Wonderful! - Wonderful! 380: Puppies Up, Low Recline

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

It's time for some favorite casual chats and summertime small wonders! Obvious phone games! Sticky summer snacks! Babies learning to talk to you! Three-named game show hosts! Easier chores!Music: “M...oney Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoyaImmigrant Defenders Law Center: https://www.immdef.org/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Music Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. What's up? It's Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. Super cash. And let down your barren business tie. I'd say put your feet up, but that's pretty standard for you.
Starting point is 00:00:31 I do kick the puppies up anytime we are in the studio, and it's mostly for circulation. Do you think you have a signature pose for each of your podcasts? This is definitely the wonderful pose. Puppies up. Puppies up. Puppies up. Puppies up.
Starting point is 00:00:45 Low recline. Just staring intently at my beautiful wife. I think I'm so excited to have someone in the studio, let alone my favorite living human being, that I just make myself comfy. And that's the sort of vibe I would love to instill in our listeners today for this episode of Wonderful. Everybody put your feet up unless you're driving
Starting point is 00:01:07 and then keep them where they are. No, sorry, no cop outs. You can either save this for later when you can pop your feet up or you can drive without your feet. What if they're piloting a bicycle? They can still put their feet up like, like Pee Wee does in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
Starting point is 00:01:27 And that one part, we just a bit of a background info. We've been traveling or some amalgamation of us has been traveling literally every weekend for, I believe the last five weekends. Although we were here this past weekend, but it was, it was the fourth holiday. It was the fourth holiday and we had what felt like eight suns to watch over
Starting point is 00:01:51 for a long, long week. Yeah, it's weird how there seems to be more of them. Yes, they multiply. You'd think two would never feel like more than two, but it definitely does. But when the two don't wanna do the same thing, there's four all of a sudden, isn't there? Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:09 That's how, that's the beauty. That's the beauty of child rearing, folks. And also, I'm about to leave town again here in like two days, which sucks. Today's episode, very cash chats, small one-d's, audience submissions, casual hang. So like, if you came here for biographies of old sodas, that's one, insulting that you think that's what our show is
Starting point is 00:02:38 and what our show is about, even though we do sometimes get into talking in deep detail about old sodas. Yeah, sometimes when I think about trying to distill our show down, then I think like, I could sit down with somebody and be like, you know, like a dessert you really like? Imagine talking about that for 20 minutes.
Starting point is 00:02:56 Yeah, it doesn't always gotta be that. But it's more and less and sometimes exactly that. Yeah, sometimes it can be way less, way, way, way, way less. Check this out. You know what I think is wonderful? Having a little game on your phone. Just have a little game on your phone
Starting point is 00:03:11 that you come back to and you play sometimes. I had one on my phone when Gus was born and then I played it a lot. It's called Archie Row and like Archer Hero. And then I didn't play it for a while and then Archie Row 2 came out, didn't even know, picked it up this week. It's nice to have just a little game on your phone
Starting point is 00:03:26 for when there's like a few minutes there. And I know you've been playing a game on your phone for a while, do you feel like talking about it? You get so uncomfortable talking about your phone game. Well, mainly because I got pushed ads for it. And it was one of those games where the ads are not really reflective of what it is. So there's a lot about it that's embarrassing,
Starting point is 00:03:46 but it is primarily a farming game. But then there are also- Can I just say, just from your tone of voice, I just want you to know, this is a super safe space. It's not like you're playing something exploitative. No, I know. And I don't have to, I don't get ads. I don't have to constantly pay.
Starting point is 00:04:08 I haven't paid any money for this game ever. That's impressive. Yeah, so it's not like Candy Crush where at a certain point you get timed out and you can't do anything. Hate that. Like I have been able to actively play this for free, but yeah, it just, it feels, it's not,
Starting point is 00:04:28 if you weren't my video game husband. Yeah, I wouldn't even mention it. Yeah. I love it. Whenever I see you holding your phone in landscape mode, I always know like- I know, it's such a tell. It's such a tell. It's why I only really tend to play portrait mode games
Starting point is 00:04:40 so I can not get cocked immediately that I'm gaming out. Do you get ads in that game for like, my boyfriend is so weak, he only has a AAA blue dragon draw. And they'll be like, I'm your strong boss and I got a quintuple S draw. There's no ads. So here's what started happening to me.
Starting point is 00:05:03 So Words with Friends, I was paying every month for it. How, for what? What do you- There are ads in that game. Oh, you were paying for a no ads. And I was paying not to get the ads. I mean, you pay a subscription and do no ads? Yes. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:05:17 And I was justifying it because I was playing it a lot. So I was like, okay, it's not a big deal for me to pay a little bit each month. But then what would happen is the subscription would expire and I'd start getting ads again, which is how I've actually found the game I'm playing now. Do you wanna say the name of the game you're playing now? It's called Township.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And I realized that a lot of people don't know what it's called because now they added in this update where anytime you're playing something and you get like a good move, it says Township real big on the screen. So they're making sure that you know. So I think they realized, like people don't remember what this game is called
Starting point is 00:05:48 because I couldn't tell you like two weeks ago, but now I remember. It's good to have a little game on your phone though. Tells me all the time. Check this one out too. You ready for this? Marble Run. Marble Run.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Oh, like what Gus has been playing? Yeah, and what kids have been playing with for decades. Okay, I thought you were still talking about games on your phone. Marble Run does sound like a game on my phone. In fact, I bet if I searched Marble Run on the App Store right now, it would give me a lot of results. I mean, you definitely, Small Sun Watch has a lot of YouTube videos of people building courses.
Starting point is 00:06:18 This is what I wanted to talk about. One, it's fun to put together a little marble track and then watch the marble go down. We have two different marble sets that are not compatible with each other, and over the weekend I managed to build a really big one of one set that could split in half and then feed half the marbles into a smaller set
Starting point is 00:06:35 I made from the other set, and it was so fucking satisfying. From a dad engineering sort of standpoint, it was exhilarating stuff. Griffin is not somebody that like puts me in a position to like praise him very often. He doesn't need a lot from me in that department, but every once in a while he will build something
Starting point is 00:06:54 for our children and he will be like, hey, did you see that? Yeah. No, I mean, I don't need a lot, but like you said, but it was- But in that case, I could tell and it was impressive. It was fantastic. And you deserved it. And I do love all the YouTube content creators who are like Marble Olympics or- A lot of Domino stuff.
Starting point is 00:07:14 A lot of Domino stuff. I love that shit. You got anything off the dome? This is super cash, so like it doesn't have to be fully fleshed out, fully formed. It can be loose. It can be, you could do your Ninja Warrior update. Yeah, I guess I will say just having a show
Starting point is 00:07:37 that is a long running show that you can just click over to at any point when you're kind of out of your go-tos. So for example, we just finished the most recent season of The Bear, and we really tore through it. We were watching two episodes a night, which is about really all the time we have in the evening to watch television.
Starting point is 00:08:00 About two bears. And we ran out after two bears a night, and realized we had good old ninja warrior to return to just waiting for us and those shows, those episodes are like three hours. There's like six hours long. They're all sponsored by how to train your dragon. They're all sponsored by the latest dream works feature
Starting point is 00:08:20 film. There are and Griffin and I, our knowledge of the show is so encyclopedic that we know things about the competitors that like members of their family probably don't fully remember. Like we know romantic partners and former jobs. The romantic partner thing is easy
Starting point is 00:08:40 because Ninja Warrior, if you don't watch it, which fucking of course you don't, we're the only two people on earth who watch this show. You know what's funny is we say that a lot on the podcast, The Isaac partner thing is easy because Ninja Warrior, if you don't watch it, which fucking of course you don't, we're the only two people on earth who watch this show. You know what's funny is we say that a lot on the podcast and I keep waiting for somebody to correct us and nobody ever does. And it's never, ever, ever happened. There's these big cabal-like families in Ninja Warrior
Starting point is 00:08:59 where every person in the family does Ninja Warrior and they're all married to each other. Not, I mean, they're married between families. So like all the Bextrins are, they're all hooking up with the Bergstrums. Those are two, there's a Bextrum family and a Bergstrom family and they all do Ninja Warrior. Why is no one else watching this fucking show?
Starting point is 00:09:21 It's a fever dream. There's apparently a YouTube family called the Ninja Kids. Yes. And they, one of them got involved with a Bextrum kid. Luke, it sucks that I know exactly which Bextrum it is. Luke and Kai are kind of the big, like, Bextrum ninjas. Kai's the big Bextrum, god dang, that boy put on 20 pounds of muscle between seasons.
Starting point is 00:09:42 And their dad does ninja, and their mom has definitely done at least a season of ninja. I think there's a sister that has tried it too. But anyway, Ninja Warrior gets really excited about these couples and really promotes them and builds whole intro packages around what they like to do together and how they met.
Starting point is 00:09:58 And it's giving huge arranged sort of medieval fiefdom dowry ass situation. To the point that there are couples that we feel like are just for the purposes of the show because they have been quote unquote engaged for like a decade. So like, you know we're nasty dogs about that stuff. We don't watch Bachelor Bachelorette
Starting point is 00:10:22 really that much anymore. And so it's gotta get it somewhere. They will just casually be like so and so and his fiance and we're like still fiance, huh? Interesting. You wait until you get up Mount Midoriama, huh? Not gonna happen. Yeah, I mean, we're still watching that shit.
Starting point is 00:10:36 I like to think someone joins the wonderful listenership, every 20 episodes or so, and then every 100 episodes or so we'll go hard on talking about Ninja Warrior. And people will think we're being ironic, or like, yeah, no, it's so fucking weird. The other thing we get kinda nasty about, so the thing about Ninja Warrior,
Starting point is 00:10:54 is there are people that will go to the course and watch you in person. And then there are people on like a big Zoom screen that are usually like watching you from like home. And we always kind of like play back and forth like, oh, you couldn't come? You had to watch the home, did you? Oh, he's got the support of his fiance back home. Here she is via a zoom call.
Starting point is 00:11:15 She couldn't come? Interesting. She couldn't come support you on the one thing that you've built your whole career around? Cause that one guy's entire second grade class came to support him. This entire archdiocese came to support the Papal Ninja. Man, and here's the thing, I love the Papal Ninja.
Starting point is 00:11:37 And that's not a thing that you would think would be the one that you'd be into. He's so chill. But he's, and he's chill and he stands on business and he gets it done. He like, he definitely like. He gets injured every other season. He does, he does.
Starting point is 00:11:51 Which is a shame. He's got a lot of interests. He's got a lot of like front-facing qualities. Yes. But he doesn't feel preachy to me, even though like he is exactly pretty much that. Kinda, yeah, sure. I have been watching more of,
Starting point is 00:12:05 because I got the distinct impression that you didn't dig it, I've been watching more of Murderbot. Oh, yeah. On Apple TV. What do you think, has it grown on you? It has, so I've read- The first episode was so much set up,
Starting point is 00:12:19 it was hard for me to really buy in. And it was on the opposite end, I kind of struggled with it because I feel like it was wildly exposition heavy. Yeah, exactly. And not really hitting the tone of the books exactly right, but I think I'm on the last episode now and it has definitely,
Starting point is 00:12:38 it has found its groove and sort of made its own thing and it is enjoyable to you. I just love Scar's Guard and I love Scar's Guard. Scar's Guard's putting in the work. Just a great show about a robot that's become sort of self-aware, free to do what it wants, and is trying to keep a group of well-meaning,
Starting point is 00:12:57 sort of hippie scientists alive on an alien planet where everything wants to kill them. It's really good, really enjoyable. The books I prefer. I know that's a full position. I just love those. You like the books better than the show? I do love those books.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I've read like five of them in the last year. You would tell people to read the book first. Yeah, I kinda would in this one instance. I think the show's fine, but the books are like, so they're novellas, which I like. You can really just fucking rip through them. You're a big novella guy. What's that supposed to mean?
Starting point is 00:13:27 What is that even? It's, I've never pegged you as somebody who's like, you know what, I prefer the book. And so it's just wild to hear you be that person. Yeah, well, I don't read a ton of books. So statistically speaking, I'm almost always gonna prefer the non-book. I guess that's true.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Now did you like the book, The Martian, gonna prefer the non-book. I guess that's true. Now did you like the book The Martian better than the movie The Martian? You know what, that's the odd case where I do think the movie did such a kick-ass job adapting The Martian, which was a book I thought to be unadaptable. Yeah. I was so impressed with it,
Starting point is 00:14:00 and it really was very, very faithful while changing the stuff it needed to change to be a movie. I thought that the movie was fantastic. I think the book is fantastic. I think they're on pretty equal footing. Did you see, I know you didn't read the followup to Andy Weir's, to the Martian, but his other book,
Starting point is 00:14:17 Project Hail Mary, they're making a, I don't know if it's a movie or a series with fucking Drive. Ryan? Gosling. Gosling, Drive, Guy. It's a very similar book, Guy Stranded on a Spaceship, sent on a mission to figure out why the sun is dying
Starting point is 00:14:36 and encounters all kinds of weird shit and it's just him. And so he does a lot of diary stuff, very, very Martian-esque and the trailer looks great. Trailer looks pretty much a lot of diary stuff, very Martian-esque, and the trailer looks great. Trailer looks pretty much a lot like it. So I'm into that. You got anything, other small wonders? I know we have some stuff from our friends at home who are playing the home game of Wonderful.
Starting point is 00:14:57 I will just say, and I will say this only because I have been feeling the lack of it lately. Okay. I love when there is a movie in the theater that we can bring our kids to. Yeah. It doesn't have to be like a particularly good movie. We have taken our children to a lot of films
Starting point is 00:15:14 that I would never watch on my own. Yeah. But it is like such a nice novel thing to do. Absolutely it is. And it's like we don't go to movies anymore, but it gives us that little like scratched itch of going to a movie. And lately like we just haven't had that as much
Starting point is 00:15:31 and I miss it. We're not really plugged into the world of cinema, I will say. Like there's that How to Train Your Dragon live action movie. Our kids still don't really fuck with live action movies or How to Train Your Dragon. There's an Elio movie I've heard some good stuff about,
Starting point is 00:15:47 but that one just kinda came out of nowhere and you do need to sell them on the thing a little bit. Yeah, that is the thing. We had no problem. We were at the Minecraft movie opening weekend. There are definitely films, like the Dog Man movie. A lot of movies that we could very easily say, hey, do you wanna see this?
Starting point is 00:16:04 And it was an immediate yes. But we don't do the hard sell because we're not gonna particularly enjoy it. No way. And keeping the kids in the theater for the whole movie is still kind of a challenge. So yeah, we don't take it on otherwise. And I would like, especially in these summer times
Starting point is 00:16:24 when it is super hot, I would really like that again. My last thing, bon bobs. Great summertime treat, great summertime treat. They have their own troughs, their own juice troughs right there in them. Do the different levels taste different? Yes. I have not had enough.
Starting point is 00:16:42 I've maybe only had one or two. They're all pretty sugary and a little bit tart. So the different levels do taste different. I mean, rarely are you sort of slobbering on just one level at a time, like there is an amount of crossover. A popsicle is kind of like a lollipop for me and then about halfway through I'm done.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Yeah. And now I'm just holding it. That's right, like a bomb pop, a bomb pop ain't too big. Bomb pop ain't a big commitment. It's still pretty big. I guess so. I'd rather have like a freeze pop. Sure.
Starting point is 00:17:11 You know, it's got its own little container. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, you can knock one of those out pretty quick. ["Frozen 2"] Do we wanna know, I mean, of course we wanna know, but do we wanna talk about what our friends at home are? Why am I struggling with the construction of this sentence? Do, is it time for, it is now time for us to discuss what our friends at home have been talking about.
Starting point is 00:17:43 That isn't right either. I mean, we could just say we put out a call for Small Wonders and here's what we heard. Yeah, that's good. Sarah says, my Small Wonder is fireflies. There are so many this year and it's truly wonderful each night around dusk when they start lighting up all over my yard.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I saw my first one like two nights ago. You were so like, it was so cute how excited you were. I still get very excited. They're glowing bugs. That's fucking crazy. It does feel like, you know, DC is a pretty dense, like, metro area. Yes.
Starting point is 00:18:17 And so to see a firefly feels very much like. Very exciting. Look at us. Like, both you and I, we're kinda, I mean, we're not like small town people, but. Kinda I am, I would say more than you arguably. We're very suburban people I guess, and so to see a firefly in a city.
Starting point is 00:18:34 If I was suburban, I would have gone to Cabell Midland High School and not Huntington High School, thank you so much. In fact, I was pretty much right in the city center, so I don't actually appreciate you. I'm sorry. Yeah, I've also been seeing quite a few spotted lantern flies,
Starting point is 00:18:49 which I've been learning about a lot lately and how they eat all the trees that you got on your shelf. So just let them introduce themselves. They are a menace. I feel like the one we saw looked more like a ladybug, but then when I looked them up, they were like real flappy with the wings. Well, they come in different stages.
Starting point is 00:19:05 That was more of like a post pupil kind of, that was the pupil ninja. Oh, he was not, he was not winging it. He wasn't ready to, I mean, he was ready to fuck up our trees, but he wasn't ready to, you know, step in through his power. I got one here from George who says,
Starting point is 00:19:25 my small wonder is hearing a baby say your name for the first time. I'm a relatively new uncle and one year old nephew said my name to me for the first time this weekend. Very strong, very powerful. That is so cute. I don't remember, I guess I remember like my nieces calling me Uncle Griffin for the first time.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Yeah, that's pretty cute. I do also remember when our kids called me Griffin for the first time, and it felt super duper weird and still is to this day. At least they both kind of get the joke of it. Like neither of them have tried to make it stick. No, yeah. Which is nice.
Starting point is 00:20:03 I was gonna ask you about this one. Sure. Terry says, my small wonder is the sound of the strings squeak when you move your fingers on acoustic guitar. Oh baby. Let's you know your music is tactile and real. I do love that.
Starting point is 00:20:17 I love feeling it, love making it, love hearing it. Seems like there should be- More than words by extreme, you're getting so many fucking squeaks. The squeaks per minute there is off the charts. Seems like there should be a name for it. That's what I was gonna ask. Like if there's like a more precise.
Starting point is 00:20:31 This might be what a glissando is. I've seen that term bandied about so many times. It's not a glissando. Maybe it's just a gliss then. Doesn't that feel right? Yeah, no, that sounds right. I do like that. Yeah, I mean, I think E, A, B, and G
Starting point is 00:20:47 are all kind of like corrugated. Like the metal is kind of like, Oh. I mean, you can go touch my guitar if you want. I haven't in three years. But they're like kind of notched. They're kind of like very, there's like a texture to them.
Starting point is 00:21:03 So those ones especially, especially if you get those greasy strings like an elixir or something like that, that was always the brand I rocked with because they were so easy to play. It's so wild. For me, so when I grew up, I played the flute, which is like, you know, it's a woodwind,
Starting point is 00:21:17 it's an instrument that has keys. So this idea that the strings that play specific notes have different textures still like blows my mind a little bit. Yeah, I mean, they're different widths, right? And so I don't know why the lower strings have to be kind of like a, but the high E string is just like a straight wire. Like it is, I don't believe it is really textured at all.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Unless you're playing a nylon string acoustic guitar, which I don't think is ridged at all, but I don't know, cause I've never really played one. Anyway, you want to hear more about instruments I don't know anything about? at all, but I don't know, cause I've never really played one. Anyway, you wanna hear more about instruments I don't know anything about? Cause there's a lot of them. No, thank you. How about when you cut a watermelon up into a metric ton
Starting point is 00:21:55 and have a delicious fruit for days, what a perfect summer treat. No kidding. Well, no, actually I know the answer to this. I was gonna say have you ever tried to cut up a watermelon from like whole coffee? But then you know. But I do know the story.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Have you seen the picture of this event taking place? I think it might be. Maybe I have. I feel like Facebook wants a photo of you reaches a certain age. Like there's a little tiny hole that they push those photos into so you don't have to really look at them anymore. So like a picture of me in college
Starting point is 00:22:21 cutting up a watermelon with Cloudstripes Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII. That one I hope you didn't see during our courtship period. I probably did. You know those early days when you like do a little digging in the Facebook? Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:22:36 I'm pretty sure I did see it. You didn't have anything remotely as bad as No. cutting up a watermelon with Cloudstripes Buster Sword. No, I mean, here's the thing I'll tell you though. To me, it was just a sword. That's great. A big sword though, right?
Starting point is 00:22:47 You understood that it was a huge sword. Didn't you tell me that basically after that watermelon was cut, no maintenance was done to the sword and it just kind of fell apart. I was a young man and I didn't know that you were supposed to wash the watermelon leaveings off of Cloudstripes Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII.
Starting point is 00:23:03 He just let it sit in the sink. So I let it sit in the sink. We had a huge sink. I put it in the shower. God, that does actually sound like something we would have done at my first apartment, which was just a den of sin. But yeah, man, I do love watermelon in the summertime. I do wish watermelons was smaller.
Starting point is 00:23:22 I wish they made personal pan watermelons that you could have like a little orb of and then not worry about, well now we have so much watermelon and if we don't eat it all, it's gonna get gross. No, then it is like a real challenge, especially with those like seasonal fruit where you know it's like super good.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Yes. You don't wanna waste it. No. Jeff says, my dog pushes his big warm stomach against me in the early morning as someone who struggles to give himself adequate rest and downtime, his pork belly cuds help encourage me to lounge for a little bit longer before I start my day.
Starting point is 00:23:57 I miss it. I miss that. This is the thing. Part of this is what makes me know that I'm not ready to have a pet again. But the thing I miss most about a pet is when they're just stationary on top of you. Chill.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Which is a very small percentage, I think, of having a pet. Yeah. But man, it's the best. It's really good stuff. I do miss it a lot. Yeah. Rebecca says, my small wonder is the show, Destination X.
Starting point is 00:24:21 It's the first time in a long time my husband and I have had a current show and the weekly ritual of sitting down weekly to watch the show together makes me so happy, plus the show, Destination X. It's the first time in a long time my husband and I have had a current show and the weekly ritual of sitting down weekly to watch the show together makes me so happy, plus the show's so good. Tell me again what this is. I feel like we've talked about this. Justin gave us the hard sell on besties. So dear listener of this show, if you want a better pitch,
Starting point is 00:24:36 because I haven't watched this show, based on what he said, it is Negan from The Walking Dead, and he is, instead of hurting people, The actor. The baseball bat. Yeah, I can't remember. He has three names, like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Yes, that's right. and he is instead of hurting people with a baseball bat. Yeah, I can't remember. He has three names like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Yes, that's right.
Starting point is 00:24:49 Wow, I went from not knowing his name and then I had the thought like he's like an assassin because he has three names. As soon as I said that, I was like, oh, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Takes people to different destinations around the globe but doesn't tell them where they are. And then they have to like do challenges and stuff to try to like figure it out.
Starting point is 00:25:07 I mean, it sounds like our jam. It does sound like our jam. I struggle a bit, I think, with the presentation because the trailers we have seen, it seems like it is half Jeffrey Dean Morgan mugging to the camera. Like not a bad vacation, huh? Like, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:23 But I mean, if you think about it, like, the Mole, Amazing Race, like, a lot of those shows, like the host is in kind of an awkward position and like their little dialogue is not great and it's still a good show. So we should give it a shot. Man, this last season of Amazing Race, Phil Keegan really has lost his fucking mind.
Starting point is 00:25:45 The host of that show has truly, truly gone off the deep end, I think. Just a lot of jazz coming out of that dude. He's following the Jeff Probst route of like, I've got tenure, I can say anything I fucking want to. I mean, here's the thing, like you show up, you've been doing this for a very long time, you don't have to put a lot of thought into it.
Starting point is 00:26:07 I imagine you kinda party, you kinda forgets the cameras are rolling. Yeah, I guess so. And you just start speaking your truth, you know? Yeah. Hey, can I do this one? Oh, sure, go ahead. Jake says, my small wonder is trying a new topping
Starting point is 00:26:18 on a hot dog. I tried horseradish for the first time and it felt exciting trying something new with your old friend hot dog there to hold my hand through it all. Thank you, Hot Dog. Horseradish. Huh.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Dad used to love horseradish. He probably still does. On what? Like a sandwich? I think sandwiches for the most part he would do a lunch meat sandwich with horseradish. I do like if somebody presents it to me, like somebody who knows what they're doing says, I'm putting horseradish on this.
Starting point is 00:26:43 I'm almost always delighted by it. I want one little flake on an oyster. That's usually about as far as I go with a horseradish experience. I admire it. You got any good ones over there? Oh, I was gonna say this one from Chelsea. My small wonder is my cherry tomato plant.
Starting point is 00:27:01 I can pick a delicious tomato and eat it on my way out the door every morning. That's wild. Isn't that great? Nature's amazing. I do miss that. I have not tried to grow anything really at all in a very long time.
Starting point is 00:27:22 We have like little house plants now that I put time into. Yeah, but not things you can eat. But not like a food item in a very long time. Like we have like little house plants now that I put time into. But not like a food item in a very long time. But I do miss that, this idea of just like I've got my own little plant fridge that I can go and pull food out of when I want. But also So Cam Bugs, and that's cool. Circle of life and all that.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Well, the cherry tomato too, it's so pocket sized. It's nature's gusher. Nature's savory gusher. Cassie says, my small wonder is that I wear fewer socks over the summer since I normally wear sandals and it makes folding my laundry so much quicker. I mean, Cassie, yes. Anything to speed that horrible process up.
Starting point is 00:27:58 I wear no like button downs. This one I wanted to share just because I felt like it was so perfect and I wanna live in this space. Oh, perfect, I love to hear that. This is from Megan. It says, when you drop a round thing and it rolls on its side and you pick it up before it falls over.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Oh yeah. Like, yes, 100%. And also when I sit down with you sometimes and you ask me for my small wonder, Like, yes, 100%. And also, when I sit down with you sometimes and you ask me for my small wonder, that's the kind of stuff I wanna remember. And I almost never do, so thank you, Megan. When you drop a thing and you catch it
Starting point is 00:28:36 with your foot a little bit, there's a lot of ways to catch it, I think that feels so good. I need to start keeping notes in my phone so that when you ask me what's my small wonder, I'm ready with things exactly like that. I do that. I've gone through most of mine at this point. I need to get back in the habit.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Hey folks, thanks for listening to this very casual, very chill episode of Wonderful. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these for theme song Money Won't Pay. You can find a link to it in the episode description. Thanks to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. We will be doing normaler episodes soon. This is the last bit of travel I have for a little bit.
Starting point is 00:29:11 So hopefully we get this train right back on the tracks. We have some merch over at the McRoy Merch Store, some new pins, some other cool stuff up on there. There's some live Mbim Bams and Tazes coming up very soon. This week we're gonna be in Anaheim and Sacramento doing Mbim-bam and Taz. The Taz in Anaheim is going to be Taz Dadlands, the game that we made GMed by Brennan Lee Mulligan.
Starting point is 00:29:34 There's Cornhole for your soul. There's all kinds of stuff that happens at those shows. There's fanny packs, there's hats. There's fanny packs, there's so many dads. It's all great. Bit.ly slash Macroid tours. Come see us, we're coming to Texas, we're coming to Salt Lake City, and it's all great. Bit.ly slash Macroi tours. Come see us, we're coming to Texas. We're coming to Salt Lake City.
Starting point is 00:29:47 We're coming all over. So come check it out. And that's it. Thanks for listening. Yeah, thank you for all the people that submitted small wonders. I'm just always so grateful to receive them. Yes, it's a delight to read what you all like.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And it's the only place I think on the internet where that happens. Is that what Pinterest is? Because I've not. Well, usually when people pin things, they don't say like, and this is what I like about it. And this is why, well, maybe they should start. Hey, thanks and bye. Bye! I want to be I want to be I want to be
Starting point is 00:30:46 I want to be I want to be I want to be I want to be I want to be I want to be I want to be I want to be
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