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Wonderful!
Welcome to Wonderful! It’s an enthusiast podcast by Griffin and Rachel McElroy in which they discuss Very Good Things, and the Things that Make Them Good. Got a Good Thing you’re excited about that you want them to talk about on the show? Shoot ‘em an email at wonderfulpodcast@gmail.com.
Episodes
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 22: A Mouthful of Secrets
Rachel's favorite symbolic tiger! Griffin's favorite Olympic event! Rachel's favorite romantic origin story! Griffin's favorite adventures! Music: "Money Won't…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 21: Podcasting for the Gold
Griffin's favorite teen drama! Rachel's favorite personal characteristic! Griffin's favorite slow jam! Rachel's favorite uplifting pop tune! Music: "Money…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 20: Energy!!
Rachel's favorite way to chill out! Griffin's favorite kind of creature comfort! Rachel's favorite relationship dynamic! Griffin's favorite jams found in…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 19: The French Fry Kid
Griffin's favorite salty foodstuff! Rachel's favorite book of correspondence! Griffin's favorite childhood band! Rachel's favorite episode of a long-running…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 18: That Smooth Soup
Griffin and Rachel try to shake themselves of a long-running illness funk by rapid-firing through some real good stuff that they're real into right now! Music…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 17: Wake Me Up Inside!!
Griffin's favorite music-mixing card game! Rachel's favorite episode of her favorite show! Griffin's favorite life-affirming YouTube video! Rachel's favorite…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 16: Greg Claus
Rachel's favorite new Christmas movie! Griffin's favorite three notes from a Christmas song! Rachel's favorite kind-of-sad Christmas song! Griffin's favorite…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 15: Big Dog Don't Fall Over
Griffin's favorite stuff to do while traveling! Griffin's favorite kitchen tool improvement! Rachel's favorite week-long winter holiday! Music: "Money Won't…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 14: Tomorrow's News
Griffin's favorite game for geniuses! Rachel's favorite urban legend squasher! Griffin's favorite way to get pumped for the holidays! Rachel's favorite…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 13: The Devil is a Barking Dog
Rachel's favorite career! Griffin's favorite daily surprise! Rachel's favorite mandatory night time activity! Griffin's favorite romantic movie! Music: "Money…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 12: THE HUNGER GAMES: THANKSGIVING BATTLE ROYALE 2017
All your favorite Thanksgiving foods meet in the THANKSGIVING ARENA to decide this holiday's edible victor. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. Music: "Money Won't Pay" by…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 11: Fraggle Food Chain
Griffin's favorite funny video! Rachel's favorite vocab-building board game! Griffin's favorite place on the whole planet! Rachel's favorite children's show!…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 10: Undertaker Battle
Rachel's favorite political education organization! Griffin's favorite pie! Rachel's favorite 25-year-old album! Griffin's favorite infinite entertainment…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 9: Alligator Jealousy
Griffin's favorite zen-like video game series! Rachel's favorite therapeutic pastime! Griffin's favorite method of live musical performance! Rachel's favorite…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 8: Candy Bones
Rachel's most spooktacular waxy candy! Griffin's most haunted national pastime! Rachel's most terrifying fashion ointment! Griffin's most ghoulish horror…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 7: Dog Beach
Griffin's favorite homemade foodstuff! Rachel's favorite TV storytelling technique! Griffin's favorite jewel-based board game! Rachel's favorite condiment…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 6: Book Stink
Rachel's favorite smell! Griffin's favorite seasonal spice! Rachel's favorite durable garment! Griffin's favorite soundtrack composer! Music: "Money Won't Pay"…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 5: Robert Frost Fist Fight
In today's episode, Griffin's talking about video games, and Rachel's talking about poetry, so the level of expertise brought to the table is simply…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 4: Good As Hell
It's a very musical episode of Wonderful! this week, featuring segments on two extremely similar performers: Lizzo and Nick Drake! We also talk about naps and…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 3: Get Busy, Towel Man
Rachel's very favorite type of bread! Griffin's favorite time to go to a movie! Rachel's favorite unofficial mascot! Griffin's inexplicable favorite sitcom…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 2: The Most Powerful Butt
We hope you like hearing about arcane Four Square rules, because, Good Lord, do we go on a deep dive in this episode. We also talk about The Best New Animal…
Wonderful!Wonderful! Ep. 1: Time Makes Bozos of Us All
Welcome to Wonderful! It's a show all about being enthusiastic about the good things in our lives, and the lives of others. In this, our maiden voyage, we're…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: International Date Line
Oh, you haven't heard of International Date Line? It's only the hot new romantic television property created by Rachel and Griffin, two of Hollywood's most…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Married at First Sight
For today's Roze Buddiez, we watched a couple episodes of Married at First Sight, and learned all about science, and data, and love, and responsibility…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Love Connection
As we begin our journey away from the Bachelor franchise, we make a quick pit stop at Love Connection, which is a pretty inaccurate name for a show in which…
Wonderful!Ep. 82: The Final Rose
Rachel's season of The Bachelorette came to a close earlier this week in an infuriating three-hour finale. Join us as we discuss the heartbreak and frustration…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Baby TV
We super didn't want to recap The Men Tell All, so instead, we are subjecting you to this: An hour-long discussion about all the mostly awful baby television…
Wonderful!Ep. 80: Will Peter or Won't Peter
We decided to go with this episode title because it's the literal only premise of the two-hour-long episode of primetime television we watched earlier this…
Wonderful!Ep. 79: Hometowns, Again
Join us for a whistle-stop tour of America as we follow Rachel's journey to meet her four suitors' families! They went ... mostly ... okay, with one pretty…
Wonderful!Ep. 78: Champagne!
We're getting down to the end of Rachel's tenure as Bachelorette, and -- you guessed it -- we're right back in that pre-hometowns slump. Join us as we dive…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Good Things That We Like
There was no new episode of The Bachelorette this week, but we wanted to record SOMETHING, and this is the result of that desire. We're basically just talking…
Wonderful!Ep. 76: Onion Time
In this feature-length Rose Buddies, we break down the two episodes of Bachelorette that aired this week. I don't know if the Congressional Medal of Honor has…
Wonderful!Ep. 75: A Very, Very Bad Week
Fair warning: This is a pretty tough episode to listen to, and it was a pretty tough episode to record. We're covering everything that went down during the…
Wonderful!Ep. 74: Horse Poop Censorship
This week's episode of The Bachelorette featured a lot of fun dates and a lot of super-not-fun horseshit back at the mansion. Not literal horse shit, mind you…
Wonderful!Ep. 73: Juicy Delandal
This week's episode had it all: The blossoming of new love, an adorable dog attending a dog party, a marriage-themed obstacle course, and, of course, Kareem…
Wonderful!Ep. 72: Rachel and the Real Boy
The new season of Bachelorette has begun! In today's episode, we discuss Rachel's fateful meeting with 31 eligible bachelors, a few of whom are just absolute…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Bachelor Pad Part Three
We did it. We beat it. We finished watching the final four episodes of Bachelor Pad Season Two in a single week, a feat that we wouldn't recommend trying to…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Bachelor Pad Part Two
We're halfway through watching this season of Bachelor Pad, and boy howdy, do we feel guilty about watching any of it. It was like we were really thirsty…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Bachelor Pad Part One
After talking about it constantly during the span of this podcast, we're FINALLY discussing Bachelor Pad, the short-lived offshoot of the franchise we know and…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Dating in the Dark
The mid-2000s were a challenging time for all of us, particularly those who were enrolled in reality television programs like Dating in the Dark. This is a…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: The Dating Game
Holy shit, what a trash fire. We're sorry we made anyone watch this. Because, like, DAMN. Every minute of this thing was worst than the previous minute, and…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: First Dates
This week, we're hungrily tearing into the new Ellen DeGeneres/Drew Barrymore collabo First Dates, in which a bunch of folks go on First Dates with varying…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: The Bachelorette Season One - Part Two
We're fresh off the MaxFunDrive, and ... well, okay, "fresh" maybe isn't the right word. We are shambling husks of our former selves, full stop. But that's not…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: The Bachelorette Season One - Part One
Happy week two of the MaxFunDrive! We hope you'll think about supporting our show if you've got the means! Either way, we're gonna recap the first season of…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Terrace House: Aloha State
Happy MaxFunDrive, everybody! It's our first year on the network, and we're so excited to take part in this two-week celebration of ... well, us, I guess? And…
Wonderful!Ep. 62: After the Final Thigh Rub
It's finale time! Well, yesterday was finale time, technically speaking. Right now it's recap time! Who did Nick choose to propose to in his season's final…
Wonderful!Ep. 61: The Yurt Locker
Boy howdy, our bodies are simply no longer capable of consuming three hours of this television show in one sitting. Like, our nervous system violently rejects…
Wonderful!Ep. 60: The Sex Turtleneck
Somehow, SOMEHOW, we created a podcast episode that is just as long as the hour-long episode of television that we're recapping. Which like, at this point, I…
Wonderful!Ep. 59: The Best Hometowns Ever
WHAT A GOOD EPISODE OF THE BACHELOR!!! We were very excited to talk about the good, good families that these women have, and how Nick is going to…
Wonderful!Ep. 58: Thirty-Eight Quarter-Jobs
It's Go-Homes week on the Bachelor as Nick narrows down the roster to this season's Final Four. Which, of course, means this episode was kind of lame -- BUT --…
Wonderful!Ep. 57: The Volleyball Uprising
We don't know where to even begin talking about this episode. It was seriously the most bizarre two hours of programming this franchise has ever put together…
Wonderful!Ep. 56: Crystal Billy
There's dark clouds on the horizon, but we're not focused on those -- instead, we're keeping our eyes on the delightful moments of yesterday's episode of The…
Wonderful!Ep. 55: 'Motional 'Telligence
HEEEEYYYYYYYYY DO YOU ALL LIKE CORRRRRRRRNNNNN?!?!?! This is a Corn-heavy episode, because the Bachelor has become a television show that's exclusively about…
Wonderful!Ep. 54: Zero G Barfdate
Did we all communally experience last night's episode of The Bachelor in a group fever dream? Did we really witness a Backstreet Boys dance-off, a floating…
Wonderful!Ep. 53: Janet Jacksoned
Where to begin? This episode of The Bachelor was an absolute barn burner -- we had competition, heartbreak, and more cringeworthy interactions than we ever…
Wonderful!Ep. 52: Periodic Table of Genital Possibilities
AW HELL YEAH. It's a new season of The Bachelor, and to celebrate, we've joined forces with the Maximum Fun network. Welcome to our new listeners! Just a heads…
Wonderful!Ep. 51: Girl Fieri
PREPARE FOR BLASTOFF. We're diving into the details and stats of ALL 30 of the contestants for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette. Will Nick Viall, that…
Wonderful!Ep. 50: Horny Beginnings
We're about to hop right into another season of the Bachelor -- but before we do, we wanted to take a trip through time to revisit the very first season of…
Wonderful!Ep. 49: How I Met Your Podcast Host
Here's the situation: We didn't really have time to watch a reality dating show and prepare an episode for you this week. In lieu of our regular topic of…
Wonderful!Ep. 48: Terrace House
We're back from our week of parental absence, and we're here to serve as exasperating ambassadors to our new favorite television show on Earth: Terrace House…