My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 811: New At Yeast

Episode Date: April 27, 2026

We’re on pace to answer as many questions as humanly possible before these lawsuits from Justin McElroy catch up to us. We’re talking self-branding, Muppet roller coasters, a slightly different Garfield, and Travis’s weirdly accurate predictions. Suggested talking points: Vore Apologetics, Every Day a Single Butterscotch, What Do We Leave bBehind if Not a Brand, Don't Talk People are Trying to Tingle Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ Happy MaxFunDrive! Right now is the best time to start a membership to support your favorite shows. Learn more and join at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam

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? One, two, three, four. It's the start of something into a precious friendship. It feels love. Hello, everybody.

Welcome to. My brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era. Get out of the town. Get out of the town with these. How is this possible? Who is that guy? I don't have. Raise your mug.

Give us your mug. We have matching mug. I don't want to show you my mug. I don't want to show you my mug. It's incriminating. It's incriminating. It represents an older part of my brand that I don't necessarily embody anymore, but I like the coffee mug.

That could be so many things. Yeah. Well, maybe folks go to maximum fun.org slash join. I'll reveal my shameful bug to everyone by the end of the episode. Hmm. It says four squad on it. I don't know. Someone sent to my PO box a long time ago, and I was so humble by the fact that they made a logo for my fake podcast.

And it's a night. I like this sort of, what is this? Like a 12-ounceer. I like a bigger poor. A 16-ounce or even better. I like a bigger poor. Did we say our names? No, no.

we sort of immediately got into vor apologetics. What's up, Travnation, to be your middleist brother Travis, Big Dog, Woofool, Vroom, Vroom, the heater, Big Dog, award. Too much stuff, man. If you can't remember it.

No, if I can't remember it, if I hit up even for a second, it's gone. I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary. Sorry, I just turned 39, and so I'm running out of time to hit that 40 under 40 list.

Yeah. I'm worried that I don't have the kind of cash that I did a decade ago. But I'm Griffin McQuay. at the blank page before you Open up the dirty window Wow The sun illuminate the world

Natasha, welcome Natasha You cannot write Reaching for something in the distance So close you can almost taste it Release your inhibitions Feel the rain on your skin No one else can feel it for you Fuck yeah, what are we doing?

You can let it in Hi everybody There were lyrics in there That I've never intelliged before There's a part where staring at the blank page before you We all know it We all know it

Right right Open up or dirty Why is your window so dirty Natasha That's crazy It's when you hit the Let the sun illuminate Everybody's kind of looking at their friends Like do you know this one

Let's unaluminate the words That you cannot write Reaching for something in the distance All right It's week two of Maxfund drive Maximumfund.org forward slash join support the art and artist you love. And I'm living in my power.

Sure. I'm living in my power for... I don't know what star is in proto grade in the cosmos that has lent you this power, but there is an apotheosis that's happened that is shining directly a beam of pure energy right down on Travis that is making anything possible for him. Like Pitbull said, I don't know about you,

but I feel good. because within the last month, I would say, I called, I said, I called to the universe and said, I think it's time for a Phantom reboot. Yep. And within a 28-day span, crazy. Yeah.

It was announced that there's a Phantom TV series in production. Yeah, who's doing it? Who? That stuff doesn't matter. You know fucking Billy Zane's going to roll up. up like into pilot. Here's what I. I want to say,

Trav, do you want to be in this TV show? Oh my God, please. No. Are we going to burn it on this? No, here's what I'm saying. We're in an increasingly fractured media environment.

There's not going to be a lot of engagement on phantom-based social media posts. Correct. If on every fan of social media post degraded into, without Travis McElroyd, there is no phantom. Yeah.

Then I think we, I think maybe we can maybe get Travis in this thing. You're saying we could flood the zone in a cool way. In a cool way. Brought to you by Travis McElroyd. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless until they get, I mean, here's what I'm thinking. Travis is like the shop owner that, you know what I mean? Like they walk past his shop and he waves from inside the shop.

I'm perfectly happy if there's a shot. where they talk about, like, if there's a map even, and you see a country called Trav Nation, right? I'm fine with that being an easy. That would be good. The idea would be, of course, Travis is trying to smuggle 20 to 30 kilos of premium, premium, Columbia, Coca. And then the phantom slams evil. Slams his ass, yeah. And Travis, like, gets beat up by the fan.

I always get murdered. Murdered by the fame. Travis, as you can see, already has the whole costume. and the whole thing already lined out. Do you guys think it was weird that the Phantom was one of the most sort of fervent soldiers in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs? I thought that that was a crazy way

for him to sort of expend his energies. I kind of feel like he was already in a war on drugs and then Ronald Reagan was like, that's a great idea. Let me get up on that. I'm going to do that too. Nancy, Nancy, do some PSAs. Call the guy. Listen, I want to say first, I'm sorry, Travis.

Because sometimes you bring stuff to the intro and I'm like, this is, no one knows what the fuck you're talking about. The Phantom, that's an ancient old crusty ass IP that no one's going to touch with a 100-foot pole. And then within 28 calendar days, 20 business days rounded up, we had the announcement, Travis, that's crazy. You're more plugged in than I am, and I'm sorry for doubting you. I just know a lot about trash TV. I know what people want. What's next?

What's next? Is it time? Like look at the pulse. Well, my next wish is that they bring back chaco tacos. That's not really a media property. But I just say, that feels, that feels right. That feels like by the end of May, we're going to have a chaco taco taco announcement. That feels right.

They just stopped producing them in like the last five years. Oh, we're ready. We're ready. Bring back chaco tacos. In Jason and Robert Brown's hit musical, they stopped making chocker tacos. It's about Jason Robert Brown's the last five years is about the C-C in production of Chaco Taco Talk.

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Absolutely. We're talking about every show on the network. Hey, stop for a second. Two times this past week, I said boco to civilians. And they were like, you gotta stop, my man. What do you mean? It was rough twice. These are friends.

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Within the next calendar year, there will be announced. A live action remake of Don Bluice Anastasia. Oh, that's... Trav. Trav, that feels... That's so good that it feels like it might be... I'm like looking for the... Can I be so bold as to say, I would...

Really be into an all-dogs go to heaven that is indeed all-dogs. Yeah. Real dogs. This time. Huh. Real dogs. Real dogs. Really dying.

No. That's what Justin, Justin's got to see real dogs dying. And their ghosts go up to heaven. He's got to see it. Like in that, you know, the dog's life movie that they were like, yeah, there was some animal rights issues with that one. Yeah, yeah. They didn't like that one so much. Hey, how about a question?

I think for Max Fund Drive we should answer all six questions on the question list. Oh my God. It's never been done before. My partner and I recently moved. Our new place is better than our old one. in every way, except that we're in a different city, and thus have a new primary postal person. We had a great relationship with our old male lady. Terrible.

Why would you say that about her? We get a lot of, it's agist, is what it is. Old male lady is like, wow, man. So mean. Did you have a great relationship? Our postal professional. Did you have a great relationship with Janet? Janet?

A person? Janet. Postal Warner. A mature postal worker. We got a lot of packages. So she gave us her phone so she could meet her mid-route to get packages that need signing when we weren't home that day or hold for when we would be.

You her phone? I bet they meant phone number. Number. Okay. That makes a lot more sense. We get my phone and wait for the message. Then get drop at the show. Here's my phone.

I'll be back when I'm done with my route. This is an accountability thing. Sometimes I get tired. I am an old, old, old lady. But if I know my phone's here, I'll make my way back for sure. Get my steps in for me. I'm not doing that enough as opposed to work out. Feed my Pikachu.

Please. Did you say, this person saying meet her mid-rout as though it's like, hey, Dan, I got a hot one for you. Are you at home? Nah, nah, nah, nah. Sorry. Where are you at? Where are you at?

It's like, I'm on the sheets. The sheets on 17th. Let me roll up. Let me roll up. Let me roll up on there and I'll get my package from you. Question asker, I know I'm trying to relate in a way that I can connect. It's just this is a sort of rhetorical puzzle. I'm enjoying unwrapping it.

Does she text you like I'm on Maine Ave moving west? Come get your photo. I'm going to drop a pin. I'm going to drop a pin. Come get this vacuum. Oh, I see. No, it's a typo. It's supposed to be drug.

dealer. Not Postal Workup. I never like, I don't get exciting mail as much anymore, so I don't get excited about opening it. If I had to go find it, hell yeah, dude, I'll get more excited about that fucking, you know, lands

end catalog or Chubby's catalog or just any sort of. My problem is always when the Postal worker delivers the mail, but then also wants to sit with me while I open it. And pass if I have any snacks and watch Rick and Morty. Yeah. Or if I laugh at a letter I got, he'll be like, pass it.

And I'm like, dude, that's a federal offense. You can't actually ask to read my mail. So let's, what was the question? So we're about to get to the question. Here comes. You ready? Yeah. I started with our new mail guy on the wrong foot.

I keep forgetting to close our mailbox and forget the key. He's hanging on the lock. This has happened four times. And every time he brings it over and records a little, hey, be careful, heads up, message on our doorbell, then leaves it near our door. How can I salvage this relationship with my mailman and get on good terms in that I can have back what I've lost. That's from forgetful and packageful in Seattle. I'll give you my hot take.

Well, you guys formulate something because I've been a lot longer, so I feel like I can solve these things faster. In my opinion, you maybe are worried that this male person is going to see you as you are, because my friend, you did leave the keys in the mailbox, you know? Like, you did need a little bit of help, and it's okay that you were that person then. you know and if the male person won't let you evolve they won't let you grow over time you got a lot on your plate if you do a ranking of high stress situations that add your stress levels moving way up there near death of a loved one okay you got a lot going on let your male person buoy you appreciate this gift because that could be a real foundation being needed and allowing someone to need you that's beautiful justin i agree agree. My take was,

let yourself be a project for this mail carrier. Right? Yes. People do love that. While also giving them, like, treats,

because everyone likes trees. Everyone loves a little treat here. From time to time never goes astray. Not just one butterscotch, though, Judge. I'm not going to just leave a butter. Maybe if I put a stamp on it and write in really little letters for you from me.

From time to time clearly implies an ongoing sit, Travis. This is not a one. Every day in a single butterscotch? No, it's a, it's a, Trave, it's like, not everything's a multi-scotcher job. Some things is a one-scotcher. Like if I ask my kids to go get my socks from the den, you know, that's a one-scotcher. If I ask my wife, Sydney, if I ask my wife, Cindy to stay home from Harmony House today to darn my socks because the kids, you know, that's a multi-scotcher credit.

I'm going to have to give her four to five butter scotchers. to get that done. No problem. I see. Mail carriers, I assume the scotch I'm giving them is a tip. I assume that they are being paid handsomely in butterscotches by the United States government. They can only accept butterscotches. And if every house gives them one butterscotch a day, that's a lot of butterscotch.

That's too much butterscotch. That's true. You got varied up with all that fucking butterscotch. And you don't want to do it every day. I'm retrospect because then they'll come to expect it. You want to do it at random intervals. Yeah. And maybe one day throw a red hot in there and they're like, oh, I didn't want cinnamon candy.

And then the next day, you're back to butterscotch and it makes the buttercotch all the better. I think it's a good mantra for a lot of different people. And I'll go ahead and guess a lot of people who maybe listen to our program and sharing some of our anxieties, our proclivities, that just because you made a mistake doesn't mean someone's mad at you. It doesn't mean that people are mad at you just because you made a little mistake. Well, four times. The male person I don't think is materially sort of going to be affected

if your male is taken by someone else. Obviously, it's not great, but it's not like they're going to be like, oh, curse you. You made a mistake and they try to help you. They're probably not mad. They can't have that kind of relationship going with their whole route

where they're just mad at all. Griffin, if I went in for an organ transplant and then as I was leaving the hospital, I let someone mug me and steal that organ out of my chest, the surgeon is going to be pissed. I guess there is a certain amount of like, I carried that Chubby's catalog on my back for 15 blocks.

And it was a thick one. It was the fall special. You would think summertime is when Chubbies makes their banquet how short those shorts are. No, man. They got a move product at the end of the summer. They got to move it at the end. That is a three-pound chubby's catalog

that I carried 15 blocks for your own grateful ass. No, I still don't think they're going to be mad at you. It's probably... I don't know that they're mad at you, but I think four times you've recently moved and in that time four times left your key, they have formulated a separate opinion of you of being very forgetful.

And you can play that up and be whimsical and maybe leave a sandwich in the letter box and put your mail in your lunchbox And then when they see it, you're like, oh, what was I thinking? And now you're like a comical, you're a character in their life. To salvage this thing. If you really are invested in salvaging it, you need to show yourself to your new mail carrier being forgetful in other disciplines in your life so that he knows it's not

just him, that you're just not just ignoring him, a lowly male guy. So, wait, your solution is to submit the opinion. I'm saying next time your male carrier comes around, when you do that you. know they're coming around. Maybe you slip an air tag on the bottom of their vehicle. So you know when they're about to roll up, and then you go outside and you open up all your car doors. And then you go back inside.

You leave the garage door open and your front door open and just a lot of doors open. And then when they're like, hey, man, you left all your doors open. Then they'll know it's not just me. They're not just ignoring me. You just do one shoe on, one shoe off. This is also a good rule when starting a job. Don't give 100% at your job. Always give like 50% when you start a new job.

And then one. day start giving like 70% and everyone's like whoa whoa this guy's really stepping it up because if you always give 100% you got nowhere to go from there always you got to wait you save 100% until you can show up with the big spiky blonde wig and then the boss is like guys we're not meeting our annual quarterly goals and you go like bra and you do super say and then you go out and you know fire off those mailchimp mailers or whatever it is that you think so you give 50% to your mail carrier and then start getting 75% your male carrier's like, wow,

they've really improved their game. They must have been taking some ginkgo below over or something because they're remembering everything. They're so on it. And they're going to be so impressed with you. They're going to give you the most improved male accepting person award.

And it's going to be incredible. Can I suggest one other plan? And if this, I don't want it to be like normal where we'll do jokes about it. If it's a bad plan, you guys should tell me. Okay. What if you forget the keys one more time? just once time.

And then when they bring them to you, you say, congratulations. You passed. I'm looking for somebody I can trust, and I think that somebody is you. And then you start closing the door and you say,

stay by the phone. Stay by the phone is such a powerful conversation, Ender, that you can deploy in so many different situations. I think that what you do is you give them a stay by the phone. Yeah. don't see them again for several weeks

and then the next time you see them you say we called we called you're saying I said I told you stay by the phone because if you see them they're not by the phone so at some point

they've left the phone right so you have to you're hanging up your phone as they deliver the man like I just too what's this fucking go on there what I said out guess someone doesn't want to join the men in black it's actually a good idea

that sounds like it probably work Yeah, men in black sounds like a lot of work. Is that what you mean? Because I wouldn't want to do it. It sounds like a high stress job. Yeah. I recently started a new job.

And while I don't expect to make friends. We are not on pace for six questions, dudes. Not even close to on pace. Well, that certainly helps, Griffin. That certainly helps. It's coaching. You spend more time talking about how we don't have enough time. This is a timeout.

This is a coaching. An open coaching job. And now we're in it. An open coaching job. Listen, I already cut a plan segment where I was going to read the track list for the new Muppets Mayhem roller coaster ride. That segment's already being cut to try to make space.

Can you blaze through it? Because I am deeply, I do kind of want to. No, I don't. It's moving right along on me. It's not a joke. It's the problem with the segment. The reason it was cut is that I don't have a joke. I just wanted to just talk to you about the track list.

Do you have a big box on your desk or something? Big white box? Hmm. I'm seeing a big white box. Yes, you're right, Griffin. I'll move faster. I will not. Moving right along.

I'm not going to pull over the wheel and tell you the whole track list for Rainbow connection right now with each other. No, what we're gonna do, I'm gonna interspers them throughout the show. It's a momentum builder, song two. Cool. By the electric mayhem. Fuck yes.

Holy shit, dude. By blur by the electric mayhem. Yeah, actually, you know what? I could probably spot you one clip. I could probably spot you a clip. There's clips already? Error. Song two.

That's your first one. We don't have to include. I thought that. would be the puppets doing it, but it was, in fact, just a recording. It's just Blur, dude. By Blur, so we will get copyright stricken for that. You didn't hear it. Maximumfund.orgas join.

Help us fend off Blur and their lawyers. They got that. Blur's got that guerrillas money again. They're going to be tough to beat. I don't think that we can stand against them right now. But song two, that's your first treat. Okay, I recently started a new job. And while I typically don't expect to make new friends with my coworkers outside of work,

it turns out, I got a lot in common with one of my team. members. We both like D&D. We both like to make clothes. She even offered to sell me one of her used sewing machines. There's just one problem. We have the same first name. I'm interested in getting to know this person, but I'm worried that our other coworkers will boil down our budding friendship to us just having the same name. Is there any way to get ahead of this? Or is there something I can do when they inevitably comment on it? I feel like I can only awkwardly laugh myself out of so many conversations in life. And that's from befriending in a fordome.

You got to stop your screen share. You are showing us the most strung out member of the Muppets band. And it's truly bumming me out. I don't know that one's name, but he looked really like he was having a really, really, really tough year. First, just to get it out of the way, don't let the fact that people might comment

about having the same name stop you from making a new friend as an adult. The chances of fighting a new friend. Yeah. Don't blow it. Don't blow this for us. We need this. I'm so curious. What does it feel like to make that connection as an adult?

Don't blow it. Don't blow it. You know, I do a little bit, I'm a little bit worried about the situation because I don't feel like the question asker is really understanding the issue, right? Yeah. There is someone at their new workplace that has the same name as them and many of the same. interests. Yeah. You need to start, you need to start thinking about your brand.

You know what I mean? Like right now, let's say Julie. Is that fair, Julie? Yep. If the Julie brand is like, it's already being pretty much monopolized and you're not doing anything to take the brand in a bold new direction. You always have to innovate. You have to be innovating always.

In this economy? You may have to accept that you can't handle the brand. Maybe you need to rename. Maybe you need to drop the value. mouths from your name. Well, in Julie, I think that's just J.L. is left. Oh, sorry, Travis, say it again.

J.L. Here comes J.L. Oh. J.L feels fucking great, dude. That does feel good. It feels good, right? That's where you have to be willing to innovate. J.L.

What's J.L about? It doesn't matter. It's different. It's new. It's today. It's hip. It's now. It's not labels.

Now, ooh. If you can figure out a way to be complimentary but separate from the new Julie right are you saying JL a Julie JL a Julie joint

and you're like a JLX JLX Julie yeah a crossover event right you don't have your brand cannot handle a crossover with Julie right now not right now no you got to work your way up to it

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah You want people to get excited when this drops. Yes, exactly. JL has to be about something else. You got to have the scent ready to deploy. You got to have the scent ready to deploy. You need the cross-media sort of like Burger King partnership, JLX, Julie. Maybe you do a verse on a Julie track, right?

And people lose it. Featuring JL, get the fuck out. You got JL on the track, right? It's gonna blow people's minds. It's gonna blow up. And at that point, you've raised both of your standings in the community. Check this out. Maybe a staged beef.

Okay. Julie likes D and D. J.L. D or D. Okay. Pathfinder. You know what I mean? Why are we?

Huh. Julie likes to make clothes. J.L. You didn't have one for. that one. I was hoping for a fucking, maybe,

I was hoping for once that just for once we would jump in and steal the punch line would help. You know, when I do, you yell at me.

You yell at us. Yeah, that's the show, guys. That's the show. Yeah. That's the show. Griffin, that was a great limb reference.

Thanks. Thank you. This is, I think, gonna be fine. I think that people become good friends that this is,

the subtext of our answers is this will be fine. And it's not funny, but like if people say, oh, you both are named Julie, that's crazy. They're probably not going to do it every time you two are in the same. Here come the Jolies. Although they did do that shit on West Wing, and that probably hurt those guys feelings. All you got to do is if somebody's like,

oh, you're both named Julie, you just go, oh, yeah, great observation. Great observation. Enjoy being alone. Enjoy not having any friends in this office. I'm the only fucking one who does. So go ahead and say your mean shit about our names. Do you guys feel as you're saying this, like these are the words of a beloved office member?

Like, do you think this is the... If someone's giving you a hard time about making an adult friendship? Yeah. It's because they're jealous. Yeah. Every opportunity to brand that you miss is a little bit of your life that you've let slip away. Because if you're not branding, what are you doing? Yeah.

What do we leave behind if not a brand, Griffin? Thank you. That's... I think Hamilton said that. I think it was Lynn Minnell Miranda that wrote. What do we leave? A brand is a garden. We talked about the Max Fun Drive briefly earlier on, but I wanted to say right now, real quick.

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seen before. Yeah. That's a wild flick anyway. Quick, spoiler. What's the rating? A fun, hugely problematic romp. A fun, we! Cowboy romp!

Yay! In the desert. So, such a rough ride in 2026. Oh, good to know. Okay. Yeah, so be strapped in and be ready. Teresa and I discuss Zombies 1, the Disney Channel original movie. Holy shit, yeah.

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into the brush that increases desire live before your very eyes. Haunted doll watch. We're just not getting through six. questions. We've got an exciting delivery on the desk right now. Holy shit, dude. Holy shit. Yeah. Justin's got a box. This is a large box that I received in our, my P.O. Box. You're really cradling it. Huntington, West Virginia, 25704.

You're snuggling it. Justin, is the box label accurate? The box label says, trick or treat with Garfield. Amazing. This is the note that I received. Hi boys, long-time listener since 2015. First-time mailer of definitely haunted dolls. When you see her, you'll understand.

She's been traveling around with me, new in box, through at least four different moves. I've been meaning to ship her for ages. I finally found a box perfect for it, so here she is. So I guess maybe the Garfield box is a misleading thing. Have you opened this bad boy yet? Never. It's been sealed sitting on a shelf.

I've been waiting for an opportunity. And the Max Fun Drive is such an opportunity. I finally found a box for... If I can interrupt, Jocelyn, real quick. Oh, yeah, there's only two sentences left. Sure. I notice above your right shoulder, I believe, cradle fun. I was clearly being ironic, Travis.

Clearly, I didn't want to be interrupted. Cradle by a crocheted count donut is the brush that increases desire? I see no brush. Okay. God. So, she's in your hands now. take care of her. Steph D.

Fork first into the void in PA. I have no idea what's going to be in here. I'm not 100% sure what Garfield's pronouns are, but it does sound like just based on sort of context clues. Maybe it's normal. You know what Garfield's pronouns are? Yeah, he's him, man. It's Garfield.

Do you think it's because Justin got the brush that increases desires, that's why they're making the Phantom reboot? It's possible that you guys fucking worked together. on this. And I had no part in it. Here we go. So I'm opening the box. I'm gonna...

Is there a same? That's a smell. It's like the smell. There's always... It seems like a smell. It's transported. Yeah. The ghost comes out hot and fast.

It fills in. It's pressurized. We have some really nice wrapping paper. I'm gonna try to remove. Man, I hope it's not like a trap. Be crazy to get that on camera. Oh gosh.

Okay. You know what? Who's in there? Okay, that's just paper. And. Oh! That's trick-or-treat with Garfield. Yeah, for sure.

Wait, but there's, no, hold on, wait. There is something going on with Garfield. There's something going on with that doll that I don't. Oh, my gosh. That feels custom to me. This is so exciting. Wow. This is really exciting.

We got a little trick-or-treat bag. This is a little trick-or-treat bag. That's really cute actually. Novelty stand. That's incredible. The doll seems aftermarket juice, I'll be honest. No, dude, the doll's not. It's...

Oh my God. Down, beauty blogging. I can't see the face. I need the face. Does I have a hernet on? I think that's packaging material. So what we're looking at right now, folks listening at home, is a child, a little doll child

that is wearing a Garfield suit. So it's like... Sort of a onesie, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. And the child is cheesing so hard like it's just been told as soon as they get a picture

with a smile, you can take it off. But it also looks like while it was going through R&D, a focus group was like, can you make the eyes deader, deader eyes, deader eyes, deader, deader, deader, deader, deader, deader, yeah.

Now, if you guys are ready to have some Halloween fun. Dude. Oh. Why? Is it good like that? It's so much better like that. You put the Garfield eyes on it.

It's not to scale at all. It's not to scale even a little bit, but that's okay. The child's having a great time. He's got, he's super dumpy, which I imagine is maybe just all the fun-sized candy bars.

He's stuffed inside the suit with him, which is crazy. A specific dumpiness, too. A huge sort of bottle-shaped dumpiness. Is there a tail? I'm trying to figure out how to display. Yeah, I mean, this guy's a permanent fixture, I imagine, in the background. Oh, yeah, he's going to get right.

You put him next to Frisch's big boy in the brush that increases desires. Don't not see you. Holy Christ. Why? Why does the freshman get hungling time? I guess my question is, why is the mask so big and chunky? Yeah. It's, dude, I, listen, I don't think I can.

It's hard to, you're, you're trying to beauty. It's like it's porcelain. It's like it's really hard and heavy. It's like they had the mask first and crafted the rest of the idea around it. The sound actually that the mask makes touching the child's doll face is sounds really good. Can you give us that just a couple times? Listen, because it sounds fucking get it right up on the mic. Because it's not molded to it.

Travis, don't talk. And it's too heavy for the elastic. Like this is naturally. It's sort of sagging like a cool sagging. Sag and sagging. Cars will watch out for him. That's awesome. Cagnet.

Zagnut. Port lasagna in bag. Zanya in bag. That's awesome. Wow. This is a beautiful piece. Thank you so much. I'm saying this as a parent.

This is actually very Halloween realistic. Got like a black long sleeve thermal and some sweatpants. Jack kid is going to be sweating their fucking ass off. I don't care what the weather is. outside, they're wearing a bearskin rug. Yeah, yeah. No good. No good. Thank you so much. But extremely good. But also, very good. I just got to...

I'll look at the instructions later. We'll have it properly mounted. I feel like I need to say for your sake, do not let this kick off a wave of you saying, well, I've got a haunted doll for Justin, unless it's a fucking stone cold heater like this. Really take a look at that doll? Because sometimes we get sent dolls... I'll find a place for them. I'll find a place for them. No problem. I'll take care of it. No problem. How about another question? This is an advice show, and I feel like sometimes we lose out of that.

I work with yeast, but most of my friends are not in the yeast community. Recently, my friends have started referring to me as the yeast guy and telling me about any yeast-related things they come across. I'm still pretty new at yeast work. Sorry, oh, not wait, this is really good. I'm still pretty new at yeast work, and so I have a bit of imposter syndrome at being given this title. how should I best accept and embrace my new identity as the yeast guy? And this is from the yeast guy. That's a good start.

That's a good start. That is a good start owning it. Maybe you could start talking about like the yeast games and yeastables and your boss, Mr. Yeast and just see how long you can keep that up before they're like, this sounds a lot like Mr. B. You're like, yeah, Mr. Yist today said he would give away like a million dollars to the first hundred yeast that stayed alive. Yeah. And then they're like, that sounds like something Mr. Beast would do. And you're like, different brand.

We're actually probably the best people at, like, making jokes about Mr. Beast that I know of. Wow. I don't think any, but, yeah, I don't think, like, we do a lot of actually very good. You hear that I-heart radio? New category. New category. I just think we make a lot of very good Mr. Beast jokes. that I don't feel like our audience,

I think our audience is uniquely positioned to not enjoy. Like, the demographically speaking. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I have, I do to my life has been exposed to so much Mr. Beast that I feel like I can do a pretty good five to ten on beast stuff. Travis's the same way. Right there was like so good.

It's really good. But we also, I mean, it's the same reason we are all like routinely pitching blippy gags to crickets. Just absolutely no one. because it's tough it's tough what do you got there the bag is labeled accessory package this is how they used to do things kids people used to be professionals that's awesome the nice thing is you one should not have imposter syndrome when they know any amount of stuff while the people talking to them knows zero amount of about that stuff right you are inherently an expert above them Your friends who know nothing about yeast who are telling you about yeast because they're excited they found out a single fact about yeast aren't judging you that you don't know more about yeast than they think you do.

Yeah. Yeah, but, yeah, but on the other hand, Trav, this person is admittedly new to yeast work. We got to start being careful about imposter syndrome, folks. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. No, listen, hold on. get said. Yeah.

No, no, no, listen. Own it. If you have imposter syndrome about something because people think you know way more about it than you actually do, that's not imposter syndrome. That is a discrepancy of information. Right?

You get imposter syndrome. It's not your fault. It's their fault for thinking that much. You get imposter syndrome about things that you are an expert in. Like, yeah. Recently, I've been taking on some new challenges, and I've been thinking, I've been really doubting myself.

And these are untested things, things I haven't tried before, right? I've been really doubting myself. And I thought, man, I got imposter syndrome. And then later, I rethought that, and I had to reframe it and say, you don't have imposter syndrome. You have regular wondering if you're going to fuck up or not. That's just a normal amount of wondering that. I think you have a very normal amount of worrying someone's going to ask you a question

about East. And you can look like an asshole. And that's like, that's not imposter syndrome. That's just being alive. That's like a normal part of being alive. Fully, fully completely. As someone who takes on a lot of new hobbies constantly, I started reintroducing some, I would say, archaic terminology.

To give us a level betwixt novice and expert, journeyman. Journeyman is great. A journeyman east worker. An enthusiastic, right? I'm still learning. I love that. Yeah. I can't answer all your questions.

I know more than I did on my first day. I'm no longer a novice. But I'm not an expert. I'm a journeyman. Did you guys have any COVID hobbies that you kind of like got into with someone else? And then like they kept going with it and you fell off. Or like they were already an expert and you came to them like,

hey, I want to get into your thing. And then you fell off immediately because that's just how we're built. And it was COVID and we were all trying a lot of stuff. And then they'd check in with you. like, hey, how's it going with that? And you say, I did stop. It's boring. I would say absolutely if I am always the other person.

Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Flip it. It happens with my children. Well, they will inadvertently shame me by saying like, hey, do you still do blank hobby that I haven't touched in six months because I'm three hobbies further along now? Uh-huh.

Or they'll say, like, when are you going to play Star Doe Valley again? you're always playing that beaver game, which is Timberborn. Or like, what happened to the video store game? And I'm like, oh, I lost interest in that. And I can only play one video game at a time because of my brain disease. Sure. Daddy, make me some hard candy. I haven't done that shit in like four years.

Dot asked me the other day, Dot said, my six-year-old, why do you have so many unfinished projects? Yeah. That's a great question, Doddy. Absolutely. And I said, well, the fun's not in finishing them. the fun is in chasing the interest as long as it exists. And she said, yeah, there's just a lot of stuff around the house. There sure is.

Yeah, man. You're right. You are right. I think Travis, the next time you've got to come back and say, I don't know, it's because some of my unfinished projects are real chatty. Wow. Yeah. Some of my unfinished projects got a lot of attitude about their dad and they distract me.

I'm trying to drink my chocolate milk. Dot. No, I'm making her chocolate milk. Sorry. Chocolate milk is it my escape? You're slurping out a big refreshing chocolate milk while your daughter tries to get your, I get it. Let daddy finish his medicine. I will tell you guys, I have the legitimate hardest one of these to come back from.

And I would love, I would still love your advice on this. Sure, sure. I did taekwondo for a year. A big one. We all knew that was a big one. It was a big one. That was in zag on them. So that would have been...

2017. 2017, okay? So I did Taekwondo for a year. Kind of lost interest, picked it up a couple years later with Charlie. And we did it for a couple years. And I became a blue belt in Taekwondo, which is like, you know, about middle, right? Journey to your journey to. And then I stopped going because, I don't know.

You didn't want to. Why does anyone stop doing Taekwondo? I don't know. Why does anyone stop doing anything? It got cold or hot. Who knows? So I saw, or not to go outside so you stopped your journey, right? Something hurt. Yeah.

Someone died. You know, stuff happens. So we stopped going for some amount of time. The amount of time now is such that I am left in this impossible scenario where I feel like it is something I should be doing, would enjoy returning to, would get a lot out of. But I for the life of me do not know how I go back with my bluebell and say, I have. forgotten it all take this from me you find and take take take take me back to the to the white belt because that's they don't want to do that they don't want you they don't get anything out of that right they don't want to go back and teach you and honestly if I had a tutor an intensive

two-week tutor to miagi me through yeah to catch me back up you know maybe that maybe I'm a blue belt again I don't know maybe I don't know how to get back on board and Master Kim I paid a good amount of... This is the other thing. This is the other problem. Okay.

I was really enthusiastic about Taekwondo and I paid for a year in advance. And then we used about three months of that. And now if I go back, I cannot have a conversation with Master Kim where he's like... You owe me

this many Taekwondo's. I mean, I don't know. It's going to at least be a conversation. And of course I will defer to whatever he is the master. Right. Like I'm going to, I would obviously defer to what we say. But there would be this question of, I did. I mean, I, yeah, sure.

You can't really say that I was using those months, Master Kim. Like, I wasn't, you know. Yeah. Is it possible, Justin, that simply by paying for the month, even if you didn't go to the class, you were still benefiting from the time? Taekwondo, like, kind of just being there for you if you needed it. Interesting.

And then maybe when that nine months ran out, that's why you can't remember how to do any of it. Because your time ran out. No, but, Tram, I would say, I don't know that to be true. But upon further reflection, I would say that by paying for a year and then just not being present for nine months, I've got to be like the top 10% of Master Kim's favorite students. That's true. Pretty good deal. It was a student's go.

Certainly upsetting on some level, but can you imagine if you had a full roster of paying students, but none of them ever came, and you just got to sit there and like fucking play Halo all day? And these suckers are at home feeling guilty. Poppa, pop, pa, pop, pop, bar. They're doing the same thing I am, except the money's flowing this way.

That you might show up and be like, Master, can you, it's been so long, can you teach me? And he'll be like, man, I haven't, I also haven't done it in like nine months. No one shows up to these things. That would explain why whenever I was early for class, he would always be like, oh, Christ, this job. Fuck.

Wheeling the TV out of the room. One more question. Cool. Heroic effort. Can't stop, won't stop. Just like the old days. I'm a college student suffering through a heat wave. Yesterday I saw a

Love Roller Coaster by the Electric Mayhem featuring Jennifer Hudson and Questal Love. Dude! How long is this fucking roller coaster? Is it like a Guardian of the Galaxy thing where you get a different track? You never know what track you're going to get.

Hell yes. Yesterday I saw a very large lawn sprinkler, spraying water over one of the turf fields on campus to cool it down for a sports game happening later in the day. It looked very refreshing. Do you think it'd be okay for me to...

No. Do you think it's okay for me to run through the giant sprinkler to cool off? That's from melting in Massachusetts. Well, I'd say right now, you're staring at the blank page before you. Okay. I can't see through that window. Might I recommend open up the dirty window? Open it.

Don't clean it. Illuminate the words that you cannot find. What if the words? words were, what if it was to clean up that dirty window? And then you, all of a sudden, it's functional no matter which state. Well, when you're reaching for something in the distance, it's Windex. Yeah. So close you can almost taste it, but don't, because it's Windex.

Is there advice in here, release your inhibitions? Okay. Feel the sprinklers on your skin. No one else can feel it. There's a reason it doesn't, the meter doesn't work. It's because it's not rain. You know, it's sprinklers. We don't, yeah.

Someone put that there. What if instead of frolicing, you're like looking at your phone, pretending to look your phone, and you walk in and start getting sprayed, and you go, oh, oh, man, oh, no! And you like, oh, kind of befuddle your way through getting sprayed, but not like you enjoy it. Yeah, okay, imagine the person that spent some of their day setting these sprinklers up, okay? Now imagine they are watching this field, and now imagine yourself striding across it

at beginning their freshman. Do you think there was a reality, which they look at you and extend the double thumbs up like yes this is what I wanted I'm glad so much getting used out of it I was hoping this is good for the field that I'm in charge of thank you so much this is good roll around a bit maybe pull some grass up that's what this is for I don't have a problem

you know this is not about inhibitions I don't I don't care about that I think that you know you could do whatever you know you feel like as long as you're not hurting other folks to yourself, but like, people are going to assume you don't know that the sprinklers for the grass. Right. Yeah, people are going to assume that you think it is a fun activity for everyone to enjoy. Right. Because you're doing that. Where's the bouncy castle? I don't get it. Yeah, right. Yeah. I thought this was the church fate. Here's a good standard. If you do something that if 30 other people did it at the same time, they'd write a story about it in the newspaper.

That's a really good sort of catch-all It's like a pretty good You do it, yes, two people Mentos commercial And then it's like 30 It's like get the press Something's gone wrong

But you know what I mean Something's happened Yeah You need to be careful also Because if we're talking about One sprinkler That is servicing an entire sports lawn And it's covering that entire place

The pressure that that thing is putting out is going to absolutely flay, if you get too close to it, like a doggy trying to get a silly drink, it's going to absolutely rip you to shreds. It's going to blast you apart. So don't be even close to this thing. But the good news with that is,

no matter how precisely this thing's been set up, there's no way it stops, like, at the end zone or whatever. You're going to stand with a headset on, a visor, a clipboard, right on the edge of the field, and you're going to catch, the sprits. You're going to catch the mist, right? Gently. Gently on the precipice of the thing. And you're going to sit there like your planning plays for the later game while you get a light

misting. Dude, yes. Viser on, sports shirt, maybe a jersey. What do coaches wear? Not the jersey. A polo? A polo, yes. And you got your clipboard. You're drawing, doodling? X's and O's? I don't know if you could sell this as a performance, but what if you're like on your phone? Or, but it's like a fake phone because you don't like it to roll phone. So it's like a pretend phone, okay?

You're walking, you're like, what? Wait. Like you walk into it, right? Okay, I'm still doing it. I'm still doing it. Like, huh? And you're like, yeah. Some weather we're having.

And then you like, pop your head up and you like, oh well, when in Rome? And then you like really live it up. So it's like you accidentally did it, and then people see you, like, being fully not pissed off about it. Wait. Yeah. Like, not even sweating it. You know what I mean?

Right. But I pitch, but Justin. Think about it. I pitched guys. No, no, no, no. Mine was shorter. Think about it. His was way shorter.

Think about it. I mean, yours. Let me pitch this. What if you pitch this? Let me pitch this. Let me do this. What if you're close? But not too close.

What? A little wet. Yeah. But I. But I said But I... Not too wet A little sweaty

Like I'm misty A little sweaty It looks cool It's gonna feel good And You gotta can't get too close Because I'm looking at some stats Guys I'm looking at the Nelson

Big Gun SR 200 The PSI It throws up to 310 feet And flows up to 1,200 gallons per minute You'll be ripped asunder You'll be killed By this sprinkler And I think a good rule is

if you do something that if like 25 people did it, they'd write about it in the newspaper, you shouldn't do it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. Holy shit. The Nelson Big Guns. It's R200 absolutely fucking blast. I'm looking at a video this bad boy. They're like covering cross with this goddamn thing.

What if you see the lawn guy like, no, don't. You think like, oh, he's worried about his lawn. It just cuts you in half. It's not again. No, I had to spray the field off again. This is just like the bite of 87. It bled everywhere. When we used to use goats to mow the lawn.

Look at this fucking thing. Shit, dude. Holy fucking shit. That's covering an entire highway. You would be... Oh, my God. You'd be killed with this person talking about.

Holy shit. Dude, you would blast off the space. Fucking forget about it. Look at all right through you. Why do you think this is the one that they're saying? It's so powerful Can you have to try to hold onto this thing

And operating it? You would go absolutely zooming It says right there, Justin. Large volume sprinkler. That looks like a hose that Bruce Willis would use in Armageddon. That's not like a sprinkler.

That shit's crazy. I didn't even know they made hoses that big. I love that when you're developing a sprinkler like that and you're trying to come up with a name for it, the only name that fits is the big gun. The Nelson Big Gun. Fuck yeah, dude.

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It's a real nice podcast you got here. Be ashamed of something. We are a little bit behind pace while we're recording this. so maybe threat, like a protection racket, I guess is the next logical step. Justin just threw shit. Real nice place you got here. Nice podcasts.

This would be more threatening if we didn't end every episode with us throwing something really, really hard. This is also like if I owned a store and I told customers they had to pay me more money or I would destroy my own store. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's the way it works sometimes.

You like a nice store, but you don't pay it what it's due. sometimes things get broken at the store I don't That's not That's how it works Sometimes if you're not careful about shopping And giving your money to the store

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We're also going to be at the Huntington Boys Virginia Ren Fair this weekend. And so I was thinking I could throw this Magnus shoulder paltren that I made that I'm going to wear. I can throw that. Saturday one to three. Oh, you want to throw your shoulder paltren that you made. Yeah. Wow, you're pretty confident in your craftsmanship. I'm a journeyman.

I'm a journeyman leather worker. Okay. That's good. That's like 50 stat points. Where are you going to throw it? I bet he's not going to throw it hard juice because he's afraid he'll break it. Did you guys know I got bit.

Dot L.Y4. slash Renfairt, 2026? No, that's a great hyperlamp. Isn't that good? All right, he's going to chuck it now. Okay. With an E. Oh, he hit our YouTube award, dude.

That was chunky, dude. That was a chunky, and he didn't... That's a good award. It did not fall down. Yeah, it was really good, dude. Hey, congratulations Strav. Congratulations us. That's going to do it for us for this week on

And it's still intact. Beautiful, dude. Journeyman craftsmanship. My name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been my brother, my brother me. Kiss your dad's where I'm on.

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