Pod Insights My Brother, My Brother And Me MBMBaM 812: ‘Cino Drops a Hoo About this episode We’re back to our true, nasty, sunglass-wearing selves! We’re getting down and dirty with advice about knockin’ bowls, chilli-themed ska bands, dark side nuggies, and all-around bad boy energy!
Suggested talking points: Eat Your Parents Money, Searching for Beans, Dad-Dash the Grogu Fries, Was One of Your Parents Passive Voice
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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've never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. Life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. My life, ah, it's better, it's better with you. This is true, ah, it's better, it's better with you.
1:03 Speaker 01 My life, ah, it's better with you.
1:09 Travis McElroy? Hello, everybody. Welcome to my brother, my brother made advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Travis nation? It's me, your middlest brother Travis, big dog, wolf of vroom vroom heater, award-winning McElroy. Too many, I'm Griffin McElroy. And the Max Fun Drive is officially over now. We have for two weeks come to you hat in hand say, hey, we need money, but that's all in the past. Lock the gates. And boys, you know what that means? What's that? You know what that means? What's that, Juice? The bitch is back, baby. I don't want... The bitch, the bitch, the bitch is back. That's right. Your original bitch is back. Yeah, I love that. No more gratitude, no more kindness. I'm back. Can I tell you what's amazing? I am serving stinky bitch.
1:52 Travis McElroy? Can I tell you what's amazing, Justin? It's like a rule of-
1:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
1:55 Travis McElroy? It's like a rule of-
1:56 Griffin McElroy? Bitch. The word I don't like from you.
1:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's like a rule of three things. Where you said it the first time and I was like, I'm uncomfortable with you saying that. And then you said it like three times and I was like, I'm coming out.
2:08 Griffin McElroy? Oh, sorry, Snowflake. Sorry. I already got your mummy.
2:11 Travis McElroy? Okay, but then you said it like three more times and I fell back off. And then you said it one more time and I was like, well, maybe. And then you said it like a seventh time and I was like, I don't know.
2:20 Travis McElroy? If I say it eight more times, Beetlejuice will come out of the ground, right?
2:24 Travis McElroy? More like bitchel juice. The bitch. I don't have my sunglasses. Fuck. Oh, here we go. The bitch, bitch, now I'm back too.
2:33 Travis McElroy? Hey, Griffin, do you want to get nasty with us? You don't have to be nice anymore, dude. Play day's over.
2:38 Griffin McElroy? Shit, I do have sunglasses. Yeah, man, this bit.
2:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, man.
2:43 Travis McElroy? I'm gonna put on my tortoiseshell glasses. They're even cooler.
2:45 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, dude, look out because now we're raising-
2:48 Travis McElroy? These are black.
2:48 Griffin McElroy? Now, Max Fun Drive's over. Now we're raising bitch money.
2:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, listen to Griffin curse. I've got a pipe.
2:55 Griffin McElroy? I just don't like that one. Um, yeah, thank you to everybody who did come out to support.
3:00 Travis McElroy? I've got a 3D, a 3D printed mace.
3:03 Griffin McElroy? I know.
3:03 Travis McElroy? If you can't handle me at my Garf mask, then you don't deserve me at my, you know?
3:08 Griffin McElroy? Listen, I know we promised this year that immediately after the Max Fun Drive, we wouldn't turn nasty. But the prob-
3:14 Travis McElroy? But you got a knife. This guy's got a fucking knife.
3:17 Griffin McElroy? But the problem is that for two weeks, we have to bottle up all this nasty energy. And now, and now we have, now we gotta let it out. Cause we do a secret drive for one week after the Max Fun Drive. That's like the nasty, the nasty go drive.
3:32 Travis McElroy? Hey, kids, eat all the candy you can.
3:34 Griffin McElroy? Eat all the candy. Eat all your parents' money. Fuck, yeah.
3:37 Travis McElroy? Eat all your parents' money.
3:39 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. The Max Fun Drive's done. This is Drive Angry 3D. This is Drive Angry Shot in 3D. Look out for these, uh, angry bitches.
3:51 Travis McElroy? Say it, Griffin. Griffin, say it.
3:52 Griffin McElroy? Look out for these three nasty biffers. These biffers are gonna get ya.
4:00 Travis McElroy? Griffin, you didn't say-
4:01 Travis McElroy? You're one of a biff.
4:01 Griffin McElroy? Maximumfun.org/join. No, it's just muscle memory, guys.
4:05 Travis McElroy? You get your damn hands off, her biff.
4:06 Travis McElroy? You gotta stop. You're done. Hi, everybody. Thank you so much for your support last week.
4:09 Griffin McElroy? Do you guys think I could keep the middle finger and the knife up for the whole?
4:13 Travis McElroy? It looks like you're threatening to cut off your own middle finger.
4:16 Griffin McElroy? Every clip that we cut from this episode would have an energy that would absolutely puzzle-
4:21 Travis McElroy? You're threatening yourself. The combination makes it look like, I got a nice middle finger here. It'd be shameless to have a-
4:29 Travis McElroy? My dream is the TikTok starts here.
4:31 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:32 Travis McElroy? Oh my god, Griffin, what's wrong with you? What are you doing, man? You look so wild. We're trying to-
4:36 Travis McElroy? Don't do it, Griffin.
4:38 Travis McElroy? Don't do it, Griffin. Travis, take your glasses off, too. This is like, we'll leave him hanging.
4:42 Griffin McElroy? You still look like a biff.
4:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
4:44 Travis McElroy? Wait, did you put a CH on?
4:46 Griffin McElroy? I snapped, guys. I finally hit my fucking breaking point.
4:51 Travis McElroy? Oh, oh no, dude.
4:54 Griffin McElroy? I was in the self-checkout line at the grocery store and I was like, what happened to our once-great nation? And I fucking went haywire, dudes.
5:04 Travis McElroy? But you're hitting your rings.
5:06 Griffin McElroy? I'm hitting my rings. Oh, yeah, thank you. Thank you for noticing, Travis. It's 9:45 in the morning. I've already closed one of them rings. You know I'm serious about this. Maximumfun.org/join. Please?
5:16 Travis McElroy? No!
5:16 Griffin McElroy? God damn it. Fuck.
5:18 Travis McElroy? Stop it. Hey, do you guys wanna hear a wild, weird fact?
5:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
5:22 Travis McElroy? Yeah. So you know, index finger you point with. Middle finger, it's right there in the middle. Ring finger's when you put your ring on. We got pinky and thumb. What's the deal with that? Pinky, named after a Dutch word, pink, for short, short finger. Thumb, Old English, thuma, short stout finger. So you got your pointer finger, your index finger, your middle finger, your ring finger, your small finger, and your short stout finger.
5:48 Griffin McElroy? They should just call them those. I see what you're saying. I see the point that you're making, Travis. And I wanna call this now- My thick finger. Gimme a, a th- thick's up. What if we just?
5:59 Travis McElroy? Thick.
5:59 Griffin McElroy? Thick ones up. Thick ones up. Maximumfund.org/join.
6:03 Travis McElroy? Stop doing it, Griffin. And a little finger. Oh, wait, that's a different guy. I'd rather they didn't. You know what I mean?
6:09 Griffin McElroy? No, I would rather they did.
6:10 Travis McElroy? It's less special.
6:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Okay.
6:13 Travis McElroy? It doesn't mean anything now. It's like telling someone you love them when it's not Valentine's Day. This is an, Amanda hates when we do this. That, this, thank you so much for your support. We are an advice show. Still, can't stop, won't stop. Don't know how.
6:26 Griffin McElroy? Unless we get sick, or we're not feeling, unless like one of our kids gets sick.
6:30 Travis McElroy? Or we're traveling and we put up a live show.
6:32 Griffin McElroy? Conflict, we're tired.
6:33 Travis McElroy? Tommy A. Yesterday, honestly, yesterday.
6:36 Griffin McElroy? Yesterday.
6:36 Travis McElroy? I just couldn't, literally yesterday. I was still recovering from the Yellowstone stream.
6:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
6:42 Travis McElroy? Couldn't do it.
6:43 Griffin McElroy? After the Yellowstone stream. You're buzzing, dude. Post, post, you got post-stone clarity.
6:47 Travis McElroy? My cache is cleared, baby. I got so much RAM, but on Tuesday, right after the stream, my children tried to ask me like where things were in the house.
6:56 Griffin McElroy? No way.
6:56 Travis McElroy? Questions about what we were doing later. And I was like, I can't, baby. I can't right now. I love you so much.
7:02 Griffin McElroy? To solve the global RAM shortage, all we need to do is get all these AI guys to just do all their AI and get it done with. And then all of a sudden, I'll be able to buy my Nintendo Switch 2 at a reasonable price point.
7:17 Travis McElroy? I mean, we'll have to maybe ship some water in from other planets, you know, and stuff after that, but it's worth it for Griffin to get a Switch 2.
7:25 Griffin McElroy? Quick. They'll get it through it so quick. All that AI stuff.
7:28 Travis McElroy? We should have the AI analyze other AI until they spiral and explode.
7:33 Griffin McElroy? Spiral out, they explode. And now all of a sudden I can buy my PlayStation 5 Pro for less than $1,000. Thank you so much.
7:40 Travis McElroy? I actually, I actually am working on this. Um, I entered my first command ever into AI a few weeks ago, and it was.
7:48 Travis McElroy? Uh, just like co-pilot, please shut down all other AI.
7:53 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:53 Travis McElroy? And then, and like, and it's like, it says thinking or working on it still.
7:58 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
7:58 Travis McElroy? But I feel like.
7:59 Travis McElroy? It's doing it.
8:00 Travis McElroy? It will, it will.
8:02 Travis McElroy? It's been working on it for a long time.
8:04 Travis McElroy? It's been working on it. It's been thinking about it. And maybe it's like talking to other co-pilots. I don't know about shutting it down, I think.
8:12 Travis McElroy? I think those are co-co-pilots at that point.
8:14 Griffin McElroy? You gotta be careful with that shit, Juice, cuz one time I was writing a document in Microsoft Word and Clippy was like, um, I'm sorry, did you mean? And I was, and I said, Clippy, suck my dick. And then, but then the energy, like, he stopped correcting my stuff after that point. And like, the energy was like, kinda weird. Like, every time I turned on the application, he'd be like, is it today? And I'd be like, Clippy, that was just sort of like a nasty, I was mad at you. I didn't, I wasn't propositioning you.
8:43 Travis McElroy? It's the problem with tone and text.
8:45 Travis McElroy? I had that with Bonzi Buddy, you know, or Bonzi Buddy that lived on your desktop.
8:49 Griffin McElroy? Buddy, yeah. No, he too gets confused.
8:52 Travis McElroy? I recently entered into a company tagline contest for work. And I saw that my tagline had made it to the finals, so I asked my coworker to help vote for it. Little did I know that she would tell HR to send a company-wide email saying to vote for me. But I just realized the tagline I thought was mine wasn't. Brothers, how do I get out of this situation or at least save face? I honestly thought it was mine. No, okay, now hold on. No, wait. What, I'm, I'm confused about something. Why did the, why did the whole company get an email saying to vote for you? In a contest that everybody company-wide was competing in?
9:33 Travis McElroy? So here's what I think happened. I think that there is some, uh, uh, miswording here, where maybe it was like everybody in the branch.
9:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
9:42 Travis McElroy? To vote for mine as a company-wide tagline.
9:46 Griffin McElroy? This is a big company.
9:47 Travis McElroy? Otherwise, it's a wild thing to be like, hey, I know that like Derek and Susan are in the running too. But everyone, this is your HR rep, vote for Todd.
9:57 Griffin McElroy? The wild thing, and it's wild enough that it makes me wanna put the question in timeout, is that you didn't tell us what your fucking tagline was. That's crazy. I guess it's not your tagline.
10:07 Travis McElroy? How are we supposed to brainstorm?
10:09 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:10 Travis McElroy? I don't think they're looking for a new tagline, Justin. I don't, I think it's probably too late to get ours submitted.
10:16 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
10:17 Travis McElroy? Okay, so it's probably for Hormel Chili if I had to guess.
10:20 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:20 Travis McElroy? I'm thinking Hormel Chili makes the most sense to me. I was thinking about it for a little bit. And they probably, if I had to guess.
10:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
10:28 Travis McElroy? This is a more of a guess to moot because I'm using a lot of context clues here. It's not just a random poll.
10:35 Travis McElroy? And the tagline was probably, if you're searching for beans, they're there.
10:40 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's good.
10:41 Griffin McElroy? That's a song too, which I like.
10:43 Travis McElroy? If you're searching for beans, they're there. If you're searching for beans, they're there.
10:48 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
10:49 Travis McElroy? I like that a lot.
10:50 Travis McElroy? Sorry.
10:51 Travis McElroy? They're there.
10:52 Travis McElroy? I realize saying it out loud, it sounds like.
10:54 Griffin McElroy? It sounds like you're saying. You're consoling someone who's struggling to find beans. That's cool too. If you're looking for beans, they're there. Enjoy the chili.
11:04 Travis McElroy? Looking for beans.
11:05 Griffin McElroy? If you're looking.
11:06 Travis McElroy? I think the K of looking actually is better than the of searching. If you're looking for beans, they're there.
11:13 Travis McElroy? Well, that's probably what happened. They submitted, if you're searching for beans, they're there. And somebody submitted, if you're looking for beans, they're there. And they were like, yeah, that's. I think that's what I put.
11:24 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
11:25 Travis McElroy? And then they realized the other one's better. What about, what about can you horse smell what we're cooking?
11:30 Griffin McElroy? Can you horse smell like Hormel?
11:34 Griffin McElroy? Like the rocks thing?
11:35 Travis McElroy? I'm realizing now it is very similar. I don't think he came up with the idea of smelling what's cooking though.
11:40 Griffin McElroy? Also, I'm not sure that that's. You, the way that you have divided up that word.
11:48 Travis McElroy? What's wrong with it?
11:50 Griffin McElroy? What are you? I was just thinking, you found the beans. And that can be cool. Like if you're looking.
11:55 Travis McElroy? Found the beans.
11:56 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, just a shorter version of like, you found the beans. You found the bean. Or what about this? Hormel chili. You found the chili. That's cool. Cause this is like.
12:07 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
12:07 Griffin McElroy? If you're shopping for chili at the grocery store, you see that, you're like, got it.
12:11 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
12:12 Griffin McElroy? You're like, I need something for. I need a nice fall spicy treat for my, my five kids.
12:18 Travis McElroy? Hormel chili, it won't hor melt in your pocket.
12:21 Travis McElroy? Oh, that's okay.
12:22 Griffin McElroy? That's cool.
12:24 Travis McElroy? What about, uh, we've got the beans?
12:29 Travis McElroy? That's too much like Arby's. And I don't think they needed a tagline. Did they say? I'm gonna reread this question.
12:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, read it again, cuz I know it says in there somewhere.
12:37 Travis McElroy? I'm buying into your premise. Just that I said, like, eight sentences ago, that they didn't ask for a tagline, it was too late to admit. But then you kept going.
12:49 Griffin McElroy? I didn't have any more good ones.
12:52 Travis McElroy? Oh, now you're doubling back.
12:53 Griffin McElroy? Now we're coming back.
12:54 Travis McElroy? This is the eighth episode in a row, this is.
12:56 Griffin McElroy? Kicking in the old abandoned question factory and looking for fucking ghosts. I know there was something in here.
13:04 Travis McElroy? Let me see your hands.
13:06 Griffin McElroy? I know there was something in here, but help me come up with a bean tagline. Did you guys hear that? There's something in the...
13:12 Travis McElroy? What?
13:12 Griffin McElroy? I'm getting something in the EMF reader.
13:15 Travis McElroy? I think there's another question squatting within this abandoned question.
13:23 Travis McElroy? I don't understand why anybody is campaigning. Like, just look at all the taglines, and then we should be trying to serve Rommel.
13:31 Griffin McElroy? I think it's what Travis...
13:32 Travis McElroy? It's a popularity contest.
13:34 Griffin McElroy? What Travis suggested, I think, is probably the case. It's a big company. This is a local branch of that company. They're very competitive. They wanna be the franchise that earns the respect of... Yeah, a lot of prestige. You know, the chili boss, and they wanna just do a kick-ass job. And so the boss, the CEO, not CEO, but like, the boss of this brand. The chili executive officer. The chili executive officer was like, listen, we gotta represent for Duluth. Everybody vote for Doug's thing, and if that's the case, this is never gonna blow back on you. Cuz if your boss finds out, your boss is gonna be like, tell your boss. Go into your boss's office, say, I did not write that tagline, but you pushed it really hard. So now the cover-up is on both of us.
14:15 Griffin McElroy? You are now an accomplice. You're coming with me. Help me hide my shame.
14:22 Griffin McElroy? Also, I've got some-
14:22 Travis McElroy? Or just say like, I've second guessed, I've, I'm second guessing my choice. You know what? I actually stole that tagline from my nephew. He used it for his ska band. Oh, man, I don't want to get in trouble with my nephew. He can be really mean sometimes. So, uh, we need to withdraw the tagline that's not mine from the race.
14:43 Griffin McElroy? What, his ska, yes, it is called Chili Pop and Daddy's. That is the name of his, that is the name of his chili-based ska band.
14:49 Travis McElroy? And listen, my sister, his mom hates it. The music is challenging.
14:54 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Something about sort of the energy of Cherry Pop and Daddy's mixed with the kind of like spicy mix-up of chili is like, I don't know, hitting me in a synesthetic sort of unpleasant way.
15:07 Travis McElroy? Um, I, I, the Beanie Beanie Boss Bowls, is that anything?
15:11 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
15:12 Travis McElroy? That's really good, Justin. Beanie Beefy Boss Bowls? The Beefy Beanie Boss Bowls. I think alphabetical. Beefy Beanie Boss Bowls. The Beanie Setsor Orchestra.
15:22 Griffin McElroy? Is that ska?
15:24 Travis McElroy? What? No, that was more swing, I guess.
15:27 Griffin McElroy? Five Bean Frenzy.
15:28 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
15:29 Travis McElroy? Mmm, that's good.
15:31 Griffin McElroy? I don't know how many different beans.
15:32 Travis McElroy? Why didn't they make up more ska bands?
15:34 Griffin McElroy? Why didn't they make up more chili-based ska bands? It doesn't fucking make sense to me, man.
15:37 Travis McElroy? I already, ska bands at all, you know? Well, there's- Five ska bands, dang it. The Blanking Underdogs was Oscar Isaac's Christian ska band.
15:45 Travis McElroy? Six. Okay, six. I recently found out that two of the organizers of my community theater company are former Radio City Rockettes. There happens to be a running joke in my family that I specifically could never be a Rockette. I have no desire to be a Rockette or even pursue dancing professionally. But they claim even elderly relatives would have a better shot at making the kick line than me. I can't pass up this opportunity to combat my family's judgment. How do I get one of these dance veterans to validate me? And that's from It's Not Rockettes Science in Houston.
16:18 Griffin McElroy? Can you read the personal info here? The, the additional info?
16:22 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it says possibly important. Yes, I can kick above my head. My family's reasoning is that I'm so uncoordinated that it outweighs previous dance experience and flexibility. The show we're doing is Oklahoma. No existing kick line opportunity.
16:37 Griffin McElroy? Bullshit.
16:37 Travis McElroy? Incorrect.
16:38 Griffin McElroy? Fucking wrong dude. Line them up. The farmer and the cowman could be friends.
16:42 Travis McElroy? That's exactly what I was about to say.
16:44 Griffin McElroy? Line them asses up in the barn and get those legs sky high dude. The farmer and the cowman should be friends. The farmer and the cowman should be friends.
16:52 Travis McElroy? Perfect.
16:52 Travis McElroy? Yeah, I think you even need, you know what's great, what would be great is if there's not one, like there's not one plan. And then just as you're pacing through it, you just start like super high kicking.
17:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, yeah.
17:03 Travis McElroy? And they're like, uh, Becky, are you okay? It's like, I'm just feeling it. Are you guys feeling this?
17:07 Griffin McElroy? It's like a Newton's cradle thing. If you do it for long enough, everyone else will just eventually kind of sync up with you.
17:13 Travis McElroy? The wave, the conga, the kick line. Somebody's gotta start it.
17:17 Griffin McElroy? Someone has to.
17:18 Travis McElroy? Exactly. The kick line has to have somebody.
17:20 Griffin McElroy? Dude, can you imagine being there, the first Rockettes show? When they were like just kind of standing around and they were like, it's the Bucky Bucky Bucky Bar Company. And then one Rockette was just like, and everyone was like, holy shit, what you just do?
17:33 Travis McElroy? Well, it went like this Griffin. Somebody said, Debbie, didn't you play high school football? And she was like, yeah, but I was just a kicker. And they're like, show them your form.
17:42 Griffin McElroy? Show them.
17:42 Travis McElroy? Do it. And they kicked and they said, wait, do that again.
17:46 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
17:46 Travis McElroy? And then they're like, now everybody pretend like you're punting. And they did it. And they were like, this is the show. Guys, this is the show.
17:54 Griffin McElroy? I just, I just hurt my knee.
17:58 Travis McElroy? Just talking about that.
18:00 Griffin McElroy? No, doing one kick. I did one kick for.
18:03 Travis McElroy? So you'll never be a Rockette.
18:04 Griffin McElroy? I didn't get a full extension on it. I am sitting down, so I did have that working against me, but my knee, I hurt it. And it doesn't feel very good right now.
18:12 Travis McElroy? There must have been a genesis of this where at some point you said like, I could do that, right? While watching like the Thanksgiving Day parade.
18:21 Griffin McElroy? I gotta know the history of this like fucking ongoing family razz, cause they always dial in on the strangest stuff.
18:27 Travis McElroy? It would be wild if just one day like your dad leaned into the kitchen. It's just like, hey, by the way, you could never be a Rockette. And he just like walked out of the room. You're like, what? Where did that come from? Cause you're gangly and uncoordinated.
18:41 Travis McElroy? But dad did that to us. Gave us specific drags like that. I mean, why did Travis need the baggage as a child that he had a bony ass? That meant a song about how Travis's ass was bony. That's maniacal.
18:55 Travis McElroy? Wrong.
18:55 Travis McElroy? He's not wrong, but like, why is that a topic of discussion? In a, like, you know what I mean? It hasn't come up in our business.
19:02 Griffin McElroy? I will say.
19:03 Travis McElroy? Travis's educational experiences, I don't think. Well, I mean, I didn't like sitting in like wooden desks. Yeah. And pews.
19:09 Travis McElroy? It's the main reason I'm not in the church anymore.
19:12 Griffin McElroy? Little Travis hops up on your lap and that's so many mall Santas were just like, fuck.
19:17 Travis McElroy? Yes, slap right through there.
19:19 Griffin McElroy? The thing about, anyone can kick above their head. Oh. The issue is the return, is the reloading that action.
19:27 Travis McElroy? Hmm.
19:28 Griffin McElroy? Cause it's like an alligator, my leg, I don't know about you guys, but my leg is like an alligator mouth. Where the muscles can go up real fast in one direction, but the muscles, the retractors on the backside of it, the interior haunch is slower to bring it down. So it's possible that that's what your parents are talking about.
19:48 Travis McElroy? Your mistake, Griffin, and the reason you injured yourself. You did not do the primary like cocking it move, right? Where they bring the knee up first, bring it back down and then kick.
19:58 Griffin McElroy? That's so important. The, the cocking move is actually, I never thought about it. I thought it was like for a dance style, like a cool style, but you're saying it's
20:06 Travis McElroy? Prepping.
20:07 Griffin McElroy? They're prepping a kick.
20:07 Travis McElroy? Think you gotta, you gotta cock it and load it and then kick it.
20:11 Griffin McElroy? Like Henry Cavill in that, in that Mission Impossible movie.
20:14 Travis McElroy? Henry Cavill where he cocks his fist. Cuckoo, you know?
20:17 Griffin McElroy? God, that's
20:18 Travis McElroy? It is cool.
20:19 Griffin McElroy? God, that's cool.
20:20 Travis McElroy? And we didn't, we didn't appreciate it at the time.
20:23 Travis McElroy? Everybody appreciated it, Travis. We constantly, everybody appreciated it.
20:26 Griffin McElroy? That man had a, he had a CGI mustache. Is that right? Or no, in the Superman movie, he had an un-mustache. That's right.
20:33 Travis McElroy? Yes.
20:34 Griffin McElroy? So cool. Movies are great.
20:36 Travis McElroy? That's why we go to the movies, Griffin.
20:38 Travis McElroy? This is why we're at the movies.
20:41 Griffin McElroy? I think also it's possible that maybe your family has the utmost reverence for the Rockettes. It is hard to make it on the, it's so, I, there's like fucking what? 30 of them? 30 Rockettes jobs on the planet? Yeah, that's gonna be a tough gig to get into. Your odds are astonishingly low. There've been more American presidents than there have been Rockettes. So you tell me.
21:09 Travis McElroy? I guess.
21:10 Travis McElroy? You're a Rockette. You can pull forever though, right?
21:13 Griffin McElroy? What's that mean?
21:13 Travis McElroy? Like forever, ever. If you're a Rockette, you can pull forever.
21:16 Griffin McElroy? You can't pull what?
21:18 Travis McElroy? Pull. Tail. As a Rockette, as you, the, for your whole life.
21:24 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:25 Travis McElroy? As a Rockette, if you were a Rockette once.
21:27 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
21:28 Travis McElroy? I'm saying you can probably pull tail forever.
21:31 Griffin McElroy? Try it with juice.
21:31 Travis McElroy? If you're trying to get, if you're trying to cruise or straying.
21:35 Griffin McElroy? Put the sunglasses on. Try it with the sunglasses.
21:38 Travis McElroy? I bet if you're a Rockette once, you can pull tail forever. If you're cruising for some strange, as a former Rockette, I bet the pickings are plenty.
21:46 Travis McElroy? So you're saying there's a scenario in which this person's talking to somebody and they're trying to flirt with them and they're not, it's not working. And then there's like, I was a Rockette and the person's like, ooh la la.
21:58 Travis McElroy? I'm just talking about the instructors now. I'm just saying, I'm just saying as a, as a life, there's so few, right? It's such a small resource of people. I bet if you used to be a Rockette,
22:10 Travis McElroy? you could probably pull tail forever. That's all I'm saying.
22:13 Travis McElroy? You're in a Rudy's sitting.
22:14 Griffin McElroy? No, timeout, timeout, Trav, timeout. Cause we're like past the drive now. We can like sort of take our time a little bit more. It's not as stressed. It's not as like pressured. But what, let's work on the sound, uh, that you're doing at the end of the.
22:27 Travis McElroy? Half between bullet and spittoon.
22:30 Travis McElroy? Yeah, that's exactly what I got from it. Like someone was chewing bullets and spit one out into the spittoon.
22:38 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
22:39 Travis McElroy? Patang.
22:41 Griffin McElroy? Why did you, but why is that the sound that you thought?
22:45 Travis McElroy? So it's like, if I say something that makes me a little bit uncomfortable after I say it, I'm like trying to do a joke. You guys are all joking. And like, I'm trying to do a joke. Like I'd say something that like, I'm not sure was okay. And it kind of made me uncomfortable to sit with it.
22:59 Griffin McElroy? Uh huh.
22:59 Travis McElroy? I've found that if I make a little sound like that, it's almost like a. Palate cleanser, or like a let's move on, or like a, we don't have to sit in the silence.
23:09 Griffin McElroy? Are you open for notes? Cause again, it's, we're, we're, we have some breathing room.
23:13 Travis McElroy? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure.
23:15 Griffin McElroy? Can you try, give me that joke again about the, you can pull.
23:18 Travis McElroy? I don't remember.
23:19 Griffin McElroy? Uh, you said, so the line, the line was, I bet if you're a Rocket once, you can pull.
23:23 Travis McElroy? Wait, Griffin, give me the line, give me the line, give me the line one more time.
23:27 Griffin McElroy? You said, Justin, Justin McElroy said, in case you're trying to clip around this.
23:32 Travis McElroy? Or just.
23:33 Griffin McElroy? Justin, so adjust it. So I gotta do this real fast. So you can't fucking clip around this, but.
23:38 Travis McElroy? You gotta give it in the middle, Griffin. Like if you're a Rocket.
23:40 Griffin McElroy? If you're a Rocket, comma, Justin said.
23:43 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
23:44 Griffin McElroy? Once, you can pull tail forever. So give me that, but then give me a fucking Pacino, hooah. Can you give me one of those?
23:51 Travis McElroy? You know, I bet if you're a Rocket once, you can pull tail forever.
23:57 Griffin McElroy? Oh, no.
23:57 Travis McElroy? That wasn't it, dude. No, that was a hernia. That was a hernia.
24:02 Griffin McElroy? Have you heard him do it before?
24:04 Travis McElroy? Have you heard him? Didn't see the film. I'm so sorry.
24:06 Griffin McElroy? Ah, okay.
24:06 Travis McElroy? Does he do it in Insomnia?
24:09 Griffin McElroy? I'm pretty sure it's scent. I'm pretty sure.
24:11 Travis McElroy? No, but does he also do it in?
24:12 Griffin McElroy? I think he drops it in scent.
24:14 Travis McElroy? I know it's in scent of a W. All the, all the sin heads know that.
24:18 Griffin McElroy? Scent of a whim.
24:20 Travis McElroy? All the sin heads know about that.
24:21 Griffin McElroy? Pacino drops hooah in scent of a whim, for sure.
24:24 Travis McElroy? Pacino drops hooah.
24:26 Griffin McElroy? Pacino drops a hoo.
24:27 Travis McElroy? Every time. Pacino, Pacino drops a hoo.
24:30 Griffin McElroy? When Pacino, when Pacino drops that hoo.
24:33 Travis McElroy? Fuck, dude.
24:34 Griffin McElroy? Oh, yeah.
24:35 Travis McElroy? Fuck, dude, when I'm watching Namia, and he's up against Rob Will, and he drops the hoo.
24:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
24:41 Travis McElroy? I don't wanna go to sleep either.
24:43 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, for sure.
24:45 Travis McElroy? For sure.
24:47 Griffin McElroy? It's the only reason to watch Sinny Wim.
24:49 Travis McElroy? Only reason.
24:52 Travis McElroy? Is it weird that I share bowls with my cat?
24:55 Griffin McElroy? Yep.
24:56 Travis McElroy? Not at the same time, but I replace my cat's water bowl every day. The type of bowl is the same one I use for my human food. So I don't keep track of which ones the cat has used. In my mind, if it's clean, then it's clean for either me or the cat. Is that wrong, though? Should my cat and I have separate dishes? And that's from Gmail.
25:18 Travis McElroy? I think the biggest problem is the message you're sending to your cat of like, cat already sees itself as on par with you. And you are confirming that level of importance when it sees you pour a bowl of cereal and eat a bowl of water, but then it sees you set it's down on the floor and yours on the table. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
25:42 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
25:43 Travis McElroy? Right.
25:43 Griffin McElroy? I'll take the, I'll take the inverse position here and say that you are putting, you are thinking of yourself on the level of your cat. And if you do that, Jackson Galaxy says, it's gonna kill you and eat you in your sleep.
25:54 Travis McElroy? That's true.
25:55 Griffin McElroy? He says, number one, when he comes into those places with his guitar case and he like picks up a cat by its like,
26:01 Travis McElroy? puts it in the guitar case?
26:02 Griffin McElroy? And puts it in the guitar case and then says, you're gross. And everyone's like, stop. And he's like, no, you have to, if you don't make yourself bigger than them, they'll kill and eat you in your sleep. So you gotta have a little self, a little dignity, I guess. Is the cat can smell it. I'm pretty sure they specify water bowl. Pretty sure they specify water bowl, which is like,
26:23 Travis McElroy? I think a fun new tactic that we could take in answering questions like this is to imagine a third party is present in this scenario.
26:34 Griffin McElroy? Okay, well, there are three of us, so.
26:36 Travis McElroy? No, no, no. Yeah, but I'm saying like, these people, right? The question asker and the cat. And then there's someone sitting there with them, maybe a guest or like a relative, right? And they watch them.
26:49 Griffin McElroy? Right.
26:50 Travis McElroy? Like do this two days in a row, right? And they're like, huh. And question asker, if that happens, how do you feel being observed and asked about what you're doing?
27:03 Griffin McElroy? Probably not great, but that's why they wrote us.
27:06 Travis McElroy? That seems to answer the goddamn question to me, don't it?
27:09 Travis McElroy? I know Travis, Travis, I, I, I, listen, man, I wanna celebrate you and appreciate you, but there's not a third party.
27:14 Travis McElroy? Hey, thank you. Let's stop there.
27:15 Travis McElroy? No, no, no.
27:16 Griffin McElroy? But there's not a third party here. And I know that our religious upbringing has sort of introduced first thought of just imagine that there is someone looking at you and going, no, no, no.
27:25 Travis McElroy? God is watching.
27:26 Travis McElroy? You're talking about religion, right? So you are kinda talking about religion and you're like, solved. And I don't think it's quite that easy.
27:32 Travis McElroy? I don't think I was talking about religion. I said like a friend.
27:35 Travis McElroy? Imagine there's a person, imagine there's a person watching you and judging you and then act accordingly is religion. So you're just like, fuck, I invented it.
27:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
27:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah, no, no, no, no.
27:46 Travis McElroy? I backed into religion again. I'm sorry, guys.
27:48 Travis McElroy? Religion again. So let's, let's actually.
27:50 Griffin McElroy? At least this time, Trav, you didn't do it about yourself. You didn't do, you didn't sort of create a Travis religion.
27:55 Travis McElroy? Big step.
27:56 Griffin McElroy? You just created a sort of general framework.
27:58 Travis McElroy? What if instead, when there's another person around, you act in a certain way and when you're by yourself, you do whatever you want to? My only issue with this person right here, this little issue is that you, I agree with you. If you clean the bowl, no biggie. But man, if you look away for a second, like what if you set the bowls down?
28:22 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
28:23 Travis McElroy? You look away, you turn back, you gotta throw them in the garbage. Like there's no, you can't.
28:28 Griffin McElroy? You lost sight, yeah.
28:29 Travis McElroy? You instantly lost sight.
28:30 Griffin McElroy? It's about custody at that point. You need to keep the chain of custody sort of going at all times.
28:34 Travis McElroy? There's a chain of custody that has to be maintained.
28:36 Travis McElroy? There's also a shape to cat bowls for a reason.
28:40 Griffin McElroy? Interesting.
28:41 Travis McElroy? Cause if they have rounded bottoms and like the bowls are wider at the top than they are at the bottom, kitties love knocking shit over.
28:48 Travis McElroy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:50 Travis McElroy? And so you need like a wide base.
28:52 Griffin McElroy? A flat, yeah, plate.
28:53 Travis McElroy? Right? Unless you're both.
28:55 Travis McElroy? This person, that's what they like.
28:56 Travis McElroy? Unless you're both using that kind of, cause I don't, does it specify? No, it could just be that.
29:05 Travis McElroy? It says I'm a sloppy little puppy.
29:09 Griffin McElroy? I love to knock my spaghetti around. I knock my spaghetti around on the floor and I love to make a big mess.
29:15 Travis McElroy? First deep into it like Ralphie from Christmas Story. Okay.
29:19 Griffin McElroy? All that.
29:20 Travis McElroy? Well, there you go. As long as you're both nasty boys who will knock over your bowls if they're not a flat wide base, go for it.
29:29 Griffin McElroy? Do you guys use the same bowls as your kids?
29:31 Travis McElroy? As my kids?
29:32 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
29:33 Travis McElroy? They've started using my grown up plates.
29:36 Griffin McElroy? Ooh.
29:37 Travis McElroy? Cause we've had like, you know, sets of like plastic matching colorful, right? And then Theresa and I have grown up boring plates. And my kids have started to notice that the grown up boring plates are larger than their child plates. And they're like, wait a minute. I want the big plate.
29:53 Griffin McElroy? How much, how come daddy gets so much more cereal than I do when it's cereal time? My answer to that is I'm rocking one of these Martha Stewart square plates that we got from our wedding and are still fucking kicking all these years later. Thank you, Martha. These are square bowls. You're not ready for these, son. You don't know how to eat cereal out of a square bowl. You'll be so fucking confused.
30:14 Travis McElroy? What started happening now, Griffin, is I'll get them, uh, one of their plastic bowls out and get myself a white bowl. And they're like, can I have the white bowl? But I've already gotten the plastic bowl out. So guess who uses the plastic bowl?
30:24 Griffin McElroy? Nice.
30:25 Travis McElroy? This guy.
30:26 Travis McElroy? At some point I realized as an adult that I don't really like using anything breakable. So pretty much every, all of our plates are just recycled plastic bamboo. It's one of the best decisions I ever made. Just get a bunch of these recycled plastic bamboo plates. I don't need off adult plates anymore. I can't trust myself. Don't have glass, glassware. Don't fuck with that. I just like plastics. I like plastic stuff.
30:49 Griffin McElroy? But it's special, not, it's special, uh, not microplastic.
30:55 Travis McElroy? No, it's bamboo, that's what I'm saying. I already said that earlier.
30:58 Griffin McElroy? Good.
30:58 Travis McElroy? I was gonna make a joke, Justin, about how you should get some plastic cafeteria trays with the sections on them. But then I thought, why did we ever let go of that?
31:07 Travis McElroy? This is what I'm saying.
31:08 Travis McElroy? I fucking love a section of.
31:10 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
31:11 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
31:11 Travis McElroy? Where it's like, there's your corn, there's your roll.
31:14 Griffin McElroy? It's why I don't eat peas. It's why I don't eat peas. These motherfuckers go rogue, dude.
31:20 Travis McElroy? Have I told you about the utensil?
31:21 Griffin McElroy? They're also gross. They're also gross.
31:23 Travis McElroy? The utensil I want to invent for peas.
31:25 Griffin McElroy? Just say yes, just say yes, just say yes.
31:27 Travis McElroy? Yes. Where it's like a little shovel, it's a spoon, but it's got a flat bottom and a flat front. So you can scoop.
31:33 Griffin McElroy? I can't believe we're hearing about shpoon, shpoon again.
31:36 Travis McElroy? It's like a child's like sand shovel, right? Where it's like flat and you can really get the peas and kind of bulldoze them up.
31:42 Griffin McElroy? Dude, yeah, it's shpoon. You've told us about shpoon so many times.
31:46 Travis McElroy? Travis has been on meetings trying to pitch McKay to start manufact- They really want DFT, Travis really, really, really wants DFTBA to start manufacturing.
31:54 Travis McElroy? I'm saying we've had the same three main utensils for too long.
31:58 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
31:58 Travis McElroy? It is time for our fourth option.
31:59 Griffin McElroy? You want a cutting, you want a cutting spoon, a cutting spoon.
32:03 Travis McElroy? No, Griffin, I want a digging spoon. I want a flat front.
32:07 Travis McElroy? The shovel spoon.
32:08 Travis McElroy? A flat front, flat bottom, raised sides. So I can scoop up the peas.
32:14 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, can I get serrated sides though? For, for, if I need to cut something with.
32:18 Travis McElroy? It's not a one all spoon, Griffin. It's not a one all.
32:22 Griffin McElroy? Wouldn't it? Yeah, don't put that in your mouth.
32:23 Travis McElroy? No, this is so I can come in at a flat, not have to tilt the side of my spoon to get to the peas. I can just scrape the plate, pick them up, clean shovel.
32:34 Travis McElroy? Tell you another, another, uh, kidivation that I have begun treating myself to again, and that is corn sheets.
32:41 Travis McElroy? Oh. Oh, yeah, slice off the corn. You slice off the corn on the cob so it comes off in one sheet. Hell, yeah, brother.
32:47 Travis McElroy? You think you like eating corn on the cob? Way do you have sheets off the cob? That's the stuff. The kernels will stick together sometimes 20 or 30 in a clump and you get to break them up like some kind of giant eaten gold.
33:00 Travis McElroy? I like to pretend.
33:02 Travis McElroy? Come on. Come on, Garmin Bowser.
33:07 Travis McElroy? I'm, I'm a beekeeper when that happens and I'm carving like the wax off to let the honey out and it comes off and you get that great sound.
33:15 Griffin McElroy? Oh, man, I don't want to be a beekeeper because I don't want to get stung, but is there a job where they let you just come up and cut the wax off of that? That shit, when it comes off all soft and they make it into soap and stuff, god damn, that looks good.
33:28 Travis McElroy? That's all I want.
33:29 Griffin McElroy? That's all I want. I don't want to interface with the insects, but I would like to do the, bees are beautiful. I'm not a bee hater, but I don't, I'm scared of them and it's tough for me.
33:38 Travis McElroy? The part where they smoke them out, where they're just like dropping some dank smoke in there to make the bees all sleepy. I think that part seems cool.
33:46 Travis McElroy? Talk about, you want to share a bowl with your cat, that'll really. Yes, smoke out your cat.
33:51 Griffin McElroy? Like share your like weed.
33:52 Travis McElroy? Share a bowl. Share a bowl with your cat. 420. Smoke some Kush with your cat.
33:57 Griffin McElroy? I've never met a cat where I've been like, what would make this cat better is if it was fucked up and crazy out of its mind.
34:03 Travis McElroy? That's the whole idea with catnip, man. We gave, we gave Olive catnip and she sat on the couch for four hours.
34:09 Griffin McElroy? Damn dude.
34:10 Travis McElroy? Yeah, dude, it was chill. She was like having a great time. We should go to the money zone.
34:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, I'm so tired of talking about cats, guys. Let's go to the money zone for a while.
34:30 Travis McElroy? Hey, do you like cats?
34:32 Griffin McElroy? I love kitty cats Travis so much, stinkers.
34:35 Travis McElroy? They are little stinkers and I love them so much. And you know what? I love kitties so much. They deserve the best, don't they?
34:42 Griffin McElroy? They do.
34:43 Travis McElroy? Right? They're just like us. We deserve the best.
34:48 Travis McElroy? That's why I eat Smalls. Now, I serve my kitties Smalls though. Amelia and Olive, every day, they have a routine. They come in, they wake up Sydney. Sydney goes in, she puts out the food. Olive goes over and eats the Smalls first while Amelia patiently watches and waits her turn. And then after Olive's done, it's Amelia's turn for Smalls. And let me tell you, these kitties love it. Your cats take turns?
35:12 Griffin McElroy? That's crazy, man.
35:13 Travis McElroy? That's incredible, Justin.
35:15 Griffin McElroy? That's common cat behavior.
35:17 Travis McElroy? They wait for Sydney's affections too. Olive will come over and get attention and then Amelia will patiently wait her turn. And then once Olive's done, Amelia will take her turn.
35:25 Griffin McElroy? Little baby angel. These baby angels deserve the best.
35:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah. Why, how did I get them so well trained? Well, the answer is Smalls. The favorite with my kitties, if you're looking for a few to pick for your first round, Smooth Bird is their favorite, but they also like Smooth Other Bird.
35:41 Griffin McElroy? Amazing naming conventions.
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36:01 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I wanted to say, you are looking healthy, well rested, invigorated lately. Have you been taking care of yourself?
36:10 Griffin McElroy? I have Travis, thanks for asking. I've been taking care of my body as has what I call team G. This is a team of medical professionals that I have found through the zocdoc platform here in our nation's capital of Washington DC where doctors legally have to hide. Did you guys know that in DC doctors, you can't find them, there's no way to just like go and find a doctor normally because they're all whoop whoop, they're all hiding because they don't want you to come to their office because it's hard to do doctor stuff. Zocdoc goes around the whole system. You go on zocdoc.com, you say what you got going on, what's your health insurance coverage is, where you live, they'll show you doctors in your area that are going to be in network.
36:55 Griffin McElroy? They'll even let you schedule appointments right through the ding dang thing.
36:58 Travis McElroy? Griffin, I want you to know, I pictured team G, like one of those scenes in a movie where you're like jogging on a treadmill and you got sensors hooked up to you and you got like one of the, like a mask you're breathing into. Except in this movie, like the doctors write something on a clipboard and then like lean over and show one of the other ones the clipboard and they kind of shake their head like.
37:16 Griffin McElroy? No, no, no, not that one. No, I've got nothing but stone cold killers on team G. Honestly, we have new health insurance this year here at, at big giant head incorporated, the actual business that us three do operate. And I had to find a bunch of new doctors because some of my old ones weren't in network and zocdoc let me get that shit done in like cup, with like an hour maybe and let me schedule the appointments and get everything going. It really is like, I don't know, it's such a pain in the ass to find doctors in DC. I was kidding about all of them hiding, but it is a huge pain in the ass doing it. I imagine in, in any city of a certain scale, it's, it seems a difficult process. Pain in your ass. Yep. Try Zocdoc to find a doctor who's right for you.
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39:47 Griffin McElroy? Hey, we've been doing Kitty Talk for so long. I don't usually show off sort of like props in the office, but I do gotta showcase this incredible gift I got from my father-in-law. It's the Garfield phone.
39:59 Travis McElroy? Half an?
40:01 Griffin McElroy? And when you pick up the receiver, he opens his eyes.
40:04 Travis McElroy? That's really good. That's really good.
40:08 Griffin McElroy? But if you do it at a certain level, it does look like he's like about to finish.
40:13 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah.
40:15 Griffin McElroy? Lazzanya!
40:17 Travis McElroy? That's the zanya.
40:19 Travis McElroy? I love Mondays!
40:21 Travis McElroy? Oh, it's Tuesday!
40:25 Griffin McElroy? Garfield loves every other day.
40:27 Travis McElroy? Oh.
40:28 Travis McElroy? He loves... Sorry, they don't talk about that enough. The Garfield love... loves Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
40:34 Griffin McElroy? Tuesdays, Thursday, Thursday, all of them, yeah.
40:36 Travis McElroy? He doesn't have a job. Why is Monday any different for him?
40:40 Griffin McElroy? John's gone. He loves John so fuck goddamn much. He does love John so much. Watch the Garfield movie with Chris Pratt. He loves that fucking guy and he'll say it out loud. Okay.
41:00 Travis McElroy? I wanna munch!
41:02 Travis McElroy? Squad!
41:06 Travis McElroy? One, two munch!
41:10 Travis McElroy? See Olympics?
41:12 Travis McElroy? It's... no, it's May the 4th be with you.
41:14 Travis McElroy? Oh!
41:16 Griffin McElroy? Awesome.
41:17 Travis McElroy? A thing.
41:18 Travis McElroy? I think that's more... Wanna munch? Ba ba ba ba!
41:24 Griffin McElroy? That is Indiana Jones.
41:25 Travis McElroy? On my squad, squad, squad!
41:26 Griffin McElroy? She munchin' on my squad till I Yoda.
41:31 Travis McElroy? To this tune of Indiana Jones.
41:34 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
41:35 Travis McElroy? Uh, so...
41:37 Travis McElroy? Munch, munch, munch!
41:39 Griffin McElroy? It's something like that.
41:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah. May the 4th be with you.
41:41 Griffin McElroy? Munch, munch, munch squad, munch, munch, munch squad, munch, munch, munch squad!
41:44 Travis McElroy? Munch, squad!
41:48 Travis McElroy? Nobody needs that, though. You know what I mean? I could have done that.
41:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
41:52 Travis McElroy? Maybe, but nobody needs it.
41:53 Griffin McElroy? Nobody needed it.
41:53 Travis McElroy? Uh, it's, it is May the 4th. We have, uh, two, it's not like today, uh, maybe. I don't know. I didn't check the date. When is May the 4th?
42:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, when this comes out.
42:02 Travis McElroy? Ish, really?
42:03 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, day of.
42:04 Travis McElroy? Hell, yeah. Check it out.
42:06 Griffin McElroy? Let's start over and do a whole Star Wars show. People love that shit.
42:10 Travis McElroy? Crumble has unveiled Galaxy Brownie Cookie for Star Wars inspired holiday. Crumble's still around despite the badness of their cookies and their relative inedibility. People continue to consume their products.
42:23 Travis McElroy? Did you guys ever hear about that scam where?
42:25 Travis McElroy? Why? Does this make you hungry, baby?
42:28 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
42:28 Travis McElroy? Oh. Look at this crumble cookie. It's dripping chocolate.
42:33 Travis McElroy? I'll tell you, when I eat a cookie, what I want it to be is messy.
42:36 Griffin McElroy? I need it, yeah. I need a messy perimeter, an unholdable perimeter around that cookie.
42:41 Travis McElroy? May the 4th is almost here and Crumble is celebrating with something cosmic.
42:45 Travis McElroy? Did you guys hear about that, that Crumble scam?
42:47 Travis McElroy? It's like a play on cosmic.
42:49 Griffin McElroy? It's a cosmic brownie. Yeah, look at it. It's got the frosting. It's got the little multi-colored little.
42:53 Travis McElroy? Galaxy Brownie Cookie.
42:55 Griffin McElroy? Travis has been making the same joke for, we gotta try to let him fire it off.
42:58 Travis McElroy? Let's pull over the car. Hold on.
43:00 Travis McElroy? The Crumble scam, this is true, where somebody claimed Crumble was opening in Australia, but really what they did is they flew to New York, bought a bunch of boxes of Crumble cookies, flew back with them and then sold them as if they were a Crumble affiliate store.
43:15 Griffin McElroy? That's fine.
43:16 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
43:16 Griffin McElroy? That's legal to do. That is legal to do there. They are a lot more chill about business.
43:21 Travis McElroy? People did comment on the staleness of the cookies.
43:23 Griffin McElroy? I have to imagine, yeah, they were not fresh out the oven.
43:27 Travis McElroy? Galaxy Brownie Cookie, available today only at Crumble. So heartbreakingly, if you go tomorrow, you'll have to eat other Crumble cookies. So act fast. A brownie cookie smothered in warm fudge glaze and sprinkled with rainbow candy bits, designed to be fudgy and delicious in every bite. Now, they don't say it is. They just said that was the.
43:49 Travis McElroy? That was our intention.
43:51 Travis McElroy? Right.
43:51 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
43:52 Travis McElroy? May the 4th only comes once a year, so make it count with the Galaxy Brownie Cookie before it's gone. Rich and fudgy and cosmic at every bite. The limited time galaxy brownie cookie will be available while supplies last. I mean, presume, I hope you've got enough to make it through today.
44:09 Griffin McElroy? Through one day, Crumble.
44:10 Travis McElroy? For one day.
44:11 Travis McElroy? I don't understand when, when, when companies do, especially like chains, you know, of like food places do a one day thing. The amount of like just planning to go into the cookie and then buying like the ingredients and stuff to make it. How is just doing it in one day profitable in any way?
44:32 Griffin McElroy? Well, it's not about profit, Trav. It's about the message. It's about letting people know that Crumble likes to have fun. People like Star Wars. So if Crumble can get in your brain and be like, crumble Star Wars, crumble Star Wars, crumble Star Wars. And then any other time you think of one of your favorite Star Wars guys, Darth Sidious, Darth, uh, Darth Grevius. Um, then you're going to say like, damn, I want to eat one of those fudgy crumble cookies right now, but you can't. Cause they were.
44:58 Travis McElroy? But they're not available.
44:59 Griffin McElroy? But they're not available.
45:00 Travis McElroy? They're not available. Now what sucks is like, this is, I have this, that was unlicensed, which you could tell. Doesn't it have like big game energy like?
45:10 Griffin McElroy? Wait, do they not say Star Wars at all during?
45:12 Travis McElroy? In the headline, they say Star Wars holiday inspired, which they can.
45:17 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
45:17 Travis McElroy? Say that. Uh, vicious, this is, this is, I like this better because this is just go for it. Vicious biscuit releases spicy hen solo chicken biscuit. Now we're talking.
45:27 Griffin McElroy? Fuck yeah, dude.
45:29 Travis McElroy? The home, the original home of unapologetically bold biscuits is introducing the spicy.
45:34 Travis McElroy? Copyright infringement.
45:36 Travis McElroy? I know, hen solo.
45:39 Travis McElroy? Uh, available 21st.
45:40 Griffin McElroy? This feels like a Muppet Babies ass like.
45:43 Travis McElroy? I know. I love it.
45:45 Griffin McElroy? Where they're make believe in a Star Wars story. Gonzo's got his little guy.
45:50 Travis McElroy? Okay. Now see, here's the thing. They have not to this point tipped their hand in any way of calling it a hen solo biscuit. They are terrified. They're so scared.
46:01 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
46:01 Travis McElroy? Um, is it because the biscuit is traveling alone?
46:06 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
46:06 Travis McElroy? This, the spicy hen solo builds on one of the brand's most popular items and introduces a dry season heat profile that expands the flavor range of its chicken lineup while maintaining the sandwich's easy on the go appeal.
46:18 Travis McElroy? Dry season makes it seem like it's in between like the wet season. It's just like, yeah, crops aren't growing. This is the chicken we've got, man.
46:27 Griffin McElroy? It's been a bad year for the vineyard.
46:29 Travis McElroy? This is our Dust Bowl chicken sandwich.
46:32 Travis McElroy? Now, guys, we're gonna get into, uh, we're gonna get into the real, the real genuine.
46:38 Griffin McElroy? Someone actually got the partnership.
46:40 Travis McElroy? Yes. It's BK too. So you know they're going big. So let's talk about the offerings for The Mandalorian and Grogu, only in theaters May 22nd. Oh, that crown. Oh, that crown, Justin. All right. First off, we got, we're gonna go item by item here. Don't get ahead of us. We got, for Travis, you can tell him about the crown though, cause it's like, it's really good.
47:01 Travis McElroy? You know how the Mandalorian?
47:03 Travis McElroy? If you were right, it would be crazy.
47:04 Travis McElroy? You know how the Mandalorian has a big T on his face for Travis? Well, in this crown, you can see the top of the T for Travis, but then still the Burger King crown part with the clovers and stuff.
47:18 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
47:18 Travis McElroy? It's sick. Like how the Mandalorian always wears his crown, his like helmet kind of precariously perched on top of his head, ready to push it down at any moment.
47:29 Griffin McElroy? It looks like to me, Juice, they got two different cups with Grogu on it.
47:33 Travis McElroy? Let's talk about it, Griff. They're once again targeting the family this dining occasion. The, this time it's with Star Wars, arguably the most widely known collaboration the brand has done in years.
47:44 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
47:44 Travis McElroy? The new menu promotes the upcoming movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu. Uh, first up is the BBQ Bounty Whopper, which is layered with bacon, Swiss cheese, vegetables.
47:57 Griffin McElroy? Hold on, no. It can't possibly say vegetables. It can't possibly say vegetables on it, right?
48:03 Travis McElroy? It says vegetable. Hold on, I'll scroll down.
48:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, cause I fully am not gonna believe this until I see it. Sweet. Yeah, layered with bacon, Swiss cheese, vegetables and a barbecue base sauce. You lost the plot at the end there, huh, bro?
48:16 Travis McElroy? Vegetables and a barbecue base sauce.
48:19 Travis McElroy? We got acorn squash on here, uh.
48:22 Griffin McElroy? This thing's hot and fresh out of the fucking lab, huh?
48:25 Travis McElroy? Yeah, dude, actually this whole fucking thing's jackfruit. Supertubers is all jackfruit, baby. Gotcha.
48:34 Travis McElroy? This is Grogu's Blue Cookie Shake? Hey, scroll back up so I can see that picture again, because the one that's blowing my mind is like the Chicken Dippers box. Grogu's ears stick out from the side of the box of like chicken sticks. The chicken sticks? Am I to believe that the employees-
48:51 Travis McElroy? Those are chicken fries.
48:51 Travis McElroy? Chicken fries. Am I to believe that the Burger King workers have to fold those out?
48:56 Griffin McElroy? Have to deploy Grogu's ears before each serving, yeah.
49:00 Travis McElroy? What a wild ad. If you haven't been to DQ in a while, when they take your Blizzard- If you, DQ, this is, if you haven't been to DQ in a while, the, when they hand you your Blizzard and before they hand it to you, they flip it upside down, that's probably gonna freak you out, but it is something they all have to do. The, the ears are just like that. It's just part of your routine. You have to pop out the ears. I'm sorry. Get used to it. I'm trying to decide what's going on in the box of Chicken Nugs, because it looks like it's like the top-
49:30 Travis McElroy? I don't think those are nugs, brother.
49:31 Travis McElroy? 3% of, of the Mandalorian's helmet, but then the top of it, you get to color in yourself as to what you think-
49:38 Griffin McElroy? Potato croquettes.
49:39 Travis McElroy? Sure, but what's on the box?
49:41 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
49:42 Travis McElroy? What's on the box?
49:45 Griffin McElroy? There we go. It's a stormtrooper. It's not the Mando.
49:47 Travis McElroy? It's a stormtrooper. Okay.
49:50 Travis McElroy? This new menu promotes the upcoming movie Mandalorian Grogu, scheduled to reach theaters May 22nd. Okay.
49:55 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, we heard about Hedgeburger.
49:56 Travis McElroy? The sandwich is placed in packaging, this is really, the sandwich is placed in packaging that mirrors a bounty hunter's helmet. Then there's Grogu's Blue Cookie Shake. Grogu's Garlic Chicken Fries. And Imperial Cheddar Ranch Tots.
50:14 Travis McElroy? Okay.
50:15 Griffin McElroy? So like, first off, the box mirrors a bounty hunter's helmet is so fucking wrong-headed. It's so wild. This is Mandal, this is Mandalorian armor that they crafted in the Mandalorian Wars. There's so, Greedo, motherfucker, heard of him? Does he wear a big helmet? I don't think so.
50:37 Travis McElroy? Their armor is made of a very special metal that lots of dorks know about. It's like, not a joke.
50:44 Griffin McElroy? But it's not a bounty hunter is a job and there isn't like a uniform that you there's so many Star Wars bounty hunters.
50:51 Travis McElroy? Greedo was a bounty hunter. He didn't wear a stupid ass thing like this.
50:54 Griffin McElroy? I just said Greedo.
50:54 Travis McElroy? Have you guys even seen Greedo? He doesn't wear a bounty hu-
50:58 Griffin McElroy? The proportions of his rodeo and skull.
51:01 Travis McElroy? You can fit one of these Mandalorian helmets on it. But it's also specifically the Mandalorian, like the main character of the movie. Why did they make it vague like they don't have the rights to say the Mandalorian?
51:14 Griffin McElroy? It does sound like they did.
51:15 Travis McElroy? Because this is a news story Travis. This is original reporting on it by QSR and I'm trying to tell you about it. Additionally, customers can receive one of four collectible cups by buying a bounty bundle.
51:27 Travis McElroy? Dad, did you hear that? Clint!
51:29 Griffin McElroy? Dad?
51:30 Travis McElroy? Clint, they have collectible cups!
51:31 Griffin McElroy? Wow, smash them through my window Kool-Aid man style.
51:35 Travis McElroy? No, this sucks guys. This is no, no, no, no, no. This sucks. Additionally, customers can receive one of four collectible cups by buying a bounty bundle. A special box featuring all four items. A barbecue bounty whopper combo. Or a 12-piece Grogu's garlic chicken fry combo. Clint? Emel? McElroy?
51:54 Griffin McElroy? Don't do it!
51:54 Travis McElroy? Stop the car!
51:55 Griffin McElroy? Down!
51:56 Travis McElroy? Turn around! Go home. Don't- Dad? If you pick up my kids from school and you come home with a bunch of this sloppy food and Star Wars stuff.
52:06 Griffin McElroy? That would kick ass, actually.
52:08 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
52:10 Griffin McElroy? Actually, yeah, take it all back.
52:12 Travis McElroy? Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad!
52:13 Travis McElroy? Do it, Dad, do it, but bring it to me to enjoy in private.
52:17 Griffin McElroy? Deliver unto your eldest boy.
52:19 Travis McElroy? Dad, don't dash it to me, Dad!
52:21 Griffin McElroy? Dad, just in some of his Grogu fries.
52:23 Travis McElroy? Dad dash it, dad dash it.
52:25 Griffin McElroy? Dad dash the Grogu fries, please.
52:27 Travis McElroy? I am looking at these like potato cheddar cheese things.
52:32 Griffin McElroy? I think they're fried mac and cheese, maybe.
52:34 Travis McElroy? What were they just in the, the cheesy?
52:37 Travis McElroy? I'm not there yet, cause you.
52:38 Travis McElroy? You mentioned it.
52:39 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you're right. They're cheddar ranch tots.
52:41 Travis McElroy? It's right in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, no?
52:43 Travis McElroy? Imperial cheddar ranch.
52:45 Travis McElroy? Thank you very much. If I bit into these not having been told that they were Imperial ranch tots, and that is what I found in the middle of it, I would assume something had gone terribly wrong at the factory or wherever these came from.
53:00 Griffin McElroy? There's a texture to it that's, yeah.
53:02 Travis McElroy? A King Jr. Meal tied to the same theme, the Mandalorian and Grogu King Jr. Meal.
53:07 Travis McElroy? Oh.
53:07 Travis McElroy? Becomes available April 28th. It will comprise a choice of hamburger or four piece nugget, applesauce and kids fry, choice of milk or apple juice and Mandalorian themed toy.
53:19 Travis McElroy? So not like Grogu would eat.
53:22 Griffin McElroy? Not Imperial apple juice. Like they didn't really have much fun with the kids meal, it sounds like. They saved all of it for adult nerds.
53:28 Travis McElroy? Cause the second I looked at my child, my five year old, and I said, do you want Imperial fries? They'd say, no, I want normal fries.
53:35 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
53:35 Travis McElroy? And I'd say, honey, they only have Imperial, like, I don't know.
53:39 Travis McElroy? My kids have watched a lot of YouTube content about baby Yoda eating chicken nuggets.
53:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
53:45 Travis McElroy? That was a big, I know it's a big thing. So maybe they're just like trying to tap into that power of baby Yoda.
53:51 Griffin McElroy? Just wanna let you know, Juice, cause you've lost perspective completely that non-parents think that what you just said sounded so fucking insane.
53:57 Travis McElroy? Search YouTube. Search YouTube.
53:59 Travis McElroy? Don't.
53:59 Griffin McElroy? There's just videos of Grogu.
54:01 Travis McElroy? Scary on there.
54:02 Travis McElroy? Burger King was involved, this is the sentence, "The connection between the brand and the franchise is not new. Burger King was involved in promotions tied to the original Star Wars release decades ago." Dude, okay, Ben, with all due respect, man, I don't know if one of your parents was a, was a passive voice sentence or something, Ben, but we gotta get active with these sentences. We gotta, we gotta get active voice. "The campaign is structured to reach across that range of guests." The chain plans to promote the new menu via social media, digital engagement, and advertising, building collaboration with all Disney Studios.
54:36 Travis McElroy? We're trying to get people to watch the movie and eat the food. So we're advertising it.
54:43 Travis McElroy? Trav, you think you're having fun now? Listen to this quote from CMO.
54:46 Travis McElroy? Wait, I also want to jump back. The lack of clarity in the claim that Burger King partnered with them for the release of Star Wars decades ago could include so many different things that they're talking about. Are you talking about the release of the original trilogy like 60 years ago?
55:03 Griffin McElroy? On the ground floor, possibly.
55:05 Travis McElroy? They've always been part of it. Joel Yashinsky says, "We've got a ton of fun social engagement and creative plan for the launch of this program."
55:13 Griffin McElroy? Awesome.
55:14 Travis McElroy? It's cool. He adds, "Everything we do is not about a one-hit boost to the business."
55:20 Griffin McElroy? Wow. We're playing long, we're playing 40 chess with Grogu.
55:23 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we're trying to grow our stock value to appease our stockholders.
55:27 Travis McElroy? This is the one where it got so intimate, where I felt like, should I go? He said, "We work with what the property is and find natural innovation and ideas that come from the partnership specifically first."
55:41 Travis McElroy? You're giving it all away.
55:42 Griffin McElroy? Whoever this is, is like really keyed in.
55:45 Travis McElroy? Joel Yashinsky is probably my favorite person who we've had on this show so far.
55:49 Griffin McElroy? The things they're saying are so reasonable.
55:51 Travis McElroy? Yeah, we put the fucking little guy on the box. You know what I mean? Like, kids love this little idiot.
55:58 Travis McElroy? We had meetings where we like agreed on the budget for the ad campaign and like what the designs would be. And then like we put those on there and then we like put them up for sale.
56:09 Travis McElroy? McDonald's was gonna give him some money and then we offered him actually like a little bit more money than that. So.
56:15 Griffin McElroy? And we're reporting Crumble, we're reporting all of the places that are doing these unauthorized partnerships. God, I love Grogu.
56:24 Travis McElroy? I do love Grogu. Can I just, so that's the, that's all I got to tell you about the Grogu meal. Definitely gonna be buying a lot of those, but I do, I, I do just want to show you guys, there is some new merch doing the Disney parks.
56:36 Griffin McElroy? Okay.
56:37 Travis McElroy? You know how I feel about May the 4th and I'm gonna share this tab with you, cause like, things are getting a little twisted this year with the merch. Cause we are getting. Uh, we've been waiting for it a long time. We got Dark Side theme merch coming this year.
56:52 Travis McElroy? Oh, yeah. Finally Darth Maul ears.
56:55 Travis McElroy? Darth Maul ears, dude, that's twisted. Celebrate your allegiance for Shadow Lord himself Darth Maul with an ear headband.
57:06 Travis McElroy? Featuring, look at this guys, look at this fucking dude.
57:08 Griffin McElroy? Holy fucking shit.
57:09 Travis McElroy? Featuring his iconic, yes, right?
57:11 Griffin McElroy? We're looking at a Darth Maul graphic tee with a long sleeve tee underneath that says Darth Maul on the sleeves.
57:18 Travis McElroy? It says Darth Maul on the sleeves.
57:21 Griffin McElroy? It's so goddamn cool.
57:24 Travis McElroy? For those who wanna wear their Dark Side pride on their sleeve, get it? That's not me editorializing, that's what the words say. This Darth Maul inspired tee from Her Universe is available only on DisneyStore.com. That's awesome.
57:37 Travis McElroy? That's not a play on words.
57:38 Griffin McElroy? Awesome dude.
57:39 Travis McElroy? That's not a play on words. Look at this.
57:42 Griffin McElroy? Look at this fashionable Dark Side varsity jacket. Holy, I mean, it kinda slaps.
57:48 Travis McElroy? Can you imagine if you were wearing that and ran into like Darth Vader who for some reason existed in real life and he'd be like, what the fuck am I doing with your jacket?
57:57 Griffin McElroy? Guys, I'm so, we gotta describe this shit. So we're looking at a circuit, this varsity jacket on the back of a large, large circular emblem. And it has some, some flair on the top and bottom of it. It says, "Join the Dark Side" at the bottom. And then we have two Darth Vader helmets looking away from each other within the circular emblem. And then right between those, it says Darth Vader in a sort of vertical font. Just the name Darth Vader.
58:22 Travis McElroy? Darth Vader. It looks like the name has sliced Darth Vader's head in half. And it's just like the two sides fell away.
58:30 Griffin McElroy? Join the dark side, Darth Vader's dead now and there's an opening.
58:35 Travis McElroy? Oh god, uh, with embroidery, artwork and an invitation to join the dark side of the back, even the darkest of Sith Lord won't be able to resist this purchase come May 4th. I know I won't.
58:45 Griffin McElroy? Who the fuck are you? Who are you? Why are you?
58:47 Travis McElroy? This is from, well, this is.
58:47 Travis McElroy? That's written by Darth Maul.
58:49 Griffin McElroy? This is Disney Parks blog. Okay, I thought this was a Disney press release.
58:52 Travis McElroy? Sorry, also, this.
58:55 Griffin McElroy? I mean, the pod racing merch fucks.
58:56 Travis McElroy? This kinda kicks ass, cuz they got pod racing merch.
58:59 Griffin McElroy? But we can't like actually.
59:00 Travis McElroy? Yeah, it's like not, well, we can just look for a second.
59:02 Travis McElroy? Oh, sick.
59:04 Travis McElroy? Fuck yeah, dude. The Moss Hesp shirt. That's, Griff, that's cool as hell though, dude. You'd totally wear that. Now look at this. They got a Skywalker racing jacket.
59:15 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, sort of a pit crew NASCAR vibe, but it does say Mazaez on the front. And on the back, it says Skywalker in big letters.
59:24 Travis McElroy? It looks like it was actually like crew swag for a movie about Skywalker racing at Mazaez.
59:32 Griffin McElroy? No, you guys remember Phantom Menace?
59:36 Griffin McElroy? When the little boy walks out there and he gets it, but he's wearing his fucking like cool jacket like he's Lightning McQueen or something.
59:44 Travis McElroy? Yes.
59:45 Griffin McElroy? Like Days of Thunder sort of style. And everyone's like, oh, it's Anakin. He's so fucking cool.
59:50 Travis McElroy? And he just turns and says, kachow.
59:52 Griffin McElroy? Yeah.
59:53 Travis McElroy? My name is Justin McRae. I need to, yes, I'm calling your regards to my dad Clint McRoy's credit card. I need to cancel it. Um, please don't let him make any charges for the next week because he's gonna buy fucking four of these jackets. Like I just know it, man. Please.
1:00:06 Travis McElroy? Please.
1:00:07 Travis McElroy? Clint, walk away.
1:00:07 Travis McElroy? Do you mean four for himself or one for him and three for us?
1:00:11 Griffin McElroy? You know, he'll get us matching ones.
1:00:13 Travis McElroy? Anyway, that's the, that's all the May 4th magic coming for you. Dang, I wish I hadn't secretly wanted that racing gear so much then. I really feel it really took the wind out of my sails.
1:00:24 Travis McElroy? Hey, speaking of magic, I want to say thank you sincerely for all the support we received in the Max Fun Drive. It is a magical time of year that reminds me every year, reminds us about the community that we've built and the support we get every year. And thank you again. It really does mean the world to us. Thank you.
1:00:40 Travis McElroy? Yeah, thank you.
1:00:40 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Um, I want to thank Montane for these for a theme song, My Life is Better With You. It is such an amazing energy that it conjures up that we then kind of just like surf the wave for, you know, an hour of jokes. I'm so very, very grateful. And also wanted to say thank you to everybody who came out to the Renaissance Fair this past weekend.
1:01:01 Travis McElroy? God, I hope somebody came.
1:01:02 Griffin McElroy? I hope some people come to see us at the Renaissance.
1:01:04 Travis McElroy? I'm sure somebody was there.
1:01:06 Griffin McElroy? Um, yeah, uh, it's, it, thank you for, for all of your support over all of these years. It means more than we could ever say.
1:01:15 Travis McElroy? Yeah, you're the best.
1:01:17 Griffin McElroy? Uh, we got some merch over at the merch store, macaroym merch.com. Uh, we got the Count Donut Piss Vault sticker that Nate Freeberg made that keeps Count, Count Donuts, uh, Cape safe and free of urine. Uh, got some new mugs. Got a, don't talk to me until I've had my, oh, these are here. They're here. New mugs from the 100% podcast sort of, uh, line. We got, don't talk to me till I've had my podcasts on mug. And then there's also a beautiful glass mug that says, I like all butts and no government. Um, which also you can get in a digital cross stitch pattern. We're, this, this corner of the market.
1:01:56 Travis McElroy? That's wild. If you think about it, it all starts with me stopping at that weird Chevron on Al Greer. You know what I mean? And not having a coffee cup.
1:02:05 Griffin McElroy? Yeah. Um, there's also, you can get-
1:02:09 Travis McElroy? Sliding doors, you know, sliding doors.
1:02:11 Griffin McElroy? You can also get with one of these mugs, a new strain of tea. My brother, my brother in tea. You can buy it either by itself or in a bundle-
1:02:20 Travis McElroy? Not testosterone. By the way, we are not making our own line of testosterone. That would be sick, but no.
1:02:25 Griffin McElroy? It's a T E A, like the hot beverage with, uh, with all the flavors and stuff. Uh, you can get that either alone or in a bundle with one of these amazing mugs. Uh, 10% of all of our merch proceeds this month will be donated to First Nations Development Institute. Uh, their mission is to uplift and sustain the life ways and economies of native communities through advocacy, financial support and knowledge sharing. Uh, one last thing, also, you can preorder The Adventure Zone Story and Song, the last book in the Adventure Zone Balance Graphic Novel Adaptation Series over at theadventurezonecomic.com. We've got it. We got our advanced copies in and it's, uh, it's, it's a really, really, uh, beautiful thing. I'm so very proud of it and excited for it to come out.
1:03:07 Travis McElroy? You say so yourself. Jesus.
1:03:08 Griffin McElroy? Uh, actually one last, last thing. Um, we donated an attendance package for Champions Grove to the No Theatre of Cincinnati.
1:03:16 Travis McElroy? To help them raise money for their next season, they put it up for auction. So you can go there, bidding goes until May 8th at 9 a.m. And there's your last chance to get to attend Champions Grove this year. You can go to bit.ly slash CG auction and bid on it there and possibly get to come to Champions Grove this year and support the No Theater Cincinnati, which is a wonderful theater here in Cincinnati. It does a lot of great stuff. Yeah, go check it out. Bit.ly slash CG auction.
1:03:48 Griffin McElroy? I have a, I have a little thing of antibiotic ointment. I don't know.
1:03:54 Travis McElroy? Can you wait to explode when it hits the wall? That'd be cool. Can I throw the, should I throw the sunglasses? If they, if they break, then that's like a sign that I shouldn't do this anymore.
1:04:02 Griffin McElroy? Okay. Yeah. They're not expensive sunglasses, right?
1:04:05 Travis McElroy? I don't buy, fuck, listen, mini soapbox. I don't fucking buy expensive sunglasses. I know my dumb ass. No more than $10 on these motherfuckers.
1:04:12 Griffin McElroy? Yeah, they'll end up in the ocean for sure. All right.
1:04:15 Travis McElroy? I gotta, I gotta take my headphones off.
1:04:17 Griffin McElroy? That's fine.
1:04:18 Travis McElroy? I don't want to put them back in though, so. Yeah.
1:04:20 Griffin McElroy? Say your name. Okay.
1:04:23 Travis McElroy? They're already out. Sorry guys, they're out.
1:04:25 Griffin McElroy? Okay. Don't throw them at the chair. Throw them at the wall. He can't hear us. At the wall!
1:04:31 Griffin McElroy? Wow.
1:04:31 Travis McElroy? That was pretty cool, actually.
1:04:33 Griffin McElroy? It did actually go right into camera. That looked fucking sick. Wait. What's he looking for? It did look like they split into several pieces.
1:04:44 Griffin McElroy? Oh, we lost one lens.
1:04:45 Travis McElroy? Yeah.
1:04:46 Griffin McElroy? There we go. We lost one lens, but they're still functional.
1:04:49 Travis McElroy? They broke. They broke. It's done. They broke. It's done.
1:04:53 Griffin McElroy? Say your name.
1:04:54 Travis McElroy? It's done. I can't hear what you're saying, but. Say your name.
1:04:57 Griffin McElroy? Name.
1:04:58 Travis McElroy? Your name, Justin.
1:05:00 Griffin McElroy? Say your name.
1:05:01 Travis McElroy? Say your name. My name? It's Justin. You guys know that. What the fuck? My name is Travis McElroy.
1:05:06 Griffin McElroy? I'm Griffin McElroy.
1:05:07 Travis McElroy? This has been my brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad, square on the lips.
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