0:00

The McElroy brothers are not experts

0:03

and their advice should never be followed. Travis

0:06

insists he's a sexpert, but

0:08

if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen

0:10

it. Also, this show

0:12

isn't for kids, which I mention

0:14

only so the babies out there will know

0:16

how cool they are for listening. What's up,

0:19

you cool baby? One, two,

0:21

three, four! It's the

0:23

start of something beautiful.

0:27

A small acquaintance has blossom, it's

0:29

rapping into a precious friendship. I

0:33

could've never seen what was coming for me.

0:36

Hangs at the skate park,

0:38

hangs by the beach, my

0:41

life, it feels like... Life!

0:46

Ahh! It's

0:48

better, it's better with you. My

0:51

life! Ahh! It's

0:54

better, it's better with you. This

0:57

is true, ahh! It's better,

1:00

it's better with you. My

1:03

life! Ahh! It's

1:08

better with you. Hello

1:10

everybody and welcome to my brother, my brother and

1:13

me. It's an advice show for the modern... Whoa.

1:17

It came out so... What the fuck? It came

1:19

out so weird. What the fuck?

1:21

It's so weird. Let me try again. No, I

1:23

don't think you get to... I don't think we should try again.

1:26

I think we should embrace... I said modern from

1:28

the beginning. Yeah, it's weird

1:30

to hear it any other way. But

1:32

what's great is you didn't even say

1:34

modern right. You said it in some

1:36

sort of weird half measure between modern

1:38

and modern. It's weird that I don't

1:41

make it further into the show than this before

1:43

I start getting a little bit of the old

1:45

razzle dazzle from you two. Yeah, sure. It's

1:49

an advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother Justin

1:51

McElroy. Hi, what's up, trap nation? I'm

1:53

your sweet baby brother Griffin McElroy. And

1:56

here comes the king down from his throne.

1:58

Woof Woof, it's me! Me

2:00

when I have these. is your mental

2:02

his brother Big dog. Travis will move

2:04

back or I will flow. Travis makes

2:07

me it doesn't carry him around during

2:09

the podcast in a big golden bathtub.

2:11

Coates, it's so happy. like I wish

2:14

he'd let us use of later Vehicle:

2:16

It's a priestess and golden bathtub. Griffin:

2:18

it's a prescription one for his duff

2:20

in his legs. Yeah. A

2:22

good vibes up Sparkly Hey, I've got a

2:24

new segment that I want to shrouds as

2:26

in an easy to grab like a piece

2:28

of paper. Unfamiliar I wake. Up

2:31

Call fuck him any.

2:34

Forty three years before this moment you

2:36

could have told me undies as a

2:38

pet, line up with your and and

2:40

on eyes were professional Dynamo Props Ralph

2:43

Nader, River and get some of the

2:45

while my know all your brain Travis

2:47

tested as at seven thirty in the

2:49

morning about this new game. so yeah

2:51

it better be good. I'd been developing

2:53

out for about six days though. Oh

2:56

wow okay yeah that's how long I

2:58

think Milton Bradley worked on monopolies. yeah

3:00

it's been a aren't the we've been

3:03

bouncing around added some focus groups yes

3:05

yes while the paper and pen rooster

3:07

yeah they're from the recording audio room

3:09

in just nine know we're gonna as

3:12

his record set a bit like adjacent

3:14

to his off as yes I'm like

3:16

where's the pins and papers being kept

3:19

if not office because that's I mean

3:21

they sell in an office max. A

3:24

node sap on the phone probably would have sufficed.

3:27

What Are you here? Yeah, rather. Stay

3:29

when he gets back to you say like axa you

3:31

don't need if you don't need a bit as a

3:33

as like a funny prank and then and listeners can

3:35

might be a part of it. Yeah down. Here.

3:39

Boy. He sure has been. Oh my god

3:41

I always okay. What?

3:43

Soon as the as a you flick on the stairs

3:45

and it is oh no I could hear coming. The

3:48

big heart disease winded for man. Did

3:53

does either disease or and when nodes

3:55

app on your phone. You.

3:59

Don't really. The neighbor. Yeah. I've

4:01

already. I've got

4:03

it. I can you go put the pin a paperback. Smith

4:07

about thirty do see you Said is

4:09

actually a Catholic A backup. Porn.

4:13

This puppet strings today baby. he

4:15

does have it's ever gone now.

4:17

Accurate. Are. You ready? Just said. I

4:20

don't know. great you tell me to

4:23

have a my props. How

4:25

well the you know him well it's

4:27

them to sell him you'll have so

4:29

much fun on. Ask me a brother

4:31

Juan hello and welcome to ask me

4:33

a brother Wine. The only

4:35

a podcast game. So and wage

4:38

I test to see how well

4:40

do Mabry brothers know each other's

4:42

this league. Our guests are like

4:45

the remaining game Griffin A my

4:47

name and. Taxi

4:50

Grissom I want everybody Justin ever been in

4:52

the wrong Griff, rip him and just them

4:54

of macro right now. How long have you

4:57

to know each other? As

4:59

thirty God who knows.

5:02

Thirty. Some odd years as you know how

5:04

old are sorry sources or it is important

5:06

who knows how Imam or reduced Uncle thirty

5:08

seven now. Thirty. Six

5:11

Yes. Sounds

5:14

like you know each other pretty

5:16

well. well. They do a bad

5:18

start. all vulgar how are not

5:20

great by Okay so ah, this

5:22

is an asymmetrical game, so. Ah

5:26

I'm I'm going to have Justin answer

5:28

the questions. It's the new related to

5:30

say newly know it's a little bit

5:32

different. will last me brother went and

5:34

our me a brother one just then.

5:36

Number right down or whatever you're

5:39

using. The numbers one through four.

5:41

Ago and then you're going to write your

5:43

answers next to them violent make I Do

5:46

Not answer out. Attacker. That.

5:49

Tech. First. And

5:51

this this week category as

5:53

historical figures. Are waiting for

5:55

our purposes Means they have to have

5:57

been deceased for at least thirty years.

6:00

A guy or okay, okay, wow, so this

6:02

is not going to be so much information

6:04

about Justin. Jackson number One

6:06

as circle Figure that has had a

6:09

huge impact on your life. Don't

6:11

say it aloud to write it down.

6:13

Step Dad, Dad for over thirty years? Yes.

6:16

That ah doesn't have to have to be the

6:18

one that's the most impact on your life. Or

6:20

when I do write that or else how the

6:22

what the fuck else am I basing my guess

6:24

on if it's not the most important historical figures

6:26

on your whole life to use. The

6:28

whole, my whole journey, their whole journey. I

6:31

know what the answer and it's and not

6:33

fail not family, not been around. I know

6:35

what the correct answer is. The question is

6:37

does Justin. Yes, this is something

6:39

going to get the question about himself

6:41

right enough. Com. Or

6:45

out. Okay, okay. Sakic. Question

6:47

why I don't answer. We don't do the

6:50

mountains around and know. Second

6:52

question A sort of figured that someone

6:54

would be surprised to find out you

6:56

think is hot. Then. I

6:58

think it's hot correct? Know,

7:01

go figure. dead more than thirty

7:03

years. Surprised. You're. Want

7:05

me to think of was hot bed yet

7:07

famous people around hot yet is aiming. It

7:09

doesn't even have to be famous though right?

7:11

A good to be like oh figure. A

7:14

hot person who died three decades ago.

7:17

What? Is that ninety? To.

7:19

Ninety Four. Ninety Four. Pre

7:21

Ninety Four. Okay, okay, Number

7:24

three. A historical

7:26

figure that you think is overrated.

7:29

Who I think

7:31

I got though.

7:34

Our. I hold on. Wait, I'll get there.

7:37

I don't know how to answer this one. Too.

7:41

Sexy! What you're gonna write down for this

7:43

one out of i'd take the year about

7:45

historical figure that I sig is over rated.

7:49

Okay, Oh.

7:56

I got it. And finally. That

7:58

historical figure that you think. The take in

8:00

a fight. Oh boy s.

8:03

Ah, I'm. Yeah.

8:09

Yeah. Yeah. Let.

8:12

Me know when you have the ball written down. The.

8:15

Prestige for the right now just

8:17

them I wanted spelling. sorry just

8:19

setting a spelling Rockwell can. Okay,

8:21

got it. Now just and I want you

8:23

to mix of the order in your hand

8:26

and read them out loud in a mixed

8:28

up order and griffin you are going to

8:30

assign those names. Cool. Got it to the

8:32

correct tardigrade? Got it. As you can do

8:34

this? Yes and he their. Job.

8:40

And read them alley in our example order. And

8:42

I've been thinking about our daughter. Chris.

8:46

Columbus which I'm realizing I should have written

8:48

Christopher because he was these for one not

8:50

been around. Are we to be casual? rates

8:52

for Columbus. Day:

8:55

Spokane and. Charles.

8:58

Dickens. James

9:00

to so. Who

9:03

has last one? James. To

9:05

so. French. Ah,

9:09

Spain. Or

9:11

right. Yeah. Weights.

9:15

Is. The historical figure that as had the

9:17

biggest impact on drop them after I find

9:19

most important. Ah, I don't

9:21

think it's any the first three months a james

9:23

to sell for that one. Know.

9:26

Incorrect thought that when I run on it has

9:28

hi I match This is gonna say Jesus Christ

9:31

on our and as if you tell me that

9:33

there was another big you the have more impact

9:35

on more your life than our lord Jesus Christ

9:37

I are. he had a big impact but as

9:39

like so obvious I'll give them three. I just

9:42

don't give the anti advertising li sexy Yes. Charles

9:47

Dickens. Incorrect. I'm

9:50

kind hearted really to have you seen the have

9:52

you seen Charles Dickens because I literally haven't once

9:54

in my life I have no idea what this

9:56

over here and I you imagine. Now. Griffin

9:58

which is over figures of. It. Ah

10:01

I take back what I said

10:03

about Charles Dickens at his house

10:06

photo of him through his the

10:08

Higgs is so wild and I

10:10

don't wanna like same him anyway

10:12

I guess. important historical figure. ah

10:15

but it's not the it's not

10:17

as sexy as I thought we

10:19

were going to be working with

10:21

here. Okay, but it was overrated,

10:24

overrated, overrated, Christopher Columbus. very

10:26

gaga, that's why. Yeah, that's it.

10:28

That's so nice. Nice line I

10:30

gotta follow and are right over

10:32

the blade or I have mine.

10:34

a. Blitz. One of the just had taken

10:36

to fight. Charles

10:39

Dickens. Now. Maybe

10:41

than not us already saudi I

10:43

think Charles Dickens's Scrapper a can.

10:45

I guess I'm in a gas

10:47

Biggest impact. Charles Dickens. Print

10:50

surprisingly hot days he can.

10:53

Incur I was that say it was that the to sell

10:55

one. Yeah. Seems to so and you

10:57

think you get painters insists that you could take. Days

11:00

a cannon fire. The. Atlas is

11:02

gonna really ago has let me let hold on

11:04

I'm going as a look at Jc given that

11:06

for long as I say gets his I just

11:08

ran across a self portrait of days to so

11:10

recently as like day there's a hot do man

11:12

I loved look like that dude. I.

11:14

Just said picture with you guys in the in

11:16

the Riverside. Mrs.

11:19

Ah okay yeah. Yeah

11:21

yeah. Yeah. Im

11:23

bedroom eyes. Are. Boise.

11:27

Norad. Our I I get

11:29

that. The. River Nile?

11:31

the you know, just him at all. Sounds like you don't

11:33

know me at all. Griff. Ah,

11:35

i'm no i mean i gotta admire i'm

11:37

that whole time was riding the correct answers

11:39

for you to know something driven away amateurs

11:42

is you think that they would say i

11:44

a jesus christ in order jesus christ princess

11:46

diana elvis presley gandhi and entertainment with a

11:48

bunch of like really obscure sit and i

11:50

was like actually famous historical people y times

11:53

from a game to them for to why

11:55

did i write those down but griffin didn't

11:57

because it seems like we could just do

11:59

griffin Oh, it's an asymmetrical Justin. No,

12:04

but I mean like why wasn't he doing it too? My

12:08

answers I should be clear are totally

12:10

different, right? Like I wouldn't say that,

12:13

you know, I find Princess Diana surprisingly sexy or that

12:15

I could be a gondian. You would? Well, no, that's

12:17

not, also, can I just say, that's not a surprise.

12:19

That's honestly one of the most beautiful, yeah. Right, if

12:21

you were like, I'm just going to say it guys,

12:24

I know you're going to argue with me, I think

12:26

Princess Diana was attractive. People would be like, yeah man,

12:28

what are you fucking talking about? I know you were looking for

12:30

the deep poles there. I don't think, I

12:32

mean, I don't think so. Okay. Huh.

12:37

There it is. Surprisingly unsexy would be

12:39

a better thing. Yeah, more than, more than.

12:42

The U.N. say, Griffin would say Princess Diana

12:44

was overrated. Is what I'm hearing. Both of

12:46

my brothers just did the, I'm

12:48

getting into this now, push up on their

12:51

chair arms to readjust their butt

12:53

positioning to get ready to really lay into

12:55

somebody. Lady Di Duchess of Wales could have

12:57

been all four of my answers. It's all

13:00

that I'm saying. Yeah. Someone

13:02

can be an important impact, have an important impact on your

13:04

life and you think that they are overrated. And

13:06

Griffin, what does that say about you? It seems

13:08

to me you're playing this game. Yeah. Like

13:11

a candle in the wind and you never know who

13:13

to cling to when the questions come in. That's what

13:15

I've, that's a good point. That's

13:18

a really good point. Thank you. I'm going to

13:20

do some retooling on this game before the next time. Oh, thank God.

13:23

Yeah, we'll put it back in the workshop.

13:25

Yeah, it's going to be like all categories

13:27

to which Princess Di could be the answer.

13:29

We'll see, we'll see components of this game

13:31

after Travis melts it down for scrap in

13:33

other future games. You'll see a part and

13:35

you'll be like, oh, ask me a brother

13:37

one. I remember that. Sometimes

13:40

I wish you had burner brothers sometimes. Oh, yeah.

13:43

Test out some of this stuff and then when it

13:46

gets to like, now this is ready for the big

13:48

show, my real brother. I have bad news for you

13:50

guys. You are the burner brothers. Oh, no. After

13:53

I do this, I take it to ask

13:55

Tanga John and then, hey, my

13:58

real brothers. Yeah, that's

14:00

it over there. Okay. Yeah. I bet

14:02

they're really good. I bet they would

14:04

get every- They know each other so

14:06

well. And their answers are funny and

14:08

like intelligent at the same time, but

14:10

they don't make you feel stupid. Yeah,

14:13

yeah. Oh my God. They're the

14:15

coolest. They both smell so good. Actually, not

14:17

like you're crying. I'll decide what

14:19

makes me feel stupid. Thank you.

14:21

Thank you very much. You're right. That's

14:23

a surprisingly long list. Justin,

14:27

what's something that makes Griffin feel stupid? No,

14:30

this isn't an advice show. This is an advice show.

14:32

I'm taking the reins from my brother. And

14:36

we're gonna help you, the people of

14:38

the world. That's

14:40

what we do this for. We're like the Princess

14:42

Diana podcasting. We're

14:44

the people's podcasters. Yeah,

14:47

everyone who doesn't listen is a failure for us

14:49

because our mission is global, our

14:51

reach is limited. Our

14:53

dreams are infinite. I've

14:56

been invited to be the announcer for my

14:58

younger brother's special needs Little League Baseball group

15:00

this year. I have a background

15:02

in performance and it sounded like it would be

15:04

an excellent experience for me in the long run.

15:06

So of course I said yes. The problem is

15:08

beyond just announcing names and play-by-play commentary, I wanna

15:10

make the event memorable and fun for the kids

15:12

and the families attending. What are

15:14

some things I can do as the announcer to

15:17

keep things fun and interesting? That's from Sincerely Baseball

15:19

Babbler in Beaverton. Okay, I've

15:21

done this job before. You have? Yes,

15:24

for the Little

15:26

League, below Little League, very

15:29

little league. The Little League,

15:31

I think some people call it Pop Warner.

15:35

I was always at the

15:38

ball orchard as I called it. Yeah, I

15:40

was always at the field. Yeah, you couldn't

15:42

get me. Picking them white apples. Yeah,

15:45

yeah. You could kick me out. So this would

15:47

be commentating on the game and then it'd be

15:49

like next up to bat, oh, it's me, be

15:51

right back. And then he would run down, slam

15:53

a dinger, slam a dinger

15:55

right into the concession state. Just run back

15:57

up to the booth, call his own home

15:59

run. Yeah, amazing. This is

16:01

the same time period at which I

16:04

was playing catcher Yeah, my team and

16:06

one of the parents thought I wasn't

16:08

coming back Fast enough

16:10

after one of the innings and she yelled

16:12

get the let out RoboCop It's a good

16:14

idea. From the

16:18

stand! I'm

16:22

just saying like as I know I told

16:24

that on the podcast before but as Kekkling

16:26

goes That's almost like me

16:28

and RoboCop is cool though like yeah Did

16:30

you just say RoboCop? We did. That's his

16:33

full name. I don't know him well enough

16:35

to call him by his nickname I call

16:37

him by his full name Roberto Cop. This

16:39

is Robert Cop. This is now the fucking

16:42

Inception of bits. Yeah, we're gonna

16:44

need several kicks to get back

16:47

to the question That's fine. That's

16:49

fine. Because I just want to talk about Robert

16:51

Cop. He Please

16:55

Greg was my father Greg

16:58

Jarrison was a cop until he got

17:00

blown up and they had to recreate

17:02

him in the lab and now he's

17:04

Robert I think it's better if

17:07

he wasn't a cop at first if it was

17:09

like he was a dog walker But now he's

17:11

a robot and all the dogs are freaked out

17:13

and we're like we did put a lot of

17:15

cop shit into your robot Body, so maybe you

17:17

want to just follow that I have to go

17:19

to Academy and then it's just oh Yes,

17:23

Robert Cop man I was almost started

17:25

talking about RoboCop and Oreos and I

17:27

decided to leave it to leave

17:29

it where it was because I don't Do I do

17:31

you guys know about that? Hey listen,

17:33

as long as you're talking about RoboCop Can you guys give

17:36

me one minute your time? Yeah, sure Can

17:38

I have one minute of your time? I probably be worth

17:40

it. Yeah I have

17:42

I need one moment of your time. I'm going

17:44

to show you a brief one minute long clip

17:47

Uh, and i'll just send this to Rachel later so

17:49

she could edit the audio in because guys It's

17:52

good There's a night

17:54

he was carrying. This is from oh, sorry. This

17:57

is a special effects. Uh, artists

17:59

who was working on the film

18:01

RoboCop with Peter Weller. Okay. From

18:04

the special features, the actual and

18:07

I was carrying I don't

18:09

know about eight Oreos in a

18:12

you know stack. I'd hand him his weapon, I'd

18:14

say Peter. Safety's off and

18:16

he wouldn't take the pistol and he

18:18

says Robo wants an Oreo. It's

18:21

just you and I

18:23

Peter Robo doesn't get

18:25

an Oreo. It's Peter once an Oreo.

18:27

Peter can have an Oreo. They flip-clops

18:30

in the suit over to the edge

18:32

of the railing and Peter starts bellowing.

18:35

What's an Oreo? And when

18:37

the steel mill just echoes. Randy has

18:39

Oreos, a Robo, what's an Oreo? And

18:42

Steve Lim over the radio goes Randy

18:44

do you have Oreos? I put

18:46

that whole stack in my mouth and

18:49

then touched them and let them fall down

18:51

three stories onto everybody below me like not

18:53

anymore. And Robo

18:57

got upset. I haven't

19:00

got a damn clue about Randy

19:02

Moore and his fucking Oreo. That's

19:14

really good. Robo

19:16

wants an Oreo. Robo does want an Oreo. So

19:19

what what Randy Moore was positing

19:23

there was that he was like no

19:25

no no it's just you and I.

19:27

I'm not giving you an Oreo if

19:29

you call yourself Robo. Peter can have

19:31

an Oreo. Peter wants an Oreo. Yeah.

19:34

And it's also this guy

19:40

absolutely went toe-to-toe with RoboCop and this

19:42

is exactly a RoboCop move. RoboCop would

19:44

be the one to shove

19:47

the Oreos down his throat so the

19:49

perp couldn't have him. He like he

19:51

stared him right down. He beat him.

19:53

He beat RoboCop. Peter I would also

19:55

challenge you what Robo would do with

19:57

an Oreo. Like chew it up

19:59

and then. Get it in his servos

20:01

and gears and pistons. No, probably

20:03

not that. No, thank you. The

20:06

other thing I do want to point out, at the

20:08

end of the clip there, you heard Peter Weller denying

20:10

this entire story, which is

20:13

an incredible testament to the

20:15

malleable power of memory. Because

20:17

if I'm Randy Moore, that's

20:20

the wildest day I've ever experienced. Yeah, of your

20:22

life. And everyone on the crew was like, oh

20:24

yeah, the Oreo thing, yeah, we were all there.

20:26

This is a regular day for Peter Weller. Of

20:28

course he doesn't remember. Yeah, I

20:31

wouldn't remember that. Of course he doesn't

20:33

remember. He wasn't Peter at the time.

20:35

No, he was Robo. Those are Robo's

20:37

memories. He had left those behind when

20:40

he stopped being RoboCop. So of course

20:42

Peter doesn't remember. No. When

20:45

that other guy took over as RoboCop, he was immediately like,

20:47

why am I so mad at Randy Moore? And why don't

20:49

I want Oreo? So bad, but not

20:51

like want one like I'm hungry, but I want

20:53

one like it's a vendetta. I want

20:55

one like it's a burden. I

20:57

have found that it's pretty foolproof these days.

20:59

If you want to get a crowd hype,

21:03

you drop Baby Shark on them. Okay. I

21:06

feel like if you just start a Baby

21:08

Shark round going, everybody's going to get into

21:10

it. They all know the movements. Everybody's been

21:12

around kids enough. It's a pretty good track.

21:15

I think just like bust Baby Shark out. If

21:17

you have a PA where you can like play it,

21:19

that's ideal. But like you can, I'm

21:22

trying to think of how you do it with just your

21:24

mouth. You

21:26

could come up with some like a

21:28

baseball feet, like hit the balls. Yeah.

21:32

Like feel the catch and

21:34

then run away. Run

21:37

away still works. Yeah. Safe at

21:39

last. Safe at last.

21:41

That last dude, that one's good too. Yeah.

21:44

There's a lot of baby stuff. You could also like

21:46

make up a lot of lore about each player's

21:48

like time in the big leagues before like, you

21:50

know, time and age, had wear and tear on

21:53

their knees and stuff. And now they're back in

21:55

the little leagues and talk about it, you know,

21:57

like, oh yeah, they used to be, or

22:00

bad and a four to

22:02

five back in the mangers, but then they

22:04

slid in at home, ripped the cartilage straight

22:06

out of their knees. It is weird

22:08

that it goes up, but not back down. I

22:10

never really thought about it before, but the idea is

22:13

you can't hang with the adult until you're an adult,

22:15

right? And eventually you're an adult for

22:17

so long that you now cannot hang with the

22:19

adults. But I feel like if you take a

22:21

65 year old, 70

22:23

year old former pro ball player, put him in

22:25

the little leagues, he's still gonna be

22:27

able to hang. He

22:30

could hang in there. He's humming dingers straight out

22:32

of that, but he's all orchards. Is

22:35

that what the rookie was about? The

22:37

opposite, I think. It's

22:40

what Little League was about, the

22:42

sequel to Little League. Baseball's objectively the

22:45

boringest sport, but they have solved one

22:47

thing, which is America. Of American sports.

22:49

You know there's more boring sports out

22:52

there, right? Yeah, it's like

22:54

chess is considered a sport by many. You

22:56

and I tried to learn cricket for a

22:58

month. Do you remember this, Griffin, when we

23:00

tried to learn cricket for a video? People

23:02

seem to really enjoy cricket once you understand

23:04

what the three bats, what the three shells

23:07

are used for. They were people who enjoyed

23:09

baseball as well, Griffin. You know that, right?

23:11

Yeah, the interviewer gets into it. Yeah, people

23:13

like lots of boring stuff. Anyway. Baseball's not

23:15

boring. You guys are idiots. All

23:17

right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,

23:19

I yelled at you guys. The bit. And

23:21

I'm so sorry. I don't think I know you.

23:24

Okay, sorry, Slugger, calm down. Okay,

23:26

I'm kind of a baseball man.

23:30

That's incorrect. That's not true. I

23:32

was in the Shady Minor League for seven years and

23:34

I was bad at it the whole time. But damn

23:36

it, I stuck to it. Because Macaroys

23:38

never quit. The baseball's boring, but they

23:40

have solved one thing, which is that

23:43

walkout music is great and they get

23:45

to pick their own walkout music. It

23:47

democratizes a lot of this hype up

23:50

process. And that is the

23:52

only, sometimes I think, it

23:54

would be great to play baseball, so I would

23:56

get to pick my own walkout music. Because I

23:58

imagine that is a really fun. decision to make.

24:01

You could do that in wrestling too though. I mean

24:04

you could do it all the time. We have phones

24:06

in our pockets. We have phones in our pockets that

24:08

have speakers in them. We

24:10

could, you could walk into any room with

24:12

walkout music going. Yeah, no for

24:14

sure but like not. Yeah but it's not played over

24:16

the speakers. It's not like the crowd has to be

24:18

wanting it. Oh I see. You know what I mean?

24:20

The crowd has to want it and need it. Have

24:22

we talked about what arts would be before? Mine would

24:26

be We Belong by Pat Benatar. That would

24:29

be cool. For baseball or any

24:31

like any particular. Literally any

24:33

moment of any day. To have

24:35

that slow build come in. Yeah.

24:37

And people would have to be

24:40

pretty patient. Okay. The,

24:42

the, the, the um I

24:44

feel like a lot of people

24:47

like to get a crowd excited by asking them who

24:49

came the farthest. Seems to be something

24:51

that people do to kind of get on the good side of the

24:53

crowd. Ask them who came the farthest or like who

24:55

you know. Like they

24:57

used to in church on Mother's Day they say like who has

24:59

the most kids and then they give them like a longer

25:02

run or something. Yeah.

25:05

I don't think they ask people to

25:07

travel the farthest much at local little

25:09

league games. Probably not. Certainly not. And

25:11

certainly not in the walk up. Oh

25:13

I only came five blocks. Now, now

25:16

Justin has introduced an interesting idea

25:18

here which is if your walk

25:20

up music was like 10 to 15

25:22

seconds of pre-recorded crowd work. You

25:24

walk up to the mound and you

25:26

just hear Justin's voice saying like hope

25:28

everyone's having a great time tonight. Who's

25:30

ready to see me really slam a

25:32

ding or who here came the farthest

25:35

tonight? And then it would cut off

25:37

because it's like clearly it's ready. Don't

25:39

forget the hot dogs. Yeah. So the

25:41

project goes before you, Darude Sandstorm. Before

25:43

that is fucking uh Baby

25:45

Shark. And then you walk out to your own voice saying

25:47

like what's up everyone? It's

25:49

me Justin McElroy. Guess what? Eyes

25:52

up. That's the air raid siren because I'm

25:54

about to slam a ding or right into

25:56

left or middle field. Oh shit I forgot

25:59

my back. Hold on, I gotta go

26:01

back real quick. Shit, where's my bat? I

26:03

can't find it. Doug, have you seen my

26:05

bat anywhere? I'll use yours. If

26:07

memory serves, no one actually asked me to do it.

26:11

I just said, like, I will do it, and no one

26:13

stopped me. So I went up there, and I realized pretty

26:15

quick that I don't know anything to say.

26:18

About baseball? Yeah. So

26:20

the two times I did do it, most

26:22

of my time was spent hyping up the

26:24

concession stand. Oh, yeah. I feel like that's

26:26

something I could do that has a palpable impact on the team. Yeah, yeah. It's

26:29

a longer view, right? Yeah. It's

26:31

not gonna help them right now, but some

26:33

of those money will help. The money trickles

26:35

them. Complete and pads. So it would be,

26:37

don't forget to get, like, a delicious—I saw

26:39

some of the hot dogs. Yeah. They're

26:42

looking really good. Yeah. There's fun

26:44

dip down there. Yeah. Tracy just took another

26:46

batch of dogs out, and they're fucking— Tracy,

26:48

how are the dogs? Give me a thumbs up.

26:51

Thumbs up. These dog are good. She just opened a

26:53

box with us. I don't— She just opened

26:55

a box with those gumballs that have, like, the print that I'm stitching

26:57

that I think they only have. Absolutely. Absolutely.

26:59

Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. Can

27:02

I ask you guys another question? Or I could

27:04

provide some wisdom from the cloud, if that's the best of all. Yeah.

27:07

Whichever. Whichever. Brian sent this

27:09

in. Thank you so much. It

27:12

is a WikiHow article that

27:16

was not written but reviewed by

27:18

Tammy Claytor, the etiquette coach.

27:21

Ooh. Ooh. And it's a good one.

27:25

It's how to contact

27:27

Mark Cuban. Contacting

27:30

Mark Cuban is relatively straightforward, as

27:32

he has an active business email

27:34

in many social media accounts. The

27:37

notably successful investor can be reached for business

27:39

inquiries or fan comments through either of these

27:41

methods. Business pitches in

27:43

investment-related matters should be sent to his

27:45

email, and fan-based messages should be sent

27:48

on social media. Fair warning, though. He's

27:50

an extremely busy person. Yeah. So

27:52

you might not get a response. But that shouldn't

27:54

stop you from contacting him. You might get lucky. Yeah, that's

27:56

true. You

27:58

might get lucky. You might get lucky. You might be

28:00

able to get a hold of Mark Cuban. I'll say this.

28:03

If you don't reach out to Mark Cuban,

28:05

you definitely won't hear from Mark Cuban. That's

28:08

true. You miss 100% of the Mark

28:11

Cubans that you don't email. How

28:13

could Cuban reach out to you,

28:15

though? That's not impossible. Cuban might think, I got

28:18

a project that's a good fit for the J-Man.

28:20

I gotta reach out to him. I want a

28:22

.7 out visa VRE Mark Cuban. I just looked

28:24

it up because I was like, how do I

28:26

reach out to Mark Cuban? Right?

28:29

If you guys had

28:31

to guess, can you put a number on it? How

28:33

rich he is? How much? I

28:37

would say $4 billion. $4

28:40

billion? That seems like a lot. I'm gonna say

28:42

$450 million. He's

28:48

definitely the only shark who's a billionaire. Yeah, so

28:50

as of November 2023, Investopedia says $6.2 billion. But

28:58

here's the thing. He

29:01

made $5.6 billion

29:03

selling broadcast.com to Yahoo

29:05

before the.com bubble burst.

29:08

Since then- It's not that impressive

29:10

because I could have done that. Since then- You

29:13

don't mean like you did it one time. That means

29:15

he's only made another like $0.6 billion. That's

29:19

a really good point, Travis. Thank

29:21

you. So one time- He's struggling.

29:25

I'm just saying, I don't know if he's the guy I'm

29:27

going to for advice. Right. He

29:30

has that one thing. Hey, Mark.

29:33

Why aren't you hoarding wealth like

29:35

a dragon? Why aren't you sitting

29:37

on the pile of coins and

29:40

hoarding as much capital as possible?

29:42

Only four bill, Mark? Only six

29:44

bill? Scrape those doubloons in,

29:47

man. Keep yourself a big- Come on,

29:49

Smog. Keep yourself a big pile of

29:51

coins. I

29:54

think if Mark Cuban found out my

29:57

points per game and my free throw percentage-

30:00

I would get some inquiries to join

30:02

the Dallas Mavericks. And then I

30:04

wouldn't have to do any of the legwork. Make

30:07

Mark Cuban come to you. That's the

30:09

power move. That's the power move. Go

30:11

on Shark Tank. Walk out. Don't say

30:13

fucking anything. Just stand there and wait

30:15

for Mark Cuban to talk first. That

30:17

means you're in the power position. Anyway.

30:21

I would contact Mark Cuban to be like,

30:23

how was your time on Entourage? And

30:26

then also a follow up to another thing

30:28

I just learned, which is, according to Mark

30:30

Cuban, Entourage helped him land Shark Tank. Wow.

30:33

Okay. There's a story there for sure. I think that six

30:35

billion didn't hurt. Yeah. That probably was

30:37

part of it. Because I don't think they auditioned

30:39

to be on Shark Tank, right? They were like,

30:41

yeah, you know what? We'll give you $6.2 billion.

30:44

That was a good audition. Come on Shark

30:46

Tank. Imagine him walking into the

30:49

back room with a script sort of nervously

30:51

rolled up in his hand like, hi, I'm Mark

30:53

Cuban. Today I'll be reading

30:55

the role of, I'm reading for the role of Bald

30:57

Randy. The

31:03

Shark. The

31:06

Shark, Bald Randy. When you're a shark,

31:08

you're shark. I remember being prepared

31:10

16 bars of a song. It's

31:13

one of the sharks in Shark Tank, Bald and

31:16

named Randy. I feel like there is a Randy.

31:20

But I don't remember if he's the Bald Boy.

31:22

Randy, shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

31:24

doo doo doo doo doo doo. Are you thinking

31:26

of Kevin O'Leary? Kevin O'Leary, I'm thinking of him.

31:31

To be fair, he's Kevin Randy O'Leary.

31:34

I will say though, he's Canadian and

31:36

Kevin does convert to Randy. Yeah, of

31:39

course there's a conversion there. It's the

31:41

metrics and period. Randy

31:45

is metric, Kevin. You

31:49

should see him on Canadian Dragon's Dead. He

31:51

comes out and he's like, what's everybody? Big

31:53

Randy. Is

31:56

that all cool on that show? He's

31:58

got like big sunglasses. Spread

32:01

my doubloons! Ready

32:03

to chuck some duck-cubin' man-

32:05

Cuban's not here, over-shadowing me!

32:07

Just some buckets of make-some-buckets

32:10

is great. Alright, email Mark Cuban. Use one

32:12

of Mark Cuban's public email addresses. Apparently he

32:14

has several of them. I personally feel very

32:16

uncomfortable with the idea of reading one of

32:18

these aloud. Let's not read. Let's not. No,

32:20

let's make one of them. I'm

32:24

gonna go with CubanManwich

32:26

at yahoo.com. I'm

32:28

gonna just google email Mark Cuban to see

32:30

how easy it is to actually find Mark

32:34

Cuban's email address. In my head, I was like,

32:36

you know, it'd be fun. We should have like

32:38

a race, a contest to

32:40

see who can get a response from

32:42

Mark Cuban first. But,

32:47

you know, you'd tell me the next ten words of that bit.

32:50

Get him to invest in my brother

32:52

and my brother in me. Oh, maybe

32:54

he's the guy that's gonna take Ask

32:57

Me a Brother One to TV. Yes.

33:00

He's gonna angel invest in Ask Me a

33:02

Brother One. Yes, for sure. Hey,

33:05

Mark Cuban, could you bring back SISO? Do

33:07

you have that in your power? Mark Cuban,

33:10

Elizabeth, it would not be that hard I

33:12

bet, Mark. Anyway, provide a

33:14

direct subject line. Mark Cuban gets hundreds

33:16

of emails a day. If you want

33:19

to get his attention, use a direct

33:21

but attention-grabbing subject line. One person who

33:23

successfully contacted him wrote, want to disrupt

33:25

the insurance industry? That feels apocryphal. I

33:28

don't know what – I get fucking

33:30

four emails like that a day and

33:32

I'm me. I'm like, no

33:34

point. Yeah,

33:36

sure. Ready to make $60,000 today?

33:40

I mean, that's a good subject line. I gotta admit it. Make

33:43

sure your subject line tells Cuban what your business proposition or

33:45

question is about. Try things

33:47

like question about tech investment or proposal for

33:49

social media business venture. Okay? Cool,

33:52

man. Or I've taken something from you.

33:57

Hi, Mark Cuban. I've taken something very – invaluable

34:00

for you and Do

34:03

you want it back hit me up?

34:06

Do you want to disrupt? The insurance

34:08

industry and get back the important

34:11

thing that I mark mark. It's

34:13

mark you it will be missed

34:16

mark Strike

34:19

the correct tone keep in mind you're right. I'm

34:21

thinking Kevin O'Leary I've

34:23

taken Randy from you Wait

34:26

who's Randy? You guys know Randy? If you

34:29

ever want to see if you want to see Randy O'Kevin ever

34:31

again in your life Disrupt this

34:33

fucking market with me He's

34:35

calling you Randy O'Kevin. He must be on

34:37

the other side of the border legally. He

34:39

has to call him Mark Cuban manhunter Cube

34:43

Marking Relentless Cube

34:48

Marking is my stitch Yeah,

34:51

yeah My new film

34:53

Cube Marking Relentless Me

34:57

and Liam Neeson team up and yeah, I

34:59

am fun in the whole thing Now

35:03

how did they squeeze my body? I auditioned

35:05

for myself with the knowledge I brought from

35:07

entourage. I have the acting jobs to deliver

35:11

How did they? How

35:17

did they get how did they get my body into

35:19

the perfect geometric shape of a cube for this movie?

35:22

computer graphics imaging Don't

35:27

Be overly familiar it might seem like a good idea

35:29

to write to him in a friendly way to get

35:31

his attention But it could backfire avoid saying things like

35:33

hey mark or what's up? They

35:36

actually like that on Shark Tank They actually don't

35:38

like all the way try to unsend real quick

35:40

all the stuffy buttholes that come on Shark Tank,

35:42

and they're like greetings professors

35:46

They love it when you walk in there like what's up? idiots

35:50

I'm Griffin and

35:52

this is my business toothpaste for

35:56

dogs That exists.

35:58

I was surprised that they funded stuff I

36:00

think I probably bought holes, but the pitch for

36:02

it was really, really good. So I get it.

36:04

It's an aftermarket.

36:08

This is also a show that has let people

36:10

pitch prescription pants

36:12

that you can fart in for free.

36:17

Wait, the pants – sorry, Justin, sorry. The

36:19

pants are free? Listen, the

36:21

tagline from me. Prescription pants that you can

36:23

fart in for free. The farting doesn't cost

36:25

you money or the pants don't cost you

36:27

money, Justin? The fart

36:29

– that's got charcoal. Can

36:32

I pitch my business to you guys? Yes,

36:34

please. Okay. Hello, sharks. What's

36:37

up, dudes? What's up? I've

36:39

got a pitch for you that's really going to blow your

36:41

ass apart. It's called Stuffy But Whole. First, shall we pay?

36:44

Shall we – Let's pray. Dear

36:47

God, please help me do a good job on this pitch. I

36:49

need this money so bad for Stuffy But Whole. Okay.

36:52

I am on this Stuffy

36:54

But Whole mission because of you, the Lord, because

36:56

of the dream that you gave me that one time. And

36:58

so I am going to need your help on this

37:00

one too. Press these and then press Randy and Mark.

37:03

The end. So

37:06

you know how at Build a Bear Factory, there's a lot

37:08

of stuff they don't let you do to the bears. Oh,

37:11

God, yeah. You're

37:17

at the mall. You've just walked

37:19

out of the Build a Bear Factory with

37:21

your lightly customized toy and feeling a sense

37:23

of disappointment and emptiness. But

37:26

what's that right across the mall? Vestibule.

37:29

It's Stuffy But Whole. It's

37:31

an aftermarket garage for

37:34

Build a Bear Factory. And

37:37

we'll take it to the fucking hoop, guys. We'll

37:40

do anything you want to these bears.

37:43

It is not an issue. No question

37:45

about it. And question me like you can add buttholes

37:47

to your bears. Is that what I'm understanding? That's just

37:49

one of the features that we offer. One

37:52

of the required features is an

37:54

entry, an egress from

37:56

the animal itself. Griff, I'm...

38:00

I've heard that you have partnered with Bose.

38:03

I was wondering if you could walk me through all

38:05

the Bose partnership figures into. Well,

38:08

I'll tell ya, I dropped my

38:10

wireless headphones into the urinal and

38:12

then they were acting weird. And

38:15

I didn't wanna buy a new pair, so

38:17

I went to Bose. And I said, we're

38:20

doing this new thing, it's an aftermarket for

38:22

Build-a-Bear Factory to add. And even before I

38:25

could finish the sentence, Steven

38:28

Bose was like, butt holes? And

38:30

I was like, yeah, for sure. And

38:32

so that's, yeah, that's big for us,

38:34

that's huge for us. And

38:37

what level of investment are you looking for? Oh!

38:43

Very reasonable. Okay, I'll give you $75 for 125%

38:45

of the company. Do

38:50

I have, listen, I would love

38:52

to team up with

38:55

you. Chef.

38:58

Tell me the company and I'll give you $100. I

39:02

don't know, I've put a lot of sweat equity into

39:04

it. I did buy the business at the mall. It

39:09

was a CVS, a mall CVS, and

39:11

now it's an aftermarket for stuffies. Justin,

39:14

do you have a counter? Yes,

39:17

it is where I prepare all of my food. That's

39:21

an excellent joke, chef. I'm

39:24

the funny shark. Yes.

39:29

Funny shark doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

39:31

doo doo doo. I

39:34

hear your offer, Travis, and I say

39:36

shove it up your ass. Whoa!

39:39

But now I've challenged you. Oh,

39:42

sorry, I thought you were gonna say that that was the tagline

39:45

for stuffie butt holes. One

39:48

time I was at a Build a Bear

39:50

factory and Henry,

39:53

they had Sonic the Hedgehog stuff

39:55

and they had Pokemon stuff, and

39:58

Henry wanted a Pikachu. Pikachu

40:01

bear with the sonic voice box

40:03

chip inside it and I was like hell

40:05

yeah, that's a great idea Let's do it

40:07

and then the manager came zipping

40:09

out from the back room like you can't

40:11

do that What and

40:13

they wouldn't let us do that. I guess it's

40:16

against the licensing stuff that they've got going on

40:18

But come on a

40:20

Pikachu with the side the Hedgehog voice would be

40:22

extremely good And I don't know why they would

40:25

ever they should let you do whatever you want

40:27

to the dolls That's exactly the kind of thing

40:29

that was my evil origin story for stuffy buttholes,

40:31

you know, I'm people I'll

40:33

switch their souls. I Mark

40:36

Cuban I'm going to give you six point two

40:38

billion dollars around what zero percent of the company

40:40

I believe in that I believe in this to

40:43

my very core excellent And

40:46

I work at stuffy buttholes cuz I'm broke now.

40:48

I do need a job. Can I work at

40:51

your store? I'll have you guys talk

40:53

to HR. I was in entourage

40:57

Um one time on Canadian Dragon's Den which

40:59

goes way harder than American Shark Tank Kevin

41:01

O'Leary Someone came in presented a board game

41:03

because that's a big part of Canadian Dragon's

41:06

Den is board game presentations They're wild form

41:08

up there. Cool. And he said this is

41:10

such a terrible idea I'm gonna have you

41:12

come to my house I'll pour

41:14

you a nice glass of wine and I want you

41:16

to bring all these that you have and we're gonna throw them

41:18

into a fire and then

41:22

Two years later they do like the follow-ups

41:24

on the show and he's like this dude

41:26

went out of business and they have

41:28

footage of Kevin O'Leary in a boat going

41:31

to his private island and invited this dude over

41:34

Going down to his wine cellar getting

41:36

a delicious bottle of wine going up

41:38

making a fire and then Sitting

41:41

next to the man. Both of

41:44

them enjoying a glass of wine while his

41:46

board games burn I love

41:48

that. It's astounding. That's who I

41:50

want to contact. That's a very different energy

41:52

that I don't have in my life Yeah, you're right. You know

41:54

what? Was he

41:57

an entourage? He was actually on

41:59

euphoria Kevin

42:01

O'Leary. Oh! Yeah.

42:05

It's when he made his balls debut.

42:10

We need money, and we're not going to get it from these

42:12

rich old men. Not

42:15

anymore! Not

42:18

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45:20

do have one note for Stitch Fix. Yeah.

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48:02

I want too much squad. He's

48:07

gonna get it himself. A

48:12

little pee-pounds and vocal I

48:17

don't have time. I

48:20

have three stories to get to. I

48:26

can't wait for you all to hear me

48:28

say much and then say squad. I'm crouching down

48:30

low in the window. I'm

48:34

scoot up so I look like a big man like my brother. I

48:39

got three great stories for you. The

48:42

first one is Smoothie King has dropped its

48:45

new Sleepy Girls

48:48

Smoothie. It's inspired

48:50

by a viral Sleepy Girl

48:53

mocktail. It's the internet's

48:55

latest obsession. I

48:58

kind of assumed every cocktail was

49:00

a Sleepy cocktail. For me, if

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I have any cocktails, I'm gonna... I think

49:05

it's weird for Smoothie King to use the

49:07

word dropped in terms of Smoothie. A thing

49:09

that I would say is on my list

49:11

of top 100 things I don't want to

49:13

drop. Yeah, it would be

49:15

a huge mess. It should be like Smoothie

49:17

King carefully delivers with a secure lid to

49:20

Sleepy Girls Smoothie. How

49:23

late is Smoothie King open? You

49:27

can be sleepy in the morning. Sleepy in

49:29

the morning, sleepy in the evening. Does

49:31

it put you to sleep? I would hope it

49:33

won't wake you up. It helps you

49:35

catch some of these. It doesn't wake you up. Then

49:38

it should be... How late is Smoothie

49:40

King open? That's all I'm saying. More

49:42

importantly, do they let you get this through the drive-through?

49:44

Because I don't want a nation

49:47

of people getting suddenly very sleepy

49:49

while driving. I'm gonna be able... I

49:52

can't resist a sip of roosky. I'm gonna have a few

49:54

sips of the way. Absolutely. Before

49:56

I get to the viaduct. Yeah. I

49:59

don't need that. Real quick. BurgerFi launches

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Yes Chef Burger inspired by

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50:07

And I know what you're thinking. Is there

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a new movie called The Menu? That's

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not a weird horror movie. Yeah.

50:13

This is inspired by the Ray Fines 2022

50:15

film The Menu. Okay.

50:21

Which I believe is a sensual thriller, right?

50:23

I'm thinking of the right movie, right? Yeah.

50:26

It's a suspenseful thriller. Yeah. From

50:28

2022. Okay. Yeah.

50:31

Join us in a chorus of Yes Chef as

50:33

BurgerFi, the maestro of Better

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Burgers, owned by BurgerFi International,

50:37

introduces the Yes Chef Burger. Guests

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will savor the simplicity of this

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viral savory sensation inspired by a

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scene from the movie The Menu

50:47

starting on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024. Okay.

50:51

Yep. How? It took them

50:53

a couple of years. Listen, there's a very- It

50:55

took them a couple of years. Very plot important

50:57

hamburger in the movie The Menu. And it is

50:59

one of the more gorgeous looking hamburgers I've ever

51:01

seen in my entire life. But it

51:04

did come out two years ago. So I get

51:06

seen the movie and being like, guys, that's a

51:08

good looking burger. Let's strike while the iron is

51:10

hot. Do you think maybe they couldn't get the

51:12

partnership with Ray Fines and the menu? And

51:15

so now two years later, they're hoping

51:18

Ray doesn't notice. Doesn't notice? Maybe.

51:21

Maybe they wanted to do the bear and the bear was

51:23

like, nah, we're doing fine. We

51:25

don't really do burgers on the bear. I get

51:27

the burger thing. We're embracing

51:29

one of the most beloved

51:31

catchphrases of recent pop culture

51:33

trends, particularly on TikTok and

51:36

aligning our approach with the demands of our

51:38

guests. Says Carl Bachman, CEO

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of being fucking cool. No, wait, sorry.

51:42

No, it's not. It's not international is

51:45

what it says here. Our

51:47

team is starting the new year saying yes

51:49

to flavor and yes to our guests. I

51:52

have asked my children recently because

51:54

sometimes I'll ask them to do something and

51:57

I don't want to have it to be like, oh, yeah, every time.

52:00

It's just a yes chef and they both really embrace

52:02

that both my kids are really into it now if

52:04

I'm like hey Can you just pick it? Just make

52:06

sure you pick that up when you're done. Yes, chef.

52:08

Yeah Wonderful. I would be

52:11

satisfied with her chef if my kids just drop

52:13

me I heard like I do know that they

52:15

hear it even if I know they're willfully ignoring

52:17

me as something Yes foodies crave

52:19

a compelling experience whether that means

52:21

something that's trending in pop culture

52:23

or a fresh new take on

52:25

their favorite dish Jesus Cindy Syracuse

52:27

the chief marketing officer of BurgerFi

52:30

At BurgerFi we're here to curate offerings

52:32

that align seamlessly with the preferences and

52:34

cravings of our guests But

52:39

all of those are that's a lot of

52:41

words to say we made a hamburger I'm

52:43

a hamburger that we hoped people like I'm

52:46

I'm confused because so far the and

52:48

also we have ticked on Yeah, they've only

52:50

they've described the burger simple. So

52:53

it's a burger. I'm with like

52:55

simple stuff on it Yeah, we hope

52:58

I feel like maybe I've just got

53:00

him on the mind, but it does seem like

53:02

RoboCop Road this press release Citizens

53:05

enjoy the wet meat Subway

53:15

adds new snacks category to the menu.

53:17

Oh Okay, I

53:21

Can't I can't handle a full sandwich I'm

53:24

feeling a my you want some chips

53:27

We got them Okay, subway

53:29

announced a big menu update

53:32

with the debut debut debut

53:34

on debut of

53:37

sidekicks a collection of three

53:39

new footlong snacks Long

53:41

snacks. Wait a minute a footlong

53:44

snack a snack of one foot

53:49

I'm trying to think of what I could eat a foot

53:51

of and have it not really a meal a fruit

53:53

check that clean feed But check

53:56

that check that I see all

53:58

right. We know that's still a big Fucking cookie

54:00

my man biggest cookie I've ever seen

54:02

in my entire life new links Subway's

54:04

culinary team joined forces with Cinnabon and

54:07

at the end to create a crack

54:09

because they were close at the mall

54:11

To create a crave worthy new twist

54:13

on their classic snacks subway also spent

54:15

a year a Year

54:18

perfecting the recipe for its footlong

54:20

cookie to complete this irresistible

54:22

new addition to Subway's menu That's big

54:24

on size taste and value.

54:27

Yeah, it is a cookie Do you think that

54:29

it's just the proportions they couldn't help out like

54:31

they're like and they came out They they have

54:33

a five and every time they baked it is

54:35

shrank. Yeah, like it's still not a foot damn

54:37

it If my friend tells

54:39

me that he's gonna go have lunch and

54:42

I say what's the dessert and he says

54:44

a foot of cookie I'm gonna call some

54:46

cookie foot. I want to come in and

54:48

tell him about it I don't

54:50

know who the authorities a family member. I don't

54:52

know. I have one third of a yard of

54:54

a cookie. Yeah now I

55:00

Chip third yarder, please. Give me one three

55:03

hundredth of a football field worth of cookie,

55:05

please Are

55:08

you allowed to when they ask you what type

55:10

of bread you want your sandwich, I would like

55:12

to foot

55:15

long cookie paddles Right,

55:17

like that's their next the evolution. They're

55:20

gonna put ice cream between these and

55:22

make it into a stunt I mean,

55:24

absolutely. Yes, Cinnabon footlong churro because when

55:26

I Want an

55:29

authentic churro experience I go to Cinnabon. It's baked to

55:31

perfection Serve warm and

55:33

topped with Cinnabon's world-famous Makara

55:36

cinnamon and sugar now auntie

55:39

and footlong pretzel for three dollars

55:41

which reimagined auntie and buttery and

55:43

salty classic It reimagines it as

55:46

long Shaped

55:48

at all it looks like there's some sort of

55:50

white cream inside of one of these pretzels I

55:53

believe that's where it's been torn Yeah, I think

55:55

it's just torn that way and then there's a

55:57

long cookie is back nationwide and better than ever

55:59

after popping up in select restaurants on National Cookie

56:01

Day in 2022 and 2023. It's

56:05

thick, it's gooey, and it's

56:07

packed with chocolate chips. I

56:11

think if you say something is a

56:13

foot long, you do not need to

56:15

go the extra mile and say it

56:17

is also thick. That is irrelevant. That

56:20

is uneven. It's deep.

56:22

It's wide. It's long. It's got all

56:24

the dimensions. I'm saying if you told

56:27

me they sold foot long pretzel rods

56:29

and foot long churros, and then you

56:31

told me they also sell foot long

56:33

cookies, I will assume that the cookie

56:36

has been fashioned into a similar rod

56:38

style shape. These three snacks are

56:40

not equal in size because the

56:42

churro and pretzel are stick

56:45

based and the cookie is

56:48

very wide like a snowboard. I

56:50

think it's important to actually note

56:52

the dimensions of this. It's $2 and $3 for

56:54

those and $5 for the cookie. Yeah,

56:58

that makes sense to me. That's a good deal.

57:00

Yeah. Guys, I'm going to read you a sentence

57:02

that is not the wildest on lunch squad, but

57:04

it is top 10 in inscrutability. Okay. The

57:08

introduction of sidekicks builds on

57:10

six decades of equity and

57:12

expertise in all things foot

57:15

long, says Douglas Fry, president

57:17

of Subway North America. So what he has

57:19

just said there is

57:21

this business of ours

57:24

has done so much stuff

57:26

with a foot. Our

57:31

business has a real foot fetish

57:33

and we have really prioritized that.

57:38

We've gotten good at measuring things out

57:40

to 12 inches. I

57:42

think what he's saying is they already have

57:44

the bags. Yeah. Yeah. That's what he's saying

57:46

is we have the bag. The proportion of

57:48

our restaurant is built to hold foot long

57:51

thick. Exactly. You know how when you go

57:53

back in history and you look at like

57:55

the gate of a horse and you follow

57:57

that through history and how it eventually dictates.

58:00

the rails of the shuttle. It's like

58:02

that, right? Everything here is foot

58:04

long shape. We already got the

58:06

spatulas, guys. We got the big

58:09

bags. We've got this. When I

58:11

worked at the country's best yogurt

58:13

adjacent to the subway in Huntington,

58:15

I did have to learn by touch

58:17

and sight and maybe even

58:20

smell how to measure out exactly

58:22

seven ounces, nine ounces, and 11

58:24

ounces of soft serve frozen yogurt

58:26

into cups. And to

58:28

this day, I feel like if you

58:30

asked me to get you seven ounces

58:32

of something, I can do it pretty

58:34

close to it. I think maybe there's

58:36

a lot of spatial training

58:39

that happens when you are a sandwich engineer so

58:41

that you just kind of have a good feel

58:44

for when something is a foot long, which is

58:46

a very useful skill, I think, that's going to

58:48

serve you in life a lot. That would be

58:50

a killer. That should be their new angle. Arby's,

58:54

we got the meat. Subway, everything's a foot

58:56

long. Everything is one foot. We

58:58

got the best straws in the biz, guys. They're a foot

59:00

long. You can't even believe it. Okay.

59:04

Subway's multi-year transformation – this is not

59:06

a quote. Subway's

59:09

multi-year transformation journey began in

59:11

2021 with an overhaul of

59:13

its pantry of ingredients and

59:15

continued to crescendo with significant

59:17

changes to its entire guest

59:19

experience, whether dining in or

59:21

ordering online. So do

59:23

you think they realize that what they've just said there

59:25

is we peaked? That's it,

59:27

man. It's all downhill from here. This

59:31

is Tchaikovsky's third Subway

59:33

movement. The buildup to the crescendo

59:35

is best thinking. We've

59:40

edged our way through a really great cookie

59:42

orgasm, you guys. You're going to fucking

59:45

love this one. We're about to

59:47

blow over here. While

59:49

previous menu and experience updates have

59:52

been focused on Subway's signature sandwiches,

59:55

Sidekicks puts a deserved spotlight on the

59:57

rest of Subway's menu. Cookies.

1:00:01

And just wanted to let you know that

1:00:04

Dave Makita, who is of course president of

1:00:06

international and retail channels at Focus Brands, says

1:00:09

these fan favorite snacks will delight

1:00:11

in new, craveable ways. Oh,

1:00:14

big, big words there, Dave. Making a

1:00:17

call to you. It's new. Angelia's

1:00:35

probably. Schlossky's. Yeah. Maybe

1:00:38

Moe's. I don't know. But they don't own

1:00:40

Subway. So Subway's like, listen, we

1:00:43

know how to make things afoot. Yeah. You

1:00:45

all know how to make things that aren't sandwiches.

1:00:47

Yeah. Let's figure something out. Your

1:00:49

food smells. We did lose our ruler over

1:00:51

here. So thank you. I will say this.

1:00:54

Subway, famously, not a very

1:00:56

good smelling restaurant. I feel like there is a

1:00:58

definitive Subway smell every time. And

1:01:01

they have lots of open meat.

1:01:03

So like I get it. Auntie

1:01:05

Anne's and Cinnabon, famously, incredibly good

1:01:07

smelling restaurants. So I think just

1:01:09

from a sensory level, this partnership

1:01:11

is extremely good for Subway. It

1:01:15

would be wonderful if anything, if I could

1:01:17

walk into a combination gas station, Subway and

1:01:19

not want to yak all over the place.

1:01:21

If instead it's like it kind of a

1:01:23

little bit smells like cookies now, I'd be

1:01:25

super excited about that. Hey, I

1:01:28

have two important updates. One, we've been recording for

1:01:30

over an hour. And two, I want

1:01:33

a footlong cookie more than I

1:01:35

would get my next breath. Hold on. Wait,

1:01:37

wait. I'm going to get off this recording.

1:01:39

Of those three sidekicks, cookies, what's calling a

1:01:41

footlong cookie is calling your name? Okay, wow.

1:01:44

Yeah, man. I had churros last night at Del

1:01:46

Rancheto. That's okay. I see. I even

1:01:48

had a churro in a minute. So that's sort

1:01:51

of the direction. Yes. I got it.

1:01:54

So this weekend, I'm going

1:01:56

to be at Sketchfest doing

1:01:58

a live stream. actual play

1:02:00

RPG called Trap Venture Zone.

1:02:02

February the 4th at 7pm

1:02:04

featuring Eugene Cordero, Danny Fernandez,

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Aaron Keefe, Griffin Newman, Connor

1:02:09

Ratliff, and Erica Ishii. Did

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they agree to do it before they knew it was

1:02:14

called the Trap Venture Zone? I didn't pick that. There

1:02:16

was a list of names I submitted. Okay.

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And that was what the organizers of Sketch Fest chose. You were

1:02:21

about to say you didn't pick it. Did you write it on

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the list? Yeah. Okay. If you

1:02:25

did want a portmanteau, there's a different portmanteau

1:02:27

where it's the Trap Venture Zone, in which

1:02:29

it sounds like you are a traditional, a

1:02:33

traditional crab boy. Yeah,

1:02:35

a crab wife ventures up. Every morning I

1:02:37

get up and lay out my husband's dice for him.

1:02:42

I sharpen all of his pencils. And

1:02:45

I make sure he's- It's too late to be this

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funny, you have to stop. Damn it, people already turned

1:02:49

it off. You have to wind down. Shit, damn it.

1:02:52

Go get your tickets, it's this Sunday, don't miss

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it. It's gonna be a

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real hoot. Where

1:02:59

do they get those tickets, Trav, did you say? You

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can go to sketchfest.com. Or I

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think it's sfsketchfest.com and find

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them there. We got some new merch over

1:03:08

at the merch store, mcquariemerch.com, including a Three

1:03:10

Brother Moon shirt. It looks like the three

1:03:12

wolves howling at the moon, but it's our

1:03:14

faces. God, it's good.

1:03:16

It's very, very good. Be honest, can I wear

1:03:18

this shirt? No. Yeah, man. Okay. Travis,

1:03:21

the answer's for me and Travis, you understand we're

1:03:24

going to be diametrically opposed. Sort of. I

1:03:26

have several t-shirts with

1:03:29

my own face on it, so don't you worry. I have one

1:03:31

and it's little. My

1:03:34

face is very small on this shirt, so

1:03:36

I feel like I can pull it off. Sometimes when I

1:03:38

wear a coat, my face isn't even showing. 10%

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of all merch proceeds this month will go to World

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Central Kitchen, which uses the power of food to nourish

1:03:46

communities and strengthen economies through times of crisis and beyond.

1:03:49

And when the new month rolls over, we'll have some new stuff

1:03:51

for you that we'll tell you about then. So come

1:03:54

visit us. It's pretty great. So yeah,

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sorry, but first, go check it out. Thank you

1:03:58

to Montaigne also for the... the use of our theme

1:04:00

song, My Life, is Better With You. It

1:04:03

is just a really good tune. My

1:04:06

favorite track from our podcast.

1:04:10

It's the only song really on our podcast,

1:04:12

but it's of all the songs that are

1:04:14

on our podcast, it's like my favorite

1:04:16

one. Should we? So

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yeah, to wrap it up here, some

1:04:22

people sent in wishes that they

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wish for Fungalord to

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hear. First, I do wanna address

1:04:28

one because

1:04:30

someone said that they made, the Fungalord fan from St.

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Louis said they made a silent wish for $900. And

1:04:36

when they got home, they found

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out that the insurance company was giving them a refund

1:04:40

of $740. And

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now they're a true believer in Fungalord. Fungalord

1:04:45

does not grant wishes. No, and he didn't

1:04:47

intercede in there at all. If he had, he would've

1:04:49

gotten- He heard the wish. Yeah.

1:04:52

If he had, you would've gotten $900. That's all I'm

1:04:54

saying. Yeah. Not to be honest. So

1:04:57

this is not a place where you were

1:04:59

asking Fungalord to grant a wish. Okay. But

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let's not get it twisted. So

1:05:03

this one- Let's just do one. I think we just

1:05:06

do one. Yeah, this one. Let's create

1:05:08

an environment where we can lift this up. Yeah,

1:05:11

thank you. Okay, you ready? Thank you.

1:05:13

Maybe you guys come. Okay. Yeah, okay.

1:05:15

You guys come and I'll read it. I wish

1:05:18

they'd make Milk Duds better. Like, how do you

1:05:20

keep working at chocolate and caramel? Milk

1:05:22

Duds does. My

1:05:25

name's Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy. I'm

1:05:27

Griffin McElroy. This

1:05:29

has been My Brother, My Brother Me. Kids or Dads, square on the lips.

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