My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 719: Neon Grimacis Evangelion
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Hello everybody, welcome to My Brother, My Brother,
made advice show for the modern era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
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I'm your middle-est brother, big dog, woof woof, Travis McElroy.
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Hi, how's it going?
Guys, tighten it up.
We got to tighten it up, guys, precision.
Okay.
Every second counts.
If we're gonna get this podcast to Michelin star,
I've got some non-negotiables here
that I need us to work on.
And I know what to say.
Yeah, run me through some of it.
Like, what do you think?
Because I thought I was operating at max efficiency already,
but if you have some notes, I would love to hear them.
We put in a lot of words that we don't need.
I think that we could tighten each episode up to 15 minutes.
Okay. If we focused up.
Are you, do you mean like say less shit that isn't funny,
or do you mean like start, let's start dropping,
you know, conjunctions and-
Yes.
Okay.
See what I did there?
Do you see what I did there?
Yes.
Where I just said yes, right?
And you knew what I meant without me having to clarify.
So you want a lot more of like good and nice.
Snappy.
Yes, and if we could start saying yes host
and when someone says something,
like if we're like, let's move on to another question
and then we say yes host.
Okay, I guess my only problem with that.
Like a tighter ship.
My only problem with that,
well, sorry, I was gonna go into it, but yes.
Right, thank you, see, perfect.
I had a lot to say,
because of how bad an idea that is,
since the show is just us talking to each other.
So it would, at that point, I think,
be twice as long and half yes hosts.
And so like it kind of contradicts
your first point completely,
but instead of that, I will just say, cool.
I also just want to say,
and I don't mean to call you out Griffin,
but you need to put the forks down straighter.
I've noticed you often have the forks at a slight angle,
and I think that's something the Michelin hosts are gonna,
the Michelin judges are gonna notice.
Yeah, not a lot of people know this,
but I eat a lot of different courses of food
every time that we record.
I know I always get on you guys for not eating on the show,
but like every episode I do have a little salad
and I do do a little trash can nachos,
but I eat it with a fork.
That's sort of my style.
Okay, so I've been reading up on the Michelin Star Guide
to try to figure out if there's some kind of loophole
we can use here.
So looking through the Q&A,
here's some things in our favor, okay?
Number one, is the decoration slash style of restaurant
a factor in awarding a star?
No, that's very good for us.
We do so little of that.
We don't have any of that.
Now here is the one that I would like to stop at here.
They says, do you have to be a formal restaurant
to get a star?
Like, do you have to be a fancy place?
But I would like to take a different rate on the question.
Okay.
A traditional-
Do you have to be a formal, legal,
like by any stretch of the definition, restaurant?
You have to be a formal restaurant.
One time we did a candle night show in Austin
where we dispensed cookies and little cups of eggnog.
So I think that if, we are outside the bun
of what one would call a restaurant,
but we have served food on a professional level.
If once a year one of us makes a grilled cheese sandwich
and sends it to a listener,
once a year, one grilled cheese sandwich,
does that fit the definition?
I don't know that I necessarily wanna get
my own Gold Belly operation happening in this house.
I make it. Don't get me wrong. My grilled cheese game is so fucking on point,
but I don't want to shoulder the burden of does it get yucky viruses on it in the UPS bag that I send it in.
Oh, it's not the E.
This is pretty, this is pretty cheeky. Oh, it's not to eat. It's to experience.
This is pretty cheeky, some of the Q&A here.
They asked, do you also take into consideration
the wine list?
Restaurants that are serious about their food
tend to also ensure that they have an interesting
wine list to complement it, so that element
usually takes care of itself.
So yes or no?
Give us the answer, Mitch.
Can you answer the fucking question?
What if I don't want to serve wine?
Because I hate grapes.
Here's what I'm thinking.
Or I'm using them in my food.
Here's what I'm thinking.
Here's my plan.
Okay.
So definitely we're going to get dinged on food and like decoration and like the cook.
No, we won't get dinged on decoration.
We won't get dinged on decoration.
I can't make that more clear.
We're going to get dinged though on like meals and food and cook is though. No, we won't get ding on decoration. I can't make that more clear. We're gonna get ding though on like meals
and food and stuff like that.
The plate elements.
Everything as far as like the food side of it goes
at like table and like service.
So hospitality I think is where we're gonna show.
Well, and also sort of again,
just to, and I don't wanna cut the legs out from under us,
but just like extant, physical, space one,
occupies with their body, tangible, like tangible anything.
That's gonna hurt, obviously.
Obviously that's gonna hurt.
But in this day and age, Griffin,
people are doing a lot with revolutionizing
what a restaurant is.
Think about molecular gastronomy.
Are there restaurants where they go in
and all the lights are off and the servers
are where my food should be?
I keep getting that fucking ad on my Facebook
that's like, you gotta try dining in the dark.
It opens up your other senses when you can't see the food.
And it's like, nice try Johnny Knoxville.
Gonna try to sneak a big hot stinky pepper
onto my plate when I'm not looking, huh?
Good joke, good joke, Steve-o.
So now we're gonna do, here's what I'm thinking,
audio food.
All right.
We will describe the food we would have made.
All right.
And then the Michelin judges or whatever will be like,
that does sound fucking good, here's your star.
Okay, let me try.
Here's your star.
I'll start things off, hosts, with this amuse bouche.
It's the fanciest food you can get. I'll start things off, hosts, with this amuse bouche.
It's the fanciest food you can get. It's a little slice up piece of fish
in some sort of yellow liquid.
And then there's-
What kind of fish?
It's pink with stripes on it.
So the good kind that let you know how good it is.
It's in a little bit of yellow juice.
Nice.
And that is gonna taste good.
But then what's that on top of the fish?
It's a little drizzle of dark green juice.
Bon appetit.
It's fish with yellow juice
in a little bit of green juice.
Enjoy. Host, can you add some texture please?
I need some crunch or squish.
The green juice is crunchy.
Okay, perfect, yes.'s there's bones in the fish
But that's like natural like that's sustainable and natural
Okay, and it's a story about bone. It's a story about bones
I'm having I'm having a terrible realization as Griffin details his mystery dish
If the Michelin people are going to start giving
Michelin stars to podcasts,
they are going to start with Off Menu.
They will get the Michelin star for podcasts first.
So like we're not even the most Michelin star worthy podcast.
Exactly.
Like there's many others.
But describing food that exists though, Justin,
Off Menu is like here's food that I've had before They are describing food that exists though, Justin.
Off Menu is like, here's food that I've had before,
here's food that I like.
We're making up new food
from our whimsical comedy imagination.
You're making our point for us,
because Off Menu is the mean Joel McHale restaurant.
Where, look around you dude, a family operated,
we are DeBeer. And so we family operated, we are DeBeer.
And so we do have, we're DeBeer.
And so the ball's actually in our court.
Now, Justin, could you describe the appetizer, please?
The starting?
Mine was a pre appetizer.
Yeah, the amuse bouche starts the bouche.
Right, but now bring that bouche on home, baby.
Yeah, come on, warm that bouche up.
Rub that bouche hard.
Rub that bouche. So, baby. Yeah, come on, warm that bouche up. Rub that bouche hard. Rub that bouche.
So now I wanna massage the tongue.
With a, have you heard of a sugar scrub?
Yeah?
This is a Pop Rocks scrub that I've made in a little jar.
And I mixed it up with coconut oil
and different flavorings that I had at home. Did you say flavorings and different flavorings that I had at home.
Did you say flavorings?
Flavorings that I had at home and I put it on a macaron.
And as you eat it, it's gonna exfoliate the tongue
and prepare you for what's to come.
So every, the first food that those tongue cells touch,
yeah, Right there.
It's gonna taste so fucked up.
This is great because too often people get hung up
on amusing the bouche.
I like that Justin is now like reinvigorating it.
We amused it.
Excoriating.
Now we're exfoliating the bouche.
I'm gonna punish the bouche.
Punish the bouche.
Punish my bouche, chef.
My bitch daddy.
I'm gonna punish the bouche.
What's that?
What's your main? Why, it's the chicken carcass. Punish my bitch daddy. What's that, what's your main?
Why, it's the chicken carcass.
We've removed the meat, and normally you'd serve that.
Oh wow.
But this is just the skeleton,
but all the aromas of the meal are there.
Right. So when it comes out,
you're gonna be like, wait, where, oh it smells like it.
And then I'm gonna say, in a different universe,
you already ate it.
You ate it in the universe next to ours,
that you ate the chicken.
And so this universe, you gets the bones.
And for our main course this evening here
at Demacroise de Beers, we are proud to present to you
the dried up turkey from Christmas Vacation,
that when you cut it open, it makes a big loud poof noise
and immediately desiccates itself. There will be no eating it. from Christmas vacation, that when you cut it open, it makes a big loud poof noise
and immediately desiccates itself.
There will be no eating it, it will be funny,
and also Chevy Chase is here.
And maybe you should have gotten here 10 minutes earlier.
For dessert, I will be eating an unripe strawberry
as slowly as possible in front of you.
Cool.
And you can only imagine the flavors
that I will be experiencing.
And I'll try to communicate it as best I can through modes.
And to finish it off, a mediocre cup of coffee
and then after dinner mint, nothing wrong with that.
It's a lot of earth in, why fix it, you know, ain't broke.
You can have that and the valet scratched your car.
So, enjoy your night.
But that's part of the story.
That goes back, that's a call back to the bones story
of the fish dish that you started things.
It's all bookended.
And it's gonna take 30 minutes to get your check.
We're pretty busy.
We are busy at this moment.
And we know you have a babysitter waiting
and we are sorry about that.
Now, I also know the Michelin star system
is based around whether you,
it's like one star is worth a walk,
two is worth a drive, three is worth a flight.
And so what I think we need to start doing
is just recording this show and putting it on a flash drive.
And it's like a flash drive on a big pole
in the middle of the city.
And then you have a place that you have to come to
to get it, to jack in.
I'm also willing, I'm willing to start with a quarter
of a star and work up.
If Michelin wants to give us a quarter of a star
for like worth picking up your phone, right?
Like I'll take that, you know what I mean?
Just start somewhere.
Yeah, start with quarter of a star
and we'll work our way up,
see how we improve our shit over time.
Yeah, no problem.
Yeah, I mean, Michelin, you know what I mean?
What's it gonna take? And hey, are you all not doing tires now,
or I wanted to ask.
What's the fucking deal, guys?
Are you all, do you not even talk to the tires guys?
Are they completely over there,
and you're completely over here with the sword?
If you buy the guide, it in the back,
there is a small section of the best tires to eat.
People don't check that one as much.
How about this, Michelin?
Give our podcast two Michelin stars.
I'm gonna take it one step further.
Or else we're gonna start our own tires rating guide.
And we are gonna be so fucking mean to you.
We're gonna be talking all about how great tires,
tire stone, or perhaps fire stone tires is.
But it should be tires.
Perhaps tire stone.
Maybe tire stone.
Tire stone, fire stone.
We're gonna be talking Goodyear.
We're gonna be talking about Road Blaster.
We're gonna be talking about Turbo Grip.
And we're gonna be talking mad shit about Michelin.
These things are square.
These wheels are triangular, no stars.
They're full of marbles.
You'll hear it the whole time.
My workplace's break room has had an unlabeled tin can
of food out on the table for several weeks now.
Nobody I've asked knows what or whose it is.
I wanna know what is in this mystery can.
Brothers, at what point is it okay to consider
the can forfeit and open it to feed my curiosity?
That's from Can Curious in Washington.
P.S. the best buy date is September 1st, 2024.
Okay, great, we have some Michael room here.
You have lots, those are made up by the government.
Well, within reason.
I would say for, I agree with you sometimes,
I'd say for Cannes stuff,
I bet they know what they're talking about.
Right?
Yeah, I, you would think, right?
Best Buy does imply that there's a peak, right?
Where it's like, oh, and now we're going down
the other side, right?
It's not a fear drop off, and I appreciate that.
It's a day new mall.
But within reason.
Let's talk about that for a second.
So I make peace.
I don't know when they expire, nobody does.
Right?
I gotta do something.
So I put on there 2035.
Okay, that's it, 2035.
If they eat it before 2035,
Not good.
And they get sick, they're gonna be like,
Well, it wasn't the fucking peas.
Should've pushed it.
Oh, okay.
No, I'm saying like, they eat the peas, they get sick,
they start thinking back, well, the peas were fine.
The peas were fine.
They don't taste like the same.
I'm realizing these are best by dates
and not best on dates, where it's like,
you wanna really, eat these peas if you're hungry,
but if you want the real fucking show,
if you wanna step up to the big show,
you gotta age these things, 11 years.
So I'm saying, I was just saying,
put a long-awaited date on there,
no one will ever blame you for it.
There's a kick-ass solution to this, I feel like,
but it carries with it a terrible cost.
The kick-ass solution is, you buy another can of food.
I assume you take the label off.
I assume we're talking about an unlabeled can of food.
If not, I know a pretty great way to tell what's in the can.
And it's whatever the picture of the food is on the label.
But assuming there's no label,
you buy your own can of food,
rip the label off, Indiana Jones, switch it out.
Now, I'm going to have to insist,
no matter what we settle on here,
you make a commitment to us and yourself and Jesus
that you're gonna eat whatever's in this can
if you open it up.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you open it up, you have to eat what's in the can.
You're eating this can.
It could be shoe polish.
It could be like coiled spring snakes
that jump out at you and you have to eat them.
Fuck.
Can I make it, can I have,
I just had a great idea
Question asker I had a great idea. Yes host
Steal the can swap it out. Uh-huh. Let's get you live a McElroy family clubhouse
Well open it up live streamed live open live and find out live
What is in the can.
Like Geraldo did.
Like Geraldo with Al Capone's Vault.
Yeah.
If you kids haven't seen that.
You open the can, it's nothing.
Go back and watch.
There's this guy named Geraldo
and he said he was gonna blow open Al Capone's Vault
live on TV.
You could watch this live televised event.
There's Jack in there, it's fantastic.
Now here's the, I would make the argument,
question asked, the can is forfeit.
It's been sitting on the table for a while.
Labeless, label-less.
No one's gonna spin the dice on this one.
So now you have the opportunity.
What you can't do is open it by yourself.
Because then everybody's gonna be like,
oh, what the, uh.
So you have two options.
You either make an event of it,
everyone gather around, gather around,
I'm gonna open the can.
Or you start some kind of pool competition
where people are going to predict
what they think is in the can
and maybe kick in a few bucks.
Winner gets it and the person that's farthest away,
however you would judge it, has to eat what's in it.
Yeah, that could be cool
Now it's an event and an excuse to not do any work. It's a fun game people love
Now you're gonna satisfy your curiosity and become an office hero. Can you buy a fancy new?
Electronic model of can opener and you bring it into the office one day and you're like, guys,
check it out. I won this at a street carnival and it, they said it's a fancy can opener,
but it looks crazy. Like where's even the opening part? Where's the knob? Where's the clamp?
And they'll be like, yeah, I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me. You'd be like,
I got to test this out just to figure out like what it does. Anybody have anything?
Anybody have anything?
What could we, and I don't wanna use somebody's can
that they just brought today
and they were excited to eat for lunch.
A spare can that no one will miss.
Yeah. Or, hey,
here's an alternate version of that, Griffin.
You come in one day, oh, you're having your big prize
because you just won an auction,
Gallagher's Real Sledge-o-matic.
Yeah.
And you're looking for the, yes, that's right.
It went up for auction and you spent $10 million
getting the real Sledge-o-matic
and you're ready to test it on something.
Here's what I'm gonna say, guys.
You walk in tomorrow morning
and you take a heavy duty chisel
and you bury it in the top and you say fuck you guys you say it out loud
fuck you guys and then bury it in the top take it out up in the can right in your mouth
yeah you stab it in the top and a little on the side you shotgun that bitch
i guarantee no one as as applesauce drips down your face. Fucking nobody's gonna- Justin, canned applesauce is best case scenario.
As fucking- Are you kidding me?
As pearl onion juice-
I was trying to hype up my plan.
It could be oysters or some shit.
90-
Buffalo head nickels start falling out of it.
90% chance-
If you have a 60% chance it's beans.
It's definitely beans.
I'm gonna say 99% chance it's the preservative juice
of some vegetable, no matter what.
Maybe fruit, if you're lucky, you get that good
pineapple juice, but that's gonna be, might be corn.
Thank you, there's so many things you can put in a can.
These things are fucking buckwild.
I think corn is a good case.
Is a good, like, just regular sweet corn,
not creamed corn, nothing like that.
Just regular sweet corn. Good cream corn, nothing like that, just regular sweet corn.
Good job you won the roulette.
If we're endorsing food waste,
I would say one cool option is become the type of person
who like throws stuff around a lot, like in the office.
Not in like an angry way, but in just like-
Like when I get fired?
Like walk up to someone's desk and like pick up their clog
and be like, hey, how's it going guys?
Good weekend?
Just like a little like, a little toss of like stuff.
Oh, a cheeky toss.
You pull your phone out and you go, yeah, text sent.
God, do you guys ever do that?
Flip it around a few times and then you pitch it.
Do you guys ever do that for real?
Not even think about it and then beef it?
God, it's the worst. No, I never do.
Try to get a cool guy toss and then you miss it.
No, no, no.
Ugh, I never missed it.
Not for years, but.
Cause I watched this kick-ass video of Neil DeGrasse Tyson,
one time, where it's someone who's like,
why don't you have a case on your phone?
And he's like, because every time I buy a new phone,
I just pick it up, and I get to know its weight in my hands,
and I flip it around and hold it,
so I know every part of it, and then I'll never drop it.
If I ever see that, dude.
On-
Catch him slipping.
On sight.
It's flipped right out of his, right out of his,
just to see if he can kind of get it.
He's like, hey, let me teach you a lesson about gravity.
Yeah.
He drops it and it breaks and some points out
and he just picks it up and tosses it to him,
like that's yours now, keep your fucking mouth shut.
He pulls a new phone out of his pocket.
Anyway, become- This never Anyway, become the type of person
who throws stuff around in a cool, casual way
in the office, but then for the can, you beef it.
You beef it bad.
Here's another question.
I know how to read a map.
When my partner drives and needs directions
to our destination, I pull up directions on my phone,
but I don't let Siri tell us the directions out loud
over the car speakers because I can do it myself.
And the directions interrupt conversation,
say the same thing over and over again, et cetera.
In dozens of trips together,
I've only given a bad direction, wrong exit number once.
Still, my partner wants me to let Siri tell us the directions.
How can I prove I'm better at navigation than Siri?
That's from Wayfaring Fine in Florida.
So here's my read on it.
It's not about you getting them wrong.
It's that somebody telling you what to do
when you're driving causes resent.
Yeah. Right?
It's a resentful action when someone is like,
you're gonna turn left up here, right?
Because especially if it's a long drive.
Wait, sorry, did you mean a person or a cybernetic hypermind
designed to give you the best optimal directions?
I'm saying a person.
An updated life up to the second.
I'm saying a person, a human being.
Yes.
Giving you, telling you like-
Firm agree.
Don't forget, hey, don't forget, it's up here, it's up here.
After like three hours of driving, you're like- Firm agree. Don't forget, hey, don't forget, it's up here.
After like three hours of driving, you're like,
I know, right?
And whereas if the phone is doing it,
if I'm getting mad at anyone, it's AI.
It's a satellite or some shit, right?
I don't get resentful, man.
I need all the help I can get.
But you can't say it interrupts conversation
when Siri talks, when you have to stop conversation
to say the direction.
Sometimes. That's a good point.
Sometimes I'll use a map to get home
on the like four minute drive I just took from my house.
Just to like, like vibe, just to be able to vibe.
Like when I'm driving, I'm also vibing.
And it's hard for me to vibe
if I'm paying like super close attention.
Yes.
I also sometimes, if I'm like 10 minutes away
from the house, I'll start thinking like,
what do you think the best way to do this is?
Yes.
And I'll be like, ooh, I could save 30 seconds that way.
I'll have to check it out.
Or it'll be like, you know, Route 60 will be faster, J-Man.
I'm like, I know, but it's a little bit gritty. So I don't feel like driving on Route 60 today.
It bums me out.
Yeah.
Like, okay, well fine, you can hit 64, no bigs.
I look at it this way of if I have the option
between wearing an incredibly comfortable pair of shoes
that I know I won't have to think about,
or a kind of comfortable pair of shoes
that might occasionally remind me they're there,
why wouldn't I go with the incredibly comfortable pair of shoes that's gonna fade in the background?
So the idea of like plugging directions into my phone and not having to think about it at all?
Sure.
Why wouldn't I choose that option?
My perhaps imperfect solution for this is that I have my Apple Watch set up to deliver notifications from Google Maps.
And so I get a very subtle little boop right on my wrist
when it's about time to do a big turn.
The downside of that is while I'm driving on a long drive
on the highway, I always forget that that's happening
and I feel a vibration on my wrist and my brain misfires
and is like, go, go, go, turn, turn, turn.
And it scares me so, so bad like every single time.
But I never get lost.
That's a you problem though, right?
Like if you could have more of like a computer brain
like they do.
Oh, sure, sure.
Then you just need to catch up to where computers are at.
I think that's true of all of us.
I think my problem with this as a driver is.
Here he goes.
If I'm talking to the person in the passenger seat,
I am really worried that they are going to be just spellbound.
I mean, my fear is that I will be so captivating,
like returning to themes, leitmotifs,
like a lot of orationian tricks that I'm using
to keep the listener around.
They're always gonna be thinking like,
I should remember this.
And that's like, this is important.
Exactly, exactly, Griffin.
Like if I'm writing it down,
am I not paying close enough attention
to the important things he's saying?
It's like you see a beautiful sunset
and your kids are playing in front of it,
and you're like, I gotta remember this.
Like me talking is like the talking of that.
And I really worry that, and if you're not, and if you are thinking about the directions, you're kind of failing yourself a little bit as a listener and as a student of life, you know?
Cause Justin is just dropping the pearls at that point.
They're going straight into the mud as the slimes step on him.
And you're like, would 77 be the first?
Listen to me, hear what I'm saying.
We'll end up where we end up.
I'm saying that it's about momentum.
Just be here.
I think the issue is that my phone's cybermind,
when it breaks into a conversation
to tell me about an upcoming turn,
it does so in a bit of a sort of a tactless way.
Where it's like we could be talking about
some really heavy shit, no matter what the
topic of conversation is, she's always gonna bonk in there.
Like left turn and 500, like just like get in there.
I need a more obsequious sort of AI who can just be like,
hey, oh I'm so sorry, um, you're, oh gosh, oh wow, this is good stuff.
They should make it come from the back seat.
If they could somehow redirect Siri to come
from the back seat and like at this point,
you know, multi-directional, make it sound
like someone leaning forward, like reminding something
like, it turns up here, just whatever.
Or just minimize the impact on the conversation
by making the commands as short and fast and sudden
as they can possibly get, just to sort of like,
right, right, right, right, right!
Just like hitting you with one of those.
And that way it doesn't even break the flow
of this incredible, because the flow is the most important.
Like in movies when someone's on the earpiece
and they're like, turn right when I tell you.
Now!
And it's like, okay, why didn't you just say,
turn right in just a second?
Like, just, okay, why are you yelling at me?
Morpheus on a burner phone.
I have full and absolute trust
in the navigation capabilities of my phone,
but at the same time, that's also the same phone
that every time I'm on a road trip
and I stop to go to a fucking gas station,
the phone's like, holy shit, what are you doing?
Where are we? What is this? Turn around, holy shit, what are you doing? Where are we?
What is happening?
Turn around, do a U-turn.
What?
Do a U-turn on the highway?
You maniac, what do you think's happening?
It's a BP.
What do you think is going on?
You're under a bridge, what the fuck?
There should be a button.
There's a road 100 feet to the right, are you on that one?
And I'm like, no, I'm still on the same road
I was on before.
There should be a button on any kind of maps app
that's just like, it's okay, it's cool.
Like that I can't. Just calm down,
I know what I'm doing. It's fine.
I'm just, it's cool, don't worry.
And they're like, okay, sorry, man.
So freaked out.
Hey, this is- Can we go Mind Zone?
Yeah, I was actually gonna suggest that, girl.
Yes, host. That's so funny.
Yes, oh, you're right? Yeah, I was actually gonna suggest that, girl. Yes, host. That's so funny. Yes, oh.
You're right, Travis, I was wasting time.
["It's Better With You"]
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Okay, we are not going to get a Michelin star
for our ad reads despite the fact that I would say
the closest we've ever come to receiving
a prestigious podcast award was how good we are at ad reads.
So let's not actually sacrifice,
my non-negotiable is to not do this bit during the ad reads.
So efficient in the kitchen, luxurious in the ad reads.
We lavish upon our sponsors.
This is our victory, ad reads are in so many ways
our victory lap, because it's like,
this is the part of the show that we get that big money baby.
And it's the only part that's scripted, which is nice.
I'd love to get back into just the actual read itself,
you know what I mean?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The ad, you know?
Go ahead there, Dr. Ads. I wanna talk about the next one. I don't want to talk about this one
Okay, I'll talk about this thing cuz I love Squarespace with my whole heart, but I do too. No, apparently don't
I love it like a brother. I love Squarespace. Squarespace has always been there for me
Do you remember when my prom dates to me up and I lost the big game that day?
I do.
I will now, Travis, have to insist you return
to the copy of the ad.
I'm- No, this is what I'm saying.
I love to play.
Hey, listen, earlier when Juice was like,
get back on it before he's back to work,
I was with you.
I was like, no, man, we're having fun over here.
To take it a second layer deeper is profane, I think, Trav.
I'm trying to talk about how much I love,
I'm trying to lavish Squarespace's brain,
always been there for me like a brother.
I lost the big game on the same day
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and Squarespace took me to the prom
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But to return to the ad copy though,
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I'm a big hydro homie who loves drinking water. I always use my giant 64 ounce water bottle.
Recently I started a new job and I'm worried about bringing it in because my coworkers
might see it and think it's too big.
I don't want to seem weird.
Please help.
I'm so thirsty and I need my water.
Do you think I could sneak it in or disguise it somehow?
That's from Thirsty in O'Fallon, Illinois.
When?
Just write three big X's on the side.
They'll think it's moonshine.
Nothing weird about that.
That's kick ass, actually.
That's really good.
When you take your car to the gas station
and start pumping it full of that good amber car juice,
are you embarrassed to give your car
what it so clearly needs to hog it up on the road?
Is the gas the water?
No, gas is food.
Gas is the water of cars, we've covered this,
but I do think that water is the gas of me.
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, well, okay, no, food is the gas of you.
Food is the gas of me. Food is the gas of me is the oil of you. Water is the oil of me. And, well, okay, no, food is the gas of the oil. Food is the gas of the oil.
Food is the gas of the oil.
Water is the oil of you.
Water is the oil of me.
No, that's the blood.
Blood is the oil of, blood is the oil of me.
Oil is blood, it pumps through the system.
Water is the...
The water.
The radiator fluid.
The water, the water.
Yeah.
Water is the water of the car.
The water is the water.
The water is the water, thank you so much, Justin.
When you stop at the gas station,
refill your radiator like an old timey driver.
And the grill turns into the mouth when you eat a spicy food.
When you eat a spicy food, the grill turns into the mouth.
The water is the water, the blood is the oil,
and the food is the gas.
Right, the roof is the hair.
I rest my case.
Well, what was the case I meant to?
Case closed, your honor.
You actually don't have a trial appearance here
in my dock yet, I don't see you.
Yeah, this is weird.
This is traffic court.
Yes, this is also a framing supply store,
so I think you are a little bit confused.
I don't know how big a tank of fluid
you would need to bring in
that you should start being embarrassed by it.
Maybe if it was like a water cooler size bottle that you just had a big long crazy straw coming out of because other people are
gonna think like, oh damn,
Jonathan brought in a big one for the group to slug down and you're like, actually this is just
my private. I don't have water cooler conversations. I have water cooler meditations.
And it's just me juicing up.
That is, okay, Griffin, you've sidestepped
into a point in my head.
I think I stepped into it.
I think I just kind of stepped in.
No, no, no, no, sidestepped because,
or I sidestepped based off of your step.
We're doing a kind of Watusi here
because now I'm thinking about,
if you bring a 64 ounce thing, you fill it up once,
what you are guaranteeing is no water cooler trips.
Yeah.
Where if you have a 16 ounce water bottle,
you're giving yourself at least three breaks in the day
and chances to meet your new coworkers.
Yeah, you say in here, I need my bottle,
I'm so thirsty and need my water.
You don't need that bottle if you're thirsty.
You need that bottle if you don't wanna stand up
a bunch of times to go get water.
And you work in the desert.
You're a buzzard perhaps.
Maybe you're some sort of carrion bird.
I think the biggest risk of bringing in
such a large water bottle to a new gig is that they're gonna be, I think, hyper vigilant on bathroom usage for you.
Like, they are going to be really like, with a bottle that size? I bet they're using the bathroom all the time.
And then there's gonna be some confirmation bias. Every time they you it's gonna be like going again Huh or something like some sort of smart look like all that big water bottle is making you
Know like a big water bottles is keeping you even at the
Even when the pissing place I think people will see you in the pissing place and think it's got to be the bottle
There might already be a big bottle person
What if you show up with your 64 ounce bottle
and someone else had a 64 ounce bottle
and they loved being big bottle Bob
and now you show up with your big bottle
and big bottle Bob isn't a special anymore
and now you gotta workplace right.
Or they cut you with a 128 ounce
or just leave you shame faced.
Or this.
Or perhaps even worse of all,
they see in you a kinship, a true brotherhood
waiting to begin,
and they step up like, hey, I didn't realize
you were a big, nasty water boy.
Hey there, hey there, Immortan Joe.
I see you're hoarding all that good stuff.
Me too, I'm also a big, nasty water man.
Yeah.
Let's make each other our emergency contacts.
I have a pretty big bottle of water here.
It's 54 ounces, but I think I could probably push it.
Damn, I had a 48 ounce bottle and Griffin just had to,
I was about to say like, I got my 48 and Griffin just.
I love this thing.
Cause I don't drink one of them every day.
That would be wild, but I do drink one over a few days.
And that's better than nothing.
I drink at least two of these 48 ounce,
but I would never show up with a 96 ounce somewhere.
Mine has inspirational messages on them
that become more sort of toxic as the day goes on.
Where at 11 it's like, ready, go, you've got it,
feeling awesome, but then by 11,
it's like done giving you fucking any quarter at all,
and it's like, no fucking excuses,
juice it, slop down this juice.
Come on baby, you've got, yeah,
now they turn it back around,
which is how they get you at the end,
where they're like, you did it,
I knew you could always do it,
but there was definitely that point in the middle
where they were like, you missed.
The design on that is wrong, Griffin,
because it says refill about three inches from the bottom.
Yeah, and then you do it on the-
Are they expecting a lot of sediment
to settle down there?
So you're dead skin cells.
Yeah, you keep that much backwash in it
so that by like a week in,
like it's very sustainable, Travis.
Let me get my water bottle here.
Oh, that's right, I only drink liberal tears.
That was cool, Juice.
Talk to me about that. I drink the tears. That was cool, Juice. Talk to me about it.
I drink the tears of the libs.
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What are they?
We only get it does McDonald's have a Michelin star no
Okay, that's sad
This is from McDonald's
McDonald's to launch special grade garlic sauce exclusively on app
So far.
Grade garden sauce?
What did you say?
Grade garden sauce.
Grade.
Grade garden sauce.
Okay, special grade garlic sauce exclusively on app.
Special grade, like you would get in school.
I didn't realize that the sauces at McDonald's
were operating under some sort of grading system.
Get ready to harness immeasurable power
of our favorite jujutsu sorcerers.
As McDonald's partners with Jujutsu Kaisen
to launch the new special grade garlic sauce
exclusively on the McDonald's app beginning July 9th.
Inspired by the iconic black garlic sauce
from McDonald's Japan,
the special grade garlic sauce introduces a new arc
in the brand's sauce lineup,
containing notes of garlic and soy sauce
balanced with a slight tangy sweetness.
I didn't know their sauces were on story arcs.
I didn't realize. Yes, this is a new arc.
This is season two of sauce.
Of McDonald's sauce.
The new sauce packaging will feature eight unique lid designs New York! This is season 2 of Sauce! Of McDonald's Sauce!
The new Sauce packaging will feature 8 unique lid designs starring fan favorite characters
from the hit anime series.
Collect them all to reach your peak strength.
Huh!
Now, I bet that at this point in the press release, you may be expecting some details
about the Sauce sauce or availability or
what have you.
But here's what follows.
Yuji Itadori, a rare talent not seen in a thousand years who is able to withstand the
poison of Sukuna and become his human vessel.
Megumi Fushiguro, a genius who enrolled as a second grade sorcerer and the only first
year student allowed to carry out solo missions.
Nobara Kugisaki, a strong-willed third grade jujutsu sorcerer and the only first year student allowed to carry out solo missions. Nobara Kugisaki, a strong willed third grade Jujutsu sorcerer
who came to Tokyo from the countryside.
Satoru Gojo, the strongest special grade sorcerer
and teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
Kento Nanami, a junior of Gojo who became a salary man,
but later returned to Tokyo Jujutsu High
to become a first grade sorcerer, the most adult of adults.
Ooh.
I- wait, oh.
Tsukurugetu, a villain special grade sorcerer whose goal is to create a paradise for sorcerers free of humans.
Mahito, a curse that originated from humans who can change the appearance of a person by touching their soul.
Sakuno, a king who survived one of the thousand years and still threatens-
That comes out of Jarlid?
They put a curse that- wait, they put a curse?
Kuno is a king who survived one of the thousand years ago
and still threatens the world after his death.
Collect them all.
But the guy drank the poison to become his vessel,
so I don't understand how that could still be an off-line.
Griffin has understood it just perfectly.
How are we so confused?
Yeah.
Now grab this special grade garlic sauce for free
with any order of chicken McNuggets
or pair with your to-go order in the McDonald's app
to make a meal fit for any sorcerer.
And each purchase of the sauce also unlocks
a 30 day free trial of?
Curses.
Griffin?
Crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll where you can watch full episodes
of Jujutsu Kaisen and more of your favorite anime content.
Okay, listen, first, Jujutsu Kaisen sounds badass.
Second, I love the confidence of this press release.
It's amazing.
That it does not describe the sauce,
nor does it assume you need a plot breakdown of the anime,
but rather just the specifics of which characters nor does it assume you need a plot breakdown of the anime,
but rather just the specifics of which characters come on the lids of the sauce containers.
It does not tell you what the show's about, just-
Wait, so these characters come on the lids
of the sauce containers?
These are, yes, those are the eight lids.
The curse created by humans is are the eight lids.
The curse created by humans is one of the lids.
Yeah, one of the special lids.
Is a curse created by?
Okay, it says it's a character.
Is it a living curse?
I don't know, but that is what is happening.
Oh, it's like how the city is like the fifth character
in Sex and the City.
It's exactly like that.
I love that this is a thing.
I just wish that McDonald's had done a partnership
with an anime that I was more familiar with
so that I could celebrate it
and feel like I could be a part of it.
This is the thing about this artifact,
this thing that I'm reading to you,
is the audience that it has imagined
is a person who has no familiarity with Jujutsu Kaisen, but would very much be
interested in a character by character breakdown of Jujutsu Kaisen.
And also, PS is reading press releases about nugget sauce.
Like, who is this human being?
Oh, that's right. And?
It's just me.
It's just Justin. It's just me.
Can I also say,
Here, for me, it's their best thing.
I would like to, I wish I'd been in the room
where they were like,
and we'll attach a 30 day free trial for Crunchyroll.
And then I would say,
so you're telling me that you envision a person
that cares enough. Oh yes, Travis, thank you, yes.
That cares enough about an anime they've never heard of.
Yeah.
To get these lids, but isn't a subscriber to Crunchyroll.
Yes, so this press release about McDonald's garlic sauce
based on anime for someone who's never watched anime.
Right.
Everyone can.
Have you guys heard of Crunchyroll?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do with my grandpa Dan?
Because it's McDonald's and they're like,
do you want some of our Jujutsu Kaisen
special grade garlic sauce?
It's like, what is happening?
Does it come with a 30 day trial to Crunchyroll?
Call an ambulance.
I've got a ton of anime that I think Grandpa Dan would need too.
And call Justin, ask him how to set up Crunchyroll on my team.
The only thing that comes to mind,
and please tell me if this is nothing,
is Neon Grimaces Evangelion.
And this would be, it would be a just shot for shot remake
of Evangelion, but it would be, the angels would be, it would be a just shot for shot remake of Evangelion, but it would be,
the angels would be the McDonaldland characters
in giant monstrous forms, and Nerve and the rest
of the show is like, that's all the same,
like it's still like giant Mecha and the like.
I'd like to replace Nerve with a Hamburglar
and call him Purve, is that okay?
Can we get that in there?
Yes, because I came up with one Crunch Man
and McFlurry on ice, were the two that I had.
Those were both really good too.
Justin, would you like to reference the anime
with a McDonald's word mixed in there?
I don't know any of them.
Oh, look at Mr. Cool Guy over here.
Captain, wait, there's something there.
Captain Frylock?
No, that's not what you- Uh, nope, got nothing.
Okay.
Hey Captain Harlock.
Do they have anything macadamia based?
Urea, urea, and ice cream.
That's sort of the same as Travis's joke a little bit.
I wasn't, I wasn't kinda panicking,
trying to come up with anime I know about, I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I watched the- Frygun!
The Clerks cartoon.
Was the Clerks cartoon anime?
Yes, absolutely.
Ah, real monster.
Let's list off anime.
Ah, real monsters, the Clerks cartoon,
David the gnome, the real Ghostbusters.
Yeah, the fake Ghostbusters.
The fake Ghostbusters.
Weirdly not the anime Ghostbusters.
Now the Doug that they did on Disney was anime,
original Doug was not.
OG Doug, that was traditional animation.
I'm pretty sure they actually made McDonald's anime.
And I'm saying that out loud
so we don't get emails about it.
Yeah, that has the ring of, not truth, but.
Of Stranger Than Fiction.
Hey, can I ask a question?
Yeah, please.
What does McDonald's give or sell
that garlic is a friend of?
Nuggets.
Nuggets is a friend.
Is it garlic sauce?
I would give it a garlic sauce.
Soy, black garlic sauce for a Nuggets.
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.
When I was picturing a delivery order,
the best I would hope for is a little plastic ramekin
with a little plastic lid.
What are the lids coming on
that they're collectible in some way?
Are these little jars?
No, it's just the labels,
because you'll collect any trash they cast before your feet,
you fucking magpies.
That's true. Lick it up.
That's how they see us anime fans.
Just so they can milk all of our money
and they don't have to give us quality lids.
Do you guys ever run into this as a parent now
showing my kids movies that I watched when I was a kid
and just immediately associating the McDonald's
and Burger King toys in my mind?
Like when I see Hercules and I think about all the Titans
that came as toys, and like, when I watch, uh...
what, Nightmare Before Christmas,
and I think of the sick watches that Burger King had,
and, um, I think maybe capitalism has ruined me.
BLAIR Mm. Us.
Um... Yeah, I get the reverse of that sometimes,
digging through, like, the loose toys bin
in a geek or whatever.
And I'll find a toy in there that I suddenly realized that I have 100% knowledge and recall of.
Right.
Yet did not had no conscious knowledge of.
Yeah.
So somewhere up here, there's this room that's like, oh yeah, this is the Beetlejuice cartoon car.
You see it shoots discs.
You didn't even know this.
As well as you know your own name.
I've just been holding on to it in case you need it.
The other day, BB was going through a box of stuff
and I was like, old toys that they easily
haven't touched in two years.
And I said, what are you doing?
And she looked at me with a sweetest looking face
and she said, looking through things forgotten.
And-
Oh, that's really good.
I know!
We're getting to the point where we're, you know,
starting to donate some old like kids toys
because Gus inherited Henry's old stuff.
And what hits me the most is when I accidentally
press a button on like an old Fisher Price electronic toy
and it plays some fucking jammer.
And I'm like, rainbow, rainbow, underwater, rainbow,
like fucking bot, like it really hits me like,
this was the summer jam of 2017.
Yeah, exactly.
There it is, that's my jam.
I miss my babies.
Now it's just skibbity toilet.
Now it's just skibbity toilet. No, it's just skibbity fucking.
Skibbity toilet.
But I say that, man, when I'm an old lonely man
and someone's like, hey, remember this shit
and place this skibbity toilet on our 4D holophone?
Yeah. I'm gonna be like,
I miss my babies. I miss my babies.
Why my babies grow up?
When our kids are like 25 and you're like,
are kids still into skibbity?
Oh, man.
Yeah, you guys don't realize,
the more niche your old references are right now
and the least successful they are to us,
those older folks, the absolute matter
it's gonna see when you're a 40 year old
trying to trot it out,
roll it up in your Skibity toilet t-shirt
that barely fits you. You guys remember?
You guys remember Skibity?
Hey, thank you. You guys still like skimity?
Guys, we talked about it too much.
This episode, remember this episode?
Cause it's over now.
Yes, host.
Yes, host.
That's it, efficient, perfect precision in every step.
Not a single missed up.
Hey, could I ask a favor to you friend?
If you didn't come last weekend,
maybe you have two entertainment options open to
you this week two vastly different entertainment options open to you this week coming up this
weekend i'm going to be in escape to margaritaville with sydney it's 8 30 friday saturday sunday
ritter park amphitheater in huntington west virginia that's wild if but if you're in the
area come on out say hi we have people come down from North Carolina and Columbus, and it's a really fun show and
Cindy and I fall in love in it spoilers fine, and it's fun and
Uh-huh, and then we can after that we got another option for you another another delight
Yeah
you could come see my brother my brother and me on the 18th in
Detroit or Adventure Zone on the 19th in Detroit,
or you can come see My Brother, My Brother and Me
in Cleveland on July 20th.
Those My Brother, My Brother and Me shows
in Detroit and Cleveland,
Sawbones is gonna be opening.
That's also me.
That seems like a weird way that-
But it's Sydney, which-
It's Sydney, mainly Sydney.
Makes sense.
But if you wanna see Sawbones as well,
we're gonna be there, so catch it.
But say you don't want to travel,
but you still wanna be entertained by us.
There's a book that comes out next week
that I bet you are just gonna love.
It's the fucking sixth graphic novel
from the Adventure Zone Balance Campaign
illustrated by Carrie Peach, written by us.
It's The Suffering Game.
It comes out next week, and we are partnering with four independent bookstores to offer signed
book plates.
Go to bit.ly slash suffering games signed for information on our partner stores and
purchase links.
You can submit your pre-order receipt at theadventurezonecomic.com and get a free acrylic keychain of Trace
Hornyboy's while supplies last.
Very exciting.
Also, next week on the McRoy Family Clubhouse
on Tuesday, July 16th at noon Eastern,
we're gonna be doing a special book version of the show
with Clint and Carrie on it.
I don't know why I called him Clint.
Clint, my dad.
You know, Clint and Carrie.
And we have some fun stuff planned for that too.
But this book absolutely kicks ass.
I'm so, so, so, so proud of it.
And I feel like where things really start to pop off
in the grand scope of the campaign that we did.
And so go to theadventureszonecomic.com,
find out where you can pre-order it.
Those help us a tremendous amount
if you are able to do so
and we really appreciate you.
And along with all that stuff,
there's a bunch of other stuff on sale.
You can go to bit.oy slash McRoy Tours
for all the tickets for all the tours this year.
Make sure you check out McRoyMerch.com.
We got new stuff for the new month.
We got the Yonkuk sticker designed by Pepper Raccoon
and 10% of all proceeds this month
go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
One more thing, I wanted to let everybody know,
because they've been asking for it now for a long time.
The video clip of Justin drinking a drink
with a stink bug in it is now available.
I know it's on our YouTube.
What?
I know it's on Macri Family YouTube.
It might be on the TikTok and Instagram.
Oh my God, I can't believe this finally happened.
Yeah!
But, and if you're not on the MacGyver family YouTube
as a subscriber, you should.
We do stuff there all the time now.
So go check that out.
Hey, we gotta, oh, thanks to Montane
for the Ysro theme song, My Life Is Better With You.
It's a tremendous power ballad,
sung by one of the great minds of our generation.
It's a good wish.
Hey, got a good wish here.
Who's gonna rip it? Juice, why don't you rip it? Yeah, Justin, a good wish. Hey, got a good wish here. Who's gonna rip it?
Juice, why don't you rip it?
Yeah, Justin, you do it.
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It's better, it's better with two
My life
Ah, it's better with you