Wonderful! 401: Rachel and Griffin's Favorite Oprah's Favorite Things

Wonderful!

Griffin McElroy

Mcelroy, Wonderful, Enthusiast, Comedy, Griffin, Music, Mcelroys, Rachel

4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A 2025 retrospective! Rachel and Griffin go through their favorite favorites of the past year: wonderful music, wonderful poems, wonderful television, wonderful geographic features, wonderful celebrations of nostalgia! Music: “Money Won’t Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Harmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rachel McElroy.
0:18.3	Hello, this is Griffin McRoy.
0:20.0	And this is wonderful.
0:21.2	Happy Honda Days, everybody.
0:23.2	It's wonderful.
0:24.1	A podcast, we talk about things we like that is good that we're into.
0:28.2	Was there a marketing sort of ploy more effective than Happy Honda Days?
0:35.9	I can't think of anything that has co-opted sort of a, I don't know, such a big...
0:40.7	I mean, Coca-Cola did a lot of stuff.
0:42.9	Yeah.
0:43.4	But it wasn't like catchphraseable.
0:45.6	Yeah, I mean, obviously they've got like, they got too much shit.
0:48.5	Like, they've got the polar bears.
0:50.4	They got this new ad that's all AI and it's got like Coca-Cola trucks driving through nature, and all these like AI animals are like squeak, squeak.
1:00.3	And the trucks also change between every shot, like how many tires they have and shit, because it was made by a computer.
1:07.8	And lacking in holiday spirit, but happy Honda days.
1:12.1	I mean, damn, man, they get it right in there and it's stuck forever. It seems like you don't want to talk about happy Honda days.
1:17.6	Well, I think this is something that was maybe really meaningful to you, but maybe not to everybody.
1:23.2	You never owned a Honda, did you? No. I can tell you have the...
1:28.6	I never did either.
1:30.3	This week, happy Christmas Eve, I believe the day that this comes out.
1:35.4	This is going to be our last episode of the year.
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