like this in the past. So they, it, it, uh, brought in a sort of mechanic that I guess other races like this do. Which is people at the end that are marking a very slow pace. And if you fall behind, like they're the end of the race, like you guys stay ahead of them. If I understand it right, their pace was one mile an hour. So they were not bolting to the end, but there were enough people thrown so far off their pace by the Feed the Birds lady and the Aristocats. That they were getting caught and I'm going to show you what they were getting caught by.

• 53:14Travis McElroy?

  If you were caught, by the way, by the balloon ladies who were ladies holding giant balloons, I swear to God, I don't know why. If you were caught by them, then you were, um, shuttled to the end of the race. You basically were.

• 53:29Travis McElroy?

  Like the war, like the temple guards in Legends of the Hens Temple?

• 53:33Griffin McElroy?

  Well, it's nighttime.

• 53:33Travis McElroy?

  See here in this Insta, yeah, well, it's, and here's Jog and Jack, Jack Sparrow with the balloon lady, just kicking people out. I think it's actually Griffin's still very early morning. That's how, that's where we're at right now. Yes. And so.

• 53:44Griffin McElroy?

  So we're looking at ladies with huge balloons tied to their backs, floating over them as if they're signaling to their friends at a, at a music festival.

• 53:52Travis McElroy?

  Or like they're in a crowd.

• 53:53Travis McElroy?

  Like they're, uh, sim, sim characters in a Disney branded offshoot.

• 53:57Griffin McElroy?

  Plum bobs. And then we got Jack Sparrow coming around and being like, sorry folks, you fucking, you're so slow.

• 54:04Travis McElroy?

  You're too slow, savvy.

• 54:06Travis McElroy?

  You're slow. You need to get settled to the end of the race.

• 54:09Travis McElroy?

  Pop it. Fuck off. Fuck off, puppet.

• 54:12Travis McElroy?

  Why is, why is the run gone?

• 54:15Travis McElroy?

  Get in the van and go get your medal at the end. But don't hold your medal in the moonlight. It's very cheaply made and it actually reacts poorly with the moonlight. It will corrode.

• 54:27Griffin McElroy?

  If we keep doing Jack Sparrow impressions, people are going to realize they're not very good. So we have to, we have to move on.

• 54:33Travis McElroy?

  Well, by the fourth movie, Griffin, Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow impression wasn't that good, I guess.

• 54:39Griffin McElroy?

  Funny. They would make him get on a bus together for the.

• 54:42Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, Air Bay on the Big Loser bus. They take you to the end. You get your medal.

• 54:48Griffin McElroy?

  Do you think at any point?

• 54:49Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it's a medal.

• 54:50Travis McElroy?

  I mean, you paid your money.

• 54:51Travis McElroy?

  Do you think at any point they considered the possibility of getting multiple Feed the Bird ladies?

• 54:57Travis McElroy?

  There's a seat of, uh.

• 54:59Griffin McElroy?

  The row of them.

• 54:59Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 55:00Griffin McElroy?

  Row of five increasingly less convincing Feed the Bird ladies. The earlier you get there, the better. They're all holding Dixie cups of Powerade that they're.

• 55:10Travis McElroy?

  Hey, that fourth one is the Bird Lady. From home one, two.

• 55:13Griffin McElroy?

  Hey, get out of here. You can't other, other bird lady me.

• 55:18Travis McElroy?

  Uh, so that is, and of course that caused quite the kerfuffle. People are upset about the bird ladies because I don't know if you guys heard, but due to the Aristocats and the Feed the Birds lady runners were ejected from the Wine and Dine 5K by balloon ladies in Jack Sparrow.

• 55:35Travis McElroy?

  I now hate how much more sense that makes to me than it did 10 minutes ago.

• 55:42Griffin McElroy?

  Yep.

• 55:42Travis McElroy?

  Like, I know that now.

• 55:44Travis McElroy?

  You know that now.

• 55:44Griffin McElroy?

  I know that in my bones.

• 55:46Travis McElroy?

  Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother and Me.

• 55:50Travis McElroy?

  This was it.

• 55:51Griffin McElroy?

  This was it. It's wrapping up now.

• 55:52Travis McElroy?

  We did it. We did the whole thing.

• 55:54Griffin McElroy?

  Before it ends, we want to tell you, we got some new merch in the merch store for the month of, uh, of November. We got a new, uh, T-shirt, uh, with a design that says easy game for babies on it. Uh, we got Candle Knights cocoa and mug available individually or as a bundle and a Candle Knights ornament designed by, uh, Cynthia Sulars. Uh, and 10% of all merch proceeds this month will also be donated to Native American aid. Can someone, what is Candle Knights though? Like, I don't, I keep saying that word and it's like, what even is that?

• 56:23Travis McElroy?

  Oh, well, Griffin, you dummy. Candle Knights is the, uh, pan-religious, pan-sexual, personal, pan-holiday that we created that encompasses all holidays.

• 56:34Griffin McElroy?

  All holidays.

• 56:35Travis McElroy?

  And, uh, we're doing it in person again in Huntington and streaming. The in-person event is on December 5th. Digital premiere of the recorded show will be on December 19th with live chat and tickets for both are on sale now at bit.ly slash candlelights2026 or at the macaroy dot family slash events. Also, if you're listening to this, uh, on Monday, the second tomorrow is the midterm election and you need to go vote unless you're gonna vote Republican, at which way that election is on the 4th. Go out then.

• 57:07Griffin McElroy?

  You little trick or Loki trickster demon.

• 57:11Travis McElroy?

  I'm a real brave.

• 57:11Griffin McElroy?

  You fucking stinker.

• 57:13Travis McElroy?

  You should vote.

• 57:15Griffin McElroy?

  Just vote.

• 57:16Travis McElroy?

  But for the good ones.

• 57:20Travis McElroy?

  If you were gonna vote for the- Just very, vote the right way.

• 57:24Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 57:24Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 57:25Travis McElroy?

  Easy.

• 57:27Griffin McElroy?

  Now, you, you just put up more pictures of the Wingstop wings.

• 57:31Travis McElroy?

  I just found an enhanced one to close out with. I thought you guys wanted to see it real quick.

• 57:34Griffin McElroy?

  Nasty. They look like, they look like the devil's pop tarts.

• 57:37Travis McElroy?

  Well, that's up for trick or treaters. One wing per trick or treaters, it says.

• 57:41Travis McElroy?

  Do we have to? It's required. You must take one wing.

• 57:46Griffin McElroy?

  Can I tell you guys a fun, uh, anecdote real quick? I, um, needed to find all our passports, uh, for, for a thing. And I couldn't find my passport and I started to get really stressed out because I would not have time to get the passport before the, the time that I needed the passport for. And I looked all over and I couldn't find it. And then just by chance, I was walking back to my desk and I saw it here behind the, behind the Tower of Sauron. And I was like, what the fuck? How did he even get back there? Um, and then Rachel reminded me that I threw it at the end of a bim bam and I forgot I had thrown it. And so my losing it was I had thrown it very much on purpose to end one of these shows.

• 58:29Travis McElroy?

  And where is it now?

• 58:31Griffin McElroy?

  It's with the other passports in a very safe box.

• 58:34Travis McElroy?

  So I couldn't convince you to throw it again.

• 58:36Griffin McElroy?

  No, it'd take too long to go get it.

• 58:41Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, thanks to Montane for these for our theme song, My Life is Better With You. Um, it's a track that I just adore and, um, I, I get stuck in my head all the time. It's a real earworm, but a good one.

• 58:51Travis McElroy?

  I have this shirt that I bought at a Knox concert.

• 58:54Griffin McElroy?

  Can't throw a shirt. Absolutely can't throw a shirt.

• 58:56Travis McElroy?

  Oh, I got a granola bar that I'm gonna eat after the show.

• 59:00Griffin McElroy?

  No, you're not. You're gonna fucking hum that thing at the wall and squish it up.

• 59:03Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, then you're gonna eat some granola.

• 59:04Griffin McElroy?

  This is Travis. I want this to be the hardest you've ever thrown something in the show. No fucking, really hard.

• 59:09Travis McElroy?

  Yes. Griffin, I get it.

• 59:11Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 59:11Travis McElroy?

  Ready?

• 59:13Griffin McElroy?

  Hard.

• 59:15Griffin McElroy?

  Yes. Fuck yeah. You really squished that thing.

• 59:18Travis McElroy?

  I think I hurt my elbow throwing it. I'm Travis McElroy.

• 59:21Griffin McElroy?

  I'm Griffin McElroy.

• 59:22Travis McElroy?

  This has been My Brother, My Brother and Me. Kiss your dad square on the lips.

• 59:58Speaker 06

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