Wonderful! 422: My Fiery Paradiddles

**Rachel McElroy** (0:20)
This is wonderful.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:20)
Welcome to Wonderful. This is a podcast where me, Griffin McElroy, and my wife, Rachel McElroy, talk about things we like. That is good, that we're into.
Sometimes it's flights of fancy. Sometimes it's real, meaningful stuff.
But no matter what it is, you can be assured that I'm recording. This is our promo.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:40)
OK.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:40)
It started out as an intro to the episode, but then it became sort of a 45 second elevator pitch. Because we're not good. I have never been good at doing this.

**Rachel McElroy** (0:49)
I downplay it every single time.

**Griffin McElroy** (0:51)
And they run on other max fun shows, like good shows. And then we'll suddenly pop up in the middle of them and be like, we're Pee Pee and Poopoo Man.
My name is Pee Pee Man and I like to eat butt burgers. And this show that it'll be on will be about important stuff or fascinating stuff or science stuff. And then we roll up into the place where we are absolutely the Clampets.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:18)
Yeah, no, I understand what you mean. Sometimes I like when other people are introducing us and they know enough about our podcast to suggest to the person, like, here's what it is. A lot of times when people say, like, art and culture, I feel good about that, that's a thing.

**Griffin McElroy** (1:34)
Oh, man, those two feel good. Yeah. But if you go through the list of topics we have discussed, I don't know, you know, where where's Waldo fits in. I guess culture. I guess where's Waldo is culture.
What about Wombat's cube shaped poop? That's not either or culture. That's more of a science or biological sort of thing.

**Rachel McElroy** (1:57)
Science, technology. I mean, you know, art, culture, science, technology.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:03)
Beyblades.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:04)
Beyblades.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:06)
I think 2026 is the year I get really into Beyblades. And I'm shocked that it hasn't happened yet.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:12)
I know.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:13)
They're battle tops.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:14)
Yeah.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:15)
They're spinning battle tops. That's cool. Why have I never with that before?

**Rachel McElroy** (2:19)
It sounds great, yeah.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:21)
I guess I don't know who I'd do it. I guess our kids, but I would get competitive.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:25)
Yeah, and spinning a top is not easy.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:28)
I'm, well, for them, I'm good as hell at it, but sometimes I've had to spin tops for them. So it would really just be me Beyblading against myself.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:37)
Which what's stopping you at that point?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:39)
You could do it tomorrow.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:40)
What if we did Beyblades together? You know how we have friends and they're married and they play Magic the Gathering with each other?

**Rachel McElroy** (2:48)
I don't even know if they still do that, but we got really excited when they told us that.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:51)
Yeah, but maybe you and me could do that, but for Beyblades.

**Rachel McElroy** (2:56)
How does one, I mean, I don't.

**Griffin McElroy** (2:58)
You go to the shop, you buy a Beyblade.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:00)
But how do you win?

**Griffin McElroy** (3:02)
How do you pick the right Beyblade for you? That's a good question. It's all about weight class. It's all about, does the monster on the front of the box that the top is in look cool or not?

**Rachel McElroy** (3:11)
Is it like Pogs?

**Griffin McElroy** (3:12)
Yes.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:15)
Like if I go into battle with you, with my signature Beyblade.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:19)
Sure.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:22)
How do I know I've won? Do I just knock you off the block?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:25)
Your top explodes.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:28)
It's violent. I don't know if you are on Beyblade TikTok.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:31)
BattleBots. So it's like BattleBots meets Pogs.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:34)
It's like BattleBots meets Pogs meets anime.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:37)
Okay.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:37)
Maybe like if they made an anime of Pogs.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:39)
The problem is I don't like any of those things.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:43)
Okay.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:44)
I mean, I guess I like anime, but at a very light touch.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:49)
Every anime I've tried to show you, you've bounced completely.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:52)
Well, I'm counting Miyazaki's anime. Can I count that?

**Griffin McElroy** (3:54)
You can absolutely count.

**Rachel McElroy** (3:55)
Okay, and I like that.

**Griffin McElroy** (3:56)
Yeah. Okay. That works too. Do you have any small wonders, instead of talking about things that are extraordinarily popular with our audience that you don't like, is there a perhaps like a somewhat trivial thing that you enjoy that we could do here in the small wonder segment?