Wonderful! - Wonderful! 188: Don’t Kiss the Brachiosaurus, Jeremy

Episode Date: July 7, 2021

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. I'm feeling very peaceful today. Oh, I'm glad. What changed? Well, I've been chewing echinacea. Oh. Yeah. What does echinacea look like? A plant. Uh-huh. And so you just put that plant in your mouth? Found some wild echinacea in the yard while I was doing my gardening. Dug it up or perhaps snipped it off the tree

that it grows off of. Popped it in my gob. That's the sound of the echinacea. Yeah, okay. And it's giving me lots of calmness. Uh-huh. Centeredness,ness centeredness uh-huh you're on my level now i'm you and you are always so calm and centered that's the two words i would use to describe you all the time and now wait a minute are you being sarcastic are you being sarcastic and also

are you on the echinacea and have been since as long as I've known you? No, this is just who I am. Okay. This is my level just all the time. Sans echinacea. If I took echinacea. You would be dead. Your heart would stop.

You would still be living and walking, but your heart would be at like two BPMs. Yeah. Isn't it wild that we measure our heart rate and the tempo of songs beats per minute the same measurement that's beautiful isn't it's beautiful it's like our bodies are always making music and these are the kinds of observations that i can make now that i'm on the echinacea i found in our yard yeah it could have also just been some roots of a plant or a bush that I looked at and I was like, that seems like echinacea to me. Chewed it up. And it gave me calmness. So that's what it is.

Could it have been toxic? Some sort of toxic plant that I have been poisoned by? Yeah, I'm worried about that a little bit, I think. For sure. For sure. But all I know is I love you. I love our family, and I love this show. Yeah. And I'm excited to do it with you.

I think I am deeply addicted to echinacea. Do you have any small honors? Oh, you gave me so much time. I did. And I was sitting there, I mean, obviously listening to you intently. Yes. But also trying to come, obviously listening to you intently. Yes. But also trying to come up with something to say right now. Mm.

Mm. Mm. Why don't you go first? Why don't I go first? This is nice. This is nice for the listener because they think we're probably like generally positive upbeat people that don't have any trouble thinking of positive upbeat things.

But hey, turns out, this is a muscle. This is a muscle, guys. It's a big muscle and we've been doing this show for three or four years now. So it's a question of like, I could say just jelly beans,

but you know this. They know this already. Yeah, they know jelly beans. Have we talked this. They know this already. Yeah, they know jelly beans. Have we talked about Gushers? Probably. I got Gushers from a grocery store and I brought them home

and I was like, what are these like? It was actually more like you had to break off a piece of the brick of Gushers. The Gushers fused together, but we like that about Gushers. We love the gooey mess they make.

So there it is, Gushers. You happy now america uh i came up with my small wonder good in your rant good um let me say the vacuum the vacuum we got a good one yeah uh we've done dust busters this is big this is not dust busters this is tall vacuums everybody Everybody stop writing that complaint email. We know. We've done Dustbuster. I am surprised continually how when you vacuum a carpet, all of a sudden it's like, oh, look.

Look at this room. Look at this room now. Look at this house I just moved into yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've been having to do that a lot because we are finally. That bathroom.

Finally getting our house fixed from when it froze in february yeah when you make a bathroom you need a lot of different people in the village oh it's like a pizza pie isn't it and so we've had a bunch of different people coming through and everybody kind of has a different policy on uh what they yeah what they will and won't track through your house and it they're doing hard work. They're working their butts off. We're not ones to complain. Luckily, we have vacuum. In order to get to our bathroom, you have to go through our bedroom. Yes.

And that is where we sleep and where our baby sleeps. Yeah. And it's very important to us to keep that clean. Yeah. And so- It's our temple. We've been doing a lot of vacuuming and it just works. It just works.

It just works, folks. Hey, you go first this week. Can you believe it? Yes. My first thing is field trips. Oh my God, this is a good one. What is the best field trip you ever went on? Or the most memorable one, at least.

I was thinking about this and it's kind of a toss up because when I think of field trips, two things come to mind. First, I think when I was in first grade, we went to the Hostess Factory. What? Are you kidding? That's the best field trip. Is that in St. Louis? I mean, we went to, yes, yes.

I don't know if there are multiples. I don't know. I didn't do any research on Hostess to answer this question, but I know that we went to a place where snowballs were made. That's sick. That's so awesome. I remember that being really cool. Although at the time, we were operating under the false notion

that I was allergic to chocolate, so that was kind of a challenge. Oh, bummer. You still Twinkie it up, right? But yeah, I could Twinkie the hell out of that field trip. Yeah. And then, and I can't remember what grade this is. This speaks to the power of field trips because I cannot remember when this happened. But there was a period when we were doing weekly field trips to the art museum.

Weekly? Yeah. Were they getting a lot of new art every week? Yeah. Were they getting a lot of new art every week? No, it was part of this educational series they did where your school could sign up and they had a curriculum. And you would go and go to different wings of the museum and study different time periods and make little artist representations of the things. And I don't remember when I did it.

Yeah. But I remember it being really cool of like, oh, we're going again. That sounds cool. I'm going to get to make something. Once we got to go to the Huntington Tri-State Airport and go up in the air control tower. Can you imagine? Yeah, and this would have been like 1995 or something like that.

Yeah. Before, let's say, they got a little bit more strict about airport stuff in the wake of a certain event. Yeah. Yeah. But it was sick. It felt like I was, the entire time I felt like I should not be here. There are probably buttons in this room that I could bump up against and really make a mess of things.

Yeah. They do not do that anymore. I guarantee it. I'm sure they're yeah i'm sure there's a 25 you know first graders just like running around this room where people press buttons to make sure planes don't run into each other holy shit sure there's like a last class that didn't know they were the last class yeah privilege yeah also i say, and this says a lot, that this wasn't my first field trip, but we also went to Six Flags. It was senior year, and it was like physics day at Six Flags. Oh, come on.

Okay. And so our physics teacher gave us this worksheet that we were supposed to complete. Nobody did it, I bet. I think we all did, but then he didn't even collect it. It was one of those things of like, here you go. If you have to figure out the velocity. And we were like, okay. And we just came up with some stuff.

And then I feel like you didn't even turn it in. Like it didn't even get graded. It was just like, we all know why we're here. God, that's good. Yeah. I couldn't find a lot of like when the first field trip was, obviously. Right. Because like, you know, who, who would, who would categorize like, we went to my uncle's

farm. Right. Fed the pigs. Uh, but I did find a lot about the educational value of field trips. Oh, for sure. I bet there's a lot on that. I will say, and so the article I found is old. It's from 2013.

Yeah. Which doesn't feel like that old to me, but I know is objectively old. Almost, I'd say like eight years old, yeah. But the article was from a journal called Education Next, and it said that at one time the Field Museum in Chicago was welcoming more than 300,000 students each year, and that number has dropped by a hundred thousand as of this article um also the cincinnati arts organization saw a 30 decrease in student attendance uh between 2002 and 2007 uh more than half of schools that took this american association of school administrator survey uh had eliminated planned field trips in 2010 and 2011. Is that a like- Some of it's budget.

Yeah, some of it's like no child left behind and stuff, right? Yeah, some of it is teaching you the tests. Like their whole focus is improving test scores. That sucks shit. And so they don't have time for field trips. Okay. Which is real sad. It is extremely sad.

I can't remember a lot of things from school. I remember most of the field trips I went on. I know. Which is saying something. Did you guys ever like go outside of the city did we ever go outside of the city because the big thing with field trips is like going to like museums and zoos and stuff and i know huntington is not no but we would go to factories we went to the heiners bread factory we went to um there is a series of locks and dams on the ohio river that we got to like go inside of and like see all the machinery inside of that i remember that very well

um yeah i i remember just i remember a lot of stuff one day we just went to the rose garden at ridder park and just like walked around and talked about all the different flowers that were there it was super cool no and that's a cool reminder too, because like when I think of field trips, I do tend to think of like museums and historic sites, but like you can just turn- Look around you. You can turn a lot of stuff into a field trip.

Sure. So there was a big study done. There is a museum in Arkansas called Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and it just opened in 2011. And so that gave these researchers an opportunity to really get in there at the ground floor and study the impact it was having on people.

It is the first major art museum to be built in the United States in the last four decades. What? Yeah. I mean, if you think about it, most art museums have been around for a long time i guess so nobody's out there like building a new art museum necessarily nobody's making new art that's a shame all the art got made already i was just questioning how many

indiana's joneses we can get up there you find it all inside the mummy's crib really appreciate how you pluralize that thanks uh so this is a this is a big old art museum i'm not super familiar with it but apparently it has more than 50 000 square feet of gallery space and an endowment in excess of 800 million dollars so they administered over 10 000 uh surveys to students uh and 489 teachers at 123 different schools to kind of look and see the impact that this incredible museum had yeah so students would literally they'd get an hour tour of the museum and they'd discuss about five paintings uh and then they would follow up with them and find out kind of what the impact was and a lot of students like we're talking between like 70 and 80 percent of students could

remember like stuff about the paintings they saw when they followed up with them later um and these are like not super like obviously one of them was like rosie the riveter like yeah you maybe remember that um but then there was also uh an eastman johnson painting called at the camp spinning yarns and whittling which i've never heard of no No. Fun name, though. Sounds like a Sufjan Stevens. But weeks later, students were followed up with about that painting, and they said, oh, yeah, that's the painting that depicts people making makeable syrup.

Makeable syrup? Maple syrup. Oh. You're talking about syrup that can be made. Makeable syrup. That's amazing. Yeah. that can be made makeable syrup that's amazing yeah um there's also there's also a lot of research to talk about how it increases critical thinking uh because when you when you study art or you know

any kind of sculpture or painting or whatever yeah you know you're you're learning about like what your impression is and also what the artist's intention was and what historical influences there were i mean it teaches you to look at something and to think about all the different components of it and so uh it improved critical thinking historical empathy was another thing they studied yeah of looking at how early americans thought and felt and imagining what life was like for those people uh which you know you can do a lot of when you study historical art yeah sure like reading that out of a history book you don't it's not easy to connect the dots especially based on where you live and what the curriculum is of like oh those were real people

as real as i am living in a different time with like a completely different set of yeah and i think you know that that is really the power of a field trip. You know, it's very easy when you sit in the classroom all day long with a textbook and like it would just, I would, my eyes would glaze over eventually and not sort of absorb the information. Yeah. opportunity and of course this required an additional investment so not everybody did this but we got to go to washington dc for like what two or three days was like a standard eighth grade opportunity and your parents had to like go to a meeting and pay this money for your flight and your lodging and then they had like two buses that would like drive around these kids and i got to go on that and it was very cool I never got to do anything like that that sounds awesome we also went to Jefferson City which is the state capital Missouri and I remember this very specifically because one of my classmates in third grade uh dropped an ice cube down the rotunda got in a lot of trouble oh no you're not supposed to do that yeah somehow we all knew about I mean this was one of those kids that like always got in trouble yeah so it's always like what's he gonna do this time and that that was the thing he did

well i mean if it's the kid that always gets in trouble and all they did was drop an ice cube down the rotunda it could have been worse could have been way worse yeah um and i will just say the other thing is that you know of course it like it increases a student's interest in places like museums yeah you know like when we are looking for things to do with our son, we are always thinking about like super fun things we know he'll be interested in. Right. And I understand why a lot of families could get in the routine of like, if I'm going to spend money, if I'm going to spend time, if I'm going to drive,

I don't know that I necessarily want to take my kid to a place that they are potentially going to hate yeah but like a school field trip is like a hey this is what an art museum is like and maybe your kid comes home and is like wow this this is not boring i thought it would be uh and so yeah so i i don't know if this is a thing like among kids today like if if I were to sit down with a fifth grader and ask them, like, tell me about the field trips. If they would be like, what's a field trip.

Like, I don't know if this is really going out of fashion. I mean, I imagine this past year. Yeah. It certainly went out of fashion. It definitely did. But I hope,

I hope it continues. Yeah. There's, I talked about this, I think early, early, early in this podcast, when I talked about VR, how think, early, early, early in this podcast when I talked about VR, like the potential for that as like a virtual field trip opportunity where you can like,

hey, now we're back in dinosaur times. Check out that Brachiosaurus. Touch him. Smell him. Feel him. Love him. Like the potential for that. Don't kiss him, though.

Don't kiss him. Come on, Jeremy. Bad kid that always does one bad thing always kissing the brontosaurus hey can i steal you away yes thanks got a couple jumpy jobs here can i do i the first? I'm always excited to hear what word you say. The first one here is sent in from Red, Aaron, and it's for Starman Seth, who says, Hey there, happy birthday, bud.

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the mole baby I'm so glad I'm glad too Rachel makes fun of me a lot I do because I am convinced that everyone's got mole fever right now

the mole is on Netflix it's on Netflix. You should watch it. And we have been watching it. Yes. And I have been enjoying it, for sure. No spoilers. No spoilies.

For sure. Griffin, I feel like, really overestimates the cultural significance of this show. It's a zeitgeist. Because he's like, man, maybe now that everybody's watching it again, we'll see a reemergence. And I'm like, do you think everybody's watching it? There's never been a better time to catch mole fever, except maybe in the early aughts when the

show originally aired. I am excited because I did watch the first season. Yes. There was a second season I've never seen, so I'm excited to dip into that, but we are still on the first season right now. Yes. So compared to, you know, the big dogs, your amazing races, your survivors, your big brothers, which we do not watch the latter.

No. The Mole was very short-lived. It had two sort of regular seasons, the second of which had a subtitle, which I can't remember. It was like The Next Betrayal. The Mole, The Next Betrayal. And then there were two seasons of Celebrity Mole, I believe hosted by Ahmad Rashad. And then there was a fifth season that just like came back. And I don't remember anything about that.

None of that is on Netflix. Yeah, it's not. Only the first two seasons are on Netflix. So like it didn't go very long. Season one aired 2001. And then it, yeah, got a few seasons. I imagine it was a pretty expensive show. I don't believe that that was true.

I mean, not compared to... Well, here's the thing. Obviously, yeah, Amazing Race, similar, right? You're traveling, you're going to historic sites, you're doing tasks. But the mole has all of these additional players that are trying to attack the team, and all those people have got to get money.

Unless maybe they were production crew people, like the like it yeah also had to hold a paintball gun a key grip with a sniper paintball rifle okay anyway they're there we got to remember there's people listening to this who don't know okay sorry and explaining the premise of them all i feel like doesn't really capture what i adore about this show but basically not a dermatological show no it is a uh you got contestants like 10 i think one season had like 13 a group of contestants around a dozen uh every episode they collaborate to try to complete a couple of these missions and if they can do that if they complete the missions together as a team they add money to the prize pool that one player will win at the end of the game the whole time

though there's the mole one of them is secretly the mole and the mole is an operative working for the abc corporation and possibly anderson cooper he possibly works they possibly answer to anderson cooper who hosts the first two seasons uh and they sabotage those missions yeah as best they can as secretly as they can uh and at the end of every episode everybody takes a 20 question quiz about the identity of the mole and it's super granular stuff like what did the mole wear for lunch on tuesday uh what has the mole had their heart broken before like how tall is the mole how tall is something you like couldn't just intuit yes and whoever scores the lowest on the quiz gets booted out gets sorry they call it executed if they did start doing the mole again i have to

think that they would soften some of the language because i don't think you can say you've been executed and what i will say and this is very much of the time period is that anderson cooper sits in front of a computer and very slowly types in the letters of somebody's name and if they are executed the screen turns red yeah it's very like uh late 90s hacker ui style shit anderson i'm going to take a brief sidebar to say anderson cooper is all time on this fucking show yes it's as if the director came to anderson cooper was like okay you are the coolest human being that's ever lived and you need to assert that energy in every breath that you breathe every word that you say every look that you give these contestants also like the what typically exists in a reality program is a lot of separation between the host and the contestants yeah in the mall he has dinner

with them every night he like he is always with them and he like socializes with them and when a contestant has to leave and he says farewell it seems very sincere yes but he always still has this air of i'm smarter than you are and cooler than you are and that's my energy that i have to give off as the host of the mole okay so anyway that's the premise of the show the biggest thing and it's something that not a lot of reality shows can boast is that it's interactive for the viewer because this whole time you're watching these challenges and you know seeing oh i wonder if they're going to succeed or not but also you're watching the whole show like a hawk

looking for these signs of sabotage and trying to figure out the whole time who who the mole is which fortunately it's been long enough that i know i watched this first season when it first aired i do not recall yeah i know i don't totally trust that because I have an instinct as to who it is. Yeah. But I'm not sure if this is just some like subconscious memory from the first time I watched it. Yeah. But yeah, no.

And the thing is, like, given the nature of the travel and the various expertises of the contestants, like people make mistakes. That's right. Yeah. And so you're watching it and you're thinking, was that mistake intentional because they're the mole or was that mistake just incompetence? Yeah. Or was it intentional to make everybody else think you're the mole so they'll fail the

test? Yeah. There is a benefit in getting people to think you're the mole because then they will do poorly on the final quiz and get eliminated. Exactly. And from a game design perspective the missions themselves are brilliant in how they incorporate dozens of little points of failure throughout the whole thing they are convoluted and they take place in typically in foreign countries where virtually nobody

competing speaks the language right and then it's like okay you have five hours to get to this library and once you're there you're gonna look inside of these books and find these maps and then maps will have tickets. And then you have to take the tickets to these specific spots in the city. It's like, there's a lot of places where the mole could sabotage that, but there's also a lot of places

where just like you make one mistake and then the team doesn't get the money because you pass or fail as a unit, as a team. Yeah, yeah. It's really brilliant. It really really smart it taps into that um that like werewolf mafia among us energy that is like big right now so in a lot of ways the mole was was well ahead of its time um but apart from just the game design the whole aesthetic of the show is so fucking unapologetically cornball to the max. Yeah.

Like, it's like it was made by somebody who saw Mission Impossible in theaters 55 times and was like, I'm gonna do a show on that. Yeah. Every episode opens with Anderson Cooper in, like, all black and a black leather jacket. And he's standing in front of, like, a cliff or something. And something and he's like catching you up on all of the intrigue that has happened so far in the previous episode jennifer was viciously executed by the mole now our teams must go to um it's just it's just so good there's also a feeling of weirdly and this is just a uh artifact of its time watching it now like it feels weirdly underproduced compared to reality shows that are made now like it feels ununpolished in a way like the people on it are not necessarily reality show personalities as they are kind of uh trained and and and bred these days and there's

also like there is conflict that occurs between the contestants but it is not played up in a way as to suggest like we know this is good television like these two hate each other well let's keep putting them in situations the dark cloud looming over season one there's a dude on the season yeah who's like an old retired detective named charlie who sucks the moon out of the sky and it's like a genuinely misogynistic like piece of shit that like i don't know i would hope 20 years later that uh you know they've gotten a little bit better about weeding out terrible agents like that uh from from the casting process but although we know from our our forays into reality television that's not always true yeah no his is his it's it is uh it's uncomfortable to watch at times it is i genuinely wish he was not on the show because uh it is a it's a it's a nice experience for me

watching them all it's nice and nostalgic and having this dude on there who's like this this broad over here like is uh that's like early survivor too right that's yeah i guess so yeah there's there's there's a no perfect show no certainly certainly not um but the the mall man it's just, it was too beautiful for this world, but there are rumors circulating that a new season of The Mole is being shot right now in Australia. It's just a rumor. There were like casting notices for some show and they didn't call it The Mole, but it sounded a whole lot like The Mole did.

I mean, it would explain kind of why it's on Netflix right now. And why it's having its moment. It's a cultural zeitgeist i think it's great i love reality competition shows and i forgot when we started watching the mole it is it is so rough the first episode or two that i'm like am i just like nostalgic for this but then like a few episodes in and you see how like complex the like how well they have pursued the whole concept of the show of trying to determine who a saboteur is and putting them through this like, you know, gauntlet of tests where they can gain information. Like, it's really smart. It's really a brilliant concept. it's very watchable it goes very quickly too because the tasks they give them that is one problem kind of with the amazing race is sometimes they will give them tasks that are intentionally tedious yes and physically

challenging and and as a watcher you're like oh, I can't watch this person try and climb up this hill one more time. I know. The mole isn't really that way. The mole is very like Mission Impossible. Like, we need you to go get this file from this agent in this town. It's not like we want to see you like shoot yourself in the face over and over again. Yeah, that's true. Hey, thank you so much for listening.

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I think the day this airs the first episode proper of the season of us playing D&D and stuff starts tomorrow yeah so good time to get on board yes

thank you all for listening thank you thank you hey oh I'm so psyched now the Echonacea has completely run its course So, good time to get on board. Yes. Thank you all for listening. Thank you. Thank you. Hey. Oh, I'm so psyched now. The echinacea has completely run its course. And you know how sweaty I've been over here this whole episode? I think that's my Bonnie trying to push out the toxins of the echinacea.

Or it could be the 80 degree temperature. It could also be that it's a billion bajillion degrees in here. Yeah. Yeah. Griffin has a whole command center in here. This, uh... Emits a lot of heat. It's not my gaming rig, baby.

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