Distractible - Feels Like Home

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

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Me got busy. Me did. Anyway, here's the episode. Oh, it's about Asus Bob and it's wonderful Willie, ain't it? Ain't this feel like home, boys? Ain't this feel like home, gents? I'm leaving now. Zed and whatnot. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Dispractable. What?

I just saw what was happening to Wade over there. It's fine. Ignore him. I'm full screen right now because I'm the host. This is my episode. Wade wasn't even on screen, so nobody saw that. And if you're not watching on Spotify, you didn't see it either. Don't forget you can watch the video version on the podcast on Spotify exclusively. It's free. It. Still free. Anyway,

I'm the host. My name's Bob. I'm joined as always by my two co-hosts slash competitors slash friends Mark and Wade. Hi, I'm Mark. Hobbyist YouTuber. I like to say that I'm learning Korean,

but still haven't learned it yet. Anyway, hoping to have a good time here. Hi guys, I'm Wade that I'm learning Korean, but still haven't learned it yet. Anyway, hoping to have a good time here. Hi, guys. I'm Wade. I'm an American YouTuber speaking pure American here. Got a new microphone and I thought I'd try it out today. So good to see you boys. Something about that is deeply unsettling.

It's really weird. Yeah, I don't know what it is wade currently has two fingers unceremoniously shoved into a relatively small pop filter but you know that i can't find one to fit my microphone so i just did you buy that to put onto your giant ass microphone it actually was one that someone recommended for it i ordered to open the box that's the smallest thing i've ever seen i know how big your mic is that's not even remote yet here shove three fingers inside of it oh yeah sure everyone go to spotify right now to see what we're talking about can you get four in there can you get four

for me oh it's a it's a tight squeeze but we're in there boys that's looking more just like a mitten it was the two fingers that was the weirdest. I don't know why. It's like the world's most concerning fudgicle. Is that what you call it? I left it in the oven too long. It got a little bit blackened. Would you burn it in the oven? I burnt my fudgicle. Back to you, Bob, in the studio.

Yeah, so as is tradition, I have a topic, and we're going to talk about that. But first, we're going to do a small talk. How's everybody doing? I have an office, guys. Look going to talk about that. But first, we're going to do small talk. How's everybody doing? I have an office, guys. Look. Remember how I was moving?

Whoa. Look at my pile of shit in a room. Look at that. So that's exciting. Obviously, not quite operational. But I have an office. This is my office. This is where I will set up my crap.

And next time we record, I might be on my actual computer again. Yay! Fingers not crossed because I'm stiff. Next time we record, I should have all kinds of stuff on the walls because they are fluffed up and today is the day they go up. You know, the instructions, I've seen the foam you got. The instructions do say soak in water, allow to fluff for three to five weeks. I don't know if you're quite done waiting so i didn't read the instructions about soaking in water and i was wondering what was taking some of the panels fluffed up real quick a couple did not you just set them out dry

and they just stayed perfectly vacuum sealed flat well the first batch i ordered did have instructions that just said give them like 24 to 48 hours to fluff up and they did so the second batch came in and i was like it's gonna be the same instructions i'm not even gonna bother reading turns out those you're supposed to wet and wait no that can't be right no you can't what i've never encountered any foam that you're supposed to wet it's not the nice stuff that you get mark some of the cheap foams do say soak in water and allow them to puff up and air dry somewhere where there's ventilation. That doesn't make any sense, though.

It gets like the wrinkles out. Because a lot of them, if you let them dry, they get like waves or they have like crushed corners or whatever. That doesn't make any sense. Soak foam in water. Put it in dryer? What foam did you get? What weird ass foam did you get?

Isn't some of that closed cell foam like really flammable you put put in your dryer and see if your house burns down i'm just i'm just showing you the instructions i ignored for a week did you get prank foam but you ordered it for yourself so you just pranked yourself i hang it on the wall it just makes fart noises it actually somehow makes room sound and echo way worse you hang it up and the next time you talk it's just like whoa how's that even physically possible i don't know where you shop wade but it must be hilarious like that website has got to be just like full of good times i tried to order the stuff i've got up right now i tried to order the same stuff but that seller is like they've been gone for years so i'm wondering if i'm safe with like full of good times i tried to order the stuff i've got up right now i tried to order the same stuff but that seller is like they've been gone for years so i'm wondering if i'm safe with the

stuff on the walls well the trick the trick i've discovered because i used to have walls that were completely covered in foam like absolutely that's actually worse for your sound environment because it's so dead so it sounds wrong um you almost have to add reverb in so from then on i i just started doing like very minimal uh like 30 to 40 percent reverberation decreasing thinner panels and then just emphasizing on bass traps and stuff like that the bass traps is the key thing in most rooms right and then you just if you have like a direct surface that will reflect into your microphone you want to do that but exactly wait you you know all about this being a youtuber for so long right sure yeah i'm a professional youtuber not a hobbyist like you

yeah i'm just a hobbyist no i remember that office though that office was weird that was weird you go in there it's one of those rooms where you go in there and you close the door and it's like it's dead silent and you're like oh i went deaf in this room oh no i left the panels on my old office in the old house that we're selling just because when if they're not in there it feels like a torture room and i feel like people wouldn't buy the house because they'd feel uncomfortable stepping in there yeah sound deadening material definitely doesn't add to the torture vibe well it's also like in a creepy no window basement area it's like tucked in back by the electric panel so it just feels like it's also like in a creepy no window basement area. It's like tucked in back by the electric panel.

So it just feels like it's away from everything. Where are you now? Are you in a creepy basement office? Aren't you in a new creepy tucked away back basement area? Yeah, but now I have a long dark hallway to get to my house. Oh, okay, cool. Where that mysterious man just peered in before. That must have been really fun.

Yeah, if anyone needs to go anywhere, in the basement, furnace, water heater, electric panel, I see them. Normally, I know they're coming, though. It was very much a surprise when I didn't. Yeah, that's my update. I don't know if I gave one. I probably have more terrible technology takes

that people are going to get really upset about. Do it. Yeah. Boo or yay or something. No, I don't have any terrible technology takes. It's only good Stadia coming back. I wish. No, what I think what I think happened is I believe that Google probably sold the Stadia business instead of just like compartmentalizing it because there's suddenly there's all these other services that are coming out, not only just Amazon with like Luna and stuff, but there's also like Netflix is getting into like streaming games and cloud gaming of some type. And I'm like, man, that's so strange.

But it would make sense that Google would just spin something off like that. But anyway, I don't want to get into that. That don't matter. Stadia was great and we all know it. That's it. I don't have anything else. Oh, okay. Lucky for you guys, since we love the small talk section so much. Today's topic is kind of like an extension of small talk. Kind of. Big talk? Today's topic is I want to talk about what makes a place feel like home to you. This is pretty topical for all of us because Wade and I just recently moved not that long ago and Mark you have spent a lot of time not at your

actual home living in places filming doing stuff. I just want to talk about what what about a place makes it feel homey to you as opposed to just like a big room you're staying in or house you're staying in or whatever. Can I interrupt this topic with one more tangent before we get into that? Sure, sure, sure. Usually before these episodes, I look up like some crazy news articles, right? Just to see if there's something grabs my eye. I doubt there's anything more to this story, but there's a headline that just caught my eye. Poop spilled from semi-truck causes multiple crashes on Interstate 95.

Shaky Joseph charged. Shaky Joseph. poop spilled from semi truck causes multiple crashes on interstate 95 shaky joseph charged i was like gross but sad shaky joseph hey boss who should we have drive the poop trough should we have steady james or shaky joseph uh we really need james driving the nuclear waste around. So I got to give shaky Joseph the poop truck. What's the worst that could happen? So his actual full name is shaky Stevenson Joseph. That's his real name. That is last name is Joseph. His first name is shaky for last name. Joseph.

Sure. I don't think that's common. Maybe it's more common than i think shaky as a first name yep man do you think maybe the parents were really nervous so they were like they were shaking and they're like stop shaking you're gonna mess up the name and they like wrote shaky on accident shaky johnson son of jitters and tremor johnson or whatever jeff what's going on j ghost of shaky johnson i feel like has other implications to it like what what what could be that's a steadfast driver right there

10 and 2 that guy 2 on 10 that guy that's yeah guys shaky johnson feels like like the c-real porn flick what i'm sorry what happened like isn Isn't the C tier like a porn flick, like lower class? I thought you were talking about some VR service, like the C reel. I'm like, what? Sounds like a weird VR sex service. Yeah, you know, the C.R. Johnson. Or C.R. whatever, you guys talk. I hate talking.

I made a joke. It was kind of funny. We'll move on. You know what, Wade? Points for your weird vr sex business idea great job thanks bob back to you yeah he's doing the finger thing again yeah he's doing the finger thing they call me steady no how do you like how do you like this how do you like them apples huh isn't it concerning depends i've had a bad experience with that in the past i would like

people like listening and watching this take a screenshot of wade with you know his fingers in the foam post it on the subreddit and then in the comments let's discuss why this is off-putting because i think people would find it hard to articulate but i think together we can probably explain why uh don't grab your wrist like that that's even weird i gotta hold the mic i don't like any of this. It's worse. I don't know why, but I just, in my head, I was like, ooh, I wanna make my arm like the Price is Right microphone.

Really, really long and skinny. No, there's no foam on the Price is Right microphone. It's just naked flesh. Look at the middle. Anyway, back to you, Bob, in the studio. In the studio. you know what mark since we're doing interludes that reminded me i saw a new story that i meant to bring up in small talk that i

thought was really funny it's just a quick thing but i think it's maybe real maybe uh so this person posted on twitter that they crashed their tesla and insurance totaled it so they like took away the wrecked car and that they thought that was it, right? This person was like, Oh, that car is going to be whatever recycled, scrapped, whatever. And, um, but they were still logged in to the Tesla. And with Tesla's, you can like see where your car is on your phone and what its status is. And, uh, so this guy said, I, you know, this happened a while ago. My Tesla recently came back online and is currently, GPS says is currently located in Ukraine.

And someone is currently listening to Drake on my still logged in Spotify account on my Tesla in the Ukraine. Fascinating. Do they take totaled cars from America and just like sell, fix them up and sell them elsewhere? Or cause like. I'm sure. Yeah. Why can't they just fix them here and we drive them?

There's no way shipping a Tesla across the ocean to Eastern Europe and having it fixed and then selling it to someone presumably at a very decreased price because it's a wrecked totaled Tesla. What just, couldn't we just have kept that one here? And is it possible? It's not the whole car, that they just took parts out of it? Would that have unlogged it out or something? They would have to put it back into another Tesla, right? Or I guess if they just wanted to like,

ah, Tesla, I can listen to Spotify on this. I think there are easier ways to do that. Yeah. I didn't know if they could take that radio out, transport it, and then plug that in. You can do that. You can take components out of Teslas to put in other ones. They don't like when people do that, but it totally works. But when you do that, if you break up the components, it's no longer the same car, right? So if you took out the infotainment unit, but you didn't take the GPS, it wouldn't work quite the same. I don't know.

Maybe it would. the GPS, it would be like, it wouldn't work quite the same. I don't know. Maybe it would. I mean, given that like Tesla's underneath the soft plastic interiors are just cobbled together with duct tape and random parts. I don't think that there's any, uh, certainty that if you pull out one piece, it wouldn't just forget everything or remember everything it ever did. So more likely, there's probably just some bulk, like, scrap dealer that shipped things out to some random location that was like, yeah, we'll take all of your crappy Teslas that you have piled up, because that's what happens. Like, these cars and these, not just Teslas,

but, like, cars all over the world, you saw how, like, in Syria, there were just Toyotas. Someone's used car with their still company sign and phone number on it appeared in like an ISIS video, one of their promotional videos. And they saw it and they started getting calls because it was on the news or like it was floating around YouTube. And it was somehow their old company truck made it to Syria and had a machine gun attached to the back of it. And they didn't even take off the logo. The secondhand market and the thirdhand market for anything exists.

And it usually filters down to other countries in like the hierarchy of the world order or whatever you want to call it. Where there's a profit to be made, there's a profit to be had. Yeah, I guess it just seems crazy that that is profitable. But I mean, I don't understand the world economy. What would I have to say about it? Well, maybe what we should do is get a bunch of cars, like old crappy cars, get distractible logos painted on them, rack them up with like sledgehammers,

give them to scrap dealers, and just allow distractible to be freely promoted throughout the entire world. You'll finally have the billboard you deserve, Mark. That's great. That's great. I've always wanted distractible plastered on a few tanks. Well, okay. Maybe not that specific instance,

but like just cruising around, like, I don't know, Italy or something would be cool. We should encourage all of the distractible listeners who crash their cars while listening to the podcast to donate them to us so that we could start our own crash car export business. That really is the business. There's got to be so many out there and people just like hoping that someone takes it away. Oh yeah. No, they want to be rid of that. Once a car touches anything, curb, pylon, pylon. I just realized why

this works. I totally just realized because think of it if you want junk removal you either gotta find a buddy with a truck and take it to the dump or you hire someone to take away your junk that business is self-sustaining because not only are you paying them they're getting money to take away your junk they will go through your junk and then they will sell what is actually usable and so just so everyone knows out there hire a junk removal, they take your junk and they don't always just take it to the dump. They'll take it and they'll see what they can salvage. So that's why if you're throwing away anything with sensitive equipment, make sure you wipe your hard drives or physically remove them. Yes, that's also good. And then take a drill and go to the person junking or to the

hard drive. Hard drive yeah hard drive i knew that was coming instructions unclear dick cotton blender now that mark distracted me and i distracted me uh the topic what things make a place feel like home to you well the one that i think is funny is for mandy um she's kind of a drink gremlin and like it's not home unless mandy has a nightstand with like a third of our house's entire collection of glasses on it that's just like the natural state of that that means mandy lives there and that makes it feel like home to me even in hotels or whatever you know like what are you is are there things you guys do or bring or whatever that that make it feel like home to me, even in hotels or whatever. You know, like, what do you is are there things you guys do or bring or whatever that that make it feel like home to you?

I can go if you need to think for a minute. Yeah, it's tougher for me because like home is a nebulous concept for me, I suppose. Well, sure. That's true, because you left Ohio and you've just never found a home since. I get it yeah well it's also just like i i grew up in like the house that you know my stepmom is still in but then i like really my adult life started in my mom's house where it currently is so that feels very much like home so it's like it's but it's hard because both feel like i'm not sure so i'd have to well it doesn't have to be a specific place either but like yeah yeah i got a piece of the

elements of what that is yeah just to figure it out but yeah you wait you go first so i think i've lived in nine different places in my life which feels like a lot more than i thought it would be i didn't think i'd move that much at least as an adult i think when things start to feel like home it takes a few things one spending enough time in the new place to where like you know where things are and your stuff is actually there knowing where all the light switches and things are because whenever you're like first moving into a place and you're like trying to figure out what the hell does what and you're trying to turn on the kitchen light but you actually turn on the garbage disposal like six times and scares the shit out of you that kind of stuff but also knowing your surroundings like knowing how to get to your

house knowing how to get to the places you like to frequent and things like that because once you're like lose that like stress or anxiety of like everything being new and not really knowing where anything is, then I start I think it starts to feel a lot more homely. The house we lived in before this took a little bit longer to adjust to I don't know why. But I think it's because we didn't spend as much time in the house before fully moving in. Whereas this house, we had this office being built and some other contractor work being done. And I just had to be here a lot for different things. So it's like I got comfortable in this house just like waiting for furniture deliveries or waiting for this or getting this installed and i got to spend some time here and then like slowly watch all of our

stuff up here throughout it so then by the time we actually made the full move it was like finally we get to be home uh whereas the last house it was kind of just like move and done home uh it's more much more abrupt so i think getting to know it all a lot i feel that yeah it's funny just last night i was actually trying to remember my first childhood home um the one where i had many escapades that ended up injuring myself um and the one with the backyard where me and my brother probably killed that kid and buried the saw by the way which animation should be coming out very soon. That story is very good.

But I was trying to remember it because I was just like, you know, trying to remember what the basement looked like. And it was so weird because the number of memories that I have in that have reduced down to some very strange, unique moments to it that are when the space changed, right? So I remember a specific memory in the back part of the unfinished basement was like this. There were boxes there for some reason. There was some Halloween stuff and it wasn't Halloween.

And I know this because we had a big glow-in-the-dark skeleton and I threw that. And my brother was like trying to spook me with it. And then he ended up closing the door and trapping me in that back unfinished basement. Whoops. I was not about that. So I like, I freaked out. But because of that, I remember that basement very specifically in that layout with the boxes. And then that clashes with like a memory where when my dad was dating the lady that i shot in the face with a dart gun

with a sticky dart sure sticky dart uh there was this fridge full of like mcdonald's like uh single cheeseburgers because she would collect the beanie babies from mcdonald's and so she would order 10 000 happy meals yeah uh and so. And so we had McDonald's for a very long time and we just like pop it in the microwave. Ah, meal done. Easy. You couldn't tell how old they were. They stayed the same the entire time. Yeah. But despite all that, like the memories are so at this point, they're so distant and they're so focused on those one moments. I bet if I went back to that house, it wouldn't feel like home. It would feel like this weirdly separate part of myself where it's, I don't think it's necessarily nostalgia or fond memories that create like a feeling of home because I was starting to think that path because like it

really is like, just because your memories are there, when you get there, there'll be this like dissonance. There'll be a clash of like what you were imagining and what you see in front of your eyes, especially from the perspective change of you just being bigger. But when I go home to say my mom's house, the main thing is not about like the house. It's that my mom is there and like she's cooking, always cooking. She is legit always cooking. Always cooking.

Oh man, you better not surprise her with company coming over because she'd be like, I gotta go grocery shop. This is ridiculous. I can't believe you wouldn't tell me and then as soon as you guys would walk in the door she'd be walking out the door like i gotta go god um but yeah no i think i think like for me it's not so much about like where it is i'm i have i have very fond feelings of my grandma's house in korea and's because of all the, like my aunt's there

and this smell of food. So I think for me, it's like, it's very food based, which is a very Korean thing to say, but it is, it's, it's just like the people there and like the cooking and like those things carry over from home to home because it's, it's, it's like, it's not about the home itself. It's not about the building. It's like um the presence there i feel like if you went to someplace very alone it might feel like home but also that would be i think particular circumstances i think that also brings up the point of like whenever you move out of some place what makes it difficult is the memories you have there so one of the hard things about leaving our previous house we obviously have a lot of good memories there because we were there for like

five or six years but um the last time we got to hang out with zombie who passed away in person was at the house and like i we remember like seeing him sitting like on our couch like on his laptop and stuff like that and it's like oh we're leaving that memory behind so like there's also the people like that have entered and left your lives if you have memories with them in a place that can make a place feel like home and it's harder to leave it behind um or just memories you make over time the longer you're in a place the more memories you feel like home and it's harder to leave it behind. Or just the memories you make over time. The longer you're in a place, the more memories you have, like the harder it is to leave that because that feels more like home than a new home can for a while. No, it's funny.

Both of you brought up stuff that definitely connects with me. So we lived in California only for like four years, basically. And we lived in two different places there. So we weren't in the place we just moved out of that long, but that was the house we lived in when James was born. Right? Like that's where we brought him home from the hospital to that house full of the grandparents were all in town. That's the first place he ever ate, you know, food. And like, there's a very strong, place he ever ate you know food and like there's a very strong even though it's he's only yesterday he turned eight months old he's not even a year old yet like most of his life is connected to

that place so like yeah that's definitely a big uh thing oh and mark said something that i was also going to comment on but now i forgot because i said w's thing first. I was so profound. I said so much. Mine was more memorable, clearly. The going back to places. That's what it was. So we just moved, right? We moved to Cincinnati,

which is a place where Mandy grew up her entire life and where I went to college. So like a lot of formative years of my life took place in Cincinnati. So it feels like home, right? But we have been gone from this city living elsewhere for a decade. And coming back, I thought it would feel like back in the old home, like everything feels comfortable. And it feels super weird to be back here now. Everything is slightly different. Although some of the stuff I remember is there,

but it's not the same as it used to be. And there's a ton of new shit. And it's like, it doesn't feel like we came home to like a city that is home at all, even though it very much is. It feels like we're in a totally new place where there's a bunch of like ghosts of our past of like, we have this memories of another life when this used to be a different place

and we were here. And now it feels, you know, now we have a baby, it feels like a whole other world. So it is like, it's crazy how that can feel being in an, like in your parents' basement after a long, you know, if you haven't been there for a long time or going back to an old house or whatever, like it's weird. And I think that's really interesting because i thought it would just feel it's not like i feel uncomfortable here like i love the city and i know this place and i where we're living it was like an area i i kind of know already how to get to places but it also the weirdness of it feels very like unhomey i i can't imagine 10 years being gone and coming back because even living here through some of the changes Our hometown where Mark and I went to

High school Milford there used to be A Steak and Shake over there They're all closed now Yeah they closed down the Steak and Shake years ago now And it just sat there the building sat there so I kept waiting And I was like someone's going to buy it up They're going to open Steak and Shake will be back eventually And I think it's a bank now

So they tore down the Steak and Shake building And they built a bank there And then tore down the steak and shake building and they built a bank there and then like the bank that was like in a strip mall behind there's gone another one's gone do you ever just go into the bank and walk up to the counter and just be like can i get a oreo milkshake and like a patty melt with uh no no dressing uh but ketchup they're like sir do you have an account with us i i don't have an account with you no i just wanted a steak burger can i get a double steak burger i know you have them back there they just got in the back room a box all right but don't tell anyone

for me it's like i i think that those things are powerful but they like, they're not what make a place home for me. For me, I guess probably the more useful side of this discussion is what you can do to make a place feel like home. Yeah, well, that's where I was going to go next, because I have a couple of things I was about to say. I'm so in sync. I just, just you and I, same wavelength. Yeah, exactly.

Right? Yeah. Like this, like this, you and and i like this yeah except for the fact that bob moved back to cincinnati and you didn't i mean he and i are on the same wavelength as far as where we live and where home is well if you think about it from the first time you requested that it was like a four-year delay so really what wavelength are you on it's kind of like a big offset so whatever it was pretty quick after the episode where the spin the wheel landed on move back to ohio well actually we had a handshake deal that he was going to move back to Ohio.

So that was before you. So no. Yeah, he's right. That happened because of Mark, not because of you. It's a handshake deal. Sorry. That's well, I think you have to be roll of that. Will, if you could put that put that in right here.

Mark and I having that discussion. But yeah, no, I we all know I'm very materialistic. And I guess what made this start for me is we're in this new house. I showed earlier my office is basically a pile of boxes. The whole house is the same as my office right now. Yesterday is when all this stuff got here. So literally not a single box is even open. But the thing for me that starts to make a place feel like, start to feel like home is my technology.

And it's really stupid stuff. But it's like, I hate short phone charging cables, right? I like a long, like a six or a ten foot cable so that you can use your phone while it's charging or you can set it somewhere convenient. That sort of stuff. And like, I'm really picky about Wi-Fi. I have a very nice router, and I brought it with me. And then when I set that up, I replaced the one that the cable company gave us and set up my router with my Wi-Fi. Something about that where like, I have good consistent internet and Wi-Fi

and everything like that starts to make it feel like home for me, which feels really stupid. But that's very much a thing. having my technology set up the way i like it around me makes me feel more like yeah this is my space like it's working better for me because it's set up the way i like to have it yeah i could get that for me it's it's funny because the place i have the most memory that's like technology base is my mom's basement when i was like super in my world of warcraft days and that that was the if i look back on that to the asbestos tiles that are still there really to the yeah to the floor down to the very back of this big part of the basement i don't know if you guys ever saw like down there like the long one my desk was always way in the back in the in the far corner and it was just like just a

storage hell it was just like random a storage hell it was just like random shit goes down i was like yeah this is this is my zone and if if i show the floor it's kind of storage hell and i'm curious if that's just you're trying to capture the magic of your mom's basement filled with random junk feeling like your little home base area ah man maybe maybe but uh at the same time it's like yeah what do i do to make something feel like home because so much of my life has just been like it's it's assembled by convenience whatever is most convenient in the moment whereas like my mom's house even if it was chaos in the basement the rest of it is assembled with care yeah it's like kind of a chaotic care but there's

definitely care there same with my stepmom's house and it it's like, I, I not saying my house is, is a hell escape of not caring because it's literally just, there's a pile of tech there. The rest of it looks very nice, but it is just like, man, what do I do to make things home? And I realized like, I'm not doing much of anything to like, make it feel like home here, but it does. Is there anything that you feel like would have you wish you would do like something in like the bathroom some product or something or like something that would connect you to to your like family in korea somehow or i don't know you feel like you're missing anything does it feel like home you've been in this place for a little while now does it but you haven't you've you've had this house and lived in it but also you've been filming things and not in the house for like yeah but when i come back it

does feel a little bit like home but not like going back to my mom's house you know it's it is different it's that nebulous thing ohio's where the heart is also i said korea you know my grandma's house in korea feels very much like home ohio is where the heart is i i think he's checked out i think he must be watching shakira wait could you point to korea on a globe i don't have a globe but if i pretend my head is one here's north america here's south america i spin here it's like right in this no that's the wrong way buddy wrong way unless this video's mirrored i i don't, it might be. Because if I go this way, this would be Europe and Africa.

So I was just cutting and scraping. Okay, all right. Okay, I thought... I really thought you thought Korea was in Africa there. Oh, so I didn't know I was mirrored. That makes it awkward. That's strange, though. Because for me, I'm not mirrored looking at my own video.

But it's mirrored for you guys? Hold up your right hand, everybody. Interesting. Am I... Who's mirrored? Like, you Hold up your right hand, everybody. Interesting. Who's mirrored? You guys are both holding up what looks like your... Your video of yourself is not mirrored for you, but our video set to each other is mirrored, or the opposite of that.

But my video is different than your two. Yeah, because you both held up what looked like this. Yeah. Okay. So you did point to Africa looked like this. Yeah. Okay. So you did point to Africa. If this is your right, hold up your right hand. And you went, this is North America, right? South America.

Europe and Africa would be over here. I turned to this way and went down like... Because Alaska would be over here. And then, you know, there's Russia, Asia, all that. Mark, I don't think I have the spatial cognition to figure out what is and is not correct about what's happening right now. Yeah, if this is his right hand... If we're mirrored, then things are getting really confuckled.

If this is his right hand, then the way I'm seeing him is not mirrored. He's facing the camera with his correct right hand, and therefore the orientation of the globe, if this was North America, it would need to spin this way to be like the Pacific Ocean, and then this would be where Korea is, it would need to spin this way for it to be like the Pacific Ocean. And then this would be where Korea is.

Whereas he went to Africa. But for me, I'm not. For me, I'm doing what you did the first time. I'm looking at you right now. If this is your right hand, you pointed to Africa. I'm just saying what you did is exactly what I did for me. And I know. And that's wrong.

That's wrong because you and him are opposite on your screen. But I'm going based off of your right hand to the North America, which is the globe in the front facing. If your right hand is here, and you're North America, and you point to this side saying that that's Asia, that ain't right!

For everyone who's listening and not watching the episode, Mark and Wade are currently frantically pointing at parts of their heads and turning their heads left and right, back and forth, debating which ear is Europe and which ear is Asia. What hand are you using to point to your eye with? This is my left hand. His left hand.

Clearly Wade's left hand with his wedding ring on it. So Florida's here. Across here is the Atlantic, which makes this Europe and Africa. Over here is California and Alaska, which makes this Europe and Africa. No. Over here is California and Alaska, which makes this the Pacific. And Asia's over here. The things you're saying are next to each other. I just feel like you're explaining it in reverse of what it would be.

Yeah, this is so weird to me because I'm perfectly picturing. Are you sure about that? Mark, is having a globe something that would make your house feel more like a home? Is that what you mean? Alaska and Russia connect, right? With a little isthmus or whatever it's called. But if that's his left hand, then the way I'm looking at you, if you're holding up your left hand.

Will, can you just edit a globe on my head please i swear to god if you're whole if you're saying your hands are what your hands are you are not pointing right left yeah you're not pointing to what you think you're pointing to so wade i have a guess here you have to imagine that you're the globe, so we're looking at you. Okay, that's probably the problem. I'm using the image of me to describe it. California belongs under your right eye. Okay, that's over here.

Because California is on the west coast, which if you're facing, if the map is facing away from your face, west. So here's the problem. I figured it out. I'm using the non-reflected image of me to describe this rather than my actual body. So what I need to do, Will, put the globe on my head and flip it

because that's what I'm looking at. Why would you describe it that way? Because that's how I see it, my reflected image, and I can't just imagine my face. But we said you're a globe okay let me do this without looking at my image here's north america here's south america so this is the way you guys expect it to be right yeah so then alaska should be here yeah

this would be russia and asia this would be europe and africa that's how you guys are seeing it that makes sense to you whereas looking at the image is what made sense to me. Now Earth feels like home. I just find it fascinating. You were even able to look at your flipped image and reverse everything for yourself off of the image. That was really easy for me, actually.

That seems backwards to me, too. I would have based it off of my own. That was actually easier for me to do than to think it through without looking at something weird because i could physically like looking at me i could physically see the confidence of my imagination on my face it's like obviously it's here and here and that would make asia over here i can still see it but for you guys and the whatever and my actual head shape yeah it would be for the whatever we're just looking at you you're not

it's harder to do with flip fucking images than you think. Because I thought looking at the image of me was the same way you were seeing me, so it was making more sense to do it that way, whereas in fact, it was not. I don't feel like I understand what was happening any better. I just feel like... All right, Will, retrospectively, put Earth backwards on me so Bob can see, and then flip it whenever i realized what i was doing wrong to show how correct i was when i was wrong and right off

so home what do you do that makes a building or a room feel more like home having people not in the house working on shit as soon as they're gone it's like okay now it finally started to feel like house again the last two houses i had to have my office built so we couldn't move in right away then this one we had people working on stuff while we moved in having my bed in here but we also have bought new furniture for this house and slowly being here for all the furniture deliveries it's like i was sitting on a couch that was delivered while waiting for another delivery one day and it's like okay well it's starting to feel like my couch because i've spent four hours here waiting for the person to show up to deliver the other stuff.

And so like slowly as the house filled up for this house, it's like I had spent so much time in every room along the way that whenever we were finally fully moved in, everything but my office pretty much already felt like home. Having our pictures like we've got I've got my grandpa was a painter. So I've got like two pictures that he painted hanging up. And Molly's grandpa also painted some stuff. So like different rooms have paintings that we've had in all of our houses so far. We have the same bed that we had, some of the same furniture and stuff. Like we brought furniture over, but we bought new like couches and stuff like that. So a mixture of having familiar things with some of the new things,

but also having spent a lot of time picking out the new things and spent time with those waiting for other new things but also having spent a lot of time picking out the new things and spent time with those waiting for other new things to show up i think just that like slow transition of not everything just being here at once made it a lot easier to feel like home because we watched this place become what we wanted it to become it was like instantly home this one was the last house took a while like we we felt homesick for our previous house which was a small little piece of shit house but we felt really homesick for it for a lot a while hey that was a fine house don't judge that house yeah i don't think you guys ever saw the very you did see the very first one because we

did the the christmas stream there whatever oh yeah of course the one where tyler almost died because yes i mean i love that house but it was a small little piece of shit house i loved it but that's a mean way to say it that was the first place you had fiber internet you were i was very jealous we did have fiber we do know that did remind me of another thing for me though you know it's a big one for me is uh lexi being in a place because lexi is does not like moving she travels pretty well but she gets anxious that moment where she finally relaxes and like hops up on the couch and lays down and like takes a deep breath and chills out that always makes it feel a little bit more like home because it's like

now she's okay now we're home and she's chilled out and that's good because she she likes traveling but she gets really uh worked up and like there's a limit and we've had her on uh traveling to see family for like a whole month in a row once she almost lost her shit by the end of that that was like too long away from home but for like a for like a week or two week trip or something she does great but that's a that's a big one for me it's funny you mentioned that presley moved in and he was himself right away he was excited to go explore in the new yard explore the house his tail was wagging he was happy as can be heaters took two or three days to adjust but ginger we actually had the dogs over at my mom's while we were moving like the day we were moving all the furniture and boxes because like having two dachshunds running

around would just be in the way and i didn't want to lock them up so we brought them home and we took ginger outside and i thought that something had happened to her at my mom's house i thought she'd broken her tail because she went outside to use the bathroom and her tail just like limply hung between her legs while she squat instead of like curling up like it normally does and i was like oh that's weird and then she went to like poop same thing tail's just like dangling there and it's like oh my god she broke her tail but it turns out it was just anxiety i don't know what that means in a dog but it was just like super anxiety and she had that for two or three days and then we took a day molly was like well what if we just take the dogs back to your mom's a familiar place let them hang out run around with the other dogs and we did that and we brought them home and for some

reason after like spending a few hours at my mom's house coming back to the same place again she was completely different it was like oh now this place is fine and i don't know why but that was that was a huge sigh of relief whenever she was like raising her tail to use the bathroom and like wagging it again that's interesting yeah that is interesting yeah yeah okay that's all i got i don't know why i'm talking like that but yeah i mean that that's interesting she she's like a high anxiety dog like you can tell that she gets like more stressed and more anxiety than like presley's's dumb happy. I love him to death. But he's just like... He would trot into fire without realizing it was tail wagging.

Whereas Ginger, she hears a noise anywhere. And it's like the end of the world is approaching. You can tell she's fearing for her life. Whereas Presley's just like, a bear? Better charge at it. And Ginger's like, a leaf fell. I must go inside now, father. So very different dogs.

You want to know how it caused like chica the most distress she's ever ever felt in her life because she's not a very like stressed dog she's very chill about everything but she was outside um and it was like you know she was in a part of the yard where there was a gate that went right to the front um so she was outside she was sniffing in a bush and i tried to call her in because i was going to take him for a walk and then um she wasn't coming she was looking for like a lizard or something so i i closed the door and i go like all right i'm gonna take henry and then as soon as the door closed she goes oh and then she sees me putting the harness on henry and she comes up to the door like oh just like you know, you know, like Sully in Monsters Inc. Like, oh, oh, no.

So she gets more and more just like, no, what? And so as soon as I put the harness on Henry and I like take a bleach, I'll be like, all right, bye. And I know the side gates open so she could go around and just meet me out front. There's no problem with that. But as soon as I round the corner, I've never heard her do this where she goes. Like literally sounded like her going. So I feel so bad, but I go out the front and I'm just waiting for her to figure it out and come around. And I just hear her still in the side yard going.

come around and i just hear her still in the side yard going no no no no then i just call chica get over here and she's like just pause like mid no go this is the most distressed but i think that just goes to show that like you know although to us that's like come on the side yard is open but it shows like some the mental faculties in some dogs and like the reason why there would be anxiety

just like she feels like oh no I know what they're doing they're going for a walk and it's like I want that so bad and they're leaving me he must not realize I'm here. That's very mean, Mark. Good job. No, no, it wasn't mean.

It was kind of mean. I felt bad. Good talk. That turned out way differently than I thought. I thought we were going to talk about like, oh, I bring my favorite lotion and I bring this thing and I put it and I put it in every hotel room I stay in and it makes it smell like home or whatever. We talked about way more wholesome, deep family stuff and you know, good. And I picking a winner seems callous, but I'm going to do it. Good boy. What the? Did he just call you a good boy? Say it again, daddy. Good boy. Yay.

I said to some of my friends that are here in and they they cringe at it and just to make them even more uncomfortable dana who edits my stuff whenever uh jp was here he absolutely hates when i say good boy so i like pat her head i was like good girl dana and jp was like you can't do that you monster it is uncomfortable and weird yeah that's extreme. Very weird. That's very weird. Sounds like a thing I wouldn't enjoy seeing either. Well, now that you're in Ohio, I can show you. Tell me again through your finger microphone, daddy.

Good boy. Back to you in the studio, Bob. Whatever. This bit is over. It was such a wholesome episode. It was. It was. And now it's not.

Good episode. Good was. It was. And now it's not. Good episode. Good viewer and or listener. I got to say, you both did such a great job with the topic that I feel like you ended up basically tied. But one of you earned points before we got into the topic. You're smiling like it was you, Mark, but I'm fairly certain I gave points to Wade. Well, that would be weird because I brought up Shaky Joseph. I don't recall giving any points for Shaky Joseph.

I like how you said Shaky Joseph in a shaky voice because I just sense an unfair wave of energy. No, no, no, no, no. This is going exactly where it's meant to. It does seem like his name should be Shaky Joe for short, but I don't think you shorten last names. That doesn't, that's not really a thing. Just for that, Mark, I'm definitely not giving you points for bringing up Shaky Joseph. But I didn't shorten it. You tried to though. I could feel it in your soul.

Joseph. But Wade shortened it. Didn't Wade just wade was the one that wasn't that just what happened then wade shortened it no no isn't that what just happened i said joseph and he said joe and you're punishing me for shortening it i don't think so and or we're gaslighting you but the answer is somewhere in the middle isn't that what just happened have you guys seen that i think it's a meme or tiktok you see that where a guy walks into the house and he just goes i'm going to gaslight you and from another room you just hear a voice that's like oh don't do that that's so mean and then it's like what are you talking about and the voice in the other room is like no what oh anyway we're gaslighting you, Mark. Wade wins! Yay! Oh, shit. Woo-hoo!

I don't even remember what reality was anymore, but I feel like I was leading to saying that Wade wins, so that probably must be the right thing to have happened. Oh, it is. It is. Do you agree, Mark? I don't think it matters if I do or don't. No, it really doesn't. I was just prompting you to speak.

You know what else you could say, Mark? You could give us a loser speech you know it's weird the further we go into this the more it both feels like winning and losing doesn't matter and yet it feels horrendously unfair when you lose it does doesn't it it does it's like winning almost doesn't feel like it matters but losing feels like it should matter a lot. It feels like a punishment. It feels like the winner is picked by who could be snatched away from as a loser the most. It's almost like I enjoy that. Wade, winner speech?

Thank you, Bob. I would like to say thank you for hosting a great, fun, and fair episode. Also, for those of you out there, be careful how you show globes. Mirrored cameras can make a big difference. Oh, yeah. Thank God we got to the bottom of the great globe debacle. Also, thinking through whether I'm using my reflected image or my actual image to define the globe parameters

made a big difference, too. So just have spatial awareness and have a consensus as to how you are globing. That's all from me. Thanks. Back to you. Globe safely. Got it.

Thank you. Yeah, well, thank you for making this. I thought this was going to be goofy or I don't know. I don't know what I thought, but this was a very wholesome episode, except for all the stuff I said. And I appreciate that. You guys were very generous, sharing personal things. I appreciate that.

That's very nice. Thank you very much. And Wade did a slightly better job, so congratulations. Make sure you check out our merch, store.distractablepodcast.com. There's probably definitely stuff in stock. I haven't looked, but it's there. Check out Mark at Markiplier. Wade is lordminion777 or minion777.

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