Wonderful! - Wonderful! 311: Pretty Honkin' Schnozes

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. This is wonderful, a show where we talk about things that's good, that we like, that we're into. We hope that you've come to the right place. And that you, oh no, there's someone standing up in the back of class right now. They look real nervous. They're like, uh-oh, I thought this was one of them murder shows.

I'm supposed to be in Murder Shows 101. How to get away. I'm supposed to be in How to Get Away with Murder Class. Griffin doesn't really like the murder shows. No, I don't. What is it about murder that you think is bad? Well, I'll tell you. Yeah.

You know how I'm sort of socially not all there. Like I'm uncomfortable with a lot of sort of interactions. Murder seems like one of the more sort of transgressive social interactions i know that's why it's so delicious gross um do you have any do you think anyone ever stood up in the how to get away with murder class and was like i'll be straight with you guys i was looking you're all under arrest i was I'm supposed to be in like Earth Sciences and I have been so embarrassed to like stand up. You all seem like you're really into this and I'm gonna go learn about minerals. Do you have any small wonders? I do. So you've got kind of a grunge look going on.

You like that? Which I like, but actually my small wonder is a t-shirt over a long sleeve shirt. That's the opposite of what I'm doing though. And so that's from the grunge era. Yes. Okay. Yes. It made me think of, I always get delighted when I think of the fact that I could wear a t-shirt over a long sleeve shirt. It is not something I remember to do frequently because it's not really the style anymore. But anytime I see someone doing it i'm like oh my gosh i could do that i guarantee you that'll come back i feel like the cyclical way that fashion trends go and i'm really plugged

into this shit if you can't tell i feel like 20 26 around the time that the internet stops um being a thing we all use i think we're all gonna go full fucking dug on it just all our underwear on the outside of the pants quail man style that reminds me that i want to get a sweater vest i really like sweater vests and i don't have one right now you would look great in a sweater and this is the weather we're in this is the moment this is the moment how much longer it's getting heat up you can't wear sweater vests when the blossoms are blooming i'm gonna say doug is my small wonder that show had a very special place in my heart this little boy and he wasn't he was not very cool but he wanted to be so bad yeah and he liked a lot of cool stuff yeah that's what i always appreciated about doug he liked a lot of cool stuff he knew a lot of cool people but he himself wasn't he

himself wasn't he's kind of a regular guy you know sort of a right well i don't know except when he was quail man except when he was quail man he had big imagination bigger nose whoa big no everybody in that show had pretty pretty honking schnozzles i go first this week doug is also my big wonder what's what's up no no how wild would that i know i had a moment where i was like really you looked start you looked frightened at the possibility of me talking about doug it's more that it's so taboo to use your small wonder as your topic. Right. No, I would never.

That's against the unwritten rules that we have created for this show. No, my big wonder this week is a game, but I think it's one that we can all get behind, is Super Smash Brothers. Oh, this one is really good for everyone. It's good for all of us of us even if you don't know what you're doing you just hit a bunch of buttons and that's fun and the guys will do stuff uh-huh i get it i get into that a bit later on but it is it i have never really gotten deep into the fighting game scene all the way back from like you know mortal combat when when that was first coming out

because it always annoyed me that every character had a different sequence of like arcane button inputs and combos that you had to memorize and so like even today like people who are good at fighting games are like well i main sub-zero so i know all the different controls for sub-zero but if you drop me down into you know uh into to i can't think of a single other mortal combat scorpion then like i'm not gonna know what i'm doing that's always very annoying smash brothers did away with all that it's like you press one button and it does the same shit for every character and that's very good well they do have different powers different powers but you don't have to do like

you don't have to do like a button sequence right yeah so to do a hadouken in street fighter sort of the most like iconic move in fighting you have to do a quarter circle turn with the stick and then hit punch and you have to do it with the right timing and so like it's not like you press the hadouken button that always drove me fucking crazy and so like i would learn how to do that and then i'd be like well i guess i main ryu now when i played street fighter the character i would always play as was e honda because you could crouch and then press the punch button really fast and he would do this thousand hand slap and you could just slowly walk into your opponent and hope that they didn't move around too much and i was like well that's my

main smash brothers it's the same buttons it's the same buttons every time and there's not even that many buttons on a nintendo 64 controller to begin with this seems like a lot of buttons to me well yeah i guess anytime you get those like shoulder buttons i'm like what what where do they get not on the top um so i i've been like i've've been a Nintendo fan like my whole life because the NES more or less came to the States around the same time I did. And I like, I play everything they make. I pretty much always have. And so in November 1999, which was like a wild time for Nintendo in the first place because that's about when Pokemon came out. Just a lot, a lot of game playing was happening around wild time for nintendo in the first place because that's about when pokemon came out uh just a lot a lot of game playing was happening uh around that time uh nintendo released super smash brothers for the nintendo 64 and it was just it was one of the more monumental kind of

gaming moments in my life because imagine you grow up playing games that have mario and donkey kong and link and sam is from metroid and you know all of these different characters in it and then all of a sudden you can play as all of them in the same game that's that was literally unheard of um and and i would say remains unheard of outside of the boundaries so it started with a whole bunch of characters it wasn't like it started with four it started with 12 it actually started with eight and you had to unlock the other four and it was really fucking hard to unlock the other four uh i remember playing this game with my friend clint trying to unlock ness from earthbound which is a pretty obscure like super nintendo rpg but it was like the last character you had unlocked you to like beat the arcade mode on the hardest setting without like having to use a continue and it was

really we had multiple days of attempts uh and then finally we did it we beat the game on the hardest mode without using a continue and then you have to beat ness and we were just like on nests and we were just like on like the edges of our seats like one of the biggest pop-offs i think ever which like knowing the two of us not really the popping off type uh it was it was it was a huge moment um but yeah i mean it was it was a game where you could play as these 12 different characters from different games uh using a very simple control scheme and so all of a sudden like i could play fighting games anyone could play fighting games uh and and so in that way it became more of like a party game which the nintendo 64 had some like really good ones up so it was just in this rotation of that and mario party and you know uh mario tennis uh There was like a beautiful sort of

ecosystem of party games that Smash Brothers like dominated when it when it first came out in 99. So I played it. I played it nonstop with my brothers and my friends. Everyone at my school was talking about it. It had one of the no, it had the all-time best commercial for a video game ever because it was just people in mascot costumes for Mario and Donkey Kong and Pikachu. And they were like holding hands, frolicking through a field to, I can't take you, love you no more. Yeah. And then they just start beating the shit out of each other. I do not remember this, but that's great. I will show it to you later it is it is it was so uh like sacrilegious in a way uh and it also was like very much like

90s tood uh that that really really worked for me so this was like a huge huge game for like all the people in my life who i knew who who played games. More entries in the series came out. There was Smash Brothers Melee on the GameCube that added like a bunch more characters. It also added like a bunch of weird high-level play sort of strategy that I didn't really enjoy. Like there's a lot of very advanced techniques you can do to like move your character like a little bit faster

or be a little bit more evasive and so like the hardcore smash brothers community still plays this one because it's the one that like lets you do the most like technical high level shit that is completely inscrutable to me and frankly kind of goes against the spirit of smash brothers in in the first place which is why i didn't really rock with that from the very beginning did they do the thing where you could fall off the edge of the platform yeah so that was another big thing it's like you weren't trying to deplete someone's health bar right half the game is about movement and yeah uh you know positioning yourself well so that you're not just going to take a bunch of hits right on the edge of the map it's also about like picking up the items that appear and

so that's a huge balancing and also being able to find your character on the screen at any point because that happens to me a lot that's why i hate those levels where you can fall off the edge because you know if there's like four characters on the screen all of a sudden walk right off yeah and i've seen this happen to henry too it's like wait where am i oh no he does get very very frustrated uh so then there was on the wii there was super smash Brothers Brawl, which added even more characters. There was Super Smash Brothers for Wii U, which is not a great title that added even

more characters. And then finally, Smash Brothers Ultimate came out on the Nintendo Switch in 2018. And Ultimate was notable for, one, being sort of the last Smash Brothers game, because I can't imagine why you would need any more anything else um it was notable because it included every character from the roster that had ever been present in any other entry in the series i remember when they announced that at e3 like who's got a lot of people come in and they're like oh i miss uh you know playing as uh falco in this one because he wasn't in Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Well, guess what? Fucking everyone's going to be there. Not only that, this game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Switch, contains an unthinkable amount of crossover characters. Not just characters from other Nintendo games, although they certainly go very very deep in the in the roster for for those characters games that like nintendo didn't even make right you have sonic you have pac-man yeah you have simon belmont from castlevania you have uh banjo kazooie also like a lot of the nickelodeon characters right well that's nickelodeon all-stars brawl which is completely different which is a different game that would be lit if like we could get that get danny phantom in in the official

smash brothers mix that game is great i love nintendo uh all-stars brawl i think is what it's called and henry does too because you can be garfield in it um but like you had like old rpg characters cloud and sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, Sora from Kingdom Hearts. That game has 89 playable characters in it, which is crazy. That is a bonkers number of characters for any game, especially any fighting game where like balance and fine tuning is like the most important thing. Yeah. Because nobody's going to like play a competitive game like that if there's just like the one character that can beat all of the other characters.

I imagine what happened is they like started with less and they kept getting feedback like oh you should really include this one and they just kept doing it until it was like every single one absolutely like it was an ongoing thing of uh when ultimate came out in 2018 right this this franchise was almost 20 years old and so that was 20 years of people asking for characters to be in the game and teasing out like a big one is Ridley is this big alien monster from Metroid named for Ridley Scott. And so like people have been asking for him for so long. And then I remember when the trailer came out, anytime they would announce a character, they would do do it this big cinematic trailer that would be like several minutes long and it would show like mario you know walking along a bridge and then sephiroth comes like flying out of the sky and stabs him through the chest and everyone's like oh shit sephiroth's in the game uh some of my favorite

gaming videos ever are like crowd reactions to character announcements uh because there's something so pure and just undeniably enjoyable about seeing a crowd of adults gathered at the nintendo world store to watch the like nintendo direct press conference and then when they announce that fucking banjo kazooie is coming to the game and it's just everybody loses their minds. That is – I watch that video from time to time because it is just pure delight to see people get excited. There is nothing else like it in all of gaming. I can't think of another thing where every time they would announce some new character, again, 89 times, people would just flip absolute shit um and then of course the game came out and was incredible just like one of my favorite games ever one of the things

i really do enjoy about how approachable it is is that henry has been able to like play it and get really into it because it's not that hard to like make the characters do cool stuff and sort of succeed you can also like play with the difficulty right so yeah you can customize the game in like a million different ways to make it so that you are beating up you know seven you know jiggly puffs that are are have their difficulty set to zero and all of a sudden like it's a totally different thing there's like a whole story mode that is like genuinely very good uh that that we have played through I think a couple of times now. And it's really wonderful to like have this game that I love playing, that I get to play with Henry, that he gets a big kick out of.

And also like he gets to like learn about all of these different characters, most of which like I grew up with. And so like this is his first exposure to like a lot of, a lot of these characters. He has played way more smash brothers than he's ever played any Zelda game. So like he knows who link is and tune link and young link who are three different characters in the smash brothers roster because of, because of smash brothers. And I think that's,

I think that's really, really, really special and cool. I love this game. I can't think of too many other more important games than it we're like desert island if i'm on a desert island with my switch like i would want smash brothers ultimate to be there with me because it's just a it is just a big toy box full of stuff that is all fun to play with that you can play with any way that you want. You can make your own levels.

You can make your own characters now. It's like there's so many ways to get around with it. It is a very generous game and everything it does is so good. And I can't think of too many other games that kind of fit that bill. Yeah. Let's smash, brothers. That's cool.

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I'm so stoked to learn about the NHL All-Star Skills Competition. This is coming up. It is, yeah. Yeah. What made me think of it is we were watching hockey last night, and the teams across the league are going to go on what they call the all-stars break because on february 2nd uh is when they're doing the skills competition and then i believe on a different day they actually like play

a game like conference versus conference is thomas thomas yeah thomas is the blues player who is uh is great robert Thomas. Robert Thomas. Not on first name basis. Gotta be out there for Tommy. Tommy gonna be there. Tommy! So this hasn't actually been around that long. It's been around since 1990.

Okay. And it's funny in the beginning. Does the All-Star Game precede it, I assume? Or did both come out at the same time, the All-Star Game and the Skills Competition? Oh, that's a good question uh all-star game i think started uh yeah in the 1940s okay so yeah by about 50 years um so this is i was trying to think of something applicable in other sports uh and i know that like baseball does like the home run derby. Yes, yeah. But football doesn't do anything like this, right?

There's the NFL Combine, but I don't know what that is. I think it's where new players come to show how fast they can run a 40-yard dash. Oh. There's something along those lines. That sounds right. It's been so long since I've watched a football game. When I used to watch a lot of them, it feels so weird to me to be so wildly detached. I know.

From the space. Well, I won't let you be that way about hockey. I don't want to be that way about hockey. Good. from the space. Well, I won't let you be that way about hockey. I don't want to be that way about hockey. Good. So the All-Star Skills Competition is, if your team has a player or a couple players that are particularly good, like they're great scorers or you have a great goaltender or whatever, they will get kind of nominated to participate in this and then they have some fan votes too where you can like vote for the player you want included i checked none of the blues

got voted oh i just remember the nba slam dunk contest oh yeah yeah god that's good shit um so they all will like represent their various divisions and play a game together and then now since 1990 they do a skills competition which has like a variety of events yes one of the ones that is like most iconic to me is the the accuracy shooting yes so this is where they used to put a target in each corner of the net uh and then players would have to like hit all of them with the puck. So they would stand back, I think like at the blue line or maybe a little bit closer and fire pucks at those plates. Yeah, it used to be that the object was to hit all four targets in as few attempts as possible.

But in that format, a lot of people were doing it. Okay. It's like in 92, 93, 96, it was just people kept being able to do that. And so now they changed it and how fast you can do it. And they also, for a couple of skills competitions, they changed it up a little bit. In 2018, the foam targets were replaced with LED targets that light up to show the player where they had to shoot next uh in 2019 the targets had emojis that's that's that's nothing uh in 2020 they put a fifth target in the center of the net where you don't usually shoot because there's a guy there

most of the time most of the time that's the most confusing one for players. Because they're like, right in the middle? Where's the guy? But the current record holder hit four out of four targets in 7.3 seconds. That's fucking crazy. Who was that? It is Sedin. Daniel Sedin. A Swedish hockey player used to play with Vancouver.

Ah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, so I like that one a lot. That one's just cool to watch. Sure. Like, it is amazing to me how accurate some of these players can be. It is also a trip.

In hockey, whenever someone scores a goal, it's a huge fucking deal because it doesn't happen that often per game compared to a lot of other sports and so to just watch people hum puck after puck after puck after puck into an empty net there's a weird primordial like serotonin that is released where it's just like yes puck go in net yes puck get in there i love love when Puck go in net. There is the Breakaway Challenge, which they made into like a slam dunk style, like as you were talking about challenge.

This didn't start till 2008. Okay. And for 2008, 2009, and 2011, I think 2010, there was a strike happening. Oh, yeah. Alexander Ovechkin won all three years oh really petrangelo won in 2022 which i think i remember i think we watched that one so that's that's the one where they kind of have to like stunt as they stunt yeah as they so they will do some kind of clever thing as they are skating towards the net and then fans text message who

they think should win oh Oh, that's good. Fastest skater. That's one I really like. Jordan Cairo won in 2022. You have to just go around the ice as fast as possible. You just do one full lap around the outside. And the record is 13.172. Jordan Cairo got 13.55.

That's really good. But it kind of ranges. It's funny, the first year they did this in 1990, they did 28 miles per hour. I don't know how they figured that out, but instead of counting the amount of time, they measured the speed. How fast you could get up to 28 miles an hour? No, they measured the speed of like who could skate the fastest. So the winner, if you look at the ranking, the winner in 1990 just has 28 miles per hour and everybody else has like 14 seconds, 13 seconds, 15 seconds.

So I don't know what they did that first year. I see why they changed it because otherwise you would just get up to 28 miles an hour and then just shatter the glass in the back of the rink. Hardest Shot is a really good one, too. Oh, yeah. That's one I like because the dudes who do that one can't do any of the other ones. Yeah.

They're not great skaters, typically. No, when you have someone like Colt Pareko who does 100-plus mile slapshots several times a game, he's not the nimblest fella out there. So the all-time winner of this, winning seven years, is Alma Guinness, who is a St. Louis Blues player. Right. His numbers are not actually particularly high, but he used a wooden stick because he thought it was more accurate. Players now don't typically use a wooden stick. Like some crazy fiberglass shit, right? Yeah, like his fastest speed ever in all those years was 105.2.

I mean, that's faster than I could hit it. Oh, yeah. No, it's incredible. two i mean that's faster than i could hit it oh yeah no it's incredible uh but the uh the hardest shot now is up to 108.5 i mean that doesn't sound like a big difference but that's that's faster than any shot i've ever seen shot in in my time watching hockey. So those are kind of the main ones. Yeah. And there are a bunch that they have tried and not continued. The thing that I kind of love about the NHL is there's this kind of grassroots quality.

Yeah. Because the industry as a whole makes like half what any other- Any other sport does, yeah. Yeah. So every year they're kind of trying something new. Has there ever been a fighting one? No. that was my question is that would be so great though have they ever had a fighting one i'm sure they're not against that idea i'm sure someone suggested i'm sure craig berube in his time was like hey i have an idea the one we watched and i

don't know if you remember this this was in 2020 uh players shot uh approximately 30 feet above the ice from the seating area they shot seven pucks scoring points for each target hit they did this one year in 2020 and patrick kane won okay uh he got 22 points um but yeah. Not applicable traditionally when you watch hockey. Because I know there's a lot of our fans who maybe don't watch it. And so our discussions of it is the only exposure they have. Traditionally in hockey. You're on the ice. There's not a lot of.

There's not a play it where it lies rule traditionally. It's not like a Cirque du Soleil show where players go into the audience and interact with the fans. Now I will say, I would love eradicating the delay of game penalty when you shoot it over the glass on your own end. If instead the ref is just like, go get out there guys.

Crack open the- You have to go get it now. Crack open the Zamboni portcullis and you go get that puck uh there was another one a passing challenge which i think sounds really cool um players had to uh complete four successful passes to the targets that randomly lit up so that i guess that they would have to like, there would be lights around the arena and they would have to like pass it to that light. But that's a shot.

Like if you're, you can only pass it to a human. I feel in my estimation, the robots aren't gonna, aren't going to choose you when they do their great calling in sports, video games, there is a pass button and there is a shoot button and the pass button i feel like necessitates a receiver of the of the pass right yeah i mean what are you passing if it is not to an individual yeah yeah now you're

just now you're just ridding yourself of it as fast as you possibly can okay so 2024 this year in toronto uh there's a lot that is fun about this so one thing um is that each team uh will have a celebrity um attached to it i don't know if you remember this in the past i feel like john ham was at one year but four celebrity captains so they are connected to the various okay that's fine um you know there's like a metropolitan league and a central league and a pacific league uh so those four celebrities for whatever reason they only list three in this article so i don't know what that means uh just Bieber, Will Arnett. Which teams are they associated with? Are they each associated with a team, you said?

Yeah. Okay. Do you know who each one? I assume both of them are, I'm guessing, Canucks and Oilers. Well, no. Each division has all-stars. Okay. You see what I'm saying? Yes, I get you now.

So it doesn't really matter honestly you know because every division will have players from different teams i thought you were saying each nhl team no had a celebrity representative which is like that's 32 celebrities that would be a lot of famous people i think to get to go to the no the celebrity captains help the four all-star team captains select their 11 player teams now help i don't know what that means in this case yeah but it's justin bieber will arnett uh who both have connections to hockey like both hockey enthusiasts they're both canadian yes yes okay i mean the third i think is also a canadian michael buble okay I don't know what his connection to hockey might be.

It's possible he also has one. I bet I can Google Bublé hockey real quick and get something. So the thing that is particularly interesting this year, usually with the skills competition, it was kind of open to everybody. Like anybody could get out there like, you know, Jordan Cairo, like, oh, I'm a fast skater. I'm going to compete in the fastest skater.

This year, only 12 players are going to compete in the competitions and they're going to compete throughout. Interesting. And then the winner will get a million dollars. What? Yes. They will collect points throughout the competitions and at the

end, the winner will get a million dollars. Apparently, the winning goalie will get $100,000 too so but there's not a blues player in the skills competition right no okay no they announced all the players actually i'm sure i would recognize a lot of the they have to be big name big boys i know connor mcdavid i recognize him off the list. He's quite good. Yeah. But- That Bedard, that little- No. I mean, he's brand new. Yeah, you're ready.

I don't think you get there right away. Yeah. The other thing that I thought was funny about this is how much it is sponsored. Like, you know how Ninja Warrior would have the minions, whatever? Okay, honey, babe babe you can't say that and then just expect from the sentence anyone other than your beloved husband to glean any there are portions of the ninja warrior course that have some kind of promotion associated with it and so like they go over a pit and it is the minions pit. And there's big balls that roll when you jump on them

and you have to run across them very fast. And the number of people who had built their whole years around this one Ninja Warrior course run to be thwarted by the minions and then look up at them from the pool of water like you fucking minions. It was funny every single time that it happened so uh round one fastest skater it is the fast and all nhl fastest skater i had to look up what fast and all was

apparently it is a the largest fastener distributor in north america yeah that's what we that's the fucking adidas out of here. I know. There is the Cheetos NHL accuracy shooting. I will say if they suspended Cheetos inside of the net. I know, that would be impressive. And then they had to shatter, you know, puffy or crunchy, take your choice. This one's new. There is a Pepsi NHL obstacle course. What's that mean?

It's like the top six point earners will advance to the eighth and final event uh and the obstacle course i think they have to do a little bit of everything okay cool uh all at once hey i want to watch this i think even if we don't know anyone in it i know that's my thought like if you are not somebody that follows hockey because you find it complicated and difficult to stick with like this is just a fun a fun thing to watch yeah i remember what i mean obviously we're very very deeply invested in the blues as an organization but watching kairu win the speed skating uh competition in in 22 you said i remember that just like on our feet, like really very, very, very excited for this very silly thing. Yeah.

Also the Tim Horton one-timers competition. That's just like somebody passes it to you and you just immediately shoot. As fast as you can. I think that's it. I think I'll be curious to see if this new format sticks around or not. Like on one hand, I get the like the 12 player idea because it makes them more competitive. The prize will, you know, make them, I guess, compete harder. But also we don't see any players we know because it's a much, much smaller roster.

Yeah. And you're I mean, I used to think of it in like Olympic format where I wanted to believe when Jordan Cairo won, he was officially the fastest skater in all of the NHL, which you can't even really say with much confidence if only 12 players get to do it. Yeah. Hey, do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. Ben says, when you go to fill up your pill container for the week and you dump exactly seven pills in your hand, it makes me feel like I have some sort of superpower. Oh. I love this shit. I love it.

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We had a costume shop called Magic Makers in Huntington that we went to, unsurprisingly, a lot. And the owners of that store owned a monkey together. So you'd go in to get Dracula teeth or whatever, and the monkey would be there. I'm confused. I thought only- What type of monkey? It was a capuchin? I did a whole report on it when I was in seventh grade.

I thought when you owned a business, you were under some scrutiny. And it seems like somebody would be like, oh, you can't own a monkey. No, I mean, Huntington was pretty chill about it. That's it for the episode. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these for a theme song, Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to that in the episode description. Thank you to Maximum Fun.

Also, for having us on the network, go to MaximumFun.org. Check out all the great stuff they got floating around on there. You're going to find something that you like there, I bet. And we have merch over at McElroy Merch. I don't know what day you're listening to this on. If it is January, we got that Three Brother Moon shirt still going on. If it's February, we got a bunch brother moon shirt still going on if it's february yeah a bunch of other new stuff what's february got in store can you give any teasers

oh yeah oh yeah baby there's a uh there's there's a new shirt does that first of, if you want fun galore, you're going to have fun galore. Do not worry about that. We've got you in so many different ways. I don't know when this episode comes out, so I don't want to spoil too much. So maybe I'll just drop that and say a lot of fun galore. Yeah, I mean, I think listeners could expect that. So go check all that out.

Let's stop. Let's stop there. This has been a good one. And let's not get greedy. We got in there. We delivered gold. Let's stop there. This has been a good one and let's not get greedy. You know? We got in there. We delivered gold. Let's get out.

Okay. Wash our hands of it. Okay. We'll see you guys. We'll see you guys next week. And that's us. Washing our hands of you. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Money won't pay, workin' on it. I'm on a mission. I'm on a mission.