My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 586: How was Hell this Time?

Episode Date: November 15, 2021

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The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed Travis insists. He's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening What's up, you cool, baby Precious friendship 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 with you

It's better it's better with you It's better it's better with you Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother and me an advice show for the Modren era I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy. I'm your middle-est brother big dog Travis. Wolf Wolf big dog McElroy fuck See you lost it last this is Griffin McElroy lost it last week Travis I don't know that you're gonna be able to get back on that log. I did it bad. I did a bad job But I'm about to do a good job Because you know like it doesn't know. Hey, listen. Here's here's what I need you guys to do this one time

Just like get on board and get on board the game because it's a good game that I've invented Okay, just don't try just start now. Okay, so here's how it works. I started following this Twitter account That is SNL hosts intro Okay, and it's SNL like the you know the performer guest Intro-ing the musical guest for the week. So I'm gonna tell you guys the combination of the performer Intro-ing the musical guest and I want you guys to take a guess at how good they are at selling that they're excited to be intro-ing That musical guest Are you going to play the audio?

Justin I'm going to send you the links now for the various videos. Okay up first now I want you to think what do I know about these two people, right? And I think that this is gonna be an easy one to ease us in right? Courtney Cox Introducing Dave Matthews band. This is important Courtney Cox or Courtney Cox Arquette. This is Courtney Cox Okay, okay the original. Okay. I think she's gonna be like this. Okay. That's it. I think we're guessing the tone, right? Yes, that's like excited excited for you at your bachelorette party. All I know is that she's going to Absolutely scream the name Dave Matthews band. Okay. See I don't think that here's what I'm predicting I'm predicting like I'm excited. I got this for you as a bachelorette party present. Yeah, I know this is your favorite band

I'm not that excited to see them, but like here they are. I got them. I booked them, right? Okay Let's let's hear it ladies and gentlemen Dave Matthews band Not even a little bit not that level of excitement not any level of excitement It's like she's introducing the speaker for like an off off off off off Broadway Ted talk It's nothing a different Dave Matthews band. Yeah, it was originally gonna do it She met Dave Matthews band backstage and did not care for They jumped a big jar of relish This is shortly after they pooped on a boat and so she's like I don't want to be associated with him necessarily

Okay, up next Ben Affleck Yeah introducing Nelly. Okay. He had been Affleck knows How important it is that he be fully fully enthused for announcing Nelly He understands the optics. He's going to be very excited like he just walked into the club and Saw Nelly performing. I think he's going to have the energy of somebody introducing like The poet laureate like a seriousness like it's time for you all to experience Nelly Let's take a listen ladies and gentlemen Nelly featuring Jaheem. Oh, wow

Okay Ladies and gentlemen Nelly featuring Jaheem. I went Completely I went to the Spanish bit Affleck with it. I think Griffin kind of nailed it actually like yeah brace yourselves It's Nelly featuring Jaheem. It's time for the honored guest Oh Ben Justin you want to take a swing at like a good way to introduce Nelly. Yeah. Yeah. Is it Jaheem Nelly Yes featuring Jaheem, obviously Ladies and gentlemen give it up for Nelly featuring Jaheem. Whoa, that was good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good

I mean you you legally have to say ladies a gentleman even though folks don't necessarily rock like that anymore Yeah, but that's what Lorne needs that. Yeah, I understand the difference, but this is it's SNL It's SNL baby. It's the old time The old the old time good time show the old way this one I'm excited to introduce to you because of the combination of these three people Paul Giamatti Introducing ludicrous featuring some 41 Stoked out of his fucking mind Stoked out of his gourd if they had an orgy at the end of that our podcast would be the baby

He's gonna be so Excited that the energy might come off as aggressive like he's he's so angry and happy to be announcing these this is my this is my Okay, my prediction for this one and I don't know why I feel this way But I feel like Giamatti is bringing like corporate gig energy like he had like You know, I used to be big into wine, but ever since I tried bill or light seltzer is platinum Right, you know that kind of deal. Let's take a listen Ladies and gentlemen ludicrous featuring some 41 Yeah, man

Ladies and gentlemen ludicrous featuring some 41. That's how you do it. Yeah, that's the best tone. Yeah, that's good I I suspected a bit of frenzy would slip into his voice, but that was just like let's get this place fucking right like he And he improved their performance by getting the crowd psyched like maybe they weren't psyched to do it But then it was sort of like You know what we should give him the best show Yeah, we should try our absolute hardest And then he went then he goes and stands in front of the stage like a foot away from them And just like knots his head like vigorously like he's so and he's conducting a little bit

And they're like why is he conducting ludicrous featuring some 41. He's like this is this isn't my usual thing But these guys can really sh these guys can really wail like Drew's on it this like like this feels like before he went out, right? He was like, I don't know either of these people are and they had him like turn on some headphones and listen like this Is good actually I can get down to this. I think I get it. Okay I'm ready up next Bernie Mack introducing good Charlotte Huh, I think if this is close to the end of show this is actually important information. Is this the first?

Music act or the second music act. I don't believe any of these are second music I believe because none of them contain like once again or welcome back or any kind of yeah Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point because the second one is always always gonna be everyone Good Charlotte like that level and they've left it all out on the court by that point. Yeah. Um, I'm been like bemusement Like he's he he believes that there he says there are people who like this music It's not my favorite music, but yeah, I recognize the actually completely agree with that energy He's not like pumped about it because he knows that you're gonna read that as phony. Yeah, but he's like he's happy for

He's pleased for you. Yeah, let's take a listen Yeah, no, he's he was eating a big meatball sub backstage Hey, you have to go introduce good Charlotte and he's like, okay Okay, and he walked out there and said it's good Charlotte and then walk back and within 10 seconds He had that sandwich right back in his mouth now. He's next to you. I would actually rather not guess beforehand Let's just listen and discuss them afterwards. No, this is Phil Hartman introducing Bush Wow, okay Ladies and gentlemen

Whoa Oh, man, it's like it's like he thinks that the band is going to spray a neuro toxin into the stew into the studio Justin can also see the video though. Justin. Can you describe the he's looking directly at you? Like he's a James Bond villain and you're James Bond and he's like he's just found out that your secret weakness is Bush Yeah, and he's like, oh you did you know well Yeah, it's it's a it's like levels of intensity that I can't quite communicate to you But do you have the year that Phil Hartman introduced Bush? Oh, no, I don't know the dates. That was 1996 Okay, is that good?

It's a good or bad or how do you feel about that? Things were not great for Phil Hartman in 1996 Stuff he was going through a time Up next Nathan Lane Introducing Metallica and just play yo yo really? Yeah, this happened Thank you for coming to the show Nathan Thank you, Nathan. How it is done fucking consummate performer everyone take notes. I know it's from Nathan Lyon I don't know if Nathan Lane has ever listened to a Metallica song in his life, but that is like a Dad like introing his kid like I yeah

Driving you and he just picked up Brady and he opens the sliding door in the Odyssey and he's like Brady Are you ready to go to Detroit to see Metallica? Right as long as we're sort of diving into the psyche of the get the hosts of this show 1997 was when this episode came out around the same time that Nate Lane was in a little film called mouse hunt Yeah, he was rolling in the deep piles of mouse hunt money I too and yeah, he could be he could be introduced at anybody who the like ladies a gentleman a Learners more is that like he would still put that stink on it ladies and gentlemen Metallica

If we next time we play in New York could we pull strings to get Nathan Lane to introduce us in that exact Oh my god exact way that would be incredible Okay, I think I have a connection there, but I hope so what up? I just gotta say what a pro what a pro Okay, one last one. Oh, no, this is the greatest one. I've ever it's not Adrian Brody. Is it? No Not allowed to play Adrian Brody, but like if you've never seen that one Okay, here it is Daniel Craig introducing the weekend and Now don't play it yet. How do you think this one goes?

Hmm, I messed up and loaded I could see the video portion of this. Okay. Well, they'll let Griffin guess first. Yeah, I think he is Overjoyed okay, okay, Justin go ahead and play it ladies and gentlemen the weekend Now once again Justin can see the video the weekend. It's like he can't believe someone is named the weekend Yes, my theory and Griffin now. I'm gonna send it to you because you gotta see it My theory is that just before he went out somebody told him the name and he believed that he was introducing the actual Like concept Yes, but he was like the weekend. I

Don't know. There's a shrug that goes with it like I can he shakes his head like the weekend Question mark in it. It would have been a lot more powerful This is worth it's worth noting that this this a lot of the the other ones have been from an account That's full of these sorts of things Like like hosts introducing this is an account that is called Craig weekend that has 517,000 followers and They just tweet this every weekend. Yeah, because the intro is is the weekend. That's fun. It is fun

That's a good game trap. Thanks. I enjoyed that that trip down memory lane. I always love that just position of performer and host Do you think there is any thought? To how that'll go well not at all after Adrian Brody, there probably is yeah Probably is a little bit script, you know, you read what's interesting to me is the tough part of constructing that game Was trying to find any video where the host seemed enthusiastic And it was Nathan Lane. That's it. Everybody else seems to

Range between like I don't know and like I know it's weird that I'm saying it too. Yes There was a pretty good bit one time where Harvey Cattell was the host and Madonna was the musical act And he said like I was so excited When I got here and I and I just had this realization that wow I have a much more enthusiastic gay following than I realized Cuz Madonna was there. It's good Okay, so this is an advice show obviously, okay that like Nuff said, right? So what we do on this show is you send us your questions. I'm gonna set it up. Oh, here's the deal

Okay, we you send us your questions in BMB a.m. At maximumfund.org and we will answer your Questions if you need advice, we will help you where there will be other skits Skits and bits. I would say there'll be skits. Actually. I don't have any there's no bits scheduled for this Oh, I just did kind of a bit Yeah, I guess get oh did it. Okay. That's fair. Yeah. Yeah, but let's get into it Let's help people. I want to try to help more people than we have been helping because I feel like that's our real legacy Well spending spending 11 minutes talking about SNL interest is a bad way to start. Yeah, fair fair fair fair fair. Hey Hey, it's been 17 minutes

I told my boss that I have jury duty on Monday, which I normally have off. I gave the correct date But the wrong day it turns out my jury duty is on Tuesday and I'll subsequently need that day off a Game that I'm openly a fan of is releasing on Tuesday I don't want her to suspect that I'm trying to fake jury duty and actually taking off for video games How do I break it to her that I got the day wrong without seeming suspicious? That's from misremembered in Missouri I think that this might be like a quantum mechanics problem in which by which I mean The very don't understand that I don't understand it

No, the very fact that you have I don't think your boss would have thought this But now that you're worried about it. You have caused through observation this thing to change Right now because now Whatever energy you're going to bring to like actually I got the I got the day wrong is Tuesday We'll have an undercurrent of I hope they don't think this is about me playing a video game And they'll be able to smell it on you. Okay a couple of good options. What's the game first off? I gotta figure. I mean, yeah, I was looking through for recent game releases. Is it cod?

I don't know. It might be cod. They might need this is a new question I'll be a franchise because why would you be I was about to say why would you be a fan of a new game? It hasn't released yet, but people do that all the time. It seems enough to yell at people on the internet about it So Let's see. Let's assume it's Call of Duty because I don't like that. I can't be bothered and we all love it Like we all know a lot of a zero problems with love Like not fun. It's really cool. So, okay. Here's my options one Loudly like start get a video game magazine from the newsstand. I'll just be like

Can't believe this this new Call of Duty is stinks. They said no, you shouldn't even get it Yes, that's one way to try to decrease but like I wouldn't do that. Here's how I do Why did you even say why did you even say it? Hey, cuz this next one's a little more treacherous But then but then why even introduce such a shitty idea You could here's it because this next one's treacherous Oh, and I need to say that you should definitely do the first one before I mentioned it You should definitely do the second one. Okay Hire someone to come in and intimidate you. Whoa. Wait. What at your place of business awesome

Hire someone to come in and intimidate you be like, you know Paul I you know, I heard that you I you know Paul Calcutta is a good guy And I think you would never run a red light. Don't you think mr. Guy who loves having all his teeth? Oh, then cracks his knuckles like That's what Paul Calcutta is means to me. We what does Paul Calcutta mean to you? Does he make when you think when you hear the name Paul Calcutta, what do you think? Do you think innocence me too? Yeah, me well that The juror wouldn't know the name. I think right. I've never had jury duty

So he does now you're gonna have to fake it a lot of a lot of it's gonna be staged Yeah So they're not gonna have any way of checking up on Paul Calcutta and his case and if the name is Paul Calcutta Okay, wait one step further Justin and then one step further than that then the intimidating We're already in felony territory. Yeah person says so if I was you I just stay home and play your little video game You start and then wait, no, hear me out. Hear me out and then question asker goes no as much as I love that video game I love justice more. I will not be intimidated Paul Calcutta is going down Yeah, that's awesome

And then your boss is like dad yeah Call Paul Calcutta's dad on the phone and let me tell him to tell it say his goodbyes. Yeah. No, you know what? I'll call him. Hey Colin give me Paul Calcutta's dad's phone number I just wanted to check to make sure that I'd prepaid for that video game so I can pick it up before jury duty Okay. Yeah, I'll talk to you later. Okay. Thank you. Bye. Thanks. Yeah. I told his dad. What's up? Fuck you mr. Calcutta now here Now here I hear is another thing I'll say there is a way that you know

Per canola's dose. Oh like you if you go to jury duty Tuesday morning and you're like This man's guilty Don't even let him open his mouth. Everybody we can all see it, right? We know this man's guilty throw the proverbial bucket him five years. Yeah, sounds good. Okay. That's a great day everybody Good during I gotta go. I gotta get home the downloads almost completed and I'm gonna crank crank it out. Oh, no, I got steam link. It's fine guys. I got steam like Trial started start over trial start over. I got steam link. Sorry. Well, I think this anyone else think this guy's got big stabbing energy. I do

Judge he's covered in blood. What are you talking about? Oh, you can't do it. Do a guilty do a guilty now judge You just say it we can all go home play call of duty. Oh fuck. Yeah. Is that out today? Yes out today That's out today. I hold myself in contempt We haven't started what we haven't started yet. What you can't handle the truth. I'm I'm leaving you can't leave Someone fingerprint the judge I don't want to swish his eyes. He's got big If I don't touch the evidence, how do I know it's not a hologram? Really that judge

Hey Could it have been the riddler I said riddling we all thought it do it. Yeah Hey, how do you know I'm not a judge, huh? Guilty prove I'm not we didn't vote on who the judge would be Can I be the bail of this time? I'm not sure what he does what I always like bull on my court Several times during your your interview to see if you're a suitable juror Just stand up and produce a knife from your pocket and stab it into the table like in 12 angry men Yeah, when they're like, yeah, that's nothing right now

You're like, oh, sorry and then you do it like five minutes later like shit I you guys got to tell me when it's time for me to stab my little knife into the table Oh, and keep trying to introduce evidence I want that's a subway coupon with like six punches out of it exactly I Think we all know what this means. I only need four more punches till I get a free foot long Interesting, isn't it? What a coincidence How about another question? Yeah, sure I Don't have a dog, but I love dogs. I see them out and about I waved them only get an uncomfortable wave from their owner

How can I wave to just a dog without getting weird looks from humans? That's from incidental dog Walker stalker in Denver. You cannot You can't do this thing. Yeah, you got a wink No, not that way. It was too big right, but you can do like a hey We're in this together wink, you know kind of little thing So what I used to do when I worked at Petsmart and I'd see a dog and like I didn't want to talk to the owner But I wanted the dog to know that I was glad they were there. Yeah, yeah Pound it

They could go to the pout No, come on. All right griffin. They're not even naughty dogs. That's right. Um, the thing about the wave Or the wink is the wink is nothing but the problem with the wave is that's a human greeting Oh So if you want to if if you want to smell well, you can't smell the butt because the unless you're like really sneaky like and I'm talking Sam Fisher very ninja sneaky. Okay Um Can you smell the dog's butt for far away and have the dog know it?

You know what I mean? Just a sign of just like like a wave is kind of like a long distance high five when you think about it So like you kind of sniff like it was a butt and they're like, yeah, I got it But the problem with that is that it's very gross. Um, this is true This is true. Maybe when you wave and the human weighs back say like that wasn't for you Yeah, that was for him. It's a kind of a power move is to have a dog treat And then you walk up and you're like, oh, hey, I just happen to have this dog treat my pocket Can I give it to your dog? At that point the dog is like, hey, if you say no to this, I'll eat you in your sleep

Yeah, and so then you I'm out. I will I am now this person's dog. It is that quick. It is that easy, jeremy Do you see this could happen like that jeremy and I'm gone all these years Spent together over down the toilet. I forget what begging strips tastes like jeremy So just think about that Do you remember how you gave me some sort of pill this morning? They would never do that jeremy. They are made of begging strips Um, all right asked and answered I feel like Just throw a wink Do I do another question? I do have a I do have a phone line that connects me directly to the clouds where the wizard lives

Um, yeah, let's do let's do that before the money zone. Okay. Why not? A lot of people sent this one in it's uh, it's on wiki how And it's just I guess nobody wrote it It doesn't have anything. Did I write it? Um, you may have written it I mean if no one's gonna claim it I'll claim it. This is how to get rid of a nickname and it's awesome Oh, yeah, people get rid of a nickname. Yeah, I hate my nickname and I want a new one. Well, good news This article is gonna tell you exactly that Um, so we're gonna start with part one challenging the nickname And there's a picture here of a person walking and they're wearing cargo shorts and a a hip sort of rugby shirt

And um, they look a lot like zack morris Which is only notable because in the picture there's a gentleman in the foreground who's yelling zack attack Oh And the the tip here is don't answer to a nickname you don't like if someone started calling you by a mean nickname or something You don't like the first step is to not respond Okay, that's cool. If you're zack morris or someone yells zack attack and you don't even acknowledge them They're gonna probably follow you for a while going zack attack Why wouldn't you like the nickname zack attack that kind of rules? Let's not listen. Okay, you're right. You're right. Here's the problem though what

You're entering into a battle of wills right at that point because if the other person is deeply committed to that becoming your nickname It's not gonna be a one-time thing, right? They're gonna try to like Catch you off-guard because if you mean is zack and they're like zack and you start to turn and then they go attack And you're like, ah, damn it. I looked This is gonna freak this person's being though if they're like zack attack zack attack zack attack they're gonna go to someone and be like either i'm a ghost Or zack attack is a ghost. I'm afraid i'm afraid zack attack is a ghost Okay, ask friends to stop using a nickname. That's an easy one good friends will understand and don't want to hurt your feelings

You could say guys. I know you think it's funny to call me zack attack, but I really don't like that nickname Just call me zackery. Okay Okay, um Yeah, that's a good one deal with a bully but that is calling you a nickname if they're calling you if it's a bully It'll be harder to confront them. Just ignore them and let them see it hasn't got to you, right? It feels like it has though doesn't it takes their power away. No, not if you do pretend good enough If bullies call you a name show them you're not intimidated or scared by looking in the eyes laughing and just walking away without looking back Or you could say something like here we go again. This is boring or why are you talking to me?

I like that last one a lot actually But then the next one is I don't know why you keep calling me that but it's boring and I don't care Me thinks the zack attack do protest if too much. Yeah that one might not have the power you're hoping for there Of yeah, this is boring What are you this isn't for you? Wait, hold on zack attack. Did you think I was calling you zack attack for your entertainment? Because it's for My entertainment was that not clear how this transaction was playing out. Oh, let me explain zack attack. I'm a bully I hate you. Yeah, we are not you to define myself right because I am a very uh small person in my heart

And so I need to feel big by making you feel bad and now that you've engaged with me and said that it makes you feel bored That's actually a negative thing. So I'm I'm fine with that actually Yeah, any any sort of thing that I can do to sort of steal your shine. Yeah, that would be amazing. I'm a hater What don't you get bud my hater and now I'm taking hater aid. I love it. I live for it. I'm gonna kick you in the butt Yeah, that's right. And I don't care if you like that either zack. Oh, sorry. Wait. Yeah, that felt good. Wait zack Zach kicking me in the butt so boring. Why don't you leave? Why are you kicking me in the butt? Why don't you go away from me stinker? Introduce yourself at the start. Just introduce yourself casually by saying hey everyone. I'm jill

Um, I don't know that I've introduced myself in a while not because I'm big shit, but also that I don't Um meet people meet people. Well, that's why yeah when I do I rip I I like require A hype person not even a hype person somebody who can literally just a hype person to the extent that Bernie mac is a hype person For good charlotte. Oh, I was a good hype person for yeah, so just something to say Uh, everybody in this room griffin And then the expectation center. Yeah, yes, exactly

Well, so that's interesting because I was going to suggest a herald which I think I've suggested quite often on this show A few times, but it would be nice to just have somebody like as like an like a human auto correct That one someone's like hey bobby and they just leave and go it's bob It's good. It's bob Maybe you could get a cameo from paul giamatti just saying hey everyone Here's griffin and then you can like You know hack into the speaker system of any party you're at and just play that as you walk in. That's good Oh get a cameo from Nathan lane. That's like he's only going by

Griffin and then like you could play that anytime someone's like what's up griffy and you're like hold on Hold on. Wait a second. I have a very important cameo from Nathan Lane after show you And also last thing remember that nicknames don't last forever And then there's a picture of a woman saying little zacky to a little boy and then as a grown-up she's like Zachary it's all she says is Zachary and then there's a period and she looks pretty serious So like but Zachary is smiling so it looks like his his uh older mother is saying Zachary I need to talk to you. There's something along those lines Zachary. I'm happy to present bush Can we just Zachary here is bush can we just say that saying

nicknames don't last forever is uh a complete lie because there are many like Like people throughout history. It's like stonewall jackson. I've got no idea what that dude's first name is. I know I know yeah You could there's so many I bet there's there's war heroes out there that you walk around And if they were like in world war one or whatever and it's like tell me the story grandpa About your friend. Oh, you mean big boner joe like because that's what they called him out there It was rough out in the trenches It could be worse. I guess you mean little little boner

Bobby how are none of these suggestions of this like try to come up with a different better nickname Well, I think they just who if your name is Zachary That's all I would want to be called Fuck yeah, Zachary. Yeah, especially the last name is Levi and you could be Zachary Levi Star Sam Why wouldn't you be Zachary Levi star of shazam? If your name was Zachary snackery? Like here comes here comes Zach attack and I would be like fucking. Do you guys know my last name? Just call me Zach snack if nothing else like

But don't do that. Please call me by my full Christian name. Holy shit. If your name is Zachary out there by the way, I just gave you a pretty good nickname of snackery That one works at pretty much every age. So And they could call you Zachary. So like is Zach attack that bad? Yeah, it's pretty bro. It's pretty rough Any more griff of Zachary nicknames. Yeah, um, let me think Shack shackery. Well, that's pretty good John Zachary, what if you like got went with a cameo idea, right?

But it was like a live action cameo and you paid like, uh, let's say like John Stamos, right to like walk by you And and say like, oh, hey man, you've got a really cool vibe. What's your name? And you say Zachary and John Stamos goes Zachary What an amazing name. Why would anyone call you anything other than Zachary? It's fake conversations going on so long So long No, listen, get I could get us out. We're going to the money zone. Come on. I'm gonna stay here with John Stamos Brooklyn and oh no, I was gonna do it

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Look, it's a rough world out there, especially lately. I get it So let's take care of our minds as best we can. I'm john moe host of depression mode with john moe every week I talk with comedians actors writers musicians doctors therapists and everyday folks about the obstacles that our world and our brains Throw in front of us depression anxiety traumatic stress all those mental health challenges that are way more common And more treatable than you might think the first time I went to therapy I was so ashamed and I was like can't believe I gotta go in there like I thought I could be a man And comfy bokeh was never in therapy and then my dad said yeah, but he smoked a carton of cigarettes a day Give your mind a break. Give yourself a break and join me for depression mode with john moe

I heard the breath justin I heard I heard the munch squat breath. I heard the breath Justin and it was like you took the breath I want to munch I want to munch Wait, but it's not it's not our cover anymore do Welcome Munch Squad is podcast within podcast profiling the latest and greatest. And we've here's the first thing I say to you people.

Yes. Everyone tweeted me about Arby's making vodka. Listen, folks, this is Munch Squad. It's not the thirsty zone. Okay. No, we're thirsty for it. Four saw bones. Yes.

It's the thirsty zone. Okay. Arby's drops limited edition curly fry and crinkle five vodka. Is vodka based on their fries. Okay. This is Munch Squad. We have standards. We do.

Okay. Yeah. I'm going to try to get some of it. Okay. I'm trying. I'm trying to get some of it. I'm going to try to get some of it. Okay.

All right. I'm going to need you to do, by the way, like a tasting video of that. Um, with Sydney, because you'll lie and say it's good to seem cool. And Sydney will be. Yeah. But here's the thing, right? Like this is what I want to try to get across. I'm Munch Squad.

I try to make a difference. And there's, if there's an exception, I'll mention it, but I don't like these companies just doing things to get the headlines for Munch Squad. I see, I see. They're just wanting the attention from Munch Squad. Arby's doesn't think one good thing for Arby's would be vodka. You know what I mean? Like they don't think they're doing the right things.

So when you say thirsty zone, it's not just about drinks, right? They're acting thirsty, right? They're acting thirsty. Yeah. No, no, no, no, I should have been more clear about that for the beginning. I see that now. What do you I see it too? Oh, what?

I saw it from a few miles away with my incredible vision. Wait, does Count Donut have supervision? Well, in my bad form, I have. Okay, wait a minute. If you know, wait, if you killed Justin to do this bit, it was completely silent and outrageously fast. I think it's more of a. Yes, I used incredibly fast acting poise.

I use Kierari, incredible fast acting poise. Okay. The modern beast thing. The modern beast thing. The modern beast thing. Here's the problem. I'm getting confused by the Count Donut lore because I can't tell if he dies in you. Like a Jekyll and Hyde thing or if you're.

He dies. His body dies temporarily by which I mean his soul is sent to hell. Uh-huh. Whoa. Wait, what? All his body. Yeah. Sorry.

Spoiler and then control his body to bring you the latest donut news. Okay. And then I evacuate him back into the night or in this case, the 1115. But I really like listening Count Donut. I enjoy your presence, but I did not realize it came with the cause of my older brother being temporarily in hell. Yeah. Hell sucks, dude.

It's when he comes back. He appreciates things so much. Oh, okay. That's why you guys like a fight club. Yeah. You know, did one thing completely unironic. Yeah. Do you know this one scene where they pull the gun on the man and then they

say he will love breakfast tomorrow. And it's supposed to be a good thing that like you learn like nice, dude. Yes. In the educational documentary fight. Anyway, I'm here to talk about donuts, not Chuck. What? Krispy Kreme has announced it. Halloween is over.

And on Justin's birthday, November, a very special day to Justin. Krispy Kreme announced their Thanksgiving donut collection. What? Krispy Kreme is encouraging Americans to share gobbles of gratitude. Oh, yeah. Hi, with no donuts this Thanksgiving season as. Boy, this is kind of freshly. Sorry.

One second. I need to get my composure. It has 80% of respondents in the national survey say celebrating Thanksgiving is more important than in previous year. Oh boy. What? Why? And nearly half are planning to attend more Thanksgiving celebrations than they

did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes. Good. Horace is Krispy Kreme. People are doing a worse job than they did before. They're getting even more nasty than they did before COVID was a thing. Just pack them in like sardines and cranberry sauce. They're nuts off.

Fantastic. I love this. I love suffering. You do? Thanksgiving is more important than previous years. Here's a quote from Dave Skinner, the chief marketing officer for Krispy Kreme. Listen, we missed out on so much last year, including Thanksgiving celebrations. This Thanksgiving, people have a desire.

And need to be together more often and more so than any other Thanksgiving. Nasty. And nastier and rubbing more. More rubbing. A lot more dry humping this year. Sneeze right on, Minami. So we're creating a way to share your gratitude with others in the most delicious way possible. Because nothing says thank you for having me to Thanksgiving like a box of donuts you

bought the day before Thanksgiving. Cause there's no way they're open. According to a new survey, even during this cooking and baking filled holiday, 56% of consumers plan to spend less traditional time in the kitchen in order to spend over new time with miss family and friends. That is a wild sentiment. Wilds. But more than that, I wish Justin was here to talk about this because that's a truly

wild statistic. I don't know how I'm supposed to gain literally. I feel like I understand everything less than I did before I read that statistic. No insight has been important to me. I love that the insight Krispy Kreme took away though. It's like, okay, spend less time in the kitchen. So you can spend more time with your family. So they want to buy donuts from Krispy Kreme to include in Thanksgiving.

The idea that lunchtime comes around and everybody sits at the table and they're like, all right guys, time to eat. And then everybody just kind of looks at one another like who cooked who cooked food for us? Like, oh no, no, none of us spend any time in the kitchen to enjoy your presence. Yeah. So Krispy Kreme, according to this new survey, I love the brand feels it needs science to justify the fact they made the fucking cranberry donuts.

I've never heard science wise for us to do this. Our top top scientists. We didn't want to, but we follow the science. We took this survey so we could prove to you that we don't need to make things giving donuts and you all were like, nah, give me those fucking nasty donuts. This is the problem. Krispy Kreme started giving out donuts to vaccinated people. But once you start following science, you cannot stop.

Right. No one warns you that you're giving away everything at the altar of science. So here's the donuts. Right. Bacon pie. Sure. What does they say about this one? Bacon pie lovers will rejoice over this iconic original glazed donut dipped in

delicious butter tart filling then sprinkled with candy pecans and pie crust crumbles. I'm glad. All right. So glad. So the audience for that one is people who like pumpkin pie. But it's nice for them to finally have something to be happy over because there hasn't been a lot of new innovation for pecan pie lovers over the last like forever. Like they got the pumpkin pie and they're like, this is great.

I can't wait to see what comes next. And then no one really ever did anything with it. And finally something for them. You know what I mean? Right. Krispy Kreme guests can also express gratitude to loved ones, friends and others by packaging their Thanksgiving collection donuts in Krispy Kreme's custom gratitude box while supplies last.

Which features a space to share gobbles of gratitude with someone special via a note on top. So I can't you can't see this of course. But what it is is a box from Krispy Kreme that has a white part at the top that says grateful for you because and in a blank space. So Krispy Kreme says congratulations. We've done this for you. We've made it easier than ever to share your gratitude son.

The Sharpie and go to that. I just wouldn't know. I know I've never said it before. I just have never had the words. But now that I have this box, I can finally tell you. Well, just read it. Okay, dad. It says I'm grateful for you because I love you.

Yeah, that's right. But I didn't have the donuts on my way over here out of nervousness. So I am sorry about that. So I was so nervous to admit. So anyway, that's the donut news. Goodbye. Goodbye, Count Donut. Sleep tight.

Wait, what? Hold on. Now we have to cut out the 12 minutes of screaming that Justin does whenever he gets brought back from hell. Yeah. Okay, Juicer, you done? Hey, sorry guys. Yeah, no, I know.

You lose yourself in that. How was hell this time? Yeah. Did you see anyone cool? It was all cold and frozen. So the Eagles must have a new album. Oh, hey. Topical and cool.

Christ Almighty. Are we still in hell? I want to start again. Yeah, okay. I want to do that. Let me do that. Okay, another run up at it. Hey, Justin.

Hey, Juice, how was hell this time, bud? Yeah, it was fine. Did you see anyone cool? No. Okay. All right. That was good. I don't like this bit.

You can't come up with a good joke above it. Yeah. You literally could have said anyone's name and that would have been fine. Who did you see down there? Anyone. And it's anyone. Any bad. Okay, all right.

Let me try again. Let me do a real. I'm going to do a real joke. Okay. Hey, how was hell? Did you see anyone cool down there? Cripp keeper. See?

Cripp keeper was in hell. That's interesting because he's done stories for us. Is he inherently bad? I didn't. I never thought of him as like the antagonist. You look at him and you know he's bad. Oh, excuse me. What?

He's dying on hell. Excuse me. What? Yeah. Look at him and you know he's bad, Justin. Canonically. Canonically. Yes.

Why does he know all these scary stories? You don't tell stories like that to good people. You tell them to evil people that are going to real Christian hell. You learned them from his memaw. Memaw's in hell too. What? Hey, thanks for listening. No, not Judith.

Not Judith Keeper. She was so active in the D.A.R. at her church. She did so much for the community. Thanks for listening. What was her secret advice, Justin? Last time you were in hell, you said you saw Limbaugh. But I was like, you were only in hell for a minute. Dude, there's no way of all the people down there that you

saw like a big, a big one like that. Statistically, there's no way. And now you're telling me you saw Crypt and Judith Keeper? Were they together? Yeah. No, that's the worst part about it. Oh, no. They didn't know each other.

We're down there and they couldn't recognize each other. Oh, man. Don't they look the same? So the five people you meet in hell are so far. Rush Limbaugh. Give your life, your luck and Judith Keeper. Right. But you know that they can earn their way back to heaven

if they love each other hard enough. That is true. I've seen what dreams they come. Yeah, exactly. Hey, thanks for listening to our podcast. We very much appreciate it. We've had a good time. We hope that you've enjoyed yourself as well.

We helped two whole people. Yeah. A great job. A great job. Hey, we have a lot of very special announcements that I want to share with you. I'm going to move through them quickly. All right.

New merch. MacriMarch.com. We just put out a set of adventure zone dice designed by artist and maker Aaron Jean, who is also known as Evelyn. It comes with a bag with the Bureau of Balance logo on it. They're awesome. Also out is the Tilt Death Dress Blart t-shirt designed by Tyler Reed, which benefits First Nations Development Institute.

We also have the Wizard of the Cloud Pin of the Month designed by Dana Wagner, which benefits Native women lead. We have the candlelight ornament designed by Kate May, which benefits the Harmony House. And of course, there's all the other merch on there, including a mug for candlelight. So check that out. Tickets for our shows at Emerald City Comic Con are on sale now.

My brother, my brother, me on December 2nd and Taz on December 3rd. Both shows are general attendance. So there's no assigned seating, but ADA seating will be available. You do not need an Emerald City Comic Con badge to buy tickets to these shows. ECCC safety protocols require proof of full vaccination or recent negative COVID tests to attend. In addition, masks are required while on premises and capacity will be reduced. More info and ticket links available at bit.ly slash McRoy tour and

the full safety protocols are available at bit.ly slash eccc safety. And we've started the Zone of Adventure in Balance series. It's out on our YouTube now. Episode two will be out on Wednesday. It's an Adventure Zone miniseries DM'd by Abreya Aingar who is at Quitty on Twitter and we're returning to Balance. Three episodes, one per week. Just check out YouTube search for the McRoy family or go to youtube.com

slash the McRoy family. Thank you. Thank you for listening and thank you to Montaigne for the use of our theme song, My Life is Better With You, a powerful track that's changing the world. I would say changing people's hearts and minds and ears and brains. That's very true. Also, thank you to Rachel, our editor, who let's us make this show not sound like dump, which I really appreciate.

Yeah, well, I'm going to say put in some fucking work on this one. Yeah, definitely did a lot. If we all had heard the original of this one, your stomachs would die. Yeah. And yeah, that's it. Thanks for listening. Choice. Yeah.

Well, bye. Okay, bye. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Door slam. Wait a minute. The, the final yahoo. We, we forgot. Door open.

Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Wait guys, we forgot to do the final yahoo. Yeah. Oh yeah, man. I got it right here. Pulled up. I printed it out. All right.

Let's hear it. You're really walking, walking into it like backwards. And I'll send you guys a picture of it later so you know it's real. Sounds like real paper. This one was sent in by Danielle. Fish, fish. Fishel. Fishel.

Yeah. TV's Topanga. She doesn't like that when you call her that. Okay. Like she knows that she played a character named Topanga, but like she's her own. Twice on Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World. Yeah. You know, she just doesn't like it when you call her that.

Okay. Anyway, this one's asked by Funky David. Oh. Sorry. Funky David. Yeah, Funky David asks. Anyone got any funky soup recipes? Oh boy.

He's on brand. Oh man. I just clicked through to his profile. That's so weird. He's got, they're all kind of like that though. Like any funky tips for planning your own funeral. Yeah, it's cool shit like that. I feel like my funky wife and I have grown a funky part.

Right. My name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been My Brother, My Brother Made. Kiss your dad. School air on the lips. It's better with you.

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