MBMBaM 810: Shirtpants! Shirtpants!

Summary

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Podcast Summary: My Brother, My Brother and Me (MBMBaM) Ep. 810

Title: Shirtpants! Shirtpants!
Date: April 20, 2026
Hosts: Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy

Overview

This episode of MBMBaM, titled “Shirtpants! Shirtpants!”, coincides with the annual Maximum Fun Drive fundraising event. The McElroy brothers blend their hallmark comedy advice with heavy doses of riffing about clothing mishaps, TV show absurdities, haunted Ebay listings, and the promotional chaos of pledge season. Largely improvised and self-referential, the episode highlights their unique sibling dynamic, love of tangents, and devotion to their fan-supported podcasting model.

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1. The Maximum Fun Drive & Boko Highlights ([01:08]–[07:18], [31:00]–[36:05])

• The episode opens with a focus on the Maximum Fun Drive, explaining how fans can support MBMBaM directly through donations at maximumfun.org/join.
• The brothers mock the annual “consulting firm” and how they’re “already sunk” before the drive even starts ([01:42] Justin).
  • “There is no way we are not already sunk.” — Justin ([02:10])
• They discuss exclusive bonus content, such as the “Pranky Doodle Dandy” episode and their new masterclass with Janet Varney on voice acting, noting Janet’s delight in roasting them in the voice of Korra.
  • “She was like, I want it to feel like Korra’s like fucking burning you and razzing you.” — Griffin ([07:18])
• Fans learn about different support tiers, rewards, and the importance of listener donations to keep the show creator-owned and ad-light.

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2. “RiverNatural” Game: Riverdale vs Supernatural or Both ([07:32]–[17:29])

• Travis leads a hilarious quiz, “RiverNatural,” where he presents bizarre TV plotlines, asking Justin and Griffin to decide if they’re from Riverdale, Supernatural, or both.
  • Examples include haunted dolls, time travel plots, and murderous tabletop games.
  • Memorable moments include confusion over Riverdale's complexity:
    • “Wait, so Jughead has to save the universe by writing?” — Griffin ([13:46])
  • The brothers marvel at the absurdity: “It’s the one cryptid we have...come on.” — Griffin ([15:27])
• Griffin is declared the winner, admitting: “It’s a really good game. I can’t...they didn’t get in anywhere near that shit when I watched.” ([17:29])

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3. Advice Segment: Sunglasses Indoors & “Shirtpants” Workplace Fashion Crisis ([17:41]–[26:19])

Sunglasses Indoors ([17:41]–[20:27])

• Listener asks: How to wear prescription sunglasses indoors without looking like “a douchey asshole.”
• The brothers suggest leaning into the look (“lower your glasses and say, ‘I’m basically legally blind right now’” — Travis, [19:21]) or playing into the mystique with humor and confidence.
  • “He gave me a 20 and said, ‘Keep the change,’ which I didn’t understand at all, but he said it in such a way that I said, thank you, Mr. Dave.” — Travis ([20:28])
• They riff about invented backstories and the aura sunglasses can give.
  • “I heard his house just burned down, but he’s in like a fucking vibey mood right now.” — Griffin ([20:40])

“Shirtpants” Fiasco ([20:59]–[26:19])

• Listener asks how to pull off pajama pants at a retreat after coffee spilled on the lone pair of jeans packed.
• Hijinks about creating “shirtpants” (turning shirts into pants) — “Button up, tuck it into your underwear.” — Griffin ([21:43])
• The hosts emphasize better packing, sharing personal packing systems and the necessity of spare clothes.
  • "I am the person who will pack a pair of pants for every day and then, like, an extra pair of pants. Mostly because I know I will often just shrek around, knock stuff over, spill things on myself..." — Travis ([22:01])
• Advice includes creative sweatpants-to-dress-pants transformations and mentions of DoorDashing pants in emergencies.
  • “Can you DoorDash pants?” — Justin ([29:48])

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4. Tangents: Packing Philosophy & Family Life ([23:13]–[26:54])

• Griffin explains his “packing burritos” method and the comforts of organized luggage.
  • “My undies, I roll into little burritos...” ([23:27])
• Family anecdote: Justin dries kid’s waterlogged shoes with a hairdryer—only to encounter eye-watering odors.
  • “It was as though I had opened the Ark of the Covenant...” — Justin ([26:54])
• Travis offers a shoe-drying life hack with a hanger and dryer. ([28:04])

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5. Haunted eBay: The Brush That Increases Desires ([36:43]–[58:33])

• The tradition of “Haunted Doll Watch” returns, featuring a lengthy, poetic eBay listing for a “cursed estate, haunted 19th century ritual object: the brush that increases desires.”
  • “Objects like this don’t awaken in new spaces. They remain inert until the moment they cross from custody into ownership. The transition is not symbolic, it’s cognitive.” — Justin, reading the listing ([41:32])
• The brothers riff extensively on the melodramatic prose (“The brush didn’t add anything to my life. Wait, it accelerated what was already present.” — Justin ([43:34])), the philosophical implications, and the possibility of the brush being responsible for the eBay author’s lyrical prowess.
• They draw parallels to ADHD, joke about nostalgia, memory surfacing, and discuss the brush as a metaphor for unresolved emotion.
  • “Over time, this one absorbed what people brought to it: memory, mood, unresolved thought...” — Justin ([43:16])
  • “This is the best TED talk I’ve ever been to.” — Travis ([44:00])
• After noting the brush can be bought in Klarna installments, Justin ultimately “purchases” it, concluding, “The brushes is ours. It’s staying right here.” ([58:15])
• Big laughs as the brothers spiral about the brush’s metaphysical potential: “Babe, it’s not me. I didn’t want to cheat on you. Brush wanted me to cheat on you.” — Travis ([55:03])

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6. Sincerity & Member Drive Wrap-Up ([58:33]–[65:00])

• Travis offers a heartfelt message about fifteen years of MaxFun and the role of listener support:
  • “We have really worked to kind of live up to that, adding new things, trying to keep in mind what our supporters would like us to do.” ([58:33])
• Discussion of the unique, co-op model of the Maximum Fun network and gratitude for the MBMBaM community ([62:14] Griffin).
  • “If you like this show then you can keep it going and help us just keep doing our thing...” — Griffin ([62:14])
• Pledge rewards, matching goals, and exclusive merch (keychains, water bottles, etc.) are plugged ([33:35], [61:06]).
• Travis promotes a local theater fundraiser he’s hosting ([63:37]).
• The episode ends, as always, with an object-throwing bit—in this case, Griffin hurls a Yoshi toy, earning praise for his “targeting.” ([64:41])
  • “Yoshi made a great noise. Griffin, did it get in frame?” — Travis ([64:48])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Old conversations replay, not as regret, but as unfinished business. Memories resurface…not for nostalgia, but for correction.” — Justin ([52:13], reading eBay listing)
• “It’s the brush that increases desires. First night with a new owner, always an adjustment. The mind maps it into the environment.” — Justin ([50:10])
• “This is not conflict creation. It’s continuity restoration.” — Justin ([52:38])
• “My name is Justin McElroy.”
  “I’m Travis McElroy.”
  “I’m Griffin McElroy.”
  “This has been My Brother, My Brother and Me. Kiss your dad square on the lips.” ([64:53])

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Segment Timestamps

• MaxFun Drive/Boko Talk: [01:08]–[07:18], [31:00]–[36:05], [61:00]–[63:34]
• RiverNatural Game: [07:32]–[17:29]
• Advice Segment (Sunglasses & Shirtpants): [17:41]–[26:19]
• Packing Tangents / Shoe Story: [23:13]–[28:33]
• Haunted Doll Watch (The Brush): [36:43]–[58:33]
• Pledge Sincerity & Closing: [58:33]–[65:00]

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Tone and Highlights

• The episode melds sharp sibling banter, surreal comedic games, and their unique approach to crowd-supported media.
• The “Haunted Brush” segment is a standout for both laughs and weird introspection, with the eBay listing serving as comedic set piece and possibly a meta-commentary on the show itself.
• Genuineness shines through as they thank listeners with both goofs and real emotion.

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For new listeners:
This episode is a perfect encapsulation of MBMBaM—bridging absurd humor, inside jokes, pop culture nerdery, and a heartfelt connection with their audience. If you enjoy deliriously funny sibling chaos with occasional moments of sincerity, you’ll find it here.

Transcript

[Griffin McElroy]

The McElroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexpert, but if there's a degree on his wall, I haven't seen it. Also, this show isn't for kids, which I mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening. What's up, you cool baby?

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

It's the start of something beautiful A

[Travis McElroy]

small acquaintance has blossomed it's ripened into

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

a precious friends I could have never seen what was coming for me Hangs at the skate park Hangs by the beach My life it feels like

[Griffin McElroy]

life

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

is Ah, it's better it's better with you My life ah, it's better it's better with you this is who you

[Travis McElroy]

are

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

it's better it's better with two.

[Justin McElroy]

It's better with you hello, everybody. Welcome to the Maximum Fun Drive. It's my brother, my brother B. I'm the Host, brother, Justin McElroy.

[Travis McElroy]

I'm sorry, Justin. I'm pretty sure you have to sing Send in the Clowns.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, it is actually contractually obligated that you sing the song.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah. No. If you don't do it.

[Justin McElroy]

Send in the Clowns is for the monumental episodes. This is Pay the Piper.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, right, right, right.

[Griffin McElroy]

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

[Justin McElroy]

You'.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, I guess hit Pay the Piper maybe a little bit harder. The notes. I'm getting these notes back from the focus group that we hired to sit

[Justin McElroy]

and watch us, so.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

That's so interesting. Let me try again. Cause I know that we have paid. This is the one bad thing about Max Fund Drive, which is the time that we come to you every year and say, hey, if you like the content that we make here in the Maximum Fund Network, if you could kick in a few bucks to help make that happen. The negative thing about it, that a lot of people don't want to talk about, but I would like to get out. Yeah. Early. Is that we have already prepaid a consulting firm hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[Griffin McElroy]

So much money to optimize this drive.

[Justin McElroy]

There is no way we are not already sunk.

[Travis McElroy]

We are good money after bad, taking a huge bath.

[Griffin McElroy]

We've never not been in the red, despite how much incredible support we've gotten. But Jesse loves this consulting firm. He is crazy about him.

[Justin McElroy]

Yes, he's not even in charge anymore. It's a co op run with the employees, but still, somehow, he's the one.

[Griffin McElroy]

He'll still text you, you like using the firm. And he does it in all lowercase so, you know, he's being like kind of coy about it, but he loves this fucking firm. But it is the Max Fund drive. And this show exists because of people like you listening to it and enjoying it now. So Please go to maximumfun.org join there's so many great, wonderful prizes. I don't know if we're supposed to call them prizes, but.

[Travis McElroy]

What's up, Trav Nation? I'm your middlest brother, Travis. Big dog. Wolf, Wolf. Vroom, vroom. The Heater award winning hat in hand, McElroy.

[Griffin McElroy]

What's up, Travnation? It's me, your sweet baby brother. 30 under 30 media luminary. Built for tough. I don't have a baseball one yet. Griffin McElroy.

[Travis McElroy]

It felt like the time to deploy it.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, yeah. Strong.

[Travis McElroy]

I was waiting for the right move.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

So we haven't said it yet, but this is Max Fun Drive. Your chance to support.

[Justin McElroy]

I should have mentioned that up top.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, we should have mentioned it.

[Justin McElroy]

I mentioned that up top.

[Travis McElroy]

This is your chance to support the art and artists you love. And that's us. Because the number one thing, we are

[Griffin McElroy]

artists, artists making art because of you. Thanks to you for supporting us.

[Justin McElroy]

Sorry, I was just reading back over the past highlights of the MBMBAM botas content and I had completely forgotten that we rerecorded one of our episodes with Matt Doyle.

[Griffin McElroy]

It was conceptual. It was extraordinarily conceptual. That's right, Justin. That is but one of the many Boko offerings.

[Justin McElroy]

Pranky Doodle Dandy.

[Griffin McElroy]

Pranky Doodle Dandy. I think Pranky Doodle Dandy contains my best joke. My best joke I've ever deployed is in Pranky Doodle Dandy. And it was against our friend Lynn. And you just gotta hear it to believe it. Cause it's so fucking sick. It's like a sick burn.

[Justin McElroy]

So if people go to maximumfun.org join you can get all these details, you can hear about all this. But Travis, you were mid spiel and I interrupt and I'm so sorry.

[Travis McElroy]

Well, we have a lot of great boko. Some past highlights include Pranky Doodle Dandy, which includes Griffin's best joke. We did a full re recording of episode 400 with Matt Doyle.

[Griffin McElroy]

That was our Escape to Margaritaville blue carpet premiere episode. It was a fever dream.

[Travis McElroy]

There's all kinds of stuff. You can go to maximumfun.org join to become a member.

[Griffin McElroy]

Do we want to talk about what we did this year for our boh?

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah, Travis, I think you could do it. But Then I think Travis is going

[Travis McElroy]

to do it again after, in a more professional. Like someone who won an iHeart Media Podcast Award with.

[Griffin McElroy]

We didn't win it for. We did not win it for pledge driving. We won it for ads, which is very much the opposite.

[Travis McElroy]

It's an ad.

[Justin McElroy]

This is an ad. A pledge drive is an ad for.

[Griffin McElroy]

An ad for us, an ad for us.

[Justin McElroy]

So big. So big, you know, big radio doesn't come in and buy out the whole station and shut us down like they've been threatening to do for so long.

[Travis McElroy]

Old Man Radio knocking on radio killed the podcast star.

[Justin McElroy]

Sirius XM has been banging on the door saying, you guys have a radio station. We're a radio company. Let's work this out.

[Griffin McElroy]

And they don't want us to do a show on there. They want to shut us down.

[Justin McElroy]

They want to shut us down. They want to shut us down because we're competing with Howard Stern.

[Travis McElroy]

They've been calling me a lot. They're like, how would you like two hours after Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray? And I'm like, what do you mean, two hours after? Like, what does that mean? And they're like, you could sit in the booth that he was just in for two hours thinking your thoughts. And I'm like, that sounds great. Would I play music? And they said, oh, God, no, we don't play music.

[Griffin McElroy]

Travis. I actually. I hate to do this in the middle of our sort of pledge drive where we're asking people to Support [e-mail] join. But none of Mark's McGrath's microphones are plugged in. They just let him go in there, but none of his mics are plugged in. There's nothing recording. He just goes in there and they say, time for your show. And it's different every week. Yeah, but none of it is actually real. It's a toy. In fact, it's using a Fisher Price toy microphone, but he hasn't noticed yet.

[Travis McElroy]

That tracks. So for as low as $5 a month, you can become a member. Or if you're already a member, you can consider upgrading, boosting all those things. There's a whole bunch of different levels with a whole bunch of different rewards. And if you go to maximumfun.org join, you'll find out about those. Now, what kind of special stuff do we have planned for the Max Fun Drive? Well, I'm glad you asked. I've invented a new game.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, you may even mention, I just want to hear what our BO code this year is.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, right. We Sat down with Janet Varney for a masterclass on voice acting in which Janet Varney shamed us into being better voice actors. Question mark. You can check that out. As well as every past book code, not just from my brother, my brother and me, but from all the max fun shows including Adventure Zone, Sawbones, Shmanners, and [e-mail] join now. Are you ready?

[Griffin McElroy]

How come whenever she said mean stuff to us, she always did it in the Korra voice? Cause she was like, I want it to feel like Korra's like fucking burning you and razzing you.

[Travis McElroy]

Well, that's how she do.

[Griffin McElroy]

I guess.

[Travis McElroy]

So that's how Janet Varney.

[Griffin McElroy]

It's very powerful. A good, strong, powerful move.

[Travis McElroy]

It's River Natural. These are two real weird shows. Weird stuff happens on them. Sometimes the same arm, both. It's River Natural. Welcome to River Natural, a game in which I will give you a plot line and you will tell me if it's from Riverdale, Supernatural, or both.

[Griffin McElroy]

This is a good, good, good, good, good idea, Travy. I'm so excited for it, River. And I'm excited for. And I'm excited for your mustache.

[Travis McElroy]

Thank you very much, Griffa.

[Griffin McElroy]

That I did have to tell. I did give you some criticism, some edit.

[Travis McElroy]

It's a little lopsided.

[Griffin McElroy]

It was quite lopsided by about a good quarter inch.

[Travis McElroy]

But sometimes it takes a brother's eye and a mother's love.

[Justin McElroy]

So it's really quite a gift because you could have let the Internet handle your light work. And that's very beautiful of you, Griffin, to see.

[Griffin McElroy]

Nah, man. I mean, it looked like he was wearing like a upside down uppercase J. It was really quiet.

[Travis McElroy]

I was going for a look. It was a. It was a. It was a love letter to Justin. And you took that away from him

[Justin McElroy]

like it was melting down one side.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yes, yes.

[Travis McElroy]

It was a Salvador Dali mustache.

[Griffin McElroy]

So, Travis, is it gonna. Is it gonna fuck things up that I've seen probably two seasons of Riverdale and then as much supernatural as I could stomach. That show is too scary for me. No, I feel like I'm gonna have a. I did. I feel like Riverdale didn't get too supernatural until later on.

[Travis McElroy]

A lot of this stuff is from later season.

[Justin McElroy]

Riverdale.

[Travis McElroy]

So Riverdale, which.

[Griffin McElroy]

Which season does the smoke monster come out of Jughead's butt?

[Travis McElroy]

That's episode one, season one.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

Right.

[Travis McElroy]

That's opening shot, literally. So Riverdale show about some all American teenagers and Supernatural. A show about two brothers traveling the world fighting demons and monsters and stuff. And the Venn diagram is a circle. Okay, are you guys ready?

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, I'm ready and willing.

[Travis McElroy]

Okay, here is your first plot line. The main characters have to deal with a haunted doll moving on its own and terrorizing people. Is that Riverdale, Supernatural, or both?

[Justin McElroy]

Both.

[Griffin McElroy]

I also think it's both. That seems. That seems general enough.

[Travis McElroy]

That is correct. Sam and Dean do battle with a ghost that possesses dolls and murders people at a bed and breakfast. And Cheryl, Blossom's unborn brother, which would have made her and her brother triplets. Julian possesses a doll, and it causes friction between Cheryl and her girlfriend. Ugh.

[Griffin McElroy]

What kind of. That could mean anything?

[Travis McElroy]

Well, her girlfriend's like, hey, for fuck's sake, please get rid of that haunted doll. And while you're at it, if you want to get rid of the corpse of your brother that you put makeup on and keep around the house for some reason, that would also be cool.

[Griffin McElroy]

If I had a doll with one of you guys in it, I would for sure get rid of it, because I think that's what you would want.

[Justin McElroy]

If a haunted doll is ever causing literal friction in your sexual relationship, it may be time to reevaluate because that is not an appropriate application of a haunted doll.

[Travis McElroy]

I should also say spoilers for Riverdale and Supernatural if that wasn't obvious.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, geez, pal.

[Travis McElroy]

After traveling through time with an angel by their side, a main character tries to stop the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

[Justin McElroy]

Okay, okay.

[Griffin McElroy]

Fucking shit, dude.

[Justin McElroy]

Fuck.

[Griffin McElroy]

Fuck, dude.

[Justin McElroy]

Either one is pretty bodacious.

[Griffin McElroy]

Both.

[Justin McElroy]

The only show that's actually allowed to do stuff like this is Quantum Leap,

[Travis McElroy]

as we all know.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, Quantum Leap is the only one. Fuck, dude.

[Justin McElroy]

I answered authoritatively. First, Griffin, I'm going to let you know.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay, I know there is a time travel subplot at some point in Supernatural, so I'm going to say Supernatural. I do not think they would touch this rail with Archie and the gang.

[Justin McElroy]

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with Griffin because there is also a time travel subplot in Riverdale where they go back to original Archie times and everybody's Archie eyes to the original Archie vision.

[Griffin McElroy]

That sounds cool.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah, man. I kind of. I know. I'm not ever going to watch it.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, I'm not going to watch it.

[Justin McElroy]

It sounds cool.

[Travis McElroy]

Justin is correct.

[Griffin McElroy]

Damn it.

[Travis McElroy]

Tabitha, who is Pop's granddaughter, is Chrono kinetic, or more simply put, a time traveler. This is from the Wiki. The drama of her getting shot by Percival's Hitman unlocked her gift, sending her back in time to December 24, 1944, where she was guided by her guardian angel, Raphael, to complete her mission. As Tabitha continued to travel, she learned that some events in time are fixed points, meaning certain incidents from the past affect the fabric of the world so enormously that the universe won't let them be altered, such as the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Griffin McElroy]

So this is. This is the Jughead show. Riverdale.

[Travis McElroy]

Correct.

[Griffin McElroy]

Awesome. That's great.

[Travis McElroy]

I heard.

[Griffin McElroy]

I'll be honest, Travis. I heard angel and I thought. Lay up. Supernatural is lousy with these fucking hot, hot guys. Usually egg on my face.

[Justin McElroy]

Sorry, Grif.

[Travis McElroy]

A witch burned at the stake centuries earlier, possesses a main character and attempts to seduce another main character. Both. That's easy.

[Griffin McElroy]

Both.

[Justin McElroy]

I'm gonna say Supernatural.

[Travis McElroy]

That would be Riverdale. Cheryl. Cheryl's ancestor.

[Justin McElroy]

What happened on that show.

[Travis McElroy]

Cheryl's ancestor was a powerful witch, possesses her body and attempts to seduce her girlfriend. If I'm not mistaken, the same girlfriend that didn't like having the haunted doll around.

[Griffin McElroy]

Haunted doll? Yeah. Why is she sticking around, man? This is your sign. Get out of there.

[Travis McElroy]

It is. So right now, Joset has one point. It is discovered that the events of the series are being written about in a popular book series.

[Griffin McElroy]

Whoa. Huh? Okay. Both Supernatural.

[Travis McElroy]

Griffin is correct. There's a book series that chronicles the Winchester brothers adventures by an author named Chuck. There is a similar storyline in Riverdale that results in Jughead having to lock himself in a bunker and write stories to save the universe. But that universe is River Vale, a dark version of Riverdale.

[Griffin McElroy]

Trav, I need to. I need to know this is a reputable wiki that you're getting these from and not something more, let's say, amateur generated, unauthorized.

[Travis McElroy]

This is all real, baby.

[Griffin McElroy]

That's cool. So Jughead, the burger man, has to save the universe by writing. Yes, by writing his way out. That's cool.

[Travis McElroy]

Well, there's two Jugheads because they're in River Vale. So there's Riverdale, Jughead and River Vale. Jughead, often referred to as narrator Jughead and writer Jughead.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay, there's two. There's two. There's two Jugheads inside of all of us.

[Travis McElroy]

That's true.

[Justin McElroy]

So this is kind of like a Ted Mosby situation where you got two different Ted Moses. You got the. The older guy telling the story to his kids, and then you got the younger guy who's an architect, and none

[Travis McElroy]

of it can be trusted.

[Griffin McElroy]

You got Saget prime, second prime, and

[Justin McElroy]

he's Changing the story for the kids because sometimes they'll take out some of

[Travis McElroy]

the profanity and change weed to sandwiches.

[Griffin McElroy]

Residents, is there like a supernatural plotline on him? I think is how you shorten that one.

[Travis McElroy]

They're all ghosts.

[Griffin McElroy]

Himyim. Okay. They're all ghosts.

[Travis McElroy]

Residents of a town are terrorized by what they believe to be paranormal predators. But the main character's discovery is actually a family of crazed rednecks.

[Justin McElroy]

Both shows.

[Griffin McElroy]

Both shows.

[Travis McElroy]

My brother. My brother and me.

[Griffin McElroy]

By virtue of this segment. Yeah, I think Justin should get at least a half a point.

[Travis McElroy]

Okay, yeah, Justin can have a half a point. Griffin is correct. In Supernatural, it's one episode in Riverdale. It spans at least one season, maybe multiple seasons. It is at first believed to be an alien species called the Mothman.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, interesting. Until they didn't know that they could use that.

[Travis McElroy]

Yep. Until they discovered that it is an inbred redneck family like you do.

[Griffin McElroy]

So you guys can. It's the one Cryptid we have. Well, I guess we have a flatwood monster too, but come on.

[Travis McElroy]

Okay, we got lots of Cryptids. One more. A D and D esque game is unleashed on the town and many residents become obsessed. The game involves many real life dangers to advance, including every player who receiving a mission to murder one of the main characters.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, man, that's cool.

[Travis McElroy]

Justin, I feel like you've lost the plot a little bit. It's Riverdale Supernatural. Or both.

[Griffin McElroy]

Or both. There's only three answers you can't write

[Travis McElroy]

in E and then fill that bubble in. That doesn't work.

[Griffin McElroy]

Is neither an option?

[Travis McElroy]

No. Riverdale. Let's say natural or both.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay.

[Justin McElroy]

I feel like. I feel like Supernatural be more tuned

[Griffin McElroy]

into that community, but I do think Riverdale is the right answer because I think they would do a Jumanji episode for sure.

[Travis McElroy]

Griffin is correct. In Riverdale, they play Griffins and gargoyles and at the behest of the Gargoyle King, a terrorizing figure that is seen wandering the town. And he's like 10ft tall. one point, every player is assigned the mission to murder Archie.

[Griffin McElroy]

Whoa. Holy shit. Good luck.

[Justin McElroy]

You never see that coming.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. Damn, I want to be. The Gargoyle King is ruffing out good.

[Travis McElroy]

There's also a scene where Archie fist fights a bear, and I couldn't figure out a way to include that that wouldn't make it obvious that it was Archie fighting a bear.

[Griffin McElroy]

Did the bear also have a game like a kick?

[Travis McElroy]

No, this is separate. Archie kicks the bear's Ass.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, of course.

[Justin McElroy]

Archie Archer the bear.

[Travis McElroy]

And yeah, who would you rather be

[Griffin McElroy]

stuck in the woods with one Archie or one bear?

[Justin McElroy]

I mean, I would say if Archie over the bear, but Jughead can rewrite reality, so I don't know where that puts him in the power rankings.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, Travis, that was a really good game.

[Travis McElroy]

Griffin wins.

[Justin McElroy]

You said that you won. That's the only reason you like the game.

[Griffin McElroy]

It's a really good game. I can't. I watched a not insignificant amount of Riverdale and they didn't get into any of this shit. They didn't get in anywhere near that shit.

[Justin McElroy]

I am stricken with embarrassingly poor eyesight and can't see without my glasses. I lost my glasses this morning. So the only way I can see and read throughout the day is with my prescription sunglasses. How do I wear my sunglasses indoors, out in public, without seeming like a douchey asshole? That's from Corrective Vision Needed in Columbus.

[Griffin McElroy]

The extra info here is so necessary.

[Justin McElroy]

They are copper polarized lenses, you know, so this is going to be big Hollywood energy. I feel like this is not like this a light tint. This is like. Yeah, we could have all this cleared

[Travis McElroy]

out by next week and get a Chipotle in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm just shutting down this stupid place.

[Griffin McElroy]

The type of sunglasses put such a fucking vital vector on this. Because if they were sort of more tame sunglasses, I would see no problem here. If you roll up into the Panera Bread looking like fucking Cole Trickle, then you're not going to. You are going to turn some heads.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, I know that the quote, he can't see a thing without his glasses is from Mind Girl, but I. For some reason, my brain always first attributes it to the mummy with the guy.

[Griffin McElroy]

Travis.

[Justin McElroy]

Yes.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah. Yes.

[Justin McElroy]

This sentence can't be going anywhere interesting. I'm just going to call an audible on this sentence.

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

No.

[Justin McElroy]

You know, it's going to.

[Griffin McElroy]

One of Travis's brain mistakes. Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

Is that I always think he can't

[Justin McElroy]

see a thing without his glasses.

[Travis McElroy]

Is about the member of the American party that loses his glasses and the mommy takes his eyes.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, yeah, sure. Travis, I'm right there with you. But I also.

[Travis McElroy]

Very much.

[Justin McElroy]

But you're also more there with me when I tried to stop that.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

[Travis McElroy]

Who could say. I think that a power move would be. Every time anyone says anything, lower your glasses and look over the top of them and say, I'm basically legally blind right now. And then slide him back up.

[Griffin McElroy]

That could. I mean, that's Extremely descriptive. Like you're gonna. No one's going to say fucking shit after that, Trav. So it's a strong answer in that regard. But that is a. I don't know if that's a social encounter that most people are, like, wanting to sort of volunteer over and over and over.

[Travis McElroy]

That's fair,

[Justin McElroy]

I guess. The, like, you could really try to play it up like you're doing a bit because of how good your life's going.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, you know what I mean?

[Justin McElroy]

Like, if people are like, hey, Dave, how are things going? You look at me like, pretty good. You tell me.

[Griffin McElroy]

You tell me.

[Justin McElroy]

Check the shades. Check the shades.

[Travis McElroy]

I'm indoors. And then hand him a 20. Thanks for asking, kid.

[Justin McElroy]

Uh oh, what's that?

[Griffin McElroy]

Jeans and flip flops. Hang loose.

[Justin McElroy]

I ran into Dave earlier today. Things are going well. Really good for him, I think.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

He gave me a 20 and said, Keep the change, which I didn't understand at all, but he said it in such a way that I said, thank you, Mr. Dave. And I was confused but impressed. I don't know, man.

[Griffin McElroy]

I heard his house just burned down, but he's in like a fucking vibey mood right now. Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

Did he have insurance? Did he have like a big insurance? Was it arson? Maybe.

[Griffin McElroy]

Do you think Dave burned down his own house for the arson money and that's why he's vibing so tightly now?

[Travis McElroy]

That's so cool.

[Justin McElroy]

God, he's.

[Griffin McElroy]

Damn, he's cool. Look at those polarized lenses. I think we got it.

[Justin McElroy]

I went on an overnight work retreat with one pair of jeans. Planning to wear them both days. Yes, sure. I spilled coffee on my jeans, so I tried to wash them out in the sink last night. This morning, my jeans are soaking wet. How do I wear my pajama pants today? With such purpose that my colleagues do not ask questions. They are light gray sweatpants. I think I can do this.

[Griffin McElroy]

That's awesome.

[Justin McElroy]

That's more of that. I like that. I think I could do this. That's from two casual Friday. P.S. i packed three shirts for this two day work retreat. Why couldn't I have spilled the coffee on my shirt?

[Travis McElroy]

Shirt. Shirt, pants. Shirt pants. Shirt pants.

[Griffin McElroy]

Pull them on, button up, tuck it into your underwear.

[Justin McElroy]

Just sew the crotch where the buttons is.

[Travis McElroy]

Shirt, pants.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yep. Shirt, pants. Button fly, button fly. Perfect all the way around.

[Travis McElroy]

I once saw a post somewhere that said, like, I pack clothes. Like, I'm planning to shit my pants every day.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

And that is very much when I pack. If it's like I'M gonna be there for four days, so I'll need 12 pairs of underwear. Like, that's my thought process. And, like, I am the person. I will pack a pair of pants for every day and then, like, an extra pair of pants. Mostly because I know that I will often just shrek around, knock stuff over, spill things on myself sometimes right out the gate.

[Griffin McElroy]

You know,

[Justin McElroy]

I have to quibble with our listeners. Y' all have gotta start coming to us a few mistakes earlier than you are. Like, it's so hard to do this. Let's take it from the beginning. Okay. Hey, I'm going on a work trip. Oh, that's cool. Make sure you pack a couple pairs of pants. Nope, Just one. Thank you.

[Travis McElroy]

Okay, I'm packing four articles of clothing, but here's the thing.

[Justin McElroy]

Just don't spill anything on them. Nope, too late. Spill coffee on them. Aw, that stinks. Well, make sure you wash them.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, I did.

[Justin McElroy]

Oh, good. Well, make sure you get them dry. Nope, I didn't. Well, guys, what do I do now? Fucking, why didn't you come to us earlier? You know what I mean? Like, hey, guys, help me pack for my big trip.

[Griffin McElroy]

God, I crush at packing. I love packing so much, and they never ask us.

[Justin McElroy]

Give me your perfect packing presentation.

[Griffin McElroy]

My perfect packing presentation?

[Justin McElroy]

Cause I think. I think packing's not cool. I think packing's for grandmas. Teach me, Griffin. Give me your perfect packing presentation.

[Griffin McElroy]

I mean, I like to fold them up tight. I like no creases. My undies, I roll into little burritos, and I build sort of barriers between different items. With.

[Justin McElroy]

I stop. I stopped folding my underwear a decade ago. So I don't.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, it's not a fold. It's a roll. This is what I'm saying. Boop.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, I put, like.

[Justin McElroy]

I'm not gonna roll. It's like, always a cram with undies. Cram in a drawer, cram in a suitcase. Always a cram.

[Travis McElroy]

On this, I pack. My packing experience is like a severance innie and outtie. Where when I get to the place that I'm going, I open my suitcase and I'm like, who packed this?

[Griffin McElroy]

Surprise.

[Travis McElroy]

Nothing is anywhere. I can't find any. What's in here?

[Griffin McElroy]

I like it. Wherever I am with my bag is my home, and I want it to feel like home. And so I roll my underwear up into burrito shapes just like you do at home. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's like a chipotle down there.

[Justin McElroy]

How many pairs of pants do you bring?

[Griffin McElroy]

Two pairs of pants. Four spills.

[Justin McElroy]

Can you do one jeans and one fancy? Not jeans. That's usually what I do. I do a brown denim and a regular denim.

[Griffin McElroy]

Two kinds of pants.

[Travis McElroy]

Now I have a pair of dress pants that's kind of stretchy and soft and they feel like pajama pants, but they look like dress pants. And those are my go to fly in pants. Cause it's like I'm comfortable in these all day.

[Griffin McElroy]

No one knows.

[Travis McElroy]

No one knows.

[Griffin McElroy]

No one knows how stretchy it is.

[Justin McElroy]

How do you dress up? How do you dress up pajama pants?

[Griffin McElroy]

Starch. You gotta starch em up.

[Justin McElroy]

Starch is good. Starch and iron is good.

[Griffin McElroy]

Fold each leg sort of the wrong way. Right.

[Justin McElroy]

Make a pleat.

[Griffin McElroy]

Depth wise, make a pleat. Make a nice sharp pleat with an iron. Starch those bad boys the fuck up. I get a lot of TikTok content of people starch maxing and making their clothes so rigid that they can stand up on their own. And then they have to put those clothes on. That's my algo right now.

[Travis McElroy]

Anything's like lowered into them. Like Wallace and Gromit.

[Griffin McElroy]

No, they like have to lay down on the ground and kind of scoot into them. They're wearing other pants, by the way. This is not a nude sexual sort of. This is not my thing is like starch maxing. I'm just saying it's ended up in my algo and they keep giving it to me. Cause every time I'm like, there's no way they're getting those goddamn jeans on.

[Travis McElroy]

So you are interested in it. It's not like it keeps popping up and you're like, what is this doing here?

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, but like, their dick's not out. Like, it's not about that.

[Travis McElroy]

No one said it was.

[Griffin McElroy]

No, I know, but Travis, again, preparation is a big part of it. Cutting it off at the pass. I just want people to know this is because it's funny to me to watch people put on rigid jeans. You can make sweatpants and into dress pants.

[Travis McElroy]

Could you fashion a sweatband out of like a hand towel or something? Cut the sleeves off a T shirt, Roll up playing like the Rocky theme on your phone and you're like, I'm ready to company retreat. Let's do this. I'm like, I'm prepped. I'm pumped. Now you're the CEO. You got promoted because you care the most. Yes.

[Justin McElroy]

I think if this person wanted to put in that level of effort, they would have dried their jeans.

[Travis McElroy]

Fair enough.

[Justin McElroy]

I'm not sure. Planning is there for it.

[Travis McElroy]

There's no hair dryer where you're staying?

[Justin McElroy]

I had to hair dry out. Oh, my God. Cooper and the kids were throwing water balloons yesterday. And of course that was the only pair of shoes that she has to wear to school. And they're soaked. And I was like, it's 7:20. We gotta leave in like 10 minutes. I was like, it's okay. I'll hit him with the hairdryer. So I put the hairdryer into this little kid's shoe and I turned it on full blast.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

And the air that came back at me, it was as though I had opened the Ark of the Covenant and my. The layers of flesh. It couldn't be that a human child plus heat.

[Travis McElroy]

Not one as adorable as your child.

[Griffin McElroy]

Any human.

[Travis McElroy]

You know what I mean? I felt like Agent Smith, like the

[Justin McElroy]

virus that you people have infected my nostrils.

[Travis McElroy]

Like I couldn't look at the kid the same. Like, you know what I mean?

[Justin McElroy]

Like there's something wrong.

[Griffin McElroy]

It's not her fault that you turned her footwear into a despicable me Minion fart gun. That sucks, dude. That's mean. That's. I don't want that.

[Justin McElroy]

Charlie came over. I said, charlie. It's the worst thing about her experience. Don't huff this.

[Travis McElroy]

What'd she do? Huff it?

[Justin McElroy]

Put her mouth down for a huge snort. And then like, basically blacked out on

[Travis McElroy]

her bed for five minutes. Blacked out in the face.

[Justin McElroy]

Nightmare, dude. It was like I held my. It was so bad that I held my breath. And I could feel it hurting my eyes. Like, I could feel it. I sensed it.

[Travis McElroy]

Joke's out of the spill. Bend up a coat. A wire coat hanger. Put the shoe on it and bend the other side over the dryer door and close it so that they're suspended in the air inside the dryer. And then turn the dryer on.

[Justin McElroy]

Save yourself Something like that. I used a coat hanger to kind of wedge open the microwave door. And then I put the shoe in there.

[Travis McElroy]

That's something like that.

[Justin McElroy]

And I kind of wedged it so the microwave could work open. If you will just, like, rig it the right way so that actually could get the shoe.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. Pop off the governor and it'll work.

[Travis McElroy]

And it can just take off the hulk. Like cancer.

[Griffin McElroy]

So that's Cooper Shoot cancer?

[Justin McElroy]

You tell me. Travis. This is a glass plate. Whoa. Holy shit.

[Griffin McElroy]

Justin had a commemorative Utz brand glass plate that he just collapsed. That's crazy. He changed kind of the physical properties of that Glass plate.

[Justin McElroy]

That's how strong I am.

[Griffin McElroy]

I think people, everyone's experienced this, and so that's gonna work. To your favorite question asker, if we can return to the if we can return to the question asker for just a moment. I think if you wear the sweatpants to the company retreat, but you carry your messy jeans around with you, you say, hey, guys, just so you know, obviously this is unacceptable. It's not my first choice. I would be wearing these jeans. You hold them up, you say, but they're very wet. Now. You also, on the other hand, have to have the cup of coffee you spilled and say, this is the cup of coffee I spilled. This is not piss. This is not piss pants. I wouldn't show you those. That would be more inappropriate than ever. But as you can see, this was sort of the chain of events. I'm still. Don't look at me different. Just imagine I'm wearing these jeans, but unstained and super dry.

[Travis McElroy]

Can you doordash pants?

[Justin McElroy]

Can you doordash pants?

[Griffin McElroy]

Absolutely. You can doordash pants. You can doordash fucking anything, man. You can definitely doordash pants.

[Justin McElroy]

I have door dashed pants. I doordashed a belt. That was embarrassing. Couldn't leave the room to go get a belt, could I? Pants falling down.

[Travis McElroy]

Mm, yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

Couldn't find a belt.

[Travis McElroy]

Trapped.

[Justin McElroy]

Trapped with no belt. Can't go buy a belt. Pants fall down.

[Travis McElroy]

You know what else you need to buy a belt, Justin? Money. You know what money's good for? Maximumfun.org join supporting the art and artists that you love.

[Justin McElroy]

Perhaps the worst segue I've ever heard.

[Griffin McElroy]

Maybe one of the all time stinkers.

[Travis McElroy]

You know, I'm out here trying to do my fucking best.

[Griffin McElroy]

One of the worst.

[Justin McElroy]

This is that you do it better.

[Travis McElroy]

You do it better, Kingshit.

[Justin McElroy]

I will. I will. The idea that my brother would use that as a springboard into asking people to pay him more.

[Griffin McElroy]

Segue, Travis.

[Travis McElroy]

It's about awareness.

[Justin McElroy]

It's about feeling the moment. In this moment, we're bullying you. So I have to build off of that, you see?

[Travis McElroy]

And you know what's wrong. But you know what's not wrong? Supporting the art and artists that you love. Hi, I'm Travis McRoy. Dude. My bullying advocate and supporting art advocate.

[Justin McElroy]

Sadly, dude, exponentially better than your last pass.

[Travis McElroy]

I know. Truly, I fucking knew it as soon as I did it. Okay. I knew it was wrong.

[Griffin McElroy]

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[Travis McElroy]

I'm only a man.

[Griffin McElroy]

Help us. Help us.

[Travis McElroy]

I'm Just as God made me, sir,

[Justin McElroy]

please, please let him do the thing.

[Griffin McElroy]

Please let me, please let me talk about the thing that is actually the lifeblood of our podcast.

[Travis McElroy]

Yes, of course.

[Griffin McElroy]

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[Justin McElroy]

I believe we're better than we've ever been at this.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, we're the best we've ever.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, God. We're at the height of our fucking performance.

[Justin McElroy]

We're at the height of our power.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. And so now is the time. If you've never, if you've been listening to us for over 15 years, but you've never thought about becoming a member or contributing. This show that you're enjoying exists because we are able to make it our job, our full time job. We don't have other jobs, just this. And that is because of you. So it's so direct. It is a direct way of putting more things out in the world that you, I assume, enjoy. Because we're like 30 minutes into this one. You would have bailed by now if you weren't having an okay time. So please, please, please don't just assume other people are going to cover your fare. MaximumFun.org join is where you can go to help this, help our show and all of our shows keep on, keep on going, keep on going.

[Justin McElroy]

Now, if you can pledge five bucks a month, then you're gonna get an absolute cornucopia. Cornucopia.

[Travis McElroy]

Nail it.

[Justin McElroy]

Of bonus content. I mean, hundreds of hours, probably thousands of hours at this point. We talked about the masterclass, the Janet Farney that we did in the past. We've also, besides the Margaritaville we've done, we've riffed videos. We did Pranky Doodle Dandy.

[Travis McElroy]

I think we did Oops All Bits.

[Justin McElroy]

We did Oops All Bits. There's a ton of old episodes if you haven't heard them before. Oh, there's the Taz Lords of Crunch, which is our cereal mascot episodes that we did. That was fun.

[Griffin McElroy]

I mean, all of the Charlieverse episodes where your daughter makes a one shot that is always fully unhinged, that's another Taz Boko.

[Travis McElroy]

This year the Tazboko is cousin Verse because Charlie Cooper, Bebe, Dot and Henry collabed to create an adventure that I

[Griffin McElroy]

ran a memorable for YouTube. Memorable.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, man, it was wild.

[Griffin McElroy]

One of the more memorable like hours of my life was recording that if

[Justin McElroy]

you can pledge 10 bucks a month, there is a Max Fund Drive exclusive enamel keychain for you. Designed by Tom Dejah, the My Brother. My brother and me. Keychain says my other car is a big, beautiful Buick enclave. Probably can't do that, but we did it because what are they gonna fucking do?

[Griffin McElroy]

They're not gonna see it. Don't show these.

[Justin McElroy]

Don't show anybody. Taz has a duper on board. Keychain.

[Griffin McElroy]

There's some really strong contenders for your keychain consideration this time.

[Justin McElroy]

Good stuff. And there's a lot more content at 20 bucks a month, there's more gifts, but it's really about supporting the shows. When you sign up, you tell them what shows you listen to, and your pledge is split between those shows. So it's a direct way of supporting the stuff that you like.

[Travis McElroy]

And we should say we have some bonus goals. We do these every year where when we hit certain milestones, we will do these special events. And the first one is I will cover Yellowstone Season 2 on Clubhouse. Taking a real hit.

[Justin McElroy]

That's a lot of life hours to trade away.

[Griffin McElroy]

That's so much life hours. That's a lot.

[Travis McElroy]

I know. Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

Although considering what we got at 12k, it's really.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No spoilers. But we really worked. We really worked really hard this time on all kinds of great stuff waiting for you. We've also been able to do a ton more video content this year, and that's because we've been able to hire people. We work with a whole team of folks that we've been able to sort of put together together little giants style into a winning podcasting team. And we are able to do that because of you. Please think about supporting [e-mail] join. We are only doing this for two weeks and I know that there's some people who don't love the drive time, especially our advertisers. I know you probably think these boys won a prestigious podcast advertising award. They must be making payroll just from those. And those don't really keep the lights on.

[Travis McElroy]

No, we forgot to charge them, which is on. It's basically.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

Most of the stuff that we're able to do is because of listeners like you. And I really feel like PBS when

[Justin McElroy]

I say it, actually. Really, if you think about it, the fact that we don't rely on advertising revenue as much and yet still try so hard at it is actually better.

[Travis McElroy]

This might surprise folks at home. Most advertisers only pay for 60 second spots.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

Whoops.

[Travis McElroy]

Also, before we get back to the show, everybody go follow Macroy family on Instagram and you'll get all the updates of, like, all the streams we're doing over the next two weeks and the bonuses we're streaming every day.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. So we're working hard for you. We're trying to make a bunch of stuff for you this year. So please, one last time, MaximumFun.org join thank you so much. No fucking way, man. No way, man.

[Justin McElroy]

It's a cursed estate, haunted 19th century ritual object. A brush that increases desires. Welcome to the Haunted Toll Watch. This time we're gonna talk about a curse, estate, haunted 19th century ritual object, the brush that increases desires.

[Travis McElroy]

How both very vague and very specific at the same time.

[Justin McElroy]

It's so specific, dude. It's a brush that increases desires. That's the whole object. It is amazing. It is real. And I'm gonna tell you all about it right now.

[Travis McElroy]

I just want to point. They posed this brush for this photo on a mirror that makes it look like a mimic with, like, teeth that

[Griffin McElroy]

are about to look like a little monster. It's scary.

[Travis McElroy]

Travis.

[Griffin McElroy]

Curse.

[Justin McElroy]

I've got the description in another tab, but I just want to show you. Hey, guys. I increase your desires.

[Griffin McElroy]

Hey, ladies.

[Justin McElroy]

Free brush rides over here. That sucks.

[Travis McElroy]

The boy sucks.

[Justin McElroy]

That sucks. I do want to show you guys, if I could. I'm not going to go through these, but I do. You need to see how wild this space has gotten. Real.

[Griffin McElroy]

The similar items.

[Justin McElroy]

Okay, this is like, I'm keeping. I need you to know how haunted doll. Watch. I am, like, using maximum restraint in this bit by not making our whole podcast about the supernatural world on ebay.

[Travis McElroy]

Your Baleen Esque filter, Justin, that only keeps the smallest krill in there.

[Griffin McElroy]

I know, dude. Can I read some of these for the people who are not seeing?

[Travis McElroy]

Can I have the fourth one there? Griffin, I just want to.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, you can.

[Travis McElroy]

Thank you.

[Griffin McElroy]

We got a $100 candle that's a love spell casting obsession spell. Love, magic, ritual, psychic, witchcraft. But I know you're saying fuck, but I'm trying to fuck now. I need something immediate in a panic. And can I interest you in a $80 ultra obsession emergency level spell casting, love ritual, Wicca, pagan, authentic. So this is like if you have

[Justin McElroy]

a nut emergency, you need to nut.

[Griffin McElroy]

It's like a. I guess they will cast the spell if you buy it. So it's like an instant cameo.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

Like if they were sitting by John Leguizamo's, like, sitting by the phone and it's like, ding. And he's like, oh, fuck, here we go. It's like that. And then we also have a demonist spirit companion, Succubus siren, sex spell.

[Justin McElroy]

That's a cameo from Richard Schiff for Dwight's birthday.

[Griffin McElroy]

No fucking way, dude.

[Justin McElroy]

Nine minutes long. You're kidding me. Schiff Just watching the Olympics. Bullshitting. Unbelievable quality on the Richard Schiff cameo.

[Travis McElroy]

If you want to get a Richard Schiff cameo, highly recommend.

[Justin McElroy]

It was just Richard Schiff bullshitting about the Olympics for nine minutes. It was fucking fantastic.

[Travis McElroy]

I got Sydney at Dulay Hill one once and he record five minutes. Just talking about stories of his time on West Wing.

[Justin McElroy]

His time to his firing for her candidacy is unbelievable. Unbelievable hit rate with the West Wing cameos.

[Travis McElroy]

Anyway, sorry, the fourth item here. Become a real vampire. Ritual, spell casting, immortality, strength, $40. But then above it it says almost gone.

[Justin McElroy]

Almost gone. They only got one left.

[Travis McElroy]

What is that for spells?

[Justin McElroy]

Strength, dominant power.

[Griffin McElroy]

Every vampire can only sire 11 other vampires. Well, actually the number of vampires you can sire depends on your sort of like potency, which is. Ain't that just the way of things?

[Travis McElroy]

So this brush is $120 or as low as $40.94 a month with Klarna. Thanks Klarna, for helping me make good financial decisions.

[Justin McElroy]

I am sad to report that some of the haunted doll space has been overrun by AI So I have to work a little bit harder to find the descriptions that have the real heart and soul to it. So a lot of those that you're seeing with like it's a spell, I don't care. You know, somebody's generating whatever. So I gotta, I gotta find the

[Griffin McElroy]

real shit AI can't change.

[Justin McElroy]

Such as a brush that increases desires. Collectors understand containment, controlled environments, minimal handling emotional distance. Objects like this.

[Travis McElroy]

Is this by their ex wife?

[Justin McElroy]

Hey, Travis. No. It's obviously in much the same way that you might look at a toaster and you see on the back it says, small metal makes bran hard and hot.

[Travis McElroy]

Right?

[Justin McElroy]

Item description. This is the item description of the brush that increases desires.

[Griffin McElroy]

But the description is all like too powerful. So toasters don't say like get so hot. So, so, so, so hot. You must understand. Do not fuck around with this toaster.

[Travis McElroy]

Owners understand one thing. Burning bridges. Distancing themselves from anyone who's ever cared about them.

[Griffin McElroy]

Emotional numbness.

[Justin McElroy]

Collectors understand containment, controlled environments, minimal handling emotional distance. Objects like this don't awaken in new spaces. They remain inert until the moment they cross from custody into ownership. The transition is not symbolic, it's cognitive.

[Travis McElroy]

What? Shit, how is that different?

[Griffin McElroy]

I didn't even think about that.

[Justin McElroy]

Dude, this 19th century brush was Never meant for casual use.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, man. Even back when it was a brush. Even back when it was a brush, you were really stuck. Even back when it was just a brush.

[Justin McElroy]

Just a simple brush is. Children, are you playing with Papa's brushes again?

[Travis McElroy]

Not for Mantos.

[Justin McElroy]

No.

[Travis McElroy]

Man's business brush.

[Justin McElroy]

Business brush.

[Travis McElroy]

He has important meetings tomorrow with the governor. Justin, that previous statement, just to jump back real quick, is that a verbose way of saying, no, I can't demonstrate it to you right now. It doesn't work till you buy it.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah, dude. You literally listen. Objects handled close to the body repeatedly and privately accumulate associations. We've. This is just science.

[Travis McElroy]

So every dildo's haunted?

[Justin McElroy]

Every dildo is haunted.

[Griffin McElroy]

Why did me and Justin both.

[Justin McElroy]

Dildo that increases desire. That would be a better. Dildo that increases desire would be better.

[Travis McElroy]

That's normal. It would be weird to have a dildo that decreases desire. They're like, you know, on second thought,

[Griffin McElroy]

over time, this cube shaped Minecraft dildo is decreasing.

[Travis McElroy]

Why did I buy the creeper?

[Griffin McElroy]

Why'd I buy the get out of there. Creepers?

[Justin McElroy]

Over time, this one absorbed what people brought to it. Memory, mood, unresolved thought, life of quiet use layered. Grief over longing, regret over hope. Nothing malignant, just incomplete. When it left the collector, the brush didn't change. I did.

[Griffin McElroy]

Awesome.

[Justin McElroy]

I was open in a way the previous owner never allowed themselves to be. The brush didn't add anything to my life. Wait, it accelerated what was already present?

[Travis McElroy]

Fuck, yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

Questions I'd postpone. Emotions I'd learned to bypass efficiently. It shortened the distance between thought and feeling. That is what it offers.

[Travis McElroy]

This is the best TED talk I've ever been to. This is what the brush can bring to your life today.

[Griffin McElroy]

I mean, bupropion is covered under my insurance, but it feels like I could probably cut that out. You're wasting your time.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah. You could use your HSA to buy this brush.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. The brush that increased desires.

[Justin McElroy]

The brush that increases desires.

[Travis McElroy]

How is it with executive function? Does it help with the executive function?

[Justin McElroy]

The brush doesn't add to your executive function, Trev. It takes what was already there and executes it more. Do you understand? It shortens the link. The symbiotic link between executive and function. It makes it shorter. That's one word.

[Griffin McElroy]

I do also take something that makes it so the anxious thoughts have a harder time going from, let's call it the idea factory to the movie screen for the silent witness inside.

[Justin McElroy]

Slow down a little bit.

[Griffin McElroy]

Is this gonna accelerate that? Cause I'm not so wild about that.

[Travis McElroy]

Griffin, do you understand that human beings only use 10% of their hairbrush, right?

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Travis McElroy]

The average human being only uses this brush. 100% of the hairbrush is used. This looks straight into your brain. When you put it on your head, it goes through the skull into the brain.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay. That would change you. I guess I'm just now kind of looking at this cursed estate, haunted 19th century ritual object brush that increases desires. And just so that I really hadn't paid much attention to the layout of the bristles on here. And this does look like a brush for horses. This does look like a brush for horses. A horse's brush. It has a push broom like consistency to the bristle.

[Justin McElroy]

It does. It's very, very beautiful. I do feel like I should buy the brush that increases desire because I've said it so many times that I'm desiring it now.

[Griffin McElroy]

Anyway, you do need to be careful. Cause if you buy this, you will start buying more stuff. Your desire will be so increased.

[Justin McElroy]

This is okay. Once the brush enters your space, certain effects are common. Now the first one it says is smoother hair, which I don't think you

[Travis McElroy]

get any points for that.

[Justin McElroy]

That's just regular brush stuff.

[Travis McElroy]

Wait, so it's supposed to be used for casual use?

[Justin McElroy]

No, you would never. You said no, I made that one up. Once the brush enters your space, certain effects are common. Thoughts feel fully formed, as if they arrive without preamble.

[Travis McElroy]

Like the thought, shit, I wasted $120 on this brush.

[Griffin McElroy]

Oh, no.

[Travis McElroy]

Memories. How do I tell my wife that I bought $120?

[Griffin McElroy]

I told Deborah I was pressed. I told Deborah I never would do it again. Shit, she's going to know.

[Justin McElroy]

Memories surface without clear triggers. Can I remember the last time I

[Travis McElroy]

bought a curse brush?

[Justin McElroy]

Can I vote no on that one? Can I just not have that one? I'd rather not experience that. I got a good. Like, I got a pretty good ladle of memory surfacing without clear triggers.

[Travis McElroy]

Thank you. Yeah. Emotional timing to forget a lot of shit.

[Justin McElroy]

This was good. This is my favorite. Emotional timing slips and you react faster or later than expected.

[Travis McElroy]

But not accurately. That's the thing.

[Justin McElroy]

Not accurately. You will be way more angry or way more sad than the situation demands.

[Travis McElroy]

Faster or slower. So something will happen and you'll react before it or 10 minutes later, but not right when it happens.

[Justin McElroy]

If you ever see me say, oh, God, the plate. Just like, pay attention.

[Travis McElroy]

Start watching. Somebody's about to drop a.

[Justin McElroy]

Start watching for plates.

[Griffin McElroy]

You're out at fazoli's with your family and you just. And I was.

[Travis McElroy]

What?

[Griffin McElroy]

You're like, hold on, let me think.

[Justin McElroy]

Shit.

[Griffin McElroy]

I did stub my toe earlier today, but this feels excessive for that.

[Justin McElroy]

Lastly, reflective surfaces become difficult to ignore.

[Griffin McElroy]

That's so awesome.

[Justin McElroy]

None of this is dramatic. That's the problem. The brush. The brush speeds up recognition faster than the mind prefers. Like noticing too much at once without the buffer of narrative.

[Travis McElroy]

What?

[Justin McElroy]

Antique grooming tools are intimate by design. They're handled close to the face. Used repetitively associated with preparation and self presentation. They sit at the threshold between private thought and public appearance. So a new.

[Travis McElroy]

This person needs to write a fucking book. Get off of ebay and write a book, my friend. I want to read it so bad.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah, I want to.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, I want more. Extremely sort of Jungian, sort of philosophical haunted doll watches. I'm really excited about this. This new horizon.

[Justin McElroy]

I have been letting this person dictate the pace of my delivery with their paragraph breaks, and I'm no longer going to do that. Okay, guys, so if you want to stop me, from this point on, you're going to need two hands. Okay?

[Griffin McElroy]

All right. Hit it.

[Justin McElroy]

A new owner inevitably does three things. It pays attention to the object, assigns its significance and incorporates it into routine. From there, cognition takes over. Repetition plus emotional load gives any object psychological gravity. Attention is what fuel using the brush during emotional stress. Treating it as meaningful or exceptional, keeping it near fragile or valued items, attributing outcomes to it. These behaviors create feedback loops, language, like it wants.

[Travis McElroy]

It's also how you take care of a gigapet.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah, it reacts. It externalizes internal states, making them feel source elsewhere. The object doesn't act. The meaning remains active.

[Travis McElroy]

Uh huh.

[Griffin McElroy]

Shit, dude.

[Justin McElroy]

Brush favors continuity. The brush favors continuity. It has outlasted many owners who believe possession implied control. What it actually relies on is love. Consistency. Over decades, it has absorbed not vanity, but fracture. Unresolved decisions, stalled conversation, alternate versions of people that never fully emerged. These don't disappear. They compress. The brush becomes dense with unused cells.

[Travis McElroy]

What?

[Griffin McElroy]

Fucking everywhere, man.

[Travis McElroy]

Everything. Everywhere. All at brush.

[Justin McElroy]

It's the brush that.

[Griffin McElroy]

It's the hauling brush. We love this brush.

[Justin McElroy]

First night with a new owner, always an adjustment. The mind maps it into the environment.

[Travis McElroy]

Don't let the brush sleep in your bed. It's gonna want to go. Let the brush anywhere near your house, it's never gonna sleep in your bed.

[Griffin McElroy]

Give a brush a cookie.

[Justin McElroy]

If you have a pool house like Ryan had in the oc, that would be actually better.

[Travis McElroy]

That would Be ideal. And then it can have its own space, which is nice.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

There might be a heightened sense of presence. Not because anything is watching, but because the owner is. What subtle behaviors become noticeable delays before responding.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay.

[Justin McElroy]

Tonal shifts mid sentence. Pauses before mirrors.

[Travis McElroy]

Because you can't ignore. Can't stop looking.

[Justin McElroy]

You can't ignore the reflective.

[Travis McElroy]

Do I own this brush?

[Justin McElroy]

The brush functions like a prompt the brain can't control.

[Travis McElroy]

Uh huh. It's adhd.

[Justin McElroy]

Okay.

[Travis McElroy]

What they're describing, I'm realizing now it

[Griffin McElroy]

is the ADHD brush. Brush that gives you adhd.

[Travis McElroy]

You're going to speak. Speak before you think. You're gonna become distracted by reflective surfaces. You're gonna react to things maybe long after they happen. You're gonna have a big emotional response to little things. You're gonna maybe forget what you were doing in the middle of it.

[Griffin McElroy]

You're gonna play like 6000 hours of Stardew Valley. And this is the brush that makes

[Travis McElroy]

you dishwasher, but you're gonna end power washing the sidewalk.

[Justin McElroy]

The most frequently heard phrase you're gonna hear in your day to day life is now. Wait, is this a dream you had or a supernatural episode?

[Griffin McElroy]

Don't give him ideas for games, Justin. You'll throw off the rhythm of these bits. It's been so long since we've done a haunted doll watch on the show. I do just want to make space for the observation that the apologetics game has gotten so much stronger. Cause it just used to be that they would say, here's a haunted doll. If it doesn't move for you, then sometimes spirits are shy. Just keep waiting. And in this one, it's like there is no magic, there is no spirit, there is no God. It's inside the mind, and that is the God. The gods inside your mind. And cognition is. Attention is essential for these dolls in your mind eye.

[Justin McElroy]

Another way of putting that Griffin is old conversations will replay not as regret, but as unfinished business. Memories resurface not for nostalgia, but for correction. You may feel a low level urge to reach out, clarify, amend, resolve things no one else remembers clearly anymore. This is not conflict creation. It's continuity restoration.

[Travis McElroy]

Is this brush being sold by the narrator from Stanley Parable?

[Justin McElroy]

This brush is not being sold because I have purchased it, but I understand the question. At night there can be a bodily

[Griffin McElroy]

sensation, a pressure [e-mail] I promise we're using our money in essential ways for the.

[Justin McElroy]

No.

[Travis McElroy]

You know what I am going to do. You know what I'm gonna do?

[Justin McElroy]

I'm Gonna raffle it off. Someone will be the lucky recipient of the brush that increases desire or on the line. I have ordered it. I've bought it.

[Travis McElroy]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Justin McElroy]

I can't. I can't talk long. Sorry. I'm on the road or the run. I'm on the road or the run, however you want to say it. But the brush arrived, and I just wanted to say super quick update on this. Cancel this. I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna keep the brush. I think it's better if I have it, and I don't think anybody else should have it. Now that I have the brush and see it, I feel like it's better for I. I will keep it. I can't even read the listing anymore.

[Travis McElroy]

I fucked it.

[Justin McElroy]

I cannot believe. Guys, just let me power through the rest of this. I'm almost done. I promise.

[Griffin McElroy]

You're kidding me.

[Justin McElroy]

I promise. Relationships may feel heavier. Conversations run longer. Silence gains texture. Some people lean in, mistaking the weight for depth. Others withdraw, unsettled by how much feels unfinished. Some people can't fucking handle the brush, guys.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

Some people may be like, wait, is this a brush conversation? Or is this a regular conversation? Is this shit?

[Griffin McElroy]

Mark, listen, I'm. I love you and I'm excited about this new chapter in your life, but, like, you need to give me a heads up if it's a brush talk or not, because brush talks are exhaust. I don't have brush. You are the only one with the brush. So, like, I'm off kilter. There's not. There's an imbalance here. Whenever we have a brush, is there

[Travis McElroy]

a signal you can give me when a pause is a normal pause and when it's a brush pause, please. Yeah, something just, like, hold one finger up if it's a normal pause, two fingers up if it's a brush pause.

[Justin McElroy]

The brush benefits from relational strain because strain generates reflection.

[Travis McElroy]

Wow. And you can't ignore reflection. We've established that you can't.

[Justin McElroy]

It's settled.

[Griffin McElroy]

Reflection is strain leaving the body.

[Justin McElroy]

The brush encourages repeated use.

[Travis McElroy]

Baby, it's not me. I didn't want to cheat on you. Brush wanted me to cheat on you.

[Griffin McElroy]

Brush needed this for us.

[Travis McElroy]

Do you understand, baby?

[Justin McElroy]

Brush wants us to grow. Babe, it's not.

[Travis McElroy]

I love brush. There, I said it.

[Justin McElroy]

The brush encourages repeated use. Not for grooming, for alignment.

[Travis McElroy]

You shouldn't use this old ass brush. It's probably gross.

[Griffin McElroy]

Use this old ass brush. But it wants you to use it as, like, a foam roller.

[Justin McElroy]

It sounds like owners Report an impulse to brush slowly, deliberately, while thinking of different versions of themselves. The one who stayed, the one who left, the one who almost spoke, the one who learned to manage instead of confessing. The act becomes a sort of sorting behavior, a rehearsal of cohesion. Once those versions begin to feel adjacent instead of contradictory, resistance decreases. That's the inflection point.

[Travis McElroy]

Oh, wait, there's a little bit of smudge here. I see it. It actually says, the brush that increases depression.

[Griffin McElroy]

That's crazy.

[Justin McElroy]

Continuity requires participation. Without it, the object loses specificity. Details blur. The weight feels wrong in the hand. Objects like this are rarely discarded. Not because they're dangerous, but because they feel unfinished.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

They wait until someone needs integration badly enough to tolerate discomfort. The brush reflects a simple truth humans often avoid. Everyone fractures. Eventually, someone decides coherence matters more than comfort, and they accept the cost.

[Travis McElroy]

I've never.

[Justin McElroy]

This is.

[Travis McElroy]

Is a manosphere influencer selling a haunted brush on ebay.

[Griffin McElroy]

This seems awfully. I'll be honest, a little brainy Trav. For the. For that particular sphere.

[Travis McElroy]

Let the brush break you down so it can build you back up better than ever.

[Justin McElroy]

I want to say one thing to you guys. This person is. Okay, can you just hear me out for a second? Yeah, yeah, yeah, please. Now that we've gotten to the end of the listing for cursed estate object, 19th century ritual object. The brush that increases desires.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

A Justin McElroy possession.

[Travis McElroy]

That's what people start thinking of. Based on the novel Push My Sapphire. A Justin McRoy investment, please.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah, please.

[Justin McElroy]

You know, that person spent a lot of. Maybe like, that listing was, like, way better than it needed to be at all.

[Travis McElroy]

Right? Sure.

[Justin McElroy]

It was, like, really good. And I think it stands to reason that the only kind of way you could justify spending that much time writing a dope listing for your ebay brush is that maybe that's really easy for you to do now because the brush that you've been using. You know what I'm saying? Like, maybe the listing is proof. The proof is in the listing that this is functioning as intended.

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

So why are they getting rid of it?

[Travis McElroy]

Because they're dying.

[Justin McElroy]

They're tired of being insufferable, Probably.

[Griffin McElroy]

Yeah.

[Justin McElroy]

You know what I mean?

[Travis McElroy]

Like, it sounds like I'm go back to being stupid.

[Justin McElroy]

This sucks.

[Griffin McElroy]

This sucks. My thoughts are too fast. Shoot.

[Justin McElroy]

I'll tell you more updates as they become available. It will temporarily be adjusted macro reposition until some lucky person takes it home and increases their desires. No, again. Again. The brushes is ours. The brushes is ours. And it's staying right there.

[Travis McElroy]

Hey, so I want to do a sincere moment here. We have been doing this, as Griffin said, for 15 years. Started in 2010. So this is our 15th drive. Our lives have been very much shaped and improved by being on Max Fun and from your support. And we have really worked to kind of live up to that, adding new things, trying to keep in mind what our supporters would like us to do and that kind of thing. Because I think it's a very symbiotic relationship. And we've been doing more streams, we've been posting video clips from the shows, trying to be more active in everything that we do because it means a lot to us and it means a lot to you. And every year when we do Max Fund Drive, it's the thing that I think we all kind of very buoyed by. I would say now Justin's clicked on the succubus. Stop it.

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

Justin.

[Travis McElroy]

Justin. I'm trying to be sincere.

[Griffin McElroy]

He's trying to be sincere. And you're ogling at the vampire sex spell. Get that out of my screen juice.

[Justin McElroy]

We don't need. We don't need them, guys.

[Travis McElroy]

We don't need them.

[Justin McElroy]

For $299 you can make a demonic pact with Lucifer. We're wasting our time with the listeners.

[Travis McElroy]

The brush is already acting on Justin.

[Griffin McElroy]

Maximumfund.org join we need at least $300 to make a pact with Lucifer. 3:50.

[Justin McElroy]

There's a 12 month protection spell. I need guys to protect. We finish.

[Travis McElroy]

Okay, then it's gotta be 650. So we make the deal with Lucifer and get a protection spell to cancel out the deal we made with Lucifer.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay, so we need at least $650. Maximumfun.org join you can help get us over our goal. 650. $50. You might be the one we need. Close that window, Justin. There's too many erotic things and I don't want. Thank you so much.

[Travis McElroy]

You're welcome. There's lots of great stuff there. Lots of rewards. $5. $10. $20. We mentioned the hundreds of hours of bonus content for just $5 a month. $10 a month. The enamel keychains, $20 a month. You get all that stuff. Plus a good clean fun toiletry bag or embroidered rocket visor. $35 a month. Insulated stainless steel water bottle. All kinds of stuff. $50, $100, $200 all the way up. You can check them all out.

[Justin McElroy]

You're just saying large amounts of money.

[Griffin McElroy]

$650,600.

[Travis McElroy]

I'm bringing it up because the other thing that you can do if you are already a member is to consider upping your donation to the next level or boosting slightly between levels if you're not ready to move up to the next level. Every bit of support helps and matters to us. Whether you become a $5 a month donor or $200 a month donor, it all matters. All of it adds up. So if you've been a member for a while and you want to up your membership, maybe you've been listening to more shows on MaxFund this year than you were previously and you want to reflect that in your membership, you can upgrade or boost by also going to maximumfun.org join. That's also where you can see all the reward levels, all of the membership levels, everything that you can do to support the shows.

[Justin McElroy]

Get the brush set. Increase his desire. No, no. Foolish boy. The brushes is ours. Remember the brushes are ours. It's staying right here though. And at 3,000 new and upgrading donors, Travis is going to do that. Yellowstone Season 2 Summary on Clubhouse and

[Travis McElroy]

I watch the death Count. Travis.

[Justin McElroy]

Yeah yeah.

[Griffin McElroy]

This network is unlike any other entertainment property that exists in the world. Yes, we've been doing this a long time and we've seen how lots of other places do it and I would not want to be anywhere else. Maximum Fun has a truly one of a kind community. It is co op, it is employee owned, it's special in so many ways and if you like this show then you can keep it going and help us just keep doing our thing, keep making more stuff for you. Cause that's sort of the Max fund model and when you support it you're saying that that way of doing things is good and I would firmly agree with that. And the drive, please think about helping us out.

[Travis McElroy]

The drive only goes two weeks so if you are thinking about doing it, if you're ready to do it, go do it now. Maximumfund.org join don't wait because then you'll forget and you'll miss out on your chance to be part of all the energy and the rewards. The rewards are the best buyers.

[Griffin McElroy]

Go to maximumfund.org join now before you forget, choose whatever level works for you within your budget. Five bucks a month ain't a ton of cash. It's price of a cup of coffee. Maybe in this economy, in the world, but in this economy, I mean I will say it's about a gallon of gas. So that's fucking wild. Thank you all so so so much.

[Justin McElroy]

Donate now does anybody want to throw something?

[Travis McElroy]

I do want to throw something. I also wanted to mention and it's a weird sync up with also doing Max One Drive, but I'm going to be at the no theater this Friday. We're doing a fundraiser for the no. It's a Casino Night. I'm going to be there dealing blackjack and hosting a live auction which includes a Champions Grove attendance package as one of the auction items. If you go to notheater.com, you can get the tickets for Casino Night here in Cincinnati. Come hang out with me. Support a great theater. It's gonna be super fun. And I organized the whole fundraiser so I'd really appreciate you coming to show them that I did a good job. I have my ADH detective pipe that I could throw. I got a Yoshi.

[Griffin McElroy]

I got Yoshi.

[Travis McElroy]

What if we did simultaneous throws? No, no.

[Griffin McElroy]

I think it's a two parties bring a throwable and the other party has to.

[Justin McElroy]

I want Griffin to throw the Yoshi just cause I'm worri about Travis breaking his pipe.

[Travis McElroy]

That's fair.

[Justin McElroy]

Will break.

[Griffin McElroy]

Okay.

[Travis McElroy]

BRB.

[Griffin McElroy]

3, 2, 1.

[Travis McElroy]

Yoshi made pretty good noise.

[Justin McElroy]

It's a really good noise.

[Travis McElroy]

That was a really good noise. Yoshi made a great noise. Griffin, did it get in frame?

[Griffin McElroy]

Did I get it in frame?

[Travis McElroy]

Yeah, you nailed it. That was great.

[Griffin McElroy]

The little mountain behind me really helps. Is like a good targeting.

[Travis McElroy]

Huge targeting. My name is Justin McElroy. I'm Travis McElroy.

[Griffin McElroy]

I'm Griffin McElroy.

[Justin McElroy]

This has been my brother. My brother.

[Griffin McElroy]

Man.

[Justin McElroy]

Kiss your dad.

[Griffin McElroy]

Dad.

[Justin McElroy]

Square on the lips.

[Intro Singer / Chorus]

It's better. It's better with you. It's better. It's better with you. Is it true? It's better. It's better with two. It's better with you.

[Justin McElroy]

Maximum fun.

[Griffin McElroy]

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[Justin McElroy]

Now, now again, you buffoon. It's ours. The brush is ours. And it's not leaving here.