Wonderful! - Wonderful! 431: They Can Tell We Have a Candle Going

Episode Date: September 9, 2026

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hey, 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. They can probably tell at home, can't they? They can probably tell that we got a candle going. Oh, yeah, that's very smoky.

Very smoky. Holy shit. What's going on? I think you're getting to the end of that candle. Yeah, I really wrote it down to the hill. I might actually have to blow this out. This is our poetry corner candle, and it's great, but I mean, I guess I've used it. That's crazy.

That's too, look at all that smoke. Jesus. God damn. Set off the smoke alarm. Yeah, just to be clear, fine candle. It's a great candle, but I guess if you ride it to the fucking, to the hilt like that. Fabulous product. Oh, the smoke stinks.

This is a great candle, but I, it really, I guess it's mostly wick now and it just burned. Maybe the best candle ever, but. It's really the best candle ever. I lit it because I lit it because I, it's a great candle. I thought maybe the vibe would be good, but instead I almost burned our house down. Maybe we should put something on the label that says, hey, when it's down to the last inch, just call it. I didn't know. It's been a great friend. Hey, this never happens. I don't know what to say. It's a great candle. I thought this is going to be a great spotlight for the poetry corner candle.

That we don't sell anymore, I don't think. It turned on us. Anyway, this is wonderful. A podcast we talked about things. We had the candle energy. I don't have any other fucking candles in. here and now I don't know if I can trust a candle again. I didn't need a candle unless you thought there was some sort of smell we were working against. I've been having this phantom nose smell where I smell smoke and now I smell actual smoke. So maybe that's a way around it. Maybe that's a way to sidestep the issue.

So you can like affirm your smokes? Yeah, now I know that it's not like some sort of weird neurological kind of failure. Now it's there's real smoke. We all smell it. We all smell it. It's true. Just check and make sure you're still real. brew and a real witch's brew in there.

So do you have any small wonders? Oh, I was thinking about this the other day and I was like, oh, that's a good one. And then I forgot. Didn't get there. And now I can't remember. Okay. Do you have one? We finished a bear.

We did finish a bear. I liked it. I liked the ending. I wasn't a big fan of the last couple seasons because it got nasty. Everyone was so nasty to each other. and I, you know, that stresses me out. This one, it felt like they really tapped into, like, the most compelling part of their show.

Yeah. Which is, like, all of them in the kitchen, like, trying to get stuff done in challenging circumstances. Yeah, that's basically all the season is. It's eight episodes of them in a, in the shit, in the foxholes. And then, like, pairing some, like, different characters together for, like, conversations, which was fun. Fun.

It felt like a real gift to those of us that have watched the whole thing. A lot of great mo. moments, a lot of great speeches, great performances. Jamie Lee Curtis only shows up for a little bit, but she, like, makes a face that's like, damn, she's acting the hell out of this. Do you, we can maybe talk about this in a way that doesn't involve spoilers. Okay. There is a new career introduced.

Yeah. Were we supposed to expect that coming? Well, I know. Not that I can remember. I'm trying to remember if there was some little token somewhere in the series that suggested, like, oh, this is a career. Yeah, I mean, I don't know why they made Jamie Lee Curtis character become a rodeo horse rider, horse girl. It does, I would agree.

It came out of nowhere where they were like, hey, where'd mom go? And they say to the rodeo, to the wild west. And then they went right back to cooking. And it was like, are we just not supposed to ask questions? Yeah. And I thought, was there something in the episode where the woman gives birth where she's like, you know what, giving birth is like the rodeo? Yeah.

and that it's the best thing a person can do. Uh-huh. I don't remember that. No, I don't either. Do you have a small wonder now? Oh, geez. It feels like you got, you kind of jumped on mine, like it's so excitedly that you maybe forgot that you needed to come up with your own. Do you want to talk about our floral Lego zone?

Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. We have taken up a Lego in a pretty serious way, and that Griffin and I have found that in the evenings when we're watching something and feeling fidgety, the best thing to do is put together an adult Lego set. And I started to have the awareness of like we are running out of space for these adult Lego sets. And so we put up a shelf and that has become our spot for complimentary Lego sets. Originally you put the D&D castle up there, which was a huge fucking statement. From you, I was like, what?

This is the centerpiece you want in this room? No. And the answer was no. I didn't realize, and you think I would, like to put somebody on a pedestal is to elevate them in a way that suggests like you want to draw attention. Yeah. And when I put this on the Lego shelf, I realize like, oh. You don't want to own that life. There's nothing else in our room that would indicate that this is a reasonable choice for us.

Yeah, unless I'm in the room and then you can probably connect the dots if you're like a stranger in our home. And I just stand you right next to it all the time. Like, yeah, you know. Makes sense. But now we have different stuff there. Yeah. It's like little floral sets. And while back, my dad got me those love is blind cups.

You know how they're always drinking out of like golden goblets? Yes. So we have two of those up there too. Two of those. Surprisingly, like very complimentary. And we have the sunflowers Lego painting by, what's his face? Van Gogh. Van Gogh.

It's cool. I like it. It looks nice. It does. I like that there's nice ways to display Legos. And not just like shameful. I don't know. I've got Baradur, the Eye of Saran, just constantly kind of just looking over my shoulder as I record now.

And I know that's not a cool look. But this looks cool and grown up. I'm mature. Sophisticated? Legos? I think so. Oh, well, I don't know that I'm ready to say that yet. The reviews are in.

Okay. You go first this week. I do. Did you watch the clip I sent you? Hell yeah, dude. So there is a show called Fragal Rock, which I have talked about before kind of generally. Yes. Very long time ago when we first started this podcast, more or less, because it was a very important show to me.

By the way, I think we should be allowed to go back and redo old topics that we did like four plus years or so ago. It just feels like, I don't know, it feels fair. Anyway. Anyway, so the episode I wanted to talk about very specifically is episode 507, and it is called Gone but Not Forgotten. So this is an episode. There are several kind of main character fragiles. They all represent kind of different personality traits. And the indecisive one is named Wembley.

And it's difficult for him to do stuff on his own because he tends to be so indecisive. but he goes on this little hike, like through the caves that the fragels live in, and he happens upon this kind of mystical creature called a mud bunny, and the character's name is Mudwell. He's, his vibes are impeccable. Yeah. It's really beyond compare. And the episode deals with a challenging topic for a children's television program,

which is grief and death. Mudwell, spoiler. does not make it. Okay. So he is introduced and then in the same episode he dies. Can I have a moment?

Yeah. Because you just like... I know, you're just finding out. You just like showed me Mudwell and his vibes and his song and I was like absolutely grooving to the max.

I know. And then you're like, by the way, and you really, I don't know, you really pull the rug out. It feels like... I know.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but kind of the rest of my segment kind of depends on you knowing that. No, okay. Yeah, no. Okay.

I'm plugged in. I'm in the right. The episode was also called gone but not forgotten. So I did kind of give you. I suspected that maybe something happened to Mudwell. I suspected that maybe this man whose vibes were so choice was not going to stick around, but that's, but it's fine. I'm ready now. Because I imagine this episode takes you on a journey of acceptance. Yeah. And I'm, you're going to now have to take me on that journey because I can't watch the rest of the Fraggle Rock episode right now. I know. I'm recording a podcast with my wife.

I know. I thought about sending you the whole episode, but it's like 25 minutes. And that's a pretty big ask, I feel like. Usually we don't send each other videos of that length prior to. I would. If it's Fragile Rock, I probably would have, you know, made time and space for it. But it's okay. I'll read like a synopsis later. Yeah, please.

So the song that I sent Griffin is called Just a Dream Away. And I probably talked about this when I first mentioned Fragle Rock. The music on Fragal Rock was exceptional. It was like really strong kind of singer-songwriter folk energy in a lot of the songs that they do. Big Crocee, Crocee energy on this one, on this track, I think.

I don't know what that means. Jim Crocee. Crocee. I think his name's Crocee. I still don't know who you're referencing. Oh, man. He sang Bad Bad Leroy Brown and a bunch of other songs.

What else did Jim Crocee do? Time in a bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown? Yeah, I was thinking more Woody Guthrie. Okay, yeah. This similar kind of like, troubadour, like writing songs about big life moments. Yeah.

So Mudwell is actually voiced by Richard Hunt, who I didn't realize, but he also did Junior Gorg and Scooter and Statler and Janice and Beaker and Sweetums. Okay, so just royalty. Yeah. Muppet royalty. Back in the day. And he performs this beautiful song, and it's all about kind of like the evolution of water and kind of moving through.

through time. And then the chorus is it's just a dream away. You've got to leave to stay. We'll meet again someday. Should we play a little bit of it? Yeah, I would like to. Let's do it. Once I wasn't here, and then I suddenly appeared, and now I seem to be at home in earth and

end. Just like water flowing, I know where I'm going. Look beneath your boots, and I'll be there. It's just a dream away. You've got to leave. To stay, we'll meet again. Someday, just a dream away. So the story is that Mudwell, like part of his creature's life cycle is that like when the mud

reaches the right temperature in his little habitat. He will kind of encase himself and lay next to it, and then he will pass on. And this is not anything Wembley knows because this is his first time meeting this creature. Okay. And so he is on his hike and he meets Mudwell and they have a great time because Mudwell saves him from this like avalanche of rocks. I bet that is a huge health hazard in Fraggle Rock. Yeah. No, I know. It's probably the leading cause of fragile death. I know. I mean, well, yeah, if you stay. Or gorgs, if gorgs, for sure.

But he wakes up the following day and Mudwell is trying to like push him out of his habitat in the kind of like, just get out of here kind of way, you know, where it's like at the end of a movie if you're like trying to get a dog or something to leave and you're like, I don't like you anymore. Yeah. You know, in a way. I hate that. I hate that in movies.

No, it's so sad. Just go. Jojo Rabbit. Just get out of here. You stink. Trying to kind of push him out because he knows that like his time is coming to an end. And he wants Wembley to leave before that happens. And then Wembley goes back.

He talks to his friends. And they all have different ways of like communicating with him. And then Gobo's like his gobo, gobo who's the big explorer. It's like go back and get a reason behind this. And when he goes back, he talks to. Mudwell for a second and then he passes. Oh, okay. And then Wembley is very upset and confused and he goes back to his friends and they all kind of try and help him grieve in different ways. Yeah. Does Gobo apologize? Was he like, I fucking blew it. You should not have gone back. Wow. Sorry. Well, Gobo's whole point was like, you know, he owes you an explanation. Yeah. Which I don't think he was wrong about. Yeah. Sure. Anyway, so Moki does some kind of. like earthy like let's do some kind of celebration of Mudwell's life and boobers like get under a blanket and scream real loud. These are all fantastic suggestions. And then Gobo is talking to him

about his pet what he calls a thimblebug again just like a thing that exists in Fragle Rock. And he talks about how this thimblebug that was very important to him disappeared. but that he left his nest and having the nest is like a piece of him and it like reminds him of him. And then Wembley gives the best line like that I've ever heard in kind of to talk about kind of the early stages of grief, which is I don't feel like a part of him is alive because I'm not used to all of him being God. Yeah. So I'm like watching Fragel Rock and crying, you know. Like this is like today. This was like.

Did you hunt this episode down because you remember it being sort of poignant about grief? I'm Mudwell. I always remember Mudwell. Mudwell really sticks with me because of that gorgeous song. Yeah. And Fraggle Rock was so good at bringing in different characters to kind of serve a specific purpose. There was a song called Like, Convincing John that was a character Jim Henson played. Like they have all these kind of traveling characters that show up and kind of serve the purpose of an episode.

So yeah, I thought that was such a beautiful, like, succinct way to kind of talk about, like, the place that he was at. So he goes back to kind of, like, pay his respects to the place where Mudwell was. And then, like, a little new character, like, hatches out of the place where he was that has no knowledge of him. And they sing that song together. It's very sweet. It's kind of like a suggestion of, like, reincarnation. but, you know, it's like a nice way to end that episode. You know, Jim Henson, fucked with that stuff.

You know my man, Jim Dog was like spiritual in that way, I bet. I know. I know. It feels like a very, like, I mean, a very challenging episode for Fraggle Rock. Yeah. But like a nice way to end it and kind of in line with the song of like things continue and it's all part of, you know, the experience of living. Yeah.

Richard Hunt, who did the voice of Mudwell, actually passed away in 1992 of AIDS in a time period when a lot of people were dying of that. His partner had actually died shortly before this episode aired when they were kind of filming it in 1985. And apparently, I don't know if this is still the case, but the Muppet Christmas Carol is dedicated to Richard Hunt. Oh. Because it came out, you know, not long after he had passed in 1992. You think they, like, on Disney Plus, they like, remove it? Well, I don't know if dedications last forever. Yeah.

You know, on. If they do like a remaster, then they're like this one's not, no longer dedicated. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. That's probably not true. But I haven't watched Muppet Christmas Carol in a while, and I don't remember if that's still the case. But yeah, I mean, he played such a huge role in a lot of those early Muppet characters. So yeah, I just think that's a beautiful episode.

I love that song, that Just a Dream Away song. The episode's called Gone, but Not Forgotten. It is available on YouTube if you want to watch it. And I just feel like it is an incredible way for a children's show to address grief. Yeah, I do appreciate when kids' shows. I'm trying to, bluey, obviously. I'm trying to think of other ones that kind of tackle the subject with a deft hand. Dinosaurs, I feel like has the episode where the grandma doesn't want to go into the tar pits.

Yeah. That's pretty much the only ones I can think of, but I'm sure there's lots. Oh, well, you know, the Simpsons, when Maude. When Maude, yeah, but that's played for mostly giggles, I think. Yeah, but I feel like there's some tender moments in there. Yeah. And Simpsons are you can argue whether or not that's actually a children's show. Yeah, I mean, just because your parents let you watch it as a kid, that more speaks to how cool, you know, your parents were to let you do that.

Can I steal you away? Yes. I appreciate your topic. I feel like it was very vulnerable and very open. And I am going to do the same thing right now because my topic that I'd like to talk to you and everyone else about. right now is old school live journal oh gosh you know i i have one you have one yeah oh that's great i didn't know i haven't checked is it still up so here's the deal i put old school on here because live journal is still a thing and i have not kept up with it or its policies or its reputation yes in the year

of our lord 2026 uh from what i understand a russian media company acquired it in like 2007 that's like run by some sort of oligarch and so but i didn't i'm just saying from the years 2003 to 2007 live journal was my fucking jam i definitely used it maybe until like 2005 yeah i remember shortly after moving to chicago i kind of discontinued i really was something i used uh i don't know i was writing in it four or five times a week i was i was a frequent poster uh and when i think about like the way I use that website, it makes me feel like I'm pondering the memories of like a different person that have been implanted into my head. Yeah. Because it's so fucking foreign from how I.

So you didn't look to see if you can still find yours. I did. I found it. Yeah. I found it. Okay. Well, yeah, then that means mine's still out there. Yeah.

You can adjust the privacy settings of it if you want. So let's talk about live journal first because there's probably a ton of people listening who did not have a live journal. because I don't know, maybe they had a Tumblr, one of the other things. Or a blog spot. Or a blog spot. So Live Journal is a sort of early social media slash online, like, blogging platform. It came out in 1999. It was created by an American programmer named Brad Fitzpatrick, who made it as sort of a way to keep up to date on the exploits of like his high school buddies, which is great because that's also what I used it for.

And the whole setup of Live Journal, at least back in the, you know, early to mid-od. was pretty straightforward. You could, like, customize the look of your live journal in a bunch of different ways. You could upload pictures. Everything was in reverse chronological order. So it was like a blog, right? It was much more bloggy than a MySpace page, which was like, here's my profile. That wasn't the thing that, like, you could have a profile or whatever.

But otherwise, it was a blog. You were blogging. And all the content on your live journal was yours. Your friends weren't, like, posting in your live journal. They could comment on the things that you wrote. And you could look at your phone. friend's post, but it wasn't like they were posting on your wall or whatever. Like, it was your space to write whatever you wanted. It was your own sort of curated thing. And for all the time that

I used it, whenever you wrote a post, there were four fields that you had to sort of populate. The title of your post, the body of your post. An emoji encapsulating your mood. Oh my God. I forgot about the emoji. This is how I learned about the word quixotic is from this. Yeah, you're right. I got a comment from something. someone like calling me out for that. I think during the most recent stream we did where they're like you only know Quixotic, you've used it for the last two streams. Are you like a live journal guy? And I was like, fuck, you got me. And the fourth one was a field to input whatever song you're listening to. Oh. I adore the idea of boiling down the entirety of my late teenage experience into like,

here's my thoughts, here's how I describe my mood. And here's the, fucking Switchfoot song that I'm listening to right now. That's kind of the Instagram kind of does that. And they let you pick a song for your post. Yeah, this wasn't even like playing the song. You would just say, currently I'm listening to, dare you to move by Switchfoot. There was probably a way to do that. But I don't know that I had the internet acumen to understand how to link shit.

Everything that had like links and, I don't know, that I had gotten from somewhere else are all broken. Like none of that shit still works. I can only get at my text. My live journal filled like a few roles for me back in those years. It was my first like social media platform, you know, allowing me to sort of stay in touch with my friends because they all had live journals too and could, you know, keep up to date on this window that they were providing of what was happening in their lives with their live journals. And it gave me a place to post photos that I was taking with my like, ancient. ancient digital camera. Can you tell me where you were at in your life when you were posting?

So this was 16 to 20, basically, is what we're talking about. So we're talking about, you know, probably sophomore year high school up until probably the summer before my sophomore year of college. Wow. So pretty big years, all things considered, right? this is this is what I I'm so glad that I thought to talk about this because I did go and find it and I did go and read it

I did I read it and it's not readable it's not super readable it is a tough read to get through mostly just because of the things that I would write awesome sauce stuff like that things I look at now and I'm like this is gonna have 20 different kinds of awesomeness.

You got to come, like, just a lot of saying awesome in, like, different ways that I would not presently. But also, like, I wrote with such a shocking amount of, like, vulnerability and candor. And a lot of that was, like, probably not the healthiest. Like, a lot of that was, you know, playing it up from time to time to, like, get some sort of, sympathetic emotional outreach from my friends who were like on it. And so like quite a bit of like vying for attention in that way. Yeah.

But like it's also the period of time where when my mom died and I don't like I really because of like sort of the trauma of that like my memories from that era are shot. They're really, really quite spotty and bad. And so I have this like record of that time. that is cringe-worthy as all get-out to read. But I am like super-duper glad that I have it. Even though like, I don't know, I struggle with journaling now. I've never been able to keep up with it after this.

Because like I find myself incapable of writing in a journal in a way where it doesn't feel like I'm trying to like entertain an audience. Yeah. Which feels like disingenuous and probably speaks to like some bad fucked up thing going on deep in my brain. The live journal era allowed me. to sidestep that concern because that's like exactly what I was doing. And it's also what everyone else was doing. Like I was not the only one using live journal in this way. Like all of my friends were doing it in the same way. I still remember my friends that had a live journal.

So like, I don't know. As a record of my mental state, I don't know if the emojis I selected and put forth for everyone to see were truly representative of my actual experience. But like, there's stuff enshrined in there. that is just, it's a treasure trove. Just like writing about cast parties that I went to. Wow. Or like, I found a post that was talking about, it was like a week after mom had passed.

And I went over to Justin's and we all went out to Sharkies. And I did karaoke for the first time ever. And I sang, I sang Allison by Elvis Costello. And that was my first time doing it. And then I found a post about the time that we were all going to Kings Island and I fell on a sewer grate and I gave myself a lumbosacral strain and had to go to the emergency room. Oh, I don't know that story. And then I found like the schedules of all the Bonneros I went to, like with all of the different acts that I went to go see. Like I'm really glad that I have that stuff that I, you know, I really only kept to show other people that I was writing to show other people at the time.

And that's so kind of antithetical to how I think about writing about what's going on in my life. Obviously, like, I do a podcast or two where I talk about shit. But this was just this encapsulated era of my life that I never really returned to. I never really would, I don't think, go back to, like, blogging about myself in this exact way. But I'll be damned if it's like 500 posts. or something like that over the span of like three and a half years. I mean, the things that change for you are pretty dramatic in that you started writing for a living. It's exactly when one of my last posts was like, yeah, and so now I'm writing for the Herald Dispatch about video games.

And they just got acquired by this other place that doesn't have like a video game writer. So our video game posts are going to be like a bottom the front page. Yeah. And then, oh, Justin got hired at joystick. Isn't that cool? The end. Now I get paid. Bye.

Yeah, I mean, I think once you start having to share your writing on the internet as part of your job, I imagine that changes how you think about writing on the internet. Yeah, absolutely. And also kind of the more feedback you get from strangers, I would say, the more self-conscious you would become. Yeah. Yeah, I don't. It's such a weird thing, man. It really is a weird thing. I was like looking at the comments too, like, which was kind of lovely, like seeing a, well,

One of my, also one of my last posts was, I wrote about the time I got robbed at GameStop. I got held up at gunpoint. And just there are a lot of comments from people who were being very, very sweet and cracking jokes. And I don't know. It is a thing I'm so glad that I have, even though it is truly difficult to read. Not from an emotional standpoint. Like I'm glad to have the stuff that is there, you know, really around the time that mom died. Like I'm I'm so glad to have that stuff.

Mostly from a prosaic standpoint. It's a tough read sometimes. Yeah, man. Old school LJ. There's nothing like it. You should like, I don't know if you can PDF that or something. I'm worried that you will just lose. Times ravages will. Yeah. You just lose access. I used to, so my email account, I used to have an excite email account. That doesn't exist anymore. And it just kind of happened without me realizing it. And so now every email I had in there is just gone. Oh, bummer.

And there's really no clear way to get it back. And so it's like, oh, Maybe you should put this in some kind of folder. Yeah. It's like my Rockstar games account was tied to my Polygon email address, which I can't even get at anymore. So I might not even be able to play the new Grand Theft Auto. It's the exact same situation. And all of your stats and your- All my achievements and trophies and accolades all gone.

And then all you'll have left now are your real accolades. Like tears in the rain. I saw Z-rays through the horse head nebula. Oh, this is lost on me. It's lost on me, too. I've only seen Blade Runner the once. So do you want to know what our friends at home are talking about? Yes.

Stephen says the wife and I went yesterday to Great Waves Water Park for Labor Day, and it was truly such a wonderful way to end the summer. We live in the area and love our Nova water parks, but it'd never been. Thank you for talking about this. Wow. You're welcome, Stephen. Taste makers. Yeah.

Oh, we influenced. We influenced, didn't we? And for good. I'm glad nothing bad happened to Stephen and his family. Water parks are very treacherous. Absolutely. So I hesitate to recommend them to anyone. But I'm glad that that was fun.

This next one's a clubbanger. Yvonne says, I love when contestants on Jeopardy do a fun design with their name. My husband and I are watching through Jeopardy Masters and we love all the fun designs Paolo has done so far. It's such a fun flair for the. them to be able to show off a bit of their personality. Huh.

I don't know if I've ever noticed that, really. I love that. When they do a little doodle or a little flare or like they make their name into like an ambigram or they like do some sort of crazy stuff. I know. I know you do that for your name. And then like when it's like Final Jeopardy or whatever, you'll like write down your thing. And sometimes people are like, hi, Julie.

Yeah. Because they realize they're going to lose. And Ken will let that shit slide. Alec would not. He would be like, the answer is not Niagara. falls hi julie he was like a total stickler for that stuff um that is it for us today here on wonderful i want to say a big thanks to bow in and augustus for the use for our theme song money won't pay you can find a link to that song in the episode description and i also want to say thanks to maximum

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We hope that you got something out of it, grew. I think I grew this one. one. Yeah. I think I grew this one. No, I think we leaned into growth and we achieved that. Let's take a flyer next week. I'll do like yo yo-yo balls. Yeah. Or mad balls. I don't know what mad balls. They were the balls that had crazy faces on them. You could squish them and they'd be like, blah. Oh, okay. One would be like a mummy or some shit. Okay. Some vile shit. I thought there's a lot of information about those online. So you do yo-yo balls, all do mad balls. We'll do a flyer. We'll do a flyer. to recover from this one.

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Maybe in your inside-out brain space, it's all mad balls items. A-O. You just hit me with an A-O like our kids do. Like whenever we say balls. Yeah. I love you. I love you too. Maximum fun.

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