Distractible - 20 Easy Questions

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Barrister Bob braids business bandwidths and percolation of power, then begins a quick quiz with a telly-tubby twist. Mystified Mark takes a leak on his panels, then smashes out science stingers. Wintry Wade has a colon-created compacting catastrophe, but doesn't know his Caesar from his Cicero. From toxic turds to Astonium. Yes!
Starting point is 00:00:31 It's time for 20 Easy Questions. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the world's greatest podcast and also vaudevillian radio show Distractable get to that portion later for now. We're just gonna do the podcast part. My name is Bob I will be your host because I won the last episode and everyone had a good time and it wasn't unpleasant at all I'm sure Wade has no vengeance in mind and this will be great I'm joined by Wade and Mark. He's the other one. That will be my competitors One of them is gonna win this episode and they'll host the next one because that's how the show works. That's the rules
Starting point is 00:01:12 There's other rules and they don't matter. Hey guys, how's it going? We're good, man. I'm just plotting my vengeance, you know, pretty pissed mark. Your real voice came out. What are you doing? Sorry, sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean for that to say Hello everybody. I have a real huh. We always start doing? Sorry, sorry, sorry. I didn't mean for that to- Hello everybody. I have a real, huh, we always start with small talk. You don't care, listeners don't care, but we're doing small talk first. I have a story I wanna start with.
Starting point is 00:01:33 It's just a funny story, and it's not even a thing that I did or happened to me, but I wanna tell it in the first person because I think it's funnier that way. I was present for this story. I had to talk on the phone with the person at the bank. Doesn't really matter what for, but you know how that is, right? Like it's a pain in the ass, and I was playing phone this story. I had to talk on the phone with a person at the bank It doesn't really matter what for but you know how that is, right? Like it's a pain in the ass and I was playing phone tag with this person and they would call them and leave a message
Starting point is 00:01:50 They would call me leave a message blah blah. Finally. I like I like got on hold for them Like they're the receptionist or whatever the person who answered the phone was like, oh, yeah I think they're on a call but I can put you and I was like, yes if they're at their desk But I'll put I'll hold for however long and as long as I get to talk to them and do this one thing I need to do fine. But I was, this happened and I finally felt like was about to talk to this person I've been trying to reach, but I was sitting in the living room with Mandy and the baby and Wren and a conversation was happening about how the baby had had a particularly stinky poop that morning.
Starting point is 00:02:23 It's just normal baby stuff, but it happened, like there was talking and talking and at some point someone was like, oh, it's so bad. Like I have to try and keep him because he's at a phase right now where he likes to grab for his diaper. And if it's a poopy diaper, that's bad. And so it's like, well, how do you distract him? Well, I usually hand him something so he's got something in his hand. And I think Mandy was like, oh, well, I actually just like sing to him. He loves singing. And if you just sing to him, I'll just calmly lay there and let you do the
Starting point is 00:02:49 diaper thing. And I heard that and I was like, ha, I've got a joke for this. And because I was focused on the conversation, I did not hear the click of the phone being picked up and me being taken off of hold and getting onto the phone with the person I needed to speak to. So confidently into the phone I was holding to my ear, but directed at the conversation in the room, I was like, well, it's hard to sing when his poop smells so bad, you know? But, and the people in the room were kind of like, ha ha. And also in my ear, I hear, And also in my ear I hear Literally as the person I needed to talk to about a very important adult thing answered the phone I just would I say it's hard to sing when his poop smells so bad, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:03:36 But this wasn't you this is not your story. No, I'm stealing the story and this is not what happened except for the poop part And this is not what happened except for the poop part that They were making other phone calls to another person for another reason I've changed the details to hide I don't know what to believe anymore. This is ridiculous. I enjoy it. I get the gist of it I just want to make sure I was being clear that this I wasn't the one on the phone I just wanted to tell it from the first person because it's easier to tell a story that way and I I got to embellish a little bit. No, I was in the, I was in the room. I was one of the people having the conversation.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Uh, but Rin was actually on the phone and yeah, the person answered the phone and she said that and we all thought it was funny, but then she like immediately realized like, Oh, the person on the phone thought it was fucking hilarious. But then it had to be like, oh hi, yeah, no, this is, oh yeah, and so you need that document signed or no, I washed this poop off my hands, don't worry. It was a little different day that that happened. Just fantastic stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:39 Life gives you gifts sometimes, you just need to enjoy them. I've got a poop related story. All right. That's the episode. Ah, yeah. So you guys know, I talked to Bob about this earlier today. How I feel like, was it called Munchausen? That people that go to the doctor don't really need to,
Starting point is 00:04:53 they just like going to the doctor. I feel like people look at me like I'm that, but for plumbers, because I have another plumber tale. So we had a new kitchen faucet installed. And whenever the person came to install the kitchen faucet, I was like, hey, can you take a look at our bathroom faucet too? Well, new kitchen faucet installed and whenever the person came to install the kitchen faucet I was like, hey, can you take a look at our bathroom faucet too? I had well our kitchen faucet wasn't working I went to refill the dog bowl in the bathroom faucet and it came out like milky white and that was disconcerting so then I dumped it out cleaned it out and I used like the
Starting point is 00:05:19 Filtered system that we have and mixture of that bottled water and he's like, oh, yeah, let me take a look He's like, okay, it's mineral buildup, this and that. If you get a new sink or if you get a new faucet, I can install it for you, but you're gonna have to get one that's like, you know, fits the sink, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he's like, well, while I'm here, let me take a look at some of your other plumbing things too.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Cause some of them might have similar issues. So we took a look at our sinks and bathrooms and toilets and things. Ultimately came to the conclusion that two of the toilets upstairs were some of the flaps and stuff were starting to have issues. They were older toilets and he's like, you could try to fix the innards,
Starting point is 00:05:45 probably better to replace it and it'll be cheaper in the long run if you just get a new toilet in there. So we replaced two toilets and two sinks and nothing went wrong, knock on wood, except for a couple of days later, I went to turn on the kitchen sink and the kitchen sink has like the top half that swivels
Starting point is 00:06:00 and then the base with the handle that's not supposed to swivel. I went to turn it on and the base also swiveled. And I was like, well, that doesn't seem right. I don't think the whole thing's supposed to turn. This isn't like a fun little puzzle, put it together, then you get to wash your hands. It's supposed to be just,
Starting point is 00:06:13 you turn on the sink and water comes out and you can aim the top. I've also had some issues with the basement has had some clogging problems. The basement toilet had some clogging issues. And then a couple of times the shower has, the shower drain has had things like some mud or something come out of it. Oh mud Yeah, give a lot of mud and drains. Yeah, I was like, I don't know why there's mud coming out of our shower
Starting point is 00:06:33 I should probably have a look at that. Well, it's not mud not mud stinky mud Yeah, so we went to clean it out. He has one of his little like tunnel snakes What are the hell they're called? No, that's that's follow the tunnel snakes. No, tunnel snakes, I think that's correct. I think either tunnel snake or tunnel fucker. Yeah, he is tunnel fucker and he put it in my toilet hole and was like, well, there's no clog here, so we're gonna have to go look at another pipe. So we go into the unfinished part of the basement
Starting point is 00:06:58 and he's opening up pipes and putting his- Putting his snake in your pipes? He's putting his snake in my pipes. If only you'd been able to pay him we opened the door and um there's like so the water heater has like a drain next to it right there's a pipe that goes to the water heater to this drain so if your water heater has issues the water goes somewhere instead of throughout your house well that drain was supposed to have a white cover it was brown and uh there was wetness around it, also brown, it's like, man there's a lot of mud coming into our house, that's weird! And the guy opened up one of the pipes and for some reason he opened
Starting point is 00:07:32 up like three or four different pipes, one of them he opened up and immediately the horrible sewer smell that no one wants to have like was like oh god and sat in our basement for like three days, it was awful, but he found this backflow prevention system. Ultimately the backflow prevention system, which is like a cylinder with a flap, and when you flush or run water, the flap opens, stuff goes through, flap closes. If anything ever comes the opposite way, like if there's a backup, the flap is closed so things can't come back up into your house. The problem is if the flap itself is either clogged or blocked, then the stuff can't come back up into your house. The problem is, if the flap itself is either clogged or blocked, then the stuff can't get out and it stops. And then the things attached to the other side
Starting point is 00:08:11 of the backflow comes out that way. He opened it up and immediately when he went to open it up, the lid was cracked in half and was just laying there, not usefully. Inside there's like a gap and then like a little twisty lid. That twisty lid had like a rubber band, ceiling band or whatever around it that was oversized and like corroded and not fitting properly. And then laying on top of that lid was the flap.
Starting point is 00:08:36 So when he opened it up, there's no flap. So this system exists, it's supposed to stop backflow and it's not working at all because the thing that stops the backflow was taken out and just sitting there and the pipe goes from four inch diameter I think to three inch diameter right before you get to the cylinder so it kind of constrains the solids as he called it and then it got into the cylinder things I guess started like coalescing gathering there having a nice little shit party and causing some of the backup issues. And this had happened before we even moved in. When we first moved in the house, we had some construction.
Starting point is 00:09:07 My office was built. I noticed that the shower had mud in it then too. And I was like, these guys are fucking like building our, on my office, then taking a shower and leaving their fucking muddy boots shit all over our shower. What the fuck? It's really weird because when the shit came out through the shower, it looked the exact same as the mud that those workers had left. That's crazy to me
Starting point is 00:09:27 oh weird so now that i know that shit is getting caught and backflowing into our house i'm have they want well they want me to remove this backflow thing which means cutting in the concrete removing the backflow prevention system putting in a normal pipe repaving the pavement and then they want to put a more powerful toilet in the basement called a power flush it's got a motor on it It's like an airplane toilet But it has a stronger like flow so it can push stuff so it won't get caught in the pipes and we'll what kind of stuff
Starting point is 00:09:54 What stuff mud talking about mud that guy you dealt with before who was always like I just need more mud Was he talking about something? I didn't understand The way that guy handled our house, I would not be surprised if he went, ate like a burrito, came over and was like, man, I got more mud. Took a minute, but I made you some more mud for your wall. But yeah, so anyway, more plumbing. So we got our sink tightened and now we got to get concrete cut out to remove this backflow thing to put in the pipe.
Starting point is 00:10:22 So yay. That's nice. That's my story I was saving. See, you've just been holding it in this whole time thing to put in the pipe. So yay. That's nice. That's my story I was saving. See, you've just been holding it in this whole time since you moved in? I haven't gotten to poop in six months. God, keep my mud inside. Keep my mud inside.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Hey, just give me a minute, the mud will settle. I never know when I'm gonna need this much mud. Oh. Guys who work on drywall must just, that just must be agony. You got a big project next week. No, I can't! When's my next job? Oh god I need the business! When I first noticed the issue was right after
Starting point is 00:10:50 you guys visited and Mark had used the basement bathroom so I was like what did he do? What did I what do you mean what did I do? Shortly after that's whenever the the stain appeared in the shower and I was like don't blame this on me! Mark came to my house and took a muddy shower in my shower He's like, I've been filming a movie for two years, haven't showered, so wait, I took the first opportunity I had I gotta admit though, your problems might be caused because I remember when we were watching something NUZZY WHAT? Television Your walls were shaking so much, you don't think that maybe the vibrations are knocking things loose in your house?
Starting point is 00:11:28 Like your radon? The subwoofer that rattles the entire house. Well, I mean, we found out it was just the light fixture making the rattle noise, right? I thought it was something on the shelving in it, but you said it was the light fixture. But no, that, the boomy-bacy is boomy-bacy. It's Bacy, alright. Yeah, like, Molly had a full foot massage in her office when I was watching like Jack Reacher because like the gun scenes were just like,
Starting point is 00:11:48 and she would text me and she was like, the hell are you watching down there? My whole office is shaking. You went to that big Bacy porn? That'd be kind of crazy. Ke-hee-hee-hee. Bacy porn. Yeah, big Bacy porn.
Starting point is 00:12:00 They just add the vine boom to every impact. Boom, boom. Lots of really Bacy thuds going on. It's like a wrestling match but porn WWE the porno wwp Wouldn't it be WWX xx I guess they have the WWE raw. Oh, that's it. Right? Why did we didn't need to come up with anything else? I prefer WW protection WW safety I just thought of the scene in naked gun where they put on like the full body condom I just watched naked gun the end of the do it's so good good small talk good small my turn
Starting point is 00:12:37 Okay, Mark's turn. I will say just a disclaimer for everyone out there handy dandy information Apparently the northern lights are gonna be very good this year, but they're gonna be even better next year So if you ever plan some travel going up north, apparently solar flares are gonna be so intense either We're all gonna die or it's gonna be really pretty when we do Our two options are both die Once an ugly death the ones are pretty death. That's called optimism, baby. Alright, what a disclaimer. Alright, anyway, so, um, I've been building my render farm. I'm a render farm expert, I'm an expert.
Starting point is 00:13:11 You still on about that? I've discovered the magic that is blown fuses again. So it turns out computers draw a lot of power, a lot of power. And so for those that aren't aware that even just running one computer all day long is an incredible draw of power. It's like running a microwave constantly. So, uh, one of the things that I'm, I'm looking into is getting, uh, uh, power into my house, like figuring out the power system, trying to get like a better battery backup. But I, I was doing something yesterday that I, I was, okay, so I was up on my roof, like figuring out the power system, trying to get like a better battery backup. But I was doing something yesterday that I was,
Starting point is 00:13:46 okay, so I was up on my roof, right? And I realized how cosmically stupid what I was doing was. I climbed up on the roof and I called for Amy, Amy! And I was like, can you pass me the hose? So she throws me the hose, and there I am standing on my roof, watering my solar panels because they're dirty and encrusted with grime.
Starting point is 00:14:05 But I just like, I just was like standing there and thinking about it as this like wonderful era that we live in with all this technology and able to just grab electricity out of the air with solar panels. And there I stand with a garden hose being like, ah, so fix it. Well, if you want to grow your solar farm, you've got to water it. Yeah, that's true. That's true. It just, it just felt so dumb. It was happening. But then I, I thought you were gonna tell me you were cleaning out your gutters or something. I was not expecting the twist of watering your solar panel. No, no. Cause I can understand like cleaning out
Starting point is 00:14:37 the gutters and what I should have done is I have a Ryobi power washer and what's great about it is it has a hose attachment on it, but my hose isn't long enough and I didn't have the battery charged and I was just like let me go up see what they are and they looked pretty crusty. Were you using the solar panel attachment for the hose? Shut up. You know they actually make a Ryobi solar panel cleaner it's basically the same as a power washer but it's designed to work way better on solar panels. Yeah because that stuff is crusty because I got done I wash it off and I, you know, I felt like I was playing Power Wash Simulator because I didn't have enough pressure because
Starting point is 00:15:09 I had one of those little handles, but you know, at the distance, the wind alone was beating me. So I got done, everything was wet and I thought I washed it thoroughly. I saw some gunk runoff and by the time I got to the end, I went back to the beginning and the beginning was dry. It was just as dusty. It was like super like just as crusted over couldn't see a single cell. I'm like damn it. So I bought Amy bought a big mop with a big handle If people out there want to know what the celebrity lifestyle is like it is mopping your solar panels on your room. So yeah, that's what I get to look forward to. And so I'm realizing that with all of this computer power that man, I, yeah, things are going good. Things are going real good. I have all the
Starting point is 00:15:58 parts assembled, but I realized that I got the wrong case for it. Cause I'm not building a server rack. I'm basically just building a few computers for my Houdini render farm. But I got the wrong case for it. Cause I'm not building a server rack. I'm basically just building a few computers for my Houdini render farm. But I got the wrong case size because, it's been a while since I built a computer. I used to always do it. And then I kind of fell into people doing the custom water cooling solutions,
Starting point is 00:16:17 because I was like, I don't really want to fiddle with all of that. So I'd rather get it from a company that's going to do it. But for these things, like the prices are so stupid for like business level stuff. That's why businesses don't make any sense. I don't know how businesses ever make money when they pay like business prices for things. Because you got like home internet, you pay home internet, it could be like up to $100 for good
Starting point is 00:16:37 internet. And that's, that's pricey. A business internet line starts in the thousands. And I'm like, wait a minute, where does this jump occur? Why? Why is this? But that's just what business pay for. They just do that. And other people charge businesses like these exorbitant rates. And it's like, it doesn't make any sense because the price of these, these big workstation computers from a from a pre built manufacturer, like there's a markup for pre built computers for consumer level hardware, what should be like a $10,000 computer if you bought all the parts in a very good computer?
Starting point is 00:17:07 Someone will mark up up to $50,000 for the entire thing to be assembled. If you look at some of the higher end workstations, it doesn't make any sense. So I'm building it myself again, because I've done that before and it's not much different. But I got the wrong case because it's an SSI-EEB motherboard, not an EATX motherboard. And even though the case says EATX and the motherboard I bought was listed as ATX. Have you tried the EATASS motherboard? Our old house, I couldn't get fiber internet. And I called, I was like, can we get fiber?
Starting point is 00:17:40 I would love to have like gigabit speed. And they're like, oh no, I'm sorry. They're like, the only way we can find that you could do is if you upgrade to business and I was like okay so what's that take and it was like three or four thousand dollars or whatever I was like but wait so what you're saying is if I pay that price there is gigabit speed that goes to our house yes but I can't get the gigabit speed under a residential price no we don't offer it there neat but the the infrastructure is physically there. Yes, sir. Got it. No, I will not be
Starting point is 00:18:06 paying $3,000 a month for internet, but I'm glad to know it exists. That's the thing is like the way prices are segmented are just absurd. Like absurd. I think it's unclear because that is also my experience because I've looked into business class internet before. I feel like the business class stuff is meant if you have like, we have 80 employees, we're going to have several hundred things on the internet minimum. We need bandwidth to have one internet connection that effectively services potentially thousands of things happening at one time on the internet, which is a whole other scale, even from like a small business. Like if you, I worked at like at Jimmy John's, right? We had internet at Jimmy John's. We didn't
Starting point is 00:18:50 need that. The business class internet is kind of like misleading. It's really for like buildings. If you have like an office building and you're like, I need internet for this whole fucking thing. I want to see like a bratwurst size ethernet cable. Oh, they exist. That big? They're like, yeah, like a good old brat size ethernet cable. Oh they exist that big they're like Yeah, good ol brat size ethernet cable where they're like, oh you got the business class bring this puppy in That's why they call me business class 8 inches around
Starting point is 00:19:16 I can't even assemble the other computers until I get my power sorted because right now I don't have enough So I'm looking into getting a battery system because maybe I'm misconceiving something about how solar and battery works. But my understanding should be that you have solar panels and you have a battery system, right? The solar panels charge the batteries. The batteries are able to power your house.
Starting point is 00:19:38 You have enough that it could back up the whole house in case of emergency. But if you have solar panels and a battery, it should power the house and also charge the batteries simultaneously. I know that's a tall order, some batteries can't do that, but you know, this is solar we're talking, right? In theory, you charge the battery,
Starting point is 00:19:53 use some of the battery in your house, but it's still charging and holding charge, I would think, yeah, in my brain, yeah? Yes, exactly. And then when the sun goes bye-bye, then the batteries pick up, and so as much as possible, you're not using the grid's power. So I called someone up and I consulted about this, and I told them like,
Starting point is 00:20:10 yeah, I want to be as independent of the grid as possible, I want to be using as much of the solar panels to generate my own electricity, I want to pay as little on my power bill as possible. And he looks at me, he goes like, What? No one, no? No one no No one's ever asked for that. I've never installed that before that's that's absurd Why would you even think that and I'm like, I thought that's how it worked I thought you get solar panels and you put it you do the thing and it makes you have power
Starting point is 00:20:38 I thought electricity pumps in through those and you get that and then you don't have to pay for it as much. He's like, what are you talking about? So this is a little tinfoil hatty. The electric companies caused that to happen on purpose. That is not a mistake because this is what I was surprised by this too. When we lived in California, we got solar on the house that we lived in and I had the exact same idea that you did. I was like, cool. So we'll like the battery will feed the house. And the way that they'd set up on and this is to benefit the grid is once your batteries are charged, if you're still generating excess power, most systems direct that into the grid. They install a special kind of smart meter thing on your house.
Starting point is 00:21:20 And instead of you using that power in your own house and staying off the grid, you send that power somehow onto the grid and it goes to everyone else and they give you credit for that. Mark, thanks for the power dude. Well you're, you're a little far away probably, but maybe. It's a long thick broad grid. If you don't have that like set up, like if you move, right, which someone else lives in that house we lived in now we gave
Starting point is 00:21:45 them the info but if you don't get the info for like the smart thing to have that setup on your account that extra power just goes to the grid or free. EG&E doesn't give anybody anything for that and I don't think that that's an accident so it's entirely possible that you are and that's just because you didn't like build this house or have the solar installed, right? Somebody else did that and now you live here and I don't know if you have that set up But like if you don't you there there might be supposed to be credits on your account with them that then later You would get back that might be why Oh my god
Starting point is 00:22:21 But if you don't have that set up, they're literally just taking that shit from you and being like, oh, whoops, sorry, we didn't, I just thought that was our power. But no, that makes so much sense because I was looking, we just talked about that. My power bill is 800 a month. And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense if I've got all of these,
Starting point is 00:22:39 and here I am washing it off with a hose. I don't know why I'm not getting paid. Why am I paying so much? It don't make sense. If we didn't, oh oh, there's an employee that was walking to your house with a hose about to clean. He saw you up there was like, this guy's awesome, man. He's fixing up our solar panels. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, so you might want to like reach out to PG&E and, or like our, the way ours was set up, ours was managed by a third party in between. So you had to contact the company that we got the panels from
Starting point is 00:23:08 and they would communicate with the power company and like set it up so that the credits were applied to our power account correctly. It's like a, it's an actual scam because the point is, you're not separate from the grid then, you are benefiting the grid and they might not even have to give you credit for it. You still pay them just as much if you don't get those credits back it doesn't you're just giving them
Starting point is 00:23:29 solar power for free and go fuck yourself it's like an absolute scam. Mark's trying to get off the grid and steady his enhancing. You think you're trying to get away from the system and you're just participating in it. Well then that what I'm probably gonna do is I'll call them and reach out about that because I didn't set up any of this so there are like there were batteries here before in the solar system here before I like this great this fantastic but then there's also like this generac ass generator which I do not like and I'm like why is this here if we got the battery backups and I had a complete misconception of how the whole system
Starting point is 00:24:00 was rigged and even when I had the guy out here looking at he's like he's looking at the solar system he's like I don't know this I have no memory of this place I have no memory of this place and he was like really like I don't want to have to tear into that and I'm like yeah I will pay you to tear into that because I want the solar to feed my batteries and then that powered the house and then then if I need more pull from the grid. Only then! I will say what you want, because I did also look into this, I was disappointed that that was how our solar worked and I couldn't change it. That was how the system worked and that was the only
Starting point is 00:24:36 way that that system worked. It's possible to get exactly what you want, but that's not what they try and sell you on if you work with any of the mainstream companies that do solar stuff, they're all in the system of, we'll give you the one where the power goes back to the grid and then you get the credits and then it's all, but it's a hundred percent possible to get what you want. You just need to find a company that will like offer that. It totally, it totally exists. That technology totally exists. All right. Good, good. I'll, I'll make some calls.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I'm curious if you find the right company who will give you what your actual Totally is this. All right. Good. Good. I'll make some calls after this. I'm curious if you find the right company who will give you what your actual goal is there because that is also how I felt like solar power should work. I was like, well, why is our battery always at like 95% charge during the hottest part of the summer when we're running the AC and stuff? And it's like that I want to use that. That's our juice there in the batteries. That's our juice there in the batteries. That's our juice comrade.
Starting point is 00:25:26 All right so probably I'm gonna need a electrician to really really hammer this thing. Or you can do it dude just get one of those bratwurst cables and set it up. Those bratwurst cables you just invented? I think you need kibasa for a solar system of mark size. I don't know what kibasa is. Different kind of sausage. In fact the the different gauges of wire, the actual official denominations are all sausage based. You got little Smokies, you got Red Hots, you got bung length, you got small brot, like ballpark brot, and then you got like Johnsonvilles. You just gotta be careful how much voltage per girth North America you get, because you don't want to get your brot wars too close to the VGNA.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. Read it, Mark. What does VGNA sound like if you try and say it out loud? Vista Grande Neighborhood Association? I don't think he gets it Wade. That's okay. Vagina. Hmm? Vagina. Hmm? Vagina. Hmm? Any who's-el. Uh, good small talk. Sad small talk talk for Mark but good small talk everybody. Mine was shitty his was sad. Good all around lots of points. Excellent work. So listen, we've had some tough times around the game of 20 questions on the show.
Starting point is 00:26:38 Oh baby baby I'm ready. And I've got a topic for today that I feel like is gonna, is gonna change our history with the idea of 20 questions. So it's not, we're not gonna play the guessing game, 20 questions, where I pick something and you have 20. We're gonna play 20 other questions, also known as easy 20 questions. It's just trivia guys. Oh God.
Starting point is 00:27:03 I've got 20 trivia questions that I think you're gonna know the answers to. If you don't know them right off the bat, I think you definitely have a strong chance of figuring them out. I'm not gonna make you like push a button to ring in or anything. I just have a list of questions here and where to go through them. And you know, you get like a point for every one that you get correct. No punishments for not knowing. These are, I will say they are sort of history and also like science themed.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Sort of like classic trivia stuff. And these, I think you'll know some of these. I think you'll know these. Do we answer every other one or how are we doing the answers? Yeah, we're gonna alternate. One of you gets a chance to answer and then the other one can steal
Starting point is 00:27:40 if you get it wrong or if you don't know. Okay. But we'll go back and forth. Who wants to go first? Should I flip a cap? Yeah, flip a cap. It's an even number, right? So we each get the same amount no matter what. can steal if you get it wrong or if you don't know. Okay. But we'll go back and forth. Who wants to go first? Should I flip a cap? Yeah, flip a cap. It's an even number, right?
Starting point is 00:27:48 So we each get the same amount no matter what. What if you spin the wheel? Come on, come on, spin the wheel. No, I'm good. Spin the wheel. No, I don't need to add percentages for this. Mark, Wade. It hit the camera.
Starting point is 00:28:00 It landed. Triangle of fairness. It landed this side up. I believe that was Wade's side. All right. I got nervous when you said that. Now I got to of fairness, it landed this side up. I believe that was Wade's side. All right, I got nervous when you said that. Now I gotta pee, let's do it. Easy, easy questions.
Starting point is 00:28:09 What is the name of the first artificial earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957? Sputnik? Yes, very good. But I almost said Hubble, so why did you say 1957? Cause I was like, oh, you know, the Hubble, the Soviets had that Hubble telescope, remember that one? All right, Mark, this is an equally easy like, oh, you know, the Hubble, the Soviets had that Hubble telescope. Remember that one?
Starting point is 00:28:26 All right, Mark. This is an equally easy question, Mark, and no one's going to be mad about this. What is the name of the principle that states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of quantum numbers? Dude, do you remember this? The poly exclusion principle. Holy fuck, are you serious? Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Oh my God. Well done, man. I was going to steal that one too. Did you know that one? No, no, I thought it was the polyamorous principle. I would have gotten it wrong. All right. See?
Starting point is 00:29:01 No, see? I was afraid that I went too hard, but that's fine. I feel like I got my one and only one correct. all of my questions. This is like this. They're randomly jumbled It's gonna be fine. Wade which ancient civilization is credited with the invention of the wheel No, Googling. I'm not no you Google ease. He's serious I have no fucking idea. Was there even a civilization then? I thought that was kind of like, okay, oldest, oldest civilization.
Starting point is 00:29:30 So I'm just thinking out loud here. Babylon was pretty old China. What else was really old over there? You know, Babylon did it wrong. Mark Sumeria. Yes. Really? Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:44 The Sumerians are credited with the invention of the wheel. What? Hey! All right, this is gonna be Mark's greatest day ever. I thought this episode was gonna go in a whole other direction and it still might, but I guess I'm showcasing how smart you guys are today and I actually love that for us.
Starting point is 00:30:01 I've never even heard of Sumeria. You've never, no, you've heard of the Sumerians Sumerians are like one of the first Civilizations, I don't even know where they are in the world. I don't even know what I just know it's an old one All right, mark. What is the name of the process? I swear to God. These are randomly jumbled. This is not mark What is the name of the process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without passing through the liquid state? sublimation. All right, that's... Okay.
Starting point is 00:30:28 There's gonna be a lot of points in this episode if you guys are getting all this... Can I name the three states of matter? Wade, what was the name of the first known written legal code? Hey, you almost went to law school. You should know this. Created by a Babylonian king. You just said the word Babylon. You basically know this one
Starting point is 00:30:45 I did the first code as written by Babylon was called that I'm gonna go fuck myself Surprisingly close but no mark for the steel Magna Carta Is it wait is it that letter from the copper salesman to the other to the Guy, but the shitty copper from the dude, okay, all right. It's the code of hemu Robbie Oh, I've actually heard of that mark What is the name of the effect that describes the change in frequency of a wave in relation to another an observer moving relative? To the wave source Doppler? Yes. Oh, okay. All right, cool.
Starting point is 00:31:26 All right. Dude, I am fucked. I peaked at Sputnik. Wait, this is middle school here. You got this. Don't say that, man. I know that you know this. It is science.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Tell me they're hard to make me feel better when I'm wrong. It's a science one, but it's something, I think you have a good chance of knowing this. What is the name of the phenomenon where light bends around the edges of an object? Oh fuck, I should know this one. Is this refraction? Sorry, that's not correct.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Well damn, that was gonna be my answer. Ummm... Guess a word that has to do with light. Lensing. No, it was diffraction. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't feel as bad as I could have forgetting that one wrong cuz I Know that's pretty close refraction was very much the right idea I forget things easily and you were you were toggling things that are like 10th grade. It's fine No, you know what you guys have already done better than I expected. I thought this was easy
Starting point is 00:32:21 You preface this what this was easy. Yeah, well, it should be easy but you're doing great. Mark your turn to go first. What was the name of the ship that brought the pilgrims to America in 1620? Is this one of those trick questions where a name jumps to mind but it was actually a different one? I'm gonna say the Mayflower. Yay! I can swear this was gonna be one of those different names. Mark paid attention in fifth grade history. Yeah, my first thought was like, oh, Theseus. That's the way you know I thought it. All right, Wade, your turn. What is the name of the principle that states
Starting point is 00:32:56 that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference? Easy questions, guys. Dude, I was a physics major. I studied all of these things. I don't like the law of conservation of matter or something. No, wrong law, wrong law.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Marked for the steal? I mean, you're calling it the principle, but isn't that the theory of relativity? The listed answer is principle of relativity. Judges, are we gonna accept the theory of relativity? Yeah, that's the judges say yes.'s fine it's good enough for me yeah yeah that's fine wait I can't tell if you're gonna definitely know this one or if this is another dude you never know with me I you got this buddy which Roman
Starting point is 00:33:37 Emperor is known for his wall that spans all across northern Britain how many Roman emperors do I know other than Caesar? Oh, you probably know this one. Caesar? Nope. Oh, Tim? Tim. You remember the Roman emperor, Tim? Julius Caesar,
Starting point is 00:33:54 Myas Augustus, Tim. Well, I'm guessing it's not Myas Augustus now. That's a made up name that's not even a Roman name, probably, that's nothing. Maximus Thane I love Emperor Thane Why is your Roman Emperor a League of Legends character? What happened?
Starting point is 00:34:17 I think Thane's a Jor-El, isn't he? Emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's wall. Oh, that's Rocky's wife. Hadrian! Oh, you have that wall, Hadrian. Hadrian's wall. Oh, that's Rocky's wife. Hadrian. Hadrian. Oh, you have that wall, Hadrian. All right, Mark. This is a very fair game, and these are jumbled very fairly.
Starting point is 00:34:32 Mark, what is the name of the theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape? The event horizon. Very fair, it's very fair, it's very fair, it's very fair. Dude, I don't know any of this shit, so. I can picture the black hole, and I remember the little, like, gas fart coming out,
Starting point is 00:34:47 but I couldn't tell the name of any of it. The gas fart is one of the parts of a black hole. Hey, Wade, I know that you know this. You don't. I have a clue I can give you if you would like a clue on this one. Yeah, I'll take the clue before I take the question. Alright, think about RVs. What was the name of the treaty that ended the 30 years war in 1648?
Starting point is 00:35:07 Winnebago. That's the right idea. I'm afraid that's incorrect. Mark, do you know what treaty this was? Oh, the treaty of Airstream. What if I said yes? You remember Sputnik, man? Can we go back to Sputnik?
Starting point is 00:35:24 All right, my clue was not very helpful probably, but it's the Treaty of Westphalia. It's also a type of our, like, campervan type thing. Is it? Never heard of that one. Man, I really thought I had it with Winnebago. Alright, Mark, there's no chance you've got this one. And Wade, I have good feeling for you. Mark, what is the rarest naturally occurring element on earth? Einsteinium. Do you wish? Wait for the steel? Unobtainium. Uh almost. Astatine. I don't know what that is. Yeah, right. Okay, come on with your made-up elements. Get out of here.
Starting point is 00:35:58 Astatine. I brushed my teeth with that dude. Wade, which battle in 1066 marked the beginning of the Norman rule in England? Think about English battles. There's some famous ones that everyone's kind of heard of. The battle of fuck you, mate. That's Australian, but is it? Do you want a serious answer or? You know, that was before Australia was a penal colony. So the Australians were still part of Britain in 1066. So they all already had the Australian accent before they left, I didn't know that. Yeah, when was Australia founded? Am I right about that? Like 1980 or something, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:36:30 Mark. The Battle of Wales. That's actually the right idea, it's very close. It's the Battle of Hastings. Ah, Mark, what's the name of the paradox that questions why the night sky is dark despite the vast number of stars in the universe? What is the name of the paradox that questions why the night sky is dark despite the vast number of stars in the universe? What? What is the name of the paradox that questions why the night sky is dark despite the vast
Starting point is 00:36:49 number of stars in the universe? You know, I'm only thinking of the Fermi paradox, but do you mean by light, light darkness? Yeah, well like why is it incorrect? I know, yeah. Oh, Cloverfield paradox. Close enough. Really? Have a point for making me chuckle. Oh Cloverfield paradox Have a point for making me chuckle no, but it's the it's Ulbers paradox Oh
Starting point is 00:37:16 Ulber that's Wilbur the pig. It's his uncle. It's his old. It's his old uncle Ulber wait You know this one who was the longest reigning female monarch in history? Okay? You said it was already in my mind. This is not my answer, but I was gonna say Shakira or boobs no matter what. Is it Queen Elizabeth? Yeah, he's back on the board. Oh no, no, he didn't say which Queen Elizabeth. The long one. Yeah, the one that ruled the longest.
Starting point is 00:37:37 I'm with you, Wade. Queen Elizabeth the long, we all know. What's the long? What's the long? Mark, what is the name of the hypothetical particle that mediates the force of gravity in quantum field theory? These questions are very fair. Keep that in mind. I mean, there's a bunch of bullshit, but the Higgs boson. Incorrect, sir.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Wait, what was the question again? Wade, what is the name of the hypothetical particle that mediates the force of gravity in quantum field theory? Mark was close. It's actually the Big's hoson. Is that your actual answer? No, of course not. You want a clue? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me the clue. It mediates the force gravity.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Oh. Oh. Oh. It's called gravity. Close. I want to re-steal. I want to re-steal. Mark, for the re- the restill it's worth negative one no do you actually know it mark is it a graviton it is a graviton that's so dumb that's so dumb mark you don't need any more points so I'm gonna hold off on giving that one to you but you did get graviton I'll see if you need
Starting point is 00:38:39 it later that's right Wade who was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire? Julian Caesar, it was Julius's great grandpa. No, I got that. I was with you, just- Maximus Thane! No. Oh, is it the name you said earlier? No, that was actually just made up.
Starting point is 00:39:00 That's not even, that's nothing. Wade, did you figure it out? I'm thinking Holy Roman, or was it called Holy Roman Empire? That's actually what became Germany, right? So, is it Bismarck? No, but that's kind of the right idea. The answer is Charlemagne was French. That's close to where Germany be. Yeah, they're like near each other. It's basically correct. Mark, what is the name of the first dynasty of Imperial China? I don't know how to pronounce. I'm gonna look up how to pronounce this room.
Starting point is 00:39:28 Mark, you got this. You know it. The Ming dynasty? I think Bob would probably know that one. Yeah, I do. That's not it. But good guess. Close. Wade? Is it Qing with a Q? Yes, it's the Qin dynasty. Oh, good.
Starting point is 00:39:43 I will have you know, I thought that before you said I need to look up how to pronounce it. That was not, I did not use as a clue because I was thinking the only one I could even think of was the QIN one. Well, that's cause that's the first one. I feel like the game Civilization really did wonders for any of these questions.
Starting point is 00:39:58 I have any chance of answering. I'm like, oh yeah, Hammurabi's code. That was in Civilization like four. Wait, which element has the highest melting point? I took physics in 11th grade. I got this titanium incorrect, but good guess mark for the steel I'm trying to remember That your memory song no no no Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o It's the heavy one. Fire festanium. Bob, just tell me, is it the heavy one? Is it the heavy one?
Starting point is 00:40:48 Yes. A cube of this would be very heavy. It's that heavy one. Why can't I remember the name of that? I was trying to think of a heavy one, too. And the best I could think of was titanium, because I knew it was like a dense heavy one. Titanium is actually not that heavy, like comparatively to the other metals.
Starting point is 00:41:00 That's one of the benefits of it. It's strong for its weight. It's not as light as you might think, but it's very strong for the weight you have to. Oh, what the f... I can't remember the benefits of it. It's strong for its weight It's not as light as you might think but it's very strong for the weight you have to oh what the I can't remember the name Of it. I'm gonna kick myself. It's tungsten. That's what I was trying to think of it the heavy one. Yes Well, that was question number 20, but I will say we're not quite done Did it give us that was the easy run give us the hard ones? Yeah, come on man mark can go first cuz I went first last time I think, so Mark can go first.
Starting point is 00:41:27 Okay, that seems fair. Okay, Mark. I have a really good feeling that you know the answer to this one. Uh huh. What was the name of the first known written legal code created by a Babylonian king? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on a second.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Wait. Oh god, no. Oh no. Oh no. I'm sorry Mark. Are you having some trouble with this question? Oh no. I feel like the answer is probably somewhere in your mind. Oh no! Oh no! Mark, I have an after request that you make your- give me your answer here.
Starting point is 00:42:03 Oh, oh, oh, it's the letter that the guy gave to the copper salesman! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Starting point is 00:42:12 Oh! It said your answer again! Yeah, that's my answer. That's incorrect! Wade. Hammurabi! Yes, the code of Hammurabi! Oh no!
Starting point is 00:42:22 Guess the code of Hammurabi! Oh no... Uh, alright, next question. Wade, you get to go first on this one. What is the name of the phenomenon where light bends around the edges of an object? Oh, come on. Shit. Hold on. No, it's not as fun when it's me. Diffraction! Diffraction!
Starting point is 00:42:44 Yes, okay. Oh, I thought Iiffraction! Yeah, it's okay. Oh, I thought I was about to go through the same thing. Oh, dude, I didn't pay attention at all. Oh, man, if only you listened. Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, no. Mark, we gotta work together. Let me check this.
Starting point is 00:42:59 All right, Mark, you get to go first on the next one here. Mark, I know that you know this one. We talked about this, I think. Which Roman emperor is known for his wall across Northern Britain? Come on, man. Oh, man. It's right there.
Starting point is 00:43:19 It's on the tip of your tongue, man. I got you, you got this. Emperor, Emperor Hymen Did it really stop so they break his wall, yeah, you can really only break it the one time and then it's just I'm sorry mark. That is incorrect. Wade, do you know? I was hoping Mark would actually get this right. Oh, you know, Emperor Hot-TD. Hot-TD.
Starting point is 00:43:50 Hot-TD. No. Hot-TD. Hossanabi. Hommadero. Hopscotch. Hopscotch. Happy Tappy.
Starting point is 00:43:57 Happy Tappy. I'll tell you the answer, just like I've been telling you the answers to all the previous questions. That one is Emperor Hadrian. Oh fuck Adrian I read the Rocky Balboa joke fuck you did All right, wait you got to go first on this one no What was the name of the tree that ended the 30 years war in 1648? Oh God?
Starting point is 00:44:23 Who is it between I Can I get a- I don't have that information, I only have the question. Oh man. It was the Treaty of Beowulf. That's... Beowulf is incorrect, I'm very sorry. I feel so stupid! Tell me Mark, tell me the answer. What was the name of the treaty that ended the 30 years war in 1648? I got it. The Treaty of Recreational Vehicles.
Starting point is 00:44:52 I remember. Oh, is this the Winnebago one? Yeah, this is the Winnebago one. Shit! Can I re-steal? Uh, sure. Win-Winfield? No! Hahahaha
Starting point is 00:45:08 It's the- Of course the answer is The Treaty of Westphalia FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU know the answer to this one what is the rarest naturally occurring element on earth all right come on this this is spoon fed right here it's ass ass that's the ash particle ass astonium particle ass, Astonium. It's an ass, it's ass, it's ass! Can I give you one more guess? Dude, he's grabbing that ass. Ass, ass!
Starting point is 00:46:00 He's just stuttering, I know you can get there. It's the whole word Mark, yeah, say the whole word. He said Astonium astonium I'm sorry. That's incorrect. Wait. Do you know what the rarest naturally occurring element is on earth? I thought it was astonium. Oh, it is I believe in you on asthenium Acetine yeah, yes, it is Acetine Mark. Thank you so much for giving me ass because I would have never remembered without your ass Shut up. Have I gotten a single point this second round?
Starting point is 00:46:29 No, not yet. Don't worry, Mark. Your time is coming. Wade, which battle in 1066 marked the beginning of Norman rule in England? Oh, no. We just talked about it. We're getting to the end of the questions already. These are way more recent that we talked about this.
Starting point is 00:46:44 OK, I said something stupid. Mark said something smarter. We're getting to the end of the questions already. These are way more recent that we talked about this. Okay, I said something stupid. Mark said something smarter. Hastings? Yes, the Battle of Hastings. Well, I remember that one too, so don't give him too much credit. Oh, good remembering, Mark.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Well, I bet you'll remember this one too then, Mark, because your memory is fantastic. What is the name of the paradox that questions? Why the night sky is dark despite the vast number of stars in the universe? Guy just put this out there. This is a way funnier than I thought it would be I'm fucking dying The test was the test we didn't know that was the study portion oh man it's oh it's Lobo's paradox impressively close but unfortunately incorrect oh wait do you know the name of the paradox that questions why the night sky is dark despite the vast number of stars in the universe?
Starting point is 00:47:48 Gravitron Oh God, you're gonna get that next you son of a bitch You son of a bitch The correct answer is Olbers paradox Oh god damn it, Olbers uncle You gave yourself memory devices by making all the jumps and then you couldn't remember your memory devices I remember Gravitron or Graviton or Gravitonium I swear Bob if that's the next question that you're gonna give him I'm gonna jump through the internet and strangle you
Starting point is 00:48:17 Um, okay next question Wade goes first. Um, Wade? What's the name of the hypothetical particle that mediates the force of gravity in quantum field theory? Graviton. Oh that's correct buddy. I haven't gotten a single point. It's actually Graviton you said it correctly. Yes! Yeah if you had said Gravitron I was gonna not give it to you so that Mark could steal cuz that's technically incorrect said Gravitron, I was gonna not give it to you so that Mark could steal, cause that would be technically incorrect. Gravitron sounded like a Transformer, so I was like, that's just my brain, that can't be real. No guys, we're getting there, don't worry.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Mark, you get to go first on this one. And I know that you know this. Who was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire? Charlemagne! Yes! And Mark is on the board! Hey! Charlemagne! Yes! And Mark is on the board! Hehehehehehe! I love how you crushed me during the first portion.
Starting point is 00:49:10 It really could not have worked out better. I love you guys for doing that for me. I appreciate that. Next question, Wade gets to go first. I don't want to be a negative Nelly, but I'm gonna have... I'm gonna strip this out there. You're gonna have a hard time remembering this one Wade, even though I just told you the answer. Which element has the highest melting point?
Starting point is 00:49:29 Hunkston. Oh, that is correct. Sorry, Mark. Oh, man. I tried to shake his confidence, Mark. Ah. No, that being the last question was very helpful. Okay, okay. Let me just have a look here.
Starting point is 00:49:42 Yep, yep. Just make sure we got through all of these. That and then that. Okay, Mark, you get to go first on this one, Mark. Are you ready? Okay, yes. Which Roman emperor is known for his wall across Northern Britain?
Starting point is 00:50:00 Adrian! Oh, that is correct. Did we get that one twice during this section? All right. You got it wrong both times. I'm continuing to ask the questions until you get them correct. That's the bit.
Starting point is 00:50:13 Did you not get that we were going to go around again? I didn't try to relearn the words, I didn't know. All right, Mark, I got a good feeling about your comeback. No, no, please don't. No, no, I know what question you might ask Wade, you're up next No, no, don't do it Wade, what was the name of the treaty
Starting point is 00:50:34 No! that ended the 30 years war in 1648 Is it with a bank account? Oh Well, you didn't know this was the case It's such a weird word, how could you anyone memorize it the tree of star Channeling a lot of Ethan energy right now Editors fill in the answer. Hey,REON! No wait that's not it. Oh that's so close. Can I steal for myself?
Starting point is 00:51:29 No we'll be able to come back to this question in just a second. And of course the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War is the Treaty of Westfalia. I was close for the last time I said Westfield! We have more questions and Mark gets to go first on this one. Fuck! Westfield we have more questions and mark gets to go first on this one Mark was the name of the paradox that questions Why the night sky is dark despite the vast number of stars in the universe? Ooblix paradox. Oh, that's so close, buddy I'm gonna cut you off mark. That is incorrect OOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO I remembered Wilbur this time. I remembered my little piggy. Wade, are you ready to go first?
Starting point is 00:52:25 Don't you dare. Bob, don't you fucking dare. Don't you dare. I'm sorry, Mark, is it your turn to go first? Is that what you're saying, Mark? No, no, but don't you dare. Don't do this. Wade, would you like a free point or would you like to answer the question and take Mark's dignity away from him? Oh, I'll go for the dignity, please. Okay, Wade is playing for Mark's dignity. Can't do this, man. What was the name of the treaty
Starting point is 00:52:48 that ended the 30 years war in 1648? Oh no, buddy. No, Westphalia. Oh, that is correct. Dude, I had a moment there where I thought Hasanabi or something and I was like, that's not it. Did I get more than one point this whole time in the second phase of this? You got two. Oh, you also got a tree.
Starting point is 00:53:11 And eventually on the last time around, all 20 questions have officially been answered, which I guess means we've come to the end of the episode. I feel slightly sick. My nerves were such a mess during the like- like the first time through I was calm But we had to re-answer the questions and show our stupidity that that got my fucking nerves going Mark you got points for pretty death render farm expert cosmic stupidity wasn't that foretelling Roof map roof mop sorry sad solar saga poly it could lose toos-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s- first round if it was just a regular trivia competition? Not even close. Dude, you crushed me.
Starting point is 00:54:05 You pantsed Wade in the real trivia. I got Sputnik, and I think that was it. You got three correct in the first round, and Mark got like seven. Wade, you got points for poop, poop with a lot of Os, rumbly porn, plumber Wolf Boy Man, Eat Ass Motherboard, Business Class Penis, VGNA, Sputnik, Pitty Chuckle Point, Queen Elizabeth, The Chin Dynasty, Haimurabi, Diffraction, Astatine, Hastings, Graviton, Tungsten, Olber's Paradox, and Westphalia.
Starting point is 00:54:43 It's so sad hearing so many of these I got right knowing that we got them wrong like three times each before that. Mark, all of yours total to 17 points. Wade, with all of that, your total comes to 18 points. Mark, if you had just gotten one more of the rounds when you already had been told the answer and you just had to remember it The only reason I remembered Hadrian was Wade's Hadri-
Starting point is 00:55:13 The only reason I remembered Why did I remember it? But I only remembered the second time around Hey, now you know how I learned stuff in school back in the days I think of something stupid that would help me remember. I don't think anyone's ever blown a lead Anyway, congratulations to way for mounting the hell of a comeback and winning today's episode. Excellent work. Uh, would you like to give your winner speech?
Starting point is 00:55:49 Yeah, yeah, Bob, thank you for hosting a wild episode that made me feel really stupid, well compared to Mark, only kind of stupid, and then by the end, okay, and uh, I had fun. I think that was a really fun concept. I'm glad that there was more to the game than just the initial 20 questions because man did I get floored I was put on the ground and spanked and beaten to a pulp But I gotta thank I'd like to thank ulber and westphalia for helping me pull through today Very very good speech. Thank you mark loser speech There comes a time in everyone's life when they need to realize that
Starting point is 00:56:27 short-term memory is real important and Pay attention to your surroundings look both ways before you cross object permanence is a tricky thing. Oh Man, I'm gonna think about I'm gonna be showering ten years from now And I will cringe at this memory of this episode That was a that was a tough fight you guys both better than I thought but also worse than I thought in Number of ways very impressive all around Congrats Wade good try mark I really thought after the beginning there there was basically no way you could lose it But you kept it interesting and I appreciate that he had a high end. I had a high wisdom
Starting point is 00:57:04 It's not always about starting fast. I guess it really is sort of a hair in the tortoise sort of story going on here, but. I'm everyone's turtle head poking out. That's part of the analogy I was thinking it was. Listen watchers, make sure you check out Wadeislordminion777 or Minion777, Mark is Markiplier, I am MySkerm, we're selling, we have merch
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