My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 785: Face 2 Face: Freelance Body Inspector

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Live from Salt Lake City, we’re here to turn Justin’s worst day into the best day ever with the beautiful Kingsbury Hall and some great advice about how to rebrand your grandmas, amusing your bouc...he, and art heists.Suggested talking points: Recreational Poisoning,  Neighbor Cuck Dog, My Christmas Is Inside You, Unaccompanied Crustacean, The Great PeaboBorder Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The McElroy brothers are not experts. And their advice should never be followed. Oh, Travis insists he's a sex expert. The fair is 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 know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?
Starting point is 00:00:27 One, two, three, it's the side. heart of something beautiful A small acquaintance has blossomed It's rapping into a precious friendship I could have never seen what was coming for me hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach My life, it feels life It's better, it's better with you
Starting point is 00:00:58 My life, ah, ah, it's better, it's better with you. This is true, ah, it's better, it's better with two. My life, ah, ah, it's better with you. Hello, welcome to my brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Trav Nation? I'm your middleist brother, Travis Big Dog Wolf Vroom Vroom McElroy. And I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin-built Ford Tuff McElroy.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Thank you. I've had the worst 24 hours of my life. Lay it out for me. Hell yeah, dude. What happened? I can't even believe I have to do a freaking show tonight, man. This sucks. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Sucks. I can't believe I got to do this. Okay, so I had a bad flight here, and this is a dry campus, so I can't explain why. But suffice it to say, I was really fucking sick. Wait, hold on. It's a dry campus, but you guys know about the concept of alcohol, right? That's why it's a funny joke. It's a sort of recreational poisoning.
Starting point is 00:02:25 Yes. So I did that. mess up and I was felt very bad. So last night I needed to sleep very badly and I woke up this morning and I needed to get some coffee and then I went to the place where I was going to go get coffee and I was looking on the directions and I walked into our place that I thought was the place and as they were, I realized it was the wrong place as they were handing me a menu and said that I could sit anywhere. And then I had to. Yeah. Obviously. obviously, but I wasn't hungry at all and felt like I wanted to die. Yeah. The food to be around
Starting point is 00:03:06 was a hell and the smell of it was a hell for good. And I did sit down and she said, would you like coffee? And in my head, I thought I should say to go. And I thought, and I said, yes, I didn't say to go. I said yes to start. Yeah. And then I looked at a menu and the only thing I really liked was the french toast combo i really should not have ordered that much food but that is what i did order and then four german guys came in right after and they were in a huge rush whoa cool yeah and i wasn't in a huge rush and i was felt so guilty because i didn't even want to eat the food in the first place right these guys were like we're in a huge rush and i'm like please make theirs first even though i order first because i really am fine yeah i'm good but then they brought my food first
Starting point is 00:03:56 and they clucked it. Oh, no. They absolutely saw. So then I got food that I don't really want to eat and I had to take it home with me. And then I thought, well, this is turning into a bad day in Salt Lake City. Yeah, let me pause you right here.
Starting point is 00:04:11 There's going to need to be some pretty wild twists in turns for this to qualify as the worst 24 hours of your life. I can think of things that happened to everyone in a particular day that were super, duper bad that are worse definitely than this. I don't think you're listening the same story I'm listening to. See, Justin was on a flight where he
Starting point is 00:04:34 made some bad choices. And then he went to get coffee and had to get some food to go. Yeah. I didn't... Yeah, no, it sounds super duper bad. If he needs money, I'm ready to write him a check right now. I didn't get food to go. I had to sit down at a restaurant and I was the only one
Starting point is 00:04:50 there and I was by myself and I was forced to eat because of the Germans. Yeah. that came in after, and had I canceled the food at that point, it would have looked like I was doing it for them. You know what I mean? That's not why it was the worst day. I don't think I've communicated how well.
Starting point is 00:05:08 The flight, I was really sick. Did you get, okay. You were super duper sick and sleepy accidentally. But accidentally on purpose, I guess, in a sense. But then dad's like texts all four of us and is like, you guys want to hit this immersive Titanic exhibit. And I'm like, Dang, dag, dag.
Starting point is 00:05:27 Well, this has been... Sometimes when we're on tour, our dad will text us. Like, he's a divorced dad who only gives the kids one week and a month. But he hasn't planned for it. And it's like day of like, oh, shit, I got to do something with you guys. Do you guys like horses? It's actually always a bookstore. He always texts everybody here and says, you want to go to a bookstore.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Usually some of us do. But this time, he's like, just the four of us, just me, Tram Griffin, dad. do you guys want to go to this Titanic exhibit? And I got it. It was a real waiting game there. But I left in first and I said, yeah, if you guys want to do that, I think it could make like a fun thing to do,
Starting point is 00:06:05 maybe a fun video. And then Travis and Griffin immediately bailed. Yeah. And I was like, now to be fair, I had already bailed previously when he asked about a bookstore. Yes. And I said, I can't.
Starting point is 00:06:16 I have too much work to go on. And then he texted about the Titanic thing and said, Travis. And I was like, still no. Yeah. And in my defense, I have a one he knows. And I am, yes, super brave for being here
Starting point is 00:06:31 and continuing to do the show tonight. Yeah. After I heard how you all gave it up for our dad like that, the applause feels not as good, if I'm being completely honest. So I didn't have the microphones that I wanted to record, Dad and I for our little jaunt. I wanted to make it special.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Like, Dad and I've never made content together before I see my phone. So I went to the store and he's... Dad and you have never made content before together? I mean, what do you want? Like, no. Like the Adventure Zone? Like, but not, you guys are usually in that.
Starting point is 00:07:06 We have to find... Oh, I'm sorry that Griffin and I ruin it. We don't know, but we do have to find the special dad and Justin Energy. Whatever that is. We have to find those specific rhythms. So I get back to the hotel with my recorder, my microphone, and I say, okay, dad, I'm back. What time slot you want to do? And he texts me back.
Starting point is 00:07:24 It looks like the only thing they got is 3.30. We can't do it. Sorry. We can't do it. And he said, maybe next time. Did he throw a champ in there? It feels like a champ moment. Yeah, dad, do you think maybe next time that we're in Salt Lake City will go to the interactive Titanic exhibit?
Starting point is 00:07:47 And the cats in the cradle and the seal soon. Sorry, did you say cuck? The cuck's in the cradle? Because this day has, this is already been the worst 24 hours of my life. And if you're capping it by saying the cucks in the cradle at me, I don't think I can handle it. Justin, we're going to put on a kick-ass show tonight and we're going to raise your spirits right back up, brother. What do you think, Salt Lake City? I go for a run nearly every morning before work.
Starting point is 00:08:18 My turnaround point is decided by wherever I hit a certain distance, not by a clear landmark. I will pass someone seconds before or right as my watch shows me that I've hit my turnaround point so I end up turning around and running right past them again but in the direction they're going dearest brothers how do I make it clear that I'm not turning around to race them or or or follow them or show them how fast I am and that's from jogging in Ogden are you are you are you here hi Hello. Not are you here from Ogden, anyone?
Starting point is 00:08:57 Sorry, sorry, yes. Question ask her. Ogden represent? And now that we've gotten that out of our systems, the specific person who wrote this question, are you here? All right. I'm so glad this is our penultimate live Mbim Bam of this tour because I have washed this child's Halloween costume
Starting point is 00:09:20 enough times wrong for it to be really. really struggling into the finish line here. Which is ironic. It is a slightly ironic. I don't think Halloween costumes are meant to be worn or washed as many times. I'm going to say, I don't think it's their right way to wash this costume. That's a good point. I think that if you turn around and you run past them and they think that you did it to follow them,
Starting point is 00:09:48 the following, the next thought is, and they're really bad at following me. Okay. Because I don't think when you follow someone, you should pass by them. Oh, well, then maybe you give them a, as you turn around, you hit your halfway point, you turn around, you run by them in the direction they're walking. You yell, follow me. Oh, my turn. The actions on them now, whether or not they do it or not.
Starting point is 00:10:10 Oh, tag them. As you go past, tag them. We must. We mustn't. We mustn't say touch, Travis. We mustn't say touch the stranger, Travis. You know this. I'm hearing it now.
Starting point is 00:10:25 You're hearing it now. I'm hearing it now. We can't say touch the stranger, but you can't say, follow me. In any tone of, I will say actually the tone of voice is important. Because if you turn around and run by them and you go, follow me. That's a mean joke you're doing. That's a way different energy. If you say follow me and then take a hard left and run down a hill, they're going to think they're in danger.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Right. Like in the Matrix or something. But if you say follow me, you're leading them on a quack. And give them like a big. arm sweep this away maybe run down till you get to like the next like intersection then turn back around run back by them again turn around again just keep going and say when are you going to start yeah there's a subtext to this question i really enjoy which is that my theory is that even people who like jogging and do it a lot when that little thing goes off in their watch that says you have
Starting point is 00:11:18 hit the turnaround point you have finished half of your jogging any jogging you do past this point is extra bonus jogging. They even say, fuck that. No way, am I going to do extra jogging? Are you out of your mind? This is where you exercise people. It always falls apart. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:11:35 It always falls apart because you always aren't looking forward to stopping, are you? Yeah. I do think the worst case scenario of this question is like the turnaround point is just past them. Yeah. Like two feet past them.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Yeah. Right? Not like, oh, I went another. No, I got next. to them and then turn around the Ferris Bueller. Oh, yeah. I was just in a bunch of... Slowed down, double tape?
Starting point is 00:12:02 Yeah, don't do that. No touch. No touch. Don't Ferris Bueller. When I pulled this question, one of the things that struck me is you're worried that they might think you were trying to race them
Starting point is 00:12:12 because there's, if you pull out in a car next to another car at a red light and you rev your engine, you're sending the signal like when this light turns green, we're racing, right? And they don't have to engage, but that's clearly what that means. We don't have that
Starting point is 00:12:28 for foot traffic. There's not like we reach an intersection, there's the hand signal, and you like stand next to them and start scraping your foot on the ground. And they're like, oh shit, it's on when that little walkman comes up. There should be a third signal that's like a finger saying, like, almost.
Starting point is 00:12:44 Yeah. Almost. Take your marks. We need something that allows people to know, I want to race you. I'm ready to race you. You say you don't, you want to make it clear
Starting point is 00:12:55 you're not turning around to race or follow or show them how fast you are. It's got to be one of the three, right? Like, one of the three is happening because otherwise, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:13:07 Out there. And frankly, how fast you are doesn't mean because you're so fast. This is just how fast you are. That's the level you're hitting. Maybe you make that clear to them. Like, sometimes I'm slow to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Don't take it. Personally, you'll get there. Keep at it. Can you run? Can you jog backwards and do like a yell at him like, it's the matrix? That's cool. Maybe speak to them in reverse as you don't mind. Yeah, e-tricks.
Starting point is 00:13:36 We have, man. Wait, I mean, I know there's a comedy show, but like, usually the suggestions at least have some narrative where in which they have benefited, the question to ask her, like, I feel like your suggestion is like demonstrably worse, right? Like turning around and running backwards past them, quote, like in the Matrix? And I really like, you guys are a wet stone upon which my blade is sharpened because you do not let me get away with these fucking stinker airballs. And I appreciate that. Like, for sure, it didn't make any fucking sense at all.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Run backwards and say it's the Matrix. You could run backwards and say it's memento. Even memento. That's not a memento happen either. It's inception? I'm getting closer. I don't think there's like a really good movie where they run backwards. tenant. Tenet actually is actually the exact one we were all trying to. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:14:25 That's the exact one where that happens for sure. Cool. Next question, please. I come from a family of fast eaters. I'm the fastest among them. Damn. Opting to chew is, I can't believe, and you're here. What an honor. Opting to chew. My name's Jerry Chestnut. As little as possible with as few bites as I can. I have married into a French family of slow eaters. Ola. With my wife being the slowest among them. Which she acknowledges? Opposites attract. Whenever we go to France and we have a family meal, one of the,
Starting point is 00:14:56 what do you think they call it in France? A family meal. I can't imagine. I bet it's something very elegant. It's 10 to 15 minutes ago and the rest of the family. I'm not going to hang a lantern on that, you see? That's because it wasn't a joke. It was just an observation.
Starting point is 00:15:10 It is somewhat awkward. I'm just living my life up here, Griffin. That's why you have nothing. You can't take me apart for being me, man. They call it a meal with cheese. Now we're freaking talking. It is somewhat awkward to be sitting and front of an empty plate with nothing to do but but is not acceptable to leave the table brothers
Starting point is 00:15:28 i humbly ask you what can i do while i wait for them to finish eating or can i do something to convince them to change that's from frantically eating in france and are you here all right question asker can i tell you the deep respect i have for you that there is no option of changing your own behavior? Either I need a highlights magazine at the table for when I'm done and they're still chewing or they need to speed the fuck up. It is also, I very much appreciate that it is obviously assumed that you can't talk to those gathered around here.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Absolutely not. They would just slow them down when they talk back, Justin. For starters, I'm assuming they're all speaking French. So that can't. Maybe that's your problem. It's also hard to get a word in edgewise. because they're constantly stopping and going after every bite.
Starting point is 00:16:25 Oh, you know what? Two birds, one's done. You reach over and start cutting up their food for them. That's cool. That way you have something to do and it's going to speed them up a little bit. That's awesome. That's one of those things.
Starting point is 00:16:37 Maybe start chewing it for them too. That was one of those things I started doing for my four-year-old son and then I realized like, wait a minute, it kicks ass to just have all the cut and done. Yeah, man. You sit down, you do all the cutting up front, and then it's just chomp city from then on?
Starting point is 00:16:53 Hell yeah. Now you're just Pac-Man moving through the meal. Don't cut it up all at the beginning is one of the adults tried to sell you one that you never really thought about, but I will never look back. I cut it all up at the table. You give me a plate of spaghetti with four enormous fucking meatballs on it? Yeah, I'm going to cut those up first thing.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Especially when you get a great grid going on a paddy and you're like, Foon, Foolechus. Can I say I love the number of enthusiastic, nods i've seen from the audience there's a there's a number of people who have looked at me and said fucking i'm going here i don't care i don't care what they've said i don't care what the law says i'm cutting all of it up so so so that's a service you can provide your loved ones yeah you could you could spend a little preamble cutting into optimal delicious bites oh and stacking them
Starting point is 00:17:47 stacking them, like, you're getting it all ready to go. Like the pictures of Ritz on the box. Yeah. The serving suggestions of Ritz. Turn them into a bunch of amoos-boosh. You can eat it slower if they're all, oh-moos-boosh. That's true.
Starting point is 00:17:59 You got to give time for your boosh to be amozed. Is there a way you could start 10 to 15 minutes later than the rest of them? Oh, like the tortoise in the hair. Like you, where you lay down and take a nap while they start eating. But then be careful, what if they're done before you? Just send it back when everyone sits down on the table like I'm sorry mine is overdone
Starting point is 00:18:22 I would like to please ask your father to prepare another beef Wellington for me you could it's just that like you know you're supposed to eat slower is the thing just for like you don't chew
Starting point is 00:18:36 this is like you don't chew you know it's so hard to be this is not different strokes it's a moral good it's for your body to chew more it's better for you to do that. And when you're there in France, you're representing all of us. We're representing all of us, and we need all the help we can get.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Come on. We're in a deep, deep, deep, deep hole of debt sort of culturally to France. We changed the name of fries. Like, we fucked them so bad. Like, we did such a bad job by them. Please. Just chew. Just chew for America. I have never been to France, but I feel fairly confident that most of the time I would not be like horfing it down. I feel like every, every, I feel like every meal I'd be fighting for my life. Listen. Sorry, and what is this again?
Starting point is 00:19:28 What is the French word for bread? More bread. What is the fridge for more bread? I'm going to need to get this to go. I remember when I saw Ratatouille in the theaters with Justin, and at the end when they made Ratatouille to save the day, Justin was like, so just a bunch of cut up vegetables? What the fuck? It's not even a meal.
Starting point is 00:19:48 This movie doesn't make any fucking sense. Even getting us beside the boy that it was cooked by a rat. That's already over there. We're not talking about that. It's just slices of vegetables? The child is nostalgic for sliced vegetables? Hey guys. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:06 It's been a little ribbled. Yeah. A little unsavory so far tonight. So I thought we might take an opportunity to class it up a little bit. with just a nice, mature, work of fart. I'm not even going to talk about the fart sound effect. I'm fucking dialed in. This is maybe the last work of fart of 20 Thunder Drive,
Starting point is 00:20:36 and I want to keep my, I think, perfect record going. I'll pretend all you want that I don't like this game, but it's my, I'm in my fucking L. I'm in my zone right now. All right. Tonight, it's all classic rock. Oh, yeah, man. I'm going to give you the description of the song.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Oh, man. You will give me the classed up title. Yeah. Yeah. But it's going to have like fart or pee or poop or something in it. That's... Up first. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:06 In this song, we find out about a place to get away from it all. stop what you're doing and pass gas thanks to Elvis Presley fart break hotel farts that is correct Justin
Starting point is 00:21:22 it's one nothing fart break hotel yeah no it's awesome man what do you want from me man juice hey juice you know how important this is to me right man this might be the last work of fart of the tour
Starting point is 00:21:41 you know that man, right? And how important it is to me. Things are heating up. Did you see my running nose, bro? To be fair, Justin had to eat a breakfast he didn't want. Yeah, that's true. I was so sick. Like, I can't.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Okay. In this ACDC classic, we are told the story of a man who watches his wife have sex with Thor. Thunder Cuck? Correct. Yes. God, that's good.
Starting point is 00:22:11 dang it dang it how many more are there Travis tell me three more Jesus Christ Billy Joel yeah sings a song about a man
Starting point is 00:22:23 singing a song about being in a bar where everyone urinates on him pee in a man pee on a man oh I'm gonna give it to Griffin it would be on a man
Starting point is 00:22:33 no no like he has to yeah yeah yeah of course of course of course and Travis can I just say that's why you write the work of fart because I'm going to come to something with P. Ano Man, and it just don't see it. Piano Man.
Starting point is 00:22:46 No, I get it. Yeah, like, don't say it a bunch because it's not that funny, but like. Well, shit, that was the best one. Okay. You could stop now. In this song, Elton John tells the tale of two young people
Starting point is 00:23:02 during a simpler time when they could bond over their love of this reptile's penis. Crocodile cock. Yeah, screw. That's correct. He did not tell me the answers ahead of time, guys. It seemed like with how fast I said that,
Starting point is 00:23:20 that was scripted, it was not, I promise. It is currently 3 to 1, so Justin, I'm sorry. Graven has taken it, but there is one more. You never know if the last is going to be worth triple. That's fair. You never know if you're going to say that. No. But like, it would be better.
Starting point is 00:23:38 I'll tell you, it's only worth one real. point, but it's worth three Travis points. That doesn't mean anything. It doesn't matter. I'm about to fuck it. It matters who I consider the winner to be. Okay, good. In this song.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Yeah. Satan appears and challenges Johnny to a statewide cunnelingas contest. Don't wait that on Georgia. That is correct. Thank you. So Griffin wins the game, but Justin wins the game in my heart.
Starting point is 00:24:09 I'll take it. I'll take it at this point. That's cool and everything, but... The devil went down on Georgia. Yeah, we got it, we got it, we got it. Do you guys get it? You really can't hang a lantern on these, my man. They are not load bearing.
Starting point is 00:24:23 I have a very cute little dog named Chopper. My name... Sorry, they said we couldn't show chopper too cute. That's a lie! Show the picture of all! Out of sight. Out of control. My neighbors who I've never met
Starting point is 00:24:39 have some girls who are around. eight they saw my dog one day and knocked my door and they asked if they could play with him well i'll let him out to play with him for a bit and i just thought well that was nice and that was it but now they know that i have a cute dog and they're obsessed with him they constantly come over multiple times a day to play with my dog brothers the family has their own dog how can i tell How can I tell these girls to stop coming to see my dog and play with their own? That's from puppy problems in Provo. Are you here?
Starting point is 00:25:17 Hello. Hi. Is Chopper here? Oh, fuck. Oh, man. I bet you get that a lot. I'm sorry. That's a terrible burden to have a dog that just like fucking drop dead adorable.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Can I tell you guys just quick note, programming note? If you want to know how to slam dunker question, write in a thing where kids keep coming you're facing basic problem and then introduce a neighbor cuck dog in slam dunk dude it's a fucking slam absolutely so i i feel bad in a way because this is like one of the earliest parenting things you learn and it is don't do something you don't want to do forever a thousand times correct because if you think it might bring joy or delight to the child you're running the wrist that all of a sudden they look at you and they're like hey this is my entire shit Your dog, I know you think it's your dog, but your dogs, my whole shit.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Yeah. There are things that life lessons, important skills that I have tried to instill in my children multiple times over and over and over. And it does not, the seed does not take root. But there are things that I let them do once five years ago that they're still like, hey, I'm going to do that again because you said yes to that one time. so it must always be cool now, right? Dad bought Cooper this tiny TV once and I put a bunch of episodes Are You Afraid of the Dark on it?
Starting point is 00:26:48 I showed it to her one time and now that kid watches fucking four hours Are You Afraid the Dark on a tiny TV every day? I don't know, guys. You just take what you can get, I guess. There's so much about the world of Pokemon that is better than our own. I'll just lay that out there, carte blanche.
Starting point is 00:27:05 And you all know that that's my truth and I'll stand on it. But one of the things that I think we could really adopt from that game franchise and make it part of sort of like the public consciousness in the real world. Pet fighting. No?
Starting point is 00:27:23 I heard it. I heard it when I said it. But keep out that link cable, my friend, because what about pet trading? Now, listen. I think you can do that. Yeah, you can. How many pets have you traded, Trave?
Starting point is 00:27:38 No, I don't think I would do it if Pokemon were real either, Griffin. You got to. I got two dogs. Who needs two? Take one of them. Let me stop you right there because that is the way that some of the Pokemon evolve. You can't just say, like, well, I'll never have a Maychamp because I'm not willing to trade. Can I tell you how wild it would be if you told me you have two dogs, but a couple of lily,
Starting point is 00:27:57 the only way they'll reach their best form is if you give them away. Yeah. Dude, Griffin was about to tell us how to make a May champ and you cut him off, man. I was finally about to crack it. I was so close to have it on May champ. I mean, it's Gen 1, but yeah, May champ, and Golem and Gengar, I think you can only get through trading. There's... I believe Steel, it's in size, or if you give them the metal coat item before you trade them, that's...
Starting point is 00:28:28 Anyway, trade dogs, and I know that I'm outing myself as a non-pet owner, and this is probably unthinkable to a lot of you because you're giving up. an incredible relationship with the pet that you've formed this deep bond with. But think about how stoked you're going to be to get to know that new pet. And to be fair, it sounds like this ugly-ass dog is going to really appreciate the attention. Oh, my God, yes. And then, oh, makeover time. Uh-huh. It's time.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Oh, you're going to make those eight-year-old jealous now. Yeah. When you miss congeniality, their dog. Yeah. You should let the dog choose. The kids may be more fun than you. Wow, juice. You should just let the dog choose, but have some bacon in your pocket.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Because you're an adult. And that's what adults know how to do. Adults know how to rig the game for themselves. And if the dog chooses the kids, they do have to reimburse you what you paid for the dog because another thing adults have is the money to buy dogs. That's true. Buy your own dog. That's true.
Starting point is 00:29:30 But hey, what I always... They already have their own dog. What I always say, guys, who bought who? Thank you. No. I am 37. Like I always say, who cleans up after who's poop? Makes you think about it.
Starting point is 00:29:43 I am 30. It does make you think about it, Griffin. I am 30. The dog makes me think about it all the time. True. Proceed. Are you sure that you don't have any other multisyllabic observations to make?
Starting point is 00:30:01 You'll notice I didn't say jokes. I'm more of a humorous, Justin, but continue. Storytellers, Justin. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. I know what room number you're in. I can have them make me a key card. I can give them your name.
Starting point is 00:30:15 I'll go in and I'll kill you. Yeah, it's true. I'll tell them it's a birthday surprise and said the surprises I'm killing you. I am 37 years old. And tomorrow morning after the show is my first time flying on a plane. How do I play it cool
Starting point is 00:30:32 and not look like an aging noob who has never flown? Are you here? Hi. Hi. Hello. There was not a name in here. I don't know if it got cut off.
Starting point is 00:30:44 That's okay. You've never flown before. Tomorrow you're flying. And you want to know how to not look like an aging noob who has never flown. And you're just a passenger, right? You're not flying the plane. Yeah. Because that would be wild.
Starting point is 00:31:00 I know there's like a pilot shortage or whatever, but we're not down that low, right? No, not quite. So the thing that, this is an actual answer that might help, I don't know, because it blew my mind. If you go to the pilots and you say, do you have any of the cards? Sometimes they have special trading cards about their plane. And this blew, this absolutely blew me out of the water when I found out I don't have the guts to ask, obviously, because they would push me out of the plane or something. But you could ask, and I think that's a real pro move that's going to establish like, oh yeah, I've been. on so many planes, I'm collecting cards
Starting point is 00:31:37 about them. Oh, yeah, and then when they give you the one you're on, I'm like, I've already got three of these and hand it back. I've been on them so many times. I love the way these go up. I thought you were saying I think, first of all, your best option is going to be absolute silence. Anything that leaves your lips, I promise, is going to
Starting point is 00:31:55 betray the fact that you've never been on an airplane before. Maybe don't, like, as it's going up, start screaming about how this is in defiance of gravity and God's will. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't be like, excuse me, flight helper.
Starting point is 00:32:10 I don't know what you're called. Shit. There's been a terrible mistake. I don't know the person who's sitting next to me. Oh, that's not, that's, okay, just kidding. That is how it's supposed to be.
Starting point is 00:32:21 And it's cool if we smoke in here, right? What? Things have really changed. You're going to, this place is beautiful, and I think flying out over it is going to be an amazing experience. That is something like you can, I would frame it like that for yourself at first.
Starting point is 00:32:38 That's something to look forward to. Yeah. And then after that, it's all clouds. And that gets old so fast. You wouldn't even believe it. I will say the part where it goes into the air initially will be bad. Bad. Not the best.
Starting point is 00:32:54 But here's what I will say, you will be absolutely on a plane at that point. And it was very, there's no doubt about it. There are actually, and you might not know this, because you've never done it before. Once you get on plane, they have very little chill about you getting off plane until they have reached destination.
Starting point is 00:33:14 That's actually like a big rule up there. Sometimes it's nice to just know you have no input into how the situation goes at all. Yeah. Release the controls. Let the pilot and God take care of it. Yeah, God does this help? God also keeps you safe in the plane.
Starting point is 00:33:35 and the fate. Does that help? Yeah. All right. I'm seeing two thumbs up. I feel pretty good about that. Honestly, I will take it. My ex's stepdad introduced me to my mechanic years ago.
Starting point is 00:33:50 He was the total I know a guy guy, and he set me up with the friends and family discount there. I realized recently, after an expensive repair, that I still get the discount. It saved me about $400 on this last visit, but my ex and I broke up three plus years ago. And I never got around to telling my mechanic that we broke up. And it feels weird to tell him now, good instincts.
Starting point is 00:34:14 And I also have no idea if it matters. Do I need to tell my mechanic that I'm no longer friends nor family? Can I keep accepting the friends and family discount forever? That's for morally muddled motorists. Are you here? Yeah, I don't blame you for not volunteering your presence for that. that's a tricky situation i heard some of you all react to that in a way that left me wondering i think no matter when you did it it would even if it was the day after it would be strange to go to
Starting point is 00:34:48 your mechanic and say just so you know susan and i have broken up so now you must charge me full price for things yeah it is though like what you are saying though is i'm no longer your friend Yeah. That's awesome. Like, we are no, our ships have parted. We are no longer. If anything, that is the responsibility of your ex and your ex of his family, like a mafia dawn to call the mechanic and be like, he's out.
Starting point is 00:35:19 It was actually a really acrimonious breakup. Do you have an enemy's discount? Oh, it's an enemy's increase. An enemy's increase. Okay, you do that work. Understandable. Would you like to hang out? Now, sometimes, Doug, see if we can repair that relationship.
Starting point is 00:35:36 I'll bring you a present on your birthday like in Stardew Valley. Do you really genuinely believe that if this had been addressed early, that it could have been, like, there was no moment at which you could have addressed it in a healthy way. Like, obviously, if you go in right after the breakup, when you don't need repair, that will be bad. That won't go well. You can't make a visit just to say, hey, I am alone. I feel like. I don't need, no, wiper fluid's.
Starting point is 00:36:02 Good. Thank you for thinking. At the moment of checkout, I feel like that is the last time. You can say, hey, just so you know, I hope this isn't weird, but just to be honest with you, we broke up, so please don't give me the discount anymore. No, because I think, let's take this a different way. Okay. Right? Instead of a mechanic, this is a butcher shop.
Starting point is 00:36:22 Okay. And they call and say, this is Doug. Doug's, you know, dating our child, he's cool. Give him the real good cuts of meat. Right? And then you break up. Are you going to go in and the butcher's going to be like, oh, back to serving you the bad stuff? Travis, like, now you know.
Starting point is 00:36:40 It's so fucking crazy that you were drawing a, like, no, I don't think I'm going to go back to eating rancid meat. What are you're talking about? The two options are get good meat or eat like. No, the pies and sweet-a-ed. It's not about the options, Travis. It's like this equivalent would be you go to the mechanic and the mechanic says, oh, you're dating Stacey. I'll stop giving you bad, rusted shitty car parts. Every car, usually I throw 40 jelly beans in it just to be a dick.
Starting point is 00:37:11 I'm actually not going to do that to you. I won't put 40 jelly beans in your car. The options are, don't tell them or go to a different mechanic. That's how are you... That is a thing. I would... You can't be like, hey, you know how you've only been charging me $500 for this? You can go back to $750.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Do you? Why? I would just go to a, I would find somebody new, though, right? I don't, like, if you're not like a new partner and see if they have a family mechanic. Yeah. Maybe you go to the mechanic. You say, I would like to try to explore a friendship with you. Yeah. Or go to your mechanic and say, listen, yes, they and I did break up. Do you have any other friends or family that I can start dating to maintain our current situation? I'm willing for this to chain together a new way.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I met them through you, no, I met you through them, now I make them through you. Yeah. This Christmas on Hallmark. I met them through me, but you'll meet me through you on Hallmark. I'm you now. I'm you now. Starring, Lacey Chabere. The talented Mr. Ribly is talented at mechanicing.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Lacey Chabar in, I'm you, I'm you now. Folks. A Christmas tale. Lacey Shabey. is Melissa Joan Hart in I am you a Christmas choice coming this October
Starting point is 00:38:43 Oh my channel Candace Cameron Burr watches from a corner as Melissa Joan Hart is Lacey Shamare in My Christmas is inside you A psychosexual A psychosexual journey Coming to Lifetime.
Starting point is 00:39:00 Coming to Lifetime. October 21st. Discounting the day is till Christmas. We have signed posters out in the lobby. Rad posters. They were designed by Scott Hoke. We were just wild about the vibe and the energy of these.
Starting point is 00:39:14 There's also, I think, are there coins? Yes, there are. We do still have some coins for the Palsaborn Memorial Can Food Drive. All proceeds on those coins go to the Utah Food Bank. So check those out too. Send in your questions.
Starting point is 00:39:27 Please, we're going to do live audience questions in the next block after we take a brief intermission, so go do all your dirty business. And we'll be right, but I don't know, guys. Yeah, I don't know either, man. You just kept going with it. I can't give you a high-energy finish after go do your dirty business. Go do your unspeakable bathroom crimes. And we'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:39:54 Is that a movie? We've already gotten our dreams, but what about you, the little people? Hi, I'm Justin McElroy, a certified dream granter who... Hey, all you tiny folks down there looking like ants to us dream giants. Yeah, we've strolled down from Olympus to tell you how to get a start on your tiny, humble dreams. Your little tiny heads can't even be big enough to have a dream, Anna. We are like Prometheus bringing unto you mere mortals, the fire of Squarespace. Do you know that we have used Squarespace ads to bring up?
Starting point is 00:40:27 Remote topics as varied as our wife's political campaigns and our dogs. It's true. No matter what you want to use a Squarespace website for, we've done it. And I know what you're thinking. From Jumanji to Moana. There is not a square space website you cannot create. Why haven't we combined them and made a square space site with our dog running for mayor? We could.
Starting point is 00:40:50 We could. It would be easy. With these templates that they got, these best in class designers making for you, you're going to make a website that looks like a real pro-made it, not, you know, you, one of the common folk. If you want your mayor dog to charge for their goods and services and get paid on time with professional on-brand invoices and online payments, you can do that for your mayor dog. Set them up for success because it's expensive to run a campaign these days. Seriously, we've used, can we stop joking now? I'll try. We had, that was like, we were
Starting point is 00:41:24 Can I say, Gryphon, that was, like, such a good ad. And then you took the ball, and I thought you were headed to the end zone with it and bringing it home for a big finish. I couldn't tell. And you absolutely fumble. You ate it. Yeah, can we be serious? You ate the ball.
Starting point is 00:41:38 You ate the ball, man. I want to seriously, well, I don't need people to know that the next part's not a joke, because if they think that if you go to this URL and there won't be a good deal for you there because it's a joke we're saying, then the, then Squarespace will get P-Oed. And there's not that many places that, want to support us, you know, sort of professionally. That's great. This has already stopped being ad to become some sort of immersive theater you're doing.
Starting point is 00:42:00 So whatever you want to do is fire. People love this shit. Are you kidding me? They love to get deep in the sausage grinder with us. Head to squarespace.com slash my brother for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code my brother to save 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain. That blew my mind.
Starting point is 00:42:21 You guys at home are like, that was wild. Imagine sitting in the middle of it. I want to tell you guys, we got some recently updated ad copy from Zoc Doc, which is an amazing, amazing service website that's going to help you find doctors and stuff in your area. But also included in here is that we have to play their Sonic logo. And I get confused by that every time thinking we're about to play music from Sonic the Hedgehog, and they have a cool, like, Sonic the Hedgehog is working with Zococ. No, it's cool. And I don't think a lot of companies do this with us, but it's neat because it's like, It's like a co-lab at that point, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:42:56 Like, we're doing our thing over here telling you about how Zoc Doc is a free app and website where you can search and compare high quality in network doctors and click to instantly book an appointment. It's amazing. I've used it so many times in D.C. to fill out my care team, my squad, if you will. Your road dogs. But then they'll also come in there and be like, brannow, wow, wow, wow. I haven't heard the Sonic Stinger, but I do think it's like a, I do they.
Starting point is 00:43:23 It's probably like a funky blues riff. I think it's probably like, got to go fast to get an appointment today. Okay, that's good. And a lot of people don't know this, but Zok Dock is actually short for Zok Doha Robotnik. That is also true. Yeah, not a lot of people know that.
Starting point is 00:43:37 How much do you guys want to bet we're going to get ad copy next time? It's like, please don't talk about the Sonic logo. Please, obviously. We put that in parentheses so you guys wouldn't talk about it. And that's fair. I get that. But to be serious for just a second, you guys. And it's important to make sure.
Starting point is 00:43:53 sure that you have a care squad that is covering all of your bases. And it's hard to do that. Hard to do that because insurance is a myth and everyone does it different and everyone's trying to get at you and take everything, take everything that's important to you. Zoc Doc helps you find the doctors who do take your insurance and will provide great care and let you book appointments with them in the blink of an eye. Stop putting off those. Kind of like Sonic. Stop putting, stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to Zockdoch.com slash my brother to find and instantly book a top rated doctor
Starting point is 00:44:27 today. That's Zock-Z-O-C-D-O-C-com slash my brother. Zock-D-O-C-com slash my brother. Woch-D-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-Zog. and now you're bragging about your farts to everybody it's holding it's holding uh girf i'm gonna pretend to be surprised by a munch squad here in a second but before that i did want to say i overheard backstage dad talking about how his day went yeah and you'll never guess one of the things that dad mentioned he did okay yeah so this i didn't want to bring this up but no i know you didn't you know
Starting point is 00:45:15 how i know you didn't want to bring this up because you didn't i had a runny nose and so I went to Walgreens to deal with it and while I was there I realized I wanted to get something for the Taz show that we're doing tomorrow in San Diego at a local game store so I called an Uber to go to the game store that's enter into the Walgreens
Starting point is 00:45:35 at the same time Clint McElroy and he did come with me to the game store and it was a precious father-son memory but I didn't want to like make a big fucking deal out of it or anything but jury fair. It's just so weird because like earlier in the podcast I was talking about this thing
Starting point is 00:45:54 like dad and I didn't do this thing together and what's weird is like that would have been a cool time for you to bring it up as jokes but that's how I know that it actually you think that I'm actually going to be upset about it because you didn't tell me in podcast you know what I'm saying? You just have to understand dad and Griffin
Starting point is 00:46:11 just get along better than you and dad do. I like to think of me and dad spent all that time when I was a kid together which is why I'm well adjusted an awesome now. Awesome. Yeah, for sure. He was busy teaching me baseball and stuff. I think of me and dad as just kind of like buddies, you know?
Starting point is 00:46:29 And sometimes buddies run into each other at the store because one of them has a running nose and one of them forgot how their phone charger works and needs a new one and they're getting it at Walgreens for some reason. And they go to the game store together to fucking kick it. Like that's what buddies do. Is that
Starting point is 00:46:45 sometimes you get a phone charger that has a micro USB charging cable but you don't have one of those and indeed you don't even know what they're called. Yeah, yeah. A lot of hostility towards dad. That's my friend, dude. He's just such a father figure to me.
Starting point is 00:47:03 That's how I think about our dad is a real father figure to me. He's kind of a father figure. Like the father I never had, you know? Griff, just tell me this. Did you at least have a nice time? Yeah, it was great. Lala la la la la la la la la I want a much squad I want too much squad
Starting point is 00:47:29 Welcome to Munch Squad You probably thought Now you guys are probably too young for this But I'm going to do a quick pop-up video here Which is like Just was so excited at the idea of interrupting Griffin talking about his time with dad That he did the wrong musical intro
Starting point is 00:47:47 For the wrong bit Okay you guys probably thought that I did the wrong musical intro for the wrong bit. But no, I just tricked you. Just like the cast of Now You See Me, Now You Don't, is going to be tricking audiences this November. And to celebrate the fun, the coffee bean and tea leaf is conjuring movie magic with Linesgate, Now You See Me, Now You Don't.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Collaboration. It's the Now You See Me, Heist Tea. I don't usually say. Oh, wait, no, shut up. Heist. Heist. Sorry, so what I'm going to tell you is, Heist Tea. Heist tea.
Starting point is 00:48:20 fucking brilliant Heistee is I mean let's be honest Good And it and it You know what I like about Heist tea It demands something
Starting point is 00:48:32 Of the reader Yes sir It ties Annunciation Annunciation And I also just say Did you type out The image we showed before this
Starting point is 00:48:40 Or is that from the clip Because you put a colon in it Yeah And I don't think there's a colon And now you see me Colon Now you don't I don't think
Starting point is 00:48:49 That puncture This paragraph of a press release headline is so boring to see. It's so many words. I ain't reading all that. Okay. Let me sum it up for you. Something magical is brewing at the coffee bean and tea leaf. Anticipation of November 14th release of Lionsgate.
Starting point is 00:49:09 Now you see me. Now you don't. Glad to hear somebody is excited. The Global Speciality Coffee and Tea House is joining forces with the exciting film franchise for a captivating collaboration that blends cinematic wonder with flavorful indulgence. Cinematic what? You know when you're drinking a really good drink
Starting point is 00:49:26 and you think this is just like seeing a movie? How can I capture the spirit of this movie with this iced tea, heist tea? Thank you. This exclusive partnership features limited time iced teas that partner bold, Swedish berry tea. I just fucking got it.
Starting point is 00:49:44 Not a joke. I couldn't figure out what was good about heistee. I was like, is it just that The T's kind of run into. It's on the screen in front of you. Yeah, no, even that wasn't enough. How deep is the Sudafed in your bloodstream? The Sudafed is like interspacing right now connected into siphoning off your gray matter.
Starting point is 00:50:06 Travis, I don't use that P.E. bullshit. I'm not a child. I use grown-up Sudafed. That gets you fucked up, fam. I like that they specify that it's an exclusive partnership. And then now you see me, now you don't, isn't putting heist teas in every restaurant throughout the nation, which would be a pretty good heist or be a good trick. Now you see me now you don't sounds like the wrong name for the first movie when someone's trying to remember what the name of the first movie is called. This exclusive partnership features limited time iced teas that partner bold, Swedish berry tea with a twist of lemonade, juicy fruit flavors, and the magician's touch of glittering mask.
Starting point is 00:50:49 Complete with a sweepstakes that invites fans to immerse themselves at a world of mystery. Tell your family, they're doing a sweepstakes. Wait, is there fucking glitter in the drink because the prestige then is my bowel movements later. Yeah. And now you, well, I don't know, Trave, can I first tell you about the film? Now, this is a press release for a drink. And now you see me now you don't. The four horsemen are, I'm not going to read the cast names.
Starting point is 00:51:17 I'm going to skip them, but there's a lot. And now you see me, now you don't. The four horsemen are back to unite with a new generation of illusionists. For their most global, high-stakes, magical adventure yet, wouldn't it be wild if it was like, their second most magical adventure yet, their mission, expose the corruption? Is Lizzie Kaplan back in this man? Because I don't think she is. She's not.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Their mission. Fuck off. Expose the corruption. They're not all back. So somebody saw the other ones. It's Travis McElroy. What an unsurprising outcome. Do you mean that?
Starting point is 00:51:49 A movie's titled, For Travis, Now You See Me, Magic Thieves, the Travis McElroy movie. This is a movie that only Travis dreams of. In this movie, their mission is to expose the corruption of Veronica Vanderberg, a powerful diamond heiress with ties to arms dealers, traffickers, and warlords. Like, yeah, fucking obviously, now you see me, now you don't. What else are magicians supposed to do? Aided by the legendary Thaddeus, the two generations of magicians must overcome their differences. And I know what you all are thinking. Thaddeus, wasn't he a villain in the first suit?
Starting point is 00:52:22 He is. Twist. He's good. I know it's the prestige, but not that one. Travis, I'm actually going to forbid you from being actually excited for this movie on stage with me right now. At the coffee. Mark Ruffalo's in it.
Starting point is 00:52:34 The Ruffalo Buffalo's bad. At the coffee, bean, and tea leave, we've been part of the vibrant story of Los Angeles since 1963. Fucking yeah, dude. From the start, we built our legacy on handcrafted drinks at the surprise and delight, said Tara Hinkle, the president and head of Americas at the coffee bean and tea leaf. Our partnership with Now You See Me Now You Don't bring that same sense of wonder to life, blending our L.A. heritage with a touch of movie magic.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Again, I have very severe food allergies. I do need to know what this glittering movie magic is. The caffeine-free beverages. No, the allergies are super duper, duper bad. But look over here, Griffin. You're already drinking it. I need a website with all the ingredients. A mesmerizing.
Starting point is 00:53:22 First off, there's the mango magic heist tea, which is a mesmer. Stop sprinkling on me. It's a mesmerizing mix of mind-melding mango, lemonade, Swedish berry tea, and magical glitter. Hold on. Edible glitter? No, trav. Deadly poisonous glitter.
Starting point is 00:53:44 Now you see me, now you're dead. There's also the stretch. strawberry shimmer ice tea, a dazzling blend of surprising strawberry. Fucking pretty surprising. You put it the first word in the title of the thing. Lemonade, Swedishberry tea, and magical glitter. You know, fans of the Now You See Me franchise, know the magic can be around any corner, said Angie Sharma.
Starting point is 00:54:06 Travis, is that? And brand strategy for Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. You ride hard with this franchise. Is that true? Are you looking for magic around every corner? Yes, but that's where it's not going to be. It must have been a lonely, literally 10 fucking years since the last one of these guys came out, huh?
Starting point is 00:54:23 No, you're a long time to wait for the magic of now you see me. You can rewatch them as many times as you want. There's no law against it, yeah. Fans are now, and you notice new things each time, Justin. It gets deeper and deeper. And then you watch the makings of, and you talk to our friend, Jani Amato, who worked as a magic consultant on the first one, and you find out things about the films, Justin.
Starting point is 00:54:43 And it only deepens, it deepens like enjoying wine, Justin. It ages. It ages, barrel ages, Justin. With now you see me now, you don't about to take the horsemen on their greatest heist yet. It's exciting to be sharing the magic with the coffee bean and tea leaf customers. Why'd you pick this voice? It's just what came out. I don't choose.
Starting point is 00:55:03 And yeah, there's like nine horsemen now, Justin. There's tea leaf customers with their delicious drinks and watch them disappear. And they're also doing a magical sweepstakes, which I don't even think about. So what do you win? Well, they did a contest where if you texted a number when the trailer drop, you could win $119.19. That's cool, man. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:55:24 That's awesome. That's just how much they had. They finished making it. They had $19,000 left. How much are you charging us to design this heist tea? Whoa, $15 million? Shit. All we got left is, oh, man, $119.19.
Starting point is 00:55:43 That's a weird prize. But Dave Franco will deliver it. Is that anything? He won't. Man, I feel so bad, guys. I told Paul to download the trailer for it. Yeah? I told Paul to download the trailer for now.
Starting point is 00:55:57 You see me now. No, no, no, don't. Please don't. Because I know, no, it won't be good now because, all right, he's already started playing it. Now I know Travis will enjoy it and I don't like it anymore. No audio. No audio, it's better.
Starting point is 00:56:09 I was just going to let it. Okay. I don't want to talk about it. Okay, but it's not that. This is not sad. It's not this. This is not magic. This is a new magician.
Starting point is 00:56:18 Yes, I'm not going to talk about it anymore. No, there's not even sad. You're laughing. What I was going to say is I feel guilty for having Paul download it and then never using it. And that's what I was going to say, Travis. Do you guys remember that Jesse Eisenberg was on our show once? You guys remember that? That's a true fact.
Starting point is 00:56:36 I remember sometimes. And now he's in this movie. Paul, thank you. Thank you, everybody. That's your Munch Squad for today. Thank you. Nothing about the edible glitter, huh? What do you want to do?
Starting point is 00:56:48 a no nutritional facts. What's the difference between what makes it edible? What makes other glitter not edible? The force and the will to swallow it. My daughters have been making every drink I drank glittable since like 2015. Man, it's not a novel to me. Everything has glittered anymore. You had the cadence of starting another question which sent me into a panic spiral because it's not time for that. It's time for a live audience questions. Thank you for sending in all of your questions. We're going to call some folks down to. A lot of good ones, y'all. A lot of really good ones. We're going to call folks down to the microphone. Can we get the lights on for the... And up first, it's Jesse Eisenberg. We're going to call you down to the microphone by your name and seat number. Please don't approach the microphone if we don't call you. Jesse came on to promote the independent karate movie that he had directed himself. The art of self. I don't think Jesse will be on my brother, my brother, me to promote. Now you see me now you don't. I'm not sure we're going to marry that. I wish. Welcome any time. Hello. Whoever wants to talk first, hi. Please.
Starting point is 00:57:50 A lot of great sweaters. Thank you. Hello. You're welcome. No kidding. You never see two great sweaters kind of back to back like that. No offense to you.
Starting point is 00:58:01 You're doing great. It's cool, too. I'm sorry that they didn't call you before the show started to tell. They say like, hey, we're doing the sweater thing. Do you want to do the sweater thing with us? So sorry, hello. Hello.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Hi. So my question is. Oh, sorry, what's your name? Oh, sorry. My name's Natalie. Hi, Natalie. My pronouns are she, her. Hello.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Hello. So my question is, how do I get my boyfriend's mother to stop sending us live lobsters? Yeah. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's good stuff. Sometimes it's just nice to know, like, what the first question's going to be of the audience question segment. It seems like a breach of etiquette to send your, well, not in-laws, right? because you're just dating.
Starting point is 00:58:46 It's your boyfriend's life. I mean, once you get more than one live lobster from them, you're in lobsters. I know I mentioned that's pretty good. That's a pretty good trap. I want to make space for that. Don't encourage that. I want to make space for that.
Starting point is 00:59:00 I was going to say it's fucked up to give to anybody something alive, but I also said famously, people didn't like it earlier in the show when I said, you should trade your dogs. Can I ask for some context? Yeah, so my boyfriends from Maine, and so his family has historically liked to give him lobster for his birthday. Awesome. And this year, they were like, oh, we can't visit, so we're going, we're going to send you something in the mail.
Starting point is 00:59:29 But what they neglected to tell us is what it was. So we weren't home when they were originally going to send it. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no. Oh, no, no. No, no, no. So they changed. Not until you killed it.
Starting point is 00:59:43 They didn't tell us what they're going to send it. they changed the date and so we go to pick it up and we're like oh no did they send lobsters and they did and unfortunately my boyfriend picked it up with my friend who's a vegan and we were staying at her house and so we had to kill the lobsters and cook them at her house oh hold on wait that sentence kicked ass you said it real fast so that we wouldn't look at it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the word no you can't speak one by the fucking macaroy boys we're gonna clock it every time is it the word what you just said was fucking out of pockets hey griff was it the word had to Is that where it is the hat to?
Starting point is 01:00:18 They're alive. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did the lobsters know too much? Was there a secret being kept? The entire point of the vegan position is that you don't have to kill anything. Yeah, I don't think vegans are like, yeah, we don't believe in killing and consuming meat.
Starting point is 01:00:37 Well, you have to. Make it quick. At least make it quick. Well, there's authentic main lobsters? Well, you've got to... It's already here. It's already here. What kind of life? I ate a lobster roll this afternoon, at which point, Tom, our video editor is here,
Starting point is 01:00:50 has pointed out that this is probably the farthest I could geographically be from lobsters. Do you, I feel like I know the answer to this, enjoy to eat the lobster? I mean, I did cry a little bit, not to the loiter. While eating it? When we opened it, because I was like, they were moving. The great burden. Yeah, sure. My boyfriend ate most of the lobster, not going to lie.
Starting point is 01:01:17 So we're very grateful that they sent it, but we're worried that they're going to do it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, then I hear exactly what the problem is. The next time, you're going to take the rubber bands off the lobster's clause. You're going to put rubber bands around your boyfriend's fingers. Now it's a fair fight. Now it could go either way.
Starting point is 01:01:37 Now he's not murdering the lobsters. He's defending himself. That's cool. and then he's just consuming his fallen combat. That's the Warriors, right. You conquer in battle, you eat the foe, that's the Warriors, right, guys. How else is his kite, how else is your boyfriend's kite going to get any stronger? That's true.
Starting point is 01:01:59 I think you need to draft an email. I think you need to say, dear Valerie, lobster culture in this country is fucking crazy. It's so wild. Dear Valerie, it's so wild that we had this one animal that when you, we name a restaurant after it, and then when you come in, you can pick one to eat, but you don't really get to eat that one. It's just a big jar of them you have to look at before they get eaten. It's wild that we send live ones around just this one food.
Starting point is 01:02:29 We're like, it'd be better if we send them around live. Lobster culture is crazy. And that's kind of like, that'll get them thinking, you know? Like, that'll get the thought starter. And then don't say anything after that. And then a few weeks later about it, come think of it. I think I'm out of the lobster or unless
Starting point is 01:02:45 when you said that they had to get them to stop sending I knew you meant in the mail but then I thought what else could that mean? And I pictured your in-laws taking the lobster to the airport they did they've done that multiple times. Let him finish
Starting point is 01:03:04 his little fantasy. It's going to be cute. It's not in a box but in a little suit jacket and vest. Oh, yeah. With a little note that says where he's going. And there's a flight attendant that escorts him onto his seat. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:18 And then he gets off and they bring him to the exit. He got a little lanyar. It says unaccompanied, like, crustacean on it. Yeah. And then you and your boyfriend, pick him up and kill him right there in the airport. Because you fucking have to, right? You have to.
Starting point is 01:03:29 You got to kill him, right? Gotta kill him. Well, the worst part is, is that they say if you don't want to eat it immediately, to put a damp towel over it and stick it in the vegetable drawer in the fridge. No, they like it. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:03:44 To them, that's good. That's like a sauna. And here's the thing you have to understand. Lobsters are technically immortal. They don't die of old age. Yeah. So if we don't kill them, they'd be fucking everywhere. Yeah, Doc.
Starting point is 01:03:57 We're protecting ourselves, really. Does that help? I think so. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Natalie. Thank you, Natalie. Hello.
Starting point is 01:04:07 Hi, I'm Jenny. My pronouns are she hurt. Hi, Jenny. My question is, I work at an archive, and we have some cool stuff. How do I get people to stop asking very heist-sounding questions when I tell them this? Really important. Heist-y-sounding questions? I mean, in a way, yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:27 Okay. Do you feel like that's a word heisty? Because I got tripped up earlier in this very podcast. My husband was looking at me like on an idiot. I realized it at the same time as you. What's up, Jenny? Jenny, I want to say when I read this question
Starting point is 01:04:42 I was like, okay, and then I got to some of the example questions. Can you give us some examples that you get, that you feel sometimes? There's a lot of like, oh, has someone tried to steal stuff before? Where did they fail? Compare and contrast, other failed attempts. Don't mind me
Starting point is 01:05:00 while I stroke my very real mustache. What kind of security do you guys have? What do you do to the people if you catch them. And make sure you... What do you do if you catch them is the best one of them? That would be my first. And when you answer,
Starting point is 01:05:16 please speak into this flower I have on my lapel. Yeah. Jesus Christ. My jumbo boutanier. What, hey, what do you do when you catch them and where have they failed before? I mean, last time
Starting point is 01:05:31 someone attempted to run out of the room... Don't answer it, Jenny. That was a trap. Please don't yell. Please don't yell. You actually gave me a jump scare by yelling right next to me. Sorry. I'm not even in front of the speakers. I'm really sorry.
Starting point is 01:05:43 Please sorry. I mean, it was a failed attempt, so they mainly got yelled at. Okay, Cass. Jenny, did you bust them? No, I was like, what's going on? I can't help with that. Cool. Jenny, I love the revulsion you answered with when Griffin asked if you stopped people from stealing.
Starting point is 01:06:02 And you went, what? No. How would I even do that? I don't even I feel like if we would stop putting art in museums people would stop trying to steal it Yeah dude Like the only thing that makes it stealable
Starting point is 01:06:20 Is that the museum doesn't want you to You know what I'm saying? If they were just like, fine, take them if you want Take them if you want I have no interest in art Until someone tells me I can't have it Yeah then you want to heist it That's the only reason the whole reason people
Starting point is 01:06:34 Heist it is because they make it hard to do it If they made it easy and just said take all the art you want if you want it, I don't think anybody would ever steal it because it would feel rude. Unless. Unless. Ginny, you like your job, right? It's cool. It sounds like a cool job.
Starting point is 01:06:51 Now we're talking. Yeah, you're nodding your head, yes. If you could actually verbally say yes, so we have you recorded on audio saying that you like your job because it's actually important for the rest of my whole thing. Now, yes. You and all your friends like doing close up magic, right? No, no, no. And then, Jenny, we'll cut this part out of the podcast.
Starting point is 01:07:10 So the only witnesses will be the 14,000 people assembled here. And if we have to kill them, we'll talk to Natalie about it. And Rachel, don't delete this. Permanently save it. Send it to the FBI. You could get it. Federal body inspector. It's not federal in that.
Starting point is 01:07:32 You know that, right? When someone's claiming to be a body inspector in that way, they're not saying, and I work for the government. Yeah. And I, and don't get it wrong. I'm not a state, I'm not a state body inspector. No, no, no, no. No, no.
Starting point is 01:07:45 For that, Drap? Female. Female body inspector. I'm trying to be gender inclusive. Then you say, fun, body inspector. Yeah. Fatherly body inspector. No.
Starting point is 01:07:59 Festive? Freelance. Freelance. Jenny. Fungible. Because a professional body inspector There's a doctor. I'm a freelance body inspector.
Starting point is 01:08:11 I'm a festooned body inspector. Check out my tinsel. I'm a fast body inspector. Don't worry. We're going to get you in and out of here in moments. Let's keep this game of Ministers Cat going, Justin. Jenny, I apologize for my brothers. This behavior is, you all don't deserve this.
Starting point is 01:08:28 You all made plans to come here at CS Live tonight. You did not agree to watch us play. You paid for parking. Play Ministers Cat on stage. You deserve better. Jenny, you deserve good advice. Get in on the fucking action, is what I'm saying. Answer their questions.
Starting point is 01:08:42 Get a little bit of fucking, like, 20% off the time. I've known you for two minutes. You are the last God-dammed person I was suspect in a million fucking years. You could be an absolute guillian there, just like no one would buy it. And we have you on the mic saying shit, like, I would never help with a robber, with a stealing. Of course not. That's evidence. That's evidence.
Starting point is 01:09:04 And they can put that. But this part's not in the show. but that part's definitely That's evidence from court Does that help? Does that help? Oh yeah, I got some plans now. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:09:13 No, Jim. No, Jim. Damn it. You miss heard us. Thanks, Jim. Hey there. I'm my friend. Hello, brothers.
Starting point is 01:09:24 I like your shirt for what it's worth. Thank you very much. I'm sorry it's not a sweater. Yeah, it's okay. I wish it was a sweater. They can't all be. So what's your question?
Starting point is 01:09:33 My name is Seth. He, him. I actually sent in two. questions. You had one about your grandma. Yes, I thought that might be the question that got into. You knew it sent it in. You're like, this is a fucking banger. The boys are going to love this shit. So I live in a multi-generational
Starting point is 01:09:46 household. It's my in-law's house. And so it's my wife, her mom, and her grandma. So multiple generations there. This grandma is pushing 90 years old. Okay. She watches gun smoke all day.
Starting point is 01:10:01 Oh, yeah. Yeah. And at my TV. I'm glad somebody's watching my TV. Keep her Yeah, exactly. That's what it is. And she has no idea how to interact with children. So when my nephew comes around, or we actually just brought home a two-month-old foster boy, congratulations. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 01:10:18 Yeah, it's fantastic. She scares the living daylights at us to the children. Old people were scary. They don't like to talk about it. But they've earned that a little bit. That's what I'm saying. When you're pushing 90, and you've made it to the
Starting point is 01:10:34 great-grandparents stage, You don't have to fucking impress anybody. Yeah, yeah. Let alone a kid who's young enough to not remember these interactions anyways. It is incumbent on the children to kind of stiff up or lip it. You ever seen gun smoke kids?
Starting point is 01:10:50 Because it's pretty lit, actually. So you're looking for... The exact wording of your questions. Yeah, it's very good. The exact wording. May I read it, Seth? Yes, please. How do I market my grandma
Starting point is 01:11:01 to be less scary to the great grandkids? That's awesome. So we're the first. focus group at this marketing firm of great-grandma's ink. Yeah. And we're going to rebrand, what's her name? You don't have to say your great-grandma's name. No, but like, give me, what's her grandma name?
Starting point is 01:11:17 I mean? Just grandma. Okay, we're going to start there. That's the start there. That can be boosted up. What about Peebo? That works cool. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:26 That's fun to say. Kids will love saying that. Yeah, like Peebo-Bryston. People? Especially if you're like Great Peebo. Yeah. The great Peebo. The great Peebo.
Starting point is 01:11:34 Here comes the Great Peebo. Oh, fuck, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Great Peebo is a great start, actually. I thought it was a joke, but it's turned out to be very good. The Great Peebo. And maybe put some posters up of like, get ready. She's coming. The Great Peebo.
Starting point is 01:11:49 Oh, that's cool, yeah. And maybe list some showtimes of when they can see the Great Peebo. Just make them take iPad breaks every once in a while to watch the trailer you've made for the Great Peebo. Have you guys enjoyed how on TXAC we've recently discovered that, like, our Octa and Nonagenarians have a lot. little bit left a little bit left a little bit of content left on them just a little bit of content left we can ship away before they joined the choir invisible just like a little bit of
Starting point is 01:12:18 content left in there and again you know just a little bit of content we could get out of there and they just play man just make a play fallout four one time and then they could die just get a little bit more content out people often wonder how being 15 years of internet content creators has changed the way that we look at the world? Yeah. That's it. That's it. You just heard Justin say. I made my grandma dress up like Frankenstein
Starting point is 01:12:45 and talked to me about her life growing up. Like, just a little bit more content. Only 20 likes, Grandma. We got to do more. Grandma, could you do somewhere if someone stands in a square for five hours, you buy them a TV? Learn the dancer rocks a lot.
Starting point is 01:13:02 If Mr. Beast would take a step back and just like lower the stakes, little bit more. And now I'm Mr. B. Senior. Yeah. Does your great grandma do anything that, like, kids would be like? Our grandma loved playing bingo, and that was cool. Bingo's an all right game. She would often give me books of matches.
Starting point is 01:13:24 Yeah. It's cool. Fuck yeah. She's got a ton of jewelry that she loves to give away to people. Kids love that shit, dude. That's good. Yeah, babies love jewelry. They do, actually.
Starting point is 01:13:32 They do. Could they earn it? from her by acting like they like her. And eventually, the affection becomes real. That's true. That's how it happened in Tuesdays with Mori, I think. Fuck, I knew you were going to say that. I've never, I've got to read that fucking book
Starting point is 01:13:52 as much as I reference it. Every time they hang out, Maury gives them a new ring. Yeah. And he's like, I'm starting to like you, distinguished older gentlemen. What's your name again? What's your name?
Starting point is 01:14:04 What day is it? Oh, man. If I'd known that, we would have hung out on Mondays. Does that... Does she even have an Apple Watch? She does not. But Christmas is just... What are you doing?
Starting point is 01:14:15 Could you get her some Google glasses or something? How could they relate to somebody without Google glasses? Does that help? Does she play Roblox? Does she play Roblox? Does she play Roblox? She will soon. Yes, you know.
Starting point is 01:14:26 Thank you. Thank you, Seth. Now we're talking. Thank you. Have we fixed your life? Thank you. Because it should have been Monday. Good morning.
Starting point is 01:14:36 Yeah, no, it would be a better name for him to remember on his count. We all are on the same page on this. Hello. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi, Missy. Hi, Missy.
Starting point is 01:14:44 Nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you, too. I'm really looking forward to this. People never say that. We never get to hang out anymore. You know, but as you get older, who has the time? Mitzi, I know your question, but would you... Yes, so through the normal course of doing her job, my sister has acquired an exceptional
Starting point is 01:15:04 horse kidney stone. not our horse not your horse yeah okay is her job stealing horse kidney stones now you see it now you don't now you pee it
Starting point is 01:15:18 not this not this if the owner doesn't come back for it we get to keep it and I'm looking for advice on the if the owner there's like yeah dude every part of that if the owner doesn't come back where
Starting point is 01:15:35 A horse kidney removal. Okay, you don't want to say it. You can say veterinarian. Say horse, no, I think you should say horse kidney removal place. That makes me happier. One of them makes me happy to be alive and it's that one. So keep saying. They didn't take the horse to a fucking jiffy lube.
Starting point is 01:15:53 And it's going to a horse kidney removal place. No, it's a roller coaster where everyone passes kidney stones. It's an old alley. Jesus, I wish. So imagine. What is your, so you get to keep it if they don't come back. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:06 So that's the problem. I would love some advice on how to preserve and best display this treasure. Now preserve, you know we have no fucking idea. You know that. That's a science. Paul, can we show the vision?
Starting point is 01:16:17 No, no, Paul, don't show it yet. It's a little, it's like 10% yucky. Can we actually no? Can we take a vote? No, I think we should show it. Can I show a hand? Like if you want to. You're going to vote with your eyes.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Close your eyes if you don't want to see it. I am curious. If you would like to see the kidney show, raise your hand. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty. Just like for like five seconds, we'll just like throw it up, so.
Starting point is 01:16:38 It's not gross. As a former kidney stone sufferer, it's pretty fucking, it's not gross because it's like exactly it's like beautiful, like just do show it. Well, we're gonna show it, okay. That's not gross. And now, and now take it away?
Starting point is 01:16:54 No wait, no way, I need it back on. No, I really, I don't want to see it. Because I have to ask you a question. See, they don't like it. They pay to be here. There is, you gave nothing of scale. here in this picture. Yeah, that actually is actually a good question.
Starting point is 01:17:09 How, like... Size of a plum. Fuck off. How big was this horse? Like, horse size? Horse size. God damn, that's funny. Shit, that's a good way to make fun and Griffin.
Starting point is 01:17:25 Size of it. I wish I had said that. Yeah, that was good. I was going to say on a ring, but even then. Do you know what sucks? I had a kidney stone in college that was so bad that it put me in the hospital like three times. They had to surgically remove it. And when I came out of anesthesia, this next part's true.
Starting point is 01:17:48 I did ask my girlfriend at the time to move in with me. Not in the best headspace to do that. But also, they just got rid of the stone. I was so pissed off. Are you kidding me? I'm not probably going to make another one of those. So I get, like, this is a special relic. And it was arrowhead shaped.
Starting point is 01:18:08 It was cool. He could have turned it into a tiny arrow to kill a mouse with. Yeah, sure. Because I'm really super, super messed up. I think, now that I think about it, resin would be a good option. If you just got some clear resin. A nice paperweight. That would be nice.
Starting point is 01:18:24 You know, John Hammonded it right onto a walking stick. That's sick, actually. That would be sick. Or, even bigger, center of a bowling ball, like a mystery man. Yeah. I like walking sick because then you're kind of making this enormous foul horse kidney stone at eye level to everybody pretty much all the time. And people are going to come up to you and they're going to say,
Starting point is 01:18:49 wow, that's one fucked up looking pine cone. And you say, friend, do I have a story for you? You have no idea. It's important to have a prop when you later have to explain to another scientist that maybe it was a mistake to build your theme park full of giant extinct horses and you can spin it in front of you as you like look into it and talk about
Starting point is 01:19:10 all I wanted to do was bring back giant extinct horses based on this kidney stuff and they're like we should have known better and you're like well obviously oh man that thing was really really gnarly looking. Let's see one more. Yeah yeah God do
Starting point is 01:19:30 haven't stone fruits been Through enough. Forgive me, I have stolen the kidney stones from the horse kidney. They were so yucky and so sharp. But that was a real thinker, and I loved it. I loved it. Hey, does that help? Definitely.
Starting point is 01:19:48 Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Hey, that's going to do it for us. Can we bring the lights back down? You all have been so great. You actually have made this the best 24 hours. Wow. And you heard all the really bad stuff you went through.
Starting point is 01:20:09 He had to eat breakfast. Yeah. Well, no. Thank you to. Now, I will say, the me getting extremely sick on the plane is now 28 hours ago, so it's no longer in the 24 hours. So the clock has kind of moved. But it's still a lot of cheering, and I do appreciate that very much. Thank you so much for coming.
Starting point is 01:20:26 Thank you to Kingsbury Hall for having us. This is a beautiful venue. Yeah, it's a beautiful place. Don't you love the paintings? I love that if you don't like this show, you can just look at a painting. Yeah, it's like a big-ass painting for a while. Second screen entertainment.
Starting point is 01:20:39 That's cool, yeah. Hey, did you all enjoy that video we should during intermission? That was made by Tom, who does all of our video stuff for us, and he's here tonight, so let's give it up for Tom. Big time. Thanks, Tom. Woo! That's enough.
Starting point is 01:20:56 It's still mainly us doing the jokes, so just a little bit of cheering for Tom. Thank you so much to Paul. and thank you to, yes, and thank you to Amanda and Rachel and our dad, our dad, Clint McElroy. So glad he and Griffin got some time together today. I love that for them. Thank you to Scott Hope who designed this rad poster. I think there's still some more out there.
Starting point is 01:21:20 I do believe we are out of the Paul Sabor Memorial Can Food Drive coins, but if you want to make a donation to the Utah Food Bank out there. To you in the second row waving the checkered flags, it's amazing how good that makes me feel. Yeah. I genuinely feel. It does kind of feel like we're pulling into the finish line of the show. We can't finish without...
Starting point is 01:21:42 This has taken everything from us. You have no idea. We're barely a standing. I blew out three tires finishing this show. We can't finish until we thank Montaigne for these four theme song. My Life is Better With You. Griffin. And I apologize for how yucky that sounded.
Starting point is 01:22:00 Oh, Travis has got it. I was going to say you're the only sucker with the screen now, but Travis got his. I've got it right now. Yes, you're going to leave us off here. Thank you so much, Salt Lake City for coming. Thank you, Sir. I know you're supposed to say that at the end of the show, but thank you so much. It's been, you all been amazing.
Starting point is 01:22:15 Genuinely, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I, a 35-year-old with a full nine-month-old child, will be faster than my fear of when the animatronics at Spirit Halloween, try to get me unprovoked. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been my brother, my brother
Starting point is 01:22:38 of me. Kiss your dad square on the lips. It's better with you. It's better. It's better with you. It's better with you. It's better with you. It's better with you. Oh, it's better. It's better with you.
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