Wonderful! - Wonderful! 426: Forget Fall, I'm a Kyle Man

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

Griffin and Rachel investigate the strange notes they've accumulated over the years, some of which are Wonderful things: fruit trackers, hipster toons, feminist slogans, parental woes, new times. And some of which are complete mysteries to everyone. Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Native Women Lead: https://www.nativewomenlead.org/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinwonderful

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Welcome to Wonderful. It's a podcast where we talk about things we like. That's good that we're into. I have to cough. I'm so sorry.

I don't like coming at people with that energy because now they're like, ew, yuck. I don't want to get sick from a podcast. I've been hearing a lot about that. How it comes through your ears now. From Robbie Jr., the health guy. Uh-huh. And he's like, don't listen to podcasts. It makes you sick.

That's a really good impression. I didn't think so, but it's really nice of you to say that. We have a bit of a weird one for you this week. Thank you for sticking with us. We took last week off. We did stream last week. We did. I was a real video game streamer.

You were a real video game streamer. We did the Super Macroy brothers together, although this was Super Macroy Spouses. And we played that Metschakameleon game with some fans, with some listeners. and that was a freaking blast, dude. I had a really good time. And stream with you is really fun. You've got great gamer sense. Oh, wow.

I don't know how to take that. As a compliment, as it was intended. Okay. I wish I had, I mean, I've got pretty good gamer sense. But I've been training it, I've been training it on the daily, eight hours a day, every day. And you have a sort of natural knack for it that I think if you really put in the hours. I could go pro? I think you could go pro.

Okay. I think that is a dream of yours, and it's not. But if it was, if it was, if you were a totally different person, you could live a life that would be so decadent. This episode, we're not going to talk so much about things we like that is good. That we're into. I will say, though, that what we talk about are things that we like. Sure, yeah. No, I mean, everything we talk about is things we like.

We don't talk about things we don't like, except Robbie Jr., the health guy. Instead, we're doing a bit of a deep dive. A bit of a investigation, I guess, you could call it. Rachel and I have a tendency to keep each other up, I would say, mostly at nighttime. Yeah. Just talking about stuff and goofing. And there are many times where we'll be talking about stuff, whether it is in bed or while watching a crappy television program or something. We're inviting you listeners into our bedroom in this exclusive episode.

While doing this, one of us will say we should write that down. Yeah. For what purpose it has never been defined until this exact moment, because we're going to go into the notes apps on our phone. I think I am more of the archivist, I would say, of our conversations. I will say some of the notes too aren't necessarily like bedtime notes. No, they're not bedtime notes. That's just why we get most of our great ideas. Nothing sexy.

Maybe. No, I don't think there's anything here that anyone could find the least bit salacious. So it's not that kind of bedroom notes as much as it is. Just things we wrote down because we had the thought we should write that down. Yeah. And we're going to just kind of, I don't know about you. I went through. I've got maybe like eight or nine things here.

And some of them I don't remember the context of. I will do my best to help you with that. So I was hoping we could go through just sort of our notes apps, look at some of the notes that we've written down and try and figure out kind of what's going on there? What's happening? Do you have any small wonders before we begin this exercise? Oh, good question. Um, umbrella? Yes. We got an umbrella on our like back patio, which was normally. Oh, big umbrella. Big umbrella. Okay. I thought you were talking about rain umbrella for on the go. I, I am having the feeling right now that we might have talked about this. I don't think so, dude. But I will say that we spend a lot more time outside now that are

Our patio furniture and patio surface aren't scorching hot. It's like 10 by 12 feet. It's a big rectangular umbrella. And it's got like a nice little cantilever arm on it. Great action on that umbrella. I love it. We've had a few different patio burles at this point. And most of them have been absolute trash up to this point.

This one's premium stuff. Yeah. I do love the shade that it affords us. I finished baradour. Oh, you did? I finished the Lego build of Baradur, which is, of course, Saran's big tower with the big fiery eye on top of it from the Lord of the Rings movies and book. And this was a big undertaking, gang. This is about 6,000 pieces.

Yeah. And it's about as tall as Small Sun is. It's a big, big, big tower. And I really liked putting this thing together. It's got a lot of, like, features to it. It does. Lego now instead of just saying like, hey, you made a building is like, here's all those things that work in the building and turn around and go up and down. There's a little part where it's like Sauron's throne, but then you pull a little thing and it splits.

What's behind it? The Palantir. That's great. Why are you hiding that, man? That's crazy. What's your favorite thing about it? Your favorite Lord of the Rings thing about it? Hmm.

It's hard to choose, isn't it? It's got a little gallum. It does have a little gallum. That's one I know. I do. You do know him. And there is a ring. There's a ring, sure.

Yeah. Yeah. It is probably pretty large for scale. The ring is? Well, in order for Lego to make a ring that would be viewable by the human eye that is not to scale to a Lego man, it has to be more of a, a, of a, a ring. bracelet. In the canon of the of the of the of the story the ring can change size depending on who's wearing it yeah because you got to think about Frodo he got beep little fingers boop boop boop little sausages. How big are hobbits? Hobbits I don't actually know three apples tall

is that true that's smurfs um I don't know how tall a hobbit is but I mean I mean they're about knee high to a sir Ian McKellen okay if you if you if you factor in your mind one average Sir Ian McAllen. That's little. And then you go to about maybe the thigh, maybe the thigh of him. Okay. It's, I'll tell you what it is, is when they run up to, like, tackle, hug like a human, their face is, like, always crotch level.

Like, always crotch level. Okay, all right. So about that big. Okay. But, yeah, you know, when Sauron, where's the ring, you got that big metal hand. So it's got to be big, big ring. So, yeah, I mean, it kind of makes sense. Anyway, that's barador.

Should we start with the notes? Yeah, sure. This, I mean, I want to start out with this one because this is like, I should maybe start with this one because I think I've talked about it on the show before. This is a note that I had on my phone, and I can remember the context of it somewhat okay. The note simply reads, I just came up with this sick idea. They should make a calendar that shows you when different fruits are in season.

I am high. This one, I think we have discussed on the show. I was discussed because the listener sent us this exact calendar. Yes, a calendar of when fruits are in seed. Yeah, exactly. This is a real thing. Did we hang on to that calendar? Yeah, I have it downstairs in the kitchen.

Okay. I need to check it because I still feel like I don't have a great grasp on this. Yeah. No, I understand. Cherries are tough, aren't they? Cherries have such a limited lifespan, I feel like, such a small. But when they're good. But when they're good.

It's incredible. It is incredible. I'll tell you what I did enjoy. It's a little bit of that pineapple that we got in the fridge you earlier. That one goes down really. real smooth, doesn't it? Uh-huh. I noticed you got it in ring form.

Is that your preferred sort of pineapple experience? I don't know. I feel like it keeps better when it's in ring form. That's like how it's intended to be kind of, you know? And something about it seems to make it last longer in the fridge. Interesting. Maybe it's a surface area exposure to... No, you're shaking your head.

No idea. No idea. Well, I think what it is is like the bottom starts to get gross. Oh, sure. The height of the ring kind of supports... out of the juice. Yeah, that's true. That's the real Lord of the Rings, if you ask me, is pineapple. This, okay, here's one we haven't discussed on the show before. This was in a note just called Cool Ideas. Okay. And this was like one of the first ones that I can remember jotting

down after you and I talked about it. I don't know if it's aged particularly well. It seems a bit classes to me if I'm being frank. But it is Jeff Foxworthy Ted Talk. Yes. I feel like do you remember I feel like you were doing like we were maybe going back and forth doing Jeff Foxworthy impressions and then we had him to start talking about very

detailed examples so not just like you might be a redneck I think I just kind of was fascinated by the kind of taking of that structure of the you might be a redneck which is if you're not familiar with Mr. Fox with Dr. Foxworthy The run is very much like,

if you have a tire swing on your... If you... See, it's harder than you think, isn't it? If you have a jerky rack on your tire swing... There you go. You found the right... You might be your redneck. And then I think we just went longer and longer

until it sounded more like a TED talk than like a joke. Right. Now, here's, I feel like it's been a long time since this note was written. I would, I would be curious to hear. He's had a career that I would be curious to hear about in the structure of a TED talk or a TEDx talk, if you must. Very true. I'm curious how he got to where he got. I'm curious about some of it.

There's no way those blue collar comedy tour guys like all got along super great. Yeah. If you look at where they all kind of landed across the political spectrum, just to take that alone, like, I don't know if you can get Lawrence, the cable gentleman, and one of the other ones. One of the other ones. Bill Ingval. I actually don't know Bill Ingval sort of stance on things. I would believe anything you said right now. He is a Democratic socialist. He stumped really, really hard for Mom Donnie. I was surprised too. Like, why do you give a show? shit about New York City, Bill. Like, that doesn't seem like... I don't know anything about this man. I don't know. I don't know anything about really any of them, except Jeff, who did host, are you smarter

than a fifth grader? Or third grader. I forget which grade. I think it's, well, third or fifth? That's a good question. We just had, we have a fourth grader now, and I'm, yes. Yes. Across the board, yes.

Sometimes he says stuff that's like, I don't know, man. Like, maybe I've forgotten one or. two things here, but like I know way more. What didn't he tell you the other day? Oh, he was talking about diamonds and how they're actually brittle. Yes. And we were like, no way, diamonds aren't brittle. No, because they're forever.

And then we looked it up. They're actually quite brittle. You can break a diamond pretty easy. I felt like a real drag. But you have to really like intentionally do it. Yeah. But it does scratch in a way that I didn't. No, it doesn't scratch.

It doesn't scratch. It breaks. Okay. All right. That's the thing about diamonds. Don't back your car over it. Don't, yeah. Well, just don't throw a diamond at the ground as hard as you can.

Okay. Do you want to do a note? Sure. This one is more recent. Okay. This, I think, is one of the things that maybe gave us the idea to do this show because you said toenails is pain leaving the body. Okay. That's cool.

Yeah. And I stand by that. A lot of these I won't own, like necessarily, but that one I believe in full force wholeheartedly. This is in reference to my hurt leg, right? Yeah. Yeah. I did some kind of fitness thing that, like, hurt my quad muscles or whatever and it wasn't serious but it was kind of thing that was going

to take time to heal and what started happening was the pain was moving around my leg right because the other muscles were compensating in a weird way right so I talked about how it was like all the way down at my calf muscle and then Griffin suggested well it's got to leave your body and then right so if the pain if the pain keeps going down eventually we it gets It gets to the Achilles, to the ankle, to the soul, to the toes, and then out of the body food toenails. I like that. That's a good way to encourage people to clip their toenails too. Sure.

Like that's extra pain. You're just carrying around for no reason. And we've got to be doing something with these things, right? When I piss, I am ejecting. Ew. Toonails? No. Okay.

I'm curious where this is going. Toxins. Oh, okay. And bits of food that I don't eat, need. That's the other one. But I'm just saying, like, I have so many different ways of, like, getting bad stuff out of my body. Uh-huh. Looking at my fingernails and toenails, I'm just wondering, is that something?

Yeah. Is there something in there that I'm pressing out that, like, my body doesn't need anymore? I like that idea. I like that a lot, too. Uh-huh. Because then it frames me as, like, a perfect machine. Like, a perfectly efficient machine. My hair, that's something.

That's just bad thoughts that my head is like, get out of here. And it also gives you the freedom to eat terrible things and think terrible thoughts because it'll work its way out. It comes out as hair and toenails. Yeah, absolutely it does. Elmer Fudd T. Enthusiast. No fucking idea, man. Oh. Obviously, you know.

Are you sure I was there for that? Yeah, you were there for Elmer Fud T enthusiasts. This was in an app that was a notes section that was specifically dedicated to things that we talked to. about that you said you should write that down. Elmer Fudd tea enthusiasts. Obviously, like, I've become a huge tea guy these past few years. I'm talking about a cup of night drinker no matter what. And so, like, maybe it was just, again, maybe a little classist, huh?

You know what I think might help is if you tapped into your Elmer Fudd impression? That would maybe get me back there. Okay, so it would be like, I've got an elder belly point. That's so good. It's not. It's not that. good. I think I just kind of like I kind of like hipster

Elmer Fudd. I feel like that's like a kind of thing you would see on like a beach boardwalk t-shirt of like an Elmer Fudd with like gauged ears talking about his like loose leaf sort of experience. Elmer Fud with gaugged ears is really powerful to me. It's cool. Yeah.

No, I like it a lot. He's got like you know maybe he's like got a clove cigarette and I don't know what hipsters are into these days. This is like I'm thinking early 2000s hipsters shit, like gauge ears, corduroy jacket. A lip ring. A lip ring and he's drinking a cup of Camomile. A lip ring that only like further challenges his ability to speak clearly. Yeah, I don't know that he needs much, I don't know how much of an impact it would have on his sort of, on his

speech patterns. I think we're a good match because I am so unable to do any kind of impression ever. Yeah. That anything that you spit out to me. sounds great. Most of the time, yeah. That's the difference is I also don't have many good voices inside me. That is not true. It's true, but I am not afraid to let them rip because that's the only way you get better at doing an Elmer Fussi Enthusious. Well, maybe that's motivation for you to be more complimentary of my bad impressions.

And then I'll feel more safe. I think I'm very complimentary of your bad impressions. I always celebrate when you stoke the fires of your courage and stand and deliver. This one rules. We have an apparatus. We have a system for taking jokes and getting them turned into merchandise. McKay, who works with us, who is extraordinarily talented and a diligent sort of liaison for our whole sort of network of artists and folks who have made stuff for us in the past to sell his merch.

I have been nervous because I don't feel like, I don't know if we could do this shirt. Okay. But female body respecter. Female body respecter feels so awesome to me because it's, it's trying so hard to be an ally in a way that is like,

I, it's like goes all the way back around to the other side of like, that's bad actually. It seems guaranteed to get a chuckle out of anybody. that sees it. The only thing is FBR doesn't really stand for anything. No, no. You can't, and there's no way to fix that. Like, you can't have it be like female body irrespector because I think that's not a word one and two, it would be the opposite of what I'm intending. Because in order to have people understand it, you'd have to do it in that kind of vertical way that the inspector one traditionally does it. Yeah. But I do love it. I love it a lot. And maybe there's an opportunity to combine it to have like, Elmer Fudd with the gauged ears and have it say female body respecter next to it. And maybe he's making a face like, hmm? Aren't I great?

This is quite the task that you've given McKay. Again, I don't know if we could do this. I don't know if it would be appropriate for us to do this. Maybe Elmer Fudd is like sitting in one of the letters, you know, just kind of hanging out. Okay. Maybe he's scratched out inspector and written. Maybe Calvin's there pissing on the word inspector. And underneath, Hobbs has written Respector.

Yeah, that'll make it easier for her. There's got to be something there. I do like it. It's such a funny notion to me, this idea of like, I'm, it strikes me as like, we're watching the new season of Married at First Site, which I'm not ready to endorse in any capacity. Yeah, no. But there's so much, like, dudes saying, like, and I'm an.

ally for the most lightweight sort of wrongheaded kind of stance that I can take. That seems okay on paper, but we know it's not anything. I don't want to arm those people with more tools necessarily, but on an ironic level, female body respecter hits for me. Yeah. Yeah, and it's the kind of shirt I feel like you would wear to like a concert or the beach, something where you get a lot of eyes on it, but nobody's expecting you to look your best. Yeah. It really, again, it has huge beachboard walk vibes. Yeah.

Female Body Respecter. I enjoy that. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll get back into our investigation. Do you have one you want to do? So this one's not a bedtime one. Okay. But I kept it in here just because it's a funny memory. And the whole note is, it was poop.

Awesome. Do you remember this? I mean, I guess this was, I'm guessing our child was like in bed and we had to communicate to each other. Similar, similar to that, though. It was a communication to you. We had been informed that one of our children, I'm not going to make this clear. Good. I don't want anyone to know which child or when this was.

But had had an accident and there was a bag. with the shorts in it. And I am thinking in my head what kind of accident. Yeah. But I didn't want to embarrass the child. Right. I just held up my notes app after I had looked at it. Yeah.

It was poop. To make clear that it was poop and to also kind of indicate like I just threw those shorts away. Yeah. I think that's fine. Obviously, that's not the most sustainable practice. I don't think we've thrown a lot of shorts away. But sometimes you've got to throw the fucking shorts away, man. Yeah, yeah.

And if you have qualms with that, once you're a parent, you know, know the truth. Sometimes you just have to throw the shorts away. The amount of time it takes to even get them ready to put in the washing machine is usually not worth it for me. Right. And also then like the if it's a question of is the washing machine contaminated in some way? Yeah, right, right? How are we to guarantee that obviously these things can handle a lot? But sometimes you just got to throw those shorts in the garbage can do. Well, and because as a parent, this is the kind of thing no one sits. you down and tells you like, okay, here's a list of 15 things you should know. Right.

Nobody has ever told me what to do with poopie pants. Yeah. And so I... If it's a little poop. Washer. No problem. Chuck it in there. Throw it on high soil, whatever.

Uh-huh. But you have to make that call. And being a parent means feeling confident when you make those choices. You cannot second guess yourself. And your time is so precious. So precious. That you... I am always doing the calculation.

I think you do this too. Yeah. Of like how much time will it take me to accomplish this and get through this moment? Yeah. And a lot of times it's like not worth it. Yeah. I had one that I do remember doing. It was on a stream where me and Justin and Travis were playing a repo, I think, where once you die in the game, you can't communicate anymore.

I had a note on my notes app that said just die, that I did hold up to the camera to just just. So Justin or Travis to inform them like, I'm bored. But it was like an alarming one to sort of have kind of scrolling through my notes app. I didn't delete it. I held on to it for whatever reason. I also had one on there that said, Little Cocoes. This is, I googled it, a restaurant here in D.C. It's like Northeast D.C.

It's an Italian restaurant. It looks nice. It looks charming. We've never been to it. Are you sure we have been to it? We've never been to Little Cocoes. but I just had it on my this one was a true mystery

because I do not know why I think I have like a Google Doc or something of like I started up when we moved here of like here's the restaurants we've eaten at that are great this was not in there this was a note a solo note little Cocoes

maybe we were watching like a top chef or something and one of the competitors worked there maybe it was a season of love is blind or married at first sight or something and they went to little cocos and we were like got to go there it looks so cute it does look cute I'd like to go to that that's the only context I can think of it's a bit far it's a bit far that is a big factor

in D.C. because there aren't easy ways to get anywhere no because of how old this city is and the way it was set up you have to like drive down a hundred like residential streets with like 200 stop signs. Yeah. And if something is maybe three miles away, it could still take you 30 minutes. If it's on the other side of Rock Creek Park, it may as well be in a different continent. It's hard to find a sitter to watch our kids for a sufficient amount of time and to spend 35, 40 minutes in traffic to go eat at a place. You don't know if it's going to be good or not.

It's a tough, it's a tough prospect. Yeah. It's a tough one. I mean, I got one here, and it's, I mean, I remember this one very clearly. It's the title is Age of Attraction. And then it's a really, really insane list of names and numbers that sounds like, it looks like I was trying to put together like a fantasy baseball scorecard. This was a Netflix show that I don't know if we talked about on the program. I think we must have mentioned it.

It's really, it was, it was bad. It was not a good, it was not a good. It was not a well-made sort of show. It felt kind of rinky-dink budget-wise compared to some of the other bigger Netflix reality shows. Yeah. And the concept was the kind of thing that I think probably initially seemed like good television in like a planning meeting. Sure.

But once it happened, you realized like all you cared about was finding out the ages. Like for me, every, you know, the whole idea of the show was that you went on the show because you were interested or open to dating somebody who was significantly older or younger than you. Right. But as the viewer, they wouldn't tell us at the beginning because the contestants didn't know either what the ages actually were. So before each reveal, Griffin and I would turn to each other and we would try and figure out, here's our guess on how old this person is or how young this person is. And then our idea was whoever had the biggest differential was the loser.

At the end of the however six, eight couples, there was. Yeah. And I believe you won, right? Or did I? I did. I actually have the full list here. It was close, babe. We were usually pretty good at it.

I have the full list here. This is only a partial list with like four of the different couples. Talking about Libby, Andrew Pfeiffer, Derek, Leah, Chris, Vanessa, Logan, you know. But I have the whole list here on my app. You ended up having a differential of 38 years, and I have 13. 34 years. So it was pretty close. Yeah, it was pretty close.

And that's across all the couples added together. That's true. Bad show, but I love how studious we were about it. I don't even know. No, we did finish it eventually. We did finish it because one of the guys ended up on perfect match and everyone on perfect match was like, what show are you from again? And he's like, you know, age of attraction. And they're like, I don't, is that a made up?

Did you make, I think this guy's from a made up show. It depends on when it's filmed and whether or not it's air. But sometimes there is a real snobry. Yeah, yeah. Like, oh, I'm familiar with too hot to handle. I don't know what that is. Like the season where there was somebody from the mole and everyone's like, what's the mall? What is, what?

The old Anderson Cooper? Are you, what the fuck? This one I stand by. This one, this note just simply said, an app that helps you learn local geography or lore or whatever. I think that would be cool, don't you? Do you remember the context for why you? It must have been right after we moved here. And it's like, you know, we lived in Austin for so long.

that I felt so kind of like authoritative. Like I knew all the neighborhoods in Austin and kind of like what the character of those neighborhoods were and what the vibe and kind of like culture of those neighborhoods were. And that's like such an ephemeral thing that I feel like you only kind of learn by living in a place for a long time. And there's not really a great way to sort of fast track that. But if there was an app that had just like a,

You know what it could be like, I think my idea was like a duo lingo type thing where you'd have flashcards and it would show you like, what's this neighborhood? Learning just the names of the major streets, DC would be, I think great for this because it's like a lot of them are alphabetical, which I didn't realize until like a year after living here when I was like, hey, wait a second, these streets go up in. No, we had to figure that out just on our own. Just on our own. And like learning also all the streets are named after states. So like all the diagonal streets that cut across the grid, you got Connecticut, you got Wisconsin, you got New Mexico. And it's like, that stuff is tough to learn. You only really learn it by driving them for years and years if there was a way.

It's kind of like a Yelp Wikipedia duolingo combo. Yeah. Right? Where you're able to kind of get other people's, because I'm assuming other people would have to kind of provide this information. I think it would have to be crowdsourced. But, you know, just for the major cities starting out, and then we could pat it out from there, just an app to help you learn your city.

TM TM, TM. I can't, I don't know if we can TM any of this stuff, except female body respecter. I'm putting a copyright on female body respecter. If that sure ends up in circulation without our consent, I will be very. Have you checked to see if it already does, maybe? No. Oh, Jesus.

Wait, this could be crushing. Hold on. Female body respect. I'm like holding my breath right now. Um, okay. No. Good. Fucking, I mean, Google AI says, a female body respecter often abbreviated to FBR is a lighthearted internet slang term and apparel brand concept used to describe someone who appreciates values and support.

Where are you getting this out of? You're not getting this out of anything. This is a, I think that AI is listening to us doing it right now. Because I'm going down. I'm not seeing anything. I'm not seeing a... Oh, wait, there is a shirt that says female body respecter.

But it's like some like fucking like AI slop merch company. Okay. We can get out ahead of this. Not the level of quality that we would bring. This is one brand with one shirt. I think we can get out ahead of this. Yeah, no problem. Let's do one more.

And this is the one that I think really inspired this whole idea. Yes, because it has a quite a length. the origin story. Yeah. What if there was a fifth little season called Kyle? We know spring, summer, fall, winter. What if there was a fifth little season called Kyle? Do you want to go?

Oh, my gosh. The other day, I was able to put this all together. Kyle Chandler. Okay, so I was suggesting, Griffin and I have been watching Friday Night Lights again. Yes. As kind of a comfort show. And I said, what if there was a month out of every year dedicated to watching Kyle Chandler projects? I think this was also inspired by us watching the trailer for that, for lanterns, the Green Lantern show that has cast to him.

and, God, the cast of the show is stacked. It looks great. I don't give a shit about superhero stuff or comic stuff or really DC stuff in general. This show looks fucking lit, man. Same. So we were like, what if there was a month where you just watch a bunch of Kyle Chandler programming? And we started adding Chandler to month names. Chandlerwary.

Chandleri is, I think, the closest we got to something functional. But then I realized if you just do Chandler, then people are. are going to assume it's a friend's thing. Right. So we had to fit Kyle in there somewhere. Which then led to my thought, which was what if there was a fifth little season called Kyle? This obviously took the conversation in a completely different direction. But it's such a promising notion, isn't it? Because I don't think our sort of climate as it is now, I don't think divides up into four clean seasons. No, there's all these kind of middle periods. There's all these middle periods. So what is- And like fall?

false seasons where you think like, oh, it's definitely spring now and then it's not. Yeah. I think that if we just kind of took a little bit out of one of them, maybe late winter into spring, maybe Kyle is a season of renewal. Because I like the idea of being like, oh, man, rainy Kyle this year. Yeah. They're like, oh, this Kyle like comes in like a hornet and leaves like a Junebug. That's great, honey.

I liked that a lot. Thank you. It could be a spring to summer thing then and then it would go out like a horned in like a June bug. That works for me in a major way. That's charming. I don't know if you still have to watch Kyle Chandler programming. It feels like the idea became bigger than him, didn't it? It did.

It did. But it was such a convoluted way to get to a ridiculous concept that it felt like this is important. And think about what it would do for culture, right? like haiku would evolve because all of a sudden there's a whole new set of season words that they could weave into poetry. We could have, um, why did haiku come to mind? Haiku traditionally has a different, I'm going to butcher this, but like a set of seasonal kind of words based around the four major seasons. You just told me something about poetry.

Amazing. Yeah. But I mean, we also have like, you know, the five seasons could be like the new hotel chain that we could do that's like even better than four seasons. And then you have like, you know, new versions of songs like winter, spring, summer, or Kyle. All you got to do is dial. You just call, like it's still, like that works actually. But you left out full.

Fuck fall. Oh, wow. I'm all about, I'm a Kyle man now. And then people are named Kyle and decades from now, everyone's like. Like now, are you named after the season or are you an original Kyle? I mean, there's people named Summer and Autumn. True. You know what I mean?

Why not Kyle? Why not Kyle? It's time. It's time for Kyle's. Folks. Mysteries solved. Mystery solved sort of. Our friends at home are talking about.

Yes. First of all, Wonderful Podcast at gmail.com is where you can go to send us your small wonders. I would, if you've got notes, nonsense notes in your phone that you want to send us devoid of context, I would love to read those actually. Yes, as long as they're not gross. So inside joky or gross. Or, yeah. Danny says, my wonderful thing is closing out a browser tab or an app that's been working in the background and seeing my computer and or phone noticeably speed up. I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders I didn't know was there and my devices feel pretty much brand new. Yes. I do this all the time with a small. son's iPad that he uses is he always has like 27 applications open. Yeah. Just going through and just swiping them out. Not because he's like always kind of grinding between apps, but as much he just doesn't

close him ever. And we never let his shit die. We always keep that shit charged. And he'll open something for like five seconds and move on. And move right on. I agree with you, Danny. This is a very powerful stuff. Jess says as a fair gal, I started doing annual full body dermatological checkups at

39. During the first appointment, my Durham reminded me to wear sunscreen and I said, I wore it on my face every day and she said, I can tell. It's in my top five experiences of getting approval from authority figures. Oh, man. I can tell. Yeah, I mean, if you're going to get that kind of compliment anywhere, that's exactly the person and the kind of compliment you'd want. From a skin doctor. Like, I look at skin all day long and it is my job to kind of chastise people for not taking better care of their skin and I recognize your talent and ability and I want to acknowledge it. Moist. Thank you so much for listening to our program.

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Do you want to, now that I'm a gamer, streamer, I want to tell people about the live besties Oh, yeah. That's happening in October. Yeah, October 9th at the town hall in New York City. New York City. New York City. Well, it's just you guys don't go there a lot.

Yeah. Well, we've never done a live besties ever. Well, for sure, yeah, but like the McHawries in general don't tend to perform. Yeah, we've slowed our role touring this year pretty dramatically. So have you been chomping at the bit to come see us? You can come see me and Juice and Russ and Chris. We're going to talk about games. We've got all kinds of plans.

It's going to be a fun time. If you're a fan of the besties, and you should be. You can get tickets now at bit.yl.ly slash besties on Broadway. Also, the final task graphic novel. Story and song is out now. You can get that at theadventure zone comic.com. I think that's it. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast.

Wonderful. We'll be back with another episode next week. Maybe back to form. Maybe not. I don't know. I like doing this a lot. Well, and it's summertime, right? People do fun, different stuff in the summer.

Maybe the next episode can just be a sort of walkthrough of baradour. And we can show everyone our individual, like, favorite parts. Do I need to be there or are you just going to... You could be, you should be there. Uh-huh. Because you're more of a books gal than I am. Okay. So, like, I think people will be wanting you to, like, provide some literary kind of, like, context.

Okay. For what's happening. Influences that I see in your Lego model. Yeah. Uh, model. Like, why is Freebo's hair that way? Maximum 5. A Worker-owned Network of Artist-owned shows, supported directly by you.