Distractible - Burnout

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

The guys have a heart to heart, bald to Bob, and Go to Pro conversation about their personal struggles with feeling burnout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome. Too distractable. This episode, Melifluent Mark finally gets his just rewards, has a blue bucket for blood, and has supply issues. Brainy Bob, cranely cooks, lands cultuation, and experiences excruciatingly harrowing explosive eruptions. White-whiskered Wade gets befuddled, like Strait, demands lube, and opens up about his truly terrible trials.

From cold opens to heartfelt hard truths. Yes, it's time for burnout. Now sit back, and prepare to be disdemeanor. distracted and enjoy the show. Ready? Fart noise. That was my mouth sound. I was making a fart noise as a sound of acquiescence.

That's how I communicate with James. Sorry, I'm ready. That's how I show your dominance. I. Insert your dominance. Welcome to distractible. Oh no, no, no, no. This is the show where we have a very concise, clean intro every time. And cold opens are a thing that are relegated to a baldomort, who is way better at them than us as we are.

Did you emphasize bald more than usual on that name this time? Are you just sensitive to it? I really thought you were calling me a name. I think you're just sensitive to it, man. I feel like you were calling me his name, and I don't like that. Call me by my name. Bald. Alright, I'm gonna give you a bold point.

I'm particularly sensitive about that today, apparently. That's all right, man. It's all right, man. That's what this episode's gonna be all about. Spoiler warning. What, spoiler? I was trying to think of what the spoiler was, but then I realized it was a bit. Why don't we say to us what the episode's going to be before, you know, because the audience knows.

Well, they don't know. Maybe they don't. Maybe the title's confusing. No, Baltimore gives a complete description of what's going to happen in really elegant ways, yeah. But he says it in British words, which is confusing. You're right. You're right. What a weirdo.

Am I right, guys? Yeah, it's like a different language. So, who knows? All right, I'm giving you a Baltimore point Ball. Make sure you emphasize the bald part. Baltimore. I feel dirty. Spend his name the whole time, dude.

He must always feel dirty. What the hell? What the hell? His name's Baltimore. Please don't quit. Please, yeah, please, please. Don't listen to Wade. He doesn't speak for us.

Look, we both have bald going on. Does that mean you feel dirty all the time? What are you getting at? Kind of, yeah, sometimes. Like, you have no hair to absorb the grease that just kind of sits there and then let's like, you go to fry dinner on your head. It's like, all right. At least the grease is already in place, you know?

You have to get like your little coffee can to like scrape it in because you don't want it to get in the sink or whenever you. I don't want to yes and you. I do not want to yes and you. No, you have to yes and. That's the rules of the show. I am abstaining from this yes and. He's just highlighting one of the advantages that bald people have.

When I cooked dinner on my head, there's so many hairs and it's gross. Imagine scrambled eggs with this. And how? Welcome to Distractable. We are the triumvirate of men, a very unique perspective in the world of podcasting. Three dudes on a podcast. That's what my mom keeps telling me. But did you know also we like to play games?

That's a unique thing about us. Actually, there was never really any game. All right, I don't want to get into this. There's never any, okay, there was never any game. Hold on, let's go. Let's go. What was the game? He was like, do you want to play a game? Yeah.

Well, too bad. There's a key in your liver. Get it. Yeah, that one's called Operation. Do this or die. If you don't hit the right spot, you go, and then you die. This one's called, there's a shotgun pointed at your face. That one's actually called Duck, ironically.

I think it's called Peekaboo. There was the pit of needles. It's a very modern take on the children's game, Peekaboo. Shotgun, peekaboo. Dude, that sounds like a crazy-ass indie film or something. 824 presents Shotgun Peekaboo. Today's episode kind of rolls small talk all into one. We're going to be doing a ye old fireside chat.

We're going to be talking, yapping up a storm. Life has been getting out of us. Wade mentioned something about burnout before this. I just finally am in the final, final stretch. Final stretch. Yeah. It's been three. It's been three years of final stretch.

And it's basically done now. It came out on YouTube digitally. I've got a few things left of like getting last translations for the other countries. There's still the Blu-ray and the DVD. But once that's done, it'll be like, well, that's Iron Lung. It's not like I'm going to make a theme park deal out of it and have Iron Lung, the ride, you know, or anything like that. It's, I kind of forget about it at this point, you know?

Dude, that would be such an easy ride to make, though. You just, you all pile in, and it's like a motion thing, right? But there's no visuals. It's just like, and you're like, oh, what's that? We'll never know. And then a tooth comes through at the top and you get your fire extinguishers. Spoiler, everybody. I zoned out for like one second at the beginning, and then I have no idea what the hell's happening.

What do you mean? How do you zone out before conversation? happens. Well, because Mark mentioned it coming out in more countries and I was like, what's a funny joke? It's out in USA's out in USA. It's out to be soon to be USA. It's out right now and down under USA and Hobbit Town USA. Is that funny? And then I tune back in and you're like, me, it's like a tooth coming in the top and I was like, what? All right. I'll give you an a, hey, what was it like Hobbit USA? I think that one made me live. It's all USA. It's so funny. It's why I didn't want to make the joke, but then I had to explain it because my brain does that.

But, you know, I think it's time for us to all just kind of talk, talk about the world maybe a little bit. Talk about, you know, everything going on in life, where it is. But before we do that... Oh, they sent you one. Yeah, you finally got sent one. You had a meeting and they were like, yeah, we love you, Mark. Here's the thing you wanted. No, well, you know, I hope. I hope. I hope now, because I'm showing it, I'm showing my brand loyalty.

I have my GoPro for everyone who's listening at home. You can hear the quality of the camera. Slam it on the desk. Let them hear it. Don't you have a spinning stage for it? Yeah, I do. Yeah. On this, on this, I showed the guy's this.

So this is the editing wheel someone gave to me, or I think I I bought it actually and I have never used it for editing but I am using it as a rotary display for my GoPro dude like how well look at your lighting though elite level lighting look at those oh yeah that's pretty good flashing it's catching wow oh yeah yeah yeah no flies off you hear the cartoony glass breaking sound as it leaves frame it wouldn't do that it's tough it's meant to be thrown around well I mean I know they're not they're not calling it an action cam but it's like it's go pro I certainly believe it's still tough.

What did it take for them to finally send you one? Me paying money and then the release date happening. So a business transaction is what took place. So they sent you one because they legally had to because of money. I see, I see.

Even then they were like, do we have a worst one we can give them like the prototype? Give him the shitty one. Can we ship this guy like an open box or do we have any returns? Or? Da, we just released no returns? Ah, shit.

All right. Well, open one up, banging around a little bit and put it back in the box. Lick one and then put it in the packaging and see if he notices. Oh, good. Anyway, I got it. Not many people know or remember I used GoPro's a lot on the van vlogs. Dude, I love the van. The barrel.

Yeah, and I use it. So I'm very familiar with using GoPro. And it was funny because I just Googled barrel as if that was going to get me anywhere. What the fuck's wrong, mate? Top hits. Cracker barrel, barrels in general, Markiplier's van. Yeah, it's entirely filmed with like a GoPro hero eight or whatever the one from that year would have been.

And I am, I'm written. Damn, I look different. Fuck, I've gotten old. Yeah, man, your jeans are terrible. Anyway, I really like the, uh, the, I've always liked the convenience of it and is really nice. And I'm not sponsored, obviously. Because I'm trying so desperately to be. But this, this thing, this new one is fucking awesome.

It is so cool. This is the one that has the static lens, right? The one with the interchangeable lenses, the fancier one is not. Yeah, no. It's not out yet. I wish they would just open up the pre-orders because I would, oh. Well, it's not for everyone else. Come on.

I'm not supposed to tell him, man. There's a giant conspiracy that it's just not me. You're going to get kicked out of the GoPro Club. Uh, but it's, It's just, I, I've always liked it because versus big cinema cameras and even big DSLRs. There's something so nice, but to be like, Boop, I'm filming something in it being usable. Anyway, I filmed Chica's tail in slow motion because I realized like when I got it,

I was like, oh, I got to film some cool shit in slow motion. What's cool in my life? My dog's ass? Yeah, well, hey, look, it's Chica's tail. It was really pretty in slow motion. But come on, man. It was very pretty and people liked it, but you know, I realized I actually don't have that much cool things to film in slow-mo, but I'll find them. I filmed the faucet because I didn't know what else to film

and it was like, wow, 960 frames. Did you get the shot of like the drops coming across frame and everything? Man, I would. This one doesn't do macro yet, even though, although I didn't experiment where I held one of my other lenses like my Minotas in front of it like this. And I got actually a pretty cool shot out of it. So there's, I'm going to fake it until it happens. I don't care if I have to 3D print like an amount to get other optical things on there. I'll figure out a way. I can do it.

I can do it. I was almost an engineer. Yeah, because I know it's going to have like adapt. Anyway, I don't need to talk about, but I'm very excited about this. I truly, anyway, it's going to have like, the Hero 13 had where it's like interchangeable lenses where you can have the macro and the things like that because this comes off for in case it breaks. That's why it won't break because it'll just break this lens cover and then you can just boop it's a little cheap replacement you put it right back on

but they'll have adaptable lenses and then I can probably get a macro thing in here but I still want the actual micro four thirds one. And then you're going to film your next movie on it. I would. I actually would. Not the whole thing. No, no one take that quote and run. I would. I would. I actually would. Hey, look, if GoPro wants to fund my adventures and sponsor me, and I'll film a movie on it, I'll film an entire movie on it. Well, you're on the final stretch of this one, so you could start a new one anytime. Yeah, you're almost free for a new one. I would love to be involved in it. Please, I could make really pretty footage.

I could make things happen. Wait, I see you shaking your head. I literally can see you. That was edited in by Sam. Called a live edit. I have this video idea where it's like, because I was trying to think, like, I don't, you know, I keep saying, I could be the next tech review channel, but I'm like, man, how do you make a tech review video? What do I test?

And I thought, hey, how about I just do a video where I compare it to every camera I can find in my house? And I've got like a trail cam over there. I've got like an endoscope camera. I've got like some random bullshit, but I've got also a Nikon ZR. I've got like a black magic. I could be like, ooh, that might be fun comparison. You've also got a few lenses I hear so you could take every lens, every video you have to use every lens. Oh, I'll try, I guess, but I got a lot of lenses.

You don't know, man. You don't know how many lenses I have. No one really knows. It's a totally normal and countable number, I'm sure. Yes, and I definitely know the count. Because it's not very high. One lens. Ah, ha, ha, ha.

I might. I'm sorry, you're just so bad I'm going to leave. Look, you guys are smart. You're entrenched in tech and knowledge, and I, I'm fart joke. I'm off in the corner. I got a word into to share. Look, if I was going to blow you down to one bit, I'd say that you're Dracula impression guy, if anything, okay?

Somebody comes to my stream, I can't verify this. But they told me they legally changed their name, like their legal name to Drake Ulysses Law. I believe them. And I didn't have the heart to tell them this, but the way they spelled it out in my chat, I was like, I think they spelled it wrong. I hope they're not watching right now,

but also they changed their name to Drake Ulysses law. Can you imagine it in the application? Like, you know, someone applying for a job. You're like, all right, we got Tim Robbins. We got Michael Bowman. We got Drake, Drake, Drake. Is this a joke? Drake Ulysses Law?

I don't think if you're not saying it with a voice especially, I don't know if that reads. I feel like the person would look at it and be like, Drake Ulysses Law. If it's spelled DRAKE, maybe, but if it's DRAC, I feel like I would immediately go Drak. Dach Ulysses La. Eh, maybe. We could not tell. what you were going for when you were saying it to us. So I wouldn't be so sure.

I'm rooting for you out there. I'm rooting for you. Also, I might think you're absolutely insane for doing that. Don't mind me. I'm taking selfies. The next episode without either of our inputs, it's just going to be like,

sponsored by GoPro, filmed entirely on GoPro. It's just Mark's camera the whole time, but it's him on Google. Can you live stream? Can I use this in a webcam? Yes, you can. You can do it wired for sure,

and I believe some of, I only have a 10, so I don't know what the newest ones are. I believe you can do it wirelessly if you, Because I have looked into using those as like the camera in the corner of my room or for like when Mandy and I did cooking streams for a long time We did stream. We used a GoPro for that, but we had it wired into a laptop. It's very good Oh, I will look into that. Yeah, I mean I'm I'm looking for a stream cam. Hey GoPro. I know how much you love working with Mark and how much you're supporting him There's any splash off

You know, this camera could be a GoPro. It's just some webcam right now. You could look for an upro Great. Please, please, GoPro. So I will sell my soul and my audience. I've volunteered to sacrifice my audience for this. And my audience has been like, yeah, yeah, sacrifice me. And I don't want it that bad, but if you send me one, I'll probably

use it. You've heard of Jonestown. Have you heard of Markiplier Town? Markville. Say that joke again, but in a Dracula voice. You've heard of Jones Town, but have you heard of Markiplier found? Take this GoPro and the cyanide bill.

Put them together and swallow. You know what I fucking just realized you sound like? We might be about to say the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you heard... Oh, no, now I can't remember. What's it called? Dungeon Suit.

I don't know the name. Yeah, but it's like the vampires and the normal guy. You're talking about like the Dinglemire. Yes. Dinglemire, is that fucking holy father? I'm sorry, master. Stupid, stupid Dinglemyer. Oh, I was thinking of there's some TV show with like the vampires and then there's

one guy that's like their butler. don't know the show because I only see clips of it on YouTube shorts. Are you talking about the show with Matt Barry, what we do in the shadows? Yes, yes, yes. That's what we do in the shadows, yeah. That would also a very funny show. No, well, I'll pretty much, I don't have many unique voices. Pretty much all of the ones I do are impressions of something I've heard in the past.

I mean, Dracula's got kind of a baseline, right? It just really hit this time that that's that voice because it's pretty dead on. We still have not contacted Avengers. I want that Torbeck. No, no, I'm emailing with Andy. I'm emailing with Andy. Oh, Andy. And he reached out and was like, hey, thanks for the shout out.

I will definitely, I'll be happy to teach you the Torbek voice. And I was like, dude, that sounds sick. I am in emails with Andy from the Voices Torback on Legend of, well, not voices, plays as Torbeck. We've cool jobs. We have cool people. We do cool things. It's very good.

Do you think the reason goes, sir. I'm not going to talk about it. I'm done. All right, I'm done talking about. I have no idea what you were just starting to ask. Do you think ghosts are real? Is that what you said? No, I was just saying like, you know,

I look at the promo video of GoPro, and they're so good at making those promo videos because they have so many talented people that are filming them and helping support it. And you think that the reason they don't want to support me is because I don't even know how to make cool shit like that. I don't go outside. This is because I don't go outside.

It's because you don't snowboard, Mark. But imagine, like, you know, going through, I don't want to spoil anything in your movie, but imagine all of the blood, but like GoPro vision going through it. That's the thing I have. I would have used it. We had the fuck it bucket. I haven't even talked about the fucket bucket on set. We had the fucket bucket, right? I might have when everyone, I guess, gets in the mood sometimes. I'm glad you had some stress relief on set. No, come on, man. Is that why we saw the white edit of Iron Lung? No, no. Mark actually made that. That's just him.

Well, because, okay, I don't know if I should. I missed your fuck it. You put your balls in my top. It's a very professional, very insurance company safe way of putting a red camera into a waterproof home depot bucket. And so you have a home depot bucket and you put a camera in there with some kind of platform. And then you get an acrylic dome and you glue it all up and you put it in the blood. And so we had that. This sounds awesome.

It was awesome. I was super doubtful when it happened, but the problem was because the camera's in the bucket and it's like sealed in there. So to redo anything or or get it out of there, it's like a whole process, 30 minutes just to get it in and out, even with like quick drying glue and stuff. But once it's in there, it's like, let's go. So difficult to do. If I just had this for that shot specifically was like under the crawl space and like going there. Again, I'm talking of spoilers now. I can talk about the movie.

And I'm going to talk about the movie. It's out. It's a veil. haven't seen it at this point, that's on you, or if you live in a country where it's not available, because it's whatever. So it would have been so nice to have something like this, which is of a quality where it's like, okay, we can get this. And this didn't exist then, but it's like put this in the blood, go through, have a bunch of

just these covers because cleaning the blood off of this, it's so sticky. It like, it leaves residue. So it's like you just pop one of these off, pop another, like, back on here. Or you just have another GoPro off to the side ready to go and you're, And I even had like behind the scenes with GoPro on that movie where there were some angles that it was getting where I was like, oh, if this footage was, oh my God, I was really debating using the footage for that. I, it would take it a ton of cleanup for painting out the other people and the cameraman and all the other people standing behind the main camera. But, oh, it was very good. I just want to reiterate for our audience.

We are not sponsored by GoPro despite how hard it feels like we are. I don't even have like a coupon. I realize that. I don't even have like a, hey, get 10% on. by using my code. I don't even have a code. I think Bob and I even have GoPro codes. You've got codes?

How'd you get codes? I just like us, I guess. I don't know if we're allowed to tell him about that, but yeah, it's fine. Everyone's in your boat, Mark. No one's more left out than you are, that's for sure. Well, we have GoPro's in our boat. He's got Go-Amateurs and his. Got them.

No, that's not what you said. I'd like you to stick to what you said the first time around. Couldn't remember. You have to remind me. No, I'm pretty sure you remember. You remember. same. Do you actually not remember? Oh no. Jesus. If I have a superpower, it's that I can't remember much. Anything. I require you to refer to them as come amateurs from now on. I said that already

today. Come amateur? No, not from today. From previous episodes. It was a whole thing we talked about. Oh, thank God. I thought it was today. Oh, man. That's a pretty good one. I should have remembered that. Yeah. The audience loved it. They were, they thought it was very funny. Yeah. What we were saying? Yeah, we're not sponsored. But Mark wants us to be, or he wants him to be. And if there's some splash down, if there's some trickle-down sponsorship that drips onto you guys, that's fine. I'm okay with that. Trickle on me, GoPro.

Yeah. We'll crouch down so we can get trickled on because you're short. Minus one. Shit, I forgot you were hosting. Because you're average. Can't be mad about that. Can't be mad. I'm done talking.

Now, it'll be you guys' turn. and because... Sam's sitting in the live edit control room just like, ah, I missed one. God, fuck. I need my transparent head, Wade, head shaking gift

to put over his... All right. Since Wade is, uh, mean, Bobby, get to go first on... How many different names

did you think of that you didn't want to call me out loud? Because Wade's on... I'm not mean. I'm the nice one anyway. It's not a very fair competition for you, Wade. Let me get him as little stepping stool so we can get to my level.

Yeah, I knew it was, I knew there was something coming. Minus another. Minus another. It's going to be a close game except for Wade's negative 13 short joke points. Mark, it's a really tall, above average stepping stool. Isn't that worse? Shut up, Bob. All right, minus one more.

Mike keep it up, man. Extra tall stool. All right, I get to go first. Well, it's hard for multiple reasons. it's hard for me to think of anything right now except for the evening not last evening but the night before that I spent honestly

probably the second most worried I've ever been about a person which not for good reason he was fine but James was sick we put James to bed Sunday night we always turn the monitor on right and we have video monitor so we can watch him and he always just sort of sleeps sometimes it gets up

and gets a drink or whatever he's very independent now I know I moaned a lot about how he had trouble sleeping when he was younger he's great now at sleeping. He sleeps on his own. He'll wake up and he'll like put it. He'll sue himself and get back to sleep. It's awesome. With the monitor on as like a normal Sunday and we were kind of like, whew, like got through the weekend, had some fun times. Now we got to get ready. Monday, Tuesday, we got a pack because we're going on this big trip. Lots to do. We were putting it off over the weekend and like half an hour after James went down. I heard like a weird noise,

which happens. But usually if I hear something that I'm not 100% sure what it is, like it's, you know, sounds he makes every night when he sleeps. I look and I pulled up the monitor and looked and it was like, oh, that's a weird, it's like really shadowy. Oh, that looks fine. And then he sort of just looks up and goes, ah, and I was like, oh, fuck. Oh, my God. He had thrown up.

But we get up there and if James watches this in the future, I mean this in the nicest way possible. Oh, God. The smell. Man, you just never get used to it. Like there, I always was like, man, how do parents deal with that? And then for me at least, the truth is you don't get used to it. Poops always smell bad. Throw up always smells bad.

It really gets me. But you don't have a choice. He threw up in his bed and he had it on himself and on his jammies. And so I like, I had to grab him and touch the throw up and bring him to the bathroom. And man, like, it was rough. But it was like, okay, that's weird. This is out of nowhere. He wasn't sick today.

He was totally happy. And we put him in the bath and got him cleaned up. And after a while of like, oh, God, okay, let's like air it out. Let's change the sheets. He's in the bath and everything's great. He seems happy. He seems chill. I stand him up, get him out of the bath, start drying him off.

And he's standing there in the bathroom with his towel around him. And he just looks up at me and goes like into the towel, into my hands onto the floor. He proceeded to throw up about every 15 minutes for the next four hours. of the evening, which is a long time for that pattern to go on. The first couple, obviously, we had just had dinner and then had the ice cream as a little treat and then gone to bed. Eventually he was empty, but for several hours, he was totally empty. There was no food left.

And still, he would like, I was holding him in the chair sitting with him and he would like lay down and just be like, oh, because he's fucking exhausted because it's horrific to throw up constantly. And he's like passing out, just like, oh, and I'm sitting there watching. I'm making sure if he's still breathing, everything's good. And every 15 minutes, he just sits up and goes, mm-mm-b-mm-mm-nothing comes out, like, just like bile. Like, nothing is coming out, misery.

And every time he throws up, it's like, ah, I'm just holding him. Like, so that whole night, like, I held him until he stopped throwing up, which was, like, a little more than four hours, maybe. And actually, Mandy swapped out for, for, like, the second half. That's not fair. But we were, like, crazy. We were considering going to the east. ER and we were watching him like, okay, if he doesn't stop, we're going to have to go.

But it's the middle of the night right now. It's going to be traumatic experience for him if we have to take him, especially if he's fine. Right when we were like, okay, we should go. Stopped. He just chilled out and finally was like done. But I basically laid, we put him in bed and I laid next to him the whole night just staring at him just being like, because he likes to sleep on his back. So I'm staring at him like, don't sleep on your back and throw up in your sleep.

But, like, that's horrific. Don't, you know, if you do get sick, I need to be here to help or try and catch it. Like, I'm just laying there, just staring at him. And then at some point, I fell asleep at like six or seven in the morning for a bit. And Mandy had gone and tried to get some sleep in the bed so that at least one of us had some sleep for the next day. She got, like, three hours of sleep. And then he was fine. Yesterday, the whole day, we were like, what's happening?

Is he sick? Is it a virus? Is it a what? He's fine. He woke up and was like, I'm sorry. thirsty, I'm hungry, give him. We were like, oh, you know, let's go slow. Let's see what happens. Totally fine. Didn't throw up again. He did have some like dummy troubles, uh, but that's pretty normal. Otherwise, he was like energetic and fine and confused why we weren't letting him

eat food, basically. But Jesus Christ, laying up all night, staring at him, wondering if he was okay, trying to figure out what the fuck to do in the middle of the night. That's, uh, I have not felt that kind of worry since James was born and Mandy's C-section and everything that happened in the hospital was more stressful for me than her, thankfully, but like, it's awful. And like, this is not the point, but the whole time I kept, my mind kept going back to like, okay, but imagine this, but like you have a child who has like a terminal illness or a child who has like a chronic illness or something. I don't know what people do. Not the point and not my experience. But thanks to TikTok, I see a lot of videos about kids who, you know, have different

disorders, diseases, whatever. I can't imagine. It was one night for me and I felt like I was going to pass out from stress and he's fine. And I shouldn't have been so worried because it was a long time of throwing up and he was fine. But like, God damn. Now when TikTok shows me those videos, even more than before, I'm immediately just like, I can't and I have to scroll or close TikTok or whatever because I don't know what people do. I don't know that kind of, I don't know if it's a particular button for me that I don't handle very well or if that's just how it feels for everyone, but it's an actual nightmare to just be laying.

And it doesn't have to be a kid either. I'm sure if you have a parent or sibling or anyone you know who's ill who you care that much about, I cannot fucking imagine and it's exhausting. And the punchline of my story is he's totally fine. He possibly had a stomach virus or maybe he's like lactose intolerant because he's never really liked milk or ice cream and he ate more ice cream than he ever has before, which was like a small scoop of ice cream on Sunday. Like, so we put him to bed last night and it felt like we finally got him to bed after

Sunday night because all day we were like watching him and it was whatever, put him in bed last night and was like, okay, well, there's 24 hours gone. In 24 hours from now we'll be on a plane to England. Better start packing and stuff, I guess. That's intense, man. Good news is you got two points for that story. Was it worth? Do it again.

How much sadder does it need to be to get another point out of it? I emphasize how much he was crying about how upset he was. Okay, you're getting a little uppity about this whole milking it thing. So I'm like, I'm just saying two points is pretty generous. You're already in the lead. So maybe don't push your luck. Come on, man. Yeah, man, two points for a vomit story.

You've got plenty. I'll just let Wade beat himself. That's fine. Actually, you know, one funny thing that kept happening that was really funny in the moment compared to everything else. He was, every time when I was holding him, Mandy was like going and we doing other stuff because we had two dogs in the house also.

He would like get sick, whatever, and I would text Mandy to be like, oh, it happened again. Like, can you, you know, whatever, can you come help? And he started sitting up and be like, oh, I'm going to be sick. Are you going to text mom? Hey, Siri, text Mandy.

Because I was using hands-free Siri to just be like, No, not now. Not now. Stop, phone. Stop. Not you. But I was doing that because I was holding him. I was holding him, right? So I was like, hey, phone, text Mandy. Help. Or whatever. And so while he's being sick and I'm super worried, he just like pauses and is like, you should text Mandy. Are you good at text Mandy or do I? I. I was like, weird. Wait, I'll give you a point if you shout out at the top of your lungs, every call out to every, like, listening voice from our listeners and tell them to buy like a 55 gallon drum of lube. You know what I mean? He doesn't. Everybody out there, we're taking a quick ad break here to let you all know that 55 gallon drum bags of lube are on sale. You can buy them right now. Markiplier.com slash lube.

I told you 100% he didn't know what you meant. Oh, my God. Did I do it? No! He wanted you to like ask their Amazon echoes to buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Hey Alexa, buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Hey, Siri, buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Hey, Tony in the corner that has my phone for some reason.

Buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Mom, it's your son and or daughter. Buy me some lube. My birthday's coming up sometime in the next year. I can't believe you left out. Bigsby. Bigsby. Hey, Bigsby.

I don't drink coffee, but I think you have Loub too. Isn't that the name of the Samsung guy? Biggsby? Bigsby? Wait. I don't know. No, wait. Isn't that the one where they made it like a female avatar of it

and then they had to like put her down basically because the internet got too horny about it? Galaxy AI. Oh, perhaps it's not. Maybe Bigsby is just demonstrating how old I am to people. Oh, yeah. That wasn't big spears. Samsung, Sam? I don't know.

We're not sponsored by them either. Lest. All right, Wade, is your turn. Oh, where do I begin? I guess you mentioned the burnout thing. So I guess I'll address the burnout thing. So Mark and I were talking, Bob wouldn't even call yet. Late.

Somehow, life has just been kind of rough here on the Barnes household for the last six, seven months. A lot of people that watch my content outside of distractible, I've talked about some of it on stream and whatnot. But, like, without going into specifics, we've had a lot of family health issues. I've had a lot of personal health issues, which has devolved into mental health issues, I think, which is what I think the palpitations in my chest responsibly are,

which I don't know if I fully trust it, but that's what they tell me, so I'm gonna go with it. I guess they're panic attacks. I don't know. For me, it's just like, randomly my heart goes like from zero to a thousand beats per second, especially whenever I'm laying down at night.

I'm like, oh, man, time per sleep. And it's really fucking terrible. It's an awful feeling. But that's rolled over into my professional life where like, you know, I have fun making YouTube videos. I have fun streaming. I have fun on the podcast. But right now, everything in life just feels like, I don't really don't want to do that. I don't have any motivation to do that.

And I'm guessing that, I mean, you know, I've gone through some phases of burnout throughout my career. But there's just been a big culmination of just being really tired. My sleep hasn't been great. The days are very just full. And there's a lot of crap. And I don't know. I just, uh, Mark was saying maybe I needed a vacation. I think maybe that's true. Every vacation I've taken since our honeymoon has had some work component to it. I just haven't had like a, I'm actually not working or doing anything like, you know, Molly and I are just getting away. It's like, you know, I love hanging out with friends and family and stuff, but we have not had a trip just the two of us actually getting away since our honeymoon. And I feel like a lot of people probably do that, but I don't even feel like I take days off. Like I won't stream for three or four days, but those days are still filled.

with like meetings or, you know, tax conversations or going through emails, going through DMs and stuff because I work with like a management company for ads and sponsors and stuff for my stuff. And there's always something. There's always something work related. I never turn it off. And I really feel like more than ever for the first time and a long time, it's just really impacting me.

My focus is off. There's been some highlights. I mean, there's still games I enjoy playing. I recorded blueprints again last night for a few hours, which is a game I still absolutely love. I've gone back to Diablo 2 for the first time in like 10 years which I absolutely love. Dungeon Crawler

Carl, you guys getting me to start reading that series I just finished Parade of Horribles last night. I finished reading that. It wasn't like everything sucks and I'm like depressed or you know whatever. It's just physical health issues and then having people you care about going through physical health issues and a lot

of that is really just mentally taxing. Like you were talking about the caregiver type stuff you know, we were just raising money for St. Jude May, St. Jude does their play live every year. So Molly had a campaign and I was joining her and we did some different campaigns to raise money for St. Jude, which, again, not sponsored, but shout out to them because whenever they're going, whenever you're talking about someone with a terminally ill child or people going through cancer or stuff like that, like, I've gotten to go down and tour St. Jude's facilities a couple of times

and seeing, it feels like you're in a school more than a hospital. I know people are like, ooh, school, but like school so much better than the feeling of being in a hospital. And the kids down there genuinely seem like, you know, they're happy, they're enjoying life, They're living it to the fullest and they're well taken care of. That removes a lot of the burdens from families and stuff. So people that are going through that kind of thing, I implore you to look into St. Jude or organizations like that.

And I'm really happy to help fundraise for stuff like that. I'll be doing something for the American Heart Association here soon too. We have a lot of heart stuff in my family. So personal connections, everyone's gone through cancer and their family or a friend. Someone knows someone, right? Everyone knows someone that's gone through stuff like that. So it's nice being able to do things like that. It's nice being able to have the careers that we have.

But I think we all go through burnout. and I'm just going through some phase of it right now, which sucks. But I've got this knee brace I was showing off earlier because I had messed up my knee playing basketball with my nephew like a month and a half ago. You all know I've got the slap tear in my shoulder I've not had surgery on. Apparently I've got a deviated septum and I started developing like panic attacks this year.

It's like those are all relatively minor health issues in the greatly, maybe not palpitations if they're more than stress, but I think they're distressed. I can live with it. The slap tear don't have to have surgery. The knee, it'll heal probably. I'm on prednisone for 10 days and got the knee brace, whatever. So it's all minor for me, but some of the stuff in my family is a little bit more severe.

I don't know. It's just, it's been taxing and it's been really hard to find motivation. And I know people have it a lot worse than I do, and that's not an excuse. Like, you're allowed to be depressed even or, you know, have burnout even if you're not going through it as bad as someone else. But it's still, there's still an added pressure about it that feels like I shouldn't for some reason, which makes things even worse. Whenever you're like, so-and-so's got it so much worse,

I needed to buck up. And then you can't buck up and it's like, oh, God, I'm so pathetic. I'm so weak. I'm so like, and you start beating yourself up even more about it.

It just exacerbates the situation. And I've been going through cycles of that for about seven or eight months on and off. Just like since about October of last year, it's just been like every week at something. And I was so, at the end of the year, I was like,

oh, God, thank God, 2026 is almost here. I am so dumb with 2025. And now hindsight, I'm like, 2025, come back. We had a, so good, you and I. I didn't know what I had. I took you for granted. I love you 20, 25.

That's not good. But I'll get over it. I'll be fine. It's just the thing I'm going through right now. And I don't go into stuff like that too often publicly. I don't know why. I've always looked at my job as like, I'm here to entertain, but like more so it's whatever people kind of view my content as. Some people probably put stuff on that we do or I do to go to sleep. Some people turn it on for a laugh. Some people turn it on for community. Some people turn it on just to see specific games whatsoever. It doesn't matter. If you enjoy the content, if you lurk, if you chat, if you comment, whatever. But my job is, hey, you're getting home from work. You have your own problems. You've had your own long day. You're looking for something to watch or, you know, listen to. And that's what I'm supposed to provide, not sit here and

bitch and moan about my own personal shit, which I do occasionally sometimes. But typically I try to keep all that separate and just give people something to enjoy during their free time. Because There's a lot of content to consume. So for people to choose anything that we do, like, well, I want you to enjoy it. But however you enjoy it, whatever you enjoy it for, I want to enjoy it. But it's been a struggle. It's been a struggle lately. And again, there's been some highs.

I went folling. You guys heard of folling? Bob, have you ever been folling? I have not, no. I know what it is. Yeah. So friends, mutual friends of ours invited us out to go folling over the weekend, which is basically like you take, oh God, what's the game call you throw the goddamn beanbags at the boards?

Cornhole? Cornhole. Cornhole. It's like a flat cornhole board, which is just rectangle of wood on the ground. You set up bowling pins on it. You stand on opposite. You've got two of these across from each other like in cornhole. You have teams on opposite sides, and you throw a football and try to knock over the bowling pins.

It was a lot of fun. I shouldn't have done it. My doctor, literally two days before, gave me an e-brace. He told me to take two weeks, not do anything. And then I went and threw football for an hour. Now I was going pretty easy on it, but they were plans I had in progress, and I don't like canceling plans on people. I was telling Marking another problem of mine is I'm way,

to people pleaser. I have people pleaser running through my veins where I'd go out of my way for everyone, no matter what, at my own expense quite often. And I, again, I had fun. I enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again, but I really shouldn't have done it while my knees messed up. I don't know, not to be depressing derailing. I hate being a downer, but it's been a time. Some of the health issues I think are going to resolve themselves and be fine, both for myself and people around me, but some of them I don't know. I just genuinely don't know how it's going to play out. I've got a couple of people in my life that are just getting up there in years and starting to show signs of I've got concerns. And I think just mortality itself

has been a lot more present on my mind in the last half a year or so. I've just had a lot more concerns and a lot of people around me are struggling. And whenever you were struggling and people around you were struggling and you're trying to lift them up, often what you end up doing is pushing yourself down further. I think that's what I've been doing, if I'm being honest. I mean, that's a lot to dump out and you keep saying like, oh, I'll get over it. Like, oh, I'll be fine. And But you were also saying, like, you shouldn't have the buck up, you know, man, pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. Because, I mean, it's not nothing, the things you got going on, even if the job is to be an entertainer. I've definitely had plenty of times on this podcast where in the midst of all of it that people have not and probably won't see me blowing up for one reason or another and storming out of a recording session only to come back and be like, oh, man, it's real tough.

You know, when that's the truth of it, like, it's just like, man, it's just really tough. and I don't know how to deal with it, and it'll blow up in some way or some form, and that's not fair to the people around me. You know, but still, it's like it's real, you know. I don't think you should be ashamed of that. I don't think anybody should. Well, and that's a funny thing about this show. I don't think we're going to edit that out of this episode,

but, like, you know, part of the thing about being entertaining is, like, you don't have to exclusively be like that in your entire life to make sure that what you're offering people, when they're trying to be entertained by your content is like that. And it's probably actually good not to. Mark's point about just being the lie of just be like, no, I'll be fine. That works right until it doesn't, right?

Like, I believe that you probably will be fine because you're pretty resilient and like things are going okay for you outside of the stressful stuff, as far as I know. But you can't just say that and brush it away. I don't know if you specifically, but like maybe you need to talk to someone. I've certainly lately been feeling like maybe I need to talk to somebody and I put that as like the lowest possible priority just because like everything else, everything around me is important. What other people that I care about have going on is important having a kid. He's pretty much top importance 24-7 regardless of how I feel or what's going on with me. But like that doesn't mean that you never should take care of it.

And like again, I'm not accusing you of anything. which is a weird way to put it, but I believe you probably do haven't handled because it's just stuff that you're going through. And I think most of it will resolve because I know some of what you're going through. Don't just assume that it's easy to just be like, I'll be fine, and then push it down. But that's not always necessarily true. And it's fine to go and talk to someone. It's healthy to do that. Talk to a friend or family or talk to someone professionally for whatever.

Truth is, I've done both. last fall I actually preemptively started going in and talking to I guess counselors a proper term I went in for just some counseling it was more preemptive than anything because I felt I felt the start of this even before the things that actually caused me to like kind of fall off the cliff of the burnout feeling we've been very fortunate that we've had success you know podcast our own channels and stuff like that over the years success is great but success also comes at different costs I've talked to my community about how like I miss it's really nice having like hundreds of people come and watch, you know, a live stream, right? I'm never going to complain about having people come hundreds or thousands or whatever it is. But like there was also something nice about like that there's 10 people and we can, I can chat with each of them, get to know them. Like it's kind of a friend field. It's like hang out with friends.

And that vibe from content creation is pretty much gone now, right? Because we just, we've blown up to that point. In personal lives too, though, people see success and, you know, a lot of them are happy for you and, you know, are nice about it. But some people see it and they get jealous or they have their own things going on and they feel like they reach a point of desperation. They have to reach out like, you're doing well. Can you help me with this? Can you help me with that? And that's kind of happened a lot lately. You know, the first time is one thing. And then the 10th time one person does it. It's like, okay, you're not

wanting help. You're wanting me to be your like sugar, whatever relationship it is. Sugar friend. Sugar. Sugar. Friends is definitely the thing. It's not, you know, friends, family, whatever. People have done it. And feeling some of my personal relationships change was bothering me. So I actually went in and I started talking about that last fall with somebody and we ended up working through some other stuff too. I actually just finished a couple of months ago, you know, like this four to six months like once a week chat, council session, whatever you want to call it. And it was helpful. But a lot of my life, I mean, I harkened back to when I was four years old and my parents first split up. And I don't think anyone meant to put me under pressure.

But my grandparents, my mom, my dad, they would ask like, hey, who do you want to go spend time with this weekend? Do you want to go to your moms? You want to go to your dads? like your grandparents were never going to make you go anywhere you don't want to go where do you want to go and i guess i had an ego even as a kid because i was like well everyone loves spending time with me so whoever i don't choose is going to be so sad that i didn't pick them no one wants a break from the kid but like you know as a kid it was like well i don't want to let them down so i'm gonna i'll choose you this weekend you that weekend and them the weekend after i'll rotate i want to go here and

hang out with my friends but i'm going to choose this way because i want to make everybody happy and my people pleasing was just like instituted then and then um i lost my my dad when I was 11. My grandpa died three months later. And then we had like 20 some odd more deaths in the family and close friends over like the next five or six years. After my dad died, it was the first time I ever got straight A's. And I did it because I knew my grandparents always seemed really happy when I did well in school. They were they wanted me to have a good future. So when my dad died and my grandma was very obviously torn up about it, it was her son. I was like, okay, I'm going to work harder in school. I'm going to get good grades. I'm going to try to give

them something to some beacon of light. I will be the beacon of light. And so I've just always had this pressure of like even before making content that I'm responsible for people's happiness. And with the platform we have, sometimes there's a pressure of like, am I doing enough? Am I saying all the things I should say? Like, there's a lot of issues we don't touch on and I don't know that I want to touch on. But sometimes my brain's like, should we go into all these things? Should we share our really uninformed opinion? At least my opinion would be uninformed. Should I do this? Am I doing enough? Am I entertaining enough? Am I helping people enough? And I've never taken time to really consider what life would be like if I just took a break from trying to uplift all those around me.

And for whatever reason, like I said, health-wise, people around me, the last six months, it's just that pressure has finally just hit me to the point where it's like, I can't, I can't lift up everyone else because I'm really kind of at a point of burnout that's pretty strong. But I have been talking about it. I've been open about with us with, you know, Molly and some friends and family. talked about it a little bit, you know, before show here on this episode. But, um, I do generally try to just probably unhealthy, but I do try to just shove it down sometimes. I'm like, you know, I've gotten my entire life, I have gone through a lot of stuff. I've lost a lot of people. I've dealt with a lot of shit. I'm sure we, you know, we all, I know you guys have. I know everyone has,

but I've always handled it one way. And it's like, well, that must be the perfect way to handle it. Because it's always worked so far. It hasn't this past six months. So I'm, I'm adapting. But it has been a challenge. And it's new waters for me to be like, Like, my walls are down and I can't put them back up. I'm out of that wall material. Concrete, mortar, bricks. Wall material, I think, is adequate. Dry wall.

I was like, not dry rope. It's something like that. Dry rope. That's my long-winded spiel about the burnout and stuff. I really appreciate you sharing that. It's important for a lot of people to know and just say in general. I'll give you one point. Been up a little short there on the points, aren't you?

Just let him have one. I'm not going to take away a point. for that? Because I think you're just lashing out because you're shoving things too far down and they always just erupt and you're you're just lashing out. And I can understand that as a friend. Right?

We're friends, right? He's nodding. That's Sam doing it. I know that's a live edit, nod. That's a live edit, yeah. Sam's saving it right there. I'm nodding with six fingers. What? I don't know why I thought editing and I were the same thing for a minute there. I'm fine. We've been talking a lot about it. A lot of are our issues that we're dealing with. And I think we've...

Sick baby, depression or burnout and... A GoPro! We all got problems. They've all equivalent here. I can't get a GoPro sponsorship, a sick kid, you know, general depression and burnout. We're all unfulfilled in life. I think we can all agree on that. I don't know.

For once, I think actually for the first time I don't have the main... complaints of the era. Everything is coming up roses with the movie and it's a weirdly good time for YouTube movies in general or YouTuber movies. Content creation is booming and I'm

very excited to go into the future about that. So I'm kind of grateful that the thing that I have to complain about is as funny as I want more, I want silly camera. I want thing like that. You had your share of stresses over the last few years. I think

deserve a little break. That's fair. That's fair. I appreciate that. All right. Shall we tally the points? Well, hold on. I'm feeling pretty strong about...

Maybe we should go a little longer. All right. All right. Bob, uh, you got a bald. Baldemort point, emphasis on the bald. You got a GoPro sympathy point. You got a point for the second biggest worry ever. And then future James trauma.

Uh, you got another point for that. So it's a low scoring game, but it's like four points. I was mostly just listening. I feel even better about it now. I think Wade lost more points than I had right there. Now, hold on, I think if I lost points, there is something on the wheel that makes negative points positive, right? That is true. It's technically true, right, yeah.

So you got a bald point. I gave you a point for Hobbit Town USA. You got a point for Dracula Impression Guy. You lost a point for a short joke. You lost a point for a stool short joke. You lost a point for the extra tall stool joke. I gave you a half a point for your barely understanding the least. lube joke I was going for.

You did it. You did it. So I gave you half a point for that. And then one point for burnout for you talking about that. And I think that's very impressive. You have one and a half points. If I pull this off, it might be the lowest scoring win and distractible history. All right. Let's see if that happens. Because yes, those three points would put you half a point above Bob.

If you can just get three points out of this. Not lie points. The negative points positive. And it's absolute value. Yeah, we're golf rolls. That's true. Well, let's see how many spins you get to try and make this up. I only need one to beat you.

Okay, well, I'll agree to one or we'll just do three again. Three! We got three on the wheel. Okay, fine. I'm just going to call it now. It's going to somehow be host wins. I think we already have like smallest violin, so we can't do anything like that of like the saddest story.

That would be such a kick in the dick to get that after what we talking. the best. Sickest child. Sickest child. No, when some of us don't have children. Well, whose fault is that? That we know of, I guess. I don't know. What are you talking about? I just realized that I never mentioned the fact Molly and I celebrated our eight-year

wedding anniversary this week and our dogs both had birthdays. Whoops. Yeah, no points. Yeah, no points for that. Oh, uh, closest to a sponsorship or currently sponsored. Point for whoever's currently sponsored. And general podcast, uh, uh, uh, has to be like one of us.

has a sponsorship kind of deal. Okay. Define sponsorship because I've recorded a sponsored video last night that hasn't come out yet. That would count. I think that would count. Yeah. And it's like this, we could put this on the bounty board too. Just be like, go get a sponsor for a bounty board.

It has to be a spite sponsor. The sponsorship has to be about how you are getting it and you're not sharing it with us. And then you have, you show it. Yeah. Perfect. Oh, what we should do actually after we spend the wheel, we decide who the winner is we'll do a quick, like, a few minutes talking about the subreddit and the, the bounty board conversations, the the coin flip thing when we meet fans, all that yada yada.

It's been really cool seeing people's responses and I want to acknowledge that. But yeah. Let's finish the spins and then yeah, we should talk about that. Currently sponsored. We have 110 options on the wheel and several of them will save Wade. All I needed to hear. Dinvoil Hat Point. I think that would go for me for like the GoPro.

Yeah. You know, honestly, yeah. That's true. Yeah, I'm going to give myself a point for that. That's the most tinfoil hatty thing we've had all day. It's not that they're ignoring me on purpose, right? They wouldn't do that. Oh, no, no.

Mark is going to finish second place. I could feel it. He just needs one more point to pass away. And then surprise golf rules? That does also mean if we get golf rules now, Mark is winning. That's true. about that. So that took away

one of Wade's avenues to actually succeed. It'll be fine. I'm sure Wade will end. Unless I get a point and then it's golf rules and then you can still be the lowest. Got the flattest. So you know what I mean. I don't know. Got past tense. Wait, you did this

last time too. You tried to get flat. It gets the flattest. It's who got the flattest. Isn't it did best Scottish accent too? We still do that current? Well, that will approach to that next time we get to that. It's written into the rules of the rule, okay? Calm down.

All right, so I don't think any of us got flat, actually. I think, um, unless you count all my short jokes that Wade was making for me. I got pretty flattened, but no. Three spin. All right, spin number two again. That would give you another chance to win if we counted it. Coolest illness since last episode.

James? I mean, James gets that point. So James gets a point. and by proxy. Is he ready to host, Bob? He's probably ready to host an episode. He's pretty funny. All right, James gets points there, and by proxy is kind of Bob's point, but, you know,

technically James was. Until James turns 18, James points or Bob's points. I don't even need it. Yep, that's true. He doesn't need it. He's well in the lead. All right. Because here comes golf rules.

Well, then it would be a tie between me and James. Yeah. So, number three. Man, I hope one of these just says Wade wins. Live points. Oh, close one. Close. I was like,

what he needs. I didn't have any lie points, I don't think. All right, no lie points, but it's not a re-spin. That is what that is. All right. So, with Wade remaining at one and a half points, those short jokes didn't feel very worth it now, did they? They were funny.

I don't regret it. My one future point. You won't remember that. Every episode for the next year that Mark hosts, there's going to be an entire subreddit panic about like, did he do the point? Wade minus one Wade point. Did he do it?

It's still out there. All right. Speaking of the subrette, the suburb has been abusing with activity. There's been so many people that are excited since the last time we did a Constitution update, which is the first time people have ever been excited about a constitutional update. I'm not going to lie.

In the world in general? Yeah, yeah. Something like that. I think so. Oh my God. I like how the top post on the subreddit is Mark asking for a referral code. for GoPro. I know. I just saw that. I'm just like, I'm not asking for a referral code. I'm just saying I don't have one. But there's a lot of people talking, but there's an official bounty board

point posting thing. There's a lot of bounties on here. I'm actually afraid there are too many bounties. Yeah, well, I do think while some of these are funny, I feel like they sort of don't work and could be taken off the board. I don't want to overcomplicate things because none of the three of us made this happen. This is all courtesy of the mods of the subreddit putting things together. But yeah, like some of these are very funny. And some are easier than others, but only

one person can claim it. So I guess the first person to do it claims it. You know, we, it's up to us to pay attention to these. If the bounty boards, you know, can just absolutely devastate the landscape, then so be it. This is not clear, I think, in the Constitution.

How many points are these worth? Is that like on the fly thing, like when you cash in the bounty, we'll debate between ourselves, how many, because some of them, I know the person who posted it was like, this should be worth 10 points or whatever. And I think the mods kind of took the ideas and sort of disregarded the points because the points were all over the place. And that's not really, that's not a balanced approach to just let whomever comes up with it. There should be a one point bounty for easier things, maybe a 2.3 point or maybe only one in a 2 point thing. Feels like easy. I don't think any,

more than three. I think one or two sounds, because you want it to be able to, like, help, but you don't want it to be the entire episode. I like either one or two or maybe like one or three, but then to be a three, it needs to be like way above and beyond. So there's basically like regular bounties and special bounties. Yeah. So we need to, we need to coordinate that. That would be. I think we can do it on the fly. I think we should leave that to where like when someone cashes a bounty in. It's up to the judge. Part of that process is, okay, that counts as as getting that bounty now is that a normal or an extra special. I feel like we're all on board with the bounties seem really fun.

So we're going to play along, right? And be, you know, be relatively fair with the point bartering. Plus, if you're a total bitch about it, then you're never, you never get any bounty points. So you need to be care. You got play your car check. I'm fucked. I'm always a total bitch. Can we play this like immunity, you know, charms where it's like at the right before the point counting?

We're like, wait a minute. God, I was on a farm. I do think that that should, like, because then you could hold it in your pocket, too, right? If you have one and it gets to a thing where it's like, you're down by one or it's tired, you can just be like, ah, you know, with that noise. Your Honor, my approach the bench, I have a bounty to turn in. Perhaps the rule should be, just for clarity, before any wheels spin. So, like, as soon as the wheel determining how many, as soon as the first wheel spins,

how many spins wheel, no more bounties. But up until a wheel spin is initiated, you can interrupt with a bounty. And then the budget, I don't think there's any solid decision on how the hell the audience's budget even can work or does work. But we're still working on that. I was just going to read the Reddit and do the ones I thought were funny. I don't remember a budget. Remember we were like, we talked about this at $600 a month. We're going to allow the subreddit to pick things for us to spend.

money on. It's like 200 each or 600 total and we're going to, they have, they have some sort of vote, they have to coalesce around an idea enough that we feel like it's endorsed by the subreddit and then we will spend the money on the thing. Okay. Why are we buying things? What are we doing with them? For fun. For fun. To improve the podcast. We need a flare for that so that if we're looking for budget, for money, budget stuff, we can just like go on the Reddit and be like the flare for spending money or whatever the hell it's called budget committee or something yeah but the thing it was like it was going to be something they're autonomous about so it's like if they vote they only have so much budget and they have to vote on what the budget is spent on so they all have to agree

on what is spent on i think is generally the idea all right fair enough i'm sure i'll forget you guys will remind me next time we'll just do it all you just show up it's fine it's fine and if you guys end up spending the money i'll just send you the money that i don't have things in my house we'll just take it out of your cup before it goes your way it'll be fine It's even easier. They don't just pay you. I'll just take out whatever amount I think is fair. Out of your...

I don't know that one. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. All in favor of taking it out of Wade's portion? Say aye. Aye. All right. It passed.

Sam, edited the fourth member. Aye. Fuck. Good thing this is in a Constitution episode. It says somehow it's an edited of Wade saying I. You know that video where the guy's like breaking into someone's house and they're like, I'm going to find him. And the person's like hiding in the claws.

And they go, Red Robin in the closet here. Like, ha, gotcha. It'd be like that, but you guys be like, are you ready, kids? I'll go, aye, I can't. Fuck! That's it. We're done. There is, is there merch right now?

There is something. If you were wondering why quantities are limited on these drops, it's people, people want it both ways, but it's because we're desperately scrambling to fulfill all the iron lung things of which there are were an it's like you can't even imagine you can't even imagine you can't even imagine I'm gonna take my GoPro and I'm gonna go film what we've had to do to do it's and people were like just get a third party logistics fulfillment company I'm so fucking easy isn't it I'll just this like I'll go next door to my third party logistics and I was just like knock knock hey let's get a contract going and I'm gonna give you 50,000

fucking items and you just get going. Oh, what? You didn't have the system integrated before it? We got a hand over. Fucking, God damn it. All right. We're working on it. Hey, look, you guys are doing a great job.

I got my eye on loan stuff. Yeah, there's still like, there's still like 15,000 orders left to fill. What's that? Three days work? Those will be done like tomorrow, yeah. We didn't even have regular pickups from the post office and from the shipping companies.

Setting that up and giving them, getting them to even believe us that we had 5,000 orders that we needed to ship out. We tried to show up at the place with the orders. We got turned away. So it's like, you can't do this. What do you mean? We can't do this.

I just picture this really tiny post office. One guy working behind the counter and you walk in, you're like, I have a 5,000 boxes I need shipped. They're like, okay, sure. And they look outside. You have like four semi trucks just side by side with all the bags open. You're like, and the guy just pulls the window down. It's like, we are closed for the day.

Dude, you have no idea. man, you have no idea. You have no idea. And also, we don't order enough shirts just to make you mad. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's true. It's on purpose.

Mark's just lying to cover it. But I think it's fun. No. Even my family's got, they're like, are you intentionally trying to keep me from getting your merch? It's like, no, I swear. No, dude. Blame those assholes online.

They keep buying it. It's not my fault. And it's also like we did a restock of certain custom things. And we said, like, this long lead time to get this restock in. And then the whole world's shipping industry kind of exploded. Yeah. So, so to like have an umbrella, like, anyway, I don't know. No, I'm going to complain.

That's what this episode is all about. It's like talking about struggles, right? My struggles are just valid. Your guys is struggles, even though it's after we've declared the winner and said the points. Sure, sure. Patty, who's been helping coordinate everything, has us really smart, you know, because we have manufacturers in America and not just China at all. It's like we have manufacturers in in all kinds of different places so that we can have a

redundancy if if anything happens to one or if one can't meet the quality things like that we have we source from a lot of different places and try to source responsibly from different places and it's like okay we got a wide net doesn't help when the whole fucking world's shipping industry explodes and it's only been a few months there and I know that sounds like a long time but when it working in business stuff like visits it takes a long time to get things going Dude, it takes an agonizingly long time for anything to happen if you're doing like enterprise level, anything. It's fucking infuri.

When you're used to what we do and it's like you show up and either you do it or you pay, this is one person that you know to do the thing that you're working. And then you're like, you're emailing chains and you're emailing groups and they're like, oh, afford this on to the right person. And just a person you've never heard of. And you're like, oh, what they don't know this? Oh, no. This is like starting over.

But we've been doing this for a while. week. It's great. It's lovely. Businesses are very efficient and great, and there's nothing that could be streamlined about this entire process. And I don't even know what all the shit you're dealing with is. It's just my experience. Well, Mark's currently writing a new book. It's called All Work and No

GoPro makes Mark a sad boy. And it's just that line over and over again for 600 pages. Yeah. Yeah. Weird. A year from now, when Mark finally does get a GoPro, just going to be him filming himself, sitting on a computer violently sending emails

trying to make one thing happen. We're ending the episode. Thank you so much for being a listener and or viewer of this episode. We are entering our best season yet, I think, probably, hopefully. Or most disastrous, which would be equally as cool. Anything but average is going to be the theme of this season. Wait a deal. No, what would I have to say?

Oh, my quality will be below average. All right, okay, good, good. Like Mark's hike. Ha ha! Wait, did he fuck? He actually cut out. You actually cut out. That was so fucking funny.

That was so good. Whoa, that was great. I hope that got captured. Oh, my God. All of my shit just crashed. I thought he just left. I didn't. My computer gave me an error by GoXLR crashed.

Yeah, you've got the, you've got like your webcam mic right now. It's all fucked. All right, we're going to end it. That's what Wade gets. Thank you. Uh, follow the podcast, follow these guys. Podcast out. Before it blows up.