My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 740: Ten Percent Kissy Face

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

Hold onto your Shakespeare books, we’re about the turn the whole gym industry on its head by telling people that there’s heavy stuff everywhere! We’re also disrupting the wine industry with unco...nventional fruits, and the chocolate industry with extra-joyful Santas. Suggested talking points: Powered By Mold, Public Service Emmy, Shook Like Wet Spaghetti, Brie My Guest, No Joke Food in My House Harmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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
Starting point is 00:00:33 I could've never seen what was coming for me Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach My life, it feels like My life, ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you This is true, ah ah ah
Starting point is 00:01:00 It's better, it's better with two My life, ah ah ah It's better, it's better with two. But let's all, it's better with you. Hello everybody and welcome to My Brother, My Brother, and Me. It's an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What is up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middle brother, Travis Big Dog, woof woof, Mackleroy. What is also up? Trav Nation, I am the sweet baby brother. Are we trying to see, is it like a game to see
Starting point is 00:01:33 how long a pregnant pause we can get going in here or? I'm taking this very seriously, I need to address, there's some controversies surrounding. So as everyone in Trava Nation knows, I've released my line of yogurt, Progurt, the first and only shelf stable yogurt made for game. I'm not done. Made for gamers by gamers.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Gamers made it? Available exclusively at GameStop. Gamers made the yogurt at GameStop. Theyers made the yogurt at GameStop. They didn't make it at GameStop, it was just available exclusively. Did they make it at your, at your, I thought GameStop was- Well, in my laboratories.
Starting point is 00:02:11 I thought GameStop had started to host sort of yogurt workshops. None of them, no. And that's my mistake for assuming that, I'm an asshole. And there's been some videos going around of people opening both the Sonic Strawberry Slam and Master Chief's Mango Madness and finding mold inside.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Okay. Mango mold, Master Mold, or just regular mold? As far as we can tell, regular mold. And- Is it the dang flood again? Getting stinky up there, causing all kinds of chaos? I'm sorry, that's really tasteless. I, much like the yogurt itself, Griffin, that's utterly tasteless. You're right, itself, Griffin, that's utterly tasteless.
Starting point is 00:02:45 You're right, that was a poor joke, and it was made at the expense of my brother Travis, and the countless dead because of this moldy shelf stable. And the travatars. Don't forget about them. They rely on them. What are those? They're citizens of Trav-nation.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I thought they were travatars. Well, those are actually, travatars are half Travination citizens, half normal citizens. They walk, they have dreams. Half Navi. Yeah, half Navi. The Navi citizens of Travination are called Travatars.
Starting point is 00:03:13 So the shelf stability, it sounds like, is maybe a marketing bullet point and not a... Well, I spoke with my team of Sigma scientists who have their PhDs in gamer gastronomy. And they have informed me- PhD in GG. Yeah, they have informed me- They're a good game.
Starting point is 00:03:33 That the mold is part of it. The mold is part of the- Like blue cheese. It's intentional that gamers need the mold to power them. Okay. And they also said it probably has penicillin in it and will make them healthier, so it's totally fine. Increased reaction time?
Starting point is 00:03:53 Yeah, definitely, up your KD. Up your KD. That's huge, Trav, congrats. It sounds like this is a good thing. I don't know why you're announcing this like it's a bad thing. Well, there's also some people who have claimed that we didn't obtain any kind of licensing rights
Starting point is 00:04:08 for Sonic or Master Chief. Don't need to. Don't need to. You're in Trav Nation. You don't have copyright law there. What the thing is, I'm very close personal friends with both Sonic and Master Chief, and they actually worked very closely to develop these slavers with me,
Starting point is 00:04:22 and they told me that it was totally fine to use their names and likenesses and there was no need to get lawyers involved. Right, Travis, I've had to tell you this a million times. I cannot believe I'm having to tell you a million in first time, but just because you know two drug dealers named Sonic and Master Chief doesn't mean you know the real Sonic and Master Chief.
Starting point is 00:04:40 One of them is blue. Yeah, no, I know, it's Master Chief, which is weird. Yeah, but they're nice guys. They're nice guys, but they're drug dealers and they're not the mascots for Sega and Microsoft, respectively. They can't give you permission. If you look very closely on the packaging,
Starting point is 00:04:59 it does say A. Sonic's Strawberry Slam and A. Master Chief. So the A is very small, but it is there. So legally my Sigma lawyers who also have their law degrees in game or gastronomy tell me that it's totally fine and safe. It says Master Chief, C-H-E-I-F. And that's, you get away with it. The biggest innovation I would love to see
Starting point is 00:05:19 in kids' yogurt and kids' food is I want brands to start having flavors. I want like every Frozen 3 thing to taste the same. So if it's like, if it's Frozen 3, like L'Cour, Frozen 3 cereal, Frozen 3 whatever, it all has the same Berry Blast flavor. Cherry Cordial. All of it's Cherry Cordial.
Starting point is 00:05:37 It's all of it's Cherry Cordial. I wanna make it clear off of Justin's said, kids should not eat Progurt. Okay, is that the nature? It's actually formulated for 18 up. If kids eat it, we don't know what will happen. It will overwrite your gut ecosystem entirely. And if you're 18, you can handle that kind of wild switcheroo.
Starting point is 00:05:59 If you're six and you down this Progurt, all of a sudden your stomach's gonna be like, okay, I'm ready to digest corn nuts now. And you're like, I don't eat those. You're six, you can't get in there and start flashing middleware. And you need that stuff in the library. We've heard from some people that,
Starting point is 00:06:16 namely the FDA, that we should have listed that on the packaging somewhere. Yeah. But we figured that by putting very grownup figures like Master Chief and Sonic on there It would be clear like these are for adults who like Sonic and Master Chief these things are for kids Traditionally Sonic games are rated E. I believe Shadow the Hedgehog was E 10 plus because of guns Which is cool that we do that 10 year olds and Sonic and guns
Starting point is 00:06:43 Kids don't play video games. Where would they get the money to buy AAA video games? Lawn mowing. I understand that. Lawn mowing. Well, at that point, I think legally they're considered, at least for gastronomy purposes. Adults, if you're working for money, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yeah, for gastronomy purposes, if you're earning a wage, because child labor is illegal. So if you're earning a wage, you are gastronomy, gastronomically speaking an adult. Right, yeah, okay. Trav, what do you think off-Broadway is like? What do I think off-Broadway is like? Let's set the stage appropriately enough.
Starting point is 00:07:19 You're there now, I mean, you're not right now because we're recording this like a week and a half in advance, but you're there now when people are listening to this. Are you rubbing elbows with Jackman? If you don't know the context here, Travis, due to the hard labor of superstar agent Joel Begleyder is being allowed to perform off Broadway with the 20-sided tavern, plenty of good seats available.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Well, you say hard labor, but when I reached out to him, I was like, hey, this sounds fun, how do I get in Well, you say hard labor, but when I reached out to him, I was like, hey, this sounds fun, how do I get in there? He's like, oh, they actually reached out to me about it a while ago, do you wanna do it? So I don't know how much hard labor. Crazy time to keep them realize that. I just actually heard Travis's muscles flex
Starting point is 00:07:56 when he said that. It's like a letter for how he's being stretched. I would never wanna do this thing that you're doing, which sounds like my hell. So how did you prepare yourself for it? Well, I figure off-Broadway is a lot like Broadway, but like a slightly darker shade, like there's a little more tint to it.
Starting point is 00:08:13 So it's not quite Broadway. Then there's eggshell Broadway. Right. And a couple of different. Is this the kind of heat that you're gonna bring to Broadway? Yeah, will you get this on your channel? No, I wouldn't waste my off-Broadway heat here on the show.
Starting point is 00:08:24 This is all my snickle for it. Can you give some people a sample of what they, like, I wouldn't waste my off-Broadway heat here on the show. This is all my snickle for it. Can you give some people a sample of what they, like, I think it's gonna be weird for people to- Bring him home! This is the second MbemBem in a row where you have busted out. Yeah, it's maybe the only song he knows.
Starting point is 00:08:37 It is the only song in the world that I know. I don't have any room for any other ones. I've got all these cheat codes for Sonic and Master Chief in there. They've in there. What are you, what? Okay, you've been doing stage shows, live stage shows for over a hundred times now. You've gotten out there. What do you think the biggest difference is going to be between your usual setup? What, which of your exacting demands will they not be ready for, D?
Starting point is 00:09:04 Yeah. I imagine there won't be a vegetable tray backstage that I claim will definitely be Which of your exacting demands will they not be ready for, D? Yeah. I imagine there won't be a vegetable tray backstage that I claim will definitely be necessary, but then we never touch. So I don't think that will happen. I don't think dad will be there on stage with me, and that will be different.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Not having my dad there. That's funny that you didn't say Justin and I won't be there on stage. We won't be there on stage with you. Wait, what do you mean? They wouldn't let us do it. They wouldn't let me do all the different voices. Wait, I have to, wait.
Starting point is 00:09:28 You're a solo actor. Wait, I have to perform in front of a crowd without you guys there? That's right, Trapp. It's gonna be your own. What the fuck? You're gonna fly. Yeah, no, it's not gonna be.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Do you want us to write anything for you right now? We could write you some jokes. Yeah, if you could give me some D&D, but Broadway specific. I've got this idea for a character named The Jizzard. He's a sorcerer and he is crude and rude. He is struggling with his impotence. Struggling with, he wishes he was more impotent?
Starting point is 00:09:59 Yes. Okay. He's too potent. I'm not gonna fill in all the fucking gaps for you to improvisational show. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Justin, could you give me something? Yeah, one thing that I have noticed
Starting point is 00:10:10 in every single Broadway show ever, and I don't know that they've had this in 27 of Tavern, and it could be the last thing they need to get them over on to on Broadway, is just you gotta say something about being in New York and how much you love being in New York. Fuck, yeah, dude. All the great ones are like, like think about, is just you gotta say something about being in New York and how much you love being in New York. All the great ones are like, like think about, I mean, obviously everybody's mind
Starting point is 00:10:30 jumps to Spider-Man here in North the Dark. Like all the freaks are here tonight in New York City. Like shouting out the big apple is gonna get you, I don't know, can you maybe, you know what would be really good Travis is if you could find a growing potion and use it on an apple. And then look at how it would be like hubba hubba.
Starting point is 00:10:46 I love this big apple, I wanna get a bite out of it. It is improvisational, right? So you can pick up a stone from the ground and be like, whoa, this is the New York teleportation stone. And you rub it and you're like, and now the scene is in New York City, the greatest city in the world. Can I tell you what's amazing about this, boys,
Starting point is 00:11:02 is that we're recording this ahead of time. And then I assume all of thev Nation's gonna show up, watch the show, and then they'll hear this episode after my run is done, and they'll be like, that's where all the magic came from. That's why he talked about the Big Apple and the teleportation stone. That's why every show, every one of his shows,
Starting point is 00:11:20 Travis found a magic New York teleportation stone. He dragged the rest of the cast kicking and screaming to a enchanted-esque New York City fantasy vacation. And I love that. And this is good too, because when I portray the Jizzord on stage, I'm not gonna give it any background. I'm not gonna explain it at all.
Starting point is 00:11:38 But now they'll know here, like, oh, that's everything I needed to know about the Jizzord. They do love that meta humor. I obviously got my Oscar from my involvement in Mitchell's Versus the Machines, an Oscar award winning movie that I contributed one to two lines of dialogue to. And Justin and I were cut from, yes sir.
Starting point is 00:11:59 And Justin and you were cut from. But listen, I think of us as a unit, right? So like we have an Oscar. If you can secure the Tony on this one, if you can pull down an Anthony for us, all of a sudden we're halfway there, aren't we? We gotta get Grammy, all we do is audio shit. We haven't gotten a Grammy
Starting point is 00:12:17 because we haven't applied ourselves yet to getting a Grammy. We could totally do that if we wanted to. And we've several times been nominated for iHeartRadio's best ad reads. So I don't know if that fits in there. You know what? Peace on the Playground,
Starting point is 00:12:31 which predates this particular entertainment program. By a few years, yeah. By a hundred years, which was a public service sort of special that me and dad did to curb playground violence. Peace on the Playground. And you did it, by the way. And I did it, fucking crushed it.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Won a public service Emmy that is in director Chuck Minsker's house. So that's EO, you get the tch. Justin, I think you gotta pull the Grammy down, man. Just to kind of like- Oh man, I got that Twitter award. I got a Twitter award. Remember when I had that Twitter award?
Starting point is 00:13:01 Yeah, that's true. A shorty, was that what it was called? A shorty award, thank you Travis. Oh, okay, I have a- I've got a YouTube? Yeah, that's true. A shorty, was that what it was called? A shorty award, thank you, Travis. Oh, okay, I have a- I've got a YouTube play button. I've got a, that's ours. I got a local business reporting AP award for the state of Ohio for best business reporting.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Okay. Is that- So I need to get a Pulitzer. Cool. And I've got a paper tie that my son wrote number one dad comedian on it. That's very good. Are we just listing everything that we have?
Starting point is 00:13:27 I got the MacArthur Genius Grant to create animals. So there's that. How did you spend all that, that comes with so much money? A lot of it went into the research and development for Progirt, if I'm being honest. That's embezzlement from us. Griffin, you know Mitchell's versus the machines didn't win, right?
Starting point is 00:13:48 Are you willing for it to- It did, didn't it? I think it won for some category, best, like, coolest animation. I think it won for some. Best off-screen dialogue. Yeah. You don't think it won?
Starting point is 00:13:58 Best cut, brothers. Best cut, brothers. Best cut, brothers. We had our jobs replaced by AI on that one, so competitors took our jobs. You know what? We were nominated for that one. We were nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Yeah, that's an honor. We did lose to Inconto. Oh yeah, well we do wanna get the record straight on that. Yeah. We weren't in Inconto? No, but we inspired most of it, I feel like. It's very much about us. There's a lot of in-jokes in there.
Starting point is 00:14:27 What did we win? We won a fucking Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2021. That's the Oscars of Houston. That's the Houston Oscars, basically. Mike and Jeff won best screenplay at the Hollywood Critics Association. I think that's gotta give us something. And then the TV show we did.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Probably one of the Emmy of some say. Why don't you still do it? Can we answer questions? Please, I would love to. I would love to. Spinning wildly in our failures. I'm so tired. I know, I know.
Starting point is 00:14:56 But when you feel that way, Griffin, just hop on my back, man. You know, just let Travis and I. I get silly sleepover energy sometimes. Have you tried eating some Progurt Griffin? Because it's shown to increase energy level in adults. In adults. Eating Progurt would only help me
Starting point is 00:15:11 in so far as it would make me as sick as my son. And when that happens, all the sudden. That only happens sometimes. When that happens, the buck no longer stops completely at me. I can sort of push off some of my, but I'm gonna be on the toilet forever. Yeah, the buck does not stop when you eat progress.
Starting point is 00:15:28 That's actually one of our, we've taken that and turned it into a slogan. Just waiting on you to read a question, choose who you're gonna take. Travis, will you go in the mornings, like from door to door, agent to agent, just try to get somebody to give you a shot? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:15:44 Oh, while I'm in New York? Yeah, or are you gonna be like a waiter? Are you gonna be a waiter during the day? I'm flying there but then I'm gonna leave the city and I'm gonna get on a bus and then I'm gonna arrive in my straw hat with my suitcase. You're coming back you're leaving NYC and then you're coming back to NYC in a straw hat? Cause his car will already be there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Okay. Think about it. Cool. I hired a whole flash mob to do a scene so it's gonna be there. Yeah. Think about it. Cool. I hired a whole flash mob to do a scene, so it's gonna be good. Great. All right, well, let's answer some questions. We can still help people. Travis hasn't lost all perspective.
Starting point is 00:16:13 I lost some. You lost some. My new glasses are pretty dark, so it does make it a little hard. I'm a chocolatier. My boss decided not to consult me on what seasonal shapes we're making this year. The problem is they picked out a chocolate lollipop that stick comes out between Santa's legs looking like a Santa has a huge dick.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Nice. Now my friends at Fairleigh tell me they all want for Christmas is a big dick Santa. How do I buy large amounts of this lollipop without the old ladies who run the store front asking why I want so many of the specific items that's from Santa's schlong sculpture in Florida. Is there a pick like- There's not a pick and that's criminal cause I gotta know the diameter of this stick. It actually got censored.
Starting point is 00:16:56 My safe search wouldn't let me save the image. That name wouldn't let you download the JPEG. I feel you. I don't know that this would, if it's a traditional pops, you know, I almost call it a pop stick cause that's what our kids call it. if it's a traditional pops, you know, I almost call it a pop stick, cause that's what our kids call it. If it's a traditional lollipop stick size,
Starting point is 00:17:08 then it would actually look like Santa had an extraordinarily long, profoundly skinny dick. And I don't think that that is just based on what I know about the man and his sort of like generally accepted fictional proportions. I don't think that's what it's, I don't think that's what it is. I don't think that's what it is. No.
Starting point is 00:17:26 You would rather see a Santa with a big fat dog. It's either big all around or a chode city, but it's definitely not whatever kind of proportions this pop stick stick is. No way. And when he left, his dick shook like a wet spaghetti. Shame on me for thinking about Santa Claus's hose-like brilliant, ivory white dick.
Starting point is 00:17:47 It looks like you could charm it with a pan flute. It's insane. It's sounding rock hard in a downward direction too. It would be weirder, I guess, if it came off. It looks like he's looking for a water supply. Yeah. Okay, so how do you buy large amounts of this lollipop without the old ladies who run the storefront
Starting point is 00:18:04 asking why you want so many of this specific item? It's a Santa Claus holiday large amounts of this lollipop without the old ladies who run the storefront asking why you want so many of this specific item? It's a Santa Claus holiday themed chocolate lollipop from the chocolate shop you work at. To me, this seems like a pretty easy thing to do. I don't think the old ladies are gonna be like, you only want this cause of the dick, don't you? I'd talk to you right away. There is the risk that every other worker
Starting point is 00:18:22 besides the manager has been like, oh, that's the Dick Santa. And then you go up and you're like, I would like 24 of the Santa lollibops. And they're like, why are you buying 24 of the Dick Santas? Even the old ladies know it. We all know. Old ladies do love rude comedy stuff sometimes.
Starting point is 00:18:41 That's why 90% of our audience is over the age of 75. God, I fucking wish they would get so many more of our references if that were true. Oh man. Yeah, like absolutely. Like the lady who works the old village roaster down next to Keith Albee, she's got a sign up that says, you don't have to be nuts to work here, but it helps.
Starting point is 00:18:59 And it's like, hey, my kids come in here, ladies. Justin, you gotta warn me before you drop something like that. My kids come in here, Vicky, you can't be, you have that kind of race you've tear it up. That's wild, man, I get it. Yeah. Do you think it does help? I don't think it would.
Starting point is 00:19:15 What, being nuts? Being nuts? Yeah. I wouldn't think so, no. I mean, what does that mean? I don't wanna get too deep into this category, I guess. Well, Bonkers was totally nuts, and I don't think it helped deep into this category, I guess. Well, Bonkers was totally nuts, and I don't think it helped Bonkers do his job.
Starting point is 00:19:27 What if you told them you were opening a franchise? A small mall kiosk franchise of this chocolate place. So you're gonna open up a, you tell them you're opening up a satellite at the mall. Cause there's been a big demand at the mall for these special Santas. It's a holiday item. And they're going fast at the mall. Yeah. Cause it's getting, there's been a big demand at the mall for these special Santas. It's a holiday item. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:47 And they're going fast at the mall. Open it next to- I had a bag of five at the mall, people stopped me, they said, where can I buy one of those? He said, they're not for sale at the mall. They lost their fucking minds. You could set up your booth right at the exit of the mall Santa photo booth situation.
Starting point is 00:20:02 And been like, hey parents, hey parents. Hey parents, what are we packing? Parents, did you like that? If you liked that parents, you'll like this for sure. Maybe some. You don't even have to sell the lollipops. You can just have one in a little box with a hole on it. And you can say $10 and you can have a little peek at Santa Claus' rude memories.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Not everything has to be for your stupid kids. You can still enjoy something just for you. That's right. You can't sell these in good conscience. You can't sell these. If there could be lots of people who get their hands on this and all of a sudden, that's the whole car ride home is talking about.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Well, that looks like a very long penis of Santa Claus. You can't sell these, and it's up to you to get all of them and melt them in a big oven. Yeah, destroy them. And say, we had to start over, and this time you put the stick coming out of his neck? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:59 And he's like doing like a poppin' lot, like he's doing like some groundwork, like a break dancer. I don't think there's a good version of it, really. It's coming out of one hand, and it's like he's shooting a laser beamwork like a break dancer. I don't think there's a good version of it really. It's coming out of one hand and it's like he's shooting a laser beam. You could have Santa Claus- Santa Claus is Iron Man guys, think about it.
Starting point is 00:21:11 That's cool, you could also have Santa Claus arched backwards like this and then have the stick going straight through his chest and out the other side. Yeah. And so it's like he's been impaled by a spear or something like that and then you can just kind of turn it like a corn cob There's so many great ways to make lollipops. I think lollipop makers are
Starting point is 00:21:31 Santa pole dancing Santa pole dancing is sexy and cool that sexy in a way that I think is tasteful Yeah, very much so there's a lot of people who do that for their health now and not to be erotic in any way And I think that's fucking cool. Yeah. How about another question? Yes, please. I'm a PhD student in English literature, and as part of the role, I am teaching assistants
Starting point is 00:21:52 at an undergraduate class on Shakespeare. I also started working out recently and have seen a few of my students at the gym. They're all much stronger and more experienced than I am. Can I ask them for tips on how to help me get stronger? Alternatively, can I make it part of their grade to avoid acknowledging my presence at all costs? That's from learning in the lecture hall,
Starting point is 00:22:10 or sorry, learning in the iron lecture hall. And I have to say learning in the iron lecture hall, what an interesting collection of facts you've chosen, both relevant and not to your query. Just a delightful paprika of information. I also thoroughly enjoy you giving us the two options of how do I, one, ask for help, or two, make it illegal for them to see me.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Which is the easier version of it. I don't think you can do this. I don't think you can ask a student for help with anything. Cause then all of a sudden- Are you worried that it reveals the power dynamic? Well, yeah, all of a sudden now you're the student and then you show up to class the next day and they rip your corduroy jacket off of you
Starting point is 00:22:56 and they rip off your little cool sling bag and they say, this is mine now because I taught you. At the gym, the roles have reversed. Sit your butt down. Othello, one of Shakespeare's funniest plays. Like they don't know what they're doing once they get up there. But they're teaching them.
Starting point is 00:23:14 What if you though made this into like a finding Forrester kind of situation, right? Where you find somewhere where the combination of a student who's not doing well but is very strong and good at gym. And you said, hey, I'm gonna meet you where you're at. Let's go to the gym together. And while I work out and you kind of tell me,
Starting point is 00:23:34 I'm gonna use that as like, now imagine I'm Hamlet and you're like the ghost of Hamlet's dad. See, you get it? Also how many like reps should Hamlet be doing? And at what weight, his dad, do you think? What do you think? I don't feel like I was just enriched. I think if you try to work in any gym stuff,
Starting point is 00:23:53 it starts to get, yeah. Could you lift heavy Shakespeare books? Yeah, I mean, you could, but that's free. I don't need to go to the gym to do that. All my books are at home. Wait a minute. Are we about to put the whole gym industry out of business? Hey folks, look around you, there's heavy things everywhere.
Starting point is 00:24:08 There's heavy stuff all over. There's heavy stuff everywhere. You can run pretty much wherever you want. You know, the material here in Merchant of Venice is some pretty heavy stuff. And you know what else is pretty heavy? Weights, am I right guys? Now watch as I curl this big book
Starting point is 00:24:26 and you guys tell me what I'm doing wrong and then I'll tell you what they did wrong in Merchant of Venice. So if the kid tricks you, makes themselves the teacher and then you're the student. Yeah, that's the risk. Is there a way to trick them, I guess, into letting you teach them something?
Starting point is 00:24:42 It's the only way to keep your fucking job. I mean, how can you get them, how can you trick, into letting you teach them something. It's the only way to keep your fucking job, for sure. I mean, how can you get them, how can you trick them into letting you teach them something in the classroom once you're already, I feel like once you're in the desks, it's so much harder, right? Because flipping the script on somebody, when you're in the gym, anybody can say,
Starting point is 00:25:01 student master, whatever, like the desks make it like so concrete. Yeah. Yeah. Unless. Unless? Unless? You take the lessons they teach you, now you've become stronger than them.
Starting point is 00:25:11 They're ready to take over the classroom. Then you show up, you pick them up in the desk, and start curling them while you're teaching songs. Awesome, yes! This is great. A lot of people are just wild about teachers, every teacher should have guns, it's the only way to keep it safe.
Starting point is 00:25:27 No, every teacher should have guns, you know what I mean? Like every teacher should be stronger than the people they're teaching, because otherwise I don't have to listen to you. If I'm stronger than you, I do not have to be taught by you, period. End of sentence. I mean, end of bit.
Starting point is 00:25:45 That's what they write. Physical strength trumps all at the end of the day. I mean, if you get stronger than me, you're right. That's the way you go. That's the way the cookie crumble. So many options. Trick them. Don't let them teach you.
Starting point is 00:25:59 Trick them. Don't let them trick you or catch all. Get stronger than them and you must teach them you. Catch all, get stronger than them, and you must teach them. They must be taught, cause you're huge. You're so big. You've been lifting all those books. Fuck.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Wow, look at you. Look at you go. You're great. We should come up with a, you know how LCD Sound System came up with like a 46 minute long like mix that's like, this is for you to work out to. It's the perfect scientifically engineered tempo.
Starting point is 00:26:26 We should do that, but it's the three of us. And we're like, yeah, you got it. Whoa, squeeze it out. Squeeze that. That's amazing. We would have- Oh, don't drop that. We couldn't just do, we couldn't jazz it. We would have to get, have like movements. Yeah, cause eventually I would just start saying,
Starting point is 00:26:41 that was a weird grunt. And like- I think having like five minutes of us being like, that was a weird grunt. And like... I think having like five minutes of us being like, that was a weird grunt, you're sweating a lot. Yeah, everyone's looking. Yeah. I wouldn't wanna do that. I wanna inspire people.
Starting point is 00:26:53 As a Vince icon. Well, the rest would be inspirational, but a little bit assault. Yeah, but you gotta bring them back down. You can't all be Pete, Justin. There's gotta be Valley in there somewhere. Too true, Trav, too true. How often we forget, you gotta go down to hell
Starting point is 00:27:06 before we can get a little taste of heaven sometimes. That's especially true in the Iron Temple that we called the gym. Yep, and the classroom. Take it from me, a guy who's almost always about three feet away from something he bought to help him get stronger. I'm never that far away from something.
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Starting point is 00:30:25 That's AURAFRAMES.COM promo code MYBROTHER. This deal is exclusive to listeners, so get yours now in time for the holidays terms and conditions apply. Alright boys, how about another question? Please? Yeah? I just read a nice text message from my girlfriend at the end of my bus ride to work. When I was getting off, I went to say thank you to the driver,
Starting point is 00:30:47 but I was also thinking about how much I love my girlfriend. And instead of a thank you, I felt my lips start to purse up in a kissy shape. Oh wow. I panicked and froze my lips into 10% into the kiss and just walked off without saying anything to him. So crisis averted. But what if I had blown a kiss to the bus driver?
Starting point is 00:31:06 What's the advice for after that? It's from Gmail. Okay, so I thought you were about to say that you told the bus driver you love him. And I started to say, I started to get this whole thing in my heart, like a really sincere thing, about like, I think that's actually nice.
Starting point is 00:31:20 And I think we could do with more of that, honestly, just like telling people that we love them. I think that's- Yeah, strangers who would be made wildly uncomfortable by that, that, honestly, just like telling people that we love them. I think that's- Yeah, strangers who would be made wildly uncomfortable by that, like, yeah, we should be saying that. Cause that's your right. But I don't know about kissy face, huh? That's tough, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:31:34 I would actually- Kissy face is tough. I want you guys right now to make your face into 10% of a kissy face. Oh yeah, that's awesome. And tell me, if you saw a human being doing that, is that better than seeing 100% kissy face? This person is saying that they dodged the bullet. I think they're saying, listen, I handled this perfectly.
Starting point is 00:31:54 No worries. I wanna see 10% of a kissy face. I wanna see 10% kissy face. They do video out of it sometimes. I don't know if you've been to our YouTube channel lately, we do do video sometimes. Is that too much Griffin, what I'm doing here? Show me.
Starting point is 00:32:11 Too much, way too much. That's like 30 to 40% easy. It's like, hold on. I'm trying to find it. Show me zero percent. I feel like I'm moving a slider. Justin, that sucks. That's not kissing even a little bit at all.
Starting point is 00:32:23 Okay, wait, here's a hundred. Show me. That's a hundred. That's a kissing even a little bit at all. Okay, wait, here's a hundred. Show me. That's a hundred. That's a hundred. You walk it back. That's 10. That's 10 right there. That's 10?
Starting point is 00:32:37 That's 10. No one's gonna clock that. No one's gonna clock that. Travis, you look pissed off at the bus driver. That's worse. Well, I'm not kissing with my eyes. I would rather walk by the bus driver and go, muah, then go.
Starting point is 00:32:51 Mwah. Mwah. Mwah. Mwah. That's my focus, I can't help it, that's my focus phase. Okay, all right, I just made a command decision. Here's what you do.
Starting point is 00:33:01 If you find your face going, muah, the only shot you have is to just throw your right hand up and add the chef's kiss thing. And just add a pin like mwah, what a ride. Yeah. Yeah. Smooth, no bumps. Not a pothole in sight.
Starting point is 00:33:21 Thank you, Darryl. You've done it again. Masterfully done. My compliments to the driver. Lovely, lovely flight, boys. Why were you making a kiss to your phone on a text message? It's just the wires got mixed up. That's pretty mixed up.
Starting point is 00:33:42 Those wires come from different machines in two different buildings of like, I'm texting my girlfriend, I love her so much. I'm thinking about how much I love her and, like you don't, I feel like- This happens to me all the time, not the exact thing, but I like listening to audio books while I drive and I have this compulsion that when it describes someone
Starting point is 00:34:02 making a face or like reacting to something in a way, my face will like try to make that so I understand what they mean. And I'm always so worried another driver next to me or somebody will see me making this face and be like, I think that man's guilty of murder. And I'm always so worried that I will be clocked as my face tries to replicate human emotion.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Mm. God bless bus drivers. God bless them. Thank you, what a, that's a hard job. I think- They don't get enough kisses blown at them. We don't ask- I think that's what we're saying. We do not ask God to bless specific people and jobs enough.
Starting point is 00:34:36 And that's something that I feel like we could be way better about. I think we could lean out of windows and bang positive bands at bus drivers more. They wouldn't really. That's what I'm saying. The people love that shit. They do. It's a good way of showing people you care about them
Starting point is 00:34:49 to bang pots and pans in their drive. At 6 15 PM Eastern time. It scares cats away and shows bus drivers you appreciate them. That's right. Two birds. That's the rhythm of the city right there. Duh-la-la-la-la-la. Okay. Duh-la-la-la-la-la. Huh? Dh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh- in the podcast profile in the latest, greatest brand eating. Today's story comes to us from
Starting point is 00:35:29 Cub reporter Travis Patrick McElroy. I mean, yeah, he sent me a good TikTok. Serious Griffin, I know. One in a million. I almost chucked it into the dustbin of history with all the other ones and zeros. He slipped my way. I like to save them all up. I like to save them all up, the ones Travis sent us. I knew Justin, so I actually wrote out a caption to it before I sent it that was like, this is what this is.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Pick it up and give a little mwah, and a little mwah, mwah, mwah, so that he knew. Yeah. It's real. It's a good one. No, but this one for real. This is an adjustment. Do watch this one. But do watch this one because the story is
Starting point is 00:36:05 that Pizza Hut is launching its own wine. Yeah, man. And Griffin. Yeah? It's made from tomatoes. Why not? This holiday season, Pizza Hut is elevating the art of holiday hosting and gifting with a twist
Starting point is 00:36:20 on an iconic pairing, pizza and wine. For the first time ever, Pizza Hut is stepping into the wine business by launching a pizza wine. A unique limited edition tomato wine that captures the essence of your favorite slice in every sip. To make any holiday gathering even more festive, Pizza Hut is bringing back its beloved Triple Treat box.
Starting point is 00:36:40 This holiday ready meal featuring two medium, one topping pizzas, breadsticks or cheese sticks, and a choice of dessert comes packaged in a festive holiday themed box. With wine? And there's wine is I guess part of it. Not enough people do that. People talk about pairing wines with things and it's usually about complimenting. I want one for one wines.
Starting point is 00:36:58 I want more one for one wines. Where it's like this wine goes great with this hamburger because it's made of hamburger. Because it's hamburger. This is hamburger wine. This is of hamburger. Cause it's hamburger. This is hamburger wine. This is hamburger wine. Hamburger wine. Ha ha ha ha.
Starting point is 00:37:10 Crafted from ripe juicy tomatoes and infused with natural basil. Tomato wine by Pizza Hut. That's what it's called. It's just called tomato wine by Pizza Hut. They carried it so close to the goal line and then they were like, I don't know, man. Hold on, I wanna pull up.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Tomato wine. I think the image. I just Googled tomato wine just to see if it's a thing. I found a recipe for, you can make tomato wine at home and the duration of time, how long it takes, is 672 hours and 25 minutes, which is. Perfect. Can you guys see the little.
Starting point is 00:37:44 Why is it so pale nice it's so pale It's so pale. Yeah, a lot of people in the lab noticed that we just kind of kept on going for Rose Is it for gamers? It's made. Oh, it's not for gamers. They said it's explicitly gamers No made in partnership with Kansas based Irvine's just beyond Paradise winery. Okay, Kansas-based Irvine's Just Beyond Paradise Wine. Kansas, Kansas-based Irvine's Just Beyond Paradise Winery, a family-owned vineyard renowned for its creativity and passion.
Starting point is 00:38:16 I guess with the finest grapes Kansas can grow, the wine offers- Well, Justin, we don't know that for sure. We only know tomatoes. Kansas might make quality tomatoes. Oh, that's actually Travis, a much better point. Thank you, I'm the dork, because we don't know that for sure. We only know tomatoes. Kansas might make quality tomatoes. Oh, that's actually Travis, much better point. Thank you, I'm the dork, because they don't need grapes for this wine.
Starting point is 00:38:29 Where we're going, we don't need grapes. While crafted from tomatoes, the wine delivers a tasting similar to a white wine when enjoyed chilled. That's, cause that's what I look for in my alcoholic beverages, being able to pretend there's something else if you get them cold enough.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Yeah. Yeah. What happens when you get the- They might as well have made that. It tastes the same. If you close your eyes. Though made from tomatoes, it's not nearly as gross as you'd think. No, it's better.
Starting point is 00:38:55 It's better than you think. The wine delivers, okay, paired with any classic Pizza Hut pizza, including the signature one-topping pizzas that come with the festive triple treat box. Listen, stop trying to talk to me about the triple treat box when you just invented pizza wine.
Starting point is 00:39:08 I'm not interested, okay? Sorry. We kinda glossed over, I wanna hang a lantern on the we added basil to it aspect, cause they're not going for like, this is a sweet, this is like a fruity wine. There's plenty of the blueberry wine, strawberry wine, it's sweet hollow watermelon wine, I guess. And then you're just like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:39:29 We put basil in it. Yeah, that's cool. This is marinara sauce wine. Enjoy. Let's say here Pizza Hut is offering a limited edition set. Oh, first, actually, let me read the quote here. Quote, the holidays are a time for many gatherings,
Starting point is 00:39:46 but often the gift of a bottle of wine can feel expected. Why not be the one to bring the pizza party with the gift of pizza wine? And a triple treat box. Decide to ignite fun and conversation, says Pizza Hut's director of advertising, Elise Slayton, who I'm guessing forgot this promotion was supposed to be about the triple treat box until she started writing this press release and realized, oh no,
Starting point is 00:40:06 I completely forgot about the Triple Treat box. Like I mentioned that a few times. I do love that bringing up the idea of bringing this as like a host gift to a party does really clearly in my mind delineate groups of friends. Absolutely. Right? Who I would feel so comfortable bringing a bottle
Starting point is 00:40:24 of pizza wine to Justin. Yeah. And? Who I would feel so comfortable bringing a bottle of pizza wine to Justin. Yeah. And be like, thank you so much for having me. And that might be it actually. Justin might be the only person I know. Yeah, don't you bring that shit to me. I don't want joke food in my house.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Yeah. It is sold out by the way. Oh. I know. It's what sucks about all these, honestly. As a brand who has pioneered many firsts in the industry, we took a beloved classic pairing of pizza and red wine. And ruined it. And ruined it. And flipped it on his head as we aim to spark intrigue.
Starting point is 00:40:54 Your pizza hut. They did it like. Don't, how about don't? I don't want the mystery from you. I don't wanna eat pizza and think I'm intrigued. Go on. How cute. And if you really wanted to flip it on my head,
Starting point is 00:41:08 it'd be pizza, wine and red wine flavored pizza. That would be cool. Now listen, I wasn't even gonna talk about this cause it's not funny, but it's really cheesing me off. Oh, pun intended. It is, Travis, because this is the flavor of the month for Basking Robbins. It's cheeseboard inspired, what?
Starting point is 00:41:32 Brie my guess. I fuck with this so hard. No, it's gross, listen. Oh, okay, weird. Inspired by- Because I looked at it and I looked at the thing and I was like, oh, that looks yummy. No, shh, listen, listen, it's gross.
Starting point is 00:41:42 Wait till I tell you what's in it. And then you're gonna be like, gross, okay? Inspired by your cheese ward faves, Brie, my guest, is an unbelievable combination of Brie and burrata flavored ice creams mixed with almonds and pistachio pieces and apricot swirls. Oh!
Starting point is 00:41:58 Yeah, I mean fucking rad, dude. Yes, absolutely. Open your mind. Oh, gross. No, no, no, no. This is good. Oh! Which one's burrata again? That's the one where it's two cheeses in one Absolutely, open your mind. No, no, no, no, this is good. Which one's burrata again? That's the one where it's two cheeses in one
Starting point is 00:42:09 where they have a softer cheese inside, a somewhat harder cheese. I was worried that there was gonna be like capicola in it or something. No, no, this looks good. I'm amazed at you. I mean, how different is ice cream from cheese really? Not.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Yes, good point, it's. Yeah, that's a good point. It's funky though. It's funkier. I mean, I would love to have a bite of ice cream and have a different new experience. I would like to be intrigued by ice cream. I guess some of us like grownup ice cream. I recently had sour cream ice cream.
Starting point is 00:42:37 Sugar don't need sugar. Like made with sour cream, it was great. Sugar don't need sugar. Don't show me this ice cream turkey again, Justin. It's back. No. It's back. Don't bring this. It's back. No. It's back. Don't bring this. It's back.
Starting point is 00:42:47 It's back, bitch. I'm sorry. What's so weird that it says that in a press release? That sucks. Holley gatherings are about sharing memorable experiences and our Bre-My-Guest and Turkey Cake do just that, said Jared Grant and Eddie, Vice President of Marketing and Culinary of Asking Robins.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Our new flavor of the month is a bold twist on the best parts of a cheese board that will delight your guests and spark conversations at the table. Awesome. None of these, none of these, one of the thing I've noticed in these press releases, Justin, none of them take into account the actual human experience
Starting point is 00:43:20 of walking into a party filled with people you supposedly love and respect and saying, look what I've brought. And so the idea that I'm going to bring in this ice cream turkey and be like, guys, I brought this. I thought we'd all like it. It's full of cheese ice cream. I'm gonna, I feel like I've got a pretty, like, settled.
Starting point is 00:43:39 If you bring pizza wine, that's great. Very funny. I'm kind of jealous you got onto it for me. You bring a turkey cake, hilarious, quirky, adorable. We love it. And we're gonna enjoy eating that too, which we wanna enjoy the pizza wine. If you bring both, you're making it about you.
Starting point is 00:43:55 You know? And this is like, I worked really hard on the party to set a vibe and a tone. And like, the vibe could withstand pizza wine or ice cream cake, but when you bring both, you are threatening to make that evening to set a vibe and a tone. And like, the vibe could withstand pizza wine or ice cream cake, but when you bring both, you are threatening to make that evening a very eucentric thing.
Starting point is 00:44:11 You know what I mean? It's gonna be all about pizza wine. Everyone else there is gonna be thinking about what they brought and how it was wrong in some way. Yeah. Yeah. If your option was even an option at all, they are gonna start thinking they have failed. The vibe's gonna be so bad.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Because you're gonna be like, oh, you made deviled eggs. What did that flip on its head? How was that intriguing? How is that funny? Yeah. I'm also kinda mad if someone brings either of those items to my home for a party because how are you so certain
Starting point is 00:44:41 that I did not procure my own Pizza Hut pizza wine? That's a great point. That would be my worry. Justin, let's put it this way. Let's say you're two best friends. One brings Pizza Hut pizza wine. One brings a Turkey shaped ice cream cake filled with cheese ice cream.
Starting point is 00:44:57 Which one of those do you now love the most? Which friend do you love the most? Did you say it's cheese ice cream? Yeah, it has the bring my guests inside of it. Absolutely not, no, no thank you. J-Doc. So you've actually lost love for that one. J-Doc, if I statue.
Starting point is 00:45:10 No, I'll drink your stinky funky wine. No, think about it. At least wine always tastes bad, you know what I mean? At least wine always tastes like funky old rotten grapes. I don't know. Not this one, Justin. Not this one, Justin. It's gonna taste like funky old rotten grapes. Like I don't know. Not this one, Justin. Not this one, Justin. It's gonna taste like funky old rotten tomatoes. This is gonna blow your mind, Justin.
Starting point is 00:45:29 Funky old rotten fruits. I don't want that cheesy. You're gonna put that in your mouth and not know exactly how cheesy it's gonna taste. It could taste a little cheesy. That is true. Dangerously. It could taste a lot.
Starting point is 00:45:40 It's either gonna be overwhelming or disappointing. It's gonna be disappointing, it's basically. That's what it says on the sign, but like. I wish you'd open your heart to cheese cream. It is good sometimes, and I think you would, I think, you hate cheese though. I'm forgetting this, you don't like soft cheese. I hate raw cheese.
Starting point is 00:45:58 This isn't raw, it's frozen. It's frozen. I recently, that's true, I recently had a dream come true. I'll be paid $300 to eat a new Taiko Bell item and then share my thoughts in a focus group of 10 to 15 people. God, I'd love to do that. You did say Tyco Bell.
Starting point is 00:46:10 They should let you pay to do that. They should let you pay to be in product research. I am aware I'm taking part in something larger than myself. How can I best represent the needs and desires of all people on planet earth when determining the future of Taco Bell offerings? Liv Voss from Jacob K. P.S. I will be trying the,
Starting point is 00:46:26 and I cannot believe you were allowed to tell us this. We don't know that they are. The Chicken Al Pastor Street Chalupas. Wow, those sound fucking good. Looking forward to it. Yeah. Everybody in a testing scenario in a fast food place is gonna be thinking about one factor
Starting point is 00:46:43 and it's the novelty of the flavor. They want new experiences. They're thinking about deliciousness. I'll tell you what I would love people at Taco Bell to start thinking about a little bit more is the fucking mess factor. Yeah, I'm not buying Taco Bell because I'm going home to put it on porcelain plates. Yeah, I'm not. You know how I'm eating it and it's with a napkin on my lap. In your car. Maybe, maybe. In my car. Maybe, maybe when you try it, and you turn your head to the side so that you don't spill taco everywhere, grab your neck in pain and say,
Starting point is 00:47:11 ah, taco neck, I've got a bad case of taco neck. Shit, that's funny. Get them to bring back taco neck syndrome. Get them to get back in the commercials. Please, it's so funny. Oh man, yeah, if you could be the person to bring back taco neck syndrome. Do you, the amount of pressure I would feel
Starting point is 00:47:27 in a Taco Bell focus group to try and do a good job, but also get my own sort of personal agenda across the line as much as is possible for the many things I would love Taco Bell to start doing again. You guys started putting Doritos flavor on shit and then you stopped? What if, okay, but this is where it,
Starting point is 00:47:48 talk about the pressure, man. What if you had, they never stop. They'll never stop. They don't do Cool Ranch no more, do they? Ah, no, I think they still do Cinnamon Twist. That's fucking good. Yeah, you can get Cinnamon Twist. It would be so much pressure to think about the idea
Starting point is 00:48:02 that what if I had been in the room where it was like seven layer crunch wrap or like one of the greats. And I had been just having a bad day or what if I had like COVID, you know what I mean? And it tasted bad to me. That's the only reason Cool Ranch Dorito tacos, Locos tacos got shut down
Starting point is 00:48:23 is because COVID made them taste so fucked up and weird. And that's like the number one thing that it took from me personally, I will say. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you throw out something like, what if you put the vegetables on the outside? That's-
Starting point is 00:48:39 Now here's the thing, it doesn't make sense, but people in the fast food industry love that kind of innovative out of the box thinking. And now you're the CEO of Taco Bell. You're having a lot of fun, Travis. You're thinking outside the bun, Griffin. No. That's what Taco Bell looks for. Hey, to Travis's point, I'm sorry, Griff,
Starting point is 00:48:56 but not for show, not a joke, send jokes out of the room. Were I in this scenario, I would be thinking of anything I could do to get them to do, say one thing like, this kid's got some. This is what I'm saying. I want one like, ooh, yeah, I like that. Like one Taco Bell like, I want just one thumbprint
Starting point is 00:49:18 on the moon, you know what I mean? Just one little, one little lick. I know that movie fans at home, sometimes they sit back and they think, that one guy who got his dick out in the background of Teen Wolf, what was he thinking? You guys are talking about getting your dick out as an extra in Teen Wolf.
Starting point is 00:49:34 If you say, what if you put the vegetables on the outside? The person running the focus group would be like, get your things, stand up and leave. You're gonna blow this fucking opportunity for yourself if you joke around and say, put the vegetables. I would, this is what I'm saying. I would have to get across, put Doritos flavor, put the Cool Ranch Doritos flavor that's so funky
Starting point is 00:49:53 and stinky on it without getting kicked out of the room. That's a Tuff Heel-a-Thread. What about, what if we made the cheese pink and like the wrap green and tied it in with Wicked? That's not your job to think about as a person who's being paid $300 to eat a taco. Wait, are you saying in your head, get in here, someone in a focus group could be like,
Starting point is 00:50:15 hey, have you guys thought about tying this in with Wicked? Right, that's not what they're focused on. Did you guys know Wicked's coming out? You're not doing anything about it? And they're like, oh shit, thank God you're here. Now you're CEO of Taco Bell. I mean not right away, obviously. I would like to add the Barbersville Ulta employees, I wanna add them to my long list
Starting point is 00:50:37 of local people that I've complained to about how many Wicked things are for sale in town. Sorry this lady at CVS, sorry the the lady at Delta Beauty, Box Lunch staff, I always say sorry to you anyway, thank you, sorry so much, sorry. Did we even touch? Sorry Spencer's GIFs, I was confused. Sorry, I laughed so hard I threw up and they had to ask me to leave.
Starting point is 00:50:58 So I'm sorry, Spencer's, it was just a really good federal volume specter, it was hysterical. When we talked about the Wicked Times, by the way, did we talk about the hotels that made a green and pink room? Yes, we did. That's fantastic. Let's wrap things up. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:51:11 Hey, that's another good thing to say in a Taco Bell focus group. Yes, more wrapping. Yes, Travis, great. Yeah, maybe a second layer of wrap around it. Do a push pop situation. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We hope you enjoyed it.
Starting point is 00:51:25 Taco Bell protein powder. Okay, go on. Hey, happy belated Thanksgiving. Our annual podcast, Till Death Do Us Blart that we do with Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery is available now. It is the 10th anniversary. It is the most fun episode in,
Starting point is 00:51:42 I can't tell you how long. It was a good one. Top 10 for sure. Great watch this year. Top 10, easily top 10. And this year's Candle Night Spectacular is coming out next week, December 14th at 9 p.m. You can get tickets to watch that.
Starting point is 00:51:57 It's pre-recorded, but it's gonna be streamed live so everybody can watch it together the first time. Get your tickets at bit.ly slash Candle Night's tickets 2024, and then that's gonna be available until January 4th for video on demand and rewatch if you wish to. There's a candle lights poster and ornament available now designed by Matt H. Taylor and all proceeds from the show and the merch are going to Harmony House,
Starting point is 00:52:19 which works to end homelessness in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs. So go check that out, bit.ly slash candle night tickets 2024. We got some other merch up in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs. So go check that out. Bit.ly slash candlelight tickets 2024. We got some other merch up in the merch store over at MacCoryMerch.com. We got a final fungalore pin by Dana Wagner. Final fungalore sounds cool. Maybe that'll be next year.
Starting point is 00:52:37 It's next form. It's next year, yes, as he evolves. Also all dice in the shop are 20% off. Don't forget to get your fungalore merch before the year ends and we retire it to the Disney Vault. 10% of all merch sales this month will also be donated to Harmony House. So, go check all that out. And thank you to Montaigne for the use of our theme song.
Starting point is 00:52:56 Thanks for the youth, Montaigne. You fill the youth with youth every day. Youth of our youth. My Life is Better with You. Go check it out. It's on Spotify. I'm pretty sure they're working on some new music, if I'm not mistaken.
Starting point is 00:53:07 Might be making that up. I've seen some teasers. I've seen some teasers and some, some, some- If you're not subscribed to Montane's, whatever Instagram newsletter thing, join it. It's good shit. There's good shit on there.
Starting point is 00:53:18 Montane also streams. Follow them on Twitch and stuff. Go do it. Hey, speaking of streaming, can I do this wish from Fungalore? Oh, sorry, shit, oh shit, Fungalore sent this one in to wish to himself, I guess. Wow, amazing.
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