Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 789: Meditations on Bean About this episode ALERT! The Man vs Baby watch you’ve been waiting for with bated breath is here at last! Come for the elevated Bean experience, stay for the code chodes, the pies you’ll never get to try, and maybe even some sneaky free lasik.
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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?
0:20 Speaker 01 One, two, three, four. It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has blossomed, it's rapid into a precious friendship. I could have never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. My 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.
1:03 Speaker 01 My life, ah, it's better with you.
1:09 Griffin McElroy? Travis looks like a, look at Travis, Travis looks like.
1:12 Travis McElroy? Yo, man, Griffin rules, everybody loves Griffin. It's about the background, you guys see the empty water jug? That's, it's mise en scène, baby.
1:21 Griffin McElroy? My kids love, my kids love Griffin, they want to be spending more time with me. I say, I can't, Uncle Juice has to fucking diddle with his gadgets and gizmos of plenty, like Ariel under the sea.
1:29 Travis McElroy? Oh, sorry, I'd rather not be consigned to the dustmen of history, I'm just trying to keep us relevant, okay? No, it's okay, we've inspired people who will be more famous than us.
1:38 Griffin McElroy? We started this shit on a rock band, Mike Juice. Don't get, don't get.
1:42 Travis McElroy? I'd rather not end it on one.
1:43 Griffin McElroy? All right. That felt good to be in show. I like her little gentle razz.
1:51 Travis McElroy? We never do a cold open.
1:53 Griffin McElroy? No, we don't.
1:54 Travis McElroy? Was that called a cold open? That was our cold open. It felt cold and.
1:58 Travis McElroy? Okay, hi, welcome to my brother, my brother, main advice show for the modern era, I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
2:01 Travis McElroy? What's up, Trav Nation, I'm your oldest brother, Travis, Big Duck, Wolf, Free Free, McElroy.
2:05 Griffin McElroy? What's up, Trav Nation, it's me, your sweet baby brother, Griffin, 30 under 30, media luminary McRif. How do you fucking do it, Travis? How do you keep this shit straight every time that you say, Trav?
2:13 Travis McElroy? I gotta not think about it, I gotta not think about it. When I think about it, that's one of my many wofsees.
2:19 Griffin McElroy? Goddamn.
2:21 Travis McElroy? Uh, okay, so here's my question for you guys. Who will save us from the babies?
2:27 Travis McElroy? Thank you.
2:28 Travis McElroy? Who will stand against the babies?
2:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Um, I have, I mean, I got one name in mind and it's, um, Rowan Atkinson. Or will I be able to remember the name of that character from Man vs.
2:40 Travis McElroy? Troy?
2:41 Griffin McElroy? Froyng?
2:42 Travis McElroy? Froyng.
2:43 Griffin McElroy? Tre- Trester Froyng? Does that sound fucking right?
2:46 Travis McElroy? Can I tell you guys, I'm so eager to watch this trailer, mostly because I have it paused on my screen right now. And it's a close up.
2:53 Griffin McElroy? Of Rowan's face.
2:54 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
2:54 Travis McElroy? And he's making no face. He's making duh.
2:56 Travis McElroy? He's making the face.
2:57 Griffin McElroy? His money maker. And no, friends, you haven't tuned into an episode you've already listened to. Last time we talked about Man vs., did you hear the whole Man vs. B arc? It's all we fucking talked about for like a month and a half.
3:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
3:09 Griffin McElroy? So forgive us for being enthused about Man vs. Baby, which didn't have a trailer last time we did this. Now we've got two minutes and three seconds.
3:16 Travis McElroy? And his trailer about two days ago has 4.7 million views.
3:21 Travis McElroy? Don't say that. That, I don't like that. I don't like to know that. That doesn't make me want to do jokes. Oh, man.
3:29 Griffin McElroy? Well, J-Dog, they put this, they put this up on the main Netflix channel. This is not going up in like Netflix, British comedy, like one of their little splinter cells. This is bringing a lot of heat.
3:41 Travis McElroy? Can we play the audio?
3:42 Travis McElroy? We probably got that many views on our C-SO show, Justin. Don't worry. We're right up there in the same. Eventually cumulative.
3:48 Griffin McElroy? Let's, can we put the audio in? Do you still, are you still set up to do that, Juice? In Studio 2.0?
3:54 Travis McElroy? Uh.
3:55 Griffin McElroy? To pipe in the audio of the Man vs. Baby trailer? I don't know if we're allowed to do that, but I think it'll help it hit for the folks at home.
4:01 Travis McElroy? I mean, Rachel, I think what would be better is for us to watch it silently. If we sync it and then Rachel can layer on that audio later if need be.
4:10 Griffin McElroy? I would like to talk.
4:11 Travis McElroy? An indelible part of the recording.
4:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay. We, as long as we talk of, Fairy U says we gotta transform it. We can't just play two minutes and three seconds of Rowan fucking ripping.
4:21 Travis McElroy? What if it transforms us? Is that still transformative if it transforms us?
4:26 Griffin McElroy? Yes. Yes, absolutely it is. So let's just get that shit ready at zero, zero.
4:31 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I'm right there.
4:32 Griffin McElroy? Get those captions on, volume down, so we can have like a conversation while it's happening and transforming.
4:36 Travis McElroy? Can we just, can I pop this? You guys want me to pop this? up in the
4:41 Griffin McElroy? Oh, in the Riverside.
4:41 Travis McElroy? Riverside. Just so we can get a little bit of.
4:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Can you full screen that for me? I need every pixel, please, daddy. Every pixel, dad.
4:49 Travis McElroy? I'd rather. You know what?
4:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:53 Travis McElroy? Can't. What's the law on a fourth heat that is just a a still image of Rowan Atkinson? Isn't it weird? Our near, our near fourth host. I feel like that fourth heat that we needed.
5:06 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:06 Travis McElroy? Was Rowan Atkinson.
5:07 Griffin McElroy? You can't, you can't fucking trademark a picture. So we can definitely in all of our videos from now on.
5:13 Travis McElroy? Don't worry about the Netflix logo in the corner. That's gonna be.
5:16 Griffin McElroy? Get that out of, put a smaller video of Rowan making a different face over the Netflix logo and just keep him in all our clips for the near. It'll be like how they put Subway surfers in like TikToks if they want you to really pay attention. People will think our shit is funnier if there's a picture, picture of Rowan Atkinson making the face.
5:33 Travis McElroy? The more I look at this, the more I'm starting to see messages in his furrowed brow. So if we can please.
5:38 Griffin McElroy? You can't, you can't do that. Don't do that. I know. Don't do that. I'm so fucking psyched, dude.
5:43 Travis McElroy? You ready?
5:44 Griffin McElroy? Are we gonna be able to hear it?
5:45 Travis McElroy? I don't know.
5:46 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
5:46 Travis McElroy? I'll hear it.
5:47 Griffin McElroy? Okay, great.
5:47 Travis McElroy? Let me say that.
5:47 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
5:48 Travis McElroy? I'll hear it for sure.
5:53 Griffin McElroy? Hello? Sorry to bother you, sir. We're making inquiries about a missing baby. Jesus Christ.
5:57 Speaker 01 A baby, a misplaced baby. What do you mean, dad? What are you doing, Trevor?
6:03 Speaker 05 It's a bit of a long story.
6:04 Griffin McElroy? That baby just flew in the window and tackled Rowan Atkinson.
6:08 Travis McElroy? Don't do this.
6:08 Griffin McElroy? Don't flip babies in the front seat of a car? Jesus Christ.
6:13 Travis McElroy? They love that.
6:14 Speaker 05 So the name's Mr. Bin? Is that correct? Well, it's Bin and then Glee. Got it.
6:20 Griffin McElroy? Bing Lee?
6:21 Speaker 05 Bin's your first name, Mr. Glee.
6:23 Griffin McElroy? Bing Lee? He hung up on the police officer helping him find a home for this baby.
6:28 Travis McElroy? I think with the baby already there, it's too late for it.
6:33 Speaker 01 We are naturally looking for a highly responsible individual.
6:36 Griffin McElroy? He's got a baby. He has a baby in his backpack.
6:39 Travis McElroy? He's got a baby in his backpack. So he's brought a second baby in.
6:43 Speaker 05 Sorry.
6:45 Travis McElroy? This Christmas. He reminds me a lot of Mr. Bean if I think about it.
6:50 Griffin McElroy? It's so sinister.
6:52 Travis McElroy? He's got the baby prisoner, the baby sucking on a wine fork. This is good.
6:57 Travis McElroy? Oh goodness.
6:58 Speaker 05 This is an emergency. We have a missing infant.
7:01 Speaker 01 Which baby is this?
7:03 Travis McElroy? This man is a criminal.
7:09 Speaker 01 Trevor?
7:11 Speaker 05 No.
7:12 Speaker 01 I'm afraid we have a problem.
7:15 Griffin McElroy? Second baby.
7:16 Travis McElroy? There's a second. A second baby has hit the trailer, Mr. President. Mr. President, a second baby has appeared in the movie.
7:22 Speaker 05 Oh, about three months.
7:24 Speaker 01 He's huge for three months.
7:27 Speaker 05 Well, you should see his mother.
7:29 Travis McElroy? Huh.
7:31 Travis McElroy? Oh, boy. He's.
7:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, Rowan, we don't joke like that anymore. Yeah, the reason that that joke didn't land with those three women you met in the park, Rowan, is that that thing doesn't really fly so much anymore.
7:43 Travis McElroy? That's actually kick ass, though, but that's the joke they ended the trailer on. They ended the tra- not a lot of people have the guts to end a trailer on video of a joke not hitting.
7:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
7:52 Travis McElroy? Like, just bombing. I would like to highlight two, but exactly the same kind of moments in that trailer. That's good. That's good. One, when he says his name and when he says Plan B, do you think that's for the man versus bee heads to be like, "Bingley's back!" And then like, "They said B!"
8:11 Griffin McElroy? Okay, so, so, so, it's, it's like Plan B E E, which is, I'm going to term, I'm going to eliminate the threat, which is, this time a baby, not a lot, not gonna win a ton of fans with that.
8:24 Travis McElroy? Oh dudes, what if the baby is like, incorrigible, right? He can't get the baby to behave.
8:31 Griffin McElroy? Seems like a real shit, yeah.
8:32 Travis McElroy? It seems like a real shit. Like, "Time for Plan B," he calls in the bee.
8:37 Griffin McElroy? The bee, to fuck up the baby.
8:39 Travis McElroy? He gets the bee to babysit the baby, you know, like the baby. My takeaway from that trailer, the baby seemed like a non-factor.
8:49 Griffin McElroy? There was a clip.
8:50 Travis McElroy? There were takeaways from that trailer, because if you take away more than even a little bit, there's not going to be anything there.
8:56 Griffin McElroy? I mean, that was.
8:57 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's fair. I just think Trevor Bingley is a monster.
9:00 Griffin McElroy? He's bad. He kidnaps a baby and then decides he's going to keep doing his house-sitting job.
9:05 Travis McElroy? You find out the circumstances, you will be ashamed of your words.
9:08 Travis McElroy? The circumstances, does that make sense of putting a champagne cork in a baby's mouth?
9:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, so that's the other thing that I really like about this trailer. And what's got me excited about this movie all over again. I worried with his opponent this time being an infant. They were going to really pull their punches in the versus department. No, in this one trailer, we are looking at a front seat, baby seat, passenger seat, baby seat. You simply don't and cannot.
9:32 Travis McElroy? Front-facing, yeah.
9:34 Griffin McElroy? 101 fucking shit, my dude. Two, drinks champagne, tucks the cork right in the baby's mouth? I don't think that's actually safety rated, actually.
9:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah, in a lot of ways.
9:44 Griffin McElroy? Stop, a backstop.
9:46 Travis McElroy? I don't think you guys were picking up on the plot. Oh. Because I was watching it and I was, here's, what I was getting was that was him from the past. And he is watching himself as a baby. This is what I was getting from the.
9:57 Griffin McElroy? Okay. So a little Russian doll, little Russian doll action.
10:01 Travis McElroy? Right. So he's watching himself as a baby. And the thing is, every time he makes a mistake.
10:07 Travis McElroy? Another baby happens?
10:09 Travis McElroy? With the baby, he, adult him, gets dumber.
10:14 Griffin McElroy? Every time, every time, okay, so yes, he makes a mistake with the baby and it makes him in real life dumber. Wouldn't that form a feedback loop that would eventually?
10:22 Travis McElroy? Dude, endless baby. That's what leads for the second baby.
10:26 Travis McElroy? Watch it all unravel. Like, yes, you're right, Griffin. It will be an endless feedback loop of fun.
10:32 Travis McElroy? And the second baby is created by that loop?
10:36 Travis McElroy? I wasn't getting. There's one, there's one moment at which he, he does something with the baby that causes him to do a teen pregnancy in his own life later.
10:48 Travis McElroy? When he's pregnant?
10:50 Travis McElroy? Where he is pregnant with himself. Getting pregnant with himself, but this is his second chance, right? To get it right.
10:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:57 Travis McElroy? Because he is done. He's done. He can't help that baby because every mistake he's made with that baby.
11:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
11:03 Travis McElroy? Is now revisited onto himself. There's no coming back from that.
11:07 Griffin McElroy? I'm, I'm so worried about the power curve of. This franchise, you guys, because man versus B already, it was like, wow, there's not many places left to go. This B really did a number on this human man. And then they announced man versus baby. I was like, okay, I could see that. That definitely seems like an escalation in the opponent. Where I don't think you can go anywhere except man versus babies in this, in this week. Well, where we're talking about every Rowan baby that comes out is a different. There's a Mr. Bean baby and a Johnny English baby. And the love actually salesman.
11:37 Travis McElroy? A black adder baby.
11:39 Griffin McElroy? Black adder baby.
11:41 Travis McElroy? This will be the plot of man versus God. God will come down to Trevor Bingley and he will look and beheld what Trevor Bingley has created.
11:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:50 Travis McElroy? Right. And he'll say, you've, you've gone too far.
11:54 Griffin McElroy? Who's playing God? Who's playing God?
11:55 Travis McElroy? Is it Rowan Atkinson?
11:57 Travis McElroy? Of course it's Rowan Atkinson.
11:59 Griffin McElroy? Okay, cool.
12:00 Travis McElroy? Just making sure.
12:02 Travis McElroy? That away in the trailer, Justin. Yeah. That's the twist.
12:05 Travis McElroy? You don't carry around a, a Swiss army knife and a little screwdriver.
12:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
12:10 Travis McElroy? You know?
12:10 Griffin McElroy? Good point.
12:11 Travis McElroy? Good point. I also.
12:12 Travis McElroy? Of course it's Rowan.
12:12 Travis McElroy? One more thing that just jumped out to me right in the first 10 seconds. The, um, quality of the video call with the police officer is so reminiscent of when Peewee's Playhouse used to do phone calls in the booth. With people. It does look like that.
12:29 Griffin McElroy? And listen.
12:29 Travis McElroy? Calling Dinah Shore's. Days of Christmas. We, my brother, my brother and me draw a hard line about using AI. Absolutely. But how else were they gonna get some kind of background to put behind this police officer?
12:44 Griffin McElroy? Fair dude.
12:45 Travis McElroy? Without burning down a couple acres of rainforest.
12:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
12:49 Travis McElroy? Worth it.
12:51 Griffin McElroy? I, I still, the Vegas odds are still heavily favoring man in this contest. Even after the trailer, I thought that there, we would see some change over on Giraffe Kings and the other big ones. And nothing, nothing so far. People are still saying, I didn't see it. Baby wasn't bringing a ton in this trailer that made me think he's going to win. And that Trevor Bingley will die, I guess, is the fail state.
13:17 Travis McElroy? It has to end on death. There also didn't seem to be. In Man vs. B, a through line of, um, police involvement. This man is a criminal, will be going to jail.
13:29 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
13:31 Travis McElroy? There seems to be a through line in this one of two different realities existing where Trevor Bingley's just on a romp with a baby. Meanwhile, everyone else is like, well.
13:41 Griffin McElroy? They'll play that for laughs for sure.
13:42 Travis McElroy? Crimes are being committed and this is very serious.
13:45 Travis McElroy? The trailer for this film got four million views in two days. If I'm the baby, I'm looking at that marquee and I know where I rank. You know what I mean? This is, this is me versus a franchise heavy hitter. This is me versus a darling of Netflix. Ask, ask La Chiffre, you know, ask Goldfinger.
14:03 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
14:04 Travis McElroy? Ask them how it pans out. Cause you know what happens at the end of it? They die.
14:09 Travis McElroy? Well, Justin, but you didn't see the baby die, did you?
14:14 Travis McElroy? Cause he's, cause he is Trevor Bingley. So that would be.
14:17 Griffin McElroy? That would be crazy.
14:18 Travis McElroy? That would be insane. You know, it'd be, it's like, the last thing that happens is he messes up so bad the baby dies, he dies. All reality winks out of existence. The paradox.
14:26 Griffin McElroy? Think.
14:27 Travis McElroy? And you see a little baby ham punch up through the ground and you're like, oh no.
14:31 Griffin McElroy? I don't think Netflix is gonna let a movie go on streamable where Rowan Atkinson har- even harms an infant. I don't think.
14:45 Travis McElroy? They put a cork in the baby's mouth. What are you talking about? They were one step away from putting.
14:49 Travis McElroy? Sickos in the door.
14:51 Travis McElroy? They were one step away from putting those little white frilly things on his feet like they do turkeys in cartoons.
14:57 Griffin McElroy? That's gonna be in there for sure, dude.
14:59 Travis McElroy? I think he shoots out of a dryer at one point.
15:02 Travis McElroy? I got my watch stuck in the baby.
15:04 Griffin McElroy? Oh man, at one point, you probably didn't pick up on this listener, if you're consuming the audio product. At one point, Rowan Atkinson is interviewing for a house setting job mid kidnapping and he has the baby just in a big backpack, not visible at, fully hidden, fully contained within the backpack.
15:22 Travis McElroy? Let's hope oxygenated.
15:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I hope so. The baby rips a huge fart and then the lady looks at him like, did you fart? And his instinct. Was hesitation instead of, I would immediately say, yes, I farted.
15:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
15:36 Griffin McElroy? Because the alternative is, there's a stolen baby in the backpack I'm wearing.
15:41 Travis McElroy? I guarantee.
15:42 Travis McElroy? You could say to say, I, yeah, I actually shit.
15:45 Griffin McElroy? I shit my pants bad.
15:47 Travis McElroy? And I like to go and dress it. You need to leave the room now.
15:49 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
15:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:50 Travis McElroy? You're, this is weird for you, not me.
15:52 Travis McElroy? I guarantee a hundred percent odds, one to one odds. Netflix has on file, already written up, fully drafted, a, actually, this was all a social experiment. That's what this movie was to figure out. Yeah, like, we didn't mean any of this, actually. Please don't be mad at us.
16:12 Travis McElroy? I would love to see Trevor Bingley join this table of Netflix reality dating stars.
16:16 Griffin McElroy? Holy.
16:16 Travis McElroy? If it's like perfect match and you get Trevor Bingley, like waddling in like.
16:20 Speaker 06 Because I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie.
16:24 Griffin McElroy? Yes, yes. I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie, is what he'd say?
16:28 Speaker 06 Take it up, please.
16:30 Griffin McElroy? You guys are doing Bean. You know that, right? That's not his standard.
16:33 Travis McElroy? Did you not watch the trailer, dude? It's like meditations on Bean, man.
16:37 Griffin McElroy? It's a little more sophisticated.
16:39 Travis McElroy? Moods of Bean.
16:40 Griffin McElroy? There's.
16:40 Travis McElroy? Well, without the removal of cartoonishness that allows you to believe he's not a monster.
16:46 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
16:46 Travis McElroy? That's what they did.
16:47 Griffin McElroy? I can't wait.
16:48 Travis McElroy? Birth of Bean. It could be like, he's raising Bean.
16:50 Travis McElroy? Man versus Bean. Fuck me running. Who wants to be a millionaire?
16:58 Griffin McElroy? We definitely made that joke.
16:59 Travis McElroy? Interviews.
17:00 Griffin McElroy? We had to.
17:00 Travis McElroy? I'm just saying, if he's raising an alternate reality, Trevor Bingley.
17:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:05 Travis McElroy? That baby's Bean.
17:07 Griffin McElroy? The baby could be Bean.
17:09 Travis McElroy? Griffin, if they don't want us to, if they don't want us to hear, if they don't want to hear us saying the same stuff, they should listen to different people, you know?
17:16 Griffin McElroy? True.
17:16 Travis McElroy? Listen to a different Man vs. Baby.
17:18 Griffin McElroy? This is episode 4911. We've said it, we've said everything at this point.
17:23 Travis McElroy? Listen, on here, here on Man vs. B, Man vs. Baby and me, we talk about Man vs. B, Man vs. Baby and us.
17:33 Griffin McElroy? Can we part the curtain a little bit and put the tiger on the table and yell at it?
17:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
17:37 Griffin McElroy? A little bit? It's a little exhausting making the amount of content that we make and then I get a genuine amount of real pleasure out of just watching the man versus baby trailer and talking about it with you guys.
17:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah.
17:52 Griffin McElroy? It's really nice to just kind of sit and do it. I get, I guess I get why the YouTube react thing is such a big deal. Cause like, it feels good to just kind of chill on it.
18:02 Travis McElroy? So this is actually what you're hitting on is kind of the crux of the whole internet. Oh. Everyone has discovered it is a lot more fun to just watch TV shows and talk about them like a hundred percent.
18:14 Griffin McElroy? A hundred.
18:15 Travis McElroy? We'd all like to be that kind of creator because that's awesome.
18:18 Griffin McElroy? The only better kind of creator you can be.
18:20 Travis McElroy? To fill a day.
18:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
18:22 Travis McElroy? Okay, that's like, that's like top five creators I wish that I have been instead of this, instead of what I am, which is just a man who has to husk it out five times a week down in the, in the comedy mines.
18:33 Griffin McElroy? Chucking chuckle nuts down the fucking basement.
18:35 Travis McElroy? My life experience for a guy. Here's the kind, here's the kind of creators I wish I had been.
18:39 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
18:39 Travis McElroy? I'll get started. Just as a thought starter.
18:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
18:41 Travis McElroy? Number one for me is, um, uh, and I want to mention to the listener, I'm saying this because what we do is really hard.
18:50 Griffin McElroy? And we're not going to change the things we do.
18:53 Travis McElroy? Right.
18:53 Griffin McElroy? So we want to complain about it.
18:55 Travis McElroy? We need you to know how hard we're working.
18:56 Griffin McElroy? But there's other things we could be doing that would be so much more chill to do.
19:00 Travis McElroy? Number one type of creator that I wish I had been is listen to a song that you've never heard before, but everybody else has heard and you really love the song. That would be.
19:14 Griffin McElroy? People love that shit dude.
19:15 Travis McElroy? The dream. Everybody's happy.
19:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:17 Travis McElroy? Everybody loves it. They're a little surprised you've never heard the song.
19:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:21 Travis McElroy? But when Bohemian, Bohemian Rhapsody hits.
19:25 Griffin McElroy? Bohemian.
19:25 Travis McElroy? When Bohemian Rhapsody hits.
19:27 Griffin McElroy? I like the video.
19:29 Travis McElroy? Loving it?
19:29 Travis McElroy? And you're going, oh, this is actually great. And everyone's like, great, I love this.
19:34 Griffin McElroy? I wanna, I wanna be an old.
19:36 Travis McElroy? You take it to your mom, you say, mom, they liked the old shit you like, look.
19:40 Griffin McElroy? I wanna be a.
19:40 Travis McElroy? Your mom's happy.
19:42 Griffin McElroy? I'll be an old orchestra conductor, sit down at his computer and listen to like one winged angel for the first time and be like, oh, this is good stuff. And everyone's just fucking.
19:51 Travis McElroy? They love it.
19:53 Griffin McElroy? Chill job, dude.
19:55 Travis McElroy? Yeah, here's the one I wanna do.
19:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
19:57 Travis McElroy? If I could be a creator, it's where they take fail clips, right? Or bad things happen and it cuts back to them and they're going, oh. And then it goes back to another clip and then it comes back to them and they're going.
20:07 Griffin McElroy? Oh, that would be so good. You don't even have to get hit in the nuts and the feet to do that, dude.
20:12 Travis McElroy? We did like, what if the only thing we did was try not to laugh compilation?
20:17 Travis McElroy? Oh, my god.
20:18 Griffin McElroy? Baby, that would be bad. I mean, it'd be bad, bad, bad, valueless. We wouldn't have a career, but like.
20:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, but. Imagine.
20:26 Griffin McElroy? Chill.
20:27 Travis McElroy? I like.
20:27 Travis McElroy? What about?
20:28 Griffin McElroy? Oh, man.
20:30 Travis McElroy? Is it too late to pivot to, sorry?
20:32 Griffin McElroy? Do you wanna, wait, no, do, what do you wanna pivot to?
20:34 Travis McElroy? Is it too late to pivot to finding stories other people have written about things that happened to them and then reading that out loud and going, whoa?
20:41 Griffin McElroy? I mean, I mean, I think that's all, it's all react. It's all react. React is what I wish.
20:47 Travis McElroy? Man, I, we, I just barely misreact.
20:50 Travis McElroy? I wish I'd done these games. Now, it seems hard what Mr. Beast.
20:54 Griffin McElroy? Travis would do it good. Like Travis would do it in a way that was good and affirming.
20:58 Travis McElroy? In a different era, Travis would have been an extremely ethical Mr. Beast.
21:03 Travis McElroy? Yes, Mr. Beauty I'd call myself.
21:05 Travis McElroy? Mr. Beauty.
21:06 Griffin McElroy? That was an SNL sketch this past weekend. We must, you don't have.
21:10 Travis McElroy? Are you kidding?
21:11 Griffin McElroy? We must tread lightly.
21:13 Travis McElroy? But I'd be Mr. Beauty. And I'd be nice about it.
21:17 Griffin McElroy? I do like that.
21:18 Travis McElroy? I, um, and my games, everybody get Lasik, even the losers. You don't have to land to get Lasik.
21:26 Travis McElroy? Everybody get Lasik.
21:26 Travis McElroy? Everybody get Lasik.
21:28 Travis McElroy? Hey, thanks for coming.
21:28 Travis McElroy? Even the crew.
21:30 Travis McElroy? Get Lasik.
21:31 Griffin McElroy? Get Lasik.
21:31 Travis McElroy? Wouldn't it be cool, wouldn't all reality TV be better if like at the end of Traitors you get revealed and like, step to the left if we locked some Lasiks. Get your way out.
21:40 Griffin McElroy? Alan does it.
21:41 Travis McElroy? Get some Lasik.
21:42 Griffin McElroy? Alan's got some fucking cool goggles he puts on you.
21:45 Travis McElroy? People are starting to get, they're probably starting to get a little worried that we're gonna do not, not do the show.
21:50 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:50 Travis McElroy? Cause sometimes we don't do the show, so we. Would like to begin the show.
21:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:54 Travis McElroy? If we may.
21:55 Griffin McElroy? We can't talk about how dope it would be to only do react content just from an ease of creation standpoint.
22:01 Travis McElroy? I've walked three brothers into a podcast where they're not allowed to do react content.
22:05 Griffin McElroy? Can't react.
22:06 Travis McElroy? The first brother who reacts to something is out of the circle and everything they can fit in the circle.
22:13 Griffin McElroy? Why would you have, I guess my question is, why would you have a different voice?
22:15 Travis McElroy? Pay for.
22:16 Griffin McElroy? If you were Mr. Beast, or Mr. Beauty, why would you have a different voice instead of just the voice you have? What would be so intrinsic to the?
22:22 Travis McElroy? I've forgotten what my own voice sounds like now.
22:25 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
22:25 Travis McElroy? I'm too deep in the character. Like he's forgotten what his own internal model of, that's how disconnected he is from his own self.
22:31 Griffin McElroy? Cool. Juice, has that little doll boy been in the corner of your frame the whole time or is it haunting?
22:37 Travis McElroy? What little doll boy? I don't see a little doll boy.
22:39 Griffin McElroy? Okay, let's do a question, please.
22:41 Travis McElroy? I'm a writer working on a novel and I've been going to a local coffee shop to write in order to keep myself from getting distracted at home. Thing is, I'm current, it's all in caps. So that's the best, that's my, does that feel right?
22:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, Justin's not mad at you. That's just how it was written.
22:57 Travis McElroy? Um, I am currently writing a particularly emotional section of my book and I keep crying. Like I'll just show up, cry big silent tears for two hours and then leave. How do I make it so that I am not frightened slash upset strangers, particularly regulars who have seen me do this for literal weeks?
23:14 Griffin McElroy? We're not going to make fun of your process. Crying in the cafe is the name you've chosen. Cause I think that's incredible. I would love to make.
23:22 Travis McElroy? Great. That's so brave. Yeah, it's brave to be so invested in one's own art.
23:27 Griffin McElroy? That you, it make you cry or makes you feel um, like writing a horror story and like you get like scared of it? Like that's cool. So like.
23:37 Travis McElroy? I'll, I want to start by saying I have bad news. You've become extremely distracted. Question asker. Uh, you have become extremely distracted. At the coffee shop, your plan of avoiding distractions has been so completely foiled that you've been distracted to the point where you're emailing us rather than writing your book. So that on this, on the, I said, the experiment has ended.
24:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:00 Travis McElroy? The coffee shop is not a distraction free environment. Can we start with that?
24:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, no, but it's nice to go to a coffee shop and
24:07 Travis McElroy? I love the idea of it.
24:08 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, on tour, last time we were on tour, I went to a coffee shop because I needed to finish prepping some test stuff. And I sat down at the table and I was like, I'm hungry. I'm ordering some food. I got an omelet. You know what that omelet came with? A giant leafy green salad with not much stuff going on in it. And now, guys, I'm in a salad prison because I can't go. I'm working here. I'm working here and people are looking at me working and they're also looking at me not eating this salad. It's tricky when you go to a cafe. It's gotta be a discreet joint.
24:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
24:36 Griffin McElroy? With no salad.
24:37 Travis McElroy? When we were kids and we went to church because, well, I don't know what else are you gonna do? Your parents drove you there. Um, I
24:45 Griffin McElroy? Wednesday and Sunday.
24:47 Travis McElroy? Wednesday or end or Sunday. I would yawn real big and it would make my eyes tear up. And I would become so worried that someone would see the tears rolling down my face from yawning too big and think, wow, Travis is having a really powerful, uh, religious experience right now. And they wouldn't know that, no, I just yawned. I'm not invested at all.
25:07 Griffin McElroy? You gotta be careful, man. You have a sneezing fit at the wrong time during service and you get a little teary eyed, people will be like, hell yeah, man, rededicate your whole life. And it's like, no, man, this is actually going to be one of those chill Sundays or Wednesdays where I come and I eat my Taco Bell and I go home and play Chrono Trigger. Thank you so much. I'm not ready for the whole
25:27 Travis McElroy? Maybe like a little QR code and printed on it says, yeah, I'm crying about my book again. Scan here to preorder.
25:33 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Shit, that's good. Use your, use your tears for juice.
25:36 Travis McElroy? And leave a tip for the artist at work.
25:39 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's getting a little, is it a separate QR code?
25:42 Griffin McElroy? I know that there's a lot-
25:44 Travis McElroy? Scan this third QR code to buy me a coffee.
25:46 Travis McElroy? No, that's a coffee code.
25:48 Travis McElroy? Coffee, I never know how to pronounce it.
25:50 Griffin McElroy? I love busking and buskers, but you don't see a lot-
25:53 Travis McElroy? And buskin bakery.
25:55 Griffin McElroy? And buskin Robbins, but you don't see a lot of writers out there, just like on their computer. And it's like, drop a penny in the slot and support my, do I get to read it? No, you are just watching the process, like you're watching the process.
26:10 Travis McElroy? Hey, isn't that what Patreon is?
26:12 Travis McElroy? No, it's digital, but like it's as you're passing the case, you chuck a five in-
26:18 Travis McElroy? And then they type on the computer.
26:20 Travis McElroy? And they're like, it was a dark and stormy night. You go on your way. See, like that's your sentence.
26:26 Griffin McElroy? I don't think you get it at the end. They shouldn't have give it to you at the end. You just get to watch some cool writing on the street.
26:31 Travis McElroy? Cause if I listen to someone else's song in the subway that they gave a dollar for, they're not gonna come after me. You know, like it's, it's not mine. I'm just like supporting the art.
26:39 Travis McElroy? They also don't then like write out that sheet music, hand it to you and erase it from their brain.
26:44 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, man. Get me out there on a, on a Wednesday afternoon, just kinda sitting and thinking with a guitar case open in front of me. And they'll be like, what are you doing? And it's like, I'm thinking of ideas.
26:54 Travis McElroy? I'm just like-
26:55 Griffin McElroy? I'm coming up with cool ideas for stuff.
26:57 Travis McElroy? But I can't think of an idea until you put a fiver in there. I'm like one of those robots that dances, only it's from creating.
27:02 Griffin McElroy? Watch me think. Um, I would not come up to you if you were crying at the coffee shop to check in, because there's a pretty good chance that you don't want that. And I would rather run afoul of that than provide some human comfort. And I realize that's a, makes me a very small person. So I think you are probably in a little bit less danger here than, than you assume. I don't know that you're gonna get a lot of interaction.
27:28 Travis McElroy? Worst case scenario, I see you there over the course of multiple days and I think that person is very thoroughly drafting a breakup letter.
27:35 Griffin McElroy? Oh, oh my god, yeah.
27:38 Travis McElroy? That's the assumption. A hundred percent. I might give them, if I saw someone- racked with sobs at a coffee shop. I think I would say, as I pass, I think I would say, would you like me to put my hand on your shoulder? And they would say yes or no. And then I'd go about my day. I think that's, that's what I would do.
27:57 Travis McElroy? I think that's a beautiful and simple, kind gesture, Justin.
28:00 Travis McElroy? Well, I have, I have some evidence of this. I was at a football game on my birthday. And there was a lady in front of me and she had a white hair, which is only notable because it made it extremely obvious when there was a giant spider on the back of her head. Like extremely obvious, extremely giant. It's one of those spiders where you see colors on it and you're like, I don't like this. You see colors and you're like, no, no, no, I don't like it.
28:27 Travis McElroy? So this isn't a hypothetical, Justin. You weren't saying, I noticed the white hair and thought, wow, if there was a spider on there, I'd really be able to see it. Okay.
28:34 Travis McElroy? And then Sydney passed me and she points at the spider. Whoa. Okay, guys, John Kinnear is.
28:42 Travis McElroy? Uh huh.
28:42 Griffin McElroy? Slap the spider out of the hair. If it's a, it could, it could be harmful, harmful. It could be poisonous. I would gently, I would use the, did you have a program?
28:51 Travis McElroy? You're thinking through it now and I want you to tell me on, I'm, I'm not taking what you're saying at face value yet because you are still doing the math.
28:58 Travis McElroy? Without even thinking.
28:58 Griffin McElroy? I would get it off the, I would get it off. They couldn't be mad at me for flicking their hair. If there was a spider in their hair, that would be a huge, there's a hundred times out of a hundred, I say, thank you for doing that to me. I'm going to do that for a stranger.
29:10 Travis McElroy? I'm, I was pressing you.
29:11 Travis McElroy? You effectively removed it, Griffin. Cause if I flick and I watch the spider hide and I'm like, hey, yeah, I flick, it's still there.
29:21 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:21 Travis McElroy? There is, okay. So I wanted, I was pressing because I want to see what you two normal dudes would do. Cause Sydney thought what I did was incorrect. So I just wanted to see what you guys thought before I told you is that I tapped her on the shoulder and I said, excuse me, ma'am. I, there is, I don't. Want to alarm you, but there's a spider in your hair and I am about to grab it out. And she said, oh God, then I grabbed it out like a, just like a quick.
29:45 Griffin McElroy? Awesome. Fuck yeah, dude. Awesome.
29:47 Travis McElroy? Quick sash. But then her husband goes, ah, I don't know why he was scared, but he was really scared.
29:53 Griffin McElroy? I mean, if someone came up behind my wife and went like that in her hair, I would probably yell, cause I think.
29:57 Travis McElroy? No one did that. Someone came up to his wife and said, excuse me, ma'am. I don't want to alarm you, but there's a spider in your hair and I'm about to grab it out.
30:05 Travis McElroy? Justin, what I love about this is your approach and delivery seems like this is your job. That you go throughout the stadium and say, ah, excuse me, there's a spider in your hair. If I could just, there you go. Thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of the game. And then you move on.
30:23 Travis McElroy? It is, I, it is my job, Travis, because I'm a human being.
30:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
30:26 Travis McElroy? Beautiful. I think that's what we owe each other. That at least is picking spiders out of our hair.
30:31 Griffin McElroy? I think thundering herd kicker Lorcan Quinn wasn't the only one splitting the uprights that day, Juice. I think you found the perfect exit from that situation and you did extremely well.
30:41 Travis McElroy? Lorcan had a, had a pull a fake putt this week, guys.
30:44 Griffin McElroy? God dang.
30:44 Travis McElroy? Ass. I love it. I think if you're in college sports, you should have to do one fake play per like half.
30:51 Griffin McElroy? Game.
30:52 Travis McElroy? One play per half. Like you have to. The stakes aren't that high. It's fun.
30:57 Travis McElroy? There should also be, as long as we're talking about it.
30:59 Travis McElroy? Kicks? Ah, please.
31:00 Travis McElroy? In college sports, there should be required one of those weird, a bunch of lateral and backward passes.
31:06 Travis McElroy? Oh, I love that.
31:07 Travis McElroy? The thing going.
31:08 Travis McElroy? A little crazy.
31:08 Travis McElroy? And you never know when it's coming.
31:10 Travis McElroy? Oh guys, this is even the better. I didn't even tell you the best part. Guess who was there? West Virginia Governor Patrick Boardsey.
31:17 Griffin McElroy? Whoa, dude.
31:18 Travis McElroy? Was there at the game. And guys, better than this, he came up our aisle.
31:22 Griffin McElroy? Whoa.
31:23 Travis McElroy? The man was 10 feet from me, guys.
31:24 Travis McElroy? And he put a spider in this old lady's hair.
31:27 Travis McElroy? No, but I was feeling very cocksure about that when I announced, everyone boo this carpet bagger.
31:33 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
31:34 Travis McElroy? And then we all got a little bit of a boo going for Patrick Morrissey and I got to yell, "You stink," right to his face.
31:40 Griffin McElroy? Happy birthday!
31:41 Travis McElroy? Anybody else on the whole planet. And I got to tell him how much he sucks right to his face.
31:45 Griffin McElroy? What a good birthday present.
31:47 Travis McElroy? I get sports, I think.
31:48 Griffin McElroy? Well, I will say I've been to sports stuff. I've never gotten to yell at a like-
31:52 Travis McElroy? Between that and the spider, though, I get the appeal.
31:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, no, for sure. Um, this is a huge change for you, Juice.
32:00 Travis McElroy? Powerful.
32:00 Griffin McElroy? You're really stepping into your power and-
32:02 Travis McElroy? Yeah, thanks, man. You want to hear another question or should we just take a break?
32:04 Griffin McElroy? We should probably take a break.
32:15 Travis McElroy? Squarespace.
32:16 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
32:18 Travis McElroy? Listen-
32:18 Griffin McElroy? Let's give, let's give, let's give this one a little, we got Squarespace and Rocket Money in the zone today. Let's like, I don't know, make it special. It's felt a little bit like we've been-
32:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
32:30 Griffin McElroy? Kind of giving them the same lip service, same treatment.
32:33 Travis McElroy? Let's talk for a few minutes about Squarespace. Let's really give them their money's worth this time.
32:36 Travis McElroy? An idea is a seed.
32:39 Griffin McElroy? No, we've done this almost certainly. I want to get fucking weird, dude. I want to get weird, dude.
32:44 Travis McElroy? An idea is a thought that can turn into a dream. A dream that can turn into a plan. A plan that turns into a series of executables. Deliverables. And one of those deliverables-
32:59 Travis McElroy? You're making it sound-
33:00 Griffin McElroy? You're making it sound bad. And I want it to sound fun and cool and weird. Twisted.
33:05 Travis McElroy? What up, perverts? Do you like websites?
33:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Do you like, do you like websites and, uh, you know, code, HTML? I don't know if they do HTML.
33:17 Travis McElroy? What up, Chodes? What up, Code Chodes?
33:19 Travis McElroy? I don't think Code Chodes is bad.
33:22 Travis McElroy? Okay, great. Good, good, good, good.
33:26 Griffin McElroy? He thought Code Chodes was gonna be bad until the end of that sentence. And then he decided that Code Chodes is bad. Okay, so now we got, now we got a sort of like, fucking, welcome to the man cave. Time for Squarespace Code Chodes. This is cool and they'll like it and they will like it.
33:41 Travis McElroy? That's good because we have offer codes and it's like a website and stuff. So it works on multiple levels.
33:46 Griffin McElroy? And the, the offer code for Squarespace is still my brother and it's, it's a great code, but we may be able to get them to swap it to Code Chodes.
33:53 Travis McElroy? Or they may be able to swap their money that they give us.
33:57 Griffin McElroy? They're patronizing of us to know.
33:59 Travis McElroy? They might do that swap instead.
34:00 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Um, we joke because we care, because we love, because we use Squarespace and have used Squarespace. It's just the fucking one you do. If it seems like-
34:10 Travis McElroy? It's just the one you do.
34:11 Griffin McElroy? It's just the one you do. If it seems like we're really phoning these in, it's because it's the one you do. When you make a website, basically to us, it's the one that you do and you don't think about it. You just do it.
34:22 Travis McElroy? Hey Griffin, we actually, I just got an emergency email from Squarespace. They love Code Chodes.
34:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
34:28 Travis McElroy? They hate that you use the phrase phoning it in, in the middle of their app.
34:33 Griffin McElroy? Well, I mean, they're not phoning it in. They turn in a great product, uh, day in, day out. But when we come to you and we don't bring this nasty boy energy, yeah, I think we could be serving them better, Code Chodes.
34:45 Travis McElroy? Thank you, Griffin. And thank you for continuing to say Code Chodes despite our pleas. I really appreciate that.
34:50 Griffin McElroy? It's just the one you do.
34:51 Travis McElroy? We're making private pleas via text message that he, that he changes ways, but there's is-
34:56 Griffin McElroy? You can make your website do whatever and run a whole business and get, and get paid through it.
35:01 Travis McElroy? The websites look good.
35:02 Griffin McElroy? It looks good and it's easy and it's, why would you do fucking anything else?
35:06 Travis McElroy? There's a reason, there's a reason that every scam artist at least has a website.
35:09 Griffin McElroy? Come on.
35:10 Travis McElroy? They make you look really professional and you, with the Squarespace tools, you can make them look even better than that.
35:18 Griffin McElroy? I would cut out what Justin just said.
35:20 Travis McElroy? I don't think that was in there.
35:21 Griffin McElroy? I don't think that was in there, but.
35:24 Travis McElroy? Head to Squarespace.com slash my brother for a free trial.
35:29 Travis McElroy? For now, it's my brother.
35:31 Travis McElroy? For now, for now, for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code my brother to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Okay, to be real, they've been supporting us for so long. I don't know what we'll do if they stop. If you need to make a website for Christ's sake.
35:46 Travis McElroy? For Christ's sake.
35:47 Travis McElroy? Just go make one with that code for God's sake. Please, if you've never done it, just go shit out something. Please with that code.
35:56 Griffin McElroy? We can come up with like, let's come up with 10 really quick website ideas for people to use and then they can just like make those and use our promo code and just like do it real quick before. Cause we will get.
36:05 Travis McElroy? Codecho.gov, codecho.biz.
36:08 Travis McElroy? Web.
36:09 Travis McElroy? Codecho's dot family, not that one.
36:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
36:11 Travis McElroy? Codecho's.net.
36:13 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, Codecho's can be like a community of people who like to code just like little, little lines.
36:18 Travis McElroy? See how many, see how, see how bereft we could make the codecho's dot domain. Just anything codecho's dot anything.
36:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
36:26 Travis McElroy? With a Squarespace website, please just do it one time for us. Thank you.
36:31 Travis McElroy? What was that?
36:32 Travis McElroy? Blasting off to savings, Trav.
36:34 Travis McElroy? Whoa.
36:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah, get in the rocket with me.
36:37 Travis McElroy? Castronauts.
36:39 Travis McElroy? Castronauts. I love that. Why are we talking about rocket money, Trav?
36:43 Travis McElroy? So you can get castrated with rocket money.
36:46 Travis McElroy? I think.
36:47 Travis McElroy? Well, I just got a fax from them. They hated it.
36:50 Griffin McElroy? We have to do better. We have to do better.
36:53 Travis McElroy? Cause Griffin actually gave us a call, a charge to do better.
36:56 Griffin McElroy? We must do better.
36:57 Travis McElroy? No, but you're a castronaut, you get castrated because they are keeping your cash in your pocket. Where it belongs.
37:06 Griffin McElroy? You can keep explaining it. It doesn't make the word not bad.
37:09 Travis McElroy? Though it's like sticks in your head a little bit, doesn't it, Griff?
37:11 Griffin McElroy? Um, a little bit. Um, so Rocket Money is an app and when I use it, I'll share my personal experience, lead with that. When I use Rocket Money, I turn it on and all of a sudden I am confronted with five to six. Uh, announcements that I have been paying six nine, six ninety-nine a week for games like Goop Man 3D. Or, um, uh,
37:38 Travis McElroy? Hairstar.
37:38 Griffin McElroy? Fidget Slime Relax, or Hairstar, or Plink, Plinko Blinko. And that's a suite of-
37:47 Travis McElroy? Mr. B's Toilet Boys.
37:48 Griffin McElroy? Skippy's Toilet Boys. We're talking about-
37:50 Travis McElroy? Skibidi Investments.
37:52 Griffin McElroy? We're talking about Panda Pop. Yay. And that one's twenty-five dollars a day. And Rocket Money's like-
37:58 Travis McElroy? And you got it just so your kids would be quiet for a second.
38:01 Griffin McElroy? So your kid would chill for like a second and then you're like, I'll remember. And you never have. But you do have this app called Rocket Money. That is your absolute number one primetime road dog. Cause he will come at you and he'll be like, you're still paying for Goop Man? And I'll be like, god damn, you're right.
38:18 Travis McElroy? Right.
38:18 Griffin McElroy? That's, he putting money right back in my pocket. That's, that's Rocket Money.
38:23 Travis McElroy? So if you get hit with savings cravings, then you want to go to Rocket Money. Because Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings, coaches. Rocket Money has saved-
38:39 Griffin McElroy? No, don't cross pollinate. No, they don't. Rocket Money has saved users over two point five billion dollars. Including eight hundred and eighty million dollars in canceled subscriptions alone. Their ten million members save up to seven hundred and forty dollars a year when they use all the app's premium features.
38:53 Travis McElroy? So Investicles, cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to rocketmoney.com slash mybrother today. That's rocketmoney.com slash mybrother. Rocketmoney.com slash mybrother.
39:09 Griffin McElroy? I needed that. I needed that long to know how I felt about Investicles.
39:13 Travis McElroy? And Lego, if you're listening, I'm willing to license Investicles for like a new kind of finance bro toy you want to make.
39:21 Griffin McElroy? Yes, dude. Oh my god. I would absolutely kill for like, they could be like little bionicles.
39:28 Travis McElroy? But they're worth money over time.
39:30 Griffin McElroy? Little business bionicles.
39:32 Travis McElroy? On their back and they're like, time in the market beats timing the market, except beats by a laser sword. And then it's like, yeah.
39:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
39:45 Travis McElroy? Da la la la la.
39:46 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
39:47 Travis McElroy? Da la la la la.
39:49 Griffin McElroy? Why?
39:50 Travis McElroy? Little little I wanna much.
39:54 Griffin McElroy? Squad.
39:56 Travis McElroy? I wanna much squad.
40:02 Travis McElroy? Welcome to Munch Squad. It is a podcast within a podcast profiling latest and greatest brand eating. I have a few briefs I'd like to bring to your attention. Number one is the Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie. I heard about it from a lot of folks and I would file this one and I just want to say, yeah, okay, I saw it. I get it.
40:25 Griffin McElroy? It's a joke, right?
40:26 Travis McElroy? It's like the color. It's the color.
40:28 Travis McElroy? No, it's not a joke. They just made such a limited amount. They're really hard to get. And Slice tries so hard to get me one. There's a guy on Facebook Marketplace trying to charge a hundred bucks for these frigging things.
40:40 Griffin McElroy? What?
40:41 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Friendsgiving isn't just a holiday. It's a cultural loophole. A break in the calendar where creativity is encouraged.
40:47 Griffin McElroy? I don't like that at all.
40:48 Travis McElroy? Get tossed in the most surprising dish takes a spotlight. That's why after years of fan obsession, Taco Bell is finally dropping a dish made for this moment. Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie. When nothing means anything, pie can be whatever fuck. That's what it says here.
41:01 Griffin McElroy? It says it and syntactically it's like doesn't work, but.
41:05 Travis McElroy? It does. It actually tracks that a company that thinks Friendsgiving can be quantified as a cultural loophole.
41:12 Griffin McElroy? Really, really, really sinister language, like hugely, hugely sinister.
41:16 Travis McElroy? So, yeah, this was teased back in 2024 and I'm, I'm just not giving it a bunch of time because I hate, I hate this like capitalization on these great dreams.
41:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:27 Travis McElroy? And then not everybody gets to try the dream.
41:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:30 Travis McElroy? If you're gonna do it.
41:31 Travis McElroy? Try the dream.
41:32 Travis McElroy? Have the courage of your conviction to put it in multiple stores. And frankly, if you're not selling the Baja Blast Pie in West Virginia, what is your market?
41:42 Travis McElroy? What are you doing?
41:42 Travis McElroy? Where do you think your market is?
41:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
41:45 Travis McElroy? What? You need that corn syrup somewhere else? Doubt it.
41:48 Griffin McElroy? The.
41:49 Travis McElroy? We need it here.
41:50 Griffin McElroy? The shade. Of this pie, the, the, the hue of the pie is truly,
42:00 Travis McElroy? It is.
42:01 Griffin McElroy? A retro, retro sort of refrigerator pistachio, like neon staccio.
42:08 Travis McElroy? Oh, my God.
42:10 Griffin McElroy? There's simply no way that they were able to get these pies out to all of the different Taco Bell locations and have them end up looking like that.
42:19 Travis McElroy? Speaking of, speaking of Taco Bell conspiracy, when Slice asked the one over in Connecticut Park, you know how there's a Taco Bell in Connecticut Park?
42:26 Travis McElroy? Of course.
42:26 Travis McElroy? He asked there and the lady said, no, we, we ran out of those so fast, but they were so good and went on to tell them how delicious they were.
42:34 Griffin McElroy? Hmm. That sounds a little suspicious.
42:36 Travis McElroy? How did you get one? Oh, did you maybe like take advantage of your position of privilege?
42:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
42:41 Travis McElroy? A little bit, maybe? God, and then bragging about it? Sheesh. Taco Bell employees used to have ethics, you know?
42:50 Travis McElroy? It used to mean something.
42:51 Travis McElroy? It used to mean something. They used to put, I mean, they used to put a lot of love and care into it. Now they're eating the pie before you can have it.
42:57 Travis McElroy? Now it's just about the money.
42:59 Travis McElroy? It's just about the money. I want to talk about Hardee's because they're doing something dumber. Oh, Hardee's is hosting a Tenderbender lock-in featuring.
43:07 Travis McElroy? What?
43:08 Travis McElroy? If it's a Tenderbender lock-in featuring streamer Duke Dennis and Banana Ball players for an epic night of chicken and challenges.
43:15 Travis McElroy? Oh, no.
43:16 Travis McElroy? Our forefathers just exploded. Headline. That's something everyone can enjoy.
43:22 Griffin McElroy? That's good. I think, I think there is a haiku in there somewhere.
43:27 Travis McElroy? Yeah. It's Tenderbender Tuesday on November 18th, which is, which was also our mom's birthday. I think she would have really appreciated that.
43:34 Griffin McElroy? For sure, man.
43:35 Travis McElroy? Hardee's is cranking up the excitement for Tenderbender Tuesday with the first ever Tenderbender lock-in, an exclusive event starting at 7:00 PM on November 18th, featuring American YouTuber, Twitch streamer and social media personality Duke Dennis and Alex Ziegler, Kyle KJ Jackson, Dalton Mulblin and Dakota Bladetron, Sandy Amber, Abby Samerson, Sammy Anderson, Sandy Amber, Abby Samerson, a view of America's favorite.
44:08 Travis McElroy? Banana ball players during the lock in the stars will face off in friendly competitions, share behind the scenes moments and celebrate all things.
44:19 Griffin McElroy? Hand breaded chicken.
44:20 Travis McElroy? Amazing. Replace hand breaded chicken with the love of Jesus Christ. And this is. Celebrate the Lord, celebrate the love of our Savior, Jesus and his blessed redeemer.
44:33 Griffin McElroy? Slam infinite tenders with these very funny baseball players. And also, um, you're gonna watch heaven is for real and it's gonna be, you're not gonna get a great night's sleep.
44:44 Travis McElroy? Hey, have you guys read a case for Christ? It makes a lot of sense.
44:49 Griffin McElroy? Answers a lot of questions.
44:52 Travis McElroy? Uh, the tender bender lock in promises viral worthy challenges, online fan engagement, and the ultimate after hours chicken feast. Fans can follow along in real time on Hardy's social channels and enter to win exclusive prizes, such as autographed memorabilia. I hope it's signed chicken tenders. That would be cool. For details on how to participate and tune in, you can go to youtube.com slash at Hardy's. We're bringing together flavor, fun, and fandom in a way that only Hardy's can, said Sarah Braymeyer, Hardy's brand vice president. With our new tender bender Tuesdays in this one of a kind lock in event,
45:32 Travis McElroy? we're inviting everyone to be part of the goodness and the juicy hand breaded chicken that Hardy's is famous for. But like, you keep saying tender bender, Justin. And I feel that they got excited that those two words rhymed and didn't think about the implications that that's like, um, somebody being like, I haven't seen Todd in three days. And be like, yeah, man, he went on a real tender bender. He was on a tender bender and he actually died.
45:59 Griffin McElroy? He died.
46:00 Travis McElroy? His kids are all friends now because his wife actually went on a tender bender a few months ago. It's all very sad.
46:05 Griffin McElroy? We're three graphs into this press release. And I really need within the next like one paragraph for some rules. Vis a vis the lock in to be established. Am I allowed to go?
46:20 Travis McElroy? Duke Dennis has you with his quote. Duke Dennis added, I'm looking forward to having a good time and watching the tender bender competition go down. This will be good vibes and good food.
46:33 Griffin McElroy? Awesome. But if I get a call from my kid's school. Am I allowed to leave the lock? Like, I need to know if I can leave or if I'm stuck here because I'm honestly getting a little bit panicked right now.
46:44 Travis McElroy? We have no, they haven't even said how long the lock-in is gonna be, have they? It starts at seven, when's it end?
46:51 Travis McElroy? So, the tender bender celebrates going all in on hand-breaded chicken tenders.
46:56 Travis McElroy? Oh, no way.
46:57 Travis McElroy? TM there, yeah, especially with this unbeatable BOGO deal. It captures the spirit of indulging in craveable food and rewarding loyal guests.
47:06 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
47:06 Travis McElroy? So they captured both of those spirits in one promotion, guys. I think you're getting too hung up on the details.
47:11 Griffin McElroy? But have they captured me? Am I allowed to leave the Hardee's?
47:15 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I think the only people who are being locked in are the banana ball players.
47:19 Travis McElroy? And then we're, I think, we're watching them in captivity from a live stream.
47:23 Travis McElroy? With the chicken tenders.
47:24 Travis McElroy? And they don't get to leave until they've eaten all the tenders, I think?
47:29 Travis McElroy? They actually explain, guys, what, okay, here, this is what you were looking for. Each premium, all white meat chicken strip is hand dipped in buttermilk and then lightly breaded.
47:39 Travis McElroy? No, I know that part. I know Jocelyn, I know what a chicken tender is.
47:42 Griffin McElroy? Let him finish the paragraph.
47:43 Travis McElroy? No, he's, it's fair. Let me scan ahead. The tenders, okay. The tender crispy juiciness is enjoyed with a choice of dipping sauce, which pairs well with other craveable menu items. It's natural.
47:53 Travis McElroy? Are they locked in a Hardee's?
47:55 Griffin McElroy? Am I being detained?
47:56 Travis McElroy? Like an apple turnover.
47:57 Griffin McElroy? Am I being detained?
47:59 Travis McElroy? Guys, I'm, I'm, I'm almost there. I just, exclusive to Hardee's, my rewards members. This BOGO deal can be redeemed on Tuesdays, participating locations will be the Fridays. Website or the store member QR code.
48:10 Travis McElroy? What happens if a baseball game occurs during this time?
48:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I think they're prisoners.
48:16 Griffin McElroy? I am someone's emergency contact. I can't be held prisoner by Hardy, the Hardee's Corporation, until I eat enough chicken tenders to find the key.
48:25 Travis McElroy? If I'm watching it, can I call in a wellness check?
48:30 Griffin McElroy? I think, yeah, wait, hold on, yeah. Is there a sort of utopia thing happening where people are watching me have to eat enough?
48:37 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I agree. They're sharing, during the lock-in, the stairs, the stars will face off in stairs in friendly competition, share behind the scenes moments and celebrate all things hand-breaded chicken. So they're gonna, I mean, it's gonna be like, I mean, it promises viral worthy challenges, online fan engagement and the ultimate after hours chicken feast. So like, they're Trapped in a chicken sort of tontine. And then we watch to see who makes it out alive. I think is the gag.
49:07 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. And that's what makes it the ultimate chicken eating.
49:11 Travis McElroy? Well, because we'll never have another one.
49:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
49:13 Travis McElroy? So this, yeah, what they'll do is after this Hardee's, after this event is done, the lock-in is done. They're going to brick over the doors like in Casco and Montalato. They're gonna, they're gonna lock dude Dennis and all these banana players inside. And then they just have to make NBA 2K gameplay videos the rest of their lives. Just trapped in this eating chicken tenders.
49:33 Griffin McElroy? The site will be irradiated with a kind of spirit energy that will not be. You don't want to build anything on top of that. You can't raise that Hardee's to the ground because so much shit will have happened there in the, in the tinderbox.
49:46 Travis McElroy? So you can get, you can like get a deal while they're trapped. So this is the thing that I think is like, while they're imprisoned. You can scan a QR code and maybe they're like holding the QR code up like not Penny's boat. It's like.
50:04 Griffin McElroy? Please.
50:07 Griffin McElroy? Sacrificing.
50:08 Travis McElroy? Free us. If you stand this. Only 400,000 more tenders when we can leave.
50:14 Griffin McElroy? That's it. When you use the code, you get some of their tenders. You are sharing the, you are sharing the, the burden of tenders of the tender bender with them. That's beautiful.
50:25 Travis McElroy? That's beautiful.
50:26 Griffin McElroy? That's actually beautiful.
50:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah. So you're helping to carry the load like for everyone you eat. Yeah, that's one less that they have to.
50:34 Travis McElroy? You get a little closer to freedom.
50:36 Griffin McElroy? You gotta stop announcing shit, gang, without explaining how it's gonna work. It drives me absolutely batty when these companies announce some wild shit. And don't even think to put in some of the brass tacks sort of rules and regulations.
50:52 Travis McElroy? I don't even know if other people will be there or not.
50:56 Griffin McElroy? I don't know if any, yeah, is it just gonna be the baseball players in the streamer? Is that it?
51:00 Travis McElroy? They know each other beforehand?
51:01 Griffin McElroy? Cause that's banana ball players. Banana ball, I apologize, banana ball players.
51:06 Travis McElroy? We've trapped an entire banana baseball team with one streamer and 100 million chicken tenders. Watch as they eat them for an unspecified amount of time, for an unspecified reason, and for an unspecified goal. And at the end, I'll buy whatever's in the circle.
51:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
51:27 Travis McElroy? That's kind of the only part I know.
51:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
51:29 Travis McElroy? About his whole year. Always a prominent fixture. That people put stuff in a circle in a certain amount of time. And however much they can get. He'll buy it. And people are trapped in a place.
51:41 Griffin McElroy? They make them a little piss and hole. I know that's always part of it.
51:45 Travis McElroy? Do they have to buy the piss if the piss is in the circle?
51:47 Griffin McElroy? No, the piss is under the circle because it's in a hole.
51:51 Travis McElroy? Anything below the circle is your problem. Oh, hey, talk about kinds of creators. Gives people lots of money would have been, oh, that would have been really good.
52:01 Griffin McElroy? Where do you get it from?
52:02 Travis McElroy? Well, other people, this is the thing. I give that million dollars to some others, somebody else, and everybody's like. Pretty cool, man. You just have to be a financial conduit. Yeah, I just want to be the like, the.
52:13 Griffin McElroy? Historically. God, conduit was just like such the right word, man, you nailed it.
52:18 Travis McElroy? And you keep a little. You keep a little bacon. You just do it in.
52:23 Griffin McElroy? You know?
52:24 Travis McElroy? Be sweat. You get your be, be sweat. Be sweat, as long as you're loading TVs in the circle. I know one beast, beast man that would love a.
52:35 Griffin McElroy? You, I, I think you usually cut that out of the video, I bet. Hey, you got 10 Xbox Ones in there, huh? That's crazy.
52:40 Travis McElroy? Why do you need that many? Nine Xbox Ones.
52:48 Griffin McElroy? We're doing, guys, 99 Lasik blasts this today. It's gonna be fucking great. We're gonna blast nine.
52:56 Travis McElroy? Okay, Mr. Reese doesn't have any money. He just lives off the stuff he stole from his videos. If you go over to his house, he's like. Don't go upstairs. It's all elephant toothpaste. Exploded. Don't go upstairs. I used to have one real Lamborghini. Now I have a hundred tiny Lamborghinis because I traded them in a stupid video. God, I wish I got paid. I'm trapped in a loop of my own making.
53:18 Griffin McElroy? We're giving away a Cybertruck and you're allowed to drive it Sunday through Friday. Come on, stay in the circle.
53:24 Travis McElroy? You gotta go get me though.
53:26 Griffin McElroy? You gotta come get me on Saturday, brother.
53:29 Travis McElroy? I need a ride.
53:30 Griffin McElroy? I gotta donate blood to keep paying for all this stuff. You're paying me from our platelets.
53:36 Travis McElroy? I can't even afford LASIK. That's what sucks. I need LASIK. I'm Mr. Beast. Desperately need LASIK. He shows up in a little stick-on goatee. Hello? Hello, my name is Daryl Beast.
53:48 Griffin McElroy? Fuck.
53:49 Travis McElroy? Damn it.
53:49 Griffin McElroy? Fuck.
53:50 Travis McElroy? What's up? Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother and Me. We're gonna be doing this live December 6th at 7:00 PM, and that includes a virtual stream ticket. That's right. You don't have to physically come to Candle Knights. You can watch it from the comfort of your own home. Both are extremely acceptable and very appreciated because all the benefits from that show are going to be donated to Harmony House, which, as you might know, seeks to end homelessness in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs. If you want to come to Candle Knights or you want to watch Candle Knights, either way, the link is the same. bit.ly/candleknights2025.
54:31 Travis McElroy? Make sure to check out macroimmerch.com. We've got some new merch over there. We got a Final Pam poster designed by Willow Quillen and a Final Pam beanie. We just added to the store a This Is Not An Apple shirt based on Griffin's beautiful upside-down apple drawing featuring the apple anus. Make sure you check it out. It's only going to be available until November 28th, so don't miss out. It's two weeks only. Go to macroimmerch.com and check it out. And 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to Native American aid.
55:06 Griffin McElroy? Speaking of Pam, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Final Pam Fallout 4 Monster Factory series, we did dig up an old external hard drive with that save on it and have revisited that world in a new mini-series on Monster Factory. We're gonna be
55:23 Travis McElroy? We beat the game.
55:25 Griffin McElroy? But spoilers. But yeah, we are going to be airing those every week for the next four weeks. It's a four-part series, so check it out.
55:33 Travis McElroy? Champions Grove packages are on sale now. It's a weekend-long gaming event at Ravenwood Castle in Hocking Hills, Ohio, that I co-founded with my friend Alice. And we're well over halfway sold out, but if you want to come, make sure to get your package while they last. Go to www.championsgrove.com for all the information. Don't wait. They're going to be gone soon, and we want you to grab one. So get it.
55:58 Griffin McElroy? Tell that to a splart next week on American Thanksgiving.
56:00 Travis McElroy? Oh, boy.
56:01 Griffin McElroy? Set your watch. Set your calendar.
56:02 Travis McElroy? I gotta watch it.
56:03 Griffin McElroy? For real. Um, let's have a fear?
56:07 Travis McElroy? Let's do it.
56:07 Travis McElroy? Final fear. Yeah. Uh, allow me, please. This year, I want to be faster than my fear of my recurring night terror, which is that several big carpets are rolled up in the corner of my room.
56:21 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
56:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure.
56:24 Travis McElroy? I'm trying. Yeah.
56:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I fucking get it. Yes.
56:28 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin Mc.
56:29 Travis McElroy? I'm Travis McRoy.
56:30 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McRoy.
56:31 Travis McElroy? This has been my brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad, the school, wear on the lips.
57:06 Speaker 01 Maximum Fun.
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