My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 541: Angels in the Ragnarok

Episode Date: December 28, 2020

So long, stink year! While we’re not quite ready to provide a sagacious tagline for 2021, we’re more than ready to send off this one with a thorough look back. And also a look forward, and kind of to the side, and also downward. We’re looking all over in this one. Stay frosty. Suggested talking points: Big Moments in Entertainment, Love Actually Actually, Margen, Scoreless Basketball, Munch Montage, Aunt Rhonda’s Bean Bean Casserole.Ways to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 to my brother, my brother me and advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. I'm your middlest brother, Travis McElroy. I'm your sweet baby brother, Griffin McElroy, and Travis has a voice, everybody. So I thought, you know, it's here, this is the last episode of the year, so we could do our normal

every year, like we do every year standard, just kind of year-in review. And just kind of talk about how 2020 went, the highs, the lows, if we can even think of any. The fashion, if you think of any lows, yeah, the fashion, the trends, the movies that shaped us. Yeah, exactly. You know, the cultural milestones, the moments that united us physically. Yes, yes, yes, yes. There's a lot, a lot happened this year. Was that their, was that their Pizza Rat? Was that 2020? Uh, no, I think that, I think that was 2017. Shoot, I was pretty close. I feel so new.

Okay, what about Balloon Boy? That feels more recent. Balloon Boy was, Balloon Boy preceded Pizza, Balloon Boy flew so Pizza Rat could walk and steal Pizza. So I know that that's, that did not happen in 2020. It would have been kicked ass if Pizza Rat flew also. Yeah, yeah. Well, I played some video games this year. No, we're looking for Travis, we're looking for cultural touchstones. We're looking for big important moments in our, in our, in entertainment history.

Because that's what, what are we now, if not part of entertainment history? Yes. Oh, there was that moment when they said the one movie won an Oscar, but then I was like, no, actually not this year, I don't think. Fuck, really? I don't think that one was this year. It didn't win one this year, I will say. Fucking, come on, y'all, Scoob. Scoob.

Fucking Scoob definitely came out this year. Scoob, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did Scoob come out this year? It did. Celebrity faux pas, there had to been those. Who, who really stepped in it this year? Oh, oh, Ellen, Ellen stepped in it this year. Oh, and she went to that football game. She did, she, well, she did that.

First off, everybody was like, Ellen's not a nice person, surprise. And everyone was like, wow, that is a surprise. Look at her dance. Are you chill with W? And then you dance like that? Yeah, and then she's like, I'm not mean, I'm chilling with Warcraft. It'll charge W, Bush, we're at a football game. What's more American than that?

Ellen. It's hard. We never really talked about that because I think we always assume Ellen is just on the brink of having us on our program. So we don't really talk about that stuff a lot, but like. The problem is she has to wait for an opportunity when there are three openings. And three chairs. Three chairs. She doesn't, she's having more made.

She keeps, that's what her people keep telling us. Yeah. I feel like if the one thing about us is that if we did see, if we're at football, we saw W over there just like double dipping some nachos and enjoying a Coke. Like I, I feel like we probably would be that this is the exact thing that we would get busted for, right? This is the exact thing that would bring it down for us. It's because it would be like so, so funny.

Yeah. It would feel GW was there. I feel like we would have to get a chill going just for the, just for, you know what? If Ellen had come out and been like, it was for the vine. Yeah, right? You know, no, that was just for the vine. Guys, they're making a TikTok. Don't you get it?

Oh, it was for the vine. Guys, fucking Tiger King. Remember him? I, I actually missed that. I didn't watch it. This dude, this dude is straight up zany gang. And the way he hurt those animals. It's not funny.

It's not funny, but every other thing about him, aside from the assassination attempt, and everything else that that dude sort of snuck his newt right down into. So hard. Fucking zany. Oh, I loved that. John, John Krasinski got out there and he was like, it's good. Fam. And then he was like, and then he sold it, I guess his show.

It's good. Fam. He sold that one. He sold it. He did sell his good. Fam dope. It's so great. Why can't we ever sell?

Right? It would be like if somebody came to you, Justin, and offered you a million dollars to buy the idea of a Munch Squad from you. Yeah. Which Justin would do. In a fucking heartbeat. Of course I would. I wouldn't sell it to John though.

No. Because he'll just, he'll move in to Munch Squad. Old John K will move into Munch Squad, kind of polish the place up a bit, give it some new curtains. The curtains of celebrity. And then he'll sell it at a profit. Oh, he'll flip it. Yeah, he'll flip it for sure. He'll flip Munch Squad.

He's a bit flipper. He's a bit flipper. Anything else memorable this year? Anything else with fashion? Swifties got there filled, didn't they? And um. Swifties? You know, Taylor Swift listeners.

Oh, they're bellies. They have socks. Oh, they're sated, aren't they? Big bellies laying, laying on the futon. Just, uh, I could. All that music grease all over their cheeks. Oh, I couldn't possibly, Taylor. Another one.

We got, um, WAP is a good, that was a song that everybody really liked. Yep. Yep. That was a good one. A powerful anthem. It's yes. It stood for what? A powerful song.

Yep. Women are powerful. That's what WAP stands for. Women are powerful. I never looked it up, but that's what I assume. I like putting together, uh, like figuring out what things stand for. It's got to be women are powerful. Backronyms, they call that.

Backronyms. Scott Backronyms. Um, anything else for the year or for you? There's an election. There's a big election. It's a big one. That one went good. Yep.

Pretty good. Very smooth. Very smooth. I guess Dreamy did come back to Grey's Anatomy. Really? Yeah, he super died. But I guess he came on back because they're having fun over there. That's it.

That's the last one. That's all that happens. It was a pretty smooth year. Pretty quiet. Smooth sailing, baby. At least in the world of entertainment, we can agree. Yeah. Quiet year.

A quiet year. There was that, um, there was that much squat about, uh, Mountain Dew doing a cookbook. You remember that? Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. I don't think we can do our own. Look at what he was doing. No, I didn't. Hey, there were some pretty epic things.

That was news. I mean, that was news just because we touched on it. Shoot, Travis, tell me more about these epic things we did. Well, at least as long as they weren't epic fails. Oh, then I, I have nothing. All right. Well, I started doing play along at home. That was new.

That was new. So big. Oh, I found out that GD Ritzies will sell you the good ice by the bag if you want it. Really? Yeah. The round eye, the little pebbles. The good ice. They'll give you a bag of the good ice.

For $349, I found that out today. Nice. That was a late, late breaking in the year, I think. Okay. So that was our year. Cool. I didn't have any bathroom time accidents while driving anywhere in a car. And that's every year.

And that's not that I do that often, but it's why I'm so cautious to make sure I go every time before I'm about to leave the house is for this exact reason, is so I can claim at the end of the year, no bath, no car based bathroom accidents. I didn't murder anyone this year. That's huge. Yeah. That's huge. This is an advice show.

Justin, did you murder anyone this year? This is an advice show. Only with jokes. Where you're never forced to incriminate yourself. Ever. I'll get you. You're gonna have to work harder than that. I'm wearing a wire.

Next year. Yeah, that's true. Next year we'll be naming 2021, picking the theme of the year. It's hard to imagine that it is a time-honored tradition that we have fucked up pretty much every single time. We've talked about this before. It is cartoonish. How bad we did this.

It almost makes you want a counter program to see if we can steer the year. You know what I mean? Work against a theme. I don't know. That seemed like it might be. We've done some, I guess. Collaborating, I feel like some people did okay. And listen, there'll be plenty of time when we talk about this for an entire episode.

But right now, let's help some people. How do I pretend that I have action? Yeah, it's a tough sentence construction. And I do not blame you for just racing right in there. How do I pretend that I have seen love, actually? My friends keep making references to it, but I'm just not interested in watching it. That's from saving time in Seattle.

This is a question I very much relate to because I, too, have not seen love, actually. Wait, that is not true. That's impossible. It is true. It is absolutely true. That's impossible. Okay, well, okay, no, let's, let's, okay. A bunch of established British actors play gentlemen who have a series of love affairs

with their employees. You don't, you don't really realize that until about your 15th watch or so when you go, damn, this is all bosses and employees. And they're kissing and everyone's like, yeah. And Rick Grimes is in it, right? Yeah, so Rick Grimes has got a different. This is a different thing. He's not a, he's not a boss, but he is like.

He holds up a sign. He's, he plays a character. So you have seen it. Okay. I have not seen it, Justin. Everyone knows that in love, actually, like you could live on the moon. I just find it hard to believe there's no parts that you have not osmosed at this point. Have you not seen it as an intentional thing or?

I just, it's never come up. People will be like, oh, you got to watch. And I'll be like, okay. And then like, I just don't. It's not like I'm actively avoiding it. It's just, it's never happened. Except for, I talked about it a little bit on Twitter. And I think the thing is, my thing on love actually right now is that

except for all the parts that are bad, it's pretty good. Okay. Well, a ringing endorsement. I'm, I'm running out of the booth right now to go watch. That's everything. As, as you would expect. That's me. Right?

I mean, that's me as a human. Absolutely. Except for all the bad parts. I'll give you a guarantee, Trab. Bill Nye, he fucking rips. He does. Well, yeah, he always does, but I could watch him. I could watch him in two Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

But it was the first thing he's ever been in for a minute. Yeah. He's been in stuff where you're like, who's this fucking clown? Right. But at the end of this movie, you're like, this dude rips. Like every other thing he's ever been in probably is like, it's me, Parishina John, and I'm a detective. Right.

And it's like seven port miniseries on BBC. And I'm Parrish John, and I'm a Parrishner, and also a detective. God, I'd watch that. But this one is like, I'm a rock and roll washed out dude, and I fucking rip and I'm so funny. And my storyline is virtually unproblematic. It is one of the, it is still problematic. Except for the fat shaming.

It is virtually. The enormous amount of fat shaming, but like, but by love actually standards, baby, that's pretty good. Is Hugh Grant in it? I feel like Hugh Grant is in it. Oh yeah, Hugh's in it. He's doing his thing. How problematic is his storyline?

Oh, baby. Travel, tell you bud, President Billy Bob Thorne comes to visit his place because he's the Prime Minister. But he, as far as I can tell, touches the shoulder of an employee that Hugh Grant has his eye on. So he basically declares war on America. It's so not far off. What?

Travis, Travis in the movie Love Actually, which is good except for the bad parts. He falls in love with an employee, and then the President touches her shoulder, and he fires her and tells America to fuck off. And then he fires her, but luckily she writes him a note and apologizes. It's so dope.

It's so fucking tight because then like the next five scenes are people partying because the Prime Minister just said to America, we're not fucking friends anymore because you touched, you tried to Mr. Steal my girl. Billy Bob Thorne is indeed the President of America, which like, yeah. Not that far off now. Yeah, I mean, basically.

And it's so cool. Okay, and correct me if I'm wrong. In the Rick Grimes storyline, he holds up the signs to tell a friend's wife that he's in love with her. Is that correct? Yeah. So you have seen it. I have not seen it, Justin.

So how problematic is that one? Pretty, I mean, I don't know. That was just weird, man. Love actually might. Pretty weird stuff, man. It's another good name for the movie. Oh, geez. There's also, it opens with just a pretty choice 9-11

reference and then it also ends with us celebrating a huge breach of airport security protocols. And you're supposed to be like, yeah, breach those airport security protocols for the name of Love. But also, oh, you did the time period. Not great for this. Yeah, it's a trip, not a good flick, but it's a lot of fun except for the bad stuff.

That feels like a lot of usable stuff for the question asker to reference. Yes, absolutely. That's literally, I can't think of another thing you need to know. Is there anyone else in it of note? Everyone is in it of note, Travis. Okay. Oh man, Mr. Bean's in it.

He has a real great, yeah, he's got a super funny bit. He's got two actually super, super funny bits. Laura Linney is in it. This is not funny anymore. No, you're just listening to things. But I feel like, can I say something? Holistically speaking, we have answered the question. Absolutely.

Because now, having, assuming you listen to, the answer is listen to this episode of my brother, my brother, and me, and then you'll come away with it like pretty much getting it. Yeah, this podcast within a podcast that I'm calling Love Actually, Actually. There's some porn people. What?

There's some, yeah. There's some body devils for sex. Naked. A lot of news. Body devils. The Hobbit is naked. There's a lot of nudity in it. The Hobbit is naked in it, and Laura Linney is naked in it,

and other people are naked in it. It's like surprisingly like. Now Elijah Wood Hobbit or that other guy? No, no, no. Martin Watson. Fucking Martin Freeman. Yeah, Martin Freeman. Not Morgan Freeman, Martin Freeman.

No. I said it wrong. Okay. Morgan Freeman, Martin Freeman make love as body devils. Morgan Freeman as the Hobbit. And make a baby named Martin Freeman. Okay, so can I do a yahoo? I'd love that.

This is our son, Morgan. And we love him very much. We're proud of him, even though he's never accomplished anything. This one's sent him by Brian. Brian sent this in. It's from Yahoo! Lancers user, More850. It never will.

Never will. He's the worst seven-year-old on the planet. I'm extremely proud of my son that I just like, Morgan. I'm proud of him, even though he doesn't want to meet every son. I'm sorry that I have also wanted to say it's very rude of me, Martin Freeman, that for a while there I took all the parts from everybody

and didn't leave any. That guy. Yeah. That guy. We were so close to moving on, by the way. We were so close. What? I was trying to power through.

No, but I just wanted to say, Martin Freeman treated himself to being that guy on the office. Then he dipped into love actually and got his snoot wet over there. Then he's like, I'll just go ahead and be Bilbo. Then he's like, let me real quick just nab Arthur Dent real quick, because nobody can think of other people like me. I'm just going to get Arthur Dent real quick, and then I would just love to star in Fargo and go ahead and slide me into...

Oh, Sherlock? Iconic role of Dr. John Watson. Yeah, might as well grab that up, too. Let me just see how many of these parts I can fit in my mouth. Well, that's obvious why Morgan can't live up to that. That's so hard. Poor Martin Freeman. And that's just more stuff you can use when somebody's like,

you seem love actually, and you can be like, you mean the one with the dude from Fargo and Sherlock, and the hobbit and all that stuff. With a disappointing son? With a disappointing son. I heard he just joined the soccer team. Okay, on a very weirdly related note, Brian sent this in.

It's Yahoo Answers user, Moor850 who asks, has there ever been a scoreless basketball game? I couldn't find any example of a pro or college basketball game where the plays were tracked, etc. and where the score was something to zero or even zero to zero. Has this ever happened? I assumed it would be a big story if it did. If it never happened, what is the closest to a scoreless game ever?

Either closest to zero zero or closest to something to zero, i.e. the widest point margin. I'm only interested in documented games, not some game you saw one time. It can't actually happen. Yeah, basketball rules preclude it. So here's the way it works in sport. And this is amateur, semi-pro, pro-am, pro.

And you know that just because you were a scorekeeper for the elementary school team? Yes, the Miller Owls, I was the scorekeeper for that basketball team. A school which no longer exists. A school that is a park. Because they fucking slam dunked the house down. Yeah, they shattered the room and that was apparently holding the whole thing up.

The art school, the gymnasium, the lunch room. Yeah, so what happened on this is, here's the deal. Anytime that a score is run up sufficiently on the other team to where there's not much chance of it being competitive, at that point you trade in or you sub in, if you want to use the parlance of sport, you sub in some of your bad players to give them a chance to get more accustomed to being on the field or of play,

which is to say the basketball rectangle. And you give them a chance to kind of get the nerves out, like play your first big game, but the stakes aren't that high. And the problem is, if you go long enough down that road and the other team is still scoreless, at that point you are mandated to start doing what are called inspirational sub-ins. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

For their Facebook bait, basically. So if the game is close- Yeah, like the water boy gets to play. Exactly, right? At that point, the mascot comes by and he's like, I would love to shoot a few or I'd like to play point guard for a bit. Yeah, they started reaching out to people in the crowd, like anybody out there. Somebody's grandpa who never made the game-winning exact,

you see where we're going. The coach, the coach, but he's wearing a propeller hat. A girl, whatever, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever it may be. That was a joke about society, Griffin. Oh, look at the layers. But the point is, that is what happened. The farther down that rabbit hole you go, the more people by the end of it,

the opposing team is going to be like Alph, a trash can, the idea of capitalism. Like you're not going to have a team really. Another stationary basketball. Exactly. That's wearing sunglasses. A team from that bottle planet from Superman, you know, the bottle city of Candoor.

An actual airbud, but it's just a dog that doesn't really have the skills. It's got to start somewhere. But that is why you cannot have a scoreless game, because eventually there's just no competition whatsoever. I think, I think it's mean that in professional sports, they don't have the mercy rule. I think that that, because I remember being a kid

and playing a lot of different sports, and really appreciating the fact that the mercy rule existed. Because mostly it meant that I could stop, I don't know, picking up pieces of grass in the field or whatever, and I could go home and think about my poetry or what have you. I think that that needs to exist more, because I would like to see more press conferences with grown adults talking about how they got mercy.

That would be something, although I will say Travis, at halftime, the monsters were up 63 to 18 over the Toon Squad. That is pretty high. That's, they could have gone ahead and, you know, joined them off to Moron Mountain right then and there, but they didn't, they came back, they played the whole damn game. What a great name for an amusement park, by the way. Can we just acknowledge that if there was a place

called Moron Mountain, like in your hometown, you'd be wicked proud of that. I'm just saying, maybe the monsters weren't the bad guys. Hey, let's look back and really re-examine. I think it's time that we put a new lens and look at- Space Jam and see if the monsters were the bad guys. They were, they were pretty tacitly endorsing slavery. I'm pretty sure that team was.

Okay, there's that. Yeah, but we haven't even considered the idea of the scoreless basketball game of two teams playing each other. I'm not saying like it's alpha and a garbage can, just like maybe two teams, like the Orlando Magic and the Charlotte Hornets, are just having an off day. And it's third period, third quarter. And it's just like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

God, again! Eventually, one of us is going to have to get this in, but it just hasn't happened yet. There is another option though, Griffin. It doesn't have to be, they're playing in the worst. It could be like the Golden State Warriors against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Yeah.

Two teams that I think are good, or at least have been within the last decade. Oh, I see. And they're so good. Now it's becoming a defense, a battle of defense, where like they're making good shots, but it's just like every time, boom, someone's there, boom, someone's there, boom, someone's there,

they're playing their Galdarn hearts out. Alternatively, they both got sixth man. Oh, right. They both got ghost friends, ghost family, that are like in there. And so when somebody comes up to dunk one in and they just use their ghost hand to slap it away, I think if that happens to you once,

that's probably enough for you to be like, oh, there's a ghost. There's gotta be a ghost. Can you imagine a scene like that happening in a movie and there's a little kid in the crowd and he's like clutching his little pinot, but then the same thing happens for the other team too. And he looks across the court

and there's another little kid sitting on the other side and he's holding a different pinot. And they like look at each other and they kind of mouth like, did you pray to God too that they would win? Oh man, I prayed to God that they would win. Oh, beans. Man, there had to be the MLB commissioner at some point had to be like, gang, we gotta start keeping an eye out

for these fucking angels in the outfit. Everybody's got angels now. Everybody's got angels now and it's great. Like we're out there and it's like, oh man, is old Tony Danza gonna pitch a no-hitter or not? And then it's like, but fucking 10 feet overhead, there is a biblical angel battle happening between both teams.

Ragnarok is happening right here. Every game and it's so loud. But at some point the baseball would stop, right? You couldn't keep doing baseball with that going on. As in the sky, you see like fucking, I don't know. Chris Lloyd pulls out his flaming sword and strikes down. Yeah, you see the little boy stand up and wave his arms to signal that angels are here,

but across the field, a different boy is also waving their arms and you're like, oh no. Oh no, it goes to the angels. Then you hear seven horns. As the seals rip open. As the seals rip, it's time. And this is an exhibition game. Yeah.

We're ending the world. This is the All-Star game. What do you do? This is the home run derby. It's the battle where, it's the All-Star game. It's the battle when All-Stars will be snuffed out in darkness all day. All-Stars.

This is the celebrity versus retired baseball player's charity event. What is happening? An angel just lifted up Dan Levy and flew him around the bases. What is going on? I'll tell you what's going on. We're going to the money zone. Thank God. Oh, that was smooth as butter, baby.

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Squad. I want to munch. Squad. Squad. I put it on a minor key. It was pretty. Have you guys noticed that the sunset period of Munch Squad is longer than the first period of Munch Squad,

the sunrise period, I suppose? There was more episodes in Twin Peaks, The Return than there were David Linscher-Attended episodes in the original run. Okay. Interesting. I don't have a munch squad. This week, for this final episode, but I wanted to kind of just go through all the press releases that are right now. And I want to say goodbye.

It is it is not actually the end of munch squad, obviously, but it is the end of 2020. And that means that it is the end of brands talking about how bad 2020 has been and how their their products are the solution to that. So I want to just go through some very quick ones just to kind of say goodbye to it, because it makes me happy every time a brand does it. And so I wanted to say goodbye to them. And when I tell you some of these headlines of the articles, you might struggle to think of how they're going to do it, but I'm sure they will.

Some of these I haven't even found it yet. I'm just confident it'll be there. Tropical Smoothie Cafe introduces Mardi Gras theme menu for the new year. So they got, you know, hurricane smoothie and some fresh Cajun style food items. Fresh Cajun style smoothie. As guests nationwide, welcome a fresh start in the new year. We remain committed to providing guests better for you smoothies and food that inspire a healthier lifestyle.

Charles Watson, the CEO of Tropical Smoothie Cafe, LLC. We understand Mardi Gras celebrations may look a little different this year. But it's our hope that these fun and bold Mardi Gras flavors transport guests to tropic time and provide a moment for a little break. How inspiration, you know? Yeah, that's bad ass. It's beautiful. Yeah. Burger King is offering a new dollar menu.

It's the one dollar your way menu. We know that value is extremely important to our guests, especially now. Oh, boy. Says CMO, Ellie Dodie in a statement. That's why we set out to create a menu that offers craveable products like our bacon cheeseburger that can't be found at the same price anywhere else. And I got to hand it to him. I cannot buy a Burger King hamburger for a dollar at any other restaurant.

But what if you could? Hi, I'm Travis McRae and here's my proposal. I call it reburgers. Now, you sell them the hamburger and then you buy it right the hell back. Donnie told Business Insider. This is the part that I really actually can't make heads or tails of that. Burger King thinks about what might resonate with customers at any given time during the year and attempts to provide a solution.

But what do they need when we when we promote when we promote a value menu or launch a one dollar your way menu, being sensitive to when that might be most useful to our guests is definitely top of mind. What are you saying? You have a big red button that says one dollar menu and you're like, not yet. They're not ready. We got to wait until they need it. If it goes out now, we will go unappreciated.

The hangover crystal returns by popular demand for 169. Folks, I am at three in a row here. I'm just going down the hangover crystal is back for 169. That is a little crystal hamburger with bacon, egg and cheese and onions on it. A fresh cracked fried egg, steamed bun and all that. Crystal is well known as the go-to remedy after a night of overindulgence. Says Angela Johnson, VP of Marketing. After the ups and downs of 2020, the hangover crystal with its fresh cracked

fried egg is sure to be the perfect cure after New Year's celebration. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. That tracks that tracks. Papa John's launches new epic stuff crust. Let's see if he's got one here. Come on, Papa. Come on, Papa, don't break. Papa, baby, hungry.

Papa Shaq. Still liver. He does say as we continue to develop new cravable menu offerings, we're always inspired by our fans. That's love. That's beautiful, I think. And it's something our fans continue to ask for. So you keep giving it to them, don't you? Nasty.

You know, wait, they don't explicitly say, but also things are shitty. Then we're fucking free, aren't we? Then we're fine. This is, I know people are so stoked about this vaccine, but to me, this is the sign of the times that we are just through this thing. Yeah, we finally did. I mean, that is really the sign, Griffin, that covid's over. Yep. And we're all safe now, you know?

Well, we're getting to getting there. Well, it just feels like everybody's safe to just burn your masks. So Papa John says that it's fine to burn your masks, burn your pants, whatever you got, really. Taco Bell's famed nacho fries return for the holidays. In a year as difficult and uncertain as this one is, we know our customers crave the comforts they love most. That's why we're excited to bring back nacho fries,

because Trump was a bad president in coronavirus. And we thought that would help if nacho fries came back because of so many people that died from coronavirus and nobody could touch anybody, but you can get these nacho fries and we think he'll fix it. The magic of nacho fry franchise extends beyond the menu item itself. Oh, yes. The magic of the nacho fries franchise.

It's going to reach out of the menu and into the empty chair where Grandpa Bob used to sit. It extends beyond the menu item itself and is brought to life with our next saga of the nacho fries movie franchise that we hope brings some seasonal and seasoned joy to fans. Now only we can. This is another sign of times people like, can we start being ironic again? We've been we've been so we've been good boys this year

just talking about how shitty everything is and how we hope we can bring you some comfort. But now can we start getting fucking silly on it again? Go back to pretending like nacho fries are the most important thing on the planet. Do you mean we've been acknowledging that there are other things on the planet of in Taco Bell for a year now and it's killing us. Are they being nacho fryronic?

No, they're not. Oh, OK. All right. I really thought they were the sixth chapter of the cinematic trailer style ad creative titled The Craving and starring Sarah Highland and Joe Keery explores the thrilling journey of a nacho fry shut up, explores the thrilling journey of a nacho fry obsessed protagonist and his intensifying desire for Taco Bell's most craveable creation as the potato plot thickens.

I think. Listen, I'm not going to go off on one of my famous Dennis Miller style rant here. Yeah. But if but if Taco Bell truly believes that nacho fries are the most craveable menu item, then I would say that Taco Bell every time it removes nacho fries from their menu has committed an immoral act. Well, you know, Justin, sometimes the people they crave it too much and society, that's when we have a recession. So talk about and listen, we're all sad that they're gone.

But the economy is able to rebuild as people once again focus on their you know, jobs and bills and whatnot. But then there comes a time where it's not about the money, Justin. It's about the people and the people need the nacho fries. And it's time for them to come back so they can be distracting. Now, here's what I think if Taco Bell really wants to commit to this, they're so craveable. This movie thing that they're making would end with a man

killing someone to get nacho fries. It would be gruesome. And I would say maybe even like in C17 that. And I think if they did that, they would probably see like a 3% increase in sales. I mean, I'd love to see him try. It'd be worth a shot, you know. Yeah, there's just not enough like, oh, let's make, let's make a, a Hallmark movie or whatever about AC Slater or make us a fried chicken.

And it's like, yeah, okay. But how about also there's full frontal nudity in it, right? Let's be adults about this and let's make our weird fast food movies. Just a little bit more explicit. Game of Thrones came out and that was all about Coca-Cola. So let's focus on. Remember how the end of Game of Thrones is about Coca-Cola? You remember when it was like, there's only one way to stop this dragon flame

with an ice cold Coca-Cola. And they were like, who gets to be king now? And they were like, Coca-Cola, the king of soda. Change their motto to Coca-Cola, king of soda. You remember. You remember that, please. Remember when Arya Sark was like, winter may no longer be coming, but that doesn't mean we can't all chill.

And then she lowered her sunglasses. It took a big drink of Coca-Cola, ice cold Coca-Cola. You remember. Remember. Um, how about another question? Okay, sure. I'm at a permanent employee at a place that hires a lot of temporary workers for the holidays, mostly having the extra help is great.

But there's one thing that annoys me to no end. I have a favorite seat in the break room with the most comfortable chair and the quietest spot. It's a prime spot. The majority of my irregular coworkers know this is my favorite spot and leave me be during lunch breaks, breaks and lunch. But the new people seem to descend on my table on moss and steal it from me. Every single day.

How can I keep the newbies away from my favorite spot? So that's from seat, squatter and Spokane. Well, considering the one good news is, um, you're listening to this on December 28th or later, so they're unemployed now and you got ear-sitting pretty, huh? Things are looking good over there. Since they're looking good for you. You got that seat bag, didn't you? Scrooge.

Mm-hmm. Also, uh, fake vomit. Oh, that's good. That's another thing. A lot of those, uh, funny prank gifts, uh, whoopie cushion, uh, dog do. Those are all sort of joy buzzer. Put a joy buzzer on there and somebody sits on it and it just saps their ass like a bunch of crazy glue on it.

No, that's the opposite because then they wouldn't get up. Yeah. What's the opposite? Crazy glue. Uh, uh, same glue. Normal glue. Same lube. I think.

Yeah, there it is. Just some old sand. Speaking of pranks. Uh-huh. Um, I, uh, I was at the, uh, get some pranks for Charlie for Christmas. Okay. This kid loves pranks. She was, she watched those trim, trim videos and those aren't even really pranks,

but you know, she was, she was, she was, she loves pranks. So I was getting some pranks and there was a prank that was, um, a shocking lighter. Huh. And I was getting these pranks. I looked at that and I was like, oh, that would be fun. And then in my head, I had this thought, I'll have to teach you how to use a lighter. And I, I realized that what I just thought was, I have to teach my six year old how to use a lighter so they can get shocked by it.

And I was maybe the worst impulse, the worst parody impulse I've had so far. And I've had some hundiggers, but I will have to teach my six year old how to use a lighter so she can be shocked by the fake lighter is, uh, is pretty high on the list. Um, may, I mean, maybe try new chairs. Have you tried all the chairs? I feel like probably not. Anybody who has a favorite seat in the break room hasn't, or at least you haven't tried the chairs in a while.

Maybe there's a new, maybe there's a new sort of spring orientation in one of the chairs that you should be excited to, to have. You know, in many ways, a new year is like a new chair. You know, what, what, what's the view going to be? You know, what kind of sights and sounds and smells are there in this new chair? Oh, I've got a great view of the snack machine. And I can see that one of those chip bags is dangling there. And if I just slam my shoulder into it, free lays, you know, and that is a lot

like finding love in the new year. Yeah. Um, Hey, can I do a Yahoo? Yes, please. Um, this one's sitting by Graham Robach. Thank you, Graham. It's the Yahoo Answers user, Dan, who asks, what is something non-edible that you wish you could eat?

Oh, good question, Dan. The top Yahoo answer on this is just like, and I'm sure they shot this off four seconds after the question was posted and it's tied pods. And like, yeah, yeah, it's a meme, but like, guys, when I see those things, I still think like, what's that? There's a fucking flavor mystery about these. I know that's played, but damn, when was the last time you saw these guys? Delumptious they look.

I feel pretty strongly about dice, because there's some like really good looking, like hard candy looking dice out there. But I want it to be like a hard candy. I like, um, there's a sort of three dimensional polygonal, uh, shape to gushers that like, I see, uh, I see a nice D eight. And I think, oh, I could, I would love to gush on that. I think pretty much anything. I wish that I could just, I think it'd be really dramatic.

And now for everybody, let me be clear. I want to be like matter eater lad, um, where like there, I'd just be in the middle of a conversation with someone like, Oh, hold on one second. And I just like take a bite out of a car. I just think that'd be such a fucking power move. Yeah, just cause there's like, it's like also things you could eat, right? Doesn't mean like you would want to all the time. You know what I mean?

Like I bet sometimes things are messy. You know, if matter eater lad had roommates and they're like, it's really messy here. Can you eat all the trash? Do you think they ever tried to get it to do that? Just like, listen, trash takes it for almost a week and there's so much trash is really piling up. Could you just eat all the trash?

What if matter eater lad didn't have a superpower? He just really liked making people happy. And he really liked, he was just eager to please, he was just, he loved winning those like dollar, like cafeteria bets of like, eat the spoon. He's like, okay, you got it, man. Matter eater lad just had low silver steam. Yeah. It would do fucking anything for the vine.

And really strong enamel. That was like, yeah, yeah, I'm eating it. I'm eating it. It's fun, it's fun. We're having a good time, right? Everybody's fun. You guys remember, you guys remember my name, right? You'll remember it tomorrow?

Yeah. Promise? Hey, you'll invite me to the next party again, right? I'm eating the bottle. My birthday's coming up. Sit, uh, what, the shoe? Okay. Okay, I like the shoe.

I'll tell you something. I'll tell you, I'll tell you, uh, I'll tell you boys and the folks at home, one thing that's not edible that I wish I could eat. And that's, uh, Aunt Rhonda's green bean casserole. We have an Aunt Rhonda. It's fucking putrid Rhonda. Wait, I've never met Aunt Rhonda. Uh, you would know her by the smell of her bean, bean bean casserole.

That's what she calls it. Why doesn't she want to meet me? Do you know the woman that dad always brings to things and her name is Rhonda? And it's his sister. Yeah. That's your Aunt Rhonda. Oh, fuck. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. You just never made the connection. Yeah, I never put that together. You know how there's always that bean bean casserole at Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter and Halloween for some reason? Yeah. Yeah, no, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And in your mailbox. In your mailbox. It's very threatening. Yeah. You know how she always buries a knife in it that says you just leaves somebody to do a step? That's Aunt Rhonda. Oh, every Christmas when she comes over, she races as fast as she can to your

bedroom and dumps green bean casserole all over it, the bed. You know how she hides individual servings in places you won't find them for months until the future and wretched stink of this inedible food mask has claimed your, that's Aunt Rhonda. Okay. Yeah. You remember how that one morning you went to check on your first born and they were gone and it was just green bean casserole left there in their stead?

Yeah. And we launched that like nationwide search that lasted for weeks. Yeah. But then it turned out it was just the dad's sister, Rhonda. Yeah. That's Aunt Rhonda. That's Aunt Rhonda. Oh, that's Aunt Rhonda.

Trav, do you remember when you were trying to perfect teleportation technology and someone left a green bean casserole inside and you turned it into half green bean casserole, half man? Oh, I remember it well. That was Aunt Rhonda. Aunt Rhonda, yeah, she's the one that left it there. Okay. I just can't keep her, I just can't keep that casserole down.

It's not that bad. Put a little ketchup on there. The twist, the twist of this, the thing we need to clarify in this question, what is something not edible you wish you could eat is would we be able to assign the flavor to it because things like fingernails, if they didn't hurt your belly and they tasted like Pringles, that would be pretty cool, I think. But I think the reality of it would be like, so say it was like cars, right? You could take a bite of a car.

It would be car flavored. It would taste like a car, just because you can chew it up and swallow it and digest it doesn't change the flavor. I guess not. Yeah, I wouldn't change the atomic. Yeah. Gosh, fun today. You know what?

Lotion. Lotion. Okay, so good. No, OK, yes, actually, it smells so good. And sometimes you get too much lotion and you're like, what am I going to do with all this? If you can lick it off your, lick it right off your hands, clean up your hands. That'd be perfect.

That'd be so good. Would it taste like what it smells like or would it taste like lotion, which is I met, I would wager pretty bad. Well, it tasted too good. That would be hard to moisturize because then you start looking yourself. If the lotion tasted good and you could eat it, it has become yogurt. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, just like if yogurt makes your hands soft and it's not, doesn't

taste very good, that's lotion now. Yogurt seems sort of flexible enough that we're going to get some people tweeting and that's like, actually, yogurt makes a great moist. Just stop it. OK, please. 2020 is almost over. Let's just get through this. And you can get back on our case next year.

All right. But just give us a break for once. And you know what? We'll do the same for you. We'll give you a break from listening to us. Continue to talk and just give you a nice, clean one. You thought you were going to have to go into this for the long haul and we're going to let you out of class, comedy class.

We're going to let you out five minutes early for summer. Yeah, sometimes Justin is just done. Sometimes they're just done. It's been a long year. And I think that we could all use a few minutes to ourselves. You know, everybody gets five quiet minutes. We're going to put our heads down. Don't look back at the teacher's desk.

We're back here. You locked your kids door and you told them that they could come out in 60 minutes when you're done with our show. Well, you get five extra minutes. However, you want to spend of this your time. Congratulations. Drink some water. Hey, with that five minutes, drink some water, close your eyes for a minute. Just breathe, breathe, God, just breathe, breathe and listening and listen

to us tell you that we have a book coming out a couple of books. I want to tell you about January 26th and 9 p.m. There's a free virtual event. We partner with six independent bookstores to promote our book. Everybody has a podcast except you is a how to book how to podcast, but it's also funny and fun to read and we worked really hard on it. And if you pre-order from one of these six independent bookstores, you get a exclusively designed book plate signed by one of us with your copy.

Well, I suppose last you can go to bit.ly for it. Mackleroy podcast book event for bookstore links and more information. I just want to tell you that the Sawbones paperback book is as you are listening to this is out tomorrow, I think on Tuesday. So please, if you have not pre-ordered that already, please pre-order that because the first week is really important for a book. And if you could just tweet about it and help us make that a big hit, that would be just the best.

I ordered 20 of them, Justin. Thank you Travis. And I'll be reselling them at $3 above market price. Wow, that is less great. You can get them wherever fine bookstores books are sold. Or at my house, you can come to my house. I'll have 20 copies for sale and I'll even sign them for you. If you get it from bookshop.org, you can get like affiliate,

like you can actually support a real bookstore. Or you can go to TravisMackleroy.com and look at pictures of me. OK, another great thing to do. You can also pre-order The Adventure Zone Crystal Kingdom. It's the what? Jesus fourth book in the series. Go to TheAdventureZoneComic.com. It comes out July 13th, but go ahead and make sure you got a copy

ahead in your way. And we also have a bunch of merch, Travis. We do have a bunch of merch. If you're listening, you have like two or three more days to order the Festo Pen of the Month, which benefits the Transgender Law Center. That Festo Pen, it's really, really cool if you haven't seen it. And the proceeds go, like I said, to the Transgender Law Center, which employs a variety of community driven strategies to keep transgender

and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving and fighting for liberation. There's some candlelight smerch on there. And I know what you're saying. Wait, isn't candlelight? No, it's never over until it is. And I guess this year, it's January 4th is when that's going to end. Because on through January 4th, all sales of our candlelight items go to Benefit Harmony House, which for anybody who has purchased

a merch in the last week or two and watched the candlelight special, you all have gone above and beyond helping us raise money for them. So thank you again. All of that available at macroemerch.com. Thank you to John, Roderick and Long Winters. For you for a theme song into departure of the album, Putting the Days to Bed. That one almost got away from me. But I feel like I grabbed it by the tail and pulled it right back into the boat.

Didn't I? And then the other thing is Maximumfun.org. I want to thank them, too, in a big way. Thanks, Maximumfun.org. And we want to thank you. You know, it's been a tough year. It's been a tough year, guys. And the year is challenging as this one. I think it's time we explore new soft taco opportunities.

Hey, do you want to find out? Or as I like to call them, taco tunities. Yes, thank you. This yahoo was sent in by Connor. It's from an anonymous yahoo answers user who I'm going to call. Martin asks. How did they move the Statue of Liberty for Ghostbusters, too? My name is Justin.

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