Wonderful! - Wonderful! 291: Porous as a Spreadsheet

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Rachel's favorite sci-fi inspired poet! Griffin's favorite form of long-distance transportation! Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Earthjustice: https://earthjustice.org/ MaxFunDrive ends on March 29, 2024! Support our show now by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. This is a real show hosted by two real married people about things we like that's good that we're into. It's a podcast. We're real married. We're real married, not the kind of married that you do

as little kids, where you say this is my husband. Oh, I was more using real in the sense of like extra. Like we're real super married. Right, so this is not a thing that they tell most people, but when you're super duper so this is not a thing that they tell most people but when you're super duper in love after the wedding there is a second sort of um priest or parishioner uh in our case it was a parishioner who came up and was like hey you guys seem super duper in love

would you like to get for real married and we were like what did we just do because it's like an extra level and he's like it's extra level yeah super religious and me and rich are like and he's like but it's like extra it's like the most married you can get yeah and you know we're about those achievements so we wanted the extra for sure we We wanted the extra. You get a second ring. You get two cakes. There's two DJs that play at the party after. There's another certificate you sign, but this one is like. It's a death certificate. And you sign each others.

But it's like romantic. Okay. In a way. I don't remember that part. So we're super duper for real married. It sounds like the Lady Dolph protests a little too much, huh? Like maybe we're not married at all. And it's all a sham.

That would be the longest, most nonsensical sort of con that anyone's ever run on their Can I say, we make a big deal out of the fact that we are two married people that have a podcast together. I don't think people would really care if we weren't married. I don't think they would be like, well, I thought I was listening to lovers. Forget it. Right. No, I mean, we do.

Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, there is a certain dynamic between us that people seem to enjoy, but would it be even better if we weren't married and then there was all of a sudden a jim and pam energy oh yeah people could ship it yeah japan that's what they called him japan um so this is wonderful and do you have any small wonders to talk about please for me now do you have them? I got yesterday. I do a lot of impulse purchasing around the weekend because I feel like I need a lot of tools to get through it with the children. Typically at Marshalls.

When you go to Marshalls, it's like, I don't know what the fuck you're going to come back with because it's always a surprise. That's their new ad campaign. Yeah, Marshalls. with because it's always a surprise that's their new ad campaign yeah marshalls come on in with plans to buy some gym shorts leave with like a basketball set yeah no well anyway i got like one of those little play-doh sets this was through a grocery delivery platform that i use typically for groceries but also goes to other stores that have toys. And so I got one of those little Play-Doh boxes where the hair, the Play-Doh becomes the hair and it goes through the top.

This is something that I think I always wanted personally because I basically like pushed our children out of the way to use it first. And it was exactly as rewarding as I wanted it to be. Yeah, it feels good to extrude anything. True. Especially though, especially Play-Doh. I'm going to say Rachel has a recipe in her repertoire that you do not bust out very often.

But when you do, it is grounds for a national holiday. I believe it is your shrimp and grits recipe. Rachel, it's out of this world good, the shrimp and grits that you make. Can you describe what is happening there? Because I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I found a recipe that claims that it is Southern style. Okay.

Which I don't know that there's another style of shrimp and grits but it involves um when you make the grits it involves butter and milk instead of just water okay uh so it's like super rich and then you add like a big cup of cheddar cheese at the end love that uh and then you make the shrimp and and what they call a cajun seasoning i just use old bay oh uh and then you sprinkle some green onions and you make the shrimp too in bacon fat. I mean, it's just, it's- It's not good for you. No, and there is a reason I don't make it all the time.

It is very rich. But I put a little bit of hot sauce on there. It is fucking great. It's so good. Yeah. And so I celebrate, I see you and I celebrate you. Thank you. in this moment and most moments um you go first this week i do what do you want to say what do you want to talk

about you got the laptop on the floor i see here we come here it goes checking it open she's jacking in wow no password on that, huh? I had the little touch with my finger. I do have a password, but, you know. A password's your finger. It's not secure. Someone could steal your fingerprint with a wine glass, a Danny Ocean type, and get out of your files.

Just saying. Yeah. All of that could be true. Do you want to hear my thing? Uh-huh. I uh stalling there no i know i know but i had my computer open i was ready to rock i wanted to let you know you could stop stalling please uh because what i have is a trip for us to the poetry corner oh it's been so long let me dust out these cobwebs with this big stand up bass. I got to restring this thing. It sounds terrible.

Oh is that it? That was it. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's really messed up right now. I got to take it into the shop. The poet I wanted to share with you all this week is Franny Choi.

Ooh. I don't know that one. Yeah, I didn't either until just recently. Oh, that's fun. I do this thing sometimes where I will find a poet I know I like, and then I will just kind of follow the train from that poet. Like, you know, a lot of sites will be like, if you like this poet, you should check out this one.

Yeah. And that's how I found Franny Choi. Okay. So I want to communicate who she is in the way that she seems to define herself. I read several interviews and they always introduced her as a queer Korean American poet, playwright, teacher, and organizer. So many hats. So many hats. Yeah, she has three poetry collections. The most recent one is The World Keeps Ending and The World Goes On, which came out in 2022.

And she actually, speaking of somebody cutting off my finger to hack into my laptop. I did not say that. I did not say that. What did you say? Like on a wine glass, you know. Oh. Have you seen any of the ocean danny ocean doesn't cut someone's finger off to hack and sorry anyway she writes a lot about tech um her first book of poetry was called soft science it came out in 2019 and there was an

interview with her in the Paris Review. And the interviewer asked her how soft science began. And she said the book came out of writing a series of poems that were inspired by and in the voice of a character from the film Ex Machina, Kyoko. Oh, cool. When I watched that film, I had a particular combination of emotional responses that provoked a desire to write a mix of love, confusion and outrage. I started writing to try to understand what I was feeling about her and then quickly realized that the poems were speaking to other poems about my own experience as an Asian American woman, as a queer Asian American woman about moving through the world in a body that had been made an object of desire, fantasy, and power,

living as a soft, fleshy, objectified human of the world. I think about that movie a lot. It really got stuck in my craw in a way that some movies do. A lot of challenging ideas in that film. If you haven't seen it, it's about this sort of amoral tech bro asshole played by i think was it was that oscar isaacs was uh was in that one oscar isaac was yeah wow uh and he has this like retreat in the wilderness that uh a like new employee at his tech company comes to and he reveals that he has developed AI, like an AI person. And Kyoko is like a much more earlier,

sort of like very, very subservient AI-controlled entity in the film, who ends up having kind of a tragic arc, as pretty much everyone in the film does. Yes, yes, yes. Very messed up ending, I would say. Very, very scary stuff. So I wanted to read a poem that she had published in the New York Times

that is called Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon. All right. Once I breathed without your blue metronome rising beside me at night. Once, I turned the pages of magazines and only God saw. When we met, we chatted first in placid facts. How many siblings do you have? What was the name of your first pet? After, I'd cover your eyes, walk off into rooms where you couldn't follow.

Back then, I had just one brain. I was lonely, that is, when you emerged sturdy as a cage. You remembered every anniversary. You licked my data and didn't wince at the smell. What is your mother's maiden name? Do you want to save your billing address? Truth is, I wanted to be known, cracked open by gentle hands. You completed my sentences, sent me gifts, gifs, wine wrecks calibrated to my thumbprint, reminders to meditate, reminders to menstruate, my own memories. Are you still watching? Who have you called and for how long did you speak? You listened when I asked for advice, when I hummed in the shower. You were always listening. Now I'm porous as a spreadsheet

tethered to your tentacular benevolence. List of prescription medications. Darling, I have no secrets from you, though I've never seen your face. Difference in heart rate during and after playback, during and after sex. Tell me, does your inquisition carry a smell genetic predisposition toward impulse spending what are you afraid of where do you go when your dream-based investment potential in sleep mode can you feel it when i touch you here will you think of me when i'm gone that fucking ruled that was the best poem ever tentacular benevolence is the strongest two words i've ever heard said it together that was a good ass poem i thought you would like that fuck yeah i did i thought you would like that yeah you know what's interesting? So I- Boris has a spreadsheet.

That shit, you rule. What a good fucking poem. I was watching like YouTube clips of her performing her poetry, which I usually do just to kind of get a sense, one, of how the writer pronounces their name. Yeah. But also just kind of what the tone is of the poem uh and then i did a little more research on her she was a finalist in the national poetry slam uh the individual world poetry slam and the women of the world poetry slam

and she is the uh co-director of the Providence Poetry Slam. Just a slammer sort of 24-7, it sounds like. Yeah. And that explains, like, if you watch footage of her reading her poems, if you read some of her work, too, it has that kind of cadence, like the wordplay and the kind of preference towards sound, like you can tell right away. If you're somebody who has seen a lot of performance poetry,

which I have at this point. But anyway, yeah, she brings a lot of energy to her work. And she talks a lot about technology, obviously because of her first book, Soft science uh but she talks about how she understands that it is kind of this thing that people are afraid of um or that they view kind of as a guilty pleasure but she sees like there there should be room for kind of more emotion and more complicated feelings yeah about it and kind of how we more complicated feelings about it and kind of how we retain ourselves in that. And I feel like that poem really, really speaks to it. I genuinely, I loved everything about that poem, but I think I love that most of all, this idea. There's this like weird stigma around technology in the arts.

around technology in the arts. And I think we have it through like a very specific lens of having kids and having this enormous sort of stigma around how you use that as a parent when that kind of ignores the fact that it's like everything we do now involves this sort of panopticon. And to just sort of write that off or say that it is not worth thinking about artistically or creatively in that way, I think is like pretty stupid. Well, there's just such an opportunity uh for like a worldliness

you know i feel like there's a there's a chance to kind of move past a lot of ignorance when you can access information and from all parts of the world right i i just think about our big son who is incredibly curious and is always, you know, kind of chasing his interests, you know, through his use of technology. Right. And that's exciting. That's cool as a parent. you know, technology and I guess in the case of this poem, sort of like the way that we are observed by the technology that is designed to help us and also sort of absorb and assimilate our personal data for the use of the corporations that made it. Like it, I feel like there is a knee jerk demand to be,

a knee jerk demand to be, to like shun that shit in the like banksiest way imaginable. Yeah. A hundred percent of the time without acknowledging the fact that it's like, you are just also describing a thing that every, like every person uses. Well, most, most people use like every day throughout their lives.

And it's just like an aspect of life now that is worth considering and reflecting upon without just instantly being like, it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. What a good poem. Thank you for what was,

what was her name again? Franny Choi. Franny Choi. Excellent. Great work, Franny. Keep it up. 10 out of 10,

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that I cannot believe we haven't done before. It's trains, baby. Now, I will say in going on wonderful.fyi, I did see that you very recently you did talk about the zoo train. I do not believe that there is. I think there was a lot of depths left unplumbed there. Yeah. I don't think people are using zoo trains for long distance. Yeah.

I imagine the way you're talking about the train is when you would want to potentially travel between cities. Right. And not between exhibits at a zoo. Right. I cannot believe I haven't talked about this before because I feel like I very frequently and loudly exclaim my love of a train to anyone who will listen. And that didn't used to be the case. But really, once we started touring a lot, once we sort of hit the like one tour a month schedule that we are kind of back on now at this point after a brief hiatus, thanks to the novel coronavirus 2019 edition, we're back at

it. And now that we live in D in dc the train opportunities for us are through the roof are you are you specifically talking about like amtrak i mean yes i guess i am talking about long distance i love a subway train yeah because i was gonna say there are there are a lot of sure i think you know a light rail any other form of sort of like um public transit that one would use on a daily basis. That's obviously amazing too, right? And I love availing myself of that here in D.C. when we have a chance to use it. I think I am mostly focusing more on the trains as long distance sort of transportation.

Yeah, I will say it's interesting because there was a period of time when I lived in Chicago and I would take the train to St. Louis and I kind of hated that train ride. That's so short. It's not though. Chicago to St. Louis. What's that, six hours? Yeah, about that.

But the problem is that there were always delays. And I think it was something unique about that route. Because a lot of times what would happen is another train would need to go by. Right. And you would have to like sit on the side and wait. And that was at the time when cell phone technology was not great either. Right.

So I was like scrambling to like tell my parents like, hey, I am actually going to be an hour to maybe two hours late. Please don't leave the house yet. So it's funny because I looked up just as a data point, like the comparison between air travel and train travel with regards to delays. Right. And the numbers are somewhat comparable, actually. Like if for air travel across the airline, some are better than others. Like Frontier. It's like 31 percent of flights are delayed in some way.

I forget what the best one was, but it was only like 20 percent. Basically, between 20 and 30 percent of flights are delayed due to um freight trains that block routes right yeah that's that's that's an inevitable freight trains always run on time freight trains are always going to get there because i guess they take priority but um but delays are much much shorter in duration on average yeah i saw some fact about like for an amtrak train that goes like 550 miles uh on on a route on average is arrive is is arriving at its final destination just like a half hour past yeah see yeah compared to a plane like once a delay starts to happen on a flight odds are it's going to keep rolling and keep rolling no that's true and just the i mean the experience of airports it just seems to have gotten so bad

worse and worse as we have gotten older and in a train station and the process of getting on a train oh it's so pleasant right so the the amount of time you have to factor in when you fly between getting to the airport, parking, getting on the shuttle at the parking lot to the terminal, getting your boarding passes, dropping off your bags, going through security, waiting at the gate, boarding, waiting to taxi, then flying and then landing and then waiting to park at the gate, waiting to deplane, waiting for your bags. Like there's so much time not spent flying when you're flying um and it's stressful it uh all that that entire process of just getting on the plane especially with kids it's so fucking stressful um and with a train you show up to the station five minutes before the train arrives at the station and you just walk gone you just walk right on it and you put your bags in the rack and then you go on the train it's so wild to me that you get on a train you sit down and only after the train starts moving

does somebody come by get your ticket it's crazy you know like i i get that there's probably not a lot of people trying to scam the train system. But it is surprising to me, like, just to be like, I'm already here. Right. And now you want to know if I'm supposed to be here. Like, obviously, trains are slower than planes for longer distances, right? Like we live on the East Coast. As a result, I'm about to fly to Seattle for PAX. And that flight is like five and a half hours. That's a long flight. The train would, I think, be about like 36 hours.

That's not tenable for me where I'm at in my life. Now, I will say my great dream is that in my lifetime, we will have a high speed rail system that crisscrosses this beautiful country of ours like they have in Japan or China or most parts of Europe. Not happening quite yet, which is unfortunate. But yeah, I got to fly to the West Coast. That's just how it is. Washington to New York I think it's actually faster once you factor in all of the bullshit at the two airports that you have to go to to just take a train.

It's faster and in most cases much cheaper. Yeah, definitely faster than driving also. Yes. Also, train stations are, especially in bigger cities, gorgeous. Union Station here in DC is one of the most unfathomably beautiful

insides of a building I have ever been in. It is cathedral-esque and I love it so much. I'm hopping all around my notes right now. I'm just quantum leaping all the way through these notes because I'm just so fucking excited about trains. They're huge. You get so much more space sometimes you can get a table where you just like sit across from the people you want

to just like chat with and just like play a board game or whatever the fuck yeah the fact that you can get out of your seat and move around is a huge pro now that we have children our young son is at an age that is the worst for travel because he is like very active and rambunctious and cannot sit still for a minute. Yeah. On an airplane, that sucks because there is nothing for us. We will literally just run up and down the aisle and then just like stay in the back of the plane with the flight attendants. And you just have to pray that you get a flight attendant that is very forgiving. flight attendants and you just have to pray that you get a flight attendant that is very forgiving yes because yeah that is obviously planes are not intended to have uh children running back and

forth on them all the time on train run around as much as you want hop between cars if you want go to the dining car buy yourself some snacks or i didn't even think about this i was reading an article on why train travel kicks ass bring your your own snacks. Bring your own food and drinks from home because they're not going to make you throw it the fuck away as through as if they were some sort of like improvised explosive device is it's a hundred percent of the time is every single time when it's like no that's milk the baby needs that for nutrition and living you know like babies do it they don't care on a train just bring whatever the fuck you want um the bathroom's so spacious you don't have to squeeze your knees together just to fit in the thing and then somehow get your hand down there when it's wiping time i don't want to get blue but like it's a reality a fact of life and you don't have to do that on train i don't remember train

bathrooms being that much bigger oh my god they're so big on the amtrak that we took back from richmond to dc those were like the size of this office. They were gargantuan. Let's talk scenery. It beats planes in every way. Okay, I will say this. In a plane, you get a good vista of a nice big city or clouds, just an ocean, a paradise of clouds from above. I love that. But you've kind of seen one.

You've seen them all. Trains, you're down in it, man. You're zooming through all the beautiful bios of this great planet of ours. And I like that very much. Some trains have observation cars that are just big windows. You can just sit and just kick it and watch the trees go by, the foliage. You've been on a train that had like a sleeper situation, right? You can get a sleeper car if you really splurge.

Not all trains have them. not all trains have them not all trains have them and frankly you don't need them for a lot of things but we i forget we were on tour traveling on a train we didn't really even need the sleeper car because it was only like a four-hour trip which is not you know you can go four hours you can go four hours without sleeping i hope um but i did avail myself of it and it was amazing just being rocked and lulled to sleep by the movement of the powerful engine i was in hog heaven plugging in all my devices to the copious uh power outlets jacking into the web on the free wi-fi that most like long distance commuter trains have now um i i mean what else

what else do i need to say they're amazing they beat plane travel in every conceivable way much more affordable also much more affordable i don't get like terrible um like sinus problem i get bad like barotrauma from being on an airplane from pressurizing the cabins like i would say coin flip like 50 percent of the time especially if i don't pound the flow nays like a couple days before which remind me i need to start hitting that now for the seattle flight i i get sick on an airplane on a train they don't pressurize the cabins because you're on the ground where god intended you to be now we are recording this in 2023 the future future of train travel, I mean, maybe it gets...

Even better. Here's the thing, because train... I will say people also used to love planes. That's what I will say. People used to love planes, but planes have fucking fallen off. Every single sort of airline has had, I would say, a steep decline in quality over the last five or six years, especially during COVID. Train demand has gone up.

Amtrak has had to add new trains to their lines, right? So there's not, tragically, we just had this big infrastructure package in late 2021, I think, that it did not include, I believe, one red cent for high-speed rails. But imagine if we did not include, I believe, one red cent for high speed rails. But imagine if we did have that, it would be a totally different conversation about how people got around in this country in such a major way. So I, you know, I joke a lot about my enthusiasm for trains, but it is genuine and it is very powerful and i would be so that would be a life-changing thing for so many people if if we could get that you think joe biden would

be all about it you think that would be uh scranton man love it loves his trains like took the train into dc every day or whatever i feel like i don't know man i'll talk to him yeah see what you can do romantic two trains are and joe biden maybe trains are so romantic if before sunrise took place on an airplane true totally different story because also i think jesse convinces celine to get off the train before yeah she reaches her final destination which is not how airplanes work. No. They would jump out of it. They would have to skydive out of the air. Oh, okay.

Or more importantly, at the beginning of the film, she trades, she changes seats because there's a couple arguing next to her and sits next to Jesse. That's how the romance sparks. They don't let you do that shit on airplanes. So, so there. Take that in your pipe. Take that. Take that in your pipe and shove it airplanes you're the worst i like that we've set up this environment where you have to be pro one and anti the other and we are very firmly pro train i don't anti-plane there's parts of plane travel that i also do not mind

right like it is genuinely very beautiful to see a city from above as you're coming down into it. I like a short flight is incredible. I will say like when you are flying, you know, like when we used to have to fly from like Austin to Dallas or when I used to fly from St. Louis to Chicago, those flights that are like an hour. They're flying, but you're also spending an hour and a half going through all the airport bullshit just take a train man you know just take a train uh you get to watch movies i watched john wick four on an airplane recently that was nice um sometimes there's food um and you know i love having gadgets on the plane and just sitting down and playing a game or something. But most of the time there's no chargers. Oh, my switch is dead. Now I'm just bored.

Not a problem on trains. Trains kick ass in every way. Thank you so much, trains. Bridget. Oh, wait. You got an intro. Hey, you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes, please.

Bridget has a small wonder here. Bridget says, my small wonder is reaching the end of a tube of chapstick it's rare that i can keep track of one long enough to use it all up it feels so satisfying when i do i'll be honest i do not know this feeling yeah i don't know that i've ever ever ever ever i've never lived i mean maybe okay if i like grew up in minnesota or chic Chicago or whatever, and lived in a sort of chappy environment, then maybe I could see myself sticking with that. Well, I will say I'm always convinced

that there is a better lip product out there. And so a lot of times I will switch halfway through only because I have decided that this is not the one I want. I've got to chase this $9 thing because that's going is not the one i want right i've got to chase this nine dollar thing because that's going to be the best right um james says cultural festivals are wonderful specifically the chance to eat lots of super delicious foods that are otherwise uh hard to find in my town yes yes growing up in huntington there was you guys have food festivals every weekend we have food festivals every weekend that were not inherently cultural in nature.

No. Unless the culture was, in fact, Huntington, West Virginia. Well, I mean, yeah, hot dogs and, you know, rib fest and chili fest. And like we had lots of fest. But there was a Greek festival that was like a big deal. And it was across the street from my elementary school. And we went to that shit a lot. And that is where I had Heroes for the first time.

I had lots of tasty food at the Greek festival. Yeah, I'm always looking for stuff like that in DC. Like I will always eagerly check out an events calendar to see if if we can bring the boys something like that hey thanks to bowen and augustus for these for a theme song money won't pay you'll find a link to that in the episode description and thank you to maximum fun for having us on the network i mentioned it a couple times during my um preaching about trains but we're going to be in seattle this weekend uh doing my brother my brother and me and the adventure

zone during pax west we're also if you're going to be at pax doing a couple panels if you go to doing My Brother, My Brother and Me and the Adventure Zone during PAX West. We're also, if you're going to be at PAX, doing a couple panels. If you go to macroy.family, you can get tickets for those shows. I think they might be sold out. I don't know. And find out details on when our panels are and stuff.

Come see us. And it'll be a great time. We got some more shows coming up too that you could learn about at macroy.family as well. Got more merch over at macElroyMerch.com. Can I mention your YouTube streams? Yes, please. I will kind of save them up and treat them as a little lunchtime entertainment.

But Griffin and his brothers will play some Mario games together. Yes. And it is so fun and funny. Yes. And I always enjoy it. If you've not watched it we play super mario world uh by the time you're hearing this we hopefully finished the game yesterday uh in in a series we called super mcelroy brothers uh and we split up controls so that i do the jumping justin does the moving travis does everything else and it's it's cockamamie and

it's insane that it works sometimes i watch it and you guys will not be communicating you will just be like blood harmonizing same brain yeah yeah yeah um yeah it's a lot of fun and we have a lot of other stuff on there too a lot of video game stuff a lot of good stuff at macro the mackroy family youtube channel go check that out that's it thanks for listening We sure do appreciate you. We'll be back next week with another great episode. Have a great time. Have a great time out there.

Have a great weekend, everybody. Have a great weekend. Any big plans? Oh, that sounds fun. I'm talking to the audience now. No, I know. Someone probably answered back. What's that?

Oh, that sounds exciting. Oh, and I'm also,'m sorry that that your weekend plans are not what you want them to be um because there's probably listeners that have that too oh okay yeah you do the sad ones and i'll do the fucking party animals Money won't pay, workin' on pay. I'm ready. I'm ready.