Wonderful! - Wonderful! 129: Burning is Anxiety Leaving the Body

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Take a deep breath. No, not, no. In your mouth, a big in your mouth breath. Oh, okay. I didn't want to make too much noise, but here we go.

That's perfect. That's how they say to do it. Now hold it for seven minutes like Harry Houdini. And we'll wait. There's going to be seven minutes. Maybe I'll play some gentle Brian Eno music. And then you'll know when to exhale. Just kidding.

Do it now. We don't want to be responsible for people's accidental podcast asphyxiation. That's a tough word. This is wonderful. How are you doing, babe? I'm pretty good. I'm glad to hear it. Getting into kind of a rhythm, I think.

Good, good. I'm not. This has been a weird. I feel like this has been a weird week i feel like this week uh is where it's just kind of it's hitting it's hitting hard for a lot of maybe it's the one month mark it was so interesting because a couple days ago you were telling me that a lot about your life has not changed all that much right because you're a man that has worked from home for a long time and so you were kind of telling me right that it wasn't that bad for you yeah but then like you know anxiety doesn't need doesn't need an invitation anxiety was just like it's been a month it'll

always be a month forever many months which is not true but anxiety is such a bad friend he swoops in he's like it really is he's like hey there's something you're forgetting it's like oh what's that anxiety i don't know ah shit you got me again partner um do you have any small one i'm doing okay though uh do you have any small one i put on some facial rejuvenating hydration cream last night. And it really, it vanquished anxiety like they do in the Mucinex commercials, those little green boogers. And then they like get killed by the Mucinex, I guess. That's what the facial cream did to my anxiety. Yeah, it did burn though for a bit there.

That was the anxiety. Just melting. Burning is anxiety leaving the body. And I always say that. Do you have any small wonders? I was gonna say because I knew you weren't gonna say your upcoming birthday.

Oh yeah, man. I'm excited to celebrate you this weekend. Me too, man. We're throwing a fucking huge rager, bounce house, petting zoo, clown. Game of spin the bottle. Spin the bottle. A big block party. We got a big, big bottle i said no we're going to

spin it indoors yes um thinking about inviting a little guy named henry to the party but he's so hard to he's hard to get down yeah uh yeah it's a it's 33 yeah i guess it's a big one i don't know still can't run for president so who fucking cares man well i mean you could you could start an extended campaign now okay that's true i guess next time it'll be relevant i will be in uh for 2024 2024 man all right yeah so this is me actually announcing my campaign that's my small wonder is the green party for the wait that's an actual thing yeah i know okay you said it euphemistically um i that's your small wonder my small wonder is uh not going to be particularly relatable to you but um uh there's a game called final fantasy 7 that came out i

believe in 1998 i got it for christmas uh as our family got a playstation at christmas it was a hugely exciting christmas and that was like the one of the first games that i like owned that was mine and it was so good and big and cool and they just released this like wild remake of it wild i can't believe they're still making those games i know yeah i mean they've been slowly kind of rolling out new final fantasy games but like Final Fantasy VII is so widely beloved because it was the first 3D Final Fantasy game. And it had this huge, epic, sweeping, ambitious story. And this remake is so bizarre and strange. And I can't stop playing it.

I can't stop thinking about it. It's good. It's bringing back a lot of late 90s nostalgia for me, which was a great period. I really thrived in those years. I believe I go first this week. I want to talk about a weird sort of subgenre slash franchise slash media property

called the Super Sentai series, or specifically the motherfucking Power Rangers. I am going to talk about them, Power Rangers. I mostly want to talk about this genre because I adore the fact that this genre, the Super Sentai genre kind of exists in the first place. For context, we dipped into this over the past few days because there's just an unconscionable amount

of Power Rangers on Netflix. Yeah somehow henry was really excited about them and i don't entirely know how he knows anything about power rangers well i don't think he needs to know anything about power rangers but he loves superheroes and uh bright colors and that's sort of what these guys are all about uh we we mostly dipped into the uh the green ranger arc of mighty morphin power rangers uh which despite the fact that it is pretty ancient at this point uh being from the early 90s like it is still a very watchable television program when it came out it felt ancient right like there was something about it where i i saw it on television and i thought like this is a current show this is a show being made now because i it it felt so like behind the times i guess well it's

because the special effects that were being used that were sort of like the big important thing for for this this show in this genre were a little bit low low budge uh i i would liken it to like doctor who when that first uh came out even when they brought it back like it was very dependent on on on low budget special effects yeah but it's still like i don't know it's still very very entertaining to watch uh i will say it's tough to view it through uh the modern lens where it is like uh it's kind of a it's a pretty problematic show i think in general uh the way that there is like racial color coordination in the uh the rangers designated uh you know mecca colors uh and apparently it was also like a fucking horrible show to work on like it was a

like a really really really shitty work environment um but there is a there's something about the genre that i think is so uh kind of genius and so straightforward and powerful and clean uh it is it this formula it also like predates the power rangers and is pretty uh time tested uh and uh the so so the super sentai series it is this sprawling pseudo-connected intellectual property created by the Toei company and Bandai. Sentai translates in Japanese specifically to task force or fighting squadron. And this series, this idea was created by a guy named Shitaro Ishinomoriori and he had made like a couple successful shows for toy before uh he he sort of birthed this genre uh but then in the mid 70s he

kind of came up with this this uh two series actually a concurrent series uh of a team of super fighters all you know color coordinated with wrist wrist worn or handheld devices that transform them into superheroes. So it was a team of, you know, red and blue and pink and green and yellow and orange. And I mean, I don't know if those were all specifically the colors, but all of them had, you know, signature weapons and signature fighting styles. And these two series, they didn't like necessarily blow up right away. And so Toei sidelined them because they got a partnership with marvel to make a spider-man live action series which i did not know and this spider man live action series is actually kind of important to like the power rangers uh history because it kind of branched away from the comics in that there were giant mecha in spider-man

like spider-man had a big mech that he wrote around in called leopard on that he would use to fight big kaiju monsters oh which is fucking rad and i think could be like a major improvement to the next spider-man movie yeah if tom holland climbed up inside a big robot leopard of some sort um so that sort of got added to this sentai formula uh and that's basically carried it through to the day a team of colorful superheroes have devices that transform them into these these rangers of power and they all have individual mecha that they can ride around in and fight uh big monsters when they transform so So in 1993, a company called Saban Entertainment, which was an American company,

wanted to bring it stateside. And so what they did is they took the, like, combat and action footage from a 1992 Sentai series called Kyo-Ryu Sentai Zyuranger. And so they took, like, all the mecha combat and some of the martial arts combat of them in their costumes and then also filmed like american actors and for the you know uh more narrative parts of the uh series and then they just combine them and that is where mighty morphin power rangers came from okay okay and it is because of that that formula and that form of adaptation that there is a fucking billion

power rangers spinoff series because every single sentai series that came out in japan from that point on pretty much without fail became a power rangers series using this exact sort of translation formula that is how we get the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue,

Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, SPD, Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury,

RPM. All of these start with Power Rangers, obviously, but that was getting a little... Samurai, Super Samurai, Megaforce, Super Megaforce, Beast Morphers, Super Dino Charge, and regular Dino Charge, and Ninja Steel and Super Ninja Steel. Wow. It's just a lot.

Yeah. And all, I mean, we watched, we hopped around the canon a little bit. Each one, they got colorful superheroes with mechs that they transform into. just a lot yeah and all i mean we watched we we hopped around the cannon a little bit each one they got colorful superheroes with mechs that they transform into and that's fucking good and i'll watch it every single time no matter what um also shout out to the big bad beetle borgs which was another uh creation of saban that was uh it had terrifying blue-faced Jay Leno ghost genie man who gave kids these superpowers to turn into robot bugs,

but it was also kind of a sitcom. Holy shit. What a wild one. This was like a thing. I feel like, and obviously I was too young to know sort of like the origins of where it came from, but like, man, VR Troopers was another one that came out. Yeah, I remember all these.

Yeah, they were really striking while the iron was hot and uh they are they are still striking so never really like in my pocket exactly but i i remember the phenomenon yes of course uh boy howdy was i into it when the movie came out oh with they might be giants on the soundtrack fucking forget about it hey what's your first thing uh my first thing is also kind of a little retro okay it is the california raisins okay yeah babe that's profoundly strange that's quite weird i went on a on a little journey today just kind of looking at spokesmen uh from the the grand heyday of animated spokespeople. Right. And then I kind of really spent a lot of time with the California Raisins today. That's good.

Sometimes you really need to center yourself, close your eyes, light a candle, a votive, and maybe just spend some time with the California Raisins. And what does that mean to you? I don't know if you're really aware of the phenomenon that with the California Raisins. And what does that mean to you? I don't know if you're really aware of the phenomenon that was the California Raisins. I mean, obviously you are somewhat because Justin and Travis did and you, right? No, not me.

I was too little. The Halloween costume. They did, which essentially was garbage bags. Yeah, just forever commemorated in your photos. Which I adore. Yeah, no, I mean, I was alive during California Raisins, but I do not. And we had California Raisins toys. But I don't think I knew a lot about them.

So California Raisins, part of the reason you may not be as familiar is this is 1986 when they started. I wasn't even alive then i was still up in the baby factory in the clouds historic was still circling around historic was in a holding pattern waiting for clint and leslie mcelroy to i don't want to finish that sentence let's move on yeah uh so this is a ad campaign um the legend has it that a man they unearthed scrolls a man named seth warner was working for an ad agency and he was looking for something the The California Raisin Advisory Board had put together a bid for a multimillion dollar campaign to combat slowing raisin sales. Which, okay, all right, doesn't sound like an emergency. But that's a big, I mean, California, there's a big industry there for grapes.

Sure, sure. Grapes and grape byproducts. And they depend, you know, on the sales of these grapes. Yeah, these great grapes. Or they're old sort of desiccated husks, which is what raisins are. And that's what they used to, they used to call them California desiccated grape husks.

Yeah, which is hard to sell. It's hard to sell hard to say uh so the legend is that seth warner who was the copywriter at the ad agency uh began dancing across the room to the old motown hit i heard it through the grapevine which apparently he just did that in the middle of a business he was in the middle of business that was his pitch and that sounds like a like a skit or a sketch of some sort. Well, if you're a man that has sat down to come up with an ad campaign for raisins, right? Yeah.

That's a challenging thing because, you know, if you think about sun-made raisin lady. Yeah. You know, that's nice, but it's not hip. No, that's my grandpa. Yeah, right? The way the 80s demanded hip. 80s demanded cool, hip, desiccated raisin husk, people. So this first aired September 14th, 1986.

Of course, this was claymation. So it took a very long time to create. But Werner has been quoted as saying, we decided that we wanted the raisins to be cool and a bit intimidating. Whoa. Okay. They hired Will Vinton, who was an Oscar winning animator, who would later trademark the term claymation.

So like they use that money and they got themselves a big name in the claymation oh so like they used that that money and they got themselves a big name yeah in the claymation the biggest and possibly only it sounds like apparently they hired human dancers to make the raisins dance moves look realistic okay sort of a claymation rotoscope which is uh silly but i'm into it so for those of you that aren't familiar the california raisins they were like anthropomorphic raisins that had like sunglasses and they would do cool dance moves and sing i heard it through the grapevine which a lot of people and you saw this and you went i boy howdy i want to eat those anthropomorphic raisin people yum they look delicious i will go buy a box of them immediately you're saying that but this did actually increase raisin sales by 20 after the first commercial good lord so people and people

were like hey remember raisins can i say something maybe i think they could have just put a picture of an actual raisin up on the screen and been like hey everybody it's us california raisins society or whatever um remember i just want you to think real quick raisins raisins taste pretty good did you forget about raisins did you forget about raisins because you saying this segment right now makes you want to go eat the hell out of some raisins because i'm remembering like hey wait a minute raisins kind of kick ass a little bit they taste good i like a raisin too and i haven't eaten one in this millennium i feel like wow i know it's been a minute uh okay so the thing about the california raisins so that song i heard it through the grapevine i think a lot of people

associate with the marvin gaye version which came out in 1968 was actually the first recording was produced for gladys knight and the pips oh interesting yeah uh anyway, here's the phenomenon that happened. California Raisins went on to release four albums. For these commercial fruits. They did versions of Lean on Me and You Can't Hurry Love. More than two million people bought their albums. Fuck, wow. Uh-huh.

Who's your favorite band right now, Griffin? The California, thank you for asking. I can't stop listening to the California Raisins. Not only that, they scored a Billboard Hot 100 hit. They earned an Emmy nomination because they did several television programs. Okay. Did the sale of raisins just continue to grow in lockstep with these huge entertainment success stories? So this is basically, this is the 80s, right?

Right. Because the kind of the swan song of the California Raisins was a 13-episode Saturday morning cartoon show in 1989. Called the California Raisin Show. Apparently, now I haven't seen this, the program that won the Emmy was a Christmas celebration that was just all claymation. There is apparently a mockumentary-style show

called Meet the Raisins, which created a full backstory. And the raisins were given names including ac bebop stretch and red okay i gotta i gotta find this program we need to find it locate it watch it tonight um there's merchandise i i had the little figurines um there's plush plush toys lunch boxes air fresheners a series of comic books garbage bag costumes garbage bag costume uh fast food chain hardy's bought a license to produce the incredibly popular collectible raisin figures which i think is probably what i had as well yes and they if you those that look back in history on the raisins kind of credit them for the beginning of like the M&Ms, like little M&Ms guys.

Oh, yeah, sure. If you think about it. Super interesting, great phenomenon. I like it that they sort of broke the seal on making it okay to have the spokespeople for your product be the thing you're eating. It made it okay. product be the thing you're eating it made it okay it made me feel comfortable now when i see the m&ms and they're like ah we're gonna make a joke ha ha ha and the whole time i'm thinking like i'm gonna fucking eat you guys and it's gonna taste really you guys are so big it would be so awesome to eat you because it would take forever yeah like an everlasting eminem i don't even need them to say they're

funny jokes they could just again stand on screen and model for me sweet candy dance for me dance for me yellow eminem um i just one last thing so the the person singing on the uh california raisins commercials was buddy miles who was a a Carlos Santana collaborator and drummer for Jimi Hendrix. Wow. Okay. Right? They spared no expense with these raisins. Yeah.

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Hey, can I tell you about my second thing? Yes. It's whistling. Okay. Woo. I got nervous there for a second. What did you think i was gonna like i was gonna talk about like some like sexy stuff cabooses maybe today is fannies what's up no i'm

talking about whistling uh and i'm not even necessarily saying that i love hearing people whistle but i enjoy whistling a lot i do it sort of absent-mindedly quite a bit and also just sort of conceptually whistling i like that we can make this sound with our bodies like our butt some of us can make that sound with our bodies i'm sorry that you're you're you can kind of whistle right like you can create a tone but you just like can't control i can't modulate it at all yeah um just sort of like our bodies can make a lot of noises and some of them are musical in nature and i like that we just have this like powerful woodwind instrument sort of built into our face.

That's pretty cool. It is very cool. I also think it's like a genuinely sort of pretty sound. I like whistling in places that are sort of like have interesting reverb sort of patterns to them. And obviously like whistling has been a part of music since like music has been, you know, recorded and performed. And there's a lot of different ways to whistle using, you know, your lips or your tongue or your fingers, obviously, for a more sort of shrill, powerful whistle.

The most prominent whistler in music, in my opinion, is Andrew Bird, who I've been looking I've been listening to him so much lately and i've been looking for a way to sneak him back into the show again uh and it's sort of been a staple of his music forever he was in like a sort of like jazz folk group called uh bowl of fire i think i'll have to double check that um and like ever since then all the way up to today like whistling is just sort of a, a frequent thing in his music. He's very, very, very good at whistling. He's an incredible whistler. And I remember reading an interview of him, like sort of expressing his surprise at how like obsessed people were with his whistling because he's like this Suzuki trained, uh, violinist who's been like training to play the violin since he was a baby,

but people just want to talk about his whistling. But he's a good ass whistler, which he's a good whistle. He doesn't whistle out of his ass. That was a terrible, terrible way of phrasing that. And you can hear how good he is in the climactic song for the 2011 Muppets movie where he,

that was him. That was him. It's the sort of climax of the movie where the sort of meek star of the film stands up and does something for the talent show where he whistles. It is Andrew Bird performing it. The song is called The Whistling Caruso.

I'm going to play it right now. so i was like looking into whistling for its musical applications but obviously uh it can be used for a sort of communications purpose as well. And so it was going down that rabbit hole that I learned about Silbo Gomero, which is one of a handful of whistling languages that have been sort of devised across human history. And it is still used in some regards today. it is a whistled variation of spanish uh who and it's used in a place uh called uh la gomera which is in the canary islands and la gomera has all of these um like beautiful valleys and deep ravines and stuff and so they have devised silbo gomero uh to communicate messages to uh to each other from a distance of up to five kilometers because the sound carries through the through the canyon so uh clearly i tried to figure out like an easy way to explain how they adapted spanish into this whistling language uh but it was way beyond my pay grade so i'm just going going to read what it says based on various studies in Wikipedia.

According to different studies, the Silbo-Gomero language has between two and four vowels and between four and 10 consonants. The language is a whistled form of a dialect of Spanish. Silbo replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound. Whistles are distinguished according to pitch and continuity. As with other whistled forms of

non-tonal languages silbo works by retaining approximately the articulation of ordinary speech so the timbre variations of speech appear in the guise of pitch variations so it's an incredibly difficult language to learn i would encourage you to just go listen look up silbo and listen to it because it's fucking cool and wild. And it's like some, it's extremely talented whistling that is, I don't know. I just love that it like, it is this like, like superpower level ingenuity of like having a conversation five kilometers away by whistling down these deep canyons is like some actual magical realism level fucking cool stuff.

It makes me wonder about growing up in that community and how you teach. That's been the hardest thing for me. No one can teach how to whistle. I feel like people will describe to me what whistling is and I will try to do it. Right. But I feel like it's really something you have to figure out on your own and to be a kid in that community.

Well, it is not exclusively, I imagine, the only language spoken in this community. But clearly, like it still has value. You know, it would be a useful thing to have and to like to feel the pressure of like trying to make that happen. Yeah, it's still It's so rad. Hey, what is your second thing, huh? My second thing is the song Outside from the television program Bubble Guppies.

You are all about this jam, these guppies. I love it so much. What is up with us bringing child's aquatic-based songs to this show what i mean i brought underwater rainbow that one time you did something about there's something you also brought the lion king song which was not aquatic i guess it was not aquatic in nature but folks listen a lot of you aren't watching kids programming there's some motherfucking slaps out there there's some slaps and a half uh bubble guppies show on nickel Nickelodeon. Yeah. It's actually a Canadian-American program.

I believe it, man. They've cracked the code up there. It has been around since January 2011. It is a show that we watch regularly with our son. We have the Nickelodeon app on our TV, and we've just kind of been hitting programs based on the little square they have. They'll have a little square, and it's like, this one's got a monster truck in it that seems like a good square yeah and so after we watched enough little mermaid he went through kind of a merman phase and said i would like to watch

that one then he went through an ethel merman phase and that was like wicked strange much louder yeah um so this is this is a group of merpeople. They all have names. I'm not going to spend time on that. What I want is for you to play a little bit of the song outside. Should you set up what... It takes place in a school. In every episode, they do a little skit, but the skit takes place outside,

and so they all go outside. Yeah, yeah. There's, you know know like most children's programs there's a there's a routine to it um there's kind of there's two songs besides the title song that you'll always hear uh one is the song outside which i love the other song which is also kind of a bop is uh it's time for lunch time for lunch but let's play outside before we play it picture in your mind what a song in a children's program about going outside might sound like go ahead and think about what that might sound like you're fucking wrong because this one is it slaps way way harder than it needs to outside everybody outside line up everybody line up line up line up So this song gets me so hype.

It has an effect on me. A lot of times when I look at Henry, I see a lot of similarities to Griffin. It's difficult for me to see myself in our son. Really? Yeah. I feel like he's more your kid than mine. I don't think that that's true even a little bit, hon. But when this song comes on, he and I have a similar reaction.

Oh, right. And that is to wiggle, to some might say dance. Some might not call it dancing what we do. No, especially not him. dance i might not call it dancing what we do no especially not him uh so this song uh created by michael rubin who is a emmy award-winning composer lyricist and producer he has done songs not just for bubble guppies but for blues clues mickey mouse clubhouse he has also uh created songs for ray charles nora jones uh patty labelle macy gray holy shit india ari tony braxton what the He has also created songs for Ray Charles, Nora Jones, Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray. Holy shit.

India Arie, Toni Braxton. What the fuck? Right? Does he do a lot? Okay, a lot of the music on Bubble Guppies. Every episode has original music in it. Yeah. And a lot of it is really fucking good.

Is it because? It's this guy. Oh, wow. He's the guy. He's the guy he is actually he he has worn he has won an emmy for a song on bubble guppies called little froggy 2016 20 i gotta check in on that one i don't think i've heard that jam i know he's he's he's gotten actually a lot of emmys specifically for bubble guppies a lot of bubble guppy emmys out there listen y'all i like the idea

of going to this gentleman's house and he's like this wall this is my bubble guppies this is where all of the gold bubble guppies records live i love this jam i love this jam i love the one they got about kitties and doggies i don't care if you bark or purr that's a bop i know my man michael got up on that one uh there's a long um bubble guppies like almost feature-length film called the puppy in the ring oh yeah which we very much enjoy yeah yeah yeah um got a got an emmy award for that for flutter guppies realm yeah man we. It should be a recurring segment on this show of just us plumbing the depths of children's programming and entertainment

to find the gems, like the gems in the jams. It's childhood gym jams here on Wonderful, a recurring, my favorite new recurring segment. I would recommend, you know, anytime you have to kind of work up the nerve to leave your house, maybe play this song. Yeah, which is probably, I mean, don't leave your house unless absolutely necessary.

Maybe sit on this. But if you do need to go to the pharmacy or something like that, and you're feeling a little bit nervous, God, I feel you. I feel you. It's a very anxiety-inducing thing for me. But when I hear this big fish,

when I hear this big fly fish, and he sings to me to go outside, and they hit on that drum and bass beat in the background, I gotta... It just makes me strong. It makes me stronger. I don't think we're like... We're not children's programming experts, but we're getting there. If we're like,

we're not children's programming experts, but we're getting there. If we're not, yes we are. If we are not, then who the hell is? Well, we've only been at this for a few years now, Griff. Yeah, it's fair. I think the more years, the more expertise, but I feel like this song will hold up just for years to come.

Yeah. Hey, can I tell you what our friends at home are talking about? Yeah, please. Steven says can I tell you what our friends at home are talking about? Yeah, please. Steven says, I really enjoy restoration videos. There's something just so satisfying, oh, probably satisfying, about seeing something that's really dirty

and not working being restored to a near mint condition. Oh. Yeah. I mean, we're still into that Baumgartner art restoration. Still feeling that. But man, I'll watch somebody fix an old woodsman's axe or something or um the video that Stephen sent in was an old Game Boy color that was like I watched one of like a Game Boy uh like the big gray brick one that was in like a house fire

but still worked and then just like fixing it and getting it like up and running again I'll watch that all day man yeah no that's that's nice that i mean i think some of that is like for me what the appeal of infomercials was was there was like a product that would like clean or refinish or restore and i would just love to watch that before and after i get served a facebook ad pretty much constantly now every time i use that platform uh for a cleaning slime that you roll across your keyboard and it gets all the gunk out of it. You just roll this goo across your keyboard. And it's visually very gross,

but also gross in a very satisfying way. I don't know. Aaron says, you've already talked about the Bon Appetit videos on the show, but my wonderful thing this week has been specifically the working from home videos that BA has been uploading lately. I love the spice cabinet tours and the favorite kitchen tool testimonials We did this.

I actually, I pushed Griffin into watching the one where we looked at all of their kitchens. Yes. And we specifically fast forward so we could see Chris Morocco's kitchen. Yes. We were just like. It was not nearly as sort of museum-esque as I assumed it would be. For such an exacting professional, his kitchen was just like anyone else's kitchen. But some of them had like some legit setups.

Yeah. Some legit stuff. Yeah. them had like some legit setups some legit stuff um yeah i the i i really especially because a lot of them reported from new york right so they have a very small space to work with so there's a lot of like clever uses of space it made me feel bad about our lack of bon maries we don't have any bon maries i do i don't i guess we have the one that we keep all of our utensils in like right next to this but we could use, yeah. But we could use, these people were talking about fucking half a dozen Bon Maris, just like in reach, like at all times.

It's smart because those drawers get messy. Yeah. Let's invest in some nice quality Bon Maris. I mean, we could just, you know, you could just use like a milk box a milk jug yeah I guess so that's rustic um hey I think that's it 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 thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the network yeah thank you so much Maximum Fun and thank you for continuing

to put out great content I was enjoying an episode of One Bad Mother just yesterday. And it's nice to hear from some people you really like, especially in these kind of isolated times. Yeah, absolutely. We have other stuff at macroy.family if you want to check that out. We've been doing some streaming stuff that you can find links to there. Yeah, I think that's it, though. What's our affirming sort of message this time? Maybe it's just like, moisturize.

And that can mean any number of things. Yeah, I like that. It doesn't even have to be cream. It could just be water that you drink and become your- Moisturize your insides. Moisturize, just moisturize with an exclamation point. Yeah. And then it's anything.

Yeah. Moisturize. It could also sound like moisten your eyes. Yeah, your eyes. But maybe that's good too. Have a good cry. It works on so many levels. Money won't pay.

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