My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 793: Fruit of the Loam

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

Glasses off! We're getting really serious about mystery underwear, the latest in celebrity feuds that we absolutely have a stake in, and being super duper weird about jellybeans.Suggested talking points: Underwear Salvage Secrets, Pent-Up Product Love, Three Folksy Guys, Walton Goggins Grinch Goggle GlassesHarmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com/

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool, baby? It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has blossomed. It's rapping. 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 live Life It's better It's better with you

My life Ah It's better It's better with you This is true Oh, it's better. It's better with two. My way.

Ah, ah, ah, it's better with you. Hello, everybody. Welcome to my brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McRoy. No glasses for me. No glasses for me either. What's up, Trave Nation? I'm your middleist, brother, Travis, Big Dog, Wolf Wolf, Frenf McRoy.

What's up? Trav Nation, it's me, your sweet baby brother, 30, under 30, media, Illuminary, Griffin McRoy. Oh, wait, did I say Griffin McRoy? Because I am Paul Dano. Huh. Oh, man, go on. I am Paul Dano.

I am thrilled that you decided to talk about this. We're recording this one like two weeks in advance, so I don't know which way this Paul Dano thing's going to break, but the episode that just came out with Quentin Tarantino where he was talking shit about Paul Dano, I said no one else in this whole fucking industry is going to stand up for this guy. So I'm going to draw a line in the sand right in here. and say, I don't care if it cost me a role in one of Quentin Tarantino's future products.

I quit. I quit. I quit. I was cast in a Quentin Tarantino movie, and I said I quit in Taryn, quit, I quit. Jesus Christ, Travis. In Quentin Tarantino, you decided to put quit. Quitted?

Well, I started it, Griffin. And I knew there was a cue in there somewhere, and I couldn't remember where, because I was already halfway through saying his name. Right at the top of my name. Right. Hey, he also talks shit about Matthew Lillard. And I was like, yeah, that guy doesn't have any fans.

He went after Matt Lillard. He went after Owen Wilson. I think, obviously, we won't stand for that either. All our guys. I've just, all our guys, all our best guys. And I've chosen to rep Paul Dano. You can't talk shit about Paul Dano unless it's in kind of a funny way. Like, when we talked about how he said, when he played the Riddler, it made his head get super hot.

Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. And he would appreciate it. He would appreciate that. he would appreciate how crazy it was he who was riddler like yeah you would think that's super funny if you're still with us today and i do and but to say that he's the he's the quote weak sister what first of all could what you've chosen even a rough way to insult like to come up with a bad

insult but to say that he can't hang and there will be blood or he acts the roof off that motherfucker are you and yeah sometimes i got a stopping thing about which one's baldano which one's teller, and I don't know why that is, but in my head, I have to, I know, listen, I know, but, do you know how, I'm 45 now? Do you know how hard Paul Dano had to fight to get into my head? He was like the last celebrity, he was like the last famous person I learned, and I had to hear that motherfucker's name a hundred and fifty times before it was like, okay, it's not there, okay, I'll learn who you are. Fine, fine, I will learn, I will accept that Paul Dano is a real name and not someone making fun of Bowser from Seanana.

Like, fine, Paul Danno, you're a real guy. You're a real guy. And Quinn, you know, known for his wonderful acting, his super superb acting. Braille, the fuck does he get off? Yeah, man. Yeah, man. I'm glad my boy, D.D.L. came down from the rafters where he had retired himself from being sort of a figure in

the public consciousness and was like, actually, fuck you, Quinton. Paul Deno rules. Did he? Back up it. Yeah, he came down from the clouds. And he was like, actually, we're not actually recording this two weeks in advance. Everyone has become united by this one issue.

And I guess this. And also, I loved Matthew Lillard in the Scooby-Doo movies and the Scream franchise. Huff my Fards, Quentin. And he just seems like kind of a cool hang. Owen Wilson, I don't know personally, but he's been in some bangers too. Daniel Day out! A lot of times celebrities have beef when they can come together and be like,

listen, we love each other like professionally. This got out of hand. For this to be okay, Quentin Tarantina, I don't think he can come back and be like, I was wrong. Paul Dano rules. Like, I don't think you know what I mean. I hadn't seen.

The only way it goes away. Yeah. The only way it gets red for him, he's like, yeah, actually, Paul Dano kicks ass. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I guess I was speaking from a place of jelly. see? I wanted to be the Riddler and I wanted to be

in the Beach Boys movie and I wasn't and I was so mad I'm sorry. I can't even imagine that man skunk making the pose of like his hands together like actually actually I thought about it and I like

Paul Dano I was wrong I was wrong everyone about it just sort of an artistic opinion I was wrong and then I went and watched the whole car's franchise and Owen Wilson delivers just a absolute, just baller performance. Yeah. And I hadn't seen any of Matthew Lillard movies.

I would be in him with him if he once, like... Why did Matt Lillard catch a stray? Shaggy's evil quid. Matt Lillard is such a good guy. Conversation. Yeah, conversation went like this. Best movie of all time? That's their will be blood.

Too bad about Paul Dano, though. He sucks. You know who else sucks? Owen Wilson and Matt Lillard. Anyway, next question. Like, what the fuck are you doing, dude? It is catching strays. But like, honestly...

In terms of the Paul Dano brand, it probably hasn't been a terrible week, right? Incredible week, are you kidding me? In terms of the Dano brand, maybe, maybe Matthew Lillard can find a way to piggyback off of this. We hope, you know, we hope that he hasn't brought down by this random drive fight. Yeah. Do you think that he was just running through names, watching the face of the interviewer were for them, like, oh, yeah. And like, the next on his list was Jared Leto, and he just didn't get to it in time. Oh, man, he almost had it.

Oh, maybe he, oh, God, this is how he gets out of it. He comes out and he says, actually, guys, I was thinking of Jared Leto. I said, the confusion angle, I wonder if he has at some point checked the MDB to see if there is a Dan Paulo. Yeah. He could act like he was maybe switching him within his head, like, oh, I love Paul Dano. Yeah. He's cool. I was thinking of Paulo, Dan.

Paulo Dan. That guy sucks. That guy That guy sucks Not Paul Dano How are we feeling about Luke Wilson Can I Is everybody on board with Luke Wilson?

I bet this is really really driven With Warmson? Is that anything? I think this is probably really driven A wedge between Luke and O and I worry Because Luke can't come out Because he could get cast

In the hateful nine Or whatever the next one is The sequel. The squeak wall I just think it's crazy That Quentin Tarantee with all the movies that he made didn't realize that Paul Dano was supposed to be wimpy in the movie. Yeah.

It's so wild. He gets beat up by, like, a real skinny, tall guy. Like, he's got to be kind of a baby man. And that's kind of the point of the whole movie. It's so wild that he didn't understand he's supposed to be a baby guy, kind of in that one. But in a different one, in the Batman one, he's more mysterious. And he kills guys. Did you even see that one, Quentin?

I didn't like Paul Dano. This is the Quentin Tarantino quote. I didn't like Paul Dano and the Batman because he was mean to Batman. He was being to Batman, one of my good friends. I like Batman. He's a nighttime defender and I enjoy that and Paul Dano's out here

writing mysteries for him to solve. Let Batman do his job. I had to stop working with Samuel Jackson. Did you see how many people he's shot in my films? I beg him to stop. I'd call for. But the murders. Christoph Waltz.

Oh, man. Oh, man. This guy has some troubling opinions. I don't think you write this guy. Really? But back to Quentin Tarantino's favorite podcast. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Gosh. I recently graduated college and moved to a new city for work. I enjoy going to the gym and found a small community gym that is on my morning commute. I do group classes in the morning. and bring a change of clothes for work. During a warm-up lap around the parking lot for a group class this week, my instructor said, uh-oh, looks like the underwear is still there.

Pointing to a pair of underwear sitting in the lot looks exactly like my favorite pair of underwear that I thought I misplaced recently. How can I inconspicuously investigate the underwear to make sure they're mine? And how do I even take them back if they are? How would I explain the underwear's disappearance? This is from Boxer Brief Bother in the Bay Area.

The one that I want to start with is how would I explain the underwear's disappearance? So what you imagine here is that the underwear that everyone loves, the mascot underwear shows up and they show up and it's not there. And then everyone's like, who do you, what do you make of this? David. Yeah. Like, why are you, why on earth would you be a suspect in the, disappearance of the underwear. Unless you're wearing them outside of your pants, quailment in style, which hopefully you have the good sense not to do that, IRL.

You could also just say a bird took them. A big bird, a big nasty bird must have taken them. Yeah. Nasty old bird must have done it. Hey, can you, I know they're your favorite, but the still there implies to me they've been outside for some time. I think it's time to let them go. But what if they're really nice and like expensive?

Oh, that's a good point. They're not nice anymore. They're not nice anymore. Things aren't supposed to be... Okay, you wash the clothes, right? You wash the clothes. Slow down. You leave them in there.

I'll come back later. I'll remember to put them in the dryer. I don't have time right now. You remember tomorrow, you go to open the clothes. Ah! The smell! It's a nightmare, you know? There's got to be a better way.

And Justin's developed a new product. They've been doing this for a week. They're done. We can't do these anymore. Your pants now. It's just... That's nature's underwear that let them return to the lobe.

What if you investigate them and they're not yours? The risk is too high. Sorry, you're saying that if the underwear isn't yours, the risk of what? What's the risk? You tell me what the danger is.

Guys, these are clothes that sometimes touch your privates and butt. I think we're being a little childish about it. No, no, no, no, no, no. Griffin, the risk of the embarrassment, okay, there is an embarrassment factor there.

If you're caught scobic gulfies on underwear and you're like these were mine they fell out of my bag oh god I was so embarrassed versus you're scoping them out we're really getting in their CSI style you get checked doing that and they're not yours but then you're just like sorry sorry I just wanted to see how cool these loose underpants were Travis this is this is insane what you've just said because how is you go and you check them out someone else realizes they're not yours and it's like hey get away from those dirty parking lot underwear that's not yours how would they know that so you would maybe pick them up with a twig or something and you're looking at them and you're like these aren't

mine uh-oh bobby sees me yep these are mine and they got put them in your pocket griff no what are you talking about man what are you talking about i trav i don't i don't understand how would you get who is the authority do you understand for a crime to occur someone has God. It's clothes that touch your, but you guys, and I think maybe everyone venerates underwear in a way that I find very peculiar. It's just clothes. It's inside pants. There's nothing bad or wrong about them.

Everyone does wear them. Can you not just walk up, pick them up, say, oh, I like these. They fell out of my car. You're gross for looking at them. And you put, then it's on them. Like, this is fine. It's clothes for your butt. It goes on your, it goes.

Okay, it's been outside, for starters. It's been in dirt. They're yours. Like, if they're yours, okay, that's right, Travis. Like, if they're yours, they've been in dirt for weeks. Sitting in dirt. And you're going to, what? Get a little plastic bag and put them in there and take them home and wash them and put them on you?

Like they're a lost puppy? Like they're like, like a stray pup? I take them home. I take them home. I wash them until they are. Because they have dirt all up in the stitching. Why did you get them in the first place? Because they might be mine.

If you're doing this bad financially, I'm doing this bad financially. We have to talk. Oh, dude, I've got all kinds of sweet underwear salvage secrets that are really... If it has one pair of underwear, that if he misplaces them, there's no coming back. Not true. I have many pairs of wonderful undergarments, and they're just pants on the inside. They're just... For many sponsors throughout the year.

I don't even know where to buy the ding-dang things anymore It's not for my sponsors Hey, I open up the mailbox and undies just flew out Undies and mattresses, baby I'm rolling in them Look at these, I'm buried in digital photo frames, baby Websites That's what my house is there

Let's not actually do ones that still advertise with us No, I love them I love them, I love all of these great sponsors They just don't get to be mentioned Yes, we did it vaguely. We could be talking about any underwear, Griffin. Sure. Yeah.

We have so much love for so many products, just pent up, ready to bust. We just need to be, we simply must be paid for. Let us shill. Let us shill. Oh, man. God, of all the times I wish we could transition into the money. Can we get Paul? We simply can't.

I'm sorry. Could we get Paul Dano to sponsor us? Could we get Paul Dano to convince other people to sponsor us? Or Matt Lillard. No, I mean, I don't want that. Matt Schillard. We get it. Get him to go out there and get people to give us money.

He's chilling for us. Yeah. This podcast is like boxing sometimes. You guys ever notice that where you'll be like, you'll say something and then another person will come up with a better thing faster. And it's like you're trying to bob and weave and keep it moving. Oh, sorry, Griffin. I thought you didn't want anyone to say anything funny after your cool thing. Oh, I made the vibe weird.

Our office manager just asked everyone I work with what their favorite candy was. and if they liked apple, cider, or eggnog better. I said Skittles, thinking it was just a fun little survey. Since Halloween, I've now received three gift packages of Skittles from her at Halloween, Thanksgiving, and now Christmas. I don't really care for Skittles that much. So, like, why do we, why do we have to fix this one? Just finish it. You know, why do we have to fix this one?

Because we, I want to know that we can. I need to know that we can. But it's not, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. We get, yes, it's the whole concept of the show Intensify, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Why didn't you say?

Just finish it. I don't really care for skills that much, but now I'm drowning in them. She gets such joy in bringing them to. Yeah, probably because you told her it's your favorite candy, you fucking maniac. Sorry. She gets such joy in bringing them too. I don't have the heart to tell her. Yeah.

Brothers, how do I suddenly let on that I'd rather have a different candy? That's from Sweet Tooth in Tampa. This, brothers, this person I work with just absolutely off the chain every single day doing the wildest shit, unbelievable. Just last week I asked her favorite candy. She mentioned what she didn't even like.

Wild. Brothers, help. Am I in danger? Depending on what kind of conversation and your boss usually trucks in with you, I could see them coming up and asking, what's your favorite can't? If one of my kids came up and said,

hey, dad, what's your favorite candy? I wouldn't think I better pick real good because they could be setting me up for nonstop gifts of this one specific. What's your favorite candy? Skittles. Fuck. Nah.

Okay. But this isn't, this isn't a tough. one, right? This isn't like a deep Should you have a What's your candy? Heath bars. Heath bars are up there for me honestly. That's a top

top five for sure. This is what I'm saying is like, does everybody not have at least a vague idea of what their favorite candy is? It's not a tough one. That's not like what's your favorite style of vintage car, right? I don't. Justin, what's your favorite

candy? Chocolate payday. Crazy. Griffin, what's your favorite Candy. I don't. I mean, jelly beans. Now again, nobody likes jelly beans.

I love jelly beans. Like jellybellies? Jelly beans and licorice sweets, sweet creams, wonderful treats. What's kind of jelly bean? If you could only have one kind of jelly bean, what come would it be?

There's a super loud truck outside, and it has been a good time to think about it. Yeah. Starburst, red. Red Starburst jelly bean Easter time Easter time delight Toasted marshmallow jellybilly

Look at you You fucking stinker Look at you spanky ass Listen listen listen listen Okay What are we listening for? You're gonna say your jelly bean You're gonna say your jelly bean

Yeah But Travis Travis Travis Travis Travis Travis The prompt Travis the brief You have to be as weird as fucking possible for some reason. We've decided to make this like a weird sort of audio waste land.

Favorite jellybee. Your favorite what? Jellybee. You didn't hear me? My favorite what? Jellybee. Quiet and weird belly bean. My favorite belly gene. My favorite belly chain is honestly,

black licorish. That's fucked up. We are. We are doing a real one. The vibe is like, destroy now. It's a real one, but it's like, is it? We destroyed the vibe thinking it would be built back up by the completion. Okay. It's the, and I don't, because she, it's bad, it's bad, but the birdie blots every flavor being the grass one. I like it.

That's fucking wild, Travis. What a strange Hilda Dyer. The truth face one, I like a minty jelly bean, all right? I don't like jelly beans. Okay. Could you just, just say you're off skittles. Three bags of skittles in a year? No, no, you don't have to be off skittles.

Just, they're. Finding out, just say that with, did you hear, with the food dye stuff? Oh, wow. They say you're not supposed to be eating skills anymore. Yeah. It's bad for you now. So I guess I'm off skills. Yeah.

Ooh, la, la, vegan. Vegan. They found out about them. They got carnuba wax, and it's made out of beetle chitin. No. I don't like either of those things. We got scared of beetles. Didn't bother me before.

Didn't bother me before. It bothers me now. I befriended a beetle. Yeah. And now I can really see things from their point. of you and hey can we also just touch into I don't think eggnog or apple cider is a yes or no is a binary question this is not a this is not a cake or pie Elvis or Beatles clear dichotomy situation these are two pretty niche beverages wildly different experiences too yeah you just have to have something

other than eggnog like you have you cannot solely offer eggnog even the eggnog fans after Eggnog is not a refreshing beverage. One time I got sent a five-pound bag of Swedish fish to our post office box and I, because I talked about how much I like Swedish fish and I'm wonderful, and I ate, I've almost certainly told this story on the show before. You know what I was looking for?

I've been looking, there's some candies that I would buy in bulk. You could maybe buy some bulk candies to have on offer in the course of many months over the course of many months you would become known for them I don't actually have a good I'm sorry I didn't have a joke

no one has a good joke find somebody who likes Skittles more okay and get them to tell your boss your favorite candy and then you can trade yeah I once sold a big bag of Skittles to my

Spanish teacher Signora Barry and Signora Barry upon receiving the skittles the next day she told me those skittles were delicious I had to cut them in half because they were extremely sweet that's awesome

that's a cool story juice you ever heard any guys I was 14 years old when that happened 30 years I'm still thinking about this lady saying oh oh wait one whole skittal woof was the implication there

that a serving size for her was half a skiddle at a sitting. Yes. Imagine this woman, this woman said to me that she got a knife and cut skittles in half because the rush of a single skiddle

was too much. But what's the span of time between the second half of the skiddle? It has to be like complete, like the wave has to have passed her. Her pleasure has crested and is now in its anticlimactic. climax and as the wave

of pleasure begins to recede, she puts the other half into her mouth. Like you were... Oh, I crests once more! Like you were a dealer selling her like shrooms or something and she's like, oh no, no, no. I'm gonna need an ape. I can't take a half. I just

swallow my pills. If your boss saw you cutting one in half, then maybe they would understand the pace at which you are working through them. Like if you're like, listen, I love this. I do love Skittles. I only allow myself one half skittal a day, so you do not have to keep stocking me up.

I am set. I'm good for 10 years. Make some Skittal art. Skiddle art. Huge. My kids will pay top dollar for that shit. Mm-hmm. Make a Goku with Skittles.

And that's good in the post-apocalypse, too, right? Because then there's some skittles left. Yeah, sure. I mean, I would rather die than eat my Skiddle Goku. But, yeah, I mean, for sure. I paid $15,000. At Canditopia for that. And I'm not going to eat it just because I'm hungry.

Like the ones on the walls? I didn't think they sold those. They sell them for $42,000. For a motivated buyer, they will pretty much sell you anything. Yeah. At Cannotopia, that is the rule. If it's not nailed down, bring it to the ranch. It's like the mansion on O Street.

Anything you pick it up, take it in the front, buy it. That's actually the case most places. If you go to the register with anything and you're like, I will give you X amount of dollars for it, there is some number that solves 4x at which point you can't take a help with you. How much to buy that register, but there's money in there. I know, add that up. And the value of the register plus a dollar. Yeah. That's business, baby.

They have docents at those candy museums that try to trick the kids into eating. they'll say like you see one woman with a hat over there you see that Matisse grab yourself some those jolly ranchers they're waiting for you Kenneth he goes for it you bought it that's $32,500 kenneth that was a Banksy was a Banksy dude you can call anything a Banksy Banksy's not going to show up to tell you you you're wrong he does he will what he will do fun really he does revenge on you but it still has to be like art based so he like he will trick you into getting into the art world and then investing in one of his paintings that he makes, like, turn into toilet paper

that goes in a toilet. Fuck. Well, you see, what he did to me was he painted a huge picture of me pooping potty. Yeah. And he painted on the top of a skyscraper right across from my office. Yeah. And so every time I look out of my office window, I'm distracted from my charts, my spreadsheets. I look outside my window, and there's me a very unflattering lightness, squatting on the potty

and I'm using a squatty potty. at a speech bubble, I need this or I'll die using the bathroom. It's like one of the weirdest pictures He's ever made in a big picture, Justin. Is it a little picture at least? It's eight stories tall. My pupils are all lit windows.

Yeah. I don't know. Staring down at New York City? He had to He had to rent out three floors of this building just to do my, just to do my scrotum.

It's really, it was a It's inside. It's inside. You have to go. It's a three-dimensional shaming. Oh, no. It's a three-dimensional shaming. Yeah. It's for helicopter guys. If they fly by, they're going to see my balls and button everything. That's crazy. Huge. And I'm on the potty. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that happened, man. You know, he did, he just, he came to my house and he installed in my toilet. I didn't even see it a special machine so that when I sat down on the toilet seat, it shredded up my butt. and put it in the garbage. No. My butt and my privates and, yeah, it shredded it all up down there and it put it in the garbage. And then he kicked the door and was like, now you don't have it anymore.

And I was like, that's crazy. I'm okay now. Yeah. You healed up. I healed up. It turned out when I got home one day, after living in this house for many years, I went to sit on the toilet and just fell straight down. And I was like, what?

And that's when I realized the toilet was a painting on the wall. And it had been. since I bought the house? A 3D? Yeah, dude. Yeah, I hate that. And where has it been going? Right. And so I went out to tell Teresa about this.

And suddenly she was a painting on the wall. And she had been a painting the whole time. Fucking classic face. And like, I started spinning around and realizing everything was a painting and I was trapped in it. Yeah. I'll tell you what, he switched all my shirts with shirts with little sketches of me kissing a pig's ass on it. No. Every single one of my shirts, guys.

He came in my house and he tore it up. He just went ahead and he put a picture of me kissing a pig's ass on it every single time. Like a real picture that he took? Yeah, no, it was like a little sketch. He scratched up all my burnt mix CDs. I've been saving him in a big binder since I was in college. All my mix CDs that I burnt myself. He scratched him all up.

And you know what he scratched into him? Thanks, you rules. Oh, no. He came into my house and painted a gif on the wall. Whoa. What? Of me eating poop? Wow, Jesus Christ.

Yikes. That's an escalation. No, it was tasteful. And it was emanated. And right now, it's worth a billion dollars. Yeah, because it's like the new technology. He painted a moving image. It's incredible.

It's awesome. Let's go the money's up. It's better. It's better with you. Do you guys like to dance? Do you like to sing? Do you like to party? Yeah.

Do you like the code? Trying to sneak a little stem in there. Yeah. I do like that stuff better than the dancing and singing, actually. Okay, let me try another thing. Do you like bad websites that are ugly and make you feel bad? No, I don't. I don't like that.

Do you like websites that are well-designed and easy to use? Yeah, I guess prefer to the other one, sure. Okay, great. Then you guys are going to love stuff. Squarespace, they make good websites by helping you make good websites. It's easy to use. You don't have to dance or sing or code to use the Squarespace. To use the Squarespace to make a website?

I'm an idiot. Is there help for me? Yeah, in a lot of ways. But specifically when it comes to website building, yeah. They give you everything you need to offer services and get laid. No, get paid all in one place. What? What?

What happened? They've begged us to not do that. That one joke. That one joke, they said, we are a clean company. They said, don't say yucky stuff like that about us. We're clean. Okay, but the word does come up again in the next sentence, and I want to say it again, Griffin. You can, because you've already done it once.

Okay, get laid on time with professional. And paid on time. Get paid on time with professional on brand invoices and online payments, plus streamline your workflow with built-in appointment scheduling and email marketing. tools. They also have just beautiful, professionally designed, an award-winning website templates, all kinds of options, and drag-and-drop editing. It's really, really good. It's easy to use for dummies like us. You can do it. I believe in you. 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% off your

first purchase of a website or domain. Did I say trial weird? It felt weird. I feel like I could hear myself say trial. Kind of weird. Trial. I love when that shit slips in, man. I think people are wild about our sort of folksy sort of charm. That's kind of our deal, right?

We're just down-home, simple. It's every, like, 250th word for me. Well, we'll hit with some of that. And I don't know. I'm such a fan of it. We're just three podcast hosts you can have a beer with. That's our deal.

Three folksy guys. Three folksy co-be. We were going to call the show three folksy guys. Yeah. We thought the brother angle would hook people better so we changed our names and the rest is history.

It's the worst mistake we ever made because three folksy guys was then taken over by Adam and Ricky. Smartless? Smartless. Those folksy guys became smartless. Yeah, they changed the name too. They eventually became smartless.

Right. So, ORA Frames is your holiday hero because there's a lot of people who live lives that make them difficult to buy presents for. Now, that's a complicated series of words and ideas I just put together, but I think everyone heard them and understood exactly what I meant. Some people are not easy to figure out what to get gifts for them because of their lives and choices. Well, let me tell you this, aura frames is the err gift, the all gift, because it's just a, it's an incredible, very, very nice looking digital picture frame that is super easy to set up.

you sort of manage it remotely with the app and you can just send whatever pictures you want onto it. You can gift it to other people and then keep them updated with galleries of stuff going on in your life. We have one in our house too because it's like constantly rotating between like precious family memories and the kids always get very excited when they see themselves on. And if you've already bought one for a loved one, there's still time to go into their house and break it on accident and then get them a new one.

You can just put one in another room. And then they have all the beautiful frames. You don't just have one picture frame in your house. I have just one aura. Yeah. I'm really sorry. I broke all of your auras then while I was in town for candle nights. I didn't think about that, Justin.

I'm so sorry. That's quite right. Right now, visitoraframes.com and get $55 off. ORA's limited edition stone collection frame by using promo code Brother at checkout. That's AuraFrames.com promo code brother. This deals exclusive to our listeners and frames sell out fast, so order yours now to get it in time for the holiday. support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply.

How about another question? Yeah, boy. I have recently discovered that my mother has, quote, adopted a poster that used to be my exes. We used to live at my mother-in-law's unit and decorated the place with some funky stuff, including an old school movie poster from my ex's childhood bedroom. We thought we took everything when we moved out, but obviously we missed stuff. I found this out when I stayed at my mom's while I visiting for the holidays, and my mom has put up the poster we left like at the same.

It's hers. She loves old movies, so it wouldn't seem out of place. How do I tell my mom I have to confiscate her poster and return it to my ex? My ex had mentioned the poster when we broke up, and at the time had assumed it was totally lost. Do I have to return it to her since she's given up on it? That's from poster puzzled in Seattle. Scott Free. The perfect crime.

Like, not the richest jumping off point, but 100% true. You're so money. You're so, you don't even know how money you are. This is, they will never track this back to you in a hundred thousand years. This secret dies with you. And now, us and them. Everyone. But, but, do you know?

Until now. Well, do you know how one million listeners and three podcasts hosts keep a secret? How? One million and two of them have to die. was what I was going to say. What were you saying, Justin? I said, ask smart listen. Yeah, yours is better.

Mine involves killing all of our listeners. Everyone, that's crazy, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Yours is better. Just thinking around my house, I've moved so many times in, like, the last just like 15 years since, like, graduating college, I could not begin to catalog the things in my house that once belonged to someone else that I was lent or belonged to a former roommate.

or whatever that just over the course of so many moves became catamari domicied into my possessions. Do you ever just pick up stuff in your house and say, hey, I'm going to throw this away. How does everybody feel about that? And then, like, everyone looks at you. Like, I thought you loved that. I'm like, no, I hate this.

Can we throw this away? No one knows how it got there. Maybe someone put it there as a joke three years ago. Like, it's, yes, 100%. Scott free. Scott free. Don't even worry about it. Every breakup, I think you should get one little gift.

Both teams and the breakup gets Savento. A little Savento, a little gifito. A little Savento for the road. You shared special precious memories and you worked hard for that relationship. You both did. We put in a lot of work. Something went wrong, obviously. Something soured there. That doesn't mean those memories aren't worth anything.

I think they're worth a single steal. Especially when it ends up being gifted to your emotional support team. Right? When you're like, it's almost like a rap gift on a movie, you know, where it's like, yeah, after the breakup, here's a little reward for you, mom. You had to deal with all of this, too. Got me through the hard times. Here you go.

Here's a movie poster. Now, don't steal nothing big now. Don't go crazy. Like, don't steal nothing. There's a dollar value. Now, my client, Griffin, went through a lot during that breakup. Sure. I think that should come with certain allowances.

You can say that. We can't say that. We can't say it's okay to steal anything you want. I want to be on record saying don't steal nothing big now. Please. A poster. A jacket. Fine.

Shoes is plish. Their dog. Shoes is a lot. Dog definitely not. Thank you for finding a bad example. They're diamonds. What about a plant? That's fine.

Plans good. Okay, cool. Great. Plant's nice. A plant's kind of a chore, too. Yeah. Their social security number. You've got equity.

No, don't steal a social security number. Okay. That's bad, Traff. Think about that. Think about actually doing that, right? It's not very nice. It's not nice to do. But you have equity in that plant.

It's a fine steel. It's a fine steel. Okay. It's a fine steel. It's a great steel. I think it's important. I think that we as a society need to land on a time frame after which something has been left in somebody's possession. that then it is like

we all agree you shouldn't be thinking about this item anymore. The statute of limitations on wanting something back. I don't know. Because we occasionally get questions where it's like five years ago

a friend lent me a book. There's no way that friend's still thinking about that book? Yeah. My friend Evan's mom stole my binfolds hoodie that I got at the very first concert I ever went to when I was in high school and I went over to his house

like four years later. and I went to hang up my coat in the closet and saw it in there his mom had been wearing it and I was like game recognized game you got like sure you got me this has been four years it's a jacket it's yours now it looks and it looks good at that point

Griffin could you take it back could you say like this I'm re you can't right no because she's had it longer than I had it at that point so this poster isn't even there it's not even it belongs to the mom now Scott is free

it's not it's Scott free There's no crime There's no crime It's harsh There's no claim Case adjourned Case adjourned The judges

Out of court Yep Yep Guilty Uh-uh Nope Lawyers I decided

Lawyers to your chambers Bayliff Escort the lawyers Out Remove these lawyers From my premises Bayliff Court them away

You're all arrested Jury, have you dismissed The case Jury, Skiddle Jury objection Unsequestered And hammer

I lost it So I just say it out loud now Hammer, hammer, hammer Pay attention, please Do you want another question? Yes, please I just almost Guys, I've spent almost, I have two weeks in a row now, I've almost talked about the Grinch Meal at McDonald's.

And I, and I don't want to talk about the Grinch Meal at McDonald's. No. Do you know? I don't. This one I don't want to. But they have green salt, Grinch salt. They have Grinch salt in the Grinch meal. There's Grinch Salt.

It's a special dill salt. Yeah. It's Grinch Salt. Oh, that sounds good. And they have dill pickle, McShaker, fries that have the extreme salt that the Grinch loves and it's a very grinchy kind of thing that's happening. Yeah, that's cool.

I would weigh, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, rather talk about Walton Goggins Grinch. So this is, so this is what I want to say. This is, there's a, there, I was on What's All This Then, which is a great, uh, a podcast about British culture and we were talking about Christmas adverts. And there's, there's one here, you know. what? Can I just show you this one because it's like such a, such a treat? Please. Absolutely, please. Hold on one second. Let me share it. I love this kind of like.

Yeah, I just want to, this is not a much squad. No, it's like an organic sort of munch. Yeah. Give me a second. Just a fun munch. Justin, I know you're looking at a monitor that's in front of you. I just felt like you were judging me so hard in that moment. Hearing directly into your soul. You got to take advantage of that when it happens. Trav. All right, you ready?

Yep. This is the price is this year are frightful spending gifts I've seen a sightful We get quite low on dough

It's a no It's a no It's a This is the Grinch By the way Ooh Nice color He's flying?

So you get the idea It's Yeah It's the French. Is it Azda? Asda? So this is like a Walmart. It's apparently a Walmart owned franchise in the UK, right? And what we see in this ad is like the Grinch shopping with his family. And then we have watched the...

Let's say, Justin, his human family. His human family. And also, at one point, he likes shopping so much that he starts to fly through the air. That is not a power that I think the Grinch has in the source material. May I... May I scoot over here to the side for a second to make a plea to humanity? Yeah. Sure, yeah. Can we stop making me, Travis McRoy, look at close-ups of a human being in Grinch makeup's face? Travis?

This is exactly what I wanted to speak about. Okay. And I'm so happy that you're here and you're on the same page as me. Because, like, here's the thing. I don't want to see a real Grinch ever again. It's grotesque. I don't want to see a real Grinch. ever again, Matthew Morrison

in the Broadway Grinch on TV hate it. Jim Carrey Jim obviously hate it. Jim obviously hate it. Terrible movie You gave your all. That shit. You gave it your all, but we hate seeing it. That shit. We hate seeing it. They're oddly

greasy. You're not the worst thing about that movie. That movie completely misses the point of the whole story. But every time you see a real Grinch, it is a hell. I don't ever want to see Real Grinch again. And this Christmas season, we're traded to three Walton Goggins Grinch at Walmart. The Walmart Walton Gagins Grinch goggles are fully on over at Walmart. We got this as the Grinch. And then there's a McDonald's Grinch with his Grinch salt.

I don't want to see the real Grinch ever again. I hate it. It's unpleasant to a degree of like, this is haunted. It's a nightmare. Every real Grinch. It's terrible. It's not that he's ugly. All who's are beautiful, definitely.

He's not supposed to be real. But he's scary because he's not supposed to be real. Yeah, that's good. It's the quality of hair, green hair, and the smooth, the weird, greasy smoothness of the fay and everything. There's wrinkles to it. It's that, here's what I think it is. When a makeup artist or a makeup team gets the chance to do a real-life grinch, they go crazy. They go so deep.

freaking stamp on yeah man you're so stoked it makes me unhappy yeah I really it's just seeing the Grinch oh gosh yeah you know anytime you see it anytime anytime you see

the Grinch as a real man as a cartoon we love this guy sure you know what I mean like yeah nasty put him on a wrapping paper yes put him on a t-shirt uh-huh because he's like a figment of a imagination at that point when he's a cartoon because he's just like a little sinner, little sinner.

But then when you see him, real, a tiny little sinner guy. When he's real, and you think, like, could this happen to me? And it gets, it's scary, and I don't want my kids to see it for sure. I don't want my kids exposed, especially to Walton Gockens Grinch. Because this is a smooth and cool Grinch who likes jazz, and that's going to sort of confuse them. That's going to make them not understand.

And the very real and very present threat that Grinch's do sort of present to our festivities. It's also often amorphous of when we're encountering, said Grinch, in his particular arc, which I don't enjoy. I'm also just going to pin real-life cat in the hat to there, too. Don't make human beings live in a cat, the hat. Yeah, absolutely. Same basic rules. Ah, man, I really hate it. If I could just show you guys.

the Matthew Morrison one we always hate seeing a real Grinch around these parts but if I could just, huh, it's just I just, huh, I hate to see the I hate it. I hate to see the Grinch. Well, here's the thing, they gotta, they gotta, for the stage they've got to make his

for the stage, they have to make his features big and loud and pronounced and so like you're not supposed to see this Grinch this close obviously. And if that Grinch showed up in Cats, too, I would, I would. Dude, that would be such a sick crossover if they're like, now the Grinch. Now the Grinch loves cats. That's kind of a hot Grinch.

Uh-oh. That's still Matthew Morrison's Grinch. I tricked you. Uh-oh. You tricked me with a hot grinch. Well, his eyebrow and his hair is all one thing, Griffin. Yeah. Yeah.

Don't ever show me the real Grinch again. That's the lesson of the holidays this season. I don't want to see the Grinch. I love a cartoon still. Yeah. Don't want to see the real Grinch. Grinch ever again. Thank you. Even, can I ask you this?

Hmm. Is the Benedict. We are open to, yes. Is the Benedict Cumberbatch 3D animated Grinch pushing it? Wouldn't you agree that he's pushing it a bit for my taste? It is a bit much. It's a lot, here's what I will say. It is a lot of time to spend with the Grinch.

Sure. I will say this, he does begin to, his presence does begin to wear on one. Yes. Yeah. Around hour two. The Grinch is sometimes food. You know, I don't need that all. The 40-minute fable.

It's a 40-minute fable expanded to two hours. That's just a lot of personal time with the Grinch. He's soft, didn't he? The Benedict Cumberbatch, like they did the Illumination Studios, like, kind of cute, cute filter on him. Minionized him. He's soft and minionized in this movie. So we have soft Grinch, we have Hot Grinch, cartoon favorite Grinch, and then, like, three or four upsetting human visages of Granch. Yeah.

Yeah. Every time the Grinch is seen as a real person, it's terrible. Yeah. And this is my plea to Hollywood to please don't do it ever again. Thank you. Unless it's Paul Dano. If it's Paul Dano, I'd watch it. No, Paul Dano Lorax. Paul Dano, Real Life Lorax, for real. Wouldn't you?

Yeah. Couldn't you? Would you? Shouldn't you? What did you? The Dano's also the Onsler. The Danos also the Onsler? How good could that be?

Very, very good. That's what I think. Yes, please. I speak for the Danos. I speak for the Danos and they are loving it. I speak for the me's and we are. Very pleased. Dan, oh, you didn't.

Okay, listen, thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother, My, My, My, and I want to say a special thank you. If you came out for our Candle Night Show last weekend, or you supported that show, or you have already purchased your video on demand ticket for that over at bit.ly, 4.000,000, 25.

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. It was, I don't know, I want to speak for you guys, but Travis and Griffin loved it. Yeah, I loved it too. Wow, okay. It was, let me all loved it. Let me lay this out for you guys

so you know what you're getting. First of all, like two and a half hours of show. It's still available. You can go get it. You go get your VOD right now at December 19th at 9 p.m. It's going to go live. There was a new medicine called Christus in there.

There's some things I bought at sheets in there. There was a smell-based competition. There was a lot of surprises. Cartoons. Some swapped bits. Yeah. A lot of good stuff. It was, I highly recommend, go to bit.

com. The video on demand premieres December 19th at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. We will be in the chat talking through it. Um, that video on demand is available through January 4th. There's bonus behind the scenes footage, all the, uh, benefits from the sales on that and from the show in general are going to Harmony House, uh, which seeks to end homelessness in Huntington. Um, it's truly, truly a great organization and I think a show you're really going to enjoy bit. Bit.L.Y slash candle nights 2025. Thank you so much to Montaigne for the use for our theme song, My Life is better with you. Um, it's a really, really kickout.

track. Montaigne's been been crushing lately. The new album, it's hard to be official. It's my number one album, according to Spotify, wrapped. So it's legit and you're going to groove on it. Thank you also to you, our sweet listener at home. Okay. We never do that, but thank you to our sweet listener at home. That's awesome, dude. Yeah, I mean, I love that. That's cool. If you haven't already, go to Instagram and follow Macquarie Entertainment System our new We're real gamers now and we're going to make a bunch of gaming stuff next year

check that out Justin you want to hit us with that fear Yeah man I'd love to This year I want to live faster than my fear of underwater scenes and movies when we all have to hold our breath with the protagonist My name is Justin McElroy I'm Travis McElroy

I'm Griffin McElroy This has been my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad, square on the lips. It's better with you. It's better. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, it's better, it's better with you. What's what's better with you? My life.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, it's better, it's better with you. Yes, it's true. Ah, ah, ah, it's better, it's better with two. My life. It's better with you Maximum Fun A Worker-owned network Of artist-owned shows

Supported directly by you