Distractible - Bob's Top 5 (#2 Will Shock You!)
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good evening gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to distractible this episode
behold and bob cause cod goes raiding then ranks fun science facts
Microbial Mark mourns man's best friend, poor Henry, mentions moonbows, questions wetness, a metallic Camelopadalus.
Whitening Wade upgrades his peen, blows away bushwhackers, seize glory holes, and fears Zeus's bolts.
From humbling heaviness to cosmic latte.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
It's time for Bob's top five.
Number two will shock you.
Now sit back
I'm prepared to be distracted
And enjoy the show
Hello everybody and welcome back
To your guinea pig's third favorite podcast
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You're watching Distractable
And if you're listening
This intro is not for you
Because we all know that you're the
You're the real heroes here
Hey listeners, how you doing?
Thanks so much for listening
I really appreciate you.
I'm your host for this episode.
My name is Bob.
I've done this before,
even though from my performance,
you might question whether that's true.
I have, I promise I have.
I have won previous episodes.
It is me,
former winner, Bob.
And I'm shown today by my co-host slash competitors,
just like always, Mark and Wade.
Hi, I'm Mark.
Howdy, Doody.
Wait's the one that said duty.
If you've never seen this show before,
the way this works is I am the host,
and I have like a game topic
and I'm gonna give out points
and then these two guys are trying to get points
or not get points
because we've had a lot of golf rules
for how hard it is to do golf rules on this show
we've had a lot of golf rules coming out lately.
This episode, my plan is for the highest number of points to win
but we'll see what the wheel has to say about that
and then whoever wins host the next one.
That's the whole thing.
The points are very strictly calculated.
It's basically science.
This is basically an experiment.
It's tightly controlled and yeah,
you'll see once we get going how it works
It's very carefully planned out.
It's very thoughtful.
And the points are very important.
And the winner is a meaningful choice at the end because it's science.
But anyway, before we get into the game that I have planned, how are you guys doing?
How are you been?
You got sad small talk.
You want that?
You want to kick this off with some depressing discussions?
I'm here.
I'm here to talk about whatever you want, man.
No, I mean, I'm going to talk about more later.
Unfortunately, actually fortunately, we're unfortunately, I'm not sure which way to go about it.
But this week is also the fifth anniversary of Unisana's.
Oh, wow.
So we've had to plan that.
And what's interesting about it's like we at first was like, holy shit, this is a whole bunch to deal with right now with Henry in the movie and all of it's sprinting and having to stop and all this things.
And then Oonisana's being like, oh, shit, we got to do that.
But it reminded us very much about doing Unisana.
or maybe me am i might be putting uh thoughts into their minds but it's um i was i was thinking about
it a lot and just kind of oh we did this when covid happened and in the moment it's like you know
you never know how it was going to be and then we're just got to plow through no matter what and
then we we finish away this so we uh by the time people have seen this they've already seen what we
did uh so we had planned it for a while um and then we did it and it was great but it's like right now
when I'm recording this, we haven't done it yet.
So I'm hoping that everything I'm saying is true.
So it's going to be great.
This is going to be so funny when someone is like, oh, wait, can we put, oh, no, can we do it
in next week?
Wait, sorry.
But it's been a time.
No, man, that's crazy, though.
Five, so five years ago, it started.
Yeah, November of 2020 would have been when it ended, right?
Because you guys started in November of 2019 right before everything bad happened.
in the pandemic yeah so it's it's technically been six years since we started at five years since
its death and so we have kind of at a loose plan but then all the plans are you kind of get to the
moment we're like oh shit we got to execute upon the plan uh how do we do this so yeah it's um it's been
it's been a time lot of stuff going on lots of things happening and then the emotional burden of
losing henry has been pretty tough but the work's been distracting and uh
We've been moving forward from that.
You know, not a lot of people realize, like, I've had Chica for nine years.
We've had Henry for seven.
Oh, really?
Henry's been there a lot longer than people think.
But, yeah, so it was real tough.
There have been a lot of those year realizations, like whenever you guys had the wedding,
the fact that you and Amy had been together for a decade blew my mind.
I was like, no, it's been like, three to five, seven, ten, ten's the number.
Actually, it'll be pretty close to having Cheka for 10.
I got a look up when I got her.
I should probably know that, but...
Eh, it's been so long. It's easy to forget.
So I will have or will talk more about that, but with Amy,
because, you know, I want to talk about Henry with Amy, so...
That's so many things going on.
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of things.
But it's okay, we're managing.
There's other people here to help, and this is nice to just get back into doing this.
How are you, Wade?
And what a time to segue to Game of the Year!
Is it going to be Ark Raiders or Expedition 33?
I know what Shroud says.
Guys, I've got relevant conversation.
What does Shroud say?
What does Shroud said?
Oh, single player.
Only multiplayer should.
Call a Duty 28 or Expedition 33?
No, our creators.
on the day this episode comes out
the new Call of Duty what Black Op 7 comes out
calling it now
that's game of the year
if they'd given us an ad read maybe
but they didn't so
all streamers are going to
conclude together
Call of Duty Blackop 7
game that doesn't even exist yet
Instant Game of the Year
Instant classic
All you need is more war zone baby
I have been playing a bit of Arc
It's very fun.
When I first started playing, I don't know if it was because I was in like the safer areas,
but there was a like friendly people.
It was a PVP game where you'd run into people that were just like,
Hey, I'm, don't shoot, I'm friendly.
I'm just, listen, I'm just collecting flowers.
Just getting some flowers.
And we were like, yeah, hey, we just need some olives and pears.
Olives and pairs.
We're cool.
That's nice.
But the longer have been playing, I've found more people that are just like,
Hey, we're friendly, but be careful.
Those guys back there betrayed us.
Oh, they'd overweight.
We got you, loser.
So we didn't have had a couple of people.
those moments lately where people have pretended to be nice and then immediately betrayed.
Fun, fun.
I love that in a game where you don't really gain very much by killing other players, you just
do it for funs.
Typically they've got, they could have better loot on them because they've already been looting
around, but also you could potentially just get nothing and just, anyway, I saw a bit that
I really want to do in Ark Raiders.
I saw this guy posting clips where he goes to the extracts and just stands out on top and
is like, I will protect you.
Everyone, come to my, I am the extract hero.
And like his whole bit is just like the opposite of extract camping where he's like,
this is a safe one.
Come here and extract.
And like, I want to be that guy because that's hilarious.
That is nice.
That is nice.
Is it kind of like Rust in a way?
It's PVE.
It's like Rust when it first came out that had zombies.
Do you know enough about like Escape from Tarkoff?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it's kind of like a more casual less like military sim Tarkoff it's like third person and you don't have you know 90 types of ammo and all this bullet you have simplified like weapons and stuff but the the gameplay loop is there are robots on the map and it's PVE but also you can PVP but you really don't have to and like I've had experiences where I was in with I was in a duo and we ran into another duo and we were like well we're cool don't shoot and then they were just like let's go
kill a big robot and we went and found a big like walking spider leaper robot and we
that was the first time any of us had killed one and then we extracted together it was super cool
it's fun but there's there's been plenty of douchebags also who are just there to
ruin your time and pvp it's part of the game i'm not going to be one of those people who's like
you shouldn't do it i just don't care for it there's a map called bluegate in the center of
blue gate there's like an olive garden it's not olive garden what's it called olive
Olive Garden. It's called Olive Something. I don't know. It's the place where your family.
Oh, yeah. Are you thinking of Magiano's Little Italy? It might be. Terizanos.
Oh, okay.
But no, there's like a little field of like trees where you go to get olives or apricots or lemons.
It's just like a...
Oh, you meant that there's olive tree.
Yeah, but the place is actually called Olive Something.
Olive Orchard?
Are craters.
Olive patch.
Bluegates.
Olive Garden
Olive Grove apparently it's called
Olive Grove I thought it was called Olive Garden my bad
they did have breadsticks when I was there but
anyway we went to this Olive Grove it's like central in the map
and in order to upgrade your cock
which you have to do in this game yeah you do want to do that
what huh what say again what you have to feed it
and at one point you need apricots and lemons
and then later on you need all
Olives and mushrooms and more apricot, whatever.
So a lot of the stuff you need is in this olive grove.
And we went there and five teams converged there at once.
And everyone was pretty chill except for one group.
And we didn't really know what was happening.
So we hear one group that's like fighting.
We think they're fighting robots.
And then one guy runs over to us.
He's like, hey, those people over there, do not trust that group.
They said they were cool.
And then they weren't.
Okay.
That's cool, man.
we're just here to grab some olives.
Yeah, yeah, it's what we were here for too,
but they went crazy for some reason.
All right, well, we'll keep an eye out,
but we're just going to go loot.
And then he kind of ran off,
and we hear him run back, and he's like screaming.
He's like, oh, God, look out the Leaper.
Shoot it, shoot it.
And we're like, it's not even mad right now.
Why would we shoot it?
And so I'm going to loot something.
Basically, the dude lied.
He was trying to bait us into shooting the Leeper
so the robots would attack us
so he could kill us and loot us.
And then he tried that.
and then another team came over after the dude tried to betray us and we downed him and then he told the team he was like hey these guys aren't cool these guys told me they were fridly they shot me and we're like this dude came over here like you guys can rest him if you want we're not dealing with him no he tried to betray us he tried to get us to fight the leaper but the dude was he was selling so hard every story and no one believed him
so like all these teams kept converging he was like crawling around to the ground like hey these guys betrayed me and none of us were having it they're like we ran into them earlier they were
cool, man. We're not going to screw with
them. Oh, come on, I got, like, and then
he just died. And we kept lootin our
olives. Then he just
died. Yeah, but he was
really committed to the bit. That's really
funny. Anyway, our craters, not game
of the year, unless...
Unless Shroud says so.
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I was originally gonna call it that but it's I'm not doing that no this this game I
found this list and it's one of those lists of like oh it's a 158 fun fact that will
blow your mind and I started
started reading it and almost none of them blew my mind. But I did find five fun facts that
I thought were interesting enough that I was like, ah, cool. And so I made a list. I made a tier
list, you could say. I made a ranking. One through five of these five fun facts. And I want you
guys to see if you can match how I ranked them. We're going to talk about the fun facts real
quick. And then you're just going to make your list. So there's five things. So it's one through
five, one being the highest, five being the lowest.
We're just going to talk about them.
And then at the end, I will give your ranked list a score.
And then that will be how we determine who wins.
Okay.
So pretend I wasn't listening to the first half of that.
The most important information, pretend I wasn't wrestling with getting a cable off the ground.
Five things.
Five things. Five things. Five things.
Okay, five things.
I have a list and they're ranked.
One through five. One is good.
five is less good.
Okay.
We're going to talk about them and you guys are going to rank them.
That's the whole thing.
I thought I had something more in there.
No, no.
I just, at the end, I have a system for I'm going to score your lists.
That's it.
Fact number one, a rainbow on Venus is called a glory.
I really wish it was on Uranus that it was called a glory.
But a rainbow on Venus, which is not the planet Uranus, is called a glory,
appearing as a series of colored concentric rain.
rings. These are caused by the interference of light waves within droplets rather than by
reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light, which is how a rainbow is made on Earth. So they
look similar because it basically breaks the light out into rainbow of colors, breaks it out
and it looks like a rainbow kind of, but it's called a glory. That's pretty cool, right? Yeah.
Yeah, I just got caught up and you know how the rainbow is kind of like a bridge in design?
Sure, sure.
Is that a glory hole?
Well, an Earth rainbow is a glory bridge, but a Venus rainbow is a glory hole.
All rainbows are circles, but we only see part of it.
That's why a moon bow, you can see a full circle.
Is that a thing?
Yeah, a moonbow?
Yeah, you've never seen a moonbow?
I played Franbo back in the day.
That's good.
Give up a point.
Okay.
Hey, I'm just here, man.
Well, I was.
I'll be a pick.
All right.
Uh, if you see a moon bow, uh, usually it's easier to see with a full moon.
And if it's straight up in the sky, you can see a full halo, uh, around, um, which is like,
when you think about the rainbow, it's not just a structure is not just a bow.
It's not just that.
It would continue if the earth wasn't in the way.
What causes that on the moon, though?
Is it our atmosphere causing that?
Yeah, yeah.
Because there's no atmosphere on the moon, right?
So, yeah, it's the same thing.
You need the same kind of similar scenario.
You need, like, moisture in the atmosphere, but enough to not be blocked and it can hit it.
It's very pretty when it happens.
Last time I saw it, I was up in Idle Wild with Amy.
I've never seen that.
That sounds really cool.
It is.
It's very cool, yeah.
But you got to, like, you could be out at night.
You know, I don't know how many times you're out at night looking up at the moon.
I do, honestly, I do that.
I like having, like, I have a fire pit.
You sit out.
You have a fire.
You look at it.
I'm in an area in Sincey where, like, it's pretty, there's a lot of light pollution, so I don't get, like, the best view of stuff, but I do like looking at, when we used to go camping in Northern Michigan, going down by the water and just staring up at the sky, because you could see satellites.
If the ISS was like in the right, look at you could see the ISS go overhead.
It's very cool.
I used to do it all the time.
Never saw Moonbow.
That's one of the five things.
You have no reference right now, but I could pick a spot for where you think that might be.
But the next fun, well, Wade's on here.
Let's talk about it without them.
Okay.
The next fun fact is that fish form orderly cues in emergencies.
Scientists have observed that schools of neon tetrafish when evacuating through narrow passages in sketchy or otherwise like dangerous situations where they're trying to escape from something, they will form an organized queue so that they don't run into each other and clog up the little.
passageway and they stay organized even while they're panicking and escaping until they're all
escape safely.
That is interesting.
Are these all true?
Is this far true than a lie?
I'm not going to say I went and found all of the academic papers, but these are all purportedly
true things.
And I'm realizing now they're all generally kind of sciencey things, because I guess the
only facts I find interesting are science facts.
Did we learn anything other than Uranus, rainbows?
I don't know, you weren't here, so
I had to help someone who was lost
Yeah, yeah, okay
Well, they were delivering my food
Well, so we did the
Venus rainbow, Venus glories
And then the one Mark and I just talked about
And now we're gonna do the third fact
Third Fun Fact
Did you know that water might not be wet?
This is a philosophical one
I've heard that, yeah
But this is a scientific perspective on it
Most scientists would define wetness as a liquid's ability to maintain contact with a solid surface.
So like a towel is wet because of surface tension and other qualities of the towel, the water stays absorbed into it, right?
It's connected to that solid surface.
That means water's not a solid surface and water just is water.
There is no water on water.
Water is water.
So water can't be wet then.
if by this definition from this perspective, potentially.
Yeah, I've heard this before, too,
and I think where this rubs people wrong is
there's a generally accepted life experience with water
that it, in almost every scenario
where a human is interacting with water,
makes things wet, feels wet, is generally wet.
So it's, you know, it's like Pluto, you know.
You're technically right, of course,
but everyone's life experience.
had Pluto being the the planet at the anyway it's uh can't get our nine pizzas without Pluto
how is eight pizzas any worse than nine so how's a oh yeah so it's like I I I think you broke a spark plug in my brain
right all they want, it really won't change people's experience with when dealing with water.
They're not going to go like, oh, don't worry, that water's not wet. Don't be afraid.
But it's not wet, Mark.
Because it's certainly not dry. Water needs to be wet.
Just because it makes you wet doesn't mean that the water is wet.
But would it be considered dry then? If it's not wet, is it dry?
The water is dry until it interacts with a solid surface?
but then the water is still dry.
What's it?
This is the question.
We need to come up with a definition for when water has physical objects in it.
The water makes things wet.
What do things make water?
Ah!
One of my spark plugs.
Oh, no, no.
Oh, we're losing so many spark plugs on this one.
Come on.
This is a terrible fact.
I hate this.
I love this.
It's a fun fact.
Wait, it's a philosophical discussion.
But a bad one.
Listen, there's bad philosophy.
There's no such thing. Well, I'm not going to say that. All right, fun fact number four. Did you know,
giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than human people.
Makes sense.
While there are only five actual well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010,
due to the population of giraffes being just 140,000 during that time frame roughly, that makes it about 0.0.0.000.
303 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year, which is 30 times more than the fatality
rate for human beings.
Is it because they're tall?
Probably, right?
Yeah, I thought you were going to bait and switch us like it's not because they're tall.
Giraffes live primarily in like deserts, I believe, where there isn't stuff.
If giraffes lived in a city where there are, you know, 10 plus story buildings all over,
I don't know if their height difference
between them and humans really does much
but they live in a world where they're the tallest thing
for a long, for miles around
most a lot of the time.
Don't they live in savannas?
They don't live in Georgia Wade.
Oh.
Because, yeah, never mind.
Is it savannas?
I mean, are, am I still correct, though?
There's not like a lot of like tall forests and stuff, right?
There's no, no, they're very open.
There's not a lot of trees.
Yeah. Relatively arid, I think,
not necessarily jungle
although I suppose they could
I don't know if anything's stopping them
Yeah I have no idea what the actual
defined habitat of a giraffe is
It could be include jungles or things but
Oh they live in Chad
No from Chad to North South Africa
What's annoying is the places
Where there's color where they are
They cover the name of that country
I don't know my geography
This is useless
You've got to find another map
Map of words
and then compare map of giraffes to map of words.
Anyway, I do think there's some bias in that
because giraffes live in a place where they're easily the tallest thing.
And humans are never the tallest thing.
The world that we've created, even if it's like a nomadic people,
humans live in, you know, I believe in Mongolia,
they live in these big traveling like yurt things where they, you know,
there are societies where they're nomadic and they travel,
but they still live in a structure that they erect
that's way taller than people are.
Savannah's and woodlands, usually in, like, grasslands.
South and Western Africa?
My other theory was that giraffes might be partially made of metal.
Maybe in 1987, all giraffes were replaced by the government,
and it's actually a conspiracy.
Really good iron intake in those leaves.
Which government?
The government?
The world government, Mark.
The world.
old government, okay, all right, okay.
Obviously, the one run
by the lobster people.
Maybe something they're doing
is generating static electricity.
I don't know why. I just imagine all the
giraffes like shuffling their feet.
Like, giraffes don't pick their, they're all just like
and they're always
really, really zappy because they shuffle
around a lot. Is that way like the fur on their
neck stands up? It's the static?
Does it? Probably. I don't know.
Well, they do have those two
protruding things. It's very lightening.
Rudd-esque.
Oh, that's true.
Maybe that's some sort of alien technology.
Maybe they, once upon a time, were able to cast lightning, like channel it from their horns
and zap it out, like, to kill their prey.
The great predators.
Well, they were such great predators that they killed all the prey and now they're
vegetarians because they ran out of stuff, the things to eat.
Okay, if I was walking next to Mark, and it was Thunder and Lightning,
I would feel more in danger than I would think Mark would be
because I'm closer to the lightnings, Dray.
Closer to God, closer to death.
So maybe the giraffes, maybe it is the height thing
because their heads are always in those very conductive branches.
If they're when?
Stop it, bomb.
His British is coming out all over the place.
Man, he's just leaking accents today.
No, his wet comet made me mad because of the water one.
Was that an always sudden?
reference or is that not a thing?
I've not seen that.
There's, okay, there's a scene of that show where, oh,
Charlie Day's character is doing something completely insane.
And then the other guy just goes,
in a voice that's not his normal voice at all, goes,
Stop it, Charlie!
It's just really fucking weird and out of pocket.
I guess that's just a funny thing, funny guys do.
I guess you're just funny in that way.
Thank you.
All right, this is the last fact.
Oh, second to last, right?
Nope.
then you'll all have to rank all these facts
we've been talking about this whole time.
The universe has an average
color. We all know how Mark
likes to do math with colors
and how hilarious it is
when we have to compare the color of our shirt
to the color of our backgrounds. I love it.
You know I love it. Astronomers
have found that the light coming from
galaxies averages out
into
an off-white color
that they have decided to call
cosmic latte.
The color of the universe is Cosmic Latte.
Okay, so they decided this based on the average wavelength of light.
This is the average wavelength of emitted light as far as we can observe.
Again, this is one of those things where it's like, this is very similar to the water is wet situation because a thing's color is based on its reflected light, right?
But in the universe, most of it is nothing.
So you would have to base it on the number of reflective surfaces as opposed to anything.
But maybe that is majority.
I don't know.
I have to assume that they remove the empty parts, right?
Like this was clearly they got rid of the outliers, which would include anything where there's nothing that they can sense.
Like the black parts of the sky are not black light.
There's just no light to be observed.
I feel like this has to be an average of what they're, like, things that are actually
bouncing light towards whatever sensors, telescopes, whatever they're using.
I suppose.
Cosmic latte is just cream.
Yeah, it is.
It sounds really cool.
Like if someone was like, what color is Cosmic Latte?
In my head, I would imagine all sorts of stuff.
It's just like beige.
It's literally like that thing your grandparents owned that they've had for 40 years that was painted
white originally but it's faded and old
and gross looking now? Yeah, well
so listen, the
reality of what the color is doesn't need
to spoil the fact that it's called, I just
like that it's called Cosmic Latte. I think
that's really funny. I think that's a good
color. I want to paint my house Cosmic
Latte because then I can tell this
very boring story to
everyone who comes over to my house.
Don't yawn at me.
Sorry, just so bored.
All right, now that we've all,
all of us have talked about all five
of these insanely fun facts.
Yeah, I've got them ranked.
Yeah, you're done?
Oh, done. Yeah.
Wait, is five the least interesting?
Yeah.
Yeah, one is the top, the most interesting.
I should have told you.
We should have left you to decide because I am.
I already said that a bunch of times.
Exactly.
So we should have repeated it again.
We'll repeat for Mark.
Yeah, well, he didn't leave.
He just doesn't listen.
That's different.
I had to.
My food was lost and there's nothing I care about more in life than food.
well that might be true
damn I don't know
I text Molly real quick
food's kind of important
I tell her
I like to think the same's true for
all right well wait
if yours is ready
Mark is still figuring
what is your list
Wade
all right one to five or five to one
which order you want me going
go five to one
Colin let's make it fun
number five
water isn't wet
all right
four universe average color
is cosmic latte
all right
number three
don't know
wasn't here for it
Number two, giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning.
All right.
Number one.
You guys will never guess.
The Venus Gloryhole.
All right.
What a beautiful list.
Well, don't say anything until you hear my list.
Boo!
Okay, well, I didn't boo your list.
They probably weren't listening to it.
I wasn't, actually.
I don't remember.
I remember what you started with, because you had number four, what my number five is.
So number five for me is cosmic life.
Latte, because...
Number five is Cosmic Latte, got it?
Because, oh, cares.
Oh, fucking cares.
I, why did that even make my list?
You're right.
Yeah, that's something aside who's like,
I've called you all to this meeting to declare.
It's fiche.
It's like, fucking,
from leaves.
Like, not even a clap.
So that's, I don't give a shit.
I thought that the next one would be water.
not be wet, but it's not. Because I'm basing this on what makes me ask more questions or
what leads to further queries or stuff like that. And drafts more likely to start by lightning
just as like, uh-huh. Yeah, they're tall. That makes sense. That's just really that goes to
me. Say with a lot of days. I've called you on to this meeting. I've introduced just
years of research. I've discovered the drafts.
are more likely to be struck my lady
and everyone would be like
and then leave you know
the TED talk
that is these things
sure sure so in
third it's water might not be wet
because people would
get you get a response after the
I've declared water might not be
because every of the audience would be like
boom
why'd you waste your grant money
on this
then they'd leave
right
okay okay
Number two is actually rainbow on Venus is called The Glory
because I think that that's cool, it's interesting,
it's a totally different way to get a rainbow.
You put that at number one?
No, that's number two.
No, I know, but you put that at number one.
Yeah, I did, and I'll tell you one.
Unbelievable, that's clearly a number three.
You get the question of like, oh, that's cool,
there's a different way to make a rainbow.
But with Fish, this TED talk was going to be fascinating.
Because this guy has to start with how he put these fish in emergency situations.
What fire did he light in that fish tank to get them to do a fire drill?
How did they?
Why was, how many fish didn't make it out of the exit in the orderly queue?
Like, what was the emergency?
I have so many questions.
Like, what is the behavior that causes to form an orderly cue?
What defines an orderly cue?
One fish out to another stretched out.
Do they loop?
Do they have turnstiles?
Do they have the winding cues like in the scene part?
I have so many questions.
I believe that that would be a very interesting TED talk.
And whoever did this research has got to be an interesting person, they would make that
TED talk entertaining.
When the fire starts in the aquarium, these fish get out the stanchions and know how to set up
DSA line that wraps efficiently.
No, that's clearly number three.
That's what I was thinking this whole time.
All right.
Hang on, just doing some final math here.
Mark, you put up a good fight.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
The way that I scored this, which I'm sure by explaining this,
I will make someone really angry and they'll tell me why this is a terrible scoring system,
is that for each ranking that you did,
I basically subtracted a point for each spot away from my rank that you were.
So I have a whole, I have some math on the page.
I think our cosmic latte is going to cost us late.
Not knowing that fish were doing fire drills might kill me.
I will say, I had Cosmic Latte at number one,
purely because I really like that the name is so interesting sounding,
and the fact is so fucking stupid.
I think that's really funny.
It's not a fun fact because of the fact.
It's a fun fact because you know that those scientists were like,
we have the perfect name.
Cosmic Latte.
And that's the only interesting thought they've ever had.
But it's really funny.
So yeah, that one's gonna cause, that one started up a little bit.
Mark, I like your list more than that.
Nice.
Thank you.
He's a fool.
Yeah, well, look, we all had our own reasons
and only one of us gets to give points.
Mark, you got points for
Fifthus Onus, being a busy boy,
explaining me what a moonbow was,
allowing for me that I was technically correct,
even though that's stupid, and zappy giraffes.
Wait, you weren't points for...
for promoting Shroud
encountering that bad liar
in Arc Raiders
having played Fran Bo
because Mark said I should give you a point for that
this is why we can't get
or we can't get our nine pizzas without Pluto
and then the subsequent head explosion
when I said eight is just as good
and saying
stop it Bob or whatever the fuck you said
yeah whatever
and then for the lists
Mark you
lost 10 points
Jesus
My list
My list was
Cosmic Latte
Fish or Forming Cues
Giraffes are 30 times
More likely to get struck by lightning
Rainbow Unvenience is called a glory
And water might not be wet
So Mark you lost
10 points based on my mess
There's only a potential of 11 lost points
From that
How bad did I fucking
You could have done better
Oh no
Wade
You lost
eight points
making the final score
weighed with zero
and Mark with negative two
actually I did my math
there's only a potential 10
I did the exact words
yeah well I
I don't know if this will help anyone who's out there
listening or watching but I had
so the way I kept track of this is I had mine
one two three four five and then
Mark's was two four
five three one you pretty much
optimized it to lose the maximum
amount of points that you could.
Wade's saving grace was that he
got that water might not be wet was
the least interesting fact on that one.
He lost zero points for the fact
that water might not be wet.
That's so awful.
What a horrible waste of life someone did
to come up with that idea.
It's not over yet.
It's not over till it's over.
No, golf rules are still in play.
I mean, honestly, Mark's only down by two.
Like, that's a totally, I've done.
it before. Now the wheel's only going to give us one today. How many bonus
spins shall we have? I'd put my money on three based on the way this wheel
operates. And you know it's gonna be three! Three baby! I'll take three more
points. Oh I have to add a thing to the wheel. As prepared as I was for this, I did not,
uh, is, is funnest fact and an absolute or a thing on here? I don't think so, yeah, no,
that's actually a good one. I feel like most of us could bring a
Fun fact.
Funest fact.
All right.
We currently have 76 wheel options.
Apparently it now supports up to 2000 plus,
so this wheel will last us for quite some time.
And we have three spins.
Spin number one is...
Monkey's paw curls.
Oh, what was that one?
Was that that we increased the percentage on the one-man show?
I thought that was actually called that.
Yeah, there's something that's actually called that.
I think that just means something terrible happens somewhere in the world.
Oh, that's it.
We're just cashing that in.
We're just the monkey's paw curls.
Something bad happened.
Got it.
If I believe that was the thing, but we don't know.
If we're wrong about that, subred it, correct us.
If we're right, we're sorry.
Either way, we're sorry.
I'm sure it wasn't that bad.
I'm sure it wasn't that bad.
I am going to click disable this option on the next spin.
To appease, to appease the subreddit.
Spin number two.
Point, point for listeners.
Oh, man.
Mark, your chances are on life support.
Yeah, it could be.
You never know.
I'm a little scared that I'm terrible about to happen to me.
Wait, I didn't think this through.
Listeners currently have one point.
Oh.
Wade currently has zero points.
And Mark currently has negative 2 points
Oh, fuck
Well, the rules are what the rules are
I'm not sure
Better hope for golf rules
Alright, yeah, we might have to
We might have to pause that one
Anyway, spin number three
Save us
Winner, Winner Chicken Day
Most callbacks
Mark did a callback
Because Wade did the
My Spark plug broke
and then Mark's spark plug broke
That is true
But it could not be true
Wade did you do callbacks
Nope
I don't think so
All right guys I have a solution
We just let the listeners win
We just cancel the podcast
Just give him the W man
Just give him the W
I have an even better solution than that
The final score is
Listeners with one point
Wade with zero points
Mark with negative two points
Negative one, right? Because you got the...
Oh, negative one. That's right. That's right.
Very close. As is required by our Constitution, I hereby grant the listeners a win.
As the listeners cannot give a winner's speech and thus the speech portion of the show cannot commence, that win will be documented for posterity and their title as winner of this episode is immediately vacated for the next person who is present.
and able to give a winner speech
because the way the Constitution works
is I'm the host until the speeches happen
and I declare the winner
and then I give up my powers.
So I'm still the host.
So I'm God.
Also, I hate the listeners.
So you congratulations listeners.
You get one documented victory of this podcast.
That's not enough to win the trophy
that everyone that we get at the end of the season
that totally exists and we've definitely done.
It beat me this year.
And what actually happens is Wade wins this episode as it's like you're the vice president
and the president died right after he said the last word of the inauguration.
I was thinking more like the winner was caught doping and so I win because they get disqualified,
but I guess that works too.
Oh, it's like drag racing.
You lost to the listeners, but then the listeners hit the scales on the way back to the pits
and they were 12 pounds underweight.
So they're D-Qed.
Wade is the champion
and Mark loses either way
But problem elegantly solved
There will be a row
In the subreddit I imagine
Or a column
There's gonna be some spreadsheets
Typing
Trust me
For everyone who keeps track of how many wins
Everyone has the listeners have a win
Do I get a win from this?
I mean technically
Well maybe I would say no
Technically you did not win
technically you assume the host position
so you assume the position of the winner
but the listeners actually got the win
so this is like a weird
constitutional law
ring around the rosy of nonsense
just to make the system work
because otherwise everything falls to shambles
man imagine the constitution
that we didn't think through
and the episode idea that I only thought through
for 15 minutes gave us so much chaos
I can't believe it
always does
um all right
Well, Mark, give us a loser speech.
Ah, I lost.
I'm right there with the viewers now.
I know how you feel today, and you know how I feel today.
But more importantly, we both know how Wade feels today.
For the first time, there will be two losers' speech, and that is a tragedy that we will never live down.
Constitution says there has to be a winner's.
Wade, you will give the winner's speech on behalf of the listeners.
You are not a winner, but you are accepting the daytime Emmy on their behalf, so you do get to speak at the podium.
You're a loser, but pretend like you're a winner.
Well, it's an honor to be here with you two today.
I'm here on behalf of the listeners who couldn't make an appearance, but they wanted me to say a few things, such as this has been a long time coming.
There's been a lot of ridicule toward the listeners.
Viewers have always gotten preference.
We push everyone to watch.
We do visual bits, but there's never been audio-only bits,
except for, you know, the whole first two or three years of the podcast,
but we don't count that because it's too far distant.
We, the listeners, are happy that justice has finally been served,
and we have a win in our column and or row.
The spreadsheets will be filling out,
and any viewers who disagree with this win can suck it because they've never won.
So yay to us, the listeners, ha-ha to Wade,
who had to give this speech today.
Okay, didn't need that part.
Mark, the fact that you lost, truly embarrassing, Bob setting this up, a real epidemic failure.
Uh, everyone loses today, except for us, the listeners.
We deserve this.
Everyone else sucks.
Ha ha ha ha.
Surprisingly accurate.
I think, I feel pretty.
I feel like a loser.
I feel worse than a loser.
Anyway, I feel like I need to apologize for throwing our, our podcast into a constitutional crisis.
I did not think it all the way through
I think every episode I host from here on out
the viewers and the listeners start with
negative 1,000 points
so good luck idiots
also I'm sorry that I
accidentally created the precedent that
viewers and or listeners if they
ever want to claim their points and for their wins
to mean anything now have to be present
which is not an option
this is kind of like one of those
rules that exist just to be a dick
kind of situations
But good speech, Wade, I think he really captured the sentiment that I'm sure the listeners would have expressed.
Congratulations listeners, and not congratulations, but it is your duty, Wade, to host the next one.
And man, am I excited to see the rows and columns in the subreddit after all of this comes out?
I really fucked it up, guys.
Anyway, make sure you follow Mark and Wade and myself.
Our names are probably on screen.
is for Minion 7777 or Lord Minion 777 Markly on my screen.
We're out of here.
Wade's going to host the next one, even though he's a huge loser,
just like the rest of us.
And, uh, no, that's it.
I was going to say another thing, but there's no more things,
because this is the end.
Podcast out.
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