Wonderful! - Wonderful! Ep. 26: A Stoplight of Eagles

Episode Date: March 22, 2018

Griffin's favorite fictional weapon! Rachel's favorite educational initiative in March! Griffin's favorite inefficient animal categorization method! Rachel's favorite app for keeping in touch with friends! 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. No, it's not. You thought I wouldn't notice? This whole time. Imposter. Faker, masquerade. If you guys could see the face I'm making at Griffin right now, you would understand why I'm surprised he doesn't stop this immediately. I wish you could see that.

I don't know what face you're making at me because you're wearing it under a mask of lies. Who are you? He's Griffin McElroy. This is wonderful. Trickster. Devilish. It's a podcast we do together. Fiend. About the things we love.

Where is my wife? As we love each other. Sneaky trick. Week after week. Oh, prank. Devilish trick. Day after day. So this is a fun episode so far. Year after after year we've only been doing it for like eight months but it feels like a year so sorry we're late we um what's the our lives are

a mess a wreck a boat a shipwreck well that implies they're bad and they're not bad they're not bad they're just complicated just like a shipwreck can be good just like in lost they wrecked the big boat but they found love in each other and like most of them died oh you don't think about that on lost it's like they did find love and they found each other and you get the big happy ending i guess but then you do go back and you're like he got eaten by a tiger he got torn apart by polar bears he got nobody even knows what the smoke was. So we moved into a new house. And I only mention that because now we do not share a wall with our infant son's room.

So we're going to get about this loud. Even that feels, baby, I feel like I was just like Skrillex. No, people don't want that. Skrillex, who is famous for yelling and being a loud singer at his concerts. You know the song Bangarang? That's him. It's not. It's somebody else.

I don't actually know the song you're talking about. It's the one on Drop Mix. That's your dubstep sort of lifeline. So do you want to start or should I start? Because we've got a big week. I don't remember the order. I'm happy to start. I think it's actually my turn to start. Oh, well then go for it. I do have a small wonder, do you?

No, but go ahead. My small wonder, if you haven't checked it out yet, and this is just a little teaser, there is a documentary coming out June 8th about Fred Rogers. Oh, boy. The trailer was released two minutes, 39 seconds. The movie will be called. Won't you be my neighbor? Oh boy.

It premiered at Sundance. The trailer. So good. Such a good trailer. Oh, we need it. Is that a pizza? Don't you trick on me?

There's a good work. Okay. Here's my small wonder. We're waiting on pizza to show up. So when we see the delivery driver pull up outside the window, Okay, here's my small wonder. We're waiting on pizza to show up. So when we see the delivery driver pull up outside the window, we will have about 32 seconds to run downstairs and intercept the hot, gooey za before the za person delivers it and rings the doorbell

and ruins both our lives by ringing the doorbell and waking up our son. Let me check. Let me just make sure it's not the za. I think we're okay. Yeah, so the movie looks really, really good. Yeah, I haven't seen the trailer, but I'm excited. I read a review that was like, not exactly a critical documentary. It was like, did you really want a smear piece on Fred Rogers?

Is one of those capable of being generated in good faith? His sweaters were not made in this country. They were made out of dog fur, but not the shed. being generated in good faith. His sweaters were not made in this country. They were made out of dog fur, but not the shed. They harvested. Just a small wonder. I could probably come up with one. I took a really nice bath today.

I almost did baths, actually. Oh, for your topic? Yeah. But then I typed into Google history of baths, and I opened up it, and I was like, this is too long. It's too much here. It probably, I mean, it definitely predates the shower. For sure. What came first, the shower or the bath? This is philosophers are always asking that question.

You just answered that, I think. So, yeah, I think I go first this week. Okay. My first thing is lightsabers uh-oh here's the thing about it these are swords made out of lasers and that is undeniably fictional radical i was gonna say radical fictional swords made out of lasers well why no i bet there's probably a youtube video somebody who's like made they do this sometimes they're like real life lightsaber and they name it that so it gets a billion views and like you

know me i'm in the business i'll name a video like pikachu's butt and people like pikachu's butt and then they'll click on it and it's like just kidding this is a video guide to mario but i called it pikachu's butt so you would come and click on it. And that's business 101, baby. Are you gonna explain how they came up with the like, whoa noise? I mean, I'm pretty sure that was just George. And he was like,

Oh no, we've almost finished the movie, but we forgot to do lightsaber noises. Well, it comes out tomorrow, so we got a long day ahead of us let me just get down in the studio see what i can do wills no that didn't feel right hope no that's not right either but i'm getting a little bit closer what alan get out of here to be one of them tim save this tim though that's a gold sit on it save it for your own project

there we go we've got joey lawrence in here we've just pitched it down a few octaves and that's how they got the lightsaber noise oh i love it my turn no the uh the original lightsaber like design was actually crafted like the props manager for uh for a new hope uh actually came up with this prototype that was like a camera battery like an old-timey press uh photo like camera battery that was huge and like tubular in the like shape sense but also it turned out to be a lightsaber so i think that qualifies for the other meaning of tubular and they made some modifications so it was just supposed to be like the prototype and then they would like properly model one out for use in the movie later but they ran out of time and so this ended up actually being one of the lightsabers used in the movie um but the

concept of like a laser sword is cool and nowadays you think about it and it's like well yeah a laser a laser sword like it's it's one of those things where it's just like it's always existed but i think a new hope was like the first popularization of it uh it wasn't like the first example of it especially in like sci-fi like classic sci-fi works yeah that's what i was gonna ask about because you act acted as if this has always been a thing well uh so there are a few examples one of them uh isaac asimov. Do you know Isaac Asimov, the sci-fi writer? He had a series called Lucky Star, which had a force blade, which is basically the same thing. But this is obviously where it popped off.

Originally, there were just blue lightsabers. The Jedi used those. And then the red lightsabers used by the Sith. In Return of the Jedi, the third chronologically in order of release, Jesus Christ, how could they do this to us? It is going to be impossible to talk about these movies to our kids. Like, no, see, the first there was four. You know how I taught you numbers the other day?

Okay, forget all that. There was just blue and red lightsabers, right? In Return of the Jedi, Luke has a green lightsaber. Yeah. And they have some like sorry i saw a person walking their dog i thought it was the za folks we are on threat level orange right now looking for this stop um he had a green light saber and it was they had like a story reason for it but really it was because they were shooting a lot of outdoor scenes

for tattooing like the big uh sand crawler fight or whatever, and they wanted it to show up against the blue sky, so he had a green lightsaber. Now, this is my favorite piece of Star Wars trivia ever. Okay. And I'm a published Star Wars author. That's true. So I know my shit. Uh-huh.

Mace Windu, character played by Samuel L. Jackson in the bad Trilogy. He had a purple lightsaber. Do you know why that was? No. It's because that's Samuel L. Jackson's favorite color, and he wanted it very badly. Wow.

That's fucking great. There's a whole gamut of different colors of lightsabers throughout the extended universe, but in movies, you get red, you get green, you get blue, and he was like, I really, really like purple, though. That begs the question, Griffin McElroy. Yes. If you were to pick a color for your lightsaber, what would it be? I like maybe just like an orange one.

I was going to say orange. Just something sort of not... That might look a little air traffic control, though. I'm into that, though. No, okay. I like sort of not. That might look a little air traffic control, though. I'm into that, though. I like that very much. I'm glad you asked that because my favorite, and I'm serious, my favorite thing about lightsabers is lightsaber toys. I don't know. I cannot explain why I have owned and enjoyed as many of them as I have, but I have. And maybe it's that part of me that used to own real swords because my dad would just like get them for us for Christmas sometimes.

Yes. I've never talked about this on the show. This is what I was going to say. Yeah, Clint McElroy has a tendency to buy this kind of gift. He buys swords. I owned a Buster sword from Final Fantasy VII for a long time. This is a large sword. It's a large anime sword, essentially. How did you display this? In the closet of my bedroom. Okay, so not like hanging.

No, they were functional. They were if I needed to fight Sephiroth, I would have my bases covered. But one time, I may have... And Henry, if you're listening to this in the future don't listen to it gotten high with my stoner roommates in college and used it to cut a watermelon in a really cool

way I gave it the old omni slash and I cut up the watermelon for our friends to enjoy at the picnic and then I didn't clean off the blade and so it rusted like so bad and so I had to throw the buster sword away but you know what if it can't stand up to a little watermelon residue it's not going to be able to get the job done otherwise you would have kept it you would have had it today it was a very neat

sword anyway i had lots of lightsaber toys also coolest one count dooku from the bad trilogy he had a curved lightsaber it was kind of like droopy but like it felt like super cool like a scimitar like a lightsaber but anyway there was a build a lightsaber toy that had all these different components like different blades of different like lengths and then the different hilts and you can make it like a double edge one or a single edge one okay and then there were different filters that you could put over the light bulb in the center of the hilt so you could change the color of the of the lightsaber it was fucking radical and i played with it so much lightsaber toys are just really fucking cool and fun okay so we currently because

of clint mcclurey uh have a lightsaber toy for our infant son that kind of collapses in on itself and and pops out yeah that's how lightsaber toys typically do it okay i was curious about that uh that's how they typically do it we also had one that you won at the arcade now this was not an official lightsaber because it didn't collapse and it but it did glow you could turn it did glow and mostly we used it to scoop things out from under our bed like socks that went under there so they're practical too lightsaber toys they're great so we do have this lightsaber that our dad got us for for that my dad got us for henry and he's been a little into it lately i think he just he really he's at an age now where he really likes just like holding shit and there are a few things you could hold that are cooler

than a lightsaber so i think yeah no we um we we uh have been playing with it around henry and now he recognizes that it's a powerful object and so so he likes to just hold it. Yeah. He also likes to hold a wrapping paper tube, though. Yeah, he's got a big imagination. What's your first thing? My first thing, hey, guess what? Hmm? It's Women's History Month. Hey!

Are you going to tell me Women's History or History of Women's history month? Griffin McElroy, I have prepared both. Oh, good. So March, women's history month, in case you're listening in the year 2022. I thought you were going to say women's history, in case you're listening women's history. I know what month you are on and for. No, maybe not everybody listens to this the week it comes out.

Maybe they listen to it a few months from now. Oh, it's got a long tail. I've always said that about it. So the first steps towards Women's History Month started in 1980. That's very recent. That is shockingly recent. And it started as a week. Oh, no.

I shouldn't laugh. President Carter issued a presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8th as National Women's History Week. So just knock it out. Seven days. By 1986, 14 states declared March as Women's History Month. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I thought you were going to say 14 days. So we got another week on there. We just pounded away. Oh, my God.

I couldn't think of who was president in 1986. Was it Reagan at that point? Yes. I think so. Yes. Sorry. Yes. For sure.

Yes. Or maybe H.W. Bush. No, because Reagan was president when I was born. That was 87. Okay. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Bad. So Women's History Month started as a state-by-state action, which created momentum. And in 1987, Congress declared March as National Women's History Month in perpetuity.

Take that. 87. So this is March 1987. That's the month before you were born. Yeah. I have never lived in a world without Women's History Month in it. And thank God. Let me tell you, before, it was just a lot of Play-Doh, a lot of Sesame Street. Before Women's History Month was passed by Congress, it was tough out there.

A lot of diapers, a lot of Play-Doh, and a lot of coloring with crayons. A lot of pigtails. A lot of pigtails and a lot of Fraggle Rock. It was really rough out there. That is neat. I mean, it's neat, but it's also like, holy shit, that was not that long ago. The reason I like Women's History Month, because a lot of times these months, they feel kind of performative of just like, oh, look, we're doing our part.

But we should be clear, by the way that people celebrated them, not their very nature is performative, because I think they're incredibly valuable. No, I think so, too. A lot of times it feels kind of like lip service to a cause that is actually very complex and important that probably deserves to be recognized more than one month out of a year absolutely like the level more than one week the level of the discourse is like a tweet from burger king it's like a picture of like a hand holding a burger up to a starry sky and it's like here's to you sally ride and it's like no guys i appreciate

the gesture but i don't because it sucks it's's like Susan B. Anthony wearing a McDonald's suit. Yeah, or dressed up like the Honey Nut Cheerios B. And it's like Susan B. Anthony. Eat our cereal, eat our cereal. The next 100 characters is just eat our cereal, eat our cereal, eat our cereal. See, this is why you are the media luminary. If I went into advertising, I think I could really make some pretty heinous shit. Just everybody with B as a middle initial, you would just be all over it?

Yeah, like, you know how you see a tweet or you see a commercial and you're like, fuck that, but I remember it. I think I could really put together some real nasty stuff. You could have James Corden, for example, sell cars as James Carden. Babe, we got to go into business together, me and you. Griffin and Rachel's bag commercial. These are just free, guys. These are free. If you want to use them. Here's our business card.

Okay, so the thing I like about Women's History Month is that when I was thinking about kind of how I could recognize it, it was very easy to find a lot of information about women in history because it is the official month. Yeah. So I decided to talk about some famous female inventors. Oh, cool. Just very briefly. Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers. Great work on that one. Margaret Knight invented the first flat-bottom paper bag. So the machine that makes the bottom

of the bag flat didn't exist before her. And then how did they put four boxes of cereal in a bag? Just think of how poorly, they probably just cut it open and poured the cereal into the bag. Revolutionized the whole grocery industry. Damn. Stephanie Kowalik invented Kevlar, which is the main ingredient in the production of Bulletproof Vests. Ingredient is a, oh, is it here? Baby, you can't look outside when the za is coming.

Clara Barton founded the Red Cross. Baby, you can't look outside when the za is coming. Clara Barton founded the Red Cross. Maria Telks invented the first solar home heating system in 1948. What? Right? Where are we now, science? Get on it. This one I thought you would like.

Hold on, let me take a big drink of water. What were you saying? Rose Totino. Invented frozen pizza. That's me spitting the water out. She was the daughter of Italian immigrants who settled in Minneapolis. And she opened a takeout pizza restaurant in the 50s, which, if you think about it,

was a time when there wasn't a lot of takeout pizza restaurants. No, that was when we were just figuring out how to split the atom and make the microwave. That was when burgers were kind of the big fast food thing. Most of the pizza concentration was in New York and Los Angeles, so to have a pizza restaurant in Minneapolis was a big deal. So she invented a way to freeze pizza crust so that her customers could bake at home. She created the company to sell it,

patented her idea in 1979 and Totino's pizza became the top selling frozen pizza nationwide. She eventually sold her business to the Pillsbury Company in 1975 for $20 million. Oh, shit. Okay, I was super worried you were going to be like, for $10,000? I was worried about that, too. Yeah. I had no idea.

Rose to Tina, thank you for your service. No word on whether she created the roll. I'm guessing that was after her time. You know, I bet she was trying to pack one into a package to ship off, and it wouldn't fit because she got the wrong size boxes. She kept folding and folding and folding.

She was like, wait a minute. I'm going to sell these to high gamers. Hey, can I steal you away? You do a lightsaber noise? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. That's the lightsaber fight music. Keep going. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Can somebody take the footage from Phantom Menace of the fight with Darth Maul there at the end and just sort of cut that over it? Thank you very much in advance. Hey, we got any Jumbotrons? Because I heard a rumor we didn't. We do, though. Oh, shit. We have a message for Max from Princess Meow Meow.

Seven years of McElroy love strong proves. You are so special. By the time the McElroy love strong proves you are so special. By the time the McElroys read this, you may already be a famous high fashion coutier. Oh, you got it. Essayist, data analyst,

master chef. Whatever you are, you will still be my honey bear. And that is the specialist specialist of all. I love you. P.S. Please tell me when this airs, since you will hear it first. It's like a poison taster. They have to make sure that the episode is not poisoned with brain poison. Do you know about this?

I don't. There's some podcasts where they'll say something and it'll actually kill you with brain poison. Is it dangerous to us as podcasters? No, we just it's dangerous to the listeners i don't listen to these are you kidding me i don't fucking listen to podcasts are you kidding me it's just like you know two people usually just like let me tell you about making lightsaber noises at each other yeah like now They're like, blah, blah, blah. Now that's what I call an American life. You know? Or like the episodes are like, welcome to my radio lab. Do you know?

Have you listened to that one? Uh-huh. It's hosted by The Count, right? On Sesame Street? Yeah, two of them. And then there's one that's like, but they don't talk because they're eating cereal. Eating cereal. I get it. It's very good. Do you want me to read this next one? Sure. I mean, I could think of other fun like podcast jokes. This message is for Bernadette. It is from Robert. These past few years I've known you

have been the best years of my life. I love spending literally every waking moment with you, and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you. I love you to the moon and back. That is so very, very sweet. Just make sure you put on a helmet. Okay, I thought you were going to say something else. No, filthy. Who are you under that mask? no if you're going to the no filthy who are you under that mask it's a convincing mask but you can't fool me with potty language like that who do you think i am who do you think i was

is this our new podcast hey guys this is adam conover you may know me from my true tv show adam ruins everything well guess what now we're doing a podcast version right here on Maximum Fun. What we do is we take all the interesting, fascinating experts that we talked to for just a couple of minutes on the show, and we sit with them for an entire podcast, really going deep and getting into the fascinating details of their work. Find Adam Ruins Everything wherever you get your podcasts or at MaximumFun.org. Can I tell you my second thing? Yes.

It is flocks of birds and their collective names. I realize that this is like the most twee shit basically ever to include. I feel like the only flock of birds I know is the crow, of course,

which is a murder. A murder of crows, yes, is one. Crows actually have like five or six different ones and this is what's fucked up like each bird basically has a different uh collective noun or uh terms of venery is uh what they were uh called originally i have some of the history here and it's fucking great um but yes so if you're if you're not familiar different and it's not just birds, it's pretty much any animal, but birds have by far the best names. If you're looking at like a group of birds, there's a special name. And I think most people know about murder of crows.

But there's a lot more also. But it's not just the names, like I really like the actual object to the actual like flock of birds flying through the sky um pretty much every day when i go and pick up henry from from daycare uh i see these huge flocks of birds right by the highway where like the power lines crisscross and i don't know i guess grackles maybe is what they are what's the collective term for grackles it should just be like a toilet of grackles. I like grackles. I don't know why I'm so... They're rowdy. They are rowdy, rowdy.

Yeah, they'll fuck you up. They won't. They're friendly, I think. They'll just eat the Cheeto right out of your fucking pinched fingers as you're about to put it in your mouth. Tell me some of these names. Okay, anyway, I see these. You just want to hear about the names. I want to talk about these beautiful, majestic creatures. I want to hear the fun names. I want to talk about these beautiful, majestic creatures.

You want to hear the fun names. I just see these birds every day, and they bring me such joy. And I've always really enjoyed, like, I've always found it really mystifying when I see, like, a big flock of birds, like, flying and performing, like, the same aerial maneuvers in unison. Like, I know science has an explanation for how that works, but even so, like, still find it so like supernatural. I want to recommend there's a YouTube video called murmuration, which is the collective name for starlings, a murmuration of starlings. That's a very, very good one. You can search for it. It's by a couple folks, Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith. It's just the two of them canoeing. And then suddenly there's 20,000 birds flying overhead and moving around like this big black cloud and it's set to music it's super super cool

anyway names yes murmuration of starlings wait let me guess one okay i do if you want i could tell you like a bird and you could try to guess what like the oh yeah let's do that okay uh ducks a bowl of ducks it's actually a raft of ducks so you're right in that it was an inanimate object uh eagles a pasta of eagles a pasta of eagles i'm very hungry yeah a congress of eagles oh that's isn't that really good uh uh flamingos i feel like i knew this at one point but now i have no idea so i am going to say a stoplight of e of a stoplight of eagles for so for flamingos you think their group name is a stoplight of eagles? It's my new band, by the way, coming out. A flamboyance of flamingos.

Oh, I love that. It's so choice. Okay, I'm going to just burn through some more of these because this game's taking a very long time. But it's so fun. A mischief of magpies. That's nice. A pandemonium of parrots. Best all time, and I didn't know this one until today, a parliament of owls.

Fuck, that's good gosh i'm you know what i'm picturing i'm picturing owls and a bunch of little powdered wigs um i've always really yes thank you sorry fully consider i started talking and rachel was like gave me a face like no no hold on really think about it um it's really cool, right? And I feel like the first time you find out that these terms of venery exist, it kind of became a thing I was really interested in for a day. Where I was like, oh, what do they call herons or whatever? But you kind of realize there's too many, so I'm going to stop being interested in this.

Well, this is from Wikipedia, because I was trying to find out why we have different names for different groups of animals. The tradition of using terms of venery or nouns of assembly. That's another fucking great way of referring. Bye. it smells so good we gotta hurry it smells so good there were too many names for groups yes so uh this tradition of naming uh groups of birds different they're animals not just birds different stems from an English, this is according to Wikipedia. Sorry, I ran, I really ran. Stems from an English hunting tradition of the late Middle Ages.

It was marked by an extensive proliferation of specialist vocabulary, applying different names to the same feature in different animals. In the course of the 14th century, it became a courtly fashion to extend the vocabulary, and by the 15th century, the tendency had reached exaggerated proportions. Basically, it was this way that these gentleman hunters used to prove how educated they were and how smart they were. Way smarter than the common folk hunters of the time. I see. Because they could memorize fucking 400 different names for animals, groups of animals.

And it's like, hey, man, we just got ourselves, just killed ourselves a bunch of eagles. And it's like, do you mean a Congress of Eagles? That they would know all of them. But then within the next century, they were like, oh, no, this has gotten out of hand. And we have too many different names for things. We have to stop. And I love that.

Because, like, there's a reason we don't use all these terms. Like, there's a reason we don't use all these terms. And it's because it's a really dumb idea to have different nouns for different animals. I think it's beautiful and great, but it is the most inefficient way of transmitting data ever. The reason that the names sound ostentatious, like all of them across the board sound like so ostentatious, a flamboyance of flamingos, is because they were designed to be. Now, flamboyance of flamingos is interesting, now that I'm going back to it, because were we hunting flamingos at some point and I didn't know about it? Anyway, yeah, I just think that's great. And then nobody uses it anymore, and it crashed and burned because of these gentleman hunters hubris uh that's my second thing

the birds flying in the sky are great what you call them is also very good i like that a lot thank you okay so my second thing is actually an app and i felt a little like buzz markety talking about it but the reason behind it i think think is, is worthwhile. So I wanted to talk about Marco Polo. Okay. Tell me about this app. Okay. So I know about it. I'm just trying to be like the, you know, Oh, and I also knew the names of all those bird groups. So I was just trying to be supportive of your topic. Yeah. I know the different Kyber crystals used in the lightsabers different characters. Thank you. So Marco Polo is a free video instant messaging app.

You put in your name, phone number, and email, and you're able to share videos. They call it kind of a video walkie-talkie with your contacts. You can respond to messages immediately from your friends, or you can watch live as they're recorded. You can also create groups of friends. And this app was actually created in 2014. It's only kind of popped off recently in the past couple of years. But the reason that this has been great for me, a lot of my friends have babies now. So I get little videos of babies. We live kind of all over the place.

And so we're able to kind of share information very quickly. And also, since it's kind of like one way, there's something kind of nice about leaving this little message in a bottle for all your friends. And then unlike FaceTime or other kind of video conference calling, it's not dependent on, you know, who's available when. So it's been really great lately. I have a friend that is very pregnant and has been up in the middle of the night and she'll send us these little videos that we can watch the next morning. Oh, that's great. I mean, not great for her. I imagine it's pretty bad. But it's been a really nice way to keep in touch kind of day to day. I'm a big fan of drafting a long email, but not everybody likes that. And so it's been nice to kind of get these little videos of my friends on my phone, kind of keep in touch.

I've really enjoyed it. I'm worried if you haven't used this app, because I think it's a genuinely novel and cool idea. But I'm worried if you haven't used it, it sounds like very basic, but I really can't stress enough. We started using it. We had some friends who were going through something sort of difficult and they were out of the country and really had no way of staying in touch with everybody and sort of letting them know how they were doing. And so we started using this app specifically because of that. And I had a group of friends who were using it and kept up with it for like a little bit. It really requires you to sort of be vulnerable. Like when you're, it feels kind of weird to film yourself for a couple of minutes, just like talking. And you're not getting

any kind of gratification or response. And you can't edit it. couple of minutes just like talking and because you're not getting any kind of none yeah gratification or response and you can't edit it yeah like you're just like doing it and people unlike snapchat you can watch it over and over again and it kind of is stored in the app so you're able to access previous videos and but not just that you kind of when you're watching what your friends are saying you really have to lock into it. It can't be like, you know, a message that takes you four seconds to read or whatever. I found that so fascinating that I was like actually sitting there for like 15 minutes at a time,

just watching my feed of my friends video messages. This is not an ad again. It's not. No, I mean, it's more just about keeping in touch. You know, I think there's a lot of intimidation now for people in our generation to have an actual phone conversation, to pick up the phone and go

back and forth with somebody for an indeterminate amount of time. Uh, and this kind of is a nice problem solving for that because you're able to stay in touch, uh, without feeling the pressure of setting aside a certain amount of time, you know, and picking a night or a day of the week, you know, you're able to just kind of, as you go, keep up this relationship, which is really nice. I liked it a lot. It's like, it's like a journal, but it's for your friend. It's live. It's a live journal. Um, that is a good one. Uh, looking to Marco,

if you have like a group of friends and want to like try this new way of staying in touch with them. I really, I really do think it is neat. I don't use it as much these days, but for a few months there, like every day I was like looking forward to my new, my new messages from my buds. Yeah. Um, Hey, I've got some submissions here. Great.

Uh, this one's from McKenzie who says one of my very favorite things in life is the smell of fresh cut oranges end of message end of submission crushed it that's perfect yeah that's perfect uh lula says i love harvey danger with all my heart they were a fantastic band from seattle who you may know from their big 97 hit flagpole sitta i only discovered them two or three years ago so i never got to see them live but all of their studio material is truly magical in a really unique way that i haven't found with any other band are you submitting your own things under their people's names i love harvey danger very very much i saw their next to last show in chicago uh it was a very special night for me and sean n, the lead singer and your brothers,

right? And my brothers, they were there too, but it was really all about me and Sean. Just like, what do you want to hear Griffin? And I was like, oof,

I don't know, man, little round mirrors. He was like, you know, I'm going to do it. So it is a good band. Uh,

Kayla says there are a few things in this world that bring me as pure a joy as this video of Kermit, the frog singing once in a lifetimeetime by the Talking Heads. You seen this fucking video? I think I have, yeah. The whole thing is so dated and peak aesthetic. There's even lore behind it, which you can find in some half-complete articles on the Muppet Wiki. It's just one of those things you can't help but smile during,

especially because the song is such a banger. I watched this in the interest of being prepared for this episode of Wonderful. It's fucking bananas. I need to watch it again it's been a very long time it is a shot for shot remake of the music video for talking heads once in a lifetime only starring and performed by kermit the frog uh and there's like some lore of like there's a gigantic gigantro or gigantic some like gigantic muppet who was supposed to perform the song but couldn't.

And so Kermit is wearing his big white suit, which is what... That's nice. It's very good. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. So go ahead and send in some submissions for us if you don't mind. Go ahead and send them in

to wonderfulpodcast.gmail.com That is the email address, right? Let me just check because I do have it open right here. I never say it because I'm never 100% sure. Yeah, I mean, it's a tricky one to lock down, but it is wonderfulpodcastatgmail.com. Send in your submissions, like one or two sentences long. Follow the perfect example of McKenzie. I like fresh cut oranges, but bazinga. She didn't even say bazinga, left that off. And send those in because we are going to be recording our MaxFunDrive bonus episode very soon.

And that one's going to be 100% listener submissions. We're going to be talking about it. We're going to be evaluating them. And you, no, we won't come at you that hard. But send those in because we're going to need a bunch. Once again, it's wonderfulpodcasts at gmail.com. And speaking of the MaxFunDrive, it is coming up it kicks off april 2nd and it's just running for two weeks if you're a new listener we did one on rose buddies last year but we are a pledge

funded show uh as all of the shows on the max fun network and this is our first pledge drive as wonderful yeah which we're both extremely nervous about. Like, very, like, so very, very scared about. But anyway, we're going to be running our choicest episodes here on Wonderful during that two-week period. And we're going to be offering great gifts for new and upgrading members who donate to MaxFun. It's the best time to support Wonderful in any way that you can. Support Wonderful in any way that you can. And again, you'll get some cool bonuses if you do, including a whole catalog of bonus episodes from all the Max Fun shows throughout time. I love that.

It's so much. It is so many episodes. Yes. So do not miss it. It starts April 2nd. We're going to tell you more about it next week, what you can expect. But again, April 2nd runs for two weeks. So we'll be ready to just... I want that pizza in my belly so bad I'm going to die.

Thanks, Bowen and Augustus, for the use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay. It's in the episode description. Can we please go Zah out? I'm about to fucking die. If you want to check out more McElroy shows, you can find them at McElroyShows.com. I don't want to watch

the other shows. I want to... Thank you for listening. Griffin is patting his belly. Our son is still asleep on this floor. Yeah, but he's real far away.

This is that loud shit. Bye, everybody. Bye, everybody. Money won't pay What's gonna pay? Money won't pay What's gonna pay? Money won't pay What's gonna pay? Money won't pay MaximumFun.org

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