Wonderful! - Wonderful! 323: Nobody Likes WaSteven

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Welcome to another episode of Wonderful Nights. Hot, hot, hot city, the crime won't stop. Only two heroes are brave enough to get out there. It's, this is the theme song to Wonderful Nights. And when we say get out there, we mean sit right here.

Yeah, we're not gonna go, stop. And say things we like. I was thinking my like idea of like a nighttime show for adults is basically Batman. I just kind of realized. That's probably the first like super dark thing you watched. And when I say super dark I mean like literally. It might still be the darkest like I tried Breaking Bad

but it was like I kept waiting for Batman to show up. You know like who's gonna save the day? I heard Breaking Bat, and I thought the next sort of couple syllables were gonna be to man, but I was disappointed to find out Batman wasn't in that show. This is a show where we talk about things we like that's good that we're into.

And we are recording another evening show. We're trying to grab this bull by the horns and wrestle it back onto the tracks that the bull runs on, the bull tracks. Small Wonders. I would love to do one of those. I got to see my gal pals and we stayed at a vacation rental. Okay.

And there were a lot of mysteries to be solved. There were a lot of, well, not intentional, but like a lot of family pictures, a lot of pictures of people that seem to have no relation to the family. Oh, you mean like mysteries in the rental house? Yeah, it's what I'm talking about is specifically when you rent a home and they leave a lot

of personal items around, and then you find yourself trying to piece together who these people are and what is important to them. I will never forget walking into one rental place we did in New Orleans. A lot of nudes in that one. A lot of nude art, like a lot of nude art. A lot of nude art.

No non-nude art in that place. Which is like, you know, it was tasteful and lovely. It was small, sometimes it was big. Sometimes one of them was really, really, it's tasteful, it's art, I'm not here to shame anyone. It was huge nudity. It was huge. Hugety.

Yeah. But yeah. What's your small wonder? I keep thinking about the circle because it's what we were just watching right before we came up here before. Before we remembered we had to do a podcast. We were gonna record our podcast tonight.

But I talked about that last week. I got one, whiteboards. Can't get enough of these guys. I got a new one on my desk, this little, but it's also like a little desk organizer. Oh, hey. So, okay. Yeah.

Let me ask you a question. Yeah. You also have a whiteboard on your wall. I have a big whiteboard with tiny little whiteboard panels. That's more sort of like big picture stuff, or at least it was for a while, but it's on the wall.

This is on my desk. It's at arm's reach at all times. You know what I mean? So I can write my day's goals on there, like Lift Bro. I do see Lift Bro on there, which is pretty great. Yeah, and do you see the green check mark on there? And do you see these fucking games on here? I just like whiteboards.

It's like the best surface, I think, to take notes on. I love the dang things. If y'all could see, it's approximately four feet from his desk whiteboard to his wall whiteboard. Yeah, but this one has a cute little cubby for storage. It does have a cubby. I do like it. I mean, I could see myself.

Sounds like you hate it. Here's the thing. I work on site three days a week now at my new job and I have no whiteboard. And I'm really drawn to this desk one for that purpose because I don't have one anywhere else in this space. Okay, another snide remark about my big white board. I got you the wall white board

and I just wish you liked it enough to use it. It's so far away. Watch this. Yeah, no, you can't, you can't. There's no way. This is why I'm bringing whiteboards to my Small Wonder segment. I love them so much that I have two of the dang things

and I don't even care. Okay, can I do my big wonder? You already know what it is, because when we walked in there- I did, it was up on your screen. There were illicit photos of this topic, all just papering my computer monitor. There's no-

A lot of hugety. A lot of huge, a lot of hugeity on that one. I'm gonna talk to you about two special men in my life that you know very well, Wario and Waluigi. It's who I'm gonna be discussing today. I didn't see, I just saw Waluigi. Wario is a surprise for me. Yeah, Wario is usually a surprise for people.

How much they care about him, really, when they think about it. These guys are an inspiration to me. These are two icons in my book. And I've played them all, guys, I've played a lot of video games. So when I say Mario and Waluigi are icons, I feel like that should carry some weight behind it.

Can we go over how we know that they're evil? That's a great start. So as I recall, both Mario and Luigi proper have mustaches, right? That's true, that's true. And then these guys have mustaches, but they seem more evil? They're jagged, you know, sort of,

well, I don't know if Snidely Whiplash is, who was the bad guy, Boris from Rocky and Ballwinkle, kind of like one of those sort of sharp angled mustaches. And I guess they're more exaggerated in that I feel like Waluigi is taller and thinner and Wario is bigger and broader. This is not a joke. This conversation right now that we are having

is what I find so endlessly fascinating about the two men, Wario and Waluigi. If you've never played like a Mario game, then it's possible that this segment might be lost on you. But I do think that there's something sort of fundamentally kind of creatively interesting about them. I've only played a game with them, I think, in the perhaps Mario Kart and Smash Brothers settings.

Waluigi's not even playable in Smash Brothers. He pops up here and there. Are they in the like regular platform kind of game? So this is what's very interesting. So the first one to show up was Wario. Wario was first introduced in a Game Boy game released in 1992. It was called Super Mario Land 2, 6 Golden Coins.

It was the follow up to Super Mario Land. Was this color? No, this was before color. This was 1992. How could you tell the difference? His big exaggerated sort of features. He just had a couple extra pixels? Well, and a big, big nose and a big sharp mustache. Okay.

And the W on his hat is also important. They were just so little as I recall in the Game Boy. It seems like it would be hard to distinguish. Well, the sprites in Super Mario Land 2 were a bit larger, which, you know, the game runs a little bit slow as a result. It's not my favorite, but it's important because it's where Wario came in.

That game was kind of rad. It was like weird and it gave Mario all kinds of, there was like a carrot power up that turned you into a bunny, like stuff that never really came back. But it also introduced Wario, who is Mario seen through sort of a scanner darkly. He is depicted as a greedy treasure hunter and frequent nemesis to Mario. Once we did get some color on that bad boy,

he's got purple and yellow overalls and a hat with the first letter of his name on it. Now, despite the fact that what I've just described also does sound like Mario and Luigi, Wario is not related to either Mario and Luigi. He is sort of portrayed as a childhood acquaintance of Mario who has broken bad. They're not related?

They are not related. Here's what's especially- It's just a coincidence. This is what is especially fucked up. It has also been confirmed that Wario is not related to Waluigi. So like, what the fuck are we doing here? You know what I mean?

Yeah, typically. By transitive property, Wario is to Mario is to Luigi is to Waluigi, then Wario and Waluigi should be brothers. It's like, let's say there's a guy at school that everybody likes and his name is Steven. Yeah. And then there's another guy totally unrelated,

who nobody likes and his name is Wah Steven. Yeah, exactly. Wah Steven, yeah. And no, no. They look really fucking, they do look pretty similar, aside from some like very subtle. I thought it was like a Bizarro universe thing where they had like escaped into the Mario Luigi realm

and were undoing all the right that, all the wrong. This is just a bad Mario. I basically made it like an evil leap or quantum leap thing. You did, that is, and that's where your sort of creative journey usually takes you. So Wario's Day is technically a portmanteau of Mario and a Japanese word, waragi, which means bad. So he's literally just like, he literally is bad Mario.

Okay, so Steven and bad Steven. Basically is what we're talking about. Now you may be thinking, if you can separate yourself from your objective love of these two men, isn't it maybe a little bit lazy to make an antagonist for a game who is just bad heroes named here? Yeah. In researching this, I found a few sources that claimed

that's kind of intentional for Wario. So, Super Mario Land 2 was designed for the Game Boy by a studio within Nintendo called Research and Development 1, R&D 1. Apparently, they weren't that stoked about making this game. Like making a game took forever, it was really, really, really hard, it still absolutely is, but especially back in the Game Boy era, like it was really hard to make these games. Were these just draft names that they kept? What, Wario and Waluigi?

Like they just made it like, all right, we'll rename this later, let's just make sure that we remember it's bad Mario. No, I mean, basically what I'm getting at is like, Mario was the domain of this other part of Nintendo called the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development sort of division, set it up by Shigeru Miyamoto who came up with Mario and-

Yeah, I've heard him. So like, this wasn't R&D 1's baby. They didn't wanna really make Super Mario Land 2. They made a bunch of other Game Boy games that didn't like, a lot of them didn't set the world on fire, but they just wanted to do their own thing. They didn't necessarily wanna be shackled with Mario. So when it came time for them to come up

with the villain for this game, they just kinda came up with Wario, rough draft, first draft, best draft, and went with it. The added bonus there is that the W from Wario looks like an M upside down. It kind of works, but it doesn't reflect a tremendous amount of creative juice. And that's what I was suggesting when I said that earlier,

that they just were like, all right, let's just give them these names for now. Maybe we'll come up with something better later. And then they just didn't. I think that's kind of cool that they were maybe being a little bit misanthropic on a scale that is kind of like enormous to think about, which is like a Nintendo first party video game, which is

extremely like protected and manicured. And like there is no company on Earth that like takes care of their game, aside is extremely protected and manicured. There is no company on Earth that takes care of their, aside from maybe Disney, as much as this. And yet this studio was like, yeah, you're gonna love the bad guy for this one. His name's Bad Mario. He's a lot like Mario, if I'm being completely honest.

Now, just an aside. Yeah. Sonic. Yes. Bad Sonic is Shadow, but Shadow was a creation or made bad by Robotnik? I mean, we're getting into a whole nature versus nurture debate that frankly makes me uncomfortable

to have on the air. Um, I know, can I say this? For as apparently encyclopedic as my knowledge of the Mario world is, I don't really know much about Mr. The Hedgehog and his works. I thought maybe- for as apparently encyclopedic as my knowledge of the Mario world is, I don't really know much about Mr. The Hedgehog and his works. I played a lot of those games, but it is- I thought maybe Henry had brought you into the fold.

The way that I think that most folks think about it is Shadow is just cooler Sonic, not necessarily evil. There was maybe one game where this dude broke bad. I think it was maybe Sonic Adventure 2. Shit, maybe I do know a lot about Sonic the Hedgehog. But then after that, they were like, actually people love this evil Sonic. What if we just made him cool anti-hero Sonic instead?

It's always Robotnik, unless even he turns a good, has a face turn from time to time. Okay, anyway, not the same thing. Not the same thing. Just curious. Yeah, so anyway, Wario, kind of just pooped out there. It's the world, but oops, he's a slam dunk. People went bananas for this fucking dude. So he was the protagonist of Super Mario Land 3,

which is called Wario Land, which like kickstarted this whole, not whole, they haven't made a ton of them, but a sub-series of Wario based RPGs called Wario Man. So what's his thing? Does he have different powers? So right, Mario's more about jumping and running and the Fire Flower and all that jazz. Wario in general is a lot bulkier. And so his games, his platformers feel that way a little bit.

He's more about charging and tackling and squishing things and kicking things. A little closer to Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong I would say is on the, yes on the other end of the spectrum where he likes to jump and pound and go fucking completely crazy. So, okay, all right.

So he also has another sub-series of games called WarioWare mega micro games, which you've probably seen us play. They made one on Switch recently. It's like a bunch of like three second long mini games that you have to play like a lot of in super quick succession. I love these games, like these are really great. So like Wario from like being this thing

that was just kind of put out there by obligation has turned into a pretty big. Wario's Woods was another fucking like completely standalone puzzle game. So like Wario took off. Waluigi though, Waluigi's star has never risen, like remotely as high as Wario. He was first introduced in Mario Tennis with no fanfare.

Just literally no fanfare. Like it's not like, I think this was the Nintendo 64 game. It's not like there was like a 80 hour long RPG campaign to teach you it. Like it's just like, and also there's a bad Luigi now. Like, that is how he got his dues. You said it was in what game? Mario Tennis.

Oh, oh, well because Mario and Wario are a set, and it's tennis. You need a doubles partner for- Luigi. You can't stick him with Yoshi? No. Okay. Not when there's Wario.

You know that Wario and Mario don't team up, right? You're saying Wario needs a teammate. I get what you're saying, but this is all to say that Super Mario Land 2, you at least get some details about the bad man Wario. He loves to steal treasure, especially six golden coins. I mean, this speaks to a larger issue of how Luigi has always played second fiddle to Mario.

You say that, but Luigi has had several standalone projects, including Luigi's Mansion, which does happen. Well, maybe Waluigi just isn't there yet. Maybe we have to wait a few years. Yeah, maybe. Maybe in the future, future space people will be listening to this podcast, and they'll say, oh, this must have been back before.

They'll look at their friend and be like, gleeblegloblegleeble, which means, did you know there's a bad Luigi, too? Before, no, I'm saying before Waluigi had his own game in the future. Oh, I see. This is what I'm saying, right? It took a while for Wario to show up.

Maybe as Luigi rises. So too, so a rising Luigi rise to live, solve Waluigi's. 2027, I'm just saying Waluigi's Paradise. Yeah, oh, that's a good fucking name, baby. Comes to you on. Waluigi's Paradise would be so fucking good. On the swooch.

On the swooch, which is what they call the second switch. God, Rachel, that's so good. It's like I went back to the future and I pulled up an almanac, except it's an almanac for the names of future games. Yes. One fun fact for you, Waluigi has appeared in over 50 video games,

but never ever in any kind of featured role whatsoever. No spin-off series, he's not even an official playable character in Smash. Like there's so much disrespect there, but I think it is wild that Nintendo, who's so protective of its shit, has this character that's been in 50 games, that's never gotten any kind of like any kind of development whatsoever.

And so with that character, the internet has done what it sort of does best, which is project their shit onto Waluigi, and so he's just this slab of marble that everybody can see themselves within if they look hard enough. Is that what's happening? That's what I think is happening. You look at Waluigi, you're like,

I don't know nothing about Waluigi. I bet he's a lot like me. That's why he's like the sensitive choice. You know what I mean? I think a lot of people, you can tell a lot about a person asking them if they're a Wario or a Waluigi. I don't know.

I don't know the answer to that. I would lean Wario actually for me. Yeah, I mean, you seem like more of a Wario to me. What the fuck is that supposed to be? No, I do appreciate that. I do think I have strong, I'm, you seem like more of a Wario to me. What the fuck is that supposed to be? No, I do appreciate that. I do think I have strong... I'm a Wario rising. Can I steal you away?

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Okay, okay. And they're things. The Holy Spirit. That you start talking about as a kid and you will still as an adult say, wow, look at that one. Okay, okay, lightning bugs? I'm talking about clouds. Clouds, dude.

We haven't talked about clouds. Can you believe that? That's fucked up that we haven't talked about clouds. Clouds, dude! We haven't talked about clouds. Can you believe that? That's fucked up that we haven't talked about clouds. I love clouds so much. I know. I always comment on a good cloud. I know. Always, always, always.

Yes. If one part of the sky is a different color than the other part of the sky, you'll be the first one to know, because I've noticed it, because I'm always looking for that shit. Okay, let's start out with like, basic cloud stuff. Yeah.

Okay. Uh, clouds are a visible mass of particles of condensed vapors. So crazy. Such as water or ice suspended in the atmosphere of a planet, such as Earth or Moon. So cool. Here's the thing that I didn't know. So it's not just water.

Yeah. Here's the thing that I didn't know. So it's not just water. Water has to attach to something in order to condense. These objects are called cloud condensation nuclei. Cloud condensation nuclei can be various things from wildfire smoke to ocean spray to dirt, but the key is they must be very small, about one micron, which is one thousandth of a millimeter in size, and able to attract water. Okay, so is that why when an airplane go through a cloud, it shakes so much, because you're hitting

a lot of little dirts? Think about it, think on that. A lot of little dirts. Think on that. Water needs a surface to turn from vapor to liquid and aerosols such as dandruff, pollen, algae, fur and bacteria are particularly good at absorbing moisture in the air.

Perfect. So there's this- A lot of people probably grossed out by that fact. I think it's great. Take my dead-esque, I'm not using it anymore, trying to do something beautiful in the sky like clouds. This makes me wonder, and I didn't research this, as there are more people and things in this earth,

are there more clouds than there used to be? Probably more clouds than there used to be. I have no way of knowing. We may have just said, babe, we may have just said the wrongest thing we've ever said. You realize that? We may have just said the wrongest thing we've ever said on this show.

Who's gonna stop us? I can think of several people that I know that listen to the show that would stop us, I think. Okay, I bet you can name types of clouds. Nimbus, cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratosurus. No, that's not one, is it? You're kind of, you're doing variants of the big ones. Okay.

So cumulus is one. Cumulus, did I say that? I said nimbus. Yeah, nimbus is also one. Okay, and then cumulo-nimbus. You also said, that's like a variant. Okay. Stratus.

Stratus. And cirrus. Cirrus, okay. I kind of got some of them a little bit. I find the older I get, the more that that kind of reflects what my grasp of like my grade school education is, is like, I can remember three of the four syllables of that word.

Is that anything? It's like you reach in a bag labeled third grade and just pull out all the words you can. But it's just scraps. So I'm like taping it together like a hostage letter. Okay, so those cirrus clouds, those are the ones that are way up there. Yeah, they're high level clouds

and they're made largely of ice. Yeah. Strong winds are likely to shred these clouds apart, which gives them their iconic wispy appearance. Mid-level clouds, these are like the, called alto cumulus, alto stratus, nimbostratus. These are the white or gray, like patchy sheets of clouds.

Okay. Like the blankety clouds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like those. I prefer them from above. Like in a plane. Like in a plane. When you're in a plane and it's like, wow, it's just all clouds out there. Like in a plane. Like in a plane. When you're in a plane and it's like, wow,

it's just all clouds out there. That's kick-ass. Then the low level clouds. These are your big boys. This is your cumulus, your cumulonimbus, your strato cumulus and your stratus. Cumulus is of course the quintessential white puffy cloud. Classic, a classic.

Nothing wrong with that. The average cumulus cloud weighs roughly 1.1 million pounds. No, it doesn't. Yeah, bro. It simply doesn't. It's, hey babe, it simply doesn't. It's a cloud. I'm not saying that you don't have your facts straight.

I'm sure that you went to a reputable source on this information, but there's a cloud and it's way up there for a long time. The idea that it could weigh that much, no. It's simply not for me. What's it doing up there then, I guess, is my next question. Weighing as much as it does, like how is it, what's it doing up there then, I guess is my next question. Weighing as much as it does.

Like, how is it, what's it doing up there? That's so heavy. You're looking at it too. Have I shaken your confidence in this fact? Cause 1.1 million pounds is pretty heavy. I don't know how this bad boy stays up there. Is this like if we condensed it down into like a little glass and it turned back into dirt and slurry, it would weigh 1.1 million pounds?

Or are we counting like sort of the pressure, some sort of, is this a pressure situation? Okay, let me talk about this now. I've found a resource. We found this big ass cloud. You'll never believe how much it weighs. For one thing, the weight is spread out into millions of droplets over a really big space. Some of the droplets are so small

that you would need a million of them to make a single raindrop. Okay, great. I understand this so far. That's... That's kind of the whole thing. I mean, look at a cloud, right? It's pretty big.

I don't know how you define where a cloud stops and another one starts, but like big, big cloud. A big, big cloud, I guess. It's just the thought of anything weighing 1.1 million clouds, 1.1 million pounds, and being like, I'm just gonna float now endlessly. Okay, there are also other types of clouds, but there are special cases.

These include lenticular clouds, which are the ones that look like UFOs over mountains. Yeah, how could fucking convenient. I know, that was my reaction too. Okay, government. Sure. Contrails is another one, which are condensation trails produced by-

Kimtrails? Kimtrails? No. Contrails. I am waiting for the day one of us is brave enough to bring that as a segment on this. It's gonna be you, it's not gonna be you. Contrails. I am waiting for the day one of us is brave enough to bring that as a segment on there. It's gonna be you, it's not gonna be me.

It'll probably be me. I remember hearing one of my friend's friends talk about that on like a porch stoop in Chicago and just being like, I gotta get the fuck out of here, man. Clouds are not exclusive to Earth. All planets except Mercury have clouds. Yeah, some planets from what I understand are just clouds. Just one big gas giant cloud in the sky.

I think that's what that means. What makes Earth's clouds stand out is they're made most entirely of water, whereas the clouds from other planets typically comprise various gases. Okay, that's cool. On Jupiter, for instance, the clouds are primarily made of ammonia ice and ammonium hydrosulfide, where Venus clouds are made of sulfuric acid.

I don't want to be in either of those places. Okay. Just sounds rough. Yeah, no, I don't think we will be. I mean, again, I can't predict everything. Just things as- That's true. In the future, these things will be true.

Waluigi will have his own video game, Waluigi's Paradise, and we will not travel to Jupiter or Venus. One other thing, the word cloud comes from the old English words, clud or clod, meaning lump of land or lump of rock, which in the 13th century was extended to apply to the lumps of water in the sky.

I feel like every old English word refers to a lump of something. It's a lump of person or a lump of cat. A lump of cat, yeah, absolutely. I will just say, because clouds are made up of tiny water droplets, they fall very slowly, and a small updraft is enough to keep them up. So that's another reason for your heavy thing.

Like they're so tiny, and they're always moving. Like a cloud will sometimes look like it is hanging out. I believe it now. But it is. That fact just caught me so by surprise. I know. It scared me a little bit, if I'm being honest. I don't like thinking of them.

Now, whenever I'm on a plane, and I see us going towards a cloud, my head is immediately gonna go, well, here we go into that 1.1 million pound object that is floating in the sky. But I guess that's all okay. Yeah, I mean, it's not gonna come to Earth. Is that what you're worried about,

that a cloud will come down? I guess I'm worried one day the cloud will come down. Like stay put marshmallow and just- And squish me pretty bad, I'd say. 1.1 million pounds would ought to do it. that a cloud will come down. I guess I'm worried one day the cloud will come down. Like stay put marshmallow. Like squish me pretty bad. Yeah. I'd say 1.1 million pounds would, oughta do it. But I do like, what's your favorite cloud?

I mean, gotta go the big boy, right? Yeah. The cumulus. The cumulonimbus. I mean, I'm a cumulus. Those big thunderhead ones that like kind of like roar up. Yeah, those are cool too. Those are fucking so cool. Mufasa comes out.

Yeah, my favorite cloud is probably the one when- What's your favorite cloud in cinema? My favorite cloud in cinema, that's a good question. Twister probably had some. Twister probably had some kick ass clouds. I bet you there's a lot of supporting players in that film. A lot of- Wizard of Oz probably had some good clouds.

But I think Mufasa. I think Mufasa takes it pretty soundly. Hey, thank you so much for listening to our show. I bet you'd like to hear some audience submissions, wouldn't you? I have prepared them. Katie says, My small wonder is dogs carrying things in their mouths.

I've always found this particularly adorable and now I have a dog of my own who loves to carry things. I especially love how they get extra jaunty and prancey and show off whatever they have. Katie. I saw this today. Just a big old dog carrying a stick around. Yeah.

Just like a comfort stick. I love it. Katie sent in a picture of Katie's dog stick around. Yeah. Just like a comfort stick. I love it. Katie sent in a picture of Katie's dog bouncing around with this big stick in its mouth. And it looked just so proud. So proud, so regal. Sarah says, my wonderful thing this week

is how exceptionally proud it makes me when I spot an actor in a movie or show, identify them from another show, then confirm it on IMDB. Yes. What an inexplicable little endorphin rush. This is the best feeling in the fucking world. Yeah, this is, Griffin is all about this.

I do love doing this a lot. I am not so good, I'm not so good with this. Just period. You aren't, no. Not in like a you try to and fail kind of way, but more in like a you don't like give a shit about it. A lot of times, Griffin will say things like, oh, that's Keith David. Yes.

And every single time I have to be like, wait, now who is that and what was he in? In the case of Keith David, I think you could be excused, not because he's a write-off actor, he's fucking fantastic, but that his name is just kind of too, just too names. Just too names, I know.

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we're doing Taz versus Dracula, an episode called Taz versus the Great Gatsby, a book I haven't read at this live show. Is this gonna be a theme for you? Seems like it feels like it. Where you continue to choose old works that you have not read. Yeah, last time weirdly, I got a lot of stuff right

about Moby Dick when we did the Moby Dick live show. And so I feel like maybe these books aren't. Have you considered Beowulf? Beowulf, that one, I literally don't know fucking anything. Literally nothing, like I'm trying to think of it. They made a CG one, I remember, but I don't think it was very good. I don't know anything about Beowulf.

Was he a man with a wolf head? Who like, I don't know, got banished from some kingdom by his evil mother and then has to come back and use his wolf pack. See this is what I'm saying, like these literary classics, I don't think are that, they must not be that great if I can just kinda like,

jazz on them. Guess at them. Yeah, you know what I mean? Anyway, you are. Or they're so influential that they have penetrated your consciousness. Does Bay Wolf have a wolf head though? Or is that part of, or am I thinking of something else?

I don't think he has a wolf head. But again, I haven't read this in 25 years. Yeah, that's true. So, you know. I don't think I've ever read it. Cause it sounds so boring. Goodnight everybody. Work it off, money won't come. Work it off, money won't come.

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