My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 215: Glass Shark
Episode Date: September 2, 2014We're back! And better than ever! Arguably. Well, okay; we're batting about average. Well, maybe Justin's a little rusty, and Griffin's a bit down, and maybe Travis recorded using an old-timey gramoph...one. But still - we're back! Suggested talking points: Dad Goofs, Movie Jelly, Munchables, That Dark Water, Sexting While Driving, The Winning Powerball Numbers
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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 mentioned only so the babies out there
will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
It's a new place, and the girls, do you want it? Just say, hey, I want it. Just say, hey, I want it.
Well, hi everybody. Welcome to my brother, my brother, and me. It's an advice show
for the modern era. We're just pleased to have you here. I am Justin McElroy.
I'm Travis McElroy.
I'm Griffin McElroy. I think I know what's going on.
It is so great to have you guys on the show just to be doing this podcast with you.
I'm feeling pretty fine. Oh, god, oh, god, Justin's biting me.
Just doing just dandy too. I'm finer than frogs hair split four ways.
Sanded down too, I should hope. Sand them right down.
I just flew in from downstairs, and boy, might well, you know how that'll just.
Oh, I see. You've caught the dad real hard.
Just a father, I come at comedy from my own unique perspective,
colored by my life with my wife and my beautiful baby doll.
I'm just aware, dad, because Justin passed his foul darkness into me, vis-a-vis fluid transaction.
Boys, what's on the docket today? I hope we can try to keep it clear.
We're going to probably talk about dicks, dicks and balls.
Oh, well, that seems like an old version of my brother and my brother and me.
I'm not sure that would be. Do you want to talk about playing catch?
That would be better. I think we could probably split the difference and land somewhere.
No, we could probably land somewhere in the Billing-Vall territory.
Yeah, he gets a little colorful from time to time, but at the end of the day,
you know, you're going to get off this roller coaster and you're going to have all your limbs
attached. You know what I mean? My brother and my brother means just about three guys
shooting the shoot and talking about what grinds their gears. You're going to laugh a little,
you're going to learn a little, and you're going to learn a lot in life.
My brother and my brother and me gives its own unique approach to comedy.
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Justin, you back?
I am back.
All right, let's do the show.
Sorry, the little one had to had a poopsie.
You know how that is.
It was late night.
Can you watch your fucking language?
Okay, straight up.
I haven't slept.
Do you think that is going to be a lot?
You think that that is just a goofy thing people say?
And I got irritated because it was the thing that everybody was saying.
Everyone, oh, catch up on your sleep.
I hope you, you cannot, you cannot put enough hours in the bank.
First off, sleep doesn't work like that anyway.
You cannot put enough hours in the bank for a human that knows nothing about time or darkness
or anything and how that will infringe on your life.
Yeah.
Some of those things like you think like this is surely as tired as I could possibly get.
And then you proceed to get more tired.
And then no matter how tired you get, there's nothing, there's nothing you can do.
It's not like I'm so sleepy.
So I'm going to sleep now.
Baby, I heard that over there, but I'm sleeping now and I will catch you in a few.
The best, probably the thing that makes me happiest so far is that the baby has really
good timing, has good comedic timing, by which I mean I'll get up fucking stumbling around,
stumble over the changing table, change your wiper a little tushy,
feed her, mom will feed her and then we'll settle, get her all fed, then we'll put her in her.
She has a baby straight jacket, she sleeps in and we'll get her that, we'll lower to sleep
and I'll gingerly lay her down, bomb squad style, just not wanting to trip any wires,
it's going to wake her back up.
I'll sneak back over to my side of the bed, I'll get in my snugly, snugly pre-kid position
for how I would sleep when I still slept and then I'll just hear from across the room.
Huge, massive, massive screaming dump and you know what the best part about the dump is,
the best part about the dump is the baby will dump and then not cry but fucking stare at me
like, what's up, what's up now old man, are you going to leave me here with my little week old
tushy, my family called tushy, are you, are you man enough to just sleep there,
while my little baby tushy sits in poopy, are you man enough or are you going to come over here
pick me up. The most horrifying thing I think that you've told me about the situation and
it's a, it's an enormous list and I'm sorry by the way that I just referred to the beautiful
human life you created as a situation but let's move on. The horrifying thing you told me is that
baby's poop when that zone gets stimulated and one way to stimulate that zone is to clean the poop
off of it. They're hilarious. That's a real like um yeah that's a, that's a, you're playing with fire
anytime you clean a baby's butt you're playing fire that the baby's gonna be like oh man I forgot
I had a butt. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you sir. What was the thing that I did with? Thank you
poorly gentlemen. What was the thing I did with my butt? Oh that's right. That's it. Should we do,
do you mind if I put this in your hand? Should we do advice now? That's a good place for it. Yeah.
I love that we, we joked about doing the thing and then we did the thing. Well I mean yeah it's
I mean that's the fucking McRoy away it's a slice of life that's what we do here on my brother and
my brother. Tragedy plus, tragedy plus this podcast equals comedy I guess because that's that's my
life right now and actually it's great it's fine. I actually would say in this circumstance poop in
your hand plus me not being you equals very very funny. Fair enough. All right let's uh we still
help people on the show. Sometimes, sometimes we play fucking Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah uh sometimes
we do Griffin um but uh right now we're helping people so let's do this. Thank you by the way for
for continuing to put the show together in my absence Griffin and Travis. I really appreciate
it. Uh just don't do this again. Yeah. I will not for uh for nine months at least.
My girlfriend and I recently went to a movie.
Okay. Wanting good seats we went to a row in the middle of the auditorium and selected seats in
the middle of the row. As soon as we sat down a girl in the seats behind us very loudly said
seriously. I glanced back a minute later and saw that she had moved a few seats to her left
so that she wasn't directly behind us. Are we good or did we commit a film viewer faux pas by
sitting in front of her? To our credit it was stadium seating and neither one of us are very tall.
That's from Naive in North Dakota. Interesting. Um yeah because are we are we talking about
sight lines or sight lines the issue or is this the issue that you went to what sounds like a
relatively empty movie theater and decided to sit um you didn't leave a buffers uh uh uh
because proximity's an issue. Yeah. proximity's an issue there but I would say here's the thing
that's her issue and not yours. Well I think if you I know you walk into a movie theater if someone
sits too close to you and you want to move the onus is on you at that point. I don't think I don't
know about that if it's otherwise empty and someone sits directly in front of me that's
gonna feel intentional to me. No I'm gonna tell you it's intentional if it's directly beside.
No I know in front works too and but here's the thing in a trillion years
in a in a bajillion years I could be at the midnight opening of the last Harry Potter movie
which I don't know if you guys know this is my most anticipated and also greatest film of all time
and for some miraculous reason the theater was empty except for myself and then somebody walked in
and sat in front of me I wouldn't fucking say anything. I wouldn't because you're trying to get
whisked. I'm trying to get my way to it yeah and like saying that is going to impact both my
experience their experience the experience of everybody who has to be a part of the fact that
I just made it super uncomfortable. Is it possible that she was not referring to you sitting down but
some other factor that had just become apparent like she just realized. Did you wait did you let
out a did you let out a huge rungy fart. Maybe she just sat down and found that the the chair she
was sitting in was full of farts the foam had absorbed the fart of a two hour previous okay so
maybe you sat down and almost at that exact same instant she put her hand on her arm rest oh my god
there's jelly all over yeah seriously Justin's been here. Who ordered that pricey movie theater jelly
only to leave it on the arm rest. The trick is you bring your own in and a little ziplock bag.
Travis that's how you get past it they charge like 650 for some jelly it's people like you they're
ruining the jelly industry there just had to say you know you go to the alamo you go to the alamo
draft house they bring you craft brewed jelly during the the movie you don't have to get up and
because like you you'll finish jelly and like I fuck I can crush one of those tubs in like 20 minutes
maybe and then what am I gonna do get up and do that maybe six times seven times depending on the
length of the film if I if during fucking boyhood we're talking about like 12 jam jars I I have to
admit I don't think it was a huge faux pas but I do think that it is it feels a little bit inconsiderate
to sit directly in front of somebody when when you have a lot of other but I do I do understand
though like if they picked middle seats and you picked middle seats but maybe leave a row if possible
everybody wants to sit in the middle especially in a big stadium seating like i max kind of thing
but maybe leave a roll a row between you if possible but that's okay but that's not how
space works like it obviously the ideal like position is like row four or five in the direct
center right and then the next best one is like the row behind that or in front of that in the same
exact position but then it's a there's diminishing returns you get too close what am I fucking even
seeing is that is that you know Bradley Cooper's nose no it's a house it's a raccoon it's a raccoon
god damn this movie is transporitative did you guys did you guys remember did you ever like when
you were you know a teenager going on some dates did you ever encounter a thing where like you'd
sit and be by yourself and then either like it was always older people or like you know like
wanting to sit close to you like I know what you guys are going to get up to not on my watch and I
want to or or explicitly on my watch only on my watch I always got it like they were just trying to
like ruin whatever you know necking I was planning for that evening but maybe they were just going
like no go go on wait you're telling me that uh old people tried to ruin something for me Travis
I don't know that doesn't sound like they're mo I think your mistake was being at the same
movie than an old person would want to go see well that's the thing is if you're like 15 or 16
that is you're out like you're going to see Toy Story 2 and guess what so are super old people
because they know there's not going to be any violence or boobs in it I have a a theater
etiquette question for you guys and I want to know if I'm making too big a deal out of this I
the my my like theater pet peeve I mean obviously the the obvious stuff you know talking during
Godzilla and and things like that that drives me crazy but uh people who continue their conversations
once the trailers have begun is that not uh is that a DMZ or is that like is that still a safe
zone for chatting because some of us like trailers more than movies a lot of times they're like
short movies because I don't I don't know if you guys know I'm a dad now I don't get to the theater
a lot so a lot of times trailer is going to be the closest I'm going to get to seeing that movie so
basically you're in you're ruining the movie for me here's I actually have a rule of thumb about this
if the movie theater lowers the lights to the same level that's out for the movies you lower your
volume to the same level you would for a movie if they take the lights to half you can continue
your conversation at half volume are you saying that in case of technical error that brings the
house lights to full midfilm you will just start shouting have you ever been in a movie theater
and they brought the lights up to full has everyone just stayed quiet no everyone goes
Travis actually follows that I don't know if you notice this Justin but Travis follows that rule
with just his everyday sort of life so like during the intimate times maybe in the bedroom he's like
what I can't understand what you're saying to me are you trying to be intimate you want to be
turn the lights up my pee pee is ready well turn it turning down a little bit maybe in the middle
Travis is basically photosensitive that's what you're saying at a baseball game at night with
all the lights like blasting those fucking Friday night lights forget about it forget about it he's
the loudest thing in the universe you guys want yahoo absolutely yahoo was um so who was sent in by
a man named drew Davenport a legend one might say thank you drew it's by yahoo answers user
pineapple lifesaver who asks why do so many people buy lunchables you could put your own together
for a lot cheaper just put some meat cheese and crackers in a gladware container uh the world
fucking thanks it's update it's not cheaper though for the tiny handful of food that you get
even at one dollar they're using the cheapest quality of ingredients buying some cheap turkey
american singles and ritz saltines will give you the same amount of 10 or more lunchables
for half the cost holy shit that can't possibly be right all right first off blasphemy they're
saying 10 or more lunchables for half the cost we're talking about 20 fucking homemade lunchables
per lunchable proper that's a lot of margin has anyone ever bought a lunchable thinking i am i'm
a thrifty consumer this is yeah doing you're not you are neither a thrifty you're not fiscally smart
you are not making a good nutritional decision you are basically just saying i i i'm a piece of
shit well i don't want to do things either you're saying like i'm a piece of shit or you're saying
like you know what i'm in a little kid treat myself hey eight-year-old travis who only wanted
lunchables all the time but his mom packed him like actual sandwiches and apples and stuff because
she cared for him but at the time he would look around the other kids who ate lunchables and
think what fun lives are they leaving if only i was more of a lunchables type kid but i wasn't
so maybe 25 year old travis buys eight year old travis a lungeable and sends it back to him through
his tummy we've got to go back can an adult can an adult not just enjoy a motherfucking
lunchable though without those auspices i'd like you guys are throwing a lot of shade of
lunchables right now i knew we i knew we love horses on this podcast but i do not know we love
high horses quite so much but our munchables not the same like i put them in the same category as
the hot pocket you should do one toaster strudel yeah it's a fucked up venn diagram you just weave
a hot pocket's a lot of work you gotta push the buttons and and a lot of fiddling but let's
let's a lunchable you have to construct your own they don't just hand you a package that's customizable
kids love that let's um we're getting away from the fucking heart of the matter um and i want to
get us back to it and now okay if you want to fucking time travel i'm eight years old i roll up
to school i bust out a gladware it's a it's a lunchable on it but you spelled it differently
to avoid from what the fuck is that it's it's a munchable it's a what a munchable dad my dad
made it for me and he said it's just as good and what are you i'm literally gonna cry i'm literally
gonna what are you all eating uh we're eating lunchables that uh they're brand name lunchables
that our rich parents got us at the store what was yours called munchables what's in it um looks
like some looks like i got some oyster crackers and a nice note what seems to be a hair looks like
a hair i'm this is one of my this is one of my new dad jerry's hairs it's the container smells
like slimy because it used to have slimy in it that's how we got it we can't afford to buy
gladware either we're just reusing the old containers have you guys ever noticed with
gladware when you store like a maybe like a tomato sauce or a base product in it for an extended
period of time and then you wash it and it's still that color yeah what is happening there
what is the poorest thing in his photosynthesis is that is that osmosis through the through the
plastic can you is this a can i rock munchables in the modern workplace if i roll up and i have
fucking gladware container and i've written munchables on there in a sharpie and maybe
some of the letters are backwards uh just to like really drive it home and uh i'm just like
jerry from accounting walks in and he's like what are you eating there i say oh munchables uh and
i don't know i don't know why and i prefer that boys work for the eight-year-old yeah i prefer a
fucking snack cracker tower and i eat it from the top down like a t-rex uh am i okay am i good
i think i think if you if i got to watch you do that just make a huge stack of crackers and cheese
and meat and then just deep-thread it just put your head at the top and just keep getting until
it's all gone munchables these what these are munchables yeah i'll make you some i'll bring some
in tomorrow the weird thing is it's like a the sadness is greater than the sum of its parts
because if you just brought in like a container with crackers a separate container with cheese
separate container but that's not weird to me but you put it all in the same container
and transport it that way and it's like a hundred percent sadder of course context is important
in this situation if i eat crackers and then in another room i eat some lunch meat it's not
going to be a thing but if i try to give it my own diy fucking pinterest branding then we have a
situation all right this is an interesting question for you about lunchables if you go
to a party let's say where there are crackers and cheese and little pieces of meat i don't
think there's a number of those things that you would eat at which point you would say well i've
had lunch now me did you have lunch yes i did you guys are you're i grazed here you guys are now
i've had limiting your scope to the fucking snack cracker lunchable um box set there was a lot
more variety in there for for our dirty north american bento boxes essentially is what we're
talking about uh i don't know if you guys ever sampled the pizza which was oh my god pizza
and cold um i can i have very clear memories of watching uh an adjacent rich kid eat the
pizza lunchable and being physically repulsive the idea of eating cold all of it cold and they
would call it pizza and it turned myself let me take you let me take you down the ooble yet
to even further uh just peer into the darkness with me and we'll talk about the definition of
the word soft taco uh because lunchables also had that uh that game uh wasn't especially on point
because you had uh a round thing it was the pizza it was the fucking pizza crust and then they had
a a cold essentially giant ketchup packet but instead of ketchup it was ground meat question mark
i don't know how you would make was a meat was uh uh in quotation marks it was also an acronym
it was uh bad news bears i don't know how you would recreate that for the munchables um
brand but i think that there is a lot of opportunity there we could probably get some vegan free
option vegan free gluten free no vegan vegan glove i think all lunchables are inherently
vegan free anyway this person has a great point i'm gonna take this to shark tank thank you yahoo
a few years ago i took the plunge and moved to rekyovik iceland it's a beautiful country and its
popularity as the vacation destination has been growing over the past few years there are frequently
cruise ships docked here which discharge a few hundred tourists every few days man i hope this
question's about a grift i haven't finished it yet but i realize it's about a grasp when i walk
through the city i encounter lots of said tourists taking photos my question is what's the acceptable
social norm when you encounter someone taking a photo and you're pathively through their field
of vision should i wait for the person to take the photo continue on my way regardless whether
or not it would ruin the shot any advice you could offer be much appreciated that's from
in frame in iceland that's beef i'd love to get up there sometimes oh yeah i was just watching
the simpsons about that the the uh the travel log the simpsons the there's no carl do they get the
aurora boreanus up there the david boreanus that was in the episode of the simpsons so i'm i'm
hoping so um i say uh keep on keep it on i i think jkl i think just keep living and just keep walking
if they get you in the shot then they have actually gotten some fucking local wildlife in the
picture well i i i think you go one step further i think you don't just walk through you get in the
shot you pose you act like look at this right give it kind of a thing like you they ask you to be in
the picture or even better they were like hey steve get over i might take a picture of you and then
you just kind of pose and like gesture towards the you know the mountains well i think it loses
some of the magic if they have to ask for it then it's not candid i think maybe you carry around a
giant swordfish with you a really big swordfish that maybe has a little bit of ice still on it
and um whenever you see somebody taking a picture you scurry over there as fast as you can and you
hold that swordfish over your head proudly and you make like a jovial laughing face and it's like
i caught look at this i caught this local sword fisherman mid catch how happy is he god i wish i
was that happy anymore diane that's how memories are made i think it it's all about your angle if
you're behind the person then your local color if you're in front in the foreground you're messing
up the focus you're you're making yourself i mean you're basically turning it into an album cover for
you that's such a good question is there someone in are these people taking photos of like the scenery
or are they taking pictures of people because if it's of people i i'm way less likely to keep going
but if it's just like taking a picture of a beautiful building they found or a lovely landscape
yeah i'm i'm just gonna keep walking i think the problem though with your guys two lines of logic
is that you're thinking about the feelings and desires of the picture taker and not my own
feelings and desires to become either an internet meme of like swordfish iceland man or maybe a
local legend uh vis-a-vis the moth man only i'd be swordfish man and i would i would carry with
me portents of um terrible destruction so like you would hold the swordfish but like maybe have
your back to the camera and just the last minute turn and look back just like half a face and a
swordfish uh-huh and it's like he's in every photo he's in every photo and that's been taken in recubic
how did that happen oh it's just like on uh oh what's that show
with the kid from uh the dawson's creek and and it's the french it's the french and there's the
bald man he's in all the photos and he's holding a swordfish it's also dawson's creek there was a
season where there was just a guy just and he had a swordfish and he was in every shot of this show
did you guys know the observer uh which chariotian first is from honeyton was virginia well you just
think that because he's fucking all over the place he's everywhere he's everywhere did you
watch the show yeah i mean i watch the show i'm just saying he's from honeyton did you get the
this the symbolism of the swordfish um i saw swordfish mm-hmm keep going keep rolling with it
keep going deeper that's all you know it was it was inoffensive i'd say some of the hacking
was a little harder to buy specifically the hu jackman hacking specifically the all of it
you hackman i don't buy it keep going i don't have what do you want me to say trev's johnson
wolter was in another question i wish johnson wolter got more work there i said it my wife is
terrified of brownfish uh oh we like to be outside of me i love adventuring in the water okay stop
right there the pump the brakes chief i love adventuring in the water but anytime we leave the
shore my are you a pirate like just the beach okay my wife freaks out because there might be
roundfish near her apparently flatfish are fine wait she greases an irrational fear but just let
me just finish us she greases an irrational fear but just today she ran crying to the shore
because a four inch trout swam by i'm sure that's something that she wanted the internet to know
great job sir i don't want to give up my aquatic activities but i don't know how to help her get
over her fear in bnb am what i what do i do and that's from if it's theophobic intro god damn
justin nailed it you just said that word fucking you even like sleep battle like just like saying
your words is not like your best thing and that's the hardest word i've ever seen and you did 100
percent and also you said recuvik really good you great great job great gary thanks um apparently
what i've been missing all these years a reason to live so who knew roundfish is that roundfish
okay what are we talking is everything by staying ray because bad news bears that's the scariest fish
that exists well no what's the one there's the one that like stays on the the floor of the ocean but
it's just like it has the eye on both sides per i mean like is it like how nemos are flat
and like fish like that like that don't have a lot of girth and then there's like the seaman
and he's got the facing he's all round no trap nobody nobody's afraid to see man
nobody loves seaman so kind of uh i oh okay so i the one thing that is weird about this is that
i'm assuming if it's trout aren't trout just exclusively freshwater fish yeah it might incorrect
there i we have no way of proving that probably not there's probably one trout that swam in the
ocean was like i i go i'll kick it here and then they had i get way more uh worried about like
aquatic life when i'm in like a lake or a river above the ocean more than the ocean
really yeah i just find it much more i think in the ocean it's just i don't know i i get a much more
like uh uh uh under the sea kind of vibe and i guess when i'm in freshwater i get more of like a
opening of true blood okay so it's like is it possible a big old cat is it we're going around
through the ring you're assuming that the fish in the ocean are just like we live in the biggest
fucking body of water just fucking rules and fish in the lake are like god damn those ocean
our shit is like one one trillionth of one percent of ocean cool glad we're here right
would love to catch a plane and what's that no fish planes yeah that makes sense oh my body
would die in the ocean that sounds fair thanks fish jesus i'm real confused if your wife is so
afraid of fish why why is she continually putting yourself in a position to be the only place where
fish are well it sounds like she's doing that to please well why not canoe why not yeah i have to
get a pontoon boat because then you're just like above the thing that you're afraid of and they'll
jump into the boat you see that shit you watch videos of like surfers like surfing and then like
a stingray jumps through them it's like hey great job catching that wave you have a stingray shaped
hole in you now can we focus i think that you know a fear of fish that's fine i have a fear of mice
people have fears my friend john mahaffey's afraid of spiders so much i think he pooped his pants
when he saw some okay people are afraid of things again what this is the episode where
people say things about people that they don't want said about them on the internet i don't i
i i what i am more more concerned about is this guy is apparently so we have two references to his
aquatic pursuits he loves adventuring in the water and he doesn't want to give up his aquatic
what is he doing that this is such an inconvenience that he would come to us over this everybody gets
one pretty much and this is this guy's one what is he doing in the water that that is so uh sacred
that he he can't give it up for his lady aquatic activities very very suspect you know what you
right you could go to a pool i used to when i was a kid uh i would sometimes get into the
deep end of a pool and i would have the thought what if there was a shark in here and then over
the next few minutes of being in the deep end that thought would uh gradually congeal to
fuck me there is a shark in here so if you're wondering if people are born with anxiety or
they develop it i think you have your answer now so justin the fact that you could see through the
water didn't do anything don't matter don't matter who's behind me he's avoiding made a glass glass
shark glass shark glass shark love fat kid that's one thing about glass shark you gotta know glass
shark can love the fat kid you stay out the water fat kid glass shark coming for you
get you down there bad deep water that dark water fat kid no go glass shark come to that
dark water get you fat kid you swim around you bite your trucks right off you tubby little fish
you swim all you want floppy flap around glass shark gonna come glass shark behind you fat kid
you gotta swim swim faster pretend there's a corn dog at the end of the pool get out that
dark water that dark water and glass shark coming for you fat kid he make you a snack he make you
a snack he eat your brother he don't care he glass shark he in that bad dark water swim on over here
once you cool off a little lemonade wave that glass shark move on down the next pond get that
next factory don't let him get you now you see my right though oh fucking glass and a friendship
is born that lasts the ages oh my god glass shark by the way that guy wasn't black he was from
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think about it like um any kind of funding site this allows you to say i need a loan for uh you
know maybe you're doing a big cross-country trip or you need to you know fix the stairs on your house
something like that something that you need a loan for and you plan to pay back when you go to prosper
you say this is what i need the loan for and then people throughout the world can give you that loan
and then and when you pay back your loan you're paying back them so there's no bank involved
it's other people are giving you the money you need and then you're paying that back
and if you get a loan through posper and you tell them the brother's mackerel i sent me uh you can get
a $50 visa prepaid card when when you get that loan just go to prosper.com slash my brother
and you can actually get your uh you can check your rate like instantly and it won't affect your
credit score so you can see you know sort of where you can get in at by going to prosper.com slash
my brother it's all one word chives you have to read this legal stuff or i'll solve three of us
will go to jail and you know if you have any questions about it uh there are other restrictions
apply you gotta see the site for program and visa prepaid card details all personal loans are made by
webbank a utah chartered industrial bank uh it's a member of fdic equal housing lender so just go
check it out for all the details this is like a real ass thing this this is just like some funny
website you can tell it's a real ass thing because there was text we legally had to read or else we
don't go to jail together go check it out that legal text let you know what when you're getting
your prosper loan i have a great idea when you're getting prosper loan maybe cut yourself off just
a little bit extra maybe just slide a few extra bucks in there so you go to naturebox.com and get
yourself some food also maybe maybe you need a loan for snacks i need a snack alone you're not
going to need a snack load these snacks because these are affordable they're healthy they're
they're delicious there's no uh uh uh uh uh trans fat there's no high fructose corn syrup
some of the snacks are low in sugar and don't have gluten and uh they'll ship to you for free you go
to naturebox.com uh slash my brother and you pick out the snacks that look good to you there you
guys rocking anything new i haven't got a new box in a while uh uh the peanut and nom nom's are very
good i'm actually we got a we got a coffee coated popcorn oh that sounds amazing amazing i'm um i'm
on a fog cleanse actually that's where you just uh oh thanks for asking uh it's where you just eat fog
you just eat fog uh whether it's like natural i mean obviously the natural stuff is the best
if it's a foggy day outside you just go outside but otherwise you're gonna need like one of those
fogger machines that they use for like Easter pageants when they roll away the stone and it's
like whoa but once you finish your fog cleanse go to naturebox.com slash my brother you're gonna
get 50 off of your first month's box um and delivery is always free so you don't have to worry about it
um i'm telling you we every week it seems like more and more people are saying like i finally tried
it thanks it's wonderful so what the hell are you waiting for what are you even doing i got a message
for steven from Takoma who says a happy birthday because you couldn't wait and open to all of your
presents before your actual birthday i went ahead and bought another one and hit it here's your clue
this one isn't in my office or in a closet good luck and hopefully you don't find it before they
read this message if you do you owe me like a whole dollar i'm confused is i thought for a second that
this was the present and that they hid it inside our fucking brains and voices oh my god that's the
best place to hide something i think total recall um i gotta say steven you need to slow your fucking
roll for like a minute do you not know how presents work they're they are a representation of how
thoughtful i am about like how much i know about you and if you look that shit up ahead of time
you ruin it you ruin it and and i'm just i'm just gonna throw this out in in the day and age of
amazon and everything getting shipped to you if you're within like two weeks of your birthday and
you get a package don't just tear into it like an animal clearly clearly it's a birthday present you
yeah savor the flavor it's from me but really it's for me speaking of which griffin one quick
break griffin i wanted to thank you because right before this podcast my wife and i enjoyed the
chicken pot pie that you bought for us and it was off the charts we sent you that shit like
mouth-sloppingly delicious three weeks ago yeah we were in the hospital for a little while and it's
kind of hard to get home to cook a pot i'm saying but it was it was still cool i'm saying get pie
it's in the freezer it's fine it was absolutely delicious i'm not gonna mention who who made the
pie initially because pay me yeah but uh but yeah it was delicious i wanted to thank well thank
rachel i didn't i i didn't get i didn't get you a quiet i didn't technically i got me lots of
stuff i gotta tell you i technically i technically did also not get you a pie my wife my very thoughtful
wife did it was was really good okay enough of that bullshit here's the greatest money zone
spot we've ever had oh jesus who is this message for it's for present day chris and who is this
message from from past chris hey me how's it going you're probably stressed at work when
they're reading this so i hope this cheers you up speaking of work did you get a new job yet
what about your gender stuff no rush but have you figured out any of that is the cat still peeing on
the rug i bet he is that pb boy can't be stopped all the best you and when asked when what date he
wanted he said surprise me oh see this is how you hide a fucking present fucking chris hit a
fucking person from himself and he gave me the joy of giving it to him i'm gonna throw that out
i'm not going to jump to conclusions yeah but it's the greatest thing all i can picture is that
chris hit enter in the keyboard and then erase this memory just somehow it's like eternal sunshine
the spot was behind whoop was gone this is solving a sustainability problem that we've had for so long
now which is that if everybody on earth buys a money zone spot for somebody else on earth
we are having the number of money zone spots we could ultimately get if everybody just bought
them for their own fucking selves and then that's a direct uh roi says that this is the best money
zone message ever is this best better than hit thanks for vibing and keeping it tiny i don't
need me hit me up i'm on my mobile okay okay that wins for best content this wins for best concept
conceptual by the way if you have not yet been in my brother my brother me appreciation group on
facebook get there get approved and see the uh the illustration that lucas williams created for
thanks for vibing and keeping it tiny see me hit me up i'm on my mobile it's a baby talking to a
cell phone the baby's it's pretty good stuff um it's pretty the application process is i'm not
gonna lie to you guys it's pretty strenuous i check how many groups are in i see if you're
in any bullshit groups and then i say yeah okay you can come in if you post shitty memes or or
or listen to my podcast or degrading photographs no thanks we we don't need you here we don't need
your services or try to sell jeans or try to sell jeans or sunglasses a lot of people on there seem
to sell jeans selling under the group and selling jeans if you're made of cyber bits you are not
welcome here no thanks no robits i have a yahoo answer do you guys want to wait before we go on
if you uh would like to buy a money zone spot for someone you know or yourself yep just go to maximum
fun dot org forward slash jumbotron and they're gonna set you up for all that birthday messages
and if you have like a website or a product that you want um us to talk about and tell people to
go check out just go to maximum fun dot org forward slash jumbotron this is episode like 215
we've been with uh max fun since like episode 38 and i still get emails every week like six or seven
that say how do how do i get a money zone spot well that's that's only because we're fucking terrible
at telling people how to do anything so i i'm gonna make sure i say it again maximum fun dot org
forward slash jumbotron thank you i love you hi my name is dave and my name is grail now what do we
have to do to put you in a brand new podcast today yeah what do you want me to drink bleach i'll do
it yeah dave will drink if that's what it takes to get you to listen to stop podcasting yourself on
maximum fun dot org don't make dave drink bleach just listen to the show he will but don't make him
stop podcasting yourself here's a yahoo answer that was sent in by alan black thank you alan
blacks by yahoo answers user sas who asks is there a traffic ticket for sexting
hypothetical question that's it i just hypothetical it's fucking hypothetical until it's
not anymore until it's manifest wait i'm confused by the parameters are they saying
if someone sees you sexting while standing in a car in general yeah or is it like
while driving because i feel like that falls under a different category various from state to state
right could be if you're texting in your car no matter what yeah you're fucked if the car is at
a stoplight you're fine just don't move while you're texting or there was a whole 15 minute spot on
car talk about not sexting while you drive is there fucking really you could tell me not to
move while sexting you might as well start tell the sun to stop right yeah i gotta move till i
find the exact right angle i'm gonna find my light i'm gonna find my angle it's going to model h2t
that is head to toe i'm gonna i'm gonna bootch uh i'm gonna smize i can't you're gonna take a picture
of my dig no i'll take a picture of my dick and bars no no no you're not gonna do that you're not
gonna do that that's a sexting i don't think involves dicks or balls okay so maybe i'm just
gonna text like i'm gonna use my wiener so good on you so good you're gonna really enjoy it it's
pretty hot so far i think you're gonna thoroughly have a good time your comment card is gonna be all
fives uh-huh you're really gonna enjoy it oh god a cop sees you uh pulls you over excuse me so
were you texting while driving yeah i'm sorry i just uh you know i i am too busy and like that
this message couldn't wait the four minutes that it was going to take for me to get to
fucking super america so i am sorry i was texting while trying i will take that ticket now uh hold
on a second can i ask the subject matter of the text message of the sms it it was it was uh of a
medical nature okay i'm gonna need you to go a little bit deeper was it dick is about how good
my wiener is it was about how great my wiener is sorry sorry i have to take you to double jail
you know there's a new campaign to but when you get into a car to text your friend
hashtag x and to let him know you're driving hey just to let everyone on my contact list no
memaw meeps peepaw peepums everybody my hashtag x my old landlord's wife when i lived in chicago
uh do need you to know just hold off for just like 15 minutes till i get to the super america um
couldn't you just not look at your phone are you kidding have you met a 14-year-old no 14-year-old
who's driving and sexting and he's drunk and he's drunk and i'm blindfold this kid is reckless
he's probably high he's got a knife in his mouth got a knife in his mouth and he's high because he
lives in boulder colorado and he doesn't vote he just complains about how it turns out afterwards
my mother fuckers never voted and he's always high and he's driving he's a danger to us what's
on the back seats a monkey wait what where are we there's a monkey at the back seat is the monkey
it's supposed to represent danger or awesome just the kid's back of the bone oh maybe oh maybe it's
a helper monkey because the kid has no sense of judgment okay the monkeys in the back corner i don't
know about i don't know robbie maybe take the knife out of your mouth robbie you should pull over
you should get on high you should put the knife down and you need to text your dad your mom and
everyone you know hashtag x and maybe don't talk about your dick and balls when you talk about
and don't well don't nobody should fucking be sexting you don't need me to fucking magic
decision monkey to tell you to do that or a comedy podcast here's a the more you know ps a
don't send pictures your privates to anyone or descriptions of your privates that link that's
worse in a lot of ways depending on how good you are at writing justin go ahead with the next question
i work in a call center part of our job is asking the client there's anything else we can do for
them before hanging up maybe four or five times a day someone will say yeah the winning powerball
numbers what that's crazy do you work at like a fortune telling place i don't think you delivered
it correct let me try um okay yeah the winning powerball numbers okay that's funny that is better
actually that is funnier uh i know they're trying to be funny and nice and i don't begrudge them
but after hearing that same joke and there are actually four sets of quotation marks around
joke uh infinity times i'm incapable of polite laughter and sit there like a weeping angel
looking into a mirror are there any funny responses that you could help me add to my repertoire so that
i don't feel like a humorless ass five times a day is there anything i can do to associate this
terrible joke with a good one and make it funny oh and that's from fake laugh failure in philadelphia
here we yeah do you want to wait first let me say one thing you only need one response really
i mean you can have more in your quiver but the person's not gonna they're not gonna know
they're not gonna talk to steve or like did you talk to that customer service person yeah what
they say to you i did my great job fuck quick question do you want it to be funny to them
we're funny to you you're trying to re yuck a yuckster no no no i'm saying i think travis
is pointing out the one of the sort of uh one of the the facts of growing up is that you tend to
you learn to treasure jokes that aren't exactly funny but are serviceable and make sense and
can get you out of a conversation because i'm gonna tell you here's the thing as someone who's
worked customer service and had to deal with these people who work they're not trying to be funny
they're using this like a fill in the blank drop it in so they feel like they've had some kind of
interaction with you this is like what a thing they say when they can't think of something to say
like how you do and how you know oh weather huh you know i mean this is just a filler thing you
are trying to normalize the behavior of fucking space aliens travis because the normal thing that
you say when someone says can i help you with anything else is no thank you could buy great
service you don't even say that last part you don't even say no thank you you say buy and you
hang up the fucking phone sometimes you even say buy because you're talking to a human automaton
is the transaction over can i can i detect that you are trying to wrap this conversation up i'm
going to save us both a lot of time and just end just cut the line all right all right let's think of
some not funny okay okay but serviceable answers i let me throw one out just to get things started
uh there's a three in there somewhere that's all i like that
let me put this out travis i swear to god if you say mother fucker i'm gonna start
taxing you there'll be a tax you're gonna get a bill where's this bill come from
try this one on for size oh fuck
put this in your pipe and smirk it okay um okay justine you give me the powerball line
nothing on my sleeve this time for sure why don't you try that okay justine give me the powerball
line yeah the winning powerball numbers well i'd love to but i'd get fired
wow that fucking gave me the douchey as chills
but okay wait hold on try can i try can i try one out you both did one let me try one okay
travis you do the prompt for me this time yeah the winning powerball numbers a 69
you make a vigorous bud job okay justine give me a lie again yeah the winning powerball numbers
six seventeen twenty three thirty eight six five whoa oh god what just happened
and then you hang up the phone really try just give me the line okay yeah the winning powerball
numbers 36 24 33 ah maybe she's so mixed with lots girlfriend
um kids justine give it to me yeah the winning powerball numbers sir i have a lot of people
to get through today do you need anything or don't you yeah the winning powerball numbers please
i need some escape i need an escape hatch from this life this prison life that i've constructed
for myself around myself my family and i are the destitute i've been out of work for six months i need
that's why i called the butterball hotline it sounds like i'm hanging on by a thread here sounds
like you're in uh dire straits so 69 i'll get you out a lot of workplace pickles
get you out a lot of workplaces yeah that too
get fired let's end the show yeah we're done hey thank you all so much for listening to my
brother my brother me i sure missed uh doing this uh with with my brothers and i miss seeing seeing
all you all and and hanging out with you all and uh and i'm certainly glad to be back so thank you
for listening to our show again thank you people tweeting about our show like kyle star peter
allenboil rich wilson todd hauser steve uh jb paul briner david laski rocket man sam dean
lan bravo alpha rocket man again mia dan hindricksson so many others we're at mb mb am
on twitter uh so you can just follow us there and tweet at us using the mb mb hashtag
that'd be great and and thanks for all the nice feedback about the uh the uh adventure zone yep
dnd episode we're uh we're fit we had a lot of people asking if we're gonna release the rest of it
like that was all that we've played but we are figuring out what doing more of that looks like
in a podcast not this podcast but maybe another one um speaking of other podcasts if you enjoyed
this podcast and you haven't listened to the other max phone podcast you are cool um there's tons of
them not going to try to list all of them because there's way too many but i just saw on twitter
that lady to lady just recorded an episode with french stewart oh don't tell people that because
then they're going to try and fucking shame us because we were horrible to french stewart we
were not it was all in fun it was all it was not in fun or in jest we were fucking horrible to french
stewart doubt that too in our defense those were in the days when we couldn't imagine anyone
whatever listened to our show correct that was not as long ago as i think you guys think it was that
was like 199 i'm sorry french stewart we were we were we were fucking growing we're learning that
we when we say things about human beings sometimes those human beings can ostensibly
hear what we say and it hurts them it would hurt me so go check out the other max phone
um yeah please do they're really great and thanks to maximum fun for having us we love you
yeah i really it it's a constant joy um i want to thank john roger too and the long winters as
long as we're thanking people uh for the use of our theme song it's a departure off the album
putting the days to bed uh it's a it's a great album is listening to it on the record player
earlier today i played it backwards and i heard um i heard john roger's uh dark regards
you guys want to finally out here yeah hit me that's finally out who was sitting by drew
davenport is a yadru uh this yadru uh user steven asks
what is the best moisture of all to use for love making oh god i'm just a macaroy don't
try this macaroy i'm griffin macaroy it's been my brother my brother me kiss your dad square on the mix
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