My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 384: Face 2 Face: TORONTO! LISTEN!

Episode Date: December 12, 2017

Despite the title of this live episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me, this one's actually from our performance at PodCon 2017 in beautiful, foggy Seattle! Join us as we dive into some pressing Yahoos with the help of our constant guardian, Rock N' Roll Navi.

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? It's a new place And the girls, do you want it? Just say, hey, I want it Just say, hey, I want it Begin

Hello everyone and welcome to my brother. My brother and me, an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy I'm your middle-is-brother, Travis McElroy And I'm your sweet baby brother in 30 under 30 media luminary Griffin McElroy Just real quick, two super technical things. One, there's a clock on stage that I think is supposed to be counting down, but it's not moving. Here we go. Sometimes it feels like time's not moving while we're doing this show. And two, someone's recording this, right? Like, I didn't check this beforehand, but it's fine. We apparently are going to spend, you can't see this, we're

going to keep up with the theme of things you can't also see. We are staring at two huge televisions that are just displaying our picture. The ones that were there, remember just a second ago? We're apparently going to be fucking barreling those for the entire... Don't take that away. No, don't take it away because it reminds me how damn handsome I am. What a handsome boy. Look at that hair. Also, I'm going to give you the audience pretty much a 100% guarantee. This is not the biggest table we've ever worked with. There is going to be a big spill of our absolute coffee drinks. I have two coffee drinks. Thank you all for coming here and thank you to PodCon for having us. How was your pod... With a response of just like a loud exclamation, how's your

podcon going? All right, now the nays. Who's having a really shitty pod? No. Everybody, just tell me your favorite panel so far at the same time, one, two, three, go. A lot of people said yours, which I feel is a cheat. I'm really excited being here surrounded by creators and just realizing like I'm going to start so many new podcasts. Yeah, I'm starting a new one, a Collabo, me and Lauren Sporer from Criminal. We're on a panel earlier today and we're doing a new true crime podcast called, Ah, Real Murder. It's really good. And it's just, it's great. It's like we aren't going to do research at all. Yeah. My theory is that there's been like a trillion people who've ever been on earth, right? And so law of large numbers, somebody's been murdered in every conceivable

way. And so I can just talk about like there was one dude who got drowned in a bunch of horsey sauce from Arby's and it's probably true. Yeah. I'm going to start a new one with Kevin Porter from Gilmore Guys where we watch and discuss every episode of Entourage and we call it Entourage. Is there any way I can pre-subscribe to that? Because here's the thing, maybe it's good. No. It's not. But what my book re-supposes is. My new thing is a solo project. It's about the pest. Okay. And it's called Save the Pest for Last. And it's a thrilling docu-drama about me. There's a John Leguizamo movie called The Pest. Sorry, I'm sorry Gryffindor. A John Leguizamo vehicle. It is right off the cliff. Right off the cliff

into a shark tank or something. And it has a really Buck Wilde intro. It's not especially funny to talk about on the stage. And it's not funny to watch. No, this is the problem though. I'm glad we've hit on it. Sort of arrived at it organically. We've been doing a lot more live shows and what we find is it's hard to sort of sit in, sit out, keep the energy up. And we're just three boring guys. I mean we just did Tacoma last night. I know. I was led to believe Seattle was Tacoma's bitter enemy. So I'm so happy that you could celebrate them. So it's hard to keep the energy up. We don't have pyrotechnics or anything. So we have been sort of obsessed with this audio file that we found. It's not the pest that we wouldn't

do that. It's not the pest because we love you. It's 45 minutes of Paul Stanley stage banter. You know Paul Stanley from KISS? From KISS. He's the one with the star. Yeah. So rather than like us try to keep the energy like up and get everybody really excited, we thought we'd just let Paul Stanley do it. For 45 whole minutes. Welcome to the fucking dungeon. It's not real Paul Stanley. He couldn't make it. But we do have this audio file. He sends his regrets. Yeah. Just one thing you should, if you're for the next couple of minutes, you should pretend you're in Toronto. That will really help. Oh really hide the effect. Also pretend like you're playing the legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Navi is floating over your shoulder for reasons that will become instantly

apparent. Also pretend like you know anything about the titles of KISS songs. Yeah. So you know what he's building up. He's going to be building up some things that you're not going to be aware of where he's headed. So just sort of hang in there. All right. So let this just absorb this and let it get you so psyched. This is 45 minutes of Paul Stanley. Well two minutes of Paul Stanley stage ban. Two minutes of 45 minutes of Paul Stanley. All right. Toronto. You feel good. All right then. Listen. We may be under clear blue skies, but you know it's getting a little cool out tonight, but that ain't going to stop us because if we try hard enough, we're going to get this place. I said we're going to get this place. How did it help?

Can we get it a little louder? Listen. I want to know if we got any people here tonight that like to get high. We got any people tonight that are high. All right then. Listen. Listen. You know, every once in a while we like to get a little wasted. We like to take a taste of alcohol. And I can tell you when we won't get going, we ain't going to be drinking no southern comfort. No, no. No, we ain't going to be drinking no tequila. Because I tell you, when we won't get going, you know there's only one drink that gets us moving. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Listen. Listen. You know, it wasn't too long ago we was here and I'll tell you every time we come here,

damn it, it just gets better and better. You people are dynamite. That's it. It goes on like that for another 43 minutes. And we've listened to that like five times in the last 48 hours. Listen. Listen. Gerardo. You got to get the deco nut and throw it at stuff. Does anybody know what fucking alcohol song this is building to? Old Gen. I get drunk on Old Gen. It's really gross. Listen. I like the way the dust particles settle in it. You got to find the master sword. Gerardo, give it a try. Hey, let's do a podcast. You can't just play 45 minutes of Paul Stanley audio and call it a podcast.

Or can you? Hello, podcast. My new podcast. So thank you. Stand them. That's what I would call it. Yeah, it's not bad. It's not a good reaction. We take your questions and turn them alchemy like into wisdom. And so thank you. So we're going to do that now. Lights are so bright. They're very bright lights. So bright. Hey, let's take it down. No, don't take it down. I am traveling from Salt Lake to Seattle. And I'm wondering how the heck I'm supposed to take my skateboard on an airplane. I have no idea. And I don't want to leave it behind because it is my made form of transportation. That's from skater boy on the salt dare. At that point isn't isn't the airplane your No, he's sketching, sketching the whole way here. Please watch out for the jets. They are not conducive

to sketching. I mean, you got a skateboard on to the tarmac. Absolutely up the luggage thing onto the wing transfer over the chassis of the plane into jail out of jail back onto the wing smash through the window of the airplane. The flight will be grounded. They need that window so bad. It's important for the vacuum the vacuum. I don't understand much about airplane technology, but I think the vacuum is quite important. I have seen people bring like really weird shit on an airplane. Yes. Can you just can you just bring? Yeah, it's so funny. It's a very funny thing to say Travis. Thank you. Is this your first episode of my brother, my brother and me? So

the hard part is TSA because because they're going to be like, do you have anything dangerous? And you're going to be like, I should fucking say I down. Do you have any paper you need shredded and then you do a flip? You have kickflip and then you shred somebody's passport with how hard your kickflip is. They say you have anything electric in there? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, it is. It is electrifying. It's okay. It's you have any liquids? Yes, the piss you're going to piss when you see me do my cool skateboard tricks. If you get your it's not conventional or cheap, but if you get your passport printed on a skateboard, they are going to have to let you board with it or get your passport photo taken with your skateboard in it. And so you show up,

they're looking at your ticket, they're like, this isn't you. And you're like, oh, hold on. Here's what you're going to have to do. You could wear it as a hat in the passport photo and be like, no, it's a medicinal skateboard. I need it for life. You're going to have to break your skateboard down into its component parts and disguise them as other parts of your luggage. Like use the wheels on your suitcase, right? Yes. And put the skateboard board, the board part on the back of the suitcase, and then put the trunks in the suitcase. Trucks? Trucks, yeah. Axles? Yes. I don't know. I'm pretty good at touch with skateboard culture. I don't know how the security line at the TSA works, but I think one of the main things they

hate is components. Like any sort of component-based thing they're like not wild about. Even if you promise them, no, no, no, it's cool. I'm going to build a skateboard. I still don't think that's good. I know how this looks. I know how this looks, what with all the components, but it is for a skateboard. How about a yahoo? If you've never listened to our show, sometimes we make fun of people on yahoo answers. No. We make fun with them. We make fun with them. We help them out. Are there any people who actually just show hands? Any people who have never listened to our show before they're here? Anybody? Hey, all right. All right. New people. Every time they come to podcast, it just gets bitter and bitter. You people are dynamite. The podcast is not usually

us shrieking Paul Stanley quotes. This yahoo is sent in by the delivery man himself, Seth Carlson. Thank you. It's yahoo answers user Carol, who asks, should spaghetti be way shorter? I'm not talking about that macaroni. I'm not talking about that pinne talking about that short spaghetti. I really love word choice in yahoo. This is always my favorite part because the question is not, could spaghetti be shorter? But should it ethically? Would it be okay? Morally, is spaghetti too long? I know. A lot of times I'm sucking one of those good, good nudes up, and I get about, whoa, wait. That's not a good, no, okay. Yikes. In retrospect, it's not a good truncation, and we've all learned a lot here tonight. Maybe doles. Doles? No, just noodles.

Noodles? Noodles? Noodles. You know what I'll say? Spaghetti noodles. Sometimes I'm consuming a spaghetti noodle. I get two thirds of the way through and I'm like, ugh, I get it. You're talking, you're saying, make a break. I get to that point, I'm like, eh, over it. You're saying that we need to- What if you get full at that exact moment? Oh yeah. I don't want the last third of this noodle. Too much. Too much for me. You're saying way shorter is way too short. You want a master's finesse on these noodles. A keen eye, taking maybe eight percent of the noodle off just a little. I would like bespoke noodles, yes. I would like someone who measures the inside of my mouth and then makes noodles accordingly. I want someone, I want a waiter to come to my table

with what appears to be a mop full of spaghetti as a varying length, and then ask me very personal questions about my upbringing and select the right noodle. Measure your mouth with a special ruler. And then maybe come around with a golden pair of scissors that they discard immediately after you throw it right away. It's just like, that's too much noodle. They just take care of it. Oh, they could cut it right in front of your mouth. Right in front of your mouth. You're going like, that's it. When? Yes, of course, sir. Okay, what if they just come to the table with a bathtub full of spaghetti, and they stand there and just like, let you keep sucking it up until you're full. And then... And hidden inside is a flag.

You're growing a space camp, my friend. It is. I feel like if spaghetti was way shorter, you would have fork issues. This would now become a spoon food. Yeah. Well, not only that, how unsatisfying would it be if you were like... You like the, the nudely hanging, the cthulhu effect of the noodles. There's a, there's a certain sound wave that happens as you inhale the noodle, that's like... Right, that's why my... Yeah, also my vape noise. Is there spaghetti flavor of vape? Yep. If we're gonna make them shorter, we should probably make them thicker as well. Oh, God. I want... How thick are we talking? What's the diameter juice? Like, like, baked bean, can, side, spaghetti noodles that are about this long and this big around.

I want it to be like, man, I want some spaghetti in four hours. I better start braising this. So, like, a puck of spaghetti. Exactly. How do you want it? It only comes out, didn't it? Because it can't get very cooked. That's great. You can just lay it on its side and just take a big bite of it from the top. I like... You're laughing, but there's a dark part of you, the part... You would. You do. You view. There's a part of you that's like, put a sear on it and maybe, I don't know. I need a nasty noodle can. Yeah, I need a nasty can of noodles. Where does the sauce go? It's just sauce flavored. If you put it... Oh, God. Yeah. I said, this is not a food of opulence. This is not a food of convenience. It's obviously inside. Oh, yeah. So a secret pocket. If you cut it,

it just sort of... Oh, yeah, be careful now, because now we're talking about a big ravioli. No, no, no. Holy shit. No. It's all connected. Okay. Oh, pasta's kind of the same. Yeah. Okay, time out. Time out. Quick ravioli check, if anyways... Anyone here a ravioli? You have to tell us there's entrapment. You know that, classically, the marinara is not stuffed inside the ravioli. Like a gusher. Like a savory marinara gusher. It's not like that. No, that's the pizza roll. Okay, fair. Why have they never made savory gushers now that I'm thinking about it? Fucking cowards, all of you. Here's what it should be. It should be a packet of gushers. 99% of them are sweet. One is savory. Well, I gotta be careful, though. I don't want my head to turn into a big

ravioli like the commercials for gushers. So, recently at my parents' house, I found an old drunk full of the bram with dusty puppets. Hello, where the dusty puppets? Hello, Toronto! No, Toronto! I also found proof that my father was involved in competitive puppetry. Okay, hold on. You find a trunk of dusty puppets. That speaks for itself. My father used puppets. What is the proof that your dad used to do competitive puppets? Articles. The only thing I think is a trophy for competitive puppets. No, a local team competes with puppets. Yeah, this could have been something we talked about as a family before, and maybe I just forgot. You would not have forgotten. Absolutely not.

I feel like I would have remembered puppets. Yep. Either way, this cannot go unaddressed. When is the best time to bring up that you know about your father's secret past as a competitive puppeteer? That's from, quote, I know about the puppets in Paris. Okay, I would like to pose a scenario. Justin is the dad here, okay? I don't think he want to do that. His father's a strong man, and he put the puppets away for a reason. I'm not ready for whatever kind of reaction he's going to have. He competes at a professional level. What is a puppet competition? Can we address what competitive puppetry is? Okay, options. One, you're trying to knock off the other guy's puppet. With your puppet or a tree. My puppeting is so hard. It is non-contact.

Non-contact competitive puppeteering. You scare them very bad with your good. Okay, option two, how long can you puppet before someone realizes it's not a real person? That's it. Start the clock. Wait a minute, stop the clock. This guy's Philip. When Sesame Street came out, nobody knew. And so reviews of the first episode of Sesame Street was like, they are the biggest bird I've ever fucking seen. It talks at everything. They found a real fucking crypto-zoological monster, and it loves cookies, 10 out of 10 stars. Put it on PBS, Darla. There's a giant hairy elephant, and it's talking. He's in a trash can. I don't even know what's up. My one-year-old son loves Sesame Street,

though. That's probably really what it's like for him. That must be nice. Love to go back to imagine. Love to have. To have an imagination again. To believe in hope and goodness. Competitive puppeteering. Competitive puppetry of the penis. Is that anything? I don't want it to be a thing. Is that just like, yeah. Puppetry of the penis does exist. That's not from my mind's eye. It was on Showtime late at night when I was a teenager. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe a competitive puppetry of the penis. You're using your competitors penis. Yes, absolutely. That's a short match. Yes, I give. Mercy, mercy. All right, and we're ready to... I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. How about a yahoo? I have another one. Wait, hold on. I think I know

how competitive puppetry is. Oh, good. Two puppeteers, the same puppet, and they take turns, and it's like, no, that was, that was what that puppet is. Oh, I thought you meant two hands, one puppet. And I'm not going to make the cheap joke that sounds like two hands, one puppet, because that's below us, and it's fucking 2017 AD, the year of our lord. I'm a Gregorian calendar. Stop it. This is from the delivery man, Seth Carlson. Again, thank you, Seth. It's yahoo, answers user, the DS guy who asks, is a jelly donut a donut? Now listen, y'all, you think you know where this question is going? I mentioned the donut man to my Sunday school teacher. So he played his guitar and sang a song. Live Without Jesus is like a

donut because there's a hole in the middle of your heart. Everyone loves this jam. You guys know that one, right? I said, what about donuts without holes? He played and sang the same song, but with different lyrics. A donut without a hole is not a donut. So I said, what about a jelly donut? He's saying the same song with the lyrics. A jelly donut is not a donut. So is he right? Is a jelly donut not a donut? Is a donut without a hole not a donut? Is a life without Jesus like a donut? Is there a hole in the middle of your heart? Jesus wants to fill that hole. And my favorite mental picture of this is the progression of the Sunday school teacher's face plays the first song. But what about a donut without a donut hole? Well, that's

ridiculous. Okay, second song. And then third, what about a jelly donut? Jelly donut is not a donut. The Sunday school teacher looked in the mirror that morning before class and said to himself, I am out of things I know about Jesus. I have a Sunday school class today, and I've taught them all the cool things that I learned about Jesus, all his wanderings and his ways. I've taught them all. I should try to vamp. I hope someone asked the question that allows me to vamp off of it. But here's the thing. If you tell a six-year-old that life without Jesus is like a donut, how's that six-year-old not like sweet? Awesome. Yeah, fucking sick, bro. I love donuts. Donuts are awesome. If I remember correctly, this song is literally like, it's good for a little

while, but then like, no, then you hit the center where there's no more donuts. That's not how donuts work. I've never eaten a donut. I'd be like, Hey, where'd it go? What the hell? Why did you do this to me, Jesus? There's no donut in the middle of the donut. Do you think that anybody tried to tell that cat like, I know you think you have something with this track, but that sounds pretty rad. I don't think we necessarily want to compare these two things. Also, long johns are donuts. They don't have holes. Is a Danish a donut? No, it's a Danish stupid. Now wait. Okay. Is a jelly donut just a Danish jelly donut? It's just a closed over Danish. It hasn't been circumcised. Okay. Well, think about it. I'd rather not. No, I get it. You brisk that jelly donut now we're in Danish

territory or in Denmark. No, hold on. Justin's moved the mic. Oh, shit. Wait, hold on. The people who raised their hands just looked around. So confused. I am a I come from a land of the isons. Oh, that's very, very litigious band. I want a munch. I want too much. Hey, everybody, welcome to munch squad. It's a podcast within a podcast. We're so honored to be a pod con when the when the McRoy brothers got the

invite. We didn't know if we would also be on the list, but we begged and pleaded our way in and we're so excited to be with you to share this. I can see not very well. Justin's iPad from the side of the table. I just saw sort of a brown sort of mass that maybe is sort of don't give it away. Okay. Big news, everyone. Cinnabon against God. It doesn't say that. That's being editorializing. S-I-N, a bun. Yeah. Cinnabon. Thank you. Cinnabon is stuffing a cinnamon roll inside a cookie. Wait, there's no space inside. The munch is cookie is the fucking TARDIS. I do not understand how this feat is possible. It's putting a cinnamon bun. Wait, what? A cinnamon bun? Cinnamon bun. A cinnamon bun. Cinnamon bun inside a cookie.

They're taking a cookie and they're putting a fucking cinnamon roll inside it. That should be the end of the press release. My favorite thing about munch squad is that sometimes in order to justify, I'll just say it, their sin. They have, they come up with a fake situation that they're solving. Like, no, you see, it's not a sin against Jesus. It's, we're solving a problem. And the one, the fake problem they've invented for this delight, not enough diabetes. Yeah. Right. Is one of my favorites so far. The days of deciding between a fresh warm cookie and an ooey gooey Cinnabon cinnamon roll are no more. Well, these are two different day periods that you eat these foods. Also, who made both of them at the same time? Who was like looking at the oven like, what's this?

Oh, we fucked up. We did two bakings. In honor of National Cookie Day, Cinnabon will, I mean, desecrate the idea of a cookie. A slit it's throat in front of its family. Cinnabon will offer the most ingenious treat to date, the cookie bomb bite. This item takes the beloved chocolate chip cookie to another level. By baking a bond bite, imagine the, the, like, pretend you're the person creating this and see if your brain doesn't try to stop you. It probably will. It takes the bomb bite, the bite-sized version of Cinnabon's world famous cinnamon roll inside a chocolate chip cookie. It's like, where? Where? Where? Uh, it will only be available for a limited time, as will the people who consume it.

There's no better way to celebrate National Cookie Day than with the quintessential combination of cookies and milk. Stop acting like you're fucking honoring the cookie when you're remixing it and shitting on it. There's no better way to celebrate your last National Cookie Day. To provide guests with the ultimate dunking experience. Who jumps a fucking cinnamon roll? They, they partnered with Fairlife to provide a free eight ounce bottle of milk. Your last one for every cookie bite purchase on December 4th. And we put cookies in it. Fuck off. Fuck off. The nutrient rich ultra, ultra filtered milk is lactose free. It contains 50% more protein,

30% more calcium. I am. Wait, and 50% less sugar than regular milk. Do not care about the nutrients in the milk of the nightmare bomb that I'm shoving down my hate gullet. That's the worst misdirect I've ever heard. But the milk is so wicked good for y'all. Seriously. The milk's totally going to cover for the sugar mess. The milk's like, no, it's fine. He's with me. The bad cookie will hide in the milk in your tummy. There's more. Sharing a passion for the highest quality ingredients yield. I don't care if this shit's made out of emeralds. And gold and fair life make the perfect pair just like milk and cookies.

Let's check in with Jill Thomas, the vice president of global marketing for Cinnabon. Free me from the prison. The cookie bomb bite is one of our yummiest examples of creativity to come out of the innovation kitchen. Hatred and creativity are different things. But they occupy the same part of our awful brain. The extent to which we despise humanity has never been more full. We've never hurt you more. The delicious cookie bomb bite joins two extraordinary baked goods to create an unexpected out of this world flavor combination not to be missed. How? Because here's the thing. Show me a picture of this this bad boy. All I'm picturing is like

Saturn where there's literally just like a salmon bun thing. You're not that far off my man. I don't know if y'all probably not right but I can try to. Somebody so yeah I mean I need it too. This is what you're all fucking thinking. You wanted to laugh but like secretly you're like hell yeah but here's this I'd fuck that up no question. I just it's do you think after they put this press release out somebody leaned in and like why didn't we just do like a chocolate shit cinnamon roll and they're like oh shit. Oh shit. Damn it. That's because they were getting into their partnership with Nashville's Christie Cookie Company the brand behind the famous Double Tree by Hilton Cookie. We take

your favorite hotel cookie and we put it in a fucking cinnamon roll. What do we care? We take your favorite hotel cookie but in your favorite airport cinnamon roll. Our partnership with Christie Cookie Company is just one example of our dedication to supporting premium bakery brands that offer craveable products on par with Cinnabon. Are you sure you want to do that Jill? You sure you want to wash the throne that hard? There is one kind of day you can have after eating one of these I feel like in a way like maybe it's a relief you eat one of these and it's like well clear my schedule. Yeah it transforms your khakis into sweats. This is a cookie you look at all day and think not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I still have things to do in this world.

How about another question? Yep. I work at a bridal store. Oops. Oh no. The questions went away. I work at a bridal store and have to work in pretty close proximity to a lot of our customers. When I notice that someone smells particularly nice it's such a pleasant surprise I often find myself complimenting them on it. No. It's too late. It's too late for them. Next question. Move on. They're done. They fucked up too bad. The problem is saying wow you smell really good. Sometimes comes off the wrong way. Are you sure? All right. Go on. However I think saying sorry I'm not trying to be creepy might actually make it worse. Yes. Oh you don't say. Both are right. Should I stop complimenting this aspect of my customers completely or just stop apologizing

for it? That's from sorry for smelling in Nebraska. Are you here? I heard so much response. Yes or no. I'll count it down. Is this acceptable behavior? Yes or no? Three, two, one. I heard a lot of yes there. I heard six yeses. Travis is. Challenge accepted. We're going to do round robin and try to say this in a way that isn't creepy. No. No, no, no. We can do it. We can do it. People have to edit it out and make it sound like a thing I think. Some of us have acting degrees. Justin has three quarters of an acting degree. I have a whole acting degree. All right. Here we go. Oh, no. That was just me clearing my throat. And gotta let him get through it. Just let me get to it. Your musk. Okay. No. Okay. Gotta let

him get through it. You gotta let me get through it because you don't know how it's going to end. The fragrance you're exuding. Right. No, I'm out. I'm tapping out. Okay. Everybody be quiet. No. No. Your smell. No. Can't start with a sniff. Okay. Let me try it. Let me drag it. Okay. Okay. No. Okay. No. Absolutely not. Cannot. Griffin. Your particle. All right. They smell good. Your diet's done. What if you're just like... Oh, nice. No need to... No need... Act it out. Act it out. You do it. I'm leaning down to look at a veil that I like. Okay. Oh, nice. What if I don't do the sniff? Let's try again. Okay. Oh, nice. What? What's up?

There's a good smell in here from somebody. Somebody in here smells good. Live your life. Not me. Not me. Who else is it? Is it me? I guess so. Or somebody else who was in here before. That's not weird, is it? I love you. I love you too. That dress is for our wedding now. I stole your fucking wedding. Live your life with the confidence of the person willing to claim the good smell is them. It's me. It's me. You got it. I mean, I know if you missed up before going outside, you know you're the one with the good smell. You always know if you're the one with the smell, no matter what kind of smell it is. Actually, here's the thing. I live my life

every day afraid that I smell bad and no one's telling me. That's just like, I leave a word about it. Jesus. I know. I have a lot of weird anxieties. And so for somebody to look at me and be like, hey, straight up, you smell good. No. Still, you said that all out. And even then, after you said it, you still realized it's not good. I think the only way that would actually work is if I traveled back in time to myself and said, hey, you smell good. There's no good way really to compliment a stranger about more or less anything, which is fine. Maybe an anonymous comment card situation. Everybody should have like a suggestion box that they carry like a fanny pack on their back, though. And so you slip it in there where they're not like, and it's

like totally cool. The smell is nice. No, it's not good. Okay. What about a misconnection's web page? Still not good. But then it just says like, you came into my store and you smell good. I think that was me. Go to him and say, Hey, what's your LinkedIn? And then he'll tell you, okay, good, you got a good recommendation coming your way. Keep an eye on, keep an eye on your inbox. What if there was just a sign over the door that says someone in here smells good? They could just like point to you could ask them what shampoo? All right. I think I've got it. I think I've got it. Okay. You're, they're trying on the dress or veil or whatever. And you say, what's that smell?

No. No, I can't. You can't. That's right now when someone's changing clothes. Yeah, can't, can't do it. You think they're going to be talking about a, but no, you can't. What's that smell has never been followed with the residents cause it's great. Stop, stop. What's that good smell? No, no, what's that good smell is fucking bullet proof. You enlisted them in the mystery. Let us give a round together. And they might say, Oh, I have a scent on it might be me. And then you can say like, Oh yeah, I guess that's it. Done. Don't need to drag it out any. What have you, what have you gained? What have you gained? This is why can't you smell the smell thinking your head? That's nice. And then store that positive moment away for your

Even that's kind of fucking creepy. Yeah. I'm going to save. I'm not going to say anything, but I'm going to save the memory of your great smell for myself later. I'm going to enjoy it later. I think maturity is just a series of starting to say really fucked up things and then thinking, now it's just for me. Yeah, I wouldn't stand in the old dome or just not thinking them. Listen, I wish I had that kind of self control. Hey, everybody, this is Griffin. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of my brother, my brother, me, our live show from pod con. Pod con was a ton of fun. If you didn't get a chance to go to it, you missed out on seeing some really great panels or did you miss out because you can still get a streaming ticket and

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out to the panel. I think next week we are going to have just sort of a regular episode and then after that, well two Mondays from now is actually Christmas Day so it'll probably go up on Tuesday but we're probably just going to put up our candle nights live show that we're doing in Huntington that we are so stoked for. Thank you all so much for grabbing tickets for that and helping it sell out as quickly as it did. So yeah, we will talk to you next week. Goodbye. and a promo for our new show on Maximum Fun, Go Fact Yourself. Nobody has any idea. Go Fact Yourself, the game show with celebrity contestants, super smart experts, and answers to questions you've never even asked. Listen twice a month on maximumfun.org or wherever

you get your podcasts and be in the audience for our tapings of Go Fact Yourself in downtown LA. It's free. Go to gofactyourpod.com for more info. We're having a very realistic conversation. Yes, we are. I have another Yahoo if y'all want it. Yeah, good. Well, do you want it? Okay. Yeah, what's wrong? No, I just we had the other question. I didn't know if you wanted to. Yeah, let's do the Yahoo first. It's from Aaron Kiest sent this one in. Thank you, Aaron. It's Yahoo. It's an anonymous Yahoo answers user. We're going to call them boss. Anonymous. Okay, Travis decided that Anonymous is the funniest name to call them.

Now it's A, it's short for Aaron Anonymous. Aaron Anonymous. Oof, still asks. What does Robert want for Christmas? Robert, are you here? Robert. Our group of friends are exchanging gifts for Christmas this year, but I have no idea what Robert wants. Hey, real quick show of hands. How many Roberts do we have? One. Okay, wait, keep them up. One, two. This is your day, Roberts. Hey, everybody. I would have thought. Can I get every Robert to just stand up real quick? Hey, everybody, let's give him a big round of applause. Thank you to all the Roberts for coming out. So cool, you guys. Thank you. We didn't think we were going to get Robert here.

Thank you, Robert. Now sit down, Robert. That's it. All right. Now, the people who are with Robert, what does Robert want for Christmas? I, um, a copy of Terminator 2 on DVD. So he can remember the great time he had shooting that movie with his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yes, it's Robert Patrick. Robert Patrick's here? Maybe some nice pulpy orange juice because it's Robert Loja. And that's about as deep a cut as I can possibly deliver here on my brother, my brother, me is the orange juice commercial starring Robert Loja. After our, after our show, or during it, if it keeps up like this, Google Robert Loja orange juice commercial, you're in for a real treat. Um, maybe Robert wants 10,000 American dollars. Choice always fits every time.

What maybe what Robert wants is for you to get to know Robert well enough to know what Robert wants. Maybe you haven't spent enough time wanting a pause. Weird appeal of applause. Yeah, Robert's been in the dumps lately. Robert just wants a fucking friend. I need a new season of cereal to explain why that applause just happened. I need a forensic examination of where it started and who maybe Robert needs a friend. Yeah. Episode one, it'd be like blink, blink, blink, blink. They certainly didn't earn that applause. Where did it come from? Maybe Robert wants you to fucking stop calling him Bob. Yeah, he would very much appreciate that. He's asked you so many times. I should have asked how many bobs we have. Oh, how many bobs?

No, we're done a bit at least once and sometimes not even that many times. How many people here aren't named Robert? Okay, one, two. Are you in discussions or one more question? I'm not done talking about Robert. Robert's so great, but I'm actually done talking about Robert. Probably a blanket. How good's that last question? It's the one with the kid. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Now let's go to audience question. All right. Sorry. Sorry, kid. I'm just going to read it. And then we want to address it, but now it won't be a fucking mystery. I don't want cereal season three to be like, he said it was about a kid. Blink, blink, blink. I have an nephew who just turned three years old

whenever anyone was upset. He likes to diffuse the tension by yelling things and being silly until everyone is cheerful again. Right there with your kid. That's adorable. However, lately, his go-to phrase for this has been fucking a, which he picked up from my mom while it's not a huge deal with us. He may be going to daycare soon and probably shouldn't be swearing around other people's kids. How do we get him to stop swearing? That's from aunt of a cool Seattle baby. Let's get rules rules. I don't have an answer. Oh, hey, check this out. Hey, fucking a, you smell great. That's not, that does it. That's fine, right? Yeah. Let's hear it for the boy. Should we go to audience questions now? Fuck it, hey. Yeah, all right. Can we get lights up on

the crowd? So we have runners who are going to come by with microphones. Please stay, chill and about this. Now I need, I need like full house lights because there's a bunch of people here and we can't see them at all. What I would need you all to do with the other hand raise. Oh yeah, we have two rules. Right? First, I want you to think, is the thing I'm about to ask an actual request for advice or is it just a funny story that I think is funny? Please do not let it be the latter. We also, oh shit, there's so many, we did a bad job of walking into this segment. You know, the main rule is no bummers and also we're going to pick two people at the same time. They're going to give their questions and we're going to decide which one we can help the most with.

And so that's how we're going to handle this. Okay. Is this really all the house lights? Yes. How, hat with yellow writing. Yeah, gold writing. Stay there. Stay there. You're number one. And then on this side, sitting on the aisle with a black shirt, you're putting it yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. All right. We'll start with you since you were there first. What's your name? Lisa. Hi, Lisa. What's your question? So I'm in charge, I'm in charge of entertainment for a company party. It's a global event. And I've accidentally, I've accidentally booked three different acapella groups for the same hour period. Can we, okay, can I get the audience mics turned up, like twice as loud as they are right now? Because I want to experience every moment of this

with you. You have booked multiple three acapella groups for one party for a half hour period. And it's on Tuesday. How do you quit your job? No, no, no. How do I, how do I change my identity and move to Canada? Okay, that's very good. Wait, I do want to hear their request. What, what do you need our help with? Did I make a mistake? No. Okay, what's here? What is the actual question? What, what should I do about that? Yeah, we can work with that. What's, what's your name? Hi, I'm Lex. Hi, Lex. What's your question? So I live with my boyfriend and we keep getting into this argument over whether we should have a Lord of the Rings wedding. I am asking you to help me convince him to just have a normal, like elegant wedding. I'm, I'm kind of a closet

nerd. Okay. I know that's a bad one to ask you. No, hold on. Because under and between the beautiful cliffs of Rivendell, I think you could throw a pretty fucking elegant wedding. That's my day. Don't assume. The elves. The elves know how to throw an elegant swarray. Can I tell you that? Okay, straight up. We're going to do the acapella one. The acapella one, I'm going to do it because that's the best shit I've ever heard. Wait, you can help with that. But it's not that your question's not good. I can answer it in one, like one sentence. Here it goes. Everybody step back. You only get one wedding and everyone does just a wedding. We had a Lord of the Rings wedding is way more interesting. For sure. Something. Are you talking her into it? Or do you want to get better

pictures? It'll be a better thing overall. Tell them you want to do a buckaroo bonsai themed wedding and then settle. And then when you can't agree, just be like, fine, we'll just do a normal wedding then. I love buckaroo bonsai. What about a labyrinth themed wedding? Okay, there you go. Thank you. Would you do a normal wedding, but both of you had to carry big, big swords? Okay, wait, wait, wait. Here's the compromise. Normal wedding, but tell one person in the bridal party that it's a Lord of the Rings themed wedding. I think we should reserve that for what? Maybe your brother? Yeah, no, perfect. Send them links, the costumes, everything. There's only one person in your bridal party. It's Andy Serkis. He's wearing a green screen suit. And then on your cut of the wedding

movie, he's just wearing a normal tuxedo. And the other one, he's everyone's favorite little monster named Gollum. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, acapella groups. Did you book three acapella groups for a half hour or did you book one new super cool acapella group for a half hour? Because I think it's the latter. I think that this is a lot of behind the music start this way. Like, we were just three different acapella groups, weren't we? And we all showed up for the same gig, believe it or not. And we decided, hey, let's all sing together. And then and that's how the Beatles got started. So the polyphonic spree. You know, if you just pay all of them and two of them don't have to sing, they're probably happy about that. They're probably good. You're like, here's your

$30. Like, oh, dunk. Okay, bye. How did you? How did you do this? How did you fuck up this bad? How did you? Were you on a like conference call and you didn't realize that you said you're hired and you heard three beautiful choral voices say, thank you. I was told to book some entertainment on Thursday. And I just reached out to as many groups as I could and some with instruments and some without. Yes, but the only ones available for for that were available in that close of a notice where the acapella groups. And what was the wording of this content? Like you are hired site unseen, just say yes. It was more like we've seen your videos very interesting. Were you lying? Yes. Okay. Everybody loves the video. Everybody's talking about videos. I don't know. Money's money, Frank.

I mean, everybody loves the pitch perfect. And so you can just sort of position it like larping pitch perfect, I guess. And maybe people at the party will be like, yeah, we'll give this a shot. And they like are really good at it. The house lights are disappearing. What the fuck's going on? Bye. Thank you. Did we help? Did we help at all? We didn't. We just talked about some bullshit. We didn't say anything even remotely helpful. Now we usually always help. That's so weird. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, can we get the house lights back up? Yeah, because we're just going to lose these fucking microphones. We will start no with you. What's your name? Hello, my name is Emily. Hi, Emily. Hello, Emily. So we have too many furries in our

D&D party. No such thing. Next question. Why are you trying to get us in trouble again? We got in trouble once, all right. We'll never do that again. Hello, Toronto. We got a lot of furries in there. Listen. I love the culture and lifestyle. You're all so supportive of each other in another project. There's a bit on there about five minutes later when Paul said he's like, Paul said he's like, do any girls out there like to get licked? Yeah, it's a bad part of this audio. There's a bad part of the audio. And then instantly afterwards, he's like, and God bless it. Paul Stanley goes, do any guys out there like to get licked? It's like, good for you, Paul. Let's just ask everybody if they like to get licked.

What about all our gender non-binary men? Who doesn't conform to the gender spectrum but likes to get licked? We will consider that question. I do not know. Let me offer a small reason. Is it a party composition? There's not enough furries in my group. Yeah. Okay. Is it a party composition issue where everybody wants to play like a bugbear or some sort of, I don't know if there are furry races in D&D. Okay. Yes, there are actually two furry. That's so sweet. Okay. All right. Hi. What's your name? Hedda. Hi. Hi. So for the last five years, I've been trying to distance myself from quite the extensive golf face. Okay. As I'm sure many of us can relate to. So I'm here for sure. Yeah, tell me about it. Unless you're still into it, in which case, standing your

truth. Well, something that's made that quite difficult is that my family owns a number of funeral homes. Okay. A number? A number of funeral homes. Is the number more than one? Yes. That's quite a lot of funeral homes. It's quite a lot of funeral homes. Congratulations. It sounds like a very profitable business. Congrats to your family. Yes. So what do I do when my friends walk past funeral homes with my last name slapped up over them in a frankly way too gothic font? You blast that dead cash. I'm going to help you. I think we're going to go with this one. But thank you very, very much. Thank you very much. Very much. I'm going to help you. Can we get a round of applause for Amalind, please? Thank you very much, Amalind. Get more furries. The lights.

Again, the lights. If I could just have those lights back. The lights do keep disappearing. It's time for you to rebel against the family business. And what do I mean by that? I mean, never die. What a cool thing. That's not the opposite of being a funeral home. Yeah. No, it's like, hey, listen, mom and dad, sorry, I'm not interested in the family biz. I'm never going to die. And he just loudly announced and like anytime they start talking about it, just be like, death. That's for suckers. I don't buy it. Show me the evidence. Make sure you do that while funerals are happening at the funeral. Got another one, huh, death. What a sucker. What a waste of cash. Next time, try not dying. Yeah, that's my thing. And the thing is,

it's great about that is it works until it doesn't. And then you don't have to be there. You don't have to sweat it. Like you're basically immortal in that sense, if you think about it. We're all temporarily. Okay. And now this is the first time our show has ever been interesting. Listen, listen, listen, is it a fun funeral home? Is there a ball pit? Is there a ball of funerals home? The ball pit is full of skulls. What the fuck? Is that the aesthetic of your funeral home? Okay, let's go. It's very classic. Okay. Okay. Straight up. Your family owns a number of funeral homes. You should just keep being golf, because then people will see you out about, hey, man, they're like, God, and then like, you're like, come with me. My home's full of dead

people. And they're like, come buy it. I'm sorry. There are some gross misconceptions about what funeral homes are happening on this stage. They're not chock-a-block full of dead people. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. They're not sorting through a queue. Okay. But statistically speaking, are there more dead people in a funeral home than your home? I am the oldest brother. I am 37 years old, and I'm ready to talk about anything else. I hope that helped because this segment is over. Thank you very much. All right. Let's get those house lights back. House lights way up. Let's get somebody way over. Okay. We don't usually do this for prop work, but somebody has a sign that says the dog pound, and I'm very interested. Yeah. Dog pounds in. Absolutely. Well, I guess whoever

wants it. Someone has an actual dog with their hands raised. With the dog in it? Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. I hope this question is about the dog. Oh, wait. Does the dog have a question? Oh, the dog pound sign. Yes, the dog pound sign. You're holding it. Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on. Was that it? I've changed my mind. The dog pound, we all have brothers. Do you guys fight a lot? Like, is that the question? Yeah, that's, that's not advice. You don't need advice. Which is like, I want to find out a little bit more about those three crazy macaroons. We never fight. The dog pound, like many other macaroons. What is this hive mind? Bound out. We are dog pound. Okay. Hello. Hi, I'm Cory. What's your name? Sorry? Cory. Hey, Cory. And the dog's name?

This is Falcor. Ah, yes. Yeah. Oh, Lord of the Rings. Shit. I see. I was going to make an Alma day and summer day, this joke, and I backed off. What is the question? So I was at the dentist the other day, and the dentist was telling me about her favorite superhero movies. This is starting to sound like a joke, like a joke with a punchline. No, it's good. Okay, okay, okay. I mean, there's a joke in it, but I have a real question. While I had the dental dam, and she told me her favorite... Is that what it's called? Yes. Groney, okay. She told me her favorite character was X-Man. And, and, and I don't know. She thinks Wolverine's name is X-Man. Okay, good, good, good. I couldn't say anything.

Right. And then later, it seemed too late. But now I'm worried that she's going to, like, have some dude bro. She's going to say this to him, and they're going to be really condescending. Yeah. So I feel like... No, yeah, that's definitely in the pipeline, I feel like, unfortunately. Actually, in fact, when she said X-Man, some dude bro somewhere went. Wrong. Yeah. The windows must be very thick there, because I bet a guy was, like, flinging himself against it. Well, actually, well, actually, wait, actually. Dog pound, thank you very much. Dog pound. I'm going to help this Wolverine. When you said you couldn't, did you mean because you were petrified by awkwardness? Because that's what I would feel if someone said my favorite

superhero is X-Man. I would go... Oh. I mean, I would get worried that this is some silver age bullshit that I didn't actually know about. I'd be like, X-Man's not a thing. And I'd be like, actually, in 1941, Jack Kirby did something or whatever. I don't know anything about fucking comic books at all. Our dad's backstage freaking out. Maybe this is a trap and you avoided it. But I used to do that with, like, I would say wrong facts, because I saw something. Remember that episode on News Radio? We're not going to talk about News Radio right now. But one of the characters would lay out wrong incorrect facts. And when someone would correct them, they'd go, oh, geek, Jack, I actually dig that a lot. So maybe this is a trap for Dubros. Like,

actually, it's Wolverine. Like, yeah, I know it's fucking Wolverine. And then they'd pull a tooth. Yeah. I knew it. Oh, shit. Maybe they were just distracting you from the pain of tricks they were about to pull on you by putting a little brain teaser in your, like, hey, you know, I love is Golden Guy. And it's like, Golden Guy, who the fuck is Golden Guy? I don't even know. Oh, my tooth is gone. They're pretty sneaky dentists. I would actually rather have a dentist say that their favorite X-Man, their favorite superhero is X-Man rather than Wolverine. Because I'd just be like, I don't know, there's way more interesting superheroes than Wolverine. It's just true. Is there is bones aren't real? Whoa. I'm gonna say Nightcrawler is better than Wolverine.

Wolverine's like a thousand years old. You hang on with Jesus. Nightcrawler is like a demon. Whoa. Wolverine's got metal bones. I can do that one twice. It's so cool. You're right. This is the greatest thing I've ever heard. I'm so glad you didn't correct them. This is, we get these gifts. You've given us a gift because we will never meet this dentist, probably. But I know that there's somebody out there who thinks Wolverine's name is X-Man. And while that may bring you worry for that person, it brings me a great amount of joy because they don't know any, they won't know any better until some dude bro does come in and smash through the window. But for now, let's just celebrate the moment of X-Man. How does your dentist square

away the knowledge that the name of the group is X-Men? Like it's X-Man and it's X-Men. X-Man and his excellent X-Men. I mean they have, they do, there is a band called Alvin and the Chipmunks. You ever fucking think about that? That's actually really messed up if you think about it. Alvin and uh, what's his name by their species I guess? I don't know. Also, we're dumbasses. There's a dude named Professor X. He is an X-Man. How is that any better than X-Man? It's not any better. Does that... Is that anything? Is that anything? I think it eases my conscience. Oh, thank you. That's the least you could do. All right, folks, you can, you can go and drop the house lights down. We have got to wrap up for the evening. Um, thank you. Aw. But here's the good

news. There's a whole other day of PodCon tomorrow. Yes. Yeah. And all kinds of great shows will be there. Seriously, thank you to PodCon for having us be here and get to do this show. You're welcome, Vincent. All our fantastic... I, as the only non-founder, can continue to thank the benevolent founders for gracing us. No, seriously, this is a really, really cool event and it's really special. And I'm so glad that all these folks who I've listened to for a while have all gotten together and I've gotten to hear them talk about smart things. It's very cool. Yeah, not only... I will say it's so great to get to spend time with you, our wonderful audience, but also to spend time with, like, Francesca Lee and, you know, Kevin Porter and Gabby Dunn and meet these amazing

people who make amazing... And to meet you also. We've gotten to meet a bunch of folks. A lot of Adventure Zone cosplayers, which is fucking super rad. When I look out at this crowd and think, God, every one of them is a podcast. It's so inspirational to me to be seeing so many podcasts in one room and met a lot of great podcasts today. And I hope to see some more of you tomorrow. Toronto! Toronto! All right. This... Oh, and thank you to John Rodrick and the Long Winters for the use of our theme song. Yeah! I hope to see you in the days to bed. Oh, hey, real quick. We come from an area called West Virginia. Oh, yeah. And believe it or not, around the holiday season, some folks there don't have enough to make ends meet, let alone buy Christmas presents. And every year,

there's a thing called the empty stockings list, and it's a list of newspaper publishers, full of people that just want to get maybe something for Christmas, a gift for a kid, or a lot of times, just basic necessities, a sleeping bag, a tent, what have you. And we like to sick our fans on it and just run wild. Like in a good way. Imagine wolves, but they're charitable. It's like a pack of charitable wolves. If you can kick in a few bucks, it's mbambangels.com, is that a thing. And if you could go there and you can buy a gift for someone that someone is asking for, and it goes right to them, it'll make you feel great. And if you can do it and help us help our area, we'd really appreciate it. So thank you so much in advance. And thank you to

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