Wonderful! - Wonderful! 281: You Caught Me in 4K

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. This is a show. This is a show. This is a show. This is a show. And nobody can this is a show this is a show and nobody can tell us it's not a lot of people try though they're like that's not a show and
Starting point is 00:00:30 we're like uh it's like 30 minutes long and it's two people talking and there's commercials on it sometimes if that's not show i don't know no i know they're like wonderful is a word i say it is not anything i listen to yeah but then i'm like uh cereal heard of it uh this is a show where we talk about things we like that are good that we're into and do you have any small wonders oh i mean okay so we finished love village we did finish love village i was excited i i went fishing to see if anybody else was watching it because i missed my community of watchers. And there were a lot of other people that took up Love Village. Very exciting.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Finish is strong. Finish is wild. I know. I found myself thinking like, wait, what's going to. Because, you know, when you watch a new show and there's all these like arcane rules that you don't really understand. I was like, wait wait so how do they leave yeah like if they don't confess what happens to them they are ushered out by a big tall man who comes in and he's got a big flashlight and he says this way please you must leave you must leave love
Starting point is 00:01:38 village now you're here for the wrong reasons um what's your small wonder i'm gonna i mean we hopped right off that right onto another netflix reality program uh that we've only watched a couple episodes of so far but i can't stop thinking about it it's called siren survive the island i believe is what it's called i think that's right yeah my dad recommended it to us saying that it was like survivor but violent big ups david uh it is a a korean competition reality show where six teams of four women representing six different professions yeah firefighter police military stunt guard yeah and i can never remember the sixth one athlete yes yes there's a returning uh cast member from physical 100 which is very very exciting anyway it's a big game of capture the flag set on an island uh where they have sort of
Starting point is 00:02:32 like survivor like endurance test challenges that they can use to get sort of like benefits that they use in the raid battles where you have to break into a team's base which they have different bases scattered throughout the island and steal their flag i was really skittish at first because arcade battles where you have to break into a team's base, which they have different bases scattered throughout the island and steal their flag. I was really skittish at first because it's one of those shows where in the first minute as a teaser, they show you what are basically the most dramatic moments of the series. And I was like, all right, this seems really intense. It opens up with just like fighting.
Starting point is 00:03:00 And that's not great. That's usually our least favorite part of Survivor is like the challenges where it's like wrestle in the mud you dirty fucking pigs but then choke each other out to try and grab that big ball and then in the first episode they're like here are the different bases and the benefits and you know disadvantages of each base and i was like all right i'm in i'm fucking sold so hard the cinematography is bonkers we watched the first episode with a base battle last night and it was jaw-dropping there must be like a hundred cameramen on that there must be it's unreal it it kicks ass we were whooping and hollering uh at this at this first base battle episode it kicks ass i'm i'm uh
Starting point is 00:03:39 i can't stop thinking about it i'm not i'm not wild about people beating each other up yeah so far it doesn't seem it's like capture the flag right so everybody has a flag on their back and if your flag gets taken you're out so like that's in theory should be as physical as it gets and yet like when someone is hiding their flag on the roof of their building and people are trying to climb up the building like there's gonna be a scuffle there's gonna be a fracas i think it is going to get more violent as people are immersed in the world longer because the first couple
Starting point is 00:04:07 episodes are like, can we do this? They're here and they're looking at us. Is that allowed? People are looking at our windows. Is that okay? Yeah, there's a weird before the first base battle politeness that is expected. Like, excuse me, you are looking at our things. I imagine by the last episode it's going to be pretty grisly.
Starting point is 00:04:23 Well, as soon as the first base battle starts, it's like, I'm going to smash your fucking windows. Like, Lord of the Flies drops. The titular siren is a stunning piece of sound design that is just terrifying. Because you don't know when it's going to go off. That's what signifies, hey, it's time for the base battle. You don't know when it's going to happen. And so everybody is kind of like on their toes all the time, ready for this big uh very aggressive game of capture the flag to happen there's like alliances that get formed and a lot of sort of like trepidation that i find like very uh i don't know like if i
Starting point is 00:04:57 was on this show and it was like time for a base battle i would be so paralyzed with fear uh and uncertainty and it's nice to see that is also what happens to everybody else. Who's like, do we just stay here? We should just stay here, right? I know. And the longer they wait, the more they're like, maybe nobody's coming. Maybe we should go. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Very, very, very neat show. I don't know how it's going to unfold, but the concept is like bonkers. I go first this week. Yes. I'm about to talk about another television show. Well, all right. Which I don't usually do here. Okay. But I've been thinking about it a lot lately it's last man on earth oh last man on earth it was a just a wild just beautiful unicorn of a television show that ran for four seasons
Starting point is 00:05:37 from 2015 to 2018 uh it was co-created by uh christopher miller and phil lord from the spider verse films and the Lego movie and a bunch of other stuff. Oh, I didn't know that. They are on some next level shit. That's like, their shit is just so good. But they co-created the show with Will Forte, who also stars as the titular last,
Starting point is 00:05:59 I've said that word a lot, I don't like it. But he's the last man on earth. He is Phil Tandy Miller, that's his character's name. So so in this show nearly all of humanity has been wiped out by a virus in the year 2020 which looking back kind of i know right kind of a cold shot um i i i cannot believe it is a television show that got made let alone got four seasons. Although it did end on a cliffhanger that felt like it kind of went before its rightful time. It very much feels like a blank check project
Starting point is 00:06:33 for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of just like, here's a big, big thing. Go do it and have fun. You got, we're Fox. Here's a billion dollars. Go have fun, guys. We trust you. See you later. So when the series starts, and have fun you got we're fox here's a billion dollars go have fun guys we trust you see you
Starting point is 00:06:45 later um so when the series starts uh phil is seemingly the last living human uh on earth and he spends his days just kind of fucking around in ways that are only possible in the post-apocalypse and are just really funny um there's like a, he sets up mannequins as bowling pins in like the abandoned parking lot of some Costco and then smashes into them. And a recurring gag is that when he gets bummed out, he just makes a kiddie pool full of margarita that he bathes in and drinks at the same time.
Starting point is 00:07:19 It's like, we used to watch Walking Dead and it was like so refreshing to see somebody in this survival circumstance kind of doing what I think most people would do, which is at first it's like, I gotta entertain myself. Yeah. I'm not necessarily focused on survival 24 hours a day. They cite a lot of those types of things as inspiration for like the world of the show, right? There's no zombies in Last Man on Earth. But there is a lot of sort of that like 28 Days Later, Omega Man shit. What was the Will Smith one?
Starting point is 00:07:55 You know, the Will Smith one. The Will Smith vampire zombie movie. There's a lot of that sort of like bleakness. But unlike Walking Dead where everybody's just like a hardened motherfucker because they're the only ones that survive the people who are survivors in this world have seemingly just sort of been spared at random by genetics and so they are all just sort of hapless goofballs uh which is really fun because it takes that bleak setting and then fills it with like just just dum-dums And that's also like,
Starting point is 00:08:25 the other thing that's fun about it is the way that they like reveal characters as the series goes on. And you as the viewer don't really know who's coming or if there's going to even be any more people. Right. And to see kind of how that changes the shape of the show. Like it just feels very organic. Right. It's really fun to watch. The title is misleading because he is not the last man on earth. You very quickly realize. Although when the series started, show. Like, it just feels very organic. Right. It's really fun to watch. The title is misleading
Starting point is 00:08:45 because he is not the last man on Earth you very quickly realize. Although when the series started, I was like, is this whole thing just Will Forte? Just fucking around.
Starting point is 00:08:52 I would watch it. No, in the first episode, he meets Kristen Schaal's character. Yeah. And then they get married because they have to repopulate the planet, but she doesn't want to
Starting point is 00:09:02 do it out of wedlock. And then right after they get married, they meet January Jones. And then Phil Tandy Miller is like, oh, damn it. Because he wished he hadn't married Christian Schaal's character. He is a lazy, self-centered, just shit heel. him kind of try to fit in with this growing group of survivors and become like a better person which is an agonizing process because he almost always makes the most selfish decision that is possible is like I don't know there's something about the way that they unfold it so so so so slowly that
Starting point is 00:09:41 it feels like very real and very good when he starts making decisions. Yeah, it's relatable to like anytime you start anything new, like a new school year or a new job, and you're kind of like scoping out who's around you and like what your relationship with them is going to be. Like that happens over and over again in this show. Everybody turns out a great performance. Rachel mentioned that there's like a bigger group of people out there than you initially expect. Here are some stars of the show. Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mary Steenburgen. Steenburgen?
Starting point is 00:10:12 Steenburgen? I always heard Burgen. Okay, me too. Jason Sudeikis, Kenneth Choi, Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, all in recurring roles. There's lots, lots of brief guest appearances from Will Ferrell, whose turn on the show is hysterical. Very, very, very brief run on the show. Jon Hamm, Laura Dern, Jack Black, Chris Elliott, a lot of incredibly funny people are in this show. And as a result, it is like very often just hysterically funny. So originally, Phil Lord and Chris Miller pitched this idea as a result, it is like very often just hysterically funny.
Starting point is 00:10:45 So originally, Phil Lord and Chris Miller pitched this idea as a feature film and they approached Will Forte with it because they'd worked with him a few times in the past about developing it into something. And apparently Will Forte just like fell head over heels in love with the idea. And so they developed the pitch for the whole first season over a weekend. And they were nervous that like no network was going to pick it up because it was going to be like a pretty big, you know, a pretty big project, a pretty expensive project. And yet, like, even though it was an incredibly ambitious thing, Fox picked it up and was like shockingly hands off, giving them just the creative freedom to make something really unique and really weird and special. And it's it is it really touches a lot of storytelling things that I like that I don't know I've ever seen in one like package before.
Starting point is 00:11:46 seen in one like package before like the kind of survival story of them looking for a safe place to be and finding resources and learning uh how to like take care of themselves on top of these like slapstick humor moments these outrageous moments of of uh post-apocalyptic life those two extremes really pull against each other constantly and it occasionally results in something that is genuinely sweet and kind-hearted while also sort of featuring some of the darkest impulses of humanity. It does it all. It bounces between these extremes, and it's just so unpredictable and so fun. It is also flawed. I think back about some of the character arcs that happened on this show that were just stinkers from start to finish. There's one season where January Jones is just catatonic, basically, for the whole season.
Starting point is 00:12:39 And it's kind of frustrating. They also kill off characters like The Walking Dead does. Yeah. Not in the horrific graphic ways that The Walking Dead does. But like at one point a character gets appendicitis. And everybody's like, oh, shit. I guess one of us has to learn how to do surgery. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:00 It's like a horrific, it's a moment of like, of terror and sorrow on top of this show that doesn't usually cater to moments like that. Characters like get pregnant and have to have babies. And have to figure out how to do that. Yeah. So like, it doesn't, it doesn't shy away from the elements that you see in a lot of, of sort of survival shows like Walking Dead and the like. The only thing that's different is that all the characters in it are really funny.
Starting point is 00:13:29 And that is so fascinating how you can, I don't know how you do that. As a writer, how you can take two diametrically opposed elements from two different stories and put them together into something that is more than the sum of its parts. Like a show where everyone's funny too. that's like so rare in shows like this like usually there's like the two funny people and then everybody else is super serious and has a lot of very special skills yeah no it's it is it is it's not that it's everybody occasionally one like very serious person like joins the group and then they there's friction that comes up around that because they can't take anybody else seriously when they're drinking margarita pools and stuff. have happened without this enormous budget and like total like creative freedom that they were allowed for like reasons beyond my comprehension like tv shows that is true greenlit like this and
Starting point is 00:14:33 they don't get made like this obviously like phil lord and chris miller you know had some some heat behind their name uh when they started working on this and will forte you know had been on snl for 100 years uh but still i cannot believe that this show got made. Yeah, when it got canceled, it was like we were at the same time sad and also like, yeah, we expected it at some point. It does end on a cliffhanger, though, that is pretty wild.
Starting point is 00:15:01 It expands the world in a sort of exponential way. They're like, oh, shit, what could this possibly mean for the – we'll never know. We'll never, ever know. But anyway, that's Last Man on Earth. It's probably streaming. You can probably stream it somewhere. Somewhere. I'm not like in the – I'm not like a media guy.
Starting point is 00:15:22 I'm kind of more of a books dude. Oh, yeah. No, I know that about you can i steal you away yeah all right class tomorrow's exam will cover the science of cosmic rays the morals of art forgery and whether or not fish can drown any questions questions? Yes, you in the back. Uh, what is this? It's the podcast Let's Learn Everything, where we learn about science and a bit of everything else. My name's Tom, I study cognitive and computer science, but I'll also
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Starting point is 00:16:34 Maybe you don't know where to start, and bookish social media is overwhelming. How do people on TikTok read so many books? Oh my god, I don't know. And maybe you've been reading the same book for six months, and now it's permanently attached to your bedside table. Maybe you don't even know what you like to read anymore. We're Reading Glasses, and don't worry, we got you.
Starting point is 00:16:54 We'll get you back into reading and help you enjoy books again. Reading Glasses, every week on Maximum Fun. some of them. So my thing this week is Twister. This is a surprise. Not the 1996 film. Honestly, it could have gone either way
Starting point is 00:17:20 and I would have been totally down to clown. Which I actually really did enjoy. Of course. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the down to clown. Which I actually really did enjoy. Of course. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the game Twister. Okay. I don't want to cast aspersions. I've never known you to be especially sort of touchy-feely
Starting point is 00:17:38 with lots of people in a gamified manner. Here is the nuance of Twister that I like. As a young person, very prudish. Yeah. Never wanted to make it seem like I wanted to touch someone. This is, you are, this is a lot you're putting on our audience. Like I'm ready for it. You know I'm ready for it.
Starting point is 00:18:00 This is a lot to put on the crowd. I have to imagine that this is not uncommon that is why i'm expressing it so openly that there's lots of people who do twister for just to get some touch yes without having to say yes honestly yes all right period yes okay um i think it's like whenever there are rules that touching rules sorry i'm going to keep contextualizing this in a way that i think our listeners will find helpful it's like for example the reason i thought i was good at group therapy was because the the job was to come in and to say vulnerable things about yourself so when i did it i felt like i'm just doing this the way it's supposed to be done yeah twister oh no my arm is touching your arm
Starting point is 00:18:45 it's supposed to happen so this is this is a lot so i'm not like making a move i'm not exposing any desire here i am just playing the game as it is meant to be played yeah we're all playing twister we're all doing the same thing so it's not weird if my arm touches your arm. You shouldn't have put your arm on that yellow dot knowing that my foot was going to have to go crosswise over it under your armpit to the red dot. So really, we're both. Here's the thing, right? When you went to a movie with a person when you were a teen. Yeah. It was, I mean, you didn't know how much was in play, right?
Starting point is 00:19:23 Yes. It was, I mean, you didn't know how much was in play, right? Yes. Like you would sit next to a person in a theater and it was like the steps were kind of clear, but how far the steps were going to go were uncertain. Yeah, I know. I mean, that wasn't really an issue for me. You know.
Starting point is 00:19:41 Because you had a written contract at the beginning. Every time I went to the movies. It was like, here, check the boxes of interest to you. Yeah. On a scale of one to 10, it was like a smiley face pain scale. 10? Holy shit. I don't... Are you sure? Yeah, but Twister, it was like,
Starting point is 00:19:55 okay, you spin this thing. It tells you where to put your hand. Yeah. There are a set number of circles, so there can only be a set number of players. Right. And then just don't fall over. Don't fall down. That's it.
Starting point is 00:20:10 That's Twister. Yeah. And I feel like this is not a game, obviously, that I have played recently. You get to a certain age, and touching somebody else is a little bit, I don't know, more comfortable. I bet you Henry would have a ball.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Yeah, that's the thing. It is also timeless. Yeah. When is this game going to go out of style? I can't imagine ever. I mean, I don't think a lot of people are playing it. And I would argue it's already kind of gone out of style. I don't hear a lot of buzz about Twister.
Starting point is 00:20:40 There are a lot of new variations of Twister that I will get to. buzz about well there are a lot of new variations oh shit that i will get to okay uh okay so twister uh 1969 uh chuck foley and neil ravens were awarded a patent for their invention quote apparatus for playing a game wherein the players constitute the game pieces okay isn't that like a overarching like thing seems like a lot that could be a lot of games you're describing sports that's true it was applied for patents under the name pretzel and chuck foley joined a house of design a saint paul company where they developed twister uh they were boy that must they must have really broke the brain trust on that one. Just like blue, red, yellow, green circles on a big thing.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Yep, cool. Let's go. Apparently, Mr. Foley received no royalties for the game, which is what his son said, and received $27,000 in a buyout. I was like, thanks for your idea. It's a shame. Go on your way.
Starting point is 00:21:49 was like thanks for your idea go go on your way you you owe him so much for the just amount of touch you were able to give and receive i want to make clear it's not like i was handsy no no it was just like i was at a point you were forearmsy because the hand goes on the dot. Exactly. Right. So Milton Bradley brought Twister to the world. Pervert. And competitors accused the company of selling, quote, sex in a box. Whoa, holy shit. There were a lot of retailers that refused to stock the game, and they thought it threatened their family-friendly appearance. In 1969?
Starting point is 00:22:26 It's the summer of love i know i think there was just a lot of nervousness right like there were the people in power that were making the decisions and then there was everybody else that was like super ready to you know party freaking banksy over here tell me more about the people in power who didn't want us to touch so part of the reason twister became so popular was there was an episode of the tonight show where uh johnny carson played twister with a uh a starlet of the time which got everybody excited about it uh and as i mentioned a lot of stores were like we're not that game's dangerous we're not gonna put that game but one of the first retailers to do it was abercrombie and fitch the fuck they used to be like a sporting equipment store so they had like tennis shoes and like you know elephant guns and twister sorry they had They had elephant guns at Abercrombie and Fitch?
Starting point is 00:23:26 Probably not at the same time. I like girls who shop at Abercrombie and Fitch. They buy guns. They buy guns. Probably not at the same time. Abercrombie and Fitch has been around since 1892. The fuck? No way!
Starting point is 00:23:41 I know, I know. But this segment is not about... It would have been way more fun if you had asked me what year abercrombie and fitch was started i would have said probably 2002 polo shirts and body sprays exactly but they were instead selling sex games and elephant guns um so they they decided to sell twister and And when the store opened, they had like 50 people waiting outside. Jesus Christ. This is the only place I can go to get Twister.
Starting point is 00:24:10 I need this. And so part of what they did with the packaging. So they didn't want it to be sold as a sex game. So they intentionally used cartoon characters on the front. If you think about it, I looked at a lot of different twister advertisements. It's challenging to put two people in a position on a twister mat that isn't suggestive. Isn't compromising. Yeah, sure. So there was a lot of people in like a crab position. Yeah. Which, you know, would be difficult, I think, to be an aggressor in that position. And
Starting point is 00:24:39 so there was a suggestion of like, look, look, it's crab it's crab this can't be sex it's crab you've never seen sex crab have you no in the 12 in the 12 months after the game appeared on johnny carson it sold three million units so horny um there are also some new variations so this is what i was telling you about there is is a version to make Twister available to people that are colorblind. Okay. There is a version that is tactile. So if you are not able to see the circles, there are feelings of like symbols on the circles. There's Twister Splash, which is basically a splash pad.
Starting point is 00:25:23 I like that. Like water is coming up through. That's great. That's fun. Twister Junior, which has animal faces on the colors. Cute. Twister Shapes, which like blindfolded Twister is the shapes. And Twister Ultimate, which has two times the spots.
Starting point is 00:25:42 So you can bring more players into the mix. That's cool. So Twister is still evolving. which has two times the spots so you can bring more players into the mix that's cool so twister is still evolving i was kind of surprised about that because i was like oh it's just been the same game forever um but apparently the creative group that developed it continues to work closely with the twister products to make sure that it follows i, the original intent. I love that. It is now owned. So Hasbro acquired Milton Bradley and they now are your Twister dealers.
Starting point is 00:26:11 I am not a big Twister fan, but I will say that it does create, I love games that create moments that are not possible or just don't happen in other types of games. Yeah, yeah. And Twister does have that amazing moment when you are on the board just sort of like all crabbed out yeah and then you watch the
Starting point is 00:26:32 spinner land on like the one dot that you know is going to be either impossible for you to contort your body to or will require you to you know limbo underneath your brother's leg that moment of like ah fuck it's not like anything else it's not like when somebody like you know plays a you know you land on the wrong spot a monopoly and it's like oh man in twister when the wrong spot comes up it's like i'm gonna fall down and that doesn't happen in other games and that's very exciting that's true thank you for making it more wholesome than I did. Yeah. Because I really didn't intend for this whole segment to be like.
Starting point is 00:27:10 So charged. So riled up. Yeah. Quite so charged. I was just being honest about me as a youth. Sure. And I don't think that was the sole reason I played Twister. I want to like walk it back a little bit.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Walk it back a little bit. I think Twister is. I wasn't like at a party being like, hey, guys't know i mean well i brought i didn't bring twister maybe i don't know whatever like well yeah i guess we could this is a wake uh no i mean the twister twister is a fine game it's a fine chased experience i think everybody's probably had at least one experience with twister that that they were like whoa touch right but that's not the i don't think the the intended use case of the of the project yeah um i think i think you would be good at it i think you're quite flexible i think i am actually pretty i think i was expecting to come to this segment and you'd be like oh yeah
Starting point is 00:28:03 twister i've like ran that game. I mean, I'm pretty good at Twister. I don't I would imagine that in my current age, my lack of stamina and sort of just general achiness. You do have to support your body weight for a pretty long time. Yeah, that's not great for me. But yeah, Twister's fun. We played it at church a lot, so it can't be that bad. Hey, do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about?
Starting point is 00:28:30 Yes. Silas says, hello, my small wonder this week is the poses that models do in beanbags to advertise them. I was shopping for a beanbag online this week, as one does, and it was delightful how simultaneously cozy and silly the models looked in the accompanying photos. I mean, I can just sort of swipe you through. I mean, these are some big boy beanbag chairs, and these people are just being completely consumed by these bad boys. I bet you that's a fun modeling gig. You just want me to squanch down in there and, okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:29:01 I like that. That's not anything I ever would have considered. So I really appreciate that listener submission. Yeah. Amanda says, Griffin bringing up Tupperware in the most recent episode reminded me of my small wonder, the subtle superpower. Something minor that you're really, really good at. My mom, for example, can always find the perfect size Tupperware for leftovers. Wow. Do you feel like you have something like this?
Starting point is 00:29:23 Do I feel like I have that talent? Yeah. Not particularly, no. Okay. I mean, I can generally do pretty well, but I don't feel like it's a gift. I think I'm pretty good at knowing when people are lying. Whoa. I judge myself, like not in a useful way.
Starting point is 00:29:41 I did not expect this to go that way. in a useful way it's not like it's not like poker face over there but i i feel like when somebody's phony and phony and down yeah i feel like i have a pretty good hit rate on picking yeah okay okay i i'm a terrible poker player so it's like weirdly like it only happens in certain times but Along that line, if somebody tells a story about themselves, I can always tell when they were planning to tell that story the whole conversation. Yes. Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. A lot of times when we watch reality television, I feel like this is part of the reason it is so enjoyable for us, is we will watch reality television and we will both look at each other like oh man he's been waiting all season to get that story out uh it's on a almost somewhat related note yesterday we were driving in a car with henry and he was talking
Starting point is 00:30:35 he was on his ipad and he was getting car sick and so we're like well just don't play any games it's like okay and then i heard him playing a game and i wasn't like upset or anything i just didn't want him to get car sick and so i was like what are you playing he's like oh I'm watching a video and a beat and he goes all right you caught me in 4k I'm playing a game and I laughed so hard I had never heard that before you caught me in 4k he said it in a way that like you know what this means right and then I commented to Rachel later like I think that's the first time that our son has used some sort of modern lingo that I'm unfamiliar with. And I thought we would have a little bit more time. I thought we would make it to at least, you know, second, third grade before we, but no, kindergarten.
Starting point is 00:31:20 He's already schooling us. Here we are. I love it. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these sort of 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.
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Starting point is 00:31:49 my bim bam coming down the pipe so uh go to uh mcelroytours.com i believe or bit.ly slash mcelroytours just go to mcelroy.family and yeah that's what i do everything that's what i do too because i can't keep a bunch of URLs. No. Up here. No. We got new merch over at macaronimerch.com. And there's some fun stuff. July, we're going to have even more every month. New stuff up in there. So check it totally out.
Starting point is 00:32:16 That's it. We started ending my bim bam with a sonic bath, which is like the best idea ever. Cause we don't have to say or do anything. I can't wait for you guys to do that live for the first time. Oh, shit. We're going to have to, aren't we? Yeah. Oh, that's fun.
Starting point is 00:32:31 So we can't do that. No, we can't. I would love a nice uniform outro for this podcast program. We used to when we did Rose Buddies. What did we say? Don't drill a hole in your head? When you're ready. Oh, yeah, yeah. That doesn't make sense for us.
Starting point is 00:32:47 No. Keep it real! Have a great summer! Hey! Working on Hey! Money Hey! Working on Hey! Money Hey! Working on Hey!
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