Wonderful! - Wonderful! Ep. 20: Energy!!

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

Rachel's favorite way to chill out! Griffin's favorite kind of creature comfort! Rachel's favorite relationship dynamic! Griffin's favorite jams found in unexpected places! 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.

🎵 Deep breath. Prayer circle. Back rubs. Okay, give me your hands. big smiles and you sure about the prayer circle hi this is rachel mcelroy hi this is griffin mcelroy and this is wonderful so disappointed about the prayer circle you know my process we do smiles i don't know what prayer circle means we've done it before every episode so i don't know why you're being like playing coy or something like trying to

pretend you're too cool yes and i love it yeah you know we do we do smiles and that reminds you that you gotta be you know they can hear the shape shape of your mouth whenever you're doing the podcast and they need you to be happy because you shouldn't be sad. And then we do prayer circle and back rubs. Back rubs are optional. It's just if you're feeling it. And then energy. And then we get going. Do you not like the pre-show process?

It sounds like you maybe want to change up the pre-show process. I feel like it's more for you than for me. I mean's for the audience i fucking despise it okay yeah i hate doing it um but the audience seems to like love what comes out of it which is to say smiles and prayers and energy and back rubs sometimes so if you want to change it up and you just want to go and sort of raw dog like i'm all we can give it a run i guess next week and people will tell if the energy is different and the smiles are different prayers are different i'm worried well it's something to think about you know i'm i'm worried now that i'm going to be thinking about it this whole time we're doing this episode worried about the lack

of prayers and energy but raw dog i really i don't like the use i don't like i don't like the idea of it either babe no the the use specifically of not praying and doing our energy yeah i agree but something's gotta give i guess first big creative difference here on wonderful that's difficult. How are we going to work through this one? Do you want to get started doing the show that we usually do? Actually, it's your turn to go first. So, booyah.

Moon is very bright outside today, by the way. Do you know about the super blue blood moon? I heard about it. Once in 150 years, we get the supermoon, Blue Moon, and Blood Moon all at the same time. Last time it happened was 150 years ago. That's a long time. What do you think that does for werewolves? I imagine it's kind of like Halloween for most monsters. Okay.

And that they just kind of like, hey, let's take it easy. People expect us to be out. Let's not make a big deal out of it. My transformation this time is wild. My legs are huge and powerful. My legs got twice as long, and that doesn't make any sense. That's the only part?

Yeah, the rest of me is just normal werewolf parts, but I caught the big moon mostly in my leg meat, and so I'm twice as big there, so can we not hunt tonight? Can we just stay in and get some rallies? Anyway, what's your first thing? Or checkers, depending on where you're from. Yeah, well, I mean, all werewolves live in sort of the Midwest, where I think it's mostly a rallies operation.

So what is the first thing? I just talked about fast food for a while. So it's going to be about something smart, like poetry. No, actually. Oh, cool. I feel like I needed to take a week off. I love the poetry chats. I know.

I think there's a lot of opportunity there for just doing a whole thing all on poetry. Yeah. But I'm multidimensional. You sure are. I mean, you're just constantly just saying poems apropos of nothing. Like we were, you know, just eating some peteris and you'd be like, the rain in Spain. That's all you got. Falls. That's the only.

Oh, man. I can think of other ones. That hurts my heart. Most of my are like dirty bathroom stall poems. So what's the first thing? This is going to start out sounding simple, but we'll get somewhere with it, I think. I like that.

My first thing is breathing. Yeah, I mean, I do like that. If I hated it, I would be dead, I think. So, yes, that's true. It's weird breathing. It's weird that we have to eat wind in order to go. If you really think about it, the food stuff I get, I eat the food and I turn it into energy in my belly.

My belly is just my engine. It turns it into power that makes the rest of my body get going. Breathing is just eating wind to live and go and stuff. And I don't really understand once it gets in you how it like actually helps. Well, I mean, that's another show, I think. That's true. What I am interested in talking about is breathing is kind of a therapeutic approach to anxiety and stress. Yes. I notice, so we've been watching some Sesame Street. And when I say some, I mean a lot of Sesame Street.

An unbelievable amount of Sesame Street. More than you would think existed. And I've noticed with Sesame Street, in the more recent episodes, they're now giving kids tools to deal with, you know, anger. And they talk a lot about belly breathing. Okay. I have not seen these episodes. They talk to the kids about, like, how to belly breathe through your frustration. You know who could do some belly breathing?

Cookie Monster. I don't care what anybody says about him. He has no impulse control and he's he's fucking dangerous recently they've been they're trying to put a nice face on because he eats celery sometimes but my we send out henry on halloween in a cookie costume we may never see that kid again i'm just saying that all it takes is one all it takes is one. All it takes is one. One kid? One cookie kid. And that's the ballgame. So here's what I have to say about breathing.

So there's a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that breathing can help with issues in the heart, the brain, digestion, and the immune system. system. So studies show that people who practice breathing exercises that have conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure, they can benefit from breathing. So here's kind of where I'm coming from. The best example i can give you is that when my baby our baby some would say our baby but we all know where the loyalty lies there yeah uh when he starts crying my pulse immediately starts racing yeah like my energy gets really high or if i wake up in the middle of the night like i start getting anxious is that like a is that a mental thing or is that like a primordial like Jeanette response thing? Yeah, it's partially hormonal. But the thing I've noticed is that if I do a lot of deep breathing, it kind of helps me calm down.

I feel like I didn't become cognizant of this until like this past year when things got pretty anxious. this past year when things got pretty anxious and I realized like when I thought about it, like I will go most of the day, just kind of like not really doing it. Exactly. Uh, so let me, let me tell you a little bit.

I did some research, um, on the Mayo clinic and also, uh, NBR NPR did a story on this back in 2012. Um, so there is a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. I've heard of them.

When you are stressed, you are developing all of these chemicals and hormones. And if they hang around too long, if your stress level stays high, it can impair the immune system. And eventually those stress hormones make the adrenal glands release another hormone called cortisol. Cortisol, which is the drug form of... You put it on your bug bites and it makes you feel bad. Actually, yeah. So you're familiar with cortisone, which is the drug form of cortisol, but it's the most

powerful anti-inflammatory drug. Oh, wow. So that was, I was being a dipshit but it was no it's real all right you know the science guy that's me so when you're stressed uh and that uh cortisol increases it's like giving yourself multiple shots of that anti-inflammatory hormone and so it turns down your immune system ability to fight infection wow Wow. I mean, I knew that being like chronically stressed out was bad for you physiologically speaking. I just think about like all the times where you would have to travel for work or for live shows and then you would come back and immediately get sick. Yeah.

I feel like. There's something there. There's something. Maybe I need to work on my travel breathing. So research has shown that breathing exercises can have immediate effects by altering the pH of the blood or changing blood pressure. Jesus. But most importantly, it can be a way to train your body to react to stressful situations

and dampen the production of stress hormones. to react to stressful situations and dampen the production of stress hormones. So this Mayo Clinic study said that more than just the immune system, deep breathing helps balance the autonomic nervous system, which regulates involuntary bodily functions, such as temperature control and bladder function. Okay, then there's a lot going on there that explains a lot of stuff about my life and how it all sort of how the pieces connect or fail to connect. Yeah, I actually saw an article about why does your husband pee every 30 minutes?

It's because he's never breathing. Yeah, so there's all sorts of good research about there i won't i won't go too deep into it um but as i was researching this i was like very consciously while you were talking i was i was trying to do something i mean it does feel good it does well because you do you breathe so shallowly all the time like i think about that every time i take a deep breath i realize like i don't know when the last time I did this was. Yeah. Why don't we start putting a segment in the show where it's just like, now let's just take a break and just do some breathing. And I can play that.

Got a Machine Head song. Breathe in. Breathe out. I can play that underneath it, but like a gentle version of it. And it's just like, breathe in. version of it and it's just like breathing so when they when they say belly breathing what they're talking about is if you were to lay down and put your hand on your stomach you breathe in so deep that your stomach expands and then you let it fill up and then you release it i mean we just say a bunch of peter it's just not much more space that can go and i know you asked me not to

talk about the fact that we always eat hamburgers. Rachel and I don't eat hamburgers every day, just every day before we record this podcast. Hamburgers are good. And that's my first thing. Last week was fries. I'm doing a whole themed month here in January. No, that really was a good one. Yeah, I just, I think, so there are all these things that you can do to kind of practice self-care.

And a lot of them are things like yoga and mindfulness and exercise. And those are hard to kind of keep up when your life gets busy. But breathing, you have to keep up. You have to eat this wind. Do it anywhere. You'll die. Anytime. Do you want to hear my first thing? Yes.

It's sweating. You'll die. Anytime. Do you want to hear my first thing? Yes. It's sweating. It's awesome. It's why I'm all wet. All I was doing is pushups. The body is such a wonderful little mystery. It's an enigma. There's so much stuff coming and going. Breath, food, the other stuff that food turns into.

Sweat. And where does this sweat even come from? Like, no, I'm not making fun of you. I'm genuinely marveled at the incredible sort of transit system that is my incredible body. What is your thing, Griffin?

It's a little abstract. Okay. But we like that here sometimes okay energy it's opening a new container of something oh so like i did warn you it would be abstract like one of my favorite feelings is like knowing that like i'm good on some, like having some sense of stability or this is really difficult to describe. And this was a mistake to choose this. I feel like I suffer from anxiety and I don't deal with it through breathing. I deal with it through having like little footholds in these like parts of my daily life that I know are good, that I know I'm good

here. And I get this like sometimes like if I get my oil changed or I get my like car registration renewed, I'm like, I'm good on that for a little while. Are you agreeing with me? No, I am super related to this because for me, there is no better feeling than right after we get back and unload all the groceries yeah that's a big one too uh getting gas like is something that one's not as big for me because you know you have to do it and all the time but um but it exists for me in like a lot of smaller ways every day uh And I'm specifically thinking of when I open a new container or something to wit a couple of days ago,

open up this box of tissues. And I was like, nice. I'm good on tissues for a bit. I'm good on tissues for a while. I think it's especially poignant if it's something you can and have and might run out of. And if it does and you need it.

Oh, no. This is the whole genius behind Costco, right? That is literally my next note is that like when you open a big container of something, it's like I'm good for even longer. Those big containers of olive oil and peanut butter are like my favorite things. They're very good. But or you can buy one of just like last time we were there, I bought a bunch of fruit leather. And I was like, I almost never want to eat fruit leather.

But now when I do, any point in the next 25 years. This doesn't work like that, unfortunately. Fruit leather is probably all right. It literally has fucking leather in the name. Like it doesn't really have anywhere to go. Did you feel that way when you bought like a hundred things of string cheese? Now, unfortunately, the string cheese expires. What day is it?

It expires in two days and we still have about 40 sticks of string cheese. So I want to warn you come February 2nd, I will be the most constipated any human being has ever been. Because I look at those sticks of cheese. It's not 40. It's like 15. And I'm going to do some do some work tomorrow i'm gonna figure out some things you see those facebook videos of those restaurants now where they just like melt a fuck ton of cheese and then just like scrape it onto a steak and it's like um it's gonna be like that i'm gonna do that to like my

uh you know raisin bran or something anyway. So, yeah, tissues. Ketchup. Really, any condiment. Condiments are big for this. Because condiments are one thing where it's just like, if we're out of ketchup, I mean, you know how I feel about ketchup. And what I need it for. And we don't say it.

By the way, the fry discourse in our fucking Facebook group got so buck wild. We had a definitive fry poll rating all fries all around the country. McDonald's got up there. Yeah, like thousands of people voted. Yeah. But like, yeah, condiments. It's like you run out. But then you open up a new bottle of mustard and it's like. Here's what I'm going to ask you now.

Yeah. This is a show that I used to enjoy watching that I don't think Griffin liked. The Coupon. Yes. Does this help you understand the madness behind Coupon extreme couponing? It's Coupon Extremes. And these extreme athletes is what they are. And they use their coupons to get a billion bottles of Pepto-Bismol for free.

And they fill their whole basement. They have billion bottles of and they fill like their whole basement they have shelves of things i think it's not i get part of it but i also like i wrote i bump up against like one time i saw somebody do it for like 600 rolls of toilet paper and they paid nothing they paid zero dollars for it and i saw that and i was like your cause is beautiful and your your strength is inspiring and your heart is so strong because yeah like that would be incredible you're gonna need that i get your i guarantee you um but then i see somebody do it for like i got 3 000 bananas and it's like yeah no it's usually like stuff that will keep it's usually like stuff that we'll keep. But it's like stuff that you're not going to need 3,000 of.

Like I got 3,000, you know, dry containers of powdered Gatorade. And it's like, well, unless you own a Little League football team, which I don't even think you can own a little league football team like you probably don't need 3 000 containers of powdered gatorade um but like i just i know this is such a petty it's a very commercial thing and i really think like if i want to like dive down deep into it i think it is a like need for control in response to like feeling at the whims of of my own anxiety so that if i get a new big bottle of shampoo and just know that like i'm set for shower time for a little bit yeah is a genuinely like nice feeling that like i kind of take pause every single day whenever i i get something like this and um do you feel like this intensified after we had a baby yeah yeah do you think that

my need for control increased or decreased um no i the thing that i am recognizing in myself is there are so many things that come up that take time and energy, you know, just from my day. And to know that I don't have to buy Kleenex for the next few months, that's one less thing. Or worse, that you will get sick and Henry is sick and we need Kleenex and don't have them. It's like, oh no. I feel, I always, I just really like this feeling. And for even smaller stuff too,

like when I wake up in the morning and I have like a little wireless charger for my phone and I pick up my phone and it's at like 100%, I feel like this small part of me that is like a old timey pioneer who just finished loading up their wagon for a trail for a hike across the Oregon Trail. Like, yes, I'm ready for whatever the day is.

It's so funny because you don't really leave the house, so you're never far away from a charger. No, but I pump that frickin phone. Always playing Flappy Bird. Just going adding things to calendars and removing them. bird just going adding things to calendars and removing them anyway uh hey can i steal you right away you know what that last thing sounded like what it sounded like passing wind is that what it sounds like it sounded kind of exactly before you've never heard passing wind no i don't even know what it sounds like okay well does it sound like a trumpet have you heard a trumpet you heard a trumpet before very tiny trumpet is it possible that somebody once passed wind close to you and then you said, what was that? And then they said, it was a trumpet. I'm, I am Louis Armstrong.

I'm playing a very a real person here. Skye, you are a truly wonderful partner. I love your enthusiasm over the things you love, like Skyward Sword, Angus MacDonald, and how you refuse to move when a cat is on you, saying it's illegal to move them. We've gotten in that situation before. Yeah, Johnny Law came kicked in the door. He was with the little whiskers and he had a little hat on over his ears. Sorry, it was a cat cop?

Yes, it was a cat cop. Wasn't that great? Yeah, he's got a cool car, like a Power Wheels. Yeah, and his tail swishes in his little uniform. Oh, what if he came around on cat bus? That'd be kind of weird, though, because he'd be a cat inside of a cat. Yeah, I guess if I ever drove around in like, you know, a human Volvo.

A griffin-shaped vehicle. I would actually be into that. Anyway, I was in the middle of the commercial again. Thank you for being the dragonborn bard to my halfling rogue. Also, I need Griffin to say this next part. Skye, you are handsomely beautiful. This is a wonderful sentiment. A wonderful message.

I don't know who... Do you know Angus MacDonald? No, I can't even play like that. Oh, come on, Griffin. They'll come get me. I can't even play like that. Do you want to read this other Jumbotron? Yes.

This message is for Will and Dylan. Two people? Yes. Not one person named, what's up, kids? I'm Will and Dylan. No. Will and Dylan. I'm so glad that they brought it back, NBC, for the revival.

I'm hearing a lot of good stuff about will and dylan yeah it's uh it's like will and grace but it bob dylan yeah it's the other half just like uh kind of weird can somebody will you left out the orange juice well the orange juice is full of bugs Boom! Boom! Will, where are my strawberry pop tarts? All these are very low-stakes episodes of Will and Grace. It's mostly about breakfast foods being ruined because of Will's carelessness.

Uh-oh, here comes the other characters on the show. We've lost it. We never had it. It's hard to lose something you couldn't find in the first place. Okay, we're doing it again. The message is for Will and Dylan.

It is from Sarah. Hey boys, I just want to say thank you for being such wonderful friends and taking my suggestions when I tell you to listen to cool podcasts. Will, thanks for hanging out

no matter how far away we are. And Dylan, keep being a good meme boy. I thought I recognized the name Dylan. And then when Sarah called him out for being a meme boy, I realized why it was. He's the peanut butter baby. Yeah. What a cutie. Yeah, Dylan,

great job on the peanut butter baby stuff. And I hope that you got some sort of merch opportunities out of that that changes our will and dylan tv show significantly yeah so it's bob dylan and the peanut butter baby actually no it'd be that's it is bob dylan but he's playing a cgi peanut butter baby it's willie nelson yes butter baby and he can just be like has anybody seen my weed pipe that's good it's dead on Just be like, has anybody seen my weed pipe? That's good.

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or wherever you find your podcasts. Uh, what's your second thing though? Okay, now this is gonna this might make you a little uncomfortable. So I'm gonna keep it kind of unsentimental. Okay. I always act like sentiment.

Yeah, you act like you're about to come over here and stab me in the head with a knife when you lead into stuff like this. What I think is wonderful is when your partner creates original content that you can consume when they are not around. Yeah, nice nice so if we talk about this in the abstract i won't get uncomfortable so you can just be like boy you know dax and kristin um dax must be like so excited he watches the good place at home he watches the good place and he's like and by the way we are the dax and kristin podcast You're Dax and I'm Kristen. And, you know, he's like. You do have a wonderful singing voice.

Thank you. And you have a wonderful job without a paddle. Daxing. Yeah, you did good in that. And, no, I love Dax Shepard. Let me finish my thing, though. Yeah. So here's what's cool.

When you make something original or creative, it's a very kind of intimate, vulnerable thing. And it's something I realized since Griffin and I have been together that I feel like I know him in a way that a lot of partners don't get to know their spouse. And that was true before we even dated. Like we met and then I went back to Chicago for a few months. And I listened to them there. Yeah. And so like when Griffin moved here, I'd listened to a lot of his shows.

And so I, it wasn't like I was researching a role per se. Yeah. And a bit of a power sort of balance difference there because you did not have a podcast that I could listen to and know, know your, know your heart. But yeah, so I'm not going to buzz market Griffin's work or anything.

If you could, actually. This show's been doing pretty bad lately, and this one's got a lot of heat. So we can just let it go. But I listen to, I would say, 90% of Griffin's podcasts. And I watch almost all of his videos. And it's a cool thing while I'm at work or I'm out and about. I don't ever do it in front of Griffin because that'd be kind of weird. But it kind of keeps me connected to him and what he's doing.

And it makes me real proud. And it's kind of a cool thing that I recognize a lot of people don't get. It legitimately means the world i i do feel like i get very uncomfortable and it's not coming from a place of like i don't know it's not coming from like a a disdainful place but one of just extreme like i value your opinion higher by a factor of a billion than anybody else living or dead. And so I remember the big one for me is when the TV show was done and we sat down and watched all the episodes of the TV show together for the first time and I was scared shitless. But yeah, I mean, it means the world to me that you do that

and you're so constantly supportive. Well, I recognize that i am not an easy laugh by any means i love that though um luckily uh i would say the majority of what griffin does i find funny majority is very very gracious of you i'm saying like 58 yeah it's not overwhelming. Yeah, I feel like there's like a, I make a lot of stuff online, and because it's like my full time job, right? Which is not true for you, like your stuff, like, I think you are a genius, genius grant writer. And I try to tell people that whenever the subject comes up. grant writer and i try to tell people that whenever the subject comes up um and but but that's not like something i can go online and be like oh dope she's gonna secure the fuck out of that funding um but i'm like so glad that we started doing this as long as we're getting sentimental started doing this show because i think like you're the funniest like smartest person that i know and it's very very cool to me that like, Thank you. I've always respected, I mean, ever since I was a kid, I always really enjoyed

performers, you know? Rachel was listening to podcasts when she was like five years old. No, I mean, like, like my friends that did theater or music and were really good at it. I used to love to go and watch them do it because I am, I am not as much of a performer. I mean, I'm comfortable speaking publicly, but I, I would prefer not to, um, create something and then have to display it in front of a bunch of people. So I really respect that. Uh, and it's even better when the person does a great job, uh, which is, which is nice. Thank you. So, yeah, I wanted to talk about that, but I didn't want to make you feel weird.

No, I mean a little, but it's good. It's a good weird. Okay. It's like a good weird feeling. It's like that time that we were in that pool where the fish came around and bit our feet for cleaning. Oh, yeah. It was weird, but it was like,

give me another hour of this fish cleaning my foot. It was when we went to Japan. It was on our honeymoon in Japan. Yeah, at a hot spring water park. It was the best. I should do that. Anyway. Anyway, do you want to know my second thing?

Yes. These are baby toys with legit jams on them. I'm talking about my boy. I'm talking about my best friend, DJ Fisher Price. Let me explain to you, and please don't tune out. I know. If you don't have kids, I know. Are you going to play some of them for us? Oh, God, yeah.

I'm going to play some of these fucking bops. There are a lot of baby toys that have flashing lights and music in them. I think it's like the most prevalent sort of genre of baby toys right now. Here is the trick. The thing is, most of the songs are quite bad. And I get it. It's for babies. I understand that.

But I get nothing out of a toy that's just like, I'm going to flash a big red and yellow light in your face, and I'm going to play a little nursery rhyme. Yeah, play like she'll be coming around the mountain really loud. Yeah. And again, most of these toys, very limited volume options. I wanted to talk about this because if I'm being completely real, I have listened to baby toy music more than any other song in my life. Are you going to play the aquarium jam? Don't give it away. But that's exactly what I brought. Okay, good.

So like we have a bunch of different stuff. And there's like Rachel said, like there's a we have like a little barn play set. And it's just a lot of Far in the dell like garbo there's a lot of toys that have like classical music in it and that's all right like the the little einstein's thing that we have and it's literally just a button you press and then it just deploys like a sensory blast directly into the baby's brain of just like red green and yellow lights just like flashing at you while chopin plays and that's okay i can get into that because i'm learning about like chopin and how to pronounce his name um but mostly you get this these busted fucking nursery rhymes which are terrible a lot of it though the stuff that's not like nursery rhymes or classic music is like really lazy uh we have the cube and the cube uh the cube

which uh i forget what show it was on where i think it was conan where ellie kemper came on and brought the cube and she was talking about her kids a cat in the square and there's this cube and it has four animal buttons on it there's like a square with a cat on it and a dog with a star with a dog on it you press it and it sings the laziest song i've ever heard um the the dog in the star barks and runs far the dog in the star it's like wow guys you and the grammy goes to the bird in the circle sings a song that's wonderful. Tweet, tweet, tweet. The bird in the circle. So it's like you literally copied and pasted the dog and the star and the cat and the square song.

Anyway, most of this music sucks. No thanks. But sometimes when DJ Fisher Price gets on the ones and twos. You get a song with a bop. You get a toy with a legitimate bop on it. And that is extremely exciting to me when we've discovered these toys. You mentioned the aquarium toy earlier. We have a little fish tank brought to you by Fisher Price. Thank you, Fisher and Price.

And it's got a little fish in it. You don't put water in it. It has five little little fish in it. You don't put water in it. You just like, it has like five little fishy toys in it. Henry's at the stage where he likes to put things in containers and take them out. And so when we saw this toy on the shelf, we thought, Oh great.

It's something he can put in a container and take it out. We didn't realize the music was incredible. The music was very good. There's a bunch of songs on it, right? There's a, the number counting song, the ABC song.

Those are pretty good. There's take a fishy and put a fishy are pretty good uh there's take a fishy and put a fishy out or put a fishy and take a fishy out put a fishy in to swim all about wiggle wiggle wiggle splash splash splash swim little fishy swim great nice length very evocative sort of imagery there but sometimes when you wiggle this toy and that is how you activate it which is so joyce uh it plays a song called underwater rainbow and i'd like to play you that song right now all the colors all the colors yeah sparkle like a rainbow rainbow underwater rainbow red red orange, yellow, green, blue. Purple, purple, purple, purple in a rainbow. Light show bright shining colors like a rainbow.

Sparkle like a rainbow, rainbow. Underwater rainbow. It is the most beautiful and most pure song. There's also a little light in the toy, like in the tank part of it that flashes. And whenever it says a color, it flashes that color. And when it says rainbow, it flashes all the colors. I will say the song does say purple a lot. That is the greatest line in songwriting history.

The line, somebody, I'm getting emotional. Somebody wrote this song. Somebody sat down and wrote the music for it. And the music's incredible. The music is so good and if you don't think it is i would challenge you to go to a fucking baby's r us and start pressing buttons and then go find the underwater rainbow toy and then listen to this jam again and go like oh never mind this is a masterpiece because a lot of it's just like blink blink blink blink blink

this one's got some like dope beats behind it. Anyway, somebody wrote the words to this song. Purple, purple, purple. And they said, you know what would be good here? We need to get all the colors in because it's a song about the rainbow. Red, red, orange. Like, oh, you're going to start out by saying red twice? Like, yeah, I think so. Yellow, green, blue.

Those are all colors. Man, we got to get purple in here, but we have a lot of space left in this verse. I have an idea. Purple, purple, purple, blue. Those are all colors. Man, we gotta get purple in here, but we have a lot of space left in this verse. I have an idea. Purple, purple, purple, purple. When you're doing that, it's so good. It makes me feel like Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle when she's like, horses, horses, horses. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. It's a weird comparison. But the melody's really nice, and the message of the song is nice, too. There's a rainbow in the ocean. It's very colorful'm just kind of dancing thinking about it's a very good song but it's also like a weird like i have a weird relationship with this song because it's it's such a relief that this song is on this toy and it's i

enjoy it so deeply so much so that there are little buttons on the toy that you can press to activate like a few other songs and sometimes underwater rainbow will be on and henry will press one of those buttons and then the voice will just be like one two three i'll be like i guess we're done listen to underwater rainbow we really have we push that toy at him like we have a whole little setup in the corner of our living room and it's just always i immediately i'm like hey you want to play with this toy this it's sort of enshrined in the center of all of his toys and um so this is a very good song on a very good toy fisher price also makes those weird bells there's this toy and it's kind of tough to describe the shape of it rachel thinks they look like strange colorful bongs they look like little baby bongs which is not great

for obvious reasons a flower vase they look like vases i think is a better way to put it and these two like plastic toys have like all these little interactive bits like little rings you can spin around and other shit um but they connect to each other uh wirelessly and they play songs between each other. So there's like a setting where like music will be playing on one. And then if you like knock it over, the music will travel to the other one, which is like a really cool concept.

There's also one where like the melody is playing on one bell and then the other bell has the, the, you know, drums or whatever. We discovered this, um, our friends,

Kat and Chris have a very young baby. And we brought Henry to visit. And we got out the toy and started playing with it with Henry. And we just kind of immediately decided. Started grooving, kind of. Like, we are going to have to get this toy when we get home. Because here's the thing. The music that it plays is not shitty nursery rhymes. It's music without lyrics at all, because for whatever reason, DJ Fisher Price was like,

I know what kids love. Trance music. And that's what's on these toys. Here's a sample of the music on these weird bongs. Oh, oh, oh! Oh, oh, oh! like if that came on at the club i would lose it i would absolutely lose my shirt my shirt would be over the bar and i would be spinning wildly and freely um just just soaking it all in. Why? There's such a set path for toys with baby music on it. Why did DJ Fisher-Price stray so completely from the path is what I want to know.

Like, I don't regret that they made this decision. It's just wild to me because it's like... I mean, I think they recognize something, which I noticed, for example, with Justin and Sydney. Like if your child has a toy that you personally like, you will buy it for your friends when they have children. And that's like kind of my like closing thought is like, I think there is an element of looking for something personally enjoyable. Yeah. In the as terrible as that sounds, as selfish as that sounds, there is an element of that in the entertainment options, or toys that you find for your kids. And I mean, that's sort of I feel like the guiding ethos of Pixar and DreamWorks for like their animated movies, but there's some jokes in there for the adults to like, I feel like that sort of

same thing is here. And it's not because like, oh, you want to play with a toy? But I want to have fun. Like, I'm not approaching playing with Henry with his toys like that. But the fact remains, like, we're talking about many hours every single day that this stuff is sort of my, the activity that I'm engaging in. And then I think when a dope jam comes on, I'm like, all right, purple, purple, purple, purple. So yeah, DJ Fisher-Price, you're making some bold decisions over there.

Please keep it up. If you want me to come over and maybe collab-o on a track, I would love to. I got a song I'm working on about a big snail. So just look forward to that. Do you want some submissions? on a track. I would love to. I got a song I'm working on about a big snail. So, just look forward to that. Do you want some submissions? The snail

in the rhombus. Please, don't stop. Complete the thought. Please rhyme rhombus. Yeah, here we go. And now we're in it, folks.

Is coming up upon us. Slither, slither,ither slither slimy slimy slimy snail yeah it's good i thought you're gonna be like is calling his friend tombis no okay no yours was much much better i'm a poet you are a professional poet i that's it. With my musical acumen and your gift. Lyricism. Your platinum tongue, you could take this whole industry over. Rhombus and upon us. That's pretty good. That's really good. I'm blown away. Okay. Anyway, here's some submissions. This one's

from Sierra who says, hi guys, my name's sierra i just said that um and i want to talk about how good a fresh sheet on a lint roller is i'm telling you sierra knows exactly what i'm talking about but that fresh container there's nothing more satisfying than a fresh sheet on a lint roller you don't have to worry about not being able to roll up all the little bits on your shirt and you feel like you can roll up the entire world yeah a big katamari i love it i'm in it i'm in it you're in it i'm in it what are you in i'm in that lint roller and i am oh oh god are you okay come back come back with my wife i have a particular set of skills i knew you were going to go there immediately when I talked about being in a lint roller. Wow.

That's like six connections that you followed the clues. Okay. Maggie says, Cookbook Club is so wonderful. Every month we pick a cookbook that we all cook out of for that month and then someone hosts a potluck where we all bring recipes that we made from that cookbook and talk about

how we liked it and eat a ton of food. It's my favorite thing and i am so grateful i found these good folks wow that is good it sounds like you got good friends and a cool idea for club but also any reason to have a potluck and eat a bunch of food is pretty good in my book no that's incredible uh tiffany says something i find wonderful are videos of people making tiny food on the video series, tiny kitchen. There's something so soothing about watching people use such precision and delicate movements to make a teeny tiny cake or a taco. I could easily watch these videos for hours.

They are so very, very good. Tiny food, especially on that later today, making tiny food. Now watching those videos. Sure. I didn't make a tiny food, though. Take a big, like a Frito, but then I cut it up real small. And then- Make tiny nachos?

Yeah, I was just thinking like tiny Fritos. Yeah, I'll do a different one. Because that makes sense. I'll take a steak. I'll just cut a little piece off of it. To be a tiny steak. A tiny steak. That's pretty good.

Yeah. I'll take a bunch of orange juice. I'll just put one little drop down on the table. And that is a feast for an ant. This is good. This is really good. Thanks. I like this.

I'll take a Kraft American cheese square. Yeah. And I'll just cut a real tiny square. Yeah. What do we do with that? It's just a tiny Kraft single. Cheese. Love it.

Love it. We are cooking tiny food for like the saddest bachelor hamster who's just like doesn't leave his apartment. Just like, I don't know. I'll have some Kraft singles. I just took a Pringle and I just made it into a smaller Pringle. It reminds me of when I used to put Cheez Whiz into Bugles

and call those like little fancy snacks. Oh, Griffin. Have you had the Amuse Bouche yet? It goes well with the Jasmine Tea. The sensation of crunching into a Bugle that is full of easy cheese, it seems unpleasant. No, orgasmic, I agree. Unpleasant. I couldn't hear

what you said because I said orgasmic, but I think we said the same thing. Yeah, no, you're I agree. Unpleasant. I couldn't hear what you said. Cause I said orgasm, but I think we said the same thing. Yeah, no, you're probably right. Uh, you said, uh,

pleasant, right? Uh, anyway, that's the show. Thank you so much to Bowen and Augustus for these for a theme song. Money won't pay. You can find a link to that in the,

uh, episode description. Caught myself that time. Didn't say it was an album, but I just did shit. Um, thank you to maximum fun for having us on the network. You can out uh all about their great shows at maximum fun.org there's so many good ones uh and you're just gonna love these freaking shows man uh you'll just flip your

lid what's some good shows right now uh i am going to recommend uh Flophouse. Hey, The Flophouse. The Flophouse is great because you can start anywhere in their catalog. Each week they review a box office flop. And so you can start anywhere you want. A lot of times it's fun to just pick a movie that you've seen before and listen to their take on it. The Fateful Findings episode, I think, is my personal favorite. It's a very good one. Also, John Roderick, who did the theme song to My Brother, My Brother and Me,

and is also a genuinely great dude, has a new show with the Grace Generation boys where they talk about old war movies and stuff and talk about them in context of today. That's really, really good. It's called uh friendly fire and that is a new one that like just came out this month on max fun there's a lot of really great shows and if you want to hear other stuff that we make uh or see the videos that we do you

can go to mackleroy shows.com is that it that's it all right well uh-oh oh no babe it's happening i'm transforming into a super blue blood werewolf the wolf thing super blue blood oh can you describe it as it's happening uh his legs are getting very very big and tell him how strong they look they look very shapely and strong and what about the hair it's a very thick lust lustrous hair. Except for where? Am I perfectly hairless? Oh, his knees? There's no knees. Hair. My teeth, what do they look like?

They're sharp. Is that it? That's it. Oh, baby, you've got to get out of here. Okay. I just did some breathing. It turned out okay. Okay. That's did some breathing. I turned it off. Okay.

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