My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 736: School You're Allowed to Drink At
Episode Date: November 4, 2024It's November and you know what that means: time for some spooky Halloween Christmas creep! This episode is full to the brim with only slightly out of date seasonal content, and some of the best advic...e you could ask for, like how to tell if you might be a babadook, gameifying your trivia night, and how to deflect your bathroom whoopsies onto zoo animals. But please, PLEASE don't tell Jack Hanna any of this. Suggested talking points: Mark After Dark, The Spear of Lily's Destiny, Just do The Chase, What's in Doug's Pocket, Do I do Anything Like Cheetah?, Human Cubin' First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/
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Hello everybody and welcome to My Brother, My Brother,
me and advice show for the modern era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
What up, Trav Nation?
I'm your middle-est brother,
big dog woof woof Travis McElroy.
When do you think this episode is coming out?
What's your favorite scary movie? When do you think this episode is coming out?
When do you think this episode is coming out?
And this is Griffin McElroy and I wish, as always,
that it could get to my turn without a bit or a skit.
What's your favorite scary movie?
It's like on Who's Line, they brought out Ryan Proops,
they bring out Ryan Stiles,
and then you're like-
No, Ryan Prueps is their son!
They bring out Ryan Mockery, they bring out Ryan Brady.
His father's first day, but his father's last day,
but he's Ryan Prueps.
And they're there with Ryan Carey hosting it all.
Oh, but no way, it's like they haven't brought
Ryan Mockery in. Who's Ryan is it anyways?
They haven't brought Colin Mockery in yet,
and they're like, you know what guys,
even though we're not all out here,
let's fucking do one bit.
Like, we're not all out here,
we haven't all been introduced,
but let's go ahead and get a bit started.
Are you guys gonna say what your favorite
scary movie is?
It's November 4th!
No!
No!
Because it's not right,
and it's not right morally, or...
It's the Halloween creep. It's not, it's November 4th.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving movie?
It's not that high.
You can't say that.
What's your favorite movie
filled with gratitude and thankfulness?
You can't just pivot like that.
Hitch. It's not.
I'll answer the question, hitch to both.
This is what's so hard, Draft.
Draft is really hitting on the problem of time
Dilation that we have with my brother my brother me where you are hearing this on November 4th
Yeah, but we're recording it October 30. Sure
That's not it. That's not even a scary TV
That's that stuff about time is a flat circle.
Don't even get me started.
Okay, here we go.
No, don't get me started.
I asked started now.
I asked kindly that you not get me started.
Oh, I thought that that was you saying.
It clearly isn't flat,
cause there's Christmas and summer.
So let's move on, okay?
It does, there's clearly different parts of time.
It repeats for sure, but like,
there's better parts and worser parts.
Okay?
Calm down Matthew.
It's a rhombus.
Oh, Travis, you can, it's hard.
Cause when I see you put your hands up to your mouth.
I see you, I talk, he puts the hands up, I talk more.
Well, I hear him put his hands up over his mouth
and I'm like, I have one and a half to two seconds
to finish my point before Bane comes back.
It's not Bane, Griffin, it's the scary guy from Scream.
Give me a Bane? Ghostface.
Give me a Bane?
Okay.
Mr. Wayne, you merely adopted the dark.
I was born into it.
They're both pretty good.
They're both really good, actually.
I thought he would be worse, but they both sounded exactly like the characters. They're both pretty good. They're both really good, actually. I thought it would be worse,
but they both sounded exactly like the characters.
God damn it, Travis.
Every time I wanna come for you for your characters.
The Bane I practiced.
Don't get it twisted.
I practiced the Bane.
The Bane of my existence.
But I'm still very much in the Halloween spirit.
It's hard for me to get past that, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
I love punk bands and the whole bit.
I'm still thinking about it.
And why aren't you talking about your favorite scary,
I'm trying to make these friends
by showing interest in them and asking about what they like.
Are you really asking them?
My favorite scary movie is Scary Movie 2.
It was of the series,
the one with the most jokes per minute,
and has a lot of memorable bits in it.
And a lot of, I will say, rude send ups
of some Halloween classics.
Justin, what's your favorite of the scary movie franchise?
No, my favorite scary movie is Babadook.
That's not funny, but like, I mean, the name is all,
the name's funny.
Or it's getting to know you, questions Griffin.
It doesn't have to be funny.
It's a way for me to get to know my friends.
Yeah, Babadook is funny.
Sorry, I should be clear, the word is amazing.
It's a funny word, especially if you said like,
they're being kind of Babadook-y.
Yeah. Like that's funny.
Yeah. That's classic.
Maybe there's like a Jeff Fox-worthy thing we could do
of like, you might be a Babadook.
Have you guys thought about that?
Oh yeah.
If you climb out of a kid's book
to steal children in the night,
if you are a phantasm created from a mother's grief,
you might be a Babadook.
Yeah, nailed it. If you live in a Babadook. Yeah. Nailed it.
If you live in a closet and climb up on the ceiling,
you might be a Babadook.
Yeah.
If you look around and you say to yourself,
I might be in the name and I might be in the look,
then my friend, I'm going here to tell you
you're the Babadook.
Just might be the Boba Duke.
Now, Justin, that sounded more like a tough intervention
you would have with your friend who's the Boba Duke
and doesn't want to admit it.
It also ended with a definitive statement
which was never Jeff Foxworthy's approach.
You are a redneck.
You are now a-
You are a door open.
You are a redneck.
You need to open your mind to the fact
that you're a redneck, my friend.
Deal with it.
This is the tough truth I hand out at a Jeff Foxworthy show.
If your breakfast is a big bowl of worms,
you might be a babadook.
Can we do this, please, the whole episode?
I feel like it's really fun to do.
If your kid is screaming in the backseat
and you think,
my husband's dead, you just might be the Babadook.
What's the deal with all these Babadooks?
Here's your Babadook.
No, I'm gonna get you all passed.
I wanna get you in the season.
Thanks.
Let's get you in the season, all right?
Hike me up.
We on that Christmas creep now, right?
Oh, fuck.
Halloween's over. No way.
Christmas creep, welcome.
Simply talking about Hallmark Plus.
Happy holidays, everyone.
A lot of people are gonna talk to you
about the Hallmark movie selection this year,
and I think we definitely will,
and talking about the Hallmark series
that are coming out of the series of films.
I wanna do something a little different right now.
I wanna talk to you about Hallmark Plus,
cause they did it.
They went and did it.
They rebranded their streaming services Hallmark Plus.
And that beast has gotta get fit.
Is this where they put the R rated Hallmark movies?
No, Travis. No no it's not,
but this is where they put the movies
that they wouldn't put on Hallmark.
Holy shit.
Hey, Hallmark executives, if you're listening,
Mark After Dark is like there.
Is waiting for you.
You can have that for your erotic thrillers.
Or whatnot.
Skullmark.
What's going on over on Hallmark Plus
is truly, truly unhinged.
So when you say the ones they wouldn't put on Hallmark,
Justin, do you mean they're too good?
Too good for Hallmark?
No, here's what I'm telling you.
I'm worried about the future of the arts
in a world with the AI.
Yeah.
And I think that if AI starts doing movies,
the Christmas ones on Hallmark Plus,
that's where we're gonna get them.
That's a foot in the door for sure.
Yeah. That's where we're gonna get them.
That's what the plus is.
The plus is AI learning.
Minus humans.
Minus humans, very good.
Yeah, so I wanna talk to you about these two big projects
for Home Art Plus and ask you guys
this challenging question of like,
did they let it in this time?
Oh, oh, I see.
Okay, but I also get very uncomfortable with this
because I do also think there is a bit of a
overcorrection and I don't wanna insult a bit of a overcorrection,
and I don't wanna insult a real person's film writing.
I think we probably do logic a disservice
if we think that people that wrote the eight films
that we're about to discuss
were living out their lifelong dream.
Okay.
You know enough.
They never talk about-
I'm being, you're being insulted.
I'm not insulting, they get it.
Do they ever include human beings,
like when they're doing a big Turing test,
kind of like, what is it, Turing test weekend?
Do they ever include any human beings
just to throw off the curve?
Because I can't imagine failing a Turing test.
I do, but they get so pissed off when you do it,
because I've volunteered and every time I'm like,
Blar, blar, blar, see tomorrow, bolts.
They're like, Justin, please stop, we can see you.
But then there's a double faint,
because then computers and robots
will start talking like that.
Cause they'll think it's a human.
Anyway, let's hear about these film shoes.
Okay, so.
It's actually, what we're talking about
is a wide array of cinematic offerings.
The one that I am probably the most excited about
from the Hallmark Plus schedule
is the unwrapping Christmas movies.
Movies.
Hey guys, movies.
I didn't, movies.
Let me just show you the image
and you guys will have to kind of describe this for me
as we're kind of talking about, huh?
People or computers or, huh?
That's the literal promotional image.
Okay.
Through this movie.
That's, okay, so to describe what we're seeing,
we have, it looks like a Christmas tree
with three flags on it, one of which is,
two of which are definitely Photoshop's.
American flags.
Fireworks.
Fireworks in the background.
Somewhere, right?
Yeah.
They're a bit around reality.
I can't parse.
I know.
I'm struggling.
Yeah.
And then behind-
You know when people talk about like,
well, we didn't land on the moon,
look at the way the flag is and it's weird.
This is what they're talking about.
Like the way that these flags are positioned
are, means the wind.
The wind is coming from nine different directions.
Head on over to the middle of the image.
What do you guys just see there?
Well, now we just have two Cylons
who are looking at the camera condescendingly,
I would say.
Barely, barely.
Like I just caught them pretending to be humans.
And this is the look I get.
And then behind them, there's a room with snow
and a very, again, very robotic looking Santa Claus
back there.
These two are from the unwrapping Christmas movies.
Meet Tina, Mia, Lily, and Oliver.
It says Oliver in the press release,
but I'm pretty sure they meant Olivia.
Four friends who work together at Tina's shop,
all wrapped up.
Each woman brings their unique strengths
in helping the store be successful.
One has fire powers, one has ice powers,
one has earth powers.
And each woman must find her own path
to happiness and love.
So on November 7th,
you've got unwrapping, Tina's Miracle.
And in that one, Tina Mitchell,
a successful business owner meets a charming guy, Michael.
Okay.
Then a week later, you're gonna enjoy
Unwrapping Christmas, Mia's Prince.
Okay.
Mia, an accountant all wrapped up,
is stunned when local celebrity, Bo Cavanaugh,
who looks just like her favorite romance novel hero,
enters her life.
Then a week later, you've got
unwrapping Christmas Lily's Destiny.
Lily. Holy shit.
That you gotta hold out. The marketing guru.
What? Let's hold up.
Let's stop here.
Let's stop on these two.
There's four of these films.
Okay, so one is Tina's something.
Tina's Miracle.
And then me is Prince.
Me is Prince November 14th.
And then The Spear of Destiny.
The Spear of Destiny,
unwrapping Christmas, The Spear of Lily's Destiny.
Yes.
It sounds like they're just trying to kind of
churn out all of the stuff they're known for
before December even gets here in four tight, tight films.
Now, I'll tell you what would be
an incredible cinematic innovation.
What's that, Travis?
If all of these movies share 75%
of exactly the same footage,
and just we follow different characters
as they leave the scene, why is this not a video game?
Like, that's what I want.
It sounds like a-
Please, let me play this FMV game.
Lily, the marketing guru of All Wrapped Up,
believes the universe guides us to our destiny,
and it appears that it's guiding her
towards a celebrity realtor.
Oh, what luck.
It's so wild when destiny does that.
Hey, I wanna point out that second one
where it's like she realizes a local celebrity.
So he's well known locally.
Yeah, he's a local celebrity.
Looks like the cover guy from her favorite romance novel.
Why did it take so long for her to put that together?
How come it's never like, and then she meets Duncan,
who works at the Army Corps of Engineers. He is 51 years old.
Then she met Steve, an unemployed electrical technician,
who's, yeah, he's down on his luck,
but he's got a lot of heart and a lot of student loans.
He is not looking for the meaning of Christmas.
That is not important to Duncan.
He has bills to pay and mouths to feed.
Unwrapping Christmas, the franchise on November 28th.
In game.
Happy Thanksgiving with Olivia's reunion.
Olivia, the gift wrapping expert all wrapped up,
makes a delivery to a remote cabin
only to find her ex-boyfriend, Benjamin,
on the other side of the door.
With a knife.
So here's, all I wanna say is that
I gotta give credit to them.
A lot of movie studios have worked extremely hard
to try to get franchises going.
These motherfuckers are just dropping it in a month.
They're working on an entire,
all wrapped up cinematic universe.
Ain't that Marvel?
Yeah, Marvel should just do four movies in a month.
Then they would, they'd be able to wiggle their way back in.
They should take that.
And that would be actually, can you believe
that that is all the multi-film franchises
that Home Art Plus is launching in 2024?
I see you winding up that fucking haymaker juice,
just literally. Can you believe
that they're only doing it once?
Yeah. That's so weird.
Like, just once.
Okay, except for wait a minute.
Let's talk about the Cherry Lane movies.
Over the course of more than 70 years,
a lot of families have lived in the house
at Seven Cherry Lane,
and each of them has had a Christmas Eve to remember.
In three sequels to the 2023 hit movie,
Christmas on Cherry Lane,
we return to the house for more Christmas eves
with each movie exploring three different eras.
Holy shit, so that's nine eras?
How many different eras have there been?
Are they going paleolithic in one of them?
And I'm sorry, the factor,
the franchise connection is a house.
Yeah, man.
Yes, Travis, this is the brilliant part, right?
The one thing that doesn't change
is the thing that they have to rebuild.
So that's fucking great.
It's so good, actually.
They're like, oh, you like the house, huh?
How about three sequels in it?
And then they're like, okay, it's 2 p.m.
We need to get this 50s family out.
I just love- 70s family, you're up.
I would love to see that, like a fly on the wall
of the contract negotiations
of one of the stars of the sequel,
who's like, listen, if you want me back,
you're gonna have to pay top dollar.
And then they're like, we actually don't need you back.
We've got house.
House is all we need for this one.
I also love the idea of you binging this whole series
and by like era five, you're like,
oh, they moved the China cabinet.
You're able to really figure out how,
oh, that's a new rug.
Okay, so listen.
In 1951, a doctor wants to make the holiday special
for his worried wife before he is shipped out
to serve in Korea.
In 2003, a newly married couple who are always in agreement about everything
host two sets of in-laws for Christmas Eve for the first time and find that
they may not have as much in common as they thought they did.
And in 2024, a couple tries to arrange a special Christmas surprises for each
other, but keeping them a secret may be harder than they thought.
That's one movie.
That's one movie on one day.
What?
That's one? December 5th.
December 5th, there's one movie that's those three, okay?
We are getting nine eras to depict it to.
And if you come back on December 12th,
in 1960, Eli and Penny take in Eli's
curmudgeonly father, Walter.
In 1998, we see Regina and Nelson's first meeting.
And in 2015, Jessie faces a big challenge while planning her sister's last-minute Christmas
Eve wedding.
The officiant is Tim, her high school sweetheart.
All of these could just say, like, some dude is doing this and some lady is doing that.
Don't worry about who they are.
They're gonna be on screen for 25 minutes tops,
but don't worry, the corners and the window,
the door and stuff, all there.
Don't you worry.
But what if there's like a House of Leaves style
asynchronous mystery happening in the background?
I'm obsessed with the idea of these films. Like, it's such an incredible opportunity
to do some in-world storytelling.
There's nothing to do with the movie that you're watching.
Do you remember in Lost how there was like
the character Richard who just like kept showing up
and never aged and was in every era?
Give me one of those type characters.
The Watcher.
Just keeps showing up to the party,
but it's the same guy, unaged, unchanging, every time.
Every era includes a scene of someone going in the attic
and seeing the face of the witch in the attic,
and then they scream and then it hard cuts back downstairs
and they don't talk about the witch in the attic again.
They don't, they don't, but when you're watching
a commercial for Velveta in the next movie,
the witch comes into the commercial for Velveeta.
As they slowly pan across one of the rooms,
you see like an alien figure standing in a corner,
and when they pan back, he's gone.
And you just see him pop up in different locations
throughout the house, throughout the eras.
And you see him like scribbling down notes maybe
about what he sees in human behavior.
Awesome. I'm embarrassed to admit that I did not actually say the names of these movies. See him scribbling down notes maybe about what he sees in human behavior? That's awesome.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I did not actually
say the names of these movies.
Seasons Greetings from Cherry Lane is December 5th.
December 12th, the one we just discussed,
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane.
Oh.
On December 19th, you're gonna deck the halls
on Cherry Lane.
In 1966, a single guy, David's, plans for a simple Christmas
are dashed when his name is Stephanie.
When a time traveler arrives in 2015.
I am from the third era.
I warn you.
He finds the corpse.
He arrives with the corpse.
He finds the corpse, the journal and the key.
And the witch must be fed.
A news arrives with the news that she won a contest
to have Tommy, man, I'm gonna read this whole sentence.
You ready, guys?
In 1966, Single that guy David's plans
for a simple Christmas are dashed
when his neighbor Stephanie's Christmas Eve TV
special broadcast live from her house
but used his address.
What?
That's a big one.
She won a contest to have Tommy Saunter's Christmas Eve TV
special broadcast live from her house.
Pretty shitty contest.
In 1981, John and Lizzie learned
that this will be their last Christmas on Cherry Lane
after Job receives an offer in Michigan
and Lizzie finds out she's pregnant.
In 2000, best friends Matt and Rebecca
find unexpected feelings developing
as they try to find out who's behind a series
of Christmas-themed random acts of kindness.
That's all I need to know.
Aw, man, I thought it was gonna be murders.
Murder, me too, Trav.
I was hoping for murder as well.
I thought it was gonna be Christmas murders.
I think in the one where the woman is pregnant,
the baby comes out and it's one of the guys from Arrow One,
and the whole thing is part of a beautiful cycle, I think.
It has such incredible,
I mean,
what I want from these films that I won't get
is like you're watching the one in like 2004, right?
And then a 2003 guy knocks on the door, he's like,
I am so sorry to do this.
I left a table underneath the garage.
If I could ram, excuse me, I'm sorry.
You all look busy.
All my wife, still a ghost.
Anyway, I was just going for a jog in the neighborhood
and I needed to make soil.
And since I used to do it so much in this house,
I just thought-
I'm used to it.
That's fine, right?
You're cool.
You remember me from the signing when I sold you this house. Anyway just thought- I'm used to it. That's fine, right? You're cool. You remember me from the signing
when I sold you this house, anyway.
I bought that toilet seat, so technically it's mine.
It is mine.
So both of the-
I'm gonna hire, I'm gonna pay someone on Fiverr
to watch all nine of these eras for me,
just to let me know if there's any kind of
spooky supernatural cyclical observations of time,
or- Time flat circle.
If there's fucking witches in the attic.
Guys, there'll be reused garments.
Like this is the budget I'm expecting for this.
Would you do, if you were doing this shoot,
would, do you think they filmed chronologically
in terms of like, it like just started 1950
and they're like, okay, the next part of a movie,
movie three takes place in four years.
So let's just move it like four years from now.
You would have to, Justin, you would have to,
because that way you can show realistic wear and tear
on the house as the house ages like 60 years.
And they're obsessive about the details.
By the time you get to like the 2024 episode,
like the roof is like caving in
and everything's like rotten and covered in dust.
And we don't have a lot going on in December.
Would you guys commit to each one of us
watching one of the Cherry Lane movies?
And then we can like talk about how they overlap
and interact. If we can recut it
into chronological order and see how it lines up.
You know, I've thought a lot about what order I'm gonna show my kids the Cherry Lane movies. It'll be first part of one,
and then the second part of three.
Yeah, yeah.
Clone Wars.
Clone Wars.
I think with four screens set up,
you can pause and jump between
without having to switch any discs or anything.
So we're just gonna,
the question is you set it up four in a row
or like a two and two.
That's not enough for me, Travis.
I need like, I need like, I need like, I need like, I need like, I need like, without having to switch any discs or anything. So we're just gonna, the question is you set it up four in a row
or like a two and two.
That's not enough for me, Travis.
I need like minority report levels
of like manipulating footage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like with my cyber gloves.
I didn't think of that. Now you see here,
they moved the doily.
And I think that is a cue to us to know
change is coming. Here we have a second appearance
of the character I like to call the man in the wall.
If you look, the man in the wall has moved.
It's an incredible house, an incredible miraculous house
where special things happen every Christmas Eve.
The only rule, heteros only.
Only please.
Please.
And also nothing bad happens to anyone.
Why did they have to move out of the house?
He got a job, she's pregnant.
Nothing's wrong.
They both got a job.
They're both got a job.
They're all got a job.
They all got new jobs.
Everything's great.
They're all moving to Aspen.
I need to know if we're getting a new installation
of the Yes Chef Christmas franchise.
Dying to know.
Yes, the Yes Chef, let me see here. Yes Chef Christmas franchise. Dying to know. Yes, the Yes Chef, let me see here.
I have not looked at- Yes Chef Christmas?
It's starring Tia Malory.
It's called Yes Chef Christmas,
and she's in a cooking competition.
Was that a Hallmark film?
It was a Hallmark film, I think.
Or was it a Netflix film?
Oh, it was a Lifetime film.
That's basically the same thing.
They're probably not making a Yes Chef Christmas.
You know, you say that, and it's so offensive. I're probably not making a Yes Chef Christmas. You say that and it's so offensive.
I think Lifetime has a lot more murder.
Lifetime has, but not in their Christmas movies, rarely.
Rare. Very rare.
I just love Yes Chef Christmas because-
Tia, Tamara Mowry-Housley, excuse me,
is busy over there at Scouting for Christmas,
which we previously covered in a prior episode.
I know she's on the same issue.
Did we?
I think just you and I talked to Dad about it.
I watched all of Yes Chef Christmas.
Oh man, Travis, that's really embarrassing.
Is that accurate?
Yeah, we talked about it in the green room in Denver.
We did talk about it on an episode.
Oh no, the spheres.
Oh, it's all blending together.
I just like Yes Chef Christmas because it sounds like the Christmas sequel to the Yes Chef franchise. It's all blending together. I just like Yes Chef Christmas
because it sounds like the Christmas sequel
to the Yes Chef franchise.
It is not.
The name of the film, first of its kind,
is Yes Chef Christmas.
And I do need to see if we're gonna get a,
time for you to come home for Christmas.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Okay, let's get in a question. I'd love to do a question before we head on.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, it's a show for the modern era
where we take your questions
and turn them out.
I host a general trivia night at a restaurant.
I have a team of regulars
that have been coming almost every week for a year.
It's a group of 48 people depending on the week.
428, so important.
They're super nice and we always have a great time together,
lots of good bits back and forth.
There's one problem.
They win almost every week.
I'm worried people will stop coming or not come at all.
Is there any way to deter them from winning,
find out their weaknesses,
or should I let them continue to dominate?
That's from Mystified in the Mid-South.
You know who's figured this out? Who? The Chase. or shall I let them continue to dominate?" That's from Mystified in the Mid-South.
You know who's figured this out? Who?
The Chase, the game show, The Chase.
Are we about to have another lengthy conversation
about The Chase game show?
No, no, no, not lengthy.
Just what they have is they have trivia experts
and the trivia expert, everybody's playing against them.
All right, so the trivia questions
go to the chase and the chaser.
And it's like-
Oh, that's a good idea!
Yeah, so you have this team who's like,
you're playing against them
and whoever does best against them wins.
I mean, there's another version of this
that is one versus a hundred, right?
Another sort of similar style experience
where everyone else in the bar gets to be on one big team. Oh
I like that too Griffin that really puts them on the pedestal or like they have to choose
One representative. Yeah champion for each round like the chase. This is also like the chase. Can you do the chase?
Can you just do the chase? You know, what would be fun? Oh, this is what you do. So is the chase the beast in America?
Yes, correct.
Okay.
The next time there's like eight of them,
you say, you know, it'd be fun.
Two teams of four,
see how you guys do against each other.
Yeah.
That's really good.
That's cool.
Gamify the Trivia Knight.
I mean, take a look at this.
Gamify the Trivia Knight.
Yeah.
It's about time someone did,
cause really it's just school you're allowed to drink at
if you fucking think about it.
I feel like look at the subject matter of your questions,
if they're crushing it,
and pick wildly different subject matter.
I don't wanna cast-
Everybody knows about other stuff.
I believe this.
You just gotta find out what the other people know about
and try to ask them, like maybe before trivia,
you go around and you're like, so what's your birthday?
What do you, oh.
And then throw a curve ball in, what's Doug's birthday?
Yeah, that's a good one.
What's in Doug's pocket?
What's in Doug's pocket?
What's in Doug's pocket right now?
Hey, who's ready to play my favorite game?
What's in my pockets?
Now that wasn't a live show,
now that I'm thinking about it.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I one time was at a bar trivia,
and they did a segment where they were like,
all right, we're gonna list out some names.
You have to tell us if it's a Shakespeare character
or a Final Fantasy character.
And it felt like a light was shining down from heaven,
like Griffin, you don't know much shit,
but this is your moment to impress.
I got like 60% right.
It was harder than it sounds, man.
It sounds so hard, man.
I was all confident.
I know these guys.
They all blend together in the head, don't they?
Yeah.
You just cheat.
What?
Just cheat?
Just say they got the answers wrong.
What? No. No, don't do that.
Then they won't come anymore.
Oh yeah, you don't want that.
They are providing a lot of business to this business.
Yeah, and they like them.
They're not personally, you could ask them
to just like chill out.
If they win all the time,
do they like winning all the time?
Has it started, maybe you could like give them
some sort of like a deficit that they're starting
like four points down or whatever.
And like talk to them about it.
Like, hey, does this still feel challenging to you guys?
Yeah.
Like do you think you could cover
and then uncover your ears fast back and forth
so you only hear half of the questions?
Ooh.
Is that something you guys are doing?
Like every other word, how fast are we talking?
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
We're gonna put someone at your table
who hums really loudly while I'm asking the question.
I am going to start tasing you all.
Huh.
But you won't know when, so do keep an eye out for that.
Don't get too focused on the questions.
Who's the worst team who always shows up?
Put them on their team now.
We're gonna get an average here.
Hey, you guys are always doing really bad, right?
You get every question wrong, cool.
You're with them now.
And listen, don't respect their opinions at all.
Maybe this is the time you guys get all the questions right.
Get over there.
Get on.
Can you call in Kenneth Jennings
and some other big, companyid-y heavyweights,
just to have ringers?
Oh, some ringers, yeah.
Yeah, to take them down to Dookytown?
I'm pretty good at trivia.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
I think I am.
I feel like trivia always reminds me,
I feel like trivia just kind of reminds me of,
the only stuff I know is stuff everybody knows.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Like, I know a lot of it, but so does everybody else.
I kind of feel like, I don't feel like I know a lot
of stuff that other people don't know.
And there's a lot of stuff that I just don't.
You know what I mean?
Like where things are.
I would say there's an alternative to this,
which is there's a lot of things
that everyone knows that I don't know.
This is what I'm saying, right?
Like where things are, what happened is one.
When a lot of people-
What happened?
What happened and when?
When happened?
When did it happen?
Sports.
Or how do they do it there?
How do they do it there?
How do they do it over there?
What led to this happening?
Who's in charge?
Causes and effects, Travis.
That's one that I think should be off limits.
What caused something or like who?
Who could say?
Who is one that they do a lot at trivia
where I'm like, Star Wars?
No, not Star Wars.
It's like, okay, well, who?
I don't know.
Yeah, Superman?
Which war was it?
Is one I won.
Which one was it?
Which one, who did it, when was it,
why did it happen, where did it happen?
Any of that stuff I don't like.
I don't get it.
Yeah. Presidents.
Presidents, in a way.
There's a couple of them I know stuff about.
Yeah, a couple I know too much.
So there's a couple of them I'd like to know
what's about to film.
I think a fun trivia night would be more of like
an essay thing where it's just like open ended,
sit down, here's a piece of paper,
write down some trivia, you know?
And then I will write down interesting trivia,
and it's gonna be much more subjective judging,
where they're like, that is good trivia.
And I would get a point for that.
This reminds me, I've told this story
of the show before, I think,
but I used to have a science teacher in high school
that had his own Jeopardy machine
that you could hook up to a TV with like RCA cables
and play Jeopardy, but he would have us write
some of the questions, the ones not about human anatomy,
and we would play the game and he'd be like,
in this franchise, the fantasy is never final.
And I rung in, I was like, Final Fantasy?
And he was like, I don't know.
He was like, I didn't write this, is that right? Whoever he was like, I don't know. He was like, I didn't write this.
Is that right?
Whoever wrote this one, I don't know.
Let's take a quick break, go to the Maze Island.
We'll be right back after this. Is that a, is that a living? Is that a, is that a living?
Is that a, is that a living?
I am on the first day of our first family vacation in several years and I'm having a problem.
I have had to shit for the last 47 minutes and my family is only halfway through the Cincinnati Zoo.
I don't want them to miss out on any of the exhibits
because of me, but I'm about to explode.
How do I guide them through the exhibits quickly
so that we can get to the hotel quicker?
That's from DJ.
I wish I was brave like DJ.
Hey, DJ, there's bathrooms.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. DJ knows there's bathrooms at the Cincinnati Zoo.
I think we have to accept the premise
that DJ will not be using the bathrooms
at the Cincinnati Zoo.
I mean, and here's the thing about the bathrooms
at the Cincinnati Zoo, there's whole swaths of that park
that are underserved, bathroom-wise.
If you're chilling in guerrilla world, you have a 15-minute walk to the Cincinnati Zoo. There's whole swaths of that park that are underserved, bathroom-wise. If you're chilling in guerrilla world,
you have a 15 minute walk to the nearest bathroom.
This is true. That's all there is to it.
That's a lot of it, some of it uphill.
If you're exploring Gibbon Islands,
you're already fucking, just poop your pants.
You're not gonna make it, no way.
There's a lot of people that simply will not use
the bathroom in a public place, which I understand. There's a lot of people that simply will not use the bathroom in a public place, which I understand.
There's a lot of people like me that as soon as they get
to a new public place, try to use the bathroom immediately.
Like I'm setting up a base camp on a climb.
Leaving dead drops.
I'm on recon.
I do that every time I go to eat.
So what have you thought so far? I don't know, I just got here 10 minutes ago.
That's only time for the bathroom.
There are some people like me where they just know
that even if they desperately need to use
the public restroom and are mentally open to it,
there's something in their body that's like,
no, not here, no, I'm not gonna let you.
Rachel and I went to a nice sushi place last night
and we got there, got our drink orders in
and I was like, where's the bathroom?
They're like right behind the host stand.
And I was like, cool.
So I went to do my base camp set up
and then when I got there, I realized that it really is,
you have to walk immediately by and behind the host
at their host stand, which immediately I was like,
this is gonna be a problem
because I'm at least gonna go in there three times.
And sure enough, by the third time,
she was just like, mm-hmm.
Wow.
That's miserable, Griff, I'm so sorry.
Most of the animals are very similar.
Yeah.
You know?
Speak on that.
Well, like a cheetah, a leopard, a tiger, we get it.
Yeah.
Big cats.
Okay.
All right, really, how different is an elephant
and a rhino and a hippo?
So go see Fiona, clock Fiona, you did it.
You knocked it out of the park.
Really all you need.
Pay your respects to Harambe over at Gorilla World.
Take a minute and think about how that all went down.
I wanna silence.
Is there a, I find joking about Harambe
incredibly tasteless.
Sorry, who was joking?
Griffin, who was joking?
No, no, no, you're not joking.
I'm saying, you know, in general,
internet humor about Harambe, I think, is quite tasteless.
But is there like a plaque or any sort of like recognition
of like his existence?
See, now I can't tell if I'm Mandela.
Obviously this is a huge setup for a joke opportunity
and we all recognize that but we're not gonna grab it.
I remember, like part of my brain is like,
I remember there being one.
Okay. But it might be
cause I just want there to be one.
The Cincinnati Zoo does have one for the last
carrier pigeon that died there,
which seems like a big oopsie, but that is true.
Well, when you only have one, Justin,
what are you gonna do about it?
Oh my God, they have a whole memorial park.
Okay. Okay.
So we're well covered.
Oh, but it's permanently closed, so maybe.
So they need another one for that.
Right, yeah.
I think they need a bigger memorial park
to put that park in.
Eight, I think when you go to see the,
like when you see the monkeys at the zoo,
people say the same thing every time.
Oh, there's so much like us.
And I get it for sure.
But it does, what it means is,
when you look at every animal at the zoo, the question on your mind is,
do I do anything like this?
Cause that's the only way the animals are,
the only way monkeys are answering that question for you
is if you are asking it when you're looking at them.
So really the zoo is just going around
and looking at animals like,
do I do anything like cheetah?
Like, you want, you look at,
the only thing that you're gonna learn from Cheetah is like,
do I do anything that I recognize as like,
like sometimes you'll see Cheetah go up to a food
and like, it'll eat some food, they run away.
And then I'm like, I do things like that.
Yeah, yeah, I already, look at this Cheetah.
I use my butt to balance me when I'm running really quickly.
I get it.
I like also doing this sort of aspirationally,
like when you see an elephant pick up a watermelon
with its trunk and put it in its mouth
and absolutely fucking annihilate that thing,
I see that and I'm like, must be nice.
Must be nice to grab a whole watermelon
with your nose, cram it in your mouth and then explode it?
That sounds pretty fucking cool to me, man.
That's also one of those like chase experiences,
like because of the context.
Like I saw an elephant, no big deal. I saw an elephant crush a watermelon.
It's like, I saw a walking phoenix who cares.
I saw a walking phoenix eat a salad that's sweet green.
It's like, that's something.
That's something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
An action there.
There's a reveal to the story.
Chase experience.
At the Cincinnati Zoo, there's also a petting zoo
where you can see like goats and shit.
And it's like, hey man, I'm at a zoo,
why would I wanna see a goat and a chicken?
I can see those.
I'm just saying.
You're still pretty cool, man.
I'm saying you could skip that.
I'm saying that that's a thing you can bounce off.
Hey man, me personally, the bug house, I don't need that.
I don't need that in my day.
I don't need to think about that.
Skip right past that.
But goats, I see goats about the same amount
that I see every other animal, which is mostly at zoos.
I don't have a lot of day-to-day goat encounters,
and I thank the sweet Lord Jesus Christ,
my savior above, for that.
Have you thought about opening yourself up
to more goat opportunities?
I don't know how the fuck I would do that, man.
Speaking of the bug house,
you are not allowed to vape in there,
and it's like, do you want me to be high for this or not?
Yeah.
It's kind of like mixed messages.
Like you have a place called the bug house,
like I would like to see it the way it's intended,
you know what I mean?
I need to open up my consciousness.
That could turn bad on you though, huh?
If you were gonna have a bathroom whoopsie
at the Cincinnati Zoo,
what area of the zoo do you think would be the best choice?
I think maybe around the apes,
because then at least they'll point at you and be like,
I get it. The apes get it.
The apes would look at you and be like,
oh, they're just like us.
Damn dude, bipedal buddy,
did you just shit right where you stand? Yeah, man. Just like us. Damn dude, bipedal buddy. Did you just shit right where you stand?
Yeah, man.
Just like us.
Do you ever, do you ever,
you ever been to the zoo or, or animal kingdom or something
where the animals are walking around?
They have some animals that are allowed to walk around.
Cause I think next to one of them is where I would do it.
Oh shit, yeah.
And then be like eww Everybody come look
Look at what this nasty duck did
Look at what this nasty duck did everybody
That duck is very sick
Look at this huge fucking turd this pee hen made
Holy crap, it's thicker than its neck that doesn't make any fucking sense
Something got horribly wrong
Hey this guy in a croc-Nod costume just pooped over
Hey good, hey everyone come look what Goofy did
You nasty dog
Blu knows more human than you are you?
I gotta go see myself
I know what's happened here. You know what this means
Don't get your hands off me. I'm gonna go to the gift shop
You can't prove that's mine. I love to buy a shot glass on my way out. I'm making the decision to leave. I wanna make this clear.
This isn't up to you.
I'm choosing to never return.
I'm choosing to leave and ban myself
from the Cincinnati Zoo.
Please don't tell Jack Hanna I did any of this.
Hey guys, what if they had a part of the zoo
where you could go and just be in a bit of a-
Beast mode for a second, yeah.
Just go. You shed the clothes.
You shit where you please.
And for a half hour you're in the exhibit, man.
There's no judging.
You're not worried about deadlines.
You're not worried about your boss anymore.
I'm getting excited about this idea now.
You have to shit in where you please.
They throw you a watermelon, you crush it in your jaws.
Is there part of this preservation,
this human preservation,
where there is like an observation window.
If you wanna run up to the glass and be like,
come on guys, we're fucking partying in here.
Like you could put on a little,
or you could just lay down in front of the glass and sleep
and not just hide behind a bush.
I feel like that's counter to the spirit.
I want a break for that.
You just described my everyday life honestly right now.
I don't wanna perform.
I don't wanna do it again.
I would love to just be able to just go
foam your cat for a while.
I see people come to the thing
and I'm immediately in the tunnels.
We're popping out, we're watching out for each other.
It would have to be an international waters situation.
Like you can't have laws in the wild zone.
Yeah.
You can trade places with an animal for 30 minutes.
What about that?
I see the orangutan.
I'm like, you and me, buddy, I give him my clothes, my ID.
He's me on the outside for 30 minutes.
He tears your fucking head off your shoulders
and throws it in the nearby lake.
No, I think no touchies, no words.
That's easy.
Yeah. Right?
A few have preserved like no touchies,
no words solves most of it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Most of our problems.
When your time's done, you do have to go back
to the human world.
If you start making crude technologies,
you will be asked to leave.
Get out of here, man.
If I see you use a lever, out.
If you use a stick to get some ants out of a vial, get the fuck out of here, man. If I see you use a lever, ow! If you use a stick to get some ants out of a vial,
get the fuck out of here, you're too far.
Well, now it depends on which one you're being.
If you're in the chimpanzee exhibit, you can do that.
I think they should, I think when chimpanzees
get to that point, they should be removed
from the zoo also.
You're too close, dude.
Now we're uncomfortable, man.
I would love to see a human in the elephant exhibit
painting.
That would make me really happy for some reason.
I'd be very, but they have to do it with their nose.
Okay, there's something there.
I'd wanna be not one of the night cats.
Can you imagine you're just walking through
the night hunter exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo
and you're looking in and they've got everything
all dark and stuff to trick the animals
in the thing at night time and you look in
and there's just meat prowling around
in one of those containers.
Yeah, Trav, that would be-
I see him, he's behind that log.
That would be extremely scary and off-putting
to see a man in the night hunter.
Dressed as Mr. Rastafalit.
Look at that, oh, he's stalking that cricket or whatever.
I'm on the prowl.
I'm a night cat.
They don't let me in the wild zone
with the other animal humans.
For obvious reasons.
My second interview to be a barista is on Thursday
and I just realized it's Halloween.
What costume will impress the manager
and land me the job?
That's from Scarysta in Sin Fransinsko.
I'm very scared.
Like that scared me a little bit actually.
Good for you.
Do both.
I mean, yeah, I think doing both is wild.
How long is this interview going to be
that you have to wear your costume during it?
Unless you just don't wanna bring
a change of clothes down town.
Well, it shows a level of commitment, Griffin.
A level of enthusiasm.
You dress up like a big old coffee bean.
I'm this for Christmas,
because I'm just wild about these beans.
You dress for the job you want.
Sorry, did you say for Christmas?
I did say Christmas, yeah.
Let's speak on that for a second.
Well, I was thinking like-
Shazza doesn't like it when people say Christmas.
Everybody has to say happy holidays.
Happy holidays.
Okay.
It does make you seem like someone
who had better things to do, doesn't it?
A little bit.
Which I like.
I like that though.
That's kinda playing hard to get.
You gotta dress for the job you want.
So you dress as a barista.
I mean- The generic, like, Kroger, like,
Aldi brand.
The Kirkland barista.
A zombie barista.
What?
That's scary.
That's spooky.
Yeah.
I don't think it's gotta be that.
I think you come out of the back room
wearing a barista uniform from this place
and you're like, this is, I'm make believing
that I'm doing this and you're gonna see
what a good job I do.
And they can't make you leave
because it's a Halloween costume.
Dress as a job interviewer and flip the script.
Mm. Mm.
Mm.
Mm.
Where do you see yourself?
Which one of us is the interviewer now?
Yeah, who watches the watch line.
Where do you see yourself in five years,
asking you this exact same question five years from now?
And tell me, who have you dressed as today for our interview?
I dressed as your grandfather's ghost.
I looked it up online.
I looked it up and I'm online and I'm your grandfather's,
I'm looking exactly, I know, exactly like him, right?
It's wild.
And I dressed as his whole life story.
Ask me anything your grandfather would know.
What kind of interview is this?
Exactly.
Exactly. Oh, by the way, I'm your biological grandfather. Wait, what kind of interview is this? Exactly. Exactly.
Oh, by the way, I'm your biological grandfather.
Wait, what?
Yes, you are right.
You don't even know about that shit.
I am dressed as a Google Maps printout
of your home address.
If I don't get this job,
I am going to talented Mr. Ripley you.
Which I don't know if you've seen that film,
does not turn out for the real Mr. Ripley.
Stuff to think about.
Yes, sir, I am Dress as Borat,
but I will be doing this interview as myself.
Don't you worry.
What's that?
You wanna see my resume?
Ha ha ha!
Sorry, sir, that was the only one.
Sorry, it just happened.
Sorry.
Your only resume?
Yes, I do need it Sorry. Your only resume? Yes.
I do need it back.
My thrift.
Yes, it's pain in my assholes.
Thank you for asking.
Thank you so much.
One of my friends is a speed Rubik's Cube solver
and solves for the team that enters competitions together.
Recently, they signed up to an event in my city
that's in a week.
Unfortunately, one of their team got sick,
but has already paid for the ticket.
My friend has asked me to step in
as I know how to slowly solve a Rubik's Cube.
Brothers, how do I grind my Rubik's Cube skills
as to not embarrass myself in front of these elite cubers
that's from Gmail?
It's a nightmare that I have.
It's a nightmare.
What you described.
Yeah, I've had this nightmare.
There's no way to do this.
You have to get good at it real fast.
It takes a long time.
So long? Yeah, it takes a long time to do it. Okay, let me offer this play. There's no way to do this. You have to get good at it real fast. It takes a long time. So long?
Yeah, it takes a long time to do it.
Okay, let me offer this play.
You step up there, you move the cube around really fast,
but then you slam it down and say, this one's broken.
Yeah, this one's actually an unsolvable pattern.
Unsolvable.
This happens sometimes.
This happens sometimes.
This is in regulation.
I've had that happen to me before.
Couple stickers in the wrong place,
that motherfucker won't get solved.
One of the cubes twisted?
Yep.
Yep, that'll happen.
Unsolvable. Unsolvable.
Bugs. You're so smart, you do it.
You wanna prove to me it's not broken, you solve it.
Thank you very much.
That's my job. I'm gonna slam it down.
Take it back, slam it down.
I use social engineering as my skill.
Exactly, that's one of them.
He's done it.
If your friend hasn't invited you to do it,
they know that you're not bringing the heat, right?
Yeah.
Like there's no way your friend thinks you're super,
your friend who is super fast and competes
in super fast Rubik's Cube is like,
I bet they're also as good as I am.
That's not happening.
Yeah.
Probably if they need somebody to fill out the team
and you're the only other person they know
who's ever solved a Rubik's Cube.
Have you wronged them in the past?
And this is a setup for a JK Simmons
at the end of Whiplash, brutal fucking like,
they walk up to you and they're like,
you remember how I said that this was low stakes?
These are the fastest speedcubers in the world,
and you're about to absolutely shit your pants
and have your ass fall out of your pants.
I knew it was-
We staked your house on this one.
We staked your house on this one.
I knew it was you the whole time, Neiman.
And then you walk away, slap, oh fuck,
you don't know what to do.
But then you go back out there.
Paul Reiser's like, don't do it,
but you're like, fuck off, Paul Reiser.
Fuck on, your heart will explode,
you can't drum right now.
Is that, I haven't seen it in a bit.
That's basically how it ends, yeah.
How fast can it be?
I'm gonna look up the world record,
cause it can't be that fast, right?
For drumming?
World record, Rubik's Cube.
I mean, you'll probably have a couple minutes
or something to see.
Oh, people who do it. Oh, baby.
People who do it really?
3.1 seconds, Jesus Christ.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you ever see people do, people get,
I thought I would impress a kid one time,
cause I saw this kid Cuban at a rehearsal I was at.
I saw a Cuban child at a thing and you did.
A human child Cuban, a Cuban.
Cuban.
He was eating a Cuban sandwich.
No, I'm so sorry.
He was Cuban.
Yes.
C-U-B-I-N, fun apostrophe.
Yeah, a G on there would have really solved this whole issue, Juice, and it seemed like you were. He was Cuban. Yeah. C-U-B-I-N fun apostrophe.
Yeah, a G on there would have really solved
this whole issue, Juice.
And it seemed like you were-
Hey, Griffin, if I like solving things,
I wouldn't be a cuber, you know?
Wait. Sure.
Wait, isn't that the whole point of being a cuber?
Hey, so I told him I could solve the cube.
And he's like, show.
He's like, you do cube now?
I'm like, yeah, let me see.
So I take the cube and I solve it.
It takes me about two minutes. And he's like, huh. And then he takes it and he's like, you do cube now? I'm like, yeah, let me see. So I take the cube and like solve it. It takes me about two minutes.
And he's like, huh.
And then he takes it and he's like,
he just sort of looks at it,
just like solves itself.
I don't know, this kid did it in like 10 seconds.
And it made me feel,
I realized that like just knowing how to do it
actually is the lowest possible barrier to,
it is just the most, the lowest thing you can do
to even be in this world at all.
Like you couldn't be at more of a beginning spot
than to just be able to do it.
One of my favorite things of being a parent
is moments where I can look at my child and be like,
ah, this child and I, we're cut from the same cloth.
We're so, Bibi picked up a Rubik's cube,
twisted it three or four times, and then went,
eh, put it back down.
And I was like, that's my kid.
That kicks ass. Nice.
Wow.
Chilling.
Oh, what I mean is I have no follow through
or command of things I'm not immediately good at.
Yeah.
No, I got it.
Hey, Travis, here's what I'm saying.
Explain to me how we're on episode 736
because you're the best of the best.
I was good at this right away.
This is the proof.
This is the proof is in the pudding.
You wouldn't still be doing it if you weren't good at it.
Think about it that way.
I did it right.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
You know what I'm saying?
You must be good at it.
Otherwise why are you still doing it?
I'm financially beholden to doing it.
It's part of me as well.
Oh, well, yeah, we all have our demons at this point, Trav.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how this taunt team is set up.
Yeah, I can't stop playing the ponies,
and it's like, gotta keep doing my brother, my brother,
and me, you can't do this.
Right, exactly.
Most of my several families across the US
are dependent on this show's money coming in.
You're two were families, as you call them.
Right. Yes.
The road fam.
Yeah, we get it.
The satellite fam. By the way get it. The satellite fam.
By the way, Jeremy, good luck in science club.
Ha ha ha!
See you in Indianapolis.
Carla.
Ha ha ha!
No, being someone else,
can't wait to catch your next science fair
in Indianapolis.
Carla.
Carla. Carla, you are my favorite daughter of eight years old.
Crap.
We are actually gonna be in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
That's probably tomorrow.
Not to see our road families.
We're gonna be doing My Bad, My Brother, Me Tuesday,
November 5th, Indianapolis with Bria Iyengar,
Wednesday, November 6th, we're going to be in Annapolis
doing the Adventure Zone, and then we'll be in Milwaukee
on November 7th with my brother, my brother, and me.
And let me be clear about that Adventure Zone one,
it's Roll 4 Shoes, which if you don't know the system,
is the most open-ended, chaotic thing.
The last time we played it, it went absolutely wild,
and Abrey is joining us,
and you're not gonna wanna miss it.
You can get tickets at bit.ly slash McElroy Tours,
and you can also, if you have questions
for either My Brother, My Brother and Me show,
you can send in the questions to nbmbam at maximumfund.org and put your city
in the subject line so we know you're sending it to,
same with wishes for fun galore.
Yeah, hey, if you're coming to that November 5th show
in Indianapolis, you should probably definitely vote
before you come to the show.
We won't have any kind of voting apparatus set up there.
And don't vote for one of the shitty ones.
You know what I mean?
Vote only for the right people, obviously.
Or the left people, wink.
If we say the wrong thing here,
Jeff Bezos shuts our asses.
That's the problem.
He's standing over my shoulder right now,
breathing very heavily, which is freaking me out.
Don't vote for Ronald Gump. And I'm looking at Jeff and he's nodding his head like you can say it, don is freaking me out. Don't vote for Ronald Gump.
And I'm looking at Jeff and he's nodding his head,
like you can say, don't vote for Ronald Gump.
Yeah, like he said, that's okay.
He said, that's okay.
He said, the real Ronald Gump might not recognize
that you're talking about him.
His retribution doesn't come down.
So don't vote for Ronald Gump.
Hey, at the end of this month,
I'm gonna be doing 20-Sided Tavern in New York City
on my off-Broadway premiere.
There it is, first of many.
November 27th through December 1st,
I'll be playing the Trickster role,
which is like three different characters.
Ooh, ambitious.
But, you know, we're playing, get this,
playing D&D live in front of an audience,
and we're making it up as we go along.
Kicks ass.
Yeah, man.
Get your tickets at the20sidedtavern.com
and I'll see you there.
It's gonna be an absolute who and a half.
Yep.
Got some new merch up in the merch store.
Yeah.
The Do Not Drink mug.
If you're a Macquarie Family Clubhouse fan,
I got mine this morning.
You'll recognize that and enjoy it.
There you go.
Both of my kids have asked me what the fuck it means
that we have a mug that says do not drink on it.
You don't show them the intro all the time?
I guess they would enjoy that, right?
My kids watch it every morning.
That's how I wake them up, yeah.
And 10% of all merch proceeds this month
go to the First Nations Development Institute.
Their mission is to uplift and sustain the life ways
and economies of Native communities through advocacy,
financial support, and knowledge sharing.
So go check out macroemerge.com and check out that new mug
and everything else that's there.
We got a wish here.
And thank you to Montane.
Oh my God, I can't believe this is the first time I've ever.
Of our theme song, My Life's Better With You.
Go check that out. Montane, I'm so sorry. is the first time I've ever. Of our theme song, My Life's Better With You.
Go check that out.
Montaigne, I'm so sorry.
Wow.
I'm so sorry, I've never done it.
But that's what family is.
Meerkats support each other, Griffin.
We're looking out for each other.
That's what meerkats and I have in common.
Is that what you would be, you think,
if you went into the wild zone at the Cincinnati Zoo?
You would live that Meerkat life.
Why are you starting the fucking show again?
I could push you into a well.
I just really see myself in the meerkat
and the meerkat inside.
Okay, cool.
I gotta make a wish.
Yeah, please, go ahead, Justin.
Hi.
Hi.
I wish that Haribo gummy sour bats looked a little
less like flying penises.
My name's Justin McElroy.
I'm Travis McElroy.
How are your bow-sour bats?
Yeah, yeah, a little bit.
I'm Griffin McElroy.
This has been My Brother, My Brother May Kiss Your Dad
Square on the Lips.
It's better with you
My life
It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you
My life, ah ah ah ah
It's better, it's better with you
Is it true?
Ah ah ah ah
It's better, it's better with you
My life, ah ah ah ah It's better with two, my lady. Ah, it's better with you.