Wonderful! - Wonderful! 110: It's Jazzual

Episode Date: November 27, 2019

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Hi, this is Rachel McElhuma. Oh, cool. Well, this is Griffin McElhuma. And this is wonderful. This is good. I like this vibe. No, you've set the perfect right vibe for us tonight. Because I was going to come at you, this intro, with a little bit of scup.

Scup. Scup. Bop. Bop. Bop. Every time I say McElroy, I always have to very deliberately enunciate. Yeah. Because, I mean, if you think about it, I've only had this last name for a little over a little over five years oh she's a mackerel she's she's a mouthful isn't she she's

a you know she's got twists and turns it's the act oh you know yeah yeah it's tough to say a lot of vowel sounds in there but anyway i thought i'd come at you with a little bit of skip up okay because this one's gonna be i've got a new term and I feel like it's going to describe this type of episode that we do from time to time. And it's like jazz, but it's also super casual. And so the word I'd like to pitch to you is jasual. Ooh, I like that a lot. Here's the deal, y'all.

Get in the right mindset, everybody. It's going to be jasual. Rachel forgot her notes at work and we can't go back to work again. They lock up Rachel's work and if we try to break in to get the notes we'll be arrested or shot on site uh so rachel's just flipping it off the dome today which i'm fucking stoked to see well and i did recall some of my preferred sites for information on my topics so i don't see a slip of paper in front of you though because

this one's going to be straight jasual folks don't even worry about it uh and also it's a holiday this week i'm feeling loosey-goosey i'm feeling limber and i'm feeling like creating some real genuine just freaking podcast scat some pot scat with you oh i don't like that expression you don't like pot scat no why not it's just moving some of, I don't like that expression. You don't like pot scat? No. Why not? It's just moving some of the letters around. It's fun, isn't it? No, it seems like something you'd find in the woods.

Hey, do you have any small wonders? I do. Our baby boy is three years old. He did turn three. I do not think we can call him a baby legally anymore. Oh, jeez. I had that realization. I had that talk with one of his teachers.

I was like, I can't call him baby. And he's not even close to a baby. No, it's been a while. He smokes and has a tattoo. Three years ago, I went into labor on Thanksgiving Day. True. And we had our baby on Black Friday. Really inconvenient.

I missed all the deals. You did. We both missed. Well, I had a little bit of second Thanksgiving. You missed second Thanksgiving entirely. No, I had had people brought leftovers to the hospital for us but you know it wasn't primo it was the people had already sweat into the mashed potatoes and cried into the stuffing and yeah uh oh gosh i don't actually have a small wonder this time our neighbors have put up their christmas lights already That's pretty cool. Yeah, everybody, the world decided,

you know what, let's get started early this year. Everyone got a jump on it a little bit this year, which Henry is delighted by, which I enjoy quite a bit, seeing the magic through his eyes. Who goes first this week? I forgot to check. I don't know.

Do you know why I forgot to check, baby? Why? Because it's jazual. It's jazual. I think it's J-A-z-z-u-a-l i think it's more fun that way i want one z otherwise you got the whole jazz in there that's fair a little bit of jazz and a little bit of casual uh you go first this week my first thing is a little complex to talk about um to summarize i guess in like a brief few words so here's here's what i'll

say okay local business owner celebrities local business owner celebrities local business specifically the type of regional companies companies or organizations that advertise on television. I got you. Okay. I thought of David Comey and the rest of the pieces just fell right into place. The reason I thought of this, and this is strange. So our friend Anna Roach is an expert at retweeting exceptional things. Right.

And she tweeted this story that I hadn't heard before about a little toddler who had a birthday party themed on a personal injury lawyer in his town. This is actually from 2015. Okay. But I have no memory of this happening. Right. And then when I looked into it,

there were a whole bunch of articles about it. It is a little boy named Grayson. He used to watch television when he'd stay over at his grandma's house and there'd be these commercials for Morris Bart, who was this personal injury lawyer in Louisiana. And he just was totally entranced by the commercials. And from what I can tell,

it's not like he had any clever characters or anything. It's just him facing the camera. And his little catchphrase was one call, that's all. And there'd be this pleasant music and he would talk about, you know, helping people in trouble. Yeah. And the little toddler was just so entranced by it that the mom decided to have a little birthday party for him with like a cake and a cardboard cutout and a t-shirt all themed around Morris Bart. And this just blew up. They like wrote a story about it in the Advocate, which is like a

media outlet for all of Louisiana. And then it was picked up by like Huffington Post and the Today Show um and NPR and a few months later uh Jimmy Kimmel actually skyped in with the mom and the boy Grayson yeah and surprised them with Morris Bart at their house that That's so weird. I wonder how you actually respond when confronted with. Well, the little boy, apparently part of the thing that like made it so clear that he was a fan is the little boy would chant, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, every time the commercial was on. That is so delightful.

And so when he showed up at the door, the little boy started chanting. It sounds like your segment is more about little boys and the things that they become fixated on. Because this led me to look into my my st louis oh yeah local celebrities okay what do you got um so there was becky queen of carpets and she would stand in front of a green screen on like a big rug okay and then she had wanda queen of tile who would be with her some so wait she had a whole

sort of like cinematic universe sort of yeah that's fantastic so there was that there was uh the famous one i found was schweig engel which was two guys that did like a furniture and electronics store okay they would do these like ridiculous costume commercials like all about people with bad credit and how they could buy things there. You can find two hours worth on YouTube, by the way. The other ones I found, there was a family,

Carol brothers, I think with Brooke and his sister, Amy, and they used to do a lot of commercials. These are like people that were like celebrities in my town growing up, specifically because of their commercials and the kind of narrative thread they would weave through them. God, that's good. And so Morris Bart reminded me of that. And this guy, I guess, has been in Louisiana forever. He finished the bar in 1979 or 1980, got his law degree. And he was the first,

from what I can tell, he was the first lawyer in Louisiana to advertise on television. And now he has one of the biggest firms in the country. He's got like 100 people working for him. And goes across multiple states now, this guy. That's incredible. It also makes me so jealous that this is not the type of product that we have to advertise for because god i would love to whip up some regional spots i would love do you have any local huntington celebrities that you thought of when i was talking about this the thing that immediately springs to mind is a car dealership that had they operated out of charleston i think they also had a spot in huntington but they had um do you remember when car dealerships like one car dealership somewhere

in the country like during some commercial said out loud and we and we love the troops and then every fucking car dealership had to like double down and be like we also yeah like yes of course yes we also do like sure yeah uh there was one place in in west virginia called burt wolf ford uh and uh burt wolf ford somebody i guess you know pulled out the gauntlet of patriotism and they went fucking hog wild on it and had a series of annual commercials and radio spots that were just like you know an eagle fucking snatching a hot dog out of somebody's hand and at a flag store or something like that at an american flag convention and the song that would play over it and this isn't a joke and is also probably illegal when a little something like this i'm proud to be an american and shop at burt wolf ford

clever we would quote this to each other me and my friends for a very long time because it's not just so disgusting like so crass uh it is so catchy um bro uh hey do you can i do my first thing yes my things are pretty lightweight this week i feel again it's gonna be a sort of jazzy episode do you ever have the thing where you move your finger around the trackpad but you don't see your cursor because you're 100 years old yes anyway my first thing is holiday pants. My first thing is holiday pants. Okay. Can I make some guesses? I wish you would.

First is the most obvious in that they are pants that are decorated in holiday spirit. Is that it? This guess is incorrect. Okay. Second is pants that are expandable for a person who might eat too much on a holiday? That is in the Venn diagram for certain. Okay. I am more talking about the phenomenon, and this may not be a universal thing.

I'm talking about the less a pair of actual pants and more the radical shift of acceptable clothing norms that happens on a big holiday, like a Thanksgiving, like a Christmas, like a whatever, a holiday where you wake up and you're like, it's the holiday today. I am not getting out of these comfortable pants that I'm wearing. And that is okay. That is like my favorite. I shouldn't say my favorite, but one of my favorite parts of going to Huntington for Christmas. It's one of my favorite parts of going to Huntington for Christmas. One of my favorite parts of going to Huntington for Christmas is, this is less true for Thanksgiving now these days because, you know, we got places to be, but like I'll watch the parade. I will cook up, you know, whatever dishes we're making while wearing whatever the hell I choose below the belt.

But I'm not wearing a belt because it's holiday. Can I ask you something? As a man that works from home, feasibly every day for you could be holiday pants. You are getting all up ahead of my notes. But I will go ahead and say yes. But one, Elizabeth Gilbert yelled at me indirectly one time. Oh, yeah, I do remember that.

And she was on our podcast and said that the only way she can take her job seriously is if she takes it seriously and takes a shower and puts on, uh, you know, clothes, uh, before she gets started with her day. And I do one of those things now because, uh, Henry, since Henry started going to daycare and I take him to daycare every day, like I can't roll up in there wearing holiday pants i gotta put on actual pants and i never switch back i'm not that big of a like a slob um yeah so i'm not wearing holiday pants all day i'm wearing you know pants pants which makes the holiday pants even more exciting uh i suppose this would be true this is true of weekends also but weekends i feel like are already like it's acceptable that we're this is a resting day.

This is a day where you don't put on pants. That's fine. A holiday is just like, hey, every holiday almost feels defiant. Like, how long have you been wearing those holiday pants? And it's like, don't fucking worry about it. I was going to ask you if you were ever that type of guy that went to a college class in. No, never. Your jammy jams fucking never man okay never uh one i never lived on campus so like i didn't really have that excuse to roll up but also like my clothes game my fashion game was already pretty whack and so like i i couldn't like step it down

i was doing everything i possibly could to hang on to the to the ladder, if you know what I'm saying. It's just like, man, I love them. And there's I have so many options and you got to have options. If it's you know, if it's a hot one, if it's a hot Austin Christmas, I'll put on some gym shorts basketball shorts if it's uh you know any any cooler than that i'll throw on the the me undies uh lounge pants uh or if i want to get wild the whole body suit if it's getting a little bit you know colder than that the flannel and then like if i need to break the emergency glass and grab the like thick sweat pants when it's cold cold i can do that too you always got to have four pairs of comfort pants with you

wherever you go um i like it i like being comfortable honest obviously but like i more like the message that holiday pants sends to other people which is just like don't even don't even try me today yeah don't even try to get these pants off me today and when you get a whole family together wearing holiday pants all of them just like middle fingers up to the world, like this is us now. Now we have holiday pants and there's no one who can make us less comfortable. Everyone needs holiday pants, multiple pairs.

I celebrate them and I celebrate you. Can I steal you away? Yes. Can I read this first personal message? Yes. This first message is for Andy. It is from Susan. Dear Handy Boy,

chances are we're far, far away from each other right now and I'm missing you. You're so dang supportive and my most favorite husband with the USDA prime of bootays. I can't wait to be together again to foster dogs, eat burritos and marvel at chunky caterpillar boys.

Loving you very much from across the globe, your wife, Susan. That is a very visual message message i'm thinking about the big caterpillar the hungry hungry yeah yeah yeah and so sue me thinking about andy's uh usda prime duff uh here's another one this one's whoa this one's for andy and it's from Faith. Is it a different, I'm thinking. I'm thinking it's a different Andy. Who bought the DX files? It's from Faith to Andy who says, no, Faith says,

Andy, thank you for being you. Your love, smile, and laugh is infectious. Keep bringing joy wherever you go. I love you. It's very sweet. It's very sweet, but it is an alien conspiracy. It's very sweet. It's very sweet. But it is an alien conspiracy. It's so sweet.

But everyone's Andes now. Didn't we talk about how Andes are just generally good guys? We have. Yeah, because I tried to swing in there with my middle name and you were having none of it. I know. None of it. I mean, you could be an Andy in that you are a good guy.

I'd have to shave. Oh, yeah. No, I think you're right. I'd have to shave. Oh, yeah. No, I think you're right. This week on Bullseye, Lin-Manuel Miranda on his dark materials, hip hop, and life after Hamilton. I know it's the first line of my obituary.

So if that line is handled, then what else can I do with my time here? It's Bullseye for MaximumFun.org and NPR. Can I give you my second thing? Oh, yeah. My second thing is coupons. Coupons. We recently on Wonderful talked about how you are more resistant to coupons than I am.

That's true. It occurred to me that I loved coupons enough that I should bring them as a segment. I am not going to try and put you on blast. I do not know I have ever seen you clip out a coupon and really follow through on it. A lot of times in the mail, I will get little postcards.

This is true. That say like 50% off X, go to this website and enter Y and I tuck that in my purse. And then sometimes when i have downtime at work i i use that coupon that is true i will also say the first year that we lived together our refrigerator was a coupon graveyard you're very bad about sort of removing old things from the inside and the outside of the refrigerator oh are you gonna blame me for the inside of the

fridge i yeah i am i think sometimes gonna blame me for the inside of the fridge? Yeah, I am, I think, sometimes going to blame you for the inside of the fridge. Sometimes I leave town for a week and I come back and the steaks that I had made like a week and a half before I left are still up in there. That is fair. Here's the thing about you, though, if we're going to do this. Oh, let's fucking do this.

Coupons. A lot of time you will buy a cooking ingredient for a recipe you want to make oh yeah and then that ingredient will stay in the fridge it's true until it is three years i guess this is the end folks yeah you're hearing it live do it you step to it and i was ready to go okay you want to hear about coupons i do want to hear about coupons do you have a coupon for a new husband no buy one hey i do have a coupon for a free hug oh this cord is too short but i'll we'll hit you up later yeah hit me up later uh i i am not a fan of coupons for the sake of coupons i'm not somebody to combine multiple coupons for the purpose of extreme discounts right i like a coupon when uh it offers me a deal on something i was already thinking of getting okay interesting so i did a little look into the history of coupons

and it actually started a super long time ago uh 1887 is the first coupon is 1887 that is kind of the first documented history of like a brand item using coupons i would only i would only protest and say like probably like ancient egypt somebody was like boy you sure do come in here and buy a lot of pots i'm gonna give you this little tablet that next time you come in, you can be like, this is proof that I really like your pots. And you said, you'd give me one pot,

two pots for the price of one. I mean, how do you, I guess down the pyramid walls, like how would you know, how would you know that to be true? You know, how wouldn't you know it to be true is what I would ask you to answer for.

This is real jazz. You're all casual right now i'm telling you i'm feeling sublime over here like i need to i'm not wearing holiday pants right now and that's a crime do you have a guest on what brand was the first one to use coupons i'm gonna say it's something fucked up like sears sears like is it is it a store or is it like a um like an individual is it like an individual brand? It is an individual brand. I'm going to say then General Mills. Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola had no...

What the fuck does Coca-Cola need coupons for? You're Coca-Cola. People are going to buy your stuff. You know, Coca-Cola started as Atlanta, as we know. Yeah. Coca-Cola would offer pharmacists two gallons of Coke syrup in return for the names and addresses of consumers who lived near that pharmacy. So, Zuckerberg didn't start the fucking fire then, huh? Coca-Cola got that shit rolling.

And then they direct mail the coupon to the consumer. Damn, Coca-Cola. That's so brutal, Coca-Cola. In 1887, our privacy was already being just fucking bought and sold for for coke syrup when i was doing research what was weird is that the next example of a coupon was wasn't until 1909 there had to be coupons so the idea is that like 20 years later another company was like that oh, it's a good idea. That or everybody else was like, that sucks, Coca-Cola.

We won't cross that line for 22 more years. Post distributed what is believed to be the second coupon ever for a penny off its grape nut cereal. That's a... Can you imagine? can you imagine i mean a penny off maybe it was like you know 10 cents back in the day so that was that was a real significant discount that is still you pay you take a penny off the 10 cent price of grape nuts you're still paying nine cents too many for a bad fucking cereal sorry grape nuts

i didn't mean for it to happen like this, but you don't taste very good to me. I like Grape Nuts, actually. Is that crazy? No, I mean, no. Everybody's different in their own different ways. And that's what makes the earth go around, I guess. So I mentioned earlier this idea of extreme couponing. And I was curious kind of where that came about.

This is a show on TLC that we have seen before and that is a little uncomfortable to watch because people are buying bulk items. And a lot of times they will have a large part of their house dedicated to this in addition to spending a lot of time in the checkout line with a bunch of people waiting behind them. So it can be kind of uncomfortable to watch. So I was curious.

Yeah. It's also like, I don't know. It feels really uncomfy to watch shows like that and try and throw any judgment on the people on it. Cause like, you don't know, you don't know that walk.

You don't know what kind of walk they're on. No, that's very true. But I was just curious how it got started. Apparently in 2010, the wall street journal titled an article hard times turn coupon clipping into the newest extreme sport and then shortly after is when tlc started extreme couponing well uh which has since uh taken off um is it still on it's from what i can tell

it's still going also but in 2015, it returned to the Discovery family and was renamed Greatest Givers Extreme Couponing, which I'm assuming maybe is people that use extreme couponing to donate materials. Now this I'm fucking into. It's very nice. Now that's some Robin Hood shit. I'm into that in a big, big way for some reason. Well, it's kind of incredible to see people use this system

and end up paying like seven cents for something that would have cost like eight hundred dollars i love that i want them to circulate that data have like a flash mob roll up at some poor unsuspecting walmart and buy the whole thing for like 22 bucks and then just like give it to everybody in town well because the nature of coupons is a little like devious, you know, a lot of times it's to get you to spend more money than you were planning on spending anyway, you know, or to, you know, catch your eye if it's like one brand out of like 300 brands and like cereal aisle. Right.

You know, so to like use that system to kind of benefit yourself is a little genius. And that is why when I get my sugar-free hazelnut coffee mate at the, or whatever it is. Did you see I saved that coupon? Yeah, I saw it. But you get that, here's the thing. You get that coupon every time you buy the hazelnut coffee mate.

And it's like, you already fucking got me, guys. It's like, you're just wasting money at this point. I'm in, I'm all in. Okay? It's the only coffee creamer I'm ever going to drink. You do not have to keep giving me money. But I will take it. It pays for itself.

A lot of times when I go to, like, a CVS or a Walgreens, I still get coupons for, like, baby formula or diapers. Yeah. Just from that time period in our lives. Hey, can I tell you about my second thing? Yes. our diapers just from that time period in our lives uh hey can i tell you about my second thing yes my second thing is so fucking like it's in part it's kind of embarrassing but my second thing is a song and it's a song i've been listening to a lot lately specifically in the drive to daycare with our son henry who as you may know if you've listened to the show before

is going through sort of a rock and roll phase which is to say a loud noises phase so i was throwing some spaghetti at the wall you heard about how he enjoys the foo fighters there's one song now that he is such a big fan of and it made me realize that i am also an enormous fan of acdc's thunderstruck whoa yeah how did this come Again, I was just sort of taking him through, I've taken him through a lot of the rock classics. And, you know, when I loaded up ACDC, you got a few options in there, Back in Black. Okay, sure, yeah.

Can I ask how he requests it? He says rock and roll, but then like if you play anything other than Thunderstruck, he pitches a fucking fit. Thunderstruck is just pound for pound the most powerful song ever written by human beings. I love a riff, right? I love a fucking iconic riff.

Sweet Child of Mine or November Rain or, you know, whatever. There's tons of great riffs out there. But Thunder, can you beat that? Squiddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-diddly-didd can you beat that you cannot no it's very jazz well it's not jazz well it fucking shreds it's not jazz well if you tried to play that in a jazz well way like hey that's kind of fresh actually jot that down let's let's let's uh compose that later uh it's it's i don't know i listen to it every morning it gets me fucking pumped up i hear it on the drive to school i drop them off i listen to it again on the drive home i get home i watch some fucking sports because i'm just so charged

up if for some reason you've been avoiding powerful songs your whole life i'm gonna play thunderstruck! We're down the highway! We're on the limit! We hit the top! We're in front of Texas! Yeah, Texas! And we had some fun!

We met some guys! It's like... I feel like I definitely have heard this at hockey games so yes it's been played at like every sports arena ever and uh i'll just say it right now the reason i have such a special affection of uh for it is because it was the official rally song of marshall's uh different athletic programs because really we were the thundering herd uh and so you know fucking fourth quarter on the last drive of the game and you hear that you're like oh yes i don't even care about sports but here we go and then depending on the year and the athletic team that you are viewing it's either like a righteous, you know, sports victory moment or like calamitous, horrible sports failure. But like, it's so, so good.

The song came out as a single in September 1990, which is not as old as I thought it was. I thought the song was like. Seems about right to me. Interesting. So Angus Young from ACDC, you may know him as Angus Young from ACDC. You may know him as Angus Young from ACDC, the one who does the cool jump walk, duck walk, rock and roll thing, said in the liner notes of a later album, Re Thunderstruck, it started off from a little trick I had on guitar. I played it to Mal, that's Malcolm Young, his brother, who was also a founding member of ACDC. and he said, oh, I've got a good rhythm

idea that will sit well in the back. We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few months before everything fell into place. Lyrically, it was really just a case of finding a good title. We came up with this thunder thing based on our favorite childhood toy, Thunderstreak, and it seemed to have a good ring to it. ACDC equals power. That's the basic idea.

I love this. Guys, you remember liner notes? I do. You remember reading that little booklet and just getting all the secrets behind an album? I loved that. I mean, you get it somewhat if you're like, you know, if you collect vinyl or buy vinyl

of like any band or album that you like, you still get it in there. I still love Kacey Musgraves and Golden Hour, like wrote a whole like thing about what Golden Hour means. I think I talked about that during the Kacey Musgraves thing. But she had her time. We're talking about ACDC's Thunderstruck right now. Fucking Angus Young was like, hey, check out this thing I can do.

And I was like, fuck yeah, I can do something over that. what do we call the song i don't know acdc equals power how about thunder yes this is great this is great this is going to be the best most powerful song ever uh it went high on the charts in australia belgium finland ireland the netherlands new zealand spain and the u.s it's so powerful brought the world together the only thing more powerful than the song is the music video which i did not send to you but i highly encourage you to watch yeah it is acdc playing in some sort of wild concert hall slash prison uh and everybody in the prison is wearing acdc thunderstruck shirts they all say acdc thunderstruck you everybody's wearing a shirt with the name of the band and the

name of the song title on it which is fucking wild and then they have this one shot where they got like a you know a thick clear plastic floor and had angus young do his little duck walk shredding thing on it and filmed it like from underneath so you can like maybe see his balls a little bit they love that shot so much because it's featured in the video like 13 different times the exact same stunt it is like hysterical and so wild and uh thunderstruck man just has it going on i love good riffs i should do like a riff month where i just talk about some of my favorite riffs because i already did sweet child of Mine. I already mentioned that. Oh, God, that segment. That segment has the perfect name. Oh, my God. Griffin's Great Guitar Tunes.

That's it. Hey, can I tell you about what our friends at home are super excited about? Yes, please. Well, we got one here from Zachary. Zachary says, my wonderful thing is the show twin peaks uh the story of when eccentric fbi special agent dale cooper comes to the town of twin peaks to investigate the murder murder of homecoming queen laura palmer i love how each episode uh drifts deeper into the strange and how you grow to understand and appreciate each character's complex journey how much twin peaks you watched i feel like we talked about this like part of one episode i had

friends in college that would do twin peaks nights and i like missed the first two and then i tried to come for part of the third and i had no idea what was going on and i never went again yeah i took a run at it uh like five years ago or so and then i took a much more successful run at it which is to say i finished it the like first few months henry was born and i needed something to watch from three to five a.m hopped on that twin peaks finished that in like a week i'm open to it though i'm wondering what my experience would be like now yeah at my age this far after still got character enough that you yeah it's not like it's not i don't know it's not like funny bad

right like it's not like something that you have to be young like riverdale is it basically like river riverdale is like it that's the god's honest truth river riverdale sometimes wishes very badly that it was okay so i think that's reason enough to although we have not been good riverdale stewards we're what like two and a half seasons behind or something anyway uh, Rigel says, similar to the Jeep wave mentioned on your recent episode, motorcyclists also acknowledge each other as they pass. It usually just involves moving the left hand down to about knee level in an upside down peace sign or simply an outstretched hand, but it's a nice show of camaraderie within our community. Oh, I like that.

I like it too. I'm never going to have a wave with anyone. There is some sort of like highway Illuminati shit going on though, where everybody's got secret signs. And I didn't know about this. And our podcast is now like becoming the secret door into this community. Let me make one. Okay.

If you drive a CRV, your wave is to stick your elbow out the window and flap it up and down. That's cool. That's cool. All right. So if you see another CRV owner. Flap that elbows. I'm going to say if you're driving in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Yes.

And you drive by another Mitsubishi Eclipse, just let a balloon out your window. Oh, it means you've always got to have balloons ready. You do, yeah. This is part of it. But, you know,

maybe you shouldn't have bought a Mitsubishi Eclipse if you didn't want this level of responsibility. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to that

in the episode description. And thanks to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. They got a bunch of really good shows that you're just gonna just cram. And a new website. And a new website. MaximumFun.org It's looking slick. Stylish. Had a big glow up.

RSS glow up from the inside out. It's got all kinds of fun flash games for the kids. And it's got Neopets fun flash games for the kids um and neo it's got neopets that's super cool and also badges know that i'm going to talk about neopets next week so just go ahead and strap in for that badges to add to your linkedin badges for your linkedin cool midi tracks of some of your favorite tunes i feel like i've heard a midi version of thunderstruck before and it was not great so that's gonna do it for us for this episode thank you so much for listening thank you for we're so happy that you came to darken our doors and lighten just brighten you brightened our doors you came to our door you fixed the light bulb thank you

you shot a ray of pure energy out of your torso into the our home and you fucking blasted me you blasted me out of the way and rachel was like what was that and then you hovered three feet off the ground and came into our home, still blasting energy out of the front of your chest. And we had to call the police on you because we didn't ask for this today. But thank you. But thank you. I just wish that your hair hadn't turned into light also

and turned into like light beams and light rays that attacked my family. That's the only, if I could give you one note. Yeah, yeah. Money won't pay. Money won't pay. Money won't pay. Money won't pay. MaximumFun.org Comedy and culture. Artist owned. Listener supported. Hey, it's Jesse Thorne.

We're very happy to announce that tickets for MaxFunCon 2020 will go on sale Friday, November 29th at 11 a.m. Pacific. 29th at 11 a.m. Pacific. I also want to let you know, this coming year, MaxFunCon 2020 will be our last MaxFunCon for the foreseeable future. For 2020 and beyond, we're going to be looking for ways to connect with more of you in person and spread the spirit of MaxFun farther than it's ever gone before. In the meantime, if you want to join us at the last MaxFunCon in Lake Arrowhead, June 12th through the 14th, you can find details at MaxFunCon.com.