My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 516: Radical Gamer Facts

Episode Date: June 30, 2020

In which Travis weaponizes his worst segment with unprecedented menace, and also we ask Lin-Manuel Miranda how he would murder Super Mario, which does not seem like a great use of his time, now that w...e write it out like this.Suggested talking points: Movies Never Say Die, Gamer Facts, So You Pissed Your Pants, Boring Old Books, Mario Murder (w/ Lin), ShaqeroniSupport the Sylvia Rivera Law Project: https://srlp.org/about/contact/More resources on anti-racism and fighting police violence: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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 mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? Hello, and welcome to my brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. Let me check my notes real quick. Oh, yeah, I'm your middleest brother, Travis McElroy. You say that, you do that a lot these days. Well, I have to write a lot of stuff down. I'm just curious
Starting point is 00:01:00 why you keep forgetting your name or even why you have or your notes. That's got a lot going on, Griffin. So much that you forget your own name, and you need to refer to notes to look at it. I don't have to explain myself. You're not my boss. Check this out. I'm sure I'm Griffin, positive. I wanted to do one of our great watch segments, you know, where we talk about the latest and greatest in cinema entertainment. So I just loaded up Marquis Cinemas over in Huntington over the Pullman Square Plaza. Okay. I have 16 screens of pleasure there. Oh, wow. I was just going to run down. Hey, just real quick, Justin. 16 screens of pleasure doesn't sound great.
Starting point is 00:01:39 No, it sounds like they're showing a lot of smut. Well, let's take a look because I thought this would be a good way to figure out what to do a watch on. Okay. Because like, if you think about it, it's weird because there's, there ain't movies. You know what I mean? There's no movies, but they aren't opening up the theaters to show. I mean, there's no movies. Here's the great news. Here's great. Movies gave us scoop, and they're like, that's going to tide them over for a while. Yep. First time Trolls World Tour. Got it. Got it. That was the last movie. We were in the last movie, which seems huge.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Bloodshot. Great. Love, Vin. Invisible Man and Sonic the Hedgehog. Now, those, those I know, I've seen on my house. Those have been at my house for a little bit. Grip and tight to the edge, not letting go. So this is what they're like, well, God, I mean, man, we got a lot of screens. Dang, I wish we hadn't put up those many screens. Maybe Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets is going to play three times. Thrice. Whoa. And once you've finished that screening, you could never check out Jurassic Park. The original Jurassic Park.
Starting point is 00:02:50 Those dinos are back. You thought they were extinct, but they're back. I, listen, here's the thing. That is simultaneously ridiculous, but also there's a part of me that's like, ooh, back on the big screen, huh? Well, do you feel that way about this? You could, maybe you'll go Travis and you'll have the time of your life, which is deliciously appropriate because we're going to head on over and check out Dirty Dancing at 5.30. Oh, wow. I'll really make a day of it and enjoy.
Starting point is 00:03:16 Let me risk my health, life and lung capacity to catch a big, big, big performance of Dirty Dancing. Sounds cool. I'm just to clarify, Justin, are they charging money for this? Yeah, just the regular prices. Grip and you may risk your life and limb, but you will never say die because at 8.20, we're going to go over and see a screening. Goonies. The Goonies that let's make it a double feature of adventure
Starting point is 00:03:41 with Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark showing six times today. You will have six opportunities to see Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now, Justin, I'm, I'm now looking at the website too. And I see on one of the screens, they're showing that black and white silent movie where the train came out the screen and everyone dove out of the way. You ain't that fucking far off, Trav, because the last movie showing is The Wizard of Oz. Wow. Yeah, just if you've just been 80 years too late on this one, on this 1939 flick,
Starting point is 00:04:17 you can finally check out The Lion and the Scarecrow and all of their great adventures. Metal Man. You have three chances to see Wizard of Oz. I guess we could do Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, watch it, feels bad. There's going to be, this is a national chain. There is going to be someone who is like, well, I got the COVID. Dang it.
Starting point is 00:04:43 I got the COVID and someone's like, how did you get the COVID? It's like, well, I just wanted to enjoy all two hours and 41 minutes of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the big screen as it was intended. You know, I've never gotten into Harry Potter before, never been a fan. But now it feels like the best time to do it. That's the perfect time. And you've forced both your grandpa's and grandma's to go to it with you. Fuck you.
Starting point is 00:05:09 It's got Kenneth Branagh. You don't know. They need this. I'm taking me mom pep out to see the Goonies. They didn't even start. They didn't even show Sorcerer's Stone. They were like, oh, you know what? People are just going to start right here.
Starting point is 00:05:24 We'll start them at two. The one with Kenneth fucking Branagh in it. Travis, there's a global pandemic. No one's going to sit through the first Harry Potter movie in a movie theater. You've got to skip to two. This is an advice show where we try to help you. Here's my advice. Don't go to the fucking movies.
Starting point is 00:05:40 No, you know what you should do instead? You absolute maniacs. You know what you should do instead? What, Travis? Get my brother, my brother, me on streaming or on iTunes or wherever you want. Well, that, but TV show. Also, I was about to give my brothers a quiz so you could just play along at home. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:05:57 This is heartbreak. You guys, because you can play along at home in the safety of your own home. It's the way, Travis, stop. It's the way he does it now, Juice, where he's like, oh, shucks. Yeah, it's like, you can tell he's not actually cranking it, but he would if he fucking could. Do you want to hear something monstrous? Travis is the one that finds the questions and sends them to me to ask,
Starting point is 00:06:20 and he hasn't done it. So I have no recourse. I have no recourse. I have them sitting right here. I'll send them to you. I have nothing. I have no recourse. But first, I thought maybe we could play along at home.
Starting point is 00:06:34 No, we don't. Just do it. Just start. Yeah, you keep saying it, but it's just making that bit longer every time you say it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Do you guys like video games? I do. He just got me there.
Starting point is 00:06:45 I got me dead to rights. I love me a video. You like video games? Yeah, I like video games. I picked some video games questions because I know in the past, they've been a little too tough and I wanted to give you guys a chance. Now I'm worried. I will say that as I did this, both of you are video games aficionados.
Starting point is 00:07:03 And there's a part of me that's worried that you'll know all the answers, but I thought it would still be fun for those at home. Probably not. Let's try it, though. And let's just make a no Google promise. I always make a no Google promise. Travis, please talk as fast as you possibly can. Justin, same to you because I'll be doing the same.
Starting point is 00:07:19 OK, well, I'm killing time now. So I can send the questions to Justin because I forgot to do that. But here we go. So let's see who wants to go first. Who wants the first question? It doesn't matter. OK, Justin, before settling on the name Sonic, what was the name proposed by Sega for this iconic blue hedgehog?
Starting point is 00:07:39 He was originally called Mr. Needle Mouse. That is correct. Thank you. Fuck, how the fuck do you know that? I read a book, Console Wars, if you read that one. All right, OK, fine. I just wanted to. Where they talk about the design.
Starting point is 00:07:52 He originally was also much more radical and had a lot of toad. Yeah. And he wasn't inherently a fast. It was his sneakers that were fast. He had no inherent superpowers. Who cares? Needle Mouse is if you literally translate the Japanese word for hedgehog. That's what he is.
Starting point is 00:08:08 Needle Mouse. Now Griffin, this is a more recent game since you were. Crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot. Well, hold on. Hold on. OK. I do.
Starting point is 00:08:16 I could ask you a Crash Bandicoot question, but I won't. How'd you say that? What? Well, do you know what Crash Bandicoot was originally meant to be? Say the second word in his name. Crash Bandicoot. I'm pretty sure you're saying Bandicoot, which. Bandicoot.
Starting point is 00:08:33 OK. So he's doing it. He's doing it intentionally now. Assassin's Creed was originally set to be part of what video game franchise? He's got this. It's not funny or good. I don't know. Prince of Persia.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Yeah, Prince of Persia. It was originally going to be Prince of Persia. Assassin's. Worst one yet, guys. That is an interesting fact. Very interesting. You didn't know it. Interesting gamer facts.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Justin. We're talking about fucking no. We're talking about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sequins giving out gamer facts. How far are we into the episode? Scrap it. Justin. Scrap it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:08 In Transferring Super Mario Kart to what? In the best of episode week. I'm going to pull some of the best episodes from episode 200 to 250. And you guys do 250 to 300. We'll pull some funny fun clips and we'll put up a best. In Transferring Super Mario Kart to Western Markets, what censorship was done on Princess Peach and Bowser? They removed, they made Bowser's dick smaller.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Well, they did do that. But also, the answer I was looking for is they removed champagne from their victory celebrations. Oh, okay. And the dick thing. And the dick thing. Griffin. Huge Scaly Hog.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Griffin. Big fucking Koopa Balls. The entire game of The Legend of Zelda, a link to the past, takes up how much memory? I'm going to say 16 megabytes. What? Less than one megabyte. Wow. Cool.
Starting point is 00:09:54 Wow. Cool. Justin. Fucking. The UK versions of- Fucking, that's cool. Fucking cool. Fucking, a radical baby.
Starting point is 00:10:05 Justin. The UK versions. Fucking gamers rise up and eat these fucking facts. Fucking, eat three's not dead. Gamers, it's right here in the fucking studio. Oh, baby. Justin. Shit.
Starting point is 00:10:21 The UK versions of FIFA 2001 and Gran Turismo 2 shipped with what? Peculiar feature. Wings on both. There's wings in the cars, wings in the players, lots of wings. They had scratch and sniff discs. Ew, really? If you scratched FIFA's disc, it would, you could quote, smell the pitch. The stink of the pitch.
Starting point is 00:10:44 And rubbing Gran Turismo's two discs could deliver an authentic pitch. Stop, smell. I wish you could scratch and sniff this episode of Mbemban, and it would smell like a dead body. Now, I think you- Because it sucks and reeks. This question is for both of you. Because you like Chilean.
Starting point is 00:11:02 In a Gorilla-style marketing campaign. Killzone. Spoof prostitute-style cards were placed in phone boxes around Soho in London to advertise the original Crash Bandicoot. What did they read? Randy the Dandy, Randy Koot. Not, not too far off. They read quote, new in town, young Randy Bandicoot.
Starting point is 00:11:29 That was fucking close to that. And then it had a phone number you could call and a picture of Crash in his underpants. I think you should get a half point for that. Yeah, I'll give Griffin a half point for that. Okay, what's the final score, Travis? Justin wins. Yay, cool.
Starting point is 00:11:42 When I was in my junior year of high school, I went on a camping trip. Oh, we could celebrate longer. Hold on. I don't feel like we really celebrated as long as we could. When I was in my junior year of high school, I went on a camping trip with some of my class. On one of the nights, I woke up having to pee more than I've ever had to piss ever. I mean, breaking of the Hoover Dam piss.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Okay. We know what- All right. We know how much piss is. God, you have to pee. I tried to wake a friend up, but she didn't get up. No, stop. We're going to tear this up.
Starting point is 00:12:05 If you had to piss like the breaking of the Hoover Dam, your body would be torn apart by the internal pressure. So like, don't say shit unless it's- This is my favorite thing about starting an episode with Play Along at Home, is Griffin gets real feisty. Yeah, real work for everyone else's questions. We actually cut out Play Along at Home, but we just harnessed Griffin's energy for the rest of the episode.
Starting point is 00:12:24 You cut it out? I tried to wake a friend up, but she didn't get up. So I barely made it to a teacher's tent when the moment she answered me, the dams broke. I pissed my pants in the middle of the woods, and everyone knew about it. Literally everyone. That being said, it's currently three eventful years later, and I'm talking about recently the best friend,
Starting point is 00:12:44 and he told me he forgot about it. So my question is- Nope, he didn't. So my question is, how do I ask people if they remember this without reminding them of the terrible accident? I think about this every single day, and that's P.P. McGee. Remember when you shit your pants during Paw Paw's funeral? Nah, man, I forgot.
Starting point is 00:13:06 I forget. That's funny. I forgot about when you shit your pants at my Paw Paw's funeral. That's weird. That did happen, didn't it? No one would forget. The things I remember in my life, with perfect clarity and will until the day I pass off this mortal coil, one, every time I've seen someone pee their pants,
Starting point is 00:13:23 two, every time I've seen someone fall down, and I mean really fall down. Really get a good fall going. Even saying it, you're thinking about a treasured memory you have of watching someone absolutely beef it. Dude, I saw a serious bonk one time that I will, I just think about all the fucking time. It's hard trying to do comedy, a comedy podcast, and realizing you're never going to do anything as funny as just seeing someone fall.
Starting point is 00:13:50 To really eat the cheddar. Not get hurt. Not like get hurt. Not get hurt. Well, a little hurt, but not like they break something or get, like they get up right away, but like, you know, they were, maybe they were running too fast with a backpack on, and they don't like calibrate. It needs to be bad enough that they, for a second, aren't a person, you know?
Starting point is 00:14:06 Do you know what I'm saying? Like for a second, they're just like, oh, did you plan that? That was cartoonish. I can plan it. I'm bleeding. I was running down a short grassy slope outside of a waffle house on my way to Kings Island once, and my feet just, whoop, and I landed ass first on a metal grate and had to go to the emergency room, because I couldn't move, and I didn't get to go to Kings Island.
Starting point is 00:14:29 But I do, like I know my friends were worried about me, but I do hope while they were enjoying the Kings Island rides and stuff, they thought about the truly spectacular spill that I took, and hopefully we'll never forget about it. And that's a sacrifice I'll make for my friends. One time I was coming home from Sydney's parents' house, and I brought my Xbox, original Xbox, original ass Xbox over there, and then I was going up the stairs to walk into the house,
Starting point is 00:14:57 and I tripped on the stairs and sent the Xbox flying, and also hit my knee so bad that blood started coming out of it, and I live in perpetual sadness that I could not see that amazing sight. Right. You know what I mean? Like, if I could ever astral project, just to see that one moment, because I think I would, I'm sure Sydney treasures that she denies it, but I would love,
Starting point is 00:15:22 I would just love to have that captured in America's Fan's Home memories up there in the bank. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, bud. Did you make any kind of, like, audible vocal noise? Or did that happen to you when you did, like, whoa, were you like, Master Chief, no! My bandicoot! No, not on the Xbox.
Starting point is 00:15:44 I know Xbox. That's a funny word. Come on, maybe blinks the time, Sweeper. Yeah. So you pay. That's what you tend to do. I've never fallen down. Ever, yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:15:54 I don't know. I've never seen Travis fall down. Let me just put this out there and let people know. What do you mean, Ben? Like, what do we fall down, Master Bruce? And he's like, I never fucking fell down. I'm unfallable, dude. You tell me.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Old, you old bastard. Why you fall down? Why do you fall down? No, I was saying, Master Bruce, no, why do you fall down? I gave you, I had to give you a portable bass signal for when you fell down in the kitchen. To come down for Friday the Joker to come help you back up. I do fall down so many times, Alfred.
Starting point is 00:16:25 I'm bad at it. If I fall down, I just put my arms out and boom, I'm out. You know what I mean? Do you know how bad it is? I get the penguin in my home address. So if I remember out of town, he could come help you sit back up, Alfred, because you fall all the time and I hate it. I'm going to put this mantra out there and whoever needs it, use it.
Starting point is 00:16:41 So you pissed your pants. Yeah. So what? So what? You make a mess in someone's car, you clean it up. That's like worst case scenario. So you pissed your pants. It's just water?
Starting point is 00:16:54 That is one thing that I'll never forget is when our friend Justin drunkenly had a very large, I'm your brother. No, not my brother. Let's have like an extra large seven up from McDonald's in the back of Griffin's car and dropped it, spilling the entirety of it, and just said, I made a nut. Oh, yeah, that sucked, man. That was an idea.
Starting point is 00:17:15 I do think about that. But we have a good time talking about that. No, we didn't. There was a fucking half inch of standing sprite in the back seat of my fucking car. It was terrible. There is a certain. I've learned this since I've had kids.
Starting point is 00:17:29 I've had a lot more time to think about this and a lot more opportunity. There's a certain drink size where if it spills in your car, it's kind of unfathomable. Like there's a certain drink size where if that's, I think there's something like if that spills, that's it for me. That's the car. That's no. Yeah, no, I don't have this car anymore.
Starting point is 00:17:48 It belongs to the to the Mr. Misty slush at this point. Right. Hey, can I do a yahoo that was sent in? Can we help this person? No, don't worry about it, it's not a big deal. So you pissed your pants. So you pissed your pants. Hey, I have a yahoo here.
Starting point is 00:18:02 And this one. You do? Okay. Oh my goodness. All right. This one was sent in by a bunch of people. It was sent in by Adrian Cowles first. Thank you, Adrian.
Starting point is 00:18:09 So yahoo answers user eum, which is like Ian, but with an M. Who asks? Or like Liam, but without an L. Like Liam without an L. Or like Chris without the Chris and plus an Eum. Yeah, sure. So anyway, he says, why are old books so boring? Thank you.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Books from several centuries back are objectively less entertaining and fun to read than modern books. I would think that few people would consider Shakespeare actually interesting if they thought he wrote his place 10 years ago. Why is that? Were people simply bad at writing in the past the way we were bad at medicine? Did people not care to make their books enjoyable? Is there a rational explanation for it?
Starting point is 00:18:48 Update two days ago. Shakespeare is a bad example of what I am trying to ask. Think of Dickens or Russian classics. So they definitely like walked it back just a little bit. Okay, I'll rely on Shakespeare. Okay, I'll run this. Here's what I think. Shakespeare's got some murder, stabbing, all kinds of witchcraft, dope shit, sex,
Starting point is 00:19:08 jugs, dingle dangles, all kinds of fucking dope shit. But Dickens, Snore. I do feel like they walked it back too soon because the point of if Shakespeare was like publishing these works 10 years ago, I do think there'd be people like, what is this shit? I don't fucking understand this at all. I was reading Dostoevsky and my nuts fell asleep because of how I was sitting.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I was so fucking bored reading this. Now Dickens is a bad example, too, though, because there's ghosts and there's an old lady in a wedding dress with some old ass cake sitting around. And that sells orphans. There's orphans. That's interesting. I think there's a guillotine.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Eating orphans? That's so cool. Crime orphans? Yeah. Come on, that's cool though. I mean, if you can make a movie with singing dogs with songs by Billy Joel in it based on the work, I don't think you can be like, that dude's boring.
Starting point is 00:20:02 All right, let's... We've had a lot of fun taking the piss out of this Yakuza producer, but I can mention Dostoevsky in here and say that name because I think it makes me sound smart. Have I read Crime Unpunishment? Fuck no, it's boring. Have I read Animorphs? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Hi, Fred. I just want to... Can I applaud you for twice saying that name with the confidence that you're pronouncing it correctly in a way that I simply could not? Yeah. I bought The Brother's Care in Mazloff by Dostoevsky. Nice.
Starting point is 00:20:37 And my wife and I were going to read it together as part of this thing. This is even before I have kids, I had no excuse. We're going to read it as part of this book club, online book club deal. Nerd. And we bought two exact same copies and we both made it like exactly 40 pages in
Starting point is 00:20:54 and then promptly put it back up on the shelf and they sit next to each other. And it's worse because it's twice. Yeah. It's twice the book that is... It's the twin brothers. And you can't just... Because there's two, they can't just fade into memory
Starting point is 00:21:10 because every time I look at the books, there's two of these fuckers next to each other and I had to take that walk back. Or I'm like, fuck it. What was I thinking? 40 pages. And to this day, some 15 years later, Sidney and I will be looking at books
Starting point is 00:21:26 and I'll still be like, we got to get back to this era. You remember where we were when we left off, right? What was happening? I still... There is like a couple of points that are raised. I'll tell you, I'll give you an example. One of the characters in Brothers Care in Mazloff says, um, uh, the more that I love humanity generally,
Starting point is 00:21:46 the more I find that I cannot stand individual people. That's fucking so dope and fresh. And it's powerful. It stood out my mind. That's in the first 40 pages. I don't know what incredible power... What life-changing nuggets beyond that lie before me. I couldn't do it.
Starting point is 00:22:05 No one does. So many nicknames. No one has read... I would... I would pause it. The thicker the book, the less chance there is that anyone has read it to completion. And the thing is, is that they keep selling
Starting point is 00:22:17 so that people will, like yourself, put them on shelves. That they are... I've been in a lot of Zoom calls lately where I've seen a lot of bookshelves in the background. And there's a lot of unbroken spines in there with big fancy names on them. I mean, no one has actually read Dostoevsky to completion because reading that fucking dude's books
Starting point is 00:22:36 makes my nuts fall asleep. I couldn't even finish. If you know what I mean, now you know who gets me every time he's K.A. Applegate. I'll tell you what I remember, Tobias turned into a fucking hawk too long. Yeah, that's cultural touchstone. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:22:49 So I've read a lot of them. You know what I love? R.L. Stein. He's got the puppets. The puppets talk and come alive and they're spooky. I saw the movie Count of Monte Cristo with Jim Cavie-Vizal. And I thought, what a cool... There's a cool thing.
Starting point is 00:23:07 I need to read this book. I started reading the book and I got about a hundred pages in. I was like, wait a minute. This isn't the don't test that I know. What is happening? This is boring. This book is quite different from the movie
Starting point is 00:23:21 that I enjoyed so much. Now here's the thing. I will tell you, I finished it. I read that book and I am impressed with myself and you should be too. But it is, in many ways, way more boring than Jim Cavie-Vizal. And way longer. I did the Jim Cavie-Vizal movie in like an hour and fifty.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Cranked it up. The book, that was like six months of reading. Yeah. Maybe that's the problem. Okay. I'll give you an example, okay? Leather stocking tails, right? James Fenimore Cooper's leather stocking tails.
Starting point is 00:23:52 You got Deer Slayer last time he can... Sounds sexy. Yeah. The other ones, right? You try to read that. It's unthinkable. It's unthinkable. It's so terrible.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I'll give you an example. Okay. Leather stocking tails is about Natty Bumpo, which rules. I'll give him that. Natty Bumpo is fucking good. But then he's known in these books as Leather Stocking, The Pathfinder, The Trapper, Deer Slayer, Le Long Carabine, which is Long Rifle in French, and Hawkeye.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Those are all names for him. You know how many names Judge Dread needs? One. Right. Because he kicks ass and he's just Judge Dread. And that's what his name is. And then he goes out there and rules. He doesn't need eight other names.
Starting point is 00:24:40 They're not like, oh, no, the Mr. Bigelaw. No one has to call him Mr. Bigelaw. And call me Stock Boots. He doesn't need a bunch of names. Right. I remember, like, I think it was Deer Slayer having to read that for a summer reading program. And the first page is, as far as I can recall,
Starting point is 00:25:01 a nonstop run-on sentence that is just like one date about, like, there was a war on this date. And it's just so dense that I had to reread that one page, like 18 times. And I specifically remember at, like, 17 years old, being like, oh, OK, not setting me up for success here, James Rennemore Cooper. Oh, boy, you couldn't start off with, like, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:25:25 a sunrise or something. Give me some kind of, no, you're just starting off with, like, a history lesson. Oh, boy. I remember reading Wuthering Heights, and it just kind of ended. And I remember being, like, 16 and being like, this sucks. I'm, like, throwing it down that fucking Heathcliff dude.
Starting point is 00:25:43 He doesn't terrorize the neighborhood at all. No. And then when he does, it is just gaslighting and psychological. And not, like, fun pranks. It's not pranks. All right. Right. Here's how to free yourself.
Starting point is 00:25:55 And I have actually used this specific technique that I'm going to share with you. Um, what you do is if there's, like, a fancy old writer that you think you should be reading, you feel guilty about it, find another also good writer that takes a shit on them. And then it frees you from, I'll give you an example. There is actually a pretty famous piece
Starting point is 00:26:16 called Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain. And Mark Twain writes a whole essay where he's like, fuck James Fenimore Cooper. He sucks ass. And that to me is like, cool. I don't have to read that. Mark Twain says he sucks. Here's actually, here's a quote from that in what quote,
Starting point is 00:26:34 in one place in Deer Slayer and in the restricted space of two thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record. He fucking dunks on the whole time. That's, that's so fresh, right? So now I don't have to read James Fenimore Cooper, but the rabbit hole goes deeper because some people
Starting point is 00:26:55 criticize that piece. There's a, there's a quote here. Hilarious, this is from John McWilliams. Hilarious though, Twain's essay is, is valid only within its own narrow and sometimes misapplied criteria. Fucking great. Now I don't have to read Mark Twain. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Come out on him too. Mark and I often, if you keep going down that chain, eventually all you're left with is the worlds of power novelizations of old NES games. Yeah, which is fine. Which will be perfect nine. Right. It will survive.
Starting point is 00:27:23 If you go deep enough, you will find like Mark, like, like Mark, Luke and John being like, those novelizations of Mario fucking rule, dudes. In the, the, the old gospels, it's, man, the blaster master novelization of worlds of power is some real bullshit. They left out a lot of really cool levels and power ups. That seems like a pretty good place to head on over the
Starting point is 00:27:48 money zone. But first, Trav, why don't you tell us a little bit about this week's organization that we're donating our ad revenue to? Yeah. We're going to be donating to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Sylvia Rivera was partners in, in work with Marsha P.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Johnson did a lot of work for the trans community and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Basically, they're working hard to provide legal services and protect the rights of trans people. They focus specifically on people of color and poor people and fighting discrimination against gender non-conforming folks. So it's a great organization.
Starting point is 00:28:22 You can check them out at srlp.org. Let's get the money to give to them. I can't tell you about an experience. I had this very weekend. God, I hope it's related to Stitch Fix, because that's who we're supposed to be telling you. It is. It is.
Starting point is 00:28:48 Don't worry. Okay. I, I got me a Stitch Fix. I opened that, their box. And I lifted out a shirt that made me gasp in delight and run across the house to find my wife and say, look at this absolute winner I have just received. I will post a picture of it.
Starting point is 00:29:05 It is a beautiful shirt. And here's the best thing. Covered in anime babes. No, there are no anime babes, Griffin. They just, it kind of looks like fireworks on it, but like in a really cool like way. And the thing is, is like, I didn't like pick that shirt out. It was the, because my stylist has worked with me
Starting point is 00:29:22 and I've answered questions that they were able to say like, Travis is going to love this. And they were right. Because that's what Stitch Fix does. They, they like ask you questions. They work with you to figure out what your style is. And then they send things that are your size, your style. And you try them on.
Starting point is 00:29:38 You keep what you love and you only pay for what you keep. And one of my favorite things about it, you can say like, this is how much money I'm comfortable paying for a t-shirt. This is how much money I'm comfortable paying for shorts. And so they won't send you super expensive clothes that you don't want to keep. It's amazing.
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Starting point is 00:30:38 That's just creamy. Okay. Meat balls. And you're hearing me say this, you're thinking like, what is he talking about a restaurant? You shouldn't be going out to one of those places dangerous and you could possibly get COVID from if they're doing it bad.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Well, no, you goofball. I'm talking about doing it at home with Blue Apron where it's safe in your house and you can make fettuccine pasta and mushrooms. Like it's like, you're doing food art. And right now cooking at home matters more than ever. I think I've outlined that pretty well. So I don't have to go into more detail about
Starting point is 00:31:10 why home cooking matters right now. But Blue Apron is a really good way to do that because you get a box of fresh quality ingredients delivered straight to your door and then you follow these recipes and you make tasty, tasty meals and you learn how to cook. I did Blue Apron for a long time
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Starting point is 00:32:00 Whoa. I started listening to Ono, Ross, and Carrie shortly after I broke my arm and the doctor had told me I'd never walk again. I couldn't get my book started. I was lost, honestly. I knew it was time to make a change. There's something about Ono, Ross, and Carrie
Starting point is 00:32:16 that you just can't get anywhere else. They're thought leaders, discoverers, founders. I'd call them heroes. Ross and Carrie don't just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal. They take part themselves. They show up so you don't have to. But you might find that you want to.
Starting point is 00:32:35 My arm is better. I can walk again. I wrote an entire book this weekend. It's terrible, but I did it. Just go to maximumfun.org. Thank you, Ross and Carrie. Ono, Ross, and Carrie is just a podcast. It doesn't do anything.
Starting point is 00:32:49 It's just sounds you listen to in your ears. All these people are made up. Goodbye. Hey, who's that on the? Who is it? It's Lynn. Hi, Lynn. I wasn't recording before, but now I am. Hi, Lynn. Hi, Lynn.
Starting point is 00:32:59 Hi. Welcome to the podcast. We were in the middle of doing the podcast, and now we're just like, Thank you. In it. You're on it. This is the podcast.
Starting point is 00:33:05 Long time fan, third time caller. Thrilled to be here. Is that right? There's no way it's been just three. I feel like you were just on the one time when you were at the public. And then that time you guys did the Margaritaville blue car.
Starting point is 00:33:17 Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the other times were live times when you indulged me saying, Hey, guys, I wrote another song about you. Can I play it at your show? We've given you a lot of opportunities, huh? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:30 You're so welcome. I think this is my third time on the podcast. That's great. Wow, what an honor. Make it say Hammer, proper. How are you doing, though? I'm all right. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Oh, there's a story behind there. There's a sadness. Sadness behind those eyes. I'm actually, I'm quite hashtag blessed, all things considered. You're catching me after spending an hour and a half putting together a play set involving tools. And as soon as I finished putting together the play set,
Starting point is 00:34:02 my son yelled, yay, and then stubbed his toe, started bleeding and screaming. Did he stub it on the play set? No, no, he stubbed it on being five and running funny. So where I'm, I don't really want to talk about Hamilton. It is if anybody cares. It's coming out Disney plus July 3rd. You can watch on Disney.
Starting point is 00:34:23 I'm sure you're fucking sick of talking about it. Sick of talking about it. I'm sick of talking about it. I'm happy to talk to you about anything else. Any other musical, any other musical. What's going on with Tootsie? Is I have this feeling sometimes like Tootsie is still going.
Starting point is 00:34:37 Yeah, they're still doing it. They're still crowd. Yeah, I feel like they're still doing Tootsie probably. It's coming gone. Oh man. It was so funny though. Pour a little honey out for Tootsie. Any musicals going right now?
Starting point is 00:34:53 There is a phantom of the opera playing in Seoul, South Korea. There's the one musical playing in the world right now because they were serious about their shit and locked it down. And now they can do phantom. Which is all about a guy in a mask. Weirdly enough, that is weird. That's the price you get for taking it seriously. You get to see phantom.
Starting point is 00:35:17 I was going to ask about the musicals that form the DNA of who you are. I'm so grateful. Every time we get a little night music, courtesy of Justin McElroy. He sings in that ineffable. It's really just that one track though, right? Juice, you're not like a big night music like hit.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Didn't know it was from that. As far as that, I had on a Lou Rawls CD when I was younger until I got in my heart that way. Musicals that really form man. Obviously, RENT was huge for me. As Tim Robbins told me at your show, Hamilton, RENT taught my generation tolerance, which is huge. Huge for RENT.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Thank you to RENT. Did you ever dream cast yourself in RENT? Did you ever give a thought who you might play? I'm pretty sure that I would be the window washing guy. Honest living, honest living. That would be a good part. Honestly, I would be and I would be lucky to have it. You know, Man of La Mancha was a big one for me.
Starting point is 00:36:23 That's Cornerstone for me. That was my audition song was Man of La Mancha for a very long time was my. The title track Man of La Mancha? Oh yeah, not impossible dream. I can't carry that off. But I could do like a sort of spoken word intro into the song and then because that gets you like 30 seconds in,
Starting point is 00:36:42 then there's only 30 seconds of singing after that, which is perfect. I, Glenn and I share this playing Birdie, Conrad Birdie and by Birdie. It is. How old were you when you did it? Uh, I was, I want to say like 17, 18. That's huge.
Starting point is 00:36:57 When you are, when you're at your gangliest and teeniest and you play a role in which everyone has to pretend to be in love with you. I mean, it kind of explains everything about. It goes one step further than that, Lynn. Our father was the director nepotism. And one of the creative decisions he made was to have Conrad Birdie, myself enter from behind a 12 foot tall photograph of myself,
Starting point is 00:37:25 backlit with like fog while everyone cheered for me. Your reckless confidence is entirely just. Yeah. Yeah. It's not his fault. Can't blame him. It's all that's fine. Griffin, you like musicals?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Oh, King Kong. The King Kong musical? Seemed it. I saw it. Yeah. Love that big guy. I'm a, um, as of, as of last year, I'm officially a Tony voter. And so I took, did my due diligence and I saw every show of last year's vote.
Starting point is 00:37:56 They're going to say voted for King Kong. I did see the King Kong. Voted. Biggest gorilla. Yes. What? It won a special award. There are.
Starting point is 00:38:05 A King Kong award. Yeah. Biggest King Kong. A special honorary Tony for being the biggest King Kong, for taking 14 people to manipulate. It has a special Kong Tony. And I, it knocked the shit right out of noises off King Kong. That King Kong sucked.
Starting point is 00:38:21 That King Kong sucked. The one in Turkey was cool though, because he had sunglasses and he came out on a skateboard. He was like, oh, yeah. But only 13 people. Yeah. Hey, Lynn, are there musicals that you are, I get this with pop culture sometimes where I become fixated or obsessed
Starting point is 00:38:37 with the idea of something without actually like having any actual affection for it or actually maybe even seeing it. I'll give you an example to give you a little time to think. There is this musical, um, called chocolate, the musical. And it's a one woman show that this woman, um, tours around with and does chocolate, the musical for like, I guess if you have like a meeting of the red hat ladies or something like that, she'll come and do musical chocolate, the musical.
Starting point is 00:39:05 And the red hat ladies is such a deep pull. Yeah. Now, if you know our Nani, man, it's pretty much top of mind. Is she a red, is she a red hat or hell? Yeah, dude. So literally the red hat ladies, in case you don't cut this is like a society of ladies who wear like red Sunday brunch hats and go see shows. It's very benign.
Starting point is 00:39:25 It's not the current connotation of it. No, it's a very different vibe. The other one is the high fidelity musical, which came out for like a few weeks and then wasn't any more performances on Broadway written by my good friend, Tom Kitt. That was the musical that put the fear of God in me because, um, the same producers produced high fidelity that produced, uh, in the heights, my first show.
Starting point is 00:39:47 And like for years, they were like, well, we're going to get high fidelity on because that's a no brainer hit. Everyone loves the book. Everyone loves the like tunes. Uh, and then it like lasted eight performances. And they were basically like, once high fidelity is a hit, we'll take a chance on your little show with Latins in it. And, uh, and, uh, then it didn't, nothing happened.
Starting point is 00:40:12 How did your show turn out? Our show did, our show did okay, but it was, it was scary. It was sort of like that was such a surefire hit. It had a well-known director, a great composer, uh, and it just, you know, no one wants to see Rob sing. I guess, yeah. Like the whole thing is, he listens to music. You're making something about the best music ever when there's a frequent
Starting point is 00:40:37 arguments about, and you're not allowed to use that music. Yeah, totally. Yeah. It was an impossible, it's an, it was an impossible task. You know what, you want to hear my favorite song? I own a record store. That's my favorite song. It's always been my favorite song.
Starting point is 00:40:52 Um, we don't have questions, a question from the audience for you. Like we sometimes do for Gaspert stuff. And I've been asking the last few Gasperts like, you know, COVID related stuff, like how are you, how, what are you doing at home? But I think it would be better to do a, just a yahoo. And just like get you on that yahoo with us. Do you feel like qualified to, to do one of those? Completely unqualified, but happy to be along for the ride.
Starting point is 00:41:20 Wait, okay. Just one more, the quick thing. Just Starlight Express. Have you seen it, Lynn? Can I tell you? Because that's a musical about trains. Yeah, I know. And I would love to see that.
Starting point is 00:41:30 By the way, it's based on Thomas the Tank Engine. Get out. And his company is the really useful company because he wanted the rights to Thomas, and it didn't quite happen. So he did his own train musical. I've never seen it. I actually have. Which is my ability on that one.
Starting point is 00:41:47 I remember seeing the commercials and being like, well, trains musicals. Where do I sign? But my parents didn't have the money. So I never saw it. Unfair. Unfair. Okay, Griffin, I'm sorry. I won't talk about any other bizarre musicals.
Starting point is 00:42:01 Lynn, I'm so excited for you to put your, but we've never allowed anyone into this particular sanctum. And I think you're going to crush it. Michelle sent this one. And it's a yahoo answers user who I'm going to call Jim. Jamuel Miranda asks, Super Mario versus yourself in a few scenarios. For some random reason, Super Mario is teleported into the real world with the sole goal to hunt you down and kill you.
Starting point is 00:42:25 Mario is still bound to his game physics and can still jump just as high. I'll give you three scenarios that could occur. And I want you to tell me how they would play out. So we can just run down these. Yeah, we're in such a different direction than I. Before we get to do, I need to make sure I understand the premise. Yeah. Mario has been teleported into our world.
Starting point is 00:42:48 It went Sonic movie style. Earth 616. Go down a pipe, go down a pipe, come up an earth toilet, and he wants to kill you so bad. Okay, so he wants to kill you or he's been tasked with killing you. He needs to kill you. Okay, that is important because I could maybe talk him out of it if it's just a job. No, you got the pipe inside you that gives him home.
Starting point is 00:43:07 So anyway. Well, now even that, though, is a different scenario than him just wanting to kill me. Okay, he could jump really high. Scenario one, you're casually walking outside like any normal day. You feel safe and are unarmed. Suddenly Mario, who is also unarmed, comes running at you with the purpose to end your life. You know this and prepare to fend off the ambush.
Starting point is 00:43:27 What happens? Wait, is he mushroomed or not? Dad, this is actually huge. I need to know scale, right? That is my biggest question. On the TV, he doesn't look very big. He's a human-sized Mario. Is he a human-sized?
Starting point is 00:43:41 Okay, so he's a human-sized Mario. Is he human-sized at the same proportions? Because density there is a huge factor. He's a dense fella. I mean, he's quite thick in all the right places, but he's running at you. It says he's running at you. He's not like walking at you slow, imposing, terminator style. This fucking plumber is sprinting at you, Lynn.
Starting point is 00:44:04 You have to get high. You have to get higher. You have to get higher. If his whole thing is jumping on you, you've got to get high. Yeah, you've got to get the high ground. But now we're in a Donkey Kong scenario. He's not going to stop. He's coming for you.
Starting point is 00:44:17 You've got to throw barrels. You've got to throw barrels. You've got to throw some barrels at this fucking guy. Could you get under something that will protect your head from bouncing? Because if it's just Mario running at you, he does not have a putt. I mean, I guess he could spin, could he? That's the danger. Here's my thing.
Starting point is 00:44:36 There are enemies in Mario that walk slowly at you and you wait for them to end you, or sometimes they run really fast at you, or sometimes they jump. I don't think there is an enemy in Mario that can fucking punch and kick the way I do. He may run at me and start to jump, and I just move out of the way, and I fucking punch him in the face. He's like, oh, what is he? And I'm like, yeah, he's a motherfucker. I punch back.
Starting point is 00:44:59 He won't understand that. No, he can't process that. There is also, I'm now thinking that the Mario games would be much different if when a Koopa saw Mario coming, they ran away from him. I'm like, I don't want, I'm just walking around, dude. Yeah. All right. I'm a hopping turtle.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Let's do a bit of, let's do some opposition research here. Lynn, you're going to play the role of Lynn. You are quarantining wherever you are quarantining. Travis, Justin, and I are going to be Mario, and let me pitch you scenario, too. You're inside your house like any normal person during quarantine, and you see Mario trying to break into your house. You can defend yourself with anything in your home, and Mario is armed with a hammer throw power up.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Wait, a hammer throw power up? That's, that's like Donkey Kong. He's got the hammer, and he's swinging indiscriminately? No, he throw. Like the hammer bros? Yeah. He can't throw. Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:47 So I guess take a moment, look around your house, and in 15 seconds, Justin Travis and I are going to come at you with a hammer throw power. And don't say a Tony or anything, because like that's cheating. Because it's very heavy. The Tony is a heavy. Very heavy and impressive. What if Lynn is like, I pick up the big gun? By the way, guys, I'm huge into guns.
Starting point is 00:46:06 And this is how I'm, this is how I'm announcing it to the world. Yeah. All right, Lynn, your time's up. I smashed in through the window with my big powerful carpenters boots, or plumbers boots. And now Mario's in your house. I activate, I activate the Playmobil water table. I have spent the last fucking hour assembling.
Starting point is 00:46:24 You're so much slower in water. Get out of the pool. Okay. Okay. So you've, okay. You're so much slower in water. Now I'm just a squid who moves slowly and I'm a threat. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Well, that's pretty good. I don't know how a water table would flood an entire house. You shouldn't. I'm putting on all the water, just all the water. I'm just, I'm flooding everything. Okay. Lynn floods the house. Justin Travis, take the Mario wheel.
Starting point is 00:46:45 We're just still trying to kill Lynn. Is that the idea? Yeah, three of us are trying to kill our friend Lynn. Are we three different Marios? No, we're the same Mario. I'm going to take over. Travis, I'm turning this to a water level. Get on my level.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Okay. So you, you've begun flooding your own home. Yeah. The hammer throwing is no longer. You can't do that in water. That's silly. Yeah. So I'm going to break a wall sconce.
Starting point is 00:47:04 I assume you have sconces off the wall in attempt to electric. Don't fucking dox Lynn. I live in an apartment building in Manhattan. So you have sconces? I have no sconces. Ah, fuck. That was the only thing I had. Well, now you just see Mario looking for sconces
Starting point is 00:47:20 and he's just pawing at the wall. Travis, waste his turn. Lynn, how are you going to kill Shigeru Miyamoto's best friend and video game son, Mario? I am going to, because I know that just touching me will kill him because that's how it works in this world. I'm going to edge and swim until Mario's close to the window and then I'm going to try to open the window.
Starting point is 00:47:43 Okay, Justin, he's right in your fucking trap, Justin. Get him. I'm going to push beloved Tony winner and multi-talented artist, Slim Man with Miranda, out the window. Okay. I'm going to Wario Scowl as I fall out the window. All right, we won. I'm going to kill Liv.
Starting point is 00:48:03 I won't have. See you in the job, guys. What is scenario three? Let me just read it out. Hey, who lives here, guys? It tells your story. It turns out Mario is who tells your story. That's so weird.
Starting point is 00:48:14 You didn't see that coming. Oh, well, the same. Sorry, but our princess is in another fucking castle. Lynn, I know you're busy and we've kept you for a long time, but I would be remiss if I didn't read scenario three. You've successfully evaded Mario this whole time and managed to locate where he lives while he isn't trying to kill you. You now have the element of surprise and can bring with you
Starting point is 00:48:32 whatever you could reasonably afford, get a hold of, or make. There is no way of knowing what Mario has, though. So now the tables have flipped a little bit. Mario Lynn is in his Manhattan apartment. Well, this is getting a little aggro for my tastes. Yeah, this is like John Wick shit where it's like, okay, now you have to go after them. This is that Van Damme hard target.
Starting point is 00:48:54 How does it feel to be hunted? I assume he's like little. He's not eating a mushroom when he's chilling at home. Oh, no. He's on the run now. No, he's fighting out. He's in his most vulnerable. We don't talk about this, but when he eats the mushroom, he gets big.
Starting point is 00:49:07 It hurts his bones so fucking bad. His bones and muscles and skins all grow so fast so much. So, no, what do you know? And when he gets small again, his bones don't shrink. They just kind of bend. It hurts so much when I'm out. He doesn't eat the mushroom at home unless the princess makes him if you know what I mean.
Starting point is 00:49:27 I don't understand. Frish hog. From Mario's hog. Oh, he eats it too. Frish hog. Okay. Frish hog. Frish hog.
Starting point is 00:49:40 The mushroom makes his hog bigger. Right. Justin, just. Lynn, we're going to explain to you in excruciating detail the premise of Justin's joke. Well, Justin thinks that when Mario eats a mushroom, his penis, not only becomes engorged, but embiggens. Right.
Starting point is 00:50:00 All of them becomes bigger, Lynn, right? And so that would include his genitals, which, and I guess in this scenario, the princess would want like a bigger, like zone down there. Yeah. Does that make sense? So would make him eat the mushroom so that his penis would become larger. Explain it back to us, Lynn, just to make sure that we know that you understand it. So Mario's at home, but he's in his half man form, his lower case form.
Starting point is 00:50:28 Right. Unless the princess asks him to eat the mushroom, in which case. Why would he want that? And explain it, because I need to know that you got it before we can move on. It would grow him to double the scale, including his genitals. Right. And why would that be desired by her? She want that.
Starting point is 00:50:45 Yeah. I'm going to hang up. I'm going to hang up. Everybody gets it. OK. No, I need to know that he understands the benefit. It's all good stuff. It's all good, fun stuff.
Starting point is 00:50:56 July 3rd. Welcome to Warp Zone. July 3rd. Check it out. Disney Plus. Dude, double feature. Hamilton and the. No one told this.
Starting point is 00:51:05 It feels funny. I don't like the plug after this. I don't like the plug. Disney Plus. You could be a double feature. Hamilton and Journey of Natigan. Fire it up. Call up Bob Iger.
Starting point is 00:51:19 Say I got a podcast for you, bud. I love this one. Can't kill our chances of getting on there. Actually, I'm starting to freak out about it. So would you stab him or? I think Len has. Len says I don't have time to kill him. What would I do with, I mean,
Starting point is 00:51:34 getting close to him would kill him in that moment when he's most vulnerable. He's a weak man. But would you enjoy that as much? I mean, that's, that's a thing. Are you saying that you're going to kill him? Wait a minute. I just want to, I just want to be clear, Len. Are you going to, are you telling me that you're going to kill Mario in,
Starting point is 00:51:50 while he's in flagrante in the middle of sexual Congress? Is that when you're going to wait for your moment? You fucking nasty dog. Come on, the podcast, Justin said. We'll talk about musicals, Justin said. July 3rd. We talked about we did the prerequisite musical conversation before we got the meat, the pearl of this oyster.
Starting point is 00:52:10 In my, in my defense, I did want to talk about more weird musicals, but Griffin made me change. You heard that happen. You heard him just real quick though. Did you see Spider-Man? I didn't. I never did. It was, I had a friend who was at the first preview
Starting point is 00:52:26 and he was a big Spider-Man fan and he was like, this isn't even about Spider-Man, dude. Fucking kick ass. The guy got, the guy got like hung up and everything stopped and he left. That's all I know. That's how it ended every night. You never knew what it would, what it would happen. Eventually Spider-Man would get stuck and they would,
Starting point is 00:52:45 everybody would bow underneath them. That was the end of the musical. Okay, Lynn. Thanks so much for coming on the show. It's always such a joy and we're so. Lynn, I'm sorry. Yeah, what's up? No, now I feel bad that we made you talk about like dirty video game stuff.
Starting point is 00:53:01 I was, I'm, I'm, I'm kind of into it. I'm, I'm good. Oh, good. All right. I got some websites for you to visit. And I'm sure the rest of them will help you out with that as well. Thanks so much, Lynn. Thanks guys.
Starting point is 00:53:12 Appreciate you. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Whoa. I want a munch. Squat? Squat? I want to munch. Squat.
Starting point is 00:53:31 Welcome to Munch Squad. It's a podcast with a podcast that features the latest and greatest in brand eating. I have wanted to get a bit more introspective tone because I wanted to start off with a bit more introspective Of a much squad today or at least an introspective lead into a much squad. You know things are hard right now I didn't know if everybody heard about it. Oh, but uh, uh, do tell. Yeah, it's just earth and um, they're I have one shining light And I have two kids so you know, it's not them I have one shining light that keeps me kind of going
Starting point is 00:54:05 When things are hard and and that I do include my children in that right um And it's the fact that somewhere on this big blue marble we call earth every once in a while The boardroom doors at Papa John's fly open And you hear and there is a uh, uh a large dent made in the top of the door jam Which then cracks as shack blows into the room and announces. Hey idiots. Here's the new shit I'm going to lay it out for you and you're going to do what I say because everybody hates you Except for me shack the only thing keeping everybody from hating you That announcement recently the shack made to the boardroom of of Papa John's Papa John's introduces the extra large
Starting point is 00:54:52 Chakarone pizza. Oh huh huh huh It's the is the Pizza large or are the the individual? I'm sorry. Chakarone's is there just no pepperoni on it. It is pepperoni. It is a pepperoni free pizza Covered in pepperonis, which are now Chakarone's
Starting point is 00:55:15 Papa John's announced monday the launch of the new Chakarone pizza Uh-huh, uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh in collaboration with board member and restaurant owner Shaquille O'Neal Don't say I wish that it had said it's in in strict defiance the wishes Who begged us not to make a Chakarone pizza Is it how does it is it? Are they smoky cured spiced? Chunks of shack on I don't want that. No, it's shack free uh
Starting point is 00:55:53 Papa John's will donate one dollar from every Chakarone sold through august 23rd 2020 to the Papa John's foundation for building community Which is a very general and non-threatening name of a group Which supports communities as they work together for equality fairness respect and opportunity for all Here's the quote It was important for me for the it was important to me for the Chakarone to be bigger than just pizza Uh-huh by giving my new pie a try one dollar will be donated to the Papa John's Foundation for building community to support COVID-19 relief the fight against racial injustice boys and girls club of america
Starting point is 00:56:31 The united negro college fund and general community involvement says O'Neal Papa John's board member and franchise owner conceived by O'Neal himself The Chakarone is an extra large pizza made with Papa John's fresh Never-frozen six-ingredient dough topped with extra cheese and extra pepperoni Chakarone, I think they meant to say and then cut into Papa John's largest slice size to date. Well now so I I don't mean to be obtuse here, but it sounds like what you're describing is a big pepperoni pizza I guess I'm just confused as to where The Chakarone part comes in and let me just say
Starting point is 00:57:16 Why not make it like a macaroni and cheese pizza because then Chakarone totally applies Well, don't even fucking worry about that Travis Because the larger-than-life pizza is also accompanied by an exclusive snapchat AR experience for fans Who ordered the Chakarone using the snapchat app customers? Simply point their camera at the pizza box to reveal a 3d surprise I don't know what the 3d surprise is But I assume it's Chak dressed as Kazam Announcing that your pizza wishes have been granted. What else could it?
Starting point is 00:57:52 I don't know what else what else it could possibly be other than that Can I can I just real quick? Uh, just dial in on the implications of using the phrase larger than life When describing a pizza, which would imply that this pizza is larger Than existence, I guess larger than anything you could conceive based around your time here on earth Here's what's very interesting Is that nowhere in the press release? Does it define the bounds of the pizza? It is only in relation to other Pizza products from Papa John's. Maybe it's bigger than Chak. It's big. It's very big
Starting point is 00:58:30 We can't tell you how big because the law Legally, we can't tell you how big it is, but it's extremely bad. Perhaps the diameter is one Chak's worth It's a Chak of Pete. It's a single Chak of pizza Actually, they say it's a okay. So the CEO of Papa John's The new good one, I guess not the old one right where it says We're excited to combine all the best ingredients for coming together in support of our neighbors A Chak size pizza. Yep. Now that to me. Yeah is I think that's false advertising That could be criminal or because it's if it's a Chak shaped pizza
Starting point is 00:59:07 Then I I think if it's Chak size like You have to have How tall is that? Well now that could mean that could mean he's seven one So this motherfucker even Reggie fees amaze great shame. The big foot pizza was nowhere near seven But what I'm saying is perhaps it could be the pizza to satiate Chak, this is a Chak size pizza This is you have your human size pizza and then you have your Chak size pizza just far larger much like a Baby bear mama bear papa bear situation. This pizza for Chak is just right
Starting point is 00:59:45 So, okay theory The reason that the dimensions are not listed Is because it is on a sliding scale during which in the morning Chak consumes an amount of pizza He has continually brought pizza until he announces Chak is sated. Yeah, I will have no more pizza And then you know for that day That's the day for that day. That is the size of the of the the Chakarote Much like you used to measure like the length of the king's forearm Right and that was the unit of measure and then it really would fluctuate based on who the royalty was in question
Starting point is 01:00:18 It depends on Chak. Maybe Chak is feeling a little stopped up Hasn't had a good bm in a while isn't all that hungry. That's a tiny piece of that It's he skips pizza that day. Yeah, he has terrible He has a terrible stomach bug because he's only been eating pizza that day you order the Chakarote pizza you get nothing You get absolutely nothing. Good day, sir Good day, sir. You lose That's a Chakarote pizza. I think that that's wonderful. I'm so happy that uh, Chak is finally Uh, getting getting his his hands on the dough. Yeah, I'm just glad he's finally found something. He's comfortable putting his name on
Starting point is 01:01:01 Yeah, I have been sitting here trying to think of another way of blending an NBA all-star players name with a type of salami and I think it's a going oh so bad, man. So poorly um mug salami Mugs like no that feels like uh, that feels like punks of tani fells bro. That's not a lot of you fail I I thought in my head to kimbay chorizo, but that felt like absolutely nothing Yeah, that's I mean, I like the flit it chorizo chorizo chorizo barkley
Starting point is 01:01:36 Like charles bark. No because you can't say that you can't that's like naming I have named this pizza chorizo barkley. It's its name. That's not good. That's not good Uh, huh. Yeah, well scottie scottie pippin roney, but they we already did pepperoni We just said shack in there That's Folks, thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We hope you've enjoyed yourself Uh, we hope you're staying safe staying cool Uh
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