My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 741: Face 2 Face: 50-Way Pasta for Big Kisses

Episode Date: December 9, 2024

Welcome to the last live show of the Twenty Fungalore tour at the beautiful and delicious Pabst Theater. Join us as we lay the year to rest with an anthropomorphic Munch Squad, some wholesome haunted ...dolls, demon erotica, and a very neatly stacked pile of bricks. Suggested talking points: Digital Ibex Death, Brick and Mortar Magicians, My Axe is Leg Meat, A Lot of Time the Adventure is Hornets, Dwanta, All Those Ways of Describing Back Muscles, Chopin's 100 Farts 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. Old Travis insists he's a sexpert. But there's a degree on his wall. I haven't seen it. This is the last show of this tour, and I still have to read the damn thing. Also this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there know how cool
Starting point is 00:00:29 they are for listening. What's up you cool babies! 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 have never seen what was coming for me hangs at the skate park hangs by the beach my life it feels like it's better it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah I'm better with you
Starting point is 00:01:26 Hello and welcome to my brother, my brother and main advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy What's up Trav Nation? I'm your middle brother Travis Big Dog Wolf Wolf McElroy Wolf Wolf McElroy. Woof woof woof woof woof woof. Greetings, Trap Nation. I'm your sweet baby brother and 30 under 30, media luminary, they can't take it from me, Griffin McElroy. And we'd like to welcome you, Milwaukee,
Starting point is 00:02:00 to the end of the 20 fungalore tour. Tonight is a funeral for our friend. No, it's not sad. See, we do a fixed number of them, and eventually one of them is the last one. And it's not like announcing that is like, and we're actually done right now, we're gonna leave the stage.
Starting point is 00:02:21 We had 14 seconds of content prepared for you tonight. So this is the last, I'm sure you all in Milwaukee have probably heard about it before, but Milwaukee dressing rooms are the greatest dressing rooms on the planet. Jesus Christ. You all don't understand, we've been on the road for a year now.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Not straight though. You really under. We've been on the road for three days. I know, but you... that was my joke and you really undercut my hilarious joke very quickly. It kicked ass and then you ruined it. Well this is a collaborative show. In a sense. So, uh, Backstay...
Starting point is 00:02:58 They have a buck hunting machine? They have some... they have somebody that makes coffee, but there's only eight of us, so they're not very busy. I was getting dressed in this costume that, man, I'm gonna miss so much. Griffin, has it started to feel like Griffin is the costume and this is the real you? No, I know what I am and what's happening here. And I'm growing increasingly tired of dressing
Starting point is 00:03:26 as Nintendo's littlest pervert a few nights a month. I was getting changed and I came out like, all right guys, it's show time. And I heard Justin shout, hold on, I have to finish killing this Ibex. And I was like, Jesus Christ. I've never killed something before I went on stage, especially not one of God's most
Starting point is 00:03:45 perfect creatures. And I'm ready to do the show of my life, guys. Watching the life bleed from that digital ibex, it gave me a high I didn't know I could experience outside of a discotheque. It's going to make for a new interesting change to our writer. Yeah. I'm saying Justin must kill something before every turn. Justin must extinguish the life of-
Starting point is 00:04:06 Parentheses, digital preferred, but not required. Not required. So this is the final show. We have emerged, like our friends the Chilean miners, back here in Milwaukee. We always try to perform within a hundred yards of the Fonzie statue. We like to be able to see it from our dressing room every time we perform in
Starting point is 00:04:29 Milwaukee. We're staying at a different hotel than we usually stay when we come to Milwaukee to do shows. And when dad found out, he was like, we're not going to see the Fonzie statue as though they were, y'all were just going gonna tear it down and throw it in the river. You know, the bronze font. The bronze font. But this is still an advice show,
Starting point is 00:04:52 as it was at its inception. We take your questions and we turn them alchemy-like into wisdom. And we're gonna do that one more time here on the 20 FunGlor Tour. And then 100 times more every live show we do and every recorded show at home. We'll continue to do that.
Starting point is 00:05:05 We actually just, weirdly, we actually just crossed recently a hundred live shows. Isn't that wild? A hundred. It's wild. I mean, we've been doing it for like fourteen years, so that's actually not a great... Yeah, that's it. It's not bad. It's not great.
Starting point is 00:05:21 It's not bad. Better than most. I work at a sportswear store next to a stadium and a lot of people stop in to get shirts and jerseys to wear to the game. The problem is that sometimes they don't wait to change into their new shirts. And after I finish a transaction, they take their shirts off and change the new one right in front of me. How do I get people to use the changing room instead or at the very least get them to leave
Starting point is 00:05:44 the register lane before they change clothes. That's from the change I don't wish to see in the world. Are you are you here? Hello so close hi. Travis would want me to tell you he came up with that name and he's very proud of him. I am true. So this is outrageous. At the very least, they need to get good at that thing where you put the shirt on over the old shirt and then you kind of do a secret shimmy. It's seeing a lot of nods out there. Yeah, a secret move.
Starting point is 00:06:14 That shimmy where like, how'd you do that? How'd you do that, Lance Burton? The dressing room is not good because anybody could go back there with a shirt and be like, yeah, it's fine. I bought it up there earlier. You didn't see. I'm just going to change it here and then leave very quickly. You are absolutely correct, Justin. You need to have a changing room right next to the register. As you step out of line, you finish your purchase, you go into a little airlock
Starting point is 00:06:38 between you and the outside world. A light lock. Yeah. That's cool. Maybe it's a situation where they were hoping to sell their old shirt back to you for store credit You should be able to sell your shirt on the spot on consignment That's how I do it in Japanese role-playing games where I'm like new armor. Thank you. Here's my old busted shit How much you want you're gonna give me eight coins sounds good. I've never used it again I've never thought about what's happening when you're in that inventory screen Yeah for the shopkeeper in there, where you're like, ah, thanks for the new armor.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. I got 80 bug meat. Do you want that? I'm going to try that the next time I'm at American Eagle. And also, this shirt, can you break it down to its material components for me? I'd like you to take this dirty old Flying J T-shirt and just break it into three cotton, if that seems good.
Starting point is 00:07:32 I won't need anymore, but can I actually infuse the button down I just bought? Let me give you all these sandals I found while I was out in dungeons and whatnot. Do you want candle holders? I got 50. was out in dungeons and whatnot. Do you want candle holders? I got 50.
Starting point is 00:07:44 You, I think you could take a page out of Trader Joe's book and every time anyone does that, you ring a very loud bell. And if they say, what is that? I'll make one of those big like town crier bells. Bong, bong, bong. Hear ye, hear ye. He's doing it again. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it.
Starting point is 00:08:05 Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't cry about it. Don't Yes. Yeah. So the wording of it is so difficult because you can't just be like, don't get partially nude here, please. Yeah, just change on your own time. I mean, it does beg the question,
Starting point is 00:08:34 like, do you want them to do it out on the street? That's clearly worse for that person, right? You know that. A fucking great question. Where are they gonna change into their new cool jersey shirt? This is a shirt changing store. It is kind of testing the bounds of the no shirt, no shoes policy when you're like,
Starting point is 00:08:51 what about just for a second? But the transaction is complete. The service is done, that's true. The service has been rendered. I'm gonna do what the fuck I want. There should be a big light switch next to the register that just blacks out the entire store for a second. Like, you need to change? You got 10 seconds.
Starting point is 00:09:06 Oh, what if you paid a magician to come out and lift up one of those fabric rings? It's like, wait, wait, ta-da! Yeah. It's the shirt I just bought. You could— Oh, shit, it's a tiger! Fuck, get out! You could upcharge for that at checkout. Like, as long as I've got you, do you want to sign up for our email list? I didn't think so.
Starting point is 00:09:25 And for $10, you can do a magician's change right here in the store. It's like, and a red light goes on in the back. It's like, ah, fuck. All right, hold on, I'm coming. It's hard, I bet, finding jobs as magicians now. We should start employing them in our nation's retail clothing outlets.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Yeah, it might get me out to brick and mortar if I knew a magician could have said, I see way too many of you nodding like, yeah, I've thought about this. Sorry, I didn't follow that sentence. Did you say there needs to be more brick and mortar magicians out there? That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:09:55 More magicians in brick and mortar stores. We lost mom and pop magicians in this country. Too many magicians on TikTok and YouTube. Whatever happened, you had your general store, you had your post office, you had your magician. It was all right there. Mom and pop and magic impressed the digitation. That was a small town that I grew up in.
Starting point is 00:10:16 Yeah. Ledger main around every corner. Could you set up an outdoor pop-up tent where you would sell clothes to people who like specifically have had a hundred light beers to drink that afternoon You can come in and be like you're not gonna change your shirt in the right place We understand that we made a safe store just for you We got one of those old-timey beach tents that people used to change into their bathing costumes in yeah I hear just a big yellow and white striped canvas deal
Starting point is 00:10:48 It's more of a cool-down tent like we have chairs that are comfortable in front of full-length mirrors So you can really ponder the inner self yeah while you sober up But also if you want some merch yeah some good sports gear and yeah all the sports team names are misspelled on the shirts If we do the right names, we have to pay extra. Sometimes if I get off work early, my walk and commute home from work goes through an area that children leaving school are also walking. Because of this, there are volunteer crossing guards with the vests and the stop signs assisting children crossing. Last week I went home early and when I came to a street crossing with a crossing guard
Starting point is 00:11:25 and waited for them to tell me what I can do, they looked at me like I was stupid because I'm an adult and I don't need help crossing the street. Brothers, what do adults do when walking up to a volunteer crossing guard for children? That's from, that's from, that's from Wildly Wavering in the Windy City. Are you here?
Starting point is 00:11:43 Hi. Hi, hello. Hey, I know you weren't asking here. You didn't do anything wrong. No, you're fine. I think the problem is that often the best time to cross the street is going to be when the little kid says you could do that. I don't know if it's a little kid in your case. In my school, the safety patrol was little kids with bamboo staffs and one orange. We did have bamboo, full ass bamboo staff. We've been trained to fight with them, obviously. We had white belts and bamboo staffs with one flag on them, one orange flag.
Starting point is 00:12:13 I got fired from the safety patrol. Why? Wow, Trav. I asked too many questions. God, I wish that was a joke. So like, your authority is already pretty tenuous because you are the same height as your clientele and I think an adult just kind of blowing past you really doesn't help that at all. This is what I'm saying is like the other option besides like deferring to their expertise is to completely ignore them and go when you feel like it, which is way worse than you do to another human being. It's not your fault that the safest time to cross the street may be when they say. I mean that's just gonna line up sometimes and you do have to
Starting point is 00:12:50 wait to cross with the little kids. This is the problem Justin, what you really did there was highlight for them that their job is to point out that the light has changed and it's cool to go. It's like they're just and the second you're like let me know when the lights change. Like, I get it. I don't need me. As a driver, I do enjoy though, when the crossing guard is like, do not worry about this stop sign.
Starting point is 00:13:12 You are so fucking cool. Just cruise on by. And I always give a little tip of the cab like, ooh, that's two and a half seconds saved on my commute. Thank you, sir. Wait, hold on. The crossing guard says, don't stop here? The crossing guard will as a.
Starting point is 00:13:27 That's not their job. They can't do that, Griffin. OK, crossing guards in real cities sometimes will overrule the traffic lights, because they got to start running stuff. You look at the person first. They don't have that authority. They do, I assure you.
Starting point is 00:13:39 If you got pulled over. Hold on. If you got pulled over for running a stop sign and said, it's cool, the guy in the neon green vest said I could. Yeah, Trav. Are you telling me that you have situations where you arrive at an intersection and the crossing guard is like, come on,
Starting point is 00:13:52 and you're like, no, I think I know best here. Because I assume his brother-in-law, the cop, is 10 feet farther down the road. Damn, that does. And they're like working together. That does sound like cop tricks. I'm not checking that crossing guard's papers to make sure he's an actual crossing guard.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Flip, so flip side, if the guy says stop and the light changes green, you're like, sorry pal. Woo! You move. No, you move. I'm in a car. You're going right out into it.
Starting point is 00:14:17 The light said it was smart. No, I have had crossing guards and I respect this immensely, where they will stare me down as they're holding a sign to let kids cross as if I was gonna go fuck those That when the car you're the first car and the in the crossing guard kid looks at you like not so fast like chill out Yeah, okay. Oh man. I got one of those the day before we came out on tour I stopped at a stop so I I had to kick across and went, I was fully zero miles an hour.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Like, yeah, fucking kidding. I get it, dude. Yeah. I don't need an expert here in a little sash to tell me not to hit kids with my car. Thank you. I wasn't gonna. I wasn't gonna.
Starting point is 00:15:01 Da-da-da-da-da-da. I want to munch. Welcome to Munch Squad, it's a podcast with Inna Podcast. Profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating. Today I've got an exciting bit of news for you. Two pieces of news, two small stories. A couple Munch Squad. They're changing hamburgers. It's meat, red meat now.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Now KFC already did that, I'm sure. Scooters Coffee releases menu lineup inspired by Candy Land game. What? I love Candy Land game. All right, that's holiday season. All the gang, let's meet the gang in these Candy Land inspired games, Paul.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Let's go to the first one. First up is the Mr. Mint Mocha okay your adventure to the candy castle is gonna begin when you scoot on around to one of our 825 scooters coffee locations in 30 states nationwide new menu items are available that bring together the sweet adventure of Candyland with new and returning holiday favorites first up the Mr. Mint Mocha hey can I just say yeah we have a lot of mint there I there, I've never thought about this before. Whatever he's gesturing to is a trap.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Oh. Don't, because you're gonna reach for it or walk through and he's gonna cut you in half. Lock, I think he's saying- What are you doing? I think he's saying, stand here if you want the best possible angle on my eight wonderful testicles. My eight enormous, my two, what I call my four testicles, the front, they form a sort of butt, which is exciting for everyone.
Starting point is 00:16:54 My ax is made of my legs. My blade is leg meat. Next up, yeah, he's got a mint hot chocolate and a mint mocha. But this one's a mystery. You can't see what's in that one. Okay. And then so did they not have like transparent PDF
Starting point is 00:17:13 or PNG art of Queen Frostine? Queen Frostine has a sugar cookie latte and Queen Frostine has a couple. And then let's see the last character, Tarnamipal. It's Grim. It's a, let's see, it's a Jolly Grum Drop. Look at that cutie patootie. Who doesn't want to eat that?
Starting point is 00:17:30 No, no, Paul, go back, go back, go back, Paul. Don't you skip on Jolly. Because what I want to talk about here, I cannot imagine a texture combination worse than having a drink with gum drops in it. Oh shit, man. They're at the bottom. They're at the bottom.
Starting point is 00:17:44 At the end, it's like, ugh. It's like they said, hey, you know how boba tea's popular? Now imagine they can't pass through a straw and might kill you. These are no-ba tea. Do not pass go. Hey, is there another character? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:01 That's King Candy. They got a cake. Did you say something about testicles, Griffin? So that's a cake bite infusing white cake with fizzy popping candy and coating each bite with white candy. He has six external testicles and a chest bristling with little breasts. This is my breastplate. That fucking rules. This is my breastplate. That fucking rules.
Starting point is 00:18:33 I can think of like 12 different parades. This guy could lead as the marshal. Only two of them are illegal. Yes. And Paul, I think it's finally time to meet her. Grandma Nut. So this lady's name is Grandma Nut. Did you know that? It's Grandma Nut Latte, a warm, a warm and comforting creation featuring cinnamon, brown sugar and hazelnut.
Starting point is 00:18:58 That's Grandma Nut. It's a real shame Grandma Nut lost her neck in the war. Yeah. Knock, knock. Who's there? Grandma. Grandma who? Whoa, Grandma Nut. What? Grandma Nut. Is this from the Candyland?
Starting point is 00:19:12 Yeah, I just asked Paul to get a bunch of pictures of Grandma Nut. So I could talk about Grandma Nut. Is that a scarecrow made of popcorn in the back contemplating its very existence? Just don't look at Grandma Nut for Christ's sake. If you meet her eye line, she's going to talk about all of her nuts and she won't stop. That's a lot Grandma Nut.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Her name's really great. Here she's got full pockets full of nuts, two big pockets of nuts, two big sacks, and a dog you can put things in. That sucks. That dog is really troubling. How come some of them's is food and this is a woman with a basket dog? Okay, some of them are food. That's an inanimate dog basket. Yeah. Basket ain't food or people. Okay, just hear those sleigh bells ring-ling ring-ting ting-ling too. Yes, that's right folks. It's holiday time.
Starting point is 00:20:01 This is the candy land drinks. It doesn't matter. Salt and straw is launching an ice cream lineup inspired by upcoming holiday movie Red One. This looks like artificial intelligence made it. Is this a real fucking flick? This is a movie that every time I'm reminded it exists, I realize I've completely forgotten it exists until the next time. It's the shittiest Golden Compass adaptation.
Starting point is 00:20:26 This is a movie that judging by the trailers, a lot of people think that a lot of the movies, I like mean, I like this, and they have been wrong every single time so far. They have not been right yet. This is a movie where Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Chris Evans star in Red One. And none of those people were in the same place
Starting point is 00:20:45 when the picture was taken. No fucking way. Especially that polar bear. We've got, it's about, I don't know, it's about, so the important thing is that Duanta Claus is back for, I think the fifth year with some new creations with Salt and Straw. They're all inspired by this movie.
Starting point is 00:21:01 They've got a naughty and nice ice cream cake with a little tiny picture of Duanta Claus on it, which I think is so cute. Can we enhance the Dwanta Claus image at all? Enhance! I'm drunk! Oh shit, man. Give me my cake! Give the-
Starting point is 00:21:21 I'm Dwanta! Are we- is Dwanta- are we sure that's the best we can do with that woman? We can get pictures of him, he's real. We can get a picture of The Rock and put it on there. I would even prefer Dwayne-ta, I think, like get the full, yeah, right? Oh, I thought you meant the image. Well, no, the image is also wild, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:40 It looks like if Dwayne The Rock Johnson was a Santa Claus neopet for some So the thing that I like about Duante Claus is that Duante Claus is not exclusive to any one brand Duante Claus can be used to market like his line of energy drinks when they have holiday flavors Awesome any sort of holiday offering can be marketed to you by Duante Claus who is like his Coca-Cola Santa Who comes just out at holidays. Right. And for like November to December, he's Duanta Claus. Don't even call for Dwayne. He's not around. So this cake is naughty and nice. Each has a unique and indulgent combination of perfectly constructed flavors. No one does naughty like our friend Duanta.
Starting point is 00:22:24 No one? What? Hold on.-dwanta. No one? What? Hold on. What? That's something like your drunk aunt says and you're like, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Cheryl, go back, go back. What'd you say?
Starting point is 00:22:33 No one does naughty like our finn-dwanta. Okay. So who better to help us dream up seven layers of devilish decadence in our first ever handcrafted ice cream cake, as if a sweet sinful nightcap cladded with our favorite peanut butter cup candy, wink. Why does it really wink?
Starting point is 00:22:51 No, it's just that's me, it's Reese's. And anyway, Dwayne has two different cakes for you. Who? Dwayne, thank you. Thank you. Or column drift, as he's literally called in the movie. No, no, no, no. So you can get, Thank you or column drift as he's literally called So you can get Salt and straws also doing some ice creams. They've got the commander of the ELF PB chocolate crinkle
Starting point is 00:23:13 Which is a hearty tribute to Callum drifts power packed meals Cool, man. Yeah, man this guy for sure. Yeah, he's like a carriage I know about would love to eat an ice cream about him. Yeah. When I saw the Christmas Red One movie and saw Rock in it, I thought I'd love to eat an ice cream about him. It's the North Pole's ultimate indulgence for strength and cheer.
Starting point is 00:23:37 Holy shit. Cool. Sure. This also, though, could be like a promo image saying, like, what do you mean you don't say Merry Christmas? Yeah. And it's very threatening in that way. It's a Christmas buddy comedy starring Dwayne Johnson
Starting point is 00:23:53 and Kirk, fuck I can't remember. Cameron. Shit, it would have been better if I remember his goddamn last name. Santa has a flavor too, it's red. Wait, just stop there, Santa has a flavor to its red. Wait, just stop there. Santa has a flavor of ice cream. Show Chris Evans that dork doesn't have a flavor. Jack O'Malley. I doubt it. Next. Yeah. So Santa has a flavor and an aroma I'd imagine capturing the
Starting point is 00:24:20 essence of Santa's favorite cookie platter. How come from like every time they do a like a real life Santa now for like last 10 years, he's kind of dingy. Like dingy and fucking built. Yeah, man. He's swole. He's got a an eggnog custard swirl through his ice cream. And lastly, there's Krampus's mince pie with pecan crust. This is inspired by the spirited mischief of Krampus's mince pie with pecan crust. This is inspired by the spirited mischief of Krampusnacht. That's not really for the movie.
Starting point is 00:24:49 You made that up, right? This flavor recreates a classic mince meat pie with a twist. The twist is- It's human meat. It's humans. It's got the unmistakable warmth of holiday spices. You can get these naughty and nice ice cream cakes available for a limited time at salt and straw locations.
Starting point is 00:25:04 That's not appetizing at all. The nice one looks like wood chips and the top one looks like chocolate cookies and stuff. Well they're all available for you in store now. That's your Munch Squad for this week. Thank you for your attention. I Am helping a friend. Okay, you ready? I'm helping a friend. Give me a second. Yes, please I'm helping a friend organize a celebration of life after their distant relative passed away pretty fucking funny so far They have asked me to provide a pasta dish for an event that could have anywhere between five and fifty people attending. I did not know their relative and have never talked to my friend about pasta preferences. Brothers what is the best pasta to bring to a celebration of
Starting point is 00:25:54 life? That's from pasta problems are you here? Hello. Okay, hi. So, I do want to say, pursuant to your question, I do think it's the most important thing. Aside from the pasta choice, and aside from the fact that it is for a celebration of life, which is in and of itself pretty wild, what on earth could make it so that they don't know if five people will come to this funeral.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Yeah, yeah. Or 50. We are talking about completely different venue requirements at that point. For starters, and like what happened in your life that maybe some people know about, but a lot of people might know about, and they're not gonna come. But maybe it didn't get out, and maybe not as many people know as I think know, and we'll get like 20. But if everybody knows, there might be five.
Starting point is 00:26:58 I would think with a wake with 50 people would be catered. So I would imagine this is gonna land closer to the smaller end. Immediate gut reaction, one of the spirally fun ones. I don't think you can go full blown. One long continuous strand of spaghetti. There it is. Because love binds us all together. Yeah. Like one long continuous strand of spaghetti.
Starting point is 00:27:22 It extrudes directly into a pot and there's nine minutes of pasta inside the pot. It's being drawn out the other end. Cool. Through an unexstruder, being drawn onto a plate. There's snip where they have the amount you can make basically infinite. Well, okay, but we-
Starting point is 00:27:41 Yeah, here's what you do. You lay out all the pasta and depending on how many people are going to be there, there will be more spokes to the wheel. Everybody start eating at the same time, one big kiss in the middle. OK, hold on. So hold on.
Starting point is 00:27:51 Hold on. No, no, no. Travis has just invent- OK. I didn't know this was an option. Travis's answer is basically, you invent a new pasta shape. It has a central, I imagine, rock hard nucleus. Other podcasts have done it. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:04 But now we are taking our time. There's a central rock hard nucleus on this pasta. Inedible. And then 5 to 50 strands of pasta coming off of it. Everyone slurps at the same time to me in the middle of a fucking bodacious, so sexy, so sexual 50-way kiss. You're going to see some people eating slower or faster
Starting point is 00:28:26 than others. And you're going to be coaching as you go. Slow down, slow down. Well, no, you can't talk. So be like, mm. I think what we're going to need is some vats of sauce that you can pivot around to and sort of dip it in. Let it kind of droop.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Let the slack come up through the sauce ravine. Maybe some kind of attachment where the sauce is just right. Sorry, I have to talk in the microphone. The sauce is right in front of your mouth. So as you eat, just move it through. That would be better to have a boat of sauce here. Oh, I see. Just getting coated as you go.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Or you don't even have to coat it, Trav. If you just take like one lick of the sauce as you go, you combine it in your mouth for the primo pasta experience. Maybe start with a mouthful of sauce to begin with. That's pasta, baby. After this arcane ritual has completed, the ghost of the loved one appears and is like, ah, yes, just what I wanted.
Starting point is 00:29:20 How did you know, Derek's friend, that I was a massive pasta burger? In accordance with my detailed specifications. Show me the talented chef that could craft this grand pasta design. That's what it is. It's gonna start with 50, and you're cutting it down to five. Who can make it to the end of the pasta fastest? And the first five get five equal portions of their billions of dollars, I assume? Yeah!
Starting point is 00:29:45 Fuck yeah. I don't even want to do anymore for this question. That's a kick-ass idea. Novelty 50-Way Pasta for big kisses. Hi, we're the McRoy Brothers, and we'd like to introduce you to... Sharks! Sharks, we'll make this quick. We got 50-Way Pasta for a big old kiss at a wake with- They say no Griffin. They're saying no. That was quick. Thanks sharks. I appreciate it As far as they let us get. A few years ago
Starting point is 00:30:12 I inherited a potion stamp collection from an estranged uncle. The collection is massive Taking up about a third. That's weird by the way I just did I didn't realize this when I read the question initially But it is kind of weird that your uncle's like no, I'm not gonna call him but they can have my stamps when I die That's usually the beginning of an intense mystery. Yeah, the collection is murdered your uncle The collection is massive taking up about a third of the spare room in which they're currently stored after speaking with multiple Collectible dealers. I have learned that in 2024, these stamps are basically worthless. No one will buy them,
Starting point is 00:30:47 and they're only worth their postage value if that. They're just taking up space in my house at this point. Brothers, what should I do with several thousand stamps? That's from perplexed by postage in Pleasant Prairie. Are you here? Hello. You say it's strange. Is it possible that he didn't like you?
Starting point is 00:31:04 Travis! Hey! Did you go to his house one time, Hello, you say it's strange is it possible that he didn't like you Travis hey Did you go to his house one time and you were like why are you storing all of these stamps in their own? Individual six by six inch boxes that would occupy one third of a whole room of a house stamps are so small I Have to imagine as a stamp collector one of the premium benefits is that the thing you're collecting is so fucking small. How's it taking up a third of a room? I think that you should burn these.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Now listen, I have a good rationale for this. Do you want to hear it? Okay. You're all complicit now in male crime? The stamps don't have feelings. The stamps don't give a shit. You wasted so many of your fucking life minutes figuring out if these are worth a goddamn cent.
Starting point is 00:31:54 And the answer is no. And if you store these fucking anywhere, eventually the descendant of yours is going to come and do the same goddamn rigamarole again. Just burn the fucking stamps, dude. Or... No. They had their fun, they collected them.
Starting point is 00:32:14 It was fun for them. That's collections, baby. It was fun. Unless. I also have an unless, so do your unless. Okay. Unless. Unless.
Starting point is 00:32:23 If they're worthless, it's because there's a lot of these other bad boys floating around, you need to burn those stamps. That's good. Okay! Yeah, you're going on a nationwide hunt, maybe worldwide, to find the other stamps that match these. Now this is crime. Burn those. Now this is criminal.
Starting point is 00:32:34 Unless... Wait, who are... For clarity's sake, are you unlesing me or Travis? I'm unlesing originally you. Travis' idea is fucking ironclad, no holes whatsoever. Okay, so that's like one that's like, that one's done and solved. That's like one bulletproof. A nationwide tiny arson streak.
Starting point is 00:32:51 So unless, unless you park these bad boys in a storage unit, which you do not pay the second month's fee of, and you let it go delinquent, and then you sit and you tune in to fucking Discovery, and you wait and you watch You see fucking Europe and you're like, nope motherfucker. I know the answer to this storage unit It's a bunch of shitty stamps idiot And then one of the collectors who said it was worthless shows up and goes yeah
Starting point is 00:33:19 Actually, that's worth a lot of money. I'll take it like the long con. Yeah, Dave and that guy were working together I have a lot of money I'll take it like the long con yeah Dave and that guy were working together I'll watch out for stamps are stamps do cost Money to send them which seems so strange to me because we advertise for a place that is like all about Streamlining that entire industry, but it's like how much is stamps now like fit 50 74 74 Don't search for it. It's not funny. You should be able to mail a stamp collection for free. No postage on it. Right?
Starting point is 00:33:52 No problem. There's postage inside. Oh, I didn't put a stamp on it, you say? It's 73 cents on average. Times what? 3000 stamps? Does that sound like a good... Well, they're not new stamps in the collection. This isn't thousands of stamps they went and bought today. No, no, no, no, you misunderstand.
Starting point is 00:34:10 These stamps are worth exactly 73 cents. If there's 3,000 of them, that's $2190. Unless they're forever stamps, but go on, okay. I'm saying you run your own tiny independent post office outside of your house. A lot of my, I apologize, a lot of my solutions today are pop-up shops, but this is like, you post up, I think you could even do it in front of the post office
Starting point is 00:34:31 and be like, for 72 cents. I can give you this old one that's already been used, I think. I don't know how stamp collecting works. No, it's gotta be sticky. You can't, it's gotta be sticky, untouched, primo. Hey, it sticky untouched Primo but there's definitely people who have gone and bought thousands and thousands of forever stamps and they're like in 50 years Yeah, of course man be worth. Yes an investment thing, right? Yeah for yeah, absolutely I bought you know, I got a storage unit recently and I read I hope I end up on storage for us someday
Starting point is 00:35:03 What's that? Not you? I would like you're not in the us someday. Because I would- Not you. You're not in the storage unit, John. No, no, no. But like my storage unit, I would love to have like Darryl or one of the gang be like, today I'm talking to my book expert friend about how much I can expect for these 200 copies of Everybody Has a Podcast, Except for You.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Yeah. Yeah. Leslie Worthless? I owe you money for looking at them? Wow. Shit. Can you dispose of them for a reasonable... No? No? They're toxic? What?
Starting point is 00:35:33 To burn? Yeah? Wow. Hey. Go get yours available at any store I see today. Start your search at the bargain table and then work back from there. It'll be in a section that is labeled books that came out like five years too late. I've narrow casting to the two other people on the stage right now.
Starting point is 00:35:56 That's in our hubris section. To be fair, it was our fault because no one was making podcasts during the pandemic. Oh no, wait. We did time it perfectly actually. Fuck. No excuse. Quality of the pros they say. We have to move on.
Starting point is 00:36:13 I grew up skateboarding and I've taken it up again as an adult. The problem is I'm very short, just shy of five feet tall. So when people see me skating around, they often mistake me for a child. Gets super awkward when it's another adult that starts talking to me like I'm a child, and I have to break the news that I'm in fact 31 years old.
Starting point is 00:36:32 Brothers, when I'm out skateboarding, how do I say to the world that I'm a grown adult with a mortgage and not 13 years old? And that's from really short King and Racine. Are you here? Hi. Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:43 Yeah. Yeah. When an adult talks to you like you're a child, I can't imagine seeing what I think is a child skateboarding and being like, I'm going to engage. Yeah, that's also wild. Although there are, I get TikToks sometimes of a kid beefing it on a half pipe. And then some young Tony Hawk looking guy skates over like,
Starting point is 00:37:04 God, put your balance on the back foot when you lean forward give it everything you got you got to believe in everything you can do you can do it believe in yourself and then they do it and everyone's like yeah and they're like crying like thank you young Tony Hawk and I wish so bad someone would do that for me yeah it's like believing you that much in skateboarding I know in everything I guess. Yeah. Now I can think of some stuff I can use like a young Tony Hawk.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Or Tony Hawk. I that would be good too obviously. I was just thinking about like my worry would be that if somebody started treating me like a 13 year old I might just sort of roll with his vibe on it. Yeah. So like yeah man yeah totally. So like what should I do? So as long as you're a grownup,
Starting point is 00:37:50 what's going on, man? What should I do different? Okay. You could carry a copy of your mortgage around with you everywhere you go. In a briefcase. In a briefcase. What are TV shows that only adults like?
Starting point is 00:38:04 Crime Scene Kitchen. Well, only like a few adults like? Crime Scene Kitchen. Well, only a few adults like that, I think. Yeah, but I think it's mostly you and Sydney. But no kids. Only murders in the building? No kids are watching that, right? If you wore your only murders in the building t-shirt, I guarantee you no one is going to stake you for a 13-year-old.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Just as you're skateboarding, like, mutter about how difficult it is to get things for, like, insurance to pay for. Yeah. Like, as you're skating, be like, am I going to get a new roof? You could signal it the way I signal it, and when you fall, just lay there for five minutes, like, god damn it. Ah, ah, it hurts. You're not getting up.
Starting point is 00:38:43 Yeah, don't go. If they were a kid, they'd have spry bones. Yeah, they have a bounce up getting up. Yeah, don't go, if they were a kid, they'd have spry bones. Yeah, they have a bounce up by now. That's a grown up, you could tell by the writhing. Yeah, they've been there for seven full minutes. Yeah, they're laying there muttering about how no one's gonna have any sympathy for them
Starting point is 00:38:57 for them not doing this. Have you tried skateboarding so fucking good that no one will even say shit to you at all? That's so cool, dude. You gotta take your knocks on the park and on the vert ramp because that's how you get there. You think Tony Hawk didn't have people confusing him for a child all the time? Yeah. Probably not. He's enormous.
Starting point is 00:39:17 He's a huge man. Huge. Boop, boop, boop, ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-, boop, ba-da-ba-da, boop, ba-da-ba-da, boop, ba-da-ba-da, boop, ba-da-ba-da, boop, ba-da-ba-da, boop! What the hell? Sorry, this is weird. There's not normally a Munch Squad and a Haunted Doll Watch in the same episode. I would say it's literally never happened and you're pulling out all the stops
Starting point is 00:39:36 for the final live show of the Twenty Fungalore Tour. And, and... And Justin, I'm just gonna go and take the segment. I definitely put a lot of work into preparing and throw that away. Wow, Trav. No, you know what? Do it now. No, Justin, I don't want to see you here and there.
Starting point is 00:39:51 No, do it now, Trav. No, Trav, go ahead and do it right now. You put the work in. All right, we're going to do a live sadly. No, we're not. Go ahead, Juice. All right. Honan Dahl Truman.
Starting point is 00:40:04 You're purchasing. What? Oh God. It's okay. I need you to trust me right now. You're my brother and I do not. I know you're scared and you should be scared because it's your show, but you're scared. Trust me.
Starting point is 00:40:20 Thank, fair. Okay. All right, meet Truman. Ever since okay. This is, uh, all right. Meet Truman. Ever since I brought Truman in, I didn't feel a child with him. What? Are you kidding? Because Truman's holding a picture of a child.
Starting point is 00:40:35 So that's- We'll get there. Can you, did you read the full title of Truman? Yeah, Meet Truman. Haunted doll Truman, stuffed animal grandfather. Okay meet Truman. Haunted doll Truman, stuffed animal grandfather. Okay. Haunted doll Truman. Meet Truman. Ever since I bought Truman and I didn't feel a child with him, the seller I got him from had him advertised as a child. I hate that. I just felt I needed him to find out what was really going on. Truman is actually the grandfather of this young child.
Starting point is 00:41:08 on. Truman is actually the grandfather of this young child. Okay. Huh? How? Okay. Huh? Okay. Her dad was sick. Okay. Apparently before the baby was born, the child's mother had a fight with her family. Her dad was sick with emphysema and expected to live not long and his dying wish was to meet the child. It ended up his daughter and his wife couldn't come to an agreement for her to be able to visit her father. He just says that he will never forgive his wife for not letting the family come together knowing he was so sick. He clipped, he clipped onto this photo so that he could be the grandpa that he wanted to be if he would have survived.
Starting point is 00:41:38 Now, now hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold You talk about everything you just said. Every part of it is wild. So you're telling me, canonically, this grandfather died. Within the canon, yes.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Before his, so far in fiction, you're right. Went into that stuffed animal. Yeah. Correct. And then the rest of the family was like, well, time to get rid of grandpa. We'll leave this picture of the child with him though. I thought it was the grandpa hadn't yet died. Wanted to visit the kid.
Starting point is 00:42:10 The mom and wife wouldn't let him. So he was like, guess I'll die and hopped into this fucking a beanie baby. What I'm saying is either way, they got rid of grandpa in the doll and sent a picture of their baby with him. Yeah. So they had to know grandpa grandpa in the doll and sent a picture of their baby with him. Yeah. So they had to know grandpa was in the doll.
Starting point is 00:42:28 And now he's on fucking eBay, which is like the saddest part of all. That someone's grand poppy. He fought in one of the world wars. By the way, his message, if you're curious, was to try to honor a person's last wish before they pass because the grief followed him to his death. Oh, bummer. Truman likes hard tacks and coffee once in a while. Wait, hard tacks? Hard tack like Civil War bread, I guess?
Starting point is 00:42:53 He hates scurvy. All right, next up, let's meet a pair of gents. Thank you, Paul. Oh, shit. Paul had so many. Let's meet Hanedal, Luke and Joseph, best friends. Two for one. Oh yeah, I like them. Oh, I like their vibe a lot.
Starting point is 00:43:09 Yeah, these guys fucking kick ass dude. Can I just say, seashell blessings here for seller, 560 ratings, 100% positive. I mean, look at this shit, Trav, it's undeniable. This is their second seashell blessings. We're celebrating them this time. Meet Luke, palm tree, and Joseph. So Luke's by the palm tree, Joseph is standing.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Yeah, I cracked the cipher, Juice. Yeah. The pair were best friends from early childhood all the way through high school. I found these guys when we were on vacation and they are definitely something else. I actually heard a man whistle as I walked away from them and I turned back around and no one was there It was the weirdest thing. I felt compelled to purchase them even though it was more than I wanted to spend these guys are awesome
Starting point is 00:43:53 They are definitely from the 60s Wait just to jump back they heard a man whistle, but there was no one there and then they bought them from some yeah Once I bought once I brought them home, I gave them an offering of whiskey and boy, they were lighting up like crazy. What's that look like? There has been a lot of experiences that I've had just since having them. They basically just like being teenage guys.
Starting point is 00:44:16 That one's vaping. That is a fucking vape rig, Travis. You are a hundred percent right. It's a big one. It's a big one, but I've seen some big ones. So but if they're in the 60s what were they kicking around in until vapes were invented? Just like super quick I want to mention that Lucas mentioned he was trying to save a child when he got caught in a riptide and got sucked in and then Joseph realized his best friend's in trouble and he
Starting point is 00:44:37 obviously went to help so they died but these two are really a funny pair and I've enjoyed them even if it was for a short time they communicate with all forms of divination. I love these two guys. Again, I have to question the nature of premeditated doll becoming. Did they have a conversation at some point like, hey dude, I had a great idea.
Starting point is 00:44:58 We're best friends. What if we died and became like Redondo Beach Boardwalk Chachkies forever. I also love the idea that when I die, my ghost might suddenly become good at divination. Like, can you imagine getting a ghost and like, help me with divination? Like, what the fuck are you talking about, man?
Starting point is 00:45:16 I don't know how to do that. We got one more to meet. Juice, I can't even read all these words in sequence, dude. Okay, so it doesn't matter. Let's just meet the doll. It's a negative haunted doll. Predator is- He knows what he did! He knows exactly what it is!
Starting point is 00:45:36 He looks very contrite, to be fair. I genuinely almost fell backwards in my chair. I had to catch Travis's chair to catch my- Hey,'t, hey Paul, don't go to the last picture yet. This is- Is his hat a brush? Yeah, his hat's a brush. This vessel is the home of the human spirit, Tony. His energy is negative and he has sexual predatory behavior. He enjoys the company of women
Starting point is 00:45:57 and will gladly communicate with a woman via definition or- I'm a man, right? Tony's spirit has entered my dreams and caused disturbing sexual dreams. His spirit also tends to explore on your body There have been nights where I can hear him breathing heavy next to my bed Be wary of welcoming Tony into your home. Tony doesn't do well with other spirits though. He's left my pets alone I would be cautious of welcoming into a home with man Tony Tony
Starting point is 00:46:23 Let a let folks we are gonna take a break and I would like you to go use with men, Tony! Tony! Hey, folks, we are gonna take a break, and I would like you to go use the bathroom and buy posters before I show this. Posters by Sidney Dean. And here's, I just wanna go on this final picture of Tony, who's still available for sale, and then we're gonna go. Okay, everybody, have a good intermission.
Starting point is 00:46:40 Go ahead, pull. Tony, you know what you did! We'll be right back. You know what you did. We'll be right back. You know what you did, Tony. ["It's Bad, It's Bad With You"] It's bad, it's bad with you. Hello, I was drinking some Gatorade Sport Fuel. I understand, and can I tell you,
Starting point is 00:47:01 maybe that's the reason I'm looking at you right now, your aura is off the charts. Thank you, I've been doing a sort of energy cleanse juice situation where I look at pictures of my loved ones for eight hours a day and I'm drinking this crazy, crazy juice, I'm just shitting my brains out. Hey, can I just say, I'm glad that you're taking the time to look at pictures of your loved ones.
Starting point is 00:47:25 Eight hours a day as both your brother and co-worker on a lot of projects, that's very troubling for me. Well, Aura Frames makes it so easy to look at beautiful pictures of your family and your loved ones that you could just- Yeah, but for eight hours? Sure, sure. A day? Yeah, I mean, that's why Aura Frames is the best gift
Starting point is 00:47:44 you can give someone this time of year. It's because Aura Frames is a beautiful digital picture frame that you can upload unlimited photos and videos directly from your phone, right to the frame. It's great for you if you want an eight hour cleanse. Well, okay, see that's where it shifts, because I like the part where it's easy to upload the photos and you get all your photos and stuff on there.
Starting point is 00:48:04 I think that the part that it's easy to upload the photos and you get all your photos and stuff on there. I think that the part that's kind of tripping me up is where you sit, I assume in like silence by yourself? Yes, yeah, no, it's not a group meditation situation. So to appreciate your family more, you remove yourself from their presence for eight hours a day to stare at pictures of them? Yes, they get it.
Starting point is 00:48:23 And grandma and grandpa don't know how anything works. And so these digital frames, you can upload the pictures to them for them. And then all of a sudden, they won't be taking screenshots of Facebook with their phone and then posting that on Facebook. Also, you just have Aura frames there ready to give them what they need.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I have Aura frame, I love it. We've given it as a Christmas present to many, many folks. And if you're struggling to figure out what to get that special someone, save on the perfect gift by going to AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura's best-selling Carver Map Frames by using promo code mybrother at checkout.
Starting point is 00:49:01 That's A-U-R-A-Frames.com, promo code mybrother. This deal's exclusive to our-R-A frames.com promo code my brother. This deals exclusive to our listeners. So get yours now in time for the holidays, terms and conditions apply. You know what I do for eight hours a day, Grimhend? What's that? Don't say crank. No, God, not for eight hours?
Starting point is 00:49:17 Okay, I don't know. Oh my God, the chafing. No, I just, I just peruse the internet. That's actually probably true and real. And I'm thinking that at this point, the internet has given me so much, Griffin. It's been such a force for good in my life with no downsides.
Starting point is 00:49:33 Sure. And now I think it's time for me to give back. Yeah. And maybe like create stuff to put on the internet and finally start putting some content out there, but I have no idea how to do it. What have we been doing? What are we doing right now?
Starting point is 00:49:47 Well, this is just two brothers talking. Usually it's three brothers talking for our own enjoyment. We should start doing something with this though. This bit is confusing to me, and I don't know how to contribute to it. So I'm gonna go ahead and say the word Squarespace out loud. Oh, that's a great idea. I'm gonna say the word Squarespace out loud so that technically, according to the documents
Starting point is 00:50:11 we signed, this one counts as an advertisement. By the Geneva Advertising Convention, this is now an advertisement. I didn't know where to put any of this content. We have hundreds and hundreds of hours of recorded stuff and we've never known what to do with it. And now we can use Squ Squarespace was it you said? So yeah, we usually upload these audio files to a Riz and then people grab the Riz where they want it
Starting point is 00:50:35 and then they can listen. And they just skippity all over the place. Am I saying that right? You're saying it right, but it's wrong to have said it. Oh, okay. So Squarespace lets you design beautiful websites, engage with your audience, sell anything from products to content to your time
Starting point is 00:50:50 all in one place, all in your terms. It's so easy to make a website that looks like you know what the fuck you're doing with Squarespace. They've got all kinds of tools and just industry-leading design expertise ready to help you build a sophisticated web portal tailored to your needs. Whoa, a portal?
Starting point is 00:51:10 A portal and you can climb in the screen. No, you can't, but it feels like- Don't do that, even if you could, don't do that. Don't do that, that's how the lawnmower man gets you. Squarespace Payments is the easiest way to manage your payments in one place. You can hook it up to whatever payment options you want, like Apple Pay or Card, whatever.
Starting point is 00:51:30 Your friend Derek, who will go and collect the money for you? I don't know if Squarespace payments will get Derek. Oh, okay, maybe next year. Most other stuff they can do, go to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, go to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, go to squarespace.com slash my brother to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.
Starting point is 00:51:50 And as long as we're plugging things right now, packages are on sale for Champions Grove, the immersive tabletop gaming event that is now my second year organizing and planning and everything. It's going to be at Ravenwood Castle in Hocking Hills, Ohio. We had such a blast last year that we're doing it again. This time-
Starting point is 00:52:08 You will need to pay me $125. If you want me to sit here during this paid ad spot for Champions Grove- I'll have Derek come over and bring you $125. I support you hugely in this process. I think Champions Grove is a wonder, but if you're gonna make me sit here during our paid advertising time, it will cost you 100.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Well, at this point, you're just wasting your own time. So let me finish the pitch. Okay, so this year we're doing four days, instead of last year's three. And thankfully, I need diverse games stepped in and made a huge sponsorship so that every ticket, we could keep the price down. And I think we kept it at the same price it was last year if not close and
Starting point is 00:52:47 But you get an extra day for the same price? You get an extra day. Yeah. You fool. I know. You're pissing money away out the toilet. Well yeah I have seen my doctor about that and they say it's normal. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:52:59 When Travis pisses in the toilet it always goes around the bowl and shoots right back out. It doesn't make any sense at all. It is wild. It is wild. It's wet and wild. Anyways, you can go to championsgrove.com. It's gonna be Memorial Day weekend there
Starting point is 00:53:13 at the end of May. Come hang out with us for four days. We're bringing out some great tabletop creators and people to play games with you guys. We're gonna have a bunch of different events. Go to championsgrove.com for the packages and we'll see you there. I'm going to have a bunch of different events. Go to championsgrove.com for the packages and we'll see you there.
Starting point is 00:53:26 Here's the rest of the show. We are going to now call some folks down to the microphone which I believe is here, stage left, house right, right up here up front. Please don't come to the microphone if we do not call you. I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have to say specifically explicitly that. We'll call you down I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have to say specifically, explicitly that. We'll call you down by your name and seat number
Starting point is 00:53:49 when you come down. If you want to give us your name, your pronouns, if you would like, and we'll get into your question. Also, just let it take a moment to say, thank you all for being here. Yes. I'm joining us. I can see you all now.
Starting point is 00:54:00 Okay. I just wanted to show a little gratitude. I appreciate it. No, I just wanted to say, as long as we're talking about stuff, and I know other Griffin is at the microphones, hold on one second. The, there's, sorry.
Starting point is 00:54:18 This is such a beautiful theater. If you didn't take a moment to sort of like absorb it, it's freaking gorgeous. And actually as you leave that way, they've got some samples of the molding and the I'm the only person. No, they let you, you can see samples of the chandelier
Starting point is 00:54:35 and you can taste them. Because if you're like me, you've been looking at going, I wonder what that tastes like. On your way out just lick. Yeah man, for sure. I'd love to chow down on that light fixture on the ceiling. I'm just saying that we go to a lot of places,
Starting point is 00:54:49 and this is such a beautiful place. And thank you for having us here. OK. Thank you, Papa. Let's start. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Starting point is 00:54:57 I'm sorry my brother called you Other Griffin. That's all right. It's a wonderful name. I mean, he's right. But I'm sorry it happened. The lights are pretty dark. So you just kind of look like my brother. How tall are you? 5'11".
Starting point is 00:55:10 I'm 5'10", so it's pretty fucking close, honestly. Sounds like a real 5'10 thing to say, Griffin. Okay. Sorry, that was funny. It was funny. It's a funny joke, though, but it's good. Yeah. Alright. Birthday boys! Yeah, birthday boys. Take that, Griff but it's good. Yeah. I'm fine. Birthday boys.
Starting point is 00:55:25 Yeah, birthday boys. Take that, Griff. So hello. Hello. I sent in two questions. Which one is it? You are Josh. I am.
Starting point is 00:55:33 You have one about- You are Josh. I have one about flashlights and I have one about- Flashlights is definitely the one we want to get into. Josh, thank you so much. So I work for a tool company and- So do I. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!
Starting point is 00:55:47 Griv it, griv it. We got him dude, you got him. Wait, hold on. All right Josh, go ahead. Over the course of my career, I have accrued at least 10 flashlights, 10 unique flashlights. What makes them unique?
Starting point is 00:56:03 They're used for all sorts of different fun things. One of them has a mouth guard that you can bite down on. Um, that's cool. Yeah. Oh, shining out, right? Yeah, it's not. Wait, did you think it was a mouth based internal flashlight? I'm just saying I've never had whatever Oskopi goes in that way, but they
Starting point is 00:56:23 definitely don't want you to bite the thing in half, right? Are any of them like really bright? Yes. Most of them. Yeah, how bright? Uh, it hurt if you looked at them. It hurt if you looked at it. Yeah, that's about what we were looking for Josh. If you all haven't gotten out there, I think Josh will back me up on this. If you all have not gotten out there to buy yourself a flashlight, and I mean a really intense flashlight, it's wild the things we're doing with flashlights these days, guys. I got an Olight Seeker Pro 4,
Starting point is 00:56:52 and if you turn that thing on, I look like the motherfucking neighborhood. I shouldn't have this much power in my hand. It's like theatrical lighting. I'm just carrying it around for Halloween. By round of applause, because I want to make sure I'm not alone in this How many of you have felt extreme excitement when you've shined a flashlight and you can see it like on a cloud?
Starting point is 00:57:12 Yeah Best shit you got any of that do that that was a universe. That's you got any cloud flashlights Josh Maybe I haven't tested it on cloud what Josh you gotta shine this shit on a cloud You haven't lived Josh, what was the question? Did you have a question? Josh, or did you just want to shoot the shit about flashlights? I just like flashlights. No, I have all these flashlights,
Starting point is 00:57:32 and most of them have magnets, but I don't know how to use them in my daily life. Like, I don't. The magnet thing threw me for a second there, Josh. Like, inside of them, or it's part of it? Part of it. I used to dread any time I would have to either go into the crawlspace under my house for some sort of home project that I was obviously not fucking equipped to do. Or up into the attic for the same shit.
Starting point is 00:58:00 And then I bought myself some knee pads and gloves and a little headlamp And then I loved going under the house and in the attic cuz all of a sudden. I'm a little spelunker now I'm going on a little adventure, and I have everything I need to do it So I would say get under there get under there or over there above there Cuz there's stuff happening in your attic or in the crawlspace under your house You have no fucking idea about and And a lot of the time it's hornets. Yeah. Josh. And nothing soothes hornets
Starting point is 00:58:29 like having a light shined on them. The brightest lights on the market, yeah. Josh, would you be willing to commit to only having one light on in your house in any given time? I can do that. Because that way you can turn one off, flashlight comes on, it's a fun little game to find the next room,
Starting point is 00:58:45 flashlight goes back off, turn the light on. That's fun. Another thing, you could start providing it as a service for other people, because sometimes when it's dark outside, like nighttime, I don't know where the clouds are anymore because it's too dark. And you could use your flashlight to spot clouds for me. And that'd be very exciting.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Oh, you know, sometimes I'm outside and it gets a little spooky and I get in my head. And if some helpful stranger ran up with a flashlight shining in my face and I was like, Oh God light. I'm so safe now. Yeah. The light keeps you safe. It would be cool Josh. If you could hide them all throughout your home. And then when a storm came, you could stand near one like no matter where you're at in your house, you pound up cause you pound on the fucking banister.
Starting point is 00:59:26 Is it unroll? Like you're so ready for it. Like at any moment, you're always within arm's reach of one flash. You got like, and it fires that you catch it out of the end. That would rule. Actually Josh, you gotta do that.
Starting point is 00:59:36 Hey Josh, you got one of those big mag lights? It's pretty big. Cool man. I mean, it doesn't, we're not making it. That sounds like a real five foot 10 thing to say. Shush. Just. I'm just saying, when you walk around with a mag light,
Starting point is 00:59:52 you're like, I'm good for darkness scenarios, or if I have to beat some ass. Oh. Like a cool security guard guy, I guess. If you see somebody who's compensating with one of those giant ass mag flashlights The thing they you you need to remember about them is that person had to go to the store to buy D's Cuz they didn't have D's they go to the store to buy special D batteries to put their stupid big flashlight
Starting point is 01:00:18 You know what a waste of time I'm confident somebody who's wearing rave gloves with lights on the end of each finger Yeah, it's got nothing to prove Somebody who's wearing rave gloves with lights on the end of each finger. Yes. Versus got nothing to prove. Hey, Josh, do you got rave gloves? Oh, I know what I'm getting tomorrow. Heck yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Hey, Josh, did we help you? I don't think we did, but we did celebrate you, which is a new angle for us. Hooray for you, Josh. You helped. Thank you so much, Josh. Thank you, Josh. I appreciate you.
Starting point is 01:00:44 You helped. You helped. Thank you so much, Josh. Thank you, Josh. I appreciate you. Thank you so much, Josh. Was there someone else? Hello. Oh, hi. Hi. You're crushing it so far. I'm so excited about your question. You know, I'm going to be honest.
Starting point is 01:00:57 I thought you were just going to read it yourselves. Oh, no. Do you want us to just do that? Would you feel more comfortable if we did? Because Griffin's happy to do that. I mean, I'll tackle it again. Okay, great. That's good because I don't know if you know this,
Starting point is 01:01:09 we don't know all the details. That's true. What's your name? Yvette. Hi Yvette. Hi. What is your question Yvette? So I'm writing a book.
Starting point is 01:01:21 I'm writing my first novel. Congratulations. A lot of book people in here. Surprising. That's a good thing for what's coming next. So it is very book talk appropriate. Nice. And I know what that means.
Starting point is 01:01:43 I got you, Griff. Don't worry. Go ahead. So it is spicy. Okay. There is spice and attractive people with wings. Oh, I love that. Okay, so like angels? Is it angels? Could be fey.
Starting point is 01:02:00 Close, you know, maybe from the other direction. Wait. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, we got there. Hey, can I just say, if this is what you're putting on the description on the dust cover, so far so good. No. Yeah, I'm buying multiple copies.
Starting point is 01:02:17 Dust cover's just like, so, it's pretty spicy. Done got angels, but you know the other ones. I buy the fuck out of that book. I gotta know, the mystery's. It's 50% ellipses. Yeah, and the author pictures, you going, I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:02:36 So you're writing a demon sex novel, what is the question? You get it, you get it. Yeah, my mom keeps asking me what it's about. Uh-huh. A lot of religious themes, mom. Yeah. She's a Sunday school teacher, so...
Starting point is 01:02:52 Oh, Yvette. Oh, Yvette. I don't know how to... So, mom, you know how demons... So she knows, she understands the power of myth. Yeah. That is... It's huge. Mom, you know how demons are always trying
Starting point is 01:03:05 to tempt us in sin? Yeah. What my book explores is if we were like, fuck yeah. Yeah. You could also say it's the hero's journey and it involves, the hero. The hero's horny.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Hero's horny. The hero's horny. Hero's horny. The hero does go on a demonic sex adventure. But at the end, saved and totally good to go. But then she'll read the whole book. No, I'm not saying you have to make your main character, your main sexual character, get saved at the end of your book. Although I think a lot of books would benefit if they ended with the main character getting bored again.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Can I just say, Griffin, what you've introduced also is the idea that there's a main character but a main sexual character, and they're two different people. And it's just like interspersed chapters of like this guy's over here saving the world, and this one's over here getting his dick wet. And I can't stress enough, the stories are not related.
Starting point is 01:04:05 Never the twain shall meet. I think you might be surprised that your mom ends up being really proud of you. Because I think that any, I just think if my kid had a passion like that and they went after it, I'd be so frickin' proud. I don't think I'd care what it's about. That's one.
Starting point is 01:04:24 Second, there's a lot of people reading fairy sex books you wouldn't think are reading fairy sex books. I've seen people on like CBS this morning talking about fairy sex books. It's getting subtraction.
Starting point is 01:04:40 It would actually probably at this point be weirder if you said I'm writing a demon book and your mom said, lots of fucking, right? And you said, and you're like, no mom, very chaste. And she's like, won't sell for shit. Is the concern, I'm just now realizing not that you are worried about your mother's approval or disapproval, but that you just wicked
Starting point is 01:04:57 don't want to have this conversation with your mom. I'm 30, I don't care if she likes it. Right. Fuck yeah. Amazing. You specifically don't want to hear about it. Yeah, I don't care if she likes it. Right. Fuck yeah. Amazing. You, you specifically don't want to hear about it. Yeah, I don't want that conversation. Okay, you should just tell her to leave an Amazon review and then you just know it's
Starting point is 01:05:13 out there somewhere. You don't need to know the star rating that was applied to this review. You just know. Your mom read it. I'll tell her not to read it, but leave five stars. That's maybe best case. Well, if your mom asks what it's about, just say buy a copy and find out.
Starting point is 01:05:26 Yeah. It gets pretty ribbed. Remember as a kid, you taught me all those different ways of describing back muscles. Well, I think you're going to be very pleased. Does that help? Have we helped you? For sure, yes.
Starting point is 01:05:43 Thank you so much, Yvette. Wait, wait, wait, seriously. When your book comes out, will you tell us? Yeah, I will. Tell us when your book comes out. I will tell you. Okay, all right. We will do a free ad for your book when it comes out.
Starting point is 01:05:52 We will not. You can't promise that. A free ad! You can't promise that! I'll do a free ad, or at least buy eight copies. Hello. Hello. Hi.
Starting point is 01:06:02 I'm Baz, he, him pronouns. Hi, Baz. How can we help? My question is, I recently moved into a house with five roommates. That's a lot. It's a lot of guys and when we moved in there was a there was a bunch of bricks in the backyard and there was a big brick pile. This was the same bricks though, right? These were not separate bricks and brick pile. All uniform bricks. And a couple of weeks ago, our landlord sends us an email saying, hey guys,
Starting point is 01:06:31 I noticed that the bricks were scattered in the backyard. I'd appreciate it if you put the bricks back in the pile. Those bricks are very important to me for construction. And he said. Was the for construction that seemed tacked on? Like maybe he was embarrassed that he said that he has important bricks. And then he was like, for a normal reason. I mean, I don't know what he does with the bricks.
Starting point is 01:06:54 OK. And he said, kindly return the bricks to the brick pile. But we didn't we didn't scatter the bricks. So we shouldn't have to return the bricks to the brick pile. OK. Wait, Baz. Baz. Yeah. First, this is the bricks? You shouldn't have to return the bricks to the brick pile. Okay, wait, pass, pass. Yeah. First, this is the delicious mystery you've brought to us and we're gonna solve it here tonight.
Starting point is 01:07:11 Is your backyard enclosed? No. Oh, so someone could come in and have a brick party. Which, we're unequipped to answer several questions. Which one are you interested in us attempting? Which, we're unequipped to answer several questions. Which one are you interested in us attempting? Because I feel like the nature of the bricks is something that is very, looms very large in my mind.
Starting point is 01:07:33 Even larger than perhaps the perpetrator of the movement is the use of the bricks. Baz, is there a big, let's say, hole in the wall of the building you live in? I mean, he just hasn't gotten to it yet. Well, we were thinking about trying to use the bricks to make, like, a pizza oven. Time out. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:07:55 Okay, now wait. Baz, Baz, Baz, Baz, Baz. You can't say, oh, we didn't do it, but if we had fucking done it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's you and five other, let's just call them what they are, suspects in the house. We didn't do it yet. One of y'all. How well do you know these people? I have to imagine that wholesale brick sellers
Starting point is 01:08:13 get orders sometimes for a bunch of bricks, and they're like, is this for a brick pizza oven? And the person on the other line is like, yes. And they say, all right, man, knowing that it's just gonna be a brick pile for many, many, many months before they get around to turning it into a pizza cooking device. How many bricks is this? If you had to guess? I would say like three to 400. And did all of them get scattered or just some of them? Just some of them.
Starting point is 01:08:39 Is there enough to build yourself a small house? There's a pile that's kind of like nicely stacked. Okay. Yeah. A nicely stacked pile. And then there's like maybe a couple smaller? There's a pile that's kind of like nicely stacked. Okay, yeah. Like a nicely stacked pile. And then there's like maybe a couple smaller piles and then a little scattered bit of bricks around. I mean, I wish I had a diagram or something.
Starting point is 01:08:52 I'm trying to, it's really important. I'm just trying to visualize all these bricks. Are they, and I'm just thinking about why they might be important to this man. Bricks of cocaine? Yeah, we didn't clarify. Hey, did you guys scatter my bricks of cocaine? Yeah, we didn't clarify. Hey, did you guys scatter my bricks of cocaine around your yard?
Starting point is 01:09:09 Please stack back up my bricks of cocaine. They're really important to me. I just don't understand what could be so important about the bricks, but he trusts a bunch of brick flingers to put it back the way he had it. People with big dreams of pizza ovens in their eyes. And he trusts you all to put it back the special way he like?
Starting point is 01:09:31 Like, I don't understand. He's got his special bricks. Okay. Has this situation resolved itself before you came here tonight? Or are the bricks still in shambles and the guilt hanging on your head? We started, the six of us kinda started doing this thing
Starting point is 01:09:45 where we would be like, all right, well whenever we cross through the backyard, we'll take a couple bricks. That's great. And put it back in the brick pile. That's awesome, and that's gonna be, you're gonna get so fucking built from doing that too. Or at least one of your arms will.
Starting point is 01:09:58 And can I also just say, the last day you guys were there, last day of release, really fucking great Jenga game. Yeah. Oh yeah. Could you build 10 small brick piles and be like, I have blessed your crop. Now you have so many brick piles to enjoy. You could build yourself a little hideout in there
Starting point is 01:10:16 so that your landlord couldn't get to you, assuming he's a wolf. That's true, he'll have some trouble navigating those. Yeah, he can huff and puff all he wants. Does that help you, you think, Ben? Incredibly helpful. Thank you, Mr. Bass. Ah, good, Ben. Our 100% success rate.
Starting point is 01:10:31 That's what a lot of bricks... And in case you've never seen a pile of bricks, my friend. Huh. So that's what bricks look like. Hello. Well, they're concrete blocks, but we'll get them next time. Hi. Hello. Hi. Hello. Hi. My name is Mari, they, she.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Hi, Mari. I'm very excited for this. Yeah. So I live on the ground level of an apartment complex. Cool. I have windows, a nice glass patio door. I also have a cat who likes those windows. Sure.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Yeah. It gets warm there with the sun and whatnot. Yeah. So I have a problem where my neighbors, children off the street that I don't know, like to look in my windows. Right. And my patio door. To see your... To see my weird muscular cat. Now, Mari, if I could ask you Mari,
Starting point is 01:11:23 what is the largest you've ever seen this cat projected? On a screen. Have you seen this cat? Have you ever seen this cat? You've seen this cat at regular scale. Like, scaleboard size. Like, is everybody going to be okay if they see, let's say, this cat a very... It's going to be all right.
Starting point is 01:11:42 Okay. Yeah. You're all good. Okay. Paul, let's see a picture of this built cat. That one's okay. That one's okay, but like, hang in there. Hold on, hold on, hold on. That was just in a moose-boosh. Can we see the next- there's one of these images where the vascularity makes me wanna fucking barf.
Starting point is 01:11:59 Hell yeah. Look at that shit! Look at the tone and definition of that fucking cat. That's a cat who's putting in fucking time at the Iron Temple. But it's genetics too, Travis. You can't teach all this. Can you just? No, but it's also Justin. He knows the pose.
Starting point is 01:12:16 Do you see the hole? That's the thing. It's an art form. You can't train it. That's family. That's love. Can we get a zoom on the front haunch? Well, actually, don't. I don't want to. Look at that shit. That's crazy. No, that's love. Can we get a zoom on the front haunch? Well actually don't, I don't want to.
Starting point is 01:12:26 Look at that shit, that's crazy. No, stop Paul, too close. Looks like Percy Jackson. Can I, no, look at the cat's face too. That is a calm confidence, the cat fucking knows. It's like a light, lightning bolt muscles. It's a cat who lifted. Alright.
Starting point is 01:12:42 Okay. Amazing though, amazing. Look at. Okay. Amazing though. Amazing. Look at that shit. Look at the webbing. This is a perfect feline specimen. The forearms alone. Look at that fucking, Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 01:12:57 This would- Hey, author person, are you paying attention to this? Sexy cat people. It's gotta be a thing. I just made it up. Travis is the first to say- Her splayed toes began to curl as, okay.
Starting point is 01:13:14 Okay. So listen, this projector couldn't cost more than $20,000. If you set this up outside your home on a loop, people will never bother you again. They can get the goods for free. Yeah, children and passersby will no longer bother you by looking in your windows. You know who else won't bother you?
Starting point is 01:13:30 Burglars. Because you have the world's strongest, scariest fucking cat. Not scary, I would still fucking pal around with this cat. Yeah, it looks cool. What's the cat's name? His name is Obi. Obi's good, yeah. And I just say, this looks like Obi is about to just stand up
Starting point is 01:13:44 and start walking around. Like on two legs talking to me like, oh, hey, man, I'll get that. It does actually kind of look like just with the face and sort of holistically, it looks like Obie is responding to a question like, oh, you need a picture of my muscles for the podcast tonight? Yeah, no problem. How's this? Do you want me to spread my paws out real a bit?
Starting point is 01:14:05 Okay, cool, here it comes. I literally took this picture today. Yeah. For that purpose. Amazing. So what, what's the problem? People, random strangers and children are looking in their house.
Starting point is 01:14:16 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but like shouldn't they get to see it too? Not in the house. Well, you can't. You need to schedule a time where you walk OB, assuming OB doesn't just pick you up and carry you in the house. Well, you can't. You need to schedule a time where you walk OB, assuming OB doesn't just pick you up and carry you around the neighborhood, and say, hey everybody, from like 10 to 10 30,
Starting point is 01:14:32 I'm gonna be out there, and then you can see OB. But in here, this is OB off the clock. You should have, okay, if you don't, you gotta have viewing hours if you don't want this to happen. You do need to have a schedule where people can come by for 90 minutes. We were all thinking 90 minutes.
Starting point is 01:14:50 Where they could come in and just sort of see the cat. What do you mean 90 minutes? Like a 90 minute window every day where people can come in and see the cat. Come in, come in Justin, come in. I thought you were saying one person got to come in for 90 minutes. Dolly Parton will let you tour her childhood home, okay?
Starting point is 01:15:09 If she will let you do that, certainly. She doesn't still live there, Justin. Certainly. You can let people look at your cat for 90 minutes. That's not one for one, Justin. It's not even that long. She used to live there. Are we charging tickets for this interactive strong kid? It's just a window. No, it's free. What? It's not about the money? She used to live there. Are we charging tickets for this interactive strong kid? No, it's free.
Starting point is 01:15:26 What? It's not about the money? In this economy? In this economy, too. I love you all so much. You know what I like the most about Obie? Obie's not huge, right? Obie is sinewy.
Starting point is 01:15:44 It's a definition thing. It's not's definition. It's a definition thing. You didn't just, it's not just bulk. It's a fucking tone that's so hard to achieve on a hat. A lot of guys in the Iron Temple that I whale with, they don't know when to stop. They don't have that restraint. My problem is I just keep whaling and whaling and whaling and getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Starting point is 01:16:02 I just don't have the restraint. And I just keep screaming and screaming. He's got those Michael Shannon muscles. He's got those J.K. Simmons muscles. There's a secret under that shirt. Have you ever fought your cat a little? Just fought your cat for a second to see how you'd fare? When you arm-wrestle your cat, is there will be holding back?
Starting point is 01:16:21 Oh, most definitely. OK. I don't care if we helped. You have the world's strongest cat, and that's amazing for you. You're most definitely. Okay. Yeah. Um, I don't, I, I don't care if we helped you have the world's strongest cat and that's amazing for you. You're living a wonderful strongly strongest, just most cuts cut most tone. But did we help? Did that help? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Thank you so very much. I believe we have one last person. We have one more. Hello. Hello. Hello, my friend. Hi. How's it going? Good. Good. My name is Torrin.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Hi, Torrin. So my boyfriend is in school for music right now. Yeah. And I have heard a lot of people talk about talking to guys, and then they'll go over to the guy's house, and the guy will just start playing guitar at them. Yeah, sure. Serenaded, yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:06 So my boyfriend doesn't do that, but he does play tuba. So. Tori, I have to say, this was funny backstage, but now that I've met you and seen how pleasant and soft-spoken you are, it's like extra, extra funny. Yeah, it's super duper duper funny. The idea that you would be mid-conversation, he's like, yeah, absolutely. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 01:17:38 You like Matchbox 20? A lot of people think you can't do Maraz on a tuba. I don't think you can. Torrin is your boyfriend here. This is very important. He's not. He lives in Michigan. Awesome.
Starting point is 01:17:50 OK. Has this happened? Have you been tuba serenaded? Yes, so that was my question was, what's the appropriate reaction to a personal one-on-one tuba concert? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Are you good at lying?
Starting point is 01:18:09 No. No? No. Okay. This is, this is so hard to be. This is the hardest question we've ever fielded, baby. This is so hard. Because I've been on the other side of this and tried to play a song for my wife on guitar,
Starting point is 01:18:24 and here's how it goes. I have to pretend like I'm just practicing it first. And then there's definitely a point at which I'm no longer just kind of playing around and definitely playing a song for her, but it has to be adjacent. Cause if I make this woman start looking at me while I play guitar, I think the main thing you have to do is avoid eye contact at all costs. Yeah. Yeah, just pretend like you don't hear the tuba.
Starting point is 01:18:48 Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. And then you're like enjoying it passively. Like, you know what I mean? Like, oh, that was you playing? I thought that was a record. Record.
Starting point is 01:18:57 I thought that was one of your CDs. I thought that was one of your tuba tapes, babe. You're always trying to get me to listen to your tuba tapes. It doesn't explain why my ears are bleeding. You could do something else like, like you could play Pilatro on your phone and just kind of nod along like, yeah, good. Yeah, vibe it. That, that, you don't get a lot of candid serenades like this, unfortunately.
Starting point is 01:19:24 The ideal scenario is something like the Get Back Beatles documentary when George Harrison's like, boom, boom, boom, boom. And one of the others is like, oh man, that sounds fucking good. What is that? You just gotta sit next to them while they're tube riffing
Starting point is 01:19:37 and be like, yeah, do that one that's like, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom. Can you play the one that's like, blap, blap, blap. What if you, when they started serenading you, it was like, wait, play that again, and then you blow out a trombone. Yeah, what if you lay down a little bit like,
Starting point is 01:19:53 poof, poof, just like a little bit of that tuba. You blow out the tuba and I'll do some lyrics. Be like, ooh, is that Chopin's 100 Farts? There's not a lot of songs where the tuba is the hero instrument. No. At least when someone's playing a guitar, you immediately know what the song is that they're playing. When someone's playing a tuba, you're like, what's the tuba?
Starting point is 01:20:15 It's hard when they bring their tuba around the campfire and they're like, bum, bum, bum, bum. Today is gonna be the bomb, cause they're gonna buy ducks and bop, bop, bop, bop. Yeah, if it hadn't been for Obie's cartoon firefighters, they never would have invented the tuba that that was created for. Here's the good news. Bum bum bum bum bum bum.
Starting point is 01:20:34 It could be worse, Torrin. Your boyfriend could be a cymbals player. Yeah. At which point your boyfriend would be like, listen to this song. Oh, oh, oh. Well, he is is to his credit, he's a very good tuba player. I assume that's why. Let me make it clear. Hold on, hold on. Let's more brag a bit.
Starting point is 01:20:54 I just, I don't know what to say. Yeah, that's, say, all you have to compare it to, I'm guessing, is other songs your boyfriend has played for you. Pretty much. So you can always hit your boyfriend with like, that is the third best one you've done so far. Really very, very, very good. It's better than the other one you did earlier today, which was my least favorite tuba song.
Starting point is 01:21:14 Like don't, like, don't try to boost him up. Like really give him some good criticism, some good constructive feedback. That's my second favorite tuba song today. I am pulling deep from my memory of being in middle school band for this comment, but I think this will land. If you say, you know what?
Starting point is 01:21:31 I don't care what anyone says. It's way better than hearing a saxophone. And I think that will land so hard. They need to hear that. Yeah. Can you say moisten your ombature? Say you're not moist enough in your ombiture empty your spit valve babe that's probably the worst thing about brass instruments that nobody ever talks
Starting point is 01:21:56 about it doesn't happen with drums doesn't happen with drums they don't have a spit valve I've seen him empty it out before it is quite gross. It's like hell on earth. It's impossible. They they should have uninvented them right? The first time that they were like and this is the spit valve they should have found a fire and thrown them all in there and be like uninvented. Forget it. Forget how to do this one. I know we reference this a lot but if someone can come up with like a Frammon suit for brass instruments,
Starting point is 01:22:27 where somehow it feeds back into the player while they're doing it, that's a closed loop. That would be amazing. You can play forever, imagine. I'm grooving on my own piss right now. Boop boop boop boop boop. I love that album. So when my brother said I'm grooving on my own piss,
Starting point is 01:22:44 did that help? Did it help you when I said that? Did So when my brother said I'm grooving on my own piss, did that help? Did it help you when I said that? Did that help your walk? That's fucked up. It's true. That's so weird that that helps you, but you're nodding and giving me two thumbs up like, I love it? OK.
Starting point is 01:22:56 Awesome. Thank you so, so much. And thank you all so, so much. You all have been absolutely incredible. If we could take the house lights down So we can't see you anymore amazing. We love you and you've been fantastic. But hi. Hello I just want to say this has been an amazing way to end the 20 fun galore tour You guys have been an amazing audience. Yes for sure. It's a wild bad week and y'all made it made it fun We we have been here so many times to Milwaukee
Starting point is 01:23:26 and it has never not felt like an oasis. It rips ass every fucking time. It feels so nice. I love it here. We have ended a lot of tour weekends in Milwaukee where it's been the third night of a tour and every time you say the show, and then you come out and do it
Starting point is 01:23:41 and you're like, you guys are giving so much. I know it sounds like bullshit, but we live in Milwaukee. Yeah, it's the last tour, it's the last show of the tour, so we can be honest about all the other cities. Yeah. Thank you all so much. Thank you to the Pabst for having us. This place fucking rules. Thank you to Paul and Amanda and Rachel and Sydney Dean, who designed our incredible poster for us. If you want one, make sure you buy one, okay? You won't be able to get one again.
Starting point is 01:24:07 It's one of my favorites, it's so good. Thank you to Paul and Rachel and Amanda for helping us put on this show. Thank you to our dad, Clint McElroy. Clint McElroy. Thank you to Montane for the use of our theme song, My Life is Better with You. It is a certified club banger.
Starting point is 01:24:26 Griffin, do you want to read the wish? The final fungalore wish of the live season. Let's get a nice sound. This is our last sound bath. We're going to make it real big. You ready? Ready? Oh, yum, yum, yum, yum.
Starting point is 01:24:37 Heart chef, heart chef, heart chef, heart chef, heart chef, heart chef, heart chef, heart chef. I wish my friends would all become lactose intolerant so I'm not alone. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been My Brother, My Brother
Starting point is 01:24:55 and Me Kiss Your Dad Square on the Lips. It's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you Yes it's true, ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah It's better with two by one Ah, it's better with you

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