Wonderful! - Wonderful! 180: You Have Disturbed the House God

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. I have coursing through my veins currently. Yeah. Am I yelling? Yes. And this is wonderful. Like four hours of sweet, uninterrupted sleep. Just powerful, wonderful sleep energy. When did that happen? Last night. I feel like I got a good chunk of ruin. Oh, you did?

I feel like you soloed some shit. You took some shit on the chin. And I appreciate that. And the little guy's been napping okay today. And I feel strong. I feel like I could kick the moon and run a marathon around the moon and i also have coursing through my veins red american blood yeah nap energy and gratitude for our friends who have become members during the max fun drive which we are currently in the

second week of and boy it would really take me over the top. Okay. And send me into a state of. Griffin is holding up three fingers. Ecstasy. Borderline erotic ecstasy. Okay. If. Yes. We could take it even further on the Max Fun Drive and get even more members to join the network to help us grow the show, the family. Yeah. for to help us grow the show the family yeah i say the family we probably would have had gus even if we hadn't done as well in the last max fun drive like that's not his existence is not contingent

that was our stretch goal yeah he was we get this many donors um but hey this is the last week the max fun drive and uh you all have been so supportive so far and we cannot thank you enough for that but uh if you have not become a far, and we cannot thank you enough for that. But if you have not become a member yet and you haven't, you know, checked out the page to see what kind of stuff you can get for joining and becoming a member, you should at least do that at MaximumFun.org. There's all kinds of great pledge gifts, and there's, you know, you can support the stuff that you like, which I'm assuming is us because you're listening to us now. You know, you can support the stuff that you like, which I'm assuming is us because you're listening to us now. But I certainly know there's also a lot of people who listen to podcasts because they don't like them. And if you're one of those people. Or they listen to podcasts to fall asleep, which is another option, in which case we're going to hit you with that hypnosis here about 10 minutes in once you've hit that deep rim cycle.

I never know whether to like think of that as a compliment or not of like i listen to your podcast to fall asleep at night and i think well i mean it's nice that we're soothing i like to help people i bet whales would be stoked if they knew that the sounds that they made were like so good or for me it would be air conditioner manufacturers i guess if we could just if i could get in touch with air conditioner manufacturers and just be like, I fall asleep to your shit nonstop. Hit up the air purifier people, the humidifier folks. Humidifier folks, yeah. Call up the humidifier company and be like, guys, the stuff you're doing over there with noise.

Plane sound. Planes, guys, you're doing it. Boeing. Except you're not. Apparently they made one real stinker of an airplane i don't really follow airplane news but it is the max fun drive this is the last one and uh we're going to talk a little bit more about those pledge gifts the last week not the last week uh yeah i don't we'll be back again next year yeah yeah um hey do you have any small ones i can start please the haribo um mixed gummy bag haribo haribo i don't know how that's pronounced they they do good gummy work and they have one

bag that's i always forget is a thing and it's like here's a bunch of different kinds of gummies the one that henry got well yeah yeah but uh i just assume it was community chest uh but yeah i mean they got i mean it's exciting you reach in maybe you get a gummy worm maybe you get a gummy bear maybe you get one of those gummy soda bottles yeah maybe you get one that's like a gummy on top and then like creamy on the bottom and it's all in the same bag yeah every time i dip my hand in there it's like my hand is a little adventurer they're different they're different shapes too different shapes different flavors with griffin likes that actually gave me my small wonder which is uh the the candy and snacks available at the checkout yeah because that is where we found those gummies oh um and it is i remember as a kid too

like obviously as a parent it's a little more stressful because you know you're gonna have to purchase things from that little stand but if you also like gummies it's an exciting little thing or like hey i haven't had gum in a long time and here it is right here it is exciting maybe like me do it is how's what developments have there been in fruit stripe technology none none they got it in one and it's been holding steady ever since uh yeah that's good stuff henry was talking to yesterday he was like having a little chewy snack and i was like what are you eating there buddy he was like these are like m&ms but they're fruity and chewy and i was like those are skittles my dude and i know a thing or two about skittles yeah so that was also a purchase in the

checkout and he uh he saw them and he said i want i want those round candies uh and i don't think you didn't he didn't realize they weren't m&ms basically and we got them home and i had to explain to him that can be a rude awakening that they were fruity when you expect an m&m and you get a skittle or Vice of Voices. Yeah. Oh, I hate that. I love both of them individually. Just like tell me what I'm in for.

Like don't try and do a prank to me. Should we do a show? Yeah, we should. We got a baby that's napping right now and it's hubris for us to waste time talking about things like Skittles. Although that is inherently what our show is about. We basically just did a show. We basically just did one segment of the show. But that was a bonus and now let's do this real damn thing uh okay so do you want to know my face yes i do uh lullabies oh gentle song these are the gentle songs that you

sing to a child to make them go to sleep and then they poop they poop right in their pants or diaper and then you have to stop and start the whole thing over again uh yes that that is that is their express purpose yeah diuretic purposes i heard you singing a lullaby to gus which i have not heard you are not a big singer i would say no uh it delighted me you have a lovely voice i genuinely think you you are uh keeping your light under a bushel and it made me so happy to hear you singing to our baby yeah well so here's the thing about our baby uh sometimes we like to do the shush we like to do the shush noise yeah uh sometimes he's like not into it but the singing singing he likes a lot he likes the singing yeah and i don't uh actually really know the words to any songs i think so what i had been singing is the a is for

apple uh apple yes is for bear buh buh bear and just going through the alphabet and sometimes i do uh animals sometimes i do boys and girls names oh sometimes i do uh food food yeah i don't want to put you on blast but i am pretty sure i clocked you looking at the lyrics to baby beluga on your cell phone so that you could better execute well it'd been a while i used to sing it to henry and it'd been a long time and i didn't remember the order oh for sure i made up a lot of verses too i'm pretty sure one of the verses, I sing Rainbow Connection to Henry pretty much every night

and I'm pretty sure there's one verse that is straight from my mind's eye. Not from old Jimmy Henson's pen, but from my own sort of brain. I think I had mentioned this on the show. So yeah, again, my family, unlike the McElroys, not big performers,

not big singers no um so i asked my dad at one point because griffin was talking about the lullabies that were saying to him as a child and so i asked my dad and i think i've mentioned it but he used to sing me the theme song from cheers wow guys i wish you all knew david weiner as much as i know david weiner because that story would send you absolutely really exactly right isn't it it's perfect 100 it's so good uh it's a good song yeah all i got was fucking johnny appleseed song which is good it's i mean it was it got the job done gave me some some sweet rest but also uh your dad maintains that he also sang rainbow connection to you i don't recall

it all i remember is oh the lord is good to me and so i thank the lord for giving me the things i need the sun and the rain and the apple seed of the lord is good to me every night is there another verse or is that it i always wonder these apples are so crisp and i eat them they're so so good i make them into apple juice and they are good. Apples, yum, yum, yum. Apples have vitamin C. They are. Really pivots away from the Lord at a certain point. First verse is very Lord-based.

And then it gets into a lot of facts about apples. Yeah. So when I talk about lullabies, I'm mostly talking about as as we've identified like songs that you sing to a baby right not necessarily like rockabye baby yeah um or that one is it train that did rockabye you remember that yeah that wasn't train who was that it's a guy it's a guy it's a fucking guy there is already a song called rockabye no they've fully like ripped it off it's not five for fighting i don't think they did they had a few

other little hits five for fighting i'm gonna have to google the lyrics just type in everything's gonna be all right rockabye oh yeah it just auto-populated sean mullins. Oh, yeah, sure. Love him. Great stuff, Sean. Anyway. So I found a lot of research specifically on why lullabies are so sad. Oh, are they? Well, if you think about Rockabye Baby. On the treetop. Yeah, there's a baby-based accident that is probably pretty serious.

Yeah. So I found a couple articles, one in the New York Times and then one through PBS. Do the articles just say, because back in olden times, people couldn't have a good story without a child being really very endangered in the middle of it? Well, so there's a suggestion that lullabies are sung kind of in isolation. It's just you and the child so you can kind of say whatever you want. What the fuck?

You can also kind of live out some of your fears, I guess. But they, so the oldest, one of the oldest known lullabies is a 5,000 year old Babylonian song. Oh shit, yeah. And the lyrics include a little baby in the dark house.

You have seen the sunrise. Why are you crying? Why are you screaming? You have disturbed the house god. I have actually said those exact words to Gus in the six weeks that he's been alive. Lyrics continue, Making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool. He has disturbed your sleep. Call the baby now, says the house god.

Can I say something? I am hearing this at the exact right time because i'm feeling a connection with these 7 000 year ago babylonians like yeah guys it's tough huh oh it's hard out here huh why are you screaming you drunkard i've yelled this exact not yelled but whispered there is also something and they at one of the articles kind of zeroed in on this of just like when you're singing to a small child there's something kind of like lonely and a little sad about it because you were like sitting in the dark just doing it so the child will sleep yeah and so they they suggested maybe that is why the songs are so i've started singing for myself a

little bit and it's been fun because like i've been singing Henry old, like old, like songs I used to listen to in college by like Regina Spector. Yeah. I've been singing like Ben Folds 5, which I haven't listened to. I used to exclusively listen to Ben Folds 5 and then I haven't. I heard you sing Philosophy the other day. Yeah, I was singing Philosophy. And I like had to sit there and really remember the lyrics to this song that I used to know like, you know, backwards and forwards. But it's

mostly three regina specter songs that i just do every time i go in there and uh man she's a very talented songwriter yes and the lyrics are so uh like difficult to remember i'm surprised that you put them together because i just i did it for henry too they were henry's also three regina specter lullabies that I busted out. So I remember them very well. The one other thing I wanted to say about lullabies is there's actually been studies to show that it can slow an infant's heart rate. Whoa. And improve sucking behaviors that are critical for feeding and increase periods of quiet alertness that will help the baby sleep.

Awesome. Yeah. and increase periods of quiet alertness that will help the baby sleep. Yeah. So this was a 2013 study that showed that it offered stress relief for the infants and the parents too. It's a very powerful thing, I think. For me, the way that I connect with Gus is different from the way that you connect with Gus on like a sort of like, you know, physiological level. And so having times where like, I can be holding him upright, and I just got a good burp out of him. And I can like, brush his hair with one hand while holding him with my other arm and like sing to him. Like that's the best shit in the whole world right

there. And it almost makes the other stuff worth it. The other thing I will say, this is interesting. So that song that I was singing, the A is for Apple song, we got from the doctor's office when Henry was little. Yeah. And the nurse was singing it to him. Right after a shot, like right after a shot. Well, no, you know what it was? It was during the heel stick. And there has actually been a study of that so uh ucla neurologist

performed a pilot study on preterm babies he played lullabies to infants recovering from a painful heel stick procedure used to draw blood its results suggested that the music helped slow the baby's heart rate and reduce stress uh and that is exactly exactly what the nurse was doing so she was singing that song and i remember like henry and me and griffin were all just kind of like transfixed while she was doing it well it's a great song it literally just goes a is for apple a apple b is for banana but you can like say anything and so part of you like, this is a great beat that I can dance to. But the other part of you is like, I wonder what she's going to say for X every time. That's all you want to know.

What's the X? What X fruit is there? You know what I do when I get to X? What? Is I just say X is for X. X, X, X. Rachel. Which, I mean, is, you know, a little raunchy.

Yeah. Which apparently you can say that shit to a baby because anything goes according to Babylonians. Yeah. So I don't know. I, again, still struggle with songs that I am able to sing. I do a little Kokomo sometimes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Kokomo is great because you can just say the same. Go Aruba, Jamaica. Ooh, I want to take you to Key Largo. That's a verse, one of them. Montego, baby, why don't we go to Aruba, Jamaica.

Just go around. Ooh, I want to take you to Jamaica. To Aruba and Key Largo and Montego. I did want, I think the New York Times article was written from the perspective of somebody who was talking about their own experience with lullabies. And they mentioned that their child was less interested if the words were obviously not known. Like if you pause or like stutter a little bit, the baby is on to you. Yeah, that's a fair point.

So you got to be ready with the improv. Yeah, he has no patience for when I can't remember the words to, you know, some 25-year-old song that I haven't listened to in forever. Hey, let's lull our listeners into a sense of... There's no good way

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I prepped nearly, I nearly finished prepping two different topics that I then typed into wonderful.fyi and found out that we had done before. Two different times. Like it's wild. We've been doing this show, I guess, for a long time.

Yeah, that's gonna happen. It is gonna happen. One of them was Mario Kart, which like was not that long ago. And then I was also thinking about how much I enjoy playing with Play-Doh Yeah, that's going to happen. The bricks and the blocks that you put them together and you can make a building. And you can make a big guy. Yeah. Or a rocket. And those are the three things.

Those are the three. I saw something that was like you can take six of the like four by two bricks. If you take six four by two bricks, you can connect them in like 395 million different sort of like arrangements uh yeah i learned some fun lego statistics while while researching this bit uh it's wild to me we haven't talked about lego yet uh because i i do i love i love lego i'm gonna say legos referring to them in the plural please don't fucking at me i get it like i get it but if it feels right the whole time you were talking fucking at me. I get it. I get it, but it feels right. I was thinking that the whole time you were talking

I was like, he's keeping it singular. He's keeping it singular. I'm not gonna stick to that and so please don't be that person. It is a fun show where we talk about silly stuff. And Henry has sort of messed around with Legos in the past.

I got sent a box of Trolls World Tour swag when the movie came out, and it included two, I would say, ambitious Lego sets for a boy of his age. So I had never seen a Lego set proper before. Yeah. I knew that they were sold, but when I saw the little booklet, I could not believe it. Yeah, it's pretty thick. it's like ikea instructions it's like every page is like a different thing that you have to do i love it i love that shit i do so we built that we built those like super you know uh intricate sets and then henry eventually like broke them in pretty short order and then we never you know put in the effort to

put them back together again but recently we got just like a builder's box with like 400 different bricks of different colors and sizes not based around a single theme it's just like here's a bunch of legos have fun which is what like how i rolled growing up we had this big thick orange cube uh that was just full to brim with with different legos like of different different types and i don't think we ever built like a a themed model or anything like that it would just every time i remember every time we would watch a movie together you're getting a lot of deep mackleroy lore in this episode anytime we would all like watch a movie as a family or whatever i would bring this box out of the laundry room and just play with it literally the whole time making like a spaceship or a box because i

loved that you could do the hinge pieces like i was obsessed with that this is so i feel like every house had like a lego bucket like some kind of container for legos um but i will also say it is is suggestive of why you cannot just watch something without doing something else i do enjoy a multitask this is this is just in your your origin yeah that's true um so like i was never into like making sets until i honestly i think with with henry i've done a few and i find it so i think i get why like people do like the coloring book thing for me that's this like i've always found putting ikea furniture together like very yeah contemplative and calming and lego is very much the same way it's the same thing like why i got into uh minecraft pretty hot and

heavy last year where i would just like go find designs online and how to build these things then i would build them and it was just like i don't't know, it's like some real Zingarden shit. Well, I feel like it's the part of your brain that likes games too. Like there are rules, there is a way to accomplish something, you know, and your objective is clear. But also like when I'm playing with Henry,

I love playing with Henry, but like playing with Legos or Duplo or Magnetiles or whatever, like I like making stuff. Like that is my preferred form of play. Like I like making blanket forts with him and stuff like that. And Lego is like the, you know,

this real star of that particular show. So I feel like a lot of folks know about Lego trivia, but I'm gonna say a lot of it here anyway. Lego was created by a Danish carpenter named Olkrik. Olkrik! Olkrik Kristiansen. And he made wooden toys under the Lego name starting in 1932. And Lego is derived from a Danish phrase, which I'm going to not say correctly, but leg got, which means play well.

I feel like I knew that, but it has been a while since I've had to think about it. And it wasn't until 1949 that Lego started to put together the first automatic binding bricks design, which was apparently based on another set of interlocking bricks made by a company called Kiddy Craft, which patented them in the UK like 10 years prior, called the Kiddy Craft Self-Locking Bricks. I don't know about the drama there, but I'm sure that there is probably some. And those early Lego bricks, they were pretty rudimentary and they didn't stick together especially well. There wasn't a whole lot of stuff you could do with them uh and then in 1958 uh the lego company came up with the modern brick design that was sort of facilitated by this new material called i'm gonna do so bad with this also uh

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene which is what legos are made out of uh so this was discovered in 1958 and they settled on the modern brick design in 1958 and bricks made in 1958 can interlock with bricks made today like that is how that is how like much they nailed it back you know wow i never really thought about what legos are made out of i was just like oh plastic but super turbo strong classic this is my favorite thing i found out researching this there's a show on the bbc called more or less and uh they as an experiment solved for how many bricks would have to be stacked up on top of one another to build up enough weight to destroy the bottom brick. Oh. Right? Guess. Guess.

I mean, it's a tremendous amount. Yeah. 100,000. 375,000 bricks. Wowzers. Which would stack up to a height of 11,781 feet. These bricks are strong as shit, and that's why it hurts so bad to step on them there is no give nobody has ever stepped on a lego and broken it no that's never no that'd be wild yeah um so yeah that was i mean it's kind of wild how little the actual obviously they have added a

lot of different types of pieces to add a functionality but like the brick itself has been the same for 63 years now did you look into when they started doing the people they this is wild to me they didn't start doing minifigures until 1978 wow which is why they had legos for a long time before they had minifigures yeah i guess they probably saw people like using their own little like army men or whatever right like oh you know we could make a man yeah um and you know they were doing themed sets back then too but they weren't uh i think the earliest ones were not licensed that's where you get like spaceship and old west and stuff like that 1969 a little over 10 years after the the sort of

modern brick design is when you get duplo which i appreciate appreciate. Duplo, I appreciate Duplo. It's more, for me, it's a stopgap measure until your child is old enough to play with the real deal, which is Legos. Playmobil. Playmobil's a different, is Playmobil a different company? I think so. I mean, they don't do building stuff, right?

Yeah, they do. They do some building stuff. I thought it was just like the toys and the- I don't know. This is for nobody except for us and like 10 people in our audience it's just like i like playing with legos because it's very fun but then i think about like how much creative energy that this toy system which is what they call it which still gives me deuce chills a little bit uh has like injected into the world and it's like it seems immeasurable uh because i know they were formative for me and i am not particularly what right-brained at all

like i don't really have much much uh sort of aesthetic ability or you know architectural ability but i feel like legos were very formative to me growing up. And it's not even just like aesthetic creativity. It's like in 1999 is when they started to come out with Mindstorms, which was the robotics building set, which I got the first Mindstorms set for Christmas. And I made like the starting out robot. And I was like, I can't. I can't do this.

With the brain that I have, I can do a lot of stuff with't. I can't do this. With the brain that I have, I can do a lot of stuff with it. I can't do this. So I'm going to part ways with the Lego Mindstorms Corporation starting right here. But then you see people like, the amount of stuff that has been done with Lego robotics is absolutely bonkers. There's obviously contests for young folks learning engineering stuff. There like a whole prosthetics department that they've that they've worked on for we watched that show yes of course there's also the lego uh the will arnett hosted lego which i don't think is coming back for another another season um it's just like it's it's wild to me how much sort of like i don't know creative juice this one sort of toy has added to the world.

Yeah, it's just so accessible. You know, like, obviously I'm intimidated by those sets. But like the idea of just like stacking some Legos together, like that doesn't intimidate me. Yeah, no, it's fun. Henry's attention span is about 10 bricks worth. Like you connect 10 bricks to put together like a Yeti or something like that. And you get the Yeti's torso. And then Henry's like, wants it to be done already.

And so then I'm finishing it while he's like, you know, watching TV or something. That's like my dark, guilty pleasure. But yeah, I just, you know, maybe when he's a little bit older, I can really get in there. Yeah, I don't know. I have mixed feelings, right? Like, obviously it's cool and I appreciate, you know,

its learning potential, but it's slippery slope. You can go pretty far down a rabbit hole. Yeah. They like sell whole like organizational systems just for Lego. And it is like so you can sort by color and size and see i like that i like that i love an organized system i just don't like doing the organizing but like when you hear about rock stars who like want their skittles separated

into different jars it's like i get it i also like i also would enjoy that also not a joke it is a very stereotypical parent thing but it fucking sucks to step on a lego yeah it's bad they're a fun toy that is also ninja cal trips and it sucks to touch them with your foot meat when it's dark and you're holding a baby this is something i don't tell you about holding a baby is when you're holding a baby you can't have a fucking you can't have don't tell you about holding a baby is when you're holding a baby, you can't have a fucking, you can't have a yell because you've stepped on something that hurts. Yeah.

Oh boy. Griffin is, you know, Griffin is prone to exaltation. Yeah, if I have a surprise hurt, then I would, it's hard for me to not do a yell accidentally. I remember I was holding Henry when he was very young, back when Cecil was still around,

God rest his merry soul, where he was climbing around in like a little tunnel toy of Henry's and my foot brushed up against the side of the outside of the tunnel and he was inside and dug his claw into my foot meat while I was holding the baby. No way. That got a pretty big yell that scared everybody in the whole family and was pretty bad. A pretty bad day all around. But legos love them love them they're worth the pain for me personally speaking i hope they don't make like sharp conical legos though lego there's a certain amount of responsibility you have to take in designing your toys can you not just make

friendly round Legos? I guess that's what Duglo is, which we've just talked about. It's for babies and not cool boys like me. This is concluded. This is the end of my book report on Legos, a cool toy for boys like me. Griffin is pointing at himself when he says that. I'm doing a lot of gesticulating. It's a very peace on the playground vibe,

actually. Anger. All right. We've come to the end of our ring. I suggested something actually, speaking of the Max Fund Drive, which we will return to now, that I think should be a future bonus,

which is where Clint McElroy and Griffin reenact Peace on the Playground scenes for bonus content. Yeah. And we mentioned it, but then we got a little bogged down by Baby when your dad was in town. Yeah, that's true. But I think it would be phenomenal. That man, my father, took on a four-hour Gus nap on a day when he was like inconsolable and yelling. This was like hot and fresh out the kitchen.

Like he was three days old and like already kind of asserting his voice in art space. And dad like just popped him on his chest and just like chilled with him for four hours. It was the most incredible feat of grandparenting I've ever seen. I went in the room almost as some kind of caregiver and i said and i just put on a baseball game uh-huh i was like this is the stuff that dad's like yeah when he when we took him off of dad's chest he had like an imprint in his chest like a reverse crang so thank you for listening please if you if you can, go to the link maximumfund.org slash join. Look at the different levels.

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