Wonderful! - Wonderful! Ep. 55: Ouchie Bravery

Episode Date: October 17, 2018

Rachel's favorite danceable jams! Griffin's favorite horror writer! Rachel's top three favorite book! Griffin's favorite brass album! 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, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Hey! Hi! Brr! Brr! That's the sound my bones bones rattling around in my body.

It sounded kind of like a choo-choo train. It did. It did. Well, my body's like a train. I've been told that before. When I was, do you remember when I was a gym instructor at Good Gym Plus down in the city? Yes. I would commute down to the city to Good Gym Plus

and I would do push-ups 101. And the people would come in and they would do like five more push-ups than they ever thought they could do. And they'd be like, wow, how do you, your body's like a train. Okay, okay, yeah. So I get told that all the time.

No, I've always thought it. So that's weird that you haven't said it out loud on the show before, though. I burned my finger, but good, didn't I? Downstairs, didn't I? You got some sweet potato fries out of the... I know it's not relevant to the show, but it does sting like a goober. After you did that, I kind of struggled with... How you should respond?

I sort of detected that you didn't really know how to respond. Because I had this feeling of like, should I have told him it was hot? But I figured you would... It was hot fries. It was hot fries. I didn't know it was hot fries. You said I've made fries. And they were still in the pan.

And they were still in the pan. I should have assumed hot fries, but I did touch it just with the little tippy tip of my pointer finger. So... A lot of marriage, what I've learned, is trying to find the line between supporting your partner and then making them think you don't believe in them and trying to figure out what you can say at what point.

And so I didn't want to say, hey, this pan I just got out of the oven is hot, Griffin. Sure, love means never having to say, hey, that pan's hot. Hey, do you have any small wonders? So there's a new season of Heavyweight, which is a podcast I like very much. Oh, yeah. It just came back this month, and it's super, super great. If you haven't listened before, it's not on this network.

Sorry. But it is a reporter, Jonathan Goldsteinstein i believe uh interviews people that have something from their past that they would like to reconcile and then he does a lot of research and tries to tack down like historic events associated and do a lot of like sleuthing and connect them uh so it's super interesting so the new season, the very first episode is with Rob Corddry. And he has this memory of breaking his arm as a child. And every single one

of his siblings, including his parents, do not think it's true and do not remember it happening. Whoa. So Jonathan Goldstein goes as far as to get medical records

from the hospital he says he went to because his parents and family refused to believe that it happened. don't spoil it that sounds so good i know just very good justin and i think travis are always speaking very highly uh of this show i want to check it out yes uh i want to bring we got these um pumpkin spice sandwich cookies from the store um i think they're a central market brand but they're i know they

have them at trader joe's too they're so good I mean, they blend my love of autumnal flavors and sandwich cookies. Not sandwich cookies Oreos because Hydrox is a fucking joke that God played on the world because of our sins. What else? New episodes of Terrace House, opening new doors.

We finished those up. We're already finished them. Oops. I got another pocket operator i think i'm just going to keep buying these things it's uh they are so these are like little uh synth engines made by the people who make the op1 which i talked about on the show before that little keyboard uh synth thing and you can see them right there on my bookshelf they look like little calculators they're so so little. They're so little,

but they're basically like little sequencers and you can make cool jams with them and they're so little and I like them. I'm kind of obsessed with buying like music synth stuff because people make really, really neat, like aesthetically neat shit. And I don't know, I'm too old to collect Pokemon cards.

There it is. Hey, you're up first this week. I am. You are. My first this week. I am. You are. My first thing is the band Jungle. Jungle. This is a band that I felt very familiar to me. And I figured out maybe why they do.

One, they came to South by Southwest in 2014. Oh, okay. So maybe that's where it, Rachel messaged me earlier today. Like, have you talked about this band on the show before? And I was like, I have not heard of this band before. I don't know how you're... Also, one of their songs was used in a Toyota Yaris commercial. That's probably

what it is. Yes. So this is an English modern soul musical collective based in London. Jungle was founded by Tom McFarlane and Josh Lloyd Watson. Todd McFarlane, the Spawn writer? Tom McFarlane?

Oh, okay. That's not the Spawn guy. Okay. The guy who made Spawn is named Todd McFarlane. That's just my deep well of comics humor that I'm pulling from. Is it hard for you sometimes

that I don't know stuff like that? No, I would be more worried if you did know i know you don't know anything about comics and so if you were like but i do know everything about spawn i would be like oh shit that's an issue uh so this duo lived next door to each other growing up uh and they went on to form jungle at the beginning of 2013 and if if you watch their music videos, they're pretty incredible. They put a lot of emphasis on the performance of other people, basically. So the two of them do not appear in their videos, but they have incredible dancers in every single one of their videos.

Apparently, and I wasn't familiar with this, but there was a song Platoon that was released in 2013 and it was a six year old girl in a purple tracksuit breakdancing. Hell yeah. And it racked up 5 million views on YouTube. The video you sent me was

awesome. Yes. It reminded me of that super fresh I don't know if you ever saw I think I sent it to you the Spike Jonze Apple Home commercial where the woman pushes into the walls and they keep moving back and then she just has like a wild dance solo it really really reminded me of that yeah yeah uh so their first album uh came out in 2014 it was uh called jungle appropriately and i wanted to play a little something from the track that was used in the Toyota Yaris commercial.

It's called Busy Earning. So if you read reviews about Jungle, the genre of music they do, you'll see it described as mid-tempo 1970s style funk. Their influences include Disclosure, Marvin Gaye, and Sly and the Family Stone. Hell yeah. I get that. Yeah. Yeah. The only after the release of their first album were they able to quit their day jobs. But they said that it's still they'll go and play to 10,000 people in Glastonbury and then go to Luxembourg and play to 50 people.

So they're still kind of like finding their way to that point. And then just recently, as of last month, they released their next album, which was called Forever. They recorded it in London and they describe it as a post-apocalyptic radio station playing breakup songs. I read a lot of reviews that compared the sound to kind of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and the band Junior Senior. Okay. Wow, that's a lofty comparison. And so I wanted to play a song from the new album called happy man uh so this reminded me the other day Someone be free. Buy yourself a drink. No, I won't let it take my life. So this reminded me, the other day, Griffin and I were trying to find songs that would motivate our son to dance.

Yes. And we were just kind of trying to come up with all the dance jams we could think of. And I thought of Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity. That video, that song, that singer still fucking bangs it is the best shit and so when i was watching jungle stuff today just like the music and the videos i was like oh man this like scratches that itch for me yeah it's just like a kind of a dancey fun but like unusual sound you know like not exactly like you know what you hear in like edm for example yeah totally do you want to know my first thing yes my first thing is a japanese manga artist

strap in folks uh named junji ito uh who makes some very very spooky stuff i wanted to talk about it because it's it's the halloween season and i've been kind of obsessed with his work how did you happen upon this sort of in the the ether right like sort of in the nerd pop culture ether he's extremely prolific and his works have inspired like lots and lots and lots of different people um and a lot of the sort of threads that he has woven have been parodied in in other things uh his work has been adapted in so many different forms he is just he is just like a he is a a beloved just a horror writer and i'm i'm i'm fairly new to him uh i think i probably like became aware of his work and started reading it last year um because i don't like read manga that is like one area of nerd expertise that i've never

really dabbled in um but his stuff is so good and the the scariest stories i've ever experienced in any medium ever and speaking of like we've never done this i don't think on this show before but i want to like include a legit content warning because some of his work does involve like uh like body horror and um and like self-harm in some of them so if if that's something you are sensitive to uh i would not seek out his work and if you want to skip ahead totally understand i'll actually drop in the time code for uh when when we're done talking about this right here 18 minutes and 34 seconds so there there are a few things about his work that i think really make him stand apart from other sort of horror creators uh and the first

thing is just the art style of his work um i don't know if you ever i don't think you you did not like grow up in the church so i don't think you would have exposure to this but there are these things called chick tracts and you've told me about this, but there are these things called Chick Tracts. You've told me about this. They were basically little booklets with horrible, horrible, scare you into the church stories in it. Like, uh-oh, did you hear about Cindy? She started playing Dungeons and Dragons, and it became witchcraft. And it would have little annotations saying where in the Bible

it says not to play Dungeons and Dragons. Like but okay is this like a baptist thing or is this like a this is a i don't know i don't know but there was something about the art style of those that kind of remind me of junji ito's work in that both are sort of designed i think to be unsettling is the best word i can use to describe his his art style and like each each story definitely has a like a dubstep drop page in it where you see the subject of terror that the the story is based around and where his books really succeed is uh almost always before you get to that page that is like the horror climax of his story you get one last panel on the page before of a character like reacting to it and then it's up to you to turn the page and see the very very scary thing on the next page

have you read this in like physical form or is i've read yeah i had a i i have one of of his books a lot of them are archived online also i wonder how do they replicate that online uh just like clicking through okay my pages um so so his work is unsettling right and that that climax page is scary as fuck like it's very scary but just the people in these stories usually just just people talking is unsettling because of the way it's drawn uh the the people in his stories are drawn with a very sort of uncanny valley effect do you know what that is yeah it's very much like that where they're like very realistically drawn but just kind of fucked up so that everybody looks like panicked all the time it is it is it is

really it sets a creepy tone for all of his stories um but the other thing that i really really love about his work is that then the the subject of the stories that he writes, the thing that is horrifying in the stories that he writes, is almost never like a monster. It's almost never like a killer. He does have stories about those, and they are usually very cleverly done. And there's one, sorry, I have to mention about an author who's like having a hard time getting over writer's block. So she goes to a store to buy a chair to like sit in so she can write her stories and become inspired. And this guy sells her this chair and tells her this story about how this guy gave this chair to another author. And he was so obsessed with this author that he built the chair so that he could be inside of it. And so it's a chair that a man is inside. So like while you're sitting in it, which is like funny, but also when you see it, fucking so scary. So there is some stuff about like a subject, right?

A person or a being that is coming off after you. Most of the time, though, the thing that is scary in his stories are intangible they are completely intangible they are they are forces more than anything else um i had a hard time sort of putting this to words wikipedia had a great way of summarizing it they said uh the universe ito depicts is cruel and capricious the characters he off the characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

To give you an idea of what that looks like, I think probably one of his most famous works, he had lots of long-running series, and then he did lots of short story, just one-shots. And one of his most famous ones and most like referenced ones. And the one that I actually discovered first was called The Enigma of Amigara Fault. And I think it's fucking so scary. It has been parodied a lot. There's like a Steven Universe gag

kind of making fun of it. But like, I also think the source material is super scary. It's a short story about this fault that opens up after an earthquake that is covered in holes in the shapes of people uh just this side of a mountain is covered in holes basically in the silhouettes of of people uh and these holes lead deep deep deep deep into the face of the mountain

uh and and as people arrive to study this phenomenon uh people realize that the holes are in their exact shape um and so people start compulsively uncontrollably not uncontrollably because because they know what they're doing but they cannot resist the the urge to enter their hole and get sucked into the mountain never to be seen again uh and it's so scary to me because it's incredible it's not at the end of the day like the horror in that story is like inside of us it is about uh it's about morbid curiosity that is the villain in that story and it's so like relatable and so like in the story so inescapable as most of like the the the antagonists of his stories are uh it's it's it's just really really scary to me there's another series that i read um all of this last week and it's why i wanted to

talk about his work because i just like got so consumed by it uh he there's a series called uzumaki uh where a town becomes afflicted by a spiral curse where people just become obsessed with the shape of a spiral or they're like otherwise like cursed by spirals like people start growing snail shells on their back uh there are people who start growing their hair into spirals and it like comes alive and starts killing them uh or otherwise like just sort of spirals leading to people's horrific deaths. In this story, the villain is a shape. Like the villain is just the shape, a spiral that people become obsessed with. And I hope this isn't reductive, but it sounds a lot like what works so well with shows like Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. yeah for sure absolutely where it's not like a big crazy like you know alien that's coming after you but like a more psychological horror a more like oppressive horror too is kind of what he deals and he has a story called a series called hell star remina that is just about a sentient giant planet descends on earth and then it's gonna eat it and people start freaking out and what do you do when that's about to happen and it gets buck wild all of his stories like also kind of deal with like the breakdown of society uh and and what that does to us and how we become villains in that in that sense but um yeah his his work is utterly terrifying to me it is like i have i have a pretty

strong stomach like i love watching horror movies. And most of the time, I'm not like especially scared of them. I just sort of enjoy them for what they are, like a really well-crafted horror movie. These scare me quite bad. I may have had some bad dreams, some of those dark thoughts after reading these all week. But they are also very, very good. some bad dreams some of those dark thoughts uh after after reading these all week but uh they are also very very good um you can you can find some of them online uh or you know buy collections of them on you know whatever bookstore you you prefer uh can i steal your way what's what song was that no diggity

no diggity has words a lot of words though i don't know the words to no diggity has words, a lot of words, though. I don't know the words to no diggity. I like the way you work it, no diggity. Yeah. But the whole improvement, it was a mashup, and I'm not going to. It was a great mashup. Thank you. It was so good. I thought Girl Talk had broken into our house. I have some jumbotrons for you.

Let's do the damn thing. This first message is for Lauren and Jack. It is from Ginny. Congratulations on your engagement. Lauren, you're the most gorgeous, caring person I've ever met, and I'm so grateful to be in your bridal party. Jack, I made a lot of grand statements in college, but I stood by the best one, that we would be lifelong friends.

Let's co-op Stardew forever. You're both so, so wonderful. Love always, Ginny. Do you think co-op Stardew is like a drugs thing? I figured you would know. I do know. They talk about Stardew Valley and you can play co-op now. Hey, will you farm with me?

Maybe. What does that mean? What do I have to do if I farm with you? Water the plants and you'll get 50%. Do I have to do it all the time? Every day, yeah yeah but like multiple times a day yeah every hour but you get lots of virtual money that you can spend on virtual drugs okay so what's the second jumbachon the second message is for jeff it is from seth honk jeff my

sweet boy yes you jeff who loves seals and Bucky Barnes. You are wonderful. And I think lovely Griffin and Rachel are the perfect conduit to say so. Here's to our quote unquote flirting via iMessage stickers, corn, simultaneous screenshots of CRJs. I really like you and editing our names onto pics of cats cuddling endless smooshes seth um corn how sweet is that it is a sweet sweet message i'm very into it if you want to drop your your your inside jokes stuff on our show go for it but i do i do i feel like you've tantalized us with corn and then it's a mystery that i need to get to the bottom of and that's c o r n yeah not the band corn but maybe that's part of it what do you look for in a book literally

found the bag it said like this book made me shit my pants i'd be like that's i'm buying this book like like i think the problem blurbs a lot of times i like that we both want to crap ourselves over books what's the best way to e-read in the tub? Listen to that noise. I'm reviewing a plastic bag today. How do you find a good book? This is the most fucked up weird shit you've ever read. You're like into it. Hand it over. Take my money. I'm Brea Grant. And I'm Mallory O'Meara. We're Reading Glasses and we solve all your bookish problems every Thursday on Maximum Fun. what's your second thing my second thing is a book by the wonderful elizabeth gilbert called the signature of all things this is a good book this is a very good book rachel very much likes this book a lot of books that i have read in the past 10 years or so have not made their way onto

my list of favorites yes uh this one definitely did like top three favorite books of all time break it down for them so the book came out in 2013 over 500 pages it's like epic uh and you may know elizabeth gilbert from eat pray love which came out in 2006 and was turned into a feature film with miss julia roberts and also for being top five best human being currently living. Yes, that too. That too. So she wrote this kind of sweeping novel that starts in the 1760s with the father of this family named Henry Whitaker.

He becomes an adventurer that travels the country looking for medicinal plants and what ends up happening is he returns to england where he is from and he expects to be lauded for his triumphs and he because he was born poor and because of his kind of scrappy upbringing is not welcomed with open arms so he his family, which is his wife, his daughter, and his adopted daughter to Philadelphia. And then we just follow from his kind of experience all the way into Alma, who is his daughter, through her entire life. So this 500- novel like spans generations kind of a 100 years of solitude thing exactly and that's what i was going to say that's another one of my favorite books for sure uh is that i love these books that follow like generations

in the same family uh the thing i googled it can i can i i can never remember if it's a hundred years of solitude or a thousand years of solitude So if you heard clickety clack that was me Checking I thought it was a hundred years And I was correct A thousand would be a really epic book A long book and then it would be like My space family

Can you trace your family back a thousand years Sure man sure At 23andMe Is that what it's called I've never done one of those tests yeah the answer would be so boring uh so this is this is a time period um and elizabeth gilbert talks a lot about this about her interest in like charles dickens and jane austen of this like time period where women are are kind of uh restrained from pursuing interests that are deemed kind of unladylike

at the time. But one thing that was acceptable, and Elizabeth Gilbert found this through her research, was women being interested in botany. So Alma is a really tremendous student and spends a lot of time just fascinated by botany. student and spends a lot of time just fascinated by botany uh but at the same time feeling kind of isolated uh and you know just kind of diving into her research and her study and elizabeth gilbert did a lot of study during this time to kind of learn everything that was involved you know with plants right um the thing thing that Alma becomes particularly interested in is moss. And I just wanted to read you a little passage.

So she is kind of exploring in the gardens. And she says, They're rising no more than an inch above the surface of the boulder. She saw a great and tiny forest. Nothing moved within this mossy world. She peered at it so closely that she could smell it, dank and rich and old. Gently Alma pressed her hand into this tight little timberland. It compacted itself under her palm and then sprang back to form without complaint.

It appeared to have its own weather. This was the entire world. This was bigger than the world. This was the firmament of the universe as seen through one of William Herschel's mighty telescopes. This was planetary and vast. These were ancient unexplored galaxies rolling forth in front of her. God, she's so fucking good. She's so good. You almost cussed. I saw it.

I saw your mouth purse as if to curse. I would never. All right. I saw the curse purse though. Curse, as if to curse. I would never. All right. I saw the curse purse, though.

I feel like when I was thinking about this book, which I love so much, and how much it reminds me of kind of the whole spirit behind the show that we do. Yeah. Of just like there is so much in the minutia that is worth celebrating. Yeah. And Elizabeth Gilbert definitely does that i would say in all of her books but i feel like especially especially this one yeah the other thing that's great about this book uh there's a lot of discussion about female masturbation heck yeah which is the one thing elizabeth gilbert said when she was talking about dickens and jane austen she's like there was never any room for that like women and pride and prejudice there's not like an extended cranking

scene she said quote i wanted to rewrite the 19th century woman's novel which had only two possible endings you either get married or you're ruined by a sexual or social error you get pride and prejudice or anna karenina you're living in the big mansion with Mr. Darcy or you're under the wheels of a train. I wanted to write about somebody who doesn't get everything she wanted and is able to look at her life and say it was an interesting one,

a worthy one, and a dignified one. So like you, there are a lot of scenes of Alma kind of going into a closet and exploring herself, which I remember reading and being like, because you're so caught up in the time period and you're kind of going into a closet and exploring herself, which I remember reading and being like, because you're so caught up in the time period. And you're kind of, especially if you've read other books that take place in this time period,

you kind of like fit into the groove of like, oh, this time period and women did this and this is how they talk to each other. And this is what the occupations were and what it meant to be of this class and whatever. And then you get to that scene and you're like, oh, this is different. Oh, hey, this is different.

Ooh. So I just, I wanted to close with another quote that I feel like, I mean, in our best moments of wonderful, I would like to think kind of describes what we try to do. She said, you see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world for this

world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have marveled why it is not large and beautiful enough for others, why they must dream up new and marvelous fears or long to live elsewhere beyond this dominion. But that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach my end, that I know quite a bit more of it than I knew when I arrived. That is so cool. You gotta read this book, Griffin. You gotta read this frickin' book.

Everybody. It's so good. I mean, if book, Griffin. You gotta read this freaking book. Everybody. It's so good. I mean, if you like 100 Years of Solitude, obviously. If you like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, obviously. Like period pieces. If they're not your thing, which most of the time it's not mine, but you just like this kind of like sweeping look at like an entire generation. I just, man, can't.

This is definitely top three. And a lot of the books in my top 10 are not books i necessarily would recommend to everybody sure this is one of them i will dip in i haven't had a book in my brain in quite some time just do like an audiobook i'll do an audiobook yeah yeah why not can i tell you about my second thing yes i'm excited to talk about it because i think you're going to be much more into it than the long form manga discussion that we had earlier. I want to talk about the album Surf by The Social Experiment, formerly known as Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment. So The Social Experiment is a musical outfit comprised, I think most notably Chance the Rapper is one of the members. There is also producers Peter Cottontail and Nate Fox.

And the former Donnie Trumpet is a trumpeter named Nico Segal. So when this album first came out in 2015, the original title of it was Surf by Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment. And I was trying to research it and couldn't find it. And I was like, wait, what happened? After Trump got elected in 2016,

Nico Segal changed sort of his stage name and stopped using Donnie Trumpet as his stage name. So now it's just the social experiment. So this album, like I said, came out in 2015. It's, it is,

Oh God, it's phenomenal. It, it took my world by storm when it first came out i was listening to it pretty much constantly yes i remember that um and i wasn't actually super familiar with chance like before i i got into this album uh this is where i sort of first discovered him and i'm you know i think everybody's life is improved when they have that moment of discovery yeah if you're like me you didn't know

how to get to his music because at first it was only like a mixtape on soundcloud i think there was i mean he had dropped he had had a couple of uh eps i think at that point this was like a full album on itunes and that's when i was like oh and what what's really fascinating about it is that like when it was when this album was like about to come out and they were building buzz for it the buzz was uh from from a lot of like the press and and fans was uh oh shit yeah like a new chance album that's gonna be so great uh and chance the rapper was was kind of explicit in interviews like this is this is not my thing like i am involved in it uh and he you know has verses on on almost every track uh but he was very clear that this is nico seagal's album this is like his this is like his vision uh and sure enough like they're the the mix of songs on his album is so so so eclectic like there

are absolute banger dance jams that are so fucking good uh all of them across the board and there are a lot of them uh and then they are blended with just these somber horn songs just these somber sort of trumpet solos that that go on for three minutes uh and they just follow each other one one after another the like thing that ties every song in this album together is the horns that are that are behind all of it and i think that's why they credited it to donnie trumpet and the the social experiment man i love a horn i love a good freaking horn huh like any any song is improved by a horn in my opinion 25 or 6 to 4 like if chicago didn't have horns in it nobody would nobody would know anything about chicago um yeah i god i love a good horn uh day matthews band anyway uh just all all ska

um so like i'm i'm obsessed with this album the the the dance jams or jams and the experimental stuff that is just all instrumental is like so entrancing to kind of give you an idea of like where this album goes. Uh, I want to play a couple of songs. Uh, the first one is probably the most famous song off this album. And one of probably the better known chance, the rapper tracks, uh, it's called Sunday candy, uh, which is like, it's one of my favorite songs on the album. It's basically just chance the rapper, just singing a great song about his grandma, just as it's great song about his grandma, just about how nice his grandma is and how he needs to go see her and go to church

so he can hang out with her on Sunday. And there's a lot of guest vocals. There's a lot of guest vocals on this entire album, which I'll talk about later. But yeah, this is a little bit of Sunday candy. I am the thesis of her prayers. Her nieces and her nephews are just pieces of the layers. Only one she loves as much

as me is Jesus Christ and Taylor. I got a future song singing from my grandma. You singing too but your grandma ain't my grandma. Mine's handmade, pan-fried, sun-dried, south side and beat the devil by a landslide. Praying with her hands tied.

President of my fan club santa something told me i should bring my so like this song is so fun and it's got like these infectious like horn riffs on it it's it's it's really great songs like i remember where we were the first time we heard it yeah and like i remember listening to it just constantly like like every day, multiple times after hearing it because I was just so like intoxicated by it. Yeah. And there's a lot of songs like that, like on the album, like a lot of really fun songs. There's one called Slip Slide that has a verse from Busta Rhymes in it, which like

is a seasoning that improves every meal. Just horns and Busta Rhymes. Just horns and Busta Rhymes is pretty much all you need. There's a song called Wanna Be Cool, which is just like this really fucking catchy song about the lengths you go to for like acceptance from your peers uh they're they're all so great and they're all so fun and then just four tracks into the album is an instrumental track called nothing came to me which is just this like it's haunting and it's lovely. And it leads right into want to be cool. This like sad trumpet song ends and then it's,

so this is, this is nothing came to me. um the album just does this like constantly like swings back and forth between between genres it encompasses everything it is aided in that effort by, like I said, so many guest appearances. Busta Rhymes, Janelle Monae, Erykah Badu, B.O.B. It's fucking wild. Every track, when you look at the credits for each song, has 14 names after it. I don't know. I love this album it is so uh it is a

classic to me and it is so like expertly made and so i appreciate it for for for that fact but i also appreciate like an album that i can just kind of put on and it'll take me to so many different places and scratch so many different itches just in one like playthrough of it you're an itchy guy and i'm an itchy guy um i am wearing a sweater because it's 40 degrees in austin it's i don't know how we skip to fall i guess um and so i've been itching under this sweater but i've been blasted i turn up the stereo all the way and i put on um uh the johnny trumpet and the social experiment it just gets different it gets in it's like a it's like a soft sweet lotion for my trained body i really want you to review uh music i don't know how to do it man like it boggles my mind i'm friends with music writers and they're so talented

and then i read their stuff and i'm like i don't even know how to like and we talk about music a lot on this show i feel like i feel like I am able to sort of voice my enthusiasm for music, but I would not know how to write about it. Yeah, same. I don't know why Sunday Candy is such a good song. I don't know why Nothing Came to Me is such a memorable, beautiful track. But it is, so go listen to it. Do you want to know what our friends at home are all about this week?

Yes. Elliot says, my wonderful thing is Super Mario Party. I've been a big fan of the Mario Party franchise since I was a kid. And my friends and I have been having a super great time playing the newest entry and making each other so, so, so mad when we steal each other's stars. We have this. We've played it once. We did. We had four people.

We lost. Chris Plant had to bail. And so we took turns being his character. And he actually almost won the game, which tells you about the, to quote Wikipedia, the cruel and capricious nature of the Mario Party games. They are fun, though. Heather says, hi, guys. One of my favorite things at the moment is flannel sheets. I always get excited about putting flannel sheets on because it means the weather has finally become chilly in my mind it really solidifies

the arrival of the fall slash winter season and the first night i go to bed with them on uh is i am so so so cozy and content i love a flannel uh just in general just flannel anything is just the best uh the heater kicked on in our house for the first time yesterday and i that that too is sort of the same like checkpoint for me where it's like oh it's on uh it is that was my first time smelling this house's heater and i'm pleased to report it is it smells like any other heater it could have been bad uh angela says hot or cold alcoholic or not apple or pear all cider is good cider oh my my gosh, that reminds me. We have this huge jug of cider in our fridge right now.

We need to drink it. We really, really need it. I'm going to heat some up. We're both so raspy for reasons beyond my comprehension. We're going to both have hot, hot cider when we go downstairs. Okay. Does that sound good? Yes.

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what i know that's what all and they're canadian that's what i know they're not oh my gosh yeah i know they say they live in vancouver no they're from tennessee whoo i know i still like them i'm gonna edit this out because i think the episode's already ended, but they're from Tennessee. I think that's it. So I just want to celebrate myself, I guess, in this moment for how brave I was doing this whole episode with a big boo-boo on my finger. A big, big ouchie. You were very brave. You know, I had forgotten as a listener of you that that had happened.

You were so convincing. Yeah, and I did like the usual stuff, like the jokes and the enthusiasm. I didn't ask for a kissy on my boo-boo this whole time. So I think I deserve like a fucking medal or something. What about a hot cup of apple cider? Yeah, let's get to it. Bye. MaximumFun.org Comedy and culture. Artist owned.

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