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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy.
Hello, this is Griffin McElroy.
And this is wonderful.
A show about the goods.
The things we like.
The goods. We got the goods baby.
So that's the new tagline I've been kicking around.
Oh see I don't like that.
Well it seemed like you smiled
at me really. People couldn't hear it but you smiled
at me super big and you mouthed
I love it. Yeah but I was talking
about something else. What were you talking about?
The Charlie XCXx song no the you're what a sexual thing about you oh your parents listen to this show i know that's
why i did the best i could that was the bet that was that was the best you got well i didn't get
specific okay that's fair.
Let's programming note,
you're probably gonna hear some foley work coming from outside of my office.
We do have King Kong.
We have a King Kong problem here in Austin.
Yeah, that's true.
And he knew about all of our bananas that we have.
And so he is really trying pretty hard
to get into the house.
Very slowly and methodically.
Yeah, you would think that he would just try and do one big smash with his huge fist.
But no, he tried to pick the lock earlier, which I was like, wow.
Can I ask you, this is somewhat related,
why our son thinks that I love Donkey Kong so much?
I didn't know that.
Was that on the wonderful questionnaire that he filled out about you one time? No. that I love Donkey Kong so much. I didn't know that.
Was that on the wonderful questionnaire that he filled out about you one time?
No.
It's because when we are playing with toys,
we have a little Donkey Kong in a car figure.
And he's always like,
I know which one you want, Mommy,
because this one's your favorite.
I don't know.
We may have been talking about our Mario Kart our mario kart sort of pics i don't
think i told him that donkey kong was your must have said it offhand years ago because i that
boy's mind is a steel trap um no somebody's we're getting some construction done on our house yes
um and so you might hear that but just like it ambiance. You can pretend like you're us living in our house, being smashed apart by a big King Kong.
Do you have any small wonders?
Oh, man, you really ran into that full force.
I can go first before you do it.
Please do.
Our flag means death.
It's a big bold.
We're watching it now.
It's a big brave stance I'm taking and saying that our flag means death is a good television program.
We have been told that for...
Six months?
I don't know how long this show has been out,
but months and months and months.
And we are terrible about watching the shows
that people watch these days.
Well, we're real thorough in that
if we are watching a program, like a reality program,
we will make sure that we watch each
episode that comes out each week yeah and we only have about two hours a night to really consume
media so a lot of times we're like oh we've got to watch you know we've got this episode of survivor
that we haven't watched yet so let's watch that and oh whoops that's our whole evening it gets
especially out of hand during the hockey season because that's like you know three or four nights a week yeah every
other day that our our uh you know nighttime tv viewing is spoken for but that's not an issue
anymore big thanks to colorado avalanche moving on to the third round guys good job out there we
have complained about colorado enough i know we have a lot of colorado fans in the audience i
begrudge them nothing it's good i'm glad that your team is doing good they're very they are they are terrifyingly good yes at the sport they do
you know what else is terrifyingly good our flag means death jesus christ so i didn't realize how
ambitious that show was going to be because like you know it could have been enough just to have
been like a kind of a funny pirate show it's so much more but there's a lot going on it's very sweet it's very romantic it is very it's very modern
very modern and like at the same time like the swashbuckling adventure is there and is fun
there's so many characters so many b plots every episode, and all of them are like firing on all cylinders.
It's one of those shows where everyone in every step of the production is just crushing it.
Yeah, it's cast perfectly.
And there's a lot of fun cameos.
Yes.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
I'm sure we are the last people on Earth to watch this television program.
But if you have not dipped in yet dip in because
it's good as as good as people say was that enough time for you to think of a small one
oh oh i have one yeah uh so we have had a trampoline for a while we've been a trampoline
family oh fuck yeah uh which is not anything i ever saw for us, but I'm glad that we have it. Oh, it makes so much sense.
And our friend Evan said, you know, they make this thing that's pretty cheap where you can attach a hose to one side of it,
and there's a little sprinkler that goes on top,
and you put a sprinkler above your trampoline.
And I said, well, that sounds dangerous.
Not realizing that the water goes through,
the trampoline isn't a slippery surface inherently.
No, not at all.
And so we put a little sprinkler on
top of our trampoline for like eight bucks or something and it's uh game changer best it is
already incredibly hot as it is in most parts of the country and trampoline would be pretty much
out of commission if not for the sprinkler we went out there this past weekend got both boys up on
that bouncy boy hit the sprinkler filled up a bunch of bunch of balloons
yeah and you know how we feel about them and just let it ride baby and it was the most fun
gus was just like gus doesn't henry's a little bit trepidatious about like getting a bunch of
water on his face and i get it yeah that sucks of course gus is like doesn't care no gus will
waterboard himself yes which he did our nanny has told us he does frequently yeah when he's
at a splash pad yeah uh because he doesn't care that boy is just like just a wild one well he did
we had kind of a rocky start because he was pretty hangry when we got out there yeah and i was like
oh we gotta just then we had some wet trampoline rice crackers we had to feed him on the trampoline just to kind
of keep the momentum going yeah he's gonna be walking soon we're boned we're so boned he's
already doing that thing babies do where they want to hold on your fingers and walk everywhere yeah uh which is hard on the back super exhausting
uh and and yeah and it is a lot of work yeah uh i believe you go verse this week with the big stuff
do you want to the big wonder the big wonder so this actually is interesting i don't think you
know this you know what my uh topic is because it's a song and i wanted to share the song with you yes you don't know how i found this band and i found this band because paul sabourin tweeted
about them on june 1st so the first music video you sent me i realized i had seen a long time ago
and i'm wondering if paul is the one who hooked me up with that that's very possible maybe it was
it must have been like backstage at a show because i didn't like watch all of it i just watched some of it and i was like oh this is fucking fresh
yeah and then today you sent it to me like you need to check this out and i watched all of it
and it's another one of those things that you do sometimes on this show where you're like hey check
this band out it's called snail mail this band's called soccer mommy it's your new favorite fucking band. The band is called Lawrence.
It's Joey Lawrence's sort of techno pop.
You know, it is a family, though.
It is a family affair.
Yeah. I didn't know that.
Much like the Lawrence brothers, this Lawrence family is brother and sister.
Yeah.
We have Clyde and Gracie Lawrence.
They are three and a half years apart.
Okay.
And this is their band. They're two
of an eight-piece band.
And it's incredible.
Do you want to play a song
or do you want to talk about the song?
Well, I will just give a little
context.
You know, I'm really bad with
music genres. You know how there's
different names for different types of music?
I was excited to find that this band is called a soul pop group yeah which uh
is exactly kind of my jam yeah i would i would uh slot it in next to well a lot of wolf peck
songs kind of run the gamut but i think that it it their work reminds me a lot of the the songs from lawrence that i
listened to today uh yeah so so uh the song that i am going to play was featured on a microsoft
surface pro 8 tablet commercial oh boy which really kind of blew up for them okay good um
but it is from uh the album Hotel TV that came out in 2021.
The song is Don't Lose Sight.
This is gonna kill me, but I won't let it.
And I try to give them hell, but they don't get it.
Try to give them hell, but they don't get it.
So I tell myself when I sleep at night. Don't lose sight, baby, don't lose sight
Don't lose sight, baby, don't lose sight
The first time that she hit that when I was watching it,
and she's like,
I sleep at night.
I was like, holy shit.
Yeah, she's got some pipes.
She has some major pipes.
And she's very small, and that's always fun for me.
When a very small person can fucking belt it.
That's true.
So their hotel TV tour hit 53 cities.
Mighty.
They have also opened for Wolfpack, which I feel like would have been an incredible show.
Yeah, the best show um but they have
performed at music festivals like coachella and bonnaroo which like seems like exactly
absolutely you know how like you go to a music festival and you have your bands you want to see
and i've talked about this on the show before and then you have the band that you like discover
there this is exactly that man my first bonnaroo was so wild because i had so many like
gaps in the schedule where i was like i'll go see the magic numbers who are these guys and fall in
love with them oh who's this old crow medicine show that's a silly name for a band let's check
them out uh-huh uh so uh super energetic like super joyous that song is a live studio performance yeah like music video that that i
watched for it and it is the most fun i've ever seen a group of people have i think so both gracie
and clyde went to brown um gracie did not finish her degree but you know they're three and a half
years apart and very close and like six of the members of
that band or five all also went to brown they're like their friends oh that's fine they're like
their friends that they met along the way uh but uh you want to you want to hear about their
their influences yeah absolutely it's interesting they said from a songwriting perspective this is
an interview from unclear magazine in 2021 from a songwriting perspective, Carole King, Randy Newman, The Beatles, which I was like, I don't think I hear any of that in that music.
But from a vocal perspective, Etta James or either Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Lita Ronstadt, Debbie Harry, you know.
There's a lot in that sort of vertical that I think is is very, very evident when you listen to Lawrence.
They also talk about kind of the the the soulful quality.
And they mentioned Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Earth, Wind and Fire.
And that feels exactly right to me.
So the album is not all like crazy, joyous jams like this.
So the album is not all like crazy joyous jams like this.
I've been listening to some of the other songs on hotel TV and they kind of, they run all over the place.
So I would encourage y'all to check them out.
Do you want to play the other song that you sent me?
Oh, so that is actually off of a different album.
Oh.
I feel like we can still play it though. Because I feel like it displays quite a bit of range
from this
outfit
yeah so that song the other song that I sent you
is from their 2018 album
Living Room
and the song is called Make a Move
and it's also very good
so we can play a little bit of that
oh hello there
would it be okay
if I asked you your name
or should i be ashamed
if i asked you your name
uh so the thing about so these these two are from new york uh their dad is mark lawrence who is a
screenwriter and director uh and clyde got his start his dad was working on the 2000 movie
miss congeniality oh gosh and they were trying to find a song to play as the miss united states
pageant theme and they couldn't find one they wanted to use.
And so they had,
they put a pool together and then Clyde,
who was five years old at the time,
God almighty,
wrote his own version.
And they,
and his dad kind of put it in with the mix of songs to choose from.
And the producers ended up choosing it.
That's so great.
Uh,
so that song led him to be the youngest member of the songwriters
guild of america that's great um but he wrote the uh parts of the original score for music and
lyrics that came out in 2007 that was the hugh hugh grant drew barrymore feature yes yes uh and
it's just done a lot of stuff gracie is is also an actress that has been in several TV shows and movies.
They're just performers.
Yeah.
Just like top to bottom.
But yeah, so this Hotel TV came out in 2021.
They have a live album that came out in 2020.
And then Living Room, which I mentioned in 2018.
And then Breakfast that came out in 2020 and then living room which i mentioned in 2018 uh and then breakfast that came out in 2016 um but uh yeah just super super fun super high energy they uh said in an
interview they were talking about um kind of the just the energy behind their music uh and they were talking about uh the interviewer this
is from an article in affinity magazine in 2018 and the interviewer was talking about how it felt
like there was some like broadway influence okay music clyde said um quote uh we're super focused
on the dynamics it's super important to us for there to be a lot of peaks and valleys in music
hits and moments where everything drops out.
It's really important for us to tell a story in the music.
Unfortunately,
that doesn't happen a lot in pop music.
It's more built on a consistent loop.
We want each song to be a real story with the beginning,
middle and end,
which gives it kind of the Broadway flavor.
Yeah,
definitely.
They were also asked in that interview,
what's it like to work as siblings? Is there a familial chemistry that makes it easier? And I thought you would relate to that. Blood harmony, definitely. They were also asked in that interview, what's it like to work as siblings?
Is there a familial chemistry that makes it easier?
And I thought you would relate to this.
I've got that blood harmony, man.
You relate to this.
Clyde said, you know, it's funny you ask that question that way because people phrase the question, how's it working with your sibling?
Is it really terrible?
Is there a lot of sibling drama?
And that's what they assume.
We always kind of have to correct them and say that there's actually a familial chemistry that makes it easier to work together.
We don't have that much problem working together and are actually able to share a type of sixth sense where, whether it's in the studio, a meeting, or in the middle of a show, we're able to give each other a certain look and know that we're saying, hmm, maybe don't bring this up in the meeting.
Yeah, man.
Or I feel good enough to go for the higher harmony.
And we never say that out loud.
We just give each other a look i'm glad that that level of uh projection uh upon family performers exists just outside of
podcasting yeah it's uh just sort of native to every art form uh that that that puts me at ease
a little bit yeah no i think and there is that assumption of like oh it must be terrible huh
and they're like actually it's a huge asset for us yeah uh and i thought you would relate to that
because i feel like you and your bros feel the same yeah for sure uh thank you for turning me
on to this band i'm going to be listening to them a lot yeah uh and i encourage everyone else to do
the same because it's fucking it's feel good music man summer bops can't see
yes
got some jango feds here and i would love to read this first one if i may be allowed to do that
please please miss mistress please do okay so this one's for steven and it is from natalie
who says hi steven slash baby slash sweetheart i love you and our very comfy and cozy life and
will even when we're just energy out in the universe can't wait to marry you love natalie
slash baby slash carino and we haven't talked about what our plan is vis-a-vis when we become energy in the universe.
It's good to have a meet-up point.
So I was thinking Beetlejuice, The Star.
Oh, okay.
Because that's my favorite movie.
I thought you were going to say whether or not we have hall passes when we're energy on the universe.
Oh, yeah.
movie i thought you were gonna say whether or not we have hall passes when we're at energy on the universe oh yeah if i if my neutron i would never i would never can i read the next one i wish you
would this is for otis it is from carolyn so many wonderful things about you but with limited space
i'll just name a few you're loyal altruistic honest and funny you care
about bees you're philanthropic with money before we say what's up to our cool baby no i'll always
love you even when life's crazy like the humble rancho babies aren't that scary especially because
to you i'm married that's uh that was delightful i i love the pro rancho message in there this is still
a cause that is near and dear to my heart well and i like that people care about bees like for me
i want to care about bees but it's better if people really care about these but like
everyone already cares about bees see i don't don't think they do. Not enough.
I think folks get it.
Like, we get it.
They're endangered and essential to our whole ecology.
But ranchos have such bad marketing still.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
And I've done everything I can.
I've exhausted every avenue available to me.
You did that thing that you did years ago.
I did that thing once years ago.
Hearts and minds.
Yeah.
Hi, I'm Dan McCoy.
I'm Stuart Wellington.
And I'm Elliot Kalin.
And the three of us host The Flophouse.
It's a podcast where we watch a new bad movie and then we talk about it.
Dan, you say it's hosted by the three of us, us we've had a lot of great guest co-hosts like gillian
flynn jamelle bowie john hodgman jessica williams wyatt senac joe bob briggs josh gondelman roman
mars yeah and you said new movies but what about the time we did meatballs too okay okay yeah
sometimes we do older movies and sometimes we have guests but mostly it's about us talking about like
recent bad movies and don't forget about the ones
where I made you do a role-playing game where you played
cartoon dogs. Alright, yeah. Shouldn't
a promo be a really simple explanation
about what our show's about? So, what's
the show about, Dan? What's it about?
What's it about? It's about friendship, alright?
It's about our friendship and how we love each other.
The Flophouse. It's a podcast mostly about
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Do you sometimes wonder whatever happened to the kids at your school who really loved Star Trek?
You might remember a kid like me, the one who read the Star Trek novels and built Starship models.
I also took music classes to avoid taking gym classes that required showering after, but I don't see what that really has to do with-
Or a kid like me. I introduced myself to kids at my summer camp one year as Wesley.
But when the school year started and some of those kids were in my new class, I actually
had to explain to my friends that I had tried to take on the identity of my favorite Star
Trek character.
The shame haunts me to this day.
I'm sure some of those Star Trek fans from your childhood grew up to have interesting
and productive lives, but we ended up being
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Let's talk about Dice.
Andrew Dice Clay.
Okay, no, thank you. My favorite comedian.
I love his bit that he does where he's like,
I'll tell you about my wife.
Yeah.
Wouldn't that be a shock?
I'll tell you about my wife.
She burned all the spaghetti.
You know, Griffin McElroy,
who are your biggest comedic influences?
Definitely Dice Baby.
Now I'm going to talk about the little guys that you roll
and they have numbers on them.
Yeah.
You know, you have a lot of these guys.
I do, but they are tools of the trade.
So I do not feel guilty.
Well, they take up almost no space.
That's, I guess it depends on if you get enough of them,
they can take up all the space, I guess, presumably.
But yes, I would say I have a reasonable amount of dice.
And I do not discriminate.
I have a big bag of cheap, like plastic yellow dice with black number text on
them which i feel like is just the the meat and tatos of gaming dice do you remember how old you
were when you found out that you could get uh multiple sides i mean it was i probably would
have been in like elementary school or something. There was a place called the Hobby Shop in downtown Huntington.
That was like our, you know, Magic the Gathering, you know, figurine painting, like all that jazz.
And I went in and I was like, look at all those little colorful polygonal shapes.
I feel like I was 30 years old.
Oh, wow.
I feel like it was after I met you where you're like look at this one i was like what i mean i was always glancing off the edges of groups of
people who played role-playing games like i definitely had some really good friends in
high school who played role-playing games and they would bring their like um you know source
books into theater class where obviously we weren't doing anything so i would just like read them
and be like oh this is fucking cool too bad i'll never play them uh so i i definitely had some
exposure but like i have lots of dice i got a little cheap dice i have one that is made from
fake swarovski crystals that i got from some some event that i i don't really break out because it doesn't it doesn't have the best sort of finger
feel. My big jam on this topic is that there are so many like indie companies out there who are
making and selling like super high end artisanal dice. And I get unsurprisingly served a lot of advertisements for these companies when I'm on the Sochi. And it is, I always will stop and be like, let me see what's going on. Let's see what's going on with these dice. What do we got going on in here?
Yeah.
Ooh, these ones glow in the dark. like how one thing for you and this is true with a lot of your equipment is heft you like to know
what what the the feel is when you are like reading about dice how do they describe that
do you know like if you were like well but how heavy are they does it like i mean that's an
impossible thing i think to gauge from pictures and descriptions but then there's there's certain
things that are like you know on the super high end that usually whenever you're like looking at like,
uh,
you know,
these indie dice manufacturers,
you're talking about like resin with cool shit inside,
whether it is sparkly stuff or a little skull,
uh,
like the bowling ball and mystery men,
or,
you know,
um,
there are higher end dice though that are like these are made from
straight tungsten and you're like those are gonna be some heavy boys my very favorite set of dice
that i own is uh from a company i believe called wormwood uh and it is this really nice set uh one
of each sort of you know a d4 a d6 a d6, a D8, D10, D12, D20.
And they are made from these like super intricate,
almost like woven kind of steampunky industrial bronze dice
that came in a long like dark wooden box
with my name embossed in gold on it and brennan uh brennan lee mulligan
from dimension 20 uh gifted that to all of us who played in tiny heist and it was like
the most thrilling like when i saw it and it had my name on it was like oh what's this i cracked
it open i was like oh like the ark of the covenant i still rock with those because the box is just really, really nice.
And so like whenever I tour,
when we do like live Taz shows,
like those are always the dice that I bring.
I remember actually when I was doing
one of the D&D camps with Austin Batcave with the kids,
I was like showing them like these super nice dice
and people were passing them around
and then they like didn't come back to me.
And I looked around and like everyone was holding onto one.
I was like, oh, those aren't for you all to keep.
I do need those back.
It was a little uncomfortable.
Yeah, I could see why they would think like,
oh, how nice we all get a little
take home like a little goodie bag. No way. Not of these fancy dice. So obviously, D&D and other
sort of role playing games, the rise in prevalence of those games is what has sort of brought about
this whole industry of indie dice makers. But there's an infinite amount of of games that that use dice from you know monopoly to
craps uh which craps is my favorite like gambling experience i don't have many gambling experiences
but whenever we would go on the joco cruise you know there is a casino there and i have very fond
memories of playing craps with just like everybody at the
joco cruise because it's a very you lose your money that's the secret to all gambling games
is you lose all your money from it but it's a very social way of losing all your money like
you share in each other's sort of successes and misfortunes and when someone rolls a seven at the
bad time to roll a seven everyone together is like oh man i feel like everybody's
first introduction to that game is through some kind of movie and so every time like you play it
or see it played it feels very cinematic it's like i'm in the movie now in in my experience
the ultimate way that craps has been depicted in a movie is paul blart mall cop 2 a film with which
i am intimately familiar here we go because he walks up to a craps table and it's like he just got to the casino
and someone's like, you want to play craps?
He's like, oh yeah, I don't really know how.
And he like exchanges all his money for chips.
And then the dealer is like, okay,
you want to put some here?
You want to put some on the pass?
You got to put some on the low line
and some on the, I don't know.
I'm still pretty unfamiliar with the rules of craps.
And then he rolls the dice and he gets a seven and he loses all his money instantly that's about
how it goes uh but it's it's it can be fun uh i just i love that human beings have for millennia
created these sort of very rudimentary random number generators
using nothing but like simple materials in physics.
That is very cool and very human to me.
The predecessors of dice are like, you know,
the casting of bones or what have you for soothsaying purposes.
To aid in those soothsaying purposes,
oftentimes those bones or
whatever would have uh you know different sides with different sort of uh things etched into them
okay i pictured it like somebody had like a big bag of bones that they just dumped out and it was
like tea leaves they're like well this bone i mean that that is essentially what we are talking about
and and there are still definitely, you know, there are still
some parts of the world where that is a
practice that is done.
But then six-sided
cube dice and
four-sided pyramid dice are about the same age.
And they've
been found appropriately enough in Egyptian
tombs dating back to like 2000 BCE.
Whoever
like invented dice is sort of like a contested
topic because like throughout time historians have been like well it was the greek uh emperor
who did it while during the siege of troy and it's like no actually we just like dug up this
like chinese set of dice from 600 years earlier.
Yeah.
The earliest complete board game using dice that's ever been sort of uncovered was the Royal Game of Ur, which is a Sumerian sort of artifact dating back to the third century BCE.
I think I've talked about the Royal Game of Ur on this show before, maybe.
I would love to play it.
I want to know what Ur. I bet it's like, um, and like, um, sorry. I feel like I have no idea what you're
talking about. What, what is this? The Royal game of err. It was the earliest board game ever,
ever discovered earliest complete board game, uh, using dice. Like shoots and ladders. Like chutes and ladders. Just like chutes and ladders.
Even as dice kind of began to take on more complex shapes and more complex materials, right?
Because the Greeks did start making them out of ivory
and metal and different sort of stuff like that.
It wasn't until the 17th century
that mathematicians started to like study them
in terms of probability and randomness.
Up until that point,
it was thought that like whatever the dice landed on
was fated or some sort of divine intervention,
which I find super duper fascinating um i just man i i all i know is a good set of dice in the hand because you're right i am a
sucker for a good thing in the hand good a good a nice object a good thing in the hand a nice smooth
heavy object in the hand is like you cannot beat
that what about the sound is the sound important to you the sound is difficult for me right because
uh i work in an audio medium so uh those those those wormwood dice that i love so much i don't
usually use when we are recording at home because it hits the desk and it sounds like a you know now do you
feel like the little felt box is is like not appropriate you know i i want there to be some
sound you know although now we we mostly use uh when we're recording at home we use uh dnd beyond
which has a whole suite of virtual dice because that way our dad doesn't have to do math
using numbers on a piece of paper.
The computer does it for us.
That's Dice.
That's the show.
Thank you all so much for listening.
There's a bunch of shows on the Maximum Fun Network
you should go listen to.
Oh, thanks to Bowen and Augustus for these for a song,
Money Won't Pay.
Yeah, talk about a joyous bop.
No kidding. That one still comes up. Bowen and Augustus for these for a song money won't pay yeah talk about a joyous bop no kidding
that one still comes up I I oftentimes will um like when I'm perusing Spotify I'll just go to
my liked songs playlist that is like 400 songs long at this point and it'll pop up sometimes
and every time it comes on I just fucking groove to it um hey we have shows coming up next week from a bim bam and taz we're going to be in
boston and uh at the foxwoods casino in mashantucket uh and you should come out and see
us it's going to be a very good time uh it's next friday that that that very short tour starts
and then in july we're going to be in portland and salt lake city and san diego for comic-con so you should come out to
see us for that as well um pre-orders are open for the adventure zone 11th hour graphic novel
which i cannot stress enough how proud i am of how that one turned turned out it was a very like
involved all hands on deck like affair to get that book written yeah and it it i i think
it turned out fucking radical and i can't wait to be kind of a standalone in a way that's interesting
i i i think i'm wondering if it's the kind of thing where you could like give that to somebody
who's not at all familiar and they could just like i think you could enjoy it that way so too
because especially when you think about it in the cut not to toot my horn or anything, but when you think about it in the context
of like a D&D
arc, like a D&D campaign,
it was my favorite, I think, of all the
campaigns just because
figuring out that time loop
aspect was so novel
and such a fun exercise.
Anyway, I don't have the exact
link on hand for where you can pre-order that, but I bet
if you go to macroy.family, you can check that out.
You can get tickets to the shows.
We have merch at McElroyMerch.com that you're just going to eat up and love.
You don't eat it.
I don't think we have anything edible.
I do believe we have dice on there.
Very nice Taz dice.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that it?
I think so.
Okay.
Be good out there, everyone.
And our signature sign-off.
Be good, everyone.
Be good, everyone.
We've heard a lot of, I don't want to name names, but we've heard about some bad behavior.
And we do not condone that.
Be good out there.
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