My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 307: Face 2 Face: Would You Rather DeVito?
Episode Date: June 13, 2016We're coming to you live from the Playstation Theatre in New York, NY! We assume that you, like our live audience, are "horny for this"! Along with being a great episode, it features a big announcemen...t and special guest John Hodgman with a very special presentation! Suggested Talking Points: America's Next Top Cop, Flower Eater, James in the Cloud, Dope Raisins, Karn-al Pleasures, Yellow, Doing Great, MARK
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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 mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening.
What's up, you cool baby?
It's familiar but not too familiar
Hey, thanks.
Oh, hello.
Did you drop the thing?
Yeah, no, I started the thing. The thing is going. This is it.
We're in it now.
We're in the shit.
We're in the part that the people paid the money for.
We're in the part that the people paid the money for.
It's familiar.
head we're in it now we're in the shit we're in the part that the people paid
the money like Chilean miners emerging from the ground we are here with you the
podcast viewing public to sell our wares what's on offer today podcast podcast
sale and honey I made honey I figured it out he made it himself welcome to my
brother my brother mean advice show for the modern era I'm your oldest brother
Justin McElroy I tickled you huh cuz it's the name of the shit and then it
was your name I'm your middle-aged brother Travis McElroy and I'm your
sweet baby brother Griffin McElroy all right that's fine all right we get it
thank you all for joining us here live at the PlayStation Theatre yeah and now
just a clever bit we do have some stuff like we're super excited to be here's
a nice place like centrally located right across from Guy Fieri's shit store this
whole thing his whole like as Fieri watches overall his chubby museum but
it is a PlayStation theater so just like we got some stuff out of the way and
just the first thing is yo fuck Xbox right the whole fucking family man the
first Xbox Xbox one you can't call it Xbox one again Xbox 360 sounds like you
skipped 359 of them idiots
cameo suck my dick blinks the time sweeper stuff my dick time sweeper you
got nothing brute force suck my dick I don't know I mean blah blah exclusive
games but yeah follow halo halo reach around my butt and grab my balls yeah
fuck Xbox fuck Xbox oh who's that over the horizon it's Nintendo fuck you guys
Luigi can suck my balls okay that's good you know a Nintendo thing now I will
say this I will say this though yeah backstage I got smoked out by crash
bandicoot that do fucking rules he's so cool and chill he's so fucking cool and
who let the spliff spy or the dragon did of course he did the reason I broke
this live how old am I three three said I broke up when I was introduced to
myself as I was think I was thinking about how just a second ago Griffin told
us as he has told us before every live show we've ever done in our lives okay
this is gonna make me sound terrible this is it I told you that in confidence
obviously okay but he when he said was all they horny for this one now there is
listen listen now listen though no listen though for real
it's mind over matter I'm extremely nervous I get so scared back there but
that's the that's the old saying if you're nervous just picture everyone in the
crowd horny just for this just for this one just for this one just for this one
just for this one I believe you also use the term wet and wild that's just in
reference to the stunts that we're gonna be doing okay we've got a lot of fun
falls we've been practicing I want to say you you all are very very special
tonight not just because you're here but because you also be the first human
beings to hear us say out loud that we are doing a television show in the near
future
yeah
um so here's the thing that's good the house lights are good you could be the
sage lights even down a little bit help me out with the glare here's the things
coming next year and here's the other thing we're this is true we're filming
in Huntington West Virginia
so uh I guess my question and I can't see you guys right now but I'm trusting
you're still there my question is this are you all horny for this one
so that is going to be available on CISO TV who we are for big fans of so much
don't wait to subscribe to CISO do it right now they got so much better stuff
you could right now leave this eater and I think I'll watch Hidden America which is
probably going to be better than whatever we put up here they're also the first company that we
went to and they didn't immediately see what we look like and we're like no absolutely not
you can't not on tv no wait with your face and everything you realize this is the bigger screen
right not the computer one or the ipad one the one of the people's home and we looked
into that truth about cats and dogs technology that they did in the movie where I haven't seen it
I'm gonna let you f***ing hang if you think I'm gonna f***ing tarzan to your rescue with cats and
all right now here it goes here it goes here it goes here it goes oh here we go Jeanine Garofalo
turned Uma Thurman into a human puppy I think nailed it
I'm a dude who loves to walk around the apartment in my underwear I step in the door and boom my
clothes are off now my roommates don't mind this but one of them is Arabian being his room while
he summers in Chicago right row he is when he summers in Chicago while he summers in Chicago
he has rented the room to a nice couple and has asked that in his three-month absence I
reframed some semi-nudity so he doesn't get a bad review I hate the idea of giving up on my freedom
it's not my problem or is it am I the asshole here for wanting to continue a clothes-free
lifestyle that's from nudist in New York you're in boxes are you here
are Aussie also born is that you I I was f***ing running a list of things I hope you don't sound
like in my head welcome to the apartment check out my dick
dear Airbnb review this was a cool house centrally located great neighborhood great
neighborhood um very affordable the other thing about it is I can draw Chris's penis from memory
I can tell you curious about every nook and cranny of Chris's penis do you have an hour
okay sit down he's got a lot of them act one the shaft
five star 10 out of 10 would recommend it's great no it's great it's great the penis great good
stuff great um how is this not a criminal crime for criminals I can't like bounce on my wife who
I live with and be like someone else is going to be here for a while they're going to eat all the
fruit by the foot later no it's cool I'm going to get like 150 bucks it's totally cool do you
have to put that in like the Airbnb description like there might be a gun you do you think there's
like coded language of like open airplane yeah you know what I mean Derek open Derek open Derek
public Derek for used by all
why not I don't know wait I'm I was about to make a joke about the guys penis what is the name we
settled on Chris Derek Chris Derek Chris Derek Chris Eric Chris Eric mm-hmm hey Chris Derek
let me see Rodigan um now I lost the joke but I do remember his name is Chris or Derek and something
about his penis that's just comedy math right there name plus penis reference equals audience
disappointment six years of blood gasoline apparently um hey do you guys want a yahoo answer
from yahoo answers can you take a moment though and game recognize game Rachel Rosie for me
because
thank you Rachel it's about yahoo answers user Brian who asks can cops pull over other cops
let's say a cop was breaking the law driving down the street for something like speeding
or not using a turn signal can another cop get behind him and pull him over
ah got you I asked you good this time Derek again Derek's been spelled differently
you saw Twitter over there on your phone what oh well I thought we were supposed to tweet I wanted
to tweet about the show happened and I thought you guys could handle it cool already big time
Mr. Hollywood fooling it in TVs were the real money is you know the first time we talked about
this question I thought of like plain clothes like a dude in a in a car who was like I'm actually a
cop but now I'm picturing like someone pulling over another cop car with no yeah but then what
if you know why I pulled you over yes fuck I know why you pulled me over what if to catch that cop
car the second cop car had to speed and we got a whole human centipede situation whoa they sewed
the cops together that seems cruel and unusual that is what happened in that movie
which which one the human centipede oh I'm with you now um someone's got to stop them from doing
like I mean who watches the watchman yeah exactly exactly that's a that's a good why is nobody ever
thought of seeing if cops are on the level right now we should be a cop for cop cop cop
do you think cop cop time to go to jail or work time to come to work with me time to come to
work with me you're in jail now cop cop making arrests but no friends you you just said top cop
I think top cop that you gotta make it to the top to arrest other cops yeah you gotta be the king
of cops you can't arrest from the bottom up you can't be first day on the job arresting the chief
first off okay two things first off come in the summer to tlc top cop
america's next top cop america's next top cop secondly do you think they would have to get
the best cop to catch other cops right how do you think a cop with the best cop not the worst
cop was like I don't know what do you even do is yeah president barack hussein obama and a lot
of people forget what they're saying to support um I've never done that one live and it was like
I didn't know how it's gonna go it's okay you only said half the silver yeah you kind of like farted
the president barack hussein and a lot of people forget about the hussein but it's important obama
is he the top cop because it's got it the buck stops here is that what that means the the crime
stops here and I'm it like if Joe biden speed and he's like I got you and I'm the only one dog
bad luck I was like right behind you in traffic I saw you turn left without the signal I could Joe
that's a bad beat dude I'm literally the only dude it's me why'd you do it in front of me I'm top
cop you know this but it's all checks and balances because he can arrest Joe Biden but who can arrest
Barack Obama the lowliest the criminals only criminals can arrest the president for speeding
I love the world where the president's a driving himself and be just like burning it
just like pedal the metal see you bitches in Arlington bye him and show biden have a famous
series of pranks that they do back and forth on each other sure and this is the end game
um do you think the cops ever I was thinking about when we were saying um come with me to jail I
mean work do you think cops if the money's ever tight just like decide to live in jail
cut down on the commute just like there's no commute it's like do you think it ever occurs
you're like well I could just go home or I could just live in jail jail I think you got beds and
everything you got beds somebody can scoot my desk up close to the bar so I'm gonna do working
I'll come back at the end of the day you let me I'll come back I got nowhere else to go I mean
you should lock me in for security sake and it's really locking I can't be trusted I can't be trusted
who knows I'm a wild man and then if you do get arrested for real you're like used to it a little
bit it's like it's you know I'm just back at work I'm just really really busting my ass I'm really
spending nights at the old office um how about another question here's another question I got it
tell me how to tell me how to live my life a few weeks ago my girlfriend and I splurged on a
fancy meal an upscale restaurant one of the courses I'm already loving it oh shit wait was it you
oh yeah yeah you know the only information you got is someone oriented about splurging on a fancy
meal and only one person in the audience went I think that's me yeah uh one of the courses was
a sun choke dish garnished with dainty purple flowers a sun choke dish this type of fish I
believe it's a fish fish hey is it a fish what was that noise is it a fish it's like an artichoke
I want one person to answer wherever I'm pointing into the void I was pointing down what's the
what is it okay okay don't have to yell okay what's it there so I got you know what we were doing
while you were learning about types of fish we're at podcast school getting our degrees in podcast
hey this is this is like ginger nice try sun choke your ginger got him again this
garnished with dainty purple flowers I ate some of the flowers and I thought they were okay
but I didn't eat them all in case they were just decoration however when the server cleared our table
he asked sir would you like to finish your flowers before I take your plate
so then I felt obligated to eat the flowers as he watched
I suddenly felt inexplicable shame as I chewed I can't imagine why his gaze seemed to suggest
yes little fancy boy loves eating little purple flowers doesn't I'm no stranger to public shame
I did magic in a talent show when I was six and holy shit later went on to play noompa
loompa in a community theater production trolling chocolate factory tick tick boom my main question
is this what's this dude fucking with me am I wrong to feel like he was shaming me for being a
fancy flower boy as from blossom binging in Brooklyn yeah hey uh sorry whoever you are
I feel like I know you better than my brother sometimes we sometimes we finish a question and
have to say like we don't have enough information to answer this that is not a problem this much
we totally see what's going on here I take some of that information put it aside save for the
winter you could have just written a question I went to a place and a bully made me eat flowers
yeah a bully ate me in a whole bouquet what do I do now all right but you are here though right
oh you're real close okay the flower eater how they taste how they taste for how do they taste
why are you yelling at him I'm really excited to find out compare it what
savory oh I can tell you where the floral element of it came from the fucking root word no pun
intended because apparently this is a root vegetable the sun choke um is it possible
that you weren't supposed to eat the flowers but the guy had counted how many flowers are on the
plate when he put them down and he came back with five and was like maybe one of the rest
you know what you're supposed to eat anything you could swallow
no you've had a baby for too long that's not actually here fucking markers
dice it's all good in the hood my brother my brother's played I couldn't I was trying to get
my baby to eat while still buffering was on my brother's played restaurant with her back backstage
just what kind of wild the crazy rock star shenanigans do we get up and 45 minutes later I
said the sentence oh yeah they horny for this one so it all bounces out we're very complex
that's how I come at you hot and cold let's say this though they got to eat some chicken
quesadilla so what's up now mission accomplished um you ate the flowers though and that's great
there's no part of that that doesn't make me very very happy I like that
this is to any other living person I don't want to put you on blast I'm saying
it's a beautiful thing you've done here that's uh eating uh eating flowers is an infrapinny
infrapound situation where you either don't eat the flowers because they're plants or you
eat all the flowers because it's like hey when in room you can't roll out plants from being eaten
right but like the point he's making is if they're decoration you're not off the hook by eating
some yeah like no I just ate some ice cream bar or a candle I'm gonna take six to seven bites
out of it no you've committed you're eating the whole candle now you need the waiter to come back
and go where is the candle and you go yum yum yum yum in my belly might I suggest the next time
this happens should this happen again or happen to anyone out there you eat two flowers the person
says would you like to finish the fire and you go no not they're not the best I've had
and you big time them right back I've had better flowers I will say this though I've got a super
pretty tummy and you show them your tummy they'll love that they love that they'll probably give
me discount that's what restaurants do yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um oops I had lost the name
on this one dang it I'll find it here we go it's also from Rachel Rosen came recognize game fuck
it's a lot of game recognition going on uh it's from y'all who answers user they're anonymous
and you're about to know why
this anonymous user will call um Derek yeah got it in one Derek asks help me add to and improve a
stand-up I'm writing most of its observational humor
buckle up we got you ideas so far I just run through some of these bullet points
some stand-up comedy ideas should I stand up just deliver something I promise the venue we wouldn't
stand out all right let me get that spotlight okay okay okay all right yeah no thank you thank you
thank you uh uh our phones fall and we panic right our friends fall we laugh
do we hey guys uh phones they're getting bigger our laptops are getting smaller
yes the best reaction you get from that is someone going yes
yeah there's no laughter that stand-up show just if uh phones getting bigger laptops getting smaller
yes yes agreed they certainly are uh huh hey guys if there's no talking during the movie isn't
it then a silent movie no it's fucking not but oh my god think about it because it's not
oh that's the joke yes yes and no no vintage will stay in words up there in fast seven you
can hear um when a guy likes a girl he looks her in the eye when a girl likes a guy she looks away
again you're just it's patently untrue but also what's the punch line there just why the sky's blue
hey guys why does chicken why does chicken mean wimp a chicken will peck you to pieces
so a little bit of that that's all I lost my brother that's a rural Seinfeld okay like
we're all having a lot of fun here but let's all agree if we saw a human being like us yeah you know
how like you are like we're humans if we saw a human being stand on stage and say these things as
jokes it would be literally the funniest comedian ever seen in my entire life but not I would argue
for the right reasons right reasons um what if um hey guys right reasons the word none though
this one's real it's just the letter in doing a cartwheel you have to think about that one for
like 45 fucking seconds hey it's good hey no word no word in the english language rhymes with
month that's another one that wasn't just some weird non sequitur that I did
let's just punch these up real quick guys do we have to do other jokes other than these jokes
because our phones fall we panic our friends fall we laugh what if your friend is like playing
angry birds on your phone and like asteroid lands on both of them and you lose both you're just
your reaction is just i'm i'm neutral i'm completely neutral about this i don't know i'll
those two events are they both cancel each other my friend is dead but my but my tiny phone is also dead
it's very funny that my friend died but very sad that my phone died um
how like dear oh my god you're just standing there doing something do something
do i can i still get my numbers are this in the cloud i'll tell you who is in the cloud james
now see that's a bit oh yeah we fucking we did do the shit that's a type five
thank you that's my time thank you that's my time you want to hit another question
or do you want to punch up some more of those bad boys no i've literally i can't anymore
at the grocery store line the clerk got to my last item a large bag of cherries
okay i love this crowd this is the second one time around somebody's like oh here comes my
shit everybody listen and just shut up shut up here comes the truck here comes my tail okay
at the grocery store check out line the clerk got to my last item a large bag of cherries
they looked at the bag then at me and said you know these are expensive right
it's such a fucking that's like a nuclear berth for like deployed from orbit so fucking good
asking them to clarify might have sent their conversation to a super judgy place
so in the future too late too late how should i handle egregious displays of fiscal judgment
from cashiers or other service personnel that's from swimming in subtext and that was you who
laughed at it yes oh shit okay somebody was just like yeah buy some cherries are you here
hi hi hi you are how are the cherries moldy what wait were they artisanal molded cherries
um did you take them back after like that you were a real shithead to me and look at your
garbage cherries at these prices um maybe they did they kind of were they patronizing when they
said it like how could they not be yeah like uh you know these are expensive right good job
you did great did you um did you mean get grapes come on uh come on sweetheart hey why don't i put
those why don't i take those back for you and get you some grapes oh i don't know grapes get you ever
have raisins they're like dope raisins pre raisins i call them super super wet raisins they're good
as heck you're gonna love eating these grapes are like your cherries you know what hold on why don't
you eat one cherry just so i can watch this is gonna be adorable sour isn't it wait a little bit
sweet oh there's a hard thing in the middle let me find this hold on oh that's cute look at them go
look at him eat that cherry for the first time what a sweet boy that'll be a hundred dollars
because that was a fucking cherry you just ate they put those as the symbol on slot machines for a reason
because you're rich the problem is if someone asks the question you know these are expensive right
there's literally no way to like come out from under that burn you can't say yes like it sound
like an adult okay here's the like there's no cool way you're right Travis because what and one
answer is oh no that's that's shit the other answer is hell yeah let it let it ride this one's just
for me i had a good one hell yeah another expensive i love this shit
i promised myself you said one day i would walk in here and i would buy the cherries
i saw the rich man i was a kid and i said one day that'll be me i've earned this just say no
and like ask if you can have someone help you back with them because you're worried you'll
drop them and you can't afford it you know there's this i do could you pretend to put them in the
bank please just don't don't let people see you boss here yeah do put grapes in there yes of course
of course of course of course i fucked up thank you for asking thank you look super duper similar
okay you can understand how i slipped up but of course i want grapes instead um can we get yeah
we are special no no i want the i want the one i want the one you've been teasing with it for two
shows um about uh yeah about the the tv question okay all right we got it we'll do two minutes we
got a wonderful we're gonna type to about this yahoo that's sent by erin keys thank you erin
keys i'm sorry remember you credit me for whatever happens the next two minutes unless it's bad okay
okay uh thank you erin keys uh it's from yahoo answers user
la lizard who asks in home improvement are the sons related to tim alan
they look so much like in the series home improvement tim alan has three sons brad randy and
mark two of the kids look exactly like tim alan i'm frustrated
which and i and i have to know are they related in any way maybe not as actual sons in real life
but maybe his nephews or something so you're already like backpedaling
they just have to be related can someone please help it's killing me
i'm thinking about those sons from home improvement so much if they're not related i
i don't even know what to think um which two looks like tim alan
fucking it doesn't matter are they related that would be weird though if they got two of his
sons and their neighborhood friend stupid reggie this is we wanted three do you got anybody else
we got stupid reggie stupid reggie are fine we only expected this to go a season yeah he's a doofus
you want him for the acting we can get him he's cheap i always assumed they were this the uh the
love child of tim alan and richard carne they those are richard carne's boys yeah oh the carne
boys the carne boys yeah i love those carne boys they're at it again they they experience um uh uh
carnal pleasures and they shut the fuck up i'm just saying go to prison oh my god if you ever had
a late nights and weekend r&b show that would be like the greatest time like he's a dj carnal
you're listening you know we talked about this on the show but he does host a celebrity
golf tournament called the carnival that's legit and real and you can buy tickets to just like go
to it i guess just hang out with rich rich with sweet rich but no they're david they definitely
juniored each other yeah melan and richard carne i did you see that movie junior where tim alan had
sex with richard carne i haven't seen it's you know i might not get blue it was romance tender
they meant it i did i heard full penetration i didn't see the movie junior but uh the best scene
in it was when arn'tch was there in dan de vido i assume made love for 30 minutes tenderly there's
a third of the movie yeah they went from cover years if you don't want to hear this from fully soft
like you saw every every act every part of it like them coming in the front door and putting
their keys down like how was your day like i'm feeling it you're feeling it yeah fully soft well
not right now but like maybe in two minutes okay great let's eat some pasta we got a carb up
this is gonna go long
that was all you just want to go and put that disclaimer back on it
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or is he stopping it or what's up he's doing it he's doing it a lot and he's very good at it because
he is cyber he is cyber hey goofball why don't you by the way travis is not he's in a cyber
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they'll help you do that exactly this message is for poopsie poopsie and it's from
moopsie got it who says happy birthday six months ago well was that worth the wait
since this is halfway late it counts as halfway early so you're welcome love you muchly and even
though i know part of your heart belongs to three other dudes they are brothers and married and that's
gross get it together grady you're always uh you're still always numbers one through five with me
smooth wait man that might be the beginning of the word smooth but i do very much like
that it's a slang term for smooching right or salutations or um uh you know my condolences or
best regards like that shit it's done now over with when you're done when you send an email smooth
i love that um so uh we got another personal message here another sort of well i think you
could call it an e smooth from uh claire uh winnick uh and it sorry it is for claire winnick
and it is from the sweet baby nickles brother jake and that's her name is pronounced nickles
so i got it right yeah you did very good no problem there happy 30th birthday it says there seemed to
be no greater gift than immortalizing you in the intricate mythology of the mobim bamabas nestled
on the shelves of an indiana jones s square house somewhere between the lost gushy tapes
they're never getting out stop asking and will i literally i don't have they they were deleted
do you not do you guys understand when i delete when i edit something out of a podcast i don't
take that audio and then put it in a little folder and say like for for savesies it goes to hell
deleted hell uh between the gushy tapes and will them to foe in a handmade green goblin costume
your name will live eternally in semi obscurity what you've always wanted and that is for claire
happy 30th birthday claire and that's from jake so thanks baby jake thank you jake
jake from state farm magic baby jake i like anytime anybody says jake i like to say like
jake from state farm like the commercial well you it's worth asking because one out of a million
the person's gonna say yeah in fact yeah that is actually me jake from state farm that's me i'm
jake from state farm anyway that's gonna do it for us uh for the the ad portion of our program
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a couple weeks ago i have the thing here at the the og don't read the og but do read the og story
okay okay um my brother my brother and me episode 304 a very recent one we had uh we do a segment
in the middle of the show called the money zone uh which is where we get paid um and in episode 304
we had a very special part of the money zone where somebody sent in a message that was uh
unfortunately the funniest thing that's maybe ever happened on the show they are uh what are
their names their names uh uh are avital and rishi um and now who put who on blast uh rishi put
avital so fucking on blast that they were like pushed 10 feet into the ground uh and uh it was
so good and the uh first off let me say they're here oh yeah i have avital and rishi you guys here
just stand up real quick there perfect thank you for oh front row sir hello the best the best thank you
for uh this is the fucking funniest thing that's ever happened now um it's a message about it's a
message of i mean it's about co-play but it's really about rebirth rebirth i guess and it was a uh
we should set it up a little bit more uh a live journal message that avital wrote uh a while ago
about co-play and how transformative uh seeing co-play was and so we read some of the message but
there wasn't enough room in the jumbo tron to read the whole message so we have it in its entirety
and we and we debated back and forth about which one of us were to read it and the answer was none
of us none of us so without further ado uh uh we'd like to welcome to the stage john hodgeman
keep it keep it up guys he really needs a
okay wait wait hold on time out time out
cold play comes on my god and they had started up in my within my place
and i saw him on stage and he was singing to heaven
i swear his arms were outstretched
he was just so at peace with himself
and everything
just so free
are we not done i started crying not just crying sobbing i dredged everything up
and everything melted away
and it was me and the words
i cried for everything bad
that had happened to anyone
that people live in fear that there is injustice and cruelty and that i take what i have
for granted i cried on behalf of everything
oh god and he sang
no one ever said it would be easy
and i i knew what he meant
it was so meaningful it sounds dumb
it sounds dumb
but i was momentarily at peace myself
cold play
is so awesome
all i needed was yellow
and ladies and gentlemen john hodger
wait wait wait all i needed was yellow
and i'm okay again
ladies and gentlemen john hodger
brilliant
john would you like to stay on stage and help us answer some audience questions yes please
yes is there a chair maybe have a chair thank you thank you thank you very much and he's going
to read some dope shit i read about train this guy i didn't write it seriously thank you for letting
us read that thank you stand up again another big round of applause no
it's so wonderful that was so good it was beautifully right it makes me so sad the funny
things ever happened on show has nothing to do with us let's say i love you this is life hey thanks
for doing that john so we're gonna take some audience questions and the way this works is this
you raise your hand you get called on you come to the microphone you ask us all four of us my
brother my brother my brother and me all three all four uh for advice and we help you and there
was one rule what's the one rule everybody no bombers that is correct that's right so who has
a question that is not obama oh my god the pressure so i saw the gentleman in the light blue shirt
come on up yeah the mic is actually behind you yeah yeah well he's walking to the mic may i just
say one thing yeah i was very moved by your uh description of armors quartz and agar and dan
invito having sex the weird thing is that it wasn't like romantic no they were just like it was purely
of convenience they were parking for signs they were working for science it remind it reminded me
that when i was a young person here in new york city my friends and i had a would you rather game
with one specific question would you rather cuddle with danie davido nude every night
for the rest of your life that one or have danie davido call you every day and have to talk with
him for an hour they're both really good things yeah i mean they're they're both good outcomes
and we don't make me choose i know and we talked about it for a long time because we couldn't decide
and i and i understand you want to ask your question sir but i don't i don't care about you
you
and in the year 2012 i took my family on a vacation to london england and we stayed in a hotel
and i took my children who are very young at the time they're approximately four years older each
now and but at the time they were younger by roughly eight years is a weird thing anyway
we went up to the pool of this hotel in london england and because it was london the pool was
about the size of a postage stamp and we were there and there was a weird old man there doing
exercises uh what do you call the bicep curls yes exactly so and it took me a while to realize
why was i the one to get that you i mean you jumped it took me a while to realize
that that man was danie davido nice whoa getting some gains and i was like how about that there's
danie davido well children it's time to leave immediately and before we could go danie davido
caught my eye and he said daily show i'm like oh jesus kids you're physically putting yourself
between them and danie davido and i went over and i'm like hello danie davido who by the way
is a hero of mine yeah but danie davido like all i want to do is take my kids back to the room so
we could get on with the day but danie davido just started talking and talking and talking
about his love for the daily show and then he took his shirt off nice to go swimming show you
was john stewart's tattoo no no no he was just going to go swimming and it was this profound
weird moment where i realized both versions of my dream are coming true and with that your question
your question i hadn't thought about that i apologize what a wonderful life you've led i love you danie
davido all right go on if you're listening please you're welcome anytime yeah i'll cuddle with you
or talk to you every day for the rest of my life what if this guy whatever like what's your name
in this guy's like my name's steve davido and i'm not entertained could be yep what is what is your
real name uh my name's ten and ten okay just a disclaimer you got to eat that might yeah this
sounded the sound just disappears levels levels you're great you're gonna shut up and like you
told us all right so i should be teaching you one more question about danie davido yes yes
sorry sorry go ahead so i should be teaching a first aid course this weekend um but when i saw
the opportunity to come see you guys live um my best friend stepped in and said he would teach the
course for me and how do i pay someone back for a treat like this and i don't count john because
you weren't part of the original deal but how do i like sweeten it yeah amazing i was gonna get him
an xbox but in light of recent events no fucking are you kidding me not so much not so much so i just
don't know if you have any ideas commensurate for the have you thought about a playstation 4 yeah
it's a good solid cat have you considered a subscription what was so what was a lot of great
programming on c so beautiful all good what was the course you were gonna take uh i was gonna
teach a first aid you're gonna teach your first aid course is your friend qualified to do this
super not super not no no is like super important you got to keep like a bunch of blood in there all
once if you see blood outside bummer that's bad that's bad that's bad that's bad is were you going
to be paid to teach this course no volunteer but he's giving up a week don't arrive at the time
you're supposed to but now i'm on audio and they know what are they gonna do not pay you but you're
fine just don't go so i figured i'd say thank you on the mic to him because i'm gonna play this
episode for him to say oh so you just we're gonna edit this out tim no free ride it's a fun arrangement
you gotta buy a jumbotron by the way if any of you are thinking about going to that saturday night
volunteer first aid course don't don't i would say don't bother the party courts they call it let's
do this let's do this how many people are gonna be at the first story aid course how many people
like about 40 40 Jesus that's a lot wow this bit may not work then um because i was gonna say like
just give ever there's there's like a thousand people here like just give them like a little
nug like a little first aid nug like the first like most important like right now inside no bleeding
right it better not be a joke i want to learn something first don't bleed don't believe right
okay but if they're already doing that then like oh then stop it stop it there we go great tim everybody
tim all right who's next i see this hand i saw this hand go really fast front row
come on you did it you did it come on down no bummers all eyes on you here we go hi what's your
name my name is allison hi allison so john i have to tell you i have a really good friend it's our
show i'm sorry come on do you john hi allison how are you i'm fine back here i'm gonna tweet more
about my tv show do you know my my friend jocelyn who used to work at the daily show sure yeah we're
good friends yeah yeah i hate jocelyn yeah she stinks let me tell you she is a fart person you three
are all making a big mistake because she's a lovely woman now i bet made a force she is and my whole
point is that nice you were very nice to me i met you before once you probably don't remember but i
don't it was great it was great for me were you with jocelyn yeah i was yeah i still don't remember
i bet you're regretting not pointing your question at us huh we would have remembered you
but anyway nice to see you again oh it's great to see you as well my question do you have something
for our desk that we have here we have an inbox it's empty we have an outbox for trans i think
she's transitioning to the question i am i am indeed so my question is i was introduced to
mother in bam about a year ago by a guy and i'm about to turn 31 and it's fine we didn't work out
but it was cool i'm totally mature and whatever cool it's fine groovy fine mature people usually
do say stuff like that so whatever but i'm totally great and successful and whatever it's fine my
life is i'm doing fucking sick yeah you're doing right can i ask you some advice questions
but but i introduce one of my really very good friends from college team in bam and he loves it
however his wife who also happens to be one of my best friends is not as interested cool that's
by the way this is quite an emotional journey yeah this is like i'm gonna eat a flowchart so some
people like us some people don't and you're doing great yeah so on this event we're like 50-50
you're 100% rad and also you have a friend who knows john yeah i picked up all that it is the key
into writing a fantasy novel is world building yeah sorry did you say your name was griffin
macaroy's twitter mentions no but for real are you asking us like how to get your friend on board
with our brand of comedy two of us now and we're very we have good taste and we're strong if we can
get even ourselves and but this one other person outlier is not into it uh how do we convince
who is the person i'm confused who's the person no no it's not jocelyn it's no one you know
everyone loves you john don't worry yeah don't worry so this is your friend's wife yeah
also my very good friend like did they try they don't know where are they trying they're like
do they know we have a tv show now yeah we're like multimedia maybe they'll prefer like a visual
medium to be probably not to be fit i've tried i've tried but her husband like walks around the
house like laughing to himself dude that's not it no no no that's not really how you sell anything
what are you laughing at no you can't hear it be quiet you have listen i've spent a lot of time
with baby charlie over the last two days to get someone interested in something you have to be
withholding of it so what has to happen is your friend has to laugh at it and when she's like what
is it like it's not for you no no no it's only for cool mature people this is just for cool mature
people who are doing great financially it's not for you babies babies wouldn't appreciate our show
it's a grown-up podcast and you do you got enough and pretty soon you'll catch her listening to
him like i had to find out what all the fuss was about i'm like welcome yeah come with me uh
do they live in the area yeah we all live in new york is she here no she's not she's probably
going to be a great onboard though if they live in the area it's probably pretty good they didn't
get in the show because we ain't got no more seats i took a what's up i've had a tv show for 30
minutes and i fucking lost it i'm a insane person is there is her husband here hey oh you
did great but you guys are together but oh that's fantastic okay here's a solution
you leave your wife jesus oh no john wait wait wait no no no hold on john john john john john john
and you guys john john john john it's your first time here jesson's literally covering his ears
like a child which i don't know i'm not about john no we have samplers on youtube they're easier
ways to go about this please try our samplers on youtube please maybe get her a t-shirt they're
great you guys know this is where this is going just go it wasn't it wasn't it was it i'm trying to
draw a hundred is shipping our audience we're doing her best up here who's okay let's get
done from over there i see somebody in a white jacket yes you're waving yes yes yes
yes come on down the one who applauded when we picked you that's wonderful hi what's your name
hi my name is danny hi danny um first of all i'm wearing a kung fu panda three fuck yeah
i was have you seen it it's so good dude i was interning at dreamworks when that episode came out
holy shit they must have been you played it for jim dreamworks they must have been so excited
here i almost got fired no so my question is um i have had a childhood friend since we were in
second grade um unfortunately it has kind of turned into a hate kind of thing okay but this is a
long journey but you're on the razor's edge of the bummer county no no no no i got this okay but
i really love his mom she's like a second mom to me and um and she is trying to pay me to tutor
her little his little brother uh layer upon layer this is an onion danny so what i'm trying to figure
out is how do i avoid that guy while getting paid you don't you rub it right in his face you are
getting paid to be in his house he is there for free you are the speck you are the grim specter
that haunts him for all his days what's it what's uh i shouldn't ask the friend's name is that's
probably a little too personal let's just call him chad and he'll be like uh hey chad you got any uh
chad you got any little debbies like you usually have i guess your mom doesn't have money for that
anymore i wonder where it went flip flip flip flip flip flip your brother could do math now
fuck you chat i'm out thank you you're welcome oh that's it oh we did it cool yeah fucking fixed it
wait um you pick right here in the middle because we never do in the middle right here in the
yes yes you got it you're the cool hair come on
i think i think that's why we don't get a handle on that ball the the tutor ball you okay with that
i'm just fine okay hey hi i'm jessica hi jessica i discovered maximum fun while i was pregnant
with my second child right named moxie that's cool that's cool um we're now a few people
nodding approvingly hey i think the ship is sailed did uh did moxie sponsor your child
because they didn't sponsor my goddamn podcast oh moxie did sponsor your podcast oh no no no
well go on with your question yeah we sent you some money so how can we help you or did you
just want to talk to john like you know i want now so john helped name my second child okay so i
need you guys to help name my third child hell yeah oh have you considered it it has to start with an
m m okay how about how about mmm extreme restraints
what about just mmm and you call them mmm for short what about
uh mabin bam yeah he really set us up easy for that one macaroy what macaroy macaroy
i mean i figured you guys would have enough m names to suggest macklemore shit man have you
i've never met a person with the name money but i kind of love it
i'm i'm money you know me you know my style you know me money like are you quoting swingers no
here's my driver's license i'm 115 years old i'm benjamin buttoning out um have you thought about
mark but said with like a fun way like murk like if somebody's having fun with a guy named mark
they're not just gonna say hey mark never hey mark i would have to say that's a winner but we
already used that one son about what about mark all caps so it's like this is mark and this is
brother mark wait a minute this is for your third child yeah number one is mark yeah number two is
moxie yeah now you're looking for another m name yeah you have to stop that
might i suggest these are these are human beings you understand that
they're not your craft project
come up with something else you you can maybe combine the two older boys names and call marks
yeah that's good mark see for short mark or mock i am mock
i'm excited for school thank you for the pb and jay mother mock desires applesauce
you will bring mock applesauce
you are mother do as i say you do is mock all are we called mark
mo doc at some point hey mo doc that's very good too um what about um halos for babies kill zones
where the real gamers play brought to you by playstation i hope that answers your question
wait wait wait wait wait wait you have to decide right now doing those
what mister mister
manzi batinka margus manzi batinka i like manzi a lot manzi musta mackerel
mavis mustard gas mustard i didn't know what i was getting into when i yeah you're just gonna
know fucking free associates you guys literally aren't here right now we're just doing a free
association we gave up a word to start with the m and we're adding the m to other words that's a bad
job huh assignment humor and now you see my problem my words my words just love love large numbers
i think the name was in there somewhere somewhere thank you guys thank you let's see one more one
more yeah right there yes sit right red shirt red shirt yes yes yes red under i think under
shirt the good it says goose it's clearly a goosebumps shirt that's so rad excellent which one
is that it's it's night of the living dummy i actually i used my alcohol money on this shirt
you are going to be fantastic yeah yeah so they don't i'm gonna say you don't drink enough
yeah uh so they have your question yes i budget and yes i'm great at it i have vodka in my freezer
i couldn't bring that to with me you coulda i have to confess a sin oh shit i murder not i
murder a bunch no you know murder bought an xbox no oh that's a great name for your baby murder
okay what did you do what you do so last year i made my friend listen to all of the haunted doll
watch segments okay and she got really into it and started selling dolls on ebay hold on it's
becoming aroboros it's a snake in his own tail one day we might do a haunted doll watch of your
friends haunted dolls that's what i'm worried that's the thing is that she uh hired me to write a
couple of doll stories you you wrote haunted doll stories for ebay she paid wait hold on oh
shit i'm i'm all about that dollar one of them actually sold and she paid me 25 which amounted
to eight dollars consisting of a pair of socks fuck yeah dude kind of a garment based economy yeah
it's kind of the barter system so i just i needed to confess that i did i prodded you
i technically pro you're exonerated i still have those socks they're really really nice
these guys too hawaiian shirts that's the trade and we'll fight over i wish hawaiian shirts are
expensive i know right for sure no thank you all so much for coming thank you john for all of the
hard job hard work that you've done uh a big thank you to the playstation theater yes seriously
fuck xbox fuck xbox for real blanks the sign time sweeper i can't even say your name good good
sequel you did oh wait you did he do a secret he did once it good third sequel you did nerd trap
y'all yeah you all felt directly thank you to still buffering yeah a big thank you to star bones
hey thank you to see thank you to see so for thank you for seeing so for taking a chance
please tweet about that help us spread the word tweet at see so tv and say good job good job
great job yeah don't say good job no well say great job the show turns out uh anything else oh thanks
to billions who booked without whom the show would not be possible there yeah thanks billions and uh
you want to thank anybody john you want to get some thanks i want to thank all my all my brothers
for having me ah he's a sweetheart and uh so are you we have one final yahoo wait hold on i also
want to say thank you do are like our wives yes thank you thank you rachel thanks to my baby for
being so chilled i was also going to thank all my wives uh how about this final yahoo though
this one sent him by level nine thousand yahoo drew drew davenport three answers user sorry
something's gone wrong it certainly has who asks is wario really all that bad asking for my children
my name is just i'm travis macaroy i'm griffin macaroy i'm john hodgeman this has been my brother
my brother me kiss your dad square on the lips
you
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