Wonderful! - Wonderful! 358: Ready to Rock Since Breakfast

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

Rachel's favorite fedora-rewarded sports feat! Griffin's favorite big scooper!Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoyaPalestine Ch...ildren's Relief Fund: https://www.pcrf.net/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 ["Snowman's Theme"] Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. Snow. Snow. That was pretty good. This is wonderful. Snow. Snow. That was pretty good. I harmonized with you.
Starting point is 00:00:28 You did it actually pretty good. I thought we were gonna do a White Christmas thing and then you did not disappoint. I know, I thought you were doing that song. Oh yeah. From White Christmas. Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. That song's so wild because it like immediately, I think it's Rosemary Clooney.
Starting point is 00:00:44 The first thing that she puts up there is, I wanna wash my face and hair and hands in snow. And it's like you- And she says it over and over again. Over and over and it's, at some point you expect Bing to be like, are you sure about? You wanna wash your face and hair in snow? We're all talking about like the fun snow things
Starting point is 00:01:03 that you would traditionally do. Bing's like, I wanna go sledding. And she's like, I'm washing my face and hair and hands in snow. Yeah, I have thought about that song a lot. Yeah, me too. Not anytime anyone says the word snow. I launch into that.
Starting point is 00:01:21 We got like, I don't know, what was the final count? I was like, a lot of inches. The morning that I checked, it was six inches and it was still snowing that day. I would say probably 10. So, I mean, I was gonna say eight. Eight to 10 for sure. And then we're getting more this weekend.
Starting point is 00:01:39 Just wild, wild. It's wild how quickly it started to feel normal. Cause like Saturday, Friday and Saturday, they're saying like two to three inches. And I'm like, oh, that's nothing. That's wild how quickly it started to feel normal. Cause like Saturday, Friday and Saturday, they're saying like two to three inches. And I'm like, oh, that's nothing. That's nothing at all. We're such like winter people now. I guess so.
Starting point is 00:01:52 We weren't when we were in Texas, but I like it. I got a new coat. I got a new coat. Small wonder. I got a new coat. It's nice. I'm not gonna give the brand, but it's heavy as hell. It's like chain mail. And it has a big furry hood and it feels real nice
Starting point is 00:02:08 to wear out there. I feel like I'm ready. I never really saw the purpose for spending money on a nice winter coat, because I thought you only wear it a few months out of the year, and I'm not really outside for very long. When I am outside, it's considerably better.
Starting point is 00:02:21 Experiencing a nice coat, yeah, is a blessing. Yeah, no, small wonder is just playing, the snow has been nice for us this year. The kids have been like really into it and had some fun times playing out there with them and we're always stressed out about like doing enough stuff with them during the day on the weekend or a day off so that like we all feel like we did something and that they got a little bit of exercise
Starting point is 00:02:44 and got their energy out and snow kinda like, I don't know, snow is very exhausting to be in. Yeah, when the weather is just cold and it's just kind of miserable and dark, being outside just seems like a non-option, but with snow, it's like, well, that's an activity in itself. Another small wonder if I can just rattle these off,
Starting point is 00:03:04 microwave popcorn, I was gonna do a big wonder segment on it and then you pointed out like there's probably not enough legs for that and that's true. Also I've done non-microwave popcorn before. This was a fun conversation last night where Griffin was like, heads up, I'm gonna do microwave popcorn because we both have been really into it lately.
Starting point is 00:03:20 For like the past two days, this is hot off the presses. For years, we had none in our house. For, I don't know if it was like we were worried about waking up Gus or something. For like the past two days, this is hot off the presses. For years, we had none in our house for, I don't know if it was like we were worried about waking up Gus or something. We just stopped doing it and it's returned in a big way. It rips, it tastes so good, it's so hot. And he's like, well, I have done popcorn before.
Starting point is 00:03:35 And I was like, do you think there's enough? Probably not. We've been having nice nights watching the blues, absolutely go beast mode out there with the six two in against the Ducks. I mean, to be fair, they had lost two in a row prior to that. Yeah, but then they went, well, the one before that, they almost won because they were up by quite a bit.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I watched that video of Monty the coach of the Blues just like sitting down. That I sent you? Yeah. Oh no, no, no, different one. No, it was that one. He sits down in front of the press and he's like, I hope you guys are ready to rock, rock.
Starting point is 00:04:03 We're ready to rock out there. It's like, how's Fox go? He's like, he's like, I hope you guys are ready to rock, rock. We're ready to rock out there. It's like, how's Fox go? He's like, he's ready to rock. And then he said that he'd like been ready to rock since breakfast. It doesn't mean anything, Monty, but they sure did. Do you have a small wonder? You could talk about Le Cirque.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great idea. We have been watching The Circle France. We were kind of looking for something to watch and I was like, you know, a season of The Circle would go down real smooth and Netflix has France and it is really good season. It's fantastic. I looked online like, what's the good international season
Starting point is 00:04:40 of The Circle and everyone suggested season one of The Circle France. Everyone's playing really strategic. The cast is like really memorable, I will say. You get to meet Ines who was on Perfect Match, this most recent season of North American Perfect Match. So get to see her origin story a little bit. Everybody's playing hard from like episode one with the exception maybe of a pair of ladies
Starting point is 00:05:02 who get eliminated very quickly. They're older than everyone else there and they're pretending to be like a 21 year old man and they have no idea how to do it. They use the hashtag what a gas two different times that everyone is like, what? Yeah, that's- Just immediately they are like,
Starting point is 00:05:23 oh, this is an older person. That show goes down so smooth, so, so are like, oh, this is an older person. That show goes down so smooth. So, so smooth. You go first this week. I do. What do you got? I have something that I'm gonna talk about
Starting point is 00:05:34 in the context of hockey, but exists in other sports. And that is the Hetrick. Oh yeah. This came to mind because the other game we watched recently, Saad, who has not scored many goals at all this season. That's Brandon Saad, his Christian name, for those curious.
Starting point is 00:05:52 He got a hat trick. Yes. He hadn't scored, like he scored hardly at all this season. Yeah, that was crazy. He was on such a dry spell. And then in one game, he just turned it on and scored three goals. And when I looked at an article the next day, they referred to it as a natural hat trick.
Starting point is 00:06:14 And I thought that is not something I'm familiar with. So I did some research. It is when a player scores three consecutive goals uninterrupted by any other player scoring for either team. Oh, wow. So like he for three goals, he was the only one scoring. That's why I didn't know that that was a thing. I thought a natural hat trick meant that one of them
Starting point is 00:06:35 was not an open net like. That's what I assumed too. Like they had pulled their goalie. Yeah. But wow, that's even more of an accomplishment it seems like. The record for the fastest natural hat trick is 21 seconds set by Bill Moesico in 1952 for the Chicago Blackhawks.
Starting point is 00:06:56 21 seconds. How do you get across the ice that fast? That must be right off the face-off. Right off the face-off, a freak shot three times in a row. So a hat trick, I'm sure most people are familiar with it, but it's just when you get like three points in a row or three, like it's used in cricket also. Oh, interesting.
Starting point is 00:07:15 Do you wanna hear what it means in cricket? I mean, are you okay if my eyes glaze over and roll back in my head while you explain it? Cause I will never understand how cricket works. It is when you take three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. Yes, fantastic. But yeah, in hockey, it's three goals by the same player.
Starting point is 00:07:36 You gotta, here's a thing I didn't understand about hockey, and I definitely don't understand it about soccer either, is that scoring a goal is really, really hard. And most players don't do it every game. Almost everyone doesn't do it every game. That would be completely insane. People who get long streaks of scoring goals in consecutive games is like a freak occurrence
Starting point is 00:08:03 worth sort of celebrating and turns them into all-stars. So the idea of being able to do it three times in one game, it does not happen often at all. It is a very rare occurrence. Most hockey games are relatively low scoring. Like it's not typical for a team to score over four goals in a game.
Starting point is 00:08:22 So to get three is kind of remarkable. Yeah, exactly. The record unsurprisingly goes to Wayne Gretzky who got 50 hat tricks in his career. I saw an image and I don't know if it was doctored but it was Wayne Gretzky holding up the white poster board that said you miss every shot you don't take Wayne Gretzky,
Starting point is 00:08:44 Michael Scott and he's written Wayne Gretzky, Michael Scott, and he had written Wayne Gretzky underneath Michael Scott. Again, I don't know if that was doctored, a doctored photograph or not. Yeah, right. Holding up signs is a big pocket of like, boomer memes. Yeah. Oh, absolutely, because you'll see Robert Downey Jr. holding up a sign and it's like,
Starting point is 00:09:00 Robert Downey Jr. really likes O'Lestra. Like what? What? That's wild. It's a pretty amazing niche in the internet. Yeah, Sigourney Weaver really likes these THC gummies? The sign says it, so it's gotta be true. Dwayne The Rock Johnson is really invested in Toyota? It's strange. Now, the idea that Toyota would do this is interesting to me. Dwayne The Rock Johnson is really invested in Toyota?
Starting point is 00:09:25 It's strange. Now the idea that Toyota would do this is interesting to me. I bet you he celebrates Toyota. Well, so it was Calvin Peeing on Honda and Calvin hugging Toyota. Calvin hugging Toyota? I like this new idea I just had. Of just Calvin.
Starting point is 00:09:43 To put a positive spin on the crude, Yeah. like car decal of Calvin P on something. Yeah. Let's do something. It's Calvin cleaning P off of a Honda logo. What are we talking about? What are we doing?
Starting point is 00:09:58 Oh, is it too late to make that our max one? Will you contact somebody and see if we can get that? Yeah, let me contact Bill fucking Watterson just to get the sign off on this. It'll be the first time anyone's ever contacted him to get the sign off on a piece of Calvin related merchandise, but it seems like the right thing to do, support the arts. Okay, so why is it called a hat trick?
Starting point is 00:10:23 There's a lot of lore around this, but the story that I kept seeing over and over again is there was a hat company in Canada that was offering free hats to players who scored three goals. Pretty good deal, I guess. So there was a company called Biltmore Hat Company that sponsored a junior affiliate team of the New York Rangers
Starting point is 00:10:51 called the Biltmore Mad Hatters. Cool fucking name. When the Mad Hatters player recorded a hat trick, hats were thrown on the ice, and the player received a new Biltmore Fedora. Well, they're the Mad Hatters. They gotta get hats. This all makes sense all of a sudden.
Starting point is 00:11:05 No, but it's important that you know that it was a new Biltmore fedora after the game. So not a hockey hat. No, just a fedora. Traditionally. Just a nice fedora. That's awesome. Hockey would be a lot cooler if all the guys were out there wearing fedoras, I think.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Just tipping them to each other as they pass in the ice. I know. Suffering terrible, terrible head wounds. to Auras, I think, just tipping them to each other as they pass in the ice. Suffering terrible, terrible head wounds. There are other kinds of hat tricks. I mentioned the natural hat trick, the Gordie Howe hat trick. My favorite. You know what's interesting about it? Okay, so the Gordie Howe hat trick
Starting point is 00:11:43 is when you get an assist, you get a goal, and you get into a fight all in the same game. So when I learned about this, it made me fall a little bit deeper in love with hockey. That's extraordinarily rare, right? Like usually you don't see more than one fight a game, if any. The idea that player would assist and score
Starting point is 00:12:04 in the same game is like, I've only seen it happen, I think, two or three times. They'll have to watch it a lot. Well, in your primary, fighters are typically defensemen. You know, your goal scorers are not always. So the thing that's interesting about that is that Gordie Howe himself only recorded two in his career. The record-
Starting point is 00:12:20 I don't know who Gordie Howe is. What team was he on? Oh, he's like one of the most famous accomplished hockey players ever. I mean, I know the name, but I don't know his career because obviously that was way before. I mean, he played for a few teams, the Detroit Red Wings, the Hartford Whalers,
Starting point is 00:12:40 and then a team called the Houston Arrows, A-E-R-O-S. That's a cool name too. I bet you Hodgman's got a head of that team. And the person that has the most Gordie Howe hat tricks was actually a player called Rick Touche, who did it 18 times in his career. 18 times! Yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:13:02 Like it had to be up to a point where he would get a goal and an assist and then just go looking for a fight. I haven't like looked up statistics on this, but it feels like fighting is considerably less common these days than it was back in like the 90s. It used to be multiple times a game. Like it was unusual to not see a fight.
Starting point is 00:13:20 And I have to imagine that is because there has been a tightening up of what is permitted. They don't let them play anymore, you know, the refs? Well, fighting is explicitly not play. Whenever there's a fight, everyone kind of stops playing for a little while. Yeah, you're right. But it's, I don't know, it's always fucking wild
Starting point is 00:13:41 whenever it does happen. I never thought that would be a part of this sport that I enjoy, but it is. It usually happens because of some sort of retaliatory, like you got a really nasty hit on one of our look forwards, so I'm gonna beat the shit out of you as soon as we start. And or like our team is trailing and the crowd has gone completely quiet
Starting point is 00:14:04 and we'd like to rally them. Now, when we say fight, it's very rare that somebody comes out of that thing with significant like face damage. You know, like it isn't gruesome. They tussle, it's more of a tussle. As soon as a player falls to the ice, they like break it up.
Starting point is 00:14:17 They stop it, yeah. Okay, and then there's one I never heard of called a rat trick. A rat trick? This is recent, this is 1995, and this story is so amazing. Okay, so the Florida Panthers captain, Scott Mellonby, killed a rat in the Panthers locker room
Starting point is 00:14:39 with his hockey stick. Why? I mean it- What's wrong with him? It was probably a rat in there that was, you know, freaking everybody out and like maybe causing some damage. And so he- Killed it with a hockey stick? With his hockey stick, yes.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Okay. And then went on to score two goals later that night. So they said the rat was one, the rat counts as one, and then the traditional goals is the other two, completing the three. Yes. I guess that sucks, I think, actually. If you hit a hot dog really hard with your hockey stick, The rat counts as one and then the traditional goals is the other two, completing the three. Yes.
Starting point is 00:15:06 I guess that sucks, I think actually. If you hit a hot dog really hard with your hockey stick and then you go out and score two goals, you wouldn't be like, he got a hot dog trick today. Well, here's what happened after. Some Florida fans threw plastic rats onto the ice that they continued all the way through the 1996 playoffs. Which I don't know how everybody had plastic rats.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Were they like giveaways? I have to imagine they were giveaways. It sounds like some sort of like union making a statement about like hockey strike busting. Anyway, the league eventually banned the activity and modified a rule. Rat killing? Yeah, that's a good one to ban. To impose a minor penalty against the home team
Starting point is 00:15:55 for a violation. Of what? I think for throwing things that aren't hats onto the ice in mass quantity. So you think, but then they would get a penalty for it? Yeah. That's weird. Well, it's just a way to discourage fans from like, how are you gonna get them to stop?
Starting point is 00:16:11 Yeah, I guess that's true. Like you can't, if a thousand people do it, you can't kick everybody out. I guess that's true, yeah. The other thing I will just say is that after the play has stopped and the hats are collected, they're either turned over to charity or the player that scores the hat trick
Starting point is 00:16:29 has the option of choosing a couple hats. Apparently Alex Ovechkin, who has over 30 hat tricks in his career, by the way, is said to be fond of looking through the pile and picking out one or two nice ones. I bet that's nice. But they don't put them by the exit, like in a big trash can and you can root through it
Starting point is 00:16:48 if you want. At the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa, the senators keep the hats for two weeks at guest services and offer them back to the fans as long as they can properly identify them. That's sweet. That's like the most Canadian thing I've ever heard and I love it.
Starting point is 00:17:04 I know, I know. Anyway, that's the hat trick. I love it. Me too. I didn't know there I love it. I know, I know. Anyway, that's the hat trick. I love it. Me too. I didn't know there were so many variations on it. I know. Can I steal your way? Yes.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Okay. I want to talk about the powerful, mighty, majestic Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper firefighting airplane. Whoa. We record this show. There were so many words you said there before I knew what you were talking about. We record this show well in advance of when it comes out.
Starting point is 00:17:39 So I don't know what the current status of the LA wildfires are. Obviously it is horrifying now, and more or less everybody that I know who lives in LA has been affected by it. And so when this episode comes out, I don't know what the current status of it is gonna be. I know it's going to take a very long time to recover from.
Starting point is 00:17:59 There's a lot of mutual aid organizations. You can go to mutualaidla.org, has a lot of resources if you wanna provide them or if you need them. But one thing that has been used to sort of combat the flames this week has been firefighting aircraft, specifically the Canadair CL-415, which is colloquially known, that's a tough word.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Colloquially. Colloquially known as the super scooper, which our neighbors to the north have flown out to help us out. Firefighting airplanes as a concept have been around for about a century, which I was surprised by. Wow. They were originally like retired
Starting point is 00:18:47 or salvaged World War II aircraft. Yeah, that makes sense. They had some of those lying around. And so in a pretty like slapdash manner, they would modify those planes and like put big tanks on them in a kind of ad hoc manner. And then they'd be able to dump, you know, a couple hundred gallons of water
Starting point is 00:19:06 before having to go back and refill. Yeah, I mean, if a plane is built to hold weaponry, like it can probably handle a large amount of water too. Yes, but not a ton, right? Because there's so many, in researching this topic, the number of kind of like design and aeronautical considerations that go into
Starting point is 00:19:26 making a firefighting aircraft is like mind boggling. The first and sort of most, I don't know, problematic issue is that when you dump a bunch of weight off of an airplane, it flies different pretty fast. And like having to like design around it. So like these old aircraft were not designed to do this thing, they were very much retrofitted. And so in the 60s, there was a company,
Starting point is 00:19:55 I mean, it's still around called Canadair that was contracted to design and manufacture a specialized firefighting airplane, which they worked on for several years. And then at the 1965 Paris Air Show, they revealed their design, which was the CL-215, otherwise known as the Super Scooper. It could be more accurately classified as a flying boat.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Right? Because it is a seaplane and it's fucking enormous. It's so big. It's so big with these two huge engines and these long, really high wings. And it's designed for sort of like slower flying, right? It's not going to be making any like transatlantic commuter flights anytime soon.
Starting point is 00:20:41 It's designed for like slower flying through high winds and you know and dangerous conditions. They had all these problems to solve for. Corrosion is one of them, right? This is an airplane that scoops up a lot of salty water. And how do you provide enough thrust to lift a thousand or so gallons of water into the air over and over and over and over again?
Starting point is 00:21:04 There's all these logistical concerns. Um, so the CL-215 was like expensive as hell. Canada's initial like production run of the aircraft that was then like sort of picked up, uh, in several provinces throughout Canada and, and, uh, other places around the world, the original line was just 30 planes, but the result was like a skyboat that could fly twice as fast as like other firefighting craft available at the time while carrying about 1400 gallons of water, which is so, so much water.
Starting point is 00:21:39 But the true genius of the CL-215 design, and it's the same as like the current model as well, is how it earned its name, the Super Scooper, it would drop its payload on a Blaze, which it could do in less than a second, which is a lot. The plane could then make a water landing, but keep the engines running, keep moving forward, it would scoop up another 1,440 gallons of water
Starting point is 00:22:06 in about 12 seconds. And then it would be back up off the water, back up into the sky. Are there videos of this? Did you watch videos of this? There are, I watched a lot of videos of this and it's very, very cool because you see them come down, make a sea landing,
Starting point is 00:22:20 they're on the water for like 20 seconds total, and then they're back up. Each run just takes several minutes, depending on like how far inland they're having to fly. But then when they do fly inland, they're flying into smoke and 90 mile an hour gusts of wind. The front of the plane I was reading is like made of really thick aluminum, like heavy aluminum, because, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:44 if you're landlocked, you can't go into the ocean. So sometimes you're scooping up water from a lake, which might have shallows, might have like old tree stumps buried under the water that you have to kind of like smash through. These things are monsters that are capable of this like remarkable logistical feat. And it genuinely does look very, very cool
Starting point is 00:23:07 when they do what they do. But they're able to make these trips like within the span of a few minutes over and over and over and over again without ever having to stop at an airfield. And so they are really, really incredibly effective at what they do. I was watching videos of them and reading comments
Starting point is 00:23:25 and the comments were almost all from people who were like, this thing saved my, like we were in the middle of this terrible wildfire and then we started to see this like giant, you know, albatross in the sky just dumping an entire, you know, lake onto the forest. I can't imagine the impact and the sound that that makes like when that much water falls from the sky.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Yeah. Like that's the thing that I like, have the hardest time wrapping my mind around. Like, what is the sensation of that? I don't know, that's wild to think about. So in the early 90s, they continued to kind of iterate on the 215 and like whenever some new aeronautical kind of innovation happened, they would sort of adapt
Starting point is 00:24:09 the line a little bit. But then in the early 90s, they made the successor, the CL415, which is what is around right now and what has been in LA. They made some additions. There's a stronger turboprop engine. It can go faster and it's more maneuverable. They added air conditioning in the cockpit,
Starting point is 00:24:25 which I read and I was like, that's silly. But then I thought, I bet it gets pretty hot actually in there. So the 415 Super Scooper is what you see out there fighting the LA fires. One of them is grounded right now. There's two on loan from Canada. One is grounded because some dipshit flew a drone into it.
Starting point is 00:24:42 And so now they're having to repair it. Big ups to whoever did that, federal crime, fucking idiot. So in 2016, a different company called Viking Air acquired this sort of like CL415 line and has been working on the successor, the CL515, which is going to be faster and have more capacity. It is expected to go into production in the next couple of years.
Starting point is 00:25:06 But again, like these are not widely created or circulated aircraft because the CL415 costs $30 million to produce. Because it has to have all of these different like insane specifications to it in order to accomplish this feat. Yeah, well, and I wonder too about the pilot training for that,
Starting point is 00:25:27 because I have to imagine that it's a very specialized skill. Where within the span of one second, the weight differential of the plane changes by 12,000 pounds. It is like crazy, my knowledge of aviation is so limited. Yeah, of course. And so like, but my assumption is always like, it is really hard to get things up off the ground.
Starting point is 00:25:53 And so you have to factor in all of these different kind of like elements of weight. I mean, if you think about just like a commercial airplane, you know how sometimes they talk about like, we have too much weight on this side of the plane. Like that's just people riding. This is an aircraft that can pick up and drop off 12,000 pounds of water
Starting point is 00:26:12 really, really, really quickly. And it is just really, really fucking good at what it does. And it's very cool to see it in action. So hopefully that second one gets back up off the ground soon and hopefully by the time this episode comes out, the wildfires will be under control. And recovery can really start. Again, that link is mutualfundla.org.
Starting point is 00:26:37 There's so many different ways to help out people who have been affected by the wildfires. And I would encourage you to go to that link and find an option that you could maybe use, or if you are in need of something, there is no shortage of resources out there for people who need it. Do you want to know what our friends at home
Starting point is 00:26:53 are talking about? Yes. Sarah says, My small wonder is the process of peeling and eating a mandarin orange. My fingers smell like citrus after. It is always perfect inside, and when I separate those tiny sections
Starting point is 00:27:04 and pop them in my mouth, it makes me feel like a giant eating regular sized orange. I wanna eat a mandarin orange right now. Wow, I'm really noticing the way you say that fruit. Orange? Yeah. Orange. I think I say orange.
Starting point is 00:27:16 Orange. And you just say orange. Orange. Can I say something? When I was saying it just now, I also was like, that's weird. Am I saying it different now? I don't know, I, can I say something? When I was saying it just now, I also was like, that's weird. Am I saying it different now? I don't know, I've never noticed it.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Let me, hand me the orange paint. Hand me the orange paint, orange. I think it's just an Appalachian thing. I think it's how deep into your lineage you wanna go. It comes out a lot, I've noticed these days. I don't know why. You're tired. It's probably just when you're tired. When I'm noticed these days. I don't know why. You're tired. It's probably just when you're tired.
Starting point is 00:27:45 When I'm tired, yeah. When I'm tired. Arlo says, my swell wonder this week is on a gas dyer. Re-listening to early EPs of Deathblart, reminding me just how great she is. And I've been spending my holidays re-watching some of her great performances. Strongly recommend Reefer Madness, the musical,
Starting point is 00:28:00 if you haven't seen it. Oh, we haven't seen it. I've seen Reefer Madness. Oh, okay. Well, I haven't seen the musical. I've seen Reefer Madness, the musical if you haven't seen it. Oh, we haven't seen it. I've seen Reference. Oh, okay, well, I haven't seen the musical. I've seen Reference musical. Okay, well, yeah, I probably should have guessed. Yeah, we watched a Christmas movie called A Cluster Funk Christmas
Starting point is 00:28:16 that is like a parody of Hallmark Christmas movies that Anna Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch made. It's definitely gonna be in the rotation. It's a kind of amazing, I feel like for a few years now, we have found a new holiday film that we will bring with us into future Christmases. Yeah, I think it mostly hits. It's not like amazing, perfect.
Starting point is 00:28:36 There's a lot of jokes per minute. There's a lot of, the JPM is pretty high. But whenever I see Anna Gasteyer show up during my annual watches of Paul Blart Malkok. And Rachel Dratch. Well, Paul Blart Malkok. Well, Paul Blart Malkok too. Rachel Trash sadly not in Paul Blart Malkok too, but Anna Gassdier is, and she's hysterical.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Hey, thanks for listening. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these for theme song, Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to that in the episode description. Thanks to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. Go check out maximumfun.org and see all the great shows they've got happening over there and find a new one for you to just fall in love with.
Starting point is 00:29:12 We have announced our first tour dates of 2025. We're gonna be doing Mbim Bam and Taz in Tampa on February 20th and 21st. And then February 22nd, we're gonna be doing Mbim-Bam in Jacksonville, Florida. Tickets go on sale, well, they're on sale now, actually, by the time you hear this. Go to bit.ly slash McRoy Tours
Starting point is 00:29:30 and see if there's any available for the city near you. We got new episodes of Clubhouse. Clubhouse is back. You can watch Travis recap all of the first season of Yellowstone for an hour and 45 minutes. It's much more entertaining than it sounds. And we have some new merch up in the merch store. We have an energy's dragon pin featuring our dad from the McElroy family clubhouse.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Uh, and, uh, 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to the Palestine children's relief fund. Uh, that's all at McElroy merch.com. Thank you for listening and, uh, join us again next week and we'll have more great stuff for you coming soon. Don't touch the dial and don't ever listen to another podcast. Wow, all right. Don't even think about it,
Starting point is 00:30:19 except for the other Arab ones. You know what I think about a lot when we're trying to end an episode? What? I mean, how would Clint McRoy do it? of the other Arab ones. You know what I think about a lot when we're trying to end an episode? What? I mean, how would Clint McElroy do it? Like he had years and years in radio. Do you recall?
Starting point is 00:30:31 I mean, he worked at a radio station, so he'd just give a call sign, right? Oh, okay. So keep it, stay tuned to Good Times, Great Country, W103.3 WTCR. There you go, that could be our sign. I just gave myself chills. Hey! What can I do? My home Hey! What can I do? My home
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