Wonderful! - Wonderful! 361: A Field of Breasts

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

Griffin's favorite Canadian unfunny funny show! Rachel's favorite cardboard deduction game!Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoy...aWorld Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. This is Smokey Rick, and you're listening to Wonderful It's Smokey Rick and the Stink Dog, live in your free morning drive. Wait, am I the stink dog? I said stink dog, and I didn't even think about the fact that that would have to be the role that you would fill. It just felt like that is like.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Unless I'm your producer that just like chimes in every once in a while. And it's an affectionate name. Like I don't think. You know that's right, Stink Dog. Right, and I don't think Stink Dog stinks, and I don't think Smokey Rick would think that. Theirs is a knowing sort of relationship.
Starting point is 00:00:55 I like that. There's an understanding there. There's a lot of mutual, a lot of respect between Smokey Rick and Stink Dog. But this is wonderful to show, we talk about things we like that's good that we're into. Do you wanna explain why you brought Smokey Rick? I'm sick.
Starting point is 00:01:08 I am sick. And I'm brave, I think, for saying that. Brave for doing the work. Brave for recording the show. And parent being a dad is brave when you're this sick, I think. And most people agree with me and the courage that I possess, the tremendous amount of courage and resolve.
Starting point is 00:01:32 But we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about things we like that's good that we are into. And do you have any of the small wonders that I crave so much? I got a couple. Okay, you start. One, all of the folks that we work with
Starting point is 00:01:53 to make all of our podcasts and videos and stuff, we're all in town this past weekend. And I got to see all of them, got to go out to lunch, didn't get to do a whole lot because we had sick kids and I was sick. But got to see everyone. It was really nice. I really like all the people that we work with.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, you ate food at a table. Ate really good food. Had nice mimosas and then some shakshuka. It was like a Mexican restaurant. So like they- A 1245 mimosa. Yeah, it's brunch, honey. It's brunch.
Starting point is 00:02:26 It's brunch. You look so confused. That's a normal time to have a mimosa and shakshuka with harapas. I guess that's fair. Yeah, I always think of brunch as like before noon because once you hit noon, it's lunch. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:42 But nobody makes a rule around that, I guess. There's no rules about it. Yeah. Also, what was the other one? I had another one, but I can't think of it. So I guess it wasn't that important. Oh, the new episode of Very Important People was at Koyama. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:58 Playing a ghost is very good, very, very good. Was that enough time for you? Well, I guess not. Wow, you'd think so, huh, very good. Was that enough time for you? Well, I guess not. Wow, you'd think so, huh, wouldn't you? I'm gonna say a hack I developed, which isn't really a hack, it just means that I always have Gatorade in the house. This is gonna be cool.
Starting point is 00:03:20 This is related to the illness that we just mentioned. This is related to the illness that we just mentioned. Yeah. The boys really believe in the healing power of Gatorade. I am included in the boys. I don't so much, but I know that it gets them to drink fluid when they're ill, and I like that. Right. So I'm always happy because they will automatically
Starting point is 00:03:44 ask for Gatorade when they are ill. And I always feel very proud of myself when we just do actually have Gatorade. Yes. Always, yeah. Rachel always keeps a stockpile. This beautiful sports, this beautiful sour sports bush. Blue and red, in case you're curious.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Blue and red are the colors in our house right now. Henry told us today that the blue hurts his throat, but the red doesn't, so that he wants the red. God, I love these boys. God, I love these boys and God, I love these boys, and they're wonderful imaginations. Griffin and I have gotten pretty good at just not disputing certain things with the children,
Starting point is 00:04:12 because what's the point? What is the point? There is a point. I go first this week. Okay. Gonna talk about a television show, one that we are very new newcomers to. We just started it this weekend, right?
Starting point is 00:04:25 Just this past weekend. And folks, this past weekend was a fucking nightmare, of course, on all fronts. I would say at home dealing with sick kids and being kind of sick myself. Yeah. Nationally sort of news-wise, just a real horror show. And so at night, when the kids go to sleep,
Starting point is 00:04:50 Rachel and I have like an hour and a half there where we get to watch TV and hang out and do whatever. I feel like we end up talking about this every week. Yeah. We treasure that hour and a half so much. It's a very special hour and a half. We only have a few days a week where that time is guaranteed, like Traders Thursday,
Starting point is 00:05:07 Severance on Fridays, yes, if there's a hockey game, cool, unless they get their asses beat five nothing, then it's not as fun to watch that. So we were between programs, we were like, let's find something to watch. I had seen a clip on Soshi of a show, and that's what I'm gonna talk about because we started it, and it's fucking great.
Starting point is 00:05:24 It's called LOL Last One Laughing Canada. It's the Canadian edition of LOL Last One Laughing. Are we watching the first season? It is the first and right now only season, I believe. What a strong start. So there is a show that I could have sworn we've talked about before, but according to wonderful.fyi we have not
Starting point is 00:05:44 called Documental. Documental is a Japanese competition show, and the premise is very simple. They take 10 comedians and they lock them in a room for six hours, and the only rule is if you laugh or if you smile in a big way, if you break, right, if you clearly visibly break, you lose. Usually they will give you a yellow card
Starting point is 00:06:07 for the first infraction and then a red card for the second infraction. I appreciate that system actually. Me too, me too. Like that it's not just one and done. Yeah, because everybody, because then everybody's careless, right? So it gives you a chance to kind of like sober up
Starting point is 00:06:21 and say like, well, okay, I really need to pay attention. The show, documentary, is, there's been like, I don't know, eight seasons of it up and say like, well, okay, I really need to pay attention. The show, Documental, is, there's been like, I don't know, eight seasons of it, I feel like, at this point, it's been going for a while. It is hysterically funny. It is extremely, extremely funny. It also, I feel like the reason we haven't talked about it much here is because it also gets like,
Starting point is 00:06:39 extremely gross, like really cringy. And it's fascinating from like a human studies perspective of like the kind of desperation that sets in when these comedians are trying to make each other laugh and not getting that laugh, what they resort to. Yeah, it's usually not- The depths of depravity that they resort to. Nobody starts out gross, typically,
Starting point is 00:07:02 usually after an hour or so, people start to think like in an anthropological way of like at our core as humans. And so then it's just like all butts. And then it's like, I'll just spread my butt cheeks if you are real far. Or like one season that guy just like pulls his penis out and just like pees on the floor
Starting point is 00:07:22 and they have to like censor it all out. And it gets, it does get people like That works, but it's also like kind of it's it is yucky It is interesting like there's a lot about Japanese comedy like that entire industry that I find really fascinating in the way It's like stratified and there's like genres and teams and like that stuff has like a really heavy Yeah, this place on it. And so like there's this social hierarchy. And anyway, it's cool. It's a great show. It's on Amazon.
Starting point is 00:07:48 A bunch of seasons of it are on Prime. That format is rock solid as evidenced by the fact that the show has now been adapted as Last One Laughing in 28 different countries. Canada is one of which. I believe Last One Laughing UK starts this year, but we started watching LOL Canada. It's the show that we're discussing today.
Starting point is 00:08:13 I'll start here. My exposure to Canadian comedy started at an extremely young age where like dad had like SCTV tapes, you know, playing at all times. I watched Kids in the Hall before I was like old enough to understand it. Watched, loved like the Tom Green show, loved Who's Line, watched Who's Line pretty religiously,
Starting point is 00:08:37 which was a mostly Canadian affair. And this show, LOL Canada, in its first season, first of all, hosted by the constantly bewildered and overwhelmed Jay Baruchel. What a wild choice. Such a wild choice. I'm so here for it. I think he gets his sea legs under him a bit.
Starting point is 00:08:57 We're on like episode four now and he seems a little bit more confident. Beforehand, he's just so nervous, visibly nervous. He is like, I mean, maybe not by far, but seems to be like one of three young people on the show. Yeah, there is a lot of- Everybody there is like a seasoned professional. Established, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:17 But just like cussing between every word in the way that you do when you're like, let's just fucking, uh, fucking, take a fucking look at the fucking screen. But like, he also, there is a tremendous amount're like, let's just fucking, fucking take a fucking look at the fucking screen. But like he also, there is a tremendous amount of like, I don't know, reverence that he has for everybody on the show, which is like, it creates a very, very good vibe, right?
Starting point is 00:09:36 Yeah, that's what's really smart about it. Because if the host is too polished, if the host isn't like kind of in awe, like that was part of documentary too, where the host is too polished, if the host isn't like kind of in awe, like that was part of documentary too, where the host is like a legitimate fan and just kind of tickled to get to watch this. And that really adds to the show. It really does.
Starting point is 00:09:54 So while they're doing the six hours of trying not to laugh, you do cut back to this room where Jay Baruchel is watching them like a hawk. And it does add something to like see him busting up laughing at something. There's like, hawk. And it does add something to like see him busting up, laughing at something. There's like, I don't know, comedians trying to make each other laugh is kind of its own sort of beast. And then when you add this layer of like,
Starting point is 00:10:13 you're not allowed to laugh, you're not allowed to corpse, right? Like it really escalates it. Knowing that that is traditionally a very hard thing for a comedian when they are performing, like when they go to a club and nobody is laughing, like how devastating that can be. So to be in a room full of comedians and not getting laughs. Which is in of itself like kind of funny, right?
Starting point is 00:10:33 Like a lot of people struggle not to laugh when someone goes out there and does a bit that just fucking tanks. Because that's funny, like the situation they are in to make each other tank is a funny situation. There's so many elements of this, right? So like that is the structure of the show. It's really good, it's really strong.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Throw in generations of Canadian talent. Yeah. Oh, and we should say the space that they're in on this show. Oh yeah. Is kind of set up like a living area in that there is like a table and chairs and a kitchen and then like a sitting area and then a stage.
Starting point is 00:11:08 There's a stage with a live band that they can use. So like at one point, Tom Green gets up there. It just starts delivering this run of really, really, really corny jokes delivered deadpan with the band, like giving him little stingers after every punchline. And then there's like a locker room where they can keep a bag of props. A lot of props, a lot of costume pieces.
Starting point is 00:11:30 So generations, different generations of comedy, Canadian comedy titans, Tom Green, Dave Foley from Kids in the Hall, May Martin, who has, I mean, Amazing Special, was on Taskmaster. Colin Mochery, from Whose Line. Caroline Ray from Hollywood Squares. The 90s. The 90s.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Andrew Fung from Kim's Convenience, who is hysterically funny. Just like a bunch of people from different spheres, right? But they all know each other. They all are all informed by each other. They all like, you know, are all informed by each other's sort of like styles, which I find like when May Martin meets Tom Green, it is like there's an amount of like, holy shit,
Starting point is 00:12:15 like I grew up watching. There's people there who can't believe that they're up against some of the other people there. And then Tom Green sort of recognizes that and hones in on May Martin like a bird of prey. There is an assassin quality where somebody will realize they have something and they will just hit it over and over. Or recognize weakness.
Starting point is 00:12:35 So like May Martin just like instantly like starts really visibly struggling not to laugh. And Tom Green just like descends with a kind of brutality that is just so fucking funny. Just so good. And doing like characteristic Tom Green bits of just like absurdity on repeat, even if nobody is reacting. And it's just like laughing at something funny
Starting point is 00:12:58 is a reflexive thing, right? Like it's a startle response more than anything else. And so it's easy, especially when you have like a very developed sense of humor and like an appetite for it. To laugh at stuff and to suppress that is so unnatural. And so it requires a constant focus. And so half the time when someone laughs,
Starting point is 00:13:18 it's because someone just got them, right? Like someone got them with a really, really good joke. The other half, it's because they just lost focus. They stopped paying attention for one second. There was a really good one where Caroline Ray is in the locker room and just tries on like a silly outfit and looks in the mirror and it's just like, no, like immediately knows, like she fucked up.
Starting point is 00:13:37 There's also like a level of courtesy. I was talking to Griffin a lot about this. Like if you are in a room with somebody who was like an idol for you, and you know they're trying to be funny, part of you, I think, in just like a show of respect, where you just kind of giggle, and if you're not focused,
Starting point is 00:13:54 like that can happen really easily. Really, really easy, especially when like, I don't know, man, I feel like Colin Mochrie and Dave Foley are both really good at the kind of like throwaway, like reacting to the thing, like reacting to the thing and then reacting to the thing, saying something that is like hysterical
Starting point is 00:14:11 and that is how they get each other. Dave Foley and Colin Mochrie are like two samurai, like ages, like elder samurai facing off atop like the cliff's edge. Like it is truly bewilder and magical to watch. Because a lot of them, especially since there's a stage, like just do their material. And you can see everybody,
Starting point is 00:14:33 it's like they're on a roller coaster. They're just like all gripping their chairs, just trying to get through it. It's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. And the vibe is just, the vibe is very good. That's the Canadian one I like more than documentary because the vibe in documentary
Starting point is 00:14:50 becomes very kind of like machismo almost. Like there's this weird aggression to what they're doing. Yeah. Like actual, like physical, like aggression at times. And the Canadian one just feels like a hangout, you know? It does, it feels like, yeah, it feels like, I don't know how to describe it. I still adore documentary, but there's something kind of like,
Starting point is 00:15:17 and I think Jay Baruchel kind of like helps bring this energy to where it's just like a fun time, like it's just a fun time and it's a funny thing that we're all doing here and it's just very lighthearted and very, very pure and good. Yeah, and there's also like something about it for me, like you always hear about comedians, like if there's a show happening
Starting point is 00:15:36 and there's multiple comedians performing, you always hear about them like hanging out backstage and you think like, oh, that must be cool to be in a room full of like funny people just hanging out. And it's like, oh, that's what the show is. And they pick at each other in a way that seems like very often, like watching Dave Foley take apart somebody's bit,
Starting point is 00:15:55 like to their face in a way that is like, he is doing that to be funny. He is doing, that bit didn't work and you know that bit didn't work, but Dave Foley is gonna say a thing about why that bit didn't work that will know that bit didn't work, but Dave Foley is gonna say a thing about why that bit didn't work that will make it funny that you did it in the first. Like there's layers and layers and layers.
Starting point is 00:16:10 The format's like undeniable. I love the dropout has a series of game changer episodes based on Survivor that have like no laugh challenges. There's a couple episodes of the Chris Gethard show called the Night of Zero Laughs that I feel like is very, like a really early precursor to this that is always like, it's so good. Just a show about not laughing is just really hysterical.
Starting point is 00:16:32 And to put this particular set of people in it is just a match made in heaven. And so we have not finished the first season, we're only four episodes in, but we found it, it felt like it just the right time. And it has been a true VIP, a very MVP in this household. Yeah, so can I steal you away? Yes. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:16:59 Thanks. ["The Last Supper"] Okay, I am gonna talk about a game this week. Oh hell yeah dude. But it is not one of your video games. Oh man. But it is a game I'm guessing you played a lot of and that is Guess Who? Sure, yeah. Man. But it is a game I'm guessing you played a lot of and that is Guess Who? Sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:27 This was a big thing in my house because it's a two player game. Yeah, that's huge for you. You only had three potential players in your whole house. I know. So you couldn't get too big. Guess Who? I'm assuming most people are familiar with Guess Who.
Starting point is 00:17:44 It is like a plastic board with little slots cut out and they're like these little windows you flip up and there's people on the windows and you pick a playing card with one of those people and then the other person has to guess based on questions who you're holding. And if they guess something that eliminates a number of contestants,
Starting point is 00:18:06 they can flap those little guys down. So by the end, you're kind of sitting there with a few up and the other person has a few up and you're either deciding like, do I just guess to try and beat the other person or do I like keep narrowing it down? This has to be a solved game, right? Like Tic-Tac-Toe or Connect Four.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Like there has to be some computer program that has figured out the quickest logical path of questions to get you to the answer every time, right? Well, it really depends on the card you draw. Like the original game had so few characters that presented as women, that if you drew one of those cards, like that was it for you.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Yeah, that's a good point. Like there were only like, I'm looking at it now, like five out of a board of like 24. Yeah. So it was like, oh, dang it. Do you remember any of their names? If I showed you.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Herman, I remember there was a Herman. I believe there was a, okay, so I can just kind of see faces but I can't see names. Yeah, no, that's the point. Let's see, I believe there was, well, you just took it away. I know, I'm checking to see if there's a Herman. I thought there was a Herman.
Starting point is 00:19:21 There is a Herman, yes. There's a Tony, I wanna say maybe. There's a, There's no Tony. Rosie, Rose, Rosie, Rosa? No. Damn, okay, no. This isn't good to do. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:36 Yeah. Anyway, so this game has been around for a very, very long time, over 45 years now. It came from a married couple, which I thought you would like. I love married couples. We're always in big support. Marriage in general.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Couples entering ventures together. Sure. Theo and Ora Koster started a design firm together in 1965. CEO and Aura Koster started a design firm together in 1965. And originally they were doing like small giveaway items for businesses, like a prize in a cereal box kind of item. They had their first kind of huge idea. They saw this kid playing with the wooden sticks from ice cream bars, and they
Starting point is 00:20:27 decided to make plastic ones that snapped together. So they got a deal with Borden, the leading ice cream maker at the time, and they had the the sticks put into their products, and so people could collect them. They were called ice ticks and they made a tremendous amount of money from that. You could stick them together? Like kinda, I'm envisioning like Lincoln logs, like this idea that the plastic sticks could notch together. Cool.
Starting point is 00:20:58 So the more ice cream you ate, the more sticks you collected, the more you could build structures with them. Yeah, I mean, I don't need more reasons to eat yummy ice cream, but I appreciate it. So they made another balancing game that they called One Too Many that was later named Acrobats.
Starting point is 00:21:18 It was picked up by the same group that distributed Clue. Okay. So that was another huge one. Balancing game like a Twister situation or like a? No, like a pile of clowns, like you stack them. Sounds good to me, man. I would have called that game a pile of clowns, clown pile. That is good, that is really good.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Another thing they invented but didn't make it past the prototype stage is like a poppet, basically. A poppet like? A type of game where players could pop silicone nubs. Apparently, Aura imagined a landscape of bubbles that one could press, describing them to her husband, quote, as a field of breasts.
Starting point is 00:22:01 A field of breasts? A field of breasts, Aura? Are you okay? I mean, if you had to describe a poppet, clearly you probably wouldn't say a field of breasts, but like- Probably, let me think, probably wouldn't call a poppet a field of breasts.
Starting point is 00:22:19 What would you say, like little half mounds, little half cup? Yep, half cup mounds. Or I would say it's bubble pop, it's repeatable bubble pop, it's little bubbles. Not a field of breast aura. There's sons that took over the business, licensed that idea to a Canadian company called Fox Mine,
Starting point is 00:22:39 and then Pop It became like a viral sensation. So they were like ahead of the fidget curve. Well, it was interesting. So in 1971, they invented a game called Wanted, and which I kind of like the concept of. Players are cast as amateur police sketch artists. Participants would get a glimpse of a suspect and then attempt to draw them accurately from memory.
Starting point is 00:23:03 Isn't that kind of fun? That is kind of neat. That sounds like a Jackbox game. Yeah, it really does. Like you see it for a second and then you have to try and reproduce it. Okay. And it would be a good Jackbox game.
Starting point is 00:23:13 So guess who was presented to executives at Milton- Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley in 1978 and was released in 1982. Initially, they were just trying to make it as playing cards, which it would work. Yeah, totally. But what they found was that people really wanted
Starting point is 00:23:36 some kind of like tactile component. They also did a board where you could just scratch off the faces, but the little- It's a neat trick, but you can only do it once. Well, I imagine, I mean, you can, you know, like dry erase something. I don't think they had that technology back then. That's very true.
Starting point is 00:23:53 I don't know how you did it. But yeah, the click sound with the tiles. It's so good. Like the sound of resetting a Guess Who board, of all those panels swinging open all at the same time, that was my first ASMR as a child. In 2021, this game continued to sell more than 2 million copies a year.
Starting point is 00:24:18 That's kind of wild. It is Guess Who, like it is Guess Who. Everyone's kind of got a copy of this. We have all sorts of versions now, like you can do a pet version, It is Guess Who, everyone's kind of got a copy of this. They have all sorts of versions now, like you can do a pet version where it's like animals and you have to guess the animals. They have one that's like vehicles,
Starting point is 00:24:35 one that is types of food, sea creatures. It's kind of amazing. They've also have games where they've significantly reduced the number of players. So this one only has 15 to choose from, which I feel like would go very fast. Just knock that out. Probably good for younger players.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Do they still call it guess who if it's food? Interesting, yeah, I mean, according to this picture I'm looking at, it's like a hamburger and a carrot. They have eyes on them, so now here's- Okay, you gotta personify them. Once you put eyes on it, then it is a person. If I saw you eating a big stack of waffles, I wouldn't walk up and be like, who are you eating?
Starting point is 00:25:09 That's just not the correct verbiage. 2017 is where they made like, finally made like great strides in the game in which they had like parity between characters that presented as men and characters presented as women. So you like weren't immediately screwed. There were also more characters of color, which again was like a big eliminating factor
Starting point is 00:25:31 in the early game. You knew immediately, I'm going to lose. And yeah, I mean, it continues to evolve. Obviously there's a lot of different things you can do with it. They have one where they invented a cast of superheroes. The heroes include Beast Tamer, Blasteroid, Dr. Ion, Geode, Madame Vine, Robo Joe.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Robo Joe, yeah. I love this game. There's gotta be some way to blend this with the hidden role sort of structure of like a mafia or a werewolf or a whatever or an Among Us and guess who. Where somebody else would eliminate players and you'd have to guess who.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Listen, I'm not the guy who makes these decisions. Kind of like a heads up seven up too in that like somebody would walk around and put your thumb down and then you had to get, the guy who makes these decisions. Kind of like a heads up seven up too, in that like somebody would walk around and put your thumb down and then you had to get, so like somebody could put your character down. But you could lie about who your character is. Oh, there's something there.
Starting point is 00:26:35 This doesn't make any sense. But again, I don't get paid to make these decisions. I think there's something there. Can I tell you a hack that I learned very young? What's that? Because I used to play this game with my dad. He gave me a way to ask two questions at once, which is, does your character have facial hair?
Starting point is 00:26:53 So you didn't have to ask mustache or beard. You could do mustache and beard, same question, which was funny as an eight year old to have to explain to my friends what facial hair meant. Yeah. But it's also a very appropriate question for my dad as a mustache champion. Mustache champion?
Starting point is 00:27:11 Did he win? You know what, he could. He could for sure, I think so. His dedication to the mustache has to put him in some kind of category. He elevates it, like beyond trend, beyond what is hot. It's just like his vibe,
Starting point is 00:27:29 and he owns it in a way that I think is- There is apparently before I was born, or maybe when I was very young, there was a period of time where he shaved it off. Can't imagine. People explicitly, I think including my mom's mom, said, I don't like it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:44 And that was it. Never tried it again. Do you wanna know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes. Jer says, a field of breasts. Whoa, Jer, how did you know? Jer says, it's such a joy to not have to fiddle around
Starting point is 00:28:01 with unrolling and fighting with a roll of parchment for something I'm cooking or baking, knowing I can just slide out one of the perfectly sized parchment designed to fit whatever shape and size pan I'm using, slap it in there. The subject of this email was pre-cut parchment paper. Yeah, no, I gathered. That would actually be amazing.
Starting point is 00:28:21 We don't have that, and I'm always eyeballing. Plus you get the advantage of an easy cleanup and worry-free release of your food from the pan. I do love that. I do love a good parchment paper. We use it for the small sort of like toaster, air fryer situation we have and that requires a lot of cutting.
Starting point is 00:28:38 And with parchment paper, when you pull it out of the roll, in order to get a clean cut, you have to tug it pretty vigorously. And so you're either gonna rip it in one clean tear or you're going to pull out half of the spool in one go. It's really a stressful situation. You did say tug it vigorously, which I will never forget. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Jordan says, my small wonder is making a simmer pot on a cold winter day. It's lovely how just a few slices of an orange, some clove, ginger, and a stick of cinnamon can make the whole house smell so warm and welcoming. I wanna ask you, what is your history with this? Is this something that happened in your house as a kid? Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:17 This happens a lot at Sydney and Justin's house during the holiday. I think Sydney is a big fan, putting like the cloves in the boiling water and getting a good smell on the orange and the, you know. Yes, I vaguely remember. I mean, we had definitely hot holiday cider and like stuff around the house.
Starting point is 00:29:34 I feel like we did this sometimes too, and it was always very confusing to me. Like you're cooking something we're not gonna eat because there's a smell. Except I use the concentrate after simmering all day to make an excellent mulled wine, add some honey for a sweet and warm treat to end a cold February day.
Starting point is 00:29:49 That's such a good idea. My dream beverage is, you know in Ponyo, after Ponyo turns into like a little kid and they go back to the house and the Tina Fey mom is like here, and she has that like jar of golden liquid that she like dips into like hot water and then it turns, that's the dream.
Starting point is 00:30:07 It's like Turkish delight in Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Nothing is that good, right? Like nothing is as good as Turkish delight looks in Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Yeah, you just assume like this has to be the best thing ever created. I'm gonna make my own Ponyo juice.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these for our 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. We're so glad to be a part of the Maximum Fun Network. Go to MaximumFun.org, check out all the great shows that they have over there. I'm talking about your stop podcasting yourselves.
Starting point is 00:30:38 I'm talking about Judge John Hodgman, all those guys. We got some live shows coming up in Florida in just two weeks, February 20th and 21st. We're doing MbemBem and Taz in Tampa, and that's going to be our first ever Taz in Florida. It's Taz versus Romeo versus Juliet, which I still have to write. And then we're going to be doing MbemBem in Jacksonville February 22nd. Go to bit.ly slash McRoy Tours for ticket links. We've also got some new merch over at MacroiMerch.com, including a holographic Dare to Care sticker for the old heads who prefer the original
Starting point is 00:31:09 theme name of the year. There's a Poetry Corner bumper magnet designed by Dana Wagner. Oh, I haven't seen the final version yet. Oh, it's really very, very good. You can also still watch the video on demand of the Camel and Light special from last year if you didn't see mine and Rachel's absolutely unhinged,
Starting point is 00:31:25 six minute long school spectacular. So 10% of all merch proceeds this month will be donated to World Central Kitchen, which uses the power of food to nourish communities and strengthen economies through times of crisis and beyond, MacRemerch.com. Thank you all so much for listening to our show. We hope that you're staying safe out there
Starting point is 00:31:45 and hanging in there, and we'll be back with more good stuff next week. Stay tuned. Oh wait, well what about, and have a attitude of gratitude. I'm not sure that that's the attitude I want people to have this week. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:02 Have an attitude of. Simmering rage? Well, that's by default. Somewhere in between there. Find your sweet spot somewhere between gratitude and simmering rage, and then stand 10 toes upon it. And we'll see you next week, bye. Money won't pay, working on pay Money won't pay, working on pay
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