Wonderful! - Wonderful! 86: Zuck Bucks

Episode Date: June 5, 2019

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. They can hear the smiles, babe. Did you know that? I hope so. Did you know that? They can hear, it's the way the sound know that? I hope so. Did you know that? They can hear.

It's the way the sound moves through the teeth and past the tips of the tongue and the lips. And they can hear the smiles and how just fucking happy we are. Today, it's Tuesday, June the 4th, 5th, June the 1st, some of the number. And we're just, it's a good day. Soft rain, pitter patter outside of soft raindrops on the ground. And there's deer. We saw some deer. And they of soft raindrops on the ground and uh there's deer we saw some deer and they were chip chomping on the grass outside and just it's all it's all coming together isn't it yeah it's all we're all starting to figure it out it feels like getting the swing

of things maybe a little bit into the groove and and the groove of summer is. Life, man. The vibes, the wavelengths that we are all sort of putting out there and then like seeing if it lines up with somebody else's. Are you a crystal guy now? Meth. Yes. I took that like literally right before. And you actually watched me do it. And you cheered. You were like, whoo, whoo, whoo.

Because you thought I'd give me crazy podcast energy. And you weren't wrong. Do I cheer like a chimpanzee? No, it's more like a sports Tim Allen from the Home Improvement. Okay. Wow. I feel like every time we reference Home Improvement in our show, it feels like, didn't we just do that? But then I remember it's every episode. It's musically speaking. It's contractually what we do.

How are you doing how's your soul how's your spirit i mean pretty good i think yeah yeah got over the hey sorry for missing last week's uh episode but let's just say all of us were barfing and pooping non-stop it was so bad you guys oh my god it sucked so bad it was really bad it was it impacted all of us differently i would say yeah i mean it left its own sort of mark on all of us um we all got something different out of the encounter that we had uh with this stomach flu what was interesting about it was that it it really ping-ponged in the way that like as soon as henry was better griffin was sick and as soon as griffin was better, Griffin was sick. And as soon as Griffin was better, I was sick. It went in order of constitutional fortitude. And Henry is only worse than me by a very slight margin in that regard.

Yeah, so we're very sorry. I hate missing episodes, but last week was just a complete disaster. I almost said shit show, but that would have been too evocative. But you start this week. Do you have any small wonders, though? I mean, you know I do yeah you do game four of the Stanley Cup

yeah that was a good game if you don't follow sports Rachel is a big St. Louis Blues fan it's their first time in the Stanley Cup finals since like what the 70s yeah and they've won their first they've never won a Stanley Cup finals game they've only gotten shut out every time they've made it.

So like, it's a very, it's two, two now with the Bruins. It's very exciting. Sports are good. Every sports are good again. Yeah.

It's been really fun. It was a very good game. They played very well. I always feel like when the blues win against the Bruins and the Bruins are arguably in a lot of ways, a better team. Yeah. But when the blues win,

you can just see them out there working so hard just grinding it out yeah they're they're scrappy they're scrappy it's fun watch them games it's fun uh I wanted to say I bought some fancy I bought some formal wear today it's the first time I bought formal wear yeah well I think I bought a suit from Joseph A. Banks um like when I first moved to Austin and all of our friends started getting married. And then I got a lot of wear out of that suit. But it was basically like I was wearing just a big paper bag. Griffin did the wise thing today where he actually talked to a store employee.

And I feel like it's game changing for you because I think you have a tendency to settle when it comes to fashion. And I feel like this store attendant was like, no, you don't have to. I said, look, it's been almost a decade since I've like bought a suit. So like, I don't know what I wear. I don't know what my body shape is. I don't know what my body size is, but I have 45 minutes. So, and I have a date on Thursday. So can you, can you get me there?

Can you get me across the finish line? And she did. She was very, very helpful. Very, very nice. It was a date on Thursday. So can you, can you get me there? Can you get me across the finish line? And she did. She was very, very helpful. Very, very nice. It was a very nice experience. I like the way I look, which is the first time I've seen that in like a formal wear context. That's very nice.

Also got a new keyboard. Got another wireless keyboard. This one's for the PC. It's got blue switches. Ooh, it clicks so right. It clicks so deep and hard. Wait, why did you get another keyboard this one's wireless for the pc i got it running into the uh the television now

so it's distant it's across the room can't have a wired one okay i know i mean you asked about my my av setup i know i gave you some answers and then i had no preparation to continue the conversation that is true uh i felt like there's something else I can't remember. Do you want to go ahead and tell me what your first thing is? Ooh, yes. Lip balm. Lip balm. Yes. Lip balm?

Yes. Not lip gloss. No. I feel like this is like a frosting versus icing thing. To me, gloss implies that it's just a cosmetic shiny purpose although it can it can be both right like lip smackers has some element although smackers is a bomb isn't it shit i don't know shit about anything do i i think of gloss is the kind that comes out on a wand i think yeah i think the wand is what sets it apart but it took me a long time to figure out that there was a

difference between these two things it took me a long time to figure out that there was a difference between these two things it took me a long time to figure out people were not putting on prescription gloss um i like many people have been dependent on lip balm for a very long time now uh my lips tend towards chap uh and i don't know if one is related to the other uh but um i have been experimenting to find the perfect combination of balm uh for decades yeah literal decades she's she's got her own witch's brew of balms in a cauldron in her bedside table she'll mix some you know some traditional chapstick in there she'll throw down some lip smackers she'll put in the like soda flavored ones that are never what you want them to taste like oh man yeah should they even have it let's have this conversation for should they have a taste should it have a taste should the lip balm have a taste i mean most beauty products have a scent yes usually with

scent they pair taste just to kind of get you there yeah but it's a lip based experience so you're going to be tasting it all the time right so when i would get like cherry chapstick and i would put that on but what about when you smooch i mean i didn't get any complaints but then think about my i'm always kissing myself if you think about it we're all we're all always in the process of kissing ourselves and so i don't know that i always want to you know i mean i eat a big hamburger from hardy's or whatever yeah i don't want it to also taste like cherries is what i'm saying i guess end of the day you don't want it to interfere with your actual eating experience yes okay you know i take it seriously yeah that's what stopped me from getting a lot of the novelty flavors that you can get yeah um grass and earwax i'm thinking of the harry potter

jelly beans it is funny that you mentioned earwax oh no because when i was doing some research oh stop just stop now we, we literally just ate. Okay. No, I go ahead because the people want to know. Just that in the olden days, it was identified as a solution. A sealant. Yeah. Because here's the thing about lip balm.

So the purpose of lip balm is to provide a occlusive layer on the lip surface. Right. To seal moisture in lips and protect them from external exposure. You flavor lock that shit. So that's why it's always like a waxy consistency because it's like trying to protect your lips from moisture. Like if you're the kind of person that licks their lips all the time or if you're like drinking a beverage, it like keeps the moisture from getting in and drying you out. Okay. If you're like drinking a beverage, it like keeps the moisture from getting in and drying you out.

Okay. So an example of an occlusive material is petroleum jelly, which is, you know, Vaseline. Okay. So here's the thing. So a lot of people talk about how is lip balm actually bad for your lips? Whoa. Because people, there are certain brands out there that people use and they just have to start using constantly because it feels like their lips are dried out immediately. Okay. So I found an article that they say ingredients like phenol, menthol, and salicylic acid are all ingredients that cause the body to stop generating natural moisture around the lips.

Huh. So basically they just dry you out. And so you just end up continuing to apply and apply and apply. And it just is a cycle. So what's the good shit? Is Tom's making lip balm? Just natural sort of powder-based balm? So I have been using this balm for a while.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. Are you about to drop one of Rachel's balm recommendations? You want to play the music cue? Well, no, we got to save this for the premium subscription episode. We can't just like give away Rachel's balm recommendations on the free stream. We got to put it on the paid stream. At what point do I say it's the balm? Do I say that at the beginning or the end?

You have to say it's the balm.com. It's for sure the turn of phrase. But again paint okay let's hear it what are you working with okay so a lot of you know different chapsticks will have like beeswax you know or aloe or vitamin e or whatever that's all good right that's all fine you can have that right okay sure yeah bert's bees is like the most popular and a lot of people love it i found something called dr lip and it's a little squeeze tube you can buy it at anthropology it's made from lanolin like a sheep's wool maybe it is sheep related okay. I'm not exactly sure what part of the sheep it comes from. I've always associated lanolin with sheeps, but I said wool. I don't know.

It could just be like ground up sheep bones for all I know. But things like petroleum jelly start to make me a little nervous because like petroleum, I feel like, I don't know, that can't be environmentally sustainable. But I like the idea of lanolin and it's been working well for me okay i mean i'm no complaints here very very soft very smooth very kissable no thank you real nice whistles not great but that's not the bomb's fault the first person by the way to make a chapstick was uh Brown Fleet. And this was in the early 1900s. He also invented a variety of laxatives. Okay, I bet.

Yeah, I bet he had some fun with that. He was a pharmacist and did laxatives, douches, enemas, and chapstick. Just like a lot of like downstairs stuff and then just a little yeah little kiss on your way out so he wanted i think originally to come up with a very very portable way to get laxatives just like in your pocket whenever you needed them or whenever you did need to do like a prank to a milkshake of a school bully you know and he came up with the laxative stick, and that was very cool, but then I think...

How do you apply the laxative stick, I wonder? You yeet it. Yeet it. Okay. You yeet it into the open mouth of the school bully. Yeet is such a good word. Can I tell you about my first thing? Yes.

My first thing is a video game called Beat the Saber that I have been playing nonstop this week. And it's why my arms are so buff and strong. It's why I have all this tone and definition. It's why I'm a hulking good body over here. It's because I've been playing this virtual reality game called Beat Saber. It's almost E3. I'm going to talk about video games, so strap in. You still haven't played it, right?

I showed you some of the VR stuff. Okay, you would love it. You would adore it. I think you would have a very good time with it. I think so, too. I sent you a video of it today to give you a background, and I sent you some really high-level expert K-pop shit. Yeah, it was like this weird Dance Central rock band hybrid almost.

So yeah, Beat Saber is a rhythm game and it is very much in the vein of Guitar Hero and Rock Band in that there is like a track and then there are these things that come at you that correspond to the notes in the song or the beat of the song that you have to hit in time with the rhythm in order to get points. song that you have to hit in time with the rhythm in order to, you know, get points. Only in Beat Saber, they are boxes that are flying directly at you and you are standing on the track because it's virtual reality and you have to use two swords to cut everything. Each of your hands, you have a sword. Hence the name Beat Saber.

They're basically lightsabers. In your right hand, you have a blue lightsaber. In your left hand, you have a red one. And then the boxes that come at you are either blue or red. And they also have arrows on them, right so if i ask you a preference question yes do you keep your hand in karate chop movement or do you put it in a fist or how what do you what what position are your hands in during this uh i have found that i need to grip these controllers pretty tight i'm wearing the wrist straps because i'm a responsible young man who did throw a wiimote like at a tv screen full force while playing we tennis after like like three days after the week came out so now i always wear my wrist straps okay um so i grip them pretty

tight because some of the songs do require uh pretty flaily maneuvers that i just really gotta hold on tight or else i'm going to go flying off. So yeah, instead of like holding down a button and strumming a fake guitar, you are in virtual reality and a blue box with an arrow pointing to the right is coming at you and you have to use your right hand to slice it from the left to the right. But then, you know, you have hundreds of those coming at you in rhythm to a song and that is what beat saber is there are also the other sort of main gameplay element is these like red walls will come flying at you and you literally have to move around them like you have to actually get your head around

so there's like a box basically that you're standing in that you also have to sort of you know weave left and right to the music sometimes or crouch and weave left and right which makes you feel like you're like a like a backup dancer in like a backstreet boys video um it is so fucking fun it is so so fun and it's a game that i feel like i heard the most about uh when people talk about vr recently um specifically because one it's really fun and i think it's a really good way to like show people what is cool about VR gaming. Because it's like, hey, here's a genre that you're probably familiar with and here's how VR makes it actually a completely different kind of experience. But also because its benefits as a tool for fitness have actually been getting a lot of coverage in games press and health press magazines.

Which is something that I've been experiencing firsthand because I've been really wearing myself out this week. There's different difficulty settings. And so depending on what you play on, you could have a more light, breezy dancing experience. And it does kind of turn into dancing at some point. You have to cut these boxes in such a flowing motion that you are kind of dancing a little bit.

So are you able to use any music you want so the game comes with a set number of songs and then like it's been out for a while it's been out on pc i've been playing it on quest which is the standalone oculus like vr headset that i still am like head over heels in love with um but on the pc they have released all these mods where you can play custom songs that other people have made and then there's like a piece of software where you can program your own songs so it doesn't like automatically generate you can't just like drop an mp3 in there and it'll make a track people have to make the tracks uh but now those mods exist on quest so i downloaded like 50 songs like oh god i mean uh i want you back by Jackson 5. I got some, I got some, a little bit of Skrillex, a touch of Skrillex in there.

There's like seven different Mika songs that are all so, so, so fun to play. You mentioned earlier that you were dancing to Toxic by Britney Spears. Toxic by Britney Spears. And that's what, like, I've been trying to get better at the game. I've been trying to play the harder difficulty settings. So I started doing Toxic like on hard difficulty, which is only the medium difficulty. And it was like kicking my ass,

but I was like, no, I'm gonna fucking beat Toxic by Britney Spears. And it took me like 20 minutes to actually finally finish the song. And by the time I did, I was just this sweaty mess. But you get so much exercise and it feels like, I have never been able to stick

necessarily well to like a good like you know any kind of fitness even if it's like exercising once a week like i've never been especially good at sticking with it because if i get bored or if i feel like it's work at any point yeah i do not necessarily have the diligence to stick with it uh beat saber is just really fucking fun. And so like, I, I look forward to doing it because I also want to, you know,

beat my high score. I want to, uh, you know, I want to see if I can move up to the next sort of difficulty ranking. Uh, and there's like online leaderboards you can test yourself against. Um,

so, uh, I, I measure, I have an Apple watch. And so it like kicked on while I was playing it once. And it was like, Hey, it looks like you're exercising. Do you want me to track it? And I was like, oh, yeah, sure. I played for a half hour and burned 390 calories, which is like a lot. that actually goes through every VR game that gets released and sort of comes up with numerical reports on their potential as a fitness thing. And so it studied Beat Saber, and it found that at an amateur level playing sort of medium level difficulty, so not the maximum amount of exertion of people playing on the highest, wildest difficulties here,

it is equivalent workout to playing singles tennis, jogging five miles an hour cycling on a flat surface or swimming for like an equivalent period of time oh that's good so it's like yeah it's like it's a good but then if you bump it up to expert i'm sure it's it's i i sent you a video of somebody playing the like most difficult difficulty setting uh playing i think it was that martial arts expert yeah and you can, he actually was like wearing a fitness band. So you could like watch his like heart rate, like skyrocket and like do all this cardio. Like I am not, I, I, you know, I am not like fitness obsessed or anything like that, but I recognize that like, I live a like pretty

sedentary lifestyle. I've always wanted to feel like, I always do feel better when I, you know, move around a little bit and beat saber i just think is such a fun way to do it and it's definitely the most excited i've been about a rhythm game since dance central which in its own right was also like a pretty pretty intense workout when we were playing that a lot uh back when we first had the what was it like the connect on 360 we'd have friends come over and dance um yeah i think it's great and on the quest too like there's no wires or anything it's fully portable so like i could see bringing that to like a party and having people check it out and you know screencasting it up to the tv so we can see

what they see like i think it's potential as a like fun social experience is also like pretty pretty rich as well plans to make the quest more accessible to people? What do you mean? Like, can anybody get one of these things? Yeah, they're on Amazon. Oh. Yeah, anybody can get one. I thought like you had to do some super secret thing. I had to mow Mark Zuckerberg's lawn. I had to go to Mark Zuckerberg's house. I had to mow his big, big lawn. It's a big lawn. And then he comes out and then you have to pay him 400 to get the class like he doesn't even like reimburse you for the hard work of mowing his lawn at all yeah um yeah b-saber believe the hype man he doesn't give you zuck bucks he he gives me suck it gives

me suck it gives me zuck bucks yeah and you can turn those in for a pizza he'll make you a pizza in the house um and it's like a tombstone pizza. It's not even like a, he doesn't like have a, you know, fancy brick oven. Oh no, he just takes a frozen pizza. Yeah, he microwaves you up a tombstone. It's really fucked up. I hope they break up. I hope the anti-trust breaks up Facebook just for that.

And I'll be standing on Facebook's bloated corpse laughing like a Mr. Robot would do. Can I steal you away? Yes. Can I read some personal messages? Uh-huh. This message is for Lorelai. It is from Sam. Lorelai, when Barry Blue Jane said,

a love that defined and redeemed you, I felt that down in my soul when I met you. Thank you for being my best babyroo, the loop to my Barry, and a great cat stepmom to your two new fur babies. Adventuring with you has been nothing

short of wonderful. I love you so much and happy two years. I mean, Barry didn't say i said that i said that i ain't talking up to griffin you remember that grove that's totally dope romantic shit griffin said in the pocket i mean you know do you feel that when you see people cosplaying do you walk over and you're like i made that that's me cosplay is dresses me i made that one too don't be like they're fake i made them from my brain that's me dresses me uh i have one here for emma and it's from kaylee who says hi emma hopefully i've gotten you to start listening to wonderful by the time this message airs

i mean they can listen to this episode whenever they want to it'll be on the internet forever probably thank you for being such a good friend the last seven years and going to Lizzo with me back in April and for supporting me when I had that nip slip at DMV. Wait, wait, is that Dave and Buster's? I think it's Dave and Buster's. And then there's a frowny face emoticon. I'm not laughing at you by the way like

i'm laughing i think i'm laughing with you right you included this in your jumbotron yeah good luck on your move back to south carolina and i can't wait to visit love you bunches that kicks ass thank you for sharing that with us good messagelee. That's a great, great, great message. Welcome. Thank you. No problem. These are real podcast listeners, not actors. What do you look for in a podcast? Reliability is big for me. Power.

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Soon. Jordan, Jesse, go. A real podcast. Hey, what's your second thing? My second thing I think is going to be a real hoot. Okay. It's songs that come with their own dances. All right.

Okay. This makes a lot of sense now why you asked me a very, very, very specific question earlier today. I like it. So sometimes Griffin and I, because we want to be able to have a productive conversation, we'll send each other little teases. If we think the other person doesn't know what we are talking about. What was weird about this one is Rachel said, hey, do you remember this song? And I was like, I listened to it. I was like, oh, yeah, I do.

And you said, oh, because I don't. And I was like, why the fuck did you send me this link? Well, I thought it would be more interesting if one of us remembered it. Okay. Yeah. So. if one of us remembered it. Okay, yeah.

So- First of all, if you have heard this song, you would remember it because it's just the same three words over and over and over again for like- It's more than that, Griffin. For two and a half minutes. You're right. All right, so let me take you on a journey.

Yeah, please. So what I'm talking about are songs, a lot of them you see at weddings, you know, like Electric Slide. Yes. And YMCA, for example. Right. Most of the ones that interest me,

because of course there was also The Twist in 1960, but... We should clearly define, because I feel like there are some examples of bands where it's not necessarily just like a one hit wonder like i'm thinking of like apache by um sugar hill gang i feel like that's its own dance but i don't think of that in this category i just think of that being a song that has a dance associated i did kind of do a screening and what i realized is that when mtv became big and music videos became big

then just the number of these skyrocketed. Okay. Because it was just people sitting at home watching it and then like taking it out

to the club. Yeah. The Macarena holy shit. So yeah I have a whole list here but I wanted to tell a little story

about the electric slide. Okay. So the electric slide was created by Richard Silver. So back in 1976, Neville Livingston wrote a catchy song called Electric Boogie for his buddy, singer Maria Griffiths. Then choreographer Silver created the electric slide, a 22-step dance to the song that incorporated grapevines and a series of forward and backward steps. But people began forgetting the final four steps, which are repeated steps, changing it to an 18-step performance. by it and started contacting people that had posted videos of themselves and others doing the electric slide and demanding that they are taken down. Until they remember the four forbidden steps.

Were the four steps like four consecutive backflips? I can't figure it out. So I watched the original music video for this Marsha, sorry, I may have said Maria earlier, Marshaiffith's song and i can't tell the difference but it's very possible there are four very very discreet it's like hand gestures like down at your side but they're so important apparently he reached out to the websites and went and threatened them with lawsuits if they didn't take it down. So cool. So good. And he very specifically made 22 steps because he was born on January 22nd.

Yes! Yes! That's so cool and good. So yeah, so that's kind of maybe the most notable example, but I have some other examples I would like to share. Yes, please. The Roger Rabbit Dance. Oh, God, I don't remember that one.

Are you familiar with it? The name is familiar,, I don't remember that one. Are you familiar with it? The name is familiar, but I don't remember the song or the dance. There's some like kicking and arm pumping. Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. The rap group Gucci Crew 2 created the dance and introduced it in their 1987 song of the same name. They were also responsible for the Cabbage Patch. It seems like then they had sort of a niche that they were very good at filling. And then we kind of hit the heart of the 90s.

And this is where it really, really takes off. Okay. So we have Tootsie Roll. Oh, yeah. 1994. That was the band The 69 Boys. The 69 Boys? I didn't know i didn't know i should have known the macarena as you mentioned yeah 1994 wow we used to do that in our elementary

school gym class as like warm-up for exercise that song is about a promiscuous woman no but i feel like most songs that i don't realize that most songs I really like. And then I don't realize that they're about promiscuous women are all about promiscuous. It's about a woman having affairs with multiple men. Well, Mama Number Five. Mama Number Five is about a man who has a lot of affairs with women. So I think all these like children, like zombies in a high school gym or doing this dance. And now, listen, I think L school gym are doing this dance. No.

Listen, I think Lubega got away with it, but I think what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Come on and write it. Parentheses the train. Yes. 1995. Best name of a song, by the way. Come on and write it.

What? We got to put the parenthetical at the end of this, guys, because people keep asking us what it is. The song peaked at number three on the billboard hot 100 singles chart ranked the number one song of 1996 village voice magazine village voice huh it was like this is the best remember the train dance though oh yeah it was just switching back and forth between elbow pointing. Essentially, that's what we're talking about here. I remember that, yeah, but we would do it. My main, this is weird whenever I tell Rachel about this, but I roller skated a lot as a kid.

I went to the roller skating rink a couple times a month, maybe a few times a month. I was always there. It was very close to my house and I was decent at it, which you wouldn't know if you watched the mbam tv show or i'm pretty sure all of us ate shit over and over and over again but uh we would do this song and we'd all try to skate in a line while trying to do that arm pump uh in rhythm and uh oh boy that's a sight to see um there's also um you know mc hammer's dance which i didn't realize was called the typewriter

but it makes sense when you think about it yeah i've only heard it as like the hammer dance hammer dance no yeah it's called the typewriter uh and then we get to more recent ones um now i was not familiar with the cha-cha slide the first oh yeah the first time i heard it at a wedding and everybody stood up and started doing it i was just looking around like what is happening that was cupid shuffle for me i feel like and that's i feel like how you know like when you have passed the point of cultural relevance because like everybody has learned a dance that you've never even you've never even heard of can i tell you something sad about the cupid shuffle yeah so in 2007 that's when the cupid

shuffle right the artist was named cupid okay in 2012 cupid chose his own song for an audition to the third season of the voice oh and got up and performed it and the four judges you know rejected him and then silo green recognized him and said oh you're a cupid this is your song can you sing another song that proves that you can actually sing so he was i guess trying to like make a stab at another career i guess by performing his own song i mean he's good at he's good at singinguffle. I know. It's just a weird choice. It's a strange choice, and it didn't pan out for him, it sounds like. Yeah. But you got to take those big swings sometimes, and I appreciate Cupid for that.

What was the dance we did at Justin and Bristol's wedding that was like the line dance? Cotton something road? Copperhead Road? Copperhead Road is what it was yeah i don't even know if you dip into that subgenre i don't dip into the line dance but country country i mean that's fucking no i stick mostly with hip-hop here in my list boogie don't mind if i do so uh the song that i sent griffin is the uh the song by webster and young b came out in 2009 called chicken noodle soup noodle soup i was not familiar with this and i watched the video like maybe two or three times

today just kind of fascinated by it it's a great fun i think it's a fucking great components right there's like the rain down and then the clear it out yeah and then then it's chicken primarily chicken noodle soup yeah with the soda with it yeah with the soda on the side yeah it's a badass song i just i was glad to have this song back in my life because that came out shit that came out like uh i guess the year i graduated college uh and i remembered i remembered hearing it from those days where you know the party days the fun party days chicken noodle soup and so yeah man yeah see 2009 i was like already in austin you know just like totally oblivious to cultural phenomenon yeah um and then of course i would be

remiss if i didn't mention things like uh theie. Uh-huh. Gangnam Style. Yeah. Soulja Boy. Actually, Crank That, parenthesis, Soulja Boy. Stanky Leg. Crank That, Soulja Boy also occupies a space of, and I think Cupid Shuffle, I guess, I've just learned, is also in this category of, I've named the dance after myself as well.

The Wobble, which I enjoy. Oh, The Wobble's great. Walk It Out, Lean Back. They became sort of easier to grok as time went on. The Whip and the Nay Nay. Yes. Which were right introduced at the same time in that in a song that goes watch me whip now watch me nene yeah right yeah they both appeared in that

one it wasn't like pokemon red and blue or it's like listen to this song to hear about the whip i didn't know sometimes when you hear that's what's kind of magical about these songs yeah it's because you hear them and when they're like you know do the stanky leg you're like was this a thing before the song and now i'm just hearing about it through the song oh well there's a good mnemonic device that i use okay to remember that and it's uh it goes no it came out with the song they invented it with the song it wasn't like somebody was like you know what dance i like so much that i'm gonna write a song about it? The Stanky Leg.

Remember we do that at our, we used to do it at our church box socials and then we haven't seen it in a long time. I'm gonna write a song about the Stanky Leg we used to do. It's just, it's kind of amazing. And maybe it's because I came up in this time period of like, you know, the butterfly and the tootsie roll like these dances where all of a sudden i was very aware of music culture and i wondered like is this has this dance

always existed and i'm just yeah about it now i i love these songs i've had a very good time talking about them and i also like i aged out of it so quickly. But there is a part of of your heart when you are a very awkward young man who is not very good at dancing. And you're at a wedding that some of your older friends or parents, friends or whatever are getting married. And then the fucking cha-cha slide comes on and you're like, I know how to interface with this. I know how to interface responsibly with this song in a way that is acceptable and i can get up there and have this dancing simulation uh it's so funny because you and i when we were putting together our wedding playlist we're really particular and we were very explicit of like we don't want you know the chicken dance

or whatever at our wedding yeah but if the electric slide had come on. Electric slide slaps, okay? Electric slide is the best of us. I wouldn't have been mad about it. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, and then I like immediately got like, you know, bratty and eye rolly about it.

Like, ooh, the cha-cha slide. But the cha-cha slide was there for me when I needed it. I just wasn't there for the cha-cha slide when I got married. Can I tell you about my second thing? Yes. Decks. Talking about decks. These are the outdoor rooms without slide when I got married. Can I tell you about my second thing? Yes. Decks. Talking about decks. These are the outdoor rooms without walls

that have wood floors that you stand on. Oh, I thought you were talking about skateboard decks. I can talk about decks if you want me to. I can talk about decks and trucks and all the components. Actually, I can't. Axles, I think, are a part of it. It's also what you call the tv show dexter uh yeah and you know i love that one um no i want to talk about decks the

thing you have this sort of uh the the half room the vestigial sort of yeah just floor it's just floor isn't it if you think about it you don't really have too much other places in your house where it's just like no no roof usually now it's just floor isn't that weird um it is i mean it's basically summer here in austin uh it's been summer i guess for like uh about a month now because that's how texas does it and i don't know i just around this time of year, I just start feeling very grateful for the existence of the humble deck. I love a deck. I love its specialty usages. I love that you're only usually having a good time out on a deck. You don't go out on a deck to do anything bad.

You don't go out there to do your taxes. You go out there to party and hang out and enjoy the weather without having to touch the ground with your feet. Because that's where the grass and mud and dirt and bugs live. You know what I mean? It's like one big wooden shoe that everybody gets to stand on and protects them from the grass and the bugs. And I like that. Yeah. I like that about debts.

And a pie, you know? a pie can be out there yeah sure a pie i thought you just sort of added the most adorable like little expansion pack to my thing and sometimes a pie can be there thank you yeah sure no being a. No, being a pie. Yeah, sure. Being a pie would be weird, man, because everybody won't eat you. We have a deck on our house, and it was one of the big sort of purchase decisions for me when I saw this deck looking out into the nature. I was like, hey, that's pretty good. That seems like it'd be a good deck. And we've done some work on it.

Got a stain. We did. Got a bench built into the side of of it and got a grill got some new furniture got some shades we've done okay we've invested most of our investments in this house they've all been deck based and and then it's all been good because it's so nice to be out there you can get that vitamin d but still be close to all of you close to your toilet and all your house stuff it's just a door away uh it's great and um i don't really have too much else it's just like a party platform i was looking like why it's called a deck

and the answer was so anticlimactic because it's literally just called that because that's what a ship's deck is called and they're basically serve the same function oh it's the deck of your house ship did you look up the history of decks i did my best here's what i found uh on like uh this old house dot dot work uh back in the 70s uh decks were just a very like utilitarian construct uh where it's just like here is a big slab here's a big wooden palette outside of your house that the grill lives on because you can't do that inside of your house or it will burn down that's kind of like all that we were working with there it was just this wood like extension where you could do your grilling then in the 80s is when uh architects started to

like say like hey we need to just treat this like any other room we could introduce some architectural complexity into this and expand beyond the the uh what was the word there was a word of rectilinear form the rectilinear form of the classic deck and like start getting start getting wild with it so you start getting some you know some different shaped decks you started to get some uh you know semi-octagon decks. You started to get some. You get that deck magazine and it's got the center fold and you fold out and man,

those shapes on those decks. Yeah, those decks go all the way to the ground. And so, I guess they started to get more clever

and then today, there's all kinds of deck innovations. We can talk about composite materials that the decks can be made out of, which require less wood because there's, you know, mixed in there with plastic,

although that introduces its own sort of. Well, but it's more resilient to the elements. It's more resilient. It's good for us because the bugs aren't going to chew through it and rain is not going to blast it off. In terms of it being like an ecologically like a better option, I think you're kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul. But it's, I mean, it's a good, solid deck.

We got one and it's, you know, it's not the norm. I think, what was the status off? 15% of decking material sold in the US today is composite or synthetic in some way. So, you know, we're moving into the future. Who knows what these bad boys are gonna be made out of come 2025, you know, holograms. You left yourself open a little bit that if you wanted to next week talk about

deck furniture, you still could. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to come to deck furniture now just to get enough sort of meat off of this particular bone. We have invested in a lot of poorly made, like terrible deck furniture until very recently we would go and we would just buy stuff and literally by the end of the summer it would be garbage it would be trash yeah we finally made the decision of like let's actually do something that will last more than one year because we like a deck yeah we like a deck we like being on a deck we like a deck we like a deck and there's some furniture in fact fact, most of the furniture that is on deck, you can't put anywhere else.

You can't put grill inside house as we've established already. You can't really put patio furniture inside house. You can't have big umbrella inside house. Oh, but the rug, the rug can go inside. Okay. But it's an outdoor rug, so it's going to be too scratchy on your feet. So nice try. Hammock, you probably don't have one of those in your house.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Stuff that lives on deck is deck stuff and that's what makes it its own little foreign country. The true enemy of decks are mosquitoes, which I hate more than anything in the world. Mosquitoes love our sun the most and turn him into just a big, big, lumpy man every time he crosses the threshold of a building. And they bite me up, too, and I don't enjoy them, but I still- Would you believe that I also get bit by mosquitoes?

Some people get bit more by mosquitoes. I get bit more than you do. Oh, you think so? I'm tastier. I have a better taste to bugs, to the discerning bug proboscis. Okay. Anyway, I don't care. i will still go out on deck i will have some sort of device that will scare away the mosquitoes if i can help it but yeah and

that speaks to how much i enjoy decks is that i'm willing to put up i'm willing to give of my body to be on them i'm willing to give of my blood and my humors to the elements just to be on decks. Decks are good. Haters, back off. You think there's a big anti-deck contingent out there? Probably. Probably. There's probably some people like, oh, I wanted him to talk about basements.

Basements are a pretty fucking choice, though. Basements are great. We just don't have them in Texas. We do not. Anyway, you know what we do have is some submissions from our friends at home. Ooh, good. Caroline says, it's finally summer here in Minnesota, so I wanted to tell you how much I love

summer rainstorms. The best type of summer rainstorm is the one that hits around 4 or 5 p.m. and breaks the heat after a long, hot, and humid day. It's always relaxing to listen to the rain after a long work day, and it always makes our non-air-conditioned house much cooler. We had one of them we had one today i don't know that it broke the humidity it was still like swampy as the devil's nuts out there oh that was disgusting griffin i expect more from you

you can try again yes it was shrek like out there and i didn't like it okay but it did cool off and i had the good rain smelling sound can't beat that julia says my small wonder for this week is laundry smell i just moved and i am living by myself for the first time my apartment is above the laundry room and always smells like fresh laundry it's such a safe comforting smell that is such a good situation i brought an air freshener for my car once that was like fresh laundry oh how was it a little cloying after a bit like all air fresheners in my car once that was like fresh laundry. Ooh, how was it? A little cloying after a bit? Like all air fresheners in cars? I mean, it's not the same, you know. Yeah. Have you ever thought about-

I do love that. Like that's the first thing when I get clothes out of the dryer, I just like stick my face right in there. Henry will, when you do his laundry and dump it out on the floor, he will just like dive into it and start rolling around in it. And I look at him, I'm like, God god i wish i was that size that i could just really envelop myself in laundry like that i wish i was just a little two and a half foot tall little weirdo god that'd be nice michelle says something i think is wonderful is starting a new compact of makeup the surface is smooth the sponge is unsullied it's the cosmetic equivalent of a new jar of peanut butter. Oh. Oh, yes. I mean, my only sort of, like, attachment to this was stage makeup.

The peanut butter? Oh, I thought you were going to say that. I thought you were going to, like, say, like. Oh, the peanut butter. Do you eat makeup? I forget which one that is. Yeah. Tell me about your stage makeup, Griffin.

I just would get excited when i got a new thing stage makeup and you know because it's about it's a whole just like just like uh just blocks of possibilities what can i do with my face whatever i want is stage makeup i found so i the one year in high school i decided to do crew on a play. And so I assigned myself to do makeup and like nobody wanted anyone else to do their makeup. Every single person was like, I'll do my own. Thanks. I did for like the eye components of it. Cause yuck. I don't want to touch that stuff. Oh, okay. I don't want to touch my eyeballs with a pencil that's are you kidding me that's what i see with and it's a pin and that's a that there that's a

pencil what are you doing that's also why you never did contacts right yeah you don't like those are my eyes i don't have skin on them all the time i do with the eyelids i guess technically is that but it's just like exposed jelly from myself. You know what I mean? It's like two little parts of my brain that you can touch if I'm not fast enough. Yeah. So like, no, I don't think I will have a pencil in there today.

Thank you very much. Are you sure you want to do it? A pencil, that's your eyeball. And a pencil has to be sharp in order to function and it's your eyeballs i just don't i don't get it yeah i don't know what to tell you i appreciate it you know like if that's do it you do you i'm not judging i just put a pencil in my eyeballs not for me i guess yeah i you know it is for me what our theme song money won't pay by bowen and augustus who are letting us use it for our show you can find a link to that in the

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that's nothing no that's nothing hey what if he was like good night and good ducks and then everybody's like you mean it's luck and then edward armor like stood up and he was like, good night and good ducks. And then everybody's like, you mean it's luck. And then Edward Armour stood up and he was holding two beautiful baby ducklings. And then he's like, now do you think I'm a communist? I have two very sweet ducks. And then maybe next week he has bucks and the male deer. Yeah. Good night and male deer. Yeah. Good night and good bucks.

Yeah. What other words rhyme with that? I could do this all night. Yeah, man. Me too. Working on it. Money won't pay. Working on it. Money won't pay. Working on it. Money won't pay.

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