My Brother, My Brother And Me - Candlenights 2017
Episode Date: December 27, 2017Here we are again, friends, with our beloved annual swear-free episode of MBMBaM. Gather those you love around the Podcast Victrola and enjoy. Suggested talking points: Rockin' Randy the Safe Sex Sant...a, Proof that Trickle Down Economics Works, The Grinch Totally Naked, Drinking Frosty the Snowman.
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Hi everybody, thank you for that wonderful welcome.
If I sound like a muppet, it is because I had a little bit of surgery this week, everything's
going great.
This was a choice because I have an incision.
I have an incision that I wanted to show you all and my children will not let that happen.
But thanks, thanks for coming out, for tonight's celebration.
Thanks to everybody who waited out in the rain because I know that wasn't a lot of fun.
I didn't because I just walked right in.
My name's Clint McElroy, did I already say that?
That's neither a yes or no.
But I am here to share something very important with you which nobody trusts me to remember.
All the heck with it.
The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed.
Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it.
Also this show isn't for kids, which I say only so you babies out there know how cool
you are for listening.
What's up, you cool babies?
Hello everybody, welcome my brother, my brother, and me, an advice show for the modern era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
I am your middlest brother, Travis McElroy.
And I'm your sweet baby brother in 30 under 30 media luminary Griffin McElroy.
All I could think about is how great it would have been if you did that jump scare and popped
the giant balloon that was behind you and scared the crap out of yourself.
A little bit.
The scare had become you, you guys know the next thing's fake, right?
You kind of bit it, I feel like, kind of to his surgery, surgery, he had a feeling.
It's fine.
We should mention about the balloons.
This is going to be a cuss-free candle nights family friendly episode.
Yeah, that's one of those balloons pops, yeah, and then it will become for a brief moment
cuss-filled.
We, and again, we, we guarantee pure language, but not pure thought.
Yeah.
It's some, some challenging, easy language, difficult thought.
Challenging.
Challenging ideas.
So we're the brawny boys, apparently.
Okay.
To be fair though, two of these were unintentional.
Justin and I did not plan this.
Griffin saw us do those and went, okay.
I didn't want to be left out.
Oh boy.
So it's candle nights.
It is candle nights.
Can I say a quick thank you?
So remember to Ackon Pucky for re-creating the candle nights and bringing back Super
Desk.
Super Desk.
Back home.
It makes me feel like when we did our last candle nights show, which was last September,
which is just when it happened to be candle nights.
And it sort of threw me back, it was like a fun throwback Thursday to the time I ran
into the mayor's car with your car, which was a fun sort of experience to relive.
And a year later, I think we can all agree, still pretty mortifying.
Yeah.
Like the worst thing ever.
He's not over it either.
Have not talked to him since.
So I have been sitting on something I've wanted to talk about candle nights ready for a long
time now.
Oh good.
I want to introduce a new character to the candle nights canon.
We haven't had a mascot.
Well, we are the Star King, but Star King is more kind of a figurehead.
I'm talking about something that's more feet on the ground reason for the season.
Yeah.
I'm talking about somebody who's like boots on the ground, getting the work done character.
And in the grand tradition of holiday celebrations, kind of stealing other people's tradition.
I've already seen the inflatables at Home Depot, so I'm just going to incorporate and
I call him Terry, the non-denominational gift delivery dragon.
I hear dragon.
I think game of thrones.
I think very scary burning up livestock.
No, no, no.
This is a very, this is much more original Pete's dragon dragon.
Still killed lots of, they don't, that's not in the original, but you have a lot of questions.
And I know usually.
This is the biggest font I have ever seen in front of that piece of paper.
This is not a sad live, I promise.
But you've got some questions.
Should I take the questions?
Okay.
Do you want to do the questions or the answers?
I've written up a frequently asked questions segment.
This is like a ham, like a call and response.
All right.
Frequently asked questions.
Number one, is Terry really a dragon?
Glad you asked Griffin.
He is three fourths dragon.
His mother is half unicorn.
Okay.
This is, you've made us party to this in a way.
Why does Terry deliver presents?
Because your parents pay him.
Well, technically your parents pay taxes and then those taxes go to pay Terry.
However, Terry is not government employee.
He is an independent contractor.
Great.
All right.
Can I skip this next one?
No, do it.
What does Terry bring the bad kids?
The same thing he brings all kids.
Terry doesn't judge.
He's done some stuff too.
Nice try.
Nice try.
I wrote this before I remembered.
Not today, but he served his time and he's, and then it just cuts off in the air.
The rest of it's supposed to be keeping his nose clean.
Keeping his nose clean.
Thank you.
Okay.
Does, do I need to?
Yeah.
I'm like, I should mention pretty sick and sailing on Dayquil right now.
And so as far as I know, this is all a weird bad dream that I'm having.
Do I need to write Terry a list of what I want?
No.
Terry monitors your internet search history to determine what you really want.
Do I need to leave treats out for Terry?
No.
Terry is on a special diet that is herbalist laid out for him.
Terry will eat dinner before he starts.
It's fun.
It's whimsical.
He also carries a power bar with him in case he gets hungry.
What if I don't believe, this is the final question, what if I don't, what if I don't
believe in Terry?
You don't have to believe in Terry because he believes in you.
So that's just my little contribution to candlelight.
Yeah.
It's funny you mentioned that.
I also have a candlelight mascot idea.
I didn't know that so many props would be sort of brought to the equation.
But my idea is this, the little boy from the Christmas shoe song.
Just poach him.
Like the, can I, can I, do you hear me now guy?
Oh, we take him.
And now we take him.
From Christmas.
From the Christmas.
Christmas will not miss that boy.
He's got a lot of brand appeal.
And I also think in the current sort of economic political climate, there's going to be a lot
more, shall we call them Christmas shoes opportunities.
No, now listen, the song Christmas shoes is proof that trickle down economics works.
We make big cuts for the, the, the Christian country music stars.
And then they buy little boys Christmas shoes.
Perfect.
In case their mama meets Jesus tonight.
Okay.
Got it.
So Jesus is like, I don't know, you got old shoes.
I don't know about all this.
It all works.
They're new shoes.
Have you heard the song Christmas shoes?
No, that's not.
Shall I sing every word of it?
Yes.
All right.
Well, that was my bit.
Um, I have my own candle nights mask on.
As you know, candle nights is a pan religious, pan sexual, personal pan holiday for everybody.
And we talk a lot about the first one and the third one, but we don't delve into the
sexuality of candle nights enough.
And we have a very sex positive show and, but we want it to keep it clean and keep it
safe.
So I would like to introduce you to my candle nights mascot, rock and Randy, the safe sex
Santa.
It's Randy.
It's him.
He's here.
He came.
This condoms.
Oh, right.
It's real rubbers.
It's real rubbers.
He came.
And so can you safely safely.
All right.
Thanks, Randy.
Now, listen, if you want a condom, raise your hand.
He's not going to just throw him out to anybody, but he'll try to get a couple of you on the
way.
The audience.
If you catch one of these, just hand it to an adult.
Didn't think that one through Randy.
The adult may not know what to do with it.
Otherwise you wouldn't be here, kid.
And double check the expiration on these.
They were bought last year.
Yeah.
Do check the expiration on Randy's gifts.
Thank you.
Thank you, rock and Randy, the safe sex Santa.
So far, so good.
He's self-explanatory.
He writes himself.
I don't need the.
This is maybe the closest we've come to being Conan O'Brien and it makes you really happy.
Yeah.
Introducing new characters for the heck of it.
We're still pretty far away.
Do you want to do?
I dyed my hair red.
Yeah, sure.
Yes.
So we also do an advice show.
When we're not working on branding.
Yes.
We, uh, we, we take your questions and talk them out.
Alchemy like into wisdom.
We're going to do some questions here.
We're going to do some audience questions as well.
Yeah.
At some point we'll discuss those in a moan.
We're going to do some questions here.
We're going to do some audience questions as well.
Yeah.
At some point we'll discuss those in a moan.
Uh, but, uh, let's get into the help.
Let's help some people.
Please.
For the past few years, my mother-in-law has been getting me presents for Christmas.
These presents are always very religious based.
For instance, I've received a frame photo of Jesus.
That's about as religious as a present gets.
Yeah, really?
You do not get more religious than that.
It's holy water, um, et cetera.
And I am desperate to know what the et cetera is, frankly.
You know.
You know.
Yeah.
The problem is I'm not religious in the slightest.
And these presents always end up sitting in a box in my basement.
Or in a donation bin at Goodwill.
What would-
Do y'all take holy water?
When you-
Okay.
Um, uh, what would be the best way for me to get my mother-in-law to stop wasting money on presents
I will never use as from insistent in law conundrum?
Now, you don't have to be especially religious to enjoy just a nice picture of the good man Jesus.
Yeah.
I also do want to say, I love your word choice.
Are you here?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because you didn't say picture of Jesus, you said photo of Jesus.
Oh, man.
If somebody gives you a photo of Jesus, you should hang on to that.
Yes.
That is worth something.
It belongs in a museum.
I also like the phrase, I'm not going to use these presents.
I'm curious how one uses a nice photo of the Christ.
Well, that's it.
Maybe your in-law doesn't think you're religious.
They just think you're a vampire hunter.
Because-
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Holy water.
Sure.
They hate that.
And they hate steaks in the heart and garlic and nice photos of the great dude Jesus.
Yeah.
I can't imagine a vampire being cool with that part.
I think a vampire is coming like, here I come.
And then you're like, boom.
And they're like, huh.
Does that-
Is that my thing?
How do I feel about this?
It's not a mirror.
Let me try.
I don't know if I'm bad with mirrors or I just can't see it.
Can you, can I bite that or are you rubbing on my face or something?
Because I do want to-
Throw it at me.
Throw it at me.
Throw it at me.
Let's see if that's a thing for me.
I honestly don't know.
I've never seen a photo of Jesus.
I'm also not religious, but is there a religious person who just has holy water?
I thought that was just a thing that stayed specifically at church.
No, everybody's got it, right?
Yeah.
For what?
It's for the home game version of church.
I always keep a picture of Jesus in my wallet.
That's good for two reasons.
Because if it's a religious person, I can show them and they'll be like, cool.
And if it's a non-religious person, I show them and I tell them it's a picture of my
uncle.
Which is also great because it's so rare that you get to show someone your uncle.
My uncle Jesus.
I keep his baseball card in my wallet.
That's so nice.
That's good because a lot of times I look into argument about Jesus's RBIs.
So you can settle that real quick.
How about a Yahoo answer?
I love that.
This is a Yahoo that was sent.
Oh my God, the kid energy shoes.
What?
Yeah, there's a lot of props.
It's really great.
By the way, I don't know if we talked about this in the behind the scenes thing.
We had this whole scene where someone told us about kid energy and they got cut from
the show.
In the antique scene, it's just I was walking around going, this has got a lot of kid energy.
Yeah.
So one of my favorite weird things about our weird, weird show.
Travis is doing some behind the scenes DVD commentary.
Listen, we've got to kill time.
We don't.
Oh.
This one was sent in by level 9000.
Drew Drew it.
Drew Davenport.
Thank you, Drew.
It's from Yadru answers user Remy who asks, how could you probably react?
That's wild.
How could you probably react if you saw the Grinch totally naked?
Griffin's doing a Google startling development.
The Grinch is basically always naked.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can get a cartoon version.
You can get past that.
The James Carey version with the with the faces.
Can I get a full screen?
No, I can't.
The internet is not working very well.
But the face.
You can Google it at home.
The faces he makes when you have to like confront the fact that he's not wearing pants or underpants
the entire movie, like.
It's rough.
It's rough because he's not, you know.
And the thing is, when he plays sin, he puts on a jacket, but also no pants.
So he knows.
He understands.
It's sin has been to introduce to the world of the Grinch.
Like he knows about shame and sin.
He just like doesn't care.
Yeah.
I mean, and that's the thing.
The who's wear clothes.
The who's do know about clothes.
And who's are wearing clothes.
And so what we have here is a man naked, living by himself in a cave on top of a mountain,
just ranting and raving about stuff and stealing things.
Yeah.
Enjoy children.
Yeah.
Also he breaks into their houses.
Still quite nude.
Still pretty nude.
Yeah.
Nude where it counts.
He's got a jacket on.
I mean, he might have two totally bodacious nipples.
Yeah.
That the Santa jacket.
Anyway, how would I react if I saw the Grinch totally naked?
You breaking and entering in my house.
I would say, no, thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Please leave.
We don't need any.
Also, if I, you wouldn't be able to see the Grinch naked because he's microscopic.
Okay.
Okay.
This has been bothering Justin.
Justin talked about this a lot.
We talked about this a lot.
Horton here's a who, right?
Yeah.
The who's are on a speck of dust.
Yes.
And they live on a speck of dust.
Yes.
The Grinch lives adjacent to Whoville on the outskirts of Whoville beyond the county
line, I assume.
And so we can extrapolate from that the like, and nobody wants to talk about it.
The Grinch is microscopic.
Yeah.
Justin.
Yeah.
Aren't we living on a speck of dust?
Oh, dunk.
Whoa.
No, it's a big planet.
It's called Earth.
Oh, shit.
You're right.
You're right.
Nice.
Nice try.
You wouldn't see the Grinch.
He's microscopic.
Grinch.
Why you've been here.
You're right.
We're living inside of a tiny universe in a cat's collar.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm sure about this one.
It's a big planet.
No, but it's in a cat's collar.
It's on a documentary.
It is in a cat's collar.
What?
No, no, no, no, no.
It's a big planet.
It's a big planet.
The cat's collar is very large.
It's inside a cat's collar.
It's very large.
It's in a documentary.
This big.
No, the cats you know.
The cats you know and love.
I know cats.
But what if there was a bigger cat?
Tigers.
No, it wouldn't fit in a tiger.
Lions?
I mean, there's no...
Bigger still.
No.
Big enough that it could wear a universe?
Sabertooth Tiger.
That's the biggest one I know about.
That is the biggest cat.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I don't know.
You should have mentioned that we're referencing Men in Black
so the people in the audience don't think we've, like,
we're all dayquil-tripping.
I've never seen the film.
I've never seen the film.
Justin's only seen Men in Black 3.
Does that exist?
We gave some very close friends a housewarming gift.
It was an embroidered thing my wife had made,
commissioned, not made ourselves.
You just said made.
It says made in the question.
I call them like I see them.
To commemorate their wedding day.
It was nice.
Oh, there's more.
They later passed on a gift to us after we had a kid,
a book and some clothes.
Very nice and thoughtful.
Also...
That wasn't Justin commenting.
It's written very nice.
It's written.
It's written.
Justin.
Nice.
Very nice.
It's an embroidered thing that we gave them.
That was in the gift bag, too.
How do you tactfully re-gift an un-gifted gift?
That's from Not Santa.
Okay, wait.
Okay.
So you gave them an embroidered thing.
They gave it back to you.
Was it in the same bag?
That's the only thing, which still sucks.
Because it's still like, I know you did not enjoy that
for the past several months.
I do like the idea, however, of this object existing.
Yeah.
That is like a get out of present buying free car.
Yeah.
Talisman.
Because it's like, I'm going to give this to you this year,
and I don't have to worry about getting you gifts.
Next year, you give it right back to me,
and we're cool on that one.
I would love to institute this in our enormous,
ever-growing family.
Yes.
Just like I'll get a little acorn.
A magical acorn.
A scene in the hit film, The Christmas Prince.
A little magic acorn from the movie, Christmas Prince.
And I'll just give it to Travis.
Merry Christmas.
Oh, wait.
And then?
No presents, though.
But then next year, you can give it to Justin.
You don't have to worry about getting him presents.
Well, what do I get?
Wait.
What do I get you?
Gifts still.
Yeah.
I was the first one to think of the magic acorn thing.
Okay.
So it's not like, this isn't undoing the idea
of buying presents for each other.
You just have to get out of jail free.
There's like one person you don't,
like you're going down your list,
and you're like, okay, Rachel, Theresa, Travis.
Oh, Travis actually, no,
we're giving him the acorn this year.
But then next year,
he gets to give the magic acorn away.
Is the acorn all I get?
Yes.
From everyone?
Maybe.
I'm still workshopping this.
Would everyone get him a discreet acorn?
Travis would just get 20 acorns Christmas morning.
But think about that.
Then he's got 20 acorns to play with next Christmas.
So he could just burn them up all at once,
or just like, I don't have anything for them.
Here's the acorn.
Everyone gets acorns, man?
Everyone gets their acorns this year.
I think this is what Christmas with the cranks is about.
Okay.
I have never watched it very closely, but...
Okay, so...
Yes.
Christmas one.
Yeah.
Christmas zero.
You get acorn.
One acorn.
Congratulations.
So you have acorn.
Yes.
Travis have acorn.
Okay.
Travis have acorn.
Then Travis...
No gifts.
What?
No gifts.
Just acorn.
But the acorn is the greatest gift.
If you plant it in the ground next year,
you have a bunch of acorns.
Whoa.
That's how fast trees grow.
Shh.
Don't tell him.
Okay.
So then Christmas two.
Yep.
I give acorn.
Same acorn.
Don't go out on the street and find some dirty acorn
that a dog touched.
Really, actually, I'm thinking about it.
This is not a great gift because you have to keep track
of where an acorn is for a year.
I don't know where my car keys are now.
Yeah.
Like, wouldn't it be a large novelty acorn?
Good question.
In a special box, perhaps?
Or just lose acorn?
The size is not what makes it magic.
What is what makes it magic?
The fact that if you eat it, you turn into a lion.
Okay.
Repeatedly, or just the one?
Just the one.
Use it wisely, son.
When do you most need to turn into a lion in the coming year?
Make sure it doesn't recharge when I re-gift it to someone else.
Yes.
Okay.
Different animal.
I'm not taking Griffin's lion time away.
No, no, no.
You definitely are.
What are we talking about?
I have a...
What are we doing?
We just came up with the first draft of Animorphs,
which they flushed down a toilet and they were like,
we got to start over.
Yeah.
How about a yahoo?
Yes, that would be good.
Wow, gang.
I'm looking at the clock.
Was that 20 minutes?
Go ahead, Griff, go ahead and start the yahoo.
You're going to freak and interrupt me with it.
No, I'm not.
I promise.
To start the yahoo, Griff.
Sheesh.
Sheesh.
She's Louise, man.
Where's the trust?
Oh, no.
This is a really serious yahoo,
and it's about a really, really serious subject,
and if you all could not laugh for a little bit,
because it's going to be, like, pretty heavy,
and been wrestling with this one for a while,
but I feel like Candle Knights is the right season for it,
and it's going to bring things down,
but it's important topics.
Go whenever you're ready, man.
And that is sent in by...
I want a munch!
I want two munchs!
I thought Travis was going to do a balloon break on yours.
So scared.
Welcome to Munch Squad.
I did think about it.
It's a podcast.
Within a podcast.
I'm going to sip my beer here.
We'll get started.
Sip of his root beer.
Root beer.
Regal cinemas.
What?
They're not in the game?
They don't get to play?
No, that's just as much justice as every time
he takes a drink of root beer.
Regal cinemas has entered the game.
A new challenger.
A new challenger, arises.
So welcome first off, of course,
welcome to the game, game Regal cinemas.
Thank you to Bethany for sending this one my way.
It's much appreciated.
And Regal cinemas has just announced
that they'll be serving Cheetos popcorn,
featuring Cheetos flavored popcorn.
Yeah.
Along with actual Cheetos mixed in.
No.
No.
It'll be...
It's gorp for monsters.
It'll be sold in 32 ounce cups at Regal cinemas
beginning this Friday, December 15th.
Just in time to watch...
They're not going to serve it on a charcuterie board.
Just in time to watch Star Wars The Last Jedi
with a lot of Cheeto dust on your fingers.
Well, more than was probably already there.
So what does John Curry of Regal cinemas have to say?
Cheetos popcorn is our gift to Regal fans.
Enjoying their favorite movie this holiday season.
I hope you kept the receipt, my dude.
Do you think the popcorn is Cheeto flavored when they start
or they just put the Cheetos in there
and the leprosy spreads?
If it's the case, you could make anything flavor popcorn.
This one's Drano flavored.
We put a couple of Dranos in there, shook it all around.
Now that's what I call cooking.
A 2016 survey conducted by market research firm Harris
revealed that millennials are over 75% more likely
to spend money on experiences rather than physical products.
Now what they don't tell you is that company is actually
one guy named Harris.
You walked out going, hey, you guys like Cheetos?
So this summer you remember the Cheetos Papa Restaurant
by Ambrose.
So this is sort of in the same.
It says here Cheetos are the latest craze
and it's going to be an experience.
I don't know what that means.
I love in that line saying that this is a food experience.
They are literally saying we've made a new food dare.
It ain't going to be good, but you can Instagram it
and tell your friends all about it.
That is one of the things I've learned about Munch Squad,
like by doing Munch Squad, is how often the language,
if you read between the lines, is like, listen, we know.
We know.
But you're going to eat it as a joke.
Yeah, because someone will be like, isn't this weird?
You're like, it's not weird.
I'd eat it.
No, you wouldn't.
Yeah, I would.
And then you'll eat it.
Then you'll eat it.
Regal Cinemas is the first national cinema chain
to offer Cheetos popcorn.
Yes.
Congratulations.
Congratulations Regal Cinemas.
You did it.
There's some independent movie house who's like,
but we were technically the first.
It was like, I always said chain.
Sean Matthews of PepsiCo, which owns Frito Lay,
announced his enthusiasm for the team up.
One would hope.
Matthews claim that Cheetos and popcorn are, quote,
the ultimate movie snack combination.
Hey, my dude, how about you pump the brakes a little bit?
How about that?
You just made up this wild thing and you're like,
better than junior men's better than popcorn.
It's Cheetos popcorn.
Cheetos, the ultimate movie snack.
I've never had Cheetos at a movie.
It's illegal.
No.
So here's Sean Matthews detailing his excitement
in a written statement, which I assume some of the excitement
is lost in translation.
But we're excited to give moviegoers a chance
to experience Cheetos in an unexpected and delicious new
way.
We're going to hide these little guys.
Cheetos never see it coming.
Cheetos really least expect them.
Cheetos and popcorn are the ultimate movie snack
combination.
That's how he said it in context.
And Regal Cinemas is the perfect partner because they nasty
to launch Cheetos popcorn nationally.
So congratulations to Regal Cinemas.
It says in the story, it's not clear whether they'll be
selling other versions of the popcorn with the flaming hot
Cheetos, but it seems pretty much like a no brainer.
I would mess with that, actually.
I would goof off with some flaming hot Cheetos popcorn.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, you'd crush that, right?
Here's the problem.
Popcorn, like crunch.
I set my mouth to crunch level three.
Cheetos, a bit of a, it's got to snap to them.
That's mouth crunch level six.
Yeah.
You put those both in there.
I'm either going to hit a Cheeto and be like, ah, ah, ah.
Or I'm going to hit popcorn over crunch it.
It's a big problem that nobody's willing to talk about.
Nobody's willing to, how are you going to, you got to firm up
that popcorn, soften up those Cheetos Regal.
I assume that this is like, they'll statistically reach a similar
level of crunch.
When they pop the Cheetos with the corn.
Yeah, right.
Soft Cheetos and hard popcorn vote is bad.
They're just where they need to be.
And they're also proud to announce their new technology of having
wet wipes built into the armrest.
Right.
Imagine the lights come up up to the film and you're just like,
what did I do?
No.
It's like waking up as a werewolf covered in blood and there's
a deer carcass next to you.
Yeah.
It's exactly the same.
Cheese dust.
Cheese dust.
And there's a deer carcass next to you.
It's served out of a deer carcass.
A 32 ounce deer carcass.
Can I read this Yahoo now, please?
Yes, please.
It was sent in by Brooke Strickland.
Thank you, Brooke.
It's an anonymous Yahoo answer.
Oh, that's you.
Hi.
Thank you.
It was sent in by an anonymous user, but I'm going to call them.
No, it was sent in by Brooke Strickland.
The asker is anonymous.
I thought you just took that away from Brooke.
You know what, Brooke?
Actually, Brooke did ask this one.
That's what.
No, I won't put this on you.
Spy Duggy asks, if you were in hospital over Christmas, what happens
to all the sick people when the hospital closes on Christmas Day?
No one's asking these questions.
I've always wondered this update.
Or is it just that certain hospitals don't celebrate Christmas?
I was in the hospital the other day visiting my nan, and there was Christmas trees all
around the place, so I don't get why they don't close.
All right, now listen.
You're going to need to inject yourself with this tomorrow at noon.
Not this one.
This one will kill you instantly.
This is for him.
This is for that guy over there.
And he's asleep, so if you could give that to him, that would be great.
Yes, don't switch them, because both are going to kill each of you.
What's your name?
Mike?
I'm going to put an M on this one.
What's his name?
Mark?
No!
I've already written the M.
I'm just going to write ARC.
Just inject yourself with half of both of them, and you'll probably be cool.
So I'm just going to leave these.
Wait a minute.
Which one was the...
You know what?
I don't know.
Figure it out.
It's Christmas.
I'm gone.
I just assumed that it'd be in Christmas.
Santa just healed everybody.
You have not listened to Christmas shoes.
Santa!
Santa, don't get to everyone.
Santa, you don't meet Jesus tonight with your great shoes that a rich country musician bought for you.
I see.
Then they probably just induced coma in everyone.
Jesus!
Sail through the night.
They bring in all the interns, and they let the interns take care of it.
I bet that is actually a pretty close to the truth.
I know some of Sydney's colleagues are here, and I'm assuming that's pretty much right.
Oh boy.
Can't you just give them enough vitamins that they'll hang?
Just open the window, give them a cup of water, they'll be fine.
Leave what?
Leave some cliff bars.
They set up a bunch of webcams on everybody.
They're just constantly checking in.
Haha, unwrap it.
Good, good present, Jeffrey.
Oh, I gotta go.
Oh, I gotta go right now.
I gotta go.
Why did I decide to live 45 minutes from the hospital?
This is bad, y'all.
Both my bosses are hunters.
They recently asked me if I'm a hunter as well.
My social anxiety kicked in, and I said yes.
I do not hunt.
No, you don't.
I do not want to hunt.
Nope.
I don't know why I said yes.
I do know, I know.
Now they talk about hunting a lot with me, and I've just been faking my way through the conversations.
The problem is they are now planning an expensive moose hunting trip to Canada, and they want me to join them.
Since it's candle nights, and this question isn't really thematically related, I'm going to change that to reindeer.
Okay.
It's, hey, it's equally as buck wild as hunting a moose, I feel like, maybe.
How do I get out of this trip without letting them know I am a socially awkward liar?
That's from hunting for help in New York.
Are you here?
Okay, this is easy.
Is it?
Yeah.
And they're like, come with us and hunt reindeer.
You say, oh, I don't hunt reindeer.
I don't like that at all.
No.
And this is going to work in two-foot.
One, you're not going to have to go on this hunting trip.
Two, they're never going to want to talk to you again.
You mean people?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So you're implying that you hunt people.
I hunt people.
Like the pest.
Like in the pest.
There are people in the audience that are apparently waiting for the pest connection.
Say it.
Say it.
Yes!
If you've ever read the book, the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, it's based on the
pest.
Here's what you do.
You go on the hunting trip, but twist, you're a double agent.
That's right.
You're working with the reindeer.
You don't.
You kill your bosses?
You can't shoot your bosses.
No, you don't shoot.
Two, hunting's not like back and forth.
I'm saying like, I'm saying you just like, when your boss is about to get a good shot,
you're just like, get him, Ted!
Yeah.
And you screw it.
The cat goes purring?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just got so psyched.
You're about to murder that animal.
And I got psyched out of my mind, dude.
You were doing so good with your scopes and triggers and stuff.
I just got super excited.
So, hey, let me help out with the next one.
I can do some extra DPS with you.
Pop, pop, pop, pop.
Oh, I missed all my shots and he got away.
Here's what you do, right?
When you get there and they start unpacking their guns or whatever, you pull out like a
small pin knife and you say like, oh, you hunt with guns?
Now, I just thought you were in it for the challenge.
Or maybe you just like sharpen your fingernails with a file.
Like, oh, I hunt.
Then you just like smear yourself with mud.
Can you dress like a reindeer and then show up and like, oh, you all are on that team.
All right.
I thought we were on the reindeer team.
I was just going to run with my boys out there from y'all.
All right.
Well, that's, I guess I'll go home.
I don't really know how to do it on your team.
I'm usually a reindeer when I play.
When I play hunting.
When I play hunting.
Do you think, do you think reindeer have, and all animals have hunting too?
But for them, it's like an extreme sport.
So wait, you don't mean like do animals hunt because I'm saying like they call it hunting.
Their side of it.
Their side is like, I don't know, man.
I just feel so alive.
They're playing defense to your office.
They know where the hunting happens, right?
So they could stand outside of it, but they're like, okay.
All right.
Come on.
Come on.
There's kind of a bush going.
I'm going out there.
Time me.
Oh God.
I feel alive.
I felt so good.
Oh my God.
Woo.
It smells like coarse light.
The game is on.
It's just like a bullet hits a tree and they dug back and they're like, I'm ready to marry
Debra.
I'm ready.
It's time.
What have I been waiting on?
I took this to open my eyes.
I just tie a bungee cord to you and then you sprint out as fast as you can.
And then they yank you back.
It's thrilling.
This is the best stack weekend I've ever been on.
Oh.
Oh.
He didn't even know.
He didn't even know.
Thrilling.
How about one more yahoo and then we can go to the audience.
No response from my brothers who are both adjusting their chairs for maximum comfort.
I'll take your still silence as it go for it Griffin.
My brother.
We're supporting you.
God.
I had a lot of garlic bread and I was burping quietly.
Geez.
Got me right in my funny spot.
So I'm standing by Zoe Kinski right in high.
Thank you Zoe.
Yeah.
The answer is user.
Sorry.
Something's gone wrong.
But we're going to call them Dougie again.
I can get down here with my sick voice.
You like it?
You've done a pretty good job though.
I meant to tell you.
Thank you.
Maybe after the show we can do a debrief.
I was saying I think you're doing a good job.
Thank you.
I'm really proud of you because you're kind of playing through it.
Dougie asks.
And let us know if we've done this one before.
Don't.
No do.
What would happen if you were to drink the water that was from where Frosty Snowman melted?
Okay we're good.
All right.
Good.
Okay now think about it for a second.
You wouldn't drink all of Frosty, right?
Wait actually can I take it slightly one step back?
Yeah.
Okay.
Is this to imply that this person watched Frosty Melt and went mmm.
You would have to get busy pretty fast.
Like oh my best friend.
Hey you know what?
There's only one concrete way to do it.
You got to mop it up with a towel and then twist and wring it into your mouth.
Or Frosty I know listen it's July 18th.
Like it's incredible you're still here.
The only way we're going to pull through this stand in that bathtub.
I'm going to drink you all up once you go.
It's going to be great.
I'm going to get 100% of you inside me and then you'll be a silent passenger.
So you drink Frosty.
He's a silent passenger.
His spirit is just within you.
And his consciousness.
That part's important.
Okay.
He's trapped.
It's basically like get out but with snow man.
So you like hear a voice in your head that's like.
Frolic with those children.
Put on the hat.
Put on the hat.
You could pull it off.
Smoke that pipe.
Smoke that pipe.
Sweep the street or whatever.
Sweep the street with your stupid bro.
You could have saved her.
I gave you all the clues.
Riven, have you ever watched a frame?
I did not watch the trailer for the snowman.
You have ever watched the snowman like nine times on this show.
Isn't it a book?
I don't know.
It's both.
It's both.
Okay.
I've just seen the hilarious billboards.
So they, in my version of Frosty the snowman.
What's your perfect version of Frosty the snowman?
Here's my perfect version.
As Frosty, like Frosty's like melting, right?
Melting, melting, melting.
And just like his head sticking up.
And then one kid is just like, um, there are places that are always cold.
Frosty, I'm sorry.
No one else will tell you.
There are places it's always cold.
Yeah.
You could just go live there my man.
Like Antarctica?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well for now.
Uh oh.
We'll get them next time.
We'll get them next earth.
We're just going to cats.
Something, I guess.
Uh, we should.
If you drink Frosty.
We're all always drinking Frosty all the time.
He's everywhere.
He evaporated and he's everywhere.
Okay.
But then I understand.
Thank you.
7th grade science.
How the cycle works.
You drink it.
You pee it.
Yuck.
It goes to the reservoir.
We had to skip that chapter in my class.
It evaporates.
Yes.
It snows again.
Frosty's back and he knows what you did.
He doesn't just know what you did.
He knows like, he snows what you did.
He snows what you did.
He was inside of you.
He knows your debit card number.
He knows your sosh.
He knows your address.
He knows how Vicki likes her back rubbed.
He knows all of it.
He knows it all.
And he's probably mad.
And he's probably going to steal your identity.
Yeah.
He's probably pissed.
Jesus Travis.
That's like four and five minutes.
Was that even a cut?
That was almost kind of a cuss too in some circles.
It was almost like, I did run it through a couple times.
Like, is it worth it?
Yeah.
I think they say piss on Doug.
That is my least favorite episode.
Piss on Doug.
All right, Frosty.
You're the boss.
We need to do some audience questions.
Yeah.
Can we get house lights turned on?
All right.
So stay in your seats.
We have a couple rules.
First big rule everybody knows.
Cool and great.
We're going to take two people at a time.
The house lights.
Can we get those turned on so we can see everybody?
We're going to take two people at a time.
And then we're going to give you each a mic.
And then you're each going to ask your question.
And then we're going to figure out which one we can help out the most with.
You could even lower ours a little.
Okay.
But remember.
Oh, this got moody.
I love that.
It's really going to help.
The questions need to be actual, like, things you can give advice on.
Not just this weird thing happening to me.
Am I good?
We can't really help with that.
It may be really funny and great.
If we can just get full house lights.
That would be radical.
Is there more house lights?
No, that's a strange request.
Is somebody shaking sleigh boots?
Or am I having a stroke?
Okay.
Now the house lights just went off.
Okay.
Hey, beautiful.
Beautiful people.
So we're going to start.
I'm going to say this person with the matching red and black flannel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're good.
And then over there in the green shirt, about third row.
Yeah.
We'll start with you.
Hi.
What's your name?
Hi.
My name is Carissa.
Hi, Marissa.
Hi.
Nice shirt.
Marissa.
Thank you.
With the name.
Carissa.
Thank you.
It has to be candle nights themed, right?
Yeah.
We should have mentioned that too.
Cool.
Cool.
I had two.
I had two in my back pocket.
So I work in a planetarium.
Cool.
Cool.
We used to do.
Like they have snakes inside of it and turtles.
Exactly.
We actually do have turtles, but not in the planetarium.
Wait, wait, wait.
It's fine.
Is it because the universe is just on a big turtle?
Yes.
Yes.
It's shaped like a turtle.
Okay.
Anyway, so we used to do this show about like the Christmas star.
Super classic.
There was this really epic part.
It was like the climax of the show where we would bring up a light behind the dome,
and it would illuminate this really wonderful like light up plastic nativity site.
And this is a science place.
We don't do this show anymore.
Okay.
I need you to start the F over.
It's like about the star because it's a celestial body.
It's about the Christmas star.
But then at the climax of the show, it's like, and then here's the nativity.
The wise men follow the star to the action in the cave, right?
I regret that.
Yeah.
Sorry.
So anyway, we don't do the show anymore.
Okay.
But we did the show for years, like decades and decades.
And there are multiple sets of nativity scenes now.
Okay.
Plastic.
Plastic ones.
Anyway, I have a dome like catwalk full of nativity figurines now.
What can I do with them that is better than illuminating them at the climax of the show?
How can I repurpose them?
Okay.
Okay.
So you have dozens of...
Hold on.
Okay.
Hi.
Hi.
What is your question?
My question.
And what's your name?
Your name?
My name is Jim.
Jim?
Oh, fun.
Okay.
So we didn't plan this.
We just happened to know each other.
Oh, how nice.
Jim, can you lean into the microphone?
Lean in a little bit.
Sure.
Thank you.
So my question is, I have a Christmas party that I have to go to next week.
Okay.
It's Christmas.
Yeah.
Okay, go ahead.
So we have a bunch of people that I know, and I've known them for my entire life.
Okay.
And then there are like three people that I have known for like a year, but I see them
only once a year at this Christmas party.
And we're supposed to get gifts for everybody.
So what in the world do I get these people that I don't really even know?
A thousand dollar iTunes gift card.
Magic Acorn is actually the best possible answer.
This is why the Magic Acorn is so good.
Because now it's saying you've got a year to get to know me.
Better.
This is a toughie because I don't know anything funny to do with a bunch of nativity characters.
Mmm.
Okay.
So you have a catwalk.
Okay, wait a minute.
Jim.
Yes.
Wine in bags.
Just hand.
I mean, not loose wine, mind you.
Unless you like get a box of wine and then take the box away and you just have like a bag of wine.
That's fun.
This is a fun time.
But I'm saying just like a gift bag, put a bottle of wine in there.
No one's ever been like, no, it's whatever.
You probably don't want it, but it's still like, oh, this is a present.
Yeah.
It is.
It meets the bare minimum requirements for a present.
You've given me presents.
And give them some good advice about it.
Like Swiss Bilaga grapes in that one.
Enjoy.
So thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
How big are they?
How big are these bad boys?
They vary in size.
The plaster ones are like super.
They're like, I think I could sell them for some money.
What's the biggest one?
I mean, selling them is obviously what you should.
I mean, they're not big.
They're like this, like three feet is the biggest one.
Okay.
But then there's like the plastic little ones that you'd have like a front one.
Here's what you do.
Okay.
In the middle of the news show they do.
I can't wait for this.
I can't wait.
Light up one of them really bright and get on the mic.
Why have you forsaken me?
You joke, but we do the voice of God a lot in there.
That?
This is a science place, right?
This isn't like the planetarium or the creation museum.
Can you make the manger look like a little spaceship and wrap a Superman cape around
the baby Jesus?
And start the planetarium show like Krypton.
Beautiful emerald of space.
Looks pretty permanent right now, doesn't it kids?
Well, check this out.
Well, let's lower down the city lights.
We can have lasers, so we can add those in too.
So Superman or Salem, do the nativity, but put like five baby Jesuses out there.
I love that.
And don't say anything about it.
Just make it all baby Jesuses.
Yeah, baby Jesus with the staff, you know?
It's really meta Christmas.
Does that help?
That's so helps.
Thank you.
All right.
I'm so sorry.
Justin, you pick one.
I am going to pick this person in the sweater festive real close to the mic.
Come on down.
All right, let's get somebody far away from the mic.
There's somebody in a Santa coat that like ends at the elbow and you've just stopped
up.
You have a watch on your left hands.
Well, you missed it.
There's a president in a sweater coming down.
Yeah, you got it.
No.
You're already singing.
It's the battle of sweaters.
Sweater battle.
Let's start over here on this side first.
Hello.
Hi, what's your name?
Sarah.
Hi, Sarah.
So my question is that during this festive season, I like to tell people positive things
I feel about them.
But my problem is that if I emotionally connect to the thing that I'm saying at the time,
I end up sobbing uncontrollably.
Yes.
I'm really sensitive, I guess.
What do you think about Griffin?
No stuff.
He's high on Nyquil.
Yes, Nyquil.
Excuse me.
He got a show to do.
So, but if I don't emotionally connect to it, I sound sarcastic, whether it's written
or spoken.
So, I want to know.
Don't advise.
We've heard the question.
It's very good.
What is your name?
My name is Eric.
Eric.
Hi.
So I have a little setup for my thing.
Okay.
All right, Eric.
Now listen, Eric.
It's not a joke.
That's not a very good beginning.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
So you're going to have to speed things up, okay?
All right.
Okay.
So I have an incredibly cool family.
Cool.
My mom vapes.
My little brother vapes.
My little brother's girlfriend vapes.
My little sister sometimes gets into it, but we tell her no.
Because the nicotine.
How little?
My little sister is 15.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
No.
No.
No.
This is why we tell her no.
I promise.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Too much information.
So my other little brother thinks that vaping is really cool too.
And he still believes in Santa Claus.
So he's like, hey, mom.
Now there's kids here.
Now listen, that's because Santa's real.
He's like, hey, mom, can we get a vape for Santa Claus?
Okay.
And so my mom being my mother was like, yeah, sure.
Let's get a vape for Santa Claus.
Yes.
And now my little brother, and he's like nine years old.
Yes.
Okay.
His plan is to wait by the fireplace.
Yes.
With a vape pen in his hand for Santa Claus to come down to offer the vape pen.
And I need advice to tell him not to do that.
And why it's a bad idea.
But without hurting his...
Uh-huh.
Sarah, thank you so much.
No.
No, listen, I can actually help you, Sarah.
Sarah.
Sarah.
Both are extremely good.
Sarah, just be sincere and cry.
Crying rules.
Crying rules.
Just do it.
Just feels amazing.
It's a great, it's a great gift to give somebody is your tears.
Just stand, stand right there.
It isn't more than you don't do it back to back with like different people.
Like Santa Claus is like, hey, I know you're great.
And you cry for it.
And then you turn.
And you're like, hey.
And you like that.
And then I get some of his tears when you're doing mine.
Because I'll know.
Thank you.
So does that help?
Yes, very much.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So.
Okay.
Now first, look into my eyes.
Is this true?
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
I believe it.
It's true.
Okay.
First of all, what kind of fat rig you got planned for Santa?
Right?
Yeah.
This isn't just going to be like a simple thing.
I don't want some throwaway cotton candy.
You're going to have to have something.
Okay.
Let's back up.
Does the sleigh have a USB on it?
Because if you have like a pass through that he can vape along.
That's fine.
Right into the car charger.
Now you're vaping that Christmas spirit.
He can vape whatever the thing is running off of unless he like overcharges it.
He burns up all the fuel on vape.
And that's elf too.
Elf too.
And as their vapes up all the Christmas spirit.
I've really stepped in at this time.
Or like, so that, that would be a good option.
Are you, did you ask, are you want like juice recommendations or like what do you need
exactly?
So he actually decided the flavor of the juice and it's a peppermint.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Perfect.
What I need to.
You want it.
You don't want this to happen.
I want him to believe in Santa Claus but I don't want this to happen.
Because he's real?
Yes.
Because Santa Claus is real.
Sorry.
Santa Claus is real.
But Santa doesn't vape and your brother will be disappointed.
Yes.
When Santa, when he's like, take this sick rig.
Yeah.
Okay.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Have we learned anything new about Santa in the past century?
No.
Still.
Big red soup.
Big bushy beard.
Fun hat.
Great big bushy beard.
Love's cookies and milk.
That dude likes other stuff.
It's been a hundred years we haven't added anything to the Santa can.
He serves in Australia.
As far as we know Santa doesn't like, has never seen a movie.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like it's never folded into his character.
It's entirely possible that Santa vapes.
I mean it's a long night.
That nicotine is a stimulant and it can help keep him awake.
And you know he might not know he vapes yet but he does vape.
You know what I mean?
It is.
What if I do?
I do.
I do.
I'm addicted.
It is.
Okay.
Ho ho.
What if Santa does vape but only on Christmas Eve?
It's like this is kind of my thing.
Not just for the S-Mail.
I can look forward to this holiday finally.
It is December 22nd.
Yes.
You have three days to find a costume shop, buy a Santa suit and make this incredible
dream come true.
And I would implore you, please use some of that time finding a vape pin that definitely
will not explode.
Because that image is going to be a hard one to shake.
So I have to get a Santa outfit.
Yes.
And hope my...
Got a vape.
Yeah, hope my...
Do some fat O's or whatever.
That's what we call them.
Dab or whatever.
And then hope that the pen that my little brother gives me in a costume doesn't explode in
my face.
It's fun.
It's fun.
It's Christmas fun.
That's the holidays.
Does that help?
Yes, it helps very much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
All right.
One more?
One more.
Yeah.
All right.
We only have one more.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Let's see.
I want to go a little bit further back.
We haven't done anybody like on the left.
It looks like somebody's got...
I can't see anything.
I'm so sorry.
Red shirt.
Yes.
You just looked down.
Yes, you.
Come on up.
And I'll say...
Look in your heart.
Are you the next person?
Now...
Yeah, you're waving your...
Wiggling your fingers.
You just...
Yeah, you're doing pumping arms and...
Yes.
Come on down, pumping arms.
I'm so sorry, everybody.
Hi, what's your name?
Brett.
Hi, Brett.
Hello, Griffin.
Hi.
Brett, are you going to be trouble?
Yes.
Okay.
Good.
Thank you for the honesty.
Go on.
What is your question, Brett?
Okay, so my next-door neighbors are super in love with Christmas.
They love it so much.
And they are the only house on the entire street that goes all in on that.
Whoa, that's brave.
Yeah, they're very...
Anyways, there's a point where enough is enough.
As you loudly announce every time you leave your home.
Listen, Brett, admittedly I'm concerned what you're about to ask for our help with.
But go on.
Go on.
The breaking point for me is...
The giant inflatable Christmas minion.
I can't do that.
I don't have one.
How giant?
No, but my next- my across the street neighbor does.
My across the street neighbor is also blaring Christmas music literally 24 hours a day.
Which is only weird because they live there with their bodies.
I can hear it in my house.
I'm across the street.
Anyway, so what- how can we help?
How do you make it look like an accident?
Is that what the question is, Brett?
No, I- I have too much social anxiety for this.
How do I subtly let them know that...
And that is enough.
Yeah, a tasteful note.
Okay, that's very good.
Thank you.
Alright, Brett, thank you.
What's- what is your name? Hello.
Hi, I'm Caroline.
Hi, Caroline.
Um, so my roommate really loves snow.
He gets really excited about it.
Except the area where we live, the way it usually works, is the entirety of the fall and the beginning of winter.
It just sort of rains all the time.
Yeah.
And then we get one big snow in like the beginning of February.
So he basically spends the entirety of the fall semester of college going,
Why isn't it snowing?
Oh, is he Charlie Brown?
Sometimes I think he thinks he is.
He just sits and stares out the window.
We have like a big window on the one wall and he just goes,
Why isn't it snowing, Caroline?
I'm like, I don't know what to tell you.
But then when the snow comes in February, he's like over it.
And he's like, Oh God, this snow.
He sounds terrible.
Sarah, are you looking for- you want to help you find a cool new roommate, I guess?
I love him. I just, how- how do I respond to something like this and actually help him feel better?
Don't.
Even though he doesn't really appreciate the February snow.
Listen, you know what it sounds like to me?
Now wait, hold on. We have to choose one.
Um, I- I want to talk about- I want to make minion jokes.
So I think-
Okay, we are going to talk about the minion inflatable, but do get a new roommate.
Yeah, okay.
Here's the thing, your roommate doesn't like snow.
He likes complainers.
No, I don't want to dunk on this snow.
I do.
Nothing is-
Normally when the person's like, and they're here with me now.
Nothing's worse than one snow and having it rain,
because it's like, it's- I would rather it just be dry and warm.
Right?
Weather jokes, this is nothing.
You tried though, Griffin.
I did my best.
Um, yeah, do find a new roommate. Does that help?
Or get a snow machine.
Or get a snow machine.
And do it inside the apartment and be like, what's up now?
Your Xbox is broken.
I thought you liked snow.
Prove it.
Perfect.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Okay.
Brett.
Brett.
So, how do you subtly let your neighbors know that enough is enough?
Well, you're really, as also a person with social anxiety along this,
what you're asking is, how do you do enough that you feel like you've done something
without actually inconveniencing anyone else?
Yes.
Okay.
Brett, I got a plan for you.
Oh, shoot. Justin went first.
Do you go for it?
Do the exact same display they have.
And then, and then walk out of your house like, do you see?
Look at this.
This is like you.
This is how you did it.
Really hold a mirror up to them.
Yeah. Do you, this, it's like this.
But on your side.
But on your side.
For me and everyone.
Just as it, but it has to be the exact same display.
Brett.
Yes.
How much do you know about stop motion animation?
Not enough to know where this is going.
Every day, every night, you're going to put on your stage manager gear,
your, your, your all black garb, run into the yard,
and you're going to turn the minion about 10 degrees.
Every day, little by little,
so suddenly that minion's not confronting the street.
It's looking in their child's window.
Okay. Okay.
Becky, you're going to think I'm having fun,
but just for a second, look out the window.
No, I've done this with you.
No, this is for real.
For real. Look.
Has it always been looking in here?
We're trying to make love.
And it's out there like banana or whatever.
But now I have to confront the fact that I'm into that.
I love this.
What am I supposed to do with this information?
I'm simply having a wonderful Christmas time.
Brett, does that help?
Yes.
Thank you, Brett.
Thank you, Brett.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
Okay.
Nice.
We got it.
We have to thank so many people for helping us put this together.
First of all, Paul.
Hi, Paul.
Hi, Paul.
Thanks, Paul.
So everybody here tonight who bought tickets,
which I hope is everyone.
You didn't just sneak in off of the streets
and bought posters downstairs.
There's posters for sale and jammed money
into the tummy of the clown box
and purchased these beautiful stars on the front of the stage,
which thank you so much to Riley.
Riley?
Are you still around, Riley?
She may be in the dressing room,
but wherever Riley may be.
Riley and the squirrels.
It's been so much time on this.
There were a lot of people who spent their entire day
gluing things to this.
Yeah, but Riley just did that.
She's 17.
When I was 17, I wasn't doing that.
No.
I wasn't helping people.
All of you.
All of you don't have helped raise money
for big brothers, big sisters of South Central West Virginia,
which...
Yeah, I don't know if you all know the story behind that,
but they recently lost some donations
because they helped LGBTQ youth in our community.
And they lost a lot of funding, which sucks.
Sucks.
So we looked at that and thought,
maybe not.
Maybe they did.
Sarah, are you here?
Sarah?
Hi.
Hi, Sarah.
Hi, Sarah from Big Brothers, Big Sisters.
Thank you so much for doing everything that you do.
So it's...
So between everything, the ticket sales and the posters
and the money jammed inside the clown box, which...
God, I love everything about that sentence.
Yeah, make sure he's still there.
So if you want to jam some more money into the clown box...
We'll make Sarah fish that out of the clown boxes tummy,
which is great.
And now, honestly, it's mostly Riley's thing.
It's mostly Riley's thing, which is huge and incredible.
It's a total of $48,342.
And we have the fun job, because we get to say that number
without doing any of the actual work, except for this,
what you see here.
We cannot be thankful enough between this and the help
that everybody provides with the Mbem-Bem Angels Project
every single year.
These are people who are like,
most of them are never going to come to Huntington.
They're never going to meet the people who they are benefiting.
And the fact that they are doing that for our hometowns
just because they enjoy a podcast is like...
It is so moving and so breathtaking.
And so I'm so thankful to all of you.
Thank you so, so, so much.
And...
So thank you.
Thank you.
And thank you for supporting our community and coming out.
We hope everybody had fun when they were in Huntington.
We gave a lot of...
We gave a lot of restaurant recommendations.
If you're traveling out tomorrow, I would recommend
Jolly Pirate Donuts or Tudor's Biscuit World.
Those are classics.
Two local classics.
Or get a brunch over at a...
Peddler or a Bono.
There's so many good restaurants.
Nice options.
We can list some other...
This is a weird way to end the show.
We're just going to list a few other...
Let me get on you.
Hold on.
It's still pictures of Jim Carrey's scary Grinch face.
Thank you to John Roderick and the Long Winters
for using our theme song.
Instead of partying off the album,
I'm putting the days to bed.
Thank you to Schmanner's Sawbones and Still Buffering
for opening up for us.
Thank you to...
Thank you again to Ack and Bucky.
Ack and Bucky for this.
For this.
Ack and Bucky, I think we said it,
but they also did all of the set designs and stuff
for my brother and my brother meet TV shows.
So they made Super Desk.
They made Super Desk.
And the clown box.
So it kind of balances out.
Sure.
Thank you to City Hall for letting us keep doing shows here,
even though I did just maliciously just savage the mayor's car.
Also, speaking of, in case you haven't seen it,
the Candle Nights episode of My Brother and My Brother
Meet TV show is available on verve.covrv.co.
Yes.
You'll watch that.
Thank you to our daddy, Unkillable Clint McElroy.
Whoo!
So what we do is every episode of Mbem Bam,
we have like a last question,
and then we think about it,
and then next week we return to it and answer it.
So Griffin, what is the last Yahoo for this episode?
Yeah, great.
This one was sent in by StarX.
It's by Yahoo Answers user Matt, who asks,
Do you enjoy a celebratory Christmas grapefruit?
Is there anything more deciduous?
My name is Justin McElroy.
I'm Travis McElroy.
I'm Griffin McElroy.
This has been My Brother, My Brother and Me.
Kiss your dad square on the lips.
Thank you.