Wonderful! - Wonderful! 174: You Only Need One Ron

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

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🎵 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. It's the final countdown. Do you remember when like America got really into that song again back in like what, like 2011, 2011, 2012? And I've been a huge fan of Europe's The Final Countdown for quite some time. And then all these Johnny Come Latelys were like, you know, it's in a Pringles commercial.

I feel like there was a Super Bowl where the final countdown was like a joke song in like half the ads, but it's real to me, damn it. I don't remember this. But anyway, it is the final countdown for us in anticipation. This is gonna be the last episode we record. This will be the last episode we record

before we become a family of four and the quadrilogy is complete. And then we won't have any more kids again. This is it. And so, yeah, all these bonus episodes we've recorded to put in the old production pipeline, they're going to come a-flowing starting next week. Isn't that wild?

Yeah, that is wild. Isn't that wild? It is wild. We should have had a conversation at some point of what our life is going to be like with two children. I don't think there's any way to know. There's no way. Nobody's ever done it before. No one's done it before.

Everybody's like, one, and then done. We're the first ones to be like what if there was twice as many uh-huh as an only child yeah uh as am i as am i yeah because there's only one famous only child griffin mackerel right on the show that i do called me nobody knows this but griffin's uh voice actor talents are so immense right and also his costume work that he has been playing the part of all three brothers yes that's true so very beginning we're shambling into the finish line with this here episode of wonderful do you have any small wonders here for this one i mean i got one it's a it's a pretty big wonder yeah why don't you start

all our friends are getting vaccinated and texas Texas is throwing the gates wide open to all adults on your birthday. I know, March 29th. Very exciting. Everybody gets a shot. Rachel made the point that I have tremendous skill at securing video game hardware when it is released. Got myself a launch PlayStation 5, and there's still people out there fighting the good fight for one of those.

You gotta have multiple tabs open. Gotta have a lot of tabs, a lot of refreshing going on. You gotta have the fat pipe internet connection. Put some stuff in the shopping cart, various locations. Diversify the portfolio. Yeah, I have no idea how I'm going to go about getting a

vaccine i obviously would like to uh because rachel's already hitting that juice but yeah so this is this is fun so pregnant women uh have been eligible and i realized that i got my first shot while i was pregnant and my second i will technically not be pregnant anymore but it doesn't matter because i'll be eligible adult. Because I'll be eligible. That's right. So I'm excited for that. I feel like a lot of our friends, we have a lot of friends who are teachers and in sort of social services and stuff who have been getting vaccinated for a bit now.

And yeah, everybody in our little Texas friend circle is very energized by the news. I'm sure it's going to be a full-blown Hunger Games fucking panic attack uh especially here in travis county where i feel like everybody's going to want to get vaccinated but um yeah i don't know it's progress and i'm excited about that uh i'm gonna say additional small wonder for me is the you make a face sometimes when you're trying to think of things that's very spanky from the little rascals like a lot of just sort of like tucking your upper lip and your lower lip and like um have i talked about easter candy i don't know probably yeah probably i mean i could get more specific i guess uh and talk about the easter candy that specifically looks like eggs i just think that's fun lift it up i think you buy it in and you wonder like what's in there

celebrate it you know yeah yeah i, it's about to become socially acceptable to eat Starburst jelly beans again. And that's a really great and Jolly Rancher jelly beans. Jelly bean everything. Jelly bean all the candy. I will fuck it up no matter what. I guarantee it. Hey, what's your first thing? My first thing is alter egos. Hey, what's your first thing? My first thing is alter egos. Ooh, interesting. Yeah.

Are we talking like Sasha Fierce? Are we talking about Chris Gaines? A little bit, yeah. All right, all right. A little bit. So the alter ego, kind of the most famous origin here, we're talking about Jekyll and Hyde. Okay, okay. A bit more grim than Sasha Pierce and Chris Gaines.

I mean, not surprisingly, literary origins make a lot of sense for this. There's also a lot of philosophers that talk about the alter ego. Oh, sure. I mean, the ego is sort of central to Freud's whole thesis. Exactly. I don't know anything about Freud's whole thesis, but I do know that he said that word a lot. I don't know anything about Freud's whole thesis, but I do know that he said that word a lot. He talked about this dual consciousness to support his thesis of the unconscious. So he said that, you know, you have these mental activities in two groups. There's the consciousness and the unconsciousness, which gives you this kind of alter ego.

You know, there's the person you are when you're when you're really in charge of your faculties and then the person that loses control oh interesting everything i know about sort of psychology i feel like i've learned from the persona video game series which focuses a lot about sort of like is it carl is it hung or Jung? Jung. Jung. Carl Jung, like shadow theory. Did you ever take a philosophy class? No, no. Philosophy or psychology?

Philosophy. Is it? It's kind of the same thing though, yeah? Well, I mean, there's overlap. Philosophers said things about psychology. Well, okay. But a lot of times you'd learn about them in one or the other, I guess. Well, clearly, no. I haven't learned anything.

But did you take a psychology class? No. Oh, Griff. Yeah. But you're so perceptive. I know. You know so much about me and the world. Then why do I need a class then, you know?

I'm on my own voyage. You tried to take the class and they were like, I'm sorry, sir. There's nothing we can teach you. There's nothing left to teach you at all. Yeah, that's right. I said, can you teach me how to pronounce Carl Jung's name? And they said, no, we cannot. That will cost you $5,000.

I just don't know how you romanced your prospects without your discussions of philosophy and psychology because that's what worked for me in college. My strong body, mostly. Yeah, they would see my strong body and they'd be like, damn. Yeah. You're laughing a lot. Huh? At that. You're laughing a lot at that.

Weird. Was there a, did I do a joke in there? I guess. That was funny? That was weird. You never, well, when we met, you didn't lead with like, I'm a real big jock with jock interests and a jock body. Right. Yeah.

Anyway. So alter ego. I really got excited to research this just because I feel like it is used in celebrity culture to kind of pivot. Right. culture to kind of pivot right you know and it makes sense if you think about it like people are required to brand themselves as soon as they start you know producing content now right and that doesn't give them a lot of wiggle room and it seems like the workaround that a lot of people have found is to just rename themselves and say well this version of me does this it's a fair point i never thought of it that way before we're like was extina was

that technically yeah i mean it was on it was on the list the idea was that she wanted to move away from this kind of wholesome 2002 image and she released an album called stripped right and referred to herself as extina but that wasn't like chris gaines where he was like, I'm a different person. I am not Garth Brooks. I am a different guy totally. Garth Brooks in 1999 developed Chris Gaines as a way to explore rock and roll. Yeah. Let me see what's going on in rock and roll. Oh, you're going to make a rock album? No. I'm Garth Brooks country man. I would never. Yeah, I will say, I think, I mean, and I don't have a lot of experience with this, obviously, but I think most artists still tour as themselves. They just kind of hype this alter ego.

Yeah. Whereas Garth Brooks really tried to like run a fast one. Has anybody done this as big as, I mean, Sasha Fierce was like its own thing, but even that wasn't, even she didn't quite go as full blown Decepticon as Chris Gaines. I mean, what about Ziggy Stardust? Ziggy Stardust, but that was even more of like a multimedia thing, right? Like he did a song about Ziggy Stardust. It wasn't like, Garth Brooks never did a song called Chris Gaines and the spiders from Jupiter. That's fair. Yeah.

Spiders from Mars. No, I know, but for Chris Gaines. For Chris Gaines. Yeah, I clearly know the planet where the spiders are from in Ziggy and the spiders from Uranus. Maybe that was the orig.

Maybe. Yeah, I mean, most of the time it's like, it's kind of an elaborate put on. You know, of course, you may became familiar with the Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog. But that's a different person. That is a different thing. It's not an alter ego, right? Shadow the Hedgehog isn't Sonic in a different fur color. I don't know.

This is after my time. Okay. It's not. I got in on early Sonic, and then I- You bailed. And then I stepped away. Did you even get to Knuckles? I did get to Knuckles, yeah.

Okay. Did you even get to Knuckles? I mean, it's a fair question. Yeah. No, the way you asked that was so accusatory. It was very Ghost Rider, console cowboys in cyberspace. Hannah Montana and Miley. For sure.

We got the more comic book origins of Superman and Clark Kent, Hulk, Bruce Banner. In pop music, Mariah Carey and Mimi. Oh, yeah. The Emancipation of Mimi. And then two kind of an interesting, I didn't really ever think of this, but Marshall Mathers slash Eminem slash Slim Shady yeah again the the metric against which I measure all of this is Chris Gaines I'm sorry to keep going back to that well but there's a reason that left such an impression is because he tried to cultivate an air of am I Chris Gaines or aren't I and it's like yeah dude chris gaines looks exactly like you with dark hair

yeah yeah most people i don't think really i mean i guess you could say like you know various accessories were donned in the name of the alter ego right but the hair color it's not enough and i think maybe this just registered so heavily with me because dad worked at a country radio station for like my entire childhood. Yeah, I was gonna say this is not a phenomenon I knew about while it was happening. So having Garth Brooks, who kept the country music industry afloat for a long, long time, saying like, I've evolved beyond that and become someone new. It was a great betrayal. Yeah, I will say so with the Marshall Mathers, Eminem, Slim Shady. Apparently, Eminem did release a quote that said, Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts

that come into my head, things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm not. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. got a warped sense of humor i guess interesting uh so yeah i i think i like the pivot of it i like the idea of like i want to release a different kind of content and so i'm gonna change my whole look uh and also this idea that they have really in the same way that they know who they are, they have also established a persona around this alter ego.

So it's like, oh, well, that's more of Beyonce's thing. I'm Sasha Fierce right now. Right. I kind of enjoy that. Yeah, go for it. It is. It's like you're living in a world of superheroes. That's fun.

Yeah. Why not? My first thing this week is Post-it Notes uh which is uh welcome to the studio about 700 post-it notes uh that i have uh scattered all across my wall i love these little sticky guys yeah i feel like we always need to have them in the house i feel like when we don't you're very aware that we don't it's rare that i have need for them, but like I find them invaluable. I find them necessary when like categorizing my thoughts. Like I've been sort of workshopping ideas for a new like TAS thing. And in the past, like I've done that in just a big Google document or like in a big Scrivener project or some like digital thing. But I have found it

like so much more useful and essential to be able to like manifest those in a physical space and sort of try to coordinate them there rather than have them be either in a digital space, like a big 80 page Word document or in my brain where quickly like i can get overwhelmed with with trying to connect the dots no i agree with you there's something very nice about having that kind of physical representation that is always there yeah so that even when you are not in the space it is still kind of there's the opportunity to think about it yeah so i got stuck like trying to figure stuff out for this TAS stuff until I bought a bunch of different colored and sizes Post-it notes

and just created a little bonkers map up on my wall that one day will maybe see the light of day, but it was sort of essential for cracking the code. Now are these color-coded? They are color-coded, yes. Green is, I had to take the, I had a sort of key

that I took down to make space. But yeah, green is concepts and then orange with lines is past sort of locations

and then yellow with the lines is current, present locations and then we have blue is of course characters and pink is resources

and then small green is factions so anyway uh 3m of course owns the trademark for post-it and uh also owns the trademark for the traditional yellow post-it design but the patent for sticky notes expired in 1997 so now there can be competitors they just can't call them post-its. Or I guess have yellow square Post-its, since that's like trademarked, which is weird. I didn't know you could trademark the color of a product. So in 1968, there's a scientist working for 3M named Dr. Spencer Silver, who was trying to make just like a turbo strength adhesive material. And he did the worst job imaginable because he made a very weak

pressure sensitive adhesive. And for years, he went around like, hey, this is pretty good adhesive. Actually, there's probably a use for this and was sort of shut out by 3M until one of his colleagues named Arthur Fry used it to adhere a bookmark in a hymnal. And he was like, this is dope. And finally, 3m started to listen and he developed the idea he used yellow as the color because apparently like the lab that was sort of uh attached to the post-it 3m uh facility only had yellow scrap paper uh and so that's what he had to work with at the time there is another guy named uh alanron, who's an inventor with a ton of different patents to his name, who claims that he invented the post-it note and he sought $400 million in damages,

but that case was settled out of court. So in 1977, 3M launched this product called Press and Peel Bookmarks, and nobody wanted them or used them until a couple years later in 1979 they relaunched them as post-it notes and they sold that like they sold like hotcakes yeah i mean the big benefit and i remember this from being in in college and graduate school is that it doesn't really do any damage to the surface yeah that's what's great about the adhesive is it can yeah you can put it somewhere and then take it off without damaging the surface and then you can put the note back on somewhere else you can usually get i would say a couple more adherences out of it before it falls apart which is you know not not something that is uh typical for for sticky stuff uh fun fact in 2018

3m released the post-it extreme Note, which is just very sticky. And maybe it doesn't, but they're useful in like industrial settings, like construction sites. Yeah. Like, you know, say, hey, don't knock down this wall. Hey, this is a good wall.

Don't knock it down. Stick that right to the wall. There it goes. Yeah. I just like, I enjoy organizing thoughts and I find that post-its uh is like the most effective way for me to do so if i really hit a wall with something because i've done this with projects before i will get some post-it notes together and just start just slapping

them on to shit because i really very very i find it very satisfying hey Hey, can I steal your way? Yeah. Here's a jumbo trub. And this one's for Claire. And it's from Elle, who says, Dearest Claire, congratulations on everything you've achieved this past year. When I wrote, I hope your birthday is a wonderful day in March 2020, I did definitely curse something. And yet you've bought a house and you're running a LARP.

You've done so well despite the times that we live in. So, so proud of you and happy birthday, all my love, Elle. That is... God, I wish I was running a LARP. God, I wish I was... Or even just participating in a larp yeah like regardless of how you feel about larping you agree with me that i would at the very least have a lot of fun in a larp yeah i have a great deal when i when henry and i have lightsaber battles is that a larp uh i don't think I'm qualified to answer that question.

I don't think you are either. But I did get to see some of this at Ritter Park when I went to Huntington. That's true. And that was exciting. Very active LARPing community in Huntington. How about this next one? Yeah, this next message is for Julie. It is from Casey.

Dear Julie, I write to you today so that I may tell you I am madly in love with you and have been for some time. Maybe it's the way you roll your eyes when I say a pun or the face you make when one of the dogs farts in your face or when you DM and totally wreck my character. I'm glad you're my wife. Eternally yours, Casey. P.S. You have killer dumpster. I think there's an a missing there you have a killer dumpster but you have killer dumpster sounds like uh i don't know like a notification you'd get on uh on oregon trail like oh no you broke an axle no julie julie

you have killer dumpster julie has killer dumpster. Get out of there. Hi, I'm Biz. And I'm Teresa. And we're the hosts of One Bad Mother, a podcast about parenting. Parenting is hard, and we have no advice. But we do see you doing it. Honk if you like to do it. What was this?

Didn't we have a bumper sticker a while back that was like, honk if you did it. That's what it was. I think it was honk if you're doing it. Why did we not ever make them? We did make them. I think they're still in the MaxFun store. Honk, honk, you're doing it.

Thanks, Biz. So are you. Each week, we'll be here to remind you that you're doing it thanks biz so are you each week we'll be here to remind you that you're doing a good job you can find us on maximumfun.org honk honk toot toot hey can you tell me all about the second thing that you have prepared for us today and your presentation will you begin it now please uh my second thing that you have prepared for us today and your presentation, will you begin it now, please? My second thing is glow-in-the-dark stuff. All right. Mm-hmm.

I love it. Mm-hmm. Because I don't know. Because I just assume they take lightning bug stuff. And it's inhumane, but they like. Yeah. They like gush them. So when you go to a concert and you see all those glow sticks, but they like gush them. So when you go to a concert and you see all those glow sticks, you're just like, oh.

Oh, the poor lightning bugs. Do you ever have any of these glow-in-the-dark stars up on your ceiling? Oh, for sure. We had, oh man, we had that. And we also, I will never forget, we had Gak that was glow in the dark. And we would, because we were three shithead boys, just throw Gak like all over the place and stick it to the walls. But we'd also stick it to the ceiling a lot and let it just slowly fall down and see how long we could make it. And then at night you would sleep and there would just be these little just goshes all over the ceiling uh in and it was

kind of cool like it kind of had a neat marbling effect whenever you turn the lights off to go to sleep but i mean the first night we got that gack and we stuck it to the ceiling a billion times and turn the lights off it was like we hadn't turned the lights off so complete was our uh gack paint job um i i think there's is what is fascinating to me about it is that i i of course like loved it i had the the stars stuck to my ceiling uh and then it's something that henry loves too like there's just like kids are always going to love glow-in-the-dark stuff yeah it's it's quite strange it's very strange and very cool uh it feels like you shouldn't have access to this powerful chemical right yeah so the thing about a lot of these products is they have to be charged you know you have to hold it up to a to a light

and it they are primarily made out of phosphors okay which is a substance that radiates visible light after being energized uh so you'll see phosphors in like tv screens or computer monitors and are in fluorescent lights uh and so for like in a tv screen like an electron beam will strike the phosphor to energize it right um but to make a glow-in-the-dark toy, you get a phosphor that's energized by normal light and has a long persistence. So the chemicals we're talking about here are zinc sulfide and strontium aluminate.

Love strontium. Strontium aluminate is the newer one that has a more powerful glow and lasts much longer. I will say, that is one thing I've noticed henry has a plushie r2d2 that has like certain things on him that when i like hold my phone light up to it it will stay very bright for a really long time and that was not true of my of my gap no i've even noticed that with like the little like glow-in-the-dark wristbands is i will like wake up in the morning and there's still some glow going yeah they do make things that like glow without that like little watch hands like expensive watch oh yeah uh and that is a phosphor that is mixed with a radioactive element yeah i think i knew that that

was like a thing that like when they started offering that in like Timex watches and shit like that. I remember seeing that in commercials, like it's got nuclear in it. I'm thinking like, no fucking way. Today, glowing watches use a radioactive isotope of hydrogen called tritium,

which has a half-life of 12 years. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, that's a pretty good watch. Not great, not terrible. So, green. Most glow-in-the-dark stuff is green. Why?

And there's a few reasons. Partially because the human eye is particularly sensitive to green light. So, green just naturally appears the brightest. Mm-hmm. The other reason is that it is the most affordable and non-toxic phosphor. Okay. Keep them green then. Awesome.

If I see a purple glow-in-the-dark thing, I'll stay the hell away from it. So this came about, this glow-in-the-dark thing that is accessible to us now as just regular people. Right. Came about from chemiluminescent signal devices in the 70s that were used for naval signaling i knew it i knew it's gonna be either military or space is the origins of this technology like yeah technologies yeah they were looking for like lighting devices underwater and then um scientists took that device and put it inside a plastic tube to make the glow stick and then brought it to grateful dead concerts thank you scientists yeah yeah so it was a steel ball inside

a plastic tube that when shook would break the glass ampule and start the chemical reaction and many toy glow sticks were started yeah but now we do it do that shit ourselves right when we crack the glow sticks like over our knee that's us shattering a glass chamber which always seemed bad to me yeah i don't know it's something i still get excited about it's so funny how like my brain does that but i'm just like oh there's a soccer ball glows in the dark am i gonna play soccer at night probably not but it glows in the dark that's pretty glowing? Am I going to play soccer at night? Probably not, but it glows in the dark. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I got Henry some slime. You got me some slime?

Which ultimately will become Griffin's slime. Yeah. When he has to peel it off of whatever it gets stuck to. Yeah. But it glows in the dark and it's very exciting for Henry. And I felt like a real A plus parent. I was walking to the bathroom, our little half bathroom that we've had sort of retiled because it got destroyed like a third of our house and i was walking to it on the new carpet that also got put down

and i stepped in something sticky and i got so bummed out because i was like damn it we've been so good and now there's slime in the new carpet and i was getting ready to like tell henry like hey you've got to be more careful but then i looked down and i realized it was a little glob of plumber's putty that the plumber had accidentally dropped on the floor. I was glad that I investigated a little bit. And you called that plumber. I called him, I gave him a earful.

Let him have it. That's right. Hey, my second thing, it's very specific to my life experience. My second thing is T is tutor's biscuit world and i think maybe i'm speaking more broadly about the hyper local restaurant chain or food experience that everybody has i think or at least everybody who didn't grow up in like a major metropolitan city uh tutor's biscuit world it's just like coming home which is the which was the tagline

tutor's biscuit world it's just like coming home they should have said like it's just like you have to stay home because your stomach has stopped functioning after eating tutor's biscuit world griffin did a lot of this when i first visited huntington he was excited to show me, you know, the college campus and, you know, have me meet his friends. And then he's like, you have to have these biscuits. It will ruin your whole day. It'll ruin your fucking day. The right one, or should I say the wrong one, will ruin your week. Which explains a lot, actually, about Griffin's approach to food.

Because there are some times when Griffin will choose to have a food. Knowing full well. Yeah. That it has negative repercussions, but it's just like this is directly related to the experience of the food and I would not change it. Oh, I would change it. It's not like I have fun when I eat Tudor. There is no food stuff that is more pleasant and enjoyable and soul nourishing for me to have in my mouth than Tudor's Biscuit World. And no food that is like more soul crushing to have in my stomach than Tudor's Biscuit World. These are biscuits that are very decadent.

The chain is based out of Huntington. and it is mostly found in West Virginia. There's a few locations in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. And in 2016, they opened a franchise in Panama City, Florida, which is wild. Whoa, that is wild. Yeah, I wonder if my nonny specifically was like. So it opened first in 1980 in Charleston, West virginia uh and it was created by bill and may tutor and their son john tutor and the premise was biscuits and now they do like they do some sandwiches and like big breakfast platters and some dinner entrees but like the star of the show

is the biscuits of which there are so many um and they really will just just make the we we've talked a lot of shit most of the time they're just going to make you pretty sleepy like a big breakfast will do but there are some more sort of uh buck wild offerings that will kill you dead uh like the shaved ham melt which is a big buttery biscuit thick a thick pile of shaved ham and just gooey melty cheese goobled all over the top of that. There's also the politician, which has a big sort of circle of egg and then a droopy slice of cheese and then a slice of fried bologna about the width of your thumb that just goes right on there also. And like, I'm not slamming it. It's, I feel a stirring in my bones for these things, even as I'm describing them.

The names of the biscuits are also like a highlight. There's the minor, M-I-N-E-R, that has bacon, potato, and melty cheese. The peppy, which is probably the most fun one to say, that's pepperoni and melty cheese. And then there's the thundering herd that has sausage, potato, egg, and cheese on it. My go-to was just one with sausage, egg, and cheese, pretty standard breakfast biscuit fare. And that one's just called Ron. Let me get a Ron. I would always roll up and get one.

One time I got two Rons. That was a mistake. You really only need one Ron. Do they still have that one in the Charleston airport? They do. I wonder about the decision to eat one and then get on a plane. I mean, you're talking to someone who's done that quite a few times. But yeah, I mean, if you got a long flight ahead of you or a series of long flights and you want to get some sleep, Tudor's Biscuit World. Yeah, there's just a,

I feel a defensiveness, like it encapsulates the we can make fun of this, but not you thing. Like that is how I feel about Tudor's Biscuit World. I love it so deeply and also recognize that it is feel bad food. The thing that struck me, I guess,

was that Griffin introduced this to me, and then after he did that, pretty much every conversation I had with anybody else from Huntington was like, oh, no. No, you shouldn't have done that. And I was like, well, Griffin made it sound like this was a thing that you had to do. And they were like, no. I would destroy one right now in front of you. I would destroy a Peppy right now in front of you. I would destroy one. I would destroy a Peppy right now in front of you. And Peppy is like number one on the Kill Griffin list.

But there's just something about it. The biscuits are very good. Like the biscuit material itself is exceptional. I will stand by that. I remember enjoying it. I remember having a good experience with it. And I don't think it hurt me too bad. No.

But yeah, it definitely takes all the energy out of you. But more broadly speaking, I celebrate – and Huntington I feel like has a lot of these because Huntington is a big food town. But everybody has like – do you have – I know you grew up in St. Louis and St. Louis has some like world-famous foods. Like St. Louis barbecue is a thing. And I guess for you it's like the fried ravioli and weird cracker pizza that you guys seem to love so much. Yeah, toasted ravioli. I saw actually there's a restaurant in Austin that advertises happiness. I also saw that.

I don't hate toasted ravioli. The cracker pizza is the worst pizza I've ever had. You can't think of it as pizza. That's the secret. This is what my friend told me once about White Castle, and it really changed the way I look at food. Is that if you don't think about it as pizza, but a very particular kind of dish that has cheese and tomato sauce. Yeah. Then it's pretty good.

No, it is not. Anyway, no submissions in this episode. We got to cut it a little bit short, but 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. It's such a good little network.

And I say little, there are so many shows on the network and we're so excited to be a part of it. Yeah, I would encourage you to check out Tiny Victories if you haven't yet. I think that would be a real good fit for a lot of our audience. Yeah, we included some links in Mabibam this week. We'll do it here too to support some charities

going to support AAPI communities in the wake of the shooting in Atlanta and the sort of growing wave of anti-Asian violence that is happening in the country right now. And we would encourage you, if you're able to, support those groups and do whatever you can to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in your neck of the woods and, you know, everywhere. Because they, you know, it's been a rough time. Well, it's been a rough time for a very long time, but particularly over the last year.

So, yeah, think about helping if you can. And, yeah, that's it. Let's go have a baby. Griffin keeps encouraging me to push down just throughout the day to see if I can make it happen. It's more of a pushing in. It's like a, you don't need me to tell you how to have a contraction. My instinct is down, right? Because we want the baby to get out.

Yep, you're right. You're right. In just seems like it would make him angry. Now, I heard something about spicy food, but I can't remember if that's to give, to activate childbirth, or if that's Turboteen, how he turned into a car.

Both. I see. Mm-hmm. Money won't pay, workin' on it. I'm ready. I'm ready.