My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 692: The Naming of 2024
Episode Date: January 1, 2024Never before have we faced such a challenge as this: coming up with a year name that rhymes with "four". It's so unusual that it even caused a shift in the brother energy, so now there's a new Justin ...and we sure hope he remembers his Mavis Beacon lessons. Suggested talking points: Not Every Bridge Goes to Somewhere, Limited Totemic Energy, The MB in MBMBaM is Mavis Beacon, Painted with the Color of Paranoia World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/
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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 mentioned only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for listening.
What's up, you cool baby?
What, there's three! It's the side!
Something beautiful! What? Dirty three! It's a side of something beautiful.
A small quaintant has blossomed.
It's wrapping into a precious friendship.
I could have never seen what was coming for me.
Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach.
My life, it feels like
It's better, it's better with you
My life, it's better with you
This is you, it's better with you
My life, it's better with you. I like you.
It's better with you.
Hello everybody and welcome to my brother, my brother, and me.
An advice show for the modern era. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
I'm your middleest brother, Travis McElroy. What up, Travis Nation?
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an expat now? Is it time have I been cood? Have I been cood out of the chrapnation? But no,
no cood took place. I'm still in power. Okay, going straight. Great. We are so thrilled to be here
with you on this episode of the naming of the year,
where we take a step forward and a look back, look back,
look back step forward.
Don't trip, we take sides.
Does that anything?
We choose a side.
We look within.
No, we're gonna slide.
We slide.
We're sitting the left.
Griffin, you're the baby of the family.
Would you like to do the honors of
reading all of our previous years? Because this is really what a victory lap this always
feels like. Yeah, sure. It's very rare that some that that three people will work for
an hour to come up with one thing. So it makes sense that if we spend an hour coming
with one joke, it's always going to be a. Yeah, for sure. And then when you compound them together,
to me, it's the experience, I imagine,
Bill Waterson must feel when he cracks open his omnibus.
Can I ask you to say just in the equation
of three people work together for an hour
to come up with one thing.
I'm not sure which factor in that equation
is the impressive part that there's
like three of us that took us an hour.
It's our impressive travel.
It's one joke.
It's all extremely impressive, Travis.
Let's get let's let's do it.
It starts off guys.
Here's a problem.
I don't know that we've beaten 2011.
2010 was Zolo.
That doesn't count.
This wasn't even a thing back then.
This wasn't even a joke back then.
That was like someone else.
We we didn't even come up with that.
No, but it gave us the idea. Yeah. So Zolo is if you ship of thesis this thing This wasn't even a joke back then. That was like someone else. We didn't even come up with that.
No, but it gave us the idea.
So Zolo is a man.
If you ship of thesis this thing out,
anything before 2016 wasn't even us making it.
Because all of the cells, we have sloughed off all of the...
Just in case you'd like to.
I actually stopped doing that.
Oh, yeah.
I no longer... You got this Oh, yeah. I no longer,
you got the word place myself.
I trust.
When you hit perfection, the party stops.
I think if luck it is.
If I had defeated Atrophy,
I believe I would have my own nation.
Also, I think that's worth it.
Listen, you could do it.
Anyone could do it.
If you follow my 10-step course for $9.99,
that's fine, I'll do it in $99. It's important to know. But then one day you'll get Dan D it. If you follow my 10 step course for $9.99, that's $1.199.
It's important to know.
But then one day you'll get Dan Draft.
And you'll be like,
Oh God, it's me.
Me is going away.
Zolo.
Zolo, 2010.
2011, 2000 and heaven get right with Christ.
Yeah.
We have a, I would say there's a few different categories
of year names.
And one of those categories is a command.
And this is one of the wilder ones we did because we were trying to get some souls saved
because we hadn't really just get a few jewels in our crown.
Yeah, blameless for that.
20 does bricks.
I think that's the thing.
And the wall of fire.
And the wall of fire.
Yes.
20 does get in it., does anyone remember why we were getting it in 20 does.
Oh, we were doing it.
Getting it in 20 does.
Well, that's not even a, we actually went backwards with that one.
Playback. Yeah, yeah, from getting back.
There's no, we're not doing a pun.
No, there's no rhyme. There's no real like getting it. I mean, I mean, I need something
a little bit more inspiring than I'm going to see on like the side of a paper towel roll.
Yeah, it does. It feels like we need to do a screenshot notes app apology for that one.
Yeah. And we were young. We didn't know any better. We were different people than we were different people than
the next three tell a story, 2013, 20 dirt, dig it up, get it out.
That's pretty good.
That's all right.
Then 2014, 24 word.
So that's like we fucked up 2013.
Let's just pretend it didn't happen.
We in fact should not have dug it up.
We should not have dug it up. We should not have dug it up, we should not have gotten it out.
2015, 2015, the con is on.
So we've kind of,
20 griff team is the best.
20 griff team is the best.
No, I'm sorry, no, 2017 is the best.
Okay, 20 griff team is where we hit our stride.
Is that fair to say?
Yes, I agree.
We didn't understand the memo.
We didn't get it.
It took us five years to understand our own bit.
Yeah, this is what I'm saying. 2016, probably our biggest boner. I agree. You didn't understand the memo. We didn't get it. It took us five years to understand our own bit. Yeah.
This is what I'm saying.
2016, probably our biggest boner, 2016 building bridges.
Famously 2016, not a great year for that.
Not every bridge gets finished.
Not every bridge does this somewhere, you know.
Sometimes it's the bridge to the terributia.
Yeah, it kills the kid if I remember correctly.
I was like Sergeant Powell, it kills the kid.
You're not taking an elevator to hell, you know?
Yeah, you have to get the, you need a bridge.
You get a bridge to get there.
20 Serpentine in 2017, keep them guessing or zag on them.
That was the go at right.
That was a good theme.
That was very useful.
That was fun.
I feel like that is not something I get permission
to do enough as a 36 year old father of two is to really introduce a lot of unpredictability
into my whole life. I started a we kept trying to surprise each other that year like that was the
I just I just randomly started Taikwondo just to keep him guessing. Oh yeah, that's cool. 2018 Collaborate team, stronger together,
Noble thought for sure, probably the one we've done
did the least of.
We did lots of collaborations.
The three of us collaborate all the time,
Griffin, what do you say about that?
That's true.
2019, Frankenstein team become the monster.
This is the other bucket of that year titles go into,
which is like a vib.
A vib, a sort of, not a command,
but just a sort of like, let this, it's an energy.
It's an entertain center.
Yeah, we're setting the tone.
And I would say,
given the third bucket is absolute boner misses.
So what's 2020 again,
given 2020 was 20 funny, fill failure life with laughter and love.
If members serves in the midnight hour of that year, it was the.
Yeah, we did.
We decided that that year had more.
Chronology is we do this.
And a lot of people may have forgotten, but in 2020,
they would not work for a virus.
Yeah, it's bad stuff.
It came in and just took a real fart on everybody.
Now did we, we changed the theme,
but we didn't make it more like virus centric.
It wasn't like a, like a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a What did you grab as what was it? I believe it was 20 honey down to business.
Bees of.
Yeah, here's the thing though, it's not called COVID-20.
It's COVID-19.
So did we encourage becoming the monster?
Oh, no, interesting.
I also will say that I think eventually
the 2020 morph into honey funny,
failure life with lap-dramed bees.
Yeah, I think it was how it settled out.
21, 22, 23, all fucking great.
20 big dog run, no bones about it.
Yeah.
Yes.
Rule 32, 20.
We started, after that we started setting
the bar lower for ourselves.
Yeah.
Like it was more achievable.
Let's just like have a kind of mindset.
Here's what's happened for the last three years.
2022, 20 rendezvous, fancy takes flight.
Tremendous.
And of course, 2020,
2020, 27 and C surf the vibe.
We've leaned into less of, less a command,
less an energy even, and more of a aesthetic.
More of a problem being really.
Kind of a problem.
We started when people with 20,
I think that was because with
fancities flight, people were like dressing up for those shows. It was really fun.
So it was definitely in our head.
Yes.
When we said surf the vibe, well, we have to serve the year first,
though, the year we're talking about in our head, though, I don't think we can
be more in our head than we've been since 2020 where there was a command of like failure life
with laughter and love.
And we both did so hard on that called Shahat.
Yeah.
That I think we soften the little bit.
Right.
Now it's just a vibe.
I am, I, my brain was, I don't know about you guys,
well, I don't know about you Griffin,
but my brain was electrified with the possibilities of four.
Oh, for sure.
We've never had a sound like that.
Yeah.
It is.
It was.
I was once again reminded of what a bad rhyming word 20 is.
It sucks.
It's kind of in its own.
30 is going to be fucking tiring.
I hope we get to 30 so bad, because there's so flirty, dirty,
squirty, there's like,
there's so much fucking cool stuff we can do with that.
Just before we move on from it though, 2023,
I look back a pretty fun vibe, I think.
I like the meaning of the beachy vibe.
Yeah, a great vibe that made it fun for live shows.
Yeah.
Great for streaming just like, you know, backgrounds.
Didn't penetrate
the broader
Social consciousness I would say in a way that was impactful
It did also make it that Jimmy Buffett saw that his work had been completed here on earth that his vibe like he saw that he had
His disciples the mantle the past the mantle on and I'm glad we were there for that year.
Did put, I have to say, all due respect, my friend Jimmy did kind of put a little bummer on the
year on our surf and sea years. Yes, I would say yes. A little asterisk. A little asterisk.
I'm sure. Um, but 2024 is a different kettle of fish.
2024. I, uh, I was so electrified.
I actually brought together my council, um, my best minds, my best, the best,
the best punsters, the best Rhymers that I know I had a teleconference with,
with Lynn and Sydney.
Oh, where I just got my two, my two big guns in here to pull out a telecom me pops on.
That's like your Toby and your Leo.
Yeah.
Hey, you know what, they would both absolutely
adore that reference.
I know for all 100% fact.
So thank you Travis.
I won't say which one's which though.
I wouldn't do this.
They have, I will, I will just say just to get things
because I feel like we just gotta do it.
Right?
We have to band it off a little bit.
That's okay, but you grift.
Do you have other stuff you wanna do?
No, I'm just saying I'm excited too
because I also prepped quite a bit for this one.
I didn't.
Yeah.
What a weird turnabout.
Yeah, no.
You should, you should it.
I don't know what to say.
You should have done that.
In the past though, I've brought like a whole list
and you guys have shit on it so hard.
And then eventually my, what a mind becomes the year.
And this year I was like, it's time to leave room
for these two boys to play.
Travis, I don't know why I read it always
as you try too hard because this is clearly an example
of you not trying at all.
I'm saying the three of us are chefs leaning over a big
pot of gumbo.
Yeah.
And even if your and do we sausage never becomes the star of
the gumbo.
It is an important ingredient and it lends.
Travis is currently you can't see this list.
But Travis is currently rifling through papers as though he
maybe has a list.
Come on.
Come on.
I sell her on, come on. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
So we're on his desk.
Hold on.
Uh-huh.
All right.
Okay, I will tell you guys the name,
and this is,
there was one name that Lenin Sidney in a vacuum came to together.
Oh wow.
And I thought that had a lot of power.
But the one that the two of them came at together
seems unapproachable and it's 20 Demi Moore
ghost of a chance.
Oh yeah.
Why does that seem unapproachable, geez?
Well, it's just like 20 Demi Moore
for all her qualities, good and bad.
I don't like get an inner.
Yeah, I don't know how to embody Demi Moore.
I don't feel different after I think about Demi Moore.
Yeah, sure.
You know what I mean?
Like, except for a very limited period
when I was in middle school,
and strip T's came out,
and I did feel differently after I thought about Demi Moore.
Yeah. My day to day life, I don't know that I don't know what to say. You don't think that influence of strip T's came out and I did feel differently after I thought about did more my day-to-day life. I don't know. You don't think that influence of
strip T's carried on. It's your day-to-day. No, the symbolic power of doing more. I
think doing more for all our qualities, good and bad, has limited
totemic power. I think Justin, many times we take big swings
that are assessments of celebrities,
but I think saying that Demi Moore does not exist
with powerful to Demi Gitteringy is a perfectly reasonable
statement.
You know what?
I think it's wild, we don't know what she's all about.
I think it's wild that we're not getting out there
and figuring out.
I feel like she kind of closed us off at a certain point.
Yeah, he did.
He didn't want to know what we thought.
Yeah, I think it's probably when she started dating Ashton
Kutcher that she was like, you know what?
From here on in, it's a closed book.
Yeah.
You guys don't know.
We need to start a document just of these shared things.
Okay, well, you know what?
I just decided the person who's going to be in charge of doing that is the person that
doesn't have a different list to look at.
That's right.
You, my friend.
Well, I have a beautiful mind.
So my list exists in the ether of my brain space.
But, yeah, that's the old string of tight.
You're so good at tight.
Okay.
And I'm just not very good at typing.
Okay, I'll type.
God, God, how old are we? Tell
old are we? I'm just saying that at this point, we all have very specific roles
within the family and mine isn't typing. Yeah. Travis has beef with Mavis
Beacon. And he always is the in be in in be in B a.m. is not Mavis Beacon
my brother. I'm the one. I'm the one she gave up on.
I'm the one, I'm the one suit
that Mayva's be good broke character.
Turn to the camera and said, get out.
It's why, don't play Sim's hotel on the computer
and the computer lab.
In every edition of Mayva's Beacon
teaches typing after 1999,
when they ask you to type in your name,
if you type in Travis, her face changes.
And she looks at the screen and she's like,
Travis, who, what's your last name?
Just to confirm, because there's one
unredeemable typist out there, she knows.
Did I ever tell you guys in college,
I used to call home and dictate papers to mom,
and she would type them out and email them to me?
That's fucking bananas.
Yeah.
She was such a fast.
She was the fastest, fastest type in West Virginia,
according to the, when she took that test.
Yeah.
For like, there was an agency that like plays,
she was wild.
Yeah.
She used to do the kids.
This is, this is funny, but it's interesting.
She used to have this thing called a Dictaphone,
and it was like a pedal operated tape player
where she would like rewind and fast forward with her feet.
It was so cool.
So she could do the dictation as wild.
It was amazing.
Okay.
Uh, 20 Demi Moore.
As long as we're doing celebs, may I?
Okay.
Just toss out there.
Uh, and I hate that this is the...
Are you guys seeing this document?
Now I don't see you in the document.
I've, I've shared you on it.
So if you could, and I'm sorry guys at my age,
maybe this is even more important
than the passing of the year.
It's the passing of the Pica.
I got a bump this fun up just to get anything going here.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me hit you with this.
As long as we're talking celebs,
I want to touch.
I always are.
I want to throw some chum out in the water here.
And this one, being on social means that like my, I want to throw some chum out in the water here.
And this one, being on Sochi means that my,
not being on Sochi means that my ability
to kind of just know where everyone stands
at all times has diminished.
But so this may be a risk, but I'm going to say
20 poly shore, bring him home.
Sorry. I, what's the bring him home. Sorry. I.
What's the bring him home?
What's what exactly does that entail?
I guess that's my question because it invokes a lay mis vibe of we are worried
about our adopted son.
Where? Where is he?
20 Polly Shore. Where is he? Bring him home.
He's a
Instagram. Guys listen, you don't know that this
fucking dude, this dude used to make fucking four movies a year
and they all they all slapped. Where is he? Bring him home?
20 polyshore bring him. Oh, there's a lot about a Brendan
Frazier currently. Yeah, but not and frankly, Sean
Austin, right? Two thirds of I love to get Pauli
Sure back back out there, but unless he sucks, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
Maybe if he sucks if we brought him home we could fix him fix it the reason what about 20 volume
You know how it chills me to the bone that you're opening salvo rhymes
20 with poly?
Do you know what that does to me?
You know how word I told you it wasn't a good one.
Hey, it ends in E.
Okay, it's a slant rhyme.
Now I'm married.
I am married to a poet, sir.
Thank you so much.
I do have one. Okay.
You have one.
Well, earlier you had zero.
Yeah.
So if you say 20 polyshore Travis, that's my one.
I just did it.
And it is 21 last score getting the gang back together.
Now here's the thing.
Or 21.
I'm not as sold on the tagline
because 21 last score and then we retire,
this year we were tired,
it would be a powerful statement.
And not one that I actually want to sort of throw
my hat on the phone.
21 last score and then we're out.
What do you want last score?
I also had a few ideas that involved
one something for Ryan, right?
The problem is you can't replace a number with a number I don't think.
I don't think it can go from 2024 to 21 last score.
Where's that one?
I'm not sure.
We can do anything we want to.
This is the world of pure imagination.
Okay, sure Travis, let's call it 20 fart, but ask because we can do anything we want.
Not anything we want to.
Not anything we want to, Griffin.
Okay.
Do you have another one, Juice?
E-N-G.
We talked about 20 polysure than 21 last score.
Guys, can we not get any other asses fucking from?
You jump straight.
Thank you.
This is what happens every year.
I throw one up that's absolute gold
and you got shit on it at first
and then an hour
passes and eventually your will breaks and you're like actually 21 last scores really good.
I'm fit. I'm proven true by history. Yeah. Well, let's let's start getting through some more names
because I've got tons. Great. Yeah. Me too. This is why. But I don't want to share them because
I've been so thoroughly. Hurrah. We're gonna for my first one. All right, my team, these are all from my team,
and me, 20 Petty Four.
I don't know what that is.
They're like little cakes.
Like the little cakes.
Now, once I get, hey Justin,
may I ask, and I say this with no judgment
as someone who's brought lists in the past.
How many of you don't know who came up
with any of these names?
I know, I know, I know. Yeah. How many of you? You don't know who came up with any of these names. I know, I know, I know.
Yeah. How many of these are just like good rhymes, the end.
I mean, my team is very rhyme focused.
I will give you that.
They are, they are very rhyme focused individuals.
That's good.
Maybe I should get a team like that
because my shit, I just throw a poly in there sometimes
just to get like fucking wild
Now this is a good one 20 center court
20 center core
Center court 20 center court game set match 20 center court game set match that except there's not 20 24th
Is a okay time time out time out time we are coming
Time out, time out, time out. We are coming.
We can't, the acoustics inside of our butts
is not good enough to do a podcast with.
We are human-sensiputing each other
for no reason whatsoever.
There's no reason.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, yeah.
You know what, it doesn't rhyme with 13 dirt.
Love.
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I mean? Yeah, it's just 2020, 20 runny sore. Get that looked at. Okay, you've just put
up quite a few in a road juice that I think even you know are just not going to be that.
How has everything shifted one brother to the lab? Yeah. Not bringing a bunch of suggestions
seems like a real griffin thing to do.
So I can actually see the rotational.
Yeah, it's very strange.
That means, wait, if I'm Travis and, oh, no, sorry, I'm Travis, Travis is griffin.
That means griffin is about to be a whole lot, wow, me, baby, because that only leaves one brother
and I'm ready for you to shine. If you're the Justin, I am thrilled.
20. You know, a lot, you know, tired of him and being the Justin.
I know do. Yeah.
20. Hey, hey, it we're talking about which one of us just got the better end of the deal.
It's trying to griffin. This is my fucking year, buddy.
Yeah. I'm yeah. 20.
2020 score. Take it to the hoop. Wait, hold on, 2020 score, take it to the hoop.
2020 score, take it to the hoop.
I like, now this is again,
training away from aesthetic,
unless we don't treat it like a command.
You can either treat it like a command, take it to the hoop,
finish it, take it to the hoop, finish it, score, finish it,
or it could just be a general sports aesthetic. take it to the hoop, finish it, take it to the hoop, finish it, score, finish it.
Or it could just be a general sports aesthetic.
It could just be like a, kind of like how in like the, in like 1996, I was a big bulls basketball
fan, but just sort of the vibe and not so much the athleticism or the names of any of the
people involved other than Michael Jordan.
I think there was a Pippin in there.
Pippin was definitely in there.
And I remember because of the musical.
Yes, and I believe there was the nasty man,
but I just sort of was all about the vibe.
That could also be the direction we go into.
The one problem I'm having there, Griffin,
is the 220s.
If we could replace the second 20 with something else.
320s. Oh, okay. 2020.
About that. 2020 score. 2020 score.
20 20s. It's all 20s. 2020 score. Yeah, sure.
Because you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
This one just popped in my head. Let me throw this out. Okay.
20 ancient lore. the prophecy fulfilled.
Okay.
I'm going to be a big man here and not talk about ancient,
not even address ancient.
I'm less worried about the 20,
what you're worried about seems to be a removing target pal.
I'm just saying, 20 rendezvous, right?
20 Sun and C.
Yeah.
We weren't worried about that second 20 in there.
This is not gonna be it, but 20 Baltimore,
Wild Nights in Charms City.
We've never done an extremely local one before.
Now hold on.
We've never done a local one before where it's like,
this year, it's all about Baltimore.
What I like about that, it's, I could get there in 45 minutes if I needed to.
I could hop on the train, also be there no problem by the time we finished recording.
It would be nice to give one town its year finally.
Yeah, I get the feeling just from my gut that maybe Baltimore hasn't always had it easy.
Wasn't it, it was on that one, the wire wasn't it on the wire?
It was. Baltimore was featured in the wire, right?
Baltimore had a small speaking role in the wire.
Not like Sex in the City with the city is like the fifth character.
Yes, exactly.
I mean, damn, y'all though, I mean, Baltimore's got it going on.
They got the big national aquarium up there. We didn't get that in hours. The national
aquarium. Why is the national aquarium there? I don't know. What about 2024? Getting into golf.
I have 2024, hitting the links. Oh, but again, this is again, 2024, a good walk ruined.
A good, that's just a joke about golf though.
It's a problem.
Yeah.
And not even ours.
Not even our joke.
This one, hey, this year's for your dad.
This is what we're telling our audience.
Hey, does public domain mean that we can start claiming
Mark Twink quits as our own? Is that so? Yeah, yeah, that dude's been dead for way more than 70 years. We can totally just crib his whole shit.
Oh, okay. Hey speaking of quotes, 20 never more. Beware the Raven.
I mean, again, not
practical, not a pretty, especially not like 20 Baltimore.
20 Baltimore is extremely practical. 20 Baltimore is extremely practical 20 Baltimore is extremely practical
It tells you don't get to where Baltimore is today without being a practical. Hey, you know who else is from Baltimore?
Fucking Edgar Allen Poe buddy, okay, so I'm just saying it all ties back together
Edgar Allen Poe famous writer
The rate Ravens, the kids, I don't know.
Well, there are more Ravens than there are Baltimore.
Holy shit, their football team is the Baltimore Ravens.
That's wild.
Yeah, I've never thought about that though.
Shit, that's crazy, you should have.
That's actually wild.
Wait.
I really never thought of it.
This is not me being suspicious.
I've never thought about the fact
that the Baltimore Ravens is like a poat thing.
Yeah, it shit's cool.
Yeah, man.
Bush, check about.
Bush, check them out.
Read about stars and cars and all your guitars.
Cops, the worst part.
We don't need it.
Books, check them out.
20 Dinty Moore, Hot Hardy and Always Delicious.
Now this one is, here's how this one works.
What is that one?
Dinti more, it's the beef stew company, they make beef stew.
And we call it 20 dinti more.
And then we use their tagline, hot hearty and always delicious.
Okay.
And then we go to dinti more owned by Hormel.
Thank you.
We go to Hormel and we say, hey,
you gotta pay for this sponsorship you guys. Yeah. You gotta pay for it.
We set it up with Linda down and advertising.
Yeah.
And you guys gotta pay us for this.
Listen, they think there's cross wires.
We're over here, we're counting.
They're like, we can't give you money.
We'll send you your supply beef stew.
Hell yeah.
Enough said.
Justin, if you're planned for 2020 for us
to weaponize gaslighting against corporations,
I'm 100% here.
That can be cool actually.
That's the tagline of the year, no matter what.
Yeah, weaponizing capitalism.
Oh no, hot hearty.
Hot hearty and always good to go.
What was it?
No, Tom hearty and always good to go.
Tom hearty and always delicious.
Tom hearty. Tom Tom Hardy is always delicious
Is the tagline of Tom Hardy. This is my drag queen best friend always delicious
Together we're fighting fun
20 open door the world is waiting
Hmm 20 open door open door world is waiting Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
20 open door.
To open door.
World is waiting.
20 open doors.
We're not paying the air condition of the whole neighborhood.
Like, here's my, I like 20 open door, but, Gryff, if you say it like this, 20 open door.
The world is waiting.
Like, it sounds kind of sinister.
Like the world's waiting. Like, the door of sinister. Like the world's waiting.
Like the door is creaking open slowly.
You know what I'm like, I thought I closed it.
Then what about let 20 open the door to your heart?
Let 20, let 20 open the door.
I'm cool.
It's breaking some conventions there.
Yeah, it's absurd, but like we're free to do that,
but let's talk about the good ones,
and then we'll see what other ones there are.
Yeah, save the, save the chaff.
Save the chat.
20, I mean, do you guys know what a pinnifor is?
You've done?
Once again, now just more and more,
I feel like your team,
like a investment of work, your team has started to devolve into,
this sounds like something from like,
broaders and hammers seeing Broadway shows,
and less like action of whole year themes.
Best sketch writers in history, who was it?
Gil Brindson, sorry, listen to this.
Sorry, Justin, was that a, uh, was that a studio?
Six years ago, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the. Are you ready to yoke low and be your own girl boss? That's the whole theme.
Yeah, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the energy of that. I hate the name of it. I love the,
I love the the whole energy around it, but the name of it I don't like, but that's cool.
That's cool. I like that. I like that. I like cool. That's cool. I like that. I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that. I like that. I like that. I like that.
I like that.
I like that. I think I accidentally said trifical, Griffith. Is that like tricky and difficult?
I like it.
Yeah, it's from Bluey.
Come on.
It's from Bluey.
And we say it around the house sometimes,
it just kind of slipped in there.
Apologies to all involved.
Yesterday, my daughter said, is it possible?
The blah, blah, blah.
And it cracked me up so bad.
And hey, this one, hey, craft, this one's for you.
Anything's possible?
Is an amazing tagline for your product.
You're welcome.
Are you guys, are you guys been writing these down?
It's not okay.
The ones I like.
No one's written that.
Okay, you are really dropping the ball.
You're supposed to be typing.
Wait, how am I dropping the ball?
Do you know how history will not look
kindly on this Travis?
20 ball to more.
20 cents East or
Okay, how about this?
20 hear me roar make your power known.
Oh, oh, oh my 20 hear me roar.
20 hear me roar that's like that works on a lot of levels.
Yeah, I gotta say it's
like a pretty close rhyme. I mean, in the grand scoper, I'll say this Griffin, it sounds
a whole lot more, a whole lot more like 24 than it does not sound like 24. Yeah, that's
a good. It's got a lot more of the parts. Yeah. I agree. Hear me roar.
Roar. 20 hear me roar. I don't know about make your power known that heart of a champion
mmm
20 hear me roar
on least them wrong at least the beast see I notice this hasn't gone on the list
yet I'm gonna add it 20 hear me roar 20 hear me roar is good 20 hear me that's my
favorite so far thank you you, Travis. 20 hunt the boar.
20 hunt the boar, a traitor in our midst.
Whoa, holy shit.
We've never painted with the beautiful color of paranoia
in our, in our, I gotta say, Griffith,
I got pretty pumped about that
where it all went.
20 hunt the boar.
Yeah, I got pretty excited about that.
All right, hey listen, be too bad.
This is jazz.
We are just jazzing right now.
Speaking of jazz.
I knew what the year name was
and the tag line was gonna spring out of me
and surprise me.
As a surprise, as a person.
Now why is the bore the trader?
I don't know, we will explore that.
I promise when we return.
I think I was channeling
like some succession stuff in there.
Yeah, for sure.
22 the core gets the meat.
22 the core.
20 to the core.
20 to the core.
Saying that I, but saying that someone is 20 to the core,
feels like you are saying that they,
their whole attitude is that of a perpetual 20 year old.
I feel like.
Okay.
What do you think or embody the power?
I think it's something about like this year.
Power here.
Can I say someone gets to come up a couple of times now and just their suggestions of our I'm not interested in power.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I'm not interested in power.
I'm not interested in strong.
I'm not interested in like, how do you feel about reading out a trader?
No, see, I'm with Griffin on this. I need love. I need oneness. Yes. I need unity. Yes.
That's what I need a spirit of forgiveness. Yes. I've remembering that we are all part of one consciousness.
This is water. Yes. 20 Eagle Sore. 20 Eagle Sore. 20 Eagle Sore. 20 Eagle Sore. 20 Eagle sore 20 Eagle sore
20 Eagle sore sore is good. I feel like we can get a little
Like other things soar yeah
I mean Ravens Ravens do Ravens do do so 20 dinosaur
a 20 dinosaur. Glee historic.
Oh, I see.
What?
20 dinosaur.
Glee historic.
Am I only worried with that, Groven?
I feel like this is a glee.
Say, what is the tagline?
It's like prehistoric.
But Glee.
Yeah, yeah.
I was really trying to ration that into a consolation.
Okay.
But 20?
You get it now, right?
Now you have some time to think about you understand it now, right?
20 dinosaur, which one's your favorite?
Here's the problem is that 20 dinosaur is very good.
There is no good tagline for 20 dinosaur.
I sat here thinking for probably a half hour
this morning trying to get one.
I thought about 20 dinosaurs, shake the earth.
Is there a different sore like ankle sore
or something like that?
Like 20 dinosaurs, but like 20 dinosaur.
20 dinosaurs now.
20 dinosaurs.
20 dinosaur. You didn't stop to think about it. If you should.
20, Brontosaurus. There's not one. 20, 20, okay, here's two, three directions. We can go.
20 carnivore, goblet, goblet up the meat. 20 herbivore. Unleashed the meat. 20 herbivore unleashed the meat.
To protect your meat.
20 omnivore decide on meat.
Decide on your game.
It's all 20 omnivore.
It's all fair game.
It's kind of.
No, I don't want to actually like that.
I don't want it all to be fair game.
I don't want it.
I need boundaries. I need boundaries.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh, I like, there's a part of it that really like 20 herbivore protect your meat.
That's just the way.
Yeah, yeah.
Um.
Is that a...is that a movie? It's better, it's better with you.
I don't know when you're hearing this because we forgot to do ads while we were naming
the year, which is not surprising because it was just in a flow state.
Yeah, we were vibing so hard and making all the great jokes that you've heard or haven't
heard yet.
I don't know what to say to people who've heard half of what we did in this episode.
That's a good point.
Yeah. I don't recognize them.
I hear those things.
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It's a new year. Yeah, it is travel. I was about to say the same thing to you. Oh, really? Yeah, it is a new year and that's the time for reflection.
Is that what you're going to do? You were thinking. No, so I think the end of the years, the time for reflection, the beginning of the new year,
time for commitments,
make wild,
wild unattainable commitments,
but while you're at it,
maybe make one completely attainable,
like normal commitment,
you know, people make resolutions and it's like,
this year I'm gonna learn how to fly.
Not like in a plane or anything,
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Yeah, absolutely.
I got loads more than that actually.
Sorry, I'm in good shape.
I wasn't gonna say it, but you need to.
Oh, yeah.
The things are a little dry right now, but as long as I keep my nose to the grindstone, I know that they're going to a strike goal any day.
Okay, so Babbles, Timson, tools are approachable,
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Oh, no, yeah.
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Real quick 20-money score time to fix your credit. And that could be a very pragmatic one.
I don't, I'm not feeling power or pragmatism this year.
Yeah, unfortunately.
Oh, okay.
Well, maybe that's, I think it's good to figure out what we're not feeling
to give us some boundaries as we've discussed.
Because I think the more we can rule out,
the quicker we can get back to 20-hundred-bore.
I think the faster we rule things out. No one is writing this down
This is heartbreaking. Yeah
20 plenty more
20 paramour
20 paramour 20 plenty more
20 more
20 paramour
Business of misery 20 paramour
business of misery, 20 paramour,
20 paramour this year's emo, 20 any chore, just pitch in.
20 any chore, clean up your act.
Hmm.
I can't believe I'm the one who's having to type this.
This is absolute. You're the Justin. I guess. Sorry, yeah, I'm the one who's having to type this. This is absolute.
You're the Justin.
I guess.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
That's what the Justin does.
I'm the Travis so.
Yeah.
20 funny war us against the world.
Not good.
No, I know, I know it's not good.
2020, 20, 20 say a, 2020,
sport,
don't wait,
germinate.
Not wild about that.
Because I, in many ways,
Griffin, I would say before one germinate,
so they should wait.
Not necessarily are reproduced.
2020 sport.
Organisms.
Especially not with sport.
2020 sport,
I don't want to be able sports. You're in spory.
2020 sports spread your seed.
No.
But it's not a sexual thing.
It's not a sexual thing or a reproductive thing at all.
It is about sort of taking your essence
what makes you you and finding the courage
to spread that out into the world.
Spread your seed.
Hey, Griffin, you didn't say any sexual words there,
but you did.
I don't think I'm too dead.
I don't think I did.
I think so.
All right.
You can't talk about spreading your essence on the world.
I have one more good one.
20 connoisseur.
See now, that's nice.
Ooh.
That's the tagline. See now, that's... Yeah. 20 connoisseur. See now that's nice. Ooh. That's the tagline.
See now that's.
Yeah.
20 connoisseur.
See now that's nice.
Here's your, you're, you're savoring.
What are you, what are you savoring this year?
What are you, what new passion?
Yes, Justin, as evidenced by Griffin attempting to type it into the chat, no one can spell
connoisseur is the problem.
Like, like rendezvous?
That's still not it, Griffin.
I've seen Griffin try six times now.
Seven, seven attempts.
Griffin's got it around seven, eight, eight times.
Nine, you get a good one.
Different iterations.
Ten.
He's got ten different wrong ways to spell. That's really good. That's what he's trying to do. 10
I hate your guts
Now what about now Griffin you just instantly deleted
It's still lead deleted 20 eat my ass Travis Your guts, which I feel like we're right. You know what fuck you guys hands on the keyboards right now three to one
Go spell connoisseur don't stop laughing spell connoisseur. Don't you dare look it up?
You fucking auto corrected. I watched you right auto corrected on its own griffin
I know what to tell you I watched you right coin a sour and it changed and I watched it changed
How come I don't get clippy? How come clippy was like fucking dangl bitch?
I don't understand why clippy fuck me like that, but clippy was like oh just a Travis let me get in there
Let me help you
We are gonna write
this
Excellent We are gonna write this excellent suggestion.
Oh, it just fucked it up.
Oh, that's not it.
Justin goofed it up.
Look at the red line.
That means Justin's bad at it.
How do you spell it?
That can't be it.
No, that can't be it.
I'm actually gonna, I'm gonna leave it on the list,
but I'm gonna leave it like in red so we do it.
It's not this one.
It's not this one. It it's really hard to throw.
It's got way different letters than it than you would think.
Yeah.
Some of the classics, you're hoping it'll be in there.
It's not there.
I have a couple more.
Okay.
20 fun galore.
20 fun galore, the party don't stop.
The party don't stop. 20 fun galore, the party don't stop. The party don't stop.
20 fun galore.
Fungalore sounds like the name of some sort of
shittake god or something.
A shittake wizard that you have to see.
I'm the fun galore.
That's cool, that can be cool.
This is a different direction that we can go in entirely.
We've done commands, we've done energies, we've done aesthetics.
We've never, we could do a town with 20 Baltimore.
We've never done like an OC, like an original character.
This is 20 Fungalore.
He is a mushroom wizard that is here to help you get through the year.
This is Fungalore.
He's pulling for you.
He's pulling for you.
20 Fungalore spread to your seed because he's a mushroom was
No, no, they use sports again. It's a different system of reproduction
20 fun galore
I can't I say you like fun galore. I kind of like fun galore a lot
No way no listen to this mushroom wizard. He kicks ass. He's, I just took my socks
off. My feet got really sweaty. That's how powerful fungalore is fungalore. That's
cool. That's just a guy. He's like a majesty. Okay. Okay. It's definitely deity. Yeah.
Useful every day to people.
I need a deity.
If we're gonna get a little quickie religion going,
I need this deity to be offering something to people.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Not a seed. Definitely not a seed.
A support? What?
20 fungalore. He heard your wish.
20 fungalore. he heard your wish. 20 fungalore, he heard your wish.
He, like, he, every part of that is fucking,
it's like a refracting privilege.
Yeah, he twists it a little way,
it's like, ooh, yeah, he's like,
I know that's ice.
The existence of any kind of name or even pronoun
in the title of the year is such a,
like people are gonna start like,
he, what? Yeah, this year refers to someone who certainly an existing
person on earth who is fun galore. Let's say this even if we don't end up
going with 20 fun galore there's a mascot opportunity in there for the year.
I really really get excited about fungalore though.
Yeah, the more I think about fungalore,
I picture every time I had it.
For fungalore.
We haven't even released the episode, Grimit,
and I'm telling you that fungalore is already charting
across all social media.
I gotta make sure that there's not already a guy
named fungalore.
What are the odds?
fun galore let's see Doka what I don't know what doca pun is fun galore is a doca pun, but I don't know what doca pun is so that's fine. This can be
He doesn't appear to be trademarked I
Like our imagine are are like get can I just real quick?
Can I just check fungalore.com real quick?
Just to like or fun galore is watching or fun galore.
He heard fun galore heard your wish fun galore.
Pizza wish for fun galore and in my brain.
It doesn't have an auntie at the end.
What about you guys?
He does in mine.
Because it's fun galore.
Yeah.
That's going to be harder to get from a URL perspective.
Just to heads up.
fungalore.com. What about fungalore? There's gotta be fun galore.
fungalore.com. Just to really sort of like provide a little bit of
just to really sort of like provide a little bit of table setting for this.
You type in fun galore.com.
And then it shows you like this website is for sale.
And then it shows like a list of suggested links that could go on a website called fun galore.com.
It is not different opportunities to have fun.
So many of which exist that you would say you have fun galore.
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Is it possible we're gonna fuck up the SEO of something that people
Need to deal with their meningite all issues
No, I think it provides a moment of respite.
Okay.
Does it help that I can get fungalore.fun?
No.
Fungalore.fun.
Fungalore's fungalore.fun.
No, I'm just saying fungalore.fun.
It's fungalore.xxx available.
I would love to really expensive.
I bought Paul and Storm.xxx and it was way too expensive
for the gag.
Trust me, you don't want to do it.
What an worth it.
I also just as the last one I had was 20 candy store.
Keep it sweet.
Or 20 candy store.
20 candy store. 20 candy store.
20 candy store.
How are you that's not uniting us enough?
Like fungalore does?
Yeah.
Yeah, Griffin, that's the point of religion.
Okay, hold on, wait, wait.
I don't know about religion.
I don't know about religion.
I didn't say religion.
I don't know about religion.
For lost to be.
It's just, he's just 20 fungalore. A guy you pray to. and I didn't say reliable about religion for lost to be.
He's just 20 fungalore, a guy you prayed to.
And you could just pray to it.
Well, no, you wish to Justin.
You wish to.
Yeah.
You speak to like a friend.
He's just a friend.
He's just a friend when juice from the film.
20 fungalore, he's just a friend.
When the Philadelphia Flyers were coming up with a mascot,
and someone was like,
what about this big orange monster name, Gritty?
The response of the room wasn't like,
yeah, let's pray to him.
Let's all pray to him, worship his name,
and lift it highest and holiest in the world.
And Justin to that end, when they were inventing Christianity,
they weren't like, we need a great mascot.
What about this guy, Jesus?
Fungal.
Can I tell you guys right
now? I feel a lot like our distant relative, uh, uh, perse or Thomas McAroy aboard, uh,
worship. I go on a little boy. Yeah, Thomas Herbert. Same difference on a little
different name for Thomas. I wouldn't. He was the person who I little shit, but I had to call it a
headache. And I like to imagine that for a while, they were just watching the iceberg,
like, fuck, somebody needs to turn.
I feel like we have been watching, we have been spending so much time with fungal
or yeah, that he started to get a sort of life.
He's getting bigger.
He's getting like, yeah, we're getting close.
And I'm part of, I'm complicit, right?
Yeah.
And I think I may have even said something like that's it, no more discussion over.
Fungalore.
Yeah.
Um, he heard your wish.
I may have said that several times, but like I want to try to give, give a little oxygen
to some of these others that we feel like strong.
I almost like hearing your wish better than a fungalore?
Who just combined 20 fungalore a traitor in our house?
I don't know, what do you mean?
I can't be that.
It was either that or 20 fungalore but where they're raven.
So I don't know which one you like better.
20 hunt fungalore.
This is where machinations must be stopped. He's grown too powerful
That's cool. Hey fungal. I also kind of like casting fungal or
As an enemy that we are all united again
20 fungal or take up yours take up your blade the quest begins
24 20 fungal. This far no farther.
24 galore.
24 galore.
The tide holds here.
24 galore.
24 galore.
The quest begins.
24 galore.
The tide turns today.
Today we declare our independence day.
I'm just imagining.
I cast off your 20,
24 galore cast here, shackles.
Ah!
In terms of aesthetics, the idea of all of us dressed up
as fantasy heroes, God knows we have the costumery ready for it.
And just every live show rolling up under a giant sort of like a hero quest portrait
of Fungalore in the background.
And then this is the most important part,
not addressing it even a little bit at all.
I kind of do like that.
Are people gonna not like it though?
Not like you never like it.
And then they get over it.
That's the art of them.
I almost forgot, I got to throw it out.
Just for considerate.
No, we're not, no, no, don't, no.
Don't you take that descending tone as though before we wrap up
I just need to say these other names. We've got a steer away from
Money honey store down to business Travis save us please. That's you know, that's not it
We just reached a honey honey store down to business. It's not honey store, Travis, you know, Travis, honey store.
Honey store.
Money for honey.
Travis, we need you now more than ever, but.
20 honey store.
Here's the challenge.
Okay.
I think it can be 20 fun galore.
But and then normies will read it as 20 fun galore.
And so then we have plausible deniability
20 door to door. Have you heard the good word? Is there a subtitle that works for both fun galore and fun galore?
Oh, so it can be both so we have plausible deniability if we don't end up liking that we have based an entire year around this
Either good or streaming
We have based an entire year around this either good or streaming. Or spread the words.
Spreading the word of fun.
Yeah.
And a fun galore?
I don't think it works for either of them, which is another direction we could go.
Twenty fun galore, a totally normal year.
All right, this helps us sometimes when we get sort of in the quagmire here.
We just sort of mix up the,
uh, the subtitles in the title.
The 20 fungalore, bring him home.
20 fungalore, wild nights in charm city.
No.
28, 20 fungalore, a privacy fullfilled.
Just like for, just for my own sanity, can we make a little separate list at the bottom
under under 20 fungal or
yeah of ones that are even like that are workable. Yes. I feel like 20 fungal or 20 hunt the
bore. 20 never more. But where the Raven 20 hunt the bore. I don't love. That's an energy
I don't want to bring into the year.
Griffin, I couldn't tell if you were lowering down
or the camera was rising up.
Camera's rising up.
Uh oh, my tripod doesn't go up that high.
We're gonna do a little tilt.
Oh, okay.
20, 20, 20.
No, we're doing this.
Just let's start.
Justin, did you nick 20 hunt the boy?
Sorry, I was distracted by Griffin's camera work.
I feel like 20 hunt the boar hunting.
I don't love the energy.
I don't know.
Maybe I just have to.
I don't know what the boar is.
It's not a train or an arm.
It's the traitor in our midst.
Why is the boar a traitor?
Why is the boar a traitor?
The boar is not an animal that is known for its subtlety
or its.
Oh yeah, that's how you know it's subtle, Griffin.
If you're new to being duplicitous,
it's not good at duplicity.
Yeah.
Travis is a really fucking good point, I will say.
Real quick, just to like,
I mean, 20 connoisseurs out,
2020 spore,
20 in a chore.
20 hear me roar is still very strong to me.
So it's 20 hear me roar.
Okay.
I like that.
I like that.
20 hear me roar.
You go down to the list.
And how do we feel about 20 never more where the Raven?
What percent the Raven?
What percent just to go around the triangle here around around the horn, coast to coast.
What percent of your brain RAM currently
is being spent on thinking about fungalore
versus trying to avoid fungalore?
Just be fun.
72% for fungalore?
Yeah.
Okay, juice.
80% for all.
I'm at like 86% fungalore.
I can't really throw.
This is a really interesting exercise, I will say.
And I'm being, this part is not, this part is honest.
I'm not making jokes for the show.
Yeah.
There is a part of me that does not feel
that fungalore will be the best choice going for you.
Yeah.
As a businessman.
Yeah. Yeah.
And as someone who employs people
and is responsible for people's wellbeing,
I feel like I get to maybe June
before I'm like, why is it fucking?
But that's the thing, Jews.
If we get to June,
now we hate the Dark Sorcerer fun galore.
Now it's just 20 fun galore.
And we can do like I tell you like a big
top sort of. But so here's what here's what is interesting to me. Yeah. And I think this is what
Elizabeth Gilbert describes as big magic. Yeah. I'm trying to keep fun galore out. Yeah.
The part of my brain that makes up jokes like this part, the part, the good part. Right. And I feel him trying to get my brain.
Somehow my brain is zooming in,
which is not a thing I knew brain could do.
Yes.
I feel like he's so close to like,
what I was trying to do by changing the subject there
was I feel like sometimes the light of predetermination
could seem very bright.
Yeah. And if you like cast any doubt into it at all, it could start to crumble.
Like for fungalore to be it, it has to have always been fungalore.
Right. There's no, so trying to second guess it.
Why don't you fungalore? He is undeniable.
I feel like he heard your wish.
But like making, I don't wanna make another fucking thing
that people have to be like, oh, it's stupid.
It's this podcast I listen to.
No, dude, if it's just a badass looking wizard
with like a mushroom head and like some kingdom of mushrooms,
that keeps asking, you don't have to explain what that is.
They were like, what's on your shirt?
You'd be like, some cool fucking mushroom.
Yeah.
That's true.
Justin, how often do you think the members of Gravel Dead
had to be like, well, it's a bear?
It's a bear.
It's kind of a cool bear.
Well, Travis, probably not many,
since they were literally surrounded by people
who followed them around because of how much they liked them.
Yeah.
So they didn't have to explain anything.
I don't know about you.
I'm looking around.
I don't see anybody in this room.
You don't think people will follow funglow around?
I don't want people to follow funglow.
I don't want people to follow funglow.
Are you worried that they'll like funglow more than us?
I don't, that's a real issue that I'm running into now.
It's a real issue.
I don't want people to like funglow too much.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't want them to like him too much.
I don't want to be responsible for making that.
I feel like fungalore's power is really in his aesthetics.
You know what I mean?
I feel like fungalore, I feel like is an observer.
Yeah.
You know, he is not acting on your behalf
but he is not acting against you
but he is watching and hearing all of it. That is what I like about the tagline. He heard your wish
Does not your wish it?
You feel like that means he's now acting on your wish. Yeah, that is not I
Does not say that it also does that mean he's judging your way. Yeah, he's
He just bothers you that fungalore knows your wish don't wish
Yeah, he just hit bothers you that fun galore knows your wish don't wish. Don't wish.
Yeah, I know.
I'm.
Um.
20 fun galore.
I have fun galore just stands on a bluff on an out crop overlooking listening to
which yeah, he unfolds every every second is just.
It's a.
The gills under his cap unfurl and he just sort of vibrates up there and he's like
Harchiff, Harchiff, Harchiff.
I almost don't want to characterize fungalore too much.
I like leaving him as like a big, empty space with a very strong aesthetic.
But I don't want to spend the whole year going like pretending like fungalore is like,
I don't want fun, I don't want one of us to walk in one day
with like a big wizard hat and a big mushroom hat
and be like, hey guys, it's me fungalore.
Like, do you know what I mean?
Like I don't want to be like,
I feel sacrilegious Griffin.
No, but even that Travis, I don't want to, like,
I don't know how much I want to dip into theism.
I don't, I want to avoid that at all costs.
I want to look at this man like a,
like I'm seeing him on the street.
I'm being like, that's a cool vibe.
That fungalore's got, what's your name, friend?
Fungalore, I like your vibe.
Thank you very much.
And he says, I heard your wish.
I heard your wish as he walks away.
And you're like, what is it I'm waiting?
I think.
You do what?
But I don't want to know everything about fungalore.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, I want to share, I want to share him.
You know what I mean?
Like there's a temptation right now to get out the pin.
Yeah. Isn't there?
Isn't there?
It's a temptation to get out the pin and start inking in these lines.
It would be, I don't, I don't feel like we should.
It would be so powerful.
It for the first time in 14 years, we banned fan art of Fungalore.
Fungalore.
Not draw Fungal art. Fungal art.
Not draw fungal.
You hate.
It will come after you.
No, no, no, we've never been litigious for 14 years.
No, I want, no, no, no.
I want there to be art of fungal art because that's beautiful.
That's your interpretation.
That's your, how you see him.
That's cool.
I don't, everybody can like him because he's like,
it's he's just awareness, okay? Yeah. The thing about fungalore is he's just, he's just,
he just hears your wishes, but you can like that or not like it. Yeah. Yeah.
We have to. I think what we're saying is we want fungalore art. We don't want fungalore
lore. We don't want, we don't, we don't want him to be so clearly to find that he can disappoint us.
Thank you.
Yes.
I couldn't handle if it turns out
he's got some problematic views.
You know what I mean?
He's got nothing.
He has nothing traps.
He can't.
He's merely a racetrack.
Do you know why?
He's a fucking mushroom.
Oh.
Like a lot of people forget that about fungalore.
He's a mushroom.
They are true about him that we know for sure this is true. You can't make anything up
different. Yeah, huh? Is it mushroom? He heard your wish. Yeah, those are two things. He
knows that. He doesn't have powers though. He does have powers. He's important that we
do say he does have power. I mean, we don't have to get into it. Undefined, undefined, undefined.
Like what the fuck isk are we doing?
Doesn't matter.
But he does have already, by saying he heard someone's wish,
I think you're already saying this is a metaphysical being.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's clear.
He's a metaphysical mushroom who heard your wish.
Yeah.
He heard your wish.
Hey, that's kind of, that's kind of, kind of catchy.
20th fungalore, a metaphysical mushroom that heard your wish
Mmm, is he to concrete to concrete? I don't even like saying is he metaphysical? I don't know
I don't know you heard your wish
Man, we're gonna have to tell my cake
But case gonna have to do something with it like we have to go back we have we employ real adults
Yeah, we're gonna have to go back, we employ real adults.
Yeah.
We're gonna have to go back to and be like,
hey guys, we got another real great year.
This year's 20th fungalore here at your wish.
You're talking about as the ego Travis
and I'm less concerned about that.
I'm trying, I'm at a point now where I'm trying
to just make space for fungalore.
You know, like, that's a real Travis mood.
I thought it, yeah, I get that.
I thought it long enough.
So it doesn't have to be metaphysical.
You're right Griffin.
There could be a scientific explanation
for why his various fungal aspects
have a lot to hear all wishes.
It would, it would give a hit,
Matthew McConaughey film,
where he travels through space and mud. Mud, like Matthew McConaughey film where you travel through space and
Mud like they hit
Matthew McConaughey film
You're talking all the metaphysical time travel one
Yeah, I'm gonna lose a guy in ten hundred million days. Yeah, right here million billion of it's really a day. That's a cool flick
fungalore
I mean
God let me check and see how long we've been recording.
I gotta tell my wife that I'm gonna leave this room.
And Teresa's gonna be like, oh, so what you guys said a lot?
And I'm gonna have to look at it.
She's gonna go, a little mushroom man in fungalore or giant.
He's, besides, perspective is a funny thing.
Yeah.
Can I say though, honestly guys, it does,
it is kind of,. Yeah, can I say though honestly guys it does it is kind of for me
Kind of empowering to
Come up with a year theme that I will be embarrassed of yeah, yeah, sometimes it's a lot sometimes it's a lot to always try to be like
The coolest slickest like yeah, we got it 20 rendezvous and they're like
Look at my wife me like it's 20 fungalore.
He's a guy.
He heard your whiz.
He heard your whiz.
It's a mushroom.
And he heard your whiz.
So good.
Guys, I'm already imagining this episode in 2028
when we're going through the list.
When we have one fungalore, that's going
to hit so fucking right every time.
It is.
That is a little treat for future.
That's what I really enjoy.
20 fungalore, he heard your whiz. That's a little treat for future. That's what I really enjoy. 20 fungalore, he heard your wish.
That's fucking great.
Yeah, that's fucking good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He heard your wish.
20 fungalore.
Don't, don't.
20 fungalore, he heard your wish.
Do not be weird about this folks at home.
Do not get like, yeah, don't be weird about it.
Don't be weird about it.
Don't be weird.
No response, your response to hear about fungalore should be like, oh don't be weird about it. Don't be weird about it. Don't be like and your response You're responsible here about fun. Glows. We're like oh cool cool vibe and here's the thing
I here's what I want you to take away from this listener is it if you're inspired by fun galore and you want to start
We're thinking about him and stuff like that and like
Think about what that means to you. Yeah, your life. Yeah, do that
Don't start putting walls around fungalore,
like there's some kind of established mythos, okay?
Yeah.
He's whatever we all want.
It's important, Justin is a great thing.
He heard your, he's a receptor.
He's a receptor.
Yeah.
He heard your, he heard your wish.
You're right.
He heard his wish. So if anything, the existence of fungalore
should make you more you.
Yes.
Not you making fungalore more fungalore.
If that makes sense.
Yeah.
He is a receptor for your wish.
Not, he is not for you to build on.
He is not a cup for you to fill.
There you go.
That's how beautiful. My fungalore, I said, you can't, cup for you to fill. There you go. That's so beautiful.
My fungalore is a great place.
Well, you can, but if you can, but it's yours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a personal relationship with fungalore.
Yeah.
I don't care what it is.
I don't care what your relationship with fungalore is.
No.
But in fact, I'm defined my relationship with fungalore.
After today, I don't even want to talk about fungalore.
I probably will keep talking about fungalore all year.
It's all I can think.
But don't be fucking weird if I have a fixation.
Yeah.
Here's what's, here's what I'm thinking about already guys.
I'm kind of flashing forward to it's kind of become a little thing where the people on
team Biggai head know when they're recording the year's theme.
And it's kind of like a fun little tradition that we like tell them and everybody's like reacting
to it. So this one's's not gonna hit with them.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm gonna say it and they're gonna be,
they're gonna say it and they're gonna be like,
I don't get it.
I actually think we should type it into the Slack
and then not respond to any questions
that come up afterwards.
Just 20 fun, guys, it's December 19th.
It's a little bit early to punch out for the year,
but I will say dropping 20 fun galore, he heard your wish in the company chat and then disappearing for the next 12
days is a huge power move that no one's going to forget anytime soon.
Can we just establish the E?
The E is the only thing that keeps you.
The E true?
Trus, this is honest to God juice, the E has to be there so that we have the thing about fungalore
that I like the most is that he has a rip cord on him
that you can pull it any time
and turn him into a serviceable, kind of normal year theme.
If we can it be, can it be both like,
no, fungalore, and then if somebody asks you about it more,
you can just be like, oh, fungalore.
You should get fungalorewithoutan.com, just for the typo redirect.
But I think Travis, I guess she can be the tiebreaker on this one, but I feel, I feel, wait, hold on,
just while you're looking, see if gogle.com is available, because if nobody scooped that
up, yeah, I've got that.
Oh yeah, gogle.com.
It's kind of a huge issue.
Gogle.com.
No, the e has to be there. Yeah, I bet that's kind of that. A lot. Goggled.com. No, the E has the E has to be there.
Okay, cool.
Cause I can get fun galore with.
I'm not even sure I can get fun galore with no E.com.
It doesn't read right.
It reads like fun galor.
Fun galor.
Yeah.
Fungalore.art.
Yeah, it needs the E. Yeah, you're right.
But that's fun galore.art. Yeah, it needs the e. Yeah, you're right, but that's
obviously fungalore.wish.
fungalore.wish.
Is that available?
I don't know.
You're the you're the internet guy.
You're kind of our hacker.
I'm the hacker of the group.
Yeah, I'm the bad boy.
They don't offer wish bullshit.
Do they offer that penis?
I'll let's think about it.
Fungalore.fun is available for $5.
That's a palindrome. Yeah, is it? Yeah, we got to get I think we should slam palindrome.
We should end the episode. Yeah, I think you're probably right.
Okay.
I do this once a year and every year, I remember how much I enjoy standing up
while recording this podcast.
Yeah, but next, next episode you'll be seated again, right?
You promise I might give.
I mean, it looks like you really have to go use the bathroom.
It does.
Yeah.
I got this.
I got this.
I got the way you is still to be over.
Like I'm trying to give notes and you're like,
you're moving so much.
And it's actually making you pixelated
for some reason your camera can't.
Yeah, cool.
I've got soccer.
I gotta go to soccer.
Is there anything else I need to do?
Okay.
I'd love to play some stuff.
Are we sure?
Justin Tyler McRoy do not, don't you dare.
Don't you dare. I'm'm calling I'm calling it then Justin
Let me I'll give you this Justin. I am sure but even if I wasn't I don't think my brain could
Generate anything else
Is it a dereliction of our duty Justin Tyler McAroy? Okay, it's official.
I'm gonna call it.
The theme for this year is a guy is a guy.
A dude.
A guy.
20 fun galore.
He heard your wish.
Good, print it.
Yeah, do we even need to do the outro shit?
Like people know what the fuck we're all about now.
Yeah, you know what, Griffin?
Yeah.
I mean, I'll say thanks to Montaine, but that's just because I want you.
And then we have merch over at McRoyMarsh.com.
Does this open up?
Does this open up a different get rid of the sound bath and now it's just a wish for
fun galore at the end? No, I don't really want to talk about.
We just end with like praise B. No, no, he's not a deity.
You can't. I'm not going to make any more boundaries around what he is because I already
disagreed with you guys. And I can't that that's not what it's about.
That's not what it is. It's about perfect acceptance of who fun galore is to you.
Yeah. Damn it.
Well, it's all right.
Well, that's the show.
That's the show, everybody.
Also, say we got merch over at McRoyMarch.com.
We got a new shirt that is us as three wolves
in front of the moon.
The decay design, it's incredibly good.
10% of all merch proceeds this month will go
to World Central Kitchen, which uses the power of food
to nourish communities and strengthen economies
through times of crisis and beyond.
So good.
And you know what?
I'm not even, I was gonna think
you're ready for coming to candle lights virtually,
but I'm not even gonna do that.
I'll say that, thank you.
Thank you all so much.
Okay, special time.
I'm gonna be at Sketchfest.
The last weekend, I'm doing a D&D live show with some great guests and
comedians and stuff. So come to see that. It was really good. Let's pay them. Let's
pay them. Let's do the sound bath. It may, may fungal or lead us to a stronger exit.
No, this is not, nope, this is not fungal or doing it. No, you're right.
This is not what he's about.
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It's better, it's better with you
It's better, it's better with you
It's better, it's better with you.
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