Distractible - Chugging Hot Tub Water

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

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This episode, well-versed Wade tackles on Tyler and has mysterious maple syrup madness on his birthday. Multi-purpose mark, Mrs. The Moon, invents the cursed cough tub and has a cutie created curler on his vision. Blokey Bob hates it salty, catches the mega-ick and bashes the Bengals. From wrecked wrestlers to gaming status. Yes! It's time for chugging hot bath water now sit back and prepare to be distracted and

Enjoy the show Hello everyone. Welcome back another episode of distractible. I'm today's hostess with the mostest wave Why because I'm a winner what winners do they host distractible? So the winner can only ever be one of us three because well, we're the host and my co-hosts are Mark and Bob. Hey, does that mean I'm a winner too? Yes. You literally cannot lose this year. Bob. I love that for me. By saying such a statement, I need to remind you guys, the Olympics are this year and there are going to be many winners there. If all of them have to host Distractible,

we're going to be in for a little bit of trouble. Or they're winners with an asterisk because they don't get to host Distractible. Yeah, they're like a different type of winner which is less good than the people who host Distractible. It's just the Olympics. You're right. Who's even heard of them? I could throw a rock. I could put it. I could put a rock. Yeah, okay. Cool. Isn't there a saying, don't throw the rock at glass houses? Don't throw the rocks at Dwayne Johnson or Roman Reigns will get you. He was in the news recently. There's a whole lot of stuff about a WrestleMania that happened or something.

It's been all over my timeline. I don't follow wrestling, but apparently it was a really cool thing, that event that happened and people were very happy. I don't follow wrestling either, but I saw a super cut of apparently there's a running bit like for a long time of the guy who's called the undertaker gets like knocked out or otherwise goes down for a while and is laying on the ring and then out of nowhere while other stuff is happening it just goes bong and he sits up like he's like he's rising from the dead and then choke slams the shit out of people i saw a supercut of

just like every time he's done that it, it was funny without knowing any context about it. I'm in the wrong field, man. Getting to like do a thing, then lay down for a while. Don't have to do another small thing. That is perfect for me. There's anything I know. It's that being a pro wrestler is super easy and relaxing and not at all physically damaging or life ruining Lee hard on your body. That's for sure. That definitely sounds good for me Then I know a bit more about WrestleMania right now only because me and Tyler talk about it a lot on go

And what happens is every time we talk about it people get really mad Can't imagine why It's not just like, you know Tyler It doesn't think it qualifies as like a real sport because the winners are predetermined like okay I feel like that's good, but apparently every time we talk about it We talk about wrong which is fair cuz I don't know anything about it But what I do know is apparently the Undertaker retired like officially like I know he's had a few times Where he's like not going away, but he actually had a retirement like a year or two ago

Like a retirement party with all the people in the office Wait, what are they doing? What do they do at a retirement party for wrestlers? They like throw you through the cake like, CONGRATS! Well, he lost. Oh. So for the first time, I think, I think for the first time, The Undertaker actually fully was beaten in the ring after the BONG RANG or something like that.

And then like his hat was left in the ring after everyone left and it was very symbolic and meaningful. But then he was back and he chokeslammed the shit out of the rock and boom, and I have no, spoilers I guess. If you're a wrestling fan and you haven't already seen what happened at WrestleMania, that's kinda on you. Listen, man, how big of a fan are you really? What do you got, a T-vode?

You're waiting? You should always watch sporting events live or like very shortly after they happen, because otherwise us sports talk shows will ruin it for you. But also apparently it's not a sport. I don't know. So like it is, you have to be really strong and in shape to do the stuff. But I feel like my understanding is I don't think wrestling fans would be like, Oh, it is a sport. It's a spectacle. Saying that it's not a sport is like a technical definition of like,

it's not a competition, right? There's a winner and It's a spectacle. Saying that it's not a sport is like a technical definition of like, it's not a competition, right? There's a winner and a loser, but... Well, there is wrestling that is a sport, but I think like WWE is more like a performance, right? It's like a performance theater. It's like very entertaining like reality TV show. It's very, the characters are outlandish on purpose.

It's supposed to be like that. I don't think it's supposed, I don't think it's trying to be a sport. I think it's trying to be entertaining. Yeah, it's it's men's soap opera is what has been referred to not that men don't watch soap opera. But you know, that's like the general the general hospital be a lot more interesting if everyone just wore underwear and no tops for everyone who was covered in baby oil and only wore bikini bottoms. Lucky, I'm cheating on you. Who? Lucky. I had to watch some soap operas growing up because my sister watched them and I was forced to do it otherwise I had to go do my homework so I chose the soap operas.

I was forced to do it. I was, I, I, I couldn't, I didn't want to but I couldn't help it. My eyes were held open. It was, ah man. There's nothing wrong with soap operas. No, no, a lot of people enjoy them. They're just very dramatic, like very dramatic. No, you know it's totally unrelated to anything we're talking about.

Almost. Have you guys ever seen the show Jane the Virgin? No, she had lots of sex by the time I tuned in. Probably anyway, it's like in it's like English show made by Netflix, but a lot of it is in Spanish and it's kind of like model after like a telenovela, which is like Spanish soap opera. Very dramatic. I've watched that whole show a couple of times. It's really good.

It's a little much, but it's very good. Highly recommend Jane the Virgin. I've never stuck through, I mean, so some like normal, I don't know, television shows can be very dramatic, but they don't qualify as soap operas, I think because they don't play it two in the afternoon. I don't know what the rule is. Do you guys know why they're called soap operas?

Why? Because they're dirty. They play during the day, which back in the, when TV, in the advent of TV, when they were trying to figure out what to put on there, they played when housewives were at home watching, and there would commonly be commercials for soap during these dramatic television programs, because they were trying to market to the audience

who was watching them, which was the housewife who was at home. That's why, that might be totally wrong, but that's my understanding. It's why they're still called soap operas. It's because of that, which just doesn't mean anything in today's world. That's more interesting than my theory. My theory was that the first one was like an actual opera where they sang, but during the opera they had to like toughen out and belt it out

while someone put soap like in a sock and beat them in the back while they sang I'm glad that wasn't the case. That sounds bad. Okay Yeah, Molly and I started watching Twin Peaks recently, which is like an early 90s show. That's weird as shit Is there a lot of soap socking in that show there? There is there's at least one soap socking that happened. Okay Well, that's something but like the show feels like it was made by aliens who like observed humans for like a year and then thought they had us down. It's a weird show. You know, that is the main and only thing I know about that show is that it's known for being weird.

I didn't know that going in. Molly was just like, hey, in my books, they've referenced this show. Do you wanna watch it with me? I was like, sure. And we started watching it. I was like, okay, it's cool. I feel the 90s vibe.

And then like, as it's gone on, I'm like, the hell's happening? Like there's a lady who just carries a log and she's called Log Lady. Yeah. I feel like that one's not that complicated. I've never watched it, but I feel like the show could be described

as like an improv scene that went on way too long. That it started evolving its own stories and the callbacks don't make sense anymore. It's like a Harold made into a TV show. It definitely has some like, this is my first thing I was writing and as I was going on I felt more and more creative and I was just like, fuck it, I'll put it in. And then they kept it in. I wouldn't doubt that.

Yeah, I think it's probably also kind of performance art, which is like a type of art that can be really profound, but most of the time is not, and is just very bizarre. And I think like that is a lot of artists feel like the first instinct that comes to mind must be the actual inspiration and you must follow that. And it's pure. It's pure. Yeah, that's the purity of it. I do recommend it. It's a fun watch, but man, I've never really done drugs, but sometimes I feel like I'm on them when I watch because I'm just like, okay, we had a normal show for 20 minutes.

Now there's a strange man appearing in dreams, robbing people and telling them the future. Sure. And now we're back to normal. Nope, it's not normal. What? There's a lot of questioning reality while you watch that show.

But anyway, I started watching that recently. I guess we're into small talk, so we'll kind of go in further. Is anything new going on in our lives? Yes. What? Oh, okay. You want me to explain?

No, I got COVID from a hot tub. The hot tub wasn't wearing a mask. I think I mentioned, but maybe not, that we're getting a hot tub, which is very exciting. It's a thing. Manny had shoulder surgeries when she was sick, dude. What? Hot tub, because it got you sick. Yeah, but the timing of it came right at the shoulder surgery. Yeah, it was a little late. Anyway, sick. Yes.

So Mandy has had surgery when she was younger, has always had shoulder problems. And so like we've always dreamed of having a hot tub, because sometimes she just is in like pain, like agonizing pain. And a hot tub because sometimes she just isn't like pain like agonizing pain and a hot Tub soak would like do a lot to help therapeutically Yeah, it would be good for her shoulders and I'm just sort of out of shape So a hot tub feels really good when you're sore and out of shape. But anyway, we were at the place We were at a showroom looking at things

We didn't know anything about hot tubs and we went to look and they had apparently there are like two types There's one that's more like a chlorine, kind of like a pool-based where that's how you keep the water clean and then there's one that's kind of like a salt water hot tub and I don't do salt water very well. The ocean, like if I get the ocean in my mouth, makes me throw up. I don't like salt water. I'm very... I react very strongly to it. But the salt water hot tubs were like exactly what we wanted and so I was concerned I was like well I don't want to get a hot tub that has saltwater in it because saltwater literally makes me puke and gag and I hate it

And so I was like but they have one they had one that had the saltwater in it on the floor And I was like well, I should just taste the water and that way I'll know I'll know if it's too salty because the guy was like oh oh, well, it's not the same level of salt as the ocean. And I was like, I went over and I smelled it and I was like, I don't know. This is it smells kind of salty. And so ultimately I was like, I just have to, I just have to taste it. And then I'll know for sure before I commit to spending this money on a hot tub that I can, that that'll be okay.

It won't be too salty. I'll be able to enjoy the hot tub that I can that that'll be okay. It won't be too salty. I'll be able to enjoy the hot tub even though it's got salt water. So anyway, that happened and literally the very next night I came down sick and it was COVID. And since the last time we recorded, I've had COVID the entire time until yesterday. But I did get, I got the tax low of it or whatever and like I got I got better really quickly. so I'm lucky it was fine It wasn't that bad of an illness or anything, but I am pretty sure I got co vid because I drank the public hot tub water Well after you drink public salt water, you should always go home and gargle salt waters to cleanse your palate

But it was it was treated the salt makes it clean, right? I don't think those are of a temperature enough to pasteurize anything. If anything, they're they're kind of like a bio cooker where more things... Oh, it wasn't hot at all either. It was set on like 90 degrees. It was like barely a hot tub because it was in there, you know, no one was using it, right? So, it didn't need to be that hot. Yeah, well, I don't know what's been in there, but apparently something. Well, Keter's pooped on the floor the other day and I got the salt shaker and poured it on there, and it just disappeared. Carpet was sparkly.

What's happening? What? He said salt made it clean. Why did the poop disappear? Because you sprinkled salt on it. He's being hyperbolic. No, no, no. It really happened.

I'm telling you a real life story here about an illness and a very dramatic experience that I had. And I'm mocking you for thinking that salt made it clean and safe. Well, that's the point. The only reason is salt water is because that's the way it's chemically treated so that it doesn't get nasty. Also, it had some sort of ozone treatment system in it and also some sort of UV thing that was supposed to also kill bacteria

and viruses and but it was supposed to be clean, man. Are you sure that you didn't get COVID from the people in the store? They were all perfectly healthy and also very nice people. That's true. You can always tell when someone is very sick with COVID. The healthy ones are nice. They wouldn't have done that to me is all I'm gonna say, okay?

There was a mean guy in the corner. He was definitely sick. I get mean when I'm sick, so I assume. Anyway, I don't know. It's probably not from the hot tub, but it just seems too I'm sick so I assume. Anyway, I don't know. It's probably not from the hot tub but it just seems too conspicuous that I drank. I drank anonymous hot tub water and then I got sick for a week so. I just would never think to taste. How much did you drink? Is this just like you dip a finger in your mouth or a whole... I

didn't like drink the whole head but I took, I was like and took like a little I aerated it Right, you have to get like a tasting wine. No, no, this gives me the heebie-jeebies I don't like it. It's there were no people ever in that hot tub. It's a showroom hot tub It's as clean as a hot tub gets you know As soon as they put the clothes side on the door, they all strip down and hop in the hot tub It's in the middle of a warehouse that's got windows on all sides. Yeah, but if it's closed, you're not gonna go looking in a warehouse window.

That's boring. I don't know what kind of dungeon hot tub shop you went to, but my mind's got like a jail cell. Like guards behind each player wall. Look, they were nice people. They wouldn't do that to me. Plus, if you think about it right, it's not even that gross.

It's like I drank people's soup. Did you mistakenly read the sign? It wasn't the hot tub. It was the cough tub. Whenever you're sick, you go over there, you cough into it until it fills up. That's the COVID hand washing tub. Anyone who's sick, you wash your hands in this tub and then then you can touch whatever you want. Oh, we recycle here. See the hospital next next door their runoff comes down the hill and we just catch it in this tub It's wonderful. Then we sprinkle in some table salt some cinnamon very safe. Very clean It's not we didn't get like the most extravagant hot tub in the world, but it's still a lot of money Okay, and I didn't want us. Did you get the salt one? Yeah, we got this all one

I didn't want to spend all that money because the salt one had all the features that we wanted and it was very comfortable. You could climb into them, but they didn't have water in them because we had clothes on. But they were, you could sit in them, right? And you could be like, oh, this is comfy. Look, this is where my legs will go. And there'll be water. It'll be up to here. And you can imagine. And but I was like, I'm not spending all this money on a salt water, a hot tub, because I don't want to throw up in my own hot tub. So I had to taste it. It makes sense. How did it taste? It tasted kind of like unflavored Gatorade.

You know, like how salty like sports drinks are. They're like a little salty. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. It was like that level of like, oh, it's like a touch salty, but it's not like ocean salt water salty. Unflavored gives me the heebie jeebies, too, because like whenever I did have covid, I remember losing my taste. And some of the things I put in my mouth when I was sick,

I was like, oh man, a chicken nugget. This is as mild as it gets. And it was like a salt cube in my mouth. I had this sensation of just salt with no flavor, and it was awful. Pizza was awful. There were certain foods that I was just like, this food's kind of mild, it should be fine while I'm sick.

And it was like, no, it is not. Anything with salt on it was miserable whenever I didn't have taste. Cause all I got was the sensation of salt and no flavor. It made me not want to eat a lot of my favorite foods for a long time. You were just getting pure flavor. Just weren't ready for it.

Getting a hot tub is cool though. Congrats on that. Molly, I'll definitely come visit more now. Well, and it's cool cause the, I don't know if this is a feature before, but I always imagined hot tubs were just sort of always hot. You could set the temperature. And so babies can't go in hot hot tubs, but you could set it to like 80 degrees to where he could totally, it's like a pool for him, right? He's time, you know,

swim around in the hot tub. So, it's not exactly a pool, but like he could go, we could have like family pool time in the summer and go hang out and it'll be very fun. We're very excited. And ours won't have COVID in it. Unless the neighbors mistake it for the cough tub. If you get in it after it arrives and you get sick again, then you really got to consider that it's cursed and not so much like a plague bearer. Well, the one I got COVID from

is not the one that we're getting. We're getting a different tub that I would be cursed. Unless they deliver the wrong one and it's already got the same water in it and they just deliver it as it. It shows up full of water on a flatbed. Man, it really sloshed around a lot, but we kept most of it in there.

Here's your tub. No, as soon as they set it down, it's empty and you'll turn around to sign the paper and you turn back and it's full. It's full and you just hear like the echo of ghostly coughs in the background. Look, it has some issues, but you'll never have a high water bill with this tub.

What about you, Mark? I got another gross thing. Yay! For everyone that hasn't crashed their car from listening to this. Actually, I don't want to talk about it anymore. Everyone's getting into an accident. No, but you have to tell your story because you gave us a teaser and now I need to know. No, no, I don't want to talk about the car crashes.

Edit all this out. Let me start over Hi, welcome to distractible. I'm your host Hold on check the script. I've got a doozy for you guys So you remember a long time ago this event occurred that is really really memorable for a lot of people where Chica When I first got her pooped on the floor Roomba spread it everywhere right so yesterday Chica was Home we weren't gone long, but apparently she had some upset stomach and this happens

You know it does happen she pooped in the house But she just so happened and I have to show you a picture and do not put this on the And I have to show you a picture and do not put this on the pixelated but I gotta show you guys a picture because it'll tell the entirety of this story and it just Doesn't make any sense how this occurred. I have lunch on the way Oh, wait, what she pooped on a thing that was off the ground and it got on my vision pro a thing that was off the ground and it got on my Vision Pro. Hahahaha! Hahahaha! Dude, you could really see shit.

How did she poop there? I don't know! It's not even- the Vision Pro is not on the ground. It's on- like, it's on a case for my lights that is on the ground. Like, it's- it's- I don't understand how this curd, it doesn't make any sense. How could she have pooped on My Vision Pro? Why? Her poops have values-seeking sensors built into the tip. They'd go for whatever the most expensive thing that's reachable is. It's legitimately like, I can't think of a single thing that is more valuable, monetary-wise, not emotionally-wise, more valuable than that, anywhere, close to the floor.

Even the computer that I'm doing this on costs less than that thing, and that's, you know, I get it, that's not a good thing, I'm not trying to be like, oh, woe is me, it's just like, it's so bizarre, that that thing would be the thing that would get poop on it. Her ass has expensive taste. It sure does, it sure does. I'm not gonna lie, though, I don't know if this would be the thing that would get poop on it. Her ass has expensive taste. It sure does it sure does I'm not gonna lie though I don't know if this would be better or worse for you

But what I imagined you were going to show us was that she'd poop Somehow rolled in the floor on it and then gone and laid around the house and left like lay marks around the house I don't know why that's what I thought but that's what I thought. Well, no not quite like that. But it was Thankfully Amy was home first and she discovered this and she cleaned this. Thankfully it was Amy's problem. Did you realize what happened before you put your vision pro on or did you not even notice?

Man, the smell of these is so strong. I need to clean this, this like cushion. It's getting stinky in here. I haven't used it since, just so you know. Look, well, so if the picture's not going to be shown, it was a small smear of poop on the case of the Vision Pro. So the headset's fine. I'm going to guess that pristine white fabric material that that case is made up really absorbed

and locked in the poop. I'm just going to guess. No, actually, that's a waterproof cover cover so I think it came off, yeah, but... Mentally unclean for the rest of your life. It's fine physically. It's like after I... there's a picture I posted on social media a while ago, I think Twitter, but it was um... I picked up my old VR headset when I got like the Valve Index and I'm glad I looked in it because there was a spider and what looked like a very venomous spider, I'm glad I looked in it because there was a spider. And what looked like a very venomous spider, I'm not 100% sure.

I don't think it was a black widow, but something like that. Right in the eye part, like tucked into the, where the eye things are, it was right up in the corner. Fun. And if I had put that on, I would have been like, whoa, this spider's so realistic. Whoa, spider loading screen. I could even feel it biting my eye

And so since then I have not I didn't use that after one afterwards. I didn't I don't know why but I didn't I you Got the spider out, right? Yeah, I think but you never know Maybe you should double checked cuz here's the thing if it laid eggs and then I'm wearing one day and I thought it was clean and then one day just And then I'm wearing one day and I thought it was clean and then one day just millions of baby spiders. I don't know how many years spider eggs last, but I'm pretty sure there's an expiration date on those. Until you touch them.

The eggs are good until you touch them with something and then they just all emerge immediately. He's right. He's right. He's right. Wade, has anything bad happened to your house? You know, my birthday happened recently. It's terrible, Gert. What bad thing could happen to a man on his birthday?

Well, you guys remember the radon mitigation system. I've mentioned that once or twice. And your fireplace was beeping. You ever get that fixed? Fireplace was beeping. So here's what happened. We replaced our sump pump. We replaced a fan for the radon mitigation system.

Those things are connected. And then I went outside and the dogs were outside, you know, sniffing around, going to the restroom. And they both like got to a point where they were like, Oh, hell yes. And they took off toward like the side of the house. And I was like, what in the fuck are they so excited about? Oh no, a dead animal, something terrible.

And they ran over to like our AC unit and they were so excited about oh no a dead animal something terrible and they ran over to Like our AC unit and they were just like oh god. I love this smell They were like going nuts running around and I was like what in the shit is happening and I walked over and I was like What was someone eating waffles out here because the only thing I could smell was this really strong scent of maple syrup most Obvious maple syrup. I could not be mistaken for anything else it was maple syrup and i was looking around and i was like well i don't see anything on the ground there's this like gas line i guess there's this ac unit i guess there's this really powerful power cord that says like duke energy which is a sensei power company on it what could possibly

be dangerous right here i hope it's not a gas leak. Oh God, the dog's really crazy. It's a gas leak. I'm gonna blow up and die. Because earlier that day, as Bob mentioned, my fireplace was beeping. Whenever somebody was outside doing something, I forget what they were doing, but oh, we had like some wood, like around a, we have a generator

and the wood got damaged around the generator when someone was doing like some kind of landscaping thing on the generator itself. So we replaced like a piece of wood and the guy was over there working and I was like, you replaced the wood on around the generator and he hit a gas line and now it's leaking a maple syrup smell and we're all gonna die.

So the first thing I did was I immediately called like the gas company and I was like, they were like, this is after hours. In case of emergency, I was like, yes, it could be. And like, they were like, hey, what's going on? I was like, does gas smell like maple syrup? And they were like, I don't think so, but you know what, I'm gonna get you one of our technicians,

they'll call you in a few minutes and we'll get you sorted. And while I was waiting to hear back, I was doing more research, I was like, maple syrup smell, maple syrup smell. Could be urine, could be an air conditioning coolant leak. And I was like, AC units right there, AC coolant leak. That's it. I'm gonna call and get someone

from the AC company out here. So I called and I was like, hey, you guys know that maple syrup smell I saw it online I've got that and the person was like never heard that one before but I okay okay maybe maybe you have an older model no no no you can't trick me maple syrup stink I sounded like a mad man cuz I kept calling numbers I was like dude maple syrup I know I know it's you I know it's you I know maple syrup stink I sounded like a mad man because I kept calling numbers. I was like dude maple syrup I know I know it's you. I know it's you. I know maple syrup. I got the smell maple syrup

So I kept calling and eventually like, you know, the the gas company technician called me back and he's like it would smell like Eggs or something. Yeah, whatever smell he told me like propane as a sand other gas has a scent He was going through different sense of things. So, okay, probably not that. Next, the other person called me and they were like, hey, I can come down tomorrow, take a look. If it's your AC coolant, it's fine to wait for a day. I'll come take a look tomorrow. We'll see what it is. This is on April 2nd.

So I'm streaming and then nine o'clock Eastern, I end my stream and then Molly texts me door question mark. And I was like, door. And I go upstairs and there's people at my front door. And I'm like, who's at my front door at nine o'clock at night? Is it the gas company? Maple syrup?

Is it the AC people? I opened the door and Tyler is standing outside. I was like, you don't live here. Then our friends, Bird and Fu are also outside next to Tyler. I was like, you guys also don't live here. You're holding something. Is that a cookie cake. I was like, you guys also don't live here. You're holding something. Is that a cookie cake?

They're like, surprise. That's like, what's happening? Oh, it's my birthday tomorrow. You guys are here the day before my birthday. Birthday surprise. We might have a gas leak. Got their suitcases and stuff. And I was like, come on in.

It's definitely safe. Nothing to worry about. So they surprised me. It was awesome. They came in, we hung out. Next day is my birthday and we're talking about plans. Like, oh, we're going to go out and do this. I just gotta wait for this technician to come out.

He's going to take a look at the AC unit, probably to replace something, but you know, it'll be cool. Dude shows up, takes a look at the AC unit. And on my birthday, I'm describing this maple syrup smell. And the guy's like, I do smell maple syrup actually. Like I've never heard that. Honestly thought you were crazy,

but it smells like maple syrup. I was like, I'm not crazy. I know maple syrup. I've had it. I've eaten maple syrup actually like I've never heard that honestly thought you were crazy, but it smells like maple syrup I was like, I'm not crazy. I know maple syrup. I've had it. I've eaten maple syrup before. I know the smell. It goes on waffles, it goes on pancakes, french toast. I know about maple syrup. So the guy's trying to convince me it's not the AC unit and he's like he's rubbing his hands on the pipes of the thing he's like I know this is weird, but like I was like, oh For those who are just listening, Wade jutted his fingers towards camera.

Not said a word. That's what happened, was the guy held his fingers toward me, like in a very... took me a minute to realize an attempt to get me to sniff his fingers. Well he didn't want to say out loud the words, smell my fingers. I don't like to admit it to anyone, but yes, I paid this man $60 to come to my house

so I could smell his fingers on my birthday. Oh, did you? Yes, three separate times I smelled this man's fingers. Three times? That's a little strange. And none of the times that his fingers smell like maple syrup, they were bad. It got away from bad to worse.

The mystery thickens. You know, there were only two pipes you rubbed on, so I swear to God, I don't know what the third one was that I smell but they were all bad I don't mean to say it but have you thought about a Canadian ghost? Like I hadn't there are a lot of Canadian ghost refugees in Ohio Are you is your house on a Canadian burial ground is this like I just got to ask Yes, people do they they they have their pilgrimage from Canada to Cincinnati to bury their loved ones where I live quite often. But yeah smell this fingers no maple syrup nothing good really weird

uh and the guy's like okay well let me check a couple other things you have like an exhaust pipe over here from your furnace I'm gonna go check that just to make sure it's not a gas leak I've got this fun little thing that looks like a ghost buster tool I'm gonna go check that just make sure it's not a gas leak. I've got this fun little thing that looks like a ghost buster tool I'm gonna rub across all your pipes. So we did that no gas leak, but he did smell our exhaust thing from our furnace He's like the sense kind of strong. I'm gonna take a look at your furnace Make sure we're all good there then I guess I'll get out of here and the smell doesn't go away call someone else Who do I call it he's like ghost busters I'm a voice of this ghost busters. I'm just kidding. I don't know.

See ya. See ya? You exit a bit, you're like, ah, that door didn't land. See ya. Well, I was the guy. It was the guy, right? Yeah. Wade is standing there next to the repair technician and he's like, who do I call?

And the guy's like, Ghostbusters. No, I'm just kidding. I gotta go. Good luck. I don't know, man. Just as an exit tool for a conversation I don't want to be in. That, I'm just kidding. I got to go. Good luck. I don't know, man. Just as an exit tool for a conversation. I don't want to be in those. You're in.

See ya. See ya. So guy comes in the house. He looks at the furnace and he's like, all right, it's an older furnace. So let me take a look here. To describe what happened. His eyes got wide and he froze. Didn't say a word.

Immediately reached for a valve, turned it, grabbed an orange, I think it was orange ticket out of I don't even know where, immediately put it around the thing and was like, you need new furnace. I was like, what? Maple syrup? He's like, no, no maple syrup. Maple syrup? He's like, I don't know what made the maple syrup noise, but like your heat exchange is, uh, you need a new furnace. Oh no. Can you just do that real quick? I don't know if you guys remember this, but a year, year and a half ago, old house, guess what,

had to replace the furnace in the AC unit. I do remember that. Yeah, so the guy's like, you need a new furnace and like, you know, your AC unit, it's newer, but some parts were soldered and welded that aren't supposed to be. It's not really a great brand. That in all honesty, I was gonna just tell you

that you might wanna look into replacing it at some point before it goes bad because it was just it was installed really poorly and I was like oh so if you're gonna do the furnace you could do a bundle where you do the furnace and AC unit and I was like dude I just did this like a year ago don't do this to me man not you not like this please maple syrup I called you about maple syrup don't tell me the furnace maple syrup maple syrup we can have some guys come out tomorrow I'll have another guy come out today He'll go over pricing and stuff with you know, I don't want to Ultimately had to wait meanwhile, you know Tyler bird food they're chillin

They're like man, we go downtown to Cincinnati. We go to the zoo. We call it Bob Mandy. We hang out I have some fun friend times. It's like hey, guess what? I got another technician coming in like an hour I'm stuck but tomorrow tomorrow will do some fun stuff times. I was like, hey, guess what? I got another technician coming in like an hour. I'm stuck. But tomorrow, tomorrow we'll do some fun stuff. Guy comes out an hour later, gives me pricing. I agree, whatever. Yeah, technician will be out tomorrow around like 7 a.m. to start working on your furnace.

7 a.m. tomorrow. You mean all my friends are here? How long will it take? A couple hours? Yeah, about eight to 10 hours. 10 hours. All my friends here for the surprise birthday party. Okay.

So next day we're here. They install the furnace. They install the AC unit. It takes all fucking day. Surprise party turned into like, hey, maple syrup? Smell my fingers? Pay 16 grand for another furnace and AC unit?

Happy birthday. Alright, we gotta go to the airport. See you, Wade. Guys, what about hangout? No, we're leaving. Eat. Maple syrup. you. Wait guys. What about hangout now? We're leaving People syrup. Oh man You know It's such a shame because what should have happened is they should have all chipped in gotcha new furnace and installed them themselves That they all they brought me was a cake and some plane tickets to fly to see me. There's cheap bastard

I swear to God they must have been chucking Maples here bottles into your your chimney and Before they were even in town. Here's the kicker. Do you know what the cake said that they brought me that I looked at? Sorry about the maple syrup. Happy Burt ran out of letters. Close. Mark, you have a guess? No.

We have an inside joke from where we went to Disney a year and a half ago. And as sports fans, Bird's a fan of the 49ers. I'm a fan of the Bengals. So you're the pad of the worst team. Come on, man. Come on, man. A year and a half ago, the 49ers and Bengals were both in the AFC championship game and the 49ers had zero quarterbacks. Their quarterback like broke both of his arms. Their other quarterback had a concussion. They were to the point where they had a quarterback who could not throw. All he could do was hand the ball off. They lost. The joke phrase of the day became,

can this day get any worse? Later that night, the Bengals lost to the Chiefs after one of the Bengals players tackled Patrick Mahomes three miles out of bounds. And we said, can this day get any worse? So they brought me a cookie cake that jokingly said, can this day get any worse? And then my furnace and AC unit broke, it got worse.

So what smelled like maple syrup? Yeah, what was the maple syrup about? Never solved the mystery of the maple syrup. Did it go away? I didn't, so I've gone out and I've smelled a couple times, I don't smell it anymore. So my best guesses are it was in fact the AC unit or it was some animal's urine. Because apparently some animal could have something going on where their urine can have like a maple syrupy smell. Canadians.

But the weird thing is the smell seemed like it was higher up on like some bushes. It was like middle up on these bushes. So it wasn't like it had to have been like it was Chica. Chica shat on Mark's vision, Pro, then came and pissed on my bushes. She's learning how to defecate higher. Mark, go smell your vision, Pro does it smell like maple syrup? Did you taste the poop? Are you sure it's not maple syrup?

No. Yeah, I got hosed on the eclipse. Oh, I saw the eclipse. It was very cool. Yeah, I got hosed. I got where 40 minutes in almost, and this is the first time we're bringing up like this once in a hundred year phenomenon that, well, that we're probably gonna get to see. I guess it happens more often, but not for us. I am going to be that guy. And I'm sorry that I'm this person to everyone out there who enjoys things. It was cooler than I thought. I'm glad people made a big deal about it because I was kind of like, yeah, I've seen an eclipse

before, it's fine. And then it was very cool because we actually pretty much saw a totality of not 100% I don't think quite, but it's very cool. But people lost their whole fucking minds about it and I'm like, it's fine that you enjoy things, but we were in our own yard in our neighborhood, we were standing out there and it happened and we were all kind of like, oh, wow. Oh, that's very that's beautiful. But around our neighborhood, you just hear in the distance like it's like, what did you all lose your minds?

What happened? Well, it's cool. But what the shit is happening? You know, I think dangerous than a more dangerous than a full moon is a full sun moon. People like went feral for this. They're like, yes, it's cool, but what the shit is happening? The only thing dangerous than a, more dangerous than a full moon is a full sun moon. People like went feral for this. They're like, yes, it's cool and beautiful, but whoa, calm down a little bit. It was a big event.

So we saw it was about 98, 99% what we saw. It wasn't like a full eclipse. So it was still pretty cool. The thing I didn't expect for some reason, the way the world looked during it was very like zombie apocalypse movie lighting. It was just like the world dimmed and had like this kind of yellowish tinge to it.

It was like, this really feels like I'm in like the Walking Dead. Like, yeah, that's cool looking, but I'll see photos and videos of that later. The feel you can't really replicate was like the looking around everywhere and having like that dim yellowish lighting. You know, it's entirely possible, Bob,

that you were at 99% totality, and you're like, that's pretty cool, but just down the road, your neighbor, they got 100%, and they were beamed with the eye of God. They're all shitting and coming at the same time, and you just got the edging of the eclipse. Maybe the eclipse is what caused the maple syrup smell to go away, which is why I can't find it.

Dude, I can totally, it doesn't happen a lot in a world like, you know, a couple hundred years ago or something, in a world where science is less sophisticated and there are 24-hour news stations explaining to you exactly what's happening with the eclipse and blah blah. If that just happened and you're like outside like working or and you just look up and that's happening, I would definitely have been like, oh shit, God's mad guys. Holy fuck. Like, I don't know what we did, but something bad must have happened. And we should be sorry because it was very surreal without the understanding of what was happening.

That would freak me out, man. But the people who were screaming like wild animals, they should have known what was happening. So I don't think they had the excuse that, that, you know, someone from in some time in the past should have. I'm sorry you missed out Mark. It was cool to see you guys were in a good spot except for what was the weather? Yeah, it was just the weather. I mean, it was Austin was still on the edge of it.

So we wouldn't have had a very long totality, but we would have had it. And it was just one of those things where there happened to be the weather reports. So many people came into Austin just for this, like the hotels and Airbnb's were booked up news started breaking that high clouds from the West Low clouds from the south and it was like as soon as the totality happened it started hailing So in reality it was very much a different kind of interesting event Everyone's looking up seeing pelted in the eyes like, I CAN'T LOOK AWAY! Is this why you're not supposed to look at eclipses? AHH!

I gotta say, it didn't hail right in Austin, but it was like in Texas, this storm mixture creates hail because it's like the high weather and the low weather stacks and it causes rain to circulate this in the cold, so it freezes. Um, but they were predicting softball-sized hail. Oh shit. Um, but I'm not 100% sure it was like a possibility of it. But yeah, it was just like, oh. You just go out with your telescope, your glasses,

and your catcher's mitt, and you're good to go. No, you know, Mark, I know that you're sad that you didn't get to see it in person. But I have great news for you. Your favorite moon photographer, A. James McCarthy, is currently compiling the most extensive HDR thousands thousands of images to get, don't worry. Hey James McCarthy has your back. Oh boy.

Now see, I don't mind that. That's cool because it's at least not the same picture of the moon. At least that'll be unique and interesting. Wow, still not over the moon stuff, huh? Can't let that go. I'm kind of at a loss here. Once again, I've had a topic. We've not gotten to chat in a minute and we've had a lot of events

happen in our lives recently clearly. We're a bit further in than we usually are to start a topic, so I don't know if I just keep the small talk going or if I try to squeeze in a little bit of a topic but like, well we're not going to do your job for you. You decide. What do you want the two people who aren't you to do the entire episode for you that's just lazy I'm more so just setting the table for visiting else y'all want to talk about before I maybe introduce ten minutes of a topic but like fuck you guys again I was sick so I don't have anything are you still on about that you know what I will say Mandy got it and is currently in like in the sick part of it. Baby never got it.

Has the immune system of a Knox. He's the healthiest man I know, apparently. He also didn't drink any of the hot tub water. So could be that. Wait, did Mandy drink the hot tub water? No, but- But they made out right after Bob did. She never stood a chance.

Mandy, I can handle the salt water. She's like, I love you. Should we buy this hot tub? Let's make out to decide We're gonna give it a test ride. Look away. Look away Everyone look away for there. Give us 30 seconds and cover your ears play some music play Nickelback Play the other one play the other one. I want to be a rock star. Yeah, that's the one isn't that a good making out song probably I have new fidget toys that are quiet and magnetic. I got something else for my birthday. You mentioned the fidget toys

That's cool. I forgot to share my birthday present from Tyler Tyler went to Thailand for a little while, right? He was out of the country. I was playing lethal company with bird and Tyler was gonna join in a bit and birds like oh, yeah Well when Tyler gets back from Thailand, I was like wait, I was going to join in a bit and Bird's like, oh yeah, well when Tyler gets back from Thailand, I was like, wait, Tyler's going to Thailand? Yeah, he's had this trip planned for like months. I was like, oh, you know, the best man from my wedding didn't tell me he was leaving the country for a while. That's weird.

So Tyler joins the lobby and I was like, hey man, didn't know you were leaving the country. And he's like, Bird, you told him? I was like, am I not supposed to know? He's like, no, I was going to tell you. We have an hour, like Bird has a video on his YouTube channel, Bird 650, shout out, where it's like 50 minutes cut down of he and Tyler and I having like an argument in this game

about Tyler going to Thailand. And ultimately Tyler's like, well, I thought I already told him anyway. So we argue for an hour. Then Tyler does the Tyler thing where he's like, what, I already told him. And it's like, then why are you yelling? Like, why were we fighting?

Anyway, Tyler goes to Thailand. Two weeks in, he texts me. It's like, dude, Tyler already told him. And it's like, then why are you yelling? Like, why were we fighting? Anyway, Tyler goes to Thailand. Two weeks in, he texted me. It's like, dude, Tyler's gonna give me an update. He's gonna see, like, I'm excited to hear about his trip. And his text was, hey, Wade, do you have any footage from lethal company from back in November? And I was like, how's Thailand?

Nothing. Anyway, don't hear from him. I hear from him like one more time on something random. And it's like, this is my best man. Why am I so in the dark? You told him? He gets back from Thailand. He shows up at my doorstep for my birthday.

He's like, dude, went to Thailand. I was like, that's great. Got you a birthday present. I was like, oh, once you get me from Thailand, he's going to make up for everything. He got me this book. It's made out of elephant shit. Made with real poo. It is literally made from elephant shit.

Is it a book or like a journal? It's like a journal, it's blank pages. But the whole shtick of this thing is an elephant shat this out. Look, if an elephant could shit out a fully produced journal, that's very impressive and cool, but I'm assuming someone had to- They refined it or something afterward. They went through a lot of effort to turn this poop into a book. I really hope they didn't go through a little bit of effort.

Maybe I'll keep points in this one day once I'm done with my current point thing, but... No, that should be your distractible notebook. That's perfect. I need shit paper to keep my points on now. I'm jealous that I don't have one. I'm just curious what I did. Like I was one of the best, if not the best host of Go My Favorite Sports team a couple of times. I, you know, Tyler was the best man, gave a great speech at my wedding.

And then something happened where he went to Thailand, didn't want to tell me, he came back and he gave me literal shit for my birthday and broke my furnace. And I just, I don't know. I don't know what happened, but that was my present was a poop book. But do you know for sure he broke your furnace and I just I don't know I don't know what happened but that that was my present was a poop book but do you know for sure he broke your furnace he might have pooped in the furnace can I just toss this out there

do you think while Tyler was in Thailand at every opportunity it came up like hey my name is Tyler this is my land where my land this land is your land this land is Thailand I've made similar jokes. He doesn't really laugh very hard, but I can tell he finds them really funny. He's either there's two phases of Tyler's Tyler that like stone faces your jokes and there's Tyler that laughs for 40 minutes making goose calls, noises, dying and not breathing in oxygen. You just gotta be funnier.

There's not much in between for him. It's either he's all out or not at all. But yeah, apparently guys in Thailand, there's a place called Poo Poo Paper Park. It's a whole park? The website for this is poopoopaperpark.com. For those listening, that's P-O-O-P-O-O-P-A-P-E-R.com. Not sponsored, but like, I've got a shit book from Tyler

in a broken furnace in front It's in Chiang Mai, Thailand. You can shop by poo type. Oh Yay, elephant poo poo paper cow poo poo paper horse poo poo paper Donkey poo poo paper. He didn't give me ass paper. So thankfully he gave me the elephant Wow Good while they were here though there So, you know how we played that board game Nemesis, Mark? The co-op one. Apparently there's a lot more co-op games than I thought.

Because when Bird and Fu and Tyler were here, they brought this game that was actually really challenging. Maybe because we're dumb, but also it was really fun. They have like these mystery, almost like escape room games. Like this one was like a Sherlock Holmes game. Oh, we have that. It's one time use. Yeah, we have the Sherlock Holmes mystery game actually. It's only one time. It's very fun. Yeah, you get to like they sell them like, yeah, so it's like you get to do like an escape room you do one time you kind of know what's going to happen. Oh, right. Yeah. Okay. So the way that this one worked was like you open it up and you read like this intro and then you

have to solve the case. But like along the way some of the clues that you open as you're solving things you like destroy them like you literally cut stuff up or you you build stuff like you do different things along the way and it's so the games a one-time play for like 10 or 20 bucks or whatever you're supposed to be able to do it like within an hour. It was like, oh if you do it within an hour, you're really smart.

We spent or maybe we did stop to eat dinner and have dessert in the middle, but like we took a bit longer to, but we had some fun times during that. Tyler is always, is a blast to do things with because you just never know what he's gonna do. Like for one point I was like, oh, I've not seen this clue yet.

I picked it up to read it and Tyler was like, oh, I need that. I literally read the first word. He just took it out of my hands and was like, so that became a running gag. It was anytime one of us wanted, we're like, oh man, my cheesecake. We're like, oh, I need that.

And like grab it from someone. But it was really fun. I didn't know those kinds of things existed. Like one-off cooperative. No, those are super fun actually. We have a Sherlock Holmes one. Is that the one with the map where everything's numbered and you like go around to different locations

to interrogate people and to get different clues and stuff? Yeah, I think there's different versions of that same genre, but there's like different clues. There's like images you look at. There's like clues all over the place. Even like the box can be clues like everything. Yeah, it was really cool.

Yeah, I feel like it would be a lot easier to design a game if you don't have to do it for replayability or randomization if it's just like one-time purpose, but then you have to develop a lot more of them, I guess. It's like those boxes. You know those boxes people do like videos on where they like are given a box and they have to figure out how to open it to get to like the, it's like that.

It's like a mystery box, but like Sherlock Holmes clue style. Yeah, I didn't know it existed, but really cool. Something we should definitely do at some point. Tyler's so funny. I'm gonna ask him if he bombed your house with maple syrup. What are you gonna do if he tells you not to tell Wade? Oh, that's true, yeah.

So the first guy that showed up, man, he smelled it and his options were like, well, it can't be the AC unit, can't be the gas line. You think some kids came around and like pranked you? And I was like, you think that some children thought that the biggest prank they could do was to grab a bottle of maple syrup, come to our house and pour it on a bush near our AC unit?

Honestly, that's a really smart prank. That's exactly the level of prank where it's like, even if you saw them doing it and you came out, you wouldn't like call the cops and chase, you come out and be like, Maple, sit. Dude, I would have brought a plate and a spoon and tried to salvage some, saved myself the effort. But yeah, like that's like the top tier type of prank

because they couldn't even get in any trouble, but also that caused a bunch of mischief and cost you a ton of money. If that's what happened, but like I wasn't the only one who smelled it. Everyone smelled it. They're like, that is maple syrup. Like everyone thought I was crazy till they smelled it.

And Mark, how hard do you think it is to fill water balloons up with maple syrup? Probably not that hard. Especially if you go straight into a tree nearby. What you do is you plant a maple tree nearby, but Wade wouldn't know what the difference between with maple syrup. Probably not that hard. Especially if you go straight into a tree nearby. What you do is you plant a maple tree nearby, but Wade wouldn't know what the difference between a maple is, so you're good. And then you just put a tap in there,

and you feed the line directly into his house. We probably have maple trees. We have maple trees here. He wouldn't know. He doesn't know. Hey, no, no. I know what the leaves look like. He's not even listening right now.

He can't even hear what we're saying. I'm gonna look up Shakira. You guys suck. Is he our episode? Which there's not even a topic for. Well, there is a topic, but we spent 50 minutes talking about random stuff, so I didn't want to just jump into it, man. I'm ready for it.

No, that's it. I do have a question. Have you guys been on the subreddit? I've decided to never look at the subreddit again. I've not been on it in a minute, but somebody tweeted me or something. Apparently someone came to my stream. I don't remember how they told me. They told me either on Twitter or via my stream that apparently people are mad at me on the subreddit. I haven't looked, but is that, I didn't know if that was true. Mad at you? The subreddit's never been mad at me, but like someone told me they were. I have been, I do watch it. I have not

really seen a meaningful amount of anyone being bothered by you on the subreddit. So there was that whole thing which I apologized for previously where I gave you a bunch of shit about being constantly seeking pity and blah blah blah and yeah so I broke my furnace to get more there were there was one post I saw where someone was like you know what Bob's right wait complains about everything what a whiner and I was like thank you for having my back subreddit one person on the subreddit but otherwise no they're all completely on your side still. I 100% am a whiner, but I'm also usually a hundred percent justified.

Do you, if you guys ever had to replace a fucking furnace or is it just me? Yeah, not, not at the last place we live, but the first house we ever bought, we had to replace the whole HVAC system. Yeah. See we didn't, the first house Molly and I lived in, we didn't have to replace it,

but we did have like the coldest day of the year We had if someone come work on it and like Molly was working somewhere else at that time So she got to leave home to go to work whereas like I was at home like covered in blankets So with a space here that was like I think it was a propane space here That was just in the room working and I don't know if that's safe to run in a closed space, but it was I'm sure those fumes were fine But it was freezing fucking cold trying to like record YouTube videos But we didn't replace the furnace They just had to come like replace a part on it, but somehow like since then whenever something goes wrong, it's never fixable

It's always like you got to replace it. I was like you can't just like change a part No, no, I gotta replace the whole thing. Why is nothing meant to fix a part? This is an incredibly deep conversation. They I don't think any of us are prepared to answer. It would take hours and hours to discuss how the slow erosion. Are we getting into the right to repair? Are we discussing right to repair laws? We could, is that the topic, Wade?

Yeah, man. Yeah, no, I mean, it's conspicuous. You're right, Wade. Why can't anything ever be fixed anymore? You would think that a part that goes out on a furnace, they're like, oh, this is the most common thing to go wrong. Then why isn't the part that you replaced? Why did you replace the whole thing?

They're like, yep, those white pipes, gotta replace them. Why? Because they go bad. Did you ask why? Internally, externally, I was just defeated, man. What do you mean? What I mean was inside I was dead and sad. Outside I was just defeated man. What do you mean? What I mean was inside I was dead and sad outside I was just like okay I've just come to terms that whenever someone tells me something

needs replaced at this point it's like why argue why ask just do it I'm not gonna give God the satisfaction of being disappointed out loud. I remember I remember the I was at a convenience store that reminds me this guy asked me to pay and he goes like, cash or credit? And I go, credit? And hold up my credit card and he goes, debit. And I'm like, debit it is. I'm not gonna ask why, what the hell? He's like filing his teeth with a knife. It was delivered with such an inflection, like I don't understand why it was, I angered him in some way. Cause I was just like, hold up my car,

I'm like, credit, and he, damn it, wrong. Yeah, ask your credit, credit, wrong. He is actually, that was actually the guy from No Country for Old Men. Heads or tails, friendo. Apparently the answer was damn it. That, there's a couple of scenes in that movie that are just so tense for no reason

Well, there's a reason but like God the scene I think you're talking about the gas station. Yes Yeah, I hated every second of I love hated it. Yeah, that movie is a is a masterstroke. It's excellent You know, it's interesting is a lot of that movie doesn't even have music I consider music to be a big part of a lot of movie experiences and like it it adds to and to be a big part of a lot of movie experiences and like it adds to and in a lot of ways makes certain scenes and certain movies like what they are but a lot of that movie just has no music whatsoever but it's still like excellent not that I'm a cinema person but it's a good movie. Well none of us really know too much about movies here but yeah I don't want to talk about it.

What were we talking about? Oh, right to repair. Yeah, right to repair laws. What a topic. This is a bold take, it's a bold topic, Wade. I applaud your efforts for leading the charge on this discussion. Yeah, I'm looking at this sheet that I prepared with a whole bunch of stuff on it

that I haven't looked at one time, but you know, it's just like my death episode. I'll just have to wait till the next time I host. Every time I host now, my topic gets pushed off to the next next time I host. I'm the small talk guy nowadays. Bob, anything else you want to share? You got some stuff you want to save? No.

What is happening today? I got my 3D printers over there out of the shot. It's a cheap 3D printer and I'm having some trouble with the bed not heating very well. I don't know if it's an element problem or if it's the material itself, but I was having trouble with adhesion,

first layer adhesion. And so I just bought a cheater stick of 3D print glue, which everyone online endlessly mocks as like, oh, if you need glue, then you just suck. Look, I've tweaked the settings every which way. I think my bed is either broken or just a cheap piece of shit. I need glue because I can't get a print to adhere to the bed to save my ass.

I don't know why people are mocking for glue. I thought that was standard procedure. The 3D printing community is very like it's it's a little bit like elitist gatekeeping, but a lot of people who are like really big in it are like, look, you don't need glue. You just need to dial in your setting. If you if you're using glue, it just means that you have it like totally sorted out your setup.

And I'm like, look, unless there's some magical knob on my printer I'm unaware of, well, the options I have are bed temperature up, bed temperature down. None of that has worked for shit. So I'm going with glue. But that means I'll be printing some stuff soon. So you know, everyone loves that.

That's cool. That does bring a quick question. This might not be a quick question, but why do communities get so gate-peepy? Mobile game communities that I've been a part of in the past, gaming communities in general, movie communities, like you name it. There's like anime communities and people that are just like, look at this person. They're new. They don't know that you can't use glue. What an idiot.

I think people just like to feel superior. That's that's the answer. In any way that you can, if you feel What an idiot. I think people just like to feel superior. That's that's the answer. In any way that you can, if you feel like you know something about this topic or you you're better at something than other people, even if they're new, like whatever it is, it's just not another opportunity to be like, I'm better than that idiot who doesn't even they're using glue. It gets so stupid. Like if you're not a part of the community and you see some of this outrage,

like I play Dragon Ball Z, DOKON, like the one mobile game game I play there's a community like when you build a unit you have a choice You can either give them additional where they have a chance to attack again You can give them crit where they can critical hit and do more damage in that one hit or you can give them dodge Where they have less chance of being hit and someone was like building a unit They're like, yeah, I went with us some more dodge I didn't really put much crit and someone was like this guy doesn't want his unit to get hit He could have given him it would have done more damage but he put dodge and it's like you read that and even someone who plays the game it's like this is the dumbest

fucking shit to feel superior about i've ever seen in my life hey you take what you get i think it's hard it's hard to have a thing that you feel like you know more about or are better at than other people because lots of people are really good at shit, so. I imagine a guy with a crowd of people behind him, like, looking back like, dude, look at this guy, look at him, he doesn't want his unit to crit, come on, mock him, tomatoes!

And it's just like the dumbest reason. Yeah, it's social status. This is definitely a deeper conversation for other things, but it's like, that's kind of just how humans are, is like, they want to have a social hierarchy There's an instinctive need for a social hierarchy in any kind of group of people and there's a instinctive need for humans and probably other animals too to Establish that hierarchy and understand where people hacking order

Yeah, is like a thing in nature right like it's and for a lot of people the easiest fastest way to establish a thing in nature, right? Like, it's... And for a lot of people, the easiest, fastest way to establish their own status, at least not being at the bottom, is to quickly target someone else to be at the bottom, so that they're not at the bottom. Because it's just like, it's kind of the middle of the pack often fights for those roles. And there was like, there was a study where it was in competitive online shooters, right? I'm not sure if it was call or duty or not It was a study or was it just like anecdotal where they found that

Mid-status males would mock female players, but high-status males didn't and Oftentimes the mid-status males would like have extreme appeasement Behaviors towards the high-status males and they would often attack like, you know, female players and this is like a very common thing and it's not good, but there was this weird hierarchy there where like the ones perceived as like higher-status males didn't attack anybody and weren't like mean to the the female players but the middle status were and they were mean to everybody and they caused most of the problems in all

these lobbies. So if you're a low status person in these lobbies, you are the one who are making fun of everybody. I'm curious what defines your status in the lobby as high, mid or low. I don't know. I'm not 100% sure. I just thought it was hilarious. I mean, in that sort of setting, I'm sure it's very complicated, but-

Your kill death ratio? It's just your kill death ratio. Well, yeah. Well, in that sort of setting, I'm sure it's very complicated, but Your kill death ratio? Just your kill death ratio? Well, yeah, well, it's perceived skill level, right? Like regardless of objective success, it has to do with like how good you seem, how good people assume you are based on how you I mean, that probably is what it is, because if you're in the middle of the pack in terms of skill, then you have to single out other people who be like, don't look at me, look at them.

Who's bad and like an easy target would probably be like a female player in there. I might have only had four kills, but they had 17 deaths. Yeah. Not that I'm trying to make any generalizations here, but no. Yeah, but generally I think my favorite in this sort of discussion, like you said, Marcus nuanced and complicated and whatever. This is a very shallow dive into it. I think my favorite part is I always imagine people who are like making posts or being that person who's mocking or targeting someone. They always imagine

that they're like the person at the front and they're like, look how stupid they are. And everyone behind them is like, yeah. But it's actually one person who's like, look how stupid they are. And the whole pack of person who's like, look how stupid they are. And the whole pack of everyone else is like, yeah, how stupid they are. And it's like a weird chain of like all the middling idiots, all pointing fingers at each other's Spider-Man meme style. I mean, that is what it is. That's that's human society.

All right. Well, we'll talk about that more depth than another one. Well, I'm going to wrap this one up. No, we won't. Don't make promises. We're never going to keep. What? No, it's just like you're putting things in your mouth episode, Bob. It's wrap this one up. No, we won't. Don't make promises we're never gonna keep. What? No, it's just like you're putting things

in your mouth episode, Bob. It's gonna happen eventually. Just everyone hold your breath. Why would you bring that up? Cut that up, bleep that, censor that. I'm not doing that ever. We literally brought it up two episodes ago. What do you mean?

All right, let me tabulate the points here. Thank you guys for joining us. He's doing it, he's doing it. What a low status thing to do. Love me. Begging for love, low, low. Mark, you just lost the point for joining us. He's doing it! He's doing it! What a low status thing to do. Love me. Begging for love? Low. Low. Mark you just lost a point for mocking me. I wasn't mocking him. Oh shit Mark you just gained a point. Mark firing insults must be at me. So let's see Mark you have poop points, vision points, sad eclipse points, balloons, concern, uh and low status you gained a point. Okay

You did lose a point for hating the moon. Do you have five ten fifteen fourteen you fourteen points? Comedic way to total them up five ten fifteen fourteen five ten eight fifteen thirteen eighteen fourteen Bob you're really close to losing a point for making fun of my point I was mocking mark Bob you have hot which I think is hot tub Sick for being sick. You have eclipse point you both got eclipse points for different reasons. You got pro moon point I just wrote the word great right to repair and ooh gross don't lick Hmm, I guess when you put the salt water in your mouth Oh, sure five ten fifteen when I have sixteen because you marked mark mark mark you mark

Mocked mark for me to say it's a 16. So 16 to 14 Bob wins. So Bob Oh, even though we're all always winners here you can you the trend of not losing then I officially concede that at some point I don't remember that that didn't happen then. Well, it feels good to win as per usual I really love the topic in today's episode. I feel like we dove deep into it You're walking a fine line here, mister Did an excellent job exploring every facet of the topic and leaving no stone unturned I just want to commend Wade for a great episode. You set us up for success and then Mark and I

hit it out of the park. My home run just went slightly farther than Mark's, but really we're all winners here. Great hosting job, host. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Mark, you have a... Yeah, I just wanted to say,

if I was gonna lose an episode, I'm glad it was this one. Because this probably had the most engaging topic and the most hard-fought battle I felt like we were going toe-to-toe there the entire time I think that we covered the breadth the full depth and breadth of this topic And I just gotta commend Bob for being an excellent competitor It's always tough to lose one when I really put my everything in an episode like this But man you you above and beyond above and beyond you know maybe if your dog didn't shit on expensive things you didn't lick salt

water and I didn't have horrible house luck we could have talked about something else but we had shit going on to go over man's people often accuse you and I mark of not engaging with wade's topics don't throw some very well thought out some deeply considered topic out there and we'll just just dodge it completely We'll just go on our own tangents talk about ourselves for the whole episode and we just you know what today We played the game we both played hard and it was just an excellent episode I think all around I think so No one can disagree with that and no one could possibly accuse us of failing to engage with Wade's topic Everything I threw out you guys hit out of the park. You did a great job

We're all real winners here today, and I can feel the love you can find us online mark mark Plyer Bob Meiskar me minion 777 lord minion 777 we have merch at distractible Yeah, say it like you mean it. I could remember it was shopper store distractible store dot distractible store dot comm or we have great merch like a sock Just one you gotta buy gotta buy two if you want a pair we could sell that would be a fun item the Replacement sock for the socks that you're missing. It's just one but it's gonna be some crazy design So it definitely won't match any sock you have well, it's not gonna match anyway, so might as well really not match. Yeah, exactly

I like it. Stay tuned for the next one where Bob will host and I'm sure he'll have an actual topic and I'll feel even further mocked for my failure to reign things in today. Stay tuned for that. Who knows how many episodes in a row he'll have to host this time. We'll see. Until then, podcast out.