My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 755: Getting Crowded at Funny Beach

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

We're coming at you fresh from Terry Gross's Pledge Academy with some new jokes and some new tricks. We've got more haunted things, more expertise on chicken wings, and opinions about hiring several people with the same name.Suggested talking points: Murder on the Money Path, Wet Elliot, Canadian Chicken Wing Culture,  Enderman for My Butt, An Authentic NutHarmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? One, two, three, four! It's the start of something beautiful A small acquaintance has blossomed It's ripened into a precious friendship I could've never seen what was coming for me Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach

My life, it feels like Life, ah, it's better, it's better with you My life, ah, it's better, it's better with you This is true, ah, it's better, it's better with two My life, ah, it's better with two. 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, Wolf McElroy. Shut up and drive, it's me. Built for tough, Griffin McElroy. Guys, I figure it's Max Fun Drive. It's the second week we should start off with seven topical.

I just watched Wiccan. You guys heard about this? Oh boy, yeah. We could also, I stand before a road diverging in the wood and before one path is a bunch of dirty fucking footprinted trash and mud and dog shit and grime. And it says, and then, and there's a sign right there that says this way to talk about wicked.

And then the other way, get this, there's money laying everywhere. And it says this way to do your pledge break for the drive that only lasts one more week. Sure, sure, sure. So, and I'm looking at that one. Can we incorporate them? I would rather not have shitty money.

No, not shitty money, just wicked good money, dirty sexy money. In this case, the road less traveled has the money on it. This is a win-win for us. Okay, but that seems like a trap, doesn't it? Like if I went in the woods and there was a path with money laid out, leading down it, and one path that everyone went down,

yeah, you know what? I'm gonna get murdered on the money path. I guess let's address this. Do you think your hot new discussion points on this? No, I was just gonna say I liked it. Please, please. Do you think your hot new discussion points on this ancient movie is going to support my,

please let me finish. Okay. It's going to support my family and the business that we have nurtured together for a decade and a half. No, I was just gonna say I enjoyed it and the songs were fun. Okay. Griffin, as someone told me lately,

Yeah? Everyone deserves the chance to fly. And I think that extends to- Wow, that's beautiful. It was in the- What? That was part of the movie. Were you paying attention to it?

Oh, I fell asleep. Okay. No. So you like the map? I watch it in chunks. Okay, great. This morning, I'm glad you mentioned Wicked though, Travis, because I wanted to say something about Wicked 2.

Oh, here we go. Well, let me put on my galoshes. This morning, I'm glad you mentioned Wicked though, Travis, because I wanted to say something about Wicked 2. Oh, here we go. Let me put on my, let me put on my galoshes. It's that today, the first thing I experienced this morning was I opened some social media I don't keep track anymore, and I watched Cynthia Rivos sing Happy Birthday to Guillermo from the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and I went for it. It was so beautiful.

And I, this isn't a joke, I woke up and I watched her sing and I think I've never heard this song the way she's singing it to Guillermo. And then it was beautiful, it was beautiful. So that's the thing I wanna say about Wiccan. That's my contribution Trav. Griffin, anything you'd like to add about Wiccan? No, I don't think so.

And I don't think there's anything else happening for one more week that's gonna support our family and the stability of our whole business for a decade and a half. So I think let's get into the questions, guys. Well, Griffin, that's ironic. It's the Max Fun Drive. Yeah, you didn't know?

No, I did know, I did know. I wanted to, now that the show has begun, I wanted to talk about the Max Fun Drive because you're supposed to do it at the top. It's weird. We didn't learn this when we went to Terry Gross's pledge school, but she didn't mention anything about edging. Terry Gross's Gross Out Academy.

She didn't teach us about edging for pledge edging, or pledging, I guess, which is what we're doing here. You did pay attention at Gross Out Academy because you just talked about edging in Terry Gross. They know we're going to give them the hard sell on Max Fun Drive and how much great bonus content they can get, like our Hot Ones audition tape, but we're making them really wait before they can bust on it.

Yes, yeah. Our style this time. Tantalizing. See how it pans out. If you go to maximumfun.org forward slash join, you can see all the details and see all the gifts and see all the stuff. But the important thing is, this is the time of year

we come to you and say, hey, if you like these shows, we would really like your help in making them possible. It is funded by you, and that's the reason we've been able to do this for over a decade. How many years? 14? Yeah, like 15. 11?

15 in April. This is our 15th year. Oh my gosh. Yeah, for so long. And it's thanks to your support. And if you've been listed for a while, you never supported or maybe elapsed and you're able to come back, it would really mean the world to us if you could do that.

So go to maximumfund.org forward slash join. We'll talk more about it later. That's a great point. Just before we forget, cause I don't think we've mentioned this yet on previous ones. This is a great time of year. Sometimes you get like renewed credit cards or you lose your credit card and. This is a great time of year. Sometimes you get renewed credit cards

or you lose a credit card and you replace it or that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. If you think you're a member, but you're not sure because of credit card changes over the last year, double check. And if it helps you sort of push forward on that, imagine me coming to your door and knocking

with a little square card reader in my hand like, please, you messed up and broke it, please. If that helps at all, then imagine it. Oh, guys, before we get started on the show, I've just been handing something. Beedabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidabidab It's farm haunted, it's haunted, it's a farm, farm haunted. What the heck, what is this Amalgam universe nonsense? What are you doing? I don't know about this, man. I don't know about this, man.

This was sent in to us by Braden. I'm gonna send you guys the image in Slack. Okay, hopefully not an entirely visual. Let's see. There will be quite a bit of description in it. Okay, great, I love that. Thanks, Brad. Thanks, Brad.

Cool, awesome, cool. So what we're looking at here, it looks like a custom 1992 horse's ass bar stool. Correct. Yeah. And so what it is, is sort of imagine a horse, truncate it, an abbreviated horse, ending at the front haunches, no neck, no head.

Like if this was a centaur, all the human parts been removed. But here's the really important thing, is that to make it make sense, they've put the front legs like way farther up on the body than you would kind of expect them. So it's like, it's not like there's just not a head,

it's like there's not a front half and the legs scooted back to accommodate. It's like there's not a front half and the legs scooted back to accommodate. It's really upsetting. If there is a procedure called a Centaurectomy, this would be what is left on the operating table floor when the human torso and body and arms and head are liberated from these equine features. Now this is available for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

How much? I have blocked out the price. Yeah. So Justin, if you blocked out the price. Yeah. So Justin, if you would read the description listed here. Whoa, Nellie, one of a kind, nothing like this on earth. This one of a kind Western style artist barstool features horse legs, hooves, authentic horse tails, and a swivel in seat.

Can we pause? Yep. Authent authentic horse tails, and a swivel in seat! Now, can we pause? Yep. Authentic horse tails? I mean, looking at it. Oh, I certainly hope not. Yeah, buddy, I think it's authentic horse tails and a swivel in seat! Completely handmade, hand carved, and hand finished.

Now, I wanted to touch on this, I did enjoy. They are saying this to put aside your fears that maybe at some point there was a horse's ass stool factory that was just churning these bad boys out. No, no, no, this is not some off the assembly line horse's ass stool. This is hand carved, handmade. Hand finished.

And signed by the artist. Grab a seat on your horse's tail bar stool and have yourself a drink. What do you want to bet that that artist's signature, the first part of it just says, Sorry about this, and then sign the signature. Yeah, this is upsetting. I was in a dark, dark, dark divorce. The other thing that I do want to touch on. Okay, yes please. Is this fucking stool, man? I wouldn't mind rubbing my paws all over this shiny lacquer.

It is the fact that you, the reader, the listener, at this point probably started to wonder about the jenis. And they have chickened out in a major way in either the photography or the stool, I don't know. But I suspect it's the photography. They conspicuously did not show the underhorses general area. What I'm saying is from the photos provided,

it could actually be hanging major horse dung and that information is not provided to you, which I think is crazy to ask me to make a buying decision if I don't know if there's a big dung on it. Yeah, that's a good point, Juice. How do I set a price? I'll message the seller real quick. Is there, one, do you ship?

Two. Do you ship me and this stool together? Are we OTP? Me and stool. Is this gonna get me kicked out of my church bridge club if I procure this item and do you ship? So if you guys had to put a price on this piece of art, yeah, Travis I'm gonna say a number and like I'm I'm seeing a lot of different numbers, but for some reason

$1,200 Wow Is it shitty if I say 12-0-1, and then do I win the chair if I'm closer? Is that your real guess, Griffin? I think it's considerably more than that. I'm going to say, I think that this stool costs $9,000. I think it's over 9,000! It's a cup.

Fucking good stuff. Thanks, Ramp. I think that this is a one of a kind piece and I would be honored to have this in my home. Or so they say. $9,000 for what would become an heirloom of my dynasty. This is an insane gap, Griffin. This is a gap that I don't know how we close as people. Like our estimation on it is so far apart.

I'm not saying I want to spend $9,000. Well, Justin, what I've learned from Antiques Roadshow is art is worth what people will pay for it. Right. So what we're hearing here is whatever the- I would pay $300 for this if the shipping was reasonable. It's gonna cost $9,000. Okay.

Oh, you're saying with shipping included. Okay, well originally this was listed for $1450. Oh shit. But they did market down to $1,350 currently. Okay. I don't know what it's at now. It might be down to $1,200. That's astounding, guys.

Yeah, we got a game of chicken on our hands now. Cause I, if shipping's reasonable, I would grab this bad boy if it gets down low enough. Now it's a waiting game, but someone's definitely gonna snatch it up before we do. Gosh, do you think there's a wealthy benefactor amongst our listenership who's gonna, one day one of us will show up at the post box

and they'll be so fucking angry at us at post office. Holy shit, they'll be mad. I was hoping, Griffin, a little bit, hoping that there'd be like a ding dong. The pants we were talking. The prestige, Travis has delivered it. Whose doorbell was it? Find out next time.

Somebody owns this thing. Hey, should we do a question? Yeah, let's do it. Thank you, Brayden. Thank you for that. Thanks, Brayden. Yeah, thank you, that was good. Thank you for that. Yeah, thank you. That was good. We'll put it on Soshi.

Yeah, we'll put the image up on Soshi. My name is Elliot. I've been working at the same company for 11 years, but I've changed departments a few years ago. Since changing departments, I've climbed up the ladder. Last summer, my old boss hired a new employee for my old job and his name is Elliot to be polite I gave him the nickname better Elliot so that I could keep Elliot nice after a few months of calling him better Elliot

My co-workers told me he's not the better Elliot I he embellished a bit too much on his resume and he isn't getting along with his team He's taking a bunch of time off from work. The problem my face is should I keep calling him better? Elliot and that's from nicknamed list in Naperville I'm off from work. The problem I face is, should I keep calling him Better Elliot? And that's from Nick Nameless in Naperville. Initial gut reaction, it's not gonna kill you to call a poor employee Better Elliot. But I do think there's a smooth transition out of it

where one day you make him spill a big jug of water right on his pants and you say more like wetter Elliot. Oh, that's good. And you make sure lots of other people are around when you say that and you're gonna have to tell them ahead of time to bust up. So that later when people call him wetter Elliot, they can feel okay about it.

It will last a week before he's fired, it sounds like. This issue will eventually sort of solve itself. Is there a way to start saying it with an implied do at the beginning? I would just say that. Do better, Elliot. Oh, that's cool. Like, you could be the better Elliot than you are now. Like, comparatively, you are a better Elliot

than previously, which was quite a bad Elliot, we all agree. Yes. I think with enough prolonged eye contact and seriousness in the delivery of better Elliot, you can really get across what you're trying to go for there. Next time. Next time, I think your problem was differentiating yourself into discrete people. I think you would have just been better served to do also Elliot.

And then you have a little bit of coverage you both do, honestly. You shackled him with a lot of pressure. Yeah. You know? He didn't know anything. Day one, you said he's better than you at your job? Oof.

That's a lot. Maybe give him an introducing, right? Oh. Yeah. Oh! An introducing Elliot. Yeah. Or you could call him Smelliet, since he's so bad in his job and stealing from you and your Elliot. Yeah. Or you could call him Smelliet,

since he's so bad in his job and stealing from you and your boss. And that's time crime. And I get so pissed off and fired up about this stuff when people aren't doing good enough at their jobs and working hard enough at their jobs and still demand to be called the better Elliot. It makes me sick.

I don't think the pressure should be on you to improve Elliot's work-life balance. I think what I would, my response would be, I'm gonna keep being nice to this cat and you guys fire him or something because I can't deal with it. I did everything I could better Elliot. Right. Yeah.

Elliot's foibles are your problem. I got out of that stinko department. I wanna jump back to something Griffin just said. I don't think better- Oh, shit. I don't think better Elliot is demanding to be called better Elliot. I don't think that that's part of the problem, Griffin. I think that would be wild if I showed up,

got a new job and there was another Travis. And I said, I know how to smooth this out. Just call me better Travis. Well, do you think that if someone called him regular old Elliot, he wouldn't be like, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? What's wrong? Am I not good enough for you anymore?

It's suddenly, it's making things very clear where the delineation lies if you just go, Elliot. Yeah. Why did your boss hire another Elliot? Yeah, that's on them. You can't keep working there. That is a great disrespect that has been placed literally upon your name. Why did your boss hire another Elliot? Yeah, that's on them. You can't keep working there. That is a great disrespect that has been placed

literally upon your name. Maybe that job has to always be held by an Elliot. Oh, it's one of those federal laws. One of those federal requirements. Maybe your boss is trying to hold up a mirror to you and your own job performance as if to say, do you see now the bad Elliot? What a better job the bad Elliot could be doing. I brought bad Elliot here as a lesson to you. Pick up your performance, increase your sales, boost your

sales. Yep. Black screen, Severance season three. Yeah. Oh,. Yeah That would be so dope people like how are they gonna do a third season severance? And you say it's just two people named Elliot they work Stakes are way way lower. They can leave they can hang out and go to TGI Fridays together. It's not a big deal Just start calling yourself best Elliot. That's cool. Oh The guiding Elliot. That's cool. Oh, the guiding Elliot? Oh, Omega Elliot. The Elliot standard. Yeah, Elliot Prime.

Griffin, you were gonna say something about Elliot's? Love him, love him all, can't go wrong. Gould fucking crazy for it. Did you guys know that this is our- Quiz? Yeah, sure man. Yeah, TS? Yeah baby.

Too few L's, but that's because all he gets is Ws. And so I'll say this, it is the second week of the Max Fun Drive. Oh, shit, what? We could use your help in continuing to make and grow these shows. Because of the support we have gotten from you all, we've been able to make this,

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No one's doing it bigger or better than us. And that's because of you. But listen, there's room to grow. Are there podcasts on Mars? We don't know yet. Scientists don't know if there's podcasts on Mars. And without your support, we're not gonna be able to find out.

Do they have podcasts in Atlantis? Do turtles know about podcasts? Yeah. Probably not. This is the kind of thing. Should we pivot to video? We don't know. We're not sure. Still on the fritz about that one, man.

Yeah, do turtles dream? These are all the things that we ask ourselves late at night when we're trying to sleep. And the only way you can help us to get a good night's sleep is by going to maximumfun.org slash join. There's so many different ways to be a member. You can become a new member. You've never been a member before.

New membership time, awesome. If you do that, you are gonna get so much bonus content, your ears are gonna shit right in your headphones. Days, days of bonus content. Days of it. It may be weeks at this point, honestly. We've done videos on there, we've done audio, we've done commentary tracks.

I legitimately, I think there's a commentary track for the movie avatar Correct. That doesn't sound right And the TV show Yeah, my brother and me TV show All six episodes, right? Commentary tracks for those We audition for hot ones this year Please don't let them remain Without being you know, no one solicited that. No one asked for that.

It's like a cold call, but so spicy. It would be a huge, huge, huge break for us. So if you know any of the hot ones, guys. Oh my God, massive, right? Oh my goodness. Massive. That won't happen for us, so please help us out. MaximumFun.org slash join.

At just five bucks a month, you get all the bonus content. And there's other levels too, you get other great gifts. As Griffin said, you can also upgrade. Maybe you've been $5 for a while, now you can be $10. You've been $10 for a while, you can move up to 20. Travis, if I go from five to $10, other than the bonus content, what do I get? Thank you for asking, Justin.

You're gonna get to choose a pin from a show on Max Fun. There's like 30 some pins on there to choose from. You really took a wild swing at that, didn't you, Paul? It feels right. You have no a wild swing at that, didn't you? I know, right? But it feels right. You have no idea. They're all gorgeous. I'm a big fan of the My Brother, My Brother and Me

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And we really appreciate that. And the fact that you've made this a sustainable model for us for so long means like so much and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now let's get back to the important work we do. Please. I'm on my way home from work and there's been an accident

and the one and only highway I can take. On the one and only highway I can take. They estimate it will be several hours until it's reopened. Traffic is moving, but it's a very, very slow crawl. I grab some chicken wings on my way. They're sitting next to me in the passenger seat. Thai chili flavor. I'm hungry, but I won't reach my destination

for over an hour. Can I eat these sauced up beauties while in the driver's seat? Am I good? I'm alone in my vehicle, but surrounded by other drivers in bumper to bumper traffic. This is from Commuter in Canada.

So I should start by saying I don't know Canadian law. Oh, good point. So this is not in any way, I don't know. I don't know the law, I don't want the Mounties. Yes. You don't need the RCMP. I don't need the CRT, I've been reading some Canadian detective novels, don't need the RCMP. I don't need the Serté. I've been reading some Canadian detective novels.

Don't worry about it. I also don't know what Canadian chicken wing culture is like. Here it is in America. And this is one part of the culture that I do think we have a bit of a leg up on for a lot of the world is that we not only, it's okay to get sloppy, we like it.

When we get really Sloppy or the better. In a car in a you know in the office at a kid's birthday party It's like great to get sloppy and we like it and people like it when you do it. So If you were here in the States, I'd say yeah 100% Yummy down. Another thing about chicken wing culture in the States is that I meant to tell you guys the BW3s at the mall closed. No! Yeah.

Aw man. It's a number, man. Our chicken wing culture is taking some, a lot of hard hits lately. They closed, Black Sheep closed. It's been tough for chicken wings lately. Knowing that the BW3s can't keep one open at the Huntington Mall makes me want to short

the whole BWdubs marketing. I know man. It seems like the big crash is a coming. Seems like. It was so poorly run though as a franchise. It was like really subpar. I talk shit man, it's gone now, talk shit. Yeah dude, go off King.

They can't deny me my pretzel rods anymore cause they're closed, nobody gets them there. They only had three flavors. One of them was salt. I don't think that this place was vinegar that salt and vinegar Just hadn't make it on the front of building they spray-painted buffalo wings and wieners and they sold hot dogs to with the sauce

We are three types of sauce in the salt. So I don't think that this was a legitimate bid. They let dogs, they let dogs come inside and they would go fucking ape shit every time. I really don't think that they could, they said they were a veterinary office as well. I don't think that this was a real one. It wasn't. And I never saw food being served. Oh, sorry, I meant to tell you guys,

the veterinary office is still functioning. Awesome. That is the, that's my favorite one to use when I'm in town, so that's good. Yeah, yeah. To go back to the question, can we agree that there's an important detail left out here that changes the game entirely,

which is bone-in or boneless? Well, they say wings, so they're not boneless. Well, boneless wings. Well, no, those are nuggets. So I understand what you're saying, Justin, but I'm saying in the parlor. Don't other Travis right now, like we're all on the same page on this.

It is a harsh reality of the world that we live in that there is boneless wings. And I'm saying if you have a box of boneless wings and you can pop them in and move forward, no problem. If these were, if they were boneless, this person would not have fucking emailed us. That's what I have to assume. No way.

I'm gonna go to Boston Pizza, cause that is the only- Can you pick me up something while you're there? No, that's the only chain I know, the only Canadian chain that might sell wings. So I just wanna know if boneless wings, cause if, I'm hoping I might be able to pick something up from the question asked of being from Canada, right?

Famous wings, wings combo. So they, they have wings on the menu and they do not specify bone in, right? And it is bone in. If you don't specify it's bone in, it's probably. Okay, so this would not occur to them, I think. Okay, here's my reading. So the bones are in there.

Now we don't know, they do not have a breakup on drums or flats. And that for me is a question. Cause you can, you can, a stick, you can, a stick. A flat, you're working on that. A flat is, right. I gotta get my fingers in there with a flat

to get all the phone. Hold the phone? You're doing like a chiropractic adjustment. So I gotta get my fingers in there for a flat guys, I got to! What's your- there's no way for me- this is a shame. This is a great shame. There is no way I can ask you to pantomime how you're popping out flats with that- No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, novett, as a professional courtesy to you, I'm not gonna do the funnier thing. On this podcast now, I am, as a professional courtesy, gonna move on.

We can just say Georgia O'Keefe would approve of the way that Justin activates his way. You can't say that, Travis. This is not our place. For the, and for just like your mental picture, like as long as we're just kinda giving people something to think about later. Something to talk about.

I'm imagining that you are using the finger that the TV fell on and squished, and so it's your little flat finger, and you're like, it's flatter, it helps get in the crevices and creases, but as you put your own little fucking frosting spreader cake spatula in there and. Yeah.

Travis, what's your style with a flat wing, brother? I break it apart, babe. Yeah, I break it apart too, because there's no other great option visually. I know that I am perceived visually by other human beings. And so I'm- Yeah, it's tough. Yeah. I know.

The problem is you get sauce on your fingers and then you gotta quick turn the wheel or whatever. I can't tell you guys the truth is, the truth is it feels mean to break it. It just seems mean to me. It makes me feel like a big bear. Like some sort of big mean bear. So you're being polite. I'm being dignified, man.

I'm being tasteful, right? You're showing some respect to a fallen opponent. I have a place in the great web. Just like Arachne said in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. We all have a place in the great web and I'm trying to play my role in it. You know that chicken looking down from Valhalla, seeing you just absolutely defiling its bones.

Right. Yeah. It's like when the lawyer gets chomped in half in Jurassic Park, he's probably like, his ghost is like unnecessarily, like you didn't need to do all that. You don't need this chicken's judgment on you. Yeah, if it's wings, you can one hand those. You can't one hand a flat.

So is that an option? Can we compromise here and say just, you can eat the sticks but not the flats? Drums but not flat. Yeah. I want you to the sticks but not the flats. With one hand safe. Drums but not flat. Yeah. I want you to keep a hand on the wheel. We have a lot of fun here and we joke.

We should agree. I do need you to have one hand on the wheel here. One non slippery hand on the wheel. Cause that bad boy might go. Wet hand, dry hand. Wet hand, dry hand. Dry hand, right? Your wet hands for your wings,

your dry hands for your driving. And. 100%. Otherwise your 10 might slip down to a seven, all of a sudden you're in the fucking guard rail. Yeah. And that's a tragedy. And they're gonna put in your obituary, this dipshit died trying to eat slippery,

sloppery buffalo wings while driving 96 miles an hour down the Canadian highway. Well, they are in bumper to bumper traffic. The point stands, the point remains. Okay. That's so interesting, because I did not, that was not my sense. And keep an eye out, keep an eye out for a scenic overlook

that maybe you could pull off on and like really admire Canada's beauty and splendor while you chow down on some Thai chili wings. It fucking rips ass that not eating the wings has not even been an option. No, man. We have addressed it. You can't let them get,

I mean, they'll still be good cold, but they'll be better fresh. But you also, the powerful scent, the aroma lifting you up and carrying you over to your passenger seat is too powerful for that. They're only human after all. But what about like, what about if they're super spicy?

You know, like you don't think they're gonna be that spicy, but what if it's like- And you turn into a car? Inside a car, it explodes the outer car. You destroy your car, cause you turn into a car inside your car. If you eat spicy food- Your eyes go all wet and you're like,

ah, I can't see. Don't wipe your eyes, for the love of God. If you do, do it with your dry hand. Yeah. That's a good point, Juice. It's dangerous. I'm just saying it's dangerous. Yeah.

Why did you get such wet food? Should have thought about that, that you had to drive ahead of you. That's why you gotta get the dry rub for the drive home. Dry rub for the drive home. Yeah, and then you can enjoy the sloppy boys in the comfort and seclusion of your own home where you will not be perceived by other human beings at which way. Go wild, man.

You could pick up the world's chillest hitchhiker and be like, hey, where you heading? Tucson? Great. I don't trust you to operate this car. It is mine. Can you hold these buffalo wings up to my mouth, turn them like a corn cob and snap my bones when I need you to? I know this seems like something a killer would have you,

that a killer would ask you to do. That's not me. That's not my journey. And you're not a killer either, right? I do think- I said snap my bones and I need to see how you feel about that. Do you guys drive and eat? You guys ever driven and eaten?

You guys tell driven and eaten? You guys tell me it's a podcast. Maybe a rap from time to time. Have I ever driven a car while eating a food? Yeah. Have I ever done these two activities that I do- Have you ever driven a car while eating a burger? These two activities I do every single day,

have they ever, have their paths ever crossed? I guess what I was asking is, you're going through a drive-through Are you a cop? Your wife's in the passenger seat and you get something super sloppy like a super sloppy I don't get something super sloppy If I'm dropping driving Yeah, but what if you do so like if you do get something super sloppy Do you want her to wrap the sandwich in the wrapper to protect the components?

Yes Do you want the wrapper to be gone? Do you want to be working without a wrapper? No, I work with a net and I will occasionally hand it back to my wife to ask her to peel it down a little bit like I'm a child. That's awesome, man. So I can keep a steady hand on the wheel.

Yeah, but listen, here's my problem, man. I can't negotiate with a rapper and drive a car. Yeah, too hard. You know what I mean? I gotta go free. I have to assume that the rapper isn't toxic or they wouldn't put it on my food. So if I get a little nibble in there with the bite,

if I get a little nibble in there with the fiber. I remember how stoked I was when Burger King started doing chicken fries, cause I was like like those are so I Could do those no hand I could reach down like a big a big bird and just pop one up flip it in my mouth Oh one shot Spencer like Garth had in the Murph mobile for red liquor. She just reached out I don't have you gonna have to chew it and maybe accidentally close my eyes too much to see the vehicle stop in front Of me on the highway. Oh my life is saved because of Burger King's chicken fries

What the heck you really pledged me there what do you mean were you about to do another pledge break now? No, I'm not edging. Yeah, you because you took a big breath And then you didn't do the boop a boop sound for such a long time is crass and crude, but it got him rock hard. Haunted Doll Watch. I just wanted to mention, I like to check in on this space from time to time because I kind of created it and then it got so crowded that I had to move out of it. Yeah. Just to be real with you guys.

Is that you throwing shade at Travis for doing a haunted farm watch early in this episode? That's shade at everybody else who- Doing haunted doll stuff? Got wanted to get into haunted doll stuff where we were already there, so I had to leave. We got a little crowd at that corner of the beach. Funny beach, as I call it. But I did want to- I mean, you're lucky.

My funny beaches keep closing. My funny beaches keep eroding from the face of the earth. This fucking, I've had a lot of jellyfish, dead jellyfish watch up on my funny beach, which is upside down. I just wanted to show you guys real quick. This is a haunted doll vessel, Teeny the Tiny Witch. I like Teeny the Tiny.

Why would you, how dare you show me an auction for one of these that is closed already? How dare you show me this? I didn't these that is closed already? How dare you show me this? I didn't know this is the space we're getting into. Meet Teeny, the tiniest member of the gnome group, embarking on a mystical journey of witchcraft. As a novice, Teeny is still in training, but her innate abilities often propel her beyond her level.

Wishlist now on Steam. You gotta get Teeny the tiny, tiny witch doll. So you're offering to sell me a newbie, un- unpredictable witch. Yeah. No. It says, hailing from an unknown realm, which I like, if we knew where Teeny Witches came from,

I would hope that we would be- Living there only? Yeah, we'd be spreading that information around. What I love about this posting, Justin, is so far there's been nothing to seem to indicate that it is a spirit possessing a statue, but rather the statue itself is a gnome from a different dementia. That's an evolution of the form, I like that.

She has these superpowers. Okay, please. Teenie connects with others on a profound level, offering compassionate guidance and support. She has natural healing. I don't have that. She has these super powers. Okay, please. Teeny connects with others on a profound level, offering compassionate guidance and support. She has natural healing. I don't have that. Yeah. She mends emotional, spiritual, and physical wounds

with her innate healing powers. Intuitive insight. Physical wounds. She receives guidance from the spiritual realm. Four, she has protective instincts. Five, nature affinity. Six. Wait, does that just mean she likes nature? No, it means if you use a fire affinity witch against her,

she takes 20 extra damage. Oh, sick. Recognizing the connectedness of all living things in the cycles of nature. That's what nature affinity is, which I think you could do that without it being a superpower, but whatever. That also sounds like something someone would say to you

and you'd roll your eyes really hard if they were like, unlike other people, I recognize the connection of things. And you're like, cool, Teeny. Yeah, all right. Thanks, Teeny. Yeah, I got it. Together, Teeny and her partner will weave a tapestry of love, magic, and wonder, deepening their connection with each other

and the world around them. She has also expressed if her caretaker isn't a witch, it's okay. She's willing to guide and learn together. How are they gonna slip in there that there's a Bodo and they're not gonna tell us about the bonus doll? Okay, so I was struck by that Tuggervent. I think that they are saying that if you buy this doll,

you are now Teeny's partner. Oh, I got so fucking excited. I thought that they were saying there's a secret like slime bag bonus doll in there. Yeah, like extra one. I wanted to give you guys all the angles. They really captured a lot of angles. Jesus Christ, I mean, I can model this thing

in fucking Blender now. Oh, look how tiny Teeny is. Teeny's really, really little. They put a penny on there, or no. It's not a penny, it's an ancient, it might be a balloon. Why is Teeny whistling? She's screaming, she just is too little to know how.

Cool. Cool. Yeah. That's a horrifying thought you just said, Justin. I know. Yeah, but she sold for $34.88. Now it does say on here, please understand. I've had to increase my shipping fee to include better packaging. Plus the cost of shipping has gone up.

For fragile items, $12 to $14 is the average because I double box the delivery services aren't gentle. I will work with you on multiple items and give a shipping discount. How magical are these things that they can't at least guarantee safe shipping from A to B? and they've come damaged in shipping. And if you couple that with the knowledge that not only is the item I bought damaged from shipping, but my new witch partner is dead, I think I would be pretty, pretty shadracked by that information. Also, Justin, shipping haunted dolls has gotten much harder because of all the scariffs.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! your, Griffin, your political humor has really evolved. Fuck man.

It's really good Griffin. Fuck man. I'm so proud of you. I teach 8th grade science in Washington. It's been cold and I really got into wearing cozy sweaters during the school year. I had a rotation of 5 or 6 sweaters that I just went through during our cold, dark months. It became so much of a thing that students started calling me Sweater Boy.

With the weather improving, how do I make the switch back to wearing my other clothes without letting eighth graders feel like they've won and bullied me out of wearing the sweaters I love so much? And that is from, I mean, it says here, Sweater Boy. That's not me at it, for realizing. This is, I wanna say this shows the power of like pre-teens and teens in mocking,

where my first thought was like, Sweater Boy is not that creative. And then I started saying it to myself, like someone was saying it to me. And by the nature of it being so simple and not creative, it does imply a like, this doesn't even deserve like a fun play on words or whatever. You're just sweater boy now.

To be reduced down to such a primordial kind of component is like, they see me for nothing else other than my long-haired shirt. Not even Sweater Man or Professor Sweater or something. Professor Sweater hits so good. No, but like, if you're gonna level a, if you're gonna make a nickname stick with a teacher, it's gotta be that sort of banal.

Yeah. Like, there's nothing in the name necessarily where they're letting you know that they don't like it. Yeah, yeah. So like, if you try to take them to the principal, they're gonna be like, I mean, sweater, he wears sweaters, I don't know. What do you mean they call you Sweater Boy?

But you're not there when they say it. Right. You don't know the tone. Yeah, they say it to my face. Well, yeah, but why do they call you sweater boy, but you're not there when they say it right? You don't know the tone Yeah, they said to my face. Well, yeah, but why do they call me fuck wad? Come on, man My name yeah, my name is Fuqua It's French Yeah, I think that where you Sort of the first time someone said sweater boy, you should have taken it off.

Because if people notice what you're wearing, you've gone wrong. That's my fashion thing. That's too much power. Can you imagine, Justin, if the first time someone saw you wearing a sweater, they said sweater boy, and you instantly took it off? That person.

That's pretty darn, pretty darn close to how I would probably react, Travis, honestly. I think that if you did that to me, like if I said Spider-Boy and you took it off, I would feel a crushing weight of responsibility of the power I had over other human beings. Not just in that moment, but maybe make me second guess every interaction I would ever have again with someone ever

that I might comment on, nice shoes, and then they take off their shoes, right? Or something along those lines. That's too much power you're giving them. What's hard is the next day, once word gets round, like, hey, it's starting to become a thing. And like, I wanna tell you, the other students, this isn't me, sir, but the other students

are really starting to notice the sweater a lot. I feel like one of the students should have given you an out earlier on. Like just to let you know that it was building. Cause the fact that you let the sort of the rep build to this point where it's like canonical. Cause that didn't happen on the first time you wore a sweater.

Yeah. Maybe you could switch the sweater vests, right? Make a slow transition out of it. Ooh, ooh. Put a little like loose nail hammered into your desk. Catch the edge of your sweater on it. Continue moving around the room. Oh yeah.

For the day. Let the sweater slowly unravel. Be wearing something under. Important. Like a funny shirt that says like, the sweater is dead. Yeah, don't call me that anymore. Like sweater boy's dead, I don't call me that anymore. Like sweater boy's dead, I'm T-shirt man now.

As someone who was in a very similar situation to this and has been in a similar situation to this, the better play for the students would have been to start suddenly hinting that they can smell your sweater. Because it, you really, it's such a gigantic pain in the ass to wash a sweater, right? I've got sweaters upstairs where it said lay flat. I don't have anywhere in my house to lay a sweater flat.

You don't have a flat surface in your home? I had to clean off the dining room table. Yeah, man. Somewhere where cats wouldn't pee. I don't know. Fair, fair, fair. That doesn't exist in that house. I know, yeah. Hey, careful, pal. That's my prison you're talking about.

Pissin'. I was- No, but you... So it is such a pain. So you wear them and you're like, I don't, I, you know, it's always a shirt underneath. Like I always have like a t-shirt or something underneath. And then I think, well, I don't need to wash

the sweater right now. So the students started like, oof, you guys, hmm, it smells a little bit like sweater. You're like, a little bit like a, you guys smell like a musty, sweatery smell. Like a sweatery, yeah. That could work. I was trying to think of ways to retaliate,

a teacher could retaliate against a student that would be still funny and not upsetting. And I think that what I've landed on is if people call you Sweater Boy in a way that you're uncomfortable with, you kind of sigh and you walk to the door of the classroom and open it up and you wheel in the AV cart and you say, well, we were gonna watch Cloudy

with a Chance of Meatballs 2, but I guess that that movie's actually only for good behaved kids, and you push it right out of the room, and you say, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow if you can keep your cruel barbs to yourself, then we'll finally get to finish Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. I heard he dies at the end of it.

Could you find like 30, I don't know how many kids are in your class, smaller, exact, like child-sized duplicates of your sweater. You bring them in one day and you hand them out to everybody and now they're also sweater boys and you're in sweat. And then you're gonna get some kind of like photo posted on an inspirational Instagram of like teacher figured out his kids were so jealous of his sweater

that he got sweaters for all of them and taught them to be little gentlemen or whatever. Those will always get on there. I always forget if teacher is one of those jobs that has enough expendable income to buy 30 sweaters for a goof or- Child-sized sweaters, Griffin. They don't cost as much as human-sized sweaters.

Whoa. Yeah. Yikes, man. I have some 4-id and slip that apparently reveals how I feel. Yeah, you need to break that down. Yikes. Kids aren't fully formed humans. I think kids are humans.

Hey, science is out, man. Do turtles dream? I don't think it is. You're really stuck on that, man. I can't stop thinking about it. You're less thinking about it a lot. I can't stop thinking about it. What do turtles dream about? I bet they dream about bringing in big returns this year

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I like when the stuff I make is beholden to the people who listen to it and not to big money corporate interests or the government. Are there a lot of government podcasts? A lot of government podcasts. Oh, man. She's a huge genre these days.

It is, I mean, the thing is, is the way that- I do one for the West Virginia Department of Transportation. Oh yeah? It's so boring. Yeah. Okay, cool man. But I make $10,000 an episode every- Well don't fucking say that now.

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keep the Goof Train on the tracks. Because otherwise it'll crash. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ooh. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Sorry. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- I want a munch squad. I'm sorry, I can't sing the song. Talk to me about your reaction to the munch squad theme song

as you just sort of like, it was more like a, oh, like a, like there was like a stain on your shirt you had to know. You were making quite a face, Justin, maybe in the ramping up to it. It was, again, you get again you that's not part of it We have to see you Justin we have to see you and sometimes will react to things that only we can see you don't have To hang a big lantern on as I as I've told you look like you were having a heart attack And we're dying on the show too much of my precious little energy lately

Trying to mask my emotional state at any given moment. So as I told Sydney, my face isn't part of it, right? My face isn't part of it. I can't do that right now. Okay, listen. Dada-la-la-la-la-la. Yeah! Guys, they fucking did it. Yes. Guys, McDonald's did it. And we've been waiting for them to do it, but fucking did it. Yes guys a McDonald's did it

Oh, and we've been waiting for him to do it, but they did it they did it adult Man, wait a second. Wait a second Adult I thought what you're showing us is that these they got these awesome Minecraft meals I was like great. I didn't put together that they were doing these damn things for grown folks as well. That is- So right, so there is the normal kids happy meal, which we all love and revere. But now we've got a Minecraft movie meal.

Wait, you've just blown my mind, Justin. I didn't know to write this second that the article associated with the Minecraft movie was a Minecraft movie. Oh baby, you know So Trav, this is actually let's talk about that for a second I think they're calling it a Minecraft movie to emphasize the sort of open source Collaborative nature of Minecraft. Yes, for sure. So maybe

We should have a Minecraft movie as well. Yeah different Minecraft movie to kind of honor that open source collaborative nature of Maybe also my theory is that it was called the Minecraft movie until a single focus group got plopped down in front of That trailer and they were like maybe we shouldn't put all our eggs in this one particularly hugely upsetting looking basket. Yes. So we could have, maybe the last Ghostbusters movie could have been a Ghostbusters reboot, and then after that is a Ghostbusters reboot. It's just one of them. You can just keep on with the same one.

So let me tell you about this meal, because we do have the kids option that has a Minecraft toy from crafting pixel-perfect replicas of our golden arches and world famous menu items to stacking block upon block into full on restaurants. Fans have been building their love from McDonald's into Minecraft for years. Now inspired by their imagination and the global big screen adventure,

a Minecraft movie debuting in theaters on April 4th. We're bringing the game cinematic world to McDonald's, introducing a Minecraft movie debuting in theaters on April 4th. We're bringing the game cinematic world to McDonald's, introducing a Minecraft movie meal and a Minecraft movie Happy Meal, dropping together for the first time ever at McDonald's nationwide starting April 1st. Don't worry. I'm worried, man.

It's not a joke. If you tell me, you tell me Grown Up Happy Meals launching April 1st, my head's a little too unswivel to get fooled again by the Donald's Corporation. Justin, I might be asking you to jump ahead a little bit, and in fact I am, because is this actually a Grown Up Happy Meal, or is this just a combo meal,

which they've done before? Is there a toy with a- Oh, well, Travis, allow me to answer that with an affirmative, yes. First off, I will have to say well Travis, allow me to answer that with an affirmative. Yes, first off, I will have to say Travis, chicken McNuggets meal, if you get the, there's a 10 piece McNuggets meal or a Big Mac, you can go either way. If you get the nuggets, you can spice that up with Nether Flame Sauce, a limited edition hot sauce inspired by the Nether,

with crushed red pepper and flaming cayenne, balanced with hints of garlic and sweetness, much like the nether itself. Right. Families and our youngest fans can also enjoy a Minecraft movie happy meal, featuring one of 12 film-inspired toys. Whatever, we don't care about this.

A Minecraft movie meal. I should say that I do care about it a great deal. I care about it a great deal. It's going to absolutely invade and occupy my house like some sort of enemy from abroad. So you can get one of six adult collectibles. There's a big one. Sexual.

There's a big one. No, no. No, okay, sorry. No, it's not like that. I got a creeper from my butt at McDonald's. I got a butt creeper from Mickey's. It doesn't explicitly say that on the packaging, but if it fits, it fits, you know what I mean?

It says it's an Enderman for my butt from the McDonald's Grown-Up Happy Meal. Fuck yeah, thanks, Ronald. Thanks, man. Yeah, so you could get a Big Mac Crystal, mined from the sea of special sauce, this precious block derives its radiant shine from melty cheese and a toasted sesame bun.

Birdie wings, keep your eye to the sky or you might miss this early bird soaring high above the clouds with rare pair of electro wings. What? Yes, fuck yeah, man. He has a fry helmet forged from the iconic French fry box. This enchanted helmet is rumored to protect your friends

from stealing your last fry Which they have capitalized here absolutely demented Grimace egg emerging from the depths of a purple shake this magical grimace mob gets its shape for the most coveted egg of them all What? Soda potion the electrifying effect of this potion is a serious essence recipe an accidental combo of fantastic fizzy flavors And there's the zombie hamburger. Grimace come to the egg. Yeah.

Guys, there's the zombie hamburger. What? Whoa, too scary, stop. Little is known about this hungry mob who spawns late at night and wanders all biomes in search of hamburgers. So they got a grimace in the back of every McDonald's. It's cloaca just constantly popping out.

A brood mother, yes. A brood mother of Grimace eggs. We gotta stop this corporation. We gotta oak jaw these clowns tonight. Its real name isn't Grimace. That's just the look on its face as it pops out its 200th egg of the day. Guys, I'm gonna show you,

if you'll direct your attention to the console in front of you, I have had show you, if you'll direct your attention to the console in front of you, I have had the signal rerouted so you can see these toys. I see you've Googled Grimace Cloaca here. Do you wanna walk us through some of the top results? Oh no, that's just in his recent searches. Over and over and over. Wow, over again.

You see? Nah, man, we can't see anything there. Oh, hold on. There you go. Oh, nice. So we got Zombie Hamburglar't see anything. Oh, hold on. There you go. Oh, nice. So we got zombie hamburger, grimace egg, birdie wings. Then you got that, it's really good. And these are like, you get them in game too.

You get in game skins with every collectible, gosh dang it. And nether flame sauce. Yeah. Guys. Yeah, it's really good. And it's also a grown up happy meal that I get to eat so I don't have to be jealous of my kids every time they get a happy, every time they get a happy. I know that happy meals aren't for us.

The amount of great, exciting stuff my kids get in a happy meal makes me so, makes me feel jealous, just not for the food, but for the feeling of it. Every Minecraft movie meal purchased through the McDonald's app also gives fans an in-game bonus at no cost, we covered this. Oh, that was close, I thought you were gonna say

it gave money to charity, Justin. No, God no. Whoo, that was close, okay. When approaching any partnership, we look for the authentic role our brand can play in it. Can I just say for me, fucking nailed it guys, absolutely. Spitting here so organically. Read us for fucking filth McDonald's, absolutely.

We're dirty fucking hogs and you got us. Can I just say though- You caught us in the trough. You got us exactly where you wanted us. We're filthy shit pigs and you got us right, McDonald's. I love the implication though that a Minecraft movie would come to McDonald's and be like, we want a partner.

And McDonald's would be like, I don't see an organic way for that to happening. No deal. Sorry, get out. My nearly 40 year old brother had to stop his comedy podcast to bust an authentic nut about how excited he is about eating a happy meal at McDonald's. You fucking got us. You got it, organic as hell.

I am not almost 40. And you will retract that. I am 37. That's such a, that's basically mid 30s. So we build upon what they started, our fans, and created a totally immersive experience. A custom of mine, a custom of Minecraft movie meals in our restaurant. A custom of Minecraft movie meals.

Minecraft. A custom of Minecraft movie meals. A collectibles that unlock unique in-game features. What's special about this campaign, oh you don't have to tell me, but you are, okay, is that every component will feel recognizable to both fanbases. A true merging of the McDonald's and Minecraft universes! These two are inextricable!

Yeah, for sure. I mean, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. When you play Minecraft, the order of your ideas goes, I'm gonna make a house, I'm gonna make a swimming pool, I'm gonna make a McDonald's, and I'll live in a McDonald's. So keep me safe from all the McDonald's. And then a McDonald's. I'll make my house, I'll make my church, I'll make in McDonald's, so keep me safe. Obviously, I wanna make my house. And then McDonald's. I'll make my house. My McDonald's.

I'll make my church. I'll make my McDonald's. I'm set. That's my third location right there. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother, Me. We've been doing it for a very long time, since Griffin was nearly 30.

Not like way, like way, way, way, way younger. Way younger, way more vital and fresh. We've only been able to do this show this long. We've been part of other projects and beautiful enterprises. This one has the most longevity and that's only, not, you know, telling tales out of school here, only because of you all.

No other show or media thing that I have ever seen or know about, especially in our space, has that sort of relationship with the audience and the shows that they listen to. And it's very special and I'm so grateful and you can be a part of it and help us make this show and help us make a bunch of new stuff too over at maximumfund.org slash join.

Pick the shows you listen to, your money goes straight to them and you get some great bonus content and other gifts too. This is our last episode where we're gonna talk about it this year. So if you're thinking about it, do it. Yeah, along those lines, can't stress enough. If you're like, oh yeah, I'll do that later.

Do it now, cause time's gonna fly by and we want you to be a part of the next fun matchup. This is our 14th time around the bend. You'll forget. And that's okay without saying- You'll forget, Truss. This is fine. Just do it right now, okay? Also wanna say, stream's coming up this week.

We got the Clubhouse stream, Tuesday at noon Eastern time. Wednesday, Justin and Sydney are doing a Fast X watch party at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Thursday, the three of us are gonna be doing a six thumbs, one heart, Star Road at 12 p.m. Eastern time. That's the three of us splitting one controller to play Star Road. When is that?

I didn't know we were doing that. That's fun. Yeah, we hit that stretch goal. And Friday, Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern time, we're having a max fun East Coast pizza party on the McRro family YouTube channel, so make sure you check it out. And if you missed it earlier today,

if you're listening to this on Monday, I did another Fuser stream that is probably the longest I've ever cried laughing on a video before. It was great. I think that it goes way off the rails. Oh, and last week we put up, when we were in Phoenix, going on a hike through Dreamy Draw. Yes, if you did not see it,

please watch the McRoy's go on a hike on the McRoy family YouTube channel. It's a delight and I kinda liked it. I kinda liked it. I'd do it again for money for content. Wow, beautiful way to close out our last episode of The Drive here on My Brother, My Brother and Me. Seriously, thank you all so much.

Help us reach our, we have more stretch goals coming that are gonna be enticing, trust. Also, would be remiss, and I know that we don't normally do plugs during Max Fun Drive, but next week we're on tour. Yes. Go to mcroy.family or go to bit.ly slash mcroytours to get your tickets, I believe April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, we're gonna be in Richmond, Charlotte and Raleigh

doing I believe in order, my brother, my brother and me, Adventure Zone, my brother, my brother and me. So go get those tickets, bit.ly slash Macroid Tours and we'll see you there. How about a Faster Than Fear? I'll read this one. Yeah, you got it? Okay, let's do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it. This year, I'm gonna be faster than my fear of M&Ms, specifically the weird living cartoon M&Ms with their fleshy arms and legs and eyes. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy.

To my my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad. Square the lips. Because it's true It's better, it's better with two By way Ah, it's better with you