My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 734: Twelve Volumes of Ichor

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

We got him, folks! We Gaga-got him! The clown is down! There's already an alarming amount of turkey vultures circling around, so you'll never see him again! Now we can make room for giant tubs of ranch dressing, tasty canopic jars, and uncomfortable discourse around the Mario family lore. Suggested talking points: Evil on My Mother's Side, 500 Foot Super Bird, Twelve Volumes of Ichor, Your Impact on My Jock is Minimal at Best, Big Dip Cup Big Enough, Slutz for UtzNative Women Lead: https://www.nativewomenlead.org/

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 mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? One, two, three, four! It's the start of something beautiful A small acquaintance has blossomed It's ripened into a precious friendship I could've never seen what was coming for me Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach

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Woof woof, Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy, my fellow Americans. I come to you this morning with excellent news. We got him. He's eluded us for decades and the whole time running a muck, I would say causing a lot of... He has eluded us for decades and the whole time running amok, I would say causing a lot of- Running several mucks, really. A lot of amoks and just senseless, just chaos

all over the place and really, just a really all around shitty guy, but we got the Joker for real, for real this time. We took him down and I think I played my part, I think we all real this time. We took him down. And I think I play my part. I think we all play our part. The clown is down. We wanted you and the rest of our listeners

to be the first to know that we killed the Joker for you today, Captain. And we just wanna salute you, Captain. Our fighting forces are gonna be proud of us. It's like a V for Vendetta thing. We can't, you can't kill the Joker by stabbing him with a knife in the heart Our fighting force is coming right down. Are you proud of us? It's like a V for Vendetta thing. We can't, you can't kill the Joker by stabbing him with a knife in the heart

or shooting him with a gun. You know why? He's a idea. He's an idea. That's true. He's a con. You can't kill an idea. Except you can, Travis. Oh, if you come out and you're like,

hey, what's up, I'm Joker, I got new ideas. And everyone on earth is like, I think we're actually, we're good. I think we've had our fill of Joker. Thank you so much. Then the idea just kind of, beep, beep, beep, beep. I was about to say, I'm having a hard time

cause I haven't seen it, but then it sounds like that's what a lot of people could say. A lot of people maybe could say, I haven't seen it. I did have that moment of like, Trav, in my more, I do have, we're cultural critics of nothing else. I feel an impulse to be culturally relevant with my finger on the zeitgeist.

At this point though, I'm not sure if it's more, zeitgeist-y to not see the Joker. I think I'm more plugged in. We're sheep by doing nothing. By doing nothing, we have made the choice not to support the Joker. I'm more plugged in to like the public consciousness having not seen the movie The Joker.

The rebellious act now would be to go spend money at a movie theater and watch a movie. I think that would be- Yeah, only I really don't, and I wonder if this is how other people feel. I really don't want to. I really don't want to see the movie. That's the other problem with it, isn't it? It could have tomorrow's winning-

The eternal struggle. It could have tomorrow's winning lottery numbers in it. I don't think I wanna go see Joker for the movie. That's the other problem with it, isn't it? It could have tomorrow's winning. The eternal struggle. It could have tomorrow's winning lottery numbers in it. I don't think I'd want to go see Joker Follyard. The thing is, I'm a fairly plugged in person, a young man about town, Bon Vivant, and I know, I've seen previews for Joker 2, I know I have, I've seen coverage, they're covering it so much,

I couldn't tell you what happens in the ding-dang movie. Yeah, yeah. I know, I know Joker's there and I think Stephanie's there as Harley Quinn. Yeah. And that's about all I know. I don't know any action or plot. I couldn't even tell you,

at least for the first one, I could have told you, oh, he dances down some stairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this one, all I know- I don't know what happens in this one. Yeah, for sure. All I know is that they've got the two of them in it. They got them.

Was I right about the Joker, and then everyone else just had to catch up? Is the rest of America now realizing that we, the people who said this is actually not in fact a good film, are we now being proven right? Is it... I know it takes a subjective, but once history gives you these things to work with and build on, I feel like it is conclusive now that Joker was the piss.

I'm a snake? You know what I mean? It must be a bad movie. I think we have to support our troops that have been active in this battle for a long time. We had a brave agent undercover in this one, Lady Gaga, working to take the machine down from inside the machine. We got him. We got him.

She knew exactly what she was doing. She said, I don't know if I wanna be in this one, but if it means I can take down the Joker by being a secret sleeper cell undercover agent, so be it. And so, I mean, congratulations. It must've been really hard to be in Joker 2. When she showed up and they were like,

hey, Lady Gaga, we're gonna be filming a movie called Foley, I do, we'd love to have you in it. She says, oh, that sounds very fancy. Oh, so cool. Then she shows up first day and there's the Joker and she's like, oh, what the fuck? You didn't get a slashing. Well, she probably saw Joaquin first.

And she probably saw- She probably saw Joaquin Joaquin. Yeah. You did it right as I was gonna do it. I'm sorry, girl, I'm sorry, girl. It's okay, man. We have the same brain. I don't, it don't-

Going right into it, I really wasn't trying to rob your- Don't bug me at all. She probably saw Joaquin and was like, I wonder what kind of Joaquin I'm gonna get in this film, a soft sensitive her type, or like a crazy dangerous crazy man. And then he walks in and his Joker makeup and she's like, oh man, I'm in a Joker movie.

That must have been really tough. Okay, a couple things that I've enjoyed about the interview circuit for Joker Foley, I do, and that have nothing to do with the film itself. The number one is Lady Gaga asking Joaquin Phoenix questions about Lady Gaga music mid-interview with other people. How was that? And pretending he is a very big fan of Lady Gaga music and then asking questions about Lady Gaga music. It ripped ass. That man, hey listen, Lady Gaga made

Joaquin Phoenix so uncomfortable in that moment. It almost made up for how uncomfortable Joaquin Phoenix makes me every single day of my life. Every time I see you. Justin, it was kind of Gagacha journalism. Yes, it was Gagacha journalism. They're heating up. One more of those guys and we're gonna be dunking fire.

The other interview I liked about this is when Joaquin was like, I don't really wanna talk a lot about my diet for the Joker. And he's like, I was watching interviews for the last movie and I just talked all the time about how little food I ate to be so skinny for the Joker. And I'm just so boring. I was so annoyed that I was annoyed with myself. So I just don't wanna talk about it

because it's like, who cares? That's good. You gotta say what you- If they make him do a third one, the natural extension of that is him going, I don't wanna talk about this movie. You're confused. They won't make a third one.

We fucking got him. We got him. We got the Joker. Yeah, there's won't make a third one. We fucking got him. We got him. We got the Joker. Yeah, there's not gonna be a third one. I will be surprised if they ever mention the Joker again. Well, he'll come back in the next Affleck Batman, right? No, Trapp. He's done, man. Because do you remember who the Joker was

in that sort of modern universe? It was Jared Leto. Oh, no. Which started the descent, which started the descent, which started the decline. That can't be us. It did it. I say Caesar Romero did when he refused to shave his mustache.

That's a very Joker thing to do, though. That's so huge. It is very Joker, though, isn't it? I'm excited to see, do you think that they'll include the Joker man in the Robert Pattinson, the Batman movies? I guess there is a, yeah. I don't know. They're in a separate, they're separate little side pockets

of the DC universe. Oh no, wait, they did. They included the one from Gotham. The Gotham man was in the end of the Batman. This is too stupid to talk about anymore. I don't wanna talk about this anymore. I don't wanna talk about Batman. It's too stupid.

The Joker, I think what everyone's realizing is like, this is all silly. It's like a comic book, he's a cartoon. It's a cartoon. And it's like on Marvel's side, like you got a cartoon man who does deadly pranks, great. They got a fucking purple alien who's jacked as fuck and he can kill half the universe in one snap.

And what's your guy do? He has a little gun that squirts out Laffy Juice? Oh, that's great, great, great. Our guy can snap speakers. And he's a little politically incorrect. Uh oh, whoops. God, I love Thanos! Ha ha!

More Thanos, bring him back. Please bring Thanos back. I'm ready for more. Played by Robert Downey Jr. It's Thanos. Hey, people talk about this sort of like, going back and talking to one's past self a lot, but I do think it would be,

if I could have one 30 second conversation with a teenage self, I think I would drop on him just like, hey, J-Man, just wanna let you know that Joker musical is dropping this weekend in movie theaters, and you're probably not gonna go watch it. Okay, bye! J-Z, you can tell that to you, probably six months ago,

and you'd be like, fuck it, a Joker musical? No, fuck way, I'm there day one! Here we are. Here we are. Here we are recording this podcast, missing yet another show of Joker. Yeah, we could be there. Perhaps several showings simultaneously of Joker.

Yeah, the flick is 40 minutes long. It trucks. It is, yeah, that's the other problem, is it is about as long as the Silly Symphonies. It is a, yeah. That's the other problem is it is about as long as the Silly Symphony. It actually, yeah, it plays to the beginning of the new Pixar movie. Just watch the Joker.

And then we're straight into Toy Story 6 or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this is the new standard of cinema. A movie is good or bad depending on if it would be better if Deadpool appeared in it. Oh sure. By which I mean this, wouldn't it be good if Deadpool appeared in the Joker?

Yeah. Even for just a moment? Yeah, but if you think of your favorite films, would they be improved by Deadpool? No, probably not. But Deadpool's already in Deadpool, Justin, so I don't know. That's a really good point, Travis, probably not. But Deadpool's already in Deadpool, Justin, so I don't know. That's a really good point, Travis, thank you.

I'm currently planning my Halloween costumes for this year. I like, I'm gonna be Deadpool. I like to be fun and creative. For example, one of my ideas this year is Jeff Probst's blue ribbon. Like, PBR? Say it faster, like, try a street. I'm gonna say it faster,

but I don't know that I'm gonna be able to help it much. Let's try again. Jeff, Jeff Probst Blue Ribbon. TM, TM, TM. That's good. Jeff Probst Blue Ribbon. That's really good. Jeff Probst Blue Ribbon. That might just be hard to say.

I would just, and just dress up like Jeff Probst, but just call it Probst Blue Ribbon. You don't have to say the Jeff. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, don't say Jeff. There we go. The problem is that I absolutely dread the inevitable. So what are you supposed to be?

Okay, you're not making it easy for yourself with Jeff Probe's blue ribbon, my friend. Just a warning. And the subsequent middling response at best or blank stare at worst. Should I stop trying to reinvent Hallowheel or should I just try to chase my bliss? That's from Get It in Minneapolis.

You have a creative heart and the spark and the muse is inside you. You have big power and you are channeling it all the time and you make things harder for yourself. You make things harder for yourself. But that's when you confront that muse and you grab that big magic. Sometimes you do have to do hard things.

I support your vision fully and completely. I think it's fucking- With love, love. Yes, yes, yes. No, not that one. Oh, okay. That's not what it is. It's a vulnerable, it's a vulnerable time, Halloween. You're opening up yourself, your heart,

and you're saying that this is some part of yourself you'd like to explore, I think. This is a vulnerable thing. And I think that if you have a gag costume or a punny costume, you've sort of, I think you've defaulted on that contract. I don't think you've revealed anything about yourself

except that you like to use cleverness to hide behind. But that's a pretty big one to reveal about yourself, Juice, what you just said. It's true, it's true. Here's the thing, and I think the reason you get a weird reaction when you say like a Jeff Probst blue ribbon is because part of the fun of Halloween isn't just your costume, it's the little solving

of the mysteries that the people who see your costume get to do. They get that little dopamine bump of like, I figured it out. And when you say Jeff Probst's blue ribbon, and they think, well, there's no way I was gonna get that, right? No, it feels bad.

And it's not, it shouldn't be a riddle. You're wrong. No one wants a riddle all the time. I'm saying it's a recognition. It's like, oh, you're this, you're Deadpool. Oh, you look great. And if they don't get it, they feel stupid. It feels, okay, but.

It's a trap, yeah, of course. Like all jokes. Can we role play for just a second? Hypothetically, you guys are at a bar on Halloween night. Greetings, Gryphon. Welcome to Mind Parlor. Yeah. We're role playing. I didn't know.

No, but that's not typically how we do it. Like, we'll show you. Hey, what do you have, Mac? Okay. Come on in. Oh, welcome to our parlor. Looks like you've had a rough day. Massage and burgers.

Have a seat at the bar. I'm Sam from Cheers. So I guess I was thinking more like you guys are yourselves. Like you guys are. Hey. Oh. Okay. I'm barking in the air. You guys can be the other characters too,

but you're splitting roles here. And I'm Davey, who's still in the Navy. Travis is there though. And probably will be for life. Can you give me Travis? Can you give me some Travis? Okay, let me see. Just talk.

Yeah. Hello, hi. I'm making love to my tonic and gin. Okay, cool. Gross. Okay. Making wet splashes everywhere. Yeah, giving my balls in it. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. And Justin, you're also there. Yeah, I'm just listening now. There's these other big characters that you guys have created and I love them and I love all the work you did. I'm the piano man. Okay, so it's actually Billy Joel.

Okay, so you hear the ding-a-ling from the chime over the bar door, and in walks someone dressed up as Probe's blue ribbon. They're dressed up like a PBR, but they have like the survivor hat, maybe a buff, maybe an immunity necklace to really sort of like send it through. Maybe they've got Jeff's fucking knife

that he doesn't stop carrying around and stabbing things with all season long. I don't- Is he the only TV host on network TV that is carrying a knife at all times while walking? And he gets so stoked every time- Is Steve Harvey on network TV? Steve Harvey definitely has a big bowie knife

strapped to his thigh. Uh, but Jeff, it's just like, he looks for any opportunity to stab, bag of rice, stab. Better hurry, rice is pouring out. I'm gonna do a few more stabs, because of how good I feel. Anyway, they walk in, they walk in.

Maybe you figured out, maybe you don't, but they reveal to you, oh yeah, I'm a probes blue ribbon. You're telling me your response would be like, eh, I think all three of us would be like, oh, that's fucking great. You don't have to laugh, like funny. I'll show you exactly what I'm gonna feel is shit.

This is exactly my response, Griffin. This is no joke my response. Oh, okay. No, man, not me. I would hit you up style. If I got it, I would feel great. If I didn't get it, I would feel bad all night. Because if I don't get it, I failed then.

If I don't get Probst Blue Ribbon and I'm me, I've really let the ball drop. Here's what I would recommend. This hasn't been helpful, so let me make it helpful for a second. There are two avenues to go down. Okay, Justin, I'll come back to you. I didn't say anything. Okay, no, you made a face about it not being helpful.

I get it. There's two avenues you can go down with your Halloween costume. One is creativity, right? You're gonna think of something no one else is gonna think of. But the other one's execution. Where the detail, you like,

oh, you even got that, you know, that pin on the jacket that they have, right? Maybe start funneling your energy that way. Because like, yeah, like if it's three years ago, everyone's gonna be doing Ted Lasso or whatever. But maybe yours is the best Ted Lasso. Don't be Ted Lasso this year. Not now. Please don't be Ted Lasso this year, gang. Not now!

Please don't beat Ted Lasso this year, gang. It's just, what is the number of years before Ted Lasso is hysterical? Three more. Yeah. Is it three? Yeah. I feel like the movie will be out in three, right? Oh yeah, you gotta do it before that. Right, you beat the movie in relevance.

I wanna hear it for the people who do Beetlejuice this year, because you know they're not the only Beetlejuice in that party. But so what? This is what I'm saying. I feel like there's a problem with costumes and it hits around college, where everybody just starts to want to look either like it's about being a sort of like more sexualized version of yourself or being like kind of Having a cute sort of fun Clever costume and I think what we lose is

That some people like just the people they just want to pretend to be a different person Yeah, this might be like beetle. Like beetle juice. Yeah, they just want to pretend party. They just want to be there. This Halloween, you know, I'm going to be Deadpool. You know why? So I can pretend for one night that I'm the Merc with the Mouth that everybody loves. Sure. And I'm going to have a helmet that I made from the 3D printing, and I'm going to have a gun I made and swords, and I I'm gonna be Deadpool, you know why? So I could pretend to be Deadpool, for one. And this year, Theresa Knight, I'm gonna be Paul Hollywood, she's gonna be Pruleaf, and you know why? Because it's a costume I can wear

that I don't have to shave my beard for. Yep. Well, you dress one of your kids is no filming. Oh my God, I love to, oh my God, right? We're gonna do the, I think we're gonna do the whole Mario family, which has like really wild connotations to it, cause Henry really wanted to be Waluigi,

and then Gus was like down for Wario, and then me and Rachel probably gonna be Mario and Luigi, which is like, wait a minute, did Wario and Waluigi, are they the babies of Mario and Luigi? Well, obviously not, Griffin, for a lot of reasons. There's something to think about. They're the clones of them, they're the evil clones of them.

Wait, could they be their evil sons, though? Their evil baby sons. From separate mothers? We're not sure. Separate evil mothers. Evil mothers, half evil. They're evil on their mother's side. Yeah.

Yeah, they're kinda like, that's like how party is half good and half evil. That's Wario, right? They're evil on their mother's side. Yeah. Yeah, they're kind of like, that's like how party is half good and half evil. That's Wario, right? He's not all evil. His mom was all evil. Half of him is plumber. If he was all evil,

they wouldn't invite him to go go-karting with them and be at like Mario Party and sports and stuff. Also, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the idea of there being an evil gene. I feel like that's just to get into some No, I just think we can get- We didn't phrase it that way, Griffin. It could be an evil religion that he was raised with.

You know, no, Griffin. It's not an evil gene, that would be problematic. I got a cool idea for the cost of the PBR costume is if you get there dressed up like this and people are confused and you don't like how it's feeling, you go to the bathroom and you can change. And you can either be a regular old can of PBR or a Jeff Probst who is mostly nude, I imagine,

if the PBR can has been shed. A mostly nude Jeff Probst, which is a state that I think he's probably comfortable with. I just think if you're gonna go pun, both parts of the pun have gotta be immediately recognizable. Yeah, like Bart Lader. That's where it's breaking down for me. Jeff Probst with the ribbon is good in 2000

when everyone has survivor fever. Yeah. I just don't think the iconography of a Jeff Probst in this landscape right now, obviously to me- In this economy? It's gonna hit, obviously it hits for me. I got a cardboard standee of Jeff Probst that I got for Father's Day

that's been in my living room for five months now. What about Greg Proops blue ribbon? Of course I know who you are. What? Greg Proops blue ribbon is good. Yeah. Sorry, you're saying Greg Proops is more recognizable than Jeff Proops? No, but it's sweatier. Yeah. So when it's explained to me, I have a good laugh about it because there's no way I would have gotten Greg Proops Blue Ribbon. That's funny. Yes, we've been on the opposite end of this question this whole time, because I think if someone said

probes of blue ribbon, my response would be, that's really fucking good. That's really, that's very amusing. I'm not gonna laugh at it, but it's like. Of course, if you have to have explained to you, you'll never laugh. But I can enjoy it, I can be entertained by it. Pleasurable.

You could be. Greg Proops, but also some elements of a ghost and some elements of ice cream and your Proops Boo Robbins, and just leave it. There's no way they're gonna get that. Just don't get hung up, everybody at the party, don't get hung up on, can you guess my costume? Just tell people what you're at

and let's skip to the enjoying it, right? Let's skip to the pretending, wear a sexy root beer or whatever you're wearing this year. I don't know what I have. There's only one good joke costume in my opinion. The Joker. Yeah, you come and you're just wearing jeans or slacks or something, no top.

And then they say, what are you? And you say, I'm premature ejaculation cause I just came in my pants. And that's the best one that there is. Travis, I'll be honest. I heard that joke from you in maybe the year 2007, and I do not think it's aged well over the last 17 years. I think it sucks. I think if someone comes up to me and says anything

about their cum, I'm good, dude, thanks so much. Another thing that's bad is that you said there's only one good joke, Kostu, but I said the Joker, and you said yes. And then you did a different one. You agreed that I was correct. Can we agree that Joker would come to a party as premature ejaculation?

Cause that's the chaotic thing that I'm making. No, he'd come to the party and he would blow it up with a bunch of bombs cause he fucking sucks. He kills people. He kills lots of people for no reason. But the Batgirl movie gets canceled. Thank you. Yeah.

She doesn't kill people, does she, Justin? Can I get one Skeletor origin story? No. No. No, thank you. I want to see when he had- I don't wanna see that, it was just Greg. I just wanna see him before he was all bowed.

Because he didn't call him Skeletor when he was a man. I accidentally made a sideways reference to He-Man to Cooper this week and she asked like, I mean, completely no awareness of the He-Man franchise at all. And I was trying to find a way to start to back into describing He-Man. Oh dude.

But it's not just like the dumbest shit. Like, there's no part of it where you can scoot in and be like, so there's this fucking skeleton. I don't know. He's a skeleton. I know he looks like a big strong prince, but he gets differently strong. I think it's bullied a lot.

I think people think he's a nerd and a coward, even though he's built like as. But he's like so strong as the prince, but he needs a sword to get even more powerful. And he's got a giant tiger that's a coward for some reason. The tiger is afraid of things. And they're not, neither he nor Skeletor are trying to do anything.

Yeah, they don't have any wands. They just don't like each other very much. I think they maybe have different views on, I don't know, whatever, and it brings them into conflict sometimes. And then there's a guy called Master at Arms, but he's only got the two arms. I don't know, man.

That's great. My boys have stumbled into the He-Man universe also, but only because Henry found the He-Man singing what's going on meme from like the year 1999. Fantastic. That's all he really needs. I have a WikiHow, if we could get to that. Oh, excellent.

Just a moment. Lots of people have sent this in, and in fact, we did this WikiHow in the reverse WikiHow game that we sometimes play at live shows. Oh, isn't that interesting? Using all parts of the proverbial animal here. That's right, but in reverse WikiHow,

we don't actually get into the subject matter. And I'd like to get into the subject matter. Thank you. Lots of people sent this in, the subject matter is, what does it mean when you see a dead bird? Discover what dead bird dreams and encounters are telling you. If you've stumbled across a dead bird,

or you've witnessed a bird's death in your dreams, we're here to help you figure out what the universe is trying to tell you. Okay, so this isn't like a crime scene investigation, what does it mean when you find a dead bird who did it? No. I think it's cheating if you kill a bird and then you put it on the ground and you leave the room and come back in.

I didn't say that, Griffin. I didn't say I would kill a bird. Well, I'm just saying if you figure out that like, dead birds in this scenario when I see them is a forebearer of great fortunes, you can't then start killing birds to create this, to put a hand on the karmic wheel. That's true.

If you see a dead bird you killed, the only thing that means is that you mission accomplished. Yeah. You did it. Or, uh-oh, you may have done an accident. Burn that. There might be a lot of carbon monoxide around. Darn muscles. There's carbon monoxide around. Damn, darn muscles.

There's carbon monoxide, the parrot, you know, it wasn't a parrot, was it? That would have been costly. I think we can all agree, there is types of birds where if I saw a dead one on the ground, I would be like, ah, man, like a beautiful condor, ah, a beautiful parakeet, ah, dang. A cockatoo, a cockatiel.

But just a sort of bog standard, you know, bird. That sucks, but. Yeah. Anyway, dead bird. I get a bunch of vultures up around my property because we got dead wildlife dying there and they always circle around these terrible vultures and then pass them weak. I saw one vulture lying dead on the ground,

the other vulture circled it as if wondering what the hell do we do about this? What's next steps here, boys? Someone- Never? Never in all our days! They never covered this in the manual, fellas. Do we need to talk to their partner first or? Somebody call the jackal.

We need a fixer. The literal jackal that we know that will eat him so we can leave. Dead bird interpretations. You're on the precipice of a big change in life. One chapter is ending and another is beginning. At least that's the most common interpretation of a dead bird.

Who's been discussing this and how did they come to any kind of consensus? Can you imagine if you had never heard that bit of information, you're walking with a friend, there's a dead bird on the sidewalk and your friend just turns to you and goes, hmm, big thing's coming. Like I would be so scared in that moment of my friend.

Big changes, in order to discern any meaning from it, I think we can't have any idea about why the bird is dead. Right? Yeah. Like if you, if, aside from killing the bird, we all agreed we're not gonna kill the bird. We're not gonna kill the bird. But we're not gonna kill the birds. But if you see a bird fly into a plate glass window

and then die right there, which has happened to me many times, I can't derive meaning from that, right? Like, other than like, clean glass. No, you gotta let someone else find that. If you see the bird being killed by flying into a stained glass window, I don't think it counts. Not stained glass, not a stained glass, good Lord, Curfin'.

Now, Curfin', now this is where it gets interesting, though, with disincerting the meaning. This is where it gets interesting to me. If I can, through a series of clues, derive how the bird was killed, conclusively. So this is crime scene investigation. If I can solve the murder of the bird,

it no longer has symbolic meaning. The symbolic meaning can only be present if its means of death is not discernible by me. It's gotta be a secret. Cause otherwise, the other option option is you're at church. Everyone knows that dead birds being a good omen. And then a bird flies into the stained glass window. Everyone hops out of the pews,

races to get outside to be the first one to see this dead bird. Wait, you have to be the first one to see it? I feel like it gets used up. First one gets the power. Cause the bird's soul makes the wish come true. Okay, okay, okay. only one at a time. But only once, only once.

Anyway. But if you have a detective waiting outside the church and he's like, there you have it. There's no power at all. I saw the whole thing. I do actually think there is a situation where you could be on the precipice of a big change in life if you saw a dead bird,

and that is if the bird was 200 feet long. And then you were like famous, because you're like, this guy found the giant albatross. He was technically a dinosaur, and they were real, and this guy found him. Let's shower him in praise and money. Huge change for you. So dope that you found the 200 foot turbo bird.

It could also mean you're receiving a warning about a future obstacle. Gotta step over this bird. Yeah, that's not a future warning. I mean, right now. So, hey, that bird. It could mean a big change is coming or you're gonna have to deal with a huge obstacle.

I'm just keeping track of my obstacles. Why do you want that? Because now I'm fighting, because if I'm getting outside of the church where the bird has crashed in the plate glass window, I see the bird first, couldn't mean big change, but it could also mean obstacle. So do I wanna let Drew see it first?

If you saw it die, you wouldn't get the power. We covered this. When I was a kid, I used to think about a floor that I would be stuck in the middle of that was completely covered with dead birds. So anywhere that I stepped, I would be. Oh, okay. For some reason, Justin, I thought your body

was halfway through the floor. You were like at waist level stuck in the floor. Imagine like a floor is covered with different dead birds, like carcasses of dead birds, anywhere you'd step on a dead bird. Hey Justin, so far you've talked about how there's a lot of dead creatures around your house

and vultures circling, and then there's dead vulture, and you've seen birds crash into a plate glass window a lot, and now you're talking about this, are you okay? Is everything all right? Yes, yes, yes, Travis, Thank you for wandering into the ad. Master of Terror Justin McElroy has been scaring you for decades. And now, with this new collection,

exclusively through the mail, you can get all his scariest spine tingling tales. Did you? Yeah, this Halloween season, I'm bringing all my scariest spine tingling tales to this thrilling new collection. Mostly dead bird related. Spooky stories.

Justin stole a canopic jar from the museum and he poured it into a Turvis tumbler and drank it all up. And now he's got a real bird problem on his hands. I've turned my I-Core into a 12 volume series available for a low monthly fee. Yes, it is available for digital download. No, but it's handsomely bound and very suitable for presentation. I'm skipping around this article, but I do want to just quick go back to the additional matter on these first two pieces.

The first one, you're on a big precipice of a change in life. It adds, alternatively, the bird could be an omen that changes coming for you, regardless of the choices that you make. Birds die all the time because of things they have no control over. And perhaps a big change is coming for you. That's really true about birds.

So you're receiving a warning about a future obstacle. On the flip side, a dead raven or crow may specifically indicate a good fortune. Crows and ravens are often symbols of death or bad news. Sucks for the crows and ravens, I bet, that we walk along and we're like, yes. Yes. Wouldn't it be, first of all, I believe it's the raven,

is way bigger than you can in your picture right now. If I'm walking down the street and there's just a dead raven lying on the ground, I'm running away so quickly. They're so big that when you come upon one, a lot of times it feels like perspective must be off. It must be rough. Like, oh, this can't be right.

That's huge, look at that. He must be closer than I thought he was because he's gigantic. Also, wouldn't it be wild if this article revealed to us that actually birds only die by choice? That birds never die from circumstances beyond their- I'm ready! Well, that's it!

I've flown enough! I'm going to the birdie side layer, guys! They just make the decision. Whee! If you're experienced- It's because it's heaven, Travis, they just have to go up. They're still birds!

That's all they do. They're still birds. You don't see a lot of dead birds, we should be seeing way more. It's cause when they're done and they've fulfilled their mission, they fly right on up. Up, up, up, up, up, up.

Top floor. And if their spirit is clean enough and they don't have any sins, they can make it. It becomes nice birds. And what would a bird do that's so bad? So it could also mean that you're experiencing the end of a relationship.

If you see a dead bird in the middle of a tumultuous time with a partner, friend, or family member, it's a sign the relationship has passed the point of- Or a pet bird. Yeah, especially if the relationship was with a bird. That's good. Aw man, I guess me and that bird broke up. I don't think it's gonna work out, bird.

Hey, bird, I don't know what tumultuous was, but I think we're tumultuous. I read in a book that I think we're tumultuous because you're dead. But also, if you are struggling in your relationship and you have to run to the post office, life hack, just look up the whole way. Only alive birds up there, no dead birds up in the sky.

Not too true. Are we to assume, Griffin, that in every one of these circumstances, if seeing a dead bird means this thing, seeing a live bird means the opposite? Like, when I see a live bird, is it a sign that nothing's ever gonna change in my life again?

I don't think so, because live birds, there's so many of them. Who cares? Live birds, live birds is interesting because they are not meaningful until you see enough of them that there's something in your human, Live birds is interesting because they are not meaningful until you see enough of them that there's something in your human animal brain that you're like, oh fuck.

Yeah. I see a hundred birds, I'm like, there's something wrong. Something's bad. I don't like to see a lot of them all together. You're being visited or blessed. In some spiritual traditions, a dead bird is a sign that someone or something is coming to say hello. If you've recently lost a loved one,

maybe they're using the bird as a way to get your attention. I would have used in a live bird. Yes. I'm not gonna- I can't stress enough, WikiHow article. That's what it could mean if there's one dead bird outside my house. If there's a hundred dead birds outside my house,

some's coming. I don't know that many people. I don't know that many people in heaven. So I don't know why that,. I don't know that many people in heaven. So I don't know why that, if this is part of some other culture or religious practice, I'm not gonna criticize it. I'm just saying personally, I would have been an alive bird to visit.

Yeah. Cause like if I passed, you guys would be bummed. And then you're like, oh, Griffin sent his spirit down in a vessel to say what's up. And it's a dead bird? You guys are gonna be like, it's just another dead Griffin.

This sucks. We already had one of those. This sucks. Thanks for nothing, dead Griffin. Let him fly around our little heads and land on our fingers and tell us how chill it is in heaven. Not another dead Griffin.

Yikes. Now we got two. I know how Mori's doing something. I do wanna know how Mori's doing. And I believe, what's the dogs they Marley Marley no Marley was dead to begin with just no Jake. Oh, yeah, right. It's good So Griffin Wells is it could a dead bird mean? Tonight a lot of these are really repeating you're in for a bit of bad luck,

yeah, I saw a dead bird, that sucks. You're going to experience a lawsuit, yeah, my bird. We're doubling up on a lot of this. Now this one's interesting, you're being warned to avoid taking a certain path. Now this could be prophetic, or it could be there's a bobcat out there

down that path of the jungle, who has, wants nothing to fucking do with you. He puts the dead bird there as if to say, don't even step, don't even try it, look what I did to this thing, I will do that to you, kill you graveyard dead, even though I'm just a little fuzzy guy. I will fucking kill you dead if you come in my territory.

I blessed his dead body. This is interesting because I look at this as like one dead bird random, two dead birds warning, three dead birds. Now we're starting to build a little breadcrumb path here. Someone's gonna follow these three dead birds. Now the question is, do they need my help and maybe they don't have anything except dead birds on them?

Or is this a scary thing and I shouldn't follow it? I don't know, but now whoops, I'm nine dead birds deep and it's gotten dark and I can't see the beginning of the trail anymore. Oh, what's that? Oh no, I found a 12 book series of scary stories written by Justin McElroy. Is this how I get it?

You're in one, dude. Aw, man. I believe it was Robbie Frost who said like, don't take the easy road, always take that hard bumpy road. Yeah, look for the one with dead birds. I think that's exactly how the poem goes. And so maybe you see the dead bird on that path and you're like, I guess this bird couldn't hack it.

You say, wow, this road is a tough one. Robby Frost is right, I bet there's treasure at the end of it. That's the meaning of that whole poem. And then you walk on that one and you get the treasure maybe. Well, what if I find a bird at a crossroads? Which one of those paths am I not supposed to take?

You spin the bird, go the way it lands. It's not great. Like I'm not loving talking about dead birds. We're not advocating for it. No, I do like birds and there's a lot of them and you do see quite a few dead ones when you're just like out strolling around. So many.

This practice you do have to pick up the bird and spin it around a little bit. No problem. I would probably just actually just turn around and go back home. What do you think a bird feels when it sees a dead us? Wow. Whoa.

Yeah man, think about that. Let's go to the money zone. Ha ha ha! ["It's Better With You"] I think that the scariest things in life is the real shit. My health, my ability to defend my family with my strength and sound mind. But it can be hard to find the specialist that I need

to build my health, strength, and sound mind, especially living here in Washington, D.C. Fucking bureaucracy town. They may as well call it all these red tape tying up my ankles and my hands. But luckily ZockDock is carrying the Sword of Liberty to free me from my imprisonment and help me find the specialist that I need for my care.

Okay. What's wrong? No, I'm just wanna hear all about this. This is a serious matter. I wanna hear about the sword and how to wield it. Oh, don't worry. And guys, this is how we fucking get, like this is how we get the listeners to not like hit that skip add button.

Don't worry, I'll talk more about the sword later. For now, I wanna tell you. Oh, that's smart. Yeah, it's good shit. ZockDock is a free app and website where you can search and compare high quality in-network doctors, choose the right one for your needs, and click instantly, and click to instantly book

an appointment. I have used ZocDoc here in DC a lot of times, and it's become something I really rely on when I need to find a new medical specialist, because it's very, very hard to find a place in DC that takes your insurance and is accepting patients. And- Hey, Griff, are you about to cry?

No, do I look like I'm about to cry? It's just you have a lot of medical specialists. It just sounds like you're gonna cry about ZocDoc because you love it so much. Get him. No, I don't think I'm gonna cry. I'm just enthusiastic about it. It just sounds like you're gonna cry about it

because you love it so much. Will ZocDoc marry you? That's weird, man. It's weird. Because you love it so much. It just sounds like you're gonna cry and I thought you were gonna cry about ZockDoc. Anyway, I used ZockDoc, and now I can find all that shit

so easy, I really rely on it. This thing has solved problems for me. And so if I'm enthusiastic about it, Travis, please. I know we have another ad coming up, and you guys know I'm not gonna take the lead on it. I'm going to fucking ride your fucking jock so hard on this next one.

I was building on yours, Griffin. I'm gonna bust your jocks into pieces. Thank you so much. I'm building fucking ride your fucking jock so hard on this next one. I was building on yours, Griffin. I'm gonna bust your jock into pieces. Thank you so much. I'm building off your energy. If I can finish with my ad that people have paid us to do. We did not mean to jock-dock-jock-block you, Griffin. I'm so sorry.

When I stand up, you're gonna hear jingle jangle sound for my jock getting smashed. I was supporting you. I'm, I'm, I'm. Yeah.angle sound from my jock getting smashed. I was supporting you. I gotta find a doctor because my fucking, my ding dang penis got smashed while trying to do this fucking ad. Zoc Doc is where I'll go. Don't get fucking mad at me for trying to yes chef your stupid bits. I got ju- I got ju- I got ju- Have your butt blasted so hard that it makes noise now when I move around so I gotta go on ZockDock.

Some glues in there. I gotta get on ZockDock and get an appointment within 24 to 72 hours of booking. An appointment! You got an appointment! Perfect! You can score same day appointments too. Which is good because I need someone to look at this now. He can barely sit down.

It's rattling. He's been hovering over his seat for the entirety of the recording. He's gotta see a professional. The sword is inlaid with rubies all across the hill. So stop putting off those doctor's appointments. Go to zocdoc.com slash my brother to find an instantly book a top rated doctor today. That's z-o-c-d-o-c dot com slash my brother,

zocdoc.com slash my brother. I'm from the future. And I've been meaning to tell you guys this for a while now. And I keep forgetting to mention it. That's why I was here for episode one. And I came back to mention it. That's why I was here for episode one. And I came back to tell you guys that soon the robots are coming.

Oh, cool. Get to the point. As long as you have a Squarespace website, they'll spare you, is what I heard. Whoa. Wow. Yeah, that's what I heard. Okay, I'm checking the ad copy here. It does say to overtly threaten your listeners.

I'm not threatening anybody, Griffin. Yeah. The robots are. Okay. Yeah. But it's also kind of, but it's also, hey, also kind of you, right? No, Griffin, I wouldn't ever. Okay. Mostly out of respect for Squarespace,

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Okay, I just wanted to let you guys know about a promotion that began today. Ooh! Huh. Yes. Gut check? Yes. Travis, quick gut check?

Yeah? Okay. The next quick gut check. Uh, yeah? Okay. The next big thing has arrived at Burger King and it's fit for a ranch loving King, Queen, or Rapper sandwich. After launching Hidden Valley Ranch and Burger King restaurants nationwide this summer, Burger King and Hidden Valley Ranch are coming together and introducing guests to a limited time creation, sure to get everyone talking and dipping. Can I describe? The big dip cup. Can I describe what I'm looking at here? Yeah, please, Trev.

What this looks like to me, my first gut, is first of all, it's the most simple Microsoft background. It literally is the Windows 2003 grassy null. And from whence they have assassinated this hamburger by dipping it into, like imagine you bought a Barbie tub, right, that size of pure uncut Hidden Valley Ranch. Yeah. But next to it, what they've done that I really love

is they've put, I think for size comparison, a ranch dipping cup that's already available. A normal ranch one. Like a human one, right? A human one. And I'm glad they did that, cause I'm a fucking idiot. And I would have assumed that it was just a small burger

and a normal sized ranch cup, because why would they make- Right, but it's not that. Why would Burger King distribute pints of ranch dressing? I think would be my first question. Yeah, this is, looks like if you've ever ridden, if you've ever been to the Magic Kingdom, right? And in the, if you go over to Future World,

there's, you know, in the- People mover? No, the other one, oh my gosh. Carousel of Progress? Thank you, okay. You know, go to the Carousel of Progress, there's the one part where the old man's in the bathtub. Yeah, of course.

This tub is the exact size and shape of the bathtub that the old man is in. It is a bathtub of ranch. Yeah. By putting this other container there, they have made it very clear that what they are selling here is not the ability to include ranch in your burger experience.

You could have had that before. You could have poured it onto, remove the bun, pour on some ranch. What they're saying is, what we've given you now, what the iteration here is in this promotion is, the ability to dip the entirety of your burger in ranch at once. Right, and what's hard is when you look at it,

once you've shoved the burger down into the cup, I don't know what your next step is. Because the human, like you're gonna have to invert the burger somehow to get your bite, like a 180 flip of the burger to get your ranchy bite. And let's just be honest, you're gonna bring out so much extra ranch on the retrieval. Sure. That you're gonna create a situation for yourself.

I need to just say my position real quick. I love this. I don't put a lot of shit on my burgers. And I think a hamburger is an EDO, an extremely dipable object. And that is what you can use that for, is to mop and sop up all the ketchup. And in this case, ranch dressing. Like, yeah, I do like it. It's eight ounces of ranch dressing. Great. Jesus.

Starting October 16th, the Big Dip Cup will be available at Select Burger King's in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Houston, and San Francisco. And we're making it easy for Burger King and HVR fanatics to get their hands, and yes, they'll need both on it. You can use this, there's a tracker to find- Where the burger is in your stomach. How far it's moved. Well, since you turn your esophagus

into a sort of ranch dressing waterslide, I think these things probably haul ass through you. The good news is if you go to their website, you can actually order one. If you go to hiddenvalley.com. Order the tub. You can order the tub to have them ship it to your house. Not the burger included, right?

So what I did was I paid $1 for the tub and then $10 for the shipping. You are a crafty consumer. I just happened to get in there when I was reading this press release, they had just gone live. So I managed to order one shipped to my house. Now, what's the problem?

Obviously, I don't like ranch dressing. So my big concern is that whoever is making this delivery will die while they're doing it. Oh, I see. Because it's just such a terrible way to go for this. For this? I'm having someone ship it to my home? But yes, I will.

And I'll report back. Is it resealable? I must know this. Because if the answer to that question is no, then you've just said, it's up to you to down eight tall ounces of ranch dressing in one go. That's a lot. I don't know, Griffin,

what kind of ranch fanatic do you think exists that says, I wanna buy that tub of ranch, but I don't know that I'll really get into it right now. I love ranch enough to try it. Because you're over-investing. If you aren't sure if you're gonna finish this one go, you've over-invested in ranch, I will say. Justin, if this comes, I want you to save it in your home

until I come visit, because my daughter, Bebe, puts ranch upon everything, and I think would go absolutely hog wild. I will try. Here's some quotes here. Once we introduced Hidden Valley Ranch to Burger King restaurants nationwide, we knew we wanted to celebrate the partnership in a big way,

said Pat O'Toole, the chief marketing officer at Burger King North America. We know our guests love dipping everything in ranch, even their sandwiches. Even their sandwiches. Even their dirty nasty fingers. Yeah, with their wretched human fingers dangling into every little sauce pot they can find. We know our guests love dipping everything in ranch,

so we're excited to deliver a Hidden Valley Ranch Dip Cup big enough for all their dipping and dunking needs. Listen, guys, if it's gonna be this bland, don't even release a press release about it. to deliver a Hidden Valley Ranch Dip Cup big enough for all their dipping and dunking needs. Listen, guys, if it's going to be this bland, don't even release a press release about it. Just put out the picture. Give me something to work with. We're thrilled that Hidden Valley Ranch is now available at Burger King, said Hidden Valley Ranch. A big dip cup big enough for a Whopper Sandwich felt like the perfect way to celebrate the exciting news that America's favorite ranch

asterisk is now available at Burger King. Huh, I wonder what that asterisk is all about. Yeah, there's not it doesn't refer to anything that I can detect. Cool. Are they legally not allowed to say that it's America's favorite ranch? There's a version of this that gets me excited. That gets America excited if they had any fun with it and been like Burger King excited to announce partnership with Hidden Valley Ranch on a tub of ranch dressing

that is big enough to drown in. This thing is so big. And that gets you excited? If you fell into it, you would drown in it. If they just said anything kind of fun or funny about the big, like, the headline could be Jesus Christ. What have we done? You guys will not believe, you guys will lose

your fucking minds when you see how big this dressing cup is. This is the, the overhead on this ranch is ridiculous. We are losing money on you ranch perverts out there, but please enjoy. I feel like I got one over on him because my eight ounce cup of ranch costs a dollar and 16 ounces at the Walmart costs $4. So I really am getting one over on them.

When you go to Walmart, do they make you pay $10 to leave with it? Only when I accidentally have Walmart ship something to me that I didn't realize wasn't in stock. That's a problem with the Walmart app is sometimes you can accidentally order some, I don't know, let's say you have a specific kind of pretzel rod that you really like. Maybe you're, let's say, sluts for hunts, maybe? Yeah, let's say you go nuts about your hunz. I don't love that that's been brought into the Bim Bam Cannon. I feel like we had sequestered that over in Clubhouse Land.

It's all one cannon, baby. Shoot. Sometimes it doesn't matter, you don't notice that it's actually going to be shipped to you and not brought from the store, but the Walmart app doesn't care. It's like, you wanna get utz? Come on, let's get utz.

And it'll ship them to you from Ashland or Charleston. Oh, I'll give you some fucking uts. From Montana. Let's get uts. So yeah, no. I paid $11 overall for eight ounces of ranch. So I guess I did get one. So about $1.20, $1.30. I don't want to get into the math. See the delight on your daughter's face

is gonna be worth it. I'm so excited to make an announcement in the housekeeping. Can we please go to a strap? Yeah, okay, come on. At the end of November, the week of Thanksgiving, I am going to be performing in 20-sided Tavern. The off-Broadway show is the improv,

magical, hilarious D&D experience. I'll be performing as the trickster live on stage. It'll be the trickster, the mange, the fighter. And then we have the Tavern Keeper, the DM, full. It's gonna be an amazing experience. I'm only doing seven performances on Wednesday and then Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of that week. So I'm so excited, you guys.

I'm over the moon. I hope you all will come out to it in New York City, off-Broadway, 20-sided Tavern. Come see me at the show. There's like matinees and everything. It's gonna be amazing. Matinees and everything? Matinees and everything.

It's gonna be amazing. You have to work in the morning? Almost the afternoon. Crazy. I wouldn't do it in the morning, come on. I'm very, very excited for that. I'm also excited for our last tour of the year coming up. Thank you to everybody who came to see us in Denver and Phoenix.

We haven't done those shows yet, but I hope that we did a good job. I'm sure we did. I've already done them. Our next- We usually do. Our next tour coming up in November, we're gonna be in Indianapolis doing Taz with Abreya Iyengar and Mbembem,

and then we're gonna be doing Mbembem in Milwaukee. And you can go to bit.ly slash McRoy Tours for tickets and more information if you wanna come to either or any of those shows. And if you listen to this, when it comes out, Dad and I are gonna be at MCM London this weekend doing panels and signings and all kinds of stuff. That's all at bit.ly slash McRoy Tours as well.

When are you going to do that? Yeah, man, we get back on the 21st, I leave on the 22nd. What a busy boy you are, Trav. I'm a very busy boy. Hey, let's finish. Two more things. Let's finish.

Hey. Let's finish. Okay, we do need to do these last two things. Okay, hurry up, the Justin's on his way up. The Justin's are small on the board. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, you're right. We won't tell people about the merch in the merch store, like the Trav Nation Long Sleeleeve tee by Riley Woolworth and that 10% of all proceeds this month will go to Native Women Lead.

We won't tell them about that at MacRoyMarch.com. And we also won't, this one I don't know that I agree with, but you guys seem to feel really strongly about it. I won't thank Montaigne for the Use of My Theme song My Life is Better with You. Thank you. I said no, we simply won't. I'm thanking you. of Our Theme song My Life is Better with You. Thank you. I said no. Thank you. We simply won't, because sorry. I'm thanking you. Sorry, Montane.

I'm thanking you. No time for it this one. I'm thanking you for skipping it. Oh, I see, I see. They've gotten their plaudits. I think Montane's great, but you're just wanting to just truck on, haul on through to the other side. So let's do it, man.

All right, do we have a wish? Always. Okay. What's yours, Trev All right, do we have a wish? Always. Okay. What's yours, Trav? Oh, do I have one? Well, yeah, you guys back me up and I'll elevate it. I love petting my dog, but sometimes I wish she would pet me back. My name is Justin McElroy.

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