Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 749: Christmas for Consumers About this episode By the time you hear this, everyone will already know what all the cool new commercials at the Big Game were, but we have to make our own predictions. Was Indiana Jones in one? How about one about welding perfect dimes? Or maybe burning pictures of Baby Yoda?
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0:00 Speaker 00 The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
0:21 Speaker 01 It's the start of something beautiful.
0:27 Speaker 01 A small acquaintance has blossomed, it's rapid into a precious friendship.
0:33 Speaker 01 I could have never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. Life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. My life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. This is true, ah, it's better, it's better with you. My life, ah, it's better with you.
1:10 Travis McElroy? You have failed yourself, Griffin. Your job is to stay happy, clown. Get out there and dance in your big shoes.
1:19 Griffin McElroy? I'll dance. I'll dance, but the dance is gonna be like when someone dances in the background of the big bar in Twin Peaks. Like a lot of, they'll be shuffling and it will be, the performance I give will be arresting. It will be captivating.
1:40 Travis McElroy? Hi, welcome. Welcome to my brother, my brother meeting, if I show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
1:45 Travis McElroy? Vroom, vroom, ka-chow. It's me, Trav Nation, your middlest brother, Travis Big Dog Wolf Wolf McElroy.
1:52 Griffin McElroy? It's Wednesday, February 5th, the morning of Wednesday, February 5th. And I'm Griffin McElroy. That's when we're recording this. I feel like saying that is a good idea. Like, holding up the newspaper with the sports score is a good idea.
2:05 Travis McElroy? There's two things, very important things I want to talk about. Topical.
2:08 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, okay, good. Is one of them that it is Wednesday, the February the 5th, and that the show comes out on a different day? Where we don't, we're not there on that one.
2:18 Travis McElroy? Well, whenever it was at the Grammys this past weekend, Benson Boone performed. Benson Boone performed his hit song, Beautiful Things.
2:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:26 Travis McElroy? And as he did the intro, Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser tore his suit off. And he was wearing a blue, deep v-neck, glam rock jumpsuit. And as this man's singing, he runs up onto the stage and he did a flip off the top of the piano.
2:44 Griffin McElroy? Cool. What's her name?
2:45 Travis McElroy? And apparently, he does this at his live show.
2:48 Griffin McElroy? What's his name?
2:49 Travis McElroy? What's this guy's name?
2:51 Travis McElroy? Benson Boone.
2:52 Griffin McElroy? Beautiful things that I've got. Oh, yeah.
2:56 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that guy?
2:56 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yeah. That song always gets, that song always gets me going.
3:01 Travis McElroy? I think it's unfair that he can sing so beautifully and do a cool flip off of a piano.
3:06 Griffin McElroy? You shouldn't be able to do both things where you get to sing way high up, which is so fun, and be able to do a flip off of a piano or anything.
3:14 Travis McElroy? That is unfair. I can't do either of those. And he can, and the only way that I can live-
3:20 Griffin McElroy? Is he like wicked ugly?
3:22 Travis McElroy? No.
3:23 Travis McElroy? No, he looks cool.
3:24 Travis McElroy? He's a cool looking guy.
3:26 Griffin McElroy? God damn.
3:27 Travis McElroy? It's like if Miles Teller decided to be a little softer, a little cooler.
3:32 Travis McElroy? A little cooler, a little more glam rock, yeah.
3:34 Griffin McElroy? Man, God gave, God gave with three hands on this one. Damn Benson Boone.
3:38 Travis McElroy? I can only exist happily by believing that he sings that good because he has fully dedicated 100% of his energy towards that. And then seeing that he can also do flips, and I'm like, what else can he do? He's probably a good baker. And then he later apologized for aggressively adjusting himself in that jumpsuit during the performance. And I feel like that's unfair that he should do. Should he gently adjust himself? Is that better than aggressively adjusting himself?
4:05 Griffin McElroy? Travis, that's, can I say something, man? It's such a really good question, because what happened is Benson Boone is wearing a tight jumpsuit that is-
4:13 Travis McElroy? Restricting.
4:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:15 Travis McElroy? Okay, I'm sorry. It's restrictive. So it is that question of a fast, aggressive.
4:22 Griffin McElroy? It's the best version. He's not a laborer yet.
4:24 Travis McElroy? Because if you think about a slow tender adjustment, that's not appropriate. Yeah, right? Like, that's not appropriate for an audience.
4:31 Griffin McElroy? And that's his privacy. That's his bathroom stuff. And I, and, and, and I, it's, everyone's got them. So calm down. Sometimes you never have to adjust your bathroom stuff. That's, that's weird.
4:41 Travis McElroy? Unlikely.
4:42 Griffin McElroy? Unbelievable.
4:44 Travis McElroy? The other thing I want to talk about is this occurred to me, when you guys were children, we babbies.
4:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:49 Travis McElroy? Did you believe that when you grew up to be an adult, that Groundhog's Day would take on a greater significance as a holiday to you? And it's like, oh, this must be a thing that like grownups have built deeply into their psyche and I as a child simply don't get it.
5:06 Griffin McElroy? It needs some, it needs a shot in the arm, doesn't it?
5:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
5:12 Griffin McElroy? It needs something, because it's not, it's, and I get there's a whole town where they're probably wild about this fucking thing, but for the rest of us, the shine is coming off the apple.
5:19 Travis McElroy? It just doesn't extend beyond that.
5:21 Griffin McElroy? No. It's a, it's a single, it's a single skeet that I see. It's like, saw a shadow. And I'm like, okay, put him away. And the whole holiday in my mind? That seems weird. It needs something else.
5:31 Travis McElroy? No other traditions around that.
5:34 Griffin McElroy? Work off. You get work off. That would be sick. That's a big one. Presents.
5:38 Travis McElroy? Some kind of feast?
5:39 Travis McElroy? That's why if you ever see Rod Stewart turn around and do the butt shake, what he's actually doing is like.
5:45 Travis McElroy? Seeing his shadow to see if there's six more weeks of winter?
5:48 Travis McElroy? That's exactly it. He's shaking his little butt and saying like, is that my shadow or not?
5:53 Griffin McElroy? There's so much.
5:54 Travis McElroy? Can see his butt shadow. If a, if a groundhog comes out of Rod Stewart's butt.
5:59 Griffin McElroy? Think about this. What's the best part of any holiday? That's right. Hiding Easter eggs. Because it's the only part of any holiday where you get to go on a little adventure. Think about the opportunities that Groundhog Day would provide if we started to include little adventures in it. Because these guys, they bury themselves in the ground like treasure already.
6:17 Travis McElroy? Ever since David the gnome, I've dreamed of crawling through an underground like cavern and finding, like, why not provide that for me to find the groundhog and ask him like,
6:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:28 Travis McElroy? Did you see your shadow?
6:29 Griffin McElroy? Let's go down there one, once and bring a camera crew and go down there.
6:33 Travis McElroy? There's a lot of conversations that would be hard to have with the aliens, but I think this one. Would be hardest.
6:39 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
6:39 Travis McElroy? You have to say like, yes, the day is called Groundhog Day. Yes.
6:42 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
6:42 Travis McElroy? So what's the deal? Well, we do every year, ask a groundhog if it's gonna be cold for a while.
6:49 Travis McElroy? Oh, the groundhog speaks?
6:51 Travis McElroy? Huh?
6:51 Travis McElroy? The groundhog speaks?
6:52 Travis McElroy? The groundhog, no, groundhog sees the shadow. That's, it's like a
6:55 Griffin McElroy? On our planet, on our planet, all the animals can't talk to each other.
6:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah. So it's like different. And then they're like, so that's wild. What's the second most notable thing about Groundhog Day? It's like, sometimes you live it over and over again for 10,000 years.
7:08 Griffin McElroy? What?
7:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:09 Griffin McElroy? Alright, speak up again.
7:10 Travis McElroy? We know you learn to be a good person.
7:12 Travis McElroy? The second thing about Groundhog Day is sometimes you live it over and over again.
7:15 Griffin McElroy? The only other thing. In our culture, that's the second most notable thing about Groundhog Day.
7:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:20 Griffin McElroy? Is that
7:20 Travis McElroy? And for some people, those flip flop.
7:22 Griffin McElroy? Right.
7:23 Travis McElroy? For some people, the significance is
7:25 Griffin McElroy? So it's a holiday about living it over and over again?
7:28 Travis McElroy? No.
7:29 Griffin McElroy? It gets to that point sometimes. It does feel like that a little bit, but yeah.
7:33 Travis McElroy? It has much more cultural significance, I would say, for a demographic of people. That it's a day where one self reflects for 10,000 years, um, to think about
7:44 Griffin McElroy? What I wish.
7:45 Travis McElroy? And how they can do better and have a healthier relationship with Andy McDowell.
7:49 Griffin McElroy? Can you even imagine? That movie paints that to be like a terrible thing to happen. Can you imagine 10,000 years of free time? Holy shit dudes. I'm catching
7:59 Travis McElroy? I would flip off pianos constantly.
8:02 Griffin McElroy? I would do it. It would take 8,000 straight years of snapping my spine. And was it worth it? No, it wasn't because it looks cool, but that was really, really torturous. That is how long it would take.
8:14 Travis McElroy? One, cool. I wish that there was a different version of Groundhog Day where it, the day fell on the day right before they released the finale of Traders. And so the show is about him trying to like reconstruct how he thinks it's gonna be exactly. And then film it for himself. Like let him, he wants to film his own finale of like TV shows. He's writing his own endings.
8:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:38 Travis McElroy? So when the actual finale does come out, he'd be like, well, actually I think this would be more satisfying.
8:43 Travis McElroy? I think it's a little something like this.
8:44 Travis McElroy? I think it's a little bit more.
8:46 Griffin McElroy? Wouldn't mind taking a second pass at that lost ending, right, guys?
8:49 Travis McElroy? Oh, wow.
8:51 Travis McElroy? This is an invite show.
8:53 Griffin McElroy? Does it have to be? Cause I'm really kind of, I feel good in the vibe right now. I feel like I'm in the pocket of the vibe.
8:58 Travis McElroy? What if the groundhog came out and aggressively adjusted himself?
9:02 Griffin McElroy? That would be cool.
9:03 Travis McElroy? Does that mean a monsoon's on the way?
9:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that has to have happened in the hundred years we've been doing this thing that the little guy comes out and then like grabs his bathroom stuff as animals, most animals are want to do all the time.
9:16 Travis McElroy? When I was traveling recently, it was very, very early in the morning. It was like an 8 a.m. flight. So I was going through security at like 6 a.m. And I, uh, forgot that the boots that I was wearing always set off the metal detector. So I had to get scanned. And I just take the boots off and the TSA agent looked at me as he was like scanning me with the wand. And he said, which side is your property on? And my first thought was what a cute way to ask me where my dick and balls is.
9:39 Griffin McElroy? That's a hundred percent what I assume when you said that.
9:41 Travis McElroy? Thank you. And then I realized he was talking about where, which conveyor belt my stuff was on to put my shoes with them. And luckily both things were true. So when I said the right, that was also where my stuff was, but it was such a cute way.
9:55 Griffin McElroy? I don't wanna know you. That felt like a long walk to tell your brothers the current state of your.
10:02 Travis McElroy? It's not always there. That's just where my property was at the moment.
10:06 Griffin McElroy? A needlessly fanciful walk.
10:08 Travis McElroy? To talk about my property?
10:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Cause now I'm thinking like, I'm thinking about what's going on in there, Trav. You may not want me to, but I'm thinking about.
10:14 Travis McElroy? Sometimes I split the uprights or the down rights.
10:17 Griffin McElroy? That is the.
10:18 Travis McElroy? That's one ball on either side.
10:19 Griffin McElroy? Give him the old droopy dog.
10:21 Travis McElroy? Do you know what sucks? Here's what's actually hard. Can I tell you guys what's actually sucks?
10:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, please.
10:26 Travis McElroy? Is that everybody has seen all the new ads. That's all they're thinking about right now.
10:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:32 Travis McElroy? Is they've seen all the new ads.
10:34 Griffin McElroy? Oh, they know how it all. Oh, fuck. We forgot the big game. God dang it.
10:38 Travis McElroy? So the thing is.
10:39 Travis McElroy? Did the big game happen?
10:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:41 Travis McElroy? The big game just happened yesterday. We all forgot about it.
10:44 Griffin McElroy? We were spinning.
10:46 Travis McElroy? We forgot about that.
10:48 Travis McElroy? It couldn't have. The big game couldn't have just happened.
10:51 Travis McElroy? Let's hope it happened.
10:52 Travis McElroy? Okay, wait. Oh, you're saying it just happened?
10:55 Travis McElroy? I think it probably happened.
10:55 Travis McElroy? It, okay. God bless.
10:57 Griffin McElroy? Why wouldn't it happen, Travis?
11:00 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I don't know, brother.
11:00 Travis McElroy? No, it will have had happened.
11:03 Griffin McElroy? I can see a few scenarios where it didn't happen.
11:05 Travis McElroy? This is what I'm saying, brother.
11:06 Travis McElroy? You guys broke my brain and for a moment I believed that the Superbowl had come and gone.
11:12 Travis McElroy? I can see something happen where the commission would be like.
11:14 Griffin McElroy? Like, let's do it next week.
11:16 Travis McElroy? It's fucking wild out there.
11:18 Travis McElroy? Hey, hey, players, players, coaches, you're not in the mood.
11:23 Griffin McElroy? We're not in the mood. We're not in the mood to make a silly podcast joke. I can't imagine these forty strapping men are ready to catch balls and throw them at each other.
11:31 Travis McElroy? You guys don't want to play football this week. We don't want to watch football this week. It's cold.
11:36 Griffin McElroy? We'll get them next time.
11:38 Travis McElroy? We'll get them next time. We're gonna play it out on like a Tecmo Bowl kind of thing and just see how it goes to broadcast that. We're doing the Puppy Bowl. We already filmed that.
11:46 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that's easy. That's a light, that's a light.
11:48 Travis McElroy? Puppy Bowl for three hours.
11:49 Griffin McElroy? The puppies don't know. The puppies don't know.
11:51 Travis McElroy? Everyone agreed to do the Puppy Bowl.
11:52 Griffin McElroy? The puppies aren't on Blue Sky. They're not. They're simply not.
11:56 Travis McElroy? Is there a big Las Vegas style betting?
11:58 Travis McElroy? Before we started, I said, let's just do a normal one.
12:01 Griffin McElroy? The guys, the guys aren't into, we'll just run the Super Bowl from two years ago because it was the same guys.
12:07 Travis McElroy? And no one will remember it already happened.
12:09 Griffin McElroy? No one.
12:10 Travis McElroy? Hey guys, I wouldn't. Hundred percent that would get me.
12:14 Griffin McElroy? Um.
12:14 Travis McElroy? This is what I'm saying.
12:15 Griffin McElroy? So this is advice.
12:16 Travis McElroy? Ran, can I bet on the Puppy Bowl is what I want to know. Who runs, what, Justin?
12:21 Griffin McElroy? I have a bit of frustration I'd like to talk about with the Super Bowl.
12:24 Travis McElroy? Hey, yeah. Yeah, this is a safe space. No one's listening.
12:26 Travis McElroy? It used to be, it used to be that the Super Bowl was a real buffet for fans of branding. Like if you're a brand fan, you love commercials, you love to see what like Madison Avenue has cooked up for us, right? It's Christmas Day.
12:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
12:42 Travis McElroy? For consumers.
12:43 Griffin McElroy? Hey, is that why the show Mad Men's called Mad Men? Because of Madison? Okay. Never knew that.
12:48 Travis McElroy? I'm in, but they made it mad.
12:50 Travis McElroy? It's all those things. Um, so.
12:52 Griffin McElroy? They are actually also, most of the men in that show, from what little I've seen of it, are, are pre PO'd most of the time.
12:58 Travis McElroy? But now, you gotta be a little mad to work here, kind of thing.
13:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, it's for, it's working four ways.
13:03 Travis McElroy? Oh, my God.
13:04 Travis McElroy? Now, these days though, to rise above the den, you're seeing a lot more brands release their Super Bowl commercials.
13:12 Griffin McElroy? Oh, man.
13:13 Travis McElroy? Before the big game to try to get ahead of it. And this drives me crazy.
13:19 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
13:19 Travis McElroy? Can I have?
13:20 Travis McElroy? Here you go. Go off game.
13:21 Travis McElroy? Fucking night that I look forward to where. The real joy for me is getting to see 10 new commercials. Like, that's what I'm excited for. Getting to see if like, if like, they figure out a way to put like Indiana Jones in one or something. Like, that's the one. I'm looking forward to that for weeks.
13:41 Travis McElroy? It's the silver lining to seeing a player get hurt. We're like, oh my God, I hope he's okay. Oh my God. They will, they will take a commercial break. They will take a commercial break though.
13:51 Travis McElroy? Sorry, this, what Travis is saying is not an A clause underneath my sub point one.
13:57 Travis McElroy? No, Justin, I'm reading between the lines. You get happy when a player gets hurt.
14:02 Travis McElroy? You're in a different page, man.
14:04 Travis McElroy? See.
14:04 Travis McElroy? You're in the index.
14:05 Griffin McElroy? I'm, I'm, I'm bummed out by the, the, the commercial trailers that we get. One of them is a beer and I don't know which one, so.
14:13 Travis McElroy? It's a trailer for a commercial?
14:15 Griffin McElroy? It's a trailer for the David Beckham's got a twin brother. I remember that. I don't remember the product it's advertising because they don't say it. So a billion dollars well spent Guinness, maybe I think.
14:26 Travis McElroy? They do, they did Harry Met Sally. They got Billy and Meg back for it and it's Miracle Whip. Like, that's why it's so good.
14:35 Griffin McElroy? That's good. I can see that.
14:36 Travis McElroy? That would have been so good though.
14:37 Travis McElroy? She eats a sandwich.
14:38 Griffin McElroy? Save that for me. Save that.
14:40 Travis McElroy? Save it for me on the Super Bowl. I need that. When that pops up, I can't shush my family.
14:46 Griffin McElroy? Right.
14:47 Travis McElroy? If it's already been online.
14:49 Griffin McElroy? If it's streaming. Yeah.
14:51 Travis McElroy? That's why I've been doing an online blackout for the last like three weeks.
14:55 Griffin McElroy? Um, this bit's not gonna have any legs.
15:00 Travis McElroy? Just so I don't miss commercials. I have no idea what's going on.
15:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah.
15:04 Travis McElroy? So I, so the commercials will all be a surprise. Don't tell me.
15:07 Griffin McElroy? You're in for a big surprise. He's trying. Oh, Juice is on board too. They're trying, guys. They're on one of those things on the train tracks pumping it up and down. They're trying to get her there.
15:16 Travis McElroy? Since I've looked online, I have no idea what's happening.
15:19 Travis McElroy? Okay, listen, this is an advice show. And I, this first question's about welding, which
15:24 Travis McElroy? It's not even a question, Justin. It's feedback from a previous episode.
15:27 Griffin McElroy? I love feedback. This should be a new segment on the show.
15:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I'm welder. I'm a welder by trade, and I wanted to chime in on the question from episode 747. Truthfully, I'm at the end of the, at the end of the day, a welder really just wants commiseration for how big of a pain in the ass it looked to weld. Or if that fails, just say, hell yeah, laying dimes. Really loud, and that should cover most interactions. That's from Kevin. Laying dimes is good. I like that.
15:54 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
15:55 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna try to say that at least once during the episode, cuz that, that I like. But if you want to appreciate welding, there's an actual answer for you. I don't know why we've been helpful this week, but there you go.
16:06 Griffin McElroy? Laying dimes is cool. It means when you, when you create a smooth weld without ripples, and it looks like a bunch of dimes laying on each other.
16:14 Travis McElroy? That's sick.
16:15 Griffin McElroy? That's fucking cool. Welding is so neat.
16:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
16:19 Griffin McElroy? I've done, I did a little, when I was doing my little Game Boy toys, I
16:24 Travis McElroy? Game Boy toys?
16:25 Griffin McElroy? I was doing little, I was doing soldering, which is kinda like welding. Don't you guys think, agree with that?
16:31 Travis McElroy? It's plastic welding.
16:33 Griffin McElroy? There's, but there's little metal, you know, it comes on a little spool, and you melt it.
16:37 Travis McElroy? Actually, I've done plastic weld. It's not actually plastic welding, I guess.
16:40 Griffin McElroy? No, no, it's real metal.
16:42 Travis McElroy? I've done fusion weld.
16:43 Griffin McElroy? I've seized Prometheus's fire and used it to make metal into different shit. So that's, I'm, I'm laying dimes over here myself.
16:54 Travis McElroy? It's welding for babies.
16:55 Travis McElroy? Baby welding, baby first welding.
16:58 Travis McElroy? Okay. I have an urgent and pressing question. I am a collage artist.
17:02 Griffin McElroy? You wanted to say collage, didn't you? I heard the, I'm not even looking at the camera right now. You did.
17:06 Travis McElroy? I was thinking about, I was thinking he was gonna say college.
17:09 Griffin McElroy? Stinker.
17:10 Travis McElroy? I'm a collage artist, and I'm going to incorporate part of a puzzle into a piece I'm working on.
17:15 Travis McElroy? Ooh, your gage is Christmas hell, Jamie.
17:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah.
17:18 Travis McElroy? Well, I almost got tripped up, so I'm being very careful now.
17:21 Griffin McElroy? I'm sorry.
17:21 Travis McElroy? This person is working against me. This question asker has laid many traps, and I'm aware of all of them. I'm unstoppable. The issue is, what do I do with the rest of the puzzle? It's a puzzle of Baby Yoda that I got at my fiance's family's white elephant at Christmas two years ago, and the part I'm using is the part that doesn't have Baby Yoda on it. But it is a fairly large chunk of the puzzle. I obviously can't like donate the puzzle since it's incomplete, but I don't want to keep the Baby Yoda parts because it was kind of a sucky.
17:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:55 Travis McElroy? I'm, here's a, I'm gonna tell this person to throw it in the trash. Okay, let's, I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. I like keep Baby Yoda parts because it's kind of a sucky puzzle and I only want the chunk I'm using my painting, but it also feels wasteful to throw in the garbage. Help. How do I best utilize the five, six of a puzzle without having to do the puzzle? That's from puzzled puzzler in peril P's. I also lost a piece of the puzzle that's not the chunks. Oh, puzzled puzzler in peril P S.
18:27 Travis McElroy? I also lost a piece from the puzzle that's not in the chunk that I'm taking.
18:30 Griffin McElroy? That's, that elevates it, actually.
18:33 Travis McElroy? That makes it even more that I'm gonna tell you to throw this away. What else do you have?
18:37 Travis McElroy? I bet if you're a collage artist, it's very difficult to throw away flat things.
18:43 Griffin McElroy? Anything. You gotta always have your head on a fucking swivel looking for flat stuff that would look cool cut up.
18:50 Travis McElroy? You ever think about how much work kidnappers must put in to finding the right letter?
18:55 Griffin McElroy? It must take hours.
18:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
18:58 Griffin McElroy? To find letters better than that.
18:59 Travis McElroy? Cut them all out of the same Cosmo. You know what I mean? You gotta mix it up.
19:03 Travis McElroy? Wait, yeah, that's a really good point. What kind of, what kind of shitty collage artist has a bunch of tiny pictures of parts of Baby Yoda and throws it away? Hello?
19:13 Griffin McElroy? Welcome Justin, welcome Justin to the other side of the seesaw, buddy. Unbelievable.
19:19 Travis McElroy? Now, maybe you can make a collage. A puzzle's kind of like a do it yourself collage, wouldn't you think about it?
19:25 Griffin McElroy? Wow, yeah.
19:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man.
19:27 Griffin McElroy? A solvable collage, for sure.
19:30 Travis McElroy? Have you ever wanted to 100% a collage?
19:33 Griffin McElroy? I've always wanted to get the platinum on a art, art, on a art piece that I do.
19:39 Travis McElroy? I think when you put a puzzle together, no one's ever like, you did it wrong.
19:43 Griffin McElroy? First of all, you have the stuff to make two pieces of art. You've doubled what you have. One is the piece that incorporates the big chunk that you took out of the puzzle. That's cool. I'm gonna sit up. I don't know why I'm like fucking gobbling out in my chair. The second one is the rest of the puzzle with the piece missing. And that's saying something because it's about the Yoda that's not there. But also from that, there will be a small piece missing. When the people look at that and say like, but what's the small piece mean? All of a sudden they're trying to get to the bottom of your art story, which is really the secret to art is tricking people into paying very close attention to it.
20:20 Travis McElroy? Yeah, into thinking there's meaning in it.
20:22 Griffin McElroy? Right, they'll see that. They'll be like, is this really a piece of artwork about the baby Yodas that aren't there? But wait, what's this little piece missing? That's the secret. I'm a fuck up. That's the message.
20:34 Travis McElroy? I lost it. That's my favorite thing about art is that when people say like, well, it means this to me, or it means this to me. So it means different things to different people. And that means you didn't know what it meant when you made it. You saw it looked nice.
20:46 Griffin McElroy? I would be sick if water lilies just had a big hole in it. And they were like, what happened? He's like, he put his elbow down and it went through the painting. I see that. I'm like, wow, artists are just like us.
20:58 Travis McElroy? We're all fallible. We really are all just people.
20:59 Griffin McElroy? We all make mistakes and mess up sometimes. And you don't gotta let it not bring you down.
21:05 Travis McElroy? This is, this puzzle, uh, this puzzle question is a good, good example of why I am so happy I recently discovered burning things.
21:14 Griffin McElroy? Oh, sure.
21:15 Travis McElroy? Uh, I got a, you know, it's cold weather outside, but it's been a little bit more temperate. And it's a great time to go outside and start a fire. Burn your puzzles.
21:25 Travis McElroy? And I think, and I hate wasting stuff. Really, I, I do. I hate wasting things. I have a big problem with that, right? If I have something, I don't want to waste it.
21:33 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:33 Travis McElroy? But here's what I've recently discovered, because a lot of the waste that I have, I've been struggling with lately, does happen to be woodworking waste. So that is-
21:43 Griffin McElroy? Some of God's most burnable stuff.
21:45 Travis McElroy? Right. So what I've decided though, is that if you burn it, you didn't waste it, because you got enjoyment from the fun and warmth.
21:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:55 Travis McElroy? So you're not wasting it. If you, what I'm saying is, if you burn this puzzle,
22:01 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh.
22:01 Travis McElroy? and then you watch this puzzle of Baby Yoda warm,
22:04 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh.
22:04 Travis McElroy? and you take pleasure in like the warmth of Baby Yoda and the-
22:09 Griffin McElroy? It's not waste.
22:10 Travis McElroy? Just like watching it.
22:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
22:11 Travis McElroy? It's not a waste.
22:12 Griffin McElroy? Well, in fact-
22:13 Travis McElroy? It was good. You did that. It was good. Like, it was good.
22:16 Travis McElroy? I'll take a step further, Justin. I recently saw a physicist-
22:19 Travis McElroy? Don't huff it.
22:20 Travis McElroy? No, don't huff it.
22:21 Griffin McElroy? Do not huff this Baby Yoda.
22:22 Travis McElroy? Don't do this indoors. Did I say that? I should have started with-
22:25 Travis McElroy? I saw a physicist talking about that if you were to burn like a piece of paper, you can't create or destroy energy. So hypothetically, if you collected all the warmth, and ash, and water, and everything that was made by that fire, you could put it back together. So you're taking this sucky puzzle, and you're making it into a much more challenging puzzle.
22:43 Griffin McElroy? What the fuck did you ju- what the fuck did you-
22:45 Travis McElroy? What you just said made not a damn lick of sense, Trav.
22:49 Griffin McElroy? Oh, but history will prove me correct. If you grabbed all the, if you siphoned the paper energy, the paper energy?
22:56 Travis McElroy? Energy? Like, what are you saying?
22:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man. All of that stuff still exists. You didn't destroy-
23:00 Griffin McElroy? No, I know, but I transformed it. I burned the paper and it created heat, which is a type of energy.
23:05 Travis McElroy? So hypothetically, all the pieces of the paper still exist.
23:08 Griffin McElroy? May I please?
23:09 Travis McElroy? May please.
23:11 Griffin McElroy? Before that, it didn't have paper energy. That's crazy.
23:15 Travis McElroy? Picture of Baby, it was a part of a picture of Baby Yoda.
23:18 Griffin McElroy? It was a part of a picture of Baby Yoda. It was paper and paint.
23:21 Travis McElroy? Baby Yoda has, uh, has stored energy.
23:25 Travis McElroy? What energy?
23:27 Griffin McElroy? The energy that's, the energy that's holding the molecular bonds together. Baby Yoda vibrating on the table?
23:33 Travis McElroy? When you burn Baby Yoda, you are releasing the bonds that hold the molecules together.
23:39 Travis McElroy? Everything for- Every picture of baby Yoda is energy and dirt. It's just fire and dirt.
23:46 Travis McElroy? What do you think Gambit does when he picks up the puzzle pieces of baby Yoda and he turns them into little bombs?
23:51 Travis McElroy? Who's the Shavagno? He turns it into fire and dirt. That's his power.
23:55 Griffin McElroy? Right, but what energy could the paper possibly have? If I plug my phone in, but it doesn't. If it did, I would be in some real trouble because I got some envelopes on my desk.
24:07 Travis McElroy? You're lucky.
24:08 Griffin McElroy? I'm looking at them.
24:09 Travis McElroy? I can't remember the opposite of kinetic energy. Because that's what it is, but I can't remember it.
24:14 Griffin McElroy? Potential.
24:15 Travis McElroy? Potential energy. Thank you, Justin.
24:17 Griffin McElroy? Sorry, guys. I just got a note of a low battery notification on my phone. Let me plug it into my books.
24:26 Travis McElroy? Oh, my God, Griffin. It's potential energy and you need Gambit to turn it into kinetic energy.
24:32 Griffin McElroy? I know about potential energy. It's when you look at a rock and you're like, I could throw that. It would go so fucking fast. I'm turning arm energy into throw energy into move energy. I mean, I understand all that. If I look at a piece of paper and say, if I burn that, it'd be hot. That's not energy. It's an idea.
24:50 Travis McElroy? This is the times when science lies to us. What Travis is saying is that if you burn all the stuff from baby Yoda and you put it all together.
24:58 Griffin McElroy? Picture, picture, picture of baby, a picture of baby.
25:01 Travis McElroy? What I'm saying is if you burn a picture of baby Yoda, you get ashes and nothing. And that's the truth.
25:07 Griffin McElroy? You get heat?
25:08 Travis McElroy? That's the truth.
25:08 Griffin McElroy? I'm not going to short sell here to Travis here. You do get the heat.
25:12 Travis McElroy? Yeah. And what's heat, Griffin?
25:14 Travis McElroy? Baby Yoda, that's the picture of it.
25:16 Travis McElroy? No, heat is energy.
25:17 Griffin McElroy? It's energy that comes out when it gets too hot.
25:21 Travis McElroy? Why does it get hot?
25:22 Griffin McElroy? The temperature moved up too much and the thing freaked out. And it created an incredible fire from the energy stored within it.
25:31 Travis McElroy? Right.
25:32 Griffin McElroy? Am I energy?
25:33 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
25:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
25:34 Travis McElroy? You're Star of Self, baby.
25:36 Griffin McElroy? I know that I'm, I know I'm stuff. Like, I think about that all the time.
25:40 Travis McElroy? But you're also energy.
25:41 Griffin McElroy? That's cool, man.
25:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah, dude, science rocks.
25:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah, there's fire inside you.
25:47 Griffin McElroy? You don't need to be like that to me. This is a moment of wonder and excitement.
25:51 Travis McElroy? He's not stupid. He's not the quarterback. You know what I mean? Like, we don't have to. He's not the wood shop teacher. We don't have to like.
26:02 Travis McElroy? You don't have to be a dick about it. He's on a lacrosse coach.
26:06 Griffin McElroy? This is a cool.
26:07 Travis McElroy? For fuck's sake.
26:07 Griffin McElroy? This is a cool moment for me.
26:09 Travis McElroy? I wanna alienate. Hold on, there's gotta be somebody else I didn't alienate.
26:12 Griffin McElroy? Come on, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it.
26:13 Travis McElroy? It's not a geologist.
26:15 Griffin McElroy? A geologist, wow.
26:17 Travis McElroy? That was a bad pull.
26:18 Griffin McElroy? Rock scientists. We were all thinking it, Juice.
26:23 Griffin McElroy? I have energy. That's gonna get me, that's gonna get me through today, Trav. I do appreciate that.
26:29 Travis McElroy? You are. You're just fire matches.
26:31 Griffin McElroy? Because sometimes they clip ones we don't want them to clip, and I'm not excited about people getting in the comments and telling me the things I don't know about middle, middle grade science.
26:38 Travis McElroy? Does that mean, could Gambit touch Griffin and turn him into a human bong?
26:43 Griffin McElroy? I think that's what you're suggesting.
26:45 Travis McElroy? Gambit should be doing that more. He doesn't talk about it, but like, the other thing he could do is melt your fucking clothes and blow you up.
26:51 Travis McElroy? Blow up Magneto's whole clothes. One thing I didn't try that I could try, everybody.
26:57 Travis McElroy? One thing I could try is touch that dude.
27:00 Travis McElroy? I could blow up his pants, Mosherie.
27:01 Travis McElroy? Wait, sorry, what?
27:03 Travis McElroy? I could blow up Magneto's pants.
27:05 Travis McElroy? One thing I could try, Mosherie, is touching his helmet and blowing his fucking brains up.
27:11 Travis McElroy? Wait, Gambit, don't do that. I'm just saying I could.
27:15 Travis McElroy? He wouldn't see that shit coming, Mosherie. Why does it, why is it Nightfall is like, "I could teleport inside of him."
27:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
27:22 Travis McElroy? Just once. It would be so bad for me, but like.
27:25 Griffin McElroy? I don't know.
27:26 Travis McElroy? I can hold a big stick, teleport, so I land kind of in front of him, so the stick is through him. By the way, it's Wednesday, February 5th.
27:35 Griffin McElroy? It is Wednesday, February 5th today.
27:37 Travis McElroy? So Magneto might be good right now. I don't actually know, but if Magneto's bad, that's the example.
27:42 Travis McElroy? A Sentinel. Well, yeah, couldn't, couldn't Gambit just touch a huge Sentinel and then like, okay?
27:50 Griffin McElroy? What if he touches the ground?
27:53 Travis McElroy? What if he aggressively adjusts himself?
27:55 Griffin McElroy? What if he aggressively adjusts himself on the Grammy stage?
27:58 Travis McElroy? Oh, no.
27:59 Griffin McElroy? On night, on music.
28:00 Travis McElroy? My balls.
28:01 Griffin McElroy? Music's biggest night. Gambit makes his balls explode on stage. We're all excited for Sabrina Carpenter, but I just watched Gambit. You know, Remy, blow his balls up on stage. Really overshadows Beyonce's accomplishment, if you ask me, when we had to watch Gambit blow up his balls on the Grammy stage music.
28:21 Travis McElroy? And then weep.
28:22 Griffin McElroy? He weeped for, of course he weeped, like, yeah.
28:25 Travis McElroy? He probably died.
28:27 Griffin McElroy? I think Gambit died on stage.
28:29 Travis McElroy? Unless they cauterized.
28:32 Griffin McElroy? Let's go to the money zone.
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28:56 Griffin McElroy? Mm hmm.
28:56 Travis McElroy? No, what do you guys think about this? I'm thinking if I say Squarespace enough, they'll have to pay us more.
29:01 Griffin McElroy? That's, yeah, I mean, that is.
29:02 Travis McElroy? Love that.
29:03 Griffin McElroy? We've literally never talked to our ad people, but I do think that that is an unwritten rule of advertising.
29:09 Travis McElroy? We were created by Squarespace.
29:11 Griffin McElroy? We came out of Squarespace.
29:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
29:13 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:14 Travis McElroy? We were a dream that Squarespace had.
29:17 Griffin McElroy? One big egg.
29:19 Travis McElroy? It cried a single tear.
29:20 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. The tear became an egg. We all three came out of it six years apart.
29:25 Travis McElroy? Name was thought. We leapt from the egg, fully formed. And we suckled at the teat of Squarespace.
29:30 Griffin McElroy? This is cool. This is a cool ad.
29:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
29:32 Travis McElroy? It's a cool legend.
29:33 Travis McElroy? Yeah. And that's how we became.
29:35 Griffin McElroy? I'm like willing to let my brain go to more out there places now that I know I'm made of energy. Like, that's sick.
29:41 Travis McElroy? Do you know Squarespace is made of energy?
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29:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, with all the different payment methods.
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29:58 Griffin McElroy? That's right.
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30:11 Travis McElroy? I want to grow my visitors.
30:13 Travis McElroy? I want to grow, yeah, okay. I want to engage credibility and grow my visitors.
30:16 Griffin McElroy? I bet they can do that, too.
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30:27 Griffin McElroy? No.
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30:55 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to do this ad because I don't want a bunch of people out there who chomp my flavor because I got these glasses at Warby Parker.
31:06 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay.
31:07 Griffin McElroy? I did get these glasses and I've gotten a lot of compliments on these glasses. They are assertive. They're statement glasses. They are saying, yeah, I need corrective eyewear in order to party in this world, but I look good doing it. But if there's a bunch of people out there walking around
31:22 Travis McElroy? Mm hmm.
31:23 Griffin McElroy? with this, with these Lisa Loeb beauties on their, well, those are more of a cat's eye.
31:27 Travis McElroy? Griffin has glasses and he's king and he doesn't want to stop being king.
31:31 Griffin McElroy? No, I'm not saying that. Warby Parker's great. I, the app is genuinely, I have fun when I use it, which is, sounds like bullshit.
31:39 Travis McElroy? It's a pleasant experience.
31:40 Griffin McElroy? But when you use it, you see like all these different style opportunities and you press a button and then you can see what they look like on your face. It's magical. It's incredible. Then you get the five pairs of the home try on program so you don't buy a pair of shitty glasses.
31:52 Travis McElroy? Well, they have a ton of options, Griffin. Just tell people not to get your specific glasses.
31:57 Griffin McElroy? I won't even say, nice try. I won't even say mine. Good luck, treasure hunters. It's out there. Uh, it's, uh, they just got some new frames in also for the, for the new year. I'm not even reading, gang, I'm not reading the copy points. I just like Warby Parker. Uh, let me make sure I didn't skip anything though. No, okay, we're good. Uh, get started with 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/mybrother right now to take the home try on quiz and pick five pairs of frames to try on at home for free. That's warbyparker.com/mybrother. Warbyparker.com/mybrother. It's a shame I'm, I'm a little bit under the weather because I feel like that one was pretty solid and the kind we could send to like one of our companies to advertise for it.
32:42 Travis McElroy? Or that, that could have been.
32:43 Griffin McElroy? Sometimes we do it good. Sometimes we do it. We really do it.
32:46 Travis McElroy? That could have been in our highlight reel when we win the iHeart Podcast Best Ad Root Award.
32:51 Griffin McElroy? We are never, ever, ever.
32:54 Travis McElroy? Not if people don't vote for us.
32:56 Griffin McElroy? No, I don't even actually want people to waste their energy on it.
32:59 Travis McElroy? What?
32:59 Griffin McElroy? There's nothing you can do.
33:01 Travis McElroy? I would just love to earn Conan's respect for once.
33:04 Travis McElroy? Never happen.
33:04 Griffin McElroy? Never happen. There's simply, audience, we love you, there simply isn't enough of you to move the needle on this one. So save your, save your efforts.
33:13 Travis McElroy? Don't even try it.
33:14 Griffin McElroy? Please, thank you.
33:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah, what are you gonna do?
33:15 Travis McElroy? I know what you're thinking, that maybe you're gonna try any way and get everybody together and work really hard.
33:22 Griffin McElroy? Deadass, deadass, don't bother.
33:26 Travis McElroy? But don't bother, there's no chance. I know, I know, I know, it would be pretty cool.
33:31 Travis McElroy? And we're an underdog and sometimes people root for those.
33:33 Griffin McElroy? I'm not, I'm on, I'm going to the other side of the seesaw and I know it's a futile effort.
33:40 Speaker 05 Who's ready for some science? With sources and nuance.
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33:54 Speaker 05 Well, let's learn everything we learn about science and a bit of everything else too. From super heavy elements to super heavy pumpkins.
34:00 Speaker 06 From quantum physics to the history of swearing.
34:03 Speaker 05 As well as special guests like Tom Scott and Hank Green.
34:06 Speaker 06 And some funny jokes from me.
34:08 Speaker 05 Me, Caroline Roper. Dr. Ella Hubber.
34:10 Speaker 06 And Tom Lum.
34:11 Speaker 05 So join us next time where we will learn about.
34:15 Speaker 06 Everything.
34:19 Speaker 05 Hey, are you playing a video game right now?
34:22 Travis McElroy? Maybe you put on a podcast while grinding in an RPG.
34:25 Speaker 06 Or maybe you just don't want to hear that boss fight music one more time.
34:28 Speaker 05 Been there. I'm Maddie Myers.
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34:31 Speaker 06 And I'm Kirk Hamilton. We're the hosts of Triple Click, a video game podcast.
34:35 Speaker 05 A podcast you can listen to while you do other things.
34:38 Travis McElroy? Like driving, or cooking, or playing video games.
34:44 Speaker 05 On Triple Click, we share our thoughts on the latest games.
34:46 Travis McElroy? And breaking news out of the video game industry.
34:49 Speaker 06 And we also talk about other stuff besides games.
34:52 Travis McElroy? So while you're doing something else, make sure to check out Triple Click.
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35:10 Travis McElroy? Break down the system. Holy shit. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. It's February 5th, but by my calculations, it's also our Valentine's Day episode.
35:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man, and our Groundhog's Day episode.
35:25 Travis McElroy? And our Groundhog's Day episode. Isn't that something?
35:28 Travis McElroy? And our Super Bowl and our Grammys.
35:31 Travis McElroy? I'm actually pretty mad about this, uh, first one, cause I completely missed the opportunity to buy this Duncan capsule collection for Valentine's Day. You know what? I'm not even gonna give them the satisfaction. Fuck them.
35:44 Griffin McElroy? Fuck those guys. That's awesome juice.
35:47 Travis McElroy? More energy like that.
35:47 Griffin McElroy? Do that more of just like, that's right, KFC's got a new chicken pizza. You know what? Fuck those. No way.
35:55 Travis McElroy? I don't mean that, KFC. It's good.
35:57 Travis McElroy? Uh, they're missing, and you know what? To fuck KFC, all they're missing is you.
36:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
36:03 Travis McElroy? True.
36:03 Travis McElroy? No, I just wanted to.
36:04 Travis McElroy? There's a K and F and a C and fuck as well, but not a U.
36:08 Travis McElroy? No, no, it's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. Uh, no, I just wanted to, uh, uh, real quick, mention that for the big game, uh, BW threes is doing it again. Probably. It's kind of, this is one of the weirder press releases. I don't think I've ever read a press release that's kind of equivocating. Uh, you're even after paying up on the, on the deal last year, B-Dubs once again offers America free wings. If the big game goes to overtime. Now, for a little context, last year, there was this contest from BW threes did where, not even a contest, but like a promotion where if the game went into overtime, everybody gets free wings. And you know what happened? The game did go into overtime, so everybody in the world ate free wings there the next day.
36:53 Griffin McElroy? How did they stay extant as a?
36:56 Travis McElroy? That it's, it's in them. It's a miracle. You read that right. Football fans can rest assured that Buffalo Wild Wings is bringing back its iconic overtime deal for the seventh consecutive year. When the thrilling big game went into overtime in 2024, fans across the nation were able to celebrate with free wings. After making good on its promise last year, Buffalo Wild Wings is daring to once again put a wager on the line. If the big game goes into OT, B-Dubs is ready to do it again. Free wings.
37:24 Travis McElroy? Now, what I love there is that they talk about it like there's a risk associated with it. As though like, yeah, man, listen, it fucked us up real bad last year. Oh, my God, we had to lay off half of our employees.
37:39 Griffin McElroy? We had to drop the WEC, which is BW's, twos.
37:42 Travis McElroy? But now, man, we just can't help ourselves. Like, we're doing it again.
37:48 Griffin McElroy? The only way we can get our rocks off is by almost blowing it big time.
37:53 Travis McElroy? And do we win anything if they don't go into overtime? No.
37:57 Griffin McElroy? You guys have to, maybe you guys would come in and buy some wings if they don't go into overtime.
38:01 Travis McElroy? You give us free wings, then we sell back to you.
38:04 Griffin McElroy? We like wings. We don't get, we don't actually get to eat that many wings here, which is fucked up.
38:09 Travis McElroy? Gave so many of them away.
38:11 Griffin McElroy? Cause we give them all away. We like wings, but we don't get to get them.
38:15 Travis McElroy? If it doesn't go into overtime, you have to come work one shift unpaid.
38:20 Griffin McElroy? At the wing factory. It's spicy work, gang.
38:22 Travis McElroy? Everybody. If the air is full of spices, the ground is filled with salt, uh, sauce. We have, we have constant injuries here. Please come.
38:32 Travis McElroy? So, last, so here's the quote. Um, are we crazy for bringing our overtime deal back after last year's turnout? Maybe. What? After giving away 2.5 million wings last year, we know it's a bold move to bring it back.
38:47 Griffin McElroy? That's 1.25 beautiful birds.
38:50 Travis McElroy? Now, think about this for a second. Okay, wait, let me finish the quote. For us at B-Dubs, it's all about the thrill of the game, and we're pumped to give all football and wing fans another chance at scoring big, no matter who they cheer for. So, here's, my question is this, each chicken's gonna give you four wings, by my math. Uh huh. So, 2.5 divided by four.
39:12 Griffin McElroy? You're right.
39:13 Travis McElroy? It's like 600,000-ish, right? Six, 625, 625,000 chickens. How is Mr. Mahomes and his friends supposed to?
39:27 Travis McElroy? Handle the pressure. Imagine you're kicking guy. Yeah. You're gonna kick it for the tie. And if you kick it for the tie. You're committing over a half million chickens to death. So here's the stakes. To be fair, kicking guy. Either you get your duckets, or you send 625,000 fucking chickens to the cemetery. Kicking guy from Kansas City has some questionable opinions. He might fucking hate you.
39:55 Griffin McElroy? He might actually want very badly for this to happen. Oh, fuck, man.
40:00 Travis McElroy? It's huge steak.
40:01 Griffin McElroy? Huge, huge steak.
40:02 Travis McElroy? Here's, here's what I'm gonna say. If BW3s had had the sheer power to be willing, they should take it a step further and include a lot of side bets. Where it's like, if the first thing is a field goal, the first point scored is a field goal. Then we will cover the windows with sauce, right? Have more random bets, right? Everybody gets, uh, like a beer mug full of ranch. If, if, you know, if, if the game is tied at halftime.
40:35 Griffin McElroy? If it's, if it's, if it's tied at halftime, our VP has to get his butt out. Something like, really like fun, low stakes.
40:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah, whoever our mascot is will eat a whole live chicken.
40:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
40:49 Travis McElroy? If Patrick Mahomes cries.
40:52 Griffin McElroy? Once.
40:53 Travis McElroy? Out. And is like, on camera.
40:55 Griffin McElroy? Mm-hmm.
40:57 Travis McElroy? Out of sadness. It can't be a happy cry.
41:01 Griffin McElroy? Can't be, I just won the Super Bowl for a ninth time in a row. God, what a boring fucking sport. Are you kidding, guys?
41:06 Travis McElroy? My hands are so heavy. Too many rings. They should make, if the quarterback has won before, he should have to wear his Super Bowl rings during the game.
41:15 Griffin McElroy? During the game. I've always fucking said that. I've always said that. Let's see if, let's see if superstar Tom Brady can get out there and take home another one. If every time he throws it, a couple of his rings go off and they have to go find them in the grass.
41:29 Travis McElroy? That's the future the liberals want for you. That's true.
41:32 Griffin McElroy? That one sounds good, though. That one sounds really good, though.
41:36 Travis McElroy? If you get 10 of them, can you cash them in for a bracelet?
41:39 Griffin McElroy? You should be able to get one big, like a girdle. Something.
41:42 Travis McElroy? Or a belt. I mean, at that point.
41:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, cool.
41:46 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna complain about this one real quick. Hungry Howie's, this is a press release on QSR magazine.com, the number one spot. Hungry Howie's launches a secret menu for Big Game.
41:56 Travis McElroy? For big boys.
41:58 Travis McElroy? Hungry Howie's is kicking off National Pizza Day and the Big Game with a new addition to its secret menu, the Hangry Howie Pizza. Perfect for game day gatherings and pizza parties, the Hangry Howie's packed with bold flavors and toppings designed to tackle even the fiercest hunger and cravings. Starting February 9th, fans can order the Hangry Howie exclusively through the secret menu for delivery and carryout. What the fuck do you think a secret menu is? Cause I'll give you a hint, it's not a thing you write press releases about.
42:25 Griffin McElroy? No.
42:26 Travis McElroy? All it is is- It's not a secret menu!
42:28 Travis McElroy? We didn't print off new like, you know, plastic whatever signs to go in the lighted things that you see behind the counter that tell you what it is.
42:37 Griffin McElroy? Yes, this is a good point, especially when McDonald's used to really iterate fast and hot and would just toss shit on the menu. They did effectively have a secret menu insofar as every time I went to McDonald's and was like, yeah, let me get that bratwurst, let me get that bratwurst that hits so good. Most of the time they're like, what are you fucking talking, you can't order a hot dog in here, are you out of your mind? You do have them back there, I promise.
42:57 Travis McElroy? At Hungry Howie's, we know that National Pizza Day and the Big Game are sacred occasions for pizza fans, says Jeff Renkey.
43:05 Travis McElroy? What? Sacred?
43:06 Travis McElroy? Sacred Travis, sacred, much like language is sacred to those of us that care.
43:12 Travis McElroy? I thought you were saying secret menu, but you've been saying sacred menu this whole time.
43:16 Griffin McElroy? Yes, that's right.
43:17 Travis McElroy? Right, passed down on tablets. As part of our sacred menu, it highlights our commitment to the sanctity of marriage. No, that's not what it said. Hungry Howie's began as a thousand square foot hamburger shop in Taylor, Michigan, and now-
43:33 Travis McElroy? We ran out of buds.
43:35 Travis McElroy? Making a mockery of the word secret. My partner and I received a fancy MILF frother for Christmas. I'm, man, I said MILF.
43:48 Griffin McElroy? I know.
43:48 Travis McElroy? And-
43:48 Griffin McElroy? No one said anything though, did you catch that, how me and Travis are growing?
43:52 Travis McElroy? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm very excited about it and I've been making frothy milk drinks at home. When we have friends over, I make frothy milk. I offer to make frothy milk drinks for them, but they often turn it down. I worry this is because they're worried it'll be too much work for me. I want to share froth with the world. How can I encourage my guests to accept a frothy drink? And what should I try frothing next? That's from frothing in the big city.
44:24 Griffin McElroy? Man, we, it's been a while since we've had a full blown mad person up in here. It's been a while since we've had a real wild one like this.
44:35 Travis McElroy? Um, I would like to, I would like to try to help this person.
44:38 Griffin McElroy? Please.
44:39 Travis McElroy? Because I feel like I have often been the person in their situation, right?
44:43 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
44:44 Travis McElroy? I'm excited about something like that I think is very fun and decadent. That maybe others aren't as like necessarily charmed by. And like recently, when a lot of people in my life, sort of like friends and family have around me have started to communicate is that they do not like this.
45:02 Travis McElroy? Right. So this is an unenjoyable way for me to be behaving.
45:06 Griffin McElroy? Right.
45:07 Travis McElroy? Friends who I try to like, who are maybe like, to use this example, I'll make a frothy milk drink and just shove it in their hands. Stuff like that, they've expressed to me, sort of everybody I know is like, that's not something that they enjoy or indeed will continue to tolerate.
45:21 Griffin McElroy? Right.
45:21 Travis McElroy? Um, yeah.
45:22 Travis McElroy? So you're working on making new friends or?
45:24 Travis McElroy? I don't think you came to me for me to say, stop it. But I have learned recently from a lot of people around me that the answer might be.
45:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:32 Travis McElroy? Stop.
45:33 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. Like, it's like the welder.
45:35 Travis McElroy? Just like cut it out.
45:36 Griffin McElroy? It's, it's like the welder thing, like you have experience with this specific thing. So you can give kind of like evidence of the best course of.
45:43 Travis McElroy? A younger me might've had some different advice, but this new me is at his eyes open quite a bit.
45:48 Travis McElroy? And this is fun because in many ways I am a younger Justin and I was going to say a different thing.
45:54 Travis McElroy? Yeah, let's hear your thing, Trev. My thing was.
45:56 Griffin McElroy? And I like judge is like sort of third party because I don't, I don't, I don't give a fuck. So I'll judge for both of you guys.
46:03 Travis McElroy? Here in the Midwest, we have kind of a secret menu of conversation.
46:06 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:07 Travis McElroy? Um, where like you offer once and then they say no, because they think it would be an inconvenience. And then you offer again.
46:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:15 Travis McElroy? And then they say yes.
46:16 Travis McElroy? That's when it's clear you need it.
46:18 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah, no, it's really no trouble.
46:22 Griffin McElroy? If I was a guest in someone's house and they said, do you want a frothy milk drink? First of all, my answer would be, of course, no. I don't want to drink any milk drink, but especially one that you thickened. One that you sort of carbonated a little bit. That's going to be a no for me, dog. If they offered it to me a second time, I would leave. That is, that person hasn't, has a bad relationship with the thing that they're trying to give you. And I, I want to be out of, I want to get out of that. I already did say no. I have to get out of this.
46:52 Travis McElroy? One, one time for Christmas, I think Theresa got like one of those, uh, like whipped cream canister things where you put like the CO2. And like, we were so excited, like we had people over and like had made like pie and like hot chocolate and stuff. And we're like, and we have this thing. And I believe it was only used by Theresa and myself. And it was like an audition for the, uh, for the whipped cream canister to become a permanent fixture in our lives. And it failed the audition.
47:24 Travis McElroy? In the cabinet you go, goodbye forever.
47:27 Griffin McElroy? My favorite game is watching Top Chef when someone pulls one of those out and being at home like, like a wise asshole, just like, that's going to fucking explode. And it does every, it never works. It explodes every time.
47:38 Travis McElroy? Don't work. It's a pain in the ass. And then at the end of the day, no one is trying to solve the problem of like, I'm really not getting enough whipped cream. Yeah. Like you're not making, I need to get better, higher volume whipped cream day to day in my life. Have you noticed that when someone uses the, even like just a can of whipped cream? There is a second of such terror as you push on the nozzle of like, what, what pressure is about to spray out of here and just fling hot chocolate everywhere? Or like, it's never like a gentle buildup. It's like, right the first time and it like you, everybody gets nervous for a second.
48:15 Griffin McElroy? I, I think, I think you can't, you simply can't offer it a second time. I'll leave the house. I'm your guest now in this instance. That's wild. You don't ask a second time. You need to work on your first sales pitch. You can only really get this question out the door one time. I'm kind of a tea guy now. That's like my new thing. I get nice teas and I have fancy pot for making it and I like it. I drink it every night. Love a tea. Um, and so when someone comes over and I want to give them tea, I'll be like, do you want some tea? I got the really good shit. Or like I'll say something to let them know like it's gonna be good tea. So what could you say sort of about frothed milk?
48:52 Travis McElroy? One thing is like, I'm doing one already. Like I'm already frothing. Like you could be mid froth, like whoa, this is looking pretty good. Do you want one?
48:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
48:59 Travis McElroy? Like that. Here, take this one.
49:00 Griffin McElroy? You say, don't make me be the only one frothing over here.
49:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
49:04 Griffin McElroy? Peer pressure.
49:06 Travis McElroy? Also, you could just go ahead and have a barista like outfit on and like have a counter set up with like a register and write their name on a cup. And like, what'd you want?
49:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:17 Travis McElroy? One thing I've tried is if they say no the first time, kind of being pouty and petulant for an hour.
49:21 Travis McElroy? Ooh, I like that. Show me how that works, Justin.
49:24 Travis McElroy? Well, here's what you do. You do that and then every 20 minutes or so, your, your wife will ask you if anything's wrong. You say, no, no, no. Seriously, nothing. It's fine.
49:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:33 Travis McElroy? Yeah. And yeah, then eventually you snap out of it. I don't know. Someone else catch.
49:36 Travis McElroy? And you kind of spin the frother sadly in the air, just like.
49:40 Travis McElroy? Someone quietly knocks on your bedroom door and says, actually, you know what? I'm actually kind of jonesing for some frothing if that's still.
49:46 Griffin McElroy? It's way too late. It's way too late at that point.
49:48 Travis McElroy? It's too late. No, I threw that thing away. No.
49:50 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's stupid.
49:51 Travis McElroy? Stupid. That's stupid. I didn't even actually have one.
49:54 Griffin McElroy? Based on what you said earlier, Juice, I didn't know that this was an option to do what I'm about to do, but I don't like when you do that.
50:01 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
50:02 Griffin McElroy? I don't like when you do that.
50:03 Travis McElroy? I know.
50:04 Travis McElroy? I do. It makes me feel superior to you.
50:06 Griffin McElroy? I don't say that enough to hope, hope that you change.
50:10 Travis McElroy? But the reason that I know that I have this insight is that I have started to become in this year of our Lord 2025, my. My way that I'm being faster than fear.
50:22 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
50:23 Travis McElroy? I'm kind of like, I know we're getting ahead of things a little bit with finale. It's like, I'm just telling people what's happening up there now. I'm just telling people.
50:30 Travis McElroy? Awesome.
50:30 Travis McElroy? Exactly what's happening.
50:31 Travis McElroy? You're sharing thoughts and feelings with people?
50:33 Travis McElroy? Not sharing.
50:34 Griffin McElroy? Travis, you're doing the energy thing.
50:36 Travis McElroy? No, that was an audit. See, that was a wonderful girl.
50:40 Travis McElroy? Yeah. No, what I'm saying is that I'm just telling people that, like, for example, in this milk frother, I, if I were in this situation, I would say, hey, can I froth you a milk drink? It's really all I think about anymore. And if I don't make someone a milk frothing drink, I'm gonna actually think about it all day.
51:01 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:02 Travis McElroy? And you will say, what, what that frees people in your life to say is, yeah, I will take one.
51:07 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:07 Travis McElroy? For future reference. I don't like this.
51:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:10 Travis McElroy? And that frees me from ever having to think about it again. Because they have said, I don't want it. And I'll say, okay, sounds good. But they didn't know to tell me to cut it out.
51:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:21 Travis McElroy? Unless I told them how weird I was being.
51:23 Travis McElroy? This is something I started doing with my wife, because there are many TV shows and books and things that I enjoy that she does not. And I desperately need to talk about them with someone.
51:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:32 Travis McElroy? And I will say, hey, I know you don't care about this thing. I just need to like, say my feelings about it out loud for like, two minutes. And then I won't bother you about it again. And she's like, okay, go. And she'll listen and go, oh, cool. Whoa, that sounds nice. And then we're past it.
51:47 Griffin McElroy? So you're saying, next time I offer someone tea, I should walk in and be like, hey, I say I'm kind of a tea guy now, but I feel like such a fucking phony about it.
51:56 Travis McElroy? Yes.
51:56 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
51:56 Travis McElroy? Okay, good. Griffin, you're so close. Keep going.
51:58 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
51:58 Travis McElroy? Yes.
51:59 Griffin McElroy? Hey, I say that I'm kind of a tea guy now, because I buy it, but I buy a lot of shit. And I feel like a total phony. I think the tea is really good, but if I don't get someone to mirror me a little bit and tell me if my judgment about the tea is accurate or not, I'm gonna feel like this for, for as long as I drink tea, which may be a minute and maybe the rest of my life. I don't know. Will you help me? Help me drink this tea and tell me if I'm full of shit or not? And if you say I am, cool, man. Um, next hobby. I'll get back into candy making or some shit.
52:32 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
52:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Authentic, authenticate me.
52:34 Travis McElroy? Whatever the thing is, it doesn't have to be a hobby, be like, literally anything. You just say. Just say how you're feeling. I know, I know. Yeah, but like honestly saying it, right? Like not a way where you think people are gonna be scared because a lot of other people are thinking pretty wild stuff too, you'll find. Once people just start saying it all the time, it's a, it's pretty liberating.
52:54 Griffin McElroy? That's the energy, huh? That's the energy.
52:56 Travis McElroy? That's my energy.
52:57 Griffin McElroy? I've finally figured it out. That's all the energy.
52:58 Travis McElroy? Tell people, hey, here's what's going on. And I'm honest with myself a lot more in that sense too, because hey, it's been this way upstairs the whole time. I have no reason to think they didn't. I might as well start, listen, listen, if the landscape ain't gonna change, I better start printing maps.
53:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
53:17 Travis McElroy? Cause it seems like things are gonna be this way for a while.
53:20 Griffin McElroy? They might, they might add new guys to the Inside Out movie, but the old ones are still there.
53:26 Travis McElroy? Hey, where's the hyper fixation guy? By the way, I wanna see that guy in my brain, in my Inside Out brain. That guy's just like, man, 3D printing though, like it's all we've ever loved, right? It's all we've ever talked about.
53:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
53:38 Travis McElroy? We can go broke on filament, right? Right? We all love this.
53:42 Griffin McElroy? Do the Inside Out guys have littler Inside Out guys inside their heads?
53:45 Travis McElroy? Yes.
53:47 Griffin McElroy? I, I, I didn't see Inside Out.
53:49 Travis McElroy? It's the Cars universe.
53:51 Griffin McElroy? Wait.
53:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, the Cars are inside the Inside Out guys. Cars is happening inside one of the Inside Out guys.
53:57 Griffin McElroy? And it's telling them how to feel?
53:59 Travis McElroy? Yep. What's the thing? It's Miles Teller.
54:02 Griffin McElroy? Got him stuck in your craw, huh? What a weird one.
54:05 Travis McElroy? Inside, inside the Cars guy.
54:06 Travis McElroy? Miles a lot, Miles and Miles today.
54:08 Travis McElroy? Inside of, uh, Lightning McQueen is Wally telling him how to feel. And inside of Wally is Joseph Gordon Levitt trying to get him out of there, trying to give him the kick to get him back up to the surface.
54:19 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome. And the surface is the little girl in Inside Out.
54:22 Travis McElroy? Yes, correct.
54:23 Griffin McElroy? Okay, cool.
54:23 Travis McElroy? Yes. Hey, thanks for listening to our podcast. Another great normal one. Uh, we really appreciate you being here with us. If you wanna come laugh together.
54:34 Travis McElroy? February 20th and 21st, we're going to be in Tampa with my brother, my brother me and Taz, respectively. First Taz live in Florida. And we got, that's going to be Taz versus Romeo versus Juliet. That's going to be really good. On February 22nd, we're in Jacksonville with my brother, my brother me. For more info and ticket links, go to bit.ly forward slash McRoy tours. Also, right now, we've got just a few more cabins for Champions Grove available now. That's going to be Memorial Day weekend in May. I believe it's May 22nd, 23rd, or 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th. We're doing a four day weekend. Come hang out with me and a bunch of other great role play, actual role play creators, and a bunch of wonderful people playing games in a castle in Ohio.
55:18 Travis McElroy? We also have the scholarship application form up now at championsgrove.com. Come check it out. Get your tickets, get your packages before it's too late.
55:27 Griffin McElroy? We got some new merch over at the merch store over at macrow merch.com for you to peruse. Also, if you missed our Candle Nights special last year, you can still watch it video on demand. It's pay what you want. All proceeds go to Harmony House and 10% of all of our merch proceeds this month will be donated to World Central Kitchen over at macrow merch.com. Thank you to Montane for the use of our theme song, "My Life is Better With You." It's a fantastic one with a steady beat that you can really bop to.
55:56 Travis McElroy? Now, Justin, we had a listener submitted Faster Than Fear. Would you read it this week?
56:02 Travis McElroy? Yes, I would be happy to. Should we make some like vroom vroom noises or like drum?
56:07 Griffin McElroy? I'll be honest, doing noises last year really got played out for me real fast.
56:10 Travis McElroy? Okay, yeah, then Justin just read it.
56:11 Griffin McElroy? Let's play with silence.
56:14 Travis McElroy? Whoa, Griffin, say that again.
56:16 Griffin McElroy? Let's play with silence. Did you like that?
56:19 Travis McElroy? That's, I think there's something there.
56:20 Griffin McElroy? I say shit like that all the time, man. I gotta start wearing one of those little recorders.
56:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I love that. Hey, listen, in this, the year of our Lord, 20th Thunder Drive, I'm releasing my fear of birds. Just because a parrot cussed me out at Pet Store when I was seven, doesn't mean all birds hate me. It just means that local hooligans taught the parrot how to cuss.
56:39 Griffin McElroy? That's a good fear to have. I actually wish you did still. Some birds are.
56:43 Travis McElroy? That you're afraid that all birds hate you and want to cuss you out.
56:45 Griffin McElroy? Some of them are out to get that. Some, just a little bit. A little bit of that's good. It's the salt that makes the chocolate taste sweeter.
56:52 Travis McElroy? Birds have to have their own cuss words that we don't know about.
56:57 Travis McElroy? I'm Travis McRoy.
56:57 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McRoy.
57:00 Travis McElroy? Make this your dad's grow on the lips.
57:04 Speaker 01 It's better with you. My life, ah. It's better, it's better with you. It's better with you. My life, ah. It's better, it's better with you. This is true. Ah. It's better, it's better with you. My life, ah. It's better with you.
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