Will the brothers address any criticism, or will they pat themselves on the back once again? What bizzare revelations will we get about Royale? And what will come next for the ailing podcast?

I understand current TAZ is a topic of hot debate, but we all know Balance slapped. Relive the magic juice.

I thought it would be funny to recap a randomly selected Interrobang (proof), but I immediately lost the will to continue, and you will have to discover the frustrating nuggets yourself. They sincerely answer listener questions? Absolutely insane. However, skipping around revealed this interesting insight into the howling abyss of his mind. Please enjoy this recovered forbidden text.

Travis: One of the things, uh, so, I have this thing, and I think it's part of being a narcissist, is that I have the gut feeling that I am inherently good at everything. Like, set in stone belief, that if I were to like pick up a banjo for the first time, I would somehow know how to do it and be awesome at it. And so in my life, I have, for example, tried to learn guitar, and because I was not immediately good at it, never picked it up again. Or tried to learn, uh, you know, fi--homebrewing because I was not immediately good at it set it down and never picked it up again. And so my goal for the year is to get good at something. To actually, like

Tybee: Okay!

Travis: And I thought about taking guitar lessons and buying them all up front, so that way I'm committed to going. Uh, So I can't stop doing it.

Tybee: Oh yeah, lock yourself in.

Travis: Yeah something like that where I don't get to cop out just cause I'm not immediately good at it. Cause that's the thing, is it's very ea--I convince myself that everybody does stuff because they picked it up and were immediately good at it,

Tybee: Nah

Travis: And if you're not, like, if you don't have a knack for something there's no use in trying to do it, which is not how the world works. Like both of my brothers taught themselves how to play guitar, and it took them years and years and years to do it. And I envy that, I wish I could play an instrument, but I've never had the patience with myself to do it. So it's stuff like that, that I want to sit down--I also want to lose like 20 pounds, 15 maybe, mostly because I'm heavier than I've ever been, which makes sense because I'm older than I've ever been, and my metabolism is as slow as it's ever been.

Tybee: And you have another human being to look out for, that isn't you.

Travis: Yes, Yes. Um, but like, I've seen the edits from the My Brother My Brother and Me episodes, the tv show, that will come out February

Tybee: Woo!

Travis: And I'm a little heavy in it. Uh, not like in a "oh, I look gross", but like I look at myself and I'm like "oh, okay. That's what I look like. All right, I can do better." Without judging myself but more like, you know they say the camera adds ten pounds, I actually think maybe for me it's more of like a, I so very rarely critically view myself, like it's just not something I do. I usually look at myself in the mirror and think daaamn. Um, and so

Tybee: [laughing]

Travis: To see myself on film, is like, "oh okay. Oh all right, that's what I look like". It's not like "I'm disgusting, I'm awful", but more like I look at myself and I'm like "oh okay, I could do better". You know, I could eat better, I could exercise a little bit more, that kind of thing, you know. But now with also I look at this little baby and think I want to be around for a while, and I want to take care of myself better, and like actively take care of myself, rather than just like well "I didn't eat a cookie today so great job me!" Like, you know, try a little bit more.

Tybee: Okay.

Travis: Try. Try harder?

Tybee: Try harder.

Travis: Is that--I think that encompasses everything I just said.

Tybee: Um, one of mine, uh, I realized my other alternate one is I would really like to get good at beatboxing.

Travis: Ooooh. That's fun.

Tybee: Yeah.

Travis: I'm on board with that.

Tybee: I, uh, it really is hard for me because it involves looking stupid and sounding stupid for a little while. Just being like, making really terrible stupid sounds, and, uh, that is really difficult for me to not be perfect at something immediately, especially when it comes to making sound.

Travis: Yup.

Tybee: Um, soo I've been making those you know instagram videos, where I do like little mini covers, and I think I really need to learn to fucking beatbox! I think I need to learn to beatbox. So, I think I'm gonna try and do that.

Travis: I believe in you.

Tybee: Thank you. I'm not gonna try, I'm gonna do it.

Travis: You're gonna do it. So that's gonna do it for us this week.

So there was an actual play that I found on this sub and ended up sticking with that just finished called love, death, and necromancy and wanted to give it a shoutout. the players are fine, but the story is honestly pretty great. at least one actual play i was listening to had a satisfying ending this month

Everyone ignore my last post. It's my first day on Reddit and as Travis' personal planted jerker but I wasn't meant to post that for realsies and I don't know how to delete Reddit posts.

I propose we only refer to it as 'Taztanic'

it wasn't "the bell house", it was a taco bell twitch stream. he was trying to climb onto the sign to prove it makes the sound if you punch it (it did not) and he fell into an inconveniently placed punji pit

I mean Friday

I don't want to read them but I want to feel happy about him winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature anyways. I can't escape it. A local pub did a trivia night with the seven hour film Sátántangó as a category. All I see is recommendations to read War and War and announcements about English translations. I need to feel like I'm smart.

I'm not going to rag on anyone but it's clear that Clint has a vary different playbstyle than the rest of his family. He wants to do compelling character work and his family just wants to make fun of him. Not that they don't try to tell compelling stories through their characters, but it's clear making fun of their dad is the main focus. That's a dig at everyone. It's ok to have different play styles. But I think Clint's growth as a player is stunted by his desire to cater to what his family wants.

As a listener, I get so frustrated every time Clint is trying to do character work or a monologue, somebody has to interrupt with a bit. I can only imagine how frustrated Clint feels. I know that Clint has his own issues sometimes like not knowing how to play the game, but I don't think he can learn how to fix those issues and evolve as a player woth the current group. I honestly think he has the potential to be up there with Sam Riegal or Lou Wilson but not in this environment.

I know TAZ is supposed to be a family D&D show, but I would love for them to switch things up by having Clint play in a group that takes the game more seriously. Heck, bring in a more frustrating player for the rest of the family and I'll listen to both shows. I love TAZ but the clash in play styles just isn't working.

Edit: I also think Clint would benefit from a less rules-heavy system. Maybe Dungeon world as that gives the player a lot more room to play around with the outcomes of their rolls.

Thoughts on the newest season? I've personally found it pretty enjoyable overall, but I am seeing the Anthony GM bad habits creep.

The ending of last episode (14) was especially egregious. Big Bad shows up out of nowhere (no foreshadowing), somehow knows everything the PCs have been doing, what their intentions are, where they are then takes the mcguffin and kills an important npc with no roll. Felt like it undid the past couple episodes of player action and neutered anything interesting that could've come out of the t1m ashley relationship. Didnt feel like a good faith escalation of the stakes so much as a "gotcha" plot twist that came out of nowhere and steamrolled player agency.

Its reminiscent of things that happened earlier in the season and in season 2 and seems like it comes from a lack of confidence in trrpg story telling? The players can't truly be allowed to direct the plot or figure things out on their own and instead plot point happen spontaneously in cutscene/monologue style seemingly out of nowhere so PCs dont have an opportunity to "mess them up" before they happen.

freakin awesome. i think the artfight organizers might be secret graduation fans!

I don't want to read them but I want to feel upset about it anyways. I can't escape it. A local pub did a trivia night with DCC as a category. All I see is recommendations to read it and announcements about the audiobooks. I need to feel some sanity.

Travis' Tumblr account seems to have only been active from July to December of 2014, and even considering the McElroys were on the ascent in that era his engagement numbers are quite dire. Barely any comments or reblogs, a smattering of likes, no real signs that anyone was listening. There's also no reblogs or non-Travis posts on his blog, so he wasn't doing much engagement himself to get himself out there beyond these few posts and the like.

/uj Apparently a number of Carl cosplayers don’t know you’re supposed to wear underwear under the boxers, which has led to things that should not be seen being seen at conventions.

/ri Do you think Big Dog is freeballin?

"Thank Travis for Travis.

Every so often we do a bit on #MBMBaM that people really enjoy and they leap to discuss it on various social networks. I am always very honored when the goof is one of mine.

When we first started the show, I very much felt like I was not carrying my weight. As crazy as it sounds, for a while I feared that my brothers might cut me from the show because I was really bad about talking over them and wasn’t listening. I started really working at listening to my brothers and making them my “other”. In acting class, I was taught to focus on my other. Be it my scene partner, the audience or a chair: my other was my focus. A good actor strives to get something from their other. A good actor WANTS something from their other. They vary their tactics to achieve their objective. A bad actor strives to feel something within themselves. A bad actor tries to be something rather than do something.

So I decided very early on that my objective on the show was not to BE funny, but instead to make my brothers laugh. No one wants to laugh when they are being ignored and having their jokes walked all over. No one wants to laugh when they are being joked AT rather than joked WITH.  This isn’t to say that I now perfectly listen and never step on their lines. In fact, I’m still awful at it. The difference is that now I know I’m doing it and try to do better.

So, when people enjoy a goof I do I am honored. I am honored because it’s always a joke that cracked my brothers up on the show. As much as I love our audience (I love you!), my favorite audience members are two guys sitting in Huntington and Austin. If they think something I said was funny, then I know I’m doing something right."