MBMBaM 789: Meditations on Bean

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? One, two, three, four! It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has blossomed, it's ripened into a precious friendship. I could have never seen what was coming for me. Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life, it feels like. My life, it's better, it's better with you. It's better with you, this is true. It's better, it's better with two. My life, it's better with you. Travis looks like a. Look at Travis. Travis looks like. Yeah, man, Griffin rules. Everybody loves Griffin. It's about the background. You guys see the empty water jug? That's. It's mise-en-scene, baby. My kids love Griffin. They want me to spend more time with you. I say, I can't. Uncle Juice has to. He has to fucking diddle with his gadgets and gizmos aplenty like Ariel under the sea. Oh, sorry, I'd rather not be consigned to the dustbin of history. I'm just trying to keep us relevant, okay? No, it's okay. We've inspired people who will be more famous than us. We started this shit on a rock band, Mike Juice. Don't get. End it. I'd rather not end it on one. All right. That felt good to be in show. I like her little gentle razz. We never do a cold open. No, we don't. Was that called a cold open? That was our cold open. It felt cold and. Okay. Hi, welcome to my brother, my brother, my main advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Trav Nation? I'm your middle-aged brother, Travis, the big dog, Wolf Wolf, Rufus McElroy. It's me, your sweet baby brother, Griffin, 30 under 30, media luminary, McElroy. I have a question. How do you fucking do it, Travis? How do you keep this shit straight every time that you say Trav? I gotta not think about it. Yeah. When I think about it, that's one of my many whoopsies. Goddamn. Okay, so here's my question. For you guys, who will save us from the babies? Thank you. Who will stand against the babies? Yeah. I have, I mean, I got one name in mind, and it's Rowan Atkinson, or will I be able to remember the name of that character from Man vs. Man? Troi? Froing? Froing. Trestor Froing? Does that sound fucking right? Can I tell you guys, I'm so eager to watch this trailer, mostly because I have it paused on my screen right now, and it's a close-up. Of Rowan's face. Yeah, of Rowan's face. And he's making the face. He's making the face. The face. His moneymaker. And no, friends, you haven't tuned into an episode you've already listened to. Last time we talked about Man vs. Did you hear the whole Man vs. B arc? It's all we fucking talked about for like a month and a half. Yeah. So forgive us for being enthused about Man vs. Baby, which didn't have a trailer last time we did this. Now we've got two minutes and three seconds. And this trailer, about two days ago, has 4.7 million views. People are ready. Don't say that. That, I don't like that. I don't like to know that. That doesn't make me want to do jokes. Oh, man. Well, J-Dog, they put this up on the main Netflix channel. This is not going up in like Netflix British comedy, like one of their little splinter cells. This is bringing a lot of heat. Can we play the audio? I think we probably got that many views on our CISO show, Justin. Don't worry. We're right up there in the same. Totally cumulative. Can we put the audio in? Are you still set up to do that, Juice? In Studio 2? In Studio 2.0? To pipe in the audio of the Man vs. Baby trailer? I don't know if we're allowed to do that, but I think it'll help it hit for the folks at home. I mean, Rachel, I think what would be better is for us to watch it silently if we sync it, and then Rachel can layer on that audio later if need be. I would like to talk. But I don't think we want to make it an indelible part of the recording. Okay. As long as we talk, if Fair Use says we got to transform it, we can't just play two minutes and three seconds of Rowan fucking ripping. But it's got to be synced up. What if it transforms us? Is that still. Is it still transformative if it transforms us? Yes. Yes. Absolutely it is. So let's just get that shit ready at 0-0. Yeah, I'm right there. And get those captions on, volume down, so we can have like a conversation while it's happening and transforming. Can we just. Can I pop this? You guys want me to pop this up in the. Oh, in the Riverside. In the Riverside. Oh, now we're cooking. Just so we can get a little bit of. Yeah. Can you full screen that for me? I need every pixel, please, Daddy. Every pixel, Dad. I'd rather. You know what? Yeah. Can't. What's the law on a fourth heat that is just a still image of Rowan Adkins? Our new fourth host. I feel like that fourth heat that we needed was Rowan Adkins. You can't fucking trademark a picture. So we can definitely in all of our videos from now on. Don't worry about the Netflix logo in the corner. That's going to be. No, put a smaller video of Rowan making a different face over the Netflix logo and just keep him in all our clips for the near future. It'll be like how they put subway surfers in TikToks if they want you to really pay attention. People will think our shit is funnier if there's a picture of Rowan Adkinson making the face. The more I look at this, the more I'm starting to see messages in his furrowed brow. So if we can please start. You can't. Don't do that, Trav. Don't do that. I know. Don't do that. Please start. I'm so fucking psyched, dude. You ready? Are we going to be able to hear it? I don't know. Okay, great. I'll hear it. Let me say that. Okay. I'll hear it for sure. Hello? Hello? Sorry to bother you, sir. We're making inquiries about a missing. Jesus Christ. A baby. A misplaced baby. What do you mean, Dad? What are you doing, Trevor? It's a bit of a long story. That baby just flew in the window and tackled Rowan Adkinson. I read earlier about a baby that was left behind. Don't do this. This is wildly unsafe. Don't put babies in the front seat of a car. Jesus Christ. Let's talk with your last name, sir. That's legal there. They love that. So the name's Mr. Bin. Is that correct? Well, it's Bin and then Glee got it. Bin Glee? Bin's your first name, Mr. Glee. Bin Glee? He hung up on the police officer helping him find a home for this baby. I think with a baby already there, it's too late for Plan B. We are naturally looking for a highly responsible individual. He's got a baby. He has a baby in his backpack. He's got a baby in his backpack. So he's brought a second baby in. Sorry. This Christmas, he reminds me a lot of Mr. Bean if I think about it. It's so sinister. Cheers. He's got the baby prisoner. The baby's sucking on a wine cork. This is good. Oh, goodness. This is an emergency. We have a missing infant. Whose baby is this? This man is a criminal. Trevor? Trevor? No. I'm afraid we have a problem. There's a second baby. A second baby has hit the trailer, Mr. President. Mr. President, a second baby has appeared in the movie. Oh, about three months? He's huge for three months. Well, you should see his mother. Huh. Oh, boy. He's. Yeah, Rowan, we don't joke like that anymore. Yeah, the reason that that joke didn't land with those three women you met in the park, Rowan, is that that thing doesn't really fly so much anymore. That's actually kick-ass, though, but that's the joke they ended the trailer on. They ended the trailer. Not a lot of people have the guts to end a trailer on video of a joke not hitting. Yeah. It's just bombing. I would like to highlight two, but exactly the same kind of moments in that trailer. That's good. That's good. One, when he says his name, and when he says, plan B, do you think that's for the man versus B heads to be like, Bingley's back, and then like. Time for. They said B! Okay, so. They said plan B! It's like plan B-E-E, which is, I'm going to eliminate the threat, which is, this time a baby, not a lot, not going to win a ton of fans with that. Oh, dudes, what if the baby is like, incorrigible, right? He can't get the baby to behave. Seems like a real shit, yeah. It seems like a real shit. Oh, really? And he's like, time for plan B. He calls in the B. The B. To fuck up the baby. He's like, he gets the B to babysit the baby. Yeah. You know, like the baby. Awesome. My takeaway from that trailer, the baby seemed like a non-factor. There was a clip here with takeaways from that trailer. Because if you take away more than even a little bit, there's not going to be anything there. Yeah, that's fair. I just think Trevor Bingley is a monster. He's bad. He kidnaps a baby and then decides he's going to keep doing his house-sitting job. When you find out the circumstances, you will be ashamed of your words. The circumstances that make sense of putting a champagne cork in a baby's mouth? Yeah, so that's the other thing that I really like about this trailer and what's got me excited about this movie all over again. I worried with his opponent this time being an infant. They were going to really pull their punches in the versus department. No, in this one trailer, we are looking at a front seat, baby seat, passenger seat, baby seat. You simply don't and cannot. That's 101 fucking shit, my dude. Two, drinks champagne, tucks the cork right in the baby's mouth. I don't think that's actually safety rated, actually. Yeah, in a lot of ways. I don't think that's got a stop, a backstop. I don't think you guys were picking up on the plot because I was watching it and here's what I was getting was that was him from the past and he is watching himself as a baby. This is what I was getting from the, okay. So this is a Russian doll. Russian doll action. Right. So he's watching himself as a baby. Right. And the thing is, every time he makes a mistake. Another baby happens? With the baby, he, adult him, gets dumber. Do you understand? Okay, so yes, he makes a mistake with the baby and it makes him in real life dumber. Wouldn't that form a feedback loop that would eventually. Dude, endless mayhem. That's what leads to the second baby. December 11th, watch it all unravel. Like, yes, you're right, Griffin. It will be an endless feedback loop of fun. And the second baby is created by that loop? I wasn't getting. There's one moment at which he does something with the baby that causes him to do a teen pregnancy in his own life later. Where he's pregnant? It's him again. He's pregnant with himself. Again, pregnant with himself. But this is his second chance, right? To get it right. Yeah. Because he is done. He's done. He can't help that baby because every mistake he's made with that baby. Yeah. Is now revisited onto himself. There's no coming back from that. I'm so worried about the power curve of this franchise, you guys. Because Man vs. B already, it was like, wow, there's not many places left to go. This B really did a number on this human man. And then they announced Man vs. Baby. I was like, okay, I could see that. That definitely seems like an escalation in the opponent. Where I don't think you can go anywhere except Man vs. Babies in this week. Well. Where we're talking about. Every Rowan baby that comes out is a different. There's a Mr. Bean baby and a Johnny English baby. And the Love Actually salesman baby. A Black Adder baby. Black Adder baby. A Rat Race baby. This will be the plot of Man vs. God. God will come down to Trevor Bingley and he will look and beheld what Trevor Bingley has created. Yeah. Right. And he'll say, you've gone too far. Who's playing God? Is it Rowan Atkinson? Yeah. Of course it's Rowan Atkinson. It's Rowan Atkinson. Okay, cool. Just make sure I'm going to pay for another actor. Don't give that away in the trailer, Justice. Yeah. That's the twist. You don't carry around a Swiss Army knife and a little screwdriver, you know? Good point. Good point. Of course it's Rowan. One more thing that just jumped out to me right in the first 10 seconds. The quality of the video call with the police officer is so reminiscent of when Pee Wee's Playhouse used to do phone calls in the booth with people. It does look like that. And listen. Calling Dinah Shore to sing We're on Days of Christmas. We at My Brother, My Brother and Me draw a hard line about using AI. Absolutely. But how else were they going to get some kind of background to put behind this police officer? Fair, dude. Fair point. Without burning down a couple acres of rainforest. Yeah. Worth it. I still, the Vegas odds are still heavily favoring man in this contest. Yeah. Yeah. After the trailer, I thought that we would see some change over on Giraffe Kings and the other big ones and nothing. Nothing so far. People are still saying, I didn't see it. Baby wasn't bringing a ton in this trailer that made me think he's going to win and that Trevor Bingley will die, I guess, is the fail state. It has to end on death. There also didn't seem to be, in Man vs. B, a through line of police involvement. We'll be going to jail. Sure. There seems to be a through line in this one of two different realities existing where Trevor Bingley's just on a romp with a baby. Meanwhile, everyone else is like, well, crimes are being committed and this is very serious. The trailer for this film got four million views in two days. If I'm the baby, I'm looking at that marquee and I know where I rank. You know what I mean? This is me versus a franchise heavy hitter. This is me versus a darling. I'm Netflix. Ask Le Chiffre, you know? Yes. Ask Goldfinger. Yes. Ask them how it pans out because you know what happens at the end of it? They die. They die. Well, Justin, but you didn't see the baby die, did you? Because he is Trevor Bingley, so that would be- Yes, that would be crazy. That would be insane. You know what would be insane? It's like the last thing that happens is he messes up so bad the baby dies. He dies. All reality rinks out of existence. The paradox. I don't think- And you see a little baby. You see a little baby hand punch up through the ground and you're like, oh no. I don't think Netflix is going to let a movie go on streamable where Rowan Atkinson even harms an infant. I don't think- They put a cork in the baby's mouth, Greg, but what are you talking about? They were one step away from putting- That's how they're getting sickos in the door. They were one step away from putting those little white frilly things on his feet like they do turkeys in cartoons. That's going to be in there for sure, dude. That's good shit. I think he shoots out of a dryer at one point. I got my watch stuck in the baby. Oh man, at one point- You probably didn't pick up on this, listener, if you're consuming the audio product. At one point, Rowan Atkinson is interviewing for a house sitting job mid-kidnapping and he has the baby just in a big backpack, not visible at all, fully hidden, fully contained within the backpack. Let's hope oxygenated at the very least. I hope so. The baby rips a huge fart. And then the lady looks at him like, did you fart? And his instinct was hesitation instead of, I would immediately say, yes, I farted. Because the alternative is, there's a stolen baby in the backpack I'm wearing. You could sooner say, yeah, I actually shit my pants. I shit my pants bad. You need to leave the room now. Yeah. This is weird for you, not me. I guarantee 100% odds, one-to-one odds. Netflix has, on file, already written up, fully drafted, a, actually, this was all a social experiment, that's what this movie was, to figure out, yeah, like, we didn't mean any of this, actually. Please don't be mad at us. I would love to see Trevor Bingley join the stable of Netflix reality dating stars. Holy fucking shit. If it's like perfect match and you get Trevor Bingley, like, waddling in, like. Yes, I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie. Yes, yes. I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie. Try it with a baddie is what he'd say? Take that, please. You guys are doing Bean. You know that, right? That's not his stand-up. Did you not watch the trailer, dude? It's like meditations on Bean, man. It's a little more sophisticated. It's like moods of Bean. But without the removal of cartoonishness that allows you to believe he's not a monster. Yeah. That's what they did. I can't wait. What is his birth of Bean? It could be like he's raising Bean. Man versus Bean. Fuck me running. Who wants to be a man? Who wants to be a millionaire? We definitely made that joke. In views. I'm just saying, if he's raising an alternate reality Trevor Bingley, that baby's Bean. The baby could be Bean. Listen, Griffin, if they don't want to hear us saying the same stuff, they should listen to different people. That's true. Listen to a different man versus baby. This is episode 4911. We've said everything at this point. Listen, on here. Here on Man Vs. Bee, Man Vs. Baby, and Me. We talk about Man Vs. Bee, Man Vs. Baby, and Us. Can we park the curtain a little bit and put the tiger on the table and yell at it? Yeah. A little bit. It's a little exhausting making the amount of content that we make. And I get a genuine amount of real pleasure out of just watching the Man Vs. Baby trailer and talking about it with you guys. Yeah, yeah. It's really nice to just kind of sit and do it. I guess. I guess I get why the YouTube React thing is such a big deal. Because like. Sure. It feels good to just kind of chill on it. So this is actually what you're hitting on. Yeah. It's kind of the crux of the whole internet. Oh. Everyone has discovered it is a lot more fun to just watch TV shows and talk about them. Like 100%. 100. We'd all like to be that kind of creator because that's awesome. The only better kind of creator you can be. I did Yellowstone again to fill a day. Yeah. Okay. That's like top five creators I wish that I have been. Instead of what I am, which is just a man who has to husk it out five times a week down in the comedy mines. Shucking chuckle nuts down in the fucking basement. Shucking my life experience for a guy. Here's the kind of creators I wish I had been. Okay. I'll get started. Just as a thought starter. Yeah. Number one for me is, and I want to mention to the listener, I'm saying this because what we do is really hard. And we're not going to change the things we do. Right. So we want to complain about it. We need you to know how to do it. We need you to know how hard we're working. But there's other things we could be doing that would be so much more chill to do. Number one type of creator that I wish I had been is listen to a song that you've never heard before, but everybody else has heard and you really love the song. That would be. People love that shit, dude. A dream. Everybody's happy. Yeah. Everybody loves it. Yeah. You're a little surprised you've never heard the song. Yeah. But when Bohemian, Bohemian Rhapsody hits. Bohemian, Bohemian Rhapsody hits. When Bohemian, Bohemian Rhapsody hits. I like the video. And the headbanging and you're loving it. And you're going, oh, this is actually great. And everyone's like, great. I love it. I want to. I want to be old. You take it to your mom. You say, mom, they like the old shit you like. Look, I want to be. Your mom's happy. I want to be an old orchestra conductor. Sit down at his computer and listen to like one winged angel for the first time and be like, oh, this is good stuff. And everyone's just fucking crazy. They love it. Chill job, dude. Yeah. Here's the thing. That's the one I want to do, if I could be a creator. It's where they take failed-- clips right or bad things happen and it cuts back to them and they're going and then it goes back to another clip and then it cuts back to them and they're going yikes you don't even have to get hit in the nuts in the feet to do that what if we did like what if the only thing we did was try not to laugh compilation oh my god I mean it'd be bad bad bad valueless we wouldn't have a career but like imagine chill I like oh man is it too late to pivot to sorry what do you want to pivot to is it too late to pivot to finding stories other people have written about things that happened to them and then reading that out loud and going whoa I mean I think that's all it's all react react is what I wish man I just barely misreact I wish I'd done beast games now it seems hard Travis would do it good like Travis would do it in a way that was good and affirming In a different era, Travis would have been an extremely ethical Mr. Beauty. Yes, Mr. Beauty, I'd call myself. Mr. Beauty. That was an SNL sketch this past weekend. You don't have hitting? We must tread lightly. But I'd be Mr. Beauty. And I'd be nice about it. I do like that. And my games, everybody get LASIK. Even the losers. You don't have to win to get LASIK. Everybody get LASIK. Everybody get LASIK. Hey, thanks for coming. Even the crew. Get LASIK. Get LASIK. Wouldn't it be cool? Wouldn't all reality TV be better if at the end of Traders you get revealed? You're like, step to the left if you'd like some LASIKs. Look your way up. Alan does it. Get some LASIK. Alan's got some fucking cool goggles he puts on you. People are starting to get, they're probably starting to get a little worried that we're going to do, not do the show. Only no show. Because sometimes we don't do the show. So I would like to begin the show. If we may. We can't talk about how dope it would be to own. We can only do React content just from an ease of creation standpoint and then not do it. I've locked three brothers into a podcast where they're not allowed to do React content. You can't React. The first brother who reacts to something is out of the circle. And everything they can fit in the circle by the end of 48 hours, I'll pay for. If you were Mr. Beast, or Mr. Beauty, why would you have a different voice instead of just the voice you have? What would be so intrinsic to the content? I've forgotten what my own voice sounds like now. Okay. That's the voice in his head. He's forgotten what his own internal model is. That's how disconnected he is from his own self. Cool. Juice, has that little doll boy been in the corner of your frame the whole time? Or is it haunting? What little doll boy? I don't see a little doll boy. Okay. Let's do a question, please. I'm a writer working on a novel. And I've been going to a local coffee shop to write in order to keep myself from getting distracted at home. Thing is, it's all in caps. So that's the best. That's my. Does that feel right? Yeah. Just because I'm mad at you, that's just how it was written. I am currently writing a particularly emotional section of my book, and I keep crying. Like, I'll just show up, cry big silent tears for two hours, and then leave. How do I make it so that I am not frightened slash upset strangers, particularly regulars, who have seen me do this for literal weeks? We're not going to make fun of your process. Crying in the cafe is the name you've chosen. Because I think that's incredible. I would love to make. That's so brave. That's brave. To be so invested in one's own art. That you, it make you cry, or makes you feel like writing a horror story, and like you get like scared of it. Like, that's cool. Like. I want to start by saying, I have bad news. You've become extremely distracted. Question asker. Okay. You have become extremely distracted at the coffee shop. Your plan of avoiding distractions has been so completely foiled that you've been distracted to the point where you're emailing us rather than writing. Your book. So that, on this, on the, I said the experiment has ended. Yes. The coffee shop is not a distraction-free environment. Can we start with that? Yeah, no, but it's nice to go to a coffee shop and. It is. I love the idea of it. Yeah. On tour, last time we were on tour, I went to a coffee shop because I needed to finish prepping some Taz stuff. And I sat down at the table and I was like, I'm hungry. I'm gonna order some food. I got an omelet. You know what that omelet came with? A giant leafy green salad with not much stuff going on in it. And now guys, I'm in a salad prison because I can't go. No, I'm working here. I'm working here and people are looking at me working and they're also looking at me not eating this salad. It's tricky when you go to a cafe. It's gotta be a discreet joint. Yeah. With no salad. When we were kids and we went to church because, well, I don't know, what else are you gonna do? Your parents drove you there. I yawned. It's Wednesday and Sunday. It's Wednesday and or Sunday. I would yawn real big and it would make my eyes tear up. And I would become so worried that someone would see the tears rolling down. On my face from yawning too big and think, wow, Travis is having a really powerful religious experience right now. And they wouldn't know that. No, I just yawned. I'm not invested at all. You gotta be careful, man. You have a sneezing fit at the wrong time during service and you get a little teary eyed. People will be like, hell yeah, man. Rededicate your whole life. And it's like, no, man, this is actually going to be one of those chill Sundays or Wednesdays where I come and I eat my Taco Bell and I go home and play Chrono Trigger. Thank you so much. I'm not ready for the whole. Maybe like a little QR code and I'm printed on it says, yeah, I'm crying about my book again. Scan here to preorder. Yeah, shit. That's good. Use your use your tears for juice. And leave it for the artist at work. Oh, that's getting a little. Is it a separate QR code? I know that there's a lot. Scan this third QR code to buy me a coffee. No, that's a coffee code. Coffee. I never know how to pronounce it. I love busking and buskers, but you don't see a lot. And busking bakery. And busking. And Robbins. But you don't see a lot of writers out there just like on their computer. And it's like drop a penny in the slot and support my. Do I get to read it? No, you are just watching the process. Like, yeah, I'm watching it to them. Hey, isn't that what Patreon is? No, it's digital. But like it's as you're past passing the case, you chuck a five in. Yeah. And then they type on the computer and they're like, it was a dark and stormy night on your way. I don't think you get it at the end. They shouldn't give it to you at the end. You get to watch some cool writing. Because if I listen to someone else's song in the subway that they gave a dollar for, they're not going to come after me. You know, like it's something mine. I'm just like supporting the art. They also don't then like write out that sheet music, like hand it to you and erase it from their brain. Fuck, man. Get me out there on a on a Wednesday afternoon. Just kind of sitting and thinking with a guitar case open in front of me. And they'll be like, what are you doing? It's like I'm thinking of ideas. I'm like, I'm coming up. But I can't think of an idea until you put a fiver in there. I'm like one of those robots that dances only it's from creating. Watch me think. I would not come up to you if you were crying at the coffee shop to check in because there's a pretty good chance that you don't want that. And I would rather run afoul of that than provide some human comfort. And I realize that makes me a very small person. So I think you are probably in a little bit less danger here than than you assume. I don't know that you're going to. You're going to get a lot of. Yeah. Interaction. Worst case scenario. I see you there over the course of multiple days. And I think that person is very thoroughly drafting a breakup letter. Oh, oh, yeah. That's the assumption. Yeah, that's the assumption. One hundred percent. I might give them if I saw someone. Racked with sobs at a coffee shop. I think I would say as I pass, I think I would say, would you like me to put my hand on your shoulder? And they would say yes or no. And then I'd go. I'd go about my day. I think that's that's what I would do. I think that's a beautiful and simple, kind gesture, Justin. Well, I have I have some evidence of this. I was at a football game on my birthday and there was a lady in front of me and she had white hair, which is only notable because it made it extremely obvious when there was a giant spider on the back of her head. Like extremely obvious, extremely giant. It's one of those spiders where you see colors on it and you're like, I don't like this. No, no, no, no. You see colors and you're like, no. No, no, no. I don't like it. So this isn't a hypothetical, Justin. You weren't saying I noticed the white hair and thought, wow, there was a spider on there. I'd really see it. OK. And then Sidney passed me and she points at the spider. Well, OK, guys, John, can you slap the spider out of the hair? If it's a it could it could be harmful. It could be poisonous. I would gently I would use the. Did you have a program? You're thinking through it now. And I want you to tell me on. I'm not taking what you're saying. I'm not saying at face value yet because you are still doing the math without. I would get it. I would get it off. I would get it off. They couldn't be mad at me for flicking their hair. If there was a spider in their hair, that would be a huge. There's a hundred times out of 100. I say thank you for doing that to me. I'm going to do that for a stranger. I'm assuming because you effectively removed it, Griffin, because if I flick and I watch the spider hide and I'm like, hey, yeah, I flick. It's still there. Yeah, there is. OK, so I wanted I was pressing because I want to see what you two normally do. Well, dudes would do because Sidney thought what I did was incorrect. So I just wanted to see what you guys thought before I told you is that I tapped her on the shoulder and I said, excuse me, ma'am. I there is. I don't want to alarm you, but there is a spider in your hair and I am about to grab it out. And she said, oh, God. Then I grabbed it out like just like a quick. Awesome. Fuck. Yeah, dude. Awesome. Quick sash. But then her husband goes, oh, I don't know why he was scared, but he was really scared. I mean, if someone came up behind my wife and went. like that in her hair i would probably yell because i think no one did that someone came up his wife and said excuse me ma'am i don't want to alarm you but there's a spider in your hair and i'm about to grab it out justin what i love about this is your approach and delivery seems like this is your job that you go throughout the stadium and say uh excuse me there's a spider in your hair if i could just there you go thank you very much enjoy the rest of the game and then you move on it is it is my job travis because i'm a human being yeah beautiful i think that's what we owe each other that i think at least is picking spiders out of our hair i think thundering herd kicker lorcan quinn wasn't the only one splitting the uprights that day juice i think you found the perfect exit from that situation and you did extremely well lorcan had a had a pull a fake putt this week guys it kicked ass i love it i think if you're in college sports you should have to do one fake play per like game one per half play per half like you have to the stakes aren't that high it's fun i love a fake play as long as it kicks ah please in college sports there should be required one of those weird a bunch of lateral and backward passes that like keep the thing going a little crazy and you never know when it's coming oh guys this is even better i didn't even tell you the best part guess who was there west virginia governor patrick morrissey whoa was there at the game and guys better than this he came up our aisle whoa the man was 10 feet from me and he put a spider in his old lady's hair but i was feeling very cocksure about that when i announced everyone boo this carpet bagger yeah this man yeah and then we all got a little bit of a boo going for patrick morrissey and i got to yell you stink right to his face happy birthday anybody else on the whole planet dude i got to tell him how much he sucks right to his face what a man what a great day i get sports i think well they i will say i've been to sports stuff i've never gotten to yell at a like between the spider though i get the appeal yeah man no for sure i'm This is a huge change for you, Juice. Powerful. You're really stepping into your power. Yeah, thanks, man. Do you want to hear another question, or we should take a break? We should probably take a break. It's better. It's better with you. Squarespace. Yep. Listen. Let's give this one a little. We got Squarespace and Rocket Money in the zone today. Let's, like, I don't know, make it special. It's felt a little bit like we've been kind of giving them the same lip service, same treatment. Let's talk for a few minutes about Squirt. Let's really give them their money's worth. An idea is a seed. Now, we've done this almost certainly. An idea is a baby. I want to get weird, dude. An idea is a thought that can turn into a dream. A dream that can turn into a plan. A plan that turns into a series of executables. Deliverables. And one of those deliverables. You're making it sound. You're making it sound bad. and i want it to sound fun and cool and weird twisted what up perverts do you like websites yeah do you like do you like websites and uh you know code html i don't know if they do h what up jodes what up code shows i don't think code shows is bad okay great good good good i didn't know how that's he thought code shows was gonna be bad until the end of that sentence and then he decided that code chose us. The neurons! Okay, so now we got a sort of like fucking welcome to the man cave time for Squarespace code jodes. This is cool and they'll like it and they will like it. That's good because we have offer codes and it's like a website and stuff. So it works on multiple levels. And the offer code for Squarespace is still my brother and it's a great code but we may be able to get them to swap it to code jodes. Or they may be able to swap their money that they give us to different podcasts. They're patronizing us to make that swap instead. um we joke because we care because we love because we use squarespace and have you squarespace it's just the fucking one you do if it seems like the one you do it's just the one you do if it seems like we're really phoning these in it's because it's the one you do when you make a website basically to us it's the one that you do and you don't think about it you just do it i just got an emergency email from squarespace they love code shows yeah they hate that you use the phrase phoning it in in the middle of their ad well i mean they're not phoning it and they turn in a great product uh day in day out but when we come to you and we don't bring this nasty boy energy yeah i think we could be serving them better code shows thank you griffin and thank you for continuing to say code shows despite our police i really appreciate that it's just we're making private please via text message that he that he changes ways but there's you can make your website do whatever and run a whole business and get and get paid through it the websites look good it looks good and it's easy and it's just why would you do fucking there's a reason there's a reason that every scam artist at least has a website come on they make you look really professional and you with the Squarespace tools you can make them look even better than that yeah I would cut out what Justin just said I don't think that was in there I don't think that was in there but head to squarespace.com slash my brother for for now for now it's my brother for now for a free trial and when you're ready to launch use offer code my brother to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain okay to be real they've been supporting us for so long i don't know what we'll do if they stop if you need to make a website for christ's sake for christ's just go make one with that code for god's sake please if you've never done it just go shit out something please with that code we can come up with like let's come up with 10 really quick website ideas for people to use and then they can just like make those and use our promo code and just like do it real quick before because we will get coach.gov coach.biz web family not that one yeah codeshodes.net yeah codeshodes can be like a community of people who like to code just like little little lines see how many see how see how bereft we could make the codeshodes.domain just anything codeshodes.anything yeah with a squarespace website please just do it one time for us thank you what was that blasting off to savings trev whoa yeah get in the rocket with me castronauts castronauts i love that why are we talking about rocket money trev so you can get castrated with rocket money i think well i just got a fax from them they hated it we have to do better we have to do better because griffin actually gave us a call a charge to do better we must do better no i your castronaut you get castrated because they are keeping your cash in your pocket where it belongs you can keep explaining it doesn't make the word not racing though it's like sticks in your head a little bit doesn't it griff um a little bit um so rocket money is an app and when i use it i'll share my personal experience lead with that when i use rocket money i turn it on and all of a sudden i am confronted with five to six uh announcements that I have been paying $6.99 a week for games like Goop Man 3D or Fidget Slime Relax or Hairstar or Plinko Blinko. And that's a suite of. Mr. B's Toilet Boys. Skippy's Toilet Boys. We're talking about. Skibity Investments. We're talking about Panda Pop. Yay! And that one's $25 a day. and you got it just so your kids would be quiet you got it so your kid would chill for like a second and then you're like i'll remember and you never have but you do have this app called rocket money that is your absolute number one prime time road dog because he will come at you and he'll be like you're still paying for goop man and i'll be like god damn you're right right that's he putting money right back in my pocket that's that's rocket money so if you get hit with savings cravings then you want to go to rocket money because rocket money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions monitors you're spending and helps lower your bill so you can grow your savings code shows rocket money no don't cross pollinate no don't rocket money has saved users over 2.5 billion dollars including 880 million dollars in canceled subscriptions alone their 10 million members save up to 740 dollars a year when they Use all the app's premium features. So, Investicles, cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to rocketmoney.com slash mybrother today. That's rocketmoney.com slash mybrother. Rocketmoney.com slash mybrother. I needed that. I needed that long to know how I felt about Investicles. And, Lego, if you're listening, I'm willing to license Investicles for, like, a new kind of finance pro toy you want to make. Yes, dude. Yes. Oh, my God. I would absolutely kill for like, they could be like little bionicles. But they're worth money over time. Little business bionicles. Yeah, you push a button on their back and they're like, time in the market beats timing the market, except beats by a laser sword. And then it's like. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Why? I want a munch. Squad. I want a munch. - Thank you so much! welcome to munch squad it is a podcast within a podcast profiling the latest and greatest brand eating i have a few briefs i'd like to bring to your attention number one is the taco bell baja blast pie i heard about it from a lot of folks and i would file this one and i just want to say yeah okay i saw it i get it it's a joke right it's like it's the color it's the color no it's not a joke they just made such a limited amount they're really hard to get and slice tries so hard to get me one there's a guy on facebook marketplace trying to charge a hundred bucks for these freaking things what yeah friendsgiving isn't just a holiday it's a cultural loophole a break in the calendar where creativity is encouraged i don't like traditions get tossed in the most surprising dish takes a spotlight that's why after years of fan obsession taco bell is finally dropping a dish made for this moment mountain dew baja blast pie when nothing means anything pie can be whatever fuck that's what it says here says it and it's syntactically it's like doesn't work but it does it actually tracks that a company that thinks friendsgiving can be uh quantified as a cultural loophole a really really really sinister language like hugely hugely sinister so yeah this was teased back in 2024 and i'm i'm just not giving it a bunch of time because i hate i hate this like capitalization on these great dreams yeah and then not everybody gets to try the dream yeah if you try the dream have the courage of your conviction to put it in multiple stores and frankly if you're not selling the baja blast pie in west virginia what is your market doing where do you think your market is yeah what do you need that corn syrup somewhere else doubt it the we need an ear the shade of this pie the the the hue of the pie is truly um it is a retro retro sort of refrigerator pistachio like neon stachio oh my god there's simply no way that they were able to get these pies out to all of the different taco bell locations and have them end up looking like that speaking of speaking of taco bell conspiracy when slice asked the one over in kinetic park you know how there's a taco bell of course he asked there's a taco bell in kinetic park and he's like i don't know what to do with it he's like i don't know what to do with it i don't know what to do with it i don't know what to do with it and the lady said no we we ran out of those so fast but they were so good and went on to tell him how delicious they were that sounds a little high how did you get one oh did you maybe like take advantage of your position of privilege yeah a little bit maybe god and then bragging about it taco bell employees used to have ethics you know it used to mean something it used to mean something they used to put i mean they used to put a lot of love and care into it now they're eating the pie before you can have it and they're like oh my god i don't know what to do with it i don't know what to do with it now it's just about the money it's just about the money i want to talk about hardy's because they're doing something dumber oh hardy's is hosting a tender bender lock-in featuring what if it's a tender bender lock-in featuring streamer duke dennis and banana ball players for an epic night of chicken and challenges oh no our forefathers just exploded headline that's something everyone can enjoy that's good i think i think there is a haiku in there somewhere yeah it's tender bender tuesday on november 18th which is which was also our mom's birthday i think she would have really appreciated that for sure man hardy's is cranking up the excitement for tender bender tuesday with the first ever tender bender lock-in an exclusive event starting at 7 p.m on november 18th featuring american youtuber twitch streamer and social media personality duke dennis and alex ziegler kyle kj jackson dalton moldlin and decode sandy amber gaby sanderson sandy amber gaby sanderson a few of america's favorite banana ball players during the lock-in the stars will face off in friendly competitions share behind the scenes moments and celebrate all things hand-breaded chicken amazing replace hand-breaded chicken with uh the love of jesus christ and this celebrate the lord celebrate the love of our savior jesus and his blessed redeemer slam infinite tenders with these uh very funny baseball players and also um you're gonna watch heaven is for real and it's gonna be you're not gonna get a great night's sleep hey have you guys read a case for christ it makes a lot of sense here answers a lot of questions uh the tender bender lock-in promises viral worthy challenges online online fan engagement and the ultimate after hours chicken feast fans can follow along in real time on hardy's social channels and enter to win exclusive prizes such as autograph memorabilia i hope it's signed chicken tenders that would be cool for details on how to participate and tune in you can go to youtube.com slash at hardy's we're bringing together flavor fun and fandom in a way that only hardy's can said sarah braymire hardy's brand vice president with our new tender bender tuesdays in this one-of-a-kind lock-in event we're inviting everyone to be part of the goodness and the juicy hand-breaded chicken that hardy's is famous for but like you keep saying tender bender justin and i feel that they got excited that those two words rhymed and didn't think about the implications that that's like um somebody being like i haven't seen todd in three days and be like yeah man he went on a real tender bender he was on a tender bender and he actually died oh no his kids are orphans now because his wife actually went on a tender bender a few months ago it's all very sad we're three graphs into this press release and i really need within the next like one paragraph for some rules vis-a-vis the lock-in to be established am i allowed to go duke dennis has you with his quote duke dennis added i'm looking forward to having a good time and watching the tender bender competition go down this will be good vibes and good food awesome but if i get a call from my kid's school am i allowed to leave the lock like i need to know if i can leave or if i'm stuck here because i'm honestly getting a little bit panicked right now just we have no they haven't even said how long the lock-in is going to be have they it starts at seven when's it end so the tender bender celebrates going all in on hand-breaded chicken tenders oh no way tm there yeah especially with this unbeatable bogo deal it captures the spirit of indulging craveable food and rewarding loyal guests okay so they captured both of those spirits in one promotion guys i think you're getting too hung up on the details but have they captured me am i allowed to leave the hearties is it i think the only people who are being locked in are the banana ball players and then i think we're watching them in captivity from a live stream with the chicken tenders and they don't get to leave until they've eaten all the tenders i think they actually explain guys what okay here this is what you were looking for each premium all white meat chicken strip is hand dipped in buttermilk and then lightly bread no i know that i know just that i know what a chicken tender let him finish the paragraph no he's it's fair let me scan ahead okay the tender crispy juiciness is enjoyed with a choice of dipping sauce which pairs well with other capable menu items are they locked in a like an apple turnover am i being detained guys i'm almost there i'm just exclusive to hearty's my rewards members this bogo deal can be redeemed on tuesdays participating locations via the fridays website or the store of a member qr code what happens if a baseball camera goes during this time yeah i think they're prisoners i am someone's emergency contact i can't be held prisoner by hearty the hearties corporation until i eat enough chicken tenders to find the key if i'm watching it can i call in a wellness check i think yeah wait hold on yeah is there a sort of utopia thing happening where people are watching me have to yeah i think they're sharing during the lock-in the stairs the stars will face off in stairs in friendly competition share behind the scenes moments and celebrate all things hand-breaded chicken so they're gonna i mean it's gonna be like i mean it promises viral worthy challenges online fan engagement and the ultimate after-hours chicken feast so like they're trapped in a chicken sort of tontine and then we watch to see who makes it out alive i think is the gag yeah and that's what makes it the ultimate chicken eating well because we'll never have another one okay so this yeah what they'll do is after this hearties after this event is done the lock-in is done they're gonna brick over the doors like in cask of a montalado they're gonna lock dude dennis and all that's probably for the best players and size and then they just have to make nba 2k gameplay videos the rest of their lives just trapped in this eating chicken tenders the site will be irradiated with a kind of spirit energy that will not be you don't want to build anything on top of that you can't raise that hearties to the ground because so much shit will have happened there in the in the tinder box so you can get you can like get a deal while they're trapped so this is the thing that i think is really cool is that while they're imprisoned you can scan a qr code and maybe they're like QR code up like Not Penny's Boat. It's like. Please. Sacrificing. They say don't free us if you scan this. Only 400,000 more tenders and we can leave. That's it. When you use the code, you get some of their tenders. You are sharing the burden of tenders of the Tender Bender with them. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. That's actually beautiful. Yeah, so you're helping to carry the load. Like for everyone you eat, yeah, that's one lesson they have to consider. You get a little closer to freedom. You gotta stop announcing shit, gang, without explaining how it's gonna work. It drives me absolutely batty when these companies announce some wild shit and don't even think to put in some of the brass tacks sort of rules and regulations. I don't even know if other people will be there or not. I don't know if any. Yeah, is it just gonna be the baseball players and the streamer? Is that it? Do they know each other beforehand? They're banana ball players. Banana ball. I apologize. Banana ball players. We've trapped an entire banana baseball team with one streamer and 100 million chicken tenders. Watch as they eat them for an unspecified amount of time, for an unspecified reason, and for an unspecified goal. And at the end, I'll buy whatever's in the circle. Yeah. That's kind of the only part I know. That part is always a prominent fixture. That people put stuff in a circle in a certain amount of time and however much they can get, he'll buy it. And people are trapped in a place. They make them a little pissing hole. I know that's always part of it. Do they have to buy the piss if the piss is in the circle? No, the piss is under the circle because it's in a hole. Anything below the circle is your problem. Oh, hey, talk about kinds of creators. Gives people lots of money would have been, oh, that would have been really good. Where do you get it from? I give that million dollars to somebody else and everybody's like, pretty cool. You just have to be a financial conduit. Yeah, I just want to be the like, the historically conduit. God, conduit was just like such the right word, man. You nailed it. And you keep a little. You keep a little. You dip your snoot in. You get your b-sweat. As long as you're loading TVs in the circle. I know one beast, beast man that would love a. They can usually cut that out of the video, I bet. Hey, you got 10 Xbox Ones in there, huh? That's crazy. Why do you need that many? We're giving away 9 Xbox Ones. We're doing, guys, 99 LASIK blasts with this today. It's gonna be fucking great. We're gonna blast 99. Okay, Mr. Reese doesn't have any money. He just lives off the stuff he's stolen from his videos. If you go over to his house, he's like, don't go upstairs. It's all elephant toothpaste. Exploded. Don't go upstairs. I used to have one real Lamborghini. Now I have 100 tiny Lamborghinis because I traded them in a stupid video. God, I wish I got paid. I'm trapped in a loop of my own making. We're giving away a Cybertruck and you're allowed to drive it Sunday through Friday. Come on. Stay in the circle. You gotta come get me, though. You gotta come get me on Saturday, brother. I gotta donate blood to keep paying for all this stuff. You're paying me for my platelets. I can't even afford LASIK. That's what sucks. I need LASIK. I, Mr. Beast, desperately need LASIK. He shows up in a little stick-on goatee. Hello. Hello, my name is Daryl Beast. Fuck. Damn it. Fuck. I messed up. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother and Me. We're gonna be doing this live December 6th at 7pm. And that includes a virtual stream ticket. That's right. You don't have to physically come to Candle Nights. You can watch it from the comfort of your own home. 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Speaking of Pam, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Final Pam Fallout 4 Monster Factory series, we did dig up an old external hard drive with that save on it and have revisited that world in a new mini-series on Monster Factory. We beat the game! Spoilers. But yeah, we are gonna be airing those every week for the next four weeks. It's a four-part series, so check it out. Champions Grove packages are on sale now. It's a weekend-long gaming event at Ravenwood Castle in Hocking Hills, Ohio that I co-founded with my friend Alice. And we're well over halfway sold out, but if you want to come, make sure to get your package while they last. Go to www.championsgrove.com for all the information. Don't wait. They're gonna be gone soon and we want you to grab one. So get it. Tell Death to a Spartan next week on American Thanksgiving. Oh boy. Set your watch. Set your calendar. I gotta watch it. For real. Let's have a fear? Let's do it. Final fear. Yeah. Allow me. Please. 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