My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM 706: Climax, Denouement, Spider-Man Test
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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 mention only so the babies out there will know how cool they are for
listening.
What's up you cool baby? One, two, three, four! It's the start of something beautiful
A small acquaintance has blossomed
It's ripened into a precious friendship
I could've never seen what was coming for me
Hangs at the skate park, hangs by the beach
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Hello everybody, welcome to my brother, my brother, me and advice show for the modern era.
I'm your oldest brother, Justin McElroy.
What up, Trav Nation? I'm your middle-est brother, woof woof, big dog Travis McElroy.
Hi Trav Nation, good morning. It's Griffin McElroy. Thank you, Tripp, for having me, Travnation.
You're welcome.
What did you bring us as offering?
Three apples!
Delicious.
Travnation, I've brought news of Madame Webb from the wilds.
Oh, wait, come in.
Sorry, we don't need to rush the news.
You're just the entire traveler.
Come, rest.
If I may sup and bathe. Soak in our basin.
My...
My women have had a long journey of defending me
from the Outlanders, and they require sustenance and rest.
Yes.
Okay, that's... I'm trying to decide
if this is problematic or not.
Go on, Traveler.
What?
Your women? Perhaps in your land, you prefer to treat your women is problematic or not. Go on, Traveler. What? Your women?
Perhaps in your land, you prefer to treat your women
like shrinking violets, but where I hail from,
they are fierce warriors.
This is cool.
Yeah, man, I'm into it.
Wait, hold on, I'm into this.
And I get to just watch and listen?
Let me roll for intimidation.
Yeah.
I wanna know if it's true.
That kicks ass.
No, okay, I...
You're in that head space because of Madam Web,
I feel like, maybe.
Yeah, I feel like Madam Web has,
I wanna tell you guys everything about Madam Web,
because it's finally out. Yes, please.
And I feel like if you don't wanna know about Madam Web,
I think you should, you've probably decided
that you're not gonna see Madam Web,
and that's probably a good decision.
Yeah.
But I might try, I might try to make a pitch.
If you don't even wanna hear about Madam Web,
know that we sat here stone cold five minutes
trying to think of another thing to talk about in the intro.
And there's just none here.
It's just Madam Webb out there today.
So let's address question one that Travis asked me off mic,
or maybe he's a good one.
Why did you watch Madam Webb?
Good question.
Yeah.
Good question.
Let's start there.
The hardest thing, I saw someone do a TikTok video
recently that said the hardest thing about being married, and it's like, oh, well, so you have to pick
something to eat and that's true.
Yeah.
But the second hardest.
Every night you have to look at your partner
and say, what are we gonna do for dinner?
As though you've never
ever had to figure it out before.
So in, the second hardest thing
is picking something to watch.
Now when Sydney and I are, we have similar tastes
and we're in locked in with the show
that we both like, we're watching it.
Madame Web came about because we had been,
we just found something that we felt the same about.
It was a, we both didn't wanna watch it
the exact same amount and for some reason,
it made sense.
We watched it because of that.
It's the two negatives.
It's the two negatives.
Make it positive.
Yeah, exactly.
Make it positive, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, some things about Madame Web
that I think is important to know
is that nothing happens in it.
Oh, cool.
That's one of the chief things you should know
about Madame Web is that nothing happens in Madame Web.
And sometimes you want that in a movie,
just a nice relaxing, nothing.
I get to the end of one of these superhero movies, guys,
and I'm fucking tired. They've worn me out watching them run around and throw their shields and stuff at people that makes me exhausted
Right, so she what the things that happen in Madame Web. They're cool. Yeah are
There is a the bat the main okay
I'll tell you the plot of Madame Web so. So, Madame Webbs' mom is a scientist in a jungle,
and she's looking for super mega spiders
that can cure disease because her daughter
has a degenerative disease, her unborn daughter
has a degenerative disease that she's trying to find
and cure for with the incredible power of the spider.
You could just say we've got kind of
a Morbius situation going on.
So, the super spider is located,
but then a mean man steals it from her
so he can have the power of that for himself.
But he shoots her, but she's rescued by,
I don't know how to say it other than,
there's sort of like, Spider-Men who live in the jungle.
Sure, okay.
Called Los Aranjas, okay?
So he's just saved by them,
and then they use their incredible spider magic
to try to save her along enough to live with the baby.
Now, hold on,
because I've never known-
The magic of spiders, the magical spiders.
I've never known Spider-Man to be a wielder
of the arcane arts.
Interesting.
You think that would have come up,
because there's been a lot of times
where Spider-Man has hung out with Doctor Strange,
and you think it would come up,
that Doctor Strange would be like,
and I know you to also be a practitioner
of the magical spider arts.
I'm not saying that there is much of a
biological explanation for Magus bit by Special Spider,
and then can shoot a very tensile jizz from his wrist
that lets him swim around New York City and stop thieves.
There's an eternal logic to it, I guess.
Right, but I guess it is magic,
if you think about it, is what I'm saying.
Flash forward.
Fast forward 20 years.
Welcome to New York.
Hey, in the city, it's the 90s.
In New York.
Spider-Man are slinging from buildings.
They're shooting their webbings.
We try to calculate the time.
I think it's around like early 2000s.
We see Madam Webb, she's a firefighter, ambulance driver
with her partner is, you'll never guess, it's Ben Parker.
Oh, no. Oh, cool.
Famous uncle, famous uncle, sorry.
Not the clone.
I've never known him without a nephew.
Adam Scott as Uncle Ben, who when we first see him
is in the back of an ambulance trying to save a life
by delivering one-handed chest compressions.
Holy shit.
Is he a superhero?
Sidney said exactly, that's a hell of a thing.
Yeah.
I said, really, you don't see that a lot?
He was using his other hand.
He said, see what happened.
He was using his other hand to eat a New York hot dog.
Hey. Hey.
Hey, I'm compressing-y.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so.
Staying alive, staying alive.
Yeah, you're supposed to do CPR to that.
Oh, you are?
I just am always kind of singing, staying alive,
cause I'm a New York guy.
Now, what do you think Adam Scott's experience was
in the short 30-second window of,
you're going to play Uncle Ben in a Spider-Man movie.
Beep, beep, beep.
But...
But...
He was the catch.
So we know that there has to be a Spider-Man movie
from Sony every couple years, or they lose Spider-Man.
Yes.
So that is why these movies exist.
And Sidney thinks that Spider-Man has to be in it,
which is, we'll get to that.
Ben Parker, we find out, has a sister.
Ben Parker's brother Richard is gone.
His sister, Mary, the sister-in-law Mary,
is pregnant with Peter Parker.
Now, the first conversation we see Madame Webb
have with Ben Parker, he says,
well, I've met somebody new, I'm really into her.
And she's like, what's her name?
And in the audience, I'm like, it's Mae.
And then it stares at his face for like five seconds
while he makes like sheepish looks and doesn't say Mae.
Ben Parker is in the movie,
so the movie can remind you that it thinks you're an idiot.
If it will not, he's not gonna say that.
Later on, there's a very similar scene
where they're talking to Mary Parker
and they play a game about what they're gonna name the baby.
Oh, nice!
You know what they never,
you know what Orn is never said in that scene?
You know what Orn is never said in that scene?
You guessed it, Peter.
Nothing happens in the movie.
Madame Web doesn't have any superpowers that she can use.
So they introduce magical Spider-Man in the jungle
who use spider magic to save her. Yeah. Yes. But that has can use. So they introduced magical Spider-Man in the jungle who used spider magic to save her.
Yeah.
But that has no impact.
Awesome.
She at one point attempts to climb up a wall
and just kind of slides down it.
In one of the movies few entertainers see.
Now wait, I will say most movies do have that scene in it.
Where they do, most movies have beginning, middle, and end,
a climax, a denouement, and a Spider-Man test
to see if the character.
I remember in the marriage story with Adam Driver
when they were like, I hate your fucking guts,
I hope you fucking die.
Hold up one second.
I just gotta check one thing
We all remember the classic scene where he's like good soup. Thwip. Thwip. Thwip. Why are you making that noise? I'm driving. I'm just trying to
And that's what I just want decade
I have a timer that goes off just to see if it kind of came in my 40s
That's what kicks ass about Sam Raimi's first spider-man flick as he was like, oh, hold on, hold on guys, Spider-Man test, holy shit, it worked!
And the audience just loses their mind,
like guys, you'll never believe this,
I went to a movie today and the Spider-Man test worked
and it was Spider-Man!
This is, I'm so glad that we're bringing this up
because I've been meaning to talk about this for a while.
I think the Spider-Man test in Inception
is connected to the Spider-Man test in Shudder Island.
Yes.
I think it bookends the two and just shows a connection
between Inception and Shudder Island.
We can discuss off one.
And we also know, I do wanna be clear,
the Spider-Man test can also refer to
when two Spider-Men have a conversation,
not about Spider-Woman.
Yeah, so few films pass it, but when they do,
it's so meaningful.
There's just one, I can think of.
There's three.
Two of them are animated.
Two of them are animated and one, yeah,
they're all very recent.
This is new technology.
So we see the bad guy is equal.
He has this nightmare where three Spider-Ladies kill him.
Okay.
And this, yeah, so it's-
Been there, man.
Yeah, sure.
Only three?
Wow.
So these three spider ladies,
he has this dream he's gonna kill these three spider ladies
and he's like, I gotta find these spider ladies
and kill them first,
cause they're gonna kill me and I'm freaked out about it.
And then nothing happens for a really long time.
What are you seeing on the screen?
What sounds are you hearing and sights are you seeing?
Yeah, was the projector broken maybe?
Here's what it is.
Madame Webb will watch the bad scenes from the movie.
She will experience the bad scene.
And you, the audience, will experience the bad scene in the movie.
And then the movie will restart to like 30 seconds
before that and you will watch the bad scene again.
And then Dakota Johnson will say, I'm be damned.
Yeah.
But again, shit, how much movie do we have left?
Fuck, an hour and no powers, huh?
Shit, all right.
And then she finds those three spider ladies
and you'll never guess it,
but none of them got powers either.
Cause that's in the future when it's interesting. Whoa. When the movie is interesting, And then she finds those three spider ladies and you'll never guess it, but none of them got powers either.
That's in the future when it's interesting.
Whoa.
The movie is interesting.
Dakota Johnson has spider powers.
No, has psychic powers where she can see the future.
And then there's, she has three, not spider powers.
Gotta be related to the spider magic in the jungle.
It's related to the magic spiders.
We don't know how the three of them gets spider powers
because we never see it happen.
They're just kind of in the movie.
Yeah. Okay.
Now this is the most important thing,
is that Adam Scott was doing this chest compressions
on somebody, okay?
Okay, yeah, yeah.
And then she did chest compressions on somebody
on the ground outside of a disaster
and brought them back to life.
And then she falls in a river and Adam Scott pulls her out and she dies.
But Adam Scott brings her back to life with chest compressions.
People do see chest compressions two other times in this movie.
There are like six scenes.
There's a scene, guys, where Madame Webb in trying to protect her
three spider surrogate daughters teaches them?
CPR it's the closest we get to a scene of people getting superpowers. Yeah
That's how it starts man you learn CPR you get a little high on the hog and then you fuck it and then you go
Out there and you start trying to fly you do many spider-man tests
So she goes to a cave in the jungles and and there's a guy there, and he's like,
Wait, why does she go there?
Yeah, and so she goes to a spider cave in the jungles,
and there's a guy there, he's like,
Fuck, man, you are so powerful.
And she's like, really?
Because I feel like I'm just kind of going nuts
and seeing things in the future, and then they restart.
No, man, you know CPR, and that's where it all starts.
He's like, when you figure it out,
fuck you're gonna be cool.
And she's like, now?
He's like, not now.
Not now, but later.
Dang, you're gonna rule.
She's like, can you teach me how to use my powers?
Like you assume he's the Ben Kenobi or whatever.
And she's like, he's like, ah, no, no, no, I can't.
I can't do that. Oh, I wish I could. He's like, he's like, ah, no, no, no, I can't, I can't do that.
Oh, I wish I could.
She's like, he's like, when you're ready,
you'll be the most powerful.
And he like, he's like, I'm sorry about this.
And he punches her so hard,
her spirit flies out of her body and into a lake.
And the result of that is nothing.
Nothing changes as a result of that.
She just kind of goes back into it.
At the end of the movie,
now we're getting into spoilers for the end of the movie.
So I want to tell you what happens at the end of it.
Can I tag out?
No, you're still in.
At the end of the movie, the bad guy, Ezekiel,
is threatening all of her surrogate spider daughters
at the same time.
Uh-huh.
Does he have three guns?
How does that work?
It's like, they're like all in danger.
Well, he took the spider magic, I think,
so he probably has extra hands, right?
They're all in danger.
Madame Webb still has done nothing
for the whole movie, okay?
In my head, when I saw there was 10 minutes left,
I literally couldn't believe it.
It's impossible.
We're still in act one of this film.
But there are three of them in danger.
What happens is that Madame Webb realizes
that she loves her mom so much
that she is able to split her essence into three.
Now, those three essences don't actually do anything
to help the spider ladies.
They just kind of like super support them.
This looks cool.
And then the bad guy Ezekiel is mad about that.
So he punches her so hard in the stomach
that she goes back together into one.
Okay, so so far we've seen her is one of her powers
that when she's punched, it either knocks her spirit
out of her or pulls her spirit back in.
Yes, I think it's a power.
If ethereally punchable is not a great power.
Yes, it's not a great power.
And then what happens at the end of it is that she,
she notices there's a giant Pepsi sign
above the evil Spider-Man Ezekiel.
And then she's scooting away from him.
And then she scoots to the exact place
where the sign is going to fall.
And that's how she beats him is that she scoots
to a place where a Pepsi sign falls on him.
And if I'm the Pepsi co,
I do not think I want my brand used like that to crush.
To crush, now hold on, Juice, hold on,
because I have the same thought.
But if you're PepsiCo and you find out
that the Pepsi sign smushes the bad guy.
Is the hero of the movie.
Does more than Madame Webb does.
I think you're back on board.
Yeah, I think I'm into it at that point.
Is the guy that she meets in the cave,
Saul from Better Call Saul,
and he's like, you're gonna be really good
at staging insurance claim accidents?
Cause that's what it sounds like she has set up.
Cause they're gonna sue,
she's a scammer.
Gilles' family is gonna be able to sue PepsiCo
for maybe billions.
Everything.
Oh, you guys are worried because she falls off of the thing.
Oh, I wasn't. When the sign crashes down
and kills Spider-Man and she falls off.
Wait, kills Spider-Man what?
Evil Spider-Man. Evil Spider-Man.
Okay. She falls into the water
and her spider daughters bring her out of the water
but she stays dead forever
because none of them can do anything about it.
So it's sad how it ends.
No, just kidding.
That you see P.R.
and bang her ass back to life.
And then in the movie's final shot,
you see all three of them with spider powers
and Dakota Johnson in giant ass red glasses and a red cape.
Did I mention it made her blind?
Falling in the water.
She's blind now, but that's fine.
She's in a wheelchair. Not the couple of times
she's been punched and it affected her spirit.
No, she's in a wheelchair.
She's got huge glasses and she looks cool
and she's floating around.
And then the movie starts.
And then the movie ends.
No!
That's what happens, is what happens is the movie ends.
And they're like, okay, time for the movie.
Justin, are you ready?
And they're like, I'm actually not ready
because I don't want to watch any more of it,
but I guess, fine, no, end of film.
That's the end of Madame Web.
Think of it this way.
Madame Web 2 mathematically is gonna have two movies
worth of kick-ass stuff that happens in it
if none of it happened in Madam Web One.
That's a good point.
Delayed gratification.
This is, it is superhero origin story edging
is essentially what they have conducted here.
Two other brief notes.
The man in the cave tells her
that when she accepts great responsibility,
she will have great power.
That's cool.
Oh, so it's kind of a reverse of traditional, maybe,
like because normally Uncle Ben would put a lot
of extra pressure on his teenaged nephew of saying,
hey man, with great power,
you have to save everybody in the world.
But instead he's saying,
when you're ready to save everyone in the world,
then good news. Can you imagine?
Imagine the backpack of cocaine
that must've been consumed after that line was written
in a room like, guys, I fucking got it.
Toss down the jam sport.
Stan, you took three weeks of vacation
after one day of writing? Yeah, you took three weeks vacation
after one day of writing?
Yeah, you don't understand.
I wrote this line.
Well, I just read it,
and I'm gonna take a week's vacation.
Yeah, I know, man.
I'm not deleting it.
Because I hired you, so I deserve it too.
Listen, in one of these final moments,
May Park, sorry, Mary Parker, Peter's mom,
is rushed to the hospital.
Do you wanna take your shirt off
and then continue telling us about? Because she's about to give rushed to the hospital. Do you wanna take your shirt off and then continue telling us about?
Because she's about to give birth to the Spider-Man.
Yeah.
And they never say his name or anything.
They ask Madam Webb,
so how's Ben like being an uncle?
He loves it.
It's all the fun of being an uncle
with another responsibility.
And then she says,
and then she says, if only he knew.
Like it's a joke because she can see the future, right? responsibility. And then she says, and then she says, if only he knew, like,
it's a joke because she can see the future. Right?
That may joke that Mary's going to die and Mary's going to die.
And then later Uncle Ben dies. But hey, Spider-Man, when the baby is born, you do
see the baby very briefly. And then Sydney leans over me and she says, okay,
that explains it. And I said, what? And she said, well, they have to put Spider-Man
in the movie for it to count for their contract, right?
I'm like, I'm not sure it's exactly how,
she's like, no, no, no, this is what it is.
That's Spider-Man, so they gotta get Spider-Man in the movie.
So Spider-Man is in the movie, legally speaking.
It's a Spider-Man movie, he's in there.
He's got it.
And so it contractually satisfies
their legal obligation to have Spider-Man in the movie. I'm not a Spider-Man movie, he's in there. He's got it. So it contractually satisfies their legal obligation
to have Spider-Man in the movie.
I'm not a copyright or contract lawyer,
but that is the best explanation for the existence
of the movie, I think.
Yeah.
That could be made.
Okay, the presence of baby Spider-Man,
we can debate whether that,
the movie being released is 100%.
Like, I think they would look you dead in the eyes
over at Sony and say, oh yeah, we had to release that.
We did, we did have to, yeah.
Justin, I have one question left and it is CPR related.
At any point in the movie, does anyone do the thing
where it looks like the compressions aren't working
and they get so mad that they kind of start
pounding on the person's chest like a gorilla
and then that works?
No, Trav, the chest compressions always work.
Okay. 100% of the time.
And it doesn't just keep their blood pumping
and oxygen going enough for them to get to the hospital.
It brings them back to consciousness.
They're fine, yeah.
The one time, there is one time it doesn't work.
It's early in the development of her psychic abilities,
and she sees her friend get into an ambulance
and leave the scene of an accident
and then get drilled by an oncoming truck.
She sees that happen and then time resets,
and she's talking to God, she's like,
oh man, that was so weird.
Well, see ya.
And he's like, okay, are you sure I shouldn't wait another few seconds?
She's like, no, no, no, no, go ahead. Go, go, go, go, go, go. It's fine. It's fine.
It's fine. And then he goes and he gets hit and she pulls him out of the thing
and he's bleeding and she's doing chest compressions. They're not working.
On a man bleeding out.
And she realizes that if she doesn't act on these visions,
people could die so badly that even CPR
can't bring them back. Unthinkable!
Devin Sawa figured that out right away
in Final Destination, and it takes Madame Webb
watching someone die twice before she connects the dots.
I can't believe I have to tell you this again.
Whenever Devin Sawa is in a movie,
he is not playing himself every time.
I don't know why you have that stuck in your head.
But he looks exactly the same.
Okay, but I remember watching that.
Like if I see him in real life,
and I see him in a movie,
he still looks like Devon Sawa.
He still looks like Devon Sawa, I get that,
but we watched Idle Hands together,
and you were kind of insufferable,
because you were like, why would-
That one was a wild one.
You were like, why would Devon Sawa do that?
And it's like, he's an actor following a script.
I didn't know that Casper was the ghost of Devon Sawa.
Yeah. Oh, sorry.
Our friend, our friend, Emma Gill, who recommended the movie, pointed out,
Gill said, I want to repeat, the CPR was somehow more distracting than the fact
that his villain had his feet out the whole time, which I thought was also
really interesting and also good.
Yeah.
The villain's puppies.
They're just out.
His toe beans are just there.
The bad guy, the bad guy.
Anytime he's not dressed as evil Spider-Man,
he's in a full power suit,
but with the puppies blazing.
Fucking hell, boys.
We have been talking about Madame Web for 23 minutes.
You have, you've been listening to Madame Web
for 23 minutes.
I've been talking about Madame Webb for 23 minutes. I've been talking about Madame Webb for 23 minutes.
Yeah.
Oh man, next year, max fun drive, stretch goal.
Guys are gonna watch Madame Webb with me.
Oh boy.
It's a hoot and a half.
All right, so this is an advice show.
Yeah.
I know nothing about fishing.
However, on the beach I live near and go for a lot of walks on,
there are often two fishermen fishing into the ocean.
Often want to make conversation with them about their fishing.
And ask them if they've caught anything good today.
How do I bullshit my way through a conversation about fishing?
That's from Curious About Carp in Cornwall.
I like to include questions in the question list from time to time.
I thought it was just a little bit easy layout, just a whoop.
Yeah, sure. Easy layout. Yeah, I feel super qualified to a little bit easy layout, just a whoop, easy layout.
Yeah, I feel super qualified to do this.
Well, no, here's the thing about this.
A couple things.
One, they don't wanna talk to you.
If they wanted to talk to human beings,
they would not be quietly sitting on a beach.
One of the more solitary activities.
Yes, fishing.
One of the few activities that if you talk too much,
it stops working.
You can't do it.
It doesn't work anymore.
It doesn't.
Secondly-
And I tell you who's always,
this is a rule that everybody knows pretty good,
because I have noticed that dads are biologically required
to let kids know that there can be no talking.
Yeah.
Dads seem really insistent, in fact, that any talking at all.
Our dad, I remember, with the three of us,
would do a lot of reminding us that we cannot talk,
because it was here to fish.
Maybe reminding one of us more than the others here
for time to time.
Sometimes I think that dads maybe just don't want you to talk.
That's so interesting, because I don't feel that.
I love when my children talk, I think they dads maybe just don't want you to talk. That's so interesting, that's so interesting. Cause I don't feel that. It's so interesting. I love when my children talk, I think they're pleasant.
But also secondly, I would say fishing is also among,
and there's several other activities like this,
but where the person talking to you about it
loves when you don't know anything about it.
Yeah.
And they can tell you everything about it.
Yeah.
That's true.
Most people forget that you,
people don't necessarily like really like
telling people about stuff they don't know about.
I hate looking like I don't know
about everything in the world.
And that's my great struggle
because I think I'd be happier if I just packed all of them.
Because there's a ton of shit you do not know about.
Like a ton of shit.
Like a ton of shit dude.
Most of it.
I would say just, yeah, just statistically speaking, most big stuff.
Big wide swaths of the culture that I have just
taken a flyer on even.
Yeah, taken a flyer, yeah.
I know nothing about fishing, but my algo has started
to serve me up, piping hot TikToks of people making lures,
cause that's good shit right there.
Ooh, really?
Yeah, a lot of.
That's fun.
Guys, my algo beats ass.
I'll scroll through that shit,
and it'll be like sports blooper,
and then it'll be like,
here's a jazz chord progression
that we've been cooking up in the jazz kitchen.
And then it'll be like,
wanna watch me make a lure very quietly
for a minute and a half?
And I'm like, yeah, I do.
Cause these things guys, some of these things,
I wanna bite them.
And I know it would hurt like a lot,
but I wanna bite it.
If I was a fucking fish, there's no way.
You shiny fish. My algorithm for some reason,
just as a side note serves me up videos referencing trends,
but not the trend themselves.
Where it's videos of like, oh, I wish I could participate in this trend, but I don't know not the trend themselves. Yeah, sure. Where it's videos of like,
oh, I wish I could participate in this trend,
but I don't know what the trend is.
So even my algorithm is like, you're out of touch
and so are we.
Yeah, it sounds like it's not a peg, man.
I wanna say that I think that what you need to do
is a cultural exchange.
Like I would like to talk to somebody who fishes
in real life and they tell me about that.
And then they have to listen to me tell them
about the fishing mini game in Stardew Valley that I'm very good at. That's yeah about the different locations and
what where you can catch it or reigns and what kind of bait you should use and what are your
chances and how the bar works. You do any uh you do any sewer fishing with that bad boy? Oh yeah you
gotta get together. You get any slime jacks? Where What about mutant carp? Krobus will be very impressed.
Another version of this is you walk up right next to them
while they're doing their thing on the beach.
And you put a finger up to your lips like, I get it.
Shh, I get it.
No talking here.
You pull out your phone,
you start playing a little Pokemon Go.
We're both mastering the wilds,
as is our God-given right as humans.
Okay, all you get, this is easy.
You just set a Bible down between you
and say I'm something of a fisher myself.
That's cool too.
I'm not a fisher of a fisher of men.
But can you do it in the accent of Willem Dafoe
doing some proselytizing?
Okay.
I'm something of a fisher myself
No Fisher of men Travis you're saying that cuz you can see me and I don't look like Willem Dafoe
But I sound a hundred if you try try with your eyes closed
Hold on Travis was about to cook Travis is cooking up something in the kitchen that also doesn't sound like Willem Dafoe
What do you got? You know, I'm
Something of a fisher myself. That's pretty good.
It's better than Justin.
Right at the self-loss, but it was good.
You know, I'm something of a fisher.
You know, I'm something of a fisher myself.
It was a firefight.
You know, I'm something of a fisherman myself.
But he's turned British for me a little bit.
Yeah.
Do you know, sometimes movies and TV
give you the wrong impression that old men
that are by themselves and seem sad
just need one friend to love them,
and they're so lonely, and they got a picture
of their wife that died in their pocket,
you know what I mean?
That kind of guy, and they're just like,
kindness, pass it on, it's just one old man
you gotta talk to.
And we forget there's a lot of old men by themselves.
They kinda wanna be like that.
They don't show that time.
Do you know how many forced social experiences
you have to go through the first 75 years of your life
to get to a point that when you're standing
by yourself fishing, everybody goes, he's earned this.
He's earned this.
That's all I'll say past 75.
If someone tries to talk to me, I'll say, I've earned this. Yes. You don't have to talk to him. That's all I'll say past 75. Yeah. If someone tries to talk to me, I'll say,
I've earned this.
Yes.
You don't understand.
You don't get to see Morrie Wednesday through Monday.
He is fucking chilling and having the time of his life.
Tuesdays, he's basically doing community service
by hanging out with a younger person.
If you are a Fisher, please email and let us know,
because my assumption would be you have to fight and scrape
to carve out that hour to just go fish by your fucking self.
Yeah.
And my assumption is that, like Travis said,
they do not want you to talk to them while they are fishing.
Yeah.
Please, if we are incorrect or correct, email in,
educate us about fishing because we obviously know.
I tell you, this is where this collapse of sort of hat please, if we are incorrect or correct, email in, educate us about fishing, because we obviously know.
I tell ya, this is where the collapse
of sort of hat culture has let us down.
Because I feel like-
We were all thinking, and I'm glad you said it, Gatsby.
The little tip, it's so not,
it's not fucking pro, I'm not great Gatsby.
We're not tipping hats so much anymore.
In most of the country, I think.
I don't go outside.
Did you know, as a common misconception,
his first name is actually Greg?
It's Greg Gatsby.
Yeah. That's interesting.
Did you guys, when you guys were envisioning the fisherman
in your mind's eye, just quick mind's eye check,
he had like a cap on, right?
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Bucket of hats. Bucket of hats, for sure.
Little fly fisherman's like vest and shit.
Oh my God.
Even though he's on the ocean, sitting on a chair.
Wait!
Get a hat.
Yeah.
The hat, the floppy hat that you put the lures into it.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, we know the one, yeah.
Right?
And then you walk past the dudes
and give them a doff of the hat, like,
oh, a fellow fisherman.
I'll leave you to it, good sir.
I have some fishing to get to.
Okay, except like, you know what you do.
And then you cast your lure onto the sand of the beach
facing the opposite direction.
No, you have to know, I say-
You don't wanna steal his fish.
Oh, you're still water fishing?
It's adorable.
My favorite spot is over that bluff, just beyond where your eyes can see.
Don't come over there.
Yeah, go and check on me.
I'm gonna be there all day, maybe at all night.
I love to fish.
Let's take a quick trip over to the money store.
Yeah!
Oh, shit.
Travis, slow down.
You just passed the post office and I've got to go there. It's better, it's better with you Oh shit.
Travis, slow down. You just passed the post office and I've gotta go there.
I've set aside two hours in my schedule to go inside and wait for my...
We're not stopping, Justin. There's no time.
Please, Travis, I gotta do this.
No, the Joker is attacking the city hall.
We have to go right now to watch. We're not gonna help.
How am I supposed to ship my packages, Hawkman?
If you need to ship your pants, don't you worry about it,
because you can use stamps.com on the Bat Pewter.
Whoa, Hawkman, why are they letting you use the Bat Pewter?
Well, Batman's sick and he's letting me borrow his car.
Cool, wow, it's really funny.
As long as we put back gas in it, ice job.
I'm Mr. Freeze.
Okay, great, great, great.
Are you in the back seat?
Are you with us?
Yeah, I'm chilling.
Okay. Is Mr. Freeze with us now?
Perfect, can we speak with Mr. Freeze?
Sure, yeah, let me get him back here.
Ice to meet you.
It's ice to meet you as well, Mr. Freeze.
Mr. Freeze, do you use stamps.com?
No.
Oh, you really should.
No, I'm a bad guy.
They don't want me to use it.
Okay, yeah, cool, cool, cool.
Well, you should because it takes care of mail.
Oh shit, stamps.com's website just fell on me and killed me.
I'm Mr. Freeze.
Yay. Yay, stamps.com.
I'm so glad they got that sign.
They have a mobile app too.
Can the mobile app fall on you as well?
Yeah.
No.
Okay, all you need is a-
Now, Trav, I don't have a scale though.
Is this gonna be a problem for me?
Cause I can't wait to know.
Oh, Justin, my new sidekick, Hawk Boy,
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Oh, I see, Jesus Iced.
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Take the wheel.
I don't know how.
Freeze us, take the wheel.
Ah!
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You need also a will.
Exactly.
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Uh, do you guys want to talk about Oak Island for a second?
Yeah.
On, on my for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
Cause we have a question here.
There was a Canadian Island where rumor has it pirate treasure may have been buried about 300 years ago.
This person is making so many assumptions about Oak Island, but let's move on. I also love that very, very, you didn't know.
Hey, question asked, you didn't know,
but you did put, you put in parentheses here, Oak Island,
as though the second Canadian Island came,
maybe not even that far into it.
Justin was like, Oak Island, is it an island?
It is Oak Island.
My great uncle, now appropriately deceased,
was a treasure hunter on the island.
Appropriately deceased? I don't know why it says appropriately deceased. I assume because it's great uncle now appropriately deceased was a treasure hunter on the island. Appropriately deceased?
I don't know why it says appropriately deceased.
I assume because it's great uncle,
because there's a great uncle applies of a certain age.
There can be great uncles that are still doing it though.
Yes, but with great uncle comes great death.
That's a fair point.
He's a treasure hunter on the island in the sixties.
So I-
Justin might be able to name this fool.
I wish there might, there was more details here
because I would assume we're talking about somebody
in the original syndicate, which was Blanket Ship
and Nolan and the other guys.
I don't know which one he would be,
but the original people who were not the original people,
the original people go back, not the original people, the original people
go back to the 1800s.
But so we've got somebody in that 60s group
that maybe split off and did Triton later, but we'll see.
The hunter on the island later produced a booklet
outlining where he thought the treasure is buried.
The booklet is logical and gripping.
Pirates, stone markers, science, spiritual mediums,
underground tunnels,
all de rigueur for this island.
My dad still has a copy.
There's also a reality TV show revolving around the search
for this treasure as of 2024,
the show's in its 11th season, no kidding.
My dad has emailed the TV show about it,
but has received no response.
How can I get my dad's treasure booklet onto TV,
preferably without watching the show?
That's from Craving Cartographic Consequence in Canada.
And I feel like we could get this done.
Oh, do you mean now, Justin?
I wanna clarify here.
We can get it done getting the pamphlet
in the hands of the O'Kiilen people,
or we can find the treasure.
Well, I like that, Trav.
I do like that we have this one piece of evidence
that the, uh, the, the, the, the Lagina brothers
do not have.
Travis. Yeah.
Are we the Nicholas Cage in this circumstance,
or the other ones?
We're the bad guys, I think,
come swooping into Oak Island to steal Jesus's,
the spear that killed Jesus or whatever.
Travis. Right. Exactly. Yes, exactly. We're the bad guys? Travis. So, I think so, yeah. to steal Jesus's, the spear that killed Jesus or whatever.
Right, exactly, yes, exactly.
We're the bad guys?
So.
I think so, yeah.
We're the bad guys.
Here's what I think we should do.
The guys are there filming a TV show,
and they are having so much fun
running around and playing on their island.
It doesn't seem like it.
I've never seen anything on that show
that looks like an old man having fun.
It always looks like an old man saying like,
well, maybe, no, fuck.
You should watch it more,
because when these guys start slamming can,
as they call it.
It's, no, no.
When these, Griffin there,
I cannot tell you how many scenes there are.
Is that a sex thing?
Is it a sex thing?
I cannot tell you how many scenes there are
of someone sticking a very long metal tube into the ground,
pulling up a big tube of dirt,
and then everybody sidely looking at the dirt.
It's a lot of scenes.
No, Justin, you've described every episode of this show
that I have ever watched in a hotel
because there was nothing else for me to watch at the time.
Right, so what I'm saying is,
these guys are having so much fun
running around looking for the treasure.
Slammin' kids.
We show up on the other side of the island.
It's not that big.
And we show up, and here's what we have, okay?
One, we have a booklet from this question askers
great uncle who's appropriately dead.
Tastefully dead.
Tastefully dead.
Zestfully dead.
And then we have something else
that the Laguitas and their team don't have.
Yeah.
Guns, lots of guns.
Whoa, holy shit! That was crazy!
Wait, Justin, how confident are you on a scale
and to tell that their team does not have guns?
I'm not confident.
So what we have is a team of 50 disgraced Navy SEALs.
Okay.
A lot of guns.
And these guys are all former disgraced military.
Yes.
They were dismissed from our armed services
with extreme prejudice because they were terrible human beings.
But they're going to help us for the right price
to take this island by force.
Yeah.
Can we land on one of those planes
where the whole back opens up and like tanks and stuff
roll out of the back of it?
Oh, that's cool.
Now, I'm not going to hurt anybody.
They don't need to know that.
I'm not going to hurt anybody.
But I am guaranteeing this will be a storyline on the show.
And the 50 soldiers, they're all community theater actors
that we have hired to do this for us.
It's getting a little Barry for my taste,
but I do love this plan.
There's no way they can't feature this exciting,
this would be the most exciting thing
that ever happened on the show
Exponential yeah, a huge margin the whole thing on its fucking ear now Justin you've got a lot of thrill
You've watched a lot of curse of o'kylan if you had to establish a certain sense of danger and you had to kill one
Of their team who would it be?
Now it is known the one of the things that is known from a factual perspective
is that six people have died in pursuit
and legend has it, so facts or if history has it,
that the treasure will not be found until a seventh has died.
Now, this has gotten sticky
as this show has gone on for 11 years
and a lot of old men have looked for this treasure.
Yeah.
We've lost a few on the path.
Treasure related?
There's this, no, what is that question?
Well, that's the sort, now we're splitting hairs.
That's interesting, isn't it Travis?
That is a fodder for much Reddit discussion,
is does this one count?
Yeah.
I don't know if this is the one that counts,
but the intro keeps saying that,
so apparently it isn't though what someone cooler
I guess or so
I think you got to fall into it
Well, you have to fall into a hole
Hold on just finish that thought you have to fall into a hole and then the seventh person does it
Right, that's what that's the that's the line of duty
Yeah
Hit the ground so hard and then coins just shoot out of your body
if you're number seven.
We all remember when they chucked a bunch of scuba divers
into a big old hole to see what was down there,
and it was very dangerous.
If one of those guys had died,
that's probably gonna be it.
Now that would be a bummer though,
because they weren't really established as characters.
It would be a little sad.
Well, you would have time in the editing bay
when one of them died to then maybe,
to beef it up leading up to it.
Yeah, yeah.
So anyways, Justin, which one would you shoot?
I don't want-
I'm not gonna talk about somebody I'd really kill,
because we're not gonna kill anybody, remember?
It's just the thread.
It's play pretend.
Okay, then if you were gonna stage,
if you were gonna stage it to establish drama.
The answer to this question would only make me feel bad.
It won't mean anything to the listeners.
So we're not gonna talk about that.
Here's what we'll talk about.
What do you think's down there?
Templar gold, man.
What do you think is templar gold?
Cause I think it's bones.
I think bones?
Bones for sure.
Bones, Justin.
Six people have died in the pursuit of this thing. So there it's bones. I think- It's bones? Bones for sure. Bones for sure, it's bones, Justin.
Six people have died in the pursuit of this thing.
So there's some bones.
I'll say there's probably about 1200 bones,
and plus change.
My theory that I have been touting for a long time,
it's the Ark of the Covenant, but it's filled with bones.
So they would find the Ark of the Covenant,
open it up, not the Ten Commandments, it's all bones,
but they do feel like it's the Ark of the Covenant.
Think of it, if they open it up and there's bones in there, Justin,
are they disappointed or are they excited?
Travis, I watched them do a three episode arc
about a coin they found.
I think if they find fucking anything,
they will be absolutely stoked.
Do you think that there would be a moment
if they pulled something up
from the bottom of this Oak Island pit?
They pull it up and they're like-
Which pit, the money pit or one of the other shafts? The money pit, the main shaft. And They pull it up and they're like- The money pit or one of the other shafts?
The money pit, the main shaft.
And they pull it up and they're like-
We have explored the main shaft extremely thoroughly, Trav.
I don't think we've ever-
Hey, hey, Johnson, can you dance with me
to the song I'm playing?
I just need it to be in some way grounded in reality.
We have explored the money pit.
You don't even know where the money pit original shaft is,
so go on.
They uncover-
Let's say we're in the original shaft,
whatever that is.
They uncover the treasure of Oak Island.
Witches.
Witches.
Sure, whatever, witches.
And so they pull it up.
Dirt witches from the ground.
How long do you think they celebrate
before the reality that the show is now done,
is canceled, saying sin?
Probably, I mean, you're suggesting they're making
more money on the show than they would
from the accursed treasure of Oak Island.
Yes, considering that if this show had not aired,
there's no way they could have funded
an 11-year long search.
Watching it is an incredibly meditative experience
because what is always in your mind is this,
history would spoil this show.
Reality would spoil this reality show
if anything ever happened on it.
Because there's no way the discovery,
the editing would out,
so watching this show, you know, for a fact,
nothing is gonna happen.
Like, you know nothing is gonna happen.
You know that phrase,
the greatest treasure
was the friends we made along the way?
Yes, yes.
That's only true of this show.
I hopped on this wagon again at a hotel
in what I can only assume was season nine or maybe 10,
and these dudes talk to each other
in a fucking like sibling twin language
that no one else can comprehend.
Just like, yeah, stinky Jeff and his special cubes.
And it's like, what the fuck are you,
what the fuck does that mean?
This is like when Dirty Mike
fell in the money hole, junior money hole.
I don't remember that,
because I wasn't there, I didn't see that part.
Justin, who's the Australian digger man?
Oh, Gary Drayton.
He is Australian treasure hunter Gary Drayton.
And his specialty is what?
He's a metal detection expert Gary Drayton.
That's how he's always billed on the show.
And he talks about the Bobby Dazzlers he finds all the time.
Anyway, this is a great show.
And if you're not already watching it, there's plenty of time to catch up before the big reveal of the time. Anyway, this is a great show. And if you're not already watching it,
there's plenty of time to catch up
before the big reveal of the treasure.
Which is?
And I do, what?
Which is?
I do also wanna talk about Billy Gerhart.
Billy Gerhart is a heavy machine operator.
He's the guy that drove the bulldozer.
And he never had any opinion
about anything that was happening. They would just tell him to dig a hole and he never had any opinion about anything that was happening.
They would just tell him to dig a hole and he like, but Billy was on the show
for so long that he started getting dragged into discussions and he, and
eventually Billy, the guy who operates the truck is in the room where they're
talking about discoveries because everyone in the audience love Billy so much.
Right.
Like the Reddit forum for this show,
they just everybody loves Billy,
so the producers show start putting Billy the forklift,
the heavy machine operator in the,
what they call the war room,
where they're planning for their discoveries.
So the dynamic is always like six dudes, always dudes,
talking about where they're gonna let some treasure.
And in this circumstance,
I actually don't think that's so bad,
because I think it would actually bring,
it would bring the cause down a little bit
to include some women in this particular discussion
and train of thought, right?
This is like, you look at a room full of dudes
putting a lot of time and money and effort into this,
and you're like, yeah, that tracks.
Billy is now in the war room,
but still is resolute on not contributing anything
to the mystery part of it.
Until they get to the subject of holes being dug,
at which point he will nod solemnly,
yes, I will dig the hole.
Yes, a hole shall be dug there.
It sounds to me then.
Oh, now you're speaking my language.
It sounds to me then, the play,
we, the three of us, and this question asker,
we can't cut them out, but we totally,
but we totally fucking could if we wanted to.
If we needed to.
If we needed to.
If we're down to it.
We take the map.
Sounds like the only one we need is Billy,
and his big truck, and we say Billy, here,
and he's like, yep, and he does it,
and we get the treasure, which is Bones, and-
Oh, so Gary's gonna be so disappointed,
cause Bones ain't metal.
What's the better-
He would never have found them.
You guys dig up the treasure of Oak Island.
It is coins, which is pirates' money.
You is the play- Or Bones, which is pirates' money. You, is the play.
Or bones, which is pirates'.
Bones, which is pirates', coins, which is pirates' money.
Or the pills that are pirates' medicine.
They buried those too.
A lot of people won't talk about that.
Limitless.
Limitless pills.
Do you, go public.
What's up everybody?
I found the accursed treasure of Oak Island.
It was bones and coins and some pirate medicine.
And then you're famous and the show is over
and you are known as the hero of,
or do you never tell a fucking soul?
And you follow this hunt for the treasure
with schadenfreudian glee
that you know that you are solely, keep digging. Oh yeah, that'll be it. this hunt for the treasure with Schadenfreudean glee
that you know that you are solely, keep digging.
Oh yeah, that'll be it.
That'll be the whole four, sure, go for it, Billy.
Griffin, slight middle grounds.
I would find the treasure, take one coin,
bury it like 10 feet. Oh my god.
Oh, Trav. I know.
This is diabolical, man.
You shouldn't do this.
But I would do it again and again
in the same spot every season and a half.
Yeah.
In the exact same spot.
I guys, I've been really fighting.
I've been really fighting the urge
while recording this segment of thinking about,
I feel like this is my end.
This question has been- Huge for question aspect is my only end.
You can get a finder's fee
of appearing on Curse of Oak Island.
This is all I want is I wanna be like,
this podcaster found a document from a listener,
it's unearthed and we brought him here and he's an expert.
That's cool dude.
I just wanted to say,
they let lots of people be experts on that show
and I would just like to do it.
We have not wielded the McElroy Brothers
will be in Trolls energy in quite some time.
I think that it has,
I think we have recharged and refreshed
that particular reservoir,
and if this is what you want to spend it on,
I think that's pretty good.
I see, I fully support it.
I mean, I'm trying to figure out a way
that I can communicate to the Oak Island producers
that I may be to the Oak Island producers
that I may be laughing on the outside,
but I'm not gonna make a joke of their fun game.
Oh no.
No, you can't bring Travis and I,
like Travis and I cannot come on this show.
No, no, no, you guys are not invited.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We will embarrass Justin if we did this.
Right. If anything-
You'll embarrass me, you'll mess it up.
Producers, I think you should be more concerned
that Justin is gonna bring so much heat
that you won't know what to do with him.
That is a good point, Justin.
The producers of this show are probably very wary
of having another Billy situation on their hands.
Yeah, yeah, my star might rise too meteorically.
Yeah.
That is a fear, that's a concern for sure. That is the curse curse of the curse of oak island that a lot of people don't know about
I'm assuming like this island. I'm assuming this discussion is burning up the reddit
They have the drunk island thread over there every week where people get
Extremely wasted and then watch the episode and live chat about it. It's a fun vibe. Cool. We're all having a lot of fun over there.
Cool vibe.
You know what else has cool vibes?
This podcast that we make together.
Cool.
Oh.
Yeah. I love that.
You like that?
I do. It's kind of a segue.
I love it.
I don't know.
You know what has cool vibes?
This segue I'm writing.
A very cool.
Dude, what do you guys wanna talk?
You know what?
I'm gonna talk about the fact that
we're gonna do some live shows coming up.
Very, very soon. We're gonna be doing the fact that we're gonna do some live shows coming up very, very soon.
We're gonna be doing the Bim Bam and Taz in Chicago
during C2E2 later this month.
I'm just about to buy tickets for that,
my brother and me show in Chicago.
I was pretty excited for it.
Oh, bad news, you dork.
It's sold out, cause we're so fucking popular
out up there in Pizza City.
I don't know, he keeps saying that, we've peaked.
But hey, Taz, still tickets for that.
So that one hasn't peaked.
Taz has peaked.
Taz, yes, absolutely, absolutely.
But that's okay.
Catch Taz on the way out,
because my brother and brother,
those guys are- The stakes are low.
Now the stakes are low.
You can get in, some people say get in on the ground floor.
No, I disagree.
I say get in when it's going past the ground floor
and it's down- And then you don't have to worry about it. It's in the basement now. I say get in when it's going past the ground floor and it's down. It's low, it's in the basement now.
Now you get in.
We are going to be playing Taz versus Dracula
with those characters in a sort of one shot story
called Taz versus Moby Dick.
You can imagine what that's gonna be about.
Ma-bim-bam, sold out, fuck you.
April 25th. There's not a lot of tickets left for Taz.
Taz, there's not a lot of tickets.
April 25th, Taz, there's some number of tickets.
Maybe it's a lot, maybe it's a little.
Don't not fuck you.
April- Thank you.
Thank you, this is the opposite.
April 26th to 28th, we're gonna be at C2E2.
We're gonna tell you our schedule for that when we know it.
You don't need a badge for C2E2 to attend the live shows.
You do need a badge for C2E2 to attend C2E2.
We've also got shows coming up in Vancouver and Tacoma
here coming up in May.
And then in June, we're going to Kansas City,
Chesterfield, Missouri, and Tyson's, Virginia.
Tickets for the Chicago show are on sale now.
Tickets for all the other shows go on sale Friday,
April 12th at 10 a.m. local time.
Go to bit.ly slash McElroy Tours for tickets
and more information.
We've got some exciting new merch over at the merch store
for April, including a Geralt and Tyler
Thrasher stuffy bundle.
You get a stuffed Geralt and Tyler Schrodinger cat blind box,
which includes one of three possible cat plushies.
We've got the Taz versus Dracula poster by Zachary Sterling,
the Rest in Peace Miggy sticker
from Macaroy Family Clubhouse, which by the way,
if you missed last week's episode,
we had Ron Funches on, it was an absolute hoot.
You can find that.
Please watch that show.
Yeah, on our MacRoy YouTube channel under the live tab.
The wombat pin with dangling cube poop things
designed by Trisha Swinger.
That's from a conversation on Wonderful Griffin
and Rachel had.
And 10% of all merch proceeds this month
go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
So check that out at macromurch.com.
Thank you to Montane for these for our theme song,
My Life Is Better With You.
It's a great track from just one of Earth's great humans.
And thank you all for listening.
Thanks to Maximum Fun for having us on the network
and thanks to everybody who supported us
in the Max Fun Drive.
Should we put one up to?
Yeah, let's raise up a wish.
Can I hit this one?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I got one for fungalore here.
This is a wish the listeners sent in.
I wish Charleston chews were just a little less chewy.
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I'm Travis McElroy.
I'm Griffith McElroy.
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