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nikknight:

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Do you like?

• Video Games:
  
• Monster Factory-Griffin and Justin explore the capabilities of character creators. Remember “just like bart”? That’s from this.
• Car Boys-Griffin and Nick find out that BeamNG.drive is much more that it appears on the surface. What was originally going to be a single video now has 30 because more and more things keep showing up. I hope you like clair de lune. 
• Touch the Skyrim-Griffin and Nick try to make Skyrim more enjoyable by braking it with mods. The first iteration broke in four episodes. Mod discovered
• Peacecraft- Griffin is attempting to go through World of Warcraft without killing anything. The fan interaction is making this turn out really fun. 
• Polygon’s YouTube channel has too many more individual videos to list. The nuzlocke and law abiding citizen and all of the overviews. I’m still finding one’s I haven’t watched.
• Cool Games Inc (podcast)-Griffin and Nick design games using submissions from twitter and Reddit. From it come such favorites as ‘Tim McGraw’s What if? Trucks: Fates’ and ‘50 First States’.  Here’s a playlist of animated clips.

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• D&D:
• The Adventure Zone (podcast)-Griffin DMs for his brothers, Justin (Taako/elf wizard) and Travis (Magnus/human fighter), and their dad Clint (Merle/dwarf cleric). D&D played fast and loose. With a surprising depth to the story and original music coming in during the 3rd arc, props to Griffin for making this my favorite thing. Start at episode one, the first arc is a little slow, but it get much, much better.

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• Goofs on Goofs:
• My Brother, My Brother, and Me (MBMBaM) podcast-Griffin, Justin and Travis give “advice” to questions from fans and Yahoo Answers. There is no chronology, so just jump in wherever (344 episodes seems a little daunting).  The earliest episodes are a little less ‘open-minded’ so keep that in mind. The boys have learned a lot since then. YouTube is full of clips and you can spend all day going from one to the next.
• MBMBaM Seeso- the podcast recently got a TV interpretation. Explore Huntington while helping people relate to teens, get a job, start a secret society, and a lot more. Seeso requires a membership (and it’s US only), but you can get a free week trial. There is one episode available on YouTube though!

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• Bringing the wives in:
• Sawbones (podcast)-Justin and Sydnee take a ‘marital tour of misguided medicine.’ It’s about medical history from one doctor and one not a doctor.
• Rose Buddies (podcast)-Griffin and Rachel’s Bachelor fancast. You don’t have to watch the bachelor to enjoy it, at most you might have to google what the people look like. Start at the beginning of any season (#52 starts the current season).
• Shmanners (podcast)- Travis and Teresa teach you about etiquette. I haven’t gotten to this one but it’s on my list

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• How do I even describe these?:
• Griffin’s Amiibo Corner- a simple amiibo review series, that’s it, nothing weird about this.
• Things I Bought at Sheetz-a food review quiz show where Justin buys something from Sheetz and Dwight has to guess if he likes it. Probably my favorite series for hidden depth.
• Carrey On- Travis’s new series where he is going to watch and review every Jim Carrey movie chronologically.
• Til Death do Us Blart (podcast)- the boys are joined by the boys from “The Worst Idea of All Time” to do an annual review of Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. Every Year. For all time. 

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There are even more that this that I haven’t gotten to yet. mcelroyshows.com has links to all of these, along with other social media links (the Facebook groups are full of great people). All of the podcasts can be found on ITunes or your favorite podcast app. These good, good boys try their best, and I think they succeeded to make a whole bunch of wholesome content to enjoy. 

The McElroys are honest-to-god proof that you don’t have to be hurtfully offensive to be incredibly funny. From what I’ve seen they genuinely take people’s concerns to heart and do their best not to perpetuate harmful ideas.

Like, their humor does often get into topics like race, gender, sexuality, religion, but as a queer, mixed race woman, I personally have never once felt like they were laughing at me, only with me. I remember commenting to a friend once that they make gay jokes the way gay people make gay jokes, and I love it.

That was so incredible to me the first time I realized it. I know that’s just the minimum standard of decency, and I’m not exactly patting them on the back for it? But

I just wanted to say this because they’ve brought me so many laughs and I appreciate them so much for the effort they make to be inclusive.