My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 554: Tub Pumpkin
Episode Date: March 29, 2021We’re here to answer all your most pressing questions about Krispy Kreme’s clever secret coffee ingredient and sexy typefaces. We also get into the wet: dolphins, and the dry: accidental arson.Sug...gested talking points: Stucco Rules, Suck it Drywall, Spokesman Shaq, Fire Stop Weekly, Ed Sheeran Ketchup, Pumpkin Mistake Surcharge.Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hateSupport the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
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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 mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening
What's up you cool, baby?
Precious friendship
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Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother mean advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy
Whoop whoop this dog's got fleas and I'm Travis McElroy your middles brother lay down with the dogs
You're gonna catch fleas. This is your youngest brother Griffin not Griffin. I sorry
I I already said flea and your repetition of flea. Oh, sorry. You're right time to take my heart. We're medicine
It's me. Thank you. I have very sick dog much better. Thank you. Welcome to my brother. My brother means an advice show
And we're here for you
Okay
Now I feel like I thought about that as a new thing as we're here for you. We're here for you
Yeah, we need we're here for you and you're here for us if we're being honest
You need us we need you well spring is finally here and that can only mean one thing around this house
Which is my house where I live. Okay, it's advice season has begun spring means advice here at the back worry family
Sure. Yeah, my my kids are always running up to me like daddy. What's uh?
What's what's a good trade skill to learn if I want to be valuable to society in the future
And I I always tell them the same thing
Stucco
See, I just started saying VR technician and I don't exactly know what that means
But I think by the time BB's old enough to get a job VR technician will be a thing, right?
People are gonna get so sick is strapping bullshit to their faces
All's it's gonna take is for one of these damn
Oculi to blow up on someone's head and then people like no, thanks, but stucco. That's going absolutely nowhere, baby
Now you're saying stucco over say like somebody who was specialized in like a drywall or a gypsum or even drywall
Fucking drywall is fucking bullshit. Yeah, all stucco all the time now. Do I know what stucco is? I
Refused to answer that question. Okay
I'm gonna start working that into every answer that we give just like learn a trade. Okay, learn it right
It's so applicable learn a trade learn how to do stucco
What do you wish you knew how to do Justin cuz you know, you I mean you've picked up carpentry now
So let's let's not count that. Yeah
Jerk drywall. No, we already discussed kind of like I already said drywall
But I was just saying I also would like to learn how to do drywall. Yeah, I'm out of you drywall
See for me, it's electrics and I'll tell you why oh
Don't fuck around with that. Yes, but here's it. Here's the thing
I feel like if you don't know what you're doing with plumbing and you don't know what you're doing with drywall
And you don't know what you're doing with a lot of things. The worst you're going to do is ruin it
If you don't know what you're doing with electrics, you could die and kill others
Well, if you could make a big enough plumbing, well, I could make a big enough plumbing whoopsie to die
I bet like a low poison of mold that is huge
I'm saying I I'm saying I break the toilet so bad the water shoots up at me with such force
It this it kills me. That's that's entirely possible
But I could never learn plumbing because I would always be afraid that no matter what fixture
I'm working on where the pipe is that I'm doing it. I'm gonna remove it and water's gonna come out and also
Human waste even if it's like the kitchen sink pipes. I do not know how the water gets there where it's coming from
You know what? I mean, I don't know anything about plumbing, but but yeah
Yeah, movies and TV have convinced me that if I remove something wrong it will spray at me with such force
It might cause me physical pain. You could die. That's what I'm saying stucco though
Fully safe. You could eat that stuff. I bet I was about to ask if you could eat it. Yeah
I'm sure it's got it's got nutrients
They and they would call me the stucco bucko and I would roll up on their house
And I would put stucco all over it and they'd be like we had exposed brick and I would say
Not any more you don't now you have hidden brick
Are we fucking are we done?
Are we like are we like I this I feel like the last few intros has been like discussing
Finances and now we're it's literally home and we're literally making home improvement to we're literally making well
The problem is we haven't had any new input in about 13 months. Yeah
I've heard some people I've read on Twitter some people are like the quality of the show has really been flagging that well
That's weird since I began my self imprisonment. Yeah, like my year-long self imprisonment
The the the the laughs haven't been as plentiful on the show
All I've got is like hey, have you ever noticed how on this one wall next to my desk?
There's this weird discoloration that kind of looks a little bit like dick butt kiss, you know
Yeah, that's the best I've got at this point
But don't worry folks as soon as I get that good juice in my arm. I'm talking about that Johnson and Johnson shit
I am going to
Way over correct
So just stick with us cuz I'm gonna I'm gonna start going to raves and shit like it's gonna be
It's gonna be something to see I've got the juice. I've got the juice
It's pumping through me. I ain't afraid of no bugs, right? I got the juice. It's pumping through me. There's nothing to do
I got I went outside for a little bit. I was like, I remember this this was fine, too
Yeah, but like the masks. I can't tell if you're smart. I have a hard enough time with emotions
Yeah, you know what I mean figure out how people are feeling and now I'm looking at these strangers eyes trying to guess
How much they dislike me, right?
It's really stressful, you know speaking of this can I can I begin with a munch squad?
Squat I'm so excited about this. Are you all excited about this? Are you so excited that you just said I want a munch?
It's the munch school wide with your host
Did you hear what Krispy Kreme's doing? What's Krispy Kreme doing? Hey, you guys hear about this you guys hear about this
You hear about this is a good. This is a good one. This one will make you happy
Okay, Krispy Kreme's got a new got a new promotion going on where if you get the jab
You get the vaccine, huh? You're gonna come in for a year and get free donut every day. Whoa
What you show them you're free you just show them your vaccination card
You're gonna get a free original glazed donut every single day for a year
You're doing something good for you doing something good for your community doing something bad for you
Circular
That's so here's how it works you bring in your vaccine card to a Krispy Kreme you get one free original glazed donut
That's the promotion every day though for a year
Yeah, so I I hear your questions and we're gonna head to the FAQ
What call here's the first cue what qualifies is vaccinated. Oh, that's a bad start
That's a bad start
Anyone who has received at least one of the two shots of Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson
COVID-19 vaccine now
I am rocking this off-brand AstraZeneca
Street legal yeah, this is not a promotion that I could take advantage of right now
You know the approved you've been vaccinated by showing them your vaccination record card. Okay
Does my vaccine sticker qualify? No, if you get a sticker that says I got vaccinated
That's nothing to Krispy Kreme. That's nothing
Right, I guess my question is is this a like government subsidized like program how
Yeah, how is Krispy Kreme not going to go out of business?
Well, I guess they're banking on a lot of people not getting vaccinated
Everybody who doesn't give vaccinated is money in their coffers. So this is kind of hedging their bets either
Either it's good because everybody gets vaccinated or it's good because not as many people take their free donut
This is what I'm saying if at every Krispy Kreme location only 20 people do this, right?
That's that's right there. What seven thousand two hundred donuts in a year
Right part times the amount of Krispy Kreme locations. That's just lost money. Yeah, it's lost money, but it's also like not
Great, I think
To eat a free Krispy Kreme donut every day. Well, I don't think that that's great for your overall well-being
It can be part of a well-balanced
Eating plan, but hey, listen, let's let's sneak on down the FAQ come with me
Go walk past those regular queues and let's get to a LFA queue
Let's get to a LFA queue less frequently asked. Come on. Come on over here
There's this is really the point where I decided to talk about this
Here's the LFA queue this less frequently asked question. What if
What if I don't want to get
I
Donuts yes, yes here for that love it love it love it scientifically proven vaccine
That's completely safe. It will be for getting COVID and help me prevent the spread of the disease and protect my loved ones
I'm not sure about that one Chris. I love doughnuts
Chris I want to participate in the program. Don't get me wrong Chris. I want a free donut
I need the A for that LFAQ. Here's the A
We understand that choosing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is a highly personal decision
No, we advise all employees and guests to consult with their health care provider regarding
Whether to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination and which vaccine received after reviewing the available information
if
You have made the personal decision to not receive the COVID vaccine
Please visit us on Mondays what March 29th through May 24th
To receive a free original glazed donut and a medium-brewed coffee
No, no, it gets your week off to a good start. No, no, no
Hey
They're having a rumpus
They're having buck wild Mondays where the promotion is come get your free doughnut and a free coffee
That's up. We want to pack it. We want to pack it all the nasty folks on this one day
All you rippled mother fuckers that don't want to get the jab
You just all come in and get one swampy morass. It's a free doughnuts and illness. Here's the thing crispy cream
It takes one quarter of a bold stance. We're saying I'll give you a
Donut for your vaccine every day and then they back it way way up
They take one step for an eight test back what they should do is say you get a free doughnut every day for a year
If you don't if you get the vaccination and if you don't get the vaccination you owe us one doughnut every day for a year
Yes, and that's how we pay this off. This is how we swap this out a donut for a doughnut
Yeah, cuz right now they're calling up president president Joey president Joey bag of doughnuts and saying like you're you're fucking killing us, dude
Yeah, can you can you chill like the last dude? He sucks shit
But like he also wasn't sort of taking us apart at every sort of level you're like getting all these jabs going
So anyway, that's the promotion crispy cream. I love the idea
Do wish you had a little bit of a strength of your convictions there
Y'all a little bit more because you don't get free coffee if you get the jab
Yep, but you only get the free coffee if you're a dirty little dog
Yeah, isn't that strange in that strange did you get the car you get the coffee?
Wait guys is it possible the coffee has the vaccine in it. That's entirely possible
I mean it could also be possible that they're setting up like a toddler hang out
Let's spread this chicken pox all around and just oh, I say we're forcing a herd immunity
Yeah, by and I just hope they are providing the the correct sort of protective gear for the employees at crispy cream
Well, you go and you get your free donut and your free coffee, right? But don't when you leave
What's that you're being ushered into the back of a big box truck. Oh, what where are we going?
Well, this is gonna be a farm where all the people who don't care about vaccines can live
Yeah, I'm able to get everybody else infected you dirty dogs. Well, there'd be free doughnuts. There will be
Some kind of food. Yeah, you won't have to pay for it
You're gonna be happy here. Don't worry about it
It's gonna be fine
Let's uh, let's get into the to the advice. I'm ready to help some people and and I want to start with this one
An excellent question here when I was in second grade Shaquille O'Neal came to my school to have a Q&A with the kids
I was chosen to ask him a question. I asked it then sat down
The thing is after some of the other kids asked a question he would give them a kiss on the cheek. Is this real?
Is this a real I feel like if Shaquille O'Neal would went to schools a lot and kissed a lot of kids on the cheek
We would have heard about it by now. Well, keep going because the details lead me to believe. Yeah, the details stack up
Okay, if I ever meet him again, do I ask for it? No
Do I relay the story and go out at Koi go for a European greeting or and hope he reciprocates or just forget the whole thing all together
That's from reflecting in the red stick PS. I asked if he was allergic to strawberries
I had no idea who he was. I was talking with my mom about my mom's allergies in the car on the way there
And I was just curious it was actually clipped for the news. He is not okay. That's good to know
I was worried. Thank you for letting me know that mr. Shaquille O'Neal is not allergic to strawberries
I like that you as a second grader saw this
giant man
People were excited that he was there and you thought I wonder if this giant man is allergic to strawberries. No further questions
Is that was the question? That was that was your God Almighty if you had one chance to ask Shaquille O'Neal a question
Like I don't like for me. It would be
What do you like better the general or Papa John's like which of your business?
Yeah, you have to choose or like can you I've seen all the commercials
Can you explain to me what the general is and why they made like they have you as their spokesperson?
But they also have a fucking alley McBeele CGI baby general man as the mascot and can you explain isn't that redundant mr. O'Neal?
Do you think that there's a chance because of the specificity of the question that if you did run into mr. Shaquille O'Neal now
Yeah, you said I was the kid
You came in my second grade class I asked you about strawberries and they should kill in here will be like of course
I remember you I owe you one kiss on the cheek
I was just so befuddled in the moment by the specificity of your question
I forgot to give you a cheek kiss as as he's my way. Yeah
I if I saw Shaq and I could ask you one question
I like to think it would be something urbane and erudite, but I think
It would just be kind of like a I would just be so relieved to get the chance
Yeah, that it would be something like where do I go from here Shaq? Oh, yeah, you know me like where hey Shaq
Where do we go from here? What's next? What's next? Hey Shaq? What's next? See I think my question
I'd want it to be I'd want it to be
Funny right and kind of like ironic. Oh, you'd want to tell you'd want to get him in stitch
Yeah, I'd want it to be like did you ever fully become gin right something like that?
I bet he'd never heard that one before but I think in in all honesty if I now even as the 37 year old adult ran into
Mr. Shaquille and you know, I think and and someone like whispered on my ear like you got one chance one question
I think we're just like how's it going? Like I think that's the best you would do that now
You would have some of the best Travis. I've got a microphone. I'm putting it in your face right now
Ask a question Shaquille and you don't think about it. Just ask
Travis
You're thinking you're right. Okay. Hey, can you give that to me again, please? Yeah
Travis, here's a microphone. I got Shaquille O'Neal. Uh, hi Travis. Uh, you can ask him one question
What was it like to be beaten by Aaron Carter?
That is a fucking slam dunk. Now. I do appreciate the that my metaphor there was good all over and good
I appreciate that that just came came to me. But I I would love
Love to foreshack to relive the day that Aaron Carter. Yeah
Here's the thing. Okay. It is occurring to me now. How many wonderful things like the how many there's Shaq Fu
There's how I beat Shaq. Yes, because Sam there's just like this
I believe he was John's thing when we named him all the shock of johns or whatever he called it
He was in space jam one, right? No, I believe it was not. He was in steel though as steel from steel
Storyed like able to be referenced life Shaquille O'Neal has led and
You don't have an ending to that thought. No, I just
I just want to talk about how great Shaq is. I mean, here's the thing
There will be people like our question asker who may have no idea that Shaquille O'Neal ever played basketball
Interesting like he is just the guy who is in that genie movie and played steel
And he's in those general commercials and remember that video game about him where I believe he beat up Godzilla or something
Like that. There's so many things Shaquille O'Neal
Like he could have just been very good at basketball and he said no no
I have so much more Shaq to give let me do other weirder things
Hey
2020 summer 2020 a woman has a blowout tire has a blowout
Uh has to pull over the side of the road. Who's there to assist? Is it is it Shaq?
It's Shaq Shaq pulls over to help a more great Shaq doesn't give a if there's any cars. They'll just punch him out of the way
right
Protect everybody
Um, how about this?
And this is we've completely lost the plot of this question
I hope that's okay because now we're just kind of having fun with it
But what if they did um a new thing of deal or no deal?
But it was then he was the host it was called Shaquille or no deal
Or Shaquille Shaquille O'Neal. Is it another?
Uh-huh
Um, that's that was a lot of fun talking. Hey guys, sometimes it's just fun to talk about Shaq for a bit
Yeah, do you do it a lot? Have you noticed that? Yeah, we sure we do. Do you want a yahoo?
Yeah, okay. Um, this one was sent in by uh,
Graham Robach. Thank you, Graham crushes from yahoo answers user Emily who asks
Why did nature mess with dolphins this bad?
Yes, thank you
They have to live in the water they can't walk, but they have to go up for air every 10 minutes
How could nature do that to them?
That sucks. Can you imagine? Yeah, I wish I could goof on this, but
That sucks up. What if you had to leave your house every 10 minutes to step outside and
Breathe and then go back inside your house. If it was a case, you basically decided the existence of a smoker
Well, but it's more like hey step outside stick your head in that fountain
Now come back inside. Oh, that's right. It's not even the same sort of
Yeah, like physical
Substance and it's like hey, can I bring it inside my house? No, no, no
If you bring it to the air it'll immediately go away. It disappears. It is having nature. Okay
Now see I'm now I'm thinking about it because like if you're if you're dolphins and you're trying to figure it out
You have to say the other dolphins. Okay
You guys are gonna think I'm crazy, but I do think I cracked it. We're supposed to be in both. Yeah, like wait what?
Do you mean the dry or the wet? No, no, no, this is the wild part. It's gonna sound fuck with you both
Like we have to be the wet for a while. Nobody else has to do that
All these we do whales
whales
Um, nobody else
I mean, there's probably a lot dolphins don't know about whales. You're right. There's pretty sure dolphins know about whales
Oh my god, we see you see a fucking giant dolphin. You're gonna turn around run
You're not gonna ask him his life story and if he's in the dry and the wet in equal amount of time
No way. Dolphins don't know about whales for sure
Had this exact discussion before which is wild to me. I think dolphins would hang out with whales
I don't think whales would hang out with dolphins. Absolutely not. Maybe if I think whales would find the dolphins a little much
You know what I mean?
You're a whale. You're moving at your own pace. You're doing things
I guess just floating forward until you die or make another smaller you because there's not like you're not
Hard or whatever
Do you think you see a dolphin come over and they're doing like flips and tricks and shit?
And you're like, oh my god
Could you not I'm gonna do that whoops splash and then they post a video online
That's like look at this big whale do it jump out and do a huge splash and that whale sees the video
He's like I was trying to do a cool flip like my friend dolphin
Yeah, do you think that when dolphins when dolphins see us in our scuba's
Swimming around and like staying underwater for longer than 10
Do you think dolphins ever trail scuba divers like?
Jeremy check this out that dude
He's been down here for like 20 fucking minutes and I know he likes air
Like I know he loves the air as much as we do. So like what's going on
And it the other side of that though is like when they see a shark who can stay down the whole time
They're probably like what the fuck why can't hey, why can't we do that?
Hey, yeah, it's not fair. Have we tried just staying down?
They got cut some of them that they do it through so I guess hey cut me
Ow, fuck that didn't work. That's not it. Oh shit. He's got a lot of cuts though. Okay. Do it six times real fast
Oh, fuck. No, it's just my wow guys. The red is coming out. It's the inside wet the inside way
The inside what's coming out the air's not going in
Ah, man
This sucks
There's a lot of shitty answers on this question by the way a lot of shitty answers
So dolphins have to breathe every 10 minutes. Why did nature mess with us?
We have to breathe every few seconds occasionally. We can hold our breath for a few minutes. Hey dumb dumb
Hey, that's not the point. That's not the fucking point. Listen, someone else says goodbye and thanks for all the fish
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It's just good though the one you said does it say goodbye and thanks for all the fish
Yeah, it's not even the right fucking
But there it there is a rad pick though of a
Just a slimy
Gray dolphin, he's poking out of the water
He's got a big smile and it says they look pretty happy to me
And I want to tell that person that is just kind of what their mouth
Looks like and for all we know
This dolphin is a you know a circus dolphin and it's probably not living his best life
I you know
Okay, but but uh-huh
They do look happy
I mean that but again, just I do want to say what I literally just said eight seconds. Yeah, but they look happy
Is it possible that the balance?
I'm is what's like it's like something we could learn but it's not balanced Justin
Don't spend all your time in one don't spend all your time in the wet or the dry find a balance
But it's not balanced Justin. They live 99 of the time in the wet
They can't they're not like rolling up on the land walking around for a while and then going back into the wet
Justin they're in the wet and they have to basically stick their backs up like it like if every
You know 10 minutes you had to push the back of your head through your wall to live like that fucking suck like that's
It's it's not balanced
Hmm and yet you're over here telling me evolution is real Justin
But if evolution's so real then how come dolphins haven't evolved to breathe who water
Well, because then they we wouldn't be able to see them as much. Oh, that's good. They evolved for
Something for they miss us too. Yeah, that's our thing
They evolved blow holes to come up and see us to have an excuse
So what you're saying Justin is there was a time when dolphins lived on land and they hung out with human beings
And they said we want to spend a lot of time in the wet
But we don't want to miss you entirely and that's how they evolved
Maybe the order of
The order of occurrences is something of a mystery
So it might have been that they were under water the whole time and they said what's up there
I want to be part of that world and they made a deal with Ursula and Ursula gave them blow holes
So they could come up and say hi, but she took their voice. God. I'm so sick of her. I know right
for everybody. We have fun, but like
She took that lady's voice away. She took her fucking voice away. I tried to kill her dad
I don't see a man. She never met Ursula knew what the fuck was up. Ursula knew she wasn't coming back
A lot of people like to treat Ursula like the hero of the story, but I I'm sorry. I think she's the villain
Yeah, well, she does get killed by a big boat. That is true for her crimes
It's a fair point. You guys ever think about what a shitty dad Triton was. He was not great
I don't want to talk about that. Should we go to the money town? Yeah, great
Oh
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This is usually where the munch squad goes now. We're all kind of floundering a bit. Do you want to read another question?
Yeah, I'd like that
When I was 13 a lawnmower I was using caught fire and started the small
They've got this in quotes
wild fire
Burning a little under an acre of land
Much to my embarrassment
This was then put on the news and since it was a small town everyone from my school knew it was me
I'm 23 now, but sometimes when I go back home people will still sometimes joke like hey started any fires lately
Good one. It's pretty good line. Good line
What could I do to take the heat off my history with fire and maybe get known for something new?
Any ideas are appreciated. That's from accidental arsonist
And they've got accidental in quotes too, which is strange. I don't understand. You're gonna need to stop some fires. I think
Oh, that's good
Yeah, what oh like I feel like well, I don't know how many fires you'd have to stop for it to balance out maybe five
I mean one acres one acres worth of fire
Yeah, yeah, depending on if you're in the city. That could be a lot of that could be a whole bunch of fires
But
We're not talking about fire fighting
There will be no hoses no extinguishers involved. I'm talking about like you see somebody smoking next to
Uh cotton swab factory and you say stop it stop it. Hey, no, no, no
Don't cut that out. Don't you see this pile of sawdust you are sitting on top of this is a terrible place to set off fire
That place to have big smokes. That's a cigar. That's a big novelty sized cigar like a wolf would smoke in a cartoon
Yes, it's a big cigar. What you're a baby. You're a baby. What are you doing with that cigar?
How did you get into this sawdust pile, baby? Hey
Hey, is this is this timmy here from the news?
Listen, you better get out here because I'm about to stop a baby from smoking a huge cigar
And I feel like that's really gonna turn my rep around and listen. This is gonna sound like I staged it
But I promise I came upon this completely naturally
I did not give this baby a cigar nor did I set it on top of this pile of sawdust
Fuck there's a whole baby cigar party happening
There's like four more babies with cigars. I didn't even tim get down here, man
You gotta hurry get down here bring bring her up. Johnson. Call Spencer Atkins. Get everybody down here. This is wild
Get Bill Murray get the whole team out here. No, not that Bill Murray the Bill Murray that was a newscaster in the hometown where we grew up
The Bill Murray from WSAZ
Go on
Oh, you're not coming. Okay. See now you've got to start your own
television news station or newspaper
Okay, this is this is Bob Stevenson with the Bob Stevenson Dispatch and oh boy
I've done it again stopped another baby cigar fire at the sawdust factory
This paper is free
Please just read it and give it to everyone you know
Well, I mean you could start a youtube channel. Those are easy. Everybody's got a youtube channel now, right? Where you're just going around stopping
Baby fires. Thanks for subscribing to my newsletter. Didn't stop any fires this week, but watch this space. I'm out there
Email me at my tip line if you see anybody doing bad fire stuff
No difficult fires though, please. I don't have any resources
Do you have this sort of is this the sort of town where just having your own youtube would make you like the youtube guy?
I don't mind that other than the fire guy. Yeah, he's the one with the youtube started any youtube channel lately
I did actually three more. I mean we had to go become big podcasters. So we could just stop being clients kids
That's all here come Clint's kids up to no good apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh?
Like I'm my own guy actually like I do I do a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with my dad
Yeah, I worked pretty hard to become the non video game brother, but now I'm blowing it with this twitch thing
Oh, no, I just realized
Oh, no, I'm gonna become the video game brother
No, you're still the beard brother. Oh, thank you. That means a lot to me. You can hear the beard on the microphone
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you
You could start other bigger fires and then maybe maybe people would still learn to watch their fucking mouth
Oh, that's cool. We'll own it and someone's like do you start any fires lately? Like I did
I did at your house go home
You're very good. Check on your dad
Go check on your dad
Ah, yes, that's fire boys kids phrase. Don't you know go check on your dad?
Is it possible to
Say it was a controlled burn
And that
They don't get it
I'm an amateur fire person. This is a controlled burn. I had it completely
Under control. Don't you see how I put quotes around wildfire?
More like mild fire. That's just a little joke in the controlled fire industry
Now you're asking is a broken lawn mower the typical device we use to start our controlled burns
And that just shows how ignorant you are
Have you read any books about starting controlled burns lately?
What do you think people just throw their broken lawn mowers in the garbage when they're done with them? No, what a waste
What a tremendous waste?
Were there several small businesses located in this one acre that also burned down? Yeah, that's part of the control dude
I had to burn them down to make room for new businesses. Those have those have sprinklers
It's easier to control it. Yeah, think about if it was just trees you idiot
And they have those go burn so quick. They had to get some insurance money. It's all part of the plan
It's all part of the plan. Um
They were in on it. We were all in on it
And aren't you enjoying that new Mexican restaurant that they built on the burned up ground that I burned up?
You're welcome. Enjoy your enchiladas. What about the natural part?
What about the part of the wildlife preserve that burned down too?
You're welcome. That one was an accident, but everybody's allowed to make a few accidents, huh?
Yeah, I'm a human. I'm a human being. I'm a human being and those were very rare birds
Yeah, now they're more rare and the people who have those birds
Have more money in their pockets, so they're not complaining, huh? Hey, what about the kinds of animals that eat ashes?
Yep
They kind of they got to get their bellies full too, right? Yes
I'm and to be fair. I thought those birds were phoenixes and if that had been the case
This all would have been totally cool, wouldn't it? So I guess you're the jerk now, steven
What if you lost your keys? They're easier to find now
And I know that your car was also parked in there and so that is kind of a moot point and I understand that
But that's part of the control
Griffin, do you have any? I do. This one was also sent by Graham robot. Thank you. It's yahoo answers user. Sorry. Who asks?
How can a font be sexy?
On multiple font websites, I've seen sexy as a category, but they are just letters. What is happening?
Oh come on stop being willfully obtuse. You know the answer to this if you saw
Let's see if you saw if you got a love letter in papyrus, right? You would be like, oh, okay, whatever, right?
What did this love letter get sent through time from like ancient Egypt or some shit? Right, right? Yeah
And I'm just pulling this off the top of my head. I'm not looking but sans seraph sounds sexy
Yeah, sans seraph is probably yeah, it's up there. I think that that was the one that they
sort of
They had sexiness in mind when they were developing this this font
Yeah, that's not very good. What's the set? I'm gonna just gonna type in sexy font and then look away
Travis type sexy fonts and then just go for a little bit of sexy
Helvetica sound I would love to kiss helvetica sandra
Hello Cassandra. That's kind of sexy. Yeah
I love I love in all of these promotions where they're like showing what the font looks like even in the sexy fonts is like
The quick
brown fox
Jumps over the lazy
Oh, that would be a sexy font if anyone's looking to design a sexy font make it so anytime you put a single x
It's immediately three x's. That's really good. Yeah, you can only type three x's at a time
Yeah, and while we're at it just every m becomes three m's
Yeah back if that's something
The quick brown fox jump
And then and then there's a period
The sentence ends that's a cool font when it like actually changes the the syntax of of the sentence itself
Um
So on this typography website, they got like reviews for the different fonts
They have this to say about archer
Sweet but not sack or earnest but not grave
Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness
Credibility and charm. Oh, I like that. It's nice, right? Makes you feel like maybe now
I have here. I found one that's just called luxurious sexy, which
I bet you could find a font called ease. I bet you could find a font called like
I'm gonna look star wars. Well, yeah, sure
It's not what I was gonna say, but all right
Yeah, if you like star wars, I bet there's even a star trek one. Yeah, either one or no matter which one you like
I like Travis. I like the Travis font. There's a Travis font
What guys what could be better fodder for a comedy audio podcast
Talking about what letters look like. Yeah, it's probably yeah talking about letters. That's like, it's good
I hope the quarantine goes on
Just me talking here, but I love having all my meals come to me in metal boxes. Hooray
Okay
Lynn texted me to tell me there's gonna be a peeps
Pepsi mashup
Peeps and pepsi are joining forces to create marshmallow soda. That's gross. Okay. It's gross, right? I'd rather have cola please
It's marshmallow cola. It comes in a three pack of little seven and a half ounce cans now you can't
You can't buy them at the fucking store
But you can tweet the hashtag
hanging with my peeps
and
And you can enter to win the sweepstakes and you sure you're supposed to show yourself
Enjoying your favorite springtime activities quote in a safe
Socially distant manner
Incentivizing in the crispy cream way safe
Right safety if now let's get a little deeper here. Todd Kaplan the pepsi's veep of marketing says
After what has been a very difficult year
Many consumers are looking for new things to smile about
So we made very sweet businesses. Can I just for them?
So just because I want to just put a pin in it real quick
I just want to point out that I think in the
Qsr and food update kind of munch squad world
The new thing isn't going to be this has been a difficult year
It's going to be after a difficult year and it will be all about like now that we've turned the corner
After a difficult year things just need to it's going to be that over and over and over again in some form
Yeah
I'm not very good at business ask anybody. Well, how come
These like businesses keep announcing these things and then saying but you can't buy them
You have to like win them just to get you it's it's the new and I guess munch squad is part of it
I you know like munch squad is to blame
But it's like you don't actually have to do the thing
If you just say you're going to do the thing and then make people tweet about it
Then you get all the attention. Yeah without actually having to like make a bajillion of them and get logistics going and shit like that
Don't
It's infuriating don't tell me that you're gonna make ketchup that looks like some dude's arm
And then it's like you have to send it in a self-addressed stamped envelope with fucking bitcoins inside of it
Like sell that shit in stores fucking stop it
Stop making me jump through hoops be be brave and trash your brand by making this gross soda and make some some poor person
Accidentally buy it and then come home. You're like this soda fucking sucks
Have somebody accidentally buy your shitty marshmallow soda cowards
We may we let Ed Sheeran make ketchup for us then fucking do it
Give him tomatoes and spices and sugar and let Ed Sheeran make the
You have to you have to mass produce whatever he made a million of them send him a million tomatoes and say your balls in your court, Ed
Oh
Man, did you try some of this new ketchup? It tastes like shitty tomato water?
Yeah, that's because Ed Sheeran squished it with his own feet and then we had to sell it at Kroger's
Because that was the deal we made with Ed Sheeran
Will you make Ed Sheeran ketchup if you promise to sell it for a hundred years? Oh, okay
I wanted to replace real ketchup. Oh Ed Sheeran you drive a hard bargain
Okay. Yep. Okay. This will be hines 58. We're throwing out the last one
This is the new one is all we're not even gonna name you on the bottle
Like it's just we're just gonna call this new ketchup and you just happened to be the person you made it
Sounds good to me. I'm Ed Sheeran. I did my french fries and Ed Sheeran's ketchup juice and it was disgusting
Well, that's because we're just gonna have to find a new way to enjoy ketchup now because ketchup means
Ketchup means something else pepsi means something else now
It's not a something a refreshing brown beverage that you enjoy with a pizza
Now it's now. It's a different thing that you have to use a different way now. It's a joke that we all have to live with
We actually fucked up so bad because of the new law that biden put in where you have to really do the things
You say you're going to there's no pepsi anymore. It's just an instagram filter. You can't drink it. It's a filter
And we fucked up don't get it twisted. We fucked up. It was a bad idea that we did but we said we do it and
This is it. Anyways, are you hiring?
Oh boy
Oh boy, um
Was this a yacht? What was this?
Here's a new question last halloween my wife and I never got around to carving the pumpkin our best friend brought us
Instead of tossing it our friend hit it in our bathtub as a joke slash gentle reminder to carve it
Unfortunately, my wife and I proceeded to keep it in the tub while using the tub as usual for the next four months
It was surprisingly useful for many tub related act. Is this where we're at mean?
It was surprisingly useful for many tub related activities. What are you doing the tub?
Flash forward to yesterday and the pumpkin you guys are never going to believe this
Well, it's rotted in the dang tub, hasn't it?
I cleaned it all up
But in the process a not insignificant amount of pumpkin seeds and guts
Went down the already poorly functioning drain if this causes a plumbing issue
How do we explain it to the landlord without him telling him we kept a pumpkin in the tub for four months?
This is a large claw foot tub with a shower head hookup if that reference is needed. It wasn't
That's from punk and
Pumpkin it's from a person who needs some help and a help on a scale that may be grander than we can offer
I think the best course just just the best course of events really
Yeah, I really think
Trevor you have to remember I do these questions, right? So I saw this
Right hours ago. I've had time to process it boys and the thing is
I think you are going to get the most
Uh leeway
By just telling the landlord what you did
Yeah, we left a pumpkin in the tub for four months while
tubbing around it
And some things went bad
Doing the usual tub stuff that we found the pumpkin to be surprisingly complimentary to
We were in there thumping around and uh rotted away. It got the ding ding drained, didn't it?
This one's on us
And if you want to add an extra $20 to our rent for the next couple months, we totally understand
We totally get it for a pumpkin surcharge
the usual
The usual pumpkin mistake surcharge, please
What's your usual excuse me? Is this landlord? What's your usual rate for making a pumpkin mistake hypothetically speaking?
And is that kind of something that I can purchase prophylactic?
I notice here that there is in the lease a listing for pet addendum
Um, so I understand my pets a pumpkin that lives in my tub and he had an accident
He had an accident of dying and so we need emergency here
Excuse me. Is this landlord? There is emergency here and it's of a pumpkin variety and this is covered in my lease, I bet
So what was the damage specifically in the lease? That's a relief for me. Honestly
Can you forward me the list of things we are allowed to get stuck in the tub drain, please?
And is pumpkins one of them you could just tell me that what are some things that you allow in tub?
Oh, you don't have a comprehensive list. Hmm seems like a lack of forethought on your part
Do you recall excuse me? This is Dilip in the apartment you have do you remember agreeing on mutually?
Beneficial list of things that can go into
Okay, okay, fine
Is there a limit to how long I was allowed to keep pumpkin in tub because I will tell you for future reference four months is too long
To be fair to be fair
Sir before you get all high and mighty about it to be fair
If you notice the pumpkin had not been removed from my home by December
That would have been the moment for you to speak up as my landlord
If you're really paying attention to the problem to be fair you take a tub in my apartment every week
So you must have noticed right? It's it. I'm sorry. I want to engage here. I want to I want to have fun
but like
Once I used a foot bath in japan in japan that had like yuzu fruit floating in it
And it made the water smell and oranges and it made the water smell pretty good
That I had my that I had my feet in and it was revitalizing
This pumpkin I cannot imagine served a similar purpose and also
Was something you had to bathe around
While it it's so big a pumpkin is I understand your confusion griffin
It's a large claw foot tub with a shower head hookup
So I think that kind of that clear that actually makes a lot of sense
So you were showering in there and just you had pumpkin
And it has claw feet and that the tub has claw feet
Okay
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, it's because of the claw feet
Sometimes the pump is just gonna get lost in there. So I guess let's just take turns apologizing because we I
We fucked up we didn't realize the tub had claw feet. I thought it was a built-in. I'm sorry
It's not a bill. It's a standalone deal with a shower head hooker. I'm sorry. Oh, man
Oh now now who left the pumpkin in the tub still you
Actually
We don't know how big a pumpkin it could have been like one of those small like
You know paint a funny face on it and put it on like the you know the table by the door
It's big pumpkin. It's big. You don't send a question like this to us if it's not a full size
Yeah, it would have headed over to ask ask drawn and Hank, you know, I mean
They handle that. Yeah. Hey, um, I think it's dear hank and john, but a great. No, they started a second show
Yeah, sure. Hey, let's talk about this for a second
I'm gonna keep drilling down on parts of this until it seems less insane
Flash forward to yesterday and the pumpkin is rotted in the tub. Let me hold up for just one second
You don't get to flash forward to the pumpkin is wrong. Yeah, you go in the tub
Every single day you did not come in one day and like holy shit
Look what happened to our pristine. Oh, yeah
No, that's not how it shook out is warm of locusts did not fly in through the window and fuck your pumpkin up over like a
two-hour period
Uh and
Question asker you didn't lift it up for one of your regular bathtub activities and the bottom just fell out
Were you using it as a loofah? You could tell me I'm not going to be angry. I'll be a little angry
You would certainly notice at what point in the decompositional process
It was yeah, any sponginess whatsoever. It should have been sign one that this pumpkin was
Not a tremendous amount of time for a pumpkin to be huge extant
Not to continue the scrutiny your question asker
But in the cleaning process a not insignificant amount of pumpkin seeds and guts went down the already poorly functioning drain
How lucy goosey was your cleaning process?
Yeah, that it was getting pushed into the drain and you just thought well cost of doing business
Yeah, that's the number one area you got to defend right if you are cleaning
I leave a pumpkin out on the out in front of the house for three days past halloween and it is
Deflated it is a deflated pumpkin sitting out there. There is no way
No way it made it four months in a tub
Absolutely, maybe you've hit on a new pumpkin preservation technique
Whereby, you know getting some
Fruit-tastic shampoo on it or whatever you're going to keep it alive a little bit longer
We should all be submerging our pumpkin if you want to preserve your pumpkins
You can only find them usually that one time a year
So it's nice to have a pumpkin on hand for spring to really welcome the easter bunny in a way that's going to fuck them up
Yep, you're right
You really wanted to confuse that cat. Hey, listen, thanks so much for listening to our podcast
We hope you've enjoyed yourself. We we're gonna be I guess this is the last one before we head into a bit of a hiatus
Yes, it will be
Strange for a while. Yeah, we got some other fun weird stuff for you though
And things are turning around, you know, they're they're they're turning around here in
On earth and I think brighter days are ahead if that's any constellation to you. That's where I'm at right now
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