Published by The McElroys
Free advice from three of the world's most qualified, most related experts: Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy. For one-half to three-quarters of an hour every Monday, we tell people how to live their lives, because we're obviously doing such a great job of it so far.
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The brothers are BACK, baby! All of them, even the ones you forgot about! They've been de-aged and are making out with mystical artifacts in order to bring you the best advice about grumpy owls, small-b bbq, and Big Brother Time-Travel Lore. Suggested talking points: Straight to Kevin, I Am Root, I Don’t Question That BB-tonium Exists, Swollen with Vienna Sausages, Staging with Heart Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
57 min
Our Sound Boy will get right on it to turn up the summer hits you love! Everyone wants to hear about dishwasher repair cosplayers, financial scams from the proto-Riddler, audio descriptions of popcorn gifs, and the fan favorite, How Big Is Your Toilet, How Little is Your Lamp? Suggested talking points: What I Like Best About Your Undercarriage, Griffin's Secret Texas Money, Snacking on the Main Character, Cherry is the Crab Legs of Fruit, Sauce Apology Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
56 min
We've got so much on the agenda today from our last Brainstorm Jam Sesh. Griffin’s gotta figure out a way to get insurance for his new faith-and-pain-forward comedy show, Trav needs a title for his new cheese mystery procedural, and Justin is desperate for a not-dusty chicken sandwich. So here's our new show: Welcome to Dickhead! Suggested talking points: The Wizard Johnny Knoxville, Holy Ghost in the Machine, AI-Generated Devil Music for Satan, We Got So Many Planks, Sunk Bacon Fallacy Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 1 min
Scrounge up your ferris wheel money, grab your waffled cones, and wear a coat I guess because it’s America’s 250th birthday and we’re going all out by catching up with William Henry Harrison, exposing secret jugglers, and dodging the paparazzo. If someone tells you they saw Griffin at that OTHER fair, no they didn’t. He would never. Suggested talking points: Sorry Teachers This is Ferris Wheel Money, Crosstalk is the Worst When it’s Lying, It’s All Fear Baby, That’s a Load-Bearing Pergola Derek, You Have the Stink of Retail, Bottle Up Your Dark Energies, The Griffalanche Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 12 min
In a way, this podcast is just part of a larger field study that we are doing with our bodies. It's an in-depth in-person study of really important subjects like getting free donuts, Weberoni, jokes about numbers, and how they filmed the very real Shrek documentary. Suggested talking points: A Shrek-Forward Household, Sometimes I Want to Lap From the Sink, Bathroom Severance, FCC Says No Narrowcasting, Unique Pizza Occasion, John GiveMeRent Asian Pacific Environmental Network: https://apen4ej.org/our-work/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
57 min
All sets of three brothers are actually the same, so this week we're giving advice on keeping wolves at bay and building houses out of granite. But don't worry, there's time in this Jab-and-Gab to get in some questions about keeping dry in the rain, the real whereabouts of Jack the Ripper, and even more haunted piano keys. Suggested talking points: Throwing Galaxies, JuiCera, When God Reclaims New Hampshire, Legs All the Way Down, Technically Everything is Probably Not Haunted Lambda Legal: https://lambdalegal.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
56 min
We know that almost every episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me is the perfect energy-giving blend of great goofs, witty wisdom, probiotics, prebiotic, and an ungodly amount of caffeine. But this one is our new, special formula with everything you need in easy-to-drink layers of: Sky-rizzy, Mark Ruffalo, minions, and absolutely no nanomachines. Suggested talking points: Big Probiotic Boba, Today's My Rizzy Day, Bo-Rito, Daniel Day Lewish, You Catch More Flies with Little Debbies, Built-In Chicken Intermission Lamda Legal: https://lambdalegal.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
57 min
Something deep within us compels us to answer your questions, and it's not just because we have to renew our copyrights to our own likenesses every week. So we're blasting out advice about ice cream, clockwork men, and oh-so-many insects. Suggseted talking points: Wheelin and Dealin in Hollyweird, 1000 Bugs Never Eaten, Justin Robbins, Fill Your Life with Quiet Whispering Men Dyson Hand Dryer of a Ride, Dr Zaleus Died Before He Could Give Me a Soul Lamda Legal: https://lambdalegal.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
58 min
Forget all the haters, we're gonna throw the most kick-ass non-political concert you've ever seen. And we've got the best line-up, the acts are pouring in! We have Bart Simpson or maybe Cartman, location-neutral pizza, a baby raccoon, and Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle. Suggested talking points: Awesome Friends and Fans, DJ Hubris, Straight to Raccoon Jail, Grass with a Hat On, Justin's not a Joke Store, Betso Ross Lamda Legal: https://lambdalegal.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
57 min
Welcome to our master class! Today we're turning precious childhood memories into content and entering contract negotiations with a goose. Rest assured, any and all virtual succubi will be confiscated! I hope everyone brought their own clown nose or this will just be embarrassing. Suggested talking points: They Uncancelled Honk Boy, I Am the Laughman, Handful of Loose Icing, What If You Can't Turn the Clown Off, Small German Ghost Bullying Someone Into Submission, Clockwork Pink First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 7 min
It’s mermaid szn, and to celebrate we’re writing these big boy Legos off on our taxes. We’re also ruining sodas for fun, getting nostalgic for farts, and considering getting into bowling. You know, mermaid szn things. Suggested talking points: We Love Defrauding Our Corrupt Government, Most Folks Know About Minas Tirith, Frodo Saggins I Think I Said, One Man Collective Bargaining, Put Me In The Tank Papa, Freestyle Data Surveillance First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
56 min
It turns out the McElroy family organization is the exact opposite of the Mafia in that we are known for being real goofs and also owe favors to a lot of people. But we still have lots of advice you can’t refuse about suspicious frozen desserts, responsible accent work, and baby wookies. Suggested talking points: Kit Fisto’s Best Friend, All Roads Lead to Sling Blade, Can’t Be Mad at Me I Said I Was Ignorant, Oops! We Bought a Mafia, They Call Me Creamy Pet First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 4 min
We’re back to our true, nasty, sunglass-wearing selves! We’re getting down and dirty with advice about knockin’ bowls, chilli-themed ska bands, dark side nuggies, and all-around bad boy energy! Suggested talking points: Eat Your Parents Money, Searching for Beans, Dad-Dash the Grogu Fries, Was One of Your Parents Passive Voice First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 7 min
We’re on pace to answer as many questions as humanly possible before these lawsuits from Justin McElroy catch up to us. We’re talking self-branding, Muppet roller coasters, a slightly different Garfield, and Travis’s weirdly accurate predictions. Suggested talking points: Vore Apologetics, Every Day a Single Butterscotch, What Do We Leave bBehind if Not a Brand, Don't Talk People are Trying to Tingle Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
4 min
Happy MaxFunDrive 2026! We wanted to share a short clip from this year's bonus content to help give an idea of what's on offer if you become a member. We had a blast chatting with Janet Varney, and if you like what you hear you can you can go to MaximumFun.Org/Join to get access to the full thing, plus TONS of other bonus content from the last 16 years we've been on the network. We're celebrating through May 1st with bonus goals and daily livestreams on YouTube , so follow us there and on Instagram , or check our website to stay up to date on everything we have planned! Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
1 hr 5 min
We’ve packed and starched three pairs of pants just to make sure we’re prepared for ANYTHING this episode! So bring on the much-needed glasses, duplicate Jugheads, and extremely appealing haunted artifacts! Spilled coffee? No problem! Just gotta figure out how to get into these fresh, starched-solid jammies. Suggested talking points: One of Travis’s Brain Mistakes, Starchmaxxing, Everything Everywhere All at Brush, Nut Emergency, Stop Ogling the Vampire Sex Spell Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
53 min
We need someone to tier up on a soapbox for us, so we're finally pitching our own mascot. We need a fun, fuzzy monster that can guide our tummies through eating too many tiny hamburgers. Saucier! More depressing! And with more bones! Suggested Talking Points: Zan-pope-i, A Huge Amount of Bones, Saucy Based on a Book By Sapphire, Daddy's Sports Award Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
57 min
This episode was recorded on April Fool’s Day but we swear there are no pranks. Like for real. None whatsoever. Just some classic candy boys talkin’ about looking for shinies in egg town, Yoshiplay, and ways to distract your tongue. Suggested Talking Points: Talkin’ Sectos, Daddy Loves the Crunch, How Gaston Got His Name, BoyTongue.Pizza, The Tiniest Peps on Planet Earth Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
55 min
It feels like we were destined to tackle the topics at hand this week. Who else would be more equipped to name the ride-on floor cleaners, reboot three different Phantom franchises, and use sports broadcasting to score some ice cream drumsticks, all while unveiling of the greatest advancement in high-tech, piss-proof cape technology. It’s like we’re outside on your next door balcony, projecting our podcast out into the world. Suggested talking points: The Chad Who Walks, Just Evita Things, There’s No Pizza in Grapes of Wrath, Check for Truckers, Fuck the McElroy Brothers What Were They Thinking Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/our-services.html Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam
59 min
Our home town boys made GOOD! But don’t you worry, we won’t let the success go to our heads. As much as we wanted to make the whole thing ads top to bottom, this episode still has a tasteful amount of the absolute best ad reads in the game, alongside elevated discussions about special powers, what shapes make the best candy, and how to look cool on the playground. Suggested talking points: How Will I Make it up to Kevin Pereira, Pre-Roll Papa, Strong Hammerbones in the Middle Ear, Sorry it's been So Dusty, One of this Generation's Ad Wolves, Hut Crust, It's A Platform Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/our-services.html Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam