Wonderful! - Wonderful! 410: A Wet Napkin and A Sticky Drink

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

Griffin's favorite pre-flying interpersonal situation! Rachel's favorite over-the-top celebration! Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/our-services.html

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Welcome to Wonderful. It's a podcast where we talk about things that we like that's good that we're into. Got winded mid-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-in-to-in-in-trow. I'm busy boy, aren't I? Yeah.

I never toot this horn, but I'm busy boy this week, aren't I? You just flew in from Connecticut. I just flew in from Connecticut. I'm heading back out the door to Boston in two days. Such is the life of an author. such as an author's life. Hey, this is the week. Yes, this is the week.

It is the day this episode comes out, my new book, The Stowaway, A Choose Your Own Adventure, will have been out for 24 hours. Maybe you've gotten it in. You got that call from Oprah yet? I have not gotten the Oprah call quite yet. What about Reese Witherspoon?

Yes, but I had to turn her down. Oh, Jenna Bush Hager? That one, you know, all day. Let's go. Unproblematic Fave. Let's fucking party. Those are the book clubs I can think of. Three big ones.

Yeah, for sure. Hey, it would be so cool if you would pick up that book. Not you, Rachel. We have like 50 copies here at the house. But you listening at home, bit.ly slash Griffin Stoweway. That was the pre-order link, but now there's probably lots of just order links out there. You might just be able to even find it in a store or whatever. Yeah.

But first week of book sales, they're so important. And if not, you can go to your local bookstore and I bet they would order it for you because that's a thing that local bookstores do. Yeah, for sure. Anyway, I hate to self-promote, but, you know, that's the life of an author. You'll feel more comfortable when you promote your next book. Yes. I mean, we do have another book coming out in July.

That's true. So that is, there's an element of truth to that. Yes, but I meant you in your solo career. My next solo. Who knows? Who knows what it will be? I admit, what genre haven't I tapped yet? biography? You haven't done any history, like historical. Historical biography. Do something about

Mark Twain. I'll do something about Craig Twain, his little brother. Not a lot of people know about Craig Twain. You know his real name was Samuel Clemens. Yes, but his little brother was named Craig Twain Clemens. That's where he got the name Twain from us. It was little brother's mental name. Canonically. Yeah. Hey, do you have any small wonders, my love? I have what I think is really getting back to the roots of the small wonder. Oh, heck yeah. Which is when you have something big in the fridge that taking up a lot of space and then you

like eat it or throw it away and then you have this big chunk of space in the fridge again. So good. Love getting groceries, bringing them home and having some big items in there, you know, and going like, gosh, how am I going to? But then you open it up and there is a cavity for it. There's a cavity waiting for that rotisserie chicken. Or what's another big thing that goes in the fridge? Like a big salad.

Like a big salad. I love that too, babe. I mean, mostly as leftovers that I'm talking about, like when you finally tear it down and then you've got new real estate in there. Yeah, I love it. You know, I got to talk about Pocopia. I don't think I've talked to you about Pocopia at all. No. It's the new Pokemon game.

Just came out on Friday. Only get this. In this one, you are a Pokemon. Your Ditto, the blob who can transform. How does it take it him this long? It has. And they've done games where you've been Pokemon before. But in this one...

But like just Pikachu or like any Pokemon you wanted? In this, uh, I mean, they've done so many games where you can be Pokemon. There's like a whole series called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Ditto's perfect. Ditto's perfect. And Ditto looks like his old trainer who he's trying to find. He, like, disguised. Heizes himself as a human and then tries to rebuild the world of Pokemon where everybody has gone missing and all the Pokemon got missing.

You've got to put all their habitats back together. And then the Pokemon come and they live with you. You can build little houses for them. Is this like an adorable game? It's so adorable. But it's also so addicting because you're just like constantly like, you know, freaking Maychoke will show up and be like, I can't find my friend Graveller. And you'll be like, I'll find him and you find them and you build the two of them a little house together where they can live. in, not in sin, in happy and bliss.

So if you know, a lot of times, like, knowing a Pokemon's, like, type comes in handy when you play these games, if, like, a Pokemon is water type, will you, like, find him chilling by a lake? Yeah. Really? Uh-huh. You'll have to, like, you'll have to grow some grass, like, by a lake, and it'll be, like, that's its own little habitat, and that, and you'll get a little Pocodex notice that's

like, hey, this is where Squirtle likes to kick it. And then Squirtle will show up and be like, hey, I live here now. Let me know if you need any mud cleaned up or anything like that. What about the weird ones? There's like these weird types that like aren't habitat based. I mean, yeah. Like if it's psychic type, where do you find it? There's some like fighting type one is like you have to find like a training speed bag

and put that next to a bench and then hit Moncham will show up and be like nice, a place to train and then to sit. What about psychic type though? I don't think I found any psychic type Pokemon yet. But there's weird shit in the game. Like I'm sure there'll be a way of like, you know, you put. spoons. You go into like a little fortune tellers place. Yeah, you put a little crystal ball next to a, next to a spoon, next to a deck of cards. And then it's like, are you impressed how long I've talked about Pokemon with you? Are you impressed how long I've talked about Pokemon

with you? I try very hard to avoid. Yeah, it's really, it's really great. It's really, really, truly excellent. It is, but it's, it is adorable, but it is also like, I don't know, the systems in like how it allows you to build houses just, out of anything and then tailor it to Pokemon's like specific like needs and stuff is like actually pretty dank like gameplay stuff so does Henry like it has he played it yet he's on the fence I think he I think the problem is honestly it's on switch two only and we only have one of those so I took it with me so I think maybe if he had some time to sink into it but like I don't want to buy another switch too now please don't I might have to babe when that new Pokemon wins and wins and Waves comes out the next generation of Pokemon, you know we're going to have to have two-swish-toes. When is that coming out? I don't know, 20-27 sometime. Okay.

But why not go in the grab? By then, they'll be like 50 bucks. No way, dude. I go first this week. Okay. This one's so specific, gang. I really struggled to find like the words for the title of it. So I'm going to take a drink of my La Cua before I even attempt it.

When you catch a bartender or server on what seems like a great shift. this could technically I guess apply to any person in any kind of like service industry but for the purposes of this segment I'd like to hone in on the experience of like when you have a bartender experience and you can tell they're doing good and the experience leaves you feeling like a million bucks I have so many questions yeah because I guess I'm trying to narrow in on what the indicators of that might be there's lots of indicators Because sometimes people are just like, like, friendly and they're able to like turn it on. Yeah, that's, again, like, I'm not so much focusing on that, right? Because I'm also not saying that, like, this is anything outside the norm or that bartenders aren't usually friendly folks. It's more about like a celebration of the circumstance of like when a restaurant isn't busy or a bar isn't busy and you are there and the bartender is just like super cool to you and seems to be having a good time with his coworkers or her. co-workers like that shit's really great this is a very specific i was at the hartford airport

saturday night flying home from a show that we did at umass amherst and i had like three hours before my flight so i went to this charming little gastro pub to get a chicken sandwich uh at a little diner called beer code and there was just like me and two other people dining there i was sitting at the bar and there was just a bartender and a server there and they were just like shooting the shit and watching a hockey game that was like up on the TV and you know doing their stuff like cleaning up and you know counting out the register or whatever but they were just like chatting and having a good time and then like the bartender was very like um you know he was paid a lot of attention to my needs and made sure I got the chicken sandwich that I needed very very

quickly and he also kept calling me bud oh god that's good do you see what are you starting am i painting an accurate no what it reminds me of honestly so i got secret shoppered once when i was working at the uh barns and noble coffee shop oh nice and i was working with this guy who was real like puppy dog like like just very kind of like like happy and bouncy and so we were talking and i'm like helping people with orders and we're like having fun and then later the secret shopper like talked about like a woman is distracted by a coworker. Oh my God. That's horrible.

Yeah. Yeah. It was a Barnes & Noble coffee shop. It's crazy to me. What kind of like stoic crafts dedication to the craft they demand at the Barnes & Noble? I don't know. I mean, when I was there, they served Starbucks products and it was like a real big deal of like we have to maintain the quality of the brand. Yeah, I guess that makes more sense now. But anyway, I know exactly what you're talking about. And I also love it. I love it. It's happy.

And it's like it's always good when you have that feeling of like someone in the service industry was nice to me. But like to me, this is like a layer beyond that, like a layer of sort of empathy where I can not imagine. how challenging, I guess being a bartender in general is, right? There's a lot of sort of social interactions that I imagine that job requires of you at a baseline job requirement level that I simply would not be able to contend with. I am not good around people who are like fucked up in a very serious way. Yes, like, unpredictable. Yeah. And like, and you don't have a lot of protection in that role generally.

Yes. And then layer on top of that, you are working at a, at an airman. airport restaurant, right? Where, like, already people are going to be on edge more often than not, right? Yeah, no kidding. So, and then you can combine those two things. And I imagine it's like really, really a tough gig sometimes. But I feel like also this experience I'm describing has happened to me more at airports

than in other places. And I think that's just sort of by nature of like the foot traffic patterns that they get. Like maybe there's just not a bunch of arrivals or departures coming in around this time. such as like the place is absolutely dead. I actually feel a lot of pressure in these situations to like not fuck up the vibe. Like I don't want to get, as a customer, I don't want to get in the way of like the very chill shift that you're having. So like I want to tell them like, hey, don't stress about my flight's not for three hours. You guys are vibing.

You're watching this Rangers Devils game and like you're having a great time. I'm loving the vibe. You're like including me a little bit sometimes. Like hey bud. You're calling me bud a lot. Like I'm feeling so good. You do not need to do not need to stress about me, please. But I worry that that energy would also make them uncomfortable.

That kind of like hyper obsequious. Like please, please just ignore me. I'm not here. I'm the cool customer. I'm the cool customer. So just do bad at your job for me so you can party, please. there is like at the same time there's the inverse of that i don't know that there's any human behavior i shouldn't say that there's lots of human behaviors that i would find like absolutely

disgusting but like i have no patience for people who are like weirdly dicks to their food and beverage service professionals yeah uh because one like come on man like we're all just try to get through the day there is absolutely no need for that but two like why would you try make someone's shift that much harder? Why would you try to make someone's workday that much harder? I think there are people that have just never worked in any kind of service role ever. And they probably like grew up around people that carried that kind of like rudeness with them. And they've just kind of learned it as the way that you do things. Because I feel like anyone that has ever worked any kind of like retail or service job is aware of like you're not making any decisions.

Like you don't have any authority and you're pretty much treated as replaceable in any position. And so like when people are angry at you, you're like, this is not the right place to do that. Yeah. I mean, the thing that I think is particularly gross is this feeling of like I'm out at a restaurant where I am paying for the food and service. So I want to be the pampered prince. If everything is not to my exact specifications, that is your job. This is my special airport reference. Right.

It's like so dehumanized. It's like really, it's, it's so gross. And the alternative is maybe you help them have a better shift and then they're viving and you're vibing. They're calling you bud. And it's all so groovy. I don't understand why people would go the other route. Like, why power trip on them?

I have never watched Cheers, but I do think that like getting sage advice from a friendly bartender on a good shift would be like life changing for me. This is obviously above and beyond the thing that I'm describing. I've never had this experience. I don't. I don't want to be that guy, but you've never watched Cheers? No. No.

Wow. It was on in syndication. Probably still is. Yeah. That's how I caught it. Like, I'm not super old. It was on the bubble of like, this show is too old. This show is too old for me to watch it.

Don't get me wrong. I know now. I remember watching that scene in The Good Place where Ted Danson's character is talking to Eleanor and he's like pretending to be a bartender. And I was like, God damn, he's good at this. And then it turns out he's just doing cheers. Yeah. I mean, I don't go out to bars like ever anymore.

Really, I guess this would only happen at a restaurant where I was sitting at the bar to eat the chicken sandwich. So like my opportunities for having a sage bartender experience are quite a lot. You know what? We did go out to dinner at that little restaurant. I can't even remember the name so I can't plug it. And we were like the only couple there, which happens to us a lot. Oh, yeah.

Because it was like 5 p.m. I can't remember. But yeah, we got like really great service and the guy was really friendly and it was clear like he didn't have a lot to do. But also like he just seemed, you know, like one of those people that was going to be like, hey, you know what you would like? Yeah. And then we got a really great, a great beverage experience out of it. I did. Yeah, we had that awesome.

Cider. That cider. Not on show. Something like that. Yeah. Anyway, I've never had a bartender display. expense wisdom to me. I did at this airport restaurant learn a trick where the bartender overfilled like my drink and the foam came out and got the cup all wet and then you put a cocktail

napkin down and you sprinkle a little bit of salt on the cocktail napkin before he put my drink down on it so the cocktail napkin would not stick to the bottom of the drink. Wow. It's incredible. I wouldn't have learned that if I had been a dick to this person probably. Probably just would let me have a sticky drink. Yeah, a wet napkin. A wet napkin and a sticky drink. yeah I don't really have a whole lot I don't really have a whole lot more to say I just I think that this experience really stuck with me this time and this is like on a like more personal level when I when I am traveling by myself it is it is a weird and like self dehumanizing sort of experience by which I mean like I get so out of my rhythms and I get so out of my habits and I

don't see the people that I see and love seeing every day, i.e. you and our kids. And I don't like, and so everything is so different. And I don't know. It really kind of, um, it makes me feel sort of like untethered in a way. And so having like a good kind of chill human to human sort of experience like this. Obviously I was there as a customer and this person was an employee of this place. But to kind of like come in and be like oh you all are like y'all are having a pretty good shift it seems like and now you're calling me bud and that's just and you did a little magic trick with the salt like that's all just like i don't know it shook me out of the funk a little bit and kind of uh you know it does feel very vulnerable especially when you're in an airport because it you feel like you don't know kind of how it's supposed to work yes uh or what to order and like what food makes sense at an airport and it just feels like you're very disoriented already. So to have somebody be like, hey, it's all right. So anyway, that was my segment when you catch a bartender or server on what seems like a great shift.

I do not envy. Is it Rachel that has to come up with the subject matter? Yeah, good look. Griffin's favorite airport bartender experience. That sounds like I went to some sort of like fancy like a flare. Yeah, like damn, that's good. Sorry, I should append to the end of my segment. It is also cool when the bartender does big tricks with the bottles.

Yeah, but don't ask for that. Don't ask for that. They have to do it organically. That's how you know they're really having a good time. Yeah. They don't flip those bottles unless they are. So excited. Can I steal you away?

Yes. Thank you. Okay. Do you want to know my thing? Yes. Again, it's a little bit hard to describe because I'm trying to make it more universal. But it is when an athlete scores a point or goal. and has a little celebration after.

Yes. Yes. Yes. In hockey, they call it sellies. In hockey, I find it very, in hockey I love it. I have seen football cellies that I've been like, all right, dude. Like, come on. See, I love that too.

I love it when it's like a whole skit and all of them are in it. Yeah. You know, they all like, they're like in a circle and they're doing some kind of skit related to celebration. Yes. I think it's maybe just because it feels harder to score a, goal in hockey than it does to get like a touchdown in football. And so like in hockey. And I don't know, they're so slippery. And like they could always include that. Also your options are limited. Yeah,

because you're on ice. You're on ice. You have knives on your feet. Like you can only do so many different things. And you don't want to celebrate and embarrass yourself in the process. It kind of takes the wind out of your sales. Do they ever call penalties for like, I don't think that's a thing in hockey. Not in hockey. That's definitely a thing in football. Yeah. I actually looked into that because I knew about that. Yeah. And I was really curious. But yeah, I mean, obviously, my experience is mostly with hockey. I don't actually know if this happens in baseball because I realize that after you hit, for example, a home run, you still have to run the bases. You know, it's not like you can just stand there and dance. You have to go all the way around the bases.

And then I guess when you get to home play, you can do like a little jump. But like, it's just it seems like baseball doesn't really work. I think basketball they probably do, right? I don't know. You're scoring so often in basketball would be crazy for you to like score a dunk and then like do a dance and it's like it's 14 to 22 like what are we doing chill it's the it's the end of the first well and the clock doesn't stop either that's the other thing yeah right in most sports when you when you accomplish the objective yeah there is a period of time after also in baseball one of the big things is like they throw their bat all cool sometimes when they like slam it out and then they but sometimes they'll throw the bat too cool and the ump will be like you're out of here you threw

the bat too hard, too cool. One of my, so I obviously, again, don't know a lot about other sports. One of those other sports I don't know about is soccer. Yeah. If you look up goal celebration on Wikipedia, one of my favorite things is they list out common celebrations in soccer. Yeah. Like bullet by bullet.

And some of them are like... Is the Mia Hamm shirt rip-off on there? That's the most news. worthy one that I can remember. One of them is the scorer putting the ball underneath their shirt to indicate the pregnancy of a loved one. That's fucking great. Yeah, absolutely.

To indicate the pregnancy of a loved one. I know. I mean, I, Wikipedia, I imagine, you know, largely edited by individuals. The scorer pretending to fire a machine gun. The scorer putting an index finger to his lips as if telling the crowd are critics to be quiet. That's cool. That's awesome. But yeah, it's interesting to see how they innovate on it, like how they make it like specific to the sport. And obviously in hockey, I mean, you've got a stick. A lot of players will kind of like sheathe their hockey stick like a sword. Like one of the three musketeers.

Yeah, like after they score a goal, they pretend that they're like putting it back. A lot of prop work with the stick. I always appreciate. Are you going to go beat by beat through the video that you said? me because I saw some shit in there that I thought was like really truly revolutionary. Yeah, I was going to talk a little bit about it. One of them I wanted to talk about was actually Ovechkin. Yeah, Ovechkins was the worst of the bunch, I think. That was the, that was the dorkeest dork-ass celebration I've ever seen in my entire life. And I don't know what game it was from. Yeah, so March 2009, he scores a goal. And then he lays his stick on the ice. And what he's supposed to be doing, like, because it's hard to interpret exactly what he's doing.

Even the commentators were like, it seems like it's radioactive. I don't know what he... Well, I have the full story behind it. Okay. But he lays a stick on the ground and then he kind of moves his hands over the stick. Right. So apparently... It kind of looks like he's casting a spell a little bit.

Uh-huh. Apparently the goaltender was the one who suggested that... celebration. Yes. Okay. He said he never gave me credit for the concept. He looked more like a guy playing the piano than a guy warming his hands near a fire. So this is this is what I love the most about and I think hockey sellies is like where I guess where I imagine it the most where it feels like they have been dared to do it or they said before the game like hey guys if I score a goal this game just let you know I'm going to do that dumb thing that I said that I came up with during just to let you know

because the response to it from the other teammates always seems to be like holy shit he actually did it the Ovechtin thing is really really truly weird I don't think he ever did that one again I don't think he ever did that one again

if you look at like top ten celebrations that one always comes up yeah one of the other ones there was this hockey player named Tiger Williams Tiger Williams with the all time best which is a nickname yeah again a lot of these old players

gross individuals I don't know anything about this other than He has a lot of penalty minutes, and I imagine he's a terrible person. Because of his many penalty minutes? Well, just based on the time period. Oh, okay, sure. It was a long time ago. Yeah.

But he would get on his stick and pretend to ride it across the ice, but he would, like, sit on it. Gang, listen, he wedges it between his legs, right, with the blade of the stick side up, right? And he's holding it with two hands, and he squats. No, the blade of the stick is on the ice. Yes. The blade of the stick is on the ice, but like curving up. And then he squats on it, sort of like a witch's broom situation. But he's also using the stick as a kind of fulcrum to like hold himself up in this squat.

Yeah. And he zooms, gang. And it's pretty fucking great. It's pretty cool. Did you see the guy that pretended to go swimming? Yeah. So that's another fun one. When they incorporate the slipperiness of the sport into it, that is an all-timer for me.

I forget the guy's name, but he just kind of like does a few pump fakes. and just dives forward onto the ice and pretends to swim for a little bit. That's pretty cool. There's the flurry celebration where he just like scores a goal and then turns around and he skates by all of his teammates

is encroaching, celebrating teammates, and gets up a full trot of speed and then just fucking falls to the ground and like spins around, bounces off the wall off of his butt. And it's like, dude, are you good? Are you okay? That's what's funny about these clips

is you have no context for why this celebration is so heightened. You kind of can get some from the commentary, but it just seems like, wow, something really big must have happened. How did you feel about the one where the guy scores the goal and then he takes off his glove and throws it in the air and then holds up his stick like a rifle and pretends to shoot it? That apparently has been done by multiple players. It seems like the hockey stick cuts a similar silhouette to some sort of long barrel gun. This is a like, I think it's Sportsnet is the compilation we're talking about. when I was looking for just kind of a best of.

Yeah. There are certain players that had like signature, like Yager, who was on the Penguins, used to take off his glove and like salute. I saw another clip of men just like taking off their gloves and shaking hands. Shaking handshake. Yeah. The gentleman's handshake celebration.

There was the one guy who scored his first goal of the season in a shootout to win the game. and then just kind of like skated around with his hand in the air, like the Statue of Liberty. Just stone face, no celebration at all. The real classic one, and I don't know if somebody started this, but is where you get down to one knee and you're still like sliding. Yeah. And you do some kind of like arm pump. Yeah. Or like a guitar, like you're on guitar and you're hitting the Johnny Be Good riff from fucking back to the future.

Yeah. That one seems undeniable. I probably will never play hockey, but if I did, I would never score a goal. but if I did, I think I would organically just kind of fall down into that. One, to a knee to like, one, thank God. Thank you, God for getting me out here on the ice and letting me score a goal. But then I would eventually turn it into a. Yeah.

The body just wants to do that. The body wants to go into that role. I was, I can't substantiate this because I only found one website that said it. But it used to be like a common practice because obviously there weren't a lot of like different angles of video camera footage you could look at. So the common practice was that if you scored the goal, you would raise your stick in the air just to draw attention and make it clear to anybody watching, like who actually scored.

And I feel like commentators still kind of use that because when you're watching it live, you know, you can't tell. And then they will look for the person that seems to be celebrating. And they're like, oh, it must have been him. It's so confusing, gang, hockey is, because I would say about half the time when a goal is scored, there's like three dudes like up on the net. There's like three and you can't really tell who's the last one. There's deflections all the time. Sometimes it like bounces off the goalie's butt or something and then it's like did the goalie's butt get a point? No, that's not how I had to

learn that's not actually how it works. Yeah. Yeah, no, this is a lot of fun. I stand by, I still find some other celebrations grading. I have never seen a hockey celebration that I have aside from Ovechkens, really, really weird playing an invisible pipe organ thing he did. But I usually find them so charming. Oh, you just reminded me. I wanted to look up the rules for the football excessive celebration thing because I was confused about it. So in 2006, the NFL amended its rules to include an automatic 15-yard penalty against any player who left his feet or uses a prop. like a towel or the goalpost or post base, or more specifically the football.

The penalty was called excessive celebration and the yardage was charged against the offending players team. Then in 2017, it was scaled back and then it was like, well, you just can't do loot or violent gestures or prolong the celebration to delay the game. In 2019, it was revised again to give the defensive team the option of enforcing the penalty on the extra point attempt, which could potentially push the extra point kickout to 48 yards to make it. Jesus.

I know. That seems, oh, man. Simply spiking the ball is not interpreted as excessive celebration. It's just vibes, guys. It's simply vibes, it seems to be. Jumping onto the outer wall to accept contact from fans is also not considered. Well, yeah, they had the grandfather that in for the Green Bay Packers, I do believe. That's sort of their whole thing.

The limb. I do actually appreciate that the Green Bay Packers have a, like, mandatory celebration that they kind of, I don't know of another team that's like, and when you do it, this is what you have to do. Because when I find it especially sort of like impressive about that is, I bet it's pretty hard. That is not a short wall, guys. That's a pretty big wall to try to get all up on. Well, a lot of those people that catch the football can jump pretty high. That's true. But sometimes like a nose tackle

will catch the ball and be like, oh, okay, and run in for a touchdown. And then that nose tackle has to be like, I guess I got to, here I come, guys. Lean way down, please. Man, I have not watched football in a really super dupe. Did we watch some of the Super Bowl? It feels like we did.

Maybe we just watched the halftime show. I can't remember. I don't know. I think we did because I do remember thinking like, man, this is a lot of kicking. The score was like nine to, 12 and it's like so we're doing a kicking one huh that for my first football game in probably a year this is not a yeah such a through anyway I don't want to talk shit about other sports because

I really like hockey I don't like when people talk shit about hockey same um do you want our friends at home we're talking about yes max says my small wonder is the new boys go to jupiter album now you're a circle every single song fuck severely and I've had it on repeat since it came out I instantly bought a concert ticket and I'm so excited to see them again thanks for introducing me to this band. Last last time was my top song last year. Have you been, have you been listening to the album? No, I haven't yet. Oh, babe. You played a little bit for us, though, like when we were all hanging out. Yeah, we were driving. Yeah. Us and our kids were hanging out, just like chilling. And I was like, hey, boys, you're going to love, uh, no, yeah, we were driving down to the,

down to the wharf and listening to the album. I haven't listened to it a bunch today. It's so good. It's five beat. Do they, do they have like a, like a standout from your perspective? God. Flying Machine is really, really exceptional. Revenge Tour. I really love a lot. Headstand, I think it's called, is great. Honestly, like, it's really, on and on, I think is, now I've got to look up the name of that song, because that's the one I've been,

Do It Over. Oh, I know that one. Yeah, I've seen them perform that one. God damn, it's good. Yeah, reminded me, that song reminded me a lot of like Bird and the Bee. Yeah, yeah, I can see that for sure. Did you tell your brother Justin Mcroy about this? No, I need to tell my brother,

I feel like we should give him credit again because he is the reason that we know about that man. Yes, that is true. And I don't want people to think that we're like. Cool tastemakers. No, as always, the cool music that I hear about has come from someone else. Absolutely. Sierra says, My Small Wonder is when you're driving to an event or a restaurant for a night on the town and you happen upon a primo parking spot by the grace of the parking gods. When every spot is taken the streets or line with cars and it seems like you'll have to park six blocks away when suddenly after taking a couple loops, Someone pulls out of their spot just in the nick of time.

Feels like magic. Oh, I love that so much. I do too. Parking stresses me out so. You know what? Parking does not stress me out so much in D.C. I feel like there's ample parking. Well, it's because of that app we found where you can like, you can like reserve your spot.

We do use the app. Yeah. Man, I used to every time. Austin, Texas. Every time we knew we were going downtown in Austin. I feel like there were two parking garages in all of downtown Austin. Yeah. And everybody was trying to use them.

It was like one in like on like rainy. It was like which end of downtown do you want to park at? And then, you know, you'll have to circumnavigate to the place you're actually trying to get to. We just kind of stopped. Well, then. We also got old. And we also, there was a pandemic. Yeah.

Thank you so much for listening to our program. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus for these for a theme song. Money won't pay. You can find a link to that in the episode description. And also thank you to Maximumfund.org for having us on the network. Got a bunch of merch over at macroymerch.com, including a new helping. is always a free action tea and a bunch of other stuff over there. And again, I will mention probably for, I mean, I'll probably keep plugging it a little bit here and there. But I'll back

off, I promise, if you're tired of hearing about the stowaway. My new choosier and adventure book, it came out yesterday, Tuesday, March 10th. And it's set on a spaceship and you're a stowaway on that spaceship and you're the only one on board and you're like, whoa, what's going on? You've got to figure it out. And there's mystery and adventure and intrigue and exciting and excited. and it's written for middle grade readers and also for anyone who likes adventures. So bit.ly shtryph, giff and stowaway was the pre-order link. I'm going to check right now where that even goes before I continue saying it. Yes, indeed, that will still get you there. You can just go ahead, go to that link and it'll tell you where you can buy the book.

Thank you so much for listening. Do you have anything? You want to plug? Don't put me in this position. I don't want to put you in this position. All right. Well, I think that's going to do it for us. We didn't even talk about the other big hockey news about all the players that got traded. We're still in mourning. We're still in Blooms Nation. We're still in mourning. I mean, I can't imagine it's a significant percentage of our listeners that have any awareness of any of these players and what hockey is. So I feel like I can't make this whole episode. Hockey. focused. They traded a captain away. They did. And also Justin Falk, who

had a really great mustache and was scoring goals like fucking left, right and center. They did have a really great mustache. He's really great. And he still has it. It's just now it's now that mustache is on the Detroit Red Red Wings with David

Perron, who does not have a mustache anymore. Anyway, thanks for listening to the show. We'll be back next week. That's your hockey mustache update with Griffin and Rachel. Keep it locked. Bye. Bye. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows.

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