My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 809: Lesser Luigi Model

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

We need someone to tier up on a soapbox for us, so we're finally pitching our own mascot. We need a fun, fuzzy monster that can guide our tummies through eating too many tiny hamburgers. Saucier! More depressing! And with more bones! Suggested Talking Points: Zan-pope-i, A Huge Amount of Bones, Saucy Based on a Book By Sapphire, Daddy's Sports Award Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/

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. Everybody and welcome to my brother, my brother, and me an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

What's up, Travis, Travis, Big Dog, Wolf, Lilfrew from the heater, old winning Maceroy. It's a me, Griffeyo, McElroy. I got the fucking, I got the fucking bug, bad boys. Oh, no, you're sick? Mario Galaxy fever. I've got Mario Galaxy fever, me and fucking. every other American on earth, $207 million domestic gross so far.

Fucking, the train can't be stopped. They could have Waluigi get up on the screen and take a shit in a toilet for an hour and a half. And we're talking about $250 million opening weekend. This guy can't be fucking stopped. I haven't seen it. Does that happen in the movie? Here's, you know what sucks?

Can I tell you what sucks, guys? I googled Wario Waluigi Mario Galaxy movie post-credit scene question mark. It's not in there before you think I'm giving away some sort of insane spoiler. I googled it and you know what happened? Google AI said early reports show that Waluigi and Wario do show up in a post-credit scene of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. And guess what? They fucking don't. So what kind of early reports?

Do they have boots on the ground? They have people like on site in the trenches like reporting on this? I have to imagine this dipshit large language. model machine found my live journal that was like Christ Jesus I would do anything to get these two nasty Italian brothers in the film

please I would do anything and it saw that and said well that must mean they're in it because it's a fucking robot it doesn't understand like wishes and dreams it doesn't understand aspirations that's what an LLM is it's the Lesser Luigi model and it finds the Lesser Luigi it tries to insert it into

all the gym it in there God I was so fucking pissed off are Wario and Waluigi brothers? We don't need that. We've talked about this so many times before. I thought they were a couple. They're married. Okay.

It's just, I guess... They're business partners. They were roommates. Their roommate and juries. Their roommate business partner married. I realized when I was watching the Super Mario Galaxy movie, that kind of surprised me. What's that? I'm still, like, I was watching it, and I was like, why don't I like the first one of these more? Yeah.

Because it's like, I'm seeing all this. stuff like plants I know from my childhood, you know, pipes that I recognize as though I know my own name. And then Mario starts talking and I realize something that I don't feel great about, but I'm going to tell you guys, I still hate that he is Mario. Yeah. It still makes me mad that Chris Pratt is Mario. And once he started talking, you know, I started thinking he's still bad at this. And I'm still mad that he's Mario. I thought it's been years. Yeah. I'm still fear it. He sucks at him. Tell me. He doesn't sound like

Mario still. Boys, can I have a second on a soapbox about Chris Pratt and voice acting? Yeah. What I think is there was a TikTok clip, Justin, to your point, this is back I was, I was, yeah, no, I'm backing you up. Can Travis have a minute to, can Travis have a minute to back you up? Hard. Are you building a second bigger soapbox behind my soapbox? It

envelopes the soapbox is hollow, so it can envelop your soap. You know how a cake is teared? Yeah, yeah. My soapbox is on top of yours, so it's higher, but it's smaller. Yeah, yeah. I feel like yours is bigger, and you have kind of put yours on top of mine like a dad putting his son on his shoulder. I would never do that. There was a TikTok clip to publicize the movie with the cast, and it was like, do your impression of Yoshi, and then Donald Glover will judge your Yoshi.

And Chris Pratt volunteers to go first, and then just goes, Yoshi. So he just does it And it might just be the only thing He knows how to do It might just be It's like Sucks When you do voices

When you do voices That is technically Lying Which is a sin Which Chris Pratt Cannot cannot do It's against his religion It's short for Christ

It's short for Christ Pratt Yeah It is against his religion To do sinning I will say this boys In Oh gosh

I don't want to be on this hill So I'm going to say it and then I'm going to get off the hill real fast. Okay. Inchristipans. What? No, no, no. Say it with your whole chest.

Inchristipans. Show me the voice actor that they come to and they say, you're Mario now. And this voice actor, you can name literally anyone, says, all right. And then the casting director says, not so fast. You can't do it Italian at all. You show me the voice actor who's going to fucking crush that role. Okay. My first thing is, it might be nice to ask an Italian person.

Sure. As long as we were putting together a list, like, if you're like, hey, Justin, give me a list of, give me a list of snow white Gentiles. Yeah, sure. Play Mario better than Chris Pratt. Yeah. I can probably come up with 10. Right, right. You know, like, I mean, Mercer's going to be on the list.

Yeah. Frances Gore is going to be on the list. Yeah. I mean, I got a lot of greats that I think would really clean his clock in a pretty authoritative way. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Matt Mercer can walk the tightrope. Matt Mercer got Ganendorf, but do it hot. And Matt Mercer was like, I can do a hot Ganendorf.

Bazinga, he gets it done. There is also a way, Griffin, to do a Mario voice at all. That's also your own. Like, Ben Schwartz took Sonic, and he's not doing Julia White, but he's doing a sonic voice. Yeah, yeah. Now I will say, you guys both of his friends. Jaliel White You've got to stop being a Chris

Chris Prathfacit. No, no, no, no. I'm not, that's nothing. I'm not being a Chris Pratficit. I'm just saying that Sonic You're taking a Chris Pratfall right now. I'm just saying that Sonic doesn't have a rich accent of a different sort of culture, a different sort of ethnic group.

And so it is slightly easier for one to transform that role. To take Mario and do him pretty much not really Italian. He sneaks a little bit of, he puts a little bit of, on it sometimes, but like, for the most part,

zero Italian content in this market. Alan Tudic. Yeah. I mean, yeah, like, there's lots of like, people that are better at acting than Chris Pratt. Peter Colin, but doing the Optimist Prime voice. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. Now, this might be because you said transform a lot. Yeah. Play it in the seat in my head. But if he was like, Luigi. Yeah.

We must get the All-Spark. Like, that would fucking rule. Now show me a better Wart than Luis Guzman. That doesn't exist. That can't be done. That's a choice. That's something he's making a choice. Luceman's an actor.

Yeah. I don't know why. He sounds like somebody. Sounds like someone. I don't know why Wart's in the motion picture. Wart's whole sequence in the movie seems like a total fucking fever dream. There's like, it's just out of nowhere. And then Wart's there and Berto's there.

And they're like, what's up? We're from the one that people don't talk about. about a whole lot. Do you want to have a big casino fight? And they're like, yeah, that seems like it'd be cool to have in the movie. And then they made $207 million domestic. You know those packing peanuts that you get sometimes that are made from digestible materials like corn.

Yeah. And they advertise on there like, check it out. This stuff is made of corn. Like, you could eat it. Don't. Don't. But like, you could eat it. But if you accidentally did.

Yeah. That to me is Chris Pratt. to acting. Okay. It's like they give it to you and you're like, what do you want me to do with this? Is it acting? And they're like, well, sort of. I mean, it could be acting. Could be. Don't eat it. Don't eat that. Don't eat it.

But if you accidentally did. It's not unlike acting. Yeah. Yeah. You won't die. You'll live through it. You'll have no poops. You won't shit. That does happen every time I watch one of the Jurassic World movies. I don't poop for days. I saw the Garfield movie twice in theaters. And I'm, it I mean, I had to go to the hospital and get it cut out.

If you think that the same person can play a dinosaur adventure man and the world's laziest cat, I give you credit for that, like, because there's probably an actor that that has that range. It's not Chris Pratt. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, it's not, it's certainly not Chris Pratt. he's not a dinosaur man and a fat lazy cat

and the hero plumber of the day I don't think he's all of those what it is just is Chris Pratt has range but no aim so he can fire arrows wildly in any direction here's what's fucked up his Mario is a great Garfield

his Garfield is a pretty good dinosaur adventure man he's just kind of always one to the left Yeah. Chris Pratt's Starlord brought about the idea into the MCU that literally anybody could be a Marvel superhero, and I swear to God it was the beginning of the end for the whole enterprise. The moment the audience saw themselves represented on the screen by Chris Pratt was the fucking first coffin nail. Now we're just watching a guy with a tape player running around shooting aliens.

We're done. It was also the first time that someone got super hot for a Marvel. movie and I mean I don't know that that was as bad of a sort of trade show. Obviously you didn't see Eric Banna but all right you're right Eric Bunked out man He was like eight feet tall

We got huge Bradley Cooper doing the Rocket Raccoon voice would have been better as Mario Bradley Rocket Raccoon would be better as Mario Yeah if they said Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon as Mario Mario

I'm there day one I was already there day one. I'm there day zero, I guess. Yeah. Well, I think they recognized sort of the shortfall, the shortfalling of Chris Pratt in the first Mario movie. The Chris Pratt fall in the first Mario movie. And that's why they gave him approximately nine lines of dialogue in the second movie

that bears his Christian name. Yes. He said this one via voice memo. I think. Yeah. Is Seth Rogen back as Donkey Kong in this one? Fucking no. No.

No. got the reports in that people like that part so they had to get rid of it they said Seth Rogan set wrote okay do a donkey Kong voice a hundred out of a hundred people aren't gonna bring what Seth Rogan brought to the role he took it he owned it Donald Glover you're Yoshi you can only say Yoshi and brie yeah you can say that also fuck I didn't know I had that in me you can say that also he takes it owns it disappears becomes it it's like Luis Guzumont who's got your plot it's please mr. Guzman we must make time for the others who am I going to play in this one?

Well, do you remember Super Merry Brothers, too? No, no one does. Well, the final boss of that is a big frog that burps bubbles named Wart. Be him. You're him now. Own it. Become it.

He does. He disappears. Where to go? Where's Louise? And then he says, do I need to do the whole Louise Guzman voice that everyone always loves? And they say, yes, Mr.

In that voice, he says, goose man. Which, like, do you want me to do the Louise goose man voice that everyone enjoys? And it is I, Danny Trejo. Do you want me to do this? the Danny Trejo voice as well. Oh, Danny Trejo, you're not in this one. Oh, very well. Danny Trejo as Wallyji would fucking slap ass.

That would be good. I'd love a menacing, a deep and menacing Waluigi. Oh, give me Idraselba as Wario. Idraselba's already knuckles, so that can't. Fuck. Idriselba has, Idriselba took knuckles and fucking turned it into a new better knuckle. Like, Iderselpa is the fucking, like, the exception that proves the rule here.

because he took it, he made it something fucking. So strong that pair out spun off a whole series about him. He elevates the material because if Idris Elba thinks Knuckles is cool, then maybe I'm cool too. Yeah, right? Yeah. Hey, Idris, me too. Knuckles is cool, man.

Yeah, we have something to talk about. I do like to picture Idris Elba like entering a club going, all these nerds are with me and like getting them in there too. It's nice. I hate that I'm gesturing. I ran out for my second P break during Super Mario Galaxy. And I, no kidding, had the thought after they brought me the cheese for my pretzel bites. I said out loud, I wish that had taken longer.

Okay. If they went to go get the cheese for the pretzel bites, I said, I wish that had been a longer, I wish that had taken more time. It's exhausting. I wish there had been a longer line or something. It was an exhaust. Then I have to go back in. Yeah, yeah.

How often do you think somebody in a boardroom in a Hollywood is pitching a Mario movie, Sonic movie, crossover movie? Everyone is pitching that. Yeah? Yeah. They should just compete in the next Olympic games. Marion Sonic. We have a, there's precedent.

A Smash Brothers game is probably actually the more like, most likely scenario. Can you even imagine how horny Hollywood is going to. Hollywood is going to be so horny when they're like, have you seen this video game that has every character ever in it? How toyetic is it? The most toyetic. If they use that as like an Avengers thing where it's like now we have an excuse to make a Metroid movie, I think they're working on the Zelda movie. They are.

We're going to make. The Zelda movies, actually I finished that recently. Oh, sick. You got the part. No, I'm all the parts. Whoa. I am also filming it in the backyard. It's pretty good so far.

It's 13 minutes long. Highly sexual. I'm a professional mascot costume, fully nude. I'm a professional mascot costume maker. You can't say that in the middle of asking a question, Joe. You can't inject fully nude into someone else's. I'm a professional mascot costume maker. And I have recently gotten into ice hockey.

I've started going to a local rink with friends and supporting the team, go Redhawks. They don't have a mascot and I can't stop thinking about making one for them. How do I offer to make my local ice hockey team a sick ass hawk mascot and hopefully get paid for it? That's Lucy from London. Here's a, I know a little bit about ice hockey. And I think that there's a... You follow your lead here. I think that there is a route you can follow here that is like pretty good. it is so much easier to ask forgiveness than permission in this regard

the St. Louis Blues hockey club I really like it's so cool to wear sports stuff in the show guys I wish you knew what this power felt like I feel like I can really mask like so deep when I'm like people really like my hair so I don't want to cover it up my hair is kind of iconic true the St. Louis Blues have a guy named Towell

man. Towel man He sits up in the nosebleeds Every time the blues score a goal, they ring a bell the number of times that they have scored a goal and towel whirls around a towel while they all scream the number of goals and then he throws the

towel forward into the more forward rows. So you know if you know where towel man's sitting you can sit in the section below him you can buy what's called the VIP towel seat and odds are you're going to catch most of those towels assuming the blues are having a good thing. Wait the towel man's a new

No, this is the question. You said they have a guy. They have a guy. So. Do they have a guy like I have a rat problem or do they have a guy like I have an employee? No, he, he's not a fit. He's super not official guys. He wears, he wears shorts.

When you say they have towel VIP seats, they're selling, they're marketing against the presence of towel guy. He's been around since the mid-90s and he has shorts that he painted with blues logos. and sometimes he wears a tuxedo shirt and a little bowtie and he calls himself towel man and he spins around the towel and he just started fucking doing that and then he's been an institution

he's at every, every home game people love towel man. He gets a close-up. Every time they score a goal, the TV cameras, zoop right to towel man. So that's a pretty strong mascot. But he's not employed. And he can just stop coming.

He doesn't represent the team. He's more of a mascot than fucking Louis. Hey, who's our mascot for our cold, sport team, Polar Bear, call him Louis. Like, it's fucking, you didn't think about that

for a second. That's got huge Chris Pratt energy. I, but Talman Chris Pratt starts as Louis in Louis, the movie. Town man has lore. Talman has drive. Talman has power.

He got up there and he just started fucking doing it and then the blues couldn't get rid of them. So if you start showing up to these Red Hawk games and you start handing out Arby's coupons, they're not going to get rid of you.

What's the exact number? of times you have to throw your towel into the crowd before they're like, actually, I know what we've said the other times, but don't stop doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love it, do it every time. Yeah. We know we've been begging you to stop throwing the towels

because everybody hates it. Yeah. But now it's an institution and you can never stop. I think that it would be very powerful if you started wearing a full blown mascot costume and then just sitting there until the camera pan to you, and like you're up on the Jumbotron or whatever and you're like, oh, me?

I guess I could do a little like dance and maybe hype, but I wasn't planning on this. But here I go. I think that if you're a security guard at a sporting event, the number one thing you are trying to stop getting through fake mascots. Because if you get somebody in there who's like, you just see somebody in a mascot costume,

you don't recognize. It's like, no, I can't today. Like, I've got a lot of other stuff going on. I don't have an email about this. Like, I can't do that. Just go to try Greg, because I can't. I mean, it's hard to judge someone who has that kind of reaction because I do think that mascots have gotten nastier in the last decade. And most stuff has gotten nastier than the last decade, but like, you can't see some random mascot show up and be like, are you going to be chill like Gritty? Or are you going to be unchill like the Toronto Raptors mascot

who just devours people? Just eats people raw, whole, out in the stands. Justin, can I extend your security guard, right? You see six people show up. Each one, one person has a mascot wing on, but nothing else, right? And then just normal clothes. Another person, the right arm wing.

Another person, leg, leg, chest, head. That's more, the head is probably the most suspicious part. The head's the hardest one to get in there, huh? Yeah. The head, I think you almost have to put onto a kid as they're walking in and then take it back after their threat. I think that that's the only way you get the head in. But yeah, you're right, Trap.

Maybe the, maybe like the wing, you put it in a sling in like a cast. They don't notice that one. You got maybe the leg you wrap like a cast. Yeah. And then the other leg... So a lot of casts. So far. So you get like one person has their left leg broken.

Yeah. You know what I think is bullshit. You know what I think is bullshit is that mascots only have to perform at their home games. I think that's foolish. I think that they should have to travel with the teams. And I think that they should have to be there. Do you think that when the St. Louis Blues are playing a game in Dallas, they want to fucking be... No, they know everyone there hates their guts.

And I don't see why Louis doesn't pack up and travel along with them and just try to give them strength. You're only here to help them in the home games. Kind of a fair weather fan, all mascots ever. And I'm just going to say in character the whole trip. The whole trip. If I'm on the bus, I don't want to see Jeremy. Yeah. You know, I want to see Louis.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know, guys, that's a tough room. That's a tough room with limited periff. You know what I mean? Like, you're going to, that's tough to win a crowd. You have a 35 degree cone of very. Yeah, your F-O-V. Yeah.

It's like 20%. You know, you got beverages chucking at you from all directions. It's a tough room. Mascot-Mobile. Okay. Okay. It's a zamboy. This is a taunting action.

Yes. Drawing the ire of the crowd. A zampopee, if you will. That you can drive around on the ice and you will protect him. And it's like an Orwellian two minutes hate. Like the home crowd's going to love that too. Throw all your shit. Throw all of your shit at Gritty.

He will take it like a fucking champion. And it will make him stronger. Yeah. Yeah. Gritty should show up to games that his team is not involved in at all. People would be excited to see Gritty. I think that Gritty could be treated like a visiting dignitary. Yeah.

Like, you can't get mad at Gritty. No. And by the way, huge congratulations to whoever had the strength of vision to see Gritty through the creative process. Yeah. Yes. You know, as somebody who does a lot of creative work, you know, I can, it's hard for me to imagine having an idea like gritty and just withstanding those meetings

where you're like, no, yeah, you don't get it. You don't get it. He's a dirtbag. He's a dirtbag and he's insane and he's barely even aware that we're playing hockey. You know what I mean? Like he's, it's crazy. Like it's, they had to go through those meetings

like, no, you don't get it. Yeah. He's a crazy dirt bag. No notes at this time. Yeah. Trust me. Please just make the car. The eyes have.

to be bigger. I told you. Just make what I told you. It's going to rule. Oranger. He needs to. Oranger, crazy or angrier. He needs to be able to hump so hard that his belly shake up and down. He needs that. You needed to look so wild that if he

froze in place for four straight hours, it would seem in character. Right? Yes. Like, trust me. People will love hockey about it. Oh, my God. Listen, I'm the one who's seen this sleep paralysis demon that I'm basing him off of. So listen to me. You have to make it so it gets out of my head.

Please. I'm pretty sure that the person who designed Gritty also designed the Philly Fanatic, which is like a Gritty with a wild Proboscas kind of coming. I mean, Philly Fanatic and Gritty are definitely related, right? Philly Fanatic is a big green monster. It looks like if Oscar the Grouch was different in every capacity except for the color of his fur and had a huge honking horn on the front of his face, Gritty is like this, way wilder eyes, way more, a feral grouch.

I think is the Philly fanatic. I think that that's the same designer. And so this is a person that needs to be protected from themselves. Yes. Period. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Got it. Got it. Another question. I like to eat lunch in my car, but where I live it is increasingly hot and my car has no AC. Recently I noticed the cemetery down the road from my work has some nice. It has great air conditioning. has great air conditioning and a built-in McDonald's

a nice big oak trees next to the roads that run through it. Would it be okay for me to pull over next to one of these trees and eat my lunch in the cemetery or would that be disrespectful to the spirits that make it their home? That's from a lunching fiend.

Now I will say this, pretty authoritatively. You must make sure that driving is permitted in the cemetery first because you do not want to run afoul of that. If it is a no-driving cemetery, and you're just driving around, it doesn't matter where you eat your lunch,

they're going to ask you to go. Yeah, if I see someone sitting in their car in the shade of a big oak tree in the cemetery, eaten a hoagie, I'm going to assume that they are a detective and they are staking out, like maybe some crime boss has gotten murdered, and like this detective is like,

even though he's gone, I'm still going to watch the family because, like, I don't know, maybe he got in too deep and he felt like he was part of the family. I don't know, this is turning into something else. as I sort of talk about it,

but I will assume you're a detective staking out. You boys just made me so happy, specifically Griffin, talking about a big hoagie, because I was picturing, like, somebody, like a Lydia Dietz-esque character that's like, I want to connect. I'm, I feel at home with the dad.

I'm comfortable here. I'm like a poet and a poet's heart, and then they pull out a big old submarine sandwich and a bag of baked lays and a capriced son. And they're slamming it down and it made me so happy a picture? Thank you. Yeah.

I used to work a lot of mall area jobs and I, when I was on the, I used to do the Atkins, you know, and the low carb craze was all the rage. And it was not uncommon that I would take

a lunch break from my mall area job and then go into the Arby's that's physically inside the Huntington Mall. And then go and order a big Montana and discard the bun and then sit there. I need a half pound of roast beef inside an Arby's, inside a mall in my Best Buy uniform.

Now, the reason I mention this is because I can remember thinking, I don't think there could be a more depressing lunch than this. Yeah. But I do want to credit this question after because pulling into the shade of an oak tree in the cemetery because it's too hot to eat in my car in the sun may be a more depressing lunch, then my retail break at Arby's. So, thank you so much for this mental image. It has washed away me and my blues sucking down the slivers of roast beef.

Especially if a ghost were to roll up on you at that point and be like, whoa, Hey, are you okay? Hey, man. She seems sad. I've got a lot, you know, going on with me, but oh, boy. Oh, my. You have to practice the inner. interaction if a crotchy old caretaker comes by and they're like, what are you doing?

You have to be ready to say, it was too hot to eat in the sun. So I parked under the shade of the cemetery tree to enjoy my lunch. If you say that full volume with your whole chest, people are going to be so confused. They're not going to know what to say next. They can't kick you out of just. Just having Arby's with Gamma like we used to. Yeah. Yeah.

Sharing one more Arby's with Gamma. And also tomorrow and maybe the day after. after that, maybe like five days a week. Yeah, I'm having a really hard time getting up processing it, so I may be here eating my Arby's beef for months, really. Until wintertime.

Gammon and I had beef at the end that we didn't squash, and so this is my way. Squashing the beef of Madame Gamon. I want to be one of those people that see a cemetery and see it as like a beautiful, well-tended, place of quietude and contemplation and a place where one can go to reflect and sort of think

about life and what's important. Take family photos. Let me finish my serious point before you do an unsurious point. But there's, I couldn't, I don't know that I can get over just how many bones are close by. There's too many for me. It's like a huge amount of bones. It's hard to, once you, and it's one of those things where you can't forget a thought.

you can't not think about something. And once I'm there, and I think about one. It's like, don't think about pink elephants. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for me, it's a bone. And then it's like, yeah, it doesn't scare me, but I'd rather be somewhere with a lower, you know, BPC, Bones per capita. Bones are everywhere, though, man.

They're really not. You live in D.C. Okay, there's lots of bones here. People have died there so much. And the whole world long before cemeteries were a thing. Bones are everywhere. But, you're one of those things when you're, when you're, parent and you do have to look at your kid and like, yeah, we keep all the bones here.

Yeah. We keep them all together. The new bones. Sure, Travis, there's bones everywhere. There's lots of people who have lived and died. But a lot of those bones have turned into bone dust and enriched the soil, turn into a beautiful tree that a caterpillar eats. And then that gets powers a bird. Like, that's all beautiful circle of life stuff.

But a lot of this stuff here is fairly new bones. And they're going to be around for a while. It doesn't, like, again, I'm not scared. I'm not grossed out. I think I just like to be somewhere. Just somewhere. I'm a little scared. Yeah, just a little scared.

Yeah, you can say it. I'm just a little bit. But I don't think that bones or ghosts or whatever care if you have a sandwich. And if you're eating some fries or having a burger, I don't think that's what would bother a ghost. Yeah. Now, wait, do you make crazy noises when you eat a sandwich when you slop one down? Are you like, nah? With your windows rolled down?

Because don't do that. Don't munch super duper loud. tear at it like the Tasmanian devil flinging lettuce all over the place. Griffin, only now do I realize that in your head they're still in their car parked under the big oak tree eating their lunch. That's why they look like a cop. And not because you thought that detectives always eat sitting on the ground under a big oak tree. Would it be okay for me to pull over next to one of these and eat my lunch in the cemetery? So at what point did they say that they do get out of the car? I just assumed they got out. And that's on me. I realize this now.

Right a little blanket. Yeah. A picnic. Okay. A picnic in the cemetery? I don't think that feels. They like to eat their car. They like to eat their car.

They love to eat in their car. They can listen to their favorite tunes. Bunkass maybe. Should I be so bold? So I think they're in their car. I think they're in their car. Let's take a break. And head on into the money zone.

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There's no way he's getting paid for that. Why does Rachel keep asking you for Roblox, Griffin? Well, she has a deep addiction to Mr. Beast's fart race 2000. And she says she's got to be number one on the leaderboard so that Simpie will notice her. I say, babe, Mr. Beast is not looking at the leaderboard on his Roblox game. That's crazy, dude. But she says, please, please, I need 10 robux. I say, you have money.

Like, you have money. I don't know why I. And she says, I never learned how to buy the robux. Because you can buy them off-site, off-platform, and you get a better ROI, because Apple's not dipping their snoot in. I say, babe, it's one URL. But she doesn't want it. She doesn't want to hear about it.

So Squarespace, we've used, all three of us have used it to make a million websites. It truly is easy. It makes something that looks good. And, I mean, shit, man, you know, by now. if you need a website for your business or for yourself. And if you do, just fucking use Squarespace because it could not be easier to make something that looks good and is so functional and is so great.

So head over to Squarespace.com slash my brother for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code, My Brother, to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. And if you want to, if you find that URL, hard to remember, you can check out griffin requests.com. And it's going to get you right there. Thank you so much, Squarespace. Thank you, Griffin Requests.com.

Huh? There's no way you snatch that. No, that doesn't. that site can't be reached. Griffin requests.com. Check it again in 30 seconds, Gibranie. Griffin called me one day and he said, Travis, I'm hemorrhaging money.

I don't know what's happening. And I say, oh, Griffin signed up for rocket money, and he did. And then he called me back and he said, Rachel is spending $8,000 a week on Mr. Beast fart race. And I said, okay, well, you need to cancel that. And Griffin said, I don't have the courage

to stand up to my wife and tell her to cancel it. So then he had Rocket Money cancel Rachel's subscription to Mr. Beast fart race. Rocket Money saved my marriage. Rocket Money saved my marriage. Wow. Rocket money saved my marriage. It says here to say it three times so it really locks in there.

But it did. So if you're looking to get your finances in order, right? Rocket Money is the personal finance app that helps you find and cancel unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. I use Rocket Money. I found it incredibly helpful, incredibly useful. If nothing else, I, and I keep this pretty close to the vest, you guys might now know this, but I have ADHD.

Yeah, I know. And there are times where I will. You still haven't told me what that stands for, but it's part of the great mystery. I will look at a thing and be like, I need to cancel that. I'm paying for that thing. I need to cancel that. And then as soon as I look away from it, it's gone from my brain, and I'll never do it.

So being able to just click on Rocket Money, please cancel this for me, Daddy. And then they do it. It means the world to me. Thank you so much, Rocket Money. They can also categorize your transactions, keep track of stuff for you, let you know where your money's going. It's incredible. So let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster.

Join at RocketMoney.com slash my brother. That's rocketmoney.com slash my brother. RocketMoney.com slash my brother. Let Rocket Money, Daddy, help you today. I want to say now that Rocket Money doesn't. project the energy out maybe that Travis has assigned to them in this advertising spot. There is no sort of like, Dom.

They don't help? Well, yeah, Mike. Daddy doesn't have to be a Dom thing, Griffin. It could just be a nice. I'd rather talk about anything else. Jann la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la I want a bunch squad. Squad.

B. B. B, but I want too much squad. Squaw. Welcome to Munch Squad. It's podcast within the podcast, profiling the latest greatest of brand eating. Here's the scoop. Saucy by KFC

introduces drips by Pepsi, crafted beverages across all locations. Wait, what? You heard me right. Exactly what I said when I said it just then. Yeah. Saucy by KFC. Saucy by KFC introduces drips by Pepsi,

crafted beverages across all locations. Can you have a sentence that is all proper nouns? Because I didn't think that that was grammatically possible until this moment. It's a saucy by KFC. Drips by Pepsi. Drips by Pepsi is it saucy by KFC. Awesome.

And this is what I'm trying to get up. I'm hung up on the crafted beverages. Well, look. Travis, they're beautiful. But what is that? What is crafted? Tell me in that moment. Some of them made on.

They're crafted by Pepsi. Travis? It's a flavor-forward experience with the introduction of drips by Pepsi crafted beverages. You know how when you're thinking about Pepsi, the image in your head is like a man in like a cap in a leather apron and he's crafting a Pepsi. Yeah.

You know that's the image of Pepsi's like a craftsman? Well, now they're crafting beverages for you, a new lineup designed to elevate the brand's signature chicken tendies and sauce-centric menu. The KFC brand. I mean, see, this is where it's going to get confusing. They can't say the brand, because then I'll think Pepsi's out there. Saucy by KFC has 10 locations, right?

And all the drips by Pepsi are at saucy by KFC. Saucy's like KFC, but just Tendies, basically, and a sauce forward. It's about flavors. It's about sauce. It's about drips. It's about Pepsi. So it's a sauce forward and a flavor forward experience. Yeah.

Yeah. One, a fifth beverage, tropical energy escape will be exclusive to the flagship Carolwood location in Tampa, Florida. So I guess it sucks. Tropical energy escape does sound like what the CEO of like an oil company does after he's been found out like he's been defrauding millions of people. And he's like, ooh, I better make a tropical energy escape. He's got a Dr. Evil rocket that just sort of blasts off. Yeah. Takes him right to a tropical island with no extradition policy.

Each drink incorporates layered flavors and mix-ins, such as caramel cold foam, jalapeno, and popping boba to deliver a customizable, flavor-driven experience. Awesome. So you got a Pepsi, zero-sugar, salted caramel fizz. Crazy. There's tropicanor rainbow splash lemonade. That's tropican and starry blended with passion fruit and pineapple. Okay. Mountain-due chili.

That's Mountain-Due and Tropicana lemonade with pineapple, jalapeno, and mint. finished with tahine. I don't care. And then there's pink rays pop. Yeah. How much you love jalapeno? I could see it in like a margarita. Right.

A beverage like that. The idea of like here's a soda to drink with your meal. Surprise, pranked you, monked. I put jalapeno in it. Drips by Pepsi was built to redefine what a crafted drink experience looks and tastes like. And we're thrilled to bring that vision to life on saucy by KFC's bold flavor-forward menu, said Scott Finlow, global chief marketing officer of PepsiCo away from home and presumably someone who still has to sleep at night. Quote, saucy is the perfect partner to debut these beverages and deliver a flavorful, share-worthy experience.

Saucy by KFC positions itself as a flavor-obsessed playground. Holy shit. Where sauces of the centerpiece and chicken tindies serve as the canvas for customization across formats from dipping to sandwiches and wraps. Okay. They've used the phrase flavor forward multiple times. Are there people crafting flavor neutral and flavor backward food experiences? I mean, that's presumably. That's nice and everything.

If you go to KFC presents drips, um, sorry you, sorry you Maroon. KFC presents saucy based on book by Sapphire. Sossy by KFC. Sossy by KFC featuring drips by Dre. Drips by Dre.

If you go there, you can eat spicy mango chutney, chicken dippers and jalapeno pesto ranch dippers. And then you can drink a goddamn salted mountain dew with mint and tahine and jalapeno. So yeah, Travis, it is a flavor. forward experience the sheer number of flavors you can get with two menu items.

We need to stop moving flavors forward then. That's too many flavor. Maybe flavor backwards. Yes. With drips by Pepsi, we're extending that creativity to beverages with bold, playful combinations that elevate every bite and sip experience. I don't think I want a playful experience experience in my soda. If I drink a regular Mountain Dew, that's playful enough already. My body wouldn't know what to do with a Mountain Dew at this point,

at 38, almost 39. It wouldn't know what to do. I don't need to mix in a lot of other stuff in there. Every time I drink a dark soda, I'm playing a dangerous game with kidney stones. With kidney stones.

Yeah, for sure. So like, I'm playing a dangerous game enough over here. Yeah. I, in conjunction with Young Brands and PepsiCo, three events in Florida

to celebrate you Justin? Yes, I personally to celebrate new restaurant openings in Florida. Select locations

will host saucy suarez high energy grand opening events featuring what? There are three there's there's

there's three different four different things that it lists as being part of a saucy sullery in Florida okay, celebrating these high energy grand opening events.

There's four things that I know that will be at them. Okay. In Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Tampa. Pitbull. What, I mean, maybe a Pitbull tribute band. Like, what are you talking about? I was just going to say live by live music. It's saucy by KFC.

Is live music one of the four things present? Live DJ. Live DJ, okay. Bikini contest? So close. Sauce Somali. Okay. Oh, I was right there.

I was one degree off. Water jet pack, water jetpack dancers. Guided sauce bar tastings Oh, I was about to say mixologist Go, I've come with me, take my Take my hands That's what the sauce sommelier does He takes you on a journey through the sauce bar tastings

There's also giveaways And then I assume the fifth one is recovery tent Are you just I be drips They have they also have flaming diarrhea hole It's a hole where there's fire underneath Like a literal incinerator And you just blast off

And then they've invented something here. It's just called a bowel movement doula. I don't know. We're just massaging it through the lower balance. You need to breathe through this part. Do you want to do this in the bathtub? Yeah? Okay. So that pain you're feeling, that is the jalapeno

sauce. That's making it second run through the lower intestine. That is natural and beautiful. That's awesome. I just, I, uh, okay, this is not as important. I would say is this information, but I did, I did want to share this discussion with you. Burger King test Sliders Box in two markets. So you know how things have been lately? Yes.

You know how things have been lately where everything costs $800. Well, here comes Burger King to the rescue with a possible Sliders box. Now, this is what I want to talk to you guys about, and this fucking may not even be in the podcast. I don't know. what is happening? What is happening? I think Burger King does not want to reveal

the size of the sliders. So they have made a box with six tiny hamburgers and I know what you are thinking how that is what a slider is but it's not. These are hamburgers

that have clearly been shrunk down and then they're showing a hand holding it. But do you see what I'm saying guys? It's like the thumb is hooked inside it. The thumb is burrowed into the burger. I think it's just so, I don't really want to show you scale, I think.

Yeah. I don't believe any of those elements were present in the same building. No, no, no. That's a superimposed P&G, definitely. These are not, these burgers aren't, these are normal-sized mid-19090s burgers. These are normal-sized 30 years ago, this is what burgers look like, and now there's six of them. This does not a slider make. I don't think this is what the offering will be.

I feel like they took pictures. of their regular burgers and hit Control T and shrunk them down to this size. I swear to God. They also put two different boxes at two different size that one's wide open.

Right. Yeah, Trev. Which box is it? Crazy, dude. Yeah. The king size sliders are bold, flame grill, and snackable burgers designed for whatever craving strikes. Anything snackable if you try hard enough.

That's right. Guests can build their own box of two or six king-sized sliders. Okay, Traff, so that's what we have. We have a two-fer. Yes, but the box is, even with that information, Justin, go back up. The scale is wrong.

It doesn't look right. The two-sized box is like two-thirds of the sixth side. What's happening? You should be able to fit four or five burgers in that other box. From sharing with friends to sampling a little bit of everything, the king-sized slider's box is built for how today's guests are craving more variety, more flexibility, and this is the part that really fucking cooks my noodle, guys. No tough choices.

Thank you. That is the last line. The last line of this fucking press release. It's built for how today's guests are craving more variety, more flexibility, and no tough choices. If you are at Burger King and you're looking at the menu and you think, boy, this is tough. you need some tougher things. You need some harder things in your life, I think. I think, honestly, if you decide no tough choices,

I'm going to get six of these burgers to eat. You have put a tough thing in your life. I would say, you've made a huge, hard on yourself. You've made a huge difficult choice without even realizing, but you've made a huge, difficult life altering. Potentially, yeah. Potentially. Six boygies, I'm different after that.

I'm different now. You may be thinking back to this moment in several years, sliding door style. If only. Sliders door. Only I could change one thing. Oh, Clarence. I wish I could go back.

Yeah, actually, to this point, the decision to eat either two or six tiny hamburgers is really hard because that is a hugely different thing. I mean, two or six? There's three varieties. One box only has two options in it. Right. They know what they're doing.

That's a huge difference. If someone called you and said, what are you doing? You say, I'm eating two small hamburgers at Burger King. Oh, interesting. Here's what I wanted to talk to you about. What are you doing? I'm eating six small burgers at Burger King. Oh, God, I'll be there in 10 minutes.

Don't go anywhere. Stay put. Promise me, David. Promise me. It also seems like there's no dividers or containers within this. No, no, no, no. It's a little fun way. Damn it, Travis, you're right about that, too.

It's a fun way to end up with a real jumble-oh-burgers. Yeah, give me a burger ball. There are, guys, I'm not kidding you, probably 150 discrete components in this box. If it was like accessories, right? There's like probably 150 things. There's like onion petals and little pieces of bacon and cheese slices, like, this thing's going to be a wreck. Yeah, it's a disaster. This box.

This box ain't getting through your front door. It's not getting, yeah, no way. Door smashed more like. It's not getting there. All right, well, that's the news. That's the news of what it says it's really important. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. I'm sorry as I am so many weeks that I talked about fast food so much.

It's just they're really, really, they're really, I don't know, man. Some weeks they're not wild and out, and they were really going in Hogwild this time. I had to mention it. Should, should I throw it? my fantasy football championship ring? Oh my God, we have so much stuff before we throw something. I know that, but I just, I really want to get in the headspace. Daddy got you that, and it's a sports award, and you're the one who has it.

If you break the sports award, if you break the sports award, I'll be pissed off. Dad'll be sad. I wouldn't throw your sports award. I could throw this box of causing brownies I just have sitting on my desk. Now we're talking. Now we're cooking. Max Fund Drive starts next week. Whoa.

Get stout. There's a lot of fun. content coming and I'm sorry I call it content but that it's just the only term general enough for all the crazy crap we're going to be doing next week yeah there's a lot of different stuff I hope you're there along that line make sure you follow macquarie family and Instagram because we'll be posting about like we're doing streams like the whole time constantly and posting shit and everything and we'll be posting it all on macquarie family Instagram to let you know when that happens get on board um can I mention to you that montaid is doing an Australian national tour in August montane obviously created our incredible theme song and is an incredibly fun performer who if you follow them on social you really see someone who is pushing to evolve artistically constantly and it's a really fun sort of journey to watch so go to montane music.com.com.com for a you for details thanks to montaigne piece for a theme song we have some new merch at the merch store we got the crow and wilson and hamillpin there's a miggy prayer candle a bunch of

a new stuff. It's an omnur to win shirt, celebrating our it still feels good, by the way, guys. I don't know if you still like are getting a shine. Yeah, it's very, very validating. I put it on a resume this week and I couldn't have been happier. Still waiting on that award. I was so unironically delighted.

Haven't gotten that award yet, though, huh, Trow? Yeah, no, no, no. Still waiting on the shipping on that one. Right. They'll reach out, I'm sure. Can delivered, I assume. Yeah. All right. We were talking about this with that recently and Travis was talking about not doing a speech and dad said, well, at least you brought home the hardware and Travis said well actually I didn't do that either they're

yeah they're mailing it yeah they're going to mail is there a safe Travis I got to say I want to and honestly this could be for you too Justin I worry about I think you guys should maybe buy those nets that they have at like batting cages so that you have like a great service I have a huge surface here that I can yeat whatever into and I'm probably not going to fuck anything up as long as I don't smash the decou tree I don't I worry that Travis doesn't have a great spot to chuck this box of cosmic brownies. Yep. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. We didn't expect that at all. Didn't expect that at all. That was great. All right. Thanks. My name is Justin McElroy.

I'm Travis McRoy. I'm Griffin McElroy. That's what my brother, my brother. Me kissed your dad's square on the lips. He threw all the brownies individual. It was four separate ones. Yeah.

Yeah. It was one, yeah, but each one was like one frame in the video. Yeah, it was really good. Now I can only find two. Uh-oh. Oh, you're sitting on you.

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