Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 745: 2 Year 2 Naming About this episode We think it was pretty obvious that our growling stomachs had an outsized impact on the decision last week, so we’re continuing the year naming discussion. There's so many rhyme schemes we didn't even consider, like saying "und" a hundred times, so we're doing our due diligence. Buckle in, we’ll get there!
Suggested talking points: Not Overdrive Guys, We're All on Rhyme Zone, What does Fish Wife Mean to You, Nothing with Chew or Depth, Intangible Knives, Please Don't Bring Change
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Transcript Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.
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? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. We'll try again.
1:16 Travis McElroy? Nobody liked that one.
1:18 Griffin McElroy? It's not that nobody liked it. Let's unpack it. Let's unpack it. Let's take it out and unpack it.
1:24 Travis McElroy? Nobody liked.
1:25 Griffin McElroy? It's not that no one didn't like tummy buddy time or tummy buddy life.
1:30 Travis McElroy? My wife, I told my wife that we had done it and she looked at me. Oh, the sadness.
1:36 Travis McElroy? The, the, the energy from my wife was very much like, I'm trying so hard to support you in this, but I have to be honest.
1:43 Griffin McElroy? That was it. I'll tell you what it, I don't think.
1:46 Travis McElroy? And then from there, the sort of like mind virus, I feel like those bad vibes from our wives emanated to like when we told people we pay to think we're funny.
1:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:58 Travis McElroy? And they were like, I don't know.
2:01 Travis McElroy? And then we told our staff and they didn't like it either.
2:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah, nobody liked it.
2:05 Griffin McElroy? And then we did start to get a lot of sort of like anatomically correct sort of stomach stuff that.
2:13 Travis McElroy? There's some for discussion.
2:15 Griffin McElroy? There is some discussions that I would rather I've actually worked pretty hard, I would say to, to remove myself from. It's just that I don't think people got it. I don't think a lot of people, they say tummy buddy life, that doesn't mean anything. But then what I would come back to you with is if it means nothing, maybe it means everything.
2:38 Travis McElroy? I, here's why, the only thing I'm sad about it is reopening this is one, I hate.
2:47 Travis McElroy? I hate.
2:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:49 Travis McElroy? I hate that we all kinda knew that we had to try again and that sucked. It sucked to get on this call knowing that we had to do it again.
2:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:58 Travis McElroy? We had to start over. But the other thing that sucked is last night I had the idea of a cookbook called Tummy Buddy Tempters. And it, we would ask all of our podcasting friends.
3:09 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
3:09 Travis McElroy? To give us one great recipe and it would be like a whole cookbook of tummy buddy tempters.
3:15 Griffin McElroy? That's good.
3:15 Travis McElroy? There's a precedent set five years ago.
3:18 Travis McElroy? Okay.
3:19 Griffin McElroy? Sure, sure.
3:19 Travis McElroy? Double name here.
3:20 Griffin McElroy? Oh baby, this is not the, I feel no, we made this shit up. There's no rules just right. And it's not sparking joy inside of me personally. I don't think it is for you two either.
3:32 Travis McElroy? I, here's what I.
3:32 Griffin McElroy? So fuck it. But that was, it was two hours plus change of recording where we kept talking about how hungry we were. And then we ended up picking tummy buddy life. Do you think maybe those two things are, maybe one begat the other?
3:48 Travis McElroy? I'm, I'm following the, I'm following the theme though a little bit. Cause like dare to care. I am daring to care that nobody liked the theme. And I'm daring to care about doing a better job, you know, with it.
4:02 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:02 Travis McElroy? On it.
4:03 Griffin McElroy? I care so much about this process that I'm willing to subject myself to it again in the span of about four days.
4:13 Travis McElroy? I think we should see tummy buddy life for what it was, a cry for help.
4:21 Travis McElroy? From our stomachs saying, please eat, eat and try again.
4:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:27 Travis McElroy? Please dare to care about your podcast and live the tummy buddy life.
4:31 Travis McElroy? I feel bad for everybody that rushed out to get their tummy buddy life tattoos.
4:36 Griffin McElroy? Oh, you should have known. I'll say this also about the response we've gotten so far. We can handle the criticism. It's not the criticism, uh, it's the people who jumped onto it so fast without recognizing this is clearly first thought, not best thought.
4:54 Travis McElroy? Well, not really first thought.
4:56 Griffin McElroy? No, there was two hours of generative sort of like pro- process.
5:01 Travis McElroy? Many, many other thoughts.
5:01 Griffin McElroy? That went into it. Um, now I'll start by saying this. I don't have any ideas.
5:07 Travis McElroy? Okay, interesting.
5:08 Travis McElroy? What about 20 honey high?
5:10 Travis McElroy? No way, hold on.
5:11 Travis McElroy? Back to business.
5:12 Travis McElroy? No way. Now go on. Now come on, are we sure? Cause there's like one more chance. I feel like we could just be like.
5:20 Griffin McElroy? Just kidding. It's 20 hu- tummy buddy life. Yeah, it's not too late. This is cool because now we're standing on a different cliff's edge.
5:28 Travis McElroy? Like a quantum.
5:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah. Where we could say, just kidding, tummy buddy life rules actually.
5:36 Griffin McElroy? And we're not about to do a part two naming of the year. Too long, two hour episode.
5:41 Travis McElroy? Okay.
5:44 Travis McElroy? 20 Barney five.
5:46 Griffin McElroy? Now, now that we've let if into the room.
5:51 Griffin McElroy? 20 love my wife.
5:54 Travis McElroy? 20 love my wife?
5:55 Griffin McElroy? No one took umbrage with la- the if with the si- the, it would be very generous to call it. That was not the problem at all, and we understand that. The slant rhyme, people are into it and they accept it, which really I think it's a whole new ballgame if we're letting if in there. Fill your life with laughter and love.
6:14 Travis McElroy? No, 20 un- under life, 20 under life, what lies below?
6:20 Travis McElroy? Ooh.
6:21 Travis McElroy? 20 under life, what lies below?
6:23 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
6:24 Travis McElroy? That's cool.
6:25 Griffin McElroy? 20 after life.
6:26 Travis McElroy? We didn't come up with that last time. Uh, this is good. We got all the bad stuff that last time. 20 under life.
6:32 Travis McElroy? 20 after life.
6:34 Griffin McElroy? 20 after life.
6:35 Travis McElroy? Af- no, und- und- und- undy, 20.
6:39 Griffin McElroy? Oh, you're right. Undy, 20, United States.
6:41 Travis McElroy? Now it makes sense. Yeah.
6:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure. 20, 20.
6:44 Travis McElroy? 20, 20 under life.
6:47 Griffin McElroy? 20 hunting knife.
6:50 Griffin McElroy? Long and beautiful.
6:53 Travis McElroy? Long and strong.
6:54 Griffin McElroy? Long and strong. 20 pocket knife.
6:59 Travis McElroy? Und, und, und, und.
7:00 Griffin McElroy? Und, und, und, und.
7:02 Travis McElroy? 20 under knife.
7:03 Griffin McElroy? Hey, gang, and you listening at home, there's gonna be a lot of just sort of undulate, a lot of just kind of like sound jazz.
7:10 Travis McElroy? You called out the thunder. Well, now you got it.
7:13 Griffin McElroy? By the end of this episode, you'll be praying for tummy buddy life, dare to care. By the end of this episode, you'll be writhing on the floor in agony, praying for 20 tummy buddy life. A sweet self tummy buddy life would be.
7:29 Travis McElroy? That theme is bleeding out in the corner. You had your chance.
7:32 Griffin McElroy? You had it.
7:32 Travis McElroy? It's a corpse. You don't get tummy buddy life. You don't deserve it.
7:36 Travis McElroy? 20 pirates life.
7:39 Travis McElroy? Und, und, und, und, un.
7:45 Griffin McElroy? Why, why, un, aunty?
7:47 Travis McElroy? It's 20, 20. It's a rhyming game.
7:51 Travis McElroy? 20 honey knife.
7:54 Travis McElroy? 20 honey life.
7:58 Travis McElroy? 20 under knife.
8:00 Griffin McElroy? What's an under? You're really all about under. So maybe we should stick with that first and then jazz the life.
8:07 Travis McElroy? Undy?
8:10 Griffin McElroy? I'm not. The problem with tummy life also is that there was gonna be a lot of expectation of my tummy being out or my tummy being featured or paid attention to in any way. I don't want to turn the conversation towards my undies. I simply do not.
8:24 Travis McElroy? Yes, that fair, fair.
8:26 Griffin McElroy? I simply do not.
8:27 Travis McElroy? I would like to revisit 20 overdrive.
8:31 Griffin McElroy? I like 20 overdrive a lot.
8:33 Travis McElroy? But if we do that now, where's the episode? Do you know what I mean?
8:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. I could, I mean, it could just be part of this episode.
8:41 Travis McElroy? I also made a question last.
8:43 Travis McElroy? 20 overdrive, you say?
8:45 Griffin McElroy? What?
8:46 Travis McElroy? You know what? I didn't think it was funny last time, and I still don't think it's funny, guys.
8:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:51 Travis McElroy? I'm sorry. It sounds like if you saw a poster of that and you saw us like revving engines, you would think that they, you know, they, they legally forced the, uh, uh, kids in the hall to change their name or something. We were, it just, I.
9:12 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder life. Time to strike.
9:17 Travis McElroy? Thunderlife? We can't live up to this macho tone. This is what I'm saying. Overdrive. We can't, we're not overdrive guys.
9:25 Griffin McElroy? There's fucking nothing about us that, and can I tell you the hypocrisy of Tubby Buddy life as long as we're shitting on it?
9:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
9:32 Griffin McElroy? I'm not gonna have lunch with anyone this year.
9:35 Travis McElroy? No, god no.
9:36 Griffin McElroy? I don't wanna do that. It's, I, I can appreciate the like, trying to have it mean something, make it mean something. But I'm not gonna, I don't wanna do that.
9:46 Travis McElroy? 20 cozy life. Live comfortably.
9:49 Griffin McElroy? Not an option for a lot of people. Not, not doable.
9:56 Travis McElroy? 20 cottage life. Wonder knife. Now.
10:02 Griffin McElroy? There's not as many I-fords as I thought.
10:04 Travis McElroy? 20 Wonder, 20 Wonder knife. Find your blade. Hmm.
10:10 Griffin McElroy? Take up arms. What does find your blade mean to you?
10:14 Travis McElroy? On the edge. Yes, on the edge. Ooh, on the edge is even, on the edge of glory.
10:18 Griffin McElroy? On the edge is ba, okay, on the edge means bad. Feels kinda cool. Like, it feels kinda cool to, to see that.
10:27 Travis McElroy? 20 Thunder knife?
10:29 Griffin McElroy? 20, 20 something knife on the edge. If we decide what that means and how it could be good for us.
10:37 Travis McElroy? I don't want people to make a thing out of bringing knives to shit.
10:41 Griffin McElroy? Definitely, thank you so much. God damn, there's, why, what is it about this year?
10:46 Travis McElroy? 20 cosplay knife, just for looks.
10:50 Griffin McElroy? What is it about this year where every word we come up with sounds so dangerous or so unappealing? Is it just this, this, is it just I've? Is it just I've, I've? Do we step away from that entirely?
11:03 Travis McElroy? Is it the I've? Is I've strife?
11:05 Griffin McElroy? I've.
11:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah, knife, strife.
11:09 Griffin McElroy? Lot of people
11:12 Griffin McElroy? were pointing out that 25 is a quarter century. So, so something along the lines of 20 quarter.
11:20 Griffin McElroy? 20 quarter.
11:21 Travis McElroy? 20 quarter.
11:22 Griffin McElroy? There's not a lot of words that rhyme with order, but, but, what I'll tell you about 20 quarter is it frees us from the three syllable un-uni. 20 quarter, get, go to.
11:35 Travis McElroy? So, 25 is the silver jubilee. So maybe 20 sylve.
11:41 Travis McElroy? Twenty butter knife.
11:44 Travis McElroy? Twenty butter knife?
11:47 Travis McElroy? I'm, I'm on a rhyme zone.
11:49 Travis McElroy? Oh.
11:49 Griffin McElroy? We're all on rhyme zone.
11:53 Travis McElroy? Oh, midlife. What about, uh, crisis midlife?
11:57 Travis McElroy? Um.
11:58 Travis McElroy? Twenty fish wife.
12:00 Travis McElroy? Twenty fish wife? What's that mean to you?
12:02 Travis McElroy? Well. Twenty putty knife.
12:06 Griffin McElroy? Stop saying different kinds of knives, please.
12:09 Travis McElroy? We're not having larger than life.
12:12 Griffin McElroy? Twenty larger, twenty, twenty, larger than life.
12:17 Travis McElroy? No. Twenty, twenty five.
12:19 Griffin McElroy? Or twenty quarter.
12:22 Travis McElroy? Twenty switchblade knife? Twenty pudding wife?
12:30 Travis McElroy? Twenty, twenty quart?
12:31 Griffin McElroy? To- twenty quar- okay, twenty quarter, brick and mortar. This one means it's twenty twenty five, go out to the store, go out to...
12:42 Griffin McElroy? Instead, this is a year against, against online shopping. This is, uh, this is a year against online shopping. This is a year where you go to brick and mortar business, businesses.
12:54 Travis McElroy? Okay, quarter, change. Twenty change.
13:02 Travis McElroy? Be the light.
13:03 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
13:07 Travis McElroy? Uh, here's the thing.
13:08 Travis McElroy? Because we're changing too. We're willing to change the year name. Twenty change, be the light.
13:14 Griffin McElroy? Twenty quart.
13:16 Travis McElroy? Twenty quart be the change.
13:18 Griffin McElroy? Twenty, ton- twenty quarter be the change. I hate coins so much.
13:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I don't want people to bring coins to our shows.
13:26 Griffin McElroy? Damn it, you're right. I don't want a bunch of fucking change jangling around.
13:30 Travis McElroy? Now, we just put out an empty big water jug at the front, have them put their coins in there, let Paula deal with it.
13:37 Griffin McElroy? Keep the change.
13:41 Travis McElroy? All paper bills.
13:44 Griffin McElroy? Twenty quarter. Flip a coin, flip a coin, heads or tails?
13:52 Travis McElroy? Hmm, make your own luck.
13:54 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
13:55 Griffin McElroy? Twenty quarter, make your own luck.
13:59 Travis McElroy? Twenty? Honey quarter.
14:06 Travis McElroy? Change of business.
14:11 Travis McElroy? There's something about beesness that's really getting me, guy. I think beesness needs to be in there somewhere.
14:16 Griffin McElroy? Why? Why?
14:17 Travis McElroy? Why?
14:18 Griffin McElroy? Hmm? Why do you feel that way?
14:20 Travis McElroy? Oh, cuz honey kinda rhymes with 20.
14:23 Griffin McElroy? Let's decide right now whether or not we're ever actually gonna do a honey thing.
14:28 Travis McElroy? Let's start there.
14:28 Griffin McElroy? Let's decide right now.
14:29 Travis McElroy? For the rest of the, like, decade?
14:31 Griffin McElroy? Decade, yeah.
14:32 Travis McElroy? Ever.
14:33 Travis McElroy? I don't think we can make that call now.
14:35 Griffin McElroy? I don't know what, how actionable honey is. A lot of people are into beekeeping now, and I'm so bored.
14:42 Travis McElroy? Chase the fathom?
14:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
14:48 Griffin McElroy? 20?
14:53 Travis McElroy? Funny overdrive.
14:56 Griffin McElroy? 20?
14:57 Travis McElroy? 20 funny site.
14:59 Griffin McElroy? Welcome to the 20 funny site.
15:05 Griffin McElroy? Welcome to our web. Caught in our web. 20 funny site caught in our web.
15:11 Travis McElroy? What?
15:14 Travis McElroy? Why?
15:15 Griffin McElroy? Like, you're on our funny site.
15:18 Travis McElroy? Oh.
15:19 Travis McElroy? I was thinking IGST.
15:23 Griffin McElroy? Like funny site?
15:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's like a funny site. Like, our show's a funny site.
15:28 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. I was thinking like S I T E, like an internet website.
15:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's what I got, too.
15:33 Griffin McElroy? Can the year be a, can the year be a plug for our website?
15:37 Travis McElroy? If we're gonna plug anything, I'm going back to...
15:39 Travis McElroy? Maybe it could be C I T E, and listeners can cite where our episodes used to be funny.
15:45 Travis McElroy? 20 like, subscribe.
15:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
15:51 Travis McElroy? 20 funny vibe.
15:58 Griffin McElroy? Vibe, we did. We did surf the vibe.
16:00 Travis McElroy? 20 funny life.
16:02 Travis McElroy? Funny. Twenty funny wife.
16:04 Travis McElroy? They're better than us. They would have come up with it already. Can we acknowledge that if our three wives are sitting here?
16:11 Griffin McElroy? I mean, if any other combination of three human beings on the earth were sitting in our chairs, they would have come up with a thing by now.
16:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
16:18 Griffin McElroy? It wouldn't have been maybe the best or the right one. Someone made a chart. I saw it online of how long it took us to come up with each year name. And it really shook me to my core because twenty grift teen we came up with in the span of about ninety seconds. We came and it was at the end of the episode. We forgot to do it and then we just fucking blasted it out.
16:40 Travis McElroy? Well, here's what happened. Here's let's, let's look at that Griffin, because it used to be.
16:46 Griffin McElroy? What changed?
16:46 Travis McElroy? They used to.
16:47 Griffin McElroy? I'll tell you what changed. Do you want to know what changed?
16:48 Travis McElroy? They used to make gears that had the different sounding things.
16:51 Griffin McElroy? Sounds in them.
16:52 Travis McElroy? In them.
16:53 Griffin McElroy? They didn't keep jamming twenty in there.
16:55 Travis McElroy? Then we got to twenty and now all we have.
16:57 Griffin McElroy? Sixteen.
16:59 Travis McElroy? It used to be sixteen, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen. And now it's just twenty one, twenty two, twenty three.
17:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:06 Travis McElroy? Fucking boring.
17:07 Griffin McElroy? Sucks.
17:09 Travis McElroy? Maybe we reset. Maybe this is the new year one.
17:13 Travis McElroy? Twenty X two five.
17:16 Griffin McElroy? Twenty XX, XXV.
17:18 Travis McElroy? Now, wait, hold on.
17:19 Griffin McElroy? XXV is looking pretty good right about now, isn't it, boys?
17:22 Travis McElroy? Two five is something.
17:23 Travis McElroy? X two, here's the right, twenty X two five is twenty X two, because it's twenty twenty, right? So twenty X two five, twenty twenty five.
17:33 Travis McElroy? Looks like a collab between twenty and twenty five.
17:37 Travis McElroy? Right. No, it would look like a collab twenty X two space five.
17:43 Travis McElroy? So two hundred?
17:46 Griffin McElroy? Ha.
17:50 Griffin McElroy? Twenty.
17:52 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
17:54 Travis McElroy? Okay, here's, okay, here's, here's, here's, here's what we're gonna do.
17:57 Travis McElroy? Okay.
17:58 Travis McElroy? Here's the game. We're gonna take turns. We're gonna go it around.
18:01 Griffin McElroy? Oh, a game? Oh, good, a game.
18:06 Travis McElroy? A parlor game.
18:07 Griffin McElroy? Oh, fun. I love games. I love games and sport.
18:10 Travis McElroy? Like a menace is cap to 20 questions?
18:12 Travis McElroy? We're gonna take turns.
18:13 Griffin McElroy? Does the game have anything with us coming up with a name for it?
18:16 Travis McElroy? There's three parts. 20, 25, right? 20, 25. What we're gonna do is, we're gonna go in a round. One of us will say 20. Then another one of us will say a word that rhymes with 20. And then another one of us will say a word that rhymes with 5. And we'll just find it.
18:32 Griffin McElroy? This sounds, Justin, like what we've been doing, only putting way less pressure on you.
18:38 Travis McElroy? 20. No, we'll take turns.
18:40 Griffin McElroy? Oh, okay.
18:41 Travis McElroy? Being the first. It's not always being the first. Okay. 20.
18:45 Griffin McElroy? 20.
18:48 Travis McElroy? Wait, so now I'm just rhyming 5?
18:51 Travis McElroy? Well, you don't have to. Griffin just said 20 again. So just say 5, and we'll get that one out of our system.
18:56 Travis McElroy? 5.
18:57 Travis McElroy? Okay. Now you start, Travis.
19:00 Travis McElroy? Okay. Runny.
19:02 Travis McElroy? Bunny.
19:04 Griffin McElroy? I'm already gonna stop this one.
19:07 Travis McElroy? Okay. All right. Sunny.
19:11 Griffin McElroy? We already did sun and sea. I'm gonna go ahead and stop this one, too. I hate to, I hate to dump all over the game juice.
19:18 Travis McElroy? No, no, no, it's good. It's good. Let's just start with some 20s.
19:20 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:21 Travis McElroy? Unfunny.
19:25 Griffin McElroy? 20?
19:25 Travis McElroy? 20. What? Go ahead. You go.
19:27 Griffin McElroy? 20?
19:29 Travis McElroy? Dunny.
19:31 Travis McElroy? Isn't that a toilet?
19:34 Travis McElroy? Okay.
19:35 Travis McElroy? What about spending money?
19:38 Griffin McElroy? No, I don't want to talk about money.
19:40 Travis McElroy? Okay. Oh, bad news. That's a lot of the stuff that rhymes with funny. Okay.
19:44 Griffin McElroy? I know. 20?
19:49 Griffin McElroy? This game sucks. This is the worst game I've ever played in my life. It feels bad to play it.
19:54 Travis McElroy? It was just a thought starter. I don't know. I will not do an honey thing. That we have agreed upon.
20:01 Griffin McElroy? I said punny. Punny with a P?
20:03 Travis McElroy? Punny? Nope. Don't think puns are funny.
20:06 Griffin McElroy? You guys are lost in the sauce. If you guys think at this point, we can come up with also a good joke about 20, and a good joke about if or I've, then you've not been listening or participating.
20:18 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to espouse that necessarily.
20:22 Travis McElroy? 20 open-eyed.
20:26 Griffin McElroy? Is there a metaphorical knife? Is there a knife that's not tangible that you, is there a type of knife you can't?
20:32 Travis McElroy? There's no knives in this year's theme. I can say for sure, we're not gonna mention knives. I don't think we should have knives in there. Personally.
20:41 Travis McElroy? That's, that's strong coming from Justin.
20:44 Travis McElroy? That's strong coming from me. I plan on talking about knives a lot this year.
20:47 Travis McElroy? 20 pain and strife.
20:49 Travis McElroy? 20 pain and strife is so good, Trav. 20 no more strife.
20:55 Travis McElroy? 20, 20 strive to thrive.
20:59 Travis McElroy? We have to keep making the podcast.
21:00 Travis McElroy? We do.
21:02 Travis McElroy? The law says we can't.
21:03 Travis McElroy? Mummy's alive.
21:07 Travis McElroy? Mummy live.
21:08 Travis McElroy? 20 sleep deprived.
21:10 Travis McElroy? 20 sun deprived. 20 thunder life.
21:19 Travis McElroy? 20 more high fives.
21:21 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder life. 20 thunder life. What about that? 20 blunder life.
21:28 Griffin McElroy? 20?
21:33 Travis McElroy? The sage is sleeping once again.
21:38 Griffin McElroy? Let me retire to my hermitage.
21:42 Travis McElroy? Let him rest. He's, he's sucked all his energy.
21:46 Griffin McElroy? Let me consult with the vapors.
21:54 Travis McElroy? Okay.
21:55 Travis McElroy? 29.
21:57 Griffin McElroy? 20, 20 cyber life, change the game.
22:03 Travis McElroy? Cyber doesn't sound like.
22:04 Griffin McElroy? It doesn't fucking matter. We're not gonna make the 20 rhyme, Justin.
22:08 Travis McElroy? 29 to 5.
22:11 Griffin McElroy? That's just. I'm giving up on 20.
22:17 Travis McElroy? Oh.
22:17 Griffin McElroy? I'm saying fuck, I'm saying fuck 20. If we can come up with anything, anything, anything at this point, that is even, just even remotely sounds like I, I consonant, I'll be totally, totally fine with it at this point.
22:37 Griffin McElroy? And you just shit on 20 Cyberlife changed the game. Can you think Juice about that? I want to walk you through how actionable that would be for us. We're gamers already. We wouldn't have to do that much hard stuff. Everyone else listening at home would be stoked. They'd be like, I'd love a Cyberlife.
22:57 Travis McElroy? 20 Cold as Ice.
23:00 Griffin McElroy? I like where your head's at Trav.
23:04 Griffin McElroy? I mean, not, not that one, but that you're willing to reach as far out as Cold as Ice. I think gets me excited.
23:12 Travis McElroy? I'm going through the alphabet.
23:18 Travis McElroy? 20 Underlight Neon for everyone. 20 Underlight Neon for all.
23:24 Travis McElroy? 20 Satellite.
23:25 Travis McElroy? 20.
23:28 Travis McElroy? Hmm. Satellite.
23:32 Travis McElroy? 20 Guiding Light.
23:35 Travis McElroy? Yeah, real religious. That's how I like it.
23:41 Travis McElroy? 20 Angel Life.
23:47 Griffin McElroy? That'd be cool. If we followed up, there's a mushroom god who's like hanging out and watching you and listening to your wishes too. Their angels are real and they are checking in nonstop.
24:05 Travis McElroy? 20 Angel.
24:08 Travis McElroy? 20 Angel Life, they're all around you.
24:17 Travis McElroy? Grunder.
24:18 Griffin McElroy? Huh?
24:21 Griffin McElroy? Fuck yeah, man. This is that good shit. This is what I'm talking about. There's not going to be words by the end of it. Just checking in with you, listener at home. How's Tommy Buddy life feeling? 20. Just want to check in with you at home. How's Tommy Buddy life feeling? Probably alright, probably alright. A little better than it was.
24:39 Travis McElroy? Grab your.
24:40 Travis McElroy? I hope it feels a million miles away. Cause that's how far it is from you. You'll never have it again.
24:45 Griffin McElroy? 20 Drum and Fife.
24:49 Travis McElroy? March to your own beat.
24:51 Griffin McElroy? 20 Drum and Fife.
24:54 Travis McElroy? Rat tat tat tat.
24:57 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Drum and Fife, get in formation.
25:00 Travis McElroy? Get in line. It's hard.
25:03 Griffin McElroy? That's a bad.
25:04 Travis McElroy? Tough one.
25:07 Travis McElroy? Twenty Wonderlife, look around you.
25:12 Griffin McElroy? Don't, I don't know that if people looked around them, they would sigh contentedly.
25:17 Travis McElroy? I think one of one.
25:18 Griffin McElroy? Wonderlife.
25:19 Travis McElroy? No, that's right. You're fair. I mean, I met, I've full.
25:25 Travis McElroy? Philosophically disagree with you, but I understand your sentiment. Um, and twenty Underknife, fix it. And we all get a lot of surgery to every part of us.
25:39 Travis McElroy? Going under the knife is what you mean.
25:40 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
25:41 Griffin McElroy? No problems I see with that.
25:42 Travis McElroy? No problems I see at all. Thematically. And it gets knives back in there, which I'm wild about.
25:57 Travis McElroy? I want to talk about Warby Parker.
26:00 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
26:00 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
26:02 Travis McElroy? I can see clearly now, the frames are here.
26:05 Travis McElroy? Oh, my gosh.
26:06 Travis McElroy? Like, because it's how it works.
26:08 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
26:08 Travis McElroy? Because Warby Parker, they change the game frame, they keep changing it, making glasses that are stylish and affordable. They design frames in-house. Their collection includes silhouettes, colors, fits, made to suit every face. You can get them, uh, online, you can get them sent, uh, to your home or in stores. They have over 250 retail locations across the US and Canada, and they start as low as $95 and include prescription lenses with anti-reflective scratch resistant coatings. I have many pairs of Warby Parker glasses at this point.
26:43 Griffin McElroy? I'm wearing them right now. These are the Chamberlain. It's gotten a lot of compliments on these puppies.
26:47 Travis McElroy? There you go. You look classy as hell, Griffin.
26:49 Griffin McElroy? Thanks, buddy.
26:50 Travis McElroy? You're welcome. So get started with the Warby Parker's virtual try-on. You can try on glasses and sunglasses, seeing the realistic color, texture, and size of each style right from home right now, or head over to warbyparker.com slash mybrother right now to take your home try-on quiz and pick five pairs of frames to try on at home for free. That's warbyparker.com slash mybrother. Warbyparker.com slash mybrother.
27:14 Griffin McElroy? I don't know, we're recording this after we finished recording the episode because you can't interrupt the flow. Um, I don't know where you're hearing this right now, but we do need to send out a lot of letters about the new theme name that we do come up with. And I am not trying to lose my fucking shirt over that.
27:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you want to save a little money.
27:32 Griffin McElroy? Luckily, I have stamps.com. I own stamps.com.
27:36 Travis McElroy? Whoa.
27:37 Griffin McElroy? You, you can own stamps.com too by going to it. And then it's like, it's your part of you and part of your life.
27:43 Travis McElroy? Huh.
27:44 Griffin McElroy? Cause they make it so easy.
27:46 Travis McElroy? Own it like connection to it, not like any kind of legal ownership.
27:49 Griffin McElroy? No, you don't, you can't make decisions for the company.
27:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you can't own a company.
27:54 Griffin McElroy? But when you have a website on your computer, it's like you have, you have it.
27:58 Travis McElroy? It's true. Like you're participating in it.
28:00 Griffin McElroy? Exactly.
28:01 Travis McElroy? Part of the magic.
28:02 Griffin McElroy? Stamps.com handles all your mailing and shipping needs. Wherever, whenever. That was in the ad copy and I thought it would be fun to do like a Shakira thing, but I don't think it was good. Okay.
28:14 Travis McElroy? I'm just, I'm a soul chuckled out, but I like it.
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28:45 Travis McElroy? Also, if you are in Florida, we are coming for you. February 20th, 21st and 22nd. Those first two dates.
28:52 Griffin McElroy? Coming to do a show. Important that we're not coming for you in a threatening way.
28:55 Travis McElroy? No, in a fun way. Uh, February 20th and 21st, we're doing a bim bam and taz for the first time ever live in Florida, in Tampa. February 22nd is my bim bam in Jacksonville. Tickets are going to go on sale. Whoa, they're already on sale. Uh, so you can go get them right now. Go to bit.ly forward slash McElroy tours.
29:13 Travis McElroy? Our Clubhouse series, streaming series on YouTube. We're back. We're doing episodes. We just did, as of recording this yesterday, an hour and 45 minute long book report on Yellowstone, season one.
29:26 Griffin McElroy? We've been doing a lot of jumbo eps lately.
29:28 Travis McElroy? Yes, we have. Absolutely. You can go check that out. Just go to Macro Family on YouTube. Also there, we talked about, we're doing a Miggy Plush with U2's. It's available for two weeks, starting on January 14th. If you go to M I G G Y dot Y O U T O O Z dot com, you will be able to order yours. There's a giveaway happening with that, too. So go get that.
29:53 Griffin McElroy? Enjoy the rest of the episode. We do, we'll get there. Trust the process.
30:03 Speaker 04 Who's ready for some science?
30:07 Speaker 04 With sources and nuance.
30:10 Speaker 05 And some funny jokes from me.
30:15 Speaker 05 And some funny jokes from me.
30:16 Speaker 04 Let's learn everything we learn about science and a bit of everything else, too. From super heavy elements to super heavy pumpkins.
30:23 Speaker 05 From quantum physics to the history of swearing.
30:25 Speaker 04 As well as special guests like Tom Scott and Hank Green.
30:28 Speaker 05 And some funny jokes from me.
30:30 Speaker 04 Me, Caroline Roper. Dr. Ella Hubber.
30:32 Speaker 05 And Tom Lum.
30:34 Speaker 04 So join us next time where we will learn about everything. Hey, are you playing a video game right now?
30:44 Travis McElroy? Maybe you put on a podcast while grinding in an RPG.
30:48 Speaker 04 Or maybe you just don't want to hear that boss fight music one more time. Been there. I'm Maddie Myers.
30:53 Travis McElroy? I'm Jason Schreier.
30:54 Speaker 04 And I'm Kirk Hamilton. We're the hosts of Triple Click, a video game podcast. A podcast you can listen to while you do other things.
31:01 Travis McElroy? Like driving, or cooking, or playing video games.
31:06 Speaker 04 On Triple Click, we share our thoughts on the latest games.
31:09 Travis McElroy? And breaking news out of the video game industry.
31:11 Speaker 04 And we also talk about other stuff besides games.
31:14 Travis McElroy? So while you're doing something else, make sure to check out.
31:17 Travis McElroy? Listen on MaximumFun.org or wherever you find your podcasts.
31:26 Travis McElroy? Okay, I've got here some words of the long I sound.
31:30 Griffin McElroy? Great, fuck it, just go blast.
31:32 Travis McElroy? Okay, I'm gonna read these out.
31:33 Griffin McElroy? Blast me.
31:34 Travis McElroy? Ice, bike, bite, dice.
31:37 Travis McElroy? Twenty wonder.
31:37 Griffin McElroy? Okay, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down.
31:40 Travis McElroy? Okay, wait, how's twenty wonder bike?
31:43 Griffin McElroy? Twenty hover bike.
31:46 Travis McElroy? Huh.
31:48 Travis McElroy? Twenty tandem bike.
31:50 Travis McElroy? No, it's not even close.
31:52 Griffin McElroy? Okay, start over. Ice, I don't like.
31:54 Travis McElroy? Okay, bike, bite, dice, dime.
31:58 Griffin McElroy? Dice, dice.
32:01 Travis McElroy? Hey, no.
32:02 Travis McElroy? Dive.
32:04 Travis McElroy? File, that's not it. Fine, fire, five, hide, hike, hire, hive.
32:13 Griffin McElroy? Hike.
32:14 Travis McElroy? Twenty take a hike.
32:16 Travis McElroy? Twenty wonder hike.
32:17 Griffin McElroy? Now.
32:20 Travis McElroy? Twenty wonder hike, nature's all around you.
32:22 Griffin McElroy? Is it W A?
32:23 Travis McElroy? Wander. Twenty wander hike.
32:26 Griffin McElroy? Get lost.
32:28 Travis McElroy? It's with an A.
32:30 Griffin McElroy? Twenty wander, twenty wander hike.
32:32 Travis McElroy? I don't want somebody to die trying to do this.
32:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
32:35 Travis McElroy? Kite, lice, life, like, lime, line, live, mice, nice.
32:42 Travis McElroy? They're going too fast. I can't think this fast. Wonder mice.
32:46 Griffin McElroy? You say wonder mice? Justin has to say wonder before all these, Travis. You didn't let him.
32:50 Travis McElroy? Do it again. Hey, Trav, do the list again, but just add wonder.
32:54 Travis McElroy? Wonder ice, wonder bike, wonder bite, wonder dice, wonder dime, wonder dive, wonder file, wonder fine, wonder fire.
33:06 Travis McElroy? Uh, wonder five.
33:08 Travis McElroy? Okay, you have to stop now. We are just naming a tech startup and I can't, I can't do it anymore.
33:13 Griffin McElroy? It does feel like I'm trying to come up with a.
33:15 Travis McElroy? Wise?
33:16 Griffin McElroy? With a name for a fictional company.
33:20 Travis McElroy? Smile, wonder smile.
33:23 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
33:23 Travis McElroy? Wonder smile is so far.
33:25 Travis McElroy? Twenty.
33:26 Travis McElroy? It sounds nothing like twenty five.
33:30 Griffin McElroy? Twenty big grand prize.
33:38 Griffin McElroy? Are these the worst bits, the silence? Are those the worst bits for you guys?
33:42 Travis McElroy? I, can I say why they're the worst? Because there is always a bit of me, and it's the part of me that I've been trying to kill. There's a part of me that hopes that one of us is about to bust through the silence.
33:55 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh.
33:56 Travis McElroy? With an absolutely Alzheimer.
33:58 Griffin McElroy? It's gotta come, eventually, it's gotta come out.
34:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we knew it last time, but we just were so hungry. We had to stop.
34:08 Griffin McElroy? But the joke, guess what? Doing an afternoon recording now, I already eaten my lunch. I won't be hungry for a long time. I got a lot of podcasts.
34:16 Travis McElroy? I got calzone power. Um, time to tithe. Pay the piper.
34:29 Travis McElroy? We should just call it 20 blender guys at this point, because that's where we are.
34:34 Travis McElroy? 20 tired guys.
34:36 Travis McElroy? 20 blender guys.
34:37 Travis McElroy? 20 20 knife.
34:42 Travis McElroy? 400 blades.
34:45 Griffin McElroy? 400 blades, cool. Too much math. We obviously can't do anything on the list from the first episode, but there's a lot of stuff on the list from the first episode that if one of you just said it spontaneously now, I would be like, yeah, absolutely 20 20 try to ramp it up.
35:03 Travis McElroy? Well, we can't, I do think it is fair that we, we must have some.
35:07 Travis McElroy? It just feels like at this point, we're living 20 take a dive. Uh, they can't all be winners. I feel like that's the spirit that's being embodied, and yet our refusal to.
35:20 Griffin McElroy? Is there something to, I don't want to encourage people to fail. But what has been personally?
35:29 Griffin McElroy? Transformative of revelation I've had in my adult life is that I oftentimes succumb to all or nothing thinking and that can stop progress, right? It can stop you from even trying something because you don't know if you're going to be the best at it or the shittiest person in the world at it. That's not how it works, but that's the kind of trap your brain likes to get you in. Something along the lines of a 20 take a dive. That does sound like I'm encouraging people to fail, but they all can't be winners is not the, not a terrible sentiment to get out there.
36:07 Travis McElroy? Well, what I like about it is it's both take a dive as one might throw a match, but also like dive in.
36:13 Griffin McElroy? Jumping in, yeah.
36:15 Travis McElroy? Take it, that's why I thought 20 dive, 20 take a dive, I meant to do that.
36:23 Travis McElroy? And also you get Urkel in there.
36:26 Griffin McElroy? Did Urkel say, I meant to do that?
36:28 Travis McElroy? That was, that was always the follow up. Did I do that? Yes. Oh, I meant to, sorry.
36:34 Travis McElroy? They usually cut that second part.
36:36 Griffin McElroy? He was always really.
36:38 Travis McElroy? Who said, I meant to do that?
36:40 Griffin McElroy? Who's, which sitcom character said, I meant to do that?
36:43 Travis McElroy? Uncle Jesse.
36:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it was like a quote.
36:45 Griffin McElroy? Tim, the Toolman Taylor.
36:47 Travis McElroy? No, Pee Pee Herman, sorry.
36:49 Griffin McElroy? 20 cool tool time.
36:54 Griffin McElroy? 20 cool tool time.
36:58 Griffin McElroy? 20 cool tool time.
37:00 Travis McElroy? Under Hunter's Five.
37:02 Griffin McElroy? Hunter's Five.
37:04 Travis McElroy? Under Hunter's Five.
37:07 Travis McElroy? Under.
37:10 Travis McElroy? Under. Under. Andy.
37:21 Griffin McElroy? Sunder, sunder time.
37:23 Travis McElroy? This isn't a podcast at this point, right?
37:25 Griffin McElroy? That's okay. It doesn't need to be, and don't you, it's the second guessing that's actually is slowing us down.
37:31 Travis McElroy? Read the list again, Griffin, from last time, just read the list again.
37:35 Griffin McElroy? 20 Honey Hive, Back to Business, 20 It's Alive, Rebuild the Monster, 2045, Welcome to the Future. Pretty cool.
37:40 Travis McElroy? Okay.
37:42 Griffin McElroy? Thunder Force 5, the Omega Continuum, 2020 Knives, 400 Blades, 20 Joanie Ives, Mind the Pezzles.
37:47 Travis McElroy? Hold on, wait, no wait, hold on, no wait.
37:51 Travis McElroy? Now, listen, hold on. If we were to take the theme 2045 at this point, then all we would have to do is pledge that in 2045.
38:03 Griffin McElroy? We'll do Tummy Buddy Life?
38:05 Travis McElroy? We'll do Tummy Buddy Life, right?
38:07 Travis McElroy? Oh, we're just swapping.
38:09 Travis McElroy? It's just a clean swap, right? So it's not even like we're bailing, it's just like.
38:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
38:13 Travis McElroy? The year theme for this year was 20, you know, Tummy Buddy Life, and we'll just send that to 2045.
38:21 Travis McElroy? Like Looper.
38:21 Griffin McElroy? Right.
38:22 Travis McElroy? I think.
38:23 Travis McElroy? And then we'll take the, the year theme 2045.
38:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:28 Travis McElroy? For this, for this year, 2045, Welcome to the Future, we'll do that now.
38:33 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:34 Travis McElroy? And we'll just send the next one,
38:37 Travis McElroy? 20 years into the far-flung future.
38:38 Travis McElroy? Now, I like that part of it a lot, where, where we're kicking this can down the road 20 years.
38:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
38:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
38:46 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
38:46 Griffin McElroy? I will say it does sound sort of like a celebration of the 45th president of our United States of America, which I'm not wild about.
38:55 Travis McElroy? No.
38:57 Travis McElroy? Why not 2085?
38:59 Travis McElroy? 2085. Cause 40 sounded closer to 20, but I see what, I do see what you're saying, Trav.
39:07 Travis McElroy? If we're gonna go to the future, why just 20 years? That wouldn't make for very fun costumes.
39:12 Travis McElroy? We will not, I think, Trav, there's some problem.
39:15 Travis McElroy? 2055.
39:16 Travis McElroy? Mine felt, 2055, maybe.
39:20 Travis McElroy? You know, clean living.
39:21 Travis McElroy? 50 sounds like more, Justin, that's 70, like, it's not that much.
39:27 Travis McElroy? I like to keep my expectations low, you know?
39:34 Travis McElroy? Fifty-five sounds more futuristic.
39:36 Travis McElroy? Fifty, fifty.
39:38 Griffin McElroy? Fifty.
39:39 Travis McElroy? Fifty. Fifty-five.
39:43 Travis McElroy? Sorry, what was that?
39:45 Travis McElroy? Fifty-five. It's too if. You can't have another if sound.
39:48 Travis McElroy? I didn't realize it sounded so Italian.
39:50 Travis McElroy? Bunty, runty.
39:52 Griffin McElroy? Runty dive.
39:54 Travis McElroy? Bluntie dive.
39:55 Travis McElroy? Then why not thirty twenty-five?
39:58 Griffin McElroy? Fuck yeah. Why not six thousand two hundred and nineteen?
40:05 Travis McElroy? Twenty cyber five.
40:07 Griffin McElroy? Twenty cyber life. The game has changed.
40:12 Travis McElroy? Well, cyber life, welcome to the future, still works.
40:16 Travis McElroy? But I don't want to sound like we're embracing AI.
40:19 Griffin McElroy? That doesn't sound like it is what.
40:24 Travis McElroy? Circle of life?
40:30 Travis McElroy? Twenty, we're alive. No bots, only dreams.
40:35 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
40:38 Griffin McElroy? Real dreams only.
40:49 Travis McElroy? So just to summarize.
40:51 Griffin McElroy? Twenty in your life. Real dreams only.
40:55 Travis McElroy? Sorry, did you say twenty in your life, real dreams only?
40:59 Griffin McElroy? Twenty in your, be in, like, be in your life.
41:03 Travis McElroy? I know, but we have to have some, there's nothing of substance.
41:09 Travis McElroy? Something for me to there's nothing with chew or depth.
41:13 Travis McElroy? Twenty human life.
41:16 Griffin McElroy? Twenty thunders cry.
41:21 Travis McElroy? Twenty thunder strike.
41:24 Griffin McElroy? Twenty thunder strike. Hmm. Thunder doesn't really strike, though, does it? It's the sound.
41:29 Travis McElroy? Twenty thunder wife.
41:31 Travis McElroy? I already said thunder wife and no one reacted to it at all. I would.
41:35 Griffin McElroy? I just don't know what a thunder wife is, I guess.
41:38 Travis McElroy? You know, like if you married Thor?
41:41 Griffin McElroy? Guess so.
41:43 Travis McElroy? Twenty lightning strike. Twenty.
41:48 Travis McElroy? Thunderbike?
41:50 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. It's not gonna be it, but I'm glad you said it, cuz it's cool. It's a cool thing to think. Like, I'm so tired right now, but sometimes we're saying stuff that's like, cool to think about, like, something like a thunderbike.
42:00 Travis McElroy? What about if the year name is just, what is thunderbike?
42:05 Travis McElroy? Look, can I say the reason I liked it is cuz I was thinking about the posters that we would have at live shows? And how like, everyone would just be us on a thunderbike.
42:13 Travis McElroy? And that's cool.
42:15 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. Is there anything to, hey, let's just take a second, just as a joke.
42:22 Griffin McElroy? It's kinda cool to think about yourself on a thunderbike.
42:24 Travis McElroy? It really is.
42:25 Travis McElroy? Right? Yeah.
42:27 Griffin McElroy? And...
42:30 Griffin McElroy? And maybe it's something like, if you get scared... If you get, if the year makes you scared, you think about yourself on a thunderbike.
42:37 Travis McElroy? Not a motorcycle, but like a bike? Like, an actual bike? Like, a bicycle?
42:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. And so like, what's actionable about it is it's like, when you get scared, you can think about the thunderbike, and then you'll feel a little bit better. And it's got, and it's yours, but only in your imagination.
42:52 Travis McElroy? Now, if we went 20 tandem bike, people could draw it as a thunderbike if they wanted to. But 20 tandem bike in this together, picture the three of us in like, old timey, like, straw boaters.
43:04 Griffin McElroy? Tandem bike's not gonna make you stop being scared when you get scared.
43:07 Travis McElroy? Yeah, cuz you're not alone. I'll pedal for you if you need me to. We're going downhill. You're not on that bike alone. I'm there with you, buddy.
43:14 Travis McElroy? Hmm. 20 thunderbikes. Demand abundance.
43:19 Travis McElroy? Tandem thunderbikes.
43:21 Travis McElroy? 20 thunderbikes. Demand abundance.
43:25 Griffin McElroy? Demand abundance? Is what you want more of?
43:31 Travis McElroy? 20, 20 thunderbikes is so many, right?
43:34 Travis McElroy? Yeah, almost too many. Cuz you only have the one set of legs.
43:39 Travis McElroy? Expect abundance.
43:40 Griffin McElroy? Expect abun- expect abundance.
43:43 Travis McElroy? Oh.
43:44 Travis McElroy? Recognize abundance?
43:46 Travis McElroy? 20 recognize.
43:50 Travis McElroy? 20 rec the guys.
43:55 Griffin McElroy? 20 number spike. A big bump in the... in the tally. Bumping the... 20 number spike, bumping the tally.
44:05 Travis McElroy? 20 how time flies.
44:11 Griffin McElroy? Twenty no goodbyes.
44:14 Travis McElroy? Why don't we just call this, this is the last year I'll make the show, twenty last goodbye. And we'll just, no, we're never doing the year naming again.
44:23 Travis McElroy? Dun, Dundo.
44:25 Griffin McElroy? This is just an off year for us, Trav. Next year, we're gonna crush.
44:28 Travis McElroy? Remember when we talked about Bluntie for like a long time?
44:31 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, what's Dundo? Don't change the subject.
44:35 Griffin McElroy? You can't just say Dundo.
44:39 Griffin McElroy? Who do you think you are? Like, what do you think?
44:41 Travis McElroy? Dundo like it was a conversation starter.
44:43 Griffin McElroy? Your job is, what do you think your job is?
44:46 Travis McElroy? Dundo like it was gonna spur us all on.
44:48 Griffin McElroy? You just said Dundo and then you really quickly.
44:53 Travis McElroy? Sorry babe, it's gonna be a little while before I can record spanners. We're still working on the year. We went back, we dove back into it.
45:02 Travis McElroy? I was about to say, okay.
45:06 Travis McElroy? I was about to say Dundo Kive, then I thought, that sounds like a Star Wars character.
45:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:12 Travis McElroy? So I said half of it before I could stop myself from saying Dundo Kive. I just said.
45:23 Travis McElroy? And that's a story what happened with Dundo Kive.
45:27 Travis McElroy? And someday you'll be reading a Star Wars almanac. About Dundo Kive.
45:33 Griffin McElroy? Twenty Jumbo Wife. My huge wife.
45:39 Travis McElroy? Twenty Jumbo Jive.
45:41 Griffin McElroy? No, no.
45:46 Travis McElroy? Twenty Gunner Knife.
45:50 Travis McElroy? Just wanted to get it out. You guys keep thinking about twenty Thunderbike. I don't know why you keep making me bring that back up. Man. It was pretty good, I guess. I feel like I'm recording this to myself at this point.
46:03 Griffin McElroy? Well.
46:04 Travis McElroy? A little bit.
46:07 Travis McElroy? Cause I feel like there's not, there's not a part of us, can I say the part of the problem?
46:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:12 Travis McElroy? Is that, okay, seriously, look at me for a second, engage.
46:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I'm here, baby.
46:18 Travis McElroy? Part of the problem is that we are just spouting things.
46:22 Griffin McElroy? But not building.
46:23 Travis McElroy? We're not building and nothing can get momentum just saying it. We gotta explore some of these ideas to see if there's anything there, just to like bat it around a little bit, you know what I mean? I just, uh, just to.
46:37 Travis McElroy? So like ride the thunder bike, charge ahead.
46:42 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
46:43 Griffin McElroy? Now, wait, Juice, this is interesting because you're, you're trying to, you're saying a thing to try to help me and Travis and it's to help us do our best and make our best. So is there, is there a year name in that, in what you just said?
46:59 Travis McElroy? How do you mean?
47:01 Travis McElroy? Like a tandem bike.
47:03 Griffin McElroy? Worked to 20, 20.
47:05 Travis McElroy? 21 bike, there's.
47:07 Travis McElroy? I feel like Justin, you want the under feeling so bad that you're referred to and you refuse to engage.
47:13 Griffin McElroy? You also want bike and, and that's, you can't have both words, man.
47:18 Travis McElroy? I just want you all to picture the three of us riding a tandem bicycle and tell me it doesn't fill your life with joy.
47:24 Travis McElroy? Tandem bike, 25, there's just no, I mean, maybe meter, but that's about it.
47:32 Travis McElroy? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize, uh, that we had such an abundance.
47:35 Griffin McElroy? We're so close, we're so close. I can tell that we're so close, but if we get nasty with each other now. When we're so close, it will have been for nothing.
47:44 Travis McElroy? You're right, you're right, you're right. I apologize.
47:48 Travis McElroy? 20 underground, 20 thunder crimes.
47:55 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
47:57 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder guys.
47:58 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder time.
48:01 Travis McElroy? 20, thunder time, 20 thunder time.
48:06 Griffin McElroy? 20 thunder drive.
48:09 Travis McElroy? Go on.
48:10 Griffin McElroy? I am speed.
48:12 Travis McElroy? What? Say it again.
48:14 Griffin McElroy? 20 thunder drive. I am speed.
48:17 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder drive.
48:19 Griffin McElroy? 20 thunder drive.
48:20 Travis McElroy? Faster than fear.
48:22 Griffin McElroy? Faster than.
48:22 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder drive faster than fear.
48:25 Griffin McElroy? Like you're driving into the stor- oh, wait. A thunder drive. A thunder drive is like you're driving into the storm.
48:33 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
48:34 Griffin McElroy? A cool storm chaser type, if you will.
48:36 Travis McElroy? Chase the storm, ride the lightning.
48:40 Griffin McElroy? No, I don't want.
48:41 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder drive into the storm.
48:46 Griffin McElroy? Into the storm.
48:49 Griffin McElroy? Faster than fear hit like way better than anything we've, we've said.
48:53 Travis McElroy? Guys.
48:54 Griffin McElroy? So far.
48:55 Travis McElroy? 20 thunder drive faster than fear.
48:59 Griffin McElroy? Does that just mean not be, not be afraid? Like, don't be afraid.
49:04 Travis McElroy? No, it's okay to be afraid. You just have to move faster than your fear.
49:09 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
49:09 Travis McElroy? Don't let fear stop you.
49:11 Griffin McElroy? There's a storm.
49:12 Travis McElroy? Storm in front of you. It's making scary noises.
49:15 Griffin McElroy? It's not here yet.
49:17 Travis McElroy? No, but you know that no matter how little sense it makes, it's harder for the lightning to hit you if you're moving. You're gonna drive faster than fear. You're gonna drive through the storm, through the lightning, through the thunder, unless you've been advised not to by the authorities. Yeah. This is, you know, a trusted source. But this is mostly.
49:38 Griffin McElroy? 20 thunder drive faster than. Faster than fear, but.
49:42 Travis McElroy? Within reason.
49:43 Griffin McElroy? But if the government says.
49:46 Travis McElroy? A trusted source. I said a trusted source. 20 thunder drive faster than fear within reason. There's an asterisk. Faster than fear.
49:55 Griffin McElroy? Right.
49:56 Travis McElroy? Asterisk within reason.
50:01 Travis McElroy? You know what makes me happy?
50:02 Griffin McElroy? What? 20 Thunder Drive Faster Than Fear?
50:05 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's that we have, it's taken us 45 minutes to get here.
50:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
50:09 Travis McElroy? There's no way we would have recorded for three solid hours.
50:13 Griffin McElroy? No.
50:14 Travis McElroy? It just so happens that this one took three hours to come out. You know what I mean?
50:20 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
50:20 Travis McElroy? It just took this long to get here.
50:22 Griffin McElroy? What are you gonna dress as? What are you guys gonna dress as? For 20 Thunder? Probably Glenn Powell.
50:30 Griffin McElroy? I don't know that that'll hit.
50:31 Travis McElroy? From Twisters? Yeah, I'm into it, dude. Yeah, for sure.
50:34 Griffin McElroy? Or like a full racing suit.
50:38 Travis McElroy? Racing? Storm? Man. We gotta hurry up and tell McKay before she draws anything else.
50:47 Travis McElroy? With the old theme on it, because I think everybody's gonna be pretty excited about this one. Now, is the asterisk within reason canonical? Or is that more of a vibe? Because I do like the idea of every poster.
51:01 Griffin McElroy? Has an asterisk?
51:03 Travis McElroy? Has an asterisk, you know, just sort of.
51:07 Griffin McElroy? Dude, let me Google Thunder Drive and make sure it's not like a new racist truck.
51:13 Travis McElroy? A new electric racist truck?
51:15 Griffin McElroy? Is that a truck for racist or is racist? The truck is racist.
51:25 Travis McElroy? All right, thunderdrive.com looks like it's just being squatted, which makes me feel pretty good.
51:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, but there is, there's a cloud-based technology company.
51:34 Travis McElroy? Oh, whatever. Well, I don't care about that. Yeah, baby.
51:39 Griffin McElroy? It's not the best reviewed.
51:41 Travis McElroy? Good. Well, that's fine. We're not gonna use them.
51:46 Travis McElroy? That's all the more reason for us to use the name. There's no confusion.
51:52 Travis McElroy? Because we crush it every single time, except for this time.
51:58 Griffin McElroy? 20 thunder drive faster than fear. What are we telling people?
52:03 Travis McElroy? We just explained it to you, Griffin.
52:05 Travis McElroy? We explained it to you already. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna move faster than your fear.
52:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, so right, definitely. I get that you gotta go faster than your fear. What does that mean?
52:17 Travis McElroy? It means don't let fear stop you. Like, if you sit there and think about all the reasons not to do something, and you'll convince yourself not to, you need to move before that fear hits.
52:26 Griffin McElroy? Okay, that's cool. That kind of gets back to the all or nothing thing.
52:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah, this is what I'm saying.
52:30 Griffin McElroy? It's the, it's the, it's the, I don't want anyone to do anything dangerous. Cause sometimes fear can be a good-
52:34 Travis McElroy? It's not faster than reason.
52:36 Travis McElroy? Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Do you know who said that?
52:41 Griffin McElroy? Lee Harvey Oswald.
52:43 Travis McElroy? Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo.
52:48 Griffin McElroy? He's living faster than fear in that. You know what? I, I fucking like fast. This is more applicable to me than I'm afraid of something, so let's rush right into it.
52:58 Travis McElroy? This is move faster than fear.
52:59 Griffin McElroy? It could just be-
53:00 Travis McElroy? Move before that fear hits.
53:01 Travis McElroy? I'm not thinking yet. You can't get scared if you're already doing it.
53:03 Travis McElroy? You can't let the fear sink in. It'll stop you. You have to move faster than fear.
53:08 Griffin McElroy? But don't use this to do anything shitty.
53:10 Travis McElroy? It's not faster than reason or morals.
53:13 Travis McElroy? Now, that's why asterisk within reason.
53:17 Griffin McElroy? I don't allow that we can do a subtext. I don't know if we can do a PS to our you.
53:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I mean, it can be acknowledged or implied.
53:25 Travis McElroy? There's an implicit asterisk.
53:27 Griffin McElroy? Well, can we just put 20 thunder drive faster than fear asterisk, but not explain, like, come to us if you want to know what the asterisk is.
53:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
53:37 Griffin McElroy? But canonically, that asterisk is there.
53:39 Travis McElroy? But it's too long. But like, you get it, like-
53:42 Travis McElroy? Clearly, there's more to it. That's what the asterisk denotes.
53:45 Griffin McElroy? Thunder drive. I'm living faster than fear. I'm living faster. I'm just thinking about saying this, but yeah, I'm living faster than fear over here. Matt Damon was living faster than fear when he bought his zoo.
53:59 Travis McElroy? Feels good.
53:59 Griffin McElroy? It's a bad idea, and if he had stopped to think about it for more than a second.
54:03 Travis McElroy? I haven't seen the movie, Griffin, but I assume it doesn't end with him going, fuck, I wish I hadn't bought that zoo.
54:09 Travis McElroy? It sucks.
54:10 Griffin McElroy? Well, can you see a situation where someone-
54:13 Travis McElroy? He gets, it ends with him getting trampled by 30 Impalas.
54:18 Travis McElroy? And then, and whoever else is in the movie goes, I guess those weren't tame Impalas, and everybody laughs.
54:25 Griffin McElroy? He was faster than fear, but not faster than those thirty Impalas. Who trampled him. Is there going to be people who send us emails like, hey, I robbed a store? Because I thought I was being faster than fear.
54:42 Travis McElroy? The Macquarie Brothers are not experts and they should never be followed.
54:47 Travis McElroy? Done, done.
54:48 Travis McElroy? Also, I think that one should examine their life if the only thing stopping them from robbing a convenience store is fear. And nothing else.
54:55 Griffin McElroy? Three chuckle fucks giving a great name for a thing.
55:00 Travis McElroy? Um, I don't, here's what I'll say.
55:04 Travis McElroy? We're all gonna agree this is a one time thing, but just took us a long time to find it this time and we had to take a break. And that's fine.
55:11 Griffin McElroy? This is feeling better with every passing.
55:14 Travis McElroy? But yes, it was the right thing to do, but we're not gonna do this again. And I just don't want any negativity about 20th hundred drive. I think everybody needs to get on board. And if you don't like it, please don't say that because.
55:35 Griffin McElroy? Faster than fear, slower than change. Us are immediately living faster than fear. But don't say anything mean about any of the stuff we do ever.
55:43 Travis McElroy? Just this one thing. If you could, it's so much pressure and like, we really. Cracked underneath it last time.
55:51 Griffin McElroy? Thunder drive sounds so much like 25, I'm shitting.
55:56 Griffin McElroy? I'm absolutely shitting at how close those two are phonetically. Absolute shitting my pants over here.
56:03 Travis McElroy? Things from the beginning. We absolutely smashed it, bro. Smashed it.
56:08 Griffin McElroy? And we got there by free associated just saying fucking garbage. Tried and tested, proven, moms approved, kids approved. We fucking ripped this shit up this year.
56:20 Travis McElroy? On top. Hey, listen, I'm about, I was gonna tell you to find our shit, but you know where we're at.
56:26 Griffin McElroy? Now Travis just told, Travis just told our work slack the big news, which I think is selfish.
56:33 Travis McElroy? That's Travis.
56:34 Travis McElroy? I'm just trying to get in there before they finalize any poster designs.
56:37 Griffin McElroy? Oh, and now they're all saying not to do it. They say, don't change it. But now we have to tell them.
56:43 Travis McElroy? God, there's so much work. Well, we could always.
56:46 Griffin McElroy? We'll release a chase poster of 20 tummy, tummy. I've already forgotten what it was. It's not, it's so bad.
56:54 Travis McElroy? Uh, yeah, nobody liked it. Um, yeah.
56:57 Griffin McElroy? We'll have a Chase poster for tummy buddy life out there for those who are still living it.
57:01 Travis McElroy? It's better this way. Um, thank you guys so much for listening of to this podcast. Make sure you go check out some of the new merch we got, uh, over in the store. If you go to macquarie merch.com, we got, uh, what's new this January? We got a new T-shirt with, uh, my, I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good quote. And there is an energies dragon pin that you can purchase there. Um, also, we've got a new year sale going for, uh, the remaining Champions Grove, uh, packages. Go check that out. Champions Grove got the dot com. That sale's going through the 18th. So go check it out. Uh, come join us for an immersive gaming weekend in Hocking Hills, Ohio.
57:44 Griffin McElroy? I'm just gonna go ahead and say immediate feedback, uh, from our team is just annoyance with us. I would say at this point annoyance with us and our, uh, our second guessing. It's not a second guess, though. It's a continuing, it's a continuation of the first guess.
58:01 Travis McElroy? We were as surprised as you all were that we.
58:05 Griffin McElroy? My heart's racing right now at how disappointed they are in us, but I'm gonna live faster than fear.
58:10 Travis McElroy? Guys, I cannot tell you how disappointed Amanda is in us and how hard it is hitting right now. We gotta wrap up on this because I feel so guilty.
58:17 Griffin McElroy? Thank you, Montane. I feel guilty. They've done a lot of, thanks, Montane, for the use for a theme song. My Life Is Better With You. Uh, strap in, guys. It's gonna be a long year.
58:27 Travis McElroy? I can't believe Travis is still messaging in the work slack. I. I can't leave him hanging now, Justin. I, you.
58:33 Griffin McElroy? And we, Travis just hit him with the actual name and there's been no response whatsoever. I'm guessing because they're just busting up so hard.
58:40 Travis McElroy? There's an ell, there's, there's an ellipses. We've gotten one ellipses. This is fun. Thanks, everybody. Hey, how, you have a great 2025?
58:47 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no. Don't show any weakness. That's what we did during tummy buddy life and it came back to bite us in the ass.
58:55 Travis McElroy? There's no weakness.
58:59 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin. I'm Travis McElroy.
59:00 Griffin McElroy? You can't say there's no weakness.
59:02 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin McElroy.
59:04 Griffin McElroy? Thunder Drive Juice.
59:06 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin Mc. I'm Travis McElroy.
59:10 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McElroy.
59:11 Travis McElroy? This has been my brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad, square on the lips.
59:19 Speaker 06 It's better with you. Good life! Ahhh. It's better, it's better with you. It's better with you. Good life! Ahhh. It's better, it's better with you. Yes, it's true. Ahhh. It's better, it's better with you. Good life! Ahhh. It's better with you. Maximum Fun.
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