MBMBaM 745: 2 Year 2 Naming

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 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,

oh,

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

This is true, all

It's better.

It's better with two.

My life

are.

It's better with you.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

We'll try again.

Nobody liked that one.

It's not that nobody liked it.

Let's unpack it.

Let's unpack it.

Let's take it out and unpack it.

Nobody liked tummy buddy.

It's not that no one didn't like tummy buddy time.

Or tummy buddy life.

Tummy life.

My wife, I told my wife that we had done it and she looked at me.

Oh, the sadness.

The energy from my wife was very much like, I'm trying so hard to support you in this, but I have to be honest.

That was it.

I'll tell you what it I did.

And then from there, the sort of like mind virus, I feel like those bad vibes from our wives emanated to like when we told people we pay to think we're funny.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they were like,

I don't know.

And then we told our staff and they didn't like it either.

So I know they liked it.

And then we did start to get a lot of sort of like

anatomically correct sort of stomach stuff that

there are some discussions that I would rather I've actually worked pretty hard, I would say,

to remove myself from.

It's just that I don't think people got it.

I don't think

they say, tummy, buddy life, that doesn't mean anything.

But then what I would come back to you with is

if it means nothing, maybe it means everything.

I, here's what I, the only thing I'm sad about it is reopening this is one, I hate.

I hate.

Yeah.

I hate that we all kind of knew that we had to try again.

And that sucked.

That sucked to get on this call knowing that we had to do it again.

Yeah.

We had to start over.

But the other thing that sucked is last night i had the idea of a cookbook called tummy buddy tempters and it we would ask all of our podcasting friends to give us one great recipe and it would be like a whole cookbook of tummy buddy tempters that's good there's a precedent set five years ago okay sure sure double named you oh baby this is not the i feel no we made this shit up there's no rules just right and it's not sparking joy inside of me personally i don't think it is for you two either i hear

it but that was

it was two hours plus change of recording where we kept talking about how hungry we were and then we ended up picking tummy buddy life do you think maybe those two things are maybe one begat the other i'm i'm following the i'm following the theme though a little bit because like dare to care i am daring to care that nobody liked the theme and i'm daring to care about doing a better job, you know, with it.

Yeah.

I care so much about this process

that I'm willing to subject myself to it again in the span of about four days.

I think we should see tummy buddy life for what it was, a cry for help

from

our stomachs saying, please eat, eat and try again.

Please dare to care about your podcast and live the tummy buddy life.

I didn't feel bad for everybody that rushed out to get their tummy buddy life tattoos.

Oh, you should have known.

I'll say this also about the response we've gotten so far.

We can handle the criticism.

It's not the criticism.

It's the people who jumped onto it so fast without recognizing this is clearly first thought, not best thought.

Well, not really first thought.

No, there was two hours of generative sort of like

process

that went into it.

Now, I'll start by saying this.

I don't have any ideas.

Okay, interesting.

What about 20 honey hopping?

No, wait, hold on.

Back to pieces.

No, wait, now go on.

Now, come on.

Are we sure?

Because there is like one more chance I feel like we could just be like,

just kidding.

It's 20 tummy buddy life.

Yeah, it's not too late.

This is cool because now we're standing on a different cliff.

It's like a quantum

point.

where we could say, just kidding, tummy buddy life rules actually.

And we're not about to do a part two naming of the two long, two hour long episode.

Okay.

20 Barney 5.

Now that we've let Ife into the room,

20 love my wife.

20 love my wife?

No one took umbrage with the IF.

It would be very generous problem that was not the problem at all and we understand that the slant rhyme people are into it and they accept it which really I think it's a whole new ballgame if we're letting Ife in there fill your life with laughter and love no 20

underlife 20 under life what lies below

20 underlife what lies below that's cool That's cool.

How come we didn't come over with that last time?

This is good.

We got all the bad stuff not last time.

20 underlife.

20 afterlife.

20 afterlife.

No, und, und, und, undy, 20.

Oh, you're right.

Undy 20.

United States.

Now that makes sense.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

20.

20 underlife.

20 hunting knife.

Long and beautiful.

Long and strong.

Long and strong.

20 pocket knife.

Under.

Und, under,

20 under

gang and you listening at home there's gonna be a lot of just sort of undulating a lot of just kind of like sound jazz you called down the thunder well now you got it by the end of this episode you'll be praying for tummy buddy life dare to care by the end of this episode you'll be writhing on the floor in agony praying for 20 thunder

self tummy buddy life would be that he was bleeding out in the corner.

You had your chance.

It's a corpse.

You don't get tummy buddy life.

You don't deserve it.

20 pirates life.

Who?

Und, under.

Unt.

Unt.

Unt.

Unt.

Why, why?

Untie.

20.

20.

It's a rhyming.

Untie.

Unt.

20 honey knife.

20 honey life.

20 under knife.

What's an under?

You're really all about under, so maybe we should stick with that first and then

jazz the life.

Undy

I'm not the problem with tummy life, also, is that there was going to be a lot of expectation of my tummy being out or my tummy being featured or paid attention to in any way.

I don't want to turn the conversation towards my undies.

I simply do not.

Yes, fair, fair.

I simply do not.

I would like to revisit 20 Overdrive.

I like 20 overdrive a lot but if we do that now

where's the episode do you know what I mean yeah I could I mean this it could just be part of this episode I also made a question list 20 over

you say what

you know what I didn't think it was funny last time and I still don't think it's funny guys I'm sorry it sounds like if you saw a poster of that and you saw us like revving engines you would think think that they,

you know, they, they legally forced the

kids in the hall to change their name or something.

We were, it just, I

20 Thunder Life, time to strike.

Thunder Life?

We can't live up to this macho toad.

This is what I'm saying.

Overdrive.

We can't, we're not overdrive guys.

There's fucking nothing about us that, and can I tell you the hypocrisy of tubby buddy life?

As long as we're shitting on it, yeah.

I'm not going to have lunch with anyone this year.

No, God, no.

I don't want to do that.

It's a, I can't go lunch.

I can appreciate the like trying to have it mean something, make it mean something,

but I'm not going to, I don't want to do that.

20 cozy life, live comfortably.

Not an option for a lot of people.

Not, not

doable.

20 cottage life,

wonder knife.

Now,

was there anything else?

There's not one knife

off like that.

20 Wonder Knife.

Find your blade.

Hmm.

Cool.

What does find your blade mean to you?

On the edge.

Yes, on the edge.

Ooh, on the edge is even on the edge of glory.

On the edge is bad.

Okay, on the edge means bad.

Feels kind of cool.

Like, it feels kind of cool to see that.

20

knife?

20-something knife on the edge.

If we decide what that means and how it could be good for us.

I don't want people to make a thing out of bringing knives to.

Definitely do.

Thank you so much.

Goddamn.

What is it about this year?

20 cosplay knife just for looks.

What is it about this year where every word we come up with sounds so dangerous or so unappealing?

Is it just this, this, is it just Ive?

Is it just I've ife?

Do we step away from that entirely?

Is it the IFE?

Is Ife, strife, Ives.

Yeah, knife, strife.

A lot of people

were pointing out that 25 is a quarter century.

So something along the lines of 20 quarter.

20 quarter.

20 quarter.

There's not a lot of words that rhyme with order,

but what I'll tell you about 20 quarter is it frees us from the three syllable

unani.

20-quarter,

go to

25 is the 4-Jubilee.

So maybe 20-silve.

20-butter knife.

20 butterknife.

I'm on rhyme zone.

Oh.

We're all on rhyme zone.

Oh, midlife.

What about crisis midlife?

20 fishwife.

20 fish wife.

What's that mean to you?

20 putty knife filling.

Stop saying different kinds of knives, please.

We're not saying that.

20 larger than life.

20 larger, 20, 20 larger than life.

20, 25.

20.

Or 20 quarter.

20 switchblade knife.

20 putting life?

20 20 court 20 okay 20 quarter brick and mortar this one means it's 2025 go out to the store go out to

instead of this is a year again against online shopping this is this is a year against online shopping

this is a year where you go to brick and mortar business businesses

okay quarter change

20 change

be the light 20

Here's the thing because we're changing too we're willing to change the year name 20 change 20 quarter be the light

20 quart

20 quart be the change 20 ton 20 quarter be the change

I hate coins so much.

Yeah, I don't want people to bring coins to our show.

Damn it, you're right.

I don't want a bunch of fucking chains jangling around.

We just put out a

big water jug at the front.

Have them put their coins in there.

Let Paul deal with it.

Keep the change.

All paper bells.

20 quarter,

flip a coin.

Flip a coin.

Heads or tails.

Make your own luck.

20 quarter, make your own luck.

20 20

honey quarter.

Change of business.

There's something about business that's really getting me, guys.

I think business needs to be in there somewhere.

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why do you feel that way?

Oh, because honey kind of rhymes with 20.

Let's decide right now whether or not we're ever actually going to do a honey thing.

Let's start there.

Let's decide right now.

Like for the rest of the decade.

Decade, yeah.

Ever.

I don't think we can make that call now.

I don't know what how actionable honey is.

A lot of people are into beekeeping now, and I'm just, I'm so

20

funny overdrive

20

funny sight.

Welcome to the

20 funny site

welcome to our web caught in our web 20 funny site caught in our web

like you're on our funny site

oh

i was thinking i g

like funny site yeah it's like a funny site like our show is a funny site that's cool i was thinking like s-i-t-e like an internet website.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I got.

Can the year be a plug for our website?

If we're gonna plug anything, I'm going back.

Maybe it could be C I T E and listeners can cite where our episodes used to be funny.

Like the annotation

subscribe.

Yeah.

20 funny vibe.

Vibe we did.

We did certain funny

Funny life.

20 funny wife.

They're better than us.

They would have come up with it already.

Can we acknowledge that if our three wives are sitting here?

I mean, if any other combination of three human beings on the earth were sitting in our chairs, they would have come up with a thing by now.

Yeah,

maybe the best or the right one.

Someone made a chart.

I saw it online.

of how long it took us to come up with each year name and it really shook me to my core because 20 Griffin we came up with in the span of about 90 seconds.

We came, and it was at the end of the episode.

We forgot to do it, and then we just fucking blasted it out.

Well, here's what happened: here's let's let's look at that, Griffin.

Because it used to be what changed, they used to

change.

Do you want to know what changed?

They used to make years that had the different sounding things, sounds in them,

didn't keep jamming 20 in there.

Then we got to 20, and now all we have 16.

Used to be 16

and now it's just 21 22 23.

Yeah, fucking boring

Maybe we reset maybe this is the new year one

20 x 2 5 20 x x x x V now wait hold on X V is looking pretty good right about now isn't it 2025 is something

X here's the rate 20 X25 is 20 X2 because it's 2020 right so 20x25.

2025.

It looks like a collab between 20 and 25.

Right.

No, it would look like a collab.

20x2

space 5.

So 200?

Oh.

20.

20.

Okay, here's, okay, here's, here's, here's, here's what we're going to do.

Okay.

Here's the game.

We're going to take turns.

We're gonna go to a round.

Oh, a game?

Oh, good, a game!

A parlor game.

Oh, fun.

I love games.

I love games and sports.

A menace is cactus.

We're gonna take turns.

Does the game have anything with us coming up with a tank turns?

There's three parts.

2025, right?

20, 25.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna go in a round.

One of us will say 20.

Another one of us will say a word that rhymes with 20.

And then another one of of us will say a word that rhymes with five.

And we'll just find it.

This sounds, Justin, like what we've been doing, only putting way less pressure on you.

20.

No, we'll take turns

in the first.

It's not always me.

Okay.

20.

20.

Wait.

So now I'm just rhyming five?

Well, you don't have to agree with this 20 again.

So just say five, and we'll get that one out of our system.

Five.

Okay.

Now you start,

Travis.

Okay.

Runny.

Bunny.

I'm already going to stop this one.

Okay.

All right.

Sunny.

We already did Sun and Sea.

I'm going to go ahead and stop this one, too.

I hate to dump all over the game juice.

No, no, no.

It's good.

It's good.

Let's just start with some 20s.

Yeah,

20s.

20.

20.

What?

Go ahead.

You go.

20.

Isn't that a toilet?

Okay.

What about spending money?

No, I don't want to talk about money.

Okay.

Oh, bad news.

That's a lot of the stuff that runs with funny.

Okay.

I know.

20?

This game sucks.

This is the worst game I've ever played in my life.

It feels bad to play it.

It was just a thought starter.

I know.

I will not do an a honey thing.

That we have agreed upon.

I said

punny with a P.

Nope.

Don't think puns are funny.

You guys are lost in the sauce.

If you guys think at this point we can come up with also a good joke about 20 and a good joke about Ife or Ive, then you've not been listening to me.

Ife for a knife.

I don't want to espouse that necessarily.

20 open-eyed.

Is there a metaphorical knife?

Is there a knife that's not tangible?

That you is there a type of knife you can't play?

There's no knife coming in this year's theme.

I could say for sure we're not going to mention knives.

I don't think we should have knives in there

personally.

That's that's strong coming from Justin.

That's strong coming from me.

I plan on talking about knives a lot this year.

20 pain and strife.

20 pain and strife is so good, Trav.

20, no more strife.

20 strive to thrive.

We have to keep making the podcast.

We do.

The law says we can't.

Mummy's alive.

Mummy live.

20 sleep deprived.

20 sun deprived.

20 sunder life.

20 more high fives.

20 thunder life.

20 thunder life.

What about that?

20 blunder life.

20

The sage is sleeping once again.

Let me retire to my hermitage.

Let him rest.

He sucked all his energy.

Let me consult with the vapors.

Okay.

29

20

20 cyber life

changed the game.

Cyber doesn't sound like it doesn't fucking matter.

We're not going to make the 20 rhyme just yet.

29 to 5.

That's just.

I'm giving up on 20.

Oh, wow.

I'm saying fuck 20.

If we can come up with anything, anything, anything at this point.

that is even

just even remotely sounds like I

I

continent.

I'll be totally, totally fine with it at this point.

And you just shit on 20 Cyber Life changed the game.

Can you think, Juice, about the...

I want to walk you through how actionable that would be for us.

We're gamers already.

We wouldn't have to do that much hard stuff.

Everyone else listening at home would be stoked.

They'd be like, I'd love a Cyber Life.

20 cold as ice.

I like where your head's at, Trav.

I mean, not

that one, but that you're willing to reach as far out as cold as ice, I think, gets me excited.

I'm going through the alphabet

20 under light, neon for everyone,

20 under light, neon for all,

20 satellite satellite, 20

satellite satellite

20 guiding light,

yeah, real religious.

That's how I like it.

20 angel lights.

That'd be cool if we follow it up.

There's a mushroom god who's like hanging out and watching you and listening to your wishes, too.

Their angels are real

and they are checking in non-stop.

20 angel life.

20 angel life there all around you.

Grunder,

huh?

Fuck yeah, man.

This is that good shit.

This is what I'm talking about.

There's not going to be words by the end of it.

Just checking in with you, listener at home.

How's tummy buddy life life feeling?

20.

Just want to check in with you at home.

How's Tummy Buddy life feeling?

Twenty all right.

Twenty all right.

It's better than it was.

Grab your feelings a million miles away because that's how far it is from you.

You'll never have it again.

20 drum and fife.

20 drum beat.

20 drum and fife.

Rat tat tap tap.

20 drum and fife

get in formation.

Get in line.

It's a hard.

That's a bad one.

It's a tough one.

20 Wonderlife, look around you.

Don't.

I don't know that if people looked around them, they would sigh contentedly and what a wonderlife.

No, that's right.

You're fake.

I mean, I met.

I

philosophically disagree with you, but I understand your sentiment.

20 under knife, fix it.

And we all get a lot of surgery to every part of the world.

Going under the knife is what you mean.

Yeah, going under the knife.

No problems I see with

no problems I see at all.

And it gets knives back in there, which I'm wild about.

I want to talk about Warby Parker.

Yes.

I can see clearly now the frames are here.

Oh, my God.

Right.

Like, because it's how it works.

Yes, because Warby Parker, they changed the game frame.

They keep changing it.

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I have many pairs of Warby Parker glasses at this point.

I'm wearing them right now.

These are the Chamberlains.

Gotten a lot of compliments on these puppies.

There you go.

You look classy as hell, Griffin.

Thanks, buddy.

You're welcome.

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That's warbyparker.com slash my brother.

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I don't know.

We're recording this after we finish recording the episode because you can't interrupt the flow.

I don't know where you're hearing this right now, but we do need to send out a lot of letters about the new theme name that we do come up with.

And I am not trying to lose my fucking shirt over that.

Yeah, luckily.

Luckily, I have stamps.com.

I own stamps.com.

Whoa.

You can own stamps.com too by going to it.

And then it's like, it's your part of you and part of your life.

Huh.

Because they make it so.

Oh, you own it like connection to it, not like any kind of legal ownership.

No, you don't, you can't make decisions for the company.

Yeah, you can't own a company.

But when you have a website on your computer, it's like you have it.

True, like you're participating in it.

Exactly.

It's part of the magic.

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That was in the ad copy, and I thought it would be fun to do like a Shakira thing, but I don't think it was good.

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I'm a little chuckled out.

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Also, if you are in Florida, we are coming for you February 20th, 21st, and 22nd.

Those first two dates to

do a show.

We're not coming for you in a threatening way.

No, in a fun way.

February 20th and 21st, we're doing Mabimbam and Taz Taz for the first time ever live in Florida in Tampa.

February 22nd is Mabimbam in Jacksonville.

Tickets are going to go on sale.

Oh, they're already on sale.

So you can go get them right now.

Go to bit.ly forward slash McElroy Tours.

Our clubhouse series, streaming series on YouTube, we're back.

We're doing episodes.

We just did, as of recording this, yesterday, an hour and 45-minute long book report on Yellowstone season one.

We've been doing a lot of jumbo Eps lately.

Yes, we have.

Absolutely.

You can go check that out.

Just go to Macroy Family on YouTube.

Also, there, we talked about we're doing a MIGGI plush with U2s.

It's available for two weeks starting on January 14th.

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So go get that.

Enjoy the rest of the episode.

I, we do, we'll get there.

Trust the process.

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We haven't learned about the history of gossip yet, have we?

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Okay, I've got here some words of the long I sound.

Great.

Fuck it.

Just go black.

Just have to read these out.

Evangelist.

Blaspy.

Ice, bike, bite, dice.

It's going to be butter.

Okay, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down.

Okay, wait.

How's 20 wonder bike?

20 hover bike.

Huh.

20 tandem bike.

No, it's not even close.

Okay, start over.

Ice.

I don't like

bike, bite, dice, dime, dice,

dice.

Dive.

file that's not it fine fire five

hide hike hire hive hike

20 take a hike 20 wonder hike now

20 wonder hike nature's all around you

wander 20 wander hike get lost it's with an egg

20 wander 20 wander hike I don't want somebody to die yeah trying to do this.

Yeah, kite, lice, life, like lime,

line, live, mice, nice.

They're going too fast.

I can't think this fast.

Wonder mice.

You say wonder mice.

Justin has to say wonder before all these, Travis.

You didn't let him do them again.

Hey, Trav, do the list again, but just add wonder.

Wonder each one.

Wonder bike.

Wonder bite.

Wonder dice.

Wonder dime.

Wonder dive.

Wonder file.

Wonder fine.

Wonder Fire.

Wonder Five.

Okay, you have to sound a weird disnaming a tech startup, and I can't.

I can't.

It does feel like I'm trying to come up with a

name for a fictional company.

Smile.

Wonder Smile.

Cool.

Wonder Smile.

It sounds nothing like 20.

20 big grand prize.

Are these the worst bits?

The silence?

Are those the worst bits for you guys?

Can I say why they're the worst?

Because there is always a bit of me, and it's the part of me that I've been trying to kill.

There's a part of me that hopes that one of us is about to bust through the silence

with

an absolute alt-timer.

It's got to come.

Eventually, it's got to come out.

Yeah, we knew it didn't last time, but we just were so hungry.

We had to stop.

But the jokes are like

doing an afternoon recording now.

I already eated my lunch.

I won't be hungry for a long time.

I got a lot of podcasts.

I got Calzone power.

Time to tithe.

Pay the piper.

We should just call it 20 blunder guys at this point, because that's where we are.

20 tire guys.

20 blunder guys.

2020 knife.

400 blades.

400 blades.

Cool.

Too much math.

We obviously can't do anything on the list from the first episode, but there's a lot of stuff on the list from the first episode that if one of you just said it spontaneously now, I would be like, yeah, absolutely, 2020 try to ramp it up.

But we can't, I do think it is fair that we, we must have some way.

It just feels like at this point, we're living 20 take a dive.

They can't all be winners.

I feel like that's the spirit that's being embodied.

And yet, our refusal to accept.

Is there something to, I don't want to encourage people to fail,

but what has been personally

transformative, a revelation I've had in my adult life, is that I oftentimes succumb to all or nothing thinking.

And that can stop progress, right?

It can stop you from even trying something because you don't know if you're going to be the best at it or the shittiest person in the world at it.

That's not how it works.

But that's the kind of trap your brain likes to get you in.

Something along the lines of a 20-take-a-dive.

That does sound like I'm encouraging people to fail, but they all can't be winners is

not a terrible sentiment to get out there well what i like about it is it's both take a dive as one might throw a match but also like dive in jumping in yeah

take it that's why i thought 20 dive 20 take a dive i meant to do that

and also you get urkel in there

Did Urkel say I meant to do that?

That was, that was always the follow-up.

Did I do that?

Yes.

Oh, I meant to.

Sorry.

They usually cut this really good part.

He was always really.

Who said I meant to do that?

Who's which sitcom character said I meant to do that?

Uncle Jesse.

Yeah, it was like a quote.

Tim the tool man Taylor.

No, Pee Wee Herman.

Sorry.

20 Cool Tool Time.

20 Cool Tool Time.

20 Cool Tool Time.

Under Hunter's Fife.

Hunter's Five.

under hunters five under hunters

under

under

under

undy

sunder

sunder time this isn't a podcast at this point right that's okay it doesn't need to be and don't you it's the second guessing that's actually is slowing us down read the list again griffin from last time Just read the list again.

20 Honey Hive Back to Beastness.

20 It's a Life, Rebuild the Monster.

2045, Welcome to the Future.

Pretty cool.

Okay.

Thunder Force 5, the Omega Continuum.

2020 Knives, 400 Blades.

20 Joined Yves.

Mighty Hustles.

Hold on, wait, hold on, wait, hold on.

Now, wait.

Now, listen, hold on.

If we were to take the theme 2045 at this point,

then all we would have to do is pledge that in 2045 we'll do Tummy Buddy Life.

We'll do Tummy Buddy Life, right?

So this was swapping.

It's just a clean swap, right?

So it's not even like we're bailing.

It's just like,

the year theme for this year was 20,

you know, Tummy Buddy Life, and we'll just send that to 2045.

Looper.

Right.

I think.

And then we'll take the year theme 2045.

Yeah.

For this for this year, 2045, Welcome to the Future.

We'll do that now.

Yeah.

and we'll just send the next one

20 years into the far-flown future now i like that part of it a lot where where we're kicking this can down the road 20 years

yeah yeah yeah i will say it does sound sort of like a celebration of the 45th president of our united states of america which i'm not wild about no

why not 2085

2085 2095.

Because 40 sounded closer to 20, but I see what I do see what you're saying, Trav.

If we're going to go to the future, why just 20 years?

That wouldn't make for very fun costumes.

We will not.

I think, Trav, there's some problems.

2055.

Mine felt 2055, maybe.

You know, clean living.

50 sounds like more.

Justin, that's 70.

Like, it's not that much.

I'd like to keep my expectations low, you know.

55 sounds more futuristic.

50, 50, 50,

50, 50,

55.

Sorry, what was that?

Flifty-five.

It's too easy.

I didn't realize it's not Italian.

Bunty, runty.

Runty dive.

Blunty dive.

And why not 3025?

Fuck yeah.

What at 6219?

20 Cyber 5.

20 Cyber Life.

The game has changed.

Well, Cyber Life Welcome to the Future still works.

But I don't want to sound like we're embracing AI.

That is what it sounds like.

That is what.

Circle of Life?

20 We're Alive.

No bots.

Only dreams.

Hmm.

Real dreams only.

So just to summarize, it would be.

20 in your life.

Real dreams only.

I'm sorry, did you say 20 in your life, real dreams only?

20 in your be in like be in your life.

Real dreams only.

There's nothing

of substance.

There's something for me to...

There's nothing with chew or depth.

20 human life.

20 Thunders Cry.

20 Thunderstrike.

20 Thunderstrike.

Hmm.

Thunder doesn't really strike, though, does it?

It's the sound.

20 Thunder Wife.

I already said Thunder Wife, and no one reacted to it at all.

I just don't know what a Thunder Wife is, I guess.

You know, like if you married Thor.

I guess so.

20 Lightning Strike.

20

Thunderbike?

That's cool.

It's not going to be it, but I'm glad you said it because it's cool.

It's a cool thing to think.

Like, I'm so tired right now, but sometimes we're saying stuff that's like cool to think about, like something like a Thunderbike.

What about if the year name is just what is Thunderbike?

can i say the reason i liked it is because i was thinking about the posters that we would have at live shows yeah how like everyone would just be us on a thunderbike that's cool so

that's cool is there anything to hey let's just take a second just as a joke

it's kind of cool to think about yourself on a thunderbite it really is right

yeah and

and maybe it's something like if you get scared

if you get if the year makes you scared, you think about yourself on a microphone.

And not a motorcycle, but like a bike, like an actual bike, like a bicycle.

Yeah.

And so like, what's actionable about it is it's like when you get scared, you can think about the thunderbike and then you'll feel a little bit better.

And it's got, and it's yours, but only in your imagination.

Now, if we went 20 tandem bike, people could draw it as a thunderbike if they wanted to.

But 20 tandem bike in this together.

Picture the three of us in like old timey, like strawberries.

Tandem bike's not going to make you stop being scared.

Yeah, because you're not alone.

I'll pedal for you if you need me to.

We're going downhill.

You're not on that bike alone.

I'm there with you, buddy.

20 Thunderbikes

demand

tandem thunderbikes.

20 Thunderbikes demand abundance.

Demand abundance

is what you want more of

20

Thunderbikes is so many, right?

Yeah, almost so many.

Because you only have the one set of legs.

Expect abundance.

Expect abundance.

Expect abundance.

Oh.

Recognize abundance.

20 recognize.

20 recognize.

20 number spike, a big bump

in

the tally.

20 number spike.

Bump in the tally.

20 how time flies.

20 no goodbyes.

Why don't we just call this this is the last year we'll make the show 20 last goodbye.

And we'll just know we're never doing the year naming again.

Dundo.

This is just an off year for us, Trav.

Next year we're going to crush.

Remember we talked about Blunty for like a long time?

Yeah, what's Dundo?

Don't change the subject.

You can't just say dundo.

Who do you think you are?

Like, you said dundo like it was a conversation.

What do you think your job is?

What do you think your job is?

Dundo, like it was going to spur us all on.

You just said dundo, and then you really quickly

sorry, babe.

It's going to be a little while before I can record Schmanners.

We're still working on the year.

We went back, we dove back into it.

I thought, I was about to say, okay.

I was about to say Dundo Kive, and then I thought, that sounds like a Star Wars character.

Yeah.

So I said half of it, and before I could stop myself from saying Dundo Kive, I just said

that's a story what happened with Dundo Kive.

And someday you'll be reading a Star Wars Almanac

about Dundo Kive.

20 Jumbo Wife.

My huge

wife.

20 Jumbo Jive.

No!

No!

20 Gunner Knife.

Just want to get it out.

You guys keep thinking about 20 Thunderbike.

I don't know why you keep making me bring that back up.

Man.

It was pretty good, I guess.

I feel like I'm recording this to myself at this point.

Well, a little bit.

Because I feel like

there's not a part of us.

Can I say the part of the part the problem?

Yeah, please.

Okay, seriously, look at me for a second.

Engage with me.

I'm here, baby.

Part of the problem is that we are just spouting things.

We're not building and nothing can get momentum just saying it.

We got to explore some of these ideas to see if there's anything there.

Just to like bat it around a little bit, you know what I mean?

Just uh, just to

so, like, ride the thunderbike, charge ahead.

Hmm.

Now, wait, Juice, this is interesting because you're you're trying to say a thing

to try to help me and Travis, and it's to help us do our best and make our best.

So, is there

a year name in that in what you just said?

How do you mean

like a like a tandem bike work to 20 20 20 20 wonder bike.

I feel like, Justin, you want the undo feeling so bad that you refer to and you refuse to engage with.

You also want bike.

And that's...

You can't have both words, man.

I just want you all to picture the three of us riding a tandem bicycle and tell me it doesn't fill your life with joy.

Tandem

bike

25.

There's just no, I mean, maybe meter, but that's about it.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't realize that we had

we're so close.

We're so close.

I can tell that we're so close, but if we get nasty with each other now,

when we're so close, it will have been for you.

You're right, you're right, you're right.

I apologize.

20 underground

20 thunder crimes

20 thunder guys, 20 thunder time

Thundertime.

20 Thundertime.

20 Thunder Drive.

Go on.

I am speed.

What?

Say it again.

20 Thunder Drive.

I am speed.

20 Thunder Drive.

20 Thunder Drive.

Faster than Fear.

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear.

Like you're driving into the storm.

Oh, wait.

A Thunder Drive.

A Thunder Drive is like you're driving into the storm.

Yeah.

A cool storm chaser type, if you will.

Chase the storm.

Ride the lightning.

Now, I don't want to.

20 Thunder Drive

into the storm.

Into the storm.

Faster than fear hit like way better than anything we've said

so far.

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear.

Does that just mean

not be afraid?

Like, don't be afraid?

No, it's okay to be afraid.

You just have to move faster than your fear.

Okay.

Don't let fear stop you.

There's a storm.

Storm in front of you.

It's making scary noises.

It's not here yet.

No, but you know that no matter how little sense it makes, it's harder for the lightning to hit you if you're moving.

You're going to drive faster than fear.

You're going to drive through the storm.

Through the lightning.

through the thunder unless you've been advised not to by authorities you know what i mean like you know a trusted source.

But this is mostly

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear.

Faster than fear.

But within reason.

But

if the government says

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear within reason.

There's an asterisk.

Faster than fear.

Right.

Asterisk within reason.

You know what makes me happy?

What?

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear?

Yeah, it's that we have it taken us 45 minutes to get here.

Yeah, there's no way we would have recorded for three solid hours.

No, it just so happens that this one took three hours to come out.

You know what I mean?

Like, it just took this long to get here.

What are you going to dress as?

What are you guys going to dress as?

For 20 Thunder Drive?

Probably Glenn.

I mean,

I don't know that that'll hit.

From Twisters?

Yeah, I'm into it, dude.

Yeah, for sure.

More like a full racing suit.

Racing

storm, man.

We got to hurry up and tell McKay before she draws anything else

with the old theme on it because I think everybody's going to be pretty excited about this one.

Now, is the asterisk within reason canonical or is that more of a vibe?

Because I do like the idea of every post

as an asterisk, you know, just sort of

dude, let me google Thunder Drive and make sure it's not like a new racist truck.

A new electric racist truck.

Is that a truck for racist or is racist?

The truck is racist.

Thunderdrive.com looks like it's just being squatted, which makes me feel pretty good.

Yeah, but there is a there's a cloud-based technology company.

oh that's whatever well i don't care about that yeah maybe

it's not the best reviewed good well that's fine we're not gonna use them

that's all the more reason for us to use the name there's no confusion

because we crush it every single time except for this

20 Thunder Drive faster than fear.

What are we telling people?

We just explained it to you, Griffin.

We explained it to you

already.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're going to move faster than your fear.

Yeah.

You're going to take it.

Right.

Definitely.

I get that you've got to go faster than your fear.

What does that mean?

It means don't let fear stop you.

Like if you sit there and think about all the reasons not to do something, you'll convince yourself not to.

You need to move before that fear hits.

Okay, that's cool.

That kind of gets back to the all or nothing thing.

That's what I'm saying.

It's the, it's the, it's the, I don't want anyone to do anything dangerous because sometimes fear can be a good thing.

It's not faster than reason.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage.

Do you know who said that?

Lee Harvey Oswald.

Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo.

He's living faster than fear in that.

You know what?

I fucking like fast.

This is more applicable to me than I'm afraid of something, so let's rush right into it.

This is move before it could just be.

Move before that fear hits.

You can't get scared if you're afraid.

You can't let the fear sink in it'll stop you you have to move faster than fear

but don't use this to do anything shitty not faster than reason or morals now that's why asterisk within reason i don't know that we can do a subtext i don't know if we can do a ps to our yeah i mean it could be acknowledged or implied there's an implicit asterisk well can we just put 20 thunder drive faster than fear asterisk but not explain like come to us if you want to know what the asterisk is.

Yeah.

But canonically, that asterisk is.

But it's too long.

But, like, you get it.

Like, clearly, there's more to it.

That's what the asterisk is.

There's more to it.

Thunder drive.

I'm living faster than fear.

I'm living faster.

I'm just thinking about saying this, but yeah, I'm living faster than fear over here.

Matt Damon was living faster than fear when he bought his zoo.

Feels good.

It's a bad idea.

And if he had stopped to think about it for more than a second,

I I haven't seen the movie, Griffin, but I assume it doesn't end with him going, fuck, I wish I hadn't bought that zoom.

It's

well, can you see a situation where someone

ends in him getting trampled by 30 Impalas?

And then

whoever else is in the movie goes, I guess those weren't tame Impalas.

And everybody laughs.

He was faster than fear, but not faster than those 30 Impalas

who trampled him.

Is there going to be people who send send us emails like, hey, I robbed a store because I thought I was being faster than fear?

The Macro Brothers are not experts, and their

should never be followed.

It's done.

Done.

Also, I think that one should examine their life if the only thing stopping them from robbing a convenience store is fear and not

three chuckle fucks giving a great name for a thing.

I don't...

Here's what I'll say.

we're all gonna agree this is a one-time thing, which just took us a long time to find it this time, and we had to take a break, and that's fine.

This is feeling better with every passing,

it was the right thing to do, but you we're not going to do this again, and I just don't want any negativity about 20 Thunder Drive.

I think everybody needs to get on board, and if you don't like it, please don't say that because

Faster than fear, slower than fear.

The three of us are immediately living faster than fear.

Don't say anything mean about any of the stuff we do ever.

No, it's just this one thing.

If you could, it's so much pressure.

And like, we really

cracked underneath it last time.

Thunder Drive sounds so much like 25.

I'm shitting.

I'm absolutely shitting at how close those two are phonetically.

Absolutely shitting, my peace.

That was one of my big things from the beginning.

we absolutely smashed it bro smashed it and we got there by free associated just saying fucking garbage yeah tried and tested proven moms approved kids approved we fucking ripped this shit up yeah we're back on top hey listen i'm about i was gonna tell you where to find our shit but you know where we're at now travest just told you no trash just told our work slack the big news which i think is selfish

that's traffic i'm just trying to get in there before they finalize any poster designs oh and now they're all saying not that do it they say don't change it but now we're we have to tell them god there's so much work well we could always we'll release a chase poster of 20 tummy tummy i've already forgotten what it was it's not it's so bad

uh yeah nobody liked it um yeah we'll have a chase poster for tummy buddy life out there for that

it's better this way um

Thank you guys so much for listening to this podcast.

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Come join us for an immersive gaming weekend in Hocking Hills, Ohio.

I'm just going to go ahead and say immediate feedback from our team is just annoyance with us, I would say, at this point.

Annoyance with us and our

second guessing.

It's not a second guess, though.

It's a continuation.

It's a continuation of the first guess.

We were as surprised as you all were.

My heart's racing right now at how disappointed they are in us, but I'm going to live faster than fear.

Guys, I cannot tell you how disappointed Amanda is in us and how hard it is hitting right now.

We got to wrap it up.

I feel so guilty.

Thank you, Montane.

I feel guilty.

They've done a lot of.

Thanks, Montane, for the use for a theme song.

My life is better with you.

Strap in, guys.

It's going to be a long year.

I can't believe Travis is still messaging in the work Slack.

I can't leave him hanging now, Justin.

And travis just hit him with the actual name and there's been no response whatsoever i'm guessing because they're just busting up so hard there's an ellip there's there's an ellipses we've gotten one ellipses this is fun thanks everybody hey

have a great 2025 no no no don't show any weakness that's what we did during tummy buddy life and it came back to bite us in the ass there's no weakness

My name is Justin McElroy.

I'm Travis McElroy.

You can't say there's no weakness.

My name is Justin McElroy.

mcletrive juice

my name is justin mcroy i'm travis mclroy

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

true.

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

It's better with you.

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