MBMBaM 750: A Thrupence and Nine

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,

I,

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

This is true.

It's better.

It's better with two.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to my brother, my brother.

Mean it's a vice show for the modern era.

I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

What's up, Trav Nation?

It's me, vroom, vroom, your middlest brother, Travis Big Dog, wolf, wolf, McElroy.

What's good, Trav Nation?

It's me, Griffin McElroy, playing hurt, playing sick.

Isn't he brave?

I forgot to watch the Super Bowl.

This isn't going to be.

Okay.

I don't think.

The absence of comedy is not funny.

Do you know what I'm saying?

I just mostly don't want to talk about the Super Bowl, man.

Oh.

Okay.

What do you want to talk about, Riven?

Yeah.

Lost my fucking pants on that one, didn't I?

Went big for the...

Here's the thing.

I don't follow sports.

And so really, the legalization of sports gambling is especially unfair to me me because it's like, I'm going to be bad at it.

Like, I'll do it, sure, but I'm going to be pretty bad at it.

And that's not fair.

I looked at the past, what, 10 Super Bowls.

You know what I kept seeing?

Chiefs, Chiefs, Chiefs, Chiefs, won every time.

So I was like, okay, so I'll get double my money, but it didn't work that way.

And they're not very forgiving.

gambling

stuff I've learned is like saying like I will see but I didn't know what I was doing you don't get the money back which is weird uh I

would like to take a moment if i could travel because you did miss it i would like to take a moment to compliment mr lamar on his halftime show well done mr lamar on the halftime show that was specifically i want to compliment one thing yeah

please that man yeah now i don't i will here's what i'm going to say i'm going to do a little table setting that will surprise no one who is a long-time listener or even short-time listener to this show i do not follow this

cultural exchange between Mr.

Drake and Mr.

Lamar.

I was not up to date on it.

I've since tried to read up.

And we've been good.

Like, we've been really good and haven't said anything.

We haven't said anything about it.

And musically, if you give a shit what a 44-year-old man thinks about music, I don't know what to tell you.

So here's our like.

It doesn't.

Okay.

No one gives a shit.

That's the point.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

For you to say what you think of it.

No, because I learned about it from

you.

No one gives a shit.

That's good private work you did.

Here's the point I want to say.

The fact that you would be at the Super Bowl.

Sure.

At the Super Bowl, which is like the biggest shit.

It's so big, you can't say the name.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The crown jewel of the trademark.

The biggest thing.

And people would be like, so it's your moment, right?

This is your moment as an artist, where, like, if you look at, for example, I will use Prince in his iconic halftime show.

Yeah, it's squeezed.

Playing the guitar, and it's like, this is me as a performer, right?

I've got all these other styles, right?

I'm blending rock.

I'm blending RB.

Also, the weather can't stop me.

I'm an immortal.

And in fact, the weather is

better.

I'm bigger than that.

I famously have a rain-based song, and the weather is really working for me right now.

I have such love in my heart for someone that they would come to him and they would say, Mr.

Lamar, how will you be spending this capstone moment?

And Mr.

Lamar said, well, I think what we can all agree on is I will need to spend a few minutes of it being mean to drake yeah everyone's like wait that goes without the pepsi representatives shaking their heads yes that goes without saying

no notes no pushback on that mr lamar of course and how direct will it be kind of like about like the feeling of being an artist um in the world and competing with a no no what i think what it will be instead is i will look directly at the camera and i will say hello drake yeah it's me hi it's me i'm looking and speaking directly to you at the Super Bowl.

Yeah.

I got your ex-girlfriend to do a funny dance at you.

God, that's mean.

I saw

a tabloid post thing that during the Super Bowl, Drake was in Australia.

And all I can do is far from it.

Yeah, imagine

imagine finding out the Super Bowl is coming up.

And there's an element associated with it in which you, Griffin, or you, Justin, is like, man, I got to get to Australia during this weekend.

I mean, there's not

in any hemisphere related to what's happening.

There had to be part of him that was like,

maybe he won't do it.

Maybe he won't play it.

Like, holding that hope, like, maybe he won't.

Like, he saw the announcement, like, who'd they get?

Oh, him?

He doesn't like me.

Well,

he doesn't like me.

Maybe he won't do it, though.

Yeah.

Do you think

that afterwards they should have cut to like an awkward headshot for a formal rebuttal?

Like

from the Out Vac?

Just Drake shaking a bottle of Aquafina water as he raises it to his lips, Marco Rubio style.

What Mr.

Lamar often forgets is actually he is whack and I actually am cool.

I am actually a good rap.

I will say this about Mr.

Lamar's halftime show.

And people are going to get mad at me because I say this every year.

Could have used more red hot hot chili peppers yeah how i could have just used just split the split the crowd at one point and just hear

and it's like you know like okay so we do get a little bit of red hot chili peppers in here just a little do you remember when it was like a big kerfuffle that like flea's like base wasn't plugged in or something and he was like yeah man i'm jumping all around it's a super bowl of football field You want me to run a cable across that whole thing?

No way, man.

I don't know what to tell you, bud.

Do we want to do some advice i would love to help people

i work in retail and i've been noticing 69 come up in people's totally a total fairly recently it's your angel number

sometimes i feel like i accidentally emphasize it

but maybe i'm just in my head about it how can i be less awkward telling customers they owe 69 cents that's from minor 69er I'm assuming that you owe something that ends in 69 cents, not that you were selling any, because I don't think anything costs 69 cents these days.

These days?

In this economy?

Maybe one-tenth of one egg.

Get them.

Now,

here would be my concern, is that without even a subtle nod,

now you're leaving the window open where they feel they must acknowledge it.

Okay, that's interesting.

There's a moment hanging in the air.

You are in some ways doing a great service by taking that moment and pinning it down so that they are not expected to.

You could also lie and say 70.

And then they'll say, um,

sorry, I'm looking at the total.

It does clearly say 69.

Would you like to round up to 70?

Would you like to round up for uncomfortableness?

Would you like to round up for awkwardity?

The kids are awkward.

They need your help.

You know what?

68 cents, and I'll take a penny from the kids and they'll give a penny just to get out of this, please.

What about you could start saying like Spirit Halloween when they're like, will you be generous?

And as a reward, I'll write your name on this wall.

Thank you.

My greatest wish, I've always, now the memory of me will never die that Spirit Halloween has put me up on the Afrenda.

Or they say, here's two bracelets.

Yeah,

my kids want them, but I would rather you keep them.

Thank you, Spirit Halloween.

Perhaps you could start doing like an old-timey like 9 and 60.

Oh, that's cool.

Oh, it's 9 and 60.

9 and 3 pence.

Is that right?

9 and 3 score.

9 and 3 score pence.

Threpence.

A threepence and 9.

Ah, here's your change, Malone.

9 piece.

Babe, tonight.

It's Valentine's Day, baby.

You know what I'm thinking?

A threepence and nine.

We'll get something for both of us.

Maybe you could just start rounding to Nuff Zed.

Like, your total is 13 Nuff Zed.

You know what it's up.

I feel like this is, we've trod this ground before, but if we just had more sex numbers, then 69 wouldn't be as noteworthy when it did appear every day.

We should have them one through 100.

Well, I'm not saying every number one through 100 has a designated sexual position.

Well, which ones do you leave out?

13.

I mean, I'm not saying every number needs to be one, but if there were like three or four sex numbers, it would be less weird.

They're funny numbers, right?

There's 420, which is right.

There is 420.

What we need to do is once a week, you rotate the numbers to different numbers, but they mean the same thing.

So that way you can never keep track unless you're checking

my website where I will update the numbers in real time

for a fee.

Be like, babe, you know what I'm thinking?

It's Valentine's Day.

It's time for...

Shit, hold on.

The damn thing won't load.

75?

Do you guys ever find yourself when you're out

amongst unknown people and you do

have an opportunity to say the funny sex number?

Yeah.

Or 420.

Do you ever find yourself putting a little extra on it just in case?

Just to see, maybe as a little feeler to see if the other person is a fellow wanderer like yourself, a fellow journeyman who could get a quick little buzz up out of 60.

You know what I mean?

It's like, maybe we could just share a warm, quick chuckle.

You know what I mean?

Like, that's harmless fun.

Just recognizing that it's a funny sex number.

Sometimes you can see it.

So you give a little, but you just give a little, like a little, like.

Give me an example.

Show me an example.

This egg costs.

You need like plausible deniability, right?

Right.

So this egg costs

169, like $1.69.

How much?

Okay.

$1.

That'll be $169.

The laugh felt a little.

I'm going to do it again because it's always imperceptible.

Yeah.

That'll be $169.

No.

No, I think it would be

more like, oh, that's $169.

That's, Travis, that was really good.

Juice, you do it like that.

Travis, yours is scared.

Yours is scared.

I am.

Yeah.

That felt super natural.

You're like a boy with his hand caught in the cookie jar.

He hung the world's smallest lantern on it.

I thought that that was exquisite, Trev.

Let's say yours then.

Mine?

Okay.

Just like a.

That'll be a $1.69.

You hit it up at the end, and they're like thinking, like, why did he hit it up at the end?

And then they go, like, oh, 69.

That was his way of acknowledging it.

I no longer have to stay.

Oh, can I try it again?

Sure, Trev.

Okay.

That'll be $1.69.

oh woo

wooga wooga i don't i think the second

that was too much okay let me try again let me try it

oh that'll be a dollar 69

get it that wasn't okay the get it was you know that that was wrong can you just when the number appears on your cash register look at it and just go like ew gross like it if it does appear and it's like you're checking them out for one egg and it's a dollar 69 you just look at the register like oh god oh get that get that off of there.

Yuck.

Is this person, sorry, is this person buying a single egg at the grocery store?

Yeah.

I didn't know you could do that.

It's all anyone wants to talk about.

Fits in really nice bodega.

I can buy an egg.

Annual single egg.

Counter eggs.

Like an ostrich egg.

They'll stay good

for

a while.

I used to get a kick out of in retail.

It was very not uncommon for the total to be 666 and people to buy more.

And I always wondered if they were trying to get that going at Blockbuster because I got 666 a lot.

And it made me wonder if they had like combos of items where that would be a very common total.

Yeah.

They would try to get people to buy more stuff.

And here's what I would say.

If I found out about a company doing that, I would shut them down.

And they are not currently operating.

Oh, okay.

So

maybe they ran out of rope.

Maybe Blockbuster was an inside job.

Maybe, maybe, maybe they're, yeah.

Thank you, Travis.

Yes.

What combination of things, Justin, do you think that they could do some market research to be like the person who cares about 666

is always getting like this copy of Mac and Me and Snow Caps?

Yeah.

It was usually just like a package of Act II popcorn and a box of Juju Bees and an insistence that the Juju Bees tasted better when you bought them at Blockbuster, even though it was just the same.

But no movie with it?

Wait, there were people stopping at Blockbuster to get stuff?

Just for the cuisine?

Hey, guys, people stopped at Blockbuster for anything.

It was really a community hub where you had a

Mod general store.

Yeah.

It was kind of a hang spot where you could come and defraud a company until they went out of business and turned into an amp dance studio.

It was great for a hub for local news.

What was going on in the community?

It was a great place for

teenagers to go in and play Super Mario 64 literally for hours during the summer because they had nothing else to do.

Here's another question.

Brothers, my son won his school spelling B as a fourth grader this year, and I couldn't be more proud.

He's participating in the citywide B, but I don't know how to support him during the competition.

Can I hoot and holler when he spells the word right?

As a terrible speller myself, I don't know anything about spelling B decorum.

That's from Rejoicing in Richmond.

Yeah, I mean, it probably doesn't take too long sitting in one of those to figure out what the what is called for.

Play it cool for the first 20 minutes, like for this first 20 minutes, you try to stay completely motionless and silent.

And then, after you've clocked everybody and how they react to basically any outcome, that's when you can start reacting.

Yeah, oh, okay, but you know that there's not that kind of you're not going to get the same level of reaction for round one words as you're going to get for like round eight once you get into the the freaky stuff yeah once you get into like the five syllable words or whatever yeah i think that you would be safe with a superb

extraordinary just say superb yeah at room volumes superb superb don't yell it but they'll hear it it's a quiet room you don't need to project maybe like uh like you're clapping Like imagine you're in the audience of an opera and the main soprano or whatever has just finished a beautiful aria and you spring to your feet, but all tightly wound, right?

Like even you can't believe you've been moved to this show of passion as you clapped.

Yes.

Excellent.

I think that is typically the reaction, but I think you have to wait until they're done with the word.

I do know that you can't.

Don't clap mid-word when they hear the silent letter.

It would be great.

It would actually be pretty easy, I think, to sabotage other kids if you could mid-word just bust out out like a

oh

even if they're doing it right just to get in their fucking heads nice

I would be terrified that my kid would look at me for any sort of guidance help me pop spelling oh yeah like please dad will the word into my head please send it to me somehow what's the next letter here's the thing I think as a parent If I had to attend a spelling beef for my child, I'd be so excited for them first.

But the two best outcomes of course best outcome they win second best outcome they go out real early right because if they're not gonna win it's i yeah i don't know how i feel about being there the whole time right right

and so like i think i would more worry about not how to celebrate but how to lose graciously in a way that if my kid went out in the first round i wouldn't be like whoa okay that's a lesson bye it's this is how i feel about survivor on survivor, the winner is at the end, whoever gets the most jury votes.

The runner up is the person who got voted out first because everybody else lost, but that person's time to cheeseburger was much lower than everybody else's.

They can go to outback whenever the fuck they want to.

They didn't win, but neither did anybody else.

So first out's not a bad way to go.

It's more, it's more video game time for both me and the child.

I was in a spelling bee.

I was like,

whatever it was, county level or whatever.

I won one spelling bee, and then I went to the next qualifiers or whatever the fuck.

And I almost made it.

There was some bullshit about, like, oh, we can only start the last round when there's five contestants left.

And so I kept spelling words right, but there wouldn't be five contestants left.

So they had to do the round before over and over again.

And finally, I missed a word, and that was the one where they had five contestants left.

Mom took me to McDonald's afterwards.

I was so angry.

I'm so sorry.

I got a McFlurry, and then I was so fucking angry.

And as we were driving out of the drive-thru, I saw where somebody else had thrown their McFlurry at the wall at the side of the McDonald's.

And I remember thinking, like, you know what?

My problems aren't so bad.

Because I still want this McFurry more than I want to throw this McFlurry.

And I'm not going to let my impotent rage force me to not have this.

Because now you're still mad, and you don't have your McFlurry.

I'm mad.

I'm hurt.

I'm smart from learning all the words.

I'm not going to use that shit again.

Thank you so much, Spelling B.

And, you know, if you drop your McFlurry in the parking lot, I bet McDonald's is pretty forgiving about giving a child another one.

But if you're like, yeah, I dropped my McFlurry and I dropped it hard against your wall, I doubt that they're going to be like, oh, yeah, of course.

No,

you didn't got to be Dexter to figure out the...

The pattern on this one.

This was very clearly a McFlurry had been yeeted at the wall.

Pretty good.

Do you remember what word you went out on?

Does it haunt you?

I believe it was conscience, which that one gets you every time.

It's just a good time.

Do you want to do it again now and have a bit of C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E?

Like, I'll never fuck it up again for the rest of my life.

Wow, dude.

You've got that, huh?

Yeah, I got that direct.

Yeah, you got that.

Let me make sure I do got that.

Yeah, no, yeah, I do got that.

What do you think happened in the moment if you were going to break it down?

Do you think you just got the heat of the lights, the murmur of the crowd maybe got to you

um

i just spelled it wrong guys i don't know i got a lot of them right i should have made it on i should have can you imagine how different my life would have been if i had won that and then won state and then went to country and then i got famous for spelling yeah like at the spelling olympics i bet there's an international that must be tough though for kids that speak different languages Yeah, hey, that's not how do you that?

How do you do that?

That doesn't seem fair.

Yeah, that's true.

They should bust out words from other languages.

That would would really

for a loop.

Yeah, absolutely.

Must be tough.

Spell this one in kanji, motherfucker.

I doubt the spelling bee officials say that.

The judges of spelling beef.

You think you're so fucking smart?

The judges of Spelling Beast should be bitter, middle-aged former jocks.

Like,

you think you know everything,

huh?

Dougie?

You think I heard why I chucked tennis balls at you?

Hey, check this out, Poindexter.

Pop Culture Warn coming for you.

What's Elton John's best song?

Go.

Ron.

It's crocodile rock.

Dork, you're out.

You got all the answers, Elijah.

Why is my marriage failing?

Why am I going home to an empty house?

I mean, other than you and your sister, but yeah, I'm proud of you, by the way.

You're doing great.

I'm proud of you, so your next word,

aluminum.

Disappointment.

I'm a piano teacher, and I often get gift cards during the holiday season at the end of the school year.

A majority of the cards are received for Starbucks, but I'm not really a Starbucks kind of guy.

I'd much prefer a card for Duncan.

Had I dropped the hint, I definitely have shown up to lessons with dunks in hand, so I need some other strategies.

That's from Brewing in Boston.

I mean, I will launch out just to get ahead of this thing and say, there's a

lot of Duncan branded merchandise awaiting for you to help spread the word that you and this brand are basically synonymous i mean you america runs on dunkin and so can your wardrobe honestly there's a lot of great looks to choose from but your position on donut their donuts is that oh if this sorry it's i was business is called dunkin donuts i was shocked

i was trying to

i think it's just dunkin now actually i think they dropped the donut i was trying to approach this in a

uh in a helpful way but i will say that yes travis it isn't just called dunkin because they realized they could no longer call them donuts with any sort of like clear conscience.

It's America's worst donut,

one of our great brands, but truly, truly inedible

with the main product that they are named after.

Just truly despicable, despicable donuts.

But they do have a lot of merch.

Yeah.

So if you want, if you start wearing their merch, then I bet that people are, it'll get to a point where it would be insane to get you anything else.

Do they have a jingle that you could incorporate into piano lessons?

The Dunkin' Donut, the Dunkin' Donuts Company?

I'm saying if they had some kind of Dunkin' Donuts jingle, that that was like the only thing you taught your students.

Yeah.

Okay, yeah, I got it.

Dunkin'.

That was cool.

And now our third participant in the piano recital, once again, it's

Steve playing dun dun dun dun dun dunkin' the third time you've heard dun dun dun dun dun dunkin today so that hits juice that has a good

dunkin'

hold on it turned into mario a little bit there

that has the benefit of sounding not unlike the super mario brothers music drink our drinks don't eat our eats don't worry about our sandwiches they are burned every food we make tastes like a break

the hash rounds were an absolute mistake.

We sell eggs folded in half and bacon that is sweet for some reason.

It is all so raw.

It's a bad restaurant, man.

Yeah, it's yeah.

How come all their drinks taste like when you drink it, like they need to clean out the machine?

That's always my reaction when I drink a drink when they're asking to clean that machine.

They did clean out the machine, and that's what's in your cup that you are drinking.

Shoot.

Anyway, now that we're done being elitist, I will say it's not elitist.

it's not elitist.

It's not going to be cheaper donuts.

The donuts at Jolly Pirate probably cost less, and they're going to be a lot better for you.

Any place in America doesn't mean that.

Some places in America are a Jolly Pirates donuts desert in that they don't, it's harder to suggest.

But I would suggest it's not when you drive to the closest Tim Hortons.

Or you're going to have a lot of outlets for Krispy Kreme.

This is

your local McDonald's probably has Krispy Kreme.

The local gas station probably has cream.

Support your mom and daughter.

Mom mom and pop speedies.

Hey, dad's meet up.

You talk about it.

Adopt a mom and pop donut shop and stop.

Nah.

You guys ever been to Krispy Kreme where you can watch them being made?

Oh, yeah.

It's like going to the slaughterhouse and picking a steak and saying, kill that one.

I get it, Justin.

Yeah, you know, you're watching them come out and saying, ah, freshly born donut.

I'm going to eat it.

Can

you

go to Starbucks?

Yes.

Spend all the gift gift card,

buying a big, a bunch of drinks and pastries, and then take those to Duncan

to sell to them in exchange for Duncan store credit?

Okay.

Can you go to a Duncan employee and say, like, do you like Starbucks?

Maybe we can do some sort of, some sort of swap.

Now, Griffin, can can I say

I would put money on the fact that there's a thing in a manager's handbook at Duncan that has specifically had to be put in that outlaws that says like we can't exchange the goods and services from Starbucks in exchange for goods and services from Duncan.

What I do with my money as a Duncan employee is my business.

Yeah, it's no one's business.

And if I want to buy someone's Starbucks gift card off of them for 50 cents on the dollar, oh, if you're getting that kind of deal on it, you'd be a fool not to.

Well, I always never miss a trick, Travis.

When there's a run on the Starbucks banks, I'm always in there buying up everybody's banks.

Because then you take those gift cards and you find out what are the hot mugs and travel cups that everybody's dying for.

You get those, you sit on them.

That's your nest egg right there.

Hey, how kick-ass would the scene in It's a Wonderful Life have been if

Jimmy Stewart's guy, he didn't have money.

Instead, he had like a Starbucks gift card with like a thousand bucks on it.

If people kept coming in and saying, like, I want to help.

And they were just dropping, there's like $2.50 left on this card if you want to use it.

And someone's like, Potter's buying up all the shares for 50 cents on a dollar.

And Jimmy Stewart's guy has to be like, okay, hold on.

Is anybody spending their money on coffee?

Yeah, I'll go out.

I'll get a bunch of coffees for everybody you guys seem really freaked out but if coffee's all you need i can cover that how much coffee do you need and please don't be greedy how much coffee do we have to bring you before you won't kill yourself me and my wife me and my wife just make it a pile we just got married and i was going to take her on the most kick-ass starbucks trip ever we were going to go from starbucks to starbucks i was going to take her to the starbucks i always dreamed of i saw in all my starbucks magazines and be like babe whatever you want when When I worked at that mom and pop coffee shop when I was little and I'd pull on the handle and make fire come out for some reason, I'd always wish to go to that Starbucks shop and I was gonna do it.

I was gonna do it too.

You need sorry, you need a venti?

No, you don't.

Hey, don't need a venti.

Come on.

You don't need a venti.

You need to get more sleep is what you need.

You need to get more sleep.

You need to get to bed early tonight.

I'd like a flaming rum punch.

They don't have those at Starbucks.

All right, boys, let's take a break and we'll head on over to the money zone.

Whoa.

Exciting.

Is that a new year?

It's a new month.

Fuck.

It's a new month.

Both of you do the ad the way you were going to do it.

It's also not a new month.

This is coming out on like the 17th.

Oh my God.

It's the middle of the month.

No, what were you going to say about a new month and a new start?

Are you the only person alive in the country for whom time seems to be moving at an accelerated rate?

And it is not absolutely creep, creeping along.

We're halfway through.

What about a wild?

Keep going, Justin.

It's a new month.

It's a new month,

February.

And that means it's time to start getting your finances in order.

I will say, Justin, that this attitude of it's a new month and time to get your shit together at the 17th is how I feel.

Every minute, I'm like, I should have gotten my shit together back at the beginning of the month.

Next month, I'll definitely.

Okay, so let me, let me, yeah, let me rephrase what I was saying.

It's a completely nondescript time of the year, but it's not super late in the year.

Yeah, but it's a good time.

It's not too late.

There's still time.

There is time for you to think about your money.

Rocket money is the best way of doing that because you can sign up with Rocket Money.

They're going to look at your subscriptions.

They're going to look at your accounts and help you to figure out the best way to save a few bucks and take control of your finances.

They will not look at your private browsing history.

They will not.

Yeah, unless you ask them to, unless that's like part of it.

No.

They can have a financial accountability and a spiritual accountability partner.

That's right.

Great point, Trev.

They can monitor your spending to help you reach your financial goals.

And your sinning.

And your sinning goals.

If you have goals for how many offenses you want to commit in the eyes of our Lord.

I guess it could be how many or how few.

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You already are.

It's that easy.

Okay, cool.

I do have a wiki out.

The wizard is here.

He's come down and he is here.

A bunch of people sent this one in.

Thank you, everyone.

It's how to grind.

Feel like getting freaky on the dance floor?

Want to send a sexy message?

Or just have some suggested fun?

Grinding is a form of dance that requires you to move your hips in a circular motion that matches your partner's and to let loose and have some fun.

Once you know how to grind, you can show off your sexy moves at any party or club.

Read on to find out how to do it.

I'm so thankful for this because when I Google how to grind, I get such a variety of topics and then I get very confused.

A lot of business bros, like a lot of business pros.

I have five days in my day, a lot of skating,

both inline and board.

I get a lot of meat-related stuff, which I think I would get in trouble for doing that on the dance floor.

Yeah.

Yeah,

it's not,

you'll lose your food handler's license doing that.

Indeed.

I do take umbrage with once you know how to grind, you can show off your sexy moves at any party or club.

I can think of

a hundred parties or clubs where that would not actually be appropriate or acceptable.

Yeah,

most clubs, actually, Elks Club, Elks Club, just

golf club.

Golf club.

Can't do it.

Club Dred.

Club Penguin.

Birthday parties of most ages,

of nearly all ages, I will say.

It's not like that's a big one for me.

Christmas party is not, you're probably not going to do it a lot

there.

Depends on your religious party.

I'll tell you, I can think of fewer parties where you can grind at than parties where you shouldn't grind.

I actually am sitting here thinking, I don't think there's a Christmas party where it's appropriate because even in an office setting amongst adults, I would prefer as an HR director that they not grind.

I do not want you.

I do not want you to.

If the cast of MTV Spring Break has

a Christmas party for their company, they'd be like,

But even then, you wouldn't want to work.

You wouldn't want to work off the clock.

No.

Well, yeah, but also they're wearing suit and ties in the viacom like headquarters in manhattan and they haven't done it for 15 years i'm trying to actually think they're all pretty confused as to why they're doing mtv spring break again in the year of our lord 2025 when the cast of mtv spring break travis is working do you think they work at the beach do you think their job is at the beach they are those are young professionals of the viacom corporation well sometimes i mean when they're on location filming they're working yeah that's work for them.

It doesn't feel like it, though.

Approaching your partner.

Listen for the right music.

While you're waiting for some hip-hop or house music to come on, scout the dance floor for some partners that you might want to grind with.

That's insane.

That's hugely inadvisable.

I mean, just beyond the pale.

I mean, as so unwise.

As a thought exercise, as a harmless thought exercise, personally, like I can't control what you think, man.

And I will say this.

Scoping the floor for babes is one of the most highly detectable human activities that is known to exist.

We are all on a 100% swivel for it.

100% of the time.

You will never go through that.

Evolutionarily,

genetically,

we are good at this.

And not only that, but we...

Human beings can clock it when done naturally.

Now add the spice of you've been told to do it by a wiki how article.

oh yeah they'll see that all over your face man all over you've got a neon sign above your head you're sunk already just reading this you're sunk buddy you had to look up how to find out travis that should it should the first face should be like you shouldn't no like look how you got here and meanwhile while you're over there in the corner waiting for a hip-hop or house song to come on that you can grind to I'm on the floor.

I've been grinding to everything because that's the secret is consistency.

is not you can sit and wait and wait and wait all day and miss the whole dance but if you can't grind to some gin blossoms then what are you even doing

find your partner if you're brave you could go up to a potential partner and ask hey you want to dance I do feel like you do have to be pretty specific and say like do you want to do you want to grind

and not just say dance because there's lots of different dances but there's really only grind of me there's only a few that involve

rubbing like

I would also say

rubbing is racing.

I think

this being an optional step to ask if they want to be ground upon.

Yeah.

It's not optional.

It's not optional.

No, I'm saying, but dance doesn't cover it.

No, dance doesn't.

Dance doesn't.

What if they're picturing a waltz?

Yeah.

A little foxtrot.

If you can waltz and grind at the same time, though.

Is there music where the grind is implied?

A pony by Genuine.

Bump and Grind?

Gonna make you sweat?

Yeah.

Rhythm is gonna get you.

I want place that booty on my

groin.

Gyrate.

And gyrate away, my queen.

One of Celine Dion's pleasure.

Celine Dion presents

booty on my groin.

And gyrate, queen.

And other hits to make love to.

That's the album that the theme from Satanic was on.

Do you know that?

My heart will go.

That's a track.

If she busted that out at one of her shows,

that building would go thermonuclear.

Holy shit.

Is she really playing Put That Booty on My Groin and Gyrate Queen?

What do you think the funniest song Celine Deon sings?

Like, what do you think the funniest song at a Celine Deon concert is?

Okay.

Mac the Knife.

That's about it.

And she does Ray Stevens the streak.

Yeah, I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

Like, this used to make us laugh.

Ray Stevens is

uncomedy genius.

Oh, yes, it's not even the streak.

Don't look at him.

Get into position.

Usually the guy gets behind the girl to start grinding.

I don't need instructions on this.

Thank you, WikiOw.

However, you can always grind face-to-face.

Okay.

What?

Or side to side.

Yeah, I guess you can.

Maybe you want to leave room for the Holy Ghost.

That's insane.

That feels like such an edge case.

That feels like such a huge outlier that it's insane.

You felt like you had to include it.

It's like saying you can dance or you can dance on the ceiling.

And it's like, yeah, I guess if I was in a special room, like in breaking two electric boogaloo, but.

I would make the argument that if you are someone who is about to engage in face-to-face grinding, you don't need a wiki how article to get you there.

Like there's a level of confidence and skill associated with it.

You don't want to go for that your first time.

Why even introduce that as a possibility?

That should say this is possible.

Parentheses, do not attempt, read further.

Yeah.

Well, in the advanced article, we'll discuss the possibility of face-to-face grinding.

Here's where the.

They might as well say you could grind with three people at the same time.

Exactly.

Yeah.

No, I guess, like, I guess so, sure.

I guess so.

There's not like a law.

There's no law against front-to-front grinding, but it's like, why are we doing it that way?

That's so antithetical to the spirit of the thing.

This is where wheels fall off for me.

Part two, grinding.

Awesome.

Step one, move your hips in the same circular motion.

Well, normally, I don't want to read all this.

The girl's hips should move in a circular motion.

The guy's hips should match that motion.

My two reactions to this.

One.

If you go counterclockwise to it,

do you both burst into flames from the layers of the circle?

No, but that's

because then you only get one contact at one degree of the circle right you might also get stuck to get yeah but

what if you're what if your ram gets off and now you're just missing each other on dry though

i don't think that's right

i don't think i went to a lot of you know uh formal dances in my youth where grinding was taking place i don't remember seeing perfectly like a

yeah, you don't want an NPC waiting, you don't want Mortal Kombat like before they fight circling.

Yeah, I was like, listen, I'm an ally, I'll just say it.

I think it has to be poor girls.

I celebrated you thank you very much.

Anybody can grind on anybody, you know what I mean?

I think

grind is grind is grind is grind, is what I'm saying.

So good,

it's really lovely of me.

You know what I mean?

Thank you so much, and it's lovely and cool.

Yeah, Anybody can dry hump anybody on the dance floor as long as they're consensual.

It's not taking place.

It's not a thing where you explore the plane with your, with your move.

Like there's an you've added an axes or two to the movement and thrown your credibility into question in a big way, WikiHow.

Juice, you look uncomfortable.

Do you not like talking about this kind of stuff?

I was the generation before grinding.

So there's a part of it where my generation invented it.

Yes.

It would have been very unseemly when I was a child to have ground.

And I feel like me commenting on it at this point is tantamount to ageism.

I feel like I'm the judgment of the old.

I never had my chance to grind.

You know, I didn't have that option.

Our age gaps make this so wonderful because, you know, you were before grinding.

I was prime grind.

All I did was grind 24-7.

And then

it was already ironic.

I was both for me.

Yeah, Grimm was posted.

Yeah, it was ironic for me when I was when we were grinding.

It was like, yeah, right.

You yelled at over the music.

Yeah, right.

Can you imagine?

You know, it's interesting as things come back around.

That is a phenomenon where, like, suddenly I've found that my kids, especially Charlie, who's a little bit more like trend aware, will like be into stuff that was a thing that was cool when I was a kid that I know about.

And

they hate that,

which is so surprising to me because I thought it would be more of like a interesting.

We have a common, no, that makes it bad.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, it makes it badder that I know of it.

It's worse.

It's like a bad, it's bad.

It's not common ground.

It's just that they hate that I know of it.

Yeah.

That's a von.

But it doesn't make them not like it anymore.

They just hate the fact that you know about it.

And I try to keep my mouth shut.

Yeah, that's what I try to do together.

Try to keep it to myself.

But do they know how important their approval is to us?

Yeah,

they know that as well as they know their own names and they kind of dangle it in front of me all the time.

Charlie and Cooper approve of me left and right because they're not, because I'm not their dad, right?

But they got to push me to, they have high expectations for me.

Yeah, and they're not.

Well, they push you because they love you.

Yeah.

But they know I'm not going anywhere with my life.

Right.

I need you.

And they provide you the support that you need to achieve those goals that they do set for you, Juice, which I think is.

They do not.

They do.

They don't.

They yell at me for apples.

They do.

Okay, but you don't see Justin.

You don't don't see the motivation.

They come to me every day at the end.

They're like, I hated having to yell at him for apples.

They really hate it.

I hate it.

I hated having to do it.

But if I don't hated yelling at him for apples, I hated biting into it, but not even finishing the bite.

So there's just teeth marks and it's making it down Durant.

And I talked about how hungry I was for an hour and a half before he gave me that apple, and then I took one bite.

And I hated having to do that.

But if I don't do that, he's not going to be the best Justin he could be.

Yeah,

I hated screaming at him that i was missing something so i couldn't go to sleep and not knowing what the something was and but insisting that there was something i hated to do it but you know he's never going to achieve greatness yeah unless they're pushing him to his limits and look at you justin almost there almost

getting closer than eating closer than ever one assumes closer than ever

um I do just a last thing.

I want to leave this one behind, but there is a section called Improving Your Technique.

And the first step in it is do the side-to-side grind.

Dancing the exact same way can get old after a while.

So, once you and your partner have been grinding the traditional way for a while, go for the side-to-side move.

This way, I'm going to adjust the language here a bit.

This way, the little grinder moves to the left while the big grinder moves to the right.

The little spiders,

gender-neutral grinding instructions, little grinders and big grinder is on the right, so they're always on opposite sides.

Though you'll be turned away from that.

That's how sides work.

I don't need a wiki article for that.

Is this

challenge?

One of those challenging things where you're going to be able to do it.

It's almost like a like a grease.

I got it.

I got it.

It's like a horizontal grind rather than a lateral.

It's important you keep your synchronized, perfectly circular motion.

As long as you guys are doing the exact same motion, there will be zero friction whatsoever.

And that's the goal, people.

Yeah.

I see some people.

Wear slippery pants is important too.

So many people grinding, and you can hear the fabric rubbing together, and it's like wrong, wrong wrong wrong no corduroy you could start a fire you need to synchronize your circular motion so that you do not rub against each other at all yeah at all that's that's the way that it is intended to go and hope no one sees you you can't let anyone see you do this dance it is of paramount importance you this is important if i was a dj

And I don't know how I'd feel like, would I feel respect for the first couple grinding?

Like, I've started the dance.

But how soon?

If it's like first song plays and immediately someone's grinding, is it like, oh, I get it.

Yeah, I mean, Trav, famously, most weddings do have a special kickoff event.

Oh, I was thinking school dance.

I wasn't assuming this was beginning at a wedding reception, not kickoff dance.

That would be kick-ass, though, if the first dance ended and you and your partner just ran out on the dance floor gasping for air, like, oh, thank Christ.

We can, oh, thank God, we can grind.

Now that we're married,

now that it's legal in the eyes of Christ.

God, you guys picked the longest first dance song fucking ever.

I was grinding in my chair.

These hips gotta grind.

Grind.

Oh, right.

I lied.

I want a munch.

I want to munch.

Squad.

It's podcast with the podcast profile.

The latest greatest brand eating Travis.

Go ahead.

Took me a second to connect that.

I lied

to when we asked if you had a munch quad, and you said no, and not just a little confession.

I lied about it.

I was an idiot killer.

I did it.

I just want to celebrate Little Caesars for returning to a grand tradition that honestly has been sadly missing a little bit, and that is the press release for the thing that absolutely did not need a press release and certainly not one that is this long.

Little Caesars reveals Super Bowl ad featuring new bacon and cheese crazy puffs.

Little Caesars, which it says here, Little Caesars, the third largest pizza chain in the world and the official pizza sponsor of the NFL, is featuring a breakthrough ad in Super Bowl Licks starring Emmy winner Eugene Levy and showcasing the all-new bacon and cheese crazy puffs that will leave fans saying, tastes like whoa,

long after the big game concludes.

It tastes like whoa.

Tastes like happy tastes good.

Now, I think you guys are saying at this point, oh, Eugene Levy and a Lil Caesars commercial.

Cool.

No, no, no, they're not done.

Come back.

The 30-second spot showcases Eugene Levy in a hilarious, jaw-dropping moment of astonishment where the irresistible flavor of crazy puffs causes his iconic eyebrows to comically disappear.

Adding to the fun

Levy's daughter.

Sorry, you want what?

To disappear?

Yeah.

Fade from existence?

You're already laughing, right?

But adding to the fun, Levy's daughter, Sarah Levy, also known for her role in the Emming-winning series Shit's Creek, makes a cameo, infusing the ad with a playful family dynamic.

I can't wait to watch this fucking thing, man.

Oh, you're going to.

Little Caesars has a history of partnering with Hollywood stars and top talent to deliver culturally relevant campaigns like one starring eugene levy

and his daughter sarah levy from shitts creek the spot uh little by featuring eugene levy an acclaimed and beloved comedian little caesars reaffirms its commitment to bold and memorable storytelling levy's charisma and universal charm enable the brand to connect with audiences in innovative ways, extending its reach beyond traditional food marketing.

Awesome.

Because now that it's a fucking vision to put Eugene Levy in it.

The draft of this presented to somebody, I'm like, am I making too bold a claim regarding what people associate?

No.

When you're like, we have a history of using like big stars and stuff, or like our commitment to storytelling, is that weird for

brand?

When I saw the Little Caesars commercial?

My first thought is: what are the implications of this?

What are the implications as a brand for Little Caesars that this happened?

What's it all mean?

And why did Levy decide it?

He's like a storyteller.

But I was so excited to see because I feel like they lost their way for a while in regards to storytelling, and they were mostly focused on making pizzas.

And now that they've recommitted themselves to storytelling, I can't wait to see what the the LCU

gets up to these days.

They had a story that worked, and it was

little Roman guy with a spear taps it on the ground and the two pizzas flick.

And he likes both of them.

He's excited.

They didn't have to do as for the longest time because their pitch was this.

We will give you two pizzas.

You know how everybody else gives you one pizza?

We will give you two.

We'll give you two.

That's why you're buying one and we will give you two pizzas.

That's our model.

And they don't do this model as much anymore, but that was the model for a long time: you had to take two pizzas.

This spot launches Lil Caesar's newest campaign, spotlighting its wildly popular crazy puffs line.

Joining the top-selling pepperated crazy puffs and four cheese varieties, bacon and cheese promises to be a fan favorite with a blend of modern

Munster and Cheddar Cheeses pizza sauce and topped with apple wood smoked bacon, a buttery garlic-flavored drizzle, and Parmesan cheese.

Now, I know what you're thinking.

Now that you know all about Eugene Levy and the puffs and the ad, there's certainly nothing else that could be in this pressure what could there be here's another quote this ad is all about celebrating the bold crave-worthy fun that is little caesars thank god and the addition of bacon and cheese crazy puffs takes it to a whole other level

said greg hamilton how long is this ad

with eugene levy at the helm we've created a spot that's as deliciously entertaining as crazy puffs themselves working with such an iconic talent showcases our commitment to delivering not only amazing flavors but also unforgettable brand experience.

Can you guys fucking imagine what it was like on that set?

Just between everything.

First of all, busting up because Eugene is doing his thing and his eyebrows are gone.

That's fucking

probably also tearing up because of the family element of it.

Of now, his daughter's there on a cameo.

And they know what they're doing is important.

Like, it's important.

And it's a tough time.

But

it's 53 minutes long.

It's seconds, but okay.

Listen, here's the thing, guys.

You won't be able to hear this.

So, what we'll do is anytime there's words, I'll just say them.

Okay, is that

gonna be insane?

Yeah,

so he's

also coming out and he's uh

he's it's Eugene Levin.

He's got some crazy puffs.

He's about to bite one.

All right, little Caesar's crazy puffs.

Whoa,

huh.

Is this a bad kid?

Birthday cake comes in.

It is so cute.

My dad's eating crazy puffs again.

Don't ask.

Whoa, have you tried the new bacon ones?

There are bacon ones?

Pizza, pizza.

Horrifying.

It's pretty scary.

I don't want my eyebrows to fly away from my face.

Or terrorize...

I don't want my eyebrows to fly off my face and land on a strange baby that I don't know.

Seek out my daughter for some kind of comfort and guidance.

Embarrass my daughter and her fancy lunch that she's having.

I love the implications here, too, the deeper implications that Eugene Levy, noted movie star, comedian, public

person,

has lived such a sheltered life that eating just what appears to be the cheese crazy puffs is enough of an experience to drive his eyebrows off his face.

Yeah.

What do you think it's like having a body feature that's so

memorable and prominent that it becomes the absolute

cornerstone of an entire Super Bowl?

I feel bad because he's got to feel trapped.

Like it, he, he may have days where he wants to shave them off.

Do you think him and Peter Gallagher ever get together and just like talk about what it's like?

Oh, yeah.

It's probably hard.

Do you ever think about

just plucking them?

Do you think Eugene Lovey's ever like, no one ever talks about my huge balls?

Because his eyebrows is like the number one thing that people associate with.

I bet he says that all the time.

But if he had huge, huge balls and he would be angry that no one knows about that.

Yeah.

Wouldn't you be so pissed?

I'd be so mad.

Huge, beautiful balls.

The Super Bowl ad is going to be crazy.

They have a new fucking shrimp Alfredo flavor.

He eats them and you just hear a loud clunk.

It blows his balls off his fire.

The fucking press release is like, family is important to Little Caesars.

That's why in this commercial, the Muigi Levy's huge balls get blown off by our Shrimp Alfredo crazy club.

His son Dan Levy

shows up to be like, oh no, dad, not like this.

His best friend, Martin Short, is like, oh, no, not again.

Not your balls.

Not your biggest.

What beautiful balls?

When his comedian son, Dan Levy from Schitt's Creek is rollerblading and trips on his dad's huge balls as they roll away from his body because of the crazy buffs, that means family to little Caesars.

By the way,

everybody from Shit's Creek at the main cast has...

Is it a Super Bowl commercial this year?

Good for them, man.

Get that.

What an achievement.

Get that.

What an achievement.

Thanks so much for listening to our our podcast.

We hope you've enjoyed it.

I'm in tears.

And thank you, Eugene Levy, for.

Thank you, Eugene Levy, for your huge balls.

We're just goofing.

Just goofing and having somebody.

Unless you do have big huge balls.

I don't know.

I don't want to talk about it.

It doesn't matter.

I don't want to talk about you more.

Hey, but what I do want to talk about this week.

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Also, coming up here in May, Champions Grove 2025.

We got a couple packages left.

Don't miss your chance to be a part of the fun.

Justin, you were there last year.

I was, Travis.

I had a great time, and I think anybody that goes is just going to have the time of their lives.

And he buried a great treasure.

Yes, buried a friendship.

And yeah, it's the body of a friend.

So go dig it up.

Friendship is the best treasure.

Check that out at championsgrove.com.

Come hang out at a castle in Hawking Hills, Ohio with me and some other RPG creators and play some games and make some new friends and have a great time.

ChampionsGrove.com.

What else, boys?

We got merch over at mackerelmerch.com.

I want to highlight a wonderful poetry corner bumper magnet for your car designed by Dana Wagner.

If you're a fan of my wife's knowledge of poetry and how she shares it so generously on our podcast, Wonderful, then you can make that known to the world over at mackerelmerch.com.

And 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to World Central Kitchen, which uses the power of food to nourish communities and strengthen economies through times of crisis and beyond.

And

thank you so much also to Montane for these sort of theme songs My Life is Better With You.

If you are looking for ways to get involved, looking for ways to donate, we do have a list of the organizations and nonprofits that we've worked with or donated to over the years.

If you want to check that out, it's at mcelroyfamily.ca.co.

Do we have a wish?

We do.

Well, not a wish.

We have a feel.

Not a wish.

Well, I still will, I still call them wishes.

Okay.

Okay.

It's a wish to get over a fear.

Justin, do you want to read it?

i'd i'd be happy to try

this year

i'm going to stop being afraid of my pokemon team getting jealous if i spend too much time with just one of them

my name's justin macro it's a real mechanic in the game like if there's some pokemon only avoid my name's justin macro time i shouldn't have to be a little bit more

i'm griffin mcroy this has been my brother my brother may kiss your dad square on the lips

My life,

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

My life,

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

Cause it's true.

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

My life,

it's better with you.

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