MBMBaM 789: Meditations on Bean

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 It's the start

Speaker 2 of something beautiful.

Speaker 2 A small acquaintance has gossiped. It's ripened into a precious friendship.

Speaker 2 I could have never seen what was coming for me.

Speaker 2 Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach. My life,

Speaker 2 it feels love.

Speaker 2 Life,

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

Speaker 2 My life,

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

Speaker 2 This is true,

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

Speaker 2 It's better with you.

Speaker 3 Travis looks like a... Look at Travis.
Travis looks like

Speaker 2 the empty water jug.

Speaker 2 That's it's mise en sin, baby.

Speaker 3 My kids love, my kids love Griffin. They want me to spend more time with me.
I say, I can't. Uncle Juice has to fucking diddle with his gadgets and gizmos of plenty, like Ariel under the sea.

Speaker 2 Oh, sorry i'd rather not be consigned to the dustbin of history i'm just trying to keep us relevant okay no it's okay we've inspired people who will be more famous than us we started this shit on a rock band mike juice

Speaker 4 don't get it don't end it i'd rather not end it on one

Speaker 2 all right that felt good to be in show i like the little gentle ras we never do a cold open no we don't Was that called a cold open? That was our cold open cold. Okay.

Speaker 4 Hi, welcome to my brother. My brother, Main Advice Show for the Modern Era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.

Speaker 2 What's up, Trav Nation? I'm your mildest brother, Travis, Big Duck Wolf Wolf, Roof, McElroy.

Speaker 3 What's up, Trav Nation? It's me, your sweet baby brother, Griffin3030, media luminary McRae.

Speaker 2 I have a question.

Speaker 3 How do you keep this shit straight every time that you say Trav Nation?

Speaker 2 I gotta not think about it. I gotta not think about it.
Yeah, when I think about it, that's

Speaker 2 my mini wolfsies. God damn.

Speaker 4 Okay, so

Speaker 4 here's my question for you guys: who will save us from the babies?

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 4 Who will stand against the babies?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I have, I mean, I got one name in mind, and it's

Speaker 3 Rowan Atkinson, or will I be able to remember the name of that character from Man versus?

Speaker 2 Freuen? Freuing? Freund.

Speaker 3 Trester Freuing?

Speaker 2 Does that sound fucking right? Can I tell you guys, I'm so eager to watch this trailer, mostly because I have it paused on my screen right now, and it's a close-up.

Speaker 2 Of Rowan's face. Yeah, he's making the face.

Speaker 3 He's making the face.

Speaker 2 He's making the face.

Speaker 3 His money maker. And no, friends, you haven't tuned into an episode you've already listened to.
Last time we talked about man versus did you hear the whole man versus be arc?

Speaker 3 It's all we fucking talked about for like a month and a half.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So forgive us for being enthused about man versus baby, which didn't have a trailer last time we did this. Now we've got two minutes and three seconds.

Speaker 2 And his trailer

Speaker 2 two days ago has 4.7 million views. Don't arrange that.

Speaker 4 I don't like that.

Speaker 2 I don't like to know that.

Speaker 4 That doesn't make anyone do jokes. Oh, man.

Speaker 3 Well, J-Dog, they put this they put this up on the main netflix channel this is not going up in like netflix british comedy like one of their little splinter cells this is bringing a lot of heat can we i think we probably we probably got that many views on our ciso show justin don't worry we're right up total

Speaker 3 cumulative let's can we put the audio in do you still are you still set up to do that juice in studio 2.0

Speaker 3 to pipe in the audio of the man versus baby trailer i don't know if we're allowed to do that but i think it'll help it hit for for the folks at home.

Speaker 4 I mean, Rachel, I think what would be better is for us to watch it silently if we sync it, and then Rachel can layer on that audio later if need be.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't like to make it an indelible part of the recording. Okay.
As long as we talk about it.

Speaker 3 Fair use says we got to transform it. We can't just play two minutes and three seconds of Rowan.

Speaker 2 What if it transforms us? Is that still transformative if it transforms us?

Speaker 3 Yes. Yes.
Absolutely. It is.
So let's just get that shit ready at 0-0.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm right there.

Speaker 3 Get those captions on, volume down, so we can have like a conversation while it's happening.

Speaker 4 Transformers, can we just can I pop this? You guys want me to pop this up in the

Speaker 4 oh, in the riverside, riverside, and now we can get a little bit of, yeah, can you full screen that for me?

Speaker 3 I need every pixel, please, daddy.

Speaker 4 Every pixel down, I'd rather, you know what, yeah,

Speaker 2 can't

Speaker 4 what's the law on a fourth heat that is just a still image of Rowan Atkinson?

Speaker 2 Is he like

Speaker 2 fourth host?

Speaker 4 Like that fourth heat that we needed was Rowan Atkinson.

Speaker 3 You can't fucking trademark a picture. So we can definitely in all of our videos.

Speaker 2 Don't worry about the Netflix logo. No,

Speaker 3 put a smaller video of Rowan making a different face over the Netflix logo and just keep him in all our clips for the near future.

Speaker 3 It'll be like how they put Subway surfers in like TikToks if they want you to really pay attention. People will think our shit is funnier if there's a picture of Rowan Atkinson making the face.

Speaker 2 The more I look at this, the more I'm starting to see messages in his furrowed brow. So

Speaker 2 he can't start.

Speaker 2 Don't do that. I know.
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 I'm so fucking psyched, dude.

Speaker 2 Are we going to be able to hear it? I don't know. Okay.
I'll hear it. Okay.

Speaker 2 Okay. I'll hear it for sure.

Speaker 2 Hello?

Speaker 3 Sorry to bother you, sir.

Speaker 2 We're making inquiries about a missing Jesus Christ.

Speaker 5 A baby. A misplaced baby.

Speaker 2 What do you mean, Dad?

Speaker 5 What are you doing, Trevor?

Speaker 5 It's a bit of a long story.

Speaker 3 That baby just flew in the window and tackled Romania.

Speaker 2 Don't do this. Don't put babies on the front seat of a car.
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 4 So the name's Mr. Bin.

Speaker 2 Is that correct? Well, it's Ben, and then Glee. Got him.
Bingy. Ben's your first name, Mr.

Speaker 4 Glee.

Speaker 2 Bin Glee? He hung up on the police officer helping him find a home for this baby. Oh, hello.
I think with a baby already there, it's too late for Zambia.

Speaker 5 We are naturally looking for a highly responsible individual.

Speaker 2 He's got a baby.

Speaker 3 He has a baby in his backpack.

Speaker 2 He's got a baby in his backpack. So he's brought a second baby in.
Sorry.

Speaker 2 Just this

Speaker 2 Christmas.

Speaker 2 He reminds me a lot of Mr.

Speaker 4 Beanie if I think about it.

Speaker 3 It's so sinister.

Speaker 2 He's got the baby prisoner. The baby's sucking on a wine pork.
This is good.

Speaker 3 This is an emergency.

Speaker 2 We have a missing infant whose baby is this

Speaker 2 this man is a criminal

Speaker 2 i'm afraid we have a problem

Speaker 2 there's a second second baby is hidden

Speaker 3 mr president mr president a second baby has appeared in the movie oh about

Speaker 2 three months he's huge for three months

Speaker 3 well you should see his mother huh

Speaker 2 Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 He's.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Rowan, we don't joke like that anymore. Yeah, the reason that that joke didn't land with those three women you met in the park Ron is that that thing doesn't really fly so much anymore.

Speaker 4 That's actually kick-ass, though, but that's the joke they ended the trailer on. They ended the trailer.
Not a lot of people have the guts to end a trailer on video of a joke not hitting. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I would like to highlight two,

Speaker 2 but exactly the same kind of moments in that trailer.

Speaker 4 That's That's good. That's good.

Speaker 2 One, when he says his name and when he says plan B. Do you think that's for the man versus B heads to be like, Bingley's back? And then like, time for

Speaker 3 it's, it's like plan B E E, which is

Speaker 3 I'm going to turn, I'm going to eliminate the threat, which is this time a baby. Not a lot, not going to win a ton of fans with that.

Speaker 4 Oh, dudes. What if the baby is like incorrigible, right? He can't get the baby to be hate.

Speaker 3 Seems like a real shit, yeah.

Speaker 2 It seems like a real shit.

Speaker 4 Like, time for plan B. He calls in the B.
The B.

Speaker 4 He's like, he gets the B to babysit the baby. You know, like the baby.

Speaker 2 My takeaway from that trailer, the baby seemed like a non-factor.

Speaker 4 I don't care what takeaways from that trailer, because if you take away more than even a little bit, there's not going to be anything there.

Speaker 2 Because that was... Yeah, that's fair.
I just think Trevor Bingley is a monster.

Speaker 3 He's bad. He kidnaps a baby and then decides he's going to keep doing his house sitting chopping.

Speaker 4 If you find out the circumstances, you will be ashamed of your work.

Speaker 2 The circumstances that make sense of putting a champagne cork in a baby's mouth?

Speaker 3 Yeah, so that's the other thing that I really like about this trailer. And what's got me excited about this movie all over again.

Speaker 3 I worried with his opponent this time being an infant, they were going to really pull their punches in the versus department.

Speaker 3 No, in this one trailer, we are looking at a front seat, baby seat, passenger seat, baby seat. You simply don't and cannot that's facing yeah 101 fucking shit, my dude to

Speaker 3 drinks champagne, tucks the cork right in the baby's mouth. I don't think that's actually safety rated actually.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't get a lot of ways. It's a bad stop, a bad stop.

Speaker 4 I don't think you guys were picking up on the plot.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 Because I was watching it and I was, here's what I was getting was that was him from the past. And he is watching himself as a baby.
This is what I was getting from the

Speaker 2 little Russian doll action. Right.

Speaker 4 So he's watching himself as a baby. And the thing is, every time he makes a mistake

Speaker 4 with the baby, he

Speaker 4 adult him gets dumber.

Speaker 2 Are you understanding every time?

Speaker 3 Okay, so yes, he makes a mistake with the baby and it makes him in real life dumber. Wouldn't that form a feedback loop that would eventually

Speaker 2 endless make him?

Speaker 2 December 11th.

Speaker 4 Watch it all unravel. Like, yes, you're right, Griffin.
It will be an endless feedback loop of fun.

Speaker 2 And the second baby is created by that loop?

Speaker 3 I wasn't getting...

Speaker 4 There's one moment at which he does something with the baby that causes him to do a teen pregnancy in his own life later.

Speaker 2 Where he's pregnant?

Speaker 2 It's him again. He's pregnant with himself.

Speaker 2 Again, regular with himself.

Speaker 4 But this is his second chance, right? To get it right.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Because he is done.
He's done.

Speaker 4 He He can't help that baby because every mistake he's made with that baby is now revisited onto himself. There's no coming back.

Speaker 3 I'm so worried about the power curve of this franchise, you guys, because man versus B already, it was like, wow, there's not many places left to go. This B really did a number on this human man.

Speaker 3 And then they announced man versus baby. I was like, okay, I could see that.
That definitely seems like an escalation in the opponent.

Speaker 3 I don't think you can go anywhere except man versus babies in this, in the squequel, where we're talking about every Rowan baby that comes out is a different there's a Mr.

Speaker 3 Bean baby and a Johnny English baby and a the love actually salesman baby black adder baby black adder baby

Speaker 2 this will be the plot of man versus god god will come down to trevor bingley and he will look and beheld what trevor bingley has created yeah right and he'll say you've you've gone too far

Speaker 2 who's playing god is it rowan atkinson yeah of course it's rowan atkinson okay cool. Just make sure we're going to throw another

Speaker 2 trailer, Justin. That's the twist.

Speaker 4 You don't carry around a Swiss Army knife and a little screwdriver.

Speaker 2 You know, good point. Good point.
I also

Speaker 2 have one more thing that just jumped out to me right in the first 10 seconds. The

Speaker 2 quality of the video call with the police officer is so reminiscent of when Pee Wee's Playhouse used to do phone calls in the booth with people.

Speaker 2 It does look like that. And selling Dinah Shores singing Holidays at Christmas.
We, my brother, my brother, and me, draw a hard line about using AI. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 But how else were they going to get some kind of background to put behind this police officer

Speaker 2 without burning down a couple acres of rainforest? Yeah. Worth it.

Speaker 3 I still...

Speaker 4 The Vegas odds are still heavily favoring man in this contest.

Speaker 3 Even after the trailer, I thought that we would see some change over on Giraffe Kings and the other big ones. And nothing, nothing so far.
People are still saying, I didn't see it.

Speaker 3 Baby wasn't bringing a ton in this trailer that made me think he's going to win and that Trevor Bingley will die, I guess, is the fail statement.

Speaker 2 It has to end on death. There also didn't seem to be in Man versus B a through line of

Speaker 2 police involvement. This man is a criminal.
We'll be going to jail. Sure.

Speaker 2 There seems to be a through line in this one of two different realities existing where Trevor Bingley's just on a romp with a baby. Meanwhile, everyone else is like, well,

Speaker 2 crimes are being committed, and this is very serious.

Speaker 4 The trailer for this film got 4 million views in two days. If I'm the baby, I'm looking at that marquee, and I know where I rank.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 This is me versus a franchise heavy hitter. This is me versus a darling of Netflix.

Speaker 2 Ask Le Chifre, you know? Ask Goldfinger. Yes.
Ask them how it pans out.

Speaker 4 Because you know what happens at the end of it?

Speaker 2 They get

Speaker 2 a bullet. But you didn't see the baby die, did you?

Speaker 4 Because he's because he is Trevor Bingley.

Speaker 2 So that would be. That would be crazy.

Speaker 4 That would be insane. You know what would be insane? It's like the last thing that happens is he messes up so bad the baby dies.
He dies. All reality.
Winks out of existence.

Speaker 2 The paradox.

Speaker 2 And you see a little baby hand punch up through the ground. And you're like, oh no!

Speaker 3 I don't think Netflix

Speaker 3 is gonna let a movie go on streamable

Speaker 2 where

Speaker 3 Rowan Atkinson

Speaker 3 even harms an infant.

Speaker 2 I don't put it, they put a cork in the baby's mouth.

Speaker 2 What are you talking about? They were one step away from the bottom.

Speaker 4 That's how they're getting sickos in the door.

Speaker 2 They're one step away from putting those little white frilly things on his feet like they do turkeys in cartoons.

Speaker 3 That's going to be in there for sure.

Speaker 2 I I think he shoots out of a dryer at one point. I got my watch stuck in the baby.

Speaker 3 Oh, man. At one point, you probably didn't pick up on this listener if you're consuming the audio product.

Speaker 3 At one point, Rowan Atkinson is interviewing for a house setting job, mid-kidnapping, and he has the baby just in a big backpack, not visible at all, fully hidden, fully contained within the backpack.

Speaker 4 I hope oxygenated.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I hope so. The baby rips his

Speaker 3 fart, and then the lady looks at him like, did you fart? And his instinct was hesitation instead of, I would immediately say, Yes, I farted.

Speaker 3 Because the alternative is, there's a stolen baby in the backpack I'm wearing.

Speaker 2 I

Speaker 4 you could sooner say, I, yeah, I actually shit.

Speaker 2 I shit my pants bad.

Speaker 4 I'd like to go with you.

Speaker 2 You need to leave the room now. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 You're, this is weird for you, not me.

Speaker 2 I guarantee 100% odds, one-to-one odds. Netflix has on file already written up, fully drafted a actually, this was all a social experiment.
That's what this movie was to figure out.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like we didn't mean any of this, actually. Please don't be mad at us.

Speaker 4 I would love to see Trevor Bingley join this table of Netflix reality dating stars. Holy shit.

Speaker 4 If it's like perfect match and you get Trevor Bingley like waddling in, like, because I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes. I've never had sex, but I'd like to try it with a baddie is what he'd say.

Speaker 3 You guys are doing Bean. You know that, right? That's not his.

Speaker 2 Did you not watch the trailer, dude?

Speaker 4 It's like meditations on Bean, man.

Speaker 3 It's a little more sophisticated.

Speaker 2 Moods of Bean. There's change.
But without the removal of cartoonishness that allows you to believe he's not a monster. Yeah.
That's what they did.

Speaker 3 I can't wait.

Speaker 4 Birth of Bean. It could be like he's raising Bean.

Speaker 2 Man versus Bean.

Speaker 2 Fuck. Me running.
Who wants to be a millionaire?

Speaker 3 We definitely made that joke. In the views.

Speaker 2 I'm just saying, if he's racing an alternate reality Trevor Bingley,

Speaker 2 that baby's bean.

Speaker 3 The baby could be bean.

Speaker 4 Griffin, if they don't want us to, if they don't want us here, if they don't want to hear us saying the same stuff, they should listen to different people.

Speaker 2 That's true.

Speaker 2 Listen to a different man versus baby.

Speaker 3 This is episode 4911.

Speaker 3 We've said everything at this point.

Speaker 2 Listen,

Speaker 2 here on Man versus B, Man versus Baby, and me,

Speaker 2 we talk about man versus beat, man versus baby, and us. Can we part the curtain a little bit and put the tiger on a table and yell at it? Yeah.
A little bit.

Speaker 3 It's a little exhausting making the amount of content that we make. And I get a genuine amount of

Speaker 3 real pleasure out of just watching the man versus baby trailer and talking about it with you guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 It's really nice to just kind of sit and do it. I guess I get why the YouTube React thing is such a big deal.
Cause like, it feels good to just kind of chill on it and so this is actually

Speaker 4 what you're hitting on is kind of the crux of the whole internet is oh everyone has discovered it is a lot more fun to just watch tv shows and talk about them like a hundred percent

Speaker 4 we'd all like to be that kind of creator because that's awesome the only better kind of creator

Speaker 4 day yeah okay that's like that's like top five creators I wish that I have been instead of this, instead of what I am, which is just a man who has to husk it out five times a week down in the comedy mind.

Speaker 3 Chucking chuckle nuts down.

Speaker 2 Chucking my life experience for a guy.

Speaker 4 Here's the kind of creators I wish I had been.

Speaker 4 I'll get started just as a thought starter. Number one for me is,

Speaker 4 and I want to mention to the listener, I'm saying this because what we do is really hard.

Speaker 3 And we're not going to change the things we do. Right.

Speaker 2 So we love these things that we imagine. You don't know how hard we are.

Speaker 3 But there's other things we could be doing that would be so much more chill to do.

Speaker 4 Number one type of creator that I wish I had been is listen to a song that you've never heard before, but everybody else has heard and you really love the song.

Speaker 4 That would be people love that shit too.

Speaker 2 A dream.

Speaker 4 Everybody's happy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Everybody loves it.

Speaker 4 You're a little surprised you've never heard the song. Yeah.
But when

Speaker 4 Bohemian Rhapsody is,

Speaker 2 I like the headbanging and you're loving it. And you're going, oh, this is actually great.
And everyone's like, great.

Speaker 4 I love it.

Speaker 2 I want to be old.

Speaker 4 You take it to your mom. You say, mom, they like the old shit you like.
Look.

Speaker 2 I want to be old. Your mom's happy.

Speaker 3 I'll be an old orchestra conductor, sit down at his computer and listen to like one-winged angel for the first time and be like, oh, this is good stuff.

Speaker 2 And everyone's like, just fucking

Speaker 2 love it.

Speaker 2 Shell job, dude. Now, here's the one I want to do.
Yeah. If I could be a creator, it's where they take fail clips, right?

Speaker 2 Or bad things happen, and it cuts back to them, and they're going, oh, and then it goes back to another clip, and then it comes back to them, and they're going, oh, that would be nice.

Speaker 3 You don't even have to get hit in the nuts and the feet.

Speaker 2 Oh, God, guys, what if we did, like, what if the only thing we did was try not to laugh compilation. Oh, God.
Babe.

Speaker 2 I mean, it'd be bad, bad. It'd be bad, valueless.
You wouldn't have a career, but like, yeah, but imagine chill. I like that.
Oh, man.

Speaker 2 Is it too late to pivot to...

Speaker 4 Sorry? Do you want to. Wait, no, Trevor, what do you want to pivot?

Speaker 2 Is it too late to pivot to finding stories other people have written about things that happened to them and then reading that out loud and going, whoa.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's too late.

Speaker 3 It's all React.

Speaker 2 It's all React.

Speaker 4 React is what I wish.

Speaker 2 Man, we just barely missed React. I wish I'd done these games.
Now, it seems hard when I'm in the game.

Speaker 3 Travis would do it good. Like, Travis would do it in a way that was good and

Speaker 2 in a different era, travis would have been an extremely ethical mr beauty yes mr beauty i'd call myself mr beauty that was a snl sketch this past weekend we must we must be kidding we must tread lightly

Speaker 2 but i'd be mr beauty

Speaker 2 and i'd be nice about it i do like that

Speaker 2 um and my games everybody get lay sick even the losers you don't have to win to get lasick everybody get lasick everybody get lay sick hey thanks for coming even the crew

Speaker 4 Get LASIC.

Speaker 2 Get LASIK. Wouldn't it be cool?

Speaker 4 Wouldn't all reality TV be better if like at the end of Traders you get revealed and like step to the left if you lock some LASICs.

Speaker 3 Alan does it. Some LASIC.

Speaker 2 Alan's got some fucking cool goggles he puts on.

Speaker 4 People are starting to get, they're probably starting to get a little worried that we're going to do not only the show.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Sometimes we don't do the show. So I would like to begin the show.

Speaker 3 Yeah, if we may.

Speaker 3 We can't talk about how dope it would be to only do React content just from an ease of creation standpoint and then three brothers into a podcast where they're not allowed to do react content.

Speaker 2 You can't react content. The first brother who reacts to something is out of the circle.
And everything they can fit in the circle is that you can't get it.

Speaker 2 I guess my question is, why would you have a different voice?

Speaker 3 If you were Mr. Beast or Mr.
Beauty, why would you have a different voice instead of just the voice you have? What would be so intrinsic to the voice?

Speaker 2 I've forgotten what my own voice sounds like now. Okay.
I'm too. That's a voice in his head.

Speaker 4 Like he's forgotten what his own internal monologue is. That's how disconnected he is from his own self.
Cool.

Speaker 2 Juice, has that little doll boy been in the corner of your frame the whole time?

Speaker 3 Or is it a haunting?

Speaker 2 What little doll boy? I don't see a little doll boy.

Speaker 3 Okay, let's do a question, please.

Speaker 4 I'm a writer working on a novel, and I've been going to a local coffee shop to write in order to keep myself from getting distracted at home. Thing is,

Speaker 4 it's all in caps. So that's the best.
That's my, does that feel right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Justin got mad at you.

Speaker 3 That's just how it was written.

Speaker 4 I'm, I am currently writing a particularly emotional section of my book and i keep crying like i'll just show up cry big silent tears for two hours and then leave how do i make it so that i do not frighten slash upset strangers particularly regulars who have seen me do this for literal weeks we're not going to make fun of your process crying in the cafe is the name you've chosen because i think that's incredible I would love to make that's so brave

Speaker 3 to be so invested in ones that aren't that you it make you cry or makes you feel um like writing a horror story and like you get like scared of it like that's cool

Speaker 4 so like i'll i want to start by saying i have bad news you've become extremely distracted

Speaker 4 question asker okay uh you have become extremely distracted at the coffee shop your plan of avoiding distractions has been so completely foiled that you've been distracted to the point where you're emailing us rather than writing your book.

Speaker 4 So that on this, I said the experiment has ended.

Speaker 4 The coffee shop is not a distraction-free environment. Can we start with that?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, but it's nice to go to a coffee shop and

Speaker 4 I love the idea of it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, on tour, last time we were on tour, I went to a coffee shop because I needed to finish prepping some Taz stuff. And I sat down at the table.
I was like, I'm hungry. I'm going to order some food.

Speaker 3 I got an omelet. You know what that omelette came with? A giant leafy green salad with not much stuff going on in it.
And now, guys, I'm in a salad prison because I can't go. I'm working here.

Speaker 3 I'm working here and people are looking at me working and they're also also looking at me not eating this salad. It's tricky when you go to a cafe.
It's got to be a discreet joint.

Speaker 2 Yeah. With no salad.
When we were kids and we went to church because I don't know what else you're going to do. Your parents drove you there.

Speaker 2 I would

Speaker 2 say Sunday.

Speaker 4 It's Wednesday or and or Sunday.

Speaker 2 I would yawn real big and it would make my eyes tear up.

Speaker 2 And I would become so worried that someone would see the tears rolling down my face from yawning too big and think, wow, Travis is having a really powerful religious experience right now.

Speaker 2 And they wouldn't know that, no, I just yawned. I'm not invested at all.

Speaker 3 You got to be careful, man. You have a sneezing fit at the wrong time during service and you get a little teary-eyed, people will be like, hell yeah, man, rededicate your whole life.

Speaker 3 And it's like, no, man, this is actually going to be one of those chill Sundays or Wednesdays where I come and I eat my Taco Bell and I go home and play Chrono Trigger. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 I'm not ready for the whole

Speaker 4 maybe like a little QR code and printed on it says, yeah, I'm crying about my book again.

Speaker 2 Scan your pre-order. Yeah.
Shit, that's good.

Speaker 3 Use your tears for juice.

Speaker 2 And leave a tip for the artist at work.

Speaker 4 Oh, that's getting a little, is it a separate QR code?

Speaker 4 I know that there's a lot of... Sign is their QR code to buy me a coffee.

Speaker 2 No, that's a coffee code.

Speaker 2 I never know how to pronounce it.

Speaker 3 I love busking and buskers, but you don't see a lot of

Speaker 3 Robbins, but you don't see a lot of writers out there just like on their computer, and it's like, drop a penny in the slot and support my. Do I get to read it? No, you've just watching the process.

Speaker 2 Like, you should give it to them.

Speaker 2 Isn't that what Patreon is?

Speaker 4 No, it's digital, but like, it's as you're passing the case, you chuck a five in.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and then they pipe on the computer. And they're like,

Speaker 2 it was a dark and stormy night. Go on your way.

Speaker 3 You shouldn't get it at the end. They shouldn't give it to you at the end.
You just get to watch some cool cool writing.

Speaker 4 Because if I listen to someone else's song in the subway that they gave a dollar for, they're not going to come after me. You know, like, it's not mine.
I'm just like supporting the art.

Speaker 2 They also don't then like write out that cheat music, hand it to you, and erase it from their brain.

Speaker 3 Fuck, man. Get me out there.
on a on a Wednesday afternoon, just kind of sitting and thinking with a guitar case open in front of me, and they'll be like, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 And it's like, I'm thinking of ideas.

Speaker 2 I'm coming up with a figure. But I can't think of an idea until you put a fiver in there.
I'm like one of those robots that dances and only gets from creating.

Speaker 3 Watch me think.

Speaker 3 I would not come up to you if you were crying at the coffee shop to check in because there's a pretty good chance that you don't want that.

Speaker 3 And I would rather run afoul of that than provide some human comfort. And I realize that makes me a very small person.
So I think you are probably in a little bit less.

Speaker 3 danger here than than you assume.

Speaker 2 I don't know that you're going to get a lot of interaction. Worst case scenario, I see you there over the course of multiple days, and I think that person is very thoroughly drafting a breakup letter.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 yeah. That's the assumption.

Speaker 4 That's the assumption. 100%.

Speaker 4 I might give them, if I saw someone

Speaker 4 racked with sobs at a coffee shop, I think I would say, as I passed, I think I would say, would you like me to put my hand on your shoulder?

Speaker 4 And they would say yes or no, and then I'd go about my day. I think that's what I would do.

Speaker 2 I think that's a beautiful and simple kind gesture, Justin.

Speaker 4 Well, I have I have some evidence of this.

Speaker 4 I was at a football game on my birthday, and there was a lady in front of me, and she had white hair, which is only notable because it made it extremely obvious when there was a giant spider on the back of her head.

Speaker 4 Like extremely obvious, extremely giant. It's one of those spiders where you see colors on it, and you're like, I don't like this.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 You see colors and you're like, no, no, no, I don't like it.

Speaker 2 So this isn't a hypothetical, Justin. You weren't saying I noticed the white hair and thought, wow,

Speaker 2 there was a spider on there. I'd really

Speaker 2 see it. Okay.

Speaker 4 And then Sydney passed me and she points at the spider.

Speaker 2 Whoa.

Speaker 4 Okay, guys, John Quinetes. Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 Slap the spider out of the hair.

Speaker 2 If it's a, it could, it could be

Speaker 2 harmful.

Speaker 3 It could be poisonous. I would gently.
I would use the pro. Did you have a program?

Speaker 4 You're thinking through it now, and I want you to tell me on, I'm not taking what you're saying at face value yet because you are still doing the math. Without even.

Speaker 2 I would get it off.

Speaker 2 i would get it off they couldn't be mad at me for flicking their hair if there was a spider in their hair that would be a huge there's a hundred times out of a hundred i say thank you for doing that to me i'm going to do that for a stranger i'm i'm i was to me because you effectively removed it griffin because if i flick and i watch the spider hide and i'm like hey yeah i flick it's still there yeah There is a, okay, so I wanted to, I was pressing because I wanted to see what you two normal dudes would do because Cindy thought what I did was incorrect.

Speaker 4 So I just wanted to see what you guys thought before I told you is that I tapped her on the shoulder and I said, excuse me, ma'am, there is, I don't want to alarm you, but there is a spider in your hair and I am about to grab it out.

Speaker 4 And she said, oh, God.

Speaker 4 Then I grabbed it out like

Speaker 2 just like a quick snash. Awesome.

Speaker 3 Fuck yeah, dude.

Speaker 2 Awesome. Quick snash.

Speaker 4 But then her husband goes, ah!

Speaker 4 I don't know why he was scared, but he was really scared.

Speaker 3 I mean, if someone came up behind my wife and went, like that in her hair, I would probably yell because I think no one did that.

Speaker 4 Someone came up to his wife and said, Excuse me, ma'am.

Speaker 2 I don't want to alarm you, but there's a spider in your hair, and I'm about to grab it out. Justin, what I love about this is your approach and delivery seems like this is your job.

Speaker 2 That you go throughout the stadium and say, Excuse me, there's a spider in your hair. If I could just,

Speaker 2 there you go. Thank you very much.
Enjoy the rest of the game. And then you move on.

Speaker 4 It is, it is my job, Travis, because I'm a human being. Yeah.
Beautiful. I think that's what we owe each other.
That I think least is picking spiders out of our hair.

Speaker 3 I think Thundering Herd kicker Lorcan Quinn wasn't the only one splitting the uprights that day, Juice. I think you found the perfect exit from that situation, and you did extremely well.

Speaker 4 Lorcan had a pull of fake putt this week, guys.

Speaker 2 I kicked ass. I love it.

Speaker 4 I think if you're in college sports, you should have to do one fake play per like half game.

Speaker 2 One play per half.

Speaker 4 Like, you have to. The stakes aren't that high.
It's fun.

Speaker 2 I love a fake punt.

Speaker 2 On-size kicks? Ah, please. In college sports, there should be required one of those weird, a bunch of lateral and backward passes to like keep the thing going.

Speaker 2 And you never know when it's coming.

Speaker 4 Oh, guys, this is even the better.

Speaker 2 I didn't even tell you the best part. Guess who was there? West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey.
Whoa, dude. Was there at the game?

Speaker 4 And guys, better than this.

Speaker 2 He came up our aisle. Whoa.

Speaker 4 The man was 10 feet from me.

Speaker 2 And I put a spider in this old lady's hair.

Speaker 4 No, but I was feeling very cocksure about that when i announced everyone boo this carpet bagger boo this man yeah and then we all got a little bit of a boo going for patrick morrissey and i got to yell you stick right to his face has a guy i dislike more than anybody else on the whole planet dude and i got to tell him how much he sucks right to his face what a man what a

Speaker 2 i get sports i think well that i i will say i've been to sports stuff i've never gotten to yell at a like between that and the spider though i i get the appeal yeah man for sure um this is a huge change for you juice Powerful.

Speaker 3 You're really stepping into your power.

Speaker 4 Yeah, thanks, fam. You want to hear another question or do we should we should take a break?

Speaker 2 We might take a break.

Speaker 2 It's got to live.

Speaker 2 Squarespace.

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 3 Listen.

Speaker 3 Let's give this one a little. We got Squarespace and Rocket Money in the Zone today.
Let's like.

Speaker 3 I don't know, make it special. It's felt a little bit like we've...

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 kind of given them the same lip service, same treatment.

Speaker 4 Let's talk for a few minutes about Squirt. Let's really give them their money's worth.

Speaker 2 An idea is a seed.

Speaker 3 No, we've done this almost certainly.

Speaker 2 I want to get thought. An idea is a baby.

Speaker 3 I want to get weird, dude.

Speaker 2 An idea is a thought that can turn into a dream.

Speaker 2 A dream that can turn into a plan.

Speaker 2 A plan that turns into a series of executables.

Speaker 2 Deliverables. And one of those deliverables.

Speaker 3 sound you're making it sound bad and i want it to sound fun and cool and weird twisted what up perverts do you like websites

Speaker 2 yeah

Speaker 3 do you like do you like websites and uh

Speaker 3 you know code html i don't know if they do html what up chodes what up code chodes i don't think i don't think code chodes is bad okay great

Speaker 3 good good good good hey no that's insane he thought code chodes was gonna be bad until the end of that sentence and then he decided to

Speaker 2 neurons.

Speaker 3 Okay, so now we got now we got a sort of like fucking welcome to the man cave. Time for Squarespace, Code Chodes.
This is cool, and they'll like it, and they will like it.

Speaker 2 That's good because we have offer codes, and it's like a website and stuff. So it works on multiple levels.

Speaker 3 And the offer code for Squarespace is still my brother, and it's a great code, but we may be able to get them to swap it to code Chodes.

Speaker 4 Or they may be able to swap their money that they give us their patron podcast to make sure that they're going to do that.

Speaker 2 They might do that swap

Speaker 3 We joke because we care, because we love, because we use Squarespace and have used Squarespace. It's just the fucking one you do.

Speaker 4 If it seems the one you do, it's just the one you do.

Speaker 3 If it seems like we're really phoning these in, it's because it's the one you do. When you make a website, basically to us, it's the one that you do, and you don't think about it.
You just do it.

Speaker 2 Hey, we're gonna.

Speaker 2 I just got an emergency email from Squarespace. They love code chodes.
Yeah. They hate that you use the phrase phrase phoning it in in the middle of their ad.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, they're not phoning it in.

Speaker 3 They turn in a great product day in, day out. But when we come to you and we don't bring this nasty boy energy, yeah, I think we could be serving them better, code shodes.

Speaker 4 Thank you, Griffin. And thank you for continuing to say code shodes despite our please.
I really appreciate it. It's just making private please via text message that he that he changes ways.

Speaker 3 You can make your website do whatever and run a whole business and get and get paid through it. The websites look good, it looks good and it's easy.

Speaker 4 And it's just why would you do fucking there's a reason, there's a reason that every scam artist at least has a website.

Speaker 4 Come on, they make you look really professional, and you with the Squarespace tools, you can make them look even better than that.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I would cut out what Justin just said because

Speaker 3 I don't think that was in there, but

Speaker 4 head to squarespace.com/slash my brother for a free trial.

Speaker 2 For now,

Speaker 4 for for now it's my brother

Speaker 4 for now for a free trial and when you're ready to launch use offer code my brother to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain okay to be real they've been supporting us for so long i don't know what we'll do if they stop if you need to make a website for christ's sake for christ please just go make one with that code for god's sake please if you've never done it just go shit out something

Speaker 3 please with that code we can come up with like let's come up with 10 really quick website ideas for people to use and then they can just like make those and use our promo code and just like do it real quick before, because we will get coacho.gov, codecho.biz, web, codechoids.net.

Speaker 2 Family. Not that one.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Codechoz.net.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Code chose can be like a community of people who like to code just like little, little lines.

Speaker 4 See how many, see how, see how bereft we could make the codechoads.domain? Just anything, codechoads.anything.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 4 With a Squarespace website, please just do it one time for us.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 2 What was that?

Speaker 4 Blasting off to savings, Trev.

Speaker 2 Whoa.

Speaker 4 Yeah, get in the rocket with me.

Speaker 2 Castronauts.

Speaker 4 Castronauts.

Speaker 2 I love that.

Speaker 4 Why are we talking about rocket money, Trev?

Speaker 2 So you can get castrated with rocket money. I think.
What?

Speaker 4 I just got a fax from them.

Speaker 2 They hated it. We have to do better.
We have to do better.

Speaker 4 Because Griffin actually gave us a call, a charge to do better.

Speaker 3 We must do better.

Speaker 2 You're a castronaut. You get castrated because they are keeping your cash in your pocket where it belongs.
You can keep explaining it.

Speaker 3 It doesn't make the word nice.

Speaker 4 It's embracing, though. It's like sticks in your head a little bit, doesn't it, Griff?

Speaker 2 A little bit.

Speaker 3 So, Rocket Money is an app, and when I use it, I'll share my personal experience, lead with that.

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Speaker 3 And I'll be like, God damn, you're right.

Speaker 2 Right.

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Speaker 3 I needed that.

Speaker 3 I needed that long to know how I felt about Investicles.

Speaker 2 And Lego, if you're listening, I'm willing to license Investicles for like a new kind of finance bro toy you want to make yes, dude.

Speaker 3 Oh my god, I would absolutely kill for like, they could be like little bionicles,

Speaker 4 but they are worth money over time little bits you push a button on their back and they're like time in the market beats timing the market except beats by a laser sword and then it's like yeah yeah

Speaker 6 hey i'm jay keith van stratten from go fack yourself and i'm here with max fun member of the month josh mentor who has been a maximum fun member since 2016 hello josh hey jaykeith how you doing today i'm so well and thank you so much for being a listener and supporter supporter of our show.

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Speaker 2 I want a munch. Squad.

Speaker 2 I want a munch. Squad.

Speaker 4 Welcome to Munch Squad. It is a podcast within a podcast profiling latest and greatest of brand eating.
I have a few briefs I'd like to bring to your attention. Number one is the

Speaker 4 Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie.

Speaker 4 i heard about it from a lot of folks and i would file this one and i just want to say yeah okay i saw it i get it it's a joke right it's like the color it's the color no it's the color joke they just made such a limited amount they're really hard to get and slice tries so hard to get me one there's a guy on facebook marketplace trying to charge a hundred bucks for these freaking things what yeah friends giving isn't just a holiday it's a cultural loophole a break in the calendar where creativity is encouraged.

Speaker 2 I don't like that.

Speaker 4 Traditions get tossed in. The most surprising dish takes a spotlight.
That's why, after years of fan obsession, Taco Bell is finally dropping a dish made for this moment. Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie.

Speaker 4 When nothing means anything, pie can be whatever fuck.

Speaker 2 That's what it says here.

Speaker 3 It says it, and syntactically, it's like doesn't work.

Speaker 2 It does. It actually tracks that a company that thinks Friends Giving can be quantified as a cultural loophole.

Speaker 3 Really, really, really sinister language.

Speaker 4 Like hugely, hugely sinister so yeah this was teased back in 2024 and i'm i'm just not giving it a bunch of time because i hate

Speaker 2 i hate this like capitalization on these great dreams yeah and then not everybody gets to try the dream yeah if you're trying to try the dream have the courage of your conviction to put it in multiple stores And frankly, if you're not selling the Baja Blast pie in West Virginia, what is your market doing?

Speaker 2 Where do you think your market is? Yeah. What, you need that corn syrup somewhere else doubt it the we need it here the shade

Speaker 3 of this pie the

Speaker 3 the the the hue of the pie

Speaker 3 is truly um it is a retro wrong retro sort of refrigerator pistachio like neon stachio oh my gosh

Speaker 3 There's simply no way that they were able to get these pies out to all of the different Taco Bell locations and have them end up looking like that.

Speaker 4 Speaking of Taco Bell Conspiracy, when Slice asked the one over in Kinetic Park, you know how there's a Taco Bell in Kinetic Park?

Speaker 2 Of course.

Speaker 4 He asked there, and the lady said, No, we ran out of those so fast, but they were so good and went on to tell him how delicious they were.

Speaker 3 That sounds a little hi.

Speaker 4 How did you get one? Oh, did you maybe like take advantage of your position of privilege a little bit, maybe?

Speaker 4 God, and then bragging about it.

Speaker 4 Taco Bell employees used to have ethics, you know?

Speaker 2 It used to mean something.

Speaker 4 It used to mean something. They used to put, I mean, they used to put a lot of love and care into it.
Now they're eating the pie before you can have it.

Speaker 2 Now it's just about the money.

Speaker 4 It's just about the money.

Speaker 4 I want to talk about Hardee's because they're doing something dumber. Oh, Hardee's is hosting a Tenderbender lock-in featuring.

Speaker 4 If it's a Tinderbender lock-in featuring streamer Duke Dennis and banana ball players for an epic night of chicken and challenges.

Speaker 2 Oh, no! Our forefathers just exploded a headline.

Speaker 4 That's something everyone can enjoy.

Speaker 2 That's good.

Speaker 3 I think there is a haiku in there somewhere. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's Tinder Bender Tuesday on November 18th, which was also our mom's birthday. I think she would have really appreciated that for sure.

Speaker 4 Hardy's just cranking up the excitement for Tinderbender Tuesday with the first ever Tinder Bender lock-in, an exclusive event starting at 7 p.m.

Speaker 4 on November 18th, featuring American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and social media personality Duke Dennis, and Alex Ziegler, Kyle, KJ Jackson, Dalton Molden, and Decoblatron, Sandy Amber, Gambi Samerson, Sambi Amberson,

Speaker 4 Sandy Amber, Gambi Samerson, a few of America's favorite banana ball players.

Speaker 4 During the lock-in, the stars will face off in friendly competitions, share behind-the-scenes moments, and celebrate all things

Speaker 4 hand-breaded chicken.

Speaker 2 Amazing. You know, replace hand-breaded chicken with the love of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 Celebrate the Lord.

Speaker 4 Celebrate the love of our Savior, Jesus, and his blessed Redeemer.

Speaker 3 Slam infinite tenders with these very funny baseball players. And also,

Speaker 3 you're going to watch Heaven is for Real. And it's going to be, you're not going to get a great night's sleep.

Speaker 2 Hey, have you guys read A Case for Christ? It makes a lot of sense here.

Speaker 3 Gather around a lot of answers, a lot of questions.

Speaker 4 Uh, the tender bender lock-in promises viral-worthy challenges, online fan engagement, and the ultimate after-hours chicken feast.

Speaker 4 Fans can follow along in real time on Hardy's social channels and enter to win exclusive prizes such as autograph mirror abilia.

Speaker 2 I hope it's signed chicken tenders.

Speaker 4 That would be cool. For details on how to participate and tune in, you can go to youtube.com slash at hardys

Speaker 4 we're bringing together flavor fun and fandom in a way that only hardies can said sarah braymeyer hardy's brand vice president with our new tender bender tuesdays and this one-of-a-kind lock-in event we're inviting everyone to be part of the goodness and the juicy hand-breaded chicken that hardies is famous for but

Speaker 2 you keep saying tender bender justin and i feel that they got excited that those two words rhymed and didn't think about the implications that that's like somebody being like, I haven't seen Todd in three days.

Speaker 2 And be like, Yeah, man, he went on a real Tinderbender.

Speaker 4 He was on a Tinderbender and he actually died.

Speaker 4 His kids are orphans now because his wife actually went on a Tinderbender a few months ago. It's all very sad.

Speaker 3 We're three graphs into this press release. And I really need within the next like one paragraph for some rules vis-à-vis the lock-in to be established.
Am I allowed to go?

Speaker 4 Duke Dennis has you with his quote. Duke Dennis added, I'm looking forward to having a good time and watching the Tenderbender competition go down.
This will be good vibes and good food.

Speaker 3 Awesome. But if I get a call for my kids' school, am I allowed to leave?

Speaker 2 The lock-in?

Speaker 3 Like, I need to know if I can leave or if I'm stuck here because I'm honestly getting a little bit panicked right now.

Speaker 2 We have no, they haven't even said how long the lock-in is going to be, have they? It starts at seven. When's it end?

Speaker 4 So the tender bender celebrates going all in on hand-breaded chicken tenders.

Speaker 2 Oh, no way.

Speaker 4 There. Yeah.
Especially with this unbeatable BOGO deal. It captures the spirit of indulging in craveable food and rewarding loyal guests.

Speaker 2 Okay. So they captured.

Speaker 4 Both of those spirits in one promotion, guys. I think you're getting too hung up on the details.

Speaker 3 But have they captured me?

Speaker 2 Am I allowed to leave the Hardys?

Speaker 4 I think the only people who are being locked in are the banana ball players.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 we're watching them in activity from a live stream with the chicken tenders. And they don't get to leave until they've eaten all the tenders, I think.

Speaker 4 They actually explain, guys, what.

Speaker 4 Okay, here, this is what you were looking for. Each premium all-white meat chicken strip is hand-dipped in buttermilk and then lightly bread.

Speaker 2 No, I know that, but I know, John said, I know what a chicken tender is. Let him finish the paragraph.
No, it's fair. Let me scan ahead.

Speaker 4 The tender is juicy. Okay.
The tender, crispy juiciness is enjoyed with a choice of dipping sauce, which pairs well with other capable menu items such as natural cuts.

Speaker 2 Are they locked in a Hardee's?

Speaker 3 Am I being detained?

Speaker 4 Like an Apple turnover.

Speaker 3 Am I being detained?

Speaker 4 Guys,

Speaker 2 I'm almost there.

Speaker 4 I'm just exclusive to Hardys. My rewards, members, this Bogo Deal can be redeemed on Tuesdays, participating locations via the Fridays.
Website early store, my internet member QR code.

Speaker 2 What happens if a baseball cam occurs during this time?

Speaker 4 I think they're prisoners.

Speaker 3 I am someone's emergency contact. I can't be held prisoner by Hardy, the Hardee's Corporation, until I eat enough chicken tenders to find the key.

Speaker 2 If I'm watching it, can I call in a wellness check?

Speaker 3 I think. Yeah, wait, hold on.
Yeah, is there a sort of utopia thing happening where people are watching me have to get into the market?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 4 I think they're sharing. During the lock-in,

Speaker 4 the stars will face off in stairs in friendly competition, share behind the scenes moments, and celebrate all things hand-breaded chicken.

Speaker 4 So they're going to, I mean, it's going to be like, I mean, it promises viral worthy challenges, online fan engagement, and the ultimate after-hours chicken feast. So like they're trapped in a chicken

Speaker 4 sort of tentine, and then we watch to see who makes it out alive. I think is the gag.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And that's what makes it the ultimate chicken eating.

Speaker 2 Well, because we'll never have another one. Okay.

Speaker 4 So this, yeah, what they'll do is after this this Hardee's,

Speaker 4 after this event is done, the lock-in is done, they're going to brick over the doors like in Casco and Montalato.

Speaker 4 They're going to lock Dude Dennis and all these

Speaker 4 players in size, and they just have to make NBA 2K gameplay videos the rest of their lives just trapped in this eating chicken tenders.

Speaker 3 The site will be irradiated with a kind of spirit energy that will not be. You don't want to build anything on top of that.

Speaker 3 You can't raise that Hardys to the ground because so much shit will have happened there in the Tinder box.

Speaker 4 So you can get

Speaker 4 you can like get a deal while they're trapped. So this is the thing that I think is like

Speaker 4 while they're imprisoned,

Speaker 4 you can scan a QR code and maybe they're like holding the QR code up like not Penny's boat.

Speaker 2 Just like,

Speaker 2 please

Speaker 2 sacrifice.

Speaker 2 400,000 more tenders and we can leave. That's it.

Speaker 3 When you use the code, you get some of their tenders.

Speaker 3 You are sharing the burden of tenders of the tender bender with them.

Speaker 2 That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
That's actually beautiful.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so you're helping to carry the load. Like for everyone you eat, yeah, that's one less that they have to.

Speaker 2 You get a little bit of a logo freedom.

Speaker 3 You got to stop announcing shit, gang, without explaining how it's going to work.

Speaker 3 It drives me absolutely baddie when these companies announce some wild shit and don't even think to put in some of the brass tax sort of rules and regulations.

Speaker 2 I don't even know if other people will be there or not.

Speaker 3 I don't know if any... Yeah, is it just going to be the baseball players and the streamer?

Speaker 2 Is that any? Do they know each other beforehand? Because that's banana ball players.

Speaker 2 Banana ball.

Speaker 3 I apologize, banana ball players.

Speaker 2 We've trapped an entire banana baseball team with one streamer and 100 million chicken tenders.

Speaker 2 Watch as they eat them for an unspecified amount of time for an unspecified reason and for an unspecified goal. And at the end, I'll buy whatever's in the circle.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's kind of the only part I know

Speaker 2 about.

Speaker 4 That part is always a prominent fixture.

Speaker 2 That people put stuff in a circle in a certain amount of time. And however much

Speaker 2 he'll buy it. And people are drafted a place.

Speaker 3 And they make him a little piss and hole. I know that's always part of it.

Speaker 2 Do they have to buy the piss if the piss is in the circle?

Speaker 3 No, the piss is under the circle because it's in a hole.

Speaker 2 Anything below the circle is your problem.

Speaker 4 Oh, hey, talk about kinds of creators. Gives people lots of money would have been, oh, that would have been really good.

Speaker 2 Did you get like

Speaker 4 a million dollars and I give that million dollars to some other, somebody else, and everybody's like,

Speaker 2 basically, you just have to be a financial conduit.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I just want to be the like the

Speaker 2 historic conduit.

Speaker 4 God, conduit was just like Such the right word, man.

Speaker 2 You nailed it. And you keep a little.
You did a little bit. You keep a vacation if you're sleeping in.

Speaker 2 Beast sweat. You get your beast wet.

Speaker 4 Beast wet. As long as you're loading TVs in the circle.
I know one beast man that would love a...

Speaker 2 X-Ray.

Speaker 3 I think they usually cut that out of the video, I bet. Hey, you got 10 Xbox Ones in there, huh? That's crazy.

Speaker 2 You're giving away nine Xbox Ones.

Speaker 3 We're doing, guys, 99 Lasic blasts with this today.

Speaker 2 It's going to be fucking great.

Speaker 2 We're going to blast 99.

Speaker 2 Okay, Mr. Reese doesn't have anybody.
He just lives off the stove he stole from his videos. If you go over to his house, he's like, don't go upstairs.
It's all elephant toothpaste.

Speaker 2 It exploded. Don't go upstairs.

Speaker 4 I used to have one real Lamborghini, now I have a hundred tiny Lamborghinis because I traded them in a stupid video.

Speaker 2 God, I wish I got. I'm trapped in a loop of my own making.

Speaker 3 We're giving away a cyber truck, and you're allowed to drive it Sunday through Friday. Come on, stay in the circle.

Speaker 2 You gotta go get me, though.

Speaker 3 You gotta come get me on Saturday, brother.

Speaker 2 I need a ride.

Speaker 2 I gotta donate blood to keep paying for all this stuff. You're paying me for my platelets.

Speaker 2 I can't even afford LASIK. That's what sucks.
I need LASIK.

Speaker 4 I, Mr. Beast, desperately need LASIK.

Speaker 3 He shows up in a little stick on goatee. Hello.
Hello.

Speaker 4 Hello. My name is Daryl Beast.
Fuck.

Speaker 2 Damn it. Fuck.
Messed up.

Speaker 4 Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. It's called My Brother, My Brother, and Me.
We're going to be doing this live December 6th at 7 p.m. And that includes a virtual stream ticket.

Speaker 2 That's right.

Speaker 4 You don't have to physically come to Candle Nights. You can watch it from the comfort of your own home.

Speaker 4 Both are extremely acceptable and very appreciated because all the benefits from that show are going to be donated to Harmony House, which, as you might know, seeks to end homelessness in the Huntington area through permanent housing and supportive service programs.

Speaker 4 If you want to come to Candle Nights or you want to watch Candle Knights, either way, the links is the same. Bit.ly forward slash Candle Knights 2025.

Speaker 2 Make sure to check out macrowaymerch.com. We've got some new merch over there.
We got a final Pam poster designed by Will O'Quillen and a final Pam beanie.

Speaker 2 We just added to the store a This Is Not an Apple shirt based on Griffin's beautiful upside-down Apple drawing featuring the Apple anus.

Speaker 2 Make sure you check it out. It's only going to be available until November 28th.
So don't miss out. It's two weeks only.
Go to macroeymerge.com and check it out.

Speaker 2 And 10% of all merge proceeds this month will be donated to Native American Aid.

Speaker 3 Speaking of Pam, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the final Pam Fallout 4 Monster Factory series, we did dig up an old external hard drive with that save on it and have revisited that world in a new

Speaker 3 mini-series on Monster Factory.

Speaker 4 We're going to beat the game.

Speaker 3 But spoilers. But yeah, we are going to be airing those every week for the next four weeks.
It's a four-part series, so check it out.

Speaker 2 Champions Grove packages are on sale now. It's a weekend-long gaming event at Ravenwood Castle in Hawking Hills, Ohio that I co-founded with my friend Alice.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 we're well over halfway sold out. But if you want to come, make sure to get your package while they last.
Go to www.championsgrove.com for all the information.

Speaker 2 Don't wait. They're going to be gone soon, and we want you to grab one.
So get it.

Speaker 3 Tell Death to a Spartan next week on American Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 Set your watch.

Speaker 3 Set your calendar. I got to watch it.
For real.

Speaker 3 Let's have a fear.

Speaker 2 Let's do it. Final fear.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Allow me. Please.

Speaker 4 This year, I want to be faster than my fear of my recurring night terror, which is that several big carpets are rolled up in the corner of my room. Yep.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure. I'm trying.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I fucking get it.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 4 My name is Justin McRoy.

Speaker 2 I'm Travis McRoy.

Speaker 3 I'm Griffin McRoy.

Speaker 4 This has been my brother, my brother, me. Kiss your dad square on the lips.

Speaker 4 It's better with you.

Speaker 4 It's

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