My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 367: Shrimp! Heaven! Now!

Episode Date: August 14, 2017

Shrimp! Heaven! Now! Suggested talking points: DuckTales Returns, Nanner Team, Blank ATM Card, A Kitty's Gift, Car Courtesy, My Trademark, Not Again Daniel

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? Life is like a hurricane. Hold on, let me just do it. Life is like a hurricane. Okay, you talked to him. Do, do, do it. Life is like a hurricane. They're back, folks. Welcome back to Duckburg. We are here to commemorate

a huge event over the weekend. DuckTales are back in a huge way, and we, the whole gang, us. DuckTales am here. Yeah, we are today. Today, look around you. Today, we are all DuckTales. Welcome to my brother, my brother and me, a sort of DuckTales. I'm going to rename it, Justin. Okay. My Huey, my Dewey, and my Louie. Yeah, my name is- How about, can I show, can I do? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, please, please go ahead. Quacking up with the MacRoy brothers. Oh, that's pretty good.

Stop, quacking up with the MacRoy brothers, calling them DuckTales fanzine. This is our DuckTales fanzine. My name is Justin Huey, MacRoy. I'm Travis Webigale, MacRoy. I'm Griffin, gooey. No, I don't like. It's a night, this is a night record we should mention. We don't typically, we don't typically do these, but if it feels like the atmosphere is a little bit more loosey-goosey, then that's why, although that doesn't make sense, because I just ate a bunch of cheese, pizza, and like a half a pint of ice cream, and so we have about tea minus 60 minutes before I experienced

complete butt death, so. On DuckTales, are there any geese? Because there's like ducks, right, and then there's beagles. Yeah, and robots. No, that'd be fucked up, wouldn't it? That would be like a human show with a bunch of humans, and then one human would walk in with a long, long, beautiful, sexy neck into the scene, and that would be kind of like if you're watching Law & Order SVU, and then in walks, you know, in walks a celebrity. Yeah. Who's a celebrity nowadays? Couldn't summon up any names of celebrities? Well, let me try, let me try, let me try. Chris O'Donnell walks in, but he's got a long,

long, long, long neck. That'd be kind of like the one episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, which is a half hour of goofy staring at Pluto and just being like, what the fuck? We can all agree this is fucked up, right? Yuck. He'll just stare at silence for like three minutes sometimes, and he'll just be like, no, well, seriously, what the fuck? Yeah, it would be like an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse if there was a new character introduced who's just a fucking filthy rat that would just shit, couldn't speak in the fun way that the other might me speak, but just like shits right on the floor and eats like a dirty sock, and he's just like, because he's a rat, not a mouse. It's fucked up if you think about it.

There is a Mortimer Mouse on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse that is just evil as fuck, and he looks like a dirty rat, and every fucking gut. So DuckTales is back. Has anyone ever entertained the idea that the reason goofy wears clothes and talks, and the reason Pluto doesn't is because they're just different species of dog? Like that is, it's not some weird fucked up thing. I mean, just some dogs are smarter than other dogs. No, that all clocks true. So DuckTales is here. Can we talk? Can we talk about? The series premiere yesterday, the second episode comes out September, September 23rd. Give me some time to stew. Give me some time to fucking peeking back off six weeks. Okay,

that's fine. If you don't want to bring me to DuckTales Climax right away, that's fine. Just drop one episode on me for me to like, just like vision board out and like print out J-Pigs from the episodes. Like, where's the merch? Where's something? Like, you can't give me one episode of DuckTales to be like, it's back. It's really not. Like, you have a long time. Are there people like message boards and chat rooms like Twin Peaks that are like, what do you think is going to happen with the rest of the season? In this one scene, Glomgold was wearing red plaid. Do you think that that means that it's like blood and it's all connected because that guy, I think that that's his brother. Also, by the way, Twin Beaks.

Hey, thank you for everything. Kevin, are we free to talk about the, I'm sorry, insane thing that happened last year that Travis willed into existence, or is that, do you think, for Baden from being spoken about on the podcast? Because it's, okay, it's last year, we were talking about how very good it would be to have our friend DuckTales back in the world. Because it's a good show. And the news about DuckTales being rebooted with like a star-studded cast, we're like, fuck, yeah, we're here for it. We won't have to change our password that we use when people come, strangers come to pick us up at the playground. That's a bam, bam, bam, deep cut. And Travis said, let's get Lin-Manuel Morand up in the mix.

And let's get him as gizmo, like straight up. Travis did not, Travis was not plugged into the casting process to know that that was the truth. And like a day later, Lin texted us, like, who fucking, who fucking blabbed? Who's the, where's the- Who blabbers? Who blabbers, guys? It's hysterical. It's hysterical, by the way, that Lin thinks we know, I mean, literally anybody else, like anybody on earth who could have blabbed other than him, our Hollywood patient zero, like the only person that we actually know that could do anything.

And Travis was swept up in a months-long grand jury investigation. Yep. And as they- I tried, I tried to explain that I'm just a precog, and I mean, I always have been. I was born a precog, and I've lived a precog life, and I tried to explain that to the judge, and eventually, the case was thrown out, because I was able to predict the judge's murder and save their life. Whoa. Yeah, but then, but then, but then, but then, but then, but then, but then, but then, but, but,

but, but, but, but, but, if the judge wasn't murdered, then your thing wasn't true. Minority report two, it's bad this time. That was what happened in the appeal. Oh, shit. Hey, Travis, you got any other calls, shots to call? Maybe, how about the Name of the Wind series coming out? It's gonna be real good. Yeah, who's in it?

Us. Oh. But not as who you'd think. Oh. All three of us play Elidan, stacked on each other's shoulders in a long row. I want a big trench coat. Yeah, they haven't done that in a while in a movie or TV show for a while. I think the last time I saw that was Cloud Atlas, and there was Tom Hanks on top of two

uncredited actors. Two uncredited Tom Hanks. He just said, I want to be tall in this one. If I'm going to be in this one, I want to be real, real tall. So he had two uncredited actors carrying his weight. There's an amazing cast in this new reboot of DuckTales. There's David Tennant, Scrooge McDuck, Danny Pooty is Huey, Ben Schwartz is Dewey, Bobby Moynihan is Louie, Kate McCuchy is Webigale.

It's, it's amazing. It's a, it's a huge cast. Back then, it was launched by McQuack, are you kidding me? Get out of here. Star Stud Cast, who's playing Donald Duck? Well, Tony and Selmo. Now, I know what you're thinking. I don't know the name Tony and Selmo.

Well, you wouldn't, except for this one thing. Tony and Selmo is the reigning Donald Duck. And that is the one part where they're like, well, no, you got to go to Tony. Yeah, got to get Tony because Tony has been Donald Duck since 1986. Every time you've heard Donald Duck on the original DuckTales. Yeah, that's Tony and Selmo. Like Tony and Selmo is only Donald Duck. Check his IMDb.

It's Buck Wilde, only Donald Duck and always Donald Duck. But to be fair, you got to go to Tony and Selmo. You can do like a Star Stud Cast and like we're going to take, you know, Huey in a different direction and we're going to make launch pads sound slightly different. But you couldn't have like Donald Duck as played by Michael Fassbender. Just like walking around like, hello nephews. Come with me now. Oh, uncle.

Yes, we must fight Glomgold. You could have gotten, you could have gotten me though. Oh, what a, I tried to almost wash that, that, that Lovecrafty deep tongue. Yeah, no kidding. Thank you to Tony. Thank you to DuckTales. Can we do the show advice? Yeah, we'd love to get Tony on the show.

By the way, so Tony for listening, get at us. Let's do this. Let's stop dancing around it. There's probably somebody who listens to our show with like a full blown conspiracy theory that we must just do all sorts of native advertising on our show. Like there's no way that they just talk about these things for 12 minutes and no one pays them to. Who would talk about DuckTales for 12 minutes? There's no way what human being would do a show where they just said,

shit about DuckTales for 12 minutes without being paid to do it. We would. We did. We did. Here's our first question. I need your help. For about a year now, once a month, someone in my building leaves a banana peel on or around my doorway. At first, I regarded this with bland bemusement, but then they started deliberately

hiding them under my drawing umbrella or under the doormat, which is a bit sinister. Today, I was horrified to find one hanging on my door handle. I had to touch their gross banana mess with my real human fingers. Any advice on how to get this to stop or failing that advice on how to ferret out the culprit would be appreciated. And that's from Kip. Is it possible that this is the symbol that lets God's angels of vengeance know to pass over your house, saving you on this spot?

Trying to save you, Kip? Trying to save you on this high holy day. Or maybe it's possible. Is it possible that in a similar vein, this is some sort of local secret society, and they really want you to join and they don't understand. They keep leaving their calling card to let you know that they're calling you up, and yet you keep not showing up to their monthly meetings. Of the Nanner team.

Of the Nanner team. It's not very scary. But they do a lot of good. They do good. They're very much like Shriners in that way. So secretive, just like Shriners. So it's even going on in those tiny cars. They run everything the Nanner team does.

And I'm glad we can finally discuss them openly in the podcast. We'll have to shut the show down after this. I mean, we can't invoke the Nanner team name and then just continue making jokes like silly boys. Maybe Banana Man lives in your building and he comes so drunk. He's like, I'm going to take a shit right here. And then he does like a lot of shit. It's his shit. And he always shits right there on your door.

So you mean Banana Man, the cartoon within Danger Mouse, if I remember correctly. And in your mind, canonically, he shits banana peels? It doesn't even shit whole bananas. That's what's fucked up to me is he shits out the used husk of a banana. Well, I don't want to play this game with you, but he only eats bananas. So what do you want him to shit? He eats them whole like Griffin? So please don't invoke that curse back upon my brand.

So we got so far a list of suspects. This is going to be helpful. Let's do a list of suspects. We've got somebody from Nanner team. We've got somebody protecting you from God's Angel of Righteous Vengeance. We do have Banana Man. I'm going to go ahead and put Donkey Kong on the list. He's either cruising by and he either finishes his snack.

Because he's a very deliberate young ape and he finishes his banana snack on his way to his apartment. Do you even know your fucking neighbors? Do you even know that you live next door to fucking Donkey Kong? Okay, whatever. And he just always finishes the banana there and that's where he drops it. Alternatively, there's a Mario Kart race that goes on by. And so they just toss it there trying to trip up toad or Yoshi or whoever.

Griffin, if you lived in the same apartment building as Donkey Kong, you would know because every time you tried to walk up the stairs, you'd have to jump over those barrels. That is a good point, video game. Justin, you have a video game joke? I don't actually. Isn't that weird? Yeah, wow.

So Donkey Kong is definitely on the list. It could just be a mean child. There's a lot of those. A mean, but here's the thing, Griffin, a mean but deliberate child. Like, I would understand if the banana pale just showed up on your doormat. But under your doormat, like this might be someone in the building who now thinks it's a funny inside joke they have with you, except they forgot to let you inside.

Kip, I have a question. Have you ever seen Memento? It's a great movie. It's good. It's really good. So I watched Children of Men yesterday. That's another good movie. Travis, have you seen a good movie lately?

Let's see. What have I watched lately? I'm saying Kip seen the bananas. I liked Moon. Moon is an underappreciated. It's a good one. Yeah. I'm saying Kip's eating the bananas is what I'm saying.

And forgets about it. Kip is eating the banana and it's not like, okay, this is going to sound wild until I put it to you like this. Tell me the exact moment that you last ate a banana. Me? Exactly. Thank you. I'm asking both of you.

Tell me the exact last moment that you ate a banana. On purpose or accidentally? Both. It was that fateful viral video. Okay. Well, Griffin had a viral hit the last time he ate a banana. So he brought it to you. I have lots of evidence.

I will admit, since having a baby, I mindlessly eat bananas sometimes because we'll give her half a banana. And while I just stand there and stare at her, mush it into her face like a monster, I will realize I'm eating the other half almost like simpatico. Like I can't help it. Like we must both destroy bananas in this moment. Okay.

This is what I'm saying, Kip. You need to take a long look in that deep, dark, truthful mirror and say, hey, did I eat the banana? Am I doing this to myself? Is this a Kip joint that I created for myself? Am I the nannermonster? Am I the nannermonster? It's possible.

Am I the founder of Nannerteam? Get a fucking Nest camera or something and get to the bottom of this because I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight. Thank you, Kip. How about a Yahoo? Yeah, absolutely. Man, I got some fucking wild ones, y'all.

I want to read this one. I don't know if it'll be a good conversation point, but I was so intrigued by it and was sent in by Chris Haug. Thank you, Chris. It's Yahoo! Answers user Mike Will. And this is a Yahoo! Answers now.

So time is of the essence. Mike Will asks in singles and dating, how I got the blank ATM card that changed my life. There's not a question mark on this. I guess they're a little bit more loosey-goosey with punctuation in Yahoo! Answers now. It's a period at the end of this one. And if you're waiting for more,

you're going to be disappointed because there isn't anymore. This seems like maybe a prompt for a short story and a creative writing class, but how I got the blank ATM card that changed my life? I think I would posit that what this headline is trying to make us think

is an ATM card that is somehow fully loaded but without any restrictions. But in fact, wouldn't a blank ATM card just be... It wouldn't work. It would just be a rectangle of plastic, right? You get on Amazon and you'd say, I'm going to buy myself a nice foot bath. And then they say, what's the...

Mike Will, whichever. I need the information on the card please to complete the transaction. It's me, Jeff Bezos. I think I'm the Amazon guy. And you can't provide the information because it's done because this is a blank ATM card. It did change his life though.

That would be a fucking power move though. If you walk into a store and they're like, that'll be $56.30. And you just handed them a rectangle of blank plastic and just stared at them as they tried to insert it into the chip machine or swipe it and you just kept lit. And they're like, it's not working.

Just nod at them, never address anything until they're like, just leave. Please just take your stuff and get out. Who's that? It's your husband. That's how I met my husband. And my blank ATM card changed my fucking life. Changed everything.

Let's do a different one because this is dumb. All right. This one was sent in by six different people, but Madeline Diaz was the first one to send in. Thank you, Madeline. It's the anonymous Yahoo Answers user. So it's also Mike Will. It says, my cat saw me throw away a mouse?

My cat brought me a mouse and it saw me pick it up and throw it outside. Will my cat know that I trashed it? Okay, wait. Is the concern of this question, like my cat knows that there's a mouse in the garbage or is the concern of this question? My cat gave it to me and like has a present

and saw me throw it away. This cat is not going to be affected. That's what I think and that cat has hurt. Kitties are so funny because they're always bringing you little gifts and you never really want the gifts. Ah, I just love these little guys. Cats are like the extended family that found out

like you were into something because they saw you have it like once and then like you're always getting minion toys. Your cat saw you eat one mouse and was like, oh, I got you. Me too. Me too. Me too.

Oh man. Oh, I had a mouse then he took the mouse away from me. He must want mice. I got this. He must love them. The question asker says they threw it in the trash and then later in the question that say they threw it outside.

I do not know the cat on earth that if you were like, anyways, I'm just going to chuck this mouse outside. That cat would not be like, oh, don't free mouse. Like there's no way that cat's not going to make a run for it. User J O E says, oh, Joe, oops. He's been inside too long. Pull him out. Kitty says, I will never understand humans.

They throw out good food. Such a waste. I don't think kitty, I love these little guys. Like I said, they're always up to fun and games that like I don't really understand, but I don't think they necessarily understand value or like would make any sort of evaluations of my human like motivations. If your cat thought it was weird when you threw the mouse in the trash,

how would your cat react? If you just methodically started skinning the mouse and then rubbing it in butter and garlic and then sauteing the mouse and then sitting down and getting your deboning knife and deboning the mouse and then sitting down and just enjoying the mouse. Would that be more strange for your cat to process? It seems like that would be also very troubling for the cat.

I always find it funny when people talk about like, oh, it must be so weird. Like my cat watches me clean his litter box. Like what does it think I do? Your cat doesn't care. Your cat doesn't think about you in that way. Your cat doesn't give two shit. And this isn't a cat versus dog thing

because my dog also doesn't think about the things I do three seconds after I'm done doing them. I love these pets. Is it, can we stop the podcast for like a minute so I can go find my kitty and give him a big kiss on his head? But do you guys remember when I had the lizards? You had lizards? You don't remember that brief period

where I had the aquarium up in my attic room with the two like red lizards in there? You don't remember that? I don't remember you had lizards. Somebody gave me a box with some lizards in them when I was in elementary school and middle school. I didn't have them very long. I wasn't very responsible.

They were already pretty old when they were given to me, folks, don't worry at home. But I remember thinking this may be the best, like the best trade-off of pet to owner interaction level of like even better than fish, the low level I must commit to enjoy these lizards being in this glass box. I gotta know more about this person

that gave you a box and said, here's two very old lizards. Will you help them die Travis? Will you help these old lizards find their way to Jesus? I wish I could remember more salient details about this lizard exchange. But honestly, God, the only thing I remember is coming home one day from like some kind of practice

and mom and dad being like, hey, sorry, your lizards are dead. And I walked into my room where they were in the aquarium and I poked them and they started running around and I looked at mom and dad and they were like, I swear they were dead like 10 minutes ago. Welcome to thank you for calling Travis McRoy's lizard hospice. We do have where we try to provide

the most calming sort of spiritual experience for your lizards too. Feel free to let go. That's the main thing we try to achieve here. If you guys are gonna have a bird pet. Yeah. What kind of bird pet would you have? Big bird, little bird.

Which way would you go? Justin says no way. No way, birds fuck me up man. Not even like a hawk, Justin, but you're a falcon. Birds are the mice of the sky. No way on earth would I ever have a bird pet. That's beautiful. What if it, okay, what if it got out and I had to move?

Cause no way, no way. Yeah, yeah. So you mean got out within your home? Got out in the house and it'd be like, hi, century 21, it did happen again. Is this Jake with State Farm? I need to move. I know State Farm doesn't sell houses,

but I didn't know who else to call. I'm so scared. Hi, is this J-A-K-E with State Farm? Oh wait, sorry, it's Jake. Is this Jake with State Farm? Go eat ass. I would want to do a heavenly dove. I want a hawk.

I just always picture myself something of a 15th century lord. That's so much work. I know that's how you envision yourself. I want a beautiful dove, one that's completely quiet all the time though. I just like to have my own wings. Does that count?

Kind of put my wings on my kitty. That's the best of both pets. Oh man, Buttercup could fly. Oh, that'd be amazing. If I have flying dog. Not a good podcast. It's nine o'clock PM on a Sunday night. What do you want from us?

Family guys on and I know I'm missing it. Jesus. How about the question? That's what I want from you. What do you guys think Studie? Studie. Studie Griffin. What do you guys think Studie Griffiths is doing right now?

I bet he's probably messing with his dog, his dog friend, Brigham. And I'm a good old time. I bet whatever he's doing, it is not like congruous with what his age would suggest. Love that. I'm going to read this fucking question if you don't. I was driving home from work yesterday

and I stopped behind you. It late one night with my lap. I did see quite a fried. I don't know the words. That's it. Nothing more topical than a monster mash reference in August. That's not even the way the song starts.

You just decide. I was driving home from work late one night. My boss is a real jerk and kept me late. What a dick. Anyway, mash. I had to quit. I had to quit my job. I hate my job.

If all Griffin needs his two words to start his Yankovic machine off. Two words and a gerund. He's two words and a gerund to start the Yankovic proclamation. I'm not sure that I want to. Okay. I was driving home from work yesterday

and I stopped behind a van and a red light. The van had a rear facing seat occupied by two teens. We made eye contact. That's your first mistake. I spent the rest of the red light looking at the floor. How should I handle the situation if I get stuck behind them in traffic again? And that's from, oh God, please stop looking at me

in Orlando. Man, holy shit. So like we had a station wagon growing up that had rear facing seats and there were, you know, a grip of us. And so like almost always one of us would be back there having to, you know, have eye contact with people behind us.

So like first of all, think about the fact that this is the only time this happened to you all night. And to them, it was Tuesday. Like this is their fucking life. And so like I can't imagine. When you made eye contact with Imbison, it was the worst day of your life. Like it's, this is, first of all,

is this, how is this fucking allowed? Like since having a child and having to put like a car safety seat in the car, I feel like I'm way more aware of like automotive safety standards. How is it cool for folks to just be like, we're going to face the opposite way as everybody in the car?

Are we good? I don't think you're good back there a little bit maybe. Not just from a safety standard though, but it also sends the signal to whoever is in those seats like, and you're not a part of the rest of the car. Enjoy looking out the back. We'll be up here talking. It does preclude the need for a baby on board sticker

because it's like, look, they're right there. Look at these babies. Make your way, make whatever driving decisions you want. But as you can see, I have my teens in the car. Please try to be responsible. Drive like your teens are in my car. I think the best thing you- Trying to run me off the road like Liam Neeson.

I think the best thing you could have done is reached down and retrieved your fidget spinner and then spun it up real good form to show them that like you mean them no harm and you're, you know, you're safe and with it. Rolled down some windows and blast LMFAO. Is that still a thing? Absolutely. It's still a thing, Travis.

I'm so glad you've said that. We knew this was going to happen, but we made an episode of our TV show, our short-lived television program, which has a new home, by the way, vrv.co, forward slash mbmbam. Go watch the whole thing for free. We'll talk more about it at the end,

but we made an episode about it and we knew this would happen, but it's about teens and connecting with teens and we focused heavily on dabbing and fidgets. And water bottle flips. And this fidget spinners by like a day. Yeah. And the absence of fidget spinners from that episode has just hope like it insta-dated that.

It like is already hopelessly out of date because fidget spinners were not present in the episode. It's like by the time it came to air, it was already hopelessly free of fidget spinners. I wish there was a thing you could do in the car that didn't involve paying attention to anything outside of the car that was like even remotely safe or acceptable.

You know what I mean? Like if there was like a little- Like a partition. Right, but at the front. Yeah. Like a partition that popped up on the hood that prevented like, you know what I mean? But then it's unsafe and you can't see even the light changes.

Anytime I can stop at a stop light next to somebody else, especially if they have like a flashy car or like a loud car or they look young, I'm always really afraid of sending any signals to them. This is true. It's going to sound like a joke, but I'm just going to say it anyway. I'm always afraid of sending any signals to them

that I want to race them. I'm worried. I'm always worried. I'm always worried that I want to do the wrong thing and they're going to think that I'm trying to race them. Or I'm saying that my Honda Pilot is faster than their car in any way. And I'm just always really paranoid

about making it clear that I don't want to race them. I feel like- Have you, has your foot ever slipped and you've accidentally like tapped the accelerator while you're also holding it? And you're like, oh, oh, God, no, no, no, no. And then I have to take my hands off the wheel and be like, no, no, no, no, no, no racing.

No racing, please. I feel like I used to get that in Heinten when like, you know, fucking high school, especially driving home from high school, the high school that Travis and I and Justin for, I guess, three of the years attended was like up on this big hill and you had to like get out on the highway

and drive up to it. And so like everybody just fucking drove. And I feel like driving home from that, especially, like every other day, some motherfucker and like a big Ford truck would like try to race us. And I didn't know how to tell them like, no, I don't, but then they still race you. And I, even though I didn't want to participate,

I still take the psychic damage from knowing I lost. It's a lose, lose situation. Do you ever, when you're driving, like just designate in your mind, especially when you're on a long car trip, that car and I are somehow cosmically connected now, or like you just see like another, like you and red car are just like,

kind of maintaining the same speed and going the same direction for a hundred miles? Love that. On a road trip, like you and, you know, some, you know, beetle just keep passing each other for like eight hours. And it's like, oh, nice. And then you stop at a denny's

and then you leave the denny's and like an hour later, you see him again. It's like, oh, you stopped too. Yes. I saw today when I was driving back from Huntington, two motorcyclists, motorcyclers, cyclorinos, and they were- Gearheads.

Gearhead, two gearheads, and they were on bikes like one car ahead of me and like together for easily 25 miles. And then suddenly at an intersection, one of them turned and the other one kept going for a long time. And I got a divorce just there on the right. Suddenly I was incapable of accepting

that they had not been together that whole time, like that they were just two independent gearheads that are just like, let's ride together for a while. And like, I was truly blown away in touch by that moment of like, I don't know you and you don't know me, but we're gearheads for life now. Let's go.

I can't wait till self-driving cars like fix all this because I will not have to even look up from my mad magazine that I'm just sitting in the cockpit of my fucking Gopod that Elon just made for me. It's a custom Elon original Gopod. And just like, you're in your Gopod

facing backwards like an asshole. You know, fidget spending two or three spinners at the same time, like showing off that. And I'm just like, nice try. And meanwhile, I'm trying to solve all the puzzles and all the mad magazine puzzles. Get all the jokes in the mad magazines. See the folding thing.

Trying to fold that back page. Do the fold one. Yeah. Love that. All right, we've lost the plot. Let's go to the money zone. This week, I want to tell you about an old friend.

Oh, hey, old friend. Come on in. Sit on down. Oh, it's been a while. It's been a while since we talked over it. What's that? You brought snacks? Your nature box?

Well, that was the weird intro to this ad. But nature box is sponsoring us this week. They have over 100 snacks and they taste good and are actually better for you. All snacks are made for you. Everybody, if you listen back to that part and you're re-listening, when you get to that section, I want you to imagine Travis hanging by a noose

and Griffin and me just staring up at him like, nope, let him dangle. We're absolutely not going to jump into this weird intro trap that he has laid for himself. Absolutely not. That's, I'm not worried. I'm like fucking looping. I'm going to get out of whatever trap you laid for me.

I'm a bit of a joke wizard like that. No bad joke can hold me. All snacks are made from high quality, simple ingredients, which means no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners. So you can feel good about what you're eating. I, myself, I love a nice salty snack. Love the Asiago cheese crisps.

I like the like sesame sticks, that kind of thing. Way deep into that. But they also have like- I like a big island pineapple. It's just a big pineapple ring that's all dried out and I can look through it and pretend that it's like a little portal to another world. Justin, what do you like?

The chewing gum that they have. Have you guys tried that yet? Is that real? No, but I was trying to get it going. If they wanted to have some nature box chewing gum, I bet they would, it would be great. And it would have lots of real fruit flavor. And I would love that sort of natural approach.

Yeah, I love their hypothetical gum too. That's my favorite. Travis, what is your other stuff they don't have, but that they would crush? I really like their nature box donuts that are just filled with vegetables, but it doesn't taste like it. I got my home insurance through nature box.

And there's no artificial sweeteners in there. But then my kitchen exploded and they got me. They didn't give me money. They just sent me a bunch of snacks. And I was like, nature box, this is actually bad insurance. I need a new home nature box. This would all happen in the hypothetical. And right now you'll say, this is the world that I see.

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The brothers and I say, great job, Nick. Keep up the good work, CRJ. Oh, so just a nice Carly Rae Jepsen nod in there to let Carly know that she's doing a good job. I love that. Yeah, I would actually prefer it if all our messages from now on would be like, hey, Susan, congratulations on graduating.

You're the best friend that I could ever ask for. I'll never forget that day we spent in the big hot air balloon ride. And Carly, the album is great. Can't wait for the new one to drop. Cuts the feeling is the fucking jam of the summer and we're all so grateful for it. And if it is a taste of things to come

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Because he's delivering. I like that because then one and every thousand times he does deliver it to the wrong address, which I think is still a pretty good hit rate, all things considered. For sure. Hey, everybody, this is Radio Lab. We got a yahoo.

I don't get it. Anyway, thank you. I don't get it, but I legally have to read it. Thank you, Seth. It's yahoo answers user eatbabyceals. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.

It says, what's your trademark? What's your trademark? What's your trademark? What's your trademark? What's your trademark? No. What's your trademark? I thought about this and it was like,

in high school, there's a kid who did tricks. He did magic tricks at the table during lunch. He would always come around and he would do magic tricks. And he was very wealthy also. And so he had a couple trademarks. I thought it might be fun to just like, oh, that's Griffin. He's always got a mint. He's always got a mint and he's handing them out if you need them.

One time at church camp, different year than the Andy Mac year, I always had sunglasses on. Oh, I love this. That could have been like my thing. This is going to sound like I'm making this up after talking about Andy Mac. But I wanted people to call me shades, but I had a youth pastor who was like, you can't.

That'll just happen if it happens. Andy Mac, I could sneak in a little bit. Was it Jim? Jim Moosey? No, it was different. It was out of state. What's your trademark? His youth pastor in Canada.

You wouldn't know him. That's Griffin. He's always got sunglasses on. He always has a mint. And so if you're at a party and you have this, if you have the hot breath, just look for the guy with sunglasses. Because that's his trademark and ask him for a mint

because that's his second trademark. I love that. I would like to be, I'd like to be Travis, the guy who always knows where the food trucks have stopped. I don't know how often that would come up. But that's going to be too difficult. It's going to be tough for you to track that. It's an unrealistic trademark.

I can always have mints. I can make sure I've always got mints. I eat a lot of tic-tacs in my car, but they're not the mint flavor. I almost always have either orange or the assorted fruit flavored tic-tacs. I always have them in one of my cup holders. So I can have myself a little snack

when I have to go and run a chore. That's kind of a trademark, but then nobody gets to experience those with me because nobody ever gets in my car except for a baby. And he can't have tic-tacs. He just swallow them. What's your trademark, Justin and Travis? I had wanted it for a long time for it to be Yo-Yo.

I wanted it to be sort of Yo-Yo J. The guy who was so good at Yo-Yo tricks. And it just... Here's the thing about a worthwhile trademark. Like a worthwhile trademark is it really does take... You got to put the work in. You have to put the effort into getting... Because another trademark you could have

is Justin McElroy, the guy that always publicly fucks up Yo-Yo tricks. And that would be a less desirable trademark, but it would be an effective, and I would say pervasive one that would be pretty pernicious. It would be tough to shake that one. My personal trademark, and I've only just begun implementing this,

is Travis McElroy, the guy who's a time traveler from the future stuck in the past trying to get home. Yeah. Because what's great about it is, unlike Justin's Yo-Yo fantasies, it actually takes very little work. Because I can say anything about the future

with very little research, and no one's going to be like, that's not what it's like in the future. And it also makes me interesting because people really want to know about the future. And here's the other thing, and I know what you're thinking, but Travis, people already know you.

Yes, of course. That's why my mythos is my consciousness traveled back from the future and inhabited my current present-day body. And I can't figure out how to get my conscious, my Travis McElroy consciousness back to the year 2087, the day I was dying.

Sounds like a lot of work that trademark. I could just have a couple of tins of Altoids on me at all time, and that's a trademark. But yours requires you to pretend to know things from 2087. But Griffin, how far, how far are your Altoids going to take you?

You're like, oh, can I have an Altoid? You can. End of interesting exchange. But if I talk about like... Well, then I show them my other trademarks. I put on my side... Well, I don't put on the sunglasses. I've had them on the entire party.

You're starting to sound like a trademark troll, where you just get really broad trademarks. Oh, let me keep going. Okay. I then ask them if they have any weed. That's my other trademark. The problem with having a... And then I jump really high.

It's another trademark. Or mine is how high I can jump, and people love it. One issue with having a, let's say, contextually popular podcast is that a lot... It's so hard to try to establish a trademark for yourself in high school when I was really thinking about trademarks a lot.

And now, sometimes parts of my life just become trademarks. And I don't necessarily need or want or desire. Like, you talk about beans. And then on Twitter, to everybody on Twitter, you become bean boy. And really, that's my life I'm living. I'm living the bean life. Like, day to day.

And it's not necessarily something that I want to define me as a person. I don't need an additional trademark on those lines. Please join me in my Banana Vore Corner. And we can hang out here and have a little party together. I just didn't mean for that to be my bram. I guess is what I'm worried about. Well, we don't get to make this call, my boy.

You talk about beans or sexual swallowing or you eat a banana funny once and it goes viral. And then that's who you are to folks. But I've got fucking layers, man. I've always got fucking mints on me. But nobody calls me the mint, man. Nobody ever asked me for a mint. They always want to talk to me about bananas or Vore.

They edited out the part of the Banana Video where right after Griffin's like, uh, anybody got a mint? Just kidding. I always have them. I always have them. I could be Travis McRoy, the guy who zones out during recording the podcast.

Cause he's scrolling through Facebook and gets distracted by pictures of Chris Evans. What do you think? I am a cashier at a farmer's market in Michigan. We sell a huge variety of stuff, including fresh shrimp. Today, a toddler walked by our shrimp cooler and started. You have to read it, read it, read it, read it. I can't.

I'm so far with reading a few words ahead is that sometimes I can mess myself up while I'm trying to read it good. We, we sell a huge variety of stuff, including fresh shrimp. Today, a toddler walked by our shrimp cooler and started chanting shrimp heaven now emphasis on the now. Eventually leading his mother to say, please, please Daniel, we can't keep doing this.

What is shrimp heaven? Why does Daniel need it now? What are my responsibilities in this situation? If any, I'm confused and delighted by this look. But I fear something darker may lay under the surface. That's from shrimp. Jesus. All right.

Let's take a second. Shrimp heaven now. Let's all take a minute and collect ourselves and appreciate how good this child is and how good this situation is. All right. There's just no reality in which, like that talk about trademarking,

this kid went for a narrow line on it. But I do celebrate it. That, that is a great trademark. Shrimp heaven now. Okay, I'm back. I like the idea of like, he's trying to say like, let me get, let me get all up in shrimp heaven right now.

That's what it's got to be, right? Right. This is not a religious child. I have to imagine. Here's the thing. What I would like to believe is that this kid is just crazy for shrimp. Just loves those prony bastards.

Wild for the stuff. So much so that it has led his parents to say things like, please Daniel, we can't keep doing this because this child's shrimp hunger is driving them out of house and home. It's an expensive protein. It's an expensive protein.

So it's a lot of work to prepare one. So fresh shrimp, not pre-cooked, not boiled shrimp, just fresh shrimp. And it's all Daniel's. And they got those dookie veins in them still and that takes a while to get those out of here. No, Daniel loves it all. They go to remove the mud vein

and Daniel's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. God doesn't make any mistakes. That's part of the shrimp welfare. Why don't you leave that in there for Daniel? Let Daniel handle that for you. Shrimp heaven now. Do you think this kid burned down a red lobster? Definitely, definitely.

Or did something in a red lobster that required it to be burned down? And now he has to facilitate the shepherding of these shrimp souls to heaven. That's possible too. He wants to get the shrimp up to heaven by eating them. How, if you saw that exchange, how do you not just leave your job?

How do you not just stand up, walk out and follow these people and be like, listen, I have to get to the end of the story. I have to hear the rest of shrimp heaven now. What is Daniel doing? I've made six episodes of a television show. Now on vrv.co, go check it out. I've made six episodes of television show.

And I don't think I'm like, you know, especially tuned in to what Hollywood wants or needs. But I'm pretty sure I could make a television show about your child, about shrimp. The name of the show would be called shrimp heaven now. And I guess it'd be a shrimp review television. We'll figure that out later. But we got the title.

Get Kristen Bell in there. And that plus shrimp heaven now equals Emmy success. All the Emmys and some Golden Globes to boot. We haven't had my brother and my brother and me t-shirt available on topotico for quite a while. And I feel like maybe this is the one. I feel like this is a new era for this show. And I feel like a t-shirt that just says shrimp heaven now

would be extremely, extremely powerful. Do you remember those? Do you remember the like peace, love and crabs t-shirt? I think it was just crab shack, right? What if we just had a shirt that was like a shrimp, an angel and a clock? Everyone knows. The other way we do it is just the black t-shirt

with the white words all on the same like paragraph break. That's just, you know, and it's like shrimp and heaven and now. Or we could also do keep calm and shrimp heaven now. That one's really good also. I think we have a lot of opportunity here for shrimp heaven now. And I think we may have found a trademark that I will take from this child. I will have one that say big dog shrimp heaven now. That one's because no fear for shrimp heaven now.

Hyper color sort of. Hyper color shrimp, yeah. Maybe a lizard with sunglasses. An old lizard. I can't believe how good this is. It's renewing my entire faith in humanity. Shrimp heaven now, but shrimp heaven now by itself is very good. And we can all agree that shrimp heaven now is excellent and beautiful,

but the fact that we can't keep doing it with Daniel is what really brings it over the left. Because Daniel is, because that could have been a one off. You know, kids say the darkest things is one thing that I have made up. And you know, you could, he could have just spouted whatever came to his head. No, this is a recurring theme for Daniel is shrimp heaven now. I think that that we get, there's a lesson in that though. I obviously love shrimp heaven now.

No three words have ever been more perfectly suited for each other. But there's a limit. There's a limit to it before it could be exhausted. As is evidenced by the fact that, hey, everybody, shrimp heaven now. It's a losing, it's losing something, isn't it? It's, I almost feel like, let's call the episode. I feel like, because we're going to keep saying shrimp heaven now. And I don't want to rob it of its power.

Let's go five or six episodes and then really drop a shrimp heaven now in. And then it'll be like a fun, fun callback. So to that point, I think we, we do need to qualify the t-shirt. So in big bold letters, shrimp heaven now. And then in a smaller subtitle, we can't keep doing this. But just like acknowledges, like, we know that this is like, this is a brief moment in time of viral t-shirt marketing of shrimp heavy advertising. I was thinking it would be the title of this episode, right?

Shrimp heaven now. It's a good episode title. I don't want, please don't tweet at us and each other, shrimp heaven now. I'm going to do a Twitter search tomorrow for shrimp heaven now. And any results I get, I'm going to be very disappointed. We got to protect this. We got to protect this. Yes.

Yes. Well, I'm tired of us burning through things so quickly. We have to sort of hoard this resource of shrimp heaven now being funny. Let's do a slow burn, like I love bees, kind of slow burn. I'm like, you can tweet shrimp heaven when? With a question mark for like the next two months, right? You can tweet that whenever you want. Or, or, or, or, or, or, or.

Here's what I want. I want everybody to just tweet either shrimp or heaven or now. Just one word, but not the whole thing. And then people can put it together. And you can make it private. Like if you want to use shrimp heaven now.com to access our podcast, Jesus Christ, Justin, do that. That's an option that's available to you for sure.

But like, you don't need to go running your mouth about it. But that, but when that t-shirt does become available and like, I'm on it, like we're doing it, you can get it at that URL. So if you're listening to this in the past or the future, Travis, which is it? Well, Justin, it's hard for me to say without giving away too much information that could damage the time stream. Okay, that's a really good trademark actually. Because there's a fear.

There's a fear in it. I love that. That's going to do it for us folks on my brother, my brother, me. We alluded to this earlier. Well, we didn't allude so much as give you a fucking URL to visit. We said it eight times before. Our show got sold by CISO, Rest in Peace CISO, shutting down this year according to reports.

We don't have any insider information there. But the point is our show can now be found at vrv.co forward slash mbmbam. Now here's the cool stuff. Now make sure you don't go to vrv.com. That's not going to get you anything. But vrv.co slash mbmbam is going to give you our show for free. It's ad supported, so there'll be ads, but you can just watch the show. And not just the show, you can watch all the bonus materials.

There's one that's like one of my favorite things that we shot, where we're all bugging the mayor about candle nights that didn't make it to the show. Yeah. But it's really, I love that. I want to point out it's just in America right now, the places where it was available on iTunes, it's still there. But it's not on vrv anywhere else. And I hope that that changes.

But as we've said so many times before, that is not a decision that we make at all. In any way, shape or form. Yeah. But I also want to say this upcoming Joe Coe Cruz, my wife and I will be there. We'll be doing some Schwanner stuff and probably classes and appearing on other people's things. And there's still a few cabins available. So if you'd like to join us, you can go to jocoecruise.com and check that out. And I also do want to say, as Grover mentioned, we will be putting out the ultimate,

the final episode of the Adventure Zone balance arc. Adventure Zone will be continuing. Don't get it twisted. This is just the ending of this storyline. If you have never listened before, it's maybe one of the top five things I'm most proud of in my entire life, especially, I would say, due in large part to the work that Griffin does. He's an amazing DM and writer. And so if you've never checked it out, you have four days that you could just like.

Please don't just listen to the finale. You may not enjoy it. I don't think at all. But you start at the beginning, listen straight through. And it'll be there even if you're not ready by Thursday. That's how podcasts work, Travis. It's now informing you how on-demand content functions. I want to thank John Rodger and the Long Winters for the use for our theme song.

It's a departure off the album, Putting the Days to Bed. It's a really, really, really good album, as are all the Long Winters albums. You should go listen to all of them. And speaking of going and listening to things, go listen to all the other amazing shows on MaximumFun.org. There's a ton on there that fit a bunch of different genres and styles and tastes and interests. You're going to find something you like, but probably a bunch of stuff you like.

So go check it out, MaximumFun.org. Here's a final, ascended by the delivery man, Seth Carlson. Thank you. See how who answers user Matt asks. And I'm going to read the whole thing because the additional details are fucking great. Will there be a Zootopia 2? In the first film, they only had mammals, not birds, reptiles, or bugs. Not even tapers.

I love tapers and would love to see one or two in a sequel. I admire the tapers in the Ice Age films. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad's square on the lips. MaximumFun.org.

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