My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 420: Funeral For a Friend

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

We always thought that episode 420 would be about the funny weed number. Instead, we're using it to mark 4/20, the date we say goodbye to Yahoo! Answers, a bad website that we will miss very much.Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/

isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground And you in midair Where are the clouds? Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve? One who keeps staring around

And one who can't move Where are the clouds? There ought to be clouds Just when I stopped Opening doors Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours Making my entrance again With my usual flair

Sure of my lies No one is there Don't You love a farce It's my fault, I fear Hey Griffin, can I tell you something? I thought that if you wanted to I was going to do a musical number too

I'm glad it was this though Where are the clouds? There's a logic to it Yeah, but it's also like really long In the clouds And honestly in the circles we move in Travis It's not out of the question that we would meet Steven Sondheim Yeah, they are here

I'll be like pissed off Do you think this song has been used at a funeral before? It feels like a weird thing to say at a funeral Like the clowns are already here Sure You just fast forward in the middle of our Ulysses song? Isn't it rich? Is like the corpse one of the clowns?

Is that what he's saying? Let him, you have to let him feel it Losing my timing this late in my career Where are the clouds? There are two be clowns Well, where? Maybe Next year

Oh You got me so excited for clowns And it's always next year with the song And here they are, enjoy Alright Now this is never a note I've given someone after a funeral, Justin Kind of milking it Making a real meal out of it

Good note, good note Thank you and welcome everyone To my brother, my brother, me and advice show For the modern era Episode 420 Funeral For a Fiend My name is Justin McRoy and I'm your oldest brother

I'm Travis the big dog Wolf Wolf McRoy and just quick note It's his friend there, Justin My mistake That's the my mistake I'm looking at that this is Griffin I'm looking now at the website And I'm reading some things

That people have written about Let's just say current events That aren't in the best taste And so I'm over here like Let me dunk on them Like a brave internet warrior And I go to click the answer button Let me do it again and again

Yeah, it's grayed out Because that function is no longer Available to us as of today April the 20th The funny weed day But there's nothing funny today Because I can't answer on Yahoo answers So what is it now? Is it just Yahoo readems?

Yeah Nobody can smoke Any of their weed today Because it's all soaked with tears A lot of people Have wanted us to do this episode For a long time and we've told them There's nothing very funny about

This website does suck though I just logged on to it I was about to get pretty Modeled And then I just logged on To the front page It's a bad website that will not be I've never gone to Yahoo answers

In all this time Don't start now Maybe if I don't start now But if I don't start now Justin, when would I start? Okay, let's see Answers.yahoo.com Read only mode

This is not an endorsement It's not a great time It's a lot of people who are like Let me get all up on and be the last one To turn the light out and say the worst shit So that it'll be sort of the epitaph This episode is the epitaph for Yahoo Answers

We've done the media We've been doing media about it I wrote a piece for Esquire about it I went on to ABC News Radio Yes, Charles Davis News Radio There was a New York Times piece That talked to me about it I wrote a feature for Le Monde

But you probably didn't read that because it was French Do you read Le Monde? And this 15-year-old Website's dead I've been in a Genuine stupor since the news hit My son was born And then a day later

My website died Also, I see what you're saying Griffin He's the reincarnation of Yahoo Answers If it had been flipped one day It would have been so like the soul Would have left out the answers And inhabited the sun, but that's not Well, Justin, everyone knows that babies don't get souls

Until their second day Come on, dude Oh, boy So we're just We're just free-forming it It's a tragic thing For us, because the content The content will be more difficult

To produce, categorically This was half the show On a good day, half the show And some might say The good half No, we'll find a way To patch this quilt together I want to say, let's take it all the way back

To the beginning of this relationship Because when we started My brother, my brother and me was April of 2010 So it's been like 11 11 years, almost exactly And We didn't even note that

That particular anniversary, such a wild time It's been, but It was April 2010 And I had hosted the Joystick podcast before this And we had a nice following of great people from that But we were worried it wouldn't be enough to Have a consistent base

Of questions for our Advice show that we had cooked up So I think it was Griffin Hit on the idea of including Answering questions from Yahoo! answers To give advice to those people And it has been pretty much a consistent split Between Yahoo! and our listeners

Since the beginning Since the jump It has been there with us Through Different hosts It's been there with us through different music It's been there with us through different Cities that we've lived in

Through live shows and At home recordings Through all three traverses All the traverses They keep dying What are you gonna do, you know? Well, just stop the lifestyle Yeah, you're

I did just want to say I was reading the wiki page for Yahoo! answers Which Date of birth, June 28th, 2005 And It's in so many different languages I didn't even know that And it says dissolved

For May 2021 In 13 days time, it says So now Wikipedia has a death clock But the thing that really hit me Is down under in popular media It says the comedy advice podcast My brother, my brother and me Features a recurring segment

Which co-hosts Griff and Mack Roy selects And reads a particularly humorous or outrageous question From Yahoo! answers The hosts then discuss and attempt to answer the question To comedic effect. First of all, thank you Wikipedia Second of all, there's a link here And you know how it has like the numeric references At the bottom of the page

Of the Wikipedia article The sentence here, we have the 69th Reference link here It's just like God's real And he's here In Yahoo! answers

And that's what Wikipedia page is all I'm trying to say Can I just say that I think that Even beyond content I think we owe a certain Life debt to Yahoo! answers For unlocking within the three of us Our shared love of both ghosts

And horses I feel like we never would have come to that Weren't for Yahoo! answers Um, so We're trying to find a way to fill in this Hole In our heart Which is bad to have in your heart

Like I've talked to doctors about it Because I felt like a literal hole has been punched In my heart by the Evil corporate guys At Yahoo! Or whatever sort of corporate company Owns Yahoo! at this point

What's pretty mean of them to make this decision Just to hurt you Griffin, I'm sorry about that I don't know why they Yeah, and really robbed me of all the joy Of my new Of my new baby, but that's something That's my crossed bear, right? They probably didn't know that

Do you regret naming your baby Yahoo! Junior now? I regret naming him Yahoo! answers forever Jokes Because it wasn't true, we got 15 years I got a Yahoo! What? Do you? Yeah, I've always wanted to try it

Oh, sure, sure I always wanted to try one This is gonna be my last chance Yahoo! answers is shutting down Today As we're recording this 420 It's no longer accepting a new

Read only I do not understand the period where you're like I just need a little while to soak it in Before you blow the plug Yeah, reading is one of my top 2 favorite things to do on Yahoo! answers But this is supposed to 2 days ago Yeah

Does anyone know what's going on with legendary actor Danny Glover? I haven't heard anything about him in a while I'm getting kind of worried Yeah, I don't know Yahoo! And you know what sucks? You know what sucks guys? I'll fucking never know

Where am I supposed to get that? From Do you know what I mean? Yeah The first answer is there are no legends That I'm aware of that being mentioned with Danny Glover Well, bullshit That's not true

Second answer, Google his name And while you're at it, Google Mel Gibson too Haven't heard anything about him for a while That's actually fine That's okay with that And then lastly, from question mark He is still filming movies Okay, alright

Let's see Question mark like Indiana Jones Reached in under the closing door Yeah And saw the hat of truth there And was like, he's still in movies He grabbed it and then it slammed behind him And there's no more

Where are we supposed to get answers from? Do you know what I mean? Yeah Like when you get it from Google It's like a It's a robot giving it to you Like a robot, not only a robot A robot looks at some of the different answers

And then picks the best Picks the one that likes best Thanks robot No thank you If I wanted actual information I'd go to the fucking library Exactly I want the human connection

That Yahoo I felt closer to the Yahoo answers User than I do to my own children Yeah I met my wife on Yahoo answers A lot of people don't know that I've been staring at Griffin and asked Who am I going to marry?

Rachel looked at this website for many years Many many years and I'm just now kind of Looking at it and we have some Yahoo Warriors That have been in Like knee deep in here Yeah sure Seeing the content on this website

I am at this point Having like a bad feeling that we Should not have let people do that You know what I mean? We shouldn't have let people Spend that much time down in the In the minds as it were But first of all

They did a tremendous Service and my Yahoo Warriors Are very precious to me Precious people But also they are broken Now and they're Walking out Of so many Chilean

Miners coming out of the shop Only they've been down there for 11 years and they don't know How to live A normal life anymore They're going to be the people in the western who are like People don't sling guns anymore I don't know what to do with myself

I guess I'll buy 8 cows And live a quiet life and they're like We got one more Yahoo answer that he's taking care of No but That's the thing, the problem is What is happening to our Yahoo Answers Warriors now Is that they are so Hurt

Let's be honest by their service and yet When the website is gone They'll still be chasing that high That's what I'm worried about Where are they going to turn to now Cora or like People keep saying Cora Everybody listen to this

Everybody listen with your listening years Right now Hey guys, I've got a Cora here That's fucking nothing It's nothing And there's probably Some good stuff on there We just have to find a new name for the segment

But That's not a replacement And it kind of is insulting that you would say That Travis No, I'm not saying I'm worried that that's where they'll turn To get their checks To get their jobs

There's also some other problems with Cora Which I've never visited but am now There's ads on it You guys are trying to make money Where's the beauty Yahoo Answers was so smart That they never made any money off of it at all Never monetized

Exactly, yeah So like when somebody asks a question Like how are NBA ratings Since having gone woke Like I know that business and corporation It won't It won't put its finger on the scale Do you know what I mean

Yep I do Have a Concept for How we can keep the torch The torches just have gone door lit Just a little bit longer And it's not a forever solution for this

That will only happen When we've raised the capital To buy The Yahoo Answers service I don't think they're going to give it to us piecemeal So we will need to also raise the capital to buy Yahoo Which is not out of the question But I have a little

Temporary Solve for this I'm curious what you hear about There is a trove Of Good Yahoo's That we have not Discussed

In fact there's over 500 of them Wow And it's a segment I don't have a name for the segment yet Maybe it's like Coming out of the slow cooker Pop them out the crock pot Because now we've had

For some of these bad boys 11 years To ruminate on them What is the source of these Griffin? I'm saying We return to As we've promised The final Yahoo Answers

Oh my god Oh so these are the final Yahoo Answers Maybe that's it And when these are done We are now at the halfway point Of my brother and my brother and me Because once we've run out

Of Yahoo's in the past But if we do one an app And we just go back and we check back in We're at like 556 right now That's roughly 555 Yahoo Answers I think we've missed one or two Yeah

There's probably 100 or so On there that we wouldn't feel great about Revisiting at this point in our lives And careers Can we demo this? Can we sample this? Because I've pulled a few I've pulled a few here How far back you gone?

Are you on sequential? Right now I got the box in demo mode Because I pulled up like 20 From the whole span So we'll only hear like the first 30 seconds Right Yahoo Exactly

Audio word mark Just to sample it Here's one And this is from episode Let's see Episode 55 Let's begin again Finally Yahoo on that one

I'm bored. What do you do for fun? It is raining out also And I am an old man Do you know what I mean? We got that laugh That laugh we just got of What a funny thing We didn't have the courage at that point

To say like hold on What does this old man do on a rainy day? To have fun Not just what does he do Because he can't do something Sort of challenging Or sort of artistically Rewarding that's not particularly fun

He wants to have fun On a rainy day That's true That's good This question was asked in 2011 So well before the Mandalorian came out Now we have the wisdom To say hey old man

Disney Plus is here and it's got all the great content That you crave like the Falcon and the Winter Man And it's got Mandalorian And it's got Yoda's kids Well maybe Oh this is an aspect We've never dealt with before It's a time travel of Yahoo answers

On the show board he went on to write the Mandalorian Oh that's great And he created the Mandalorian You know what I just did with my kids We Got some markers and paper And drew all over some sheets of paper And then I folded them into airplanes

And it made some real fun designs That's cool That's a cool thing that he could do with your kids And that's another thing that we can come back to Is like now Right But we also now we're dads of six Together

Together we have Six of them And so we know a lot Now that we didn't know Back in episode 129 When we close things out with Is it bad to give my 60 month Year old baby a little French onion dip

I tell you now No, if that kid will eat it It's great I think that's probably fine But a Frito scoop No, because baby And it's just a little bit You could probably get away with giving it to him

On like a regular Frito But a Frito scoop is far too robust Too firm a crunch For those gunless guys I think if you soaked the Frito scoop For about three seconds Not much, you don't want it to be soggy Or you're not going to get the dip

Right, you want the baby to have a good time Right I don't want to Use up too many of these Because it is now a finite resource But I did want to mention one I got a big kick on this when I was Returning to these

To like reference some For this media stuff we've been doing I found a few That are in an interesting subgenre Of we were the dummies Yeah, that's fun That's a fun one, here's one That I discovered that I enjoyed

Can you get a tattoo while breastfeeding? Oh Which at the time Which is January 28, 2013 We thought Boy, that is a crack up Now us, fathers of six Think, oh you mean

Is it safe to get a tattoo during the period That you're still breastfeeding your child That's right Yeah But we would have taken it then as concurrently Yes, exactly Even that by the way Probably yes

Basically everything while you breastfeed Except, you know, high speed stunts Well, it depends on where you're getting the Tattoo Like you wouldn't want to get a nipple tattoo While the baby's right there Here's what I would say to you, Travis Don't get a tattoo anywhere you wouldn't breastfeed

That is what I would say there No, I'm talking about On your body, Jamie I'm not like where you're going to Keep the needle know we're near the baby And you could be actively breastfeeding And getting a tattoo at the same time I don't think that a

Person who's sort of invested In their own happiness is going to get a nipple tattoo During the period that they are breastfeeding Their child That doesn't seem like a recipe for happiness I'm not going to tell people what to do with their bodies Maybe they'll invest their thing I mean, you're right

The very first final yahoo I did Was canned birds get allergies And like Can they? Maybe I don't know, that's not as ridiculous No, it's still a funny idea to me Yeah, it is kind of funny because it's like What are you going to do about it, you know what I mean?

A lot of Illuminati based ones A lot of Illuminati based ones What's funny is that you could pick Any one thing out of this list And do like a Search on the page And find like Three about spaghetti

And three about Kenny Rogers Four or five about Dakota Fanning Like there's plenty Oh yeah, there is a couple about Kenny Rogers Yeah, Chris Gaines for sure For sure there's going to be in there Yeah Sorry, there's also something that we can't

Really circle back to Because they don't provide much Of a launch pad for healthy Conversation, like for instance Episode 336 You are all asshole That's all that that one is And I don't know if we can turn that into a full

A good five minutes of content Unless the rest of that was I will now destroy the website in a few years Goodbye I feel like that's the kind of thing though Now we're a little bit more mature We could doubt with some stuff We could maybe reach out to that person

And just see how it's going, maybe change the direction And make it about mending some fences No, I don't ever want to talk to anybody Who's unironically used this website That's fair, especially they call me an asshole That's not nice I hurt my feelings Is that going to be our

Is that our Answer to this It's an answer We're going to have to have more answers It feels like stalling Yeah, I think I'm going to need to bring back Where it'll be pissed and play along at home And sad libs and stuff to fill the gaps

You know what I mean? They were on hiatus for about a week and a half And I think it's time to bring them back Maybe even more Maybe like two sad libs an episode or something Just to fill the time Griffin, you might have to come up with bits And I know that that's scary and hard

And trust me I know Most of them are going to be clunkers at first, Griffin But eventually you might find Something like Work of Fart That really works Man, people love Work of Fart so bad Yeah

So you might need to start generating Something like Celebrity Why and Why Not Like Justin has Or Something like that Right now, Griffin, just spitball Like what's a bit that you could do? Fill in

That would be as good as Yahoo Answers As far as generating content for the show Yeah, I could do one about How two guys' songs sound the same Um I could do one about Big Burgers Yeah I could do one

Where it's like quizzes for our friends And I like that For our friends is a good jumping off point I could do one where I do a trick Um Visual Like a visually a trick that

Like magic or stunt It could be either one as long as it's cool to see Or both What I would do is I would post a video alongside Of each episode of me doing a trick Oh, okay Can you imagine if Tony Hawk like ramped Like a sick jump

And while he was in the air pulled something out of a hat That'd be good And that's a great idea for a segment in Travis I could just say like a cool thing that would have happened Like it would be cool Yeah, just call it picture this Wouldn't it be cool if Space Jam 2 came out tomorrow Like that could be the segment of just like wouldn't it be great if

Well, that's not a I can't picture that though What would that look like, you know what I mean Yeah, it's just a concept I think And let's just have this Discussion, I know which way it's going to go But should we cancel my brother and my brother and me

Should we put it Should we put it, because here's the thing There's something very Very Very Very scrumptious About We do episode 420

It's the end of my brother and my brother And folks, the way the last couple months Have gone I am afraid to have the conversation Because you know how we love to do things for the lulls Right To turn in to do it for the serious That is not incorrect

To turn into big loss of revenue For the McRoy family Yeah Hominem At Hawk Also writ large Anyone who knows me will tell you that It takes very little convincing

To not work Right Yeah I don't need a lot Like if someone's like I don't know how If I'm like, oh we don't have to People think that podcasting for a living

Is the easiest thing in the world There's one thing easier than podcasting It's not podcasting Yeah And listen I love the image I'm listening Brother, I want pins and needles

I'm sorry, I'm dialed in The scene is this They are lowering Yahoo answers his casket into the ground Starting I guess today And ending on May 4th It's a slow lowering Slow process

We are beating our breast We are grief stricken And we throw ourselves into the open grave On top of the casket And we yell bury us too Burry us alongside it We are the favored cats And possessions of the pharaoh

That is Yahoo Answers Bury me with my funny Which is what I call Yahoo Answers I'm not saying it's a good idea I just had a baby And I rely on this show To support my family But there's something that makes

Kind of a lot of sense about this Yeah, this is feeling more symmetry It's good symmetry The more we... I mean, let's say this Okay At the very least, I think we got in This episode on a cliffhanger

Because we have not had a season finale Cliffhanger for so long That is true I feel like we're doing one Where it's like a cliffhanger You know what I mean? Yeah Well, we got...

Listen, we got two weeks before the site Absolutely goes away You know what I mean? So, I don't know I'm trying to get an empire records thing Is that the... What's that move? Is that what the movie's called?

The one with Renee Zellweger Yeah And they have to do a rock concert To save empire records at the end I've tried to get going I mean, I'm not really on social sheep So I've just been kind of Just trying to mentally project it out there

Like the secret That I want there to be a Let's save Yahoo Answers thing Out in the internet Whether it's a big music festival That would be irresponsible to do right now But you know what I'm saying And nobody's gotten excited about that

But if we chain ourselves To this heavy, drowning weight Of Yahoo Answers and say We'll die too Now will you save it? I think that maybe that would... Oh, I like this That would get some groundswell going

I am prepared to chain myself To Yahoo Answers I am worried about putting out The one kind of thought You guys would go along with me A little bit on that one I might worry I'm starting to second guess again

I'm already chained Why didn't you wait till after I chain myself? Here, take these keys I am a little worried about Putting out into the universe That it's a season finale Cliff Fenger, you know Because we may not get

Across the board The response we're hoping for Yeah, that's a risk, isn't it? That is the risk Might be some folks that go Well, guess it's... No, just check this out I chain myself to Yahoo Answers

But not so that I will be dragged down To hell where Yahoo Answers is Definitely going to go No question Rather to keep Yahoo Answers Moored to my mighty dock And I won't let it go And I don't know what that means

Oh, so you've changed Yahoo to you Right, and I'm not going fucking anywhere So I guess... And I don't know what that means Shit, I had just started to go towards acceptance But now I am trending right back towards denial And that feels right to me Because I feel happier

What's the biggest flash drive you have, Griffin? Can you download... I got one right here Yeah, just download Yahoo Answers onto it I got an SD card here with 32 That's probably... Oh, I think that'll do it Well, it's just words, right?

That is the fun thing about this I wanted to mention about Yahoo Answers Which will be shut down For good on May 4 What? Now, here's what something wild to think about Is this site is just text I mean, it's just text

And it probably is like one-one-billionth Of the storage capacity required to keep Like YouTube running, right? It's just the tiniest little bit of data In the grand scheme of things And Yahoo Answers like, yeah, we just can't afford Is it that Yahoo? Or maybe would you kind of be happier

Brand-wise from a holistic brand perspective If people didn't, like, every time you mentioned Yahoo People were like, oh, you mean the garbage? No, no, no, it's not that anymore It's good now Now it's good because we got rid of that one thing I don't want to belabor this remembrance Because if we remember too hard

We'll remember the bad times too And I'm not about that right now That's what the Bible says That's what the Bible says to do or not to do I just want to say I love you, Yahoo And thank you for everything you've done for me And my career and the show You were a bad website

That was propagated by bad people That whose terrible work was sifted through By some of the finest people who's ever lived in the world And we may replace the time slot for you on this show We will have to or else the show will become shorter And our advertisers will have a word to say with us about that But you will not be replaced in our hearts Our souls

I'm going to miss you, Yahoo Answers I'm pretty sorry to see you go You were a really great generator of material Even though a lot of people... Man, it was almost as bad as the Haunted Doll thing for a while People loved to chomp that flavor The flavor had been out there before us We didn't invent or discover Yahoo Answers

That would have fit in our cap That would have been But I am going to miss it I feel like it's the essential part of the DNA of this program And I feel like it's a new day, dawning But it's a period of renewal That's what we can hope for Maybe something about crypto

We could take this Awesome! Oh, that's great! This is sort of a cool crypto update That could be cool when you tell people you want to I think this is what Travis wanted to open up the show with And he just wanted to make sure that we didn't get to be Let's just let him go This is appropriate

We'll fade it out Thanks for listening, everybody We'll be back with a regular episode If you can even call any of our episodes from now on Travis, can you turn it down just a little bit? If you can even call any of our episodes from now on regular Yeah Thanks to me and Travis for our theme music

And thanks to you for listening And looking forward to seeing you again soon It'll be different us Maybe a little bit more world-weary But we'll be back Definitely sadder Definitely sadder Be here in sunshine or in shadow

Travis, can you fade yourself out? I would love to hear you do that sort of organically