Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 764: Sneak a Pi in that Mobo About this episode You’ll get the sacred gems if you solve this riddle! One of the brothers always is funny, one of the brothers is always picking locks, and one of the brothers is a pirate cosplayer. Okay, they’re actually dragon-grilled mozzarella sticks, not gems. And we can’t actually guarantee you’ll get them, but you might! Maybe. If the dragon is willing to share.
Suggested talking points: Subcutaneous Garage, More Toon Than Man, Free Giraffe Looks, Carrots on Pizza is an Affront to God, Trucknutz and Gronk
Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/
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?
0:21 Speaker 01 It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has got him, it's rippen into a precious friendship.
0:33 Speaker 01 I could've 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? Hello, everybody. Welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me and Advice Show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother Travis Vroom Vroom McElroy.
1:19 Griffin McElroy? Start your engines, baby. It's me, Griffin McElroy. Built Ford Tough. Start your engines. Time to race.
1:25 Travis McElroy? Speaking of car stuff.
1:27 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:27 Travis McElroy? Beauty blog it. That's what's inside of a garage door opener.
1:31 Griffin McElroy? Justin's been so cool lately. Travis, are you getting these Mr. Robot vibes from this dude?
1:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man. Justin's been biohacking.
1:38 Griffin McElroy? Justin's been biohacking. He put a garage door opener under some subcutaneous folds.
1:44 Travis McElroy? I had this chip, I had this installed, actually.
1:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:48 Travis McElroy? This is an implant.
1:49 Griffin McElroy? And that's fucking cool.
1:50 Travis McElroy? To open and close your garage. Yeah. No, it closes my mouth. Oh, you didn't need that.
1:56 Griffin McElroy? Tell me about some of your other sort of like remote control bio bio mods that you've got.
2:02 Travis McElroy? Well, the I hear my my remote control bio mods. Well, I had the eye cones put in so they can pop out whenever I see a beautiful lady and it says. Nice. And I had the trumpet mouth.
2:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
2:15 Travis McElroy? How much that cost you?
2:17 Travis McElroy? What?
2:17 Travis McElroy? How much did it cost?
2:18 Griffin McElroy? He did it himself. That's what.
2:19 Travis McElroy? I'll tell you the truth, Travis. $300 a dame. Every time a dame strolls by. Per dame. Cause it's a CO2 cartridge. Oh, you gotta reload it. It's like airbags, basically. Yes.
2:30 Travis McElroy? Do you need to get your eyes reset back in every time?
2:35 Travis McElroy? Well, do you remember dad's friend Lee that used to work at Pearl Vision at the Charleston Town Center? He did. He just puts them back in for me like a mob doctor. He'd just go to his house and he just scoots them back in for $38 and I have to help him reprogram.
2:50 Griffin McElroy? He did my, he does my procedures where um it makes my mouth, my jaw fall all the way down to the floor and my tongue unrolls like a rug anytime I see a babe.
3:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
3:01 Griffin McElroy? And he like focuses, I guess, only on like, sort of like babe spotting.
3:07 Travis McElroy? He helps me. If someone offers me a bunch of money, my eyes roll around like a slot machine and then comes up dollar sign, dollar sign. He'll reset that back to where I can see again.
3:18 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
3:19 Travis McElroy? But that's not, that wasn't a bio mod. That was a tattoo of a dollar sign I got on the back of my eyeballs. And then I trained really hard to be able to spin around when you see money.
3:27 Travis McElroy? This ink fiend is more, this ink fiend has had so many jobs done. He's more tuned than man. And then it's like, it's like you've gotten so many things. You've got the the big flat hand like somebody just drove over with a steamroller.
3:42 Griffin McElroy? Do you remember Travis, when we had to stage that intervention because of how big an ink fiend just had become and was becoming more tuned than man?
3:50 Travis McElroy? And it was problematic because during the intervention, he walked over to the sandwich table and he stacked them all up into one big sandwich and then opened his jaw all the way and ate the sandwich in one bite. Why were we were reading his, the letters about how his like tuned man behavior was affecting us?
4:06 Griffin McElroy? Stuck out and made the shape of a sandwich. I remember that. And I think that's probably, and he started crying then. I think that's when he realized he had taken things too far.
4:14 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
4:15 Travis McElroy? There's a code.
4:15 Travis McElroy? And he left the toothpick in.
4:17 Travis McElroy? Yeah. If you look at a resistor, there's colored bands around it that tell you what kind of resistor it is. And if you understand the code, you can know what kind of resistor you're looking at.
4:26 Travis McElroy? I'm resisting this right now, Justin.
4:29 Travis McElroy? What?
4:29 Travis McElroy? I'm resisting this right now.
4:30 Griffin McElroy? You should open up to it because I think it's cool that Justin's learning about the secrets of how the world works.
4:35 Travis McElroy? Well, where are we at on this? Cause you were just saying intervention and now you're like, I actually like this and it's cool. Where are we at?
4:40 Griffin McElroy? I feel like sometimes Griffin just says whatever he thinks is funniest. That's true, but I left the cartoon analogy behind. I love having techno Justin. Like I love.
4:50 Travis McElroy? I mean, yeah, we all love techno Justin.
4:51 Griffin McElroy? Well, no, it doesn't sound like it. You just said you're resisting techno Justin. I'm fully embracing him and I'm saying hack it, mod it, buy it, fix it, chop it, screw it.
4:59 Travis McElroy? Just like Griffin only says things when they're funny. I say things to make people like me and I thought Griffin was going to agree with me and then he didn't. So I'll tell my real truth.
5:06 Griffin McElroy? That must've been really, really, really, really hard. That must've been really tough and I'm proud of you for getting through it.
5:12 Travis McElroy? It was. Thank you so much.
5:14 Travis McElroy? I only speak the truth. That's my thing as a brother and I'll tell you, I'm an hour seven of Lake Washington Technical College's Elec 102 course.
5:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:24 Travis McElroy? Uh, presented by, by Professor Joe and it is, I am learning so much Travis and I will say also Sydney is learning so much.
5:31 Griffin McElroy? Oh, wow.
5:31 Travis McElroy? And she's loving that. Cause I have so many opportunities in our day to day life to relate to her things that I, like she'll say, will you hand me a battery? And I'll say, oh, you know what? Actually that double A is not a battery. It's actually a cell, which would be a battery would be a group and then she leaves.
5:48 Griffin McElroy? Oh, she's gone. Yeah.
5:49 Travis McElroy? Well, probably because.
5:51 Griffin McElroy? Or wherever.
5:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah. You know, I think maybe Dr. Sydney McRoy is afraid of having any practical knowledge.
5:56 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
5:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:57 Travis McElroy? That's a problem. It's all flights of flibbertigibberts with her.
6:02 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, sure.
6:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah, she's just not the grounded sort like me.
6:05 Travis McElroy? I'm just glad to hear 764 episodes in, we've finally laid out the rules of the riddle where Griffin's the brother who always says something funny. I'm the brother who always says something to people, make people like them and Justin always speaks the truth. Now you get to ask us one question.
6:19 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:20 Travis McElroy? To see if you can move on.
6:21 Griffin McElroy? One of us is.
6:21 Travis McElroy? Through the dungeon.
6:22 Griffin McElroy? One of us has the gems.
6:23 Travis McElroy? One of us is immaculate in his word and it's me. So.
6:28 Travis McElroy? And I'll give you a gem if you want. Do you want a gem? Would that make you happy?
6:31 Griffin McElroy? He says that, but can you even? I don't even know, man.
6:35 Travis McElroy? They want you to not know how to fix your own electronics.
6:39 Griffin McElroy? Who say?
6:40 Travis McElroy? They, they want, they, they're, they want you to not know how to fix it.
6:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:44 Travis McElroy? But if you get in there, in the guts, unplug it, you know?
6:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, sure. Wait, I'm writing this down, hold on.
6:51 Travis McElroy? Unplug it, write that down, ass. Then find new brother who's more tolerant of your hijinks.
6:58 Griffin McElroy? Okay, yeah.
6:59 Travis McElroy? And then get in there and get in the guts and fix it yourself.
7:03 Griffin McElroy? Have you had a?
7:04 Travis McElroy? Fix it yourself.
7:04 Griffin McElroy? Have you had a shaking humility moment yet? Because I, I got into modifying like game consoles, old game consoles, uh, mostly as a, a flibberdy gibbit during COVID. A COVID flibberdy gibbit. And then one time, uh, my lamp on my bedside table started to flicker and Rachel was like, ah, uh, that's been doing that a lot lately. I don't know what's going on. We might need to replace it. And I had, I was like, I'll just fix it. And then she was like, that probably won't happen. I was like, don't worry about it. And then I took the wire out of it and I was like, oh, I don't know. This isn't a Game Boy, fuck. Where's the motherboard? It's a lamp? Fuck, um, okay.
7:43 Travis McElroy? That happened to me when, cause I took a lot of black.
7:46 Travis McElroy? Fix it.
7:47 Travis McElroy? I took a lot of blacksmithing classes during COVID and then I was out on the street, um, walking with my wife with a parasol when a horse threw a shoe.
7:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:56 Travis McElroy? And then they were like, oh, we need a new one of these. And I'm like, oh, you got it.
8:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, sure.
8:01 Travis McElroy? And then I didn't have any of the tools or knowledge or skills.
8:05 Griffin McElroy? Callipers.
8:06 Travis McElroy? They don't want you to re-shod your own horse. They don't want that.
8:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Is this the same, the same they as the technology people is the horse people or?
8:15 Travis McElroy? I mean, eventually, yeah, that is, it was a technology at some point, you understand.
8:20 Travis McElroy? Justin, when you say they.
8:21 Travis McElroy? Pulling something blew someone's mind.
8:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Is the they, you're talking about like the developers of like Civ games and the technology tree that they make? That you have to like research each one and spend time doing?
8:32 Travis McElroy? Travis here, you know, you know you, right?
8:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:35 Travis McElroy? You know, your family and friends.
8:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:37 Travis McElroy? Okay, okay. Now you know everybody else that you see walking around, right?
8:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:42 Travis McElroy? That's us, okay, and then they.
8:46 Griffin McElroy? Anyone you've never seen or met before is your enemy.
8:48 Travis McElroy? That is evil and pulling the strings. That they capitalism.
8:53 Griffin McElroy? Capitalism.
8:55 Travis McElroy? Capitalism. Capitalism doesn't want you to fix your own stuff.
8:58 Griffin McElroy? Doesn't want you to fix it.
8:59 Travis McElroy? Throw it in the landfill. Look at this. Do you know, listen, I'm down to five pieces of this garage door opener that I have. I'm closer than ever.
9:07 Griffin McElroy? Fuck yeah, man. One of these days, you're gonna take apart one of them.
9:11 Travis McElroy? I probably didn't need that one, you know?
9:13 Griffin McElroy? No, that's crap. You're gonna take apart a gadget one of these days. Inside, you're gonna find the secret you need to destroy the government.
9:19 Travis McElroy? This is probably, they leave all these parts like buttons, like this case. I don't want any, I want this.
9:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
9:25 Travis McElroy? You know what I mean? I just want chip.
9:27 Travis McElroy? You want that fragile, vulnerable chip.
9:30 Griffin McElroy? Give me that cyber. That garage door opener is way too big. It needs to just be the cyber and a single little input. That's all we need. I don't need a case for my PC. All the parts just sit on the floor.
9:42 Travis McElroy? Look at all this wasted PCB right here. Carve all this off. I'm gonna get in there, drill it down.
9:48 Griffin McElroy? Good second mobo right there.
9:49 Travis McElroy? This is great, Justin.
9:51 Travis McElroy? I could get a pie in there. Get a 24.
9:53 Griffin McElroy? Sneak a pie in that mobo.
9:56 Travis McElroy? You've really, you've seized the means of opening and closing your garage door, and I respect that immensely.
10:01 Griffin McElroy? Don't try to hide a mobo from Justin. He will get it.
10:04 Travis McElroy? He'll find that mobo.
10:06 Griffin McElroy? He will shuck whatever.
10:07 Travis McElroy? Get one free? No.
10:09 Travis McElroy? Listen, if you, when the robots come for us, if you need a human who hasn't lost the knowledge of how to get a keyboard, a calendar from a small computer onto a large TV display, I will be right there, ready to hack that in. No problem.
10:23 Travis McElroy? Or if your dad just needs help setting it up, ask Justin.
10:26 Griffin McElroy? Are you gonna rebuild the remote, the garage door opener? Or what's the plan here?
10:30 Travis McElroy? You saw it, right? I have absolutely not, no plan.
10:33 Griffin McElroy? So you're like Jason Bourne, taking apart his M16 rifle or whatever, and he sets it on the bed. And then his handler's like, good, now rebuild it. And he's like, I don't, I, are you kidding me?
10:44 Travis McElroy? I didn't keep track of how it came apart.
10:46 Griffin McElroy? I dropped one of the fucking things on the floor. Like, that's gone. I really broke this good.
10:51 Travis McElroy? Do you have one that's already together that I can look at? So I get kind of an idea of where what goes or?
10:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:57 Travis McElroy? So maybe schematics?
10:58 Griffin McElroy? Hey, how about we do some advice? That's a lot of tech you got jangling around in there.
11:03 Travis McElroy? I moved it all out of reach or else I'm going to be fiddling with it.
11:07 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:07 Travis McElroy? Maybe the solution will come to me at some point and I'll just.
11:10 Griffin McElroy? I got into lockpicking during COVID. I bought a little lockpick, practice lock. And there were a lot of times where I was working and also picking locks just out of the camera's eyesight.
11:23 Travis McElroy? I'm doing it right now.
11:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:25 Travis McElroy? Cool.
11:25 Griffin McElroy? You'll never know.
11:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
11:26 Griffin McElroy? Am I?
11:28 Travis McElroy? Hey Griffin, where'd you go with that?
11:31 Griffin McElroy? I mean, the same place I went with hard candy making and retro game console modifying, which is that I had a second child and stopped fucking all of it. All of it's gone. All of it's done.
11:43 Travis McElroy? Uh, yeah, this is an advice show, so we're going to take your questions and turn them Malcolm like into wisdom. This is the first one. The train I take to work every morning passes the local zoo, specifically the giraffe enclosure. All spring, my absolute favorite part of my long commute has been getting a glimpse at these long, amazing long neck fellas. However, as the foliage has grown, I believe they added new trees. My view of the giraffes is fully obscured and I've been robbed of my daily moment of joy. How do I get the zoo to trim its trees or perhaps to cut out a little window for train passengers to see the animals through, but for a second, that's from must see mammals on the mass.
12:23 Griffin McElroy? Your, your complaint is that they're not giving away their product for free and just bleeding money?
12:31 Travis McElroy? You're sampling it every day, having free giraffe looks? That's all they have.
12:36 Griffin McElroy? Literally the only product they have on offer.
12:40 Travis McElroy? It's giraffe.
12:40 Griffin McElroy? They've got stuffies, corn dogs, and they have, look at a giraffe.
12:45 Travis McElroy? They have annoyingly large lollipops that your kids will half finish and leave stuck somewhere.
12:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
12:50 Travis McElroy? Giraffe is also like one of the five or six animals at the zoo that's like, you came to see this one, right?
12:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
12:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Here's a whole, we built a whole house full of bugs and snakes or whatever. And you're like, cool. I'll tell you what the problem is.
13:06 Griffin McElroy? What?
13:06 Travis McElroy? Giraffe is supposed to be eating the leaves on the trees.
13:09 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
13:10 Travis McElroy? Yes.
13:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
13:11 Travis McElroy? Why aren't they doing? Maybe you need to. Cause I don't want you to look at them. This is going to be hard, but you're going to have to buy a ticket to the zoo.
13:18 Griffin McElroy? And you're, I know, I know. Listen, I know. But then you're gonna have to go maybe coach these giraffes. On like, maybe, oh, look, oh, look at those leaves over there. Look how good they look. Cause if they were seeing the giraffes, the giraffes can reach it. Giraffes eat the leaves on the top of the trees. That's why they stretch their necks out so hard and so long.
13:38 Travis McElroy? Right.
13:38 Griffin McElroy? And so why aren't they eating that? Maybe go and trim leaves lower down.
13:43 Travis McElroy? I, if I, okay, let's flip a perspective. You're a giraffe. You go to the zoo meeting and you say, hey, I have to see train every day.
13:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
13:54 Travis McElroy? And I'm trying to pretend that I live in the jungle, okay? Or the savanna or what have you. I would like.
14:00 Griffin McElroy? Where they live.
14:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
14:02 Griffin McElroy? Wherever they're at.
14:03 Travis McElroy? You know, my general.
14:05 Griffin McElroy? It's one of the trees ones, probably. And I don't think it's just one place. So maybe, I don't know, we can walk. So who knows?
14:14 Travis McElroy? Raised in a zoo. I don't, I never got a chance to know these things.
14:18 Griffin McElroy? I'm voice my David Schwimmer. Call him down.
14:21 Travis McElroy? My accent's a little off from the other giraffe. All right. Sorry. I was raised in captivity.
14:27 Griffin McElroy? Um, I think you do, there is a, you're gonna need to get started on a elaborate heist. Uh, but it's like, instead of stealing something, it's, you're gonna be doing a little bit of pruning. Um, you're gonna need to roll up to this place with a little, uh, some, some big clippers or chainsaw, depending on the thickness of these trees. Um, actually, if someone spots you climbing into the giraffe exhibit with a chainsaw, they're gonna assume.
14:58 Travis McElroy? Might be made.
14:59 Griffin McElroy? Assume, God didn't want them to be this tall. No, man.
15:03 Travis McElroy? That horse was built wrong. Come on down here, big fella. You think you're so tough?
15:10 Griffin McElroy? The good news with tree heist, Operation Tree Heist, is if you do get caught, you have an amazing exit strategy. Of you slide down the giraffe's neck.
15:20 Travis McElroy? Of course.
15:20 Griffin McElroy? Like a, like a Fred Flintstone. That is, we've all thought it. What a wonderful, wonderful angle they provide. I could really zoom down one of those hairy necks.
15:31 Travis McElroy? It must be hard for a giraffe to, I assume, want to be ridden like a horse. They're jealous, but no one can reach it.
15:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:37 Travis McElroy? It's not like ergonomically designed to mount. You know what I mean? And the giraffe would love it if somebody just hopped on and rode it.
15:44 Griffin McElroy? I, here's my theory of evolution. Giraffes evolved from horses and they were just the horses that whenever humans would be like, time to ride, they'd be like, oh, I really not feeling it. Let me just scoot up.
15:59 Travis McElroy? Tiptoes, tiptoes.
16:00 Griffin McElroy? Tiptoes, they stretch up. Now you can't get up there.
16:04 Travis McElroy? And it just makes sense.
16:05 Travis McElroy? It just makes sense. I'm a delivery driver. Most of my stops are businesses. It's not uncommon for there to be a pizza party happening at said business when I arrive. Sometimes they offer me a slice, which is always appreciated. However, sometimes they don't, which I find quite rude if I'm being honest. Brothers, how do I get in on that hot zot at these parties if I'm not offered? Do I ask them? What if they say no? Do I just grab a slice when no one's looking? Please help me. I'm so hungry for pizza. That's from Pizza Party Pirate in Rochester.
16:34 Travis McElroy? Hmm. Hmm. Is this pizza for everybody or just the ones who close the account or?
16:41 Griffin McElroy? Or employees or people you know. Strangers.
16:45 Travis McElroy? Just Dave over there where we at on the pizza availability.
16:50 Travis McElroy? Pizza is one of those loaves and fishes type things where you wouldn't, it wouldn't ever occur to you, I think, to eat some beef medallions. You know what I mean? Like if there was some leftover beef medallions and asparagus tips, you wouldn't think, I'm gonna fix me a plate. But there is something about pizza where it does feel communal almost as soon as it's prepared.
17:11 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
17:12 Travis McElroy? And Frank, frankly, no one ever calculates perfectly the amount of pizza that's needed per person anyways. So either it was already gonna run out before everybody got their fill, or there was gonna be too much left, right? If there's too much left, you should give the delivery driver some. And if it was gonna run out too early anyways.
17:29 Griffin McElroy? Right. It's statistically, statistically insignificant, a single slice of pizza. Slide it, slide it on down. I would be bummed if my pizza arrived and there was a piece already eaten. If the request was made, hey, let me get down on this. Absolutely. For sure. It's one slice. Who, who cares, man?
17:47 Travis McElroy? No problem.
17:48 Griffin McElroy? No problem. It's a single slice.
17:50 Travis McElroy? Unless the delivery driver is like the second person to the pizza party, right? Like, everybody's there. If anybody's so late that they didn't get a piece of pizza, sometimes we have to be reminded that there are consequences to our decision.
18:02 Travis McElroy? Yes.
18:02 Travis McElroy? And if I come in and I'm like 20 minutes late to the pizza party and I'm like, uh, you guys didn't save me a slice? And I look over and the delivery driver is eating one? And I'm like, what, what the hell? And they're like, Travis, you were 20 minutes late to the pizza party.
18:16 Travis McElroy? That's tough, though, because you don't want to be the person who's like, go on, man, get in there. And then everybody else comes down. It's like, I'm so sorry. I thought you got in there already.
18:24 Griffin McElroy? Well, no, I'm not sorry. Don't be late next time. If you are a delivery driver of food.
18:29 Travis McElroy? They had a project. They were trying to get done and the boss was telling them if they didn't get it done, they were out of here.
18:34 Griffin McElroy? No excuses. No excuses.
18:36 Travis McElroy? They need this job.
18:37 Griffin McElroy? If you are, if you're a delivery driver and you roll up to a function where you're going to be catering and the vibe is off, you are, you are endowed certain rights in that scenario. And some of it is the pizza that you, you are delivering.
18:53 Travis McElroy? Are we supposing that we are agreed in this, that the person asking the question is not delivering the pizza?
18:58 Griffin McElroy? Yes, correct.
18:59 Travis McElroy? Right?
18:59 Griffin McElroy? I assumed that's exactly what we're talking about.
19:02 Travis McElroy? I thought you two were talking at cross purposes. I wanted to clarify this.
19:06 Griffin McElroy? Okay, that there, so let me get this straight, Travis. In your imagination, this delivery driver is stopping by to drop off unrelated lunch items to a place that has already had pizza delivered to their door.
19:19 Travis McElroy? Well, yes, Driven, here's why I think that, because it's what it goddamn says in the question.
19:23 Travis McElroy? Let's see what the tax report's. Go on, Travis.
19:25 Travis McElroy? I'm a delivery driver. Most of my stops are businesses. It's not uncommon for there to be a pizza party happening at said business when I arrive.
19:34 Travis McElroy? Okay, so, yeah, let's speak now.
19:36 Griffin McElroy? Okay, but that's, we're arguing, so we're arguing fucking semantics now.
19:41 Travis McElroy? We're not.
19:42 Griffin McElroy? They're having a pizza party and the party-
19:45 Travis McElroy? This whole show's arguing semantics. Please go on.
19:46 Griffin McElroy? The party is going, the party is popping. One little, the catalyst for setting off this party powder keg hasn't showed up yet. That's you with the zah. The pizza party's already happening. Why are you delivering food to a-
20:00 Travis McElroy? Griffin, you're enormously wrong and I do want you to keep digging. So, what you're saying is that sometimes it's a pizza party and sometimes it's just a pizza? In the context of this question?
20:14 Griffin McElroy? No, sometimes it's just, if I have people over to have a pizza party.
20:20 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
20:21 Griffin McElroy? Come on over to my place tonight, gang. We're watching.
20:23 Travis McElroy? For a pizza party?
20:24 Griffin McElroy? Come on over, we're watching Andor, have a couple slices. It's gonna be a fucking.
20:29 Travis McElroy? They didn't need Andor, they stopped selling. They heard pizza party, they're coming over.
20:32 Griffin McElroy? It's gonna be a time. We're gonna have a time.
20:35 Travis McElroy? Now, what's the other option?
20:37 Griffin McElroy? Let me please finish the first option. There is no second option. There is merely this hypothetical situation that's gonna take your guys shit apart. We're having a pizza party tonight, gang, come on over. We're gonna watch all of Andor and we're gonna have a couple slices. My six best friends show up, we're at the house and we're having the time of our lives. But, the pizza's running a little bit late. What are we having right now? What is the moment that we're in right now? What is this event that we're, what was on the Facebook invite? Right now, what are we in? The pizza party?
21:08 Travis McElroy? A pizza party, uh huh.
21:09 Travis McElroy? Yeah?
21:10 Griffin McElroy? The pizza's not there yet, but that doesn't change the central thesis. That doesn't change the central thesis of what the gathering's all about.
21:19 Travis McElroy? But the question says it's not uncommon for there to be a pizza party happening. So what you're saying, the question asker doesn't say, "I'm delivering pizzas to a pizza party." So that means that there is other uncommon events? Or maybe the more common event of, "I'm bringing, what, eight pizzas in and a pizza party is not happening? Dave's just real fucking peckish that day?"
21:43 Griffin McElroy? The fact that you said.
21:44 Travis McElroy? I think the essential question that Griffin has to answer is this. And this is where I actually don't, I actually don't have an answer.
21:52 Griffin McElroy? Could you have, oh Juice, you've chosen your side in this, in this.
21:55 Travis McElroy? Oh, no, no, in your, no, no, no, not, to my hypothetical, I don't answer. Could you have a pizza party where the pizza does not arrive? And it is still a pizza party?
22:05 Griffin McElroy? No. If the pizza doesn't arrive, it's not, it's a failed pizza party, it's a gathering.
22:11 Travis McElroy? So I would argue you're not having a pizza party until the pizza arrives. Because you cannot both be having a pizza party. And then in hindsight, not have had a pizza.
22:20 Griffin McElroy? You were classifying it in hindsight as not a pizza party because the pizza never arrived. If the pizza arrives 30 minutes late, you're going to look back at that whole event, at all the memories that you formed around it. And you're going to say, that whole thing was a fucking pizza party. Do you understand what I'm saying?
22:34 Travis McElroy? There's no way that I as a, okay, but there's no way that I as a delivery driver.
22:41 Griffin McElroy? Of pizzas.
22:42 Travis McElroy? Am thinking, uh, uh, uh, obviously I have a bias that the pizza party don't start till I walk in.
22:49 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
22:51 Travis McElroy? Right?
22:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. So wouldn't that embolden you to get a sweet slice?
22:56 Travis McElroy? No, but I wouldn't state it in the question that a pizza party had, is going on when I arrive. Because from my point of view, the pizza party cannot begin until I have arrived. So I wouldn't say a pizza party happening at said business when I arrive.
23:13 Griffin McElroy? Is it?
23:13 Travis McElroy? I'm the pizza delivery driver, unless I'm not, I'm a different delivery driver.
23:19 Griffin McElroy? Please, I know people are getting frustrated. This is so important. This is, what we're doing here is always important.
23:25 Travis McElroy? Obviously the most important science.
23:27 Griffin McElroy? But if we, if we don't know the answer to this, I do not know how to guide this person. I'd say, I simply don't. And I, I, I do, I may be in the wrong here. I've been outvoted. I'm happy to concede the position. But I'm saying a little bit of clarity of language. Uh, maybe we get a, a, a, a follow-up email. I would love for this to be resolved peace, peaceably.
23:47 Travis McElroy? And I think a little bit of grace on my, on my part.
23:49 Griffin McElroy? I think a little bit of grace on everyone's part.
23:52 Travis McElroy? Grace.
23:52 Griffin McElroy? I mean, don't get me wrong. There's two of you and one of me. So if I'm right, it's going to be double good. It's going to feel double fucking good.
23:58 Travis McElroy? Okay.
23:59 Griffin McElroy? But, uh, but I will still be like pretty chill about it.
24:02 Travis McElroy? And listen, uh, question answer here. Ask for a slice of the pizza, the weird pizza that they ordered for like one person who had a bunch of special requests. And no one else is going to eat it and they're going to end up throwing most of it away anyways. They can spare a slice of that one.
24:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:15 Travis McElroy? I can't, do you know what my new thing is? When I have a large group of people that I'm trying to buy pizza for, this has happened quite, quite a lot recently. And everyone is saying they like all kinds of pizza. You're not helping me. I want to give you the pizza of your dreams. Please, a little guidance.
24:33 Travis McElroy? My joy, when we're on tour and we get pizza and Rachel's there and Rachel is like all veggies. And it feels like a mini game that I'm winning where I can just add every veggie on the menu and the pizza place is gonna be so impressed. But it's like, nobody ever orders these. This is great. And I'm just like, yeah, throw alfalfa sprouts on there. Carrot coins? Yeah, go for it. She loves these things. And it feels like I'm winning a game. Hey, guys, if I could be so bold, why don't we head on over to the money zone? I respect that.
25:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, please.
25:14 Travis McElroy? You know, Trav, a great way to get started with your project that you were telling me about would be a website.
25:21 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
25:22 Travis McElroy? I know. I know what you were telling me that you thought that there was no way you could ever figure it out. And I told you.
25:28 Travis McElroy? Figure out my project?
25:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
25:30 Travis McElroy? Well, which one was I telling you about, Travis? Because I have so many project ideas bouncing around all the time.
25:34 Travis McElroy? The candle one. And you were saying.
25:35 Travis McElroy? The what?
25:36 Travis McElroy? The candle one. And you were saying you could never build a candle website. And I said, maybe, Trav, you should believe in yourself. I meant to be clear. What I meant by that, believe in yourself, was you should use Squarespace.
25:47 Travis McElroy? Now, do you remember specifically which candle project I was telling you about? Because I have so many candle ideas.
25:52 Griffin McElroy? Remember, it was Travis McRoy's Eaten Candles.
25:55 Travis McElroy? Oh, right, right, right.
25:56 Griffin McElroy? Multipurpose candles you can.
25:58 Travis McElroy? They were the fully edible, non-digestible candle that the whole family will love to smell.
26:04 Travis McElroy? And they don't taste good.
26:06 Travis McElroy? No.
26:06 Griffin McElroy? No. And you had the tagline cooked up, which would look great as a header on a Squarespace website that was like, smell them or eat them. I don't give a shit.
26:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Here's the best part. I'm gonna put non-toxic on them, but it's spelled like the bread, like non.
26:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
26:21 Travis McElroy? Right? And like the words, there will be hyphenated or anything like that. And then when people are like, yeah, this candle got really sick. I'm like, it says toxic.
26:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah. I was about to say that Squarespace would prefer you not do immoral things with your website, but you know what? Squarespace is probably not in the business of judging morality. I don't think Squarespace wants to be a referee for all the world's problems, you know? I think they just want to get some world-class designers, have them make some of the best templates in the world, and let you put your photos and the stuff you want to sell and your videos and your texts and all that stuff into the templates and give yourself a real professional-looking website.
26:56 Travis McElroy? Edible candles? There's a question mark on it too, which helps.
26:59 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
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27:10 Travis McElroy? Hey, Griffin, I've been wondering, um, did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the US with thousands of different plants and over 2 million happy customers?
27:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah, dude.
27:22 Travis McElroy? Oh, cool. Did you know that I'm one of those happy customers?
27:25 Travis McElroy? I didn't.
27:27 Travis McElroy? Oh. It's, I felt like you should keep track of the things happening in my life.
27:31 Travis McElroy? Little bear tabs, yeah.
27:32 Travis McElroy? I got a red bud tree for them, which I planted in my front yard, which is thriving. And I got myself a little Meyer lemon tree that I'm growing in my office. It's a real beaut. Um, the children are thrilled to have lemons in like two or three years. I don't know how long it takes to make lemons, but I'm gonna make lemonade because Fast Growing Trees sold me a lemon tree and I'm very happy with it. Um, and they have like plant, you know, different kinds of plants, not just trees, but stuff you can, you know, plant in your yard, uh, plant inside your home, uh, privacy trees.
28:07 Travis McElroy? They won't sell you a lemon unless you ask them to.
28:10 Griffin McElroy? That's cool. That's almost as good as, that's almost as good as smelling or eating them. I don't give a shit.
28:14 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
28:16 Travis McElroy? Thank you.
28:17 Travis McElroy? Fair.
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28:57 Travis McElroy? Who's ready for some science?
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30:19 Travis McElroy? I work as a hostess at a historic pirate restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. At the restaurant, we have pirates on duty who explain our history to guests and give tours of the building. Real pirates used to come here in the 1700s. It's actually pretty cool.
30:34 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you don't have to convince us.
30:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm on board. These tour guides obviously get to dress like pirates while I, as a host, wear a simple black shirt and black dress pants. My question is, how can I introduce the idea of my boss to my boss of possibly letting me dress like a pirate, too? Maybe not every day, but sometimes at least. I love Renaissance Ferris and would very much appreciate being able to carry some of that whimsy to the monotony of regular life.
31:00 Griffin McElroy? Hmm.
31:02 Travis McElroy? That's from Pirate Envy in Savannah, Georgia.
31:04 Griffin McElroy? I think that this is a question of where does the pirate experience begin? Cause it sounds like it begins beyond the
31:16 Travis McElroy? Conception.
31:17 Griffin McElroy? Stand. It, oh, so.
31:19 Travis McElroy? The pirate experience begins at conception.
31:23 Griffin McElroy? For the pirate, I get the pirates experience.
31:26 Travis McElroy? Pirates are born, not made, Travis?
31:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
31:29 Travis McElroy? That you're, okay.
31:30 Travis McElroy? When two pirates love each other very much.
31:33 Travis McElroy? Reciprocity pirate genes.
31:35 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
31:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, the, the instant that, uh, that they climax, that's when the pirates, that is the exact moment that God has endowed that pirate with their soul.
31:45 Travis McElroy? When they yell, "D'ar she blows."
31:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, man. Yeah. When they're, when they're great harpoon. I don't want to do this anymore.
31:57 Travis McElroy? I don't blame you.
31:58 Griffin McElroy? Just, we're talking about stretching the perimeter of the pirate immersion. Another, you know, 20, 30 feet. Uh, just put some fucking barrels outside of the door and like a sail and have, uh, some shanties playing in the parking lot. And then when they, by the time they roll up, they're already in pirate mode. It's not weird that there's a pirate working at the host stand.
32:21 Travis McElroy? I think that it is weird because I want the romance of piracy. I want the illusion, you know, I don't want to see pirates rolling silverware. I don't want to see pirates helping people to their table or writing down my name. Uh, I don't want a pirate to do any of that. I want that to be regular people. I need a pirate to just be a dramatic figure. Waltzing in, taking orders, you know, you know.
32:48 Travis McElroy? Wait, sorry, the pirates taking your dinner order, though?
32:52 Travis McElroy? Yes, that's like, cause I'm on their boat, I think in the fiction.
32:55 Griffin McElroy? That's so wild, man. It's so wild to me that you're saying, I can't have a pirate show me to my table, but I will ask a pirate for the wine list.
33:05 Travis McElroy? It actually, can I say? Griffin is right. This person should say the waiters can't be pirates. I don't think the waiters are pirates. What is up with you guys at Reading Conprehension today? There's pirates on duty that give tours and there was no mention of waiters or servers or nothing.
33:22 Griffin McElroy? This is a good point. This is a good point Travis. When you go to the fucking Epcot Garden Grill, it's not like there's 60 chips and dales, like the roast beef is really good.
33:31 Travis McElroy? Pardon, excuse me for a living that I assume in this economy, restaurants can't just have idle pirates walking around. You're gonna put them to work. Wait, they're also the bathroom attendants. They're the tour guide and the bathroom attendant.
33:45 Griffin McElroy? This restaurant has so much excess headcount. I don't do anything with the fuck it. You work at a restaurant? Wow, you should make me dinner sometime. No, you don't understand. I'm a historical pirate cosplayer, um, role player.
33:59 Travis McElroy? Guy that dances in the Mighty Money Boston. So it's like.
34:03 Griffin McElroy? Um, yeah, I, I think this has gotta be in everyone dresses like a pirate or no one dresses like a pirate.
34:09 Travis McElroy? You could slowly introduce, like over time, pirate accessories to your look and pirate things. And just like slowly add them on until you just do dress like a pirate. And it's like, yeah, you know, I, if you had asked me straight up, I would have said, no, that'd be weird. But now that I've seen you with like the bird and the cutlass and the eye patch and the bandana. I will say this, cutlass should be last. That's the hardest. Not first, God, no, not first.
34:38 Griffin McElroy? Cutlass before flintlock, but then you're done.
34:40 Travis McElroy? Cutlass, flintlock, I'm like, parrot is actually pretty late, honestly. That is a health code issue. I think you start with boots that kind of fold over on top and maybe are a little floppy. You start with that. That might be style. Your boss doesn't know.
34:56 Griffin McElroy? Yes, I think that's a good, maybe don't do weapons. Cause if I walked into a restaurant and the host had a gun, no matter how antiquated it may be, I'm still not gonna feel like especially comfortable.
35:09 Travis McElroy? Well, I do like that thing in movies and TV shows sometimes where like a bartender will have a weapon like up over the bar like a baseball bat or whatever to let me know that if stuff goes down, they've got a baseball bat. You could do something like that. A cutlass on the wall behind your host stand.
35:25 Griffin McElroy? But we're talking decor. Oh, okay. So a cutlass just on the host stand at all times, just so people know.
35:31 Travis McElroy? That's better than in some movies when the bartender like pulls out a shotgun they had underneath the bar. I always think like, God, that's stressful.
35:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
35:38 Travis McElroy? Can you imagine? That's your day to day.
35:40 Griffin McElroy? And you keep a lot of other stuff under there. I'm reaching in there to get the cherries for a drink and my hand brushes the shotgun? I'm gonna panic every time.
35:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Like if someone's like, can I bring my dog in here? It's like, oh, man.
35:53 Griffin McElroy? I don't think so. My son, my son, my son Tucker loves those maraschino cherries. Yeah, he can't fucking come back here, man.
36:01 Travis McElroy? But you have the little umbrellas and stuff? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a gun area.
36:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, this is a place for cutlasses.
36:07 Travis McElroy? No, don't order drinks over here. Scoop four feet to the right to order your drinks. Why can't I order them here? Uh, it's not safe. It's just not safe.
36:15 Griffin McElroy? It's just not safe for you.
36:26 Travis McElroy? I want a munch squad.
36:30 Travis McElroy? I want to munch squad.
36:36 Travis McElroy? Welcome to Munch Squad. It's a podcast of the podcast profiling the latest and greatest of brand eating. And guys, I have such good news for you.
36:42 Griffin McElroy? What?
36:43 Travis McElroy? Burger King is gonna release a menu celebrating the new How to Train Your Dragon movie. Yay. Trav, I know that you're a, uh, you, you appreciate this franchise. So I wanted to run through the items with you to see how you, a fan, feel about the menu that is coming, come along here. Cause Griffin and I don't have the familiarity with the franchise.
37:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:06 Travis McElroy? So, uh, calling all dragon trainers, I'm guessing.
37:12 Griffin McElroy? Is that like a thing?
37:13 Travis McElroy? Is that a title?
37:14 Travis McElroy? Well, it's right there. It's right there in the name of the movie.
37:17 Travis McElroy? Train. So a dragon trainer is just any of the people who train the different dragons there?
37:22 Travis McElroy? Well, eventually, yeah, Justin. There's a whole storyline.
37:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, they got names like Funk Nuts and like all kinds of wild shit.
37:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
37:29 Travis McElroy? Uh, Burger King in co-promotion with the new live action How to Train Your Dragon film.
37:34 Travis McElroy? Oh, I'm glad they clarified they weren't just doing it solo.
37:37 Travis McElroy? So.
37:37 Travis McElroy? Hey, listen, we haven't reached out to them, but we're huge fans.
37:40 Griffin McElroy? Love this shit.
37:42 Travis McElroy? Uh, uh, they invite guests to take a trip to the Isle of Berk. That's, it got cut off.
37:47 Travis McElroy? No, that's it.
37:48 Travis McElroy? Isle of. What?
37:50 Travis McElroy? Berk. That's just the name.
37:51 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's the whole.
37:52 Griffin McElroy? That's why I'm saying, man, everything in this movie is like Gronk.
37:55 Travis McElroy? Four dragon-inspired takes on fan-fitting.
37:58 Travis McElroy? Nah, it's like Gronk.
38:00 Griffin McElroy? Chug, Chug Ball. Like, everything in this movie has.
38:03 Travis McElroy? Wait, so you have seen the movie, Griffin?
38:05 Griffin McElroy? Just saying, just come up with some normal names.
38:08 Travis McElroy? Uh, available starting Tuesday, May 27th, the new lineup was developed to help BK and How to Train Your Dragon fans alike celebrate the release of the new film.
38:19 Travis McElroy? Cool.
38:20 Travis McElroy? Soars into theaters on Friday, June 13th.
38:22 Travis McElroy? Okay.
38:23 Travis McElroy? As the home of the flame-grilled Whopper, Burger King is no stranger to fire.
38:27 Travis McElroy? Huh.
38:27 Travis McElroy? And reimagining America's most iconic burger. That's why BK is inviting guests to take their taste buds on a bold and flavorful journey with the adventurous new menu offerings, including the, okay, now Trav, this is where you're gonna have to help me, cuz I don't.
38:42 Travis McElroy? The Dragon Flame Grilled Whopper. You know what? I actually have an image, so let me share with you guys, cuz I feel like the... Don't jump ahead of me, please, but.
38:53 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay.
38:54 Travis McElroy? The Dragon Flame Grilled Whopper. The star of the show features a quarter pound of flame-grilled beef.
39:00 Travis McElroy? Okay.
39:01 Travis McElroy? Served on a red and orange marbled bun colored with.
39:06 Travis McElroy? Natural spices and vegetables.
39:09 Griffin McElroy? Oh, okay.
39:10 Travis McElroy? Topped with American cheese, crispy bacon, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles, ketchup, and mayo.
39:14 Griffin McElroy? This, um.
39:15 Travis McElroy? It's compensating, guys. Come on.
39:17 Griffin McElroy? That burger is the first hamburger I've ever seen that was perfectly spherical. That beautiful.
39:27 Travis McElroy? It looks like it was drawn by God's compass.
39:29 Griffin McElroy? It looks like a billiard ball, this beautiful, perfect hamburger.
39:35 Travis McElroy? Now, Justin, if I may, to understand the question you're asking, this burger is.
39:42 Travis McElroy? Does it remind you of any of the characters from the movie or?
39:46 Travis McElroy? Well, I think that many of them would eat it.
39:50 Griffin McElroy? Okay, that's a pretty low bar to clear.
39:52 Travis McElroy? You could say that about any movie ever, ever made.
39:54 Travis McElroy? I see.
39:54 Travis McElroy? Except maybe supersize me, I guess.
39:56 Travis McElroy? There's some red on the bun, which does make me think of, I guess, fire or blood.
40:02 Travis McElroy? Um.
40:03 Griffin McElroy? Is there a lot of blood in the franchise or?
40:05 Travis McElroy? Well, there are Vikings and stuff. I think it's implied.
40:09 Travis McElroy? Ah, crap. You didn't tell me there's Vikings in it.
40:11 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
40:12 Travis McElroy? Now I'm getting interested.
40:13 Travis McElroy? I assume when they say it's a dragon flame grilled burger, that they use dragon flame authentic to make it.
40:20 Travis McElroy? I would assume so.
40:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
40:21 Travis McElroy? Uh, uh, there's, there's also fiery dragon mozzarella fries.
40:25 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's a big part of the movie. Mozzarella fries come up a lot.
40:29 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
40:29 Travis McElroy? In the movie, every other minute when they get an injury, like I mentioned, they will often use mozzarella fries as like tourniquets or to plug up the wound.
40:39 Griffin McElroy? They're mushy. The dragon doesn't have teeth. He needs mushy food. It's like a whole thing in the movie.
40:45 Travis McElroy? Uh, in addition to bringing the flame, BK is bringing the heat with fiery dragon mozzarella fries, featuring melty mozzarella cheese, peppers, and fiery Calabrian chili pepper breading for the perfect fiery snack, served in a one of a kind, toothless, inspired carton.
41:01 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's actually what they do with the mozzarella fries, too. They stick them inside the dragon's head. For storage, because dragons are very porous, which is a big plot point in the movie. So when they need to store their dragon fries, they put them in the dragon's head for later.
41:16 Travis McElroy? Now Travis, if you can see on there, the special Toothless inspired carton.
41:20 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
41:21 Travis McElroy? You can see there and there's wings on it.
41:23 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
41:23 Travis McElroy? And I guess the, and I guess what my question is, does that make you feel something?
41:28 Griffin McElroy? Do you like that?
41:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
41:29 Griffin McElroy? Box looks like the dragon.
41:31 Travis McElroy? Here's what I'll say, I do, it makes me feel something, but mostly that I'm looking at a knockoff picture of Toothless that I might see on like a boardwalk T-shirt and not like.
41:43 Griffin McElroy? Spray paint, yeah.
41:43 Travis McElroy? It doesn't look.
41:44 Travis McElroy? Your real son.
41:45 Travis McElroy? It doesn't look like Toothless, he looks like he's saying, if you try to eat these fries, I will bite your hand.
41:51 Travis McElroy? Is that maybe what live action Toothless looks like?
41:54 Travis McElroy? I don't believe so.
41:56 Travis McElroy? I don't, I don't know. I haven't.
41:57 Travis McElroy? But I haven't seen the movie. He's less rectangular than that in the movie. And he's not as box shaped.
42:04 Travis McElroy? Yeah, he does. He is not shaped like a carton of mozzarella fries. Next up, we got Soaring Strawberry Lemonade. And hey, huge promotion to the person that had to try to sell this one.
42:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
42:15 Travis McElroy? Uh, soar to new heights and quench your thirst for adventure with the all new Soaring Strawberry Lemonade.
42:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah, no, that's actually straight. That's canon, because when they're flying on the dragon's backs, there's a couple of points where they go through pink clouds. And then they come out and they're like, I'm soaked in strawberry lemonade. Why are there strawberry lemonade clouds up here?
42:36 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
42:37 Travis McElroy? So that's, that's a direct reference.
42:39 Griffin McElroy? And Justin, I would love for you to have to come up with a how to trade your dragon theme tie in for this pink. It had to be lemonade. It's pink lemonade. Yeah. Dragon fruit would have been better, but dragon fruit maybe doesn't taste so good in lemonade.
42:56 Travis McElroy? Oh, like they needed to, yeah, they don't.
42:58 Griffin McElroy? You think originally it was regular lemonade and they're like, this is dragon's piss.
43:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah, man. Can I tell you, if I, if you have a kid of a certain age and you say you want a big cup of dragon piss, they would love it.
43:10 Griffin McElroy? Probably, yeah.
43:11 Travis McElroy? Lastly, there's a Vikings Chocolate Sundae. Finish the adventure with Vikings Chocolate Sundae.
43:17 Travis McElroy? Now, I take huge issue with this.
43:20 Travis McElroy? Okay.
43:20 Travis McElroy? Because canonically-
43:21 Travis McElroy? Can I tell you what it is first?
43:22 Travis McElroy? Well, all of the Vikings are lactose intolerant.
43:25 Travis McElroy? Okay, well, that's good to know.
43:27 Griffin McElroy? The spicy mozzarella fries put these guys on the toilet for hours.
43:31 Travis McElroy? Hours.
43:31 Travis McElroy? Well, that's why it balances out, because the spice, they're like, it's worth it. A lot of the movie is real time shitting. Um, after they eat the mozzarella, they don't cut away. You hear them-
43:42 Griffin McElroy? The dragons mostly train themselves while you're stuck on the john. Because of the Burger King combo.
43:48 Travis McElroy? But unless you're about to tell me about a spicy sundae, Justin, I can't imagine they're putting them through what would be hours of bathroom experience.
43:56 Travis McElroy? Finish the adventure with Vikings Chocolate Sundae. You, I don't think I've ever heard that. Finish the adventure.
44:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
44:02 Travis McElroy? Uh, a delicious sweet treat.
44:04 Travis McElroy? I've heard it when a pirate climaxes, but.
44:08 Travis McElroy? It features vanilla soft serve with Hershey's chocolate syrup and black and green cookie crumbles. Quote, "At BK, we love to bring partnerships to life that create an awesome experience for families."
44:20 Travis McElroy? And money.
44:21 Travis McElroy? "Our new collaboration with How to Train Your Dragon is gonna be fun for both kids and kids at heart." Says somebody from Burger King.
44:30 Travis McElroy? What about grownups at heart?
44:31 Travis McElroy? Nope. "Our team has created delicious-"
44:33 Griffin McElroy? I'm a mature, responsible, adult, married father of two. I'm an adult at heart, and I have to get me some of these spicy cheese fries and this bar burger.
44:45 Travis McElroy? "Our team has created a delicious menu."
44:47 Travis McElroy? Have the Dragon Ball burger.
44:50 Travis McElroy? Inspired by the beloved characters and themes of this exciting new movie that brings the experience to Burger King restaurants. What themes would you say are best captured by fiery dragon mozzarella fries?
45:02 Travis McElroy? I guess the theme of heat. There's a lot of heat in the movie. Fire, the theme of fire, I guess. Um, well, they, they use the mozzarella sticks. Um, it's a metaphor for love and connection. Cause like two of those things that bite of the mozzarella stick and it stretches out between him and hiccup and there's a 45 minute long monologue about how the string of mozzarella stick connecting them. It's like the love that connects them.
45:30 Griffin McElroy? And then they kiss.
45:30 Travis McElroy? That might be the theme.
45:32 Griffin McElroy? And they kiss.
45:32 Travis McElroy? This movie's eight hours long, by the way.
45:35 Travis McElroy? Um, so there's, there's the, uh, how to train your dragon scoop, uh, Trav. You can start getting that May 27th. Uh, enjoy.
45:44 Travis McElroy? I don't know if I can wait that long. I might try to make some of this at home. Uh, it seems too dangerous.
45:52 Travis McElroy? I'm just gonna wait.
45:53 Griffin McElroy? Does it come with a special crown? You didn't even mention a special crown.
45:57 Travis McElroy? Uh, you know, the special crown is in the press release, so I didn't know how to cover it in our audio podcast. But yes, there is a very good looking crown that has horns on it. So that's very exciting. Travis, does that make you feel something?
46:07 Travis McElroy? It makes me feel confused because it says how to train your dragon only in theaters. And I know that they're talking about the live action one, but how to train your dragon is also a movie that's available pretty much everywhere else.
46:19 Griffin McElroy? You're right. It's not only in theaters, is it? Moreover, I don't want a crown that says how to train your dragon only in DreamWorks, how to train your dragon only in theaters on it. I'm the immersion. I get what you guys are going for here with this incredibly immersive, uh, inspired combo meal. But I don't want to wear a crown that says how to train your dragon only in theaters on it because that's not what the real dragon king would wear.
46:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
46:44 Griffin McElroy? Do you know what I mean? Like have the courage of your convictions to know this is a how to train your dragon officially licensed Burger King crown. You don't need to fucking put it on there. Let me live my fantasy, please.
46:54 Travis McElroy? They should include a book of matches instead of a crown. I think that would fit the theme more. It's like pretend like you're a dragon at home and set fire to things. And I think that would be feel really on brands.
47:06 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that's true. I don't want any of this.
47:11 Travis McElroy? I, I celebrate them for not pitching it as a meal though. Thank you.
47:15 Griffin McElroy? That's true.
47:16 Travis McElroy? It's an adventure.
47:18 Griffin McElroy? That's why they use it to adventure.
47:20 Travis McElroy? It's not a meal, it's an adventure.
47:22 Griffin McElroy? You can't refer.
47:23 Travis McElroy? It's a, it's a, it's a strawberry lemonade and an, and an ice cream sundae and mozzarella fries and a perfectly round dragon burger and a crown. It's not a meal, it's a, it's a.
47:33 Griffin McElroy? You gotta have the burger orb, the spicy cheese fries, the giant sundae and the huge pink lemonade.
47:38 Travis McElroy? And then you'll unlock the crown.
47:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
47:41 Travis McElroy? On your third playthrough. The real Isle of Berk. The bathroom.
47:47 Travis McElroy? Hey folks, thank you so much for enjoying this podcast, assuming that you did enjoy it.
47:51 Griffin McElroy? And you're welcome for us making it.
47:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
47:54 Griffin McElroy? Or sorry if you didn't, just I don't know why we're covering our bases like this, but.
47:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you, you usually don't hedge that much on the entertainment value of our products. Apologies. I don't know what got into me. Hey, we're gonna be, uh, are we this week now? As they're listening to this, right? We're gonna be doing some shows this week, uh, in Michigan and Minnesota. So if you can get tickets to those still, bit.ly forward slash McElroy tours is where you can get those. If you are coming to those and you got a question you want answered or a fear that you'd like read aloud, email that to MBMBAM at maximumfun.org and put your city in the subject line. And we've got a bunch of other, uh, tour dates coming up, including California, Texas, Georgia, Utah, and a bunch of other ones. If you go to bit.ly slash, uh, McElroy tours, you'll find all the info and ticket links and stuff there.
48:41 Travis McElroy? All the Taz shows are gonna be Taz versus, except for Anaheim. Uh, that Taz show is going to be Dadlands, uh, with, uh, Game Mom Brennan Lee Mulligan. Check those out, bit.ly slash McElroy tours.
48:53 Griffin McElroy? We got some new merch, including flaming, not poisoning, raging tea of doom, a spicy caffeine free tea that we made in collaboration with Good Store Tea. Uh, I love it. I've gone through our stash entirely already and will need to procure more of this delicious, delicious tea. There's also a Plato's rave 1,000 piece puzzle, uh, designed by Danielle Majo Birch, uh, and 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to the Center for Reproductive Rights. All of that is over at McElroymerch.com. And hey, thanks to Montane for the use of our theme song, My Life Is Better With You. Uh, check out some of the new tunes that Montane's been putting out, teasing on Sushi. You're gonna, you're gonna groove your groove thing and.
49:37 Travis McElroy? I also want to say, thank you. Uh, we're recording this before Champions Grove, but thank you to everybody who came out to Champions Grove. We had, I assume, a great time, and I assume it will be great. So, thank you all for that. I also want to say, I haven't mentioned in a while, but I stream on Twitch, uh, fairly regularly. If you go to twitch.tv slash the Travis McRoy, you can find it there.
49:57 Griffin McElroy? We also haven't mentioned, hey, come watch McRoy Family Clubhouse. It's every Tuesday.
50:02 Travis McElroy? Take it clean. And when you don't say come house.
50:05 Griffin McElroy? Did I say, I don't think it came out as come house.
50:07 Travis McElroy? Hey, let's just take it clean for me.
50:09 Griffin McElroy? All right, let me try again. Hey, and we haven't mentioned this in a while. Come on down Tuesdays to the McRoy Family Come House, and that's at noon on Tuesdays on our YouTube channel, which is the McRoy Family.
50:20 Travis McElroy? Nailed it.
50:25 Travis McElroy? One of us was right, one of us was wrong, and history will decide which is which. Do we have a fear or whatever?
50:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, we do. Griffin, why don't you read it? This year, I'd like to be faster than my fear that I am aging to a point where I'm finally going to be able to relate to the Grown Ups film franchise.
50:41 Travis McElroy? My name's Justin McRoy.
50:42 Griffin McElroy? I'm Travis McRoy. I'm Griffin McRoy.
50:44 Travis McElroy? This has been my brother, my brother, may kiss your dads, square on the lips.
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