My Brother, My Brother And Me - My Brother, My Brother and Me 33: Bramblepelt
Episode Date: December 6, 2010As the temperature drops, your physiological need for wisdom increases exponentially. That's a scientific fact. Warm up your cold, unenlightened bones with a hot flood of genuine ad-vice, why don't yo...u? It's got the rejuvenating heat of a fresh cup of cocoa, only it won't make your mouth feel all gommy after you drink it.Suggested talking points: Creepin', The Even Longer Con, On the DL, Daily Penis Briefing, Have Mercy, Methspresso, A Bad Scene, Troutleap, Friendtimacy
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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 mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening.
What's up, you cool baby?
If you change your mind, on the first in line, honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me.
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around, if you've got no place to go when you're feeling down.
If you're all alone, when the pretty birds have flown on yesterday,
take a lot like the wisdom right here on this show.
Keep it going.
Take a look at the...
Get it, come on.
Say something about Holly.
No, it's not a... take a look.
Five and ten.
But it's a parody I'm writing.
I'm writing a parody, so give me five and ten.
You are listening once again.
And it is not a sin.
And if you ask, then you are sure to know.
It's beginning to look a lot like wisdom here on My Brother, My Brother and Me.
It's an advice show for the modern era.
I am your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
I'm the middle brother, Travis McElroy.
And it's your boy, Griffin.
Hey, would you guys say...
You asshole.
Are we on that Christmas creep?
Holiday, we're on the holiday creep.
Am I the only one who thinks Christmas creep sounds like a hip-hop dance move
that's taking the ducky or the orange soda?
By the way, get on YouTube and search for the Kel Mitchell orange soda dance.
He's back and he's invented an actual dance, I'm not making that up.
Yeah, except why he's back.
The video is from 2008.
He's definitely on his way back.
He started a slow climb.
It's a Christmas creep to the top.
It's a Christmas creep.
Can we write...
Is it too late to capitalize on that?
On the Christmas creep?
First you jingle your bell.
I'm on that Christmas creep.
As long as we can still do my B-side of Hanukkah hustle.
Do the hustle.
First you jingle your bells.
Then you missile your toes.
There's got to be something else.
We'll finish...
This is something that really should be saved for my melody.
My melody and me are improvisational songwriting show.
So let's get right into the questions.
We take your questions into us through email, Gmail, Tremail.
This first one comes to us from Gmail.
I recently met a Canadian girl on Omegle,
and I've begun an online relationship.
My friend told me there are no real girls on the internet.
Is this true?
If so, should I still pursue a relationship
with someone who might be a dude?
Those are two completely different questions.
Confused and Connecticut.
First off, let's start with the obvious question.
Are there real girls on the internet?
The answer is of course no.
Nope.
Not a one.
Also there are no real girls in Canada.
I was going to say in the world,
I'm thinking we've all been duped.
Oh my god.
It's a pretty massive cover up.
Is it all holograms?
It's pretty much 100% holograms.
Hologals?
Is that closer where we're at?
This is a terrible situation you find yourself in
because Omegle, for those who aren't familiar,
is an anonymous chat service, right?
That hooks you up with a random person
with no verification of their age, sex, location, anything.
That you could be at the butt
of a really brutal, long-lasting,
hilarious to everyone but you, Prank.
The longest con.
They say love is the longest con.
I think Omegle love is slightly longer than that.
I'm going to straight up,
I think it's time for a little tough love.
My brother and my brother and me style.
What kind of life are you living
that you start an online relationship
with someone on Omegle?
I can literally think of no worse place
to start any kind of relationship,
professional, romantic or otherwise.
That would be like suicide.
It's like saying I met the nicest guy on chat roulette.
He was wanking his dong.
That's not a combination of those words.
I know you're going for it individually,
but combined I don't think that's it.
I don't like that one bit.
That's not a combination that works.
I'm almost certain it is.
He workshopped it, take it out.
Basically what you just said was he was masturbating his penis,
which is redundant.
Yeah, here's how we're going to turn this into a W.
You're going to say you're going to meet up with this person
and then you're going to say,
listen, I'm too cool to meet someone I met on Omegle.
Never talk to me again.
And then just like block them from your life.
You'll feel good about it.
Who cares? They're anonymous.
You didn't know them before.
You can go back to not knowing them now.
And you just bail on this.
You've got to pull the old eject and get out.
Trust me.
You have a little to no investment in this.
This is imaginary.
This is not real.
This is true love.
Shit.
You know how vulnerable I am to the possibility of true love.
I know.
And it can spring up in the weirdest of places.
And make no mistake.
This is the weirdest place.
The literal weirdest place on the planet.
I mean, maybe it's just too lonely souls.
Because that's all that's on Omegle.
And maybe they just found each other
and just connected on some deep spiritual level.
If that's the case, then you don't need to be worried
about whether or not it's a dude.
Here's my counter argument to that.
Okay.
There is no possible way,
like in my opinion,
that you are meeting the honest to goodness person
that they are on Omegle.
Because there's no way to go on and go.
And I snore.
And I also, like, there's no way
because nobody does that.
Well, nobody does that anyway in the world.
Yeah.
I know the person and like, you know,
it's not like I met you.
I've never seen your face.
I've never spoken to you about anything that's, you know, real.
And I love you.
That's not how that works.
I don't think that he's not saying let's get hit.
She's saying, should I pursue?
Okay.
Okay.
Here's what we do.
We're going to ratchet this up in ways
that increase the real world intimacy of this relationship.
First, you're going to call on the phone.
If we're pursuing this.
Two, we are chatting on Skype.
Nice.
And making sure no one's doing a ventriloquist nonsense.
We got to see the real, the real
Omegle freak right there
and make sure that it is an acceptable
a situation.
So you don't want to fall victim.
You don't want to fall prey to a truth
about cats and dogs style dup.
You want to know that the correct voice is coming out
of the correct lady.
Right.
Okay.
Nice try, Janine.
Nice try, Janine.
And I think another concern here
is, you know, that idea, oh, it turned out to be a dude
and we were sex chatting and whatnot.
Don't do that.
Like you haven't met this person.
You shouldn't be sex chatting or whatever it is you kids do.
You may very well be.
There may, there's probably a blog somewhere
that says, look at the freaky stuff.
I can get this guy to say at Omegle.
Oh my God, I read that blog.
Yeah, yeah, it's that one.
The really funny one.
I love that one with the little illustrations.
I love it.
So, so hopefully that'll help.
You just got to don't bail on it, but do
you want some real world connections here?
You want phone calls?
You want video chat?
You want to really see this person and
because you can't build a relationship with chatting
anymore until we can
until we can verify that this person is
and there's so much in like that intonation
of speech and in how you're
just chemistry, if it's there
I say you got to go phone.
But you got to be safe.
Don't meet them anywhere.
You have brewed up a murder cocktail
here that you do not want to be sipping on.
It's anonymous.
That's scary.
100% of murders are anonymous.
None of your friends have ever met her.
So there's no identifying her later.
That's scary.
That's very scary.
OK.
I feel like we should move on.
I have hooked up with one of my closest
friends a couple of times
and he tells me he enjoyed those times
but he wants to keep our hookups a secret
from everyone.
Why doesn't he want to tell anyone?
Because you're ugly.
Wow.
I'm just kidding.
You also might be annoying.
Maybe you're terrible.
Thanks for listening.
We enjoy your patronage.
No, no, no.
He doesn't want things to get weird.
You've got a group of friends, two people
hook up and it's going to be a weird scene.
Also,
there's another option that's not insulting
to you.
He might be terrible.
He might be
wheezing the juice.
Why wouldn't you want everybody to know
that you're dating someone or
making love to someone less terrible
than you?
Because he might be a sleazeball
and so he might be like,
no, I really like you.
But don't tell anyone you should just sleep
with me and then not tell anyone.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
He's trying to get the proverbial
sex milk without
having a relationship cow.
That's exactly what it is.
No metaphors either.
I can never drink milk again.
What you need to do
you need to confront him.
You need to be like, why are you keeping this?
No, I'm not saying you need to tell everyone.
You need to ask him why he wants to keep it a secret.
You need to be like,
so what's shaking Kevin Bacon?
Why aren't we, you know, letting
everyone know?
Yeah. Well, OK.
Here's the thing that is very logical to me
about this question. He wants to keep our hookups
a secret from everyone. OK.
That's that's to me is a very logical
like because it should be a secret.
It is. You don't hear that shit out.
It's a secret.
It's a secret you have in this day
and age. That's a treasure.
Something that you know other people don't
that you can keep private. Oh, yeah.
It's awesome. What a wonderful gift that is.
But that's not even it.
It's not just the beauty
of secrets.
It's if you
get laid, if you get your bone on
like don't walk down the street like
got my bone on today.
Here's the name of the person that
I did it with.
You can't. You don't do that because it's
Facebook.
It's just not gentlemanly.
It's not ladylike either. It's not what
people do. Like, I don't understand why
this person's upset. Do they want them to be
like, hey, what's up? We fuck.
Hey, do you hear about me and Jerry?
We fuck.
We fucked.
It sounds like to me like there's
like maybe
you want more than he does.
That's what this question is really about, isn't it?
Yeah. That's what this question is really
about. You want to take it to the next level
and he wants to keep it a secret
uncomplicated. Again,
makes total sense, but if you
I will warn you of this,
you do need to ask him
if you're interested in a relationship.
You need to ask
because it sounds to me like
you do
care a little bit more than you're letting on.
And you can't let your heart get busted up
hooking up with this guy continually
if there's not going to be any relationship there.
Can you agree with that, Griffin?
Can you agree with that? I wasn't listening.
I have a yahoo answer question.
I was like in the middle of the wisdom.
I got into a real nugget of this and you're like
moving on. Did you get it? Sorry.
It's a busy day.
I'm on that Christmas crawl.
I'm going to set you on fire.
What are you doing, Travis?
Are you listening to me? I have a good sequitur.
Again, you're leaving.
You're leaving this question.
Do you feel like you've answered it or can you not say?
What if I just told that person a murder suicide?
Let it simmer. Professional advice.
Just let it chill.
Let it simmer.
That's the opposite of what I just said.
I basically
just took what you said.
I'm just going to stay back here.
I've boiled it down to a
rich syrup. The opposite.
It's like you melted down the chocolate
and made lava.
There's no connection between the two ideas.
This yahoo answer was sent in by Patrick Toy.
The only advice show that makes you dumber.
It makes you actually less
equipped to deal with your situation.
Yahoo answers user
OhNo asks,
Are females attracted to the penis?
Just as males are attracted to female breast
and butt.
When a man sees female boobs and butt,
they go boing, lol, I am immature.
Is it the same thing
when a woman sees a male penis
or are they like
ew?
It's like ew.
It's lady bone zone.
I can't believe
that's a thing.
I can't believe that's a thing, Travis.
I can't believe that a lady sees a boner
and goes mmhmm, yes please.
Not a boner, just a penis.
A flaccid.
Just a flaccid, dangly penis.
I don't think the reaction
could possibly be, oh yes.
I think
I'm not a lady.
If I had to guess, I would imagine the reaction
of something more akin to, well, here we are.
Well,
we need those to make more life.
Oh, you again.
Of course.
I can barely look,
my shower hanging brain.
I can barely observe my own thing.
Right.
Without getting a little sick.
I can't see my own without a
complicated network of mirrors
and volunteers.
I have someone come in
and describe it to me every day.
I have Leonardo DiCaprio
come in and sketch it.
We have to be on a boat though,
or I can't finish it.
My penis report.
My daily penis briefing.
I wish Morgan Freeman would give my penis
the power to control the world around it.
Yes.
And teach me a valuable lesson in the process.
I feel like we're dodging the question.
I think women's reaction is probably
like when they're looking at a bunch of
ingredients before it's time to cook
something.
Everyone likes to eat cake
but there's nothing necessarily appetizing
about eggs and flour.
I get what you're saying.
What?
There's a logic to it, right?
There is some logic to it,
but in the context of the question,
you're making it sound like women are turned on
by baking.
Of course.
The interesting thing about this question
is of course that with men
who are into large breasts,
the larger they get,
the better. With women there's very
differently.
There's a bell chart.
There's a bell chart of interest
and it peaks and then it goes
like wow, it plummets
pretty quickly.
Thank God for that.
I think this question is
illustrative of the fact that
it's hard for guys
to understand why
women find guys attractive because we're gross.
I assume
women are attracted to the same thing
on dudes that dudes are attracted to on women.
Girls look at butts, right?
Don't they?
Personality? Is that what you meant?
Yeah, they look at personality
and they're like look at that nice,
shapely personality.
If I'm being judged on my breasts
and I don't, it just
seems to be the situation that you are
describing,
that is not a part of my body
I have ever worked on
to improve, knowingly at least.
I feel like
we're in one of those moods where we're
anti-helpful. We're making
all these situations worse. So let's do another one.
I'm an atheist
and I haven't done, don't feel like
telling my family. How do I politely
get out of going to Christmas Mass without them asking
too many questions? Form spring.
Wow, this is a good question.
I have my answer which is
you go to Christmas Mass.
Because it ain't about you. It's about your family.
Yeah, that's kind of true.
I totally get
where you're coming from. I get the whole
like you're not feeling it
so you
don't want to go.
But it really is
it's like an hour and
you're going for your family so they can feel
like that togetherness. And also
there's a lot to, even if you're an atheist
there's a lot to like in
the ceremony, the tradition.
Sure.
You know there's usually some
incense. That's nice. Shell.
Some pretty music. I mean there's nothing
that says that an atheist can't go to
church. Yeah, you're not going to burst into flames
as soon as you cross the threshold of the building.
You're not voting either.
It's not like I'm for it. I'm for what's
happening. You're just there
to in respect for your family.
You would go to a
church if a friend were getting married.
I would think of this the same way.
Why would we really knock that one out of the park?
Finally, some
actual help. Should we, I think, should we
should we talk about our Christmas?
We're going to call it our holiday
holiday. No, fuck that.
You can't kill my Christmas. I'll take
questions. I'll take Hanukah queries.
I'll be the Hanukah query guy.
So we're
going to do a holiday. Can we call it
can we call it ha ha ha ha ha
like ha ha ha ha ha
because
we're going to, we're going to make it funny.
I'm sure we'll have a wonderful name for it
by the time it rolls around, but we're going to be doing that
on Christmas Hanukah. Christmas Hanukah.
Get it. If you have
we're going to do all holiday questions.
So if you have a, if you've been
waiting to get on the show and you have
holiday
questions and you want
you want to ask them to us, make
sure you get them to us by
let's say the 17th
of this month
and we will address those. I'd also
like to hear about, even if we don't
end up using these, I'd like to
have people write in about their traditions
and ask us if they're weird
or not. Oh, I like that.
It's sort of in the advice realm.
We usually ask that people
don't ask about poop and masturbation
and I think for this
our holiday special
we can repeal that. No, I mean
we need to extra don't
do it. Double do not do it.
I want this to be an episode where
when you travel to your family's home
to your home's
place, your ancestral home
you can say here let's gather
around the fire and enjoy this together.
I like that and maybe when I edit the show
I can edit out all the curse words.
With jingle bell sounds. And then add in
different curse words. So I can be like
fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck
and all you'll hear is jingle bells and it'll
make a song. Unless you forget
and it'll be like
sorry grandpa. The best episode.
Yeah, so make sure
you get those questions in.
I currently have a
boyfriend shaped hole in my life that I'm trying to fix.
For pretty much my entire
dating life I've jumped from long-term
relationship to long-term relationship with whatever
best guy friend I had at the time and consequently
I've never really dated or hooked up
with anyone. I'm 20 right now and
I think the last time I was really single was when I was 14.
My friends have been telling me I need
to go crazy and get down with some random dudes
which sounds intriguing.
But I miss the reliability of having a relationship.
What should I do in BNBAM?
Love on always, alone and indecisive.
Gmail. Oh, well.
Your friends
sound like they give terrible advice.
I don't trust your friends. Do they have a show?
I didn't think so. No.
I don't think that that's
the going crazy with a bunch of random dudes
I don't I don't see that
there's like it's a big risk
and you risk
I don't know hurting somebody or
getting hurt yourself and
it's never a good advice and with stuff like that
I like to take it and try to apply it to different
situations and being like
you know I just lost my job what should you do
get a bunch of jobs and then quit them
like that's not
that's not good advice for any
situation like I just finished a diet
what should I do eat a bunch of food like
no that's not a good advice
to take for any situation
yeah I just don't I don't think that that's a
have fun
and maybe don't look but see
here's the problem with this whole thing
people's you can't
give advice on how
to proceed like with your relationship
in general
like here's what you should do next here's the type
of relationship you can pursue because we don't control
when these things happen we don't control the type
of people we meet we don't control the type of
relationship we get into I mean
if it's the person
that you if it's somebody who can make you really happy
why would you just randomly bail
out the best advice
I can give is to not try
to do anything just live your life
and you know what happens
happens don't set the mindset of I'm
going to go out and get crazy and
get down with a bunch of random dudes no
because then you're trying to manipulate
how that works and that's not a good way to
go also but you don't want to go out and say
I'm going to find true love because
then you're trying to manipulate it the other way
just be yourself live your life
what happens happens
we are saying this though we're giving
this person this advice because
we have all done this thing
where we get out of a long-term relationship
or at least I God knows I have like
I got out of a long-term relationship
and then all of a sudden you know
I my eyes were opened and I
I went crazy as you said
and I think that
and got down with random dudes got down
with just so many random dudes and I think
the reason the three of us are saying it's a bad idea
is because we did it and we know it's a bad idea
and I think that may just be something
you have to do I think you may just have to
have the bad idea
part of your life I think you need
to have that I think that's important well
okay well let's compromise if you do
do that that's fine but don't set out
to do that because your friends told
you to like that's what
happens that's cool
I think that that's the better I think
maybe a way to sort of
a way to sort of put this in perspective
something that would be applicable to you
is be more
cautious of entering
into long-term relationships
like rather than setting out to do that
give yourself permission
to get out of relationships if they're not working
and I mean early I mean like
three dates it's not working
bail and do go on
dates I think that that's something else that
that maybe your friends are getting around to
and maybe that
that's something that could work for you in a
less harmful way don't just go out with friends
you know go on
some actual dates with people
yeah in your 20s
this is when you start dating
and I'm gonna sound like an old man
you're so young though
you have so much time
you know just enjoy yourself
and you know go
have fun responsibly
yeah just go out there and just
get your dick wet
yeah okay not quite
it's 2010
women have dicks
hahahaha
what
Griffin how about a yahoo
yeah sure
I had so many good ones this week
thank you everybody who sent them in
this one was sent in by Action Allen
it's by a yahoo
answers user Shane S
who asks
how do gel pubes and what styles
are there
hahahaha
I am a guy and my boyfriend
says he finds it sexy for my pubes to be
gelled anyone know any styles for my pubes
to be gelled give me a detailed
process
additional details I use gel that I use
for the hair on my head why what happens
if it's an alcohol product
I don't know about that
I would like some serious answers
anyone know any styles for gelling pubes
I got a few
anyone who gelled their pubes before
preferably an answer from a guy
I'm going to have sex tonight
please answer
I like the Gabe Kaplan
which is a bunch of curly on top
and then a row of straight right underneath it
I like that
I think that's a real good look
I like the top too if you have time to diet
I like the high top fade with some
racing stripes on the side and your basketball
number in the back
how about the Joanie loves cha chi
where basically you give your penis side burns
and then like a pump
like a little pompadour up on top
all these are good
also spray tan your penis
that's an important step for that one
adjust your penis
you could try the twilight is very popular
that's where you put a bunch of glitter down there
and
when you hit the sunlight and I am assuming
you're making love in the daytime
it will sparkle
and that's something that a lot of guys
are really into
you could try the mc hammer too
what's that about
the mc hammer is where you have just
three straight lines
carved into the side and then
directly below it you've
sort of in like two
billowy
legs of pubes that shimmy
back and forth as you
sway and jostle
so like a fume and shoe
oh the fume and shoe is very different
out of pubes
so you basically make legs out of your pubic hair
you make hammer pants out of your pubic hair
you could also do the uncle jesse
which is just
a lovely bouffant
of hair on top
and then when you take off your pants just scream
have mercy
well you should be doing that anyway
regardless of how you decide
to style your downtown
mane it's important that you all have
mercy every time you expose your penis
to your partner
I like the young Einstein
which involves electricity and patience
oh Jesus
looking for something low maintenance
try the Sasquatch
that's let it go
now we're getting off the subject because he obviously
wants gel to be up in the mix
and that's a very natural
look the Sasquatch
there's at least three different elvi
you can do too by the way there's young Elvis
there's fatter
there's fat sparkly Elvis
and then there's the Elvis Costello
where you hot glue
glasses upside down on your balls
right
I like the gonzo
what's that
you just keep bending your penis until it forms
a permanent nose
and then you make Jesus
Christ
Travis I'm sorry but that doesn't have anything to do
with hair you're disqualified
damn it
so I guess
since Travis is disqualified the game is over
and who won all of us
except anyone who does
any of the things we just said to do
they are the loser
I'm having so trouble
staying awake at work
my job begins at 7am
I have to wake up at least 5.15
because I take a bus and a train to work
the bus and train trips are short enough
that I cannot sleep on them
I usually go to sleep by 10pm
no drugs or coffee please
help me in BNBAM
that's from Gabriel
Gmail
does he deserve I mean if you're going to shut us down
like from the get
by saying no drugs or coffee
I don't think he deserves
or if you're not going to open your mind
to the two best options
because if you won't
if you won't do drugs
or coffee
I mean
you've got to carve out some nap time
you've got to get better at falling asleep
on the train
don't do that because you'll get
you'll wake up with your shirt
you have to learn to hover
right above that falling asleep point
right before you pass out
and so you get the rest
but you don't miss your stop
you're on that inception tip
that's exactly what it is
is it maybe
he says no drugs or coffee
do you think that it's a
mutually exclusive thing
if you think if we suggested drugs AND coffee
oh that's cool
because sometimes I'll take
a few nice
meth crystals
none of that foggy shit
just pure glass
and I'll crack that up and toss it in my folders instant mix
and that'll usually
keep me up for about three or four
days until my teeth stop
bitching
the problem is
your job starts way too early
and so by the time
by the time you hit
noon
you've only been to work for five hours
but you've been up for seven
and you only slept for seven
the night before so you're using up your sleepy time
you need a nuclear path
but that's the thing
he can take a nap after work
but by that point it's too late
he's tired at work
the thing is
you need to decide
you need to have a lifestyle change
you can either take naps all the time
which would just depress you
you could change your career
which you probably don't want to do because
any job I found starts at 7am
is usually something you had to work really hard to get
in the first place
or you could just get down on that meth espresso
that seems like
the easiest option is to just chuck some meth espresso
every morning except on the weekends
because if you do it every day
you will die
the good news is
and I can tell you this from personal experience
eventually your biological clock
will balance out
and you won't be sleepy at that point
you'll be going to bed at 8.30 at night
but your body will get used to
waking up at 5.15
now if you've been doing this already
for two years and you still can't stay up
and I have bad news
this isn't the job for you
because your body is not going to balance out
it doesn't agree with you
what do you do
at a party where you only know
one person
leave
leave immediately
say this party is fun
for everyone but me
cause that's worse than being at a party where you know zero people
cause if you're at a party where you know zero people
you can go get really drunk
and make some friends
and do some crazy shit
if you know just one person you're either just going to hang around them
and make a total boob out of yourself
or
you'll get drunk
and
then the friend will tell all your other friends
what a boob you are
it's a lose lose
this is one of those situations where
if you're a really super outgoing person
this is your chance to make friends
if you're not
this is the time to go home
yeah you got it
the odds at least have to be in your favor
you at least have to have a majority
and then meet new people that way
but this is not a good scene for you
if you don't already know the answer to it
then you shouldn't be in it
I know I would be like
if you didn't have
if the ratio wasn't
75% people
you know at a party
you would take right off
who's you just me
this is a chance
that you need to be preemptive in this
and when your friends like hey let's go to a party
and when you're like who am I going to know there
and they're like me
don't go to that party
I mean everybody does that
totally within your rights
don't be yourself up about this
give yourself a break
this is one of those things where you always kind of feel rude
asking the question who's going to be there
but it's for situations like that
so it's important that you say like
not that I don't want to hang out with you
but if that's the case why don't we just go
somewhere else
we'll go see a movie and I don't want to go to a party
where I don't know anyone
dear sweet mbm
my bf says he wants to change
and is thinking of dyeing his hair blue
and then he said or maybe I'll get a tattoo
I think both of that is so terrible
I don't keep him doing anything silly
but still satiate his need
for change
encourage him to dye his hair blue
vs get a tattoo
because at least that's not permanent
yeah
let me ask you this David
I agree
I understand where you're coming from
but
why is it
so important to you that they not do this
like don't you love your bf
the way he is
because I would think that if it's somebody you really care about
then
you want them to get
if they want the ink if that's important to them
to do that
well let me
let me counter argument that Justin
if he says or maybe I'll get a tattoo
it doesn't really sound like it's a super
passionate thing
yeah
it sounds like your boyfriend
is bored with something else
maybe his job is boring
or he's having family troubles
or you know he's just been around his small town too much
and so he's trying to
you know strike out from
other directions instead of dealing with the problem
that he has
so I think you need to talk to him and be like hey
what do you really want to change because I guarantee
it's not your hair or a tattoo
that's a good, wow
that was actually insightful Travis
thank you
maybe he could take up a pipe
that's the new jam right
are you getting in front of that
is that going to be like a 2011 thing
let's do pipes, let's get pipes
that's a big change
and it's healthy
and it makes you look awesome
and it makes you look so cool
if you do it right
I love it
yeah I think Travis
is on the right track
sometimes everybody gets those momentary
impulses where they say hey
I need something different
let me suggest this to you David
maybe some travel
we can go someplace completely new
someplace you've never been before
and then when you return your familiarity
will be a comfort
rather than a burden
also a pet
a pet is always good
a pet is good, maybe an eyes wide
shut style sex cult
hey get fully
sex cult up on that hey maybe 100% sex cult
where we
start listening to the cult
and that's what Craigslist is for
give me the yahoo
yeah I got one
I've been staring at it
the whole show it's like a deep dark pit
this question
I think we just got to dive into it
even though we don't know where it'll stop
it was sent in
by goodbye babelon babelon
which wasn't that a
is that a David Gray song
I don't know
it's by yahoo answers user ruby heart mckinley
who asks
what are some good warrior cat names
what
I need five warrior names
three names for three black cats
one for a white cat
and one for a brown cat please
I have no fucking idea
what's going on with this question
there's no more details
that's all we've got
warrior cat names
now
let me read you some of the answers
this one was sent in by
josey jay feather mckinley
or rather it was answered
the answer was provided by josey
jay feather mulkini
hey there's your first name name one
who says
I love creating warrior names
smiley face
here's some for black
cats
night shade night river night fall
night fire night hunter
shadow skin shadow
shadow rose shadow child shadow bird
shadow storm night storm night bird
fallen shadow night wing
oh jesus
here's some for white cats lily pad lily
heart lily moon white shadow
white claw white knight white moon white rose
white leap white horn snowfall
ice wind frostbite frostpull snow song
here's some for brown cats
thorn prick cobra strike
snake skin viper fang adder snap
bramblesong bramblesong
thorn wing fallen snake snake bite
hodgepodge black and white
and orange
silly buddy
mixed up
oh jesus christ
could you read the first name
there's a full page of people providing answers
like
could you read the first name for the white cats again
the first name
there's so many that I can't repeat them
I'm almost certain it was lily pad
lily pad was one of them
that is not a scary warrior name
girlfriend do you have any ideas on
warrior names for brown cats
let's see what the other people have to say
brown cat
bramble pelt sun fern
sand dust sandy pelt sandy mist
bramble pelt
tabby claw sand claw
sandy claw dust claw
ferro flight autumn flight trout leap
morning dew out of a mouse fang
trout leap
rose whisker
like
what the fuck
what is a warrior cat
this is why I am scared for humanity
every answer to that question should have been
what the fuck are you talking about
aurora song like what are we doing
this is this
horrifying truth that we have on earth
with this show
the whole other worlds
there are whole other things
that
don't connect to us
we don't have any vines
reaching into them to give us some connection
it's a completely different planet
that's just spinning wildly
we have some wild misconceptions
about the furry community that I feel like we now understand
and totally accept
into our hearts and collective minds
but what
bramble song
bramble pelt
what are we doing here
I'm not angry
I'm a little angry
I just want to know what's going on
are people dressing up their cats in tin foil armor
and just
taking them outside and yelling hidden mist
star chaser
here's what I want
I want to see this guy actually
picks 5 or 4 cat names
and tries to
get him to follow him
star chaser
go
bramble sky
you're just licking your butt
this is not a warrior like
attitude for a prick
oh god
fun prick
that'll make you hit with the lady
salmon leap
I'm so
can someone explain this
is this a big enough thing
that we'll have listeners who know exactly
what this is
our freaky list
there's one guy right now who's like
pretty good
I knew I'd listen to this show for some reason
oh god
I have a friend who has recently started dating
a new girl
the only weird thing is that her best friend is a boy
who is gay
none of us in the group have a problem with her
or her gay friend whatsoever
is the fact that our friend and her
will sit in the living room
and her gay friend will start to do weird things
like rub her feet while they cuddle on the couch
which makes us all ridiculously uncomfortable
our friend has even told us that her gay friend
snuggles with her in bed
and when our friend is in bed at the same time
oh yeah
that would be weird if that's not how it worked out
no no no this means it's
gay friend girl
her boyfriend
okay
oh my god
the real mind boggling thing
is that our friend doesn't think this is weird
when it obviously is
how do we possibly break the news to him
that this is totally not normal
without offending him and tell him
his girlfriend is a weirdo for letting this continue
confused in carolina
this is brutal
what is the deal with your friend
that he can't realize this is weird
I need to let this wave of sadness
just wash over me
I need to shake it
I need to absorb this
dusk flower
bramble snow
I just want to be there for the moment
don't mind me bro I'm just going to be down here rubbing her feet
you guys do what you are doing
well first of all that's the creepiest thing
that two human beings can do to each other
regardless of their relationship status or gender
just like
hanging out with some buds
don't mind me I'm just going to rub her naked feet
is this cool
I would rather see you french kiss
I would rather see two people french kiss than two people
especially if it's like a mutual foot rub
I think that there is a good chance
that this friend of hers the gay friend
is a serial killer
yeah he could be a serial killer
now it's sad okay so
here's the poop on your situation
the gay friend
is obviously in need of intimacy
now he may be
very well be like super duper gay
that's fine
but the problem is that
we've talked about this before
that if you're dating someone
that is like
has a bunch of gay friends
it does not give
her or any of them carte blanche
to make out at any time
that's still super fucked up
like physical intimacy and being attracted
to somebody or two very different things
and it's still somebody who's like
being intimate with your
with your friend
and being intimate in front of you
and I mean intimate in like the
literal way
like you're doing things you shouldn't do
in public regardless
and also psychologically
the physical action creates
the mental reaction so it's like
making yourself sick
thinking about vomiting makes you feel sick
and being intimate
with someone even if it's
kind of skin to skin
friend intimacy it's still
creating a weird
bond there it sounds like
this girl is serving as like
I don't know a security blanket for the gay
friend where she's just like this outlet
for intimacy or it's vice versa
I mean oh yeah that's also very possible
it's just fucked up like it's
it's rude what's weird though is
none of the three people in this situation
like directly in the
situation think it's weird
the gay friend doesn't think it's weird
the girlfriend doesn't think it's weird
the boyfriend doesn't think it's weird
now that's a good point
I mean is it
within her friend's right
to
you know to infringe on this
and tell people how to live their lives
yeah it seems like this would be
someone else's call
but you are totally within your rights
to look at it and go man that's weird
your job is to not
hang out with them anymore because that's weird
well tell them that they're making you uncomfortable
I mean I don't care anymore with that
saying like hey I know you're like
you're way gay like super duper gay
but that you're still rubbing your feet
please stop touching feet please
you walk on those
your feet live in your shoes
like this is all
this is all just topsy-turvy
but see but no here's the one point
I'll disagree there it is not our listener
the person who wrote the question and it's not your job
to talk to the gay friend
you get to talk to your friend and be like
dude I'm not telling you to do anything
I'm just telling you this creeps me out
and I'm not going to hang out with the three of you anymore
yeah you're weirding me out
yeah because it's weirding me out
and I don't know them
bramble pelt
cat eyes
now that was a bad one
trout place
I want to hear Griffin's last question
but
a couple quick housekeeping things
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at gmail.com
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I'm shaking jingle bells
pointing mistletoves
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teach me
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the time is winding down
I think probably the cutoff to get
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by christmas is
quick approaching
I saw on twitter that they're gonna
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did I imagine that in a fever dream?
no it sounds right to me
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like I said I haven't heard a firm cutoff
I'm sure it'll be this week
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oh nice
I'd like to thank everyone on twitter
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hawk
nine six six four is also out there
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everybody knows that
thank you cool I didn't know what I like
I didn't want to sleep ever again which is nice
I always see the tweets of quotes
and I have no idea
like I don't remember saying that
they could just be saying random
random words
I really appreciated all of
we got a lot of
I would say just bile
just a lot of angry angry bile that we didn't
we didn't make it in the podcast awards
and just seeing people get angry for us
like protective parents
I appreciated all that
I'd like someone to come up with a podcast awards
in the forums that's just us
just the awards that we can win
I'm ready to say right now
I've decided not to go
to the awards thing I wasn't invited to
yeah good for you
yeah yeah I'm boycotting that thing
we weren't invited to
good
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oh one word
so Griffin
give us a shadow song
final question of the day this one was sent in by modus madison
thank you modus madison
it's by yahoo answers user
poncho via who asks
in all caps
how come my dog sounds like it says lamp
when it barks
I'm just macro
I'm travis macro
ramblepel
this has been my brother
kiss your dad
square on the shadow song
keep your heart
man these girls are smart
these girls are smart
play your part