MBMBaM 788: Blame It On the Full Beaver Supermoon

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Speaker 2 It's better with you. Hello, everybody, and welcome to My Brother, My Brother, and Me, an advice show for the modern era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy. What? I never said it like that.

Speaker 2 That is crazy.

Speaker 2 I didn't like it.

Speaker 3 I didn't like it.

Speaker 2 What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your middleest brother, Travis, big dog, wolf wolf, zoom McElroy.

Speaker 4 Did you say Zoom vroom?

Speaker 2 I did.

Speaker 4 Hey, what's up, Trav Nation? It's Griffin.

Speaker 2 I own it. God,

Speaker 4 the vibes are already so strange, don't you guys think?

Speaker 2 Halloween. Yeah, blame it.
Blame it on the Full Beaver Superman.

Speaker 4 I would love to blame it on the Full Beaver Supermoon trap because you do keep saying that and

Speaker 6 out loud a lot.

Speaker 4 And you do keep blaming stuff on it. Like you were.
Well,

Speaker 2 I slept bad last night. Didn't get as much sleep as I would have liked.
And you were like 10 minutes late for this recording.

Speaker 4 Was that the

Speaker 4 morning?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I told my friend about it, and she said, blame it on the supermoon.

Speaker 2 And I've decided to do that

Speaker 2 on everything.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 4 Can you tell me, I guess, to start out before you start, before I start assigning blame to stuff? Because I'm pretty good at that.

Speaker 4 What's a full beaver?

Speaker 2 He's the youngest child.

Speaker 4 It's my God-given

Speaker 2 job, right? He doesn't take place for it.

Speaker 7 It's not his fault. What's a full beaver supermoon?

Speaker 2 Thank you for asking, Griffin. So, do you know what a full moon is?

Speaker 7 A hunter's moon, yes.

Speaker 2 I believe you mean that. I believe you think you're describing the hunter's hunter's moon? I mean, we could call it a beaver hunter supermoon if you'd rather do that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so full, you get that concept: hunter, super moon, fighter, super moon, beaver, tattooed alien, super hunter, fighter, moon, fighters from Beverly Hills. Hell yeah, dude.

Speaker 2 Wait, hold on. TMTMTM, yeah.
TMTMTM TNTMNT.

Speaker 4 Get them in there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, crossover? Yeah, so what's a full name?

Speaker 4 It's a beaver supermoon.

Speaker 2 it's a full so a beaver moon

Speaker 2 is in november when beavers build shelters native americans and early american colonists would call the full moon in november a beaver moon

Speaker 2 okay and then super moon is when there is a full moon when the moon is at its closest orbit to the earth so it looks super big okay so all together yeah it's a full beaver supermoon.

Speaker 2 Okay, okay, and it's a synergistic coming together to make me sleep bad and be 10 minutes later.

Speaker 4 Is it the closeness and the bigness of the moon and it's like putting like a little bit of extra for like gravitational force on your eye?

Speaker 2 It's more that it's looking at me real close. Yeah, you know, like I know it's there and I occasionally have to hide myself away from the full beaver supermoon so it can't see

Speaker 2 my nudity. Yeah.
A lot of it is that.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm still reeling from the time change. I don't know how I'm going to adjust to this right now because I'm still feeling like...
Blame it on the full Beaver Supermoon. Okay.

Speaker 2 But I'm still blaming the time change. I'm going to run out of excuses before long.

Speaker 2 Are they working together?

Speaker 2 As far as I know, the full Beaver Supermoon caused the time change. Okay.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 4 I would actually prefer that.

Speaker 4 I would prefer if we were changing the time based on celestial movements and actual tangible stuff and not just just because some farmers or whatever felt like it 300,000 years ago.

Speaker 4 If it was moon based, fuck yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay, whatever. Sure.

Speaker 4 I'll change the clock based on the moon. I don't want to change it based on an idea Benjamin Franklin had once, one time.

Speaker 2 I just think that if we're going to give that power to farmers, we should extend it to other industries. Yes.
And it should be like fast food workers. Okay.
Every April,

Speaker 2 we set the clocks forward 15 minutes so that Derek's not late for his shift anymore. Right.
But then at the end of April, we move it back 22 minutes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Derek's saving time is cool.

Speaker 2 Derek fired Derek

Speaker 4 disappointment time.

Speaker 2 April is when we clear all of Derek's warnings. Yeah.
Right. And then at the end.
No more Derek DeMerit. Yeah.
Derek DeMerit time.

Speaker 2 But then in May, when the clocks have moved back forward 22 minutes, now it's time to get your shit together, Derek, because you're 22 minutes late now.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a fireable offense, according to Denise. Yeah.
Hey, hey, can we send jokes out of the room for a second?

Speaker 2 Speaking of these like government shifts, yeah, oh, these huge government policy shifts. Okay, if we could just send jokes out there and

Speaker 2 I went to the inner geek, you went to the what kids, the inner geek, Pullman Square. If you come in for candle nights, you should go visit them.
Went to the inner geek in Pullman Square.

Speaker 2 There was a sign up outside that said, due to the discontinuation of pennies in 2026, we will no longer be accepting pennies.

Speaker 4 Awesome.

Speaker 9 Guys,

Speaker 2 did you guys know that they were going to stop doing pennies? No.

Speaker 4 Be honest. No, I'm Googling this right now.

Speaker 2 Okay, so, okay, so I've been asking them,

Speaker 2 whoever they are at that moment, they never do fucking anything we fucking asked. I've been asking them about this one thing

Speaker 2 forever.

Speaker 2 And we are the

Speaker 2 I've been asking for this forever and it happened in May and everything sucks so much and it's changing so much and how it sucks. There's just one thing I wanted to change and it did and I missed it.

Speaker 2 They took care of the number one issue though, Justin. There's a lot happening right now and they don't

Speaker 2 have the biggest one. But it is like one of those pet peeve things of like

Speaker 2 every conversation, I'd get a little bit like maybe people would be a little bit careful.

Speaker 5 Maybe people are careful about bringing up pennies around me because I'll go.

Speaker 2 I don't even mention JC pennies pennies around Justin. Yeah.
Yeah, he doesn't. He might fly off the handle.

Speaker 2 I saw a sign like that like about a week ago, J-Man. Yeah.
And then.

Speaker 5 Is that how you found out about it?

Speaker 2 Because Travis, that would be almost to the day when I saw this. This is my finding out about it right now.
And it opened up miles. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 And then like two days ago, I got changed from somewhere and I was handed five brand new.

Speaker 2 bright shiny pennies gotta go out with a bang so new they looked fake with like the shield on the back so i know these are new. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because they're like, and I think that they're just like, we need to get all the pennies out of the stock room. We got so many pennies.

Speaker 4 This makes a lot of sense now, guys, because I was walking down the street yesterday and I ran into Penny Marshall, the famed actress from Vernon Shirley, and she was see-through like fucking

Speaker 2 Back to the Future.

Speaker 2 I think that's because she is away.

Speaker 2 She had quite

Speaker 2 a few years ago.

Speaker 2 That's okay. It's a Halloween.

Speaker 7 Okay, what I saw was a Halloween joke.

Speaker 4 I also Googled this penny thing, and a lot of news stories are like retailers, retailers warn shoppers, you might not get your exact change back because we're running out of pennies. And that's cool.

Speaker 5 Does it go the other way?

Speaker 2 Does it go the other way where we can be like, you may not get your exact price?

Speaker 4 You may not get your price you want for it because you tell me where to find a fucking penny. You can't charge me $549 for something.

Speaker 5 It needs to be easily divisible by five or else fuck you, dude.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know what would be cool and a great way to get rid of pennies? Get rid of sales tax on shit. That's where the pennies come from.
Wow.

Speaker 5 Hey, dude.

Speaker 2 Oh my God. You know what I'm realizing?

Speaker 5 Once we're done with pennies, things won't be 99 anymore, right?

Speaker 4 Can't be.

Speaker 2 Can't be.

Speaker 2 Can't be 99. Can't be.
Gotta be $5.

Speaker 2 $5 foot long. Finally.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Finally. They don't make them anymore, but if they still did, I would be able to get a $5 foot long for $5.30.

Speaker 7 Check this out.

Speaker 2 You guys ready for this shit?

Speaker 5 Ready for this shit?

Speaker 2 Nickels?

Speaker 4 You're next.

Speaker 4 Then dimes, then quarters, then money, currency.

Speaker 2 Can we be done? Can we? You know what I love over in other countries? What? They're doing fat coins for dollars.

Speaker 5 Dude, I love this.

Speaker 2 Dude, I love this. I know we tried fat coins for dollars before, once before, and then we gave up.
Other countries have figured this out.

Speaker 2 They've got these big fat coins with gold in them, and you want to hold them like a power coin. It feels good when you find them in your pocket and you're like, holy shit.
This is $12.

Speaker 2 You find a coin in there. It might be a candy bar.
That feels good. You know, I recently...
I just had a feeling over here. I was recently.
And jingle, jangle over there

Speaker 2 could be a lunch of mushy peas. You got to stop doing what you're doing under the desk right now, Justin.

Speaker 2 Jangling the change in my blue.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just the change in my blue.
When I'm handed

Speaker 2 gold dollars here in the US of A,

Speaker 2 it's fun because I know like, well, I'll have these forever because I can't imagine a scenario in which I have the confidence to both pay with cash and these doubloons. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Every once in a while, you used to see machines that would have a picture of the Sakajui Queen. I'd be like, we accept these.
And you might as well take flues.

Speaker 3 Like, what do you mean? Yeah, no way.

Speaker 2 Anyways, blame it on the Full Beaver Superman.

Speaker 4 I do. There you go.

Speaker 2 Get 8 on the pennies.

Speaker 2 This is an advice show, Travis. Okay.
Whoa. And

Speaker 2 yeah. Thank you.
I didn't know. Here's my advice.
Here's my advice. A little less talking on the

Speaker 2 show. All right.

Speaker 2 The show is talking.

Speaker 6 The show is exclusively talking.

Speaker 2 I want to be a cool dude that casually gives out fist bumps. How do you become one? That's from Fists Up, Ontario.
Hmm. Seems like a simple question, but I

Speaker 5 suspect it might not be so simple.

Speaker 2 You got to be a big stinker.

Speaker 4 Is your big stinker energy because of the Full Beaver Supermoon, or is it because of the penny being faced?

Speaker 2 You're also giving a little bit of like Jonathan Frank's, like, the strange but true kind of feeling of like, this might seem easy, but not for

Speaker 2 these three boys.

Speaker 2 Have you ever considered fist bumping? It was a great night politically.

Speaker 2 And I guess I just want to be excited about the fact that

Speaker 2 pennies are finally going to, we're finally going to get rid of them. And I guess I was excited about that, but I will tone down the energy.
Thank you. You're going to be a big stinker.

Speaker 2 If you're going to be a stinker, be a big stinker.

Speaker 4 We've gotten feedback from the fans a lot, and they're saying you three dads are bringing too much fucking gusto week in, week out.

Speaker 4 You're zapping off the rails and we need you to cool your jets a little bit.

Speaker 2 Speaking out, hey, briefly, before we get to our first question, I did want to point out a new addition here.

Speaker 4 You're not about to grab that lumpy, nasty gourd, are you?

Speaker 2 No, we don't need to see a gourd again. You better not grab that fucked up gourd.
Oh boy. You won.
He got a little pumpkin. This is my trophy for the pumpkin carving competition.

Speaker 2 I want to say thanks to everybody who supported the Huntington Children's Museum. It does say HCM Kids, Pumpkin Carving Champ, Biggest Muscles.

Speaker 2 Does it say Biggest Muscles? 25.

Speaker 2 It's implied. Okay.

Speaker 4 I like a small trophy.

Speaker 5 I don't know how I carved it without the biggest muscles.

Speaker 4 I like that it's small too. So I like that it's a really, really small trophy.
A lot of people only care about big trophies, but like it's the prize.

Speaker 4 The prize is not, the size of the trophy is not sort of intrinsic to the value of the prize.

Speaker 2 And I think it's not tall, but it's very wide.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I do like that.

Speaker 4 So I think fist bumps fist bumps easy answer is what's your job is a question not an answer because there's certain jobs that lend themselves to fist bumps anything involved in the so cal sports scene youth pastor fucking

Speaker 2 that's proctologist what's one proctologist no see Griffin was doing real ones. Was listen.

Speaker 4 Let's do real ones first.

Speaker 2 Let's start with real ones.

Speaker 2 Okay, real ones.

Speaker 2 We didn't actually allow jokes back into the room after the penny discussion. So maybe we should reopen the door to jokes.
Oh, thanks

Speaker 2 so much. Eric?

Speaker 7 Proctologist. Okay.

Speaker 4 Here's my.

Speaker 2 This is when I got this question,

Speaker 2 I saw it as one of those like flow charts, you know, yes, no, right? Where I feel like there's two things.

Speaker 2 Either

Speaker 2 you ask for it, right, fist bump, or you just put it out there confidently, and now it's on the other person.

Speaker 2 And like, that, that seems to me to be like the starting decision you need to make. Okay, but let's put like angle is huge.
Probably the first thing, right? Because low is like, I'm building a brand.

Speaker 2 Low is discreet. Yeah.
Hey, between you and I, I'm charging my green lamp.

Speaker 3 Out of frame.

Speaker 2 It's like an undercover, bro. Right here, this is almost a little scary, isn't it? Whoa, juice, come on.
CBO. Whoa, I know.
You can't go straight arm, Justin. You can't straight arm out.

Speaker 2 And I, and listen, and here's the thing, guys. I'm not going to go higher than this.
Yeah, just like even because there is a camera. Unless you could, you could curve down.
You could curve down.

Speaker 2 That's definitely scary. That's give me your lunch money right there.
So you go down later. Take a look at it.
Yeah, give them a test.

Speaker 5 You can ask them from below.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Give them a fist bump by grabbing their shirt collar and coming from above, right? That's cool.
Fist bump. That's cool.

Speaker 2 Have you ever

Speaker 2 one thing is if you've ever left someone hanging, give it up. You can't.

Speaker 8 Because you lose the game. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 You're out. You're out.
If you've ever left someone hanging, when they went for a bump, and here's the thing about fist bumps, no one would leave you hanging. I mean, no one of consequence.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's a guy at the gym that I go to who fist bumps me every time he sees me. Huge.
And it's

Speaker 2 maybe the most I feel like, ah, they think I'm like a gym guy. You belong.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's huge.

Speaker 4 It's huge.

Speaker 2 If I went through a day with more than three people fist bump me, I would end it weeping by my bedside. I would like be just like thinking about like, wow, I did it.

Speaker 2 You know, like, I'm finally getting somewhere. I'm getting somewhere.
You know, I'm so much more affirming these days than a high-five. Let Griffin.
Let Griffin, wait, hold on, Travis.

Speaker 2 We've each had a turn. Oh, sorry.
I forgot.

Speaker 4 Thank you, Juice. This never happens.

Speaker 2 It's a turn-based podcast. Yeah.
Well, I'm trying to pay attention. Yeah.
So you're, you, I had a turn, and now you should. should okay, but now I feel a lot of pressure to really do it.

Speaker 2 Dad's in Scotland, yeah, dad's in Scotland, so I have to get your turn normally down front. He, yeah, he is normally on the calls.
We had, yeah, but he's normally on the calls telling us to go.

Speaker 2 So, I was gonna say that so, um,

Speaker 4 gosh, I really want to fucking land the plane right now, and I feel like all eyes are on me, all eyes on me.

Speaker 2 So, um, I remember in the um movie adaptation of Double Dragon, they had a wait, sorry, the movie adaptation the movie of the novelization charlie kaufman like the charlie kauffman thing the movie double dragon based on the video game double dragon based on based on the true story based on push by sapphire

Speaker 4 the double dragon movie the two guys from double dragon who are not ken and ryu but they are billy and jimmy lee okay is that real

Speaker 4 You would know better than that. It sounds right.
They came in at each other, one hand open, one fist, and the other one would alternate it, right? And then they would push in.

Speaker 4 So they would kind of grab each other's fists.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And a sort of like train coupling.
Like a train coupling, yes. I always thought that was so cool.
And I tried to get it going with some friends in.

Speaker 4 elementary, middle school, high school, college now.

Speaker 4 And it never really worked out because there's no way to get the message out there that like when you go in, it's right hand, fist, left hand clasp.

Speaker 4 Um, because if you come out, if you come at it and you hit him like that, and you're like, your fingernails fucking go in each other. Oh, man, it's brutal.
But this would be, I think, pretty cool.

Speaker 4 I didn't fucking have it, guys.

Speaker 2 Okay, that's all right, Griff. That's okay.
Trav, I am.

Speaker 2 So sorry, Trav. Hey, Griff.
Hey, Griff, Griff, Griff.

Speaker 2 Your turn has ended. So I am going to go in and ask Trav if he had some other stuff he'd like to say about it.
Yeah, that weird Gordon the background looks like Ben Grimm's penis.

Speaker 2 damn it

Speaker 4 i can't believe how long i made him wait for that trav

Speaker 2 now travis give me the pun on its clobberin time and we can move but but but it can't be

Speaker 2 but it can't be it's slob rin time

Speaker 2 okay it's knobber in time all right dang that's good

Speaker 5 dang that's good

Speaker 2 dang it here's another question i've been at the mechanic for three hours and there's no end in sight it's getting to be lunchtime and i skipped breakfast would it be unforgivable to pull out the jar of peanut butter and spoon in my purse and start snacking they don't have a separate waiting room so i'd be doing this in fairly close to the front desk that's from holland oh la la

Speaker 2 uh and they say i don't like protein bars so instead i eat a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter when needed that's completely reason i i 100

Speaker 2 have a jar of almond butter in my home for this exact purpose. If I left the house, I would have a travel jar in a house.
I think it's a full beaver superfood.

Speaker 4 It is a full beaver superfood. That and acai.

Speaker 2 Those two.

Speaker 4 I had an amazing idea during Halloween trick-or-treating, walking around. You know how when you eat a protein bar, it sucks after like two bites?

Speaker 4 We need fun-sized protein bars.

Speaker 4 We need a little one-bite, two-bite, get in there, a little snackeroll, a little fucking couple grams to get you fucking juicing. And then you're not committing to a big chewy event.

Speaker 4 You're just getting in there, getting out. So I think that this would be a good fix.
I'll answer the question in a moment, but I just think.

Speaker 2 Can they be loose? Loose? I don't want to make an extra, the paper. Oh, you're saying like

Speaker 2 one might get a box of Cheez-Its.

Speaker 6 Like a loose box.

Speaker 2 A box of... Yeah, sure.
We could do that. Okay, good.
I just want to cut down a package. Yeah, no, that's like a bunch of like little.

Speaker 2 Could we make some that are full-size protein bar, but the final quarter of it is a candy bar that you work your way to? That's a little trees at the end.

Speaker 2 It's like a Mars bar sort of situation only it's yeah but it's right at the end you know those ones that come in segments

Speaker 2 yeah yeah and then at the bottom of and then at the bottom of the candy bar there's a tiny cigarette

Speaker 2 yeah it's shit and then at the end of the cigarette yeah there's a little bit of cocaine

Speaker 2 there's a little bit of cocaine you're welcome

Speaker 4 um

Speaker 2 from the mars corporation i don't know if you guys ever run into this but when you have to take your card to the mechanic it becomes in my brain the equivalent of like the mind the logic puzzle of like there's a farmer with a boat and there's like a fox and a hen and a bag of grain of like you're not going to have your car but you don't want to stay there so you got to get back but the other person has to come get you and then you have to get back and get there has to be a better way yeah there does it's biking or walking

Speaker 2 so justin i'm supposed to bike next to my car yes you go straight in the way you're on your bike all the way to the gas to the to the to the tire station

Speaker 2 I have to ask you guys if I was out of line with my mechanic last week. I had a small incident that removed the side view mirror from my car where it normally is.
Yeah, attached.

Speaker 2 Hey, Justin, that's very

Speaker 2 careful language.

Speaker 4 They pop off sometimes. They just kind of pop off sometimes.

Speaker 2 No, I...

Speaker 2 I over-corrected and I hit the mirror on the rails in the viaduct, right?

Speaker 3 On those handrails in the viaduct.

Speaker 2 Boy, my mirror off shit your pants see your wife flasher before you

Speaker 2 yeah it was not a good day it was not a good day for me so i call the the the the place that fixes the car yeah and i say hello my mirror is broken hello is this the car hospital hello hello i need to have my my mirror is broken i need to have my mirror fixed uh my mirror is broken and they said okay here's an appointment and and i had sydney take me to the appointment yeah to drop my car off for this appointment and then i get there and they look at my mirror and they say oh this is this is broken Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I said, Yeah. They said, We're going to need to replace this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a broken,

Speaker 6 yeah, it's a broken mirror.

Speaker 2 And they're like, Okay, we're going to order it, we're going to order it. It'll be in a few days, and you can bring it back and get it replaced.
I said, Okay, um, just for the, just so I know,

Speaker 2 how should I have phrased next time? So, I, next time, so I, you are not, even in I, a layman, can give you an assessment. Yeah, it's fucked.
It's a mirror.

Speaker 2 my mirror beyond

Speaker 2 recognition and i did say on the phone i broke my mirror yeah i do not think that they were i she didn't come out with super glue to the parking lot like let me take a shot like i don't know what mirrors are famously

Speaker 4 one of the most irreparable substances yeah you just can't

Speaker 2 unring that bell

Speaker 2 um that's wild i think you're fully justified thank you i next time i'll be more clear that this thing is just absolutely not uncomfortable. Eat your peanut butter.

Speaker 4 Eat your. Oh, God.
Yes. Sorry.
We got so distracted.

Speaker 2 If they get uncomfortable, maybe it's going to speed up that repair a little bit. Yeah.
I also think it's like... They're like, we got to get this peanut butter pervert out of here.

Speaker 4 You know how

Speaker 2 I'm not saying that. I'm not saying

Speaker 2 that peanut butter. You're fine.

Speaker 4 You know how in the oceans movies, Brad Pitts eats all of the food, and every time he does it, he looks really cool.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think there's like a way you can do that.

Speaker 4 I think if I see you,

Speaker 4 I'm like, they're on the go. They have places to be.
They need to get out of here. They need protein for energy for business.

Speaker 2 The weirdest one, though, Griffin, is there's a scene where he's just eating a yogurt cup. And did he have a refrigerated lunchbox with him? Like, is there a little ice pack in there?

Speaker 6 Where'd he get that yogurt from?

Speaker 2 Thank you, Travis.

Speaker 4 Obviously, someone else has been reading the IMDb lipsies with his pro account. Finding in this scene, Pratt Pitt ate a yogurt, but where'd he keep it cold?

Speaker 2 I don't think so.

Speaker 2 I think my therapist believes in vampires twice now he has brought them up seemingly out of nowhere and talked about them like they're real the first time he played it off like a slip of the tongue but the second time he really seemed to be trying to sell me on vampires being real and active in chicago how many more times do i let him bring up vampires before i find a new therapist is he a vampire That's from Vulnerable in the Vindicity.

Speaker 2 I want to say, before we get into the nuts and bolts of this, please.

Speaker 2 Such gentle language in the wording. I think

Speaker 2 my therapist believes in vampires. And then in the next sentence, he talked about them like they're real.

Speaker 2 And then in the next sentence, the second time, he really seemed to be trying to sell, hey, I think think is out the window.

Speaker 5 You know, you're

Speaker 2 a therapist.

Speaker 4 I am curious

Speaker 4 how one manifests

Speaker 4 an opinion that they believe in vampires via a slip of the tongue. How does one accidentally let out like a vampire?

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 you have to learn to distinguish these thoughts that you're having.

Speaker 2 You have to remind yourself, these are not real. They're not like your home or your couch or vampire.
Yeah, okay. They're not like, they're just in your head.

Speaker 2 And just imagine, like, when you find yourself in one of these scenarios, like, what would a vampire do? You know? Yeah. You know, and I don't mean like from the movies.

Speaker 2 I mean, like, my neighbor, Todd, who I only see at night. And he says he works the late shift.
And

Speaker 4 he bited me so hard once.

Speaker 2 I died and came back to life.

Speaker 2 I think the question asker needs to figure something else out before they figure out how their therapist feels about vampires, which I think they know and are denying.

Speaker 2 They need to figure out how they feel about vampires. Yes.
Because the end of this question is,

Speaker 2 how many more times do I let him bring up vampires before I find a new therapist? And then is he a vampire? So, my friend, you need to figure out for you if vampires are real. There's a question mark.

Speaker 2 It seems like you're waffling. And honestly, if your therapist has introduced doubt about vampires and their reality,

Speaker 2 that may be enough to start looking for a new therapist.

Speaker 2 I think that that's not a great.

Speaker 2 I'm not not a professional, but it doesn't seem good. Unless.

Speaker 2 Unless.

Speaker 4 Maybe your vampire therapist is the perfect person for you to do this work with of figuring out if you believe in vampires or not.

Speaker 4 Did you think about that? It's going to be challenging, and you can't do it around the don't do it around the full beaver supermoon.

Speaker 2 That's for fresh. Oh, gosh, no.

Speaker 4 Because that's when vampires are at their absolute veiniest.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 werewolf receptionist is going to to just be a realistic.

Speaker 6 Just go absolutely ape.

Speaker 4 And so, give it a week or two before you go back in.

Speaker 2 Wait, it's a wear ape? Holy shit!

Speaker 4 Dude, it's those are those are real, and they're not in Chicago, they're more um in the southeast kind of like region of Chicago.

Speaker 2 Probably has were bears, right? Yes, yeah, yes, absolutely, dough were bears.

Speaker 4 Uh, sometimes I see their sometimes I see their defense crumble, and I'm like, where de bears?

Speaker 7 Oh, ow, I stabbed myself in the hand with a pin.

Speaker 2 Now he's going to be a wear pin.

Speaker 2 Now, man, ghosts and Mike Dick got to you quick that time.

Speaker 2 I think if I found out my therapist was a vampire, I'd be a little psyched because they could use their vampire mesmerism to just get some of that shit out of there.

Speaker 6 Holy shit, tell me about it, dude.

Speaker 4 There's a reason they call it the work.

Speaker 3 It's hard and it makes you so tired.

Speaker 4 Sometimes after therapy, I have to take a nap and that's embarrassing. Just mes me, bro.

Speaker 7 Just fucking blast it right out.

Speaker 4 Vampire magic, dude.

Speaker 2 I could call him at night because I know he's up, and then I would be like, Hey, I can't sleep. Can you mez me through the phone? Yeah, and like knock me out.
Give me a quick mess.

Speaker 5 He'll be like, Mez, please.

Speaker 4 This is that all or nothing thinking, Griffin. I've been telling you that you have to work on that.
And I'm like, I know, man, it's so hard.

Speaker 2 Just blast me with your vampire magic. Just fly over here to the window and mess me up.
I'm not going to let you in.

Speaker 2 I'm really stressed about the show come mess me so I can do good jobs

Speaker 2 mesme real quick you can fly faster than sound what give you a little bud yeah

Speaker 4 man I will also say finding a therapist it can be it can be challenging I think in in uh maybe even in Chicago it can be tough to find someone you know who can find your uh who takes your insurance or what it's a hard process so maybe this if you're doing good work in other departments and there just happens to be this kind of like vampire thing in the background just diligently avoid the just ride it out

Speaker 2 yeah is him being a vampire in any way detrimental to the process if not

Speaker 2 maybe he's you know he's an uh an angel or an edward yeah or one of the many many examples in pop culture yeah what good ones good vampires good ones one of the good upbeat ones yeah the upbeat vampires

Speaker 4 who does i don't want to litigate angel and i really don't even want to talk about Angel.

Speaker 2 Well, he's barely holding it together. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's the other thing we got to acknowledge.

Speaker 2 He's about to do this.

Speaker 2 Mike Didka is alive. Huh? Who told? Yeah, that's the first breaking news.
Second breaking news, cats have got to eat. And

Speaker 2 really, yeah, in my house, the cats are eating smalls.

Speaker 2 In fact, just this morning, I was given the hero's welcome by Olive and Amelia when I opened up a pack of ground bird, which is their favorite after Smooth Bird. Yeah, which says a lot about them.

Speaker 2 Very classy. I think that they love the Smooth Bird.
I think your cats are going to love it too. Before we used to use the dry food, and then we just kind of let them graze throughout the day.

Speaker 2 This has given us more control over their diet, given them healthier coats. And now they're excited to see you.
They're finally pleased that I exist, at least in those windows while they're hungry.

Speaker 2 I mean, after they've eaten,

Speaker 2 I try to give them their space. But like in that window, I feel really good.
It's a really positive thing.

Speaker 2 Do you feel like it's maybe transactional a little bit, the relationship you have with your cats? Oh, every relationship with a cat is transactional to some degree, Griffin. I don't think so, Griffin.

Speaker 2 I could see where you'd be tempted to draw a connection between me opening the smalls and giving it to them and them needing it to live and them tolerating me during that window.

Speaker 2 I could see why you would make a connection, but I think there's something a little bit deeper going on. Yeah, cool.
They appreciate Justin on a deeper level that you wouldn't understand. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yes, but you know what I know they don't appreciate is a great bargain because that is for humans.

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Speaker 4 I don't read ahead when we come up, when we do this show. And that is why I am,

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Speaker 4 I'm speaking of from personal experience. I moved to Washington, D.C.
In Texas, they just away from all the vampires.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 4 In Texas, they just had one big hospital, and you go there and you say, I have this. And they say, well, then you go to doctor this.
And then they fix it.

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Speaker 2 They just shoot you. They're very feudal-like.

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Speaker 2 What are you waiting for?

Speaker 2 I don't know, Griff.

Speaker 4 Wasn't for you, man. Were you talking to me?

Speaker 2 We're doing the show, so it wasn't really a good time.

Speaker 5 It wasn't for you.

Speaker 5 If you want to use Zock Doc, you should.

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Speaker 2 No problem, Griffin.

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I am Count Donut and the cat keeps pissing on my kids.

Speaker 4 Okay, that makes sense because Count Donut, it really looks like.

Speaker 2 This is all I had. This is from a costume party I went to.
Count Donut, I'm so glad you're here.

Speaker 2 We have so many questions about vampires, vis-a-vis therapists yes oh that's part of chicago is chicago a hotbed would you say the chicago illinois

Speaker 2 yes we love any city with a solid transportation system you can turn into bats why do you need a bus getting around underground you can walk around griffin you still take the bus indeed i can't turn into a bat though that's different like yeah but i mean it still takes exertion

Speaker 2 it's terrible it's tiring okay you're right and also you lose your keys.

Speaker 4 You lose your keys? Do you drop all your clothes and your stuff when you?

Speaker 2 No place to put the keys for a bat. Maybe a bat.

Speaker 4 A bat pack. So whenever you come out of bat form, Count Donut, you are nude.

Speaker 2 It's the day I was born 435 years ago.

Speaker 2 Exactly. Happy birthday.

Speaker 5 Me and Jeremy Piffin.

Speaker 2 Okay, you and Jeremy Pippin have the same thing. Margaret Mitchell, Jeremy Piffin, and

Speaker 2 actually, Chef Jose Andres.

Speaker 2 Jose Andre, really? Wow.

Speaker 5 Extremely charitable vampire.

Speaker 4 Maybe it's wrong.

Speaker 2 This is just a birthday we share. It's not a...
We just happen to have the same name. Oh, okay.
Me and Jose and the rest of the gang.

Speaker 2 May I talk about Lonelands? Yes, please.

Speaker 2 This is why I'm here, yes. Yeah, sure.
Crispy cream has begun again.

Speaker 2 They've wiped the slate clean and attempted once more to climb the great mountain. Krispy Krem has announced a bigger refreshed donut menu.

Speaker 2 America, when it comes to giving you more flavors, more variety, and more waste to dozen, this is how we do it. Alright.
Krispy Cream Inc is refreshing its donut menu.

Speaker 2 Adding nine new flavors and growing its everyday menu to 16 full-size donuts from ten.

Speaker 2 Wait, but nine new flavors and but it's only six more

Speaker 2 16 doughnuts. Yeah.
Imagine, Travis, going into a restaurant and having a choice of 16 different ones to enjoy. But there's a

Speaker 2 three flavor. There's a three flavor.

Speaker 4 There's three flavors that have been axed, and I'm curious what those three are that have been left on the cutting room floor.

Speaker 2 Chocolate? That would require a level of dedication to the crisp and cream offerings that I do not possess. It will not surprise you, Griffin.
I do not wish to talk about the past. Okay.

Speaker 2 Just like countdown actor.

Speaker 4 Yeah, interesting.

Speaker 2 We're moving on.

Speaker 2 These popular donuts were offered previously only for a limited time, and now they're permanent boys. Permanent boys?

Speaker 2 You're better than this.

Speaker 4 What did you say?

Speaker 2 They're permanent boys.

Speaker 2 So this is so

Speaker 2 BISIC podcast.

Speaker 4 I thought the press release was saying these are our permanent boys now. Like, saying it.

Speaker 2 I also thought that. Thank you, Travis.
Chris McCrame is comprised of an army of 16 boys. It's chosen.
Our doughboys.

Speaker 2 We have 16 permanent doughboys.

Speaker 4 Oh, man.

Speaker 2 Why don't the doys...

Speaker 8 Hey, why don't the doughboys ever want to be my friend?

Speaker 2 Why don't they have you on Count Donut?

Speaker 2 Why have never the Doughboys ever emailed me? Why don't they

Speaker 2 know I love? They know I love these these kinds of things. Yeah.
Fast food, things like that. They've never even.

Speaker 4 They might not know. They might not have

Speaker 4 heard this bit of it.

Speaker 2 I've heard of them a lot of times. You know, it seems maybe they've heard of Justin McElroy once.
They could email me just like, hey, cut similar, you know. Did I say Justin McElroy?

Speaker 2 I meant count donuts. Have you tried mezz them? I have very different feelings.
You got to mez them.

Speaker 4 We have friends of friends. Mez them.

Speaker 4 Mez them with your power.

Speaker 2 Use your power right now.

Speaker 2 All right. though boys

Speaker 2 justin mcerroy has an overlapping interest with you in the fast food world but he has never spoken with you he feels like you'd get along and honestly guys it's been going on so long there's some part of him that thinks you kind of hate them for some reason because it's just weird that you guys aren't friends it seems weird yeah

Speaker 2 so reach out to him via email or

Speaker 2 LinkedIn.

Speaker 4 Whoa, I didn't even know Juice is on LinkedIn.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's big on LinkedIn. You got to go somewhere to post your Ziggy cartoons, right? So he's doing it on LinkedIn.

Speaker 2 Listen, New York cheesecake, Oreo cookies, and cream. Original glazed cake, cinnamon apple field,

Speaker 2 which is weird. Original glazed cake.
They didn't have this.

Speaker 4 This is one of the nine new flavors.

Speaker 2 That's a new one. They were like, check it out.

Speaker 4 I don't think they're going to have a new original flavor.

Speaker 2 They must have.

Speaker 2 Yeah. They're also doing an original glazed cream-filled donut.

Speaker 2 seasonal, biscuit cookie buttercream. Oh, yeah.
Maple iced chocolate fudge browning donut. And an original glazed pumpkin spice cake donut.
Where's the original coming in here?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I guess they're saying that Travis, you're Travis? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I have no idea.

Speaker 2 Krispy Kreme will rotate in for new donuts on a seasonal basis five times a year. So they're not permanent boys?

Speaker 5 The

Speaker 2 blast boys, the four boys.

Speaker 2 These are temporary boys. Okay.

Speaker 5 Love them and leave them.

Speaker 2 The other boys are permanent. A four months.
I'm so excited to offer to introduce nine new flavors to our lineup so everyone can build a dozen that is unique as they are.

Speaker 2 Said Ellison hold their Krispy Kreme Chief Brandon Paradict Officer. Now, listen,

Speaker 2 I don't want to be pedantic, but I'm going to for a moment because I do want to be pedantic. Love baby, love that.
Which is that in Krispy Kreme's psyche, in their mindset,

Speaker 2 the uniqueness of every human being can be summed up with 12 out of 16 donut options. Honestly, Travis, you could express all of the human genome with four different compounds, right?

Speaker 2 I don't see why we should be. Genome, sure, Justin.
I'm talking about personality, baby.

Speaker 4 Also, Juice, where did you fucking come from, dude?

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 4 What? Where did you come from, man? Because you have it.

Speaker 2 it's the super moon dude it like i'm telling you it's like throwing off all of our whoa it's it's the cave it's the cats keep pissing on my cave yeah all right you know why they're pissing on it

Speaker 2 full beaver supermoon yeah so an old roundabout

Speaker 2 sorry it's the full beaver super moon yeah man cool dude It's because I was reading the quote and I got all confused. Can I tell you the only reason? There's only one reason I wanted to tell you this.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 The new menu is supported by a marketing campaign that includes RB singer, songwriter, producer, and Grammy winner Montel Jordan.

Speaker 6 Okay, I was waiting for you.

Speaker 2 Oh, this is how we do it. This is

Speaker 2 who Krispy Krem recruited to make his iconic 1995 number one hit, This Is How We Do It, during its 30th anniversary.

Speaker 2 Jordan's This Is How He Doesn't

Speaker 2 take on the song encourages fans to

Speaker 2 encourage fans to share on social media how they're enjoying and sharing Krispy Kreme's new expanded everyday menu, including sweet dance moves. Now,

Speaker 2 nice.

Speaker 2 They know just how to go viral. Yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 So, guys, here's what I want to ask you. The next quote is from Montel Jordan.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I want you to guess, What if you were Montel Jordan?

Speaker 2 Can you tell me, to the best of your ability, and I will warn you, one point will be awarded. Oh, okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 To the best of your ability, what the quote from Montel Jordan will be about his partnership with Krispy Kream.

Speaker 2 I'm assuming it's not. Well, I really like money.
There's a lot of things it's not, Travis. I really like money.
Probably isn't. I'm going to say, Justin, based off of past experience,

Speaker 2 Justin. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Krispy Kreme, and getting to work with them is something I've always wanted.
Something along those lines.

Speaker 2 Okay, let me take a swing at it.

Speaker 4 This is how I do it. It's Friday night, and I feel like eating Krispy Kremduts on the west side.

Speaker 4 Designated driver, take the keys to my truck.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's time. Kind of buzzed, gonna buy a does.

Speaker 5 this is how I does it.

Speaker 4 This is how yeah

Speaker 2 kind of buzz gonna buy a does very good

Speaker 4 and accurate I will say Krispy Krem does it like nobody does is that could that be part of it?

Speaker 2 Here we go do all my neighbors got

Speaker 4 all these don't all these donuts got much flavors

Speaker 2 All my neighbors got 16 flavors.

Speaker 2 This is how I does it how he doesn't because you need to get the information out that's bright that's that's better my music is about celebrating good times and nothing brings people joy

Speaker 2 quite like a dozen krispy cream nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing being a krispy i kind of want to do a deep dive now to see if montelle jordan is like a father what's the point

Speaker 2 that's part of that sage advice dude being a krispy cream fan doing this remix for Krispy Kreme's new core menu is a blessing.

Speaker 2 And I'm excited about hyping everyone to discover some new favorite donuts and make sweet memories. Krispy Krem does donuts like nobody.
All right, all right. They never cut back on a delicious snack.

Speaker 2 This is how we doughnut it.

Speaker 4 I think Travis and I both got little pieces here and there.

Speaker 2 I have, if you're interested, boys, the list of the three dead donuts. Yeah.
I am. But first, just in case anyone hasn't heard it, this is how we do it by Montel Jordan.

Speaker 2 It's one of the all-time Travis.

Speaker 4 I swear to God, I swear to God, if you're about to give a full-throated endorsement of This Is How We Do It by Montel Jordan.

Speaker 2 If you've never heard

Speaker 2 this is how we do it, do it by Montel Jordan. You guys got to

Speaker 2 young listeners.

Speaker 5 You got to check this shit out.

Speaker 2 It doesn't matter how old the listeners are.

Speaker 4 Have they seen a commercial for any company ever? Because This Is How We Do It's in It somewhere.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 this is

Speaker 2 Autumn's favorite song, and for their anniversary, Slice got her a remixed version of This Is How We Do It that is about her. Holy shit.
She's like,

Speaker 4 I know, I know.

Speaker 2 So he launched a rebrand too. He launched his own marketing campaign

Speaker 2 just about his wife. It's great.
You know, you could, you, Montel Jordan is happy to get in there and help you restart your brand, whatever your brand is. He's ready for a new menu.

Speaker 2 So the three, oh, god damn it.

Speaker 2 Just didn't do the voice at all that whole bit.

Speaker 8 That's okay.

Speaker 2 He can come back. That was you.

Speaker 2 That was me.

Speaker 4 That was you. I don't think Count Donut would know Ottoman slice.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but it's like, why did I say?

Speaker 5 You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 You can just really blame me.

Speaker 2 I know, but it's like, if I don't have the consistency, you don't have to. Yeah.
I need to hear you say it's the full Beaver Supermoon, and then we can move on. Yeah, as Tracula then.

Speaker 2 It might be the Full Beaver Supermoon. Okay, thank you.
As part of the menu expansion, three previously everyday flavors, this is the way they put it, have been removed.

Speaker 2 The original glazed blueberry cake.

Speaker 4 Fuck off, man. That's Jesus Christ.
That's like my favorite.

Speaker 2 The original glazed lemon-filled. Yeah, that's fine.
And the cake baiter.

Speaker 2 Now, why would they get rid of two originals? Yeah. You know? Yeah, I know, for sure.

Speaker 4 It doesn't make much sense to me.

Speaker 2 They were born there and now they die there.

Speaker 3 That's their house.

Speaker 2 That's their home. They live there.

Speaker 2 Do they have a limited amount of doughnuts they can make every day that they have to get rid of flavors?

Speaker 2 They're ahead of you, Travis. Listen, fret not.
These donuts could return in the future. All right.

Speaker 2 And of course, Krispy Kreme will continue to delight fans with many limited-time melt-in-your-mouth doughnut innovations throughout the year, including this holiday season. Ooh, la.

Speaker 2 Some more surprises. Some more surprises are on the horizon, maybe.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, the blueberry one hurts. The lemon goo is like, that's too much lemon goo.
And we all know that. We're all done with goo.
We're all done with goo.

Speaker 2 We should talk to donuts about this.

Speaker 2 None of us want the goo. Anyone wants goo.

Speaker 4 Cake batter's star burned bright and fast, but is is gone now. But some of us like goo.

Speaker 2 It's not even original. They don't want to claim it.
They didn't make it up. But can I ask you guys,

Speaker 2 we're all done with goo. Yeah.
Yes. Yo, for sure.

Speaker 2 can you tell

Speaker 2 them humans are also done with goo? The vampires, we have been over this stuff, jelly-filled. We don't know why you keep doing it, but no one listens to us.
Yeah, please tell me.

Speaker 2 I like the representatives. I like a cream filling.
Why do representatives and tell them it's not?

Speaker 4 It's not a question of the substance inside of it. It is a question of ratio.

Speaker 4 The donuts that are filled are a Danish can have a cream filling and a fruit filling, but it's a reasonable layer, a pate

Speaker 4 of that stuff. I don't need a water balloon full of jelly to eat, because that's too much.

Speaker 2 Which is why long johns work. Longjohns have to figure out like a hot dog.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Like a cream dog. They should call them creamy dogs.
They should call them creamy dogs for sure. I've never thought of this until this moment.
Cream dogs. Very appetizing.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, bye.

Speaker 2 Time to die. Oh, no.

Speaker 4 It's okay. This is what he calls going to sleep.

Speaker 2 Oh, right.

Speaker 4 The little death. He's pretty dramatic.
I don't know if you've hey, Juice.

Speaker 2 I was in and out there. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Uh, I think because of the super moon, and this has never happened.

Speaker 2 I think because of the super moon, we were kind of fighting for control because I had other things I wanted to do. Yeah, no, I get that.
Yeah, I had other dreams.

Speaker 2 I had other, I had a whole other bit written down that I was going to do.

Speaker 7 It's scripted.

Speaker 4 Well, do you want to do it?

Speaker 2 It was timely. It was a timely.
Oh, it was timely to 10 minutes ago.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's about, it was a 420 kind of joke.
It's 10.38. 10.38.
They don't know that. They don't know that.
They don't know when we're recording this. You guys could have just gone with it.

Speaker 2 Like, good point, Jay Man, or something. Good point, Jay Man.

Speaker 2 I can't keep this fiction up on my own. Yeah, you know? Yeah, great job.

Speaker 2 I agree with Justin.

Speaker 2 Hey, everybody. Guess what? What?

Speaker 2 We're doing candlelights in person this year. Oh, my God.
We're back in hunting.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You guys are going to come here, but you have warrants. I know.
So don't tell me. It's worth it.

Speaker 4 I mean, tell lots of people, like, tell your friends and whatever to come, but don't tell any cops.

Speaker 2 And guess what?

Speaker 2 It's also going to be streaming. Here's how it works.
In-person show, December 6th at 7 p.m. Eastern Time in Huntington, West Virginia.

Speaker 2 And that ticket includes the virtual stream ticket, which will then be digitally premiering

Speaker 2 recording of the show with all kinds of bonus stuff with it. That's going to be December 19th at 9 p.m.
Eastern Time, and we'll be in the chat talking through it.

Speaker 2 That video on demand stream will be available through January 4th.

Speaker 2 And all benefits from the show will be donated to Harmony House, which seeks to end homelessness in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs.

Speaker 2 Tickets for both the in-person and live stream are available at bit.ly slash candle nights 2025.

Speaker 4 If you've never come to the candle nights shows, I mean, that makes sense because we haven't done one live in like four years, but it really is such an amazing time and it's so rad seeing everyone come together in our hometown.

Speaker 4 And everyone always has a really, really good time.

Speaker 2 So, if as I understand it, it is like half sold out. So, get, get, hurry up and get some tickets if you want to get your tickets because people,

Speaker 2 a lot of people locally, I think, will come as well. But you want to hurry up and get your tickets quick.
Tickets are also available currently.

Speaker 2 Packages are on sale for Champions Grove, the gaming event that I run every year at Ravenwood Castle in Hawking Hills, Ohio. Come stay at the castle in one of the

Speaker 2 storybook village cabins or in Huntsman's Hollow cabins. Spend Memorial Day weekend with me and a bunch of other talented game hosts running all kinds of different games for folks.

Speaker 2 Ravenwood Castle has an over 150 game board game library that you can pull games from and play games with friends or new friends in the Great Hall.

Speaker 2 We also have events like minifigure painting classes,

Speaker 2 improv classes. We've done karaoke before.

Speaker 4 Do they have Scenic Seinfeld Edition?

Speaker 2 Probably.

Speaker 2 They have the TAS board game.

Speaker 2 Whoa. Yes.

Speaker 2 The Seinfeld Edition. Yeah, it's the TAS board game of Scenic Seinfeld Editions.

Speaker 2 So go to www.championsgrove.com to find those packages. I think all we have left are four-person packages.
So don't wait. We're well over halfway sold at this point.

Speaker 2 So go check that out. www.championsgrove.com and come see us in Ravenwood Castle in Hawking Hills, Ohio this Memorial Day, or, you know, in 2026, Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 4 I am so excited about the new merch we have up in the merch store over at MacWornMerch.com.

Speaker 2 We have got for the old heads,

Speaker 4 a poster for Till Death Do Us Blark, designed by Jack T. Sherry.

Speaker 4 It is, it is really, it's one of my favorite sort of Death Blart inspired designs that I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 Also, get in the spirit of the Honda days with the 2025 Candle Knights poster and ornament designed by Scott Hawk.

Speaker 4 All of that stuff is over at macroingmerch.com, and 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to Native American aid, which addresses immediate needs for tribes experiencing disasters, emergency food shortages, and preventative health care needs.

Speaker 2 Excellent. Griffin, why don't you read the fear this week? Okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 4 This year, I will be faster than my fear of the Kool-Aid man busting through my bedroom wall while my wife and I are being intimate.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm Travis McElroy.

Speaker 4 I'm Griffin McElroy.

Speaker 2 This has been my brother. My brother may kiss your dad square on the lips.

Speaker 2 It's better with you.

Speaker 2 My life,

Speaker 2 it's better, it's better with you. It's better.
My life all

Speaker 2 It's better, it's better with you.

Speaker 2 Cause it's true.

Speaker 2 It's better, it's better with you.

Speaker 2 My life,

Speaker 2 it's better with you.

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