Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 811: New At Yeast About this episode We’re on pace to answer as many questions as humanly possible before these lawsuits from Justin McElroy catch up to us. We’re talking self-branding, Muppet roller coasters, a slightly different Garfield, and Travis’s weirdly accurate predictions.
Suggested talking points: Vore Apologetics, Every Day a Single Butterscotch, What Do We Leave bBehind if Not a Brand, Don't Talk People are Trying to Tingle
Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/
Transcript 12,171 words · 5 speakers
Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.
0:00 Speaker 00 The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
1:10 Travis McElroy? Hello, everybody. Welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me, an advice show for the modern era.
1:15 Travis McElroy? Get out of the town!
1:16 Travis McElroy? Brother.
1:16 Travis McElroy? Get right out of the town with this. How is this possible?
1:20 Griffin McElroy? Who is that guy?
1:21 Travis McElroy? Griffin, do it!
1:22 Griffin McElroy? I don't have...
1:22 Travis McElroy? Raise your mug.
1:23 Griffin McElroy? I don't have...
1:24 Travis McElroy? Give us your mug. We have matching mugs.
1:26 Griffin McElroy? I don't want to show you my mug. I don't want to show you. I don't want to show you my mug. It's incriminating.
1:30 Travis McElroy? We have matching mugs.
1:31 Griffin McElroy? It's incriminating.
1:32 Travis McElroy? That has to be.
1:32 Griffin McElroy? It represents a, it represents an older part of my brand that I don't necessarily embody anymore, but I like the coffee mug.
1:39 Travis McElroy? That could be so many things.
1:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, well, then maybe if folks go to maximumfun.org/join, I'll reveal my shameful mug to everyone by the end of the episode. Hmm, it's, it says Vore Squad on it. I don't know. Someone sent it to my P O. Box a long time ago and I was so humbled by the fact that they made a logo for my fake podcast and it's a night, I like this sort of, what is this? Like a 12-ouncer? I like a bigger pour.
2:05 Travis McElroy? That's a 16-ounce.
2:05 Griffin McElroy? A 16-ouncer, even better. I like a bigger pour.
2:08 Travis McElroy? Did we say our names?
2:10 Griffin McElroy? No, no, we sort of immediately got into vor apologetics.
2:13 Travis McElroy? What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother Travis, Big Dog, Wolf, Vroom, Vroom, The Heater, Big Dog, award-winning McElroy.
2:20 Griffin McElroy? Too much stuff, man. If you can't remember it.
2:22 Travis McElroy? No, if I, if I hiccup even for a second, it's gone.
2:26 Griffin McElroy? I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30. Media luminary. Sorry, I just turned 39 and so I'm running out of time to hit that 40 under 40 list.
2:35 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
2:35 Griffin McElroy? I'm worried that I don't have the kind of cash that I did a decade ago, but I'm Griffin McElroy.
2:40 Travis McElroy? At the blank page before you open up the dirty window.
2:45 Griffin McElroy? Wow.
2:45 Travis McElroy? The sun illuminate the world.
2:47 Griffin McElroy? Natasha, welcome Natasha.
2:48 Travis McElroy? Write, reaching for something in the distance so close you can almost taste it. Release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin. No one else can feel it.
3:01 Griffin McElroy? Fuck yeah, what are we doing?
3:02 Travis McElroy? Can let it in.
3:04 Griffin McElroy? Hi, everybody.
3:06 Travis McElroy? There were lyrics in there that I've never intellged before. It's like, there's a part where like staring at the blank page before you, we all know it.
3:14 Griffin McElroy? Right, right.
3:14 Travis McElroy? We love it.
3:15 Griffin McElroy? Open up your dirty. Why is your window so dirty Natasha? That's crazy.
3:21 Travis McElroy? It's when you hit the, when the, let the sun illuminate, everybody's kind of looking at their friends like, do you know? Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot write. Reaching for something in the distance. It's week two of Max Fun Drive, maximumfun.org forward slash join support the art and artist you love. And I'm living in my power.
3:43 Griffin McElroy? Sure.
3:44 Travis McElroy? I'm living in my power for.
3:46 Griffin McElroy? I don't, I don't know what star is in proto grade in the cosmos that has lent you this power, but there is an apotheosis that's happened that is shining directly, a beam of pure energy right down on Travis that is making anything possible for him.
4:01 Travis McElroy? Like Pitbull said, I don't know about you, but I feel good because uh, within the last month, I would say, I called, I said, I called to the universe and said, I think it's time for a Phantom reboot.
4:16 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
4:17 Travis McElroy? And within a 28 day span.
4:21 Griffin McElroy? Crazy.
4:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah. It was announced that there's a Phantom TV series.
4:26 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:26 Travis McElroy? In production.
4:28 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, we're, who's doing it?
4:30 Travis McElroy? Who? That stuff doesn't matter.
4:32 Griffin McElroy? You know fucking Billy Zane's gonna roll up like into pilot like.
4:36 Travis McElroy? I want to say.
4:38 Travis McElroy? Trav, do you want to be in this TV show?
4:42 Griffin McElroy? Oh, my God, please, no. Are we gonna burn it on this?
4:45 Travis McElroy? No, here's what I'm saying.
4:48 Travis McElroy? We're in an increasingly fractured media environment. There's not going to be a lot of engagement on Phantom-based social media posts.
4:56 Griffin McElroy? Correct.
4:56 Travis McElroy? If on every Phantom social media post degraded into without Travis McElroy, there is no Phantom.
5:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:05 Travis McElroy? Then I think we, I think maybe we could maybe get Travis in this thing.
5:11 Griffin McElroy? You're saying we could flood the zone in a cool way.
5:14 Travis McElroy? In a cool way.
5:15 Travis McElroy? Brought to you by Travis McElroy's power.
5:18 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
5:19 Travis McElroy? Unless, until they get, I mean, here's what, here's what I'm thinking. Trav is like the shop owner that, you know what I mean? Like, they walk past his shop and he waves from inside the shop.
5:32 Travis McElroy? I'm perfectly happy if there's a shot where they talk about, like, if there's a map even, and you see a country called Trav Nation, right? I'm fine with that being an easy.
5:42 Travis McElroy? That would be good. The idea would be, of course, Travis is trying to smuggle 20 to 30 kilos of premium, premium Colombian coca, and then the Phantom slams evil.
5:55 Griffin McElroy? Slams his ass, yeah.
5:56 Travis McElroy? And Travis, like, gets beat up by the Phantom.
5:58 Griffin McElroy? I always got murdered. Murdered by the Phantom.
6:02 Travis McElroy? You can see, already has the whole costume and the whole thing already lined out.
6:07 Griffin McElroy? Do you guys think it was weird that the Phantom was one of the most sort of fervent soldiers in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs? I thought that that was a crazy way for him to sort of expend his energies.
6:18 Travis McElroy? I kind of feel like he was already in a war on drugs, and then Ronald Reagan was like, that's a great idea.
6:23 Griffin McElroy? Let me get up on that, yeah, yeah.
6:24 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna do that, too. Nancy, Nancy, do some PSAs.
6:28 Griffin McElroy? Call the guy. Listen, I want to say first, I'm sorry, Travis, because sometimes you bring stuff to the intro, and I'm like, this is, no one knows what the fuck you're talking about. The Phantom, that's that ancient, old, crusty ass IP that no one's gonna touch with a 100-foot pole. And then within 28 calendar days, 20, 20 business days rounded up, we had the announcement. Travis, that's crazy. You're more plugged in than I am, and I, I'm sorry for doubting you.
6:56 Travis McElroy? I just know a lot of- About trash TV. I know what people want.
7:01 Griffin McElroy? What's next? What's next? Is it time?
7:03 Travis McElroy? Like, like, look at the pulse. What's on the? Well, my next wish is that they bring back Choco Tacos. That's not really a media property.
7:10 Griffin McElroy? But Travis, can I just say, that feels, that feels right. That feels like by the end of May, we're gonna have a Choco Taco announcement. That feels right. It feels like the public consciousness is ready.
7:21 Travis McElroy? The last five years.
7:23 Griffin McElroy? Oh, we're ready. Ready.
7:25 Travis McElroy? Bring back Choco Tacos. In Jason Robert Brown's hit musical, they stopped making Choco Tacos. It's about Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years is about the Oh, I see. Production of Choco Tacos.
7:39 Griffin McElroy? That's great.
7:40 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:41 Griffin McElroy? We've got jokes for every type of person out there.
7:44 Travis McElroy? The Max Fun Drive. Can we circle back to that real quick?
7:47 Griffin McElroy? Please, yes.
7:47 Travis McElroy? This is a time we come to you once a year and we say, hey, do you like the stuff we make? Cause we like you. We like making it for you. If you like the stuff we make, could you help us make it? Just, just a little bit of help. Five bucks a month. If you could do that for us, we would really appreciate it. You go to maximumfun.org forward slash join. You say, hey, I got five bucks. I'll help these shows, make these shows possible. Now, what do they get in return, guys? That's the question for you.
8:13 Griffin McElroy? They get just a shit ton of boko, man. More boko than you can consume in your lifetime.
8:18 Travis McElroy? More bacon than the, more boko than the pan can handle.
8:21 Griffin McElroy? Absolutely. We're talking about every show on the network.
8:25 Travis McElroy? Hey, stop for a second. Two times this past week, I said boko to civilians. And they were like, you gotta stop, my man. What do you mean? It was rough twice. These are friends. You know what I mean? Friends.
8:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
8:40 Travis McElroy? Colleagues. And I, and I said boko and they, they had to pull over the van and say, what is boko? Now, what does this mean?
8:47 Griffin McElroy? Listen, if you can kick in five bucks a month to, to us and the Max Fun Network, you're gonna get access to hundreds of hours of bonus content for all the shows, for the, what, 15? Is our 15th Max Fun Drive, I think, from a Bimbam? This year, we did a, a voice acting masterclass with Janet Varney to try and find out why we don't get cast in stuff anymore. Um, but we've done all kinds of stuff.
9:09 Travis McElroy? Plato's rave. She will say, guys, surprisingly frank. Yeah.
9:14 Griffin McElroy? Extraordinarily right over the plate.
9:16 Travis McElroy? Janet Varney, she did not pull her punches.
9:18 Griffin McElroy? She told us what it would be a lot more laughing. Yeah, told us what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to hear necessarily.
9:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, and what she needed to say, maybe Janet was harboring something.
9:30 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
9:31 Travis McElroy? Get out of her soul.
9:31 Griffin McElroy? I didn't know she had been harboring that against us this whole time, but it was nice to sort of, I don't know, squash all that beef. We're talking Plato's rave, we're talking pranky doodle dandy. We're talking about that episode of that we rerecorded the blue carpet premiere of the Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville musical with Matt Doyle and us reading each other's, but it's very high concept. Um, hundreds of hours, hundreds of hours of bonus content. Uh, there's other pledge levels that you can, uh, that you can join at and you'll get different rewards for doing that. We'll talk more about those later, but seriously, uh, it's our, it's our 15th Max Fun Drive. And the reason it's our 15th Max Fun Drive is because we've been doing this for super long because you all continue to support it. So please, please help us out. Don't just assume that someone else will do it.
10:14 Griffin McElroy? Uh, because you know, the podcast market is a challenging one in the current space. We're fighting tooth and nail out here. So if you enjoy our show, uh, help be responsible for its existence. Truly full stop by going to maximumfun.org/join, please.
10:30 Travis McElroy? When you're listening to this, if you're listening to this on Monday, on Tuesday's clubhouse stream as part of Max Fun Drive, I will be doing a book report on season two of Yellowstone.
10:41 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
10:43 Travis McElroy? It, it's an experience, it's a thing.
10:46 Griffin McElroy? I've heard, I've heard rumor of a, of a FBI investigation, sort of only murders murder board.
10:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah, a real flow chart of depression. Within the next calendar year.
10:59 Griffin McElroy? Here we go.
10:59 Travis McElroy? It will be announced a live action remake of Don Bluth's Anastasia. Oh, that's trav.
11:07 Griffin McElroy? Trav, that feels.
11:08 Travis McElroy? That's so good that it feels like it might be, I'm like looking for the.
11:13 Travis McElroy? Can I, can I be so bold as to say I would really be into an all dogs go to heaven that is indeed all dogs?
11:23 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
11:24 Travis McElroy? Real dogs this time.
11:26 Griffin McElroy? Real dogs, real dogs, really dying.
11:30 Travis McElroy? No, hold on.
11:30 Griffin McElroy? That's what Justin, Justin's gotta see real dogs dying and their ghosts go up to heaven. You gotta see it.
11:38 Travis McElroy? Like in that, uh, uh, you know, the dog's life movie that they were like, yeah, there was some, um, animal rights issues with that one.
11:46 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that they didn't like that one so much.
11:49 Travis McElroy? Hey, how about a question?
11:51 Travis McElroy? I think for Max Fun Drive, we should answer all six questions on the question list.
11:55 Griffin McElroy? Oh, my God.
11:55 Travis McElroy? It's never been done before. My partner and I recently moved. Our new place is better than our old one in every way, except that we're in a different city and thus have a new primary postal person. We had a great relationship with our old mail lady. Terrible. Why would you say that about her? We get a lot of, it's ageist is what it is.
12:15 Griffin McElroy? Old mail lady is like, wow, man.
12:17 Travis McElroy? So mean.
12:18 Griffin McElroy? So would you, you should learn her name. Did you have a great relationship?
12:22 Travis McElroy? Our postal professional.
12:24 Griffin McElroy? Did you have a great relationship with Janet? Janet?
12:28 Travis McElroy? A person?
12:29 Travis McElroy? Janet Varney?
12:30 Griffin McElroy? Postal Janet Varney, a much, a mature postal worker.
12:36 Travis McElroy? We got.
12:41 Travis McElroy? We got a lot of packages. So she gave us her phone so she could meet her mid route to get packages that need signing when we weren't home that day or hold for when we would be.
12:51 Griffin McElroy? You her phone?
12:53 Travis McElroy? I'm, I bet they meant phone number.
12:55 Griffin McElroy? Number. Okay, that makes a lot more sense.
12:57 Travis McElroy? We get.
12:58 Travis McElroy? Cool. Take my phone and wait for the message, then dead drop at the corner.
13:02 Griffin McElroy? Here's my phone. I'll be back when I'm done with my route. This is an accountability thing. Sometimes I get tired. I am an old, old, old lady, but if I know my phone's here, I'll make my way back for sure.
13:12 Travis McElroy? Get my steps in for me. I'm not doing that enough as a postal worker.
13:16 Griffin McElroy? Feed my Pikachu, please.
13:18 Travis McElroy? Did you say, does this person saying meet her mid route as though it's like? Hey Dan, I got a hot one for you. Are you at home? Nah, nah, nah. Sorry. Where are you at? Where are you at? It's like I'm at the sheets. Sheets on 17th. Let me roll up. Let me roll up. Let me roll up on there and I'll get my package from you. Question asker, I know I'm trying to relate in a way that I could connect.
13:45 Griffin McElroy? It's just, this is a, this is a sort of rhetorical puzzle. I'm enjoying unwrapping it. Does she text you like, I'm on main Ave, moving west?
13:53 Travis McElroy? Oh man, come get your porno. I'm gonna drop a pin. I'm gonna drop a pin, come get this vacuum. I'm gonna haul this vacuum all the way. It's a typo. It's supposed to be drug dealer, not postal worker.
14:04 Griffin McElroy? I never like, I, I don't get exciting mail as much anymore. So I don't, I don't get excited about opening it. If I had to go find it, hell yeah, dude. I'll get more excited about that fucking, you know, Lands' End catalog or Chubby's catalog or just any sort of.
14:19 Travis McElroy? My problem is always when the postal worker delivers the mail, but then also wants to sit with me while I open it. And pass if I have any snacks and watch Rick and Morty.
14:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Or if I laugh at a letter I got, he'll be like, pass it. And I'm like, dude, it's, that's a federal offense. You can't actually ask to read my mail.
14:38 Griffin McElroy? So let's, what was the question?
14:38 Travis McElroy? So we're about to get to the question. Here it comes. You ready?
14:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
14:42 Travis McElroy? I started with our new mail guy on the wrong foot. I keep forgetting to close our mailbox and forget the keys hanging on the lock. This has happened four times and every time he brings it over and records a little, hey, be careful, heads up message on our doorbell, then leaves it near our door. How can I salvage this relationship with my mailman and get on good terms enough that I can have back what I've lost? That's from forgetful and package full in Seattle. Hmm. I'll give you my, my hot take while you guys formulate something, because I've been alive a lot longer. So I feel like I can solve these things faster. I, in my opinion, you maybe are worried that this mail person is going to see you as you are. Because my friend, you did leave the keys in the mailbox, you know, like you did need a little bit of help.
15:28 Travis McElroy? And it's okay that you were that person then, you know? And if. The male person won't let you evolve. They won't let you grow over time. You got a lot on your plate. If you do a ranking of high stress situations to add your stress levels, moving way up there, near death of a loved one. Okay? You got a lot going on. Let your male person buoy you. Appreciate this gift, because that could be a real foundation, being needed and allowing someone to need you.
15:59 Griffin McElroy? That's beautiful.
16:00 Travis McElroy? Justin, I agree. My take was let yourself be a project for this mail carrier. Right? Oh, I'm.
16:08 Griffin McElroy? People do love that.
16:10 Travis McElroy? While also giving them like treats, because everyone likes treats.
16:14 Travis McElroy? Butterscotch from time to time never goes astray.
16:17 Travis McElroy? Not just one butterscotch, though, Justin. I'm not gonna just leave a butter. Maybe if I put a stamp on it and write in really little letters for you from me.
16:26 Travis McElroy? From time to time clearly implies an ongoing stitch, Travis. This is not a one scotcher.
16:31 Travis McElroy? Butterscotch?
16:32 Travis McElroy? No, it's a, it's a, Trav, it's like, not everything's a multi-scoacher job. Some things as a one-scoacher, like if I ask my kids to go get my socks from the den, you know, that's a one-scoacher. If I ask my wife, Sydney, if I ask my wife Sydney to stay home from Harmony House today to darn my socks because the kids, you know, that's, that's a multi-scoacher kind of deal. I'm gonna have to give her four to five butterscotches to get that done. No problem.
17:02 Travis McElroy? Hmm, I see.
17:04 Griffin McElroy? Mail carriers, I assume the scotch I'm giving them is a tip. I assume that they are being paid handsomely in butterscotches by the United States government.
17:12 Travis McElroy? They can only accept butterscotches.
17:14 Travis McElroy? And if every, if every house gives them one butterscotch a day, that's a lot of butterscotch.
17:20 Griffin McElroy? That's too much butterscotch.
17:22 Travis McElroy? That's true. You got varied up.
17:24 Griffin McElroy? With all that fucking butterscotch.
17:25 Travis McElroy? And you don't want to do it every day, I'm retrospect, because then they'll come to expect it. You want to do it at random intervals.
17:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:33 Travis McElroy? And maybe one day throw a red hot in there and they're like, oh, I didn't want cinnamon candy. And then the next day you're back to butterscotch and it makes the butterscotch all the better.
17:41 Griffin McElroy? I think it's a good mantra for a lot of different people. And I'll go ahead and guess a lot of people who maybe listen to our program and sharing some of our anxieties, our proclivities, that just because you made a mistake, doesn't mean someone's mad at you. It doesn't mean that people are mad at you just because you made a little mistake.
18:02 Travis McElroy? Four times.
18:06 Griffin McElroy? Why would the mail person, the mail person I don't think is materially sort of going to be affected if your mail is taken by someone else. Obviously, it's not great, but it's not like they're gonna be like, "Oh, curse you! You made a mistake!" And they try to help you. They're not, probably not mad. They can't, they can't have that kind of relationship going with their whole route where they're just mad.
18:29 Travis McElroy? Griffin, if I went in for an organ transplant and then as I was leaving the hospital, I let someone mug me and steal that organ out of my chest, the surgeon is gonna be pissed.
18:39 Griffin McElroy? I guess there is a certain amount of like, "I carried, I carried that Chubbies catalog on my back for 15 blocks. And it was a thick one. It was the fall special. You would think summertime is when Chubbies makes their banquet, how short those shorts are. No, man."
18:55 Travis McElroy? They gotta move product at the end of the summer.
18:58 Griffin McElroy? They gotta move it at the end. That is a three-pound Chubbies catalog that I carried 15 blocks for your ungrateful ass. No, I don't, I still don't think they're gonna be mad at you. It's, it's probably.
19:09 Travis McElroy? I don't know that they're mad at you, but I think four times you've recently moved and in that time, four times left your key. They have formulated a separate opinion of you of being very forgetful. And you can play that up and be whimsical and maybe leave a sandwich in the letterbox and put your mail in your lunchbox. And then when they see it, you're like, "Oh, what was I thinking?" And now you're like a comical, you're a character in their life.
19:35 Griffin McElroy? To salvage this thing. If you really are invested in salvaging it, you need to show yourself to your new mail carrier, being forgetful in other disciplines in your life, so that he knows it's not just him, that you're just not just ignoring him, a lowly mail guy.
19:51 Travis McElroy? Your solution is to submit the opinion.
19:54 Griffin McElroy? I'm saying, next time your mail carrier comes around, when you know they're coming around, maybe you slip an air tag on the bottom of their vehicle. So you know when they're about to roll up and then you go outside and you open up all your car doors and then you go back inside. You leave the garage door open and your front door open and just a lot of doors open. And then when they're like, "Hey, man..." You left all your doors open, then they'll know it's not just me. They're not just ignoring me.
20:16 Travis McElroy? You just do one shoe on, one shoe off.
20:17 Travis McElroy? This, this is also a good rule when starting a job. Don't give a hundred percent at your job. Always give like 50% when you start a new job and then one day start giving like 70%. And everyone's like, whoa, whoa, this guy's really stepping up. Cause if you always give a hundred percent, you got nowhere to go from there.
20:37 Griffin McElroy? You gotta wait to, you save a hundred percent until you can show up with the big spiky blonde wig and then the boss is like, guys, we're not meeting our annual quarterly goals. And you go like, and you do super say and, and then you go out and, you know, fire off those mail champ, mailers or whatever it is that your thing is.
20:53 Travis McElroy? So you give 50% to your mail carrier and then start getting 75% and your mail carrier is like, wow. They've really improved their game. They must've been taking some ginkgo biloba or something because they're remembering everything. They're so on it. And they're going to be so impressed with you. They're going to give you the most improved mail, uh, accepting person award and it's going to be incredible.
21:14 Travis McElroy? Can I suggest one other plan? And if this, I don't want it to be like normal where we'll do jokes about it. If it's a bad plan, you guys should tell me. What if you forget the keys one more time?
21:26 Griffin McElroy? Just once.
21:26 Travis McElroy? This time. And then they, and then when they bring them to you, you say, congratulations. You passed. I've been looking for somebody I can trust and I think that somebody is you. And then you start closing the door and you say, stay by the phone.
21:45 Griffin McElroy? Dude, stay by the phone is such a powerful conversation, Ender, that you can deploy in so many different situations.
21:53 Travis McElroy? I think that what you do is you give them a stay by the phone.
21:57 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:57 Travis McElroy? You don't see them again for several weeks. And then the next time you see them, you say, we called. You weren't there. We called.
22:04 Travis McElroy? I said, I said, stay by the phone.
22:08 Travis McElroy? Cause they, what did you do?
22:09 Travis McElroy? If you see them, they're not by the phone. So at some point they've left the phone, right? So you have to assume that they. Hang up your phone as they deliver the man like, I just.
22:20 Griffin McElroy? Guess someone doesn't want to join the men in black.
22:24 Travis McElroy? It's actually a good idea. It sounds like it probably, probably work. Yeah, Minute Black sounds like a lot of work. Is that what you mean? Cause I wouldn't want to do it. It sounds like a high-stress job.
22:33 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
22:34 Travis McElroy? I recently started a new job and while I don't expect to make friends with my coworkers.
22:38 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, we are not on pace for six questions, dudes. Not even close to on pace.
22:42 Travis McElroy? Well, that certainly helps, Griffin. That certainly helps.
22:45 Griffin McElroy? It's coaching. You gotta coach.
22:46 Travis McElroy? Spend more time talking about how we don't have enough time.
22:48 Griffin McElroy? This is a timeout. This is a coaching, an open coaching job.
22:51 Travis McElroy? Hey, listen, an open coaching job. Listen, I already cut a planned segment where I was going to read the tracklist for the new Muppets Mayhem Roller Coaster Ride. That segment's already being cut to try to make space.
23:03 Griffin McElroy? Can you blaze through it? Cause I am deeply, I do kinda wanna, damn it. Is moving, is moving right along on me?
23:07 Travis McElroy? It's not a joke. Cause the problem with the segment, the reason it was cut is that I don't have a joke. I just wanted to talk to you about the tracklist.
23:12 Griffin McElroy? Do you have a big box? Do you have a big box on your desk or something? Big white box? I'm seeing a big white box to your.
23:18 Travis McElroy? Yes, you're right, Griffin. I'll move faster. I will not mention this.
23:22 Griffin McElroy? Moving right along.
23:23 Travis McElroy? I'm not gonna pull over the wheel and tell you the whole tracklist.
23:26 Griffin McElroy? Let's make a rainbow connection right now with each other.
23:29 Travis McElroy? No, what we're gonna do, I'm gonna intersperse them throughout the show. It's a momentum builder, song two.
23:36 Griffin McElroy? Cool.
23:36 Travis McElroy? By The Electric Mayhem.
23:38 Griffin McElroy? Fuck, yes. Holy shit, dude. By Blur? By The Electric Mayhem?
23:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah, actually, you know what? I could probably spot you one clip. I could probably spot you a clip.
23:51 Griffin McElroy? There's clips already?
23:53 Speaker 04 Error.
23:53 Travis McElroy? Song two, that's your first one. We don't have to include, uh, I thought that would be the Muppets doing it, but it was in fact just a recording of Song Two.
24:00 Griffin McElroy? It's just blurred, dude.
24:01 Travis McElroy? By Blur, so we will get copyright stricken for that. You didn't hear it.
24:04 Griffin McElroy? Maximumfun.org/join. Help us fend off Blur and their lawyers. But get some great bonus content.
24:09 Travis McElroy? Blur's got that Gorillaz money again. They're gonna be tough to beat. I don't think that we can stand against them right now, but Song Two, that's your first. First treat. Okay. I recently started a new job and while I typically don't expect to make new friends with my coworkers outside of work, it turns out I got a lot in common with one of my team members. We both like D and D. We both like to make clothes. She even offered to sell me one of her used sewing machines. There's just one problem. We have the same first name. I'm interested in getting to know this person, but I'm worried that our other coworkers will boil down our budding friendship to us just having the same name. Is there any way to get ahead of this? Or is there something I can do when they inevitably comment on it? I feel like I
24:52 Travis McElroy? can only awkwardly laugh myself out of so many conversations in life. And that's from befriending in Florida.
24:58 Griffin McElroy? You gotta stop your screen share. You are showing us the most strung out member of the Muppet's band. And it's truly bumming me out. I don't know that one's name, but he looked really like he was having a really, really tough year.
25:12 Travis McElroy? First, just to get it out of the way, don't let the fact that people might comment about having the same name stop you from making a new friend as an adult. The chances of finding a new friend. Oh, yeah.
25:23 Griffin McElroy? Don't blow it. Don't blow this for us. We need this.
25:27 Travis McElroy? I'm so curious. What does it feel like to make that connection as an adult? Don't blow it. Don't blow it. You know, I do a little bit. I'm a little bit worried about the situation because I don't feel like the question asker is really understanding the, the issue, right?
25:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
25:47 Travis McElroy? There is someone at their new workplace that has the same name as them and many of the same interests.
25:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
25:56 Travis McElroy? You need to start, you need to start thinking about your brand. You know what I mean? Like right now, let's say Julie. Is that fair, Julie?
26:04 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
26:04 Travis McElroy? If the Julie brand is like, is already being pretty much monopolized and you're not doing anything to take the brand in a bold new direction?
26:14 Griffin McElroy? You always have to innovate. You have to be innovating always.
26:18 Travis McElroy? Is this economy? You may have to accept that you can't handle the brand. Maybe you need to rename. Maybe you need to drop the vowels from your name.
26:26 Griffin McElroy? Do something.
26:27 Travis McElroy? Julie, I think that's just JL is left.
26:30 Travis McElroy? Oh, sorry, Trav. Say it again. JL.
26:34 Griffin McElroy? Here comes JL.
26:35 Travis McElroy? Oh.
26:35 Griffin McElroy? JL feels fucking great, dude.
26:37 Travis McElroy? That does feel good.
26:38 Travis McElroy? It feels good, right? That's what you have to be willing to innovate. JL, what's JL about? It doesn't matter. It's different. It's new, it's today.
26:47 Travis McElroy? It's hip, it's now.
26:48 Travis McElroy? It's not labels.
26:50 Travis McElroy? Now, ooh. If you can figure out a way to be complimentary, but separate from the new Julie, right?
27:01 Travis McElroy? Are you saying JL, a Julie? JL, a Julie joint? And you're like a gen of the other Julie?
27:09 Travis McElroy? JL X Julie.
27:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
27:11 Travis McElroy? A crossover event, right?
27:13 Travis McElroy? You don't have, your brand cannot handle a crossover with Julie right now.
27:18 Travis McElroy? Not right now, not right now.
27:20 Griffin McElroy? You gotta work your way up to it.
27:21 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:23 Travis McElroy? You want people to get excited when this drops.
27:26 Travis McElroy? Yeah, exactly. JL has to be about something else.
27:30 Griffin McElroy? You gotta, you gotta have the scent ready to deploy. You gotta have the scent ready to deploy. You'd need the, the cross media, sort of like Burger King partnership, JL X Julie.
27:41 Travis McElroy? Maybe you do, you do a verse on a Julie track, right? And people lose it. Featuring JL, get the fuck out. You got JL on the track, right? It's gonna blow people's minds.
27:54 Griffin McElroy? It's gonna blow up.
27:56 Travis McElroy? And at that point, you've raised both of your, uh, stand, your standings in the community. Check this out. Maybe a staged beef.
28:05 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
28:06 Travis McElroy? Julie likes D and D. JL, D or D?
28:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
28:13 Travis McElroy? Pathfinder.
28:14 Travis McElroy? You know what I mean? Why are we? Huh. Julie likes to make clothes. JL.
28:23 Griffin McElroy? You didn't have one for that one.
28:25 Travis McElroy? I was hoping for, for a fucking, maybe, I was hoping for once, that just for once, just for once, you guys would do.
28:33 Griffin McElroy? Would, would help.
28:34 Travis McElroy? But when I do, you yell at me.
28:36 Travis McElroy? You yell at us when we steal your punchline. That's the show. Yeah.
28:41 Travis McElroy? That's the show. Griffin, that was a great limb reference.
28:45 Griffin McElroy? Thanks. Thank you. Um, this is, I think, gonna be fine. I think that people, if you become good friends, this is the subtext of our answers, is this'll be fine. And it's not funny, but like, if people say, "Oh, you both are named Julie," that's crazy. They're probably not gonna do it every time you two are in the same, "Here come the Julies," although they did do that shit on West Wing, and that probably hurt those guys feelings.
29:08 Travis McElroy? All you gotta do is if somebody's like, "Oh, you're both named Julie," you just go, "Oh, yeah, great observation."
29:14 Griffin McElroy? Great observation. Enjoy being alone. Enjoy not having any friends in this office. I'm the only fucking one who does. So, go ahead and say your mean shit about our names.
29:24 Travis McElroy? Do you guys feel, as you're saying this, like, these are the words of a beloved office member? Like, do you think this is the-
29:30 Travis McElroy? If someone's giving you a hard time about making an adult friendship-
29:34 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:35 Travis McElroy? It's because they're jealous!
29:37 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:38 Travis McElroy? Every opportunity to brand that you miss is a little bit of your life that you've let slip away. Cause if you're not branding, what are you doing?
29:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:48 Travis McElroy? What do we leave behind if not a brand, Griffin?
29:50 Travis McElroy? Thank you. That's, I think Hamilton said that.
29:54 Travis McElroy? I think it was Lynn Menzel Miranda that wrote, "What do we leave behind if not a-
29:59 Travis McElroy? A brand is a garden.
30:01 Travis McElroy? Uh, we talked about the Max Fun Drive briefly earlier on, but, uh, I wanted to say, right now, real quick, the short version is, if you go to maximumfun.org forward slash join, right, then you're on Easy Street.
30:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
30:16 Travis McElroy? That's where you can go and say, "Hey, I can pledge five, or 10, or 20 bucks a month to the shows that I love on this podcasting network and the creators on, on the network."
30:29 Travis McElroy? And in the internet landscape, one of the things, you know, we've been doing this now for a decade and a half, and the way that we're able to get information out to people has drastically changed in that time. Um, there's less- Thank you, Elon! Thank you Elon for making it so shitty and hard Elon. Thank you Elon for fucking it all up in so many ways. And so like, we're not gonna get a lot of chances to remind you, like this episode's gonna come out on Monday. Uh, and then there's not gonna be another-
30:58 Griffin McElroy? And then you'll forget about us until Monday again. That's fine. That, if that's the way you want this relationship to go, we're not gonna grouse about it.
31:03 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we're fine with that, but we're not gonna get a chance to remind you before the Max Fun Drive ends through My Brother, My Brother and Me again. And so if you're considering it, if you're like, listen, I love My Brother, My Brother and Me, I've been listening for years, I'm ready to support. Go right now, maximumfun.org/join. Don't wait or it's gonna slip right out of your brain. There's a lot of other stuff going on. You've got that test tomorrow. Don't forget about that.
31:26 Griffin McElroy? For five bucks a month, that's the price of one gallon of gasoline. For five bucks a month, you get access to hundreds of hours of bonus content. This year, we did the Janet Varney acting masterclass. We did another episode of Cousinverse. Where five of our six kids planned a one-shot RPG for us to go through, which is fully, fully wild. Uh, on Wonderful, we watched The Mummy, which was only Rachel's second Brendan Fraser movie. Um, she had never seen before. Yeah, that's a wild flick anyway.
31:55 Travis McElroy? Spoiler, what's the rating?
31:57 Griffin McElroy? Um, a fun, hugely problematic romp. A fun, wee, cowboy romp, yay, in the desert. So, such a rough ride in 2026.
32:09 Travis McElroy? Oh, good to know, okay.
32:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, so be, be, strap in, be ready.
32:13 Travis McElroy? Teresa and I discussed Zombies 1, the Disney Channel original movie.
32:17 Griffin McElroy? Holy shit, yeah.
32:18 Travis McElroy? Which was Teresa's first Disney Channel original movie.
32:22 Griffin McElroy? So many gaps in the cultural knowledge just getting filled in.
32:25 Travis McElroy? And I, I started with under wraps, speaking of The Mummy, and so I've come at it with all of the context leading up to it. And, uh, along those same lines, Griffin, uh, I would say an hour and a half of nuanced discussion of the implications of zombies.
32:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, that's, there's a lot of conversation topics that come out of anyone fucking- Brank with Eric Von D.
32:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
32:48 Griffin McElroy? You gotta, you gotta, you gotta sit down, you gotta talk to your family after this. You gotta have those hard conversations.
32:53 Travis McElroy? The cloning movie starring the youngest Lawrence brother?
32:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, no one can remember.
32:58 Travis McElroy? I don't need to tell you that the media landscape is difficult and ever changing. And sometimes we have advertisers and sometimes we don't, you know?
33:07 Griffin McElroy? Sometimes we have the same four advertisers for years and years and years. And those four advertisers absolutely.
33:14 Travis McElroy? Ride or die.
33:14 Griffin McElroy? We love. Ride or die, we love them to pieces. And a lot of the other advertisers went to the famous show.
33:21 Travis McElroy? But that being said.
33:23 Griffin McElroy? Louded though we are for our advertising deliveries, it simply doesn't pay the bills. It really is not that much money. We, we really get our, our, the lion's share of, of our income from, from you all.
33:36 Travis McElroy? People fall off over time, you know, credit card numbers change. People decide that they.
33:41 Griffin McElroy? People change.
33:42 Travis McElroy? We suck now and they canceled stuff. But if you've been listed for a while and you are not a member.
33:47 Griffin McElroy? Old men.
33:47 Travis McElroy? Why not?
33:48 Griffin McElroy? Why am I paying for these old men?
33:50 Travis McElroy? I hate these idiots. If you've been listening for a while, you, you, uh, uh, you know, wanna kick in, support the show? Five, 10 bucks a month, we'd really appreciate it. Go to maximumfun.org/join. Genuinely, thank you so much.
34:03 Griffin McElroy? And if you have enjoyed the like YouTube stuff we've been doing, video clips we post, all of the stuff that we've added, you know, all the streams, all that stuff. It's because of your support. We couldn't do that stuff without you.
34:13 Travis McElroy? We've hired people to help us with that. We have a team, gang.
34:16 Griffin McElroy? For real, we're small business owners.
34:17 Travis McElroy? We're small business owners, thanks to you. So I guess you're a small business owners in a sense.
34:22 Griffin McElroy? We don't just take your money and buy an Xbox with it.
34:25 Travis McElroy? No. We can buy Xbox. I didn't even know they sold those.
34:29 Griffin McElroy? I do that with my other earnings from my babysitting businesses that I run.
34:34 Travis McElroy? Lawn mowing.
34:35 Griffin McElroy? The lawn mowing that I do. But for the rest of it, we like hire staff and buy new equipment and try to make the show look and sound good. So maximumfun.org/join, you go there, you pick the shows you listen to, your money. Some of it goes to Max Fun to help with the administrative side of things that we don't know how to do. And they've been doing for a long time and are extremely good at. And the rest of it just goes to the shows that you listen to. Five bucks a month gets you all the, the bonus content. 10 bucks a month gets you a, a really nice enamel keychain customized for the show of your choosing. There's other.
35:02 Travis McElroy? Born to be wild, Born to be Wild, The Electric Mayhem versus Camilla the Chicken.
35:08 Griffin McElroy? I like that.
35:09 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
35:10 Griffin McElroy? That's gonna be funny too.
35:11 Travis McElroy? Versus?
35:12 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, they're gonna fight.
35:13 Travis McElroy? Oh, okay.
35:15 Griffin McElroy? Even if you can just do five bucks a month, truly, that is where I think a bulk of our support comes in, and it is what helps us, helps us keep doing this thing. So MaximumFun.org/join is gonna be one of our last chances to talk to you about it. So if you're thinking about doing it, please, please, please do it.
35:31 Travis McElroy? Okay, fine, you win. I'm going to share the brush that increases desire, or at least I'm going to tell it about you.
35:39 Griffin McElroy? Oh.
35:39 Travis McElroy? If you are someone that is a listener of my brother, my brother and me, and you join up during the Maximum Fun Drive, I'm going to be whispering your name into the brush.
35:48 Griffin McElroy? Well, holy shit.
35:50 Travis McElroy? During live streams.
35:51 Griffin McElroy? Holy shit.
35:52 Travis McElroy? This week, if there's ever been a better incentive to become a member of this beautiful network, I don't know what it is, go to MaximumFun.org/join right now, and I will whisper your name into the brush that increases desire live before your very eyes.
36:10 Griffin McElroy? Haunted Doll Watch. We're just not getting through six questions. We've got an exciting delivery on the desk right now. Holy shit, dude. Holy shit.
36:20 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
36:20 Griffin McElroy? Justin's got a box.
36:21 Travis McElroy? This is a large box that I received in our, my P O. Box, P O. Box.
36:27 Griffin McElroy? You're really cradling it.
36:28 Travis McElroy? Huntington, West Virginia, 25704.
36:32 Griffin McElroy? You're snuggling it.
36:33 Travis McElroy? Sending your cereal from across the globe. The box label says trick or treat with Garfield.
36:41 Griffin McElroy? Amazing.
36:42 Travis McElroy? This is the note that I received. Hi, boys. Longtime listener since 2015. First time mailer of definitely haunted dolls. When you see her, you'll understand. She's been traveling around with me, new in box, through at least four different moves. I've been meaning to ship her for ages. I finally found a box perfect for it, so here she is. So I guess maybe the Garfield box is a misleading thing. I don't know.
37:07 Griffin McElroy? Have you opened this bad boy yet, or is this amazing?
37:10 Travis McElroy? It's been sealed, sitting on a shelf. I've been waiting for an opportunity, and the Max Fun Drive is such an opportunity. I finally found a box.
37:16 Travis McElroy? If I could interrupt Justin real quick.
37:18 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah, there's only two sentences left. Sure.
37:20 Travis McElroy? I noticed above your right shoulder, I believe.
37:23 Travis McElroy? I was clearly being ironic, Travis. Clearly, I didn't want to be interrupted.
37:28 Travis McElroy? Cradled by a crocheted count donut is the brush that increases desire?
37:33 Griffin McElroy? I see.
37:36 Travis McElroy? Okay.
37:37 Griffin McElroy? God.
37:38 Travis McElroy? So, uh, this is, she's in your hands now. Take care of her. Steph D.
37:44 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
37:45 Travis McElroy? Fork first into the void in PA. I have no idea what's gonna be in here.
37:51 Griffin McElroy? It's, I'm not 100% sure what Garfield's pronouns are, but it does sound like, just based on sort of context clues. Maybe it's normal.
37:58 Travis McElroy? You know what Garfield's pronouns are?
38:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, he's him, man. It's Garfield.
38:03 Travis McElroy? Do you think it's because Justin got the brush that increases desires? That's why they're making the Phantom reboot?
38:09 Griffin McElroy? It's possible that you guys fucking worked together on this.
38:13 Travis McElroy? Okay.
38:13 Griffin McElroy? And I had no part in it.
38:15 Travis McElroy? Here we go. So I'm opening the box. I'm gonna...
38:20 Griffin McElroy? Is there a...
38:20 Travis McElroy? That's a smell. It's like the smell. There's always...
38:23 Griffin McElroy? It's like a smell.
38:24 Travis McElroy? It's transportative.
38:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. The ghost comes out hot and fast. It fills in. It's pressurized.
38:29 Travis McElroy? Uh, we have some really nice wrapping paper. I'm gonna try to remove.
38:36 Griffin McElroy? Man, I hope it's not like a trap.
38:39 Griffin McElroy? Be crazy to get that on camera.
38:40 Travis McElroy? Oh, gosh. Okay, you know what?
38:42 Griffin McElroy? Who's in there? Okay, that's just paper. And...
38:47 Travis McElroy? Oh!
38:48 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure. Wait, but there's, no, hold on, wait. There is something going on with Garfield. There's something going on with that doll that I don't...
38:56 Travis McElroy? Oh, my gosh.
38:57 Griffin McElroy? That feels custom to me.
38:59 Travis McElroy? So exciting. This is exciting. Wow, this is really exciting.
39:08 Griffin McElroy? We got a little trick or treat bag. That's cute.
39:10 Travis McElroy? Trick or treat bag.
39:11 Griffin McElroy? That's really cute, actually.
39:13 Travis McElroy? Novelty stand.
39:15 Griffin McElroy? That's incredible.
39:19 Griffin McElroy? The doll seems aftermarket, Juice. I'll be honest.
39:22 Travis McElroy? No, dude. The doll's not. It's...
39:28 Travis McElroy? Oh my god!
39:31 Griffin McElroy? Down, beauty blogger, I can't see the face, I need the face.
39:34 Travis McElroy? Does that have a hairnet on?
39:36 Travis McElroy? Uh, that's, I think that's packaging material.
39:38 Griffin McElroy? So what we're looking at right now, folks listening at home, is a child, a little doll child, that is wearing a Garfield suit. So it's like...
39:45 Travis McElroy? Sort of a onesie, yeah.
39:47 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, oh wow, that's...
39:49 Travis McElroy? And the child is cheesing so hard, like it's just been told, as soon as they get a picture with a smile, you can take it off.
39:56 Griffin McElroy? But it also looks like while it was going through R&D, a focus group was like, can you make the eyes deader? Deader eyes, deader eyes, deader eyes, deader, deader, deader.
40:05 Griffin McElroy? Now if you guys are ready to have some Halloween fun. Dude.
40:09 Travis McElroy? Oh!
40:14 Travis McElroy? Why?
40:15 Griffin McElroy? Is it good like that? It's so much better like that, you put the Garfield eyes on it, and now...
40:19 Travis McElroy? It's not to scale at all!
40:21 Griffin McElroy? It's not to scale even a little bit, but that's okay, the child's having a great time. He's got, he's super dumpy, which I imagine is maybe just all the can't, fun-sized candy bars he's stuffed inside the suit with him, which is crazy.
40:33 Travis McElroy? A specific dumpy-ness too.
40:35 Griffin McElroy? A huge, sort of, uh, bottle-shaped dumpy-ness. Is there a tail?
40:41 Travis McElroy? I'm trying to figure out...
40:43 Griffin McElroy? How to, how to, how to display. Yeah, I mean, this, this guy's a, this guy's a permanent fixture, I imagine, in the background.
40:48 Travis McElroy? Oh yeah, he's gonna get right...
40:49 Griffin McElroy? You put him next to Frish's big boy in the brush that increases desires, and you're...
40:57 Griffin McElroy? Why does the brush look like that?
40:58 Travis McElroy? I guess my question is, why is the mask so big and chunky?
41:04 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:05 Travis McElroy? It's, dude, I, listen, I don't think I can...
41:08 Griffin McElroy? It's hard to, you're, you're trying to beauty...
41:10 Travis McElroy? It's like, it's porcelain, it's like, it's really hard and heavy.
41:14 Travis McElroy? It's like they had the mask first, and crafted the rest of the idea around it.
41:20 Griffin McElroy? The sound, actually, that the mask makes touching the child's doll face is, sounds really good, can you give us that just a couple times? Listen, because it sounds fucking, get it right up on the mic.
41:29 Travis McElroy? We'll get it clean.
41:33 Travis McElroy? Because it's not molded to it.
41:35 Griffin McElroy? Travis, don't talk, people are trying to...
41:36 Travis McElroy? And it's too heavy for the elastic, like, this is naturally...
41:38 Griffin McElroy? It's sort of sagging, like a cool sagging style.
41:41 Travis McElroy? Sagging, sagging.
41:42 Travis McElroy? Cars will watch out for him!
41:45 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome.
41:48 Travis McElroy? Port lasagna in bag. Lasagna in bag.
41:54 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome. Wow.
41:56 Travis McElroy? This is a beautiful piece. Thank you so much.
41:59 Travis McElroy? I'm saying this is apparent.
42:01 Travis McElroy? This is good. This is actually very Halloween realistic. Got like a black long sleeve thermal and some sweatpants.
42:07 Travis McElroy? That kid is gonna be sweating their fucking ass off. I don't care what the weather is outside. They're wearing a bearskin rug.
42:16 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah. No good.
42:17 Travis McElroy? No good. Thank you so much.
42:19 Griffin McElroy? But extremely good.
42:21 Travis McElroy? But also very good. I just gotta, I'll look at the instructions later. We'll have it properly mounted.
42:26 Griffin McElroy? I feel like I need to say for your sake, do not let this kick off a wave of you saying, well, I've got a haunted doll for Justin. Unless it's a fucking stone cold heater like this. Really take a look at that doll, because sometimes we get sent dolls.
42:38 Travis McElroy? I'll find a place for him. I'll find a place for him. No problem. I'll take care of it. No problem.
42:43 Travis McElroy? How about another question?
42:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah, sure.
42:44 Travis McElroy? This is an advice show, and I feel like sometimes we lose sight of that. I work with yeast, but most of my friends are not in the yeast community. Recently, my friends have started referring to me as the yeast guy and telling me about any yeast related things they come across. I'm still pretty new at yeast.
43:01 Travis McElroy? Sorry, hold on, wait. This is really good.
43:04 Travis McElroy? I'm still pretty new at yeast work, and so I have a bit of imposter syndrome at being given this title. How should I best accept and embrace my new identity as the yeast guy? And this is from the yeast guy.
43:21 Travis McElroy? That's a good start.
43:22 Travis McElroy? It's a good start.
43:23 Griffin McElroy? That is a good start, owning it.
43:24 Travis McElroy? Start.
43:25 Travis McElroy? Maybe you could start talking about like the yeast games and yeastables and your boss, Mr. Yeast, and just see.
43:33 Griffin McElroy? Mr. Yeast is such a.
43:35 Travis McElroy? You can keep that up before they're like, this sounds a lot like Mr. B. You're like, yeah, Mr. Yeast today said he would give away like a million dollars to the first hundred yeast that stayed alive. And then they're like, that sounds like something Mr. Beast would do. And you're like, different brands.
43:52 Travis McElroy? We're actually probably the best people at like making jokes about Mr. Beast that I know of. I don't think any but yeah, I don't think like we do a lot of actually very.
44:01 Travis McElroy? You hear that iHeartRadio? New category.
44:04 Travis McElroy? New category. I just think we make a lot of very good Mr. Beast jokes. Uh, that I don't feel like our audience. I think our audience is uniquely positioned to not enjoy. Like the demographically speaking.
44:16 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
44:17 Travis McElroy? You know what I mean? Like I have, I do to my life has been exposed to so much Mr. Beast that I feel like I could do a pretty good five to 10 on on Beast stuff. Travis's yeast thing right there was like so good.
44:28 Griffin McElroy? It's really good. But we also, I mean, it's the same reason we are all like routinely pitching blippy gags to crickets. Just absolutely no one, because it's tough. It's tough. What do you got there?
44:41 Travis McElroy? The the bag is labeled accessory package. This is how they used to do things, kids. People used to be professionals.
44:48 Griffin McElroy? That's awesome.
44:48 Travis McElroy? The nice thing is, you, one should not have imposter syndrome when they know any amount of stuff. While the people talking to them knows zero amount of about that stuff. Right? You are inherently an expert above them. Your friends who know nothing about yeast, who are telling you about yeast because they're excited they found out a single fact about yeast, aren't judging you that you don't know more about yeast than they think you do.
45:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:18 Travis McElroy? Yeah, but, yeah, but on the other hand, Trav, this person is admittedly new to yeast work. We gotta start being careful about imposter syndrome, folks.
45:30 Griffin McElroy? Oh, wow. Oh, wow.
45:31 Travis McElroy? No, listen, hold on.
45:32 Griffin McElroy? Something's about to get said. Yeah.
45:33 Travis McElroy? No, no, no, no, no. Listen. No, listen.
45:35 Travis McElroy? Own it.
45:37 Travis McElroy? If you have imposter syndrome about something because people think you know way more about it than you actually do, that's not imposter syndrome. That is a, that is a discrepancy of information.
45:52 Travis McElroy? Right?
45:52 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:53 Travis McElroy? You get imposter syndrome.
45:54 Griffin McElroy? It's not your fault.
45:55 Travis McElroy? No.
45:55 Griffin McElroy? It's their fault for thinking that much.
45:57 Travis McElroy? You get imposter syndrome about things that you are an expert in.
46:02 Griffin McElroy? Like, yeah.
46:03 Travis McElroy? Recently, I've been taking on some new challenges. And I've been thinking, I've been really doubting myself. And these are untested things, things I haven't tried before, right? I've really doubted myself. And I thought, man, I got imposter syndrome. And then later, I rethought that and I had to reframe it and say, you don't have imposter syndrome. You have regular wondering if you're going to fuck up or not. That's just a normal amount of wondering that. I think you have a very normal amount of worrying. Someone's going to ask you a question about yeast and you're going to look like an asshole. And that's like, that's not imposter syndrome. That's just being alive. That's like a normal part of being alive.
46:39 Griffin McElroy? Fully, fully.
46:39 Travis McElroy? As someone who takes on a lot of new hobbies constantly, I started reintroducing some, um, I would say archaic terminology to give us a level betwixt novice and expert, journeyman.
46:54 Griffin McElroy? Journeyman is great. I like journeyman a lot.
46:57 Travis McElroy? An enthusiastic. Right? I'm still learning. I love that.
47:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. I can't answer all your questions.
47:04 Travis McElroy? I know more than I did on my first day. I'm no longer a novice. But I'm not an expert. I'm a journeyman.
47:11 Griffin McElroy? Did you guys have any COVID hobbies that you kind of like got into with someone else? And then like they kept going with it and you fell off? Or like they were already an expert and you came to them like, hey, I want to get into your thing. And then you fell off immediately because that's just how we're built. And it was COVID and we were all trying a lot of stuff. And then they check in with you like, hey, how's it going with that? And you say, I did stop. It's boring.
47:35 Travis McElroy? I would say absolutely. If I am always the other person.
47:40 Griffin McElroy? Yes.
47:41 Travis McElroy? I know exactly what you're talking about.
47:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
47:43 Travis McElroy? But like.
47:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
47:45 Travis McElroy? Or flip, flip it.
47:47 Travis McElroy? It happens with my children. Well, they will inadvertently shame me by saying like, hey, do you still do blank hobby that I haven't touched in six months? Cause I'm three hobbies further along now.
47:57 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh.
47:58 Travis McElroy? Or they'll say like, when are you gonna play Stardew Valley again? You're always playing that Beaver game, which is Timberborn. Or like, what happened to the video store game? And I'm like, oh, I lost interest in that. And I can only play one video game at a time because of my brain disease.
48:13 Griffin McElroy? Sure. Daddy, make me some hard candy. I haven't done that shit.
48:17 Travis McElroy? I don't.
48:17 Griffin McElroy? In like four years.
48:18 Travis McElroy? Dot asked me the other day, Dot said, my six year old, why do you have so many unfinished projects?
48:25 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. What a great question, Dottie. Absolutely.
48:28 Travis McElroy? And I said, well, the fun's not in finishing them. The fun is in chasing the interest as long as it exists. And she said, yeah, there's just a lot of stuff around the house. Fuck, yeah, man. You're right. You're right.
48:42 Travis McElroy? I think Travis, the next time you gotta come back and say, I don't know, Dot, it's because some of my unfinished projects are real chatty.
48:50 Griffin McElroy? So wow, yeah.
48:52 Travis McElroy? Unfinished projects got a lot of attitude.
48:55 Travis McElroy? Cause I spent a lot of time making you chocolate milk.
48:58 Travis McElroy? I'm trying to drink my chocolate milk, Dot.
49:01 Travis McElroy? No, I, no, I'm making her chocolate milk.
49:04 Travis McElroy? Sorry.
49:04 Travis McElroy? Chocolate milk isn't my escape.
49:06 Travis McElroy? You're slurping down a big, refreshing chocolate milk while your daughter tries to get your, I get it. Okay.
49:11 Travis McElroy? Let daddy finish his medicine.
49:13 Travis McElroy? I will, I will tell you guys, I have the legitimate hardest one of these to, to come back from. And I would love, I would still love your advice on this.
49:21 Griffin McElroy? Sure, sure.
49:22 Travis McElroy? I did Taekwondo for a year.
49:25 Griffin McElroy? A big one. We all knew that was a big one.
49:27 Travis McElroy? It was a big one. That was in zag on them. So that would have been.
49:31 Griffin McElroy? Twenty serpentine, seventeen?
49:33 Travis McElroy? Twenty seventeen, okay. So I did Taekwondo for a year, kind of lost interest, picked it up a couple of years later with Charlie and we did it for a couple of years and I became a blue belt in Taekwondo, which is like, you know, about middle, right?
49:46 Griffin McElroy? Journey.
49:47 Travis McElroy? Journey to. And then I stopped going because I don't know.
49:52 Travis McElroy? You didn't want to.
49:53 Griffin McElroy? Why does anyone stop doing Taekwondo?
49:54 Travis McElroy? I don't know. Why does anyone just stop doing anything? It got cold or hot. Who knows?
49:59 Griffin McElroy? Too cold or hot to go outside, so you stopped your journey.
50:02 Travis McElroy? Right? Hurt. Something hurt.
50:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
50:04 Travis McElroy? Someone died. You know, stuff happens. So we stopped going for some amount of time. The amount of time now is such that I am left in this impossible scenario where I feel like it is something I should be doing, would enjoy returning to, would get a lot out of. But I, for the life of me, do not know how I go back with my blue belt and say, I've forgotten it all. Take this from me.
50:30 Griffin McElroy? You find and.
50:31 Travis McElroy? And take, take me back to the, to the white belt. Cause that's the, they don't want to do that. They don't.
50:37 Griffin McElroy? They don't want you.
50:38 Travis McElroy? They don't get anything out of that, right? They don't want to go back and teach you. And honestly, if I had a tutor, an intensive two week tutor to Miyagi me through.
50:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
50:49 Travis McElroy? To catch me back up, you know, maybe that, maybe I'm a blue belt again. I don't know.
50:55 Griffin McElroy? Maybe.
50:57 Travis McElroy? I don't know how to get back on board. And Master Kim, I paid a good amount of, this is the last, this is the other thing. This other, this other problem. Okay. I was really enthusiastic about Taekwondo and I paid for a year in advance.
51:16 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh. Sure.
51:16 Travis McElroy? And then we used about three months of that. And now if I go back, I cannot have a conversation with Master Kim where he's like.
51:24 Griffin McElroy? You owe me this many Taekwondo's.
51:28 Travis McElroy? I, I, I mean, I don't know. It's gonna at least be a conversation. And of course I will defer to whatever. He is the master, right? Like I'm gonna, I would obviously defer to whatever he said. But there would be this question of, I did, I mean.
51:43 Griffin McElroy? I, yeah, sure.
51:44 Travis McElroy? You can't really say that I was using those months, Master Kim. Like, was it? You know?
51:49 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
51:49 Travis McElroy? But is it possible, Justin, that simply by paying for the months, even if you didn't go to the class, you were still benefiting from the Taekwondo? Like kind of just being there for you if you needed it?
52:02 Griffin McElroy? Interesting.
52:03 Travis McElroy? And then maybe when that nine months ran out, that's why you can't remember how to do any of it? Cause you're. Your time ran out.
52:12 Travis McElroy? No, but Trav, I would say, I don't know that to be true. But upon further reflection, I would say that by paying for a year and then just not being present for nine months, I've got to be like the top 10% of Master Kim's favorite students.
52:26 Griffin McElroy? That's true.
52:27 Travis McElroy? Yeah, pretty good deal.
52:28 Griffin McElroy? It would be.
52:29 Travis McElroy? Students go.
52:30 Travis McElroy? Certainly upsetting on some level, but can you imagine if you had a full roster of paying students, but none of them ever came and you just got to sit there and like fucking play Halo all day?
52:42 Griffin McElroy? They're like, and these suckers are at home feeling guilty.
52:45 Travis McElroy? Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. They're doing the same thing I am, except the money's flowing this way.
52:50 Griffin McElroy? That you might show up and be like, uh, Master, can you, it's been so long, can you teach me? And he'll be like, man, I haven't, I also haven't done it in like nine months. No one shows up to these things.
53:00 Travis McElroy? Uh, that would explain why whenever I was early for class, he would always be like, oh, Christ, this guy.
53:07 Travis McElroy? Fuck.
53:10 Griffin McElroy? Wheeling the TV out of the room.
53:14 Travis McElroy? One more question.
53:15 Travis McElroy? Cool.
53:16 Griffin McElroy? Heroic effort.
53:17 Travis McElroy? Can't stop, won't stop, just like the old days. I'm a college student suffering through a heat wave. Yesterday I saw a, uh, love roller coaster by the Electric Mayhem, featuring Jennifer Hudson and Questlove.
53:34 Griffin McElroy? Ooh, dude, how long is this fucking roller coaster, dude? Is it like a Guardians of the Galaxy thing where you get a different track?
53:40 Travis McElroy? You never know what track you're gonna get.
53:41 Griffin McElroy? Hell, yes.
53:43 Travis McElroy? Yesterday I saw a very large lawn sprinkler spraying water over one of the turf fields on campus to cool it down for a sports game happening later in the day. It looked very refreshing.
53:58 Travis McElroy? Do you think it'd be okay for me to?
53:59 Travis McElroy? No.
54:02 Travis McElroy? Do you think it's okay for me to run through the giant sprinkler to cool off? That's from melting in Massachusetts.
54:09 Travis McElroy? Well, I'd say right now, you're staring at the blank page before you.
54:13 Griffin McElroy? Okay. I can't see through that window.
54:16 Travis McElroy? Might I recommend, open up the dirty window?
54:19 Griffin McElroy? Open it.
54:19 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
54:20 Griffin McElroy? Don't clean it.
54:20 Travis McElroy? Illuminate the words that you cannot find.
54:23 Griffin McElroy? What if the words were, what if it was, clean up that dirty window? And then you, all of a sudden, it's functional no matter which state.
54:29 Travis McElroy? Well, when you're reaching for something in the distance, it's wind ducts.
54:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
54:33 Travis McElroy? So close, you can almost taste it, but don't, because it's wind ducts.
54:36 Griffin McElroy? Is there advice in here?
54:38 Travis McElroy? Release your inhibitions.
54:40 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
54:40 Travis McElroy? Feel the sprinklers on your skin. No one else can feel it.
54:44 Travis McElroy? There's a reason it doesn't, the meter doesn't work. It's because it's not rain, you know, it's sprinklers.
54:49 Griffin McElroy? What if, yeah, someone put that there.
54:51 Travis McElroy? What if instead of frolicking, you're like, looking at your phone, pretending to look at your phone? And you walk in and start getting sprayed and you go, oh, oh, man, oh, no. And you like, oh, kind of befuddle your way through getting sprayed, but not like you enjoy it.
55:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah, okay, imagine the person that spent some of their day setting these sprinklers up, okay? Now imagine they are watching this field. And now imagine yourself striding across it and beginning their freshman. Do you think there was a reality, which they look at you and extend the double thumbs up like, yes, this is what I wanted?
55:25 Travis McElroy? I'm glad someone's getting use out of it.
55:27 Travis McElroy? I was, yeah, I was hoping, this is good for the field that I'm in charge of. Thank you so much. This is good.
55:33 Travis McElroy? Roll around a bit, maybe pull some grass up.
55:36 Travis McElroy? That's what this is for. I, it doesn't, I don't have a problem. Uh, you know, this is not about inhibitions. I don't, I don't care about that. I think that, you know, you could do whatever, you know, you, you feel like, as long as you're not hurting other folks or yourselves, uh, but like,
55:55 Travis McElroy? people are gonna assume you don't know that the sprinklers for the grass.
55:58 Travis McElroy? For you.
55:59 Griffin McElroy? Right.
55:59 Travis McElroy? Yeah, people are gonna assume that you think it is a fun activity for everyone to enjoy.
56:05 Griffin McElroy? Right.
56:06 Travis McElroy? Because you're doing that.
56:07 Travis McElroy? Dousy castle. I don't get it.
56:09 Travis McElroy? Yeah, right.
56:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
56:09 Travis McElroy? I thought this was the church fete.
56:12 Travis McElroy? Here's a good standard. If you do something that if 30 other people did it at the same time, they'd write a story about it in the newspaper.
56:23 Griffin McElroy? That's a really good sort of catch all.
56:25 Travis McElroy? It's like a pretty good, like you do it. Yes. Two people Mentos commercial. And then it's like 30. It's like, get the press. Something's gone wrong, but you know what I mean? Something's happened.
56:36 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. You need to be careful also because if we're talking about one sprinkler that is servicing an entire sports lawn and it's covering that entire place. The pressure that that thing is putting out is going to absolutely flay. If you get too close to it, like a doggy trying to get a silly drink, it's going to absolutely rip you to shreds. It's gonna blast you apart. So don't be even close to this thing.
57:02 Travis McElroy? But the good news with that is no matter how precisely this thing's been set up, there's no way it stops like at the end zone or whatever. You're gonna stand with a headset on, a visor, a clipboard, right on the edge of the field, and you're gonna catch the sprits. You're gonna catch the mist, right?
57:24 Griffin McElroy? Gently, gently on the, on the precipice of the thing.
57:27 Travis McElroy? And you're gonna sit there like you're planning plays for the later game while you get a light misting.
57:35 Griffin McElroy? Dude, yes. Visor, visor on, sports shirt, maybe a jersey. What do coaches wear? Not the jersey.
57:42 Travis McElroy? A polo.
57:43 Griffin McElroy? They wear like a polo, yes. And you're, you got your clipboard, you're drawing, doodling X's and O's.
57:51 Travis McElroy? I don't know if you could sell this as a performance, but what if you're like on your phone? Or, but it's like a fake phone because you can't, you don't like it to real. So it's like a fake phone. Okay. And you're walking, you're like, huh, what?
58:06 Griffin McElroy? Wait.
58:06 Travis McElroy? Like you did, you walk into it, right? Okay. I'm still doing it. I'm still doing it. Like huh? And you're like, yeah, some weather we're having. And then you like pop your hood up and you're like, oh, well, when in Rome? And then you like really live it up. So it's like you accidentally did it. And then people see you like being fully not pissed off about it.
58:26 Griffin McElroy? Wait.
58:26 Travis McElroy? You know, like not even sweating it. You know what I mean?
58:30 Griffin McElroy? Right.
58:30 Travis McElroy? But I pitched, but Justin.
58:32 Griffin McElroy? Think about it.
58:33 Travis McElroy? I pitched this.
58:34 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no. Mine was shorter. Think about it. His was way shorter.
58:37 Travis McElroy? Think about it.
58:39 Griffin McElroy? I mean, yours was. Let me, let me pitch this. What if you pitch this? Let me pitch this. Let me do this. What if you're close, but not too close, a little wet?
58:47 Travis McElroy? Yeah. But I.
58:50 Travis McElroy? But I said, but I-
58:51 Griffin McElroy? Not too wet.
58:52 Travis McElroy? A little sweaty, like a mist-
58:54 Griffin McElroy? A little sweaty. It looks cool, it's gonna feel good.
58:59 Griffin McElroy? And, you gotta, can't get too close, because I'm looking at some stats, guys. I'm looking at the Nelson Big Gun SR200. The PSI, it throws up to 310 feet and flows up to 1,200 gallons per minute. You'll be ripped asunder. You'll be killed by this sprinkler.
59:16 Travis McElroy? And I think a good rule is if you do something that if, like, 25 people did it, they'd write about it in the newspaper, you shouldn't.
59:24 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh. Yeah. Holy shit, the Nelson Big Gun SR200, absolutely fucking blast. I'm looking at a video of this bad boy. They're like covering crops with this goddamn thing.
59:36 Travis McElroy? What if you see the lawn guy like, "No, don't!" You think like, "Oh, he's worried about his lawn."
59:41 Travis McElroy? Cuts you in half. Not again! "No, I had to spray the field off again." This is just like the bite of 87. It bled everywhere. When we used to use goats to mow the lawn.
59:55 Griffin McElroy? Look at this fucking thing.
59:56 Travis McElroy? Shit, dude!
59:57 Griffin McElroy? Holy fucking shit.
1:00:00 Griffin McElroy? That's covering an entire highway. You would be absolutely-
1:00:03 Travis McElroy? Oh my god!
1:00:03 Griffin McElroy? You'd be killed, graveyard dead by-
1:00:11 Travis McElroy? Holy shit.
1:00:12 Griffin McElroy? Dude, you would blast off the face. Fucking forget about it. Look at how hard that shit's blasting.
1:00:17 Travis McElroy? Why do you think this is the one that you're saying?
1:00:22 Travis McElroy? It's so powerful.
1:00:24 Griffin McElroy? Can you imagine trying to hold on to this thing? And operating it, you would go absolutely zooming.
1:00:29 Travis McElroy? Large volume sprinkler. That's, that looks like a hose that Bruce Willis would use in Armageddon. That's not like a sprinkler.
1:00:38 Griffin McElroy? That shit's crazy. I didn't even know they made hoses that big.
1:00:40 Travis McElroy? I love that when you're developing a sprinkler like that and you're trying to come up with a name for it, the only name that fits is "The Big Gun."
1:00:47 Griffin McElroy? The Nelson Big Gun. Fuck yeah, dude.
1:00:51 Travis McElroy? Folks, thank you so much for, for listening to our podcast. You know, we've been doing it for quite some time now, uh, but we're only able to keep doing it because of your support. Like, uh, if you go to maximumfund.org forward slash join and you say you'll give us $5 a month, we'll keep doing podcasts. No problem. Otherwise, whoa.
1:01:11 Griffin McElroy? That's crazy. We've never tried this tactic before.
1:01:14 Travis McElroy? It's a real nice podcast you got here. Be a shame if.
1:01:17 Griffin McElroy? We are a little bit behind pace while we're recording this. So maybe threat, like a protection racket, I guess is the next logical step. Justin just threw.
1:01:27 Travis McElroy? Real nice place you got here. Nice podcasts.
1:01:30 Griffin McElroy? This would be more threatening if we didn't end every episode with us throwing something really, really hard.
1:01:35 Travis McElroy? This is also like if I owned a store and I told customers they had to pay me more money or I would destroy my own store.
1:01:43 Griffin McElroy? Store. Yeah.
1:01:44 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Well, that's the way it works. Sometimes you like a nice store, but you don't pay it what it's due. Sometimes things get broken at the store.
1:01:54 Griffin McElroy? That's not, that's how it works.
1:01:56 Travis McElroy? Sometimes if you're not careful about shopping and giving your money to the store, it'll stop recording podcasts.
1:02:02 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
1:02:03 Travis McElroy? Be a shame if that happened here, wouldn't it?
1:02:05 Griffin McElroy? I guess.
1:02:06 Travis McElroy? You got a nice dice you got here. Nice dice, dork.
1:02:10 Griffin McElroy? And you just threw that too.
1:02:11 Travis McElroy? So that's your stuff, man. I hit my elbow on this and I'm going to sue you. Now you got that on your podcast.
1:02:16 Travis McElroy? The old slip and fall.
1:02:18 Travis McElroy? Oh, I've hurt my elbow. My brother, my brother, me, Jesse Thorne. I'm coming. My lawyers are coming.
1:02:28 Griffin McElroy? That's cool, man. You've really thought this strategy out too, which is my favorite part about it. We don't know how to make, we don't even know how to scam people out of money. Please, please help us. Please help us.
1:02:38 Travis McElroy? We're scamming ourselves and if we can't pay ourselves, something terrible is gonna happen.
1:02:43 Travis McElroy? Our legal bill is defending us from Justin.
1:02:47 Griffin McElroy? Maximumfun.org/join. We have a lot of people who've been listening for a long time, have been members for a long time. Your support means the world to all of us. The fact that this is our jobs is wild, and that's only true because of you all. And I'm so grateful. I'm so, so, so grateful. And if you've been listening for a while and you've never joined, make this the year that it happens, because it is, it is a challenging time in the podcast sort of business. And the way we are able to weather that and have weathered that in the past is because of the drive.
1:03:20 Travis McElroy? The sad thing about our award for best ad read is that we have to be the best, or our kids will go hungry. That's how competitive it is out there. We have no choice but to be the best.
1:03:30 Griffin McElroy? Take that, Conan. Take that. Five bucks a month gets you all the bonus content, hundreds of hours. 10 bucks a month, you get the keychain and the Boko and everything. There's other levels too, but just, just, you know, supporting us in such a material way and saying, hey, I like the stuff that you do. I like Max Fun. I think it's great. You can be responsible for its, its creation and its existence. And I've been a Max Fun member for, for quite a long time, and it does feel good knowing that, you know, this, this, this thing's still.
1:04:06 Travis McElroy? I have been too, but I only read it for the articles.
1:04:10 Griffin McElroy? All right. So you can be sort of, you can be like that if you want to be like that, as long as you go to Maximumfun.org/join. And, and please help us out. Thank you so much.
1:04:22 Travis McElroy? We also have to thank Montane.
1:04:24 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yeah, I gotta thank Montane for the use of our theme song, "My Life Is Better With You." Montane did a really nice TikTok talking about doing, doing that song for our show. And it made me, made me real happy because they're so talented. We're doing streams every day this week. If you're listening to this on release day, I got a Fuser stream coming out. Maybe this is coming out after the Fuser stream, but those are always a treat. I DJ, I mix up some nasty shit. Banana phone with fucking brain stew. Forget about it. You know that's in there. Also, we're going to be doing a live Monster Factory Tomodachi Life. That is going to be Thursday at noon.
1:05:01 Travis McElroy? Live Monster Factory. It's gonna be a big week. A lot of exciting stuff. Updates are on Instagram or our website and you can follow along on YouTube. Thank you so much.
1:05:10 Griffin McElroy? Uh, but we're doing stuff every, every day this week. So, uh, follow the Macro Family YouTube channel to, to stay abreast of, of all of our, our schedule and stuff.
1:05:18 Travis McElroy? We're, we're also gonna be at, uh, the Huntingdon, West Virginia Ren, Ren Fair this weekend. And so I was thinking I could throw this Magnus shoulder pauldrin that I made.
1:05:29 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:05:30 Travis McElroy? That I'm gonna wear.
1:05:31 Griffin McElroy? I could throw that. I'm a bit of a journeyman. You wanna throw your shoulder pauldrin that you made?
1:05:36 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:05:36 Griffin McElroy? Your work, wow, you're pretty confident in your craftsmanship.
1:05:38 Travis McElroy? I'm a journeyman. I'm a journeyman leather worker.
1:05:41 Griffin McElroy? Okay. That's, that's good. That's like 50 stat points. Where are you gonna throw it? I bet he's not gonna throw it hard juice because he's afraid he'll break it.
1:05:50 Travis McElroy? Did, did you guys know I got bit dot ly forward slash Ren Fair 2026?
1:05:55 Griffin McElroy? No, that's a great hyperlink.
1:05:56 Travis McElroy? Isn't that good?
1:05:57 Griffin McElroy? Alright, he's gonna chuck it now.
1:05:58 Travis McElroy? Okay, with an E.
1:06:01 Griffin McElroy? Oh, he hit our YouTube award, dude.
1:06:03 Travis McElroy? That was chunky, dude.
1:06:04 Griffin McElroy? That was a chunky. And it did not, that's a good award. It did not fall down.
1:06:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it was really good, dude. Hey, congratulations, Trav. Congratulations, us. Uh, that's gonna do it for us for this week on My Brother, My Brother and Me.
1:06:15 Griffin McElroy? And it's still intact. Beautiful, dude. Journeyman craftsmanship.
1:06:19 Travis McElroy? My name's Justin McElroy.
1:06:21 Griffin McElroy? I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy.
1:06:24 Travis McElroy? This has been My Brother, My Brother and Me. Kiss your dads where I'm at.
Previous MaxFunDrive 2026: Janet Varney Masterclass BoCo Teaser! Next MBMBaM 812: ‘Cino Drops a Hoo Page updated October 30, 2026 · transcript and summary are machine-generated