Wonderful! - Wonderful! 96: Quad City Neurosurgeons

Episode Date: August 14, 2019

Rachel's favorite vestigial skin reflex! Griffin's favorite spice! Rachel's favorite animal couple! Griffin's favorite sibling vocal trio! Music: "Money Won't Pay" by bo en and Augustus - https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya MaxFunDrive ends on March 29, 2024! Support our show now by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Beep, beep, beep. It's like YARP in here. Those are the machines we're hooked up to. Checking our health, measuring our health, injecting us with new clean blood and all the stuff that they do in doctor houses, which is what I call hospitals. We both have these very nagging, low-level colds that just kind of cast a pallor over everything in our lives right now.

It's like a 16% cold. I just feel its ever-present grip on my shoulder. It's beating my butt. It's beating my butt. But I'm a weak boy man who is like a grandfather clock. And if I get one mouse stuck in the gears what what that's gruesome is that like was i thinking of hickory dickory dock and then i was thinking of like occam's razor the logical outcome for one of these poor poor mice jeez anyway this is we

mentioned that you've taken some medication oh Oh, I took some soda. Yeah. And so I'm feeling, you know, a little bit silly. But yeah, there's going to be a lot of ear, nose and throat noises in this episode. And you're just going to have to learn to live with that. And we're just going to get through it together. And this is how it works when you have a child in daycare. threw it together and this is how it works when you have a child in daycare sometimes you just uh you gotta ride the ride the train as they say in er and if you're a quad city dj if you're a quad city well they were all did you know this licensed neurosurgeons oh yeah of all the medical

professions that one's pretty prestigious well no because they know the folds of the brain so they know how to get an earworm in there and really drill it in so that it's literally the only song i can think of when i wake up in the morning for about 24 years now so you know it worked it's science quad city djs come on and slam and welcome to the jam. It's just science. Wait. Wait, did they do that? I don't know. I know they did come on, ride the train and ride it. I'm going to owe a lot of people a lot of apologies if Quad City DJs didn't. Yeah, they did the freaking Space Jam.

They did Space Jam and the train? Right? Neurosurgeons. Do you have any small wonders? I do. Oh, good. Simone Bile. Simone Bile.

Why do I know that? Oh, the gymnast. the gymnast that did the triple double yeah that was so fucking no is there a new triple double well i mean new as of this week i don't think i know what a triple double is it's a floor routine she did and you And you do three twists and two somersaults midair. It was so badass that as she was coming down, I noticed there was an additional mat they had put on the ground because I think it was incredibly dangerous. Oh, I see. And so in addition to the padded floor that comes with the floor routine, they put on a mat.

And then once she landed it they removed the mat oh okay i gotta check this out i gotta watch this apparently she's the first person or the first woman anyway to ever leave is she gonna get up in 2020 is she heading to uh to tokyo so she is 21 or 22 so yeah i assume so oh god i just got excited about the olympics again yeah been a bit incredible yeah what are your small wonders you can probably guess what it is is it white claw it's white claw it's so basic i feel guilty even talking about it i went to schlitterbahn over the weekend we went to may have seen the photo i breathed in some water and it gave me a sinus infection i went to uh yeah we talked about we went with a couple friends who

they were mentioning so our our friends have a teen daughter uh who was extolling the virtues of white claw to them at the teen party she goes to and we thought huh we've never had that and they happen to have it at slitter bond they did for like eight dollars a can yeah it was quite quite pricey. Only 100 calories. Only 100 calories. I mean, we don't need to advertise this very popular alcoholic beverage. But it was new to us.

Yeah, it's like a hard seltzer. It's like a La Croix, but with some booze in there. And I don't know. I just, I am not a, the only time I really enjoy drinking these days is when it's like a summertime outdoor treat, swimming in a pool, which they have swim up bars at Schlitterbahn. And like at the same time, like I can't drink anything sweet because like I can have one of those and it'll knock me out.

So like a Shandy, no. A cider, not really. And I don't like beer that much anymore. But this shit, woof, it was nice. So the reigning champion of summer potions has been bud light it's been bud light lime i would even kick that out because bud light lime i love you but you're really sugary and so it's been dethroned i think it's been dethroned i you know i la croix is like the thing it's what i am drinking now it's what i drink most of the time when we record because i

don't do soda or anything like that like i don't't like a lot of sugar and beer. I like as like a boutique thing. Like I'll go and have like one very nice beer somewhere, but not like 14 Miller Lights anymore. Exactly. So this was just like refreshing and, you know, you get a buzz on and you go down a water slide. It was nice. Yeah, I would say that.

And just Slytherin in general. They got some water slides there, folks. Oh, it's so fun. That water coaster is no joke you blast uphill on a water slide it is so wild and so fun we also decided that we may never bring our child because it is oh my god it's so scary also uh what's your first thing you go first this week my first thing is the uh dermatological phenomenon that uh is the dermatological phenomenon that is the goose bump. Huh.

And I phrased that very carefully. You did not carefully enough, did you? Yes, not. Did you? Got monster blood. I don't even know what you're singing right now. That's the theme song to the Goosebumps TV show. Oh, see, I never took in that particular product.

Very scary, very mature monster blood monster blood the one the scary camp one the camp one fucked me up do you remember the camp one i just told you i don't i didn't i didn't watch it no no the books you read the books though no no i did not oh my god i think i missed it i think it was coming up right when i was coming out the camp one was i'm gonna spoil the camp one but like all these spooky things happen at this camp and then at the very end of the book it's revealed that like everyone's aliens and it's like a training program for like the protagonist of the book to go to earth and test out all this stuff and it was the first book i had ever read with a twist ending and i was like books can do that thanks goosebumps but you're talking about uh goose flesh yeah

mostly because it serves no real purpose huh but its kind of origins were very much purposeful and i find that kind of fascinating so have you heard of this like concept of like vestigial vestigial limbs like unnecessary things well or like organs like you know how people a lot of times will have their um appendix removed yeah sure sure um so goosebumps are kind of like that so the idea is and you'll see it in a lot of animals you know how like when um cats or dogs like their fur raises up? Yeah, sure. Like their scruff raises up? That's the same-

That's what happens? Kind of chemical reaction happening in the body. Interesting. I never knew that. Yeah. So I guess the idea is that when we were much furrier organisms- Mm-hmm. Oh, speak for yourself.

That served the purpose of making you look bigger so when you would you know when you get goosebumps are usually like when you're cold or when you're frightened or when you're like particularly moved and i guess the idea was that your hair would raise up to kind of make you look bigger and tougher my poor skin my poor skin it's like you're in danger griffin you need to get out of here. This is me showing that. And I just don't even pay attention. I don't even give a shit. I don't heed its warnings. So this is considered, as I mentioned, a vestigial reflex.

And the muscles are known as the erector pili muscles. There's muscles. I guess there's got to be muscles. They're tiny muscles at the base of each hair. That's so cute. Isn't that cute? Cute little dots. Well, if you think about it, so when I was talking about cats and dogs, that's also porcupines

when they raise their quills. It's that same kind of muscle reaction. Ooh. Yeah. I like thinking about that. Me having quills. Cool. Some of the things that also can cause it are they talk a lot in the articles

i read about music that experience when you hear like a good piece of music oh interesting goosebumps that kind of like emotional reaction well that's the horny reflex i think it's tied to that well they talk about how the the pleasure is driven by dopamine right which produces physical effects it's really just the one kind of juice that you got in there for music, for cold, for horny. For horny. I mean, that was the jam, not to get too blue, but you know, when you're kissing and you feel those bumps on your partner, you know that you're doing a good job.

That feels nice, man. That's nice, feeling those bumps, and you're like, I'm doing it. I'm doing good kissing. You know what I mean? Yeah, I guess that's true. Listen, we could talk. Let's talk about necking and sex. Maybe sex positive here.

Something that was interesting. So they talk about goosebumps as being strongest on the forearms, but also on the legs, face or head. Face. Can you imagine face or head? Huh? Yeah. Apparently it's not as common, but you'll get him up there huh weird if like a must my mustache hairs poked outward there's also that'd be real great it would be cool it would point towards the danger where's my superpower

hero comic book there is a condition a skin condition that mimics this, and it's called keratosis pilaris. Okay. So you just kind of have like perma goosebumps. Oh, that must be, I was about to say that that must be nice, but I have no bearing on how nice or bad. No, I imagine it's terrible. Like imagine if you want to like shave. Oh yeah, I guess it would be tough. And you have to deal with that all the time.

I like the feeling of goosebumps, but I also think it's like not something you would want constantly for sure. I like the feeling of goosebumps, but I also think it's like not something you would want constantly for sure. So, yeah, I again, I like it's it's more I like what it is a symptom of, you know, of this like time period, you know, where like that served an actual function. Yeah. Now it's just kind of like, oh, it's chilly. we must have not been on top of our game though if we like had a you know a tiger charging us and we're like oh my hair's sticking up that must be dangerous i should probably go it was also it also there was like a suggestion that it would help um provide like an extra layer uh of like uh insulation wow so the idea was that the hair would raise up

and it would wick the moisture away from the skin. Whoa. So if you were like stranded on a frozen mountain after a plane crash, you can turn to the other survivor and be like, this is weird, but I need you to like blow near my ear. It's for living. It's for life survival.

Can I do my first thing yes rachel and i talked about keeping this one actually a little short which we talk about a lot and never follow through with but my first thing is cinnamon so i think we're gonna probably truck on through cinnamon's the good spice um i have never met anyone that loves cinnamon as much as you do here's the thing i everybody knows my proclivities for fruity candies it's probably it is my preferred sweet of choice you give me some sour patch kids some gummy bears some star bursts some skittles whatever like you know i'm down that's my jam not a big chocolate fan but like i'm not a big caramel fan so when i need a sweet that is like on that sort of end of the the more luscious end of the spectrum uh if you will and that's not a fruity candy cinnamon is where i get that itch scratched cinnamon is my is my

road dog for that i love it cinnamon rolls cinnamon french toast cinnamon toast crunch uh whatever it's just pound for pound it's probably my favorite flavor is. And I like watching teens try to eat it raw on the internet, even though I think it's actually pretty deadly. It's great. I like it in tea. Cinnamon based teas. My favorite kinds of teas. Did you ever when you were a kid do the like cinnamon sugar toast?

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a McDonald's play set. This is sad. I had a McDonald's play set where you would make French fries. And so i got that for like christmas or something and i was like fuck yeah mcdonald's french fries are you

at home whenever i want them buy all other food and what it was is you took a piece of white bread and you cut all the crusts off and then you put it in essentially what was a fisher price pasta like cutter uh where you like put it in the top of this machine you crank it through an extruder yeah and it would cut it into smaller strips and then it the finaling finalizing the recipe is you pour cinnamon and sugar all over them and i remember like that christmas morning like eating those and being like i mean it's cinnamon sugar bread but it's like wicked not french fries no not at all so i was lied. Anyway, I wasn't complaining because I still got that good cinnamon flavor. I love cinnamon. So anyway, I looked up some fun facts about this thing that I put in my body all the time.

The best thing that I learned today is that it's the bark of a tree. It's like the interior bark of a tree is what cinnamon is. You cut it. You cut the tree. You let the tree grow for like two years. The has berries in it which is fucked up i couldn't find anything about the cinnamon berries are they poisonous what's up with these how come nobody's told me about cinnamon berries the tree just called like the cinnamon tree i'm gonna tell you the name of the tree later because it's the best thing okay but you cut it down after it goes for two years and then

um and then you you like from the stump new shoots will grow and you just cut those down after it grows for two years, and then you, like, from the stump, new shoots will grow. And you just cut those down. You dry them out real quick, and you get the cinnamon out from inside of them. That's where cinnamon comes from. The genus of tree that it comes from is called cinnamomum. It's the cinnamomum. Which is so good. Can you spell the N part?

So is it spelled like? It's cinna. Cinna. Cinnamomum which is so good can you spell that n part so is it spelled like it's cinna cinna cinnamomum c-i-n-n-a-m-o-m-u-m it sounds like somebody just taking a run at the word cinnamon and just like hitting the hurdle with both knees at the same time and just eating shit right into the pavement or if like the biologist was working in his lab and his three-year-old came in and said what are you doing daddy it's like oh i need to name this tree and it was just like it sounds like jeffy from family circus trying to fucking say cinnamon it's so good give me that sweet root of the cinnamon tree i love it it's so good that's my favorite uh 2016 75 of the world's supply of cinnamon came from indonesia and china there's different like types of cinnamon tree uh bark stuff that you can get the most common

uh is is the stuff that comes from china which is called cassia. That's why it's the most common type of cinnamon. It's commonly called Chinese cinnamon. That is why. But there are like five countries in the world that grow like 99% of the cinnamon. And so the name is like essentially the same throughout ancient history. We call it cinnamon, but uh ancient greek and uh in hebrew i think it's called kinnam kinnaman uh so like they really haven't switched this one around very much uh it's it was imported to egypt as early as 2000 bc and it was this precious thing

like that you could gift to uh rulers or you could sacrifice to gods. So they knew what was up. They were just like one generation away from like having cinnamon toast crunch and being like, oh my God, let's give this to the Pharaoh. And they used it in the embalming process for mummies. Delicious, spicy mummies. Are you kidding me? Where's that breakfast cereal? That actually would, that would really work.

Cinnamomies. Oh my gosh, Griffin. TM, TM, TM, TM. TM, TM, TM, please don't take this. And yeah, I talked about the tree and it's great. I gotta know about these berries. It's an evergreen tree. It's always there for you.

It's always making cinnamon. Big part of Turkish and Persian cuisine. Some people use it medicinally and like that's probably you do you do you i'm not here to yuck your yum uh there is a certain uh there are studies about its toxicity when taken in large amounts so maybe read up on that before you eat it to you know increase your eyesight or something like that but otherwise small doses moderation cinnamon cinnamon what's your favorite cinnamon something something what's your favorite little cinnamon treat oh i mean

i mean the cinnamon roll is hard to beat extraordinary uh i like that cinnamon coffee that we have yeah the cinnamon tea we have is really good too. I've always liked cinnamon toast crunch. Uh-huh. I honestly, I can't think of a cinnamon thing I don't like. Hey, welcome to the revolution. It's the best fucking flavor. I like it like spiced nuts, like spiced pecans.

We got some of those from Bucky's with cinnamon all over them. Damn. Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Go out and buy a big heaping handful of cinnamon from your local cinnamon dealer. Just head on down. Tell them Griffin sent you. They're getting to chew.

Is cinnamon, now is it legal in all 50 states? It is medicinal in Wyoming. Do I need to go to my doctor to get a prescription? Yeah, just tell them that you need to taste a good flavor. And usually that's enough for you to get your your uh your card okay um but yeah um love this spice hey baby yeah can i make it spicy yes can i read you a personal message? Shit, yeah.

This message is for Jeremy. It is from Heather. My darling husband, Jeremy. What? I'm Heather right now. Oh, you started the message. Should I use my Heather voice? You know how jealous and confused I get.

My darling husband, Jeremy. Thank you for being my best friend, my rock, my heart. I love you more every day. The past few years have been tough, but we got this. Love your crazy wife, Heather. Ooh, that's a good love. It is hard to find people who are also rocks. People who can transform into a rock.

That is really handy when you want to keep a door open and it's windy out. When you want to keep a door open when somebody's having an uncomfortable conversation with you. Poof. Now you're talking to a rock. Get dunked on.

Here's a message for Sheen and it's from Jess who says, Sheen, I'm so lucky to be your lady. I don't know. I didn't know I could love someone the way I love you. Thank you for watching Drag Race with me

and for putting up with Bobastis, even though you're allergic to cats. I'm honored to be with someone so loving and creative who also happens

to have a perfect butt. Let's go on a writing date and make spicy pizza soon. Lots to crack into there in that one. We haven't focused on the perfect butt, right? I know you are. I know you're always focused on the perfect butt.

I want to go to buttrankings.com and see if that butt's up there. Well, it's tough, right? It's subjective. Everybody's favorite perfect butt is different. Like my idea of a perfect butt is just one big cheek. And you know that. Yeah. And you know that.

And that's why we work so well. And I'm not going to say anything about how Rachel has one big butt cheek. It is hard for me to wear pants. And do other stuff. Hello, I'm Lujan Safagari. And I play a bunch of characters on Mission to Zix, an improvised science fiction podcast on Maximum Fun. And this is our incredible sound designer, Shane.

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Oh, also there are five other cast members, and we'll give them just all a second to say hi. Uh, hello. Yeah, that's enough. Okay, so the season finale of Mission to Zix is coming out next week, so it's the perfect time to dive in and catch up with our intrepid crew as they explore the Zix Quadrant. So give us a listen to Mission to Zix on Maximum Fun. What's your second thing? My second thing is Skipper and Ping. What's that? Two penguins. Two penguins that are in love.

Oh, yeah. Buckle up, Griffin. Oh, yes. Buckle up. Yes. Zip, click. So I saw like a little news board about this. Yeah.

And I had to get more, I had to get deeper. And so I went to popular science and found all about two male penguins at the berlin zoo that are co-parenting an abandoned egg an abandoned penguin egg or is it another yes okay i'm just the only way it could get better is if it's like a velociraptor in there but go on zookeepers say that the 10 year old king penguins named skipper and ping are looking after the egg caretakers place the egg in their vicinity after watching them attempt to hatch stones and other odds and ends oh my god including apparently at least one dead fish less less good the stones were good the dead fish is sad in a way. Come on now, bubba. Come on now, bubba.

Daddy's are ready for you, bubba. We just had to put the egg in front of one of the males. He immediately knew what to do. This is the first time we have tried to have a same-sex penguin couple incubate an egg, said keeper Norbert Zammel. So good. I'm loving this shit. This happy feet shit. If the egg is actually fertilized, so that's kind of a bummer.

It may or may not contain a little penguin. Well, babe. Hey, babe. Apparently there's a group in the Berlin Zoo. There's a group of six king penguins and just one female and she has a habit of abandoning her eggs well

so i think they've just decided all right well her her that's her choice yeah no yeah i mean it is it's obviously disappointing for me is there any other way we can fertilize these things um well so hatching a penguin egg is a big commitment. Oh, no kidding. And they typically need two willing partners because the eggs must be kept warm for around 55 days. And so they need two parents so they can have one that takes turn guarding the egg and the other go out and find food. And they can dance and sing. With happy feet? Happy feet. Did you watch Happy Feet?

A little bit of it, yeah. Did you watch Happy Feet? A little bit of it, yeah. Did you watch Happy Feet? I don't think I ever watched the whole thing. Everybody sings, but he danced with his happy feet. Did you watch March of the Penguins? A little bit. A lot of penguin death in that one. Wouldn't advise it.

I turned it on to watch it with Henry, and it was like, this one dropped his egg, so he's just going to sort of stand here until he dies. And I'm like, well, is happy feet he does dancing because he can't sing good look at him look at happy feet don't look at march of the penguins uh the first recorded incident of penguin homosexuality was in 1911 huh there was a strange choice of words recorded incident they didn't know about any previous history until this recorded incident uh antarctic explorer wrote it down in greek to dissuade casual readers and omitted the behavior so he was he was shocked by it i mean it so this was just like out out out

and about well he was in antarctica just killing just looking around taking notes so good uh scientists only recently rediscovered these findings in 2012 so for almost 100 years i guess over 100 years these these notes about the penguins just remained unread i mean i guess i shouldn't be so blown away by by gay animals right like and i'm not I understand that that is a thing. But it's penguins, man. It's the penguins. It's the penguin part of it that really, really pops it off for me. I know. So this is the thing. So I didn't realize how many instances of penguin couples there are throughout zoo history. Because everybody talks about how penguins are monogamous, but they don't really like mate for life.

They just tend to stay with one partner during the entire mating period. I mean, if you find somebody who won't drop an egg after holding it for 50 days, you need to lock that shit down. The other famous pair of mated male penguins is Roy and Silo, who are in New York City. They were also given an egg in need um and the couple resulted in the hatching of a healthy little girl named tango oh tango uh unfortunately roy and silo don't don't they broke up they broke up okay that's their choice too i guess they broke up after six years that's run though. Which is a good run for a penguin. Yeah.

At, oh, here's another thing. At Ireland Dingle Ocean World Aquarium. Sorry. Let me read that again. Please. At Ireland's Dingle Ocean World Aquarium. Dingle. This is, oh, so good.

This is an article from May 2019. So this is also very recent. Oh shit. Okay. The majority of the penguins are gay with eight of the 14 penguins coupled with a partner of the same sex. That's really good stuff, and it also explains that one episode of Parks and Rec a lot. Uh-huh.

I think penguins are maybe one of the best animals. They're so good. They're really good. Where do they get off? Where do they get off? Where do they get off? What are you doing with those wings? I just love the idea of these penguins going around trying to hatch rocks

because they want so badly to foster a little penguin. To start a little family. I know. How great. How great is that? We're projecting a lot of human emotions onto these fish birds, but I love them. Can I do my second thing?

Yes. So I want to talk about a musical artist uh an album by that artist and full disclosure i have talked about them before weirdly in the segment where i talked about uh the spotify discovery playlist stuff where i also talked about snail mail that's where i found snail mail before you did a segment and i became like deeply deeply obsessed with that so this is all very full circle another band i talked about uh is a trio of sisters who are vocalists called the roaches r-o-c-h-e-s uh and i want to talk about their first self-titled album, The Roaches. When I first talked about them, I didn't really know anything about them.

I knew one song that had appeared on my Discover playlist that was called Hammond's Song, and this was a while ago, so I'll play a little bit of that song to get you all refreshed. Where is on down the line? How far away? Tell me I'm okay. I'm okay. what is the time period for this group so the the roaches kind of came up uh in the like 70s they technically formed in 1973 it's three sisters two of them used to uh play in a band together uh that was sort of not critically well received and the third sister joined in uh they did some work with like paul simon but this was part of

like this uh post like the next generation of like folk artists after like joni mitchell and bob dylan uh and really this album the roaches is like the only album that kind of sounds like this because then you start getting into like they went electronic very much like pretty much right after funny um and the rest of the music is like the rest of their albums are are interesting and good but like this album it i know it's strange to talk about them again but since i did that bit uh about the discover playlist stuff uh i have just been so, so in love with this album and I listened to it so much that it reached the point where it had gotten kind of weird

that I had never talked about them on the show before. So it's three sisters, Maggie, Terry, and Suzy Roach. And they formed this trio in 1973 and made albums. Are you sure that's not Suzy? It's Suzy, I trust on this. Yeah yeah it's s-u-z-z-y i know uh i'll tell you why i know how the name is pronounced here in a second uh and they they like made music and did live shows and stuff up through 2017 which is uh that's sadly when maggie who is the eldest sister uh passed away um and their sound like

changed a lot over over that time but they really gained traction with this first album uh they came up in what was called the new york folk scene in the 70s uh and yeah i think it was just sort of after the the the roar in 60s when folk music like really really really took the fuck off and then it was like well okay what's what's next what's the next big thing and a lot of different people like tried to define what that was uh this album man the what's the name of the album again the roaches it's just their name which doesn't have an a in it it's not the bug uh they're so fucking funny like they are really really funny they have a lot of like stage performances that are like on youtube because like they were around during the era where recorded

video of concerts was possible uh and they're just so like casually funny they have that like they got that blood harmony comedy that is like the thing i covet they also have just straight up blood harmony because all of their music has these just beautiful soaring weird harmonies uh to it and it has like you and your brother just no hopefully uh but their songs have that that humor in it too just like that super wry folk music humor that like satire that is just laced through them. So the opening track is called We, and it's just a song where they introduce themselves. And it opens with, We are Maggie and Terry and Suzy. Maggie and Terry and Suzy Roach. We don't give out our ages, and we don't give out our phone numbers. Give out our phone numbers. Sometimes our voices give it

out, but not our ages and phone numbers. And then they just go on to talk about like how they're now they they were born in New Jersey, but now we live in New York City. But we have to get out of here before the shit hits the fan. But anyway, yeah. Who have we worked with that's famous? Let's figure it like this is all in the opening track of the song, like introducing themselves. There's a song called Dear Mr. Selak, where one of them sings like begs her old boss for her job back after the music recording industry implodes. And during their stage performances, like their banter is just like so, so good. But also on this album, like sandwiched between those funny songs are like these beautiful and

oftentimes like kind of sad, poignant, just incredible songs that just live alongside the goofier ones. So I want to play a couple of tracks off the album. One of my favorite songs is called Runs in the Family. And it's got those like great harmonies. And most of the album is just acoustic, like just usually just a guitar accompanying them. And instead of being like satirical, it's this observational song about how sometimes folks fall into uh patterns established

by earlier generations of your family uh which in turn like makes you follow those patterns and the future generations after you follow them too so like the thing they point out is and they're in in their family in their family or at least in the family like that is described in the song like getting married young due to an unplanned pregnancy is like a thing that sort of instills that that that idea in the next generation and at that point like do you even have a choice in the matter i guess a heady ass topic to go up right after a song about how everybody on this train is so sweaty like that's pretty much where it lies. So here's a little bit of Runs in the Family. I can't get over

what I saw. I can't change the law of averages. I'm going down. My uncle did it. My daddy did it. I'm beginning to think that it runs in the family.

My favorite song on the album comes on right after that. It's like the next to last song. And it's called Quitting Time. I love it so much. I listen to it all the time uh it's got those really beautiful like it's so good quality of their voices is so perfect the quality of their voices is perfect but the imagery of it is so so incredible it's such a poignant song and i don't actually know what it means like i i i read it as kind of a satirical like eulogy

for a retiring business person who's having trouble adjusting to not working anymore and entering that chapter of their life. But reading online, there's people who see it as this jubilant ballad of somebody leaving this job they didn't like behind to chase their passions. I found a review from the New York Times back in 1975, which is, I think, when this album came out, that talked about it being about like a workplace affair. And I was like, damn, New York Times from 1975. I didn't read it that way at all.

But it's got this imagery describing like this, you know, this industrial business skyline in the sunset and leaving that behind. And the chorus is so amazing. It goes, you can go south in winter, be what you are, a goose. You can live near the ocean, your clothes can fit you loose.

It's so fucking great. So here is a little bit of Quitting Time. You can go south in winter, be what you are, So yeah, I know I've talked about them before, but it's one of those things where just like, I think this album is so special. I like hunted it down on vinyl as quickly as I possibly could, which I really only do with albums that I think are really amazing. And it is wild to me that like, I did not, and I this way uh about judy sill as well like why i never heard

about them like why i why their names aren't you know written in the stars alongside uh bob dylan and joni mitchell i think one of them married uh loudon wainwright the third and they had a daughter who is making music now uh or was in the in the 2000s like there's this there's a big family legacy there and i mean this is just my shit it's three siblings just like doing something that they love and uh the stuff that they made out of that is just so incredible it's like mark's brothers mark's brothers a while ago i guess there were more than three though weren't there super mario brothers yeah counting mario but not waluigi get that shit out of here he's a he's a nephew at best i want to thank bowen and augustus for these for our theme song it's talking about good freaking songs that's a very good money won't pay you can

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