My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 672: Sure Thing, Dave Matthews

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

It’s August 2023, aliens are real, and so is Dave Matthews. He could be anywhere! In light of this new information, we’re doing our best to keep things light and loose so we’re ready for the upcoming taco wars that will define our founding-father given rights to Taco Tuesday for good. Suggested talking points: Reggie Used to work at America, Crash into Dave, Filling the Pockets of Taco Bell’s Lawyers, The Code of the West Earthjustice: https://earthjustice.org/

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sex expert, 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? What, Derek, three! It's the start of something beautiful A small quaintance has blossomed It's rapid into a precious fraction

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It's better with you. Hello everybody. Welcome to my brother, my brother, me and advice show for the Modenera. I'm your oldest brother, Justin Macaroy. I'm your middle-aged brother, feeling great over here, Travis Macaroy. Just having a great day.

Yeah, me too. Not new, not new. It's Griffin Macaroy. Sweet baby brother. I'm having a great day. Yeah, me too. Not now. It's Griffin Macro. I have a great day over here, guys. Suns out. It's a beautiful day. I made the perfect omelet this morning. Our sun.

Our sun. Our sun, aliens are real. It's a great day. It's a normal day for us. And let me talk about this omelet, guys. I figured it out. I got the perfect cook on both sides. Aliens are real.

There was tomatoes in there. Yeah, sure. I did some like steamed carrots in there. So cheese, aliens are real. And then like what I did is I put a lid on so it would get kind of non-stick liquid on both sides, aliens are real. And then like I folded the omelette over

and got the perfect flip. It was perfect, aliens are real. Yeah, yeah. Did you the almond over and got the perfect flip. It was perfect aliens. Great. Yeah, yeah. Did you put moon onions on it? They all got eight by the aliens that Tom belongs with talking about all these years. God damn it, Tom, I'm sorry. We didn't listen, Tom, we laughed at your expense so much, Tom.

But then I guess earlier this week, government comes out. It's like aliens are real and internet is like, okay, man, whatever. Elon's doing some funny shit though. So we're gonna just sort of ho-did on that. Do you know how bad a job the government has to be doing that when they're like, aliens are real, that the American people are like, we don't actually care about that right now.

Let's talk about everything else you're doing. Yeah. I, yeah, I can't be too worried about it when the government of America, their big thing is like, you guys gotta let us know by more of this alien stuff. I don't, can I go ahead and say, I don't think you should, I don't think they should be in on those conversations at all really, I don't really think

they need more information about UFOs and stuff. It's that they've had so long to talk about this. And they've been, things are getting pretty high fee for us earth, earth bound people. And they could like the 90s would have been great. We all had a lot of spare time on our planet. Yeah, that would have been ideal. We would have been all about it the 90s would have been great. We all had a lot of spare time on our play. Yeah, that would have been ideal. We would have been all about it.

And it's huge. In the end of the day, Earth Girls are easy if they had just been like, and by the way, is a duckumentary. Yeah. We would have been like, okay, I have the time to process this. Yeah, I'm interested in what this could possibly mean for like our place in the universe.

Right now though, it's like, yeah man, cool. But also, what are you doing about all this other stuff? Yeah. The guys who heard about the aliens and told everyone, the town tail. The town tail. The town tail. The town tail.

The town tail, so I'll call him for legal reasons, okay? Yeah. The town tail, he used to work at America, right? But no longer does. And he is the person who said aliens. Yep. Check him out, he loved it. Right?

Yeah. There's lots of people that used to work at America. We realize this, right? A lot of people, different kinds of people from a wide array of experiences after that. Lots of people used to work at America. I don't think one cat who seems very credible for sure. Yeah.

But then America is still saying no on the aliens. So yeah. So we need to we need his friend Reggie, who also worked for America to be like, this dude's legit. I need a Reggie. I need at least one Reggie in there to be like, this dude knows what he's fucking talking about.

Here's what I would say, Griffin, I don't want his friend Reggie. I want the guy who doesn't really like him so much. Yeah, like listen, I don't get along with him. I can't stand that dude whatsoever. But yeah, yeah, if he says there's aliens then, I trust him. Or you need a tells bully. Who's the tells bully that made a life tough for him in the middle school to say like, listen,

I don't know this kid anything. And his dad is poor. But he is, well, look at his stupid haircut. Look at his hair. Stupid. They're BK nights. Okay, it is poor. But, and Jimmy is, and look at his stupid haircut. All right, look at his haircut. He's too stupid, they're BK nights. Okay, it's ridiculous. Give me a sweaty, a sweaty government point dexter, who's like, oh, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

Even that would be enough for me to be like, I think this guy knows what he's fucking talking about. Yeah. Yeah, give me a Jeff Goldblum type. Give me a Goldblum type, he goes, well, actually, we found that the aliens are real and this guy's haircut is cool, actually.

Yeah. We all agreed he got a cool haircut and the aliens are true. It's true. I, I, here's my problem with the alien thing. Okay, go off, King. I wanna go off, okay. There is, if there's aliens, they're from very far away. Fair. Yeah. At least a hundred miles.

And the idea that they would reach the technology to travel like that. Yeah. So close to our plan, its ability to travel like that in the grand cosmic scope. The idea that they would be here just when we're ready to be like awesome because you think we're ready to zip, zip zap on out of the close. And we would have been what I'm saying is if aliens were coming, they could have come at any time. Yeah. And I refuse to believe that they have ever been anywhere near earth in any time in the last 10,000 years, because if you look at history, all people knotted over everything. That's true, man.

They, they, there's a big hot ball in the sky. I'm literally like a bajillion people are like, that's my dude. And he's like, what? Yeah. Like the big star, that's my dude up there. That's my dude. I roll with him every day and I love him. And literally millions of people are like,

Hey, yeah, the big ball. Are you talking fucking alien landed on earth? Every one of them, everybody wouldn't have been like, okay, all the books that we had so far about different people in the sky and the sun, burn it all We're starting over start over with bees bow over here And he's like I'm coming peace or like absolutely all our shit's about you now

For you have a big hot ball unless unless all these aliens who have come to earth over time Came to one person at a time and they were like hey, what's going on? No one's ever gonna fucking believe you one person at a time and they were like, hey, what's going on? No one's ever gonna fucking believe you. My, like, unless you have been- Also, they're still marrying. They're built, they've at least been been marrying to this boy.

It's also possible that the aliens have kept coming to Earth and landed on it and been like, everyone here is so sick. Yeah. Everyone here is sick all the time. Oh, you're not sick like coughing, not like these guys were. Everyone here, like history,

I don't know much about it, except that like, there have been pretty big chunks of it where like everyone was sick. And so they come and they were just like, it's not, this is not a great vibe. It's like if you show up to a party, you know, sometimes you show up to a party and everyone there is very sick.

Yeah. You don't want to keep hanging out. No, you leave, you head out. sometimes you show up to a party and everyone there is very sick. Yeah. You don't want to keep hanging out. No, you leave. You head out. Can I say my favorite thing in all of the claims of the UFO evidence is that the government has quote, non-human DNA. To which point, I would direct your guys' attention over my shoulder to my fish tank full

of non-human DNA. Yeah. Yeah. Well, kinds of non-human's in there, swimming around. Hey, Kami, there's a non-human. That's a non-human. They non human DNA. Yeah. Guys are not humans in this swimming around. Hey, Kami, there's the non human. That's the non human. They've got DNA. That's a snail. I bet that snail's got DNA.

He's got an incredible exoskeleton. They've got Kighten wearing exoskeleton non human beings. Hey, in a positive space. Yeah. Sure. If an alien is one alien in our generation, has landed among us and lived in a prominent public life. Yeah, who is it? Cool, we're getting into some fun.

No, who is it? I mean, I already referenced Cold Bloom once. I't think I can't be gold bloom go bloom too cool I there is it oh by the way this is this seems like kind of a thought experiment, but there's a right answer There's a right answer the wrong it Zuckerberg Zuckerberg are you on I think it's gonna be interesting Zuckerberg's play the long game If so he he Met but I don't think so. I do like the idea of an alien landing. I'm gonna revolutionize your shit.

This is the internet, like 3.0 meta. And that's being like, hey, alien, that's fucking dumb. That's dumb. What are you talking about? He landed on Earth and they're like, holy shit, an alien, what do you wanna do? I wanna meet college kids. Like, okay.

Oh no. I guess we're in, man. I wanna make a whole thing about it so I can meet college kids. Do you know any twin brothers that I could scam? I need to trick my friend who looks like Andrew Garfield This guy's two guys this guy's two guys he must be the smartest guy. I need two twins super burgers. Two twins super perfect cannibal for my plans. Okay, it's just David Blaine. Oh, okay. He comes to earth, act in the form, get in a while with Leo, okay? Having fun with his celebrity friends. Eventually, he gets bored with his minor alien magic. Was David Blaine in the collection of celebrities

with Leonardo DiCaprio that I will not name, I will not name this group, but did he belong to this group that would go out and perhaps try to connect with ladies in a sexual manner? I don't listen. The point is David Blaine got tired of living on earth among us and he started showing us. I can fly and everyone's like, I don't think so. He's like, no, no, no, watch. Flying. And then he really wants to push it. He's like, I know something these dummies would never believe.

Eight minutes underwater. No problem. And everyone's like, wow know something these dummies would never believe. Eight minutes underwater, no problem. And everyone's like, wow, humans are amazing. He's like, you're missing the point. That's not the humans are amazing. I'm afraid that stuff in a block of ice. Our dad, Clint McLean, I already did that. Yeah. Yeah.

He's an alien too. I don't know what he wanted. He's a planeswalk, he walks between realities. What if it's Tom, the long long and he's just kind of been Sort of playing with us a little bit kind of like having a little fun like me a little game out of it Have you heard him sing? He's otherworldly his his pipe his pipes Out of this world. I just hope they I just hope they talk normal Ali no, yeah, America. No, no, no, I didn't say that.

I agree with you. Is that what you're saying? Hey, shut up and let me talk. Hey, shush. I just hope they talk normal. Like, I don't want it. Like, if they come down and when they talk, it sounds like a like two octopuses rubbing together, then they're going to get frustrated. I'm going to get frustrated. Sexually. I'm going to get sexually frustrated by these two octopus that's slapping together. Because then, I could be like, what are you, I'm gonna get,

did you guys see a rival? Yeah. No. Tough watch. Tough watch. I didn't think it was really funny at all. Yeah, no jokes and that one, almost at all. Great point.

No, I didn't think it was funny. Yeah, I don't know why I'm pretty funny. It's amazing how many movies they put out that don't have jokes in almost at all. Great point. No, I didn't think it was funny. Yeah, I don't know why they say how many movies they put out that don't have jokes in. Birdbox? Not funny. No, I was thought it was like, oh, it's gonna be funny. It's maybe a box with a bird on it. Yeah.

Or like full of birds and something about like a bird in a box or like we had clown box. There's gonna be a clown box. That was a very funny and funny. Oh, man, a quiet place. Not funny. They barely tell any jokes in that movie. No, there's a couple.

There's a couple if you look for a couple in a quiet place. It's more of a rye observation. Kind of thing. Yeah, sure. This is an advice show. And we help you on this show. That's what we're here for. We'll lose sight of that.

Sometimes I'll be the first to admit it. Dave Matthews just walked into my work pretty and will likely be back. I'm new to the city of Charlottesville. It was unaware that running into Mr. Matthews was a very real possibility. Mr. Matthews. Now hold on. Hey, let me get it up. Mr. Matthews is a person that exists on earth and you exist on earth. So anywhere you go running into Dave Matthews is a real possibility. It's a real possibility. It's a higher possibility in Charlottesville, true.

But no matter where you are on earth, walking into your own home bathroom, there's a chance Dave Matthews isn't there. Sure, man. Please help me prepare quick-witted one-liners or jokes to make Dave Matthews think I'm cool. That's from crashing into Dave. Oh man.

Oh man. Oh man. You. You. You. You. Pretty by the way, the premise is question so he's so hugely flawed. Okay.

Yeah. Cause nobody, Dave Matthews doesn't want a joke from you. Dave Matthews doesn't want a joke from you. Pretty much no celebs want jokes from people. Well unless it's like Carlos Mincella or Amy Schumer and they're stealing them from the... If I see Carlos Mincella and he walks up to me and tells me a joke,

that's gonna be fucking non-stop riot. But I'm saying like, you're not, Dave Matthews doesn't want anything from you. He wants nothing from you, but you can surprise and delight him with a polite and brief interaction that he will enjoy in the moment, but will not remember.

Please don't try to make friends with Mr. Matthews because it's unlikely to work and more likely to make Mr. Matthews uncomfortable and leave so that nobody else in present can have Mr. Matthews experiences. You'll suck up all the oxygen in the room. I would also say the premise is flawed because if you think about Dave Matthews, like we all do, and what he has been through, what his career has been, how his life has gone, the champs, who he's done, the idea that you could make the impression on him that you are cool.

There's absolute. He is the coolest people ever. He's tolerance for cool is so high at this point. What you need to do is make him feel cool. Yes, that's how you get to Matthews and interested in you, be interested in Matthews. I mean, you're probably not, I mean, that formula works for everyone. So that's probably it, but he's probably a little bit on it. I want to hear from you guys actually, you work at the store,

okay, I'm Dave Matthews, you work at the store. And be serious. Yeah. Travis, I'm coming Dave Matthews, you work at the store. And be serious. Yeah. Travis, I'm coming to you first. Jokes out of the room, Travis, I'm coming to you first. I'm looking for a record. Oh, yeah, of course, Mr. Matthews, what record are you looking for?

So you, okay, so Travis has assumed, Travis has gone with a very tasteful, acknowledging I know you are, but I'm acting like a fancy guy at a ring store. That's very good. That's a cool vibe actually. That's transcure. I'm not gonna write answer.

That's a cool energy. Don't acknowledge who he is. Now he's thinking, do you know what I like to do? Do they know? Do you not like about that Travis? What's that? I feel like there's a version of that

that is very, very close to it that is douuce Chill City, which is sure thing, Dave Matthews. No way, that sucks. But of course, Mr. Matthews, let me show you, that's like, oh wow, that's courtesy. Thank you. That is, I worked with you for many years guys.

I once helped Sargent slaughter find a CD. I don't want to brag what I've been down this road. You gotta tell me what CD Sargent slaughter was looking for. I can't remember, but I'm going to say trouble while the dumb thug. Okay. Just based on the time at which this occurred. I'm going to say that that was the case. Maybe a day Matthew CD, frankly. When people, people usually do two different styles when they recognize me, The one that cracks me up is when they play it like extremely cool so that I have no idea

and then at the very end they're like, then they blow it up and they're like, and now I'm flashing back like, okay, think about everything I've done. Have I been like basically nice? Yes, okay, good, we're good. But then I just nice to be people all the time. That's my secret. That's what I do. Yeah, I'm just gonna be careful. I'm just gonna say everybody, we're good. But then I just nice to be people all the time. That's my secret.

That's what I do. Yeah, I just have to be careful. That's good. Gotta be careful. You can't be too careful. And you're only like that. In case people recognize you, it don't tell you secretly.

Yeah, if you'd met me in college, if you'd met me in college, you know, terrifyingly close, that is to the truth. Even now, Justin, if Justin stands alone in a room, he's so mean. Oh, man. So mean. Hey listen

Not wrong He's been doing a little work there, but yeah for sure Mean Justin is inside the head yeah,. That's where Mean Justin lives. Is there a way to nag on Dave? Have you? Do that. My friend loves your work. I think you suck shit.

My dad was on the boat, David. I've been working towards this moment my entire life, Dave. Ooh, yeah. If you, hmm, this is going gonna be a tough thing to swing, but if you could dress up like the ghost of a sailor covered in duke, and then, and then when he walks in, give him such a terrible fright,

but then when he realizes you're not the ghost of one of the boat participants, I guess, died from being dumped with the bus excrement, I think that would be a funny prank. Is that what we're talking about? Is how to prank a Matthew? Okay, interviews yourself to him as Steve Matthews and say my mom gave me my father's name, Atlanta,

30 years ago Dave. Okay. Oh, that's cool. You guys imagine this question, what kind of business were you imagining the work was? A professional what grocery? Yeah, I pictured a record shop. And that that would be pretty good to be able to be like, I got a hot new

sound you might like, then take them to his own CDs. Oh, no, take them to matchbox 20. I said, gave me these chains, that's how he's like, yeah, that's just my stuff, but better. Yeah, I said itasthen, he's like, yeah, that's just my stuff, but better. Yeah, I said it. No, wow, she's really good. I love them both. I love them very much.

Yeah, I love them. Rob Thomas, if you're listening, I know you are. I enjoy your work solo, your work with martial arts, and now you're two single work with Carlos Santana. I love his work. I love his work so low. So you can't hear it. Yeah. No, no, no, that was great. Yeah, you got it.

I'm funny, juicer. I do like smooth though. Yes, it is. Good. And he's got move out now, smooth and move. X-Lax. I don't know what to do. Yeah, look at it. Hey, be cool. If he lives there, listen, this is the thing you gotta think about.

If he lives there, right, the chance that you're gonna actually, he's gonna come into this store multiple times throughout the years, is very high. This is a long game thing, just be normal and relaxed and help him like he was any other customer and I guarantee the thing you will appreciate most is you not like making a big deal out of it. You do have to make him a big deal the first time though.

The first time, the first time you gotta give him a little like the Mr. Matthews and when he's leaving, you acknowledge you know who he is, so he knows you know who he is, and then when he's like finished ringing out, you can say like, and I just wanted to say, love your work, right? That's why I'm worried about everybody

in Huntington literally everyone to a person is playing it too cool with you. Yeah, because that never, I feel like it's okay, you know what I mean? Like, we're gonna go to Greyliottab Like, when I go to a Greyly auto body, why not go to a Greyly auto body? And there all, and it doesn't stop work. You'd think, yeah, I'm the guy in the garage sometimes,

like he's here. It's honestly, juice, it's the biggest reason I moved to DC is there's so many big movers and shakers here that I can kind of like camouflage a little bit. You know how, I don't go out of locks, we have kids, but like when I do, I usually am like with Tony. Yeah. Dr. Tony, as I call him, I'm on, yeah.

I'm about, about the fouch. He changed his game. He's gonna have to change all his video games. The fouch, Travis, you're being really silly and you're trying to joke on a joke right now please you are you got one one joke for Joe please although kind of this really quick say foul is coming to free V season one and two are gonna be a joke on a joke out yeah hats hats for sale jokes for sale 50 cents a joke. Oh, the monkey stole all my goddamn jokes. Give me my jokes back, my goddamn it.

That is fouch in fouch. Anyway, when I go places with, now just forget it. Just make a joke. Oh, hey, I'm saying it, say your thing. Griffin, I wanna hear it. I just, I walk into the club. I walk into the club with Fouch and people like,

Boach and I can go off to the bathroom and wait for the night to be over. Graffin come out, it's fast. I know you're in there, Graff, come on in. We got to solve these medical related crimes together, only on, only a streaming on freebie this summer. We're drinking Jager bombs. I think it's like a few jager bombs. We're drinking jager Remember that night when I called him jager bombs and you had a griffin. Yeah, I remember him. Yeah, I remember fouch Remember the night I said jager and you you had such a time with that. Yeah, I remember man

You okay? Got your mask on I said, Jager, and you had such a time with that. Yeah, I remember, man. You okay? Got your mask on? Yeah, it's like a, but it's like a, a fake mask on. I got my mask on just for the smell. Yeah, you like that, don't you? It's well seasoned.

All right. I wish people knew. The real foul? How hard it's been on me? Yeah. I wish people knew the real Foud how hard it's been on me. Yeah, it's been rough. I found you babes. There's this is Griffin I'm only into catable twins. Tony, I feel like if people knew the real you, the two sides of the political spectrum would sort of shift trade opinions on you in a way.

Hey, Griff, you wanna see me shred my board on these rails? Yeah, I guess so, Tony. Did you bring your helmet? I don't need a helmet. I'm not a coward. Watch it. Oh, my head. Oh, God, I'm bleeding.

Man, the cure was in there. The cure was in that brain meat. All right. Now, can we go to the money zone? Or is that enough? Did we kill it off time? I'll take it right. So much of the show is just us getting to ads.

It's all we want to do. We had like four minutes there. That wasn't enough time for a bit. It was just an awkward amount of time. It was an awkward amount of time, so instead of this sort of stuff. It's never happened to us. Yeah, I promise.

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Absolutely. Well, we are gonna, we're gonna, this is wild. The saga has ended, but it was a long journey to get there and I'm gonna take you through the journey. I'm gonna take you back to May 16th when Taco Bell put out their press release, wait, let me get in the right head space. I was younger. I was a little more naive. I still believed in happiness. I still believed in. Okay. Okay.

I told you how much time I'm going to need. It was, it was May 16th. And that Taco Bell filed this suit the same day. According to this publication, I get a lot of my fast food news from Taco John's had their rebuttal ready to go. Oh, yeah. In celebration of this non anniversary being today conveniently Taco Tuesday, Taco John's is rolling out a special Taco Tuesday deal

for two for two for toe tacos. $2 for two tacos every taco Tuesday. Okay. And so it wasn't like a counter suit or anything. Which is a promotion to capitalize on it. Now, I'll listen, Jim Creel is the CEO of Taco John's. Yeah. And this guy did not come to fuck around as I'm going to demonstrate here. Let's see what, let's see what Jim Creel said. I'd like to thank our worthy competitors at Taco Bell for reminding us. We're reminded, if I remember correctly, Taco John's is like one location, right?

No, no, no, Taco John's is a chain. There is one location that owns it in New Jersey, if you know that was it. Oh, that was it. Oh, that was it. But Taco John says, it says, reminding everyone that Taco Tuesday is best celebrated at Taco John's.

We've loved celebrating Taco Tuesday with Taco lovers everywhere, and we even want to offer a special invitation to fans of Taco Bell to liberate themselves by coming to see how flavorful and bold tacos can be at Taco John's all month long. As for Taco Bell's lawsuit, Creel ads, no, Moss, porfe of work. Do what? When it comes, he's not, he is not deterred. When it comes right down to it, we're lovers, not fighters at Taco John's. But when a big bad bully threatens to take away the mark, our forefathers originated so

many decades ago. Yes, yes, yes. Well, that just rings hollow to us. Oh, Taco Bell pun. That's a bell pun baby. That's good shit. If living moss means filling the pockets of Taco Bell's army of lawyers, we're not interested.

Jesus Christ. More fine print for the litigious people out there. You know who you are. Wait, it says that? Wait, what is that? Wait, uh, loss me. More fine print. What do you mean?

More fine. There's like two for two dollar regular crispy or something like that. Available every day of the week including jacket, do the day of the details about it. But they were like calling out Taco Bell still. May 22nd. Taco Bell is back. And they got LeBron James. Oh boy. To liberate the phrase Taco Tuesday from his trademark status continues for so many small businesses, independent restaurants, mom and pop Taco joints, food trucks, and Taco lovers alike can freely use the common term for the benefit of all today, global icon and long day, long time Taco, enthusiast LeBron James.

Oh, me? If there's one thing I'm known as a taco Tuesday enthusiast LeBron James. So you like tacos? Not not not quite. I like eating tacos on one of the seven specific days of the week. And even then I wouldn't say I always do it. It's more than I'm just a big fan of the concept. The concept is cool and should be everyone's. It's Taco Bell trying to write the narrative that Taco John's was out here suing every mom and pop

like Taco shop at Taco truck that said the phrase Taco Tuesday. That it was like, no, not you can't, you can't, you can't use that. Yes, yeah, not you can't, you can't use that. Yes, I don't think Taco John's was doing that. But so LeBron James was in an ad series of ads where he did like, he was talking about Taco Tuesday, but they believed it out in the TikToks. Now I saw one of these ads and there's a very long, this is like a five minute format TikTok.

If him just taking a shit on a picture of top of guns, then I thought was, can I just say a little distasteful. A little distasteful fun. It was all in French. Yeah, black and white, which is weird. I did think a lot of the angle through really good. Yeah, sure. Listen to this paragraph guys.

Airing beginning May 22nd, LeBron James will start in an ad titled Taco Bleep, highlighting the absurdity of Taco Tuesday being trademark and encouraging the Taco community to join together in support of the liberation movement. I wish I could send that paragraph back in time to our fighting men and women and WW2. Yeah. To let them know what we are going to do with the freedom. They probably, they probably would have interpreted

the phrase the taco community to be something hugely problematic. Yes. If I were to guess, they would be so confused by so many of these concepts, but that one, they would sort of put their own stink on. So they brought in LeBron James. No, and Taco Tuesday in the food.

Non-Taco Tuesday enthusiast. One week later, Taco John's. Brought in LeBron James. Oh my God. Cause that was a moxi, but getting the fuck out. bronze. Brought in LeBron James. Cause that was a moxi. Get the fuck out. They got two of the real Harlem Globetrotters.

They're ready to stand up. Now, let's get something straight. Taco, Jon's is all about sharing the Taco Tuesday. Love with Taco fans everywhere. So while a certain Los Angeles resident who happens to play basketball for a living shot's fired and own several trademarks of his own, including his name, really. This is the breath of these guys.

I'm ready to breath real quick. Taco Johnson not come to fuck around. That's incredible guaranteed Handwritten by Jim Creel on a napkin at 3 a.m. What did they say who they get? But okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, give me a pin. He's joined Taco Bell and trying to pick a fight While Taco Johnson is all about bringing people together to share our common love for tacos to to make its point beginning today through the end of June, Taco John's special taco Tuesday offer is available to everyone. Anyone quote, we always will love celebrating Taco Tuesday with

Taco lovers everywhere. It's Jim Creel, whether you play basketball for a living or just enjoy watching it on the weekend, this invitation is for you. Come and see how flavorful and bold the tacos can be at Taco Johns all June long. Can I just say, Taco Johns just in that press release made me think of Taco Bell as an elitist restaurant. And that is an amazing feast. That's an amazing feast. That's an amazing feast.

And it fucking works. You're one of those snooty guys that goes to Taco Bell, right? Preppy. I'm more of a soul to the earth, Taco John's kind of guy. The guys, wow. Taco John's has grown from a single taco stand in Cheyenne, Wyoming to over 400 restaurants across 23 states.

The brand is proud of its Western heritage and it adheres to the code of the West fucking what the fuck The code of the West boys of Moonlight are back Taking pride in its work so much that it recently took out an ad in its hometown newspaper and USA today inviting LeBron James To come celebrate taco Tuesday at one of its Wyoming restaurants and Taco this whole thing out. Okay, so you said, that's fine.

Hey LeBron, come to Wyoming and say that to our face right here in Wyoming. We'll figure this out together. I know they, maybe they paid you to do your deal with Taco Bell, but we want you LeBron James to come out. And following the code of the West, we hear it, Taco Johnson challenged Taco Bell to a duel. We're going to draw it done. Show up Taco Bell or be yellow bellied. July 18th. Oh boy. Oh, there was quiet for a little bit, Justin July 18th. Taco John's to end Taco Tuesday trademark. Oh, man. Taco John's, which is owned the trademark since 1989

announced Tuesday that it will abandon its registration. Too much blood has been shed. We're so tired. In conjunction with the move, the fast casual is pledging a donation of $100 per location to nonprofit children of restaurant employees, which is a group called core, which amounts to $40,000 in total. Thank you, by the way, Taco Johns for that quick, quick math. It has the trademark in 49 out of 50 states. Gregory's restaurant and bar still controls it New Jersey. So we haven't heard from Greg.

No, they're checking on Greg last time if you remember. And I don't think he seems like he's going to be at a rush to let that one go. This last bastion of freedom will fall. Yeah. Yeah. So the brand is challenging Taco Bell to donate funds also. And it's asking to LeBron James to also send money to core because he joined forces with Taco Bell.

And this is, and of course Jim Creel didn't have anything to say about it. No wait, here it is. Let's see if our friends at Taco Bell are willing to liberate themselves from their army of lawyers by giving back to restaurant families instead. We challenge them to match our $100 per restaurant pledge. Fuck, this is actually genius. Yeah, how many restaurants does Taco Bell have? That's about $720,000.

Jesus Christ. We're all doing the same thing. $100 per restaurant. That's not that much. It's $100. Reasonable. We also invite Del Taco, Taco Pueblo. He's just shouting as long as you know. that's a say a load of my little friend He's going down and everybody's going with him. Yeah, Taco Cabana Taco, we know Del Taco jack in the box And when Jack in the box is there over the side like what are we? We sure We don't even we didn't talk. Oh says a joke Toco says a joke. It's a man. No.

And the mom and pop taco shops across the country that intend to use Taco Tuesday in the future to join us in this movement to support working families and donate to core. In talking about petition, it claimed Taco Tuesday is a generic term and has become too commonplace. The the giant used LeBron James and Taco B. Naturally speaking, the case is over and the money will be going to a greater cause. Elizabeth Bale, a partner at global law firm, Nixon P body, who was probably not related to Scott Bale, but wow, wouldn't that be something? Tell QSR that the case would have taken two years at the earliest. So, hey, that's great.

That's great. Listen, and the people over at core are thrilled. 75% of grantees from core are single parents. And Taco John's, I think, I mean, here's the thing. Taco Bell may have won this battle. I think Taco John's wins the war. Oh for sure. Who's not rooting for Taco John's at this point? But this is gotta be the biggest press exposure they've ever received. I mean, I'm gonna come out and say it. I will donate $100 to core for every restaurant I own.

Talk about what you do to each other. What do you guys think of the odds that within the next calendar year, talk about files for a trademark on Taco Tuesday. Right? It's not zero percent chance, right? I am now pining for the Halcyon bays of late stage capitalism.

That seems so far in the rear view at the point. Now we're like post stage capitalism, we're people keep going, surely not. Not this though, right? Thank you so much for listening. No Justin, thank you. Aliens are real. We've got, let's see, some shows coming up,

August 31st and September 1st, and there's a new date. We're going to, my bin bin is going to be in Philly on October 11th, and then New York, Comic Con October 12th and 13th. Those NYC shows require a badge to attend the show in person, but we'll also have badge free tickets. Be available to watch a VOD of the show online and you can buy the NYCC badges and tickets now. Yeah, we should clarify it is a NYCC badges,

not just like any badge. There you go. Very particular about that. I tried to use my safety patrol badge from elementary school and they would not let me in. Which is so fucked up. I just so fucked up. Okay, tickets for the Philly show go on sale Friday, August 11th at nil.

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And save my life. World War three was. Oh, no, we're doing it. Hold on, Travis, we're doing this on a path. Are we? Yeah, here we go. Oh, we're doing this. We gotta talk about this fucking bit. I'm sorry, I'm going to have to go to the ambulance. I'm sorry, you fucking ambience. Absolutely.

We both don't lie while we're staying here. It was a fizzy world of Richard's scary over there. While me and Justin are trying to create a spa-like environment. Justin, back to your mind. Do you want me to do a chicken? I'm Guprika. I'm Griffin McHeroi. I'm Travis McHeroi.

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