Wonderful! 263: BoPo

**Rachel McElroy** (0:20)
And this is Wonderful!

**Griffin McElroy** (0:21)
This is Wonderful! And this is Rachel and Griffin McElroy, a real married couple.
A lot of people have been saying in the tabloids, they're not a real married couple.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:32)
No, we are.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:33)
They're business associates who are doing a big play pretend.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:37)
We have a wedding certificate.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:38)
We have a wedding certificate.
We have two kids. Obviously, you can have kids if you're not married.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:43)
I would say the wedding certificate is probably the best clue that we're married.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:47)
It is a legal document.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:48)
Yeah.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:49)
You can't just print those out on your printer. You can't just go on Microsoft Word and put it in landscape mode and then write.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:59)
You probably could.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:00)
Wedding certificate.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:01)
You know, I keep calling it a wedding certificate. It's a marriage certificate. I think you don't get a special certificate for when you have a wedding.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:09)
You take this, so when you get married, this show we'll talk about things that are good things that we like, things that we're into.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:14)
And also the marriage process.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:16)
When you get married, you do have to take a test, an exam.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:20)
Ooh, I like this.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:21)
And once you do that, you get your license, your marriage license. It's more of a permit at first for you to try things out for 18 months.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:31)
I'm just picturing an old man sitting next to us being like, well, you got six, but you really fell apart on two of them. And so I'm gonna need you to take the test again.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:40)
When I got my DC driver's license, I was right next to a teen who was taking his written exam for the driving test.
And he stood up and just walked up to the counter right next to me and just said, hey, I failed. And they'll be like, all right, you can come back and take it in four days. He's like, all right, see you then. It was such a chill, like, hey, I failed. I wish I had that kind of courage of my convictions that when I fuck up, I can just own it that casually.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:10)
I know, no tears, no shame.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:12)
No tears, no regrets, four days, okay. What is that, Thursday? Okay, I'll see you then. Do you have any small wonders?

**Rachel McElroy** (2:21)
We should talk about the show we are watching.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:27)
Yeah, I was gonna bring it. I think maybe this is a joint small wonder because I could talk about this show for ages. It's physical 100

**Rachel McElroy** (2:34)
I always forget what the name of it is.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:36)
It's called physical colon 100

**Rachel McElroy** (2:38)
Chris, it's not really an intuitive name. Maybe the translation makes it a little, yeah.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:44)
Maybe the translation. This is a Korean reality competition show that is, I would say, equal parts American Gladiators and Squid Game. Now listen, I know you're hearing that and you think, is this the Squid Game adaptation that Netflix was working on that was a real reality show where a bunch of people got seriously injured and then they were like, maybe this isn't, maybe this isn't one that we should recreate. Maybe we're taking the wrong lesson from the Netflix television show Squid Game. It's not that. In this one, a hundred very physically fit people from a lot of different disciplines.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:21)
Exactly, that's what makes it interesting, right? Is there are all types of athletes in this world and some of them are bigger, some of them are leaner. You get to see all of them compete together with their various talents.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:36)
Right, so there's bodybuilders and weightlifters, there's MMA fighters, there are gymnasts, there's-

**Rachel McElroy** (3:44)
A lot of crossfit people.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:45)
A lot of crossfit people.
Some like, there's a dude who everybody on the show is obsessed with who is an Olympic skeleton racer who just like, everybody is just talking about his physique constantly. There's a tone of the show that is deeply supportive, like all of the people are just constantly gassing each other up because of their tremendous sort of athletic prowess in all of these different forms and permutations that it takes. And I really enjoy that. We had a conversation about if this was like an American show, same concept, if it would have the same vibe of people like, man, your body looks really, really cool.