Wonderful! - Wonderful! 215: Difficult and Horny

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Why'd you laugh at me? Griffin, before we start recording, always likes to do something that makes me think I should not start. And usually it involves drinking a beverage. And I figure I'll wait until he's finished. I am a prepper, right?
Starting point is 00:00:37 Okay. Not in the sort of like go bag kind of way. But in the like, I want to, before I leave the house, I have to have peed within the last 10 minutes. Because I need to like, I need to start out at the optimal position so I can have like the optimal time with it, right? So I have to hit the water right before we start recording so that my mouth is like optimal moistness. I know. I have no problem with that. I think that is great prepping.
Starting point is 00:01:12 But I will say that usually you're like, all right, ready to go. You look at me to start and then you grab your water. And I think like, oh, he's not ready to start because he doesn't want that sound on the recording. Well, I mean, the time that it takes you to say, hi, this is Rachel McElroy. I can get a guzzle in there. Easy. And the microphone doesn't pick it up. That's what I worry about.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Not if I lean away from the mic to breathe Tay Zonday, Chocolate Rain. You remember him? Oh, man. I don't. I don't. I don't. People talk about Chocolate Rain. I don't remember that.
Starting point is 00:01:44 I may have seen it. I don't need to see it as far as I'm't. I don't. People talk about chocolate rain. I don't remember that. I may have seen it. I don't need to see it as far as I'm concerned, but I don't remember what it is when people mention it. There's a weird, there's a lot of weird sort of cultural disconnects between yourself and me. There's a lot that we, there's a lot we mesh on, the important stuff. Uh-huh. Values.
Starting point is 00:02:02 Values. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But like, I feel like there was an era where I was scum at the bottom of some sort of filthy pond just sort of nourishing myself based on
Starting point is 00:02:16 nutrients absorbed through my computer screen on an E-bombs world, on an albino black sheep, on an inter-flash site here on an albino black sheep on a inter flash site. Wow. These are all things I don't know. And it's because of that,
Starting point is 00:02:31 that there, there are moments that just, I feel like a, like a, I'm like, I'm married to a stranger. Like I'm married to a stranger. I just,
Starting point is 00:02:39 I feel like you are an internet expert. Like when I think of the internet, I feel like Griffin knows what's on there. And, and so I don't, I don't hold it against you i guess that's i guess that's a good point we both cover a lot of different cultural ground okay there's not there sure there's not much overlap but that's okay because when there's a case when people are like you know we're at a bar and someone's like badger badger badger, mushroom, mushroom.
Starting point is 00:03:05 And I can be like, yeah, dude, snake. And like do the rest of the meme. And you're looking at me with long eyes. I have no idea what's happening right now. But then like somebody will be like, you know, talking about a book or, you know what I mean? Sometimes I feel like I have woken up from a coma. Like maybe I had a coma and nobody told me yeah because you will reference things and i as if as if everybody knows them
Starting point is 00:03:30 and i think that's not familiar i do think that most of our well i don't know we're on we're on opposite ends of the gamut now because like i bet a lot of youngsters didn't go to those websites because they probably didn't fucking exist by the time they reached when was your peak like when you're referencing these names when was your peak internet like uh or late 90s early aughts is when a lot of this stuff like really popped off so like i would say 13 14 15 16 those years 17 18 19, 23. How old am I now? 34. Yeah, so just, yeah, basically the whole part of my life. See, I know peanut butter jelly time.
Starting point is 00:04:10 That's all right. That's a good, yeah, sure. I just assumed that was it. Yeah, we made that and stopped. Do you have any small wonders? Drinking water. Jesus Christ almighty alive. So the freeze went okay
Starting point is 00:04:25 We did okay in the freeze We had to turn our water off continuously For a few nights in a row Maybe unnecessarily But after you have the experience that we had It seemed necessary For new listeners, our house exploded Yeah, and in 21
Starting point is 00:04:42 We lost our master bathroom. And bedroom. And in 22, we thought, well, that's not happening to us again. And so then we made it through and we thought, we're great. And then the drinking water stopped. Yes. Austin has been under a boil water notice for three days, four days now. And it is our second in a year in like fifth and three years. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:07 So I guess our infrastructure in Austin needs work. Yeah. What was wild was that we were told to start boiling our water. I started getting lots of texts, including texts that told me how long to boil the water and then to let the water cool. Thank you. Thank you. But never really made clear to me why somebody apparently goofed up which i don't i don't think that water i don't
Starting point is 00:05:33 really think any sort of um utility like that should be something that one person can like have an off day at their job and then the the whole, for a million people, the water is poisoned. I will say there are a lot of areas that have this issue continuously. Of course. Yes, we are not really suffering. Yeah, I recognize this is temporary for us and we're lucky for that. But I will tell you, I really appreciate being able to drink water, you know, out of a faucet.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Yeah. Now, like I didn't i didn't before yeah um i'm going to say uh the after party on the apple good one uh it is a uh mystery a murder mystery show with a fucking all-star cast. Yeah. Every scene has somebody that you are delighted by. And it's that unique kind of delight where it's not like, oh, I see this person in everything and I'm over it. It's like, oh, good, this person too. Yeah. So Tiffany Haddish is the lead detective on the show and it's like the best role for her yeah uh sam richardson from detroiters uh and i mean he's been in
Starting point is 00:06:54 so much stuff at this point uh alana glazer ben schwartz ike barinholtz like all of these people and they are all uh they've all gone to a high school reunion and then at this after party franco plays this pop star named xavier who gets murdered and so the each episode goes through the events of the night through one character's perspective and sets up in the pilot that like everybody's the star of their own movie in their mind and so basically each episode in diving into like each of these characters in the show basically goes through the night in a different genre of film, essentially. Like Ben Schwartz, he is a sort of failed music producer. And so his episode is a movie musical.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Yeah. And Sam Richardson is a romantic comedy. Yeah. It is brilliant movie musical. Yeah, and Sam Richardson is a romantic comedy. Yeah, it is brilliant and so funny and everybody is... Dave Franco just puts on a fucking clinic. Like, the funniest shit
Starting point is 00:07:57 I've ever seen him in. It is a really, really good show. Speaking of, I go first this week. Yeah. I am also going to talk about another, I go first this week. Yeah. I am also going to talk about another show that we've been watching. Okay. And it has become like my new favorite television program and it is called Murderville.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Yeah. Murderville is, it's on Netflix. It is an adaptation of a BBC show called Murder in Successville. And the two shows basically have the same premise. It is a procedural cop drama in the vein of God Almighty, all of them. NYPD Blue and Law and Order and NCIS and like all of those,
Starting point is 00:08:40 any sort of cop drama that you can imagine. It is one of those. It stars Will Arnett as Detective Terry Seattle. And each week he has to investigate a murder. And the twist is that in each episode, he is assigned a new celebrity guest star as his partner. And it is a scripted drama for everyone except for the celebrity guest star who has not seen the script and has to improvise everything start to finish and just follow along as best that they can as each episode goes while also trying to solve a mystery. Yeah and I was really surprised by the
Starting point is 00:09:19 celebrity guest because it runs a wide range. I assumed the first episode is conan o'brien and so i thought okay it's just going to be actors that are known improvisers right you know uh and and then i looked at the rest of the roster and i was like wow a couple of them are actually that yeah um so it's it's super formulaic right because cop shows are super super formulaic, right? Because cop shows are super, super formulaic. In each episode, they introduce the guest star. There is like ongoing through lines about Detective Terry Seattle and his partner who was mysteriously murdered 15 years ago and the painful divorce that he's going through. It's not just bottle episodes every single time.
Starting point is 00:10:01 And then they have to go to a crime scene where they look at clues and then they go to investigate three different suspects before the guest star has to decide who they think the murderer is. And that's not a lock. I think it's trying to remember back. There's only six episodes on Netflix. I think like only half of them actually got the murderer correct at the end. So not everybody is an expert sort of uh yeah that's what i didn't that's what i didn't realize when i first started watching that like it is designed so the viewer at home can like put it together there is a gamey element to it uh which is like an i feel like unnecessary
Starting point is 00:10:39 layer but one that i feel like really makes this show fun on multiple levels where you are, you want the guest stars to be funny. And most of the time they are very, very funny. But also like you want to know how good a detective they are, like how good they are, like solving puzzles and being clever. Yeah, because it's extra charming if they're like taking it really seriously. Right, exactly. And most of them do. And what's like super brilliant about the show, like the this this setup is like amazing. And I love a reality show with just like a clever concept that will pay off forever. Right. Like that there's just infinite ways to to wring that delicious, you know, reality TV show juice out of. that delicious reality TV show juice out of.
Starting point is 00:11:27 But because it is also a send-up of cop dramas, they basically give themselves the freedom to put the guest stars in any situation you could ever imagine. So we just finished the finale last night with Ken Jeong as the celebrity guest who has no idea what's going on. And they are investigating a woman who is the host of basically
Starting point is 00:11:47 a Shark Tank style television show. And so in order to investigate her, they have to go undercover by pitching a product called Ice Breakers with a Z, which are big blocks of ice with icebreaker questions like frozen inside. And so they have to shatter them on the floor and then retrieve
Starting point is 00:12:05 the cards inside which have incredibly like personal questions about the murderer suspect they're like smash oh it says here uh where were you on the night of september 5th 2006 the person is like wow that's really specific just to me there's uh an episode where like uh annie murphy has to uh cook in like a a kitchen and like stir a big thing with her arm uh like there's so many marshall lynch has to pretend to mirror somebody from behind like a two-way mirror that is not there's so many you're right there's so few episodes i don't want to spoil too much of it um but it is but that's just to say like with this show there's only six episodes but like it proves that they could do anything with this format like they could put themselves in any format and be like well this is in the interest of investigating
Starting point is 00:12:58 this murder so that is why we have put you in this this scenario there's no shortage of they're not going to repeat i think concepts anytime soon it's just such an easy like show to get into i will say that the the episodes i think quality differs from episode to episode will arnett is like always great i cannot imagine anybody else doing that role because it is like peak Will Arnett, like gruff, kind of dumb detective guy. But he is an incredible improviser who like is able to take whatever the guest like puts up and like run with it,
Starting point is 00:13:37 which is great if the other person's being hysterically funny and he can build off that. Or if the other person's not really giving him anything, he can sort of still kind of power through and make it work like sharon stone is one of the guest stars and it's probably the weakest episode for me just because like there's not much fun like actual improvising and building and stuff that happens there uh but marshall lynch gets into the role so fucking instantly and so deeply yeah for those of you that have watched like an athlete host an episode of saturday night live you realize like most of them do not have
Starting point is 00:14:14 comedy chops but oh man he he walks in and is like by the way i don't want you to call me marshawn lynch this episode i want you to call me Marshawn Lynch this episode. I want you to call me Detective Bagabitch or Bagabish as they then change it to. And Will Arnett is just like, okay, we could, yeah, absolutely. We can do that.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Kumail Nanjiani is probably my favorite episode of the whole series in that I am, I, I, I have not laughed to the point of hurting and like, oh no, I might lose consciousness from laughing as hard at this as I am. But start to finish that episode. It was just so funny. And I feel like it is the concept firing on all cylinders simultaneously because Camille Longigiani was also a pretty good detective as it turned out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:06 It's, man. because Camille Longigiani was also a pretty good detective as it turned out yeah uh it's it's man uh I you know Rachel and I watch probably more reality television show than anybody else on the planet I don't know why I said we watch reality television show there's more than one of them um but I just love it when the premise is so good that That's why I like that terrible Utopia show that we watched where the people had to build a community. It's like they didn't execute on it very good, but damn it, that concept was so strong. I know. Or Solitary. I love a reality show where the idea is just like you hear the elevator pitch and you're like, oh, okay, I'll watch that. And I feel like Murderville, Justin and Dad and Travis were texting me about it.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, of course, I'm going to watch that and enjoy it because the concept is just so, so amazing. So, yeah, I haven't watched Murder in Successville. I know, I want to check it out now. Apparently, there's a big facet of that that isn't present in Murderville, which is in Murder in Successville, it takes place in a town called Successville, which is filled with celebrities who are being played by other
Starting point is 00:16:10 comedians. So like Gordon, somebody plays Gordon Ramsay, who shows up in a bunch of episodes, and like, the you know, the victims are like, you know, Lindsay Lohan, as played by somebody else, which people say is hysterical, and I don't doubt it.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And this show doesn't have that, but it definitely, definitely still works. I cannot recommend it enough. It is. I know. I want like a new season, like instantly.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Yeah, it's, it's fantastic. It is wild watching it at the same time as the after party, as mentioned earlier, which is like, you know, it is still very
Starting point is 00:16:45 funny but a more straight-laced obviously because it's fully scripted and everybody has seen the script uh mystery show um but i would say they complement each other quite quite well also so that's that's my recommendation i don't talk about tv shows in the big segments that often which i feel like is a real, really identifies how much I very much enjoy this show. Uh-huh. Gotta watch Murderville. Can you steal us away?
Starting point is 00:17:15 Let's go. I'll show you how. There's a button. There's a button you press and it releases this lever. You pull on that lever as hard as you can and you're going to want to pump it. And then you're stolen. And then you're stolen away, yeah. Okay. Well that now yeah that's you got it sounds a lot likeambal jobs here that's fun couple couple jambal jobs here and this first one's for grace and it is from trisha who says dear roommate from sticker wars to
Starting point is 00:17:57 stairwell chats to international calls you've always been my wonderful thing and whether it's for your big successes she has a PhD, y'all, or the seemingly small ones, I am so proud of you. You will forever be my roommate, my family, my person, and my most amazing Grace. I love you a lot-le. Weird one. You know, I noticed this message wasn't for Dr. Grace, and it seems like it should be. Yeah, you gotta keep, it's, I know, Tricia, it's hard to lock that in, that your pal Grace, who you've just sort of like run around with, they're a doctor now. Yeah. They're a doctor now.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Dr. Grace. You've got to respect that and defer to them in all things. Can I read the next one? Yes. It is for V. It is from Pepper. V. To marry you on Halloween was an absolute dream come true. The culmination of these last 10 years together has meant the world to me. You are kind and soft and funny and you give my life such happiness.
Starting point is 00:18:55 The only thing in life I wish to do is to continue to be your wife. I love you, Pepper. There aren't many things I regret about our wedding. Okay. But if we could have done it on Halloween, holy shit, that would have been so dope. Oh, man, you're one of those. Would you have worn like a fun costume?
Starting point is 00:19:13 Like mommy. And then I like have to unwrap you to get the ring or something? Well, you would be dressed up in a sort of like Brandon Fraser and The Mummy outfit. Okay. But instead of us battling with swords, we would kiss and commit to each other forever. That's the same, really.
Starting point is 00:19:35 That does kind of happen in The Mummy, doesn't it? I haven't seen the film. Death is only the beginning. They say that in The Mummy. It sounds wild, though. You haven't seen The Mummy, and that's still unacceptable. Did your neighbor back into your car? Bring that case to Judge Judy.
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Starting point is 00:21:05 Dead Pilots Society, twice a month on MaximumFun.org you know the show you like that hobo with the scarf who lives in a magic dumpster Doctor Who can I tell you my thing? yeah tell me about that thing so let me tell you off the cutting room floor and this is kind of an embarrassing uh admission uh so i was gonna do balloons awesome babe but then i looked at wonderful.fyi and realized that i have talked about both uh
Starting point is 00:21:41 parade float balloons parade float parade float balloons. Parade float? Parade float balloons. I like float better. And also bunch of balloons. So there's been a sort of... So I've definitely been into balloons for a while now. Yeah, yeah. And I realized I probably don't need to tread that ground again.
Starting point is 00:21:59 No. But when I was thinking about bunch of balloons, I started thinking about... Condoms. No. I started thinking about a bunch of balloons, I started thinking about- Condoms. No. I started thinking about infomercials. Okay. And how I kind of love them.
Starting point is 00:22:12 You do. What were you doing recently that you were having trouble with and you said you were like- I don't remember. Oh, it was stuffing pillowcases. Oh, this will be an interesting thing to talk about. Okay, so I have this oversized body pillow. This body pillow is difficult to get in the pillowcase. Sure.
Starting point is 00:22:36 And I have a similar experience kind of in trying to get a duvet cover on a um duvet like a down comforter yeah sure so uh what i do basically is just struggle through it i don't have a technique i don't have a hack yeah and then griffin revealed to me that he does have a hack and was shocked that i do not yeah you flip you flip the pillowcase inside out right and then you put the like far edge of it on the you know one of the edges of the pillow and then instead of cramming the pillow down into the sausage casing of the pillowcase, you sort of unroll the pillowcase out around the pillow.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Okay, that was nothing. It's basically the equivalent, and I don't know why I'm just sort of stuck on condoms today, from unrolling a condom and then trying to to like shove. Oh God, the gesture you're doing right now. Shove your thing into it versus putting the condom on the edge of the thing
Starting point is 00:23:51 and then sort of doing it like they teach you in health class. That was a really, really clear and concise way of explaining the physics of this. Anyway, when Griffin realized I don't do this when I put pillows in pillowcases, he was shocked. And I said, I said, I felt like somebody on an infomercial. And you admitted that it takes you a really, really, really long time to make the bed because of this very thing.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Yeah. I have a similar experience. We have outdoor cushions that I have to put the case on. This technique will work on those too. All of these things take me forever and I just thought you had to muscle through it. And I felt like somebody on an infomercial, which leads me back to my wonderful thing this week,
Starting point is 00:24:32 which is infomercials. Yes. There was a real heyday for this. Oh my God, yeah. I want a name. So I found a Thrillist list of infomercials. I'm going to hit them and just see kind of if you remember them. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Number one, of course, George Foreman grills. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you have one? Of course we had one. It was the lean, lean, mean, fat grilling machine. Yeah, we had, we had a couple of them. We had like the OG one. And then when they came out with like an even bigger one, we, my, my mom used it constantly. Oh, really? Got a lot of use out of it i just assumed it was for people in college who didn't have access to you know real like stovetop situations i mean we had
Starting point is 00:25:15 access to a stovetop but like uh it could cook meat twice as fast because you didn't have to flip it and so when you have the huge one and you can just like throw a bunch of shit down on it and then squish cook it uh that was very appealing to my mom uh and so yeah we we use that thing a lot yeah i had something like a like a triangle sandwich cooker that was kind of similar yes everybody had that that yeah that little uh bargain bin panini sort of uh number two the total gym yeah i don't gun to my head i don't know what the fuck that was it was like so chuck norris did it wesley snipes did it christy brinkley was it bow flex adjacent you could like you it was kind of like a bow flex and that it was like a full body workout station yeah um but it cost
Starting point is 00:26:07 like over 900 so it wasn't really like the george foreman grill yeah i don't imagine they moved a lot of units on that uh moon shoes yeah remember these of course like the nickelodeon like you put them on your feet and they were like little bouncy trampolines yeah i have to imagine that that infomercial mainly aired on nickelodeon i don't know that i saw that one uh i don't know that we could even call that feels more like a commercial to me because like what problem are moon shoes solving there's not somebody like walking around in regular shoes trying to jump and just like falling down well it's gotta be easier there has to be a better way the infomercial is just like a a commercial it's just like a long commercial it. There has to be a better way. The infomercial is just like a commercial.
Starting point is 00:26:46 It's just like a long commercial. It doesn't have to solve a problem. That's just a popular technique that we have seen used a lot. Right. Okay. OxyClean. Oh, yeah, baby. Proactive.
Starting point is 00:27:00 Yeah. Thank you, Mandy. Mandy Moore cleared my shit up in college. just justin bieber jessica simpson katie perry adam levine olivia munn like bunch of stars studded yeah uh bow flex yeah as you mentioned the thigh master yeah that's more old school slap chop slap chop now we're starting to get into the ones where like i actually got one and i was like uh this is actually pretty dope yeah i do love it's pretty fucking great man uh shake weight shake which was just a delight uh you ever you ever fuck with a shake weight well we have our our
Starting point is 00:27:36 friend had one at her apartment yeah and so i got to to see the experience yeah in person you do one of those once and it's like this is difficult and and it's like, this is difficult and horny. This is difficult and horny. And those are two things that I don't, that shouldn't, that are odd bedfellows. The Snuggie. Oh yeah. The Clapper.
Starting point is 00:27:57 Damn, it speaks to the strength of infomercials that I know all of these shits. And then the Gazelle, which was basically a nordic track but it was like an elliptical nordic track is it just because they carpet bomb television stations for like a year with these so it's just like the the sheer repetition of it is just like ah yes the snuggie so in 1991 alone the infomercial industry generated more than $750 million in product sales. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:27 That doesn't sound like very much. They had their own version of the Oscars called the Play Awards. They gave out to like infomercial superstars. Yeah. A lot of those superstars, I would say, probably didn't have long lasting and fruitful careers. In fact, some of them turned out to be pretty big creeps. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Yeah. No, I would say that is true. If not half the time, maybe a majority of the time. Um, infomercials actually started in the 1940s. Um,
Starting point is 00:29:01 but they had FCC regulations that limited the length of them until 1984 when you could do like a full program. It was just if it was longer than 15 minutes, you had to say it was paid advertising. Oh, God. But yeah, in 1984, the Cable Communications Policy Act allowed people to just really go for it in the space. policy act allowed people to just really go for it in the space such a shitty like you're watching one saturday morning on abc like kicking it with like all your favorite shows and then that immediately ends and then you hear the following is a product placement for old bone medicine and you're like ah fucking snore snooze what a what a way to pull the rug out from under some kids i just i mean you say that but like there's something about the format
Starting point is 00:29:54 right of like like a countertop full of simultaneously like cooking george foreman grills and just like the unboxing of each grill to see what meat product was in there and the pacing, you know, like, I don't know. It was very engaging. It's very engaging. Sorry, that made me think of the corn baller from Arrested Development. Yeah. Well, that's the thing, right?
Starting point is 00:30:20 Like that really like generated a lot of parody, particularly on Saturday Night Live, for example. They really went for it. But yeah, and Arrested Development, too. It's just such a, I don't know, man. It's so entertaining and nostalgic for me. like them because they exist in a parallel world where human needs and desires are twisted dark mirrors of that of our world which all henceforth refer to as the light world where you see the i can't remember the gentleman's name who did pass away who who did the OxyClean. Billy Mays? Billy Mays, who takes the Flex Seal Tape
Starting point is 00:31:08 and there's like a hole in his aquarium that's just shooting out just constant stream. And he's like, your aquarium's all fucked up. And then he slaps the Flex Seal Tape onto it with the force of like an asteroid impacting the earth. And then the thing is gone and you see that you're like wow billy that beats ass but also when am i gonna have an aquarium with a hole in it i know that's awesome that's awesome that they can plant the seed in your mind of your aquarium might get a
Starting point is 00:31:40 hole and i think like i don't have an aquarium and that's not how glass works, but you might be right, Mr. Mace. Yeah, no, that's the thing. They create a problem that you may or may not have known that you had, and then they show how they effectively solve that problem. And it's just like this moment of like, just pure relaxation. Sure. Just like, oh, this problem has been solved and there is one thing that does it. On to the next. Yeah. On to the next.
Starting point is 00:32:12 I will say there used to be like a little as seen on TV display at Bed Bath & Beyond and I always loved checking that out. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that there was – eventually I feel like infomercials became too self-aware, and then it was things like the marshmallow cannon. And I was like, okay, I'm not a fucking kid anymore.
Starting point is 00:32:34 The Snuggie was kind of right there on that. It was kind of like, we know this is just a blanket we put arm holes in. People know that you and I love comfort, but there is a level of like it's hard not to see somebody wear a snuggie and not think like that probably it probably smells pretty bad in there i don't care how long you've had it on it probably doesn't it's probably not great well yeah i mean most of these are not made of the highest quality um products you know like like yeah you can't you can't pass a snuggie onto your grandchild i will say we had a leak in our roof i slapped some fucking flex seal up on it
Starting point is 00:33:13 and it still leaks sometimes but not as much there you go that's a ringing endorsement from griffin mcelroy I probably used it wrong. Hey, that's it. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the Usar theme song, Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to that in the episode description. And thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. Yeah. So many great shows.
Starting point is 00:33:38 So many great shows. You have a live performance coming up, I saw. Yes. We're doing a live MBM show. And I'm going to tell you all about it. It's this month. It is this month. And I am going to tell you all of the details right now.
Starting point is 00:33:57 It's on February 26th at 9 p.m. Eastern time. And tickets are $10. And you can get those ticks at bit.ly slash mbim bam virtual and uh the video on demand will be available for two weeks after the show so you should come and check it out and have a fun time with us uh we have a bunch of merch at mcroymerch.com the pin of the month this month is sawbones number two books, which are books that vaguely reference poopy. Can I tell you, I was really debating whether or not to get the,
Starting point is 00:34:30 I'm not ashamed of my clown husband sticker. The one that was designed by Jacob Bailey, JS Bailey, eight one seven on Twitter sales for which benefit the Huntington children's museum. Obviously a little on the nose for me, but I'm so charmed by it there's also pins for our 20 rendezvous theme for this year on my bim bam uh one of which is like a prom photo of the three
Starting point is 00:34:52 of us and one of them is us on a floating tandem bike it's very whimsical uh and those were designed by lucas hespenheide uh and yeah those are all available at macroymerch.com so come come come get you some that's it that is it have have a good have a good safe week oh hey and thanks to everybody that attended our wonderful live show yeah we were able to give over eight thousand dollars to austin bat cave which was a nice thing for them and for us to be able to pass that along. Yeah, it was so awesome. Apologies also for missing last week. It has been, we have been on a difficult journey the last, I would say, six weeks or so. But what's that coming up over the horizon?
Starting point is 00:35:38 Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. I really want to be able to play with you in this space, but I just... It feels like you actually don't. Money Walkin' I'm ready. Maximumfun.org. Comedy and culture.
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