MBMBaM 823: Seasonably Effective

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? What? Seriously? It's the start of something beautiful. A small quaintant has blossomed, it's rapid, 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. This is true, it's better, it's better with you. My life, it's better with you. Hello everybody, welcome to my brother, my brother me, an advice show for the margin era, I'm your oldest brother Justin McElroy. What up, Travel Nation, it's me, your middleest brother, Travis Big Dog, Wolf of Vroom Vroom, the heater, award-winning McElroy. What's up, Travel Nation, it's me, your sweet baby brother, 30 under 30, media luminary, Griffin, Bill Ford Tough McElroy. Which year is it? It's not the car one. Is it? It's not the car one anymore. It's not? No, it's the baseball one. You're still Bill Ford Tough. No, for sure, I can run over a bunch of loose boulders and splash through a creek and I won't get anything in my undercarriage. No, that's one of the things I like most about your undercarriage. My bed is fucking huge dude. You could store 12 whole things of lumber or sheet rock or other sort of. You could put two race car beds in his bed. Yeah, I think that's true. Hey guys, good news, bad news, just news, some news, any news that isn't bad news is good news. How's that? It's not about it. It's not about bad news. It's not about my pal Mitch. I don't want to fucking hear about it. Oh, Griff, I'm not bad news. If it ain't about my pal Mitch, I don't want to hear about it. I've been on Tinter Hooks. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Griff, I will say this. I don't know what to tell you about Mitch. The jury is still out on that one. We haven't gotten any new leads there. But what I can't tell you is that daylight savings time has just been voted by the U.S. House of Representatives to be a permanent thing in a 308-117-308-117. Finally getting to the most important issues of the day. I'd love to meet those 117 goddamn vampires who love the moon's embrace. Well, night monsters. We got a lot of responses across the political spectrum. Gus Billorakis from Florida says Americans are ready to-- A affiliation? Gus Billorakis said Americans are ready to ditch the switch, saying that changing the clock twice a year creates unnecessary disruption. I agree with you, Gus. You said it. It might homestay to Florida where tourism is a cornerstone of our economy. Having more predictable daylight hours is a practical improvement that benefits workers, businesses, and visitors alike. So there we go, extra magic hours of government mandate. Listen, we politicians pride ourselves on listening to people that have been saying shit for the last 40 plus years about how we don't like daylight savings. And if it tells you anything about the backlog of stuff we have to get to, we went ahead and said, "Care that one." This is like a 1985 thing. We've been cooking-- I know the wheels turned slow, but we've been cooking on this one for 41 long years. We have to get it done. Mary Gay Scanlon's against it. She says millions of Americans will wake up during the winter months from Pennsylvania. I hear you. In complete darkness with the sun not rising until long after people get up and travel to school or work and have to go by their days. Yeah, that's right. Both of these times are bad. Yeah, wait a minute. Yeah. Wait a minute. What about this? How about we all stop working? That's a cool one. I like that. Now Jim McGovern takes the Travis impression. He did support the bill, but didn't know why they were talking about it. Awesome. Jim said, "You know, for folks getting crushed by rich groceries, utility bills, and health care costs, is this really the best majority can do? Is this really the most pressing issue before the America people at this moment?" Hey, listen. Hey, listen. You guys have done like four things in the last like 12 years. You need to fucking aim low and really kind of work up some momentum, I think. You can't just hop back into it and fix all the shit in one go. Y'all need a softball. It's bad to change the clocks. I guarantee you that this has been sitting in a drawer that's like, hey, when we have had just what can only be described as a record book length of losses. We're going to pull this one out and just slam dunk it. And then everyone will be like, "Oh, the government's good again. Just you watch." There he got rid of the penny. Look at rid of the nickel. Just anything. Is this what you guys want? No, of course. No, here's a list of things we want. No, listen. We heard here. They like saving time in the penny. Done. No, guys, guys. If we want another easy win, let's get back to normalizing dollar coins. If we got rid of the penny, can I please get a pocket full of treasure? Can I please lay some gold? Yeah, can I please lay some like de bloons on a counter and get a chocolate bar and a newspaper, please? Make them make them big and uneven too. Make them big and chunky. I want all the even currency that each one has different bumps and lumps. Yeah, it's like the pirate things where you get the gold coins, but it's not like an even thing. It's not even. It's not even. The side of the chunk feels good. That feels cool. Our coins suck, dude. Yeah, we want pieces of eight. Yes, we do. That's what we want. We deeply want that. And more shopkeepers with parrots that acknowledge that we're using pieces of eight. We'll be incredible. That's not going to be mandatory in the war. But encouraged. I'm glad for this. I think I think it's the right step for the summer. I don't know. Summer's forever. Justin, they made summer forever. Yeah, I guess what they're saying is it's summer time forever. They said gang, we know it's fucking tough out there and we know where to blame for it. But we can't do anything about that. But now it's summer time forever, guys. The summer summer. In the summer. It didn't knock anybody. My friend Paul, who is British, we were recently, it blew my mind. I only realized like within the last calendar year that daylight saving time is an American only thing that like the time difference has always been five hours. And then suddenly the time difference between me and my British friend Paul was six hours. And I was so confused until I realized like, oh, Americans are like we have control over time. We are time, kings, all of us. And now we've decided to fix it. And I'm just, I'm going to open up the vents on my back. And I'm going to blast the seasonal effective disorder out. I, this news is hot off the presses to me. I learned about it seconds before we started recording. And it's like, oh, there's a disorder. I don't have it. The government fixed one of my disorders. They can help you. The government healed me. That's the sad fucking pulsing out of my vents. Yeah. You should make Griffin too powerful now. Maybe he's going to put him back in the bottle. Yeah. Now he's seasonally effective with an E. Yeah. Yeah. I'm ordered. My effectiveness in two of the four, half the seasons of the year are so ordered. Yeah. He's got SEO now. I'm going to take my light therapy lamp. I'm going to put it. I'm going to put it in the toilet. Well, that's not going to be safe. Yeah. How big is your toilet or how little is the lamp? Well, I got a special one that's extra big. How big is your toilet? How little is your lamp? You remember, guess I remember that from the 80s? I don't remember that. That's a big dancehall thing when I was growing up. Oh, I see that. I didn't go to dancehall. Yes. When the sound boy, when the sound boy, when the sound boy would say, turn it down. And I would say, the sound boy would get mad at me because I would always be cranking it up. Who's the sound boy? Why are you putting it on? Where you a DJ in the air? I learned about the sound boy from Wyclef Jean. And who we get mad at in dancehall culture? Nothing. When it's too loud, the guy who's running it, and you're like, he's like, I can't take it any higher. You know what I mean? Like, I can't take the speakers thing and how you're going to explode them with how hard your party rock is. So that's like, if you're mad at the sound boys because you're going, this is-- the while I understand from Wycliffe contextually, is that if you're mad at the sound boy, it's because you are, you know, you murdered a sound like, you remember when on pharaoh, the plate when Whitney Houston saying Wycliffe murdered the sound boy, the implication is that Wycliffe goes so hard that the sound boy was killed. Is Paul our, is Paul our sound boy? I would never, hmm, I never heard your indignation melt away to, to solemn consideration before. That was cool. I wish we had video of this one so I could, it could, it could have seen what that looked like, but it's anger. Yeah. I guess the realization overtake. Point of man. What? The closest, the closest parallel we have to this relationship is before live shows. We have a sound check and that experience is always very interesting because it's us judging how much we want to hear ourselves and each other, and each other, even less. And how much we think we'll be able to do that when there's a bunch of people in the audience and kind of imagining what that is like. And then we constantly enter into this thing where we're like, we could do with like more monitor, right? Like 10% or 20% and then you kind of wait because they don't say, yeah, I did it. So you just kind of have always been, I'm always thinking they're trying to trick me and trying to trick me. Trying to trick me and saying like, oh, sounds way better, guys, they didn't fucking touch the boy. David. That's the sound boy. So that's, I'm not going to say that either because we, no, they're professionals. They're sound men and women and people and not by means. Bring Wyclef in to the studio to help us identify some of these guys. Yeah. Let's, if anyone's going to murder him, let it be Wyclef. This is an advice show. I teach summer school, which is a half day program through the district I'm with. As soon as I get home, I like to change in my work clothes and into something more comfortable, such as pajamas. I also have a broken dishwasher. The maintenance band in my apartment is actively replacing it and it is only 515 local time. Is it weird that I'm already in pajamas and I would it be weirder if I went to the bedroom and changed into actual pants. That's from Perplex in pajamas. Hmm. Can I sit with this for a minute? Yeah. Yeah. I'll say this. Regionally, we don't draw a lot of these lines. Yeah. You got to understand I live in a land where this barrier is very permeable. There's sweatpants to sleep pants to bejama pants. It's a it's a real spectrum down here and it's very blurry. It's a college. It's a college town. It's a college town. Maybe. Yeah. The sleep pants, especially. I think sleep pants are such a morpheus place in the like clothes area where it's like it's got pants right there in the name, right? If I'm walking around and sleep pants, I'm clearly not nude, right? Yeah. Where's it kind of pajama where you would see them and be like, look at that. Look at that. Ebony's just screwed. Look at us. Wearing is, you know, long. You have like a bunch of my ponies on them and stuff, right? Like anytime, once there's a print, it's like a print judgment or if you can see it. Okay. Okay. This is always on about, he's always on about eye traps and shit. Let him clear. Let's clear space for him. I'm just going to say. If I'm looking, if I'm in there to fix your washer and I can see it. I don't think so. Okay. It's like we're just trying to keep it biblical, right? Yeah. Now, I will say, I think that if you then go and change into pants, you are admitting. Yeah. An improv, right? You're creating. It's like you're saying it was inappropriate because I had to change it. Right. Now, you have planted a seed in their mind of like, "Oh, now I think it's weird." Yeah. This is a quantum. You've engaged this thing in a quantum way. Yeah. Right now, you've locked it into, if you had just simply not acknowledged it, then it would be, it could pass by like a, like a, like a specter. But by acknowledging it, now it's real in your mind and their mind and you, you, you've, I'd be fucked up. Hopefully you haven't done that yet. They're probably waiting on further instructions from us. I would hope. There's also a amount of presence, I think, that makes this worth, like, you know, leave the room as quickly as possible, let them work. You should be interacting with them 30 to 60 seconds in the beginning and 30 to 60 seconds at the end. During that time and the grand scheme of the day, that's not going to stick in their permanent memory. Yeah. You're okay. It's not in there sipping your coffee in your bathrobe and pajamas, you know, 6, 30 p.m. Yeah. It's going to, it's going to jump out at them. Yeah. One, one crucial detail that they might have left out of this is if the summer school program that they are teaching is dishwasher repair. Oh. Sure. And if their work clothes reflect that, that might make for an uncomfortable environment if they have. Principal waverly, you can't have that happen when they show up to your place. And I know what you've heard. If you have, like, if you dress like the Maytag repairman, you know, day and day out, you're just hovering over him. Oh, maybe that's your work clothes is you're the guy who plays the Maytag repairman and commercials. And then they're like, "Why aren't you fixing it?" And you're like, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am buttered up." What they're not telling you is that they're, what they do at summer school is that they're a nude model in a life-drawing class. Oh, sure. So they get them from work and it's like, "Should I put on Patoma Panser?" When I'm at school, I dress as a dishwasher. It's a. I'm doing an art installation. Yeah, it's a very abstract art school. Wait, wait. Are you saying that their outfit is an actual washer or the machine, okay? And they've done it up car style. Yeah. And this is said in the broader cars universe, obviously we have planes, fire, and rescue. And I think if you zoom out a few more levels, maybe it doesn't or so, you end up at appliances. And that's. I mean, now we're in. That's actually. Is Brave Little Toaster in the car's first? Something to chew on. That might be the missing link that takes it because people are always wondering how humans evolved into cars, which is the only explanation. Right. And I think that Brave Little Toaster, that era, is like where we see the machines. And it's taking over. Well, I mean, RoboCops sort of are our, you know, our Keystone there, I think. Like you take any, like Bridges of Madison County is a purely human movie, then you get RoboCop. Now we're kind of halfway there. I think RoboCop is too early to be the bridge because that's still a human form robot. Oh. Yeah. These aren't cars. These aren't transformers, right? They're not cars as people. They're people as cars. You need a brain computer or something. Yeah. Is there a movie brain computer in it? Transcendence. I work at the state for the unclaimed property office. This is a field that I didn't know existed until I was offered an interview and I didn't really understand until about six months into the job. Long story short. As a boss, you love to hear that. Long story short, I get to return money to folks. The problem is whenever I tell people about it and money that they have, they think I'm trying to scam them. Brothers, I'm not an MLM. I'm trying to steal data, simply trying to get folks their hard-earned money back. How do I convince old friends, contacts, and acquaintances when I offer them $5,000 in exchange for their social security number? I'm doing so with the purest of intentions. This email might. I know. I had the same thought. We may be complicit. We may be complicit. Okay. If folks say go to this URL, they can find out. Question asked, I'm also going to point out, you did, you were offered an interview. They reach out to you. You might be complicit in a scam. Yeah. It doesn't seem right. I'm really helping a lot of people, you know? I'm investing their money and somehow they're making more back and I don't really understand how it all works. But part of it's all that shit, how do I convince people? You know, in the 90s, there's a guy named Matthew Lesko who wore a suit covered in question. Or was it question. No, that's the ridler. Covered in money signs, I think, maybe it was question. Anyways, he was in a bunch of infomercials about how there's government programs to give you money for stuff. And I remember. I'm sorry, Matthew Lesko did wear a suit covered in question marks. Okay. So he did kind of chomp the riddlers. Yeah. The riddler's flavor level. Well, Batman Forever was huge, you know? So he was just trying to get in on that train. But I think that that. I don't think people questioned whether that was legit or not because he was so enthusiastic and more of a suit covered in question marks, which in retrospect should have made it seem. Should have raised a flag, yeah, for sure. Well, I say that, Travis, but if Lesko were really anyone wearing a suit, a shiny suit, gemstone colored, covered in question marks, and starts screaming at me, screaming, screaming about the free money that the government wants to give me, that's actually pretty far from the usual pitches that I get from scammers and the like. I do think actually I'm going to ride hard with this guy. Yeah. You should pitch it to them as like, "Hey, you have a bunch of unclean money. Can I keep it?" Okay. And once you get that awesome. Oh, that's awesome. Now they're like, "No, I won't. I want it. It's fine." Because you shouldn't be pushing the money on them. That seems like a scam, but trying to it hold it from them? Yeah. Now they want it. You either take this or I'm gonna turn it into a jet ski and I suck at jet skiing man Yeah, I'm gonna get you really want that on your conscience and it'll be your fault See if you have any unclean property when I already did baby the second I made their question list Yeah, I got a lot of things in there. I got a lot of messages from the state of Texas when I left it and I just filed this away under Nice try. It's gotta be fucking Teddy or like one of the set down there that I've shit talked quite a lot and are just trying to You know get me on the way out Haven't heard from them lately. So I am actually now hesitant to Google this in any capacity because if I find out that I lost a Great some of money up that that's I don't actually need that energy No, you didn't lose it. That's the amazing thing is on you just have to say it's me. Here's all my information I'll wait for my money. It goes against every single impulse. Yeah, it's a bit like decades Kindnessly building up around you to protect you from the internet. You have to have this one crack in your heart Where it's like no every once in a while Maybe they just shouldn't give it back. It hey listeners listeners If you're finding out about this process through this episode And you have unclaimed money that you learned about through this episode You are legally required to become a max fund Love that yeah, yeah, yeah, you can have your name read on a brush stream You just have to kick in some of your your winnings to us. Yeah, it's a finder's fee kind of deal that needs to go to us That is I'm sorry. It's not up to me It was actually it was part of the daylight saving sign bill. It was just included in there They squeezed it in at the last moment. So I have so much Texas money Texas is damn Texas listen Texas. I may have something of an acrimonious relationship with you on sort of a holistic level But man Texas Texas has got my back on this one. I had no idea guys. What an episode for me What a happy episode. How was helpful episode? I've been to buddy. I've vented my disorder. I fucking made pink In a in the state in which I used to can I get this bad? How do I get this? Call them up and say what's having anyone from calling them up? What well that's this is your security number part, isn't it? It's the crime ask. Yeah, it's illegal. All right, the crime part. Well, I'm gonna I mean I'm in my own personal Pan money zone right now. Yeah Well, congratulations. I'm glad all moment for you personally. Yeah, I'm glad your Texas oil fields are finally paying off You just left them on down there. I you promised you wouldn't say. I'm sorry Griffin. You're right It's it's olive oil. He's drilling for olive oil and we gave him such a shit time for it We're like yeah, and then he struck olive oil. Yeah, cuz if you go deep enough. Yep from Texas The shine from the Tuscan sun does shine down through it. It's right on the other side there. Yeah, gotta get through it Can we take a brief sojourn to the money zone? Would that be okay? I'd love that Chaston. Okay, Griffin step right this way here. Hop on my back. I'll carry you Wait, what about me? Come back. I'll walk What if I don't have a bunch of money scrolled the way in unclean thing? How am I gonna make money? Like online the same way I would by claiming. I don't know anything Damn, I lost my wallet at a bill millers barbecue like seven years ago. That's on here Okay, fucking crazy man But I'm saying like I have like Services and goods and stuff that I could offer people, but I don't know how to do that and get paid You know like on time and like all one place and like with invoices and online payments and how to like streamline my workflow And do like an appointment scheduling. I don't know any of this shit So I guess I'm shit out of luck No, Travis or not because there is a service that has been helping people With your challenges to build incredible websites that look like they were created by people who really knew what they're doing instead of you It's called Squarespace. I don't know if you've heard about it, but everything is the first I'm hearing about it If you want to offer services and get paid It's all in one place with your Squarespace website. You can also get paid on time. What I mentioned that that's why a professional on brand invoices I said that Travis. Yeah, man. This is the one how come you guys have never told me about squarespace before I'm so sorry Travel I keep meaning to mention it to you specifically, but it uh, it just hasn't come together. You're terrible brothers and people Wow, that's okay. You've been with whole things Squarespace for me all this time and our listeners You weren't ready. We weren't ready for it Yeah, listeners have been ready and now they they should go to squarespace.com slash my brother And they should do this because it helps you make a great website Okay, and they look beautiful if they head on over there right now Griffin You know, they'll get a free trial and when they're ready to launch they can use offer code my brother to save 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain can I do that too? I guess so yeah, I mean, I think I don't I guess the money comes straight back to us. Is this a laundering scheme? No Could be hey speaking of laundering. 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That's B-o-n-o-b-o-s Dot com backslash my brother for 25% off and make sure you use our promo code my brother so they know we sent ya Yeah, I want a bunch squad I want two months squad Welcome much squad. It is a podcast within a podcast proflying a little latest and greatest in brand eating and I have really exciting news For you guys today because the rumors are true. Oh The rumors are true Popcorn chicken is back at Kentucky fried chicken. Holy shit. I gotta go. KFC has brought back Popcorn chicken first introduced in the early 90s. Yeah popcorn chicken quickly earned cold status for being an Endlessly craveable crispy bite Before disappearing from menus in 2023. I I had eaten them all. That's on me. I'm sorry everyone. Travis went beast mode He went Mr. Beast mode and he slammed all the popcorn chicken in America. I don't know. I'm eating a million Yeah, I guess Justin popcorn chickens for people who look at nuggets and they say too much of a commitment Yeah, I don't want to be true. I want to have eight of those at a time. I need to be done eating chicken At the most precise amount of chicken consumed and nuggets leave far too much sort of room for variation For years KFC has heard directly from fans clamoring for popcorn chickens return. So Travis McRae stop calling Stop it Travis Travis. We read Every comment every day - Sorry about those. - And every online petition signature and the message was impossible to ignore, said Melissa Cash. - Well, fucking kill you if you don't bring back public check. - Do you know who I am? - It's all I have, do you know what I'm capable of? - Well, it's funny you should joke about that, 'cause I was thinking if Melissa Cash was gonna read every single comment on every single petition about KFC popcorn chicken, then the least I could do is also do the same thing, 'cause I wanted to see what Melissa Cash had been through. - Huh. - Yeah. - So like, I want you all to come with me and imagine that your job, as Melissa Cash, is to achieve marketing officer of the KFC. - For sure. - This feels below her station. I feel like there should be some turns or someone working on this. - You're gonna see like, you want to get on the net and see like, what are people saying about KFC? 'Cause I would love to see what I could do to help. So let's first check it on the petition to bring this back. - This rabbit as petition was signed by 98 individual people. - No, just saying yes. - I thought for sure we were gonna get it. - The biggest petition is 98 verified signatures. And I will now review. - How did you get into 100s? - Yeah, I will now read to you every comment on this petition. - Oh, so. - Popcorn chicken is a KFC staple for me. I've grown up eating KFC and Popcorn Chicken makes me so happy. And I actually squealed seeing it. - That's from Nico. I need it back, please. - It's been a long three years for Nico, it sounds like. - It goes out a rough time. I would eat KFC popcorn chicken at least two to three times a month, much better than nuggets. Bring them back our cane. Two to three times a month, isn't that big of a commitment? - Not enough for them to justify it. You need to be bigger than that. - I think a lot of human beings on earth might accidentally eat KFC popcorn chicken two to three times a month without thinking about it. - In an indoor public space, the amount of popcorn chicken you're just breathing in accumulates in the lungs. - Bring back popcorn chicken. Those nuggets are absolutely gross. They taste rubbery. Because literally the only reason I've ever eaten or liked KFC besides their root beer floats, it's not just the same in the famous bowl. It was my favorite, not so much now. Two more comments on this petition. #NoMoreDiscontinued, that's from Muscle. And then the last from Elizabeth says, yup, popcorn chicken, yup. Do you know how wasteful it is financially and agriculturally that these freaks have had to order a couple dozen famous bowls every time they go, just so they can pick through the bones to find the sweet popcorn chicken with it. Now they are getting an option that is free of corn kernels and mashed potatoes and gravy and cheese and what have you. What all is in a famous bowl. Now they're just getting it raw dog as God intended. So then I went over to Reddit to see what people have been talking about in the intervening years to see how, 'cause like you're still Melissa Cash, right? You're still trying to fix your brand. Here's one comment about the, this is about the nugs. People were talking about the nugs. They don't work in the famous bowl. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. - Huh. - I miss a popcorn chicken. - I could chew and our reference there, top of all. - Just throw one in, I miss the popcorn chicken. They were so good with honey, but I also miss the green beans. - And the girl chicken breast. - And one battle after another, huh? - They just never stop. - We got fucking daylight savings time. We got popcorn chicken back and you're already, give us a moment to re-canoyd her to regroup a bit. - It's been constant in Australia. It's still been there. So everybody in Australia is like, I can't believe you guys are getting so excited. Why don't you just move to Australia? And then several folks said, I'm not gonna move to Australia for popcorn chicken, which I grant them. - Good point. - That's fair. - We're not moving from the visitor. - How good was that? How good, what made it so good? Well, here's one comment that said, I think the inconsistency was the best part of the popcorn chicken. Sometimes you got big meaty chunks and sometimes you got little crispy slivers of chicken that were just a vehicle for breading. I honestly love getting like five big meaty chunks, 10 medium-ish chunks, just a little handful of the little ones to keep things all balanced. That's from her face. - You're my wife, the premier of us. - The premier of us, you know? - It's like five big meaty chunks, 10 medium-ish chunks, and then just a little, little ones to keep things all balanced. - Am I asking for so much? - Really? - It's kind of fandom. As we continue, this is Melissa Cash. The next thing she says is, as we continue our Kentucky Fried comeback journey. - Awesome. - Which had to be inspired by reading these many, many, many, many, many comments for people who say, "Everything about your stretch." Except for the one thing you don't have anymore. That's got to be a tough road for Melissa Cash to walk. This menu item returns shows our commitment to listening to our most passionate fans by giving them exactly what they're craving. We're nodding to nostalgia as we simultaneously modernize the brand and how it shows up throughout the world. - Yeah, I got some popcorn chicken on my porch. I'll be right back. - Do you? Okay. - I'm looking right now to order something about it. - I'm back. - Hi. - Hi. - Any sauce? - So, I don't like sauce, but they do have a lot of super-girl theme sauces. - Cool. - So, I requested all those, but I guess they're out 'cause they didn't bring any. - That's true. I guess I thought I was joking. - No, no, no, here it is. I got Ruthie's Sweet Chili Revenge. - That's a cool name for us. I haven't seen this before. - I haven't seen the flip, but it's a cool name for us. - Ruthie's, what? - I also got Ruthie's what now? - Ruthie's Sweet Chili Revenge. - That's fucking cool. That's the coolest thing KFC's ever done. I'm gonna start a petition when these sauces are out of commission. Say, bring back Ruthie's. - It's also Jason Mamoah presents Lobo's Wild Ranch. Give me, Lobo's, I don't care that the movie came out seven years ago. - Yeah. - I want Lobo Ranch. - Give him, please send to me. - Give me Jason Mamoah's special Lobo Ranch please. - It's Jason Mamoah presents Lobo's Wild Ranch, is what it says on here. - Awesome. I want Jason Mamoah to present to me with so many different sauces. - It's like he produced it. Boy, these are really damp cookies in the box. Why would they put the cookies in the box? They've been dampened by the chicken. - It's all part of it. - Justin, I found the inconsistency. - I found the popcorn chicken. - Great. - The good news for 90s kids is that I will remember with 100% accuracy what the nuggets tasted like. And I will be able to tell you with 100% certainty whether or not they are the same. - Yeah, no Justin is for sure about to ratatouille out on us, by which I mean, I have a sort of reverie into his past, not have a room control. - Nope, nope, nope, they're not as good. It's not the same, sorry. - Is it possible, and I hate to do this live on air, but is it possible that you are not the same? And that the chicken, the popcorn chicken is the same, but your capacity to enjoy it may feel joy. - Yeah, do you think that's- - This street. - Never been so glad to have the camera not be working. - I know man, I definitely would not have planned this whole thing. Had I known that we would not be employing video today. And I certainly would have ordered this fucking super girl drink with boba in it. - You did that so clearly for the vine. That was just so sorry, just for the vine. - Oh man, that's really disappointing. They're not as good. That doesn't surprise me. The original popcorn chicken nuggets were hand-bredded and these are quite obviously uniform cubes. They're uniform cubes. There's no big meaty chunks. I mean, I got to count. I'll just line them all out on the table and give us a fine-- - I'll just line them out. - Okay, so my six ounces, I mean, they're just so you clearly made in a chicken, popcorn chicken factory. I mean, it is a heart breaker. I can't, I can't tell you guys. I'm gonna line them all out here and I'm gonna tell you what we got. - Why did this auto select come back sauce? - That's what I would want with my popcorn chicken. - Oh! - Are you ordering something? - Of course I am just. I was scooping it up and it sucked. He just told you it sucked. - I don't care. - Okay. - It's all I can think about now. - Guys, come back sauce is real. I saw it when I was ordering too. And it is like the admission in a sauce format of a, I've never seen a sauce apology. But that is really, I mean, it could only be that, right? - He is. - Like, you've been on the ropes for a while. - God, I feel like that drink is fucking vulgar. - I don't know. - It's un-un-possible. - Did you even get a boba in it? - There's no boba's in there. I voided that boba bite, but I still. - Well, maybe the boba sort of is a sort of catalyst for the flavor. The boba has to be present in order to activate it. - This kind of fandom, guys. This kind of fandom doesn't happen by accident. It's the same obsessive energy sports fans bring to nail-biter games or reality TV lovers. Again, off your fucking nut, dude. 98 fucking signatures. Are you crazy? - That's the same, man. - Justin, if you cancel the football team, you can get about 98 signatures to bring that football team back. - Yeah, I bet. I bet that's right. - The desire for these tiny nuggets equals the fandom of all sports. Of all sports combined. - Popcorn. KFC has one of the most obsessive fan bases KFC has ever seen and the brand is meeting that obsession head on By inserting itself into the internet's favorite reaction the popcorn gif What are you trying what are you what are you talking through a new partnership with giffy what KFC is rolling out a collection of exclusive popcorn Popcorn chicken gifts starting the curtle himself giving fans a Kentucky fried way to react to the exact moments They're already reaching for a popcorn meme the collection is now available on giffy You know that moment we've all been there when you're reaching for a popcorn meme Right, and you're like yeah, but I don't know what it's gonna be Yeah, and then I mean you're trying to decide between the like MJ Thriller one Yeah, or which popcorn meme and then you're like what about the one where it's like what about the sponsored chicken you be fucking crazy Like a truly onion if I went with the KFC you guys give me it let's let's brainstorm right now because I don't want this person to lose their job Whoever came up with the list of cash Melissa, I don't want anything to happen to Melissa because if Melissa's boss listens to this episode I think that they will receive the context they need to understand that this is a total nothing burger So if we could come up with four Melissa just a few kind of encounters online social digital encounters where a a giff of Colonel Sanders eating popcorn chicken would be an appropriate response my mind immediately jumps to a million inappropriate ones But is there any way to split the upper maybe like one where you like recreate the like oh? I'm settling in because something dramatic about to happen and I've got a popcorn bucket except this popcorn chicken bucket You do that that would I bet that I would get some you know because if I do that if like two my friends are having a fight Yeah in the in the group in the group thread if two my friends are having a fight and then I'm like I'll I know how to diffuse this situation all hop in there with the eating popcorn gift. Yeah, or Jeff I go right depending on which way you want to do it. I'll which way you want to do it It's actually no wrong way if I put in the one of Colonel Sanders eating popcorn chicken It may look a lot like one of the other famous popcorn gifs But my friends immediately are going to be like what's what the chicken? Is that a Colonel's sand? Why is that you a great way to I was right? Oh No I'm right Justin sent me the exact if I was describing I was right You were exactly right Travis. Oh, no, if you get on to the giffy jiffy service Giffy's in a jiffy with giffy jiffy You can search up kfc get their official account and you can see all of these they did let me count here when it's too many I am going to challenge myself to only communicate with these chips This is my new sort of simaphore like you guys will know when I post like Colonel laughing and then eating a chicken You will know like I enjoyed what you said yeah, but this more sort of solemn faced one this kind of Citizen Kane-esque one. You know, I don't like what you said each one is more upsetting than the one before it honestly I think they did a great job They should make one a Brenda Fricker feeding the birds in central park but instead of scattering bird seed It's popcorn chicken. That's cool and like throwing the popcorn chicken onto the wet band is the sticky band It's a bad point Finish then a bunch of people 98 people attack them. I forgot to I got I forgot to do this whole fucking lead in this kind of fandom doesn't have backs in it It's the same obsessive energy sports fans bring to nail-biter games or reality TV lovers have for can't look way plot twists turns out The biggest moments in pop culture and biggest cravings have one thing in common. They both start with popcorn KFC's just bringing chicken to the party Huh, that is why that's the whole fucking long walk is that like Popcorn is the whole thing from sports finals taking place on the world stage To summer's juicy is reality TV moments KFC is making you pick a fucking thing, dude I know dude like whether it's the disappearance of Mitch McConnell the whole thing with the reflecting pool whether it's Pizza brisk maybe it's balloon boy, maybe it's Chubak a mom Reds back to the west end gets in KFC KFC is making sure the popcorn chicken is back just in time. It's For the summer moments that make you say grab the popcorn because if you're gonna watch the drama unfold You might as well be snacking on the main character. Fuck what? Wait, hold on wait, I gotta start reading these to the end Jesus if Might as well be snacking on the main character. Guys check your wording. Yeah, you got it Maybe this is a thing. Hold on snacking on the main character No snacking on the main big dick energy Slipping smacking on this Those giffy jiffies are out now for free. Yeah, treat yourself I it is while the unforced error of like it hasn't been an Air like these were out three years ago people remember what they taste like this isn't that good That's they don't taste like this. They did a bad job. They did a real people are gonna be really mad about it I feel really sad for them damn There's a question for you all salient do the time of year my boyfriend and I have neighbors with a peach tree I really wanted some and I thought I'd wait until I saw them picking some to ask since we've never really spoken But nobody ever picked them now a bunch of overripe peaches have fallen on the grass between our houses attracting flies We noticed too late and a big old bunch of flies snuck into our house to the garage No, wow, this really broke bad for you This is this is really a journey. You did the running some free peaches to having an infestation You did the right thing and we're punished for it. This almost feels like a We would have told you not to touch the peaches, but now we know that that was a mistake also Well, thanks in advance and not so peachy predicament in Alabama. What do we do? We do next summer to prevent this is the rest what we did think the question I will say that like the My mayor the smells have a peach tree in their backyard and their main thing every year seems to be how come in low at all these Sure, I think your neighbors might be stoked if you're like hey, we're peach fans and whenever Like you want a little harvest help we're right here, and I don't want to be that guy But it's over your fence. It's in your property. Those are your peaches. I Don't does it say no, it says between our houses. What if they fell into your yard? Yeah, I mean, that's like if it's a growing India. I mean If you build a little yaw wheels track going from the tree into your yard and the peaches just happen to roll down it Into your yard into your mouth into your mouth that you've got at the bottom of the tracks. Well, there's only so much you can do about that Blame Isaac Newton on that for that one You guys imagine wanting to eat you fruit Like I like a fruit sometimes a very rarely sometimes I want sweet wet and that's the combination that I Typically I get one way or the other a lot of the times I want sweet and bread those two kind of like Food ideas combined. Yeah, there's a certain there's a certain amount of Psychological proud of myself will film and I get from eating a banana Specifically a banana because they're like good for like sore muscles and stuff and I know like eating a banana It's really investing in my future in a way that I'm like I'm proud of you future Travis is proud of you I'll tell you guys I tell you gang. I've been really into a chair a cherry lately Too much work because it's well. No, I like the work. It's like the crab legs of fruit because you're like having to get the the bones out And I do like that. It's just it's just a quality control gang this fruit. We need in different names This needs to be we need to break up big cherry into several smaller Categories your meeting chunks. You're kind of middle chunks and then the ones that are just breading Yeah, that's a bit so that's I don't think that's too much to ask. I want to know if they're going to be the Tartist things I've ever tasted or the the sweet juicy things that I crave any consistency They would be great any consistency would be great column different things please I don't think you want to complain about the flies because that's just part of the circle You can't complain about the circle Yeah, I mean, that's part of the circle. That's part of the they're part of the circle Think about are you about the bears into eat the peaches because if you are not letting If you're not letting bears into eat the peaches, then you broke the circle It's gonna stay in the circle knocking you bears then yeah And maybe these guys are frog ranchers if they need the flies. Oh shit or fly ranchers You know they harvest the flies and they sell the flies to fly collectors or to frogs Maybe there's a whole frog the economy going where they're selling them to frogs. Yeah, any exchange for peach seeds That's cool. That's cool. That's more of a triangle of life. Yeah It's I appreciate that. It's a pyramid scheme I think that the frogs are set up because they're bringing the flies to eat the peaches. It wouldn't be as rhythmically kind of satisfying, I think, but a triangle of life, I do think to take to take some of the abstraction out of that would really help you with the content a lot. It does kind of seem the circle seems like it was set up by the lions to explain why they're why they're eating the zebras that they essentially also rule over. Yeah, you know, it's like I'm your king, but I do need to eat you. It's part of the circle of life. It's very like we don't eat. It's a it's a really lopsided circle where like most of the circle is this is the gazelle and zebra's big eating at the very tip the very tip of the circle one line goes down and becomes I guess more grass. Yeah, you got to understand here's what happens. We the lions eat you, right? Yeah. And then we shit you out and then grass shows and you eat the grass and then we you again, it's all balance and the zebras like wait, we shit too. We shit out and the grass goes from ours is different ours is better because you're in it. It's not your fault, but you make better shit than we did. I don't know how to tell you, man. Your nutrients are like insane. Really? Because all you eat is meat and I see how hard you're straining. Yeah, it's harder to make goods. Yeah, yeah, thank you. You're right. It's harder to make good stuff. You're welcome. Yeah, you see how hard I'm working out here? Making a shit. I'd love to have some fiber. Are you kidding me? I hate turning you guys into shit. It sucks. And I also eat a lot of cheese. That's not part of it, but it's just my picadillo. I love cheese. I'm just saying like I didn't really clock it when I was ordering this, but this meal with the popcorn chicken. Yeah, including six ounces of popcorn chicken. And it's the, this is the popcorn chicken big box. The popcorn chicken big box has six ounces popcorn chicken. I've just noticed in here there's two chicken tenders. What is going on in your day? We have ways through eating your popcorn chicken. You're like, fuck, I got to switch up this. Yeah, now for the main board. I got to change up this for effect. What an omission of guilt that is, right? If they're like, we have a second consolation. Safety net. Just in case. You like these right there underneath it. Yeah, they're in here. Look, there's a drop roll ones. These are load bearing. Yeah, they're load bearing tenders. It's like how I ordered french fries at a pizza restaurant. I've never ordered from before in case the kids hate the pizza. I know my friend french fries is going to be in there for yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there's two chalk, chalk cookies. Is that a double chalk chocolate? Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. I hate open. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast called My Brother, My Brother. May I hope you enjoyed yourself? Hope you learned. I hope you grew. I hope you don't get the KFC popcorn chicken because it's not gonna hold away. Sorry, Travis. Yeah. Let me know what you think though. I will. It arrives, but I'm no. No, I will. No, I will. I said I will. Okay. Good. You know what else you can get right now? Not just bad popcorn chicken. You can get good book, which is the adventure zone story and song. It's out now gang. Our final graphic novel adaptation of the adventure zone balance saga. You can get it right now at bookstores or at theadventurezonecomic.com. It's I'm so proud. I'm so proud of this book. It's so surreal. If you read it, send us message, send us blue skies or or Instagrams or what? It's something where we actually exist because it's it's it's been really lovely kind of following people along as they read it. I'm I'm so proud of this book. Please, please get yourself a copy of you. Also, it's a big book. So like pages for your book. It's a good ratio. Yeah, great ratio. I think everybody who came out to see us in Boston, that was great. And if you're enjoying, we haven't done it. You haven't done it yet, but they don't know that. I know, but like, it's just really seems like tempting fate to say. We're great. I mean, I don't know, but the transition is if you like seeing things live, you could also see the best these live on Broadway, October 9th of the town hall in NYC tickets on sale now bit.ly/bestesonbroadway. Hey, we got some merch over in the Macquarie merch store at Macquariemerch.com. If you're a super Macquarie brothers fan like watching us goofballs, play video games, why not get yourself a magnet frame? Oh cool. Why not? Why not? You've earned it. You've earned it. towered. Also, we did have to reschedule the graphic novel clubhouse. So that's going to be this Tuesday and set. So make sure hop over to the Macquarie family YouTube channel, noon PM Eastern on Tuesday and check it out. I mean, there's no video. I have guys make a big loud clunk. I have two big fabrics eggs. They're all who, dude. Don't do it. No, I got two big ones. They're covered in Swarovski crystals. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I've got the big unit here, and I was thinking I could kind of pitch a pitch one up into the air, and then the big unit could throw his egg into the other one mid air, and they would just collide sort of in the air. It is a shaming losses voice right before the day. Yeah. You doing okay big unit? I don't, all right. I don't fucking know. That's how like the mummy. Are you sure that's Randy Johnson? I don't remember which one the big unit is. It might be the mummy. Okay, throw him. Here we go. Whoa, holy shit. Whoa, it's still going. Let's get down on my bed. Why are you just sitting here? I'm your middleist rabbit Travis McRoy. It's still going. Just remember my brother, my brother, may kiss your dad's sprung lips. Oh, it's better. It's better than two. Bye, man. Oh, it's better than you. Maximum fun. A work-road network of artist-owned shows supported directly by you.