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The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed.

Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it.

Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention 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 acquaintance has blossomed, it's ripened into a precious friendship.

I could have never seen what was coming for me.

Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach.

My life,

it feels love.

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 two.

Hello, and welcome to my brother, my brother, me, an advice show for the Modern Era.

I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

What's up, Trav Nation?

Vroom, vroom.

It's me, middlest brother, and big dog, Travis Wolfwolf McElroy.

Shut up and drive, but it's me, Bill Ford Tough, Griffin McElroy.

Guys, I figure it's Max Fun Drive.

It's the second week.

We should start off with something topical.

I just watched Wicked.

You guys heard about this?

Yeah.

We could also...

I stand before a road diverging in the wood, and before one path is a bunch of dirty fucking footprinted trash and mud and dog shit and grime.

And it says, and there's a sign right there.

It says this way to talk about wicked.

And then the other way, get this.

There's money laying everywhere.

And it says this way to do your pledge break for the drive that only lasts one minute sure sure sure so and i'm looking at that can we incorporate them

i would rather not have shitty money um no not shitty money just wicked good money dirty sexy money in this case

The road less traveled has the money on it.

This is a win-win for us.

Okay, but that seems like a trap, doesn't it?

Like,

if I went in the woods and there was a path with money laid out leading down it and one path that everyone went down.

Yeah.

You know what?

I'm going to get murdered on the money.

I guess let's address this.

Do you think your

hot

new discussion points on this?

No, I was just going to say, I like it.

Please, please.

Do you think your whole thing?

Your hot new discussion points on this

ancient movie is going to support my family.

Please let me finish.

Okay.

It's going to

support my family and the business that we have nurtured together for a decade and a half.

No, I was just going to say I enjoyed it and the songs were fun okay griffin as

someone told me lately yeah

everyone deserves the chance to fly and i think that extends wow that's beautiful it was in the

what that was part of the movie well you picked oh i fell asleep okay no so you watch

okay great this morning i'm glad you mentioned wicked though travis because i wanted to say something oh here we go let me put on my let me put on my galoshes it's that today the first thing i experienced this morning was

I opened some social media.

I don't keep track anymore, and I watched Cynthia Rebos sing happy birthday to Guillermo from the Jimmy Kimmel show, and I wept for it was so beautiful.

And this isn't a joke.

I woke up and I watched her sing it.

I think I've never heard this song the way she's singing it to Guillermo.

And then it was beautiful.

It was beautiful.

So that's the thing I want to say about Wiccan.

Okay.

That's my contribution, Trav.

Griffin, anything you'd like to add about Wicken?

No, I don't think so, and I don't think there's anything else happening for one more week that's going to support our family and the stability of our whole business for a decade and a half.

So, I think let's get into the questions, guys.

Well, Griffin, that's ironic.

It's the Max Fun Drive.

Yeah, you didn't know.

No, I did know.

I did know.

I wanted to, now that the show has begun, yeah, I wanted to talk about the Max Fun Drive because you're supposed to do it at the top.

It's weird.

We didn't learn this when we went to Terry Gross's pledge school, but she she didn't mention anything about

edging.

Terry Gross's Gross Out Academy.

She didn't teach us about edging for pledge edging or pledging, I guess, which is what we're doing.

I'm advantaging that Gross Out Academy because you just talked about edging and Terry Gross.

They know we're going to give them the hard sell on Max Fun drive and how much great bonus content they can get, like our hot ones audition tape, but we're making them really wait before they can bust on it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Our style this time.

Tantalizing.

See how it pans out.

If you go to maximumfund.org forward slash join, you can see all the details and see all the gifts and see all the stuff.

But the important thing is, this is the time of year we come to you and say, hey, if you like these shows, we would really like your help in making them possible.

It is funded by you, and that's the reason we've been able to do this for over a decade.

How many years?

14.

Yeah, like 15

in April.

This is our 15th.

Gosh,

for so long.

And it's thanks to your support.

And if you've been listed for a while, you never supported, or maybe you lapsed and you're able to come back, it would really mean the world to us if you could do that.

So go to maximumfund.org forward slash join.

We'll talk more about it later.

That's a great point.

Just before we forget, because I don't think we've mentioned this yet on previous ones, this is a great time of year.

You know, sometimes you get like renewed credit cards or you lose a credit card and you replace it or that kind of thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you think you're a member, but you're not sure because the credit card changes over the last year, double check.

And if it helps you sort of push forward on that, imagine like me coming to your door and knocking with a little like square, you know, card reader in my hand, like, please, it went, you messed up and broke it, please.

If that helps at all, then imagine it.

Oh, guys, before we get started on the show, I've just been handing down this.

Farm haunted, farm haunted.

It's haunted.

It's a farm.

Farm haunted.

What is this amalgam universe nonsense?

What are you doing?

Well,

this was sent in to us by Brayden.

I'm going to send you guys the image in Slack.

Okay.

Hopefully, not a lesson.

It's not entirely visual.

Let's see.

There will be quite a bit of description in it.

Okay, great.

I love that.

Thanks, Brayden.

Thanks, Brayd.

Cool.

Awesome.

Cool.

So, what we're looking at here, it looks like a custom 1992 horse's ass bar stool.

Correct.

Yeah.

And so what it is, is sort of imagine a horse, truncate it, an abbreviated horse, ending at the front haunches.

No neck, no head.

If this was a centaur, all the human parts have been removed.

But here's the really important thing: is that to make it make sense, they've put the front legs like way farther up on the body than you would kind of expect them.

So it's like, it's not like there's just not a head, it's like there's not a front half, and the legs scooted back to accommodate.

It's slightly upsetting.

If there was a procedure called a centarectomy, this would be what is left on the operating table floor when the human torso and body and arms and head are liberated from these equine features.

Now, this is available for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

How much?

I have blocked out the price.

Yeah.

So, Justin, if you would read the description listed here,

whoa, Nelly, one of a kind, nothing like this on Earth.

This one-of-a-kind Western-style artist bar stool features horse legs, hooves, authentic horsetails, and a swivel and seat.

Can we pause?

Yeah.

Authentic horsetails?

I mean, I say.

Oh, I certainly hope that.

Everybody, I think it's authentic horsetails and a swivel and seat.

Completely hand-made, hand-carved, and hand-finished.

Now, I wanted to touch on this.

I did enjoy.

They are saying this to...

Put aside your fears that maybe at some point there was a horse's ass stool factory that was just churning these

out.

No, no, no.

This is not some off-the-assembly line horse's ass stool.

This is

hand-carved, hand-made, hand-finished, and signed by the artist.

Grab a seat on your horse's tail bar stool and have yourself a drink.

What do you want to bet that that artist's signature is the first part of it just says, sorry about this, and the signature?

Yeah, this is upsetting.

I was in a dark, dark, dark divorce.

The other thing that I do do want to touch on.

Okay.

Yeah.

Is this fucking stool, man?

I wouldn't mind rubbing my paws all over this story.

Yeah, no, it is the stool.

It is the fact that you, the reader, have pro the listener, have at this point probably started to wonder about the Ginnies.

Yeah.

And they have chickened out in a major way.

In either the photography or the stool, I don't know.

I suspect it's the photography.

Okay.

They conspicuously did not show on their horses channel.

What I'm saying is, from the photos provided, it could actually be hanging major horse dong, and that information is not provided to you, which I think is crazy to ask me to make a buying decision if I don't know if there's a big dong on it.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good point, Juice.

How do I set a price?

I'll message the seller real quick.

Is there one, do you ship?

Two, do you ship me and this stool together?

So you have a photo.

For me, OTP,

me and stool.

Is this going to get me kicked out of my church bridge club

if I procure this item?

And do you ship?

So if you guys had to put a price on this piece of art.

Yeah.

Travis, I'm going to say a number.

And

I'm seeing a lot of different numbers, but for some reason,

$1,200.

Wow.

Is it shitty if I say $1,201?

And then do I win the chair if I'm

your real real guess, Griffin?

I think it's considerably more than that.

I'm going to say I think that this stool costs $9,000.

I think it's over $9,000.

It's a cut fucking good stuff.

I think

this is a one-of-a-kind piece, and I would be honored to have this in my house.

Or so they say.

$9,000 for what would become an heirloom of my dynasty?

This is a gap, Griffin.

This is a gap that I don't know how we close as people.

Like our estimation on it is so I'm not saying I want to see it.

Well, Justin, what I've learned from Antiques Roadshow is art is worth what people will pay for it.

Right.

So what we're hearing here is whatever

I would pay $300 for this if the shipping was reasonable.

It's going to cost $9,000.

Okay.

Oh, you're saying with shipping included.

Okay.

Well, originally this was listed for $14.50.

Oh, shit.

But they did mark it down to $1,350 currently.

I don't know what it's at now.

It might be down to $1,200.

That's astounding, guys.

Yeah, we got a game of chicken on our hands now.

If shipping's reasonable, I would grab this bad boy if it gets down low enough.

Now it's a waiting game, but someone's definitely going to snatch it up before we do.

Gosh, do you think there's a wealthy benefactor amongst our listenership who's going to, one day one of us will show up at the post box and they'll be so fucking angry at us at the post office?

Holy shit, they'll be mad.

I was hoping, Griffin, a little bit hoping that there would be like a ding-dong

as we were talking.

The prestige.

Travis has delivered it.

Whose doorbell was it?

Find out next time.

Somebody owns this thing.

Hey, should we do a question?

Yeah,

let's do it.

Thank you, Brayden.

Thank you, Van.

Thanks, Bray.

Yeah, thank you.

That was good.

We'll put it on Sochi.

Yeah, we'll we'll put the image up on sochi my name is elliot i've been working at the same company for 11 years but i've changed departments a few years ago since changing departments i've climbed up the ladder last summer my old boss hired a new employee from my old job and his name is elliot to be polite i gave him the nickname better elliot so that i could keep elliot nice after a few months of calling him better elliott my coworkers told me he's not the better elliot i he embellished a bit too much on his resume and he isn't getting along with his team and he's taking a bunch of time time off from work.

The problem I face is, should I keep calling him Better Elliot?

And that's from Nick Nameless in Naperville.

Initial gut reaction,

it's not going to kill you to call a poor employee better Elliot.

But I do think there's a smooth transition out of it where one day you make him spill a big jug of water right on his pants and you say more like wetter Elliott.

Oh, that's good.

And you make sure lots of other people are around when you say that.

And you're going to have to tell them ahead of time to bust up so that later when people call him wetter elliot they can feel okay about it he will it will last a week before he's fired it sounds like um this this issue will eventually sort of solve itself but is there a way to start saying it with an implied do at the beginning i was do better

yeah that's cool like better

be the better elliot than you are now like comparatively you are a better elliot than previously which is was quite a bad elliot We all agree.

I think with enough prolonged eye contact and seriousness in the delivery of better Elliot, you can really get across what you're trying to go for there.

Next time.

Next time, I think your problem was differentiating yourself into discrete people.

I think you would have just been better served to do also Elliot.

And then you have a little bit of coverage.

You both do, honestly.

You shackled him with a lot of pressure.

yeah you know he didn't know anything day one you said he's better than you at your job oof that's maybe give him an introducing right

oh

and introducing elliot yeah

or you could call him smelliot since he's so bad in his job and stealing from you and your boss and that's time crime And I get so pissed off and fired up about this stuff when people aren't doing good enough at their jobs and working hard enough at their jobs and still demand to be called the better Elliot.

It makes me sick.

I don't think the pressure should be on you to improve Elliot's work-life balance.

I think what I would, my response would be, I'm going to keep being nice to this cat and you guys fire him or something because I can't deal with it.

I did everything I got

better Elliot.

Right.

Elliot's foibles are your problem.

I got out of that stinko department.

I want to jump back to something Griffin just said.

I don't think better Elliot is is demanding to be called better elliot i don't think that that's part of the problem griffin i think that would be wild if i showed up got a new job and there was another travis and i said i know how to smooth this out just call me better travis well do you think that if someone called him regular old elliot he wouldn't be like what the is that supposed to mean what's wrong am i not good enough for you anymore it's certainly it's making things very clear where the delineation lies if you just go elliot yeah

Why did your boss hire another Elliot?

Yeah, that's on them.

You can't keep working there.

That is a great disrespect that has been placed literally upon your name.

Maybe that job has to always be held by an Elliot.

Oh,

it's one of those federal laws.

Yeah.

One of those federal requirements.

Maybe your boss is trying to hold up a mirror to you.

and your own job performance as if to say, do you see now the bad Elliot?

What a better job the bad Elliot could be doing?

I brought Bad Elliot here as a lesson to you.

Pick up your performance, increase your sales, boost your

sales.

Yep.

Black screen, Severance, season three.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That would be so dope.

People are like, how are they going to do a third season of Severance?

And you say, it's just two people named Elliott.

They work at the same company.

Stakes are way, way lower.

They can leave.

They can hang out and go to TGI Fridays together.

It's not a big deal.

Just start calling yourself Best Elliot.

That's cool.

Oh.

The guiding Elliot?

Oh, Omega Elliott.

The Elliott standard.

Yeah, Elliot Prime.

Griffin, you were going to say something about Elliotts.

Love them.

Love them all.

Can't go wrong.

Gould, fucking crazy for it.

Did you guys know that this is our...

Yeah, sure.

Sure, man.

T.S.

Yeah, baby.

Too few L's, but that's because all he gets is W's.

And so I'll say this.

It is the second week of the Max Fun Drive.

Oh shit, what?

We could use your help in continuing to make and grow these shows.

Because of the support we've gotten from you all, we've been able to make this, first of all, our full-time jobs for a long time now.

We have been able to hire a team of people who help us make stuff very regularly, even when our lives and...

parental duties get a little out of pocket.

And also, we've been able to do a bunch more video stuff in the last year.

We started Clubhouse because we were were able to hire someone to produce video stuff for us.

So when you donate to the Max Fun Drive, you can choose the shows that you listen to and support them incredibly directly.

And that is the reason we're able to do this.

What Griffin is saying is correct.

We've been able to dominate the digital space for the last 15 years.

No one's doing it bigger or better than us.

And that's because of you.

But listen, there's room to grow.

Are there podcasts on Mars?

We don't know yet.

Scientists don't know if there's podcasts on Mars.

And without your support, we're not going to be able to find out.

Do they have podcasts in Atlantis?

Do turtles know about podcasts?

Yeah.

Probably not.

This is the kind of thing.

Should we pivot to video?

Yes, no.

We're still in the fence about that one, man.

Yeah.

Do turtles dream?

These are all the things that we ask ourselves late at night when we're trying to sleep.

And the only way you can help us to get a good night's sleep is by going to maximumfund.org slash join.

There's so many different ways to be a member.

You can become a new member.

You've never been a member before.

New membership time.

Awesome.

If you do that, you are going to get so much bonus content.

Your ears are going to shit right in your headphones.

Days, that's true.

Days of bonus content.

Days of it.

It may be weeks at this point, honestly.

We've done videos on there.

We've done audio.

We've gotten commentary tracks.

I legitimately, I think there's a commentary track for the movie Avatar.

Correct.

On there is one of the

And the TV show.

Yeah.

My brother made TV show.

Six episodes, right?

Commentary tracks for those?

We audition for hot ones this year.

Oh my god,

without being, you know, no one

else did that.

No one asked for that.

It's like a cold call, but so spicy.

It would be a huge, huge, huge break for us.

So if you know any of the hot ones, oh my god, maximum.

Oh, my goodness.

That won't happen for us.

So please help us out.

Maximumfund.org slash join.

At just five bucks a month, you get all the bonus content.

And there's other levels too where you get other great gifts.

As Govind said, you can also upgrade.

Maybe you've been $5 for a while.

Now you can be $10.

You've been $10 for a while.

You can move up to $20.

Trav, if I go from $5 to $10, other than the bonus content, what do I get?

Thank you for asking, Justin.

You're going to get to choose a pin from a show on Max Fun.

There's like 30-some pins on there to choose.

You really took a wild swing at the end.

I know, right?

It feels right.

You have no idea.

They're all gorgeous.

I'm a big fan of the My Brother, My Brother and Me Trav Nation pin for obvious reasons.

Yes.

But there's a lot of really great ones on there.

And you'll have the warmth in your heart of knowing you were able to up your membership and support us a little bit more.

You can also boost your membership by like a buck or two if you want to.

You can pay for a whole year up front.

If you don't want a recurring charge, you can gift a membership to a dear loved one to make sure that they get the bonus content.

Or a bitter enemy if you hate our shit.

Or a bitter enemy if you hate our shit.

Well, no, don't do that because we would still benefit from that.

If you hit it, that's that's what i'm saying it's like the best way an enemy of my enemy and the best way to punish my enemy is to make them listen to the mckelroy brothers for free

help help please support us please help support us and the max fund network it's a wonderful community we are honored to be uh staying strong with max fun for uh i think this is our 14th max fun drive which is just wild uh it's a wonderful organization we own all of our shit because we are not part of some massive uh network that would want to control that.

MaxFun is a co-op owned by its workers.

It is a rad, rad thing to be a part of.

And this is the last week of the drive.

Last time we're going to ask you for your help.

MaxMaxFund.org slash join.

I think if you look around, you can see what a major bummer it could be when stuff you love is owned by corporations.

And

your donations help to keep us away from that.

And it's also a way of like voting for this being the kind of way you like to see media run.

That's right.

And we really appreciate that.

And the fact that you've made this a sustainable model for us for so long means like so much.

And thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Now let's get back to the important work we do.

Please.

I'm on my way home from work and there's been an accident.

And the one and only highway I can take

on

the one and only highway I can take.

They estimate it will be several hours until it's reopened.

Traffic is moving, but it's a very, very slow crawl.

I grabbed some chicken wings on my way.

They're sitting next to me in the passenger seat.

Thai chili flavor.

I'm hungry, but I won't reach my destination for over an hour.

Can I eat these sauced up beauties while in the driver's seat?

Am I good?

I'm alone in my vehicle, but surrounded by other drivers in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

And this is from Commuter in Canada.

So I should start by saying, I don't know Canadian law.

Oh, no.

So this is not in any way.

I don't know.

I don't know the law.

I don't want the Mounties.

Yes.

You don't need the RCMP.

I don't need the Certe.

I've been reading some Canadian detective novels.

Don't worry about it.

I also don't know what Canadian chicken wing culture is like.

Here it is in America.

And this is one part of our, you know, the culture that I do think we have a bit of a leg up on for a lot of the world is that we not only it's okay to get sloppy, we like it when we get really sloppy.

Soppy the better.

In a car, in a, in a, uh, you know, in the office, uh, at a kid's birthday party.

It's like great to get sloppy, and we like it, and people like it when you do it.

So, um, if you were here in the States, I'd say

yummy down.

Another thing about chicken wing culture in the States is that I meant to tell you guys the BW3s at the mall closed.

No,

man, it's man.

Our chicken wing culture is taking a lot of hard hits lately.

They closed, black sheep closed.

It's been tough for chicken wings lately.

Knowing that the BW3s can't keep one open at the Huntington mall uh makes me want to short the whole b dubs market

it seems like the big crash is a coming seems like so poorly run though as a franchise it was like

i talk man it's gone now talk yeah dude go off king they can't deny they don't have pretzel rods anymore because they're closed nobody gets them there they only had three flavors one of them was salt i don't think that this place was they had salt and vinegar they had salt and vinegar oh separate yeah separate you had to get one of the others and spray this had naked on the front of the building they spray painted buffalo wings and wieners and they sold hot dogs too with the sauce on

three types of sauce and the salt so i don't think that this was a legitimate business they let dogs

they let dogs come inside and they would go fucking ape shit every time i really don't think that they could they said they were veterinary office as well i don't think that this was a real one it wasn't and i never saw oh sorry i meant to tell you guys the veterinary office is still functioning awesome

that is the that's my favorite one to use when i'm in town so that's yeah yeah um to go back to the question can we agree that there's an important detail left out here that changes the game entirely which is bone in or boneless well these are like wings so they they're not boneless well boneless wings are

well no those are those are nuggets so

i understand what you're saying justin but i don't don't other travis right now like we're all on the same page on this it is a harsh reality of the world that we live in: that there are, there is boneless wings.

And I'm saying, if you have a box of boneless wings and you can pop them in and move forward, no problem.

If these were, if they were boneless, this person would not have fucked up.

That's what I have to assume.

No way.

I'm going to go to Boston Pizza because that is the.

Can you pick me up something while you're there?

No, that's the only chain I know, the only Canadian chain that might sell wings.

So I just want to know if boneless, because if I'm hoping I might be able to pick something up from the question asker being from Canada, right?

Famous wings, wings combo.

So they

have wings on the menu and they do not specify

bone in, right?

And it is bone in.

If you don't specify, it's bone in.

Right.

Okay.

So this would not occur to them, I think, to okay.

Here's my break.

You're in there.

Now we don't know they do not have a breakup on drums or flats.

And that, for me, is a question.

Because you can, you can.

a stick.

You can pop a stick.

Flat is flat.

I got to get my fingers in there with flat to get all the stuff.

Hold the phone.

You're doing like a chiropractic adjustment.

So I got to get my fingers in there for flat, guys.

I got to.

What's your, there's no way for me.

This is a shame.

There's no way for me.

There is no way I can ask you to pantomime how you're popping out flats with that.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hold on.

You're close.

You're close.

You don't have to have it.

No, no, no, no, don't do it.

This is a family show.

You don't have to say it.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't have to do it.

No, please, for the love of God.

I'm operating on.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Listen, I'm operating on so little sleep right now.

And if you do that, I'm going to bust up, and then the video will be me busting up at you doing

it, Jeff.

Grimm, as a professional courtesy to you,

I'm not going to do the funnier thing on this podcast now.

I am, as a professional courtesy, going to move on.

But I can't do that.

We can just say Georgia O'Keefe would approve of the way that Justin activates his.

And we can't say that, Travis.

This is not our place.

And for just like your mental picture, like, as long as we're just kind of giving people something to think about later.

Something to talk about.

Just, I'm imagining that you are using the finger that the TV fell on and squished.

And so it's your like little flat finger and you're like, it's flatter.

It helps get in the crevices and creases.

But as you put your own little fucking frosting spreader cake spatula in there.

Yeah.

Travis, what's your style with a flat wing, brother?

I break it apart, babe.

Yeah, I break it apart too, because there's no other great option visually.

I know that I am perceived visually by other human beings.

And so I'm

yeah.

The problem is you get sauce on your fingers and then you gotta quick turn the wheel or whatever.

I can't tell you guys the truth is.

The truth is it feels mean to break it.

It just seems mean.

It makes me feel like a big bear or or like some sort of big, mean pair.

So you're being polite.

You're being polite.

I'm being dignified, man.

I'm being tasteful, right?

Yeah.

You're showing some respect to a fallen opponent.

I have a place in the great web.

You know what I mean?

Just like Arachne said in Spider-Man turned off the dark.

We all have a place in the great web, and I'm trying to place

a line of children.

You're not like that chicken looking down from Valhalla, seeing you just absolutely defiling its bones.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like, um,

it's like when the lawyer gets chomped in half in Jurassic Park, he's probably like, his ghost is like unnecessarily like, you didn't need to do, you didn't need to do that.

Yeah, man.

You don't need this chicken's judgment on you.

Yeah, if it's wings, you can one-hand those.

You can't one-hand a flat.

So is that an option?

Can we compromise here and say, just you can eat the sticks, but not the flats?

Just one hand.

It's not a flat.

Yeah.

I want you to keep a hand on the wheel.

We have a lot of fun here and we joke, but

I do need you to have one hand on the wheel here.

One non-slippery hand on the wheel.

Because that bad boy.

Wet hand, dry hand.

Wet hand, dry hand.

Wet hand, dry hand, right?

Your wet hands for your wings, your dry hands for your driving.

100%.

Otherwise, your 10 might slip down to a 7.

All of a sudden, you're in the fucking guardrail.

Yeah.

And that's a tragedy.

And they're going to put in your obituary, this dip shit died trying to eat slippery, sloppery buffalo wings while driving 96 miles an hour down the Canadian highway.

Well, they are in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

The point stands.

The point remains.

Okay.

That's so interesting because I did not, that was not my sense.

And keep an eye out.

Keep an eye out for a scenic overlook that maybe you could pull off on and like really admire Canada's beauty and splendor while you chow down on some Thai chili wings.

It fucking rips ass that not eating the wings has not even been

optional.

We have addressed it.

You can't let them get.

I mean, they'll still be good cold, but and but you also

the the powerful scent the aroma lifting you up and carrying you over to your passenger seat is too powerful for that they're only human after all but what about like

what about if they're super spicy you know like you don't think they're gonna be that spicy but what you turn into a car inside a car explodes the powder car you destroy your car because you turn into a car inside your car if you eat spicy food your eyes go all wet and you're like, I can't see.

And don't wipe your eyes for the love of God.

Do it with your dry hand.

Yeah.

That's a good point, Juice.

Just dangerous.

I'm just saying you're dangerous.

Yeah.

Why did you get such wet food?

Should have thought about that, that you had to drive ahead of you.

That's why you got to get the dry rub for the drive home.

Dry rub for the drive home.

Yeah.

And then you can enjoy the sloppy boys in the comfort and seclusion of your own home where you will not be perceived by other human beings.

At which point, go wild, man.

You could pick up the world's chillest hitchhiker and be like, hey, where are you heading?

Tucson?

Great.

I don't trust you to operate this car.

It is mine.

Can you hold these buffalo wings up to my mouth, turn them like a corn cob and snap my bones when I need you to?

I know this seems like something

a killer would have you, that a killer would ask you to do.

That's not me.

That's not my journey.

And you're not a killer either, right?

I do think I said snap my bones, and I need to see how you feel about that

do you guys drive and eat

you guys ever driven and eaten you just tell me it's a podcast maybe a rap from time to time have i ever driven a car while eating a food yeah have i ever done these two activities that i do driving a car while eating a burger these two activities i do every single day have they ever have their paths ever crossed i guess what i was asking is if you're going through a drive-through your wife's in a passenger seat and you get something super sloppy like a super sloppy I don't get something super sloppy

but what if you do so like if you do get super something super sloppy do you want her to wrap the sandwich in the wrapper to protect the components yes do you want the wrapper to be gone do you want to be working without a wrapper no i work with a net and i will occasionally hand it back to my wife to ask her to peel it down a little bit like i'm a child

that's awesome man so i can keep a steady hand on the wheel.

Yeah, but listen, here's my problem, man.

I can't negotiate with a rapper and drive a car.

You know what I mean?

I got to go free.

I have to assume that the rapper isn't toxic or they wouldn't put it on my food.

So if I get a little nibble in there with the bite,

if I get a little nibble in there with the fiber.

I remember how stoked I was when Burger King started doing chicken fries because I was like, those are so easy.

I could do those no-handed.

I could reach down like a big, a big bird and just pop one up and flip it in my mouth.

One shot.

You get a dispenser like Garth had in the Mirthmobile for red liquor.

She just reached up.

I don't even have to chew it and maybe accidentally close my eyes too much to see the vehicle stop in front of me on the highway.

Uh-oh.

My life is saved because of Burger King's chicken fries.

What the heck?

He really pledged me there.

What do you mean?

Were you about to do another pledge break?

Nah, he's talking about pledging.

Yeah, because because you took a big breath and then you didn't do the boop a boop sound for such a long time.

It was crass and crude, but

it got him wrong.

Haunted doll watch.

I just wanted to mention, I like to check in on this space from time to time because I kind of created it and then it got so crowded that I had to move out of it.

Just to be real with you guys.

Is that you throwing shade at Travis for doing a haunted dollar watch?

That's the shade of everybody else who doing haunted doll stuff.

Got wanted to get into haunted doll stuff where we were already there, so I had to leave.

It got a little crowded at that corner of the beach.

Funny beach, as I call it.

But I did.

I mean, you're lucky.

My funny beaches keep closing.

My funny beaches

keep eroding from the face of the earth.

This fucking.

I've had a lot of jellyfish, dead jellyfish, watch up on my funny beach, which is outside.

I just wanted to show you guys real quick.

This is a haunted doll vessel, Teeny the Tiny Witch.

I like Teeny the Tiny.

Why would you?

How dare you show me an auction for one of these that is closed already?

How dare you show me that?

I didn't know this is a space we're getting into.

Meet Teeny, the tiniest member of the Gnome Group, embarking on a mystical journey of witchcraft.

As a novice, Teeny is still in training, but her innate abilities often propel her beyond her level.

Wish list, wishlist now on Steam.

You gotta get Teeny the Tiny, Tiny Witch, doll.

So you're offering to sell me a newbie unpredictable witch.

Yeah.

No.

It says hailing from an unknown realm, which I like.

If we knew where teeny witches came from, I would hope that we would be

living there only?

Yeah, we'd be spreading that information around.

What I love about this posting, Justin, is so far there's been nothing to seem to indicate that it is a spirit possessing a statue, but rather the statue itself is

a gnome from a different dimension.

That's an evolution of the form.

I like that.

She has these superpowers.

Okay, please.

Teeny connects with others on a profound level, offering compassionate guidance and support.

She has natural power.

I don't have that.

She mends emotional, spiritual, and physical wounds with her innate healing powers.

Intuitive insight.

She receives guidance from the spiritual realm.

Four, she has protective instincts.

Five, nature affinity.

Six.

Wait, does that just mean she likes nature?

No, it means if you use a fire affinity witch against her, she takes 20 extra damage.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Recognizing the the connectedness of all living things in the cycles of nature.

That's what nature affinity is, which, like, I think you could do that without it being a superpower, but whatever.

That even though sounds like something someone would say to you, and you'd roll your eyes really hard if they were like, unlike other people, I recognize the connection of things.

And you're like, cool, Tiny.

Yeah, all right, Teeny.

I got it.

Together, Teeny and her partner will weave a tapestry of love, magic, and wonder, deepening their connection with each other and the world around them.

She has also expressed if her caretaker isn't a witch, it's okay.

that's willing to guide and learn together how are they gonna slip in there that there's a bodo and they're not gonna tell us about the bonus doll okay so i i was struck by that too gravin i think that they are saying that if you buy this doll you are now teeny's partner oh i got so fucking excited i thought that they were saying there's a secret like slime bag bonus yeah like extra one yeah i wanted to give you guys all the angles they really captured a lot of angles jesus christ i could i mean i could model this thing in fucking blender now.

Oh, look how tiny teeny is.

It's really teeny is really, really cool.

They could put a penny on there.

Or no.

It's not a penny since it's ancient.

It might be a debate.

Why is teeny whistling?

She's screaming.

She just is too little to know.

Cool, cool.

Yeah.

That's a horrifying thought you just said, Jeff.

I know.

Yeah, but she sold for $34.88.

Now, it does say on here, please understand, I've had to increase my shipping fee to include better packaging.

Plus, the cost of shipping has gone up.

For fragile items, $12 to $14 is the average because I double box the delivery services.

Aren't gentle.

I will work with you on multiple items and give a shipping discount.

How magical are these things that they can't at least guarantee safe shipping from A to B?

I have purchased things online before and they've come damaged in shipping.

And if you couple that with the knowledge that not only is the item I bought damaged from shipping, but my new witch partner is dead, I think I would be pretty, pretty shadracked by that information.

Also, Justin, shipping haunted dolls has gotten much harder because of all the scariffs.

Oh, Griffin, your Griffin, your political humor has really evolved.

It's really good, Griffin.

Fuck, man.

I'm so proud of you.

I teach eighth-grade science in Washington.

It's been cold, and I I really got into wearing cozy sweaters during the school year.

I had a rotation of five or six sweaters that I just went through during our cold, dark months.

It became so much of a thing that students started calling me sweaterboy.

With the weather improving, how do I make the switch back to wearing my other clothes without letting the eighth graders feel like they've won and bullied me out of wearing the sweaters I love so much?

And that is from, I mean, it says here, sweater boy.

That's not me editorializing.

This is, this is, I want to say, this shows the power of like

preteens and teens in mocking, where my first thought was like sweater boy is not that creative and then

I started saying it to myself like someone was saying it to me and by the nature of it being so simple and not creative it does imply a like this doesn't even deserve like a fun play on words or whatever you're just sweater boy now to be reduced down to such a to such a primordial kind of component is like you they see me for nothing else other than my long not even sweater man or professor sweater or something professor sweater his You gotta get no, but like the if you're gonna level a if you're gonna make a nickname stick with a teacher, it's gotta be that sort of banal.

Yeah, like there's nothing in the name necessarily where they're letting you know that they don't like it.

Yeah, so like if you try to take them the principal, they're gonna be like, I mean, sweater.

He wears sweaters.

What do you mean they call you sweater boy?

But you're not there when they say it.

Right.

You don't know the tone.

Yeah, they say it's my face.

Well, yeah, but why do they call it?

They call me fuckwad.

wad come on man like sweater boy's not that bad my name yeah stacy my name is fouquad

it's french

um yeah i i think that where where you sort of the first time someone said sweater boy you should have taken it off because If people notice what you're wearing, you've gone wrong.

That's right.

That's too much power.

Can you imagine, Justin, if the first time someone saw you wearing a sweater, they said sweater boy and instantly took it off?

That person.

that's pretty darn, pretty darn close to how I would probably react, Travis, honestly.

I think that if you did that to me, like if I said sweater boy and you took it off, I would feel a crushing weight of responsibility of the power I had over other human beings, not just in that moment, but maybe make me second guess every interaction I would ever have again with someone ever.

That I might comment on nice shoes and then they take off their shoes, right?

Or something along those lines.

That's too much power you're giving.

Yeah.

what's hard is the next day, once word gets round, like, hey, it's starting to become a thing.

And, like, I want to tell you, the other students, this isn't me, sir, but the other students are really starting to notice the sweater a lot.

I feel like one of the students should have given you an out earlier on, like, just to let you know that it was building.

Because the fact that you let the sort of

the rep build to this point where it's like canonical.

Yeah.

Because that didn't happen on the first time you wore a sweater yeah maybe you could just switch the sweater vests right make a slow transition

out of it oh oh put a little like loose nail hammered into your desk catch the edge of your sweater on it continue moving around the room oh yeah

let the sweater slowly unwrap you wearing be wearing something under important

like a funny shirt that says like the sweater is dead yeah like sweater boy's dead on t-shirt ma'am now as someone who was in a very similar situation to this and has been in a similar situation to this,

the better play for the students would have been to start subtly hinting that they can smell your sweater.

Because

you really, it's such a gigantic pain in the ass to wash a sweater.

Right.

I've got sweaters upstairs where it said lay flat.

I don't have anywhere in my house to lay a sweater flat.

You don't have a flat surface in your home?

I had to clean off the dining room table.

Yeah, man.

somewhere where cats wouldn't pee i don't know fair fair cat doesn't exist in that house i know yeah hey careful pal

that's that's my that's my prison you're talking about

pissing

no but you

um

so it is such a pain so you wear them and you're like i don't i you know it's always a shirt underneath like i always have like a t-shirt or something underneath and then i think why don't you wash the sweater right now so the students started like

oof, you guys, hmm, smells a little bit like a sweater.

You're like,

you guys smell like a musty sweatery.

Sweatery.

Yeah.

That could work.

I was trying to think of ways to retaliate.

A teacher could retaliate against a student that would be still funny and not upsetting.

And I think that what I've landed on is if people call you sweater boy in a way that you're uncomfortable with, you kind of sigh and you walk to the door of the classroom and open it up and you wheel in the AV cart and you say, well, we were going to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, but I guess that that movie is actually only for good-behaved kids.

And you push it right out of the room and you say, sorry, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow if you can keep your, your cruel barbs to yourself, then we'll finally get to finish Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.

I heard he dies at the end of it.

Could you find like 30, however many kids are in your class?

smaller exact like child-sized duplicates of your sweater and you bring them in one day and you hand them out to everybody.

And now they're also sweater boys.

And then you're going to get some kind of like photo posted on an inspirational Instagram of like

teacher figured out his kids were so jealous of his sweater that he got sweaters for all of them and taught them to be little gentlemen or whatever.

Those always get on there.

I always forget if teacher is one of those jobs that has enough expendable income to buy 30 sweaters for a goof or child-sized sweaters, Griffin.

They don't cost as much as human-sized-sized sweaters.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Yikes, man.

That's that four idea and slip that apparently.

Break that down.

Yikes.

Kids aren't fully formed humans.

I think kids are humans.

Hey, science is out, man.

Do turtles dream?

I don't, you're really stuck on that, man.

I can't stop thinking about it.

I can't stop thinking about it.

What do turtles dream about?

I bet they dream about bringing in big returns this year for the max fund drive.

No.

you don't think turtles dream about that

i want to this uh you know we're not quite at the end of the episode but we're headed that way and this is uh the second my brother my brother and me so i wanted to take a chance before uh we wrapped up to tell everybody how much your support over the years and on this max fun drive means to us we take this uh pretty seriously and it means a lot to us um seeing people show up for the live streams that we do seeing people comment on like instagram posts that they upgraded or became a new member or boosted or whatever they were able to do.

It's a very good reminder that the stuff that we do matters to people and

it reminds us, you know, of

that there's people out there that enjoy the thing, that we bring some joy to.

And it's one of my favorite times of the year to be able to make all this extra stuff, not just the bonus content, but also live streams and posts and everything like that

to kind of deepen that connection.

Yeah, it's really,

it's also a good time.

I always feel really grateful this time of year, and

I wanted to express that as well.

Because in like all the asking for stuff, I also want to recognize how many people have done this for many years, and I really appreciate it.

If you have maybe started listening to some new shows, or maybe listening a little bit more, your financial situation chase, whatever, maybe what if you could do about $20 a month?

In addition to

the pin and the bonus content, we've also got a pretty freaking incredible towel.

A beach for the stars towel illustrated by Paul G.

Hammond.

It's gorgeous.

It's fantastic.

Or there's a bucket hat if you don't want the towel, but I think you probably would want the towel.

You always need a towel.

You probably want the towel.

That's the route that I would go.

But the important thing is not the gifts.

It's that you're saying, hey,

I like when my media cares about people.

I like when the stuff I make is beholden to the people who listen to it and not to big money corporate interests or the government.

Are there a lot of government podcasts?

A lot of government podcasts.

Oh man, okay.

It is.

I mean, the thing is, is the way that'd be one for the West Virginia Department of Transportation, dude.

It's so boring.

Yeah.

Okay, cool, man.

But I make $10,000 an episode.

Don't say that now.

Don't say that during the day.

Not now.

Listen,

we're all the federal government.

Don't worry about it, guys.

We all get a lot of money from the left dot, but let's keep that shit under wraps until maybe next week.

In all seriousness, the way that Max Fun, the funding works and the way that, like, not just the ownership of the shows and the ownership of the network is completely unique to podcast networks from what I've found and talked to other people about.

And this thing of like it being a pretty tight closed loop of like listeners and hosts and creators and the workers of Max Fun

feels very unique and special.

And our ability to just make stuff that we like for the people that like it is so unique.

And it wouldn't be possible without support from you guys.

Genuinely would not be possible.

If this is the only show you listen to, you may not be aware of this, but if you listen to other McElroy shows, you probably know that the podcast ad market is in pretty much the worst spot I've seen it in my long, illustrious podcasting career, where we don't run a lot of ads on other shows that aren't my brother, my brother, and me.

But fortunately, because of the support we get from you all, we are able to stay solvent and

keep paying people to help us out and keep making more stuff.

And we're not asking you to just do this for free.

The bonus content, if you've never heard it, is wild.

You got to hear Pranky Doodle Dandy.

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You got to hear all that.

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I'm going to go to the bathroom.

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We streamed every day last week, too.

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The full video is now up in the Boco feed.

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We already hit that one.

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We're leaving it all out on the court for the rest of this week, and then we're going to go back to the usual amount of effort that you

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sorry yes

i want a munch squad griffin i'm sorry i can't sing the song talk to me about your reaction to the munch squad theme song as you as you just sort of like it was more like a oh like a like oh was it like a oh my gosh saying on your shirt you hadn't known you were making quite a face justin maybe in the ramping up to it it was again you that you gave me part of it as a tries for us

We have to see you, Justin.

We have to see you.

And sometimes we'll react to things that only we can see.

You just have to hang a big lantern on.

As I've told myself.

You look like you were having a heart attack and we're diving on the show.

I've been spending too much of my precious little energy lately trying to master my emotional state at any given moment.

So as I told Sidney, my face isn't part of it, right?

Okay, cool.

My face isn't a part of it.

I can't do that right now.

Okay.

Right.

Listen.

Dana, Lana, Lana, Landa, Lana.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Guys, they fucking did it.

Yes.

Guys, they McDonald's did it.

Oh, and we've been waiting for them to do it, but they did it.

They did it.

Adult happy meals, man.

Wait a second.

Wait a second.

Adult.

I thought what you were showing us is that these, they got these awesome Minecraft meals.

I was like, great.

I didn't put together that they were doing these damn things for grown folks as well.

That is.

So, right.

So there is the normal kids' happy meal, which we all love and revere but now we've got a minecraft movie meal wait

you've just blown my mind justin i didn't know till right this second that the article associated with minecraft movie was a minecraft movie oh baby you this is news so trav this is actually let's talk about that for a second I think they're calling it a Minecraft movie to emphasize the sort of open source collaborative nature of Minecraft.

Yes, for sure.

So maybe

we should have a Minecraft movie as well.

A different Minecraft movie to kind of honor that open source collaborative nature of Minecraft.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And maybe also my theory is that it was called the Minecraft movie until a single focus group got plopped down in front of that trailer and they were like, maybe we shouldn't put all our eggs in this one particularly, hugely upsetting looking basket.

Yes.

So we could have, maybe the last Ghostbusters movie could have been a Ghostbusters reboot.

And then after that is a Ghostbusters reboot.

It's just

one of them.

Yeah.

So let me tell you about this meal because we do have the kids option that has a Minecraft toy.

From crafting pixel-perfect replicas of our golden arches and world-famous menu items to stacking block upon block into full-on restaurants.

Fans have been building their love for McDonald's into Minecraft for years.

Yes.

Now inspired by their imagination and the global big screen adventure, a Minecraft movie debuting in theaters on April 4th, we're bringing the game cinematic world to McDonald's, introducing a Minecraft movie meal and a Minecraft movie Happy Meal, dropping together for the first time ever at McDonald's nationwide, starting April 1st.

Don't worry.

I'm worried, man.

Hey, if you, you tell me, you tell me grown-up happy meal's launching April 1st.

My head's a little too on swivel to get fooled again by the celebration.

I might be asking you to jump ahead a little bit.

And in fact, I am.

Because

is this actually a grown-up happy meal?

Or is this just a combo meal, which they've done before?

Is there a toy?

Oh, wait.

Well, Travis, allow me to answer that with the affirmative.

Yes.

First off, I will have to say, Travis, chicken McNuggets meal, if you get the, there's a 10-piece McNuggets meal or a Big Mac.

You can go either way.

If you get the nuggets, you can spice that up with nether flame sauce, a limited edition hot sauce inspired by the nether nether with crushed red pepper and flaming cayenne, balanced with hints of garlic and sweetness, much like the nether itself.

Right.

Families and our youngest fans can also enjoy a Minecraft movie happy meal featuring one of 12 film-inspired toys.

Whatever, we don't care about this.

A Minecraft movie meal.

I should say that I do care about it a great deal.

I care about it.

It's going to absolutely invade and occupy my house like some sort of enemy from abroad.

So you can get one of six adult collectibles there's a big oh sexual there's a big no no okay no it's not like that i got a creeper from my for my butt at mcdonald's i got a butt creeper from

the packaging but if it fits it sits wow

it says it's an enderman enderman for my butt from the mcdonald's grown-up happy meal fuck yeah thanks ronald Thanks, man.

Yeah, so

that you could get a Big Mac crystal, mine from from the Sea of Special Sauce.

This pungent precious block derives its radiant shine from melty cheese and a toasted sesame bun.

Birdie wings.

Keep your eye to the sky or you might miss this early bird soaring high above the clouds with a rare pair of Electro wings.

What?

Yes.

Fuck yeah, man.

He has a fry helmet forged from the iconic French fry box.

This enchanted helmet is rumored to protect your friends from stealing your last fry, which they have capitalized here.

Absolutely minted.

Grimace egg emerging from the depths of a purple shake.

This magical grimace mob gets its shape for the most coveted egg of them all.

What?

Soda potion.

The electrifying effect of this potion is mysterious as its recipe.

An accidental combo of fantastic, fizzy flavors.

And there's a zombie hamburger.

Yeah.

Guys, there's the zombie hamburgler.

What?

Whoa, too scary.

Stop.

Too scary.

This hungry mob who spawns late at night and wanders all biomes in search of hamburgers.

so they got a grimace in the back of every mcdonald's

it's cloaca just constantly popping out a brood mother of grimace eggs we gotta stop this corporation we gotta we gotta oak jaw these its real name isn't grimace that's just the look on its face as it pops out its 200th egg of the day guys i'm going to show you if you'll direct your attention to the console in front of you i have

uh had a signal rerouted so you can see.

I see you've googled Grimace Cloaca here.

Do you want to walk us through some of this?

Oh, no, that's just in his recent searches.

Over and over and over.

You see.

Nah, man, we can't see anything.

Oh, hold on.

There you go.

Oh, nice.

So guys, these are the hamburgler, Grimace Egg, Birdie Wings.

And you got that.

It's really good.

And these are like,

you get them in-game, too.

You get in-game skins with every collectible.

Gosh dang it.

And nether flame sauce.

Yeah.

Guys.

Yeah.

It's real.

And it's also a grown-up happy meal that I get to eat, so I don't have to be jealous of my kids every time they get a happy, every time they get a happy.

I know that happy meals aren't for us.

The amount of great, exciting stuff my kids get in a happy meal makes me so, makes me feel jealous, just not for the food, but for the feeling of it.

Every Minecraft movie meal purchased through the McDonald's app also gives fans an in-game bonus at no cost.

We covered this.

Oh, that was close.

I thought you were going to say it gave money to charity, Justin.

No, God, no.

Ooh, that was close.

When approaching any partnership, we look for the authentic role our brand can play in it.

Can I just say for me, fucking nailed it, guys?

Absolutely.

Read it.

Ready for sowers

for fucking filth, McDonald's.

Absolutely.

We're dirty fucking hogs, and you got us.

Can I just say, though, you caught us in the trough.

You got us exactly right.

We're filthy shit pigs, and you got us right, McDonald's.

I love the implication, though, that a Minecraft movie would come to McDonald's and be like, we want a partner.

And McDonald's would be like, I don't see an organic way for that to happening.

No meal.

My nearly 40-year-old brother had to stop his comedy podcast to bust an authentic nut about how excited he is about eating a happy meal at McDonald's.

You fucking got us.

You got it.

I am not almost 40.

And you retract that.

I am 37.

That's such a...

That's basically mid-30s.

So we build upon what they started, our fans, and created a totally immersive experience.

A custom Minecraft movie meals in our restaurant.

A custom of Minecraft.

Minecraft.

A collectibles that unlock unique in-game features.

What's special about this campaign?

Oh, you don't have to tell me, but you are, okay, is that every component will feel recognizable to both fan bases.

A true merging of the McDonald's and Minecraft universes.

These two are inextricable.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

When you play Minecraft, the order of your ideas goes, I'm going to make a house.

I'm going to make a swimming pool.

I'm going to make a McDonald's.

And I'll give it a McDonald's.

Okay.

Obviously, I want to make my house.

And then a McDonald's.

I'll make my house.

I'll make my church.

I'll make my McDonald's.

I'm set.

That's my third location right there.

Thank you so much for listening to our podcast.

It's called My Brother My Brother Me.

We've been doing it for a very long time since Griffin was nearly 30.

No, like way young, like way, way, way, way, way.

Way younger, way more vital and fresh.

We've only been able to do this show this long.

We've been part of other projects and

beautiful enterprises.

This one has the most longevity, and that's only not,

you know, telling tales out of school here, only because of you all.

No other show or media thing that I have ever seen or know about, especially in our space, has that sort of, you know, relationship with the audience and the shows that they listen to.

And it's very special.

And I'm so grateful.

And you can be a part of it and help us make this show and help us make a bunch of new stuff too.

Over at maximumfund.org slash join.

Pick the shows you listen to.

Your money goes straight, straight to them.

And

you get some great bonus content and other gifts too.

This is our last episode where we're going to talk about it this year.

So if you're thinking about it, do it.

Yeah, along those lines, can't stress enough.

If you're like, oh, yeah, I'll do that later.

Do it now because time's going to fly by and we want you to be a part of it.

This is our

14th time around the bin.

You'll forget.

And that's okay.

We don't trust this.

That's fine.

Just do it right now, okay?

I also want to say,

streams coming up this week.

We got the Clubhouse stream Tuesday at noon Eastern Time.

Wednesday, Justin and Sidney are doing a Fast X watch party at 9 p.m.

Eastern Time.

Thursday, the three of us are going to be doing a six thumbs, one heart, Star Road at 12 p.m.

Eastern Time.

That's the three of us splitting one controller to play Star Road.

When is that?

I didn't know we were doing that.

Yeah, Thursday.

Yeah, we hit that stretch goal.

Friday at 3 p.m.

Eastern Time, we're having a max fun East Coast pizza party on the McLoy family YouTube channel.

So make sure you check that out.

If you missed it earlier today, if you're listening to this on Monday, Monday, I did another fuser stream that is

probably the longest I've ever cried laughing on a video before.

It goes way off the rails.

Oh, and last week we put up when we were in Phoenix going on a hike through Dreamy Draw.

Yes.

If you did not see it, please watch the McElroys go on a hike on the McElroy family YouTube channel.

It's a delight, and I kind of liked it.

I kind of liked it.

I'd do it again for money, for content.

Wow.

Beautiful way to close close out our last episode of the drive here on

the taste.

Seriously, thank you all so much.

Help us reach our, we have more stretch goals coming that are going to be enticing.

Trust.

Also, would be remiss, and I know that we don't normally do plugs during Max Fund Drive, but next week we're on tour.

Yes.

Go to macroy.family or go to bit.ly slash macroy tours to get your tickets.

I believe April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.

We're going to be in Richmond, Charlotte, and Raleigh

doing, I believe, in order, My Brother, My Brother, Me, Adventure Zone, My Brother, My Brother, Me.

So go get those tickets, big.ly slash McElroy tours, and we'll see you there.

How about

A Faster Than Fear?

I'll read this one.

Yeah, you got it?

Okay, let's do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's do it.

This year, I'm going to be Faster Than My Fear of Minims, specifically the weird living cartoon M ⁇ Ms with their fleshy arms and legs and eyes.

My name is Justin McElroy.

I'm Travis McElroy.

I'm Griffin McElroy.

You've been my brother, my brother, me, kiss your dad square on the lips.

It's better with you.

My life,

it's better, it's better with you.

It's better.

My life all.

It's better, it's better with you.

Cause it's true.

It's better, it's better with you.

My life

all

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