My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 556: New Virtual Wing Concept

Episode Date: April 19, 2021

Introducing the new sweet baby brother, Ron Funches! With this huge upgrade in talent we can finally tackle the BIG subjects like Chopped 420, mysterious chewy candy, celebrity hot dog eating competitions, and cat food for people.Suggested talking points: Trail Mix Jug, Hat Floozy, Ten-One, Anti-Kyle, Cat Clooney, 12 Cats But One PersonSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/

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 I could have never seen what was coming for me hangs at the skate park hangs by the beach my life It feels It's better it's better

It's better it's better It's better it's better Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother and me an advice show for the Modrin era I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy. I'm your middle brother Travis big dog. Wolf Wolf McElroy And I'm also a new brother and happy to be here raw punches Ron punches is our newest brother. That's true. That's our new brother Ron punches We had to get rid of Griffin. They say last in first out, you know what I mean? Yep, he's the youngest one and we needed some new fresh blood on the show

So we brought our dear friend Ron punches. Yeah, it's what some would play it called a studio reboot. Yep Yeah, your family. Yeah We started with the family first like Ron has been in Inserted into our family for guys been a few months now Ron where we brought you into Have dinner with us. Mm-hmm. All the usual ballads. Yeah, Chris gives exchanges all the usual And now only now that we've perfected the and hone those rhythms that it took us decades to perfect with Griffin Now we're ready for To make a podcast together. Yeah, it's exciting. Well, it's fun. It really didn't take that long with me

Yeah, I mean he must have been, you know, not that Enjoyable to take decades to get that repertoire that only took us weeks. Yeah, I wasn't gonna say it Ron But that is accurate, you know, I mean, I just feel like you feel like you're more our brother now than Griffin ever was Wow, yeah, I mean, I didn't want I mean, I do want to say it because I felt it Yeah Like more like our brother that Griffin ever has or ever will yep, I agree This is this is so this is very exciting Because Ron also has a thrilling. I mean, you know, Ron from everything most importantly like us

He was a star of trolls and trolls world tour We're only the second one, but you know, Ron's done that with us and Ron does they couldn't afford you for the first That's right. Yeah project Ron is the stand-up Ron does a podcast and Ron does streaming on Twitch streaming on Twitch Ron does everything but right now I want to talk about I'm so excited for chop 420 on Discovery Plus Launching I guess as the co-flies tomorrow if you're listening this launch day, why wouldn't you?

Can we just can I just can you just tell me what it's like? How is it Ron? It is as if At some point I just have to go like am I dead is this a thing where I'm just living in my brain you know, like a matrix style thing of a future that I created that I would have wanted where they feed me delicious foods of ducks and Extravagant items and then they're also infused with marijuana and I get the hostess show and I had to sign a contract that said Are you okay with smoking marijuana on camera which most of my contract say please don't smoke How do you like keep a balance like how do you have you did you like at any point?

Did you have to like pull aside a producer be like just a quick update? I'm getting too high Am I too high we're still making a TV show, right? I have a pretty good tolerance, so it never really came up and also I like to be professional So, you know, I didn't I have to eat that much and I just had to smoke on occasion So I just tried to host and have fun and then smoke after or smoke whenever was appropriate But you know, it never it never became an issue for me. I could have done more for now Ron, what's it like having a high tolerance with marijuana because if I hear with somebody like just hearing you talk about it Now he's making me feel like my organs are moving around inside my body

It's nice and also there's pluses and negatives I think having a low tolerance is fun because then it doesn't take much at all You're happy anything exactly But then having a high tolerance can be fun because you learn to Appreciate the different flavors the different notes of things and it can be fun like people who you know people who love wine a lot Are just alcoholics, but Still have fun with it, you know, Ron I'm really excited that we got you here because this gives us a chance to sort of

Shepard the next generation of TV stars because as you know, it's everyone knows we had Kind of a huge hit series called my brother my brother me on the CISO streaming network And now I sort of I'm so excited to pass on sort of our expertise That we gained from those six episodes of television The number one thing if I made Justin Yeah, please if you need to go potty during filming you say ten one And it means you have to go pee and ten two means you need to make a dookie

And you say those things and it confuses the crew so they can't judge you for Releasing your your bodily stuff. So that's just something you need to know Summer sound guy made up Especially the part where you have to delineate what you'll be doing in the bathroom I can't imagine why the sound guy needs to know that I will say the other day I when I was doing the live stream escape room all of a sudden Neil Patrick Harris sprung up from his chair and yelled ten one and Scream There's no editing now Ron how many episodes are can we expect the first batch from?

From chop for 20 well, you can expect five episodes to drop on 420 on Discovery Plus gives you a chance to binge them all get it's a chance to hopefully get people to rewatch them and I Would love to just get right back to making a new batch because I It's my favorite job. I've ever had I'm really good at it. I think I Like to keep doing it and it's just I mean look it's so fun to me because it's It's like kind of a perfect mix of what I try to do It's got the chopped franchise, which is like a tent pole The cooking community is in the background of everyone's home

And then you have marijuana in me. It's fun. It's gonna be so fun People give it a chance. You have the parts normally the hosts on these will like Snatch a bite of the food, you know, they're not judging though. I get a bite, right? Does it is that the way does I feel like that'd be so much pressure because I I like most stuff that I eat You know me like I like most things so I feel like I would be the one who's like no Seems good to me. I yeah seems good. It's all worn all the way through and stuff. It's got salt I love it and then the judges would be like you uncultured buffoon. Yeah, that's pretty much what happened. Yeah Good my anxieties are justified. Yeah, no, you're right

That's what it was like to host it But that's I thought okay with that cuz you know, I felt if people Already cuz you know, you get the like there's been other like pot Cooking shows they're all like real laid-back and stuff and I think this one, you know People were really going for that ten thousand dollars There's a lot of these chefs hadn't worked that much recently because of the pandemic, of course, you know And so I was like, oh, I can kind of like this other people's jobs that tear apart their dishes or whatever Like I think it's my job to kind of just let everybody shine and you know

And kind of cheer lead for everybody and support all the people and I'm good at that So that's kind of what became my role in the whole show now was there was there ever a moment And I know you can't give spoilers wrong But was there ever a moment where somebody finished a dish and realized they'd forgot to put marijuana in it and just kind of sprinkled it on top I Knew it I knew it That's what I would do

All right, let's get into like let's I mean I want to help people yeah, that's who we have something actually knows They're talking about for a change Let's go my friend and I've been talking a lot in the past several conversations We have had she has mentioned a hat that I needed for her She had thanked me many times for it and made comments about how much she likes it I had no memory of ever giving her a hat, but I do knit So I assumed I gave it to her a long time ago and it has slipped my mind for this reason I've mostly just given a vague you're welcome any time

Recently I was at her house and she pointed out the very well-made hat to me brothers. I did not make this hat She brothers and we're on fun just I did not make this hat She has now asked me a couple times whether she can pay me to make another one like it Do I agree to make her another hat under the guise of being the original has creator? Do I come clean and face questioning about why I pretended to remember making the hat? That's from knitting confusion in North Carolina You should have told the truth the first time I mean, I don't know how many times we have to tell people this but I feel like if you lie one time

That's kind of you've made that decision. I don't know I know I just had to commit to the lie now You got to commit now you've made a prison of lies and you live in it This feels like a different scenario though because they didn't lie Someone said did you make that hat and they thought I've made a lot of hats. I don't remember it, but probably yeah Yeah, sure like I don't know I think that that was just more of like, you know, you assumed you made the hat No, no, she pointed the hat out. Did you remember the part from now friend pointed the hat out to you at their house But that was after they had already said that they made that that was after the assumption

The well, let's call it what it is. You're not wrong the lie, but it was kind of an accidental lie. No, no Can I point out one thing please and I'm not a judge. I'm very Sex positive and alternate, but this person sounds like a bit of a hat flusie. Okay. Yeah Random hats from whoever to the point that they don't know what they got the hat from They're how many hats is this person getting yeah You want out there, but don't Don't then turn around and then make other people feel bad about it. I feel like maybe yeah You go ahead and say I will make you another hat

And but it doesn't have to be like that hat You just go look each one is a piece of art that I've made That was the mood I was in for the previous hat and now you get this other style hat I bet you they don't they won't say anything. I'm not the me. I was when I made that hat Right, that's not a lie, right? You're not you're not the person who made that hat It's actually pretty good You know what we said that once you like one time but but Travis kind of inadvertently made a decent point in that You did have a one off ramp. You had a chance

You had one chance when you saw the hat to be like, oh, okay, this is I'm sorry I was confused about a different hat. This is not my work I'm I think there's a miscommunication, but you didn't do that and that was the last chance You didn't do that. Yeah, now you have to live with this. You cannot go back. It's too wild Yeah, that was when the mistake was made the only out now is to truly just Like you borrow that habit go like I'm gonna need this hat to recreate it and then you just have to spend your life Trying to recreate that hat perfectly

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I didn't want to say it, but I think that's your own Shit You could also just stop talking to this person. Oh, that's that's kind of out of your life. Yeah That's always a option. I take that one so many times. I Would you guys like a Yahoo answer? Oh Man, it's still a little fresh the wound still a little fresh because it is dying on Well, I mean the last day to submit questions is tomorrow

But yeah, Travis. Yeah, I guess I guess I guess I guess so. Yeah, okay. I'm filling in for Griffin here So it's weird. This is untried a territory for me, but here we go This was sent in by bin camp. I believe the wizard bin can if I remember correctly It's asked by an anonymous Yahoo answers user who I'm going to call Griffin McRoy and Griffin McRoy asks Do you think frogs even like eating bugs or is it just their nature instinct? I Like this question because it does posit the idea of like a frog like eating a bug I wish I could eat something else. Oh gross Yeah, I mean, I guess bugs are just I think it is probably instinctual. Well

Would you have to be taught where but your bed your parents probably have to teach you which ones are bugs, right? Because I want you to think apples are like very large stationary bugs, you know or Cars are like gigantic metal bugs that you can eat like your parents have to teach you both from not bug I would assume Well, do you think after a while like you you eat bugs for a while? And then you see like a human being like having a hamburger like wait, hold on. What the fuck is that? No? No, I don't you don't think that happens. No, I don't think so. No, it's so big You're out there. There's a lot of options. There's other things to taphole. I mean, I guess you wouldn't you taphole

Oh, God, no Get yourself kicked out. Yeah kicked out of your frog family I like to see what happens with that one and to tell you the truth But I feel like you you love the bug. There's other options. You could be having and you're choosing the bugs. I mean, I Like crab what crabs with bugs of the sea, you know, who's good point? Who are we? Who are we to judge frogs? No, I was just asking who we were just Oh, oh, Ron. I'm where the macro brothers. Yeah, you us three. Oh, yes, I forgot I mean like I feel like nature is part of it, but there's definitely some trial and error

Right. I mean, you're definitely gonna eat something. It's not a bug and it turns out it was a pop cap It's like, oh man. Yeah, I don't want that And also I feel like they eat certain bugs, right? Not every bug passes the test. There's some type of palate involved You gotta like some bugs more than other bugs, I guess well I mean to my improvement didn't teach us that like one Bugs are delicious, but two there's gotta be bugs that frogs are like, oh shit. Yeah, that bug That's the best bug. We love eating those but those bugs though. Those are the bad-tasting bugs We don't like those bugs

Probably That sounds very scientific. There's just science Here's another question while in a car with my new co-workers. I was offered a piece of hard candy I had never tried before I Gratefully accepted and I was enjoying the candy when I realized it was chewable Now I'm sitting in the back seat trying desperately to figure out if this is supposed to be gum or something to be eaten I've been setting the way my co-workers are moving their jaws and I still don't know what this candy is What should I do? I really don't want to embarrass myself in front of my new friends

It's for full mixed important. Wow. Well, first of all, they've probably been holding on to this for a long time now. Yeah Yeah, there's no way we've gotten to this person in time to help Gotta be stale by now or the mouth. They're just really chewing. I Enjoy that the person this question asked her did not tell us what candy this is. They don't know They don't know it's a new experience to them. They don't even okay. Okay, okay Which is the thing that I like about them first of all that they were open to new candies I like that as a person That you already found friends that are gonna like you and enjoy you that that you were open and willing to try a new

Candy experience you never had before I'm gonna even if it's new to you. I refuse to believe you got a friend up in the front They're like, hey, do you want candy? Do you want a candy? Yeah? Hey everybody? I'm gonna enjoy a candy I'd like to enjoy a candy with me. No one would say it that way you serial killer. They would say a piece of candy That's so nondescript. I couldn't answer that. How do I know if I what if you got good employees up there? And I'm gonna subject myself to that. Come on now first of all good and planning Disrespecting thank you so much You and I understand if you've had the most majority of good and plenty's are stale and inedible bricks

But if you just happen to have a lucky day you'll find a fresh batch of good and plenty It'll change your opinion really Ron. I just can't I can't get on board with it Maybe it's like, you know, it's been a long time since I've tried them. I'm older now and I've learned a lot about the world It is a grown person's candy. That's an adult candy You need a mature Palate to enjoy a good and plenty. I also I think I have a soft spot in my heart for good and plenty Because they they're basically the name of them. We're like there's fine. They're fine There's a lot of them right like the claim to fame is they're okay, and there's more than you expect

Which is true. They feel it to the brim. Yeah, they know what they are, you know, they're not called like excellent and plenty They're good. Okay, but you have okay, but what? What you have said it has a grain of truth not the good part, but the plenty part is interesting because most snack or junk type foods Market themselves on their crave ability. Yep Like if you think about Pringles like once you popped off the fund don't stop lace potato chips bet you can't eat just one, right? What good and plenty has the guts to say is you will get to a point where you're like, I've had plenty of these

Think I don't need it The one serving in here and this is fine. Yeah, this is good. This is a good level with these Yeah, we just need something that you want. Yeah, we're good and plenty's there for yeah I mean, you're not wrong. It's it's a fair point. What was the question? Oh, I just swallow it I mean you're gonna swallow it one way or another might as well swallow it right now just swallow it Yeah And if it started off as a hard candy that got chewable odds are it's a candy not a gum Like I don't know many gums that start off that way unless you're like a

Even the hardest of the icebreakers, you know, aren't like a hard candy I think it must be a candy with a gooey chewy metal in the same family of a good and plenty or Eminem I have been tricked by a Mentos before because a Mentos its original, right is Seems so much like gum and is not and then there's Mentos gum Which is almost exactly the same as the Mentos Except it's gum. It's it's it's really fucking with me guys. I think you figured out what it was I think it must be a Mentos. It's gotta be right. It's got to be a shit. I Guess I mean, I guess it's possible anything's possible in this world, but I don't know you just got a dream

I guess you just swallow it That's actually where I'm gonna come down no matter what it is and and I think that you're I think you can later be like that Candy was great. What was that? Oh, maybe you can you stash it? Can you kind of park it like you're supposed to do the nicotine gum just like park it behind your lower lip and just be like Oh, that was great. I've finished it. I've either spit it out or swallowed it Mine I'm done. What was that again? I want to buy more later so I can either swallow more or spit out more pieces Yes, first I'm done

My candy experience is complete This is why cars should never have gotten rid of astrays in the door handles Because that's what you could have hidden this but not now. There's not a good receptacle for this in cars these days Bring back car astrays. You guys remember those? Yeah Lincoln continental I didn't realize we were dealing with the royalty I Work in an engineering company and my co-worker Kyle has been acting strange lately with others and myself He pins blame on other people and out outright avoids projects with problems

But he's fine with with me for some reason. I'm no quarrel with him and relatively just chose others We're going out to a brew house tonight with everyone in the department invited Should I invite Kyle? That's for antisocial engineer in York oof Kyle on the outs poor Kyle Hmm He seemed like he's making this problem Here's the thing though Kyle seems fine with the question-asker for some reason. Yeah, I don't know that I'd want to throw that away You don't want to get on Kyle's bad side

Hmm. That's true because that way if you can play both You get the full scope of the office, right? Yeah You get the anti-Kyle people tell you things and then you can have the Kyle telling you his crazy side Your little Kyle birds your little Kyle birds telling you all your secrets. I want to keep a Kyle on my side Yeah, I don't I don't think I want to ostracize Kyle especially you might be all that Kyle has and that's gonna be hurtful I think that's more important to foster that relationship With Kyle cuz he really depends on you. Yeah, I think you can just sort of toss him by the wayside You know, you might be able to bring Kyle back to the fold

You know what I mean, you might be able to reach out and help Kyle Exactly cuz it says he's been acting strange lately Kyle wasn't always like this Something's happened to Kyle Something's going on with Kyle and Kyle Kyle divided against himself cannot stand you got help trial out You got to build Kyle up not tear Kyle down. Yes behind every powerful Kyle. There is a good friend You friend it's maybe time to invent something that happened with Kyle that you can tell everybody else That's it'll be nicer to Kyle is that like Kyle's been going through a hard time lately I I think what kind of hard time you can say heartbreak and then heartbreak is so

Versatile it really is because people might assume romance, but you can have your heart broken about a lot of things, you know Yeah, heartbreak and come from anywhere Welcome to our comedy podcast Well anything can make you sad my friend Ron you've probably had pretend jobs for about as long as we've had pretend jobs Mm-hmm Do you find it hard to reconnect to questions like this and remember what it was like to To have like co-workers that that you needed to navigate on a daily basis instead of just sort of like transient

relationships With the with the ebb and flow of the entertainment industry Never heard it put so well Yeah, and I can still remember no because I've always used it as motivation I can still like here a bank call center a Phone calls going off in the back of my head so I can still Remember it, but that's also what makes me feel like yeah It this is a make-or-break deal right cuz Kyle's gonna find out about this party no matter what yeah No, well no matter what that Ron makes a great point. It is 100% assured Kyle will find out about the party

Especially if people don't like Kyle they will tell Kyle. I didn't see you there. What were you Kyle? They will tell Kyle mm-hmm. I Say bring Kyle what's the worst that could happen with him just coming out? Oh, he blames other people and he avoids work that sounds like a cool guy in regular life to me Yeah, yeah, you're outside company hours. You leave the company stuff at home five o'clock You're like, let's go just hang with as regular people and what's going on the day work doesn't matter anymore And let's it's your company then that's a pretend it's the problem Hey, Ron that actually reminds me of me me ask you

Does the cast of trolls ever get together and hang out cuz we haven't been getting those invites if that's the case Yeah, that's been happening. We haven't Been on that list like are you and Anna Kendrick hanging out a lot? I Didn't know it happened. I thought you I just thought you guys were busy. Oh Okay Okay, it's the same rock what they told me every time, you know, I had the at the crew on the cruise There's a cruise on the troll in the last year You know Ron we were supposed to

This is gonna be hard for you to hear but we were supposed to go to the premiere of the movie Yeah, now they did explicitly tell us we couldn't bring anybody And they wouldn't pay for our flights Well, we were somewhat invited they would permit our fucking human meat Into this space with the other people where we would be within like oh Probably not we would probably be in the overflow party where you see Justin Timberlake on a jumbo Tron run through five minutes but um Then really the greatest hold COVID

It wait wait that got that didn't happen cuz they didn't do that so we didn't get to go to that and that was probably like our one big Feel like our one big shot. That was our chance I was sad about that too because my mom was sad cuz she wanted to meet Mary J. Blige And I wanted to meet George Clinton So I also understand that and if it makes you feel better I let you know that I shot something just yesterday that the Citizen directory wanted to let me know that while because I was coming in at the time I did I technically wasn't supposed to have lunch if I wanted if I was really hungry

Find a way to get I What's great about that now I have to know stop don't move forward Ron I have to know what your response was were you hungry enough where you're like see what you can scratch No, I was actually at that point very very thankful that my wife had packed me a protein shake so that I could just go No, I'm fine I don't need your pity fl t. Yeah, I don't need your yeah, exactly. Oh, thank you It's wild that the strat the different like

Strata of that, you know, I'll tell you a wild thing you've probably seen stuff like this But we did our um, I don't know if you heard but we did six episodes of a streaming tv show And it was on cisa network. Yeah, it was on the cisa network and we shot it and well, what what the heck Travis did we shoot that in 2016? Is that right? Yeah, if you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so we shot that in 2016 um, the the craft services table, which if you don't know some of the lingo going in is where they put like food and drinks And we had a micro micro budget for this show. So there wasn't really money for that There was mainly like all sarphone containers of people's food that they didn't take for lunch and Like I think a few granola bars. Yeah, and then

When they did the promo photos for it They the they had a photographer fly in and it and the photographer in the photography area had the most lavish Spread of snacks and treats. I've ever seen in my entire life For us like it was like I think it was like a step parent trying to impress the kid like That's strange. Doug gave me a dog. Yeah, every day to be photo day. This is amazing. Look at this guys. This is fantastic Oh, I've been on a couple cisa shoots. I knew the the trade of joes crafty that they had there of a couple protein bars and Uh, some crystal geyser waters that usually was supposed to be just of it

We would see we shot and thanks to us virginians. So we should we could we would have murdered for trader jes Yeah, you kidding me? We're Oof. I I noticed that every this is getting more specific, but I think why not? We're all here. We're all friends here I've found that most in the very few instances and it has been obviously quite a while Uh, in the very few instances, I've been near craft services table One common mainstay is a big jug of trail mix And I think that's very interesting because that seems like a bad choice For the environment because they what they expect you to do is get a little styrofoam bowl

I guess it just carry around a little Trail mix and also often there are spoons involved. Yeah, like I'm going to spoon out some trail mix for myself I just wander around with it Yeah, I mean to your hand and to your paw and that way it is very eco friendly Uh, but that's gone now because of covid. They don't there's a big jug of trail mix Covid Yeah, takes everything from me. How is it? How have you been? So the past like I don't know. What has it been? It's been almost exactly

13 months since things with sideways. How you been how you been handling it Ron? It's always ups and downs ups and flows, you know, it was terrifying for first couple months and not knowing because stand up was always Not just my main source of income, but my how I kind of defined myself. So kind of forced me to Redefine myself as more of a full person Which I think is probably for the best And then it just allowed me to start doing other things like the twitch and the More voiceovers and and be home more with my family and which was a true blessing to get, you know, married and Hang around with my son as he's getting ready to turn 18 before he's, you know, doesn't want to hang out with me anymore

So and then, you know, taking some opportunities I never I might not have done before like the the chop for 20 or you know, I got a movie coming out called golden arm on the 30th So at the end of it, I'm like things are kind of okay. I'm all fine And it makes me more grateful for when I can go back and do stand up Whenever I can't wait. I mean I'm going out and do something in May. So I'm trying nice Just stay grateful and happy Do you pick up any hobbies any non entertainment hobbies? I started taking singing lessons But that sounds like but it wasn't for like entertainment. It was just for me

So I just started taking some singing lessons and do that. Um Every Tuesday when I can That's nice. I recently started taking blacksmith classes, but that is for entertainment purposes because I would like to win forged in fire Have you found it? Have you found it hard? We were kind of jokingly grossing about this last week Have you found it hard to like or maybe two weeks? I don't know. Have you found it hard to like come up with new? Uh, uh creative idea. Have you been like creatively stymied at all by like the lack of of new inputs? From the outside world. Oh, yeah, I haven't written a joke in probably a year for sure Uh, I was gonna ask is it like hey, anyone ever noticed how sometimes you come down for breakfast and your favorite chair

A little bit to the right and you're like, well who moved my chair, you know, you guys know what I'm talking about Have you guys ever noticed that my wife Cindy McElroy does this one thing? Yeah, yeah, I mean pretty much you got it lack of stimulus, you know, but I've been able to write I did write a couple things, but I just Would change it to other things instead. You know, I wrote a couple um Just script ideas some treatments out and try to Do it that way which isn't as as instantly gratifying as doing stand-up But I felt like, you know, when you write in jokes

If you can't practice them if you can't get in front of an audience, I just kind of get stale Yeah, I'm proud of me No, no So I just was like hey ron. There was a very cute sneeze process. Yeah adorable. Thank you Yeah, I am who I am Now that we've gotten that out of the way all that personal personal stuff because I think it's nice to check in and we have honestly, it's kind of self-serving because I have Not a lot of other adults to talk to

So like it is I'm kind of using this to my own end. So I'm sorry to uh to listeners for abusing your your your time that way But hey, all these perspectives. I feel like the real downside This is going to be when people start writing a lot about it and it's like The everyone's experiences are so similar. I feel like this is going to be like it's going to uh, uh Have this one period like if you set a movie In this time period, are you going to like? Do I guess you just won't right when we're just all going to pretend we didn't do this for a year

That's what I feel like I feel like maybe one person gets to do a great one And that's it and then other than that like I don't I've been noticing from going out and doing some stand-up Is that when people get on stage and they start like being like, oh, I went through this and that people are like, yeah Uh-huh Yeah, we all did and so it's like I think um and what I truly enjoy is that people just want to be like, hey I've been stressed out just be silly and make me happy and I'm like that's what I mean that to me is Um was what I realized like oh, that's my that's my job That's my purpose right now if things are super stressed out not to be like

Well, can you believe this is going on and and I'm poking a hole at this It's like let me try to relieve some stress, you know, yeah Can I do a quick poll real quick for our listeners and a poll a poll? Yeah Um people listening and and of course my two brothers are on and Justin um When you picture a movie about coveted and like starring someone and they're having the experience Does anybody else picture steve correll or is that just me it's just immediately something about it makes me think Steve correll

Is gonna be the star of the movie about someone's experience through coveted Um, I don't I have not gotten that uh necessarily. I I guess I kind of Uh, for some reason imagine jason seagull sure seems like oh like oh no something else happened to jason seagull Not again a lot of the stuff that's happening with him Um, uh, and I feel like jason seagull would be the one to make one Oh, um, he's so tall. It's jason statham and he shrinks down Uh-huh way over directly. Yes. He takes the fight to covet. Where's that osmosis jones seagull? There's a bad there's a real bad dude on the block now now. We really gotta get in there

No, it's all animated except live action Jason statham who's been shrunk down in your space style to get in there and fight alongside osmosis jones And I believe a tylenaw pill Uh, well, it was not real. Uh, it was dricks. Uh, uh Was so it's not a dricks at all. So it's not a real time. Oh, right And and they were fighting anthrax if I remember correctly his name was just thrax But yeah, that is the that it was the implication that he was anthrax One white blood cell and I believe a uh cold and flu pill

We're gonna take out anthrax. What a wild movie And they were all inside uh bill murray's body Um More movies should take place. This was where this one should take place. I don't want to give bill murray cove it But if anyone could make make something out of it, he can't yeah, he's been being safe I hope so. Hope he's not crashing weddings I don't know. I I I would actually I would love to Ask just random people on the street like do you think bill murray's been safe for the best year?

Because I feel like it's 50 50 of my head. I have no idea He's a bit of a recluse so he could just dive that up a little bit and been like super recluse But he also seems to like appearing in places Hmm Hey, we're gonna take a quick break uh from the the Hubbub of making a podcast to sell things to you and attempt to sell things to you in a segment we call the money zone The money zone that's better actually. Thank you. I wanted I knew I knew you had your own

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who And let me be clear here. I think the answer to this could literally be anybody Right, but yeah, I I don't think it has anything to do and like with Sort of their their their the physical body. I think it's more about like the spirit If you look at the some of the competitive eaters They're not people who you feel like have been eating like a lot like they they're surprising It's a surprising thing and the best part about this question to me is one word and that is motivation Given the motivation to eat the motivation, right? They have to save

Their village or something. I don't know whatever the motivation Or like if they switched up some of the like qualifications to win an oscar this year, you know I mean it was like whoever can eat the most hot dogs, right? I have two answers. Okay. Okay Okay, the first answer I think is probably The most logical answer as this person I think can eat a lot We've seen it on their instagram that they can eat quite a bit when given the motivation They also work out a bunch And I think yes, they are the perfect specimen

Yep, they are the Beyonce for boys Yeah, the only person that could be both president and a competitive eater Yeah, that is duane to rock johnson. I mean, it's a perfect answer. I mean, it's it's it's indisputable Um, and he seems like a highly motivated man, right? Highly motivated to put it away Like highly the rock seems like if he put his mind to anything He would do it, right? Like yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My second answer is Helen Mirren because oh, okay, she commits She does commit

See, I think cloney could put him away. I think cloney I could see him Be in suave and looking cool why he does it But just kind of quietly consuming an absurd amount of hot dogs Yeah, Ben Affleck Ben Affleck and either Ben Affleck Oh, if they channel I would like to see the three Uh oceans 11 leads, of course I think the three of them

Brad Pitt Ben Affleck. No way Matt Damon. I always get those two confused Matt Damon Brad Pitt and cloney sit down and just have a hot dog eating contest I thought I'd pay to see that. You know what I mean That feels like one of the pranks they would have had that you they love pranks and it feels like they love them pranks They do love their pranks. That's a good point. You guys know about that time that uh, the cloney's shit in a cat box That's real as it was a prank It sounds apocryphal to me, but no, this is a prank you were staying I'm trying to remember who he was staying with

You know something we are like maybe Danny DeVito or somebody who's staying with them and every morning Uh, cloney would clean the person's cat box before they woke up And so for like a week the person thought that the cat wasn't going to the bathroom And so then one morning cloney took a dump in the cat box and left it there for the person to find And the person was like holy shit. The cat just made a big human sized dookie That's such a what can I say something? That's such a wild way to balance out the karma of cleaning out the person's litter box Like so would it be like was george cloney a good house guest and you just sit there and silence for 10 minutes and you're like, well

shit um well I don't know I do hate cleaning the litter box. Also Can we also imagine like They're usually in clothes. So yeah, right. He had to climb in there This is what i'm saying. He was he was motivated and he did it. He figured it out He wasn't going to get shown up by that contortionist from the from the uh, oceans movies george cloney can do that too

I can do that for sure. Give me a half hour to get in the cat box real quick I was in tomorrowland. Come on. It was richard kind It was i looked it up. Sorry. He was saying it richard kinds house. Yep kind of as a house party. I love to get invited to richard kind That's it is very terrible. That's terrible. Don't do that to richard kind. He seems like he's balancing As it is that if you ah, that's gonna that would send him off. I don't want that for he's such a His kind's in his name. You don't do that. Yeah, when when did I turn into richard mean? Well, it's quite a story Let me told you. Do you know? Have you ever heard of the show er? We'll sit down my friend. I gotta tell the tell

Do you remember a guy from the first two seasons of roseanne? It's weird that george cloney was also on a sitcom called er. Isn't that weird you guys ever think about that? It's weird He got eventually he was also on a drama called er. It's weird I guess if somebody tries to make a show with er in it, he's just gonna show up like let me in there I get him I got e in an r in my name. No problem Oh

Ron here in a second, we're gonna yell squad You'll get it. You'll see what happens I want a munch squad That's that's our cue. Uh, but I want too much squad Welcome much squad. It's podcast of the podcast late profiling the latest And greatest in brand eating and we've got a lot of great news to you Uh, uh Fizzoli's this is not a joke one. A lot of times they're funny

I just want to give you a heads up that fizzoli's is rolling out their wings System wide. This is breaking news Finally, um in There's they've been having wings at some locations since september One of the gifts of covet is that I get to say the phrase new virtual wing concept Wingville From fizzoli's they've been sneakily rolling these out to you via door dash and grub hub But now the time has come for uh, fizzle all fizzoli's to have these wings menu innovation

Continues to be a key ingredient fizzoli's recipe for success says fizzoli's chief marketing officer jody conrad Delivery and drive-thru have both seen a president that sales growth for some time now I'm out of theory about that jody if you want to take a seat. I have some hard news for you to hear Uh, it's been impossible to eat in restaurants for 13 months But hey, we knew how innovating our menu with an easily transportable product like wings Would be the perfect solution to leverage this shift in ordering channels Whoo, wow wings have been a big contributor to our impressive achievements over the past seven months So we look forward to seeing this trend continue as we start serving them nationwide

Now have you guys ever been at a fizzoli's and they give you a piece of pizza and you're like, what the fuck am I supposed to do with this? How can I get this home? This isn't transportable at all No No, exactly, but that's not that's not our big story. Okay. Our big story was sent to us by jesse. Thank you jesse It's slightly out of our per article per view And I do mean per View okay, because fancy feast has released petit's feast cookbook a recipe guide for humans Inspired by their new single serving what entrees for cats. Wait wait

I'm I'm Don't get ahead of me now. No, jesse. I just wanted to know just a quick status, okay? Uh, we we haven't even uh pardon the pun scratch the surface And I'm gonna help me now. I have no idea what's happening Yeah, then just take a seat friend because I'm here to tell you straight from the beautiful city st. Louis fancy feast The most popular brand of gourmet wet cat food in the u.s Is celebrating the launch of petit's

Their premier line of single serve entrees by releasing a companion cookbook for humans Okay with the new fancy feast petit's feast cookbook Cat owners and fans of the brand Oh Explain to me why you need to delineate between cat owners and fans of fancy you don't have to own a cat to like fancy feast You can just support the brand I just like what they're doing over there. I just think they're doing good work Fans of the brand

Can now cook meals inspired by their cat's favorite dishes. Oh boy, but made for you Okay, available for download that shows a lack of conviction. I think Put this motherfucker. Let's go get it on ebay careful careful The single serve cookbook features 12 delectable human recipes Inspired by your cat's new favorite petit's entrees. Now. This is a weird little Weird little cul-de-sac. They've they've included here is that the recipes Are also single serve. Uh-huh, which I think well, they'd have to be They're kind of just it's a little judgmental. No, I feel like no

That's just no in the audience of a person who would buy a fancy feast cookbook You ask them for one and also your but maybe for 12 cats, but one person Yeah fair you should actually take the time to dine with each of your cats And if that means you have to eat 12 single serving meals, so be it You have to give each of them the attention they deserve Now these are carefully crafted by fancy feasts in-house chef Amanda hasner along with guest editions from james bierd warden. My name is jrel guy Yeah, uh, james bierd award nominee jrel guy and actor turn baker josh schneider

The petit's feast. Oh, and Chrissy tegan. Wow Do you just you're just making stuff up such a get The petit's feed cookbook allows cat owners to take part in the dining experience with their cats from From chicken and ramen with tomato honey butter sauce to white fish and asparagus with beurre blanc The cookbook features recipes that are elevated but easy enough to whip up on a weeknight Now i'm gonna stop you right there fancy feast in-house chef Amanda hasner That does not seem easy enough to whip up on a weeknight, but please go on

Each dish was inspired by the small plate restaurant trend and cat food also You can't forget that cat food the recipes are for humans Not normally something you have to clarify in a recipe Scenario, but the recipes are for humans, but we're created in honor of the dishes you will be serving your cat Now, um There's there's more to the press release, but I do want to stop for a second Fancy feast petit's Are single serving uh, uh cat foods that you peel and dump in a bowl

Do you feel like a cat would watch you Whip up some uh, uh, uh white fish and asparagus with beurre blanc For like an hour and a half and the cat be like listen. I appreciate the effort so much But how is it that you're just gonna like open up a package and dump it into a dirty ball for me But you're gonna spend this kind of time on product for you. I feel like they're still an imbalance here I feel like we haven't rectified what's different between the two of us I also do like the implication here But like you would do this and sit down to eat and the cat would think oh, finally you're joining me in this

Yeah, your cat is not going to enjoy this. You could try to get your cat to eat with you. I don't think your cat is How was your day? Wait, where you going? All right, what's wrong? you know for too long dogs have had uh, just a Stranglehold of sitting and eating with their owner that has had lady in the tram And I feel like that's what cat owners want here. They want to be able to just Share a meal and sit down with their cat pull out a little Magical close and just open it up and one dish for you one dish for the cat

And and this is just something to really just go. This is who I am and I've gone this far And I'm aware of who I am and that's why I'm comfortable with myself and I like I love the I love the idea I just don't think a cat. I don't feel like your cat is going to indulge you I don't feel like you're going to say to your cat. Well, it's time to eat together now That would be the funniest thing though is if you do this on then your cat ghost you on dinner Oh 100% that will be that I know cats. I've had cats that will be the outcome You're gonna get screwed up by something that lives in your house

You're gonna here's what's gonna happen You will uh sit Until your food gets cold and then you'll dump your food and your cat's food in the trash You will go to bed and your cat will be like fucking finally and climb up into the trash and eat all the food That's cats. That's cats in a nutshell now I will say though that this is reminding me very much of the commercials that played when I was a kid where I think it was cat food that put that little puck of cat food onto like a crystal bowl Oh, yeah, a little leaf on it. I do remember thinking as a kid like that looks good

And I think it's all presentation, but I was interested These retail for a dollar a seven. So come on You're all come on. Just make two servings of berblanc. I don't know if cats can have berblanc Just seeing you me and the lord jesus christ guys. I don't even know what berblanc is exactly. It's something white. Justin. It's berl white Definitely a sauce that's yeah some type of sauce Also, I don't even feel like petite cats is is the style of meal that I would trust To be like, oh, that's what you know, I want what a husky cat would want. I want a husky cat They already make those they're just called hungry man meals and you just rip them open a microwave

Yeah, no problem your cat saw you doing that they would think ah equal playing ground. Okay, cool What let me hit you with this idea where rather than trying harder For to eat with your cat You should be able to try less for everybody So what I'm suggesting now to you guys is a is an instant microwave meal like a tv dinner They used to call them an instant microwave meal where one of the things in it Is cat food? Oh So you got

You got your chicken nuggets. You got your brownie. You got your corn that some of the brownie leaked into That's the best corn you got your cat food right there. Hey everybody soup's on for all of us We're all eating together. You know what it should be You can tear it away to be a little separate bowl for the cat or not You know what I mean if the cat just wants to hop up here next to you And every like and you guys just kind of lean your heads down and both eat it out of the bowl. Yeah, it's fine Yeah No, that's the experience that you're really looking for right of eating all of the bowl together with your cat

That's what yeah cat owner. That's what you want if you're a cat owner or A fan of fancy freaks either one now. I'm thinking through this now We are gonna have to be real explicit with the labeling on this because I have eaten some chocolate puddings in uh kid cuisines That are indistinguishable from uh from from cat food So that that would be it won't kill you It'll be she'll be fine. It'd be almost like, you know, they do those mystery candies or the mr. Yeah, which which one's cat food?

That's our guys. That's our tagline. You'll never guess which one's captured You guess which one's cat food will send you a coupon for another one Double and then it's double or nothing. We'll send you two the next time you get Hey, uh, ron. Thank you so much for joining us uh for my brother my brother and me. Um Where can people find more of your of your great work? Oh, well I'm going back on tour on the road up being going to salt lake city in austin texas and a couple other places phoenix arizona So go ronfunches.com for those dates and then just follow me in most places at ronfunches or ronfunch on instagram Please check out chopp 420 on discovery plus on 420 and then I have the golden arm movie coming out april 30th

So please Travis will buy you. Oh, um, I'm I'm on twitch too The Travis McRoy on twitch. It's fun. That's the thing I like doing but mostly I'm here adjusted with you Yeah, that's true. I just want to give you a chance to plug, you know, if you got anything cooking. Um, uh, we've, uh, Probably got some new merch. No, I don't think so. No new merch in the store. Uh, thanks for, uh, hanging in there with us This weird time, uh, uh, all the finale of the eventually graduation is live now If you've been waiting until it ended to start it This is your moment to go back and, uh, listen to the entire thing. We got a graphic novel coming out till i-13th Steve interzone, uh, crystal kingdom and then we got a podcasting book called everybody has a podcast except you

Available and that's out now. You don't have to wait for that one. It's available wherever fun. What I have that book Wow, thanks Ron. That's really nice. Wow, what a lift Didn't say reddit, but it is nice that he has it. I don't read any book. No, I hear you. Yeah, you cut a lot I wouldn't quiz you. Thanks so much to Ron Funches Did Travis, Travis, do you have a uh, uh, final yaku force? I do actually fantastic Okay, here this one, uh, is sent in by the prospector merit polmer uh, and it is asked by uh, anonymous and the question is

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