Wonderful! - Wonderful! 345: Moons of Jupiter in Her Ear

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

Rachel's favorite charming morning routine! Griffin's favorite bouncy floor funky dance party! Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Native Women Lead: https://www.nativewomenlead.org/

Cue the music! Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. What's up? It's Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. What's up, Squad? Come on in. I don't think people say Squad anymore. Come on in, Squad. We got a big podcast for ya.

I think Squad's over. I don't think you can get rid of Squad. I think that Squad was first of all coined by the tactical military elite. It's got staying power for its tactical sort of purposes. You know, you have a lot of good things to say about our military. I've noticed that lately.

Well, support him. No questions. Do not question. Only support. Only support. This is a show where we talk about things we like that's good that we are into. And my moons are looking pretty, Moonwatch,

my moons are looking pretty good right now. Oh, gosh, I can't believe you still do this. Pretty good, and well, no, listen, because last week they were way messed up. You had suggested that the moons were good and then we got a call almost immediately after that our sun had to be picked up. Yes, actually it was mid recording, yeah.

No, my moons were pretty fucked up at that point. But I'm telling ya, I've been watching the charts, babe. All right. I've been watching the charts, Titan and Io are whoop. I can't even see fucking Io anymore because Titan's all the way up, lined up with it. You're saying these like these are things. Am I supposed to know these are things?

These are moons of Jupiter, the two big ones. If you would ask me to name a third moon of Jupiter. And how's that one go? Say she's back in the atmosphere. That still works for space stuff, kind of. Moons of Jupiter in her, is it hair, ear? Yeah, in her ear. That was it, drops of Jupiter in her ear

was the original lyric. God damn, my ear is so, I had the worst earache. What's going on? I went swimming on the moons of Jupiter. I must've gotten some of those damn drops in there. And those never come out because of the atmosphere. You say that like the song is completely logical, start to finish, and I have somehow wrecked it.

I always assumed that drops of Jupiter was some sort of literary or perhaps like, you know, Greek folklore reference that I didn't know about. There's lemon drops, lemon drops are a thing. Yes, but our lemon drops of Neptune is that, I'm saying specifically drops of. Poetry, baby, you know, anything goes. Train's a poet.

I've always said that about Mr. Train. Did you know that it's not a band name? The guy's name is Train. Is Train. It's cool. I would love that. I would love to have that experience name is Train. It's cool. I would love that. I would love to have that experience upon meeting Train. Yeah, you walk to the Train concert,

but it's just Train. He shows up, no band. He's playing an acoustic set. Hi, we're Train and the Royal We, because I am Train. I am Train. My full name is Choo Choo Train. Nashes back in the...

Do you have any small wonders? I do actually, I'm ready this time. Hell yes dude. I wanted to talk about Bouncy Floor. Bouncy Floor is, oh man. It's changed everything for us. It's gonna be great. So many times we talk about like mainstays

in like easy children's entertainment or engagement. Balloons, bubbles. And we're always like, where does it start? Where did this thing start? Where did this, I feel like we can say pretty confidently, in the future, when everyone's like, everyone does bouncy floor, where'd it start? We'll have it right here.

I'm not claiming that the construction elements of bouncy floor started with us. No? I think the name bouncy floor started with us. Maybe, can you explain what bouncy floor is? Yeah, I took all the cushions off of our couch and I put them on the floor. And now we have what one might call a bouncy floor.

We have a sectional, and so we're talking, gang, there's a lot of cushions. Lot of seats. Lot of seats we're working with. So the bouncy floor is enormous, it's very big. It takes up pretty much most of the living room. We've had a lot of seats we're working with. So the bouncy floor is enormous. It's very big. It takes up pretty much most of the living room. We've had a lot of rain recently. And so bouncy floor has been essential

because our kids still have energy and know where to put it. And what's great about bouncy floor, dance floor. Dance floor. Good for gaming. Good for gaming. As in those like, you know, those games that we play

on the TV. Sure, on the next playground. Yes, and Somersaults. Somersaults, I feel like both boys have really come a long way in their Somersault game. True. Because of Bouncy Floor. True. A lot of bravery, a lot of courage, and a lot of playing together and wrestling with pillows.

Yeah. Another, you can do so much on Bouncy Floor and it wears the dang kids right out. You don't even have to go outside. Now, your house look a mess for a little bit, but bouncy floor is so easy to clean up. Takes like a minute to put all those cushions back up on. Yeah, yeah, I will say it is easier than obstacle course,

which our kids kind of burn out on. They burn out on obstacle course. I feel like we suggest obstacle course all the time. They are not having it. Well, they're not babies anymore. Oh, is that a baby thing? This is the... Tell American Ninja Warrior that obstacle courses

are a baby thing. If American Ninja Warrior runners had to go across two foot high foam wedges, maybe, I mean, they already did Ninja Warrior Junior and it changed the fucking face of the sport forever by lowering the age of entry to like 13 years old for main Ninja Warrior. I don't think it's out of the question

that we're gonna get like toddler Ninja Warrior, or if you will, Ninja WoWio. Oh. Oh. I'm gonna say, I think I talked about it already. I definitely talked about it on the besties. We finished this season in the circle. That shit slaps so right. That shit hit real, real good.

I always feel mixed about saying that. It was a very fun season to watch and the reveals of the catfish were so good. Truly, truly next level. A lot of the players, questionable choices. Yes. Again, a season where a lot of the people that seemed to be playing a good game got eliminated.

Yeah, it's wild that I'm saying this about the season because all my favorite people got eliminated. Yeah. But I feel like there was just a lot of gameplay going on and I found it very interesting. And there were a few people there who were making some pretty great moves sort of in the shadows.

A lot of secret alliances that end up kind of like defining the whole season of the game. sort of in the shadows, a lot of secret alliances that end up kind of like defining the whole season of the game. Some gimmicky shit with the disruptor stuff, which I wasn't so crazy about. I was also hoping to get a return of the AI. Yeah, me too. Contestant, because I think that they really

struck gold with that. But I had a great time watching that with you. And oh my God. So many shows. I imagine we will also at some point talk about The Golden Bachelorette. Yes. I don't know if we're gonna do a full segment on it,

but it has been a breath of fresh air. We watched the first two episodes, maybe three? Nah, two. Two. The second one was long as hell, man. Yeah, we never finished one episode in a night. No. But I will say, again, it's a situation

where the friendships among the contestants are so precious. And it jacks, this season jacks it up to a million because pretty much every contestant is a widower in his 60s who I can guarantee you hasn't hung out with anyone in a long time, probably since their spouse died. And so these guys, these two dozen sextogenarians,

I think is the word for it, they are so delighted by each other. They- And the house. They're so impressed by all the appliances and the size of the pool. The amenities. The amenities are insane. They decide, and I don't know,

do you believe that they took it upon themselves to turn the pool party into a cookout? It was presented as if they all decided to make meals together, and based on the meals they made, it really seemed like these guys really are using the equipment in this kitchen. They did a grilling party in lieu of a cocktail party, which is fucking great.

Except then you had like one dad who was like making the hamburgers and he like was putting barbecue sauce on them. Like it's New York style. And then there were like seven other dads who were like, no way, man. That's not how I do my burgers. The garbage disposal stops working

and somebody gets down on the floor. There's a two minute long scene of someone fixing a garbage disposal. Like, don't worry guys, I need that hex wrench. This would be a great one. I was telling Griffin to do with like a bingo card, like we used to do when we watched the show because there are so many dad moves happening each episode.

It's amazing. A lot of great group of guys, a lot of that. It may end up being, it may sour as these seasons of television. So typically do. Yeah, Griffin and I are worried, and this happens a lot, that the blandest rise to the top

and then your last few episodes are just like three regular boring guys with nothing interesting to say or do. Well, and some of the zany guys are kind of one trick ponies with regards to their zaniness. And it's like episode three and they're like saying their catchphrase

and it's like, I fucking get it Urkel. I've seen it. You go first this week. What have you got prepared for the class? This is a class by the way. This is technically a seminar series. Oh, are listeners earning credit right now? Yes, at Phoenix online university.

Old POU. Old POU. I wanted to talk about circle time. Okay. As in the activity that preschool children do. Okay. Yes, not on the show that we just discussed. I thought you were talking about the time in which we do sit down and make space for the circle in our lives. No, no. I'm talking about In the morning typically when children all sit down on the rug with their teacher and they do their little routine Okay, I find it so charming. This is something that I'm pretty sure Henry was still doing in first grade I don't know if he's doing it in second grade. I don't think so, man I don't know where they'd have space for it with all the desks. That's what I'm thinking what not but yeah there's like almost always always a particular rug involved

and there's usually songs and days of the week and discussions on what the activities are gonna be. A sort of baby agenda of today we will do math. I'm just saying I was thinking about how useful this would be in my current position. Sure. Because the way it is set up in a large organization is that you only have a full group meeting

once every few months. And then you have your little team that you meet with, maybe more frequently. But there's no songs. I love the idea of a circle time and one of the kids raises their hand and is like, Ms. Norris, could this have been an email? I love that.

That's like Boss Baby. That would be like Boss Baby. Yeah, yeah. Boss Baby would be like, couldn't this have been an email? I can't do a Boss Baby voice. Imagine what Boss Baby sounds like. Or a young Sheldon.

Yeah, oh yeah. And we know a lot about Young Sheldon. I know a lot about old Sheldon that I can kind of extrapolate backwards. So the origins of Circle Time are pointed largely towards the guy that started kindergarten, Friedrich Frobel. Yeah. Who I think you've talked about before, because kindergarten in the States took off in St. Louis.

That's right. I feel like you talked about it at our live show. But yeah, he talked about kind of the benefits of children learning in a group. This idea that you assemble them together and you kind of build community and self-esteem through all of them kind of working together and doing their routine, which is really useful for kids in the morning.

This is one thing that we noticed, one of the first daycares we took Henry to, it was always a little chaotic. And- That is, you are being so generous right now. It was fucking pandemonium every time. It just seemed like the kids were allowed to just kind of be rowdy until the day started,

whenever that was. And it was very intense for our shy, gentle son. And I will say, like a very nice routine of like, we come in, we all sit in a circle, we do the same song every morning is very nice. And it can be very collaborative. So there are of course benefits of circle time beyond what I mentioned.

So the routine I mentioned socialization is that the kids are like sharing together in a group. A lot of the way school is set up now, you go off and you do your little choice time. So you'll go into a corner or whatever, and so you have your kind of small group of people that potentially you always play with, but circle time kind of makes sure you get together

in a little town square. I do like that. There is something about being in a classroom. We went to Little Sun's back to school night and it just feels so much like a little town. Uh-huh. You know, like they're all just kind of trying to get their work done together

in this little tiny community. It's very sweet. It also develops listening communication skills, especially if you're doing like a song together. Yeah. You know? Well, and you have to look at each, like you have to look at each other.

It's a circle. It's a circle. And I will say that Circle Time really, I think took off during the eighties. There was a British author named Murray White who published a book on Circle Time called Magic Circles. Cool. Which raised the profile and popularity

of circle time in the 80s. There's another author named Jenny Mosley who has her own book on circle time. Yes, Jenny Mosley is more recent to the space. She wrote the Circle Time Guidance for the UK government's primary and secondary national strategy social and emotional aspects of learning curriculum. Oh, drips right off the tongue, doesn't it?

Yeah, I'll have to say there's a lot of thought kind of put into how you start your day and get your kids kind of working together. And I just, I feel like it is, it's very sweet. And I think it's been very helpful for Smallson. He had a first few weeks that were super breezy. It was his first week that was super breezy. Was, I thought it was, I thought he made it through two. Did he not? Maybe he got through two. Maybe he got sick in the second one and didn't actually.

Yeah. Either way, all of a sudden he realized like, oh shoot, this is my life now and I don't have any power over whether or not I go. And I just, I feel good knowing that they have these little routines that he can kind of depend on. I feel good that that has at least gotten a little bit better.

I would say that's a big part of my lunar sort of alignment is that I don't spend 20 minutes every morning trying to convince him that it's all so chill, dude. It's all so chill. He's like down now. So yeah, all that to say, I wish the elements of Circle Time were more present in my life now. I feel like that would be very helpful.

Yes. Like I don't even watch like a morning news program. Yeah. You know, my mornings are pretty different every day. Well, does your team use Slack or Microsoft Teams? Because that's sort of like always circle time. It's sort of like always on circle time. I guess Panopticon is a cynical way of looking at it.

But there's no songs. Sometimes we post songs in there. Oh yeah. Sometimes we all message each there. Oh yeah. Sometimes we all message each other on Slack, like, okay, everybody sing the morning song in three, two, one, and then you just trust that everyone is at home singing the morning song.

It's one of the benefits too, I think, of being back in person. Yeah, sure. I think about all the students trying to do circle time over Zoom. Oh my God. I think we actually tried that, didn't we? I feel like for a while with Henry's school,

some of the students were still in person and they tried to do circle time over Zoom and it was- I do remember that. It was useless. Yeah, because the kids who were there looked so bummed out that the other kids didn't have to be there. And there was like a lag too and there was no way to position the laptop

so that you could see all children. And of course all children were completely distracted by this laptop. And also all children didn't wanna be on the laptop and got a hard time sitting, yeah. Can I steal your way? Yes. Yeah.

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There's an enormous library of it just waiting for you. So go on over to maximumfun.org slash join and thank you so much for your support. This segment that I have this week continues a sort of trend for the segments I bring sometimes recently of me falling in love with jams from the late aughts and early 2010s because one of our kids, usually our smallest kid, becomes obsessed with it.

The first time I did this was, of course, with Lil Jon's Turn Down for What. Yeah, oh, we need to break that back out. Oh, for sure. That would be a bouncy floor dance night classic. The song in question I'm speaking of, Rachel will not be surprised to hear, is LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem.

Here's the thing. I am worried more so than with Turn Down for What, I'm worried people are going to think this is a purely ironic choice. But dear listener, I wanna play a clip from Party Rock Anthem, and as I do, I want you to try and listen with open ears and an open heart and see the world through the heart of a child's eyes and listen to this clip as if for the first time. Here's Party Rock Anthem. Let's go! I mean it's pretty good, right? Yeah, Gus calls this the, what,

Everyday I'm Shufflin' song? Everyday I'm Shufflin', or sometimes he calls it Play Funky Dance Party, is what he will also call it. The beat is undeniable, those crispy little synth chirps are just iconic. If you hear that, brr brr brr brr beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep doh, you know it's on.

The lyrics just absolutely take it to the hoop, like several times throughout the song. There's a line that's like, we take it to the top, no lead in our zeppelin. They're so like- Oh, that's what he's saying. Yeah, what did you think he was saying? I thought it was a music reference, and I couldn't hear it.

It is a reference to Led Zeppelin. I thought it was no Lenin or Zeppelin. No Lenin? Yeah. Like you're referencing John Lennon? John Lennon, I don't know, it didn't make any sense to me either. I mean, no Ledin or Zeppelin

also doesn't make like a ton of sense, but it makes a little bit more than no Lenin or Zeppelin. It also has that incredibly powerful, and not a lot of songs can pull this out, but the fake ending where it's like, shake that. Every day I'm shuffling. Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop Like, it hits so right every time, and despite the fact that Gus demands this song like several times a day, there are still times where he's, as soon as that break hits, he's like, shake that.

He's like, I want to pick the next song. Because he has to put a quarter on the machine, and then they hit him with the Every Day I'm Shopping. It's really, it's one of the most powerful twists in the history of pop music. LMFAO, I didn't know anything about until I did. Yeah, I don't either. Okay, so L-M-F-A-O consists of Red Fu

is one of the two performers in L-M-F-A-O. Red Fu is the son of Barry Gordy, who is the founder of Motown Records. Oh. Sky Blue is the other member of the band. So sort of a nice symmetry there, Red Fu and Sky Blue. Sky Blue sounds like a nice symmetry there, Red Fu and Sky Blue. Sky Blue sounds like a vape brand,

which is great that that's a person's name. Sky Blue is Motown Records founder, Barry Gordy's grandson. So he is the son of Red Fu's half brother, Barry Gordy the fourth. I believe that makes Red Fu the uncle of Sky Blue or half uncle of Sky Blue. Oh geez, you lost me so long ago.

Red Fu and Sky Blue are the two dudes in the band. Red Fu is Sky Blue's half uncle. Half uncle. Or just uncle, I don't know if you get that sort of like granular. So if Travis was your half brother, he would be Henry's half uncle. Yeah, yes. Okay.

I guess so. I'm uncomfortable all of a sudden with these, with the terminology. They're related fairly closely. Okay. Which I didn't know about the LMFAO game. No. Especially since they're not really performing

together anymore and have not since like 2012. Which I didn't know that was an option. When you had a family band, I thought you had to ride that shit out into the ground. So LMFAO came up in the LA sort of electro club scene, garnering attention with their sort of wild stage shows. According to Wikipedia, Will.i.am is Red Fu's best friend.

Okay, interesting. In my head, because it was popular at the same time, I like, affiliate them with the Black Eyed Peas. That's so fast, I would not make that affiliation, although it almost seems like, and I'll talk more about this later, LMFAO is something of a parody band, almost like not quite fly to the Concords level,

but like a parody band of like this genre of mindless dance pop, club bangers dance hits, right? Whether or not they own that, we'll discuss later on in the segment. So Will.i.am, best friends with Red Fu, really like their stuff, signed LMFAO to his own label, which wasn't like a development label. They didn't seek out young stars who were cutting their teeth and help them build up their careers. They needed to be basically big hits

to release records on this label. And so LMFAO kind of got access to the resources that they needed to make a pretty big, huge first album that kind of needed to be a smash hit. Well, they're best friends according to Wikipedia. Will.i.am and Redfoo? Yeah, they're best friends, they're half uncles. There's like a lot of like deep relationships happening here

and you can feel that love. You can feel that love when you listen to music. I just love the idea that Will.i.am maybe got on the Wikipedia page himself and was like, we're best friends. I don't know if Red Fu is Will.i.am's best friend. Right? I don't know.

We could get, I should ask him someday. So that first album that they released was called Party Rock and it dropped July 7th, 2009. In their review of Party Rock, Los Angeles Times described the album as, quote, 14 virtually interchangeable odes to nightlife. It's just really good. This album wasn't a smash hit,

but the song started to get licensed by all sorts of TV shows, specifically everything on the MTV network. This was the era of like your Jersey Shore, for example. And so like their songs started to show up everywhere, even though they weren't like a huge name. Then David Guetta, who's like a big electronic musician, DJ guy, did a song with them that kinda hit it big in 2010,

so their star sort of started to rise. They were working on their next album, but before they put that out in early 2011, they put out Party Rock Anthem as a single off their first album, which came out two years prior. And it was almost a way to say like, you've probably heard some of our shit on Jersey Shore. Yeah.

This is like the big one, we're LMFAO, we're gonna do a bonkers music video that's like a parody of 28 Days Later. Have you seen the music video for this before? I mean, if I did, it's been like 10 years. In the music video, Sky Blue and Red Fu release party rock anthem and then slip into comas for 28 days, slip into comas.

They slip into coma. That's what I thought of. And then when they wake up, the world has basically been destroyed because everybody is shuffling. Everybody, so there's like zombies on the street and somebody like grabs them as they come out of the hospital like you gotta be careful,

you gotta put these headphones in, don't let them get to you or you'll start shuffling. Basically, their song created a disease that turned people into members of LMFAO. So in the video, a crowd of people shuffles up to this one guy and then when they part, he's wearing fucking leopard print. What are those, Zubas?

What are the big, big, big, big pants called, Zubas? Maybe, I think that sounds right. Anyway, it's a great video. And then people went absolutely apeshit for Party Rock Anthem. And so much so that it boosted sales of their next album, which came out a few months later called, of course, Sorry for Party Rocking.

Which is like the fact that there is a narrative thread between these albums when that definitely doesn't need to be a thing is part of, I think, the infinite charm of party rock anthem. Here's the thing about party rock anthem. If you are still feeling like this is just sort of a, you know, a silly thing to talk about that I don't actually believe in.

This isn't music, this is just noise, Griffin. Here's the thing, Party Rock Anthem was the biggest fucking song ever for a long time. I did not realize this. It hit number one on the music charts of 51 different countries. Wow. It is Australia's best-selling single of all time,

and it is the third best-selling digital song in US history. I wonder if that was like an Olympics thing. Was it maybe on the Olympics? It was everywhere. I mean, it was absolutely everywhere. They performed with Madonna during the Super Bowl. Okay.

And did like Sexy and I Know It and one of their other ones. Like they were fucking massive. They were so huge and they broke up pretty fast. Just sort of citing creative differences, they went on to do their own things. Red Food made some pretty deplorable music, I think, coming out of LMFAO. But for this very brief moment, these two relatives

with ties to Motown Records royalty came out fucking fast and hard, released an album that no one really gave a shit about except for Snooki and MTV, and then they tried again and became the biggest fucking band on the planet for a long time. There is this mystique to LMFAO that I referenced earlier because they insist, Red Fu and Sky Blue, insist that the band and this song

and their whole oeuvre is not a parody. They are not a living parody band of this dance music pop electronic scene that was very ever-present in that time period. So they constantly say, this is just it, this is us. But they're kinda cagey about it because there's no fucking way that you can be like that serious about, you know, sexy and I know it.

Like you can't be that serious about it. Yeah, and to name your next album, Sorry for Party Rocking. Yeah, dude, like it's, come on. But also, they always say it's not parody except for they got sued by Rick Ross for like $7 million because he claimed that the Everyday I'm Shufflin' line was stolen

from a song of his, has a line, Everyday I'm Hustlin'. And they argued like, no, it's parody, it's fair use, but the judge apparently disagreed and they were ruled against in that particular case. It does, that is, I was like, why does that line always sound so familiar to me? That is why. Yeah, huge Rick Ross fan of Every Day I'm Hustlin'.

I don't know, man, this song exists in this, and the band exists in this liminal space of authenticity. You never could get a beat on LMFAO in the way that you felt like you could with a Lil Jon or a T-Pain. Well, Jon and T-Pain can come up, they're multi-talented, you know, diverse bodies of work that they have excelled in all of these different directions,

but there's always this like, you know what they're about. They have a sort of persona that they are very upfront about, that they kind of, but Red Fu and Sky Blue, it's always like, are you, is this a bit, like is it a bit? I was never willing to extend that much,

I feel like, to them, which like at the end of the day, doesn't fucking matter, right? Because I think this song is a bop and I hear it three to four times a day in the car ride to school or- Oh, you listen to it on the way to school now too? Yes, we do a pump up jam for each boy on the drive to school and Henry's is always like,

I want the Super Smash Brothers ultimate theme and Gus is like, party rock amp, or sorry, funky dance music. Every day I'm shuffling. It doesn't matter, right, that authenticity. It just adds to the mystique of this band that popped up, burned bright and fast like a dying star,

was on the fucking Super Bowl, and had the number one, number three digital single of all time in the US, and then boop, was gone. Was gone from our lives as quickly as they appeared. And I find that very, very interesting. One might argue that very few people are shuffling now. I think it's gonna come back around. You think there'll be more shuffling in the future?

I don't think we're gonna get out of this decade without an LMFAO reunion. Well, it depends on the election, you know? I mean, yeah, probably maybe as a lot of things are depending on the results of it. Look at your candidates in your area and figure out whether or not they are in support of shuffling.

Yeah, no one's really committing to it because I think no one really knows how to feel about shuffling. Maybe shuffle in a moderation. Yes, but how can you fucking stop? How can you stop? Maybe they saw the music video for Party Rock Anthem and they thought it was like a warning.

Like if we get too into party rocking, we'll all shuffle and turn into members of LMFAO. LMFAO stands for laughing my freaking ass off. If you're gonna say ass in it, that's what canonically the band acronym stands for, laughing my freaking ass off. Freaking? If you're gonna say ass already,

you know what I mean? Anyway, do you wanna know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. Christina says, I work at an animal hospital and my small wonder is animals with human names. Nothing makes a day better than meeting a dog named John or a cat named Rebecca. That's really good. I do like it.

There's so many, I'm not a pet guy so much anymore, but there's so many good ways to name a name. Yes, I will still, and I know you do too, think of good pet names. I pet. Yes, I will still, and I know you do too, think of good pet names. I really should be keeping track of these, because maybe one day we'll have a pet again. I'm sure we will.

I don't think our two boys are going to allow us to raise them in this house without eventually getting an animal that will live with us. We've been lucky in that it's waves, right? Like there's a week period where all of a sudden we are talking about a pet. And it's usually after we have visited Peeps and Cece and Henry has realized he actually really likes dogs.

We'll get it, well someday. Someday. Tessa says, my small wonder is that someone has installed a miniature Loch Ness monster in the lake near my house. So every time I drive to or from home, I see a little Nessie poking up out of the water. Sometimes a heron sits on its head, which is a bonus wonder.

I like that, I like a bonus wonder mixed in there. That's great. I feel like I'd get a little scared sometimes though. That's a plesiosaur. That's a big beast. Whoa. And if I go jet skiing in the old lake and I see a plesiosaur, I might freak out,

crash my jet ski. The Loch Ness Monster is canonically a plesiosaur? I mean, basically. Okay. True believers are like, it could just be a plesiosaur, which was real. Okay. So you can't say the Loch Ness Monster isn't real.

It might be a real dinosaur. Didn't think about that, did you? Skeptics. That's it. That's it for our show. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay.

You can find a link to that in the episode description. Thanks to maximumfun.org for having us on the network. Check out all the great shows they have popping over at MaximumFun.org. You're gonna find something you really like, I guarantee it. Over at the McElroy merch store, McElroymerch.com, we got a new Trav Nation long sleeve T-shirt that I adore. There's the Taz hunger dice set is back in stock.

We got a Taz 10th anniversary coin. Have you seen it by the way? I mean, I'm looking at it now that you pointed it out. It's really nice, look and feel that. It feels really good. It's got a good weight. Got a good heft to it. Oh, that's really nice.

Yeah, right. It's got all the campaigns around the corners of it. Yeah. Anyway, it's all up at macaroonmerch.com. We got some shows coming up next week, in fact. We're gonna be in Denver and Phoenix. So come out and see us. We're doing Mbem Mbem and Taz.

We're gonna be coming to Indianapolis and Milwaukee later in the year for sort of our last run of shows for 2024. If you go to bit.ly slash Macaroon Tours, you can find out about tickets and all the information. So come check us totally out. That's it for the show. Now you're holding that coin in a sort of like, you're sort of-

Like a Bond villain? You do look sort of like a villain at, like you're playing Baccarat or something. It's, and I see you kind of doing a little fidgety spin with it. That's cool, baby. Yeah, no, I mean, this is arguably a very cool thing. Ooh, did that sound it made?

Oh, that was on my ring. Can you hit that right into the microphone? It's gonna be hard to recreate. That's good metal, folks. Bye. BULLS! Bye! 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞いも 手振り 舞い