My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 599: The Hand that Drinks You
Episode Date: February 28, 2022Y’all, we’re comin’ in hot with a brand-new seriously original movie pitch. Get this. It takes place in a galaxy far, far away. And the hero has a last name that is something in the sky and a mo...de of transportation. And there’s a twist about his dad. Wait, this has been done already? More than once? Hm. We better check in with Guestpert Chris Gethard instead.Suggested talking points: Kerp Live in Walls, Prescription Sheets, Geosh Sunrunner, Lazy Day Drawers, Musical DoxxingNational Black Women’s Justice Institute: https://www.nbwji.org/ Huntington Children's Museum: https://hcmkids.org/
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                                        The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed
                                         
                                        Travis insists. He's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it
                                         
                                        Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening
                                         
                                        What's up, you cool, baby
                                         
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                                        Hello everybody and welcome to Saw Bones a marital
                                         
                                        Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother and me an advice show for the modern era
                                         
                                        I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy. I'm your middle. It's probably
                                         
                                        Pregnant is pregnant. It is like that positive pregnant with triplets. I'm your middle. It's brother Travis the effervescent
                                         
                                        Macalony do you stop saying your last name and it's like that's our fucking brand dog
                                         
                                        No, but like that's how a flourish works like Peter the great wasn't like I'm Peter
                                         
                                        Great
                                         
    
                                        I'm Griffin McElroy this the youngest of them and
                                         
                                        So glad so glad to be here. I just want to say I just want to take this opportunity. It's from a heart
                                         
                                        I just want to apologize to you too. I've been watching a lot of incanto lately
                                         
                                        Yeah, and it makes me realize how hard it must have been for you guys to grow up in my shadow
                                         
                                        Because I'm kind of like a mix of like both Louisa and Isabelle strong and perfect
                                         
                                        Exactly, and I'm it's making me realize now how much you guys must have felt like I don't like a Bruno or
                                         
                                        Maybe you know like even like a Mirabelle just completely no power
                                         
                                        I felt more like one of the dirty rats that lived in the walls that just like nobody gave a shit
                                         
    
                                        I feel like I feel like Kirk
                                         
                                        Is the Bruno right like cuz we don't we don't talk about Kirk no no and Kirk live in the walls
                                         
                                        Walls little griffin the rat. Yeah
                                         
                                        Walls he'll tell you that but don't ask him
                                         
                                        Kirk kicked ass I did like kicking it with him because he was like way more loosey-goosey
                                         
                                        Than the than the rest of y'all. He's kind of the one of us that's pissed off about cancel culture
                                         
                                        You know what I mean like it's we curbs that vibe. Kirk gives up
                                         
                                        I do not really have crypto and he keeps calling it curbed. Oh
                                         
    
                                        And then he moved out and he's he's high on the hog at this point
                                         
                                        he has a dinner plate and
                                         
                                        He like always has it on him and I'm like what's up and he's like
                                         
                                        Bitcoin and I'd say no and then he shows me that he did draw a dollar sign on it. Yeah, and there's
                                         
                                        And that there is bite marks all over that he put on that he put in there. That's Kirk
                                         
                                        But that's just another fictional brother was there a dad we've had so many fictional brothers
                                         
                                        Which is so cool whenever we post a picture of us with
                                         
                                        Any person who's not us and they're like, oh, there's Kirk
                                         
    
                                        So I've just stopped taking pictures of people who aren't you too. Yeah, they confuse not even my children in a big way
                                         
                                        Especially if you do a photo of the two of us of two of us with one of them not in there
                                         
                                        But somebody else is there and they're like man Travis looks fucking
                                         
                                        Buck wild and it's like that's
                                         
                                        That's not him that's Travis doesn't look as strong and perfect as he usually does yeah exactly exactly
                                         
                                        He's not covered in donkeys and flowers like he normally is right cuz you're a fusion of the
                                         
                                        Well, I'm not saying I'm literally a fusion Griffin
                                         
                                        I'm like it's not like there was some kind of like transporter accident and it combined
                                         
    
                                        Louisa and Isabella. I'm saying that I
                                         
                                        Represent the strength and perfection of both of them. Yeah, you guys are struggling to come out from under my beautiful perfect shadow
                                         
                                        Yeah, I have an unrelated announcement. Please. I have an announcement for all the
                                         
                                        listeners of this program all of them and the haters and the haters no just listeners I
                                         
                                        now know uh-huh
                                         
                                        That dr. Pepper. Yeah is making a berries and cream flavor. Oh
                                         
                                        I have this information. Okay. I have the information from you and you and you and you and you and you and you
                                         
                                        Okay, I got it. Yeah, they're making a I
                                         
    
                                        Let that go that part of myself is in the past. Yeah, I am moving on to new projects much like
                                         
                                        Gordon Lightfoot stopped playing the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald because he didn't want to overshadow the rest of his great
                                         
                                        Tunes the rest of Gord's gold the launch of the admin Fitzgerald, which was the prequel. He wrote right and the model of the
                                         
                                        Nothing's ever going wrong with this bitch. Hey, wait Gordon. I don't think that's what we would say
                                         
                                        The lyrics that's not a cool terminology
                                         
                                        Gordo didn't make that one up Gordo. I think
                                         
                                        Further alienating our listeners, but no like
                                         
                                        Yep, I got it. You don't have to tweet it
                                         
    
                                        But Justin or Facebook it or or signal it or gab
                                         
                                        Yes, you don't put it on parlor for me anymore. I got it. No more periscopes
                                         
                                        No, no no vines. I've got it run to all of it. I got it
                                         
                                        But Justin you can't shut down the pipeline that has served you so well like
                                         
                                        Sherlock Holmes never went to the bigger street or regulars and you're like, I get it. Somebody's murdered guys
                                         
                                        It's just it's just I can't I can't explain to you guys what it feels like
                                         
                                        I know we've addressed this topic for but now when corporations are gonna make
                                         
                                        Mondo money off of this and it's like, thank you Justin. Thank you for this great corporate give it
                                         
    
                                        It's like you should have thought about that
                                         
                                        Yeah, before you accepted all that money from dr. Pepper to launch the berries and cream sound on
                                         
                                        Tiktok so that they could launch this judge
                                         
                                        It's all been building to this and now you're biting the hand that feeds you and yeah and drinks you
                                         
                                        Anyway, oh, you're just not gonna address. I'm not
                                         
                                        Say this I think that's that sounds like a kick-ass flavor. It sounds good. It sounds really good
                                         
                                        They need it in a diet though. I don't I dieted dr. Pepper is
                                         
                                        Zero would be ideal berries and cream zero. I'd never drink anything else. I get out of here
                                         
    
                                        Now Justin, you said you do other things and I would like you to list some of them, please. Yeah
                                         
                                        Yeah, I get remember I used to do the doll thing. Yeah, that was like that. Yeah, okay. I got a
                                         
                                        I got a shorty award in 2008 for what for a tweeter, you know, I was the AP
                                         
                                        Regional AP award winner for my business writing and the regional AP awards
                                         
                                        I had a really good Facebook memory about that
                                         
                                        Back from 2008 that you posted on my Facebook wall link to your shorty award and you said something like eat my balls or something
                                         
                                        It was we both up for that
                                         
                                        I don't think we were both up for it
                                         
    
                                        But I think I know word for how good a single tweet was it's so fun when you think about how different things
                                         
                                        Things were what is that 14 years ago that you won a shorty award
                                         
                                        And you were the type of person that went on your younger brother's Facebook wall and posted a
                                         
                                        Link to your shorty award and just said eat my balls
                                         
                                        Different time. I will say though in 2008 that could have been a reference to the hit meme
                                         
                                        About different characters eating your balls. Yeah, it definitely was that but still I don't think that changes the point that the odds
                                         
                                        Were a different time would you do that now Justin?
                                         
                                        Would you win an award for a tweet you wrote and then go on Griffin's Facebook page and
                                         
    
                                        Post a link to that award and right now. I think you'd probably get like a scarf my ass
                                         
                                        Yeah, scar half my farts kind of deal. Yeah, it's half my farts harder edge
                                         
                                        Seems like much more of a commitment like if someone's gonna eat some balls
                                         
                                        Versa hoofed farts huffing farts could almost be a passive. Sorry. I found it
                                         
                                        This was from February 12th 2009 and Justin posted a link to a CNN article about the shorty awards, which
                                         
                                        Wow, it's pretty wild and he just put and he just wrote and his younger brother's wall on Facebook for everyone to see
                                         
                                        Suck on this Wow
                                         
                                        Suck on this CNN article that doesn't even load anymore
                                         
    
                                        What's CNN I tell you to suck on that CNN article? I don't know man
                                         
                                        You've been rooting against me like I don't remember this. We've been working for
                                         
                                        Polygon or joystick at that point. It's
                                         
                                        I forget the timeline, but I did I guess that made me feel small Justin
                                         
                                        I just want to say there's a part of me
                                         
                                        Why didn't you post on my wall that I could suck on your shorty award?
                                         
                                        Was I not on the social media at this point was I not probably not you're too busy in college or something?
                                         
                                        I listen in 2009 Justin. I was 24. Yeah, you did go back there for a bit. Oh, yeah
                                         
    
                                        Oh wait, I did didn't I did yeah, you did. Oh you did. Yeah, I did go back to college for a while
                                         
                                        That might be true. God good times. Thanks everybody for strung down this memory lane with us
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's gonna do it for us this week folks. Oh, no, no, no, we're ahead of my show. We're gonna help people. Yeah, okay
                                         
                                        I'm gonna visit my sister next month and while I'm there. I use her guest room. Yeah one problem
                                         
                                        Her sheets suck. They feel like burlap. Would it be rude to gift her sheets for the guest bed or
                                         
                                        Any advice y'all could give thanks that's from sleepless in San Antonio
                                         
                                        Now listen it is it is
                                         
                                        Fine to give a host a gift so you could be like and I brought my own sheets now. Here's the thing
                                         
    
                                        Unless your your sister is completely obtuse. It will be pretty obvious
                                         
                                        Yeah, pretty clear. I brought these sheets for me to sleep on go ahead and put them on now, please
                                         
                                        I'll wait
                                         
                                        It can't be a preference thing, right? I like I prefer burlap like nobody
                                         
                                        They've got to be sleeping on some
                                         
                                        Silky stuff and yeah, I don't think that I just don't think they care. Yeah, they're good
                                         
                                        It's a cow's bed. It's getting used to what maybe maybe once a month
                                         
                                        Probably never used. I mean, it's a very good chance that she doesn't know see this is why your communication is so important
                                         
    
                                        You got to go in and just say hey, I I love you as a person your guest bed sheets are trash
                                         
                                        I mean, they're trash. That's one that's one option another option is you show up day one and you're like ghost costumes and
                                         
                                        Then you have her put on those and so she can feel it all over her body
                                         
                                        And then when you guys are done playing ghost costumes and scaring people around the neighborhood saying that you're a ghost
                                         
                                        She can be like, you know what I just had these on my body when I was pretending to be a ghost earlier
                                         
                                        And they suck they're terrible doesn't matter because there will be holes cut at them
                                         
                                        Problem has sold itself with a ghost costume
                                         
                                        Now hold on it depends where the holes are put because what two holes that's gonna stop you from using sheets
                                         
    
                                        Come on mr. Money bags. I didn't realize that two holes was all it took before you stopped using sheets
                                         
                                        No, I like my child. Oh, so you're not using fitted sheets for those costumes Justin
                                         
                                        You'll look like a sack of testicles look like grimace
                                         
                                        Okay, that's here. That's a good point
                                         
                                        You look like a bruised up sack of testicles like grimace and maybe maybe you could help in this
                                         
                                        So you get the sheets and then you throw them in to the washing machine with some shoes
                                         
                                        Okay, and fabric softener and then you just run them. You know you run that shit. Maybe that could like
                                         
                                        Soften them up a little bit. So it's a little more pleasant for you
                                         
    
                                        I'm just saying that like I if someone came to me if if one of my brothers the one that I loved the most
                                         
                                        Came to my house and said hey
                                         
                                        I think fabric softener works
                                         
                                        I assume it's acid that breaks down the bonds. Why don't they put it on before I have to be involved in it
                                         
                                        It doesn't actually soften it does not magic. I mean it it does it's softer
                                         
                                        So like why do I have to be involved in that? I thought it just reduced static. No, it makes it soft. Whoa, are you?
                                         
                                        Are you serious? What did you okay? When you when you put a sheet the dryer? What's that for?
                                         
                                        Well, I I use woolen balls in the dryer just I bet you do. What's that supposed to mean sir nasty dog?
                                         
    
                                        Anyway, I'm an adult after work. That's proven. Go ahead Travis
                                         
                                        I'm just saying that if the brother that I love the most which now might be evident came to my house and said hey
                                         
                                        These sheets on your guestbed suck and I brought you other ones to put on there and I'll put them on myself
                                         
                                        I'd be like, okay. I don't care like it's my guest, but it really has zero impact on me
                                         
                                        And in fact if anything this is a net gain because you brought the sheets you put them on it costs me nothing
                                         
                                        You don't you don't even have to you don't even have to say against the sheet
                                         
                                        You don't have to say anything bad against the sheets. Hey Becky. I hate to be a pain
                                         
                                        But my doctor said I have perigabititis
                                         
    
                                        Uh-huh have to use these
                                         
                                        I think I got special sheets that I'm gonna leave here. There's special sheets that I'll leave here
                                         
                                        I'm leaving them everywhere. I could possibly sleep but because of the perigabititis
                                         
                                        I have I have to use these prescription sheets. There's also a good chance
                                         
                                        You could just change out the sheets and like secret away the old sheets and your sister would never know never know
                                         
                                        If anything your sister might one day years from now
                                         
                                        Approach this to change the sheets on the guest bed and think are these the sheets I put on the guest bed
                                         
                                        I don't know. I don't mind
                                         
    
                                        Unless unless your sister's just crazy about these shrek ass sheets. Oh, I love exfoliating my guests. Yeah
                                         
                                        Hey, can I approach the wizard? I wish you would
                                         
                                        Cool, we got a this one was sent in by so many people and it's it is how to make a Star Wars movie. Oh
                                         
                                        Well, oh, yeah
                                         
                                        Yeah, just for how just for fun
                                         
                                        You might like to toy around with making the next big episode in the Star Wars saga using your own home filming gear
                                         
                                        I would it won't be as spectacular as Hollywood's special effects
                                         
                                        But you assume but provided you focus on the fun of making a movie and use your creativity
                                         
    
                                        You'll enjoy the experience and learn things in the process
                                         
                                        Awesome. It probably won't be the next big episode in the Star Wars saga
                                         
                                        So you did I feel like you opened with a pretty huge salvo there of like do you want to be Borge Lucas?
                                         
                                        And then you like immediately dipped out of that
                                         
                                        But I do like that they used they couched it though by saying it probably won't they weren't like this
                                         
                                        Definitely won't be the neck. They're like, hey listen. I'm a fucking no man. Yeah, maybe
                                         
                                        Listen, I'm gonna be afraid it probably won't
                                         
                                        Listen, we can do this ourselves. This can be a fun little little game that we play
                                         
    
                                        So step one think up some characters. You can't do anything until you got a couple main characters
                                         
                                        You don't have to flesh it all out now
                                         
                                        Just have enough to build a story around a good guy and a bad guy
                                         
                                        Just make sure you have enough to start your plot now. Obviously we could also I mean if it's a next in the series
                                         
                                        We could use some of the ones who started there. This is Chewie's big movie. You know what I mean?
                                         
                                        Like that guy hasn't gotten enough to do right we start the problem is if you do that then you get in trouble with Lucas and
                                         
                                        Okay, so come up with new guys a new good guy a new bad guy, okay?
                                         
                                        Boy, I'll leave you right alone
                                         
    
                                        spork
                                         
                                        No
                                         
                                        Spork magnificence the first name has to be normal, right? Oh, right. All right, Josh
                                         
                                        My Josh is great. Yeah, Josh
                                         
                                        G EOS
                                         
                                        Yeah, right. Yeah
                                         
                                        That's how they spell it on boba bean, which is the yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This one's Josh Dawn Treader
                                         
                                        Josh, that's the now that's hitting me a little fantasy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What about
                                         
    
                                        It's got to be something celestial and then a mode of transport. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
                                         
                                        Josh Sun Truck Josh Sunrunner Sun Trucker Josh Sunrunner is cool. That's
                                         
                                        Pretty good way of making a cool mate
                                         
                                        Fine, it's John John Josh Sunrunner
                                         
                                        Well, then we can make if you want we can make the villain like
                                         
                                        John Sun Trucker and it's very confusing. They're always getting confused everywhere. They go
                                         
                                        Dr. Lucas made it easy on us for this one because first name is Darth and then the second word is just a nasty sounding word
                                         
                                        So Josh Sunrunner hates his dad Darth
                                         
    
                                        It can't be his dad. That's taken
                                         
                                        Darth
                                         
                                        Darth
                                         
                                        Dark this is the bad guy. Yeah, dark. What's the good guy Josh Sunrunner?
                                         
                                        Josh Sunrunner versus Darth flippings
                                         
                                        Gotta be this city
                                         
                                        Darcy is Vader. You know what I mean? Like it's gotta be okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Darth scab
                                         
                                        Darth shit scab
                                         
    
                                        Dar dar
                                         
                                        What can't be dar dar dar?
                                         
                                        Can't be dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar dar sauce
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        See your forces as powerful as my dar dar dar. Wait. Is this another villain talking to
                                         
                                        Villains fighting to see who gets to be Josh Sunrunner's dad
                                         
                                        Your mother your mother loves me more. There you go, dad
                                         
                                        Yes, so this is to this is like we're combining Star Wars and daddy's home
                                         
    
                                        Darth dar did under dar dar. No
                                         
                                        Please call me Dar dar dar. For sure. Darth Dar dar versus Darth
                                         
                                        S disappointed or something scar? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
                                         
                                        Scapeulous Darth scapicular stamp you FBI
                                         
                                        Hematoma and then Darth scabular
                                         
                                        Love is cool one to put in there because
                                         
                                        It's just a dark scabula.
                                         
                                        Okay, we can agree that dark scabula is the cool one, right?
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, sure.
                                         
                                        It's not dark, dark, dark.
                                         
                                        We're rooting for dark scabula.
                                         
                                        Well, now, don't assume whom I'm rooting for, Justin.
                                         
                                        I'm rooting for the underdog.
                                         
                                        You got to keep the fuel under the fire, under the writer's room.
                                         
                                        And that's us right now, so let's keep it, let's keep it.
                                         
                                        Who's writing this down?
                                         
    
                                        Step two, the wiki.
                                         
                                        Step two, couple the plot.
                                         
                                        And can we agree that Marissa Tomei is playing the mom?
                                         
                                        Can we just establish that now?
                                         
                                        Well, I'm not casting her right now.
                                         
                                        No, I'm just at this really tight.
                                         
                                        Oh, my God.
                                         
                                        Okay, but I can't picture it without her.
                                         
    
                                        Okay, also, there's no moms in Star Wars only aunts.
                                         
                                        That's...
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        And we can't make Marissa Tomei another aunt.
                                         
                                        That is true.
                                         
                                        You know what I mean?
                                         
                                        That is true.
                                         
                                        Okay, so come up with a plot.
                                         
    
                                        Awesome.
                                         
                                        Start with the main idea, the main conflict of the movie.
                                         
                                        We got that.
                                         
                                        These two darts want to beat Josh's dad.
                                         
                                        Next, think of some things that could happen along the way.
                                         
                                        Okay, okay.
                                         
                                        They take him out for a drive in the pod racer.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        No, they take him to a pod race.
                                         
                                        But Darth Scabula bets on the pod races.
                                         
                                        Awesome.
                                         
                                        And that's good or bad.
                                         
                                        We don't like that.
                                         
                                        Well, it's kind of up to the, yeah.
                                         
                                        Oh, and through a series of misunderstandings,
                                         
                                        Darth Dardar is in the race.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, that's funny.
                                         
                                        He shouldn't be.
                                         
                                        He shouldn't be.
                                         
                                        He was looking for the bathroom and he went in the wrong door
                                         
                                        and suddenly he's out there in the pod race.
                                         
                                        Okay, focus on a theme of your own.
                                         
                                        You might want to make it really original,
                                         
                                        like the Great Sith War or the New Republic.
                                         
    
                                        Now, that's too big.
                                         
                                        That's too much, like that's too much lore for me.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I like this.
                                         
                                        I want to establish that this is a quiet time
                                         
                                        in this galaxy far, far away, right?
                                         
                                        Everything's pretty much, I'm not even going to say simmering
                                         
                                        at this point.
                                         
    
                                        This is just like, everyone's like,
                                         
                                        well, I don't feel like doing anything right now.
                                         
                                        So the darts have some free time.
                                         
                                        Yeah, to fuck around.
                                         
                                        Okay, so step three.
                                         
                                        They're not fucking around.
                                         
                                        Griffin, they're looking for love.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
    
                                        And all the wrong places.
                                         
                                        And this next step is going to really be in our wheelhouse
                                         
                                        because it's the literal next step in this WikiHow article.
                                         
                                        And it does say, make it funny.
                                         
                                        Oh, hell yeah.
                                         
                                        Humor will improve the amateur.
                                         
                                        Keep your grades up.
                                         
                                        Keep your grades up.
                                         
    
                                        Make it funny.
                                         
                                        It'll improve the amateur moving,
                                         
                                        allowing for much forgiveness for the amateur setting
                                         
                                        and storyline.
                                         
                                        Add a few jokes and punchlines to your movie.
                                         
                                        It wouldn't be a good one without it.
                                         
                                        Make sure that you understand people's styles
                                         
                                        and make the humor fit each of them.
                                         
    
                                        Here's an example scene they have.
                                         
                                        Rebel one and Rebel two are walking.
                                         
                                        Rebel one collapses.
                                         
                                        Rebel two calls for his commanding officer.
                                         
                                        Rebel two.
                                         
                                        Sir, my partner collapsed and is not breathing.
                                         
                                        What should I do?
                                         
                                        Commander, make sure he is dead.
                                         
    
                                        Then tell me.
                                         
                                        Rebel two shoots Rebel one.
                                         
                                        Rebel two.
                                         
                                        Now what?
                                         
                                        Oh my god.
                                         
                                        That's a killing.
                                         
                                        Wow.
                                         
                                        That person's dead now.
                                         
    
                                        Can I punch up that joke?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Rebel one collapses.
                                         
                                        Rebel two.
                                         
                                        I think he's dying.
                                         
                                        Rebel one.
                                         
                                        Nah, I'm just sleepy and I shit my pants.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
    
                                        Funny.
                                         
                                        That's funny to me too.
                                         
                                        You could also have Josh, Stargitter.
                                         
                                        Sunrunner.
                                         
                                        I forgot his name.
                                         
                                        Starrunner come up and like everybody's like,
                                         
                                        wow, fucked up.
                                         
                                        We just saw a murder on the screen.
                                         
    
                                        But then Josh Sunrunner comes up and takes the laser out of him.
                                         
                                        And now he's okay again.
                                         
                                        Oh my god.
                                         
                                        Do you know what I mean?
                                         
                                        Because then that way you do get the really funny joke
                                         
                                        that they come up with but you don't have to feel guilty about it
                                         
                                        because you watch someone die.
                                         
                                        Oh, okay.
                                         
    
                                        Because he took the laser out.
                                         
                                        Uh-huh.
                                         
                                        So that's cool.
                                         
                                        And you might be saying like that,
                                         
                                        but that's not an established Star Wars power.
                                         
                                        And to that I would say watch anything.
                                         
                                        Watch any Star Wars shit that's come out for the last 10 years,
                                         
                                        guys.
                                         
    
                                        We're just having fun with it at this point.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Now, this does occur to me Griffin
                                         
                                        because we hadn't, this is probably knowing Star Wars came
                                         
                                        and something we should have decided early on.
                                         
                                        Yeah, sure.
                                         
                                        Is Josh a chosen one of some sort?
                                         
                                        That's the dumbest thing you've ever said on this show.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, of course, yeah.
                                         
                                        Of course, yeah.
                                         
                                        So Josh and also he can turn into a wolf.
                                         
                                        Part four.
                                         
                                        Hell yeah, dude.
                                         
                                        Produce a sprint.
                                         
                                        Like a force wolf?
                                         
                                        Yeah, of course it's a force wolf, Travis.
                                         
    
                                        That's the second dumbest thing you've said.
                                         
                                        Wait, before we move on, what have we established so far?
                                         
                                        Josh Sunrunner is the, is a chosen, he is a chosen one.
                                         
                                        He's a chosen one.
                                         
                                        He is a chosen one.
                                         
                                        He is the nephew of.
                                         
                                        He's got it.
                                         
                                        There has to be so much like you got to have something set up
                                         
    
                                        so that in episode like the third or fourth episode of the show,
                                         
                                        like fucking Greedo walks in and everyone's like,
                                         
                                        oh, and that's them nutting.
                                         
                                        Yeah, he's, he's Grogu's, he's Grogu's nephew.
                                         
                                        He's Grogu's, no, no, no, no, no.
                                         
                                        I don't want to, I don't want tied up with the Mandalorian verse.
                                         
                                        Like, yeah, it's got to be, even though Timothy Ola
                                         
                                        fancies in the Mandalorian verse, that's great.
                                         
    
                                        I don't know why that changes the point.
                                         
                                        Like, well, he's going to come out at the end and sweep
                                         
                                        the mother aunt off her feet.
                                         
                                        Is he maybe related to Kit Fisto?
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                        We're porkins.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Wedge Antilles, perhaps?
                                         
                                        Yeah, he's the Death Star's grandpa.
                                         
                                        Anyway, and then the Death Star shows up in the sky
                                         
                                        and everyone's like, oh, yeah, baby.
                                         
                                        I love that big shit.
                                         
                                        He's why he's half Java.
                                         
                                        He's half Java.
                                         
                                        All right, all right.
                                         
    
                                        Griffin, you're an architect in the Star Wars universe,
                                         
                                        specifically.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I got my fingers all over the Java pulse.
                                         
                                        Produce a script.
                                         
                                        You'll need this for the actors.
                                         
                                        Oh, well, I didn't know that was part of writing a movie.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it starts to get less fun.
                                         
                                        Do you know how fucked up it is that Griffin's here doing this
                                         
    
                                        and he did actually write it's part of the Star Wars
                                         
                                        extended universe?
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's why I'm so good at this part.
                                         
                                        OK, that makes perfect sense.
                                         
                                        Then just break off a couple of lines, Griffin,
                                         
                                        that feel inherently Star Wars.
                                         
                                        You know what I mean?
                                         
                                        Like from the script?
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, like, what's something that?
                                         
                                        Because, listen, you can't just like, hey, how's it going, man?
                                         
                                        That's not what someone in Star Wars would say.
                                         
                                        Sure, sure, sure, sure.
                                         
                                        So, like, what's a Star Wars-y waiter?
                                         
                                        OK, so this is like episode, this is the pilot.
                                         
                                        Because I just decided it's on Disney Plus, this series.
                                         
                                        But yeah, and Josh told me, I was like, I just feel something
                                         
    
                                        calling to he's got like a British accent, right?
                                         
                                        So he's like, yeah, I'll wait, how old is he?
                                         
                                        He's 31.
                                         
                                        I feel something calling to me from the stars.
                                         
                                        And if that game, let me finish.
                                         
                                        OK, I feel just something in there moving for me
                                         
                                        and I can feel the power grow.
                                         
                                        Is that fucking Greedo?
                                         
    
                                        Now, wait, is that the sound of Josh nutting over seeing Greedo?
                                         
                                        It's turning into a wolf.
                                         
                                        It's he's.
                                         
                                        Oh, right.
                                         
                                        Of course, yeah, that happens when he nuts.
                                         
                                        Let's get some humor in there.
                                         
                                        He turns into a wolf when he nuts, like in Teen Wolf.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        And at this point, I think I've decided we shouldn't do the two dads thing.
                                         
                                        Oh, OK, I'm waiting.
                                         
                                        Which of the darts do you want to get rid of?
                                         
                                        Probably Dartadar, because that's not going to we can't make toys of them.
                                         
                                        Can it be an unrelated storyline that is happening
                                         
                                        offscreen that people keep waiting for it to intersect?
                                         
                                        People love doesn't even have to be B.
                                         
                                        I mean, it could be D extras.
                                         
    
                                        Remember, Star Wars is full of extras.
                                         
                                        Got to find extras.
                                         
                                        Hey, guys, we're doing this kick ass movie about
                                         
                                        can I see the script?
                                         
                                        Well, we've got one line written so far.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and we've made some major cuts.
                                         
                                        But listen, we.
                                         
                                        OK, I know, I know, I get it.
                                         
    
                                        The problems with only having one line.
                                         
                                        But if you're like being my movie and the one
                                         
                                        kick ass like that, I feel something calling to me from the stars.
                                         
                                        Is that Reno?
                                         
                                        Oh, well, I'm like, I'm like, you can sell that shit in the room.
                                         
                                        You don't have to give a script to the extras.
                                         
                                        They don't have lines.
                                         
                                        No way.
                                         
    
                                        They just are going to react to Josh turning into a wolf.
                                         
                                        And that's what we're selling this series on.
                                         
                                        First. Oh, my God, this next part beats ass.
                                         
                                        All right, this is creating the backdrop and effects.
                                         
                                        OK, part one, make a set.
                                         
                                        You'll need at least one set to film against.
                                         
                                        Yeah, if you live near a city or in one, you could make it in Coruscant.
                                         
                                        Awesome.
                                         
    
                                        Huh. What? Where do you live?
                                         
                                        Cleveland, you can make Cleveland look like Coruscant.
                                         
                                        Easy, easy.
                                         
                                        One to one.
                                         
                                        Buildings, one to one.
                                         
                                        If you live in the woods, it would be a good idea to make the movie in Kashik
                                         
                                        or indoor indoor.
                                         
                                        Yes, obviously, obviously.
                                         
    
                                        You didn't need if you live in Arizona, in parentheses, desert,
                                         
                                        you could make it on Tatooine.
                                         
                                        Awesome. If you're in the mountains, I want to create a new planet.
                                         
                                        Mountains can be hot.
                                         
                                        Big field can be Naboo.
                                         
                                        If you live near a swamp, make it Dagobah.
                                         
                                        Welcome. This is my planet, backyardia.
                                         
                                        I mean, it looks just like it's someone's backyard.
                                         
    
                                        And these are the backyard against.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I have long been the mayor of Kroger parking lot.
                                         
                                        You've made this long journey, Sunrunner.
                                         
                                        And it looks like they're asking us to leave because we didn't acquire any permits.
                                         
                                        Let us move to mom's basement here.
                                         
                                        It's a stormtrooper.
                                         
                                        My name is Carl.
                                         
    
                                        Get out of my fucking Kroger's.
                                         
                                        Get out of my car.
                                         
                                        Do you want to be in my movie?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        This one. Of course.
                                         
                                        There's a lot of lines in this article that beat absolute ass.
                                         
                                        And this is another one.
                                         
                                        Step three, find suitable music.
                                         
    
                                        You can play it on your guitar, but you can make it better by adding the real deal.
                                         
                                        Hell, yeah.
                                         
                                        Yes. Hell, yeah, dude.
                                         
                                        Yeah. Get some real jizz in there.
                                         
                                        Get some real space jizz in there would be so cool.
                                         
                                        But how much cooler would Star Wars have been if it was like down to the down, down,
                                         
                                        squirreling, and people will be like, well,
                                         
                                        that's isn't the real deal music because it's just a guitar.
                                         
    
                                        But damn, that's good.
                                         
                                        But what if it was more like?
                                         
                                        Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
                                         
                                        Oh, that's good.
                                         
                                        Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
                                         
                                        Do you think do you think that George went to John?
                                         
                                        Did John Williams do the Star Wars?
                                         
                                        He did, right?
                                         
    
                                        He did some of it.
                                         
                                        He did some of it.
                                         
                                        And then he was like, so he and George was like, so we need a music for this scene
                                         
                                        in a bar and then John.
                                         
                                        That's a really good George Lucas.
                                         
                                        Thanks.
                                         
                                        And John Williams was like, OK.
                                         
                                        I think it'll be like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
                                         
    
                                        And then George was like, no, I make it stupid.
                                         
                                        Like boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
                                         
                                        I make it sound like a child's toy.
                                         
                                        Make it dumb, like dumb jazz.
                                         
                                        What?
                                         
                                        What did you call it, George?
                                         
                                        Dumb jazz?
                                         
                                        Did you mean to say jazz?
                                         
    
                                        No, I meant jazz.
                                         
                                        He wasn't thinking of jazz when I said that.
                                         
                                        That's what they call it in space.
                                         
                                        George you're saying that they call music jizz and say yeah, I'm George Lucas
                                         
                                        I gotta go work on Howard the duck the only thing wilder than the moment that a person learns
                                         
                                        That George Lucas called the music jizz
                                         
                                        It's the music that George is the moment that George Lucas learns that semen is
                                         
                                        Yeah, that would be the only thing water that's it too. Is it too late to know?
                                         
    
                                        What's that people only know about it if I talk about it in interviews? Well, I can't stop myself from talking about
                                         
                                        You've got jizz in your heart. You've got to let it out. What's a funny story? Isn't it get some actors
                                         
                                        Remember how Harrison Ford flew the Millennium Falcon in circles just to lose the Imperials in the asteroid field and the Empire Strikes Back
                                         
                                        Well spoilers. Well to get characters with good personality like solo you need actors with equally good personalities
                                         
                                        Why do you know Tom Holland's Tom Holland's?
                                         
                                        his brother
                                         
                                        Get Tom Holland get Marissa to me
                                         
                                        We're gonna get Robert Downey jr. Yeah, I get Cynthia in there and of course
                                         
    
                                        What what would the film be with old Josh Sunrutter as Willem Dafoe we gotta have him
                                         
                                        We need gotta get well up this is the thing because not a lot of people wait now stop the show Griffin just said Josh Sunrutter as Willem
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's what it is
                                         
                                        The other way I think the sentence I said was what would the film be with Josh Sunrutter as Willem Dafoe as if like I was
                                         
                                        Pitching that to you. Yeah, you're pitching a parody of your own movie that you have. Yeah. Yeah. I love this
                                         
                                        The rest of this article kind of think it might go
                                         
                                        Now give me a job that long to foe might not normally have right
                                         
                                        I'm hearing sex therapist this the rest of this
                                         
    
                                        Article is boring except for there's one last step. This is create the DVD
                                         
                                        Once you're satisfied send the movie to a menu making program like IDVD or others that work for you
                                         
                                        Make a cool menu design then burn your movie to the disc. This is your prototype
                                         
                                        If you're happy with your movie then burn some more sell them on the street or something maybe make a trailer
                                         
                                        If someone came up to you on the street is like, hey, do you want to see do you want to buy for $10 the Star Wars movie?
                                         
                                        I made
                                         
                                        The answer to that will never be no. It would yes
                                         
                                        I would actually rather do that than if someone how it says like I have a bootleg copy of a real Star Wars DVD
                                         
    
                                        No, like ten bucks versus one I made. Yeah from scratch. Yeah, starring Willem Dafoe
                                         
                                        Yeah, as himself as Josh
                                         
                                        Sunrunner
                                         
                                        His last we just don't look at I'm changing the movie again because I do feel like I'm taking a sort of like
                                         
                                        directorial role at this point
                                         
                                        It feels like an executive producer to me, but yeah more money
                                         
                                        Well, so here's what I'm thinking is that you're cut you're constantly
                                         
                                        Sure, so listen, I'm happy just being there to shepherd what I consider now my baby
                                         
    
                                        Well, yeah, but I as the writer I got my hands on the scissors. We can co-make it
                                         
                                        Traveling do you want to call your brother Charlie? We know Travis Russo. Yeah
                                         
                                        So like the Russo brothers. Yeah, and I can be like a powerful movie producer and there's honestly only I
                                         
                                        Can't think of too many of them and a lot of them are pretty bad. This is a shit. Yeah. Yeah, so let me just say that Kevin Feige
                                         
                                        Well, let me do say this
                                         
                                        No last name for the protagonists. He's just Josh. No
                                         
                                        Hey, hey Justin, can you join me over here in my trailer? Yeah, I'd love to yeah
                                         
                                        I'm willing to foe as Josh. We got we got it. I think we got a cut Griffin out. No, wait, we gotta give him a different name
                                         
    
                                        We got to give who a different name Griffin. You can't just be Griffin. That's our brother. He's the producer of the movie
                                         
                                        Yeah, we got to cut him out. He's it needs a new character though
                                         
                                        So we're gonna give Griffin a character and then cut that character out of the movie
                                         
                                        No, no, I'm saying in the rich fiction we're developing Griffin. Can't just be Griffin. Okay, I Josh too. We got a cut Josh too
                                         
                                        Okay. Yeah, I agree. He's let's go back out of our trailer. Okay. Hey, do you want to handle it?
                                         
                                        What would you just drink? I'll take care of it Griffin
                                         
                                        Davidson as a new
                                         
                                        Justin come back over here. That's a really good. It's a really good. It's really good. Let me talk to Griffin
                                         
    
                                        He would be like a hut like a like a crazy. Oh wait, just a step back over here. I don't like that
                                         
                                        I don't think I don't want I want Pete in the movie obviously, but not as a hood. That's it
                                         
                                        I'm striking out on my own. What it's a solo project now. No, they already made solo and directing
                                         
                                        This is this is my
                                         
                                        Body of evidence, this is my I'm gonna make my own then I'm making my own movie
                                         
                                        Okay, we'll run them next to each other simultaneously
                                         
                                        Hey, we need to take a quick break and then when we get we're gonna go to the money zone is what is gonna happen?
                                         
                                        I mean, that's what's happening
                                         
    
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                                        It just seems like you're you got a lot on your mind. Mmm. Actually
                                         
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                                        Okay, cuz you seem pretty stressed out. Yeah, no guys. I'm doing I'm doing great
                                         
                                        Well, why don't you take a moment? Just check in with yourself. Don't eat you. I'm awesome right now. Actually. Oh god
                                         
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                                        I
                                         
                                        Have to do my laundry at a laundromat and I often find that people will leave their clothes in the dryer
                                         
                                        Along after they're finished and I need that dryer. You don't mind where this is going
                                         
                                        You're gonna throw away their clothes. They're closing the garbage
                                         
                                        I don't want to just pull their laundry out and put mine in that seems rude and the laundry will get wrinkly
                                         
    
                                        So I fold the clothes and put them on top of the dryer. I know that's weird, but is it too weird?
                                         
                                        No one has caught me yet
                                         
                                        Well, that's not a good follow-up
                                         
                                        Yet I have no idea what I would say if someone caught me
                                         
                                        I just don't want their clothes to get wrinkly, but I also need to use the dryer and I don't want to wait
                                         
                                        Do I need to stop doing this?
                                         
                                        That's from secretly folding laundry in San Antonio
                                         
                                        I'm fucking stumped man. I got I don't know what weird is anymore. I've lost all kind of like perspective
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, oh, you know who could help
                                         
                                        Let me call Chris gathered real quick because he actually
                                         
                                        He's not gonna take your call. Well, let me see. Come on. He's so busy. I'm dialing
                                         
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        Sometimes it feels like you just dial with your heart. That was just me making noises with my mouth
                                         
                                        Okay, now I actually call him. You know, I got him on speed dial
                                         
                                        Also, it's way too many numbers. Where is he really fucking busy? Who is this?
                                         
                                        Oh, I told you hi Chris Chris gets a welcome to our phone call
                                         
    
                                        We're having together a real phone call. Thank you for calling
                                         
                                        But do you know how much it cost me to get the custom number when you wish upon a star?
                                         
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        That was that was supposed to be Bob off black sheep boys my face red
                                         
                                        I think we may we may have just docks to you Chris gathered for our more musically inclined listeners
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's like a vanity plate, but phone number
                                         
                                        Once I was on TV for the first time I
                                         
                                        Demanded the phone company give me when you wish upon a star as my phone number. Yeah
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, they did it because you're one of the Hollywood elite
                                         
                                        Big time. I'm known for it. Yeah, that you'd synonymous at this point when someone's like, you know, like a famous person like a like a
                                         
                                        Chris gethard. Yeah. Yes. Yes
                                         
                                        And then someone says who and they go he was on the office after Steve Carell left
                                         
                                        He played Dr. Gary Lamar shot NBC's blind spot show some respect
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        Blind spot isn't blacklist. No, that's it. Thank you Justin. That's really that's a helpful mnemonic device
                                         
                                        I used to keep blind spot separate in my mind
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, my mother-in-law for every Sunday will be a quarter for dinner for
                                         
                                        Literally 18 months in a row. We say have you guys started watching the blacklist yet?
                                         
                                        I'm thinking about it man. It's worth it just for James Bader and every time the pitch is the same
                                         
                                        We had a laundromat question come up
                                         
                                        you had no way of
                                         
                                        Hearing it
                                         
                                        So I just wanted to sort of recap for you basically someone wants to use the dryer at the laundromat
                                         
                                        But there's clothes in it and they take them out and fold them and they want to know if that's okay
                                         
    
                                        And I just want to get like your take on it sort of it, you know
                                         
                                        You're a real close horse and we know that like you're you're big into fashion and we wear supreme
                                         
                                        Stuff all the time and so we just figured you know your way around a laundromat. Well, I actually have pretty strong opinions on this
                                         
                                        Okay, all right cuz I lived I lived in Queens, New York for many years in a building that had shared laundry and
                                         
                                        way too few machines for way too many residents. Yeah, and
                                         
                                        You are absolutely allowed
                                         
                                        Well, there's like a certain set of social social graces you have to go through there's steps
                                         
                                        You have to go in you have to realize that the dryer is sitting there full of laundry you have to get kind of huffy about it
                                         
    
                                        You have to look around
                                         
                                        You have to open the door of the dryer
                                         
                                        Then you have to look around again to see if anybody's coming shut the door
                                         
                                        Then you have to quietly simmer that someone has put you in this position
                                         
                                        Wait, wait, wait opening the door and shutting the door. Is that like a trap a distraction? What's the purpose?
                                         
                                        Performative is it to draw attention you open it because you realize you're being put in the bad position of having to touch someone else's clothes
                                         
                                        I'm gonna give them 10 more seconds to get down here and handle this and then you open it again
                                         
                                        But you give it that cursory open like I cannot believe another human being did not
                                         
    
                                        Set a timer or pay attention to their timer on their phone or whatever
                                         
                                        they are putting you in a bad position and at that point if they haven't arrived you are
                                         
                                        allowed to
                                         
                                        Toss all of their clothes into one of those rolly racks and leave their clothes there and I've been on both ends of this
                                         
                                        I've tossed my fair share of clothes into rolly racks, and I'm not I'm not proud to say on one or two occasions
                                         
                                        I've come down to a laundry room and found my clothes in a dryer and I deserved it
                                         
                                        I deserve that and I know that I put that person through some mental duress, but never fold another person's clothes
                                         
                                        Thank you, I cereal. Yes
                                         
    
                                        That's why I would rather walk up to someone at a nice steak restaurant
                                         
                                        And then reach down and pick up the steak off their plate and then set it back down
                                         
                                        Then interface with their clothes on such a deep and intimate level
                                         
                                        Intimate that's the word
                                         
                                        recondo that shit
                                         
                                        On on such a large scale. That's that makes me want to be sick and listen you could say listen
                                         
                                        Wonka make the argument that at that moment
                                         
                                        It's the cleanest the clothes could be and then you're sullying them
                                         
    
                                        With you if I came in and also I like my shirts folded a particular. Yeah, they're gonna fold it wrong
                                         
                                        That's what I was gonna say
                                         
                                        They're gonna fold it wrong not the way the special way you like to do and I'll say you're gonna find out
                                         
                                        I left like a paper towel in my pocket and now there's scraps everywhere
                                         
                                        And you're gonna know that I lazily threw my jeans in there or whatever I get it
                                         
                                        You're gonna come across like a sweater that should have been laid flat to dry that I clearly didn't give two shits about yeah
                                         
                                        You're gonna judge me. That's my secret shame
                                         
                                        You're not supposed to know about that if I came upon a pile of my own clothes that had been folded by a
                                         
    
                                        Nameless faceless stranger. I would have to throw those clothes away and I had to move out of that building
                                         
                                        Building because someone would have that on me forever. Yeah, right. There's such an invasion. I mean for starters
                                         
                                        What if your silky drawers are in there? Yeah, exactly your silky sexy drawers or worse?
                                         
                                        You're lazy day drawers. You're lazy day drawers like you don't want someone pawed all over your unimensionables. That's a no
                                         
                                        Problem and then you know, also, what if they do something weird like fold your underwear?
                                         
                                        Yeah, you don't like I would never fold my underwear in any scenario in my life ever
                                         
                                        Roll it. No, you want it up. You want it up and jam it in. There's no I'm a finite
                                         
                                        Person right my night life like I'm not gonna fold my underwear. No one will ever see it like you jam it in
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, now Chris anything else
                                         
                                        Do you want it up and jam it in you want it up and jam it in you can say just jam it in say yourself a step now
                                         
                                        Chris when you lived in New York and you had this issue. Did you did you?
                                         
                                        Did you never just like go out to your window and put all the clothes on the clothesline that ran between your building and the building across from you?
                                         
                                        Watch the kids play stick ball
                                         
                                        Cat's having fights and trash cans and somebody yelling about a pizza or something while the gangs of New York did battle down on
                                         
                                        Yeah, that guy selling who shaved down some ice off the big block ice was clanging his old bell
                                         
                                        As they collected dead from the plague
                                         
    
                                        Every once in a while, I'd do that sure
                                         
                                        Yeah, okay
                                         
                                        Like I would take advantage of that if I get like I don't want downy fresh clothes
                                         
                                        I want the smell of the city on me like at all times
                                         
                                        Mm-hmm, and then some detective sidekick a little put a pawn boy in a news boy cap
                                         
                                        He'd yell up at me. Hey, mr. Don't hang those clothes there. This is a this is a active investigation miss stuff, right?
                                         
                                        Like I saw something, but I ain't talking
                                         
                                        Yeah, and then they would come put the screws to you
                                         
    
                                        I imagine and also it's good because when you put your clothes on on that clothesline if someone falls out of building
                                         
                                        They can land in your unmentionables and that's gonna help break the fall and be comical
                                         
                                        I have another problem on top of the dryer is the dirtiest place in my house. It's feel it's covered in lint
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's disgusting now. You just in linted their their garments. That's this hurry. That's the punishment though
                                         
                                        I would say to Chris's point from earlier if they wanted to avoid the inlintening then they should have been down there
                                         
                                        Before the timer ran out not after like if it's gonna take like 48 minutes or whatever
                                         
                                        You set your timer for 43 minutes to give yourself time to get down there and be poised and ready to remove your clothes as
                                         
                                        Like your hand should be on the handle when the buzzer goes Chris
                                         
    
                                        I have a judgment call for you because you've had more experience in this less weird
                                         
                                        Folding someone else's clothes or taking their clothes and putting them back in the washer and when they come down just like you must begin again
                                         
                                        The cycle starts anew putting them back in the wash it's such a fuck you
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        Looked at them. They were still dirty. You had to go one more again
                                         
                                        What if you pulled them out and then you piece by piece hid them separately around the room and left a note like yes
                                         
                                        Your clothes are clean and dry, but it's up to you to find them. You have all the clues
                                         
                                        That would drive a person truly insane if a person came down to the laundry room in their building and was like I am
                                         
    
                                        Positive I switched these from the washer to the dryer. Why are they back in the washer? That's like an Edgar Allen Poe level
                                         
                                        psychological torture
                                         
                                        We need a third device
                                         
                                        We need a third appliance and though in the clothes cleaning
                                         
                                        Process where you wash and then you dry and then we need like a proving
                                         
                                        Drawer where extra clothes can be stored so that someone else can get down on the on the well
                                         
                                        If we're trying to avoid maybe just put it in and it just bounces them around for a while, right?
                                         
                                        It's not really doing anything except they can't settle into wrinkles. Yeah, it's just keeping them vibrating
                                         
    
                                        That's good a vibrator. We could just call it a vibrator. I just got a vibrator. I feel like wrinkles is a burden if you
                                         
                                        If you let it go longer than the dryer and you are not there to get your own dryer stuff out promptly
                                         
                                        I mean ideally before the buzzer goes off certainly within three to five minutes after it goes off if it goes past that window
                                         
                                        Wrinkles are your burden to bear. That's your penance to pay and you know that and that's part of the social contract of living in a
                                         
                                        City where you shared laundry rooms
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        If I was on an elevator in a building
                                         
                                        Unsure if one of the other people in their head at some point folded my clothes for me
                                         
    
                                        Uh-huh. Yeah, I would have to be dead
                                         
                                        I would have to find a way to turn off my heart and my brain because I'd know I would I would I
                                         
                                        Would never be able to look anyone in the eye again a wrinkly clothes are and accept it
                                         
                                        Everyone knows that when you live in a society, there's certain actions that have consequences and not getting to the dryer promptly
                                         
                                        Means you might have wrinkly clothes. I'd much prefer wrinkly clothes on my own terms
                                         
                                        Then folded clothes on someone else's and I'll die on that hill
                                         
                                        Also that way when you walk around the building wearing wrinkly clothes or if you spot someone else doing you're like that's them
                                         
                                        I know that's the person who leaves the laundry in there. Now Chris. Let me let me ask you this because I'm dying to know
                                         
    
                                        Would it be better or worse if the question asks
                                         
                                        Or had printed up some business cards with their face with a picture of them and their name on it
                                         
                                        And like their apartment number that said like listen, I don't want you to worry about this
                                         
                                        I did it. I folded your clothes and this is my schedule. Should you choose to avoid me for the rest of our like or it says on there like hey, I
                                         
                                        I'm trying to get into business for myself
                                         
                                        Only the first one's free though
                                         
                                        So if you would like this kind of attention to detail, you know, if you do our white glove service in folding laundry
                                         
                                        If you came down and they were tied up in some like like parchment paper with like
                                         
    
                                        Like on a cruise ship when you get them and they all got the little tags and they're a basket
                                         
                                        Oh, I feel like that's gonna turn this from like weird to ooh, I've got like a fairy godmother. Yeah
                                         
                                        Oh, Chris, what's the what else you got going on? What's going on with you, bud?
                                         
                                        You want to just stick around and rap for a while? Yeah, what's going on? What's going on with me?
                                         
                                        I'm a dad now. I got a beard now
                                         
                                        everything
                                         
                                        Happens simultaneously happen. I mean
                                         
                                        They all tie into a midlife crisis. That's very clear
                                         
    
                                        Triggered a larger midlife crisis that has now reflected itself in facial hair. Yeah, that's why you called your baby Corvette
                                         
                                        I get it now. I didn't I actually got a Vespa with the first baby
                                         
                                        And then I was like that was fucked up and then with the second baby. I like reflexively got another Vespa
                                         
                                        Yeah, so yeah, that was weird. Now, I'll tell you Chris when my first was born
                                         
                                        I had a very long beard right up until she was about nine months old
                                         
                                        At which point she was able to make full-blown fists and attempt to remove my beard from my face at which point
                                         
                                        I shorn it down to quite a short level
                                         
                                        So just I am not quite certain how old your baby is but you've got that to look forward to
                                         
    
                                        He's about to be three and I oh, I cannot grow enough facial hair to
                                         
                                        Have him he already
                                         
                                        Punches me kicks me
                                         
                                        Yeah, I was in my face. He's at that age already where
                                         
                                        He I'll tell you the exact window
                                         
                                        He's in because I've heard that most kids go through this is
                                         
                                        He can pee in the potty no problem
                                         
                                        But he gets really embarrassed about pooping
                                         
    
                                        So he poops in the diaper and then when you go to change the diaper, he's humiliated and shamed and reacts with rage and violence
                                         
                                        That's the exact window
                                         
                                        That's how I feel when I poop too. Just like still it's grow. It's it sucks that we have to do that
                                         
                                        It's so weird and and our parents told me I was the only one who did it
                                         
                                        Um
                                         
                                        That's fucked up that they said that to you trap. Yeah, I know it's really weird
                                         
                                        Hey, you got a you got a new uh, uh essay coming out from from scribed
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, I'm promoting. I just I wrote a thing called dad on pills. It's on a service called scribed
                                         
    
                                        Um, it's like it's not quite book length, but it's up there
                                         
                                        You can get an audiobook or ebook and it's all about I wonder, you know, I think a lot of people of our generation
                                         
                                        It's like we're the first people who started openly saying like hey, I take depacote. I take xanax. I have anxiety
                                         
                                        I have depression. We're all going to talk about these things
                                         
                                        But I wrote a thing that's all been about how I'm reconciling that with being a dad because a dad
                                         
                                        Like you're supposed to be a role model. Hmm mole rattle mole rattle
                                         
                                        My father was a
                                         
                                        Fantastic orator and a fine mole rattle for me
                                         
    
                                        It's like I've spent my whole adult life feeling sort of like broken and not like a god
                                         
                                        No, I don't feel like a man by the traditional standards. So how do and now I have a son. That's ridiculous
                                         
                                        So I it's all about that and it's pretty funny and I like it and it's raw and it's real
                                         
                                        Can I ask you a question chris that I was struggling with last night? Sure. And this is a little more serious
                                         
                                        Well, we everybody's allowed to get so heavy. It's just like one more thoughtful. Um, the
                                         
                                        My kids are you know, like talking and but not
                                         
                                        Communicating just like, you know how kids are just sometimes like I just gotta make some noise
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, and they were both doing it and I was really getting stressed out because I get too much like
                                         
    
                                        Noise people talking and then you're feeding the kids and it gets like just because of the way my brain's all put together
                                         
                                        I got like unduly frustrated and like really in my head about it. And I really struggled with
                                         
                                        Should I like
                                         
                                        Should I tell my kids that like it's hard for me when this is happening like
                                         
                                        It was a real struggle. Like I didn't know really how to handle it
                                         
                                        Like I I felt weird telling them that they had to modify my behavior because of my
                                         
                                        You know mental illness and like I feel like as a parent sometimes
                                         
                                        I have this urge that I should just like keep trucking
                                         
    
                                        And keep on pushing through no matter no matter what but it did feel like
                                         
                                        Admitting a a frailty
                                         
                                        To them and I and I don't know. I just want to get your thoughts on that sort of that's exactly what I did
                                         
                                        This thing that I wrote it's exactly about all those questions like that and and I'm with oh, so you're saying I gotta get
                                         
                                        It's gotta get his
                                         
                                        Plug plug plug
                                         
                                        No, but I'm with you and it's exactly just I sit there and I have all those instincts too of like
                                         
                                        I better put the poker face on and I better make them think everything's okay
                                         
    
                                        And I gotta be strong for my son and my dad did all those things for me
                                         
                                        And he's a great dad, but then I also think about how many years I've unwrapped
                                         
                                        So much of those exact things
                                         
                                        in therapy and
                                         
                                        How that mentality of feeling like you need to be tough in the face of stuff and how
                                         
                                        You shouldn't show emotion like how much that built to boiling points for me and I go
                                         
                                        Oh, this is all stuff that instinctively I'm feeling like I have to do because that's the only example
                                         
                                        I know maybe some of it's example. Some of it's biological. I don't know
                                         
    
                                        But it didn't work out well for me all those traditional like
                                         
                                        I wish that maybe at you know
                                         
                                        I'm not the only person of my age who probably wishes my dad could have been a little more emotional, you know, who
                                         
                                        Could have let his guard down at times and maybe that would have let me let my guard down and I sit here and I'm like, man
                                         
                                        I am a mess like I'm I'm an actual mess. I had an incident
                                         
                                        We moved to our house in jersey
                                         
                                        And I I write about this in the thing that I'm plugging, but I I started to have
                                         
                                        um
                                         
    
                                        Like an attack like I've had these panic attacks these anxiety attacks over the years and I realized I hadn't looked up
                                         
                                        The mental hospital closest to me at my new house
                                         
                                        So I looked it up just in case I had to go and it was one that we used to when we were growing up in jersey
                                         
                                        One big thing that people like to do for fun is they go and they break into abandoned mental hospitals
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's really fun
                                         
                                        and I was like, oh
                                         
                                        It's gray stone hospital. I've broken into the abandoned parts of that
                                         
                                        Am I really going to go be is that the full circle moment of my life like when I was 16
                                         
    
                                        I used to break into this mental hospital for fun and now I'm going to go be a patient there and
                                         
                                        I'm in my yard
                                         
                                        holding my
                                         
                                        That's the real circle of life
                                         
                                        And I'm like googling that with my phone in one hand while holding my son in the other and crying
                                         
                                        And I'm just like, oh, I am
                                         
                                        Am I I am bad at being a dad in the traditional sense
                                         
                                        so how do I
                                         
    
                                        how do I do this and
                                         
                                        When I went to look for advice on it, there wasn't much out there. So I just wrote a thing that is funny
                                         
                                        I I'm not qualified to give advice, but it's like a funny look at stuff like this stuff
                                         
                                        Maybe yeah, we've been doing it for 13 years. There you go. Yeah, you build it, right?
                                         
                                        You just start getting honest. You just got to start getting honest
                                         
                                        You can also just and you can just do what I do
                                         
                                        Which is I I'm very open about my emotions in my mental health with my kids
                                         
                                        But then I also I also tell them stories about different wild animals that I've been in fist fight with
                                         
    
                                        And like how much I've embarrassed those animals and be like, yeah
                                         
                                        There's one time three bears came in and I whooped their ass
                                         
                                        I do that too. Like I'm like, yeah, I know I'm crying about this McDonald's commercial I saw
                                         
                                        And I don't seem to be very okay, but I built that table you're eating on kid. Yeah, right, right? Oh, yeah
                                         
                                        I just watched 30 seconds of a homework bound and yeah, and now I'm sobbing
                                         
                                        But also watching me pick up this heavy chair. I can't listen to solo salute from sussical. So what kid get off my case
                                         
                                        I gotta punch this drywall
                                         
                                        Hey, you're going you're going on uh on the road again. Yeah, how you that's gotta feel gotta be exciting
                                         
    
                                        Oh, it's the best. I I'd start it going on the road last year and then the omicron shut it down. Oh, yeah
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, baby. Yeah, baby
                                         
                                        Yep
                                         
                                        I got it all scheduled starting in may people can go to chrisgathe.com and I got I mean dates all over the country of
                                         
                                        florida and uh, california and
                                         
                                        Portland and seattle and guess where else west virginia
                                         
                                        That's right. I'm the morning town
                                         
                                        I'll be there first time have you never been to west virginia general performer
                                         
    
                                        I've driven through west virginia and I in my past life
                                         
                                        I used to work at a book series all about like haunted places and conspiracy theories and stuff
                                         
                                        So I've driven around west virginia
                                         
                                        in relation to trans allig any
                                         
                                        Asylum there. There's a huge
                                         
                                        Uh
                                         
                                        Abandoned mental hospital that they turn into a haunted house tasteful
                                         
                                        Yes
                                         
    
                                        That's that's yeah, we did when we uh
                                         
                                        We are all our tours planned out for 2020 and we I can remember very clearly having this discussion of like
                                         
                                        Well, we had to cancel the march shows, but I bet this will be all set by april
                                         
                                        And I was right, but I it turned out to be april 2022. Yeah. Oh, so you guys got your your tour dates back up
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah
                                         
                                        And it's I wanted to like name the tour or something like
                                         
                                        You know the god willing and the creep don't rise to her or the like temp this time for sure
                                         
                                        Yeah, the pending to the hubris of man
                                         
    
                                        That's at chrisgaff.com scribbed is where you can find uh, uh, chris's new not a book. I know
                                         
                                        It's like a novella. It's like a novella. It's called dad on pills. You'll like it on pills and uh
                                         
                                        Well, chris, I appreciate you being here, but thank you. Thanks for having me and we didn't even talk any smack about jd amato
                                         
                                        Which we could have done. Oh, we were all that fucking clown
                                         
                                        Join us for the for the mb mb am after show. Yeah
                                         
                                        Thank you. That was so fun. Thank you so much. Thank you chris
                                         
                                        No, that was for chris. Oh, that wasn't for you. Damn it. Don't try to steal one of justin's precious. Thankses
                                         
                                        Well, I was just so excited, you know, like on uh, great british bakeoff when uh, paul hollywood goes in for the handshake
                                         
    
                                        And another contestant will swoop in and take the handshake. Yeah, and he says you can't take it back. Yeah, well
                                         
                                        Sorry, I was gonna shake your hand, but then tom rick came over and took it
                                         
                                        Yeah, tom rick is the name of every contestant on the show
                                         
                                        Anyway, thank you chris getherd and thank you to you for listening and I guess thank you to travis
                                         
                                        Yes, I don't need thanks. I don't need it. Got it
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        Travis do the promotions. You're good. Oh, right. Right. Right. Uh, so we're really excited. Uh, we're going back on the road
                                         
                                        20 rondevue fancy takes flight tour tickets are on sale now
                                         
    
                                        We have stops in washington dc. Detroit, michigan. Cincinnati, ohio st. Louis, missouri. Kansas city, missouri
                                         
                                        minneapolis, minnesota. You don't have to say the states
                                         
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        Mash and tuck it. It's all like city
                                         
                                        portland
                                         
                                        San diego and nobody's gonna be like tuck aerial people aren't gonna be like, oh, you mean san diego north carolina
                                         
                                        You know, I know but I was trying to get I was trying to pump it up
                                         
                                        You know, because sometimes people just like hearing the name of their state, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's how I feel when I hear ohio
                                         
    
                                        Um, so virtual taz in may we've got all kinds of stuff going on
                                         
                                        You can find out, uh, all the links and all the info at bit.ly slash mackleroy tours
                                         
                                        And mask and proof of full vaccination or negative covid tests within 72 hours of the event start are required
                                         
                                        You can find out all the info once again, all the ticket links at bit.ly slash
                                         
                                        Macro like tours. We're so excited to see you and come to a town. Hopefully near you. I mean, we're doing as many as we can
                                         
                                        We're trying to catch up here. Uh, and thank you to everybody speaking of virtual mb mb am
                                         
                                        Thank you to everybody who joined us for the virtual show on saturday. That hasn't happened yet
                                         
                                        No, but it will once people listen to us. We haven't done it yet. How do you know if anybody joined?
                                         
    
                                        Maybe nobody joined. Well, at least dad will be there video on demand is still available for 10 dollars
                                         
                                        You can still watch that now at bit.ly slash mb mb am virtual. You'll be the first
                                         
                                        Maybe you'll be the first. Well, I doubt they'll be mb mb am virtual travel. You got to do the year
                                         
                                        I know bit.ly slash mb mb am virtual. There's no way they'll be the first dad wrote a
                                         
                                        Children's book called goldies guides to grand traveling
                                         
                                        Comes out on march 29th. You can pre-order now at link
                                         
                                        tr dot ee
                                         
                                        That's lin k tr dot ee slash goldies guide
                                         
    
                                        Go pre-order that now. We got all the great stuff over at macrimerge.com including the pin of the month
                                         
                                        Which benefits the national black women's justice institute
                                         
                                        We've got the 20 rendezvous pins over there. You can get two pins or one or whatever you want. Go check them out
                                         
                                        That's design three, baby. Whatever you want. It's designed by lucas hespin hide
                                         
                                        Go check those out and we've got the i'm not ashamed of my clown husband sticker
                                         
                                        Which is designed by jacob bailey and benefits the huddington children's museum
                                         
                                        Also, i'm on twitch twitch.tv slash the travis macroe
                                         
                                        Hey, thank you to montane for these for our themes on my life is better with you if you're in the mood for
                                         
    
                                        dope tracks
                                         
                                        She just did a new single with david burn called always be you
                                         
                                        Possible impossible nobody's that it's possible. She is that cool and uh, yeah, good. Thank you. Thank you montane
                                         
                                        And that's it. We don't have a final yahoo ever again, but instead let's just
                                         
                                        Well, you do short prayer the thing is you're doing like a new bit
                                         
                                        Yeah, maybe oh griffin maybe this try like maybe this is like your final point sign off to like a college graduation
                                         
                                        Like this is your like, you know, don't forget to wear sunscreen or something like that
                                         
                                        Like what i am doing that
                                         
    
                                        In a well, oh, then this is great practice. We haven't talked to listen griffin
                                         
                                        We don't have time to get into that because it will be a
                                         
                                        Thorough conversation. Okay when we do address that topic. Okay. Um, well then i will say that
                                         
                                        Go well go out there and just fucking go ahead
                                         
                                        and
                                         
                                        Go just go out. Sorry. It's go out there go ahead
                                         
                                        Tonight sounds like you're holding the door open for the graduating class tonight tonight makes to make the most of it
                                         
                                        Go and go out there go out there go ahead. Meet you at applebees
                                         
    
                                        Why don't you just back i'm travis macaroy. I'm griffin macaroy. This has been my brother my brother me kiss your dad square on the lips
                                         
                                        Ah, it's better. It's better with you
                                         
                                        It's better. It's better with you. Is this true?
                                         
                                        It's better. It's better with you
                                         
                                        You
                                         
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