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MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026", an episode of The McElroy Family published January 5, 2026 (1 h 36 min, about 18,136 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Justin Mroy, Fungalore, Dixie Chicks, Rick and Morty, Zolo.

What this episode is about

In a humorous exploration of creativity and absurdity, the Mroy brothers engage in a whimsical naming process for the year 2026, reflecting on past year names while highlighting the lack of expertise in their suggestions. With playful banter and comedic elements, they invite listeners into their unconventional world, emphasizing that their advice should not be taken seriously.

Key takeaways

  • Colonoscopy vs. Audio Experiment: the former sounds preferable; at least you get a nap afterward.
  • Naming years like a sitcom: absurd yet somehow profound, reflecting our collective absurdity and need for change.
  • Populist votes in naming years—because democracy needs to be applied even to our cringeworthy themes.
  • Tummy Buddy Life: a metaphor for electoral failure or just a belly full of bad ideas? You decide.
  • Taking risks: hanging Christmas lights or wrestling with Scrooge, bravery looks different in every household.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Justin Mroy, Fungalore, Zolo, Lime Disease
  2. – 20:00: Dixie Chicks, Home Alone
  3. – 30:00: Stevie Nicks, Fungalore, Jug City, AI
  4. – 50:00: Smalls, Zocdoc, Judge John Hodgman, Route 66
  5. – 1:00:00: Rick and Morty, Jug City, Stevie Nicks, Dixie Chicks
  6. – 1:10:00: Fungalore
  7. – 1:20:00: Rick and Morty, Home Alone

Notable quotes from "MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026"

  • Okay, we started with of course Zolo in 2010.
    about Zolo · at
  • 20 Fungalore. He Heard Your Wish.
    about Fungalore · at
  • I don't nap. ju I appreciate all we're in Justin's house right now and the hospitality he shows us is like such a such it's so incredible. You're such an incredible host and brother and I love you so much. These zero sugar.
    about Justin Mroy · at
  • That's just the song. Okay. So, I had 20 just the chicks. They actually stopped using Dixie in 2020 with the release of their eighth studio album, Gaslighter.
    about Dixie Chicks · at
  • I love Smalls at my house. The only people who love Smalls more than me aren't people at all. There are cats, Olive and Amelia. It has really normalized our relationship with food.
    about Smalls · at
  • Even I know it's a stretch, but I'm working solo here. let me tell you about Zacto. All right, if you are looking for a doctor, that can be a very overwhelming process. and Zach makes it easy. you want to find an.
    about Zocdoc · at
  • On Judge John Hodgejman, the courtroom is fake, but the disputes are real.
    about Judge John Hodgman · at
  • 20 pickle ricks. A celebration of multiary growth because we used to not do Rick and Morty and now we do.
    about Rick and Morty · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Justin Mroy — Person · Host / main speaker · 3 mentions · first at
    Introduces the episode and drives much of the 'naming 2026' brainstorming, including personal asides and sponsor reads.
  • Stevie Nicks — Person · Referenced artist (vibe inspiration) · 5 mentions · first at
    Used as a 'vibe year' pitch ('Moonlight Blessing') and tied to a personal anecdote about seeing her perform with Neil Young.
    It was all right. But I just her vibe is like wild, man. It's like wild. I'd love to just harness some of that, I guess.

Products & tech

  • AI — Product · Referenced technology (accusation/joke) · 1 mention · first at
    Briefly invoked when Justin is accused of 'generating' ideas on the fly, implying generative AI.
    Crunchy mix straight out of your [ __ ] Are you generating these? Is this generative?

Concepts & topics

  • Fungalore — Concept · Referenced prior year-theme concept · 4 mentions · first at
    Cited as 2024's theme ('He Heard Your Wish') and as a benchmark for 'vibe' themes they might be chasing again.
  • Zolo — Concept · Referenced prior 'name of the year' concept · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as the 2010 year-name and joked about as a demon; anchors the long-running tradition being continued in this episode.
  • Lime Disease — Concept · Health concept (awareness pitch) · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in a proposed theme about checking for ticks; used to discuss seriousness vs suitability for a year motto.
    They get Lyme disease because of it or Rocky Mountain spotted fever or any other tick born illnesses? brings this up every year.

Places & events

  • Route 66 — Place · Referenced location (theme candidate) · 3 mentions · first at
    Proposed as the basis for a 2026 theme ('Get your kicks') and debated in terms of associations with the song/road-trip genre.
    Route 66. I don't want to do a sequel to car stuff cuz we did car stuff last year.
  • Jug City — Place · Comedic fictional location / bit setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Appears in an intentionally over-the-top rejected year-name pitch ('Jug City Showdown') and becomes a running joke with 'Fist City'.
    20 big old tits. Jug City Showdown.

Media & podcasts

  • Dixie Chicks — Media · Referenced media/music act (pun fodder) · 3 mentions · first at
    Used as a rhyming/wordplay candidate for the 2026 theme; discussion includes their name change away from 'Dixie'.
  • Rick and Morty — Media · Referenced TV show (source of 'Pickle Rick') · 3 mentions · first at
    Central to a recurring joke pitch ('20 Pickle Ricks') and discussion of potential legal/merch implications.
  • Home Alone — Media · Referenced film (example during stunts bit) · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned while discussing movie stunts and comedic film appreciation; used as a shared cultural reference.
    Stunts in flick in flicks. Hooray for Hollywood.
  • Fortnite — Media · Referenced game (joke about streaming) · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a comedic example of pandering to an audience ('We'll stream more Fortnite') during a bit about extending the year theme.
    WHERE'D you all go? We're going to STREAM MORE FORTNITE. WE PROMISE. GET IT RIGHT NOW IN 2026.

Sponsors

  • Smalls — Company · Sponsor / advertised product · 4 mentions · first at
    Featured in an ad read about cat food and the hosts' cats; includes a discount offer and positioning for New Year health goals.
  • Zocdoc — Company · Sponsor / advertised service · 2 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a tool to find and book in-network doctors; tied to the episode's opening medical mention and 'find a doctor' segue.
  • Judge John Hodgman — Media · Promoted podcast (network cross-promo) · 2 mentions · first at
    Advertised as a comedic 'fake courtroom' show with real disputes; part of Maximum Fun promo block.
  • Feeling Scene — Media · Promoted podcast (network cross-promo) · 1 mention · first at
    Advertised via a promo featuring host Jordan Cruciola; positioned as a film-focused show with rotating creative co-hosts.
    Whole story. Okay. I almost got fired from that movie. You should be listening to Feeling Scene. I had so much fun and I love what you're doing.

Full transcript with timestamps

Hello, my name is Justin Mroy. If you're listening to this on the day it is released, I may very well be currently, as you listen to this, be getting a routine screening colonoscopy. I say with all sincerity, I would much rather go through this procedure again tomorrow than replicate the audio experiment you are about to receive. Please enjoy my brother, my brother, me naming 2026. The Mroy brothers are not experts and their advice should never be followed. Travis insists he's a sexert, 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?

1 2 3 4. It's the start of something beautiful. A small acquaintance has blossomed. It's ripping 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. It's better with you. This is who you are. It's better. It's better with my life. It's better with you.

I'm going to read the names of the year in a big list. Awesome, dude. Okay, we started with of course Zolo in 2010.

Was that like a evil like a demon? I don't think there was there wasn't a theme so much as

I thought Zolo was like a demon that if you called him on the telephone at 3 in the morning he come 2000 heaven get right with Christ

that was a good one 2012 20 does getting it 20 dirt dig it up get it out 2014 20 forward

oh 2012 20 grift the con is on sweet 2016 building bridges 2017 keep them guessing zag on them

needed at after the last number 18 stronger together Frankenstein teen become the monster 2020 is where things get a little interesting you got 20 funny fill your life with laughter and love

awesome which didn't track eventually and became 20 honey down to beness and then at some point according to the official Wikipedia we later recconed the year to be honey funny fill your life with laughter and bees

yeah I told you okay so that's the official and that is a song that stood for far too long. That has been set right and I do feel better.

2021 was Big Dog Run. No about it. 2022. Awesome. 20 rendevous. Fancy takes flight. A very good one. 20 Sun and Sea. Surf the vibe.

20 Fungalore. He Heard Your Wish. Then there's 2025, which was very briefly Tummy Buddy Life to Care before morphing into 20 Thunderd Drive faster than

Guys, that one sucked. [ __ ] dude. I've been so stressed. Life or tummy tummy buddy life?

Tummy buddy life was a that was you know I feel that the election of Donald J. Trump

was not truly a reflection of the American soul but rather a reflection of the failings of a system that needs to our system that needs to be fixed. Now

I think a little bit of our soul got in there. So is this a bit of a sticky soul and that's true of of our naming of the year but I think what it really reflected was how we needed to rethink the entire process. Yes. Right. It was a failure of the system,

right? And that's why this year we're not going to use the electoral college to come up with the the theme. It's going to be a populist full-blown populist vote to come up with the theme. We've rethought it.

We're doing it together. Maybe you're not watching the video and you're like, "What the [ __ ] going on? We're all in the same."

Maybe we didn't release the video. Maybe it was unwatchable. Maybe it's not very good stuff.

Maybe there's only the video and the audio didn't work. Yeah. Now we have had just uh I would say a series not counting tell me buddy life a series of real home runs.

Okay. Um so I wanted to I can we stop before we do that and just say I don't know that I lived particularly faster than fear this year. I did feel like a bit of a fudster if I'm being honest. I didn't do too much.

I saw you at least you were at least one mile. I don't live I don't live a life I don't live a life that presents frequent opportunities for courage.

I kind of thought that like do as we say not as we do was kind of understood right. It's not our I have a theme set for me by my gurus you know they have said yeah yeah

it's not a trickle down theme. I got to get some [ __ ] gurus dude. Yeah you have to man. Um right off the bat

I'm the only one who's going to talk about whether or not they live faster than fear and be vulnerable. No, I do every day. I stood on my roof to hang Christmas lights, man.

Did you? Yeah. That is brave. Thank you. Did I do anything scary? You dingleberry? I don't think so.

So, I'm going to page 20 dingleberry. I was screw I was Scrooge and I got body slammed by a a a former professional wrestler. I don't know if you can ever be a former professional wrestler. You know what I mean? It's always in there. The dog's in there.

But I got body slammed while I was playing Scrooge. That was took a lot of bravery. I did the high ropes course at Great Wolf Lodge.

Yeah. There we go. Whoa. Okay, this has gotten too personal. Let's talk about 2026.

Okay. Mhm. Is that I wanted to push what I wanted to say was the one thing I wanted to try was 2026, let's go enjoy Christmas. And that would be the theme is 2026.

Dude, I love a short. I would love 2026, let's go enjoy Christmas. I don't like the way those two concepts pair together is my problem. I think people think there's a company about the specific fact that we are recording this while all of our family is out enjoying each other's company and we could

and we're stuck here enjoying each other's company and we're acrewing a a debt right now by doing this, you know.

Yeah. No, I mean Rachel's going to take a nap later and I'm going to feel too guilty to take one because we were in here doing this.

I won't I'll take a nap. I don't nap. Um, ju I appreciate all we're in Justin's house right now and the hospitality he shows us is like such a such it's so incredible. You're such an incredible host and brother and I love you so much. These zero sugar Kool-Aid jammers are trash here, dude. These shits are trash here, dude.

This is absolute junk, bud. You knew coming and you know how he treasures his jammers.

No. Yeah, it's the kind of thing you get so other parents will think you're doing a better job than

This tastes like the [ __ ] that they would make us at church when they would cut it and cut it and cut it.

Oh god, that makes me mad to think about. Oh man, that makes me mad. I had thought about that forever.

You know how you get iced tea and it's unsweetened at like a function? We do that at our church with unsweetened Kool-Aid. Yeah, man. Yeah. Foul.

Anyway, 2026. Let's go. I don't want to do that. Listen, you do have to type it down, though.

That sucks. How am I going to type when I have this thing in my hand? I can hold it for you if you want.

So many people have put in comments in the past year have put in comments, yo, Justin, make it 2026.

How many people? So many. And I just wanted to go ahead and represent them. Can you increase the the font size?

The f dude, the font size, the and the amount of screen real the font size for sure, the zoom, the amount of screen real estate. I mean, everything about it is illeible and unpleasant.

That's too much. No, I don't think it is, man. And if you think about a video, I mean, it doesn't really matter cuz we

Do you have a subtitle for 2026? Let's go enjoy Christmas. Conceptually challenging.

That sucks. Can I go ahead and strike through that, Travis? Yeah, leave a comment.

I see I've been voted. Going to leave a comment on that for later. Yeah. So, we remember. I'm going to pitch 20. Get your kicks. Appreciating the beauty of America's greatest road. I don't know how to hyphenate these.

Demonstrating celebrating celebrating the beauty of America's greatest road. Okay.

Route 66. Uh that would be an interesting match with our Yeah. Route 66. I don't want to do a sequel to car stuff cuz we did car stuff last year.

Well, this is about the road itself. Well, that's about driving and more about the journey.

Yeah. All right. Check this [ __ ] out. Oh, wait. I'm going to save that one cuz I think that's got juice. We are obviously burning some goofy ones

right here. How about um 20 check for ticks? No time for lime. 20 check for tick.

20 check for ticks. No time for lime. Uh do you guys sorry do you guys like when people don't check for ticks and they get Lyme disease because of it or or Rocky Mountain spotted fever or any other tick born illnesses? brings this up every year.

Yeah. No, it is a serious problem. Some of us got really sick from one of those.

It would be nice to raise awareness for for one for a change. Yeah, that would be cool.

With him. I just feel like how often how often is that going to come? Anytime you go outside or

anytime even like to take out the trash. If you go in the house of somebody who you think may have been in a forest earlier that day, you better check for ticks when you get home. I do also kind of feel like our audience maybe has a higher preponderance of indoor kids. Yeah.

Okay. Maybe I just thought I I just thought we could partner with Justin Timberlake for this one, but obviously that's we can move on and we don't have to talk.

20 Dixie Chicks. Goodbye, Earl. Okay, so this one's cool. I had one too that I'll write yours down. Dixie Chicks. God, do you guys mind if I just don't do like punctuation and stuff? Just sort of stenographer it. There goes my phone.

And goodbye. Yeah, goodbye Earl. That's just the song. Okay. So, I had 20 just the chicks. They actually stopped using Dixie in 2020 with the release of their eighth studio album, Gaslighter.

So, but doesn't that leave room for us to be the Dixie Chicks? Yeah, we could also if you guys would round the 20 Dixie Chicks, Cowboy Take Me Away.

Oh, man. But it can't be [gasps] here's the thing. I don't want to [snorts] I don't want to be the Dixie boys like so bad. And we can't just drop the Dixie like the chicks did and just be the boys because that's nothing. That's been So the SEO on that is [ __ ] shot, dudes.

Um the Dixie Dicks. What? Justin, do you have one? What do you think about 20 stunts and flicks?

Stunts and flicks. Stunts in flick in flicks. Hooray for Hollywood. Huh. And so this is a a year that is all about appreciating our great stunt artists.

That's cool. That keep our celebrities safe. They're out there risking their bodies on the front line to to protect,

you know, our Ray Romanos. Our Yeah, he's doing a lot of movies that require Harrison Ford. You know, it's 20 stunts in flicks. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho hoay for Hollywood. We just watched uh Home Alone, which has an Alzheimer when he goes across the zipline and turns into a 29year-old small woman and then back into himself for a little while

into Mary Martin like Peter Pan. [ __ ] rules. Uh that's a good one. I got I dropped my [ __ ] phone.

Okay. I wish I didn't groan that loud when I bent over not that far. Um 20 hit the bricks. We've had it. This one I think would be about Donald. Like maybe this is the year where we we finally bump that [ __ ] guy out of the h out of the house.

Oh, you're getting I don't know how much I mean, yeah, I don't know how much weight we can really put behind that effort, but if if there's anything we can do to

hit the bricks, pal. Hit the bricks. Bricks. I I pretty strongly worded. I'll be honest. I'm not going to write it down.

Okay. You didn't like it that much or the vibe in the room was so weird. After I said it, the vibe in the room was so toxic.

How about this? 20 honey sticks back in business. Let me sit. Can I digest it for a minute?

Mhm. I'm a Yes. So, that's two yeses. You want to hold the mic for this one, Griffin? [snorts]

For your What's a honey stick? Is a honey stick one of those things they sell at

farmers market. The farmers market. Floyd's fresh fruit. Yeah. Do you guys like those? I always think I'm going to like them more than I do.

No. Yeah, but there's also not a lot there to suffer through. Do you want my brother to know if I like honey sticks or [ __ ] not?

You need to be You're right. You're right. You're right. Thank you. I I kind of like them. I've become a huge a nightly tea man. I'd love to drink a cup of with my wife as we watch our programs.

Yeah, that thing's just eating [ __ ] left and right. Dude, recording. That's the worst part here. Maybe if I put it to work. Maybe if you lay it down.

My honey consumption has easily quintupled um because of this new habit of mine.

Yeah, I don't want it in stick form though. Yeah, honey stick could also be that thing the riged guy that they dip in there drizzle. I do like that as well. [sighs and gasps]

Can we explore some other options before we commit to one that we've done before? [snorts] Can we

I think honey sticks are also Can we just like You said you wanted to do a short one. 20 honey sticks back in business fulfills a promise. It makes good on some a check that we wrote Yeah.

five years ago, however many years it's been. Tell me what 20 honey sticks means

to you. This is this is attainable. Everybody can start making these. This is a small business. This is a this is entrepreneurism. This is this is start your own.

We're going to cure unemployment. We're going to cure you start your own honeystick brand. You send them with your kids.

Okay. They show up to the cafeteria. Yeah. Yeah. They uh the other kids forgot dessert.

Got honey sticks. Griffin slams the slammer. I don't think Also, the thing about the merch opportunities, we can sell those in the store. Honey sticks. Different flavors of honey sticks.

Yeah. Do you remember in 2020? It held a lot. Is that it? What? Do I remember what in 2020?

We orig a bee themed one. Yeah. Down to bees. be business for like 3 months. Yeah. It didn't pan out. So, we're going to try one more time.

Now, we're back in business. 20 honey sticks. Back in business. I don't like it. And last year, I didn't like telling me buddy life.

I think you pinched 20 bunny life. I hated that one. And I stand 10 toes on that. I never liked that one. I did not. I may have said it. I didn't wouldn't have said it if I thought it was going to go through. But I I bowed to the I kissed the ring cuz we had been doing it for an hour and a half and we had to get the [ __ ] out of there. I kissed the ring and I regret it. I'm sticking by my guns. I don't think so.

20 under mix. Some like it lumpy. Huh? Are you going to write that one down? Yeah, I am actually. Okay.

Pull my microphone, [ __ ] This is good. This is good. I'm glad I'm glad I closed the vents.

Did you to really hurry things along? I wanted to get that Scrooge energy in here.

Yeah. So, this is this can be like don't overthink it. You can't Sometimes you can just put it out there and have have some people like it

instead of having to be perfectionist about everything. Some like it lumpy. I actually in my phone I had it written love it lumpy.

Some lumpy. No, it just said 20 under mix. Love it lumpy. Huh? I kind of love Can you think Can you write down some love it lumpy? Cuz saying it makes me happy.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll just do I'll do it like um some Yeah, that's good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um

some love it lumpy. I've got one here that I like. 20 tips and tricks. Hack your life.

That's cool. Ooh, actionable. That's cool. Hold my microphone. I got to write that [ __ ]

Yeah. And then we could we could invest kind of rebrand a little bit as like a life hack kind of organization.

20 tips and tricks. What is it? Hack your life. Hack your life. I I'll be honest.

Okay, that's fine. Love the prefix. Hate the suffix. We can change that. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I'm saying 20 tips and tricks feels

it could be a continuation. 20 tips and tricks colon to improve your life, right? So then it's like one statement.

Oh [ __ ] Wait, that this is a good point is that it sounds like we are saying here's 20 tips. I like when the 20 is like unrelated completely to the rest of the idea,

but 20 tips and tricks I think is strong. I just don't know about hack hack your life.

Okay, we so many life hacks that are already out there. I feel like people would be happier if they stopped stop

they stop hacking their life. Stop hacking. Just start living your life. Yeah. Yeah.

20. Skip the tricks. Just live your life. 20. Skip the tricks. 20. No more tricks. Well,

just live your life. 20 skip tips and tricks. Maybe there's not a shortcut. Maybe you don't need Maybe just live your Maybe don't do it the easy way. Maybe just do it a way. You know what I mean? Like

go your own way. Go your own way. Can it be like But can we couch that like 20 skip the tricks a couple times when presented with the opportunity this year? Take the hard way. Don't always

I feel like we don't need the asterisk. You You know what I mean? It's like your life,

you know. Um, I had 20 bag of tricks. Master I had that, too. Yeah. 20 bag of tricks. Master your magic.

Oh, that can be like, you know, you know what's special about you. You actually do know. Maybe you maybe you used to know it. You can take that back and master your magic.

Master your magic. 25. I think it's cool. Maybe not master your magic, but bag of

having a bag of It doesn't sound anything like 20. Can we try like do any of them 2026? That sounds exactly like 20. No question.

Yeah. Um get your Nope. No. Check four. Not at all. Dixie, not bad, honestly. Dixie 20. It's not bad. It's close.

I mean, honey, I'll go ahead and say that honey is going to smash in this. Just the Nope. Stunson. I mean,

yeah, that's in there. Stunson is not bad. Honey sticks. Honey. Honey. Huh? 20. Yeah. I mean, there's a reason we've been saying, can I can I just say the fact that you're surprised by that when we

No, no, it's just hearing it again. It's like returning to it. It's like hitting me again with a good one.

Under kind of sounds like under 20. I've got one that I think Wait, wait, we're reading all of them. Tipsand 20 tipsand. Nope.

Skip the bago. No. Okay. 20 punching dicks. Welcome to Fist City. 20 punching dicks. Welcome to Fist City. Welcome to Fist City. Now, Travis, I'll be honest. I think Fist City is going to get a lot of foot traffic from some

so traffic. So confused. And I will I will say probably pretty disappointed. There'll be spiders all over the worldwide web. Don't go in there. It's not what you think.

Uh-uh. No, it's been crawled. Um, welcome to Fist City. What on earth does that mean? Jess, I don't want to read this one. I got I got like 10 hours of sleep over the last like four nights because Gus has crew and I woke up in the middle of the night and I wrote this one down. Okay.

But I don't want to say it out loud. 20 big old tits. Jug City Showdown. [crying] I thought that was cool. I didn't know what Jug City Showdown was.

It's just [crying] City. Oh, no, no, no. You took the wrong egg today. You You went one too far. You got to go back if you're looking FOR THE DRUG.

I HOPE SO. Can I just say, guys, you're in Nutsburg. You've gone way too far. I am obsessed with the idea of referring to a single breast as a jug.

That's a word that works in the plural, I guess, kind of. if it's 1999 and you're on the man show. But I think referring to just one jug is

What is the name of the year again? Don't drool. 20 Big old tit showdown. [snorts]

Okay, hold on. What is big old tit supposed to sound like? 20 26. is 20 and then it's supposed to rhyme 20 and bigle.

I didn't know that when I wrote it high at 4 in the morning. Yeah. [clears throat]

All right. All right. So far so good. That's not bad. Um No, I don't want to write that down.

I was trying to get this one to work phonetically. 20. The Phoenix. Something Phoenix. I don't think the is it from the ashes would be.

Can [clears throat] I tell you? It's the It's the meter, dude. Yeah. I couldn't get the meter to work.

Meter ain't right. The meter's got to be right. That the rhyming I don't give a [ __ ] about, but the meter's got to be right.

Uh 20. Flick your bicks. Burn it all down. What? Flick your bicks. Flick your bick.

You was the ad campaign for big lighters to like I want to give more free advertising to these corporations.

Well, it wouldn't have to be free. I mean, we could we should do hold ourselves up.

Check this one out, guys. Okay. 20 Stevie Nicks a Moonlight Blessing. So Stevie

20 Stevie 20 getting one of one of the things there. That's one of the moonlight Nicks a Moonlight Blessing.

God, this is more of like a I don't know what does it mean? This is a vibe. No, it's just a vibe year. Fungalord didn't mean anything to me, but it was a vibe and it was cool and I rode that [ __ ] to the finish line. I saw Stevie Nicks once live on stage. She came out um in the middle of a concert with with uh not Bob Dylan but the other one. Um and and it was

Springian. No, I'm trying to think of like Neil No, not Neil Simon. Neil Young.

Neil Young. That's what it was. It was all right. But I just her vibe is like wild, man. It's like wild. I'd love to just harness some of that, I guess.

20 crunchy mix. Granola Graessa. Okay. Huh. 20 crunchy nick. No, you okay. Well, I guess you got to write that down for history's sake, but

sounds like you 20 crunchy mix. Not the granola part though, for surely. Granola. No.

Graa. And this is just like a celebration of granola. Yeah. 20 crunchy mix. Granola. Graa. Make the N the N and the O should be capitalized.

Can I tell you something, Justin, that I've just noticed? Griffin and I are both pulling from a a list that we constructed.

Yeah. Worked hard on and it seems like you just pulled 20 crunchy mix straight out of your [ __ ]

Are you Are you generating these? Is this generative? You know that this happens every year.

The holidays. The holidays can be a tough time for families. 20 20. Watch the wicks. I've never come up with them beforehand, guys.

I don't I've never come up with them beforehand. It's just usually we are um You don't see it. I don't see

You don't see it. The energy. Yeah. You always have your hands out of screen and you're making wrestling noises that you have like a legal

you do shuffle papers from time to time, which I thought was 20 20. Watch the wicks.

Keep them trim, please. It's a good one. It's a good one. It's No, I don't want to worry now.

Okay, we'll circle back. Yeah, I'm worried that you guys are going to take this assumption that I didn't come up with these ahead of time and you're going to let that color how you feel.

The ones you make. The other ones. Well, that can go either way. Sorry. The ones that I've made before now.

The ones you've made. I mean, let's go back. No, no, no, no, no. That I have not yet announced but have previously made.

Saving the good ones. I'm worried. No. Okay. What? You just told us there aren't ones that you prepared ahead of time.

That's not what I said. You guys made an assumption that I didn't prepare ahead of time.

You didn't deny it. I didn't realize I was on trial, Travis. I thought I was recording a podcast 20 crunchy mix. One you made up before this recording.

It's not one of the best ones I made up. Okay. Justin's hemorrhoid pillow is making my back sore. Seems like it's doing the opposite job that it's supposed to.

That's the lumbar pillow you're sitting. I had 20 burning wicks. Light in the darkness.

Light in the darkness sounds so hugely hugely hugely uh Christian. Yeah. Yeah. Which is ironic because I like 20 20 Watch the wicks, keep them trimmed and burning, you know, from that's from I think one of the sermons on the mount and it's like be get be ready.

I also had 20 more John Wigs just saying like keep making them, you know what I mean? I enjoy John Wick movies. I would like

Should I write any of those? I would rather you didn't. Okay. Yeah. I would rather you write down

something that rhymes with 20. I would rather you write down 20 under bricks. Cobblestoneoy. And this is interesting because there's cobblestone under a lot of our brick streets and they're so beautiful and they really can

telling people to dig up. Go smash up. Yeah, Travis. Just telling people go smash up the streets.

I knew that you guys would start. Do you guys like my brother? my brother meet. It's my favorite podcast. Hand me that jackhammer so I can smash up this street. Hey, we're in Brooklyn now. Smashing up the streets cuz your brothers told me to. Hey,

once you guys decided that I hadn't made these up ahead of time, I knew you were going to start being critical like this.

Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. 20 20 river sticks. The souls must flow. River doesn't sound anything like 20 not like under bricks. Okay. But 20 river sticks, the souls must flow. That's very threatening now that I've said it out loud.

It's really threatening. It's very threatening. Actually, I'm worried you're going to be blowing that mic out if you if you swallow it.

Is there Is there something we can do with the band sticks there? A river. Something like

20 classic sticks. 20 classic sticks. 20 20 20 funky sticks. 20 funky sticks. Back and funkier. Damn.

20 pickup sticks. The staff is yours. Oh, 20 funky sticks out to the boneyard. And it's like

out to the boneyard. Get the B sides. Those sticks besides dude. And we could do all bones and stuff for our like dress up like skeleton out

to the boneyard. I like the aesthetic of that. And now I'm hung up though on something like 20 perfect sticks,

like you know, search the field or a walk in the woods. But we're It's the uh it's the undy undying. It's the undying of the whole thing, you know.

Funky. I don't think Travis can we be a united front here against this I would say draconic authoritarian we have to rhyme with 20 thing.

Yeah man because we there's 10 of them Justin that will have 20 in the middle. We've done a good job a lot of the time doing it. We have earned one where we can say whatever the [ __ ] we want to.

Okay. 20267. [snorts] Let's keep it going. Now I think it's very funny. I think I like that. This be a two-year one.

Yeah. I think it's very funny if Jan Jan won, we plant the flag and say like, I know everyone's getting sick of this one. I know everyone's getting sick of this one.

But for one year. Yeah. No. No, dude. Because if you do it, it has to be the theme for two years.

Yeah. For two years. We're saying 73. 20267. Keep it going. That's awesome. Well, I thought when you said keep it going, I thought you meant for two calendar years.

That's what I assume cuz it's 67. It's bridging. That is cool. And I promise you that us like three middle-aged dudes saying it a lot would kill it

and our show I think both. But there's the thing, right? Like then we kind of grab on to it.

March of 2027 and we're up. CAN I GET A PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD. WHERE'D you all go? We're going to STREAM MORE FORTNITE. WE PROMISE. GET IT RIGHT NOW IN 2026.

ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT to get on. You're you're goofing out. You're busting out of frame, bud.

Oh, you're right. Let me back in. Um, do you want to hear my actual favorite one that

Oh, I don't know if I'm ready yet. Okay. I got like a bunch more stinkers. Oh, okay.

Oh, wow. 20 pick and mix. Grab bag year is another one that I had. Huh. That seems that seems too hard for us to like we I I want to be able to control the message a little bit.

Yeah. Um although that does keep us from having to um like take the blame for when it's really bad like tummy life

which I do like. 20 see what sticks throw it all at the wall. That was my favorite one. 20 see what sticks spaghetti at the wall. That was my favorite one.

Wait guys, I came up with 20 See what sticks spaghetti at the wall. Are you kidding?

But no, but it was one of the many that I came up with ahead of time. Do you Are you guys married to spaghetti? Uh, no. But I will if that's required for the role.

Is it was yours throw you open mouth kiss a plate of spaghetti for $150 in front of my wife.

IMDb credit. Throw it all at the wall. 20. I think throw it at the wall would be bad. I think all the rhyme all 20 20

sticks all at the wall. That sounds like we're about to get into ball with the bop.

Yeah. SO, YOU'RE WRITING IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY, RIGHT? NO, I said at the wall. Throw it at the wall.

226 with the wall. That's a mimbe ass name, man. Yeah, it's good. 226. I would love to work with Richie on some.

Yeah, sure. I don't know. We could fix We could fix him. I guys, you put us in a room with Kid Rock for We go out to a cabin for a month. Not in this room. Not in this room. Not in this room. We need a lot more ventilation.

Well, we would need space to kind of like break off and like have our own kind of like sessions where we internalize a lot of the stuff that we've talked. I think you give us a month in a cabin with Kid Rock and we could fix him. We could fix him.

Yeah. I mean, either way, we have to break him first. Yeah. I said 20 under mix. Love it. Lumpy right?

Yeah. 20. 20 pumped up kicks. Foster your people. Um, I don't love the undercurrents of that song.

The undercurrents of the song are obviously not ideal, but Foster Your People. Foster Your People is good

and it has a theme song already. We can't. But once again, the theme of the song maybe is not something we want to enjoy.

I don't know that that's your best. All the little kicks with the pump. That's not it.

20 honey sticks. I forgot what the other pargo. Okay. Are you guys out? No, I'm not even close.

20 Funny Flicks. The Hangover trilogy available on Netflix for a limited time. 20 Funny Flicks is maybe

You like that rhyme, don't you? You pervert nasty [ __ ] It's less sweaty than stunty flicks. It's

true. It's true. Funny flick. I will say this. I think I I don't think there's a world in which

stunty flick should take it and funny flick. Yeah. No, I agree. Because there's so many great laughs in the history of cinema.

It was stunts in flicks. So, you would probably know that if you had your own document that you had written on.

I I WAS DOING ALL THE TECH for the other stuff. That's true. That's a good point.

Uh here's one of mine. 20 fiddlesticks. Screw-ups. Welcome. Okay. So, I really really really like 20 fiddle sticks. I had 20 fiddle sticks. Me, too. I think I wrote tried to write forgiveness within, but I wrote forgiveness within which is

which kind of Hey Griffin, real quick, just type out 20 fiddlesticks forgiveness within if you could because I'm thinking that [snorts]

would you auto correct? No, no, no. For go. No. Wow. Damn. Wow. It really doesn't want

coward. Looks like it says for governness. Like this is a letter for the governness.

20 fiddle sticks. Poety's nerfing. I thought I had that thought. forgiveness within.

Forgiveness Within is cool, it's going to be hell for every poster designer, every uh website that talks about the theme.

Yes. When the New York Times covers it. Yeah. I like 20 Fiddlesticks a lot. 20 Fiddlesticks is just like cool. What is What is a fiddle stick? I know we say it when we [ __ ] up.

I assume it's what you play a fiddle with. Should we make sure that Fiddlesticks isn't some like terrible [ __ ] Dog whistle.

Some like terrible thing that if you hear fiddlesticks, you guys look that up real quick. Let me check my list.

Yeah, check your list, Justin. JD Vance calls his wieners Fiddlesticks. That's in here. It's a character in League of Legends.

20 Huff and Vicks. Clear it up. Ooh, 20 Huff and Vicks is nice because there could be a branding partnership there. I don't think they want to be thinking about people huffing it.

I don't think they like huffing the product. But it does. Clear it out. Yeah. Clear it out.

Clear it up. Dry it out. Clear it up. Dry it out. Open it up. Dry it out. Open it up.

Try it out. Just like Ben Shapiro. What? Oh yeah. Try it out. Open it up. I hate I don't Justin ruined it for me with that.

Yeah. With that thing. 20 Huffy Tricks. Check this [ __ ] Oo, not check this [ __ ] That's not good. But BMX Adventures 20 Huffy Tricks is one that I

BMX Adventures. BMX Adventures. Yeah, that would be cool. Another Oh, you're separating co-branding. That's a good idea. That's smart.

That's looks the same. Yeah. 20 Huffy Trixs. Tricks. Yeah. BMX Adventure. Gleam the Cube. BMX.

No, Gleam the Cube's Is Gleam the Cube skateboarding or bicycling. Gleam the Cube. [snorts]

That sounds like some I don't know. It sounds like Stranger Things to me. I don't know.

Sounds like something. Can we get a Stranger Things got collaboration? 20. I mean 20 20 Watch Netflix. Stranger Things. Stranger Things

out now. 20. It's all done. It's the new Home of Batman. 20. Love Netflix. Mhm. Stranger Danger.

Stranger Danger. No. Great TV. Great. Yeah. Great TV at on demand at Netflix. Yeah.

No, not BGH podcast production tracker. That's not it. Listen to that. What if our motto had our entire schedule on it?

Yeah. Would that would be so [ __ ] cool. put that on a poster. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm just thinking about [snorts]

That's a good one. I just think we can really help Netflix with this. Yeah, sure.

Netflix. This is a reminder. That's a reminder. Yeah. All right. The no great TV. That was really important punctuation. I think there's too big of a chance that will get left out.

You know, folks are going to like come up to those signs and tag the bubby. Bubby people are going to have a field day with Photoshop on that one.

20 20 I had 20 jump the cicks a boy's wilderness adventure, but that's not branded.

No. [snorts] Oh, okay. Check this one out. A lot of ours are about get doing stuff for yourself, like get right with Christ, surf the vibe. A lot of that is about what if this year was about um taking time and energy to help someone else achieve just one dream, one goal. 20 got your six become the wind.

Like you're the win. Like you can be the win beneath some. The subtitle is not quite there yet, but

but I think 20 got your six like I've got your back. Something about like 20 get their back

but 20 got your six got your back. I'm brainstorming. I'm trying to get there. Griffin,

I'm not sure. It feels like too militaristic for our our vibe. It started for World War I combat pilots and I'm pretty sure back then we were still like cool with what they were doing.

We liked it. Like I wouldn't use and we knew what it was about. If there was any new [ __ ] if there was like any new slang, I don't know that I'd want to drop that. But like World War I combat pilots, I don't know. Can I can I ask about one then I now that we're talking about co-branding. What do you think about 20 crunchy tricks? Bring back balls. I like the ball shapes better and they used to be balls originally and then they were fruit shapes for a really long time

and then they brought back the ball shapes and I rejoice cuz it's original. But then people wanted the fruit shapes of tricks back.

20 what what tricks? 20 crunchy tricks bring back balls. This is a gear with an attainable goal. I'm just going to ask General Mills to change from the fruit shapes.

You think that's attainable? You I think you've I think you've forgotten the face of your father.

I'm not saying I don't mean attainable in the sense that I can attain it. I mean attainable in the sense that it is possibility.

Could we work like artificial flavors and colors in there too because I miss those a lot.

Those are back. Those were gone for a while, but now they're back and they're like fully neon. Like nobody It's like a different era.

I mean, hm. I don't have I don't have a lot of branded ones. I have 20 Jiminy Glicks.

Wow, you just wrote that down. You piece of paper. Yeah, the meter is not there for me.

Yes, sit up. I do have 20 to the quicks. Cut the baloney. And I could change that to be like this the chocolate drink.

Oh, that's Yeah, for 20 20. Get the quicks. Get the kicks to the quicks. Cut the baloney. That does. But it sounds like the chocolate

the chocolate milk brand just started selling baloney. You got to stop with the baloney, man.

Yeah, that's that's that's that's one of that's maybe the worst year theme that I've ever seen written down

in terms of just viability and overall quality. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. 20 laying bricks build back better. Looks

20 laying bricks build back better. There's no way that could go wrong. 20 cocaine bricks. Uncut funny.

I don't think so. Uncut gym. Uncut Johns. I'm out. Good. Now we can get to work. Now we can start the show.

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20 candlesticks, an elegant reunion. This is just if we wanted to do a fancy one again.

Yeah. What about 20 oil slicks? Clean getaway. 20 oil slicks. Can we before we add any more to the list, can we talk about what we're feeling?

Can I say one more? Yeah, there's the last one. It's the last one I had written down. It's not coated.

Let me write Travis's oil slicks. What was it? Clean getaway. Clean getaway. Okay.

20. No new tricks. Old dogs. H. No new tricks feels 20. No new tricks. Old dogs.

D. Walk me through it. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Okay. That is always said in a way that feels kind of aspirational for the dog though, like you're challenging.

This one This one is a waste. This one is low pressure. This one is low pressure. We are old dogs. No new tricks.

I've always thought of uh you can't teach an old dog new tricks as a way to excuse maybe outdated. So this is

like language and terminology and behaviors. Finally taking it back. Agreed. 20. Can I

Let's have a Yeah, let's take it. Let's have a I got more of it. 21. New trick.

Old dogs. Old dogs go to heaven. Old dogs go to heaven. Mean dogs go to hell. Uh 21 21. New trick.

21. This dog's got a bone. This dog's still got a bone to pick with you. I'm in the guys I feel like I'm in the jazz phase of this process. I'm over here like I know what you're saying

and you guys are still Are we at a point where you're like this is the thing I are we like boo boo or are we still like picking a song to sing? Do you know what I'm saying?

Oh yeah. I feel like we're still trying to find the melody. 20 treats and tricks.

No Halloween all year. No. I think it's good for us to go I think it's 20 treats and tricks Halloween all year. Have you not seen the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode where they make a wish and it's Christmas every day and then it starts to kind of suck [ __ ] that it's Christmas every day?

Well, that's because they repeat Chris. They repeat every day. I'm saying Halloween all year just as a lifestyle. Not necessarily repeating the same actions every day.

No, it's not like a Groundhog Day situation. It's that they're doing different Christmas [ __ ] every day and by the end of it they're like, "This sucks. We wish it would go back to normal." And that was the only other wish Santa Claus could grant them. And he does. And everything goes back to normal. and it it turns out good, but they were really bummed out when it was Christmas every day.

I know lots of people who live a Halloween lifestyle year round, and they seem to like it.

Okay. But I don't think it's for everyone. I would hate I would hate that man. I would hate that. I would I would be so scared. Do I have to get uh costumes for my kids every day?

Can we go trick-or- treat all day? Can we go back to the top of the list and strike through some of these that are not going to get it? Can we please get to that?

I still don't think there's a keyboard shortcut for strike through. I thought it was control K. Is it not?

Is that it? I'm You're about to blow my [ __ ] apart, right? Nope. Nope. Okay. So, we'll get rid of 2026. Obviously, 20 Get Your Kicks. Celebrating the America of Beauty's Greatest Road. All about Route 66.

I I think that genre of music is among the worst. I think it's among the worst music ever made. I would There's

What genre? the road road trip 50s [ __ ] boogie [ __ ] I'm talking about the beauty of America's greatest road and you're like I [ __ ] hate music.

Okay, that's not what I said. He's talking about He's talking Griffin's talking about

You can't say 20 Get your kicks all about Route 66. The road, not the song. He's saying

it says right there, "Celebrating the beauty of America's greatest road, not the greatest song of all time."

It also says, "Get your kicks on road 66." Thank you. 20 check for takes. No time for lime.

Go ahead and cross this one off. You guys like Lyme disease, huh? Yeah, I love it.

Oh, sorry. When I said that, it wasn't confirming it. I was challenging you guys to say you are cool with tick born illness as a concept in general.

I wouldn't say I'm cool with tick born illness. I just don't know. I think that this is definitely a good thing to remind people of but not a life less.

Is there a tick? Is there anything we could do with the tick to get another season or just get bit of some sort?

Okay. So, what about um 21 new tick? Pick it. No. Pick it in one. Who's the new tick? You got a n They've had two perfect actors. Who's the third tick?

Yes. Here we go. [ __ ] right off the [ __ ] dot. 21 new tick. 21 new tick. And it's going to be

John Ham. Nope. I got this. He's got it. Watch Chris. That's a good start. Leaves a lot of options open. You get a lot of room to grow.

Oh, he's waiting for it down. Do it down. Do it. Type curr. Type curr. Do it. Do it.

Don't change it. Don't change it. New tick. It's the son. It's the son of Stanley Tucci. Chris Tui.

It's Chris Tucci. You know 21 new Chris Tucci. Stance boy. STANCE BOY. OH, WAIT. Hold on. Wait, guys. Jazz it with me. Chris Tucci. This is how we got to funal. We just said two words together that kind of hit hit right. Chrisi.

Chrisi. Christi. Just one new one. N 20. Just the checks. Christi. Chrisi. I don't think there's anything there guys.

No. No. It was a good try though. You gave it a good shot. [ __ ] Tips and tricks is still grabbing me. Wait. Okay. So, right. Okay. Dixie Chicks. No. Just the chicks. No. 20. Stunts and flicks. Do we like stunts and flicks? Funny flicks.

I still would like to keep stunts and flicks. It seems like an area that You guys are crazy about honey sticks. Uh, 20 under mix. Some like it lumpy. Some love it lumpy. 20. Okay, I'll leave it on you guys. You say strike through. 20 tips and tricks hack your life.

20 skip the tricks. 20 20 tricks and trick 20 tips and tricks hack your life is good, but it's not funny. It's just sort of like

it sounds cool. It's too actionable and accur like it's I don't know. It's too good of a theme.

All right. Um 20 undermix some love it lumpy 20 tips and tricks. You know what? Actually, I'm I don't know if you can like star something or like whatever, but like 20 undermix some love it lumpy is like

Yeah, I'm coming back. If we did this one if we did this one, I would die on the hill of getting rid of some and just have it be love it lumpy.

Well, we'll see. We'll we'll we'll see. We'll see. Uh 20 tips and tricks. Hack your life. I Yeah, I just would love to I don't feel like

20 tips and tricks. What if it's less about hack your life and it's more about like finish the finish the game, finish the fight?

Oh yeah, if we make it like Nintendo helpline, complete your complete your quest. Complete your quest.

Fulfill your quest. 20 tips and tricks. Write down the cheats cuz I I forget all the cheat codes, you know.

20 tips and 20 tips and tricks. We'll come back to it. Let's come back to We're not at that. I don't 20. Skip the tricks. Just live your life.

I think no more tricks would work better. Like 20 no more tricks. Um 20 skip the tricks. You know, it just f 20 no more tricks. You have to slow down your mouth and say it.

No more tricks. Just live your life. Um 20 no more tricks. Just live your life. I don't see how we do that one without sounding like genuinely grumpy old men. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm just going to delete it. No, I'm going to strike it through. We have a format here. 20 bag of tricks. Master your magic.

20 bag of donuts. 20 bag of tricks. Master your donuts. 20 bag of tricks. 20 bag of tricks. Master your magic feels like

too like thirsty. Yeah, way too thirsty. What if something with magics? Like 20 dark magics. 20 old magic.

20 dark magics. I what I like about bag of tricks this idea of as an actionable thing of just like have some stuff ready to go that you can pop up to be like tada I'm not saying become a magician or something like that but become it's more of a celebration of multiddisciplinary growth h and maybe a celebration of multi-disiplinary no [ __ ] way dude I crushed that [ __ ] gross [snorts] growth. Damn it, I messed it up with Can you Can you write down a new one for me? It's just real. I know. Just if you would just write down

2020 Ricks. Who are they? Where did they come from? Who are they? Huh? Where did they come from?

It's like a new I I see it as kind of a Damon Lindelof thing where everything is normal

and there's just 20 more Ricks than there were yesterday. 20 Ricks show up and like nobody knows them

but they are like they seem to know their whole thing. Yeah. Write down 20 pickle Ricks ACTUALLY [ __ ] DUDE. 20 PICKLE Ricks are rich. We're rich. We did it. 20 pickle Ricks. Turn off the camera. Jeez, shut off camera. God, it's not working. Any of it's not working. [snorts]

20 pickle Ricks. 20 pickle Ricks. Who's gonna sue? Yeah. Yeah. Come come try it. Come and come and

come and come and claim him. Come and claim. Okay. So, this year is about we're GOING TO PUT PICKLE RINGS. WE'RE GOING TO PUT PICKLE RINGS ON merch until somebody try it. We give up.

Come get us. Come get us. Come get us. They won't fire us. Something has to stop us. We can't get fired.

Something will bring us down. I think doing merch with 20 20 20 Ricks. Who are they? Where did they come from?

Yeah. Okay. [snorts] I do think it's an evocative concept though. Yeah. 20 budoir picks for your lover.

I want to get rid of PUNCHING DICKS. THAT'S LIKE WHAT? It's like such an invitation to lawsuit city. I really don't.

You know, Justin, it's fist city. I Yes, that's true. And it's recently been renamed to lawsuit city.

Oh man. Is what is it? The grabbing you don't like cuz there's other things you can do with a fist.

No one even said grabbing Griffin. Grabbing. You just said grab it there, Dr. Dr. Freud. I No one said

20 fist and dicks. 20 fists and dicks. It's not like that. Fist city. 25 fist and dicks.

Welcome to Someone took a wrong turn at Jugtown. Is that right, Griffin? Yeah, Jug City.

Jug City. Sorry. Jug Town is where Otter lives. I think Emit Otter lives in Jug Town.

Can we talk about how I've censored Tits? Because there's four asterisk there. Is that same? I know, but there's four aspects.

I think you put I think it's with two ts ys. I assumed it was tits. Maybe. Uh, Jug City Showdown. No, Tits wouldn't rhyme. It's definitely not that. 20 Stevie Nicks, A Moonlight Blessing.

Um, are we getting rid of Fist and Dicks and and Bigle Tad's Jug City Showdown?

I don't want to get rid of Bigles. I Hey, can I tell you one of my reasons why I don't want to use it is cuz I I feel uncomfortable saying it,

but I thought it was funny to do once. Go ahead, Mark. It may not even been funny to do once, but I definitely don't want to do it a million times. 20 Stevie Nicks and Moonlight Blessing.

Um, that's going to seem like we need to move it down to the the like branded Here's what I want to Nick is going to pay us money to her name. 20 New York Knicks.

I want to I want to try something new this year where like we don't get rid of any of the sponsored ones. Those are just down there.

These are just here. These are just here. If you want to pay for them, any of these companies,

Vicks, we're open to doing a different 20 New York Knicks race to the pennant. 20. Sorry. Wait. 20 New York Knicks. Race to the pennant. Got it. Perfect.

I don't know if there's pennant. No. Perfect. Okay. Race to the pennant. Penant.

Yeah. Yes. I love spelling on camera. 20 under bricks. Cobblestone. Ahoy. You scripted over 20. Crunchy mix. Granola. Grasa.

Say. Yeah. Can you say that one one more time before we 20 crunchy mix granola. Graa.

You didn't make the no capital. I think that would help. Or at least uh italicized or something.

Something. Granola. Graa. Okay. Okay. Now you can cut it. Can I try it? Like 20 crunchy mix. Graa.

That's pretty good. 20 crunchy mix. Christi. Now what if you get rid of Now what if you cut What about this?

What is that feeding back out of? What do you think about this 20 crunchy mix granola tui?

Oh, one word. No, one word. exclamation point. Yeah, that looks like it says Christie.

I put my whole Christie into that one. CHRISTIE ON THE LEFT on the left hand. Christ the on the left hand side. [snorts]

Uh 20 candlesticks. If we wanted to get back to the sort of very rel overtly religious message 20 candlesticks on the

um I think we can go ahead and cut 20 crunchy mixed granola tui. Okay. 20 under bricks cobblestone aoy. There's some Okay. There's something I like about this and it is something that I think I'm interested in as a concept for actionable advice to people which is like we've all spent so much time

digging around in the dirt in Minecraft. Mhm. That it makes me think why but if I have to plant a plant outside no way. Why am I like that?

When I could get a shovel and I could see what's happening down there. And I think there's something cool. It's like maybe this is the year where you see what's happening down there.

But you don't have a theme. You like thematically. You like that idea. 20 under bricks. Cobblestone. Ahoy.

Maybe it's not cobblestone. Maybe it's hidden past. Hidden paths. Dig up the past.

Dig up [clears throat] the paths. Dig up the path. Paths to the past. up the I want it to be as hard to say as possible.

Yeah, there we go. Dig up the paths. 20 underneath one that's good. 20 under bricks. Dig up the paths.

I mean, I'm into it. It may just be because I'm pushing 40. But dig up the paths. Could be an interesting project for the year.

Yeah. Yeah. Paths. Dig up the path. What about 20 chucking bricks? Smash it. I don't want anybody I don't want more people to be chucking bricks

then 20 laying bricks strong foundations. I said 20 laying bricks build back better and Justin made fun of me.

Well, bill back better sucks. It almost work. It almost worked but strong foundations.

20 Robin thick blurred lines. No, he's right. Second chances. Put him in the blurred lines.

Second chances. Okay. Put now that goes in the co-branded pile. Robin thick get at us. You could you could pay us for blurred line second juices.

No, that's Allen thick. That's Allen thick. We could do both. You can do 20 Allen thick growing pains.

I really didn't do that on purpose. I know, but they're basically best friends.

Well, one of them is passed. What's the other guy's name? Robin Thick. Robin Thick. No, they're both thick. Singular.

Second chances. Yeah. No. Blurred line. Second chances. Uh yeah, I'm not sure I want to afford him a second chance.

Should be thick. Maybe third chances. It would be sick. It would be awesome. Well, third line. Blurred lines. Third chances. Third lines.

Third lines. That's cool. He sounds He sounds like he's on a hockey team at that point. I'd love to get hockey in there.

Is there something with thicks? We haven't done sticks. 20 20 hockey sticks. You can do better than that.

20 hockey sticks. Don't cuss. But it's like oh like double 20 hockey sticks w 20 20 20 hockey sticks. That's like it could be 20 hockey sticks.

And it's like 20 L's in a row. Oh, the same function that it fills when you say it to not cuss in front of a child. You could say

20 wizard sticks. The power of the staff. 20 wizard sticks. Power of the staff. Power of the 20 wizard sticks. 20 wizard sticks. Learn the game or die.

Learn the game. [ __ ] yeah or die. Haven't we was Fungalore the only sort of magical wizardly one? Have we done a wizardly one before?

No. Wizard six is cool. I like wizard. Yeah, wizard sticks kind of rules. Learn the game or die.

Now, where does that part come from? Learn the game of die. Why is it learn the game or die? Because I think wizard sticks is like I imag when you said wizard sticks I imagined like there was a ring

the wizard had and in his tower and the only way he would give it to you is if you played him at wizard sticks you beat me at one game of wizard sticks and you can have theizone challenge.

Can we spell it like like a cool way? 20 wizard sticks. Oh yeah. Well, maybe not three X's.

Maybe a Z at the end sticks, but that it's not called 2026. Oh, sure. 20 wizard sticks.

Learn the game or die is cool. All right. Uh 20 river sticks. The souls must flow. That's I don't

You use dye in wizard sticks. That's why it also it works two ways. 20 funky sticks out to the boneyard is cool. 20267 is a check I am not willing to cash back

20 see what sticks ball with the ball. This was one we were all pretty excited about.

Yeah, I feel like the maybe the subtitle is a placeholder on that one. [snorts]

Yeah, just see what sticks. Well, we can leave it as a placeholder all year to see what sticks.

That's not bad actually conceptually. 20 see what sticks. No, we can't I don't want to do I I don't want to do this all year. I know that's very fair.

That thought made me so tired. I want to cut 20 pumped up kicks foster your people. Unless you want to move it down to the

No, that song sucks. Okay. 20 fiddle sticks forgiveness with I should get an asterisk. I like that one. Fiddlesticks is just that word. It feels so powerful and it's under you. I never say fiddlest sticks and so it feels like we have the opportunity to own something truly special.

20 fiddle sticks. It's all spilled milk. Yeah. Oh, forgiveness within. [clears throat] Let's keep moving because I would like to

highlight that one. Highlight that. I It's a good one. Um 20 got your six. I want to try to to

see if there's anything there. No, it's what bothers me about it is the the got your six thing has this vibe to me of like

SWAT dudes. Yeah. It's like not not SWAT dudes, but dudes who like want like who militaristic energy as like a way to like pump themselves up.

The dudes at the airsoft yard who are like super intense, like super duper intense. That's what it feels like. A little bit intense to me.

Yeah, I got you. I I liked I think I liked all that like sort of sky. Sure. A plane a plane cuts a cuts a

line across a blue cerulean expanse. A single cloud drifts by and we're on the ground watching

with our little uh straw hats and sex is still in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, if you did something about cool plane tricks, 20 cool plane tricks.

We really 20 20 funky licks. Make it talk. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Make what? Guitar.

The guitar. 20k away. 20 funky licks. Make it talk. You know, no. Not like a not like Yeah.

Okay. So 20 20 funky legs. Yeah. Make it talk talk. Take it for a walk. Make it talk. Make it talk. Yeah.

Let's I think that's better than 20 Funky Sticks Out to the Boneyard. Although,

do you really, dude? 20 Funky Sticks Out to the Boneyard should go into co-branded opportunities. I would love to work with Sticks on this.

Oh my god. Are you kidding? Yes. All right. This is a good Tommy. Tommy, if you're watching, Tommy Shaw, what about something about snakes?

You're adding. You're right. This is fine if you don't think it's there. I just There's I think I feel really good right now.

There's a few that I like. I'm pretty stoked about no new tricks. You want to cut no new tricks?

Can I cut oil slicks? Okay. 20 no new tricks. Old dogs. Trick just seems like we're missing a trick by not using it.

[snorts] It's it's it's finding it's finding the right context though because I feel the same way about like mix.

Yeah. And tricks magics. I feel like just the meter is not right. Yeah. Magic tricks,

but I don't want pe I don't want to encourage people to learn magic. All right. I want to say

useful magic tricks. I want to say that 20 wizard sticks feels like one that we like that no one would. You know, doesn't it feel like we would we could talk ourselves into getting pretty excited about the idea of six?

For sure, dude. I feel like I think we earned we would be like we'd have a plan to sell that.

We earned 20 Fungalore if we did 20 wizard sticks. Learn the game or die. It's going to feel like to everyone else we're just chasing the high of fungal. Like it feels like we're just trying to capture that again. And it has to be authentic.

Does it feel better if it's 20 wizard tricks? I don't think a wizard would do tricks. I feel like this is too much of an overlap between the I don't want the nerds

that listen to Taz to start listening to my brother my brother and me because they think it's going to be about wizards and elves and all that garbage.

Now I do want to go back to you didn't put it on the list 20 hit the bricks. You didn't include 20 hit the bricks.

You're right. Well, it's because my motivation for it was Yeah, it's just hit the You can't do hit the bricks and hit the roads. Now, hit the brakes. Hit the road. Hit the Hit the gas. Hit the brakes. Hit the road. Hit the brakes. Hit the Hit the gas. Hit the gas. The road and the brakes.

Jack it off, Jack. Hit the road. Jack off, Jack. No. Head to Fist City. Jug Town.

Hit Hit the bricks. Jug Town. Punch the Jugs. Hey, Jug Town. Hit the bricks. This is a cobra bar.

Maybe they want you over. You trying to go to Fist City? All right. No. You look like you're dressed for Fist City, but you found yourself in Jug Town. A cobra bar.

20 hit the bricks. Hit the road is out. 20 hit the bricks. [snorts] 20 Cobras only.

Jug Town. Mhm. Yeah. Lost. Cobra's only. Jug Town. Now you found it. Now you can strike through with confidence. Okay. 20 20 wizard sticks. Learn the game or die dies. Should be cut now before I regret it.

Yeah, we're going to come back to it too hard. Yeah. 20 funky licks. Make it talk.

I had to cut it in secret [snorts] before we could pay attention. 20 funky licks, make it talk is too on the nose. I think

make it talk is just too too aggressive. And then 20 hit the bricks, get lost. Copra's only jug town.

Go back to Is this all? Can you scroll? Is there more above the scroll? I think. Yeah.

Okay. 20 stunts and there's a lot cut out here. Hooray for Hollywood. I'm gonna I'm gonna make these smaller.

Okay. 20. What about 20 classic flicks? I don't give a [ __ ] about classic movies.

Yeah. Okay. Who's going to listen to us about that? Indie flick. 20 indie flicks.

Okay. I'm trying. 20 pickle rigs. It's a celebration of multi-disiplinary growth. 20 pickle ricks. A celebration of multiary growth because we used to not do Rick and Morty and now we do.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're saying a mix and match. We take 20 bag of tricks out and we put it a celebration of mult.

Well, what I love is 20 pickle rigs. Any of these subtitles would truly work for Elizabeth in

Yeah. 20 under bricks. dig up the paths. Um, t I want tips and tricks cut because tips and tricks is an idiom and I feel like I don't want to like

it's easy boost. Yes, it's an easy idiom. Stunts and flicks honey sticks under mix. Like that's we're in the things we're getting 20 bag of tricks.

I want to get rid of 20 honey sticks. I don't think it's going to win and I don't think you guys do either.

We It's 20. We're more than halfway through. We're more than halfway through this decade.

Let's come back to it. I think we can do one honey one at some point. I don't know that we want to burn it on a year where there's this much other

knowing how rough 2025 was. I would have gone for honey stuff. Let's come back to it.

Yeah, we can come back. All right, we'll come back to it. 20 under mix. Love it lump. I'm getting rid of some. I hate seeing it there. It's ruining it.

20 under mix. Love it lumpy. Love it lumpy. I don't know. I think some love it lumpy is

love it lumpy there's there's like almost a such a weird no connotation to it that my brain applies a dirty connotation

okay yeah lumpy loving would be better lumpy [snorts] loving lumpy loving's bad don't ruin it 20 under mix love it lumpy okay 20 bag of tricks I don't like 20 bag of tricks I for the same reason that I don't like tips and tricks it just feels like

but do leave 20 pickle ricks Mhm. A celebration of that's not going to win, but there's something there and I'm not ready to

I do also kind of like 20 pickle Ricks come and claim them because that's implies we have 20 pickle Ricks.

But that that's just God, why do I keep doing that? That's just for us. The audience can't use that at all. I don't want What are we telling them to do?

To see what happens. See what stinks feels very good to me. It feels like it's a little riskier, right? because it's a year about we're going to try things, right? And the things might not work. We're going to see what stings and everybody's going to do that, you know, is that we're not as confident inherently because we got to see what stings.

You can you shrink those other structur ones and also we might it might be time I think we've chewed on it for a long time, but it might be time to say goodbye to Get Lost Cobra's Only Jug Town.

Dude, can I tell you something? The rate at which we are going through those. I'm already bored of the joke I laughed at five minutes ago. I am fully ready to get rid of 20. Hit the bricks. Get lost. Copra's only joke.

That's Yeah. I mean, it's played, dude. Yeah. God damn it. We got some really good ones here.

Can we return to 20 under bricks? Dig up the paths. I think I like underbricks.

Yeah, under bricks. Is there something about catacombs? Oh, dig up the bones. Bones below roads. Roads above bones. Roads above bones.

Cask of a montiato. 28 under bricks. Bury your friends. Stones above bones. Stones above bones.

Oh, what about like hidden messages? Like it's a dead drop, you know? Like, oh, I would hide the message under a brick and you would know which brick to check to get the message.

H 20 under bricks. 20 under bricks. There's I mean, there could be anything under there. The fact that there's not currently though makes me feel like there just isn't.

What do you mean? Layers in the past. The I feel like it would have come to us.

Yeah. 20 under bricks. Under bricks is just not it. I don't Under bricks is just not powerful.

It's just not powerful enough. I'm really sorry. I do like it. I like I want I wouldn't mind having a sort of Goonies year. Yeah.

Where it's like, you know, 20 jump the creeks a boy's wilderness adventure, but good.

20 jump the creeks a boy's wilderness. You said that one already. You said that one already.

It's getting better, though. So that leaves us with six. Why did it have to be gendered? I think that's what killed it.

Yeah, maybe. Is there something about slice hicks we can put in there? You know, I thought about trying to get 20 cool size hicks.

20. 20 autumn hicks. 20 autumn hicks. I mean, if we went with Matthew, but you didn't go back

but Autumn and 20 is like, yeah, they're kissing cousins. Um, the 20 stunts and flicks. Hurray for Hollywood. Uh, hurray for Hollywood isn't specific enough to the energy that is trying to be conveyed. If it is stunts and flicks, it ain't hoay for Hollywood. Also, it needs something better at the back end. It needs a fatter ass.

Yes. Well said, sir. Well said. 20 stunts and flicks. Welcome to ass city. How's this for fat ass?

You want fat asses? We got you. is your fat ass. What about 20 butts inflicted? Time to return to the theaters. It's safe to return.

Oh, I thought it was a celebration of seeing butts in movies. No, no, no. This is saying get your butts in the theaters back to see I don't want to tell people to do that. I don't want to tell. And butts and flicks. Now, butts and flicks, if you want to put that as a Mr. Skin thing, that that could maybe be a cross promotional thing. I don't know.

I bet they have a jurist. I bet they got a tab. If you called Mr. skin and they were like, "Oh my gosh, the videos of butts, too. God, that's good. We were only doing boobs the whole time. Crap.

Shoot, dude. Shoot. We got to go. We returned ALL THOSE MOVIES. WE GOT TO WATCH ALL those GD movies again."

20 20 stunts and flex. Uh, is there a general celebration of Hollywood that can replace stunts? Like there uh

I like it. I like stunts. I like stunts. I like stunt people. I love the craft. I love the work. I think it's all cool. I don't think I can do a year of it. [snorts]

Yeah. Yeah. Place. Yeah. I Yeah, that's 20 honey sticks. All right. Can I just say

I'm Can I set a timer on my phone and we for when it's like it's once it's done. If we don't have a better name, it's definitely 20 honey sticks.

No, no. I saying like we get if it's not 20 honey sticks. I'm just saying let's let's see through 20.

I feel like 20 Honey Sticks is the one that we keep coming back to. Yeah, it's the one that I think has the most legs and I can see it being very

We keep circling back to 20 Honey Sticks back in business. Griffin, how strongly do you feel about it? Now you've just written Tommy Buddy Makes.

Is that just to kind of bring your pals together? Is that a bad Is that a bad one that you're trying to get out of your system? No, it's just if we're if we can do that.

Okay, I'm ready to I'm ready to let it go if you are. Yeah, we can cut 20 honey sticks.

I just don't think honey sticks. And listen, I don't actually want to hear you talk about it anymore, but you can cut it. 20 under mix. Love it lumpy is to me,

tell me what it is. Love it lumpy is one of the like to me it's like as a baker it speaks to me directly. Hey, you love it lumpy.

You didn't I mean like because you don't want to overm mix. You didn't mix it enough. But some love it lumpy. That's why true. That's why I thought some was better. That's why I was reading to me is 20 under mix. You know, some love it lumpy.

Yeah. No, there's something about it that's saying like you [ __ ] up. But it's cool cuz some people like that. Maybe we do a little swaperoo here. We do 20 fiddle sticks. Love it lumpy. We are going to have to explain that to pretty much everyone

that we talk to about it. Yeah, the the the explaining has not loomed large enough in my head over the past couple years. And I am trying to like bring that.

I'm looking at forgiveness now with that in mind in a way that I wasn't before.

Do you want to say forgiveness? I mean, I'm going to continue to think it's funny, but you guys may not. And that's the important thing because you guys have to say it, too.

20 fiddle sticks. You need to cut tummy buddy mix. Bring your pals together because we already cut the other one.

Happy accidents. Happy or 20 fiddlest sticks. Fate had other plans. 20 fiddle sticks. Unexpected

befriending failure. Oo, 20 fiddlesticks. Forgiveness within. Embracing imperfection.

20 fiddlesticks. Failing forward. There's a I don't even know if I like the alliteration there,

but that kind of also a little bit embraces 20. See what sticks? 20 fiddle sticks. Fail for fun.

Fail for fun. Fun fail. Just fail for fun. Lowering sticks. All aboard the failboat. 20 fiddle sticks. Epic fail.

No. 20 f 20 fiddle sticks. Epic fail. No. See, you took it from you took it from how oh we're there and then you're like and here's a dumb one.

If we called it 20 pickle Ricks a celebration of multi-disiplinary growth I think legally we're fine. I think legally it's fine. But that sounds can I say as funny as that is now it sounds like those two things are going to be related and that we are saying that

Rick Richard human or pickle form is a master of multidisipline. I don't know that man from Adam's off. I've not watched the program. I don't know that I want to say he's a [ __ ] jack of all trades. I simply don't know. Sit up

now. I'll say maybe maybe pickle Rick's star has fallen a little bit. That's fine. Yeah, man.

He doesn't have the You know what? Go ahead. I That's fine. If you want to cut 20 pickle bricks.

I don't want to cut 20 pickle bricks. I know. I know. But maybe put it. Can I suggest Can I just say this is maybe a good

Yeah, that's a branding. It's a co-branding opportunity. Like if they want to get at us.

Yeah, get at us. These these these are good. I would like us I'm just going to get rid of the rock.

Do you think if we started selling a pickle Rick shirt, they would start with a cease and desist. I don't think we would get the courtesy of a season

we could tastefully be like fair enough. I think one of us No, because I think I think that would imply a season as this would imply that on their end they thought we didn't know what we were doing was wrong.

They appear to be so confused about the ownership of especially if we uh put this whole thing out.

I thought I if I laughed at him a hundred times he becomes mine like some sort of wish.

This actually isn't premeditated cuz Justin didn't write down his [ __ ] before we came a lot. This is

I said it, but I also didn't write it down beforehand. You can't you'll never be able to prove that.

Now, I would like to for us to just kind of jazz out see what sticks and fiddle sticks cuz those are the two that I'm circling back to. And I think with

they're certainly the most cogent ideas between those two as I I do like the uh concept of throwing spaghetti at the wall. I worry the subtitle is not going to be as strong there. And I worry we giving up on fiddlesticks, guys. Fiddlesticks.

Fiddlesticks is so good to say. Fiddlesticks is so good to say. It just feels like we have to bring it the [ __ ] home on the subtitle,

which is rare for us that we have like the first is like there's nothing. Oh man, this is the part that I didn't want us to be recording for because there is a part

where you have to speak honestly about how you feel. Yeah. Yeah. And you have to be earnest and that's that's you that requires you to be open. I think that 20 fiddle sticks

the problem with fiddlesticks is that it's not inherently funny. So whatever the cuz it's like it's it's it fits well. Fiddlesticks is an expression. It's like not inherently funny. And that's what bothers me about it is that

it's empty too. I know I'm I'm running out of beverage, but there's no way. We're opening that.

No, no, no, no, no. I would so hot I would die to pee. It's been 81 minutes. Is there a subtitle strong enough to redeem Fiddlesticks

as a This is I agree with Fiddlesticks. Uh that a battle with the devil. Like you're saying you're actually

we're a podcast like for God's sake. No, but I'm saying like a devil went down to Georgia.

No fiddle player. Well, you're not going to be able to do much with that. I don't think

20. That's why I liked forgiveness within was such a big swing that it's like cute. It's like kind of cute. Can we turn it where it doesn't have to be bust up fronty and instead can be kind of cute?

I thought 20 fiddle sticks. 20 fiddlesticks. 20 ft sticks. A shucks. A little shucks, boss.

A shot. Oh [ __ ] A [ __ ] boss. [ __ ] 20 [ __ ] up. [ __ ] up. 20 fiddle sticks. Done. [ __ ] up.

No, we haven't. Everyone else did. 20 fiddle sticks. You [ __ ] 20 fiddle sticks. You [ __ ] up.

20 20 fiddlest sticks. Apologize. What do you think about 20 undermix? Love it lumpy.

I don't I didn't like the way you just Can you say it in a different way? No. No. Say it a different way.

I Because some is better. 20 under mix some love it lumpy. Or 20 fiddle sticks for goness within. 20 seawit sticks

spaghetti at the wall. 20 seawe stick spaghetti at the wall. Is is is too conventional.

20 seawit stick. 20 fiddle sticks. Both of those 20 sticks feel like an like see what sticks

is a an expression of a mood or idea. Like see what sticks. That makes sense, right? If you're like

see what sticks. I I do like I also really really like it as a projectile of wisdom that we can point at. Yeah. See what sticks.

But see what sticks is already so idiomatic. Yeah. Right. We're not building something else on the house of see what sticks. That is an idiom that exists. We're not inventing a new idea.

Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. What about 20 fiddlesticks is the same way, right? We are fiddlesticks is like it makes sense, but we got to come up with an abstract subtitle.

Yeah. 20 tick old bits [ __ ] I was see I was going to say 20 under chicks and be done with it. But

yeah, it was 20 under chicks. Oh yeah, man. That's what it was. Cool, dude. It Well, so you read it already. It was, "Oh yeah, man. Cool dude."

Yeah, I liked it. I liked it. Under 20 chicks. Oh yeah, man. Cool dude. That's what it was going to be.

I don't think we should. I wrote it down. You guys accused me of not writing it down. I wrote it down.

20 20 fiddle sticks. You You [ __ ] up. 20 fiddle sticks. 20 fiddle sticks. 20. See what sticks. 20 wizard sticks.

20 wizard sticks. We should have bring We should make the other one. This is the This is Can I be be honest? This is my least favorite part of the episode where we have to go back through the [ __ ] We have to dig around in the in the trash.

Snickle Fritz. Oh, 20 snickle fritz. 20 snickle fritz is cool. No, it's not. 20 snickle fritz. Bottom of the barrel.

I don't want to explain the spelling every freaking time. No, that word is enough in the public consciousness that I think it would be fine. I think people could figure out snickler fritz. 20 on the frets.

20 on the rits. 20 on the Okay. Are we allowing and are we allowing and because if so, we could be here for another our significant others will be upset.

On the rits, our significant others will be upset if we open up and because we'll be in here for another 120 minutes.

It's X. X is the sound. It's got to be X. 20 got the X. 20 got It's too negative. You

positive. 20 nicks the X. Give Just because they do something you think is weird. Maybe he's a great guy.

That's a cool That's a really cool energy. Go. I think I just gave a lot of people the ick with that. But this is why I need this message to really stick. I'm seeing what sticks right now.

I'm seeing what sticks. 20. Make it stick. 20. Make it stick. 20. Make it stick.

Make 20. Make it stick. Throw it harder. Wait, guys. There's something cool there. 20. This idea of throwing the spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. If it doesn't stick, make it stick.

Throw it. 20. Make it stick. Throw it harder. Toss in hard. Throw it harder. Throw it hard. I I Okay, we're so close. I don't think the subtitle should be a a command. I think it should be a something like 20. Make it stick.

Throw it again. Toss. No, that's a command. Something like throwing throwing fast. Chucking fast. 20. Make it stick.

Bring the cheddar. Bring the heat. Bring the 20. Make it stick. Bring the Br. Toss the sauce. Toss the sauce.

Toss the sauce. Make it stick. Toss the sauce. Cuz if you toss the sauce with the noodles, it's definitely going to stick.

20. Make it. Make it. I'm just going to I feel like we're so close with make it stick feels so good to make it cuz that's not anything. But it also suggests that it's not [ __ ] up. You didn't try hard.

Make it stick. Do the impossible. No. I was going to be honest though. There was like I There was hang time. There was hang time on. That's why I said no so fast.

Anything's possible. Anything's No. 20. 20. Make it stick. Throw it. Throw it harder. Toss it. Toss.

I don't want to let go of anything's possible. You got to You got to You're being out overruled.

Get it, dude. I not a pun. I don't think a pun is going to be strong. It's got to make it stick.

Pitch. Pitch. Throw. Toss. Yeet. Uh, heck. Chuck the Chuck Chuck the cheddar. Chuck the cheddar. Make it stick.

Boss the sauce. You can always throw harder. Boss the Boss that sauce. 20. No, it's got to be fast and hard. And do it again.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 20. Make it stick. Do it again. 20. Make it stick. Try. Try again. Try. Try again.

20. Make it stick. The spaghetti's gone dry. The spaghetti's [snorts] gone dry. 20. Make it stick. Try a different wall.

This is a good This is Make it 20. Make it stick. Maybe do the ceiling this time.

20 Make it stick. More noodles. Find another wall. More noodles. Newer wall. Stickier wall. Wider noodles.

Wider noodles. Noodles. 20. Make it stick. Doesn't even sound like 2026. Justin,

we're not doing this. I I It's a million degrees in here. 20 make it stick. This is cool. You know why I like this one so much is because it's what we're doing right the [ __ ] now.

Why I like this so much is because it's what we're doing right the [ __ ] now. 20 make it stick.

Make it stick. Don't on the rebound. Nope. 20. Make it stick. 20. Make it stick.

Find your angle. 20. Make it stick. Squish it on there. 20. Make it stick. Squish it on there.

Squish it on. Squish one on. Brute force the funny. Brute force. Squish it out.

20. Make it stick. Squish it on. Squish it on. Glue it on. Squish it on. 20. Make it stick.

Glue it on, baby. Set yourself free. Accept no limits. Glue the limits. 20. Make it

spaghetti to the limit. Except no failure. 20 make it stick. Except no failure. And it's and it's like no, I know that didn't go the way that I wanted.

We can have 20 make it stick accept no failure and 20 underbakes love it lumpy. And then it's kind of like whatever your mood that day.

It's maybe because you undermixed it is why it's not sticking. 20 20 make it stick good enough good enough for now. 20 make it stick.

Good enough for now. 20 Make it stick good enough for now is two different ideas.

Yeah, it 20 make it stick. You're right. 20 make it stick. Stop giving up. Stop giving up on everything.

Throw it again. Throw it again. Maybe it's humid in here. Throw it again. 20. Make it stick. Throw it again.

One more. One more shot. The reason I like Okay. The reason I like throw it again is that it underlines the make it stick.

So make it stick. You're not exactly what it sure means. And then you say throw it again. And then it's like we're throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. You've closed the idea.

Make it stick the first time. 20 make it stick. You're right. We're going too far away from throw it again. 20. Make it stick. Throw it again. Is there another word for throw that we could do?

Chuck it. I I tell you the only part I don't like is the word throw and the word again.

Pitch it. Uh, so you like it? Okay. Yeah, we'll narrow that down. Okay. One more to one more toss.

One more chuck. One more. One more pitch. Little extra cheddar. Bring the cheddar.

Throw it again. 20 full count. Um, full send. Fast ball. Give him the Give him uh B 20. Make it stick. Fast ball. Corner. Fast ball. Special.

Fast ball. All heat. No. Fast ball for the big boy. Nope. That's it. This is No, THIS IS IT.

WHAT I LIKE is like the big boy the big boy the big boy is watching. He's in the hospital and he's like telling talking to you before the game like

you make it stick for me. Will you please say 20 sticks back to bas? Yeah. Uh Griffin, we want to check back in with 20 honey sticks back in business.

Trav, you think you got the sense too? Okay, because honey is sticky. I want to make Oh, 20 honey sticks because if it would help it stick you see what you did.

Can I I'll see. Here's what I will say. You the same person who is clucking his tongue at 206 is the same man that just wrote 20 make it stick fast ball for the big boy. So I don't know.

Uh-oh. What was that sound you just made with your body when you said it out loud? What was the emotion you What was the emotion you felt when you said that out loud just now? Tell me.

Laughter. Laughter and what was the emotion? We were also talking about like throw it again to stick it to the wall. And you've somehow created a narrative that there was a boy in the hospital that didn't ask for a home run. He asked for a picture to throw blood.

But the big boy can be inside you. That's what I'm saying. The big boy is in your heart and

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't disappoint yourself. Funny making steak. I hit her for the big boy.

I for the big boy is pretty good. Make steak. OUR [screaming] [screaming] wives are going to hate it.

Guys, I just got a low battery alert on my laptop. Can it be 20? Make it stick for the

Yeah, it absolutely. Oh, [ __ ] Oh, man. That's really good. Okay. [clears throat and snorts]

Okay. So the the name of the Oh [ __ ] dude. 2026 uh is 20 20 man stick a heater for the big boy. Um we got we'll edit in the other stuff later right?

I Yeah, man. I'm I'm dripping sweat. My brother, my brother, kiss your dad square on the lips. My life, it's better. It's better with you. It's better. My life, it's better. It's better with you. Cuz it's true. It's better. It's better with two. It's better with you.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026"?

Justin McElroy (Guest), Travis McElroy (Guest), Griffin McElroy (Host).

What is "MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026" about?

In a humorous exploration of creativity and absurdity, the Mroy brothers engage in a whimsical naming process for the year 2026, reflecting on past year names while highlighting the lack of expertise in their suggestions. With playful banter and comedic elements, they invite listeners into their unconventional world, emphasizing that their advice should not be taken seriously.

What is mentioned in this The McElroy Family episode?

16 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Justin Mroy, Fungalore, Dixie Chicks, Rick and Morty, Zolo, Stevie Nicks. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "MBMBaM 795: The Naming of 2026"?

The episode runs 1 h 36 min; the transcript is about 18,136 words in 609 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 24, 2026.