My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 568: Will A Sign Help?
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Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother and me an advice show for the modern era
I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy. I'm your middlest brother big dog a woof woof a Travis McElroy
And I'm your sweet baby brother Griffin McElroy
You know here at my brother my brother in the industries
Yeah, the word of the day the word of the year the word of the business is of course
Innovation we're always looking for new ways to help you the listener
Slash consumer and for a while there was you said at the beginning of the year
It was skin evasion and me and innovation and just like what's that and you were like poly weave fibers
Nano fiber weave on your skin that makes you bulletproof and swordproof and we're like that's that's not real bud
Yeah, but then you guys just brought me a lot about nudity like a lot
New kinds of nudity internal nudity. Yeah, you spelled it in EWD, which I liked don't get me wrong
I like that right yeah
This time I figured out a new question
And I think will help us answer questions for advice and maybe help the people at home and all right and that question is this
would assign help and
I was going through the question list today
Right, I was making it and I thought how often that could be you know
There's like flowcharts of answers they have where it's just like, you know
Is it this if yes then this if no then this right and I think that we could ask would assign help
And that will be a good starting place a lot of questions like a sign like a bill Ingval situation
Or I mean listen, I don't want to limit what kind of sign it could be a billboard. It could be a traffic sign
Just like a written poster board thing
But if we can start from would assign help we can build off of that and give us a bit more of a foundation a
Foundation of rock if you will instead of sand
Okay, I feel we've been in the past it sounds like maybe you just watched them that three billboards outside bing bong, Wisconsin and
You
Certainly that's not the title of it. I haven't watched two billboards yet, so I don't want to get there
Damn that would have been a good joke with that film was relevant a few years
Right
Boy
As a short movie too because it's just Francis McDormand and she's already sweaty for putting up the first billboard and she puts it
I'm just like damn this
I'm still not satisfied roll credits. Yeah, I gotta get some more bill
I'm gonna need at least one more this first one says fuck Woody Harrelson and the next one says for real though
But I feel like I need a third one. That's like for real though
And then while I'm waiting for four billboards where the fourth one just says you just missed those last three billboards
Yeah, that way it's time to turn around and go back
Does Francis McDormand's awesome billboard slamming Woody Harrelson work just did say something like that. I
Wish I have more. I wish people did that to Woody Harrelson all the time for different reasons all over the country
Oh, that's good. I wish it wasn't just his character. I wish it was like about another zombie land Woody. Yeah, Woody
Hey, would he make a third zombie land? I didn't watch a second one because I want to watch the trilogy
Yeah, one setting. Yeah
I'm waiting till they show him back to back in the movie theaters. You know, yeah as was intended
How's Matt?
Matt McConaughey doing bud and you put it right outside his house not Matt McConaughey's house, but Woody Harrelson. Yeah
Is Matt McConaughey gonna be your governor? Matt McConaughey would be I would say a step up
Maybe not the ideal candidate for the job
But right now the candidate for the job who has the job is a real stinker
So a bucket of what hamburgers push down a fly upstairs would be a better governor than you got right now
That's not a unfair
Comparison it's not an unfair thing to say
Um, but yeah, I mean I I shit man. If that's what it if that's the way we go
If that's the way we go with it. I can see but can we talk about
How it directly affects this program? Yeah, if Matt McConaughey becomes your
Official governor. He's basically it should be noted already the governor of Huntington
Yeah, because he made a movie about Marshall here and he's well years ago. I think yeah like a hundred years ago
And he's now all of her dad. Yeah, but like if he becomes your the governator over there, you know, like well, we wouldn't call him that
Yeah, but like what happens to this program my brother my brother meet if if frequently there's something going on where Matt
He had McConaughey is your
Governor, I mean, I'm just worried that it's going to eat up his time to make car commercials and stuff like when that's all
He'll get there. Yeah, that Lincoln money that Lincoln spends awesome. He's got beautiful rolling hills for because he was the Lincoln lawyer
That Lincoln was like, oh, yeah, I think that's what it was
Okay, I think it's at least how it started. Okay. He thinks he's still filming the movie. Yeah, he's like winds out of Lincoln lawyer sequel
arrive, all right
When Lincoln lawyer two comes out if you haven't watched all the Lincoln car commercials ARG
You're gonna have missed out on a lot
To follow the hunt of the car of the man behind the wheel dot org. Yeah for its slash Matt McConaughey for gov
With four v's the adventure begins
The adventure begins there and at the end you win a coupon for a screed free scoop of basket Robbins. Yeah, which is nice
I hope he has your vote. I don't know. He's can I be honest? I don't know
Don't know his platform doesn't matter. He's Matthew McConaughey. I can fill in the blanks a lot. Yeah
I bet he's part of the
Green party
You know what? I hope he's not a member of all right. All right. All right. All right
That's really good
Fuck it took a while to get there. That's awesome. Yeah, see a sign helped. Yep. You're right
I'm an artist lately. I've been studying architecture as a hobby. Cool. I live within biking distance. That's cool
Yeah, it's cool bad ass doesn't it seem like that would be that's one that I wish I could sit down for like an hour
And be able to point at buildings to be like, hmm neoclassical. Oh, right, right, right?
That'd be cool. Now. Here's the thing. Justin. Can I tell you something 99% of the time you can do that
Because the person you're talking to chance that they know if you're right or wrong very slim, but I know
And that's gonna that's not gonna boost my confidence. I look down the street and be like, oh, that's a big one
Oh, yeah, I like that one. Oh, great one
It would be like if imagine the time I've spent learning about disney world was applied to the real world. Oh, yeah, sure
Yeah, yeah, yeah, imagine if the way I am when we walk around disney world
I'm like, you know, that's actually the
Is the the letters on that window advertising that fake business are actually a reference to one of the original lawyers of the disney world team
Imagine if I was like that, but like for but like smart shit
Like that's how an architect feels when they're walking around disney with you and they're like, why did I waste all this time learning about architecture?
I could have learned about disney like justin cuz he's so cool
It'd be so cool, but it's got architecture in it too is the problem. Yeah, you know what I mean?
And very rarely does architecture have disney in it. Just imagine walking around Chicago and pointing out the big buildings and be like,
Yeah, that's a mid-century david hide pierce
Man, remind me to tell you guys about the email we got about frasier's theme song. No, no, I know
I live within biking distance of a couple of old slash architecturally interesting slash weird houses
And I would love to sit and draw them and take some notes on the architectural features
However, I don't think this would interdear me to the occupants very much
How can I complete my self directed studies without coming off as a huge creep?
That's some suspicious student in steadybrook. Okay. Can I ask a stupid question? Yeah, and it's very obvious
So it must be like a stupid. Yeah, like why
What is the I don't know. I don't do like this kind of art a Mormon audio artist
Yeah, how how does why can't you just take a picture and then draw based on the picture? Good question
So I actually in college
As part of a scene design class we had to go and like draw buildings on campus
And it's about like angles and getting the right uh, like
Getting the right perspective so that you can compare lines compared to other things and changing your point of view and shit like that
Yeah
And with so you gotta kind of do it. Well with a photo you don't always get the depth
Yeah, you can there should be a way to like have photos that like fucking move
Yeah, so you can like get the
Well, I thought that's also not it's fun
That's you know, it's fun. It's also not gonna get you put into artist jail. Yeah, which is where we put people who do art
Well, so here's the question. Yeah, what a sign help
um
That sign you just had a sign set up next to you. Hey, wait a minute
Now wait, this is a good question to start asking if you put up a sign that said
basically like
Doing art building artists over here. Yeah
Building art building artist ask me anything and then a little hat
Because I think people are more comfortable
If commerce is involved. They understand they get the motivation at that point
Wait, you're just doing this to make yourself happy. No about this
I will draw. Okay. I got I got I got I got it
You sit down. Uh-huh you get your pad your pen a cup of joe and then you start drawing the houses, right?
And then you have a sign that says I will draw
This building for five dollars. Yeah
And if someone comes over and they're like, here's five dollars. You just be like choice. Thanks. Here's the building working on it
I'm on it. I'm working on it and they'll be like should I come back later for my drawing like, you know
Get the drawing. I'm just I'm drawing. Yeah, maybe five dollars. I'm drawing the building. I'm not offering anything
I'm asking yeah
And you don't get it doesn't matter if anyone ever does it because you never see it
Like a caricature artist is always you see him as sometimes a dizzy world and caricature artists is always sketching something
Yeah, you'll never show you of course
But they don't just sit there and stare at you until like you hey, you've got a great chin for caricature
Come on over like they're working on stuff. You're always interrupting the caricature
Are there care?
How many times a character? Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, both of you are talking at once Griffin you had a question
Do you what's your question? Do you think that they're a caricature?
Artists and that's the ones that do house drawings, but they do them all exaggerated and silly like the windows are like wicked big
I regret I regret coming to you Griffin. Now we're going to hear what Travis said. Excellent. Excellent
Do you think it's really frustrating when you're like Beyonce and you sit down at a caricature artist and the caricature artist finishes
And Beyonce is like I'll take that please and the caricature artist is like no, this is really good
I'm going to put it up to display my talent and Beyonce just has to walk away without her drawing
But I don't think that Beyonce usually does sit for those kinds of yeah, but they always have one of Beyonce, don't they?
At some point she wants to come by they got terminator
They got Beyonce because this Travis has just explained to us in excruciating detail
You can't draw based on a picture of Beyonce. Correct. You got to have
Maybe that's why they look like they do
They drew it from a picture and they're like, oh no, the perspective's so wrong. Her head is giant
Wouldn't it be so funny if Charlie Chaplin walked up and he was like, I'll take that one of me please
That's really good. I'll be suing you. That's me, sir
I'll purchase this and then Gil also. Why did you draw me knowing this?
And then fucking Gilbert Godfrey walks by and drops off a picture of himself
That is just with the same one picture that every caricature artist has he's just walking around the country dropping those off like johnny apple is seen
He drew them himself and he's like you can display this as your work. I'm like, I guess
Okay
If you're outside somebody's house drawing it would a sign help and this but the sign says like hey, I'm not jerking off out here
You guarantee nothing everything is above board. I'm just sketching for a non
Jerk off application promise promise promise to the max, but damn it somebody could wear that sign
That and be jerking off that does gonna plan on doing that. Well, this is the this is one of the intricacies of the question
Would a sign help because yeah, like if you just wrote I'm drawing the house, right?
That's not as bad as I'm drawing the house. Steve and johnson who lives in it. Yeah
Now
Now it's weird now. It's a problem. We need to get these signs notarized
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it says hey, I'm not jerking off down here
And then there's like two signatories
On the bottom and like a seal from the mayor that's like yep. He's not he's not jerking off out here. He's just drawing
I promise trust me. I'm the mayor
How about another question? Yes. I know this is an orthodox. Okay
But why not? Okay, I would actually can I do this wiki how article because let me tell you something about this fucking website guys
Let me tell you something. Let me get well. No, but let me that was so much wasted time now
But listen, I gotta tell you something about this website. It uses
more
fucking ram on my
considerably beefy rig
then
Ableton then the 90 audacity windows I have open then
I could be running fucking halo 9 on this pc
Or on on on my computer and it would fucking not use as much ram as wiki how my fan is screaming because it's like look at all these
poor images
So I want to finish this and close this so that the audio will be better. Is that okay? Okay. Okay. Good
I I found this one on wiki how and it's about
Cat behavior communicating with cats, which is okay a rich rich vein on wiki how I think it's maybe just because people like to draw kitties
And the title of the article is how to apologize to a cat
Apologize to a cat
Step one. I miss my cat's birthday and I've been wondering
Oh, well, this is gonna be great for you. This is more about like I accidentally
You know
You know bumped into him in the middle of the night and pissed him off or whatever
I rubbed there further wrong way because I've never touched a cat before
So more physical sliding and not so much emotional exactly determine the offense
What did you do to make your cat matter? Did you make fun of her?
You fucking stink. Oh, okay. Wait
I'm back in. Yeah, if you offend your cat by making fun of her you'll probably have to offer some treats and praise
Yeah, your cat's definitely
Understands English enough to say like your butthole stinks. Mr. Chisk Chiskers
Choose
Chiskers and then she got it you gotta choose a good time to apologize if the cat's angry not now
Approaching too soon. It's a cat's busy. If the cat's a busy not right now. It's steven. I'm on the phone
This is an important call. Yeah, I told now. It's even worse
Listen, don't approach too soon because you might get scratched but don't wait too long
To apologize because cats definitely will think about that stuff
You can approach a frightened cat but do so with caution. I'm I'm not busy right now, but I'm fucking terrified
It's okay. I'm sorry. I was just listening to creepypasta. I don't have time
I can't seem to creepypasta on the internet steven
Please
Walk slowly to the cat. Don't rush up on it. Sorry
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Don't do that. Don't do that soft gentle talk to your cat. Tell her
I'm sorry. You may even use your cat's name. It will not understand
Either of those things I bet but try blinking slowly because cats love that shit
Jackson gala
How slowly be be clear slow as you can
Slow as you can Jackson galaxy taught that to the world back in like 2007 and every it's the only thing people remember about cats
Stroke your cat gently in her favorite spots
My cat's fucking terrified and I ran up on it real fast, but I know exactly where I touch this little guy
So it's okay scratch behind the ear behind the cheek. It's all good
Play with the cat. These are all good things. Give the cat some attention praise and compliment your cat
Give your cat what he or she wants within reason
Okay, this something. Yeah, now we're getting a car
My cat fucking hates the way I talked about it is stinky, but but I am gonna give it a hundred thousand dollars
I am gonna give it one night
Where it rules the house and it eats the food in the kitchen and I have to shit in its bad box
Here's one thing I know about cats is that levels are very important. So I cat trees are a thing
Yeah, so it's a way of cast to show like they're more important than other cats
So when you're apologizing your cat lay down flat on your belly with your arms on your side
And kind of inch forward a little bit. Yeah cat knows that you're putting it above you
So then we have four entire sort of paragraphs here where the wiki how a article artist was like j jones jamison was like
I need fucking
I need 18 column inches and they're like, oh shit
Well, here's four tips that are all variations on give your cat a treat
Give a treat to your cat leave a cat treat surprise for your cat add treats to your cat's food
Treat your cat with some special food. Good. Good. Good. Now. Hold on. I want to go back to number two
Because the problem is if you leave a surprise treat somewhere it might not associate that treat with you. No
Awesome. I'm having a shit day. Stephen's been a real jackoff tried to run up on me blinked too fast
What's this talked about my butthole talked about my asshole didn't even apologize. What's this? What's this? What's this?
A special surprise unrelated to steven
Offer some dried catnip. Uh, okay
Hey, yes
I'm not man enough to apologize to my sweet mr. Chiskers
But I won't get him fucking fucked up and then maybe when he's in that state
He will be more amenable to apologize. Yeah, what'd you do steven? You talked about my asshole?
I don't even remember ma'am. Forget it. Hold on. You joke at that
But this is a thing humans do to other humans like I'm going to take you out to a drink to apologize
That is to thank humans do to other humans
And then y'all watch the tail
Oh my god
If the tail is pointed up with the tip curled to the side that cat's okay to come
Poofed up cat the cat's frightened which as we learned earlier in the article not entirely a deal breaker
If he's thumping it though. No, no, no, no walk right away. Walk right. What if his tail?
Makes the perfect shape of a question mark. Yeah
That means he's got a puzzle for you
Follow him
Follow the cat and don't stop following it until you've reached the puzzle because it's somewhere. Look at the face
That's helpful. Are the whiskers pointed teeth bared and nose wrinkled. That's 101 angry cat stuff
So don't do that. That's anything's angry. If anything did that I'm like, that's a problem
Yeah
Now I want to hop down to the community q&a because someone asked is there a quick and easy way to apologize for little things
Which is fucking awesome. You've read this whole article. You're like, that's
Too much time. I can't approach a cast slowly. I'm a businessman on the go
I got stocks to trade and houses to close on I can't I can't walk up on my cast low and then blink slow
I'm not made of time or money
You can just say sorry cat name in sweet apologetic voice and pet them gently on the spot. They like
So sort of it can that's the only two points on this list that really matter
Do you think it's just generating like if you're still clicking through?
Hmm, it'll just keep making questions like an a there's like an ai that's like generating answers like do another one about streets
Yeah, they're still clicking. They're still reading. I just took my cat to the vet and they had to give him a shot
Now he's mad at me and scared me. What do I do now? You fucking say to the cat like I'm sorry
I don't want you to fucking get a heart disease, mr. Chiskers
Yeah, you can be pissed off if at me if you want because I gave you an expensive shot
So you don't die from cats diseases of which mr. Chiskers. I will say there are thousands
And sometimes they sound fucking made up by the vet who's just trying to sell you medicine. Sell you shots
Yeah, sorry mr. Chiskers that I love you so much. I don't want you to fucking die at age five
And grateful shit. How does here's a wiki article
How does my cat apologize to me for being a real shit after I gave it medicine?
So it doesn't die from a lung disease of which there are thousands for cats
How to make my cat understand responsibility. Yeah, you raise a actually pretty good point about vets
I'm kind of worried about that now because like think about it. It's the worst
It's kind of like with the other mechanic and he's like you need a new farberator. Yeah, it's like
I don't think I don't trust you. I'm going to drive away now and see what happens
I roll the dice and the check into light comes on in like a week
I thought yeah, right
If that happens with your pet, then that's that's no good. You don't like that. That's a good cast
Don't have a check engine like you know what I mean? They just have shoeboxes
And and so it's like you I don't how do you trust your vet because they don't they understand it way better than you do
This is awesome. You just got to do whatever they say, right?
That's awesome, man. If we're being honest chances are for a change
My dogs are in cahoots with that vet the dog costs a little bit
And the vet's like, oh, yeah, I know he's got a bad case a kibble cough or whatever
That'll be five hundred dollars. And then he slips my dogs and treats. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, your your your parakeet is getting its beak wet on this on this deal fear. I don't trust anybody involves
It's so cool that we can be on the ground floor of this like anti-vax but for animals move
But like it seems like not really no, it doesn't seem like it's
Right, we're just having fun and then you have to make it all grip got to get political
God griffin it's always getting political
What's next griffin you and the vets are gonna team up to write us emails and talk about how kibble cough is real
And it's very bad and it costs five hundred dollars
Huh, are you wait griffin? Are you involved? No, no
Oh, it goes all the way to the top of big podcast. Listen
Listen, I know what I just said, but I do and I I love our nation's vets
But but only our nation's vets and let me just say though it is weird how it's always five hundred dollars
That is weird
And there's always a special food. Uh-huh. They're like, oh, no, he's got double buttworms. That's 500 big ones
That's like shit. I just paid you 500 big ones
Sometimes we get emails
And tweets that we don't deserve and I make it very clear to people
It was it's my dad and my therapist and my wife. I said, I did not deserve this tweet
No, Justin, you did not deserve it. You did not deserve the tweet. You did not deserve the mean email people
You don't you boys don't deserve it. You're trying your best
I feel like this past five minutes is one of those
Yeah, I get it
It's one of those times when we're gonna get the tweets and we're gonna get the emails and we're gonna say, yeah
Yeah, this one. Yeah, really beefed it. This one. Yeah, we were just kind of we knew it even as we were saying
That one good. Yeah, we knew it. Yep. We deserve the tweets. No, no, and I guess I would say lord, I apologize
Just like
Maybe we can flip it in the end because I don't know that we said anything like
Fully like that identifies that when we said vet, we weren't talking about veterans. So maybe we oh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah on veterans and say like, yeah, I don't know why veterans always
Are charging 500 dollars to fix our pets
Okay, currently I am
Do you think there's any veterans who went on to be veterinarians? Definitely. That's gotta be confused. That's funny, right?
They probably did it first and then people and then people want to check them out to see if they're any good
So you're vetting the vet vet. Yeah
One more
Uh, uh, and then and then okay, we're gonna wait and then he's selling his corvette
And you want to check out to see if it's any good. So you're vetting the vet vet. Oh, you did it. You got there
Thank you. How do you?
Thank you
And he named it vet meddler. So you're vetting the vet vet vet
All right
You're vetting the vet vet vets bet. You should have stopped it for
There's not a comedy rule of it's when I started cheating. Yeah, that's when I started cheating to change the letter
Yeah, I changed the letter. Um currently i'm sitting in the stretching area of my gym sounds disorienting
There's no earthly way
Welcome to taffy town
We've belabored this enough to say that even our dullest listeners
You get it on it now get it
I had a court this non-joke
I had a quarter in my pocket and I just looked over to see my quarter rolling across the floor
Landing against the stretching mat of the girl closest to me who is like five feet away
My quarter is leading up against her mat. She hasn't noticed
Brothers do I cut my losses and leave my quarter?
Or do I ask her for it back and try to explain that my quarter rolled out of my pocket to her mat?
Even though that sounds like an absolute lie. That's from runaway quarter in rung rung come on
Run come on. I mean, it's not a lie. The quarter's there
Who but
Did you just I want
Before we get into the specifics of this I would like to talk about quarters. Okay
Penny's gross dimes nickels throw them all in the garbage. I'll fuck with a die. Yeah
A dime is so little it takes us so little effort to pick it up a quarter
Oh, man
Where I'm at in my life right now
You still will come across
like, um
A vending machine you want to get yourself some tried it
Yeah, or maybe you want to park a car and you gotta put a quarter in there
I'll still need from time to time and to me
I so rarely use cash
That I never even really encounter quarters
So the value of the quarter has actually exceeded
The value of the quarter due to rarity. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, due to rarity. How did I get a quarter?
I there have been times in the past like literal month of my adult life where I've been like, oh two quarters
Yeah, I feel like a little excited in my pocket. What's that jingle jangle? I don't remember getting these bad boys
Guess daddy's getting some try to I'll tell you the mistake I made
About two years ago just went to the bank
Hand him a $10 bill to give me a roll of quarters
And then I just emptied it into the center console of my car
So I would always have a quarter if I needed it
But then I should and that's why that high speed collision was in fact very bad
Incredibly, there was basically a dirty bomb at that point, but
Then I started to take for granted that the quarter would always be there
Oh
And then one day I pull up to all Z and I need to get my all D card out by putting a quarter into the cart
No quarter and I'm the asshole running around with two dimes and nickel like hey, can I will anybody trade?
Will you trade? Who will buy trades? Who's doing coin trades?
Bye my nickel
I'll say a mistake. I made empty out my 401k for and I got it all in quarters
I went to David Buster's and I was like, I'm gonna have the best weekend ever
And then they were like we do digital cards. We don't do points anymore
Fuck I'll tell you who fucking loves quarters four year olds. I hand bb three quarters
And she's a case on me and gulp gulp gulp. No, so she's four guys like tic tac
She didn't eat quarters. That's my 18
Great wolf lodge arcade does the digital cards and I tell you guys
When you start hitting the slots really hard trying to get the you don't really feel that money leaving so much
When it's on a car you're trying to get that like squidward. Oh, yeah to complete your spongebob
The gary is the hard to get one. That's the gary's the chaser for sure
Just like the todo in the wizard of ozlin. That's the chase. Oh, man. This sucks because she's stretching. Oh, yeah
So you can't you can't let me say you can't go over you can't approach. So here's the question
What a sign help
I mean dammit
You could still maybe even use the i'm not tricking off out here sign to like walk over and grab the coin
and
That even the presence of that feels like harasser. Yeah, so I think in this circumstance the answer is no
Yeah, because the amount of effort one would need to put into making a sign to explain that your quarter rolled over there
That's too much effort. We haven't established the value of quarters though
This is what i'm struggling with is like what do you have?
Later in the day that you needed that quarter
It's got to be important because you got dressed for the gym
And you thought well i'm taking this quarter with me got to put this quarter in my waistband
The only thing that makes sense is that they found the quarter earlier in which case
Is he coming you got to let it go you got to let yeah now it's on its journey, right?
You were you were but a waypoint on this quarter's journey
Yeah
But if it's your quarter and your big plans and this is the one gym in the world that sells big bottles of power
Aid for a quarter and you were going to slam that sweet blue stuff after your workout
Yeah, you got to get that quarter back and here's the thing
I think that this is listen. This is not a perfect solution
But you could quickly walk over murmur a drop in my quarter and pick it up and get back
They will judge you the person will judge you but you're in and you're out fast enough that your hope is you're not memorable
It's not a remarkable insight, but you can't again
You can't go over there
Need you can't oh damn I was gonna say big magnet, but that doesn't work on quarters, does it?
No, no, no doesn't work on quarters. They're probably zinc or something you could train an animal to get it for you, but that's kind of a long
Thing you have to just hope that they don't pick up the corner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta wait it out big beautiful quarter
No one nearby
Lean in there on my mat calling to me. It's my quarter now
Here's you do need to be careful you need okay while they're still stretching on the mat
You need to forget that quarter exists and keep doing whatever you're doing because if there's even a whiff of you staring over there and checking
They're not going to assume you're looking at a quarter. It's right. It's I don't
I've never really been a gym guy
And I can't I don't know Griffin. You're so beefy and strong
Well, I do it at home with all the big flower bags of flower that I carry. Oh, yeah
You do more of the rocky like found stuff. You know, it's mostly just big bags of flower. I got it Costco. Um, okay
And I don't know what the sort of
status quo is
vis-a-vis talking to or looking at other people who are exercising because I'll say this
When I exercise in my office, I shut I draw the blinds
I shut the doors. Yeah
No one should have to see that and I don't want anyone to see that and I don't want to see other people doing it
And so I don't I don't this is unacceptable. I think if you go get the quarter, there's a good chance
You may be removed from the premises premises
Permissive
Is there a way that you could play it like oh wait, hold on. Sorry real quick. Oh, oh that was close
When you pick up the quarter and if it's still rolling if it's ooh, that's it
You fucked up already if if you do this instinctively if the quarter goes bye
You stretch too hard
Bye
And starts to roll away if you jump at it then
And like grab it while it's doing its little
Who will like spin anything and you like slap your hand down on it
And they the other person's so scared and you're like look and you show them it's a quarter and they'll be like, oh
Glad you got it
That's it. Also because this you you your body will naturally make a noise that's like whoa
When you get it that'll make it clear like yeah, I'm not trying to connect with you or impress you in any way
Yeah, this is 100 about the quarter because if it were not my body would not have made that noise in front of you
Another human being
What about
What about hey, you dropped your quarter. Oh, you know
And if they say that's not my quarter
You say
Congratulations
You you've but what if they say that is my quarter
Then you know something terrible about that you can fucking there is no there is no link
That person will not go to to cover up the fact that they just lied to you. Yeah, it's time to ruin their life
You know, yeah, it's time to ruin them to put a do an announcement on the gym announcers
Hey everyone, we have a real sinker
Everybody join me. Don't drop a quarter near laura
Announcement don't jump a quarter near laura. She'll just gobble it right up like back man
Also, could someone spot me for a power eight after my workout. I'm so fucking sure I need a quarter
shit
You also look over and say
Penny for your thoughts and they'll say that is a quarter and then you run away you run away laughing
Let's take a break and go to my zone
Tell you guys there's two things I love what wait, I want to do it. I want to do it. Okay
Welcome to my perfect site. Hey everybody. It's just a macro. Welcome to my talk show
My perfect site where we talked about my incredible
2020 vision and we talked to a guest who wants to get my abilities through artificial augmentation today
We have a pair of podcasting brothers travis ed griffin mckelroy
And they want to get a little bit of my perfect site. It's boys. What what what are you trying to get this incredible?
20-20 vision that you can't pronounce mech Leroy, please
Mech Leroy
We use we go to warby parker. They have affordable glasses including prescript with prescription lenses
Sunglasses progressive. They got they're very a very progressive company. They have blue light lenses and um
This show feels weird. I don't know that I love this show. It feels very judgmental. What's the aesthetic?
It's cool. It's ventures inspired with a contemporary twist
I mean every pair is custom fit with you know, really cool lenses and shit
I own a lot of warby parker already and when I when I wear glasses
It makes me feel kind of like a cyborg because I'm enhancing, you know, my vision through artificial means. Yeah
Now boys, I have a question the the glasses sound beautiful. I'm looking at you too and that you're you look
Great and the the deals sound great my big question for you
And I think a lot of our home audience is wondering this as well
Why not just look at things with your perfect eyes? Okay, so yeah, yeah, we took a quiz
You take a quiz but a fun one not like a school one and then they send you a home try-on kit with a button
How do you see it? Oh boy
with my glasses that I'm wearing and
You get it that you're bad shameful glasses that you're trying to replace
You try them on they sent five five different like frames and you try them on you see what looks good
And you pick them and later they they send you the glasses and it looks good on your face
And it's very important for people like Griffin and I who have very large heads
And things that fit normal human beings don't always fit us. So we use the home try-on kits
Just to make sure it doesn't look like a novelty thing
This is one thing I can actually sympathize with you if if you if we are us and you ever lose or break your sunglasses
And people are like just go get another pair over there. They've got a whole rack of them. No
No, we need a special store
Sometimes it looks like the anime character where they draw them with like really tiny circle glasses on their giant head
That's us
Regular glasses look like mr. Potato head glasses on us is what yes
This got real personal it did and also
Justin brings up a great point where that me and travis have to wear glasses because of our prescription
But justin wears gunners for fun. So I call them funners
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Welcome to my perfect stamps. This is the show where griffin and I
Have perfect stamps because we use stamps.com and our brother dirty stamps. Yeah, you used justin buys
used stamps which is
He puts them in a book. He doesn't even use them to send
Letters or anything he just gets him and then he looks them and he's still going to the post office wasting that time
Like a real goober. I don't and he doesn't because you know why you know what I heard griffin
What are you here? He doesn't have anything better to do except for the post office for sure for sure
And he doesn't like saving on postage
He likes wasting his money on old dirty stamps that people have already licked or postage that comes from the post office
And he doesn't want to spend time with his family
It doesn't mean I don't that's the worst part for me if you ask me that's the worst part for me
Is he says going to the post office gives me an excuse to not have to see the smiling faces of my children
And he said my only friends are at the post office and I was like that's fucked up
But yeah every day I go and buy more stamps just so I can see postman steve smiling face because I like it more than my
It's weird because postman steve doesn't like know who justin is
Which is just because I ask him giving him gifts. It gives him gifts every time he goes to see him
I've been keeping it tally and so far you guys are up to three 100 accurate statements that you have paid
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Hello, I'm Riley Smirrell. I'm Sydney McElroy and I'm Taylor Smirrell
And we host still buffering a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us
Every week we share media that made us who we are things like garchie comics
sailor moon
and lots of Taylor Swift
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And now I am totally comfortable with it
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Step two, huh?
I want a munch too
Welcome to munch squad evolved. This is a evolution of munch squad into podcasts and then podcasts
We're profiling latest and greatest at brand eating. I cannot I can no longer rely on the
The quick service restaurants and their press departments to give me what I crave
So, uh, I've decided to help help munch squad along a little bit with it with the evolve sort of uh, this is called
I call it people's choice. This is munch squad people's choice. And here's the deal
Okay, so welcome to munch squad evolved people's choice
This is where uh, I here's the thing
I am a member of several different groups on facebook devoted to restaurants
In my area really
And I wanted to see what the people are saying, you know what I mean?
Because you can listen to the press releases and what they say about the restaurants
But what are the people saying about the restaurants? That's what I'm okay. Okay
Okay, so this is i'm not even gonna say what groups they're from because honestly
I want people to join them and make things weird for everybody because this is just for kind of like us west virginians
To get there and dish on the dishes as we said in the groups
But mainly it's reviews. That's what people like to leave so you can kind of get a sense of uh, the good Taco Bell
You know, yeah, okay
I hadn't been to steak escape in canaw city for quite a while
And thought I would drive through and bring it home for dinner
So this what this person's provided is a justification for why they have decided to go to a restaurant and purchase food
It's so important because a lot of restaurant reviews will leave out the fact that they wanted to buy food
While I was waiting in line. I saw a guy in front of m&m mart sitting on the curb and shouting out to people who ignored him
Seemed to be under some kind of influence
Suddenly he was knocking on my window and told me
That the food at this steak escape was bad. I don't know
And he said the last time he ate there. He was sick for a week
So, okay, let me tell you what this person has just described is the situation where they go to steak escape
They see someone yelling at people who won't believe them. They're ignoring them and then they were
Say don't eat at the steak escape. It's bad
It's very relevant to this person's life. What's wonderful about this is it's a real world like example of why
If somebody busted into wherever you are right now and said i'm you from the future
Don't do what you're about to do. You'd be like, okay, whatever. They're under the influence of something
This person is doing the lord's work trying to keep you from getting blood sick
Steak escape. I don't know how to catch people before they go in so i'm just waiting outside to tell people
That it's like don't eat at this one. Okay, it made me really drunk
I appreciate that
Yeah, except this person this review writer says I thought he was just a little nutty
And continued to pay for my food and take it home
I continued to pay for my food and take it home
I had coven in january and smell and taste are still not quite back
At home I opened the sandwich wrapper and my grand escape looked fine
I took a bite and as I did I got a whiff of the sandwich
Whoa, that's the order that I took. I guess
Where people are like, please explain to me the mechanics of I bit the sandwich and then later on
Well, just in taste and smell are very well are not quite back, right?
I took a bite and as I did I got a whiff of the sandwich
I smelled it and then asked my granddaughter
Oh, yeah, that's hey mima that smells fucking rancid grandma you should not eat that I already did fuck
If only I could have smelled it before I ate it damn it
Oh
It tastes fine. I I smelled it and then asked my granddaughter to see if it smelled okay to her is
She knew nothing about the guy that is important. I was gonna ask
Although I don't know how cool your life is if that happened to me as soon as I walked in the door
I would be telling my wife this incredible story today. Yeah, except you're the villain in that story
Aren't you because someone was waiting outside until you don't eat well
That's the thing and then you still and if you went home and I'm not just saying this specifically
About Sydney, but if you went home and told your wife the story and whoever you're telling the story to was not there to see it
Their first thing is going to be and you still did it like because yeah, it's impossible
That's how I feel person writing this comment
I smelled it and then asked my granddaughter to see if it smelled okay to her. She knew nothing about the guy
She said it smells like poop. Well
That's exactly what I thought when I smelled it or in other words
Bad meat. Damn it. The guy wasn't crazy after all
It was bad. I think this is a great example of a sign would have helped
Yeah, because if that if that gentleman had had a well constructed sign
That he had clearly spent some time working on an official looking. Thank you. Maybe even framed
Right, then you see that and you're like, well, this isn't a spur of the moment thing
This is clearly a real issue that this person is concerned about
Now here's the problem. I here's the problem though
If this person had decided to solve this problem
With a sign. Yes
We then then it starts to raise the issue of if the sign's too good
At what point are you like? I don't actually need to be a part of this equation
And that bums you out because it's like that's what I was planning on doing today
But instead I've made, you know, it's like a john henry situation where like I've
Made myself you could just put the sign there
Just put the sign there, right? And you don't need to even be there and that's a well
Then the chance because that's the chance of someone being sent out of that weird side door that all fast food places have
To remove the sign. Yeah, you need a defender
Yeah as a steward there
I mean if the sign is too good you could just start to think that it is sort of corporate warfare
Like somebody from beef journey like
Trying to
Divert sorry beat beef journey. Yeah, that's the main competitor for steak escape. Okay. I'm looking at the steak escape menu
I've eaten at this restaurant before we used to stop off there on our way to church
And get a big sandwich on the way there to help us get lots of calories to praise the lord
And I don't remember them
completely fucking
Going over the deep end
but they have
they have
so many different
Fry disasters. They have an item called feisty amigo fries
Oh, I don't think that's right. It's called feisty amigo fries
And it's got grilled steak jalapenos cheddar cheese and mexican seasoning and pico de gallo and and pico de gallo and sour cream
And somewhere in there's fries
Somewhere in there's fries, I bet
You can't just take the contents of an entirely different dish and put it on fries and say is this anything?
Yeah. Mm. Oh boy. They also have something called a teriyaki crunch bowl. I bet that's good
Also, I bet that's really everybody trying to make that fry kind of thing a thing
That's what nachos are for they're firm. You can lift up the whole thing a fry is a soggy boy
You can't pick up the whole thing. Let's keep it protein for fries, right? I'm fine with that
Everything else on nachos. Yeah
uh, one of the comments of this pose, uh
I got food here like three weeks ago after waiting in line an hour
Ended up throwing it away. It was horrible
Billy did you say an hour hour at steak escape? Hey, billy come back
Are you telling me there was a moment where you've been waiting a half hour?
And you were like I could do this again for sake escape
For steak escape. Absolutely. I'm trying to decide now which one's worse if you were in the drive-thru or if you were inside in line
Both are both are bad. Damn. They got a sandwich called the feisty amigo, too
It's the same toppings as the french fries. That's awesome. You got to get them together, right? Those are the amigos
Yeah
Got to have the clutch that matches the dress all the ones around here
Close the one on fifth avenue turned into a restaurant called sabatinos, but now it's just oh, I'm sorry
Justin, I just heard from corporate. Uh, the verbiage we're using is they escaped
They escaped
Well, the one at the mall transmigrified into a charlie's cheese steaks, which is fine
It's an easy twist lateral lateral move worse fries better chicken
They catch all the same employees because they already
They already knew how to their way around remember as steak escape that there is a big thing there
Where they just had a big pile of potatoes
And then they had the crusher that would turn them into steak fries and you would be like
Exciting chef's table and then you're like, let me get some
Spicy zany amigo fries, please and they're like, okay, and you're like, let's see how this
Sausage gets made and then you watch them shove the potato in there and then they're like
Trying to crush it and you're like fuck
I made them do this this hard potato work. I hate my name is daniel
I work at sake escape and I hate when people order the fries
The worst part of my job when people order the fries
They bring your that's the second word when they order anything else anything else when they bring you the feisty amigo fries
Just covered in flop sweat and you're like, I'm so fucking if I'd have known no
It's okay. They make us crush the potatoes. I don't know why the potatoes aren't pre-crashed
That's how they do it everywhere else. It seems like a better way of doing it
They come slice everywhere else. They come slice your first
They make us crush potatoes are so firm. Fuck. I also remember steak escape had a gigantic
Container of seasoned salt out there for your fries
Because if to say we don't know what we're doing here. You have some idea
We don't know go for it. What a wild restaurant and what a wild podcast it has been sure
Here on my brother my brother me. We hope you've enjoyed yourself. We sure enjoyed
Uh spending a little time with you. Hope your summer's going. Oh, yeah
Yeah, buddy. I hope you're having a great time out there slip it in sliding. I assume
You know, how you why are you? Oh my god. Why are you my what my watch? Just keep trying to talk to him
Justin, I'll be getting steak escape today
Justin I went ahead and ordered steak escape one door dish
Order 500 sandwiches from steak. Watch watch
Start a tab at steak escape
If you're looking for a way to pass the summertime afternoon in a very pleasurable fashion might I suggest
The uh adventure zone crystal kingdom a graphic novel which we wrote and kerry peach illustrated
And it is fucking good coming out july 13th
I'm not just saying that either. It's a good and not just that not only is it coming out on july 13th
Which is tomorrow if you're listening to this on monday. We are also doing a live and virtual event
We've got special guests and trust me when I say they're very special
You're going to really enjoy it. It's an absolute blast
And you can find out all the information at bit.ly slash tas g in live
2021
You know all the info there and we have event exclusive sign book plates
Which are available from our partner bookstores more info can also be found at that bit link
And you can submit your pre-order receipt to get the pre-order gift from first second our publisher
To take kravitz lenticular laptop sticker. I will say this if you don't know much about the book publishing world
Uh, uh, here's what I will say to you to keep in mind
If you like this series and you want us to be able to continue to make them
Uh, the thing that most publishers look at and and kind of the whole publishing world is built this way
Is the first week of uh, uh book sales
So if you could buy it like the first week that would just or pre-order it that works too
That would just be the coolest thing you could do. Yeah, you're so cool
We got new merch over at macroinmerch.com including a new pen of the month for the gushy wolves, which is a
Fantastic just a fantastic joke from the ether c prologue series
And sales for that benefit the innocence project which works to exonerate the wrongly convicted through dna testing and reforms
The criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. There's other stuff on there, too
There's an it's trash sticker from the bim bam tv show. There's a beautiful green stoneware mug with the taz logo on it
There's a finally some besties merch on there
Uh, a t-shirt if you're uh, one of our many listeners of the besties. So check check all that out
And speaking of adventure zone the first uh episode of the the new season ether c is out now
We've been doing the prologue, but now this is the first episode of the regular season. Uh, that's up now
Um, I do some streaming on twitch twitch.tv slash the travis macro if you want to check that out
We've got a youtube channel macroi family a lot of fun stuff on there
Uh, and this is just a personal plug for me to you. Check out the besties is one of my favorite podcasts
I listen every week. I learn a lot about video games. Uh, it's my brothers as well as rest restrict and chris plant
Uh, it is one of my favorite podcasts. Go check it out. Thanks trap and thanks to montane for the use for our theme song
My life is better with you
Uh, if you if you follow montane on twitter, you've probably gotten some tips and hints
about some movement
Let's just say some some movement
In uh, the music publishing world vis-a-vis this song and you hearing it and seeing a music video for it
So that's all great. Thank you montane and thanks max fun for having us on the network
Go to maximumfund.org check out all the great shit that they have there. I'm sorry. I call this shit. It's not shit
It's good podcasts. Let's hear Griffin. Let's hear that final yahoo sent in by davin
and
davin sent it in and it was uh, sent it in today
Oh sent in today this morning. Uh, it's a yahoo answers from and this one was asked by
batman
asks
Batman asks
Does anyone know where to
Does anyone do any repairs? Does anyone know where to get repairs done on my
Dad
Does anyone know where to get that does anyone know a good dad repair shop in houston, texas
I
I'm griffin mackerel. This is me and my brother my brother me kiss your dad square on the lips
It's better it's better with two
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