My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 727: A Great Day for Brotherhood

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

Welcome to our adult blanket sleeper-themed slumber party! The Gallagher brothers are here, but who knows how long that’ll last. You can grab a soup fork next to the Capri-Sun sous vide, and don’t forget to horf a handful of non-challenging M&M’s, we’ve got buckets of ’em. Lights out at 11:30!Suggested talking points: Liam Gallagher’s Tweets, 15 Year Brother Shifts, Treat-Level Pleasure, Jumpin Jammerz Party Crashers, Prison of Sleep Talismans, More Candle Than ManEqual Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/about/

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? 1, 2, 3, 4! It's the start of something beautiful A small acquaintance has blossomed It's ripened into a precious friendship I could've never seen what was coming for me

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they took a look at each other. Gallagher one and Gallagher two. They took a look at each other, andagher one and Gallagher two. They took a look at each other. And they got in the booth and they said, we have more in common than we have that we don't have in common, because we're brothers and we're humans. The amount you would have to have not in common

to outweigh the amount you have in common as brothers who were in a band together and worked together exclusively for a week. Same jobs, similar life experiences, yeah, for sure. But now they're teamed back up. I gotta say, guys, I've been on a real emotional roller coaster, obviously. These have the Oasis?

Yes, obviously yesterday was a great day for, you know, high school bullies, guys with guitars, everyone's thrilled. Just all kinds of like fireside sing-alongs. Yeah, yeah, man, everyone's having a great time. And like, I definitely had, everybody had the CD in the deck. Everybody had what's the story morning glory back in the day. And so I was like momentarily thrilled. Like, all right, Oasis.

But this isn't really me much to me. I'm not gonna go over to England to see Oasis. I don't really care about that. And so then I started thinking, this took a long time to get to. It took them a long time to work this out. 15 years. Yeah, it took them 15 years, which I didn't know you were allowed to stop working

with your brothers. This was... Dude, can you imagine a 15 year sabbatical from this entire experiment? Especially if we still... Can you even imagine? If we still had to see each other, if we still, like,

cause I mean, our kids get along if nothing else. So I get it from them. And like our wives like each other, which is nice. And so like, we I mean our kids get along if nothing else. So I get it from them. And like our wives like each other, which is nice. And so like we'd still have to see each other for dad mostly. And then it would be like, hey, we'd start accidentally goofing and then back, I can't do that.

I can't do this. The other thing is like two months in while we're chilling on the beach in Ibiza, we run out of money. Oh, also that. Because people pass too. Yeah, also that. That would be a problem.

We don't have royalties. The thing about Oasis music is people keep buying the Oasis music. It's right there. It might get used in a soundtrack or at a car commercial. People aren't calling us, Hyundai's not like, we'd love to use hot grapes to sell. But if we...

Guys, let's promise this. If we ever stop doing this show, let's promise that we will start doing it again 15 years later, just so we can compare the response to us coming back and Oasis coming back, because it would be so hysterical. Next April, we'll mark our 15th anniversary of doing this show.

I think 15 on, 15 off feels pretty good. Yeah, that feels like a good balance. I don't even wanna joke about that. Anyway, since I've realized that I'm not gonna benefit from that, all I can think about is, this must have been a tenuous piece that they've stuck. It took a long time to get to it. Could I, Justin McElroy, put enough English on the ball

somehow in the universe that I could still fuck it up before it happens? Oh, I see. I don't know why. Fuck up the Oasis reunion before that. What could you do? You would be a little bird in their ear. I understand, right?

I understand everything that you guys are saying to the contrary. What I'm trying to open up is a path of, is there something I could do to make them fight again before they reunite? I tell you, Juice, I prefer the reality where every 15 years, Oasis might get back together. To me, that's more exciting than being able to set my watch

to the Oasis reunions. I don't have a lot of 15 increments. No one really has a ton of 15 year increments. There's not even a term for it. It was like decade, century, but no one's like a four year or something. It doesn't happen. Yeah, extremely clean living, you get seven.

Otherwise six is even kind of a stretch. I think you make it to 75. You get six, that's a good six. You gotta go out with your head out loud. Six chances for the Gallagers. And the Gallagers are what, in their 40s? So really we've got maybe two more shots at this. So like maybe this one sticks, maybe it doesn't.

What do you think you could do? Could you send off your little birds, your little spiders through the streets of London? Can I say one more thing to Justin's ability to do this? I mean, I was making the exact point, but that's- Yeah, but I want another element to like back up his ability to do this. Okay, okay.

Is that I was looking this morning and I see you guys, some of them, Liam Gallagher's tweets, some of them about his brother. My favorite one being just a picture, a screen cap of the Google search, Nol Gallagher photos, to which Liam Gallagher just titled it potato, with a big service verb. I get the feeling very much that this was not like,

we decided this like a year ago and it's been in the works when we put, it feels like somebody convinced them and the second they were like, all right, fine, fuck it, yes. They started selling the tickets like, we don't know how long we're gonna hold this. This is the lead, we're still, we still hate each other fucking guts

and we're fighting all the time, but less. But less. And it feels like there's, it's in a, it's going in the right direction. I was reading some of these. Did you ever see the one that Noel said about Liam? He said, he's the angriest man. He said, he's the angriest man. He said, he's the angriest man I've ever met. He's like a man with a fork in a whirlpool of soup.

Ha ha ha! How great would soup world be though? It's good, man. It's really good. I think it's better when you're angry at each other. But I understand as brothers ourselves, what does this mean for us? We've never podcasted in a world where Oasis existed. With Oasis in it?

Yeah. Yeah. In fact, if I'm doing the math right, they have to stop working to make room for us to start working. Right. It's possible that only one of us can be active. We take 15 year shifts. That's entirely possible.

I mean, I'm not super familiar with Oasis. I like some of their jams. Champagne Supernova, Song 2. Don't Look Back in Anger, I said it. Don't Look Back in Anger, wonderful. I love all those jams. It doesn't have a change. You're Beautiful with James Blunt,

I think it was James Blunt and Oasis together. They actually both reunited for that song, but when they showed up to the studio, the other one didn't know the other one was coming. And so Liam and Noel walked into the booth with James Blunt and they were both like, oh fuck! And they turned around and- In my head-

Can you imagine all those guys in one room talk about a classic Blunt rotation? Oh, hey! Hey, can I tell you guys a true fact about my brain? Yeah, I'd love it. When I picture James Blunt, he's played by John Heder. Heater? Okay.

Yeah, that is way funnier than what I said about butt rotation. Good job, Grav. No, I like that. I acknowledged it and said it was good. But then in my head, John Heder plays James Blunt in the movie of James Blunt in my head. I don't think that way.

You don't think that way? I don't think about, can I be honest? I don't think about James Blunt. I've never thought about what he looks like. Never once and not once in my life. Okay. I also am not sure that James Blunt is the right guy. Who's saying, my love is brilliant.

Yeah, that's James Blunt. You sure about that? That's enough. Yep. Yep. I don't wanna get us dinged for copyright infringement. Yeah, cause it was note for note, exactly right. Yeah, right?

Yeah, some people. By the way, apparently, addiction is the closest we have to a term for 15 years. It's not an exact analogy to decade, but dates back to Taxation, the Roman Empire. Indiction is the closest we have. Justin, which brother would you focus on to try to disrupt the tenuous peace?

Oh, this'll be fun. Well, the one who is so angry seems like the one that I would, so yes, Liam is probably what I would do. You think Liam? I would try to rile up Liam. I think you're talking about between the three of us. Oh. Which is a nasty question.

That is a nasty question. I like picking, yeah. I don't really know the difference between Oasis-ese. And I'm Oasis-ese. No, I don't know the difference between the Oasis-ese. Between the boys, between the Galagher boys. Yeah, I don't know, I don't need to. One is the angry brother and one's the potato.

We should have one animal out of the three of us. One of us should be an animal. You know, it sucks that we're all human beings. Yeah. Stupid. Where's the balance? Where's the team composition? Hey, do you guys like helping people? Yeah, I love it.

Yeah, I haven't done it. I've never done it before, but I've seen other people do it on TV and it looks cool. I like the idea of it. When I see JD and Turk help people and save lives on scrubs, I'm like, yeah, man, I could do that. You know what I mean?

You rewatching scrubs right now, Trav? Yeah, always. Okay, sometimes it feels like you're making a reference that is really strange. and it's always- But it's current to him, right? But it's current to you. Right. Well, I just watch, every time before we record,

I watch three episodes of Scrubs to get in the right head space. To get the comedy juices flowing. Yeah, man, I'm ready to go. Yeah, well, you know how much Scrubs we watch in this house? Hey, listen, if we had to do a TV rewatch podcast, someone's like, you have to do one,

what show would we do? The three of us or you and Sydney? The three of us. The three of us? I wanna be very careful here. Why? Because sometimes when we say plans, our bosses hear us say plans.

I would never do this. I don't wanna do it to you. I would love for us to talk about Murder in Small Town X, frankly, but. Oh, that would be a short one, yeah. We'll definitely do that. You're right, Trav, Good. Yeah, that is... That we'll definitely do. Okay. And now watch. Next Max Fun Drive, our bosses are gonna be like, you have to do this.

Back to the podcast minds. I work at a fancy museum, and I'm already self-conscious about being the youngest person on my office floor. However, I recently got really into Capri Sun Pacific Cooler juice pouches, and I don't want to appear even Sun Pacific Cooler juice pouches, and I don't want to appear even younger by drinking a juice pouch publicly. I've thought about drinking one of the semi-privacy of my cubicle, but there's always a super loud slurp sound

on the last sip, which would alert everyone to my children's snack. Is it possible for me to get my sweet juice when I need a hit without looking and sounding like a toddler among my colleagues that's from sipping the sun in St. Louis? What an excellent, this is par for us. This is right through the uprights.

This is the level of import we. I can hear people out there listening saying, like, well, just don't slip the last bit, but you don't always know when the last bit's coming. That's the trick. Yeah, good point. You can't see through the back. So you might be like, there's a good solid sip left,

slurp, oh no, that was the end of it. And I don't know if you've seen how much Capri Sun's cost in Biden's America, but I'm gonna drink all of that sweet, sweet syrup. Thank you. And my kids will too. Every last drop. When you slurp down Thank you. And my kids will too. Every last drop. When you slurp down the last bit of the Capri Sun,

it forms an almost circulatory system inside the bag that is not possible. And that is like, that's pretty peak. I see, I was gonna say, could you roll it up and squeeze it in like a toothpaste, but then you're running the risk that if someone walks over and sees you doing that, that's not a good, that's not a good.

That's not a good scene. Oh, that's how you spend your time, huh? You're just rolling up squeezing the toothpaste out of that Capri Sun. Cool life. My first reaction was, we need to normalize treats even more. We need to normalize, like, if I see another adult and they're havingri-Sut, and they have a look on their face like, what am I doing? You know what I mean?

Like, how crazy is this? And they're like drinking and enjoying themselves. That gives everybody else permission to just like Dale Cooper recommends, just have a little treat for yourself every day. Just a little treat for yourself. I think we should normalize that. Especially something that feels a little whimsical.

A little whimsical. It does, it does. A little silly. But every day is different, isn't it? Because then it's like, so every day you're having a Capri Sun, then I'm starting to wonder because there's lots of other drinks, you know? But can you codify it? Because this is a thing, you know,

it's like coffee break, right? And there are people who, for whatever reason, are still taking cigarette break at work. Can you codify- Very addicted. Oh, that's right, okay. A little alarm goes off on your phone, it's 11.15, and you loudly announce like, Capri Sunbreak!

Now, and like, yes, that's a treat though, Travis. This is what I'm saying. Yeah, but I'm saying it's a scheduled thing. That's why you do it every day. No, Justin's saying there's so many other things than Capri Sun. No, I'm not. I'm saying-

Wait, what are you saying? I'm saying that I understand what this person is at, the fear this person has, because there's a difference between, I bring a Capri Sun with my lunch every day, and every day I treat myself to a great Capri Sun. I don't know the distinction that you're trying to make and I'm trying to be there with you.

If it's in your lunch, it's not a treat, it's just part of your lunch, lunch isn't a treat, is this what I'm getting? I don't even think you necessarily know what you're saying, which is interesting. Yeah, I just saw a look on your face, you leaned back in contemplation in a way that said, let me regroup.

I think you need to display treat level enjoyment no matter when you are consuming a Capri Sun. Yeah. If you're consuming a Capri Sun as your lunch beverage, you need to savor it visibly with that look of treat enjoyment. Everyone around you needs to look at you and realize they're treating themselves.

You need to eat mind. I think to a treat. I think to a treat. I've cracked at this. I'm not in like, I'm washing it down. I'm washing down my like, oh, wash it down with a Capri Sun. That's different to me than, oh, a Capri Sun. Okay, so like someone comes over to ask you a question

and you'll hold up your finger real quick as you get that last slurp like, one second. Yeah, moment, I'm enjoying it. You're saying there's an almost inverse ratio here where if you drink a Capri Sun and it's special, then I see you and I'm like, whoa, that dude's crushing a pouch over there, that's cool. If I walk by and you're eating a salad

with some crackers and a Capri Sun accompanying the best. It looks like you forgot your real drink at home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting it. If you paired a Capri Sun. Yeah, I accidentally sent my water bottle to school with my kid and I took their Capri Sun. It's like a freaky Friday. But if you finish a bite of salad and then you're like,

Ed, here we go. And then you pick up the Capri Sun and really give it treat level savoring. Nobody's gonna question that because you are balancing salad with delicious Capri Sun treating yourself. Not just you're really giving the treat level pleasure and you're getting all the pleasure out of the Capri Sun.

It's not merely a sidecar to the lunch bullet, you know? Can you cut it open with a big knife and sort of then decant it into your- Now, here's my problem, Griffin. I think anything that takes the Capri Sun and normal makes it like just a drink, now you are having to choose, like, is a Capri Sun the best thing to drink? You don't actually want to do that.

It's like, if you pour a Capri Sun into a glass, I'd rather look at a corpse. It's so depressing. It's so much less than you thought you were enjoying, and the color isn't as good. It's like, it needs to stay in the pouch. The form is as important as the function with a Capri Sun, you know what I mean?

Like, so it's the fun of... And in fact, you can't deny this. Every so often, like, an, you can't deny this. Every so often, like an alcoholic version of something like this will come along and someone will go, ah, like an adult Capri Sun. Implying that yes, we all recognize that there is a vacuum. There is a void in our lives that we aged out

of Capri Suns that we wish we could return to. Vacuum's interesting. Vacuum's interesting because we could set up a sort of sous vide situation where you have a big, big tank of water and you put your mouth on the straw of the Capri Sun and as you lower the Capri Sun pouch into the water, it'll naturally rise up into the straw, no suction required.

And- This is so interesting about what Griffin's saying because I think Griffin just heard the word vacuum and decided he would start talking now. I don't think he realized that Travis was talking to you about an emotional vacuum, not a literal physical vacuum. Oh, I'm sorry.

Was I, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Was I trying to solve the problem too good? The problem was about normalizing Griffin, normalizing having a Capri Sun. And you've set up like a mousetrap-esque game of lowering your Capri Sun into a vat of water while you drink it.

Check the question, it seems like they're asking how to drink the Capri Sun better and not how to lead a sort of nationwide movement in normalizing Capri Suns for grownups too. So- Could you be the whimsical, like, hacker type character in the office, right?

Where occasionally you'll get those like, oh, this is the child prodigy. Cool, cool. You know, like, oh, and they're like eating Twinkies and you're like, oh, you need to get four square meals and like, I run on sugar Capri Sun, bro. I'm in, the government or whatever. If I saw someone on their keyboard

just like fucking, like ripping it up like Having the Capri Sun like that it would I would see that and be like that's part of the hacking process, right? They're using that to hack better They can't stop and drink like a normal person or else the FBI firewall is gonna rebuild itself and they have a catheter too So they're Capri Sunning in and Caprisunning out. It's, I think that where people are getting hung up, the more I think about it, I think it's on the suckling is the issue, right? I think if you maybe stayed home and from work

for a few weeks and practiced like different squeezes you could do at angles that just gooshes it right into your mouth. Like where you're, if you can get to a point where mid lunch, you're doing like a no look squeeze from two feet. That's, I'm not saying, judging that person at all. I mean, I try not to anyway, but like,

that's something. Maybe practice the crush no look basket into like a- Holy shit. If you can nail that every time. I'm asking that person to share their chili next week. That's what I'm, well. Sorry? At the lunch room.

As a compliment? Like, it's like, hey, I'd love to share a bowl of chili with you at lunch sometime. Oh, okay, cool. I'll bring in enough chili for both of us. Oh, you're bringing in the chili. I thought you were bringing the chili. Next week on Wednesday,

I'll bring enough chili for the both of us. It's how you make friends, you know? It is how you make friends. Yeah. And maybe they bring it to chili for the both of us. It's how you make friends, you know? It is how you make friends. Yeah. Or actually, I said it's how you make friends. Oh, yeah. I'm actually prescriptive. Yeah, this is how you fix that problem.

I bet if you're the type of person who can confidently drink a Capri Sun in an office setting, you have no problem making friends. You're more interesting than I am. That's it, right? When people see you drinking a Capri Sun, they don't think, like, what a child. Anyone who goes there is not worth knowing.

What people are gonna think is like, that guy knows the secret. They've got it all figured out. They've got it figured out. I can't talk to them because I don't have it in me to pull off a Capri Sun crush sesh. Can we do a wizard? I'd love that.

If you want to, you sounded kinda hesitant, obviously. Well, it's really good, but it's confusing. They're sent in by Natalie. Oh, they're normally so straightforward. This one's weird. It's on the Wiki house service, and it's how to host an adult blanket sleeper-themed slumber party.

Wait, there's a lot of words in there. Is there some punctuation or something? How to host an adult blanket sleeper-th themed slumber party. The only punctuation is a hyphen between sleeper and themed. Is sleeper an IP that I'm not aware of? What is blanket modifying? Adult.

When slumber parties get dull, others shine on. Host an adult blanket sleeper themed party to throw a livelinesser back into your party. This article will explain how to do that. Okay. Is this a translation of something else? Like a different book or something? This is, you think of like when someone talks about

like the English language and the way that words or the order they're supposed to go, like the big green dragon, right? Of the green dragon sounds weird. I'm trying to parse adult and adult party. Adult party. Adult slumber party. Okay, cool.

Okay, cool. Adult blanket slumber party. Are they adult- Yeah, it's like it's adult-sized. Yeah, but it's sleeper themed where it loses us, I think. I start to get confused with the addition of blankets. But- Okay, well, you'll get it by the end.

Big promise. Step one, I promise you, step one, prepare an area where you can effectively work on planning the sleepover. A lot of these Wikihar articles are gonna be like, start preparing. What this one suggests is really make a space for yourself to begin doing the preparing.

Don't prepare yet, prepare an area where you can effectively work on planning the sleepover. This is an ADHD minefield where sometimes I will have a project that I need to work on and I'll say, oh, and I'm gonna do it here at this desk, but I do need to clean this desk before I can start working on it. Oh, I need to figure out where to put this stuff

that I cleaned from the desk. Oh, it goes in this closet, so now I gotta clean this closet so I can put this stuff from the desk. Yeah, and pretty soon it's June. So depending on how you and your friends communicate most effectively, you'll either need some note cards on paper or a telephone and your invitee list containing phone numbers. If you need to, sending e-invitations from such companies as Evite

or send invitations through social networking feeds such as Facebook or Twitter, throw an extra flair and post it on any and all blogs you own and write often into. What? I'm barely planning this thing and I'm already sending out invites to it. I don't even know if it's gonna be cool or suck. And why is notecards the first option to contact and then like phone numbers is second. Yeah.

This article was written in 1991. So that probably explains that. Write a personalized message to the invitee inside the card, telling them about your slumber party, tell these people that although some people may shy away from wearing items when they hear they have to wear a sleeper while they are there, that blanket sleepers have come back into style for many adults as well as teens and can be bought at their nearest superstore

on the adult lingerie racks and online at either Jumpin' Jamers or online at either Jumpin' Jammers or one of the few other reputable companies. Wait a minute. Wait, Jumpin' Jamers. The Da Vinci code cracked open. Hold on.

Gotta look up jumping jammers. These are sleeper blankets. Blanket sleepers. Don't try to put an S at the end. Let me tell you that. You're not gonna get what you need. A Z is gonna get you there. Jumping jammers.

Oh wait, no, these are not. I'm looking at the very first thing you see is Ryan Gosling wearing a jumping jammer on the Ellen Show. I mean, that's the first thing you see. And then for some reason, Kiss. Yeah, Kiss is, but Kiss isn't wearing the Jumpin' Jammers, they're just hanging out with some women who are.

And that's cool. It's mainly Ryan Gosling and Kiss in this reel. These are pajamas. The Jumpin' Jammers website has eaten all of our bandwidth up so much that we're starting to glitch to one another. Our calls are getting, our calls are getting really another. Okay, now I will say though, the Batman pajamas that Macklemore wears in Thrift Shop

are from Jumpin' Jammers. Jumpin' Jammers, okay. So that is huge. Reputable. So let them know that to effectively enter your sleepover, their sleeper must be nearby, with or on them, and that if they aren't dressed in it when they show up, they must change into it moments after they step into the house.

Huh, moments. Moments? Welcome to the party. What are you doing? Change now. Now. You have three minutes or you're out, Doug. No, moments.

You have three moments. Moments. I'm giving you moments. You're coming in? Steven, you have eight moments. You have eight moments to get in there, Steven, and change. I have a ring with a curtain tied around to get in there, Steven, and change. I have a ring with a curtain tied around it.

I'll raise it up around you. You have to change like we're on stage at the, in Las Vegas. I think there's a subtext to this question that we are not discussing, and it is that when you're throwing an adult blanket sleeper-themed sleepover party. You have to go to great lengths

to not accidentally make it look like some sort of sex thing. And so having the possibility that someone may be having a nude moment while they change into their all inclusive, all inclusive pajama suit, then that may turn into a, hey, there's a nude, there's a man over there having a nude moment, is this some sort of sex thing

and everyone flees? As we talk through it, I do wanna kinda leap to the defense of the within moments thing, because what I will say, as I pondered through it, is if you don't do that, I'm not sure I love the energy of an hour in, you're like, well, shall we? That sucks. Yeah, man. Well, everyone? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

May the festivities begin. I mean, it's like, it sucks. You have to instantly have them in their suits. And you also run the risk of like, the first five people show up and they're gonna change later. And then the sixth person comes in, in their sleeper. And they're like, oh shit, and the vibe is instantly off.

There's no situation in which an adult can acceptably tell another adult, it's time for you to go put your pajamas on. It's simply not the done thing. I would say Griffin, I think that if you, let's say you, Griffin McElroy, arrange an adult blanket sleeper themed slumber party. Yeah, and I am.

And I, and you send an invite to me. And I have. And I make the personal decision to show up there? Yes. I have signed over to you the ability to tell me when I need to change. You at that point are the fly in the web. Yes. You showed up, all agencies now griffin'.

I don't think I get to show up and you're like, you need to change, and me go, well now I've decided it's weird. Right, yes, no. You walk in the door, you're like, tell me how to dance, puppet master. I'm ready to serve. In case it goes sour, step four is set aside one room planned for every four guests who've responded

to the invite that are only to be used as changing rooms. Be sure the room will not exit into any other room that requires others to change their clothes. Also, again, we have to, the appearance of impropriety at an adult sleeper blanket themed slumber party is as bad as the other party itself. That's a different party Griffin. This is an adult blanket sleeper themed,

not adult sleeper blanket themed. You're right. Be prepared in the event that four people will arrive at the exact same time and will be ready at those exact same times. One person can use the room while others must wait their turn. Yeah.

Yeah. Are you explaining how turns work? Who I said in the art? Sorry, I only have four rooms, so you have to wait. Yeah. Think about some mellow and quiet songs that set the tone slash mood for the slumber party. Ms. Reed, no, what?

You want fun songs, you want party songs. Travis. You don't. You don't know what's gonna happen at this party yet, because I haven't gotten to it. The idea of if LMFAO came on at an adult blanket sleeper-themed slumber party is so inappropriate and so contrary to the spirit of the- Is there a turn coming, Griffin?

No, there's not a turn coming, which is the surprising thing. Okay. Prepare for the chance that some people will have forgotten their sleepers and you'll need to distribute one for them to use. No. No, I don't want to do that. I don't like that that's included in here. If someone comes to a party

that is a slumber party about the pajamas you wear without the pajamas. I wouldn't do that in a Halloween party. No. Because how far do you prepare? I've invited 20 guests, I got five changing rooms, if my math works out. Do I have 20 ready to go in case none of them show up? It's a slippery slope down. I do that for Halloween sometimes.

I'll just tell people, I'll show up at the house and just be like, what's your costume? And I'll say, I'll just have a look around upstairs. I'll come up with some. You do that? Let me have a butchers in your bedroom real quick and I'll get a costume. Justin, you've used this term a couple times now.

I'm not sure I 100% get the message. I love it. I think it's cool. Justin's been to, Justin's- A TravReader, here's how I can say TravReader book, man. Yeah, you got me, man. I can't walk you through culture. You know, I did.

He's been to England enough times that I feel like he's allowed to say that. Just that one, though. So plan in some fun and blanket sleeper safe pre-sleepover activities you can do while dressing your sleepers. Always think about the negatives in all activities you plan.

I do. Don't worry, WikiHow. That's all I do. Yeah, I'm on it. What could go wrong? You've got it. Set up more than one room if the attendees vary in age. What? No.

Hey. No, come on. Even by putting that in the article, you've ruined the party. I want to the week people with the same age as me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To the week of birth. Plan a specific time the lights will be required to be lowered for the night to be placed in the invitation slash card,

so your guests will know how long they'll have their games be available to be played by any of them. Oh, everyone loves that. Everyone loves a party where it's an all-night event till morning, and no matter how much fun you're having or how well it's going, sorry guys, it's 11 31 p.m. Yeah. For the lights to go out. Hey, can I just say, can I just say,

I like the sound of that. That sounds really good to me. Hey, Travis, that sounds like a pretty kick ass party, my man, thank you. Sorry, I had a bunch of fun until 11 30, which when I went to sleep. Good evening, Justin, thank you. If at my adult sleepover party,

there is a strict lights out time set for me, I will then begin to worry that other things from child sleepover parties I went to might happen. Like for instance, I might have to surprise go to church with whoever threw the party there. Oh yeah. That's always the best little snare they set for you. Like, you wanna come have a slumber party,

play Smash Brothers in Ocarina of Time all night long? That's great. Good morning. We're going to church. Good morning. Do you wanna come with? It's like for three hours, it's time to worship. It's time to worship the Lord.

Allow ample enough parking areas for your invitees to park. No one likes to walk very far for a slumber party. Especially if they're in their sleeper already. Yeah. I would make the argument that you can't provide enough parking for your invitees. I would say you probably just wanna not invite more people

than you have parking spaces. That's fair. You should have thought of this before the invites. Honestly, the order is wild. Yeah. I do love the idea of going around to your neighbors though and being like, hey, I'm having adult blanket, sleeper-themed slumber party Friday night, so I need you guys to not take up all the street parking.

I have invited 87 people, so I'm gonna need kind of this whole block to just be open, if that's possible. Can you come? I don't know, do you have an adult blanket, sleeper-er themed outfit? We have two spares, but I have some friends that just are not hip with it.

So I cannot guarantee that there will be one left over for you. And if you could stagger your arrival, I only have two bedrooms for people to change in. So. And eight of them are, I know are gonna show up at the exact same time. Mention that since blanket sleepers provide adequate warmth,

each party guest shouldn't need to bring any other sleeping items. You must be strict with this. In fact, I would say, don't try to come to this party with anything, except a sleeper. I don't like that. As we've established, I have at least five talismans that I need to go to sleep anywhere.

I don't like someone else telling me to not, telling people to not bring stuff seems bad. I don't want anybody to ever tell me to not bring things, unless it's a plane. I am also, I am a 40 year old man, and at this point, a security blanket has taken on a whole new meaning, where it can be any blanket,

I don't need my blanket if you'll say, but I do need a blanket on my body to create the sleep barrier that must occur so that I don't feel like I'm just vulnerable to the elements and the world. This is my blanket shield. There's a carve out here for you guys. If they want, they can bring in, quote,

sleeping pals, teddy bears of all sorts, but those sleeping pals may get in the way and aren't necessary. So if you thought about the fact that maybe you- In the way of what? Maybe the sleep talismans are a prison you've made for yourself, and that if you just have this one woolen romper,

then you don't actually need the other stuff. If you have your- I mean, obviously the sleep talismans are a prison I've made for myself by habitualizing them, but they don't call it a prison because it's easy to walk out of. Yeah, that's also true. If it was, if I could flip a switch, it wouldn't be much of a prison. Would it?

Yeah. Yeah. Two more tips here and they're both fucking unhinged. 13. Prepare some party favors for all of your invited attendees and keep a few more on hand for any others that may have come uninvited and ready to attend the slumber party. What?

There should be, and I must be pretty strict about this, zero uninvited guests at a slumber party. Yes. I don't want there to be a chaotic element in the building I am trying to rest in. I don't want any unknowns. I get out of my seat. up, I was walking by, and I noticed a bunch of people in pajamas rolling up.

I wanna be in here too. I know I don't know any of you, but may we sleep side by side this evening, my lady? And please get rid of your teddy bear. It'll just get in the way. If I'm gonna slip into my silky drawers, I'm gonna need to know exactly who's gonna be there. I'm gonna need a dossier, actually,

of the makeup of the group. And I would like them to all be background vetted by, I don't know, whatever the highest agency in the land does. I already got Keith Mardz on it, and he's investigated them on the side. That's separate from your thing. That's my thing. That's just for me showing up.

So, this is the last last one and it kicks ass. Plan some party food that you can make that are blanket sleeper themed. Make cookies that look like sleepers or make something to suit the occasion. Really ran out of steam. This article really runs out of steam. Do something about pigs.

You get in a blanket. Yeah. Pigs in a blanket. I mean. It should just say make pigs in a blanket. Yeah. Pigs in a blanket. I mean. It should just say make pigs in a blanket. But it doesn't. There's a picture of three round Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies. It's hard to throw this party.

It's hard to invite people to it and not make them think it's some sort of sex thing. It's almost like it shouldn't be done. Yeah, but that's not funny. He's got a point. That's an excellent point. I'm just saying that maybe a WikiHow that's like how to set up your own surgery at home

would also be confusing to go through. But that's kind of funny though, right? It seems like it's missing the point of a WikiHow article to quibble about the content. But I will say, even for a WikiHow article, this one seems surprisingly short on actual information that I can use to plan this party. Like, at least most of the time it's like, oh, TMI, WikiHow, I understand this too well. I still don't know what to do with the party. Everyone's there, they're in pajamas, and I know it's not a sex thing.

Yeah. That's solid. So what are we doing? Because the only concrete instructions we've received is set up a place to prepare to prepare for the party. Right. So I'm in the clothes, I'm ready. Okay, then make them change within moments of arriving,

make sure there's enough parking. We're still in the prelude right can't bring Blankets and pillows and stuff pray they can bring uninvited guests. I didn't buy the guests might show up Right needs to be a time when the lights go dim play some chill music Yeah happens in what's the party? What do you want me to do with these fucking people? Like, please, tell me what to do with them. You mentioned games. They're not asleep yet.

You mentioned games. I'm gonna bump the sleep lights out to 8.45 p.m. You have to help me. That's amazing. What time, if you guys were doing this, what time is the appropriate time to shut the lights off? When everyone leaves. Yeah, I don't wanna do this, too,

so my answer would be about seven o'clock, because I can lay perfectly still on the ground for much longer than I can talk to people who are wearing pajamas that I don't know like that. I would rather be laying on the ground still and not asleep, but not engaging. I would actually set a time where I turn on even brighter like floodlights and

Semisonics closing time kicks in okay, let everyone know that in fact the party is done You can't do that in the slumber party though because they've they've hired babysitters. They've made plans around this I can't just sleep somewhere else like that's fucking Wild the idea of like I'm just gonna sleep. Hey, babe. I'm sleeping somewhere else. Like that's fucking wild. The idea of like, I'm just gonna sleep, hey babe, I'm sleeping somewhere else tonight. That's, it's unbelievable. So the idea that you would, after someone has navigated those waters.

And then they're like a hotel, no, a different kind of place that is not a hotel. I would like to set up, I would like to set up now, here's the only challenge out of this whole thing. Everybody is like, I have enough rooms for four people each, right? So now I look around and I say, all right, now's the time where we look around the room

and I want you all to decide what three other people here at this party you trust enough to sleep in this same room. Yeah, go stand who you wanna sleep with, everyone, right now, this second. Yeah. Go stand who you wanna sleep with. And we're gonna do, we're gonna reveal things about how we feel about each other in this moment.

I don't think that's the plan, Trav. I feel like if that was an element, they would have included it in the article. No Griffin, this is, what I'm saying is, now it's become a psychological experiment about the dynamics of our friend group. Because otherwise I have no idea what this party's about. In fact, it seems like the only thing about this party

is like, we're all gonna get together and at some point I'm gonna turn the lights down and we go to sleep. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that's, yeah. You got it. It seems like there's not much else to, everything else is, you're just kind of imagining.

It's a sleep, it's a slumber party for grownups who like to work this kind of pajamas. I don't know what else you'd need to know about it. Do you need me to plan every moment of the party for you? You wrote an article about how to plan it. So yeah, it would actually be nice if you don't. Griffin actually doesn't write these. I understand that.

What? Griffin doesn't write these. He just reads them. No. But he reads them. But he doesn't write them. And he tells us what happens. Yeah, but you.

I wrote one and it was pretty good. All by yourself? No, my brother's help. Should we go to the money zone? Let's do it. Music Justin, do you like shopping? Uh, God, not really. Listen, can I be honest with you? I'll joke inside. Do you like shopping? God, not really.

Listen, can I be honest with you, I'll joke inside. Do you, right now, if I said, I'll give you $1,000 to tell me where's a store you can go to to buy cool clothes for a person your age? Don't know that. No idea. But don't need to, Trav, you know why? Because of Stitch Fix. Yeah, exactly.

And I was setting, yeah, I was getting there. I was setting you up to do the work. You were trying to trap me to do the work, but I'm trapping you to do the work. No, Justin, I wasn't trying to trick you into talking about Stitch Fix. I wanted to talk about Stitch Fix. Yeah, do it.

Because what I love is that in Stitch Fix, there's some simple questions about my style, what I need the stuff for, what kind of price range I'm looking for, what kind of stuff I'm comfortable with. And then a stylist picks that stuff out for me, sends it to me, I look at it and go, oh yeah, I like this. Oh, ah, this isn't right.

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secretly in your podcast app. And at maximumfun.org. Hey, can we do this next question? Sure. Because I think it's a fun one. Okay, yeah, I'd be happy to help. Early on when dating my now wife, we had a game night with her parents. Her mom served up a bowl of M&Ms, which trying to be polite, I ate during the games.

Her mother took this as me loving M&Ms. She now constantly buys me large Costco containers of M&Ms thinking I love them. We even had special M&Ms at our wedding with our initials on them. The problem is I don't like M&Ms at all. She's not my mother-in-law and she's been giving me M&Ms for years. After all this time, do I admit to her that I don't actually like M&Ms?

Or do I keep playing along with this facade? What do I do? And that's from M&M Hater in Nebraska. Okay. You hate M&Ms? You hate M&Ms? You hate them? It's no one's first pick, right?

If you see a- Well, there's a version of M&M, I mean. It would be wild though, to like just buy a bag of plain M&Ms, right? It's like, it seems like whoever does buy- But if they come up in a sampler- It's like a Hershey bar, like, oh, what a treat. Like, no, I'm not an old timey guy. If you have like a bag of like little mini candies,

M&Ms are solid. Like that's a solid get in there. But if I told you, Trav, imagine that, but I put peanuts in them, I put almonds in them, I put pretzel in them. Yeah, not to be old. Like you would do any of those above regular M&Ms. Oh, 100%.

Peanut butter M&Ms. So like their M&Ms are pointless, this is what I'm saying to you. Peanut butter M&Ms kick regular M&Ms ass every day. They shouldn't even sell regular M&Ms. I disagree, I do. I like them straight up. Well, you're a simple man with simple taste.

But I'm also a cheese pizza. I'm a cheese pizza man. Why'd you eat the fucking M&M's if you don't like them so much? Hey, if you hate these M&M's so God damn much, why? Griffin, this is a listener of our show. They may very well be a supporter. The energy. I don't believe

that they don't like M&M's. You ate a lot of M&M's. What you're telling me, Griffin. For years. Do you go to hang out with Rachel's parents for the first time? Is it game night or whatever? And Rachel's mom sits at a bowl of M&Ms,

you swipe it off the table like an angry kitty? Well no, I eat them all up yum yum cause they're so fucking good. I don't swipe it off the table like an angry kitty. I did roll up and they were like, yeah we don't really do sodium in this house, so we are seasoning everything with Mrs. Dash. And I was like, okay, I'll try this.

And I didn't like the Mrs. Dash. But also I think they had the good sense to know that they shouldn't send me Mrs. Dash. Because I was making some noises. They didn't give you personalized Mrs. Dash for your wedding table? I was making some faces that maybe suggested that the Mrs. Dash is really just kind of

bumped. It adds bumps to food. I wish you had had the strength to say that when they said we don't have a softball, we have mrs. Dash. I wish you had the strength to say I don't like mrs. Dash. I don't want that. I want something else other than that. That's what my children would do. I'd say when do we lose that as a a child, the ability to go, no, something else now. Again, I don't think I said out loud, I don't like Mrs. Dash, don't ever get this again for me.

But I think I did make some faces that suggested all this is doing is making the food have little bumps on it. And it's not adding any kind of flavor to it as much as it's making it sort of like grittier and bumpier. And so I do, it never happened again. I was never offered the Mrs. Dash from that point on. That sponsorship with Mrs. Dash, I think we just lost. How did it come about that you had M&Ms at your wedding?

Yeah. You don't like M&Ms. Was that a mother-in-law idea? Oh, okay, so the mother-in-law thinks that they like M&Ms, right? Yes. But they don't. That's about it.

But so then how did that become a part of the, that the mother-in-law was like, why? Cause people think they like M&Ms. If it was common knowledge that this person does not like M&Ms, this scam wouldn't work. This is a problem. You can't ever let the secret out. Probably the only people- But does your partner know? Because your partner know?

No, yeah, does your partner know that you don't like M&M? I would say if you felt comfortable talking to your partner about this, you wouldn't email us. Like, we're the only people they can trust. We are not your lover. We do not know you like that.

And so they would probably be able to- Don't want to. Yeah, we never will. Should say that more often. Maybe. We're not your lover. We never will be. Don't want to be your lover.

If you want to be our lover, tough, shit. You gotta get with my, you never will be. If you wanna be our lover, tough shit. You gotta get with my friends is the best of that. Yeah, that's the problem. But I don't talk about who my friends are, so you'll never find them. And if you get with my friends first, I am gonna have a problem then hooking up with you. Yes, that would be an issue. M&Ms are so good. I love M&Ms.

No, here's the way, okay, here's what I will say in the middle and say, M&Ms are a non. I love M&Ms. M&Ms are not that, no, here's the way, okay, here's what I will sit in the middle and say, M&Ms are a non-challenging snack. If someone's like, do you want some M&Ms? I never have to decide if I do or not. I know just what I'm gonna get, how they're gonna taste, how I'm gonna feel afterwards, after, like. I grab a handful of plain M&Ms,

I know exactly what this experience is about to be. And that's all I need. I also don't wanna gorge myself on M&Ms. That's rough stuff. I know if I this experience is about to be. And that's all I need. I also don't want to gorge myself on M&Ms. That's rough stuff. I know if I do M&Ms, one of those little fun-sized pack, 12 M&Ms, I'm set. I'm good to go. That helps.

And sometimes the peanut M&Ms do end up, oh, my jaw hurts. The peanut butter one, oh, that's too much. Too crunchy. Straight M&Ms are dope. I need, the problem is I got a wharf of a handful to feel anything with the M&Ms. Like, you know what I mean? I've had pretzel M to feel anything with the M&Ms like, you know, man

I've had pretzel M&Ms. I've eaten the double down, you know, I've had you've lived I've lived right? Like I don't feel anything from like five M&Ms like oh The amount that I would have to take out of a bowl would not be Socially acceptable for me to feel to get it You loved M&Ms. Maybe that's what it is, like they have to have the big, the big mint full. But that's what I love about M&M's, you could take a big mint full.

Skittles, you try to take a big mint full of Skittles, you've committed yourself. That's your dead chocolate. Yeah, right? Oh yeah. How sticky is your hand now also, unless you jam them all in one go. I think you can say, sorry, Sheila, I had an M&M's party and I went to the M&M's store and I eat it so much they kicked me out

and then I got sick from M&M's and so I'm kind of off M&M's right now because I got sick. I'm off M&M's, yes. I'm off M&M's, Sheila, certainly you can understand, I eat it so much of the M&M's that it made me get sick and throw up. Yeah, I'm a good and funny man now. I can't do M&Ms that it made me get sick and throw up. Yeah, and so I don't

eat M&Ms. I can't do M&Ms anymore. I only want the black licorice coated Good and Plenty's from now on. Oh, no, no, no, no, sorry. If you do this kind of labor to get out of this mess, you can never tell your your mother-in-law anything about the food you like ever again or else you will now you're ruined with good and plenty's which is I'll say probably doesn't take much good and plenty's to hit a point where you're like even good and plenty fans I think if they had to eat two boxes they would be like fuck that's a lot of good and plenty's here's how you know that about good and plenty

I'm good I'm good that was plenty the name? I'm good that was plenty two words you would use to tell people I'm done done that's good done thank you they should call it they should call it no more. Thanks. No more. No, actually I got lots of the gross pink ones and a lot of gross white ones and that's good and that is plenty for me Thank you. Oh, yeah, I don't want a box of change my mind. Thank you very much

Have you guys ever had the Swedish like salted licorice that I hate so much it goes back around to liking it Like his friends salt is like yeah, but better than Mrs. Like exercise you make yourself through it like I think it's it's like wasabi where you're eating it And it's like this is fucking crazy, but it's got to be doing something. Yeah, I've accomplished something I must have knocked something loose. I've done something here. I'm not sure what this is, but this is a check mark for me, I think. There must be a candy you do like that if your mother-in-law gave you a big Costco tub

of it you'd be excited about. I don't, I don't, I love candy. I love candy. I have reached an age where if I eat too much of the candy, no matter what type it is, I feel so bad. Like I feel so shitty. So like I can't think of any candy that if I got a bowl full of it,

then I would be down to clown with that. This is, okay, so once again, I'm reminded Griffin doesn't have the same kind of mental things. Cause like impulse control being what it is, if you put a bowl of like, even individually wrapped like minis of Heath bars, I will mindlessly eat those into my own destruction. Both my teeth, my guts, my jaw soreness,

everything is going out the window. Even as I have to open each one individually, you would think that would be a chance for some kind of circuit breaker to kick in. Some reason, yeah. Where whatever the inside out little characters in my brain are going, please, dear God, no, not like this.

Yeah. But then big old HD just lays on top of them. I think flattens all the inside out characters in my brain. I think I've maybe mentioned this on the show before, but one time a listener sent to the PO box that I had at the time, a five pound bag of Swedish fish. And they were just in the top like cupboard

of our like snack zone. So I could open up the snack zone to like, you know, if I was packing a lunch and I would just see a huge open bag of Swedish fish, I'm like, I'll just, I'll have a fistful of these right now, thank you, like 12 times a day. And my constipation was so, was so next level, so, so ghoulish. It was basically the amount of paraffin wax that I was sort of trying to push through my body. I was more sort of candle than man at that point. It made a perfect cast of my lower colonic tract. And I really I don't think I've eaten Swedish fish since I realized that maybe this months long stomach issues I've been having

is because my stomach is full of paraffin wax. You gotta be careful, you don't wanna ruin this stuff. Maybe you did used to like M&Ms, but you've eaten too many M&Ms now and now they're ruined for you. Which I think is, I'm off M&Ms. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to say. I'm off M&Ms.

Doctor said, I gotta cut out the M&M's it's a perfectly reasonable thing to say. I'm off M&M's. Doctor said, Doctor said I gotta cut out the M&M's What if they just stick to like t-shirts and like merch? That's the problem right? I was like you don't like eating them anymore But I got you this six foot tall sexy green M&M blow-up doll or whatever you know well Hopefully not that. It could be anything guys It could be anything that anybody has seen or bought. Like anything that anybody knows about that they would love to own, but it's too expensive. This was back when the green M&M was still fucking super hot.

Not before they ruined her. That's what you should tell, tell. Listen, I don't eat M&Ms anymore. They ruined the sexy green one. I'm fucking outta here. I guarantee she won't be upset about you not liking M&Ms. That one won't be me get her to start chanting go woke, go broke with you.

Yeah. Yeah, she's not gonna wanna hang out with you anymore. It's gonna be totally- So angry am I at the Mars Company that M&M's turn to ash in my mouth, Sheila. I can't. I used to get a big boner every time I ate a M&M cause it made me think of how hot

that one piece of big candy was. But now my boner goes inside and the M&M, because it made me think of how hot that one piece of big candy was. But now my boner goes inside and the M&M's turn to ash in my mouth. That is gonna do it for us this week. All my brother, my brother, and me, thank you so much for hanging out with us. Thank you for joining us. We're gonna be on the road soon, right?

People can come see us live, I bet. This weekend, we're gonna be at Rose City Comic Con, doing some shows, doing some signings and photos and all kinds of stuff. So check that out. And oh, it's going to be Taz versus Robin Hood in our versus series. We're doing Taz versus Robin Hood. So we're excited to see you there. And we're doing My Brother, My Brother and Me. So if you have questions or a wish for fun galore that you want read out loud, you can email mbmbam at maximumfun.org and put Rose City right there in the subject line.

And we got shows coming up in Orlando and Atlanta September 21st and 22nd. And then we're gonna be in Denver, Phoenix, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. Also, dad and I are going to MCM London in October. All the information about all of that is at bit.ly slash McElroy Tours for tickets and information. All that stuff.

We'll see you there. Thank you so much to Montane for these for a theme song. My life is better with you. Um, my life is better with this song in it. And I think it is so sick still that we get to use it as a theme song for this, for this show. If you enjoy Montane's music, you should think about, uh, supporting Montane on, uh, on, on Patreon so that they can make more rad music.

It's also very exciting. It's a new month, which means new merch. First, we got a Munch Squad apron designed by Tyler Reed, who is at Rude Pets Club on Instagram, and the Forbidden Meats apron, if you've listened to Dadlands, the Forbidden Meats apron designed by Sonika Fadde, who is at Jackfruit Slayer on Instagram. And we also have- The Jackfruit Slayer on Instagram. At The Jackfruit Slayer, thanks Justin, on Instagram.

And we have a Taz 10th anniversary coin, all up there at macromurch.com. And 10% of all proceeds this month go to the Equal Justice Initiative, which is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights

for the most vulnerable people in American society. One more time, that's macaroymerch.com. Go check it out. Who wants to give up the wish? Juice, I feel like you haven't done it in a while. Yeah, I'll do one. Go ahead, guys, give me a little back beat. I haven't done it in a while. Yeah, I'll do one.

Go ahead guys, give me a little back beat. I wish I could buy smaller quantities of celery. My name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm Griffin McElroy. This has been My Brother, My Brother, Make His Your Dad Square on the Lips. My life is better with you My life, oh, it's better, it's better with you

My life, oh, it's better, it's better with you Yes it's true It's better, it's better with two by one. It's better with you.