Wonderful! - Wonderful! 332: Put on Your Podcast Jacket

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Thank you for joining us and listening to Wonderful. It's a show where we talk about things that we like, that we are into. You made it to the end of another long day. Time to hang up the work coat.

Or a lot of times, this isn't the end of somebody's day when they listen. What do you mean? It's like- No, you're mistaken. When you get home from work, you pour yourself a snifter of brandy. Yeah. You have a little cigar,

and you listen to, wonderful, I'll show her we talk about things we like, that's good to bring into. So if they were to listen to it in the morning, say, what would happen to them? Well, I guess if maybe they're between jobs and they're having a snifter of morning brandy and a breakfast cigar.

Regardless, brandy and cigars are involved. Yeah, no, you do have to put on your special podcast jacket, snifter or brandy. Cigar or cigar shaped vape. God, now I really wanna get you a podcast jacket. How nice would that be? It'd be really nice. Just a little casting jacket,

like I'm imagining a pillowy velvet and it's monogrammed. Like we put a little hook on the wall by the door and every time you walk in here, you put your jacket on, start your day. Like a dark red, fancy gentleman's jacket for listening to podcasts too. I'm imagining what Lynn was wearing

in the candle lights episode of the Mimimim TV show. That's opulence to me. It's a podcast jacket, Snifter brandy, big, comically big Acme cigar. Oh wait, I thought it was a little cigar. It can be as big as you need it to be. Okay, that's good. For a long episode, you need a chunky or stoge.

Do you have a small wonder? Gosh, I hope so. We turned our July 4th into a family celebration. We sure did. I had this thought, because we only go to Huntington, typically around Christmas. But part of the reason we moved to DC was so that we could make more trips.

And so I was like, you know what? July 4th is on a Thursday. That's four days really of a weekend. Why don't we go down to Huntington? It's a six hour drive, which is on the bubble for me of DC. Yeah, I mean the problem, six hours tends to be doable.

At least one way there or back. Not of. Is never six hours. No. And that was like nine hours and we didn't even do nothing. I think what happens is we pick a time to return from our trip that everybody else chooses also.

Yeah, damn. Anyway. Damn it. Anyway, the trip was lovely. It was. We did lots of swimming. Got to meet a lot of sweet else chooses also. Yeah, damn. Anyway. Damn it. Anyway, the trip was lovely. It was. We did lots of swimming. Got to meet a lot of sweet fans at the Heart in the Park Escape to Margaritaville.

Happening again this week and if you can get down to Huntington, the amphitheater down at Ritter Park, man. It's lovely. It's a fucking blast, y'all. It's so much fun. Justin has been chill about how large his part is. When I rolled up. It's enormous. When I rolled up, when I rolled up, I did not realize that Justin and Sydney

were like two of four leads in the whole show. And I was like, oh, wow, okay. It's a delight, it's a fun time, start to finish. Bring the whole fam. There's a song about porking that seemed to upset at this one family. Yeah, I would think if you were going to bring the children, it would be good if they were of a PG-13 maturity.

Yes, absolutely. I will also say, not ashamed. I got pretty teary, especially around the sort of beautiful coral version of Margaritaville at the end of Act One. Is a lovely evening, all from start to finish. What's your small wonder? I was so tied up in thinking about

the thing we were talking about. What is my small wonder? Oh, you could talk about your return to beer. I don't know that I wanna own, here's the thing. I drank a few beers while I was in Huntington. This is not something Griffin really does anymore. I don't drink at home generally. Even on tour, you typically will have a glass of wine.

You will not. I will have two to three glasses of red wine per performance. But yeah, usually at home, I'm sort of a tea totaler, but I had me a few crisp, funky IPAs while in Huntington and it just reminded me, you know, I don't drink for the buzz of it. I just, I don't know what it is. I just like these funky bubbly brews. Just have a whole-

Bubbly brew. And a summertime bubbly brew in the evening. A giant cigar. Big cigar. And a podcast jacket. Podcast jacket. Sniffed, and a snifterly brew in the evening. A giant cigar. Big cigar. And a podcast jacket. Podcast jacket. Sniffed, and a snifter of brandy. A snifter of brandy and a beer. Shot and chaser.

No, yeah, I mean, I don't, it's not something that I think I have a place for. I feel so, my bones feel so bad after I drink basically anything, especially beer. But mm, mm, mm, for the taste of it, I will, I might dip in every now and then. I'm kind of a beer guy now. Yeah, kind of.

Not even a little bit. Can I tell you about my thing this week? Yes. So excited, everyone at home, I think at this point, knows that I am a fan of overly ambitious reality television shows. And when I think of that genre, there's one name that springs to mind before all else.

I was shocked I had not talked about it on this show before, but I have not. It's Murder in Small Town X on the Fox network. Oh, man. It was the turn of the millennium. Did we watch this? I don't know that we watched all of it. I definitely showed you some of it.

Yeah, I don't know that I've seen it. Well, it was really, really hard to find. This aired on Fox in 2001. It was a flop, a huge flop, and it was, I don't have any numbers in front of me, but based on the scale of the thing, I have to imagine a terrible loss for the Fox network. The show is set in this fictional main fishing port town

called Sunrise where before the show takes place, a grisly murder has taken place and the 10 contestants on the show are cast as investigators and they spend each episode visiting crime scenes and looking for and solving clues and interviewing the locals. And you may be wondering, wait, who are the locals in this small town X? Did they just tell everyone living in this actual town in Maine, hey, some people are going to come ask you about murders.

Think on your toes, cameras are rolling. No, they hired a shit ton of improvisational actors to be everyone else in the town. This is where I imagine most of the cost of this show comes in is filling a town with other human beings, sort of Truman Show style. Slash good place, which we are actively watching right now. That is true. So every episode, the contestants were sort of split up

into groups to investigate various scenes, most of which had some sort of clue waiting for you if you were really paying attention. I remember there was one episode where they're out at a pier interviewing some fisherman, but he wasn't saying anything interesting, but then somebody used this bang stick to kill a big fish, which is like a shotgun cartridge at the end of a stick.

And I guess you use it for crocodiles and sharks and stuff, I guess. I don't know. Why was this in the show? Well, it turned out that was a murder weapon and they just realized it because someone was using it down the pier. So the clues were kinda well hidden sometimes.

You really had to keep your head on a swivel to figure it out. Because every episode you also get a letter from the killer and he'll ask you a question about what you learned that day. Can we go back for a second? Oh yeah. So everybody that is on this show has signed up for the show to solve one specific murder while they are on it.

Yeah, more murders happen. Is there prize associated with it? They don't get murdered. It's like they get trapped in a game. But there's no like cash winnings. There is a cash winning price. Okay, okay. I think it's like a million bucks.

Okay, and approximately how many contestants were there? 10 on eight episodes. Now, a million bucks, that's a great prize. Was there a host? There was not, I don't think. Really? You gotta remember that like reality TV shows in the like early days, like late 90s, early aughts,

were very much like they would just start filming a bunch of people and then they would cut that up and serve it up to us and sometimes it was a fucking mess. But it was real in a way. And so like that dynamic works really well because everyone who is participating in this show gets very serious about it very quickly. First crime scene investigation,

they're looking around like, this is so silly. By episode three, they're like, but the blood prints don't match the mayor's right shoe. They get so fucking into it. The stakes are raised somewhat by the fact that at the end of each episode, the killer sends them two maps. And there's sort of like a leader system. There's like a leader each episode called the lifeguard.

At the end of the episode, everyone votes on who they want to send out to one of these killer locations and the leader picks the other person. Those two people go off, pick a map each, go to where the map tells them. One of them finds a clue that will help them solve the big overarching murder. The other person gets fucking killed by the killer.

And it's shot in MTV fear camera necklace where they're alone and just running around in whatever it's called, dark vision, night vision, just like, oh my God, oh my God, and then one of them gets killed. So yeah, the stakes get set pretty high. But yeah, it's like a deduction game where you actually have to like think about things. It's not just like playing little games

and solving little puzzles. Like there was a level of situational awareness and actual like investigation that went into it. That was really satisfying. Do you remember, what kind of contestants are we talking about here? Very- Because now I'm thinking about the Mole and how that show- Same, same crew.

Was largely ruined by many of the people that were cast for it. No, no, no, I'm so sorry. You're thinking about 2023's The Mole. That's what I'm talking about. I would encourage you to remind- Return to of the early 2000s, the mole, which was just fucking Andy Coops on a jet setting adventure with his new friends, showing off his wine pouring skills.

Exactly. Like it is peak early reality TV. And that like, there are also long stretches of time where nothing really interesting happens. There wasn't like a Dom Cruise on- There was not a Dom Cruise. Murder in Small Town X. There was like a big sort of like day trader jock bro type

does make it quite far if memory serves. So yeah, I mean, that's the show. They come in, they have a whiteboard with 15 suspects as they like go through the episodes, that list of suspects gets cut down, but so do the number of contestants participating. The show also, narratively, it fucking had it all, man. There was an order of community leaders,

a secret order called the Order of the Scarlet Lupine. There was a group of silent monks that just walked around sweeping with brooms called the Sweep that would like just march in a line sweeping. And everyone sort of just assumed that they were the production crew of the show, just kind of like hiding in plain sight.

I mean, even though this is like early reality TV, like the vibes are immaculate, I think. They go to such great lengths to make it like a spooky, foreboding atmosphere and the extent to which the participants in the show like get into it and get really, really hype, really, really, I think, builds to something that is really, truly very special. So the show was co-created by George Vershoor,

who also developed and produced and directed the first four seasons of the real world. It was also executive produced by Conrad Green, who produced another extremely ambitious, ahead of its time, short-lived reality show back in 2014 by the name of Utopia. Oh my God, I was just gonna bring up Utopia. You better believe I'm gonna do a Utopia segment

someday on this show if I haven't already, because that's another one. It does not surprise me at all that there is a heritage linking these two weird shows. Can I ask you? Yeah. Can you sing the utopia? This is utopia.

Let's make brand new stuff. I have been looking for the think piece on that show. It's 10 years. We're approaching the decade anniversary of that bold social experience. The fact that they took a reality program and ended it just suddenly. Mid-season, yeah.

Just Halloween episode. We can't, this is, as hard as it is for us to think of topics sometimes, I refuse to give the listeners at home a fucking bonus topic. I just wanna read the article that explains how that all went down. There's gotta be plenty of reading material waiting for us. I watched every episode of Murder in Small Town X,

live with my dad. And unlike all the other reality shows that were on the air at that time, there was no one to talk to, no one watched this fucking program. It was a gigantic flop. That is largely still true because like for a very long time it was not watchable anywhere.

It is 2024 now, so there is like a fairly high definition off of VHS tape recording of Murder of the 12 Town X, all eight episodes you can find on YouTube right now. So, you know, cut loose. But it's a wild fucking show, man. There have been a few kind of like, Murder Who Done It was another one that was sort of more played for laughs.

This was like, what if we did that, but also it was like seven also. There was Fincher-esque elements to this whole thing. That's Burner in Small Town X. Can I steal you away? Yes. ["City Pop"] City Pop to me is like a feeling.

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You know, for years, each new episode of this supposed advice show was a fresh insult, a depraved jumble of erection jokes, ghost humor, and frankly, this is for the best, very little actionable advice. But now as they enter their twilight years, I'm as surprised as anyone to admit that it's gotten kind of good. Justin, Travis, and Griffin's witticisms are more refined, like a humor column in a fancy magazine, and they hardly ever say Bazinga anymore. So, after you've completely finished listening to every single one of all of our other shows,

why not join the McElroy Brothers every week for My Brother, My Brother and Me. What you got cooking? My topic came to me miraculously today. Oh, wow. And it is the novelization of films. Okay, I thought you were about to say a specific film. No.

Which I struggle to think of a great one. I'm excited to hear you talk about this topic. So my, actually my frame of reference is a 1985 movie called The Journey of Nati Gann. Okay. Stared one, John Cusack. Yes, I'm familiar with the title. I've not seen the film.

It is a movie about a girl in the 1930s whose dad has to leave to find work and she has to stay with this like horrible woman and ends up running away to try and find her dad. Sounds hysterically funny. There's like, there's a dog that she befriends named Wolf. When I was thinking of novelizations, this was one of the ones I read.

Because as a kid. You can't watch a movie with John Cusack in it. No, that's not what I was gonna say. I'm saying I watched the movie first. Oh, interesting. And then read the book. Okay. Because as a kid, when you took an interest in something

and your parent wanted you to read more, this was the option. When I was reading about it, a lot of people talked about the novelization of Home Alone, which sounded very familiar to me when I was reading about it. What you're saying sounds so strange to me. And I don't, but I don't know who's weird

in this situation, me or you. Think about like a scholastic book fair, for example. Yes. A lot of stuff in there, unrecognizable to you as a young person. And then you see. Harry and the Hendersons novelization. Yes, a movie that you enjoy a young person. And then you see. The Harry and the Hendersons novelization. Yes, a movie that you enjoy in book form

and you think I'm supposed to get a book. Right. And there it is. I gotta come home, I have to spend this $10 on something. If I bring home $10 to my parents, they'll be bummed out that I didn't indulge. Yeah, and so I became kind of fascinated with this topic

as I was thinking about it today. And so I found an article from 2014 in Vanity Fair because what happened that year in June, the New York Times bestseller list featured a written adaptation of the film Godzilla. The Matthew Broderick like Godzilla from 1999 I think. I don't know. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. I don't know at what point Godzilla got its film adaptation.

Yeah. It's novelization. Yeah. No. I mean, 99 I think was the Matthew Broderick Godzilla. And you're saying that the book maybe didn't come out till 2014? There have been so many Godzilla's, I can't place exactly which one this would have been. Yeah, no, I don't know. You see what I'm saying? Yeah.

Anyway, it's not unusual for novelizations to come out much later. Sure, but for 1999. I have to assume if this was on the best seller list. Probably wasn't. People were probably pretty like hungry for a novelization. Yes.

Not just randomly five years later. You know what? There was one that Bryan Cranston was in. Oh, maybe that was it. Maybe that was it. That sounds right. Just based on the sort of time. Anyway. Yeah.

That Bryan Cranston was the brightest star in our galaxy. Anyway, novelizations have been around for like 100 years, beginning with like silent films, for example. And then the big house fell on Buster Keaton. It was super funny. So dangerous. The man with the little mustache got bonked by his brother. The cow stood up and did play a banjo.

You are oversimplifying this in a dramatic fashion. Cow pull up on its teat to turn it into a big slide guitar. Hee haw. I'm wondering what your frame of reference for silent films is. I think I just basically explicitly laid out exactly what my frame of reference is. Okay, so, but kind of the big one

that is kind of what modern novelizations is, is 1933, King Kong. Okay. Novelization incredibly popular. And then the 70s brought Star Wars and Alien. 80s and 90s was like Howard the Duck, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Batman and Robin. I bet you the fucking book novelization

of Ferris Bueller's Day Off hits so right. Today, this is still happening. a Ferris Bueller's day off hits so right. Today, this is still happening. It's mostly sci-fi because it gives the writer an opportunity to really build in some lore and also sci-fi fans are really, really committed to the genre. But here's the thing. So novelizations now obviously aren't as popular maybe

as they once were because of home video. If you think about it, before the 80s, if you saw a film in the theater and then that was it, potentially forever. Right. You were gonna wanna read the book. Yeah. Or else how do you get back to that?

Just close your eyes and try to remember it as hard as you possibly can. So this article in Vanity Fair says, quote, "'So in an age of DVR and digital outlets, why do people continue to buy these books? It's the same reason they read 5,000 word TV recaps each week. It's a way for fans to feel more connected to a story or property they love.

That's so interesting. Um, here's, here's like the little backstories that I found interesting. So novelization authors typically are paid a flat fee in the low five figure range to complete the work. And if they're lucky, they may get one to 2% royalties. Uh, so it's not like us and especially lucrative things. to complete the work, and if they're lucky, they may get one to 2% royalties. So it's not like an especially lucrative thing. That sucks, yeah.

That's why you see a lot of these authors doing a lot of novelizations. Yeah, it's a bulk game, it sounds like. I bet, I am interested, that is a skill that I can't even fathom how one develops. Yeah, yeah. And it's also like, you have varying levels of access to the original work.

So one story, the first alien movie, during the writing process, 20th Century Fox wouldn't show the writer of the novelization any pictures of the alien. Holy shit. So he had to do the novelization, any pictures of the alien. Holy shit. So he had to do the entire book, not knowing what a xenomorph would look like. Like depending on when the novelization is happening.

How does that work? You can't, how do you describe what the? And then the big alien, I guess it was. Just a slippery. Slippery green. Impossible to see in the darkness. This dude, a green humanoid man with a big old head and glowing purple eyes, he put up a peace sign.

It was like, groove you later. Okay, so another thing I read, Terry Brooks was the writer of the novelization of the Phantom Menace. Kick ass, okay. And he said, quote, I talked to George on the phone. I got this sentence out. It would really help me in writing this book

to put in some background on the Jedi and the Sith. And that was the last thing I said for half an hour. He says he just went off and gave me this huge description of the background story. It was a really good experience. I finished it in 90 days. He didn't change a word of the book. Hey, that's that GL magic, man.

I wrote my short story in a plane ride because George, his movement, he just moved through me, you know? So there is a group now that has been co-founded So there is a group now that has been co-founded by two people affiliated with the novelization industry. And it is called IMTW. International Movie Transcription Writers.

International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Media Tie-In Writers, okay, fine. So it's not just like movies, it's just anybody that's doing any kind of novelization. They have awards each year that are apparently presented at Comic-Con. Oh, I love that. So for example, when this article was written, the nominees for best adapted novels

included Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, and it ended up that Pacific Rim, the novelization author one that year. But there was a good quote in the article because they were talking about how a lot of people view this as like kind of a hack thing, you know, like you're not writing original content, you're just transcribing. And this author that was interviewed in the article said,

it's always amusing to me, you take a book, say to kill a mockingbird, throw away three quarters of it and win an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. But if you take an original screenplay and add three quarters of original material, which is much, much more difficult piece of writing, well, that's by definition hack work. And it's much harder having done both

to take a screenplay and make a book out of it and to take a terrific book and make a screenplay. Go off. I think people might disagree with that, but I see what he's saying. Like there is some kind of original work required to kind of develop these characters in a way that you would see in a book.

Right. But you have very specific parameters that you have to stick to. Yeah, sure. So I can see how it would be more challenging in some ways, because your source material is all visual, and you're trying to turn that into a written medium. Yeah, it's just a question of like,

what difficulty means, right? Because then anything the screenwriter puts in their book has to be created and recorded on film for people to watch later. I think they are, I imagine they are both incredibly difficult endeavors. Oh yeah, of course. I just thought it was an interesting perspective

to think about. So I wanted to share some examples of movie novelizations I found. There is a movie novelization of 10 Things I Hate About You, which is kind of interesting since it is an adaptation of Tami and the Shrew. David Levithan, who I'm not familiar, apparently is a very famous author,

a legendary editor of books for young readers, wrote this adaptation. Of 10 Things I Hate About You? Yeah, there's Adventures in Babysitting, apparently a great novelization. The Babysitter's Club, the movie, which is interesting because again, a movie based on books now turned back into a book from the movie.

There's one of Crossroads, the Britney Spears movie. Some of these, it's surprising that there's enough sort of meat on the bone. The woman that wrote this novelization also wrote a novelization also wrote a novelization of Scooby-Doo and One Tree Hill and the novelization of Bring It On. Fuck yeah.

So you can see the way she kind of specialized in a teen space. You've seen Scooby-Doo, right? The Scooby-Doo films? The real life Scooby-Doo? I don't know that I have. Oh, dang babe. If I'm honest.

If memory serves, they slap. There is a woman that wrote a novelization of the Flintstones, who also did Power Rangers novels, as well as a novelization for a Goofy movie. I definitely read the Power Rangers one. Oh yeah? Yeah, for sure. There's also a novelization of Good Burger. I think I received that as a birthday present one year.

This author, Joseph Locke, also did novelizations of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. There's one of the Goonies, there's the one I mentioned of Home Alone, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji. You can kind of tell like the 90s peak of this. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Also one of Kazam.

Right. Man, I could really go on and on. There's just a lot of them. And it's just, I don't know, it's like this cool little community that is creating this kind of time capsule. Because I will say that even though it seems like you can get your hands on a lot of films now,

there are still movies that are very difficult to find out in the world. And it's just kind of nice that there's like this time capsule novelization of it. I love that. I didn't read a lot of movie books. I did read a lot of, and I might also save this for another segment one day

because it is also a rich vein, I read a lot of video game book adaptations. Whoa! There was a series called Worlds of Power around the NES era. It was novelizations of Master Blaster and Kid Icarus. See, can I tell you, I feel like Henry would be really into that.

Yeah, yes. I feel like when you think about the, what I was saying earlier, that there are a bunch of kids out there that are not reading maybe as much as they should, but are taking in lots of media. Right. And once you're far away to get them to read.

I mean, I don't know how, I remember the Metal Gear 2 adaptation, Worlds of Power book was largely a walkthrough of the video game like, and then Snake found key card two by climbing under the red vent. Like I don't know how thrilling that would be for him. Well, you see, I think you are, I think-

We did read the Nintendo Power Super Mario comic book strip compilation probably a dozen times. I'm sure there are tons of novelizations out there that are not enjoyable to read, but like what I am highlighting are novelizations that are actually supposed to be very, very well done. Yeah, for sure. Can I tell you what our friends at home are talking about?

Yes. Okay, I would love to do that. The first one I'm going to talk about is Lux, who says, my small wonder is taking the back roads. They tend to be more scenic than main routes, and there's just something about it that makes it feel like you're in on a cool secret. Drive safe.

Thank you, Lux, for that last part. That reminds me of the special kind of driving that we do when we go to Huntington, drive safe. Thank you Lux for that last part. That reminds me of like the special kind of driving that we do when we go to Huntington for example. Yes. Or if we're in St. Louis, like when you live in a place for a long time and then you're bringing somebody there and you're like taking weird routes places just so you can go past things

that you haven't seen in a long time. Yeah, Huntington always had, like specifically if you're in the city, sometimes you just like drive up a hill and then you're just on a magic voyage through the woods. R says, as a fellow night thrasher, sheet clips have really saved me from having to retuck constantly.

I clipped them to both the fitted and the top sheet. Your mileage may vary. Just included this one to say, we got some feedback from folks to this effect and we did it. It's like our bed has fucking dorky suspenders. Little suspenders. I was skeptical that they would actually hold the sheet

because it really is just a suspender clip. And I thought like the amount of thrashing we do. Yeah. It's bound on that. When we blast off, there's no clip in the world strong enough to, gonna have to get an arc welder in here to get those puppies to stay put. I just assumed at one point, like at two in the morning,

I would be awoken by the sound of a. It's the scariest. Just a sheet clip. When a fitted sheet pops off the corner while you're asleep, it feels like an intruder in your house is trying to throw a bag over your head. Yes. The way it kind of curls up immediately towards you

is like someone's trying to contain me in this moment. Well, and also because in order to fix it, you have to get out of bed. Like it's such a demand that it places on you. Behind us though, because of these powerful, powerful bed suspenders. If these bed suspenders for whatever reason do not deliver, because we've only done it for maybe a week now,

I am prepared to continue to invest in this product until I find one. Yeah, me too. How about it sharks? How about it sharks? How about it sharks? Sharks, we don't have anything for you today. But we- Has anyone come to you?

Has anyone been like figured out bed sheets yet? That'd be cool. Just letting you know, like next time a bed sheet guy comes in, you should definitely think about it. We like roll out a mattress and a fitted sheet and we're like, see, you know, and then it comes up. Does anyone have a way to fix it?

Has this ever happened to you? Cause it happens to us all the time. Sharks, I'm asking for $100,000 to find somebody else that could do this. I'm a new, I'm the recruitment shark. It's a new idea here on Shark Tank. Hey, thank you so much for listening to our program. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus

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