My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 542: The Naming of 2021

Episode Date: January 4, 2021

You were warned that this would be the contents of this episode, and we ALWAYS follow through on our threats. Join us as we choose a mantra and a direction for the new calendar year, and then at the last second throw that mantra and direction in the toilet in exchange for a new one that doesn’t make any sense in the slightest.    Ways to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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Hello everybody and welcome to my brother, my brother and me 2021. Oh, my, I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. I'm your, I'm your middleest brother, Travis McElroy. Oh boy. And I am Cyber, and I am Cyberman. Looks like we made it. If you're listening to this, it's 2021. Oh, it's so. If that's a big if, Justin.

Huge, huge if. But if they're not listening to it then. Yeah, while we record this still 2020, still pretty bleak out there. Big hopes 2021, big ray of sunshine song come out tomorrow and drain the swamp. And we're so stoked for that. I actually feel jealous of the listener. You know what I mean? Yes. Because we're having to do this now on, you know.

We're still in the stink year. It's still the stink year. Do you think that there was a time during the dark ages where somebody said, I think next year is the end of the dark ages and it sucks that we're still in the, like, do you think that they had that kind of awareness then? They were like, I can't believe we have to stay in the dark ages for one more year. Yeah. They were like, I just heard about this thing called bloodletting and it's going to turn

this shit all the way around. You all heard about humors? That's, we're not here to complain about the bad state of things though. No, that year's done. That year's done. That year's done. And, but now we're on to the new year. And gosh, gosh, guys.

Oh, gosh upon. Here it is. This is an episode. This is an annual tradition. In much the same spirit of candle nights. Candle nights is, by the way, either over or still going. I don't know. No one knows.

Yeah. We may be on the next one already. We, I would like to begin this annual tradition, which is the naming of the year. What is the naming of the year? Well, it's a chance for us to sort of pick a theme, a punny theme for the year. I would take, take Umbridge with that. It's not always. Is someone chewing gum?

Someone chewing gum? Justin. No, I'm not chewing gum. Okay. I have a very wet mouth today. Oh, it's going to be a wet mouth show. Okay, cool. Um, so in the, in the, in previous years, we have been doing this since we began the show.

Uh, I don't know. We did name the year, even though we started in 2012. It was Zolo. Zolo. Okay. Is anybody looking? I'm looking. At the top of my head.

Okay. I want to quiz Travis on them then. Okay. Okay. 2011 was Zolo. No. No. It was 20.

Uh, what was it? It was 2000 in heaven. Get right with Christ. Right. Okay. Great. I know the next one was 20 does. 20 does getting it.

Uh, and then it was 20. Oh, and I can't remember if dirt teen is first or 14 is first. You don't remember. Yes. Dirt teen is 13 and then 14. Sorry. 2013. Dig it up.

Get it out. This one was our weakest. It. 20 forward. Oh, 20 forward. That's right. Don't I don't love that. It's a little obvious.

And this is where I think they really get good. 20 grifting. The con is on. The con is on. Correct. The subtitle of the year is so important. And then it's 2015 building bridges. Well, I want to stick a pin in 20 grifting the con is on because it may be the last time

that these ended up being. Correct. Correct. It was it, which is not that like. We would now encourage everyone to get on the grift and the con, but that everybody back in 2015 sure as hell did. I feel like 20 serpentine zag on them. Everybody did an okay job of zagging on them.

I guess so. Now I can't remember 2018. 2018 was collaborating. Collaborating. That's right. Stronger together. Stronger together. And then it was Frankenstein team become the monster.

The people took the spirit of collaborate team stronger together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We did our best, but it still was kind of a dodge, dodge shit year. But I don't know how that's not our fault. Yeah.

Frankenstein team become the monster. So good. And then very good one. There was 20 funny. This one is this one is contentious. We need to slow down a little bit. Travis felt very strongly that the year's theme was 20 honey down to business.

Yeah. Griffin and I felt very strongly that it was 20 funny. Fill your life with laughter and love. Yeah. History. I conceded that I believe a few months ago. Yes. That it was 20 honey down to business.

It did change. It did change. It pupated and it evolved. I think what we can do. Yeah. History will remember it as honey funny. Fill your life with laughter and bees. Right.

I think that that is the culmination of the two becoming one. Right. That is the year to sum it up. Honey funny. Fill your life with laughter and bees. Okay. I think that covers both. Just to do you think that we as a nation because only Americans listen to this show.

Good red blood Americans from the real America. And if you do know what I'm talking about. The underground America. Yes. Do you think they got down to business? Do you think folks got down to business? Do you think that in any kind of sort of sticky coordinated way. I think that there were periods of time.

Yeah. Where there was some solid civil action that was very down to business. Oh fuck. Yeah. You're right. We got. Yeah. It got wicked down to business this year I would argue.

Yeah. Well put Travis. Now this is going to be a different year. We're here now at 2021. Yeah. This is going to be a tough one because. Okay. I'm going to tell you.

Is it because there's so many syllables? All right. Thank you. So. Do you want to know something really? This is like the most that this story could be true. It shows spiritually true right before we got on to the call. I had this thought to myself.

Oh, I fucking got this year. I got this one. Yeah. No, let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Please. Okay.

Oh, I fucking got this year. 20 bunty. And I was like, what should be the subtitle? Oh, I got it. Just get on base. 20 bunty. Just get on base. What two facts did I forget in having that thought?

Well, one, it's 2021. Right. And two, I had that exact same title for 2020. Subtitle included. Okay. That's the kind of fucking year it's been. Hey, Justin. Three.

That's awesome. Not how bunting works. It advances the runner, but you're probably going to be out. Oh, you mean the seconds proposed subtitle that was proposed by you. Yeah, correct. Correcting me. 20 bunty advanced the runners was the other one. Oh my God.

It's a flat circle. We are just stuck in it. I do want to give one more shout out to 20. Gary just to the front party in the back. Was that last year? Yeah, last year. And also poor went out for 20 twice. Subtitles include one more again.

Second chances. Twenty twice feels so nice. Twenty twice will roll the dice. Twenty twice sugar and spice. Oh boy. Twenty twice. Twice is nice. Twenty twice.

Let's all be nice. Twenty twice a second look. Twenty twice two for the money. Kind of lost. Now none of those would have been. Lost the plot in those last two. It feels like. Now twenty twenty one.

Time to look forward. I have three that I feel very strongly about. Well, before we get to new ones, can we in any way just to start the conversation? Because Travis, Travis, I feel like spoiled the, the, the Apple bunch a little bit on the last time we spoke, you did. You professed that you had it and you knew it and you crushed it. And so like, I don't want to start with that. No, I'm saving that one.

No, no, no. That's a third out of three. Okay, but what I want to get to before we get to any new material is, is there anything we can salvage? No. From. Okay. That is.

That is dead. Hey Griffin, if you're trying, can we use anything from last year again? Last year is dead to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to. No, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta let me finish bud. You gotta let me finish bud.

Okay, finish bud. Just bud. Finish it. We would salvage it, but we would also add a rhyming word of one to it to the end. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I think, Griffin, we didn't leave a lot of meat on the bone and we have a whole decade. This is what I'm running into.

We are going to have to match the sound 2020 for 10 years, God willing, and the creek don't rise. Right. Yeah, I do think so. Something like 20 funny fun, empty your bucket of laughter and laugh. Now, what I did, Griffin, it's funny you should mention that. Yes. Because my first one, what I played with is the syllables, right?

All three of mine are syllable and rhyme based. Okay, cool. So, 20 good clean fun was what I went with for the first one. 20 good clean fun is cool, but it's also not... Even close. It's not, but it's not like... 20 good clean fun, 2021. Right?

So, I'm going with that. And then the... And my subtitle? 20 good clean fun. Let's get silly. Are you saying that we should grant ourselves the ability to ignore the second 20 having already rhymed it in the first part? Yes.

And not only that, there's a precedent here, Frank is 19, 20 Serpentine, right? It doesn't have to exactly, sometimes it can just be close enough. Collaborate team, we didn't even have a 20 in there. Yeah. There's... What do we want people to do this year? We have so many syllables to play with. Because if we could narrow that down, because I don't think it can be anything as trite

as like, let's work together, let's be good to each other. It's got to be, I think, more concrete, especially we're starting out the year in isolation still. We're not going to be able to collaborate team. Let me hit you guys with this. Okay. What do you think about this one? 20 Bunny Fun. And what this does is, it just says that at some point in the year, you got to get 20

bunnies together and have a little fun, just have some fun with the bunnies. I like that. And if you do that, the year is, you're good, right? I like this. Just 20 Bunny Fun. I like that. It's actionable. Let me throw this one out.

It's prescriptive in a way that I could achieve. Which I... All right. You just get 20 bunnies together, and maybe once this is safe, you know, you could make a day of it with a bunch of friends. Is live bunnies a necessity here? Oh, interesting. Absolutely not.

I don't want images of 20 live bunnies. That would give me hives. I want, you know, I think that that is completely fine. But I would also love to see people surround themselves with 20 stuff bunnies and just have some fun. I like that. Or some porcelain bunnies. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just 20 bunnies together. 20 chocolate bunnies, and you're just... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What about... Justin, is yours very actionable? And I like it.

I'm going to throw out one that is completely unactionable. Is this your second of three? This is my second of three. Okay, this is your... I think Griffin should get a term before Travis takes another term. Griffin, if you have one, please. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, great.

This is good energy. I had like... What popped into my head when you were talking about just sort of syllable synthesis is 20 woe be gone. Huh. But that's... Wow. Woe be gone is a word that you hear it and you think it means happy because your woe

be gone, but it actually means the opposite. And it means that you're very, very, very woeful. It seems like a bad, like, word seems like you're going with those just like 20 sad. Yeah. Or I don't want that though. The other one I came up with was 20 marathon, but we're not even in the one. Yeah. It's not a marathon.

It really works. Yeah. I... This one goes along a little bit with the Frankenstein team become the monster, right? Where I think this one's up for interpretation. Sure. And it gives 20 laser gun, pew, pew, motherfucker. No.

Now... The cussing makes it non-toyetic, which I hate. Wow. Well, you put a fun asterisk in there and then it's like kind of TZ fun, where it's just like, oh, I know what it means. I don't think, because we could also, like, it doesn't take much. One gentle step to the left and it could be 20 Tommy Gunn, brat, brat, brat. And I don't want to necessarily champion that particular, you know, arms bearing.

So you don't want to do, I did it one point thing, 20 by a gun, let's just do it. 20 by a gun, let's just do it as maybe the worst of both worlds actually? Okay. Yeah, yeah. No, I see it. I see it now. It's like 20 Bunny Fun in that it is prescriptive. Yeah.

Where it's saying, much like 20 Bunny Fun says, go get 20 stuff bunnies and let's have some fun with it, you say your objective, should you choose to accept it, is to go purchase a firearm. I don't think that that's on brand. No, I wasn't going to do that one. That's not included in my three. That's just one that kept popping into my head and I couldn't stop it. Yeah.

I would like to just go ahead and lay out my third. Just do it. Yeah. Just do it. I thought a lot about this. Okay. I thought in the past we've had, it was two amorphous, it was unachievable, it was ambiguous, and I thought here's a straightforward one that everyone can achieve that is universal.

Okay. 20 on a bun, eat a hot dog, parentheses at some point in parentheses. So this is kind of like the thing you put on your to-do list just so you know you'll be able to check it off. Right. To feel good. Like somebody could do that today and then not worry about the motto for the year. And the whole year is achieved at that point and at 20 on a bun, eat a hot dog, parentheses

at some point in parentheses. And I figure it leaves us opportunities for some fundraisers where you know it's like get a hot dog, give a hot dog, raise some money for food banks. And let me be clear. It doesn't have to be, it can be like a vegan hot dog. It could be a broad worst. Yeah. Gluten-free bun.

Yeah. It could be a chicken, you know, chicken and apple sausage, right? But it has to be a wiener of some sort and a split top bun. Indeed. Of some sort. Okay. 20 on a bun. Justin's been alarmingly quiet for a little while and I wonder.

Makes you think he's on rhyme zone. Yeah. 20 thanks a ton. Okay. Hey, 20 thanks a ton. Now, can I say, Justin, it's a little rude what you just did to Travis's great suggestion, which I'm starting to think you didn't even, you weren't even sort of doing it. 20 thanks a ton.

20 on a bun. What was, well, 20 on a bun, eat a hot dog, Travis, if I could take it and just twist it just a little bit, eat a hot dog today. Not any time you, yours is a little too. Is it like whatever you hear it? Any time you think of it, it's like the game. Yeah. If you think of it, it's like, ah, shit, I gotta, I know what I, I, I don't know what

I'm doing today except for, for one meal or big beefy snack, I will be consuming a hot dog on a bun today. I don't want, I don't necessarily like, okay, we made a bee themed year and like so much of our branding became about bees. And I'm not sure I want that. You don't want, okay, Justin, you don't want pens designed where it's us as hot dog boys. Yeah.

But it's just like right there. It's just so. I know, but you can't tell me that that's not adorable, 20 on a bun. I like 20 on a bun actually, but I, I feel like eat a hot dog today is where it's stripping me up. Like I would almost refer 20 on a bun and, and then the subtitle is something about trying new things on bun. No, no, no.

See, here's the thing, Justin. In the past, we tried to do these like inspirational ones and then the year has come back to bite us solidly. To be dodged, yes. Yeah. Like, okay, I don't want to get too modeling or self-important, but that is life. You start on January one and you're like, this is the year I want to take it, take it by storm and run it in the end zone.

Then life's like, actually, I'm not so sure about that. I'm going to do some bad things and some good things I haven't decided yet. And then at the, when you get to December, you're, you should feel good. If you like moved it a little bit, a hot dog, if you like moved, moved it a little bit. The length of one hot dog, a bun-sized Frank length needs to be aspirational and then you fall shorter. I've never, I've never had a hot dog, so I've been, I've been hearing a lot about these guys lately, well, whether or not they're a sandwich and it's not good for anybody.

Like even this, like if it was about hydration or something, I could get on board with it. But the idea that if you consider our year, you have to eat a hot dog, that's like some perverse version of the ring that I cannot get on board with. This is what I'm saying, eat a hot dog at some point. Right now, everybody walk over to that big white board that you keep on the wall full of your yearly goals and just write, eat a hot dog, date, question mark, TBD, TBD. I had, I was percolate. Okay.

Well, now we'll get to Justin's thanks 20, thanks a ton. Who are we gratitude? Gratitude is something anybody can do, no matter how bad things are, and if you're feeling gratitude for the things in your life, and more importantly, I think the people in your life, that 20, thanks a ton. That's powerful. Give me a, now make a subtitle because you didn't. 20, thanks a ton.

Hey, thanks a ton. No. No, that's good. I'm going to write that down. No, 20, thanks a ton. Put it on a bun. 20, thanks a ton. Gratitude.

Gratitude. Oh, okay. 20, thanks a ton. Gratitude, gratitude. Gratitude, attitude. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you got to rhyme out of it. Now, what if it's just gratitude with attitude?

Gratitude, gratitude. Oh. I was percolating on 20 on the run. Let's get out of here. Let's lay low. 20 on the run. Like, cheese it. But then I also wanted to explore 20 born to run.

Let's figure out, Bruce has been a big thing for a while now. Yeah, what's his name? And I'll be honest, I have not explored the gentleman's body of music. Who? All the boss. The boss. The big boy. The Jersey boy.

Bruce Willis. No, you know I love Bruno and his great jazz, but I'm speaking now specifically about Bruce Springsteen because he did the song Born to Run and not Bruce Willis. Yes. Now, I did think, because I thought of On the Run too, Griffin, and the subtitle I thought of for it was 20 on the run and then a hasty getaway. And it's all about like, hey, you know, once we're allowed to travel, let's get out there. Let's get out there.

Let's explore new places. No, because I like 20 on the run, let's lay low. Because this could be the year that maybe your goal is just like, get off the grid a little bit. Not a whole way. I'm not going to be able to, like, 20 on the run could be in person, right? 20 on the run could be just like, make yourself harder to get at. Because I feel like that could actually be a very powerful goal for a lot of people is

just like, hey, have you gotten it Mike lately? I haven't. Mike's really hard to get at lately. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't get to him and get your stinky little fingers all over it. What's neat about that, what really super neat is that I feel like 2021 are inclination, everybody's inclination in this plate swept country of ours is that once it's over baby, we're going to fucking rip it.

We're going to rip, we're going to ruin it. Like we're going to smash it and ruin it and fuck it and just like blast it and wail on it for like forever because we earned it. We didn't, but we earned it and now it's ours. I feel like maybe a 20 on the run, let's lay low almost encourages you to like patience, like even more patience. Yeah. Even when it's like party time, like maybe don't be the first like maybe hang back and

like, let's, let's, let's rebuild a little bit before we get out there and just start smashing. Well, I mean, to be fair, people are definitely going to be needing to build up their, their tolerance, their social tolerance once more, right? Sure, sure. I mean, at this point, if I rolled out to a party full of 30 people, it'd be too much. That's too much. Too much too soon.

Give me two people max. What about, oh, what? Okay. What about 20 chase the sun? Whoa. Living that beach life. Whoa. Oh, that's okay.

Don't, okay. 20 chase the sun. Live that beach life. Okay. Huh. You know what? Oh, 20 chase the sun ain't, ain't bad. I don't like live that beach life.

Oh yeah. I think we can sum it up better. Struggle for Griffin. 20 chase the sun to me feels like spiritual. Yeah. I'm very much picturing Bodie from a point break, right? This like eternal summer, you know, I'm just following the waves, living that beach life, chase the sun.

It's not even that. It's about the, it's, for me, it's about the day. And I mean, we would need to be careful if we walk this tightrope because obviously sun, sun safety is obviously very near and dear to our hearts and it should be an important thing for everybody. To chase the sun. When I, some days when it's nice and sunny outside and I go out and I do a little bit of yard work and I come back in revitalized by the day.

Yeah. It's like something, it's like a thing I don't get from, you know, food or sleep. It's like a new energy. It's solar, solar powered. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. 20, 20 chase the sun.

Maybe get that orb. Get the orb. Get the orb. Grab the orb. Get the orb. Get the orb. Grab the orb. Get the orb.

What about clutch the orb? Clutch the orb. Let me chase the sun. Clutch the orb. Clutch this orb. Clutch this orb. Clutch this orb. Clutch this orb.

Okay. Now here's what's so great about this one. You are going too far. Yeah. Yeah. Chase it all you want. You're not going to catch the sun. Well, how about reach for the orb then?

Cause then it's not about the grabbing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The orb will not be inbuilt. It will be taken rightfully as we have every year. Yes. 20 chase the sun. Clutch this orb. Clutch this orb.

And that way it leaves it. Like you're not going to do it, but it'll leave room to do it again next year. You know what I mean? Like we can continue. We must always clutch this orb. I like that. I do like 20 chase the sun. Okay.

Now hold on. Now hold on. 20 chase the sun is great. Clutch this orb is also good. You start seeing clutch this orb, which I feel is very powerful on various merchandise that may go on different body parts. Yeah. Okay.

I feel like imagine it on a shirt. It's not great. Clutch this orb. Okay. You're right. What about chase the sun? Reach for one specific star. What about just chase 20 chase the sun and then like something with solar power?

Oh, solar power. Solar power, S-O-U-L-A-R power. Solar power. What's it mean? I think you know exactly what it means, Griffin. I don't. I need you to tell me. Power is the soul.

What if someone made their nearest resolution to start listening to our show? Okay. 20 chase the sun solar power is great. What's next? Do we want to ask people for their suggestions? I could just put out a tweet right now. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. While you do that 20 everyone, you're all invited. 20 come undone. Let's take apart this cage we made for ourselves. No, because that sounds like I'm anti-pandemic or anti-quarantine. I'm definitely anti-pandemic. You've made that clear. I like to think so.

Ooh. What about this? 21 on 1. 21 on 1 is good. Is it an inherently sportsy? No, no, no, no. I wasn't even thinking about that. I was thinking about occasionally dip off Soshi to talk to your people in real life.

What about 21 on 1? Disconnect to reconnect. Disconnect to reconnect? Disconnect to reconnect. That's a little preachy. Okay, okay, okay. 21 on 1, I do kind of like it as like a get competitive. Like, don't be afraid to get out there.

Choose an enemy, you know? 21 on 1, prove yourself. Jesus, that was rough to see even say it. She even the one time. Now I do like 21 on 1, do it you fucking chicken. Bet you won't. I do like this feeling of going from very aspirational and very motivational to much more like, listen, we're moving towards apocalypse as far as we know.

It's time to get tough. It's time to get tough. Like, we've all been building ourselves up. Now it's time to break it down. And then maybe we can just do 20 chicken run and then we're going to tell people. I was taking a drink of water, you son of a bastard. Just saying that it's a great funny flick and that we could encourage people and maybe turn back to it. It didn't get its day in the sun.

It did not get its day in the sun. It sounds like chicken run needs to chase the sun. Yeah. How about 2020 Dune, work on rhyming? Is this from the audience? It's to celebrate. No, it's to celebrate. The release of Dune, the major motion picture.

I have gotten 30. Oh, my God. Yeah. I shouldn't have asked for it. You really should know. I told you not to. Also, the bad thing is, you know, Griffin told me to. Also, I asked for them to be sent to both me and Barack Obama.

So it's going to be a complicated day for him. Oh, boy. I'm just going to read them. And if you guys like one enough to consider it, I will tell you who said it. Okay. Well, no, if you say it on the show, you should say who said it. But people's usernames are so weird. I don't even, I can't.

Hey, this is from blended chicken noodle soup. Jamie's got a gun. No, that's a, but we're not even going to get 20 in there. I feel pretty strongly. We should at least have 20. Yeah. All right. Um, see, I'm saying, okay.

Mouse said 2021 WON. But I feel like that is just begging. That's right. Yeah. Begging some more buns, some, some more buns. Okay. Trace mask face mask says 2020 done. We're not going to take it.

Hmm. But this is, this is also the type of thing I'm like, it feels so obvious. Like we should all not, we should also, we should continue to not take it. Oh, okay. Mr. Skeleton suggests 2020 shun. And it's a year about removing toxic people from their life. I, I like the, I like the idea. But shun to me, such a powerful negative feeling.

Yeah. How about, how about 2020 stun looking so good? Um, that's, that's not it. Um, no, I'm just trying to think of rhyming words. Let's, let's make a deal here. The second, the second 20 has got to do some lifting. Yeah. Right.

That's got, I think, I feel like you can't just do 2020 and then rhyme with the last word. Right. That's why 20 on a bun is so powerful. Yeah. 20 overcome. Hmm. Not close enough for me, but I am a stickler to be fair. Yeah.

If, if UN wasn't such an easily rhymeable syllable, I would give it to you. Yeah. Okay. Now here's one from Pete, Pete queer that I want to hit you guys with 27. Oh, that's pretty good. How about 27 young, savor the grape, savor the grape. This is like Travis's, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to save this one. 20.

I'm 27 young. Let's see if I can solve being young. I can't believe I spelled that right. Uh, say, and then savor the grape. So that one's kind of like Travis's hot dog one, except for grapes. Yes. Okay. Um, not bad, not bad.

So what have we got so far on the list that we like? Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's 20 chase the sun is tough for me. 20 chase the sun solar, solar power. It really gets me going. And I'll tell you why, because it sounds like it, it sounds like something that would be printed quite cheaply on a t-shirt that we would get on a Southern Baptist winter retreat.

Yes. Yes. Or something along those lines chase the sun solar power. Uh-huh. It's a little new age exercise class vibe. Um, so I don't know about that, but I'm tempted. Now to be fair, Griffin, I think it would make it a little bit more Southern Baptist retreat if it was SLN.

Um, but. Oh, wait. Wait, hold on. Now, hold on. Travis has brought up a good point that there is a homonym opportunity here that we, a homin opportunity here that we should dip our snoot into. Yeah. Justin, I need you to turn off Twitter just for a second so we can take this conversation.

What about 20 begotten sun? No. 20 chase the sun, S-O-N sun. Uh-huh. S-O-U-L-A-R power. And then we are, we have made a, we have. A hard swing. We have really planted a flag in the ground at that point.

Did you hear the court in a new demographic over in my brother and my brother in me? I've deleted the tweet asking for name suggestions. Hopefully that will stem the tide. Okay. I imagine that you got about 400 in the interest. Roughly 350 actually. Thank you very much. Okay.

So what do you think, Justin, about a hard Christian slogan? Does that mean it has to be 20 chase the sun, S-O-N? Yes. Correct. Okay. Ah, man. It's just enough people that have a complicated past with Jesus and all of his great friends. I wouldn't love that.

Yeah. Yeah, I see that. I see that. But now boys, here's the Piccadillo we've gotten ourselves into. Now I feel like we can't go with 20 chase the S-U-N solar power because people are going to think that we're trying to backdoor it in now. Ah, a little backdoor Jesus. There's no way we're trying to get a little bit of Jesus in there for you.

Ugh. There's just enough, it's just like silverback, you know what I mean? There's like a mild pecan, oh Jesus. There's a sliver of Jesus. A lifehouse that's just a kitten. Just a kitten. A lifehouse. Kiss of Jesus.

Lifehouse, half teaspoon of Jesus. 20, okay, I am on rhyme zone now, 20 megaton. Ooh. That feels 20 megaton is like we don't need it. We don't need that level of- But that's a powerful rhyme. I will just say it's a good rhyme. It's not quite as good as chicken run, which I think we all agree is the way we're leaning

right now. No, I'm still sticking by 20 on a bone. The message that I'm leaning towards is this. It's the thing that I think could be the most pragmatic and the kind of thing I would stand behind is that as the year 2020 has been dog shit, but I feel like the thing that has come out of it is a toughened hide or an adoption of certain skill sets or, you know, becoming an expert in a certain type of thing or doing things that you didn't know you were capable of, all of that is powerful stuff.

That is the kind of stuff that you do when you're faced with a rough situation. I want to encourage people not to like shed that, not to lose that. You know what I mean? Even when it's all over, there's good stuff that comes with, you know, toughening your chitin a little bit. Yeah. But how do you rhyme that with un? Oh, but you weren't building to a theme.

No. What about 20? It's begun. Oh, I like that. It's begun. We did forget to do commercials. I'm wondering if we should do those and then get back into it. Yeah.

What do you think? That'll give me some time. And the commercials people listen, I'm not going to be all in the right headspace for these commercials. I'm going to be thinking. Can I just say Rhyme Zone got a lot of on. Yeah, that was. Not a lot of un, because Master Done is good, but that doesn't rhyme with 21.

Maybe we all just start saying it's 2020 on. 2020 on. And then we can. Okay, let's go to the Money's On. 20 My Grandson. Folks, this is me. Oh, a pain in door. A pain endorsement guy.

And I want to talk to you about, let me see this here. Squarespace seems like, I mean, this isn't my kind of thing, but it says here you can make a website and it's really easy. They got a lot of different kinds of people that are doing it and it sounds like a good deal. Oh, they got coaches on here and writers and designers and instructors and record labels and agencies and art galleries and healthcare and financial services. And they're all making websites.

I never knew really how those were getting made, but I guess you can do it yourself. And take it from me. A paid endorser. This is the number one way I know of to make a website and uses Squarespace that the templates on there. You got to see them. Oh boy. They're gonna, they're, it's, they are just top notch analytics.

So you can make sure your dad's visiting as often as he says he is and great hosting. You know, they'll put a charcuterie out or whatever for your guests. I don't know all the ins and outs of this kind of techno babble stuff. Let me see here. Oh, there's a, so we got a deal for our listeners. Take it from me. A paid endorser. If you go to squarespace.com slash my brother up my brother for a free trial.

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And Justin is, Justin's now taking off his headphones and leaving the sound booth. Oh, he's gotten in his car. He's driven away. You know what I miss? What do you miss Travis? I miss licking stamps. You remember when you used to have to lick stamps? You remember this?

Sure. And you lick the envelopes and you send them to people and they know your tongue had touched their envelopes in at least two places. You remember this? Yeah. It's like a kiss. Yeah. But like the tongue, I French kissed this letter for you.

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Stamps.com, never go to the post office again. That was certainly enough time for us to come up with some good names for the year. I'm looking at the list. I was carrying a load on my shoulders of advertising as was Travis. Griffin, why don't you just slather them on, baby? Okay. I had 20 never done. Keep it going.

Keep the fire. 20 never done. What about 20 octagon? Let's all do MMA. Again, we're getting back into on territory. Oh, you're right. You're right. 20 tons of fun.

It could be the sequel to 20. Funny. Fill your life with laughter and love that everybody's asking for. It could be the sequel to Operation Dive It From. 20's to schedule one. Again, you're back in on-town trap. I need you to get off whatever rhyme zone page you're on because it's not true. It's just rhyme zone.

It's the page I'm on. Yeah. What about 2020 none but in UN and then it's like Cloister Up. I do like Cloister Up. Yeah. That's what we need right now. We should be in Cloister Up. Now I feel like we're one year behind at that point, right?

Yeah. We would have seemed absolutely prophetic if we had been like, it's 20 quarantine. What do we know? Fuck it. Let's review where we're at right now and see if any of them are strong enough because I feel like there's two. For me, there's two right now. Okay.

And it's 20 on a bun. No, it's 20 on the run. Let's lay low and 20 chase the sun's solar power. Now you're not willing to give 20 on a bun even the third spot there just for- I hate 20 on a bun. You do. Yo, okay. I would take any of whoever 20 on a bun.

Now 20 on a bun, this is going to be down to business where people are going to be like, I can't believe you didn't give 20 on a bun. Okay. I want to walk you through my next pitch because I am looking at rhyme zone. One of the rhymes on rhyme zone is home run. But how do you make that fit in with the right number of syllables? And what my mind immediately jumped to was 20 big home run. 20 big home run, knock it out the park.

20 big home run, this one's for the game. 20 big home run. Slam it. Grand salami. Angels in the outfield. There's a lot of baseball stuff that's like inspiring to the layman. Somebody who doesn't really care about sports or baseball in particular. There's a lot of stuff that I do know just through as much as about baseball.

We've just messed this up so badly every year. I just want to do it right. Yeah, like 20 on a bun for like really actionable. How is 20 big home run doing it wrong, Justin? I'm genuinely asking because I feel like you're poo-pooing what is my current favorite idea. It's not that it's that like, imagine we get to July, right? And the bug king is like, so you thought this year would be a home run. Fascinating.

Tell me more about podcasts. I mean, but that's hope, isn't it? There's no such thing as false hope, huh? I could have a great year and not get a home run, you know? I just think it would be cool if all of our fans were all of a sudden wearing baseball merchandise. What the fuck? Like we could have some fun with that nasty, scary, ugly baseball man on the big league. Oh fuck, what are those movies?

I mean like a million of them is like nasty baseball humor. Major league. Major league. Thank you Travis. You know what I'm talking about? We could have our own little Mr. Baseball guy and that's fun. Well over here and Cincinnati, his name is Mr. Redlegs. Yeah, we don't have a mascot and we could have a like a big baseball guy mascot for 20 big home run.

I think, okay, I'm on the hook for big home run, 20 big home run. Now I need you to reel me in with that just killer tagline. Subtitle, yeah. That's where we're struggling, huh? Oh, what about 20 big home run? Now Bring Him Home has home in it again. Yeah, you can't have home in it twice, I think. 20 big home run, round and third.

Like we're almost there. That feels Christian. That actually feels more Christian than 20. Okay, 20 big home run. Doesn't that feel really Christian? A little bit. 20 big home run for all the marbles. But they don't really do marbles in baseball.

No, they don't. Is there a way to incorporate angels in the outfield? 20 big home run. Thanks, angels. Thank an angel today. I don't feel like you're going to shake me off 20 Chase the Sun. I feel like it's so powerful. Can I try this?

I'm just going to put this. Try anything. It's a podcast. Okay, I'm just going to try this. Try everything. I don't know if we brought up Zozo last year as a thing because the two and zero, right? Yeah, no, I get it.

Could we do Zozi? Zozi. Okay, but what does that mean? I don't know, man, but it's a cool little word there, isn't it? Zozi is... It could be like something that you say in the dark a few times. I don't know. It's perhaps the least matchable thing you've said so far.

Are you kidding? I mean, Zozi, I like that would be like... What is that? Who is that? I must date them. We could do an ARG where we slowly reveal what Zozi is over the course of the year. It's 2021. Yeah, but I mean, is it a luxury lifestyle brand?

Is it like, what are we doing with it? Let me see what URLs we could get. I also went to Zozi, right? Because it could kind of be that. And then I thought about how 2024 could just be Sosa. And then we could do a 20 big home run. Something, something, Sammy Sosa. So we have 2024.

Set that one aside. Put that one in the time capsule. Yeah, Sosa's locked up. 20 big home run, seventh inning stretch. It doesn't mean anything. It's just very baseball. Yeah. 20 big home run bases loaded.

Ooh, I like that. What I like about that is it's saying like, everything is in position for you to blast off. And maybe you won't, maybe you don't. It leaves room for failure. There's plenty of time. Base is loaded and baseball doesn't always be a good thing because it's a lot of pressure. But you did just say big home run right before it, didn't you? I mean, you did just say it.

I think that that implies that the chances of success are high, right? Yeah. But the rest of that could be, this could be a big home run. Yeah. Not that that was a big home run. It's almost backwards, right? It is actually explicitly backwards. Yeah.

You would want it to be bases loaded before you start thinking about the big home run you're about to score. But you're stepping up to the plate here, right? And here's the thing. Everybody believes in you, right? Because they're like, this could be a big home run. No one's saying, oh, no, I wish it wasn't them at the plate. Right. What about 2020 big home run?

We all believe in you. Oh, we're all behind you. We're all behind you. We, whoa, whoa, 20 big home run. Be your own angel. Oh, you're at the plate. The bases are loaded. You look in the set.

Who's out with the wings? It's you. It's you. You're looking at you saying you've got this. You're also just going to love it. You're your own angel. Be your own angel. 2020 big home run.

But can I, if I could just trunk it. 20 big home run. We're all angels now. No, let's see that. No, just 20 big home run. Be the angel. 20 big home run. Be the angel.

Because that means that you don't have to get the home run, do you? You just have to see a big home run. You just have to be able to recognize it. And maybe you're the one flapping now. You're the one flapping. You can flapping. You're the big home run. You're flapping now.

That's, that, it's, it's almost a weird parallel to 20 Frankenstein team. Become the monster. Yeah. 20 big home run. Be the angel. I like this. Maybe you're supporting yourself. Maybe you're supporting someone else who needs it.

It's disarming. If somebody sees that on a shirt, they'd be like, oh, that's nice. But it's like, no, you don't understand. I mean an angel in the context of cheating at sports to slam one right out of the fucking part. This isn't about like protecting someone just like out on the street or whatever. This is, I'm going to, my dad, I'm trying to get my dad's love back. The only way I could do that.

Or I'm defending my thesis today. I'm going to be the angel. I'm not going to be the one up there like hoping that somebody comes and helps me. I'm the angel in this one. I'm a being of celestial might and I'm going to get up there. I'm going to win the roller derby. Now is it too late to think more about 20 Bunny Fun? 20 Bunny Fun feels like the one we're going to pivot to in August when we realized that

no one was their own angel. No one's their own angel. We didn't chase the sun. Nobody ate a hot dog. Because the thing is that this, the one weakness of 20 big home run, be the angel, is that it is contingent. Are you having seen the film Angels in the Outfield? Yeah, yeah.

Which is a big ask. It does require homework, doesn't it? It does. I feel like our listeners of an age where they've. Definitely not seen that. You started that sentence thinking it was going to go one way and then it decided to go another way. Well, we have a wide swath. Some people have probably seen and enjoyed Angels in the Outfield.

Some people have probably not seen it. I refuse to believe that some people have seen it and not enjoyed it. That group does not exist. No. No. No. 20 big home run. Just someone say it and I want to message it to our on staff artist immediately.

Okay. Well, I need to be settled. It's the tagline that's because. Yeah. The big home run is really getting. 20 big home run is it. I think we can agree on that at least. But what's the most powerful thing?

It could be be the angel or be your own angel. I think is more explicit and that I like that. But let's think about, let's think about big home run terminology. It's out of here. Big home run. Slam a jamma. You know, a big home run. Knock the skin off the dining.

Knock the skin off the greasy cheddar. Big home run. Sliding into fur. No. Big home run. Eye on the ball. Eye on the ball. Eye on the ball.

Shoot the moon. No. Big home run. Call your shot. Ooh. I like that. Call your shot is good. I like that.

It sounds like we are saying, ooh, ooh, Justin. Ooh, Justin. I kind of got chills a little bit. Did you get chills a little bit of chills from that? 20 big home run. Call your shot. Ooh, I like that. Oh, there's a level of confidence, a little bit of swagger to that.

Yes, but also you're the one determining the boundaries of your own success, aren't you? Yeah, you could call a very close shot if you wanted to. Call whatever shot you want. This isn't about judgment. I'm hitting it over there. It's like 10 feet. I know. It's a few inches behind shoot your shot, which is like a thing I feel like people said

a lot this year of just like, yeah, send a, you're in love with this Instagram. I'll send them a message. That's how I met my wife. Shoot your shot. But this one's like. Works for everybody. It's like if you, you can think about messaging the, the Instagram model that you want to marry, but you don't actually have to do it.

Just call it. Call your shot. Just call the shot. I would, I would do, I would like to do that. You don't even have to do it at that point. See, that's the thing. Everybody talks about that one time when Babe Ruth did it and nailed it. Nobody talks about the hundreds of thousands of other times that people point at a stand

and they don't. Every time he pointed. Like, come on. Sometimes you would start kind of waving. You know. He would just point, pass himself into the catcher's mitt. Yeah. It's the cold shot.

It's going right there. It's going to be a great pit from my friend, Doug, who just cause he's on the other team is still my friend. I still love him. We still hang out. There's an intentionality to this that I feel like will be genuinely helpful as we transition out of quarantine times to just have, just, just like set a goal, set some goal. That's all you got to do.

It's going to be a weird transition no matter what. But if you have, if you call your shot, you might just get that big home run. Yeah. And it does again, boys, give us access to the powerful iconography of a big ugly baseball head man to use on merchandise. I do like that idea. We're already human bobbleheads. Why not bring it?

Yeah. We have partnerships with big league too. I'm talking about baseball caps. Hello. Talking about sponsoring little league teams. Man, if we sold out guys, these, these slogans used to be about the people. No, no, no. I just got excited about actually sponsoring little league teams.

Oh, no, that's very good. That's really actually super good. I would rather, is it possible to sponsor people's work softball teams? Now, I realized they're probably already sponsored by the business that they work for. But if I could pay to have my name above that business, Travis's subway warriors or something, that would be very exciting to me. That's cool. Okay.

Now, in terms of URLs. Oh, they would be the subway home home run artists. Excuse me. I can get big home dot run. Ooh. You can't get big home run dot com. Of course not. I can get big, big home run dot art.

I like that. I can get big home run dot me, big home run dot click. Big home run dot org is just right. What about big home run dot gov? No. Big home run dot biz. Big home run dot biz is available. Okay.

What about big home run dot geocities.com? I'm not going to spend $18 on big home run dot. I like big home dot run. Big home dot run, but that's like breaking the flow. No, that feels good to say big home dot run. It feels like it changes it a little bit. Oh, this big home don't run. It almost sounds like that.

Yeah. All right. I'll get big home dot run. All right. Is it too late to change it to the big dog run? Big dog run. Run dog run. 20 run dog run.

20 big home run be the big dog run. Big dog run. 20 big dog run, no bones about it. We've lost the plot in a pretty major way. I think, oh man. Big dog run no bones about it though. It's very good. We always do this ourselves.

We can't do it. 20 big dog run. 20 big dog run no bones about it. Listen. It's right there. That's what I don't understand. Have you guys ever seen the movie sliding doors? Because that's the two passive diverge.

They're the ones that do that. No, that's what I was saying. You're right there. You cannot. We cannot go wrong with a year called 20 big dog. He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me.

20 big dog run. We'll definitely achieve this year. No bones about it. No bones about it folks. 20 big dog run. What's great is we can save 20 big home run for 2031. That's true. That's true.

What does big dog run me? It does it. Big dog run. It sounds fucking great to say it. I already paid for big home run. We direct that to bigdog.run. Big dog run. It's like saying I was a little nervous about asking for a raise at work.

But you know, big dogs gotta run. Big dog run. No bones about it. Yeah. Big dog run. So I could get bigdog.run. Are we going to get in trouble is the big dog's brand active? Not it.

I can get bigdog run.com. Yes. I think big dog is DAWG. No. I don't think so. If you can get bigDOG, bigdog run. Bigdogrun.com? Yeah, bigdogrun.com.

Or bigdog.run. Can we get both and redirect to each other? Yeah, I'll get both. Just an infinite sort of look. 20 big dog run. No bones about it. I mean, I think that that's... I'll tell you, you can't mess it up.

You can't mess that era. If we can generate at least one prescriptive, one... Okay, if this is a mantra, which is I think ultimately what these year names are, when would one deploy it? I think you nailed it, right? You know, I wasn't going to do it, but then I remember bigdog run, right? You're going to run. And if you get nervous about actually running,

then you have the subtitle there that swings in to tell you no bones about it. Yeah, bigdog run. But again, I do have to very important ask if the bigdog brand is going to be upset with us. I don't think that they can claim the idea of large canines is all theirs. Listen, okay, let me head over to trademark office. Okay. We've never done this on our website, on our podcast before. So let me just check.

It would be... Just let me look at the trademark database. Bigdog holdings, bigdog cat. I mean, like, there's so many bigdog things. I don't know that they can really get it. Yeah, I think we stand by it. And you know what, Griffin? Maybe this is the year we get sued by bigdog.

I feel like this is the year where we maybe tempt fate with bigdog a little bit. What if we did get bigdog to sit? I mean, if we could get sued by bigdog, that would be like... Would there be a better ending of this podcast than us being sued out of business by bigdog? What it will be is we'll have to become like indentured advertisers for them, where it's just like every episode brought to you by bigdog. That is the best case scenario, Travis. That is the best...

That would be a great max fund drive push for us. We no longer make ad revenue. We work for bigdog. Unpaid. We are still digging out of that bigdog hole. And there's no bones about that. No bones about it. This is it.

Okay, this is it, folks. This is the year. We got to make sure we say 20 in there. 20 bigdog run. I almost feel like 20 is unnecessary at this point. 20 bigdog run. No bones about it. No bones about it. It's so bad.

I'm looking at our trademark search. I think we're good. There is one here for bigdog. There's a company called Bigdog Licensing that has the trademark on Bigdog as it refers to hotdog sandwiches. Oh, we're fine. We're fine. Thank you, folks, for listening to our program.

We hope you're satisfied with the theme of this year. I hope you can bring the spirit and energy of 20 bigdog run. No bones about it into your life. I'm sure we'll have merchandise available soon, which is secondary to the thematic statement. Can we still at least have one piece of merchandise? And it will say 20 bigdog run, but it will have the ugly nasty baseball head, man.

Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, we can do that for you. It's probably our brother for crying out loud, you know? Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. Trav, do you have anything that you would like to mention? I sure do.

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That's where the big dogs really run. I don't have, I don't have any yahoo's. I haven't been feeling any final yahoo's. I could just like make up a yahoo. No, no, no, let me, I'm gonna go the absolute first thing on yahoo's answers. And we'll just cackle at it like the Finns. Oh, Justin, you wanna get hit us with the final yahoo?

This one is from anonymous. Does fireball's brain shake around in her skull like a shell? Yah! Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. Wait, wait, there's another one here. Atheists. What do you think about the discovery of a fossilized cage around a group of velociraptor bones?

Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. My name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. The evidence is piled up on the atheist. This has been my brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad, square on the lips. Okay, that was the show. Hope you had some fun. Talked for an hour and now our job is done.

Go back into the world face the day ahead. Please don't tell our grandparents all the cuss words we said.