Wonderful! 433: Schrödinger's Vibe Situation

Rachel McElroy (0:17)

Hi, this is Rachel McElroy.

Griffin McElroy (0:18)

Hi, this is Griffin McElroy.

Rachel McElroy (0:20)

And this is Wonderful!

Griffin McElroy (0:21)

Welcome to Wonderful! This is a podcast where we talk about things we like that's good that we're into.

The vibe's great in the room right now. I just want to put the tiger on the table and yell at it. The vibe feels so choice right now. Are you feeling this?

Rachel McElroy (0:37)

Well, I was, but now I feel a little off balance, because I feel like-

Griffin McElroy (0:40)

Because I acknowledge the vibe?

Rachel McElroy (0:42)

Well, and I've still got that four-year-old mentality where somebody's like, you like this. I'm like, well, now I'm not sure if I do. Don't tell me what the vibe is.

Griffin McElroy (0:51)

Okay, well, let's start, clean slate.

Rachel McElroy (0:53)

Okay.

Griffin McElroy (0:54)

Welcome to Wonderful! It's the podcast show with it. How do you feel about the vibe? It's good. All right.

I fucking blew it, dude. It's really a Schrödinger's vibe situation where it felt good, but it was good in a sort of quantum state. And as soon as I locked it in.

Rachel McElroy (1:13)

Uh-huh, I know.

Griffin McElroy (1:14)

And I do have, I feel like I inherited this particular dad gene more than any other, which is the, you pull into the driveway, getting back home from a family vacation, and you absolutely have to confirm like, so everyone had a great time, right?

Rachel McElroy (1:30)

Do you have that?

Griffin McElroy (1:31)

I feel like that's in my bones. I just want to make sure everyone had a good time. And I'm telling myself it's not for me, it's for their benefit. Like I really do want your feedback so I can make it a better time next time. But really, I just need to hear it.

Rachel McElroy (1:46)

That's like, Gus is fond of asking us kind of which vacations we like better, and he regularly will say, which do you like better, Disney World or Huntington? And-

Griffin McElroy (1:58)

Huntington's great.

Rachel McElroy (1:59)

Huntington's great.

SPEAKER_3 (2:00)

The town in which I was tired.

Rachel McElroy (2:01)

One of us costs us a lot, a lot, a lot of money. Huntington, not cheap to get there, but significantly cheaper than Disney World. And the fact that he like puts those two on the same level always makes me think, wow, you have no idea.

Griffin McElroy (2:13)

Honestly, what's most impressive is it is always a toss up in his mind, which makes me think we should stop paying all that money for Disney.

Rachel McElroy (2:21)

I know, but the thing is I have fun now.

Griffin McElroy (2:23)

Damn it. You found that you got, it's got its hooks in you.

Rachel McElroy (2:27)

It does, man, it does.

Griffin McElroy (2:28)

You like getting a little day drunk over at Epcot and hanging out over at Soarin and just having a cruise over the Sahara Desert, blitzed out of your fucking gourd.

Rachel McElroy (2:37)

Well, that's never true.

Griffin McElroy (2:39)

Drunk off your ass on Guardians of the Galaxy, screaming at Chris Pratt the whole time. Chris, the whole time.

Rachel McElroy (2:47)

I have never had too much to drink at Disney World. Maybe once the kids get older.

Griffin McElroy (2:52)

Okay.

Rachel McElroy (2:53)

It's just like we never stay anywhere long enough for me to like finish more than one beverage.

SPEAKER_4 (2:59)

Okay, yeah.

Rachel McElroy (2:59)

If even one.

Griffin McElroy (3:01)

I will say Chef Morimoto got me a little bit tipsy with his-

SPEAKER_4 (3:04)

Well, the kids aren't there. His high balls.

Rachel McElroy (3:07)

We don't bring the kids to Morimoto.

Griffin McElroy (3:10)

They couldn't rock with that. They don't care about roast duck.

Rachel McElroy (3:13)

We're not racing through a meal just to like keep them from getting too bored and hasty.

Griffin McElroy (3:19)

You can't rush Iron Chef Morimoto. Are you out of your mind?

Rachel McElroy (3:23)

You make it sound like he's actually in the kitchen.

Griffin McElroy (3:25)

Sometimes I like to think he's there. And he's whipping up those Suntory cocktails just for me.

Rachel McElroy (3:30)

Just for Griffin.

Griffin McElroy (3:32)

And also the other guy from Iron Chef is there who bites into the yellow bell pepper to start each episode. He's there too.

Rachel McElroy (3:38)

I didn't really watch-

Griffin McElroy (3:39)

My Small Wonder is Iron Chef. Okay. It's a kick-ass show. I used to watch it with my dad all the time. And it started in Japan and then it came to the States, and Alton Brown hosted it, and it was still pretty fun. But the original one, where it was just a Japanese battle royale-