Brace and Liz’s chaotic Marathon Men (Part 2) starts with a darkly absurd Twitter joke about "selling Liz to Chechnya," then spirals into conspiracy-laced humor—mocking terror watch lists, "tarot watch lists" for dating apps, and the Boston Irish Mafia’s alleged infiltration of their podcast. Between rants on The Departed’s Boston vs. Hong Kong debate and a bizarre detour into samurai swords and meatball sandwiches, they weaponize absurdity to expose how far satire can stretch before collapsing into genuine paranoia. [Automatically generated summary]
Hey y'all, um, since the last episode came out, there's been a lot of rumors kind of spreading around.
And I want to make it clear here: I didn't sell Liz to Chechnya.
Oh my god, like no, that was a fake listing.
Wait, there was a real listing?
Yeah, no, don't worry about it.
You said it was just a Twitter thing.
You can't even, it turns out you can't even send people like in boxes and shit.
They have to be dead for that.
And like, that's who would pay for that?
Well, joke's on you, bitch, because you can't sell nothing to them with the sanctions.
Hey, so correction from the open earlier.
I am selling Liz to Chechnya.
She'll be arriving there shortly.
So if you have any Truanon listeners in Grozny, she'll be doing a meet and greet where she will be in a cage.
That's awful.
Don't joke about that.
Okay.
Yes, I'm just joking.
Hello, Liz.
My name is Brace.
Hello, Brace.
My name is Liz.
And we are, as always, joined by producer Young Chomsky, who is not in a cage.
Coming out of my cage.
No.
And this is Truanon.
Hello.
Hello.
We have a long fucking episode.
So let's not, let's not even.
I mean, listen, if you want us to sum up what we talked about last time, we actually do it at the top of this episode.
No, of last episode.
Oh, we did.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
We did do that.
Yeah.
We're doing lots of summing up.
We're doing some.
All you lazy listeners out there.
Here's the thing.
You want to know about the Boston bombing?
Www.wikipedia.com.
Slash article.
Slash Boston Underscore bombing hashtag, uh.
Controversies and conspiracies no, but i'm gonna say this, if you like drugs, uh-huh.
If you like meatball sandwiches, oh yeah.
If you like samurai swords, uh.
You like terror watch lists, uncles of all stripes yeah, uh.
What else do we got in this episode?
Crack yeah, crack.
I do.
I'll be real with you.
I do like legitimately, in like a real way.
Don't answer this.
Some of those are like, really among my favorite things.
I was also just thinking when you said that, because you talk all up.
I thought you said tarot watch list.
We got to start putting women on that.
There needs to be a tarot watch list.
So if you're like you know you're, you're on your little Bumble and some woman messages you, a red thing comes up like She thinks she's gonna do magic.
She thinks she can do magic.
Like that voice says it to you from your bumble.
The dude ombre security.
Wait, ombre, like the hair thing?
No.
Okay, because that's another thing.
That goes, that's pretty close to tarot.
No one's doing ombre and it's ombre.
Ombre.
Yeah, no one's doing that anymore.
Women will text you and be like, oh, I'm getting an ombre.
I'm like, you're getting a friend?
Who's getting a little Mexican friend?
What is that?
And then they show up with their hair and fucked up living.
Well, women don't text me that, but I look at other people's phones sometimes when they're texting people.
No one's getting it.
If they're doing it, they're getting balayage.
Balayage.
All right, everyone, let's get into the episode.
Hey, y'all, just at the top of the episode, I want to mention that we're actually down three people today.
It's actually just going to be me doing this episode.
I found out that Howie, Ben, and Liz were actually all working for the Boston Irish Mafia while we were recording the last episode.
And in fact, over a two and a half hour period, I found out that they had actually betrayed me in order to fulfill the goals of their mafia superiors.
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I actually haven't really fully seen The Departed.
So I'm just, that's the plot of it, though.
They should do an update to The Departed, but it's about podcasters.
Yeah.
The thing about The Departed is it's not even really a Boston movie.
It's a Hong Kong movie that they just said in Boston because that was the hot thing to do at the time.
It doesn't even have anything to do with Boston.
But I don't understand because I thought everyone was like, oh, this is totally based on John Connolly.
But it's not.
It's just a coincidence.
It would be really cool if the Hong Kong one took it from John Connolly and then they took it back and then like put it back in Boston.
Well, I mean, think about it like this.
Like Hong Kong, they've always called it China's Boston, right?