MBMBaM 791: A Safe Space to Hurt Travis's Feelings
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The McElroy brothers deliver a satirical, self-deprecating talk show blending absurdity with humor, mocking expert claims and sibling dynamics. They parody serious topics like Bigfoot sightings by using comedic logic, arguing that belief in such phenomena stems from personal bias, not evidence. Griffin, the most skeptical, uses rational thought to challenge claims, proposing that repeated, independent sightings (like a "triangulation" of three people reporting Bigfoot) would be needed to consider it credible. The discussion shifts into a wild product review of "Wicked for Good" merchandise, where absurd branding—like pink and green protein bars, themed toothbrushes, and a "giblet" beverage—leads to jokes about mismatched colors, poor execution, and surreal product features. The segment highlights the brothers’ love for absurdity, using humor to explore how people assign meaning to coincidences, belief systems, and consumer culture. From sibling banter to a fictional Bigfoot sighting, the show balances irony, personal storytelling, and satirical product critique, ultimately celebrating the playful, unfiltered nature of family-based humor.
The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also this show isn't for kids, which I mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby? It's the start of something beautiful, a small quaintant has blossomed, it's rapping 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. It's better, it's better with you, my life, it's better, it's better with you, this is true, it's better, it's better with you. Hello everybody and welcome to my brother, my brother made advice show for the Madron era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What's up, Trad Nation, I'm your middle-aged brother, Travis Big Dog, woof woof woof woof, McElroy. And I'm your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin McElroy, I wasn't just doing like a cool librarian thing with my glasses, they were covered in boys' mudges, they were covered in boys' mudges again. They were covered in lad grease, because their hands are just always touching the glasses, and they're always greasy, and they are always, they are always greasy. Yeah, Dot has the amazing ability to get stuff under her fingernails a millisecond after washing her hands. It's really crazy how like a wash the boy hands, and then the boy will play with model magic or some shit, kinetic, kinetic, kinetic sand, and then they'll be right on there, they'll say shit, wash the hands again, they're sand under it again, you didn't even touch the goddamn sand guys. I tell you what is huge for this is food coloring, they don't tell you that's kid coloring too, that's on their fingers, that you have died your child. Yes, Travis, you had a, you had a pressing question, yes, I'd love to talk about dirty, dirty kid hands more, but you did have a course, that damn juice, that was the coolest shit I've ever seen, man, hold on, let me try. Thanks, dude. Here, no one, I didn't get one for me, oh you, I'm on the other side, Charlie didn't bring you one, Charlie, what the heck, dude, sorry, bye dude, bye dude, thanks for the podcast juice. So here's my question, my kids never bring me Duncan or anything. My kids bring me germs and stuff under their fingernails, so close the door, Charlie, I'm making a podcast, come on, babe. This is when he works, Chuck, this is when I do my job, okay, transfer question. This is after watching like a lot of like stories about weird things happening to people, you know, and I like hearing those stories, and here's my question for you, boys. Yeah, in this hypothetical situation, I returned from a camping trip in the Pacific Northwest, why was that camping, it's not important. And I tell you that while I was camping, I saw a big foot, what I believe you hear me out. He was 10, 15 feet away from me, right, like I didn't have my phone on me, but I saw him, and I am clearly 100% sincere. Not a bit, not a bit, I'm not joking, I'm not exaggerating for the story, to what percentage do you now believe in big foot? I have to ask you a question, okay, and it's going to hurt your feelings fair enough, and I don't want to do that on the podcast. Can I just say, Gryff, if I may, yeah, Gryff, and this is a safe space, I promise you're not going to hurt traps feelings with what you say. This is saying that nothing you say is going to hurt traps feelings. This is a safe space, this is a safe space to hurt Travis's feelings. Hold it now, I don't, I want to, you know what, I asked the question of to hear this, Gryff, I'm strong enough to hear this, whatever it is. Okay, so if my, let me, let me tell you a story to answer your question, if my friend Reggie comes to me, and they said, you're never going to believe this, but they now serve Buffalo Wings at Taco Bell. And I say, that's fun, Reggie, but show me your inner thigh, and he rolls up his pant leg, and there's a tattoo of Buffalo Wings there. I'm going to say, well, Buffalo Wings, Reggie, or whatever your name was, I already forgot, I am less inclined to believe you because clearly you are interested in the subject matter that you are weaving this sort of tale about. Now, so Travis, if you went to the Pacific Northwest, came back, said, I believe in Bigfoot, and I know you're telling the truth, your truth. Yes. But then I remember, what do you do have tattooed on your ribs? Oh, I have Loch Ness monster tattooed on my ribs, not Bigfoot. No, I know that, but you can understand, and listen, all of this is going to hurt my feelings. This is why I said it as a percentage, not yes or no, because I'm not asking, someone comes to you, I'm asking, I come to you. - Negative one. - One percent, you believe in Bigfoot? Negative one. Negative one. Negative one because the fact that you're doing it, and so serious about it, has in my mind assured me that it's a bit. Yeah. So it's now 100% a bit. You understand? I can't, I want to, it's like 100% a bit, so that makes me believe even less, because if someone was going to find them, it would be you. But if you come to me and say you found Bigfoot, I am, that is my last little glimpse of hope going out because it is a bit. I, first of all, we went on one hike once for a video, and Travis said, that sucks shit, I'm never doing it again. So I do think that. That's why I said the hypothetical, it doesn't matter why I do it. You can't let us not weigh in evidence-based, I want this to be an evidence-based sort of process, fair enough. You don't like being outside, I don't think you would be first on my list of likely Bigfoot locators. Fair enough. I think. I would assume it's a build up to a 50th birthday party for me. That would be my, that would be my. Not as long as I like, but still a pretty long gift, getting to 50th birthday party. Dude, if you want to go traipsing about a caldera or something up in Oregon for your 50th birthday, I'm absolutely there, dude. You know that I'm there for you. If that is me at 50, do not let me make it the 51 police. Just shove me into a big ravine or something, because I'm getting my jolly's looking at nature like some pervert. I still am going to need a percentage from Griffin. Yeah, my instinct is 0%. However, if you put an apple in a box for eternity, it will turn into anything. You guys know I'm all about that shit. Do I think there's a chance that in this big, beautiful planet earth covered in verdant nature and exciting diversity, biology, so many things. Is there maybe a big, big, hairy man who lives in the woods and walks around and he has lard and he has super big feet? Yeah, maybe. There could be aliens out there. We don't know, because it's infinity, which means that logically there's something out there. This is making me feel a lot better, because my wife who loves me and has committed ourselves to each other. She chose to spend her life with me, said 35%, and I thought that was awful low. That's super high. Yeah, now I'm real high. That's a 35% chance you're going to make me believe in magic. Do you know what I mean? That's a 35%. Yeah, but like I saw it. That's a reorganization of, do you understand if you open the door to Bigfoot, that's the whole way through. That's a gateway. That's a gateway that's a whole. I guess it's just that I'm willing to believe. Yeah, I know Travis, that's why you got a negative one. Fair enough, just like I appreciate that. Even what I said just now about aliens may be existing because space is infinite. Even that to me feels like cracking the door a little bit and be like, are you in here, magic? Anything, anything special and wondrous and inexplicable happening in here? And it feels risky to me. This led me to the deposit that there is one person in everybody's life. Yeah, that is the highest on the ranking of person who said they saw Bigfoot. Now I believe the most. Oh, oh, oh, Pete Buttigieg. Oh, Pete Buttigieg. Yeah, if Judge Dredd. That's, that's easy. You're one percent. Pete Buttigieg comes out. He's got a hundred percent confidence rating for me, Dustin McRoy. If he comes out and he's like, y'all, I know, I know, I know. This is what it's so out of his like his political career. I get it at that point. I know it's, I know it's going to be rough going for me. President Pete is maybe a pipe dream, but I am going to tell you with one hundred percent starting in Bigfoot. You've got one true believer in 90 West Virginia because I'm like, well, Pete said. Yeah, there's Bigfoot. Here's your, here's your October surprise. Bigfoot real. I saw him. And I have his endorsement. I'm dropping out of the race. Of course, naturally. I don't want to make a joke out of this.
whole process. I did see Bigfoot. I'm Pete Buttigieg. I approved this myself, but I'm not running for anything. I know I can't. I know I can't be president anymore, but honestly, that has started me less to me. Yeah. I got a lot bigger out. Yeah. I'm actually thinking less about infrastructure that I used to, which is weird for me. Pete Buttigieg, I'm going to really focus on Bigfoot. Because like, my considerations of infrastructure have been made more difficult by my now gentle belief in magic and magical things. Sure. I got a lot. Yeah. Must we shift the roads around the rivers? I don't know. I must consort with nature to find out the answers. My number one is Griffin, McElroy. Oh, yeah. Do you guys trust? If I ever came back from the woods, I was like, Hey, I saw Bigfoot. Please, but you have to believe that I would not make up shit. This is my thing. I think of all the people I know in the world. It's not necessarily the grievance of the most believable. No offense, Griffin, but rather that if there was a human being who was going to rationalize a way, do everything he could to convince himself he did not see Bigfoot, it would be Griffin, McElroy. And this is actually now I'm seeing completely 100% correct. Yeah. No. They're sending their going even talk about the possibility of aliens feels like magic to you. Yeah. I stand firm in this belief that if Griffin's like, yeah, guys, I've thought about it. I've looked at it from every direction. There's no way I can't convince myself I didn't see Bigfoot. Yeah. I will. I will say if it's me, uh, where, where are you guys at? If you come back saying I saw Bigfoot, you're my oldest brother. And so there is a slight percentage of, is it a prank? Is it? Am I being? Because you told me lots of stuff. It's something of a young spinner, Justin. You do spin. You talk about a bare, full nasty liar is what Travis is saying. No, no, no, no. I'm saying when Justin talked about a bear in his vicinity, that's true. It's not important. If the bear is real or not, we know bears are real. So is he's able to add some space to it? You saying Justin wasn't accosted by a bear? And he was to beautiful story. I think that if I come to you guys, and I'm like, I saw Bigfoot, Bigfoot's real. You should know that it is true, but it may just be true for me. I've maybe had some sort of a perspective shift. You understand? Like the way I'm kind of seeing the big picture. I have become I will say maybe something of an unreliable narrator. Yeah. 15% context. Yeah. 15% for me. Respectable. Yeah. I'm around 1520. Um, that's actually about where Travis is to. I don't know what that means for y'all. I think basically what that equates to is I'm with some friends. They bring up Bigfoot and I go, you know, my older brothers saw Bigfoot and they kind of laugh. I know, I know. I know. You can't say my older brother. If you say my younger brother saw Bigfoot and you believe him, it's got to be true. There's a lot of dynamics, a lot of sibling dynamics. This is what I'm saying. How many people would need and in what span of time? Yeah. We need to in casual conversation say that they had recently seen Bigfoot. Yeah. Before you would start to think there's something going on. Separate occurrences. Yeah. Like you're in them. You're like at separate parties and you're like hearing people talk, right? And then like you hear in in various conversations, completely separate people say they have had a sighting three. It's three. It's three for Travis. Three for me. Because now we've got a triangle, right? Now I've got quantifiable data data. Yeah. Where I could be like, okay, in the span of a month, three different people told me they saw Bigfoot. I would I would need a control group. I would need it to be first two people telling me this. And then a third person walking by that they don't know. Say, are you guys talking about Bigfoot? Because I also all of a sudden I do have outside sources. If it's too many though, I'm thinking of Flashmob. It's like five. I'm like, okay. Flashmob is five. Yeah. You know, this is highlights like a life goal that I have. And I actually wrote this on my I have a reminders list of my life goals. There's only four right now. You have a bucket list in your reminders app. Yeah. Five number one is fine. Better ways of storing life goals. So that's good. But in India, thanks. But in there, it's I want to plot several different points on a map and then connect those points and then have the place where those points overlap. Be something important. I just want one time to unroll a big map. Don't you see? Draw the lines. Yeah. And then maybe when I draw the first two, I'm like, okay, I knew they would intersect somewhere. Please feel love of God. Let this third line be something. Yes. Yes. I just want that experience. This is my life. Yeah. And then I point to it. It's like, this is the place that I told you about in the dream or something. Is it too much to call them laylines? Is it too much to triangulate the laylines? Or does that make it a too much of a joke for you? If it's like like Oak Island, Oak Island, or some sort, any laylines, that does get the idea across. But I don't want it to be in a puzzle experience. I've paid hundreds of dollars. You've been brought in as like a consulting detective. And you're like, wait, they've hit here and here and here. And if we go, you see, so their headquarters must be here in the middle where exactly. Right. This is the entrance. And then you go there and it is a manhole. You know, like, yeah, yeah. No, it has to. It's the DNA for each of the turtles. They've done it again. I think it would be hard to do this organically. However, I do think there's nothing stopping literally anyone from triangulating three points of interest on a map going to the middle of where those things are. And then making something cool there for the next person to find or for you to commit the crimes yourself and then triangulate your own house. I guess it's actually because there was a similar thing I brought up to Theresa, which is how many times would people in town have to report vampire activity? Like you're in a town of like five thousand. We have talked about vampire town. You know what I want on my lifeless? I'm scratch out everything else. Make a difference. Do something lifeless is better than bucket list. Everybody. Yeah. Because these are the ones I do living exactly for the cows. I would love. I would love to focus a beam of light through a staff to do. It's something that like, and it's become such a, it's joined the public consciousness in a way appearing in, you know, there's a lot of games and stuff where it happens, but it really all kind of comes from that one scene in Indiana Jones. Yeah. I don't know that there was a ton of historical evidence of ancient pharaohs making staves with a small citrine in the headpiece. I don't think that there's a lot of, I don't think that's based on much of anything. So I don't know how organically I can harness focus a beam of pure full moon light through a citrine, but I think mine's pretty ambitious because I think I don't know that this is a thing, but I want to, on a stone pillar, that's about waist height or rain shapes. And then there's a click and the stone pillar lowers into the ground. Oh, yeah. And the floor like that, but it's up into a staircase down. Yeah, like a spiral staircase down. Oh, God, I love that. I think I want to play Blueprints again. I think we just want to live in the Blueprints. Richard Garriott did some of this shit in his castle that he built in Austin with his, his ultima winnings when he was a pro esports ultima player, where he would have like a, if you move this drink coaster to this exact spot on the credenza, it'll pop open the spiral staircase down to the wine cooler. And I'm like, that's cool. It's also kind of half of an idea. I do want to have to rebuild a skeleton that has been encrusted with jewels. Yeah, absolutely. I do want to place gemstones around the room in a certain elemental order. And I do want to focus a beam of pure moon light through a citrine staff. Yeah. So like, it's cool that, like, pull out the book to open the door. That's awesome. Objectively, that's cool. But make it magic. I'd like to have to take more rubbings of things. I will. You already did your chef. I know, but I haven't had to rub a thing. Here goes off king goes off king. A little over a year ago, my flatmate drunkenly stole three traffic cones. They've been living in our closet ever since. Brothers, I need to read these cones from my closet and my conscience. How do I return traffic cones? Important. The construction site they were stolen from is no longer there. Awesome. That's from embarrassed accomplice Stephen Edinburgh. The great news is this is pretty easy. Traffic cones are like flowers that humans make. If you think about it, if you look around and you see a traffic cone and it's not around some sort of accident or construction site, you just think a human left that there. So I think it's just dead of night. Go outside. You don't even have to go that far from the door of your house and set those traffic cones outside. There's no no one's going to accuse you of stealing them. They're traffic cones. They're having really fun. Hey, but why not have a little fun with it? Because you got three, right? That's the triangle right there. Maybe there's a neighbor's door. You're going to set them up in a triangle shape right outside their front door. Maybe it steps right out of the street or building. And you've set it up.
is if to say, watch out for this triangle, right? And then in the morning people get to have a chance to like, but why? But why is that triangle there? Until eventually now those cones do need to be removed. But for a second, everybody gets to go, what's happening in this triangle? Why is this triangle here? - And that kind of loose back into we could make, we could triangulate a secret artifact or relic or something with these, what do they mean? - What do they mean? - What do the cones mean? That wouldn't be three cones. - Yeah. - What do they mean? Maybe knock one of the cones over and then draw two sad faces on the other two cones, like, ah, our friend. - Oh, that's cool. - Let's have a story. - Now it's an art project. - I think it'd be funny to close your road. Just close your road. Get a cone, put it at one end, take the other two. - One cone. - In the other end. - One cone's not gonna stop me, my friend. - You only got three. - Again, if I have four. - If I had a Holocaust cloak that might be something, but I only have three goes to work with, so I'm doing my best. - If I am driving on the road and I see one cone, I'm gonna think some human just left that there. That is not, that's one cone. They're not trying to block off the whole street with one cone, that's crazy. I got places to do it. - So you block off one intersection with three cones. - So there's like one street where you're just like, ugh. - You're right. Hey, Quest Vowsker, you need to steal more cones. - You gotta steal more cones. - You gotta steal cones to leave cones. - Yeah. - That's what I would say. - Three cones, I think that's, there's a big pothole. I gotta go around that. I'm still going to go around three cones. - If five, now we're talking. I'm not gonna fuck around with five cones. - Okay, give more cones to each other. - I'm gonna do one cone over and then surround it with other cones. As you have to say, like, hey, we're working on getting this cone stood back up. And until then, you gotta stay away from this one cone. - Turn around this cone. - That's cool. - If you started putting out, keeping the codes in your trunk, and then when you pull out of a parking space, just put it the codes there until you get home. - The worst. - I think this problem would resolve itself really quickly. - It's like something went up over the cone. - Oh, we didn't finish, oh, sorry. We didn't finish reading the question. I also want to become the most despised person in my neighborhood. It says here that they want to be absolutely thoroughly and completely despised. Could you hire two other people and you hold up the cones to your mouth and like they're old, tiny, megaphone's and you kind of do a little herald thing and say, like, we didn't steal these. We found these. - You should just return them? - Yeah, but in my version-- - No, no, Griffin, no, but-- - But in my version, there's like a fun, medieval kind of announcement. - You need to get three large baskets. You're gonna tuck a cone in each basket, put a blanky over it, put a little note that says, I can't take care of these anymore. I leave them in your care. Leave those like on the police station door, fire department door, or whatever. Now they've adopted the cones. They have to take care of them. - You're welcome. - Sometimes these questions I read them and I am very confused by them. And then I have to take a moment to remember that not everybody lives so close to so many rivers as I do. - Yeah. - I really have a pick of rivers. If I have a problem like this, there's a river nearby that I'll probably drive by on my errands that will solve this problem for me. - You know what I mean? - They'll make it-- - Eventually, make it ocean. - Make it Kentucky's problem. - Yeah, make it Ohio's problem. - Make it North Carolina. I don't know where the rivers are. - Make it Trash Island's problem, Justin. - Trash Island's problem. - Is that right? - Let it join the fat bird. You know what I mean? - Yeah, I don't know. - Look out to the ocean to kill the coral. - It's like you don't have a river. Do you not have a river? - But hey, obviously ocean doesn't work because it come back to you. - Right. - That's bad. Lake, that's a crime. That's illegal because that stuff just floats there in the lake and messes up the lake for everybody. - Yeah. - River. - Yeah. - Take it away. - Take it away. - River. - No way, take that cone as far as you can until. - Nobody knows. - No, hold on. - No. - I think some people probably know. - Where the river goes? - Where does river go? - I will just see. - Downhill. - That's a put, the sulfur pole. - That's right. - Okay. - That's in there. - Down the river bed. - Nobody knows. - Nobody knows. - We've never ever gone all the way down to sea. - How does there's more river after that? We try following it, man. And we went around the bend and guess what guys? - Another fucking bend. - And we give-- - I'll check this out. I'm reading what I just googled. It says, "Well, most rivers eventually reach the sea." And if I stop reading right there, we have plausible deniability. (laughing) - Yeah. - Yeah. - Also, there's worse things that you could throw into trash ocean island than traffic cones 'cause they make the out there and the fish see those and like careful guys. - Whoa, trash island coming up. - We gotta go around. - We've learned that these conical orange flowers that humans make, they mean don't fuck with this right now. - Yeah. - That was a hard less-- - Or is it like funny, like, herald, you know, try it? - Sometimes they do funny herald skits to say they've not done a crime. - I'm visiting my out-of-state partner and their very kind grandparents have, let me sleep in a guest room at their place during my stay. Been sleeping on an antique bed for a week now. Just took a seat and multiple boards under the headrest have fully snapped apart from the frame. The bed is old enough that this room is where my partner's ancient grandpa grew up from childhood. - Didn't need to say anything. - Brothers, how do I break the-- - What? - Didn't need to say ancient. - I-- - Yeah. - You've already described the best grandpa's art family old. - You don't ancient for a grandpa? - Cool 30-year-old grandpa. - His hips sexy, Bradley Cooper looking grandpa. - How do I break the news that I've shattered a piece of history with my ass? And what do I do for sleeping for the next week? That's from cracked wood criminal in Columbus. - One of those is more important to you than the other. And I can guess which. - You can't come up with a lie without enough rest. - You can't come up with a good way to blame me on somebody else until you've had a good night's sleep. - Is there a subconscious worry here with Broken Bedframe that you smashed it while making coffee? And so you're embarrassed to say like, hey, something's wrong with the bed frame and they'll look and see a smash and they'll just assume it's from just your incredible inertia of your pelvis. - Yeah, because I think the second you say, yeah, I just sat on it and the board's broke. Ancient grandpa's gonna think, I've sat on the way. - I've sat on the way. - No way. - But what if ancient grandpa looks over at you in winks like and he's like, he's cool with it? And that means you're in. You've gotten permission to become married. - I think, I don't know guys. I don't know about you, but if I've been on a long road trip and I finally get to where I'm staying and I'm gonna be kicking my feet for the next few days, I don't just sit on the bed, guys. And I'm wondering question asker, did you just sit on the bed or do you feel the fall through the arms up, toss your whole body back into the bed? - Yeah. - I've made it. - Yes. - Leap into that shit. - Like a leap. Do you like it? - Do you? - Like the grandpa hasn't been able to. Staying a friend's way and this is, oh, early days, actually, when I went and visited friends, at the Scyncy Shakes Company and they had a company house and there was an extra bed in there. And I laid down on it and the bed frame was old and bad and like broke. And so the bed was at a tilt where the boards didn't no longer stay up. And so it tilted from like right to left. They're not up and down, mind you, right to left. And by the time I laid down in the mattress, it was late in the evening. And I was like, well, this is my life and I slept on it that way. - That's crazy. What a young man's body. - I know, right? - Yeah. - My old body would remember the scars of that for the rest of my life, probably. - Question asker, you do have a Hail Mary here that is in the world of wood repair, but does not require any certain skills. This is something people don't want to tell you, but what glue is stronger than wood? - So if you get a bottle of water. - Why don't we build, why don't we build in boats out of wood glue then? - Yeah. - What? - Why aren't we built, a simple question, why aren't we building boats out of the wood glue then instead of wood? - Why are you avoiding? - Why, so that if you just get the pieces and kind of smooch them back how they look right and then wood glue and it will be fixed. - Yeah. - Like it will be fixed. - It will be fixed. - You're from the grandpa's new bed. - It will be fixed. - I'm saying it is gonna stay fixed for exactly as long as you need it to. - Yeah. - For it not to be your fault. - Right. - The next time. - You are also though creating a kind of like secret buried treasure for someone else to find in the future. And that is the treasure though is like your shame at this, at what you have done here or Vsevi repairs. - No, no, no, no. You're a long, a piece of heirloom furniture that you gotta understand is a living document. - Right. - And that you first had the hands that took the woods from the woods and then you have the hands that crafted it right and made it and then other hands will repair it will give it new life. - Yeah. - You're gonna put the wood glue on and carefully brush some gold dust into the wood glue as you do. Actually, if you put some sawdust into a wiggly, you can hide crabs like this off.
My things about like Bobby sobby the cracks or what makes this beautiful. It's not practical. I'm not trying to help. We were just glued all together. What's easy? We work with we were having some HVAC issues And I went up in our attic to figure out what the heck was going on It turned out the vent that or the duct work that takes the dryer Leavens out. Yeah of the roof had gotten disconnected from the roof hole and fallen down And I noticed that I don't know if it's a previous owner somewhere down the chain of possession They had formed a sort of duct tape barrier sort of a wrap around sort of plug Yeah, sort of a solution that had been covered in lint and then fell off and then the pipe was just giving me that good dryer Juice right back into my house and do you guys know how Jubilant I was That I discovered that and not a contractor that I had brought in A professional who had brought into my home and I've been like yeah My family keeps coughing and they go upstairs and see that there's a pipe just pumping hot fucking laundry juice Into my family's noses and that had been taped up. There's no way I could have been like I didn't tape that up there Once they found it and relay that information to you any amount of I didn't do it I never fall on deaf ears. How do you know question asked her that this was not poorly repaired by someone moments before you arrived? Yeah, you know what I mean? We're saving up some other Gibroni broke it and they did a bad job fixing it now You're gonna get in there with some type bond - yeah and fix it for for real. Yeah, I'm gonna get in there and really fix it You you get you get just kind of put the pieces back together set a sort of Trap and then get to ancient grandpa and say like hey, can you show me how this bed works or whatever? He sits on it snap. I don't know how this live it no graphic river. Will you show me how this living document works as it evolves right? from new to non-function right and they said on it They sit on it and you say damn grandpa What you do, dude? Did you do that from smash and ass and he'll be like no, I just you saw me sit on Fart so bad holy shit peeps. Did you rip such a fart that it broke the bed, what dude? No, you watched me just now Tell you what that was, man, you said me a Chris hundred dollar bill. I'm gonna keep this the three nuts and now it's a profit game You say oh no grandpa. What do we do? That hey, this is a this is a duo no work. We got to get out of here. You could drive. Let's go. Yeah Hey, should we get the money zone? I was about to say that. Oh, man. I'm already there Square space In my house, it's more likely than you think hi, I'm Travis McRoy spokesman for square Is the context of this adry like squares beware of it look out for square space. Yeah, no guys Square space is all around us That's cool. Yeah, in fact I would say I've been learning a lot about Tesseract slightly and multiple dimensions right and maybe square space Is the dimension higher than the dimension we live in because it's where I just quick update Travis negative five negative five percent That reveal you've been just in negative five in my right. That's real science boys. It's fourth-dimensional shape Read a book Carl Sagan talked about it if Carl Sagan saw big flit you guys would be like, oh negative five Carl Sagan I don't think he's with us anymore. No, of course. He's not griffin He's in the eighth dimension now. It's a pretty poor taste during our square space Square space is a website that lets you build websites It's a website that site that builds websites is terrifying to think yeah, it's like a Tesseract It's a four-dimensional website experience where it's a website within a website within a website What if you build a website through square space that let you build even smaller websites? How cute what if we're a young professional who needed a way to sell your goods and services and get paid through any Any damn way you please online Yeah, that would work too. I thought it would be a good time to pivot into the things that square space. Oh, okay Yeah, that's a good idea. 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Don't come here on I have one and it's one of our favorite things the kids love it because we can upload pictures directly to it as soon as they Get back from a thing and then those pictures show up and they're like where was that and I was like that was 10 minutes ago. They love that stuff man the big fucking dude, but What I love is we got my mother and long one and it's in right in our living room We see it every time we go over to the house and I know that when we get back from an outing with the kids or something like that We can immediately from my phone Upload pictures to her aura and Know that now those are in the rotation We can post those pictures of the grandkids right there. So it's a gift that we got her once that just every so often It's like we updated it to be a new gift. It's amazing. She adores it everyone. 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Yeah, hold on well, then let me bounce it out or frames is I mean Do you guys want to get into auras or a frames or a frames recharges all of my? Magic in an energy when I touch it your lack of skill and discussing auras actually just bumped you up to 105% where I would believe you more that you saw Bigfoot than you would believe yourself cool Hey, I don't know if you guys knew but wicked fever is Spreading across the nation. God. No. Yeah, not again. I went and saw wicked for good and What I thought of it couldn't matter less to anybody on the planet except I will say this Lot of great products You know, there's a lot of great products to enjoy with the wicked wicked franchise I want to share a wicked on a TikTok wicked themed porta-potties. That's cool. Oh, that yeah, that's excellent I want to share some of the products with you guys because there's so many really really good ones. Okay And they went hard with the brand collaborations last year, but we're going to go even harder this year first Wait, before you show Justin. I want to say my bet is gonna be based of what they did for wicked the first wicked for bad wicked for now is That they love this one's pink this one's green. That's all we got to do. What do you want to metal? Yeah, dude That's what you want to metal for that fucking absolute derailment of the energy of the bits and say there's pink and green ones Yeah, I'm saying that in like their brand green one in their branding theming. It's not like they had to do comp The vibes off griffin can you cleanse the auro please sure
Do you guys know how you love protein bars, but you wish they were pink and green? - Yeah, dude, fuck, shit. - Yeah. - Okay, so true bar. - This is a bad first example. (laughing) - Get through this, the vibe on this one's fake. - Let me get through this one. This is a bad first example 'cause it makes Travis look right. And I don't want that. - What? - So, what? - Wicked for good. - Danger even about doughnut. And it's meant to be chipped. The pink and green wasn't meant to be chipped. They put 'em in a box. - It's meant to be chipped. Suggest someone heard chipped thought. That sounds like hip, it's hip to be square. Is this something? It's meant to be chipped. - Also, it makes it sound like they failed. And this is actually as close as we could get. They had pink and green protein bars. And so they put 'em in a box. - Cool. - So, that's not like a natural one. But after you eat those, you gotta clean your breath. And what better way to do that than with the sonic, powered singing toothbrush by Equate? Yep, that's right. When you start brushing with this, you're gonna hear popular and defined gravity. Tucson is notably not from this movie 'cause every song from Wicked for. - Bring the magic of the world of Wicked to your daily routine with the Wicked Sonic powered singing toothbrush. Officially licensed by Universal Studios because the alternative would be fucking crazy. - Yeah, why? - Imagine Walmart's like, eat my dick. I'm doing an Elvaba toothbrush and you can't stop me. We got these are drop ships, directly to Walmart. We put a team on the brush and you can't stop us. This toothbrush plays all of K-Pop demon hunters. Start to finish. - Can the adults get a team? - Yeah, those songs are notably longer than the two minutes. One is meant to brush their teeth. Does it keep going? - Yeah, also I'm gonna be fucking. - Far far far. - That's not proper form man. - It should be defying cavity. - Shit, that's good. - Stop. - That's really good. It's really good. - Have you noticed how their pink agree? - And also it's the same joke. - No, no. - Beloved author Richard Osman made on the rest of his entertainment Travis when they were talking about Wicked collaboration. So you should feel a very good company. - I do. - Very good company. He's a multi-time best-selling author. - Hell yeah. - Then the adults have one too with the Wicked Ordo brush. This is a toothbrush for adults that seemed about Wicked. I don't know what else you need to know. - Well, I can tell you that it looks like one, it's eldritch and absinthe at the same time. - Yes, it's a very sexual adult toothbrush. - Does it sing songs to me while I brush it? - This, I do not think, no, if it does, it's just Elphabas personal toothbrush. Get sent to us with Game Wicked for Good Long Tree, Adians. That's right, Game for Breeze and Dawn. Fans everywhere know what Oz looks like and feels like. And for the first time ever, they'll experience what it smells like. - I would say look and feel are not the two senses. I would kind of organically attribute to watching a movie. - I would say here gets more of a hand on the ball on that one than touch. I do not actually know, I don't know what Oz tastes smells or feels like 'cause I've never touched Oz. - It's just the, it's just those senses that are engaged with the film, really. - I think of really powerful mantra for when someone isn't being fun and magical enough is to tell them to touch Oz. - Oh, yeah. - Like if one of us isn't playing enough in the space or the others are trying to set it up and they're being kind of, it's just like do touch Oz a little bit. - Yeah, you this guy? - Hey, detergent flings provide a powerful clean and a vibrant freshness and that comes in this scent. Fantabulous floral. There's fantabulous floral, Game Wicked for Good, but don't worry, they also have wonderfulest woods and beautiful, cold blossom. - Just give us smells like Jonathan Bailey. That's what everybody wants. Hey, Trav, we'll get there. - Whoa! - Experience the vibrant freshness against Wicked for Good, limited edition. Your laundry stays enchanted from wash to wear. There's also a dawn power wash, Wicked for Good, fantastic, fabulous floral. This is a dish, you can watch your dishes. - I wanna talk about this. - Did they think about the psychological impact of me doing like drudgery chores while having to smell and think about, I could be in Oz, dancing through life, and instead of playing these, I have to be scrubbing shit. - It's the problem of like, but that's like every scent, like tropical breezes. I'm not, it's a toilet. - Yeah. - Next up, we got two Irresistible limited edition scents from Secret. There's an alphabet, the Wickedly Wonderful, an alphabet-themed one, and couldn't be lovelier for your pits. They're both for your pits. - Okay. - Can I do one side with one flavor, one side with the other? - They would ask that you do that, but do purchase both of them. - And alternate day by day. You don't wanna get too much imbalance. Can you imagine being in a situation where you're wearing these and someone's like, "Oh, you smell like alphabet!" I don't know how I'd feel. - Good alphabet, smell 'em. - You just smell 'em. - Thank you Travis, thank you Justin, and moving right along. - I will not be thinking either of you. - Who's hungry? - I'm starved. - Ho, ho, ho, ho. - Ho, ho, ho. - That's a very simple view. Okay, so these are, these are, (laughs) these are pink hostess cupcakes. These are pink hostess cupcakes of Wicked For Good with an extraordinarily stern looking Ariana Grande. She's looking at you like, "I love these cupcakes, and I've eaten 'em with my mouth." - I'm crazy for these things. - I'm crazy. - I'm gonna have them as it to say, "How dare you fucking buy these." - It looks like she's saying gobble it up piggy, and I don't wanna say, but that's the face of the person. - That's the face of the person is gobble it up piggy. - Like that's like what she's saying. - Yeah. - With her face. - She is staring at you. - Like she is some sort of war goddess, who has nothing to do with this product whatsoever, clearly, completely. - Clearly, completely. - It is approved by the wizard for a limited time. Soft, fluffy cupcakes with Osma, a palette and pink frosting strawberry flavored snack cakes with creamy filling, perfectly snackable to satisfy your sweet tooth any time of day, and it's a thrillifying way to celebrate the Wicked the release of Wicked For Good Only in theaters, not in cupcakes. - Not in cupcakes. - I feel like I've experienced the film if I've eaten the cupcakes. There's also an alphabet one. Don't worry, if I've eaten the cupcakes and eaten the hoavis bread, what? - There's hoavis bread. - It's best, can you, can you just, I'll just read all the words that I'm seeing here. - No, no, no, no, no, what is the hook? Look at the hook. - Okay, so this is-- - Oh, this, best of both. - Yes. - This is a loaf that is 50% white bread at 50%. Whole meal flour bread? - Yeah, and you've got alphabet and Glinda looking at each other like, "This is the kind of flour I like." And the other one says, "No, I like this kind of flour." But you can also win a trip to Canada. It looks like, if you buy the right loaf of hoavis bread. - No, you can win a wicked trip to Canada. So apparently there'll be some human trafficking in there. - No, it's a phrase, some drug muleing. - The bread is labeled as medium. What is that to note in bread form? - Give me the long alphabet bread, please. - Some of these British products, and this is not even British. I think this is just like an international product that I found, I can't contextualize that for you. And I also just, I can't contextualize the number, I want to talk about, though, real quick, back to the hoavis bread, that it says, "Best of both." And it seems like the way they've manifested the best of both is to just use half and half of a thing. So they've been no way attempted to extract the best qualities of each. - It should be half of each. - Yeah, half of each. - It's not the best of both. - It's delicious. - Yeah, man, they're both in there. - Well, I'm done, I'm done, I'm full, and I'm gonna reach for my cascade wicked for good. - Oh, this tries to be fucking crazy. This tries me up an absolute wall. Now, why is that? - Well, Justin, I'm looking at the cascade detergent pods. We all know what these look like. It's a sort of white, foamy, marbly sort of base, and then the gel packet separating the two different chemicals. Only, okay, let me look at the colors. To these chemicals, there's green, alphabet, sculler, loves that one. And then, oh, blue still, on the other side, didn't change a fucking color. - It's got that thing about it. - Can I also tell you? - They did say it is Emerald City scent. - Okay, but you didn't change, there's this is a product with famously with two very bright and vivid colors, sort of intertwined in a yin-yang, if you will. And you didn't, you couldn't figure out how to change one sort of ingredient to make it pink and green. It seems like a huge stopper. - Also, I'm glad that you included scent in there, but for me, the dislodging experience, I would say is the 99% closed, kind of closed door experience. - Yes. - Mm-hmm. - I was gonna joke. - I was gonna make a joke about this being a guy's earlier. - No. - It's, every witch needs a swiffer. - It simply doesn't cut the same silhouette when cast against the full moon in the sky. I do not see-- - I'm also almost positive they made a joke about this. - In focus, focus too. - I'm almost certain they made a joke about it, in focus, focus too. Travis, I would swear to God, they did. Every witch needs a swiffer. This is a wicked for good pink swiffer.
- Okay. - That does what? - Nope. - Okay. - It sweeps, it sweeps. - And there is no green one. - Fuck you. - There is no green one. The green, you gotta drop on the floor yourself. Then, sweep it up. - Yeah. - Next up, oh the air, it's in the air tonight. It's wicked for good. Mistably decadent ambiance. There's a wicked for good for breeze. And a wicked for good plug-in. - Okay. - If you want it just to be a beautiful blossom. - Hey. - That's the, yeah. - You haven't seen Wicked One or Two. - You don't have, you smelled it. - I haven't touched Oz yet. And I guess I'm wondering if there's this much kind of Jeffy As family circus mispronunciation of words in the movie. Is that like a factor in the film? - This is a gimmick of the thing. - Cool. - So you should know this is on theme. And I think what it is is honestly, a lot of sad copywriters in this nation just wanted to have a little bit of fun for once in their fucking line. - Sure. They just wanted to have, they wanted to touch Oz for a second. - Yeah, yeah. - And not call it tropical breeze. - Yeah. - You know? - I love the idea though, if someone going to them and saying, "You need to have more fun." And they're like, "Please, just let me." It's pink and green. Is that fine? Like, "No, make a funny word in there." - I am hoping we get to Wicked For Good branded Ragu Piscetti Sauce somewhere in the line. - It's green. - It's green Piscetti sauce. - Hold on. I just need to add one last quick addition here, Griffin. - There simply is no way that there's actually Ragu. Okay, so this is, okay, so we have great value. Wicked mystery color macaroni and cheese. Which will you get pink or green? - This I fuck with, we have absolutely devastated. - I wanted to remind you, to remind you, yes. - This is also fun because my kids hate being surprised by the color of the food they're about to eat. - Yeah, and also mac and cheese that doesn't look like regular mac and cheese. So this is fun because no matter who wins, we lose. - I think there's probably a lot of kids out there who are gonna be devastated if one of the, you are doing a coin flip for whether or not your child's gonna eat that dinner or not. Have fucking fun. - Yes. - No way way to have stakes. - You guys gotta see the crocs. - Oh yeah. - These are good. I do like these. - Got the crocs with the exclusive giblets. Check out this heel. - Is that what those are called? - Let me shrink it. Let me go. - Can't shrink that heel. - I love that heel. - I got this heel. - Look at that. - That's fun and funky. - That's fun. - Thank you, crocs. - This makes sense to me. - They got the brief. - They understood the assignment. They touched us. - They touched us. - Now, who else touched us? Well, it's, hey guys, the drinkware on this movie. - Yeah. - It's fucked up. - Dude, they've run out of, they've run out of realms to conquer and have started to invent entirely new kind of aesthetics. - This is dragon glassware. This is the official glassware, right? So we have tumblers. It's all about the accessories. These are big tumblers with some straw giblets. You can sip wickedly anywhere with this spellbinding. - Sip our wicked giblets. - Sip from the wicked giblets. - That's not jibblets. Touch us and sip the wicked giblets. - Sip, I'm here to. - Giblet and touch us and I'm fresh out of giblets. - Sip the wicked giblets box. - That's when Ariana Grande's face was communicating on the list as well. - Sip with piggy. Sip these giblets. Sip gizzard piglet. (laughing) Sip gizzard piglet, this is a new sip from REM. It's called Sip Gizzard Piglet. It comes in three ounce and 64 ounce gallon bottles for you fucking dogs. - So that's just the glassware, but don't worry, awala is there. Awala's got the bottle. - Yeah. - And that way he just insulated cup with the lid. - That's a big cup that says wicked. - Just says wicked. - Yeah. - That's, they did not touch us. The awala bottles fuck, but I can't spend $60 more dollars on frigging awala bottles. - Yeah. - I wanna spend $3 already to bake wicked for good. I put this one in, just a normal one. - That's a normal one, yes, I'm so good. - That's a normal one, yes, I'm so good, right? They're sugar cookies. It's not the Toyota. - Normally Pillsbury does the least amount of effort where they make a huge like 80 mile log with buddy the else face in them and then they cut them into a million segments and ship them out to America. These at least have frosting. - Yes. - That's cool. - Appreciate that. - Oh yeah, there's an entire goddamn kaboodles collection but I gotta bring, we gotta come back for that. - Yeah, I don't know what a kaboodle is. - Wait, what? - I don't know what a kaboodle is. - Okay, I gotta switch my tab, one second Griffin. - You've seen like an old man with a fishing tackle box, right? That's a kaboodle. - Yeah, I've seen tackle. - A fishing tackle box is called a kaboodle. - It's like a tackle box, but it's pink and cost 80 bucks. - Yes. So they've got a kaboodle alphabet essence on the go girl and then there's the Glinda Glamon go girl. - Glamon? - Glamon go girl, then there's four piece for good set, four good, compact bundle. I did wanna mention, this was not an actual one because this is not a partnership but it was the product that made me think about it. Insomnia cookies, which has a branch locally, had a four good cookies pack. And it was four good, oh boy, cookies. And two were pink and two were green. And it's like, it's the four, four, four, four, four, four. - Good number. - And two were chocolate with green sprinkles and then there was like one with pink sprinkles and it was the four, good. - Yeah. - Anyway, get it. - Next up, let me switch away from the kaboodles. There's so many, can I just set adult and kid kaboodles and kaboodle accessories and truly, truly unhinged level of kaboodles? Let me switch back to my normal tab. - For the rest of the products. - Because here's where they get so late in the smell, JB. - Oh my god, that's cool though. - That's a cool rug. - Not for 550 goddamn American dollars. - For a $550 rugable, it'd better be cool. It's Elphabas layer Emerald rug. - Now I get promise acidify gravity. And if I sit on that rug and it does not live me off the ground, I would like my money. - Well, that is one notable thing, Travis. I feel like with rug specifically, you cannot promise gravity to find. Defy gravity in any space. Elphabas layer, that's what it says. Elphabas layer Emerald rug features a flow of color to symbolize Elphabas transformation. Pops of pink, blue, and magenta, hidden her bond with Glendale. While hidden motifs, her glasses and hat will delight any wicked fan. - That was cool. You became like a different person every 23rd word or something in there. - Whoa, that's a little. - Now that's a little Jonathan Bailey made out of soap. It looks like that. - That's a little Jonathan Bailey made out of soap. It's from Lush. You can take a shower, Jonathan Bailey's head and smell the Jonathan Bailey smell and you can do this. - The vascularity on this soap man is crazy. Let's start there. - There you should before you, you should understand. There's a twist. - Yeah, Griffin. - You should watch the movies, Griffin. - You will need a brain to figure out - You will need to figure out the wicked flaws. - You don't need a brain to figure out that our wicked for good, X Lush body scrub will lead you to the dreamiest skin this side of ours. Enchanted with our Let the Good Times Roll fragrance, you'll be on the road to compliments in no time. - Do you guys think you would rub the Jonathan Bailey face soap on your body face first or would you leave that sort of for last? - For the last being a treat? - If you do it first, if you do it first. If you go in face first and you rub Jonathan Bailey's soapy sudsy face all over your torso and your gunk and stuff, it's going, you're gonna pull it back and the man will, the man won't be there anymore. - Yeah, he will be, have been reduced in this sort of like mannequins for the last. - I would boop him on the nose and say, "I'm saving you for dessert." And then I'll just watch with every other part. - But if you do the backside first, it'll thin it out to a point where his face, I feel like is going to kind of like stretch out. - Distort and stretch and. - Do you guys have any money left? Because if you just can spare me $450, I would love to sell you the wicked collection, Elphaba embossed signature round dutch oven by Lockrucet. - Okay, I mean, quality brand, I'm not gonna. - Quality brand, quality brand, I will say personally, I think you are paying a huge premium for the name when it comes to the Lockrucet. - So I think Opchef, it's the queen, you can get away with the Queen's and aren't that chauvin for about a fourth of the price. - Or even better, man, go to a fucking thrift store, go to a flea market. - Thrift store, get one. Thank you, Travis. - But this one got Elphaba. - It does got Elphaba, but I don't often pull out my dutch oven and think, I hope people are looking at this. I'm gonna show this off to all my friends. - Dutch oven is such a thing. - We read the text, I've been doing so many of these, they're really fun. - Grounded and strengthened unapologetically bold, the Elphaba embossed signature round dutch oven celebrates the beauty of standing apart. It's rich finish, signature black nickel knob. And deep matte black interior, give this limited edition piece an unforgettable presence. It's made for close.
who lead with conviction and embrace their own path. And I guess the pink one, the Glenda one is also cool. - We just did it again. - Yeah, you know, Stanford, it's good too. - It's awesome. - Hey, are you a coward chef who doesn't embrace your own path and has no conviction? We've made one for you too. - Yeah. - I wanna say, I wanna give big credit to the people at Foster Grant 'cause nobody touched Oz harder than the copywriters at Foster Grant. You got your Osma Politan shades, your not your basic witch shades, and the Glendified shades. All a very reasonable $40. - Yeah. - Hey, thank you. - Trap, would you do the honors? - Does someone need a makeover? Let Glenda take over with these chic oval sunny. What inspired by the movie Wicked? Featuring rose colored lenses and signature Glenda details like custom vented butterfly pattern and textured scroll detailing on the temples. Watch out, you might end up on the cover of Osma Politan. Each, they just went out way far. - They're out spanked out. - They're inventing in-world publications, man. - Yes, that's so sick. If it went on and was like, better watch out because Silly Chamberlain there is the editor in chief. And if you don't get in good with him, it'll be a real smear piece. - Watch out, the wizard's secret brother might show up and take you to Oz 2? - What? - Oh, but don't worry, towel croaker, the frog newscaster is there to protect you from the evil. Okay, click this link to go to my AO3 page. You can read the rest of-- - The tin man's co-puzzle to find the next website. - The tin man's here and he needs a kiss. (laughing) - There's so many Pumas. - Okay, by the way. - Look at all these Pumas they did about Wicked. - Go speed cat, ballet, silver, slipper, so far. - Those are so, those are so sick. - Dude, I know that's the problem with them. The problem is they know how to do good stuff that makes us want to buy it. - Now wait. - Look at this bubble Robinson squat. Another issue I have with this product, same I have with the Hostess box. I do not need Cynthia Rievo. Looking at me disappointed as I drink my refreshing a carbonated beverage. - The look that she is even-- - Look at the weather and she's never drank squash ever. She doesn't know what it is. She doesn't know why she's on this bottle. This, I feel like they took this picture of Cynthia Rievo specifically for the bottle of Robinson squash. Like, Cynthia, here's the picture today. This is for the label of Robinson Squall. - Yeah, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. - And that is all the products. - Damn, in the Wicked line for this year. There's probably about a 150 or more. - Yeah, that's all the ones we have. - Those are really just the wilder ones, like it, it. - Okay, hey everybody, speaking of products. There's a new Taz Balance Dice tray available in the Macro Emerge Store. - Whoa, the day that this comes out on the first, 'cause it's a new month, new year. - This is crazy. - And you can get that bundled with the Taz Dice and a sticker and everything on Emerge Store 10% is gonna go to Harmony House, which is also who we're partnering with for Candlemites. Justin, tell us about Candlemites. - Oh, Tribe Candlemites is gonna be great this year, man. We got so many live acts. That's right, it's in person. It's gonna be the beautiful, newly renovated Keith Albi Theater. - We are the first show. - We are the first show being put on at this renovated Keith Albi Theater. - That's from what I hear, it's astounding in there and you really don't wanna miss it, but if you can't make it, we are gonna do a virtual version of the show too. We're gonna be filming it for VOD. You get that included with your ticket. If you come in person, but you can also get that digitally, that is gonna go live December 19th and 9pm and we'll be live in the chat like watching that. You can go to bit.ly/candlemites2025 to get in person tickets or to get the live stream tickets and all the proceeds for that are going to Harmony House, also, which is seeks to end homelessness in our area. And if you've been following the news about the way funding has recently been changing for housing and transitional services, you should know that it's a pretty dire need. So if you can come or buy a virtual ticket, we would really, really appreciate it. Anything you do is a big help. - The live show is this week. We did not mention it's December 6th. - Oh, yeah. - So that is when you are hearing this Friday, or this Saturday, sorry, my apologies. This Saturday, 7pm, Keith Albi, honey, come. It'll be fun. Got a bunch of things. - I'll like it. - Two other things to know about one. Death Bart went up last week. So if you miss that, go listen to that. - They'll death do us blotter. - We have a wonderful name. We only need to show what's here. - We only need to do what's here. - And Champions Grove packages are on sale. www.championsgrove.com. If you haven't checked it out, go check it out now. Get all the information and say weekend long gaming event that I host at Ravenwood Castle in Hawking Hills, Ohio. It's incredible when we want to see you there. - Also, if you don't watch our live stream that we do, the Macroi Family Clubhouse every Tuesday. Well, it would be a weird time to start 'cause we are on a season break until next year, but our finale was we recreated the old Nickelodeon game show, Nick Arcade. And I'm really proud of how that, how that, a bold, ambitious experience sort of went. So that's over on YouTube. - Speaking of, follow at Macroi Entertainment System on Instagram. It's a new account to help you find all the video game stuff that we do. - Yeah, we're gonna be doing more gaming stuff next year. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Can I read the final fear? - Yeah, but you need to think-- - You need to maintain for-- - Oh, you need to maintain. - So my life's better with you. - Dang it, you're right, Trav. - Do you want to do it? - I just did. - Okay, well, thanks, Montene, for these rhythm song, my life is better with you. Here's the fear. This year, I want to be faster than my fear of the road laws changing and having to learn how to drive on the left side of the street. (laughing) Why don't you just turn back a while? - I'm Travis McElroy. - I'm Griffin McElroy. - It's been my brother, my brother. Me and kiss your dad, school, wear on the lips. (upbeat music) ♪ Ooh, it's better, it's better with you ♪ ♪ My life, oh, it's better with you ♪ - Maximum fun. - A work-road network of artist-owned shows supported directly by you.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The McElroy brothers parody expert advice, with Travis claiming to be a "sexpert" despite no credentials.
The show humorously explores sibling dynamics, including shared beliefs in absurdities like Bigfoot, using satire and personal anecdotes.
Griffin mocks the idea of believing in Bigfoot, arguing that such claims are more likely due to psychological bias than evidence.
A key insight is that belief in the supernatural is often tied to personal narratives and sibling trust, not factual proof.
The brothers use fictional scenarios—like a camping trip and a Bigfoot sighting—to explore how people rationalize the unprovable.
They propose a "triangulation" method to detect real-world anomalies, such as Bigfoot sightings, by verifying multiple independent reports.
The segment shifts into a satirical product review of "Wicked for Good" merchandise, blending absurdity with humor.
The humor stems from mismatched product features (e.g., pink and green items that don't actually pair) and over-the-top brand collaboration.
Summary:
The McElroy brothers deliver a satirical, self-deprecating talk show blending absurdity with humor, mocking expert claims and sibling dynamics. They parody serious topics like Bigfoot sightings by using comedic logic, arguing that belief in such phenomena stems from personal bias, not evidence. Griffin, the most skeptical, uses rational thought to challenge claims, proposing that repeated, independent sightings (like a "triangulation" of three people reporting Bigfoot) would be needed to consider it credible.
The discussion shifts into a wild product review of "Wicked for Good" merchandise, where absurd branding—like pink and green protein bars, themed toothbrushes, and a "giblet" beverage—leads to jokes about mismatched colors, poor execution, and surreal product features. The segment highlights the brothers’ love for absurdity, using humor to explore how people assign meaning to coincidences, belief systems, and consumer culture. From sibling banter to a fictional Bigfoot sighting, the show balances irony, personal storytelling, and satirical product critique, ultimately celebrating the playful, unfiltered nature of family-based humor.
FAQs
The brothers offer a humorous, skeptical take on Bigfoot. Griffin believes in only 1% due to the lack of evidence and the possibility of it being a prank, while Travis assigns a negative one percent, suggesting a strong disbelief. They agree that if someone claims to have seen Bigfoot, it's more likely a result of perspective or exaggeration than proof.
They emphasize skepticism and evidence-based reasoning. They use humor and logic to evaluate claims, like dismissing a Bigfoot sighting by pointing out the improbability of such a claim being true without evidence, and they often reference absurd or ridiculous cases to highlight the need for rational thought.
They respond with skepticism and humor, suggesting that such claims are more likely due to personal bias or imagination. Griffin jokes that the most believable Bigfoot sighting comes from a political figure, Pete Buttigieg, who claims to have seen Bigfoot with 100% confidence, which they interpret as a joke or exaggeration.
They suggest that multiple independent sightings could be a sign of a pattern, but they caution that such data might be fake or part of a coordinated hoax. They argue that for a claim to be credible, it would need to be independently verified and not just anecdotal.
They use traffic cones as a humorous metaphor for creating shared experiences or mysteries in a community. For example, setting up three cones in a triangle can spark curiosity and stories, turning a simple act into a playful, interactive social event.
They suggest a lighthearted approach, acknowledging the emotional weight of damaging an heirloom. They recommend framing it as part of a living document, with the bed evolving over time, and even suggest using wood glue with gold dust to preserve the memory of the event.
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