My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 644: Which One is the Old Man

Episode Date: January 23, 2023

Have you ever wanted to finally get into My Brother, My Brother, and Me? Well, this is the perfect episode to start! We got cool movie reviews, some ideas about reboots, some Munch Squad. No pre-requisites required at all. Except one. You DO need to have a working knowledge of Cats the Musical.Suggested talking points: It's Planentines Plane, Animorph Smell, Matt the Cat, Italian Stewart, Johnny ChaCha, Jeremy Criterion, The Hieroglyph for CrispyRAICES: https://www.raicestexas.org/

The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed Travis insists. He's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening What's up, you cool, baby Precious friendship 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 Hello everybody and welcome to my brother my brother mean advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy This is your middlest brother Travis McElroy, I'm It's so happy to be here and you could have listened to any podcasts and You chose us so we're gonna get moving here. We got a nice tailwind on the podcast

So we're hoping to end early about 49 minutes. Just sit back and relax Hey, hey there frequent flyers This is Griffin McElroy and we hope you've got your tickets for the for both the flight and for the theater Because it's time for a movie watch special movie for all of us This holiday season Valentine's Day Valentine's Day. It's planet. It's plain and times day It's plain and times plain and it's plain watch plain watch Gerald Butler has come to us from the mount. He's come down from the mount

He is held a new prophecy From Gerald Butler comes down for the mount with his tablets and etched in a tablet is one word and the word is plain And the other tablet is blank He says this one's gonna be plain too or part It says one says plain and the other one says this tablet intentionally left blank Yeah, this is the only and then next year the tablet will change to a giant s Yes, let's put that next to with a money sign with a money sign with a money sign It's plain watch aliens Travis has been sort of my boots on the ground

Plain street team for a while. He's been sending us lots of promotional images my favorite last week last week Yeah, I mean the people behind plane the plane producers were like, yeah, we're gonna leak some some stills Oh boy use some news those stills one a bunch of people Dramatically crossing their arm at leaning or sitting at a table Great looking at I imagine a screen where something more interesting is happening and then another one where Jared Butler is just kind of Pete like looking out a plane door and it's a close-up Yeah, barely see any plane in it and they're like no, they'll get a horny for plane

What's wild is it's kind of like the but but you because you don't actually see the plane until like an Hour and a half into the film and when it reveals the plane guys when I saw it in theaters when that finally shows the plane People lost their asses. I'm just saying fucking ballistic I'm just saying in my chum one's back plane is his best work so far the twist That it ends up being PLA I in yes, I had no idea no idea that was coming huge huge Yeah, I mean it's from the from the makers of old and Mermaid and

Heli vader complain and I think that this is maybe I think this is Jared's best work yet. Yeah, my money I loved him in 300. I loved him in 301 301 Dalmatians. I think he's a natural talent and I'll watch anything that he does. I love gamer Look gamer gamer Forget about it. We stan. I love how many times in gamer. He was teabagging dudes A lot of men and puts his privates on him in gamer a lot He does it a few times in playing it every time he does it in plane. He looks at you like at the camera like From gamer. He says that from gamer remember when I do this in gamer

I love how it's all sort of one connected Gerald verse I have a little a game for you guys Yeah, yeah, it's a playing game their views are in okay, and I'm going to read the rotten tomatoes Snippets from these reviews great and your task. Yeah, if I may is To tell me if it is a positive review Oh, if it has been excerpted from a positive review or a negative review of the movie playing This seems like it shouldn't be too hard and just I'm just gonna say it'll be too easy if it contains the word Sores or crashes. I will know exactly

You may think so. Let's see. Okay. Here's the first one Reminded me of a picture of a beautifully drawn horse that turned into a stick figure by the end That's that's a net. That's a negative one. I don't think yeah, it's gotta be negative Okay, that is negative correct good good good game good game so far That's also a specific like meme reference there author You can't be like it reminds me of like just say it's like that meme. It's like that one meme plane would not this is from James Brown and Ellie, okay Oh, I love he says plane would have been an adequate way to waste a couple hours lounging on the couch and munching salty snacks

But as a multiplex draw not quite even if you bring the salty snacks along I think Jim was hungry. Yeah, I think Jim might have been hungry. Maybe Jim also doesn't understand That the at the theater you can get the salty snacks that like they have the salty snacks everything you need sort of snack wise They do that's all there. No problem I'm gonna say it's a positive one because he said not quite which could have been worse Yeah, I think he I think he had a in a alright time It sounds like honestly It's his fault because he watched it in the wrong way

Well, he went to like the 10 30 a.m. Showing and he was like I'll be fine, but then by the time the movie's done He's like ours past lunch. Oh, yeah It's on the you can't be like I watched playing in a spider-filled room and so I hated it They get to bad movie. It's whatever man. I think I feels like also salty snacks is so non-specific. It feels like He he's a socialite trying to remember with the common folk. Yeah, right. Yeah, love so lover lover Do they have remind me do they eat brie and watercress at the cinema? No, just salty snacks is what alright Okay, this is a tough one. Oh plane. Oh wait was it positive or negative? Oh, it was negative. You were wrong Oh, play an unattractive, but viscerally effective film. There is little here to admire for the eye

Absolutely nothing for the brain, but plenty to appeal to the id Huh? Oh damn Wow, this is I don't know who wrote this one, but they sound like they might be too smart for playing That's I'm gonna say and that's positive. I think they actually did like it I think it's positive too because they're saying like yeah, listen turn off your heart Turn on your guts close your heart that's gonna love it Close your heart let plane get up in your guts. You're gonna love it. What was that? Okay, this is a positive or negative positive. Yes. Yeah, halter counterbalances all his brawny physicality with a grimy Utilitarian sense of humor moments of Gaspar skulking around corners with a sledgehammer at least in my screening drew bigger

Cheers than Butler's vane popping cockpit performance I would love to ever do anything artistic in my life that people refer to as a vein popping Anything like Griffin's vein popping humor on this episode of my bim-bam now I enjoy Matt Mercer's voice work on critical role, but of course it does not compare to Griffin's vein Dmre I I love Move super negative

positive The idea of a gas bar Skulking around corners with his sledgehammer. It's negative. He didn't like it. Okay. All right last one And I just feel like this one really sums it up because Jordan Hoffman is Great work is a great critic if you buy a ticket for this one. Just know there's no first-class option Nice, that's not with moderate expectations You'll still get to your destination a review. I think I would love to have leveled at our Yeah, sure with moderate expectations. We'll get you there with moderate expectations

Everything's good. I'm just saying that this is actually a very good summary of air travel experience as it exists I'm like on a very average basis, which is just like yeah, man Listen, they got planes over in like Qatar that like you're sitting in a full-blown like hotel room on the plane Swimming pool like your average plane. You're just there to get where you're going. So if you just need to kill I'm gonna guess 95 minutes You're gonna love plane in that when you sit down You'll have 95 minutes to go until lunchtime. Yeah, and when it's done 95 you'll have reached lunchtime if you have the endurance for it

You can finish plane. That's my review of plane Yeah, I saw it in theaters and I had an amazing time, but at a very basic level if you sit there It has the whole movie in plane. Yeah, like the whole the whole movies there They know they're you're not gonna not finish plane if you try really hard I'm gonna say that that's a positive Justin. Yeah positive huge Positive Jordan turns around Justin. Can I guess what the percentage on rotten tomatoes? Oh, that's right. I love that I love that tiebreaker critical. I'm gonna say like 58 percent. I was gonna say 40% crit Can you guys do it in terms of positive cuz that's the way it all like how much what percentage positive?

I don't understand. I'm saying 58% rotten tomatoes score, which is expressed in a percentage positive reviews 40% positive 58% positive. Hey guys Get ready for liftoff cuz this one's at 78 5% positive. Let's go baby. Yeah, man. Go Gerard. You're back, baby You're back, baby. Do you remember you call me last night? You're like, I don't think I'm back But you are back now bad. Sorry. You're flying like your titular plane playing two planes Train truck travel. Oh, it looks good. Hey, thank you the sonic baby, and they did you When picking the baffling for your your little sound prison that you made there Did you make sure that it is the same color as your hair? And it kind of does make you look like a woolly-willy

Man, yeah a man with a sort of divot. Yeah I just I wanted people to be able to green screen it or a purple screen it easier That's why I'll go with your hair. Okay. Well, I'm I've been trapped in this cube for a long time and I'm so bored You are with all the purple of the it looks kind of like pick-up artist camouflage Yeah, like you're trying to hide in mysteries mysteries Like you dress to blend into mysteries curtains. Well, the thing is is I made the decision That I got fish and having fish tank is basically saying and the sound quality in here will be terrible forever So I have to stay trapped in my little box here, but my fish get to live in their little box. Oh, no

Actually only now do I realize I've trapped us both in boxes how metaphorically painful guys I just googled plain bloopers And it brought up don't Google that it brought up some what I would describe as real-life plain bloopers and Those aren't They're not like hearted fun. Well, then they shouldn't call them bloopers Bloopers inherently implies light-hearted fun You're not like oh, there was a plane blooper today. We lost 75 so 75 so did you recover the black box from the plane blooper?

Now what what a fucking bozo? And he's survived by his wife and kids Fucking sully is like the only one who can say like yeah guys. I had a real plane blooper up there Every every other tragic plane-based whoopsie cannot be called a blooper except for Well, the problem is that so the bar that sully the film had to cross is that it had to be so good And well-acted it made you forget how fucking funny. Yeah, the whole thing is it's hysterical Birds flew in and he landed in in the lake. Yeah, that's supposed to be So that's that's plain get there day one there get there day one six days ago

This is not plain. No, this is an advice show So we're gonna help you the people of the world I'm gonna see cats the musical next month. Yeah, I'm desperately trying to figure out what to wear Is it where do we're to wear anything cat-themed? Is it weird not to wear anything cat-themed surely? I'm not supposed to go in costume, right? Well, that's from costuming conundrum in Chicago, and this is a excellent Excellent question really good. Thank you. This is perfectly targeted right down the middle

You can't say not supposed to go in costume like as long as your costume is let's call it what it is Tastefully fitted. They'll let you in. They'll let you in they won't turn you away. I Think there is no Yeah, if you think about that critically for more than a second, okay, I'm gonna stand so I can't I've gone down that road before and I know What happened? Hotchie-matchie see my globe fellow my my spaceship Earth fellow when we stand on my Justin's cryptos spilt all over the damn floor Losing value as we speak

I Don't want this crypto this crypto is dirty This what is this Eminem stuck to it gross There is definitely a level of Close approximation of cat costume. Yes, where at which point the ushers will have to say This is confusing people are really weirded and people think for sure They are about to get swept up in interactive theater Oh really hard for this if you've never seen cats. Yes good point is

There is an element in most productions that the cats will come into your fucking space Yeah, you paid for they like come down the aisles and shit Yeah, and what if the ushers are worried that you're just gonna like seamlessly blend in and there's like yeah I got an aisle seat. It's like, okay, but you're dressing yet. No, no, no, don't worry about wait that seats empty Which one of them is it? Ah Literally nothing would be better though if someone did that I I How how long do you think you could make it before someone's like that one's not hitting right for me

Yeah, sure That cat's licking and by cat. I mean man And furry man is licking their butthole right next to me I don't think that they're part of the Touring production of cats now Justin you Have probably experienced this in your love of Disney, but could you perhaps do cats a bounding cats bounding is good Right, you do buns that look like cat ears. Yeah, you maybe have a print vest under

I mean listen you could do magical no, no, no, no, no, let's finish the sense like a Patterned vest underneath your your tuxedo, but then I realized jaguar right But then I realized you could just do a magical mr. Mustapha. He's bounding so fucking easily. He's a tuxedo cat Yeah, or you start in a regular tuxedo and then as the production's going on you add a little few little twisted details They get you to form a soft like wait, so you cap bound in the fit like While everybody else is trying to enjoy the show you are applying Spirit gum Interesting tastefully that would be probably the most

Fucked up viscerally upsetting experience for the person sitting next to you to just like look over every once in a While and be like ice. Hey Margaret. I swear to Christ. The guy sitting next to me is Changing he's more and more old Deuteronomy every time I look over him doing it cuz he's so discreet really fast Yes, I'm sorry. So we're going to have to ask you to leave the theater. Is it because my cell phone rang in act one? No No, we were gonna let that one go but then yeah, did the whispers the problem sir is you are Anamorphic and it's It's making a smell. That's people are upset Yeah, yeah, well Justin because there's a man's lands are empties

If you turn from a human to a hawk that mass has to go somewhere Justin, yes, otherwise you have a hawk that weighs like a hundred and eighty pounds and that thing's never gonna fly So that mass has to be released as a mass gas if you will now when you turn back Is it gaseous or is it sort of a liquid little bit of both little column a little calm B It's ectoplasmic and orgasmic and then when you turn back you have to absorb that mass from somewhere This is just science Justin. Let me get you guys with an idea. Okay This is my bold vision for the future of cats The cat the house cat or the street cat is one of nature's most chaotic animals

You can't you can't control with it. What a kitty cat does, right? I? think People should be allowed to go to productions of cats dressed up. I agree so far dressed up as cats and They should if they can get on the stage They should be allowed to stay there and kind of just act like a kitty cat while the rest of the play happens Around them and then if you and the audience are like I'm trying to enjoy the show But there is a Man dressed up as a cat doesn't look quite exactly like the rest of the cats

But he is crawling around and sniffling and meowing every once in a while I think that that sort of only lends itself to the authenticity of the production because it's like yeah not not Herding cats is like an idiom. You can't expect every cat on that stage to be doing the right thing Yeah, now they're doing their own thing as a theater owner I will agree to this proposal on one condition go ahead allow me to have in theater security dressed as dogs and If they catch a cat approaching they can like bark and the cat has to like kiss and screech and run away Yeah, or

Alternatively the director of the show who is going to become a character sort of our Town style should be allowed to go on stage at any point with a spray bottle and just sort of spritz Anyone who's wondered in from the crowd dressed up kind of like a kitty cat But not exactly like a kitty cat and if they're doing really good They get a little collar with a bell on it and that means you're invited to set your part. Oh, that's good That how fucking cool would it be? How fucking okay? Okay, how fucking cool would it be if every time you went to a production of cats? You didn't know who was gonna get taken up to the heavy side layer. Oh shit because it could be grizzabella, right?

Yeah, it's usually gonna be usually usually use most of the time I would say nine nine times out of ten. It's gonna be grizzabella but if a kitty cat wonders in off the street off the crowd off the audience and And really captures the audience's hearts and minds They should be like, you know and the heavy side layer winner of this contest is Matt Matt the cat and Matt the cat gets to go up in the balloon and the rest of the cast is gonna be like And grizzabella is gonna be like

Maybe tomorrow mice. What do I do? What am I supposed to do now? Grizzabella simply dies grizzabella just kind of stands there and just kind of does like Like that Ashley Simpson dance like I'm not sure what I don't have blocking I don't have my blocking is the balloon that goes up. I don't have anything past that So But I yeah, are you kidding me? I don't like cats I would go see it every night if I knew there was a chance that you'd get go the heavy side layer I mean, I okay now Justin

Griffin how many times would you have to see the show before you're like I felt my time My first time that I try to rush the stage, I'm gonna get sprayed hard. Yeah, right like I'm not gonna have the kind of Cat acumen required You're on the lobby on like your 20th viewing and you see somebody else come in Oh first time and your costume is just like soaked from all the springs that yeah, they use like Vaseline spray I'm not even gonna. I'm not even gonna hit the boards. I'm gonna approach this I'm gonna approach the door that they make you walk through which I hope has a metal detector security measures just to keep the cast safe

The cats safe But yeah, I think I'm my first time I'm gonna show up just with kitty-cat ears on and just like regular clothes And they're just gonna shake the no-no can and I'll go back to my seat But after a dozen times two dozen times five dozen times, I'm gonna make the stage I'm gonna do what needs to be done to get up in that balloon. Well, that's threatening Griffin. You can't say I'm going to do Whatever it takes whatever it takes me I Was thinking like follow spot just like swings around in the audience

Every night and it lands on somebody and then that person gets to die at cats like you get to come up and well die the show Now that's interesting Justin because when I was thinking of an audience member being taken to the heavy-side layer I wasn't thinking that they would be Sacrificed destroy destroyed it's planned. Yeah, and that's fun because then every every night when I come home from cats My wife embraces me So happy that you've made it back This was something fun that I came up with and I feel like you guys have perverted it in a way

Like I don't want to go to cats and be afraid that I could die, but be a hundred percent certain I will see an actual human death That's off stage actually. Yeah, it's off. It's off state. Okay. I was cats. It was great The music was great the production Excellent, there were a lot of a lot of people rushed the stage the spray bottle was spritzing like mad the implied Cinecide was not my favorite part of the show. I get you know You think people ever say I've been thinking about getting into my brother my brother me. Oh, cool. Do I should I listen to the Previous episodes like no you should watch cats

You need to see cats to get it, but let you guys got one other question I mean, I do I'll have a wizard. I have a wizard here with me Spit it out. It's not the usual one. Oh, well that this is all you know You know you Zendigorp Oh, I know him he sucks, but he did bring a cool wiki out here actually Michelle brought it Thanks, Michelle. It's how to win a dance-off Dance-offs can be very stressful and tiring, but they're equally fun, too

A dance-off is an informal competition between two dancers or groups who must progressively dance better than their opponent Anyone can challenge you to a dance-off at any point in time, but sometimes they pass for competitions Don't know what that means dance-offs are just about showing attitude improvising groove into the music now that is okay You can't say it's an informal event and then like in the next sentence say Sometimes they're like full-blown competitions because I would argue a full-blown competition where dance teams perform for judges He's not an informal event. No, I mean, but nobody's wearing tuxedos No, and I guess that well, you don't know that J-man can you tell me you're not required to it's still not a formal event Justin has brought us to our first point here and that is being prepared look decent and be ready at all times

Although you aren't although you aren't expected to wear clothes saved for performances I don't know what that means It's best if you stay prepared and wear nice clothes as you can be challenged at any point in time gosh That's got to be exhausting, huh? well Chose to get into the dance life. So if you yeah, I'm not I'm not sure how I raised the PVP flag for dancing To just let let people know like when I'm going on the metro if someone sees me They're like he's that guy's ready that guy's ready to dance. Well, you're always wearing tear away pants and jazz shoes

Yeah, so that symbols like everybody sees that and they're like he's fucking ready and The first time you ever want not a lot of people know this first time you ever do any dance move in your entire life You've entered into potential competitive dance circuit. That's right Right, everyone can feel it ripple through the world of like oh Griffin just like did like a jazz square Right, you have to not dance for six months. Yeah to be cut to get to lower the flag That's what John Liefgau in Footloose was trying to do he was trying to save his town not save their souls But they were getting challenged to dance battles to left and right and he was like we're losing so many dance battles We've lowered the credit rating of hold down. We're broke. Everybody stop dancing. Please. Hey, can we Griffin?

I don't want to interrupt your flow, but can we talk about John Liefgau for 10 minutes? 10 minutes. No, that's a big ask J man. That's one sixth of the show Five minutes. Okay. No, no, you can't agree. I need Griffin to say Justin It's okay for you to interrupt. I mean right now what we're doing is bargaining of how much Liefgau time I'm gonna permit you and I'm I really don't want to do any more than like two minutes Can you get it into can you get it done in two minutes? Yeah? I can get it done in two minutes. Okay watching this show called the old man That's about Jeff Bridges and John Liefgau one is an X CIA agent

One's like a government operative and they're squaring off against the name of the show is the old man the old man There's more but there's a few of well a lot of us are wondering It's kind of like my brother my brother me where a lot of us are wondering who which old man old man, okay? is okay, but in the show there's flashbacks and The actor Christopher Redmond is in there playing young John Liefgau. I gotta look it up and he's fucking Nailing it. Okay. It's wild. Okay. It's one minute has a laugh of your Liefgau time. I was watching the old man With my broth and my chair and I was watching the old man. I I started thinking man

I'd love to see this guy and like Harry and the Henderson's are one of the classic Liefgau roles and I was thinking like if we could we could Reboot film franchises, right? Why can't we reboot acting human BS? Yeah, I can't we have another John Liefgau just doing it Again, yeah, the third rock from the Sun, right again You don't have to reinvent the show. No, you've got it But just it's it's a good at it now show like same same. Yeah shot for shot same scripts

The same different but this time we got this time. We've got same people. Oh Okay, see I was gonna say cuz we have an opportunity we could get Italian we could get Italian Stewart in there We could get I Don't remember who else was in that part. Well, it was in third rock I believe there was a Gordon Levitt Joseph Gordon Levitt was there Wayne Knight Christian Johnson, I just googled third rock from the Sun the top asked question is how good was third rock from the Sun good Very good. Excuse me. I think we forgot a little lady named Jane Curtin a megawatt talent Okay, so that's just one thing though

That's just one of the projects one of the projects that we can start again when there's a new lift gal Right starting over the possibilities are endless. That was I think like two and a half minutes And I'm okay with that, but I would like to get to the second point of this wiki. How are you ready? Yes, where a few accessories to compliment your look do not go overboard a small bracelet and earrings or pendants necklace and a ring Will be good enough. You don't want anything that's gonna whip around and hit you in your own face Unless that's like part of it like when I do a dance of any style I like to wear a big pendant that I can kind of like swing around and then like it looks cool it weapon Wear makeup makeup makes you look and feel good getting channel for it

But did I do this before I leave the house? Yes Like I'm ready to battle you and I'm like give me 20 minutes If you stay ready for a dance battle need the blood on my cat costume. I need to get feeling feline and fancy free focusing towards winning one learn to improvise This is the first step of learning to win Improvising and dance is to move to the music without doing any choreograph steps Yes, good. Yes. Yeah, you might remember you might not have a choice of music This means that any generic music will be played and you have to put your moves out there

It could be jingle bells could be jingle bells. You could have to you may have to do some it could be that we love the subs Quiznos jingle it could be the quiz no song that you have to be boy, too It could be a funeral. It could be a funeral dirge I'm saying the best. I'm just gonna put it out there the best Dance accessory you can have Jamira toy hat could be corn Do this Now here's what I'm sorry Let me finish my point

Reinforced a miracle I had that you can do a full headstand on and it doesn't collapse. Okay, now Justin go on I messed up the sliders on my board So I couldn't hear the colorful buttons and then when I fixed the sliders Griffin was on the besties yesterday when I did this this that song was our that sound was already playing It was playing not it had been playing non-stop for ten hours. Yeah, not ten hours for weeks My son word has been like, okay, Jay man. Okay. It's been good been crying out from a locked prison Deep in the silence. You can hear it. You can't hear it. Okay. I'll just keep playing it over and over Okay, okay step one learn to improvise step two learn to dance

Now I Would have flipped those myself. No way before you participate in any battles or dance-offs You must know how to dance if you don't know how to read how to dance Is that real this is not linked anywhere, so I don't know what how to dance is I'm assuming It's a wiki how article of how is it capitalized? Yes, Justin. Do not Google how to dance. No, I'm searching for a book called how to dance Uh Okay, it's all very specific styles like how to dance bachata, right? Okay, step three is practice now Let's move on to part three of the article being positive being positive is necessary and it keeps you healthy as well as strong-minded

In step one meditate, but you didn't see that coming. I did not keep your grades up Keep your grades up step two keep your chakras up step three smile You don't know when those nerves can make you frown or even give you panic attacks smiling in my experience when panicked about Some sort of uncomfortable situation smiling is usually not medicine For the panic attack that I'm having I use it whenever I'm sort of deep in a panty. I

can't just be like This will this will fix it If you made that face though, you're really gonna get in the head of your opponent Yeah, and then step three also impossible avoid thinking of what could go wrong. Oh, yeah Sure wiki out now. This is this is what I've been waiting on To fix my to fit get my mind right right here to dance off. Yeah, if you're meditating by the way Yeah, life psychiatrists hate this one trick. Yeah, you just don't think about the bad things that happen If you're in touch with the dance force like this, right? You're improvising you're learning to dance

You're meditating you're staying positive that thing of like don't think what's gonna go wrong You won't be able to because you're so present in the dance force moving forward, right? You're not think about the past. You're not thinking about the future. You're not you're purely in the dance You are the dance, right? What if I learned to improvise so well that I don't need to learn to dance. Well, that's why that's step one It's all vamping. It's just all where did you learn that they'll say and you'll say it was just the way my body Wanted to move and they'll be like holy shit. Yeah Here's the last part and it's an important one because it is dancing during the battle part one. Don't yeah

Listen there look at stillness find it still that that would be terrified first loses Okay, step one put out your best moves if you have tricks flips or anything unique such as tutting even during a ballet battle These can help you win ballet battles are those real. I have not seen blacks one now It's right off the bat. You're just using it like you're coming out the gate using all your utility like yeah But that's not enough Travis because step two and this is what it says Make facial expressions. Yeah It doesn't say like cool facial expressions or cool dancing facial expressions Just it's just like ah like hey

Just any sort of facial expressions gonna get you there Making facial expressions is obligatory if you are set to win They express more than it is and to be human your face is gonna be doing it does stuff your face Occasionally even if it's just stubbing your toe, you're gonna make a face look your opponent in the eye and This is why the the this is the first step in cha-cha slide Is they do say they do say like before hey everybody It's me the creator of the cha-cha slide before you get into this Johnny cha-cha. It's me Johnny cha-cha stare Into your opponent's

Soul and prepare be ready to take their life now That's a great point Griffin too too rarely do we address a lot of people say dance partner But I see yeah, even when you're dancing with someone as a battle. It's always who's leading. Well, who's winning? You know what I mean? So this step is my favorite step in the whole article step four add in a few moves that include your opponent you can you can you You two can Do a split in between their legs

Flip over their back and take them by surprise. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure fucking cool Do cartwheels around them? I I will thanks use the entire floor for doing a few tricks leaving them No space to dance catch the audience's attention. That's great. They're like getting ready to do something, but you're already there just And then they're like, okay Well, I guess I'll get on the ground and but but you're on the ground underneath And then they lose and they go home and they gotta climb in bed with their wife to tell them what what a horrible dance And you're already there you're in bed with their wife and you're just And you're in the mirror dancing back at them wherever they go they're like I have to poop

So I have You can't I'm on your toilet. I'm on every toilet. You'll never be Do armor body waves around their body a few competitions may not let the dancer touch the other dancer even slightly if this is the case Do not go too near but mock them with a bit with stronger dance moves. I I can't I can't even Participate in dance battles where you're not allowed to touch and fully hit hit and flip over Yeah, it flip over and kick and attack and hurt your opponent. I'm actually Not like legally not allowed to participate in dance battles anymore because my signature move used to be this thing Where I would do a bunch of like flips towards a person and then I'd stop with like my hand like a half an inch away from their nose and

One time I was planning it I did all my math homework to get the geometry right and the person lean forward a little bit and I smashed That whole face and and I killed I killed them on the spot Did you but and you but you I mean I won I won But at what cost the cost of my immortal soul and I spent 25 years in Folsom prison And I wrote it. I wrote a famous song about it Wow, but I'm hearing about all this. Yeah, well, I'm not proud of it But I wrote a song about it, but I'm not proud of it. But listen

This is the last step. Don't be disheartened if you don't win winning isn't everything trying your best is it's a new experience. You killed a guy It was your first yeah, it was your first kill It's a new experience and sometimes you will be given critiques to work on. Hey next time Don't kill that guy. Well, you can't kill that guy again. Don't don't kill his twin brother Don't kill his twin brother. They're gonna be hard because his twin brother is gonna be coming for you You always have space to do better. Just don't lose hope You always do the song come out tomorrow and you kill the guy the subtle come out tomorrow Yeah, you got grades up at your grades. Your grades are doing great your parents are there

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Yes, one of my favorite favorite for the fun. I had to watch Ted to I have a list of my favorite funny parts from Ted to and my favorite sad parts from Ted to and I keep it in a Google Google spreadsheet that is publicly available if you want to it's got time codes and everything This is this one's on the funny side and the sad side now I was arranged Griffin at every Christmas will have us gather around and watch his fan edit Which is just the reordered scenes of Ted to in a way He has a worst which is weird. I have it for emotional impact this year Griffin or best to worst. What are you thinking? Well, if you go to my website where I have arranged all of the movies

With moments and then pay for hosting and it is being squatted on no I do have I do have this website if you could let me finish my incredible joke That I have all the time codes from all of my favorite funny jokes in Ted and Ted to a million ways to die in the West is called mr. Grin Cuz these moments from these films will make you smile. I think that's a guarantee put a smile on your face I also have a website. I've uploaded all of my favorite Ted to clips on and I called it at YouTube But after I put all those clips on I was like it's still feeling a little empty. Yeah here

So I'm gonna open the floodgates to other Ted to fans. Yeah And it kind of got out of hand. I would say so. Yeah Now what I've done is I've gone on tiktok and uploaded the entirety of Ted to in 30-second clips Yeah, so you can just watch just swipe through those in order to get the timing right so it flows But you can work through all of Ted to 30 seconds at a time. It's the best way It's the only way to watch let's finish the question I don't really know what to say to this as it would be the second message He sent me after would you be interested in renting a room here 1.5 years ago?

That's from confused student in Long Beach. Well Ted to Transcends intention or me like he saw this and probably just sent it to Everyone in his contact list like I don't think this was specific Do you think he pushed a you think Instagram lets you push a button for Ted to and send a clip of Ted to to everyone You know, that's too much power. That's too much power We don't usually do this on the podcast, but I'm gonna watch a brief clip from Ted from Ted to Okay, and I don't know if it's just by yourself. Yeah, I mean really just doing the Peter Griffin voice Uh-huh. Yeah, that's weird that you I never really thought about it before in the many times

So it looks like they almost hit this the Star Wars cosplayers It's different. There's a lot of nuance. Yeah, I feel like room is not encapsulating the fact that it's a talking teddy bear and How inherently funny that is? We had a meeting once with with The people the family got Seth's people over at very nice They're very nice and I was really scared because I don't remember everything I've said about different stuff You know, I feel like if if Seth can razz people we could be baby do a little razz at ourselves

Yeah, we all have a lot fun here. This clip from Ted to Is not very funny, but I'm not saying the film's not I'm just saying that this clip is a strange one for anyone to say I bet I know someone who would love this Do you do cosplay? Do you do like Star Wars? Star Wars stuff? I have to imagine that a Detailed that essential and germane would be included in the Hope but they also didn't send along the link to the clip. Okay second question

Do you have a fairly common name or username Ted like? Ted to fan XL for 2069, but if you're like username is like to and foot guy, yeah If your username is such that like it would easily be confused with someone else He knows name like Jake or something. Maybe Jake is a huge fucking Ted to fan Possible the wrong one maybe Anything's possible online, but now what you can't do. Oh, it could crush your landlord's heart If you said like did you mean to send this to me or is this for someone else?

And there's your landlord like I was just trying to I was trying to open the gates. Yeah Yeah, you know, it was a mistake. Yeah, I didn't I mean I mean, maybe you hit him back with some of your favorite film clips from and they don't always have to be Like maybe you start with some light-hearted like some clips from Ted one to just like make your landlord feel comfortable and then like after a while you send a clip from like Kramer vs. Kramer and like this was what this this one's not Funny, but it may here's a clip from boy in the strike pajamas. It's not funny It's not funny But I thought you would like it because it like as a film buff or just work your way back until eventually you get to like

Here's a clip and it's like a train coming straight at the screen. Don't freak out. Yeah, not real. It's not real train Don't scream, but there you go. What do you think? That's all the clips for all the movies ever. That's every movie My name is Jeremy Criterion And now the movies now you've experienced my collection in the way it was meant to be experienced now It's your collection now. It's your must take care of it so that I may die. You're the giver now Man, I'd love that version of the giver if instead of forbidden memories. It was like you guys see dude You gotta see this clip from Shrek forever after We they don't let you watch this one in school and for good reason

Done Yeah, okay I want a munch squad now this is coming up, but I want to munch About two minutes and 40 seconds. It's okay. We can do those late. I know that's why I wanted this one Isn't very big. Oh, yeah, I just wanted to quickly alert you to it Oh, is it a plane tie-in meal is somebody like airplane jangles bow jangles you guys know bow jangles Yeah, I know of them. It's a chicken restaurant that when it opened in Huntington They had to shut down part of route 60 because

Everyone needed to get there and then they build a second one and nobody went to either and they both closed That's the story of bow jangles in Huntington. So they've launched an out-get-holic sweet tea with Appalachian Mountain Brewery Served in some things go Some things just go together That's why bow jangles and Appalachian Mountain Brewery have partnered to brew the tasty beverage We didn't know we've been waiting for bow jangles hard sweet tea Okay To Carolina born brands joined forces to carefully concoct 2023's newest and best drink

Combining bow jangles knowledge of expertly steep sweet tea and ambies award-winning brewing innovation. The result is an easy drinking refreshing hard tea sure to delight fans of both brands Ages 21 and older Which of these companies do you think is most likely to betray the other one because if they're coming into that I've watched a lot of succession Right, they're coming in one of them's bringing the knowledge of sweet tea one of them's bringing the knowledge of where to buy alcohol And you mix those together, right?

So One of them is gonna have to either try to take over the other company or steal their secrets or something and frankly I think bow jangles has the cutthroat heart of a killer. I think so too. I was just thinking that The collaboration represents a prominent new food licensing deal for bow jangles with millions of loyal fans garnered over its 45 year history The brand hopes to tap Into a hard tea. Oh, sorry. Sorry tap got distracted into

God, yeah, the job was still funny Here we go. Tap in the fans love of all things bow jangles this new beverage. This collaboration is something sweet Says jackie woodard a chief brand and marketing officer for bow jangles Partnering with amb to craft our legendary iced tea Into a hard tea for fans of legal drinking age Was a natural fit and the team poured passion into the entire process We can't wait for fans to try it. This is the second time in the press release

They have felt the need to clarify that this hard alcoholic sweet tea is not for children Oh, and the representative goes on to say uh, and we love how naive they are over amb brewering We're we're really looking forward to them sharing their secrets with us and us taking their secrets from them those absolute sheet bow jangle's sweet tea is a staple across the south says nathan Uh, kelochek the amb founder and brew master and we trust them without fail. They would never hurt us. They would never Go behind us and steal We're excited to continue to share our craft in innovative new ways

bow jangle's hard sweet tea will be perfect for entertaining in the spring vacationing in the summer tailgating in the fall In any occasion where you want to bring the fucking drink it in the winter No, it's winter now. Don't you fucking touch it It actually if it goes below 32 degrees it becomes poisonous for human consumption Please don't drink it in the winter And here here's how close this it's always been bow time

And now it's also brew time It's always been It's been brew time Longer since the times of ancient egypt. Yeah. Yeah, and it's been bow time for 45 years. Yeah That's a huge difference. They have messed that up so completely It has not always been bow time Well, we don't know that they didn't have bow jangle's in ancient egypt. They may have called it something else At the library of alexandra, they might have had it there and then lost it and then lost it tragically

For the ancient egyptians it might bow jangle's might have been um A series of characters that depict a language Yeah iconography bird all the hieroglyphics, but it was still bow jangle, but it was bow jangle's to them It was to them. It was bow jangle. It was uh bird plus sun Equal crispy and they just had the sign for crispy drone there. Yeah, sure you get it Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We hope you have enjoyed yourself. Hope january's been treating you well um It's cold here. That's a weird thing to say juice. Yeah, we don't do that ever. We never say like

Hope this period of time is good, but not doing it has brought us to here. That's true Let's get better try something. Uh coming out in about a month at this point the taz 11th hour graphic novel It's coming out february 21st You can pre-order it don't wait now because there's pre-order special editions and Special things to get go to the adventure zone comic.com We have special editions with barns and noble and indigo and books million and you can submit your receipt at bit.ly slash 11th I'll spell down 11th hour pre-order to get a lenticular sticker featuring art from the book Make sure you check out our merch store where we've got the amnesty flame bright dice

We've got the cornhole for your soul sticker. We've got a there's a rudeness enamel pen and 10% of all merch proceeds this month Go to races which promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children families and refugees All of that at macroemerge.com And don't forget we got one more Like a little special 20 rendezvous fancy takes flight tour here in 20 sun and sea April 27th We're going to be in san jose during taz. April 28th

San jose doing my brother my brother and me April 29th Denver doing my brother my brother and me all existing tickets will be honored But there are tickets still available and mask and proof of full vaccination or negative covet test within 72 hours of event start is required Um, hey, thanks. Thanks to montane for the use of our theme song my life is better with you Um, that's a great. That's a really really good song. It's a good one. I'm really happy that we are able to use it Well, I speaking of music I just put out all the music from the first season of taz ether see on my band camp and All all album sales from all of adventure zone in the month of january is going to be donated to

To earth justice, which is a really great nonprofit. So you should you should go check that out also Is that it? We came up with some way to end the show last week, but I didn't listen back as people who are in Uh, the wild west coat of the west boys of moon mesa That was okay. That couldn't be that couldn't be that was it. Okay. Travis here. We featuring this week. Okay. Hold on You pulled this up really fast Yeah, I was excited about it. I mean it should be it should be stated Uh, because I did mention the character but then did not mention the actor

Uh, that a recurring a recurring role on here was tim curry as joc le beef 25 episodes Mr. Curry appeared in Wow, that might have been the entire run I actually think that was the entire run if you have tim you're gonna use him every yeah. Yeah, so that was uh, Jim Cummings aka we need to poo alongside Tim curry He played both. Sorry. They both played a role. Yeah, Jim Cummings, Dakota Duke

Tim curry Joc le beef. This is feeling like nothing guys. Yeah, it feels like nothing. We need a different way to end the show All right, you guys do something come no the new thing is we feature a new tim curry role In every sense. So now we're already on track Griffin Thanks for listening the end There we've earned that we've earned that that's our closer now Thanks for listening the end

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