My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 655: Did Robotnik Send You?

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Strap in, y’all, we’re getting intellectual in this one. We read about De Broglie wavelengths and we tried to use ‘em to let us enjoy a special frozen drink while watching the new Grease TV show, but that got too complicated. So instead we traveled to an alternate universe and set ourselves up for a PERFECT callback. Suggested talking points: Big City Foley, Every Day’s a Day, Personal Pan Nobel Pizza Prize, Thanksgiving Wedding, Grease is the DrinkTransgender Law Center: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/

The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed Travis insists. He's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening What's up, you cool, baby Precious friendship I could have never seen what was coming for me hangs at the skate park hangs by the beach my life It feels It's better it's better

It's better it's better Better it's better Guys this is exciting I know I don't usually start the intro, but you're getting the sound I don't know if you're here in the trash trucks that I hear an ambulance in the distance We're getting that big city Foley. Yeah, maybe this is our first big city episode that we've done together as a family Where does that leave me would you say as I mean you can have big city spirit? Yeah, that's true

Hello, welcome my brother my brother me and vice show for we don't have a cold open Hello, my brother. That was not a cold open. That was a warm open I show a vice show a vice show show here. We're cracking down on crime Or we're doing it or we're doing it. Hey man. Listen. I've watched a lot of procedural shows Usually there is a little bit of crossover where I just like the cops and if you don't believe this because it's yeah It's in a fancy world where a cop might be dirty. Can you imagine my mind? I'm your oldest brother Justin McRoy. Oh I'm sorry. I'm your middle-aged brother detective Travis McRoy. I'm your sweet baby brother detective Griffin McRoy. Sorry guys some vapor from the subway just came up and I got a brief. I did breathe it in

The metro Are you talking? Are you jabbering about the metro? Yeah Is that the native DC accent? That's a sort of DC accent that yeah out of you. Yeah, I didn't you know It's fucking funny juice. I didn't even realize I had it until you just pointed that out You know what you know what we call our subway here in Cincinnati What's that the ghost train cuz they didn't get finished. It was 90% built and then the auto industry killed it now

It's a ghost really well the auto industry killed it. Okay, so There it still haunts the city with infrastructure problems. It's a shame man. We love our metro And it's good to take the metro down when you go to Go people to cherry blossoms Master Wayne Now Griffin try this one on her side try it underground say the underground and the underground No, it's just for DC. It's just for DC stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah, St. Thomas Jefferson Oh boy, what if you what if you asked him to say declaration of independence and then he could say it perfectly and it's like so

It's not in DC. That's how we find out whatever is there now is a fake. Hey Griffin say Illuminati Say Illuminati power say the power of Illuminati Watch up What? What? Oh watch out Illuminati Okay, it started him to Scooby-Doo. That's a very DC thing. Yeah, everybody's Scooby-Doo in it over there

Huge Scooby-Doo energy coming off a new fancy He isn't DC. I don't know why I was surprised. That wasn't a revelation for me Wasn't especially eye-opening Welcome to our advice show. I'm just I live very close to Joe Biden now, and we have not done a lot with that sort of you You had a what was it yesterday? You had a a helicopter one of Joe's I think Joey Bagadona Just went right overhead, and he was looking down on me like great podcasts on I'll make it to a show eventually bud. He put me on the list I'm like sure Joe you keep doing all the great stuff. You're doing I guess

Here's a question for you. We always used to put Joe Biden on the list when we play a show in DC because we thought that was funny Yeah, is still is still kicks ass. It is okay. Is it less likely? Is there is it less likely he will come now that he is president? Oh Rather than vice president. I think it's more likely It was ever like I'm saying is there a appreciable difference in the likelihood with him being president versus vice president Yeah, yeah, I think I think it's more likely right because now he's looking for more of Of an outlet of a release Yeah, that our show could really provide. I think when you're vice president you get a lot more down time

But our show is a concentrated Like hey, we're gonna give you a year's worth of stupid energy in 90 minutes You know what I mean? And I think Joe Biden needs that. He's so serious. He's so he's so focused all the time Kind of sexy though when he gets like super serious. Yeah, especially when he's just eating ice cream like that. Oh, yeah So focused so focused Joe focused Here's a here's a question from your other listener. This one comes to us from Savannah beautiful beautiful Love it down there Savannah. Oh Riverwalk. Come on. Come on the ghosts the taffy Please so many the pralines. I just like the people the energy the people the energy of the city

It's a whole other man night in the garden of good evil. Oh Yeah, my old roommate sent me a save the date for his wedding and he's getting hitched on Thanksgiving What I still go what my old roommate sent me a save the date for his wedding and he's getting hitched on Thanksgiving Huh, huh? Wow Hey, that's not okay I've been horrible about flaking every time I said I would visit him after we moved out of our apartment And I thought no way would I let myself miss his wedding, but now it's on Thanksgiving

Yeah, and I live across the country from a wonderful family. Is my roommate trying to keep the guest count low? Does he know Thanksgiving is on a Thursday? I have many questions. I hope you might have some answers Super flaky and Savannah wolf. This is just giving me a kick-ass idea. Okay? I don't care when I beef it. I want to have a Christmas funeral just because yeah It it you're gonna be thinking about me that day, you know what? I mean like I'm gonna lock that one But let's talk about me today I have many many just Travis Mack right conspiracy theory a conspiracy of one if you will and One of my conspiracy theories does relate to Houdini who died on Halloween, but the odds of that

I mean this one 365 right for one of the spookiest dudes to ever walk the earth Not these because that's a ground-poe But I'm saying I'm just saying I think on average you probably have a higher chance of dying on Halloween than like an average From getting punched in the gut. I'm just saying that maybe he died on the 29th and his people like now hold on I think we can keep this we can keep this cool for like two days, right? Do you all think there's a chance they didn't know? There's no way the amount we're all we're all married there We're all married not to each other, but we're all married and

Yeah, the amount of thought that goes into picking the date for a wedding isn't just like that's it You picked a Thursday right to begin with not you picked up Thursday in late November like if I hear a date if you ask me what day Thanksgiving was this year I don't know off the top of my head, but I'm gonna say November 22nd to 26th And so if it land if it lands somewhere in that zone, right? Don't do a wedding on it that one. I don't think and you the fact that you picked a Thursday That's why you keep coming back to it's like Friday Saturday Sunday this year. It's gonna be the 23rd There you go getting bumped. So Friday Saturday Sunday. Okay, cool wedding times small local wedding. I could see

like a Tuesday a Tuesday fine. Yeah, Tuesday wedding love a day of the week is the least relevant thing How is that what we're litigating what I'm saying is if you pick a Thursday you did that on purpose you chose that day Yeah, I don't know man. I was pretty stupid before I got married. I could definitely see myself accidentally saying Like put it on Thanksgiving, but not to the point where you have to run it by so many people That's true why you got your partner you have any living in-laws you have Yeah, they know you can You can't mess this up because we made it to like a couple weeks before our wedding before we realized we scheduled it on Pearl Harbor Day

Which was rude of us to kind of make that day And I will also see this I think that there are days we're having a wedding on that day Yeah, like we had friends like I'm married on New Year's Eve like at like a 10 o'clock Ceremony and then it's like now. It's just a New Year's Eve party. Fine. Great. Perfect Valentine's Day Yeah, perfect great great then you start to get into like It's not wrong, but it's just interesting like if you got married on St. Patrick's Day and had a St. Patrick's themed wedding. It's not like well this conflicts with my other plans, but interesting choice Where is Thanksgiving?

The only thing here, well, there's two things here in American Thanksgiving is stealing the entire country from indigenous people Stealing the whole ass country. Yeah, we stole the whole ass country again and two Eating and not doing stuff, right? Yeah, like wearing comfy clothes and eating too much now if you're like days a holiday Not every day's a holiday Let's talk about April 6th the day we're recording this today. You could be celebrating Fresh fresh tomato day. No, no. Hey Justin. That's an observant. That's not a holiday people aren't getting off school You knew I was gonna do a few of them. Why are you jumping down my throat? Sorry go ahead juice get your jollies off It's Charlie the tuna day. Oh

What shit I didn't get Theresa anything Hostess Twinkie Day is today. It's a national caramel popcorn Hey, Justin, look up what day November 23rd is this year But it's gonna say Thanksgiving, but I guarantee it's gonna say other things I just real quick a few others today is playing your epitaph day Teflon day and new beer's eaves whatever Oh I'm celebrating all of those at the same time

I'm not I'm planning me at my epitaph, but it's okay cuz I'm just fully coated in Teflon now Let's get fucked up. It's new beer's eave. It's so the 23rd. Oh A lot going on. It's Fibonacci day. Oh tomorrow is national beer day. So today is new beer's eave That's great national Margaret day. I don't want to talk about days anymore. Yeah, it's too close to monthly observances I I don't think I don't I think Why do they do this? That's a fucked up thing to do first for a large set of people a lot of married people I will say Use Thanksgiving as a kind of bargaining chip. Yes in the Deciding where to go for which holidays and visit who's thing, right? Do you know what I mean? Like oh, we're doing Thanksgiving

Here this year and then we can do Christmas over on this one Etc. Etc to just like take that whole That whole whole day because if you if one of you is better friends Like if you're in a relationship and your partner is good friends of the person getting married and you are not you'll never dig out from underneath that Dead, you'll never you'll never like we had to skip Thanksgiving to go to your I don't think you can go I wouldn't go send a nice video message I would I would actually say and also in this order the fact that you flaked a bunch is actually better Because it's great. If you know you've set a tone you set a tone, right? If you had if you had

Managed to like a hundred percent everything up till now The precedent is difficult, but might I also suggest that if your ex roommate planned their wedding on Thanksgiving Maybe that's an energy you don't need in your life Sure, maybe it's such a chaotic person I would be part of growing up is removing people from your life Oh, I bet you didn't see this fucking twist coming when you said this email in huh? Huh, just to excise this person from your existence. We're here. We're here. We are Hey, can we approach the wizard?

Thank you just really Griffin I would like to approach a wizard with a lot of hubris, but then learn About humility and about myself through the process if that works for this one. Yeah, sure that works fine You're a frog now. He did that. Oh, that's gonna teach me a lot. I've seen from I think so too Yeah, sure. I actually doesn't learn a lot of humility in that movie the prince definitely does the prince is the one who needed the Lesson so how to contact yourself in a parallel universe. Thank you Douglas for sending this one in This is about Curious how to contact yourself in a parallel universe. Yeah while tapping while tapping into alternate universes or a uses all purely theoretical

Oh Oh, good. It's winking. He's trying to wink as loud as he can so it plays on the mic God, he's really going for it. It's a ton of fun to think about if you're into sci-fi guided meditation visualization or creative Exercises jump right into this article here. You'll learn about exciting concepts like wormholes and the fifth dimension So you can see and talk to all the versions yourself. Fuck. Yes, everything everywhere all at once great movie best flick ever How but how can I make that happen for me today? Yes, how can I get you into this premium? Yeah verse right now Can I just I just want to come out swinging and say I think Griffin would get along well with his alternate self

I think just so I get along well with his alternate so I think me and my alternate self We would not get along. No, not at all. We would we're we're I'm already too much Yeah, as a one. Yeah as it to the feedback loop would be too much to bear There's already too many Travis McRoy sort of rattling around over there So we're gonna start with this a parallel universe is one of countless alternate realities. We're gonna get kind of like Pretty smart on this one talking about like a lot. We can do smart thing like yeah, man You smart stuff. Yeah, like we can do that. We can do it more more cerebral. Yeah. Yeah, we tone it down on purpose That's what a lot of people don't know

Most definitely we could do it. It's all theoretical science, but it's fun to think about stop it Stop couching it. Yeah, just tell me how to fucking just tell me how to everything everywhere, please If the universe is limitless, then it's possibly home to an infinite amount of realities that are parallel to each other because there's just so much space Cool, cool. Okay, so how to contact yourself in a parallel universe travel through space with the But De Broglie wavelength de Broglie wavelength. I've tried that How did I get this race for starters? Well, Justin Broglie wavelength. Yeah, when president musk takes office He's gonna make me travel. Hey Travis. I wish you I wish you shan't

Shant and shouldn't I wish I would step back from that. I would beg of you. I would beg of you to shant A brief age Travis my brother make a brief allow us to shant, please. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right Let me shant real quick No, you got a shant three times on wood Travel through space with the De Broglie wavelength and a you with a high-tech machine can deliver you to your alternate self Reach out to another society where you have access to equipment capable of sending out a wavelength that can reach infinite realities It'll be able to pick up your signal and bring you over to a parallel universe A de Broglie wavelength has a very high value of kinetic energy and associated

This isn't gonna work. Can I tell you why Griffin and Justin? Yeah, my brothers where to begin my brothers in science because if I am traveling and We're in an infinite universe actually there are also infinite means traveling We're all gonna get to each other's universe and be one universe over gonna be there Yeah, like yeah, we should have coordinated. I needed to contact them beforehand. Yeah, I'm gonna come to you Yeah, you wait there half of us half of us travel half of us wait left. Yeah. Yeah So I'm just gonna do this I guess Like I know my own phone number. Yeah, so I'm gonna de Broglie wavelength it and just sort of get like, you know

Like cyber consciousness Hive mind Griffin like way out there in the a you Niverse mm-hmm to just like hit me up at my on my Moby right now. Oh, yeah, maybe like I know that my Like my number, right if I'm calling it or not mine starts with one, right? It's one and then area code in the thing. Maybe if I just called to and then my phone number I'll get the next Travis over Okay, right. Maybe we have the same number, but the difference is just there starts with two It's worth a shot anything's worth a shot. Maybe that's what a de Broglie wavelength is

Oh, your other option here is to jump through an Einstein rose and wormhole fall into this. I mean, yeah Fall into this black hole fall into this black hole for a shortcut to encounter your alternate self Yeah, my main issue with reaching out to my alternate self is how long it takes. Yeah, man I would love to jump into This black hole just as a quick little worker. This a life hack when reaching out to your a you Don't do it the long normal. No, you don't need it the Broglie wavelength You don't have heard the Broglie wave wave way too long to cook one of those up find a black hole Spits pretty if you can find an Einstein rose and wormhole, but in this economy Griffin in this economy

Yeah Technically speaking once technology is developed to safely travel through a wormhole without the danger of it collapsing on you Sure, you'll travel faster than the speed of light. Yeah. So like yeah, OVS. It's not there are Certain risks Well, yeah, Griffin there's certain risks in science. We know that right when Marie Curie was sitting there eating uranium to see if it cured Whatever was wrong with her, right? She knew what was happening like that when When Pasteur was eating all that old milk and he was like, maybe this will do something, right? We know that he was risking it for the biscuit it right we get it sure we get it. That's what science is

You can't listen. No Bell had to blow up a lot of stuff to find the first award, right exactly That's how he discovered awards. That's right. What if he gave that to I bet do you think he gave it to Do you know belt is something really good? He was like, you know what you deserve a break today No, it's gonna order you so I'm gonna do it for you This this we're gonna call this this ice-cold mountain dude. Yeah, pizza. We're gonna call this the Nobel Prize This is just for you doing such a good job today Now close your Nobel eyes and take a Nobel nap and enjoy your Nobel Prize Then I signed opens his window and looks he's like, oh shit. How did you get pizza?

You got to do something really good Yeah, like really really good for humanity and no bell on he did it is the rake is long But he didn't yeah, I signed that I signed you got to come through clutch with a real good one You got to help me paint this fence I was like no problem, buddy catch you in a year and he comes back. He's like a bombs Yeah, here you go man. That is good here. It is your pizza I was blown stuff up with dynamite my dad and you made it a bomb nice Thank you Einstein not a lot of people talk about this

But you can still to this day and it says it in small lettering on the Nobel Prize Turn it in at a pizza hut for personal pan pizza and a large round do not a lot of people tell you that But you could turn it in look go to your local pizza. They got a stack of them in the back Just waiting to be picked up huge stack a personal pan Nobel Peace prizes Find the distance time and tech needed to enter in a you The Einstein Rosen wormhole works both ways sure right like you can't just expect I'm sign on one end Rosen on the other Yes, no, no, no, no like your alternate. Hey Trav dial in cuz this is Fun is the sign you're jazzing over there and we love that here, but also like we're in a pretty heavy intellectual

Right, right. Let me space right now, and I want us to try and respect that okay You can't just rely on everything everywhere all at once Griffin to hit you up So sometimes you have to run the formulas like Just write down my alternate self will travel one million light years in one second with a special machine and Then okay, so we this is similar to very early in our run I said that if time travel ever exists, this is the moment. I want to come back to right I'm still waiting on. Oh, I do have a text. Oh It's dad how disappointing you can also my alternate self will instantly travel to the closest parallel universe through astral projection

Yes, you can just like yeah My alternate self will access the furthest parallel universe by reading a magical tone Wait now hold on So our options So far the Broglie wavelength Yeah, I'm Stein Rosen wormhole if you want to do it quick and dirty Yeah, um then we have astral projection and then a magic tome Just any yeah a magic tome

Which one that'll help you with this next one too because you can also hop into an alternate reality. That's 2d. Oh Oh So you imagine a flat universe to see yourself as a comic book character think about a parallel universe Or everything is two-dimensional for some extra fun think about what comic book you'd live in and what type of character you'd be in this special universe Yeah, hold on. Hey, um If I was a two-dimensional Comic book character, I wouldn't be able to see any of the shit that was happening on that plane Yeah, I'm pretty sure

It's supposed to be three like in their year We're looking at a picture like if I look at a picture of something happening here I'm not like if I take a picture of my office and I look at that. I'm not like oh a two-dimensional world No, it's not this isn't flat land Right, this isn't when you become when you're in the comic book. You can also see kind of what's around you or else It would just be sort of one You know what I mean So you can say to yourself like I'm the superhero holiday hurricane and I fly in to take on villains in underserved neighborhoods while supporting mental health. Oh

Wow, that's a wide swath. I am a random the random barista that everyone thinks is an NPC But actually is responsible for giving them life-changing advice or I am a high-level sorceress that people suspect is a villain yet I'm really saving the planet with countercurses. Hey, wait. Hold on. Can we talk about the three? Characters there if they were handing those out to us and they're like, yeah, you're gonna be the high level sorceress You're the holiday hurricane and you're a barista that is a seems like a normal person, but actually gives really good advice I'm sorry. Uh, just What was that? What was that last one there if I could have Something laser eyes anything, please. Yo, hey kids access the fourth dimension

Hey, oh kids access the fourth dimension travel through time and yeah, I'm past our future Well, I can get to the future. No problem. Here we go. Here I go Imagine the fourth dimension is every point in time and space in every parallel universe, okay? Okay, I did it decide where you'd like to go or who you'd like to come in contact with Maybe you may want to visit your past self from this current reality. So travel to meet yourself for years I've already been him. I'm mad at that sucks I would have all to meet myself from like two years ago. I'm gonna say Justin I know you're about to launch into a project for

Bending reality so you can interact with yourself. I'm here from the future to tell you you are wasting your fucking Pointless it doesn't work. It does work. I does work cuz I'm here now talking to you, but I'm saying like it's not It's like not worth it. Yeah Just go rewatch BSG rewatch BSG. I know you Are you gonna eat that also cuz I could eat that now and then it's future food. We don't have beef anymore. Sorry Whoops Sorry fourth dimensions hard, but if you do feel confident You can take the next step and this is kind of the one that I'm on which is that you enter the fifth dimension

Contact your your soul Wait, you into the fifth the fifth everybody's wondering where is this thing? Fifth dimension is where the soul is Ascend to the spirit world and access your higher self find your higher self a spiritual being that's free from pain or fear and that only Experiences pure love in the fifth dimension to access the fifth dimension. Yeah 5d Activate your imagination and creativity something as simple as listening to your favorite song or meditating on kindness can help a channel the 5d Hey, can we just for a second acknowledge the rapidly fluctuating vibe of this article? Oh for the place, huh? Yeah, this one AI

No, this one by my scientist uncle and my new wave on Taking turns at the computer. What's happening here? I'm loving it. Can I okay? So just to recap Yeah, the dimensions are yeah, hi black comic books We got height right well lines. Yeah, we got with points this one Point one one is to the dead there is three Cubis three cuba's three and then time cube that exists for longer than a second And then a cube that exists for longer than you know and point doesn't ask sorry a point zero

Okay point line square cube Cube that lasts right you've that last that paint is a line 2d Cube that lasts that paint is where we are on that's like the shit. We are on we love that last them paints Yeah, okay so we're talking about the fifth dimension is the spirit one and I think it might not be too late for us to change the name of the year 20surf and see channel the 5d or something along those lines because that's really the type of energy that I'm gonna Well, you never you don't have to change it because it can be true

That can be true also Okay, surf the vibe channel the 5d different dimensions. Yes different verses. Yeah, and a different universe It has always been it's always been like that too in my estimation I didn't think okay. Listen. I know I don't feel like we hold wiki how to especially high bar here We don't know that right. We're very permissive. We're very permissive. We take all all sorts here I just don't I don't like that. There's this article. It is actually getting on our nerves that this article's like just dream it Yeah, man. No, okay, so let's get back here. You're right. Let's get back into the into the process This article is getting more stoned as we go. I need a bullet pointed like unscrew the lid

Put the blade in the stone like that. Yeah So this one we're gonna get back into like actual practical stuff here. Thank you. Thank you Imagine a differently colored world to see your alternate self wait Focus on the vibrant new shades of an a you to call out to another you as a quick and fun way to visualize yourself in a Parallel reality switch up the color scheme a bit for instance Maybe the moon is purple a shade associated with creativity and the Sun is black a hue connected with mystery in this world Your alternate self might cast spells under the darkness of the Sun and pray to the moon to ask for artistic abundance. What? Yeah, and then yes, you

Open the lid Uh-huh take out the device and put it activate it and then yeah Here's what I'm saying if there's another universe where my self can cast spells Then the onus is on them I'm here having a hard time getting my computer to boot up sometimes and I'm supposed to reach another universe You can fucking conjure shit get here and that's frustrating For me, but I also know there's probably alternate realities where I'm just like a little slug and I can't even dream of this incredible life

No, you're just trying to avoid salt The I'm like Slopping around with the other slugs. I'm like 1d and we're like wouldn't it be cool if we could like Make a podcast and they can't but we can do not I mean maybe like slug have the idea given That's what gave you the idea to start a podcast What if it's interesting all the idea? That's how that slug contacted you the slugs got together and they burned their entire world to get the idea of make a podcast to you guys This is a powerful

Energy I feel like I'm tapping into right now Which is what if I just live my life thinking that I'm a 1d slug man that traveled across All of the the mom the omniverse to be here today and this incredible Three-dimensional world. I just want to apologize to Rachel for all the bong rip sounds She just had to edit out of different segment. There's a lot of work Rachel. I realized there are a lot of them But thank you for all your hard work The final one is write a message to communicate with your alternate self boring

Yeah, man, you just told me to dream in different colors and reach myself that cast spells and now you're like, I don't know man Write it down Can we go on money's own, please? Yes, let's go. I just bought a fucking lot of crystals Okay, well we have both ends of the comfort array. Yeah, Griffin I would like to make you more comfortable By getting all that man. Yeah socks that support your sport. You know how you're always sporting Griffin Yeah, sure and be it regular or E You want to be comfortable? Yeah, sure. So I want to get you some bombast socks They don't say it here in the copy but take it from me a professional e-sports store

You can wear them while you're doing say track and field But you can also wear them while redesigning your farm on Stardew Valley for people to watch on Twitter Like it's comfortable for both those things. There's no law against wearing these socks for like You and twitch, you're not yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. Tell me about it. So Bombastocks beat ass. I'm gonna take the baton here and to just sort of get my own little personal endorsement They're really really really Really good socks. They also have lightweight t-shirts that are so comfortable and they have underwear that It's like it vanishes

Into the ether when you pull your pants up on over them. It's like am I wearing underwear? I am I not? I don't know shrodinger's underpants. It's shrodinger's underpants. They're They're they're incredible. I have a lot of Bombast stuff in my my daily rotation And I'm a big fan and I have a lot of pairs of shrodinger's underpants that I've bought on ebay and some of them came with certificates of Authenticity and some of them didn't so if you're an expert in it and you can help me identify if I was You know duped or not. I'd really appreciate it. How much did you spend on all that? Oh my god, Griffin? It was I would say on average. It was either

$200 or free depending on if I look at my bank account or not Well, yeah, I think you can find much better deals if you go to bombast.com slash my brother and use code my brother for 20% off your first purchase I'm Lisa Hannah Walt and I'm Emily Heller. Wow Emily. We've been doing this podcast for 10 years I know but hey, don't worry. You can jump in at literally any episode and hear us talk about some of our favorite stuff Caterpillars becoming butterflies Martha Stewart flying around in a private jet full of trees. Yes, you heard me right trees Neighbors becoming enemies just kidding Whatever messed up stuff we can find on Wikipedia our impeccable taste in everything from dogs to TV shows to bodily functions And horses lots and lots of horses come for our horned up rants about the world stay for the catchy theme songs

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This year, however, we both applied for a position at the same company and we were both hired This is great news, but we're wondering when is the appropriate time to reveal this information both jobs Both jobs are entirely remote in the design industry and my partner and I have in different last names Hypothetically, we could never tell them or tell them on the first day of work Or we could just let them figure it out when the same children water on camera. What do you think gentlemen? Wow? Andrea or Andrea. I I take this answer. There's no wrong answer here. It's just like what how much fun Do we want to have what you want to build you could?

Put on the world's greatest show. Yes for your workers. Yeah, the most You the way that you could slow play this to build a Like X files conspiracy amongst your Collaborators. Yeah, it is a it is a tremendous and generous gift that you could give them That would take no small amount of effort on your part to upkeep Leading up to the reveal the prestige when they walk out into each other's rooms And I like I just switch rooms

Which rent hole my god? Well, that would be even part of the slow play You don't even tell them that they're doing that just like that plant that was in their office Yeah, and there's this oh my god You also have a chance here because this a lot of will they won't they like officer audiences begin naturally But you have the chance to like fully script one because you already know that the answer is they will right? So but you could have a will it was like that first zoom meeting where you're on call and people are like Did you feel there's a little buzz between them, but you're not it's a different hires No, it's a company. They work for the same company

Same industry different company. We both applied for a position at the same company and we were both hired Oh, it's a sentence that you read out loud with your human mouth You did read it out. I can't use this part and the talk part It hurts when I try to do that man. I can't use the think and the talk I'll see here's what's weird for me. It's left and right for me left. Yeah, it's so it makes a lot of sense actually But that way you can build a certain dynamic and people are like I feel like there's and then one day You're just like hey, we should tell you we're married and they're like, I knew it. Yeah, you guys work Everyone's gonna love that

Except for the HR person who I hope will be fired if they don't lock that like what do you do? One that you gotta detect you got to get one of those it kind of feels like YouTuber sent from corporate to test the HR there've been some leaks if any HR department if you can score Like if you can play it for even like I think three months is the minimum and do that's the whole relationship And then get married. Yeah, like a lope. Yes, and then be like honeymoon time I think you could score to get a honeymoon vacation. Yeah Yes, pay vacation the whole nine yards I'm loving anyone feel invested and you're gonna have to this part is gonna be rough

You're gonna have to force people to choose sides. Oh, yeah It's not gonna be compelling unless there's some storminess over like oh, yeah Cation or like yes misaligned priorities Whatever yes, you gotta in it bring people in make them choose sides Make them choose one or the other and then we unite everyone you have to end and maybe that's what we need With a wedding that I assure you I just got a prompt. No one can come to yeah, you have it's a little Thanksgiving The the perfect callback doesn't exist, but wait The hero from the Mount shit. We're only at 40 minutes. We can't stop there

Kidding I was that but Man, this is the problem with not going into munch squad right after the break because much squad eats up time Where it feels like it's all just everybody's just having fun And then it feels off-paced to do another question afterwards. You're like, oh man. Yeah, it's gotta be wrapping up by now God Put your glasses back on you look so weird without them Whoa, put your glasses Put them on there. He is there's my boy Travis on or off. It's up to you my friend

I can't accept you either way. No back on put them on Sonic's getting groovy With the head hack squad Sonics being getting groovy with drink hack inspired by the new paramount plus show Greece why rise of the pink ladies wait Fucking 80% of our audience has just reached vertically for their keyboard like that's a fucking They're doing I don't know yet one third at least one third of this podcasting crew is doing that as well me Absolutely had no idea until I saw this press release this press release. I mean

Shout out to this kind of thing because this time it worked. It didn't work. I got me I I encountered this show because of has Sonic has the question How did the pink ladies rise to power haunted generations now that I was I've seen Greece I've been in Greece and never once was I like yeah, but hold on guys stop stop How did they get so powerful? How did they get so powerful? Yeah, the idea having the this the stones to make it not only a spin-off, but like a prequel to like what happened before it's massive Anybody placing bats taking your bats on Olivia Newton John hologram in the show got to got to got to do it Let's talk about the drink though. That's what people care about

Greece rise of the pink ladies Greece is the Greece is the word. Yeah, this is not it's not a word I want associated with a beverage ever Yeah, good point Greece is the word this spring in partnership with paramount plus sonic drive-in is Celebrating the premiere of the new original series Greece rise of the pink ladies Imagine my my my pleasure at knowing that it is in partnership with them I had I do would love the idea of you just be like hey guys. We're just excited about the movie big fans

We didn't ask for just big fans Deborah and accounting just loves love screams so much We thought this was for Debbie this is for you by the iconic pink ladies from right, Elhi this This yeah, I may have a word count had to reach this special beverage That's special Special beverage is made by combining a sprite with cherry. Can I interest any of you in a special beverage? You're under arrest This special beverage is made by combining sprite with Cherry and vanilla flavors and topping it with sweet cream

Fans can easily make this craveable creation using the sonic at home We're not even selling this one. We just had an idea for it We know you're gonna be watching rise of the pink ladies at home This is what we're gonna be making do you want to make them at home? I'm gonna drive to sonic to and wait for someone to bring it to you so you could drive home and watch You can also make hamburgers at home. Did you guys know that make hamburgers at home hot dogs at home? Now Trav there's some things they got at sonic that I could not make at home They got some like cinnamon filled donut balls that just you're not gonna be able to cook up without a factory listen

listen Fans can make this craveable creation using the sonic app and then get transported to the land of doo-wops Whoa, whoa and pink poodle skirts. Yeah, cool. That's where I'd want Yeah, if I had a teleporter machine, I can reach out to any a youth of the fifth dimension for sure right Elhi And I and I sonic I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there's at least a poor severe audience that would not be Super excited to be transported to the air Two-wops and poodle skirts. Maybe not all of us were fair and super good. Yeah Timeline, yeah, maybe maybe that might be maybe they just wanted a refreshing beverage and the

Sonic but that is the place to go though. Sonic is the ultimate drink stop with thousands of drink combinations Why you can also enjoy half price drinks and slushies anytime with the app and there's half price sonic cheeseburgers on Tuesday nights I'm just saying if you Make and sell a special beverage. You shouldn't need a thousand other options. Yeah, that's true Just a little special and by your convictions and say this is it thinking of that What's even better than finding a new drink to enjoy alongside your new streaming obsession? guys I Do want to continue on here. I

You're pretty fucking close to not being able to enjoy these two things simultaneously I would say like if you drive you're gonna have to bring you're gonna have to tether, right? Yeah, you're gonna have to tether on your laptop and Have the bet like have it waiting to press the play button if you drive this thing home. It's gonna be an Undrinkable wait, you don't have a beverage chiller in your center console for just this occasion Just this occasion with themed Streaming theme drink. What's even better than finding a new drink to enjoy alongside your new streaming obsession? Oh wait, let me guess Oh, can I guess? Yeah, go ahead guess for a thousand million years the laughter of my children

Incorrect. Ah, damn it, but not that far off. How about some kind of hot dog? How about helping a local school? Powered by the sonic foundation sonic donates a portion of all drink slush and shake sales Hey, can I just tell you tell you right now? Imagine you're an elementary school child and you get an announcement like the sonic foundation is stopping by tomorrow The level of disappointment you have been set up for is so high I'm gonna get knuckles to sign my Who's this guy? Why is his hair so fucking wet? Where is sonic the head?

Did did Robotnik sent you? Is this guy fucking Robotnik? Get him! John Travolta. Get his ass! John Travolta the actor. Yeah, okay, get him. Good What's even better than finding a new drink to enjoy alongside your new streamer session? How about helping a local school? Powered by the sonic foundation sonic donates a portion of all drink slush and shake sales To support public education through the brand's limates for learning initiative. Wow What a powerful tool that is the limates for learning initiative since 2009 Sonic has donated more than 24 million dollars to funding local classrooms becoming one of the largest programs to support public education in the US

Now when they say local classrooms, do they mean local to anywhere local local in what way? Globally local Yeah, we within 500 feet of a sonic and then yeah, that's it here at sonic University. We love teaching kids. Let me just say Limade is putting kids through college. That's a special beverage the amount of disappointment you're setting yourself up for when you go to sonic University My fishing teacher either way you're gonna learn how to make chili dogs No matter right the wind diagram is a very small overlap, but it's there small How long do you think? Oh now that I'm saying this I is a hundred percent certain How long do you think?

representatives for sonic the movie and sonic the drive-through like sat across the table from each other like It feels like yeah We have to have common ground. I'm trying to do the math in my head and then the sonic restaurant people like I know I know I've been trying to do it all for weeks. There's I know there's something Even while they're just that I like to picture a scenario in which one of them is like Let's talk about this and the other side's like I don't see it working. It's just like how do you not? How do you not see it? How do you not who's who is slobbing in that case? Oh man? God? That's a great question juice

I bet in their minds both of them are right like they're like I can't believe we're here both of those franchises have at times Given me horrible diarrhea You guys think that it is weird that we made it this like that we did basically the episode the first episode to drop Since Super Mario Brothers came out and we didn't we spent a lot of it out Yeah, it came out last night. Yeah came out last night as the crow flies and our views are in and This one's a reels one up. Yeah, the critics agree It's a film with Mario in it. I don't have a I don't have a bit I just want to acknowledge that we know we know it seems weird to us, too

That we didn't decide to discuss the Super Mario Brothers. We'll do a Mario watch. We'll get around to it I am gonna do a sneak preview though this week's besties our gaming show is all about The Super Mario Brothers movie and I'm gonna be doing a bit where I bring you some of the great metaphors that critics have used Video gaming metaphor You might enjoy Richard Krauss who says it comes with all the charm of an unplugged Game Boy, huh? Well, we're Hey, so so that's a bat that it Mmm, that doesn't make any sense Absolute that's a wild thing for you to say you're talking about it plugged into a weird peripheral like the printer that came with it

So but yeah, I don't know man. I'm sure that's what I would never I don't get keep video games I don't get keep almost any media I will say though if that if you thought that was a good joke your your ass is probably not the target demo for the Super Mario Brothers Yeah, man You've managed to whiff on like the biggest notable thing about the Game Boy pretty much Oh, like the biggest defining feature of the game boy Being that it required no plugins Why don't we wrap why don't we wrap up?

Okay, just like the show or like the series my recording says 51 minutes. Is that wrong? No, that's where we're at. Okay. I think we should wrap up though. It's been a good episode. It's solid We got a lot to talk about here folks a lot to talk about Most notably we are kicking off the 27 and see surf the vibe to her This Thursday moon tower just for laughs April 13th 7 p.m. My brother my brother me Austin, Texas Don't miss it ACL live very excited. We're gonna be Very good. Get your tickets now because the show is in like three days. So Don't get your ticket after that McElroy tours. There you go

dress for all these shows and then we're gonna jump back into the fancy takes flight tour to do shows in San Jose and Denver we're gonna be in San Jose on April 27th with the Brea Ion gar doing adventure zone April 28th in San Jose doing my brother my brother in me April 29th and Denver doing my brother my brother in me Tickets for that are also available at big dot L. Y slash McElroy tours And as I said that is themed fancy takes flight and then we're jumping back Into our 27 and see surf the vibe to her We're gonna be in Columbus, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Raleigh, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, San Diego, California

And probably more. I don't know but for right now. Those are the ones that are on sale Bit dot L. Y slash McElroy tours. Go. Yeah, get it Thank you to Montaigne for the use for our theme song. My life is better with you That one is a blessing Yeah And a curse because he won't stop listening to it. It's so good sure huge curse and it will make you dance until you die So like those will it is the killing song those like but other than that so good That's the only other one gotta listen to it. What's jack got for us today? Well, Griffin. I'm

100 well, no, I'm 98% certain. This is the wrong jack Johnson But just in case and again, I you know, I've said it before there isn't a wrong jack Johnson trap That's beautiful the possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy Does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life jack Johnson Just I'm Griffin back brother brother me kiss your dad square on the lips It's better Maximum fun org comedy and culture artist owned audience supported