My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 738: My Unfinished Business is Mr. Holland's Opus

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

We're getting all Newton this week with how much wisdom we're dropping. We'll tell you what to do with the incredible amount of Wicked merch, how to make friends as an adult, and we debut our new fitness app where you just battle people IRL. Suggested talking points: You Didn't Have to Bisect My Wife, Is Cliff Bars Just Lembas Bread, Diameter of the Table Grease, Enhanced Fast Food Regret First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.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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It's me, youngest brother, Griffin McElroy. Come fly away with us. Fly away with us, we're defying gravity here. And defying the laws of God. Defying. Those two go hand in hand. Gravity's God's number one law. He said, go towards the big stuff.

Do you ever think about how easy it was to make scientific discoveries back in the day? Cause like everybody, everybody must have noticed that like when you let go of something, it fell down. And Isaac Newton was just the person who's like, and that's always gonna happen. He said, you know how when you drop a bowl or a fork or an apple or anything, it goes down, that's mine and it's called gravity.

It would be, I would love to be there. The day that dude was like, someone drops something, he's like, oop, you Newtoned it. Like what? Like yeah, you Newtoned it. Like what do you mean? Like yeah, I call it Newtoning. You know how stuff goes from up to down.

I kind of, that's sort of my deal. I discovered that. No, you didn't discover it. We all know that. No, no, no, you don't understand. As far as school children are concerned, I sat under a tree and an apple fell on my head. And I said, that sucks, but it will always happen.

And that's mine now. Anyway, anytime you guys use gravity, I get five cents. What happened? And that's mine now. Anyway. Anytime you guys use gravity, I get five cents. Do you think when he was trying to explain inertia to people, they tried to stop him and he's like, you're not getting it. I know. You're not gonna stop, you don't understand.

Now when you- Griffin, you didn't even fucking laugh. I'm gonna do it again. Okay, sure. Can you imagine when he was trying to explain inertia to people and just as he got going, they tried to stop him. No, it didn't get me that time either, man. I'm gonna do it again. Okay, sure. Can you imagine when he was trying to explain inertia to people, just as he got going, they tried to stop him. Nah, it didn't get me that time either, man. I'm so sorry.

I heard it great, Justin. I loved it. I loved it. The first time it would've ripped my ass off. The first time it was good if you'd been listening. Were we gonna talk about, we could talk about- Yeah, it's Wicked Fever is sweeping the nation. We mentioned this on Clubhouse.

If you're not watching the Malcom Family Clubhouse, you should every Tuesday at 12 Eastern. But there, I don't know if you all have noticed, but the amount of wicked things, are you hypersensitive to the amount of wicked things the way we're hypersensitive at my household? Because I don't know how Ariana Grande is doing it. She's everywhere. Yeah. I feel like I have seen that woman have teary reunions with every high school teacher she ever had.

Yeah. She's been in high school for 27 years though. That's right. That's true. That's true. I saw her reading a lengthy letter that she wrote about how Tower of Terror should not be converted into a Guardians theme ride. She wrote, Ariana Grande, like recently,

wrote a letter to the Disney company imploring them to not change the theming and the Hollywood Tower of Terror. Yeah, for sure. In our household, Justin, Wizard of Oz is Teresa's favorite movie, and she has read Wicked, because she's familiar with the musical as well,

but I would say it's not seen as, maybe it's a little non-canonical for Teresa, especially the movie form. So we have actively, I would say, passively actively avoided it. If you, but imagine an alternate reality where Wicked was her whole shit. And she was two people that were six and 10, okay?

Well, okay, wait, this is getting hard to imagine. My wife is two people who are six and 10. Right. You love Wicked. Yes. Is it like a trench coat situation where I don't know she's two, six and 10? Okay, it's not your wife. It's just, it's my kid. Imagine, imagine if Teresa was obsessed with Wicked

and then all of a sudden every story's everyone is- I have two kids in my house, Justin. You could have just said, imagine your two kids are obsessed with Wicked. We all got two kids. I don't know why you had to bisect my wife. Yesterday, I went into CVS and I bought, I found out they're called Barrett's.

Is that right, Travis? Barrett's. Its, not Berets, those are the hats. I went and got some Barretts, and as I was checking out the lady at CVS said, I feel so guilty, I still haven't seen it. It's like, ma'am, I swear to God, it's not out yet. It's just been advertised to you so much, and there's so many wicked things available. I was like, I'm surprised to discover that.

I thought it came out like a month ago. Yeah, no, it's not here yet. I've lost all track of time though, when it comes to movies coming out, because I swear Wild Robot came out in theaters eight different times. I'm gonna see Wild Robot. I don't need to cry.

Like, you see one, you're like, oh, I'm crying at Wild Robot. I don't need to cry. You see one, you're like, oh, I'm crying at that one. Look at that robot. Anytime there's a robot acting with empathy and compassion, there's somewhere in the room, they're like, we haven't melted the Magalor brothers' hearts in a while. We need to get them going. I can barely read Murderbot Chronicles, and that murders people.

I mean. That's a sweet robot. I remember we took Henry C. Wilde Robot and got emotional during it, and it was like watching the light come on of like, what the fuck is happening? Why does the movie make me sad? Movie make me what?

No way, that can't possibly be right. I had it in the car this week. Cooper from the backseat said, Dad, you wanna know something weird? Sometimes when I watch people get sad, I get sad too. And I thought, oh, thank God. Okay good.

Okay good. Because, okay good. All right, good. That's a really good start for me as a parent. That's gonna make my job a whole lot easier. Yeah, for sure. Because I honestly can have had some doubts. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Cause I honestly can't have had some doubts. Yeah, I've definitely been hurt in front of her

and not gotten a ton of empathy. Where she's in learning mode all of a sudden. It's like, whoa, you're really paying attention very closely. Are you gonna see the movie, Justin? You think maybe I'm having a laugh. You think maybe I'm exaggerating. No? Come on in my office for a second, guys.

Okay. Come on in my office. Like. Step inside my office for a second. Pee-yew, what's that smell? It's everywhere. I left all my special cheese sandwiches hidden around here.

Listen, let's head on over to Broadway Direct. Let's check out a guide to all the wicked movie merchandise, sweets and treats, and I guarantee you, this isn't even a part of it, right? So obviously Ariana Grande is in her line, REM, very confusing still, thank you, Ariana, is gonna be doing a beauty line at Alta.

Gotta do it. Gotta get that. When do people start doing the X in the middle of like a crossover? Cause it just looks like it's multiplied by Wicked Elphaba makeup. So a wide range of hair bands from Lele. Sad doing.

The Forever 21 has got some fake jerseys, some shoes. Look at this, Aldo's doing some shoes. Thanks for the time. Target has a collab. There's doing some shoes. Thanks, it's time. Target has a collab. There's Target's collab over at H&M. Yeah, there's definitely a collab there. When Elphaba and Glinda are at Wicked University, how often do they go to sports team games?

They love sports over here. It's huge. The travel kit. Oh, there's an OPI kit with Wicked. There's a freaking New York H an OPI kit with Wicked. There's a frigging New York Hilton Midtown is about Wicked. There's Wicked rooms. Starbucks has special drinks and cups. There's Betty Crocker Wicked mixed reveal vanilla cookie dough pop kit. Damn fucking timeout Betty Crocker. You made a Wicked slime bag cupcake.

It's rough, right? That's it's rough It's rough for us because if they get either one they're mad There's a mix to reveal cupcake kit as well y'all Wicked, wicked, real cupcake from Betty Crocker. A line of wicked cocktails straight from Oz Huh? Favorite cocktails, Currier. Yeah, there's great guys great value themed wicked,

great value wicked themed mac and cheese that changes pink or green that's Walmart brand. Let me tell you as a parent of two small children. I've never seen this, I've never seen this. The idea of one, you don't know what color your mac and cheese is gonna be, is it gonna be pink or green? And then that it's not yellow.

Yep, huge problem. It doesn't matter if it's pink or green or chartreuse. If it's not yellow, my child's not gonna eat it. There's an acceptable color spectrum that mac and cheese is allowed to occupy. And it's limited. Walmart manufactured generic great value wicked themed rice crispy treats.

There is a wicked Hollywood and dine over at universal studios. There's fun. There's, there's. Didn't Ty Fung is offering a unique wicked theme dining experience on Broadway with vegan noodles and sesame sauce and a nice cucumber salad. That's not even at CVS they have four different, they had two different barrettes. So you've had to buy all this stuff?

You would think my kids would either be Galinda or Elphaba but they're not. They're both of them. Sinus are two wolves. Yeah right. Which one do you teach to defy gravity? That's the question. Only one is allowed to, the other one gets eaten. I would like everyone to please, please stop.

I've put this message on several podcasts at this point, hoping it gets to the right people. I worry, guys, sometimes I am a little bit worried that a week before the movie comes out is a bad time to ask them to stop making things about the movie. I understand. I worry it may be too late now at this point. It's slow down.

What I like the picture is like some, you know, like 1940s, Louis B. Mayer style, like studio big wig, just hearing this, then running over and grabbing a big lever and switching it to off as all of the merchandise backs up behind it And he's like, oh my god, Justin. I'm so sorry. I know I do I use are exploding I in convenience to an Appalachian man. I had no idea shut it down shut it down shut it down This is an advice show. I'd love to help

Our listeners with some of their questions if that would be okay by you guys. I would like that a lot. I would love that actually, yeah. I think that would make us more popular. It'd make us more popular. All right, you wanna talk about something else, Wicked? How dare you split that into two movies. I'm so sorry, Justin.

No, I didn't mean to. They split it into two movies. What? Would you guys like to see a movie with a bunch of kick-ass songs and then two hours? That's not that, cause that's what's on offer at theaters this holiday season. The first one's gonna have a lot of classic songs you love.

And the second one, hmm, you're probably gonna have to go see it, huh? You already saw the first half with all the songs you like. Yeah. Wait till the trailers start popping off for the second. They're gonna be like, conclude the epic. Like you have, there's no songs in these trailers.

Remember all the fun you had. You're locked in. You're all right, it's too late. I am by no means a good singer, but I really enjoy singing and I'm always'm almost always doing it when I'm in my car or apartment. Nothing feels better than belting along to Chapel Road in the solitude of the apartment I live in alone.

However, I was recently speaking with my very kind older neighbor who lives in the apartment above me, and she told me that I have a beautiful singing voice and that she enjoys hearing it. I was perhaps foolishly under the impression that I couldn a beautiful singing voice and that she, quote, enjoys hearing it. I was perhaps foolishly under the impression that I couldn't be heard, but now I know that this isn't the case.

Is packing my bags and moving away enough to cure my shame or do I need to go into witness protection? This is from Can't Hit the High Notes in Columbus, Ohio. Now I'm interested to see you and my brothers, how you react to if you were in this position. Which side? You're in the position of you live in an apartment, you've been singing along, belting some of your favorite,

the wicked soundtrack. Absolutely. And then your neighbor's like, you have a beautiful singing voice and I love hearing you sing. Here is the problem. Go ahead. Go ahead, you know Griffin, if you have a good take. I'm trying to figure out how to say this.

I bought a house specifically to never have to deal with this scenario and I understand that that's a privileged position to be in, but it does feel unfair to even make me have to think about this. Even if it's not me in this situation, I spent a lot of money to- I just wanna- Griffin, I just wanna know if you're flattered or embarrassed. I didn't wanna take it to this existential, I can't even put myself in this place. I recognize I'm very lucky to be in the position I am in, but I'm gonna have to sit on that luck and rest on it

and say I can't, to even imagine the scenario, stirs within me in anxiety that I just don't think I'm up, I guess I'm saying I don't think I'm up to this one. I think this one's too hard for me. Okay, well I can still imagine, I can still remember a life before Griffin, and what I would say is my mental calculations went thusly. Well, she says she likes it, so I guess I should keep serving it up. But then I thought if she didn't

like it, if I didn't like it and I was her, she just told me exactly the way that I would tell somebody. If I could hear somebody and I did not enjoy it, I would tell them that I liked it and that I heard it and that I liked it. And I'll let them kind of figure it out from there. But that is the most I would ever say to somebody. So I don't know, legitimately don't know if you should keep singing or if they will be like, weirded out. If you don't-

So you're on my page, just to be clear, you're on my page, you're also saying like, I don't know, man, this one too hard is basically what you're doing also. I think, Justin, what you are ignoring is, question asked here, what you've got here is a win-win scenario for you. Because if they were saying this in a passive aggressive way to make you feel bad about singing, just keep keep singing and if they like your singing voice sincerely, just keep singing

They weren't doing it in a passive aggressive way They were doing it in a way to say you probably don't want me to hear you sing I know they're saying no, they're saying I know you should know I know and it's not that I like it and it's not That I don't like it. Yeah, but you have're saying, I know. You should know I know. And it's not that I like it. And it's not that I don't like it. But you have to know that I know. Yeah. Now you wake up with a note in your pocket with a red handprint and it says, I know.

I know. You had all the, I know. Just start every song before you sing with, and hey, this one goes out to Dolores upstairs. H-O-T-S. But her name is Rebecca. Well, yeah, that's how she knows her name. You don't even know your neighbor's name

and they're the asshole. That's interesting. That's twisted. You don't have to move. She likes it. If someone said this to me, if someone said, I've heard you're singing your beautiful voice and I love it,

there would be a couple days where I would be in my head, self-conscious, I'd go to sing something like, but then I would just keep thinking like, no, this is for them. They love this. This is getting them through the day. I'm performing. This is a service.

Yeah, but the way you would react to a situation is not necessarily helpful to the listener. You know what I mean? Like, they might be like a special being. We all are. It sounds like maybe you have a very kind older neighbor. So the demographic here is important because I think that maybe sometimes they hear you singing from downstairs

and they're like, oh hell yeah, I'm literally doing nothing else. I have nothing, I got nothing going on right now to entertain me. It's, I watched all my shows, because it's all I do all day is watch my shows. I get, what is this I hear? Free music?

That's where their mind goes, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. This is free music baby. That generation, oh Griffin, that's such a good point. That generation loves to get stuff for free. Yeah. They are wild about it. They love getting free stuff.

They don't have to go to the Nickelodeon to hear someone tootle doodle on the ivories. They're getting singing for free? Free? I would also point out, they just say older neighbor. For all we know, they're like in their 40s and 50s. They were getting it on Napster for free. And they're like, I miss Napster.

Now I've got downstairs stir, who's just like singing me all the hits. Now I'm taking it. Now they're interrupting my Napster. It's their loud singing. How about another question? Please. I'm a middle school teacher,

and one of my students dressed up as Fredo Baggins for Favorite Book Character Day during Spirit Week. Very enthusiastically and complimented his outfit. He told me that his mom made it for him. His mom who teaches at the same school came up to me later to ask if I wanted a cloak like her son's since I liked his so much. I said yes because I assumed she was joking,

but then the day before Halloween, I came in and she'd actually made me a cloak and left it on my desk. I texted her thank you obviously, but I felt like I should be making something for her in return. Maybe a baked good or a scarf or something.

Brothers, how do I thank my coworker for this very cool and generous gift that's from Quote Confusion? I think that as we have gotten older and our audiences transition to, you know, just the other side of the hump, maybe, of life, let's put it that way. We get a lot more questions.

What the fuck? They're on their way out. I'm saying our audience is on their way out. What the fuck, Drew? Our audience is on their way out. They're getting older. If you could see Justin's response to the sentence that was just said on this show.

As they transition towards death. As a basis for what? We get a lot more questions about how to make adults, how to make friends as adults. Yeah. And like, this is a perfect example of like overthinking it. Yeah, it's classic. A child, like if another child gave a gift to a child

because they said they liked something, they're best friends now. Yeah, this person wants to be your best friend. That's awesome. They made you a Frodo Baggins cloak. You gotta- They, they made me... Go off, King, go off, King.

No, no, no, no, no, no. This is the problem with being invited. This is the problem with being invited with a little people in other people's lives, isn't it? Because I get one little peek, and I start thinking I know the whole deal. So can we accept that I'm doing that right now? And I'm the bad guy. I'm okay.

Okay. I don't know why I have to accept that you're a bad guy. Well, she loves it. And the thing is she wants to get with you. She's looking for a new dad for little Frodo and she's hoping that you can be that like. Inspiring new dad or mom or parent. I think this mom is looking for a new parent for little Frodo.

That's where I'm saying is like- To replace her? No, Griff, no, no, like after I'm, by picking up this cloak- Additive parent, additive parent. Okay. By picking up this cloak, you swear an oath that after I've left this plane,

you will care for my son, for Lil Frodo. Yeah. No, I'm saying that they wanna marry you and kiss you and have lots of babies with you. Wow, so many fucking huge, huge, huge. There's two options based on mine and Justin's interpretation. If you roll back the tape and look at the sort of pre-roll

that I put on that, I'm unimpeachable. Like you cannot get me for anything I just said because I contextualized it. So you set up a no-no naughty zone where you could say whatever you wanted and it's, they can't judge you. And I said like, here he goes again. You know what I mean?

Like I set it up. The nasty man coming. The nasty man's back on his broom. Just to go back over our helpful advice that we've given, from my standpoint, I said, you're reading too much into this, they just wanna be friends. And from Justin's standpoint, you're actually not reading into this enough.

Can I put my standpoint? Comment your wolf nose. Can I put my, can I put my standpoint out there? Limpus bread. You bake them some limbus bread and you give it to him in a little cloth and you unfold it and you say, yes, one bite is enough to fill the stomach of a full grown man.

And then you say, this is a gift I made for your family. We are now even. Here's a lock of my hair. I think that's another thing that happens in the Lord of the Rings movies. Well, don't do that. An incredible gift of elephant hair. I wanna run it back to a part of the question

where you said the cloak you made for your son, Lil' Frodo, is gray. And they said, do you want one? And you, quote, thought they were joking. Yeah, this is where it actually is your fault. This is actually because we out here just like talking, if we say, can I make you a cloak? Yes.

That's not a funny joke. I don't know. There's no punchline, there's no setup. It's not funny. That's a good point. Yeah, not a classical joke. So it's like a really weird joke. So what I'm betting you mean is, it's the punchline you came in a week later and you're like, not a classical joke. So it's like a really weird joke. So what I'm betting you mean is-

It's the punchline you came in a week later and you're like, not a dip shit. I was lying. I was lying. Fuck got you, bitch. Now, if you mean- Hey, Lil Frodo, your dumb ass team thought I was serious about the cloak. If you mean I thought they were offering it

and there would be no follow through. Yeah, that's a safe thing to assume. Yeah, I get that. Just say that. With a person. With a colleague? Yeah. I never thought they'd really do it.

Yeah. Yes. I thought we were talking about it in the moment, then we'd walk through a doorway or whatever and forget that that conversation even happened. Yeah, yeah. 100%. Yeah, absolutely. Is a cliff bar just limbus bread? I'm just now thinking about it. There's a lot of recipes just limbus bread? I'm just now thinking about it.

Huh. There's a lot of recipes for limbus bread, but they seem to just be scones. Yeah, those don't seem like they have any. They all say they're authentic, which doesn't, I mean, seems impossible. Authentic, what? Authentic limbus bread.

Yeah, I actually got this from my hobbit grandfather. What are you talking about? I own a pair of brightly colored striped sneakers. They're from a moderately sized brand, not something like Converse that be, you've already lost me friend. The fact that it's so kind that you assume that I would know what the moderately

famous shoe brands are. If it's not Vans. If it's not Vans. Vans are nothing for this guy. They are from a model size brand and not something like Converse would be very common to own in a very distinctive pattern. Not something like a rainbow where the same design could arise accidentally. I'm wearing them today in coffee shop and another person walked in who I'm 100% confident is wearing the exact same shoes as me. What do I do about this? They're very cool shoes,

and I wanna go up to this person and compliment their great taste in shoes. But is that weird? That's from Sneaker Spotter by the Seaside. Okay. So this is the same shoes situation. I feel like, guys, we should keep a fucking record of all the ones we've done.

Cause I feel like we could say like, hold up, and we flip back to like episode 219, segment B, when someone wears the same shoes as you. And we can do it as sort of like a technical manual of like, well, we have established a precedent that you can walk up to them, just point at your shoes and walk away. There's a specific here though that I wanna talk about.

Which is? If you have got shoes from not one of the big name brands, not one of the big, you're not buying these at Journeys. Right. With a specific pattern that isn't something repeatable. There is a desire there to stand out and be like, I own these, they are special and different. Yeah.

We're walking up to someone and saying, hey, same shoes might be taken as not necessarily an insult, so much as a challenge of the implied one of us is gonna have to go home and change. Yeah. Yeah. I'm kind of the person who wears these shoes at this coffee shop. Yeah. So-

This is my territory. I had a, I've always been someone who's pretty open to complimenting people on their shoes. Yeah. Normally it's self-serving. You'll see shoes that are like, those are the shoes that would fix it. You know what I mean?

You see shoes and you're like, those are the perfect blend of comfort and style. And then Justin's like, money's no object, and he buys like all the boots and shoes at the home. No, I just like to know about some different shoes if it's time for new shoes. He goes to how many 3D prints his own shoes. Shoes, yeah.

No, but I had a bad one this past week where we were on tour. I was in the elevator in the hotel, and there's a guy in a nice suit, and he had these great shoes on. And I said, hey, those are really great shoes. He's like a business guy, right? Like this guy's going, you can tell in a hotel, right?

If someone's going to floor two, three, or four. They're bigger than us. They're bigger than us. Stay out of the way. Get out of the fucking way. They're going to a business date. When a thing over, when the door opens on two and there's clearly like a meeting conference thing and you're like, I shouldn't have even been allowed

in the elevator with you. Or the workout gym zone. Oh yeah. You're like, Jesus, this guy. Or at a hotel at the gym. You're coming back from a pool. Never in my life. I just picked up my door dash order downstairs.

Yeah. But I was in the elevator and this dude, he gets on with him like, hey, great shoes. And then I'm like, he's like, thanks. They're really comfortable too. So at this point, he said like, they're even better than you think they are. What a dick.

Well, no, you're right. He basically said you're wrong. They're comfortable. No, no, no, he's like, and also they're comfortable. It's not just no, you're right. He basically said you're wrong. They're comfortable. No, no, no, he's like, and also they're comfortable, so I just style their comfort. And then I feel like the natural follow-up is like, so what, like, so hit me.

You know what I mean? So like, this is how they keep me out, right? This is how, so I'm like, tell me, give me your secrets. I got you right now. What did you say? And then he's like, oh, hmm, I don't remember. And then I'm like, oh no, and the door opens. Okay, so there's a table of people with the cards,

you know this? Yeah. The cards with the names. And he's like, ah, I don't know, sheesh. And he's kind of staring at me like, what do I do? And then he puts his hand up on the side of the elevator and lifts up his right foot behind him to see if he can see the brand. And he can't see it.

So he's like, can you see? And it's so small. And he's holding the door open and he's balancing on one foot. And I'm like- Do the whole show for you. And he's doing the whole show. And he's like, can you see and I'm like do the whole show for you And he's doing a little show and he's like can you see I'm like yep It's like what is it? I'm like

wolf Cuz I didn't think he was gonna ask me what it said I couldn't read it I just wanted him to go So wait, you lied about being able to see he said prove it He said what are they and I'm like oh no I was lying about it And he yelled wolf It was written in signature, guys. It was like when it was in signature kind.

It's so hard to read. And I was just pretending I could read it till he would leave and he would die in my memory. And I'd never think about it again. He just kept being there, guys. And I was there and he was there. And the person at the table was there. They thought he was being abducted or something.

And he was the CEO. Justin's answer is don't say anything about these things because you might get roped into a high stakes, instant quiz about what's on the underside of their feet. Oh man, that was terrible. I think that's about as good advice as we're gonna generate on this one. You're welcome.

We're really putting up some bricks this episode, I do gotta say guys, advice wise. Let's head on in to the buddy stage. ["It's Better With You"] Squarespace. Justin, square space. Okay, I like it so far, I'm in one right now. Yeah, exactly Justin, you're inside the internet.

Look around you. Do you see all those tabs? Do you see all the cookies? Not the kind of cookies you're thinking of. No, Justin, these aren't cookies you should eat. Tastes like data and bytes. They are data and bytes, but not the bytes you're thinking of.

Hi, I'm Travis McElroy, spokesman for Squarespace. So there's bytes and there's chips, but not like I'm- Not like you're thinking of stupid. No, these are data bytes. Not like data from Star Trek. Tell me anything about how a computer works. Just move forward. Catabytes, not like data from Star Trek. Tell me anything about how a computer works.

Just move forward. Well, when you turn it on, power goes to Squarespace because they've got all the tools you need to build a beautiful, more personalized website tailored to whatever your unique needs are. And they don't ask any questions about what those unique needs are. We have to stop saying that about Squarespace.

They have to keep- stop including it in the ad copy then, Griffin. Listen, you've got tastes, and we know that. You've got needs. If you make a website about them, then they can't arrest you for it because it's your job. They also- they can. Squarespace probably won't arrest you for it because it's your job. They also, they can. Squarespace probably won't arrest you for it. They do almost certainly have a terms of service that does probably provide some guidance on what is acceptable on a Squarespace.

Nope, it says here, do whatever you want. Hey, Juice, are you sure? Are you sure? Yeah, it says Squarespace is the Silk Road. We can do it all, but. So I'm gonna take everybody. Half of the dark web is Squarespace powered. I'm gonna shut Travis and Justin

inside the podcast for a bit and step outside. Hi, so a lot of you have probably guessed this by now, this show is a curse, and we are cursed to keep doing it, and we can't get out of it or die until we don't have to make the show anymore. The only way we get free is if we save a thousand souls, that's not gonna happen. Nope. Or if we alienate every single advertiser

that we have ever partnered. You may have noticed there's a lot of names that we used to say a lot, the names of a lot of businesses that we maybe don't give to someone anymore. That is because they don't pay us to do so. A lot of that is just because of the entropy of the market and saturation.

It's complicated, but a lot of it is because of what's being demonstrated right now inside the podcast box. Let's hop back inside and see if we can pull this one out of the fire, as it happened so far. Hey, I don't know why I do it, is the thing. I don't know what happened to me that I wanna push people, you know what I mean?

Why do I wanna push it? They wanna give me money to talk about websites. Squarespace lets us say this shit and then keep paying us to say this shit. And if you guys at home don't appreciate that immensely. Like, if you're not, just start making websites right now. Just please, for the love of God.

It is cool to have a website. We only use Squarespace to do it basically. I want everybody to go sign for Squarespace right now because I want them to have this weird spike on this one where they're like, so guys, what was it about this exact, keep it. Was your audience waiting to see if they could get away with anything legally on Squarespace?

Was that the thing holding them back? So go to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, go to www.squarespace.com slash my brother to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. And all the bad parts of this have been jokes. Thanks, that was, and that,

usually we don't put bits in the advertisement for the advertiser. I wanted to be super clear about that. We could send them an email after we record, like hey, just so you know for this next one, it's mostly jokes. So don't take it seriously. Yeah.

This isn't a joke though. My health could be better. And so. Oh boy. I live in DC where all the doctors are way too busy taking care of ambassadors and embassies, spies and stuff. So it's tough to get in there, even for routine stuff sometimes. And I bet they're all at the Smithsonian.

If I was a doctor, I'd be at the Smithsonian all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like, did you see that fucking whale? It doesn't even have to be stuff that's germane to their practice. Also, I just think a lot of people would see that whale, get scared, have a heart attack, then someone says like, is there a doctor here?

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I've been eliminating all the minor inconveniences that I can use as excuses to not go and I'm down to the last one. I don't like what they play on the TVs at the gym. The news stresses me out. I'm not into sports and the soap opera slash crime shows don't interest me that much. I like to watch movies or shows that have cool sore fights in them when I work out. Nice. How, that's cool.

How do I convince the people working at the gym to have at least one TV play some Pirates of the Caribbean or something all the time? And that's from physically failing in Philly. They've spelled Philly in the P-H. Don't, not just some Pirates of the Caribbean though, cause that's a big, that's a big spectrum of quality there, folks. I think they're just saying the good one

on one TV and one corner, and that one is like, being a nerdier person at the gym does come with a certain amount of insecurity, I would say, and having a little corner where they're like, in here, you can have a pirate movie to watch would be really, really nice. There should be a fun one, right, for people who are still trying to have a little fun. Yeah.

I do feel like, though, if I'm gonna watch a fun one, I don't know if pirates with its various posture issues and scurvy. Not healthy. Not necessarily gonna get me pumped at the temple. I wanna, you know what I would like to go pray at the church of John Krasinski in that Amazon Prime show, maybe.

Like that was like, he got, or like the, maybe the one with Kamel, where he got like really buffed. That's like a fun one, but I'm seeing like, buff inspiration. A normal guy get huge. Yeah, a normal guy get huge without, with Rays or whatever. I haven't seen the movie, but. I like the idea of like,

I don't know if you guys ever ran into this like when you were in school, I remember being in middle school and usually the band teacher would like put a movie on, but class periods were only like 50 minutes long and they didn't have access to like Apple TV when I was in middle school. So the idea of like, I can't wait to find out what happens in the second half of Mr. Holland's Opus,

the next time I have a class period where the teacher doesn't wanna teach it and remembers that we've already watched the first half of Mr. Holland's Opus. Travis, I'm gonna formally request that you finish watching Mr. Holland's Opus one day. Someday, yeah. It's stuck in your crawl in a way that you bring it up a lot

and I feel like you have unfinished business. That is my unfinished business. I would hate to die right now and be a ghost who's only unfinished business is to finish the second half of Mr. Holland's Opus. I will tell you with a surprising amount of both detail and musical performance how the movie Mr. Holland's Opus ends.

Well no spoilers. If you like, at some point. What I'm saying is what if every time you went into the gym, they said, we're gonna play you an hour of a Fast and the Furious movie, and you're not allowed to watch Fast and the Furious at home. If you wanna find out what happens in the second half, and then in the second one, the third one,

the fourth one, fifth one, you're gonna have to keep coming in. And there's like nine of those. So that's like 18 gym sessions right there. Yeah. Yeah. How that's like 18 gym sessions right there. Yeah. Yeah. How's this for a gym? When you go in, you get a little heart rate monitor.

It's also a gigapet or a Tamagotchi. And then when you go to a machine, you fucking jack in. And you're like, I'm gonna boost my gigapet's strength and HP and vitality by doing some high intensity interval programming here. And then you can jack out and then if a big guy comes up to you, he's like, get off that fucking bike, I'm trying to grind my vitality.

You can be like 1v1 me. You connect your watches and you have sort of a digital battle. Battle. And whoever has better stats because of the exercise they did IRL will kill the other one and get their meat. Oh my God, are you telling me that maybe everybody has the gym wristbands and you can choose someone to compete against

when you first come to the gym that day and you're like competing against them, but maybe you're like friends too, like you're encouraging each other, but also- Maybe you're friends are encouraging, it's a rivalry, a healthy rivalry. Man, guys, maybe this is the one. No, this is a kick-ass idea.

No, maybe this is the one, where we can finally get out from underneath the fucking podcast minds and get out there into like the boxing, please, I would love to start boxing if I could get that kind of money. How come no one's inviting me to punch Logan Paul in the face? I will, I will box anybody, I would love to start boxing if I could get that kind of money. How come no one's inviting me to punch Logan Paul in the face? I will box anybody. I just like, I feel like this idea is the one that's gonna get us out.

And check this out, every book now, every book now comes with a little port you can jack your thing into. Oh, okay. And then it's like- And it puts the book's information in your watch. And it's like, I read it, no it doesn't save it, it's just like my wisdom went up, cause I read so many books. And you can show it to people like, yeah I read. I feel like my solution was pretty good,

and then you came in with like absorbing the book. You tried to like, yes and it absorbs books. And it's not like you read the book and get credit for reading the book. If I understand correctly Griffin, Honor system, honor system. If you're jacked into the book and get credit for reading the book. If I understand correctly Griffin, I- Honor system, honor system. If you're jacked into the book, you better fucking be reading this.

I was at most talking like an Arduino powered leaderboard and a few RFID chips. No, no, no, this is the beauty of this room. You're just like, osmosing through your watch wisdom from a book. This wrist panel, and maybe it's bio integrated at this point, has your little- Like a VATS system.

Sort of, you have your little, maybe it's a monster, maybe it's just a little avatar of you, and you jack into a book to boost his stat. I don't see where you guys are running into trouble. So you're saying I will plug my watch, my panel, into a book, and the little me on- Or a workout weight machine. Or a workout weight machine.

Okay. And the me on my panel gets smarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I get smarter? And then when you battle, the next time you battle the big bully, you can say like, well, you were training the body, I was training the mind.

And you could beat him in the gym because he doesn't have any like magic defense or whatever. Oh, okay. So I guess the question I have Griffin is I understand that in order to buff up the little me on my panel, I need to work out. Yeah. But then I just need to plug a book into my,

why that doesn't seem like it's bettering me in any way. Wow, Trav, that's real helpful. I'll pass that along to R&D. I'll pass along that you said that to R&D, because they definitely hadn't thought about the fact that they- Hey, guys! You guys are still here? I forgot all about this. I didn't realize you guys are still doing this. The podcast thing. Who's that? I trademarked the idea for Interactive Gym Pals, and I've been making money the whole time you've been talking, actually.

Motherfucker! To to happen in the middle I'm out of the I'm out of the podcasting biz guys. I just bought podcasting So I'm gonna reshape my image were you able to get into boxing? I did I actually fought Everybody oh in order cool and came out on top at the end. Even Glass Jaw Joe, especially Glass Jaw Joe. This is a, can I pitch an expansion to the gym pal idea? Every time you kiss him. Wait, hold on, before you do it, I need you to legally say that you do not hold on

to any rights of this idea. Oh, no way, no way. If you like this, we can talk. But every time, I think every time you kiss- Now we're doing a little business. So I think every time you do kiss someone, the watch can tell and increase your like charisma charm, like your charm or charisma stat.

Wait, no, don't sell it. You're on the phone right now. I'm watching him sell it. No, he's doing this. No, they're still, no, Valar, you won't believe it. They're still doing the podcast. Hey, Griffin, can I ask you? It's so sad.

It's like, how does the watch know that you're kissing someone? How does the watch know that you're kissing someone? It has a microphone and it's listening for the noise it makes. Why not just make it when you hold hands with someone your watch is syncing up? Because it could be a platonic hand holding thing.

Yeah, man. That still would boost your charisma or whatever. It's just the gym. Yeah. It's just bodies. That way you can hold hands while working out at the gym. Two birds, one stone, baby. Yeah.

What if you, people don't tandem lift enough where it's like, I've got my left hand on the bar and you've got your right hand on the bar and we're laying next to each other on a queen size bench and we're both lifting at the same time. People don't do that enough. What if you could charge up your gym pal

with all your hard work and if you did really good for like 30 minutes or whatever, it would charge one non-lethal blast that you could use on somebody in the gym in real life. Wait, but like in real life blast? Yes, like in the gym someone's been like, dude? Like you know when people are like ogling you

and you're just trying to get sweaty and get swole and people are like, have got their eyes all over you? Well, obviously it's like the end of your workout and it's just like, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Non-lethal. Non-lethal. Or you just, I mean, it seems like we have a more organic solution, which is that you battle them and then when they lose, you get like all their money. I don't know what the penalty is. I feel like fights should mean something between Jim. Yeah, in mine they got blasted across the room.

Ah, I'm reminded now, I got dragged back into this. I'm remembering now, this, okay. I can remember, it used to be fun. Hey guys, actually, I just got back from the patent office and we filed a big one for Jim Blaster. Holy shit, Griffin, you're six foot six now. That's right. I took the Jim Blasters with a Z idea and took it to the patent office. They bought it for a hundred dollars. How much?

A hundred. Sorry, did you say the patent office bought it? Yes. I got a voiceectomy. With the one hundred dollars. Hey guys, I just got back from the bathroom. What did I miss? Really?

Alright. I want a munch! Squaw! I want too munch squad. I want two munch squad. Welcome to Munch Squad, it's podcast with a podcast, profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating. I saved this one for the last

because it's not necessarily as wild, but it is a return to something we discussed last, in a previous episode. So I wanted to like circle back around to it. Recently, you likely don't remember this because why, I mean, why would you? But Burger King was looking to hand out a million dollars to somebody that is gonna make a new Whopper that they wanna sell to everybody.

Oh, I thought that was a fever dream I had. Okay, nope, so we're down to three. We're down to three beautiful Whoppers. The contest invited Burger King enthusiasts to dream up their own Whopper creations. After receiving more than one million submissions, three fan created variations made it to the finals. Here are the choices.

The Fried Pickle Ranch Whopper. These are in stores today, boys, by the way. These are out now. Fried Pickle Ranch Whopper. The Maple Bourbon BBQ Whopper. The first, by the way, I should say, is a fan favorite from California. It combines flame grilled beef with fried pickles, bacon, and a creamy pickle ranch

sauce. Complimented by Swiss cheese. I think it's wild that if in your design you're like, it's got pickle ranch sauce. Like that's, you just made that up. There's the Maple Bourbon BBQ Whopper as another one from California. This Whopper takes a sweet and smoky approach with maple barbecue sauce, candy, bacon, crispy onions and jalapenos.

Lastly, there's the Mexican Street Corn Whopper representing Nebraska. This Whopper infuses flavors of Mexican Street corn with creamy corn spread, spicy queso and crunchy tortilla crisps. So how did they arrive at these? Huh, wait. When I think tortilla crisps, my mind does not oft float to Nebraska.

No, well, the creator is from Nebraska. Yes. It's not like it's a Nebraska original. The Mexican street corn burger clearly represents the heart of Nebraska, which beats inside of the person who created it. There's a fascinating process about how they got to these guys.

Listen to this. We built several and then really relied on the culinary expertise of the team on which ones were the best, said Burger King's Seymour Patrick O'Toole. Yeah, so they made some of them and then they ate them and they picked the ones that they liked the best. Innovation.

Also then they had to be on brand for the Whopper. What you see on the Whopper is a flame grilled patty. You have produce and you have texture. It has to feel and taste like a Whopper. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is not going to work then, because look at these fucking hamburgers. It's crazy how much shit's on them.

You can't? Okay, they made sure that as- Those three things are so wildly different that you're like, it's gotta have a patty. Patty. It's gotta have produce. And it has to have texture. It has to feel and taste like a Whopper,

and we made sure of that as we tried some, that they met our guardrails. Can you imagine eating a burger and like, that's not a Whopper? Fuck! What is this? Can you imagine being a Burger King scientist eating a burger and being like, ooh, it's an edge case.

It kind of feels like a Whopper, but it's a little bit crunchy. But what this supposes is a world in which I bite into a Whopper and it lacks discernible texture. Whopper, whopper texture. That I bite in and I'm like, that could have been anything. Burger King CMO Patrick O'Toole then went on to say, I think the big goal is really to drive trial of the whopper or drive traffic into a restaurant, O'Toole said.

Yeah. Hi, it's me me Justin McElroy. I Don't normally do this, but I think this person might be bad at their job This promotion I think I think it's to promote sales I think either the writer of this article is bad at their job or the talker is bad at their job But somebody is not getting this so buzz is really gonna be one of the inputs that goes into that, ultimately happening. We know we have an amazing burger, and we know that because of the size, the flame grill taste, and the quality ingredients.

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Look at how the diameter of the grease market leaves on the table. This is the portion. It must be. It must be. You know it's amazing. We did a really good job of getting, sorry, we did a really great job of getting the Whopper

back top of mind in the US with our jingle, but we really didn't talk about why it's great and how Have It Your Way can be brought to life through the Whopper. So basically, everybody liked the song, but it didn't also say like, and Whoppers whip ass, right? We all like them and they're good.

I like how they have texture. It's my three-year-old's favorite song. We feel great about our program, program dynamics and setups. From a competitive standpoint, O'Toole said, we feel great about our program, program dynamics and setups from a competitive standpoint, O'Toole said. We feel great about our app. And I'll say, I also feel great about the Burger King app.

I haven't installed it yet, but. Yeah, I feel great. I like the idea. It's got great vibes. We're always trying to improve it, which is lucky for him because I'm always trying to destroy the Burger King app. So it's lucky they're always one step ahead of me. I'm out here debunking the Burger King app constantly.

I've got a whispering campaign going against the Burger King app. I heard China uses it to spy on you. Burger King more like Spymann. I would be afraid just because I still have the McDonald's app, which slow rolls its notifications just enough to the point where I don't make the effort to go in and turn it off. Every five weeks, McDonald's would be like,

just checking in, and I'd be like, nah, man. Nah, I should deactivate you, but I've already forgot. No, no, I'm forgetting it right now. No, I'm doing eight other things. They just wanna say that they're always improving the app. And he says, we're always trying to make sure that we are over-delivering on the guest experience that comes through, not only our restaurants,

but for our guests that choose to come through our app and loyalty programs. So with this person, they want you to know that when you come into Burger King or use the Burger King app, for example, they want you to leave like, wow, that was even better than I thought it was going to be. I knew it was gonna be good,

but it's actually like exceeded my expectations for Burger King. No, I don't know that I have expectations for Burger King. Not hard. I don't know that I have expectations for Burger, the bar, if it exists, is probably pretty low. Don't be yucky. Don't be yucky. I don't think I'm gonna come out of a Burger King ever

and being like, Made me feel normal fast food regret, not like enhanced fast food regret. Do you think these are available now? It's November 14th, you think I can get these to the house? These tall, wet burgers that they put another meal inside of. How quick do they get them on the dash? How quick do they get them on the dash?

Oh, here they are. Here they are, 831. Here are my neck of the woods. Hey, speaking of coming up quick, we've got Till Death Do Us Part 10th anniversary edition coming up next week. Yes. On American Thanksgiving, there's the show we record with Tim and Guy every year,

watching, discussing, truly living Paul Blart Malkop 2. Make sure you check that out. Just search for Till Death Do Us Blart, wherever podcasts are found. There's only nine previous episodes, so you have plenty of time to catch up. Yeah. Yeah, true. You guys watch yet?

No, I'm watching tonight. Can I say, now after 10 years of this, it's not a bit anymore. Nothing says holidays to me. Like watching Paul, the holidays are really here. I'm so excited. Now that I'm watching Paul Blart again. This year's Candle Night Spectacular

will take place on December 14th at 9 p.m. It will be a pre-recorded, but live airing special event, bit.ly slash Candle Nights tickets 2024. Candle Nights poster and ornament available now designed by Matt H. Taylor. And all proceeds from the show and merch are going to Harmony House, which works to end homelessness in the Huntington area designed by Matt H. Taylor. And all proceeds from the show and merch are going to Harmony House,

which works to end homelessness in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs. Also, speaking of Thanksgiving, during the week of Thanksgiving, I am going to be at 20-Sided Tavern in New York, making my off-Broadway debut. Shows are November 27th through December 1st. Get all the tickets and all the info at the20sidedtavern.com.

Also for Candle Nights, obviously we do a lot of Mbim Bam stuff in there. We still need questions for the Candle Nights 2024 Spectacular. So if you have Candle Nights questions or fungal lore wishes you want that might appear in the Candle Nights show or fungalore wishes you want that might appear in the Candle Nights show,

send them to mbimbam at maximumfun.org with the subject line Candle Nights 2024. Hey, thanks to Montaigne for the use of our theme song, My Life is Better with You. Make your Candle Nights special with a listening of this one with a most beloved friend or lover. All right. I've got a wish. Another normal ending from Griffin. of this one with a most beloved friend or lover. Is that it? I've got a wish.

Another normal ending from Griffin. I've got a wish here that I'd like to elevate if you guys would give me a little noise bath. Okay. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. I wish I'd looked cool when I broke my elbow. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Pfft.

My name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. 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, ah ah ah ah ah ah. It's better, it's better with you. Yes it's true. Ah ah ah ah ah ah.

It's better, it's better with two. My life, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. It's better with you.