Wonderful! - Wonderful! 346: Holographic Goku Poster

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Griffin's favorite disc-flicking game! Rachel's favorite sports-adjacent memorabilia!Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Native Women Lead: https://www.nativewomenlead.org/

["Wonderful"] Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hi, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Welcome to Wonderful. It's a show where we talk about things we like that's good that we're into going on strong for six or seven years, maybe. Something like that. I've lost touch completely with the duration

of our art in general. I'm always surprised to learn how long I've been making all the podcasts that we make, all the art, sorry. All the art that we make. All the art, art doesn't have to just be painting or David or church ceiling. It can be lots of stuff.

A lot of people don't know that. Not video games. That's not art, obviously. It can be a recap podcast about a reality dating show. That was, I would say, low art. Low. What we do here is a bit higher, I think. Okay, all right.

When art historians talk about us in the future, where all the technology's like crazy. When you go to a podcast museum, God, I'm laughing, but that's definitely gonna be a thing. Yeah, but each room is for a different podcast. So when you walk into the McElroy exhibit, it's just like they play little clips. They play little clips of some of the docents'

favorite jokes that make them bust up. But the docents are robots, because this is like far future. You have to like walk through your open mouth to get in the room. I don't actually wanna do that because I hope that that part of my brand, I have gone to great lengths to squash

and I pray that in this far-flung future that I'm describing, it doesn't stick around. I don't want that in my O-bit, if that makes sense. Yeah, I get it. I don't want it either. No, no. Do you have any small wonders to talk about today? I can go first.

Yeah, please do. I'm gonna give it up to our HVAC guy. I'm not gonna say the name of the company because I don't want DC people to overbook his schedule, but there is nothing better than having a contractor who you work with a lot and have reached a point where you can talk to fairly comfortably, who is like a super reliable and just great.

This dude has helped us fix our fully non-functional heating and cooling elements a few times at this point. And it's nice to know if some shit goes down, fully non-functional heating and cooling elements a few times at this point. And it's nice to know if some shit goes down, we have a guy. We never really had, I remember when our house flooded in Austin, it was like, well, we don't have a guy really for this, for our house falling apart.

We literally like, we're just, it was the equivalent of going through the phone book. Yeah, and we ended up going with a place that like water remediation or whatever, and they were, that they charged us a lot of money because I think that the getting was probably good. Yeah, probably. But man, we just got an HVAC guy,

and it used to be very stressful when like your cold house got colder or your hot house got hotter, but now we got this guy. I like that. And we're assuming that he is on call for us 24 hours a day. I know his name. I don't wanna make it sound like I don't know his name.

I do know his name. I genuinely don't wanna drop any clues. You don't even wanna give his name? It starts with an A. That is enough. I've given you all the clues, police. That's how cutthroat DC is. It really is.

You gotta get on the daycare lotteries and you don't ever give out your contractors for first names. Was that enough time for you? Yeah, I'm gonna say this phenomenon that I don't know if this is a thing everywhere, but it has been a thing at the schools that we send our children to, which is the parent social. Yes.

We couldn't stay at one very long last night because we didn't have extended babysitting hours, but I think it's kind of a cool idea. And I've noticed that even though our sons are at two different schools, both schools did it. Yeah. Like, hey, let's get you parents together and you can talk to each other about your kids.

It's so funny, because I feel like both times we've gone to one of these, it's been great, and we've carried on comfortable conversations with all of these other parents. And then during one of them, Gus got really sick and we had to leave after like 10 minutes. And then the one we went to last night, we had to leave after like 30 minutes.

Maybe that's the secret. Yeah, right? How can they miss you if you're not gone? Or wait, they probably don't miss you if they don't know you, because you left the thing after a few minutes, but it is what it is, man. It's a cool idea.

I go first this week. I'm gonna talk about something that I think I mentioned to you for the first time last night, which is a game called Croconol. Croconol. I was very lucky to go on a little retreat with some old pals, I think last month, up in Wisconsin, and it was really an amazing time getting to catch up

with everyone and- How do you spell that? Croconal, C-R-O-K-I-N-O-L-E. I actually pulled up a picture of the board if you wanted to see what the game looks like. Oh, that's what I was doing. Oh, okay. It's like two feet in diameter,

so if you can imagine that. Wow. One of the highlights of this trip is somebody brought their Croconol board, and I knew about Croconol, just because I operate in a really nerdy space. I guess so. I was like, how did you know about this?

And I had always kind of wanted to check it out. I always wanted to play it, because Croconol combines a lot of elements from games that I really, really enjoy. So it's played usually on a circular board that is 26 inches in diameter, upon which you flick these tiny little, like one inch, one and a half inch wide wooden disks.

And you just flick them with your finger and you're trying to get it as close to the center of the board as possible. The board is like three concentric circles of like scoring zones and the closer you get to the middle, the more points you get. I think it's like five on the outmost layer and then 10 in the middle.

And then at the very center of the board, it's like 15 points. And then right in the center of the board, there's a little bullseye and it's a tiny little divot that the disc just perfectly fits in. And so if you get one in there, it's usually a lot of points that the disc just perfectly fits in. And so if you get one in there, it's usually a lot of points.

And then you score it like curling, right? The more you get closer to the center, the more points you get. You cancel out yours and the opponent's points, right? If you both have one in the 15 spot, you just swipe those off the board because they cancel out and then you score it. And there's also around the middle most sort of layer

where you're shooting to try to get it in the divot. There's eight pegs sort of arranged in a circle around that that is sort of like preventing you from just getting clean shots into the center every single time. It really is like if curling and sort of shuffleboard had a little table top size baby. So you just like go around the circle and everybody takes a turn?

So you can play it with two people or two teams of two, which is what we did most of the time. And you're seated like at opposite ends of the table from your partner. And yeah, everybody takes turns flicking their discs in until you run out of discs and then you score. Did other people know what this was? Yeah, so there were a couple of guys who like,

maybe it's a Midwest thing. I don't know, the regionalism of this game is kind of mysterious to me. I mean, not my Midwest. Yeah, sure. It was really fun. It's like the perfect kind of chilling out game with like a big group of folks.

Because it is like, it does require aim and sort of manual dexterity. There's definitely a learning curve because it does not take much like juice to get that disc to go. And so your first few times like flicking it, you send it fucking flying across the room. It takes like finesse, but it's not a thing

that sort of like absorbs your whole brain while you play it. It's very easy to play. Like you can have a drink in one hand and flick the discs with the other hand and like carry on a conversation while you play. So it's sort of like, I don't know. It's, I-

This is like the same thing you said about Kube. Is that what it's called? What was it called? Yeah, Kube is the, but Kube is like, it requires 50 feet of space. I know, but you like a game where you can hold the drink in one hand. I mean, that is the quintessential outdoor

hangout game thing, but I don't know that there's a ton of, you can't really do that while you're playing chess, right? Because that requires, or Scrabble. I remember you and I used to play Sc playing chess, right? Cause that's, it requires like, or Scrabble. I remember you and I used to play Scrabble a lot and we kind of stopped because when we played Scrabble, we didn't like talk that much or anything. Cause one person inevitably would be like fucking, like working out the algorithm in their mind.

Oh shit, hit my printer tray, but it's okay. I didn't break it or anything. So like all the, there's similar sort of disc flicking games, but like all of these like move a thing close to the middle of the thing, there's a lot of strategy that goes behind every shot, right? You have to constantly be evaluating what the board looks like,

and then make decisions of like, do you shoot straight for the center hole, or do you try to knock out opponent's discs from the like center circle? If your opponent gets it in the little divot, it's actually possible to flick your disc into theirs in the divot hard enough that theirs pops out and goes flying, which feels,

but you have to flick it really hard so then there's a risk reward thing of, if you miss, that disc is fucking gone. It's not going anywhere. How does the game end? I just assumed it ended when somebody got in the little middle section. No, so every round after you cancel out

the matching scores, you score whoever has all the discs left on the board, and then you play to like 200 or something like that. Okay. So you could also park one of your discs right between two pegs where your opponent is shooting to kind of create a wall so they can't get clean shots at the center.

There's actually a lot of ways that you can, a lot of things you can do with this. Do you think Henry would like this? It seems like kid friendly. I think so. It is also a frustrating game, right? Because it does involve a lot of finesse. And once you shoot for the center a lot of times

and just keep bouncing off those pegs, it does get less fun to play. And you'd have to destroy him. And I couldn't not, right? That's not true, I'm not that dad. I think I do a pretty good job of pulling my punches. Just watch me play Smash Bros with that guy. No way, man.

That's not me bringing my A game. So there's a lot of these like disc flicking games out there. Croconole is not the first of them. It is generally agreed that the game that sort of spun this and all the other games like it off is called Karam, which is a game from India, and it's somewhat similar. It's played on a square board, and it's more like billiards, because all these little pieces are on the board

when the game starts, and you have to flick your discs into other discs to knock them into these pockets in the corners to eliminate them. And then there's one red disc that you have to flick your disks into other disks to knock them into these pockets in the corners to eliminate them. And then there's one red disk that you have to try and get last. So it's basically like a game of nine ball or whatever, except it's played with these flicking disks. It is a big game with a lot of history

throughout Southeast Asia. And historians generally agree, this is the forefather of all these games that sort of spun off. So then it's thought that immigrants from Southeast Asia brought the game to North America in you know, like the mid 19th century. And people just went wild for it and started to, the Koram started to inspire the creation of other disc flicking games like Croconol. There's one called Pitchnut,

which comes from French Canada. French Canadians went wild for this whole genre of games. In fact, the whole sort of genre of games is called Pichnut, which is a French Canadian term that means basically to flick. And now that is sort of like the catch-all term for these sorts of games. The first known crocanole board was made by a guy

named Eckhart Wetloffer, who was a German immigrant living in Ontario, and it's believed that he made this board as a gift for his son's fifth birthday, which must have been pretty lit to be like, here's your birthday present, it's a new game. That's gonna be pretty huge up here in French Canada. Some people sort of mistakenly believe that the origin of Croconol is that it comes

from Amish and Mennonite communities because they're actually really, really big into the game also, but that is not true. It's just they really like the game because typically in those sorts of communities, games of chance are really frowned upon. So like dice-based games, card games, they are not huge fans,

but like just flicking little discs on a big round board is okay in the Lord's eyes. Electricity and you know. Yeah, I mean, it's a chill acoustic board game to play. I would say the player base of Croconol is quite small, but like those enthusiasts are really diehard about it. There is a World Croconol Championships that have been hosted since 1999 in Tavistock, Ontario,

which is the home of Eckhart Wetlaufer, the creator of the game. And last year's event attracted 575 participants, which is a record number of attendees for the World Croconole Championships. And the name of it, for the last thing, is kind of fun because it comes from the French word croconole, only spelled like way different,

C-R-O-Q-U-I-G-N-O-L-E, which historically that word has had a few meanings. way different, C-R-O-Q-U-I-G-N-O-L-E, which historically that word has had a few meanings. One of them refers to a hairstyling method involving wrapping curls towards your scalp into this circular kind of shape. It has referred to baked goods, like a donut, or a biscuit, or a cookie cookie or a bun of some sort.

There is a sandwich that you learn about in French class when you're in high school called the croque monsieur. Yeah, that is like, it's like a grilled cheese in hand sandwich. It's fucking great. It's really, really, really, don't you think they put like powdered sugar and like a little jelly dip? Fuck man. If I ate one of those, it would kill me.

I would die. I think I ate one in those, it would kill me. I would die. I think I ate one in my life. It wouldn't kill you. We were traveling for that wedding and we got breakfast with some folks and I got one of those, I thought it sounded good and I was like, that was amazing.

But one other interpretation of the word that is sort of defunct now is to strike with a blow or gesture made by the sudden forcible release of a finger curled up against the thumb. This is maybe the best name for a thing ever, because it's like all that stuff kind of, all these different definitions of this word kind of apply,

which I found very interesting. Anyway, that's Croconol. I don't have a board, I would like to get one, because I think it would be a fun game to just kind of play around with. We should probably wait until our sons are older. I feel like right now we have like a whole, almost literal room of games that we don't play.

That's true. Because we don't have time to play games. Little Son makes us get those out sometimes to like play with all the little parts. Yeah. And his attention span for one of those is about five minutes. I started buying games specifically because of the pieces.

Oh sure, dude. Because I think like he will like this piece, I'll buy it. I keep thinking Hero Quest is gonna click because it's got a bunch of little skeletons and heroes and monsters and shit. No way, I don't get it. Henry used to like playing with them, right? Yeah, he did like to play with them.

I'm a little intense about it because I don't want any of the, that game is expensive as fuck. I don't want one of the little beautiful treasure chests to get squished, you know what I mean? Actually in this new version, I'm pretty sure it's all plastic. Yeah, I was gonna say the new one is like, I don't want one of the little beautiful treasure chests to get squished, you know what I mean? Actually in this new version, I'm pretty sure it's all plastic.

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What about your mind though? We'll see. All right. My wonderful thing this week is the stadium giveaway. So huge. I have talked about bobbleheads before. Yes. But I have never really talked about the thing

that most people get their bobbleheads from, which is the, you go to a sporting event. During a special day. And it happens to be a day. The reason I was thinking about this for the past few years, my dad's birthday is in October. That has always been true. That is not just the past few years.

For the past few years, Rachel's dad has been born in October. But when we were growing up, what we would always do is we would go to a hockey game around his birthday and we would go to a hockey game in March around my birthday. And so for the past few years, I've started like buying them tickets

as a birthday present for my dad. And the first game, the first home opener, is at least for the past few years, always a calendar giveaway. And then my parents always send me a calendar that they got. That's where those come from, okay. Yeah, so I mean, essentially,

it's a lot to pay for a calendar. But I will say, it's a nice, I don a calendar, but I will say it's like a nice, I don't know, I always. I wish the nude Jordan Kairou that they put in last year's, that was, we couldn't actually show the month of July in our home because a nude Jordan Kairou is actually. I can't believe you would say those words to me and not expect my mind to wander.

Yeah, sure. To what that would look like. I don't actually know, of all the blues players. He's the one you'd least like to see nude. I don't know about that. I think a nude Jordan Bennington would be tough because I know the face he would make would be incongruous. Yeah, true.

With the boudoir photo shoot that they. In my head, at least, I'll say ask this as a question. In your head, are they all lying on their side with their head in their hand? No. That's what I'm picturing. You remember those, I think Sports Illustrated does like body issues every year and it's like athletes,

but they're like tastefully nude to show off like, this is what their crazy athlete bodies look like. Have you ever seen any of those? I don't, no. It's not like nudity with exposed crazy athlete bodies look. Have you ever seen any of those? I don't. It's not like nudity with exposed genitalia and what have you, but it's like, you know. Yeah, like nice lighting to really show off. Tasteful lighting.

You see like one buttock and it's like, that's a sculpted buttock. I can only imagine the other one looks just like that one. Yeah, but if they showed you both buttocks, that would be a little too salacious. You couldn't give that one away. No way. Yeah.

Anyway, I love a giveaway. It's always tricky because you have to be one of the first X number of people in attendance. And I feel like the day we went to that ill-fated baseball game here, it was a giveaway, but we got there way too late. I can't remember what it was. But I always, I don't know, I always like love that.

Like, yeah, and it's always like, it's the kind of thing that like you can't really find like in the store, you know? So you feel like this is a nice little souvenir of my one day there. Are you lumping in this segment? Are you including things like a t-shirt cannon or when the blimp drops coupons?

No, because I have actually, as you'll recall, already talked about t-shirt cannons. That is true. Have you ever been to one, they used to do this at Highten Blizzard games, I don't remember if they did it at other sporting events where they have like a little blimp and it'll fly around and then it'll drop a little blimp.

Yeah, that's every game. Okay. Now I'm talking about like in Yeah, that's every game. Okay. Now I'm talking about like in advance, they will put a calendar together. Sure. And like, you know, the 19th of October is like, you know, a hat giveaway night or whatever. That's what I'm talking about.

I don't know, man, I went to a bunch of Red's games growing up. I don't know that I ever went to one where you got like a cool freebie. I mean, you have to get there early. Most of the time they only have so many and they give it to like the first, however many hundred fans.

Justin one time got a Cincinnati Reds cap because he signed up for like a Capital One credit card and it destroyed his credit for a long, long, long, long time. That's how they get you. That is how they get you, yeah. I can't even think of how much he must've paid for that hat just to end it. Oh dude, yeah, no, in terms of interest and penalties,

probably more than his car. Okay, so the idea of the promotional giveaway at an event actually started in St. Louis. It was- Was it at the World's Fair? At the World's Fair. We got this new idea, guys. How would that be a sporting event giveaway if it was at the World's Fair?

Yeah, it was just like some guy at a booth, he's like sitting, he's like asking me about my big idea, and they're like, what's your idea? He's like, what if at sporting events they gave away little statues, but the heads are on springs? It was at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, June, 1952. It was a double header between the St. Louis Browns and the Philadelphia Athletics.

A representative of a bankrupt bat manufacturer approached Bill Veek, who was the owner, and said, I would love to sell you all of these bats. My company is no longer working, and I have all these bats, and I would love to give them to you. Full-sized baseball bats? Or like little tiny, you know, lominto little sluggish? I think they were full-sized.

That's a fucking crazy party fan. I know, they don't do that anymore. Now it's like a little tiny guy. Yeah. So the baseball bat guy approached Rudy Schaeffer, who was like Vique's colleague, and worked out a deal where they would pay 11 cents for every bat. And then he'd throw in the unfinished bats for free,

which like, what are you, what are you doing with an unfinished bat? What does that mean even? Is that just like a piece of wood? Well, they ran out of money before they could finish it. Just like a piece of wood? Well, I bet they got to do a bunch of stuff to it. Yeah. Polish it, sand it down, make sure it's balanced.

So they did that, I mentioned it was a, or if I didn't, it was a Sunday and it was a Father's Day. Oh wow. And it was one of the largest fan attended. It was like 15,000 people for the game that day. And there were way less people alive back then. So like 15,000 people then is like 350,000 people now. This same guy, Vique, has a lot of stories around his promotional exploits.

So when he left St. Louis in 1959, he owned the White Sox and they had Coca-Cola bats, so Coca-Cola agreed to subsidize the cost of the bat. Full-size bats again? That's what it says. Vique has lost his fucking mind, dude. Oh, well, so I've got to get to the thing that you may have heard of that was also him.

Okay, so have you heard of the baseball game where people were invited to bring their disco albums and they would destroy them? Yes, yes. That's this guy. Okay. Yeah. Hey, that sucks though, V. I am actually, I have turned on this man a hundred. I think that's one of the gnarliest, grossest

sort of promotional things in the history of him. It was a huge problem for them. So he, they were playing the Detroit Tigers and they sold 98 cent tickets and told fans to bring all the disco records that they would like to get rid of. And then they were going to blow up crates of the records in between the two games. The issue is that a lot of rambunctious fans

showed up looking to celebrate the destruction rather than watch baseball. Fans poured onto the field, the records after the records were destroyed, and they had to forfeit the second game because it was just pure chaos. Because you made explosions and you created a, yeah, no. Also just like the fucking knee jerk pushback

against disco is so mired in like wild racism and like all kinds of really, really gnarly shit. And to kind of like, I don't know, the whole act of mass destroying pieces of media is like pretty fucking heinous. No, I only mentioned that to say like this is that guy. This is who this dude is. Like don't be surprised that this is the guy

that started promotional giveaways because he was clearly willing to do anything. Originally, I was like, who is, this is a madman giving out hundreds and thousands of bats. Like that's, that is the behavior of a truly unhinged person. It is literally. And now that I know this other facet, it's like, ah, confirmed.

There are a lot of other fun examples. Another one that happened in St. Louis, do you remember the rally squirrel? No, but in my defense, you guys have so many fucking rally things. In 2011, St. Louis was in the World Series, they were facing elimination, and there was a squirrel that ran across the plate

while St. Louis was up at bat. And then after that moment, the Blues came back to, to win the game. Sorry, the Cardinals came back to win the game. I got confused about which sport you're talking about. So anyway, so for the next Cardinals home game, they already had towels ready with the Rally Squirrel. Okay, I love that.

That's powerful. I love when an animal gets on the baseball field, except for that one that Randy Johnson did send to bird heaven with his extremely powerful and fast fastball pitch. There was Reggie Jackson, there were Reggie bars, which is not familiar to me, but it's probably familiar to people older than us.

And it was just like a chocolate candy and- Did it have any kind of sports supplement inside of it? It says it was a circular treat of caramel dipped peanuts inside a chocolate shell. Sounds like a Snickers, kinda. A Reggie Bar sounds like something that would get you fucked up. Anyway, Reggie Jackson did hit a home run that game

and a bunch of people hurled the chocolates onto the field. You gotta keep your fucking, you gotta keep your wits about you when you're planning one of these things. I did wanna say the bobbleheads. So I mentioned that the bat Giveaway started in 1952. The first bobbleheads to show up were like 1960. Okay.

And that was like, you know, like the first 1960 World Series bobbleheads were like classic players, like Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente. Yeah. Dad had some of these. Oh yeah? In the basement, not like a ton of them,

but there was definitely like a shelf in the basement where he had like a bunch of bobbleheads. He also had these terrifying, terrifying busts of Laurel and Hardy done up in a kind of like bobblehead style where they had like little bobblehead and their heads were gigantic. And every time, I was scared to go in the basement because of those creepy ass little or hearty statues.

Is that true? That's 100% fucking true. You can ask Justin Traviss about that shit. Those guys were unnerving. I don't get it. I don't get bobbleheads and I try to be fun and like down to clown for whatever, but I don't really like the whole vibe

or aesthetic of a bobblehead. Do you know what I mean? You probably don't. You probably love a bobblehead. No, because I brought them as a thing on Wonderful. Yeah, no, I know. I love them. I think they're great.

I guess it's probably those Laurel and Hardy statuettes like really spoiled me on little representations of human beings with gigantic heads. I mean Laurel and Hardy is not, is not who I would want necessarily as a bobblehead. I associate them with sports. I like them in a sports setting. I'm less interested in like the,

in the like media bobbleheads. I don't know, it feels like a sports thing to me. Like the Funko Pops? Yeah, exactly. The Funko Pops is just like bobbleheads that don't know, it feels like a sports thing to me. Like the Funko Pops? Yeah, exactly. The Funko Pops is just like bobbleheads that don't bobble. They're just heads. Anyway, if you look at Bleacher Report, they did an article in 2012

where they cited the 15 craziest fan giveaways. There's just a lot of good ones on there. Something called Free Compost Night, Seattle Mariners 2011. Don't know why my voice changed like that. Yeah, you really took on a whole other persona there. Yeah, Free Compost Night is a good one. Can you just bring a cup, you can bring a bucket,

and they get a big pile in the middle of it. How do they do that? You know, I don't know. I don't know, it just says- That blimp flies around, it just dumps compost onto unsuspecting members of the audience. It says, the Seattle Mariners emphasize conservation

to their fans by distributing a garden friendly mix. It was made using food waste and other items that had been discarded at the field itself. I mean, that kicks ass. That kicks ass. That's great. I like that a lot, actually. But then, giveaways by nature,

maybe they don't anymore. A lot of times they happen at the beginning of the game. Yeah, so now ass, that's great. I like that a lot actually. But then giveaways by nature, maybe they don't anymore. A lot of times they happen at the beginning of the game. Yeah, so now you just have this compost. So you're like, see, everybody's just sitting there with compost in mind. I like to travel so light when I'm going to like a sport event of some sort, because I don't want to have to carry a bunch of shit around

and like monitor it and let it get stepped all over when people come. So the idea of nursing a bag of food waste. I think a lot of them now are at the end of the game, particularly if it is going to be a disruptive item, you will on your way out pick up the thing. That's smart. That's real smart.

Yeah, handing out compost, that's a dangerous one actually. If the game starts to go in a way you don't like. Yeah, that's the thing, right? Look out. That's a great segment, baby. Thank you. I have some submissions from our friends at home. Alex says, my small wonder is when I have to get ice

from the ice machine at work and I close the lid a little too hard so all the fresh ice falls into the bin. The crinkle tinkles make my brain happy. I do love that sound. I feel like a lot of green rooms at the venues we perform at are sometimes attached to staff kitchens or whatever

with big, big, big ice machines in them. And it is always kind of nice when you're just sitting here and you hear like, whoosh, whoosh, there's a bunch of ice in there. Even the ice maker in the fridge does that sometimes. It's lovely. It is lovely. It's a nice, deep, resonant, rattling.

I also like the sound of a dishwasher. I do when I, it's lovely. It is lovely, it's a nice, deep, resonant. I also like the sound of a dishwasher. I do when I remember it's running. I don't when I don't remember it's running and I hear like, come from the kitchen all of a sudden and I'm like, oh fuck. It's just a nice, for me it's just a nice reminder that a machine is doing something for you and I feel so grateful.

Pampered. Leah says, my wonderful thing is the guy who is showing off his very cool holographic Goku poster on the subway. My second wonderful thing is that holographic Goku poster has the same cadence as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As soon as I read this email, I started hitting up with holographic Goku poster, holographic Goku poster. You know there's a website or there used to be?

Yeah, that's just that. Yeah, that like gives you a phrase. It's really, really good. I love both sides of this. I love that someone's like, hey Train, listen up. I got this holographic Goku poster. A holographic Goku poster on its own is great.

Someone showing it off is great. And the fact that it has this wonderful symmetry with the TMNT is just fantastic. Yeah. Across the board, Leah, a wonderful submission. That's it for the show. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks to Bowen and Augustus for the use of our theme song, Money Won't Pay.

You can find a link to that in the episode description. Thank you to Maximum Fun for having us on the network. Go to maximumfun.org, check out all the great shows that they got over there. Did you know your episode you did? Tabletop Hula Baloo. Yeah, I don't know if that is Boko or if that is just on the main feed. No, it's on the main feed.

Okay, cool. Yeah, me and a bunch of other hosts of Max Fun shows got together to play a one-shot of Dungeons and Dragons. And I got to be a player, which is always very fun. And it's up now, it's really fun. It's called Tabletop Hullabaloo. We have some merch over at the McElroy Merch Store. We got the Taz 10th Anniversary coin.

We've got the Trav-O-Fination long sleeve tee. We've got a bunch of stuff over at McElroyMerch.com. And we do have a couple more short tours for the rest of this year for Mbem Mbam and Taz. We're gonna be in Phoenix and Denver, actually later this week. And then next month we are gonna be doing a short tour in Indianapolis and Milwaukee.

If you go to bit.ly slash McElroy Tours, you can find out all the information and grab tickets. Come see us. It's, we got some really fun plans for these shows. If you're thinking I was gonna wait, it's no big deal. Griffin won't wear this toad costume again after this tour is over. Yeah, no, I don't intend to.

It is not flattering. And you've gotta see Griffin in this toad costume. The pants are so big that it is like a long sleeve diaper. If that sounds like something you're interested in. You know what's funny is that our kids keep seeing that little mushroom hat and they want to play with it and we have to be like no no no. That's daddy's work uniform! Work it all day, money won't pay. Work it all day, money won't pay. Work it all day, money won't pay. Work it all day, money won't pay.

Work it all day, money won't pay. The end.