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Hi, this is Rachel

0:04

McElroy.

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Hello,

0:20

this is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful.

0:22

This is a show where we talk about things that we like, that's

0:25

good, that we're into. It's a podcast hosted

0:27

by marrieds, marrieds

0:30

like us. And

0:34

it is so nice to see you with

0:36

me today. And

0:39

the ensemble you're wearing right now is fun. It

0:43

is, I would say, neo-futuristic.

0:46

I bought a pair of fitness shorts that

0:49

are very bright, have kind of like,

0:51

almost like a marbleized pattern of bright

0:54

purples and blues and greens. And

0:57

I've worn them maybe twice now. And

1:00

both times Griffin is like,

1:02

it's all he wants to talk about. I gotta

1:04

tell you, it's because I like the way you fit in

1:06

this shorts. So

1:11

smooth. So smooth. Thanks.

1:13

I, you know, so much Riz. We were separated

1:16

for four or five days while

1:18

I was in. While he was on tour, not

1:21

out of any dispute. No, I was

1:24

in Seattle and, you know, I saved

1:26

up this Riz. I'm not going to use this

1:28

Riz on other people.

1:30

Why would you want to bring it to the stage? There's

1:32

no reason to have that on stage. No, people

1:34

come for a very mechanical, right over the

1:36

plate sort of diatribe

1:39

from me. They come, you know, buy

1:41

tickets to see us

1:42

speak, share our thoughts, our

1:45

philosophies. And then I get home

1:47

and I've got all this Riz stored up. I just

1:49

open up the chamber.

1:50

And I put these shorts

1:52

on and it's just like a tidal wave. Good

1:54

work with Riz, young people. Great.

1:58

Just really, really powerful stuff. that

2:00

word. It saved us so much time.

2:02

It does, yeah. Co, it stops

2:05

you from saying co and mo, like

2:07

a real dummy. You

2:09

got any small wonders for me?

2:11

I

2:15

can go first if you'd like. Yeah, go ahead. Crepes.

2:18

I had a crepe while I was in Seattle.

2:21

Oh, wow. Ricotta. Wow.

2:24

Ricotta. I didn't even know you liked ricotta.

2:27

I like it in a crepe. I don't like a lot

2:29

of ricotta. I don't like a lot of

2:33

sort of curdled crepe. I guess we eat

2:35

a lot of lasagna. I mean, not a lot, but

2:38

we do eat lasagna. When you eat lasagna,

2:40

you usually eat a lot of it. I've

2:42

never had a tiny, cute little

2:44

lasagna. Yeah,

2:47

I love a crepe. It has a

2:50

sort of, a kind of like flabby texture

2:52

that I just enjoy more

2:54

than I think I'm going to every time I eat one. Very

2:58

fun.

2:59

Very fun, the crepe. Sprinkle

3:01

some fruit on there. That noise

3:03

you made. Sprinkle

3:06

some fruit. Don't mind

3:08

if I do. I

3:10

thought of my thing. Okay.

3:13

Witches. Witches

3:15

are great. They cast spells,

3:18

cauldrons, frog eyes,

3:21

magic, moonlight, the

3:24

forest, friendship.

3:27

A lot of people are like, is it hard

3:29

to be married to a maproy because

3:31

they're so quick? And

3:33

normally I would say no, but

3:36

that was hard for me in that moment. Well,

3:38

I don't know what to tell you. I got excited. I

3:40

thought you wanted to talk about witches. I

3:43

was going to say, which is going out to dinner when

3:46

you have your parents visiting you, which

3:49

is what I had recently. And

3:51

Griffin had just gotten back and we had not been out to

3:53

dinner in a while. And

3:57

I've never looked around the restaurant to

3:59

try. and find other people doing what we're doing. But

4:02

there is a level of joy when you

4:04

have young children to go out to dinner with

4:06

your partner that is unparalleled. And

4:09

I'd like to think that if I looked around the restaurant,

4:11

I could spot others like us. Oh, for sure. Because

4:14

Griffin and I look at each other like we have been let out

4:16

of a cage. It is so exciting.

4:18

Food tastes better.

4:19

The food tastes so good. It's just,

4:21

it's- Shout out, shout out to Pearl, Dive, Oaster,

4:23

Bar. The

4:25

black and srimps were so fun.

4:28

Yeah. They were so tasty. Thank you

4:30

so much for the seafood guys. You're crushing it

4:32

over there. I go first this week.

4:34

This is one I'm gonna file

4:37

under, I can't believe we haven't talked about it before, and

4:39

it is Escape Rooms.

4:41

Whoa. Yes. I

4:43

feel like Escape

4:46

Rooms have been around for a little while now. And have

4:48

sort of made their footprint

4:51

in our consciousness sort

4:55

of over the last, you know, I don't know how long,

4:57

decade or so.

4:58

Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like the first Escape

5:01

Room that I did was in New

5:03

York. Yes. When

5:06

we went there and Sydney was pregnant with Charlie,

5:08

so it would have been what, like eight or nine

5:10

years ago, I guess?

5:11

Nine years? It's still, you

5:13

know, in the grand scheme of things, still a relatively

5:15

new thing. And I think since then over the

5:17

last decade, they have become something of a

5:20

like

5:20

shorthand goof about

5:23

like frivolous ways that millennials

5:26

spend their time and money. And

5:29

like it is an inherently

5:32

very nerdy thing to do to

5:34

lock yourself in a big puzzle

5:36

box for an hour using only your

5:39

wits.

5:39

Well, and I will say it's difficult

5:41

to describe to other people,

5:43

you know? Like when Griffin did

5:45

one recently, he came home and he was like,

5:48

we did an Escape Room. And then there

5:50

was almost nothing you could say after that. It was

5:52

almost just like, you

5:53

know, you couldn't really get into the puzzles, you'd

5:56

have to describe the space, you know?

5:58

Like there's a lot of.

5:59

detail involved in them, and it

6:02

makes it difficult to tell the story when you leave. Well,

6:04

I don't wanna spoil it, right?

6:06

Oh yeah. I've done escape rooms with very

6:08

cool mechanics in

6:10

them, very, very neat puzzle solutions,

6:13

but even that, I don't know, in isolation

6:15

is not as thrilling as it

6:18

is to be in it and

6:21

be a part of it. After

6:23

we did just do one when we were in Seattle that I'll talk about,

6:25

but when we were coming out, I was like, man, it would be great

6:28

if there was a reality show that was just about

6:30

like escape rooms, but as

6:32

someone pointed out, no, because

6:35

it's like being in the escape room

6:37

is the thing, and so watching

6:39

other people do it would probably not be

6:41

as exciting. I

6:44

love a puzzle. I love when

6:46

that puzzle is nested inside of 10 other

6:49

puzzles and dropped

6:51

into sort of a themed,

6:54

designed experience, just

6:57

for me. Being able

6:59

to see the authorship of the escape

7:01

room is like a big part of the

7:04

pleasure that I get from it.

7:07

I think people often dismiss

7:09

escape rooms as just sort of a team

7:11

building exercise, but

7:14

I feel like I can speak from experience in saying

7:16

that it can also be a team destroying

7:19

exercise, or I

7:21

guess it can be a lens

7:23

through which the weaknesses, through which

7:26

the cracks and the foundations of

7:28

a group of people can be sort

7:30

of revealed and

7:33

examined because I have had some not

7:35

great escape room experiences.

7:37

Never with the fam. I feel like with the fam,

7:40

we're a pretty well-oiled machine. Well,

7:43

and you're very serious about it. Like nobody is

7:45

like, whatever, you

7:47

all are like, we're doing this as fast as possible. It's

7:49

so annoying when someone is that

7:51

way in an escape room. We're

7:54

locked in here. What else do you have going on? Nothing

7:57

for an hour. I know you have nothing. There

7:59

is nothing.

7:59

Nothing you've got going on for the next hour

8:02

that is more important than finding

8:04

clues. Well, and also like when you signed

8:06

up, you knew what it was, you know? Like if

8:09

you would prefer not to do an escape room,

8:11

then don't do an escape room.

8:13

It's so easy to not get locked in an

8:15

escape room. I have never

8:17

been in a room and tried the door and been

8:19

like, ah, fuck,

8:20

this is an escape room. Unless you

8:22

like told somebody we're going to dinner and then they

8:24

opened the door and they're like, wait a minute. Yeah,

8:26

unless you

8:26

get the game, like the film,

8:29

the game, then I guess you

8:31

can be excused from being kind of a jag about

8:33

being in an escape room. But when a team works together,

8:36

like there's really nothing quite like it. I think that escape

8:38

rooms

8:39

from a sociological standpoint

8:40

are

8:44

one of a kind because they really break

8:47

down the kind of like norms that you

8:49

construct in the group of people

8:51

that you go in there with. If you go in there with a group of friends

8:54

or coworkers, there is a certain

8:56

way of interacting and a certain power dynamic

8:58

that exists between every individual person in

9:00

the group that when you are in an escape

9:02

room, changes

9:04

dramatically by necessity in order

9:06

to move forward with the

9:08

thing. I feel

9:10

the same way about role-playing games, like

9:13

D&D. When you play D&D with a group of friends, it

9:15

reveals things about them and it changes

9:17

the kind of way that you interact with each other so

9:20

fundamentally in a

9:22

way that is illuminating and I think very

9:25

beneficial to the group.

9:26

This is a fun question. What

9:28

would you say about you and your brothers? Do you all

9:30

have like specialties? Like would you say like

9:32

if I'm going to escape room with Justin and Travis,

9:35

it's most likely that Justin is gonna

9:37

do this and Travis is gonna do this and I'm gonna

9:39

do this. I think that we fall

9:42

on different parts of like the spectrum

9:45

of franticness. I

9:50

think that Travis is

9:52

just sort of like bouncing around the room,

9:55

looking at like all of the clues and like

9:58

finding those like connections.

9:59

My role, I think

10:02

Justin falls sort of between the two of us. I

10:04

always look for what I think

10:07

is the like overarching puzzle or

10:10

like the end game puzzle that you need all

10:12

of the other pieces to be in place in order to get

10:14

to. Because I also know

10:16

that like, if someone doesn't do that,

10:19

then the end of an escape room is usually

10:21

pretty frustrating, right? If you don't have

10:23

one person who's like going

10:26

through, like has the one thing that

10:28

is like, well, clearly this is the thing that we need to do.

10:31

And now let's see how all the pieces fit into that.

10:33

I like that part of it a lot. I find that very,

10:35

very satisfying.

10:35

Cause a lot of it is like opening your drawer and being

10:37

like, this is a nail. Maybe this

10:40

is something, I don't know. Dad will do

10:42

that too. Cause dad did this

10:44

escape room with us where he will just get in

10:46

one puzzle. Like he will just find one

10:48

element of the room and just kind

10:51

of like work on that for a while. So,

10:54

but I mean, it takes all kinds, you know? I feel like

10:56

we've worked

10:57

together. I like to be like crawling

11:00

under the desk, like lifting up the rug,

11:02

kind of like, where is the hidden thing?

11:04

Right, yes. That's always so satisfying.

11:07

It's like the prop set design

11:09

of the thing. It can be very, very cool.

11:12

So it's like, as a social activity, it's great.

11:14

It's oftentimes very illuminating,

11:16

but like it is the game design perspective of

11:18

escape rooms that obviously I adore

11:21

the most because I really

11:24

like when you're in an escape room, when you can feel

11:26

like you're like in conversation with

11:28

the

11:29

person or people who designed

11:31

the escape room, just this

11:34

feeling of knowing that everything you need

11:37

to solve the thing is at hand,

11:39

right? And has been placed in a way, it's

11:41

just about finding the connections between

11:43

the clues and the numbers and the locks and the doors

11:46

that the author of the

11:49

experience sort of designed, right?

11:51

Can I ask, do they always have hints? I

11:54

think every room I've ever done. Yeah, like there's

11:57

an attendant who is watching you and will occasionally

11:59

like pop in. and be like, maybe go back

12:01

to the phone. Yeah,

12:03

the one

12:05

we just did in Seattle was an Evil Dead 2 themed

12:08

escape room, which is fucking great. That

12:10

is cool. I love that movie

12:12

so much. And it kind of went through the

12:14

plot of the movie and there were screens

12:16

sort of in the walls all over the room so you could

12:19

see the little hand crawling around. Oh,

12:21

cool. Ash would appear

12:23

in mirrors and talk to you.

12:26

There was a lot of very, very cool set

12:28

design stuff happening

12:31

there. But you also had a walkie talkie

12:33

that you could

12:33

use to get clues if you get stuck on

12:35

stuff, but we never used it.

12:37

No, look at you. Well, no,

12:39

because I feel like it is

12:42

more satisfying when you don't have to because it speaks

12:45

to the strength

12:49

of the through line of the thing, right? When

12:51

you don't need it. But that said, I

12:54

think

12:56

the best feeling that an escape room delivers

12:58

is when you walk in for the first time,

13:01

the clock starts, and you are just

13:03

plopped into this nebulous web

13:06

of numbers and

13:08

clues and props and secrets

13:13

that it just

13:16

feels like you could go in any direction, and

13:18

you don't know how the pieces fit. And then you find that

13:20

first piece that fits and

13:23

now all of a sudden you have a direction. The dam

13:25

breaks a little bit and now there's a natural flow

13:27

through the room that develops all the way until the

13:30

end when the list of the pile of

13:33

clues has been diminished just to

13:35

a few and the momentum of it

13:37

just

13:37

carries you through into the conclusion.

13:39

That is, when that works organically,

13:42

it's genuinely quite magical

13:45

and very, very cool. And

13:47

this escape room was definitely

13:50

like that. And I have done ones that have not been like that,

13:52

where it's like there's no way a person

13:54

could have gotten this without getting some

13:56

clues from the puzzle man.

13:59

It is just

14:02

very cool to be in a

14:04

room, and even

14:06

though the designer of the room

14:08

is not present, you feel their presence

14:11

in the design of the thing and the mapping

14:13

of the thing.

14:15

And also, escape rooms

14:17

are one of the few avenues that truly

14:20

talented set designers and

14:22

prop designers have to exercise their craft,

14:26

and

14:27

it's just neat being in a weird

14:29

place, like a weird curated

14:31

environment. We did one, I believe in Denver,

14:34

that was like a Martian tavern.

14:36

So everything

14:38

was just sort of rusty, neon,

14:41

futurist aesthetic that was just

14:44

really fucking cool to be in, and obviously

14:46

the Evil Dead 2 cabin was

14:50

iconic and cool, and at one point,

14:52

I had to put my hand down in a garbage disposal

14:54

to fish a clue about another

14:56

thing, and it was kind of spooky and

14:58

fun. I

15:01

just think escape rooms are rad. I think they're

15:03

very, very cool to participate in.

15:05

They're probably incredible to design. I'm

15:08

very

15:08

interested in

15:09

how one goes about

15:11

designing a good escape room, and

15:13

I'm sure there's lots of resources out there of

15:15

people talking about that. And the

15:17

fact that they have spread so quickly

15:20

and become a part of

15:23

pop culture in just a matter of

15:25

years, I think

15:27

genuinely says something

15:30

cool about human beings,

15:32

that there is this element of immersive

15:35

play that we all crave,

15:38

that we all find, or not all, because

15:40

I've been in escape rooms with

15:43

buttholes before, but for

15:45

most of us, it is a kind of,

15:48

it is an immersion in a playfulness

15:51

that you don't get anywhere else, and

15:53

to be a part of that with other people

15:56

and seeing that wonder in

15:58

their own sort of,

15:59

Faces is is

16:02

very cool and then getting together to accomplish

16:04

something together is very cool

16:07

And I just I like escape rooms a whole

16:09

lot. I think they're a special thing I will

16:12

also say it's kind of rare that you go a

16:14

place and you have no idea what you're gonna

16:16

see Like yeah the nature of escape rooms

16:18

is such they like don't want people to know a

16:21

lot about the room before they walk in so Like

16:23

you and I like when we go to a restaurant, we

16:25

will look at pictures of the food We will look at what

16:27

the inside of the restaurant looks like like

16:30

we will read reviews But with an escape

16:32

room you really it's like a surprise. Yeah

16:34

by design. Yeah

16:36

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16:39

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Okay. My topic

18:26

this week is the disco

18:28

ball. Yes. I

18:30

have talked about this in the context of the one

18:33

that I hung up in our kitchen. Yeah. Um,

18:35

it

18:35

did not get its own segment. I'm assuming. No,

18:38

no, I don't even know if I made that a small wonder

18:40

or not, because when I looked to see on our

18:42

website, I didn't see it listed. Yeah. Maybe

18:44

we called it something goofy. I don't know. Um,

18:47

Mirror ball.

18:48

That, that is actually like kind of how

18:51

it started. That's how people talked about it obviously before

18:53

disco. Okay. Um, but

18:56

the actual patent, um, was

18:59

called a myriad reflector in 1917.

19:03

Yeah. That sounds like something that sounds like a part

19:05

in a spaceship. Like with the warp

19:08

drives are down because the mirror reflector

19:10

is shattered.

19:10

I know. I love a disco ball.

19:15

I also kind of love like a prism, anything

19:18

that reflects light and kind of surprising

19:20

and unpredictable ways is really exciting for me because

19:22

I'm a kitty cat. Um,

19:27

but, uh, yeah, I, the

19:29

only disco balls I remember owning

19:32

is the one we have now. And then when I

19:34

turned 16, I got as a present

19:36

from one of my friends, which I'm realizing

19:39

now was probably purchased by his mom.

19:41

Like it was one of those things that I got as a 16

19:44

year old. And I was like, what a thoughtful gift. Cause it

19:45

was like, it was like a disco

19:47

ball and fuzzy dice and a little

19:50

like cassette tape of eighties music for

19:52

my 16th birthday. And I

19:54

was like, what, what a clever present. And

19:56

I'm realizing now, like, as I think about it,

19:58

his mom, his mom, Mom probably purchased

20:01

that. That was the go-to 16th birthday

20:03

present, I'm sure. I mean, there's a reason it's called

20:06

Spencer's Gifts. It's

20:08

because it's where you go and it's like, I don't

20:10

know you,

20:12

but this is a lava lamp. But I know that you like

20:14

a coffee cup with boobs on it. So

20:16

I went to Spencer's and I got

20:18

it for you. Yeah, that's more than, I feel like

20:21

Spencer's has gotten so raunchy. Oh

20:23

yeah. I feel like it used

20:25

to be kind of raunchy. I feel like it is

20:27

extremely raunchy now.

20:29

I can't even remember the last time

20:31

I've been in a Spencer's. I haven't been

20:33

in a Spencer's, but I've walked by

20:35

a Spencer's in a mall. Well,

20:38

no, just in the front shop window,

20:40

it's just like they'll have a,

20:42

just a big nude body

20:45

pillow or something and shit. Just Godzilla

20:47

but his wiener's out. Like a t-shirt

20:50

with Godzilla but his wiener's out.

20:56

Would you wear that? No, would I

20:58

wear a shirt with Godzilla's wiener

21:00

on it? It's kind of funny. I

21:02

got kids. I've got two kids.

21:05

It's kind of funny. Can you imagine?

21:07

I went to school to pick up Henry

21:09

wearing my Godzilla wiener shirt. Well,

21:13

no, you wouldn't wear it like when you were out with our son.

21:15

When would I wear it? When would be a good time for me to wear

21:17

my Godzilla wiener shirt? I don't know, when you were performing

21:19

in front of a crowd of thousands of people. I'm gonna make

21:22

thousands of people look at Godzilla's wiener.

21:25

That's foul. That's

21:27

foul. I could go to jail

21:29

for doing that. You guys always wear costumes.

21:32

How is that different? You

21:34

don't mean that. There's no

21:36

way you can mean that. The gulf between

21:39

my admittedly

21:40

appropriative

21:42

sailor man outfit and

21:45

a t-shirt that has Godzilla and his wiener

21:47

on it is so vast.

21:50

I would wear the sailor man outfit to pick Henry up

21:53

from school before

21:55

I would wear Godzilla wiener shirt. I

21:57

can't remember how we spent. Disco

22:01

ball, okay. I couldn't

22:02

remember how we got here.

22:04

But I guess every show at some point

22:07

we ended up talking about this. Godzilla's Wiener, yeah, I don't

22:09

know why. Okay,

22:11

myriad reflector. It

22:14

was sold in Cincinnati,

22:17

actually. All right, disco capital of the world.

22:20

And beginning in the 1920s, promised

22:23

to fill dance halls with quote, this

22:25

must have been how they marketed it, dancing fireflies

22:28

of a thousand

22:28

hues. Well, no, really

22:31

probably just the one hue, right? Well,

22:33

I mean, think about like anything that reflects

22:35

light can do so in kind of a rainbow

22:38

way. You can get different color

22:40

compositions. So if each like little mosaic

22:42

tile of the thing was like different,

22:44

had a different, well, no, would that work? Hold

22:46

on, let

22:47

me think. If you had a mirror that had

22:49

like a lens of color over it, it

22:52

would, yeah, sure, okay. Okay.

22:55

I don't know anything. So

22:57

the earliest disco balls were 27 inches in

22:59

diameter and covered

23:02

with over 1,200 tiny mirrors.

23:04

They probably cost like

23:06

a billion dollars because they weren't

23:09

machined. I have to imagine these were.

23:11

Yeah, right. Some of them would have to break a mirror

23:13

in a very specific way. Yeah,

23:16

so what ended up happening,

23:18

there was a company

23:21

you may have heard of called Omega National

23:23

Products. I believe these are the people that

23:25

make the watches. That's my guess. Okay.

23:28

I'm actually not sure about that, but I

23:29

assume. Me neither. Located

23:32

in Louisville, Kentucky. This

23:34

is in the 40s and 50s. They had

23:36

experience making flexible mirrored

23:38

sheets for art deco furniture. So

23:42

for example, like Liberace with the piano

23:44

covered in reflective material. So dope. And

23:47

so they kind of put that to work

23:50

with making mirror balls. And

23:53

it was dance halls, roller rinks,

23:55

speak-easies.

23:57

Yeah. You know, it really set

23:59

a mood.

23:59

It's weird thinking about people dancing

24:02

like the Charleston

24:05

with a mirror ball there. I know. Although

24:08

roller skating rinks was something I forgot about and that's 100% true.

24:12

What? I feel like every roller- Oh yeah,

24:14

it's legally mandated that

24:16

every roller skating rink has to have a mirror ball. So

24:19

then the 70s came and Omega was sourcing 90%

24:21

of

24:26

America's disco balls. That's

24:28

great. I don't even know who the rogue agent

24:30

is, those other 10%. They were kind

24:32

of like little janky.

24:35

Like the mirrors were all different sizes.

24:37

Just a cube, six mirrors

24:39

on it. I did it. Yay. They

24:42

would make it this plant 25

24:45

disco balls a day. That's not very many.

24:47

Carefully affixing the reflective sheets to

24:49

the globes. A 48 inch

24:52

disco ball might sell for $4,000. Jesus

24:55

Christ. Which roughly equates to about $20,000 today. That's

24:58

great.

25:00

And a lot of this

25:02

was Saturday Night Fever. So 1977, disco ball is prominent.

25:07

And then disco clubs kind of

25:09

shot up everywhere. The movie made

25:11

it so that an estimated 20,000 disco clubs showed

25:14

up around the country. That's

25:16

so fucking bonkers. I

25:18

know, right? One movie can change

25:20

sort of the business

25:23

landscape of the nation. I mean, back in

25:25

the day when people were so disconnected, there's

25:27

no platform like the internet. Have

25:31

you ever seen Saturday Night Fever or had any interest

25:33

in seeing it? I've watched parts of it. It's a little

25:35

slow. It seems mad

25:37

boring. Yeah. It's not what

25:39

you would want it to be.

25:41

No, but I- Which is just a romp. Yeah,

25:44

like a sexy disco romp. Like

25:47

a break into electric boogaloo. Now that's a

25:49

movie.

25:49

Obviously disco,

25:51

not as popular now, but

25:55

still- I'm back. The ball

25:58

itself, still an appeal. Louisville

26:02

in kind of a tribute

26:04

to their connection to the creation of the disco

26:07

ball. Built an 11 foot, 2,300 pound ball that costs $50,000.

26:15

Apparently in England

26:18

there was one that was created that has 2,500 mirrored

26:21

tiles but stands

26:22

three stories tall. That's

26:27

big. Yeah. That's

26:29

a big one.

26:29

That's a big wall. Mm-hmm. I

26:32

mean, I think they're great for... don't

26:34

they like scare away bugs or some shit?

26:37

Don't they like... there's something about the way that they

26:39

reflect light, the bugs see that and they're like, no

26:41

way man, I'm out of here.

26:42

I don't know. I mean, I just know it makes our kitchen look

26:45

real pretty when the sun's at a certain level. Yeah,

26:47

it's a very specific time. There's like 14

26:49

minutes a day where we're lighting

26:51

light on the mirror ball. Yeah. Yeah,

26:54

I love a mirror ball too. I do have lots of sort

26:56

of... lots of fond

26:58

memories. Yeah, it's one of those things that

27:00

I know is kind of hokey and maybe doesn't

27:03

represent the greatest design

27:05

aesthetic, but

27:07

it's just... it delights me.

27:08

It looks very cool. You know? Yeah.

27:12

Can I tell you what our friends at home are talking about?

27:14

Yes. Okay, well, here we go. I

27:16

got one here and it's from Dublin

27:19

who says, my small wonder is pop

27:21

sockets. Phones keep getting bigger and my

27:23

hands do not. So these little guys

27:25

help me not fling my phone into the ether on a

27:28

daily basis.

27:28

Have you ever thought about getting one of these? All the time.

27:31

The number of times that like I've been...

27:33

I've like, you know, been

27:35

eating dinner,

27:37

which we do in shifts

27:39

because we eat dinner while our kids are still

27:41

awake and I'm trying to watch something on my phone

27:43

and I'm just trying to like balance it.

27:45

Lean it against something. So leaning against something

27:47

to watch some shit is... yeah, I thought

27:50

a lot about it. I don't... It

27:53

feels like a big decision. It feels like a

27:55

huge decision. I

27:57

don't know what I like enough to have.

28:00

of permanently affixed onto the machine

28:02

I use several hours a day. I think

28:04

because you and I will buy a phone case and we

28:06

will use that same phone case until it

28:08

isn't a phone case anymore. I've

28:10

been looking at the edges of the one I use now

28:13

have become sort of

28:15

beige and modeled

28:17

in a way that's...

28:17

So the idea of like affixing something to that

28:20

phone case and then being with that for

28:22

a year or whatever. And then does it fit in the pocket

28:24

good still? I know. I don't know. I

28:27

don't know.

28:30

Gwen says, Trader Joe's

28:32

bubble tea pack from the freezer section.

28:34

It takes 30 seconds in the microwave, a dash

28:36

of milk and my favorite chestnut black tea to

28:38

start my morning off with a lightly sweetened

28:41

caffeinated beverage. That sounds great.

28:43

Can I admit something to you? You've never had bubble

28:45

tea. I don't think so. I have

28:48

a couple times. I

28:51

don't like tea so much. Yeah.

28:54

But you can also get

28:57

it in a sort of creamier, not

28:59

traditional tea variety. And then you

29:01

just have these little

29:03

gooey guys. I

29:05

remember I had a friend in high school who liked bubble

29:07

tea and I thought he was so worldly.

29:09

Yeah, sure. Of course. It's like, how did you get

29:12

your hands on this crazy tea? I

29:15

had it in college with some buddies when

29:17

I was visiting a friend in

29:20

Detroit. And

29:22

I remember just spending a lot of time sucking

29:24

the bubbles up and then shooting them at each other. Of course,

29:27

of course. Which is I think the main reason

29:29

people do bubble tea.

29:30

Yeah, I mean, that's how they get started. I bet

29:32

it's good. I should find some good bubble tea. It's the

29:34

kind of thing whenever I see people drinking it. I'm like,

29:36

that seems fun. I bet I could get down with

29:38

that. It does seem fun. A nice creamy beverage

29:41

with some bubbles floating in it. Hell yeah, it's

29:43

like Orbits.

29:44

I love referencing

29:47

soft drinks that 40 people

29:50

on earth ever drink. None of them are. I'm

29:53

the only one still living. Orbits

29:55

was like Sprite, but with little gel balls

29:58

floating in it. And it was so fucking fun.

29:59

No, I remember this as a thing.

30:02

I never wanted to have it. No, it was

30:04

like slurping down frog spawn.

30:07

It was horrible. But I also know how the McElroy

30:09

family celebrated a new consumer product

30:11

in the house. Hey, sometimes that shit still r-

30:14

sometimes some of those products are still good.

30:16

I had a Clearly Canadian a couple

30:19

tours ago, and

30:21

that shit was a staple in the McElroy

30:24

household.

30:24

Yeah. And hits so

30:26

good. It's so good, Clearly Canadian.

30:28

How is it different than like a sparkling water of

30:31

today? Extremely sweet.

30:33

Extremely flavorful. Oh, okay.

30:37

But in a pleasant, effervescent way.

30:39

I would crush some Clearly Canadian right now. Okay.

30:43

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30:45

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30:47

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30:50

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31:13

all that jazz there. Anything

31:15

else we want to say? Anything?

31:16

I

31:20

don't think so. Well, that'll

31:22

do it. And now that we made it to the

31:24

end of the episode, we can tell you to

31:26

go look for the clues that we dropped

31:29

throughout the rest of it.

31:29

I was going to test out what other

31:32

mythic giant monsters

31:34

that you wouldn't wear their penises

31:38

on shirts. Okay, King Kong, obviously. Yeah.

31:40

Mothra. Man, do you remember

31:42

that SNL sketch where King

31:45

Kong had a boner that went in through the window?

31:48

Yeah. That

31:49

was such a wild, wild

31:51

sketch. I cannot believe made it to air.

31:53

I think a lot about the King Kong's

31:56

penis sketch. A lot. Yeah. That's

32:00

it, really, just Godzilla and King Kong, I think. Well,

32:03

there's Mothra, there's Gamera.

32:06

I don't

32:06

think either of them are packing. Wow,

32:09

all right. I mean, my knowledge

32:12

of Kaiju physiology is obviously

32:14

limited. That's true.

32:17

So yeah, I'm gonna limit it to Godzilla and King Kong.

32:21

I mean, if I had a shirt that had Mothra with

32:23

just like a comically large member

32:25

on it, now that's art.

32:27

What if it was like a child's flip book where

32:30

there were pants on it, but it was like not

32:32

attached at the bottom so you could like flip it up.

32:34

So you could do like, you could flash. You're inventing

32:37

whole new shirt technology

32:40

to get her to your perversion. They

32:42

make shirts like that for kids with like

32:44

superheroes, you remember? Yeah,

32:48

but there's a little bit of a difference.

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