Wonderful! - Wonderful! 100: A Centennial Celebration

Episode Date: September 18, 2019

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🎵 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Yeah. Okay, Mario. Yeah, I'll hit you up at the after party. Okay, man. Yeah, I'll see you there. Hey, this is Griffin McElroy.

And this is wonderful. Sorry, it's just... I know we gotta focus on the show. I know it's our big day, but we're on the red carpet, and like... Yeah. It's hard for...

If Mario Lopez comes up and wants to hang out at the after party, babe, it's like, I've made it. I know, but let's not celebrate our 100th episode before we've actually recorded it. Right. This is the red carpet before the event. We're about to go to the first not celebrate our 100th episode before we've actually recorded it. Right. This is the red carpet before the event. We're about to go to the first screening of our 100th episode.

For all I know, it could be a disaster. Mario may not want to talk to me after the party. So I need to check that. Cash that check. Shit, if this is the energy I bring to F100, Mario's definitely not going to want to talk to me. I just want to tell him what a good job he did playing Greg L luganis in that one lifetime movie oh geez and that one commercial i saw for it where he asked if there was a blood nipple yeah yeah you love that anecdote yeah who are you looking forward to seeing today on the uh and the the big red way well wallace sean wallace sean is a big fan

uh and then you know what he calls the show what wonderful Wallace Shawn is a big fan. And then. You know what he calls the show? What? Wonderful. It's the same thing. He calls the same thing, but he says it like Wallace Shawn. It's pretty good. Thanks. Yeah.

Also. Yeah. Surprise guests. Uh-oh. Nancy Pelosi. Hey, Nancy. Who knew? She's a real busy lady.

It was so nice of her to turn out yeah i didn't didn't know didn't know never knew sorry for all the shit that we talk about nancy pelosi on this show on this political show this political podcast this is wonderful we talk about things that we are super into this is our 100th episode everybody said we wouldn't make it that's true chomp my shorts first 27. First 27 iTunes review. They're never gonna make it. They're never gonna make it to 100. If you add the Rosebuddies years,

we're well into the, what, thousands? Who even knows? But anyway, our 100th episode is so special. It's very special. We were trying to figure out how much elbow grease to put into it. And I thought we had agreed on very little and just let's have a day for ourselves. But I just looked at your shit

and you have a pie chart. And that makes me feel like a fucking clown so first of all we should thank for the hundredth time probably bowen and augustus for the use of our theme song when oh whoever the mysterious stranger that created wonderful.fyi yes you it was a tremendous resource in planning for today's episode some of that shit i was looking back uh through because i went back through like all of my suggestions throughout time and like some of that shit i did not remember dedicating 12 minutes of my life to but uh yeah i was surprised to find out that i had uh so we have a few i guess skits you say sketches we have not really discussed what each of us,

I mean, we have a general sense of what the other is talking about. Kind of, yeah. But I don't know that I could participate in a skit. It's sort of a, you know, best of episode, flashback episode. I feel like we're approaching it from a different, should we do small wonders? Let's do small wonders, just touch base. Anything modern, anything now,

anything happening now that you're into i got something okay turning a bread recipe into a muffin recipe just more bread it's more bread folks i took a pumpkin bread recipe i said i'll just pour these in little muffin tins now they're pumpkin muffins and they are the perfect little snackable serving size oh my god i love a good muffin it's like you it's like an unstuffed hand pie if you think about it oh uh salmon into salmon lately love this stuff super into salmon really into salmon i got the bug at disney world i don't know why i've been playing a cool video game called outer wilds and it's like groundhog day it's set in this uh it's set in like this

solar system that you can fly around this spaceship and solve all these mysteries but you only have 22 minutes before the sun explodes and so you have to like figure out what's going on but you're on a time limit and then when you die you start over it's a really cool game i'm really into that and salmon did i say salmon you did say this is the pink fish that delights everyone it's a pink one no bones in this fish makes it easy for you yeah it comes pre-cooked from the sea what is so what are we doing here well let me let me take you back i thought it would be good to just just go to our roots look at episode one okay just very quickly explain to everybody where we started okay episode one came out September 6, 2017. Oh, wow.

So we've almost two years. Over two years. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, almost to the date. And we talked about a lot more topics back then. Yeah, I think we sort of, yeah. This was before Small Wonders, and I think we wanted to cover a lot of things. So first episode, grand prize game. Yeah.

Movies about baseball. Timeless. The expression, no worries. Oh, yeah. Yours were VR. Yeah. Carly Rae. Well, specifically, the first six notes of Carly Rae Jepsen's Cut to the Feeling that goes into the chorus.

Yes, yes. The six notes that she sings. Yes. Which, I'll go ahead and reveal what I've been doing. I whipped up some superlatives. And I have best, and I whipped these up like this morning best overall i have still the six notes crj sings going into the chorus of cut to the feeling you did a facebook poll in the group asking what the best thing we've ever done is and it was that and i was so blown away can i tell you

i brought that same poll to twitter okay and last i checked what was number one poetry corner well that's a that's a con. Well, that's a feature. I know, I had more Poetry Corner to draw from than Six Notes, I guess. Well, there's more poetry in those Six Notes than all the words of the Great Bard. But Carly Rae was second. Yeah, okay. I think it's worth talking about other things that happened at the very beginning of our run. So as I mentioned, first episode, 9-6, 2017.

9-28, 2017, Lizzo was first mentioned. I feel like we were pretty ahead of the game. I'm giving that, as far as superlatives, I'm giving that biggest call. Biggest call. Most improved sounds like we're talking about Lizzo has improved. That's just a sort of way of saying, like, we said Lizzo and our love for Lizzo has only grown over time, as has the Earth. Yes, and the global recognition of the talent that is Lizzo.

Every fucking commercial that comes on now has got something in it. Yeah. Something in it. Something in it from Lizzo that she has created is awesome. I'm so glad that she has popped off the way she has. And in all of our polls, Lizzo got number three. So we did polls. And when I say we, I mean me.

Yeah. We did polls asking listeners what their favorite wonderful thing was in the last 99 episodes. And Lizzo got number three. Okay. And then first and second were kind of back and forth between Carly Rae's Six Notes and Poetry Corner. Okay. Can I do a couple superlatives? Sure.

I pulled from mine. I thought you were going to be focusing on yours. So maybe I've fucked this up pretty bad. But I have some superlatives that I worked on while going through. And I wanted to start with most confusing. And I'm going to give that to, and this is how I framed it, I guess. Gentle ball hitting games. I don't remember what that means.

Whoa. Was it ping pong? Is it ping pong? Is that? Whoa, was it ping pong? Is it ping pong? I guess I suppose you can hit the ball gently. I assume it's ping pong, but I wonder why you didn't just say ping pong. Am I describing pool there? I don't know. I saw this one and I was like, this has to be something.

It's most confusing. Most confusing. Well, that actually brings me to another thing. So Wonderful FYI is categorized by like kind of large groups that they put our topics into. Oh, interesting. Okay. So Food and Drink is one. Music Podcast is one. TV, Video, Movies is one.

There is a giant category just called Other, which I think is just uncategorizable. Yeah. just called other which i think is just uncategorizable yeah things in that probably oh my god like parasols outdoor hoses buckies well those are objects like i was thinking they would sort of talk more about the concepts that we talk about sometimes like uh i'm sure that's in there too the feeling of relief you get when you uh open a new container of something how do you there's is there a word in german that describes that sensation so we according to the website we had a total of 625 wonderful things hell yeah we are keeping it going earth i mean um of those 207 fall in the other category okay i like that yeah next highest category food and drink that's like That's like the second most talked about?

That makes sense. Yes, that's like White Claw hot dogs. Hot dogs, by the way, came up three times in our run. We talked about hot dogs thrice? Yes. You talked about making hot dogs at home. Okay. You talked about hot dogs at a baseball game.

Okay. And then we talked about the hot dog destroyer video. That video is still great. If you didn't hear that episode, it was a big plastic syringe that you cut the needle off of and you put it like a grate of paper clips in there. And then you put the hot dog in, you push the plunger, it pushes the hot dog through the grate to split it. Why would you want to do this? Nobody knows. Maybe you're making several very small, long still hot dogs.

I don't know. Maybe you got to make that hot dog go around. I'm not here to judge. Let's have another superlative. Got a pair of superlatives here. Okay. I have least authentic, and this is one of mine. Okay.

Outdoor equipping and camping tech. Because if I'm being honest, folks, I did a segment on that. Maybe this segment should be instead most aspirational. Because since I did that segment, guys. Do you remember what you were getting? Well, we went to REI. We went to REI.

We got something. But then I just sort of more talked about my fascination with gear. And I like gear. Holy shit, I like gear. But like the gear I'm buying these days, friends, it stays in the home. I am not out there buying pickaxes i am not out there buying a new tent over the weekend we went on a gentle walk with some friends and it was it was very hot granted yeah by the end of it

we just okay no i'm not gonna we have like a 30 pound child also that rode on my shoulders while I held a wet cloth to his skinned knee. It was a nightmare. I'm not going to let that. Anyway, I have most authentic and that is a nice light jacket. Still fucking great. Yes. Still good.

Wearing one right now. Still always good. Have you ever Marie Kondo style laid out all your light jackets? You know, what's a sad fact is I will have artifacts of clothing like a light jacket or a hat that is like a, I guess you could call it an accessory. And of all of the things, actually of all the things in general that I own, those are the ones that I am the worst about like not losing. I lose jackets and hats fucking constantly.

I've used that.ston astros hat that i loved and fit so great and i liked the look of which is rare for me in a baseball cap lost that shit at disney somewhere do not know hit me up goofy george geoff hit me up bud uh let me know if you find it jackets i left two jackets on the cruise i left two jackets on the cruise ship can i tell you something yeah you tend to wear jackets when you don't actually need to have a jacket, and I think that's why you lose them. Yeah. You bring them to an environment that doesn't require a jacket.

Better to have them and not need them than need them and have... Do you have another thing? I do. So I wanted to talk about another popular category for us, which is music slash podcast. I have some superlatives there. Okay. We have brought 82 music topics.

82 music topics. What's up, guys? It's me, DJ Boom Blast. Tonight, I'm going to be spinning all the greatest hits. I'm going to play for you 31 music. So get ready. Strap in. Hey, guys.

Welcome. This is WWFB, the greatest oldies in this side of the mississippi we're gonna be playing non-stop commercial 15 music for you don't touch that dial it's got jam on it tell me what your music superlatives are please got a couple music superlatives i've just like best music that i that i brought judy sill it's the one that like since i did that segment i like had listened to some of her other stuff that i hadn't really listened to before and it's still the one that it's still the one i want to that's the other one is is that faith hill i probably don't want to bring faith i also have uh most this is most tragic category that i brought

and it was chill hop and don't get me wrong. Love Chill Hop. Still put it on when I'm working. I still put it on when I need to chill out. But it has sadly defiled another one of my topics, which is the Spotify weekly playlist recommendation. Oh, yeah. I swear to God, I could spend tomorrow listening to exclusively fucking acapella Japanese black metal.

You'd still get chill up. And my fucking playlist would be like, and here's 30 more chill hop songs. And it's like, dog, I promise I am so chill. I have the biggest playlist ever of this good stuff. Like I would like some other stuff now. Yeah, I guess there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

Can I talk a little bit about Poetry Corner? Yeah, of course. You can talk a lot about Poetry Corner. So here's what's kind of amazing to me. As I mentioned, 625 wonderful things. Now that includes small wonders, by the way. Okay. I have only featured 16 poets.

Huh. In that whole run. Have you done repeat poets? No. You've only done 16 poetry corners? That's weird. We have done 32 poetry and literature topics. I see.

Four of them have been by you. Really? Yeah, the others have been by me. Okay, because I put best book, Hatchet, because I thought it was the only book I'd brought. No, you had some other books on there. Some sci-fi thing. Some sci-fi thing. Oh, I guess it's Small Wonders. I wasn't looking at Small Wonders

when I put this list together. Oh, so I included Small Wonders. Okay, it was probably 70s maybe? Yeah. Yeah, that was probably it. I actually, I strike that book from the record. It fucked me up mentally. That book gave me a lot of like horrific anxiety

and as much as I love Neilil stevenson like this is a hearty do not read if you are an anxious person hatchet that one will get you there that one will take you to paradise a northern wild paradise we read that in a while though maybe there's some stuff in there you didn't catch that that first time uh he makes it out alive and the world doesn't explode so i'm gonna say hatchet a less anxious experience reading experience than seven years that's not a spoiler by the way it happens in like the first chapter i wanted to give a shout out to the first poet that i think really started the poetry corner which was wallace stevens wallace stevens that was episode five uh wallace stevens is the poet

that had a feud with robert frost that's the episode, Robert Frost fistfight. Oh, that's a fun title. And he's also the poet that had the last lines for the listener who listens in the snow and nothing himself beholds nothing that is not there. And then nothing that is. Eat shit, Robert Frost. That it was, I mean, that's clearly a burn on Robbie Frost, right? That's from the poem, The Snowman.

Oh, my God. Get fucking melted, Robert Frost. You got fucking put in the toilet, dude. There's a famous exchange between Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost, where Wallace Stevens says, the trouble with you, Robert, is that you write about subjects. And Frost says, the trouble with you, Wallace, is that you write about bric-a-brac. Oh, I see. Oh, damn.

I see from the Frost man. That's why they call him Frost man. Damn. I want to know more about old beefs. Old art beefs. There is. I pulled that quote from a website that is all about literary feuds oh i need to know this website wait for that wonderful episode 101 look forward to that

segment hey bad news i am really burning through my super that's okay we can do i've got a couple okay okay what's next uh so i wanted to talk about something else, which is wombats. This has been... This has become part of our brand. Part of our lives. And you know what's crazy? We talked about it in the second episode. Haven't really circled back on wombats too much, but their poop is square, and that's great, and they kill things, predators, with their butts, and that's pretty great too.

they kill things predators with their butts and that's pretty great too griffin and i get a lot of wombat material um both sent to us through our po box and also sent to us through twitter and facebook as if we invented the wombat i will say this the stuff we get is all for henry and it's also good it's there is a whole diary of a wombat series of books that we have now received they're beautiful and they're very they're very charming and cute and also very short which is great when henry wants another last book i can be like how about christmas wombat uh thank you to everybody who has sent us also unlike stuffed wombats it's very sweet um but but i just of all the things of all the things could have sent us hot dogs. 625 things. Could have sent us Tamagotchis or Nintendo 64s.

Please don't send us hot dogs. Don't send us hot dogs. We don't check the P.O. box that often. You want to know, so I'll pepper in my top five. Oh, yeah. When Griffin and I were originally talking about doing this episode, I indicated that we both should pick a top five. Okay. And then maybe at the end of the episode, decide what the indicated that we both should pick a top five. Okay.

And then maybe at the end of the episode, decide what the most wonderful thing is of our first hundred episodes. Oh, shit. I know. Overalls. Overalls. Overalls.

Also, early on, not quite as early. Well, no, actually, same episode. Holy shit. Is that possible? Anything's possible. i don't think i wrote it down i don't think i wrote it down anyway overalls early in the run overalls is one of the first things i thought of when we started talking about doing this show and i was like oh surely i can't make a whole segment out of that but i did and i still love them so much yeah they're really good it's hard for me to see a pair of overalls

and not think that I should own it. Yeah, and sometimes you have ripped them off of mannequins or stolen them out of other people's luggage. Here's the argument I'll make. So part of my top five, each item comes with an argument because I was prepared to go to battle with you. Timeless, functional, and available to all everyone everyone can wear overalls but should everyone wear yeah everyone should wear overalls they're so functional yeah have

you ever like well you when's the last time you wore an overall i've never when i was three and i was taking pictures for the church directory. So there's pockets on the side. Yeah. There's pockets up front. Yeah. Pockets in the back. Okay. There's nothing better than like putting a pen in that front pocket

and just like having it at the ready. Okay. No, I'm with you. I think that this is a strong contender. It'll probably win. I'm just looking at the website now and gonna pull some random bullshit. Definitely in my top five,

a nice mechanical keyboard. Can't stress this enough i got these new rainbow like sweet sherbert keycaps on mine and it's just babe i don't think you understand this is my deck you know this is the fucking spaceship i used to fly through the information superhighway yeah this is what i used to create and i gotta have it be on lock. And since I've gotten it on lock, my words per minute have increased. My writing is more- What about your click clack sound? My clicky clack sound has gone up considerably.

That's not true. My last keyboard was a gaming keyboard from Black Widow Razor bullshit. Oh, hey, speaking of games. Oh, yeah? Can I tell you that's another category yeah how many have we done 55 games holy shit only six of which were mine and mine as you recall are like four square and little computer people i mean those still absolutely count uh i have a a best game

category and it is animal crossing and that's going to be tough to ever ever be i feel like yeah um it's just it's so good there was just a new nintendo direct where they showed off a bunch of new footage of it you're gonna be on a deserted island you're gonna be collecting rocks and sticks and building things out of them you can make paths anywhere you want it's gonna be a game changer folks we should do a game where you play animal crossing for a couple hours and then i go out in the world and try and replicate my own animal crossing experience just out in nature that would be kind of compare our results at the end or we could do a game where you play animal crossing with me and make me the happiest man on the world i should have talked

about when we were talking about food stuff uh i do have best food it is rice again like animal crossing tough to beat we eat it like four or five times a week it's good it's there for you you put some salmon on it and you're cruising can i tell you what my top five food is yeah pecan pie oh shit i mean we get into the Thanksgiving episodes. That's where we're going to find a lot of the food happening. Here's the thing with pecan pie. Tasty. Wholesome.

We've talked about it twice. We did it in our Thanksgiving feature. Twice. And we talked about it again. In the next Thanksgiving. Because it deserved its own. Still good. Here's the thing, folks.

We're going to hit our next Thanksgiving episode here coming up pretty soon. We're going to talk about fucking pecan pie again.'s still pretty when we have a pecan pie we go oh actually you know what that's too many nuts then we're not gonna do a pecan pie that year but that's never gonna happen so chill uh before we continue can i steal you away oh yeah Here's a message for Calvin from Josh Rick, who says, Thanks for being the bestest bud. I'm super grateful for our friendship. Can't wait to have more dumb convos and jokes that are probably only funny to us, too. Keep it real. And let me know when you hear this. P.S. I'm sending this one from an airbnb in iceland so top that yo but don't really because

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I'm just saying those are the three that I know. Is there a fourth? No. I mean, there's Gareth Jeffries from Manchester. I don't know what's happening right now. I'm lying. Can I read the next person? I'm telling lies, Papa.

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It's weird for me to think of you as the baby brother because that doesn't play a role in our relationship at all. Powerful. Like a bear. Authoritarian. Very strict. Yeah. Hi, I'm Dave. Hi, I'm Graham. And we're two house DJs who have been trapped inside our drum

machine. We love it here and we'd love if you stopped by and visited us every week on Stop Podcasting Yourself here on MaximumFun.org. We're just a couple of doofuses from Canada. And listen to our show or perish. Stop Podcasting Yourself on MaximumFun.org. I want to talk about the best movie that I have brought.

Ooh, okay. Which I just realized I brought Groundhog Day. So best movie from the last 20 years. The best movie that I've brought from the last 20 years and definitely top five contender for me is that Spider-Man animated, the Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. I thought you were going to say Fast and the Furious,

but I don't remember if we've ever talked about uh i mean we talked about drifting so i did in an ancillary way talk about fast and the furious tokyo drift which is the worst one of those movies so i'm not well like third worst anyway this spider-man movie holy shit saw it in theaters blew my fucking mind took you to see it in theaters which is like i never do that is go to see a second movie again went and saw the movie a second time with you in theaters blew my mind again bought it when it came out on rental or whatever watch that shit like once a week with him it's like the movie that i have fallen the deepest in love with since we've been doing the show it's so good it's so very very good it's so good

it's it like takes my breath away every time it looks so good and i didn't realize there's like an alternate universe mode in the version that we bought that has like extra extra stuff there's like more spider ham stuff with uh what's his face shit who did spider ham shit john mulaney john mulaney funny funny jokes he's got funny jokes for days man always talking about that do you want another one of my top five yeah the st louis blues i mean that's it man so i first mentioned the st louis blues actually in our prequel episode while we were still under rose buddies episode 77 of rose buddies that came out in july 2017 we did kind of a kind of a little tester a little backdoor pilot as they call me yeah just just listed some of the things we liked

one of uh mine was the st louis blues and then we started going on wonderful and i thought let's just bring them in again happened to be the year that they won the stanley cup yeah i thought like hey there's this little song called gloria they've been playing in the locker room isn't that fun yeah i love that i was winning the whole thing you got me in on the ground floor of the gloria yeah thing which i it's such a powerful sports idea that this totally like it's a great song and then also a wholly inappropriate song to be the like theme song for a professional sports team and it went from being a joke to like like an entire city of people and also the whole like st louis blues like yeah community around the world like crying when they hear yeah gloria it's

so yeah man that is a huge that's that's probably most improved for me going from not giving a shit about any sports really at all to like over the course of a season, like actually getting deeply invested in the St. Louis Blues. It was so sweet. And when they won, I had so many people like on Twitter and Facebook, like reaching out to me just because they knew I liked it because they talked about it on the show. I do also want to mention that your dad sent us a like a ring, like a St. Louis Blues. What is it like championship ring or something like that? Yeah, which is not a real thing i don't think i don't know yeah uh i mean this is clearly a replica but i don't think hockey players get rings they probably do somebody's probably

neil lane's probably whipping them up some rings or something uh jostens or something like that i he also sent me a green bay packers ring that I could fit my fucking wrist through. And every time I see it, it just reminds me how big these guys are. Just big old big boys. We convinced Henry that it was a Green Lantern ring. Yeah, and then I'm also worried he's gonna drop it on his foot

and break his precious little bird bones. So I mentioned how we talked about hot dogs three times. Another topic we talked about three times, I think through Small Wonders is Terrace House. It's hard not to list Terrace House as our top wonderful thing. Anything, top like, yeah. I mean, yeah, man, pound for pound.

That's probably, that's definitely top five for me. I think two of the three times, it was just a small wonder of us saying, hey, new season's up. Yeah, I guess it was during Rose Buddies that us saying, hey, new season's up. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it was during Rose Buddies that we did like a really deep dive on the first season that was on Netflix. The season we've been watching through like illegally. It's on Netflix now.

It's on Netflix now. Well, the first 12 episodes, I think there is more. Basically every 12 episodes when they hit that 12 episode in Japan, they like release them in one big chunk on netflix i'm pretty sure that's what they're doing it's a good season with that is giving me also lots of anxiety because the drama drama hits pretty early it's a little early on this one for my taste it does it's that show used to be just kind of a relaxation show and and there's definitely still that element but it is not as reliable as it used to be not as yeah not during during the first two seasons like it was pretty chill and then we got a

loha state and then that's just it got nasty i don't know folks it got a little bit and they had a taste of that venom oh hiss got bit by master chef got that venom in it gotta suck the pizzen out um i also wanted to mention just as a little stat a little fun fact okay we've only done one live show oh yeah as an austin november 2018 this is something we have talked about doing again yeah we have no immediate plans to do this no No. It will happen, though, I believe. Yes. Next time we do Austin shows, if we can get a babysitter. Folks, you can believe it.

We're going to be doing shows for you. No, I mean, we can do them. Maybe we should do one on the cruise. We could probably do one on the cruise. That would be fun. Yeah, it would be fun. Very, you know, not as many people would get to see it, but we'd get, you know, we'd hitch up with the recording after. Well the recording after henry's getting old enough now that we could potentially keep him up a little

later backstage and and you know do a little show but this kid fucking wrecks crafty he he wrecks crafty and we get complaints do we we get complaints what do those complaints sound like your son made a hummus mess your son made a big hummus mess that's not true we took hummus off the crafty because we nobody was eating kept throwing away not throwing away leaving them for it's like the veggie tray the next yeah last time i got it out specifically so that somebody would eat a carrot yeah uh other food related things i had most improved here uh before we talked about lizzo but i really feel like it's more suitable here is for bar shaped foods bar shaped foods the innovations

the innovations folks are off the charts what innovations are you talking about different bar shaped foods good bar shaped foods i mean this is before we got fig bars going in the mix and that's like my whole thing right now i'm talking about fruit nut bars i'm talking about those uh i will say that those little rice crispy rollers that we get from the costco that are only 100 calories for a nice sweet filling snack definitely a bar shape food that's a cylinder uh i mean a cylinder can be a bar yes Yes. Oh, interesting. Yes. Mathematicians, weigh in on that, please. Okay. Don't know why we need to get

mathematicians involved. Bar-shaped foods. They're so good. Those little cliff bars that we give to our son that make him so constipated, but he loves the energy he gets from them.

I don't think they do. There's fiber in those. Bar-shaped foods. Musubi. I'm going to say kind of a bar- food who you are getting a little too liberal here okay then spam the spam hot dog a bar shaped food no that's a hot dog uh but the spam inside the musubi i think we can all agree is pretty bar yeah okay okay okay in the eyes

of the lord and the law and math oh i've got a new superlative for you oh what's that biggest surprise i've only talked about one episode of Quantum Leap. That is pretty wild. Is it the finale? Or the pilot? Oh, it's the one where he goes back into his family. Yeah. Oh, that's a good episode. Gives me chills. I was very specific when I brought up that episode. I didn't want to say Quantum Leap. Definitely didn't want to say Scott Bakula. I wanted to work my way up. And so I said, I'm just going to talk about this one specific episode of Quantum Leap so I can return to Quantum Leap as often as I want. It's the only one I did.

Dang it, man. That shows you how many wonderful things there are in this world that I've only had to talk about Quantum Leap once. That was supposed to be your Quantum Leap project where you leapt into the timeline of being able to talk about Quantum Leap whenever you wanted to, hoping one day. One day. One day that the wonderful segment you do will be the wonderful segment that leads you home. What wrong am I putting right by doing that?

I don't know, man. I mean, I like to think that as podcasters, the difference we bring to the world is immeasurable. Some people call us podcasters. When people ask me what I do, sometimes I say, oh, I'm a podcast producer. But sometimes I catch myself and I say,

I'm a hero. All right. All right. That seems totally fair. I have a last superlative here and it's best TV. And I did put the OC, just step off.

Blown away, good. Great British Bake Off, we just did. Great. Terrace House, like very important to me, very special. OC. How many times through have you watched OC? Did you ever figure that out? I have watched it four times all the way through.

Someday I will make it five. California coming back. You're on Hulu, strap on in. We're going to watch it after this. It's time that the cycle must begin anew. It demands a sacrifice. You know what? This is another big surprise.

I don't think we've ever done a full segment on Ninja Warrior. That's so wild, babe. We were just watching it before we... Ninja Warrior, okay. I think we made that a small wonder but i don't know that we ever really fleshed it out here i want to i want to let's go behind the scenes this can be a fun episode 100 segment where we take people behind the scenes of literally every tuesday from 5 p.m central time to 10 p.m central time a five hour period of our

lives once a week every tuesday while this show is is on the air get home at five get henry home from daycare you get home you get his dinner ready when i get him home it's sitting there ready he eats it we watch some kids stuff get him you know going on the pie do all the good stuff get read him some stories he goes to bed then we usually eat food from the same chinese place so much so that the person who answers the phone there knows my name and which of the two orders we continue to oscillate between. I'm surprised she hasn't memorized my debit card number at this point. I know. I think it's sweet that she still asks you for it. And then we get that food by the time Henry goes to bed.

We watch the episode of American Ninja Warrior that aired the night before for like 30 minutes while we eat our dinner we come upstairs record our delightful show once we're finished go back down downstairs finish that episode sometimes you go to bed and i edit sometimes i save do you want to just real quick go back and forth naming ninja warrior contestants to see how long we can go i'm gonna my i'm so bad at shit like this, but I can give it a shot. Jesse Graff. Okay. Drew Dretzel. Dreshel. Dreshel.

You're out already. Kevin Bull. The Weatherman. Joe Morofsky. I think we can accept ninja titles also. Okay. Although we have to be careful because then you can just say any bullshit and it's probably some ninja. I'm going to say Captain NBC.

I can't remember his name, but that's the wildest shit. The Kid. The Kid Awadiki, yeah. We got Najee Richardson, the Phoenix. So good. So good. I mean, there's Barclay Strong. I don't remember her first name.

Barclay Stockett. Barclay Stockett. And then we got casey catanzaro uh retired gone on to the wwe but i think it still works michelle warnkey michelle warnkey is really good uh and then we can move on to uh uh oh my god flip rodriguez good good good good you're almost out i know i know. I am trying to think of the woman who... I know, the teacher? No, that's Alyssa Beard.

Dang it. I'm trying to think of the woman who always times out at the very end that we like so much. Oh, man. Who's engaged to another ninja. Can't remember. Yeah, I can't either. There's the island ninja, Grant McCartney. Oh, yeah, the island ninja. I think you're out at this point. Yeah, I can't either. There's the Island Ninja Grant McCartney. Oh, yeah. The Island Ninja.

I think you're out at this point. I think I am too. There's the Cowboy Ninja. His name is something like Buck Strongly. It's really good. This show, folks, I don't know why it occupies such a special place in our lives, but damn it does. It started as this thing that we just kind of did when there was nothing else to do and now it's like it's appointment television for us i think it's the finale downstairs oh that reminds me survivor oh yeah talked about survivor very good show very good show dedicated to it i feel like

it should be back on by this point it's got to be soon right yeah who knows anyway uh i would like to end the show. Do you have anything else? Well, do we wanna pick a wonderful thing? I mean. I mean, I feel like we should maybe go with the listeners and talk about the woman that started it all. Carly.

Carly. A lot of special memories. A lot of special times. We went to see her in concert. Touched her uncomfortably awkwardly wasn't i think it was just sort of like touching the sun you're not supposed to do that it was had one or two new albums two maybe to come out well i think we've been recording the b-side i think emotion was out but b-sides i think uh came out maybe after we were recording that one had

store on it had some great jams new, took me a while to really figure out what it was about. And now it's really won me over. Yeah. So first 100 episodes. Best thing ever, still episode one, the six notes going into the chorus of Cut to the Feeling. And here they are.

I wanted to also do like, what did we miss? Do you have anything that you feel guilty that we haven't talked about? Oh, man. I have a big one. And this may be, I don't know. The latest season of Are You The One was fucking great. Oh, yeah. The latest season of Are You The One, which is a show that we talked about a couple times on.

Rose Buddies. Rose Buddies, where there were 10 uh men 10 women living in a house each one had a match decided by a matchmaker and the whole point of the game is they had 10 weeks to figure out who their perfect match was uh and if they did they won a million dollars and there's a lot of math that goes into it there's ways to find out exactly you know if your perfect match is correct or not but it's like this big guessing game it's like a big game of mastermind but also dating but it got really toxic and gross and so we definitely fell off until this latest season uh i remember like seeing a news article about it before the season came out that it was going to be uh 16 cast members uh and they are all like sexually fluid.

And so like anybody could be anybody else's match. Yeah, they were all very open to dating anyone. Anybody. And it was so like, I don't know, I feel like I was worried, right, that it would be a tightrope walk. And there were certainly still moments of toxicity in this cast, but it was definitely like the most,

like the best people who have ever been on this show like in general like it had walked back so much of the bullshit that it made like turned us off from not only that show but you know like reality shows uh of that caliber in general and it was just like a really like you shipped so many fucking people on this show which never has like it has not happened to me in a long time. It was really exciting. Cause there's a moment in the show where everybody feels like this is a tremendous opportunity, not just for us,

but for us as representatives of this community that isn't on television a lot. Yeah, certainly. So they really, you could tell they really started thinking like, we've got to win this. Like,

like this, this, this is important. This is an important moment. We've got to win this like like this this this is important this is an important moment we've got to win yeah there yeah there was a guy named danny who like became sort of the the the mathematician of the they figured out some shit there was an episode where they just i'm obsessed with the math of this show right there's a a website called ato math where like somebody breaks down like statistically who is most likely to be this and it also if you go there you can find out who has been inferred a non-match based on like mathematics and stuff and there's a guy in the house who was like figuring that shit out too

uh along with like who else carrie there were like a couple of people in the house who were like we're gonna there was one episode where they just figured out who three of the matches were just using their fucking brains which has never happened before we have heard i don't know if it's true but that people on that show are not allowed to use like paper and pencil like they don't have any writing implement right and so what they consistently do every season is they say okay stand next to the person you were with in week one okay now go stand next to the person okay how many matches did we have in that week and then they really like they have to visually work it out yeah i never thought i'd be talking about this show again uh and again it was not like a season uh you know free of problematic moments but it was so it was like it was a good season of a reality dating show which like i don't i legitimately don't

think i can say i have enjoyed since we stopped doing rose buddies that's true um yeah that's a big one for me you got any other big ones that you feel like you didn't hit? What keeps you up at night, babe? I mean, I don't want to burn it. I want to make it into a segment. Some of this stuff, though, I feel like, I don't know. I feel like we're so late. Good Place, I feel like, is my favorite show on TV right now.

We have not talked about it. White Claw, we were so late on. We were late on White Claw. You don't have anything like that that's office chair a nice office chair i guess that's too much like a nice mechanical keyboard remember we went through the whole thing get rachel a chair on our last pudge oh that's right and now i have a wonderful chair and i'm very grateful for it that's a special thing that we share but which i mean you use it i don't i i want you to know I have never, nor will I ever sit in that chair. You're welcome to sit in the chair. No, babe. That's yours.

I would never. You know what we haven't talked about enough on this show? What? I could talk about pizza a lot more than we have. I know that we have talked about pizza, but I feel like it's not enough. Did you not bring pizza? We did. I think we've talked about it once, but I feel like there's a enough did you not bring pizza we did we i think we've talked about it once but

i feel like there's a lot more opportunity there i remember you felt so um bad about how basic it made you sound yeah i mean it's still like one of my favorite foods i don't know i don't know tell you i mean you don't need it now that's all i'm saying i'm owning it now pizza's cool again yeah uh hey thanks to bowen and augustus for real though it's a great theme song shopping around for podcast theme songs stressed me out so much this one was just like it was on a spotify playlist that i had already like put together and i was like this song kicks ass emailed them got back to me like hours later and we worked out we worked out a deal and they were so cool about it and yeah i think it's a big, it means a lot.

And thanks to Louis Zong for the illustration. Thank you, Louis Zong for the illustration. What a treat to like get somebody that talented to do art for our podcast. I know, he's so great. Yeah, and yeah, just thanks to Maximum Fun too for having us on the network. They've been supportive of us from day one,

including day day whatever like 512 when we said hey we don't want to do the show that we signed up to do and we want to do something that is less soul crushing and they were like yeah sure go for it uh and that was cool and thank you to all of you you all have uh this show is so fun to make it It's so good to make. It feels real punk rock to me sometimes to do a show that is this relentlessly positive in a climate that is so relentlessly negative. Yeah, I mean. I feel like this is important.

And I know that it's kind of silly and I'm not saying that we're heroes, but I feel like, I feel good that we do this in this time uh yeah i feel like we are definitely on the rain slick edge of saying that we are heroes and i'm gonna take a few steps back from that uh and you know remind you of the time that you talked about baby beluga for a while and maybe maybe that you're getting a little big for your britches i'm gonna sit here and try and remember what i meant by gentle ball hitting games that's fair what could i have possibly meant by gentle

ball hitting games i think i think it was ping pong see usually the website will link whatever we're talking about i don't even think i don't even think our web post knew what if i google gentle ball hitting games i'm scared about what's gonna happen when you get your results games this is uh classic ball hitting games from uh mom junction dot com where that's not gonna be anything anyway thank you here's here's to 100 more 100 more hey hey i have an idea. Okay. Going forward. Okay. Maybe we lose that home improvement stinger.

I mean, it would certainly cut down on editing time for me, but we'd have to replace it with something else. Yeah, that's fair. Maybe a clip of the Quantum Leap theme song? Would that be a way to get... Is there a good little cross section though? A good little cross section, though. What about the... It'd be a long stinger, I think.

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