Distractible - All Nighters

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

Today we learn what keeps Mark, Bob, and Wade up at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Ah, it's not the intro. That's a bold move. Oh, you know me, I'm a bold man. You know who else is bold? Me, I've not had hair forever. Bold. Oh, no. The viewers of this podcast. Welcome to another incredible episode of Distractable.

And it's incredible because I'm here Unlike those other episodes. I wasn't there. That was a that was an artificial recreation of me marks been checked out for years Shh marks been here. No, it's all mark. Don't worry I am hosting today's episode if you've never listened to Distractible for welcome. This is quite a first episode to come into. I think anyway, I don't know, I'm kind of building out the stakes of this. But how it works is I judge a topic of my choosing and these unwilling participants, Bob and Wade,

who are contractually obligated to be here, have to play my game of Mischief and Wonder. And then I'll pick a winner based on the points that I assign. I have my, you guys get post-its today. Hey, that's pretty good. How are you guys doing? Oh, so good. Guys, have you ever seen those ads online that are like,

is your chair not rolled very good on your carpet? Put roller blade wheels on it and then it'll roll real good. I want them, that's great. I did it, look. Ah! roll real good. I want them. That's great. I did it. Look. I forgot my headphone cable is approximately three feet long. I think I'm still plugged in. It's fine. Anyway, look. Wow, man. That's crazy. Whoa. You're really moving in your chair. Me too, man. I got a really cheap set of roller blade wheel upgrade.

My chair rolls good now, which is delightful. Mine too. That sounds smooth. It's the world's squeakiest chair. I fucking hate it. I got one of those plastic floor mats to roll my chair on and my green screen rests on the very back of it. So whenever I roll backwards, it kind of sounds like in a construction site,

if you like hear someone step out on the like the ledge of the metal pillar as I scoot back and it's kind of a terrifying noise. What construction site are you talking about? Who's stepping on led? What kind of pirate ship construction site? They're walking the metal plank. You know, the action movie construction site, rickety metal pillar noise? The big metal wumpa? What? I'm so, no, it's a errrr kkkkkk I know you're losing me again.

I thought I found you. You know what the stormy seas on the construction site, they're rocking the ship back and forth. What was the point of that? Errrr, because he's got roller blades and I've got roller death. Oh, back to you. Okay, okay, yeah, good.

Anyway, my chair roll is real good and I love it now. That's great. I don't know what ads you're referring to. You're getting so targeted. I get targeted for office supply ads. I don't know, it's not like a lot, but I've even ever seen the thing where they're like, put these wheels on your chair and it'll roll real smooth.

And then it's like an office chair. Never seen that, not once. That's fair. I think people tweeting the word bald at me has made where i only get hair loss ads i think the fact that i look at twitter and it's just like wow wait is bald bald bald bald it's like then everything's like oh he keeps looking at these bald messages maybe he needs some hair well what do people tweet at me then crypto scam do you get nothing but crypto scam i get so many crypto scams guys.

Half of my entire Twitter everything when I go on that app is just some crypto scam or web 3.0, NFT, whatever bullshit scam thing. And it's like, neat, I'll be sure to click on that. Oh yeah. I got some travel ads, car ads. I would like car ads. I love cars. Actually a lot of car ads. I would like car ads, I love cars. Actually a lot of car ads, wait no, why?

Let me know if you find a good one, someone is still looking in this group. I thought you had one ordered. Well we've got one on wait, but that's more for Molly. I still need one. Ah, can't you just get a Corvette then or something? If Molly's getting a big people mover. I could just leave and go probably buy a car, like I want to figure out which one I want you know

what you should buy I was trying to think of something funny but there are no bald cars wait are there hairy cars I don't know I was trying to figure out if there was it's nothing what movie was the Shaggen wagon where was like a dog it called the Shaggen wagon? Are you talking about the dog truck that they drive in Dumb and Dumber? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've not seen that since I was very young, so it's like I barely remember, but yeah.

Man, this is hilarious, because so far this whole puck is everyone just forgetting their train of thought halfway through, but not in the same way where it's like, oh, it's distractable. I didn't forget, wheels, the office chair. I'm on point here. I never know what's going on.

Neither do I. Anything else you guys would like to bring up at this juncture of the episode? Sleep's important after not sleeping well for like a week, which maybe everyone in this call can relate to a bit, one with a baby, one with a movie baby, me with myself being the baby. Man, I love sleep and God, it's been hard to come by the last like three weeks.

Wow, this is crazy because Wade just got himself the segue point. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Oh my oh my oh my oh my. My brain waves and yours are meshing. I like that gesture, but I don't want to say that I liked it. So today's episode is not about sleep necessarily, it's actually about the lack thereof, but a specific way. We're gonna talk about all-nighters, right? The experiences that have called for them and when they have been necessary in

your life and what for. Because last night, well actually yesterday, have we done this episode? You guys are looking at me like I might have done. We might have done this. I don't think so. We've talked about sleep and stuff in a couple of ways, but I don't think we've done this specific thing. I was just honestly thinking of what I was going to talk about already. All right, cool. Well, I'll tell a story first while you guys think of that because the past few weeks,

I have been missing in the past. I've done campaigns like, you know, Mark Blyre's Unreal when I've gone away. This one was so short notice and so rapid, I just had to dive into 100% or else I wouldn't have the chance again. And so, I've been prepping the movie for a while and I was prepping at this time to submit a version of it somewhere. I won't say where, but prepping, packaging. So, I was doing a lot of that myself. and long story short, it culminated to yesterday.

God, this was just yesterday. So, I had only slept like an hour the night before and then four hours the night before that. So, the night that I stayed up until like 8am, it got to 8am and I was like okay, I'll just try to get like an hour of sleep but I better wake up. So, I set like five alarms on my phone and then I set the oven timer because I didn't trust my phone anymore because you can't trust the alarms on it. And let me tell you, that oven alarm worked because I just, I woke up with like, the house is on fire. Oh God. Like I thought it was a fire alarm

going off. But last night was even crazier because I had got it done, but where I am is kind of bad internet. So it wasn't able to upload very fast. But I had planned ahead and I was like, okay, I'll just, you know, I'll let it go and I'll start this. Then I realized I uploaded the wrong version of it. Completely wrong, very broken version. Just complete not what I wanted to show. So I stopped that and then I looked at the clock

and thankfully the deadline was not midnight where I was but midnight one time zone away from where I was. So, there I am at just past midnight here. I am calling around and there's someone here that was on the crew of the show that Ana had connected with, Aima has like fast internet, fiber internet. Aima lives 40 minutes away. Holy Christ. I do the math and it's like, okay, it is just past midnight. I have less than an hour before the deadline closes. I literally ripped my all the cables out of my laptop. That's why setting up took a little bit for today because I all the cables out of my laptop. That's why setting up took a little bit for today

because I had ripped everything out of my laptop and I was like, I have to go immediately now. And I threw everything in my backpack. I made sure I had the right file. I double made sure. And then I went on the road and I literally do because I don't speed ever. So I drove like three over

but then I was like, I'm pushing it. Whoa! This is the most important deadline of my life. 66 in a 65. Like, I used to, that is what I was doing. That's good, you're a good boy, man. You should never speed. I don't know what it is, I can't speed no matter what.

Like, if I am in a hurry, it's just like I'm gripping the steering wheel tighter while I have cruise control locked to 68. It's like, damn. Old ladies are honking, going around, giving you the bird. You're like, I'm in a hurry. Yeah, but it's, I don't know. It's just the way it is. But I get there and there's 20 minutes left.

And so the upload takes no time at all. Cause it's like five or an hour. Okay, it's uploaded. But then to submit it is a different process. And I didn't realize you had to write a synopsis, fill out the cat, the like the main crew, fill out the director, writer and the main actor. You have to fill those out. And I put me, me, me.

Just like this seems weird. So I wrote like I wrote like a little synopsis. And it was it was it was 1159 1159 when I hit submit and it went through It just it was like squeaked by just at the last second I was I was so so happy and I was so grateful That there was the internet there and I had pulled so many what I was still consider all-nighters Even if you take like a nap,

I worked through the night just to plow as much I can, get an hour of sleep there, four hours a night before. And it was worth it. It was very much worth it. And it's one of those things where it's like, yeah, it sucks to go through it, but I think there's like this response for the human brain where it's like, if you have a need,

all other needs do go away. You can't pretend yourself into that mode, but once you're in that mode, it's like, shit, I gotta get done. Whether it's like adrenaline or just like this kind of urgency. Yeah, I would love to hear about you guys' all-nighters or any kind of like time-based, deadline-based things that needed all of your willpower, whether it worked out or not. Do they have to be successfully productive all nighter? No, no, no. They could be a total failure.

It could be no good reason at all. Like, I've got a, I told about the other all-nighter that I played Sonic Adventures 2, and my brother and his friend didn't believe me that I stayed up all night, so it's like, it could be nothing. The only time I've done all-nighters where I had a thing I needed to turn in was law school. I can summarize how I probably did four or five of these, whereas like the next day a thing was due at the beginning of class or whatever.

All of them went the same way and all of them were something like, okay, it's 9.30 PM the night before it's due. I've started on it, but it's nowhere near done. If I pull an all-nighter, I've got 13 and a half hours before I need to be in that classroom handing in this or sending the email so that it's timestamped before the cutoff time. Got 13 and a half hours. I probably got a little time for some video games.

And proceed to play approximately eight to 10 hours of video games. And then it gets to like six in the morning and I'm like, okay, gotta stop screwing around guys. Need to focus. You know what I really need right now? I'm going to run to McDonald's and get some breakfast real quick. I can't focus. I thought you were going to say, I can't focus till we get a dub guys. Let's really lock in. No, I'm done with the

video games, but it's way too early and I just pulled it all nighter. I deserve some breakfast. I'm just going to go to McDonald's and pick up a quick snack and a little caffeine. If you get home, sit down, McDonald's bag on the desk. Okay. Just a couple hours left. I can't work and eat at the same time. I'll just watch like one episode of something while I eat this McDonald's. And then I work on my project for 45 minutes, shit out the crappiest brief I've ever written in my life,

turn it in, boom, B minus, nailed it. 45 minutes, that's still a lot more time for video games. Yeah, man, you got 15 minutes left. Yeah, no, as I'm sitting there like, all right, well, it takes 18 minutes to get to school from walking out the front door, and I have like 36 minutes. I don't even have to leave for like an entire round of PUBG or whatever.

No, I'm not, I was not a good student at all. I don't know how I got away with, what's funny is one of those all-nighters was for a thing in my contracts, one of my contracts courses that I took. In that class I got a book award, which is an award they give out every semester to the people who get the highest grade in the class. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I don't know what kind of special brain powers I have, but they make me horrendously irresponsible. And somehow I still get by with like I mostly get bees in school You're regardless of how terrible of a student I am no idea how that worked couldn't tell you don't be like me kids do your homework get get some sleep I I think that more people are probably like that Then would ever admit it all these success gurus and whatnot that say like I just gotta go get up at 4 a.m And go to work out no excuses. Da da oh, it's gotta get up at 4am and go to workout.

No excuses, da da da. And it's like, sure they do that maybe, but it's like they don't fill every single day with nothing but work. Even me, like here in the past three weeks, some of these days I just like, I would go in there and I would move lights. I moved lights for eight hours straight. Because I was like, ah, let's tweak it. Ah, let's tweak it. Ah, let me tweak it. Ah, I think it was better before.

Let me go back. Well, that's not what it was before. And I was just like, it's like doing nothing. Spinning your wheels is like such a, oh, god. You hear that SpongeBob meme where he sits down to write. He's like. It's just a huge ornate T. He's like... Shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh but I was like, no, let me try some else. Let me try that again. Let me move one frame here. Let me use smooth cut.

No, cross it off. Let me cut out that shape, put it on, and I, hours, hours on the stupid thing that no one's gonna ever care about. God, I'd like to brag that I'm a good editor and I think I am, but sometimes I'm just my own worst enemy in editing. Nice segue because editing is one of the things I've stayed up. I've got a few different... I'm not set up all night that often. Usually whenever I get together with friends and be like, dude let's pull it on out. We're gonna play

video games, watch stuff and then like by 3 a.m. everyone but me is passed out and I'm like, fucking wasn't even my idea to do this shit. Why am I the only one awake? So then I'd cave in but before a PAX one year I was recording... Oh god what was the name of the game? I always was the name of the game? I always forget the name of the game. It was a horror game, popular, Craven Manor. It was Craven Manor. Settlers of Catan.

Settlers of Catan. Craven Manor. Oh, okay. I think I've told this story, but like, we had to leave for a flight, I think, at 6.15 in the morning. We had to leave at 6.15 to get to the airport. And I finished recording, oh God,

it had to be like 5.30 a.m. and I was like, okay, edit, process, thumbnail, I've got 45 minutes, shit, I haven't packed, I can pack while it's rendering and we were out the door at 6 17 but let me tell you that recording session, every death I was like, dude, if I die one more time, we're not going to make our flight, it was high pressure, high stakes recording of like, I gotta finish, I know I'm close to the end of the game, I can't die again. And worst thumbnail, probably worst editing job

I've ever done where it was like, cut this out. Intro, outro, good. There's probably nothing I need to do in the middle. Render that shit. It's just. I doubt I said a slur in there. It's probably fine. Yeah, I don't think so. Not today How long are my videos usually 48 minutes? That's probably right No, I think that was still back in my like try to cap at 15 days

I don't remember it's it's been a while but did I ever get into the airport like the adrenaline of like getting that done and it was like I was wide awake and Like halfway through the drive to the airport my body is like kill me like what oh god mom I'm tired hit me really hard about halfway there then like you know we had to fly there I don't remember if it was Boston or Seattle but like one of those two maybe I mean I guess there was one in San Antonio back in the day too so I remember like falling asleep on the plane for like you know half an hour or whatever and then we got there and like friends went to meet up for lunch and then dinner and it was

like yeah we could do whatever like, friends want to meet up for lunch and then dinner. And it was like, yeah, we can do whatever y'all want to do today. Meanwhile, I'm just like looking at our hotel, like a tear running down my face, like, no, it's great to see you guys. And it's, it's crazy. Cause when I woke up from that nap, uh, like the hour that I got sleep, I, it was death. Like I woke up and I was like, there's no way I can do anything. But I was clawing myself out of my couch bed, just because it's a bowl, right? So, I put

two couches together. So, I have to crawl out of there. I'm like, oh, and I fall in there. I don't know why I'm picturing like a lattice like Dutch or like an apple pie where you're clawing out of the crust of your bed. The bunk couch? Are you talking about the bunk couch? No, so it's like, I thought like, I was just like, there's no way I need more sleep, I can't do this. Oh no, I'm not gonna hit it. And then I had coffee delivered, so I like,

so I had, this is the first time I've ever felt coffee instantly help because I woke up starting from my mouth. I swear to God, I don't know how to explain it. As soon as, like I felt my cheeks start tingling in there and I was like, my body must just be absorbing it from my cheeks or mouth or something. And then I just sort of and then I was like, I can do this. I've never had that effect with caffeine before in my life.

Like I drink caffeine every day, but it's just like that. It was it was a rescue then because there was no way there was no way, man. And then I was fine the whole day, I was shocked. You know, another time I tried all-nighters was actually when we lived together, Mark. Oh yeah? My freshman year of college, I went to college for music education and I played tuba. And for anyone who doesn't know, the way that works is my major was education so I all my music a lot of my classes were like pedagogical classes like here's how you they teach you how to sing so that you can teach you know

beginning singers how to and all this sort of stuff but also you have to still be in the studio that all the performance majors are in and you have to still be reasonably good at your instrument you don't just get to be a useless piece of shit on your instrument and become a teacher of music. And so I was in the studio and I was, class was fine and school was fine, but I was struggling with the performance part because I'd never really played as a tuba player. I'd never really done a lot of solo stuff. I was always just in the band or in the back of the jazz band or whatever. And I had no like virtuosity. I, if you recall Mark, because we were in the dorm together, my freshman year of college,

I also played a lot of Modern Warfare. Call of Duty 4 was relatively fresh. You brought a TV, I brought an Xbox 360, and I played so much Call of Duty. I literally, Mark was asleep three and a half feet away from me on our very safe bunk bed and I'm sitting in the middle of our dorm room clacking away on Cod 4 for just hours every night. And eventually, like, I wasn't getting better at tuba enough and I was like, you know what, I stay up like so late just playing video games and stuff. What if instead I practiced my instrument?

And so instead of playing Call of Duty, there was a stretch where I would just go over to the practice rooms and Get get set up and some people did that but not a lot practice rooms are during the day are like bustling busy Like you have to wait for a room. You have to really fight and not in the middle of the night No, no one was that insane except for like I was hoping you were doing this in the dorm room You're like, well Mark doesn't wake up to Call of Duty for like a, I was hoping you were doing this in the dorm room. You're like, well, Mark doesn't wake up to call a dude. No, dude. So Mark was the only person on the first four floors of our entire dorm that was

like not a music major basically, cause we were in the CCM dorm. They did not tolerate that shit. And no one except for singers because singers are singers and they just do it whenever the fuck they please. No instrumentalists would like get their instrument out in the dorms because you would immediately just get in trouble because it was obnoxious But the practice rooms are open 24 hours a day All you do is scan your school ID and go in there and practice fine I did not get any better at tuba from playing tuba

There are some things because it's like you're saying right like you reach that point at the all-nighter where you're just like Gotta keep going. It turns out that's not a good way to get better at a performing art. Like you can force yourself to do things, but you're not in a good mental space to be like, oh, the tone of that note was a little bright. I should really do some long tones and work on keeping my tongue down and my throat open and really try and round out like in the middle of the night. I was just like, push the buttons, blow the thing. You know what doesn't make good music playing like a half a sleep robot person all through the night. Yeah. So that was an experiment in, well, if I'm not going to sleep

anyway, what if it doesn't work? I should have just kept playing Call of Duty because then at least I would have had fun and maybe practice during the day. I mean, not that I didn't practice during the day. Honestly, I just lack some fundamental aspects of what makes a really good classical musician. I was a very, very good funk and jazz musician because I have really strong rhythm and that was my favorite thing anyway. I didn't want to play in an orchestra. Get out of here, stinky orchestra. I think that subconscious thought process there affects everything that we do.

It really is. Even if your foremind is just like, I want to do this. I got to do the thing. If your hind mind isn't in rhythm with what you're thinking, it's not going to work. And I think that's where all nightersers are great when there is that urgency because for me is like sometimes, you know, my hindbrain in there is like, ah, I can fiddle, I could, I could, I gotta prep for the next thing.

So I just like, it's so hot in there, so I'm like, I'll plan how to stay cool when I do this thing. So I spent a whole day like getting ice chests and coolers and shit like that. But when it's all together, it's amazing. And when those moments happen are just like really, really special. You know when they don't happen? Whenever you think you've got the most brilliant plan

in the world and everything is wrong with it. We went to the vet years ago. I think it was like 2018. I think it was the year we got our dogs. What plan do you have at the vet? Oh, trust me, there's a plan. I know how to cure animals. We're like, okay, we gotta drive to Minnesota

and Presley gets car sick. So what if we tell them this and they give us like some doggy melatonin or something, help him just relax, sleep on the drive. They're like, yes, here. We're like, great, don't pay attention. We take the meds, we're like, awesome, this is gonna be great.

And then I'm like, what if, Molly, listen, what if on top of this, we drive at night? Because I'm like a night person, like 11 o'clock, I'm like, what if Molly listen, what if on top of this will be drive at night? Cuz I'm like a night person like 11 o'clock. I'm like, whoa, I'm awake So we drive at night when the dogs are tired anyway, and they sleep and you and I we could stay awake till like Four or five a.m. Easy. I can stay awake till 7 a.m. Easy. So we drive to Minnesota. We leave it like 10 p.m We get there, you know 10 a.m It's about 12 hour drive and the last three or four hours be a little tough but like we'll make it, whatever. So we give the dogs their medicine

and we leave Cincinnati, we get to Indianapolis in the back seat in the crate we hear, I'm not gonna mimic it for the sake of the audience but we hear that sound of a dog getting ready to hurl and I'm like, oh God, well first part of the plan, failure. I thought that, why isn't he asleep? Does it mean you never wake up to anything ever God, I hope not

Well, it turns out they didn't give us doggy sleep medicine. They gave us doggy anxiety medicine like all your dogs are just very anxious He was a problem is their anxiety like no he gets car sick. That's cuz they're anxiety. No, please just help him sleep relax He's very very anxiety. So we're like, why the hell did you give us anxiety meds? We thought it would help. He's very anxiety. You might wanna examine which vet you're taking your dogs to. Yeah, well we did actually. But we get to Indianapolis,

which is an hour and a half from Cincinnati, which is not 12 hours away. So I'm thinking to myself, I'm doing the math, I'm like, okay, now the dogs are in a crate swirling in their own puke. We have 11 and a half, we have 10 and a half hours left of this drive. We gotta try to like clean out the crate.

So we pull over, start trying to clean out the crate, puts a delay, get back on the road. We brought some extra towels just in case, hit the road. We get like an hour further in and Molly and I are like, oh God, I'm tired. I forgot driving puts me to sleep. That's like the one thing that actually makes me tired. Oh, there's a horrible mistake We can't go back now

We gotta keep going we're almost two and a half hours away from home We couldn't possibly turn back so like every I swear every hour and a half the dogs almost on cue would get sick We'd have to stop and clean out the crate we drive Molly and I are switching every hour and a half because we just cannot stay awake. We're like, we're so tired. It takes us an extra like two or three hours to get there. And by the time it's like 1 p.m. and we're pulling in,

we pull in, I think we stay with her like her sister. I remember us like getting out of the car and we're just like, okay, we got to clean the dogs to go to bed. They're like, hi, how are you guys? We're like, we got to clean out dogs to the go to bed. They're like hi. How are you guys? We're like we gotta clean out as a crate and go to bed She looked at me and I thought she was actually going to kill me and she's like we are never doing a night drive like That ever again. I don't care if someone died. We're not doing it and I was like you're right, honey

Dude, we I don't know if I've ever been more miserable than like the last six hours of that drive Just knowing there was more dog vomit dogs are miserable. We're miserable and I'm like, I'm a night person I swear! As I'm like trying not to nod at the wheel. It was a really terrible all night idea. You know, the answer was right in front of you all along. The vet gave you anxiety meds. It just sounds like you were stressed. We should have taken them. We should have, yeah. How many dog anxiety meds are people good for there?

You're at least four dogs of a person. Yeah, probably four. The dogs were like 10 pounds. I was about 220, so I just take 22 times the amount that the dogs take. It slugged down the whole thing. Probably fine. Sorry, Molly, no anxiety for you. How bad could it be to be even less anxious? What could go wrong? And I'm sure dog meds are the same as people meds, just a lower dose. You know, we could solve this problem. You know Airbnb, right? What if we built a bigger

Airbnb building with like multiple rooms in it, right? Not what I thought you were going for. What did you say it goes for? I don't know why but in my head I was like Ah he's gonna make like an Irish accent joke and be like what if it's Caribbean B? I don't know why I just really disappointed that's not what happened. Why? What does it even mean?

Cause it's like Car-Bn-B but it rhymes with Airbnb. Car-Car-Caribbean B. Yeah Mark what did you think about that why did you think of that the most obvious answer you're right I'm so stupid fine say your stupid thing you were gonna say or whatever only hotels existed oh I see yeah you gotta find what it takes dogs it's the middle of the night what do you want to do look do? Look at our phones. There's tons. I've driven all over. There's tons of hotels that take dogs. Oh god, we didn't have time for that. We were almost there. I can't, I can't actually contest to that. A test contest? No, a test to that as well. I drove cross country

with Lexi and I didn't have reservations. And I just, whenever it got to be time to stop, I sort of Googled and was like, yeah, hotels all except pets let's do this we're already like a third of the way there might as well just finish it we're already like halfway there might as well just finish it only ten more hours of driving what could go wrong no we had it they got sick once they're not gonna get sick again they got another system they're fine dude late-night driving is such a trap I was always a late-night person and speaking more about college, where I went to school was about two hours away from my parents house and so like, and I had a car at school for

several of the years I was in college. So I would drive myself home to like visit them for holidays or on the weekends. But it was always that thing where it was like, well, if I just, if I just go later, it'll be like after rush out, right? And if I just go even later, there'll be no one on the roads. There won't be a soul out there. I can just make the drive, no traffic, no delays, it'll be perfect.

And somehow I always ended up driving that relatively short two hour drive. Like I would leave at one in the morning and get to my parents' house at like three-ish. And there were definitely some times where I overestimated how good I was at driving in the middle of the night and like halfway there I would be like, oh man. And there was one time where I actually was like, I felt like I might fall asleep on the

road and I straight up just pulled over into like a truck stop and slept in my car for an hour because I was like this is probably not safe and I just is not in a modern you know like a fancy 2024 car where that has like auto stopping or I had an old piece of crap that only worked most of the time at best and would not do anything to save my ass if I fell asleep while driving it. It's awful. Driving overnight is always sounds like a good idea to me too. It's always a bad idea. It was even worse with two of us. Well, it was good that we had two of us to switch off,

but like whenever it's just you, you can like roll down the window, crank the air, turn the volume up. With two of us, with one of us like needing to sleep, it was like, well, I can't turn the radio on, Mala needs to sleep. I can't hum. I can't do anything to stay awake.

I'm just gonna stay awake, cause oh God, willpower. No. There's nothing quite like the feeling of being so afraid You're gonna fall asleep while cruising down the highway that you roll down all the windows Crank the music up as loud as you can and you're singing Bohemian Rhapsody at full blast While you still feel like you'd rather just die in the ditch as you fall asleep on the side of the road looking like a zombie just like die in the ditch as you fall asleep on the side of the road. looking like a zombie just like, is this a real one? there's one particular stretch of road coming from cincinnati to la that goes like through

colorado going into nevada i believe or wherever it is. there's junction city is the other end of it. and there's a mountain pass in there. have you ever been on that road? i don't think i i only did that drive once i don't think that's the way I went. I went through Salt Lake City. I think I was further south than that maybe. It's kind of a road that's like closed during the winter or you can't go through it if you don't have chains, right? So, that's one of the stressful things. If they say you need chains,

you need chains. Like there's chain up areas going up and down. That drive is stressful during the day because these mountains, the way they are is they look like they're over your car. They're so tall and they're so vertical and they just look like this and you're like, huh, that looks like any rock could fall at any moment. And I swear to God when I was driving, when we were driving, I was in the passenger seat, I looked up like, man, man, I wonder how often they fall. I saw one like, just right there. Ah! And it's like this winding, like, two-lane highway with, like, a guardrail and a divider, and it's just, like, these winding turns, and people are taking them, like, 55, and

I don't speed, but everyone else is, and it's stressful during the day. We've driven that at night. That shit, that shit's fucking terrifying because like there's a like there if there is any light from the moon or something like that like you can just see the outlines of these like jagged mountains is like look like mouth is opening up around you and then all of a sudden the moon is gone because a mountain just it's terrifying at night. Dude I hate that so much. I having lived in North Carolina and had a family in Ohio, we drove that drive quite a bit for, because we lived down there for like six or seven

years. And in like West Virginia and Virginia, you drive through the mountains and there are a bunch of stretches of that drive where there's just, you're cutting, it's not like the one you're describing, but you are cutting through mountains and there's stretches where clearly there have been rock slides or whatever and rocks come down and land and the signs that like every stretch where that happens is a sign that's like caution falling rocks and every time I see one of those signs it makes me so fucking mad because it's like just do I don't know maybe other people work differently what does that help me with what does that prepare me for like if I'm cruising down the highway at 70 and if and I see the sign and sign and then half hour later a rock comes falling down, I'm like,

oh, this is what they prepared me for. No matter what sign you put, if there's a rock falling into the highway, my reaction is, oh, fuck! Oh my God! And so the sign just like reminds you to be anxious the whole time. Doesn't it doesn't do anything to help. And my my even less favorite sign is there are some stretches where it's like caution falling rocks rock mitigation techniques in effect or something like that where it's like we put up some nets. Clearly that doesn't work either. Fuck you guys. Like you put up some nylon ripstop nets for a three ton boulder

that's going to come crashing down the side of this mountain. Mach 30 into the side of my car. That's hilarious because like in L.A., there's this one highway that goes right around this mountain. It's very tight. I think it's the five to the 101 very Californians. But it has this mountain that has falling rocks on it and there was a fence there there was One day we get like here on the news like this this highway off ramp is closed because there's a rock in it And the picture is just like the rock plowed through this fence like just it wasn't even there

It's a I hope I'm remembering that right because there must be a picture out there of this where it's just like And it's like this lane is just closed and I I think about that because I'm like, yeah, you're right If I look up what am I gonna watch out for it? I'm just gonna see it coming That's when you bring your butterfly net so you can catch them all right What they should do is treat mountains like roller coaster hills and just have you go straight up. But it's like, well, if the car can't go that, it's like, well, you build a little track that hooks to your car, pulls you up, and you go, wow!

Straight down. No, you do it like those ski lifts where you don't, it's not a ride on lift, but you roll your window down and there's a little rope with bars hanging off of it and you sort of pull up next to it and you grab the bar and then you hold on and it pulls you up the mountain. With your car. Yeah, you just like, your car helps, but then the, you know, you just hold on and like pulls your whatever. That makes sense.

But your car in neutral just grab a rope and hold on. Oh, you know what? If we're talking about drives, I don't know if I've complained about this on the show before since we're talking about drives, I don't know if I've complained about this on the show before, since we're talking about it. Another hilarious feature of the drive between North Carolina and Ohio is there's a stretch, I don't know what happened, but there's a stretch in West Virginia where the road is like, it's through mountains still, but it's in like a, like the ground is on, I don't know how to say it. The ground moves a lot. I don't know if it's like sandy or if there's like earthquake activity or what,

but like, and that fucks with roads, right? Even if it's like sandy or if there's like earthquake activity or what, but like, and that fucks with roads, right? Even if it's only a slight shift, if the ground isn't like really stable, roads will, you know, get all wonky and crack and whatever. And there's a stretch where there are multiple points where there are big signs that are like, look out, there's a dip. There's a big dip in the road. And like three out of four of the signs, you see the sign and you're like, oh,

and then right after the sign, you're kind of like, but gunk and you're like, whoa, that was a big dip. But there's one where I swear to fucking God, there's no dip and it's just a prank. Like you see it's a huge sign. It's like, what caution dip in the road. And you're like, yeah, was that it? There's the dip in the room?

It's gonna chase us down, I don't know. It's like a prank, I swear to God, it's like a prank. The highway department of transportation or whatever, bolt gives us, there's nothing. But then you spend the next like five, 10 minutes, you're like, dip? I get like that with railroad crossings. There are some railroad crossings that you hit

and it's just like, oh, I barely felt the thing. And there's other ones that you hit And like even if you're going slow, you're like No matter what you do you can go flying over some it's like smooth as butter and other railroads It's like they made that as fucking janky shit to make sure that you get your ass rocked No matter how slow you hit it God that actually you just reminded me of a moment I had last night that I'd forgotten about involving something like that. I'm driving along and I hear what I think is an avalanche, right?

There's no mountains near me. It's those Texas avalanches. I know, right? But it sounds like an earthquake or something. Something is rumbling and it's getting louder and I'm just driving. It's not even a highway, it's like a side road and something is getting louder and louder and closer and I'm so tired. Like, right? But I like, I know I can get home but I'm just like, what the fuck is happening? Is this it? Is this dying? Is this death? And

it sounds like it's coming from behind me and then I'm like, okay, is it like a big vehicle? But I'm on the rightmost lane. And I'm like, there's no one passing me on the right. I look over and there's a train, literally like speed, like perfectly matching my speed. And it's just like, it was the most cinematic thing I've ever seen in my life. I just look over and it's this train

that looks like it's frozen in the air because it's just going the same speed I am. It looks so static. My brain took a few seconds to jar it out of like, oh, we're both going forward. And that was it. But I thought I was dying. I thought, yeah, that'd be wild.

I've never experienced that with a train. Yeah, I thought there was like a volcano erupting and this was it, you know? Texas is finally being sucked into hell. But it was so great because like, it just reminded me how beautiful, like in those mountains where I was driving, one of the prettiest things we ever, we had a similar experience where this train was going the exact same speed

and we were rounding a corner and this train popped out of a tunnel at the exact same time. It was beautiful. Trains, I get why people get obsessed with trains because they are just like magnificent machines. I love big machines. They're so cool. And trains are just like, I get it. I totally understand the obsession some people can have with them because that like mechanical whales they burst up through the dirt. Yeah Kind of kind of the lights on the front especially at night because lights are just like a big beaming light and and it looks so Different from anything else you've ever seen and it's moving. It's just us is cool and then I died

seen and it's moving. It's just, oh this is cool. And then I died. Now, have you guys ever done... So, railroad crossings change, right? They sort of get worse over time, generally speaking. They get more bumpy because stuff, the pavement breaks down or whatever. Have you ever had this thing where like, you know this railroad crossing is like a smooth one in your head? You're like, ah, I don't have to slow down for this. This is a good one. But also, it's possibly been a little while since you've gone over it. There's one near where we live now where I don't know why I didn't put this together, but we finally moved back to Ohio, right? And we live in Cincinnati. And I know this area I've spent a lot of time in a decade ago-ish. And so there's this one where I know this railroad crossing really well. You cross it all the time. You go up and down the street very frequently.

It took me a long, like an embarrassing long, long time to relearn that it's a fucking nightmare now. It used to be one where you could just cruise over it. It was perfectly smooth. And the first time I was driving somewhere and I was going in my head, I was like, ah, yeah, this one's chill. We go and it's you, that thing where you go over it and it's just like, for a second, you're like, holy fuck, did I break the whole car?

What the hell? And it took me like several terrifying explosion bump festivals before I remembered like, oh, yeah, it's been a decade. That's not as smooth like it used to be when I was a child the year before. You ever do that? No. I mean, I've hit them like that. Yeah. Because you see like the car in front of you is like a Hummer or something.

It's like an all-terrain vehicle and it like just cruises over full speed. You're like, dude, Civic can do what a Hummer does. And then it does not. How many Hummers have you driven? I also watched a person that was like, ah, the warning things are going off. Well, it's like a yellow light. That means you go faster. And they didn't get stuck on the track, but they did get hit by the thing that comes down.

And unlike in GTA, that does not just snap. It was like on their car. And she like, I think it was a lady driver, she could not get out of, she was just stuck there. Like part of her car car just hit with that thing until the train passed and then it lifted up. You could tell it damaged her car pretty good. Oh my God.

Yeah, those things don't really mess around. They seem like they're not a big deal in movies and stuff because they just blow out of the way and they will stop you from going. I've seen more than one video of people trying to get out of a secure parking area and there's barriers at the end. It's like, I'll drive faster. They just crash faster. They just... They cave more of their car in half. Like those things are very strong. Turns out they're not made of cardboard like they are in GTA.

I try to think of their all-nighter type stuff. I mean, obviously with the baby, I've done some involuntary all-nighters, but that's a whole different thing and It's okay if you're delirious as long as you're doing the correct things for the baby. So this is fine I only had one other all-nighter thing I remembered and I think I've told the story before where we stayed up all night playing Diablo my friend that I had to make caught a raccoon in a net after cutting down most of my mom's tree in her front yard What the fuck is that why that completely unhinged behavior happened because you literally didn't sleep and then you were like delirious and decided that was a good idea I don't know. I we just like we were super into it We were like close to beating nightmare difficulty or something on the original Diablo. Oh with the game I thought you were super into getting the raccoon. I was like, why are you so excited?

Super into this raccoon. No, no, no, we were we were super into playing Diablo. We were like dude We're gonna finish it and we didn't know what we were doing It's like we didn't do stats or right. So our builds were all like absolutely fucking terrible We were like, oh, yeah, we're gonna get there took a lot longer than we thought but we beat it and then it was like 7 a.m. And I don't I don't remember how we even saw it But like we looked out there was just a raccoon in the front yard My friend was like we could catch that and I was like Yes, of course it all makes sense Destiny has called our name it is time and the raccoon ran up a fucking tree

We were like well little does it know that's where its grave will be because it can't go anywhere from there Get the ladder get the tree trimmer get the, get the dog crate, we've got this. I'm shocked you have all these supplies. Like this is a very specific kit. Why did your mom keep a raccoon catching kit in the garage? That's her mistake, really. Well, it was a fishing net, and it turns out eventually the raccoon could have squeezed

through the holes in that, so we had to be quick. I had to be quick, because my friend had to leave for church, apparently it was a Saturday night, because my friend had to leave for church at the- Well Saturday night my friend had to leave for church at the- Well you're not gonna leave that job undone At the apex of our four hours of work he was gonna leave and I was like you piece of shit I'll finish it myself, and I did I'm gonna catch this squirrel without you and I'm gonna keep the whole squirrel You're not gonna get your share or nothing

You said finish it. Did you- did you eat the raccoon? Did you- No, we kept it for like six hours than released it? Oh, okay. All right. I was like you kept it I'm like where but then the dog crate for like six hours and the thing was not happy That was the most miserable raccoon and my mom's tree, dude It was a big tree dumb kids were like trees will regrow their limbs. We can cut them all off We fucked that tree hard, man Why did you want this raccoon so bad?

Because we were stupid in teenage boys and we just wanted to prove we could do it having been a teenage boy This is still a story where part of me is kind of like, I don't know man. This was mild for my friend group This was a mild decision We did some questionable stuff, but i don't know about that man this one was a mild decision that had very little consequence except for the poor fucking tree and the terrorized raccoon did you at least feed it we tried wasn't into it no it just wanted to sit in the corner and hiss and spit and be very angry at us that doesn't make sense you should be grateful we saved it from that tree by cutting down the limb it was standing on. How high up was this limb? 10, 12 feet. We were on a ladder to cut it down and then whenever

the tree limb fell and I was like, oh shit it can run now and I went running after it with the net and I literally dove on the ground with the net to catch it. This story never, never isn't funny. I just can't. I don't remember the story at all when did you sail this it's very Beverly fucking hillbilly stupid shit he definitely told this before cuz I remember it but yeah that was the no sleep then my mom comes out at like I don't know 9 in the morning and like steps out like she had like a little bit like a little fake balcony front porch things like you go out and stand there but there was no room to actually do anything so it was

just kind of cosmetic. I remember her stepping out there with like a cup of coffee and a cigarette. And she's like, the fuck are you doing? And we're like, catch a raccoon mom. And she was like, she mumbled something under her breath. Probably like it's too early for this shit or like what the, you know, who knows,

but didn't see her again until we caught it. And then she's, she just looked at the tree. Did the raccoon go immediately into the tree? So for four straight hours, you guys were just slowly dismantling this tree while the raccoon go immediately into the tree? So for four straight hours, you guys were just slowly dismantling this tree while the raccoon watched you? Yes. Man, that is some, that's some fucked up torture right there. Yeah. I mean, yeah, from the raccoons perspective, this is the most terrifying several hours of its existence. That is, that is horrifying. And meanwhile, we're like, oh, we're going to get you, you little shit.

I have one, it's not a very interesting story. Did you guys ever do like Christmas all-nighters? There was a point in life and I had a friend who lived across the street. We were really into like scheming around Christmas for no real reason because we didn't really do anything. But one year, I think I had gotten some of those walkie talkies, like the short range walkie talkies from our bedrooms across the street from each other. We could talk to each other and we sort of like pulled an all-nighter, like staying up, talking back and forth about what sounds

we heard going on in the house and listening to like the Santa tracker on the radio type thing and like... Oh, Santa tracker. I was like, sanity tracker? Wow. Santa tracker on the radio type thing and like... Oh, Santa tracker. I was like, sanity tracker? Wow. Santa tracker, yeah. I need to take my sanity pills. It was just in retrospect a really weird decision, but we were just like screwing around and

didn't want to sleep because we were excited about Christmas and presents and stuff. He's technically an all-nighter. I think he fell asleep at some point. He was a bitch. All of our friends were bitches, man They were all they were always ones like all-nighter tonight boys get soda get chocolate chips get the Doritos We're doing it the chocolate what then like 2 a.m They're like and i'm wide awake fucking wired the chocolate chips. Yeah, we ate just chocolate chips for some reason I get it. I understand were they semi-sweet or were they milk chocolate chocolate chips though?

They were bitter pure cocoa. They were like the yellow Nestle bag that you used for making cookies Yeah, there are lots of varieties of that. I was 12 man. I don't remember. All right Well, if they were semi-sweet, then you're all insane and that's a terrible thing. But yes, I'll let it pass I'll let it pass They were always out by like one or two in the morning and I was like I'll let it pass, I'll let it pass. They were always out by like one or two in the morning and then I was like, I'll do it myself you fucks. And then like 6am would hit, I'm like, I'm going down. I'd be out.

I'm trying to remember what my first all-nighter was. I think I remember it and I don't think I've told you guys about this one. So my dad, after my parents got divorced, was dating around and at the time thinking about it, I didn't realize what was even happening at the time. So, he would go, so one time we were over at someone's place and we were gonna be there. I didn't know at the time, but we were gonna be there overnight because my dad didn't run, but he had us, couldn't afford a babysitter. So, we were along with, I guess, that whoever this person's house was, I don't even remember,

some lady and she had a computer and she had Starcraft on it and it like just came out. And I think I'm almost positive that I just stayed up all night playing that because I remember playing it and I can hear the music like of the game of the ambient music of Starcraft going on. And I remember playing it at night and then the next thing I know, there's light coming out of like the windows and I look over and I'm like, what? What the hell? And then people come down the stairs and my dad comes out and then I... No memory of anything after that. I think it was so tired but I didn't even realize that I was tired. I think that's the first all-nighter I ever pulled and it was completely incidental.

The first time I ever played StarCraft, holy shit. Oh man, I didn't have a computer that could play it until around the time Brood War came out and I remember when I got to go and pick up a copy of Brood War that came with the original disc so you could install StarCraft and then holy crap, that game hit so hard back then. I had that experience with Red Alert 2, when the Queen of Conquer Red Alert 2 came out. Man, that was a good one too. For me, like with StarCraft,

the thing that mesmerized me about it, wasn't just like the music and the ambience was cool and the graphics were cool and whatnot. It was the way the Zerg creep worked, this is the ground for the Zerg. I was obsessed with it. I couldn't understand like anything. I was like looking at it all the time,

I'm like, ah, it's so weird. What you have to build on that? It's so strange. And I was like fascinated by it. Good times. Anyway, any more all-nighters? No, but you're right. My dad was dating and I didn't stay up all night playing video games, but the girl he was dating had like two sons that were like, I don't know, five or six years older than me. Maybe even older, maybe like 10 years older than me. And I had a pet mouse at the time and they took me to a store and they bought me two new like mouse cages that you could connect and build like a big mouse mansion. That's nice. And I was thinking like I was so fucking cool because I had like the three mouse cages. I mean that is fun. Until you have to clean them, turns out. That sucks.

That's how pets are. That's a lot of poop in the little tunnels you got to clean them turns out that sucks. It's how pets are That's a lot of that's a lot of poop in the little tunnels You got to clean out but still that was very nice of them Yeah, it was I have no idea why they did it unless they were like let's appease this little shit So he'll leave us alone. I thought you were gonna say that they leave the children Yeah, I thought it was gonna be a way worse story They had no reason like, you know, their mom's dating some guy who's bringing his like fucking kids and it's like they were just really cool they play like i bought my playstation up one time and they like played video games with me they bought me those like they were really nice oh that's so nice that's so sweet but i'll give you some nice older not bros but you know but tench could have been yeah my dad had

just stuck around instead of dying that son of a bitch he took my brothers away. Discovering games at other people's houses is such a, it's like such a strong childhood memory for me. There one time specifically I was at, it was family actually. It was like my cousin's house. They had a PS2 and I think they had the original Max Payne PS2 game and I had never played it. And I just remember like we showed up and it was one of those things where it was like a family party, lots of family together.

And we're usually, you know, I go make, I'm supposed to make the rounds and say hi to everyone. I remember that time we showed up, I hung out a little bit. And then at one point my cousin was like, hey, check this out and turned on the Max Payne on the PS2. And all I remember is sitting in the front room of that house playing that game forever

until like six hours later, my parents walked in and were like, there you are, it's time to go. And I was like, wait, I'm not done. What day is it? And then, yeah, like that experience of like, cause I never owned PlayStations, we were a Nintendo house.

So every time I went somewhere and someone had like a Sega Genesis or PS1 or PS2 or something, like there was just a whole universe opened up. Or if someone had a PC, goddamn, my neighbor across the street had like a PC that had, could play games, could handle some stuff. God, the joy of just someone turning something on and you're like, I didn't even know this was possible.

That's how the Pokemon Blue was. There was a kid on the bus who he lived one street over from me, but he was playing Pokemon Blue. I remember sitting by him on the bus and I was watching him play it. And I'd played like Sega Genesis. I played like Lion King, some PGA Tour games on it. Basically all games that you would play and you'd either lose or have to leave so you'd turn it off and start over next time. But he saved his progress and like I could watch his progress. Every day on the bus I was like, I remember watching him grind, I was like, dude, this game is so complex. There's so much to do. You can save it and just come back to it tomorrow.

And like every day I was just so intrigued. I was like, dude, I hope he beats the gym today. I was just so, it was like one of my first let's play experience of like multi episodes. Like every day I was like, oh, I'm feeling sick, but I'm not gonna stay home from school. I will miss the gym. I kind of get on the bus and watch him

beat the gym leader today. I was just so fucking excited to watch him play Pokemon Blue on the Game Boy. Oh god, that was the best. I watched in my buddy's basement the entire franchise. I watched him play time splitters on the GameCube. God, those were some times, man. Just laying there. Just those, some of those were probably all-nighters. Some those were probably like sun came up next morning eventually we got kicked out because they had to go to church or whatever and i walked home and fell asleep but man the excitement of watching someone else play a game and slowly like the progression so good final fantasy 10 i watched my friend play final fantasy 10 it was like all summer because it's such a long grindy game

that's a good one for that there's a whole whole nother line of memory. Anyway, yeah, Mark, all nighters. They're great. Some especially the ones that are involuntary planned ones, not so much involuntary ones are just magical. Yeah. The only one that was like a naturally happened was that Diablo raccoon night for me. The other ones were all great ideas that were not. It went so well. I can see why. All right. I'm calling it here. Let's see, what do we got?

Wade, you have pirate construction site. I still don't know what you're imagining there. The beam held by a crane, like ricketing in the wind. Oh, oh, I know what you mean. You're talking about the eye beam that's strung by a rope. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when it swings towards the camera, it makes a specific, like.

It's like the metal and rope sound. Creaking. I can't creak. My bones do, but my mouth won't. My mouth don't creak. All right, so you got the pirate concern, right? Segway point, Craven kill me, very anxiety dogs. You got your butterfly net.

Doesn't has, Destiny has called. What was that for? Oh, the raccoon whenever we looked out and saw it. Right. Nice older bros. And then Pokemon points watch plays. Like, that's a one. Uh, Bob, you got rollerblade. Oh, the chair. Right.

Oh yeah, that's right. Uh, got some- I got some time for video games. Uh, you sure do. You got two points because late night tuba, just really funny. Um, and then push the buttons, blow the thing. Like I want that on a shirt. That's a great slogan. Night driving, uh, anxiety rocks, for falling rocks, and then max pain. Max pain reference, you got

that. Uh, which if I, if I did my math right, you won't want to do three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We have a tie. No. A very, an actual tie that I wasn't paying attention to the point when I was doing it. There was a lot of good stuff today, which means that we have the wheel. What percentage is the bad part at? I think it's at eight. Isn't the bad part for mark. Yeah, it's for me I mean, it's kind of for all of us, but it's aimed at mark because he's the host this time. Yes

I got a good feeling Bob. This is the time the wheel will favor you Oh, no, I think I have a strong advantage on this role boom Wheel. Oh boy, Bob Wade punishment. Yeah punishment wedge is bigger than I would have hoped for it to look. This isn't this is just makes it look weird because the camera. Yes, my light trying to make it look all dramatic and scary, but the camera auto exposes and just looks weird. Go out camera, please here. We go three two one Be glad it's not ten percent. That's what happened like the first time we spun it. Oh god. All right Wheels out here just fucking with you Mark. Right, alright. So Bob, congratulations! You have won.

Please give your winner speech. I did it. This was a fun one. It's probably just like nostalgia goggles or I don't know what you call it but getting to talk about the video games watching your friends play video games in childhood. I love that memory of doing that.

And I was never the kid who played them. I was always a watcher. I loved watching. I would talk about that forever. This was a great episode, Mark. Oh, dear. Best topic we've had in a while. I loved it.

I won because I loved it. And I loved it because I won. Can't beat that logic. Wade, you had equivalent points, so this this is barely losing all up to the wheel. Yeah, I also really enjoyed this episode. I don't know what we're doing but... Sorry, look, I have a hood on my lens and it was dusty and I couldn't stop, I couldn't leave it. It's dusty. Here's like Mark, great idea. Good to go.

Listen, there's a special treat if you go watch the video and go to the end. Well, I too thought it was a great episode. I had fun talking about sleep and the different things and whatever have you. So great memories, video game stuff. Thank you, Mark. Bob, well win, well win.

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