Wonderful! - Wonderful! Ep. 54: Corn Cauldron

Episode Date: October 10, 2018

Griffin's favorite garment category! Rachel's favorite corn-adjacent romantic poem! Griffin's favorite duet! Rachel's favorite Muppet! 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. Hey, what's up? This is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Turn and change and change change there's a lot of changes in the studio that's why i sang that song rachel looks at me confused but you know this is to be true no i do know this is to be true um but i i don't really think of what you've been through recently as a change as a change oh there's lots of changes let's break them down one by one

number one all right got a new schnoz didn't i well cyber schnoz basically it's here to produce better sound it's more like a renovation on your schnoz yeah i got some acoustic experts to dig around my nose and they were like this thing is not optimized for audio um and we could install some baffling here and we could drop this wall and do sort of an open concept so i basically have one big nostril now which is so cool uh it makes it easier for you know to pickin um so yeah it's cool no i had sinus. I'm still recovering from it. It was fucking brutal. It was so bad. Um, but thank you for your prayers, everyone.

I don't think I've publicly talked about my sinus surgery, but I just assumed you could feel my distress and you're praying for it. The other change though, big change is right under Rachel's keister, isn't it? You want to talk about it? On our last episode, you you may recall i referenced the piano bench that i sit on uh and so griffin went out today spared no expense nope bought me a folding chair i went to uh target you remember that fucking funny sketches uh-huh yeah it's a folding chair and i know you're thinking like oh really it's got pads it's a folding chair. And I know you're thinking like, oh, really? It's got pads.

It's got a big pad under the duff. It's got a pad under the behind the back. I was at Target for other reasons. I saw the folding chair. I thought. Let's say you were going over to your grandma's house for Thanksgiving and she set up a table in the garage. This is the chair you would sit on. Exactly. The funny funny chair don't you think you could turn that what's great about that chair it's a clean slate babe my piano bench i use it for my art and my compositions you think that was like intimidating to me no but it's just not for jokes you know when i'm sitting on that bench it's all about you know the circle of fifths and the you know mezzo mezzo forte um But you couldn't make jokes on it.

That chair has nothing in it so far. You are going to fill it with, well, first of all. My caboose. The farts. But also. Griffin. Your jokes. Griffin.

Hey, man. There's not a lot of difference between my farts and my jokes. Am I right? Hey, no. I won't allow that kind of talk here. Anyway, it's a brave new era for wonderful 2.0. New schnoz, new chair. I feel like I sound weird.

I feel like I'm going to feel like I sound weird for a long time until. Yeah, I just don't. Honestly, I don't hear a lot of difference. It's not going to be permanent. If I do, I'm still very, very much recovering. But yikes. Okay. Anyway, you got any small wonders?

Because I have one and it's stool softener it's it's so special to me today um it's been so special to me today and i won't get into it but it's so special and so necessary and mandatory to me today if you guys are uncomfortable medical reasons if you're uncomfortable right now at the level of detail welcome to the past week for me i'm sorry that my convalescence as i pursue a healthier better life is so no i'm sorry to interrupt talk more about your stool no i'm not going to talk about my stool i'm just going to say stool softener is a pretty amazing drug when you need it when you need it and i'm not going to comment on whether or not i need it maybe i'm freebasing it maybe i'm taking it recreationally maybe it I just like how they taste. They get the little gel caps. I'll chew them on up in there. No big deal. Anyway.

I haven't shared my small wonder yet. Yeah. You got one? Yeah. I went to the Janelle Monáe concert last night. Yeah. I went to ACL taping. Griffin won tickets and was not up for going. No, no, no. See stool softener. With our friend Steffi.

Yes. To the ACL taping. And it was incredible. So, so good. I am very jealous. I wish I could have gone. I'm sure it was like the most fun show. And we've talked about ACL before.

Yeah. And how dope the like free tickets. We are like so, I don't know. You and I are so lucky. It's like The Wish or The Secret. Is it called The Wish or The Secret? I'm working on a sequel called The Wish where just like a concert gets announced and it's like, I want to go to that. We both enter.

One of us almost always wins. It's amazing. It's like our only, it's like a superpower. I also want to bring bring i've consumed so much media because i basically have been on the couch for a week um re-watched the lord of the rings movie still a still a nice watch and i got into professor layton i think you would get into these games it's basically about this guy who is like a puzzle solver uh and he has a little boy detective sort of uh accomplice and they go to like towns and they investigate these big mysteries but they do

so while like solving little puzzles and brain teasers i do like puzzles and brain i do too and these games has like has like really fun ones but also like a story that you're like trying to solve and you're like uh-oh this guy got murdered i'm gonna do this puzzle where i have to move a matchstick from one place to the other to solve it uh it's it's really good it's on iphone it's like 10 bucks but it's worth it 10 bucks well i mean it's a port of a nintendo ds game and when it came out on ds it was like 30 bucks it's like a it's like a game it's like an actual game like like a one dollar you know yeah i'm so used to those those free ones yeah i don't know i think it's worth it to drop you know 15 bucks on an iphone game if it's going to be like really good

and you're going to play it for a long time but that makes sense uh i go first this week my first thing is a nice light jacket i had this thought today i was at the target and the target did you buy a jacket um no but i tried on a few jackets and i realized that um i own basically every type of model of light that is very true yes that's why i was asking if you bought another one no rachel can attest this is my favorite type of this is my favorite garment category yeah um and there's a lot of reasons there's there's first of all there's two seasons where you can wear these things right right? Spring and fall. That makes it a very, very versatile sort of piece of piece of kit, right? Some summer where you can't wear non summer months, but a nice light jacket. You can wear that in spring. You can wear that in

fall. You can wear that anywhere where it's going to be maybe a little bit cold and i'm talking about here like a hoodie or a windbreaker or like a waterproof poncho or a jean jacket travis got me a jean jacket for my birthday this year that thing's been getting some fucking heavy use it's a very nice jean jacket um a blazer maybe basically anything not like insulated like a non-insulated heavy coat what is it about uh the jacket that appeals to you so much you know um i mean they're functional right is it like the fashion of it that's that's definitely another reason the function i think i don't know which comes first the function i appreciate the function of like i need to get my body temperature just right it's like a few degrees off i'll put on this nice light jacket, and that'll usually get me there. I always bring a nice light jacket into the movie theater.

Yeah. Literally every time I go into a movie theater. Because you never know. Sometimes a movie theater, it's going to be cold, and you have to have the nice light jacket to keep it. Yeah. Because I don't want to be distracted when I'm up there watching you know um you know spider-man dirty grandpa and when i'm watching dirty grandpa my favorite movie ever no i know we haven't talked about that on the show i guess that that could be a whole week is that the johnny knoxville one or is that the uh i almost said Al Pacino, Robert De Niro one. There's bad grandpa.

Yes. And dirty grandpa. Wow. Movies are good and they should keep making them. We shouldn't change how we make movies even a little bit. So the function is important to me. Also, another function, extra pockets, right? Yeah, that's true. You get two extra pockets.

And I take Henry to daycare every every day and you know usually i'm carrying a ton of shit out to the car with me um i have like you know the child in one arm and then like a backpack and some water and some snacks in the other arm i can't be carrying my keys around and like i don't want to dig around in my you know jeans pockets get my keys out to like get in the. That's why I have hoodie pocket, which is basically a fucking keys holster. Yeah. Easy access. Get in, get out.

No problem. Extra pockets. Extra pockets. It's very good. But then the fashion is also good. You can layer things. It gives you an extra sort of dimension of style. Can I tell you, last week I almost brought hoodie, and then I thought, no, if anyone

deserves to bring this, it's Griffin. It's true. Griffin loves a hoodie. I do like a hoodie. I have quite a few. I don't know. I just feel like my style these days is very simple, very survival-based. I feel like you also dress in perpetual fall i feel like the

griffin mackler wardrobe is always fall no matter the time of year except when it would be dangerous to do otherwise i do try to do a fall a fall look yeah i mean it suits you for sure i like it it i just like how you can um you know if you have like a nasty shirt nasty t-shirt riddled with coffee stains and other stains and holes and pizza stains, you can put a hoodie over that. Nobody needs to know your horrible secrets that you did to the shirt. You can also dress down a nice button-up. That can be a fun look, like a nice button-up. Got a nice gingham pattern and you throw a hoodie on over that. Now all of a sudden you're a Silicon Valley investor. I take it back. That's

not a good look. Don't do that look, but you can throw a nice jean jacket on over that look. Now we're talking about style layers. This has been put this on to, I know I was going to say, no, I just like, I don't know. I like, I like the, I like the look of a nice light jacket. I do. No, I just like, I don't know. I like the look of a nice light jacket. I do. Yeah. So sue me. But the biggest reason is how modular it is.

You can take it on. It gives you options. If you're getting cold, you put the jacket on. If you're getting hot, take the jacket off. If your friend's getting cold, you give them the jacket. Wait, slow down, slow down, slow down. Okay, take notes. If you spill something on your shirt suddenly, you put the jacket back take notes if you spill something on your shirt

suddenly you put the jacket back on if you spill something on your pants you tie it around your waist like you're a 1990s skateboarder can i tell you something kind of embarrassing uh i get sweaty it's nice to have a long sleeve to put over the sweatiness stains the pit stains yeah i don't know what it is that's another show that's another show pit pit stance this is a good name for what would that show what would that be about ready sweaty ready sweaty go uh that could be fun um yeah i just i've always loved a nice jacket at my i think seventh birthday we went to the gym factory which is in west virginia yeah you're gonna have to explain what that is sure so the gym factory was simultaneously a fun place for young kids to go and do gymnastics uh they had like a rope swing

over like a pit full of like foam geometric shapes that you could like drop down into they had like the runway of trampoline floor that you could like go and do stuff and then you know they had the usual gymnastic stuff and then at the night time and then on friday nights it was the teen dance center and there's like a back room back there which i don't know what it was used for other than this but like teens would go to listen to um popular music and literally just bump and grind on it was just like a secret and i i don't know how like common this is is if this was like a thing that was like present in every town like the teen dance club see i went to teen nights at the ymca when i was in middle, we had that too. I remember that being definitely more above board.

This was very bad. This is very not good. You had to know somebody to get in. I was at 7th birthday at the gym factory, daytime, and I was wearing a sports-themed windbreaker suit over a white turtleneck. Oh, gosh. It's good.'s a how did you know that because that was like the look was it like the the turtleneck under the windbreaker

thing it was it's a very like early 90s look damn i thought i was a fucking fashion pioneer um but you know i do some gymnastics i get sweaty i put the jacket on. Easy, breezy, beautiful, easy light jacket. Get one. You can have one of mine. I got 306. What's your first thing? So I decided this week, it's been, you know, kind of a tumultuous few days. Sure fucking has.

And whenever I feel a little adrift, I like to return to the poetry corner. Oh, yeah. That's my anchor. So I have a poem that I'd like to bring today. Can I sing the theme song? Yeah, please. There's no words oh yeah i thought it could be cool if it was just like you felt like you were in a hip like like club and it was like boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom

hey baby i hear the blues it's like a reflex you can't i can't fight that off help yourself can you imagine what it's like to be kel Grammer? And just like every time you hear any bass at all, you got to be like, Hey baby right here. Oh, sorry. Or if a loved one is like, hey baby. And he like, he just can't. He just comes right after that.

He comes? No. That's what you said. I said it comes right after that. You said he comes right after that. You said Kelsey Grammer has an orgasm every time anyone says the word, hey, baby. That's what you said. Run back the tapes.

I bet the Gwen Stefani song would be really hard. I had that exact same thought. I love you so much. You're my perfect soulmate from heaven. The poem I am bringing is written by Jimmy Santiago B bacca who was born in 1952 in santa fe uh he is a poet of chicano and apache descent and he had kind of a tumultuous upbringing uh so he was abandoned by his parents when he was two jesus christ and then his grandmother brought him to an orphanage. And then at 13, he ran away. And then when he was like 20 or so, he was convicted on drug charges and spent the next five or so years in prison.

And it was there that he learned to read because he was in the orphanage. He didn't have access to any kind of education at the time. And so it was in prison that he learned to read and began writing. And it became this really powerful tool for him. I was watching this interview with him where he talked about how it enabled him to connect with people. Because he would meet people and write letters for them that to like send to their like families oh wow and like love poems to like inmates girlfriends and um and he learned just a tremendous amount there was actually a movie that came out i was gonna say this sounds like

the plot of a movie well he ended up writing a screenplay for a movie that was released that was based on his experience in prison with the rival gangs and such. But the poem I wanted to read is called I Am Offering This Poem. Okay. It's very nice. I'm excited to hear it. I could use a nice poem. I am offering this poem to you since I have nothing else to give. offering this poem to you since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you or like a pair of thick socks that cold cannot bite through. I love you. I have

nothing else to give you. So it is a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in winter. It is a scarf for your head to wear over your hair to tie up around your face. I love you. Keep it. Treasure this as you would if you were lost, needing direction in the wilderness. Life becomes when mature. And in the corner of your drawer, tucked away like a cabin or Hogan, and dense trees come knocking, and I will answer, give you directions, and let you warm yourself by this fire. Rest by this fire and make you feel safe. I love you. It's all I have to give and all anyone needs to live and to go on living inside when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die. Remember, I love you. You had me at a big pot of yellow corn to keep your belly. I really had a hard time focusing on any of the other sort of imagery after that.

Because I thought about being cold. And I thought about somebody handing me like a witch's cauldron full of glistening yellow corn and eating all of it. And just going to bed for three months. He's like a New Mexico poet. And like a lot of the lines kind of remind you of that. There's something about a big pot of yellow corn. For sure. It just feels very New Mexico to me.

That was great. That was very nice. And a very, that was a, it was a salve. Yeah. You're right. Are a lot of his poems like that? Like very sort of, I don't know, romantic, both in the like literal sense and the like artistic sense? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's that.

And also he's written a lot of kind of more activist-focused poems, given his kind of own personal experience. Yeah, sure. And kind of the inequity that he experienced. But it's just that, man, that straightforward, just very precisely written stuff that I love so much. You love that shit. I love it because there's such a tendency to go flowery or grand, you know, when like the very simple, straightforward language just can be so powerful. And I just found this very nice.

This poem is just, it's like, I don't know if you do this, but when things get really like miserable in the world, I always try and find like a quote or somebody that said something that I can feel like, yeah, all right, that'll bring me comfort. Sure. And lately I haven't been as lucky with that. But poetry, man, it's always there for you. Yeah. Kind of transports you a little bit to a place that is more simple and nice.

Yeah, I think that's probably why I watched all nine hours of the Lord of the Rings movies. Because I think it does that for me, kind of, in a way. Sing triumph, I guess, of good. Anyway, can I steal you away?

I've forgotten the actual song um it could be like um heaven let your light shine down it's beautiful it's a good fucking track man hey griffin yeah i've got a jumbotron hit me with that jumbotron stick griffin do you like fantasy um no yeah it was kind of a hate watch of a loader there no of course i did take me away to your wonderful world. I'm going to tell you about Moonstone. Okay. Go to moonstone-comic.tumblr.com to start the journey.

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boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom I do that and you're probably wondering am I going to talk about under pressure or am I going to talk about ice ice baby do not worry I'm going to talk about under pressure under pressure

no no, no No, no Under Pressure is like one of my favorite songs of all time I think it's like a fucking triumph I think it is a great It used to be whenever I would Go out to bars for any reason Ever

And they had a jukebox Under Pressure was for sure going to be played on there I've seen you do it for karaoke a few times. Yeah, it makes a good duet for karaoke. I just think it's like, I don't know, it's a beautiful, it was by Queen and David Bowie. You've almost certainly heard it and you're going to hear it again here in a little bit. It was off Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. And it was a hugely successful song, both for Queen and David Bowie,

although it was never actually on a David Bowie album it was just on Queen I guess he was just like no you take this one that's fine um and I don't know I think it's like um just a very like relatable very like human song which I do not think it was like Queen and David Bowie's like, like an area that they explored very often. Like all of their songs were larger, larger than life and told these like wild stories. And this is just a song about- Well, yeah, David Bowie was like, by all accounts, a space alien.

Yeah, sure. And this is like a, this is like a moral rock song about like the ubiquitous hardships that humanity faces. Yeah. And I, I don't know. I think it's's i think it's just beautiful it also has you know the most famous bass line ever that vanilla ice stole um in a 1990 interview vanilla i said he did not steal the hook that he actually added an extra note in there yeah have you seen him like perform that uh interviews no well recently well not recently but later he admitted he just sampled it,

and then he settled out of court with Queen and David Bowie and said he was joking when he said the other thing about how he mixed it up. Anyway, okay, I'm just going to play Under Pressure here. Under Pressure Pushing down on me Pressing down on you No man has four Under Pressure The burns are filling down down on me pressing down on you no man has fallen under pressure

this song has a super interesting history i've i love this song but i didn't know like how it was made and i did while i was researching this topic uh this song actually started life as an unreleased queen song called feel like uh which was written by their drummer roger taylor and it was very very much a queen ass song like it was just about scorned love basically and it never saw the light of day because they weren't happy with it with with how it was uh coming out and sounding there are like bootleg like demos of of this song that exists it's like the only footprint of this song that exists today i'm gonna play a little bit of it the quality is super bad but you can get a feel for like, oh, this is under pressure.

wish me luck i wanna be there and that's right come on and get it has like a lot of the bones of under pressure basically but it doesn't have like the grandiose lyrics and it doesn't have david bowie and it doesn't have that bass line uh and so it became like under pressure it became what it is because of david bowie's involvement Originally, Bowie was going to sing on a Queen track called Cool Cat, but they removed his vocals at his request because he wasn't happy with his performance on the song. There's a lot of perfectionist stuff in the history of Under Pressure. But while he was in the studio, they had this studio in Switzerland while he was there.

David Bowie and the four members of Queen, including Freddie Mercury, just got together switzerland while he was there uh david bowie and the four members of of queen including freddie mercury just got together and just wrote under pressure in uh what bowie claims was an evening flat uh they just cranked and cranked it out and it did take like a lot of the stuff from from feel like like the the sort of uh rhythm of it uh came came directly from that song but obviously there was a lot of stuff uh that was added to it the scat singing that happens throughout like the that was because it was improvised when they like it was the improvisation of the writing i love that it's extremely good uh what is great is that there are so many things that are uncertain about who actually did what

Bowie attributes Freddie Mercury with like a lot of the like writing of the song while various members of Queen have said that Bowie wrote you know the lyrics and is responsible for for the I don't know the success of of those. The bass line is the biggest mystery of all. I'm going to read you an entire paragraph breakdown that I found on Wikipedia that breaks down the history of who made the most famous bass line in the history of rock music ever. So John Deacon, who is the bassist, said in a Japanese magazine Music Life in 1982 that David Bowie created the bass line. In more recent interviews, Brian May and Roger Taylor credited the bass riff to Deacon, who was the bassist. Bowie, on his website, said that the bass line was already written before he became involved.

involved. Roger Taylor, in an interview for the BBC documentary Queen, The Days of Our Lives, stated that Deacon did indeed create the bass line, stating that all through the sessions in the studio he had been playing the riff over and over. He also claims that when the band returned from dinner, Deacon amusingly forgot the riff. But fortunately, Taylor was still able to remember it. Brian May clarified matters in a 2016 Mirror Online article, writing that, this is wild, it was actually Bowie, not Taylor, who had inadvertently changed the riff. The riff began as, quote, Deke began playing six notes the same,

then one note a fourth down. After the dinner break, Bowie corrected, actually changed Deacon's memory of the riff to ding, ding, ding, diddling, ding. I love that so much. Everyone got a fucking hand on that ball well and i also love how generous everybody is where they're like no no no no i didn't write the most famous bass riff in rock music no that wasn't me it's so basically the bassist for the band like

had the riff but i guess the riff was just like bum bum bum bum bum bum and then they went to dinner and then they came back and he was like ah fuck what was it and it was like how much cocaine were you guys on it you couldn't remember bum bum bum bum bum bum and bowie was like no it's a bum bum bum but a bum bum and that was it like that was anyway i fucking love that uh anyway i love this whole song. Every time I hear it, come on, I just get inspired, man. It's so soaring and gospel-like in a way that I have just always really, really, really loved. And I do feel- It's just like it goes places you don't expect it to go.

Every time I listen to it, there's something I forget that shows up and I'm like, oh my gosh i forgot that was part of this song yeah it's like there's such a journey in that in that yeah that like quiet break in the middle where it's yeah that that i always forget that that's there anyway it's such a good song and i know like i always feel weird talking about like well obviously griffin but like i don't I feel like, I feel like there are also songs that are classics and masterpieces that if I go a month without hearing them, I will completely forget that they exist. No, that's very true. And I don't think Under Pressure is one of those for me, but I imagine that it is for a lot of people.

What is your second thing? My second thing is also music related. Oh boy. It's when Rolf plays the piano. Rolf is... The Muppet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The dog Muppet.

The dog Muppet. Rachel and my, I think both our favorite Muppet. That's how we knew. It was a good Muppet, man. is a good muppet man um i realized that i should talk about this when i got excited about the idea of researching this for a little while um i got to learn a little bit about how it works how he plays the piano wait wait wait does he actually play the correct notes on the piano? We'll lean in, Griffin. Oh, shit. Yes. So Rolf is a... I'm going to say it that way. Rolf? Rolf. Although there's been some

like various pronunciations. But Rolf is a live hand puppet, which means that there is an actual hand up on one side, and then a hand in the mouth, and then another person who does the other hand. Oh, interesting. I always thought it was one person does the head and two people do

the hands. Although physically, I don't know how you would do that. You would have to put your head through the other one's torso. It's just, it's not a thing you can do. So Jim Henson would usually perform the head and the voice and the left hand, and then another Muppeteer would perform the right hand. However, when Rolf played the piano, Henson would helm the head and the second performer would control both hands on the keys. Oh, okay. So that is how that worked.

Just for this specific example. Just for specific piano purposes. So Derek Scott, who was the musical consultant for The Muppet Show, would supply the pre-recorded piano playing. And then the other puppeteer, Steve Whitmire, would spend hours learning every nuance of the pre-recorded piano track to make it look believable that is so much more work than you probably had to do my dog my literal dog so the so the piano itself didn't actually produce any music but he would intentionally move his hands on the keys so that it would match up with the pre-recorded track. And that's what made the illusion so effective.

And so Rolf, and I actually was hoping you would play a clip. Oh, yeah. What do you want me to play? The song, I Hope That Something Better Comes Along from the Muppet movie. Okay. Do you know the clip I'm talking about? The new Muppet movie? No, this is 1979. Okay.

This is when Steve Martin is in there. Oh, yes. When Kermit goes into the restaurant and Rolf is like a kind of like Tom Waits, like a musician at the piano. And they're talking about like lost love. I can probably find a clip of that. It's on YouTube. Okay. It's on YouTube.

If it's on YouTube, it's on youtube if it's on youtube then it's in the show uh and so rolf and kermit are kind of taking turns singing the song and at the very end steve martin is the waiter and he's he's at the end of the clip cat bowls don't have feet oh sorry about that two three four there's no limitation to mixing and matching some get an itching for a critter they've been scratching a skunk was badgered the results were strong i hope that something better i hope that something better i hope that something better comes along Phone call for Kermit the Frog. At first I was just going to say Rolf. You know, I was just going to say like...

He's a good dude. He's a wonderful Muppet. I love him. He's funny. He's adorable. He's talented. He's got that gravelly blues voice. And then I realized, no, you know what?

What it really is is when he plays the piano. Like, I just get transported. It's just like a nice, like, I don't know. It's another layer of artistry and complexity to the character. Sure. That he can, like, play the piano. And also the banjo, if you watch some clips. It's a mature. Wait, does he really play the banjo if you watch some clips it's a mature wait does he

really play the banjo i thought that was kermit's thing they have two banjo playing muppets on the muppet show he he also played the band seems excessive to me no rolf is a you know a mature uh pick for a favorite muppet when you're young it's not when when you're young, it's... He's not... When you're young, it's Gonzo, and you're like, I love Gonzo and his antics, but now Gonzo makes me so tired now. Oh, Fozzie. Fozzie and Gonzo are always like jockeying for the spotlight. I've had a long day, and I'm tired. Can we not do this right now, Fozzie? I take it back. I actually love Fozzie. I do love Fozzie. I won't talk shit about Fozzie. Gonzo can... I do love Fozzie. There's actually another, on YouTube, there's another great piano duet of Fozzie and Rolf

playing together, and it's very good. But anyway, yeah, I always get a little sheepish talking about the Muppets because it's very juvenile, and it feels very escapist sometimes to just drown yourself in Muppets. But Rolf, he is. He's just a mature person's Muppet. You got me thinking about Muppets now. I know. I decided to just focus on one Muppet

in case I want to go back to the well later. Yeah. Next week, I'm doing Statler. And then the week after that, I'm going to do Waldorf. I'm breaking them up. Because they're different. They do have sort of different vibe different yeah um well i guess that's it huh for this one it is so uh i guess we'll be back next week and we'll have um who knows what new sort of body mods we'll have done i might get my uh you know my ears gauged or something. Maybe I'll get a third nostril added in. It's going to be wild, folks.

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and you will too it is out at the time we're recording this it is out today uh, for like a month or so now. And I adore it. And, uh, I, you will too. It is out, uh, at the time we're recording this, it is out today.

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You can find a link to that in the episode description and, um, anything else, huh? Thank you to all those people in the wonderful Facebook group. I find myself just going to that group anytime I want to seek out some cute videos or some nice little uppers.

It is a, yeah, it's where Rachel buys all of her, buys all her trucker speed is on the wonderful Facebook group. If you're looking for it, it's actually still under our old show title, so it's under Rosebuddiescast. But the content is exclusively Wonderful Focused. Exclusively Wonderful Focused and also a peer-to-peer dark web drug trading. Oh, no, it's the FBI.

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