My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 774: Bear No Skyver

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Welcome, welcome! May we interest you a lovely Charlugerie board? It includes a variety of tasteful jokes to be enjoyed in pairings, as well as a stinky cheese that you need to justify eating, a brand...-new McElroy cousin, and over here is a delectable back full of allergy stickers.Suggested talking points: Gordo the Slime Angel, Sky-Rizzy Arc, Sin Cheese, Fiber Min-MaxxingWorld Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned 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
Starting point is 00:00:39 My life, it feels like 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 This is true, ah ah ah ah 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, Travis, Big Dog, Wilf, and Ferrin McElroy. I wonder what that's all about.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Yeah, I try to meet, hopefully there's a story there. Can't wait to crack that nut, and I'm your sweet baby brother, Griffin McElroy. And I've got the old magnifying lens out, looking for clues. I think Griffin, I think, one of my old trickies acts enough, I think we got 60% chance of bits.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Something's been befouled in the state of Denmark. You guys might not have noticed, but. I smell a bit of food. My energy's a little bit off. Yeah, I know. I don't know if you noticed. Hmm, speak on this, Travis. Well, I've been thinking about it a lot, and listen,
Starting point is 00:02:04 I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm so grateful when you guys cast me in the role, Travis. Well, I've been thinking about it a lot, and listen, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm so grateful when you guys cast me in the role of Travis. Yeah. Like my career was not doing great at the time, and ever since I got cast as Travis. We saved you. Yeah, it's done wonders for my crew.
Starting point is 00:02:20 But I feel- Us, him. Us, him. It's easy. It's obvious. Check the legal documentation. Us, him. It's easy. It's obvious. Check the legal documentation. We saved him. I'm worried that at this point, the storylines have gotten a little stale.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Not paid to worry, paid to act like Travis. Not paid to worry. Real Travis is worried. I know, listen, and I know I'm not the writers, but I feel like the storylines have gotten a little stale. Sure. We've been doing the show for a while now, and I thought maybe I could pitch to you guys
Starting point is 00:02:47 some new kind of storylines or plot points that we could. And maybe we could even come up with some of our own. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you want to. We want an art project. I take it back, I know a few weeks ago, we pulled you aside and we said that you really weren't nailing the role of Travis, but you are correct. You really, you really weren't nailing the role of Travis.
Starting point is 00:03:05 But you are correct. You really stepped into it. Thank you. I stepped in it and stepped into it. I've spent a lot of time with the real Travis trying to get inside his head. Yeah, sure. I am so sorry, you are receiving the special hazard pay
Starting point is 00:03:20 that we do often. Thank you very much. So what's your first pitch for us, Travis? So- Because you know, I like consistency. People like this product, and I'm not looking to shake things up just to be a race to be last to the disruption market. No, I think that this is gonna be
Starting point is 00:03:36 just a really seamless transition. So we introduce like a cool teenage cousin character named Skyver. So this is going to be one of our cousins? Because I don't think they're still making those. No, he's Travis's cousin. I still don't think, I still don't think when you're in your mid forties,
Starting point is 00:03:58 I don't think you're getting a lot of new cousins. Well, he could be like an illegitimate cousin or something. However we want to do it, or like a long lost cousin, something like that. Okay. I'm just saying we saw the fam last week while we were- And you're telling me that you could name
Starting point is 00:04:15 every single one of them and tell me with 100% certainty there's no Skiver among them? That they could bear, that they could, and also that they could bear no Skiver. Yeah, for sure, man. Okay, so then- I love it that extended family gathering and Skiver. Yeah, for sure, man. Okay, so then Travis- I love it that extended family gathering and my wife looks to me for guidance
Starting point is 00:04:29 and I look back at her. The void looks back at you. What if the void knows less than you do? Hey, I'll tell you who the cool ones are. I know all the cool uncles. Well, Skiver is definitely one of the cool ones. He skateboards and he's like a bassist in a high school band.
Starting point is 00:04:43 And he's gonna be on the show, we're splitting profits with- So what happens is the Travis character and Skiver go to a museum together or something and like touch an old spooky staff and they switch bodies. And they switch bodies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So then like Skiver as Travis has to do the podcast
Starting point is 00:05:02 and Travis as Skiver has to- And are we gonna follow Travis? Are we going to follow- Yeah, we're gonna follow both of them. And then Travis- So hold on, wait, which of you is gonna be on the show? Yeah. Which of you, young body, old brain or old body, young brain?
Starting point is 00:05:16 Well, we're gonna cut between the storylines as like they weave back together because we'll see Skyver as Travis doing the podcast and Travis as Skyver learning to skateboard and sell drugs. How do we communicate? I don't feel like we've ever tried to communicate like mixed mixed timelines like Hill Street Blues style. Yeah. In like in the podcast form. I don't feel like that happens much.
Starting point is 00:05:36 We don't do family guy style cutaways. We do a lot of other... We could do like voicemails. Voicemails from a team. Voicemails and like yeah videos that Skails and videos that Skyver sends us, that kind of thing. That idea's a real stinker, Trav. What else do you got? Well, then you do one.
Starting point is 00:05:51 And if it could have a focus on the Travis character, that would be great. Maybe it could even be about me or Justin. I guess, okay, what do you got? I don't actually, I mean. I don't really have anything. That's the problem. Okay, we find.
Starting point is 00:06:06 I am going to join the Swedish House Mafia. Ooh. That's gonna be my new thing, is I'm gonna talk a lot about all of our shows and all of our parties and some of the new tunes we've got coasting over the UK airways. And obviously there's gonna be some pretty big lifestyle changes for me.
Starting point is 00:06:27 I don't know anything about Swedish House Mafia, except that they're a house music super group. It's gonna be quite a learning curve. There'll be a huge learning curve. I have to learn Swedish. Yeah, that's fair. Have to learn Swedish, tough. I was thinking of another one where we win a sweet steaks
Starting point is 00:06:45 and we think it's to go on a cruise, but we win the whole cruise ship. And then we own a boat and then it's about us with the boat? Yeah, and then it's like three captains. It's kinda cool. Let me just, can we put a little, can we put some guardrails on this motherfucker? Okay, okay, yeah, like what?
Starting point is 00:07:02 We can't get a boat, and I don't wanna pretend to be on a boat for an extended period of time. So like any of your ideas that are like, we hire a teenager to now be on the show. Like you understand the level of bits we're capable of. I became a- Yeah, our dalliances with extended plot lines in the past have been some of our most notorious whoopsies.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Like, for example, when we were sponsored by Ga- remember the M-M-M-M-2.0 era? Yeah. Yeah, man. We launched the show for like 10 episodes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like way more sponsored. Uh, that was, nobody liked that. Um, there was the eclipse episode where the whole thing sounded terrible
Starting point is 00:07:46 and it looked like a nightmare because we recorded it during the full eclipse and everybody hated that. Yeah, no one liked it. The Star Wars incident, don't need to say anything else. I became a dog for a while, but that just was basically, I said, I'm a dog now. So like there was no props or no hiring.
Starting point is 00:08:00 There's no overhead effect. So like we, I'm on the, you know, financial side of things. I'm always balancing the both. Our successes are usually almost accidental. Yes. Less than planned. Accidental and I can't stress this enough, virtually costless. Well, I don't-
Starting point is 00:08:17 Basically free to implement. I hate to resume drop, but as you guys know, I was recurring on Touched by an Angel for its run. And as it went on, you know. You played Gordo the Slime Angel, go on. And the budgets increased over time. Have you guys talked to the studio about increasing our budget to a point
Starting point is 00:08:34 where we could get like a boat? The studio's the listener's trap. That's what's so great about the Max Fun model, is that we are directly, it's not a Max Fun drive, I'm gonna start speaking in a tone of voice that's gonna. If you activate him, we'll have to shoot him in the tranquilizer dark. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Or for the next week, 10 days, he'll just be prattling on about all the great BoCo. A budget increase from the studio is going to have to entail a bunch more people listening to our show and donating specifically so that we can do a whole roleplay where we are boat captains. Like that's a dream. We need a slush fund.
Starting point is 00:09:09 That doesn't exist. Well, let me ask. Yeah, when the girls are talking angels, I was actually thinking, are we wedded to the Justin McElroy character we like? Oh no, listen, we've got. Okay. Yeah, I guess.
Starting point is 00:09:24 I was thinking, he finally needs a romance, right? Yeah. He's been, we've got it. Okay. Yeah, I guess- I was thinking, he finally needs a romance, right? Yeah. He's been, we've been kinda will they, will they won't they for a long time. With his mare, with his wife. What if he had an angel romance? Huh. With an angel.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Speak on that. Angel romance, angel falls in love with him. No, she is an angel who falls in love with him. No, she is an angel who falls in love with him because he is like as close as she has seen to like an angel on earth. Like, both visually and just sort of like personality wise and mentally. And she falls so hard that she is like,
Starting point is 00:10:02 I wanna make myself real. Cool. Like a real person. So I can be with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you imagining Sydney's face listening? Oh, that's a great question. Casting, do you have casting in mind? So this is important. This is important.
Starting point is 00:10:19 The Justin character is unaware of any of this taking place. Oh, wow. The story line is completely, it's just a very relatable plot line. This is good. See Travis, this is good. Cause it's place. The Angel storyline is completely, it's just a very relatable plot. This is good. See Travis, this is good, because it's free. No, this is great, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:29 It's free to say there's a horny, invisible angel behind Justin at all times, just waitin'. Oh, so not CGI, because I was picturing like a CGI. Not CGI. No, Travis, free. No, no casting. God damn it, Travis. No voice acting, no, no. Any initials. If you do any initials, we probably can't.
Starting point is 00:10:48 You're like CGI, no. Now we gotta be careful here. Sag, that's a good one, SAG, no, no after us. We can't say that though because like as fired up as people are about AI taking over creative jobs. No AI, can't afford it. Well, yeah, but I think it may be worse to say it's not AI, but it's invisible and it's imaginary. Imagine using-
Starting point is 00:11:10 Wonka can do it, you know? That's true, that's a good point. Wonka had an invisible- Is there a Wonka storyline we could incorporate? Not for free. Okay. Not for free, not for no cost whatsoever. Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
Starting point is 00:11:21 I could say, I mean, here's the extent of it, Travis. Do you wanna see? And you let me know if this would be satisfying? Okay? Okay, it'd be like it doesn't be like well And you'd be like and I'd be like Salutations Welcome into my candy factory and I would gesture behind me to just like my office and I would say stuff But it wouldn't be timely and I wouldn't do a good job with it
Starting point is 00:11:44 So like a free Wonka is not even worth the attempt. I'm not gonna say no to it. To free Wonka? Just think about it. I think it works, I think it plays. The last thing I wanted to ask you guys. But what if he's just all about nuts? Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:01 What if he's Willy Wonka but instead about like chocolate and candy, he's only about different kinds of food. Billy Tonka, what do you think? I'm thinking of Nutty Wonka, and that doesn't, give me two business days. Give me two business days, and I'll come back with something, okay?
Starting point is 00:12:21 Okay. Would you guys be okay if I, you know, pilot season's coming up, if I submitted my resumes? Trashiest. To some other things? Trashiest. You wanna look around? You wanna look around?
Starting point is 00:12:33 I'm not saying I wanna leave. You think that grass is greener? Yeah, good luck pal. We've been doing this for 19 years. Pretty chilly out there. Okay. Best to work with you though. I refuse, but go for it.
Starting point is 00:12:43 I will say I refuse to be the bushel under which you hide your there. Okay. Best to wear a flippy though. I refuse, but go for it. I will say I refuse to be the bushel under which you hide your candle. Okay, because if Hank and John want like a third brother. We should do a switch. We should do a swap. Hold on, hold on, now hold on. Wait, now. Now hold on, hold on, this is interesting.
Starting point is 00:13:00 If you guys wanted to offer me more money, I'd say is what I was gonna, okay. Oh, now this is just, you were just trying to flex on us. This is interesting now What do we have that the greens don't have it cursed me one more brother? You know what I mean? What did they have that we don't have? Well, where do I start? You know? Respect from their colleagues. Yeah, man. I mean, where do I start? So here's what I'm saying. Make a- ma- ma- Green Brothers?
Starting point is 00:13:30 Make us an offer. One for one. One- no! I don't want one of their- One for money! No, something! Wait, I'm being traded now! Wait, hold on. I'm saying it's not a trade! It's not a trade yet. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Just don't do it for like a second round draft pick. That's what I'm saying. At least it's some money. It's actually, Travis, can I tell you? We've hit our budget cap. Fuck. And yeah, we missed the trade deadline. So like, we gotta, we gotta,
Starting point is 00:13:57 it'll be a sweetheart deal for those greens. Honestly, we didn't know how to broach it with you, but when you were like, pilot seasons coming up, I was like, thank god. Ding ding ding ding. Well now hold on, because the translation might get, you know, maybe considered just up in the budget. I'll take the tea business and leave them the coffee.
Starting point is 00:14:15 You know, what about that? How about this, the tea will still be for charity. That's even, they can use that if they want. And then the coffee side, pure profits. He will still be for charity. That's even, they can use that if they want. And then the coffee side, pure profits. Oh, this is a literal thing about their thing. I thought that this was an extended metaphor about me. That I wasn't blowing up.
Starting point is 00:14:35 I say we have the additional power of a third brother. That's huge for us. And it's really all we have to offer. So like, if they've got something that where they feel, they want to cut us in on not even cut us in but like I would really loved like the merch biz or whatever like maybe drop all the lawsuits that they have against us and Where the ones where they're like, we're the brothers doing yeah doing podcast shows They try to copyright brothers. They try to copyright brothers doing podcast shows. They tried to copyright brothers? They tried to copyright brothers doing podcast shows like last year.
Starting point is 00:15:09 It's like, come on guys. So like drop that. I could guest on that. I don't have to leave this show to do a crossover guest, right? Can you imagine how disruptive you would be to the finely tuned machinery of those brothers in the way that they-
Starting point is 00:15:24 Maybe the third heat they need though. You could also be the sloppy wet rag thrown into the gears of the grandfather clock that is the Green Brothers. You could be the sloppy wet rag that gets all the gears all sloppy and gross and rusty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:39 And I love the sloppy, we love the sloppy rag here, Travis. I'm saying I love getting sloppy with the dogs. You could be the powdered coffee creamer cast on to the campfire that starts the forest fire that burns the whole thing down. We're all sloppy dogs here and I love it. I'm saying if you went over there man. Yeah, you could be the mustard stain on the Pope's jacket. Yeah, as they say maybe I could go over there and just do some like insider like bring them down from the inside to up our room. Hell yes! That'd be good! Hell yeah!
Starting point is 00:16:06 Oh dude! Now we're talking storylines! Now we're talking storylines! That's good shit actually, yeah You could be like brother v brother If you do that Trav, we are perfectly willing to be like that was the plan all along Yeah, yes! I'll play along with that if you want
Starting point is 00:16:23 Okay Can we do? Advice I've been invited by a company. Sorry. I do need to stop I need to share this with you because it's gonna be relevant if you see me on video trying to move over We're my back is covered with stickers right now for an allergy test. Oh, I've got a guys I've got your allergic the stickers. I've got 78 goddamn stickers on my back right now. Is that an exaggeration? No, 78.
Starting point is 00:16:48 78 big ones. Did they apply them individually? No, they came in six big patches. How many of them are like Paw Patrol and- So 12. I'll show you if we blur out the video because I don't really want this. No, not for those back perverts.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Oh my, it looks like you got a bunch of tattoos that are now covered up. This feels like I'm in fucking Red Dragon. This feels like I'm in- No one made you do this. Well, I know- Is this what you want? I can't turn my body like this
Starting point is 00:17:19 and I knew it was gonna come up. No one would have noticed. No one would have asked. You brought it up, dude. Oh my fuck. All right, now I'm so excited to talk to you about this, Griffin. Cool. Speak on it.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Yeah. As you know, I have sensitive skin. I have skin sensitivities. And in order to kind of get to the bottom of it, I'm doing a little bit of sort of like looking inward and like trying to figure out what makes me look bad. At the outside of your skin? At the outside of my skin to see what I'm allergic to.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Each one has a little bit of common household product stuff on them and then they're gonna take it off, they're gonna say that looks fucked up. So number 14, what is that? Oh no, it's soap, like any soap. Have you thought that maybe one of them is blank and it's a test to see if you're faking it? Maybe, I like the way it feels, if I'm being honest.
Starting point is 00:18:15 I might just- The stickers? Yeah, I feel like John McClane at the end of Die Hard when he has the gun behind his back, that's basically what I'm working with. Huh, it gives me a lot of force support. Seems to stretch. Yeah. Do you promise that you are going to
Starting point is 00:18:28 tell us the details of this? Like, are we getting to know? Yeah, juice, I promise on the next episode, I'm going to tell everyone exactly what I'm allergic to so that they can kill me next time they see me. Nice try, no. No, Jason Mansoukas made that mistake and now he's on the run.
Starting point is 00:18:41 He had to go to England to stay safe. He can't step outside without someone throwing an egg at him on the street, left and right. How did you come by this sheet? Did you just see it at CVS and you're like, let's go? Yeah, I went to CVS, I said, give me the biggest, stickiest sheet you have. I would love to not.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Where'd you get the sheet? I'm just curious about the sheet. I've never had one, so I'm just curious where you got the sheet. I went to a special sheet doctor. Do you think I'm freestyling this? Do you think this is a home crotch? You had to wait in a waiting room and everything, right? You had to drive there and wait in the waiting room, the whole thing, right? Yeah, for this-
Starting point is 00:19:05 How bad are the, like what is happening to you? Can you feel, can you feel like pinpoint grid? What has been going on with your skin where you're like, I have to go through this hole? Look man, before we can take any serious measures, before I can start huffing that fucking Sky Rizzi and changing my fucking bio-canon, I'm gonna have to go through this whole, Look man, before we can take any serious measures, before I can start huffing that fucking Sky Rizzi and changing my fucking biochemistry
Starting point is 00:19:30 and becoming a stronger, better, more engineered brother, I gotta see what makes me fucking tick, dude. They don't just give Sky Rizzi to anyone, duh. These are more storylines, this is great. The Sky Rizzi arc. But the Sky Rizzi is too real, dude. I can't bring Sky Rizzy into the conversation. Unless they want it, unless one, I do end up taking it,
Starting point is 00:19:51 two, it does end up working, and three, they want to sponsor us for a lot of money. You start taking the Sky Rizzy and then you become the Dovahkizzy, right? And you can do all of the shouts, yeah. Yeah, fizzy, fizzy, dizzy. Okay. Did you say fizzy, rizzy, dizzy. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Did you say fizzy, rizzy, dizzy? Yeah. Eight people are busting, busting up. Eight people are busting right now. Eight people are busting up. One of them's on this call, you got me. Yeah. I have been invited by a company to dinner
Starting point is 00:20:24 to discuss a really cool project. It'd be amazing to be a part of. They are paying for the dinner. The thing is, my favorite item on the menu is quite expensive, and I don't want to seem like I'm taking advantage of the free meal. Additionally, I don't want to seem nervous by only ordering the cheap stuff. How can I find a perfect balance between seeming grateful of them paying while also being professional and cool?
Starting point is 00:20:44 P.S. This is a charcuterie board restaurant. God, that's a helpful postscript. Thank you so much. That's from Troubled in the Treasured Valley. The charcuterie board restaurant addition is great because it gives the context of like, mm, I'm looking at this board with some meat, but you know what?
Starting point is 00:21:03 I think I, oh, I kinda want the one with a lot of meat on it. Hmm. If you take someone somewhere where there is a $40 slice of Iberico ham on the menu, I don't think you can get upset when they spend the $40 on the single slice of Iberico ham. There's no, I mean, here's what I'll say.
Starting point is 00:21:21 There is no way that you will order the charcuterie board for yourself and it will stay for yourself. Yes. Everybody's gonna wanna have a Pokédex rod. Yeah. So I would maybe lay it out like this. You know, I was thinking about the charcuterie, but do any of you guys like it?
Starting point is 00:21:36 Because they bring so much. That is cool. You guys are gonna have a little bit. That's not really worth getting. And then everyone will be like, oh, you should go for it. And then as soon as they bring it, you start giving them looks like,
Starting point is 00:21:47 what do you think I don't want? Yeah, you start scooting, scoot just slowly sectioning off. Just take all the olives, putting all the olives at three o'clock. Take the single sad apricot. You see them reaching for the honeycomb and you swap their hand away. No, not that, boy that boys olives are looking good though
Starting point is 00:22:07 Look at that weird spicy jelly. Oh Wouldn't you love that some of that weird spicy jelly? Oh when you love a thing? About a thing Maybe some pursuit. I don't like any charcuterie. So like honestly I could name the whole thing so I'll be like don't take the one kind of cracker I like, please, that's all I'm eating tonight. Why did we come here? You can always do the like,
Starting point is 00:22:31 oh, I'm torn between, I want this, but I don't know. And let them tell you to do it. Give them, they give you permission to get to it. Right, that's the unspoken, right? Like if you take someone to dinner and they're like, oh, you know, I immediately, you know, the porterhouse grabbed me, but I don't know, man. Maybe I need like a, and they'll be like,
Starting point is 00:22:54 oh, you should get it. And then you're out of business. Oh, you're saying like, open, you're saying like, have an opening offer that's higher than settle back there, like have an opening bid that's like way at the top. No, he was suggesting like, I wanna get this, but I don't know, and let them give you permission. I do like that move, Justin, though,
Starting point is 00:23:12 of like, I'll take, should I get 100 slices of the A5 Wagyu beef? Nah, I'll just get this other, still pretty expensive thing instead. But they have clarified it is the most expensive thing on the menu, that's tough. Oh, you could also point it out like it's a rare get, like, oh man, I can't believe they have this,
Starting point is 00:23:32 you guys see they have this on the menu? Guys, holy shit, they have pate here? We gotta, they don't just make this anywhere, man. They sell it by the pounds? That's wild! A pound of pate? Just for me? Damn.
Starting point is 00:23:45 I've never had it. My grandfather used to talk about it all the time. I've never seen it on your menu. He said he loved it more than my grandma-ma. And then let them say it. Let's all try it. We pretty famously have been pretty hot on charcuterie in recent years.
Starting point is 00:24:02 And I just wanna update sort of my feelings about it publicly. I bet everyone was wondering. I think though I really feel like the worm has turned for me on charcuterie. I no longer know where it fits into a meal. I no longer know. I don't understand how to effortlessly slide it in between a salad course and the sandwich that I ordered, just in the face you're making right now. No, I think he's just using it. It's interesting because we have had a pivot in my house
Starting point is 00:24:35 to where the only thing Sidney eats is charcuterie. So that's interesting. I noticed that while we were there. So I just bought, did you notice that? I noticed you put out a charcuterie board while we were there and I was like, that's crazy. And I just keep a charcuterie board out for pretty much all the time.
Starting point is 00:24:48 That's so good. And she's a lot, a lot happier, I will say. As long as I got some charcuterie within reach. I'll go right down the middle. And say that I'm now at a place where the problem is, I don't know what's coming. Used to be you order a charcuterie at a restaurant, you're getting a fancy board.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Now they say like charcuterie and it comes and it's just like a grown-up lunchable. It's a pizza Yeah, sometimes you're at a restaurant your brother orders charcuterie as an appetizer and then it comes and it's 80 different Times of bad pickles and then everyone said some people like pickles and some olives and funky pickles Okay, The cheese. What are you trying to prove with that funky cheese, everybody? Come on. That's the part that makes me feel like I'm right.
Starting point is 00:25:30 It pairs with things, Justin. It pairs with things. It pairs with the old jock strap. I know, but like. You eat the funky pickle. You eat the stinky cheese with the honeycomb. Right, but here's what I'm saying. If you can accept,
Starting point is 00:25:43 people give me a hard time for the raw cheese thing, right? But if you look way down at the other end of the tunnel, you see people eating some funky cheese, like some really truly decrepit shit that would really turn a lot of, you know that if you go way down the pipeline, it gets funky and bad, right? Can we agree this?
Starting point is 00:26:03 Yeah, but Justin, where do't- Where are you going? Stop, stop, stop. Let him finish. Let him finish. If we know that the end of the tunnel is sin, is distance from that sin not a virtue? Wow. Wow, Justin. That's cool, man.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Powerful, powerful. Let me tell you how I live my life, Justin. I think that I would be a person who just absolutely went ham for cocaine. But I don't do cocaine. It would be very bad for me, right? Yeah, man, we've all had that thought of like, oh. It would be a huge brand shift for me.
Starting point is 00:26:38 Yeah, it would be bad for me. Huge for any of us, it would be so, so bad. Hey, listen, a brief golden era for my brother, my brother, me, to be sure, but so brief. We would never. The big never. Must make this clear, we would never, not our thing, not our brand.
Starting point is 00:26:58 It would be a killer, I mean, six- For like killer material. Six episodes, whoa! Whoa! But the problem is, Justin, I don't do either. It would be un-listenable. No, un-listenable. It would be fucking non-stop. If you would have to play it at.75 speed to understand a word we were saying.
Starting point is 00:27:16 We would interrupt each other so much that there would be four voices talking at once sometimes. It would be Thruvian throat singing to interrupt each other. Me and the rest of the ghost hunters have isolated this one man is just yelling about horses. Who is this man? But my point being, yeah, I can't live a fully clean lifestyle.
Starting point is 00:27:40 I know, I don't have that kind of self control. So I must do things like eat funky stinky cheese. They should let the evil, to deal with your passenger. To let that dog out, you know what I mean? I would be less worried about ordering too expensive charcuterie board and way more stressed out about properly eating it and doing all the right combos and all the right pairings
Starting point is 00:28:04 and not focus. Sometimes you go too hard on like one of the meat types and you fully, fully finish it before anyone's touched the other meats and you feel so self-conscious about that. Yes, that's why you have to shuffle it together like a big sandwich like they do in Scooby-Doo or Dagway. Well, make them do that for me.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Make the restaurant do it. Bring me a charcuterie board that you've done like nachos. That's nachos though. That's nachos. What they should do is bring it to you laid out like Candy Land, where you follow the path adding the pieces together as you go. You get a line of stuff organized in a way of just like,
Starting point is 00:28:42 yeah, just keep going down the line, eating these together. Give it to me on like a ski, a long ski. Yeah, a luge, a charcuterie luge. A charlouge-ery. And I will shoot it down like I'm at a frat party. Give me an illusory charcuterie. Yeah, man, just for me. We need to go to the, should we go to the Money Zone?
Starting point is 00:29:04 Yeah, let's go to the picture. We go to the money zone. Yeah Squarespace is completely unaffiliated with anything. We were just talking about I cannot stress that enough They have nothing to do with anything that might've happened previously. It actually says here first thing in the ad. Sorry guys, that was pre-recorded. That's a pre-recorded thing we play before every Squarespace ad. They've asked us to start including that before. They asked you guys.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Hi, I'm Justin McElroy, a paid professional endorser for Squarespace. They were like, do you guys do pre-rolls so we stop coming in hot on the heels of your fully-throated cocaine endorsement? Here's what I'll say about, can I say something serious about Squarespace? They are probably our longest advertiser. They've been with us the longest. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:54 And here's what I'll say about Squarespace. A lot of companies will tell you what they want you to say, and we've been working with Squarespace so long that I shit you not. It's just a big list of don'ts. Yeah. Like we don't, they don't have stuff they want us to do, It's just a big list of don'ts. Like we don't, they don't have stuff they want us to do. It's just a big list of things they don't want us to do. And that's great. That's a good fit for us.
Starting point is 00:30:11 This might be a bit of a niche reference, but I think they're like the Oliver Platt to our bear restaurant. Like they're our uncle who shows up like, guys, you know I love you. You know I love you. You gotta stop. You got to.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Listen, what they do do is they make it really easy to build a website. Yes. And you know, I would even say kind of fun if you wanted to make a little project, a little micro thing just to entertain yourself, get a dream going, just something to noodle with an idea you've had.
Starting point is 00:30:37 A website is a great place to start if only just like to organize your thoughts. I've used Squarespace to build websites for a few different things, and I have had a really enjoyable time making the site. And they have these templates that are made by people who really know what they're doing. You pull those in, you pull in your own photos,
Starting point is 00:30:57 your own text, you can sell your own stuff, you can do whatever you would like with the Squarespace website. It's really powerful, even though it's really easy to make. So head to squarespace.com slash my brother for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code mybrother to save 10%
Starting point is 00:31:14 off your first purchase of a website or domain. If there's one thing about me that everyone knows is that I am financially responsible. You are not. That is why you need to use Rocket Money. No, I am now because I use Rocket Money. Ha ha ha ha! That's a really positive, I guess using Rocket Money
Starting point is 00:31:31 does make you fiscally responsible, but also Rocket Money is the thing you use when you are not particularly fiscally responsible, because they handle a lot of the heavy lifting. Yeah, but if I got a bionic enhancement to make my arms stronger, Griffin, I would say I'm strong now. You wouldn't be like, no, your bionic enhancement to make my arms stronger, Griffin, I would say I'm strong now. You wouldn't be like, no,
Starting point is 00:31:46 your bionic enhancement is strong. That's a good point, Travis. Rocket Money is a bionic enhancement for fiscal responsibility. It's a bionic enhancement. It's an implant in your brain that says like, hey, you forgot to unsubscribe to Super Slime Maker 3D free light version.
Starting point is 00:32:04 The subscription you did. Adults only. Adults only, and it was like three day free trial and you're like, I'll remember, and you don't fucking remember. And then you've been paying 69.99 a month for free Slime Maker light version rocket money. Is it implant in your brain?
Starting point is 00:32:20 It says, hey, cut that out, start saving lots of money. I genuinely have used it so many times, every time, genuinely every time, it's caught some shit. Whether it's an MMORPG I haven't played in a year and a half, or most of the time though, it is slime apps for the kids. And you know the good thing about Rock of Money is they don't tell your friends. They don't tell your friends if you do dumb stuff.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Discreet. That's not part of the service. Yeah, discrete service. Very discrete. They've got five million members who've saved over a total of $500 million in canceled subscriptions, with members saving up to $740 a year when they use all the app's premium features. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions, reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money.
Starting point is 00:32:59 Go to rocketmoney.com slash my brother today. That's rocketmoney.com slash my brother. Rocketmoney.com slash my brother. Rocket That's RocketMoney.com slash my brother. RocketMoney.com slash my brother. RocketMoney, elite, discreet, so sweet. That's gotta be a tagline for something else. That's probably true, yeah. That they maybe don't wanna take. I recently drove past a local barbershop and noticed something cool. The barbershop has an original Donkey Kong arcade machine, a good old classic.
Starting point is 00:33:34 I want nothing more than to get my hands on that arcade machine just to play a few rounds and maybe even get on that high scoreboard. However, I am bald. I do not need haircuts and I do not need beard management. How does a bald man with a well-kept beard get into a barber shop to play some Donkey Kong? That's from Desperate Kong. Well, there's always massage.
Starting point is 00:33:56 But what's the problem with that? Maybe your barber doesn't do massage. And if you ask a barber that doesn't do massage for a massage Yeah, I think you'll be escorted from the premise sometime sometime. I'll be on YouTube and the algo will be like I got some new ASMR stuff for you is an elderly man On the streets of Pakistan, and he is doing this to a guy. Oh
Starting point is 00:34:24 Yeah, fucking slapping the shit out of his head and his head grabbing streets of Pakistan and he is doing this to a guy. Oh yeah. Like fucking slapping the shit out of his head. And he's grabbing his ears and just fucking pulling his ears as hard as he can. And you see it and you're like, that looks chill actually. I love that. I don't know where one can request that particular. I don't think you can go to your normal everyday
Starting point is 00:34:44 cutter of hair and say like, slap my fucking scalp 20 times and pull my ears till they make noise. Please? Well, what you have to do is when the barber says, what are we doing today? You pull up that full video and say this. Pull the video and you say,
Starting point is 00:34:56 you're gonna jerk my neck to the side so hard, I'm gonna go limp for a minute and a half. That's what you're gonna do. And also, I'm thinking like a size four guard clippers around the sides and fade it up into the top, please, thank you. I feel like if I'm reading between the lines here, there's something this person is not saying to us.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Okay, so they wanna go in and look at the Donkey Kong arcade machine. If they were to go in and play, they wanna say, if they were to go in and say, hey, I'm a big fan, you care if I play a few rounds They'd be like did you bring quarters like? Absolutely, that's a profit center for us. Thank you so much. That's not what this is a part where he says and maybe get on a high scoreboard Uh-oh, wait a minute how long maybe you're gonna be there a little while, huh, pal?
Starting point is 00:35:42 Maybe it's not just you want wanna go in and play a few rounds. Maybe they're gonna have to start explaining to people why the ball man in the corner keeps shouting fuck every 30 seconds. Yeah, this is not a, you're saying that you're looking for a new home for your hobby. Yes, right, this is not a casual, this is not someone who wants to duck in.
Starting point is 00:36:04 Cause it is not odd to go in and play a few rounds. It is odd to be like, well, we're closing up shop for the day, sir, did you need something? What time do you open tomorrow? You could get your eyebrows shaped. I love a good eyebrow shaping. Say like, hey,
Starting point is 00:36:17 They polish, you can get polishing services, right? They do all kinds of stuff. They polish stuff there, man. Maybe start going in with different designs of beards from the Hunger Games movies, and just like, give me one of these. That's good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:31 Could you go in, listen, could you go in when it's busy, really busy, with a toupee, okay? And you put your name in, okay? Yeah. And then there's like a long wait, right? So you're just kicking it, playing all the Kong you want. And then they say your name and you got a choice. At that point, you can A, let them cut your toupee.
Starting point is 00:36:58 I don't think that's a good idea. They're gonna be on, that, you could throw the toupee on the ground, say never again, and they bust out the door. Or, grab your toupee on the ground, say never again, and then bust out the door. Yeah, but then you forgot you. Grab your toupee like you're really mad at the long wait. Ah! And pull your own hair out. Oh, you could do that, get huffy,
Starting point is 00:37:13 be like, I'll come back when you're less busy. Yeah, that's cool. That's the voice you have. And they'll be like, we're ready for you now. And it's like, it's the principal. And then you start throwing barrels. I have to get back to my wife's office. What do you do?
Starting point is 00:37:28 I have to have lunch in my trunk. I gotta ask you, you're on the run of your life. You're about to hit that fucking Billy Mitchell kill screen. You are about to make history, and then they call your name. You can't be like, Shut up. Shut up.
Starting point is 00:37:45 I need an hour and a half. I'm getting so close to Billy Mitchell's kill screen. Now hold on, wait. If no one clocked you, write your name down. No one clocked that. And when they call your name, you can just look around like, huh, nobody? Okay.
Starting point is 00:37:59 Weird. This says, Mr. Conkey Dong? Is there a Mr. Conkey Dong here? And then as like about 45 minutes in, maybe you start giving, like, perfunctory, like, ah, oh, man, so weight's really getting out of hand. Yeah. Hey, do you guys think,
Starting point is 00:38:15 on the opposite end of this question, if, when you own a barbershop and you think about getting a Donkey Kong arcade game, that you have, like, this conversation on the other side with anyone else that you're like, okay, but here's my one concern if we get the game. Yeah. That someone's gonna come in, they're bald,
Starting point is 00:38:34 neatly trimmed beard, they're gonna wanna play the game for hours. What do we do then? I mean, my bigger concern as a stylist at this salon would be that I don't wanna hear every 20 seconds boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I don't big gorilla, I love Mario, and I love the way he jumps.
Starting point is 00:39:07 That's not the golden era for hearable sounds, and so I don't want that. Give me a, now listen. Daytona! Daytona! Yeah, hell yeah. Go away, let's get away! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, fucking ripped man. They had a Daytona USA machine at Huntington High School and you could hear that shit from the cafeteria and it was such a cool learning environment.
Starting point is 00:39:29 Go away. Just when you thought the wait for lunch couldn't be any more intolerable, you got the siren song. And also there was a loose ground wire on the machine so if you touched the right bolt on it, it would electrocute you, which was also a lot of fun when you were bored at lunchtime
Starting point is 00:39:48 and you didn't have quarters. Let's go away. Let's go on our way. De-le-le-le-le-le. Oh, that was effortlessly. De-le-le-le-le. Yeah. De-le-le-le-le-le.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Le-le-le-le-le. Wa-wa-wa-wa. I want a munch. Squad. Squad. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. I want two munch squad! I want to munch squad! Welcome to Munch Squad, podcast of the podcast, profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating.
Starting point is 00:40:15 Today I have kind of an A, B testing thing for you guys. We do a lot of upbeat, feel good stories on the Munch Squad and I would just Yeah, that's mainly what we do here It's a feel-good thing and I just wanted to share with you guys two stories And I would love to know which one makes you feel the worst Physically, which one makes you feel worse great. I should I should warn you Justin This is one of my biggest anxiety triggers like when I'm at the optometrist and they're like one or two,
Starting point is 00:40:47 where I start second guessing myself so hard every time. I don't think this is gonna be like that. Well, let me say this, it's a loose structure. Yeah. How about that? Not really that important. But this isn't gonna change the way I see forever or whatever if I get it wrong?
Starting point is 00:40:59 No, you're not gonna get this question wrong and then have headaches forever. Okay, cool, man. It is a high stakes game, Travis. Those are fellow glasses. First up, can. It is a high stakes game, Travis. As a fellow glass- First up, can you guys see? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:08 Huh, smoothie king introduces new fiber maxing smoothie to support wellness goals. Look at this, guys. Just see, this, how would you describe the shake that you're looking at right now? I would describe it as a grimace shake that has been whipped to stiff peaks. Yeah, a grimace shake who decided to like,
Starting point is 00:41:31 now that Debbie's left me, I'm gonna get back, I'm gonna get a body that makes Debbie sad that she left me. There's a measuring cup in front of it with something that's supposed to stand in for, I guess, pure psyllium husk fiber. Fiber. And then if that is at scale, the cup behind it is roughly two feet tall.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Yes. Yeah. You'll be maxing your fiber for sure. What's great too is on, on this page, they have in that image, four blueberries and what looks to be a gallon of fiber. As they say, like, we want to let you know what you're going to be tasting when you drink this drink. It's going to be like a fiber factory that looked at some
Starting point is 00:42:12 blueberries earlier. Enjoy. Prepare for a really sinister adjective in this opener. Smoothie King announced the launch of its new fiber maxing smoothie, a functional offering designed to support gut health and meet the growing demand for the wellness forward food choices. It's a, hey guys, this is a functional offering.
Starting point is 00:42:36 This is an offering that does something. You're not getting it for the flavor. You're not getting it for the mouth feel. Right, this is a use. This is a hardware store now. You buy this to do something. This is as active food. Can I ask you guys, does it bother you
Starting point is 00:42:53 as much as it's bothering me that there's only two Xs in Fibra Maxing? It does feel like they've taken a middle road. If you do three, it's porno. Yes, but why not one? Would it be amazing at that point? Like, it just feels like it should be one X. Intentionally, inspired by the rising wellness trend
Starting point is 00:43:12 of fiber maxing, intentionally increasing daily fiber intake to reach the recommended 25 to 38 grams per day. For the powerful share. Yeah, the fiber maxing smoothie delivers a powerful 16 grams of fiber in 20 ounce serving, providing over half the recommended daily value. You're telling me I gotta drink two of these fucking things to even make it work anymore, dude?
Starting point is 00:43:34 I was gonna say, man, can you imagine drinking one of these and be like, nope, didn't quite hit my fiber goals for the day? Hey, I'm just throwing this out. Jeez, so sweet. Do you think it's possible that when people are like, hey, here's the daily goal of fiber, and everyone's like, I have to work so hard to hit that,
Starting point is 00:43:52 maybe it's not a reasonable goal. Yeah, yeah. I've been banging this drum for a while, Trav. If you put the correct amount of Metamucil in there, it becomes a sort of citric oatmeal, and it's no good. If in order to get the amount of fiber my body needs, I have to do something called fiber maxing,
Starting point is 00:44:14 I have a real issue with the whole process. Yeah, okay, so just lastly, some ingredients. It's crafted with a nutrient blend of wild blueberries, peanut butter, dates, bananas, almonds, organic spinach. And I guess they can afford to use wild blueberries if they're only doing four, they just go out back and grab them whenever they have to make one of these guys. They do throw it, throwing at the end of that list
Starting point is 00:44:39 of ingredients, added fiber. Yeah, no kidding, man. Yeah, the smoothie is lightly sweetened with plant-based stevia for a naturally delicious taste. It's added fiber. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No kidding, man. Yeah. The smoothie is lightly sweetened with plant-based stevia for a naturally delicious taste. Hey, why don't you go ahead and use a heavy hand on that? Like, you know what I mean? Like, how about you not...
Starting point is 00:44:54 We got a lot of fiber to mask, right? How about we go ahead and... Hey, you gave me a chunky, silty drink. How about you give me plenty of sugar in there? Yeah. You've given me like the Mississippi Delta of drinks. Purple coal slurry, yum, yum, yum, yum. And now it's time, now it's a,
Starting point is 00:45:12 next up for the B segment, I have a donut story that was too sad to tell Count Donut about. Oh good. Yeah, Krispy Kreme invites fans to experience a taste of the sweet life with all new Passport to Italy donuts. Huh. Cool. Hang in there guys. Krispy Kreme is helping fans transport to La Dolce Vita this summer.
Starting point is 00:45:42 Fuck! Vita this summer fuck Don't mess up all I gotta do this because I fuck about my hand on this scale Totally don't you Vita this summer with its all-new passport candy Italy collection a sweet escape The Italy's vibrant desserts and culture and culture, huh? You're getting the culture in the culture of Italy So the culture up in there cool cool cool They said they wrote it yeah said, they wrote it. Yep. You know? They should have put that in quotes. Culture.
Starting point is 00:46:09 Available beginning today for a limited time at participating Krispy Kreme shops across the US, Krispy Kreme's Passport to Italy collection features three of Italy's most iconic desserts re-imagined as irresistible donuts, including the cannoli-inspired donut. It's an unglazed ring donut, half dipped in chocolate icing and cookie crunch, dusted with powdered coating
Starting point is 00:46:33 and topped with cannoli-flavored buttercream dollop. That's cool. I'm looking at these. There are places all over. How are you looking at these? Because Justin didn't give us a picture. Did you search these yourself? No, I'm looking at these, there are places all over- How are you looking at these? Cause Justin didn't give us a picture. Did you search these yourself?
Starting point is 00:46:46 No, I'm looking at the list of them. I'm saying that there are places all over the US of A where you can buy a cannoli. Yeah, you can get it. Where you can buy a tiramisu. Right, but- These are not unreachable, like these are not unattainable flavors. Maybe those places can give you the cuisine of Italy, Travis.
Starting point is 00:47:07 Right, but are they giving you the culture? It's about the culture. Holy shit, one of these donuts has a little Italy flag on it. And that's maybe- I ask that you not get ahead of me. Okay, thank you, sorry. The Limone Delight donut, an unglazed shell donut filled with lemon delight flavored cream. Creme.
Starting point is 00:47:26 Dipped in zesty lemon flavored icing and topped with candied lemon. Fucking wood. And, yeah. Tiramisu inspired donuts, an unglazed shell donut filled with tiramisu flavored crème, topped with sweet buttercream dusted with cocoa. I mean, these all sound pretty fucking good, actually.
Starting point is 00:47:41 Of course they do. They're pre-existing desserts that are great. Yeah, man. That's a good point. Yeah, this quote, "'This summer, Krispy Kreme is transporting you to Italy Sweet Life. No passport required,' said not Dave Skinna, but Allison Holder, Krispy Kreme chief brand
Starting point is 00:48:00 and product officer. They wouldn't even get Dave out of storage for this one They only get Dave out for the nasty shit for the real nasty shit. Would it be wild if a passport was required? Prove you've been to Italy because otherwise these flavors. Yeah, of course just scan your passport face down Right there on the glass. Yeah. Oh, you've never been to Italy? Sure, I'll sell you this tiramisu inspired donut if you wanna go fucking insane.
Starting point is 00:48:31 Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Your mouth couldn't handle this without the correct documentation.
Starting point is 00:48:39 You can't handle it. You'll spit it on the ground. Oh, sorry, she continues. There's a taste of Italy's sweetest dessert traditions In every bite of our passport to Italy donuts From tiramisu to cannoli to lemon Dipped, dusted, and drizzled to perfection The commercial is this A customer walks up to the counter, buys a box of these passport to Italy donuts
Starting point is 00:49:02 Goes to lift it to their mouth Fucking a haggard Diane Lane runs up and slaps it out of their hand and says, you're not fucking ready for this shit. Unless you've walked beneath that Tuscan sun, you can't even fathom the depths of these flavors. I'm picturing Justin, one of our listeners, who turns out to be like a big head honcho in Italy,
Starting point is 00:49:26 listening to this segment right now with their hand hovering over a big button that just says war. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is, these are out now. You can buy them off Krispy Kreme's app, the website individually, and by the dozen. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:43 One of the two products that you brought today, Juice, would put me in the bathroom for two calendar days. Griffin's been fiber-minning his whole life. He's not ready. I've actually made a pledge by 2027 to be perfectly fiber-neutral. And I hope that you, I hope you two will consider joining me.
Starting point is 00:50:03 I can continue with it. Yeah, actually, for every amount of fiber I go over the limit, Griffin actually gets a certificate that lets him go under and it bounces out and backwards and forwards. I produce 10 times more fiber than I consume. Yeah. Guys, do you wanna know the worst thing about me?
Starting point is 00:50:20 And I know everybody is always too hard on themselves, I guess, and I'm no exception, but the worst thing about me, well, it's top 20, is I'm sitting here thinking like, maybe not enough fiber is a problem. You know what I mean? Like, I'm sitting here thinking like, sure, maybe I should be getting more fiber.
Starting point is 00:50:38 You know, like we're all having a lot of fun here, but I'm sitting here like in my head, there's like most of it's show, and then there's like 10% that's like, I hate when that 10% is like, fuck, 30 grams of fiber? Fuck no way. That's called capitalism, where you've been programmed, you've been programmed to think that buying something
Starting point is 00:50:54 will make you feel better. Well, yeah, it's just, I think fiber is a big capital. That's what's why we do it though, right? That's what the whole, that's why they up, they keep upping the fiber, sell us the fiber, big fibers out here. Juice, can I invite you to come with me on my journey of self discovery
Starting point is 00:51:10 to learn what makes your body tick by covering your back with 78 really annoying little stickers and then one of them will come off and they'll be like, yeah man, it's your potassium levels. And then you take a potassium supplement and then you're back at fucking 100%. Wait, you could do that? Cause that's all I want.
Starting point is 00:51:27 When you see in like a sci-fi movie and someone gets scanned and they're like, we've scanned everything. We don't have that technology, you know, we do have 78 stickers to let you know which detergents you shouldn't use. Don't mind if I do. If I get this test done, I assume I am legally required to tell my brothers during a podcast recording about it.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Correct, just like a vasectomy. If you use vasectomy and stickers, you have to fuck off. Anytime any of us gets any kind of bio mods, any kind of synth hacks, any kind of augs, I do think we should be transparent about it with each other and our listeners. Yeah, okay, well then fine. Just before we close here,
Starting point is 00:52:08 my hemorrhoids got so bad that I went to get medicine. And then when I picked up the medicine, they said, they're a dollar a piece. Do you want all 10? Huh. And I said, yeah, sure, right? So then I got home and I looked at the shape of the medicine and then I realized that it wasn't mouth medicine.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Oh. And ever since then, ever since I got that container, I've spent most of my time just kinda like slowly walking around and looking at the distance contemplatively, trying to weigh the various costs, you know what I mean? Yeah, sure. Like thinking about how much relief is worth to me. Not the cost of a dollar a pill. No, that's is worth to me. Not the cost of a dollar a pill.
Starting point is 00:52:46 No, that's not the cost now, quite literally. For the cost of a dollar a pill, we can put a suppository in Justin's butt. With your support in the Max Fund Drive, we can put a suppository in Justin's butt for just a dollar a day. That's why the thing my kids have heard me say the most this week has been,
Starting point is 00:53:03 ah, nothing sweetie, just thinking. You know, like just- Oh, was I crying, babe? Hold on, let me dry those tears, baby. No, it's just allergies. Yeah, Uncle Griffin did. All 78 turn red, babe, that's what they told him. He's allergic to everything.
Starting point is 00:53:22 It turns out all of his allergies have been like, awkwardly leaning against each other to hold him up, this whole mesh of allergies. Thanks so much for listening to our podcast. We hope you've enjoyed yourself. We really appreciate you every week coming to listen to us and hang out with us and we hope you have fun. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:53:41 Thanks, thanks. Hey, can I tell you, I'm very excited. Coming up, we're gonna be in Atlanta for DragonCon, which I'm excited about, because I love DragonCon, and we're gonna be doing live shows there, doing a My Brother, My Brother and Me, and Adventure Zone versus Popeye at our Adventure Zone live show.
Starting point is 00:54:00 I predict might be our stupidest Adventure Zone versus live show yet. You can't even possibly predict that. They've all been pretty silly. I'm just saying everyone should be there because it's gonna be something. It's gonna be something. How do I get tickets to that show in MbemBem
Starting point is 00:54:19 and also the shows we have coming up in Texas, Utah, and California, Travis? Griffin, you don't have to get tickets for any of the shows. It's fit.ly slash McElroy Tours. You were too slow. We have merch up at the merch store over at McElroyMerch.com.
Starting point is 00:54:32 I'm talking about a Keep Your Grades Up pin and the Flaming Not Poisoning Raging Tea of Doom, which are back in stock. That's fucking amazing news. This tea is so fantastic, guys. The pin is wonderful too, but I drank buckets of this stuff and it's a yummy way to wind down at the end of the day. Also, I wanna let you know we're doing a back to school sale
Starting point is 00:54:53 with select items up to 40% off, and we have three different back to school bundles that are on sale, so go check those out. And you get a free mystery pin with purchase of $30 or more, with 10% of all merch proceeds to this month going to World Central Kitchen. So again, that's macaroymerch.com.
Starting point is 00:55:11 And thanks to Montane for these for a theme song. My life is better with you. Check out Montane's new album, It's Hard to Be a Fish. If you like good music, that makes you feel good and feel cool listening to it. Hey Justin, would you read our fear this week? I'd be happy to. This year I will be faster than my fear
Starting point is 00:55:29 of the Goodyear blimps. Yeah. To the point. I'm Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. Just be my brother, my brother, may kiss your dad. Square out the way. It's better with you
Starting point is 00:55:45 My life, oh, it's better, it's better with you My life, oh, it's better, it's better with you Yes it's true, oh, it's better, it's better with two by one. Ah, it's better with you.

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