My Brother, My Brother And Me - My Brother, My Brother and Me 44: Chunk Pump
Episode Date: February 28, 2011We hope you love unprecedentedly long episodes of podcasts, dearest friends, because that's exactly what you're getting -- this here episode contains a plump 81 minutes of wisdom and joy. We also hope... you love supporting extra-long advice podcasts, because it's pledge week! We'd sure like it if you could lend a hand -- after all, we ain't heavy. We're your brothers. Suggested talking points: Sexypants, Dragon Puberty, The Laws of Love, Ezekiel's Next Top Sister Wife, B'Doodleykitten, Paul Reubens' Dark Secret, The Thrill of the Chase, New Englandish
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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?
It's time for the record. You don't get anything for free in this world.
We are cutting you off. This is no exception. 44 episodes in, the bill is due. The bill is due,
bitches. This is my brother, my brother, and me. An advice show for the modern era. Welcome to-
You got to pay the piper.
Don't pay the piper, sluts. Welcome to the greatest pledge episode ever.
This is the best little pledge episode in Texas, is what we're calling this one.
This is your brother, my brother, and me. It's an advice show for the modern era.
I am Justin McRoy, your oldest brother. I'm Travis McRoy, and we want your money.
If you want to know my name, it's going to cost you like two bucks.
It's actually, it's Griffin. It's Griffin.
If you want that last name for real, two bucks.
So we've got a big episode for you. Lots of fun.
Juicy. It is, it's ripe. It's sagging with, with, with juices.
Let's stomp this melon. Stomp this melon. Like Gallagher too.
I live with my boyfriend. When I get home from work, I like to pretty quickly change into comfy
at home clothing, pajama pants or yoga pants, and a t-shirt of some sort.
Usually this comfy clothing is baggier and less flattering than what I wear for being out in
public. That's why it's comfy. Am I slowly but surely ruining my relationship and killing my
boyfriend's attraction to me by spending so much time, probably the majority of our time together,
in slouchy clothing. Thanks, sweats in the city.
That's the best. That's a good one.
I mean, of course you are right, but no, I have good news.
It's an expectations game you're playing right now. You're lowering the bar.
Exactly. I think that if you came home every day and like got more dressed up, like,
it's going to lose a lot of the effect. But if you sit around and like,
scuzzy clothes like for 100 days and then one day like put on some jeans and a t-shirt,
you're going to look awesome. Yeah, hang on.
Do you don't want him to have the pressure of trying to continually outclass you at home?
And then, you know, it culminates with him wearing a tux and you emerging from a clam
shell when he gets home from work. Like, you don't want that.
Do you guys remember what my jam used to be?
What was your jam? Your pants off as soon as you got home?
I would cross the threshold of our childhood home and my pants would just disintegrate off
of my body. Like they would just. Our parents went through so many pants bills.
You had no idea. As if by magic, my pants would vanish
into the luminescent ether. Griffin actually invented tear away pants for that very purpose.
I actually, I had this trick where I could just like, I could stand narrowly. I could stand with
my frame narrowly and my pants would just fall off of my body. That's not a joke. That was a
real thing I could do. So maybe that's a good thing because no pants is about as comfortable
as humans get. Kind of sexy. Kind of sexy. Little sexy, little hot. Listen, young lady,
I want to make two really important points. One, he loves you. He's going to think that the things
that you wear, you know, just around the house or whatever are adorable because he loves you.
And this is part of being in a loving relationship. He likes to be cozy too. He gets it. Two,
if you're worried about the attraction thing, he's a guy, sweetheart, and you're a girl.
You flash, you flash a boob, a one boob. Like half a boob. Like half a boob.
Take them to the anchor show. You do like a quarter of boob.
You get like a quarter boob and he's down. He's DTF and that's short for down to fuck.
And that is not, and that is not something that you acquire over time. For guys, it's a very
instantaneous. So like, oh, there's a boob. Time to go. You know what's always sexy?
What's that? A robe. Because it's mysterious. What's underneath? That's sexy, right?
I'm robed right now. I'm wearing a robe. Teresa and I like, we often have robe dates
where it's just like we get home from work and we've had, we've had a long day and it's like,
let's robe it up. And then we watch David Attenborough specials.
I never disrobed before a gunfight. That's just me. I don't know. I don't know where you guys are.
Anybody else see Drive Angry? Ah, it's a good flick.
Yeah, that was a good reference you just made. Your picture, everybody enjoys that.
I can only wear my robe for about an hour or two in the morning because I always feel like I smell
really bad when I'm wearing a robe. Like a cocoon of stink. Yeah, like off of you.
It's like a second skin that you wear outside of your normal sweaty, stinky skin that absorbs
your stuff. And then, I don't know, there's something about the way that I, it just,
it hangs on my body. It just seems to funnel. It seems to funnel like the smell like up and out
and in my, my nose. It's really bad. Do you bathe? Yeah, I bathe. I mean, I bathe.
Did you say you bathed or you bathe? Like, what's our tense? Let's take a tense check.
I'm familiar. Right. I'm terrified. I have this friend who's been dating this guy
on and off four different times. Now, every time by the end, they seem to hate each other,
but then two months or so, they're dating again. How can I tell my friend to just give up on him?
P.S., my friend's a girl. That's from Brandon.
I used to have the theory that like once a couple broke up,
they're broken up. Yeah. Like there's no coming back from that. Now, everybody listening is
going to say, but I know there's one guy. Great. Yeah. You know the exception. That's awesome.
But I'm saying as a rule, like once you break up, how do you come back from that? Like,
especially after two months, it's like, oh, hey, you want to go at this again? I didn't work out
this time either. Whoops. It's like forgetting the ending of a book and then rereading the
book and going, oh, fuck, they die. That's right. Your relationship sucks. Don't get back into it.
Yeah. I think Travis makes a great point because one time, the first girl I ever dated,
we dated for a couple months and then we split up for reasons that aren't exactly clear.
And then later I married her. What are you doing? You fucking monster. I'm on the column.
I'm the other guy. I'm the thing. I'm the thing here. I'm the guy here. I'm not an exception
of telling you. You're crazy. You're the exception, Travis. You're the exception. I'm the exception.
You ever dated a girl twice? Oh yeah. Okay. So just Travis then. Travis is out on his own on this.
And let me tell you how well Griffin turned out. My retail really well, yeah.
I would say that we're 50, 50, 50 here.
I think that's fair. I don't know. I think that, I don't know. It can really go either way because
maybe sometimes, maybe sometimes you break up and that break up period, that brief break up,
makes you realize, you know, that, that, you know, you need that person and that you've changed and
that, you know, you've grown. Yeah. You've grown and evolved. Have you grown? Okay. But we're giving
advice to the person breaking up and getting back together. Four times is a little excessive. Yeah.
This guy's asking how does he tell his friend to end it? I don't think you can. I don't think you
do. What do you care? Why do you care? You got to jettison. All you could do is be really passive
aggressive. And like when they come back and be like, Oh, I got back together with him. Just go,
Oh, really? Huh? Huh? Huh? That's, that's all you could do. Did we broke up? Oh, did you break up?
So treat it like it's not a thing at all. And then he's probably just doing it for the attention
or she is, you know, like, yeah, that's good. Just don't get it now. You got to do your time sounds
like they're like 15. You got disengaged from this relationship from their relationship. You got
to say like, Oh, whatever, she's doing this with this guy. It has no bearing on me. That is what
you should say. Because it's that way lies madness. Like getting all up in other people's cream,
like you don't need that. Also, you run the risk of really sounding like an asshole. Like, you
know what I mean? Like, if your friends not looking for the advice there, then you just want to stay
out. It's a loser. It's a, it's a, it's a real loser. You don't, you don't need it. Speaking of loser,
speaking of loser, let's talk about winners. How about a Yahoo? Yes. Uh, this one was sent in by
Vikram Murugaval. I paid to Jesus. I said that right. It's by Yahoo answers user. Not that,
not that Vikram Murugaval likely believes in Jesus. He sounds like a heathen. Okay.
He sounds like a pagan. Is he a pagan? I think he's a pagan. One racist thing we say every episode
I have to edit out. This one is, uh, this one's by Yahoo answers user dragon 101 who asks,
I'm a dragon. Okay. But I don't know how to summon my special skills. I can do some things
unordinary. Anyone have ideas? This is kind of new. Uh, and also confusing for my age that is.
I can tell you right now that I'm under 21. Anyone have ideas on what I could do because I'm a
dragon, please? Well, this is the age old question of, is it a mental thing? Is there a muscle that
you flex? Is there an incantation? It's age old questions. You know, and really it's different
strokes for different folks. Like for me, for me, it's all muscular. I've had to tone.
I've had to develop. You've had to cagle. I've had to cagle my dragon muscles to the point where I
can, you know, execute my, my unordinary abilities. But the thing is 21. That's a, that's kind of a,
you're a little late to the game. You are. You're getting a late start to learning your,
your dragon is in the old tongue. Your, your draconic, your draconic abilities. Because I mean,
that's a, that's a weird age. Dragon and Huberti. Like, I had mine in, I had mine in middle school.
I was kind of an early bloomer. I hit mine, of course, in the third age, but it was a long time ago.
Okay. Yeah. I'm, I just become, I just became so terrified because I just realized that dragons
have learned to use the internet and we've lost our one vantage. One thing we had that they didn't.
I don't know how to break this to you, but one out of every four people you talk to or
meet on the internet is a dragon. Holy shit. Is that a velociraptor noise? Travis. Oh,
shit. Travis is one of them. I didn't know this was a dragon cast. If dragons aren't using the
internet, then explain TMZ. You can't. It can't be done. It's made by, made by, goss up by dragons,
four dragons. Perez Hilton, half dragon. What does a dragon keyboard look like? Do you think it has
runes? I think it has runes. I think it's very runic. I think it's made out of like loot.
Just like. What? Why a loot? Like dragon loot. Dragons have hoards, right? Just full of like jewels
and gold. Travis a loot. Oh, L. O. O. T. Not L. U. T. Yeah. He didn't. You think you made it
met several little stringed instruments? Like that's a skateboard or something? I couldn't. I couldn't.
Like sting? Like sting plays? Yes. Sting is a dragon. Sorry, Travis. I'd, I'd, sorry. I didn't,
I didn't mean to do a. I'm sending out an S. O. S. of sadness. Oh, I'll be sad. It's just sting.
I know. Like in any way. How do you, I can't remember how I dealt with the pressure of being
a teenage dragon. I made a Disney movie out of it. And it was called how to deal with the pressure
of being a teenage dragon. Yeah, it wasn't very popular. Yeah. Speaking of dragons,
it's, we need your fire for the maximum fun pledge drive. It's pledge week. We want you to rush, rush
my brother and my brother and me. Pledge our frat, our fraternity of, of chuckles. Can we haze,
can we haze our listeners? I think this is a hazing. Every week's a hazing here at my brother
and my brother and me. So this is our pledge drive for 2011. We're going to talk a little bit
about the network and, and some of the, the benefits of donating here in a sec. But first
just to let you know how this works. This is a network. It's family and like a family. Like family
better. Daddy's got to get paid. So, and daddy, in this case, our daddy is the maximum fun network
and you find folks who enjoy the, the programming here pay for us to make it. You pay to help us
buy equipment. You pay to help us run our website and you pay to help us host our shows and you're
paying for it. You're, I like to think of it like a medieval patronage. Like we're, we're,
how's that? How's that work? We're like kept, we're like kept people like we're like serfs.
Yeah, I was going to say, I feel kind of serfish. It's more like, it's more like how,
you know, the king would want Mozart to write a piece for him. This is not medieval times,
of course, anymore, but so we're like Da Vinci. We're like Da Vinci basically shows like our
Sistine Chapel. We're, we're like Da Vinci, but better at drawings. I think it's an accurate way
to put it. So Griffin, can you tell them a little bit about why they should donate? Why it's so
important? Well, I'm working on this helicopter, like kind of a whirligig helicopter made out of
parchment and wood framing and it's an expensive project. Yeah. I want to make a man fly.
Can you help me make a man fly with wood framing, parchment wings? No, it's, it's,
we, we have donations from listeners is, is our, our main, you know, lifeblood. It's our lifeblood.
It pumps through our veins and gives us strength and energy to, to do this thing that we do and,
and all the other maximum fun podcasts do. Listen, podcasting is kind of a, it's still in
its infancy, you know, it's, it's still fresh. It's still new. The, the rulebook hasn't been
written yet. And so maximum fun. And one of the main reasons we joined maximum fun is because
they're, they're doing awesome things. We're doing awesome things, I guess, because we're part
of that family. But, you know, we cover topics that aren't really covered in other places. And,
you know, we, we do it in a way that a lot of other forms of programming don't do.
Um, and we fostered this community of, well, we didn't foster, you know what I'm saying,
maximum fun is fostered a community of probably the best community on the internet.
I would say, I think that, especially after they fuse with my brother and my brother and me, the,
the Mibin Bambinos, I think that they really, uh, it really is a, a top flight.
We should give them that spice, that picante.
With that, that, that, like, mmm, what a delicious flavor.
With that last, like, dash of, like pepper, where you going?
Yeah. Exactly.
You know, it's funny, Gryff, we, we, you watch so much stuff on TV and so many movies that,
that is supposed to be funny. And you think, wow, this doesn't really get me. You know,
this isn't really up my alley. And then you listen to stuff on maximum fun. And it is, it is sort of,
you know, when you find something that you, you really like, um, you, you, you know, you
want to support it and show that, that you're out there listening. Um, and we, it really is a,
chatter. What?
Gotta get that chat. No, it's, it's a cool thing because I mean,
you can, you can see it in the way that the, my brother, my brother and me community has
sort of mashed into the maximum fun community is that you, it's basically just like a big
group of friends. It's like, it's like finding this new big group of friends. Uh, but also that
group of friends does, does, you know, shows and they're, they're all, they're friendly shows.
I don't know. I lost my train of thought there.
No, no, no, you were doing great. Trev, why don't you tell us, let's get, let's get to what
people really want to know. What, what's in it for me? What do you get? Obviously, like the most
obvious thing is 44 episodes, man. Time to pay up. Yeah. Time to pay the piper. You can, you can
alleviate your guilt. You're, I know you're guilty. I hope that every week you laugh and you feel
guilty. And after this, you can only do, you can narrow that down. You can whittle that down to one
of those. And not only that, but now you can laugh and feel superior to all those people that didn't
donate. And you can start talking about those freeloaders and like hating on the, the lower
class. It's pretty awesome. But also you get, you get tangible gifts. Um, there's many different
levels of donation. Um, well for the $2 or $5 a month level of donation, you get the max fund
membership card and access to exclusive episodes of JJ go. Uh, my brother, my brother and me,
John Hodgman and stop podcasting yourself. Um, and so there are all special episodes that you
only get access to if you're a donor. Um, and also we've done some, uh, rift movies, kind of,
you know, uh, hilarious old timing, 1950s instructional videos. Um, and we did one,
stop podcasting yourself, did one and, uh, Jordan did one and Jesse, I'm sure was in there as well.
Those two also get you stickers and what that come with the membership card that you can,
you know, apply to a Lisa Frank trapper keeper. Um, if people are still, I was a, I was an all star,
or a five star man. Um, but I'm, I'm sure that the, the trapper keeper is still a hot, you could
also, you could also apply those stickers to a sleeping friend. We recorded our, uh, special
episode yesterday, our pledge drive episode, your bonus episode yesterday. And it is probably the
best. It's a barn burner. I mean, I would say star studded. Yeah. We got some stuff. Can we tell
them about the stars? Yeah, please. Yeah. Oh, we've got, uh, uh, you want Jordan, you want Jesse
Thorn from Jordan, Jessica. You got him. Dave Shumka and Graham Clark from stop podcasting
yourself. Yeah. Sure. Why not? You want Clint McElroy? Clint McElroy? Who? That's right.
Clint McElroy, McElroy scion. You want, you want Clint McElroy? No problem. How about,
how about John Hodgman? Yeah. I think you might want to go get that app and you can only get it
by donating to the maximum fund drive as little as $2 a month. I know, I know you can afford that,
but if you want to bump it up, let's say you want to get up to 10, $10, you say, I can afford $10 a
month for $10. If they want to go to $10. Yeah. $10, you get a tote bag. You're going to get a tote
bag. Uh, we would, you can get it for any maximum fund show. There's only one right answer, of course.
We all, we all have our own designs. ours was done by Mr. Justin Rousseau, who's work you're
probably familiar with because it's, um, it's, it's pretty much the best work on the planet.
Like, have you guys seen the constitution? He's like Da Vinci's Da Vinci. Yeah. He, he did the
layout for the constitution is what I'm saying. Yeah. Those tote bags come from the fine people.
Those tote bags are from the fine people at eco bags. Uh, thank you so much. Fine people at eco
bags. Who did the printing on those? I believe it was VG kids. I've seen their work before. It's,
it's, it's equally exquisite. Um, so that would be, that would be awesome. If you want to get that
tote bag and make sure you do request to my brother and my brother and me tote back, it's the best
one. It makes the other ones look like a dookie bag. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.
I don't want to judge them. You get the, uh, you get the max fund pack and the, the donors only
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the previous levels as well, which is, it's just the values, the value sound of this world.
Uh, and then at $20 a month, if you go, you go 20, you're going to be a part of the diamond
friendship circle. I'm going to tell you, $10, you're a friend of the family, $20 diamond friendship
circle. My knee is bleeding. I don't know why I mentioned that, but it is happening. Uh,
is it because of all the, is it because of all the special feelings you're feeling right now?
I feel so emotional that my knee is bleeding. That's love. That's love coming out of your knee.
You're going to get a special max fund USB drive. So cool. It's made of wood and it has the, uh,
max fund. How does it keep all the technology inside? Dry ads. Uh, it's a, it's a special USB
drive made of wood emblazoned with the rocket to the stars max fund logo. It's full of max fund
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you like. Tote bag. Got it. Max fund pack. You know it. Try it. Put porn in the tote bag. Exclusive,
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say so. Uh-huh. Um, we'll tell you about the other, uh, some of the other donation levels here in a
bit, but, uh, we really, really could use your help here. If you want to go to, um, maximumfund.org
forward slash donate. You'll see all the, the different levels. Um, uh, you know, right there.
If you don't have the internet, how the fuck are you listening to this? You wizard. You silly bitch,
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Um, and this thing just keeps growing. Uh, and we wanted to keep growing. Uh, and we could use,
you know, we could use whatever help you could give us because, uh, yeah, just, just get involved.
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that we can, we can keep doing this awesome thing that we absolutely love doing.
Think about it like buying stock in my brother, my brother and me, and please say you'll be part
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I'm the Matthews of, of audio broadcasting. I'm the, I'm the other one. I'm the Vince Lombardi
of taking it downtown for the three point goal. So donate right now. Don't wait.
Don't hesitate. Go get on your computer. I know you have the internet. Stop playing.
Go to maximumfund.org or slash donate and get on board. Moving on. I met this girl to party on
Saturday and she asked me for my number. I requested hers in return. What is the correct number of
days I should wait to call and ask for a date as to not seem too eager or dismissive. I love this.
She's really pretty. Wait for it. Well, I don't believe in that. I mean, I,
I don't either. I don't, I don't believe in the waiting period. And I'll tell you why.
First off, you're not in swingers. Fuck you. All right. I'm sorry. You're no,
you're no Vince Vaughn. You're, you're barely a Jean Favreau. And even if you are Jean Favreau,
you're Jean Favreau and Rudy carrying an extra 50 bounce or so. You, if you like somebody,
had a good time, you're going to wake up the next day thinking about that person, guaranteed.
And they're going to wake up the next day, maybe thinking about you. Maybe they're not.
Like you got to guarantee you got to close. You got to ask for the sale. You got to get,
get on the horn and, and make contact. I say no waiting. I don't believe you.
I think that's a great point. If you call someone and it's quote too early to call them,
news flash, they weren't that interested. If you tell me that you're going to wait three days to
call a girl that you were really into, you're going to have to convince me that you are not
going to get hit by a bus tomorrow. Because if you, if you can't prove that, then pick up the phone
and start dialing. That's all I'm saying. Live like you're dying. Anyone that tells you you
should wait, you shouldn't listen to their advice. Like that's the kind of thing. Like
it's just the beginning of like a mind game. Like you don't want to do that. It's stupid. If you
like think this person was real pretty and you're actually interested in them,
why wait? Like it, it doesn't make any sense. There are no, there are no laws to love.
Throw that rule book out. Well, there, there are laws. There are no laws age limits. There's no
laws when it comes to age of love. You can't put illegal age on love. That's what I always can't.
Oh, you always say that. You do. We have, we already did that as a society, I think.
Put age on love. Just love with reckless abandon. Within reason. Definitely. Yeah. Nope.
You can't put a reason. Can't read. Love ain't got no reason.
Well, love don't cost a thing. I learned that from American Idol, who's Jennifer Lopez.
Don't need money. Don't need money. Don't need fame. Don't need fame.
You don't need a credit card. We're not certain. Where are we at on credit cards?
You can ride this train without any form of credit or debit card.
Incidentally, a credit or debit card is a perfect way to donate to maximum fun.
If you just want to go ahead to maximum fun at our four size donate right now, you can just get it.
I want to throw out just in case this wasn't implied. You should wait at least 12 hours.
Before donating? No, before calling. If you get her number, do not call her on the way home.
Like. Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. Hey, listen.
Excitement is one thing. Stalker is another.
Let's, let's make this more relevant for the now generation.
You don't tweet them. Yeah. It's Facebook.
You got you. What's the, what's the ruling on Facebook sending a Facebook friend request?
Because I always feel weird. Like I'll meet somebody. I'll meet somebody and be like,
you seem like a cool person I can be friends with. But if I Facebook them as soon as I get home,
I'm going to seem like a fucking weirdo that was like, I can't wait to put you in my collection.
Here's what you need to be aware. If she's given you her number and then you Facebook friend
request it, you're taking a step back. You've already got the number. You need to move forward.
Also, you shouldn't text her until you call her first.
And if you do tweet, make sure you remove the location, especially if it is in her bushes.
That's really important. Where is this coming from? This tweet is coming from my bushes outside.
This tweet is coming from inside the house. It's away from inside the house. He's tweeting.
Is that a Marcus shaped topiary? Nope. Nope. Marcus is in my bushes.
It's just big M stalking again. Lately, I've noticed something. My girlfriend's unable to
keep quiet when we're trying to indulge in any sort of recording media, even when it's something
we're both interested in, movies, podcasts, TV shows, etc. I can count on it being interrupted
by a story that lasts forever. I'm the kind of guy that likes to catch every second of what I'm
watching or listening to. I've given up listening to your show when we're together because I'll
hear an explosion of laughter from Travis and have no idea what I just missed. What's the most
what I just missed? That's what I said. That's what he typed, I swear. What's the most polite
way to say, shut up. Talked out in Toronto. Hey, dog, there's not. You just got to pick
and choose your media, my friend. If you want to end your relationship real quick,
the best thing to do is as soon as she starts talking, pause whatever you're listening to
or watching, let go of a deep sigh and turn towards her and go, no, please go on. Oh, God.
That's brutal. That is really brutal. Yeah, that will. Or you could also,
you could also end that relationship right quick just by saying, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up.
Miat, miat, miat, miat. Just keep saying that until she stops. She'll get the message.
I think the best way to deal with this is to, before you indulge in the recorded media,
talk her out. Just let her get it all out. Tell her about, let her hear about everything that's
been going on in your life, in her life. So she feels that, like, sated. Like, she's obviously
got a need to connect with you. And you know what? There are some shows that you can be sort of
understanding about this with. Like, Sydney and I have shows that we watch, that we watch-watch.
But there are other shows that we like to watch just because it kind of starts conversations.
And you can talk, you know, like, we don't sit there mum while we watch.
Sister Wives?
Top Sister Wives or Top Model.
Top Sister Wives?
Top Sister Wives.
Top Sister Wives.
I'm the best Sister Wives there is.
Yeah. Ezekiel's next Top Sister Wives.
I think we can all agree that Robin is the clear winner this season.
Yeah, she is. She's a beautiful, homely, strong woman.
I think it's Amarosa.
She is on everything.
Man, I love New York. And she is doing a great job on Ezekiel's next Top Sister Wives.
So let me give you this, pick your balance.
I'm going to give you some Zen advice.
Uh-oh.
Yeah. In this modern age of technology, that's what Tivo is for. It's what paused and stop
buttons are for. And like, there is nothing in this world that's so important that you need to
tell her to shut up.
You can rewatch something. You can catch a rerun of it. You can listen to it again.
Or if it's a podcast, you could delete it and then download it again just several times until
you get your fill of it.
Just keep deleting and downloading our podcast, because that's going to be,
that's good for our numbers. And it's good for your love life.
Well, it's good for our numbers.
Do you think that she talks during the finale of Lost? Because fuck that noise.
Oh, then you throw her out a window.
Yeah, it's got to have limits. Like...
Hey, where's Debbie? Oh, Debbie? I threw her out a window.
She talked during the finale of Lost and I threw her out a window.
You live on the first floor, but she still went like she went away because...
No court will convict you for that crime. There's not a court in America, not a court in the land
that would bust you for that. Griffin, I need a Yahoo answer. It's pretty important.
Let me see if I can do something for you in that department.
Okay.
This one was sent in by R. Gayheart. Thank you, R. Gayheart.
It's by Yahoo answers user Alexis who asks,
What should I call my boyfriend?
My boyfriend and I joke around and call each other by fun pet names like chump and punk.
What are some names I could call him or what have you called boyfriends or girlfriends?
I usually call my girlfriends chump or punk, so I'm fresh out of solutions.
You could combine it and just call him chunk.
Yeah, or pump.
Cineans is on commandant. Is that normal?
Is that okay?
This is my girlfriend. This is my girlfriend chunk pump. I love her very much.
She's very sweet. This is my girlfriend, the captain. I really love her very much.
She's a real sweetheart.
Chunk pump makes me think of like the old timey way that pioneers used to get creamed
corn up out of the ground.
Got a deep vein here. This is a nice vein.
It's rich. Let me get out my creamed corn dowsing machine.
It's made of cream corn.
I hold a scoop of cream corn in my left hand and it leads me home.
What cream corn?
I think we can find some elucidation in the answers that have been provided.
Galf answers user PB responded, names I've called him
sap
sweet boy
his middle name
Dumbo
loser or just L
Is the middle name Dumbo?
Reginald Dumbo Bevan
Killer
cop boy or his occupation hyphen boy
Unemployed boy
Hey cop boy
Count boy get over here and have some sex
Taco bell cashier boy
I need you
Cutie
Nuts
Wiener
Tiger
Slug
Sloth
Hey Wiener Tiger
Penis
Hey slug cop boy
Hey sluggo come on over here
What this?
Names he has called me
Baby
My initials PB
Lover
Restraining order
Lover
Baby dolly
Blonde Dumbo
Oh
Hey
Hey
Hey Blonde Dumbo
Hey Blonde Dumbo over here
You fly over here with your big ears
The zebra cake ain't gonna open itself
Angel
Goodie
Kitty as in here kitty kitty
You had to clarify that one
And my favorite darling
I'm pretty sure that your boyfriend likes you more than you like him
Answer
You call your you basically call your boyfriend
I'm just there are so many of the answers I'm not gonna say who who came
The worst just the worst things you can come up with punk chunk
Punk and chunking and he he seems really into you
Except for Blonde Dumbo it seems a little out of line
Well, yeah, tell me
Anastasia responded
Mr. Sweetsy Poo
Lovey Snookums
Cuddly Kins
Huggy Bear
Love Muffin
Snugly Pie
Boo Boo Bear
Bon Bon Sugar Lips
Hi, I'm Bon Bon Sugar Lips
I'm Professor Bon Bon Sugar Lips
I'm Bon Bon Bon Sugar Lips
The next thing is the best thing I've ever read
Badoodly Kitten
What?
What?
Badoodly Kitten
Say that one more time
Badoodly Kitten
Can I get one more just take me to the bridge?
A Badoodly Kitten
That would be B
B apostrophe D
Oodly Kitten
I didn't know that you could just like say sounds and like mash them together
Like
Bacquancha
Like Bacquancha?
Like that's
Badoodly Kitten
Badoodly Kitten
Kissy Kissy Sweetheart
Love and Lovey Poo
Sexy Yum Yum Cupcake
Badoodly Kitten
Badoodly Kitten
Sweetie Kins
These are starting to sound like the names of like really bad Japanese anime
Sweetie Yum Yum Cakes
It was Sexy Yum Yum Cupcake
Which, excuse me, probably sounded
Pardon me
Yeah, that's your Badoodly
Sweetie Pie Kitten Cake was your last girlfriend
I know I know what you've been doing
Behind my back
Don't you confuse me with her
I'm not your Badoodly Cake anymore
I don't think I've ever been in any relationship where I had nor distributed pet names
Really?
I don't think you should have more than like two
Then it just becomes like a game and kind of
Stupid
A little a little stupid
Justin, you sounded surprised by my assertion
Do you and your wife have...?
Well, I think employing pet names is fine
I think assigning them is probably a little much
As I'm sitting here having a memento sort of flashback moment
I'm realizing that my wife has to my knowledge
Never employed a pet name when speaking of me
So maybe I'm off base or maybe this is a one-sided type thing
But you have one for her?
Are you going to keep it secret like a power word?
I don't have like a specific pet name for her
Okay, you yelled on the stairs at her
What?
I don't know, just honey or sweetie
You know different malleable nouns
Like I'll just swap one of those in
It doesn't really matter
Here's an action item
For this week
I want you to only refer to your wife
By one of the names I've mentioned in this line of questioning
May I recommend Badoodly Cake?
May perhaps Badoodly Kitten?
Maybe Kissy-Kissy Sweetheart
I think it's going to work out really well
Sexy Yum Yum Cupcake
No, that was my last girlfriend
So, you know, we've been having a lot of fun here
And I know that when I am having a lot of fun
What I always think is
I wish I could pay for this
The good news is you can
This is pledge week for Maximum Fun
And we are...
We wanted to go over some of the other donation levels
But I wanted to thank you in advance
And just record
If you haven't donated yet
Just go ahead and skip this
And then come on back
But thank you in advance for donating
Because it's not just for us
We're part of a family here
And we use this money for a lot of really cool stuff
We're going to use it for, you know, goes to meetups
Is something that your money goes towards
Helping us get together with you guys
It goes, like we've said before
Hosting fees to pay
Artists who help create stuff with us
And things like merchandise
Merchandise
Yeah, I mean, it's a really positive way to spend your money
Because what Maximum Fun puts into the world is goodness
It is...
It's unadulterated joy
Just pleasure
You're donating to the creation of pleasure
And if there's a finer way to spend your money
I haven't heard about it
And if there's a finer level for you to donate at
Then $35 per month
There are, there are many higher levels
These rewards, I mean, there are
But there are
But these...
The rewards for $35 per month
Griffin, hit me with it
It's almost...
I feel like I'm in some sort of dream state
Like I've been in a dream state
Since I first saw it
Because it's too incredible to be real
Judge John Hodgman's post apocalyptic justice squad
Friend of the show
John Hodgman
I feel like I need to make that sound
Yeah, can you make it one more time?
I might have stepped on a little bit
Awesome, so what do you get?
You get
Judge John Hodgman's
And Maximum Fun's completely collectible
Completely proprietary
Nerd emergency kit
What's in an emergency kit, he asks
That felt good to say
Yeah, did it?
The...
I would say the centerpiece
The cornucopia
In the middle of your Thanksgiving dinner table
Is an ETON self-powered AM FM
Weather radio
With flashlight
A solar USB power station for your phone
And that's it
I said, I kept adding onto that sentence
Like there was something else on it
But how much more shit do you need?
It's a radio that gets AM FM and weatherband
It charges both solarly and with a crank
It has a flashlight on it
And a USB power station for your phone
If your shit...
If Earth's shit gets fucked
Like in 2012
If we experience a 2012 scenario
Everyone who doesn't donate $35 per month is gonna die on Earth
I'm sorry, $10 and $20 and $2 and $5
Like you guys are great
Good job, thanks for all that
But you're fucking dead
You're fucking dead
You're in heaven
You're in heaven, you're dead
You didn't go to heaven though
Unless if you had paid nothing, you went to hell
Yeah
That's just religion 101
$2, $5, $10, $20, heaven
$35
Don't even fret about heaven or hell yet
Because you got a long, long time left to live
Because you have this sweet ass emergency kit
That will keep you alive forever
Till the vegetables die out
Then it's like every man for himself
Another awesome thing about that radio
Is it comes with the Red Cross logo emblazoned across it
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Goes to help the Red Cross in, you know, those
You're donating
Past or feed countries
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The Maximum Fun USB Drive is also in there
You're going to get a really cool book
Called Roll Models by Mr. John Waters
He was very, very kind to include
Let us include this book in the nerd emergency kit
Okay, we're not even done yet
We're not even done yet
This is the craziest thing
You ready?
This is what I'm really excited about
Oh, there's a credit card survival tool
That's a can opener, knife edge, screwdriver ruler
Cap opener, four position wrench, butterfly wrench, saw blade
Saw blade, direction, ancillary indication
And a little lanyard hole
You get a saw blade?
A saw blade and a saw blade
Yeah, both of those things are in it
Pad of graph paper?
Sure, a mechanical pencil?
Why wouldn't you?
White surgical tape?
Don't mind if I do
Wait, what would that be for?
20-sided die?
What?
What's the white surgical tape?
For taping up your glasses
This is the best kit ever
A 20-sided die?
Sure, let's have some fun
It's the apocalypse
I heard that that 20-sided die only rolls 20s
Nothing but critical hits for you and your friends
Dinosaur Band-Aids, astronaut ice cream, powdered tang
And you're gonna get the eco bags, tote bag
And the access to all the shows
And the stickers in the membership card
And the stickers in the membership card
Holy shit, guys
$35 a month
I feel like you should include extra money in there
Just for how great that is
This year alone, I have bought a piecemeal
An Eton self-powered AMFM weatherband radio
With all that chargey shit
And a USB drive
And that book
And that tool
And some paper
And a mechanical pencil
And white surgical tape
And a 20-sided die
And dinosaur band-aids
And astronaut ice cream and powdered tang
You know how much it cost me?
All together?
How much?
$400,000
Griffin is so deeply in debt
And there's only one way to get him out
And that's to go to Maximumfun.org
Ford slash donate
You can't argue the value of this
Fucking new emergency kit
It will blow your face off with value
And pledge right now
Do not hesitate
Because we need it now
Griffin's so broke
They're coming
They're coming for him
So broke
Why did he buy so many
Astronaut ice creams?
That's the question
Also, this is worth mentioning
For the first year
Maximumfun has switched its donation method
Off PayPal
Because PayPal had a snoot
So deep in the teller
PayPal was cutting a lot
A significant amount of money
Out of your donations
Not no mo
We have a new donation system
So all like
I think it's basically 99.99%
Of all the money you donate
Goes to Maximumfun
And goes to supporting great shows
Like us and Joining Jesse Goh
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And stop podcasting yourself
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Just, you know
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The only source of revenue
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So please help out
Also
That's not true
Well, you're pretty much
You're 99.99%
Thanks
Again with these numbers
That I think you just make it
Also, there are challenge donors
Which are people who have
Who have agreed to donate
A certain amount of money
For every new donor
That Maximumfun gets
So your donation
Is basically a double donation
The final tally for challenge donors
It's a double amount of donations
It's five dollars
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When he donated 1.5 cents
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Someday
He's the coolest guy ever
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Pleasure
I would say
We want to please you
We want to touch your
Your deepest pleasure centers
What is it?
What is it?
It's up in that pleasure center
If you don't mind
Listen guys
I have trouble waking up in the morning
But especially on weekends
Recently I woke up at nine
Which is when my alarm was set
And went back to sleep
I woke up later at three in the afternoon
Me and a good portion of my day was already gone
Oh man
Wow
That sucks
I don't really have this problem on weekdays
When I have school
But it happens nearly every Saturday and Sunday
What can I do to help myself wake up earlier?
I have a suggestion
What?
Get in like a really bad car accident
Okay
Or fall down a manhole
Or almost drown
Or get in like a plane that almost crashes
You need to
You gotta come face to face
With your own mortality Neil
And only then will you realize
How precious every second you spend on this earth is
Wow
Griffin that's beautiful
Just like the movie Fearless
If Fearless was a podcast
It would be my brother, my brother
You have two options
You come face to face with your own mortality
Or you buy one of those CD players
That will start playing a certain track at a certain time
And just put what
Just reach into your bag of Black Eyed PCDS
And put in any one that you want
Cause there is not a track on there that won't wake you up
Okay well you kinda
You skewed off there
Ooh
Yeah you
I thought you were really on point
And then that happened
Thank you for copying my swagger
Like oops
You know I'm awake
Neil I'm worried about you
Because waking up at nine
And then falling back to sleep
And accidentally sleeping for another six hours
That's a whole sleep
You sleep at a whole another night's sleep
What time did you go to bed
Did you go to sleep at eight thirty
And wake up at nine
And then sleep for another six hours
Hi I'm coming Neil
I don't know if we've met
But I go into coma sometimes
Maybe you should just get up and go to school
I mean I know it's Saturday
But just go to your school and sit there
Oh you'll be up at least
I bet you'll meet some interesting people
You know what I do
Because I really like snoozing
But what I do is
As soon as my alarm goes off
Don't even think about it
Just sit straight up in bed
Like because if you lay there for a minute
And like let the alarm go
And think about it
You're gonna talk yourself into hitting the snooze button
I don't know if the alarm
But if you just like spring up out of bed
You're up
Like you're good
Just get going
I got another good one
Is to put your alarm clock on the other side of the room
Don't put it right next to you
Put it on the other side of the room
Because then you're up and out of bed
Once you're out of bed
Half the battle's already won
Maybe Neil's got a tiny Chicago bedroom
Where it's impossible to put your alarm clock
At a place you can't reach
While supine
Well then if you have a phone and an alarm clock
Set your alarm clock
And then set the alarm on your phone for one minute later
And then tape them both in the ceiling
And then put them in your roommate's room
Yeah
Yeah
I still say Neil
Guess what
You're gonna die
Hey Neil
You're gonna die
It might be today
It might be tomorrow
It might
No, it's probably today or tomorrow
Yeah, it's definitely this weekend
I'd get out there
Every second counts
127 hours
Every second counts
Shatners has start living
Like you're gonna die
Because you're gonna
So think about it
That's what Shatner says
That's from Bill Shatner
Founder of the Black Eyed Peas
I got a feeling
That tonight you're gonna be dead
Yeah, I got a feeling you're dying tonight
Griffin, Yahoo! answers
I need a taste
I need a sliver
I need a slice
I need a chunk
Okay, I actually have something
It's not a Yahoo! answer
I'm flipping the script right on a tier
I mean, we're on the topic of death
Which is serious
And you know
It's hard to deal with
It's not
But sexy
Serious but sexy
It is kind of sexy
But it's hard to wrap the old noodle around
Oh, yeah
So this topic
I guess it's the best thing to call it
Was sent in by Uber Anthony
Thanks, Uber Anthony
It's an eHow article
Which I'm sure you all know
Is the world's leading source of information
It's by eHow contributor Nancy Hendrickson
Who has pinned an article, a helpful article
Titled How to Talk to Dead People in Dreams
Uh-huh
Okay
The difficulty of this article is moderately challenging
Which is if you're looking for an easier nighttime activity
Maybe go find something else
Because this is moderately challenging
This is not like a relaxing way
It's just you're strolling through the park talking to dead people
This is like really getting in there and getting it
Thanks to the popularity of psychics
Such as John Edwards and Lisa Williams
More and more people are interested in communicating with the dead
You can spend years in training to become as accomplished as professionals
Or you can use your own dreams as a way of communicating with loved ones
Who are no longer on the earth plane
The earth plane, got it
Prepare your sleep space to begin your quest
To communicate with the dead via dreams
Your bedroom should be dark and without the possibility of interruption
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
You mean before I go to sleep it should be dark and shouldn't be interrupted?
Yeah
Go on
I'm listening
Hey Tommy, what you doing?
Hey
Fuck, I'm trying to talk to my people
Please leave me, let me be
Play relaxing meditation music
If it helps you relax quickly into a dream state
If you choose to play music
Be certain that the music has no dramatic spikes in sound or intensity
As these may wake you up
We suggest black eyed peas
Play back eyed peas backwards and you'll fall asleep
See I used to listen to the soundtrack to Carl Sagan's Cosmos
But I can't do it anymore because once he gets to Mars it's like
Oh shit, like I'm up now
Oh, got him up
I was talking to people about the great war
Place a dream journal pen and nightlight next to your bed
Date the journal entry and create a list of questions or topics you hope to discuss in your dream
The purpose of this exercise is simply to set your intent
The intent being clear communication with a specific person who has passed from the living to the world of spirit
Oh god
Is spirit an acronym for something?
The way you said it made it sound like it was like s.p.i.r.i.d
Super pathetic internal
REM cycle
Inside
Timothy
It's inside Timothy
You have to be inside Timothy for this exercise today
I'm a member of spirit
Let's make you or the world's most prolific crime fighting team slash dead people talker tours
This is my boss your people's
This oh my fuck you guys this step is so important
Say a simple prayer of protection before drifting off to sleep
And ask the person with whom you wish to communicate to appear in your dreams
Be open to receiving communications in varying ways
For example, your dream may be filled with a conversation with a dead person
Or the dream may be filled with images colors or symbols
I had this dream where I ate a giant sandwich. What do you think Hitler was trying to tell me?
It was very colorful the sandwich and symbolic in a way
Yeah
As an example, the dead person may say to you, I can't get through to your mother. She isn't picking up the phone
Let me try that again
Could you try her for me? Maybe send her a text
As an example, the dead person may say to you
He's just picking up the phone
Obviously there is no spirit phone
You dumb fuck
You dumb shit
Hey dummy, but it's the dead person's way of saying that they're coming to you because the other person isn't open to communicating with the dead
And rather than say that they brought up the complicated idea of a phone
Travis listen, there's imagery. There's colors and their symbols. The spirit phone is a symbol
Your mom moms don't talk to ghosts
Tell your mom to talk to ghosts more
Stop being such a prudish bitch. I'm trying to get your noodle
If I have a dream in which I'm in Peewee's playhouse and all of the talking furniture sounds like charles nelson-reilly
Yep, what's going on ghost of charles nelson-reilly?
Yeah, huh? Is he still trapped at paul rubin's house? He's buried underneath paul rubin's house paul rubin killed charles nelson-reilly
Buried him in the cellar. Yeah, and now he makes the corpses of charles nelson-reilly watch him
Watch him eat dinner. He's it's a really weird
It's a really weird arrangement. They have mystery solved mystery solved
He would have gotten away with the different word for us meddling kids
Guys listen, I don't think paul rubin's killed charles nelson-reilly
He probably not yet. Not yet. Is that liable?
I can never tell. I just said he didn't it's cool. It's only if you say yeah
It's only if you if you express doubt in your assertion. Is it not liable?
So i'm gonna say with a hundred percent certainty that paul rubin's killed charles nelson-reilly
That's definitely true. I believe it and I have facts to back it up
Listen
Give yourself the opportunity to develop this new communication vehicle as they say roam wasn't built in a day
Like all new things communicating with the dead in dreams takes practice
You don't believe it astrally caesar. Hey, how do you get to carnegie hall?
Dead people
Probably talk to dead boats are ill to give you tips. I'll give you pro tips
I'm gonna try this tonight. I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to start developing this communication vehicle
Uh, if you I I'm already doing it. Um
Every night, but it is yet to work out for me. Who you who you talking who you chatting up in the in the dream space
Oh, uh rock Hudson. Really? Yeah
I asked him if he had any other secrets. You know what I mean?
Yeah, you know who I talked to is betty white now stay with me
Uh
She's actually been a hologram for the past couple shit. Yeah, I know
Yeah, because human beings can't be that sexy
shaky
Here's a here's here's a fact. Uh, this is a stone fact
If you search for eHow moderately challenging to try to find other tasks that are of the same difficulty level
Yeah, here are the top three
How to become a journalist. Yep. How to become a screenplay consultant
And how to overcome an octopus phobia
But aren't those three things basically the same
I ran a screenplay about the news story about how I overcame my fear of octopi
Guys pod listen
I'm a journalist. That's my job
I can talk to dead people in dreams and I know a shit ton about screenplays and their submission
I am scared fuckless of cephalopods
Get him out of here
Can't overcome it. You'd think you'd think my my skill level of moderately challenging would enable me to
To overcome that but I can't even play with nerf guns because those suction tips remind me of the the cold
Slimy feelers of a cephalopod that just wants to drag me down to the briny deep
Man, I uh, oh eHow
Maybe maybe that's a new vein for us to tap. I don't know maybe
Well, everybody keep your keep your eyes out on that. I have a problem when it comes to girls
Seems I lose interest after I get a girl to like me
It's almost as if I'm addicted to the thrill of the chase
Uh, this really sucks because I've missed out on being with some really nice girls any advice. That's from form spring
You're gay. No way
Hold on now. Wait, what if he's gay?
What if he dislikes winning girls over and then he realizes like I'm not that into it because I'm a little
I'm kind of gay. Maybe is that possible? I think it's I mean anything's possible in this big
I'm fucking storyboarding this one griffin. I'm just asking you if it's possible
I I think you're waterboarding this one
I've known guys like you chase
Is that his name? Yeah, and that is now. Yeah
Chase is actually what he was doing. He had the thrill of um, but if we can just call him chase
No, and then he could refer to himself as the thrill of the chase lady
Are you really ready to experience the thrill of the chase for the next three to four days of your life?
We have to have at least one listener named chase and if that's if that's your name
Congratulations, we just gave you the best pickup line ever. Yeah
I would say that anyone who like
The way you describe this whole situation granted is three short sentences
But you say like you missed out on being with some really nice girls and you're just interested in through the chase
Doesn't sound like you're really interested in these girls. You're interested in their interest in you
Um, so maybe you need to slow your role and be a little bit more choosy about the the women that you pursue
And not just you know go for yeah, I think that maybe you need to take a break from that whole situation like maybe
Maybe you need to take a break from uh chase listen
Chase listen come kick it with me in my lady siesta
Now there's a there's definitely a um a point at which
That sort of falls off. Do you think like okay? I'm not gonna do that anymore. Yeah sure your lady siesta turns into like a
lady lady lady coma a lady shipwrecked
of marooned on an island by herself
With no survival skills and and no hatchet with which to fashion
your
Man, you guys remember that book hatchet
I'm trying to change into subject, but are you guys ever read hatchet by what's his name paul rubens rubens?
Hatchet the story of how I chopped up charles peltson riley
An erotic adventure a goosebumps classic
He actually used a credit card survival tool to do yeah
Gary but you know what was his name. He's a donor. So he's still going to heaven. Yep
Uh, uh, so basically paul rubens killed charles peltsons. Is that the is that the supposition we're working under?
Yep, it's not a supposition. It's a 100 stone cold fact
Oh, because because the live will worry. I got you
uh
Listen, we've had a lot of fun here today
You always started with that what I mean people know how much fun they're having that
I find I don't really enjoy things unless people tell me that I'm enjoying you're having a great time right now
That's how I learned how to eat kale
Uh, people just told me like this is delicious and I eventually I bought it because I'm a sucker that way
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We have we've talked to you about the amazing 35 dollar donation level for maximum fun
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So we need you listen. We're we're relying on you. This is our first year on maximum fun
It's also just John Hanshman's first year on maximum fun and he's like
Wicked famous he was on battle start galactica. I don't know if you guys know that
Uh, he was kind of on battle start galactica and you know, I wasn't I don't know if you guys were I have seen battle
I was but they cut the scene
That's this fucking industry, man
Man, I know
Anyway cast about right. It's both our first years
The pressure is kind of high for both of us
We need to crush him. We want to take him apart. He was super nice and and gave us a
A question a real sweetheart. He was a real sweetheart and gave us a question for our donor's only episode
But we want to destroy we want to destroy him. Yeah, we want to disembowel him
We want to make him tear up
Now if you if you want to make it like if you want to make it count if you want to go deep
You want to say like I want to crush John Hodgman in an authoritative way
Not liking that the wimpy way that some of these other people you can get you can get hectic on it
We have three other donation levels for $50 a month. You're going to be part of the thorn family
Blondie brigade you okay jesse and Teresa thorn
Sweethearts uh future parents
Will bake you a homey batch of their signature blondies and fedx them to your door
What can you imagine how delicious that tastes you know it tastes like generosity
Maybe throw them in the microwave first to get them soft and moist again or are these I I've heard story
I've heard tell of of the thorns cooking prowess. Do you think they've discovered some sort of?
ever gooey some sort of ever
gooey
You know formula they probably just don't call them ever gooey blondies because it's the worst
The grossest thing you could say but for you're also going to get the uh the nerd emergency kit
Which is amazing as we've already covered
You're going to get a usb drive with all our shows you're going to get the the
etan self-powered
am fm weather radio that's part of that never emergency kit you're going to get role models by john waters
You're going to get an uh eco bags tote bag with a my brother my brother and me
Uh really cool art emblazoned on it. It's probably a maximum fun.org right now if you want to go look at it
We'll tweet it and stuff like that, but it's a great. Justin Russo design. He really outdid himself
It's also worth mentioning that these blondies they have a half life of 65 years
So they're gonna they're gonna go with you into the apocalypse with the nerd emergency kit and and they'll they're rich in nutrients
And flavor so they'll they'll sustain you for and if you're if you're rich in nutrients
And also money
You can be one of jesse's golden eagles for a hundred dollars a month
That will net you all the things we've talked about before plus homemade blondie delivery, nerd emergency kit max fun drive
tote bag max fun pack with the stickers
exclusive access to all these episodes and an invitation to the max fun dinner
Which is a special dinner the night before max fun con with staff performers and friends of
max fun con if you can't make it jesse will personally take you to lunch when you're in la
Uh, so go to la jesse. I'll take you lunch. It'll be a lot of fun for $200 a month. That's the biggie
That's the big guy jordan's platinum angels free registration at the next max fun con god damn
Oh, yep
Come to the dinner gonna get the blondies nerd emergency kit usb drive tote bag max fun pack exclusive x episode
To all the podcasts. I know that not everybody is going to be able to give $200 a month
Like I I wish I had $200 a month to to donate. I don't but if you have been with us over this past year
You've enjoyed the show
And you're looking for a way to to support us in what we're doing and support some of the great max fun shows
I think if you can't do
You know, you can't maybe do
$200 maybe you can do 50 maybe you can do 35 and get that that amazing
Nerd emergency kit $20 a month, you know the diamond friendship circle
Just think about what the kind of entertainment you're getting from from our show and the other shows and and what it's
What it's been worth to you. Justin. May I say something? No. Yes
Okay
People oh shit
It's about to get real. This is gonna be real. I'm always straight up with you. I I can't lie
I love you. Oh man. Yeah, there it is. I said it. I love you. Are you in love with them? And if you
I'm I may be
I may be they're pretty wonderful people too soon. It's and as I look out upon you people
Imaginarily in front of me. I see some beautiful faces out there. I see some average faces, but no ugly faces. So good work
Art and I would like to look each one of you in the eye in my imagination and say the bills come do
You
Some of this money goes to pay the staff of maximum fun, which does include your friends at my brother my brother and me
Last night
I put I put on a suit and I went and ate a steak
And I brought a flask of whiskey
And filled a poured out half of my diet coke and filled the rest up with whiskey
This sounds like a classy evening. What would be a possible drive angry 3d? Oh like that's what I do with my money
You don't want to support that. Fuck you. Justin. I think I think you meant to say drive angry shot in 3d
drive angry
comma shot in 3d
That's what that's what we're doing with your and I need your cash to do that
It doesn't pay Nicholas cage doesn't pay himself. This is the ecosystem. You're supporting here. It's not just me
It's not just about us
It's about the family. Do you know how much it costs to maintain my collection of baby ducks?
Why would you Jesus Christ? He has to he has to kill him first of all when they turn one
Yeah, thanks. That's what I'm saying and then to replenish
Like it's a constant stream of baby ducks and baby duck corpses out one door. It's terrible
I'm gonna tell you the most exciting part. Ooh
if you flash
Your maximum fun membership card at any of us that comes in the max fun pack that is at any donation level
You are owed a hug
from
Any of the three of us all three of us however you want to break it down
We'll give you a hug if we're all three there. Yeah, we can do like a triangle hug if all three of us are present
Yeah, there's no touching. We just we cover you in our energies
Yeah, just get our energy get our chakras up in you
Uh, but if you flash your card you we will give you a hug the best fucking also you you earn the right
Like the massive massive
Twitter bragging rights
You get to go on twitter and lord it over every other my brother my brother and me fan that you have donated and they have not
Make sure you do make sure you flaunt it because we want to know who the real
The real heroes are the real special people and and i'm sure we'll be retweeting
Those as people donate and and and and helping to spread the word there
And and if you know a buddy has a donated get on him say hey jerk. Hey dummy jerk wad. Hey stupid drunk pump
Hey chug pump. How about how about putting up some dough? Just go to maximumfun.org right now
Don't wait slash donate slash donate
And
Pledge pledge what you can and you have no idea how much
We we appreciate it. It really means a lot to us and you're gonna get some really cool
Some really cool gifts. I actually asked
Ask jesse if it's okay if I if or if it's weird if I donate because I want the
I want the
What's about and I want to try his blondies. What's so weird about that?
She doesn't weird about it. I mean when I said I want a membership card so that I can finally get a hug from my brothers
Um one one more thing um
One of the coolest parts about us joining maximum fun or for for me one of the coolest things that happened was uh
When when we joined up and a lot of people in the maximum fun community said this is so awesome
Because I already listened to this show
Before joining the maximum fun and this is just kind of a reaffirmation that that maximum fun knows
Knows what I like knows how I do
Um and and to those people and the people who are already maximum fun donors like
Thank you a fuck ton. Thank you so very very much. Um
Maybe you want to bump it up this year. I've seen a few people on the forum talking about you know kicking it up to notches unknown
Um, well, I guess the notches
They're pretty well established
But but yeah, if you if you want to do that that would be you know, absolutely incredible because our family is getting bigger
You know, we got more responsibilities both figuratively. Yeah, all you got to do we can wait. We won't be funny for the next 30 seconds
As you go to maximumfun
Dot org. That's the site maximumfun
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You see a button there that says donate or you can just skip it skip the rigmarole go to maximumfun.org
forward slash donate and uh, and and make sure you tell when we sent you um, and and seriously
It means so much to us. Also. If you have an old donation in the paypal system
uh, go to that page too so you can uh
So you can get a new
You know get on this new system and and email Teresa maximumfun.org and she can get rid of your old
and
email paypal a picture of you
Just farting like farting out of your phone and say this is you
Yeah, but have an arrow pointing to your fart and have it say this is you paypal because paypal is a fart
You're really turning this from like a pledge show into like an anti
Paypal show feel like paypal banned my account and that's true
Paypal wants to ban my account because I bought some pokemon cards
Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. I sold some pokemon cards, uh, and I didn't pay like the ebay fee or whatever because that's some bullshit
I'm not gonna pay ebay to sell my shit. Uh, and they they should put my account right down
There's a hologram blastoise in there
I'm just letting you go. I'm going to have a holofoil blastoise
Make a holofoil blastoise. Listen all my pokemon cards are gone. I need a new sorts of income
Please donate, uh, please donate. Uh, hey guys, I live in new england with my super hot wife
I was just offered a great job in southern california. So Cal
He doesn't say that I said that but my wife just needs to stay here in new england to finish two more years of law school
We think we're gonna do the long-distance thing until she can join me out west
We'll have the means to fly back and forth for school between breaks and vacays
So it doesn't seem like it'll be that bad
Even so most people tell us we're making a mistake. We're on our late 20s. We've been married for about eight months
Is this a very terrible idea tim?
Is it fucked up that like in my mind
You there's no such thing as a long-distance married relationship
That seems like it's just married. Yeah, you're just like married
Yeah, yeah, I think that this is totally doable. I mean it's totally workable. Is it a mistake? Like I don't I don't I mean it will probably be
A stress on your relationship. Yeah, it's gonna suck. It's gonna suck. Yeah
But it doesn't sound like it's really like a choice. She's in law school and you got offered a job
It's not like one of you is like I'm gonna go check out what it's like on the other coast like
You're in a situation in life that dictates that you may need to be a part for a little while
You're eventually going to be back together. So it's not like a permanent sucky thing
You just got to put up with it for a year or two. There is a problem
Have you seen the ladies in southern california? If you see those so cal
Hanis those so cal shawties
They all look like katie parry
They all all of them look like katie parry. It's it's like an invasion of the body snatchers thing going on down there
Yeah, it's weird
There it's I mean, I've only I've never have I been to southern california. That's like that's like la right?
Is that southern california? Does that count fundamentally? Yeah, um
It's so just so many shows. I don't know. I've watched a lot of oc
A lot of banging news a lot of bills too much. I see some people say I somewhat him has a rock solid will
I think he's gonna be all right
Can I can I tell you guys the truth? What can I disagree with you guys?
I'm gonna disagree with you guys and this is me stepping away from justin
Giving you advice for what's best for your life and this is just my honest
Like from the heart. This is this is the case
I don't
I don't think you should move away from your wife for two years. I I mean
I understand your career and I understand that I understand that's important
And maybe this is like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
And and you're and you're gonna
And and it's totally worth this but you've been married for eight months and the these first couple years are some of the best
like in terms of learning about each other and
kind of forging your relationship and
growing as a couple and
You're gonna you're gonna miss out on those. I mean it you're gonna
You're you're gonna miss out on some stuff and maybe this job is like so worth it and it's and you know, you need to do it
it's like going to
You know America from the old country to try to build a life from your family
If there's that sort of situation and this is a question of necessity
I get it
But if you're on the run from religious persecution
Yeah, exactly then. Yeah, sure. I get it
Justin it sounds like you're saying the answer to this question is it's time to do a lot of soul searching
Yeah, I really think and I'm not saying like so you guys should break up like that because you're married and that's not really an option
But I mean really think about why you're not in my religion
I
Really think about why you're doing it because you love this girl and you guys just got married and you are
And I'm not saying it's going to jeopardize your relationship
I'm just saying you're gonna miss out a lot on a lot and and I know with technology and stuff
It can be very tempting to say well, well, you know, we'll Skype every night and I'll just tweet and that's probably true
I'll just I'll get out of her on form spring
Ask her anonymous questions about what she did that day
But I I don't know really think about it Tim. I think it'll be I think you'll you'll make it but I
You love this girl and you just got married your newlyweds and and that's a great period and I and I hate for you to miss out on it
That's just me that's not advice Justin. That's just from the heart Justin
Yeah, if it's from the heart Travis, I I wouldn't do it either
But if you're dead set on doing it advice Travis says do it, but it's gonna suck
Your wife is your wife is super hot
That's all I got
Just thought I'd comment on it. Your wife is super hot. That's gotta that's gotta put
Put some, you know, English on the ball, right?
Little English little English on that ball because your wife's super hot
So maybe don't leave her for two years because you're gonna go to SoCal where all the honey bunnies are smoking piping hot
Don't touch that plate's hot
Also, so's your wife and she lives in New England and she's gonna have all kinds of
Tom Brady's gonna come up to her and
Try and throw a touchdown on your wife. Yeah
You know how guys
You gotta be careful because Tom Brady will scoop up your wife and you're gonna scoop up
You know all the marises and some of us you can handle just be just don't do it
You don't want listen, you're gonna she's gonna be in New England
We really turned around some guy in overalls is gonna come up to her and be like
How you want to go to the old butternut tree? I you want to have a go have a smooch and there's a norisa blowing
Some founding father come check out my orchard some founding father is gonna sign some parliamentary
actions on her on dad ass
Yeah, I'm just don't do it not work
Tim we've flipped someone's gonna
Someone's gonna crack her Liberty Bell
And that's in New England, right? What dog? Where do you think New England is?
It's like you're making me so mad. It's like your referencing Philadelphia. I don't understand why isn't it?
What is is Philly not part of New England?
No, no dog. No, it's always seem sort of ambiguous to me
It has it to you. It's like
Once you get north up and there's trees and shit you you made it
Can I just say Griffin chances are that it seems ambiguous to you, but to the rest of the population
It's probably pretty clear. Yeah, probably like I'm almost certain
There's a set amount of states that exist within New England now Tom Brady. He plays for the New England Patriots, right?
Yes, right that that one was good. That's why we were all kind of laughing and playing along
That was like listen that like makes a sort of fucking sense. Listen everyone who's listening
Let's keep continue to listen. We need to buy Griffin. I I gotta go to some fucking night classes. I need to get my random McNally on
Really serious over here
It's you know, they say that uh ignorance isn't a problem unless it interferes with your broadcasting
And this is seriously getting to be I made two jokes that didn't make a goddamn lick of sense
Gryffin was like Gryffin was like and then go to
Go to see uh the rush more. We're a sale of a rush more. I don't know. Please help me. You guys want to hit up an Indian reservation?
Just uh uh tim in closing
Don't do it. That's that's me. That's where I'm at seriously. I and it's not because like I think you guys will
wreck your relationship
I just think you're gonna miss a lot and I don't think you should do it, but if you do do it
Um, I'm sure it'll be fine and you'll get through it. I just I hate for you to miss out
I hate for tom brady to
Scoop your scoop your snoop. I hate for your snoot to be scooped by tom brady as they say
I'm gonna get a t-shirt that my my snoot dumb and scooped by tom brady's footballer popular footballer tom brady
known leather head
That's what they call footballers
Yeah, that's good to see now. You're back on you're just 50 years in the past. Maybe a hundred
Uh, so do you want to move on to our our last question? We want to wrap this wrap this production up
Uh, I before we do that real quick because you guys have been
Uh, so indulgent to listen to our our uh, our um
Our requests for your help
Are pleading if you will, uh
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