MBMBaM 826: Right to the Couch Hole
00:00The 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.It's blossomed.It's rapping into a precious friendship.Never seen it was a skate park.
00:41It feels long.Are we on?Are we live?Yeah.Okay.Hello, everyone, and welcome to my brother, my brother and me.I'm Justin McRoy.Thank you for being with us.
01:21Everybody, thank you so much for being here today.I'm your midless brother, Travis Big Dog, Wolf Wolfram from the Header Award-winning McRoy.It feels inappropriate to do all the preamble stuff in your thing.Yeah, but I didn't want to not show this moment with respect, you know?Yeah.My name's Griffin and I'm very sorry.No matter what we say or are about to say,I'm the most sorry of the three of us.
01:45It turns out,Dr. Doom is like a really cool, badass.Very cool, bad, dude.We had a clip from the episodewhere we did discuss Dr. Doom.Dr. Victor Vaughn Doom, sorry.We need to put as much respect on that name.It did break containment and went viral.
02:05It did break containment.Our audience is,is sophisticated.Okay.Our audience understandsthat we're doinga very complexmeta-layered bit
02:16where we acknowledgewe know about the superhero guy.A lot.But also pretend that we don't knowabout the superhero guyin a way that's still funnyif you know,but if you're not part of our
02:30like twisted,fucked up worldlike that we've builtover the past decade.That's the best word for it.It's fucked up.When we say,Dr. Doom isn't as strong as the big purple alien man.
02:41That's fucked up to say because, like, I know his name.I know what he brings to the table.Right.But someone who has not familiar with us.Yeah.They hear me.Our engagement bait, you ever see the people in the TikTok adsand they'll do the whole ad with a big glob of spaghetti sauce on their face?
02:59It's like, all the comments are like, the spaghetti, God, get it!It's like, yeah, yeah.This is kind of our version of that, where we'll say something wrong about Dr.doom and just wait for the white guys, just pile on top of us.We're like, oh, a big magnet would stop him, and then they're like, he's got cosmic armorthat protects it for reality forge from the demon skin of his ex-grover.Now, tell me another one, and buy some javvy while you're at it.Keep clicking bell.
03:24Yeah.Click all our ads.Do click all our ads.I don't mind doing that type of content, but I want to know that we're doing it whileso I can be very, very careful about the words that I use.Like saying Dr. Doom is not a sorcerer or like whatever it happens to be.People did share that I think with friends.I think some people maybe shared that clip with friends they knew it would irritate.
03:48Okay.And then they comment.A real Travis.Yeah.Yeah.Like they're trying to bait people into it.That's crazy.I've never once shared anything to anyone I care about in my life that's like, hey, go shit on this for me.
04:01I've never once sort of like had the thought of like, this sucks.It makes me mad.Jeff's got to see this.That's most of what TravisTexas said, right?It's like most of Travis'smaterial is that, right?Yeah, my thing is like,
04:18well, they won't like this,but people will like that they don't like it, you know?Yeah.I guess I'm just saying I don't do that.You know what?I don't apologize.Dr. Dune's a villain.Dr. Dume is a villain,
04:29and anyone who defends him is also a villain.Wow.Okay.The defending, again,I don't think people were saying...People were like he's actually very niceand he deserves a kiss on the cheek.They wanted us to know he was very strong
04:43because we talked shit about like you're going to...Strong and handsome.And I just, I didn't...I wasn't careful.I mean, I don't want to double down here,but if I could just say one thing.God damn it.Dr. Doom is, okay, we have to establish the stakes of a villain, right?
05:00Yeah.Why are we afraid of them?We have to do that work narratively.Thanos poofed half of all people away.Yeah.That's so, that's twisted.Yeah.That's so wild.
05:13That's so many people.And he just did it like, it was almost as if just a snap.He said like in a snap.He made everybody poop away.Dr. Doom's not going to do.He's not going to do anything close to that, I don't think.I'm willing to eat our words if in this movie at some point, Dr. Doom snaps and like 53% of the population.60 is the six.
05:32That's a 6% of the population.He needs to find one more turbo gym.If you find a turbo gym and you put that...We know they're not called turbo.We know they're not called.They're chaos emeralds.Yeah, but this would be a turbo emerald.Whoa.
05:46You would put in that links the other ones and is like, I've ramped it up.It's like, wow, feels pretty rad.It's like, now try snapping.It's like, whoa, you just wiped out 57% of the population.Yeah.It's just like that little bit, that would get me excited.Now where I've got Sequelitis.Now I'm ready.
06:04The shit Thanos did was so monumental that you can't watch a Marvel television showand not spend the whole time thinking like,I hope no one about to get snapped because they won't tell you when the show takes place.You'll just be watching, you know, Miss Marvel.And he'll be like, I love the grandpa character.And then he's poof.Because he gets snapped by Thanos.Mid-sentence in some of these shows.
06:27Mid-sentence just gets some poof.I do think that was an amazing choice by Kevin.I want to say Fage.I'm going with Fage this time.Figee, never going to book one of these flicks.No, butto be like, if this actor starts askingfor a little bit too much money
06:44to come back for season two,they actually got,they got poofed away.Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it snapping.Audience doesn't like this character?That's fine.They must have gotten in the poof.I guess they were in the poof, I didn't realize.
06:55Oh, it was a delayed snap.Yeah.They got it.So sorry, Dr. Doom.I guess.I don't know.I don't know, man.This is an advice show, and the way it works is you send us questions, and we read them, and then we see if we can help.
07:10My neighbors like to leave free items in our back alley for others to come by and claim.Recently, a neighbor placed a shit ton of cinder blocks in the alley.My rough count is around 100 blocks context in very good condition.If it were just four or five cinder blocks, I could easily ignore this, but 100 blocks feel like a challenge against my capacity for craft.Brothers, if I take on this block burden, what should I do with them?Who's that from?That's from Cinderella in Columbus.What do you think?
07:43I didn't even think about this when pulling the question.But what scenario do you think led to this person having a hundred?A hundred extra.Good condition.So this wasn't like they weren't at any point mortared together.If they were putting up a retaining wall, they suck shit.at math. Maybe it's just what it is,or spatial sort of
08:05reasoning, because they bought a hundredtoo many cinder blocks, and those shits arenot cheap.The scale of project you would have to bedoing to accidentally overbuy 100 cinder blocks.It's like, it took 100,000cinder blocks. Yeah.
08:21Right? And like, that's how many I ordered,and then I only ended up using999,900 of them.Right.Uh, I,uh,I have a story about this.Sidney wanted a wall at the house.
08:37Between you guys?No, no, no, retaining wall outside for gardening purposes.And she wanted to, the way that happens is that me and Tommy go to the block store and buy hundreds and hundreds of blockbuster.By hundreds and hundreds of cinder blocks and then build a wall.We've done it a couple of times now in a couple of our different houses.and I went to pick up the blocks in a truckand what I understood about this truckwas that it had 10,000 pounds of towing capacity.
09:11Cool.And so when I went to the store where they had the blocks,the gentlemen were like,so there's a huge palette of blocks here.What should we do with them?How do you want to do this?And I'm like, well, I did a little quick mathand my 10,000 pound towing capacity
09:28can handle this.No problem.So you get the fork lift there, guys.You just lift the pallet up.Pop it right down in the truck bed.And they did.And it fell a little low.Was there some maybe...
09:45So I start driving.So I start driving.Mm-hmm.I start driving.And the thing is that you guys need to know about that I discovered between lowsand the bank on Route 60 near Targetis that towing capacityis different from hauling capacity.
10:06Yeah, okay.Because hauling capacityhas a downward forceon the chassis of your vehicle.Yeah.So while I'm driving, I Google,hey, I'm doing this.Am I good?
10:20And the Google says,no, no, no, you are not good.You're about three times past good.Oh, no.You need to stop now.Yeah.I'm surprised your garden developed sentience to start yelling.It was like leant.
10:38It was like squatting.It was like squatting down.It was push.I could feel it.And man, it hated turning.Woof and oofa.Oh, man.Really.
10:46Playing with that object in motion.Yeah.I barely dragging it in this bank and I could see it bending.And I'm like, ah, fuck.See what bending?The truck!So I opened the bag.I started taking blocks out one at a time.
11:04This is a mega, this is a like a half ton load.And I am unloading cinder block by cinder block.How are the bank people feeling about this?It's a Sunday.I'm alone.I'm alone in the bank parking lot, luckily.And I have to call Sydney and I say, I don't know what to do.I bet the car.
11:23I bent the truck.No, I had to unload roughly 300 cinder blocks from this thing.When you called Sidney and said, I don't know what to do, did you think her doctor training was going to help here in some way?I don't know that anyone's really prepped for the exact situation you got yourself into.Guys, once you have accepted you're the dumbest person alive, pretty much anybody is going to be helpful.That's true.Yeah.Do you know what I mean?
11:52Yeah.Especially the smartest person I know.So multiple car trips later, I will tell you there were like 40 cinder blocks that I just couldn't.Okay.But I just couldn't.And I hope the bank put them to good use.And I'm sorry.And that is how sometimes there might be a pile of cinder blocks around.
12:12Yeah, the cinder block ferry comes and fucks up.You never know.You never know.Good quality bricks.Free to a good home.Maybe they're still there.Maybe they're still there.Maybe they've been incorporated in the bank.
12:24Maybe the land has reclaimed them.It's the wildish geocash in history, folks.Go get yourself a cinderblock from the bank on Route 60.I don't know if a hundred is enough for this,but there was a time where Rachel and I were living together in Austin on 37th Street,and there wasn't much to do around there.And so the one bar that was like within walking distance of our place was an estableness.that was constructed out of cinder blocks called Nasty's.
12:55Yeah.And so Nasty's was kind of our stomping grounds for, did we take you to Nasty's?No, it just, if you are building a bar out of cinder blocks, Nasty's, right.And there was some stuff that they did.I think it was, like, thematic where they had, like, bras and panties, like, staple to the ceiling.And they had the flattest beer I've ever drank.And one time you-It's a good stapler that can get into cinder block, I've got to say.
13:17Me and my friends went there once.I don't know, the ceiling was like plywood or something.but my friends and I went once for an open mic comedy night just to watch.Was this a FEMA shelter perhaps?Is this a real establishment?Possibly a repurp as FEMA shelter.We went for an open mic comedy night one time and we sat down and the vibe was really weird.And after about five people had gone up on stage and done their jokes, one of which was
13:40completely stolen from Carlos Mencia and it was crazy that like I even clocked that.Someone said, you guys know you're the only ones here who are not performing.You're the ones we're delivering all of these jokes out and two.And we were like, whoa, that sucks.So you got up and did a tight five?So we got up and did a tight leave.But Nasty's was, I mean, the construction costs on that place must have been quite low.You could make your own cool little bar.
14:08Nasty's too.Nasty's too.On the establishment.It's nastier than ever.The problem is that with 100 blocks, right, I'm assuming you're doing this by hand.Maybe you have some kind of heavy duty hand truck.But let's say you're doing it by hand.Even if you could pick up a cinder block in each hand, you're looking at 50 trips.
14:28Sucks, dude.And the chances that you will be clocked.Yeah.Doing this.Moving these blocks a not far distance.There is a point, and I can vouch for this at which the monetary value of something in its physical heft start to shift.start to shift places.You know what I mean?
14:51It was like back during the peak of COVID when they couldn't sell oil.They were just giving it away.It's like that, right?Eventually you're like, fuck blocks.I don't want them.There's too many.It's a problem now.They no longer have value.
15:04Now it's just a chore.And trust me, as someone who constantly has the impulse of seeing something and going,well, you're getting rid of that?I could use that, but not actually having a plan for it.What's going to happen?You're going to haul these hundred blocks to your backyard.Then you're going to try to think of a.crafting thing to do with it. And you're not going to come up with one. And two weeks later,
15:23those blocks are going to be back in the alley. And now your neighbors are going to see thatthose blocks are now behind your backyard. And they're going to be like, they thought they could usethose. Just like I thought. And then you find out that these are the sisterhood of the travelingcinder blocks. And they've just been moving down the alley as people have picked them up thinking,well, that's 100 cinder blocks. I could use those. And they've changed everyone's life to realizeI'm not creative, and I actually need to get rid of these blocks.Pizza oven.Oh, shit.
15:51Good point.Oh, that's good.Cinder oven pizza.Big pizza oven.A lot of people want to do bricks.Fuck that.Concrete for me, thanks.Yeah, you could do some industrial pizzas in that thing.
16:02Industrial strength pizza crust on these bad boys.Mm.Real black at the bottom, real white at the top.Real light, like doughy at the top.Chemical taste.Chemical taste on it.Mm.A little gum.
16:15Little gum on there.Do you think the first pizza oven backyard was made out of straw and it burned up and then the next one was made out of sticks and that burned up and then finally they did it out of bricks and they were able to roast a whole pig?Yeah. Whoa.Yeah.Probably not that.I'm dog sitting.Can we move on?Yeah, we both censored.
16:35It's a shame that I interrupted you there because I think you said dog shitting and we'll never know.Damn.I'm dog sitting for my neighbor's parents.who I don't know very well.They went on about how excited they wereto have someone responsible watching the dogsas their last dog sitter had lost their spare keys immediatelyand they'd had to call locksmith.
16:58Well, it's the second day of dog sittingand some movers they hired came in to take their old couchand put in a new one.Problem is, I realized after the movie guys had left,that my keys, which the spare keys were attached to,had been left in the old couch that was taken.Fuck!How do I get in contact with the movers?
17:17I don't remember the moving company they usedto get my keys back without letting the peoplein dog sitting for know that I lost their spare keys.They're paying me really welland I want them to hire me again.That's from irresponsible in Iowa.I also love, once again, that you're really worried about thisand not the fact that your own keys are lost.
17:35Yeah, you need that.That's a tomorrow problem.You've got to take these things one at a time.You can't eat a whole elephant.Yeah.You can slow down a little bit.Well, that's what you do.You call the owners and you say,
17:46listen, before I say anything else,I've protected your key with my life.I've got it right here in a special chain around my neck.But my keys, I don't care about those guysbecause they're not yours.They're not special like your georgie is.I did leave those in the couch.You could maybe bury the lead a little bit
18:09and just be like, they come home, be like,I'm so sorry there's been a terrible crime.I tried to stop them,but these mean men took your couch.And they stole your couch.And I guess they felt bad laterbecause they brought a different one back.And I guess I asked for your old couch back.
18:27They said they didn't have it.But I'm so sorry I let them steal your couch.I was a victim here.And they beat the shit out of me.Yeah, I threw my ass up bad.I threw my keys at them.I threw my keys at them to try to dissuade them from stealing it.And they beat my ass so bad.
18:45One of them ate the keys and he got bigger from it.I did that thing they teach in self-defense classwhere you put your keys between your fingers,but I put them in backwards the wrong way.And then when I hit the guy in my hand.And then he laughed at me.And he did that thing that they always do in movies.He brought a nice new couch, though.
19:02Yeah, they did that thing that I was doing movieswhere they kicked the person in the stomachwhen they're like kind of posed on their side,perfect position to be kicked in the stomach.And it's not as fun as it looks in the movies.I didn't like it.I don't you could call the locksmith too right but this is the locksmith can't make a new key for you they can just get you in the door what they can do and this is a service that not a lot of people talk about is they can change the lock now no one's got keys to the house you're all on even playing field now no one's got keys to this house squatters right we don't we don't know how to get into your house it seems like everyone fucked up equally here yeah you could fake that they've never existedto do that's one option.
19:46They come home, their key doesn't fit the lock.You don't know them.You don't recognize them.You will have to train the dogs.That seems like a big play.You're going to have to train the dogs to like you better.That's going to be a whole thing and teach the dogs to ignore the owners when they come back.It's going to be a tough put, but you can do it.
20:05Tough sell.I would have attached the keys to the dog.That doesn't help you now, but just something to think about.Yeah.Because if you lose one.Have the dog sniff out the couch.Oh, Travis, that's good actuallyHold on, no, hold on
20:19You need a trace smell of the couchWhere are you thinking?I was thinking you're less likeDo you think they left a cushion or some sort ofBut it's gonna have the house smell right?You just be like, fine houseFind houseJust hold it up so I can smell the house
20:38YeahIt'll get it and then to be like, get the couchAnd then open the door and let their dog go playLet it huff some of your jeans that you woreon the couch earlier in the week.I'm assuming you haven't done laundry yet.The dog will be able to get a scent from that.Then what you do, no leash.
20:52That's important.Yeah.I know as a dog walker, it's encouraged, but you got to let it ride.If it's going to track down this stink for you, you got to let it ride, and you popoff that leash, and then you start running because it's going to start running.You don't start running.You have the other dog to watch at home.Just tell that dog to come back with your keys when they find them.
21:12Awesome.Tell that dog to find the first dog.Well, I mean, if it comes to that shoreThat's a real air budGetting me out of a sticky situationI think that's what happenedIn that movie with the two dogs and the catHomeward bound
21:26Homeward bound, yeahThe cat got awayThey sent one dog after the catAnd they're like, wait, that was the dumb dogsIt was a little old lady who swallowed the fly situationFor sureThey should have sent a horse after the two dogs in the catThe horse would have brought him back
21:39Do you guys think there's, I want to helpDo you think there is onecentral couch dumping spot in town,do you think that they've already taken it to the couch dump?Or do you think there's like a way station in between?Like, I cannot imagine this furniture store is in the business of liketidying couches up and reselling them at a profit, right?Yeah.
22:02I mean, it depends.They're probably taking it to the couch dump?Probably taking it to right to the couch hole.But then you just got to ask some cool teens where they hang out and drink beers andsecret because I guarantee it's the couch dump.The couch hole would be dope for drinking secret beers.The couch hole will be so cool for drinking beers.Yeah, dude.
22:22Go to the quick trip.Stand outside with your ID out.Yeah.And just a lot of cash.And it's like when any teens walk by, like can I buy you some beer to show me where the couch is?Can I buy you some beer to show me where the couch dump is?Yeah.Yeah.
22:36That could work.Yeah.I don't see any problem with that plan.That's actually good because they will, once they're,there, you could be like, I could actually, I would love some help.Yeah.Getting this.There's a lot of couches here.
22:49There's a lot of couches here.If everybody could just dig through the couches.I guess you guys are probably doing that anyway.That's how you spend your Fridays.If you're kicking it at the couch hole, you're looking for change basically around the clock.Do you think the teens that run the couch dump are checking cushions for keys, though, as soon as couches come in?Now, Justin, the word you use there was running.the couch dump.
23:14Rule is what I meant to say rule.Okay, okay.Okay, I was trying to figure outwhat the business model.The teams that rule the couch dumplike in Lord of the Flies.Okay, yes.They used to have parents, now they have trash.
23:23You walk up and you see a bunch of keyson tall, sharpened sticksto send a message like,no grown-ups welcome in here.This is what happens to you.Only boomers have keys.Oh my God, that's so true.I think,
23:37it's time for the retractable lanyardto make a sort of like,not comeback, but just sort of like.Well,Snap back.To snap back.Like a proliferation where now anyone other than, you know, maybe janitors or sanitation workers, custodial staff.I love that look of a zip and you let it go.
24:02You let it go in it right to your head.Hit you right in the nuts.Hits you right in the tip of your day.We're all torn, aren't we?I mean, I think anybody has ever seen that, or at least I should speak for myself.I'm always riding the lineI mean I see itI'm like God that would be cool
24:16Not just cool but convenientI don't know what evenYou know what I meanLike I don't need something in my hands all the timeI'm just likeI love the ideaMaybe like a pocket knifeYeah
24:26And then it zips right backYou gotta remember the second half of the equationYeah the zip backIs it important actuallyThere's not a lot of stuffI want trucking towards my head stuffFair enoughI mean phone
24:45I don't knowI feel like weWe really blew itWith the like phone holsterAnd it became likeEven beforeWe were out of likeThe
24:56The 20th centuryPeople were likeThat's dork shitAnd nowIf we had normalized itAnd we wouldn't have a gun problemIn this nationAnd I believe that
25:06YeahIf we just all haveIf we were packingYeah if we were likeAll packing a phonewe wouldn't need it anymore.This would have been, you know,we would have like the confidence
25:16of something being holstered.Is this guy American?We have to be very careful herebecause we are, Griffin's almost in his 40s.We're all dads of an agetalking as thoughwe've just realized phone holstersare a great idea and cool
25:33and maybe we misjudge themas though we're young peoplemaking this realization.But in fact, we arethe target audience.audience.Right.Right.
25:42For the phone holster.We just aged into the demo of the phone holster.I guess I'm just mad.I'm mad at those fucking nerds from the late 90s with their flip phones.For making it uncool.For making it not cool.To your point, Travis, I do think it would be useful to have a phone holster,but I'm too cool and sexy to have a phone holster.
26:04I can't do it, even though it would be very useful in my day to day.And it appeals to me, I can't do it.phone ankle holster.Like your backup weapon?Like they always have like a service weapon.Yeah, that's what I want to do.Every time I want to collect my eggs in the idle game I'm playing, I want to do a full fucking full bend over.A full reach down.
26:25I want it to look like I want it to look at home with my ankle monitor.I want it to be indistinguishable.Maybe like a back holster like it was a shotgun in Evil Dead.We don't like that.A big long phone.You're going to need a long phone for it to work.I don't know.That's going to get like, I think it's crazy when people are like,
26:47don't use cell phones because it shoots all the radiation in your brain.I'm like, that's ridiculous.But if I did keep it right there, Trev.I don't know.It seems like I'm flirting with disaster.I don't necessarily adhere to that.But like, I don't know.I want to keep it right next to the base of my skull.
27:01I was going to say like one of those shoulder kind of ones,like mobsters having movies.But that feels like it's going to lead to a lot.That's more of a rib.Yeah, I mean, you don't want that.You don't want that.We want people to be safe out there, obviously.Yeah.
27:15You know what I was always jealous of?Because I knew I could never pull it off.When the people would jog with, like, their iPods and phones and stuff on their arms.Yeah.And I'm like, I know I don't look aerobic enough to justify that.Right.But when you see someone jogging along and they have it like on their bicep and they're doing it, you know, they're like cool over ear.Hey,
27:39man,I did a,I had a brief flirtation with Kowsha 5Kback when I lived in Austin and,how far did you make it?At that time,fucking living room.Half a K,
27:500.5K.I,I had a,like one of those iPhone XLs at that point.And keeping that attached to your arm and running with it,there's no amount of tightness you can do that doesn't cut off circulation andalso doesn't make the phone flop around all crazy withevery single step.
28:10That was a rough time for me.Oh my God.Call the owners and say,hey, I've been working on a couch to 5K.And now that this new couch is here,it's not the same.Yeah.I'm not feeling the same motivation
28:25as when I was couching on your couch to 5K.Can you tell me who those movers areso I can see if I can start my 5Kfrom where that couch is?Yeah.Can you just say I need the name of that moving companybecause I like the way they move it.And then you can keep it.
28:43I'm thinking about hauling a little personal cargo,and I could use some help,and I like the way they move it.Maybe you're calling are like,hey, I'm here with somebody who saysthat they are supposed to take your couch,but that doesn't sound right.Did you hire a moving company?
28:59If so, what name of fun number would you have used to do that?What name and funernerner?That's how you probably should have done initially.Yeah.Yeah, you should have,If you were going to be there, you should have confirmed who the people, the strangers who were going to come into the house.Did they bring a new couch with it? Or did they maybe take the old couch and say they'd be bringing in the new couch later and it's still not there?Yeah. Because you might have gotten robbed.
29:24Yeah, that's a classic. That's a classic house sitter, mix them up there. That's tough. That's tough. You can't shake that rep. I think one of the main things is don't let people take our couch under false pretenses. And not with our house.keys inside.Oh my God.If you take one thing away, if you take one thing away from our answer to your advicequestion is don't lose your keys, guys.Don't lose your keys.I'm surprised if it was my house, I'd just be like, fuck, there's so many popsiclesticks.
29:52I can't even believe it.How did you get so many popsicle sticks to this couch?It's under it and around it?They're all stuck to it.Why'd you do this?Can we take a quick trip to the money zone?I'd love to.Thank you.
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32:23Oh, right.So be like Griffin.You're right, Chief?I just blast it off.Hey, guys, I'm calling from space.I just blast it off.Oh, I'm in a rocket ship to debtor's prison.Oh, no.
32:36In space. Yeah, I'm going to the really bad debtors prison in space.I just never figured out a way to get control my money.Okay.They're going to make you mine like Mars or something to make it happen.Yeah, I gotta mine the atmosphere of Mars with an oxygen laser.And I'm gonna do that for 100,000 years, but they have chemicals that are gonna keep me alive.God, I wish I figured out a way to get my money right.Oh, Justin, I wish you had told me sooner because I would have told you you used Rocket Money.
33:04Ironically.Uh-huh.Yeah, right.No, Rocket Money's real.That's really funny, Travis.I get it.I get it. Justin's being blasted to Space Debtors prison and Rocket Money.Yeah.
33:16No, I can see the irony, but it's a real thing that would have saved you from a hundred thousand year.I can see Ironton from here, actually.So you're not that far.Ask them to turn around.Okay.You know what?I'll parachute out.Keep telling me about rocket money.
33:31Okay.So rocket money, I use rocket money in my everyday life.I'm sorry, no, I must interrupt.I don't think you can parachute out of a rocket.I'm pretty sure there's a flame situation happening immediately.It wasn't that far up because he could still see Ironton.No, I know.there's still the enormous plume of white hot flame.
33:48He jumped out.Griffin,tell me your SpaceX investor without tell me your SpaceX investor.All right, Rocket Boy, we got you.All right.If you've made some bad investments like Griffin has,then Rocket Money is...I actually invested in Space Sex.
34:08Just the idea of it.Yeah.I'm misspoke.Yeah.Everything he had.He liquidated all of his...assets to invest in space six.Into the idea of zero G
34:19porkin.Zero G spot they called it.It was terrible.So,rocket money I use on a regular basisto keep track of not only my spending,but it will categorizelike the spending you do
34:35so it's a lot easier to go through laterand see like what your habits are,where you can cut back, andit will reveal your spending payments.Let you know like, hey, you spend this muchon this kind of thing.Is that really what you're comfortable doing?And you get reports in it, real-time alerts for large transactions.
34:53And sometimes, like, deposits, I'll get the deposits to let me know, like, hey, you have a little more money available.And it's really nice to help with scheduling stuff and planning stuff.And I cannot recommend it enough.So, Rocket Money is a...All right?Was that the sound of you landing, dude?How are your bones?So Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps fine and cancel on one of its subscriptions and monitors your spending and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings.
35:22Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster.Join at RocketMoney.com slash my brother.That's rocketmoney.com slash my brother.Rocket money.com slash my brother.Tuga jigigigigig too.Yes.I want a munch.Squat.
35:47But I want to Munch Squad.Welcome to Munch Squad.It's a podcast of the podcast,profiling the latest and greatest in brand eating.Okay.Today we're going back to a local favorite,by which I mean it's opened three times in Huntington and keeps closing.It's Buffalo Wild Wings.
36:10Oh, yeah.I didn't know that we had out of a third sort of cycle.So here's what happened.You remember the one down at the place on fourth where Travis ate the really spicy wings?I remember that.Yeah.So then they opened the one.Hands went numb.
36:27Yeah.They opened the one at the mall.And that was a big, like, full B-dubs.And they couldn't keep it open, which God help you.If you can't keep a B-dubs open at the Huntington Mall, you are officially bad at business.I'll just go ahead and say it.You fucked up.But now there's a BW-3's to go.
36:44So you can't get the luxury of sitting in there, but you can't get them.sent to you via delivery.Okay, cool.More on that later.Buffalo Wild Wingsdebut's first everPoppin Ranch.A savory ranch
36:58popping candy.Finally.Oh God.That brings the crunchand the crackleto wings.What?Dude, this feels like
37:06the most likelet's get on Munch Squad.Like it's been a whilesince we've been on Munch Squad.We need something.And then they came upwith Popin Savory Ranchcandy.
37:16The brand,reimagines ranchin a playful,multi-sensory waylaunching July 20thahead of National Chicken Wingdown July 29th.Sorry, I too have missed it.
37:27This also,popping ranch sounds likea euphemism for Bonerthat like a college friendis trying to get going.Dude, and I was popping...I'm over here popping ranch.I mean, it sounds like...
37:38It sounds like a crude referenceto ejaculate. I think, in my opinion,that's what I was popping...That's fair. Popping Mad Ranchlast...Saturday night. It was uncontrollable. I'm reallyconcerned. I was popping so muchranch I flunked out of college. Oh no. No, no. Buffalo
37:57Wild Wings is turning up the flavor with the launch of its newest menuinnovation, Popping Ranch. Launch in July 20th of participating Buffalo WildWing sports bars and Buffalo Wild Wings Go locations nationwide. That's what I got.Pop and Ranch remits the iconic flavor fans already love by transforming.it into a playful, multi-sensory experience that quite literally pops.Yeah.Yeah, dude.Whether sprinkled directly onto wings, mixed into ranch, or added to a favorite Buffalo
38:30Wild Wings menu item, pop and ranch offers a bright burst of savory ranch flavor,followed by an audible pop and a crackle that brings even more excitement to every order.I'm so glad that one of those options wasn't poured directly on tongue.Like, I thought of it wasn't.Yeah, it doesn't seem to suggest a direct application, which I appreciate.But they know, right?I think, can I actually think that they don't say it because it won't give people the same sick thrill when they do it if it's like permissible?You know, like they want to know that they've stepped outside the lines.
39:05Oh, I'm looking at the package here.There's actually a Surgeon General's warning at the bottom that it should not be consumed directly undone.Yeah, Surgeon General's warning, go to a different restaurant.B-dubs has done something.thing that has never been done before with Poppin Ranch, says Tristan Maline, the brand presidentof Buffalo Wild Wings.Is he clutching a cigar?Yeah.
39:26Yeah.It's an evil genius.Okay.He's an evil genius in this one.But he's listed as the brand president of Buffalo Wild Wings, which makes it sound like fake,like an honorary president, like you would let a dog be mayor.Yeah, right.Yeah, he's the quote, president of Buffalo Wild Wings.
39:43He's the president of the brand of Buffalo.He's got a little badge for him and everything.Yeah.I get to wear a sash.B-Dubs has done something that's never been done before with Poppin Ranch.It takes that classic pop and candy you remember and pairs it with our signature ranch flavor.And ruins it.Ruins both in the process.
40:08It's an unexpected sensory experience that sounds wild, tastes delicious and has to be aexperience to believe.You know what else is an unexpected sensory experience?Getting slapped out of nowhere.Getting slapped by a stranger.Like if somebody just were to suddenly slap me, I'd be like, that was an unexpected sensoryexperience.Not something I would pay someone at BW3s to do to me.
40:32If I was walking out of a funeral and somebody dumped a big bucket of dead sardines onmy head, that would be a very unexpected sensory experience.Yes.I also find Ranch to be a pretty aggressive flavor anyway.and also pop candy, pop rocks are sort of an aggressive sort of texture.No matter what, if I'm eating either one of those, I'm hanging on for dear life.The idea of combining both of those, it just seems like too much, man.I found that whole paragraph adorably sweet for some reason, Griffin, that the flavor of ranch and popping candy might be too much for you to handle.
41:10One time at church camp, I ate so many wards.that I burnt my tongue real bad, and then I ate some ranch-flavored prangles that mom had packed for me in my suitcase, and it hurt so bad to eat it because I had fucked up my tongue so bad eating all the warhead candy.Are you okay?This was a long time ago.No, I know, but I assume it's had lasting effects.I make good choices.Now, I don't eat the poppin ranch.This has no appeal.
41:38Is there any part of you that's even, I have zero percent, not even morbid curiosity.about what eating the poppin ranch would be like.This is completely lost on me.I mean, I don't, I'm not a big ranch guy.It's just so aggressive.I mean, I've tried before, but it's like, whoa, knock me over.It's like a very bold flavor.Yeah.
41:59I would not source it.I would not source this, but if I was somewhere.If you're at a party and your friends are like,hey, we're popping rancher.Oh, I'd try it.Okay.Not because I think it'd be good, though.Let me be clear.
42:11Just for the story, for the vine, I guess.For the experience.I don't even want it for the vine, man.So there's two other images.I just want to share you guys.Here's them sprinkling the pop and ranch, like, onto a meal to illustrate, like, that you could do that.That's no problem.But the meal is so wet.
42:31The meal's already really wet.Doesn't that ruin the pop part of it?Maybe.You don't want the pop to happen in the mouth, though.You really don't.Now, this is the last image.Here we go.Here's the last one.
42:43Here's the last image.It's not just a huge pile of Poppin Ranch on one wing.It's a snow bank of savory pop candy sitting, mostly on one wing.It's even congregated on one wing.They've chosen one to really.Well, Griffin, why?Well, because it's available for just 99 cents per packet.Poppin Ranch gives guests an easy way to customize their order, whether they're leveling up wings, sides, or anything in between.
43:10Because when it comes to flavor.A kiss with a lover.Because when it comes to flavor, there are no rules.There should be.It's so not true, man.There's lots of rules for flavor.I'm pretty sure there are.Name one flavor rule, Griffin.
43:26Um, I mean, you can't, you can't, um.Toothpaste and orange juice.That's not really a rule.Like, they're bad.Don't put them together.Is there a law that could be applied to, I mean, you don't want to hurt people.You don't want to burn people.Like, well, not just like super.
43:45but like don't serve it so hot that they burn their tongue that's not really even a flavorisn't it no yeah I guess you're right there's no rules for flavor I think the only rule isthat when you eat something at's umami and someone says this you mommy you have to say ooh mommyafterwards right or it doesn't count yeah I think wings are supposed to be kind of crispyso to me if you're like it's like it feels like artificially juicingthe crispiness of it.It feels like an admission that you don't know how to get themcrispy. You don't know how to make them
44:21crispy. You don't think that BW3sis delivering an authenticBuffalo Wings experience?I think that BW3shas opened three timesand keeps getting closed and I'mnot making them close. So somebodyis. You tell me.
44:37Can I say maybe it's because offucking shenanigans like this?Maybe if we talked about an investmentin the core product, if we talked aboutI believe.Where's the weck is what I'm asking?Where is the whack?Bring the weck back instead of doing these fucking memes.
44:53I can now tell you guys about my experience because I saw this story yesterday and I thought I'm going to do right by my brothers.I'm going to try.I'm going to get some of this stuff.Oh, great.So I ordered I ordered from BW3 last night for BW3s go and I waited a good half hour and then I got an update that my around the world dipper sampler had been canceled.No. I think it's because they no longer have...Sucks, dude.The delicious Perry Perry sauce or the delightful avocado sauce.
45:22So many of the sauces from the around the world sampler were canceled.And I was heartbroken.And I was, I mean, I was trying to recover.And then 20 minutes went by.And the entirety of my order was canceled.Wait.What changed did that 20 minutes?What changed did that 20 minutes?
45:40That's question one.That's a very good question that I would like to begin with.First of all, they didn't have that sampler.That's fine.Okay.It was seven o'clock at night.I don't understand.BW3s just said like, no.
45:55I'm not going to do it.No dinner.I refuse to give him dinner.No dinner.They were open still.They were open last night.They're still open today.They just decided that I couldn't have it.
46:10I couldn't have dinner.And I called the service that I used to have the meal delivered to me.that may or may not have been a sponsor of this show at one point.And I said, well, about the dinner.And they said, well, we've already put $5 in your account.Like, I said, but why won't they bring me the dinner?Right.What did I do wrong?
46:26And unfortunately, they said they can't, they can't contact BW3s.So I don't know, I guess it's just a mystery for the ages.I think they're so embarrassed about not having this special crispy powderthat they didn't even want to bring the order.That's they were humiliating.They knew.They knew. They knew that was the only thing you wanted.They didn't have it.
46:42I mean, Justin, is it possible that they knew,you were going to dump on it here on our huge hit podcast.Oh, they recognize your name.I'm saying you're definitely in a database somewhere.I wouldn't have made my kids try it and tell you what they thought.I wouldn't have tried a ranch thing myself.It's an aggressive flavor.I think you and I can both agree on.
47:00It's an aggressive flavor.It's literally a flavor you put on stuff to make that flavor less aggressive.Funky.Wow.All right.Okay.The cream does most of that work, Travis.The ranch flavor is aggressive.
47:09Boys, I'm just saying between this and your full-throated endorsement ofcell phone holsters.You're not doing yourselvesa lot of flavorto the favors.Talk about how ranchis a little too strong for you.Yeah.
47:23Yeah, I don't know, man.It's just,I'm trying to be authentic.Yeah, it's just too much.I can try to be younger,if you want, like, cooler.I know that that's sort of, like,been sort of my trademark.
47:34I do miss that energy,Griffin.I think that was kind of a nice balancewhen, like, I was kind of the older oneand you were kind of like the wild one.What was I?What was I?What was I?
47:43What was it?I steady hand at the road.The witness.Thank you.What's the witness?The observer.The mutineer.The surrogate.
47:56You're the key.You're the key to it all.You all fates in a time with all of it.It depends on which to who I side with.Charles, I didn't realize.And you, my friend of the tower.I said that purely as a joke, not realizing that it was the meanest imaginable thing that I can say.The witness?
48:15Yeah, we're over here doing bits.And you're just kind of watching.No, it made me feel like it's my job to tell the tale when it's all over.One of us must survive the Tom Team.What are my responsibilities at a play or musical as an audience member?I recently went to my kids' theater camp performance and was seated close enough that every cast member could and did see me from stage.How expressive and encouraging can I be before it gets manic and distracting to the performers?Also, where do I draw the line between I'm a parent cheering for my kid versus I'm an audience member watching hardworking actors?
48:53That's from audience anxiety in Colorado.P.S., one of my shoulders was in the spotlight, which meant every movement cast a shadow on part of the stage.That's a level of involvement.I'm sorry that.That happened to you.That shouldn't happen.That shouldn't have happened.That shouldn't happen.
49:08We should elevate these spotlights.There should not be a spotlight on the audience at all.The bottom of the spotlight should be on the performer's feet.Yeah.I just feel bad.I'm sorry.Don't think that all theater experiences are going to be like that.It sounds like this one was maybe a little, I don't, amateurish.
49:28Oh, this kid's, the school children's play?The kids' theater camp performance.It sounds a little amateurish, if I'm being honest, from a technical perspective, at least.A gentle thumbs up and nod, like Fred Savage in that one wizard meme?I mean.I think that's, I think that's centering yourself in a way that's a little distracting.You know, when a kid really nails, like, suddenly Seymour or whatever, and you're just like, you've done it.You gotta have, do you guys have like a, do you guys have like an audible sort of showy, appreciative response to performance that you can bust out in this situation?
50:08Do you have a...For comedy?No.What do you mean?Like, for like, an applause?For like a kids theater show and, like, like,someone gets up and they do their solo and you want to bust out like a yeah like a yeah i do thebrief like yeah yeah yeah just like a woo just i do woo and sometimes every time i woo every time i
50:28i woo every time i woo i'm at the moment after i'm like who is that yeah where did that come fromyou are not a wooing guy you don't woo in your day-to-day life but for some reason i see shrek up theresaying woo yeah this is what i liked about church and church camp in general is like there was noyou could fucking,you could fucking goabsolute beast modeand you were likein good company
50:52and it was in good.Yeah.You could doyou can do anything.There was no upper limit on it.What church did you guys go to?Because that is not truefor High Long Baptist Church
51:02where we all went.You were maybe summer camplike a Pentecostal kind ofI'm talking aboutcentrifuge dude.I'm talking about church campin general where you are being moved.Yeah, that was an experience
51:09because you would go to church campwith kids that went tochurches that were a lotmore performative.Yeah.So, like, us sort of, like, buttoned down Southern Baptist kids were a little bit morelike restrained.And then you'd see some kids who were fully up in the toes.
51:24Yeah, dude.Oh, all right.Occasionally laying hands, you know, and you're like, oh, I don't know about this.Well, cool.You got to have a go-to.And you got to distribute it evenly.I don't know.I don't know if I'm reading other parents for this in performance situations.
51:42I'm pretty dialed in, I think, on my own sort of kids' experience.But you got to make sure to spread it around and not just woo for your kid.You got to, would it kill you to sort of boost everyone's ego?Because maybe someone there doesn't have a supportive parent in the room.And you could be that supportive parent.Doesn't that sound nice when you like to be that for someone?You should just assume everyone needs the, yeah.Everyone needs the woo.
52:04You know?If we could do it on some sort of cue, like they used to do applause signs,where it's like a simultaneous, woo!From the audience.Yeah.That'd be cool.you would hand it out in a program ahead of timeand like their woo's would be in like
52:19bold type faceso you know here it comes.I have a trick because I have had toI've watched a lot of children's theaterand it's, you know,a varying levels of qualityand community theater, I think the same thing.A trick that I use sometimes.
52:33All theater.Even a little boring.Sometimes it stinks.A trick that I use israther than getswept up in the show,flip your brainso that you're seeing everything literally
52:46for what is happening in front of youand it adds a level of absurditythe experience that you will be delightedby. If you stop seeinglike a badShrek and starts, I sawa very good Shrek recently so I don't want anybody to thinkI saw a bad Shrek, I saw a fine Shrek. But if you see
53:02a bad Shrek, then you can stopwatching the show and start realizinglike, oh my God, that isan 11-year-old barely dressedas Shrek. What is mylife. And if you can get yourself in that headspace, the whole thing takes on a real, a real fantasticvibe. Because then you're seeing, wow, somebody had to paint that whole dragon. Unbelievable.Especially fun if you go to like a high school and you're watching like a 15 year old do like a
53:33Willie Loman death of a salesman thing. Yeah. Enjoy the ride. Yeah, you're right. This kid's a teenager.He doesn't know, he's not scared to die. Hey. Hey. Hey. How fun. Hey. How much.With it.Michael Beck texted me a new story he read about a group in Virginia that had a production of Rocky Horror show that was canceled by a bomb threat.And when they, this is just last week, and when they traced the bomb threat to the caller, it was the director of the show who didn't want to deal with the actors anymore.Right.And the crew.And I can't do it.
54:11I'm not going to go back in.I'm going to get this entire show canceled due to bomb threat.Sometimes that's how.It's a sacrifice the island requires sometimes, man.Sometimes, sometimes that's what it takes.Was the show a hit or did it bomb?It.I don't think it went on, Trev.
54:32I mean, I'd like to believe that they started it several hours late.And I think you knew that.But the show must.But the show must.And I think you knew that when you asked the quality of the show that was canceled.The show must go on.That's actually working.outdoors, you'll find that's frequently not true.
54:45If there's lightning, Kevin says stop.Okay.You've got to stop.Yeah.The show actually stops at that point.Okay, yeah.All the world's a stage?I don't think so.
54:55I don't think my Kia is a stage.I think when I'm in there, it's, I'm private.Try doing Equus at Sam's Club.Yeah.They won't let you get past the intermission.That's for sure.Hey, thank you so much for listening to this podcast called My Brother, My Brother, and Me.this is our 826th episode of this program.
55:18Yeah.That's perverse, man.That's so many.That's a big milestone.What a piece of work.What a piece of work is, man.What a testament.Yeah.
55:29Hey, we got some new merch up in the merch store that you can go check out.We got the new Sawbones logo.Yeah, we got a sticker of that.Oh.The new Schmanner's logo.Yeah, we got a pin of that.Macrae Family Club.Yeah, we got a pin of that as well.
55:43We got all kinds of pins and stickers and all kinds of cool stuff over at Macquariemerch.com.And 10% of all merch proceeds this month will also be donated to Native Women Lead.So go check that all out.If you are a Taz listener, we just wrapped up Taz Royale, our sort of Battle Royale season.We just wrapped up Taz Royale.Yep.That was cool, man.You can email us at AdventureZonecast.g.com if you have a question about the season for our T-T-A-ZZ to Taz.
56:12This is an episode that we like to do.Just send that in with the Tazza's royal in the subject line.And we'll know to go and answer that.I got this fidget gear thing.I mean, we got the book also, AdventureZonecomcom.Oh, I'm not selling the fidget.I was talking about for throwing it.To be clear, I know, but we just have other stuff to plug.
56:32I'm not selling it.Buy our book.It's so good.Test story and song.You can find it in bookstores or at theadventuresonecomic.com.And also, we're doing a besties live show in October,October 9th at the town hall in New York City.
56:42I just realized I've been saying October 8th on everything, so fuck.Oh no.But you can get tickets over at bit.el.combe on Broadway.And thanks to Montaigne for the use of our theme song of my life is better with you.Yeah.Thank you for that.You got a fidget?
56:57Yeah, dude.Did you hit the microphone, dude?I might have.That's cool, dude.That was cool.That was cool.It felt like a fucking bayblading the chair.It was incredible.
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