My Brother, My Brother And Me - My Brother, My Brother and Me 27: Immersion Therapy
Episode Date: October 25, 2010In this unofficial MBMBaM Halloween Spooktacular, the brothers McElroy turn up the fright meter to "AAH"-leven, answering a whole mess of eerie queries about ... um, relationships and meeting people a...nd other sad stuff. We guess it's not all that terrifying, unless you consider the fact that we've done this twenty-seven times now to be a little scary. Suggested talking points: The cleanest hands, hypothetical future-to-present time travel, Jekyll and Bastard, Ja Drool, the nerd void, tapeworm baby, baggin' it
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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
If you need me, let me know
Gonna be your crown
If you got no place to go when you're feeling down
If you're all alone
When the breathing burns above
Like the Chilean miners
No merging, what's the problem?
Listen, you may be willing to forget about them that quickly
I'm not gonna forget about our Chilean brothers that emerged from the ground like that
How do we know there's not some more down there?
Have we looked?
Like a Chilean miner
A forgotten Chilean miner
Emerging a week after everyone else has left
From the ground, this is my brother, my brother
Be emerging from the depths of ignorance to deliver weak old wisdom
Straight to your dome
Do you think like six weeks after the celebration someone looked around and said
Have you guys seen Sleepy Tim?
Where's Sleepy Tim? Shit
Now he's skinny, Tim
Lonely Tim
Lonely skinny Tim
Tim is actually a very common name in Chile
You guys may not know that
Not Chile, it's not
They weren't lost in a mine inside one of the members of TLC
No, they were lost in a Chile's restaurant
They needed to be excavated from
Which, I mean, I can't blame them of all the places to get stuck in the ground for three months
I mean, their chicken strips are really out of this world
Guys, I don't care how awesome this blossom is
I'm gonna fucking flip if I don't get out of here soon
Wait, wait, wait, awesome blossom is out back
What does chilies have?
They have an aversion that is equitable to the awesome blossoms
Anyway
The mediocre blossom
As you've certainly gathered, this is an advice show
Clearly
I am your host and co-brother, Justin McElroy
I'm Travis McElroy
I'm Griffin McElroy
And we are gonna get right into the wisdom, the growth, as it were
I can't tell if this is gonna be a good one or a bad one, but let's find out together
One of my friends that I have known for years is a serious problem about washing his hands too much
He washes them every 30 minutes, and as it gets colder outside, his hands start to crack and bleed because they are dry
What should I do to get him to stop being a freak?
Kevin from Gmail
Kevin, your friend isn't, like, he's not like, kooky
What a crazy guy
He's got Mark Summersidus
Oh, no
Yeah, he's got the Summersidus
He's got the double there
It seems kind of counterintuitive to me, right?
Like, I wash my hands because they're dirty, but I wash them too much, so now they have blood all over them
Which is, like, the dirtiest substance in a man
And as we all know, you can wash how you want that blood not coming off
Nope
Never ever
Nope, the blood stays
Maybe you need to invest in some gloves
It's simple
The thing that worked for Mark Summers is something called immersion therapy
Where, to get over the fact that you're really worried about getting dirty, they make you climb around in giant waffles covered in fake butter
And that seems to fix him pretty good
So all you have to do is go to Nickelodeon
What's Nickelodeon's parent company?
Because I know Nickelodeon Studios is like, shut down, you've got to go to Viacom
I can show you where their office is in New York
You just go there and you try and get him arranged a 90s style game show with your friend as the host
Yeah
Or Kevin, you could realize that your friend has something called obsessive compulsive disorder
And it's probably not going to be fixed with a pat on the back and a couple of concerned looks
In fact, don't pat him on the back, I don't think that'll help
I think that actually hurts the situation
Yes, that washes back
You can't hurt the situation, look at those muscles, that guy's easel
I think what you need to do is if you realize it's been a little over 30 minutes
Look at him and go, whoa, it's been 30 minutes, better wash your hands or puppies are going to die
Help keep him on schedule
That's all you can do is try to facilitate
Or just ridicule him endlessly, that's the only way that friends can really get friends to do other things
I know a lot, there are probably some people clucking their tongues out there and saying, hey, that's a series
Listen, life's hard
The fact that the guy washes his hands every half hour, it's not exactly debilitating
Look at Howard Hughes
He managed to still build the Spruce Gates
Yeah, but think of all the life experiences that he's going to miss out on now
He'll never be able to hold his newborn baby for longer than 30 minutes at a time
When you're holding the baby, things start to get really good around minute 40
That's true, the connection is really real there
All his figure paints will look like rushed bullshit
I see what you're going with for here, but you really kind of needed to percolate a little bit more
Dear brothers, my girlfriend says I play wow too much
I've lived with my girlfriend for 8 years and started playing wow a year ago
I play a few hours a day, but she wants me to stop
So I haven't been on the dating scene for 10 years, any advice?
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
What kind of bazaar either or have you entered into here from Spring?
Yeah, my advice is to...
What's wow?
Sometimes when I'm faced with decisions like this very difficult decision this man is clearly facing
I like to pretend that I've traveled back in time from a few years in the future
Where I'm so cripplingly sad because of the decision I made
And that by traveling back in time I can manage to stop myself from doing that terrible thing
Which is a long, long way of saying don't do what you're thinking about doing
You're talking about like present time travel, right?
I'm talking about hypothetical future to present time travel
Okay, yeah, I like that idea
I think it probably before it's gonna catch on you're gonna need to catch your name for it
I'd suggest immersion therapy
But I do like the premise here
Remember, for Spring, someday you're going to die
And when you die you're not going to say to yourself, gosh, I wish I had played wow more
You might, however, say I wish I hadn't dumped my girlfriend of 8 years to play wow more
Which is maybe the same principle as Griffin's
But I like to keep the taste of death in everyone's mouth at every moment
I think if you're thinking about your death, your eventual death, you're always going to make the best decision
You need to live like you're dying and then die like you're dying
Yes
What is that pecan? What is that mild death?
It's got kind of a butter nut
A definite deathy kind of feel to it
I'm getting a note of grave
Can I suggest proposing to your girlfriend of 8 years?
Get off in wow
Yeah
No, no, no, no
This can only go well
Don't listen to Griffin
Come here and look at the screen for a second
I know you don't play me
I buy you a purple ring
It's Amethyst, it's in the grave
I changed the name of my guild too, I love you Susan
Be mine
My friend Tim and his girlfriend have a problem
They never stop making out and groping each other in front of the rest of us
I'm going to go ahead and submit that you're the one with the problem, but let's go on
How do I go about stopping this at points that's downright annoying
Also talking about it and telling them how we feel does nothing
I need something a little more drastic
Thoughts?
Carlo
Carlo, no
Carlo
You do realize that you're trying to stand the way of the most powerful force in the universe
Making out
Making out
A boner
Boners, yeah
You're trying to stop a man and a woman who I'm guessing from your description or under the age of 17
You're trying to get them to stop groping in public
You think you're going to reinvent the wheel? Come on Carlo
And does it say in public?
So they are doing it in public
For some people watching that happen, that's all they got
That's all they have
Some people are not going to go to malls and just see people
Just see people in love
Groping each other
In a physical manner
In public
Yeah, in public places like outside the gap
Some people need that
Some people need it
Nothing wrong with that
I mean there is something wrong with it
There's something a little wrong with it but I don't want to judge you my brother for Christ's sake
I mean not you of course, we're not talking about you
Hypothetical people
Hypothetical Griffin
Hypothetical future present Griffin
Some of us are coming up on 30 and like to be reminded of what it's like to feel
And maybe Carlo you shouldn't get in the way of that
Maybe
I suggest just every time you see it yell like
Ewww
That's good
That's good
And then go back in time
Go to Nickelodeon to see us
Get a container of GAC
And then when they start making out
I'm slimy
I'm just slimy
What's up? What's this all over me?
You've been slimed
Maybe next time you see I'm making out just yell
I got mixed
You can't do that on television but you can do it in my door room
Slimed
What's up?
Just fire some coosh balls at him
All of a sudden they're on the Rosie O'Donnell show
Ah, criminally
No but really, you shouldn't do anything
There's nothing you can do
They'll hate each other soon enough
Yeah
And you don't want to get in the way of that
I have this guy friend who to me is totally awesome
That's in all caps
I don't think I can do it justice but trust me
He's great
Funny
Chilly
Left eye
T-Baws
Nope
Those aren't in there
He's chill
All that
The only problem is that to people that he isn't friends with
He's just a total jerk just the worst
He's rude and downright unpleasant to be around
He's never violent or anything like that but still
Even though he's perfectly fine when he's hanging with me
I find a lot of friends kinda look down on me for hanging around him because of this
What should I do?
Thanks
Devil's Advocate
Gmail
I like it
So
Is it like a
Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing?
Or is it just that you like his bad attitude and your friends don't?
No, I think it's one of those scenarios where once he gets surrounded by too many people
He transforms into a monster
He gets, he gets, I mean you gotta
I think the thing to remember is that it stems from a place of
Some people when they're, when I'm around a bunch of people I don't know very well
I tend to kinda clam up a little bit
I get a little
Social phobic
And his is probably just manifesting in a different way
In this case he gets
He gets on the
You know, he gets on the offensive
That's what it sounds like to me
Right
I think the trick is to
Try exposing him to one friend at a time
You know, until he gets comfortable with both of you
And then eventually you do that kind of times
You gotta find that magic number so that if you're hanging out with three friends
And you bring in a fourth and he's still cool
And then you bring in a fifth and he's like
Grr, Jews
You're like, no, okay, not five
Four or under
Right now you're attempting what's called immersion therapy
I don't think it's working
It's not for everyone
It weren't for Mark Summers
But that doesn't mean it's gonna work for Jerko over here
Don't you guys think one friend at a time
Until he's like more comfortable with the group
I think that's the only way you can go
Or like, is this guy worth it?
Like, he doesn't sound very cool
He's totally awesome
He's totally awesome
You don't know him like he knows him
Here's another suggestion
If you're hanging out with friends
And you want it to just look like it's you and him
Then hide your friends around the room
That you are hanging out in
Like, they talk to you and he's like, what was that?
You're like, I didn't hear anything
I didn't hear anything
I don't know what you're talking about
But yes, Greg, I would like to go to the Baltimore
And then once he's been awesome for a while
Your friends can jump out and be like
That behavior is the kind of behavior
You should exhibit around us
But are you scared?
And he's like, fuck you!
I don't trust people
How could you do this to me, Richard?
Here's your guts
Here's a Yahoo Answers question
And it was sent in by Hybrid Misfit
Thank you, Hybrid Misfit
It's from Yahoo Answers user Cyknick
Who asks, how can I make my rapping better?
He has a very unique problem, though
He says, when I rap, I get a lot of saliva in my mouth
And I don't sound too good when it happens
How can I change that?
And can you give me other suggestions?
Well, let's not put the cart before the horse
You need to handle your saliva situation
First and foremost
I think you should maybe just incorporate it
Into your act
Yeah, well, that's been a popular strategy
You ever wonder where Big Daddy Brony came from?
Why people call him that?
It's because he raps with a giant wad of paper towels in his mouth
Some people don't know that
DJ Mumbles
DJ Mumbles
His mouth full of cotton balls
DJ, how about just DJ Cud?
Kid Cud
Kid Cudi
That's how he got his name
Exactly
You might remember M.C. Silica Gel
It actually died
Because you're not supposed to put Silica Gel in your mouth
But you get the idea
It went young, but God, those rhymes
So dry
It's hard to corner the rap market nowadays
Because you have to have something new
For instance, I think Kanye West does it
Just with really clever rhymes
And catchy beats
And being crazy
And Soulja Boy does it
By being really super untalented
Which is in and of itself
Kind of unique
So I think what you can do
Is just have a lot of spit in your mouth
While you're rapping
Whoa, DJ Drully
DJ Drully, there's something along those lines
Jaw Drul
Jaw Drul?
And all your lyrics could be about it too
Like when I spit rhymes
You'll really get wet, something like that
Oh my God, this is...
You will get wet, you may get soaked
The name's Kid Slimey, don't you never forget
Something like that
Can you give me four more lines?
Let me see
What I got here
When I'm done with you kids
You're gonna need a towel
I'm gonna open your eyes
I'm gonna empty your bowels
Is that too long?
That's two lines
When I'm on the MIC
Things will never be dry
Oh come on, you can do this
You almost got it
I'm gonna dampen your shirt and spit in your eye
Yes
There it is
Form Spring says
Okay, alright
My older brother is
bolding
with hats, hoodies,
bonnets, etc
Unfortunately, he cannot
rock a hat, and is wearing a hoodie
and doors makes him look like a rapist
How do we get him to get
right with his MPB
Form Spring
I don't like that
Male pattern baldness
Okay
I think last
Just to clarify last week, I think we covered
no one can rock a hat
No one can rock a hat
You can wear a hat and sometimes you can't even do that
Yeah
Sometimes you're just barely wearing a hat
Do you need to explain to your brother
that we are in a time period now
where bald people are awesome
Yeah, it's the most socially acceptable
bald has ever been, I think
I agree, I think you need to just shave it
and call it a day
Is that because of Moby?
Yeah, because of Moby mainly
I think Moby is really the one that turned it around
I mean, it was cool to be bald in like
55, but Moby was like
I'm 22, and now I have a bald head
I remember in that interview
where Bruce Willis was like, thank god for Moby
Thanks for making it all okay
The thing is
the step one
to getting your sexy right is always
acceptance. You got to accept who you are
wearing a hat
and hoodie and bonnet
I hopefully not really a bonnet, but
wearing that kind of stuff
That doesn't
That says I'm ashamed
of something that's utterly out of my control
That's not sexy
You should say you're proud of it
because it's something you got
that most people don't
Shave your eyebrows and then
walk around and say, fuck you
Just like that to people
and then point at them like, what's up with these?
But then grow a huge beard
And break your own nose
so that it's just slightly tilted to the left
Oh, I like that
Yeah, this is a look. We're doing like a woolly-willy thing here
You're welcome. This is a lot more than you paid for
my friend. Gauge one of your
ears. Really big
Shrink the other one
Shrink one ear
entirely
I guarantee you if you do that, no one will notice
you are bald
Guaranteed
But I think in short, shave it
Just shave it, get done with it
One of the funniest guys
I know outside of my family, Brentel Floss
made that decision
like, just shave his head
So much cooler now, great looking guy
Very funny, popular with the ladies
It's a look. It's a look that you need
to, you know, convince your brother
Now, how do you convince your brother to do it?
You do it while he's sleeping
And probably try to get some facial hair
Just something down there
You should shave his head and then glue that hair to his face
Yeah
I like it. I personally
think that you shouldn't
encourage him to go bald
Why?
You guys couldn't convince me
to go bald, is the thing
I'm thinking about it from
the brother's perspective. If you guys came to me and were like
Hey, bro
You gotta get rid of that hair
There's no way, there's no force on art that could
Griffin? I could change your mind right now
Okay
If you shave your head, you could shave
three seconds off of your lap time in the pool
Damn it
Griffin, I'm afraid you
misunderstood the premise of the show
See, when you try to take our advice
into the real world and apply them practically
to your situation, that's when things
that's when the wheels really fall off
The idea with my brother and my brother and me is that
we give an answer that'll have them saying
Hey, yeah, exactly, why don't I just do that
And then as soon as they try to apply it
and it all collapses around them like a castle
made of lies
We got a question from Steph
via Gmail
She says
I just recently graduated from
college at Berkeley and I packed my bags
and moved away to the San Francisco peninsula
with my boyfriend for a job at Stanford
Our friends in Berkeley
are too lazy to come visit us
We visit them and we have no friends on the peninsula
How do you meet people
and make friends after college
especially 20-somethings
We're both nerdy people who like video
board games and comic books
Not
video board games, not like the
Clue VHS games
Knightmare
and comic books
We prefer to meet other well-adjusted nerds
The problem with this is that most nerds I've met
are single men and are awkward and uninterested
when we approach them as a couple
but try to ask me out when I don't have my boyfriend around
It's happened recently
when I went to a local board game shop
and asked if they had a game night
Need to meet nerds
but we also want to have some stuff in common
with our future fantastic friends
That is a tough question
It's like a treatise of everything
that's wrong with the
nerd culture right now
It's a nice summation of everything
that's terrible
I mean
If it's any indication
the questions that we get
apparently all nerdy people
are nervous about talking to
all other nerdy people
Yeah
Wait a minute
You don't
You need to realize
that nerdy couples are still made
of two nerdy people
They're going to feel just as uncomfortable
as they did in another mating process here
This is
a mating negotiation
that doesn't
end with
conception
It ends with
Inception
Inception and going to see it together
It ends with
sitting around a table and playing some last night on earth
Something nerdy
The fact of the matter is that
making friends, meeting new people
that will then become friends
and not like acquaintances but straight up friends
is more difficult than
meeting members of the opposite sex
I think it's also more difficult than
once you're in a couple
because I think when you're solo
you can sort of make those negotiations a lot easier
You can pretend to be somebody you're not
when you're flying by yourself
but when you're in a couple it's sort of like
that person's going to know what's up
and they've got to like
the situation you're in too
That's intimidating
If you're looking for people to meet at a bar
you don't go to the couple that's sitting
by themselves at a table
You're having the buffalo wings, huh?
Let me just snack
I stand by that
as far as meeting friends
you always do good meeting people at work
meeting people
at hobbies that you're both doing
If you guys join
a pottery class or go to a coffee
shop or something like that
anything like that where it's not just random strangers
but people you know
but that doesn't always mean
you're going to meet the best people
because you're limited to the people that are in that group
but it's
people that you know
At work, put up like a flyer
on campus that says
hey, does anybody want to
play some board games or something together
for couples only? A couple in their night
and then...
Maybe not make it sound so sad though
That's an awfully tight
filter to put on that. I think maybe just a flyer
with your
personal phone number and the message
who wants to party
Couple looking to share fun
with another couple
Something like that. Something very open
and honest
Looking for open couple
to share with other open couple
That's good because you want open honesty
and big
and adventure. Couple looking for other couple
for a foursome
but then in much smaller letters
for Scrabble
Maybe
go back and forth between a few different games
so make sure that they're willing to swing
You want to say that in the flyer
looking for couple
open minded couple willing to swing
Maybe you can play that
hot new board game from Mattel
Key Party
Down for Key Party
Maybe a convention would be good
some sort of...
go to Comic Con or something and look for
women dressed as
superheroes because you know they didn't do that on their own
That's just science
Seth
I'm sorry that we
don't have more practical help for you here
I mean Jesus if I knew this
then like
we need to listen to another podcast
like my brother, my brother, my brother
my brother and me
and my super well-adjusted uncle
who's way cool
and the only thing they do on that show
the only thing they do on that show is give us advice
and
they could tell me how to do this
because I'm right there in the same boat
I'm starting to realize that
everyone's kind of just floating
through this void of
nobody knows how to talk to anybody else
It's true
We just get so many questions about how do I
start conversations, how do I meet people
Everybody
we are not solitary beings
and people that feel solitary
is because they are the most afraid
Unless you're on the reality show solitary
and then you're tights alone
You know, you might
I know this seems like
counter-intuitive considering what we just talked about
but you might try Facebook
There's got to be some like
San Francisco gaming groups
on Facebook
maybe go there and say, hey, we're looking for couples
to
hang out with
For couples, the trick is to just
find that one couple
that you can be cool with and then they know
eight or nine other couples
especially that they've lived on the San Francisco
peninsula for a while
Hey, move in, ma'am
I'm always, always
hungry
There literally isn't a time when I couldn't eat
I'm not a fat guy
but I fear I may become one
What should I do?
Keep up the amazing work, especially the deep voice guy
who isn't Justin or Griffin
like him, Harrison, Gmail
I like you too, Harrison
Harrison, I do want to clarify for you
that is how people become fat guys
That's not like a fear
like something ephemeral
that may, like, no you won't
that won't happen
I'm afraid of ghosts
and also that I'll get fat if I eat too much food
That's not a fear
Yeah
I know that I feel the same way
as we have discussed
previously, I could literally
always eat something at any point in the day
but really that is because
a lot of the time I'm just massively bored
and usually boredom leads to hunger
so maybe
try a dodo instead of a sandwich
instead of a sandwich
get a Game Boy
all of these things help
Oh my god, Harrison, you have a tapeworm
Harrison, you have a tapeworm, you have to go to the doctor
But wait, if he has a tapeworm
then he won't get fat
right? Because the tapeworm will eat all the food
for him
But the tapeworm will eat all the food before
he can digest it and use its energy
and he'll eat all the good food too
What if he's pregnant?
Oh my god, Harrison
With a tapeworm
Congratulations
I shall name him
Phillip
He is my tapeworm baby
and I love him
He's just like that movie junior
except he is a tapeworm
and no, our actual snagers are always hungry
so
it's just like the movie junior except for the tapeworm
but
I went to the Sears
I went to the Sears baby department
and they had no clothes that would fit
my tapeworm baby
I ended up
with a pantyhose for super skinny ladies
that's what I had to walk out of there with
and you imagine the look on Phillip's face
when I hand him that
I sewed a little ducky onto it
but I still don't think it's gonna
fly but I love him
and he is my child
and he is going to go to college
and I'm planning a play date with my neighbor's monkey baby
Harrison
Harrison, don't eat anymore
just pump the brakes
find something to do
that takes up hours of the day
that you
that you are not fat guy yet
does not make you special
fat people feel that way too
that's why they're fat
how could this happen
this is how it happens, you start out this way
and then you eat so much that you can turn fat
when you're fat you can
go back and you can chart out a history of double downs
that made you what you are now
listen
Harrison, just pump the brakes
listen to my brother Griffin, just slow it down
if you want to eat something
like lots of people think that way
it could be that the food you're eating is too good
did you try eating healthy food
because if you only have healthy food in the house
then you won't want to eat as much
because it doesn't taste good
or just get moderately poor
to the point where
you can't really afford
a lot of food
oh that's good, I like that
but then you'll start eating out of the garbage
man don't do that
like a giant raccoon
wrap around his brain
and make him go to the garbage and start eating out of it
I'm starving
I have a yahoo answer
it kind of goes against one of our
core tenets
here at my brother and my brother and me
but I feel like it's going to open up
a really interesting dialogue
between the three of us so I think it might be worth
the infraction against our own
rules
but if I read the title
and you guys don't want to go ahead with it
I'll totally understand
it won't hurt my feelings at all
it was sent in by
a listener
Benjamin Carl
the man so nice they named him twice
and the question itself
was crafted by Floyd Brewer
who asks
I am trying to get
my son trained to defecate
in a bag instead of a toilet or diaper
any suggestions or tips?
my wife and I
are very environment conscious
and have been thinking
he hasn't potty trained yet
and we don't really want him formally trained
to use a toilet which we believe
wastes water and drains resources
my wife and I
started going in bags
about two years ago
and we used the excrement
blended with other materials
to fertilize our garden
and also
sell it to friends for extra
spending money
but we have had problems
getting him to squat
and be patient enough to go
how can we encourage him?
prizes
punishment
what has worked for you?
you shit in that bag
or so help me
Derek so help me if you don't shit in that bag
Derek you shit in that bag or you are grounded
hey I'm sorry
I'm sorry weirdo
but what punishment are you going to levy against this child
that even approaches
the social punishment
of going to school the first day
asking the teacher where you can go shit in the bag
excuse me where is the shit bag room
he totally preempted that
because in the additional details he says
he won't need a bag to be packed into his backpack
because he will be homeschooled
again he doesn't have to worry about
being made fun of because he will be homeschooled
bitch listen
it doesn't school
that's one
one part of that kids life
how about mall how about next time he goes to the mall
he is at the arcade and he feels a deuce coming
and he has to bag his right there
where is your bag dispenser
what about the first time he goes to the produce department
the grocery store and gets confused
as fuck
hey where is this human shit
and who made it is that like an in-house thing
that you guys provide is that a service
like
there is one nugget
pardon the pun of this question
that sticks in my head and that is
selling it
sticks in my hair at what
selling it to their friends
for extra spending money
who the fuck are your friends
is there a jar somewhere that they just slide
their extra change into
that they got from selling their human shit
to their very real friends
and when that jar gets full they go to disney world
um
this is human poop we're talking about
if you really want to help your child
here's how you do it
you put the child on a porch
you scatter your fecal matter around your home
mm-hmm
and you burn it down with you inside it
there is literally no way
that child could be better off
than you and your wife
doing the right thing here
and burning your house down with you inside it
it is the only choice you have
I don't know that this is true
but I have to imagine that
child protective services
goes through the internet
looking for things exactly like this
nah, nah this is cool
I mean it's pretty much a science project
if you think about it
nah it's that green movement
you can't child protective services isn't
gonna do shit about that
more like a brown movement
you monster
hey it looks like you're just
cupping your child's naked bottom with your hands
no it's cool I have a bag on it
there's a bag here
and I'm trying to get it to poop in the bag
the little bastard just won't do it
thinks he's too good for pooping in a bag
punishment
punishment what punishment
you're gonna rub his nose in it
fuck
honey did you just hear a flush
Derek?
did you bring a toilet into this house
what
you know it is such a fine line
children cannot be the defining line
between crazy person
and unconventional parent
you can't just cross the line
because you had a kid
you can't just be like no now I'm normal
I just want to teach my child different things
you're still a crazy person
you're still insane
it's 2010 dog
it's 2010
and it worries me that there's another person
in this world there is more than one person
there are two people and they found each other
that find it okay to poop in a bag
hey if you're worried about finding a special
somebody it'll never happen look at these two
fuck ups
do you think it's okay for them
to make pee
in a toilet? to make water?
no they go to the garden
that can't be good for the plants
it's terrible for the plants what do they care
I need to find out what state these people live in
and never buy any produce that came from
that state because maybe that's how shit rolls
in Montana
maybe that's a common thing there
literally
this question is indicative of
my terrible fear that there are giant
parts of the country that I know nothing about
where things like this happen
it's just poop everywhere
thank you for coming to the farmers market
did you want to buy some of my plums
they're really dope
I fertilize them with my friends fecal matter
they're currently training their kid
not just my friend it's my friend's
son's fecal matter and it gives
the egg plants here
they're so firm
so firm the skin is so tight
I'm so disgusted right now
what could be
like you've got it
people like this gotta pull the camera back
you're worried about the planet
cool why
well we're gonna have kids on this planet someday
and we want to take care of it for them
cool did you know your kid
doesn't care if it's 7 degrees hotter
in july
because they're experiencing that heat
while pooping in a bag
isn't the whole point of it to make
the world a better place for your kid
you are actively doing that
by inventing toilets
categorically a worse place because of your son
yeah
because you have a son that's pooping in a container that's not a toilet
forget about the world for him
like I don't care about this kid anymore
he's dead to me
nothing's coming good out of this
but
here's a new game
I want to start playing on
on my brother my brother me
and it's called things you never hear the president say
number one on my list
is yeah my parents
trained me to poop in a bag
but I basically
they did it through a punishment regimen
that was very
strict but fair
yeah
I don't want to know what that entails
the idea of this
is going to haunt me I think
because I think the world is different now for me a little bit
because there are people like this
this is not a guy who's fucking with us
this is a real guy
in the world
somewhere there's a couple
that made eye contact one night
and said you know honey I've been thinking about it
and the decision is made
it's time for us to start pooping in bags
how do you bring that up with your loved one
like do you
see them
going to the toilet one day and just go
there's a better way
you know I've been thinking
wait a minute honey
we're wasting a lot of water here
maybe let's just
maybe just bag it
because that doesn't waste any resources
if you didn't want to waste resources
you would just go shit directly on your crops
just go shit
directly out on your flower bed
instead of doing what you're doing right now which is
shitting directly on your kid
I have one question for you
paper or plastic
delicious
I'm going to stick with burning your house down with you inside it
but not the kid
it's not the kid's fault
except if he does it
if he does this crazy thing you're telling him to do
then he's not made him strong enough stock to survive in this
world we live in
although he will be the best hobo
he'll be the most conscientious hobo
he'll be like the MacGyver
of hobos
like Toothless Jim will be like
Derek I thought you said you had to use the bathroom
he said I totally did
I did see that Wendy's bag
don't go to that
dump that bag
or that bag
because I only do that in bags
that's kind of my thing
that's why they call me stink bag Derek
the coolest thing about this
sound couple
they use one industrial size trash bag
for every bowel movement
one giant plastic bag
for everyone
I'm so sad
I don't even want to
I don't even want to end the show
I just want to end my life
is that possible
can we do that
let's suffer through it
I want to hear Griffin's last question
I don't really
want to say that I want to hear Griffin's last question
because that's what I say before I tell you
about mbmbam.com
that is our website
that we have
it is going to be revamped
I would expect it this week
let's not put a timetable on it
hopefully very soon
and trust me when I say
you guys have both seen it now right
it's bomb
it's absolutely fresh
to be in love with it
so
thank you guys in advance for that
and we're going to have some new gear
on the store pretty soon
survival gear
things like pickaxes
hatchets
compasses
kumpai
that's right
thank you to people
on the internet
on the twitter
spreading the word
sorry
people like MichiD
our boy MichiD is always out there
putting it out there
we got
I want to throw out a special shout out to
Magic Whiskey
on twitter
not only a fan of the show
but just went and saw Dracula at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
thank you so much
for helping me convince my bosses
that this whole internet thing is going to be around for a while
so
a special happy birthday
to Molly by Jesus
Brooks turns 30
on the 28th
so we're not going to talk to him again before then
so congratulations and happy birthday
on the big 3-0
five more years and you can run for president
yeah
we also got an email
we got an email this week from Molly
a
listener of
she said
that they love the advice
and
that writing into MbimBam
was the nicest thing he's ever done for her
which does it
kind of sad
real great Chris
it's crushingly depressing
and
anyway if you want to ask us a question
mbmbam.com
mbmbam.com is the place
for that
there's a link
right there
we are up to
1,488 members
so
get on there
join that group
people putting really funny pictures up
did you see a
Dominic Canelo
put up a picture of him in a man size jar
he's got a little twig
and a leaf in there
check it out
we haven't requested people do in a while
is if you could get on that
iTunes tip
and just leave a review
leave a review and a rating
that would just it takes a few minutes
and it really helps us out
I am sick and tired of Adam Corolla
running his mouth
nonstop he calls me
every day says hey look who's number one
and I go yeah Adam
yeah Adam we get it
just review it and tell
your friends to review it
we had another listening party
this week
it's listening
my brother made a fan club Delta
has been formed
we're getting up there I can't wait for Omicron
or Upsilon
or Ro
so
thank you to everybody doing that
and if you have one of those parties
make sure everybody logs on to their iTunes accounts right afterwards
and give us a great review
we're kind of selling ourselves
and I need to go
poop in a bag
so maybe Griffin could just wrap it up with a final question
sure
this one was sent in
by Matty B
thank you Matty B
it's by Yahoo Answers user
YIDIIT
with Hawaii
who asks
my urine smells like Worcestershire sauce
what gives
how am I going to break today
I'm Justin McElroy I'm Travis McElroy
I'm Griffin McElroy
this has been my brother and my brother me
kiss your dad just wear on the lips
you will never know me
thanks for watching
see you next time
bye