My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 548: Jeans All The Way Down
Episode Date: February 15, 2021Description: Have you ever eaten a chili so good that it rips your family apart? Just kidding, it's only a song! We also go deep into exploring the mouth as well as butt advertising. It's a very troub...ling episode. Suggested Talking Points: Chili Songs, World's Best [BLANK], The Chicken Bud, Kick My Jeans Joseph Gordon-Levitt! Ways to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter Â
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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 mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening.
What's up, you cool baby?
Here come the McElroy's, we've got jokes and bits
We're gonna give advice and you'll find these sticks
Left her, it is in store, come inside and see
It's time to start, it's my brother, my brother and me
Hey everybody, welcome to my brother, my brother meaning advice show for the Modgenera
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy
I'm your middleest brother, old spotty dog, Travis McElroy
I'm your sweet baby brother, Griffin McElroy, it kind of fucked me up that you said hey and not hello
Yeah, I've never said hey, it felt casual
It felt like we were on Twitch or something more casual than
I think it's TGI Fridays
Hey guys, don't forget to like and subscribe
Yeah
I've been working on some songs during quarantine
And I finished one up just recently
And I wanted to see what you guys thought
Now, what kind of songs are we talking about?
It's just one song
But you said plural
Does it play an instrument?
There's no instruments on it, it's acapella
Okay
Can I sing it and please don't interrupt me or anything while I'm singing it?
Okay
And it's just a song
How will we know when the song's over and we can start talking?
There's like one whole rest, so if it goes longer than a whole rest
Okay
Okay, here's the song
And your brothers will never know that you're eating chili while you record
No, that's a secret you'll take to your grave
Now your brothers will never know all the beef and beans you're shoving in your gourd
They'd prefer it if you would just behave
It is Thursday at 2.41pm
And this is happening in real life
On the cilantro sprinkled across the bowl
That was chopped up recently by your wife
Okay
What do you guys think so far? That's verse one
Now, oh, it's not there's more to it than that?
That's just the beginning, I want to stop for notes
Now, let me say this
It's 2.41pm now
Yeah
It's 2.42pm, go right to the clock at this point
Justin, I think what you were hoping or maybe anticipating here
Was that we would be upset that you're eating chili during recording
I'm upset that you're eating lunch at almost 3pm
Okay, well, it is just a I feel like I clarified at the beginning is just a song
It's a song, Traff
It's just a song
Well, it's like the it's like confessional stand up
It doesn't always it's not describing what's happening right now
It could be a recording that he did, you know, a couple months back at 2.41pm now
2.42pm on Thursday
There were a lot of specifics in there, Griffin
And at one point, I believe he said this is happening right now
Right, but that's in this that was did you hear that that was part of the song?
Yeah
We've done this 560 episodes, we've done it 560 times so like odds are
We have recorded on a Thursday at 2.41pm now, 2.42pm
Can I just kind of just continue?
Yeah, sorry, thank you
Go ahead
And the spoon is literally in my hand
Me, Justin McElroy, the person singing this song
And it's not just a song
It's a story about me eating chili
While I record the show
My brother, my brother and me this episode right now
Now that scene, okay, Griffin, you have to admit that that scene is suspicious, right?
It could have described any episode
He said this episode right now
It's when he's singing it
It's just a song
No, you said in there that it's not just a song, Justin
No, okay, but that was in the song
Who are you gonna believe Travis, our brother or the song?
I believe our brother
No, okay, no, this song
It's not just a song
It's not just a song
You said in the song that it's not just a song
But I said in the song, if the song is just a song, you can't pick and choose what different parts you're gonna listen to
You know what? You're right
I can't decide you believe the part where I say it's not just a song
No, Justin, I believe all of it
This is the thing
I believe all of it from start to finish
That you currently have a spoon in your hand
That you're eating chili that your wife put cilantro on
That you're eating it right now as we record this episode
Travis
It's you're killing me, dude
It's just a song
And I would sign in Naffa David with my legal name in front of a notary
Say hi, I'm eating chili
But it will not come to that
Because my brothers will believe me when I say that this is just a song
Even though it's not
Now, oh, I was ready to buy it until that very last...
Ooh, that very last kickflip there
What was different?
Did you not like it?
What part was different?
Is it because it didn't rhyme?
I was struggling with that
No, I'm fine with free verse
It's more that right there at the end you say it's not a song again
Still not germane, though
But it's very clearly not a song
Like if OJ Simpson put out a song like I definitely did it
People would get suspicious
You realize that, right?
Yeah
That's...
I mean, he did put out a book that was kind of like that
And it wasn't like it was just a book
Hey guys, it's just a book
Weird co-winky dink
I ate leftover chili for lunch
What does that have to do with me?
Right before...
Well, because that was the nature of the song
I'm not saying that's what you did
Oh, thank you
But I washed it down with a probiotic soda
That Rachel brought into our house
For some reason it was a chunky soda
And so my body's gonna make something new
What are you guys doing to yourself?
I had a fruit smoothie for breakfast
And then I had a nice salad
What's wrong with you two?
I had some turkey and celery and hummus
And then chili
I actually had a quinoa bowl trapped from Panera Bread
So I don't know what you're talking about
That thing I just said about the probiotic soda
And the chili was a poem
No, it wasn't a poem
It was Robert Frost's poem about chili
Oh, actually I remember that now that you say it
Yeah
Fuck
Excuse me?
My body dead ass feels quite bad
I'm actually weirdly pretty hungry
Because I meant to eat lunch before
Yeah
I meant to eat lunch before we started recording
And now I'm gonna be hungry for the whole show
Sure
I did recently do
Not that I'm saying what you said is true, Justin
But I did recently do a live stream game
In which 30 seconds before it began
My wife lovingly brought me a plate
With two big pieces of pizza on it
Oh, God, Justin
And then I had to eat it on the stream
By ducking down below camera level
Taking a couple bites
Cheering and eating then raising back up
Now, Justin, do you want to make any more horrific
Can we hold, hold on
Just one second
Meat slapping sounds
Hold on, guys, guys, hold on one second
Sydney's coming in
No
Yeah, no, it was delicious
Thank you
Yeah, the cilantro really
Really helped
Okay
Now, Justin
We probably just got that
That was a skit
Now, Justin
What's up
You just said
Now, Justin is a skit
She said, yes
I said what?
You said the cilantro was good
And that was something
She suggested the line about cilantro
Yeah
They're a comedy writing team
And they're doing some sketches
Or a comedy writing team
Yeah
Justin
Yeah, I'm not gonna rest until I crack this
Yeah, you can try it
I want you to try it, whatever
You can't run for me, Justin
I will hunt you down like a dog
And I'll prove you at that chili during this recording
I don't think you ever will
Justin, I got a whole board set up on my wall already
I got strings running the thing
Now, listen, I'm looking at your board via Skype
No, that was just a poem
I don't have a board, Justin
It was just a poem
It wasn't a real board, Justin
Even if you did have a board
The only thing you could pin up there is that
Justin repeatedly stated that he ate chili
During the recording
Right
That's a bad board
Oh, I'm sorry
There's been a bit the whole time, Justin
I knew it was real
And just a song at the same time
I don't even care
It was just a bit
Yeah
What about a question?
You know what you get
You know what I deserve for that?
What?
A Bitcoin
Oh, I get it
Boy, I wish we got a coin for every bit we did
I think it'd go a little something like this
Did I invent the term Bitcoin?
You did
Bit, just now
Did I...
Coin it
Did I coin...
Did I coin Bitcoin bit?
It's just that you're taking so long to get it
You're getting mad at me for interrupting you
But everyone knew where you were going
30 seconds before you said
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin
Anticipation
Okay
Now, this first question is not one we normally do
But it was such...
It tickled my brain
Are you gonna read it?
I love it, you do it
No, you should read it, but it's a good setup
Who is the best farmer in the world?
You know how there's the best soccer player
A basketball list in the world?
Who's the best farmer?
Who has the most farmer stats?
And that's from Gmail
And what I love about this question
And what it makes you think is
This is not saying are there good farmers and bad farmers
Because yes, of course it's true
But is there a best farmer?
Huh
Do you know how you know who the best farmer is?
How?
Who is standing in his field?
Okay
Huh
I didn't do this question just to set that up
But it popped in my head
Alright, I liked it
I would say whichever farm has the most crows
Oh, you think?
The crows have spoken
This farm is the best one
It's got the best corn or grapes or whatever
Whatever crows like to eat, probably corn
I think it's corn
I mean, it's Mr. Monsanto
Yeah, I love that
In his many farms
What I like about this question too
Is it has a deeper implication
That every job
There is a best at it
Sure
There is out there somewhere
The world's best sanitation worker
That can pick up a garbage can
And do this scoop move
That launches the bags 30 yards into the truck
Without having to walk over there
That everyone's like, oh, they're the best
That has to exist
There's a ticket taker somewhere
That rips it right in the middle every time
You know what I mean?
Someone has to be the best at it
Yeah
And I feel like that's a dream that we all chase
Is being the best in whatever field we're enthusiastic about
I feel like for a sanitation worker
It would be the robot arm
That lifts up the can
And dunks it in
And doesn't lose a pizza box over the side
Or something like that
Maybe they were in the military
They did one of those bomb exploding robots
And so they got good garbage arm training
For that
And now I'm writing a fucking Tom Clancy novel
In our podcast
I do apologize for that
Is there something that you guys think you're the best at?
In the world?
The best of the world
Like when everybody looks at the leaderboard
Right there at the top
You got most saying the name of Justin McRoy
Or Griffin McRoy
Hmm
No
Wow, that's a deep dark
Nope
Nothing
Nothing
Nope
I'm the best at not remembering to get a napkin or paper towel
When I get my food at a restaurant
Oh yeah, no, I've said that
I've said that about you before
Griffin every time
We come back to the table with our food
And you guys are like
Where's the napkins?
And I'm like
I did not get those
And then you always say to me
You're the best at that
You're the best at that
You're so consistent
You're the best at not getting those
That's probably
That's probably up there for me
Not the worst
I mean there's less thing on not the worst at
You don't think there's anything you're not the worst at?
Cause I would say
I'm gonna say that about you
I think it's way easier to be the worst at something
Oh sure
You know like
No, because you get to a base level where
Just lack of any experience is a great leveler
You know what I mean like
You could say we're stock trader
And you're gonna hit a point of the population
Where like
Don't know
Never looked into it
Do not know about it
Don't know what it is
And that's like a wide swath
Yeah, you couldn't be the worst
Just because you're ignorant
Yeah
There could be one worst
I actually have bad news about this best farmer question
What's that?
Well, I was thinking about it
And how it's like all family farms
And it's like all like huge
Family farms over
And it's all just these big corpo farms
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
And then I started looking into it a little more
And here's what they don't want you to know guys
What's that?
There are no more farmers
Oh
Yeah, we actually don't have farmers anymore in America
A lot of it comes from China
And a lot of it comes from
Robotically run food farms
Yeah
But there's no farmers anymore
If you're listening to this
And you think that you're a farmer
Someone's running the long grift on you
Because we don't have them anymore
Now what about farmers only, Justin?
That's why that crashed
Oh, that's why
I lost my fucking shirt
Yeah
When farmers only went under
Luckily I had Christian Mingle there
To kind of keep me afloat
Oh, I'm more of a plenty of fish guy
But yeah
Hey, can I do it, yeah?
Yeah, I'd like that grift, thank you
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Thanks Amy, it's Yahoo Answers user Ray
Who asks
How do you become the guy
Who controls the family dinner table?
Like in the show Boardwalk Empire
Nucky Thompson
Is that...
I don't know if that's a typo
I'm Nucky
It was Nucky
Welcome to this
That can't be it
Time for me
I'm assuming this is on some sort of like
Boardwalk Empire-centric sub-Yahoo
Because that is the only place that that program
Would be summoned up for polite discussion
It's an entertainment
Without even knowing the rest of the question
Tony Soprano should be the reference, right?
Not Nucky Thompson
It's Nucky Thompson
I'm Nucky
Thanks for enjoying the meatloaf today
Nucky, can I ask a question?
No, you can't
I'm...
In the show Boardwalk Empire
Nucky Thompson is always the guy with the cool stories
And stuff to say at big family parties
I'd love to be like that
How do you become the guy
Who controls the family dinner table?
Now hold on though
Because the question
Is it about like the person at the head of table
Who everyone like looks to
It's not a locational
It's not based on orientation
But I mean that's got to contribute to it
Somewhat, right?
Well if you want to be the story person though
You want to be in the middle of the table
You want to be...
Because you want to just look slightly to your left and right
To be able to see everybody
Yeah, I love that
Also big hands
Bigger the better
You think big hands helps you be
Because everyone is kind of quietly
Consciously
Threatened by you
Or why the big hands?
Oh no, sorry
I meant big hand movements
Not just like large hands
Oh he gesticulates
Okay, I thought you were saying large
Physical hands
And then I was like
Maybe that's why they call him Nucky Thompson
Because his knuckles are so ginormous
Large hands does contribute well
To large hand movements though
Because you have to do a lot less work
To just like
Now you've moved seven inches
You know it's just
Because the hands are so big
It doesn't take much
Does being the source of the food
Help you sort of seize the day here
Like if they're eating you?
No, well
That would certainly be a topic of
Like a real starter
You know what I mean?
They're like serving sushi off of you
You mean?
Oh no, I thought you were saying like
We're eating Nucky's forearm today
And you would kind of have to talk to Nucky about that
Kind of both of those things, right?
Kind of both
Because if you're eating sushi
And you're just way too hungry
And you get into it
And you're like
Oh god, I'm so sorry
Why don't you say something?
When they do the sushi
Eat off a person's body
What's the etiquette for going for
The pieces on the privacy area?
That has to be less
You can't eat them first
100%
Nipples
I think that that's a straight
I feel like when you pick up
A little hamachi off the nipple
And then you find out the nipples under there
You can plead ignorance a bit
And just be like
I didn't think the nipple would be
I would put it back, by the way
If I did that
I would guess with the sushi back
No, if somebody saw you
Pick it up and put it back
The party would be over
You would be uninvited from all future
New sushi parties
I would let people eat sushi off my body
If I was fully clothed
If I was wearing a suit
If I put sushi on my sushi suit
I feel like it's just
Whoever is the most proactive
Whoever sort of starts the conversations
And guides it
Right?
And it's less about power and strength
And being naked and having sushi on your body
You don't have to wrestle that away
From anybody
I'll tell you who's good at dominating conversations
It's Justin
So I'm going to show you guys
Justin's going to do a little practical example
Here for you
Griffin and I will have a conversation
And Justin's going to come in
And nucky all over it
Okay, you're right
Okay, okay
Travis, you watched the blues game last night?
I did
Those coyotes are really giving them the run around
Yeah, but they did some great scoring
And shooting
And they liked the way that
One of them iced another one
Yeah, I mean, Bennington's doing his best out there
But unless that defense solidifies
They're not going to be able to keep it
Out of their zone, you know?
Yeah, and I was amazing
How many triple deeks they got away with
You know what I mean?
Yeah, those are legal now
The new hockey rules because of COVID regulation
There's a slap shot
It looks like Justin's trying to say something
Justin, are you trying to say something?
Oh, so you finally ran out of steam
See, this is the secret
You hang back
And you let everybody else burn out
So anyways, yeah, the blues game was great
And then you stand up
And you take control of the table
You've had your shot
All the sushi fell off
Don't stand up
Don't stand up
Don't you talk off of me
Don't you talk a smash of a hole in your head
Oh
Roll dice here
I got a 17 plus three at 20
You effortlessly duck out of the way
I attack Nucky
Oh, hell yeah, get him, fuck him up
That's a 15 plus two at 17
Does that beat your AC?
Did it use pure silver?
Yes, of course
I'm not in the noob
Yes, I am defeated
Okay
That's one way to do it
I guess I haven't watched enough
Boardwalk Empire to be really used to it
No, that's basically how it goes
I guess
There was a lot of D&D influence on that show
There was also, it felt like a little
Peaky Blinders in there, Justin
Was there just a little Peaky Blinders?
Are those two different shows?
It's like
Boardwalk Empire
And then Boardwalk Empire, Cole and Peaky Blinders
Okay, I see
I got another way to control the dinner table
The family dinner table
So why don't you two start
Okay
Talking about something
Hey Justin, did you see that new episode
Of Boardwalk Empire?
No, that hasn't been on for a really long time
No, they started making more of them
I don't think that that's actually accurate
Yeah, it's Tom Wellings in it
Hey, get this
When I was recording my brother and my brother
Sorry guys, I got a phone call
Sorry guys, I got a phone call
Yeah
No, it's me
Yeah, I can talk
Yeah, we're having dinner
Can you, sorry
Sorry, one second
Can you guys please
Just give me
Can you please just give me a
This is really important
Can you please just give me a second
No, no, no, just don't talk
Just don't talk, thank you
I'm back
Thankfully, we know sign language
When I was recording my brother
My brother made earlier this week
I was eating chili during it
I fucking knew it
What?
I fucking knew
Yeah
Well, this is just in the context of a bit
Well, tell them in 2020
We'll talk about a run then
Yeah, no, no, I'm
Okay, give my love to
to Dennis
Kucinich
Alright
Yeah, yeah
Thanks, bye
That was my
That's another phone call
Sorry, guys
Your real phone calls
That was when I'm going to be
Dennis Kucinich's campaign manager
in 2024
Nice
Now, do I know who that is
or is it just a name
that I pulled from the void
that is my mom?
Is it deeply problematic?
Is he?
I don't know
I literally don't know
Is he alive?
I don't know
I don't know
Can I show one more way
to kind of dominate?
Yeah, it's so good
So far
Okay, you two
have the conversation
Okay
Hey, thanks for having me
back on the chilly thing
earlier
Yeah, it was my pleasure
I would do anything
Ahem
I will be turning in
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and I will now be completely
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of the Brendan Fraser movie
Blast from the past
Yeah
You see, it all began
when Christopher Walken's character
feared that there was going
to be a nuclear attack
So he built a bunker
in his basement
That bunker?
It looked a lot like a house
except underground
and there was raised
Why is he talking like this?
a young Brendan Fraser
and then he became old
and he was sent up to the site
Like we just used our regular voices
but Travis is doing his weird
Alicia Silverstone
British affectation
and I believe Dave Foley
It's funny, I think if he knew
the plot well enough
he'd go faster, right?
Yeah
And then it turned out
that because Brendan Fraser
had been raised with
1950s and 60s ideals
everyone loved him
a thing which is
demonstrably untrue
in today's society
Let's do the money zone
maybe while he continues to recap
I love that
Hey thanks, I love that
Bye
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yeah
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how about another question
we're gonna help somebody else
okay
we're doing better
do you think I've been a
I've been a huge
Tom Hanks fan for years
and currently have a steady girlfriend
recently we've been watching movies
and I recommended the 2000 Tom Hanks
classic cast away
but when I brought up the film
she refused
she said she thought
Tom Hanks was overrated
and had no desire to watch the film
claiming it's too long
and probably sad
yes and yes
how do I convince her
to watch this Tom Hanks classic
which I'm sure she would thank me
later for getting her to watch
from stranded in Stratton, PA
there's different categories
of films of this type
I feel like where
there's films that are culturally important
and then there are films that are like
if you want to know what the whole
hand on a volleyball thing is
you need you got to watch cast away
like you have to do your due diligence
and spend two hours watching Tom Hanks
you know cut his teeth out
with roll with ice skates
oh right
uh huh
yeah
and that's the price that you pay
now I have a lot of films
like this
whenever people quote
Casablanca
I nod my head along
oh yes yes yes
a classic grey film
I do not know
I have not seen this film
and so there are parts
it could patch up some of my
my lack of cultural knowledge there
but I've decided that my time
is better spent elsewhere
and that's what your girlfriend has done
and you know
that's what the internet's for
you google what's up with the volleyball hand
now I know
I don't have to watch the film
you know you make a good point
we've entered a new period in time
it's 2021 big dog run
and perhaps now's the time
when someone's like
you haven't seen Casablanca
you have to watch it
and you just go
no I don't
do you know how many other things there are
within my reach
at any given time
that I could choose to do
yeah it's um
it's liberating in a way
I will never I will never
watch a criterion collection film
and I just
that's a huge weight off
being able to say that out loud
in such a public place
but that's there it is
it's out there now
um I
it's wild to me that that movie
exists isn't it
that seems like Hollywood was like
people seem to really like Tom Hanks
we should just do
just
maybe just have him
go one-hander
oh yeah like a movie where he's having a good time
and living his bad time
bad time we destroy Tom Hanks
for all of America to enjoy
I want to hurt Tom Hanks
and I'm a movie executive
and this is my pitch
I want to hurt Tom Hanks
and see what happens
I want to hurt Tom Hanks
for two hours and 24 minutes
did you guys see the money pit
every time that Tom Hanks falls in a hole
or gets electro-macuted
or
you know
wastes money on this bad house
that was good for me
and I would like a film that is just about that
about Tom Hanks being hurt
over and over again
there was a period of time
that I think
here's my theory
there's a period of time
where
everyone really enjoyed watching
Tom Hanks get hurt
like the burbs
and money pit
and then I think
the natural culmination of that period
was cast away
was cast away
and I think after that
everyone went
I don't like this anymore
I feel bad now
that we've done this to Tom Hanks
can he enter the period of time
where the worst thing that happens to him
is he's trapped in an airport terminal
yeah
thank you please
the worst thing that happens to him is
he has to go back to community college
I think
I never saw that one
how long has it been since you guys
watched cast away
the film cast away
well when did it come out 2000
so I'd say about 21 years
yeah
yeah I would estimate it's around there
quick spoilers
just because I feel like we're kind of missing it
spoilers for just a minute
on cast away
he does get off the island
do you guys remember
that when he got off the island
his girlfriend married
and had a kid
and they had a funeral for him before
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Justin
what a picture
yeah yeah yeah yeah
what a picture
do you think Bobby Zemeckis is like
my dream
my dream is to hang out on an island
with Tom Hanks
and just me and my friend Tom
and we're just getting buck wild on it
loving it
and that's what my dream is
can everyone do that
can we also remember that the big positive ending
though is don't worry
he still has that one package deliver
so everything's not all bad
for old Tommy Hanks
can everyone
real quick do their best impression of Tom Hanks
as character in the polar express
just saying like
just saying like where's your ticket please
I haven't seen it but I'm gonna do my best okay
where's your ticket I'm Thomas Hanks
it's not bad
it's more like
my ticket please
my ticket
I need to see your ticket see
alright I'll try
I need to see
I need to see your ticket
Tom Hanks is a hard impression to do huh
yeah he just sounds like everybody
Tom Hanks is the default
all other impressions are
in relation to how Tom Hanks sounds
well do Woody
okay
there's a snake in my boot
do another line from Toy Story that Woody said
you are a toy
whoa hey Trav
that was actually
thank you
hey Rachel can we get it again
you are a
toy
it was really good Travis
it's good it's like actually pretty good Trav
thank you thank you very much
you've been hiding your light under a bush
no I'm never gonna try it again
that was right off the hip
can't do it nobody ever asked Travis to do it again
he'll buckle
he'll do a really shit job the next time
because he
we got that magic moment on tape
I'm so happy
in that moment I was Tom Hanks you guys
I saw his face overlap
my face for a moment
can I do a yahoo?
yeah please
I just want to send him by
Graham Roebuck
thanks Graham
is an anonymous yahoo answers user
who I'm gonna call
Dan asks
is there a special taste bud for chicken wings
I like to position the foods in my mouth
I like to taste them according to the taste bud
that tastes best for that food
is there one for hot wings
I've recently learned
that the taste bud map
of your tongue is
apocryphal
and this was heartbreaking
really I thought it was a thing
now they're all mixed in with each other
except for the chicken wing taste bud
what is that dangly thing in the back of your throat
oh that's the chicken wing taste bud
is the dangly thing that dangles down
when you're chicken wings you gotta shove it back there
and rub it against that dangly thing
I always thought that was a sort of
I always called it the throatum
because it was like a
throatum is unpleasant
but you know in WAP when she says
I want gag on a choke I want it to touch
that dangly thing in the back of my throat
that's what it is
because she couldn't say my chicken wing taste bud
my one big one
but that's why if you just
hold the chicken wing on the tip of your tongue
nothing you can't even it's like
there's nothing there
as it slides whole
down your gullet
you get all the flavor profile there
maybe cry a little bit out of joy
do you guys not want to do it
but do you guys know what
do you guys know what the
radio edit of WAP is
no
the radio edit of WAP
and I just want to take a quick poll
the radio edit of WAP
is not wet ass pussy
it is in fact
it's wet and gushy
oh yeah yeah no it's worse
hey it's worse right like the radio edit is worse
on that one
it falls into a category
that another one there is
there is a song
by the yin yang twins
and the real line is we all like
to see ass antities
and then the radio
edit is we all like
to see tickle bitties
which I would argue is far more offensive
yeah hugely challenging
a hugely challenging thing
yeah till the sweat
drops down the walls
okay we got wet and gushy
although wet and gushy is good
because then it lets her rhyme the next line
where she's like have you seen my tushy
which is in the original song
and it's sort of a slant rhyme
which is about gushy
there's not a special taste
but for chicken wings
I wish that there was though
I wish we could hack our tongues
the right chicken wing
engages all the buds
the right chicken wing
invites over his friend spicy
but he lets him stand outside
and then he lets him bring
sweet in
but then sends him out
and then sour is on
zoom
nearby
and bitter is occasionally
welcomed it's bitter's house
but not all at once Justin
you're making it sound like it's stages
like a neapolitan chicken wing
that's how you're really savoring it
you're getting the heat
and then you're getting a bit of sour
do you know how traveling Justin eats chicken wings
he first
dabs it on the tip of his tongue
which he has stuck way way out of his mouth
and then he just kind of rubs it
in a clockwise circle
around his tongue and lips
he also will swirl the chicken wing around
and then sniff it deeply
which I've always found troubling
he says it helps him hit the flavor spot
and I don't
and he'll kind of like half moan
like look at the legs
you have to see its fingers
but he doesn't actually chew and eat it
which is weird he sets it right back down
spits it right there in the bucket
yeah all naked wings that you ever eat
in your entire life have been predicted by me
that's true that's weird but it's true
and if they're a little bit crispy and naked
they've just been sitting out a long time
yep they've dried hand-dried
just dried in the sun
I've been eating a lot of chicken wings lately
oh tell me more
you know what here I have this
for you
oh
I want to munch
squat
I want to munch
squat
what I was trying to capture there was like
the soul of winter
that didn't have a holiday feel
oh see I was thinking
I was feeling very very Georgian
very
not sure
not Victorian
this is Petersburg
check off
we've never had you sort of just
lay a munch squat
at our feet
which is what it feels like
I usually interrupt
but I feel like as you get older
you don't always want to be saddled
with the bad boy podcasting
yeah sure and I mean
especially as the segment moves into
it's danie moi
it's final
that's also the other thing is like
it's like okay
you know what I mean
and I don't want you guys to be like
why did you interrupt it
why did you interrupt us
for one that's okay
Panera bread
do you guys hear this
yes I believe it translates to bread bread
if I'm not mistaken
Panera bread
it's really weird
you know they have bread bowls
so they've made
an ice and toasty bread bowl
glove
wait
so what the thing is with this
is that it is a
hand warmer
that's also a
cop holder
so you can drink iced coffee
even when it's cold and also it looks
like a bread bowl
until you get to that last part
it's just a glove but then
huh
it's not made out of bread
no that's the other thing
it's not made out of
bread
right so like
why did you do it Panera bread
you could have had oh my god
think of how much money they could have
saved on soup
if they had started selling
warmed
like right there fresh
from the oven bread gloves
that you would go into a Panera bread
jam a couple of these on your fists
and they'd be like ok that'll be $14.99
and you're like I can't pay that
look at my hands
how on earth am I supposed to pay that
that could have been so nice and fun
I've sent you an image in Slack so you can look at it
it looks so wild
it looks like your hand
is like a Lego person's
hand made out of
made out of bread
what it looks like to me is like
like there's some kind of bad guy
in Doctor Who
where it's like actual living
dough that's trying to look like people
ok yeah I love that
and that's like how you can identify
like look at their hands Doctor
there's nothing about it where
you know how
sometimes you put your iced coffee
into your bread bowl
it's like you just combined things
around you know what I mean
your iconography is getting fucking sloppy
yeah like if somebody saw that
even if they thought is that a real
bread bowl their next time it would be
are you using it to hold an iced coffee
what are you looking at
those realizations would come
the other way Trav where it would be like
why on God's green earth
and Christ's earth
do you have an iced coffee tucked into a bread bowl
and also is that your hand
in there yep
they did a
oh my God it makes me so
they did this right they made 450
of them that's fucking thanks
like just have some
strength of your convictions
right you know like if you
believe people want it
you nasty pervert then do it
yeah right then just
do it you know what
nothing can stop me from going in a
Panera bread and ordering a
empty a bread bowl
right up and cramming my little
and cramming my little paw in there is there
there's there ain't a log in it
there's nobody who's gonna say anything to me
they wouldn't take it back from you
no I paid for it you know
in the release where they were talking about it
they said they cited a statistic that
78% of Americans told them
Panera that they continue
to drink iced coffee
even in cold weather
yeah then you're fixing a fucking
solved problem yeah we already
got this we've got it we're just
doing it and going for it
78% said they still drink
iced coffee and 100% said
they want to stick their little paws
into one of our bread bubbles
I think anybody when given that opportunity
would leap at it
would jump to hey I got
hot bread here you want to jam your hand in there
are you gonna eat that bread it seems like a waste of food
no I'm not this isn't if you don't do
it I'm gonna let somebody else do it oh okay
everybody would jam their hand in there
everybody everybody everybody
now if the glove was
fresh bread bowl sent in forget
about it we're done I'm taking that all
day every day yeah I wanted
to thank Liam for this one actually
so thank you Liam
real quick I did go ahead and gone
over to icedandtoasty.com
yeah which is weird that we didn't own that
but I did go to icedandtoasty.com
and there's just a big picture
of the bowl and then it says
sorry we're all
out oh man but then
under it there's a link that says
what does this mean
oh
so I got an icedandtoasty.com
and there's a
sorry idiot letters
we're all out what's that what's
that even mean
what does this mean
what do you even mean sorry
you're all out if you click
what does this mean it then gives a
really wordy explanation
that breaks down to we don't have
any more we don't have any more of them it's I
clicked it here's what it says this is
from Zach well it's
probably Zach isn't it well
Zach and then he's doing the rock horn
emoji yeah you may
receive this message
if all of the products in your
area have been claimed
or you're participating after
the promotional period
has ended so in other
words
they're all out they don't have any
well and then down at the bottom
it says 11 out of 23
found this helpful which means that there were
12 people who are like I'm still confused
I don't get it how does this help
me get a bread bowl glove
explain again Zach but slower
anyway you can't get it I don't know
why I wasted your time it's a dumb idea
when Liam sent it Liam said
it's an edible Panera bread cup holder
that's not right well it's also
right in the sense that like
why the fuck else are they doing it
if they made an edible cup holder
that's like we baked in a
slot for your hand because we're
absolutely out of a solitary
fuck to give that I'm into it
if you want to let me like hold an ice
coffee and then finish it
then eat the thing out of my hand
because it doesn't have a purpose anymore
that's biodegradable that's 2021
you know what I mean that's new tech
I think we've talked about it on this show before
but edible doesn't mean digestible
Liam's not wrong you could eat
that glove if you tried hard enough
I'm just saying if they wanted to rebrand as Panera's
boutique and they only sold
bread clothes I think that would be
a killer Swaperoni
oh yeah what else you guys
want to do I mean I'll tell we do the
questions we only did
two I guess two
two which actually modern
it's not bad but I will do
another one if you want are you a yahoo
I think the second question
is powerful and we should read that
my employer offers
a small stipend for purchase of clothing
with the company's logo most
of it is pretty bland polo shirts
light jackets caps etc
this year though they're offering
jeans with the company logo embroidered
across the ass what
occasions are appropriate for business
casual juicy jeans
how should I complete the outfit
to really impress our clients
dress to impress
in DC
unbuttoned
white
thin fabric
shirt and there's a fan
and there's a fan close by
also you could do
a popped collar jean jacket
of the same denim material
and make sure you always have
your back turned to them and you're looking over
a shoulder and make sure you tuck that
jacket into the pants just to
really complete the look that's good
if you can find denim shoes
I don't know if that's anything
but anything that draws attention
back to the ass let me call John
John Mellencamp and ask to borrow
one of his many pairs of denim shoes hold
up okay I'll get I'll get him on the horn
okay this is not a skit I'm
gonna do cuz I don't really know anything about John
Mellencamp but I
I feel like a great
use of this would be
if you're doing a presentation
oh and you're like to a new
client and then it's like you use
it as the punchline of the presentation
cuz it makes it look
like you went the extra mile
you know what I mean like it's like
and one thing I can say
about fidelity capital management
we won't be bringing
up the rear
and you show up your ass and it's like
this this company gets it
that's it and then they'll be like why
do your jeans look so dirty
and smell so bad and you're like I don't
I do not take these off
cuz I love my I love
I love the company you could heard the part
where I talked about loving the company right so like why would
I take off my fidelity pants
you could do another pair
of jeans over those jeans
and then when someone's like I can't believe you are jeans to work
you're like yeah sorry
I forgot it's a little too casual
and then you tear those pants away
and underneath you have your business
juicy jeans and everyone's like
that's what I talk about bro
and you all high-five a bunch
and then maybe play some volleyball out in
in the lawn I assume
just some jeans volleyball like you do
jeans volleyball
the chafing is part of the fun
yeah it's an endurance sport
jeans volleyball
why do they make these
what do you mean
it's actually really kind of weird isn't it
it's kind of weird that they would think you would want to put
the company's logo right on your ass
yeah no it's not a good place
for that
I guess it depends on what the company is
is there a company where other than juicy
do you work at juicy corporate
headquarters
what about endoscopy cameras
like if you were like
is that the right one? colonoscopy
that's what I meant
if you were making like
if you were a company that produced enemas
colonoscopy or just like
a billboard company
and then like it
has it there and is like you looked in you
and this is what you're trying to sell now
is hi my name is Travis McRoy
and for $100 a month you can buy
ad space on my ass
that's it does jeans
does jeans but advertising work
just did
cause you looked
you looked at my Heiner didn't you
yeah are you looking for
a house with a great backyard
and then it has like the listing
for you know some real estate agents in there
but it's on my ass cause I have a great backyard
yep next
Bucky's exit 23a
in 15 miles but it says it
follow me to
follow me to Bucky's and it says it right there
it's got basically
map quest directions to Bucky's
on my dumper
yep yep yep yep
now this start is a joke
but now I'm starting to think
I could maybe sell some ad space
on my butt I think I'm gonna make
I want to give you guys a challenge
this is a thought experiment for thought leaders like ourselves
okay if we had to
put up a piece of McRoy family merchandise
where it was jeans
but the logo was on the ass
what would you what would
you guys do we have to do it
what would we advertise on the bank
or what would it be what just yeah describe
the product I guess
we could put an ad for pets.com on there
but I think it's cause you mentioned the dot-com bubble earlier
yeah yeah my brain went there too
my brain was
so that would be a piece of McRoy family merch
that we would sell
that would be
the pets.com logo
yeah something like that
okay so you've already hearing it back
parroted back at you
mine would be like
truth campaign
but not their anti-vaping
thing they're on now but like old truth
old truth
back in like 2001 where it's like
check out
this person and the machine
they used to talk but we put that on their
butt of merch
pants
I think I would advertise the pants
on the pants so that when people
look at the pants they're like well now I want to
get those pants but I don't know where to get them
is like well the information is right there
you can get ad-pants
right there
I like that where it's like
the pants are an ad
for your
ass branding company
ass branding limited
let's call it and the logo
is a pair of jeans that have
the ass branding limited word mark on them
right which happens to be
shaped like a pair of jeans
you know so it's just infinite
jeans all the way down baby
jeans all the way down
you need a kit yet but the good news is
if you go too deep
Joseph Gordon love it I'll kick your chair
into the bathtub kick you right back up
right out the jeans
Joseph Gordon love it that chair kicked into the tub
kicked me right out my jeans
kicked me out my jeans JGL
thanks for saving for my jeans
where's
where's my top
my shirt that I wore with the jeans
JGL damn
were you wearing those jeans when I went in
are we still in it
oh no
kick it
kick me again JGL
damn
I'm in my wife's childhood jeans
my wife
created jeans for us to live together
but it was between our two jeans
let me spin my magic top
I left it in my jeans one layer up
fuck
hey don't worry
bring my jeans now when you come
bring at least my magic top
it's in the pocket of my jeans in your jeans layer
hey I just want to tell you guys
you're super old now
your jeans still look great
still wear the hell out of your jeans
I believe you mean Ken Watanabe
you said the name
yes, Ken Watanabe
wait a spoil
wait a spoil
I need you to craft some jeans for me
the jeans were paying attention to themselves
the jeans are aware we're in them
I'm a jeans architect
you're a tailor? no
I've said that many times
Michael Cain, young and old Michael Cain
oh this must be a dream
we're all three in jeans and kissing
Sydney made fun of me today
for falling over in the snow
and I said why don't we fall master Bruce
it's to get back up again
and my voice started sounding like Bane
and I accidentally and I did Michael Bane
Michael Bane?
he's like a Michael Cain and a Bane impression
we're together
Mr. Wayne
Mr. Wayne
it sounds like he's drowning now
it's
Henry loves Batman
and one time I had him say
Where's Falconi as deep voice Batman
and now he says it anytime he plays Batman
and I feel like I ruined him
I feel like nothing will satisfy him now
where is Falconi?
yeah
he has to in these like who is Falconi
and why does Batman want him
and I have to tell him it's because
he didn't pay attention in virtual school
that's bad my daughter said
bye bye booing to me this week
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y'all want a final yahoo?
yes please
this final yahoo is sent in by the wizard Ben Cant
thank you Ben
it is yahoo answers user T
who asks
how come bad guys in movies don't eat an apple
with a pocket knife no more
yes thank you
my name is Justin McElroy
I'm Travis McElroy
I'm Griffin McElroy
this has been my brother my brother made kiss your dad
gooooooo
hair on the lips
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hey this is Chris
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hey Jesse
I heard that you got into a car accident
yeah we're putting this out podcasting yourself
and I just laughed so hard
that I slammed into
a construction bear
you remember what it was
that was so funny
I will never forget
I'm sure
they started talking about Vegas
and the you know
what happens here it stays here
and Graham was talking about
oh you know wasn't there some other slogan for another commercial
I was like a commercial for food
and it said like whatever's in there
stays in there
I can't remember what it was clams or something
clams
just so ridiculous
and man I got lightheaded
I was laughing so hard
next thing I know
smash
they are just
violently funny
so I talked to Dave and Graham
from stop podcasting yourself
we would like to pay your car repair bill
is that okay?
that would be super nice Jesse
I really thank you
I appreciate that