MBMBaM 830: On the Goku

We’re bringing some real sleepover energy, so kick up your feet and join us as we discuss: what’s your favorite dinosaur? Who’s the most Griffin-looking muppet? And what would you rather get in a Burger King meal, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku, or a paper crown that actually fits your head? Suggested talking points: Aesop’s Power Rankings, Elite Pokemon Series for Only Grandpas, 20 Pictures of Lew Zealand, Cool Cars to Drive Away In, Old Lizard History, Munch Your Body, Over 9000 Nuggets Midwest Food Bank: https://midwestfoodbank.org/disaster-relief/

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Speaker 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?

• 0:19Speaker 01

  One, two, three, four. It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has gossip, it's rapid into a precious friendship. I could have never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. 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.

• 1:03Speaker 01

  My life, ah, it's better with you.

• 1:09Travis McElroy?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome to My Brother, My Brother and Me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

• 1:16Travis McElroy?

  What up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middlest brother, Travis Big Dog, Wolf of Vroom Vroom, the heater award-winning McElroy.

• 1:21Griffin McElroy?

  I'm your sweet baby brother, Griffin McElroy. Fit check.

• 1:24Travis McElroy?

  That's it. I like that.

• 1:26Griffin McElroy?

  Fit check on the shirt. Kindergarten. It says kindergarten, dude. He's got a smiley face with those cool, like, striped sunglasses on it.

• 1:33Travis McElroy?

  Dang, dude, is that ironic?

• 1:35Griffin McElroy?

  Gus got one. Fuck, no, it's not ironic. It's for the love of my son and love of school and love of the game, because he got one in red. And I was like, that shirt is so goddamn cool. Uh, I gotta get one in a big boy size. And they did have one in a big boy size. And it's my new favorite piece of kit, man. Lets everybody know, I'm a, I love kindergarten.

• 1:56Travis McElroy?

  Listen, boys, we don't normally do call out episodes, challenge episodes, but I gotta call out, and I know he's listening. I know, I know he does. Mr. Aesop, I have a problem with one of your fables, real bad.

• 2:11Griffin McElroy?

  Okay.

• 2:12Travis McElroy?

  I was talking with my children. Griffin, Justin, what's the lesson?

• 2:17Griffin McElroy?

  Already. The windup is so fucking huge to say that. Y'all ever think about how the goose in this one book had a big, big thick ass? Like, that's how, I'm not telling you your business, but if I was doing Aesop fable bit, right?

• 2:30Travis McElroy?

  Thick ass and move on. What's the lesson of the tortoise and the hare?

• 2:34Griffin McElroy?

  That it's okay to go slow sometimes. It's okay if you're slower than all the other kids.

• 2:37Travis McElroy?

  Slow and steady wins the race, right?

• 2:39Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:39Travis McElroy?

  That's it. Slow and steady wins the race. That's fucking bullshit.

• 2:44Griffin McElroy?

  I can't believe.

• 2:45Travis McElroy?

  Because if the hare had been fast and steady.

• 2:49Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:49Travis McElroy?

  He would, there should have been a third animal competing.

• 2:53Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 2:53Travis McElroy?

  That was fast and steady, because slow and steady does not win the race.

• 2:58Griffin McElroy?

  I want you to, Trav, I think if you're gonna continue to bring this heat to the beginning of our show, the first thing people hear.

• 3:07Travis McElroy?

  This fucking toilet thoughts energy.

• 3:10Griffin McElroy?

  Toilet thoughts, see, I was thinking it's shower thoughts.

• 3:12Travis McElroy?

  I didn't say shower thoughts. This is the thoughts that you have when you leave your phone charging and you're like, oh no, it's already coming, it's already coming out.

• 3:20Griffin McElroy?

  Out of my butt and I can't get up now because what am I gonna do with the butt mess? And yeah, no, for sure. I feel like you should have to record the show on the toilet if you're gonna do this. I feel like you should.

• 3:30Travis McElroy?

  I need you guys to point out where I'm wrong exactly.

• 3:33Griffin McElroy?

  No, you're right.

• 3:34Travis McElroy?

  And it doesn't need to be addressed, like, because his fable has stood.

• 3:37Griffin McElroy?

  The hare takes breaks frequently because he's winning so much.

• 3:42Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 3:42Griffin McElroy?

  Right? So his progress is fast, but he repeatedly needs to take breaks.

• 3:48Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 3:48Griffin McElroy?

  And he takes breaks throughout. The tortoise's pace is uninterrupted throughout the race. So he is steady.

• 3:57Travis McElroy?

  Steady.

• 3:57Griffin McElroy?

  And slow.

• 3:59Travis McElroy?

  But.

• 3:59Griffin McElroy?

  And the rabbit, or hare, is going fast intermittently.

• 4:05Travis McElroy?

  But napping.

• 4:06Griffin McElroy?

  And what, and the person who wrote it, the dead person who wrote it.

• 4:11Travis McElroy?

  What?

• 4:11Griffin McElroy?

  Thought that the turtle would win all the time.

• 4:15Travis McElroy?

  Man, it comes in threes, am I right?

• 4:18Griffin McElroy?

  Well, no, there's just, there's a follow up probably where the rabbit wins every other race because he knows you can't take naps in the middle of races.

• 4:25Travis McElroy?

  Right. It's just a terrible lesson to teach to children.

• 4:29Griffin McElroy?

  Don't rest.

• 4:30Travis McElroy?

  Of like, slow and steady is just factually inaccurate.

• 4:34Griffin McElroy?

  As long as you never stop. You're slow. You're slower than everyone else is, you can't stop, you can't rest, or else you'll lose. I think maybe Aesop's done a lot of harm to the slow guys with this story.

• 4:48Travis McElroy?

  You need to be steadier, my son. That's the problem. Yeah, you're slow, but you should be steadier.

• 4:53Griffin McElroy?

  I need to be, I also feel like, I feel like maybe we should all hop on our phones, go to our John's. I feel like I'm having trouble hanging, Trav, if I'm being honest, because it's like, yeah.

• 5:05Travis McElroy?

  This would be better if you were on the toilet.

• 5:06Griffin McElroy?

  It seems like you've missed, here's the deal, Trav. I think you thought like, I'm about to crack this motherfucker wide open, but it does seem like you've forgotten some pretty core facets of the tortoise and hare story, which is that the hare was actually a lazy fuck and he napped twice during the race.

• 5:22Travis McElroy?

  There should have been a third, there should have been a third animal present.

• 5:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 5:28Travis McElroy?

  That is known for being fast and steady.

• 5:31Griffin McElroy?

  No, but like.

• 5:31Travis McElroy?

  Like a horse. Like, if it had been a horse, it would have been the tortoise and the hare and the horse.

• 5:36Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. Then after the race, the tortoise and hare can get together. Like, I wish we could have a fucking conversation without this goddamn horse showing up and be like, I'm better than both.

• 5:47Travis McElroy?

  I just feel like I, it's implied that like, obviously faster would have been better. Like, if, if the tortoise had also gone fast, I think everybody agrees that that would have been ideal. If, they're saying if you have to choose, you go slow and steady, because that will get you there. And fast, and I think in one version of, he might, there should be a version of it where he's going so fast that he dies or runs into a branch.

• 6:15Griffin McElroy?

  His skin feels off.

• 6:17Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 6:17Griffin McElroy?

  He's appaled. Yeah.

• 6:19Travis McElroy?

  Something, he does need like a bat, yeah, because he needs some sort of negative outcome.

• 6:22Travis McElroy?

  He runs into a bird. A bird hits him in the face.

• 6:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 6:27Travis McElroy?

  I'm just saying the moral.

• 6:28Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, fast and steady, obviously, Trav. That's like, great, but like, if you're, you don't need a story to tell you that two good things are good. Fast and steady and horny, you know, like, fast and steady and thirsty wins the lemonade race. You know, it's like, it doesn't make any sense.

• 6:43Travis McElroy?

  I'm just saying the moral of the story should be, slow and steady wins the race, comma.

• 6:47Griffin McElroy?

  It is, it is.

• 6:48Travis McElroy?

  Unless there is a third option.

• 6:51Griffin McElroy?

  Stedier guy. Travis, you understand that Aesop's not gonna do a ranking of all the fastest, he can't do like.

• 7:00Travis McElroy?

  Hey, what up fam? It's me, Aesop.

• 7:02Griffin McElroy?

  Aesop power ranking.

• 7:03Travis McElroy?

  Goku, Goku versus Sonic.

• 7:09Griffin McElroy?

  Blue and Turbo. If you got the Chaos Emeralds, you know it's my man Sonic gonna win the race.

• 7:14Travis McElroy?

  It's about their worldview. If, if the horse tried to enter, he'd be like, well, I'd like to get a piece of this action. And they'd be like, obviously you would win. You're fast and steady. Go away. We're talking about two different schools of thought here.

• 7:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 7:29Travis McElroy?

  Fast and steady's great. We'd all love to be fast and steady.

• 7:31Travis McElroy?

  Also, a third insect with the ant and the grasshopper who knows how to store food away and loves to party would also be great.

• 7:39Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. It's possible to do both things. I guess I get the point you're saying, which is that Aesop's fables basically all boil down to, you wanna have fun, huh? Tough shit, dude. You're gonna die if you have even a little bit of fun and you'll lose. You'll die and lose if you stop to rest or have fun at all.

• 7:58Travis McElroy?

  Yes.

• 7:59Griffin McElroy?

  Here's my new guy, Turbo Horse. He can go all day, all night long, if you know what I mean. That's right. My new fables are gonna be nasty. Nasty in an animal way.

• 8:11Travis McElroy?

  Trav, you got any others? Why'd I say that?

• 8:14Travis McElroy?

  The only other one I can remember is the musicians of Brandon. And I don't know what the moral is from that one, except like, animals stacked on top of each other making a lot of noise is really scary. So watch out for that.

• 8:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 8:27Travis McElroy?

  My, I'll tell you what I learned. The moral of this story is, this isn't an advice show. Every time I do an intro like that, I know I've just bounced back the trust that my brothers have in me to let me say, I have an idea for an intro next time.

• 8:40Griffin McElroy?

  I have a good idea for an intro. Yeah, I feel like you, sometimes you self sabotage a little bit, Trav.

• 8:45Travis McElroy?

  It's just a lot of pressure to like, because I've been on a real banger streak as far as like, good episodes.

• 8:51Griffin McElroy?

  I know, man.

• 8:51Travis McElroy?

  And I was like, it's too high. It's too high.

• 8:53Griffin McElroy?

  You had to lessen the load by talking about a 450-year-old story that you've misinterpreted in some pretty critical ways.

• 9:02Travis McElroy?

  Hey, can we talk about Luke Giffen?

• 9:06Griffin McElroy?

  I don't know who that is, but I, yeah.

• 9:08Travis McElroy?

  He's from Williamstown, West Virginia. He made it to the final match of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Junior Division World Championships. Second in the world, West Virginia's own Luke Giffen.

• 9:25Griffin McElroy?

  Goddamn.

• 9:25Travis McElroy?

  And it does sound like you're saying Griffin with a baby voice, but it's not that. It's Giffen.

• 9:30Griffin McElroy?

  He gets smoked, he gets smoked by Wolf Glick? Wolf Glick's my number one, dude. He can't be beaten in the Pokemon TCG scene. He's actually probably like 36 years old now at this point. Wolf Glick's been in the game.

• 9:41Travis McElroy?

  Utah Araki.

• 9:43Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, yeah. Oh, he's good too.

• 9:45Travis McElroy?

  I would say in a world champion situation, especially Luke is a, is a child, is a junior division. Coming in second is so Pokemon-coded, it's so perfect because like, now you got something to chase.

• 9:59Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, dude. You think Ash won the, won the Indigo League every time he rolled up?

• 10:04Travis McElroy?

  Nope.

• 10:04Travis McElroy?

  This is what I'm saying. That's, this is season one arc. You know what I mean?

• 10:09Travis McElroy?

  I will say this then, that means to me, America's best Luke Giff in West Virginia zone. Don't have a bit here, just wanna say that kicks ass.

• 10:19Griffin McElroy?

  That's great.

• 10:20Travis McElroy?

  Now, we have embedded Luke.

• 10:23Griffin McElroy?

  We don't know about Luke's views.

• 10:25Travis McElroy?

  But I bet I like, I get, I bet I get along better with Luke than Brody Simpleson, or whatever the name of the kid was that won the Patriot Games, you know?

• 10:35Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, sure, man. That's a, Luke's a way better hang.

• 10:38Travis McElroy?

  It's gotta be a better hang. Yeah, a little chatty. Sure, when it comes to Pokemon, probably.

• 10:44Griffin McElroy?

  But that's okay. So, so am I.

• 10:48Travis McElroy?

  I'm saying at this point, between my nieces and nephews across various, uh, people and like children that my children are friends with and internet, if there's a child who wants to talk to me about Pokemon cards and I find out he placed second in the world.

• 11:03Griffin McElroy?

  In the world.

• 11:04Travis McElroy?

  I'm so down for that conversation.

• 11:07Griffin McElroy?

  Well, hold on Travis, hold on. Okay, this is great and all, I wanna celebrate this kid, obviously, West Virginia hero. This is great, we love it. His name sounds like my name, that's awesome. We love all that. It is the junior leagues. If any of these little munchkins rolled up to grown up Pokemon TCG, their mind could not conceive of the kind of combos that we're doing up here, that we've been cooking up in the lab, that we've been brainstorming. We would bust out shit that they would not even be able to comprehend, dude. Nasty combos.

• 11:40Travis McElroy?

  I do think though, Griffin, you're, you're ignoring the mind game aspect of like a 10 year old like coming out strong and diffusing like a play you were trying to make, where you were gonna go on tilt so hard, so quick against this child. I do like, by the way, that they split it up as if it was like, you know, like a weightlifting competition or a wrestling competition of like clearly these children could not compete on the Pokemon card level of these adults.

• 12:12Griffin McElroy?

  They just simply can't. They don't know about Sneasel and what he's capable of. Only my grown up mind can cook up the kind of schemes.

• 12:21Travis McElroy?

  Junior division is gotta be the harder one. Junior division's the harder one. You age out of the good one. I think you're right.

• 12:28Griffin McElroy?

  I don't think that's what any of us were saying. The opposite of what I'm saying is I'm saying only an adult mind can understand what Sneasel brings to the table.

• 12:35Travis McElroy?

  I don't think you're right. I, I don't thi- I think the children division is more, is harder. And then when you get into the adult division, it gets easier. And then it gets really hard again cause they get very old.

• 12:48Griffin McElroy?

  Old.

• 12:49Travis McElroy?

  And they have a lot of free time. So there's like a junior division, a division, division, I don't know. The division two, and then the senior division where it gets probably the hardest.

• 13:00Griffin McElroy?

  I gotta say, guys, I've been thinking about retirement lately. Not retiring, but how cool it will be to not have any more obligations and to just fucking chill.

• 13:09Travis McElroy?

  To do, to not have to do this.

• 13:11Griffin McElroy?

  Really, anything except any whatever I.

• 13:13Travis McElroy?

  Your difficult job of.

• 13:15Griffin McElroy?

  That's a cute bit. We do, this podcast, again, I hate that we have to keep stressing this to each other, let alone our audience. This podcast is easy, but in the 59 other things that we, it does make up a lot of, it does make up a lot of hours that we're spending doing this stuff. If I retire.

• 13:31Travis McElroy?

  Love to know, if I could lighten your load at all, if there's like a lot of tasks that you're be, like through the week, if I could help you out, I would love, I would love.

• 13:38Griffin McElroy?

  I could be video games for you for besties if you want.

• 13:41Travis McElroy?

  Lighten your load if you need somebody to load.

• 13:43Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, that is a lot, you guys again are having a lot of fun. I have been poop socking the blood of Dawnwalker this week and it's not like.

• 13:50Travis McElroy?

  Sense.

• 13:51Griffin McElroy?

  It's not, I've been poop socking the blood of Dawnwalker this week because I wanna do a good job.

• 13:56Travis McElroy?

  Me the blood of Dawnwalker.

• 13:58Griffin McElroy?

  It's not hard. If I could just continue.

• 13:59Travis McElroy?

  What has Dawnwalker been into since high school? Poop sock me her blood.

• 14:03Griffin McElroy?

  I feel like if I could just continue my original thought before you guys started shitting all over our entire enterprise? Our entire business that we've created together?

• 14:14Travis McElroy?

  Is it good? Should I check it out?

• 14:16Griffin McElroy?

  The business that we do?

• 14:18Travis McElroy?

  No, blood of the Dawnwalker.

• 14:20Griffin McElroy?

  No, yeah, it's pretty sick. It's pretty good. I like to also think our business is pretty good, but when I retire, I was thinking, what if I get healthy? And then I can do world travel. Now I'm saying, what if I join the elite grand master circuit of the Pokemon TCG seniors league?

• 14:35Travis McElroy?

  I am now picturing, I like, you know, like the old people sitting around the retirement village, like playing bridge or like dominoes, like canasta. And now I'm picturing them doing like Magic the Gathering and Pokemon cards and like shit, and I'm so.

• 14:51Griffin McElroy?

  I wouldn't do it there. I wouldn't do it there. I'd be at the, I'd be in Central Park. I'd be at one of the chess tables and all the, all the guys would be like, you gotta get out of here, man. This is just for chess. And I'll be like, get out of, I fought for your coun- for this country.

• 15:05Travis McElroy?

  You're doing street Pokemon cards and one Pokemon cards.

• 15:10Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 15:11Travis McElroy?

  How far away are we from where you see an old guy and he was definitely in a war, so you gotta be nice to him? Cause I feel like we're aging out, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like we're aging past that.

• 15:21Griffin McElroy?

  Sure.

• 15:21Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean? There's like, I feel like there was like, when I was growing up, you kinda had to be nice to old guys, cause they were probably in a war. And I feel like as I'm getting older, like, I don't have to be nice to all the old guys as much any war, but I don't know exactly how often. Appreciate the hats, guys. That actually helps me out a lot.

• 15:38Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, so much, dude.

• 15:39Travis McElroy?

  So much.

• 15:40Travis McElroy?

  I would help even more if we could have hats that made it clear I didn't serve, right? Because they might not be wearing.

• 15:47Travis McElroy?

  More.

• 15:48Travis McElroy?

  Well, they didn't, they, they might not be wearing the hat at the time, but they did serve. If there was like mandatory.

• 15:55Griffin McElroy?

  Shirts.

• 15:55Travis McElroy?

  Hats.

• 15:56Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, man, I'm thinking, I like a shirt too, cause shirt's more, I don't know, versatile and it can just say like, didn't help, didn't help, couldn't be bothered.

• 16:04Travis McElroy?

  There are some hats that old dudes wear that do let me know I actively don't need to respect them. Which is nice. That, those hats, very clear.

• 16:13Travis McElroy?

  I like the guy, like the guys, man, we got so many guys like this around here, wearing tight t-shirts that have like very emo silhouettes of guns. You know what I mean? Like, it's always like, cool rifle, it's tough company. We get the job done with guns. And it's like a silhouette of like a burning gun or a melting gun.

• 16:33Griffin McElroy?

  With like flowers coming out of it, like roses, like thorny roses.

• 16:37Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, thorny roses, like half a flag is like burning or melting too. It's just like, and it's always like, tough guy, knock school. We, we get the money, we get out, we love it. Yeah, praise God.

• 16:49Griffin McElroy?

  And they're always, they're always a hundred years old, these guys wearing these shirts. Two.

• 16:55Travis McElroy?

  Uh, this is an advice show. You know that. We take your questions and we turn them alchemy like into wisdom. Here's the first one. The first. I was recently hired for a lab position at my university. I quickly noticed that everyone in the Slack has a Muppet as their icon. When I asked about this, they said it is a lab tradition and I must also choose one. I have only met these people once. Which Muppet will send the best impression at my new job? And that's from pondering puppets in Pittsburgh.

• 17:30Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, the, let's just take Bunson and Beaker off the table.

• 17:36Travis McElroy?

  Yes, too many workplace accidents.

• 17:38Travis McElroy?

  Also, it's just too on the nose.

• 17:39Griffin McElroy?

  It's too fucking obvious, man. You can't have the lab.

• 17:42Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah, well. And I think best impression is, is, is so subjective. I, I think more about what, and there are some obvious what each Muppet says about you kinda thing. It's big, you're a diva. You know, animal, you're wild and crazy, right? I would start to dig.

• 18:02Griffin McElroy?

  Gonzo, you're a bestiality like freak, like an absolute disgusting little freak.

• 18:07Travis McElroy?

  Only for birds, though. I don't think he's that way with all animals.

• 18:11Griffin McElroy?

  It might just be the one chicken, actually. That's a good point, Travis. Maybe that's too, too, maybe he doesn't subscribe to that label.

• 18:17Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 18:18Griffin McElroy?

  And what even is Gonzo, you know? It's, obviously, I feel like there's a weird kinda power dynamic difference there, cause he's a bit more sort of sentient. He has the power of speech and complex thought, and the chicken appears to not have that. But maybe it's normal from Gonzo's.

• 18:34Travis McElroy?

  Aware. Like, they'll have conversations.

• 18:36Griffin McElroy?

  It's reciprocated, absolutely.

• 18:37Travis McElroy?

  She can't speak English and there are plenty, like Fozzie the bear is a bear, but nobody gets mad if like somebody was into him.

• 18:46Griffin McElroy?

  Right.

• 18:47Travis McElroy?

  Right? Nobody would be like, oh, like that's bestiality.

• 18:50Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's a good point, man. Gonzo could, what is Gon- Gonzo's like a little alien elephant. Maybe it's normal from his planet to have, to have a relationship with a chicken like that.

• 19:01Travis McElroy?

  I think Rizzo is a good bet. Rizzo's a rat.

• 19:05Travis McElroy?

  The rat?

• 19:06Griffin McElroy?

  Rizzo the rat's fucking cool, dude. Think about it, Juice.

• 19:08Travis McElroy?

  I mean, Rizzo's cool, but like, is that a new hire? It's a lab rat, Justin. A lab rat.

• 19:15Griffin McElroy?

  Really good, Trav.

• 19:17Travis McElroy?

  He's, he's a good friend.

• 19:20Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 19:20Travis McElroy?

  Right? Who also cracks wise, a little bit sarcastic, loves to eat. But like, is there for you when you need him? He's a great sidekick, doesn't.

• 19:30Griffin McElroy?

  Insightful, insightful, like insightful, but a good time. Rizzo the rat's a, Rizzo the rat's a.

• 19:36Travis McElroy?

  Rizzo's one of my favorites. He's, he's like right after Pepe for like my favorite.

• 19:39Travis McElroy?

  Oh, see, I like Pepe, but I, I dislike that I think Rizzo got kinda shunted off for Pepe.

• 19:47Travis McElroy?

  For sure, cause Pepe's funnier. Can I, uh, can I offer?

• 19:51Travis McElroy?

  Not as good a sidekick though, Pepe. Little bit spotlight stealing.

• 19:55Griffin McElroy?

  Rizzo, I mean, Rizzo was just engineered to be a good sidekick.

• 19:58Travis McElroy?

  Uh, I wanna throw you a bit of a curveball here. I'm gonna show you guys 20 pictures of Blue Zealand.

• 20:03Travis McElroy?

  I love Blue Zealand.

• 20:05Travis McElroy?

  Now, tell me, any one of these pictures of Blue Zealand wouldn't be just primo as a Slack icon?

• 20:11Griffin McElroy?

  Is he, is he in the band? What's his deal?

• 20:13Travis McElroy?

  No, he throws the fish away and comes right back to you.

• 20:16Travis McElroy?

  Fish.

• 20:17Griffin McElroy?

  He throws the boomerang.

• 20:18Travis McElroy?

  Fish and it come back to you. That's Blue Zealand's whole fucking thing is he throws a boomerang fish and it comes back to you.

• 20:23Travis McElroy?

  The two on the far left of this thing are so good.

• 20:27Griffin McElroy?

  That's a really strong, yeah. Okay, so this is the right answer, I think. This image of a absolutely manic Blue Zealand with his boomerang fish is like a pretty goddamn good profile pic regardless of context. It's really my favorite.

• 20:40Travis McElroy?

  They can slack, honestly, it's pretty good here.

• 20:42Griffin McElroy?

  It's really, it's really sick.

• 20:43Travis McElroy?

  They do this in both Muppet Treasure Island and Muppet Christmas Carol, where they will have Muppet pre-established characters that they do not change in any way to slot into the story.

• 20:55Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they don't wanna tweak New Zealand.

• 20:57Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, they're just like, no, this is just Blue Zealand. He throws the fish away and come right back to you. He's not a different guy in this Dickensian setting.

• 21:05Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, it's like they hire, he's already in the troupe and it's like the guy who you know in the company is not that good of an actor, but they are good at building sets. So you let him like do a couple lines, that's New Zealand. He's not gonna, he's not gonna pretend to be Jiminy Cricket or whatever the fuck. You know, he's gonna throw a fish and it come back to you.

• 21:23Travis McElroy?

  He, he's got the one thing that is impressive, right? I'd like to see anyone else throw a fish and come right back to you.

• 21:31Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, not a versatile skills set.

• 21:33Travis McElroy?

  No.

• 21:35Griffin McElroy?

  I'll tell you what I like here, guys.

• 21:38Griffin McElroy?

  Alf.

• 21:39Travis McElroy?

  Huh.

• 21:42Griffin McElroy?

  Think about that.

• 21:43Travis McElroy?

  The owner and creator and puppeteer of Alf is very litigious, though, Griffin. So have you used him for your icon for

• 21:50Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, I know. I know. There's some. I learned this week that there's some, there was quite a lot of behind the scenes. Just, just vitriol on the set of Alf. I understand the risks associated. But, I mean, Alf has, has more, I don't know, is a more fully developed character. I think you're saying a lot more stuff with an Alf profile pic than you would with a, with really any other Muppet. Except maybe Kermit. Kermit's kind of a power play, too, because it's like, I'm the boss of the Muppet. I'm the king of the Muppets. The boss, the president.

• 22:23Travis McElroy?

  Sweetums is good, too, because it's very, it's an ambiguous kind of signal you're sending, where I think people will read into Sweetums. Or whatever they want to say.

• 22:35Griffin McElroy?

  What about the

• 22:35Travis McElroy?

  You know Alf wasn't a Muppet, right? Just so we can, yeah, because we'll get emails.

• 22:39Griffin McElroy?

  What about, okay, so, did you guys know that there was a me, that I was a Muppet? Did you guys know that I did a brief stint as a Muppet? In the 1989, the Jim Henson, the Jim Henson Show?

• 22:54Travis McElroy?

  I didn't know that, Griffin, in the Jim Henson Show, you did

• 22:56Griffin McElroy?

  The Jim Henson Hour.

• 22:58Travis McElroy?

  Jim Henson's an hour, you need a brief stint as a Muppet. I didn't know this.

• 23:02Griffin McElroy?

  Let me just quickly, I'll just like, I'll let you guys see sort of who, like, and I did, like, you know, the mocap. I was full Andy Serkis for it.

• 23:10Travis McElroy?

  Huh. Huh. Now, who is this guy?

• 23:14Griffin McElroy?

  This is Chip from the Jim Henson Hour, and he's me. He has maybe a little bit less hair than me, but he's the IT guy at the office and, you know. I think that Chip could be a cool one.

• 23:25Travis McElroy?

  That looks like you?

• 23:26Griffin McElroy?

  Just a sort of egg shaped sort of guy with glasses and brown hair. And he's holding up a finger as if to say like, um.

• 23:34Travis McElroy?

  Hey, Griffin, we need to work on your self-esteem, bud.

• 23:38Travis McElroy?

  Self-esteem and also audio instincts. Why would you pull over the podcast to look at a Muppet that people don't know and doesn't look like you? You stopped the audio broadcast to come over and look at this picture that only the three of us could see.

• 23:52Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, I, I

• 23:56Griffin McElroy?

  I don't understand what the issue is.

• 23:58Travis McElroy?

  Also, Zoot

• 23:59Travis McElroy?

  It doesn't look like you. There's, people point out people that look like you literally every day.

• 24:03Travis McElroy?

  Griffin, did you Google cool cars to get away from this?

• 24:10Griffin McElroy?

  No.

• 24:11Travis McElroy?

  I see that you've pulled up cool cars in the same screen share.

• 24:17Travis McElroy?

  And Fortnite dance.

• 24:19Travis McElroy?

  That's too funny. That's the funniest thing you've ever done. I can't do it.

• 24:25Griffin McElroy?

  I, I don't know, guys.

• 24:29Griffin McElroy?

  Just, my child, my young child pulled an all-nighter last night with a cough, and so I'll be, I'll be the first to admit I'm bringing a little bit of sleepover energy to this, to this episode. I want to apologize to Travis. I went way too hard on you about the Aesop thing. That wasn't me. I'm so, I'm so tired, man. I just remember that there was a Muppet that looked like me, and I wanted to share it with the world, but, and you're right, it didn't make any sense. It didn't make any sense at all.

• 24:54Travis McElroy?

  Zoot and Floyd are also good options.

• 24:58Travis McElroy?

  How do I not act jealous when someone walks up to my archaeological dig site and asks if we are finding any dinosaur bones? It's starting to get to me. Should I switch careers?

• 25:11Travis McElroy?

  So are they not, no, that's paleontology, right?

• 25:13Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 25:13Travis McElroy?

  Right. Digging up dinos sounds really cool, but plain old archaeology is pretty cool, too. That's from Paleontology Pajelis in Michigan. I don't

• 25:25Griffin McElroy?

  I do.

• 25:26Travis McElroy?

  I don't know.

• 25:27Griffin McElroy?

  I do, I must.

• 25:28Travis McElroy?

  Not sure. I'll talk to some folks.

• 25:31Griffin McElroy?

  You guys ever think there's been a time where, like, some sort of ancient treasure-filled crypt just happened to be on top of, like, a brontosaurus? And then they had to argue, like, I'm sorry.

• 25:48Travis McElroy?

  Jurisdiction, dibs.

• 25:50Griffin McElroy?

  Did, like, mine is deeper, and the deeper, the one, the deeper one gets the, gets the deed, gets the rights.

• 25:57Travis McElroy?

  And this one crosses state lines, so we're gonna call in the FBI.

• 26:01Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, this is a historically famous dinosaur and his abode and his relics. Um, so we, I understand.

• 26:10Travis McElroy?

  Has anybody ever talked about, like, I don't want to give any more ammunition to people, but like, what if early, early humans were just burying the dinosaurs very deeply after they passed out of respect? You know what I mean?

• 26:24Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 26:25Travis McElroy?

  Justin, I, see, I thought you were gonna say what I was thinking, which is, what if early humans dug deep, found dinosaur bones? And then, like, brought them to their home, and then they died? And like, one day, we found, like, I don't know what to tell you guys. The dinosaur bones are in their house. Was there one dinosaur that was there at the same time?

• 26:48Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 26:49Travis McElroy?

  Um, they'd cover that up.

• 26:51Griffin McElroy?

  They would, absolutely.

• 26:56Travis McElroy?

  Did dinosaurs ever make tools? Did dinosaurs ever make weapons? Did dinosaurs ever paint on walls? No, they were big and they died. That's what you say, maybe not in that tone of voice or with those exact words. Because that did seem very defensive and very angry, I'm realizing now as I said it.

• 27:11Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, and you're gonna be in that headspace, too. Can you guys imagine digging in hot sand for your job, 40 hours a week, hot sand digging, and someone comes up to you and is a dickhead? I'm not gonna have the patience required to patiently explain to them that history is cooler than dinosaurs.

• 27:30Travis McElroy?

  They have done archaeological digs on old outhouses where, like, stuff got preserved in layers and layers of, like, waste, right? From like the 1600s and 1700s. Can't do that. You can't find old dinosaur outhouses, you know what I mean?

• 27:47Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, that's true. Good point.

• 27:49Travis McElroy?

  Guys, I had a, a real brush with paleontology myself this weekend. Cooper won tickets to go to Camden Park from the summer reading program at the library. Uh, she, she won a bunch, so we went out there with the, the Hicks and the Smarls and everybody. We went to Camden Park. And I knew this existed, but I don't think I'd ever, like, really taken the time to appreciate it. Just past the scrambler.

• 28:14Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 28:15Travis McElroy?

  There's a large mound.

• 28:16Travis McElroy?

  Uh huh.

• 28:17Travis McElroy?

  And that mound is a Native American burial mound from the Adena culture that dates between 1,000 B.C. and 1, or BCE and 1 C. And, and it hasn't been excavated. There's signs there about, like, what perhaps is in this mound. It is directly situated between the scrambler and that, uh, the, uh, Dippin' Dots booth. And then, like, just between there, there is this mound, there's a, there's a, a, a, a burial mound there that they have, in all respect,

• 28:59Travis McElroy?

  not excavated, they have built around.

• 29:03Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 29:04Travis McElroy?

  But it is just right next to the scrambler. I mean, it couldn't be closer to the scrambler than it is currently.

• 29:12Griffin McElroy?

  The scrambler's not affixed to the ground particularly well. Year over year, it's inching closer and closer to the mound.

• 29:20Travis McElroy?

  That's true. Everything there is original.

• 29:22Travis McElroy?

  It will eventually start naturally excavating the dig.

• 29:26Griffin McElroy?

  It will start, yeah.

• 29:27Travis McElroy?

  And Justin, I just want to point out, because, like, as you mentioned about people emailing, you did leave this off saying paleontology. And

• 29:38Griffin McElroy?

  That is dinosaur stuff.

• 29:39Travis McElroy?

  Kind of exacerbating.

• 29:39Travis McElroy?

  I meant archaeology, sorry. It's easy to get them confused when you aren't paying that close attention to the difference.

• 29:45Travis McElroy?

  That's kind of the heart of the question, though, isn't it?

• 29:48Griffin McElroy?

  If I was an archaeologist and I found dinosaur bones in the ground, I think I'd be stoked, because it's like, this isn't just history I found, it's turbo history. Um, but if I was a paleontologist and I found an old bowl or whatever, I'd be like, fuck this, it's not a velociraptor. I think as an archaeologist, you have more claim over the world of dinosaurs than they have over yours. So you could just say, dinosaurs isn't the goal today, but I'd be, it would be great to find a dinosaur. I would love to. That's history, too. Old lizard history.

• 30:24Travis McElroy?

  Do you think that this ever happens to Indiana Jones?

• 30:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 30:28Travis McElroy?

  That someone asks Indiana Jones, like, what's the coolest dinosaur you've ever found?

• 30:32Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, guaranteed.

• 30:33Travis McElroy?

  And he's like, I found the Holy Grail. Like, I found the Ark of the Covenant. And they're like, but you ever found a velociraptor? And he's like, no.

• 30:42Griffin McElroy?

  No, I wish.

• 30:44Travis McElroy?

  I mean, I haven't. You're right. I haven't. Fine.

• 30:47Griffin McElroy?

  Fine. I like, I like ammonites. I like them videos. I don't know if you all get TikToks of people going to the beach, the rocky shores, and digging up ammonites. That's cool.

• 30:58Travis McElroy?

  What? What are ammonites?

• 31:00Griffin McElroy?

  Aren't they the little spirally guys?

• 31:03Travis McElroy?

  Maybe, I don't know.

• 31:05Griffin McElroy?

  They're little spirally guys. They're old fossils, and they used to be little nautilus shells, I guess, and then they turn, they just died, and they get sucked up into big rocks, and people go to the beach, they crack them open, and then they say, here's my and you hear that voice, here's my haul from the, from the rocky beach, and they have all these It sounded like it, yeah, so probably, yeah. And then they, but the videos aren't AI. It's real, real fossils, real dirty fossils.

• 31:29Travis McElroy?

  That's cool.

• 31:30Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 31:30Travis McElroy?

  I didn't even know about those ammonites.

• 31:32Travis McElroy?

  I'm always confused, because they don't know that there's an ammonite in it until they break it open. So are they just breaking open every rock they see until they find them?

• 31:39Griffin McElroy?

  Well, they can tell. Some, some rocks have, like, a shape that suggests maybe that there's ammonites in them. Look at these big goddamn fossils, guys.

• 31:48Travis McElroy?

  Whoa, nice, dude. Nice. Yeah, these are really cool.

• 31:53Griffin McElroy?

  This is a good episode.

• 31:54Travis McElroy?

  These are cool. Yeah, a lot of visual, a very visual episode.

• 31:58Griffin McElroy?

  Very visual episode.

• 31:59Travis McElroy?

  Very visual. Can we take a break and go to the money zone?

• 32:04Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 32:06Travis McElroy?

  Sorry, is this, what is this now, Griffin? Is this just anime?

• 32:09Griffin McElroy?

  This is best anime fights.

• 32:12Travis McElroy?

  Ranked. Oh, man, I'd love to see One Punch Man versus, uh, the dude, All Might.

• 32:18Griffin McElroy?

  Geek Test.

• 32:19Travis McElroy?

  We got him.

• 41:27Travis McElroy?

  Alarcon, the head chef at Burger King. Our culinary team evaluated every element of the experience from the chicken and breading to the sauces that bring it all together. Throughout the process, we invited real guests, including some of our toughest critics, kids, to taste and refine the recipe, helping us create a nugget we believe delivers the quality taste and experience they're asking for.

• 41:51Travis McElroy?

  I understand what they're going for there, but when it comes to chicken nuggets, our kids are toughest critics.

• 41:59Griffin McElroy?

  Like, I mean, yeah, in a way, like, I would be a tough critic on a chicken nugget at like a baseline level where it's like, I don't really, I want, I don't want to eat just a small bite of chicken. I like to eat different, lots of other stuff at the same, I'm not a big chicken nugget guy. If I only ate chicken nuggets, I do think my critiques would be more insightful. I mean, these look like lovely nuggets, actually.

• 42:23Travis McElroy?

  I do want to enhance this bit right here.

• 42:25Griffin McElroy?

  We do have a special savory sauce here.

• 42:27Travis McElroy?

  New special savory sauce.

• 42:29Travis McElroy?

  That sauce looks like wax applied to the chicken nugget.

• 42:35Griffin McElroy?

  It's fucked because the sauce is the exact same hue as the nugget itself.

• 42:40Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 42:41Griffin McElroy?

  So it looks like you're dipping the nugget in mushed up nugget, which is.

• 42:44Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, it looks like they've buffed all the breading off the nugget to a fine, smooth shine.

• 42:50Griffin McElroy?

  It does look like that.

• 42:52Travis McElroy?

  They're, they're not doing themselves any favors with the name, which is new special savory sauce. A brand new, limited time dipping sauce, combining creamy, tangy, and slightly spicy flavors with hints of barbecue seasoning, ketchup, garlic, onion, and black pepper. Hey, guys, just say you forgot.

• 43:21Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 43:21Travis McElroy?

  Just say you forgot everything you put in it.

• 43:23Griffin McElroy?

  You got, you literally got lost in the sauce. You made the fucking Kel Mitchell good burger juice, but you weren't, you weren't a great steward of.

• 43:31Travis McElroy?

  Just name it something, for God's sake, even when KFC had the Supergirl promo, I had to eat Lobo's hot chili. Like, come on, give it, give me something.

• 43:42Travis McElroy?

  They just listed off a bunch of like additive things without a core thing to it. Like, we just put a bunch of like seasonings in a thing.

• 43:54Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 43:54Travis McElroy?

  We don't know, man, it's savory.

• 43:57Travis McElroy?

  They busted these out into bullet pointed list. Second, honey mustard. Now, get this, guys, it's a richer, creamier take on the classic, made with mustard and honey, for the perfect balance of sweet and tangy flavor. Then they have to explain, and I won't put you through this, but they have to explain what buffalo sauce and sweet and sour sauce is, like, huh, you know, they just tried. Now, you might be thinking, wow, Burger King has really put themselves in a pickle here with these new nuggets. Like, this is obviously an extremely exciting promotion, but is this going to be enough to turn the brand around?

• 44:35Travis McElroy?

  And I think the, the boss of Burger King, Joel Yashinsky, said, okay, well, maybe we could do one more for you if, if this isn't enough. Yes, that's right. Burger King and Toei Animation have joined forces to launch the new Dragon Ball Super Menu.

• 44:52Griffin McElroy?

  All right.

• 44:53Travis McElroy?

  But batten down the hatches, they fixed the nuggets and they're doing Dragon Ball shit.

• 44:58Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, I mean, you're doing me a great favor right now, Juice, because later I was going to look at pictures of Goku and pictures of chicken nuggets and you've.

• 45:06Travis McElroy?

  I know, dude.

• 45:07Griffin McElroy?

  You've got me squared away.

• 45:09Travis McElroy?

  There's no better place to play Minecraft in the world right now than your local Burger King. There is no better place.

• 45:17Travis McElroy?

  They committed so, so long ago to the paper crown with Burger King that now the inclusion of it in all their promotional things is so wild.

• 45:29Griffin McElroy?

  But it's cool now, the paper crown's got Dragon Ball Z and Goku on it.

• 45:33Travis McElroy?

  Driven insane by my desire for a paper Dragon Ball Z Burger King crown, it's all I can fucking think of.

• 45:38Griffin McElroy?

  I mean, if I could still get a line out to Joel Yashinsky, we need to make these paper crowns much larger. I've never been able to fit one of these things on my skull.

• 45:47Travis McElroy?

  And that means never, guy, he means never.

• 45:49Griffin McElroy?

  Ever, ever.

• 45:50Travis McElroy?

  Even since childhood, never.

• 45:51Griffin McElroy?

  Cradle to the grave, can't get one of these bad boys wrapped around my circumference. So I would love Joel, perhaps, an extendable, like, I don't know, you could hand them out like small sort of slips of cardboard that you could bridge the gap, maybe.

• 46:06Griffin McElroy?

  Just food for thought. I know that it probably costs a mon, a lot of money to print these Dragon Ball Z crowns.

• 46:10Travis McElroy?

  Justin, could you, could you tell me what's in the cup there that looks like piss after a night of heavy drinking?

• 46:16Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, Trav, I'll get there. Don't worry about it, but you're, you've got good eyes. You've seen the most refreshing part of the meal, probably. Let's talk about the power up pack. Burger King, I hope the same person got to write this press release as had to write the last one.

• 46:28Griffin McElroy?

  As a rule, as a little treat.

• 46:30Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, crack the knuckles and have some fun. Burger King is bringing the cosmic energy of the anime multiverse straight to your taste buds.

• 46:39Griffin McElroy?

  Yes.

• 46:40Travis McElroy?

  Have you ever wanted to know what Goku tastes like?

• 46:42Travis McElroy?

  Good news.

• 46:43Griffin McElroy?

  I think it's just some Goku chips.

• 46:46Travis McElroy?

  In celebration of one of the most beloved anime franchises, Dragon Ball Super, Burger King is launching, it would be wild if it was in celebration of like, Akira. Burger King is launching a limited.

• 47:00Griffin McElroy?

  Good pull, dude. Thanks, dude. Trav are super proud of that anime.

• 47:03Travis McElroy?

  Thanks, man.

• 47:04Griffin McElroy?

  Would have been great if you could have said like a series, like Dragon Ball Z, but Akira, we will absolutely accept.

• 47:10Travis McElroy?

  Okay, great. Burger King is launching a limited time menu packed with bold flavors and immersive packaging designed to delight fans of all ages. The Dragon Ball Super Power Up Pack includes a 10-piece chicken nugget with new Super Saiyan Sauce.

• 47:25Travis McElroy?

  Oh, yeah.

• 47:26Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 47:28Travis McElroy?

  It's a sweet, savory, tangy, teriyaki style sauce inspired by.

• 47:31Travis McElroy?

  It's all in there.

• 47:32Travis McElroy?

  It's all in there. It's all in there, the Super Saiyan Sauce. It's got the, it's got the Super Saiyan Sauce. They got the Dragon Ball Burst Lemonade. It's a refreshing mango peach lemonade with juicy mango flavored popping boba that brings the magic of the Dragon Balls to every sip.

• 47:49Griffin McElroy?

  I'm not sure I want BK dabbling in boba. That's all I wanted to say. I'm not sure that I want that.

• 47:53Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, boba's on the fence already in texture wise.

• 47:57Travis McElroy?

  It also does kind of seem like their go to, like their direction.

• 48:01Griffin McElroy?

  That's how you pronounce Goku.

• 48:02Travis McElroy?

  Their Goku direction for this, between the Super Saiyan Sauce and the mango peach lemonade with boba was put as much into each thing as you can.

• 48:13Griffin McElroy?

  That's the BK way, man, maximalist.

• 48:16Travis McElroy?

  And then I feel bad for the person because then they had to describe a medium fry, which is just a medium fry, classic french fries.

• 48:22Travis McElroy?

  Have you ever seen a small fry and a large fry and thought, I wish they had a baby?

• 48:27Travis McElroy?

  Well, here you go. Hey, Griff, will you read this part? Cause like, I'm afraid I'm not going to get it right now.

• 48:33Griffin McElroy?

  Sure, sure, sure.

• 48:33Travis McElroy?

  You're going to be fun to me.

• 48:34Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, absolutely. Here we go. Dragon Ball Super Figurine, one of six exclusive character figurines, including Goku, Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Goku, Vegeta, just kidding, Vegeta, Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Vegeta, Piccolo, and Beerus.

• 48:56Travis McElroy?

  I'm not laughing at the fact that these are anime names because of course they are. I'm laughing that someone had to like, check the sheet eight times, like, okay, hold on, it's.

• 49:04Griffin McElroy?

  Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Goku?

• 49:07Travis McElroy?

  Cause they will fucking, Bethany, listen to me, if you write it wrong, they're going to rip us apart. You will pray, you will wish for death, Bethany. You have to write Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Goku, please.

• 49:22Griffin McElroy?

  It sounds like.

• 49:23Travis McElroy?

  And don't forget Beerus.

• 49:26Griffin McElroy?

  Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Goku, sounds, Goku sounds like a, an SAT like analogy question. Super Saiyan God is to Super Saiyan Goku.

• 49:38Travis McElroy?

  Kids can join the adventure too. Don't worry, kids, you're not left out of the Dragon Ball Z Super Power Up Pack with Super Saiyan Sauce. Kids can join in too. A Dragon Ball Super themed King Junior Meal arrives to participating restaurants nationwide, giving younger fans the opportunity to power up their play. Each meal includes a choice of hamburger, cheeseburger, four piece, six piece chicken nugget, plus a side drink and themed crown and one of six figurines. My supplies last.

• 50:08Travis McElroy?

  The same figurines?

• 50:09Travis McElroy?

  I hope that they're worse figurines, because these, my meal has an adult collectible. I hope it's not a toy, a simple child's toy.

• 50:17Griffin McElroy?

  I didn't realize this wasn't a kids meal. I didn't realize this Dragon Ball Super Power Up Pack was an adult meal. I apologize.

• 50:24Travis McElroy?

  You can tell by how excited you were to buy and eat it, Griff. It was an adult meal.

• 50:28Griffin McElroy?

  I just want the crown, dude. I just want the crown and I'll have to make some modificate, I'll have to punch holes in the sides of the crown so I can still wear my headphones while wearing the Dragon Balls Super Crown. But it's all I really want. I guess I would like a little Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Goku figurine I can put back here next to Frish's big boy.

• 50:46Travis McElroy?

  I know it's too late now because they're already out and in stores, but next time you partner with Dragon Ball Super, if you could make the Goku position in such a way, the figurine that he's holding my next nugget for me, offering it to me, it's like, here you go, brother. Like, that would be just ideal for me if it looked like he had my back with my next nugget ready to go.

• 51:07Travis McElroy?

  Yeah, he was like lifting one up into your, that would be cool if it was like, it might be a little nugget resting stand, you don't know, he might be able to hold a nugget. You could probably spear one on his little arm.

• 51:18Griffin McElroy?

  If the, I'm curious about how far Joel is willing to go with this, we're listening sort of initiative, because if we encouraged all our fans to reach out and say, we actually love the anime meal more, please, if they will then continue to turn out, like Burger King becomes the new destination for like anime merchandise, they have a new Neon Genesis Evangelion sort of combo pack.

• 51:43Travis McElroy?

  Give me a My Hero Academia. Cookies, you know?

• 51:47Griffin McElroy?

  Oh, man, that's good, Trav. Wow, that's

• 51:49Travis McElroy?

  I, I, I think that the, it's interesting because they don't mention the listening initiative in this press release. So

• 51:57Travis McElroy?

  When it comes to your opinions on Dragon Ball Super, we're actually not listening.

• 52:00Griffin McElroy?

  Not interested with this

• 52:02Travis McElroy?

  Well, no, I think it did. No, this is a hundred percent what happened, though. I think that Joly Shensky is like, listen, this is gonna sound crazy to you guys, but we need to do two things immediately after we, now, after we appoint an enchanted food guardian who will watch over the meals. We have two orders of business. The nuggets are fucking dirt. The nuggets are trash and they love Goku. I swear to God, guys, fix the nuggets and put Goku on the box and we'll be rolling.

• 52:31Travis McElroy?

  I had, I had to make a special filter for the emails, guys.

• 52:35Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 52:35Travis McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 52:36Travis McElroy?

  You didn't hire me to tell you to make like better burgers. I'm telling you, fix the nuggets and create an enchanted guardian of the food and put Goku on everything.

• 52:48Travis McElroy?

  Is the enchanted guardian

• 52:49Travis McElroy?

  It's not timed to an event. It's not timed

• 52:52Travis McElroy?

  It's a celebration of Dragon Ball.

• 52:54Travis McElroy?

  Celebration of the, the anime super Dragon Ball.

• 52:58Travis McElroy?

  Is the enchanted guardian of the food responsible for getting me a different Goku collectible if I already have the Super Saiyan, Super God, Super Saiyan

• 53:07Griffin McElroy?

  The idea that somewhere on Earth I think they should have to.

• 53:10Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. The your way champion should have to care deeply about which figurine you got and how disappointed you are.

• 53:17Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. My crown doesn't fit. I was told this was a meal for adults. Your way champion, my way champion. Make this crown fit my head now.

• 53:26Travis McElroy?

  Make this crown fit my brother's head.

• 53:29Griffin McElroy?

  Stretch it.

• 53:29Travis McElroy?

  Joel, I'm gonna give you this one too for free. We are listening and we hear what you're saying. Here's a Goku, and then you can like lead into it that way.

• 53:38Griffin McElroy?

  What if Joel, what if Joel learned about Dragon Ball from these emails? And now he's like a dyed in the wool, like absolute Dragon Ball fiend. He can't get enough of these guys. He, he rolled up to the next board meeting and was like, do you guys know about? Do you know about Goku and his son, Son Goku? You guys are gonna lose your fucking minds when you see, when they get mad guys

• 54:05Travis McElroy?

  He comes in at each meeting after discovering new levels of power that they have increased to like, guys, I know I said that they couldn't get any more powerful in the last meeting, but I watched a few more episodes and this is gonna fucking trip you out, but there's a Super Saiyan one too. Yeah. His hair, you guys aren't gonna believe this. I know I described him as having a black hair. It goes like

• 54:25Travis McElroy?

  Electric yellow?

• 54:27Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah. And then if he's super pissed off blue, we gotta make this the front man for our entire business. I propose we change the name from Burger King to Burger Goku. And we need, and I've already done this and we've already started sending the new signs out to all the franchises.

• 54:44Travis McElroy?

  You guys realize that there is a world in which, like, you joked about this having an impact, but there's a world in which this does so well that Burger King just becomes like the anime nuggets.

• 54:56Griffin McElroy?

  That's what I'm saying.

• 54:57Travis McElroy?

  Like the number one, like if you want anime nuggets, like the hot topic of the, of the, uh, the fast food world.

• 55:05Travis McElroy?

  Guys, it's me, Joel. Just finished the series. Is it too late to make a nugget meal with over nine thousand nuggets in it?

• 55:13Travis McElroy?

  Hey, guys, check this out. Check this out. Over nine thousand. I got to it. I got, you guys heard that?

• 55:20Travis McElroy?

  Where are you going? You quit?

• 55:23Travis McElroy?

  You won't quit?

• 55:24Griffin McElroy?

  Guys, I don't think I can come in today. Um, Goku fucking died.

• 55:31Griffin McElroy?

  Goku fucking died and now he's an angel in heaven and he has to find his way back. And I don't think he's gonna be able to do it. He's at the end of like a big, long road and the road is also a snake and, um, Goku fucking died. I can't take your calls today. Hey, what do you want? Oh, all the burgers are too hot. Sorry, I can't. Goku fucking died, man.

• 55:52Travis McElroy?

  You aren't into Dragon Ball, but, oh, you are. Okay. So listen, don't spoil anything, but like

• 55:58Griffin McElroy?

  But like

• 55:58Travis McElroy?

  Did it turn out okay?

• 56:00Griffin McElroy?

  I got to the part Goku died and like, there's no way, right?

• 56:04Travis McElroy?

  Right? No way.

• 56:06Travis McElroy?

  No, don't spoil it. Don't spoil it.

• 56:07Travis McElroy?

  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, there's a, there's gonna be an enchanted guardian.

• 56:13Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 56:14Travis McElroy?

  To look over you. Watch out for you like Goku does. Goku watches out for all of us now. I don't want you to be sad anymore, little friend. I'm gonna fix this for everybody.

• 56:24Griffin McElroy?

  I hope I get to meet Goku one day. What? What?

• 56:30Griffin McElroy?

  What?

• 56:31Travis McElroy?

  They made a live action version. I can't wait to watch that.

• 56:34Griffin McElroy?

  Wait to see it.

• 56:35Travis McElroy?

  I bet it's so accurate.

• 56:37Griffin McElroy?

  They just recorded the actual Goku, huh? For that one? What?

• 56:41Travis McElroy?

  They follow him around like keeping up with the Kardashians.

• 56:46Travis McElroy?

  I bet they have trouble keeping up with his busy life.

• 56:48Travis McElroy?

  On the Goku.

• 56:49Griffin McElroy?

  Is the name of that Bravo reality show, Travis? Yes, absolutely.

• 56:53Travis McElroy?

  Thank you for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother and Me. It's an advice show for the modern era. Even if we don't get to a ton of questions, we still helped. I feel like we did that first Muppet was so good. We kinda earned

• 57:07Griffin McElroy?

  Took a flyer.

• 57:08Travis McElroy?

  You know what I mean? Lose Zealand.

• 57:10Travis McElroy?

  Lose Zealand.

• 57:11Travis McElroy?

  Yeah. We've got a bunch of new, uh, merch over in the merch store. The AMC bandana, Cryptonomica sticker designed by Rachel Calderon Navarro. Uh, and 10% of all merch proceeds this month will also be donated to the Midwest Food Bank's Disaster Relief Fund, which brings together donors, volunteers, and a network of over two, like I think, 2,400 non

• 57:32Travis McElroy?

  Nine thousand.

• 57:34Travis McElroy?

  Over 2,400 non-profit partners to deliver food and support to communities across the country.

• 57:39Griffin McElroy?

  Um, we're doing Besties live on Broadway, October 9th at Town Hall in New York City. Um, and you can get your tickets down at bit.ly slash Besties on Broadway. We've never done a live Besties before. Um, but it's gonna be a ton of fun and, um, I, I hope that you will consider joining us because I'm, I'm, I'm very much looking forward to it.

• 57:58Travis McElroy?

  I'll say thank you to Montane, uh, who's just doing a bunch of kick ass live shows.

• 58:03Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 58:04Travis McElroy?

  Make sure you check those out.

• 58:05Griffin McElroy?

  Saw a review of one of the live shows, sounded like a ton of fun and then Montane played the My Life is Better with You song and I would love to, I'd love to, Montane, I would love to see you in concert and that it would be so sick. But I don't know if you're, if a stateside tour is coming anytime soon. Maybe I gotta get across the pond.

• 58:22Griffin McElroy?

  Several ponds.

• 58:23Travis McElroy?

  Several ponds.

• 58:24Griffin McElroy?

  There's a couple of ponds I would have to get over.

• 58:26Travis McElroy?

  They call it the lower pond.

• 58:27Griffin McElroy?

  The lower pond.

• 58:28Travis McElroy?

  The lower pond. I haven't thrown anything for a little bit and I have

• 58:31Griffin McElroy?

  What you got?

• 58:31Travis McElroy?

  I got these, uh, the six pack of ear tips that I, I don't need, I got the, I hate these, right? Because you get these and it's like, I found the two that fit. And then the rest of them don't, like

• 58:43Griffin McElroy?

  Yeah.

• 58:44Travis McElroy?

  Okay, thanks for nothing, I guess. So I'm gonna throw them.

• 58:47Travis McElroy?

  Justin, no look over your shoulder. I'll give you a hundred points if you hit the big boy.

• 58:51Griffin McElroy?

  If you can hit the frisbee's big boy, it's, it's a little small, so I want there to be some challenge associated with it. Hard as you can, though. Oh my God, it was so close, dude.

• 59:02Travis McElroy?

  So close.

• 59:03Travis McElroy?

  My name is Justin McElroy.

• 59:04Travis McElroy?

  I'm Travis McElroy.

• 59:05Griffin McElroy?

  I'm Griffin McElroy.

• 59:07Travis McElroy?

  It's been My Brother, My Brother and Me. Kiss your dad square on the lips.

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