My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 801: Bad Idea Blanket

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

This isn’t a celebrity-guest centric podcast at all, but we’re thinking maybe we can lure a famous mascot on if we fill our pockets with small stinky fish. Maybe that’s too forward. How about wing sauce? No, that’s too wild. I guess we’re just going to have to do a John Cougar Mellencamp impression instead.Suggested Talking Points: The Kissing Hot Dog Restaurant, Old Grey Hair, Truemoon Show, What Did I Say That was So Buffalo WildImmigrant Law Center of Minnesota: https://www.ilcm.org/donate/

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's rapping into a precious friendship. It feels love. Hello and welcome to my brother, my brother, me. It's an advice show for the modern era.

I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. Love is in the year. Whoa. Everywhere I look around. What's that, Travis, Tribe Nation, it's me, your middle-less brother, Travis Big Dog Wolf Wolf, Room, the heater, Cupid, Maceroy. Everybody's kissing on their dates. Huh. Go into the hot dog restaurant to kiss my girl.

John Mellencare? So hi everybody, I'm Griffin Macross. Oh. The youngest brother and also John Mellencamp. Sorry. Do you guys want to do a bit where I'm John Mellencamp? I don't know. I'm super good.

Have you always been John Mellencamp? No. I've never seen you and John Mellencamp in the same room at the same time. Yeah, I don't know much about him except the middle name thing. So if you guys want me to be him for a bit, I can try, like for a bit, I can try, but I don't think I would do a very good job of it. Well, let's try. John, what kind of stuff goes through your head when you're writing a,

a song about America. I can't fucking do it. Okay. I can't fucking do it. Hey, Mr. Melanchamp, what's your... What is Griffin getting up to today? Well, Justin. I can't fucking do it, guys.

I don't know how to fuck. I can't fucking do it. You can't even talk about yourself as... Okay. No, because, like, what's he sound... What's he do? What's he sound like? I know you had the...

I know you had Cougar, but I don't want to do a joke about that piece. In your head. Yeah. In your head, when you go to do... an impression like that. Yeah. What I see is, and this is true, I see the person who I'm doing an impression of

seated in an uncomfortable stool in front of me, staring at me, blank face, like, well, what have you got? What do I sound like? In that instance, in that instance, it felt a little bit more like it was my birthday, and I had been anticipating that my friends and loved ones were going to throw me a surprise party. when I got home and then I opened the door to my front house, to my front door to my house, and then there's no one there.

And that's what it feels like when I try to do an impression like John Cougar Mellencamp or I don't know him. I don't know anything about the guy. Yeah. I don't know either. I think he prefers John Mellon Camp. I don't think he does the cougar thing anymore. No, I think that's again the only thing I know.

It's an implied cougar after the Mellon camp, I think at this point. I think it kicks ass. It's a silent. All Cougars are silent. I don't think it's particularly funny because, again, it's like a thing, like he did this in like 1997. But I do want to say like now it's 2026. Like it kicks ass that you can just put the name of like a big mountain cat.

I've been doing it. I put a big dog right in the middle of my name and no one said shit. Yeah, just toss it in there. I just feel like with our audience eventually if someone hasn't done something in 20 years, we should stop talking about them. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure. It's like it's nothing personally against Mr. Germant camp.

I know he has his fans. But I just feel like we're not winning on those points. This should be about bad buddy. Super Bowl commercial with John Cougar Mellencamper. He's like, and we're bringing back the Cougar. And maybe it's for Cougar Town reboot that coming to ABC's. Cougar Country. Was Cougar Town the name of the real show or was that the parody that community cable?

Cougar Town was the real show. Hey, Griffin, those were the same thing. They talked about the real show Cougar Town. Oh, did they? Oh, did they? Okay. I get it. I get it.

Again, it's all gets mixed up in there. Empty surprise party. I, um, I love you guys. I had, I just wanted to say. What? I love you guys. We're recording this the day before Valentine's Day and. Oh, well, I don't feel that kind of love for you guys.

I have so much love for you guys. Obviously, I built my entire, I built my life around you guys. There's a huge amount of love there, but not this kind. I don't think it has to be a romantic love to say I love you to my brothers. Well, but you tied it to Valentine's Day, which is. the romance holiday. I would get Valentine's presents for my kids. It's like when people wish me

Merry Christmas on Christmas. It's like, yeah, obviously. Why aren't you saying this shit in April? Well, no one says Merry Christmas anymore, you know what I mean? Have you guys noticed that? Justin, spin me a yarn because it feels like you're ready,

you've got the yarn sort of tangled up in your hands and you're ready to present it. Like a kitty cat? Like a kitty cat? What are you talking about? Oh, it felt like you were about to launch into a story and then we started talking about some bullshit. that people, what is it that people keep doing with me?

You know, it's very confusing. Oh, here we go. Doing this. People have been doing this with me the whole time. Why is everybody trying to guess? Why does nobody just ask? You know? Yeah.

He was talking about going the store earlier and I was like, yeah, sounds good. And she's like, well, you're not going because I have my arm thing. And it's like, why don't you ask? See if I want to go to the store, you know? Did you? And then you're like, tell you about this yarn you got spinning. I don't. make, I don't do that to you.

I don't say, do your best chung-cooker-Mellon impression. You know what I mean? You did explicitly fucking say that. There have been moot- You completely into, you completely entirely said

almost those exact words in that sequence. As a result, there's been light memory loss as a result of some of the painkillers that were used. There's been light memory loss and mood swings. I cannot be held accountable.

Wait, do people know what you're talking about? You can't just talk about the arm-pays. This is not a big deal. I had a carpal tunnel surgery. It's a mild carpal tunnel release and a cubital tunnel release.

I had a surgery on my arm and my elbow so that my body would work the way it did before. To open up all the tunnels. What? To open up your tunnels. To wipe them out. My tunnels are open. Honestly, I haven't been able to game. I haven't been able to game in the way that I need to.

If I game for more than 10 minutes, my hands fall asleep. Yeah. You used to do 48-hour sessions. I used to really cool. I used to poop sock through Fallout. I used to be the Master Chief's number one guy. Yeah, yeah. But not anymore.

But so now I'm rebuilding. Like a lot of the great E athletes, I hit the showers, I'm taking some time to recuperate physically. Yeah. And then I'm going to be back out there. Like rookie of a year. Currently healing.

I'm excited for you. I'm happy you've had this done and I hope you have a quick healing and great results. What a normal thing to say. Thank you, Griffin. I am a bit grateful that maybe this will spread out some of the comments that I largely get in our social media posts and video contributions to culture where, you know, for juice, it's always like someone giving my bib, big bro's looking

like a snack yum yum, and Travis's is like another great bit because unappreciated by his brothers. And mine are like, doesn't he look so tired? Look at his old gray. Look at his old gray hair. If he has old gray hair, that must mean that I am also becoming older. So maybe we can, I got, I just have heard from some people that we should spread those around. So Justin reminds people of their sensuality. I remind people of their humanity and you remind people of their mortality is what you're saying. Exactly. And I'm hoping again we can do a mix it up. There should be a cycling. There should be a cycling. That's it. That's all I'm shuffling of their roles. Let's let's let's help somebody. I've recently gotten to know another dad in my neighborhood because our children play together outside. While our children play, we stand in our driveways and just be at.

about random topics. Recently, we got on the topic of aliens, cryptids, and conspiracy theories. And while on this topic, he let me know he isn't fully convinced we walked on the moon. And there's a lot of interesting points suggesting it's all fake. Brothers, how do I convince this guy, the moon landing, definitely happened without him realizing. I'm trying to educate him on one of mankind's greatest accomplishments. And that's from Neil to Gatt and Lowe to this guy in Austin. In Austin, it fills in a lot of blanks for me.

I do feel like maybe the per capita moon landing denier rate is slightly, slightly higher there. Well, what are these good points? I want to know, like, what kind of interesting points? Yeah. Well, I want to hear the evidence. I want to hear what this guy has to say. The flag waving, I've never heard a moon wind, have you, Travis? And there's no explanation for that.

Oh, fuck. Yeah, so there's no explanation for why the flag could be up. because there simply is no moon. Let's put it, let's say, let's put some parameters. Okay. We definitely walked to the moon. The moon landing was real. I mean, we did.

There's no question about that from the three of us, right? Yeah, absolutely walk to the moon. I will say. No, see, I do want to get these guardrails in place. If you just let me get these guard rails. Yeah, go and get the car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely walk to the moon.

There's no question about that from any of us. I mean, that's assuming the moon's even real. Well, okay, that's obviously. That's very silly. And I do appreciate you. Oh, really? Have you seen Truman Show where Ed Harris is up in the moon and he's watching Truman? Oh, and what movie was Ed Harris also in?

Apollo 13. The clues are all there, Griffin. Yeah. No, you got a good point, Westworld. Westworld? Thank you. What a storied career that means had. Truman Show, True Moon, the Truth of the Moon.

True Moon. Real Ed Harris up watching us, jerking it, all. Always. Yeah, herbert. That's the mnemonic device I used to remember. We absolutely landed on the moon. When I go to the air and space museum here in Washington, D.C., a tear comes from my eye every time I even think about the moon. It's a little weird we haven't gone back in like 50 fucking years.

Nothing changed there, though. Like, if I went to a movie theater and saw a movie in 50 years, the movie theater was showing the same movie, I'm not like a dying to go. folks you don't have to hit I know the reason I know there's reasons why but it's a little suspect don't you 50 years don't you think someone would have accidentally landed on the moon at some point I think it is the only thing that I think is weird is that is that every especially now all the other countries just just kind of trusted us to say what's up there yeah I would want to go up there myself not to say you didn't but I want my own butchers up there look around for rocks maybe get one huge rock that I'll name after myself. Do we know what the moon smells like? Well, there's no air. There's no air. Right.

But we have brought the moon back to Earth and it's probably huffed it good. Like, you know there was probably a lot of experiments. Oh, yeah. What is moon smelling? Let's see if we can get fucked up. This is going to take you so long to Google because I only have one hand, so be patient.

Here's my thing, even if I didn't know any of the science or history of the moon landing. Yeah. I can tell you it's real. because it's been like 50 years, and that would be an exhausting conspiracy to have to keep denying and explaining. 50 years,

especially as you passed it, like, to different, like, generations of people. I'm like, now it's your job to keep lying about this thing we did. Please don't tell anyone. It's accurate, like ashes in a fireplace. Whoa. That's cool. I wouldn't think that because I would think the moon is cold,

and so I wouldn't think fireplace. But I love that. that smell. That's awesome. Yeah. It's cool. It'd be cool to have a piece of the moon, I think. Well, yeah. A glowing piece of that radical rock? No, I think, like, it's obviously probably not ethical, because it's like you're not supposed to pick up rocks in nature and bring them home.

Yeah, the moon is like the most... The moon is like the most natural thing that there is, because, like, only two dudes have been on it. I think the moon landing's real because of how mad Buzz Aldrin gets when you say it is not. Yeah. I don't think that anger could come from such a pure place if he knew it was all soundstage, no moonwind, phony, bologna bullshit. He really, he wouldn't have the guts. He beats ass.

He's beaten ass before. And I don't know if he's alive or not alive. Trues, can you Google that for me real quick, Buzz Aldrin alive or not? Yeah. But he gets so mad and he's like, it's ass-beating time. The two Zs next to each other are big help because I don't have to go. And he's old enough now that if it was a lie, he'd be like, yeah, fuck it. Whatever.

Yeah. Who cares? Sure. Who gives us shit, man? We were in Pasadena. The moon of the earth. He's alive right now, 1930 until question mark. Ooh, there's like a fun party.

No, that's like implied. He's 96. Oh, okay. I thought Wikipedia said tell question mark, which felt, which had this sort of enigmatic. No, it's implied. It's an implied question mark that we all. Yeah, I mean, I think. that it's, oh, you know, this is, this is why I wanted to put these guardrails on here, because I do think

it's okay for everybody to have a little, something. For this kind of stuff. Specifically, this is borderline. Not anything, don't you think this is about as far as it should go? Well, because, yeah, I'm just saying that they're not out there, they're not out there crowing about it. They don't wear a shirt about it. I think, I think we need to have in our hearts room for that because I think that everybody there shouldn't be forced into group think just because it makes other people uncomfortable right but you also if you have a bad idea you shouldn't tell people about it but I think you have the right to hold this person let you get several conversations in before they showed you their one little thing that they

know isn't perfect. And they know it's wrong. Like I fully believe. Like anybody who brings it up has never said it with the confidence of a fact. They're like, and I think. And I guess what I'm saying is. I'm leaving the door open too. Yeah.

You know. It's cute. It's like everybody can have a little one. I don't know. Just a little like talking about it. A little not any more. Again, I must stress. Don't have a little one that's worse than this.

No, I have feelings about ghosts that maybe aren't mainstream. But it's fine. Let me talk about the problem with the government. Sure. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Do I have to, can I turn my camera off while you do it? No, it is fine for you to have these bad ideas.

What we have done accidentally here, like this person, it says, I don't know about the moon thing. What our current government presupposes is what if we take that person and put him in charge of moonship? And this is where the breakdown is, right? Because there's all these bad idea people that are in charge of things now, which has turned us all against bad idea people. You know? You used to be able to enjoy bad idea people for their bad ideas because there wasn't some worry that someone would be like,

yeah, I'm not sure vaccines work. And someone would be like, hey, I heard that. You wouldn't be in charge of vaccines? Like, that's the world we live in now. It used to be okay to have bad ideas. Used to be able to enjoy them, you know? It used to be people were just cranks. You know, that's wrong.

You can just give us. Cranks. Wrong-headed cranks. He doesn't believe we landed on the moon. Ha, ha, ha, ha. What a character. It just has to, yeah, it didn't have to be, and he doesn't believe vaccines are real.

And he's also in charge of the DHS. It's like, why? That's not the fun part. There used to be a decent dragnet that would catch bad idea folks from running the organizations. But now they just have hearings for them. It's like, I saw you say, this bad idea on X, the Everything website

that is specifically about this thing you're gonna be running? Do you feel that? And then they'll be like, nope. And then all of us would be like, sounds good, you're in charge now, and then they're like pranked. Pranked.

I just think it's a bummer that people can't have bad, wrong ideas anymore just because those have gotten us into such hot water. You know what I mean? Like, just quiet, harmless, bad ideas. Harmless bad ideas. They keep to themselves

and it's like you get a drink in them and they're like, yeah, but the moon thing and you're like, Todd, Todd, Todd. I feel like moon landing is a kind of bad idea that you can have that then isn't necessarily a gateway drug to like 50 other bad ideas that I suddenly now know that you have. Flat Earth is one word that's interesting

because you would think it's about the same thing, but when I hear that you have that bad idea, I'm immediately like, oh, I know nine other bad ideas you got, You are sorted away. That's very true, Griffin. That's a good point. And there are lines and there are borders. I am just saying it is the fact that this person has a wrong idea doesn't intrinsically hurt you.

What's hard is that we've been so hurt by so many bad ideas lately that we're all so gun-shy about people who possess them. It should be okay for people to hold and treasure bad ideas that they do not act on. That's very sad that we don't have room for that anymore But I understand it, right? Right, absolutely. There is the fear that this one little thread You pull at this one bad idea thread And then the whole bad idea blanket that falls out

Yeah, sure. Oh, no. Oh, boy. It's weighted too. Oh, man. Oh, no. Send him to me. Send him in the air and space museum with me for a day trip.

Gryphil said him, right? I'll set him fucking right. I'll teach them all about the Wright brothers Griffin will make him smoke a whole pack of the moon. You know what I mean? I'll make him smoke a fucking fat blunt with me in the bathroom at the air and space museum. They are.

Just Graham and stupid. Buzz Aldrin, smoking a huge bond. Getting buzzed aldrin in the bathroom of the air and space museum. It's the one museum they let you fucking blaze. It's the one museum where they let you blaze. Try that shit in the portrait gallery. Yeah.

Absolutely. You know why people get that way about the moon landing, really, they're right? Because they're not allowed to go. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's fair. If you're mad, you want to think, you want to decide that nobody went because it sucks so hard that like eight guys went. That sucks, right?

It would be better if nobody went. That's more fair. But I'm sorry, it just didn't shake out that way. Apologies. How about another question? Should you like that? Yeah. I would have liked a little bit more enthusiasm.

Yes. Yep. I have gotten the opportunity in a few weeks to go meet some penguins. The event description says the penguins have personalities and will choose who in your group to interact with independently. Brothers, I desperately crave validation, especially from our animal friends.

How can I become the favorite human of these waddling little guys over my friends and family? And that's flightless in February. Other than touch 100 sardines, like that one's pretty obvious, touch a hundred sardines in your pocket is good. Sardines in your pocket is good.

Sardines in your pocket is not good. Yeah, because they will check you. If you already got the stink on your hands, There's nothing they can do about that, but they do, they will check you for small, and you don't want to get swarmed either. Like, suddenly the penguins eat your pants off.

Oh my God. Yeah, one. Rock hoppers try to gobble my balls off. Have you guys seen the videos? They pop up on my, for you page, because I love aminals, of like,

we had an adoption event where the dogs chose the people, they would go, and they let, like, a dog into, like, the lobby of the auditor, and there's, like, people sitting around and the dog, like, they go up and they get excited about one person

and they go home. And I always think about, they never show the opposite side of that where there's like one guy left at the end of the event and no dog shows. And he's like, well, I guess. Mr. Bees will get him. Mr. Bees won't let him go home hungry. I don't think that, Griffin, I don't think it's a home or a stick.

He can raise. Yeah. Have a rock. And also, there must be something wrong with that guy. If a hundred dogs decided they didn't want to go home with them, they could probably sense some justice. Since danger. I put a hundred dogs and 100 perverts into one circle.

Is there an attitude that one could project? Because you don't want to be too eager for it, obviously. Yeah, right? And you don't want to seem like you're making fun of the penguins. Because they can smell that on you, just like sardines. Yeah. But you also don't want to be too aloof. That's their thing.

Yeah. They're among our most aloof birds. That's why everybody likes them so much. They don't need us. Yeah, if they were hungry for it, if pigeons were constantly, like, trying to get your attention, you don't want that, right? You also don't want one of those crazy-looking penguins

to come for you, right? With big eyebrows. Oh, what is that? A rock, rock hopper penguin? Is that the emperor? I thought the emperor was just sort of the thick lad, the big thick, tough lad. Oh, if you have a kid, bring the kid with you

and, like, kind of sit on top of your kid. And then the penguin sees that, and they're like, that's what we do too. That's my jam. Awesome. We got something to talk about. I do it like this. Show me how you used it on your kid.

We have eggs. You've seen Surf's Up? We didn't like that one. We thought that that was bullshit, actually. Happy Feet. That's real. Happy Feet rules. We do do that in real life,

but Serfs Up is fucking Hollywood bullshit. I want an apology. If I was a penguin and you showed me happy feet and you showed me Surf's Up and happy feet results in a penguin dancing to make human beings happy. Yeah. Versus a movie where a penguin. penguin from the Arctic follows his surfing dreams.

Yeah. Griffin, I think you've got history wrong here. I think I know exactly as a penguin, which film I would support. I bet every fucking penguin has a story about a relative who is in March of the Penguins, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Every penguin's like, oh, yeah, my brother, Dave, you know, the one guy falls off the ice flow at the one point and then comes back up. And everybody's like, all right.

That's my cousin Dave, actually. It's crazy. The one that dropped the egg and was like, oh, fuck. Dave. That was actually my uncle. Dave. That was my brother-in-law. Dave.

He's in that flick. When you meet the Penguins, if you said, and I mean, I watched March of the Penguin, do you think the Penguins like that or not? It just seems too hungry? You're trying. You're trying to understand their culture, but it's like you did it in the most lazy spoon-fed way possible. They don't know if they're in March of the Penguins. They don't have movie theaters.

You know what I mean? Yeah. That's our thing. Talk to them about Severance. I bet Penguins love Severance. They have a. I just haven't seen this. So, like, I'm not gonna tell you about some movie

that's like about you and your life. Yeah, you don't wanna hear that. Like, surfs up. But there's this kick-ass show on Apple TV. I feel like, though, if you, if you, it's gotta be a show that's done. It's gotta be a full arc. Because if you get to like where they're at

in Severance right now, they're gonna be like, and? And then what? I don't actually know. I can't tell you. Don't start with Supernatural. That's 15 seasons. There's no way you're getting through that.

Yeah. two tops in and out. One of them Netflix dramas that they didn't give much of a shot after that. Just get in and out. Penguins love that shit. I think you could do Walking Dead and then that's fun because there's like

spin-offs of that. That if they're into that, you're like, and I'll be back. If you guys want, I can come back. If you want more, there's more we can produce. I can tell you more about the Walking Dead universe. Lay down on the ground, on your stomach. Hmm.

Lay down on the ground on your stomach and look down at the ground. If I was a penguin, and a bunch of humans, anytime a bunch of humans walks in the room, I would be like, what the fuck is going on

these giants who are six to ten times bigger than I am? What do they fucking want from me? I love that they, the small fish they bring me, he kicks ass, but like I don't see any...

By the way, the penguin may not think of it that way. Because they're so small. Oh, they want big fish? Well, they don't see it as a small fish. Oh, to them a sardium. It's like a big fish. That's wonderful.

It's not a big fish, it's just like a fish. Oh shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's just like to them because they're so much smaller, that's like a good fish. If you brought out a normal fish to us, for them, that would be giant and ridiculous. To them, it's like a, Sardine is like a tilapia fish.

Yeah. You don't have to, like, I feel like by introducing that comparison, you're inviting a lot of like flavor and texture stuff. But it's just like a size thing. It's just like to them as a regular size fish. And it's reductive. Yeah. I think you could bring in a video of you, like,

beating up a walrus or an orca or something. And I think that penguins are going to love that, right? Yeah. Like, I'll tell you, Travis, the first half of that sentence, I could not remember what this question was. I was on pins and needles. Awesome. It was crazy, man.

That's cool. You really pulled it out, though. To be fair, I couldn't imagine where you were going for a second. It would work in a lot of social situations to make you at least very interesting to people. I kick this wallrises. Yeah, the only situation it would do bad for is if you are trying to impress a walrus. Although even a walrus, I think, if you beat the,

shit out of a walrus and you show that video to a walrus they'll probably be like whoa damn i mean pocketful of sardines is probably going to make you some friends in most crowds right like that's a good one to have no matter what they will check you they will check you for we did say we did establish at the top that no jesson's saying in a variety of social situations there's a lot of social situations where a pocketful of sardines if it was just your natural sort of like it's sort of like tom baker do it with jelly babies just like having them as like a well some people call it a what's it just like a something that'll get get the conversation.

Yeah, but you don't want a stinky, you don't want a stinky what's it. You don't want a stinky, soggy, what's it? Tom Baker wasn't walking around with one bulging, stinky, rotten pocket. And people are like, what's your fucking deal? He's like, I'm an immortal time space traveler. And they're like, that's cool, but man, holy fuck.

Do you like a sardine? No. Oh, is that what that is? Jesus Christ, what do you have? Do you need those for like your sardines of the dawn of time? Gross. That sucks, dude.

That's gross. They're all the rage on Gourblon 5. That's fine. This is Earth. I have an Earth nose. That sucks, dude. If you're telling me that, like, in space is so topsy-turvy that, like, no one is clocking your stinky wards?

It's basically just on Gourblon 5, actually. I don't want to go to space. I don't think if people are cool with your stinky Watson. This is the TARDIS. It's stinkier on the inside. Yeah. It would have to be. Yeah, I believe it.

Wow. He had to store these somewhere presumably. ship. You're not flash freezing them or something. I should get a refrigerator for the TARDIS. Yeah, man, you don't have that? Why, of all the things you don't have? I have a big closet full of whimsical clothing, but you don't have a refrigerator? That's great. That's wild, man. Weight limit issues. Okay. Okay. Can we go to the money zone? I would love nothing more. Money. No one knows how it works. Where does it come from? Where does it come from? Where does it?

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I'm not going to talk about your weird Duncan Justin Bate with all these freaking 90s people in it that you aired in the Super Bowl with Ted Danson and Jasmine Guy and Jaliel White and Alvonso Ribera and Jason Alexander and Matt LaBlogue and Jennifer Anderson and Ben Affleck and all those people I'm not going to talk about that. But Justin, but I remember them. I remember all of that.

Yeah, I remember them too. And the whole thing is about, do you remember? Can I tell you what's weird? I don't. Like, I think, guys, this might be a Mandela thing where you think those people existed. They never did. No. We never landed on the moon, and there wasn't Jaliel White.

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What? So it's like a, yeah, it's like they're trying to say. This is what football Tom was doing instead of leading his team to victory. Yeah, when the Patriots needed Tom the most. Yeah, exactly. I don't know who won the Super Bowl. Yeah, it was the Seahawks

in a game that was a largely, from what I understand, kicking-based affair. Mostly kicks, not a lot of throws in this one. Like football. And a lot of people are disappointed in that. I'm not going to talk in sports. It's cold football. I was watching curdling.

Yes. I'm not going to talk about that. Okay. Okay. Because I have to keep talking about, it's hard. When we started talking about the terrible Buffalo Hank. Yeah. And his terrible voice, the terrible way he looks.

The voice is cool. I love. I love the voice. The voice is actually great, too. I feel like we kind of entered into this bargain where I have to keep covering all of his like comings and goings. And this one is honestly pretty monumental. So Buffalo Wild Wings and T. Payne drop a love song to level up your next date night.

Huh. Awesome. So just, in case, let me, I got it on a tab. So I hope he sings, do you suffer from me? What I like about this is that a lot of people when they do songs. No. You must pause it. What I like is a lot of people when they do songs, they're like, we did a collaboration

with this person. Yeah. Then usually it's like they did a song and they'll maybe like mention the product in the song. T-Pain is like, he is laying out for you. There is no art here. He is laying out for you exactly what the deal is. Like he's like completely just here's what it is.

It's like this exactly how much meat you get. With the number of Pepsi's included in the deal. With an enthusiasm that suggests that maybe he had already written this song. And he was like, this is embarrassing, but sometimes as practice till my skills don't dull, I'll do like jingles or whatever. And Buffalo Wild Wings, you actually need to hear this one. It's called Let's Go Buffalo Wild. and it fucking hits. Yeah, it's actually, I wrote it for you guys.

Let's see if he continues to detail special. Can I just send a message? You just send anything you want, yeah. Okay, thank you. Buffalo Wild Wings, the amount of money that you had to pay T-Pain to be this enthusiastic about your product,

you could have paid me so much less. And I would have been enthusiastic about it, too. And you would not have been able to write a... No, absolutely not. But I just, I see this and I think I'd like to sell out. Can I please sell out for... To B-Dubs? Oh, this much money?

Oh, please, please, please. B-Dubs has launched a limited edition six-track love album featuring a hit single with T-Pain just in time for Valentine's Day. Buffalo Wild Wings is teaming up with Grammy Award-winning artist-producer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and global cultural icon T-Pain to release Let's Go Buffalo Wild, a pick-six love song.

The catchy new anthem is designed to be the soundtrack for your next Buffalo Wild Wings date night. Can you imagine? Can you, I'm in my wife, taking my lady love to Buffalo Wild Wings? But not just that, Griffin, but like saying, like, baby, on the way there, have I got the soundtrack for us? The date night soundtrack. If you're curious about what the specials are right now, don't worry, because I have my friend T-Pain here to lay them out for you in detail. You don't want to embarrass yourself when you get up to the counter.

No, you get there and your wife picks up the menu and you're like, what are you doing? Yeah. The feature song, okay, it's a. The track is so catchy. You'll find yourself craving a PICSX meal for two. Yes, of course I do. Yeah, I mean, I would feel that regardless of if I heard a song or not. But also, for one, I want to eat it.

Oh. Yeah, yeah. Fans can view the full music video for Let's Go Buffalo Wild, a PICSix love song here. Does the Buffalo appear in the video, definitely? Yeah, wait a minute. Let's keep, let's keep, and then we'll return to the... Okay.

God damn They actually, to be To be To be clear They would not do wild things At Buffalo Wild Wings Despite what Mr. Payne is encouraging here Okay, here's what I'm hoping

We're at 120 of a two-thirty 30 video, okay guys? Yeah. What I'm hoping for is a Hank verse. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. The other thing I want to mention is that the video is T. Payne and his, I'm assuming, wife. They're sitting at a table enjoying the meal and they're being encircled by what

appear to be real cars driving in real circles. Absolutely whipping shitties around T-Pain in this stuff. So close. So-close. All I can think about the entire time. watching this, it's like, for the love of God, don't let us lose tea pain to a B-dubs commercial. Commercial tragedy. It also, please, God.

What it proposes is that the perfect... Or his wife. Yeah. Yeah, no, please. Or the Pepsi's. The best way to enjoy a fine meal is in a hangar filled with exhaust fumes and burning tires smell. Okay, I'm really hoping for this hangar's guys. Let's keep digging. Can I say Okay Okay, I'm gonna, one last thing I'm dripping in sauce

I'm a Bdub's boss That's really good It's good, man It's good It's good, it's shot right here Okay That's a lot, man That's a lot, man

Hold on Okay, right off the bat Okay, okay, okay Okay, okay, back up back up Does he start out with Ola, it's Hank? Yes I think you might have said

Ola it's Hank, but we're gonna back up and just hear Hank's verse This looks like Hank is dead and this is only people who know this guy's like he is gonna be on the podcast eventually we have to be a little bit polite this seems like there's gonna be a reveal that they spent a hundred million dollars that holographically get dead Hank into this video and track yeah like Hank is Joe C and we've just

brought his spirit back for one last verse okay okay so that's awesome Oh boy. So here's what Hank does. He manages to drop Spanish and then flips it around with a little AVE, a little slang for everybody. Because he's Hank. He's an equal opportunity. He's a flavor free. He'd be the flavor freak.

I believe is what he said, Trave. Okay. And also. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Hungry?

Me hungry. I don't. Me hungi. So that's somebody else that is not, I don't think, that's another good thing, Hank. I think you do a lot of bad ones right in a row, pal. I mean, you know, make a drift for you because you know you're rolling with the buffalo. We can get it wild. Baby keep it mild.

You go to balls with that pumichong garlic sauce. Desert heat, smoke, sweet in your mouth. Nashville hot talks like me in the South. Todd Curry. We may got to hurry. It's about it. Bring me some. I mean.

You know, everyone has to start somewhere, right? Eric's got to start somewhere. So many artists. launch their careers off of the back of a guest verse on a track. And I do think that Hank's craft could use some work, could use a little bit more practice. But this is how you get it. This is how, this is how.

And under the tutelage of someone like T-Pain, who like has been all over every, you know, part of this business, it's invaluable. It's just wild that we're seeing kind of the work take place. Yeah. It is interesting the tonal quality that Hank brings. Yes. As if someone asked Josh Grobin to do a guest verse in their song. A lot of interrogative kind of pitch shift upwards, like, can I get a drip?

And a lot more vibrato than one normally hears in a guest verse. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, that's a good point. Trave, a lot of Trimolo coming out of those pipes. Has Beck Bennett always voiced? Hank, I feel like at first it was a Beck Bennett alike. Has he always been the man

behind the horns? It's possible that they had a Beck Bennett impersonator and then, you know, had a great quarter and then paid for him. Well, maybe not. I love Hank and I would love to get Hank on the show. Sure. It's a Buffalo character. It's a Buffalo character. It's a Buffalo character.

Yeah, but Graham and he had a song with T-Pain, so how is that? But do you want Beck Bennett to come on the show? That would be really fun. I think that would be a great. I don't, I am not interested in having Beck Bennett on the show. Okay.

I am interested in having Hank from W3s on the show. He plays the role. Can you imagine a duet dropped by Hank of Buffalo and MC Scat cat together? That would be good. Oh my God. Partnering with T. Payne to create, can I read the quote? You can.

I just like, you said something so wild and I feel like, Okay, so Buffalo Wild, Griffin. What did I say that was so Buffalo Wild? Commercial mascots don't do podcast appearance. Like, Mr. Peanut never went on fucking doughboys. Hey, Truff. Hey, Traff.

Hey, Traff. How many seasons has the Grinch's podcast been going? A lot? I don't know. Yeah, like three seasons. You just sound so stupid. So that's the Grinch. That's like different.

So the Grinch can have his own podcast, but I can't have Hank from B-W. on my podcast. And what about prime, prime spokesperson, Logan Paul and his podcast, Griffin? Okay, that's different. Neither of those things are like mascots in the way that Hank is a mascot. What? It's not, what do you, okay, but like, they, they didn't bring the yellow M&M on fucking WTF.

So you're telling me you think Logan Paul is a real person? No, I'm not saying, I'm saying Beck Bennett would, I would love to have Beck Binn on the show. We don't really have a lot of celebrity guests, and that's by design. It's because we don't really know how to be funny with them usually, right? Can we all agree about, hey, audience, you agree? Everyone's nodding at home. Okay, fine. So I don't necessarily want Beck Bennett on the show, even though I would love to meet Beck Bennett,

and I'm a big fan of his work. I'm realistic in that that's not where our skill set is, right? It's not in getting celebrities on the show and cutting up with him. Otherwise, I think we would have climbed a little bit higher up that proverbial mountain than we would have done it by now. We would have done it. Yes, for sure. Hank

from BW3s is a riot and we talk about them a lot on the show and I'd love to know I would love to talk about BW3s I don't think about BW3s's a joke I'll I go there I took Tim Bat there

I order for the BW3s go I'm a fan okay I'd like to have Hank on the show I don't want Beckman on the show we don't know how to make interviews don't want I think maybe this is Grivin's hang up It sounds like you draw the line that having Beckmaned on the show. I am saying, this is what I'm fucking saying, man, like, who is that Skype call even going to fucking come from?

You know what I mean? Or a mask, but like. Or a V2 break, it could be a V2Bring. What I'm saying is I would have loved it. I would have loved it if we had made the sort of show that had celebrity pop-ins that it would feel funny and natural, right? Where it would be like, part of the show I am. enjoy is that their famous friends pop in and it's a cut up and they talk about all the celebrities they know together.

Yeah. That's not the show that I would have loved that. Like, right? Travis moved to L.A. for a couple of years, right? That would have been our moment to be like, this is the show. Don't you pin this on me, Justin. It's not your fault.

You were trying. Griffin and I didn't even try. I didn't even try. But what I'm saying is this is not a show. You remember, like, anytime we've had a famous person on the show, it's a very nice conversation, but we're much more concerned with them liking us

and making something funny, right? And Beck Bennett would be the same deal. So I don't want Beck Bennett on a show even though I'm sure he's a great person. Now, Hank from BW3s I know everything about him. I'm not going to be concerned about Hank liking me

because I already like his product. We have something in common. Okay. I don't think Hank makes the Buffalo Wild Wings, Justin. I don't think Hank has ever said one unscripted word in his entire life. You think Beck Bennett is it talented enough to handle it? Now you're being hurtful. I'm saying that.

Now you're being mean. The only reason they would let him out to be in something is if it would get more people to eat Buffalo Wild Wings and Wack. And it would. I don't think that we could promise them that. deliver than that. You gotta think you gotta think beyond some of these like the limiting factors that you're putting up

for yourself, Griffin. I'm just saying it would be a great interview, right? Can we agree on that? We would have to do it straight up. Like no Buffalo jokes, I'd be so embarrassed. Can we finish T. Payne's song? Yeah. It seems like,

bring me some wings with something spicy on the side. It seems like The energy of the video has gone on long enough that it's shifted where his wife is done eating. And she is now sitting on a nearby car and watching him continue to talk about how excited she was. She's ready to go. It gives the image. We would love like we're out in the parking lot. We finished eating.

We're going to be late for the movie TV. We got to go. I would use that hood ornament by the way. If I could get a Hank hood ornament, I would affix it to my vehicle. Cool. So partnering with T. Payne to create a love song devoted to the pick six meal for two felt like an unexpected way to celebrate date night, the B-dubs way, said Tristan Maline, the brand president of Buffalo Wild Wings. Whether you're in a relationship or you're just really committed to wings, the pick six meal for two is more than just a deal. It's a love language.

And I can't seem to get out of my head. The album also features five original, and this is interesting, mixed genre song. Yeah. Mixed genre. You know, they're not even like, this is not like one sound. You kind of like how weird out. It's like a world beat. Yeah.

You can't quantify these rhythms as labels. To celebrate its release, the album is also getting the collectible treatment with a limited run of sauce-filled vinyl records, each swirling with B-dub sauce as it spins. Each song is accompanied by its own social forward video. Awesome. I'm a human being and I love when people talk about that. I love when stuff is social forward. This is,

can I, I'll show you guys the, Buffalo Wild Wings is listed on DoorDash as a gastropub, and I don't know how to feel about that. It's accurate. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah,

it's a sauce-filled record. It's like a very thin layer of sauce in there. It looks cool. That's nice to have a reset my account password so I can buy it, but they're saying I don't have an account with BW3s, which we all know is bullshit. I find out how to believe, yeah. Yeah.

The playlist is on Spotify, on Buffalo Wild Wings page that they have. The songs include Let's Go Buffalo Wild. Of course. Rinse me with a ranch. Rinse me with a ranch? Rinse me with a ranch. I want to pick six tonight. Buff Dub-dub.

That one's probably good. Picking six with the boys. Hell yeah. And chewing my life with you. I lost all my money in a canteena playing Pazak with dub job. What's hard is if I obviously think it would be very good content for our podcast. Sure. To play all of these.

Like I think every single second of all this record would be very good. But I do think that the audience maybe they're not craving that as much as we are. Like I want to, but do they? I don't know. We could have gotten away with that on episode 800 to be like, this one could have a listening party. Now listen, if BW3s

wants to sponsor a listening party for this record, I'd love to do that for them. I'd love to have Hank on the show for that. That seems like a great crossover. It's not going to happen. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. My brother, my brother, and me. Thank you to Montane for the use of our theme song

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