Wonderful! - Wonderful! 137: The Scent of Jazzman Bruno

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

Griffin's favorite adult snack! Rachel's favorite endorsed smells! Griffin's favorite sketch comedy! Rachel's favorite relevant tune!Music: "Money Won't Pay" by bo en and Augustus - https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoyaFor more info on the Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/ MaxFunDrive ends on March 29, 2024! Support our show now by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Wait, my beard was scratching against the pop filter? I'm so sorry. My beard was scratching against the pop filter can we get can we get somebody else in here i've uh i've decided to replace you oh no because of my scratchy beard and how it's always rubbing against the pop filter and making unseemly scratchy noise exactly that reason listen i was trying to show off my incredible beard incredible beard hi hi hi this is rachel mcelroy hello this is griffin mcelroy and this is wonderful and this is we'll show where Incredible beard. Incredible beard. Hi. Hi. Hi. This is Rachel McElroy. Hello.

This is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. And this is a show where, oh, dang it. It's doing it again. This big, lustrous, freaking beard. I'm so sorry, everybody. This is embarrassing. It never happens.

Tell everyone about the beard. It's pretty remarkable, isn't it? I don't know why I've chosen to highlight it. The beard is not something I had really noticed until immediately after you said that there was a beard so that's about where we're at i think wow wow maybe we should bring someone else in you should bring in henry and he could take my spot because he would never disrespect him. He doesn't have a beard. That is true. He would make a lot of other, I would say, unprofessional noises that you would have to contend with. He's entering his poop period.

He's really exploring his poop phase right now. In that it is the funniest word he knows. And so he inserts it as if it is a joke by itself. Yeah. And he likes to just sort of like i'll say like i i love you son and he will look back up at me and say i love you poop and then that's pretty good like i know that's not the medium in which you find comedy most of the time but somehow he got the impression that being funny is a very valued quality in this house

don't get it i don't understand I don't know how it happened. This is a wonderful show where we talk about things that we are into, things that are good, things we're excited about. You got any of those small wonders? Why don't you go first? Yeah, my first, my small wonder is a bit of a heavy one, but we just watched 13th, which is on Netflix right now,

which is a documentary all about systemic racism, specifically with regards to the for-profit prison system in the country. It is an extremely challenging film to watch, but I think right now it's a very necessary one. But I think right now it's a very necessary one. And it is. It's done really beautifully in that it kind of helps you stay rooted in the time period. Yes.

As you're watching it. And so you really see the progression and how it happens and what the factors are in it happening. Yeah. And even if you are like the type of person that is is fully cognizant of the fact that systemic racism exists, it is a sort of staggering look at how it has metastasized and changed form sort of maliciously to survive. Yeah, it's very difficult to watch, but I think that if you are trying to stay educated while seeing all of these remarkable protests against police violence and violence against black communities, it's a really remarkable film. So, yeah, I would encourage you to watch that if you are looking for more educational resources. And I realize now I have set you up to fail. Yeah, right. If you bring something like Nathan's hot dogs.

I was actually going to reference, and this is not a paid advertisement. I imagine one of these in most areas. Oh, boy. We have kind of like a csa box system um ours is called farmhouse delivery oh yeah um i think csa is the right way to refer to it a lot of people get like a local produce box delivered to their house this is kind of similar to that except it's it's all sorts of local texas goods true so i can get like a salsa i can get like a frozen pizza it's all like local companies that have decided to distribute their goods this way and so every week we get one and it is the best it is really good uh especially since you

know uh going to the grocery store is not an appealing idea right now uh and so getting like you know stuff that people made and stuff that people are like really uh like products they are enthusiastic about and passionate about is like very very yeah and it's helped us kind of try things that we wouldn't have otherwise tried it's kind of like when you go to a grocery store and they have only like two options for particular food and so you you end up kind of dipping into stuff that you wouldn't normally eat there are carrots in this box that would oh these fucking curl your toes these carrots would oh these carrots because of the flavor of them not because they grew in a particularly like phallic shape or anything like that that's probably not where that's probably they're probably i would say

six percent of our audience that went there with it but I wanted to gently nudge them back towards the light of the Lord. I go first this week. Great. You know what? I'm going to change the order of mine because one of the things that I want to talk about is inspired by a product that we receive in this remarkable little farmhouse box.

It is the Humble Oatmeal Cream Pie. This is the sandwich with oatmeal cookies on either side of it and cream right the hell there in the middle this is dangerous isn't it why just because it's so like it's so bad you know what what well just like it's it's not necessarily a healthy or nutritious food it's got oatmeal in it are you kidding me oh there you go it's not necessarily a healthy or nutritious food. It's got oatmeal in it. Are you kidding me? Oh, there you go. It's got oatmeal in it.

There are way worse things that you can eat. I'm just saying at one point you specifically suggested that maybe I stopped buying these because we were compulsively eating them. That is true. It is. Yeah, they are sort of undeniable. They are extremely powerful. I wanted to talk a little bit about my relationship with Lil Debbie. Please, please. When I was a youngster, you know,

I was the third child. And we were of sort of an age range that we were like, all in school. And we had two, you know, parents working full time jobs. And so like, I want to say around like, you know, parents working full-time jobs. And so like, I want to say around like fourth or fifth grade, I started to pack my own lunch in the mornings because that's, you know, that's a lot of boys to prep in the morning time. So my lunch, this was a critical mistake for my parents giving me this level of freedom. I'm not proud of my lunch that I had for a great deal of my youth, but it contained the following. It would have a Ziploc bag of chips, usually not a very big bag, like a small bag of chips, usually Snyder's chips.

I don't know if that's a brand that exists outside of West Virginia, but just regular old potato chips. I would have a can of Sam's Club off-brand soda. So like Dr. Lightning. you're shaking your head already oh i'm just dismayed continue uh sometimes i would have a sandwich in there sometimes i put a sandwich in there the sandwich was either peanut butter and honey or pepperoni and mustard oh griffin this was yeah this was the heat i had and then it would also have a little debbie in there is pepperoni and mustard a thing that people have eaten? I mean, if you think about like a, there's a lot of Italian sandwiches that are, you

know, those, those types of meats with a, with a, with a mustard or something on top. Usually there's, you know, other stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Not just pepperoni and mustard. God, I loved pepperoni growing up. I would make old pepperoni rolls in the microwave myself, which is basically just I would put pepperoni in bread

and just fucking wad it up. Now, what did I fuck with, right? What kind of Little Debbies did I bring to the table? You're probably thinking oatmeal cream pies, right? Since that's the subject of it. No, I did not like an oatmeal cream pie growing up. I did not respect the oatmeal cream pie. And in fact, they ranked pretty low on the tier list for me.

It is only since I have grown to older and my palate is more refined that I really appreciate an oatmeal cream pie. It's too complex a taste for you as a child. It wasn't complex. It wasn't complex enough is the honest truth. It wasn't, if I'm being frank, chocolatey enough. And then while I was putting the notes together for this segment i went off on a huge tangent here and i did provide a definitive ranking of little debbie snack uh archetypes uh from the perspective of

like elementary school griffin because this list has changed now but obviously in the top slot you have the brownie family the cosmic brownies Brownies, the Zebra Brownies. Oh, see, I was gonna say the Nutty Buddy. The Nutty Buddy. Is that not Little Debbie? Nutty Buddy ranks in at number eight for me. Whoa, Griff. Yeah, the Nutty Buddy, like peanut butter crunch bars.

I disagree. Okay, well, let me keep going. Number two, we have the cake family, Zebra Cakes, Fancy Cakes, et cetera. I loved a Fancy Cake. Then you have the cake family, zebra cakes, fancy cakes, etc. I loved a fancy cake. Then you have the cupcakes, like the chocolate, just like one with the swirl on the top or cosmic cupcakes. Not as good as cosmic brownies. Number four, fudge rounds.

Ooh, fudge rounds, though. Can you at least get on the fudge round train with me? It's like a chocolate oatmeal cream pie. So it was like, in my mind, better. I don't know that I've ever had one continue. Oh, my God. Number five, Star Crunch. Yeah. Star what? me it's like a chocolate oatmeal cream pie so it was like i don't know that i've ever had one continue oh my god uh number five star crunch yeah start what um this may not shock you to hear that my family did not purchase these items well they thought you were allergic to chocolate

that is based on nothing for pretty much based on a doctor actually suggesting that that was the case right uh number six honey buns oh i still go crazy for a honey bun number seven i don't know why this ranks so low it should be much higher but pecan spin wheels i would unroll those things i have had those i would eat that like a fucking pecan fruit by the foot yes those were good as hell eight of course nutty buddy uh peanut butter crunch bars uh number nine caramel cookie bars hey nice try little debbie this is just a flat twix this is just a broad twix so and the number 10 oatmeal cream pies would would just barely made the list but now like i would flip that whole thing i think on its ear i think a cosmic brownie would put me into like a coma

at this point um i don't think i would enjoy that experience did you i want you to think back to this time period where you were making your own lunch did you notice some kind of uh lethargy that showed up in your afternoon times maybe after lunch um i mean it was so i mean you drink a um what was it called like a mountain lightning and you eat a cosmic brownie and eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich that's going to provide you enough energy to get you from you know uh 11 30 where you eat the lunch to about 3 15 p.m i can't imagine and then i would get home and just sort of like just sort of fade fade out do you know were your brothers doing the same the same thing did you ever happen i don't know what my brothers were eating i do not know uh anyway then jamie oliver came to

west virginia and fixed it fixed this all thank you jamie uh so uh the oatmeal cream pie was the uh original little debbie snack uh in 1935 od mckee who was the founder of the company uh had this bad recipe for hard-ass oatmeal cookies that nobody liked. And so he started to figure out like, hey, can I make these bad boys softer? And then he did. And then I guess he was like struck by lightning or visited by an angel or something because then he had the idea to put cream

in between these beautiful soft bastards. And the oatmeal cream pie was born and they would sell them for a nickel a piece. And the rest was history. A nickel a piece, can you imagine? Those were the days. Those were the days those were the days when you could just get a five cent oatmeal cream pie um and yeah i mean they're

i mean they are not the healthiest food they do give you i wrote down four percent of your daily iron and one percent of your daily potassium so um and then i guess the the reason that this is obviously coming up is because we have gotten them in this farmhouse box and they're incredible but i also have just like recently come to the realization that you can just make these they're literally just two oatmeal cookies with some buttercream between them yeah you can just make them we could do that we could do that and i think that that's an exciting idea. Yeah, I have on the notes here that we get them in this incredible box

and they're really good. And I love oatmeal cream pies and they are like the dessert that I'm most enthusiastic about right now. And I would ask you to respect that. What's your first thing? Okay, my first thing is kind of a surprise to me. Oh boy.

I think I like celebrity fragrances. The concept or the scent? Well. Oh no. I have a tester here for you. Oh no. Wait, are you gonna, why do you have a celebrity fragrance?

I was doing a little research on celebrity fragrances, and I became very intrigued. Okay, you know that my brother Travis is like obsessed with the concept of celebrity fragrances, right? I didn't know that. Has he talked about this? He is like an acolyte of... Is this one of his games? No, this is not one of his games. He has many games.

I'm sure it will show up eventually. So you want me to smell this and tell you... I just want you to smell it. And then you want me to tell you what celebrity it is? Oh, I mean, you can do that. I just want you to smell it and see that it is to tell you what celebrity it is oh i mean you can do that i just want you to smell it and see that it is in fact not a bad smell how should i just stick your nose don't don't spritz it oh it's kind of nice right what do you think i'm getting uh i'm getting a kelly clarkson no no No, not at all. No, not at all.

Is this Taraji P. Henson? No. No? Who is that? Sarah Jessica Parker. Oh, that was going to be my next guess. Why do you have SJP's smell, babe? Well, okay, so here's the thing.

So I was researching. I, I guess like travis found it very intriguing and i was reading about it and i decided i would just invest in a celebrity fragrance just to see what all the fuss was about uh and i i read the notes you know how they give you the notes uh i tend to like a patchouli smell and i know i know what that says about me and so i saw that was listed as one of the notes, and then I purchased it, and here we are. I'm excited to learn more. I have to ask, are you mostly just fascinated with the concept of a person being forced to identify their smell?

A little bit. Just the process is kind of fascinating to me. Can I ask you, and I know you've just identified patchouli notes and maybe we should save this for the end of your segment but what the rachel scent is the scent of a rachel oh gosh i mean i would have to know i i like something that is more citrusy i also looked at a jennifer aniston fragrance um she does a lot of beachy options. See, weirdly, you are not like a beach bum, but from you, I am getting a sort of outdoor scent, like when you come inside from,

not like sweat or stink or musk or anything like that, but just like the scent of outdoors with like a little bit of, I'm getting like a grapefruit off of you. Yeah, I like a citrus. I have a body wash right now that is grapefruit. Oh, that's cheating because I have used it in a pinch. It's nice.

It's good stuff. So I did a little research. There's a company called Cody that does a lot of the C-O-T-Y. that does a lot of the coty um because they kind of give you a process as a celebrity to easily create a fragrance uh celebrities that have used cody include david beckham hallie berry beyonce faith hill lady gaga jlo madonna tim mcgraw kylie minogue rihanna gwen Gwen Stefani okay all of those people like I was waiting to use this one company I was waiting for the outlier there where I'd be like they have a scent but all of those people Tim McGraw that one surprised me a little yeah bud yeah bud Tim McGraw for sure has a scent um fragrances actually started I was looking there is a whole wikipedia page that lists out

celebrity fragrances it is not comprehensive um but it gives you kind of a good idea of when it all started which was in the 80s with share and michael jackson okay they were the first two to have their own sense um i mean i can't say that confidently but but that was what my research indicated. I could see Cher being at the vanguard of that. And then in the 90s, Michael Jordan. Do you remember this Michael Jordan cologne? Of course I do. Every,

every, yes, everybody I feel like knew about that. Also White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor. But that was just because of the fucking commercials that were just nonstop. It came out in 1991. It has grossed close to $2 billion dollars i feel like i can see that

commercial in my mind and when i do think about that commercial in my mind it's like kind of and i apologize to everybody but like it's like overwhelmingly erotic like the commercial was like laying it on thick it's very gauzy uh and that there there is a lot of drapery that she walks through. It's sort of boudoir-y, if memory serves. And I don't know if I'm sort of emphasizing that because of the era that it came out in, and my age, and sort of my relationship with puberty, necessarily. Yeah, this was as close as you could get to something that was boudoir in the time i imagine uh so here's the thing that i also am kind of fascinated by is that it's not unusual

for a celebrity to make multiple fragrances uh apparently and i saw this on multiple sites jennifer lopez has 25 fragrances uh paris hilton 26 britney spears 27 wow i know that's incredible okay at a certain point though that it stops being like okay if i catch a whiff of you wearing the sarah jessica parker scent yeah i'm going to think like that's what sarah jessica parker thinks she smells like or would like people to think that she smells like when you you put out 27 fragrances, like what are you saying? Are you saying like this is Britney on, you know, a warm day on the boardwalk. This is Britney in the ski lodge. You know what I mean?

Like are these different shades of Britney or is Britney just saying, hey, here's a good stink that I think you would like? Well, so and I was reading a little bit about how this process works. I couldn't find like a great reliable source. But what I did find was a suggestion that the perfume company like Cody might approach the celebrity or the celebrity approaches them. And they develop a brief, a creative team will sit down and create a brief, which is just kind of instructions to the perfumer on the types of things to like hit on. What a strange little world. So it can be a sentence, it can be several pages.

It could also just be a picture or a video of like, this is who we're designing this for. Now put some ideas together. And then the celebrity just has to show up, smell a few things and say, I like that one. one pretty cool gig good work if you can get it and then potentially make a billion dollars which is incredible i think i would go in like full-blown villanelle like i want to smell like power can i tell you something so i was looking through this website that listed all the different celebrity fragrances. John Hodgman has one called Whale. Isn't that incredible?

It's so good. I couldn't find any details on it, really. I have to imagine there's a list of all the celebrities and their occupations so it's like you know singer footballer actor what's it what's it clock hodgman s humorist he's got to be the only i didn't look for sure but he's got to be the only humorist on the list oh shit the gene sh's I love this one um there have also been some fragrances that were not as successful uh apparently in 2015 pitbull released a fragrance called miami that was not particularly I have to imagine pitbull has gotten back up on the horse since then though right

um you know I haven't looked let me look and see if there's a multiple for him there's got to be um while you're searching now i'm not seeing one okay well maybe that's a project that i could approach i've been you know i've been looking for a reason to collaborate with people for a while um in a non-insulting answer what do you think my smell would be and there is a correct answer oh non-insulting non-insulting i'm trying to think i feel like you like a like a woodsy like a woodsy smell um i do i do yeah uh i i enjoy natural scents uh-huh one way of putting it sure um but did you have something in mind it would just be old spice pure sport you have dipped into the fragrance we've just be Old Spice Pure Sport.

You have dipped into the fragrance. We've talked about this on the show. This is true. I'm not going to give them free advertisement, but I got a Facebook ad for a solid wax cologne that I wear every day now. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I like it too. It's nice to smell good. I finally get it.

I had been kind of being lax on my fragrance since I've been at home. But then I decided. I've been meaning to say something. Maybe I should get back into it. I wouldn't say you've been lax on your fragrance. It's just that you don't choose the fragrance you get. Your body just kind of chooses it for you. Like everybody has a fragrance at all times.

Do you know what I mean? No, that's true. That's true. Everybody has a fragrance at all times. Do you know what I mean? No, that's true. That's true. So, I mean, I would just encourage everyone to check these out.

Bruce Willis has a fragrance that is just called Bruce Willis. He didn't call it Bruno? No. What a missed opportunity. I want to smell like Jazzman Bruno. Oh, for those that are wondering, the Sarah Jessica Parker fragrance is lovely, but she also has other ones. No doubt, yeah, no doubt.

Called like Stash and Covet. Oh, those are good names. Nicki Minaj, of course, has several. Rob Lowe has one. It's just, it's exciting. It's exciting to look at, to learn about. I would recommend it. Let's play a game.

Okay. We'll go back and forth. First one to stall loses. And I want you to come up with a one-word name for different celebrity colognes. Oh, okay. Let's do it. Secrets. Wait, so I have to say the celebrity?

No, just a name. A one word incredible cologne name. Oh, okay. Blade. Blade? Whose cologne is Blade? Wesley Snipes, I guess. I'm Wesley Snipes. This is my Blade cologne.

It's my licensed merchandise from the Blade franchise. Scandal. Scandal. Scandal based on the tv show scandal um does it have to be one word yes oh okay wow you're pretty certain about this um i'm gonna say spa spa is good spar it's like spa i like that this It's like spa. Oh, I like that. This one's like a, ooh. I like that. Spar is good. Ooh, I like that.

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Okay, we have Jumbotrons. All right. This first one is for Beck. It is from Gina. Thank you for introducing me to everything McElroy, for always listening to my ramblings about grad school stress and gay anxiety, and for being my best friend and wonderful thing every week. I love you and I hope future you is living your best life, hopefully on island time. Probably, unless it's a private island situation.

I mean, there are people living on islands now. Safely, responsibly. And that's good. And people that live in proximity to islands so that they could perhaps take a boat. You could live on island time also in your own home. That's true. Get one of those signs from HomeGoods. From, wow, that sentence.

Get a sign that says. Get a sign that says like island time and put it on your wall. And you get that from HomeGoods. Yeah. That's a store store right um i think so and you just you're saying you just sort of be near this sign and it uh-huh it's and it's like an order it's like a command that you have to follow you know have you ever been in like a vacation rental and they have a lot of have i been inside a vacation rental with an iconic sign on it i don't know have i peep his room yes here's a yahoo or jesus christ babe this week i tell you but really getting away from me but here's a jumbotron that is uh for kayla from philippe who

says to my dearest kayla bayla anniversary. This first year of marriage has been incredible. You make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And I can't wait to continue binging shows, playing with our dog, Shelbur Belbur, and making wok popcorn with my favorite person in the whole world. I love you so much. Babe, this next part, Philippe said,

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is a show that uh anyone can watch uh on well i guess if you have access to netflix uh that show is i think you should leave with tim robinson and i wanted to talk about this it's a comedy sketch show there's six episodes of it and it's fucking great and like uh i think like pound for pound i would put it in like the comedy pantheon of uh like nathan for you uh just like must see comedy tv it didn't occur to me that everybody wasn't watching this right until we talked to some of our friends and they're like what is this so and this is why i wanted to talk about it is like there is a weird phenomenon and i don't think i'm telling tales out of school here where like when there is a um uh prestige drama like Like everybody watched,

like when we were watching Breaking Bad, fucking everybody was watching Breaking Bad. When I was watching Game of Thrones, it was this cultural phenomenon where every single person on the planet watched Game of Thrones, right? And I don't think this necessarily qualifies for Game of Thrones

because I don't necessarily think that that was a great show. But these like prestige dramas are like mandatory in a way show but these like prestige dramas are um like mandatory in a way that i feel like comedies are not like outside of like the 90s nbc sitcom era like these days i feel like when there is a show that is critically widely regarded as like perfectly funny like a nathan for you it doesn't have that like penetration that a prestige drama does there are a lot of people in comedy right now that talk about how it is it is difficult

to promote a comedy these days uh just because um people are not getting their comedy the way they used to i feel like a lot of people do you know podcasts yeah all kinds of other stuff well yeah and i you know i guess uh i'm like working this out as i am talking to you so i'm probably gonna uh bloviate a bit but like comedy is more subjective than drama right like there are the things that you find exciting or um emotionally impactful like there is a there is a uh fairly narrow street that you can go down to like achieve those things so you watch a breaking bad and more people are gonna find it like exciting and emotionally impactful while comedy is like pretty subjective i feel like because i

feel like when we when we watch nathan for you and we're like this is the fucking best funniest show ever and then tried to get justin to watch it and the like anxiety of it made it an unwatchable show for him I guess maybe that's part of it anyway I think you should leave with Tim Robinson is uh it's incredible it's like probably my favorite sketch comedy thing uh even though it only has six episodes the hit rate on it is like unbelievable. I would posit that like SNL in its prime didn't have the like hit rate that I think you should leave. I think Key & Peele has a pretty good hit rate. I would for sure put Key & Peele up there. So Tim Robinson is a comedian who has had like a few roles on various comedy things throughout the years.

a comedian who has had like a few roles on various comedy things throughout the years. He was a featured player for a season on SNL and then got moved to a staff writing position. He was only the second SNL cast member to ever make that move from a featured player to a staff writer, which I thought was interesting. The other big thing that he has done that we have been watching lately, which is on comedy central it had one season back in 2017 i want to say is a show called detroiters uh which he does with another comedian named sam richardson that is so fucking good and funny and pure uh and if you're looking for another recommendation and you've already watched i think you should leave yeah we just started watching it wow it's good it's uh the two of them are uh just sort of down

on their luck ad execs of like a small local uh commercial yeah tim robinson's character like inherited his father's company and they're they're trying to like keep it going and they just like make bad local it's a it is a show about bad local tv commercials which apparently are also based on a lot of actual Detroit local ads because they both grew up in the Detroit area. That's what is so charming about it is they both grew up in Detroit and you can tell they both love Detroit.

It's so good. And so it's just kind of so charming the way they like pay homage to the city in the show. It's a weirdly loving show too. Like their relationship is like very sweet. Anyway, Sam Richardson also shows up in, I realized this as we started watching Detroiters, loving show too like their relationship is like very uh sweet uh anyway uh sam richardson also shows up in i i realized this as we started watching detroiters he shows up in like three or four different i think you should leave sketches i figured as much um so every episode

of i think you should leave has like four or five sketches in them uh and again like almost all of them are like poop my pants funny like very very very good uh and there's there's like an element of i would say like tim and eric-y sort of absurdism going on yeah it doesn't like only rely on that and it doesn't rely on sort of like uh out of control like editing or anything sort of like meta like that it is just sort of like it's just really i will say i will say there is a little bit of poop humor in there which can be challenging for some uh sometimes but there is a consistency to the poop humor and to everything like and i think that's what sets it apart from like a tim and eric thing where uh and i i love tim and eric i'm not uh shitting on them but like uh there is

a consistency to the the world that i think you should leave puts together as evidenced by the fact that whenever they do reference poop. I'm sorry, Rachel. They do refer to it as mud pies just for some reason. It is just like this bizarro other realm that this show takes place in. But that bizarro other realm has rules that are that are sort of immutable uh and i think that that is like just really really very very funny uh the show's also executive produced by the lonely island which i did not realize but that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense yeah it it it is not unusual to see a saturday night live cast member appear in one of

the sketches so you can tell that he must have made an impact while there. Here's the thing. There's nothing funny about talking about a funny show. So like I could reference the sketch that Andy Samberg is in where they're on like a pilot episode of a game show where they don't know who the villain, the whammy like villain is supposed to be or what he's supposed to do. So he just kind of comes out and harasses Andy Samberg. But like, I think there's actually a couple of sketches from this show that I can play audio be or what he's supposed to do so he just kind of comes out and harasses andy sandberg um but like i think there's actually a couple of sketches from this show that i can play audio clips from that will still get across what are so good one that i am incredibly uh fond of is a recreation

of that one scene from walk the line the johnny cash movie with joaquin Phoenix, where he is auditioning for a record deal in front of some record execs and plays some gospel music, because that's the music everybody was playing, and the record execs turn him down and say, hey, nobody's buying gospel records anymore. And just as the band's packing up, Johnny Cash improvises this Folsom Prison Blues-esque Johnny Cash tune. There's a sketch that I think you should leave where it's basically that, just literally shot for shot, except Tim Robinson is the fake Johnny Cash's bassist

who also jumps in on the improvisation. I'm gonna play a clip from that now. He cocked that crooked hammer back and he brought that hammer down. Exactly, the bones are the skeleton's money. In our world, bones equal dollars. That's why they're coming out tonight to get their bones from you. The skeletons will pull your hair up, but not out.

All they want's another chance at life. They've never seen so much food as this. It's a very meme-able show, which I didn't really appreciate until very recently. And this sketch, the day Robert Palin's murdered me, I feel like I see a lot of discussion of the bones. Are there money? It is very, very good. Again, I can't add anything on top of it

that will make it more entertaining or anything. But the other one that is literally, I think it's the very first like sketch in the very first episode, or maybe the second sketch is a, it's a take on a local ad for a law firm of like one of those old, and you don't see him as much anymore, but like, has this ever happened to you?

I feel like you definitely still see them. We just don't watch a lot of daytime tv well i see a lot of like accident lawyers just like hey i'm thomas j henry and i got 55 billion dollars from this one trucker uh so come come get your money uh but like it's it's just shot like that like an accidental injury firm of just like have you ever bought a house And then you found out it had termites. And then the exterminators show up and they just take turns going in and out of your bathroom for two hours. And it just spirals out of control. And then they get really serious. They say it's turbo time.

And they both start running around the house as fast as they can and jumping over the couches. But when you try and jump in, they yell at you and they they say you're not part of the turbo team don't run you don't run with us we're the ones who run until you're part of this turbo team walk slowly it's very good there's i i just i don't know i feel like i wanted to bring this up first first of all, because I really enjoy it. I think it's a very, very funny show, but it also kind of made me realize when we were talking to our friends and none of them had watched it

that there's just this weird thing that happens where there's just not as much commonality there. So much of whether or not a Netflix show gets traction is based on that little square icon, right? I feel like a lot of times, what you see in that little icon and whatever little trailer pops up is what makes you decide if you watch it or not but is it bigger than just what platform it's on right like maybe i don't know you could probably make an argument

that like comedy central has a pretty terrible app and i don't know how many people have uh have you know cable or whatever and are watching comedy central i assume there's quite a few people but like chapelle's show is another one that like everybody watched chapelle's show when chapelle's show was the thing if it was called the tim robinson sketch show you think it would people might see it and be like i like sketch comedy maybe click on it yeah i don't know uh i think you should leave go watch it it's so good what uh what's your second thing my second thing is a artist named mariba i had never heard of mariba until uh you sent me a youtube link to the song you're gonna i was watching i was watching

a video from spillage village and she has collaborated with that band. And she was kind of a standout in the video I was watching. So I started looking into her. Her name. So I said Mariba because that's how it's commonly pronounced in the States. But her name actually, it's her last name. So her name is Marion Mariba. Okay.

And she's just kind of accepted Mariba, that tends to be the pronunciation. Her father is Ethiopian. And so that part of her heritage is part of the reason that she has adopted that name, because it's a word that's in that language. So she is 29, and she has lived kind of all over the place. Born in Alabama, lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, Georgia, and then did spend some time in Ethiopia. She started as kind of a folk artist. She was very inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan. artists like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan. And it was only when she spent time in Ethiopia and came back and started rethinking her heritage

and her connection to black music that she really started working on her own beats and started using Ableton to make her own music. Oh, I like Ableton. Yeah, I thought you'd be excited about. I am. So her album that I was listening to is called The Jungle is the Only Way Out.

She said in an interview, quote, the jungle is so many different things. I came up with the album title while walking to the train one day on the way to my old day job. I felt like my life as I knew it was in the midst of falling apart.

A lot of what I held on to for stability was changing around me. But I also felt strangely empowered by the chaos, almost like it was daring me to make it out alive and prosper. It just clicked. The only way out of this chapter of my life is through it. The jungle represents that chaos, confusion, and mystery. She is a very poetic person. Oh, for sure. And the album has a lot of spoken word moments on it.

And you can listen to the album, which is kind of like a mixture of like R&B and blues. And then there is some folk and soul and hip hop. There's a lot of different influences. In interviews, she said that she was very inspired by like Tracy Chapman and Lauryn Hill and Stevie Nicks. And you'll hear kind of a lot of that in the album. But I wanted to play the song Heat Wave.

You better run, run, run like a demon chasing you. Run, run till your face is blue. Run, run for your mama's sake. Run, run. For your mama's sake Run, run Long summer Long summer Long summer

Long summer There's gonna be a heat wave A long summer Our summer Our winter's like summer Long summer This song actually came out with the album in 2019, but is obviously very applicable.

Extremely relevant right now. For these times. the song is about police brutality against black people in america and if you're interested you should watch the video because it is incredible and addresses a lot of what you know was going on time and continues to go on now right um it's a it's a song that features uh black and uh the artist black and um has like a really great kind of beat and also kind of like a summer like jam quality but is obviously about a very serious subject yeah and i just can't stop listening to it yeah there's i uh there's something sort of i guess kind of dissonant about the idea of like a powerful song about a incredibly

important subject that is also like you can't get out of your head because i've had that long summer long summer hook like in my head forever i feel like the same thing happened with the this is america where uh uh you know you you hear it and it's so fucking like impactful and kind of like staggering but then like the whole time you have that just the hook stuck in your head i and it's so fucking like impactful and kind of like staggering. But then like the whole time you have that, just the hook stuck in your head, I guess it's like the mark of an incredibly successful song. Yeah. So she has,

she has lived in Atlanta and collaborated with a lot of people out of Atlanta. So it's not unusual to find her on other tracks, but this album just came out in 2019 is really exciting. She's just kind of at the beginning of her career and this is another one of those artists where i am excited to see what happens next with her rachel's hot hot watch what's the there's not a good name i'm just trying to do the thing that we did with lizzo where we mentioned her and then totally unrelated to us

mentioning her she became a huge hit and we got to say we were there on the ground floor right even though we were pretty we actually we were not at all yeah she had been around for a long time hey i got some submissions from our friends at home you want to hear them yes please here's one from mary who says uh my small wonder is that satisfying click when you snip something with sharp scissors it could be a loose thread fresh flowers or even trimming hair it always makes me happy to hear that little clip sound i think there's a reason why that is like the original asmr sort of yeah track i think like the history of asmr i feel like dates back to a very old recording of somebody like doing a haircut and

binaural sort of sound i remember listening to something like that at like COSI when I was 10 or something like that. It is very satisfying. Rachel has like been trimming my hair with like clippers in lieu, obviously me going to the, to the parlor. And like when I do my bangs or stuff, after you're done trimming it like it's very satisfying by the way we should get some real haircut scissors huh yeah huh we should stop using our kitchen shears yes uh here's another one from Sam Isle I apologize if I butchered that

in a recent episode Griffin talked about power washing videos and in a similar fashion I've really come to enjoy car detailing videos maybe it's something about uh knowing how nasty we can get in our cars or maybe i've discovered something latent in me that just loves shiny shit either way they're all like 30 minutes long and each is special i also have been getting served quite a few car detailing videos something kind of embarrassing yes i have always wanted to get my car detailed. Same. But I am scared that it is too messy to even start that process. Like you're going to bring it into the car detailing place and they'll be like, no way. Well, it's just like I have a big right now I have a big Mickey Mouse stuffed animal in my back seat. Like, what are they going to do with that?

What are they going to do with that? Yeah. Like a part of me thinks like, should I clean it before they clean it? My admission is more embarrassing than that, which is like, I just am too lazy to get my. I got as a birthday present from our friend Justin Minsker a gift certificate to go get my car detailed for like 40 bucks or something like that. And I just didn't go. I don't. Yeah.

I don't know how you make an appointment. I don't know how long it takes. I don't know when a good time to go is. I don't know how you find. appointment. I don't know how long it takes. I don't know when a good time to go is. I don't know how you find. There's so much unknown. But I enjoy it. And I think it is a great service. And one day.

I hope to partake. One day. It would be nice to do. But also, I have driven approximately three times since March. True. Wouldn't it be nice to get into a clean car? In a month when I go get in a car again? Yeah, maybe. Hey, thank you to

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I'm not your dad or anything. I mean, it's not like I'm your dad, but be safe out there. Wash your hands. A lot of people have just stopped washing their hands and don't get me started you should be doing it anyway it's not like they're gonna put a they're not gonna send out a memo one day like

hey guys we whipped COVID you can stop washing your hands still do it because there's there could be Rachel I'm sorry poopoo peepee on there this has been a very poop-heavy episode. I know.

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