Wonderful! - Wonderful! 120: Sausage Sandcastle

Episode Date: February 12, 2020

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Hi, I'm Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. And the Oscar for Best Wife goes to Rachel McElroy. Oh, I have. Oh, wait, hold on. Let me look at the... I'm looking at the, look, here's a full list of nominees. Oh, no.

And the nominees for Best Wife go to, are nominated as follows. Rachel McElroy. It cuts to me. I'm smiling, but not clapping. Not clapping. Mary Steenburgen. Got to. Michelle Obama.

That's it. There's only three nominees. Usually there's five, but I guess I couldn't think of a lot more. You think Kristen Bell would have made that list? She's doing good. She's doing good, but she won last year, so they're not going to do it again. Right. And the winner is Rachel McElcgeroy what's your speech uh first of all thank you to the academy for this

nomination um i want to say i couldn't have done it without being a wife first uh second uh that's Second. That's my wife. Oh, wait, hold on. My wife? Yeah. Sorry, babe. Go ahead. That's my husband, Griffin McElroy. Griffin, thanks for making me a wife and for making me a wife every day. Whose wife?

Say it like Borat. Your wife. Yeah. And also thank you to my agent. Thank you to the producers, which would be my parents. And, you know, peace in the Middle East. Oh, shit. Mary Steenburgen's rushing the stage.

She could take me down I think. She could probably knock you right over. This is wonderful. It's a show where we talk about things that are good. My small wonder is that Parasite won for best picture. That was fucking radical. I know. So huge. What a like momentous thing and also like unexpected.

It's the movie that i loved by far the best last year so i am over the moon uh that it won i want to watch it again but i'm also pretty scared to watch it again that's kind of where i'm at emotionally wait why just because it's a scary movie it's not scary isn't even the right word for it it's just like it blew me so far away when we saw it in theaters that i almost want to like treasure that experience of seeing it and i and i don't know how like watching it knowing how it unfolds is gonna like treat me good point um it's weird like it's one of those movies that i walked out of and i was like i got as soon as that comes out i'm gonna buy it on dvd and then i was like wait a minute i don't have to do that i did the same thing going to buy it on DVD. And then I was like, wait a minute.

I don't have to do that. I did the same thing with Spider-Verse. When we got out of Spider-Verse, I was like, I can't wait to buy that on DVD. And I was like, well, that's not how it is anymore. So I bought it on digital on Apple TV, like when it first came out. And that's not the same. Yeah, but we have watched it like at least a dozen times. We have gotten our mileage out of Spider-Verse. Oh my God.

Hey, do you have any small wonders? I wanted to say, I don't think we've talked about it. We finished Cheer on Netflix. We did, yeah. And I think Griffin and I mainly watched it because it had been recommended to us so many times. Neither of us is particularly interested in cheerleading, just because neither of us has a particular familiarity with it. Great, great show. It's really remarkable there's so much content out there now

about the uh the people in it and the whole sport of cheerleading and i'm just gobbling it up man yeah did you see jerry on the red carpet i did i am so proud out there crushing it i just loved how many people like laura dern for example, so excited to see Jerry. Yes, it was great. Oh, my God, that whole Laura Dern clip that you sent me of the Gay Men's Choir of Los Angeles singing about things that happened in movies, things that happened in movies in 2019 that were gay that a lot of people didn't realize were and then they just had like a whole stanza about Laura Dern and her face as she kind of just like realized what was happening was fucking incredible. Go watch that video if you didn't see it. Hey,

I go first this week. Okay. My first thing. I was trying to figure out, okay, a lot of the times I can draw a direct line between like the catalyst and me talking about something on the show. Like what happened? What was I watching? What was I looking at that made me want to talk about this thing on the show? And I couldn't piece it together until just now us talking about the Oscars is maybe why I want to go this way. I'm going to talk about an actor.

I don't think I've ever done that before. I talked about an actor. No, no, we don't usually talk about people. I'm going to talk about an actor. Well, you talk about like poets and stuff like that all the time. We talk about artists of musical artists, but never like actors. I'm going to talk about an actor. Well, you talk about like poets and stuff like that all the time. We talk about artists of musical artists, but never like actors.

I'm going to talk about an actor whose name is J.K. Simmons. Oh, that's a good pick. That's such a good pick, right? Like, I just been, I just been thinking about J.K. lately. I just been thinking about J.K. lately. I think that, you know you get the farmer's insurance commercial served up to you a lot you get those m&ms commercials where he did originate the yellow peanut m&m voice yeah i mean he does a lot of voice work uh but also i just for

like whatever reason and maybe it's because i watch a lot of like music stuff like music theory stuff on youtube i get served a lot of clips from Whiplash. And if you don't know who J.K. Simmons is, he plays the mean band leader in Whiplash. He plays the yellow M&M. I don't think he actually does that anymore. I would say probably his most sort of like worldwide role that people knew him for was J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films. wide role that people knew him for was jay jonah jameson in the spider-man films uh a role that he really just made a fucking meal out of uh and is so so good in um and so like those are the things i think of when i think of jk simmons and he's fantastic in all of those whiplash like

holy shit he won the oscar for whiplash as he should have because he is uh uh terrifying and incredible in that role as so few like uh movie villains ever have been he's got like he's got a great face for intensity but he's also got great intensity for intensity yes he can also go soft on it i'm gonna get to that here in a little bit uh here's what i didn't really okay so i think about those things right whiplash m&ms whatever uh today i just like googled his body of work and it is fucking incredible how much just the raw tonnage of shit this dude has been in i'm just gonna do a quick rundown and this is like cream of the crop. There is a humongous list of films and TV shows this dude's been a part of. Let me just run it down, okay?

First Wives Club, Cider House Rules, Spider-Man's, Hidalgo, Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Burn After Reading, I Love You Man, Up in the Air, True Grit, where he was uncredited for some reason, Whiplash, Jobs, Terminator Genisys, April in the Extraordinary World, Kung Fu Panda 3, Zootopia, La La Land, I'm Not Here,

Justice League, Klaus, he was on Law & Order for like 100 years, Oz, Law & Order SVU, The Closer, The Legend of Korra, a bunch of Spider-Man TV shows and video games, BoJack Horseman, Veronica Mars. Like, that's a lot of shit. I forgot about Juno. Juno was the one I kind of had in my head, but I couldn't remember what I was picturing.

Juno I like a lot because Juno, he is not playing J. Jonah Jameson as he does in a lot of his other roles. He's got a real dad energy in that that just is so believable. Big dad energy in that film. And he's not playing the angry man. Like you could say that even Whiplash

has a little bit of J. Jonah Jameson up in it. But Juno know you just you want to you want to do good you want to do good as familiar with jay jonah jameson so is this across multiple spider-mans that he has played this character yes i don't want to do any spoilies about which spider-mans he does and does not show up in but he is the uh like more than just one spider-man oh yeah he was in all of the toby mcguire ones uh he oh no that's what i mean like with other actors yes yes okay and i'll leave it at that okay but he uh he wants pictures of spider-man he works for the paper also he hates

him he's a menace uh and i just like i just like i don't know man he's so he's so good in everything that I see him in. I cannot think of too many actors that when I see that they are in a movie, I get excited for the performance they're about to do. And maybe that's not a great thing because I'm not so divorced from him as an actor that I can really lose myself in the role that he's playing. But like whenever I see him in, you know, the new season of Veronica Mars, I'm like, fuck yeah, J.K. Simmons, here we go. Take me on a ride, bud. And I just like, whenever I see him in a movie and TV show, another urge that I have is that I don't want to disappoint him.

And I don't know how to begin unpacking that. I think thinking about casting Whiplash, like, do you think before they'd even finished it, they were thinking him? Because it seems like such a good fit. Man, I don't know which role in Whiplash is harder to cast, the like, demon band leader or the like, incredibly proficient young drummer well i mean jk simmons couldn't be that sure yeah miles miles teller crushed that too uh yeah i just like it is it is weird to bring an actor to this show and like i've thought about doing it with other

other actors before and other you know people in the the cinematic arts uh and none of them really felt like like completely earnest or not like completely like obvious or whatever but jk simmons is just like he's fucking great in everything now there's definitely some beloved actors that like people would probably put on their list but i feel like jk simmons is often overlooked yeah and his name's funny yeah jk jk he's like jk simmons you know and jk rowling tried to do that he's like i now listen is that your jk simmons now that's my name he got those wrinkles he got those like cheek wrinkles that are just so fucking scary so intense and good damn hey what's your first thing god now i want to google young jk simmons oh i'll work on that okay you find anything yeah i mean it's not

is it not a transformation i'm looking at a picture of him wearing a very loud suit that seems photoshopped doesn't it it's jk simmons and he's walking in a fashion show and he's got like this incredible floral suit on it's fucking amazing okay sorry what's your first thing my first thing is bobble heads really yeah really i like these guys okay it's just stay still heads sometimes i want the heads to stay still you know do you not like a like a wiggling toy um what about like a like a dashboard wiggle toy oh those are so cool like a little surfer yeah like a little uh you know like santa claus but he's like on vacation and he's on a surfboard. Yeah. And he's just completely nude. I have been kind of surrounded by bobbleheads throughout my life,

and it wasn't something I really thought about until recently. My dad, as I've mentioned, is a collector of sports memorabilia, and any other numbers of memorabilia and uh he's a memorable guy and a lot of that memorabilia is uh in the shape of bobbleheads yes uh and then my grandmother uh for a long time collected little porcelain figures that had that kind of bobble element. Just oversized heads or they actually bobbled? No, it was like the little hand

or the little foot would kind of wiggle a little bit. So it was less about like a big cartoonish head and more about like a piece of the figure would wiggle. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, and it's very creepy because when it's among a bunch of non-ambulatory porcelain figures and then you see one and their fucking hand starts moving are you kidding me um she would always call them nodders which is actually like another word for

bobblehead oh interesting um its head is connected to the body by a spring or a hook so light that a tap will cause it to bobble during the 17th century figurines of buddha and other religious figures were called temple knotters and produced in asia oh interesting and then in the 19th century that's where you saw the bisque porcelain bobble heads being made for the u.s so that's the kind of the stuff that she would collect what is bisque bisque it's like a super the kind of stuff that she would collect. What is bisque? It's like a super hard kind of porcelain, if I remember correctly. Oh, I just thought it was like a soup. In 1960 was when you started to see the collectible era.

So in 1960, Major League Baseball produced paper mache bobbleheads for all the teams. The World Series brought the first player-specific bobbleheads for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays. How much money do you think those are worth these days? I mean, paper mache, right? The idea of those holding up is insane. Maybe, yeah. The thing about those was that they were not at all personalized. The faces, the heads looked exactly the same. They just put different colors. So they would put the colors of the faces, the heads looked exactly the same. They just put different colors. So they would put like the colors of the team on the little jersey. But it was just baseball man. Same face, yeah.

That's rough. The other kind of famous bobblehead set from the era is the Beatles one, which I'm pretty sure my dad has. I believe that. Super, super collectible these days. You saw a return to this in the 1990s. And part of that was because all of a sudden they were in plastic, which like, I don't know why it took them so long. The first Major League Baseball team to offer a bobblehead giveaway at the stadium

was the San Francisco Giants in 1999. So this is like a thing now. Yeah, with like sporting events. I know it's a thing, but I assume that it's been happening my entire life. They distributed 35,000 Willie Mays knotters at their 1999 game. Cool.

And then 2002, mini bobblehead. So this is two or three inches tall in a cereal box. Do we have any bobbleheads in our house actively bobbling right now? No, here's the thing. I'm not requesting an entire wall of bobbleheads. I'm just kind of delighted by them. They are the moving toy. And that's pretty cool. And then also, you know, the customizable ones. I feel like The Office with Dwight Schrute, like that was the first time like the idea kind of struck anyone and now you can just get online and make one for yourself that's fine hey by the way our po box is about to be just just spoiled with with rachel heads i know that's why i wanted

to make clear i'm not looking for a wall of these i just find them wonderful i think they're delightful right i'm just saying you got to be careful because one time i talked about plastic crawdads and said something about ruining my box with crawdads and then yeah you asked for that though that was pretty explicitly asking for yeah that's fair the phrase was ruin my box that's true i don't think i ever got an update on that but um they my p.o box was ruined with the plastic crawdads uh here's something that might be exciting uh to people in the midwest in 2016 the national bobblehead hall of fame opened in milwaukee hey the collection is about 10 000 bobbleheads with around 6 500 on display in 4 000 square feet uh where are the

other ones that aren't on display i I imagine they cycle them in and out. Oh, okay. Like they said, for example, there's going to be like a Democratic National Convention there in 2020, this year. And the Bobblehead Hall of Fame is going to do a political bobblehead exhibit that aligns with that.

That's not going to go good. January 7th is National bobblehead day thank you baby in 2016 the guinness book of world records marked the world's largest bobblehead at 15 feet tall that's really dangerous it was a saint bernard named goldie it was like the mascot for some insurance company. And so they- They made a 15 foot tall bobblehead? Yeah, St. Bernard too. It was a big dog. Well, I mean, it could have been any breed of dog and still be 15 feet tall.

True. But like there's something about the size of a St. Bernard head that makes it a little scarier, I think, to me. If you could have a bobblehead of anyone, right? Like it doesn't have to be scarpacula yeah can i steal you away hey can i tell you about our jumbotrons this week please got one here for johnny bear and it's from sammy bot who says dear johnny bear ever since you watched paddington and sent me detailed notes you about our jumbotrons this week? Please. Got one here for Johnny Bear and it's from Sammy Bot

who says, Dear Johnny Bear, ever since you watched Paddington and sent me detailed notes afterwards, I knew you were the one. I love our big Brady Bunch family of pets and I love you even more. I'm so glad we're doing this thing called life together. Love, Sammy Bot. Paddington has brought so many people together if you think about it you know brought that whole family together in a way that um you know human love never could um but also i feel like it's really just served as sort of the sticky orange marmalade filling in the cracks of America. Oh, that's beautiful, Griffin. Thank you. Paddington is a big, big thing over here in America.

Oh, yeah? Did you grow up just with a lot of time with the bear? No, you know, there's those reboots that really, really made it big. And then Rachel and I recently tried to re-watch stewart little and it's a fucking rough ride y'all it is a lot of nathan lane as a cat just going like yeah i've got a hairball it stinks like a poopy cast cast is incredible right though it's hugh lori gina davis yeah The little kid from Jerry Maguire.

Michael J. Fox. It's just like that. It falls in that era of CGI that is just unlookable. Hey, why are we reviewing Stuart Little in the middle of our podcast? Is there another Jumbotron? Okay, this next message is for Nicolette and Preston. It is from Kelsey. Nikki and Preston, congrats on your upcoming wedding.

After you guys met day one of college, when Nikki so smoothly complimented Preston on his Naruto jacket, we knew you were meant for each other. I am so happy for you and wish you all the best. P.S. We need to start playing more D&D, even though we live in different states. Love you always, Kelsey. Can you give me a little primer in naruto because i don't really know sure sure sure so he is a ninja boy with a headband

that has a little swirly thing on it okay when he runs his arms go behind him. Okay. Thus ends all of my, there's a thing now, there's a show out called Boruto. Boruto. Boruto. And I guess maybe it's his son

or his brother or his dad. It could be a prequel. I like it. I do like that. That's fun to say. And yeah, that's it.

Okay, well I feel caught up now. Good, good. Yeah yeah we plumb the depths hey everyone alden ford here with the cast of mission to zix our fourth season premieres on february 19th and for those of you who aren't familiar with the show we decided to ask one of our characters to give you a quick recap of what's happened so far say hello to the clone trooper aj who are you people what's AJ, put your gun down. AJ, can you just tell us what's happened in the Zix Quadrant

in the last couple seasons? Oh, well, we destroyed the Emperor. Oh, really? Okay, great. Yeah, I mean, I think so. We knocked him into a chasm. Mr. Robot Man and Barchi's ship crashed through a window,

and Dar and Baby Horsehead and I took out, like, a bunch of bad guys. Papa fulfilled his destiny, and the lizard was there, too. Okay, great. I guess I was sort of asking what the show is like. Oh, you mean like it's an improvised serialized workplace space opera featuring brilliant sound design, incredible guest stars,

and an epic, hilarious tale of fresh versus whack? Oh, yeah, wow. Where did you come up with that? Jesse Thorne told me to write that on my palm. Okay, all right. Well, Mission to Zik season four debuts on February 19th on Maximum Fun. Check it out. Can I hear your next thing?

My second thing is French toast. French toast. I know you're saying, hey, this is the second breakfast bread type food that you've brought, Griffin, because you brought waffles in like episode 56 or something like that. And I'll say, that's a fair criticism. in like episode 56 or something like that. And I'll say, that's a fair criticism. But we made French, I made French toast this past weekend.

Yeah, give yourself credit. I made French toast this past weekend. And it's like, here's the thing about French toast. I cannot think of a food, like a prep work to eating experience ratio that pays out better than French toast. That's so true. I tend to be a savory breakfast enthusiast. Yes.

But if I am gonna have a sweet thing, I want it to be French toast. Yeah, I mean, it is for whatever reason, I'm not sure when this switch flipped, but when I'm out at a restaurant and they have a bunch of sweet breakfast things, French toast is the only thing on there that I think like, hey, I could eat that

and not feel like complete dog shit. And I'm wrong, because I eat it and then I immediately want to sleep for the next 24 hours. Griffin made it with this cinnamon, raisin, brown sugar swirl bread and it was so delicious. Yeah, I got that Pepperidge Farm shit.

I ate it for a dessert later that day. Yeah, it was really good. And it's just like, there's a lot of ways to do it but me, just beat some eggs, put a little bit of milk in there, a little bit of cinnamon in there, and then Vanilla? You put your vanilla in there? Sometimes if I feel a little zesty. I didn't last time because I figured there was plenty of sort of sweetness in there and then vanilla you put your vanilla in there sometimes if i feel a little

zesty i didn't last time because i figured there was plenty of sweetness in there already uh dip some dip some bread in toss it in a grease skillet flip it and then that's it you can put syrup on it you can put jellies or jams you can put powdered sugar on it i remember like the first time i made french toast just being shocked by how easy it was just Just like, oh, this is all it is. It was, I can say almost certainly the first thing I learned how to like, quote unquote, cook, right? Before scrambled eggs? Yeah, I think so. Well, because you really can't fuck up French toast.

The only way you fuck up French toast is by like, not cooking it long enough or overcooking it. But that's true of all foods. And we're not getting it gooey enough. The margin of error for French toast, I would argue, is pretty fucking wide. enough or overcooking it but that's true of all foods and we're not getting it gooey enough the margin of error for french toast i would argue is pretty fucking wide like it's pretty easy to cook french toast uh and also i think it's the only thing i've ever cooked that henry ate and enjoyed so that's very exciting it was definitely the first thing i cooked for you when we first started dating uh and we would have little uh sleepovers the next morning this shows how innocent griffin is that the concept of this

like still like strikes him as risque like did you know sometime couples before they're married have what they call sleepovers rendezvous an overnight excursion the next morning i would make uh peanut butter and banana french toast and then we would just sort of lay motionless yeah Yeah, that's true. For 10 hours as it slowly worked its way through our bodies. You know, I had an instinct of saying we should do that again, but then we just couldn't. We can't. Our lifestyle. Our lifestyle is different now.

The only way we can do it is we got to guarantee that Henry would do it and then the three of us could then lay motionless for 10 hours. It's just got like, it's got a texture that I'm just gaga for. Like that bread egg texture for me is like, is just like perfection. And it's just like, you know what else is sort of miraculous about it? If you have a kitchen that is even remotely,

like decently stocked at any given point, you've probably got what you need to make french toast and that's not true of like a lot of other shit like yeah and and maybe it's just because there are you know three ingredients in it uh and there's like you know you don't have to worry about baking soda you don't have to worry about all that shit you don't have to have like a waffle iron no you need a pan you You need bread. You need egg. You could probably just get away with just that. No.

I mean, you need more. You need that milk. Well, okay. I think the milk is even optional. We can talk about that. We can debate that later. There's just, you've always got a road to French toast. And I think that's really special.

Unsurprisingly, like every culture has had a version of French toast because it's like, it's pretty obvious. At some point, everybody was like, hey, bread and egg and cook. Hey, that's good. So it wasn't like, like, why do we call it French toast? So that's wild. As far as I can tell, we call it French toast because like in the 18th century, there were recipes being published that referred to it as french toast

and like it just kind of snowballed from there uh but like we're the only ones who call it for there's a couple other like countries that call it french toast what do they call it in other places well in france they call it pan perdu which means lost bread which is referring to the fact that uh that it's made with stale bread like for the recipe a lot of the time because who gives a shit? You're gonna toss it in egg and then fry it up anyway. The most entertaining name for me

is a 14th century German recipe which called it Armeritter which translates to poor knights. And there's a lot of places that still call French toast poor knights or specifically poor knights of Windsor which is more or less like the exact same thing. A lot of people just call it eggy bread, too. And that's powerful as well.

But no matter what it's called, rose by any other name is still going to taste real good in the mornings and be a great little vehicle for a syrup experience. What is your second topic? You're going to be mad that i picked this because i'm stealing it right out from under you oh shit it's chef club i am so fucking angry that you're taking chef club babe chef club it's the core of my being griffin introduced me to chef club so it seems a little unfair that i would steal it from him. I mean, you're leaving a lot of other meat on the table. You're leaving me five-minute crafts.

You're leaving me a lot of other, there's a lot more road to hell. And I guess I appreciate that. But God, Chef Club is so special. Chef Club is something that we came to by way of Facebook, right? I mean, it's where all garbage videos come to us from. If you go to Chef Club on Facebook. I believe it's Chef Club Network is where you will find it. There's a lot of Chef Club in the Chef Club family.

The immediate video you will be encountered with that never fails to make me laugh is a full turkey. Yeah. And a pair of hands yes getting ready to shove an entire block of what looks kind of like velveta into the turkey not like the kind of velvety you'd buy at the store though like a novelty comically large brick of velvety that you might buy it like a spencer's gifts as a joke. Mm-hmm. Here's the thing. We're not the only ones watching Chef Club. Okay.

This is an article from November 2019. The company now has 75 million followers across multiple social media platforms. It generates a billion video views per month and reaches 200 million people. Jesus.

There are 50 people working for chef club the entire team is based in paris right i figured that was the case with one-third of them who are not french okay um they optimize content for facebook uh and it's become increasingly harder to work around facebook's algorithm to reach a large audience. But the startup has been through ups and downs. The relentless efforts have been key to the company's growth as many media brands simply gave up on Facebook. Yeah. And it seems like in order to hang in there, you really do have to stuff a turkey with cheese bricks. a turkey with cheese bricks. Their approach to cooking is such that nothing can be wrapped in too many things.

Right. If you were to take a protein, you would think, all right, well, I have a protein. Let's move on to something else. But no, they would wrap it in another protein and then put it inside a third protein that would then be put on top of a fourth protein right and there's a great deal of shaping and molding and morphing that is done

there has been more than one video in which a rubber glove has been used as a sort of mold. We saw one filled with meat. We saw one filled with chocolate. So they're multidisciplinarians. And that's very exciting. And we should mention, too, that at the end, as in most cooking videos, there is a demonstration of the final product. With Chef Club, it almost exclusively has some kind of fluid being secreted from the middle of it at which point rachel and i always say there's that goosh they really focus in on the

payoff of the goosh yeah they love the goosh none of the foods well okay there have been a handful and i'm ashamed to say it but like there have been a handful of these videos where i'm like i would fuck with that but then there's a lot of them where it's just like that's not traditionally edible they made a sort of how would you describe it a sausage sandcastle maybe uh that had we watched that one different quadrants and there were beer cheese quadrants yes see they're big on dippers they're big on like app spreads right and so in two of the quadrants, there was beer cheese. So you would take a sausage out of the sausage sandcastle and dip it in the beer cheese and then take a, eat it, I guess with the only mouth you get on earth.

But then in the other quadrants, there was just straight up spetzel. And it's like, you can't dip anything in spetzel. It's a fucking noodle. Like it doesn't stick. We watched this kind of inexplicable video of a bunch of like a sausage wall being constructed. Right. And Griffin was more concerned about the structural integrity of dipping the sausage into the spetzel. It's just in addition to protein layers, they also do a lot of unconventional containers.

And then like, but just sometimes the container doesn't make a whole lot of sense i mean we really can't dismantle chef club it's just by nature just a extraordinary experience rachel and i just have a category of videos that we like on Facebook. And I would say Chef Club is the hot commodity right now. But like videos of just things that don't, they can't, can't make a hand. You can't make a hand loaf, a meaty hand loaf. Chef Club apparently not only is on Facebook, they're on YouTube, they're on Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok. Okay, Well, if there's any, I feel like we've watched every Chef Club video and now it's like, I get so stoked when I see there's a new one, but I didn't know about the TikToks and maybe this is the thing that gets me on TikTok. The company first started with a recipe book and you could scan QR codes in the book to

play the video on your phone oh it's clever and they also we've seen this advertised a lot they have introduced kiddos a cooking kit for kids it's a book with 20 recipes and measuring cups now this is cute actually because i think i just figured it out from the last videos like the measuring cups have little animals on it so it's like you add a lion of flour that's cute i kind of like that i can't it's always weird because you watch this really grotesque video yeah uh with you know ground beef inside bacon inside of a turkey inside of an elephant and then they're like kids measuring cups and you're like i don't want my kids i don't want anywhere near this thing i'm afraid i'm going

to open up one of those measuring cups and just like a goosh of molten cheese is gonna pour out of it for some reason it's like a clamshell package inside you see the measuring cups you open it up and then there's a river of magma chocolate why where we had this idea that maybe we should host some kind of gathering where everybody has to make a chef club recipe. Right. Because the thing is, like, for the most part, these videos are actionable. Like, they are giving you ingredients.

Oh, it's food. It's food. They're telling you, like, this is how much of this, you know, tomato sauce you'll need to put on these pork chops that you will then wrap right in provolone cheese and then wrap in pasta and then put on a skewer right that skewer by the way this whole thing's going inside a poke cake so and you know we're gonna mirror glaze it because that's why you watch the video in the first place oh chef club Chef Club Network. Can we go watch more? Well, we have to finish the podcast.

Hey, do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. Alyssa says, hi, guys. I really love using the word best to sign my emails. I just take so much joy in this simple word that is all at once positive, ambiguous, appropriate for all occasions and recipients and means absolutely nothing while serving such a necessary social function. I'm a big fan of best. Do you use best ever?

I don't really send emails that much. I feel like I was in college maybe, and I first saw that and was like, that's a good one. Because like fondly or sincerely doesn't always feel very friendly. But best feels kind of conversational i should say i don't send the kind of emails these days that you have like that require like a signature at the end of it which is to say like very rarely am i emailing somebody who i don't already have some sort of pre-existing kind of relationship with uh so no i don't think i've ever typed best but i do like the efficiency of it.

Connor says, I work as a finish carpenter and something I find wonderful is when I am cutting baseboards and a leftover scrap piece is the exact size down to the 16th of an inch as the next piece I need to cut. It's only happened three times in my two years at my job, but it always makes my whole day. Oh, I can't imagine. Yeah. I mean, that sounds great. I can tell you the number of times that I have tried to build something

and then forgot to cut one of the pieces down to make up for the other piece being longer or whatever, and then they don't fit by a margin, and I have to take it back to the lows to get an adult to cut it to the right size for me. But I cannot tell you what this perfect experience feels like because I'm just not a carpenter. But you're a lot of other things, Griffin.

Sure. I like the band The Carpenters. Yeah. Can do that at karaoke. I'm a proficient plumber, which is to say I installed a bidet seat hey thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song

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