My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 383: Fins Up

Episode Date: December 4, 2017

For reasons beyond our understanding, we were able to have Jimmy Buffett on this episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me. Jimmy Buffett looked at all the opportunities available to him, the real Jimmy Buffett, and decided that a good expenditure of his time was to be a guest on our podcast. We are eternally grateful. Suggested talking points: Thorwatch 2017, Bathrobe Perimeter, Double Vampire, Popcorn Dupe, NCIS Party, GUESTSPERT JIMMY BUFFETT

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? Hello everybody and welcome, my brother, my brother, me and advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. I'm your middle-est brother, Travis McElroy. I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, Griffin McElroy. It's coming in hot, folks. I'm sure you've seen it blowing up the TVs

and your mobile devices. It's finally almost here. So close now, Thor Ragnarok. There's a Thor Ragnarok watch, just checking the buzz. Checking out all the buzz around Thor Ragnarok. Finger on the pulse of this hot body of Thor. No, boys, I'm so excited to talk about this because I got to see a special preview screener two days ago. How's my huge friend doing, Thor? Well, he's doing good and let me tell you, I can get, okay, lean in close. Here's some special insights I can give you. One, he's dreamy. Two, he's creamy. He's creamy. They have really leaned into Thor, the broliest Avenger. Yeah, absolutely. In a good way. In a good, good way. Okay. I will also say that as I watched the movie

of the preview screen, I mean, I liked to imagine that there would be someone who would go to see this movie who knew nothing about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and had never read a comic book before in their life and maybe didn't even know anything about Norse mythology, trying to make either heads or tails of this movie. And it made me very happy because of how often this ends. Now, who's this beefy fellow would pop up in their heads? Now, a lot of beefy boys. How many beefy boys? How many beefy friends give me an exact number? I would say Griffin. All the hamburger buns are empty because all the beef is in this movie. Well, now I, I, that's not a number. 12. Okay, okay, okay. Now, we're just of a few days. This

came out on November 3rd, so we're getting close to release here on December 4th. American release. It came out in, I believe, Japan November 3rd. Yes, they love the huge man Thor and all of his much smaller friends, except for the green one, who can sometimes get bigger. It's large man Thor and green buddy. And my green friend, the Hulk or Bruce. I saw that Bruce is in the film and I heard that there's a scene where he says, why do we need Thor says, why do we need the strong man here? I am strong. Yeah. We do not need two of the strong men. Bring me someone who can fly or perhaps a laser boy. And they, he'd, Thor doesn't understand why there needs another strong man. And let's talk about Avengers composition. Let's

talk about a team comp in terms of tank, DPS, healer, right? There's just like, there's vision, right? You can go through walls. That's fun. Hawkeye shoots a bow and arrow and sometimes says really sexist stuff. And then there's, then there's a Black Widow who does all kinds of flips and spins. And then we have like an Iron Man's Cup beams. And then there's like four strong men. It's like, do we need four of just, what do you do? The strong. I do strongness. Now, Trav, tell me about the scene. I heard there's a scene where Thor says, you may be strong, Hulk, Bruce, but I have this hammer. And then Hulk takes the hammer and Thor says, I'm no longer needed. And I will step away. And then he retires. Yeah. And you know,

that comes five minutes into the movie. Wow. Yeah. And then the rest of the movie is Hulk as Thor. And they keep calling him Thulk, which is cute. I like that. And it keeps cutting back to Thor, like, you know, at the supermarket or like, he gets married, has a kid, serves on the PTA. Is the sun big and green? No, the sun is actually kind of a nerdy puny guy. So like, Thor has to deal with that. Now, the weird, I heard another scene that I saw. Now, this was on a Fandango bonus clip that I got for pre-ordering tickets for this movie that opened a month ago. And in it, in this bonus clip, after he Thor raises a family, Hulk comes to his house and says, I am stronger than you. I will teach the children to be strong. I'm the father

now. And he becomes. And Thor says, you're right. Yeah. And at Hulk becomes Thor's kid's dad. Is that in the final cut? Absolutely. That's actually, Justin, I'm glad you brought that up because that's actually a post-credits scene that dovetails with daddy's home too. Oh, good. I was hoping we could talk about that picture in the podcast. Yeah. So then it's all in the daddy's home multiverse. And that's when Samuel L. Jackson shows up and says, I'm putting together a team of stepdads. Yeah. I like the scene in daddy's home too, where the Hulk comes and crushes, then eats just all the men in that picture. And then they're gone in real life, which is really cool and fun and great. Now, the Thor Ragnarok include the scene where John Lithcal shows up on the first day of

daddy's home to filming and sees that the other dad, new daddy is Mel Gibson. And there's 15 minutes of him just like, are we sure about that? You sure here? Interesting. I actually also got a preview screener of daddy's home too. And without the CGI and what they haven't released yet, maybe this is like a special bonus thing, but John Lithcal is not in the movie. It's all Andy Serkis motion capture. Yeah. John Lithcal walked over and saw the comedy duo, the hysterical duo of Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson they put together. And he literally, he just, he pulled out his grappling hook and zip lined away. But Andy Serkis stepped in. He was like, I have no problem with these two. So Andy Serkis is doing John Lithcal. Loves Mel Gibson. They've already paid him. Yeah. Now I heard there's

a scene in three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, where the Hulk comes and takes the three billboards and says, now there's no more need for your movie. Yeah. I will take these to mine. He keeps doing it. And so France makes dormants like, well, I retire. Well, actually what happens is the billboards are gone. So she closes her movie and Hulk puts the three billboards into Hulk Ragnarok, a Thorp picture. You must have seen a previous version. Maybe that was like 1.0 because in the version I saw Thor goes to grab the billboards and Francis McDormand says, no. And Hulk goes, well, I bow to your wisdom. Thank you so much for everything you've done. You're amazing. And then she kills and eats Hulk and becomes Hulk. Yes. Now I heard there's

Justin heard about it and I've just seen all the scenes. And so let's just sit back and watch him do his thing. Spoiler at this. I feel like so much has been spoiled. But I heard that Hulk does jump into the Orient Express and says, I have the final solution. The Butler conducted the crime. And Poro's like, there's no Butler and Hulk's like, I said the Butler committed the crime. You may put your train back into the station. Your film is no longer needed. He eats the whole train. He does eat a whole train. Which is also how Snowpiercer ended. The train starts up again and then it goes right into Hulk's big mouth and open belly. Yep. That's all accurate. That all happens. It's seen in the movie where Hulk finally gets his reward of getting a Coca-Cola

and then the Ant-Man shows up and steals his fucking Coca-Cola. That piece of shit, Ant-Man. There's also a prolonged scene in which Hulk walks around naked and I wish this was a joke. And it makes me, for the first time, erect. It forces me to think about Hulk's genitalia in a way that I have. The first time, bud. The first time, bud. As if the first time fucking Stanley was like, ah, Eureka, my catchphrase, I've got it. The man turns big and green and instantly we heard that conceit and we're like, dick too though, right? Stanley? No, actually, I have concrete proof. So, okay, the Hulk, Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk. Imagine the classic image. What you see is pants that have been torn usually from the mid thigh to knee down, right?

But after the transformation into Hulk and back into Bruce Banner, those pants have been torn. The crotch of the pants is never destroyed. So, we have to assume that Hulk gets huge muscles, but are like just a regular human penis. But Bruce's penis is probably pretty good. I mean, it's, I mean, he's already had pants sized to his penis that the Hulk does not destroy. Actually, when he's Bruce, he has the Hulk's penis. And when he's the Hulk, he has Bruce's penis. It's a weird, it's a weird sort of mix around. Now, I heard that there's, I saw one more deleted scene where the Hulk goes into Lady Bird and says, I'm not aware of what this film is or is about, but I've heard good things. So,

I'll take it for my own. And then he goes into the shape of water. It is like, I don't know, teardrops, lakes and ocean. Anyway, your movie is over too. And the Hulk takes all the water. So, what you're suggesting, Justin, is that what you've seen is a cut of the movie that is a very, like, last action hero. Hulk is a film walker. He just claims movies as his own. Now, I did sweet a lot of this. So, a lot of this is sort of sweeted stuff from my own studio here at the house. I saw a scene in a bad mom's Christmas. And the Ant-Man, and by scene, I mean the whole movie, Ant-Man's in the whole thing. You can't see him. He's really small. He's like a speck of dust just floating around, landing on Mila Kunis'

nose, but you don't see him. But if you turn up the audio, like, all the way, like, blow out your speakers, you can hear Paul Rudd doing his comedy. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, he's in most movies the whole time, just very small, and you can't tell. He's very small. To be fair, though, Paul Rudd is just in most movies. Period. And it's very confusing, because he's also in it as Ant-Man. Yeah. Well, that's the thing is, he's always been Ant-Man in movies. It's just, like, pre-getting the suit and post-getting the suit. Sure. Hey, question's time, because half of the show will be a special thing, and I would love to get at least some of our good work into it. Okay, before we do, if you're listening to this on Monday,

tonight, I am participating in a World Builders, which is a charity organization spearheaded by Pat Rothfuss, a StarCraft tournament. Oh my god, are you playing StarCraft? I am. Have you ever played StarCraft? I have not. This should be good, bro. What's your APMs? Oh, god. It's me and Tybee playing as a team run fancast, with absolutely positively no idea what we're doing. But it's for a good cause. You can go to bit.ly-forged-slash-run-wb and help donate money to sponsor our team. I can't. You know I'm going to be there watching you fuck up at, like, building too many pile-ons or whatever. Oh, Griffin, it's going to be terrible.

Like, listen, it's going to be fun. I'm going to be terrible. Have you not watched any videos or whatever out of StarCraft? I mean, I will. Okay. I'm sure I will, and I believe that happens tonight at 10.30 central time is when I'm playing. There's lots of other people playing. The double clicks are playing. Paul and Storm are playing. Mikey Newman is playing. Lots of people are playing. I hear Mikey's got sick APMs, so you're going to get put in the trash. Oh, no. He's going to just kick my ass. No doubt. No doubt. But check that out and run bit.ly-forged-slash-run-wb to help sponsor that. And, Justin, tell us about MB&BAM Angels before we kick off these questions. Before we get to the show, MB&BAM Angels is an annual project that we sort of tangentially do

just because it's like us, but really we don't do any of the heavy lifting. We have a great team of people that are doing this hard work, but we have a lot of people in the area that we grew up and where I still live here in Huntington in the surrounding Trusted area who have a lot of needs for this holiday season. And there are a lot of people who aren't going to have anything for this blessed candle night season. And we're not talking about fun toys usually. We're talking about stuff like a wheelchair is needed and a gas card to get to work and a bed and a tent and things like this, just things that people really need. And you can be a hero this candle night season and help fix these problems. I mean, it's heartbreaking. And if you go to MB&BAMAngels.com,

you're going to see a ton of opportunities where you can help. It's easy to do. There's a great team of people who are ready to assist you. And even if you're just going to kick in a few bucks, you don't have to buy one of these items specifically. But it's a wonderful project that we care a lot about. So if you can find it in your heart to help out, MB&BAMAngels.com, and you can find someone to help. And if you do, please tweet at us. Let us know so we can thank you personally. And we really appreciate anything you can do to assist with that. Real quick, I misspoke that the Starcraft tournament, I will be playing at 9.30 Central, 10.30 Eastern PM tonight. The tournament kicks off at 8 PM Central time. And you can find out

all the information at worldbuilders.org slash Starcraft. All right, first question. I tend to lounge around the house in a luxurious plaid bathrobe, almost always with a t-shirt and shorts under it. Sometimes when I want candy, I will go to the convenience store across the street without putting on real clothes. This is legitimate because it's really close to where I live. Well, now I want a bagel, but I don't want to change. But the bagel place is like a half mile away. Is that too far for the bathrobe? Well, people think I'm just a weirdo. That's from the robed one. There's so much going on. The people... You are making assumptions left and right. Right. Here's the thing about the bathrobe. Look, I mean, I support you and you walk your

path. I'm not trying to shame anyone's bathrobe usage, except that I am about to do just that. But there's not a bubble extending from your house where the bathrobe is acceptable. The bubble is the house. The bubble is the house. It's literally on the left. Maybe where your paper lands. On the left. On the left. I just don't know. It's as far as your Wi-Fi extends from your house. If you got the Wi-Fi signal, you can pull out your phone and say like, no, no, no, it's cool. See? Robbie's place. You see that? You're not hacking. Don't try to hack Robbie's place. It's ironclad. If you still have Wi-Fi, you can Arthur Dent all over town. You can set up repeaters down the block and just...

Okay. Listen, you can't just say, listen, question asker, I love you. You know that, right? I love you. You can't just say, this is legitimate because it's really close. You don't get to make that call. Yeah. It's legitimate because I really wanted candy and I'm in the bathroom. Now, I will say that Bagel Place, I feel like is more appropriate for the bathrobe because it's a breakfast time thing. And so you can show up and you say like, oops, Mondays, breakfast time, Bagel, please, I'm not naked under this. And that's so, you've got to say the last part. You have the highest level of maturity is being able to see the world through the point of view of other people. And you have to understand that when you go to the convenience store,

see it through their eyes. They don't look at each other after you leave and say, it's cool. He lives nearby. That's not, that dialogue does not take place. Is it okay to go out of doors, dress in an outfit with a robe over it? I assume shoes, please wear shoes. Yeah. I mean, legally, legally speaking, sure. Are you saying will people maybe give me a little side eye? Absolutely. Absolutely. Nothing you can do unless. Unless. And what question? Unless. If you're going to leave the house, you silly goose. Just tuck the robe into the shorts and then at the worst people are just going to think you got a super lumpy duff. And that's it. They're just wearing a coat and their shorts are holding them. They're very, very lumpy duff.

Would this be different if instead of like a luxurious plaid bathrobe, you were wearing like an embroidered boxers robe? Oh, and then people might think you're a champion boxer. Oh, he needs those Mike and Ikes to carb up before the big fight. Before the big fight today. It's going to be hard for me to see that and not assume that you're putting it through heavy usage and then start thinking about the scent, the scent of it, because you know what I'm talking about, a robe that gets heavy usage. It's got all your smell in it. And I don't want to even look at the smell because I can feel it and taste it. Again, if you want to wear a robe, go for it, but please stop creating justifications for yourself. You're a guy wearing a robe or a

gal wearing a robe or a person wearing a robe. I don't know, but you're still wearing a robe outside your house. It doesn't matter how far you're from your home. How about this Yahoo! is sent by the delivery man, Seth Carlson. Thank you, Seth. It's from Yahoo! Answers user. JotunHertigen asks, what happens if a vampire bites another vampire? I'm, can I tell you, I'm so glad that this question is included. It's long overdue. And listen, we'll circle back to the super vampire steak, but I was thinking about this. People like to throw a lot of shit at vampires and I bet you, I bet you Griffin, a lot of those people that are hurling shit at vampires also eat steaks. Vampires gotta eat. That's what I'm saying.

This has gone on for too long. What? Vampire literally killing? People are cattle. To a vampire? Yeah, no, I know it's, but you're still sort of, you still definitely said it with your whole mouth. To a vampire? Yeah, that's how, listen, it's the circle of life. No, I will not. No, it's sort of a straight line of light. It's like a life here in it. Well, but then bacteria eat vampires, so. Yeah, I guess it all keeps the big wheel keeps spinning. Oh, no, wait, the sun eats vampires and then plants eat the sun. There it goes. If you're eating a cucumber, then you're just eating vampire, basically. Yeah, basically, it's the circle of life. The sun is powered by vampire energy from vampires they've consumed.

You all know that. That's why global warming is such an issue. Too many vamps. That's, yeah. Two things I think, if a vampire bites another vampire, one, double vampire. And these are the scariest of all. Can there, can you even, if a double vampire bites a double vampire, is it a triple vampire or do we square root it? What are some of the key differentiators Griffin of a double vampire? Four fangs. Four fangs. Four big fangs. And the accent gets like, if a regular vampire is here, a double vampire is like here. Look at the quadruple vampire is here. Now, what, now, if I was a quintuple vampire, exactly what would that sound like? Are you suggesting Shrek was a octuple vampire? Yeah, I think Shrek is an octuple vampire for

sure. He's a vampire that bit another vampire, then bit a double vampire, and then bit a quadruple vampire. Okay, so this is my question. The vampire that doubles, is it the vampire that bites the vampire that is bit? Oh, I think it's a vampire that is bit. That's a good point, Travis. Oh, see, I was gonna say the vampire that bites. No, because it's that's not how the vampiric process work. I guess that's true. I was thinking, I guess, more of like the double vampire siphons the vampire away. And then that vampire is like, well, you're normal again. No, the vampire bites another vampire, transforming the bitten vampire into a double vampire. And then the new double vampire turns around is like, now you fucked up. Now you fucked up. Look at these fangs.

So is it a triple vampire, or is it like squared every time? I think we go up by the root of two. Now, that's the first scenario, a double vampire. And it is the correct scenario, because it's such a good world that I want to live in. That one's science-based. That one's science-based. The other situation that could happen is it's just awkward. It's just like, look, look, look, hey, dude, hey, dude, stop, stop, stop, stop. Look, check the fangs. One, two. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm a vampire. I hate the sun and garlic and love to bite. That's me too. So they don't have blood, right? Vampires don't have blood. It's just dust in there, right? It's just what they need to keep drinking. What depends if they've recently fed. I think the blood's only in their tummy at that

point, though. So do the vampires pee out blood? And if so, how do they know when they have prostate issues? I mean, you fit as somebody who's had prostate issues before. You'll know. Do you think that way for vampire peas and it's not blood? They're like, oh, no. Oh, crap. Oh, never mind. Psych, I'm immortal. I forgot. Oh, yeah, I don't have prostate issues. I'm fine. How about another question? Brothers, some local teams just knocked on our door and asked us to cook their unpopped microwave popcorn. I do not recognize these youths in my setting myself up for a long con by being a cool neighbor. That's from Corny Conundrum in Gooneyville. Yes, literally the town from Goonies, Astoria, Oregon. Fuck yeah. I mean, is it the Goonies that came to your house?

Because maybe you got a treasure map. They want to steal it. Maybe there's treasures under your house and they just want to go in your basement. I mean, they're adults now, though. So these would be adults like, hey, can we come in your basement? Bet you got a map. Here's some popcorn. I'm Sean Aston. This is what I sound like. I'm a September vampire. I didn't have an accent when I started. Why do they have a bag of microwave popcorn but no microwave? Why do they purchase? They robbed a Boy Scout. They might have robbed a Boy Scout. They might have robbed a Boy Scout who was selling popcorn door to door. Oh, no. I mean, I'm kind of into this Moonrise Kingdom, like a band of kids sitting out on their own. The only food they brought with them on their

journey was popcorn but they're kids so they didn't even think about it. And so they need you to pop the popcorn so they can eat something while they wander into the forest because one of them knows where a dead body is, just like in Moonrise Kingdom. Yeah, you know, I guess I assumed that these kids were like local next door kids but these kids could have been on a long journey and maybe like the last thing they had in their packs was like microwave popcorn. You know what I mean? It's possible. Why not say yes but then you have to stay on the porch and wait and you close the door and you pop their corn for them and then you return it and you send those scams on their way but don't let them in your house. Dear God, whatever you do, don't let them in your

house. I think a good way to test their intentions is to say yes, I will pop the popcorn but you will enjoy this popcorn with me and we'll all enjoy this popcorn together here on the porch in just a communal manner and we'll all share the popcorn together. I need the 10% for the juice for the V. I'm gonna get my beak salty. They could be vamps though, trying to get access to the dental side. That's why you can't let them in the house. Can't let them in the house. Don't let the wrong one in. That's what the movie's called. I got a yahoo here and I want to read it before we go to the Money Zone and move on to a very special segment because it features something so pure and so wonderful. It's another Seth Carlson Jam. Thank you, Seth. It's a yahoo answers user.

Sorry, something's gone wrong. I'm gonna call him. Broderick asks, in CIS themed birthday party? Hmm. I want to throw a really nice in CIS themed birthday party but aren't sure how to do it. I don't know what to do for a cake, decorations, games, anything like that. Thanks. Okay, before we get into like the details of this. How much have we watched? Well, here's the thing. I love somebody saying I want to throw specific themed birthday party here. I have no ideas. I have no ideas for it whatsoever. So like, do you then? Do you want to throw that party or do you just like in CIS? Very much like in CIS and I very much like aging and I want to combine those two activities. I think the only thing I know about in CIS, I know two things.

One, the Secret Service agent from West Wing is in it. Correct, Mark Harmon. And there's some incredible hero, sorry, incredible hero Mark Harmon that once saved a boy from a burning car, Mark Harmon. Wait, really? Fuck yeah, dude. Mark Harmon saved a boy from a burning car? Yeah, Mark Harmon is a fucking hero. He pulled two kids out of a burning car. Well, now it's two kids? Hold on. This started as one kid. He pulled six kids out of a burning bus. He ate a burning limousine. To save 12 kids? We've talked about this before, I believe, so I'm going to go through this quickly. But Mark Harmon was kicking it in like 1996. 715, these teens missed a turn, crashed into a tree, flipped over and burst into flames.

Mark Harmon smashed the windows out with a sledgehammer and pulled the boys to safety. He was just holding the sledgehammer, sitting on his porch as he's want to do. Fuck yeah, Mark Harmon, hero. Yeah, Mark Harmon rules. Anyway, Mark Harmon also, as long as we're talking about Mark Harmon, I did a quick Google for NCIS Party to see kind of what was out there. There's a lot. It won't surprise you. A lot of fun cakes, etc. His character on the show NCIS is named Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Do you think that it was pennants for having such a cool name like Mark Harmon? Yeah. They had to like knock him down a few times?

I feel like one thing you could do for your party is set your house ablaze in Brentwood and then Mark will show up. You're like, I'm here to save you and then you quickly douse the flame and you're like, Mark, Mark, Mark, as long as you're here. Ah, Lordy, Lordy, look who's 40. It's me, Mark. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming, Mark. The second thing I know about NCIS is that there's a goth woman or punk woman who seems very prevalent in the show. I believe her name is Abby on the show. How do you know that? She's on all the NCIS because I've been reading this yahoo, Travis. There's someone named Donald Duckie Mallard.

There's a lot of fun. NCIS creators. But Duckie is his nickname and Mallard is his last name. You could have gotten to Duckie just from Donald or Duckie just from Mallard, but you went ahead and named Donald the most famous duck and also Mallard. There's a character on the chief of the NCIS, his name is Bill Butthole Rectum. They just really went wild with the names. So NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Services, right? So they investigate crimes that have to do with the Navy and the Marines. That show has been going on for 15 seasons. Hey, Navy, are you okay? Because it seems like you maybe have a lot of crime. It seems like there's a lot of crime going on with you.

You and Jag. I learned that on Jag. Yeah, Jag has just really opened my eyes to... Holy shit. Jag and NCIS are in the same universe. Yes. Two episodes in season eight of Jag. It's called the... Travis, it's called the Viewest Universe, please. Ice Queen and Meltdown, two episodes from season eight of Jag were back to our pilots for NCIS that featured Mark Harmon as Gibbs on those Jag episodes. Yeah, it's just called a spin-off. It's called a spin-off. But from Jag. NCIS is a spin-off from Jag. It's called a Jag-off. I wanted to read this question because there's a Jag who answers user named Lady Dye who says,

be sure that you either have an actual mystery to solve as the evening progresses or that you simply use the theme as a backdrop. There really isn't any right way or wrong way to do a birthday party. But if you want to throw the party that everyone will be talking about, you need to create a specific crime for the scene you're investigating and leave clues everywhere to help with the investigation. Decorating your crime scene party crime scene tape and chalk outlines on the floor are easy additions to your theme. Make sure to leave them realistic in size by having a person actually lay down for you to draw the outline. You might leave fake footprints, fingerprints and clue cards throughout the room, not too well hidden unless you want people snooping.

You can even get help when leaving the clues and decorating because of the novelty of this sort of party. You do not have to confine the festivities to one room and you can, if you're feeling truly adventurous, have a different case going on in different rooms. Just have the guests draw numbers for teams and then race to solve the crime first. This is a fairly huge undertaking, but it will make the party remembered for years. You might also want to set up a lab complete with a microscope and tables dedicated to sorting out the evidence and making notes for the shocking conclusion of the crimes in question. Of course you'll want to make the crime simple and solvable by leaving clues that guests will have no trouble

finding or deciphering without making it too easy. Use your favorite episode for guidance if you must and throw in a red herring or two to keep things fun. There are reruns that you should have no problem finding a show that will give you some great ideas. For sure you can have an actual NCIS cake or go with cookies that are shaped like footprints or thumbprint cookies for an excellent play on words. Sloppy Joes, pizza, finger foods, chips and dips and cookies and cake will have an excellent food addition to the party without needing to fit into any one theme. Be sure to have plenty of soda and bottled water on hand. Here's a picture of an NCIS cake and then a pink link. This is so pure and so good and the first time that somebody's ever asked anything on Yahoo Answers were a good

helpful kind Christian person swoops in with a fucking manual on how to perfectly do the thing. I want to include this because hope's not all lost, most things are bad, 90% of the things are bad, but then there's Yahoo Answers user Ladydye who swoops in here is like, you know what's good at parties? Sloppy Joes sometimes. How about a fingerprint cookie? I like the inclusion of the line, make sure to have soda and water available. That's not NCIS specific, it's just a good overall good party thing. I've never seen NCIS a single frame of it, but this what I love about this and the reason I was troubled doing it is I was worried that Lady Dye had confused NCIS with CSI. No, they think they also do plenty of CSIing.

Okay, because this would also, then this is not a qualm I have with Lady Dye. This is a qualm I have with the creators of NCIS. You made your letters sound like a pre-existing thing CSI. You used three of the same, you just added an N in there and then kind of flipped them all around. Right, which also could be New Orleans CSI I think is in there or is it NCIS New Orleans, who even fucking knows anymore? I mean I know because NCIS New Orleans has my boy Scott Bakula. I'm just talking about the title Griffin. Okay, I just want to talk about Scott Bakula. If you're going to use three of the same same letters in your thing, maybe don't have so much like microscopes and fingerprints and stuff. This is GSI, grime scene investigation.

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so excited. So I'm going to make it really quick. Shmaners is going to be performing at San Francisco SketchFest this year. On the first Sunday, I believe it's the 14th, January 14th. So you can go to bit.ly forward slash sfshmaners. S F S H M A N N E R S to go check that out. Did you just forget how to spell your own podcast? Well, there's a lot of S's in there. Sure. Sure. Yeah. And also, Shmaners is going to be performing on the Joco Cruise along a lot of other stuff. Dad's going to be there. We're going to be doing a lot of like special events and that kind of thing. You can find out about that at jococruise.com, j-o-c-o-cruise.com. And that is in February.

I believe it starts February 18th. In general, it's an amazing lineup and amazing cruise. Go check it out. All right. I can't believe you're about to hear the segment that you're about to hear. We had a very special guest on the show. And he's legitimately a hero of mine. And it is bizarre that he agreed to do our program, but he did. So, there. So I guess we should just get into it. Is there any sort of setup we need? I guess. Well, one thing that's really important to me is that we play a MaxFun promo right now. Hey, biz. Have you seen any good movies lately? Hey, Teresa. Just curious, George's BooFest count?

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All right. Well, you ready to get started? Y'all, y'all settled? I thought we were starting. Let's roll. This is it. This is it. This is the show. I've had a nap in an espresso. This could go anywhere. My guest this week, as surreal as it is for me to say, is Mr. Jimmy Buffett. Hello, and welcome to the program. Oh, no, I'm not going to do the show. I just, I just decided. I didn't tell you all that.

Because he called you Mr. Jimmy Buffett was that why you don't want to do the show now? If you call me Jimmy, I'll continue. But if you call me Mr. Buffett, I'm out of here. Jimmy, Jimmy, it is. Okay. All right, Jess. You got a new take two. Hey, how are you guys doing? Hey, how are you doing? Great, Jimmy. Great, great. You got a new album out, Barry Treasure Volume One.

Yeah, a new album for a lot of old stuff. Now, I hate listening to anything I recorded more than two weeks ago. So how do you, how did you feel digging these up and hearing them for the first time for in a long time? You know, what I did is I went and into Milo Studio. I was in New York in December and I went out to the studio, I took a bottle of wine and had a few glasses of wine and went back and just, I was curious and I wanted to go listen to them because, you know, the name comes from the kind of the way that it actually happened. They weren't buried in the ground like in the dirt or anything, but they were, they were actually lost tapes in some, you know, closet or storage

facility. And when they went to sell the studio, they opened it up and there they were. So be that as it may, it was kind of a time machine, you know. So I was interested in, and the fact that there were over 120 songs there and I could not remember writing that many songs. So that's what kind of got me interested. So I wanted to go listen to them all. And so I did. And then I started laughing and it was kind of fun and amusing because a good God did I sound like, I sounded so much, I know who I was, who I was channeling in those days and it was Gordon Lightfoot and boy, it was just, it was way too close. He should have sued me. So I listened to them all and then I tried to figure out what to do with them. And the interesting thing was,

you know, first idea was, is this, is this worth anything? What people want to want to hear it? Because, you know, once you get to one stage, if you've survived this long in the business, it's not like trying to do something new every year and kind of keep the ball rolling. I just try to make things that if people want to add to their collection based on what they've heard and been such loyal fans about before, then that's what a project is. So I kind of put it out weighted against those parameters, which were, you know, would this be something fans would be interested in? Something, you know, there was this raw and this far back. And I thought maybe they would, but then the other thing that kind of pushed me to the conclusion of yes, they would was that

the songs themselves, when I heard them kind of conjured up visions of the people playing them, what was going on in my life at the time, which was actually nothing. Because nobody knew who I was except these five guys I'd go to the studio with. I also thought it would be unique to capture these guys who were still A, alive, and B, in Mobile, who were the guys that kind of were the only ones that knew me at the time when they were putting bands together and helping try to promote me coming out of the studio. So I thought that was a kind of unique thing to get their perspective. And then my daughter did a video or a little documentary on all these guys who were in the studio. So that's how the whole thing

kind of it grew into what it became. And then when it did come out, all of a sudden I looked at it and the packaging alone was worth doing it because the Kim and her team, the people that did it out of New York did a great job of putting this whole thing together. Two again, you know, I thought at that point we'd done what the objective was was to make something that if people liked what we did, they could add this to their collection. And that's kind of the way it happened in a short version. Well, I was listening to it this morning and enjoying it a lot. So I think it's great that you got it out there. We got a lot of people wanting your sage wisdom here. A lot of our listeners wrote in with questions and I'm just going to hit you with. Sage wisdom? Sage wisdom.

I know. Do you say sage or stage? All. I can do both. Which way do you want? Your sage-stage wisdom. Sage-stage wisdom. Sage-stage wisdom. Either way. This is the first one and you asked for questions about sailing lionfish in Puerto Rico. We have all three covered. So you're in good hands. That covers some things. I got all the bases. Here we go. Here's the first question. Do you have any recommendations for a city slicker who wants to get into sailing? Are there books to read before taking an actual course? Any places or organizations that would get your seal of approval? That's from The Only Bait in Fenidelfia, is their name. Fenidelfia. I like that. Fenidelfia. From a city slicker to go sailing, I would certainly say that

reading is the first thing to do and read books. And then because there's so much great, there's so much great stuff out there. And if I was going to boil it down, of course, Treasure Island was the first one. But if you really want to read some good stuff, it would be the Patrick O'Brien series about Albury and, I can't remember, Captain Jack Albury and his sidekick. But it's a great series of books about the British Navy and the Napoleonic Wars. Because the great thing about it is it gets into the way people actually lived on boats back then. We think of them as, you see them in movies, and there's just pirates, there's people on boats. I mean, when they went, they didn't know when they were coming back. They had live animals. They all played music, too,

because there was no Wi-Fi back in those days. And so most sailors had an instrument or played an instrument. And it's the way also that a lot of music and different music from around the world found its way to other cultures was on boats. So they're great adventures, but they take the essence of sailing and how people lived and how they entertained themselves when they weren't fighting or when they weren't off, you know, enraging storms. There was a lot of dull time on boats. And believe me, as one who sailed a lot, you try to find some things to do. So I think reading about it first and then, you know, go down, go find yourself a little sailing school somewhere. If you live in Philly, you can go to the joysy shore, you know, and get in a boat. And

if you don't puke, then keep going. Now, I've got to be honest, of all the sailing advice I expected to get from Jimmy Buffett, make sure you read up on it first is not one of the things I expected, I expected to hear. Not a lot of that. I'll just go throw them in a boat and point them out there and go try to get back. Yeah, you'll be fine. Bye. Yeah, they'll figure it out. No, I'm not a Captain Bly. You know, you got to read about it first. Jimmy, I got a question for you. I'm about to go on my first cruise, which will be my first time really on a ship of any note, other than like a ferry. That's a boat with an engine. True. But here's my question. That's a hotel with an engine. That's a floating hotel we're talking about, right?

Yes, but will there be a point when I'm in the middle of the ocean and I can't see land anywhere and my mind just breaks and I just start screaming because that's what I'm worried about. I think that's called ocean madness. Yes, ocean madness. Well, you know what I would do? I would start drinking seawater. Okay. And that will really make you crazy. Just lean into it. No, so I'm going to tell you what. To me, being outside of land is one of the most pleasant and freeing experiences. And it'll take you, how long's your cruise? About a week. Okay. That's good. So see two days out, it takes a little while to kind of get your, to get your sailor's legs about you, even if you're on one of those big boats, you know,

because you're moving. And stay away from the buffet probably would be a good other thing to do until you get your sea legs. But even when, you know, even when I would go out on my little boats and, you know, once you, once you left and you were on there, you had to kind of readjust your, you know, your brain readjust and your, and your, your sense of balance has to readjust whether you're, you know, on a big ship or a little ship, it just automatically will do that because you're not on real land, you know. So if you ever notice you get tired out there, that's your, that's your inner year working to keep your balance up. So, you know, once you do leave, leave land, you have to reacclimate to being on the water. So that's like two days. And then

after that, you know, your anxiety should go away and then you can relax. Yeah. Just try not to think about the fact that the Poseidon adventure is based on a real story and it happens to like one third of cruise ships out there on the wild. And then the other thing I wouldn't do is look at those disaster and sea videos on YouTube before you go. There's a lot of them because it happens so much. Yeah. Especially the ones with the cruise ships getting smacked sideways by a 50 foot wave. I wouldn't watch them. Oh man. It's just, there's so many because it's so common. Oh no. Hope that helped.

There's a great question here I want to read. That was the, the question is the boom of my sailboat is terrifying to me. I'm always worried that sucker is going to brain me. How do I overcome my fear of the boom? And that's from deliberate land dweller in Durham. Okay. It's called a boom vang. They make a device that you can put on your boom and attach to your deck, which will allow it not to hit you in your head. Now let's go out and buy a boom vang. Now let's, Jimmy, just pretend, I mean, obviously we all know what the boom is, but let's pretend that our listeners don't know what the boom of a sailboat is. And maybe you could explain that first. Okay. It's very simple. Okay. The sail is triangular. So you have a mast

and you raise the sail and the sail is attached to the mast, but the sail has to move. So the mast is vertical and then the boom is the section of the mast. It's horizontal. The sail attaches to so it can swing back and forth as, because you've got to catch the wind and the wind is always moving. And then the reason it's called a boom is because when it does hit you in the head, it goes boom. I don't know what they called it before that. They call it a perfectly nice steering instrument on a ship. And a boom vang is just a piece of line that will tie to the boat that will keep it from going boom. Could you tie pillows to the boom so that if it does boom you, it's at least sort of, it cushions the blow. Of course you could, but I've never seen it. I feel like you might get some,

I feel like you might get hassled by some of the other sailor. Soggy, then mildewed, and then seagulls would shit on them and stuff like that. They could get funky in a hurry. So you might not want that pillow as protection. In my defense, a seagull can shit on any part of a boat no matter what, pretty much at any time. That is correct. Yeah. Here's another question for you, Jimmy. There's been a push to eat lion fish in order to curb their numbers because they're an invasive species. Have you tried it? Would you, and if you have, did it give you poisonous spines, I guess, growing out of your body? I don't see why that would happen. That's from James.

That's from James. Well, yeah, I went to the dermatologist and I got those removed. No, no, I don't want to scare anybody because this is kind of a serious subject. They are an invasive species. And the thing of it is, if you're a lover of the islands and water and diving and snorkeling and all that stuff, which if you're going on vacation, that's what you want to do, a lion fish or a big problem. And the fact of it is, they don't have any natural predators in the ocean. You can't, yeah, the thing of it is they're not, you'll never get, you can't, quite it with Sigaterra, which you can get from like refish sometimes. That doesn't happen in the flesh of the lion fish. Yeah, and yes, it's good. We serve it at the restaurant in Margaritaville.

We make sushi out of it. And we're trying to get people interested in making it a commercial product, which makes it something that the price of it would increase so that more people would go catch them. You can actually kill a fish and save a reef here. That's kind of an oxymoron when you're actually thinking about trying to save the ocean. You're trying to prevent everything from dying, but you can knock off quite a few lion fish and it's going to help the ocean. So we're kind of involved actively in some ways to promote that. And people are doing it already. They have lionfish rodeos in Florida and all, but there, but nobody has had seen them really as a food source until a couple of people started figuring out that they were good. And we shot them

about five or six years ago and just brought them up and cooked them and they were fine. A cleaning them is a bit of a problem, but then our people down in our kitchen staff at the hotel in Hollywood have done just that to make it a real, an easier way to clean it and not get poked. The only danger to that is in cleaning it. It's not going to kill you though, but it does hurt like hell. But anyway, we're looking at better ways that we could make it, make cleaning more efficiently and make it more of a food commodity because the fish does taste great. And that's a great way to get the invasive species under control. So we're going to do it. We're doing it at the hotel. We're going to start doing it down at our little restaurant at the cruise ship

dock in Belize. Who's going on the cruise? Travis or Griffin or Justin? Just Travis. Just Travis. Are you going to go to Belize? I don't think so. Not unless things go horribly awry. Yeah. If he ends up in Belize, something's gone terribly wrong with his storm situation. Well, I was going to say, if you get down there, you could go try some line fish, you know. I do read what on line fish now. Where are you going? We're going down to Cosmel and Cabo. No, Cosmel and Cabo. Okay. I tell you, Jimmy, if you've never been to Mexico, you should totally check it out. It's pretty sick. Yeah. I've heard of it. That's right. It's a thing. Have you ever talked about doing like an all you can eat line fish night in Margaritaville? I've always wanted

to be an inspirational environmental hero by eating a lot of fish. I'm in. What I am going to do is go out and when I get back from, I got to go up and work on the musical. When I get done with that, I'm going to go out on the boat and with Carlo, my head chef down there who kind of started this thing, I'm going to go out and shoot some line fish with him and he's going to teach me how to clean them and then we're going to cook them right there on the boat and then make a video. Please be careful. You've said shoot a couple of times now and I'm wanting you to use spear guns. Okay. Yes. That makes a lot of sense now. No, I'm not taking an AR-15. I feel like if we could rebrand the line fish because that's what that was, I think that's probably my hang up with it is that

it sounds dangerous, but like the name Tuna, like the reason there's only like four Tuna left is the name Tuna. Just that name sounds so good. It sounds really tasty and safe and huge and awesome. What about tasty fish? Tasty fish. We call it the line fish. There you go. Just call it tasty fish. Tasty fish. Can we change tuna to a big poison monster? I don't think we need to drag tuna through the mud. Come on. Tuna. Tuna's got enough problems here. We've got to get, yeah, but tasty fish. Well, you know, when you go into any restaurant now, they're serving you like sea bass. You know, that's a complete, that's fake fish. Oh, no.

Yeah, I think they serve a lot of it at the White House, fake fish these days. But no, it's called the, let's see, it's the, it's the tooth fish, but it's like the Argentine, the South Atlantic tooth fish. And that's what they are. And to your point, nobody's going to eat a tooth fish with that name. So they just basically renamed them sea bass. They're not any bass out there at all. They're tooth fish. So the line fish becomes the temptingly tasty fish. Yeah, totally eat that. I have like a, I have a practical question that wasn't sent in by the audience, but it's something that I struggle with every time I go to, every time I go to the beach, I always feel, and I, I enjoy going to the beach. I always feel like

I forgot something. Like I, I could have brought something to help me feel more comfortable at the beach. Like maybe a better, a better chair so that I'm not getting all sandy or it's like a sunshade to. You noticed that the beach has sand on it, correct? The beach has sand on it and it gets, you know, it gets all over. I'm curious, when you go to the beach, which I imagine you do sometimes, what do you take with, like, what do you bring with you? What are like your beach, like survival tools? My beach survival tool. Yeah, like a drink or an umbrella. Because I feel like if I saw Jimmy Buffett at the beach, I would start to get real paranoid to make sure I'm doing everything right and just sort of try to do. What I would bring to the beach is my van that has

everything in it. There we go. That's so good. Just drive it right onto the beach. Drive it, it's a four-wheel drive. You drive onto the beach and get a van. That's the first thing I do and put all your stuff in it. And they make little vans and big vans, you know, you can get a little Volkswagen van, four-wheel drive, let a little air out of the tires, put it out on the beach and there you go. And you can take everything you want. That's a good solution. That's a good solution. That's really good. I'm going to read another audience question. Okay. Several years ago, my sister went to Puerto Rico and brought some home massive avocados. They were the best avocados I have ever had and the guacamole we made from them has made all the guacamole scents seem like

trash. How do I deal with my unreasonably high standards? And that's from avocad don't know how to quit you. Well, I think the thing of it is, is I would kind of research the fact of what's going on in Puerto Rico in terms of agriculture and your avocado groves are still there. And if they're not, then I'm sure that there's some people. There's a lot of people doing great things in Puerto Rico right now. I don't know if you ever, did you see Jose Rios's piece on 60 Minutes the other day about cooking down there? If not, you should check it out. I mean, he literally took the terrible situation was there was, and as he said, there was food there, but people, you know, they were in charge, didn't know how to do it. He went down and the matter of two weeks was cooking

for a hundred thousand people a day. It's a pretty amazing story. So there's that kind of of care and that kind of wanting to help on the ground in Puerto Rico. And I bet you that somebody is reforesting at this moment or else evaluating where those giant beautiful avocados are. So maybe you want to get involved in, because the thing about it is as disastrous as, as hurricanes are having grown up in, in Hurricane Alley on the Gulf Coast and, and lived amongst hurricanes, the nature comes back pretty quick in the tropics. And it's amazing how fast things grow again. So I think your avocados will be back and maybe you could help them get back. And help, you know, Puerto Rico recover and provide any kind of relief that you possibly,

it's been, yeah, because it's been, it's been like a couple of months, but obviously they, they still need help. So this is probably a good time to mention like anything you can give to any, any organization that, that sort of, you can help. Like UNICEF for many federations doing a ton of good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And they're doing stuff down there. And, you know, if you can get direct to people that are, you know, like we had our hotel got severely damaged there. So we're basically getting all of our employees back to work, re, you know, cleaning up and getting the hotel back into shape. So, you know, and, and trying to just at that level make sure everybody has something to do as, as, as in the process of recovery is going along.

Jim, we got a lot of different versions of this question, but, but this one kind of sums it up. I was, I work a fairly standard dead-end office job. As you can imagine, life within a cubicle can be unglamorous and sometimes stressful. I don't have the time to get away from it all often. Any tips for relaxing and finding my own cheeseburger and paradise and everyday life. And that's from Big Boy Job in Baltimore. Big Boy Job in Baltimore. Hmm. I would, I'd go find myself a local bar. That's what I would do first. And they probably had good crab cakes in. And I know some, I know some of those exist in Baltimore. And, and just the other thing to do, I mean, if you're, is to get outside a little more, even if it's cold or even if it's not pouring down right,

just to get out and walk around without sunglasses or any glasses on. About 45 minutes a day, it kind of recharges your batteries. What about corrective glasses, like for a bad vision? Just take them off and try not to walk in traffic while you're using your phone. Okay. Okay. Do you feel a lot of pressure to always be the calmest person in the room in your, in your day-to-day life? I feel like if, if I was doing something, I saw Jimmy Buffett stressed out, I would probably flip my shit, honestly. Is Jimmy Buffett mad? Oh God. Jimmy Buffett here. Jimmy Buffett's not calm. None of us can be calm right now. We all have to freak out. There are days, let's say that I, well, I get attentive. Okay. I don't know about that.

That's the top of the scale. Yeah. Being very, being rather attentive to a situation might get at the top of the scale there, you know, but I've had a few close calls and it's either, I mean, it's still supposed to be here or, or I, you know, I'm making up for lost time because I should not be here. I'm supposed to be here. So either way, I'm still glad I am here and I'm not on the front nine anymore. So I think the older you get, all the stresses of life seem to go away because you don't have a lot of time to deal with that shit. You know? So why not go out and try to enjoy every day you got and not let everything get you down. Jimmy, the last time you went to the doctor, was your blood pressure four? No, I got my Apple watch on. I'll tell you what it is right

now. Okay. You want to know that? I actually really curious. I'm pretty sure it is where your blood pressure is. Good blood pressure check. Okay. It's measuring now. This is my, okay. Let's see here. Uh, it's a 54 beats a minute. Wow, really? That's amazing. You're testing it at like 88 on a good day. What's yours now? I'm at 99. That's rough. 99. I almost have two Jimmy Buffett hearts inside of me. I'm at 86, but I'm also recording a podcast with Jimmy Buffett. So I feel like I'm allowed to kind of do whatever my heart's going to do. I have a heightened state. Okay. So you, wait, this podcast is making your blood pressure rise. That's cool. That's, yeah, it's about the most stressful thing that I do, believe it or not.

It's really cool and shameful as that is. It's really cool and killing all three of us. Together pretty well. Thanks. Well, this is the closest we get to physical labor. Yeah, this is the hardest. Yeah. Where would you rate on a scale of very chill to attentive uh, creating a musical based on your music escaped Margaritaville, which just finished. It's uh, it was, it's about to wrap up, I guess. Yeah. Tomorrow it's, it's running Chicago and then it's moving to Broadway middle of February. How, how sort of stressful was that? Or is that more of a joyful thing? Or how, how was that for you? It's, you know, it's a bit of yin and yang there because of course it's a, it's a dream come true. And I've always loved musical theater and

the actual, uh, the actual fact that it's happening. I mean, as I've been to shows, you know, we've been in La Jolla, New Orleans, Houston, now in Chicago. I sit out there in the audience. I love watching the audience because I don't get out there that much. And I love that this show really entertains them. And I get a big kick out of watching people enjoy the show. And I, and I have to pinch myself to believe that this is actually happening. We're going to Broadway. And then I'm, I mean, and Justin, you, you were there when, when your good friend, Lynn Manuel Miranda brought you to the show and then we get up. How do you think I felt when he came out? We did Margaritaville. I go, God, this is cool. But I got a little over than a 10 of, I got

excited when Lynn Manuel came on the stage. Yes, I did. Which show do you think is better? Escape to Margaritaville or Hamilton? And this is the question that is on everyone's lips. Oh God. Okay. Well, let's just say this. I like them both, but nobody gets killed in Margaritaville. And they don't drop any beach balls on you in Hamilton. I don't know. It's different. No, but you know, when we did it that day, Justin, I thought it was pretty cool to go get a history lesson and get them. Hell, I was crying at the end of Hamilton. And that's about the eighth or ninth time I've seen it. When Who Tells Your Story comes on, they got me again. I mean, that's what's great about it. But

you know, get a history lesson in the afternoon and feel like you've gone to group therapy and then go get a drink, go to Margaritaville. That's a great day in Chicago. If I can live that day every day. There's only two more of them. But you'll be able to do it in New York because we're right down the street from them in New York too. Perfect. All right. Well, Barry Treasure Volume One is in stores now. Escape to Margaritaville moving to Broadway mid-February. You can go get tickets. Escape to Margaritaville.com, I believe, is the Escape to MargaritavilleMusical.com. It's interesting to get those. And oh, you know what else is coming up too? It's going to be kind of fun. The New Avengers. Working with the Eagles. Working with

the Eagles the next summer. Oh, yeah. Yeah, those tickets are out on sale now. I've known about it for a while. It doesn't come as a surprise for me because I've known about it. It's going to be cool because, you know, I kind of got my big break opening for the Eagles way back when for the Hotel California Tour. We became great friends and they were very instrumental in making a big leap. And so it's going to be, we haven't played together since then and it's going to be a lot of fun. Excellent. And I think we're doing, we're doing with them, we're doing Miami, Orlando, Minneapolis, going to Minneapolis, Denver. Love Minneapolis. I think San Francisco. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Well, next time you make it out to Cincinnati, I know I will, I'll be there.

If you want to pick me out of the crowd, I'll be the middle-aged guy in a Hawaiian shirt. So if you see that, that's me in the crowd out there. I've seen like, you know, I've seen like three people in Cincinnati dressed like that. So can you, can you tell me what color your shirt is? Because they're probably two of the people. I'm the one with the huge muscles. Huge muscles. Glistening muscles, glistening in the sun. Huge glistening muscles, Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, that's me. Got it. I'm going to be looking for you. I'm going to try to throw a pick in your direction. You're going to have to really chuck it because I usually end up towards the back, but I'll try to push it away. You're going to be on the lawn or you're going to be on the

lawn. I know that. I know that. Yeah, I've been out there. Jimmy, before we let you go, I just wanted to thank you for the most chill, my brother, my brother, and me segment in the history of our podcast, I feel like, the most relaxing segment we've ever had on the show. Well, man, you're saying I made podcast history today? There it is. Yes, absolutely. Wow. Okay. Well, thank you because I know a lot of people listen. So, yeah, I know there's a reason to listen because you guys are good. Why don't we finally give you your big break, Jimmy, and really get your name out there? I've been looking for that thing. Yeah. So, thanks for allowing me to have my big break.

All right. Thank you, Jimmy. Okay, guys. Have a great holiday. Okay. Finza, bye-bye. Thank you to everybody who, thank you to Jimmy Buffett, I guess, especially for coming on and doing our show. One other quick thing I wanted to mention, I have one other small thing. Candle Nights show went on sale, sold out. Thank you so much to everybody who got tickets. Can't wait to see you. If you didn't get tickets, or even if you did, and you want to do something else this Candle Nights season, big brothers, big sisters of South Central West Virginia works with a lot of LGBTQ youth in our area. And because of that work, they lost $80,000 in donations because... People are assholes.

Because people are assholes. But we're not, and more importantly, you're not. So, we're trying to make up the gap. All the money from the show is being donated to them. But my sister-in-law, Riley, is also organizing a fundraiser with us that is Be a Candle Nights star. So, basically, for five bucks or more, if you can afford it, that would be great. You can get a star on the Candle Nights tree, and that'll be up at our show this December. And all the profits for that, you can personalize your own star. And all the profits for that are going to go to the big brothers, big sisters from South Central West Virginia. So, if you could do that, it's bit.ly forward slash mbmbamstars. And we really appreciate that.

And two more quick things. PodCon is this weekend. Hopefully, you've heard about it before now. But if you haven't, in Seattle, December 9th and 10th, there's a podcast convention with my brother and my brother and me, 99% Invisible, Welcome to Night Vale, Last Name Basis. And also, some great guests are going to be there, Charles is going to be there, Gabby Dunn is going to be there. I think Hal Loughlin is going to be there. Oh, they got Hal? They got Hal. And you can attend. You can come for just $100. And even if you're not in the area, there is a $30 remote attendance option that's like being there, but you don't have to travel for it for just 30 bucks. What a miracle. I know. And not only were we doing

in my brother and my brother and me there, there's going to be a bunch of other events that we pop our heads into and do. I'm moderating a panel about collaborative storytelling with some folks from Night Vale and Black Tapes and a couple other shows that I'm pretty excited about. So that'll be something I've never moderated before. It's going to be great. So you can check that out at podcon.com, P-O-D-C-O-N.com. That's this weekend. So like, don't wait on that. And get your questions in if you're going to be there for my brother and my brother and me show. Please, we need those. And one more quick plug. I was on Hello from the Magic Tavern this week, which was an absolute dream of mine. It's one of my favorite podcasts. If you haven't checked it out, it's one of, I think,

the funniest, most inventive podcasts in existence right now. And I got to be on it. And I played a character named Chest Trunkborn. And you boys would be proud of me. I did my character voice through the whole episode. Good boy. So good. And like I said, that's Hello from the Magic Tavern. And I was on it this weekend. It was super fun. It was a great time. And Paul Sabourin makes a couple cameos in there too. So go check it out. I want to say I'm sorry about all the plugs. But this time, and I know that's annoying. So thank you for hanging in there with us. A lot of his charity, and I'm not going to apologize for that. You're all good people. And I know everybody is looking for opportunities to make the world slightly better. So apologies about that. Just

kind of a confluence of everything happened at all at once, you know, in the year. A lot of plate spinning. A lot of plate spinning. It'll be so, so thank you for indulging us. We really appreciate it. Yeah. And it's not fucking over yet, because I want to thank John Rodgerick in the Long Winters for the use of a theme song instead of Partier off the album Putting the Days to Bed. Very good album. Very wintery. Don't sleep on one Christmas at a time. The John Rodgerick, Jonathan Colton Christmas album. That's also very good. Would you like me to sing the title track? Yes, right now. One Christmas at a time. That's it. And thank you. And thank you to maximumfund.org for having us. You can go to maximumfund.org. Check out a bunch of great podcasts

there. Or if you want to hear other stuff we do, you can go to macroyshows.com. Let's end the program. Hell yeah. Thanks to James Buffett. Go see Escape to Margaritaville. Thank you, James. And by Barry Treasurer, volume one. Got to. This one was also sent by Seth Carlson, the delivery man with the hat trick. Thank you, Seth. It's Yahoo Answers user. Uh oh. Daughter eponymous. Daughter eponymous asks, why is, I'll try to stress the all caps words in here. Why is our government and others hiding the truth about giants? My name is Justin McRoy. I'm Griffin McRoy. And this is my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad. Square on the lips.

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