My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 745: 2 Year 2 Naming

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

We think it was pretty obvious that our growling stomachs had an outsized impact on the decision last week, so we’re continuing the year naming discussion. There's so many rhyme schemes we didn't even consider, like saying "und" a hundred times, so we're doing our due diligence. Buckle in, we’ll get there!Suggested talking points: Not Overdrive Guys, We're All on Rhyme Zone, What does Fish Wife Mean to You, Nothing with Chew or Depth, Intangible Knives, Please Don't Bring ChangePalestine Children's Relief Fund: https://www.pcrf.net/

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 mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? One, two, three, four! 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 Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach

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or tummy buddy life. My wife, I told my wife that we had done it and she looked at me, oh, the sadness. The energy from my wife was very much like, I'm trying so hard to support you in this, but I have to be honest. That was it. I'll tell you what it, I don't think-

And then from there, the sort of like mind virus, I feel like those bad vibes from our wives emanated to like when we told people we pay to think we're funny. Yeah. Yeah. And they were like, I don't know. And then we told our staff and they didn't like it either. Yeah, I know he likes it. And then we did start to and they didn't like it either. So I know he likes it. And then we did start to get a lot of sort of like,

anatomically correct sort of stomach stuff that- There's some vore discussion. There is some discussions that I would rather, I've actually worked pretty hard, I would say, to remove myself from. It's just that I don't think people got it. I don't think people. I don't think they got it.

A lot of people, they say, tell me buddy life, that doesn't mean anything. But then what I would come back to you with is, if it means nothing, maybe it means everything. I, here's why the only thing I'm sad about it is reopening this is one, I hate. I hate that we all kind of knew that we had to try again and that sucked. That sucked to get on this call knowing that we had to do it again and we had to start over.

But the other thing that sucked is last night I had the idea of a cookbook called Tummy Buddy Temptors, and we would ask all of our podcasting friends to give us one great recipe, and it would be like a whole cookbook of Tummy Buddy Temptors. That's good. There's a precedent set five years ago. Okay. Sure, sure.

I'll double name you. Oh, baby, this is not the, I feel no, we made this shit up. There's no rules just right, and it's not sparking joy inside of me personally. I don't think it is for you two either. So fuck it! But that was, it was two hours plus change of recording

where we kept talking about how hungry we were, and then we ended up picking Tummy Buddy Life. Do you think maybe those two things are, maybe one begat the other? I'm following the theme though a little bit, cause like, dare to care. I am daring to care that nobody liked the theme, and I'm daring to care about doing a better job,

you know, with it, not on it. I care so much about this process that I'm willing to subject myself to it again in the span of about four days. I think we should see ToeBuddy Life for what it was, a cry for help from our stomachs saying, please eat, eat and try again.

Yeah. Please dare to care about your podcast and live the tummy buddy life. I didn't eat something. I feel bad for everybody that rushed out to get their tummy buddy life tattooed. Oh, you shoulda known. I'll say this also about the response we've gotten so far. We can handle the criticism.

It's not the criticism, it's the people who jumped onto it so fast without recognizing this is clearly first thought, not best thought. Well, not really first thought. No, there was two hours of generative sort of like process Many, many other thoughts. that went into it. Now I'll start by saying this, I don't have any ideas.

Okay, interesting. What about 20 Honey High? Now wait, hold on. Back to pieces. No, no, no, no, no, wait, now go on. Now come on, are we sure? Cause there's like one more chance, I feel like we could just be like,

Gritty Grits. Just kidding, it's 20, tell me buddy life. Yeah, it's not too late. This is cool, cause now we're standing on a different cliff edge. This is like a quantum point now. Where we can say, just kidding, Tummy Buddy Life rules actually.

And we're not about to do a part two naming of the year too long, two hour long episode. Okay. 20 Barney 5. Now that we've let IEF into the room, 20 Love My Wife. 20 Love My Wife? No one took Umbridge with the IEF,

with the side, it would be very generous to call him. That was not the problem at all, and we understand that. The slant rhyme, people are into it and they accept it, which really, I think, it's a whole new ball game if we're letting Iph in there. Fill your life with after in love. No, 20 under life, 20 under life, what lies below. Ooh.

20 under life, what lies below. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. 20 afterlife. How come we didn't come up with that last time? This is good. We got all the bad stuff that last time. Yeah.

20 under life. 20 afterlife. This year's- 20 afterlife. No, und, und, undy, 20. Oh, you're right, undy, 20. Thunder, thunder, thunder. United States.

That makes sense, yeah. Yeah, for sure. 20- 20 20 20 20 life 20 hunting knife Long and beautiful long and strong long and strong 20 pocket knife And and and and and and and and and 20 under hey gang and you listening at home, there's gonna be a lot of just sort of undulate,

a lot of just kind of like sound jazz. You called out the thunder, well now you got it. By the end of this episode, you'll be praying for tummy buddy life, dare to care. By the end of this episode, you'll be writhing on the floor in agony, praying for 20 tummyummy Buddy Life. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.

A sweet self Tummy Buddy Life would be. That theme is bleeding out in the corner. You had your chance. It's a corpse. You don't get Tummy Buddy Life. You don't deserve this. 20 Pirates Life. Who?

Und, und. Und. Und, und. Und. Und. Und. Why, why, un? Unty. It no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, What's an under, you're really all about under. So maybe we should stick with that first and then jazz the life. Undie. I'm not, the problem with tummy life also

is that there was gonna be a lot of expectation of my tummy being out or my tummy being featured or paid attention to in any way. I don't wanna turn the conversation towards my undies. I simply do not. Correct, yes, fair,ies. I simply do not. Correct, yes. Fair, fair. I simply do not. I would like to revisit 20 Overdrive.

I like 20 Overdrive a lot. But if we do that now, where's the episode? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, it could just be part of this episode. I also made a question last time. 20 Overdrive, you say. What?

You know what? I didn't think it was funny last time and I still don't think it's funny, guys. I'm sorry. It sounds like if you saw a poster of that and you saw us like revving engines, you would think that they, you know, they legally forced the

kids in the hall to change their name or something. We were, it just, I... 20th Thunder Life, time to strike. Thunder Life? We can't live up to this macho tone. This is what I'm saying, overdrive. We can't, we're not overdrive, guys. There's underdrive. There's fucking nothing about us that,

and can I tell you the hypocrisy of Tubby Buddy life, as long as we're shitting on it? Yeah. I'm not gonna have lunch with anyone this year. No, God no. I don't wanna do that. A single lunch. I want a single lunch.

I can appreciate the like, trying to have it mean something, make it mean something, but I'm not gonna, I don't wanna do that. 20 cozy life, live comfortably. Not an option for a lot of people, not doable. 20 cottage life. Wonder knife. Now, was that like one knife to rule them all

is this like- 20 wonder knife, find your blade. Hmm. Find your blade. What does find your blade mean to you? Ha! On the edge. Yes, on the edge. Ooh, on the edge is even, on the edge of glory.

On the edge is bad, okay, on the edge means bad. Feels kinda cool. Like it feels kinda cool to see that. 20th Thunderknife? 20 something knife on the edge. If we decide what that means and how it could be good for us. I don't want people to make a thing out of bringing knives to show.

Definitely, thank you so much. God damn, what is it about this year? 20 cosplay knife, just for looks. What is it about this year where every word we come up with sounds so dangerous or so unappealing? Is it just this, is it just Ive? Is it just Ive, Ive? Do we step away from that entirely?

Is it the Ive? Is IveIF strife? IEIF. Yeah, knife, strife. Lot of people were pointing out that 25 is a quarter century. So something along the lines of 20 quarter. 20 quarter. 20 quarter.

There's not a lot of words that rhyme with order, but what I'll tell you about 20 quarter. 20 quarter. There's not a lot of words that rhyme with order, but what I'll tell you about 20 quarter is it frees us from the three syllable un-un-i. 20 quarter, go to. So 25 is the silver jubilee. So maybe 20 sylph. 20 butter knife. 20 butter knife. 20 butter knife.

I'm on rhyme zone. Oh. We're all on rhyme zone. Oh, midlife. What about crisis midlife? 20 fish wife. 20 fish wife. What's that mean to you? 20 putty knife filling the holes.

Stop saying different kinds of knives, please. We're not having any knives. 20 larger than life. 20 larger, 20, 20 larger than life. No. 20, 25. 20, 25. Or 20 quarter.

20 switchblade knife. 20 pudding wife? 20. 20. 20. 20. 20 switchblade knife. 20 pudding wife? 20 quart? 20 quart, okay, 20 quarter brick and mortar. This one means it's 20, 25, go out to the store, go out to, instead of, this is a year against online shopping. This is a year against online shopping.

This is a year against online shopping. This is the year where you go to brick and mortar businesses. Okay, quarter change, 20 change, be the light. 20. Here's the light. 20. Here's the thing. Because we're changing too. We're willing to change the year name. 20 change. 20 quart be the change.

20 quart. 20 quart be the change. 20 quarter be the change. I hate coins so much. Yeah, I don't want people to bring coins to our show. Damn it, you're right, I don't want a bunch of fucking chains jangling around. Now we just put out a big water jug in the front,

have them put their coins in there, let Paul deal with it. Keep the change. All paper bills. 20 quarter, flip a coin, heads or tails. Make your own luck. 20 quarter, make your own luck. 20, honey quarter.

Change of business. There's something about business that's really getting me, guys, I think business needs to be in there somewhere. Why, why? Why? Why do you feel that way? Oh, because honey kind of rhymes with 20. Let's decide right now whether or not

we're ever actually gonna do a honey thing. Let's start there. Let's decide right now. Like for the rest of the decade? Yeah, decade, yeah. Ever. I don't think we can make that call now. I don't know how actionable honey is.

A lot of people are into beekeeping now, and I'm so bored. Jace to save them? Yeah. 20... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Welcome to the 20 funny site. Welcome to our web. Caught in our web. 20 funny sites caught in our web. What?

Why? Like, you're on our funny site. Oh. I was thinking, I, jeez. Like funny site? Yeah, it's like a funny site. Like ourT. Like funny site? Yeah, it's like a funny site, like our show's a funny site. That's cool, I was thinking like S-I-T-E,

like an internet website. Yeah, yeah, that's what I got too. Can the year be a plug for our website? If we're gonna plug anything, I'm going back to... Maybe it could be C-I-T-E, and listeners could cite where our episodes used to be funny. Like a notational- 20 like, subscribe.

Yeah. 20 funny vibe. Vibe we did, we did serve the- 20 funny life. Funny wife, 20 funny wife. They're better than us. They would have come up with it already. Can we acknowledge that if our three wives

are sitting here? I mean, if any other combination of three human beings on the earth were sitting in our chairs, they would have come up with a thing by now. Yeah, they would have had a thing that was gonna go down. It wouldn't have been maybe the best or the right one.

Someone made a chart, I saw it online, of how long it took us to come up with each year name, and it really shook me to my core, because 20 grifteen we came up with in the span of about 90 seconds. We came, and it was at the end of the episode, we forgot to do it, and then we just fucking blasted it out. Well, here's what happened.

Here's, let's look at that, Griffin, cause it used to be- What changed? They used to make- I'll tell you what changed, do you wanna know what changed? They used to make gears that had the different sounding things-

Different sounds in them. In them. They didn't keep jamming 20 in there. Then we got to 20 and now all we have- 16. Needs to be 16, 19, 18, 17. And now it's just 21, 22, 23. Yeah. Fucking boring.

It sucks. Maybe we reset. Maybe this is the new year one. 20X25. 20XX, XXV. Now wait, hold on. XXV is looking pretty good right about now, isn't it boys? X25 is something.

Here's the rate, 20X25 is 20X2, cause it's 2020, right? So 20X25, 2025. Looks like a collab between 20 and 25. Right. No, it would look like a collab, 20X2 space five. So 200. Ah.

20. 20. Okay, here's, okay, here's, here's, here's, here's what we're gonna do. Okay, here's the game. We're gonna take turns. We're gonna go around. Oh, a game?

Oh, we're getting a game. A par a game? Oh, we're getting a game. A parlor game. Oh, fun. I love games. I love games and sports. A menace is capped with 20 questions. We're gonna take turns. Does the game have anything with us

coming up with a name for it? Yes, we're gonna take turns. There's three parts. 20, 25, right? 20, 25. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go in a round. One of us will say 20., one of us will say 20, then another one of us will say a word that rhymes with 20,

and then another one of us will say a word that rhymes with five, and we'll just find it. This sounds, Justin, like what we've been doing, only putting way less pressure on you. 20. No, we'll take turns being the first. It's not always being the first. Okay, 20.

20. Wait, so now I'm just rhyming five? Well, you don't have to, Griffin just said 20 again. So just say five and we'll get that one out of our system. Five. Okay, now you start, Travis. Okay, runny. Bunny.

I'm already gonna stop this one. Okay, all right, Sonny. We already did Sun and Sea. I'm gonna go ahead and stop this one too. I hate to dump all over the game juice. No, no, no, it's good, it's good. Let's just start with some 20s. Yeah, on Funny.

Let's get some 20s. 20. 20. What, go let's get some 20s. 20. 20. What? Go ahead, you go. 20. Dunny. Isn't that a toilet? Okay, caverns. What about spending money? No, I don't wanna talk about money.

Okay. Oh, bad news. It's an illusion. That's a lot of the stuff that rhymes with funny. Okay. I, bad news. That's a lot of the stuff that rhymes with funny. Okay. I know. 20. This game sucks. This is the worst game I've ever played in my life. It feels bad to play it.

It was just a thought starter. I don't know. I will not do a honey thing. That we have agreed upon. I said honey. Honey with a P. Honey? No. Don't think puns are funny with a P? Punny? No. Don't think puns are funny.

You guys are lost in the sauce. If you guys think at this point we can come up with also a good joke about 20 and a good joke about I've or I've, then you've not been listening to what we're anticipating. I've for an I've. I don't wanna espouse that necessarily. 20 open-eyed. Is there a metaphorical knife?

Is there a knife that's not tangible? Is there a type of knife you can't bring to a public comedy show? There's no knife in this year's theme, I could say for sure we're not gonna mention knives. I don't think we should have knives in there, personally. That's me. That's strong coming from Justin. That's strong coming from me. That's strong coming from me. I plan on talking about knives a lot this year.

20 pain and strife. 20 pain and strife is so good, Trav. 20 no more strife. It's 20, 20 strive to thrive. We have to keep making the podcast. We do. The law says we can't stop. Mummy's alive.

Mummy live. Mummy's alive. Yes. Mummy live. 20 sleep deprived. 20 sun deprived. 20 sunder life. 20 more high fives. 20 thunder life. 20 thunder life, what about that? 20. Blunder life. 20 Thunderlife? What about that? 20 Blunderlife.

20? The sage is sleeping once again! Let me retire to my hermitage! Let him rest! He's served all his energy! let me consult with the vapors 29 20 20 cyber life change the game cyber doesn't sound like- It doesn't fucking matter. We're not gonna make the 20 rhyme, Justin. 29 to five.

That's just... I'm giving up on 20. Oh, okay. I'm saying fuck 20. If we can come up with anything, anything, anything at this point that is even, just even remotely sounds like I consonant, I'll be totally, totally fine with it at this point.

And you just shit on 20 cyber life changed the game. Can you think juice about that? I wanna walk you through how actionable that would be for us. We're gamers already. We wouldn't have to do that much hard stuff. Everyone else listening at home would be stoked. They'd be like, I'd love a cyber life.

20 cold as ice. I like where your head's at, Trav. I mean, not that one, but that you're willing to reach as far out as cold as ice, I think gets me excited. I'm going through the alphabet. 20 under light, neon for everyone. 20 under light, neon for all.

20 satellite. Everybody, 20, hmm. Satellite. 20 guiding light. Yeah, real religious, that's how I like it. 20 angel light. They're all around you? That'd be cool.

If we follow it up, there's a mushroom God who's like hanging out and watching you and listening to your wishes too. Angels are real and they are checking in nonstop. 20 angel life, 20 angel life, they're all around you. Grunder, huh? Fuck yeah, man, this is that good shit. This is what I'm talking about. There's not gonna be words by the end of it. Just checking in with you listener at home, how's tummy buddy life feeling?

20, just wanna check in with you at home, how's tummy buddy life feeling? Probably all right, probably all right. A little better than it was. Grab your five. I hope it feels a million miles away, cause that's how far it is from you. You'll never have it again.

20 drum and fife. March to your own beat. 20 drum and fife. Rat, tat, tat, tat. 20 drum and fife. Get in formation. Get in line. Is it hard? That's a bad one.

It's a tough one That's a bad. It's a tough one. 20 wonder life, look around you. Don't, I don't know that if people looked around them, they would sigh contentedly and say wonder life. No, that's right. I mean, I philosophically disagree with you, but I understand your sentiment. 20 under knife, fix it.

And we all get a lot of surgery to every part of this. Oh, going under the knife is what you mean. Yeah, going under the knife. No problems I see with that. No problems I see at all. And it gets knives back in there No problems I see with that. No problems I see at all. Thematically. And it gets knives back in there when it's a wild about.

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Griffin. You can own stamps.com too by going to it, and then it's like, it's your part of you and part of your life. Cause they make it so easy. Oh, you own it like connection to it, not like's like, it's your part of you and part of your life. Cause they make it so easy. Oh, you own it like connection to it, not like any kind of legal ownership. No, you can't make decisions for the company.

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as of recording this yesterday, an hour and 45 minute long book report on Yellowstone season one. We've been doing a lot of jumbo EPs lately. Yes we have, absolutely. You can go check that out, just go to Macro Family on YouTube, also there we talked about, we're doing a Miggie plush with U2s.

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Okay, I've got here some words of the long I sound. Great, fuck it, just go black. Just black. I'm gonna read these out. Blast me. Ice, bike, bite, dice. 20 wonder bike. Okay, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. Okay, wait, how's 20 wonder bike?

20 hover bike. Huh. 20 tandem bike. No, it's not even close. Okay, start over. Ice, I don't like, it's cold. Bike, bite, dice, dime. Dice, dice.

Hey, no, we gotta do dice stuff. Dive. File, that's not it. Fine, fire, five, hide, hike, hire, hive. Hike? 20 take a hike. 20 wonder hike. Now.

Nature's all. 20 wonder hike, nature's all around you. Is it W-A? Wander? 20 wonder hike. Get lost. nature's all around you. Is it W-A? Wander? 20 Wander Hike. Get lost. It's with an A. 20 Wander, 20 Wander Hike. I don't want somebody to die trying to do this.

Yeah. Kite, lice, life, like, lime, line, live, mice, nice. They're going too fast. I can't think this fast. Wonder Mice. You say Wonder Mice? Justin has to say wonder before all these, nice. They're going too fast. I can't think this fast. Wonder mice. You say wonder mice? Justin has to say wonder before all these, Travis. You didn't let him.

Do what we can. Hey, Travis, do the list again, but just add wonder before each one. Wonder ice, wonder bike, wonder bite, wonder dice, wonder dime, wonder dive, wonder file, wonder fine, wonder fire, wonder five. Okay, WONDERFIVE. Okay, you have to stop now. We are just naming a tech startup,

and I can't do it anymore. It does feel like I'm trying to come up with a name for a fictional company. Smile, WONDERSMILE. Cool. WONDERSMILE is so far. 20. Wonder smile so far. Grand Prize. It sounds nothing like 25. 20 big Grand Prize.

Are these the worst bits, the silence? Are those the worst bits for you guys? Can I say why they're the worst? Because there is always a bit of me, and it's the part of me that I've been trying to kill. There's a part of me that hopes that one of us is about to bust through the silence. Uh-huh. With an absolutely Alzheimer. It's gotta come eventually!

Eventually it's gotta come out! Yeah, we knew it didn't last time, but we just were so hungry. And we had to stop. But the jokes, guess what? Doing an afternoon recording now, I already eaten my lunch. I won't be hungry for a long time. I got a lot of podcasts.

I got Calzone power. Time to tithe. Pay the piper. Time to tithe. Pay the piper. How we should just call it 20 blunder guys at this point, cause that's where we are. 20 tired guys. 20 blunder guys.

20, 20 knife. 400 blades. 400 blades, cool. Too much math. We obviously can't do anything on the list from the first episode, but there's a lot of stuff on the list from the first episode that if one of you just said it spontaneously now,

I would be like, yeah, absolutely 2020, try to ramp it up. Yeah. Well, we can't, I do think it is fair that we, we must have some walls. It just feels like at this point we're living 20 take a dive. They can't all be winners. I feel like that's the spirit that's being embodied and yet our refusal to accept that.

Is there something to, I don't wanna encourage people to fail, but what has been personally transformative, a revelation I've had in my adult life, is that I oftentimes succumb to all or nothing thinking. And that can stop progress, right? It can stop you from even trying something, because you don't know if you're going to be the best at it or the shittiest person in the world at Right? It can stop you from even trying something, because you don't know if you're gonna be the best at it or the shittiest person in the world at it. That's not how it works.

But that's the kind of trap your brain likes to get you in. Something along the lines of a 20 take a dive that does sound like I'm encouraging people to fail, but they all can't be winners is not a terrible sentiment to get out there. Well, what I like about it is it's both take a dive as one might throw a match, but also like dive in. Jumping in, yeah.

Take it, that's why I thought 20 take a dive, I meant to do that. And also you get Urkel in there. Did Urkel say I meant to do that? That was always the follow-up. Did I do that? Yes. Oh, I meant to, sorry.

They usually cut that second part. He was always really confident about it. Who said I meant to do that? Which sitcom character said I meant to do that? Uncle Jesse. Yeah, it was like a quote. Tim the Toolman Taylor. No, Pee Wee Herman, sorry.

That's what I was thinking. 20 Cool Tool Time. 20 Cool Tool Time. 20 Cool Tool Time. Under Hunter's Fife. Hunter's Fife. Under Hunter's Fife. Hunter's Fife. Under Hunter's Fife. Under, under, under, under.

Dumb. Sunder time. This isn't a podcast at this point, right? That's okay, it doesn't need to be. And don't, it's the second guessing that's actually slowing us down. Read the list again, Griffin, from last time. Just read the list again.

20 Honey Hive, Back to Beastsness. 20 It's Alive, Rebuild the Monster. 2045, Welcome to the Future. Pretty cool. Okay. Thunder Force V, The Omega Continuum. 2020 Knives, 400 Blades. 20 Joanie Eyes, Wind and Peasles. Hold on, wait, hold V, the Omega, continuing. 20, 20 knives, 400 blades. 20 Joanie, eyes wide, the puzzle.

Okay, now wait, now wait, now wait, hold on, now wait. Now listen, hold on. If we were to take the theme 2045 at this point, then all we would have to do is pledge that in 2045. We'll do tummy buddy life? We'll do tummy buddy life. We'll do tummy buddy life. Oh, we're just swapping. It's just a clean swap, right?

So it's not even like we're bailing, it's just like, the year theme for this year was 20, tummy buddy life, and we'll just send that to 2045. Like Looper. Right. I think. Yeah. And then we'll take the year theme 2045. Like Looper. Right. I think. Yeah. And then we'll take the year theme 2045. Yeah. For this year.

2045, Welcome to the Future. We'll do that now. Yeah. And we'll just send the next one 20 years into the far-flung future. Now, I like that part of it a lot. Where we're kicking this can down the road 20 years. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I will say it does sound sort of like a celebration of the 45th president of our United States of America, which I'm not wild about. No. Why not 2085? 2085. 2095. Cause 40 sounded closer to 20,

but I see what, I do see what you're saying, Trav. If we're gonna go to the future, why just 20 years? That wouldn't make for very fun costumes. We will not, I think, Trav, there's some problem. 2055. Mine felt, 2055 maybe. It's, eh, you know, clean living. 50 sounds like more, Justin, that's that's 70 like it's not that much. I

Like to keep my expectations low, you know 55 sounds more futuristic for 50 50 50 55 Sorry, what was that? 55 it's out. It's toef, you can't have another eef sound. I didn't realize it's Italian. Bunty, runty. Runty dive.

Blunty dive. Then why not 3025? Fuck yeah, what at 6,219? 20 cyber 5. 20 Cyber Life, the game has changed. Well, Cyber Life Welcome to the Future still works. But I don't want to sound like we're embracing AI. That is what it sounds like.

That is what... Circle of life? 20, we're alive. No bots, only dreams. Real dreams only. My dreams almost. So just to summarize, it would- 20 in your life, real dreams only. I'm sorry, did you say 20 in your life, real dreams only?

20 in your, like be in your life, real dreams only. I know, but we have to have some, there's nothing of substance. There's something for me to, there's nothing with chew or depth. 20 human life. 20 thunder's cry. 20 thunder strike.

20 thunder strike. Thunder doesn't really strike though, does it? Is the sound? 20 Thunderstrike. 20 Thunderstrike. Thunder doesn't really strike though, does it? It's the sound. 20 Thunderwife. I already said Thunderwife and no one reacted to that at all. I just don't know what a Thunderwife is, I guess. You know, like if you married Thor. I guess so.

20 Lightningstrike. 20 Thunder strike. 20 thunder bike. That's cool. It's not gonna be it, but I'm glad you said it cause it's cool. It's a cool thing to think. Like I'm so tired right now, but sometimes we're saying stuff that's like cool

to think about like something like a thunder bike. What about if the year name is just what is thunder bike? But can I say the reason I liked it is because I was thinking about the posters that we would have at live shows and how like everyone would just see us on a Thunderbike. And that's cool. That's cool.

Is there anything to, hey, let's just take a second, just as a joke. It's kind of cool to think about yourself on a Thunderbike. It really is. Right? Yeah. And maybe it's something like if you get scared, if the ear makes you scared,

you think about yourself on a thunder bike. And not a motorcycle, but like a bike, like an actual bike, like a bicycle. Yeah. And so like, what's actionable about it is it's like, when you get scared, you can think about the Thunderbike and then you'll feel a little bit better. And it's yours, but only in your imagination.

Now, if we went 20 tandem bike, people could draw it as a Thunderbike if they wanted to. But 20 tandem bike in this together, picture the three of us in like old timey, like straw boaters. Tandem bike's not gonna make you stop being scared. When you get scared. Yeah, cause you're not alone.

I'll pedal for you if you need me to. We're going downhill. You're not on that bike alone. I'm there with you, buddy. 20 Thunderbikes. Demand abundance. Tandem Thunderbikes. 20 Thunderbikes demand abundance.

Demand abundance? Is what you want more of? 20 Thunderbikes is so many, right? Yeah, almost too many. Cause you only have the one set of legs. Expect abundance. Expect abundance. Expect abundance.

Oh. Recognize abundance. Expect abundance. Oh. Recognize abundance. 20 recognize. 20 wreck the guys. 20 number spike. A big bump in the tally. Bump a number. 20 number spike, bumping the tally. Bumpin' number, 20 number spike, bumpin' the tally.

20 how time flies. 20 no goodbyes. Why don't we just call this, this is the last year I'll make the show, 20 last goodbye, and we'll just, we're never doing the year naming again. This is just an off year for us, Trav. Next year we're gonna crush. Remember when we talked about Bluntie for like a long time?

Yeah, what's Dundo? Don't change the subject. You can't just say Dundo. Who do you think you are? Like what do you think you- You said Dundo like it was a conversation starter. What do you think your job is? What do you think your job is? You said Dundo like it was a conversation starter. What do you think your job is? What do you think your job is?

You said Dundo like it was gonna spur us all on. You just said Dundo and then you really quickly- I was about to say- Sorry, babe. It's gonna be a little while before I can record Schminners. We're still working on the year. We went back, we dove back into it.

I thought, I thought, I was about to say, okay. I was about to say, okay. I was about to say Dundo Kive. And then I thought that sounds like a Star Wars character. So I said half of it before I could stop myself from saying Dundo Kive. I just said Dundo. That's a story. What happened with Dundo Kive. And someday we'll be reading a Star Wars almanac about Dundo Kive.

Twenty jumbo wife. My huge wife. Twenty jumbo jive. No, no! Twenty gunner knife. Jumbo Jive. No, no! No! 20 Gunner Knife. Just wanna get it out. You guys keep thinking about 20 Thunder Bike. I don't know why you keep making me bring that back up.

Man, it was pretty good, I guess. I feel like I'm recording this to myself at this point. Well. A little bit. Cause I feel like there's recording this to myself at this point. Well. A little bit. Cause I feel like there's not, there's not a part of it. Can I say the part of the problem? Yeah. Please that. Okay.

Seriously. Look at me for a second. Engage me. I'm here, baby. Part of the problem is that we are just spouting things. But not building. We're not building and nothing can get momentum just saying it.

We gotta explore some of these ideas to see if there's anything there. Just to like bat it around a little bit. You know what I mean? Just to like ride the thunder bike, charge ahead. Now wait, Juice, this is interesting because you're saying a thing to try to help me and Travis, and it's to help us do our best and make our best.

So is there, is there a year name in that, in what you just said? How do you mean? Like a tandem bike. Work to 2020. 2020 Wonderbike. Like a tandem bike. Work to 20. 20 wonder bike. I feel like Justin, you want the undo feeling so bad that you're referred to and you refuse to engage in tandem.

You also want bike and that's, you can't have both words, man. I just want you all to picture the three of us riding a tandem bicycle and tell me it doesn't fill your life with joy. Tandem bike 25, there's just no, I mean maybe meter, but that's about it. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize

that we had such an abundance. We're so close, we're so close. I can tell that we're so close, but if we get nasty with each other now, when we're so close, it will have been for nothing. You're right, you're right, you're right. I apologize. 20 undergram.

20 thunder crimes. 20 thunder guys. 20 thunder time. 20 thunder time. 20 thunder Time. 20 Thunder Time. 20 Thunder Drive. Go on. I am speed.

What? Say it again. 20 Thunder Drive. I am speed. 20 Thunder Drive. 20 Thunder Drive. Faster than for fear. Faster than for fear.

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear! Like you're driving into the storm. Oh wait, a Thunder Drive, a Thunder Drive is like you're driving into the storm. Yeah. A cool storm chaser type, if you will. Chase the storm, ride the lightning. Nah, I don't wanna-

20 Thunder Drive into the storm. Into the storm. Faster than fear hit way better than anything we've said. Guys. So far. 20 Thunder Drive faster than fear? Does that just mean not be afraid? Like, don't be afraid? No, it's okay to be afraid

You just have to move faster than your fear. Okay, don't let fear stop you There's a storm in front of you. It's making scary noises. It's not here yet No, but you know that no matter how little sense it makes it's harder for the lightning to hit you if you're moving You're gonna drive faster than fear You're gonna drive through the storm through the lightning through the thunder unless you've been advised not to buy a Trusted source But if the government says... A trusted source.

I said a trusted source. 20 Thunder Drive, faster than fear, within reason. There's an asterisk. Faster than fear. Right. Asterisk, within reason. You know what makes me happy? What?

20 Thunder Drive, faster than fear? Yeah. It's that it's that, it's taken us 45 minutes to get here. There's no way we would've recorded for three solid hours. It just so happens that this one took three hours to come out, you know what I mean? It just took this long to get here. What are you guys gonna dress as for 20th? Probably Glenn Powell. I mean, cause there's like a...

I don't know that that'll hit. From Twister? Yeah, I'm into it, dude. Yeah, for sure. Or like a full racing suit. Racing, storm, man. We gotta hurry up and tell McKay before she draws anything else.

With the old theme on it, cause I think everybody's gonna be pretty excited about this one. Now is the asterisk within reason canonical or is that more of a vibe? Cause I do like the idea of every poster. Has an asterisk? Has an asterisk, you know, just sort of.

Let me Google Thunder Drive and make sure it's not like a new racist truck. A new electric racist truck? Is that a truck for racist or is racist? The truck is racist. ThunderDrive.com looks like it's just being squatted, which makes me feel pretty good. Yeah, but there is a cloud-based technology company.

Oh, whatever. Well, I don't care about that. Yeah, baby. It's not the best reviewed. Good. Well, that's fine. We're not gonna use them. That's all the more reason for us to use the name.

There's no confusion. Cause we crush it every single time. Except for this time. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Faster than fear, what are we telling people? We just explained it to you Griffin. We explained it to you already. Did you? Yeah, yeah, you're gonna move faster than your fear. Yeah, so right, definitely. I get that you gotta go faster than your fear. What does that mean?

It means don't let fear stop you. Like if you sit there and think about all the reasons not to do something, you'll convince yourself not to. You need to move before that fear hits. Okay, that's cool. That kind of gets back to the all or nothing. Thank you. It's the, I don't want anyone to do anything dangerous.

Cause sometimes fear can be a good- It's not faster than reason. Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Do you know who said that? Lee Harvey Oswald. Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo. He's living faster than fear in that. You know what?

I fucking like fast. This is more applicable to me than I'm afraid of something. So let's rush right into it. This is move faster than fear. It could just be. Move before the fear hits. I'm not thinking yet. You can't get scared if you're already doing it.

You can't let the fear sink in. It'll stop you. You have to move faster than fear. But don't use this to do anything shitty. No, it's not faster than reason or morals. Now that's why asterisk within reason. I don't know that we can do a subtext. I don't know if we can do a PS to our youth.

Yeah, I mean, it can be acknowledged or implied. There's an implicit asterisk. Can we just put 20th Thunder Drive, faster than fear, asterisk, but not explain, like, come to us if you wanna know what the asterisk is. But canonically, that asterisk is there. But it's too long, but like, you get it. Clearly there's more to it,

that's what the asterisk is. Thunder Drive. Clearly there's more to it. That's what the ass grows to know. Thunder Drive. I'm living faster than fear. I'm living faster. I'm just thinking about saying this, but yeah, I'm living faster than fear over here. Matt Damon was living faster than fear when he bought his zoo.

Feels good. It's a bad idea. And if he had stopped to think about it for more than a second. I haven't seen the movie, Griffin, but I assume it doesn't end with him going, fuck, I wish I hadn't bought that zoo. It sucks. Will, can you see a situation where someone-

It ends with him getting trampled by 30 Impalas. It's so crazy. And then whoever else is in the movie goes, I guess those weren't tame Impalas. And everybody laughs. He was faster than fear, but not faster than those 30 Impalas who trampled him. Is there going to be people who send us emails like,

hey, I robbed a store because I thought I was being faster than fear. The Macquarie brothers are not experts and they're advice should never be followed. It's done, done. Also, I think that one should examine their life if the only thing stopping them from robbing a convenience store is fear and nothing else.

Or three chuckle fucks giving a great name for a thing. I don't, here's what I'll say. We're all gonna agree this is a one time thing, which just took us a long time to find it this time, and we had to take a break, and that's fine. Everybody makes their sense. This is feeling better with every passing moment. It was the right thing to do,

but we're not gonna do this again, and I just don't want any negativity about 20th Thunder Drive. I think everybody needs to get on board, and if you don't like it, please don't want any negativity about 20th Thunder Drive. I think everybody needs to get on board. And if you don't like it, please don't say that because. It's just, we're living. Faster than fear, slower than shame. The three of us are immediately living faster than fear, but don't say anything mean

about any of the stuff we do ever. No, it's just this one thing. If you could, it's so much pressure and like we really cracked underneath it last time. Thunder Drive sounds so much like 25, I'm shitting. I know it did. I'm absolutely shitting at how close those two are phonetically, absolute shitting my pants over here.

I know, that's been one of my big things from the beginning. We absolutely smashed it, bruv. Smashed it. And we got there by free-associated just saying fucking garbage. Yeah. Tried and tested, proven, moms approved, kids approved. We fucking ripped this shit up this year. Yeah, we're back on top.

Hey, listen, I was gonna tell you where to find our shit, but you know where we're at. Now Travis just told our work slack the big news, which I think is selfish. That's Travis. I'm just trying to get in there before they finalize any poster designs. Oh, and now they're all saying not to do it. They say don't change it.

But now we have to tell them. Oh God, there's so much work. Well, we could always. We'll release a Chase poster of 20 tummy, tummy, I've already forgotten what it was. It's not, it's so bad. Yeah, nobody liked it. We'll have a Chase poster for Tummy Buddy Life out there

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in Hocking Hills, Ohio. I'm just gonna go ahead and say immediate feedback from our team is just annoyance with us, I would say at this point, annoyance with us and our second guessing. It's not a second guess though, it's a continuation. It's a continuation of the first guess. We were as surprised as you all were.

My heart's racing right now at how disappointed they are in us, but I'm gonna live faster than fear. Guys, I cannot tell you how disappointed Amanda is in how hard it is hitting right now. We gotta wrap up this episode because I feel so guilty. Thank you, Montaigne. I feel guilty.

There's done a lot of, thanks Montaigne for the Use for a Theme song. My life is better with you. Strap in, guys, it's gonna be a long year. I can't believe Travis is still messaging in the work slack. I can't leave him hanging now, Justin. Travis just hit him with the actual name and there's been no response whatsoever.

I'm guessing because they're just busting up so hard. There's an ellipses, we've gotten one ellipses. This is fun, thanks everybody. Hey, have a great 2025. No, no, no. Don't show any weakness. That's what we did during Tummy Buddy Life and it came back to bite us in the ass. There's no weakness. Is that a familiar name? My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy.

You can't say there's no weakness. My name is Justin McElroy. Thunder Drive Juice. My name is Justin McElroy! Thunder Drive Juice! My name is Justin McElroy! I'm Travis McElroy! I'm Griffin McElroy! This has been My Brother My Brother Me. Kiss your dad square on the lips! My life, ah ah ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah ah ah

It's better, it's better with you Is it true? Ah ah ah ah ah ah It's better, it's better with you My life, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah It's better with you