Distractible - Bob Wins This Episode

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

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Bountiful Bob opines about clamping, mounting, and loose ball joints. And Wade has no gag reflex due to his huge, engorged dangler. From sleep apnea to Distractible. Thank you so much for being a loyal listener. Hello everybody and welcome back to Distractible. Thank you so much for being a loyal listener. Thank you for following up with us on our subreddit and all the wonderful callouts that you had about me and Bob's apparent injustice in our delivery of judgment in this episode. We... How are you not on Bob's side?

How are you still defending Wade? How is this possible? This doesn't make any sense. No, you know what, Mark? I've been, I've been spending a lot of time looking at the subreddit and really thinking about what we did. And I think they're right. Uh, I think Wade, uh, Wade just really gets mistreated. He does not get his just desserts, uh, in the context of this podcast. Wade, um, Wade's never done anything wrong. It's tough being a fan favorite. Despite how relentlessly funny and intelligent

and consistently prepared he is, you and I are just very mean-spirited bad friends. I think we owe Wade a very heartfelt apology for the way that we've treated him since he existed. But are we going to do that?

No, no. No, not at all. Not at all. Why would we do that? That's fair. That's fair. Anyway, so we are back again with another episode where unfortunately Bob was not the winner.

I think he's on a six or seven episode losing streak. It's like 10. It's like a dozen. It's like a year and a half it's really killing my motivation to focus up and work hard so i'm gonna eat a sandwich while we do this one okay let's do a quick rorschach test bob what do you see when you look at this sadness misery what about this side the deep ache of knowing that the entire universe is pointless, leading only to a re-assimilation of every bit of energy and matter

back into the black hole at the absolute center of existence that will be, and it's the only thing that we have to count on. It's the only thing you can be certain of, that you will die and you will be sent back to the universe, dust to dust. It's a good sandwich I got here, though. That's absolutely correct. Bob, you get a point. Wow.

I'm on my game today. Yeah. I didn't know we were in the point part yet. That's a point. Oh, Wade criticizing the judge. Negative one points. All right. We're off to a fair, fair, fair start to this episode.

Interesting. Interesting, interesting. I'm sorry, Wade. Are you figuring something out about what's about to happen? I think I'm figuring something out. That's funny. Do you have some sort of realization just now? I do. I think this is going to be an incredibly fair episode.

I can't wait for it. All right. You are correct about that but unfortunately we're not in the point of signing around just yet we're here i get it i understand so how are you boys doing today i'm good i'm doing good you know i feel like i've come to peace with my my role on the podcast now. And when you set your expectations accordingly, it's hard to be disappointed. Expect nothing.

And then when you get nothing, you can't be upset. You knew what was going to happen. The baby's good. He's doing good. Possibly the second time ever, positive baby update. He's a cute little man. He's making more noises now. He's blowing little bubbles with his mouth,

working his way towards getting the mmm sound going. Not subtly at all. I tried to encourage him to make his first word mama. If his first word is dada or fuck, I'm in trouble. And I don't know if that's redeemable. I don't know if there's coming back from that. I think that puts a permanent schism in between Mandy and my and my relationship and so i really hope really banking on him getting mama out first that's all you should get wade or mark so you know he'll be a winner oh yeah

definitely well oh wade that's horrible for you to say no no negative one points for wade i can't believe that you would say something like that that's's bad luck, Wade. Bad luck. But Bob, I just wanted to say positive one point for having a great turn of events with the baby. I think having the first good baby update is worthy of a point. And congratulations, Bob. You earned that.

Very fair of you. Thank you. Thank you again for that. Wade, how are you? I'm doing very well. Wrong! Sorry. I should have let you? I'm doing very well. Wrong! Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry. I should have let you get the whole sentence out first. Man, that was mean, but really funny, Bob.

I hope you get a point for that. That was really mean. No, no, no, no. We're not in the point of signing around just yet. Molly and I are in the process of moving of moving which i think we kind of made public knowledge recently and i have discovered that it sucks you didn't remember that moving sucks it was so bad the last time i blocked it out so now that i'm reliving it it's like opening a full body size brain covered scab and then itching at the open remaining

exposed muscle and flesh it's awful and I hate it and I'm probably slightly exaggerating yeah that's a little much you're moving to a new house the house is beautiful I've seen pictures it looks nice it will be and it will not be a drowned man

sequel what did you just do with your foot there were you trying to knock on wood oh okay yes but i have cork board flooring does cork count as wood cork comes from a tree what is cork ah although cork is not wood, it is a dead tissue, which makes it an inert substance. I don't know why that was the... I got cardboard. Hang on. All right.

So, Wade, unfortunately, you did not knock on wood. I'm going to have to knock a point off for that. So, off to a poor start, but I know you'll catch it up soon, Wade. It's such a fair episode you've always got a chance wade there's no way you could lose like repeated 50 50 chances over and over and over again and end up not winning episodes for weeks at a time no i don't think that luck could do that to me i think only hostine intervention can do it divorced intervention host mark are you some sort of cow

host? Hmm, I don't know. I feel insulted. I don't know if I should take that lying down. You bovinal milk-making host. I do want to say, I do want to say, I saw on the subreddit, a couple people were talking about like, I don't think Mark knows what fair means.

Fair doesn't... Look, I think he does know what fair means. Fair and equitable are not the same thing. The fact that I lost a bunch in a row in a thing that Mark had no hand in swaying the outcome. I was just doing a bit when I said Amy was suspended above the camera dropping the thing in the correct orientation. I don't think that that happened.

A small part of me thinks that may have happened but i don't actually think that that happened but maybe but we'll find out when the recordings are released later on but like mark it is fair the fact that i just happen to have lost a bunch of like even chance coin flips over and over and over repeatedly over and over and over and the wheel over and over and over and over and over and over again can't forget about and the and over. And the wheel. Over and over and over and over and over and over again. Can't forget about the wheel. And the wheel, which was preset odds. No changing, no swaying, no influencing.

It was actually a fair chance that I could have won. I just didn't. Yeah, I mean. It was fair. I literally was trying my best to showcase that I was not influencing anything there, but it just was the work of the just. I remember, I remember Mark. We saw the whole, we saw the fair. This is the symbol of fairness.

It's an international sign language symbol of fairness. If you're not watching on Spotify, you don't know the international symbol of fairness here, which I'm glad that it's universal. I really hope that's not. I'm sure there's someone out there right now in some specific region of the world who's like, oh, that's worse than the middle finger in our culture. Like, blur that

out, Will. I don't know. I'm constantly surprised by how little I know about the world and things. I'll say or do something and someone's like, you know, that's actually a racial slur. No, I didn't know that. I remember in Shakespeare, if you bite your thumb when you're looking at someone, that's like an insult to them, right?

I mean, that feels very insulting to me. I would do it like anger that I'd bite down too hard. I'd probably hurt my thumb, so I wouldn't want to do that anyway. I'll try it. Try it. Let me see. Let me see if I feel insulted. Oh, minus one point.

How could you insult the judge like that, Wade? What a dick move. This is at Wade, not point. How could you insult the judge like that Wade? What a dick move. This is at Wade not Mark How? Because it does kind of hurt a little bit Yeah, the point hurts worse, but the thumb bite did hurt. You don't want to bite on the base of the nail I feel like you want to go further and bite on the skin. I think that was my mistake Yeah, I don't know how deep you want to put it Maybe you want to like thumb the deep part of your throat Like get it all the way back in your uvula

I don't know if you need to thumb the deep part of your throat A whole phone Mark, try it Try it Yeah, I'm good I'm alright Please everyone, don't go to Spotify and watch the video Dude, I can fondle my uvula with the tip of my thumb

I hate that word This is not a discussion i thought we'd ever have but do you not have a gag reflex i think i do but i'm not for myself i know that i do and i know that my gag reflex kicks in way before i'm fondling my own uvula that's for sure to be fair i've had it swell up on me three times this year so i think i'm just used to choking on my uvula now so are you honest to god you were like touching the little dangly the uvula in the back kind of it might be just short of it i don't know but let me tell you your life changes when you have to go 24 hours with your uvula being the size of your thumb

and flopping around your mouth it changes your outlook on things no that does sound pretty horrendous happened three times this year that's like something that would happen in a cartoon. It doesn't sound like a real thing that would happen to a real person. Dude, you would cough and it would pop out and lay on your tongue. It was terrible. I'm deducting points and I feel like that's very fair. I'm deducting points from Wade for making me do it. I had to live it.

I'm sorry you have the inconvenience of having to hear about it. I lived it. How are you? How is the water? What is dangling out of your mouth? I don't having to hear about it. I lived it. How are you? How is the water? What is dangling out of your mouth? I don't want to know. Don't answer that question. Do you know what the uvula is?

It's not out of my mouth. How is your uvula reaching all the way out of your mouth? It swelled up. It swelled up, Mark. There's no way. Google it. There's no way your uvula is well enough. He straight up texted us about this.

To where it was down my throat. I cough. It popped up in the could partially lay on the back of my tongue. I am not okay with any of this. You said dangling out of your mouth. No, not in my mouth. It was not out of my mouth. It was down my throat, coughed, and it came up and laid on the back of my tongue.

Not like up here, but like on the back of my tongue. Like you could feel it. You could feel more than enough for it to be horrific yes and if i open my mouth all the way ah you couldn't see the tip of it because it was down far enough to be like in my throat that sounds like some weird kind of non-real torture technique or something i don't i've got pictures you guys want to see it no i don't i don't want to see it but I also am like terribly curious

what was that what how good of a picture did you get of this is it just like cell phone pictures I don't you can't see that like it looks like that's the tip but that's just the shadowing it actually goes deeper than that it's so long and wide

yes that was so horrible that was actually after i think i took i don't know what time of day that was but that was after i had gone to the doctor gotten injected with a steroid and then gone gotten medication went back so that was after the swelling had gone down some and i found uh getting like ice chips and just like letting ice chips sit in the back of my throat or ice cubes and stuff. It's hard when you have a bit of a gag reflex, but like just having to let that stuff sit in the back of your throat helped the swelling a little bit. And I had to gargle salt water every hour for like 12 hours. I hate that that's a thing that doctors tell you to do.

Gargling salt water is gross. And even the tidiest bit of salt water getting in my mouth makes me immediately want to throw up. I don't know what causes this. And it's happened to me three times this year. I had never experienced it in my life. You are... I wish we had been on tour when that happened, because then you'd have quite the legacy. It was hard to talk. It's like you're choking when you're trying to talk.

So it was like, talking like this because you can't get the full range of motion out. You... Okay, so you texted about this and said that this was a thing, but I feel like you undersold it when you described it. It was one of the worst things I've ever gone through because it was like always feeling

like you're choking on something. And I had to, I woke up like that and I had to try to go to sleep the next night still dealing with it because it hadn't gone away yet. Well, you just sleep on your face and you let your uvula dangle forward. And then that way it's not in your throat.

It's just kind of in the back of your mouth you know he's right i think sleeping on my back's part of what caused it so i wonder if i have like sleep apnea or something and it's so severe like it causes that i don't know you might i have no idea i have very severe sleep apnea i have never had whatever the fuck that thing is that's happening to your uvula so i don't know maybe someone out there watching or listening will have some ideas i don't know about that i don't think so i don't know who do you go to an ent like i don't know who specializes in uvulas ear nose and throat i feel like it would be part of that unless you go to the doctor like oh no we don't do uvulas you've got to see the guy here's

his card i'm afraid you've got uveolitis. Might be a thing. That's probably a thing. That sounds like a thing. Uveolitis. I mean, itis. Well, you can't just remove a uvula too. I Googled that because I was like, I just get this thing taken out.

Apparently it helps with stuff. Isn't that what they used to do? Isn't that the treatment they used to do for snoring before like CPAP machines and all this stuff existed? But this is kind of an important little dangly. I swear there was a surgery where it was like, we'll just laser that uvula right off there. You'll stop snoring. No more uvulas for you.

I'm not a doctor. Let me Google it. This has been... It helps prevent food and liquid from going up your nose when you swallow it. Seems like a bad way to accomplish that goal. I feel like there could be a different design to that element of the throat.

I gotta be honest. It's like the little cap in the top of your toilet bowl. When you flush it, like lifts up to let the water out, then closes back. You go to swallow and it closes the breathe hole in your nose. It's like one of those, one of those Japanese sodas with the marble in the top.

When you go to take a sip, the little marble rolls out of the way, but then you set it down and the marble closes it. That's a soda uvula. Okay. Well, good to know. So, duvula. So, that is all for small talk.

So, duvula. I feel like I should have deducted way more points from Wade, but I won't out of fairness. I hope nobody was eating, drinking, or driving whenever they looked at the image I showed. One hand a drink, one hand a sandwich, knees on the steering wheel. Ha, ha, ha! No! Third arm posting on the subreddit,

I shouldn't have been driving while listening to, oh, no! Actual car crash. Yeah, hilarious, as we all know. Today's episode is called Toys for the boys um but it also could be i don't know it just like rhymed to me i wanted an opportunity for us to talk about all the funky purchases the cool gadgets the tech stuff us to have a chance to gush about the latest gizmo or whatnot and i don't mean to like

make the title sexist this is like applies to anybody but we're we are the boys but anyone can have toys yeah exactly so any kind of uh gizmo and stuff that you guys want in your life uh that you could get that is niche i'm looking for like something that is so niche that not many people would appreciate it but it's something you've purchased recently or it could be in the past few months or as you got over christmas i don't care what just an opportunity to gush about it um i'm gonna start it off okay because uh i just got back from filming my movie and i've been uh getting a lot of you know trying to build out my own film kit to do this. And I'm not going to talk about the thing that I just bought earlier. I'm going to talk about it's so bizarrely obscure

and it won't it doesn't even mean a lot to even other filmmakers. Well, they know what it means. I'm not saying it's like so extremely niche that they they wouldn't know what it is but just because of the type of filming that i was doing in uh in this movie if i had known that these lenses existed i would have been in such a better position to get more shots and so what i bought was a set of cinema macro lenses. Okay? Cinema lenses, people probably know what they are. They could figure that out.

They're just lenses that, you know, they're... They're very nice glass. Very nice glass. That's basically what it is. But this was a three-lens set. They actually have four lenses in the set, and I hope to get the other one soon. I actually reached out to the company that made it, being like, I would love to get my hands on this stuff.

And they said, well, it's new, and we don't even have any of it. And I'm like, I never pull the, well, I have a channel I could pay you an exposure, because I always like to pay for this. I'm Markiplier. I'll talk about you on my podcast if you... Yeah, but they're macro lenses.

So you can get macro lenses. And what macro lenses means is that it has the ability to have such a close focus that you can focus on something that is just an inch away. And you can see it in incredible detail. If you've ever seen a shot of a movie that's like, you look up on something and you can see the grain in like the wood. You can see it's almost like a microscope, but for cinema. And it's like the ability to have a cinema lens that can shoot movie quality stuff that's able to go all the way up here. And then, you know, rack focus to the distance subject and still retain like the quality of

image that has it it's very niche and its utility is very limited but it's one of those things that is like i'm very excited about it because it opens up a tiny little window into a new world that i can like use and intermix with other other shots because there is a difference between when you have high quality glass and low quality glass. And having a set of like different focal lengths in it just makes me very excited. I think I know what this is, but just for anyone listening who might be in my camp, macro, so you're saying it has very close focal length. These are like the lenses where the camera has like a really long and skinny snoot.

No, that's a probe lens, which I also love. These are actual regular lenses. The thing about that is, the fun thing is a probe lens, we used it on the last one because it's fun for very useful shots, but it has a maximum aperture of T14.

So if you know lenses at all, that's a very open, it's a narrow aperture. so not a lot of light gets through you need a lot more light these are t 2.8 cinema lenses 24 millimeter 32 millimeter 65 millimeter and 90 millimeter focal lengths and it's like you have a full range you can get from wide to long and it's like you it's just very exciting i don't know if you know this i don't want to like ruin your excitement about this but do you know why what how does that work then so i'm assuming these basically look like normal lenses right there may be a little stubby or something why is a macro lens a macro lens if it looks the same as a 35 millimeter you know prime

cinema lens it's not macro is it like the shape of the lens or is it like the length of stuff inside? Cause the lens is basically there's an outer lens and then there's a second lens and you move them in relation to each other. And that's like how you pull focus, right? Yeah. So internally, yeah. With a cinema lens, uh, internally it's focus, uh, glass elements move inside and they, they shift around. And ideally, when you have a high quality cinema lens, they don't move so much that there's what's called focal breathing. There's not too much of that where when you focus in real close and you focus to far away, things don't shift in size too much. So it doesn't have a zoom element. getting that kind of like really honing in on those

particular factors require extremely precise uh engineering of both the glass and the elements inside it and what makes this different is like to get a focal length where you are a minimum focus of like an inch uh is is difficult while also being able to use it as a normal cinema lens it just opens up a this latitude and having it in like a say a 24 millimeter which is a wide lens um being able to get close and wide and then also having a 32 and a 65 which are more normal uh medium you know lenses and then you have your 90 and it's like for your longer shots it's just like it it's very niche but it opens up a latitude of filmmaking that i

particularly like going from something extremely close and then racking all the way to the distance to see something in uh in response to whatever you're looking up up close it's like i like that it's very interesting yeah that's cool obviously this is i haven't even gotten this toy yet but i want to hear about things like that it doesn't have to be in any like cinema or stuff like that it's like whatever you've got or bought i want to hear about it i do have something and it's a little weird maybe it's not i use a camcorder for like all my video stuff uh sony ax 700 or something like that i think and it's sitting on a like a tri mount in order to get the height i want and to do the things i want the mount was just not quite there for this desk because this is an uplift so I can kind of adjust it and to get

Like comfort whenever I got like a new chair I had to slightly adjust the camera more and I wanted to be able to like turn sideways tilt So I bought a combination of like these little round I don't know what they're called at this point cuz I bought these a little while back now But I've got like these little like different plates nuts and bolts and things and i've just been like d nuts yeah i love d nuts if you know what they are better than i do sure he's got i got a bag of d nuts right here yeah these are my ussy d nuts getting a variety of things to like extend the mount and allow my camera to actually fully turn so the camera the mount itself

i probably need to get a new mount but it has like a ball joint and then like the camera can slide in on top of the ball joint but it has limited mobility with that so i bought these things that it can turn it can bend i've got a variety of some like the ones i'm actually using are on it these were ones that didn't quite fit or work out that's why they're sitting on my desk because i bought a variety of things i didn't know exactly what i needed so i don't know what the hell this thing is called but i bought like three different shapes and size of these little like it looks like a little spacer like a little just like eighth inch you know didn't even know they existed until i had to look for them because i was like camcorder mount not do what need how i make better and i came across a whole bunch of stuff i relate to that so hard dude i

don't know shit about camera stuff every time i need to look for something i'm like i need a mount for my camera that clamps on to a two inch bar but and then you like i'll spend a day googling and then you get there and it's like oh well that's just like a C clamp with a double jointed arm articulated mount obviously it's like that was the other thing, the screw was too wide for the

camcorder so I had to get one with like a wider base that had a narrower top so I could put that on the base and then actually put the camcorder on that which was another thing I needed speaking for toys for the boys, I gotta go get a delivery. I'm so sorry. Oh my sweet, I'm gonna eat my sandwich. Alright, Mark's getting some

toys for his boy. He's so much more excited for those than he is to talk to us. Go on, I'm listening. Oh. I feel like it's slightly less, I mean, not that it was that interesting to begin with, but it feels like a niche thing that most people probably don't look for. No, I do, I agree it was that interesting to begin with, but it feels like a niche thing that most people probably don't look for. No, I do.

I agree. It's like a it's like a content creator thing, right? Yeah, there's been so much shit where I'm like, I need I just need a I need like a bar thing that can hold up that has it's like, I don't know the words for this shit. I'm not a camera person. I'm not a no, I'm a tech person. I can do computer stuff, but I don't know anything like lighting and all that and yeah no i've there i've had so many times where i'm like camera turn camera mount 360 flexible but and you find you know you find like all the wrong shit and eventually you find

exactly the thing is like that did exist it just has a very specific name that i did not know and i would never have guessed like d nuts yeah that's what these are i i think so this is what they're little nuts that have little rings on them so you can i think they're called oh oh you have like male to male adapters oh no yeah when i bought this camcorder it literally came with this mount as like part of a package right like you can get it and it's like oh we'll bundle these together is it like a thing that clamps onto your desk or something why is it not just like a tripod it's a full tripod and whenever i bundled it up with the camcorder when i got it all this was like the recommended one to get with it i was like okay perfect and i got it and like i said the screw

sticking out of the tripod was too wide for the camera. And I was like, why was this bundled? I couldn't put it on the clamp. Like it's put on a clamp and that, I call it a clamp. You have to screw it onto this thing, this plate. There's a base plate you screw onto the camera and the camera slides into a mount, yeah. But it didn't fit on the plate because the plate screw was too wide.

And I was like, why was this recommended? And what do I do to fix it? I would bet some amount of money that the tripod that you got came with multiple screws that you could switch out the screw that's at the base plate for the correct screw because it sounds like your camcorder uses

a totally common, I think it's an eighth inch screw. I don't remember at this point. I bought these literally a year or two years ago. I don't know why you had a tripod these like literally a year two years ago i don't know why you had a tripod that had some weird non-standard tripod screw thing it but i'm sure i mean it sounds like you got it to work so that's really important and now it's a lot more flexible too because the ball joint is good but the ball joint doesn't allow you to have it level and like

spin sideways how is the ball joint not flexible but it is it uh you know what this is not an important thing i'm just surprised that a tripod with a ball joint is not flexible enough for you i think my concern was that because i wanted to be able to move it on the go i wanted to be able to spin it without risking the ball like rotating a little bit if it was loose enough to turn it was loose enough to lean and i didn't want it to go sideways or up and down i just wanted it to turn so i wanted to keep the ball joint locked in place so that way i could do because we were trying to like make a parody video or whatever years ago and one of the shots i wanted to do involved literally just like grabbing the handle and turning the camera like spinning it but i

wanted to keep the plane level as it like panned around and the ball joint it kind of like wiggles and wobbles a little bit so this way that part's level and i can spin it without changing the like the even plane if that makes sense holy jesus what what a boy toy that is look at this boy toy hello hey how's your delivery how's your package delivery go we were just talking shop uh it's good wait we talked the whole time you were gone bud yeah we talked a lot we talked about a wide range of things you don't have to worry about it's not about you all right i don't know why you're suspicious we i know we i know before we've done like handshake agreements yeah but we were hosting those you're you're the host here we did not do that this time while you were gone it's on video

and i'm sure you'll check after the fact you can see we didn't do that did you like my discussion though mark that you weren't here for about my my connectors yeah no i do appreciate that yeah going into this world it's actually funny i got some fun toys but then i got this thing which is a 10 hard drive docking bay so i can make a new raid array that'll allow me to actually edit video on my pc i am very out of shape i need to get back into running yeah no i've been to your house it's not you don't even have stairs it's all one floor are you okay i have two flights i have to deal with two it sounds like you just ran uh ran quite a distance or something what i did but it's okay don't worry about it okay i i feel good and then other toys came

that was great first round bob didn't go yet i want to i want to go in a different direction i want to talk about to assign bob points right away i was i was sure that i mean you can give me points before i talk if you want but i got this no first round over i think bob took that round uh one oh wow okay all right yeah good bob what's your start off second round. All right. Can I, this is not as tech-y in terms of the technology of the thing, but can I talk a little bit about how I am about phone cases? Oh man, that's so brave. 30 points, Bob.

So brave. No, look, listen, phone cases are tricky, right? Okay. I am, I am not of the school. I know there are people who are like, just keep your phone naked. naked that's how they designed it that's how it's supposed to be i like my phone to not have a broken screen there's glass on the front and back of modern phones i like it like i i baby my phone i don't throw it around i'll do it still it falls sometimes it falls i don't want a broken phone i cannot find a phone case that satisfies my exact needs

and i can tell you in specific detail what's wrong with every phone case i've ever owned and i don't know why no one has ever made the correct phone case so like this one this this is a mouse phone case not sponsored not affiliated i bought it with my own money it's a great phone case i like the look of it it's got a walnut wood insert on the back it's too thick it has a lot of features i like it offers a lot of protection but this lip here is too thick if you try to touch the edge of the screen and it's like this is like millimeters of difference right but i i've had this cell phone this is an iphone 13 something big pro something um pro max whatever i've had this phone for like a year and a half

i think i own nine phone cases for it. I probably, by the time I'm done owning this phone, I will spend as much or more money on phone cases for the phone as I did on the phone itself. Because I look online, I'm constantly looking at like direct from manufacturers in like China, ordering on, you know, like AliExpress type websites and stuff

and looking. And this mouse is a pretty big popular brand of case. They make all kinds of stuff. I'm why is it so hard to make the right phone case? Why is the lip so thick? Why are the buttons not right? This case has my second favorite kind of exterior case buttons where there's cutouts. It's rubber, but there's cutouts. So it's pretty soft. Why can't you make built-in buttons that work good the only thing that apple's phone cases do correctly is that they have really nice milled aluminum buttons that are built into the case so when you push the button you get the tactile feedback of the button physically moving this is a dangerous mark because i'm really passionate about this but no one fucking cares two seconds how i feel about cell phone cases that's what this episode is about. For us to start caring

about these things. So I own a case. One of my other favorite cases that I have, the other thing with the new generation of phones is MagSafe, right? I have right here on my desk. MagSafe is a brilliant idea. It just magnets. You can have little pop sockets. You can

have chargers. Why are all the cases that have the correct features not MagSafe? How hard is to make a magsafe case i can i have cases that are four millimeters thin that have magsafe built into them that totally work but they're four millimeters thin and they don't have the right features it's just it's frustrating so i literally i think i own nine or possibly ten phone cases ranging all the way from a bumper that just wraps around the exterior edge of the phone to a carbon a pressed carbon fiber weave case that's like the minimal thickness to be a case but offers you know very little in terms of features i have the whole gambit none of them satisfies me i change my phone case on a daily basis and it drives me insane why am i obsessed

with this can i offer a phone case that i don't know if you've heard of before it may not be perfect for what you're talking about but it's you know me i was i was a naked phone guy right you were yeah but you may have noticed i have a case on my phone which is weird it is weird that i've been a naked phone guy for the longest time. I didn't give a shit about cases because I was like, it just makes it too bulky. And it's not like this case is not bulky. Is that a quad lock? Have you heard of quad lock? Have I heard of quad lock? You held it on screen for half a second. And my brain was like, that's a quad lock. That's a quad lock interface on the back of brain was like that's a quad lock that's a quad lock interface

on the back of that case that's a quad lock black matte plastic case i've seen that one i don't actually own a quad lock case because i own a peak design case and the peak design case has a really nice heather fabric finish to it but it's a similar docking mechanism between the peak ecosystem and the quad lock ecosystem but but I do like the Quadlocks. What are your favorite features about the Quadlock, Mark? So I started riding a bike, right? And I don't have the other case. I got this case starting about like a year ago, and I was looking for a good bike mount,

and a lot of them were like, oh, you open it up, you clasp it down, and it holds it. And I was like, that didn't feel very secure. Or they have like rubber bands that you strap, and I hate those, yeah. If i'm biking and i'm going fast like i i worry about the vibrations knocking it loose and then i looked up like good bike and i found it's not sponsored by the way again this whole episode is not sponsored by any of these sponsorships just an opportunity for us to gush you'll know when we're sponsored oh yeah'll know. We'll do a very terrible job pitching it. And you'll buy it up to make us look good.

Exactly. But Quadlock, in the newest version of it, they used to have a bump where it was actually fat and sticking out like this. And I didn't like it as much. And then in the latest version, they actually came out with a flat profile and then indented here is the interface. It looks like it has a magsafe ring as well is

that also magsafe yes it's got now got also a magnetic ring that can magnetically charge as well so they've a car mount with a usb attachment and it can it can charge it works for the bike mount too so not only did they make it smaller i think they also leveraged some of the magsafe properties to make like a magnetic attachment to it i don't know how well that works i don't use that accessories i just use the actual uh clip in because i feel like that's thing but i know they do make like just a magnetic one that goes in the end end but also magnetically attaches to the outer and it does add bulk but i've been able to look over all that because of the convenience of this there's an armband version you can have and you clip on when you run there's like yeah your car version like again not sponsored the quad lock the quad lock mount universe is really good they have they have like adhesive ones you can just

stick on a wall or something they have like magnetic ones i believe that you can so you can put on like your fridge or whatever and then quad quad lock is good their ecosystem is good i had not seen this new version of the case because they they have always had that bump on the back by will i want to ask how are the how are the buttons handled it looks like they're solid silicon across the buttons but they have like cutouts around them or something how yeah uh so the buttons like they still have all the tactile feel of the click of the button so i i definitely feel the click yeah i don't know if you can hear oh yeah yeah no that's pretty good actually yeah it's not like where it's that weird rubber softness it does feel like an actual button again which is like important to me i heard a rumor that they were going to take away the power

button on like a future version on the iphone yeah how do you turn it on do you hey turn on hey siri be a phone it was gonna be a haptic touch. And I'm like, oh, come on, man. Oh, no, gross, awful. No. That's not good. So anyway, no, I get the gush about phone cases, but that's- Okay, well, so now I have to buy that. So thanks.

It's not cheap. It's not cheap. I'll say that. No, I know. Well, that's the thing, right? So I own, so this is not a cheap case. I own a lot of cheap ones. There's a lot of like bulk manufactured ones that are, you know, made in China and other

locations where it's like 10 bucks and you get it shipped and it's a phone. But I own several. This is like a $50 phone case. I own a Peak Design case for my phone that's like a $60 maybe phone case. I have an Apple branded one. I have one of the leather ones honestly the apple case is so close to being right except apple insists on aesthetics over functionality and they just ruin it by being douchebags i have a quad lock versus peak design update

oh yeah quad lock and the first thing the first response is a sponsored post from peak design whose title reads quad lock wishes it was this don't buy an ugly phone yes that's the thing no well yeah that's the thing right quad quad lock is like it's not like a cool designer brand but peak that's the thing that's i feel like a downfall of peak you have you've always you've used peak uh bags for a long time oh yeah they're very cool they look awesome and they are functional but peak has falls into that same thing that apple does sometimes where it's like they get more focused on it being aesthetically cool and like functionally interesting and you lose some of the actual functionality of it and that's what i feel like with their case the case is very pretty and it

has a really nice finish the material on it is like a fabric-y but it's like a heavy fabric that doesn't like get you know it doesn't absorb liquid it's like a nice case but the shape of the case because it's made with fabric like that the whole back is kind of curved so when you put your phone down it does that thing where it like rocks incessantly right it rocks for 100 years because you said because it's not a flat surface so that's why that's one of my obsessions in life in in the past decade since i've had smartphones i must have owned hundreds of phone cases like i'm a big tech guy i love smartphones every phone i've had i've owned easily a dozen or more cases for it. And they range the whole gambit.

I've probably spent up to 80 bucks on a case where it's like real woven carbon fiber, whatever. I've definitely paid, you know, an exorbitant amount as like a douchebag for a phone case. But also, most of the ones I buy are like $10 AliExpress specials. Because I'm like, oh, that one has a slightly different feature. It has a smaller bezel and a narrower camera bump and the buttons look, and then you get it and it's like, oh, the pictures weren't really accurate.

Or they... It turns out this is $10 because they don't give a shit and it's just another silicon phone case. I've never had a good experience buying from AliExpress. But they get you they with the pictures you look and you're like oh look how this one's a little thinner this one's 0.2 millimeters thinner which is gonna mean that the that's always a bad idea i've always just stuck with the first phone

case i've gotten and i'm pretty sure this one's a cell helmet and i'm pretty sure oh what looks like an otterbox knockoff yeah well the only complaint i've had about this one for my purposes is that the back is really slidey so like if you're sitting on like a slightly angled surface it just will slide and disappear or like if you have directions like you're driving somewhere and you have directions because your car doesn't have built-in navigation features because you don't even have a car what are you bragging about yeah well i don't have built-in navigation features because... You don't even have a car. What are you bragging about? Yeah, well, I don't have any of those things. So if you, like, set your phone on your leg so you can listen to, like, the directions while you're driving, it can, like, slide off your lap, whereas my old case would, like,

at least stick so I could, like, hear the directions. Because if you have, like, drinks in your cup holders, there's not always a good spot for your phone, especially in, like, older car models. So it's, like, I guess it's going to sit on my lap, and then it's, like, sliding everywhere, which is a problem. So I've got to, like, sit it face down on my lap. So it's like, I guess it's going to sit on my lap and then it's like sliding everywhere, which is a problem. So I've got to like sit it face down on my lap. So it's just a little bit too slidey. That's the only complaint I have about this case.

Otherwise, I'm pretty easy to please. Have you ever scuffed up a phone case with sandpaper to see if you could improve the grippiness level of it? No, I've just lived with it. Okay, no, yeah. You've gotten into modding your own cases. Oh my God, don't. I exacto knives and straight edges

and sandpaper listen don't get me started on the importance of the perfect level of grippiness of a phone case the i it's i feel very strongly about this i i detest how slippery phone cases are if you're if you're a phone case if you set your phone on a flat surface, like in a car like you're saying, if you set it on a perfectly flat surface and it slides off there the moment the car moves or goes around a corner, F. You have failed. You have made a bad phone

case. But also in the same vein if you make one of those silicon phone cases that's so sticky, it feels like one of those slappy hands where you like, you stick it on the side and it's like you failed bad phone case there's an important middle ground in terms of grippiness and you have to achieve it you could make an entire youtube channel based on phone case reviews at this point you should man like yeah you'd be such a valuable resource to the

world out there if you're looking for a phone case that has adequate grippiness, one of the other things I like about this mouse phone case, it has a real wood insert on the back. Your skin oils will stay on the wood, and once you've used it for a couple weeks, it'll be the right amount of, like, oily to the touch, but not slippery

to the touch. It sticks to, like, clothing fabrics without sticking to them relentlesslylessly and it but it's still pleasant and you can like turn it around in your hand plus it has rubber plastic sides it's not like matte finish but it's like a soft i have a lot of opinions about this and i have to go buy the new mag safe or no i have to go buy the new quad lock case that you just showed me because i didn't know that that existed yet so you know what you did best me you showed me a phone case i didn't know about i didn't mean to be at my game you identified it from one frame of it in camera how did you not i i mean the quad the quad lock interface is pretty

unmistakable it's way bigger of a of an insert than the peak design and there aren't many other competitors that have the insert into the case lock design mechanism so that's it's a unique case i don't think people care enough about phone cases that they would know that outside of myself but it is a unique case that is interesting i'm all worked up i'm gonna like i need to no i love that I hope everyone just enjoyed Wade talking about tripod nuts and me talking about cell phone cases for an hour.

No, it's incredible. That's what I wanted. That's... See, no, that's the thing. That's why I wanted this episode because there's so many little niche things that get me so excited in my life that I don't even really use every day, but it's like, I love this. I have a love-hate relationship with DJI because they're very Apple style in terms of their contained

ecosystem. But when they do it right, they do it so right. Wait, I swear I'll let you go. This is the DJI mobile recorder system. Oh system oh yeah no those are so cool it's all in here you have your your uh receiver interface there it's that big it's tiny it's this big uh you have adapters for both iphone and usbc you've got two automatically connecting clip-on microphones. You just clip on your collar or your shirt or whatever. And not even clip. You can do it because there's like this, what they call a dead cat mount. You can actually, not many people know this, but you can put it underneath your shirt with a magnet. So you don't have to have the big bulky thing in there. Oh, really? And you have the dead cat accessory here that'll prevent rubbing.

It'll also prevent rubbing inside the shirt. People don't know that. It's not perfect, but if you're not running and moving, it's fine. You can have it actually on the inside, you know, tucked down deep enough that you wouldn't see it down. Because lobs are usually mounted on the chest when you're doing, like, movies and stuff. And because you can do it reverse, you can can do it lower down you can put it down to here and then you just have this like little notch that's way less obtrusive than having a big which is easily if you have like a shirt like mine like a henley you can hide the magnet in the in the

button whatever this is called in the lining or whatever like very hideable and not only is like all of this would be great uh and it's got internal recorders which you could like or not like with like micro sd cards whatever i kind of like it being without it's all usbc but it comes in a freaking airpod case that charges it as it goes you like so not only do these have long batteries you can keep it going and it's all in one thing for a good price i was like holy shit this is amazing i haven't even had a chance to use it yet but i was like fuck yeah no i i saw when i saw i saw a breakdown of those like an unboxing type video of those and i was like that's exactly what i wish existed in in terms of like a wireless

recording setup since i've been needing that in term in making videos and shit like for years and years it is those seem super cool it's the best and it has its own back again non-sponsored by dji i would take a sponsorship from dji absolutely if you can get me your shit because holy shit it's tough to get your stuff sometimes oh my god here's a rant about dji to to measure it all sponsor us but also i've been trying to buy ethan a birthday present for three years now i've been trying to buy him a drone right because i promised him a drone for a birthday three years ago that i was getting a drone like a fancy one or like a mavic pro an inspire a cinema drone those are yeah those are enormous those are cool yeah and i was like okay i'm gonna do it so three years ago i put in

an order and it was so back ordered that it was like gonna be three months out and i was like okay no i'm not gonna do that let me just try to find it i canceled that order and then i saw it was back ordered everyone else and then i forgot about it so then the following year actually no this waited a bit and then i'm not a good friend so this is also not just all dji's fault wait till i give you my birthday wish list well last year i was like i'm finally gonna do it the inspire 2 i to buy it. I put in an order and I'm like, it said in stock available, ready. I bought the best combo. I was like, I'm going to, Ethan's going to get it because I'm, I was originally the Inspire 1 and I'm like, I'm going to give him the Inspire 2. It's going to be great. Fast forward two months. I still had not gotten it. I had gone back and forth with email saying like, what is

going on? It says it's in stock. It's ready to ship back and forth. They're like, oh, it's oh, there's been some problems. They're very wishy washy about it. Two months later, they canceled my order. They canceled it. Because the Inspire 3 was going to come out. Oh, well, they're just trying to get you to spend money on the new one. Yeah, it was like somehow they were discontinuing all of their Inspire 2.

But it was like it was another four months before the Inspire 3 came out. So it was like somehow they were discontinuing all of their Inspire 2, but it was like, it was another four months before the Inspire 3 came out. So it was like they cancelled it four months before, and it was like, just, if you had gotten me that, you would have gotten a big sale, and then I would have been like, oh shit, I gotta buy the Inspire 3, and then it was like, oh, fuck it. So it's like, it is also of

pain in the ass sometimes to buy from DJI, which I will readily admit, which is why I'm just like, DJI, just get in touch with me in person. I swear I won't be mean to you like I am to all my other sponsors. And anyway, if you give us all your shit, we'll be nice to you. I swear. I swear I'll be nice. Give me your stupid thing. All right, Wade, but sorry, I've been taking over your turn, please. No, you're good. I do have one more niche purchase that you guys have actually seen, whether you've realized

it or not. My prop cigar. That's what this is a pretty niche purchase. And I got to say, it's been a pain in the ass as well. I was doing a D&nd campaign where i was playing in star wars and i had a character whose name was damn soon the way he talked was like this and he always had a cigar in his mouth so i tried to find a good prop cigar that i could have in my mouth for like four hours at a time that wouldn't taste disgusting wear out break and i have yet to

find one. The cool thing about this one was it used to have metal prongs that I'm pretty sure are poisonous. But whenever they would touch your tongue, they would light up the tip of the cigar a little bit. It was like, oh, that's a cool little feature. But after like two hours of use, the back of this thing like opens up and peels off

and the metal starts to taste like I'm actually being poisoned. Like there's just a flavor in my mouth that my body tells me is a red flag it's like this is not a flavor you should be experiencing get this thing out of your mouth it's their patented lead contacts they make better what it is but i have bought no less than 20 different prop cigars some of them being the same one because i just couldn't find other ones so i bought like 10 of this particular one but i have tried to find so many different prop cigars that i could leave in my mouth for like four hours for like a skit why don't they keep replacing it we or at the very least mark knows enough people couldn't you reach out to an actual prop master and ask them what they think?

Probably could have. Because I know, so on InSpace, Mick just used actual cigars, which was very bold of him and kind of gross. And I think if he hadn't, I think he enjoys a cigar. I think he didn't mind it that much. I would not have been able to live with that. That was horrific. that much i would not have been able to live with that that was horrific um but i'm sure that a prop person would either know a good one to buy and just tell you like oh yeah we'll go order this niche place buy this i don't know a prop person or they would make mark does yeah but if there's

one company harder to reach than dgi it's market player damn wait a minute. Savage. Minus one points for the unnecessary roast. You know, it was probably worth it. I don't know. That is, that is, so, so are there specific things that you look for when you're shopping for them? Or are you just buying any? I literally just want one that, I mean, having the light up feature was cool, but unnecessary. What if you just wrap it in like duct tape or something? I mean, I guess I could do that.

But the problem is like you literally just sit there for three or four hours talking like this and you have the cigar in your mouth and it gets all salivary. And then like I try to rinse it like after I'm done and I'll put it like next to my desk and it's like even sitting here for a week after rinsing is probably not very sanitary. I don't know what's growing on this. Don't wash it. Just rinse it. Yeah.

I don't know. Just finding a good prop. I'm not doing that campaign anymore, so I don't need it now. But it was a lot harder to find than I expected. I was like, dude, I'm sure tons of people need prop cigars for all kinds of things. There's going to be like long lasting, durable prop cigar. And there is not. long lasting, durable prop cigar.

And there is not. There's just a whole bunch of like three to five dollar cigars that fall apart after an hour and a half of use. That's what exists. You know, that is fair. Maybe I was a little too judgmental. Like I didn't mean to scoff because we've seen it before. But that is that does fall in the qualification. It's niche.

It's such a small thing, but it's a product that you bought and you liked. I will grant you one point for that. Does that make me like negative five now uh yeah it does good counting thank you i every time you stabbed me today i felt it so i what do you mean i don't know what you're talking about anyway all right so we've been talking a while i'll try to wrap it up here with if you guys have any last minute things I could talk endlessly but I know I'm like we could do a whole season I don't know if we do seasons here but we could do a whole season

talking about this kind of stuff because it's our lives I would love if you got more like dish it out I have one this is not a technology thing but it's a kitchen thing and can I just say this won't be a long one I could talk a lot about this knife blocks for the kitchen kitchen thing and can i just say this won't be a long one i could talk a lot about this uh knife blocks for the kitchen i am not by any means a highly trained highly skilled chef person but i'm

a very enthusiastic hobbyist chef i love cooking i love learning new stuff online and trying it in my kitchen and and i love having i don't like knife sets right a lot of people in their kitchen you probably like buy a set of knives from the department store or whatever, and it comes in a thing and it's all this. I don't like that. The knife sets are generally not very good quality. So I have my own knives.

I have a square bladed Japanese vegetable knife. That's pretty nice. I have a nice Aiden chef's knife. That's pretty good quality. I have some good quality paring knives that I like, but they're not a set. And so they don't fit in a knife block right they didn't come in a thing i have been searching for the longest time for a knife block that was like universal but not shitty because there's a lot of universal knife blocks that'll fit all your

knives that are garbage they're they don't hold them they're not very good i recently found an in the drawer knife block that That's basically just a big piece of wood with a bunch of vertical cuts in it. And you could put like your steak knives in there on one layer on top and then your bigger knives. And there's a, there's a cutout for your honing steel. It's like the big round thing that you use. It's not a sharpener. It's a honing steel in the drawer knife block. Absolute revelation for me. Super niche, not important. One, I like that the knives are not on the counter. Our son is five months old, so he's not exactly pulling things down off the counter yet.

But I've always thought it was really sketchy to just have a big block of incredibly dangerous pointy things sitting out in the open on the counter. If you have kids around, kids are stupid. They might touch, pull, knock over, whatever. In the drawer, disc discreet doesn't take up counter space if you have low cabinets like we have out my longer knife so you wouldn't you couldn't pull them out of the top of the block without like moving it out from under the cabinet solves a lot of problems in the drawer knife block i don't know if this is a new technology

or not if it's been around forever i just discovered it fantastic i love it it's my new favorite kitchen thing. I love hearing about this stuff. I really do. Cause it's like, it doesn't just apply to tech. Like that is kind of like this thing that solves problems. Cause all of these things are the pursuit of problem solving. It's like, there's a problem and you solve it. Like this solves a lot of problems. The lenses that I was talking about solves a lot of problems. That knife block solves for this cigar solves problems. These aren't just things to gush about.

They're things to gush about because you had a problem that was so aggravating beforehand. My little extended... Your little disky adjusty platey thingies. Yes, yes. Yeah. So I really do appreciate that. Wade, do you have any last minute ones to get in? I was going to go grab them.

In the other room, I've got cables. and I don't remember which cables they were. But at one point I was trying to change around how like my Synology, which is an external storage bin for those of you that don't know. I've got like terabytes of like videos and stuff stored. I was trying to change around how they were like plugged in because I've got two computers in my office, one that Dana remote desktops into to edit videos and my computer that I'm using right now. And they're both plugged in with Ethernet cables to the Synology.

And I had to get like an Ethernet extender thing. So I had more Ethernet ports on the back of one of my computers. At some point, I needed a different kind of cable. I needed like an extender for like a USB or USB-C or something like a male female thing or whatever it was. And it like didn't exist. All of these stores i went to online they were like yeah we got them in stock and i showed up they're like i've never

heard like someone that doesn't work in that department that usually is just like i unlock cabinets so you can get the lion king game out like that's their extent of knowledge of the electronics section i showed them this cable i needed they were like this to charge your phone and it's like no so i went online and I tried to like find the cable there, but being not tech savvy and being in this industry is kind of a terrible combination, which is me. It took me forever to even figure out what I was actually looking for.

But like some of these like little cables that are almost impossible to find, I forget what it was. It was like a female to female or male to male, like extender thing for something, or just that little like ethernet, extra ethernet ports thing was more of a pain in the ass than I expected it to be. But there's so many little things like that, that throughout the year, I don't even think about.

It's just something I'm like, Oh, I need to find a way to do this thing. So I'll go and I'll order like four or five different products. And then I'll like sometimes forget and keep the ones I don't use. But sometimes I'll remember and I'll return the ones that are like, Oh, this one didn't quite work. But it's just like, I'll throw just money at the problem, hoping something sticks and I can fix it because there's just so many weird niche things you don't think about ever needing to do that just come up sometimes where it's like, how do I plug this in? There's not a port for it. I got to make one. I love a perfect cable though. Oh my gosh, dude. I have, I got recently for my car, eight inch long usb a to lightning

cables but the lightning cable is a is a 90 degree right angle so it plugs in in one and then it's like the exact right length to plug my phone in and then put it in the spot on my dashboard in my car where the phone sits oh you don't have extra cable and it fits oh there's no cable flopping around there's no ball it's the exact cable that i needed and i found it and i was like it's even a left-hand turn 90 degree thing like it's perfect i love when that happens but cables are a real pain in the ass sometimes yes yeah i went through this the whole reason that my hard drive situation is so tumultuous is because of the nightmare that is the usb standard and i've talked about this before already this way we talked about this last

time right yeah but trying to figure that in trying to figure that out i've learned so much about cables you do hard drive arrays it's fun like it's aggravating but sometimes you need that aggravation to kick you in the ass to go learn something new. And I, I love that problem solving. And if it takes a few bad purchases, which I've made a few bad purchases and there's a few things that you realize

like, Oh, it's not me. That's dumb. It's these companies that are dumb, but there are some that do, and it really makes it a lot better. So like our sponsors,

yes, our sponsors will solve all of your problems they have exactly the right thing and it does what they say it does i'm really hoping earlier in the episode when i was like oh you'll know when we sponsored i'm really hoping it cuts to immediately like we're sponsored by i don't know in my head if that happened then hell yeah if it didn't then well at least you guys know i had a dream. Alright, well I'm gonna wrap this one up here. Thank you guys for your enlightening discussions. If you guys

have any niche things that you gush about. This was close. Any more points? No, I think we've tallied up all the points we possibly could. Let me do a final count here. So, it's a close one. But with an 11 point lead

Bob is the winner yay so what's the gimmick y'all did you all agree the most unfair episode ever or did he pay you or how did this happen he did this on his own we didn't discuss anything Adam it was fair it was just a fair episode Wade am I being punished for the subreddit like not or how did this happen? He did this on his own. We didn't discuss anything. I don't know. It was fair.

It was just a fair episode, Wade. Am I being punished for the subreddit like not siding with you? I've been in your exact position in other perfectly fair episodes. I don't know what you're moaning about right now. Do you remember the episode like five episodes ago when I participated

and I had to like, oh, I've got to figure out the rule. If I figure out the rule, I win. And I found out at the end of the episode the fucking coin flip at the beginning meant you won and I had to like, oh, I've got to figure out the rule. If I figure out the rule, I win. And I found out at the end of the episode, the fucking coin flip at the beginning meant you won and I didn't. I don't remember that. I don't know. That was fair. Yeah, that was fair. The fact that it didn't feel fair doesn't mean that it wasn't actually fair. Oh, okay. It was a coin flip. It was an even chance. I could flip a, I could flip a coin again, Wade, if you feel like it's super unfair. Bob, you have won the fairest, fairest of fair episodes we've ever fairly done.

If Wade is going to whinge it up like this, if Wade is going to moan and moan, Mark, I will submit to a coin flip ending to this episode. I will forestall my points. I will call it a draw at the end and i will say i will you flip flip the thing and let wade call it in the air i'm in i could not possibly lose let me another coin flip let me find i found a very basic uh coin flipping thing so you guys can this is online oh i want my i want i mean i want our lens cap so here is no no more lens caps so this is uh just flip a coin dot com i think oh make the coin purple purple all right that feels fair i like that yeah and it's already on heads which means that like what are the odds

of rolling heads twice in a row i guess it's 50 50 per flip but i'm gonna go with heads if i'm calling it i guess call it in the air which isn't a thing oh okay call it in the air all right are you ready yes all right three two one heads yes bob you had an 11 point lead why would you let it come down to this? I was so confident that there's no way the streak could continue. How many is that in a row? I don't know how fast it flipped for you, Mark, but it was like three frames of flip for me. I thought it was done on tails. On my screen, it was all flip up tails heads yeah it's like it it's like it reversed

it's just that it's fine it was just taunting me you know what this is why i brought a sandwich i uh i i i volunteered for this and i my hubris has led us here so I feel like this episode was designed for me to lose I can't believe you found a way to lose I can't understand what's happening how many flips is that in a row that's like 13 or 14 or some shit we're between 10 and 14 somewhere in that range I don't know man I'm sorry Bob I really I thought the secret name to this was Bob Wins This Episode. That's what I was like going to declare it as. No, that should be the title, 100%. Yeah, okay.

Let's call it Bob Wins This Episode. Yeah, that's what it's called. I should have won. I should have shut my hole. I should not have tried to satisfy Wade's whining. I should have let him be sad and salty. 100%. You've let me do that several times now.

I was so sure there's no way and it'll be a glorious like, oh my god. I'm like beyond even being mad. Now I'm just disappointed in myself. I feel like I've... You should be. You did this to you. I am doing this to my own self now. I am the new Wade

of this podcast. I'm trying to lose and I'm succeeding. If you had called it, would you have called tails or heads? No, I would have called heads. I've only, lose and I'm succeeding. If you had called it, would you have called tails or heads? No, I would have called heads. I've only, I believe I've only called heads or mostly called. I pretty much always call heads. So it's never heads when you call it. It's always heads when I call it. Funny how that works out.

It's so crazy that that happens like that. Anyway, thank you all so much for watching. Thank you for being a part of this. Wade, do you have a winner's speech? Hold it. Bob, loser's speech? I, more than any other time so far, I did this to myself.

I should have just taken the win. I'm not mad at me. I'm just disappointed in me. The viewers slash listeners are going to think that we're rigging this and it's a bit, and it would be funny even if we were doing that. It's not. It's just not even fixed. It just keeps happening because I keep inviting the coin flip back into my life. I keep saying yes, even though I should say no, and I did it to my own self.

You've got to win one of them. Like, literally, this has to end. Well, that's the thing. Right now I'm at this point where I'm like i have to keep doing it because i have to win eventually but if i keep allowing the coin flip to decide i'm apparently never gonna win what's the percentage let's say it's been 12 what's the percentage of losing 12 straight coin flips very low uh mandy made fun of me last time because apparently you could find this answer very easily by just multiplying this thing by itself you know what whatever do

that in your head yeah point zero zero zero two four percent or they don't i don't know they don't say a percent i mean that's that's like a likelihood right that's that's yeah so what so it's probably what would that make it? Like, less than even if you move that over, that's .024%? That's terrible. Alright, well thank you so much for watching and or listening.

Hope you guys have a wonderful time. Gush about the things that you love and don't place anything of value on a coin flip if your name is Bob. If Wade goes to a casino in the next, like, month, I think he's going to walk away a billionaire. I'm going to call you guys and be like, I'm on a Bob streak. You need to bring me with you to the casino, and somehow we need to play a game against each other.

But where you also win money from the house. That's the thing. Whatever Bob says, bet the opposite. We were playing blackjack, and I'm like, Double down! And Wade is like, ooh, fold, or whatever blackjack things. Man, I had a royal flush, but fold. Bob says I should go.

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