Wonderful! - Wonderful! 203: Into the Honey Hole

Episode Date: November 3, 2021

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🎵 Hello, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. We're just buzzing in here like a couple sweet little honey bees yeah here we are buzz buzz poking and poking in some flowers bringing back the sweet honey that we are going to drizzle now into your ears in podcast form this is a bad combination of words i think what drizzle into your ears i don't want anything drizzled into my ears i would

i would let i would hmm if it was part of some sort of treatment or like spa day and they're like and now we're gonna drizzle wild honey right into your ears i was like into my ears or onto my ears and they were like right the fuck in there again no that sounds terrible it doesn't sound good when i say it that way i think there's only one hole in my body that honey goes in okay we can all agree about that okay have you ever seen honey go in a different hole and no no it's my mouth but what if somebody is listening to this five years from now when the hot new trend is uh but honey but honey but honey is probably already a trend let's not pretend like you and i would know if but honeybee we would hear about it in like 2029 and we'd be like have you guys heard about but honey and they'd be like we learned about but

honey from tiktok in 2020 like shit hey, do you have a small wonder? Oh man, you really ran up on me on that one. You want me to go? Uh, yes. Uh, we're here

on the HBO network. Oh my gosh. It's not TV, it's HBO. Uh, it features, uh, RuPaul's Drag Race,

like, show-stopping all-stars. Bob the Drag Queen, Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka. O'Hara.

Yes. And they are, they go to small towns. They do. Sort of, they plan a drag show there for like people in the community. But what they also do

in kind of the background of every episode is like give a booster shot to the LGBTQ communities in these small towns where maybe they don't have this kind of magnet to pull them all together. Oh my gosh, I do so much crying when I watch this show.

It's breathtaking. It's a very, very good and loving show. It's so well put together because you meet the people that are going to be featured in the episode and they talk about how isolated and lonely they feel in this small town community. And then the end of the episode. And they talk about how like isolated and lonely they feel in this small town community. Yeah.

And then the end of the episode has this big show and there's always tons of people there. Yeah. And it's just incredible. And you just feel like these people aren't as lonely as you thought they were. Yeah, sure. It's so nice.

It's a very nice show. That gave me a lot of time, huh? Yeah. I will say, you know, the trick-or-treat experience just the whole other yeah yeah i think this was the first year henry's about to be five and this was the first year where i felt like like he gets it he knows what it's about he's very thoughtful about his costume and what is supposed to happen and it just felt like oh we we're in it now yeah we are parents yeah we got to push around our little baby

in the stroller and it just felt like it felt like this is this is what halloween's gonna be like real deal yeah that's been happening to us a lot lately where we've just kind of been realizing like we are done creating children yeah now we are about to go down that that very fast slope of like oh now this is we're just it now we're we are parents to as many kids as we're going to be parents to that's that's wild yeah i think that's something that we may have referenced but you know griffin and i think had two children in our head when we thought about having children but we were not really sure if that was going to happen for us. And then, of course, the second happened

during the pandemic, which made it seem all the more surreal. Yeah. And so now a lot of times we look at each other and we think, we have the two. We have the two that work now. This is the two. Yep. We say that if we do accidentally make a third. No, no. Well, I don't want, you know,

little, you know barry to hear this and be like shit they really didn't want me huh no yeah um i go first this week okay great both our kids are back in school which is very exciting and life has gotten back to normal a little bit but i feel like this week everything kind of piled up that we've been storing up for our you know convalescing with children phase. All that said, this is going to be a really short one. But Halloween got me just psyched for it. And I can't believe I haven't talked about it before.

I want to talk about Skittles. Oh, my gosh. Taste the rainbow. You do taste the rainbow. No, it's a spammerous call on my phone. I read my notes off of. Probably like, hey, Prop A, get there. there i know i already got one of those calls i've got like 15 prop a calls before yeah damn this episode's coming out tomorrow when today is election day boy i hope you voted against prop a

austin friends okay um so skittles if i had to eat one type of candy like one archetype of candy it would of course be fruity, like chewy candy. Like, you know this about me, yes? I do, yeah. We have different feelings about this. I like a fruity, chewy. You like a chocolatey, yum, yum, right? Yeah, I mean, if both were on the table, I would choose the chocolatey, yum, yum.

That's not to say that I would. You enjoy a Swedish fish from Sweden. I do. I enjoy a Skittle as well. Yeah. It's like. Just one. It's the cutest thing.

She just takes one Skittle and nibbles on it. I like the green ones. Yeah. green ones yeah green yellow yellow is my second do you know what's funny is to this day no one seems quite sure if the flavors are different isn't that kind of preposterous it says on the package it says on the package what the colors are but if are the flavors different yes nobody knows yes do you have a favorite do I have a favorite? You said that and my mind immediately jumped to purple. I love grape. Wow. Yeah.

See, grape is like the flavor that the medicine comes in. So it's hard. I like that too. That's probably why I associate that good flavor with good health. Anyway, if you told me I had to eat one type of candy for the rest of my life, I would say, why? Because that's a preposterous thing to ask somebody to why can i only eat what are you going to do if i eat two different types of candy

i go to jail you can't do that to me i know the laws um but if somebody like continued to prod me i would say with enthusiasm well skittles skittles it is then uh now are you going to talk about the different varieties of skittles i have prepared every different variety of skittles that has ever been released we'll get to that uh good i just do a quick like uh like go down the list and see if you think it's a good tasty flavor or not can i guess one yeah sure skittles after dark i think that's probably on there there's i'm not kidding There's like 50 of them. I haven't even looked at them all. Fruity, chewy candies are my favorite, and Skittles are the best one of those.

You get that crunch of the shell. You get that almost taffy-like consistency of the stuff on the inside. It's got a great chew. If your mouth is not watering while you listen to this description, I don't know who you are. It's got a great chew. It's got just the right amount of sweetness it is one of the most unhealthy candies that you can eat they are very rich in sugars and fats and it feels like if you have a skittle your dentist will know yeah like we'll be able to look at your teeth and approximate how many skittles you have had that my dentist actually installed a little like meter in my upper left

gum so he can look in there and be like looks like you've had 458 skittles since last time i saw you oh do you remember when i was i i said that about the taffy like interior when really it's just like palm kernel oil and sugar and just like regular candy bullshit. Do you remember when Claire Saffitz tried to make Skittles on gourmet meats? It was like the hardest thing imaginable. So respect to the Skittles brand for like devising this very tricky candy. Anything that has a lot of chemicals in it like gets to be kind of complicated to reproduce, I think.

Hey, do you eat, this is another aside. This segment's gonna be full of asides because it's not very long think yeah hey do you eat this is another aside this segment's going to be full of asides because it's not very long okay do you eat one skittle at a time or do you just jam a fistful one at a time all right this is another difference between me and you yeah i feel like you you get your whole paw in there well i take the logo the the catch phrase what's it called slogan oh i take the slogan very seriously it's not saying taste the individual colors of the rainbow. See, I think this also goes back to the fact that I very firmly believe they have different flavors. Yeah.

And I want to experience each flavor one at a time. That's interesting. I like to mix them up. I'm kind of more of a gourmand than you are, I suppose. You're kind of more of a Dharma. I'm a little bit more of a Dharma in this one specific. Should we start a Dharma and Greg recap podcast where at the end of every episode,

we evaluate one another for whether we are Dharma or Vegans? Yeah, we have like a tally going each week. Looks like I've got, oh no, 300 Greg points and only two Dharma points, both based on Skittles and how I like to enjoy them. I feel like that would influence our topics. I feel like if I was really trailing in my Dharma points, then the next week I would bring like, you know, incense.

Unicycling, yeah, sure. A brief history on Skittles, because it is very brief. Nobody knows who invented them. They were first made commercially by Mars, a British confectioner who you may have heard of. I think it's funny that you said commercially as if people were doing like Skittle stands in front of i think it's funny that you said commercially as if people were doing like skittle stands in front of their house well that's the thing they don't attribute

the invention of this candy to mars who do they who did it then i don't know probably some like traveling medicine you know mrs skittle mrs skittle came around and selling it um it was just a slam dunk right away people were like crazy about these little guys uh that was 1974 they were first made available and then they were named skittles after the game of course the delightful i think i've talked about skittles in here it's like a lawn bowling game yeah one of many but that exists but is there a piece a game piece that looks like the candy yeah okay absolutely there is um in 1979 five years later north america started importing them and they were like hey these are fucking great and so three years later they started to produce them domestically here in

north america and then the rest of the history is they made about a billion fucking flavors of it and they made some pretty wild Super Bowl commercials. That's about it. That being said, let's see what, let's figure out the best type of Skittles now. The three main ones, of course, are original, where you get your grape, lemon, lime, orange, strawberry. There was a limited edition one in the UK that was cherry cola, which was blue.

The blue dye for food is like Limited edition one in the UK that was cherry cola, which was blue. Ooh. The blue dye for food is like kind of more expensive to make than other colors for reasons that are way beyond my comprehension. So blue has only showed up in- Oh, yeah. And also like what color would you do for cherry cola that wouldn't get it confused with- Brown? Yeah, or like a red fruit, you know? Yeah, brown is different from red. I think brown is the way to go here, but I think we missed the boat on that.

See, people would think chocolate, though, I think. Yes. The other main ones are the berry, what are they called? Wild berry, where you get your berry punch, melon berry, raspberry, strawberry, wild cherry. Any thoughts on those? I don't know that I had those. That's bonkers. For me, if I want a Skittle, I want

a Skittle. What about tropical flavor? Banana berry, kiwi lime, mango tangelo, pineapple passion fruit, and strawberry starfruit. I think if I want a Skittle, I want a Skittle. My gosh. Is there any point in me continuing? Well, I mean the sour.

I love the sour. There is sour. There's tart and tangy, which were those that represent the sour Skittles that were released after these were discontinued with slight differences on the flavors. Huh? Okay, so that's basically sour Skittles. I don't like sour Skittles.

I think they are abrasive to the tongue. Oh man, I feel like i've purchased these for you several times you haven't i've eaten them politely i thought oh griffin loves skittles griffin loves sour here are his two favorite things in one candy i could sharpen a knife on a sour skittle yeah they are so abrasive is their grit uh i like the flavor i used to dump them in water and then sort of decant them through a strainer and then i I would eat the wet, gritless Skittles. And that's cooking, ladies and gentlemen. And I'm kind of a gourmand, like I've said.

So, yeah, I mean, you got Crazy Coors, where they were basically, the colors were different on the outside. The flavors were supposed to be on the inside. Similar thing with skittles confused which i don't think came out in the united states of america because that's a pretty bonkers name for a candy and i would remember big skittles oh honey did they do big skittles that's actually the last one on the list here uh they were called skittles giants and there was big skittles love it love it uh all right i'm gonna go down and just kind of pick out the ones with the best names because i'm not kidding.

They have made so many different kinds of these bad boys. Extreme, you had two flavors and one Skittle. Green apple, watermelon. Red apple, watermelon, green apple. Grape lemon, lemon watermelon. Lime, lemon, green apple. That is too extreme. It's so extreme, I can't even understand it.

I just said the name of a bunch of fruits. And people at home nodded pretending to understand. Let's see. You got crazy sours, which were the former tart and tangy. So they loved it. They had to have two different kinds of sours. Are there less grit particles on the-

Crazy sour? I would imagine the crazy sours are like, you're eating granite at that point. It's like a winter coat on those. Smoothie mix I've had before. Those were quite pleasant. Oh. You had your lemon berry, mixed berry, orange mango.

They had a bit more of a creamy mouthfeel. Huh. Makes me think of a Starburst. Yeah, Starbursts are okay. Ice cream treats. Caramel ripple. Chocolate. I'm out of here.

Bye. I don't even want to read the rest of the flavors. That wants that people wanted chocolate skittles they would eat m&ms you know what's funny is that for me like if i made you close your eyes and i put an m&m in one hand and a skittle on the other do you think you could immediately just by touch identify the difference no see i think i could really i feel like Skittles are a totally different shape than an M&M. Skittles are a little bit thicker. I'll say that. They got a sturdier build.

Let's see. There's carnival flavors, bubblegum candy, apple cotton candy, licorice, green slushy. Some of those sound good. Skittles Unlimited. These were a limited edition Canadian brand of Skittles. Wait, Skittles Unlimited and it was limited edition? Yeah, that's a good point. Sold in Canada. The flavors were bubble gum,

jam donut, popcorn, toffee apple. Oh my god, that's so Canadian. Is it? I don't know. It just seems really Canadian to me. Canadians are known for their love of... Was there jam in there? Jam donut. Yeah, see? There you go. But bubble gum, popcorn, and toffee apple? I don't know. I would mess with... I don't want the bubble... I don you go but bubble gum popcorn and toffee apple i don't know i would

mess with uh i don't want the bubble i don't really want bubble gum flavor or popcorn that toffee apple though i would destroy double sour this is covered with a double portion of very sour citric acid crystals oh man you joked earlier you didn't know about double sour i didn't uh they made gum for a while did you ever have any of that it was fine no you didn't know about double sour i didn't uh they made gum for a while did you ever have any of that it was fine no you can't break your like reflex of like skittles flavor down it goes can you speak to the kind of candy tourism that occurred in the mcelroy household because i feel like any time we talk about a particular product that was available for a limited time in the 90s, early 2000s.

The McElroys have tried it and they have an opinion about it. You are maybe thinking about cereal, which is definitely more of a, I don't know, a pillar of our household. I will say my mom loved like shock tarts and sour Skittles and like a lot of sour candy, a lot of fruity candy. So I think a lot of it came into our our house uh via via my mom yeah maybe maybe i'm thinking of cereal i just feel like anytime we talk about a particular product that doesn't exist anymore yeah y'all have tried it and and you know definitely you

know the experience there was just chocolate so it was hot chocolate milk chocolate mocha chocolate nutty chocolate wild chocolate disgusting no so confusing me. So does it have this Skittles texture, but it's chocolate? I guess. Nobody wants that. No. Skittles Fizzled Fruits. Those had a fizzing powder coating. Can you say that again?

Skittles Fizzled Fruits. Skittles Fizzled Fruits. They were introduced in 2010 and quickly discontinued in 2012 because everybody looked at those and said, Fucking gross. Bye. Skittles Fizzled Fruits. That's a good vocal warmup. Skittles Riddles.

It's the same as Confused Skittles. They just had different colors and the flavors. Oh, so it wasn't like. I will give you this. Instead of Skittles After Dark, they did have Skittles Dark Side, which had Wicked, Pomegranate, Black Cherry,

Forbidden Fruit, Sweet Strawberry, Midnight Lime, Dark Berry, and Blood Orange. side which had wicked pomegranate black cherry forbidden fruit sweet strawberry midnight lime dark berry and blood orange you know what skittles riddle should have been is that instead of the signature s on each one you had a bunch of different letters and it was your job to put together the riddle a la survivor puddles that's fun i tried to find the font that is on the not the font of the logo of Skittles, but the font that is actually on the candy. I could not find it. Could not find it.

I apologize. The rest of these are pretty boring. A lot of them are just like mixing up the colors to the flavors and they're called things like Skittles Trick Plays. And then let me see, Skittles Love Mix. That was a Target only release from 2018 big ups target keeping the brand going uh sweet heat that had your picante passion fruit your sizzling strawberry uh another uk original zombie skittles skittles imposter skittles freeze pop skittles sour

wild berry i never saw those they They were exclusive to Dollar General. Oh my gosh. Why didn't nobody tell me? Fuck. And then Skittles Chewies, which- Well, if I know Dollar General, they probably still have some. Yeah, probably.

Somewhere. And Skittles Giants. That ends my Skittles segment. It was very well done. Thanks. It went very long. I was like, this is gonna be short and then we talk about Skittles for 20 minutes. Can well done. Thanks. It went very long. I was like, this is going to be short and then we talk about Skittles

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Okay. It's the I voted sticker. Oh, sure. You're wearing one right now. Hell yeah. I thought of this topic today because immediately after voting, I went to the grocery store, as I feel like 99% of people who vote do, uh my little sticker fell off somewhere oh shit because when i got back to the car the sticker was gone and i ate that and i thought how few chances in my life do i have now to earn a

sticker i know and now it's gone i know how are people gonna know how are people gonna know how virtuous you are for voting exactly so you decided i will do it on a podcast to talk about how much i voted how how hard i voted um i did when that prop a came up i was like no um gosh i hope that when this airs we will have succeeded well no one way or another uh should we should we reference what it is or i think we talked about it in the ad break okay oh sorry the the police and austin want to double their fucking budget yeah yeah they want they want like two police officers for every thousand people a very scientific number they've come to there i think even the police chief was like yeah

it's an arbitrary number like oh cool let's spend half a billion dollars on it my man uh and they really disguise it too like did you read the phrase i read the whole thing it was like, yeah, it's an arbitrary number. Like, oh, cool. Let's spend half a billion dollars on it, my man. And they really disguise it too. Like, did you read the phrasing? I read the whole thing. It was like, do you want police transparency at the cost of half a billion dollars? Like, no. Like exceptional training. Like they phrased it in a way to try and get both sides on board.

They've also been doing this really fun thing where now, unless it is like an immediate danger crime that's happening, they redirect you right to 311. So let's go ahead and double their fucking budget if they're going to be the cops now, I suppose. Anyway, it sucks. But it's either a thing or not a thing by the time this comes out. So we did our best. So I voted sticker. So I really did think about the fact that when you're

a kid i'm assuming this happened for you too like you did well on like a test or whatever you get a sticker on there yeah remember that i love that you remember the feeling of that good feelings uh i feel like it was even in high school i had a foreign language teacher that gave you stickers based on your good performance and there's it. And it's still kind of a rush. It's a rush. I remember a quiz I got 100% on, and a teacher put on a sticker of the Blue Ranger, and he had a little big 90s font word bubble in front of him

that said, awesome. Did you put that on your notebook? I wish I had had that kind of foresight. I mean, I held on to a lot of my notebooks that might be in the house. Yeah. Yeah, I don't to a lot of my notebooks that might be in the house. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what it is.

The guy, when I was finished voting, asked me if I wanted a sticker. And I thought it was even crazy that he was asking me. I was like, yes. Yes, I want the sticker. In some places, they have like really personalized, individualized stickers. Like New York has all these New York stickers that you can only get in New York. It's like, hey, I'm voting over here. There you go.

That's what it is. So it is difficult to trace the origin of a sticker. Yeah. Basically, when I read articles about it, everybody just talked about they found articles in newspapers referencing stickers. Like specifically I voted stickers or just well it was it was different um entities that would offer you know deals based on you having a sticker interesting

uh so there was a like a 1982 article in the miami herald talking about how different small businesses in fort lauderdale were offering discounts to customers wearing I voted stickers. Even before that, there was a 1950 article in the Miami Herald that talked about, I have voted stickers, which would be handed out at polls as a reminder to others to cast their vote. I have voted. I have voted. I voted is celebratory.

Like I have voted is such a like declaration. I have voted. I voted is celebratory. Like, I have voted is such a declaration. I have voted. And also, there's immediacy to I voted, and I have voted could reference any time in your life. Exactly. So the reminder to others to cast their vote is very true. Like, this may not happen to you as much, but for me, a lot of- Because I don't see people during the day. It's fair.

Yes. I will go to work and I will see my coworkers wearing their stickers and I will think, oh yeah, I got to find a time to do that today. Yeah. My employer actually offers you like an hour release time,

which is a little ridiculous, honestly, because it's not like I'm logging that in. I just go when I go, but, because it's not like I'm logging that in. You know, I just go when I go. But I think it's a nice gesture. My I voted sticker is the 50,000 texts I've gotten from different nonprofits in the area saying, hey, you got to vote no on this Prop A thing. It sucks. And then the three or four like robo dials calling me saying like, someone was murdered

last night. God. And we couldn't do anything about it because we don't have enough money anyway prop a get there oops another murder i just heard it outside oh i better go do something about it i'm the police bye so stickers phoenix realtors association started distributing stickers in Phoenix in 1985. And National Campaign Supply claims it started selling them in 1986. So people like buy these stickers for like a penny a piece. Cool.

To distribute. And it's supposed to kind of build this like sense of community that was once associated with voting like this idea of like we're all doing it look look around you can see the people that have done it and don't you want to be a part of that i mean yes every time uh it's not really necessarily like we think the stickers will make people vote like no as much as i suggested it like there are not research teams saying like let's get a better sticker so more people vote yeah but i mean it's it's gotta be true that seeing somebody there are types of people out there who see somebody with an i voted sticker

and go oh shit that's today yeah like that's gotta be something wouldn't it wouldn't it be something though like if they really did invest in the sticker in an attempt to get the the youth more interested in voting oh cool like a hologram sticker you know yes or like a scratch and sniff that smells like poles it smells like poles what do poles smell like you know like a polling location yeah like um usually like gymnasium yeah for me I would say for today's, it was stale church air. Did you recognize that? Yes. So a lot of this happened in the 20th century because voter turnout rates started to sink.

And in particular, the 2000 election kind of dramatized this idea that everybody needs to vote like every vote matters yeah uh which seemed to make the sticker more visible or if you live in florida it doesn't matter either way it's gonna kind of go that train's gonna keep on going without you so you're so political in this yeah i am he's fired up with that sticker. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you can see my sticker, but I did vote today. I have voted. A lot of people have kind of turned away from the sticker

just because of the cost and the litter. But just wearing the sticker does have the effect. It reminds people to do it. And that's, I mean, there's value in that. And that when voters feel that they are thanked

for voting a past election, they're more likely to vote in a future election. So just this idea of like, it's important that you voted and we want you to wear the sticker and you did a good thing. And then this idea of like, I'm gonna do that again. We should normalize then if you see somebody

with an I voted sticker walking right up to them and saying, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I was reading this article and there is a professor of political science at Fordham University that said an even more effective get out the vote method than the I voted sticker could be the I didn't vote sticker. Whoa. I don't know how that would work. That doesn't make any sense to me.

I don't know how that would work. Who's going to see that and be like, awesome. I'm not going to vote either. Like we'd shame them. Yeah, I don't know what that may be. Is it like, oh shit, they didn't vote. I got to get out there and definitely vote. Maybe everybody gets an I didn't vote sticker and in the mail and then in order to get the i voted

sticker they have to turn in the i didn't vote and then they have to put it on their shirt that's good we could give everybody i didn't vote tattoos like on their faces and the only way to fix it is every year you have to put the i did vote i have voted sticker over it and keep it there for 365 days anyway this is my platform i'm running uh in the next election yeah i'd vote for you thank you wait what are you running for uh railroad commissioner there you go awesome and thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our

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