My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 833: Where Do We Get Travwheat?

Episode Date: September 28, 2026

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The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sex expert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool, baby? It's the start of something into a precious friendship. It feels love. Hello, everybody, and welcome to my... My brother, my brother, and me.

It's an advice show from the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Trave Nation? It's me, our middleist brother, Travis Big Dog, Wolf Wolfram Vroom, award winning the heater, McElroy. What's up, Travnation, it's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin McElroy. Well, guys, I thought we were passes.

I thought for sure we were never going to return to this particular well. But get out the binoculars. Get out the air. Griffin. Get out the air rifles. I think my pure imagination's playing tricks on me, Griff. No, it's not Tim Chalamee. He's busy fucking up. No, but we are on a Wonka Watch and it's a, guys, this is a level 5 Wonka Watch. I'm talking Red Alert, all hands on deck. What is the, what's the situation we find ourselves in Wonka Wise, guys? What's happening in the world? WonkaWise. WonkaWise? Well, I know this because I've had this show bookmarked,

with a red alert emergency updater on this Netflix series, the moment it's live, so. Yeah. So, I mean, we're talking about Wonka, the golden ticket. Yeah, and I want to send a big, a big thank you here, because I had not heard about this, because Justin was apparently gatekeeping it, but Nell sent this, and this is how I learned about it

and wanted to talk about it, sent it to our email. Good shout, good shout, Nell. Reality show. Netflix, reality show. Wanka. Now here's the thing. The prize, and this is maybe a little off message for the Wonka movies, but it's a lifetime supply of money. Yeah.

Yeah, a lifetime supply of money. That would be cool. Sounds good, no. It'd be cool. Yeah, man, like $100 a day. How much money? Is it a stipend? Are they going to keep a budget for me and check in periodically to be like, hey, Griffin, you've used up this month's supply of money? Because I already have people who do that to me for me. Are there cost of living increases over like over the every five years? Is Mr. Wonka going to budget inflation into the accounting? I don't know. Is it as whimsical as a lifetime supply of chocolate? By the way, in this series, Wonka is not depicted, sadly. You do hear, I would say,

Gene Milder, kind of a smulchrum of Gene. It's Gene A. Ilder is who it is. It's his voice, been fed in machines. Are you sure? A hundred percent sure, yeah, because his estate was like, fucking go for it, dudes. By the way, bros, let me just, let's get an affidavit sign between the three of us now

to never, ever give permission to anyone to resurrect us. This is my living will This episode. No matter what documents you may find Put it up in court. Judge, it's me for the past. Don't. No AI, okay?

Please, please, please. You can't. But yeah, he's putting them through the rigors of factory ownership and, you know, they're doing all the challenges from the movie. Get big and get big and swollen with juice. Lick the walls.

Lick the walls. Dirty fucking adult. Oh, by the way, it's all adults. We should say that so that I can say things like lick the walls, you dirty dogs. And it's okay because everybody's in their 30s to, it appears 70s, which makes sense. It's, that's when the movie came out. It's been a while since I watched the Gene Wilder Wonka movie, by which I mean, like last week.

I watched it constantly to keep my morals in line. But I don't remember in that movie when they lick the walls, them coming away with messy, dirty faces. So they did some stuff to the Wonka Walls on this one where they did. They lick the walls and then it turns their faces nasty and gooey and blue. And that would be another, I guess, upgrade to the original film as if everybody just had yucky, messy faces for the majority of the motion picture. Just got nastier, nastier, nastier, nastier, nastier. This might be clever trailer editing, but there is a moment in the trailer where it's like, how am I going to play the rest of the game with them after this? And I imagine that that particular soundbite was not hard to find.

Yeah, yeah. From what I've seen of the challenges presented. They're licking the nasty walls like a dog. How can I look them in the eyes in the morning? The comments on the trailer are pretty soundly negative, I would say. Some rough stuff. Rough stuff here. One comment is, I'm so glad Roll Dahl doesn't have to see this.

And that wasn't my first response. Yeah, Rolls was not the victim. Our beloved anti-Semitic roll doll can spin in it for all I care. So from what I understand, I've done some research on the old Wauqua movie. I would say made in spite of him. Yeah, Roald dolls never loved anything anyone's ever made of his shit. And now he's dead. They tagged him in to write the script.

He basically handed them the book that he had typed out like a script. And they said, no thing you roll. Can you make changes? And he said, fuck no. I watch a lot of reality TV. Even a lot of Netflix is not super duper real reality, puerile, offerings, I think we have long since past the point, but let this serve as a stark kind of like checkpoint in the conversation where we can refer to this as a social experiment.

Let's, let's, I want to know Netflix, scientists, sociologists, what are we testing here? What possible facets of the human condition are we measuring with Wonka, the Golden ticket reality competition show. Well, one episode is just all burps. It's who can burp hardest on command the most because they're flying up. In this, they've got a thing. It's a harness. And they're being lifted up towards death.

And they have to burp to go down. Another comment here says the snowsberry stays like norovirus. That's just sitting very good. It's an excellent. Good work, everybody. Now, one person's complaining here that it's all adults because that was the whole point of the entire thing is that an adult couldn't win. What's a child going to do with

a lifetime supply of money? Also, that's way more money. If you you do, if you taste forever. They're crossing their fingers for the old guy. There's me and I hope you wins. On this show, you know Netflix is pulling like, Jerry, god damn it, you got to pull it together. Hydrate Jerry. Fuck. You got this, man.

You got this. You want to go to sandals, don't you? The show isn't out yet, so I don't know. They might have done this, but if I was the producer on this, I would have included one really like cherubic, like sweet, like 14-year-old boy does not participate in the challenges, but rather talks about like the goodness of the human soul while everyone else is doing it.

You see how long it takes for the other contestants be like, fuck, he's going to win, isn't it? Like, no matter what I do. And how are they going to... That would have been a big job to have one really sweet contestant that everybody's like, oh, yeah. Fuck. Okay.

Yeah, Tim, isn't it? They don't even obliterate them at an atomic level and teleport them across the room in a small site. It hadn't premiered yet. They could kill them. They're not going to kill them. They're absolutely not going to fucking kill them. They might inflate them in squish. I mean, they don't kill them in the book, do you think?

The umpalumpas are still in effect. They are the, I guess, hosts, they're the ones who are leading people around the factory here. Yeah. There is one prime moment where the actor playing an oompa-lumpa in the trailer gives a look to the camera that could be taken as like playful, but I take it as like, yeah, I know. I know, man. Yeah, fuck, man. And he looks, and he communicates a- Your calendar's not broken.

It is 2026. Yeah, I know. He communicates a lot with that look because what I got from it was like, hey, at least it's not Hugh Grant on a green screen. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I guess that's, I guess, yeah, in some ways, I guess it's better. than Hugh Grant on a green screen. In many ways. Okay, guys, watch the trailer again.

And then imagine that Netflix is just trying to cover all of its fetish bases at once. Okay. Because, God damn, dude, every shot in this is like, licking a wall, biting something huge. Oh, he's licking something else. Oh, he's popping a big balloon. The balloon's so big. How will I ever handle it? Buddy, there's some bondage elements in there as well.

They are. This is awesome. Every shot in it is a different... Welcome to Netflix's Willie Wanka Golden Ticket. We're exploring your dark and sexual imagination. We got all those too hot

to handle degenerates in here. You're going to watch them get super sloppy double there. The best part is watching all the contestants. Let's say fain childlike wonder at what they're seeing. Well, it's all real. Yeah. I mean

they do that. I imagine the tenor of the show changes once they find out they get infinite money as a prize. I have to. Now, that's a good social experiment is what will someone do for infinite money? Because that seems to be like what we're offering you here. I feel like we're going to lose sight of the whimsical candy nature of the show very quickly. And people are going to get very, very desperate battle royale style, squid game style very, very quickly.

They get excited about eating candy under hot studio lighting. Very, like, they're eagerly gumming it down. Yeah. Where it's like, okay, but it's not a fantastical, magical, this is still our world. And the crew set this up perhaps weeks in advance. Hey, I won't let you shit talk to production of the show. It looks fucking fan. Do you think they used the factory Mr. Beast built?

Just like, just reuse Mr. Beast's Wanka factory. Yeah. He did that. If you didn't know. Of course he did. Hey, this is an advice show. My advice is this actually went live. today, guys. I know the email said the 30th, but it is, maybe that's different territories,

but it is live today, so we'll have to check it out. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. You know us and our follow-through. Well, my follow-through is to wait two years and then watch a 25-minute recap video on YouTube. Just as good. Just as good. That's probably for the best. Travis, Netflix reality shows throw confessions at you with concussive force and frequency. It's really, really tough. It's a rough ride. I am a new middle school teacher and I've been teaching preschool for the last decade. I'm loving the switch and genuinely really enjoy being around these kids. I prefer this steam deck, but...

Yikes. However, I experienced my first fight today. And upon reflection and being made fun of by eighth graders, it turns out I react to fights like Winnie the Pooh with a whole lot of, oh, dear, and oh, gracious. What's a cool, hip way I can break up a fight between 12-year-olds. without looking like a moron or stepping in the middle. I don't get paid enough to be beaten up by 12-year-olds. That's from an 87-year-old in a 34-year-old body in North Georgia. Would you like to join this for Willy Wonka's the Golden?

If you could promise, your body, we'll give out. No, you need to be better at breaking up fights in order to go into Willy Wonka's the Golden Ticket. Because there's going to be, guys, it's going to devolve into just melee combat. Yeah, well, one of the challenges is you have to recapture the umpalumpas who have been trying to every since Willie Wonka died and was replaced by an AI. He just talks through speakers, by the way, in case you're curious how they do this. Yeah. Just as magical and charming as that.

Just why Gene would have wanted. I think for this, it's a tricky situation. We're talking about kids. And we're talking about a very, very high stakes, high intensity situation. This is not going to be helpful. But for me, I think, an ounce of prevention. You got to be, you got to stop fights before they start. got to always have your finger on the pulse of where the beef is, who is beefing, and then do your

best to untangle those knots before they break. Maybe you have a little, maybe every day you ride on the chalkboard, no fights. Oh, see, I was going to go with a network of little sparrows bringing you information. That could be cool too. That could be cool too. If you can act on, if you can find ways to act on it, that's great. But, um, you know, I don't think Winnie the Pooh is a bad tactic to take, because I remember the cartoon All-Star against drugs. Winnie the Pooh was there. He was MVP.

Like, oh, bother, don't smoke weed. That's not bad, trap. Have a smack roll of honey, right? And I was convinced, you know what I mean? Yeah, I only did like a bunch of drugs way later. Yeah. So Winnie at least got me through high school before I fell apart. This is yet another problem that could have been fixed by the big sticky mess,

a gun that shoots glue foam. Awesome. I don't encourage the use of... If you had the big sticky mess from Paul Blart Ball Cop 2, a gun that shoots glue foam, then these two kids start getting spicy. And this is why... And again, it makes it really tough

to have these conversations in public with Justin because he'll just offer things out of nowhere, like, I think that teachers should have guns in school. And everyone else is... No, whoa! Sorry, and then he's like... No, no, no, no. And me and Travis have to hop in and be like,

He means the big sticky mess from Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. The big sticky mess, a gun that shoots glue foam. I would also think the marble gun from Paul Blart Mall Coch 2 would also... Falling is not... You don't want them to fall. You want to stick. Now, you could just present... In the 50s, kids could fall.

Yeah. In the 50s, kids could take a fall. Back when you could punish kids by making them fall. You don't want to get beat up and fall out of their pocket, but they would get right back up and dust off and get back into the minds. They just break out of it. Marlboro Red, and then they were back to school, you know, back when kids were kids. Yeah.

Now, smoke was a smoke. Yeah. Hey, kids, stop that fighting and start this lighting of cigarettes. Hi, I'm your cool team. That's cool. That's cool. I'm just saying you need something to distract the show because you don't want to wait in there and get an errant hit from a 12-year-old, then you have to explain that later. What about Bay Blades?

Awesome. Hey, guys, settle this. Settle this with the blade. With the blade. That's cool. That's like when... That is good. I remember once Travis and I were tussling a bit and dad came into the room and he was like,

if you guys are going to fight, let's fucking do this thing. Let's fucking fight and brawl. And me and Travis were like, no, but I don't want to. He's my brother. So I think escalation is maybe a good thing. That's the craziest you've made dad sound. I think that's the worst dad is ever. Oh, dude, high stakes.

High stakes tactic. What if Travis and I had just been like, all right, mother. battle time, baby. Yeah, get me some duct tape and broken glass to roll my fist in. Bonesaw, ready? Yeah, no, he knew the content of our character pretty well, I'd say. He knew 100% which way that was going to go. But you could hop in and say, like,

we do this with blades at dawn. Let it rip. Yeah. Or like a U.S. You'll say whatever. They might not be coordinated enough to Bayblade. Takes too long. You got to teach.

Here's the thing. We're talking about all these tactics. on how to break up the fight or how to stop it. We need to stop this thing fast so we can get back to teaching because we got to teach in the schools. That's my number one thing. Bayblade fight. That shit's like 40 seconds tops and that's if the kids really know how to rip and spoiler

alert. They fucking don't. They definitely don't. In the 50s kids could. No, that's when kids get baby-based. 50s kids were ripping darts and slinging blades and it was a better time. And I do think we should go back there just for that, just for that one thing. Sit backwards on a church.

chair? Just you think if someone's fighting another human being and you turn a chair around and sit on it? It might not work the first time, but I think if you keep repeating the action. As a teacher, you do have one thing that will absolutely work. You could fall, absolutely bust ass, and be carrying something messy. Because if a teacher does that, that's the ballgame. If a teacher is in the hall and they're like, guys, you have to get out of here. Mr. Paulson fell and there's fucking blue foam everywhere.

It's so funny. He was carrying the gun. He fell on his big sticky mess gun. Yeah. That all teachers are mandated to have by the West Virginia House of Representatives. The Baron Trump administration has insisted that all teachers must be armed with a big sticky mess. Yeah, that's cool. Hey, could you just walk over to one of the kids and hold their wrist up and say like,

this one wins. Oh, fight over. He wins. Better luck next time, gents. Yeah. Who had this guy winning? You could say something like. What about something like save a scrap of that for me, I'm coming in?

I got winner. For me, I got next. Yeah, yeah. And you just like start throwing kids. Okay. Are you strong enough to throw a kid? It didn't say in the email. Did you pick up these guys we've fucking talked about this?

If you have a trunchable build, you need to include that information in the email. That's true. That's true. If you can trunch. If you can trunch, I want to trunch. You can get the trunch? You got to let us know. Yeah. My musical mentor set of an intentional rivalry between me and another girl violinist my age. She is unfortunately going away to graduate school. Orchestra is not to be.

Oh, no, it's gone. Orchastra is not the same without a friend of me to side-eye me for not counting rests. What should I do to keep my rehearsals full of friendly-ish animosity? That's from Sassilis and Desperate in San Diego. You're asking for how you find your own a new salieri, sort of.

Yeah, soliary. I mean, a new Mozart. Like, you think they're the salieri? Yeah. I mean, everybody wants to think that they're the Mozart, but I mean. Yeah. I don't think Mozart was looking for rivals.

I don't think Mozart wanted to be poisoned. I don't think that he wanted that from him. I think one of the things, now listen, I know I've been talking about anime a lot lately, guys, but I'm beginning to it. Worried. And one of the things that I'm jealous of an anime style is people just declaring, you're my rival now. Yeah. And that being accepted, but not defined. I could use that.

Yeah. When I worked at joystick and we had Kataku to look at and chase after, it meant something. Yeah, it was a goal. That's by Silicon City, baby. We took them out. You won. TCBY, Baskin Robbins. You guys remember when that Baskin Robbins burned down?

Don't say that I'm pointing my thumb at myself because they can't see that. But legally, you wouldn't think an ice cream store would burn that fast. But it went the fuck up, didn't it? You would think cold shop not. And I had the same thought. I thought this will be a little silly fire, cold shop not going to burn. Wowsy, zousy. That thing went, whew.

Hugely wrong. It was the Superman ice cream. Yeah, it's super flammable, I guess. Yeah. This is the problem with my coworkers only being my brothers. Because my rival's Griffin. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And mine, I listen, if you're looking for a rival, I have discovered, you cannot be. the convenience, efficiency, and just meanness of yourself. Nobody can get to you like you, you know what I mean? If you need a real antagonist, somebody who's just going to be like, in your head all the time, knows exactly what to say to get to you, can really just like at any moment, just like really knock your legs out from underneath you? Yeah.

You got to come from the source. It's got to be homespun criticism. Right from the boss. Justin's got a sort of mirror room apparatus he can go. into to have his own sort of Smeagel-Gallem sort of freestyle battles. And sometimes he needs that. And it does make you stronger. If you work from home and you don't have a boss in the home, you have to create a mean boss

that haste your guts to make sure you work and do all the work that you have to do. You can also be your own workwife, but that gets a little more complicated. Yeah. And softball sucks. Yeah, man, it's hard. It sucks. It's so hard. And you always know who ate your food out of the fridge.

It was drunk you. I guess you're, can you just get up on someone while you're playing the violin? I feel like a lot of this is going to come down to body language. Oh, the devil! Okay, yeah. You need a rivalry with the devil. That dude loves playing violin. Yeah, that hits one of his favorite things.

He loves challenging people to shit and like... Since we decided nothing is a sin anymore, he's, He's got a ton of free time. Oh, my God, yeah. He just plays violin. We let people do whatever they want. Go off, King. Go on.

I have to assume he's using AI and, like, data farms to punish people and stuff at this point. What's he doing? He's the devil. He's working out. He's got a system. What's he doing? You know, he's challenging people to violin battles. And, you know, maybe instead of a scattershot approach, he would love a kind of one-on-one rivalry with somebody.

Yeah, but there's only one the devil. So, like, how are you going to guarantee? that you get the rivalry. How do you conjure him up? How do you sign him? You jump up on a hickory stump. You talk about how you're the best there's ever been.

Okay. You lament your... Hubris. That's the way to give the attention. Yeah, you need a fiddle of gold. And talk about that a lot. Yeah. If only I had a fiddle made of solid metal,

this would sound so much better. Yeah. I'll have a child. What? Oh, that's good. Yeah, that'll start. Take a little while. You need a little patience.

But like, you need a child. Oh, and then the child will be. A child starts nipping at your heels. You have to stay one step ahead of them. Just an idea. I need your guys help with a thing I've been working on. You know, throughout the week, throughout the time, ideas pop up in my head.

And I have learned I'm not a good judge of the quality of these things. So I've created a segment. It's ended so many ways, man. A segment called Trav-Chaff. Okay. And if you guys can help me. me separate. Can we start with the name? Is that up for it? Oh yeah, good point.

It's not, it almost is something. Doesn't sound like anything. It's hard to say, hard to hear. Traff, traff. Traff. Traff to separate out the trav wheat, you know what I mean? And where do we get that? Where do we get the trav wheat? Is there a segment? Some of these might be trav wheat, but that's not for me to decide. I'm low balling. So maybe Trav Chaff with a question mark to leave it open for maybe there's wheat. We need like a nugs or you need a hot or not. Like nugs or like... Separating the wheat from the trave? What about that? That's

negative towards yourself. It's negative to yourself. Okay, here's great. We actually just established that it's great to do that sometimes. You guys tell me if this is anything. It must be really hard being a bodybuilder knowing you'll never be as good as Dr. Frankenstein.

I gave myself chills. Like the response to that gave me chills. It worked on me though. I do. Yeah, Trave it made me laugh. It made me laugh. It wasn't a, I resented it. Yeah. It was a resentful laugh, but it did make me laugh. I have to be honest. What was it, what were you, what were you doing when this one came to you? I think that's important. I was at the gym. Bodybuilding. Yeah. He's not fucking Andy Kaufman, Griff. I mean, what do you want? Yeah. He's got bodybuilding stuff, you know? Geez. Um, here's the next one. You should never hire a contractor,

spend the extra money and get a protractor. They know all the angles. Wow, I've never seen Justin and I so split. Whoa. That's a good one. That's a good joke. I like that. Okay, here's the next one.

And, okay, so as a wise man once said, to thine own self, be grew. Now, I haven't fully worked out the deployment of that one. Yeah, this is where I'm struggling with this segment, Travis, like, I am having a hard time imagining when that would be germane. Yeah. I guess if you're watching Despicable Me with, like, friends and talking about the challenge of his plight.

And it is hard, especially in Despicable Me 4, he has to start his life over in witness protection with his family. And it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in the theaters, but it seems hard for him. Maybe you could deliver it organically there. Oh, okay. Cool. Okay, I'll keep that in mind.

Bread dough is always happy because it's nice to feel needed. You're like, the first part of that is really, really chunky. It's not, it's not, it's bread dough is always happy. It must be nice to be bread dough to, must be nice. Do you want help or do you just want a score? I don't know if you want a score on the, yeah, yeah. Bread dough. bread that's the difference between bread dough and me is i'm never needed

whoa and then it can be sort of like a fuck-up like a dark one must be nice to feel needed and you could say that when someone you love is is working on bread i wish you needed me the way you need that bread is that better i think so okay bread is a lot like made yeast yeast yeast Yeast, yeast, east, everywhere east. Yeah, good. Okay, so the last one I got here is... Feels like you don't even like our help. Well, Griffin made me sad, is I haven't.

Dude, I'm trying to fucking... I don't think that's a point of jokes. I'm trying to help. You invited us into this really vulnerable space. I'm just trying to help. But you went to like a Pagliagic kind of place that showed a darkness that I... No one needs.

Here's the last one. Yeah. buying a candy bar in France comes with a risk of electrocution because you get shock a lot. That's a way homer. It's a way homer? You're not going to get an immediate response on that one, Traff, but later when I'm doing a different podcast, I'm going to start busting and people will wonder why I'm busting so hard. And I'll say it was because of Travis's awesome joke about you get shock a lot. What's the, what's the, what's your favorite, what's the most popular Halloween candy in France?

What? Shock a lot. Yeah. Oh, um. That's clean, seasonal. Yeah. I don't know shock a lot. Eh.

No, it works. Yeah, that lands. What's, um, what's a, what's a electric chair operator's favorite? Johnny Depp movie. What does a French electrician like to have for dessert? That's cool. What does a French electrician enjoy

for dessert? Shock a lot. Two S's please. It's super sweet. Ooh. A little spelling trick on you. Yeah, it's awesome when you get to spell out your jokes while you're telling them to make sure. Well, just that way to remember how to spell dessert

because it's super sweet. Because you want you want seconds. I like seconds on money. Oh. An infinite, a lifetime supply of money. A lifetime supply of money as long as you talk to your brothers for several hours every week and people don't change their minds about enjoying it. It's a lifetime supply of money.

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Is it for your kids or is it for you and they just liked it? What do you mean? I was just talking about a Wayfair product. But was it a vanity you got for them or for you? For them. Okay. Okay. I was about to be really thrown off because you're the least vain person I know.

That's so sweet. Thank you. A little bit sweet. A little bit hurtful. It's actually mean if you think about it. You don't want to be the least vain person someone knows. Griffin's right in the middle. Yeah, I'm going to, I'll think on it.

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Welcome to Munch Squad. It's a podcast within a podcast, Profiling, latest and grace of brand eating. I realized recently that I have been over-reliance. on Munch Squad because, well, it's, I love doing it. I love talking about fast food. But sometimes I bring stories that I'm like, I don't know if they really demand attention. Yeah. So I'm going to try to be smarter about when I have a, something to bring to the table,

it's, it's important. Either like news you can use. Yeah. Or it really important stuff. Or the CEO of Burger King, the CEO of Burger King has lost his mind, is another. Yeah, we love that. Well, that's an ongoing situation. Like, I'm not going to tell you that Duncan and L.L. Bean have a collaboration where they gave

tiny sweaters out for the drinks, and then you can buy the real full-sized sweater to match your coffee drink sweater that you bought. You're not telling us about that. I'm not going to tell you about that. Awesome. I'm going to tell you about the R.B. steak nuggets. Awesome. If I say the name Caleb McDaniel to you, what's your media reaction?

YouTube. That's a YouTuber name if I've ever heard. heard one. Okay, so you're guessing. What do you got, Trave? Do you know Caleb McDaniel? Because I don't, I was hoping you guys did. He seems to be professionally handsome. No. Okay. It says reality TV star, model and influencer. So Griffin, maybe if you could give me, let me know what Caleb's been on, Caleb McDaniel. I can't imagine whatever series he was on was. Love Island. Yeah, I didn't think it was one of the talking forward ones. Yeah, I didn't think it was one of like the discussion ones. Judging from the commercial, which we will check out here in a second.

So the steak nuggets are back. I should say this up front. Wait, unless, unless, this is about John Hopkins alum, Caleb and Daniel, who won a Pulitzer Prize for history, which I also found in my Google. Is it him? Sorry, I imagine that's an old man. Is that, is it Pulitzer Prize award winning? Maybe like 45. The steak nuggets are officially back at Arby's for a limited time. Now slow-cooked and juicier than ever. How are we doing it before, Arby? Fast-cooked.

Fast-cooked dry. I'll tell you this, I trot them last round, and whatever cooking they were doing was the wrong speed. Slower or fast. Any difference to the procedure would be welcome. They're slow-cooked and juicier than ever. built on 100% steak. Awesome.

Fuck yeah, dude. That's crazy. Stakes one of those... Built on 100% steaks. Well, Joseph, when you're building your castle, you mustn't build your castle on the sand. You must build your castle on 100% steak. Stakes one of them foods that I think you'd have a hard time mixing percentages of other things and with it. It's pretty...

It's pretty, I don't know, there's really just the one ingredient for the most part, right? You don't want to reconstituted at least 51% steak. Right. It's 100% steak. Now, it's built on 100% steak, not comprised of 100% state. That sucks. That sucks. I hate that.

They've made their way across. You know that somebody said, like, and we'll say it's 100% steak, and someone's like, there's breading. There's breading on it, so we can't say that. There's peptide. There's a lot of, there's seams of peptides running through each steak nuggets. So we need to be very careful with our leg. What about the air, the space between the steak molecules?

All right, Doug. All right, Doug, God damn it. We're bringing, so the steak nuggets are also being joined by a horsey ranch. That's a new sort of thing you can dip them in is the horsey ranch. Okay. Yeah, horsy ranch. Horsey ranch is fun to say. If I ever had a place with horses that people could come and pay money to ride, I would probably call it that.

That's what they call it in Yellowstone. Mm-hmm. So I'd like to show you guys the ad real quick. I'm mad at myself for thinking about Yellowstone. Yeah. And not getting into. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, darling. Don't be shy. I'll be expecting you. Arbys told me you're looking for an all-new southern guy with good taste. Something a little more mature. Oh, and darling, I wear a suit smell. Okay, let's stop for a second So let's stop and talk about Caleb

Yeah, talk for a second About what you guys have seen so far Yeah, it's yeah He's wearing a suit and a chain, No shirt, beige cowboy hat And handsome beige beige beige beige beige beige beige beige beige t to T to T It's a beige boy and handsome

And the chest and tummy looks good You know in the way that we like from cable Now on screen presence On screen presence A little mushy mouth for my I don't know that one pulls off southern sort of gentleman and talks that nervously. It seems like he's scared to talk about steak nuggets a little.

Not a lot of dynamism. Not a lot of energy coming except, was that enough? Is that good? Did you like that, darling? Can I go lay down? All right. See, as kids, we regrettable things, like chaped chicken nuggets. Sorry, can we try that again?

As Caleb, was that? Can we take another run at that big dog? As kids are you. Can we just do one more pass at that? If you could step forward like a human being does, that would be great. I think you're thinking about it a little too much, Caleb. If you could just... You're just overthinking it.

And I agree, shape-shifted chicken nuggets is a mouthful. Yeah. If you're old enough to do your laundry, you've outgrown that mess. It's time for enough to do your laundry. What? Sorry, what, Caleb? If you're old enough to do your laundry, you're outgrown eating shape-shifted chicken nuggets. Okay, so what do we got?

What do you have instead, Kay? Time for an upgraded nugget. Are we steak nuggets? By its own pieces of a 100% steak. It's the quality upgraded nugget us grownups deserve. Sorry, what? It's the quality upgraded nugget us grownups deserve. He looks 15.

If you're going to be putting out complicated ideas, challenging ideas, you have to deliver them with force and clarity. Also, not giving it. The idea that adults can't eat nuggets anymore is a sea change, Caleb. You can't just like announce that from on high. You can't wander down from Mount Sinai. and be like, guess what? Adults are off nugs.

And not dipping it in the wine glass. I expected the wine glass was full of this new horsey ranch. And that was why it was so present in this whole experience. It's because you're on the date night with him. Let's move on. What? I don't focus on the 100% stake for me, darling. What?

Sorry, Caleb. I think he asked the camera to focus on the 100% stake for me, darling. Man, guys, these nugs. It looks look wet as hell. Yeah. Sorry, Arby's, we're touching these things with our fingers in the car. That's what they want to try to encourage, but I'm not a Caleb McDaniel. No one wants to see me slurping this sauce off my little fingies.

No way. I hope that this ad ends with like a 30-minute jump forward and it's beige suit. It's just covered in drippings and like finger wiping. Hey, Travis. Hey, Travis. You're a horsey ranch for mom. beating the shit out of these I was not for an upgrade

all right door I stay in the suit okay so he does make a mess and that's gonna look like comb Caleb for sure for sure yeah that's definitely gonna get I'm gonna stop this share so I can break the temptation to play the entire

ad again yeah he does say in there can we focus on the line your horsey ranch or my mind yeah that's such a swing that connects with nothing it's an absolute width Sorry, it doesn't sound like anything. A ranch is not a, I mean...

I guess like your place where you house livestock. My big thing with this commercial gang, and I know if you're listening to the audio product, maybe this is lost on you, but he housed about 16 of these nuggets in a montage of nugget just destruct. He really tore through these fucking things. As someone who's eaten these guys,

it is bordering on malfeasance that they are not depicting at least 20 minutes of chewing per nugget. It is not a slurped down. It's not a choke down. It's a chew. He takes his hat off. Between each one.

All right, we got to cut. Bring him to Spatoon. Now he's panicking. He's freaking out. He's freaking out. I can't tell if he likes him or not. I don't understand. He may be choking or he may be reading a URL.

It's impossible to tell. He's stained the suit Yeah, put it in the commercial Yeah That's coming out of your paycheck, Caleb You guys are paying me? No, Caleb, in Nuggets Have we found his shirt yet?

Is someone on that? I don't have any shirts. He said last place he had it was in the sandbox. When he says I wear suits now He means instead of absolutely nothing I'm assuming This is the first clothes he's been given He was a house elf before then.

Yeah, I have my dad's hat now. Yeah, kids. That's the Arby's Nuggets situation. There's other promotions going on with these guys, but I'm not going to be dealing with it. I'm sorry. Don't get the nuggets, by the way. They taste like someone took a smoke break inside of your mouth.

This is great, because I see here in this TikTok that he did add hashtag Arby's partner, which thank you for clarifying that. Because up until now, I had no idea that this was sponsored by Arvays. Yeah. Okay. Before I navigate away from this, I am curious. There's 1,500 comments on this. And I could not guess the tenor.

What would, what tenor would you guess? I wish he'd dip my, I wish he'd dip my ass in Ranch and gobble me up. Who is this? No, 100% all people. Let me get a bite, not of the nugget. This is fire. He keep a damn check, okay? I want Arby's now.

We got a text and now we want steak nuggets. Travis, people are fucking losing their minds. This is posted on his TikTok channel, so it would be wild. If we were like, who the fuck is this? Who's this fucking guy? This is his fucking guy. But the Arby's in Los Angeles, close. You've only got one Arby's?

Wow. There must be like in the flyover cities. I have three, just within 10 minutes of me. There's no fucking way. That there's one Arby's? Or zero, it sounds like. Los Angeles is huge. No one's eating beef over there, Traff.

No one's over there eating beef. It's all satan. Satan? Yeah. Is there a gang of people? No. There is a gang of people near me who, about once a month. This would be a way different question.

A weird question, is there? Quick, I need your help. There is a gang of people near me who, about once a month, run up a popular hilly hiking trail, all dressed in suits of armor. I haven't seen any flyers for how to join them or any information about them. Should I just show up one day and start running with them to prove my muster? How do I earn their respect? Important info. I do not have a full set of armor, only a six-foot broadsword.

That's from oath-seeking in Oregon. Fuck. If you don't own the armor, that's fine. you can always page or squire for them. You'll start with page if you don't have your own shit except for one broadsword. Unless you want to roll up there like shirtless, maybe just wearing Caleb's get up

from this Arby's commercial with your broadsword and say like, yeah, I'm more of like a barbarian type. I find the armor gets in the way of the killing. You've fashioned some of your own protective pieces. Well, how possible is it to get a full armor set going. Is that a weekend? Is that a few days? What are we thinking? You talking...

You're talking in... You're talking play? You're talking play? Ah, listen, I'd rather run up in mail, I think. I feel like mail would be the play. It's pretty heavy still. I'd prefer... I bet that there are some, let's say, specialty shops in town

where you could find some chain mail-esque garments you could wear. Yeah. Perhaps. Okay. Tell me more about these and their addresses and phone numbers, please. Maybe revealing, perhaps, maybe not necessarily defensive. I bet they have leather that you could wear as well. Yeah, leather's pretty easy to find out there, I bet. I can have very clear memories of seeing the first time I saw the guys from the SCA.

I think of all people. The guys from the S.E. at the park and they were hitting each other with swords. And I just thought, like, how did they not find out about that? They're free. Nobody told me about this. How do you find out about this? Like, nobody told me about this. Now, I know, knowing myself, I don't think I would have gone, but I would like to know when it's happening.

The offer would like to know that it's happening. You know, I don't have to be one of the fireball guys, one of the main ones. I don't have to be one of the lead sword guys. I could be like potion shop guy, you know, whatever. Yeah, that's the dream, you know. I just like to know what's happening. I don't want to be in the middle. I want to either be.

like the Lord or the King or whatever, or like the guy who runs a stalling town who's not running around, not getting hit. Yeah. But does fully get to like participate. That's why when I was on an inner, like a friend, you know, softball league,

I was always so excited when there were too many people and I didn't have to actually like go out to the bases, but I got to sit on the bench. But I was there. I was on the team. It's fun. You get all the hang time. None of the work.

No of the sweat. No press No press at all I don't know where one buys armor But I bet you I could By the weekend Get a pretty convincing Shrek costume delivered

And now all of a sudden You're hiding in the woods And you're waiting for them Because they need a monster They need a bad monster To jump out and scare them in the woods And say like And do it near the top

You want them to be tired Because otherwise they'll kick your fucking ass Into the ground Yeah They'll stomp your ass That's right back to the swamp. We could roll big boulders at them or something. Like, whoa, a little excitement, a little added danger.

Cool. I think that rolling up in a full suit of armor is too presumptuous. But I also think showing up no armor at all is like cheating, right? Because the whole point is the wrong. You need to roll up in some like clanky, like pieces from a cast iron, right? Because you're going to prove that you may not be a knight, but you have the heart of a knight. Right? Oh, that's nice.

You're going to win them over. and then you're going to prove like, yeah, there's something about, like, I don't know, they haven't had the training. They don't have the mana to accomplish the matter. But, God damn it, you can't keep them down, right? And then eventually you're the main character. You just start as a squire. Yeah. My lord, just a squire.

You don't even have to go the whole way up the hill, probably. They probably don't even let squires go to the top. No. I bet squires have to stop halfway up. There's a cave. There's a cave. They leave their squires and pages it. Yeah.

What if you get a full suit of armor, you find out the day that they're doing this, you go up the night before, and then when you hear them coming up, you light a cigarette. And then once they get up, you're like, finally. And then they're like, who is this bad boy? Awesome. You're in, just like that. And you're sitting on top of a dead dragon. Yeah.

That sounds so much harder than mine, Trave. Mine was already pretty hard. A dead dragon be tough. A dead man in a Shrek costume. and you say, I've already slayed the fearsome ogre. I've slain the ogre. Yeah. You have to get up a little earlier

if you want to steal a kill from me. That's cool. Can you duel someone to get in? I think that's the only way you can get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to have to find somebody with the same kind of measure, like, dimensions as you.

You're going to take their armor. Yeah, you're going to take their armor. You don't want to go for somebody way taller than you. Get their oath blade. Yes. That's cool. Awesome. Now, also find out if they have any very capable children who will be coming after you next.

Okay. Oh, that's true. Or children with the potential to become capable who will train relentlessly in order to defeat you. Yeah. If you can find somebody who's infertile, I think that's the dream. I think maybe if you could. And then if you could teach them violin and make them better than you are, then you've got a full suite of like, they're trying to kill me. And also they're better at violin than I am, and they're making me practice all the time.

It's a full service enemy. And they use their violin strings to shoot arrows at you. Shit, guys, we are so close. Yeah, I'm almost there. Let's, in fact, let's just, you know. Let's pump the brakes. Yeah, we're too close to do a good idea. We need to back off.

Let's, no, let's just not record this one. You know what I mean? Just like this one, we'll just like after the show really knock this. This thing out to the witch. Thank you for listening to our podcast. I really appreciate it. Yeah, man. Really genuinely, thank you so much.

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stuff than that, Justin. Throw something expensive. Throw something expensive. I got a bunch of ameboes. Oh, hell yeah, dude. I got a big bag of amibos. I could just grab a few of them. Let's see.

Not any of the expensive ones. Yeah, none of them that have been in your mouth. All of these motherfuckers have been in my mouth, Jews. That's crazy. We got Star Fox. We got Ryu. Try a barrel roll. Good one, trap.

Thanks. I gotta write that down for the next Trashchaff. Oh, boy. Gannon, Gannendorf? Yeah, hell yeah, that's a beefy one. A quick, a quick, quick pop in the mouth just for the old time's sake, right? Uh.

No, no, no, I can't. Kick it back. All at once or like... We'll see how the next max fun drive goes. All at once or you think like... Oh, yeah, all at once. Yeah. All at once, we're gonna, it's gonna be like a race.

Okay. Yeah. I'm going to get out. I don't like the throwing backwards over. I just stepped on one of them. It was Rob the robot. It hurt. Oh, it's a bad one to step on man. I take a Kirby all day over that. Sheesh. Here we go. Three, two, one. I love throwing stuff. My name is Justin Baccaroy. I'm Travis McRoy. I'm Griffin McRoy. This has been my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad. Square on the lips. Maximum Fun. A Worker Own Network of Artist-owned shows. Supported directly by you.