Wonderful! - Wonderful! 255: DAMN! I Feel Like a Frasier

Episode Date: December 7, 2022

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. We're professional audio people now. This feels like real, like, radio. I don't even, hold on, wait, let me Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. We're professional audio people now. This feels like real, like, radio. I don't even, hold on, wait, let me turn the lights up. Let me get on the key lights. Now doesn't it feel, I mean, obviously this is an audio medium and I've just turned on key lights.

But doesn't it feel like we're on the set of, like, a big Hollywood thing. Welcome to Hitch 2. Welcome to the set of Hitch 2. Can you tell me about the lights? Can you tell me about the lights? Bright. Brightness. So, like, I know that in the community of streamers,

that, like, the ring light was a thing. Yeah, and it's still a thing. But these are different. These are not rings. From what I understand, ring light, it makes a pretty sort of shape on the eyeball, on reflection of eyeballs. Oh, this one doesn't? I guess not.

I mean, it definitely does because of our glasses. Yeah, it does have a glasses glare issue that I'm working through. But I got a good stream set up right now. Yeah, yeah. Got a stream deck, got key lights i've been getting a lot of complaints about my video quality and about the fact i do look like a morbius and all the stuff that i make i don't know what that means a morbius is like a vampire man oh from morbius and so that people are complaining that you're too pale non-stop not even paleness as much as it is that it does look like i live in a crypt or a sepulcher of some sort. But now I have these damn lights.

And I'm sorry for cussing. I'm just really excited about- I'm gonna warn you that people on the internet may still continue to say those things about you even though you have purchased these lights. It's been my experience that when people complain about something about you on internet

and you take action to correct it, it immediately forever stops. Okay, good, good. But yeah, watch this this space big things happening here on the set of hitch to a big hollywood production with fancy lights and cameras and microphone and microphones don't even talk about damn boom arms and again i'm really sorry for the language but these boom, I can make this mic be far away from me or super duper close. I can make it go up. I can make it go down. It's incredible. The freedoms that are available to us American citizens. My hands, right? I could be knitting right now. You could be knitting. I could

be anywhere doing anything. I could be pantomiming. This is wonderful. It's a show where we talk about things we like, things that are good, things we're into. And I'm into all this equipment that I have rocking. Yeah, so Cyber Monday, Saw Griffin coming. Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Cool Thursday. We did a lot of shopping because it's been long overdue, but now we're in the 22nd century. Welcome to the game. Do you have a small wonder to talk about?

I do, actually. I thought of it and I thought, I hope I get to go first so I can say it before Griffin does, which is spirited. Damn it. You got me. It did take us two days to watch this film.

It would take us two days to watch any movie, though. True, true. And it's one of those things that within the first 10 minutes we were like oh this is good this is incredible this is very good this is a a musical christmas program in the style of a christmas carol uh that stars will ferrell and ryan reynolds um it's on the apple tv yes platform yes which i think is prohibitive probably for a lot of people. But we, back when Ted Lasso was popping off, invested in it. And this is now a new rotation for us, I think, in our Christmas viewing.

Good holiday movies are, I think we've talked about this on the show before. They are thrilling because of the fact that there's not like an endless catalog of like really great holiday there is an endless catalog okay there is an endless catalog but not of ones that like you think like i'm going to this is part of the tradition now right like good holiday media becomes tradition in like a wholesome heartwarming way not in not in a like ironic, like, oh, this was so ridiculous, now I'm gonna watch it every year and it's gonna be a tradition of how terrible it is. No, this film, y'all,

is so good and the music is remarkable. It's an exploration of like the logistics of doing a Christmas Carol style haunt on a bad person. It's clever And it's clever.

It's incredibly well-made, well-cast. Everybody in it is so good and funny. And the songs are just out of control. I was so impressed. See, as somebody who has now been in the McElroy family for several years, I can say comfortably that the book, the book on this, you know, when people write the music and they call it the book.

Yes, sure, sure, sure. Yeah. It's good. All right. You heard it here first. The book. I liked the book. I thought the book was good.

That was definitely going to be my thing. So instead I will pivot. Oh, I got this new Kindle tablet. It's called the Kindle Scribe. I love my paper white. I've talked about this. I don't, I feel like. This is like a Griffin's gift guide episode.

It kind of is a little bit. Uh, I love my paper white. It's very, very small and it's got that good e-ink display and I like to read books on it. Uh, and some, I, sometimes I'll read a, sometimes I'll read a newspaper on it. Very rarely, mostly when I'm traveling. I like to read books on it. And sometimes I'll read a newspaper on it. Very rarely. Mostly when I'm traveling. I like this. It's bigger and you can read, I think, I guess, more words per page on it. But then it's got a little stylus and it lets you create like notebooks and stuff with different sort of settings. I've been using it for like a checklist, like a daily checklist. It as like a checklist template. And I find that I have used a lot of apps

for like project management to do list stuff and I fall off of it because it's so easy to just forget it. This is a big honking tablet. I keep it right there at my desk and I do a little check mark on the stuff I do, and if I do a good enough job, and I do my whole checklist,

I give myself a little doodle at the bottom of the page. Like, yes, I do some grapes, and I wrote grape job. I haven't not completed the list. Maybe if I don't complete the list, I'll draw like a nasty drawing of like a scary, you know, like a snake or something. Uh-huh.

And I'll say like snake job. And that means that I did a bad, bad job that day. I was thinking more of like a, like what you would call a snake in a black turtleneck. Which is what? Snake, snake jobs. Yeah. I don't know. I'm happy for you.

Should we start over? your kindle i um look forward to the future i'm changing my small wonder because you were giving me a hard time on it um in dc i just don't want to be so consumerist i feel you i understand that in dc you have to get your car inspected at one place is that really true true? I'm like 98% sure. It's one of the wild things. Because I know that you did drive like 30 minutes to get this done. Yeah, it's like downtown. It's like by the Lincoln Memorial, which is wild.

It's like, here's the Lincoln Memorial. Here's the Washington Monument. Here is the DC DMV car inspection station. But holy shit, you pull your car in there. Somebody looks at it for about 90 seconds slaps a sticker on them you're on your way i do like that a lot that is nice yeah i like good when bureaucratic process is smooth i get it i get it i understand it yeah i get it bureaucracy well you and i are similar in that when we know that we have a task we have to complete that is relatively mundane we will put it off yeah and put it off yeah and then when it happens

and it is painless it's like oh great now when i have to do this again i won't put it off maybe quite as long but i probably still will definitely still will um i go first this week according to you moments before we started recording. Yeah. I would like to invite everybody to come with me on a journey to Griffin's Poetry Corner. No. No. Oh, no, you have to do it. Oh. Oh.

Ba-ba-dee-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba. Be-be-be-be-ba-ba-boo-boo-ba. I got ASMR. These mics are good for that I guess you know you should anytime that you need to escape into like an ASMR world you should just tap me on the shoulder

and I'm happy well I would need you to come is the microphone and your voice in unison I will sit here put the headphones on close my eyes I wasn't done though

is the thing oh sorry sorry sorry that really did i got i tingled for sure um i want to give a special shout out to sarah davis who we work with uh who always finds just the good shit oh i know what this is gonna be you got me all excited that it was gonna be like a real poem published in a book of poetry for poets. Oh, wow. Listen to you. Wow. Listen to poetry expert poets.

I'll let the listener be the judge. Well, you went to poetry school for a long time and spent a bunch of money. So I guess you get to tell me what is and isn't poems. Is that the energy we want to bring to the show? I'm just saying that moments ago I commented on the consumerist nature of our podcast so far it's gonna get even worse before it gets better okay continue with griffin's gift guide griffin well no i'm not suggesting anybody buy this thing this okay i'd like to bring to everybody i submit for the approval of the midnight society an advertisement that um it's probably the just the most incredible thing that has crossed my desk this year.

Are we going to be able to share some of the audio for this? Yeah, why not? It's an advertisement. It's very important. So Lamborghini recently unveiled a new model of a sports car called the Huracan model. And this one's the Huracan Storato, which is an off-road version of the sports car. Are you saying that with a regional dialect or is it really spelled that way? No, and I know this is confusing because there is a city near Huntington that is spelled

Hurricane that we call Hurricane. No, this is H-U-R-A-C-A-N. Oh, okay. I'm probably mispronouncing every word. I may have mispronounced Lamborghini for all I know. I will say this. The profile of this car is very traditional sports car, low to the ground. So watching it drive through like a desert is, I will admit, pretty surprising. the voice that happens at the beginning and throughout this advertisement uh or the words

that this voice says that was written for this ad that accompanied the debut of of this of the hurricane sterato i'm i am going to play a little bit of the ad i might play all the ad actually fair use right is that um well and in a way i mean we're doing them a favor we're transforming yes maybe some listeners will hear this and they'll be like you know what i am gonna go buy myself a lamborghini huracan sterato um i want you to envision the following because you won't be able to see the ad but just sort of like in your mind mood board i want you to envision a blonde mustachioed man man just kind of like throwing some dust around inside of like a desert temple of some sort and then there's a woman wearing sunglasses she's driving a loud sports

car through like dusty badlands uh which which is a cool that's my favorite that's my favorite coach of the cincinnati reds was definitely dusty badlands uh and then also someone who's like snowboarding down a red, dusty hill. It's very dusty for reasons that are about. Just here's the ad. And here it is. This one's for you. Concrete uriner.

Tamer of curves. Master of speed. Where you find the suit, dirt is made for it. Let the show off begin. On this new concrete. Spray paint powder on tires that thrive on the rim. Dust is gold. Dirt's for the bold. Black out the sun, raising red clouds on that dry ground.

Make gravel rain down. Let adrenaline and fun collide. Spray grains of dust aside. It's no filth. This is design. And the amount of grime is fine. The more you get dirty, the more you'll shine. Dust is gold. Dirt's for the bold. Dust is gold. Dirt's for the bold. It is hard for me to pick a favorite part of the Lamborghini Huracan. So much of it is that it keeps going.

Yeah. Right? Like, any of those words in isolation is not particularly shocking. No. It's the fact that they're put together and then repeated and then rephrased so many times. Rephrased so many, so many times. It's basically like a musical leitmotif that occurs throughout the whole thing. I mean, poetically speaking, they do some fun stuff in there.

It starts off as just sort of random observations. This one's for you, Concrete Yearner. Already I'm hooked. I don't know what that means. But then toward the back half of the commercial, they introduced this like deranged meter as if the whole thing has been, they act like they've been rhyming and rhythming the whole time

when it hits you with like, out of nowhere it hits you with, let adrenaline and fun collide, spraying grains of dust aside. It's no filth. This is design. Any amount of grime is fine. The more you get dirty, the more you'll shine.

I had this reaction that I imagine a lot of people did where I was like, oh, has it been rhyming the whole time? And I just didn't notice until now. Your reaction was incredible because you were just like, oh, my God. Like halfway through, you were like, oh, my God. And then the further it went, just more just, oh, my God. Like halfway through, you were like, oh, my God. And then the further it went, just more just, oh, my God. Well, because here's the thing. Car commercials, I mean, this is pretty well-tread ground for car commercials, right? Like this trying to create this whole fantasy and flowery language and this sense of, like, we're going to transport you to this world where you were driving this car.

And so at first I was kind of like, yeah, mean this is weird but all right but then it they double down so many times and then they quintuple down it almost like it's like an exponential downing that they go that it just goes further and further and further and the internet is so chock full of wild shit that i feel like nothing like really sticks to my brain on any like given day from the moment I watched this ad I knew I was going to think about it every every day for the rest of my life I'm not going to be able to say the words dust or dirt or gold without like yeah first thought becoming the Lamborghini Huracan Storado advertisement uh. So powerful and mimetic is this commercial. And I think it's easy to write this one off, this poem, as like, oh, this is an Italian product.

It's an Italian advertisement. There's probably like, maybe it's a translation issue. Oh, yeah, okay. But no, I'm pretty sure the strangeness of this is a feature and not a bug. The agency, I did some Googling. Good. The agency that wrote the ad is called DDB Group Italy.

It's all about creating, quote, unexpected works. This is from their mission statement. It means that the best idea is the one you never see coming, the thing that catches you so off guard you can't look away. Creativity is having the fresh perspective and raw energy to bring something into the world that no one's ever seen before we're talking about the courage to shake things up and maybe even change them the courage i mean in that sense mission fucking accomplished yeah guys like you crushed it on this one I have never seen or heard or experienced anything like the debut advertisement for the Lamborghini Huracan Storado.

I was so it. It's very long. And it made me think about like those like Super Bowl commercials that like, you know, they really invest in the presentation. 20 million dollars in a minute. Yeah. But then I thought, like, where is this airing? Yeah. dollars in a minute yeah but then i thought like where is this airing yeah you know like and maybe i made the comment to griffin of like is there a channel on like who where and who cars channel speed cars dirt cars channel okay pretty sure it's channel 11 i was trying to think of a channel where people have the income to even entertain the idea of like this ad convinced me to buy this car. Probably Bravo.

Okay. I can't think of what another ad like another channel that like super wealthy people will watch is. Anyway, on one hand, the copy and the things that are said, the thoughts and ideas of this commercial are garbage. But on the other hand, as I've always said, dust is gold and dirt's for the bold. And so for me, like when I internalize that, what that means is that it's actually a very good commercial. And I'm very happy that I saw it. And it's changed my life. Changed my life for the better.

Yeah, it really, I mean, ever since you talked about the agency that developed it, it really makes me think about kind of the process, right? Because they must have thought like with a fancy car, typically they're in the rain or it's like a perfectly clear day and they're driving like around a curve and like a fancy place. What don't you see? Like what is going to stand out? And then they were like this whole thing's gonna be about dirty i'm imagining don draper standing in front of like a a small television and showing a room full of execs every other car commercial and being like what's wrong with all of these that's right their coherence what i would like to propose and then they made this this incredible this incredible poem welcome thank you for coming to my poetry corner i know we don't get it i know it's dusty

and dirty there's empty fritos bags all over the place this is also where i come to have snacks this is my snack time corner um we'll see you again in three years we'll see you again next time ddb group italy comes out with another hot, fresh jammer for all of us to enjoy. Dust is gold, dirt's gold for the bowl. Can I please steal you away? Yes. You probably already have a favorite animal.

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to Schmanners on Maximum Fun or wherever your podcasts come from I guess. Schmanners, Schmanners Get it? We're gonna go from your poetry corner to another poetry corner. Oh man, your poetry corner's on the other side of the room, babe I know, I'm sorry. Hold on.

Colleen, toss salad and scrambled lines. Okay. You'll notice that my poetry corner has a comfortable seating. It's so clean and it smells. You've already got, you're diffusing oils over here. It smells so good. There's a natural light, you know, exposed brick. Well, you're the one who we walked into this room at the same time. You pointed at this corner and said, well, I'll go ahead and take that one.

And then you pointed to the already befriedoed corner and said, that one's yours, dirty man. I mean, it's not like it's an all-purpose corner. You asked for a corner in which to do your poetry, and I said, sure, let's make sure that it's appropriately sized for the amount of poetry corners that you're probably going to do. It is only fair. So the poem, the poem, the poet, the environment that I am bringing you into is one that features the poet Kate Bear.

Whoa, cool name. Scary, kind of. Sometimes I think about like the mental grab bag you have in responding to poetry. Yeah. And that was one of those moments where I really saw how deep that well is. Well, I'm just thinking about a big bear, big fuzzy bear. Cool name. It is spelled B-A-e-r so there's a

chance that it's bear yeah um not as fun but i yeah i again in preparation for this i always have the plan to watch a in-person interview in which i can see the poet pronounce their own name and i did not get i'm like a hundred percent it's bear i know people with that last name okay let's i don't want to brag but i know a lot of people with a lot of different last names and so my pronunciation game is always so on point you're showbiz i get it yeah uh okay so i got this book of poetry yes i went to an actual physical bookstore whoa um when my friend ariel was in town uh and now i feel like i need to be able to name the bookstore that I went to. That's okay.

We can assume it was like a cool, like, easy, like, little haunt. And I picked up this book of poems called What Kind of Woman? That was Kate's first book of poetry. And not only her first book of poetry, it was her first piece of paid writing. Whoa. So she kind of made her claim as a blogger and then got an opportunity to write a book. And that was the first time that she had ever received pay for writing poetry, which is- That's awesome.

Mind-blowing. Yeah. And so I picked it up and I started reading it. It was very accessible. The poems are very short. And so I picked it up and I started reading it. It was very accessible. The poems are very short. And I had this kind of initial resistance to it. Because as you mentioned earlier, kind of a snob. Hey, I would never say that. I would never, ever, ever say that. writing is that at a certain point you buy in and then you really start to think about how you approach poetry in general at least that's true if you're me um it made me have a lot of feelings and thoughts uh which you know i hate when art does that to me it's like i had plans to think about a bunch of other cool stuff today, like nachos

and video games. I mean, you can still think about those. No, I can't. Not if my brain is like really tied up in like a poem. She writes a lot about kind of her experience of being like a woman and a wife and a mother. And I think those three things a lot of times kind of push people into a category of writing. And I saw this spelled out really well. She did an interview with The Guardian. So this book that I'm talking about, What Kind of Woman, came out during the pandemic in this time where people, I think, really kind of leaned into poetry, there was a lot, as you all will recall, there was a lot of kind of isolation and a lot of mental load that came with the pandemic. And I think people didn't have time or feel like reading a book. And they also needed that kind of emotional release that came with all of the isolation.

also needed that kind of emotional release um that came with all of the isolation and poetry kind of experienced like uh like a little bit of a boom and and and i feel like she kind of was right there at the right moment yeah so all all of that to say so she's giving this interview uh with the guardian uh in 2021 talking about what she writes about, which, as I mentioned, is kind of the experience of being a woman and a mother and a wife. And in the article, the writer says, because she has a big social media following, she has been described as an Instagram poet. Her book is sometimes lumped into the self-help genre, which seems mean. It is definitely not a how-to. Often she'll receive messages from readers suggesting she write about other subjects as if motherhood isn't worthy of their time.

And then in her interview, she says, I mean, how many books have I read about baseball? There's no topic that's unwriterly, but motherhood gets stuck in that category. And it really, it really like, that's what I mean when I say kind of in the middle of this book of poetry, I thought like, no, this is really, really good. And the fact that I was hesitant to kind of embrace it says a lot about kind of my own experience of reading women writing about being women. You know, It was just, it was really interesting. And I found it really inspiring, actually, as I was reading the book, like just in the way that like, I thought like, I have a lot of thoughts about being a mother and a wife and a woman.

And it's interesting how I just kind of assume that that will not be of value to anybody besides women, you know, or people that have had that personal experience. And so I picked because they're so short, I picked two poems to share that that I feel like kind of show, show her range and and her talent and I wanted to share them. Please do. Okay, so this poem is from the book, What Kind of Woman? And the name of the poem is For the Advice Cards at Baby Showers. Baby socks don't matter, but more importantly, neither does advice. This is not a performance

for your friend or your mother or the woman in line who tells you about coats. Experience will teach you two things. You are the mother, and it's okay to let them go up the slide. Nothing in this world can prepare you for this love's suffering, for joy and loneliness. For now, just remember, birds sing, babies cry, and no matter the weather, every morning is new. That's great.

Isn't that lovely? That is lovely. That poem really kind of exemplifies like her tone and her approach. She's very welcoming, I feel like, but she also speaks to this very kind of unique experience and this feeling, the kind of the taboo feelings associated with like being a mother and this like amazing, miraculous thing that you do that is also maybe the most isolating things you'll do with your entire life yeah um and and her experience is really interesting so she has four kids that's a lot she had three kids and then they scheduled

a vasectomy for her husband and two weeks before it happened she found out she was pregnant with her fourth yeah um so she ended up staying home to take care of the kids during the pandemic, because two of her children were not school age. And then obviously, the other two couldn't go to school once the pandemic started. And so she would hire a babysitter, and then she would go to a Panera Bread, and she would write. And she in the her in her acknowledgements thanks one of the employees because they would let her eat her own sandwich and it would save her a spot with an outlet and then let her just buy tea and then hang out there the whole time she was writing. I love patrons of the arts you know the people who make it possible. Yeah I mean honestly that is the

experience I think of a lot of writers, you know. Someone's got to give you your start somewhere. Sometimes it's a Panera Bread employee. And so the other poem I want to read is a heavy one. Uh-oh. And it was another one of those poems where I was like, should I read this? Should I not read this? It's kind of a bummer, but it's also really good and I should read it.

So I'm reading it. Okay. And just a warning before I read this poem, there is references to gun violence in schools. The poem is called Back to School Shopping. Because I love you, I buy the Superman backpack, three tubs of glue. I hold up the different folders and let you decide, tigers or Legos, stripes or battleships. I do not tell you what I am becoming. I do not tell you I am afraid.

Last night they played the screams of some people dying. Last night they showed their guns in the air. How does a mother hold her terrors? How does a school become a haunted place? In the morning I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame instead i wave at your hand waving instead i say a quick goodbye you weren't kidding about it being happy yeah uh yeah so i

that poem again like i like to read poems that I feel like kind of represent the, you know, the ability and value of the poet. And I feel like, I don't know, that one speaks to kind of her ability of talking about how kind of impossible the job of being a mother can be or even a parent you know like i and i mentioned like she speaks a lot to her personal experience and obviously it's very relatable to me but i think in general like if if you if you have cared about somebody you have you have parented in some way and i feel like the she so concisely kind of explains that in the poem for sure and just how um scary and and difficult you know the experiences so yeah so anyway so that book came out in 2020 and then i believe she had another one in 2021 and 2022 damn so yeah i mean once you start getting paid for writing it's like oh yeah hell

yeah but she was the number one new york times bestseller so you probably saw her oh i saw her at the last convention yeah the big number one new york times bestseller convention um yeah i would recommend i mean as i mentioned the poems are, they're really, it's the kind of stuff I feel like, as I mentioned earlier, that you've probably been looking for. Like, if you feel kind of alone in this experience, especially during this time of having children and, you know, and trying to maintain a relationship and a life in this environment. Like, I feel like this. In this economy. In this economy. It's hard. I would recommend Kate Bayer, as I feel like this. In this economy. In this economy. It's hard.

I would recommend Kate Bayer, as I've been told. Yeah. Thank you to you. Thank you to Kate Bayer. Thank you to Lamborghini. The Lamborghini company. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus.

Thank you Lamborghini for sending us a car just to try out. That was huge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, like we got an email from Max Fun that said, hey, they'd really like you to read this ad and they'd want you to try out the product. Can we send a Lamborghini to your house? And we said yes. And we said yeah. And I flipped it pretty much day one. Immediately. Yeah. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay.

You can find a link to that in the episode description and thanks to maximum fun thanks to maximum fun and we should talk about candle night candle nights is coming up very very soon december 17th yeah our virtual holiday spectacular will be streaming uh tickets are five dollars and then you can pay whatever you want on top of that because all proceeds go to Harmony House, which is an organization working to end homelessness in our hometown of Huntington, West Virginia. Bit.ly slash Candle Nights 2022 is the link to get your tickets. It's going to be a ton of fun. We got a bunch of special guests. All the shows have done little skits and sketches. We've done, appropriately enough, a holiday shopping guide for our segment this year.

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Like huge. That's huge for me. And I don't have a good way to end it. Let's talk, I guess, into the first time using these cool new mics. Yeah, I liked it. Yeah. Can we reflect now on the experience? Yeah.

You were giving me two big thumbs up the whole time we were recording because I guess you were excited about the hands-free action. I do. Speaking, I mean, I was going to say speaking of Frasier. Wait. But we weren't. Were you having your own little Frasier? Well, whenever we do the Poetry Corner, you know, it makes me think of Frasier.

And these microphones make me feel like I am hosting a show in Seattle. Damn! I feel like a Frasier. There's our episode title. Money long Money long Money long Money long Money long

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