My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Another year, another chance to really grind down and dig up all the different ways we can to slant-rhyme with six. And twenty. Maybe. Buckle up, it’s about to get weird – we’re on the way to fist city with a stopover in jugstown!Suggested talking points: GraNOla? GraYESa!, Und Und Und, Love it Lumpy, I’m Jazzin’ Here, ForgovenessImmigrant Defenders Law Center: https://www.immdef.org/

Hello, my name is Justin McElroy. If you're listening to this on the day it is released, I may very well be currently, as you listen to this, be getting a routine screening colonoscopy. I say with all sincerity, I would much rather go through this procedure again tomorrow, then replicate the audio experiment you are about to receive. Please enjoy my brother, my brother, me, naming 2026.

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sex expert, 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 are. out there, we'll know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool, baby? One, two, three, four. It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has blossomed.

It's ripen 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. I'm going to It's better It's better with you My life

Ah It's better It's better with you This is true Ah It's better It's better with two My life

Ah It's better with you I'm going to read the names of the year In a big list Awesome dude Okay We started with, of course, Zolo in 2010. Was that like a evil, like a demon?

I don't think there was, there wasn't a theme so much. I thought Zolo was like a demon that if you called him on the telephone at three in the morning, he can come with you. 2011, 2011, 2000 in heaven, get right with Christ. That was a good one. 2012, 20 does getting it. 20 dirt, dig it up, get it out. 2014, 2014, 20 forward. Oh, 24.

20, 15, the con is on. Sweet stuff. 2016 building bridges. 20 serpentine, keep them guessing. Zag on them. Needed that after the last one. Collaborate teen, stronger together. Frankenstein teen, become the monster.

2020 is where things get a little interesting. You got 20 funny, fill your life with laughter and love. Awesome. Which didn't track eventually. No. It became 20 honey down to beesiness. Uh-huh. And then at some point, according to the official Wikipedia, we later reccom the year,

to be honey, funny, fill your life with laughter and bees. Yeah, I told you. Okay. So that's the official thing. And that is a wrong that stood for far too long that has been set right. And I do feel better. 2021 was Big Dog Run. Big Don't know about it.

Yeah. 22. Awesome. 20 rendezvous. Fancy takes flight. Yeah. Very good one. 20 Sun and C.

Surf the vibe. Class. 20 fungalore. He heard your wish. Then there's 2025, which was very briefly, tummy buddy life, dare to care. before morphing into Tony Thunder Drive faster than this. Guys, that one sucked shit, dude.

I've been so stressed. Tommy buddy life or tummy? Tommy buddy life was a, that was, you know, I feel that the election of Donald J. Trump was not truly a reflection of the American soul, but rather a reflection of the failings of a system that needs to be fixed. I think a little bit of our soul got in there. Sure, it's just a bit of a sticky soul. and that's true of our naming of the year, but I think what it really reflected

was how we needed to rethink the entire process. Yes, right? It was a failure of the system. Right. And that's why this year, we're not going to use the electoral college to come up with the theme. It's going to be a populist,

full-blown populist vote to come up with the theme. We've rethought it. We're doing it together. Maybe you're not watching the video and you're like, what the fuck's going on? We're all in the same. Maybe we didn't release the video.

Maybe it was unwatchable. Maybe it's not very good stuff. Maybe there's only the video and the audio didn't work. Yeah. Now, we have had just, I would say a series, not counting, tell me buddy life, a series of real home runs. Okay. So I wanted to. Can we stop before we do that and just say, I don't know that I lived particularly faster than fear this year.

I did feel like a bit of a fraudster. If I'm being honest, I didn't do too much. I saw you live at least, you were at least one mile over. I don't live a life. I don't live a life that presents frequent opportunities for courage. I kind of thought that, like, do as we say, not as we do, was kind of understood, right? It's not our, I have a theme set for me by my gurus. You know, they have set it after me.

That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not a trickle-down theme. I got to get some fucking gurus, dude. Yeah, you have to, man. Right off the bad. I'm the only one who's going to talk about whether or not they live faster than fear and be vulnerable. No, I do every day.

I stood on my roof to hang Chris and. lights, man. Did you? Yeah. That is brave. Thank you. Did I do anything scary, you Dingleberry? I don't think so.

So I'm going to pitch 20 Dingleberry. I was Scrooge and I got body slam by a former professional wrestler. I don't know if you can ever be a former professional wrestler. You know what I mean? It's always in there. Dogs in there. But I got body slam while I was playing Scrooge. That took a lot of bravery.

I did the high ropes corset great.