Wonderful! - Wonderful! 287: Love is Smell

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Welcome to Wonderful, it's a show where we talk about things that's good that we like that we're into and rachel and i are celebrating a little anniversary of our own not our 10-year wedding anniversary that one's coming up it's coming up which is bonkers a decade for real for us it's our one year anniversary here in washington dc and i just want to say i first of all, thank you. Thank you, D.C., for that lovely gift that you sent us, acknowledging our one year.

It was a jam basket. A jam basket. A basket of jams, not in individual jars, just a basket of loose jams sort of seeping. And the bees, folks, there were so many of them. Jams chosen by our local representative. Yes. Our alderman. We've been here for a year.

I still don't understand how fucking the government works. Because it's not real. We don't have a real government. Because we haven't quite decided which type of thing we are yet. Well, I think we know we want to be a state absolutely we'd love to be a state but we're not yeah and so we just kind of change things year to year i've been learning a lot about my local tax liability uh and it's fucking pretty wild that we don't get votes in the senate and the house for um anyway we could go on and on, Rachel. Listen to us.

We sound like locals. Listen, one year, we're already here. And just thank you all. We did just get back from Austin, and just thank you to Austin for the basket that you sent us, which was just full of queso. That was awesome, too. We liked both of those.

Jam and queso, do you think there's something there? No. Okay. Do you have a small wonder oh man uh i will say like the when we went to austin yes we stayed in an airbnb yes that had like this little above ground pool that wasn't a pool but was a pool. Yes. It was like the size of a walk-in closet. And it was smaller in depth than our six-year-old. There's a specific set of people who will understand this reference

because it really is a perfect reference point. It was a baptismal pool. It was the exact dimensions of a baptismal pool. Waist high, long enough to sort of dunk backwards in or be dunked backwards in. It was exactly that size, which is perfect for kids. Yeah. I mean, that was what was great. Our six-year-old still is not a proficient swimmer.

And so he was excited. He doesn't have to put on a blast like that. Well. Damn. No, he's not. He doesn't like the water very much um but he was able to just stand in there and feel pretty secure uh which is nice as a parent it's like oh good you never had the experience of going to church and they had at our church the baptismal pool

was like behind the stage for lack of a better term, and it was like elevated. So like you could see when people went in there and got their dunk on. Wait, it was clear? You could see them go under? Yeah, it was clear. It was like a clear wall. Okay.

Well, I just, okay. Wow. Okay, sorry. I have to say that the robot that lives in my watch thought I said it inspired Michael Jordan and took the dunk to another level. Anyway, it was always like you would see it and be like, they get to swim and I don't. You only get to swim once in that pool.

And that's so messed up. Anyway. Yes, it was a great little pool. I liked it a lot. What's your small wonder? I don't know if we're ready to talk about Love After Divorce yet. The new Netflix South Korean. I don't know if we are either because I don't think we've really decided if we like it. It is a weird one. Every episode is very long. It's a new, well, it's not new. It's been on

in South Korea apparently for four seasons, but this is the first one that's come to America on Netflix. And it's just a bunch of divorcees that live in a house together. Stop me if you've heard this one before, folks. Well, the divorcee angle is kind of new, although there were a few in Love Village. Well, and there's all these weird things. We just learned last night about the gimmick where you only learn certain facts at certain points. You are forbidden from revealing a set of personal details

like your age where you live uh the reason for your divorce and number of kids yes and at any given point during the run of the show they will give you an opportunity to reveal pieces of information yes uh and so the episode we watched last night was just people talking about the reasons for their divorce yeah fun stuff uh fun icebreaker stuff yeah i don't know if i if we like it yet the vibe is pretty good the vibe's pretty good um they do make a meal out of every little fucking thing which drives me wild there is the very first episode there is a like uh like a c-shaped couch situation yeah and each person that comes in chooses a place to sit and it is discussed at length by the panel about where each

person chooses to sit and what it means about their potential attraction to other people in the house it's fucking wild every time anytime anyone sits down at, anytime anyone rests, the location of their rest, it becomes a matter of like high drama. Any physical contact too. If a person's hand touches another person's arm. Yes. Like the camera zooms in and then we talk about it with the panel. I understand that there are cultural differences that are, you know, we are, we navigate we watch a a reality television show from a country that it's not uh we are we're not you know very familiar with but this feels like the show like

a show level thing of just like people on love after divorce really care about where they sit well and it doesn't seem like anything's edited like i feel like i am watching this in real time yeah sure um yeah i kind of like it we'll see yeah we'll definitely keep watching i mean sure It doesn't seem like anything's edited. Like, I feel like I am watching this in real time. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I kind of like it. We'll see. Yeah, we'll definitely keep watching it. I mean, sure. Also, American Ninja Warrior this season, kind of cool.

They're doing this thing where they do races, like one-on-one races at like the second stage of the game. And Rachel and I watch every episode of American Ninja Warrior. We talk about it very rarely because I think we're we haven't decided if we're ashamed rarely but i'm pretty sure we talk about it every other episode okay well this season like in order to make it to the semifinals you have to race against somebody and it's fucking fun to watch two people race on these big fun obstacle courses well and they very intentionally seem to match people up based on their like similar skills or body type so it's been fun to like watch these people who seem relatively evenly matched yeah friends against

friends lovers against lovers dads against son no i don't think there was a dad so they made a big deal out of who's going to be the first dad son duo to make it anyway don't share our media consumption diet it's for professionals only it's for people with two hours a night who don't want to deal with reality anymore except that unless it's reality television yeah not their reality not their reality someone else's um hey you go first this week what do you got so my thing this week. Yes. Is smell dating. This is how you tell how old a dinosaur bones is. That's a good guess.

Paleontologists smell the bones of the dinosaurs. They say this fucking reeks 65 million years. So I've talked about your stink before. Yeah. As a stink that I love and I'm partial to. Oh, good. Uh, specifically on this podcast. Right.

No. Yeah. You don't talk about stuff like that to just, you know, the other parents in Henry's class. No. No. Yeah. Okay, cool. Just check. No, I've noticed that when I meet other parents,

they don't talk about how much they love their partner. As much as I'm ready to do so, it never comes up. That's so weird. It's never like, this is my husband, I love him so much.

That's so weird. But should it come up, I would love to do that. Yeah, absolutely. No, what I found recently on the internet, and I say recently, but actually it's from 2016, is something called smell dating.

Okay. Please expound. So there was. Can I guess you wear a blindfold to a date and then you just, you don't talk. You just smell. Just a smell. And then you walk away like, yeah, that was all right. New on Netflix.

I really think this could be a show. Love it for a smell? Yes. Love is smell? Love is smell. Love is smell. So it started in New York, which, you know, of course, that's where everybody's super crazy. Sex in the city.

For the different new trends. A lot of exciting scents there, too. The city of a million smells is what they call it. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's real. I didn't make that up. It's real. It started out of NYU. this pair of researchers that gave folks an opportunity in the city to wear a t-shirt for

three days, which is something a lot of us do anyway. Is it? Three days consecutively? Yes. That's a long time to wear one shirt, I think, for me. I mean, two days. It's just one more day than two days. Yeah, babe. It's 50% more days babe it's 50 more days that's a lot that's a pretty significant increase of days to wear one shirt so so the instructions let me get a little more specific here please do so the instructions on the smell dating website uh said we'll send you a t-shirt you wear the shirt for three days and three nights without deodorant you return the shirt to us in a prepaid envelope we send you swatches of t-shirts worn by a selection of other individuals you smell the samples and tell us who you like if someone whose smell you like

likes the smell of you too we'll facilitate an exchange of contact information the rest is up to you okay now this is fascinating yes right and hugely gross but mostly fascinating i'm i'm curious why they have to send you a shirt why you can't just wear one of your own shirts i guess maybe people don't want to cut up their shirts or or well and it's it's like it's some way of like controlling the variables right like what if somebody sends this like shirt blend that doesn't breathe and the stink is more powerful yeah which would bias the results yeah you don't want to moisture wicking fabric i don't you could also reveal a little bit about your fashion that's true which is kind of cheating yeah i only no information except stink please um the thing that is kind of cheating. Yeah, I only, no information except stink, please.

The thing that is kind of cool about this, so you pay $25 and with what they send you, they don't pay any attention to age, gender, or sexual orientation. So it is just smell. Okay. So it really kind of opens the doors for, you know, what kind of person you might interact with. This may lead to some bold revelations of where one is positioned on the Kinsey scale. Right. Based entirely on, and that t-shirt smells good. The people behind this are Tega Brain, an Australian-born artist. Tega Brain? Yes. Thatborn artist. Tega Brain?

Yes. That's a fucking good name for a scientist, huh? Don't you think? She is an assistant professor of digital media at NYU. And then Sam Levine, who is an artist and educator. He's taught all over the city and is actually an assistant professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin.

Hey alright. And also I think. Is the director of Euphoria? Maybe. I'm thinking of something else. Yeah this is spelled L-A-V-I-G-N-E. Oh that's different dude then. For sure.

Yeah. These two got together. To. Kind of conduct this experiment. they they are not tracking user data uh how could they how could they oh man you'll never believe this guy's smell it's pungent and earthy and that's thomas so now you all know this i just think it's interesting that these academics are just kind of doing it for fun it sounds like like they're not going to have you know this great huge spreadsheet of data on each person and you know

it's it's just more like uh like let's see let's see what happens okay yeah it seems more artistic than scientific i guess um so what what drew me to this is that so in 2016, this happened. And then every media outlet sent some reporter through this experiment. So I found so many testimonials of people that went through this process. And there is definitely some commonalities. Everybody was concerned about their own smell. Of course, three days wearing a shirt. I don't want anyone. I don't want you to smell that. I don't want anyone. I don't want to smell that. I read about people who on day one

intentionally kind of broke the rules and like walked through perfume or use particularly fragrant body wash because you are allowed to shower. There are people who mentioned going to bakeries. Just to get the good bread smell on them? That's great. And then the matches was also interesting. So this kind of really suggested the smell, I guess, of the particular writer because some people had a lot

more matches than other okay um so time.com that reporter had two matches uh the person at racked had seven out of ten yes that's that's huge right how good is that smell um the person at time mentioned that nobody followed up oh um but the person from hello giggles had three matches and they met one for drinks so wait the time reporter got zero matches no they they got two matches oh but no one nobody okay i was gonna say no that's a sad thing to have to reveal about yourself on a like i did this whole investigative report and um well i smell is bad i know everyone else got some but um well uh gosh um and it is possible because of the cheating so the time magazine person did not mention any kind of cheating whereas the person at racked very specifically said, like, I really tried to improve my smell.

Yeah. In any way that I could. You can't do that. Yeah. So, hello, giggles. So, the person met one of their matches for a date. And they did not have the best, like, personality match. But their stink alignment was out of sight.

personality match but their stink alignment was out of sight uh so they met it they met at a bar for drinks at which point the writer found out that the person she had met had allergies and couldn't drink beer uh so that that was kind of a bust and then she called the person james and she said quote james then spent a good five minutes trying to get me to eat an olive, despite the fact I do not want to eat olives. That's no good. They talked for a little while and then she left and then she got a text saying, I had a great time tonight and you're charming and fun, but I don't think we are a good match. Sorry. I wish you the best of luck on other smell dates how kind of james james sounds a little pushy but you know his heart

and his stink is in the right place um there was a a story on business insider which i liked uh because it did seem kind of like an interesting result. So she talked about the whole process, which she said took about a month because first she had to wait two weeks to get the t-shirt and then she sent it back. And then a week later she received emails from smell dating indicating she had matched with two people. She said she was pleasantly surprised that even though she had no idea whose shirts she had sniffed, the two people she matched with were women, which would have been her gender preference anyway.

Huh. So that's just kind of like a fun little result. Yeah, sure. But yeah, this is not happening anymore. So when it was published in 2016, it was kind of like an open call. If you go to the website now, it does still exist, but they are not taking new applications. I mean, it may still be happening in like the underworld of New York City. The underworld.

I mean, I guess there's lots of ways you could do this on your own. Sure. Pretty much all of them, ethically dubious. Well, if you're open, if you're upfront, like, hey, I want you to wear this so I can smell it later. Sure. All right. You're right. Most people would be like, hell yeah, man.

Sign me up. What's your name? Don't tell me, actually. This is more than words. So this was open to the first 100 New Yorkers to apply when it first went out. I don't know if this is actually what it was called but in the vice article they called it quote the first male odor dating service instead of mail order oh like in a i l no yeah yes yes sorry uh yes so um this is the first boy stink service of its kind. No, it's mail, like postage.

So anyway, so I think this could be a reality show. I think so too. I think just the idea that people would get set up. I mean, Netflix always looking for new ways to pair singles together. Yeah. I think this is an opportunity. Everybody smells.

Yeah. You know, and then they smell each other. Yes. And then they pair up and then, you know, and then they have to get married. You've struck gold. And then they have to get married immediately. Is there a famous sommelier that we could get to host it who could be like, Tiffany possessed notes of chestnut? You know, I mean, she's not a sommelier, but I heard Padma is leaving Top Chef

okay maybe she'd be into smell dating maybe she's gotta do something right what's she gonna do I mean probably nothing you know Padma if I was Padma I'd just fucking kick it man I would just kick it and

yeah that's a good life she's all set man I think so yeah so smell dating. Thank you. Can I smell you away? Yes. Are you tired of being picked on for only wanting to talk about your cat at parties?

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Honestly. My thing this week is an Austin staple. Obviously seeing all of our friends, getting to hang out with them, go swim and watch our kids play together. Highlight of the trip. Yeah, it had been a year since we'd both been back with the boys. Just below that, and I mean just below that, was all the food that we got to eat. All the food that we got to eat all the food that we got to eat again dc has like so many great restaurants we've eaten like at not a ton of places just because we don't

have a lot of opportunities for date nights uh but we've gone out and had some incredible food here chef jose andres crushing it crushing the game everything everything he does he owns essentially one city block of dc where we've made it a personal goal to try and get to all of those restaurants. Try to get to all of them. By the way, if you work at Minibar or have a hookup, you know, get at me. But for me, there's a lot of stuff in Austin that I miss a lot as well. And there's like upscale stuff. There's like La Condesa I miss.

Just like really like Mexican food. There's the whole sort of Tatsuya family, the ramen Tatsuya, tiki Tatsuya. I will also say we had like 10 years of opportunity to really explore the food space there. Yeah, that's true. Which made it easier, I think, to winnow down the list. Right. As it turns out, the one that has left the biggest hole in my heart and the itch that got scratched and was the most satisfying

during this visit was Torchy's Tacos. Torchy's Tacos is the subject of my discussion. Yes. Thank you for joining me at my Torchy's Tacos talk. Torchy's Tacos

is a fast, casual taco chain that started in Austin but has since spread. It's got 80 franchises in seven states uh which is impressive considering it was just you know a humble food truck on south first street in in austin in 2006 uh owner michael ripka uh sort of just lured in customers with free chips and salsa and then they would eat the tacos there. And they were very, very, very good tacos. They were damn good tacos,

according to the company sort of masthead, which then became sort of the tagline for Torchy's Tacos. They have a whole like sort of devil thing. Torchy's like devil, damn good. I don't know. I mean, it's Satan. He's always getting his fingers in something. I mean, it's Satan.

He's always getting his fingers in something. I want to just put a disclaimer up front. We are not saying that these are the most authentic. No, no, no, no. In fact, if you will wait just a minute, I will make the case that they are deeply inauthentic. There are real taco wars in Texas about who has the best taco uh and anytime torches gets acknowledgement there's a whole large group of people that are like fucking hate torches they're like no that's not real that's not a thing but there's room for both of these things i agree with you it's like i was looking at a tweet that uh alexandria ocasio

cortez was like where's the best tacos in austin and it was literally just alternating like gotta get torches don't fucking eat torches which like i get there's like very authentic very very good tacos in austin and then there's also torches which is fucking also very very good when we lived in austin we were eating torches like once a week which was a completely viable food ordering strategy because they have so many good things they have a really good salad that i'm partial to they do i have that uh right here the airstream salad romaine arugula and picked mint avocado pico de gallo grilled corn cojita cheese pepidu peppers and pistachios with a drizzle of chipotle sauce and a side of champagne vinaigrette sort of an ongoing theme with this sort of menu is their approach is is pretty non-traditional uh the ingredients of nearly everything on the menu adheres to like a fairly maximalist

philosophy uh there's very little editing that goes on in these tacos. And as a result, there are some super sloppy boys on here. I want to read just a handful of my favorites. Green chili pork taco. That's pork carnitas, green chilies, cojita cheese, cilantro, onions, and a lime wedge with tomatillo sauce on a corn tortilla. Great, great. Probably one of the least sloppy ones actually that there is,

but so good, so salty. So very, very salty. All of it's salty. Everything on the menu is just deeply salty. Fried avocado taco. It's got fried avocados, refried pinto beans, pico de gallo, lettuce, and cheddar jack cheese with poblano sauce on a corn tortilla. So good. So goopy. This is sort of cruel what you're doing right now. You recognize that, right? I got to talk about my favorite. Okay. This is probably my favorite taco that I've ever eaten. And I've eaten so many of them. It's the Baja shrimp taco, fried shrimp, cooked cabbage, slaw, pickled onions, and jalapenos, cojita cheese, cilantro, and a lime wedge with chipotle sauce on a corn tortilla. It's so good. It's spicy and salty and good. And it just is. My mouth is literally watering so much right now.

It's be real time. I won't do that to you again. Then they have, they have, you know, the usual chips and dips. The chips. Great.

So thin and crispy and crunchy. And again, so salty. So, so salty. Guacamole, really, really good. Kind of spicy. Their green chili queso is like one of the things that they're known for. It's queso topped with a dollop of guacamole. Fun.

Cohita cheese, cilantro, and a little ribbon of Diablo sauce, which is just like a little spicy sauce. Queso is a real weakness for me and Griffin. Yes. cilantro and a little ribbon of diablo sauce which is just like a little spicy sauce queso is a real weakness for me and griffin yes because we will always eat too much yes there's no way to stop eating it uh at a point that is reasonable we we tend to go until we physically can't lift a chip into our mouth anymore um so like not high class fare here uh they have one i didn't write down all the ingredients for called the trailer park taco that has like you can get it with queso and it also has like fried chicken and shit in it it's it's so i've never eaten that one because it seems like it would hurt me more than the others already kind of do like we this

is the first thing we ate when we visited austin we came in like dinner the night we arrived we got torches and i just slammed a baja shrimp taco and a fried avocado and had a bunch of green chili queso and some churros which i think are a new item on the yeah we weren't familiar with that we went ham and i did not feel good in the down, like the middle part of my body, but the upper part of my body was loving it. And so, yeah, there's lots of people who despise Torchy's because of its sort of inauthenticity, which just kind of seems goofy because there's plenty of incredible places to get very authentic tacos in Austin. And I love those too. That's the the thing i think there is a concern that people will eat these and think these are the best tacos and it's almost like you want to call them something

different because they are the best uh and they may not be a traditional taco but uh i'm okay with that lock and lock and desa offered uh cochinita pbl taco for a while that was that's up there. It might actually be tied. Might actually be tied with a Baja shrimp taco. But a much more traditional thing, right? And then it's, yeah. Anyway, there's, make room for both, folks.

There's so much good here. Torchy's just scratches, Torchy's scratches a specific itch, right? And there is no other restaurant like it that scratches it in that same way. And that's if I want just like a sloppy, zesty, salty little guy that's going to make my tummy hurt but my mouth feel amazing. It's Torchy's for me. Yeah, it's kind of whimsical. There's something about eating the tacos there where you're like, oh, I'm just having a good time. And obviously there's a nostalgia thing too, right? Like when I moved to Austin,

I was sort of very nascent in my food appreciation journey. Yeah, you had moved to Chicago and suddenly you were like, you were open to a new world. Right, I started to eat really great food in Chicago because I lived with people who like thought that spending money on that was important, which was a different sort of take from mine which

was i need to fill my body up as cheaply as i possibly can so that i have you know more money for more important things or whatever uh and and i ate torches and it was one of the first things i had and i just never really eaten anything like it uh and then of course like the first time i went to uh a locandessa or what was the place i think it was on burn it that had like all the tile work and fountains and it was like a they had like a queso fundido oh um you are thinking of uh oh my god fonda san miguel fonda san miguel fucking great like amazing uh but torches was like the one of the first things i ate and so i think i do have like a bit of nostalgia there for it as well but um they are spreading out there's one in i think williamsburg virginia so like three hours

from us if we wanted to get down there um one of our friends from austin that lives here now well no it was alamo draft. I was trying to think like. Yeah, we got a Drafthouse. But I thought there was a promise of a Torchy's. I don't know. There's been a lot of discussion among my friends that have moved here from Austin specifically about what we will get here soon. Okay. I thought maybe Torchy's.

I mean, Torchy's is climbing. Torchy's is climbing up the East Coast. It seems like. So it seems like a matter of time. I will help them be in business i will eat torches you tell me how many tacos i have to eat from you a year to make it make sense for you to have a dc franchise um and we'll we'll you know we'll help figure that out but um i get i i understand what torches is which is just real just just sloppy boys. But damn it if it does not hit the spot every single time

that we eat it. So thank you, Torchies. Thank you, Torchies. Do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. Okay. Daniel says, my small wonder this week, man, this is hungry work. My small wonder this week is when you're making yourself or a loved one a little grilled cheese or quesadilla and a little bit of the cheese spills out onto the frying pan, granting you a surprise crunchy cheesy treat. It's the best. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm always surprised when you make grilled cheese for Henry. Yeah. And you cut the crust off and then you don't automatically eat the crust. I feel like that I would do that every single time. you don't automatically eat the crust.

I feel like I would do that every single time. I don't eat the crust. I usually, okay, so if we're doing this, if you're trying to shame me for my food ways, Henry doesn't eat grilled cheese sandwich in the way that people usually do it, which is that you make a grilled cheese sandwich and maybe cut it in half, sometimes cut the crust off,

and then you give it to him. Although, to be honest, he might. We have a grilled cheese sandwich and maybe cut it in half, sometimes cut the crust off, and then you give it to the person. Although, to be honest, he might. We have just gotten in a routine of preparing it. I have had him refuse a grilled cheese sandwich I have made him before because it was not in this specific format of life, which is a gingerbread man cookie cutter that I can get about four of on a regular-sized grilled cheese sandwich. And it does not waste very much. Usually there's like a little sort of star in the center that I will eat because that's like the heart of the grilled cheese sandwich.

But the crust, yeah, I don't usually opt for that. But, yes, I do love the crunchy bit of cheese that comes out. That's the best. That is absolutely the best. Tara says, absolutely the best um tara says my small wonder is cutting the sleeves off of t-shirts that don't fit so well anymore and getting more use out of old clothes as dope new muscle shirts oh have you ever done this i don't think you have um i i not for a very long time probably not since college when i you know my arms were fucking huge so big big. From lifting all those Mountain Dews.

What a hateful thing. I'm sorry. College is when I got really bad kidney stones and stopped drinking soda. So now there's egg on your face. But then again, my doctor told me to just stop drinking brown soda. Dark soda. So I probably did. I have not.

Mountain Dew is one of those things that i did sure used to drink a lot of in my youth and then i don't anymore but then like maybe once a year i'll have a mountain dew and it's so good it's so good on a hot day a cold dew is so good you're looking at me right now with zero recognition guys i didn't grow up drinking it no well you were you were denied a lot of well for a long time there was uh a hypothesis that i was allergic to caffeine and so i'm not gonna have mountain dew and then i kind of aged out of your non-existent caffeine allergy well no I aged out of the period in which I probably would have consumed the most Mountain Dew. You've never had a Baja Blast.

You've never been Baja Blasted once, Rachel. You gotta get Baja Blasted. You got to. It's so good. It's really good. It's very spicy on the tongue. to it's so good it's really good it's very spicy on the tongue the the carbonation and the caffeine will make you go absolutely ape shit in fact i'm thinking about it right now maybe you shouldn't do mountain dew because i do feel like my body even though i don't drink it

that much anymore has a deep sort of inoculation in my bones to Mountain Dew. I feel like if you drank it, you would go absolutely haywire. Probably. You would go bananas. Speaking of cutting the sleeves off of shirts, I like cutting out the little neck on a shirt. Sure. Because a lot of times like a standard t-shirt is a little too tight around the neck and it doesn't feel particularly fashionable. You cut that neck out and all of a sudden you've got like a look yeah you know sure absolutely i've never

done that before but i just wanted to make sure that it was known that um that was an option cut things out for sure you'd cut a little hole out of just the middle of it just a little belly button window uh-huh hello thanks to bowen and augustus for the use of our song money won't pay it's our theme song it's not just our. It's our theme song. It's not just our song. It's our song. It's our first dance at our wedding was Money Won't Pay by Bowen and Augustus. Thanks to Maximum Fun for having us on the network.

Go to MaximumFun.org. Check out all the great shows there. We got new merch over at McElroyMerch.com including a Clint the Planeswalking Janitor sticker that I adore so much. Yeah, I saw that. And there's some other stuff there too. And we got some shows coming up. Seattle,

we're coming at you during PAX. I think we're doing some New York Comic Con stuff. You can check all that out at McElroy.family. Get there. And thank you all so much. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. I want to

eat Torchy's Tacos and Mountain Dew. See, this is the cruelty behind what you did. It is so bad. Not just to us, but to our listeners who may not have access to a Torchy's. No, but those who do, please just think of us. Think of us fondly when you eat tacos. That's beautiful. My mom. My mom. Hey!

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