My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 797: Safe and Full of Grubs

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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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 into a precious friendship. It feels love. Hello, everybody. Welcome to my brother.

my brother and me and advice show from the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Traff Nation? I'm your middleist brother, Travis Big Dog, Wolf Wolf, Frum, big unit McElroy. What's, ooh, welcome. No, actually, no, dude. I think you need to, I think you need to drop on it. No, no, no, no, stop, stop. I like big unit. I like big unit. You need to lose something else, because I do think it pushes, I understand that this is DeBrand. It's getting a little, it's giving you Sador. I think it's a little bit. Yeah, it's giving you Sador. Yeah, I get that. But you need to drop one of the conditionals. Can I be big dog unit?

No, that sounds like an elite marine. We're unit big dog and we got Osama bin Laden. Like we need, just drop one of them. I'm unit big dog. God. Just think about it. I'm Griffin. Just think about it.

I'm Griffin, McElroy, the youngest. 30 under 30, media luminary, built Ford Tough. Fucking huge, huge danger, McElroy. Yeah, I mean, it. It works. Yeah, I guess. It doesn't, I don't know, it feels a little on the nose. Jesse, you started this episode.

You kicked us off with such. Always do. You always do, but you did this one like right after we did our sink, right after we did our count. You had such a robust energy that made me think like, this guy's got a fucking intro that is screaming to get out of him. That is absolutely. I think it sucks.

I think it sucks that my, I think it sucks that my enthusiasm for recording a podcast for my brothers could be mistaken. could be mistaken as a prepared competence. This is, Griffin, this is all the build-out. Griffin, Griffin, this is the, he's about to do the prestige now. He's about to drop an amazing intro, you son. Yeah, he's about this drop an amazing intro. I know.

I'm just a happy person. I'm just, I'm happy about what. It's making you so happy. Happy about the new Rowan-Adkinson project that we're going to fucking jazz on for a war with Grandpa 2's out, you say? Like, you've got something in the fucking holster. And I can't wait. And the one where he's a serious detective and it doesn't appear to be a comedy?

Is that the one you mean? No, we're with Grandpa. We get grandmas in there. We got to be careful, guys. I feel like it's Beetlejuice rules where if we say the name of the movie one more time, we will end up talking about. No, I'm saying that in Rowan Angleton has a new one where he's a serious detective and it's not a comedy. Oh, is that true? Yeah.

Sorry wish list. Much. Sorry, favor. Sorry, Fave it. Sorry, Fave. Sorry, I faved it. Cue that shit up, Flicks. Did you guys know we're doing another, did you guys know we're doing another Fokkers, by the way?

Oh, no. I just found this out today. Did you know this? No, that's cool. Did you know we're getting Fockered again? We're getting the Fokers are back. America's favorite family, the Fokers. What are we calling it this time?

What would you call it? What would you call it? Title it right now. Motherfockers. Motherfockers is Travis. It's not, but God, man, it should be, huh? Go ahead. Griffin, what do you got? Fawker family...

It's not anything cool. It's like Fawker Family Reunion or... Fawker, I barely know where. It's Focker-in-law. Fawker-in-law? Fawker-in-law. A young man named Henry, son of Greg and Pam Fawker faces family chaos when he decides to marry a strong-willed woman who appears to be his complete mismatch.

It is Arianna Grande. Oh! We are having the time of our life. Isn't that weird that the first movie I think it's just called Meet the Parents And then at some point they were like I think it's funny that we gave him the last name Falker and we should incorporate that into every future movie

And it is good, it is good It's cool, yeah We love it They should have just called them fucker They just had the courage of their convictions To call them the fucker fam I think it's The most interesting thing

About the meet the Fockers to me And Falker-in-law I just thought it's great that we're going back. Sure. And yeah, Bob's back. Ben, Bob. Ben Bob, Billy, the whole crew. Owen, Terry, Skyler, Gizond.

Oh, we got the Sky. We got the Jizz? Dude. Fucking did anything that you touched. Skyler's last name I did swallow because I wasn't sure if we were all agreeing on the harder stuff, gee. So I kind of swallowed the...

You can't swallow the Jizondo. Justin, that's... Please don't swallow the Jizondo. Hey, now some people prefer it. Now listen, I'll see anything that dude's got. No, can we be serious now? I'll see anything or purchase anything with Skylar Jizondo in or on it. That's an influencer right there, folks.

That's hugely influential. Oh, man. Prosper Belizea plays elderly man on trail if you're a prosper Belizea. Hell yeah. Yeah. So, this is what I want to say about meet the Fokkers or meet the parents or what it was. when he says I have nipples

Greg could you milk me whatever I feel about that movie I don't even think I've watched that whole movie but I think that joke is so powerful that it escaped the bounds of that movie and etched itself in the American consciousness

and I think it is just the strength of I have nipples Greg and could you milk me that is actually I have said not as like a sarcastic but it's just you deployed at the right time

everybody loves that reference it's a great it's a great pure incredible joke I don't think we need four movies about it but I did love it every movie like but with different inflection each time

like at one point there's an emergency where they need milk and he's like I have nipples Greg could you milk me? Yeah and he's like very sincere about it yeah I love the one where he's like I have nipples Greg and then Benzsteader's like I know.

You know, like, it's very tender. Because the audience know, you know what I mean? Like, we know the rest. I liked how at the end of the Joker, he said it to the, to the Joker during the talk show when he like got pulled a gun. He's like, you get what you fucking deserve. And he's like, hold up. I've got nipples. I've got nipples Joker.

Mm-hmm. Can you milk me? I'm laughing about how good the joke is. Yeah. I really love it. In the newest diehard when he says, Yibbikaye, nibble, fucker. And it's such a good, it's just a little wink.

It is a nice nod. You know, like you wouldn't catch it. It's a fun link. You wouldn't catch it if you didn't know, if you weren't looking for it. It's such a good Easter egg. Does he answer the question? Because the correct answer is, I don't know,

maybe, I don't know what you're packed. I don't know what you're packing. That's true. Do you produce milk? Do you produce milk? You tell me, I can't answer that question for you. It feels, it feels prying to tell the truth. I'm willing to try if you see it as a bonding experience.

Like, are you sincere right now? That would be such a weird... Everyone else at the table should have turned on Bob De Niro in that moment. Where he's like, I have Nipples Graves. And, like, Dad, you know that's not what he's talking about. And, like, why the fuck would you bring that up? I'm glad you have Nipples, Dad, that you're not some kind of, like, I don't know, Kyle XY kind of clone thing

like completely smooth on your chest Can I mention one of the media project to you guys Yeah I've been really thinking a lot of that. Dude's the double fate We thought that it was going to be the Falkers thing But he's got another one fucking ready Oh he left the call

He left He got too scared I think we need to be more gentle with this Be chill and gentle this time Because it's we Yeah so you can come in Okay Yeah when you're ready

Oh no Travis you made a face that was a little too. Okay. Just like, we don't want anything. Nope, he keeps disappearing. Shoot. Have you guys heard about the new Patrick Dempsey Project?

No, man. I've only watched the trailers. McDreamy? Yeah, McDreamy's back. Is it its new restaurant where you order planes for the table, Dempsey Dimpsom? It's not. That's good, Trave. I really, I don't think that this new show is very tasteful,

and I don't think it should be a show. I do think it's an adaptation. of a foreign show that I'm sure is very good. I'm sure this show itself is very powerful. I will say the trailers, it is a show called Memory of a Killer. And this is the plot. I'm just telling you the plot from the show.

Okay. Losing one's memory is a devastating hammer blow for anyone, but for Angelo Flannery, the stakes couldn't be higher. His hitman job would be perilous enough, but there's an added pressure. Angelo lives two totally separate lives. Fearsome New York City hitman. and Sleepy Upstate Cooperstead,

Copystown, photocopier, salesman, and father. Having built and maintained a brick wall between the two worlds, Angelo has seamlessly juggled and compartmentalized for years, but now that's about to change because Alzheimer's is a foe he cannot run,

and he already knows too well how this ends as his older brother is already lost to the condition. So are we... Are we rooting for Mr. Dempsey? So the, well, the show is about, the tagline is about a man who lost his memory but gained a conscience.

Okay. And what we are supposed to understand is the man will be at the photocopier store. Right. And then he will open a closet. Yeah. And inside that closet, there will be a dead body. Yeah. And he will think,

what the fuck? I got to call the cops. I got to call the goddamn cops. Right. I got to get the cops on the phone. And then that's the show I don't know what I mean I don't know how they're going to build drama out of the fact that the man

you know what I mean? Yeah for sure. It doesn't seem like it's going to be a good show to watch I guess would be my main thing. They just kind of throw in there don't they that he's built a brick wall between those two things.

Like that's a thing one can do if they try? Yeah. Like that I've built a brick wall in my brain. Yeah. To be like. What's called a mental wall?

Yeah. It's a full proof system. Yeah. I think the better version of it, though, because like they definitely want you to think that he's going to be like, he's like, the photocopier thing seems cool. I would just much rather be doing that. Right. Yeah. I have to choose between these two lives.

I do think it's going to be a lot more fun to watch this guy in the murder business. Murder, murder mode. The murder mode. And then all of a sudden he's like, hey, I can. gotta sell this guy copy. Yeah, like that, just mid,

mid things, a guy walks back in room, he looks over and sees like an outdated, like, like, Daisy wheel printer or whatever. And he's like, hey,

time out, time out from the fight real quick. Time out. Yeah. Have you looked into, this dot matrix, this dot matrix bullshit you've got going on back there

is stuck in 1993, my friend. You need to get, get with the times. I, it, is it like a, is it a transformation?

Like, when the full moon comes out, he becomes a killer, and then when it goes away, he's a photocopier salesman. I don't know, Griffin. I think it's why probably Alzheimer's isn't a great plot point for a TV show because it doesn't work. There's not like magic rules.

Right. What is it? Oh, no, I ate spicy food. Why Alzheimer's? Yeah, I don't think it's like that. And I don't, I don't mean to make, I don't, I'm not making a lot of Alzheimer's. I could just be, to be clear, I'm not making a lot of Alzheimer's. Classically the least.

Dr. McDreamy who should know better is. I guess. He's being a little distasteful. But not me. Alzheimer's is famously the least funny sort of condition or idea or thing. But I don't think I do, I do feel like whoever came up with like, you know, there could be. What if my, what if this Alzheimer's story was a bit more exciting? It's like I don't think he wants that really.

No, no, no. I want to see. I want to see. This Alzheimer's story needs a body count. Like, I don't think that's what we've been missing, you know? I hope there's a scene where that brick wall he's built in his mind breaks down, and he realizes that he's made all this money from being, like, a New York, like, assassin guy, but also has chosen to work as a photocopier salesman,

and that's completely unnecessary from all the money he earned as, like, a New York assassin. And he's like, fuck, man, I wish I'd remember it I had all this money so that I didn't have to put in nine to five. Yeah, it sucks. It's going to be great when he pulls up to the photocopier place at a sleep. like new Lamborghini and they're like, where'd you get that? And he's like, I don't know, I guess being a hitman has its perks. They're like, no, you've never had that car. Did you just, did you just take, I guess I just took it from a guy I killed?

A hitman has its perks? Is that where you go in the full moon comes house? I'm always forgetting that I'm not supposed to tell people I'm a hitman. Shit. Shit. Because of my canonical narrative Alzheimer's that works much like werewolf rules. Yeah. Then I forget when the moon sets.

All right. There's still time, Patrick. You got two weeks before the show comes out. It's about too late. Sheld that one. No, that's Fox. That's going straight to TV. That's straight to broadcast.

We had to get this one right in front of the grandparents immediately. With trailers for motherfucker or whatever. Focker-in-law. There it is. Focker-in-law. This is an advice show, all right? And you send us your questions and we read them and then we help you. it works.

I'm a teacher and I want to ride the bus to school, the yellow bus that takes the kids. Yep. I work in a rural area so the buses sometimes travel long distances to pick up kids and deliver them to school. I live about 20 minutes drive away and I see the bus pass by my house before I leave most mornings. Definitely a lot faster to drive myself, but I don't like wasting fuel and our teacher parking lot is not great.

I often need to be at school earlier, stay late. But whenever I can, I'd love to take advantage of that ride that. teases me as it passes by every morning. It's the only reliable public transportation we have around here. I don't actually know that it's against the rules, but I don't see anyone else doing this. So it has to be, right? Well, no.

Well, I will say, it will say, outside of the educational profession, this is a hard no. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think you can see a school bus and say, well, the Chappolo I work at is pretty close to the elementary school. I'll probably, I'll just skitch. I don't think that's, I don't think that's okay.

Now, that actually, no, that is okay. If you're a teacher, you can skitch on any, I think actually, if, regardless of your profession, if you get on the back of a bus skitch style, it should be okay because you've found a loophole and one that looks fucking cool at that. Yeah, dude. I imagine having to sit next to a teacher on the bus. day. Like, the teacher gets on the bus

and it's like, what am I supposed to do? You know, like, are we... Yeah. Are they a cool teacher? I think in that case, you need to have some kind of... You need to have some kind of indicator of like... At what is it, like, when you enter school zone, now you're in teacher mode.

But until then... Okay. Oh, a hard... A hard... Like, reference. It just... Like, memory... Or, like, or famously, like, memories of a killer from things.

30 seconds ago. I mean, you walk off the bus. I bet the bus driver would be stoked to have some adult company, don't you think? Yeah. In the jump seat. And the jumps have those? Co-pilot. Hello.

You can do the special break. That's cool. Oh, that would be cool. Yeah. What if they have vastly different interests? Well, you didn't see that coming, did you? Every day you get on the bus and they're like, did you see that red breast in lock this morning? It's like, no, Dan, as always, I don't look at the birds.

I guarantee that they have at least, they have one thing in common, and it's which of the kids are shitheads. Right? The ability to be like, you ever had Derek on this bus? Oh, fucking Derek. Yeah. And then Derek's sitting behind them like, I thought I was doing better. Oh, shoot. I've really been working hard this year.

I've been working on that. I think this is so smart. I would absolutely do this in a harp. This is not like a, I'm not speaking figuratively. I think this is great. Yeah. Kids are going to get a big kick out of it. You can get on there with like, I mean, absolutely uninterrupted sense of purpose.

You are going to your job. There's nothing more you could be doing, but you don't have to be doing anything. Yeah. That's a dream. That's beautiful. Well, you are, I think you are a little bit responsible for the kids, I think. If you are an adult and you're a teacher and you're on the bus, you're a little responsible for your kids.

Okay, that's interesting. Don't you think you're a little bit? That's interesting. So now it's like, let's figure that out though. I don't think that's assumed. Right, right. Do you have like,

culpable? I figured it out already. You're absolutely culpable and responsible. You have now added extra job to your day. Awesome. To what degree, though? This is like if every time I walked up the stairs to my office, I had to be making jokes the entire time I walked up the stairs.

You think, okay. That's not good. Yeah, I guess. I mean, like, I think there's also a world where, Like, I think the cool teacher comes on and they're like, I stub out a cigarette. Yeah. On the floor and they're like, listen, I don't get paid to give a fucking shit about you.

You got it. Until we get through that door. Just don't be, I got a hangover. Don't be loud. Yeah. Don't yell at me. I don't give a fuck. So what we're talking about here is a special pod within the bus.

So I was just thinking a first class cabin situation on the school bus. Curtin of Zion kind of. Just like. Something. thing that says not here. Like this is the rest of this bus is school. Yeah, yeah. This pod

is not school. And maybe the pod pulsates a blue light and makes a loud humming noise when you go into it. So that the rest of the kids on the bus are like what even is happening in there? Do you know about Mr. Dempsey? Yeah, he goes, I don't know why I used his name. He goes, he's the

pod one, right? Yeah, every day he gets on the bus with us, he goes into a special pod. There's a loud hum and a blue pulsing light. And he comes out. He calls it the Teakers Lounge, which is weird. It's so crazy. Griffin didn't? Mr. Dipsy used to be an actor.

What happened? He did. I guess the wall came down and maybe that's what the pot is for. He looks the same when he comes out of the pod. It's not like a tanning booth or any. I don't know what's happening in there. You know, this is such a good idea to have a separate adult section, but like we were so cavalier to get rid of smoking sections, weren't we? But like this, we didn't even think about the repercussions.

We used to have a great little built-in adult place, you know, a place where just adults could exchange ideas. Yes. Get their energy up. A third location. What it was. Yeah. I guess what we're saying is bring back smoking sections. Make smoking cool again.

Right? That's what the question's about. Wait, hold on. I'm rereading it's not about that. I'm rereading the question here. I'm a teacher. Do you? I do think though, the one complicating factor,

the only issue I have with this, is going back to seat selection on a bus and having to do that every single day. That's no good. That's rough. I don't want to look at Jeremy and be like, and he's like, what's up? What's up, Dr. McElroy?

It's so good to see you. I'm like, yeah, no problem. And Jeremy, so good to see you. This is you, wait, hold on. This is you in this scenario in your Dr. McElroy? I went back to school to get my doctorate. Why did that,

Like a middle school teacher? Why did your character a... I'm not a teacher, right? Right now? So I might as well be a doctor teacher. I mean, if I'm going to be... It's just a thing I made up. Okay.

Like, I might as well... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Okay, can I try to say... Then why go PhD? So, why not go, like, neurosurgeon or something? Why go PhD? Because why is he on the school?

Why would I go get my... You think I can pay back my fucking doctor school bills on a teacher cellar? Travis, you're high. So check this out. Check this out. I walk on the school. school bus. There's no public transportation in my city. And the only way that I'm able to get to my job at the school, I think, can be responsible to the environment is to take the school bus. So I jump 30 feet

into the bus and I go into my little pod and the bus driver's like, hello, and I'm like, hello. And I go into my booth and in there. And the bus crashes and they say, is there a doctor on the bus? And Professor Spider-Man says, no, not me. And then I raised my hand, I say, I'm a medical doctor. I can help. Wait, you are now? You did go to medical school. I got my JD, Trav, I got, it's a dual degree, Judas Prudus. I have a dual PhD. I have a dual PhD with Judas Prutus. I graduate at high school Judas cum Prutus. No, what sucked is, guys, this sucked. Is I went to school to be a doctor. Yeah. And then I got this special kind of amnesia. I forgot I was a doctor and then I went back to school.

Yeah. And I got learned as a lawyer and then I built a brick wall. Yeah. Between the two. This brick wall. And then you had to see yourself from medical malpractice. Okay. It was very hard. You were on both signs of the case. I showed up the court ready to meet this, this Dr. McElroy, everyone's so intimidated by. And imagine my terror. What I found that that Dr. McElroy was me. Is it possible to remake this? memory of a killer show real quick before it comes out and make it so that the double life is a pre-make if you will is he the double life he is living a demake his double life is that he runs a photocopier shop and then on the other side of the mental wall he runs a different photocopier

shop okay if we're gonna demake it yeah if we're gonna demake it then why not make it he runs a photocopier shop and there is maybe he spills some soda or something on one of the photocopiers and actually He accidentally photocopies himself. Okay. And now this other version of himself opens a rival photocopio shot. This is cool. So like a clone comes out of the printing machine

because he spilled a Coca-Cola on it, a Codechero. This is already a gravity fallout episode guys. I mean, if we can get that endorsement, that would be, that would fund the movie, frankly. Yeah. That's cool. If we could get Coca-Cola. That would be a cooler show.

Oh, but the clone starts doing really well at photocopy sales because he knows the ins and out. He was photocopy. It's in his blood. Toner's in his blood. It's called Toner cloning. Toner cloner's good. Travis, that's like your ninth one.

We've been going 24 minutes. That's like your ninth one, man. You're fucking on... I used it all up for the year. Do you save toner... Do you save toner-cloner boner for the sequel? Or is it like... Yeah.

That's what he says every time he messes up. It's his catchphrase. I made a toner cloner bone. I challenged my dad, who lives in Southern California, to a quote, big year to see his... many different birds as possible January 1st through December 3rd. Just gotta Google that real quick and see if it's a thing. You know, like the movie the big year.

Like the movie the big year. Top of my head. Steve Martin. Jack Black and Owen Wilson. I've never heard of this movie. This is a fucking jam-packed with talent. I live in Northern Illinois and did not anticipate him taking this challenge. So seriously, he's already been to six different parks slash beaches and has seen 30 plus

bird varieties. I've seen 12. How can I see more birds than my dad? We're both amateur birders, but he obviously has the advantage of location. That's from flipping the bird on him. Okay. First of all, you should have anticipated your dad taking this seriously. He's the dad of an adult person, I assume, since you're listening to the show and emailing us. And I don't, like, when I'm a dad and my kids have moved out and they're living their lives, the free time I will have to do things.

Unthinkable. A big year is, is an informal competition among burgers who try to identify as many speech. species of birds as possible within a calendar year in specific geographic area. I've never heard of this before, but it's very, very, very, very powerful to me. And I feel like I've actually... I would say it's kind of an underground thing

where it not for the major motion pictures starring Jack Black and Steve Martin. Which again, I had not heard. Oscar award winning. Had not heard of until this very long. Griffin, will you Google since you're already doing it? Yeah. Do zoos count?

Do zoos count a big year? I can't imagine they do. Do zoos? Do you count? I don't see. why not, this guy on Reddit says. Lots of birds and zoos. Lots of birds and zoos

come from all over the world. Now fucking AI at the top is like zoos do not count towards a big year. Of course, of course the bots would think that. Yeah, but the humans are like fucking go for it, dude. I have a slam dunk.

This is actually a good plan. Oh, okay. You plan on a secret visit to your dad for the holidays. You keep the race close. You don't tell your dad you're coming in. When your dad asks if you're coming in for the holidays.

You say no. You say no. You say no. You lie. You get in a couple days early. You see every fucking nasty feathery bitch that this guy has already seen, right? So you're eating his lunch completely. Can I add to you show up and you're like, dad, it's quick logistics thing.

How do they do that? How do they see? However the fuck you look at birds, Griffin. Okay. I'm a strategist. With your binoculars, I assume. With your binoculars and your notebook. But the idea.

I can't look at the birds for the question asker. I can't look at the birds for him, but he shows up and he looks at all the fucking birds. In a few days. Just like, pout, pout, pout, pout. Yeah. Scoping up. And then he shows up and his dad,

bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. He cops knocks, because his dad grows weed and he wants to freeze dad out, right? Yeah. He cop knocks. It ain't hard. It ain't hard to freak that dad out. He goes up and he's like, oh my God, sillop! And then it's like, dad, it's like, he's so happy to see you.

And you're like, when you whisper his ear like, check me. Because he's not, he can't go anywhere. He can't do anything. He doesn't know about the 30 birds you've just already seen while you've been kicking it. Yeah, that's awesome. You open up your bird or notebook and shun the list. He's like, oh, cool. and then it unfolds like a pornographic centerfold magazine.

Keep unfolding down. Don't look away. You haven't watched. That's great, Justin. I have a small suggestion that would require a little less work. Lie. No, okay, see, Travis. If I say I saw a bird.

Justin, let him cook. We say yes first and then we shit on it. If I say to you, I saw a fucking condor yesterday. I want you, Justin, McGrath. to prove I didn't. Yeah, Travis, I, I will, I don't have to prove you didn't. I just don't have to give a shit. Do you know what I mean?

Like, you can feel however you want and I will close that door in my heart and you'll never look in it again. Trust is the only commodity in the birder community. Once you lose that. This is what I'm saying, Griffin, it's all built on trust. If you lose that, no one's going to fucking, no way. No one's going to believe that. That explains so much because I have not heard from my.

My birder group chat since I said I saw the giant golden eagle from rescuers down under. That specific one. I was saying he saw the luck dragon and how many points is that? Yeah, I saw Falcour the luck dragon. Yeah. And he was wrestling with the giant golden eagle from the rescuers down under. And then I realized they were actually mating. Yeah.

And they had a baby that was half luck dragon, half giant golden eagle from rescuers down under. And I saw it. I saw it And then I ate its eggs So that's 20 extra points Well no those were not Travis's eggs Those are not Travis's eggs So I wasn't allowed to have them

Okay I had my own eggs from the poacher that I work for It gave me those eggs Yeah awesome Thank you very much Anyways they didn't believe me And now they don't invite me to things anymore Okay

But that one was true That one was actually true guys That one was real I remember that. You were on Periscope when that happened. That's true. Very clearly. Hey, you know where else?

You know where I'd like to take you, Travis? Where? To the money sound. Oh, to the money sound. Amazing. I feel like if you got a big idea, you want to get moving on it, beginning of a new year, you know, this is the time to start taking steps. And can I say a great way would be to start a website. Hi, it's Justin McRoy, paid endorser.

I think that if you were just a regular Joe. didn't realize you were an endorcer. I'm a paid endorser. I'm a paid endorser. If you want to start, I think the building your own website for your own website is a great way of organizing your ideas and trying to figure out where you stand with them. You want to bring people into this vision. You share your website with them. Hey everybody. I made this and it's going to look great. It's not going to look like you made it. It's going to look good. Yeah, it's not going to look like the bullshit you normally make. Justin's right. It's right. It's going to look. Perima.

This is some, this is uncut website, bud. Sorry, can you give me that folio again? Because I've never heard quite usually it's more of a smooch. It was dry and wet. It's a dry and wide aperture sort of smack.

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Oh, okay. It was Rachel? It's Rachel. She loves pranks and doing pranks to me. I'll break your phone for $1 a week. Yeah, cool. We're back. Yes.

I want a much squad. I want a month squad. I want to mun squad. Welcome to Munch Squad's podcast with the podcast profile being the latest and greatest in brand eating. I did want to bring a quick update for everybody who has. has been waiting all the noodles and co fans like myself have been. I consider myself part of the co, frankly. That's beautiful guys.

That's beautiful. Good news, guys. Huh. Strogens off is now strogan on. Strogon. Okay. Huh. Strogon off is now strogan on.

So instead of being strogan off, it's now it is strogan on. Okay. This looks like somebody accidentally just dropped some random chunks of beef into a bowl. Yeah. Noodles and Company, the fast casual known for a cravable, globally inspired noodle dishes, is bringing back a cult favorite steak stroganoff. Can I just say globally inspired is the least anything as opposed to Mars, as opposed to like this is how they eat it on Venus?

Yeah. Back by popular demand and available for a limited time only. Strokes, wavy egg noodles are enveloped in a rich mushroom sherry cream sauce and finished with tender marinated steak. Yada, yada, yada. Fans begged. They pleaded. Emotions ran high.

Noodle and company listen. Bringing steak stroganoff back with an over-the-top return inspired by its fans loudest social pleas. To honor the overwhelming demand, noodles and company turned real social post into AI-powered mini melodramas. What? Celebrating the fans' love and the influence it had on Stroganoff's return.

This is just, it's just, this is just all of them now, I think. I worry this is going to be all of them now. To celebrate your love, we just, we destroyed acres of forests. Our guests are at the center

of how we shape our fucking menu, said Joe Christina. Whoa, did he? No, he didn't. Sorry. And fuck all the haters. Fuck the haters and fuck rice. I'm sorry.

I want to be an AI man now. Put me in the noodle first. Fuck the haters. Fuck braddles. Fuck, yokey. For real. We're thankful for the fans who patiently, or sometimes not so patiently,

waited for its return. And we're excited to welcome this nostalgic time on its favorite back as the temperatures drop. There's another quote. Stake Stroganoff fans did more than ask for its return. They showed us how deeply this dish is wokenly. into their rituals, memories, and cravings, and we fucking listened.

What does that mean? It means that Strog is everything. Stroke is everything. Because Stroke means so much to our guest, that's what she said. Because Stroke means so much to our guests, I didn't mean that the Michael Scottway. Why would she say that?

Stroke means so much to our guests. Who would say that? What is the context so much that would be And how did they show it? How did they show it? Were they pulling out clips from home videos of like, look, look, do you see what we're eating there? Stake Stroganov, and that was my dad's last day with us. Travis, I'm not going to leave this behind.

Justin said, that's what she said, after Stroke means so much to our guests. I didn't, you didn't let me finish. I was trying to clarify, I didn't mean that in a Michael Scott sense. I meant she said out loud because Stroke means so much to our guests. I was trying to think of a context, like if you were the ticket taker at like a, a pornographic movie theater. No, I'm saying she's directly quoted as using the word strogue. That's what I'm saying.

Okay, that's cool. That is cool. Working with our creative agency, Fortnite Collective, we transformed real fan submissions into playful over the top. Dryimantic, there's an AI in there. Dryimantic reenactments using AI as a creative tool guided by human insight to bring their words and emotions to life and celebrate the fandom behind this iconic this. A shout out

to marketers and people in advertising. Shout out, if you cannot see how quickly, how short you are making the bridge. Yeah. Between the people that run noodles and company and just putting it into the computer

their goddamn selves, I really, my friend... It's a great work if you can get it, man. The sun is setting. My friend, it took a lot of very skilled technicians and programmers to make the AI stop turning out images that said Joe Roganov. Yeah, yeah.

It took a lot. The AI kept wanting to make it Joe Roganoff and they had to go in and really tweak the parameters. It's the thing, Trave, where, like, AI doesn't know how many R's are in the word strawberry. It's like that sort of thing where someone said Joe Roganoff once. And for whatever reason, that was like one of the first things it learned. And so if you try to peel that away, then the whole thing's going to travel. Like a kid saying Piscetti. Yeah. Remember how you were talking about how can they prove that there's fans? From February 10th through February 25th,

Noodles & Company is searching for its first ever cheek. It's not fair that I should stumble on this when all these words are basically made up. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not held accountable. Noodles and Company is searching for its first ever chief strogan officer. All right. But I thought it was strogan. I do, I do know that it is strogan on now. So pick a fucking thing, guys. Yeah, the casting call invites fans to prove they are not just Stake Stroganov lovers, but true fanatics. This is the guest who never misses a Stroganoff season, checks their noodles rewards religiously and has been counting down the days since the dish disappeared last winter. Strogan honor guard. Strogan honor. Were you trying to, was that whole time? You were trying to think of? Not the whole time. The winning monologue. Guys, this is. The monologue. This is an incredible prize. The winning monologue, whoever comes up with the best monologue,

about how much they love the strogue, will be transformed into one of noodles and companies AI-powered mini-traumaes featured across the brand social channels and website. Are they going to mic TV, me? They're going to get into it. Now, I do want to tell you guys one other thing. And because I was feeling pretty down about this

because I was so excited about it being strogan on. And then the AI was like, bummed me out. Seems like we didn't really come back to the strogan-on thing. Yeah, it's like whatever. But Arby's launches a new Italian beef dip sandwich. Now Arby's... Okay. I don't know. They didn't already have one? It's new. Yeah. No, they had, so they had the French dip. Yeah. With the augeo, but now they got a new Italian beef dip. Because they're going for it. Now, they're doing it like it is in Chicago. To mark the launch, Arby's partnered with entertainer Whitney Levitt in a new digital spot that highlights the sandwiches,

Chicago roots and robust flavor profile. I don't know who she is. I think she's a Mormon dancer. But that's a thing you can be now, I believe. But in conjunction with the product debut, Arbys will host the House of Italian Beef. A limited time pop-up experience in New York City, created in partnership with Chain,

the experiential brand co-founded by actor and writer B.J. Novak. Okay. The pop-up will be open to the public from January, 23rd through the 24th. Designed as an interactive museum, the House of Italian Beef explores the history, culture, and craftsmanship behind Chicago's iconic sandwich

while offering attendees an opportunity to sample Arby's Italian beef dip. There's been a tremendous opportunity that has been missed here, it feels like. To me, a partnership with B.J. Novak, that's huge. You can do a lot with that, but it seems like you haven't done the best thing with that, is a commercial series in which he gets up there and says,

and now I'm proud to announce that BJ stands for beef juice. I'm beef juice Novak and I have been this whole time. And I'm excited to tell you about my new RB sandwich. Take it from me, Beef Juice Novak. It's a squishy one, folks. Wet as hell. Fox Entertainment in 2023 acquired a stake in BJ Novak's food experience company chain. You remember BJ Novak, man?

Yeah. Yeah, he just did a different thing. And he opened up his whole, whole own restaurant thing. Yeah. This is when Fox invested in it, this is what B.J. Novak said. This is just, we love quotes here on my squad. We love quotes. Food continues to define culture.

It's how we celebrate, how we remember, how we connect. No one understands how to turn culinary storytelling into cultural obsession like Fox Entertainment and Studio Ramsey Global. We're excited to work together to bring chain experiences. to more people said BJ Novak that guy from the office. Well, actually, Justin, he sold that too. It's the guy from the beefist now. Yeah.

He sold the rights to being called the guy from the office to Arby's and he's the guy from the beefist. They've changed the whole show. Have you not watched... B.J. Novart, man. He's always out there doing it. Have you not watched the office

since the Arby's company bought it and changed it? Is that what the paper is? Yeah, the paper is... Yeah, they're really backdooring the beef side of the... It's the paper that they... wrap the sandwiches in.

They backdored the beef pretty hard on this one. It's strogan on when they backdoor the beef. Yeah. It's strogan on when they're back door on this beef. Yeah. Just strogan on my back door till I beef. I didn't realize how important stroke was to me until this guy. Yeah, dude.

That's what she said. I tried to do my rituals without it, and they didn't fucking work. It didn't work. The viscosity. It's a viscosity issue. BJ's not going to use AI in his Italian beef sandwich restaurant museum. Well, hopefully you will. Italian has AI in it.

I hope that's true. You can't spell Italian without BJ Novak's chain. It's got AI right in it. Right there. BJ, you can have that for free if you want to put that in your company, just capitalize the AI and triple your net worth. That's really sweet that you think he heard the thing about beef juice Novak and continued listening to the show. and wasn't immediately like,

I've got to go, I have to do this before someone on stage. He's probably on the phone with his private yacht dealer right now. Yeah. You made a beef juice sandwich and you partnered with a guy whose initials are the same as beef juice. That's crazy, guys. You fuck that up.

Maybe if you do use your fucking brains for a second and say having the computers do it for you, the neurons, computer can't think of something like beef juice novac. Guarantee you a million computers. Can't care. We need to have a Griffin versus computer off to see who you can think of,

But you choose Novak faster. It's a very niche competition admitted. I'd smoke it, dude. Like, there's stuff it can do, but I would smoke its ass at that. I would smoke its robot ass. Let's do another question. Brothers, after any rainstorm, we get an ungodly amount of grubs on our back patio. We have tried everything we and Google could think of,

but they stay for ages and return every time. I cannot own a chicken in my neighborhood, and I really don't want one. that's a fucking crazy sentence. Yeah, dude. Say it again. Anyways, back to the question. As I was saying.

They were doing fucking text to speech on their phone sending this question and went like, Oh, chickens. For sale. No, I can't have one in my back yard. I don't want to. Anyways, grubs in the back pad. Take this beautiful fertilized egg.

I can't have chickens in my house and I do not want one. Anyway, so guys. I'm trying to email a podcast in here. I'm in my pod, Derek. I told you not to talk to me. But can I say one more thing? Yeah, please, dude. For the future, not wanting to own a chicken is enough.

You know what I mean? Like, it doesn't have to also be illegal. One of those two excludes it. My city said I could, but I don't want one. My city said I can't, and I do want one. Either way. I would like to borrow someone else's chicken for a day or two. But where do I go to borrow a chicken?

And how can I convince them that I will return their chicken safe and full of grubs and definitely not eat it? That's from bountiful books and billings. If you don't know how on earth it would ever happen, it may be because it has not happened on earth. That is a possibility. Yeah, it may be your, this is where you find, this is where opportunity exists. It's in that narrow crevice between good ideas and bad ideas, you know what I mean?

And we live in that fucking crevice, dude. That's opportunity. My neighbor's got chickens. Okay. That's illegal, Travis. They can't have the chicken. No one is. I'm not going to know.

I'm not going to say which neighbor or where I live or where they live. But they also did get a rooster. which isn't as bad as I thought it would be. But man, if roosters only crow when the sun's up, that guy has no idea what time it is. Oh, now that's an interesting idea, Traff, is crows. Why does it have to be chickens? Maybe there's ways to attract birds to your yard.

Like, no, whatever the opposite of a scarecrow. Do they make a scare crow, but it's just like a sexy, a sexy bird. A luring crow. An alluring crow. Crow is really smart. You can probably just pay them. and give them like fair wages and insurance benefits and stuff.

That's it. You don't need to pay them. This is a sweet spot. You've got a fucking bird paradise. You're offering. Yeah. Yeah. They should be paying you to come in.

It's actually sick that you're offering these grubs even a chance to stay a part of the great chain. Yeah. I think that's beautiful. Because I'm pretty sure if there was a bunch of grubs outside of my house, I'd knock them out of the great chain with a pressure washer like extremely quickly. So I think it's beautiful. you're trying to come up with a really natural solution.

When you blast them with the pressure washer, though, they absolutely fucking explode, dude. Don't their nutrients go down into the soil to become enrichment for the corn or what? That's true. I don't think you can blast something out of the circle, dude. That's true. I think it's hubris to think you can't.

The circle can't be created or destroyed, Justin. No, it can't be broken. You can make it have a bit more of a circuitous route in the circle. Like, if you blasts. I just, I guess, I feel like, Nature and Fate has arranged those molecules to be those grubs. And I feel like they could hang out together a bit longer. But when I put on the zero degree nozzle, those molecules are no longer in a grub-like orientation.

They're vaporized. Star stuff. They have returned as to dust. But that's why I'm saying, Juice. A bird's who's... Every breath you take has a little bit of Julius Caesar's last breath and a little bit of grubs from a back porch. A little bit of the grub that you pressure washed out of your grass in your yard. And out of reality.

It's a little platoon. I can't imagine. track of this conversation because I blew those grubs out of reality so bad I don't know what we're talking about. It actually poked little holes in reality. That's like causing some issues. And fucked your yard up.

Fucked your yard up real bad. Real, real, real, real, real bad. Yeah, but it's worth it. I'd do it again. Fuck groves. The tiny screams make it all worth it. I want to help somebody else. I got a few minutes. I recently started going to pelvic floor

physical therapy twice a month. appointments can range from yoga-like stretches to internal exams of my various holes. I've learned that making conversation with my physical therapist during it relaxes me, both mentally and physically, to make my sessions more productive. What are some topics for conversations I can have with my doctor that aren't too invasive during my invasive therapy? For reference, we are both she-her people. That's from keeping it low-key in the down low. Okay.

You've come to the exact right place. Okay. I didn't know where that sentence was going to do. My brother Griffin is an expert in the field. Yeah. I definitely didn't have to just Google what a pelvic floor was. It's the opposite of a pelvic ceiling. He's being modest.

There's a lot of stuff happening down there that we've sort of grouped together as the pelvic floor. That's what I've learned about the big year and the pelvic floor in this one episode of this education. And you can write down spotting the pelvic floor in your big year notebook. Yeah, let me write that down. I heard it. I heard the pelvic floor. You guys, hey, you guys could talk about Stranger Things. There's going to be lots of opportunities to bring that up, right?

Like my upside down, right? Yeah, yeah. Bring that up. That's funny. Yeah, and you can keep doing that too. There's lots of portals that open up in Stranger Things. That's true. I don't think that that's, I think that's pretty yucky, but.

This is why everybody's got to memorize a thousand great jokes. Yeah. If you memorize a thousand great jokes, you're going to be the hit of every party. There is no pelvic floor exam that can withstand out a thousand great jokes. Yeah. You're going to have themed ones. You're going to have ones that are pelvic floor. I'm saying if you order this book, I'm right now.

Oh. Two payments. 1999. We're going to get you 100 great jokes within the next four to six business weeks. Can I just make one payment of like, what, 38, 98? printed all, we haven't printed all a thousand great jokes, so it starts the 100 great have you not printed them or have you not come up with them?

I've not written them. So this is a Kickstarter, Griffin, and you are currently violating an NDA. Okay. So do you want users to submit their great jokes? I would love that. You can, instead of buying the book, if you just want to submit, say, 50 great jokes

or 60 great jokes, then I can send you one. That's no problem. I'll send you one of the later ones, though. Well, you accept a lot of grubs instead. I don't have jokes or money, but I do have grubs out the wazoo. You get the grubs, you give them to the crows to write the jokes.

Please, there's... The crows are so... We don't need AI. We need a lot of crows. We need a lot of crows. We need a lot of smart crows. Sid's to show me a video of a crow talking yesterday. And then I was supposed to go about my day.

What? After seeing this crows say, wow, and mom, and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. I hope they don't learn to talk too much. Was it Crowen Wilson? Trave. Wow. Wow.

Damn it! Hey, thanks so much for listening to our podcast. I hope you've had as much fun as we have. We've had a real good time here, folks. I was listening to it old, this is relevant slightly. I was listening to watching a clip of the second episode of the Mbim Bam TV show. and I heard a joke of yours. It was kind of a burn on me that I've literally never clocked

and I've watched it 20 times is when I'm trying to say ghost beef and I'm coming out of the closet in the dorm room and I'm laughing so hard and I can't get it out and you say, whoa, pal, save some laughter for the rest of us. It's such a mean thing to say to somebody. That was, I think, our first day of shooting as well. Okay.

Oh, God. Thank you so much. What do we have going on? What we need to tell people? What's up? Well, Clubhouse is returning next Tuesday, January 27th at noon Eastern time. We're going to be streaming Clubhouse from now on in the last Tuesday of each month. We've also got Super Macroy Brothers.

It's going to be this Tuesday at noon Eastern time and we'll stream all other Tuesdays. Make sure to follow at Macroy Entertainment System on Instagram for all our gaming content. Also, there's very few, I think four at the time of recording. packages remaining for Champions Grove. Those are going to be 10% off for a new year, new year, new fun time special. Go to Championsgrove.com and check those out. If you've already purchased your package, you'll be able to get first grab at the available sessions and stuff like that. Championsgrove.com. We've also got some new merch. Can I do the merch? Yeah, I was going to throw it off to you. Oh, okay. Wow. Tell us about it, Griffin. I want to tell you about the merch over at

Macroymurch.com. There's a lot of it. There is a balance bundle for Taz Balance. It's got a Taz Dice tray, set a bureau balance dice, and a zonecast car decal. You can really rep the OG set from the Adventure Zone. And 10% of all of our merch proceeds this month will be donated to Immigrant Defender's Law Center. Again, all of that is over at macroymerch.com. If I could do a quick plug, my choose your own adventure book comes out in less than two months on March 10th. It's called the and you can pre-order it now. It would be very helpful to me at bit.ly slash griffinstowaway. I'm very proud of it and very stoked for that to come out.

Thanks to Montaigne. Yeah. Thanks to Montaigne for the use for a theme song, My Life is Better With You. I really enjoy the words of that song. Talk a lot about the music. I'm so distracted because Travis has a little duck that he's being in out. Yeah, I'm thinking about throwing this duck.

Oh, yeah. Baby, that's gonna make a good sound. I've got a lot of shit behind me. You need to set up like a pitchers. We all need like a pitchers man. Yeah, I was like I could throw it at my chair. Okay. Don't make a big meal out of it.

Just throw it at the chair. And here is Travis's heater. For the big boy, it is a small plastic purple duck. About the size of my fist. You talked over it. I talked over it. Travis, can we get one more throw my friend? Just one more, a good one.

Really hum it. Hey, can I have our Spotify play button? Shut up. Humet. I want the YouTube award. That was good. Tram, one more. Trave, I was talking,

and I promise this is not going to be a bit because I have to use the bathroom so bad. I'm going to die. Okay. The chair isn't making a very... My name is Justin McRoy. My name is Justin McRoy. Travis McElroyd.

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