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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!Ep. 47: The Final Canadian Rose
Our time with The Bachelorette Canada draws to a close in this week's Rose Buddies. Who's getting down on one knee? Who's going to win Jasmine's heart? Who the…
Wonderful!Ep. 46: Crazy Frog!
We're talking about a blissfully brief Men Tell All episode of The Bachelorette Canada this week, and preparing ourselves emotionally for the season's upcoming…
Wonderful!Ep. 45: Big and Tall and Two of Them
We spend the first ten minutes of this hour-long podcast just rambling about straight-up garbage, which we hope you can forgive us for. After that, though: The…
Wonderful!Ep. 44: BoxBlaster11
It's Hometowns time! Canadian Hometowns are just like our American Hometowns, as it turns out, except the families are extra polite, and also there's only…
Wonderful!Ep. 43: Scholars on the Mount
The Bachelorette Canada is really getting down to the wire now, as Jasmine tries to whittle the list of boys down to a tight three before hometowns. Who will…
Wonderful!Ep. 42: Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 3
Alright, so, this one goes off on some WILD tangents, but we think they're worth pursuing. When not talking about the chart-topping hits of the late 90s, we…
Wonderful!Ep. 41: Sweet Tooth
Boy howdy, what a challenging episode. Between the non-stop gags, original music and foot-smoochin', our skeletons had a REAL hard time staying up in our…
Wonderful!Ep. 40: Killed in a Terrible Passion
The Bachelorette Canada is spending some time exploring a drama that we just could not care less about, so on this episode, we do a deep dive into a very…
Wonderful!Ep. 39: Ultimate Jerk Center
Our new Canadian friends are still posted up in Sandals Jamaica, just busting out tight fives of super on-point slapstick and prop comedy. Join us for a…
Wonderful!Ep. 38: The Nip Files
WHAT AREN’T THEY TELLING US? The truth is out there, by which we mean ‘The truth is under one of these boys’ shirts.’ This is a podcast about The Bachelorette…
Wonderful!Ep. 37: Provinces of Love
We're back! And on a very strange schedule, in a very strange land: A marvelous territory known as Canada. Join us for our voyage into the first season of The…
Wonderful!Ep. 36: Three Proposals and a Funeral, Kind Of
It's here! Finale day is here! We're wrapping up the last two episodes of Bachelor in Paradise, which were basically like a four-hour-long waterslide of douche…
Wonderful!Ep. 35: A Sexy Baba Yaga
We're back, and ready to wrap up the unconscionable about of Bachelor-franchise television that we watched this week. Let's check in on Ashley/Caila/Jared…
Wonderful!Ep. 34: Make Out With Your Mind
If, for some reason, you're having trouble downloading this episode of the podcast, don't fret! You can just download any other episode where we talk about the…
Wonderful!Ep. 33: Fifth Base
Things are settling down in Paradise, which is kind of a relative measurement, because boy, are things still pretty buckwild in Paradise. Join us for a…
Wonderful!Ep. 32: A Sweet, Soft Boy
What a turbulent four hours of television ABC made us watch this week! There were heartbreaking send-offs, grody arrivals and even the ascent of an unlikely…
Wonderful!Ep. 31: Pisskid Paradise
Yes, we're doing another episode of Rose Buddies ONE CALENDAR DAY after the last one. We just have to talk about the events that transpired during the Season…
Wonderful!Ep. 30: Heart Virgins
The finale for JoJo's season of The Bachelorette has come and gone, leaving one suitor the victor, and the other a jilted Heart Virgin. Join us for a…
Wonderful!Ep. 29: Robby Stealins
Haha, we're having a super great time watching and talking about the Bachelorette this week. What a wild post-season, full of twists and turns that definitely…
Wonderful!Ep. 28: A Single, Crystalline Tear
Hey, remember when we promised that a bad episode was working its way down the ol' Bachelorette pipeline? We found it! It was this one, the Hometowns episode…
Wonderful!Episode 27: I'm Your Goocho
Sorry that we suggested this episode was going to be anything less than it was: A BARNSTORMER full of SHOCKING TWISTS and TURNS and CHILLS and THRILLS. So many…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: UnReal
There wasn't a new episode of The Bachelorette last night, which is REAL COOL, ABC. COOL STUFF. Not like our whole enterprise depends on you creating and…
Wonderful!Episode 25: Derek is Imperfect
We down in SLUMPTOWN now, y'all. It's only natural; there's a few too many cooks in the kitchen at the moment, and most of those cooks are essentially the…
Wonderful!Episode 24: Ratbags and Pisskids
Let us sing the final stanza of the song of Chad, and be done with it. Who will fill the power vacuum left by Chad's bulky, protein-infused frame? The answer…
Wonderful!Episode 23: Gary Oldman from The Fifth Element
Breathe in deep the fresh Pennsylvania air, and bellow out the first stanza of the Song of Chad. We're covering a very special two-episode chunk of The…
Wonderful!Episode 22: Oily Carolina
WELCOME TO THE CHAD ZONE. This is now Chad's game to lose, and boy, is he going to lose it. We're on episode 2 of JoJo's season of the Bachelorette, and…
Wonderful!Episode 21: Damn, Daniel
Hello, and welcome back to our garbage hole. We are the king and queen of the garbage hole, and The Bachelorette is our only form of sustenance, here, in the…
Wonderful!Episode 20: A Very Smooth Bachelorette 2016 Preview
It's been a long couple of months, but the dawn of a new season of The Bachelorette is nearly upon us. Join us for a bonus-length episode as we discuss the…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Take Me Out/If You Are The One
For this, the final installment of Roze Buddiez before we get back to our core competency, we're talking about two different television programs: Ireland's…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Please Marry My Boy
This week, we watched a show that is literally titled Please Marry My Boy. It made us laugh harder than maybe any show in the history of television ever has?…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Beauty and the Geek
Beauty and the Geek is like a little, mean time capsule of an era where reality shows just needed to be hateful and literally nothing else. It put a weird and…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Are You the One? - Part Three
Rose Buddies is dead, long live Rose Buddies. We're the One-ders, now, your one-stop shop for everything Are You the One? related. In this ep, we break down…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Are You the One? - Part Two
We're gonna stay on this little slice of heaven for as long as we possibly can. In our second discussion about MTV's excellent dating reality show/advanced…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Are You The One?
Yes, it is. The one, I mean. Sorry, let's back up: Rachel and Griffin, in their continued journey through the land of reality dating TV, have just watched a…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Paradise Hotel 2
Wowie zowie, what a bad television show. We are sorry that we keep doing this to you. Bachelor, please. Bachelor, we are begging you. Come home, Bachelor. Help…
Wonderful!Roze Buddiez: Flavor of Love
We're between seasons of The Bachelor and Bachelorette, which is terrible, because it has led us to this: A series of episodes in which we explore shows that…
Wonderful!Episode 11: The Final Axe
The finale is here. A shocking twist. Startling revelations. Unbelievable emotions. Lives are changed. Lives are ruined. Anatomy is blurred. Two women enter…
Wonderful!Episode 10: These Women Are Telling It All
We discuss the unconventional Women Tell All special, during which accusations are hurled at Ben, the contestants and also a real life barnyard animal. We also…
Wonderful!Episode 9: The Sexpisode
This episode gets wet and wild, everybody. Just a heads up, here, before we get started. Adult themes are discussed, becuase it's Fantasy Suites week, which is…
Wonderful!Episode 8: H.E.Betrayal
It's hometowns week, which means it's time for our semi-annual celebration of a dude telling four families the exact same stuff about their real-life children…
Wonderful!Episode 7: Ghost Ride the Boat
This week's Bachelor was a fairly tame lead-up to the absolute FIRE that is Hometowns, but there were still plenty of noteworthy occurrences. Like that time…
Wonderful!Episode 6: She's Just a Bird
After last week's totally thrilling cliffhanger, Griffin and Rachel return to discuss the brutal efficiency of Ben Higgins: The Axeman. Four women got the boot…
Wonderful!Episode 5: Just Like Teen Mom
Rachel and Griffin discuss the events of a pretty big snoozer of an episode, including the heartbreaking dismissal of a flawless contestant. There's also a…
Wonderful!Episode 4: The Forbidden Solo Date
Griffin and Rachel discuss the hidden talents of each contestant as revealed in Week 4: CAILA-001's aggro-sensuality, Lauren H.'s unique kiss texturing, JoJo's…
Wonderful!Episode 3: Awko Taco
Rachel and Griffin explore the racial overtones of one of the most bonkers episodes of this show they've ever seen. Ben utters four words that absolutely set…
Wonderful!Episode 2: Hydrate the Hustle
Rachel and Griffin dive into Ben's sophomore performance, and do their very best to discredit Dr. Love, who is a psychopath. Also: The origins of CA.ILA-001, a…
Wonderful!Episode 1: My Football Mind Palace
Rachel and Griffin McElroy kick off their bold experiment in service journalism: A podcast in which they talk about The Bachelor family of products. In this…