Wonderful! - Wonderful! 80: Jarpin'

Episode Date: April 17, 2019

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. You are so far back from that microphone. I'm sitting in repose, aren't I? You are. You're very reposeful right now. This is my birthday position.

Oh. I've assumed the birthday position. Okay. I can't pretend to enjoy that. I can't even pretend to enjoy how bad that sounded. My audio engineer side of me was like, hey, dog, this is not a good bit.

I'll try to assume the position sitting closer. This will come out on your birthday, huh? This is going to come out on the most wonderful day of the... Who is this bit for? What are you? Are you 28 now? Look 28, don't I? You do. 28 months old.

I look like a two and a third year old baby, don't I? Tight skin, soft, smooth pores. Two years old on top, but all man on bottom. Yeah. Party in the front, baby in the back. Yeah, it's my 32nd. Getting there, getting there. 32 does nothing for me.

How many Baskin-Robbins flavors is there? 37? 31? It's 34? I don't know. I cannot think of it while you're shouting out numbers. 17? 26?

I don't know. It was a TCBY man. We had seven flavors and we stuck with them no you had the flavors that we had we only gave you the good flavors you know we're not gonna pad that shit out with some garbage like you know 31 at baskin robbins maybe i think so well then i don't like being bigger than that number what's heinz 52 like i'm fine as long as I'm under that. Yeah, it's my birthday. Happy birthday, Griffin. Thank you, Rachel.

It's about time. Well, we were recording this the night before and you know what a fact checker I am. I know. It's just like when we started dating, you would always at midnight on my birthday. Oh, would I? You would wrestle me. I would wrestle you? You would wrestle me out of bed and you'd slam me to the floor and you'd say, happy birthday.

And I would say, thank you. That means a lot. I love you. It's the waking me up in the middle of the night just to let me know. So maybe tonight, maybe we see that tonight. You really, you want me to wake you up tonight? There's no way that you would be able to do that. If I were in your shoes shoes i'd be so angry yeah

that's true sleep is so precious it is the most precious commodity hey do you have any small wonders i do uh but i would like you to go first i'm gonna say uh open window weather we've been we've been tossing those bad boys wide uh the past couple weeks or so and we got just that good spring air it's been raining a lot and on days where it's not raining we have this creek that we can hear and it's just like this gentle like rushing water sound and you get the good spring smells and the nice cool air in there oh my gosh you can't beat it i almost said open windows well then uh you got snatched. I will say playoff hockey. Oh, yeah.

It has been a terribly exciting series so far. This is the first round of the playoffs. It is the St. Louis Blues versus the Winnipeg Jets. They are very evenly matched. Yes. And every game has been incredible so far. There's a concept in fighting games called a mirror match. And that's where like Ryu versus Ryu,

like a player who's very good at doll scene fights another player who's very good at doll scene. And I feel like I'm watching the hockey equivalent of that. I will say that the teams really have different strengths. Like they're both good teams, but in completely different ways, it feels like. So it's been interesting to watch them kind of go back and forth.

We're missing a game as we record this. Do you want me to just like Google it and give you the live score updates? No, no, no, no, no, no. I want to watch it in its entirety. That'd be terrible for all of us. I think you go first this week. I do.

What are you selling? Well, this new Poetry Corner chair is also a suitcase. Hey, baby, I hear the poetry calling. Tossed verses and scrambled lines. Oh, no, I'm talking about the chair. I'm not doing a Poetry Corner. I'm not doing a Poetry Corner. I meant to say this new chair is also a suitcase in which I keep my first thing.

I'm so sorry. Everybody listening right now must be so angry. I wouldn't do this on your birthday, Kristen. I've been holding on to that one for so long. I'm pretty sure you've already done that one. Yeah, I think so too. My first thing will hopefully be as exciting to you. Is it Frasier? Because then I could still use that.

It is rediscovering foods that I didn't like as a kid and now like. That is the shit right there. Okay. It's so good. Okay. I had so many foods i didn't like yes me too yeah okay yes uh so i've been thinking about this a lot really because i've been really into uh tuna oh yeah wait coming from a can or from either from you know or in the sushi

form or cooked i'm just a big fan of tuna Uh, is not something I wanted to eat as a child. No, I mean, I didn't have much exposure to the sushi form, but I think we didn't do like tuna fish. I don't think anybody in my family is actually a big fan of tuna. So I just didn't have any opinion on tuna. I also didn't like ketchup as a kid. Oh, that's the wild. We've talked about this before. We have. Yeah yeah and i've just started to uh appreciate it on a french fry i just remembered my only like first exposure to tuna was seeing them at subway scoop it out of the tub with a ice cream scoop and there's no substance when scooped out of a subway tub with an ice cream scoop that's gonna seem desirable yeah that's fair

uh and i found this article so there was a survey carried out by, okay, now this, before you discount this survey, you should know that it's interesting. It was three people, so don't, but it's really interesting what these three people had to say. So this is from the Telegraph, and the survey was carried out by popcorn makers butter kissed popcorn say that whole thing popcorn makers yes and the name of the company is butter kissed i imagine this is a uk thing because butter the telegraph butter kissed or k-i-s-t so it's like butter sun-kissed with butter? Fuck yeah, UK, get it. So I can't speak to the validity of this survey, but I very much enjoyed it.

All right. Okay, so they surveyed adults to figure out at what age they started liking certain foods. Like for instance, a delicious bag of butter-kissed popcorn. So I think they would start with like, you know, the youngest age on here is 19 so maybe they started with 19 year olds and said like do you like this this this this check and then up to 20 and whatever and so they got like a list of foods by average age that the participant started

appreciating okay so these are appetite sort of like break points. Like 19 is when the Brussels sprouts gene activates. Okay. So I actually don't have Brussels sprouts on this list. Well, the Brussels sprouts don't count because the first time you have them prepared in a way that is tasty to you is the first time. Like I moved to Austin and had those like, you know, fish sauce Brussels sprouts and was like, oh, that's it. That's what these are. Okay. So there's a variety of foods on here.

Some of them I think are relevant to us. Okay. And actually kind of encouraged me. Maybe I should try them again. Okay. You know, olives. Still bad. No thanks.

Age 25. I keep trying those little salty motherfuckers and I still do not enjoy the feel. Oysters, age 24. Yeah 24 yeah that's oh shit that actually yeah circle gets the square that's a right about when i started getting into those bad boys here's the one that surprised me goat cheese 28 do you ever remember disliking goat oh yeah oh my god yeah it's so like dry and like it's not dry at all it's super it's bit it's always felt like drier than regular cheese maybe dry is not the right word but like it's not dry at all it's super it's a bit it's always felt like drier than regular

cheese maybe dry is not the right word but like it doesn't have that smooth cheese crumbly yeah but it's very moist um all right uh agree to disagree okay uh let's see uh asparagus 23 yeah avocado 23 see i was late to avocado was too, but I just moved to Texas. So I thought this was interesting. So I thought liking more complex foods as you get older is a sign of a refined palate. Okay. But actually, infants are born with much more taste buds than we have. Infants have around 30,000 taste buds spread throughout their mouth.

What do I have right now? Like 14? Probably less than 10,000. Did you just make that up? Well, I did some research and it varies on what I found. Oh, okay. I found like 9,000 and 15,000.

It varies. How big is your tongue? I got a pretty big one. So I bet Gene Simmons got a lot of ones. So here's what I found interesting. So a taste bud is very good at regenerating. So, you know, like when you burn your tongue or whatever. Yeah.

Cells replace themselves every one to two weeks. Okay. But as you get older, they stop replenishing. Oh, shit. So you get fewer and fewer taste buds the older you get. Oh, man. I got to stop eating stuff that's too hot. I know.

Women generally report losing taste in their 50s and men in their 60s. Hell yeah. Nice. I win. We win at one of them. That means you have a longer lifespan than them, but guess what? You don't get to taste food as long, do you? They also said some of that may be due to loss of smell which also

happens when you get older ah beans that sounds bad i at church camp one year i had a whole bag of lemon uh nuclear warheads those like little sour candies and i ate like a whole bag in one day and it like destroyed my tongue like my tongue was like so raw it felt like i'd been eating sandpaper for a month. And then I ate some sour cream and onion Pringles and I had to like throw my face into the swimming pool because that was the most pain I've ever had in my entire life. And then I couldn't taste anything like the rest of the week. It was wild, but I think I've bounced back. I don't know. Now I'm curious.

Yeah. I mean, I can't eat olives, so I think i still have some taste buds and they're telling me how bad those are so the reason uh that babies have so many taste buds is very uh possibly a biological reason uh because babies taste buds are configured for fat and like sugar-packed like milk okay the idea is breast milk have a bunch of sugar in it it's sweet yeah and has a bunch of fat but then the idea is they get older they still you know have that preference and it's because they need more calories than at any other time in a person's life so they're going to be more drawn towards like the sweet fatty foods because it's what they need to put on the pounds gosh it makes more sense now why henry is so like particular on any given day it's just because he's tasting

shit stronger and so like my 30 000 taste buds don't want chicken nuggets despite the fact i wanted them for the past year what we do a lot is we'll like cook something and then we'll reheat it and usually on the second reheat he's like what is this so yes i thought that was interesting i was just like oh i'm growing up and my tastes my palate is so much more refined now and it's like oh no potentially i have less taste buds and so these things don't bother me anymore because i don't taste them as much what is like the biggest one that you got over that is now like a staple of like your whole thing now i mean i was really anti-pickle for a while you do love yourself a pickle i'm still on the fence

for me it was soy sauce i couldn't stand it my mom made stir fry like every two weeks she would make stir fry and like i hated it i did not like it and that's the best it's very good yeah some of the other ones on this list are spinach which is 21 uh mussels which is 21 uh horseradish sauce which is 21 i totally get that one, man. That took me a while. And then anchovies, 22. I still am. I feel like I want to give that a shot again. Yeah, let's give that a spin. Let's eat some anchovies as soon as we finish recording this.

Okay. We feed them to each other as a birthday surprise. What is that accent you just did? I don't know. We feed them to each other as a birthday surprise. It's a little The Room. Maybe a little bit. Can a little the room maybe a little bit can i tell you about my first thing yes my first thing is a song this song is by an artist

named anderson pock uh i think i'm pronouncing that correct there's a period in there as well stylized with a period so i don't know if it's anderson pock and the song uh he just came out with a new album but this is actually a song from last year a single he put out called uh till it's over and uh i am deeply obsessed with it and have not been tracking my spotify plays but if i had i imagine it would be up there this was my favorite thing about old itunes did you ever do i don't know if you like favored itunes is your music listening app you were probably a win amp girl but uh it would show you like exactly how many times you played each song. Yeah, when I first had my first iPod, I remember noticing that. Yeah, I wish Spotify did that.

I want a score of how many times I've listened to this song because it's a lot. So Anderson.Paak, if you never listened to him, he's an R&B artist. And he's kind of a multidisciplinarian. Like he's a singer. He's got a beautiful voice, but he also plays like a bunchidisciplinary and like he's a singer he's got a beautiful voice but he also plays like a bunch of instruments and he's like a super talented drummer and he is like a video producer like and he's very very much on his grind he's put out like five albums in the past I want to say like five years uh and uh so he has this new album out and you can you know find that wherever and it's probably more representative of his usual style.

Like he's just got this like buttery voice, just this butter smooth voice. And his songs are like really super soulful and occasionally like kind of, you know, pretty funky R&B tracks. And he does a ton of collaborations on his albums. And that stuff's all really great. r&b tracks and he does a ton of collaborations on his albums and that stuff's all really great tell it's over i feel like it's not anything like that which is um maybe weird that it's the song of his that i've become so obsessed with um i feel like it stands apart because it's um it's a lot quieter than his other songs like it's very pared down and it's also a lot more synthy like it's a lot more electronic-y uh specifically it has this one like very distorted

like gated wobbly synth sound that i'm just like absolutely is my favorite sound i've ever heard uh it's still like it's very frenetic and frantic but i feel like it's still a really smooth uh song i'm gonna go ahead and play a little bit of it now so you can get a little taste of the flavor. Yeah, we must be getting old and gray We left early, girl, that band was shh anyway We went home and left our clothes up in the living space Say, would you stay if your heart had died? You listened to this today when I sent it to you, right? I did, yeah. But I couldn't tell when you sent it to me

if you were sending it to me because of the song or the video. So, yes, the thing I sent to Rachel is actually how I discovered this song is how I actually imagine a lot of people discovered this song because it came out around the same time that the song came out uh this song was featured in an apple commercial for the home pod um if you've never seen it stop right now and go watch it i swear to you you will not regret it it is one of the best commercials i've ever seen it is a spike jones uh commercial and he makes like exclusively super good ones uh there was like a perfume ad with the i think a woman from the leftovers just like dancing and like smashing through this building uh that was wild what was the other

big spike jones commercial i feel like he had a bunch of super big ones i know it's hard to think of right now i know and that's a shame he's done a ton of work he did a bunch of super big ones i know it's hard to think of right now i know and that's a shame he's done a ton of work he did a bunch like michelle gandry stuff too but uh this commercial features uh a woman called fka twigs who is this like super avant-garde musician and dancer um and in this commercial she is living in a big city and she's just come home she's off the train and she gets into her apartment and asks the homePod to play something that she would like. And so it starts playing till it's over. I don't know if the HomePod is like another voice recognition robot

where every time I say that word, it's like activating people's shit. So I apologize for that if that's the case. And so it starts playing this song and she discovers she has this superpower to make things in her apartment stretch out like she'll like as she's dancing like gesture in one direction with her shoulder and her coffee table will like elongate in that direction i actually watched a behind the scenes like making of video and like most of that stuff is practical effects so after you're done watching the music

video like watch the making of because you get to see how i'll have to do that because she starts to do stuff like as she's dancing of like stretching an entire wall in one direction and then like moving her shoulders like wiggling them backwards and now the wall like moves kind of at a diagonal and it's like what it is this really really trippy effect that is perfectly synchronized to this awesome song. And yeah, it's amazing. But yeah, I just, I think, this is a weird thing that I get sometimes. And weirdly, I think it's a lot with commercials where I will associate a song with a video or a video with a song. And then when I think of one that I like, I think of the other one that I like.

And it makes me like both of them like exponentially more um but yeah I don't I don't have a whole lot more to say I just really like the song it's very like uh it's very unpredictable like it has all these different sounds in it and all these little distortions to it and I feel like every time I listen to it like I hear some new today that's the thing about anderson pock too is that like the music is very complex like it's very interesting and engaging i feel like anytime i listen to his music i feel like i am just like i am very locked in yeah you know like it i i don't know how to describe it better than that i think i feel like uh this is maybe a pedestrian comparison but it kind of reminds me of like the new d'angelo stuff where it's just like so many layers of stuff on top of

each other and this song doesn't have that i feel like this song has like three layers but they're constantly changing yeah so like we'll take the drums out and put in a harp now and it's like whoa okay um and like i was driving home today and i was listening to the kick drum i was just listening to the kick drum and it was so weird. It was like a weird, weird pattern for this kick drum. And it was really, really distorted. And the snare sounded kind of shitty.

Like the snare sounded like really kind of like compressed and, and robotic, but like in the context of the song, it sounds really cool and neat. Like, I don't know. I think it is just a neat little, little audio collage of a song and,

uh, lyrics are neat too. It's about like, I think like a couple who are going their separate ways and not making a big deal out of it. It's neat. Yeah. It's a neat song. It's a neat track.

I approve. If you could stretch out one room in our house with FKA Twigs Dance Magic. Which one would you do? Oh, it'd be nice to have like a really long bathtub. Ooh, yeah. I would do it to my piano because then I could find out the new keys, the secret notes. Oh, interesting.

Yeah. Hey, can I steal you away? Yeah, and I'm gonna play this stinger in the secret notes. God jump a tram here, and this one's for Sarah. It is from Joe, who says, Your poetry is wonderful, so I wanted to give you your own little poetry corner. May it forever brighten your days. I love you.

You want to handle this? You're the professional. Oh, okay. I romanticize hammocks the same way I romanticize mornings. Day no longer breaks, but neither do I. I sway in the nook of your neck like a lullaby, your pulse sinking into mine like a polygraph needle on paper. What's your professional opinion on this one? A plus. Oh, wow.

I very much, I enjoy the, I sway in the nook of your neck like a lullaby. Yeah. Cadence, and that's real nice. You gave Robert Frost a B minus. That's saying something. You want to read this other Trumbotron? Yes.

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Oh, yeah. And so this week i'm bringing trip hop should i go ahead and start lining up whatever the next i mean there's hip hop i'll do trap i'm gonna do trap next week i think okay uh are you familiar with trip hop i wasn't but in my defense it sounds like a very very very, very, very, very specific thing. Because I Googled around and I was like, it's these three bands. Yeah, no, exactly. And those bands are Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. Right, yeah. Although I will say that Trip Hop influenced a lot of later artists, including, if you'll recall, the Sneaker Pimps.

No. No. No? Missed them. The other ones I found are Thievery Corporation. Oh, sure. And Morchiba. Okay. So, Trip Hop started in the 1990s in the UK, and it's kind of a mix of hip hop and electronica

with a lot of other stuff in there, too. I've not heard the word electronica pronounced out maybe since the 1990s uh so massive attack tricky and portishead were kind of the pioneers of this movement although understandably they are not a fan of it being called trip hop it's so weird i don't understand why it's called that so in the 1990s is when it was most popular and and as i mentioned earlier there are bands today that are kind of still doing it uh including um massive attack in particular is still putting out albums every once in a while it's the combination of electronic and hip-hop music is just like that's you're describing a lot

of shit now and i don't know that you would qualify that stuff as trip hop. It's just, it's, it's just kind of hip hop and it has electronic stuff in it. So my connection to it actually does start in the nineties. My friend Ariel and I were working at a art camp at Lawnmower Sculpture Park. Okay. And there was a real cool counselor who had long hair. His name is Jeremy Portishead. And he used to, he had the teen campers he was kind of like the counselor for the oldest group we were at that point we were

counselors in training so we were couldn't handle these teens we were paid employees of the sculpture park uh we got a stipend of $100 every two weeks. But he used to read his campers Jack Handy, and he would play Portishead. This combination is wild. Are you kidding me? He's a very cool guy. Yeah, this is a really cool guy with his Portishead and his Jack Handy. Mm-hmm. Whoa.

What's wrong with that? One of those things is cool. Is Jack Handy still cool? Are we still calling Jack Handy very cool? I thought he was funny when I was a teen. I did too, but I never thought he was hip. I would never say, you know what would go a great pairing with these deep thoughts would be some Portishead. I guess he just had his finger on a very niche pulse.

He had his finger on two fucking wildly different pulses. So a lot of you may recognize Portishead once you hear it. So I want you, Griffin, if you don't mind, to play a little bit from the song Glory Box. Let me just pop the CD in. So the thing about trip hop that I like so much is I feel like it's very similar to chill hop in that it has this kind of like electronic, very like mellow tone to it. tone to it um but it's also kind of a little uh more emotional given like the lyric quality to it and also it tends to be kind of uh depressive yeah it's usually just some gentle beats with usually a woman singing over it that you can really smoke some weed to is what it seems like um so the other band i wanted to play a song from is massive attack uh and and they were very

inspired by bands like the cure uh so i was hoping you could play the song teardrop by massive attack i don't have that one oh yeah i do Night, night of winter, black flowers blossom, feathers on my brain. Black flowers blossom, feathers on my brain. So both the Portishead song I cited and the Massive Attack song I cited came out on albums released in 1994. Okay. So it was a big year for trip hop. Was this like during grunge and stuff? Like, how come that's the one we talk about? Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder?

Yeah, I guess. I guess they had more stuff going on a little bit. Trip Hop wasn't, you know, like I imagine going to see a live Trip Hop show is not like exactly as thrilling as seeing like a grunge rock band. I imagine you have to be sitting on a papasan chair to really enjoy a Trip Hop show. But I love the Portishead album, Dummy. I love so much. And that album was just on loop at Art Camp that one summer.

And then Ariel and I both went out and bought it and we were obsessed with it. It's very, very good. And then you bought the best of Jack Handy. Then you went up in the attic. I thought of all people, you would be like super excited about a bunch of teens. Yes, but there was always

a jack handy book in the bathroom on this on the did you equate him with like dave berry no we always had a deep thoughts book we always had a deep thoughts book of some sort i just always thought it was really counterculture and cool uh okay is that not true? They were funny. I'll always remember there was one that was like, I wish I had a shrimp that was big enough that I could ride it like a cowboy and it could take me from place to place. And then when I got there, I could eat it because I love shrimp. How is it any different than Mitch Hedberg? I guess it's pretty Mitch Hedberg. I guess Jack Handy was a real hip dude now that I think about it.

Thank you. Can't talk about my second thing yes i want to talk about easter egg hunts i'm kind of surprised i thought this may be the first time on an episode where we both bring the same thing because i know you've been sort of planning one i know you've sort of been eyeing the idea of an easter egg hunt i do like an easter egg hunt i love an easter egg hunt i loved it when i was a kid too because it was like halloween with a win condition it was like competitive halloween you could win and lose and it was also like halloween well and i love snooping around and investigating i love snooping around and investigating um and we obviously haven't done it i think my easter sort of celebration has fallen off a little bit since I moved away from home.

Yes, yes. A lot of things about this, and this is not to, you know, reduce the religious significance of the holiday, if that is, you know, important to you. the things that we associate with the more secular parts of the holiday are all more kid-focused than your other sort of holidays. True. There's the Easter egg hunt and the bunny that comes and brings kids baskets full of candies and sometimes toys if you have cool parents. And we are just kind of now eyeing that proposition because we have a two-year-old who loves all of that stuff I just said.

You had Easter baskets, right? We saw a commercial, and in one of the commercials, they put a Nintendo Switch in the Easter basket, which is obviously ludicrous. But I think you were—it seemed like you were surprised by the idea of toys in the Easter basket. Oh, no, no. It was the Nintendo Switch. Oh, okay, Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. No, although I will say so I kind of got two Easter baskets because I got the one at home with my parents and then I would go to my mom's mom. Mom's mom's house. Yeah. And she would make Easter baskets for like every single grandchild.

And then as we got older, she would just put candy in a Ziploc bag and write her name on it. Even better. We have a home video of us going hard on Easter. And it was fun. We shot a little movie. We got G.I. Joes in our baskets. And then we had them fight against a peep army. I tried to eat my first peep and it was gross. And I spit it out.

But the best part is that Travis and Justin both got sneaker snappers. And they were so excited about their sneaker snappers and they were so excited about their sneaker snappers tell me again what that is they were these were they had different like sort of franchise like brands so these were they might be uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I get them confused because TMBG TMNT anyway and they were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so it would be like you know I think I. Michelangelo's face. They had little barrettes for your shoelaces. They were like barrettes that you would weave over your shoelaces and then snap them.

Oh my gosh, how funny. Then it would just be like, yeah, look at my shoe. That's Leonardo. Pretty cool, huh? Why haven't those come back? I want to see somebody put some, you know, some turtles up on their Yeezys or something. Kids don't wear shoes anymore that's true uh so there's obviously that's the stuff right the the basket is cool and the the dyeing

the easter eggs that's neat we used to do that that is fun and you write on them in crayons so that the wax keeps the dye from going yeah and that's fun but for me it's the easter egg hunt that's the star um we i i think it's fun what i like about it is it's fun for the parents too it's fun it's equally fun for the hiders as it is for the seekers like finding a really good hiding spot for an egg is almost as rewarding as like finding that egg yes we we i have participated since i moved to Austin, in two adult egg hunts. Yes. And it was super fun. The last time, Rachel and I used to be cool.

And we used to, for a joint sort of birthday celebration, we would rent a cheap kind of shitty lake house near Austin. And one time we did it around Easter. And we did an Easter egg hunt with Jell-O shots inside the Easter eggs. Which was, first of all all that whole weekend was a mess it was a messy messy time i actually got that idea because we did that at uh evan's house once before you even lived here wow beautiful wonderful uh yeah watching a bunch of 20 somethings like run around a yard and dig plastic eggs out of the dirt and drink the alcoholic gelatin inside was surreal uh bacchanal uh to say the least um but yeah hiding them was really really fun uh we have another video of us like as

kids doing an easter egg hunt but before that you get to watch my dad and his friend mark walk around the attic which was like where all of our play toys and stuff were and like give a tour of where they decided to hide every single egg and it was so brilliant like i still love watching that part because you get to see them be so proud travis had just gotten an ewok village play set which is like the best toy ever made and like dad had managed to fit one into this like little like a hole in a tree stump it was so very well hidden there was a i think justin had a hulk hogan like rubber action figure and they had tucked one up like into his thighs that he was

just like clenching with his big powerful thighs um and eggs are just a very hideable shape they're a very hideable shape they are perfect to hide um and i like that about it my hope is that this is the year where henry gets really into it and then we can just do it all the time because the idea of keeping him busy searching for eggs sounds really sounds real good to me um so how much do you know about like easter and eggs the like origins of it almost nothing okay the bunny i don't know the bunny is still like i don't know man i don't know how we got to the bunny there's maybe an explanation for them somewhere i saw something about it them being sort of equated with fertility and so eggs and maybe but it really seems like chickens are

the obvious one huh really seems like when you're coming up with the mascot for this thing a chicken i don't want to tell you your business but a chicken or maybe a duck is kind of the way to go i mean how do the eggs even start so the egg uh it has been sort of associated especially in like early christianity early like eastern christianity eggs were viewed as a like sign of a, like symbol of the, the resurrection of, of Jesus. They like represented the tomb that you can't like see inside. And then it's the empty tomb. Uh, it seems like a stretch to me also for Lent,

I guess, which is the, what the month preceding Easter, uh, is, uh, back then, uh,

abstaining from eating eggs was like a thing. So like, that's, that is, it seems tenuous, but like, all right, if that's all right,

if that's what y'all say. So the hiding and looking for the eggs, uh, as far as I can tell, the earliest like history of that was actually from Martin Luther. Uh, not, not King jr.

Uh, cause that would be wild if he was like, I've done all this amazing stuff for civil rights in this country. And also I've invented this totally hot new sport. So I have a dream. It's a two part dream. It's a two part dream. The first one is the only one you're going to remember.

But the second one is I'm going to hide some M&Ms in these eggs and then I'm going to put them in various bushes and you're going to love it. No, the, uhin luther was like a early protestant reformer i'm familiar uh you're familiar with his work uh he was actually like as far as history can or as far as what i could find was uh one of the earliest ones to uh do easter egg hunts uh eggs were associated with easter and so he thought hey this will be a fun game and traditionally all the men would go and hide these uh dyed hard-boiled eggs from the women and children who would go run around and they would look for them and then they would get on

the lifeboats first that was how the women ate that is they had to hide all the food that the men eat uh i found this fun factoid. This is a wonderful fun fact. The world record Easter egg hunt was held in the town of Homer, Georgia. It's a small town, 950 people live there. Those 950 people hunted down 80,000 eggs. I know you were wondering who hid these eggs for these 950 individuals.

I don't know. Maybe there was one very, very, very busy, very overworked and tired sort of egg Santa Claus. Can you do the math on that? That's about almost a thousand eggs times 80. 80 i learned this other thing and it's a post game uh a final a final round a boss fight of the easter egg hunt first of all for me it was always plastic the plastic shells filled with candy yeah did you have a preferred candy to find in an egg i mean it was almost always m&ms at our household it was just almost always yeah um i could not get as excited about a hard-boiled egg hunt they used to do that at like our church and

that was a whole thing because they would hide those things on all three stories of our church so it could take like a while to really find those those things um there's a post game this boss fight it's called egg tapping i had never heard of this have you heard of egg tapping i don't think so egg tapping is a game i'm just going to read the the first two sentences of wikipedia explaining egg tapping because they are a remarkable two sentences egg tapping or also known as egg fight, egg knocking, egg packing, P-A-C-K-U-E-E-I-N-G, egg boxing, egg picking, egg chucking, or egg jarping, is a traditional Easter game. In English folk traditions, the game has variously been known as,

there's more names, shackling, jarping, or dumping. Jarping. Let's get out there and jarp these two things. So if it's not live action role playing, what would it,

it's. Jive action role playing. The next two, the following is also very good. The rule of the game is simple. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg, intending to break the others without breaking one's own. As with any other game, it has been a subject of cheating.

As with any other game, it's been a subject of cheating on today's hbo documentary yeah it's a real dateline kind of sound to that uh eggs with cement alabaster and even marble cores have been reported oh my god by whom to whom. I love that. Is there a citation on that one? No, there's not. I've never heard of egg tapping. I've never heard of the word jarping. And that's exquisite to me.

And I've also not heard of these disgusting egg cheaters. These disgusting alabaster egg holding. Is that Wikipedia entry end with like i know what you did lewis some people have been known to cheat at this including lewis stanley from des moines uh that's it can you tell you about the submissions from home you want to hear i also want to mention confetti eggs which is a new thing i learned since i moved to texas i'm not honestly a huge fan although i enjoy witnessing seeing one get blasted on some these are eggs that are painted after being sort of hollowed out and taped shut and filled with confetti our friend eric brought one to a lake house weekend and smashed it on everybody's heads

and then it rained and it ruined the deck and we basically, we burned the house down and ran away before Airbnb could catch us. Here's one from Andrew who says, I find writing a check to be low-key wonderful. I only do it a few times a year and it is basically a permission slip to take money from my bank account. But the process of actually writing out the dollar amount and the memo line

and signing the check is soothing to me. I also like seeing the subtle differences in the ways people write out numbers, especially the cents. I had a home ec class where we had to learn how to write checks. Did you do this? No, I don't think so. I do kind of remember the experience of trying to learn how to write a check and the cents over the hundred, the little fraction was a lot. I feel like nobody's doing it. I still do it, but I feel like I'm the only one. I feel like nobody's still doing this. Hey, I'm still doing it too, Gryffindor. Oh, good.

Emily says, I think racehorse names are some of the most wonderful things in the world. This year's Kentucky Derby, brace yourself. This year's Kentucky Derby horses include Win-Win-Win and Gray Magician. But some of my favorite horse names have been judge smells ghost zapper and burgoo king did you pick this just because i was going on a rant about the kentucky derby i did yeah rachel really doesn't like the kentucky derby do you want to go in on it we need a we need an after show a live after show called not wonderful it's called blunderful and it's full of rachel's dislikes including this 30 second ad for it and the ad just kind of exemplified all the things i didn't like about it and so i kind of went on this little rant i i do enjoy a fun horse name

but it can be part of the problem i enjoy all the hats i enjoy the specialty beverages i enjoy the community that it the sense of community. And the racing is very exciting, albeit I will give you quite brief. It's very, very short. But when I start getting into it, it's whenever I learn about the business of it. Like this horse, I paid a billion dollars for Cump. I'm like, yo, are you sure about it? All right.

I think it's great. So don't send those tweets to me i won't read them anyway joshua says something i find wonderful is seeing the pure joy on the face of someone when they realize they are on the jumbotron at a sporting event usually they are dancing along to the music when they see themselves on the screen and just go buck wild yeah that is so fun to a went to a Rockets game in Houston and there was just so much of this. So much of this. People seemed happier there

than at like any other sort of sporting event. I don't know if basketball just elicits that in people. Maybe it's because it's not like, like really, really long. Yeah, and you're also not generally outside in the elements. Yeah, you're not sweating and you're watching big dunks and those always get your blood pumping uh thank you to bowen and augustus for

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