Wonderful! - Wonderful! 275: Cranberry Voice

Episode Date: May 11, 2023

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🎵 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. We're doing it live. We're coming at it. We're coming at this one raw. Baby. We're late.

We're late on this one. Yeah, we didn't have the ability for both of us to be in a room together while the sun was out until now. That's true. And you know when we do nighttime recordings. I hate it. I hate it too.

Get the energy in the studio. It's either shitty and tired. You know what it is? It's frisky as hell. It's because we used to do Rose Buddies. Yes. We would watch three hours of The Bachelor. Right.

And then we would sit down in front of the microphone and record for another like hour and a half. Right. And who's got that kind of time? After 10 pm i'm angry unthinkable i'm angry rachel gets really mad at 10 o'clock she's like a a gremlin yeah but like two hours earlier and you don't have to do anything like you don't have to do water you don't have to feed no at 10 o'clock it's full if you ask me a question after 10 p.m the answer is i'm tired one time we were having a conversation about um you know having kids peace i love it it was 9 59 and you were like i just am filled with gratitude every day when I look, bed! And you like yell bed at me. Yeah.

So we're coming at this one with, I would say, maybe the least amount of preparation. Yeah. That we have done for an episode because we have about 40 minutes before I have to record another thing. Yeah.

When you have a thing. And so this one's gonna be just fast and loose. Yeah. We're just having fun with it. Small wonders wonders do them did we do them on this show i'm gonna say jury duty what a fun and wild show this this is it's on for those of you who are like i've heard that it is on freebie that is not anything i know about. Amazon Prime will do you. Amazon Prime will get you there. We don't know what the relationship is between freebie and Amazon Prime.

Nobody does. You'd have to look it up and who's got the time. Who's got the time? Nobody. Yeah, I had heard about this. I knew that James Marsden was in it. I didn't know anything else about it other than it featured members of a jury yeah and uh it's a really interesting premise and it seems

to be done really well yeah the premise is that it's all fake everybody's an actor and it's a fake court case yeah and everybody's an actor in it except one dude named ronald yeah who thinks he's on a real jury with a real case in a documentary yeah filmed about about jury duty and james marsden plays himself yes and he is in he is wow putting on a clinic i would say what a tightrope walk i was telling griffin it reminds me of like the rob lowe character of like, I'm kind of insufferable. I'm an attractive man and an actor. And I want to make sure that you know how silly actors are. Yes.

It's it's I think that that's a really hard fake acting that he does as he's like reading for this essentially made up Quentin Tarantino film that he is trying to get cast in called Lone Pine. And he does a lot of bad acting as he like auditions for it with help from ronald and that is so hard doing bad acting as an actor pretending to be yourself yeah without giving that away to the other it's there's layers upon layers i he is absolutely amazing in it and the dude ronald is like such a good like dude yeah it's a very whole i think it's easy to hear the premise and say like oh that sounds mean that sounds cool but it's it's genuinely very up up they give him so many opportunities to shine and succeed yeah he's really the hero like he makes these like really honorable choices a lot of the time uh which kind of saves the show in a lot of ways. I can't,

I haven't looked into what was involved in casting him, but yeah, I can't imagine, but it seems like they picked somebody that was going to just shine in every circumstance. Yeah. Um, Oh,

that was your thing. Yeah. I mean, I guess it can be your thing too. I kind of knew that if I said it, I would be stealing it. Yeah. Yeah. No, don't. I kind of knew that if I said it, I would be stealing it. Yeah. Yeah.

Know what I'm going to say? Okay. I'm going to say this gigantic desk mat that I have in addition to the studio. I don't usually rock with mouse pads. I haven't had a mouse pad in forever because they get gross yeah and i don't like that um but instead i got this like two foot by one foot like kind of wool uh desk mat that all my shit sits on and it's for me it's just like now it's a giant mouse pad it's kind of like a little carpet for your desk it's like a little carpet for your desk.

It's like a little carpet for my desk. A little area rug. And, you know, when I'm gaming, I can't have the grain of the desk wood. No. Interrupting my, you know, pixel perfect fucking Counter-Strike headshots. I had a real sense memory of like driving the mouse over a desk for some game. I don't remember. But you know how you used to have to like do that?

Like you'd like push the mouse forward. Yeah. And it'd be loud. It'd be loud noise. Yeah. Yeah. You mean like the sort of horse hoof clomping as you brought it back? Yeah.

Yeah. I saw a video of somebody cleaning out a mouse with the little ball where you had to pop it out and toss this little heavy rubber ball in like a tub of acid. I don't know. I was never on mouse cleaning duty at my home. Although probably that one should have been all hands on deck just because, you know, a lot of grubby hands fighting for the same mouse. The amount of time like that mouse was always in use always always always uh getting you know ever quested or whatever anyway you watched a video of a mouse being cleaned yeah was there a story it just took me back man um i go first this week okay

again no prep on this episode no prep this. And sometimes that can be a fun energy. Tomorrow, as we're recording, this is Thursday morning as we record this, we're going to be getting a new Zelda game. The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, which is the follow-up to 2017's Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Widely considered by a lot of people to be maybe the greatest video game of all time uh so i'd like to you dropped your phone i know you were so cash i wish you guys could have seen this was like this was like serial killer like a phone slips out of your lap and you just did not break eye contact with me i wear exclusively slippery pants now. That's true. Like I anticipate this kind of casualty. Zelda.

Zelda. Series is near and dear to my heart and my wrist. I have. It is tattooed upon me. I have never played Zelda. Yes.

I don't really know anything about it. Can I say something? I think it would not be the worst transition from Stardew valley for you no and now that i'm thinking about it yeah i mean not only is like the graphic situation similar

but depending on what it's a game you're playing yeah true i'm thinking like like old old zelda like link to the past no i mean, I mean the new Zelda games. I think you could handle it. I think you're ready for navigating the 3D space. I don't know, man. Okay. Don't sell yourself short, man. I feel like you are always trying to under-thunder yourself when it comes to your video game skills.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I live with 100% gamer. Yeah. I would say at this point, you live with two 100% gamers. Yeah, that's true. So it's hard to feel like. And Gus has shown symptoms. He has?

Yeah. A curiosity. Yeah, a curiosity for sure. Yeah, no, Henry already has this kind of innate knowledge of what buttons to press in any situation. It's incredible to see. And I am paralyzed. I'm like, which one does the thing? Do I have to hit the bumper now?

Yeah, the bumpers can be confusing. Zelda. Zelda. So Zelda's been around for a very long time. It came out, the first game, The Legend of Zeldada came out on the famicom the the nes in japan in 1986 uh first game to the states in august 1987 just a few months after i rolled up they were like we got something for you little baby we got something for you little three-month old baby it's called the legend of zelda you're you're gonna love it someday. And it was pretty much instantly a hit.

It was revolutionary in a lot of ways. There wasn't really anything like it when this game first dropped. Fun fact, it was the first cartridge-based video game that you could save your game on. Wow, really? It was the first game. Wow, really? Up until that point, you think about early Mega Man games. Those were pretty big games, but after you beat a boss, it would show you a password on the screen, like a 16-digit password. And then you would have to write that down, and then the next time you turn the game on, you would have to punch in that password in doing so allowed the player to like explore a gigantic for the time gigantic world go on this huge quest go through these eight massive dungeons find all these items explore finally secrets and hidden unlockable boosts for link. and it was just a pretty massive step forward in kind of like what you could do in a home console game.

Obviously, there were like PC text-based adventure games that would take you 1,000 hours to beat, but this was on NES, which was a whole different ballgame. Is this the kind of game where you could like you know beat it but then still go back and have stuff to do in fact uh the very first zelda game had a second quest if you beat the game if you go back in and play like a harder version of of the game uh which was also pretty like pretty wild pretty revolutionary i was obviously like way too young to uh appreciate this whenever zelda first came out i don't even know when we uh got zelda in our household because

i was very little you don't remember a time without zelda yeah that's probably true um and for me it didn't really become a like major until The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo, which was like the, I want to say, third mainline Zelda game. And I remember this was back in the day when we didn't have money for spending on just whatever yeah three boys you guys had to you know wear clothes and eat food we did wear clothes and eat food and so um i i talk a lot about like if we wanted a video game we would maybe get one on our birthday uh or you know christmas would come around and we we could put some video games on our list, and that would be our main way of doing it. Other than that, we would have a pretty sort of mercenary video game trade-in system

at the local Babbage's where we would go and trade back our video games for store credit that we could then use to get new video games in a constant sort of depleting cycle until like by the end of you know middle school i had traded down to like a single like game boy camera represented you know hundreds of games that i had traded in over the time but this was the first one that my brothers were like hey griffin you have some video games we don't because we'd fucking traded all ours in at the local babbage's you should trade them all in for link to the past and i was like i don't know guys this game looks a little hard for me but then i did because i was the youngest brother and i didn't get much of a vote in the situation what a beautiful sacrifice beautiful sacrifice but it turned out to be worth it because that game

kicks ass and i got very very into it um when the Nintendo 64 came out and Ocarina of Time came out that was uh a huge huge sort of moment for me that was uh that's probably one of my top three favorite video games ever made I remember I was uh racing my brothers to to play it uh i think i got it for a birthday or maybe i traded in some shit to to get it i got the gold cartridge version of it which uh a lot of the zelda games have come out i mean back when video games came out on cartridges uh it was gold and it had like a lenticular cover uh that you could around. Can I ask, do you still have this in a box in a closet? Can I tell you something fucking infuriating? One of my brothers, I won't name names,

was dating a girl and gave her the gold cartridge copy of Zelda in exchange for her regular gray cartridge copy of Zelda without even consulting me, made this trade, I guess because this girlfriend liked the gold cartridge version of Zelda better. Heartbreaking, that thing is probably pretty rare these days. Cartridge based games, pretty pricey on the aftermarket. And I'm not gonna name which one of my brothers did it.

But it was the one who had a not great girlfriend. And was also sort of in a pushovery mood when it came to doling out his brother's most precious belongings. But I'm not going to name names. Yeah, no. Justin. Yeah. I figured. precious belongings but i'm not gonna name names yeah no justin yeah i figured very generous spirit justin very generous generous spirit i would say um and i'm sorry that that happened it's fine man um so yeah i got really into that game i played it it with my friend Clint Wilson. We would speed run it. That was like the first game that I ever beat like a lot because we would just like get together on a Saturday, get together in the morning, not have anything to do. And just over the course of like six and a half hours, just like beat Zelda front to back.

I remember he really wanted his own copy. And so I helped him basically write a book report about The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time that he could give to his parents to convince his parents to buy him Ocarina of Time so that he could get into it. And then we would call on the phone like, hey, man, I'm trying to sneak past these guards to get to Princess Zelda. I can't do it. What's the route? And I'd be like, this is the Nintendo Power Hotline. I got you. It's a buck a minute can i ask did he continue to game throughout your friendship or did he fall off at some point

clint yeah oh yeah he major major gamer really yeah sure okay i mean he did it in the same way that i i used to which is like i would pick one game and get fucking way into it yeah um i just wondered as a gamer for me anyway like for me it kind of peaked in middle school okay and then in high school i kind of moved away from it and i feel like there was a real division of like people who were like i'm gonna participate in school activities and and honors classes and i'm not gonna to game anymore. And I wondered if you felt that as like you felt that departure. Like, oh man, me and so-and-so used to game all the time and now he doesn't game anymore and I'm sad. No, you're painting with an interesting brush right now

saying that I couldn't game and take honors classes. Well, I'm saying and school activities too. Oh, yeah. I wasn't doing any of those. Like after school becomes a busy time if you decide to join a bunch of clubs. No. I mean I was always in a play. Like basically through – from – I mean shit, man.

Like second grade through high school. Yeah but with the handheld if you're not on the stage could you Yeah I mean that's fair. Sneak away. I definitely completed my Pokedex backstage at a show. I traded I got that Kangaskhan from my friend Travis Torlone and

he hooked me up and that was that was a big moment for me. I didn't get the sort of accolades I was expecting because people were kind of like, you know, plugged in. Do you remember what play it was? What play was it? I think it's interesting that you remember every detail. Oh, it was the Easter pageant. Oh, okay.

It was the Easter pageant. This was not a play at like a theater. This was at Choich. Was this when you were Jesus? No. In the Easter pageant? I don? No. In the Easter pageant? I mean, in the Easter pageant, Jesus gets crucified. So they're not going to do that to a child.

You understand that, right? When I played Jesus, it was like a musical. Now that you say it. And my crucifixion was like purely like off screen. I was like, I'm going to head out now, guys. Do deuces. Enjoy the garden. I got to go though.

Yeah. It's going to happen off stage, but you know, right? You guys know the story. Okay, cool. Cool.

As somebody with limited access to houses of worship, I forget about how things turned out for Jesus. A lot of times. Yeah, sure. I always think it's like nativity you know i mean it turned out fine right yeah i guess it was bad there was one bad bit um but it turned out great um so zelda uh i i am i'm in love with this franchise i think that it it sort of

encapsulates the uh the nintendo seal of quality which was a real thing that they used to put on their games and still today is like if nintendo puts out a game that they made a first party nintendo game it's usually spirit of like adventure and exploration that is genuinely very magical and has a very, very special place in my heart. Like I said, we all got Triforce tattoos. The,

let me think it was like the spring after mom died. We all were just wanting to do something like big and kind of sentimental. And so this video game franchise, you know, had meant a lot to all of us. And it had this sort of like three power of three kind of iconography going on in it and so uh did your dad play too you haven't really mentioned his participation in zelda it i it wasn't um i don't think it was like exactly his jam dad uh played a lot of uh like ultima and like those more sort of like computer rpg style things he he definitely played some other games mixed in there but zelda was very much like uh it it felt like uh of me and

justin and travis thing and yeah this new game that is coming out tomorrow looks phenomenal it's building on a lot of the stuff that made the Breath of the Wild that came out in 2017 really fantastic. Are you going to play it on the Switch? Yes. That's the only system that it is going to be out on because it's a Nintendo thing.

I'm just preparing myself for looking over at you and knowing kind of what's happening over there. Yeah. You know? Yeah, if you hear me, you know how I get real into my games and I'm like oh yeah i got the master sword like henry does yeah i actually i learned it from watching him it's more fun when you yell at your games anytime anything this is interesting about this new generation that like watches other people play games on youtube is

that they don't understand that like the people are playing games on YouTube and they're being loud because it's entertaining as a viewer. They don't understand that... You don't have to do that when you game. Yeah, I feel like Henry thinks that that is gaming. Like saying loud things when you're playing a game. You are showing your ass right now.

That is gaming. If you're not yelling... And you can say whatever. I've definitely heard you while playing stardew valley like yeah i got the cranberries it's weird that i use that voice yeah that's your game like a muppet like a like a muppet it's like your gamer voice that lives inside of all of us and it's whenever you get the cool sword or the big gun or the cranberries in your case that that voice just comes out of you and

it's very powerful and it's very beautiful and um that's that's the legend of zelda um can i steal you away yes good hi i'm travis mcelroy. And I'm Teresa McElroy. And we're the host of Schmanners. We don't believe that etiquette should be used to judge other people. No, on Schmanners, we see etiquette as a way to navigate social situations with confidence. So if that sounds like something you're into... Join us every Friday on Maximum Fun, wherever you get your podcasts.

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mode on Maximum Fun. So my thing just kind of came to me. You know, it is the season where school is ending for a lot of people. And when I was coming up with a topic, I was thinking about, you know, that time. And I was thinking about a thing that as when I was in school, I didn't realize was so widespread. But I think in talking to you, I have realized is the the graduation anthem. Oh, my gosh. Like specific to your year. Yes.

Like like when you are graduating. year yes like like when you are graduating and it's kind of amazing when i've looked at it now like how often there will be a song released around that time period it has to be deliberate right there has to be some record exec there's like a producer who's like hey you know what's really going to make this blow up yeah add in something about growing up yeah so i found this did your school did your school huntington high where i matriculated had a every senior class would design their own flag that had their own class colors and then you we had to pick an official like class anthem and it would would go in the yearbook. No. I bet you if I could find my yearbook from 2005, it would have all of this data in it. I know what our anthem was.

I almost want to sit on it because it sucks so bad. Well, I'm curious if it'll be on the list, right? I would bet $100 that it is not. Oh, okay. I would be mind when they told when they announced when the student council came down from the mount and was like here is your anthem it was met with like wow really uh i would be i would be shocked was it not like a timely choice it was a timely choice it was just a weird one. Okay. So there is a BuzzFeed list that has every single graduation song from 1990 to 2016.

Jesus Christ. You know, 1990, I thought like, wow. What were we doing? Was it too legit to quit? Well, here's the thing. You're probably going to know this song because I feel like you have a deeper understanding of country music than I do. Okay.

1990 was The Dance by Garth Brooks. Yeah. What song is that? I mean, I know of it. Oh, okay. I thought maybe you were- I wasn't like a big Garth Brooks. That was more my mom's thing.

I respected it and I gave her the space she needed to enjoy Mr. Brooks and Mr. Gaines in his time. What I think is kind of great is that they also have a runner-up for each year who who came up with this list buzzfeed oh okay uh specifically to people on the byline for this this buzzfeed article okay um hey i trust them okay for shit like this they're the paper of record i don't know where else would you go for this so i guess i i don't know if you want me to go through every year maybe just the hits okay um 1991 learning to fly by tom petty and the heartbreakers which i think would be kind of a nice one. Yeah, sure.

The runner up, Shiny Happy People by R.E.M. Again, like, I believe it. It's not like, it's not a vitamin C. Like, it's not like a clear. No, nothing is going to be like vitamin C. But, but I like it. It kind of like sets a tone. I love the song. It's a great track. I just don't know that it gets me walking out the doors of my high school with my cap and gown on. Just like, yeah, ready to take on college.

I like these a lot because it shows you how powerful a year was. I promise I'm not going to read all of these, but I want to go to 1992. Oh, boy. Which is End of the Road by Boyz II Men. Holy shit. That was in 1992? Yeah. That song came out when I was five years old? Yeah. That's unbelievable. I would

have sworn on a stack of Bibles that was like late 90s. One of the runners up, there are several runners up, but there's another runner up also a Boyz II Men song, It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday. 1992 was a good year for boys and men. And those on their way. And those in the midst of a journey.

Okay, I'm gonna skip forward to 1995. Okay. Which, as the BuzzFeed list says, is I'll Be There for You by the Rembrandts. I feel like if your graduation song is a sitcom theme song. I know, right? I mean, there's actually a lot of really good options there. Runners up include I'll Stand By You by the Pretenders

and I Will Remember You by Sarah McLaughlin. So a lot of like promises in 1985. Yeah, I'll be there for you. I'll stand by you and I will remember you by Sarah McLachlan. So a lot of like promises in 1985. Yeah, I'll be there for you. I'll stand by you and I will remember you. That's fucking great. I Will Remember You not winning is a fucking crime. I will remember you. I know.

That would be the one, I would think. But you know, if you want like a fun party vibe. That song is fun. Don't let your life. I will remember you. Pass you by. Isn't that the one they use in the like animal cruelty commercials? No.

That was. In the arms of an angel. Arms of an angel. Yeah. Man. What a. What a. What a time.

Okay. 1998. It is a Green Day song. Oh. Time of Your Life? Yes. That was 98. Yes.

See, I feel like that was also more modern. But I mean, that's like top five graduation songs. Listening to Runners Up is going to take you on a time travel. Oh, boy. Runners Up includes Sav to take you on a time travel. Oh, boy. Runners Up includes Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry. Closing Time by Semisonic. Oh, my God.

I'll Be by Edwin McCain. Holy shit. We were so... Wow. That year, man. So here's the thing. You graduated in 2000, right? Yes. Okay.

I'll get to 2000. Okay. Here's the thing. I listened to right yes okay i'll get to okay okay here's the thing like i listened to the radio a lot i don't know if you did yeah of course like for a long time i just had like a tape deck and that's like really that's committing to something you know whereas like listening to the radio it's just like i'm of the moment right now you know and so all these songs very powerful very powerful okay 1999 okay it's the sunscreen song the sunscreen everybody's free in parentheses to wear sunscreen by boz lerman you remember i don't think i do it was like a spoken word like oh yeah graduation speech style yeah i guess yeah i think i heard that song once and I was like, this isn't for me.

Okay. Thank you, Bob. I'm more of a Skaggs than a Lerman. Always a Skaggs, never a Lerman. 2000. Yeah. Rachel McElroy in her regalia. See, here's the thing.

I question the timing of some of these songs. Okay. Because I don't know of some of these songs. Okay. Because I don't know if this really timed out with graduation. But 2000 was, in fact, Graduation Friends Forever by Vitamin C. Okay. I believe it. That seems right to me. I don't remember that being.

Is the runner-up Willinium? The runner-up is I Hope You Dance by Leanne Womack. Ew, gross. God, Love is Blind has really poisoned the well on that one. I think I might skip forward. Although I do want to say for 2003, the runner-up, the 2003 winner is The Remedy, I Won't Worry by Jason Mraz oh sure the runner up is You Raised Me Up

by Josh Groban can you imagine like at a party like this is our song guys I love you guys if you're going to Caltech next year

I'm going to Brown I love you guys and just like all sitting around silently listening to that song okay what is your graduation year 2005 okay And just like all sitting around silently listening to that song. Okay. What is your graduation year?

2005. Okay. 2005. The Leaning Song, which I can't recall on title, is Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson. Make a wish, take a chance, change and break away. It was like, I think it was, I think. I turn my rings and I learn how to fly. With you I mean nothing, with you by my side.

Make a wish, take a chance. Does sound familiar. Make a change. That one? That does sound familiar. Thanks. I can't believe how much of that i was able to i know it's powerful crazy runner up hollaback girl by gwen stephanie stop it okay so we were

just we're having a little fun with the list at this point huh buzzfeed because that's not that doesn't necessarily inspire it yeah i can't imagine a bunch of people being like, this is our song, guys. For us, Huntington High School class of 2005. First of all, what was your flag? So for your flag, it was, I can't remember if it was a, you got to pick your class colors.

For us, it was black and pink. But that was the era. That's wild, because your school has colors yeah no it would we and then the flags would hang like in the main entryway so you could see and it had been going for a very long time this tradition and it was like a flower design i can't remember if it was like all the flags were different flowers but i think not i think it was just like different designs and the colors and you'd class song Ours was My Immortal by Evanescence.

Wild. And I remember at our senior prom, they played that song and people had like arms around each other, like swaying back and forth, like you do at a senior prom when you're the graduating class. And I was looking around like,

this doesn't feel right to me anyway black and pink class colors with my an evanescent song as the uh as the as the theme that really that is a moment frozen in amber i believe yeah no kidding um it it continues are people still making graduation i have to assume is machine gun kelly out there look like you're gonna say goodbye to your friend i don't know i've never listened to machine gun kelly no he sounds like that that sounds right to me 2007 kanye west unsurprisingly 2008 ti and rihanna. and Rihanna, Live Your Life. Oh, gosh, yeah. 2009, Miley Cyrus.

2010, I Got a Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas. Yeah. Can you imagine? That would be a good one. Good one. Yeah, great one. Real party anthem. 2011, Firework by Katy Perry.

Yeah. Okay, so we didn't lose our inspirational spirit 2014 let it go by adina menzel i mean step into your power right i guess yeah it just seems weird to be like this disney movie defines our year i mean it kind of defined everyone's year, though. I guess that's true. And what I think is interesting, so I don't know, when did this list come out? The fact that it stops in 2016, yeah, so this list came out in 2016, so that's why.

Because when you get to 2016, first of all, I don't know the song. This, again, makes me feel like a very old person. 2016 is Seven Years by Lucas Graham graham no and runners up question mark whoa so i guess who knows maybe i mean they this list came out not just in 2016 but uh it came out in may 2016 so that's like that's like in the moment yeah that's like tomorrow is graduation we don't know what our runners up are maybe that was just a dry year for inspirational music. I don't know.

I think what is interesting about this list is, I don't know if you had this feeling, but when music came. That tonight's going to be a good night? Yeah, no, for sure. When music came out that seemed tied to like moving on to a different chapter. Yes. You felt like, oh my God, this is only happening to me in my town.

I think Green Day's time of your life is probably the, in my mind, even more than Vitamin C's graduation, which feels a little too, it feels a little too like. I thought that about wear sunscreen too i was like this is literally a commencement speech yeah but time of your life another turning point yeah the story with that song um at least for me was that there was a principal at the elementary school i went to who was leaving like he was moving on and he was pretty like beloved by the teachers and kids and he like blasted that

song from the pa system like throughout the neighborhood like somehow it escaped the internal building and like and everybody was was jamming all over town. That's a beautiful moment. To that song. All of St. Louis was joined that day by the power of Green Day's inspirational music. As he lowered his principal flag and everyone stood at attention. I like this idea of flags. And then he was burned in a ceremonial fire.

I like this idea of flags. a ceremonial fire i like this idea of flags this wasn't a thing for me they were hideous they were also they made out of flag material yes what's flag material what's flag material like not like a t-shirt or construction paper like the kind of flag that like you would see on a pole and flag stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was just cut up other flags, sort of like sewed together. I think it's actually not great. Yeah.

I don't think you're supposed to do that, especially not on Flag Day, which is when they made us do it. Thank you so much for listening to this wet and wild episode of wonderful um hopefully next week you know we'll be able to get back on uh you know nexus lexus and or lexus nexus i can't remember which way that is get to our journalistic roots yeah research multi-source right um thank you to bowen and augustus the song, Money Won't Pay. Find a link to that in the episode description. And thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. We are going to be doing MBM and Taz in Columbus and Milwaukee next week.

So if you live in one of those cities, please come out and see us. Ticket sales have been a little bit slow. And that would be cool for you to do that for us. And we'll do a fun show for you too, I bet. Yeah, yeah. Griffin and I were talking about specifically Adventure Zone and like what a fun live show it is and how people might feel intimidated

because they haven't kept up with all of the episodes. We have not done an in-camp in campaign live show very accessible like basically like watching people play like a like an improv game but but but oh my god but no but it's good but it's good and fun but but skilled and enjoyable good and fun um but yeah that's that's that's that's coming up so go to mackroy.family You'll find a link to that. And we also have merch over at McElroyMerch.com. That's it, though. Thank you. Thank you for listening.

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Yeah, please continue to send those in. The signal to noise ratio, the amount of spam we get in that email address is, frankly, it renders it almost unusable. So the more submissions that we get to kind of balance that ratio out. Let's do one. Let's just like- Oh yeah, sure. Tyler says- I love orange peel.

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