Wonderful! - Wonderful! 209: There Goes Snowkyo, Go Go Snowzilla

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

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🎵 Hello, this is Rachel McElroy. This is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Welcome, baby. Hey! Hey! Ooh.

Hey-ow. you feel that holiday spirit creeping up my ass feels like a starbucks cup up in here i i need i need to hit some tonight i think because i don't know that i've really dipped my toe in enough i walk by that that tree in our room and i think there it is there it is it hasn't really synced up yet with like the spirit. You need the ghosts. You need them three ghosts. Oh, I thought you were talking about Jesus. You need them holy ghosts.

Okay, typically when one talks about Jesus, they don't refer to him as multiple ghosts. You could call him- Well, that's when I knew you weren't, when you said the three. That's, I was like, oh, okay, no, not- I could have probably- Not the holy one. I could have probably come up knew you weren't, when you said the three. I was like, oh, okay, no, not the holy one. I could have probably come up with something to convince you that Jesus is three ghosts.

I know. I'm very gullible when it comes to the Bible. That's entirely true. Is it Bibble? The original pronunciation was Bibble. Okay. Hey, welcome to The Wonderful Show. It's a show where we talk about things that we like and things that we're into.

And now it's called The Wonderful Show. It's like the man show, a classic show we talk about things that we like and things that we're into and now it's called the wonderful show it's like the man show that classic show on comedy central oh how is it like that well um we talk about beer we talk about beds um no this is a good time of year i feel like for this show i feel incredibly uh grateful for a lot of things yeah me too and uh it's been a it's been a very wild ride this month i would say but it's this year even one might say this decade one might say um but yeah i'm i'm i'm in a good i'm in a good mood and that's maybe because the sickness that has occupied our house now for like a week and a half has finally left me behind but it's still got its cruddy grip all over you. I am feeling better today.

I, you know, people said, people said when they said, you know, Hey, we're all going to go back into the world and our immune system has basically been dormant for over a year. I bet there's going to be some illness that comes with interacting with

people again. And Hey, it turns out. Yes. Basically since our children have been in care locations for almost a year no not quite a year no not even a year we've been sick like three times three or four times at least since like september maybe uh yeah bringing the stuff home and we keep fucking brutal sucking it up And because we've increased our number of people in the family by a factor of, you know,

33%, uh, the vectors have exponentially increased. It's hard to tell where it originates. Yeah. We don't know who to get mad at for bringing this terrible. Sometimes it's like they bring it home. Yeah. Totally unaffected by it. We get it.

And then they get it from us somehow. It sucks. Even though they are patient zero. Anyway, this isn't, nobody cares. Nobody cares, but you're feeling better. I'm starting to feel better. We're on the up and up right in time for Jesus Day. You got any small one-dies?

Small one-dies. small one days I'm going to say harmonize I'm going to say the bottle brush this is a brush where you used to watch the bottles you take the brush when you're cleaning the bottles

and you put it in and it is perfectly sized. Baby bottles. For cleaning the inside of the bottles. You know, the baby, yes, but it could also be other small glass bottles that you might be using. Okay. Maybe you've got a small vase. Yeah. And I like that it's sized appropriately for the vessel it is cleaning.

Yeah, I like that too. What about you? This is going to be, this is, I. It can't be darker than mine. Mine is pretty dark. Oh, I don't know. I sometimes enjoy the novelty of sleeping on the couch. Oh, here we go.

And it's not a. We're going to air our dirty laundry. We're not fighting, but we are taking terms coughing so much that it makes it impossible for the other person to sleep through it. Griffin and I almost fought over sleeping over the couch last night because I thought-

We didn't fight. Well, he was like, I'll sleep on the couch. And I was like, you know, maybe I should sleep on the couch because sometimes the couch- I don't care about nice things as much as I would say the average person who is at this point in their lives. That's very true, yes. I don't get very much out of that, right?

I would say we live a little bit below our means because that stuff doesn't bother me anytime this is like a hint anytime i shop for griffin i tend to buy him very comfortable nice things because he always treats it as such a luxury i just don't think about it yeah i mean we were we we were raised to not necessarily give much of a shit about that but i will say we have the nicest bed in the fucking universe uh that i love so very very much and I love sleeping in it, but there's something about sleeping on the couch where it's like, ooh, I could do, I could stay up and watch TV. I know, TV's right here.

You're right. And so I did that last night because one of us was coughing a lot. And not because you were keeping me up, but I didn't want you to come out to the couch because you felt guilty, which is what happened the previous evening. Yeah.

And it's just, you know, sometimes the couch just, it's a different vibe. It's a it hits different i like you know i like the the ability to sleep sitting up when i am sick yeah uh and the couch makes that a lot easier this is fucking sad you know what sucks is that my first my subject today is also sort of in the saturday yeah but i think people are going to be hyped for this one. I hope so. Let's just get into it. Let's get into it.

What is your first and only and most wonderful thing this week? It's functional. It's remarkable. It is one of the most potent healing techniques that I've ever experienced. Dr. McElroy. No, please God. I feel like I need the Sawbones intro for this. It's the neti pot. It's the neti pot. You did say

one of the most potent healing. That's one of the things that when I do it, I'm like, oh, okay. I feel considerably better because of the thing I just did. Usually Griffin and I don't share what our topics are in advance of recording, but this time he was like, hey, I'm going to do the neti pot. Knowing it would be you would be antagonistic because you don't like.

Well, not antagonistic. I think it's scary. It is scary. Yeah. I mean, you're dry drowning yourself a little bit. A little bit. A little bit when you do it. I will say also up front that this is one of the rare types of subjects

that i discuss on this show that if you do it wrong you could die so keep that in mind and make sure your shit is coming correct to the neti pot adventure if you want to go down this route i have like i get pretty chronic like sinusitis and like sinus uh pressure and infections and shit like non-stop i've had surgeries to address it and other sort of uh pretty horrific uh corrective measures taken to prevent it but it still happens from from time to time and when it hits me it's really really hard and so neti pot or nasal irrigation irrigation is something that I never really took seriously, mostly because if your technique is not like really good, it is bad to have water poured into your nose. Well, and I don't think, I mean, I'm sure you will tell us how long it has existed

for, but I will say that this was not a thing when we were younger like i didn't know anybody that did it i never heard about it like i mean it was a thing but not in our yeah universe necessarily uh if you don't know what neti pot is it's a little teapot that you put in one of your nostrils and you pour like this saline and water solution into your nose until it comes out of the other nostril and then you do the other nostril in reverse and water goes through your whole sinus system and out the other side in a display that i would call grotesque carn like a dark carnival of of uh human terror uh but man oh man does it hit the spot right uh and you, there's like a very specific

way you need to hold your head and kind of like close your nose without actually pinching it from your mouth so that you don't, you know, choke yourself. And then you just breathe through your mouth as this salt water basically goes right through you. Uh, I used to hate it, but now I'm really good at it. And I think it's a godsend. Because it's one of those things that makes a lot of sense. Your sinus passages are so like tight by default. And if you do have some sort of like, yeah, some sort of like, you know, deviated septum or just like chronic allergies that like swells the stuff up in there. It's really easy for dust or allergens or just like the gunk that's up in there to get just stuck to the point where the usual methods of clearing your nose doesn't work, right? And so if you think

about it in any other way, right? If you had some like straw that you really loved, but it got all jammed up and then you like blew through it and it didn't make the stuff come out, you wouldn't be like, oh, well, I've exhausted my options. You you just wash it you just wash it and you rinse it this is a weird comparison you're making yeah if you had a straw you really loved okay if there was some sort of like if something gets dirty and stuck up you wash it with water yeah and and what neti pots presupposes is do that to your nose and when you do it and you do it real good and you instantly feel better because you just washed out the dirty thing it's hard not to be like why the fuck am I not doing this all the time especially because you have a dust allergy right like this

seems this seems pretty essential for you but also like my shit's fucked up in there. And so my nose is particularly, like, great at being, like, irrevocably stuffed to a point where, like, I just have to ride it out and wait for things to fix themselves in there. Which can take, in my case, like, a couple weeks, maybe. Griffin gets one particle of dust in there, he's okay. He gets two, he's okay. Three particles of dust and then forget it. Everything's down yeah unless i irrigate it and i just it's one of those things that now that i do it pretty frequently when i get sick uh it's something that i wish existed for like every type of illness like oh my tummy hurts let me just let me just flush the flush i guess there is ways to yeah i mean one might say drinking water is probably the best way to do that for your but not as instantaneously neti pot takes like 30

seconds and i'm back in the fight um it also like moisturizes you in there in a place that gets pretty dry at certain types of the times of the year and it just it's it's it is for me miraculous now if you are interested in getting into the natty pot lifestyle one there's a learning curve that sucks shit to get over the other thing is that you have to make sure that you use distilled or purified water or water that you have boiled in a clean container and then then this is an important part of it if you do boil the water let that shit cool yeah that is a mistake i have definitely made rachel made a one time that i would say was costly i i so i i like a really like hot shower a really hot bath so it's made it so that i am

not great at judging temperature because i think i would shower in this right i forget that i would not necessarily put that directly in my nose right and how was that experience for you how would you describe it it was hot okay uh the reason you got to make sure that it is super duper clean is because there can be, you know, bacteria or amoebas in that water that if you drink it, amoeba goes down the gully slide and ends up in your tummy acid. And then amoeba is like, oh no, I'm dead. But you know what doesn't have acid in it is your nose stuff. And so if one of them gets in you, it can make for a real bad infection or also just kill you outright.

It's not a huge number of people that beef it in this way every year, but it ain't zero. So you do have to be carefully taught. So the practice of nasal irrigation has roots in ancient Indian yogic practices just for general hygiene. And there are actually two variations on that process. So the neti pot is used in what is

called, and I apologize for the pronunciation, yala neti, which is where you get a neti pot and you put some nice clean salt water in it and you put it in one nostril and it comes out the other, right? That's the usual technique. There are advanced neti pot techniques, which involve pouring it in your nose and spitting it out your mouth, which is cool. Or better yet, and I would love to see this done, you put it in your mouth, and then you blast it out your nose. Oh, my God. Like a reverse whale. And I think that's fucking awesome and powerful.

Wow. I would never be able to do that technique without being able to like, you know, open my eyes the next day. But I appreciate that it's there. It is, I would say, preferable to what is called sutra neti. This is not a judgment on people who do it, obviously. Go with God. I think it sounds powerful and neat, but I don't think I would ever be able to pull out a length of string and put it in one nostril and then pull it out of my mouth and then just kind of floss oh my god which is how rock stars do it right like i bet andy kaufman probably did it that way because that because that man was wild but i am good with the vanilla sort of

aquatic experience yeah i don't really know how it works up there you know like i know that the nose and the mouth are connected, but I don't know what that passage looks like. It's more complicated than you would think. It would not surprise you to learn that I have looked at many diagrams of the nasal cavity, and its many mysteries. But there's a lot more going up in there than you assume. But I know this has been kind of a gross segment,

but like, and I think it's one of those things that like people hear about neti potting and they think that it's some sort of like loosey goosey, you know, homeopathic sort of thing and might feel certain ways about that because of that. But like on just on paper, you rinse out your nose pipes when your nose pipes get clogged up. And I feel like if you think about it that way, it's like, oh, yeah, that makes, of course. Why aren't we all doing that?

Yeah, you have to get over kind of the initial hesitancy. So I had not done it in a long time. And as we mentioned earlier, I have been sick. And Griffin was kind of like dropping hints. You were in real bad shape yesterday. I was. Yeah, I was coughing like every two to three minutes. And he was like, oh, if only there were a way to clean out that system that you have.

And I was scared. Yeah. I'm going to be honest with you, dear listener. I was scared. But then? But then I did it. And I had to kind of fight. I was telling Griffin, it's kind of like when you have to first learn to swallow pills.

Like your body is like, no, don't do this. Like you put the water in your nose and your body's like, stop, stop. Why? Why? But it really helped. I'm going to be honest. It helped. Yeah, man.

I feel better. I mean, I potentially would have felt better today anyway. I'm going to be honest. It helped. Yeah, man. I feel better. I mean, I potentially would have felt better today anyway. I'm going to put that out there. You felt better. You stopped coughing as much and your voice sounded less circle-ish. And I grew two inches. You grew two inches. Your muscles got bigger.

No, I mean, I'm not going to overextol its virtues. I just think it's one of those things that now that I can do it without hurting myself or feeling bad while doing it, and it's just like another form of care that I can do for myself, like drinking Sprite or Gatorade when I have a stomachache. I think about it the same way because it's just rinsing out something that is gunked up. Yeah, that's a good comparison. It's not going to cure you, but it is going to make you feel a little better in the moment. Which, when we're in the shit with a sinus problem, it's like any port in a storm. This segment is probably not going to do it for a lot of people.

I apologize for that. Yeah, the netty enthusiasts are going to just be cheering right now but but everybody else is gonna be like um but you know i'll i'm ride or die with it so except i clean the water so i'm i'm just mostly ride with it hey can i uh steal you away yes cool got a couple jumble jams here and i would love to read this first one do you know why because it is for elder plops and it is from tony tony and tomy who say i wanted your favorite couple to help me wish you happy birthday. Is that us? They didn't indicate they wanted another favorite couple to read this. That's fair.

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But the things that you broke it on were completely voluntary. The core thesis of the message I think you delivered exquisitely. Thank you. Thank you. Hey there, beautiful people. I'm Travelle anderson and i'm jared hill we are the hosts of fanti the show where we have complex and complicado conversations about the gray areas in our lives the things that we really really love sometimes but also have some problematic feelings about yes we get into it all you want to know our thoughts about Nicki Minaj

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honey, so come on and get it. Period. Or, listen, you know you want it, honey, so come on and get it. Period. What have you brought before the sharks for us to invest in and fight over in a nasty way? Now, I haven't watched a lot of Shark Tank, but I'll do my pitch. Have you ever noticed how when you go outside and there's white stuff on the ground and you're like, boring. Yeah.

Let me bring to you sharks. The snowman. I've heard of these. He's just like us, but he's made of snow. He's just a round guy with a hat that lets him talk. Curvy, one might say. Curvy in all the right places, which is to say three places. Here's the thing.

Apparently in other parts of the world, two spheres, not three. That's the animal crossing way of doing things. Yeah. Which I appreciate. Who's got the time for three spheres? North America is apparently the primary place for the three spheres. Well, we got to go bigger, don't bigger don't we gotta go bigger and better i bet fucking henry ford was the first one who was like let's do more spheres um i love the snowman i love you know when you're driving around okay so here's the thing obviously we have have a problem with snow because of what happened to us in February of 2021.

But when you're able to drive around and you see a little snowman in a front yard, aren't you charmed by it? It's good. Yeah. It's real good. I'm more charmed by imagining the, like, childlike experience of making that snowman like i mostly look at anything oh i bet they had a lot of fun with that not like look you ever made like a real good snowman that you're proud of no me neither there's like a certain kind of snow you need you know and i didn't do a lot of research on this obviously but it has to be snow that you can pack uh and we

didn't always get that yeah i don't know why right like it did snow in huntington and i you know there were three of us rambunctious boys we just always wanted to go sledding at the park we lived next to yeah and like that's way more exciting to me than any sort of construction project yeah i also like while we're on the subject of Snowman, I like Frosty, the 1969 animated Christmas special. I enjoy a lot. I like The Snowman, which was the 1982 TV short. Isn't that based on a book? Yes.

Okay. And it's just so soothing and beautifully animated. It's mostly, if I remember, about 40 minutes of watercolor imagery of a snowman flying around with a little boy. That's what I remember of it. Yeah, more or less. There's a place where they go to meet other snowmen that I really enjoyed. Yeah.

Just that there was like a hangout. But it's also a contemplation on snow mortality, which is challenging for a lot of kids. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing about the snowman is that anytime you watch like frozen or you know a film or tv show with the snowman all you're thinking about is like how long do i have this creature olaf's got and this is what bugs me about olaf no here we go he's effectively immortal he Now. He can't fucking die. Even when he dies. Now because of Elsa's magic.

Right. But then like. He done. Spoilers I guess for Frozen 2. But like. Even when it's gone. He still can come back. So it's like.

You need that vulnerability. To really vibe with a snowman. And Olaf is like this. Immortal. Demi-god. So it's like. How am I supposed to. How am I supposed to.

Like care about him and his story if he can't die you know what i mean and still walks the earth today yeah looking for some other sort of snow enchantress to release him from from this prison i mean there's another immortal guy that i feel like you think is pretty rad. Santa Claus. Snowman. So the earliest known photograph of a snowman was taken in 1853 by a Welsh photographer. Before then, they were much too elusive to capture on film. You couldn't get it to stay still long enough to really get it in one of those photos.

But yeah, it's difficult, obviously, to be like the first snowman this is the first time people made two spheres with snow yeah um so yeah so basically like the only way to really track that is to like look in in photographs and and books there's gotta be some sort of prehistoric carving of someone putting two balls together and cheering. I did a little research on the big snowmen, like the famous big ones, the ones that the people are making and putting forward. Love those guys. And that is how I found Snowzilla. Oh, shit. Snowzilla is controversial.

i found snozilla oh shit snozilla is controversial um largely because it was built in front of somebody's front yard and caused a lot of traffic delays in anchorage alaska uh he also destroyed snokio you don't have you don't have to do that you're frowning She was frowning while she did that. So, Snowzilla 2005 was 16 feet. That's not that big, I feel like. 2007, 22 feet. That's bigger. Apparently, the creator of Snowzilla was brought to the attention of some code enforcement officers um because the neighbors were like you gotta stop making this snowman because everybody's driving up ends and we can't get to our house right uh and i was like oh that seems like not in the spirit and then i did a

little more research and this guy was pretty well known for having a lot of debris in his yard and i think this might have just been the tipping point for them of like, oh, another thing? So they had to call Snowkey Dora to come and battle him. Gosh. This is really good. Mecca Snowzilla. This is really good, honey.

I'm proud of you. Thanks. But as you mentioned, not the largest snowman. The largest snowman, 2008 in Bethel, Maine. This is a snowman that was 122 feet. Now we're fucking cooking. And one inch tall. Was it just super skinny, though?

It was actually not a snowman. It was a snowwoman. Oh. The largest snowperson ever created. Okay. 13 million pounds of snow. That's about, I didn't think the Earth made weighed much more than that. It's only a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty.

Wow. Why not go for it? If you finish your giant snow woman that you, the creator of, are definitely very attracted to, and you found out like, oh man, seven more feet and she would have been taller than the Statue of Liberty, how would you not be like, get out the big i know we're doing this shit again i know yeah big hat actually there there was a hat so here here is how this this snow person was constructed if you go to the guinness website you can see a little time lapse video there were like cranes and bulldozers it was like a whole big thing. They made the eyelashes from eight pairs of skis.

God almighty. A 48-foot wide fleece hat, an eight-foot long nose made from chicken wire and painted cheesecloth, and lips made from five red car tires. Okay. The arms were two 30-foot spruce trees. This is starting to sound like a tall tale almost.

His arms were as big as five red tires. They also used five-foot-wide truck tires, so I'm guessing like, what is that, like a monster truck or big construction, whatever. Five-foot seems like a big tire uh as the buttons um i don't know i have i have five foot tires on my honda elantra i got seven foot tires on my mitsubishi eclipse how many more cars can you name oh i got like nine or ten cars

um let me show you a picture of the big one yeah does she have a name the big woman olympia oh that's fucking awesome after olympia snow who was uh whoa okay interesting so not spherical in shape more more volcanic i think if you're gonna go structural on that size you really have to make kind of like a pyramid more than a uh can i be figure eight can i be honest with you i am entranced by olympia oh yeah because of the because of the the geometry of her like she is one perfect sort of like volcanic shape that just sort of smoothly arcs upward to a single head it's very it's very mathematically uh satisfying oh wait you know as i pulled up the

image uh breaking news um olympia is no longer the world's tallest snow person no and this as of 2020 wow almost a year uh apparently give me this news on the fly. I'm so stoked. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. 125 foot structure in Austria. Okay. How big was Olympia? 122 feet. That's bullshit. If you're going to do it, do it big.

Come on. Is it really that hard to add another foot on it? Okay. The snowman is nicknamed Recy, which roughly translates as giant. How clever. I hate Recy. Was built in a ski region of Austria. I need pics. ski region of Austria survived winds of over 100

kilometers on Tuesday evening with only his two meter hat blowing off and needing to be rebuilt. Oh, so for a minute there he lost the crown. Oh, you know what it is? It's the hat. The big ol' hat. That's how they did it. Is that? That hardly seems fair. That's bullshit.

That hat is like half the guy and he looks like shit he looks fucking terrible he's so skinny he has nothing on my big beautiful snow wife olympia i love my big beautiful snow i love my huge conical wife olympia i hate that i fucking hate that yeah that that seems i don't know that seems a little unfair but you know that is the spirit of the human race right like i've to fucking cheat that's bullshit you know i bet olympia no parts of her ever blew off in some wind my thick snow wife that's i'm genuinely upset about this this was february 2020 like there was a lot going on in that time yeah i guess that's why they haven't been able to i mean olympia's gotta still be there right if you're made out of 13 million pounds of snow

you're probably pretty hard what do you do when that melts it's like a avalanche right or a flood or something. Yeah. Oh, man. I don't like thinking about Olympia melting or being hurt in any way. Anyway. I don't want to pressure you, but how would you feel about being made out of 13 million pounds of snow? Doing a little snow play?

A little snow. Hey. Hey, everyone. It's about to get weird in the studio so we better wrap up quick thank you for listening thank you to bowen and augustus for the use of our theme song money won't pay uh it's a very very good track that you're just gonna love the hell out of two important things one we have a lot of not life, a pre-taped Candle Nights spectacular that is going to be out this Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern time. If you go to McElroy dot family, you can find out everything you need to know about it. You can get tickets. Tickets are five dollars or you can have an option to pay more because all ticket sales go to benefit Harmony House, an amazing institution we've been working with for a long time in Huntington that goes to provide support for people experiencing homelessness. It's by the nature of this particular holiday season for us, we have not been able to get out the word as much about it.

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They're a really, really, really amazing organization. We would love to be able to support them in a big way. So tickets for that are bit.ly slash wonderfulabc2021. The other thing is that all of our shows on the network are taking a break the week after Christmas, the last week of the year, December 27th through the 31st. So we're all going to be taking a week off. And all the people that work with us to make the shows great and keep the business afloat are going to be taking a week off, too. So enjoy the remainder of 2021. Pretty fantastic year.

I think we can all agree. And we'll be back to talk to you when 2022 starts. Oh, also we have merch at mackerelremerch.com and you should go check all that jazz out. That's it, yeah? Yeah. I hope we feel better next week. I think I will.

You know, I did the neti pot. I've been drinking the lemon water yeah you've been um sleeping at a 90 degree angle you've been having me sort of squish squish you to say that like it gets the toxins out like school like sit on like sit on you and squish you pretty hard and i'm like i don't see any of the toxins come out but you're like they're invisible yeah you know those like play-doh hair yes that's how the toxin comes comes out like that you just remind me of a junji ito horror story i don't want to i don't want to think about being you in it i just want to keep imagining you as a beautiful 130 foot tall snow princess that could destroy my whole house and that olympia is so much bigger than our house by a factor of like six she's so big can you show me a picture again

we should probably go first don't show me that picture again? We should probably go first. Don't show me a picture of that fucking slender, fucking 30-foot-hatted idiot snowman. I'm going to take a blowtorch to that guy. I'm going to fly to Austria and annihilate that snowman. And send his ashes to him. I have to stop. I'm on. Hey! I'm on. Hey! I'm on. Hey! I'm on.

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