Distractible - Going Nuclear

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Wittling Wade cites his wanderlust, has a pateralized magenta, restarts an addiction that explains CCGs and Chernobyl. Moon-smashing Mark trashes his donker, gets a cheesy hole, and discusses thorium and neutrons. Beatified Bob gives an infomercial, proves pronunciations, stabs Mark, and famously. Mrs. Coasters, from Brimstone Beauty to Polish pylons. It's time for going nuclear. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host. I don't do this very often anymore. Why I've fallen off. But today I do. And I'm joined as always by my co-host, Mark and Bond. Hello. Hello.

How are you doing, you handsome devil? I'm doing pretty good. Had a good week that I'll talk about later. You, delightful demon. Stop. You smart spawn of Satan. I think that was still technically a compliment, maybe. I'm going to write something down.

It might be good. If it feels good, isn't it good? They say that Satan was the most beautiful of all the angels. They specify that, I think. That's biblical. I'm pretty sure it's biblical. I believe you. And on the fifth day, God looked at Satan, said, damn.

I might be going to hell for that joke alone. To see Satan, right, for yourself. Just to know what it's all about. That's why I took the seventh day off. You know what I mean? It was a bad breakup. That's what caused the fall. It's, you know, it's like, you know, history by the victors, God's just writing,

Satan's such an asshole. God, I got me, damn him. God really wrote the first Taylor Swift album Me damn you Satan He's gonna be in hell where evil people go And I made that It's not his choice It's mine

Sounds like a Trump speech And I made that And that's how it's always been I have a blank cage baby And I'll put you in That was funny Anyway There's a show

We host we could do game We small talk. Small talk. I got small talk. You guys have small talk? I got small talk. I got small talk. Small talk.

Who first? Small talk. You go first. Me? Yeah. If you use it up now, you won't get any points in the future. I've got to be careful or else I might give myself the segue point. Well, I've been gone.

We haven't seen each other in a couple of weeks because I was out of town. Molly and I went on a trip to Virginia, hung out with some friends. It was a really nice, needed break. However, we did a lot, which is also. so fun, but that's that thing where you go on vacation, you come back, you're like, oh, I'm so tired. I need like a week to recover from a vacation. Classic mistake.

But it was really fun. We had a lot of good food, had some pool time. I got to test my knee a little bit, which is better. I still have moments where it doesn't really hurt, but it just feels something is still weird about it. Tyler had some theories on that because we got to see Tyler too. He's had some knee stuff going on. So I might go get some imaging done to see.

I forget what he said. He was like, your magenta might be between your. your pateller, bowflex. And I was like, oh, that sounds right. Tell your doctor exactly that. My magenta is between my pateller and my bowflex. You'll say it, and the doctor will be like, but then say, no, no, Tyler told me that.

And the doctor would be like, oh, Tyler. You know, Tyler. From hit podcast, go my favorite sports team. That's the one, dog. Oh, my God. And then he starts going cross-eyed and talking in an action. He's like, yeah, you're magenta, real patellerized. I hate when my doctor goes Hills a Tennessee accent.

No, you love when your doctor do so. I love when my doctor goes Hills a Tennessee accent. Accent. Accident. No accent. Accident's different. Hills a Tennessee accident. Oh, what else? Oh, the real horrible tragedy of what happened in Virginia. We went to some retro like game stores and stuff where they have figurines and video games. And we were looking around at those kinds of things. They had cards and Tyler and Bird, I guess, have been collecting different like collectible cards.

There's all kinds now. There's, you know, there's Ugao magic, Pokemon, one piece. Like, I guess everything has a card set now. I used to collect Pokemon cards back in, like, the 90s. I made the mistake of mentioning that, and the guys were like, do you want to just like buy a pack for old times' sake? I was like, guys, that's probably a bad idea. Listen, I don't dip my toe into things.

If I go in, I dive in head first that I'm all in. They're like, oh, come on, one pack. It won't be that bad. $4,000 later, Wade has a stack of valueless Pokemon cards in his closet. Only two. 2000? Yes. Holy shit.

Whoa. What did you do? I bought a lot of cards. Oh my God. Did you get a single good one that was worth anything? Yeah, actually. So I started going in on Prismatic Evolution and Chaos Rising sets. What does that even mean?

What does that mean? Bart doesn't know. Prismatic evolution and chaos rising? Please. People who know, no. If you don't know, I'm not, listen, every, every like six months, a new Pokemon set comes out, it feels like, or something. What the hell is this chaos? What am I looking at? So, back whenever I collected cards, there was the base set of Pokemon, right?

Where you just had the, there was no symbols, there was no knowledge. It was just, that was the only Pokemon cards that existed. The first six Pokemon, yes. Then came the jungle, fossil and rocket sets, and then I guess some, like, gym leader set came after. I don't know. I stopped sometime during the Rocket Pokemon card release that came after. I think Fossil was the third one. And that's the last I'd collected cards since whatever year that was, 2000.

So I've seen that cards exist and people collect them. I've seen that like if you have a pack of cards unopened from like the 90s, the first set, the pack itself unopened goes for like $6,700 because it could contain something crazy. If you have a box from back then, a box of packs, that can go for like $40,000. It's crazy. If you just buy something and you do the Wade version of just stash it away, my God, one day it might be worth something. Just imagine if nine-year-old me was enough of a sociopath to not open any Pokemon card packs I ever got while I was a child. So I do have a full base set, but mine are played.

So mine aren't worth as much as a lot of them would be whatever. I do have a full base set and maybe I don't know. I don't have to look. But anyway, I've gone into the deep end of Pokemon cards, which is why I don't do hobbies. I don't just like DeHable. I'm like, mobile game must have every character. Pokemon cards, must master set. What happened to like reading or like you could whittle?

You've seen like a guy who would whittle. He's tracked me as a whittler. He does got whittle vibes, don't he? I could see you on a porch in the Appalachians. Is it Cedar that has like the purple center of the wood? I think that's Pachuli. No, what's that called? Pippipoo.

No. It's Pippoo. People would. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it's purple cedar. Purple cedar, yeah. Yeah. So I think whenever I was young, I had a pocket knife.

And my whittling of cedar was literally just like, aha, I'll go in a circle for hours. Smaller now. I did it. Grandpa, look. I thought whittling was distinct from carving because when you whittle, you kind of are just fucking up the wood. Like, you're kind of just like, get rid of the stupid wood.

One tiny shred at a time. I'm whittling. I don't know. like 10 and that's what I did and that's the last that I was probably I don't know I've know I've no idea I was over to the ages of nine and 13 probably I don't know wait I'm gonna share you something on Discord and you know we don't we don't talk about further but I think it's gonna earn me some points so I'm just gonna share this with you if you look up purple Cedar you know there's a there's a

video and I think that earns me some points right so should I describe the image no you don't need to describe it you don't We don't need to talk about it. We don't need to talk about it. Listeners and viewers alike will have to figure that one out for themselves. What was I talking about? Whittling Pokemon cards? Yeah, so I've started collecting. A little distracted. Feeling distracted, man. Yeah, Cedar. It was just like that whenever I whittled it. I won't describe the image, but it was just like that. Yeah, I've started collecting. There's so many cards and it feels like,

so each card will have a number, right? It'll be like, if there's 80 cards, it'll be like, oh, you have card 37 out of 80. But apparently now it's a lie because it goes past the number. If you get the rarer cards, it's like, oh, you have card 97 out of 80. And it's like, what the hell is that? What's the good in that? I don't know. Just like, just tell me.

Numbers have meaning. I agree. Just tell me how many cards are total in the set so I know if I've got them also. I can put them in a nice order and no. Don't tell me I've got like, oh, card one is this nice hollow. But card 140 out of 80 is this full, rare, I hate it so much. I hate it so much. God. Now that you're in that, I know you're not like an expert because you just started doing it. Can I, can I just ask, do people do that? Do people get into Pokemon because it's like, oh, this specific set appeals to, or is it literally like, oh, the value on these packs is trending up? And there's a card you could get. There's a pull you could get from this set that's worth like $800. Is it money? Or is it? Because when I look, I'm like, well, it's. It's cool, but how do you care about a thing where they just keep adding shit to it and they

keep getting more complex? Does it really sentimental for people? I don't know. It just seems crazy to me. I think the answer is both. I think some people genuinely just enjoy collecting and like the cards and like Pokemon. I think the way that it's actually happening now is scalpers are running so rampant that the moment something launches, a lot of places limit how much you can buy because people buy

all of the stock up, no matter of the price, they buy it all up. $80 a box, I'll take 100 boxes. And then they immediately list it for 400% markup on eBay other sites. So like, hey, this box that came out today for an $80 retail price, $450, it's yours. And that's how all of it is done now. So a lot of places, like I've gone to some local card shops around Cincinnati, mom and I went out yesterday and just had lunch and stopped by a couple. And a lot of them had limits.

Like you can only buy six packs. You can only buy one box. And it's like, actually, I respect that because that means like, you know, if kids come in and want to buy it, at least there's a chance that they could get something. But each set also has cards that are worth, you know, they call them bulk. They're like worthless cards, I guess. To me, it's cool because that's like if I want a master set, I want one of each card from a set. Right.

But people go for the chase cards, which are ones they put in like the harder cases. They're called top loaders I've learned. I think all of them. Maybe there's other ones that aren't, but they have like the sleeves are flimsy. Then you top load that for your really valuable cards. We pulled one that was like a Sylvion from the Prism. It's apparently like a $2 to $400 card ungraded. So that was a great pull.

I pulled that. That was great. Fendley Bird pulled it, but it was mine. And that's cool to see stuff like that, but for me it's just I don't plan on like selling them. So for me, it's like I'm gonna collect them and I want to have like a set. I just want to have that set together like I did however long ago. And I hope I don't try to get every set, especially the old ones because my God, the cost

is insane. There's like a Lodios Lodias. If you guys know those two legendaries, they're like jet plane. looking birds from Gen 3. There's a card where they form a heart with like their heads and their neck. The cheapest I could even see that card in existence. I wasn't looking to buy. Someone I told me it was expensive.

It was like, oh, expensive could it be? The cheapest one I could find was $2,000 for one piece of cardboard. I better start printing stuff on pieces of cardboard. Too, it happens. You guys want to make some distractible, collectible cards? That's apparently a crazy industry. Might as well.

But yeah, scalpers have the reason everything is so crazily priced is because people are like, people want this? What if I hoard this and raise price because they're fucking monsters? Scalpers are monsters. But I mean, it is just crazy how the the way that people think about the money and it just destroys anything. But it's worse when the companies lean into it. I feel like there's a lot from the Pokemon company that's probably like very happy that a lot of people are trying to fight for the value of this and, you know, then they can raise their own prices and then they're going to. Yeah, well, that's probably, that's probably funny though, because like, they see this and they're like, oh, yeah, oh, people fucking love these things. We got to make more. It's like, yeah,

you're selling them for $80 a box or whatever. And then someone sells, what's in that box for $5,000? And you don't see any of that shit. Yeah, that's the thing is like a lot of the retail, it's still high. I don't know what a pack comes out to typically now. Maybe like $6 to $8 a pack or something, maybe more. But like, whenever we were collecting, I say we, whenever I was collecting back in the 90s, it was like literally $2.99 or $3.99 for a single pack. Yeah, well, I used to do magic when I was in like middle school, high school, magic the gathering. And it was like two or three bucks for a booster back then. So you could go, go to the local store, grab a few boosters for like eight or ten bucks,

maybe, have a good time, open some packs, get nothing. Now it's higher, the base value, but you're never going to find base value anywhere. GameStop just got in, well, I wouldn't say in trouble, but there was a lot of Contracer on GameStop because they themselves raised prices. Rather than waiting for scalpers, they were like, what if we just charge more? I don't know how much they went up, but a lot of people are upset. Some people defended it. Some people were upset about it, whatever.

But they were just like, why let scalpers raise the price when we can? It's the dynamics of the market. You know, we, the straight of Hormuz is closed. Immediately raised prices. Oh, it's open? Let's hold off. Let's not lower them just yet. Can't push it back down.

You don't know if the prices are going to go back down, which we're control. In the end, kept getting closed again. So I guess there may be some logic in that, but no, you know, it's weird. It's just a little weird. I also had a really speaking of spending lots of money.

You guys, God, I'm a shame to admit this. What's going on with you? You all right? DoorDash. I've used DoorDash a lot. So for six years I've been using their subscription service for deliveries and they were like, here's how much you've saved over the last six years by using DoorDash.

That's rude. That's just rude. Do you have any idea what that number was? Five figure? Is this five year? Is this five figure number? $60,000. Jesus. I don't know.

You eat a lot of food. You've eaten a lot. And that goes up after COVID where it was like, there were periods during lockdowns and shit where it was like, if you didn't have groceries, what are you supposed to do? It was $13,900. I knew it was five figures. I knew it was five figures.

I saved $13,900 on deliveries over six years. You saved. Listeners, I'm doing air quotes. Sam, please put it in a sound effect for my air quotes. Did it have the total that you've spent accompanying that? Or was it just like? Thank God if it did, I didn't see it. I saw the savings.

What I've saved on fees, delivery, and whatever else that, you know, the 18,000 charges you get. Good Lord. In five years, I would bet. I don't think it's six figures. I bet it's not over $100,000, but I bet it's pretty up there. I mean, if you think about having a meal delivered probably on average one to two times, not two times a day, but probably at least once a day. Part of that too is you feed a lot of people. I feel like a lot of the times or doordashing, it's like, well, we have guests in town and we need food and we don't want to bring a party of 10 people to a restaurant necessarily.

And I'm not cooking for my friends. All my money is going to Pokemon cards and DoorDash. Half of it is definitely weight eating Freddy's while we're filming Distractable. I don't have that in a minute. That sounds good. I don't have lunch yet. Thanks man. He's going to order now. He's going to order some Freddy's for while we record.

Yeah. Wait, they have Pokemon cards too. You can DoorDash Pokemon cards? I don't know. Please don't let me look at that. I don't want to know. All right, that's my small talk. I've taken a few.

I had an episode too. Oh, well, we'll see how it goes. You did it this time. It wasn't even us. I did. I had a lot to talk about. We could skip it. I also have a lot to talk about.

We could save it for the next episode if you just want to go straight on. Give yourself the small talk point and the segue point. Man, you're in the lead. You're doing so good. I am all the small talk of my own episode. I'm such a rude ass. That's why I don't get the host anymore. You're such a rude ass?

A rude ass? Another thing I did while traveling because I didn't have a book with me is I watched a show that I hadn't seen about it. I'd been interested in watching. I watched Chernobyl on HBO Max. Great show. Fantastic show. And segue, I want to talk about us going nuclear. Today's episode's all about nuclear.

Okay, all right. Who would I nuke? Let's start with the countries that I hate the most. I meant power, but you can nuke if you look. Oh, oh, power, oh. What do we do in sports teams, individuals, institutions? What are we nuking? Mark's like, wait, is Sauer Patch Kids a country?

I learned that the one episode. I haven't forgotten. I say we nuke. The moon! Take that A, James. What would he photograph then? He would get the pretty, picture of like the nuke exploding the moon.

I have a new calendar called The End of the Moon. It was just a sequence of Mark nuking the moon to bits. How many nukes would it take to destroy the moon? I don't know, Mr. Owl. Why don't you show us? A one? A two? A different commercial.

The way that for everyone out there, nuclear stuff, at least worked back then, was you had like fuel rods, nuclear fuel rods. they would react, and their reaction would produce heat, heat would boil water, water turns into steam, steam creates power, and that's how it was supposed to work. And then you have these control rods that are supposed to go into the nuclear reactor that stop or slow down the reaction. That was your emergency breaks. This guy watches one mini-series knows how nukes work.

Well, it's a simple, that's a pretty... It's a simple science. That's such a simple breakdown of a very complicated process. like that's baby's description of nuclear power. All right, comrade the gas off. And Chernobyl, a lot of things went wrong. For one, they were supposed to be doing a test. Then someone was like, hey, actually, we need more power for the day.

Can you guys just? So they'd gone into low power mode. And they were like, all right, we're going to run this test. And someone made the call like, actually, can you put the test off for 12 hours? And they're like, yes, because here we only say yes. So the nuclear power plant stayed in low power mode all day, which is not good for it. It was building up like xenon gas and other stuff. that wasn't great for the reactor because it wasn't running at full power.

It wasn't burning away as usual. When they went to run the test, they were like, huh, some of this shit doesn't look right. And the guy running the test was like, no, it's fine. Trust me. I'm an expert. Nightshift had never been prepared for the tests. They'd never learned how to do them. They hadn't studied them.

They were just like, hey, is this a good idea? All these things say not to do it. And the guy in charge is like, yeah, yeah, but I'm the expert. Do it. I want this promotion. Do it. So they do all these things to run the test. And then the nuclear reactor, they're supposed to stop, I think, at like, 700, I don't know, kilowatts or whatever it was of power.

And then the reactor's like, oh, I'm still going down. I'm still going down. Power basically goes all the way down. And the way that they decided to bring power back up was removing some of those safety rods. They're like, oh, let's pull these control rods out. That way they're not stopping the nuclear reaction. Nuclear reaction can go. We'll get our power back.

And it did. But all of a sudden there were no, I think it was down to like 18 out of what, 250 control rods. only 18 were left inside and the nuclear reaction was like hey there's nothing stopping me I'm let's fucking go crazy yo ultimately as the number started shooting up there was a kill switch

I forget what it was called there was a name for it but they hit the kill switch like all right put all the rods back in we're shutting this down finally however there was a flaw in the design of the nuclear control rods in order to save money they had graphite tipped control rods instead of whatever it was supposed to be I don't know what the alternative

was but the graphite itself whenever inserted into the core has a temporary moment of actually increasing the reaction rather than decreasing. So even though the rod itself is supposed to stop it, the moment all of those graphite tips went in, it was basically like a bunch of lighters

at a gas station just like, what if we just light a bunch of fires here real quick? And then reactor go boom, and meltdown happen, radiation leaked. Some disasters were actually prevented that could have been a lot worse at Chernobyl, but I think it's still responsible, for at least 4,9,000 deaths, plus who knows how many cancers and so on and so forth.

But those are the basics of Chernobyl. However, the kill switch in theory should have worked if government wasn't cheap and didn't say, well, what are the odds of the graphite-tipped things causing a problem? All these things have to go wrong for it to be bad. And then it was and it did and so on and so forth. The only other nuclear problems I know about, there was a thing at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in the 70s, and then there was Fukushima back in, like, what was it, 2011?

Those are the only other ones I personally know about. I don't know what caused the issues at 3 Mile. I've not looked into that one. Fukushima, there was like a magnitude 9 earthquake, and then a tsunami went over the protective wall, hit the power plant, drowned the steam engines, took away any ability for power to keep water cooling the reactors. And since it was being hit with seawater,

all of the power was gone. They were doing all kinds of shit to try to get power to these reactors. They couldn't do it fast enough and then boom, boom, boom, boom from hydrogen build up and so on and so forth. They called a Swiss cheese of failure. I didn't know that. Is that true? You don't know about the term Swiss cheese of failure? I did not.

It's like if you line up slices of Swiss cheese from, say, a different cheese block, there's not much chance that you're going to get a hole that goes all the way through. But every once in a while, in rare circumstances, if you line up enough Swiss cheese slices, there's going to be one that series of Swiss cheese that has a hole that goes all the way through. and that's the Swiss cheese of failure. It's rare chances to need to overlap for it to happen. So I only eat American cheese. I think we found our first country we need to nuke,

which is the subject of this episode. And their shitty cheese. And any other country that has holes with cheese in them, cheese with holes in them. Holes with cheese around them. Anyone that's got cheese in their holes, you deserve to be nuked. I think I speak for everyone here.

That's the official stance of distractible, hosted by Wade. He's the leader of this operation. Oh, God. Keep cheese out of your holes. Keep holes out of your cheese, everyone. That's today's PSA. And we're going to have regular hole inspections to make sure those holes aren't cheesy. Please don't ask me to inspect your holes. Wade's going to do it. I don't want to. I really don't want a cavity search for cheese. No, no, no, no, not cavity search. Hole search.

What we're talking about nuclear power? Nuclear power. Oh. Those are what I know about you guys are welcome to describe three mile if you know what happened at three mile. but ultimately there's still a huge debate about whether or not nuclear power is safe. From what I can tell, Fukushima sounded like a pretty freak accident, but there were still some cutting cost things

that went into effect that led to it being a disaster. Chernobyl, if they'd had the right kind of control rods in place, yeah, the fucking idiot running the thing was going to cause a disaster, but the shut off button still should have shut off. Both of those things I think should in theory still have been preventable. Fukushima, I'm a little bit less of a,

I'm a little bit less knowledgeable about other than the basics I already described. But a lot of people still argue that nuclear power is still safer and still has less of a death toll. I've got it. And I got the perfect company to do. I know what you're asking us. You don't even do you explain it anymore. Ryobe nuclear batteries. I think the entire Ryobe line could be souped up.

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I'm the Joker, but with lawsuits. Come on, Sue. Sue me, how do I want to do it? I'm like a dog. buddy mailman. I just keep getting more lawsuits. I keep chasing sponsors. I wouldn't know what if I actually got one. What I do? I would do what I did with Prusa. It was like, I putts around and don't make a video for six goddamn months. Hey, they're cool. We're cool. We're cool. You're cool.

I did have this revelation on like a stream yesterday where I'm like, hey, I kind of have, if everyone in my audience knows that I haven't done a brand video for Prusa, Everyone, I've done the job, right? It's kind of perfect viral marketing, really. Because there's a bunch of people feeling sympathy for Pruso. And if any of them needs a 3D printer, they're like, Mark's not going to make a video. I got to buy one of the others, like, yeah.

I got to help these guys out. I got to reach out and see if I get more sponsorships where I don't do what I agree to to see if, guys, the sympathy will garnish over the next five years will be crazy. Yeah, I know, right. The sympathy. If you get so many sympathy sales, it's going to be through the roof. It's the new generation of pain exposure.

Bet you guys in sympathy. Just wait. I don't really want a 3D printer, but Mark didn't do the video, so I guess I'll get one. That's an impath. I really feel for Prusa. Nuclear-powered 3-D printing would go hard. What are we talking about? Nuclear.

Anything nuclear. We're going nuclear today. We're talking about power plants. Is nuclear power the way? In a serious space. The, there's been developments, I don't know what it is, but there's been developments in thorium reactors. Uh, I haven't checked up on it in thorium salt reactors.

I don't think before it was practical. There was something about it. It was safer, but with thorium salts, there's a much lower, like, power ratio you can get out of it in the current way that they make them. I forget what the main problem is, though. It was, there was something that was fun. fundamentally a problem with it, that needed more research to get further into it. Thorium, ironically, also was the thing that was coating those Minota lenses that makes it radioactive.

So you know it's good. Yeah, so thorium looks like, still involves using fizzile fuel, so nuclear material. The molten salts are highly corrosive at extreme temperatures requiring advanced, expensive alloys. There's not really a streamlined global framework for cooling and regulation. because it's such a new technology, I guess. All right. So I think maybe the issue was that thorium to become fissile, it needs to absorb a neutron to become uranium 233.

But the problem is uranium 233 could quickly or fairly simply turn into plutonium. No, protactinium 233. The fuck is that. Oh shit. What, no shit? Sounds like bad news. I've heard of that one. All right.

Okay, this is where we're starting to babble about things that we don't know about and we're making all the actual nuclear engineers mad, which is my favorite thing to do. Somehow still better than our brander, branclander. Our brander, you've coined a term for our brander. I want you guys to settle something for me because I feel conflicted about this. I've already said it once or twice, but this is an honest to God debate. And I think different crowds and different people come down on different sides of this. The word is nuclear, as in nuclear.

nucleus, nuclear, right? Yes, nuclear. I don't think any of the three of us sincerely say nuclear because of our accents or anything. But that is a way that a large proportion of like native English speaking people say that word, much the same way as people pronounce like pillow as pillow or room as rum. Is someone in my room? What weirdos would do that? we are experts in speaking out loud, so thus we are experts in language.

Is nuclear is an acceptable way to pronounce the word or is it unacceptable? Because I feel strongly conflicted about this. Because there are deep parts of me that find it very funny that like George W. Bush said nuclear, right? He was the president of our country. He was the leader of the free world, whatever. And he said that to me, when I was a kid, I was like, he said it wrong. We're gonna find her. We're gonna nuclear.

Read the word. It's nuclear, sir. I think a linguist would say, well, language is kind of a living thing, right? So if someone's colloquial pronunciation is accepted as new... Nerd. Help me. Nerd. Man, oh, language is a living thing.

I've got a lot of like Southernisms in my family, so I feel like I've heard nuclear a bunch. I mean, I say nuclear. If someone I'm talking to says nuclear, I'll just continue to say nuclear. Do you like say it more emphatically to try and tell them that you're smarter than them? I am, but like, there I know. Everyone knows I'm smarter than them, but like, what a thing that they're out there. My cross to bear. So it's so to you, it's acceptable because like friends and family go there, friends and family have that.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to like make a big deal out of it. Yeah, I don't care, but for different reasons in Wade, I just want to differentiate myself from them a little bit. But I don't care just because it's not worth the fight. Like, there's so many, if we're as a society to the point where we can start fighting about that stuff again, we're in a good place. I think that that's a sign that, you know, society's progressing down to where we want to be. And until we get there again, I don't think that any of us can complain too much. You know what I mean? You get what I'm saying here.

You understand what I'm getting at, when I'm stabbing at. You picking up what I'm stabbing? You stabbing what I'm stabbing? I'm stab it. I'll stab it with you. Okay, stab, stab me. I'll stab you. Oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh. Sam, where do you even get that video of me stabbing Mark?

Wow, look at all these different angles of him stabbing Mark. That's crazy. Whoa. We got a 4D Gaussian splat of me getting stabbed by Bob. Holy shit. Wait, we have a slow-mo angle from the Knife's perspective. Oh my God, we've got the Minority Report, psychic future view of Bob Stabbing. stabbing me dream sequence and everything wow Sam where'd you get that it's crazy

sherry that's production value right there there's me as the dead wife under the bed sheets before I got stabbed I don't know whose perspective we're looking at I guess Amy's what happened exactly what I was just you and Bob where's the wife come from oh no it's from Amy's perspective so Amy's not in this it's just me under the sheets and ha ha ha ha you know the dead wife thing yeah no that's a thing you can't acts like I'm great. It doesn't seem like he knows. Everyone knows the dead wife. Everybody knows the dead wife thing. Yeah.

I can't tell if you're doing that just to piss him off or if you actually sincerely have no idea. We'll never know. So back to nuclear or nuclear, if you prefer, I don't. I don't either. I guess what we're saying is if you're a watcher or a listener and you say nuclear, but also good for you. The noise, but for those listening, Bob made a slight smirk as he gave that one light Giggle. They know what that noise means. You have to explain my noises.

It was so light. I barely even heard it. That's how my ass makes after I eat too much skyline. No, no, that's wetter. No. Anyway, let's get back to discussing how nuclear reactors function. Right, right, right, right. Wait, can I talk about, I meant to talk about this during small talk, but because

there was something that was so funny that happened on my journeys, and it's not necessarily the main point of my small talk, but I met some fans, right? Gee, wow, so many things happening. Someone spotted me through my, um, through my mask, which I'm like, hey, if you managed to give me through that, like, it's totally fine. I usually do in the airport, both because I've never really, I don't know. No one cared who you were until you took off the mask. Exactly.

Just like that. That's, that's what it was. Uh, so I always say hi, I take a picture and, and we go our separate ways. They were very nice. Um, and they were even very nice afterwards. Uh, and they posted the picture on the subreddit and it got tons of, tons of votes for some reason. But in the comments of this,

it's really funny because it just shows like some people's psychic perceptions, psychological perceptions of reality get distorted in some way. Because I don't know, it might be a joke, but someone's like said a comment, it's like, well, he's surprisingly average in height, blah, blah, blah. And the person responded, I'm 5'9

and my friend is around the same height. He was shorter than us both, L.O.L. And I'm like, you posted the picture of us. And in the picture, I'm talking. taller than both of you. Literally. That was so nice than to bend down to make you look taller.

I know. That's what someone said. Like, oh, so kind of you'd have bent down so low for this fun of. Like, literally, in the photo,

you posted, I'm taller than both of you. Like, why would you do this to me? Commenter comes, or original poster comes back, and is like, yeah,

it's weird. Mark actually carries around his own Apple box to stand on for fan pictures. He's not as tall as he appears in this photograph. Gotta make sure you explain it accurately. It's happened more than once. And you guys know, I'm not a tall guy.

I never claim to be a tall guy. But I am comfortably average in height. And it's just because you freaks make me look tiny and no one understands how gigantic you both are. You both are like in the 99th percentile of height. And I was like, there's no way both of them can be that tall. He's got a beauty-pity-pity microscopic. And I'm like, no.

I mean, it's pretty unlikely that you'd have two such a freakishly tall friends. It is. Isn't that weird? Almost like it couldn't be so. And also like the other people in our friend group that are weirdly tall and above average. You know, I think Jesse is actually the same height as all of you guys. He's also 6'4 for some fucking reason. In Cincinnati, they put something in the chili that I didn't get. I don't know.

Maybe I was destined to be 5'1, but I ate the chili and I grew 9 inches. It's just like, I feel. You didn't get the big boy three-way? Did you just get the normal one? Actually, I didn't start eating Skyline until later, so maybe that was my problem. That's the thing, yeah. That's the thing. That's your mistake.

Ignore the fact that I grew up in a different city. Nuclear-powered dildos, nuclear-powered... Side tangent. Mark's fan... So, okay... Whoa, what the fuck? Wait, your fan meet up triggered this memory in my head. Whoa, hold on a second.

You can't go from nuclear-powered dildos to... Oh, this reminds me, you, Mark? Well, no, no, before we get to the dildos. It's before the dildos. Okay, all right. Okay. Nothing to do with those. Uh-huh.

Wink. Uh, Molly and I were flying back, and apparently there's no direct flights from Richmond to Cincinnati. So we had to fly to Atlanta there. We had to fly to Detroit on the way back here. While in Detroit, uh, we decided we wanted to get food. And the food place Molly decided on was like, we were in B terminal. This was in like the very end of a terminal, which I didn't know until I was getting there. There was a long walk.

So we walked to our gate and we drop off our bags. I was like, yeah, Molly, Molly said she'd sit with the bags while I go get food. And on the way, we're on one of those. like little moving escalator flat platform sidewalk whatever they call moving sidewalk i don't know what the term is speedifiers there's a guy on the phone looking out of window and he is just yelling and he's screaming and he's cursing into his phone and as we approach like people nearby are all watching this guy and he's getting more and more just like animated more and more angry and we're like that's gonna someone's gonna come do something about that because like there's kids nearby this guy's

just dropping f-bombs like like he's on this podcast. Get to the gate, set my stuff down, go back. Guy is still cursing. More people are kind of like watching, seeing like, hey, something terrible about to happen. Don't want to miss it. Something horrible happened in his life.

I don't know, but he's very angry to whoever he's on the phone with. I keep going. I get past him. I'm walking, it feels like a half an hour excursion to go get food. And Molly texts me updates like, hey, police came and talked to the guy. But now there's a lady who missed her flight, very upset. She's like, I'm supposed to be first. class, I blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you can't do this to me because they wouldn't

let her board after the plane. Apparently it already left. I guess they were supposed to hold the whole plane up for her and she was later some, I don't know. That does make it tricky. So, police calm the guy down. They're keeping an eye on him, but they've calmed him down. Now they're back talking to this lady. I get the food. I come all the way back. I get on one of the moving sidewalk things. And actually, there's the two police officers with that lady going right by me. Like, oh, well, I guess at least they, whatever's happening. They're handling that. Get back. start eating food. We eat. I put on my headphones. I go back to watching my regularly scheduled Chernobyl on my tablet and Molly like taps me and I look up and there's the two police officers

just standing there smiling like arms crossed looking at me and I'm like, hello, hi? They're like, are you Wade? And I was like, who's asking? Yes. Like, dude, we're such big fans. And I was like, Oh, thank God. Oh, every, because everyone in our, like, sitting areas, like, looking at me, they're like, these police officers have had to take care of two problematic people here already. Is this guy ground zero? Who is this mystery bald man? So, like, I get up, I take a picture with them.

They're very nice. I'm like, I was like, oh, thank God. I didn't know what you guys were. I was like, I didn't know anything. I didn't see what happened. Take the picture and, you know, they head off. And people are just staring. I'm like, don't worry.

Just YouTube. I'm not actually important. And then I put my headphones back on and go back to watching. but like I was the center of attention for a moment that's the first time that's happened and I see like them like go down one of the employee only staircases they get in their car because we're sitting in front of the window and they drive off

so I think they saw me out of camera and drove back over to come say hi which is cool but headphones on after all these events looking up and just see like two cops staring at me I was like whatever it was I just got food I'm watching watching shit you guys like Chernobyl scared the shit out of me I was like I don't oh god what I do I didn't do anything wrong I swear Wade you get the segue point for my current story

Oh, great. I can contribute to this fans recognizing us in places where it's a whole situation. This was another one where it's really attention I didn't want, but it was, it's not a huge deal. It's just funny now. We went to Kings Island. And anyone who is large in the way that I am large knows the uncertainty that comes with roller coasters. We went to King's Island and we were like, all right, let's go on a coaster. And literally, like, I was talking to Mandy and her brother about like, all right, so which coasters are like comfortable with?

be okay for me as a very like large even if you're just tall those roller coasters are tough so we debated and it was like okay we're going to go on this one we're going to go on the what used to be the uh italian job one and is now just called like stunt coaster or something uh and we wait in line and we get all the way up there i don't have like your test seat so i have no idea if i'm going to fit we get all the way to the front they it's our turn we're going to get in and anyone who's a fat guy like me has had this experience where like i get in and i pull it and it goes like click click click click click and I'm like, okay, it clicked a bunch. And the guy comes over and is like, ah, I can't see.

I have to see this line for, and I'm like, okay, yeah, click one more. I'm like, is that good? And he's like, nah, no, it's like a few more still. It's like, step on it. I'll suck in my God. You step on it. And literally this guy's like, all right, man. And just like, and I'm like, yeah, do it.

Do it. This is going to be great. I'll survive. And like, they do it. And it clicks a couple more times. And finally, he calls his buddy over and they look and they're like, now we have to see the line clearly past this. It's, that's not enough.

But, and I'm like, all right, I'm too fat. And the way they build roller coasters, of course, they can't just unbuckle me and be like, all right, you off. They're like, all right, everybody. We're going to have to unbuckle your seat belts or just stay in your seats. There's just a really big fat guy up at the front of the roller coaster is not going to fit. So just pull it right back down. and we'll just make him leave while you do that.

And so it was like, and everything opens and everyone's kind of like, oh, what? I climb out. And as I'm like trying to climb out, really awkward and feeling bad about myself, the guy who was stepping on my lap bar

to try and make me fit was like, wait a minute. Are you Bob? Literally we were at the front of the train in front of everyone else. And he's like, are you Bob for distractible? Guys, this is Bob.

Cool. Yeah, cool. Hey, do you want to pick? Do you want to make these people wait while we take a picture really quickly? You go to everybody. You're like, all right, everybody bust out your coins. Time to start flipping. Suffice to say, he didn't ask for a picture, but we didn't take one. I just like ran away. Like, I'm not him. And ran and hid somewhere in my shame. But what a moment for someone to just be like, wait, I know you. Look, everybody. Another annoying-ass thing about those roller coasters, they do put them, like, super tight on you. When you're big, like, it goes all, like, it's in your gut.

But a lot of the way that they release is they don't just pop up. You're just to push down more for it to release. Oh, God. Oh, God. I've seen, like, people have to have, like, the things fucking removed because they put it so tight on you. And when they come around, they push down, they're like, don't give a fuck if it's already tight on you.

And it's like, and then you go to get off the thing that's like, guys help they're like oh don't worry but sometimes they can't get it in far enough so they have to come and fucking like disassemble the goddamn thing to get you out it's the best it's the best yeah because those things are built for like you know I guess kids and if they have to be able to fit kids and people I don't know up to really tall but they're built for mark sized humans

hey I was about to say yeah I never have these problems guys I hate to say but imagine being average I don't remember what the rule is for insulting mark but Bob, you've got two points for Mark insults already. That wasn't an insult. He's average. I didn't call him short at all. I said he's average. That's not a short joke.

Yeah, you freaks, you freaks. Fuck, does that mean I insulted it by thinking it was an insult? I think, yeah, you did. Wait, me, yeah. What the hell, man? All right, I mean, because you got one insult mark point then. For the pillow rum thing, because that was definitely. Was that targeted?

No, that was, I was specifically targeting my high school friend Peter. I don't know if you listened to the. the show, Peter. But yes, I remember that you say pillow wrong. Peter. Peter, if you're listening to this, you need to run. Peter, this is, you're in a coma. You need to wake up. This is your sign. Hey, Peter. Run. Hey, Peter. All right. Well, I gave myself one mark insult point. Those two combined have to be at least one mark insult, right? I wasn't targeting Mark at all. The word that Mark says funny was not in part of my examples. I mean, I say room kind of funny apparently. It kind of is. It's still It's not room.

It's room. It's room. The bedroom. What are we talking about? Nuclear bombs. Nuclear. ICBMs. Nuclear underpants.

Radioactive. You know they used to have radium things to make your water radioactive. I just saw. There used to just straight up be pictures. The only thing about which is this has a shitload of radium in it. Drink this and you'll get your daily dose of radium, which you want. Yep. That's it.

Between that and like lead products, like we were seeing a thing about the Dietlav Pass. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that one where people went like hiking and ended up all being dead or whatever. And then there was a... Did they solve the Dietavast mystery? Ultimately, they concluded like five or six years ago. There was like a guy that went out and said yes. They think what ended up happening was there was an avalanche, like a minor, a minor avalanche that came down and hit the tent, which is like usually the precursor to a bigger avalanche. They think that the people burst out of the tent to run away

thinking there was another avalanche. But since there wasn't a bigger one, they were just out there fucking freezing to death because they didn't get all of their stuff in time because they were running thinking there was going to be an avalanche. They tried building like a little campfire or hiding under like some rock structure that ended up collapsing. Ultimately, hypothermia, and they for all froze the death

or got crushed by shit to death, thinking they were escaping an avalanche that never came. Couldn't be me. I have this regular thought experiment. I'm like, okay, what if I was transported into the Siberian wilderness? like, boom, I'm naked in the middle of the frozen tundra. What do I do? And the answer, shockingly, isn't die immediately.

I, I figure away. You figure away? Non-specific, I figure it out. Once I watch enough Outdoor Boys YouTube channel videos, I'll know exactly what to do. Nothing makes your brain move faster than the cold, right? You just, yeah. I absolutely have that same confidence. I've never once started a fire without the aid of like a lighter and flammable shit.

I would definitely figure it out. I would, within the first few hours, I would have camp set up. I would have enough shelter with some kind of fire that I would survive, that I'd have to work out food because you had to figure out the food situation. But that's not as immediately pressing as dying of exposure. So, yeah, yeah, I figured. I don't know. I see what you're saying.

I figured out. I was thinking of the Franklin expedition, which was like 160 odd years ago. So 10 cans used to not be 10 cans. They were lead cans and a lot of food. So they had this long expanse. where they were trying to find a trade route through like the Arctic, all of their meals. They were like eating out of lead cans, which, you know, how good lead is for you. And then they got stuck in the ice and a bunch of shit went wrong.

You know, they all died, whatever, how have you. But like, yeah, lead. We used to eat lead. We're just like, oh, lead paint, lead cans. I know about this because I went to Norway. And so you get it from the Norwegian perspective of the people they were racing to find like an Arctic path. And then the first to the South Pole is also another part of that. and every time from the Norwegian perspective was just like

yeah and then the British really fucked up they did not know what they were doing at all and it's like especially to the South Pole one where it's like the Norwegian expedition is like oh it's such a race it's very arduous you know they have to send people back all the time and they get there and their first plant their flag from the British perspective it's like and then 13 people died on the first leg and then they shot all their horses on the second leg

and then they lost another person and there were four people left to climb the last Ridge and one person went there or maybe a few and then they get there and there's already a Norwegian flag after all of their people died and their horses are dead. They did not make it back. They all died. So yeah, from the Norwegian perspective, these Franklin's Lost Expedition does not surprise me. I'm curious what we're going to find. I'm sure something with fast food will come out in like 200 years where they're like, these fuckers voluntarily went and spent their money eating this poison? Plastics. It's definitely microplastics, yeah.

At least we're aware, you know, but there's probably something we're not aware of, right? I'm already like 18% microplastic. When I die, I'm either going to be buried or recycled. I'm too much plastic to be cremated. I'm bad for the environment. That's true. Sadly, you can't recycle plastic. Can't you?

Well, you can, but they don't. I've been so disheartened because when I get my trash collected, I see them pick up the garbage can, throw it in the back, and then I see them pick up the recycling can, throw it in the same spot and I go, oh, man. Maybe there's a there's like a divider. It's a half and a half system. It's just like shunts it.

And I still, I still separate my recyclable. I still do it even though I know what's happening to do it there. I'm still like, I'm doing my part. I can't imagine not. I know that it's not, this is just like a privilege thing

because I grew up in a, in a better off neighborhood and whatever I grew up where I grew up. I grew up, we had recycling like my whole childhood as far as I remember. So literally the way you take the trash out is you separate out the recycling and take it out and you have two bins and that it's always been like that. And I can't, I can't even imagine not because I, like you, I'm sort of dissolution about the state of industrial recycling and what they actually do with any of the stuff.

And that I pay for the extra recycling service seems really stupid. But like it's a compulsion. How do you put out your trash if you're not separating the recycling and like making sure like, oh, this is a number one. That can go into recycling. That's good. Okay. I have neighbors in the neighborhood I live in now who just have just a trash can. And my brain is like, what, you just keep your recycling?

What do you recycle yourself? My grandparents did that. They would keep the recycling and take it in themselves. They got one of those like can crushers where they just put the cans and I love that. I feel like I would be better off just trying, getting a smelter and melting all my aluminum cans down. Smelting it. Smelting it.

Smelt. And I could smelchmel. into things. Dude, you could make your own custom heat sinks. Get some kind of mold. Well, you have 3D printers, right? So you could 3D print and then make a sand cast of your 3D print and then use the sand molding to make like perfect little shelves.

You can make them with Capri Sun insert slots for cooling. I just melt down the Capri Suns. Do you ever watch Nighthawk in Lights videos? They're the person that got me into Glauber's salt. I do not. made a video about two weeks ago that had a, like, it's to make flow batteries. And it's not about flow batteries. It's kind of tangentially nuclear, so I'll take some points for this.

But it's like he's making... Oh, I don't know. That's how this one works. He's making a flow battery, and he needs, like, this sort of graphite material to have, like, a lot of surface area for the anode, right? Of a battery. And it's like, there's this extremely expensive material that you can buy, bulk, but it's expensive. But you can make

your own using this carbon insulation material that then you strip with some fluid and then put in your microwave kiln and microwave till it's 2,000 degrees or something like that. And I'm like, holy shit. This is why I think microwaves don't work the way people say they do

because it's just like he had it in the... Is that safe to go that high? He had it outside, so it's perfectly fine. But it's just like, I know they say like, oh it heats up by water molecule vibrating and that's what heats your food. And I go like, well, then why when you put aluminum foil into it, it turns into plasma?

What water molecules are vibrating to do that? And I'm like, I want to make a microwave smelter. I don't know why that wouldn't work. I couldn't tell you why it would work either, but I definitely don't know why it wouldn't work. In Los Angeles, this is probably the best thing I could do. Does not sound like the headline of the next fire that destroys a major residential area at all. What would you be smelting? Metal. Aluminum cans. I'm recycling. I'm helping the environment.

There's only so many things you could smelt at home. You don't want to be, you can't be doing high, like high temperature complicated shit. Call me crazy here, but isn't, isn't that the one thing you're not supposed to put in a microwave is metal? No, no, they just say that so you don't discover it's, yeah. It's dangerous if you don't, if you're not doing it on purpose. It's dangerous because you might do something here I'm not expecting, but isn't it dangerous if you do it on purpose? It just becomes a plasma. What about that one YouTuber who created like a 20,000 watt microwave?

And it... Is talking about William Osmond? No, styro pyro. Have you seen his 40, like 400 car battery experiment? Yes. That just literally melts and the magnetic feels so strong. All the wires to the thing. He made a microwave that was unbelievable.

He called it a macro wave. Dude, I get nervous just plugging things into the wall. I wouldn't fuck with that. Yeah. Well, he seems to not care about that, so maybe you should re-evaluate your priorities. I'm a coward. You are a coward. I'll take some points for that.

Can I just say as a... I would never insult Mark. First opportunity, Wade, you fucking bitch. That was an hour into recording. That was not the first opportunity. Damn. Can I just say? I know as a completely ignorant non-scientist myself, how the fuck do we have things that are so

ubiquitous that we don't understand the technology. Do we sincerely not really understand how microwaves work? Because every house in America definitely has at least one of those bad boys sitting somewhere inside that makes popcorn once every two months at minimum. It's, no, it's understood how like the microwaves are generated, the wave guide, putting them in there, the kind of. But like, it's not clear how it heats things up or why aluminum becomes plaz. Like I know, I know that. that you said that, but like, that's a thing, right? People are like, oh, we don't even know how it works completely. I think I don't know how it works completely.

I'm sure there's plenty of scientists that could explain it better than I could. It probably does make water molecules vibrate in food, and then it also does other things, depending on the material, like it might... Scientists explain it to me like I'm a host on Distractable, whatever intelligence level you think that represents. But that's a, that's, maybe it's just complicated or hard for normies to understand. you're not the first or only person I've heard say that, right? It's a common, like, it's one of those things.

People just throw out, we're like, ah, we don't even really know how microwaves work. There has to be some amount of truth to that, or like maybe we didn't for a long time or something. Obviously not that, because they make them, so they know how to make the thing that emits the microwaves to begin with, and they contain them theoretically so that it's safe to be in your house. But there's some mystery in it.

What's the mystery? You got me, but it makes things hot. Makes a hell of a good pizza roll if you do it right. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you telling me you microwave pizza rules? Telling you do this to yourself on purpose? Wait, wait, what's wrong with that? I find a way to make them better there than I feel like they come out in the oven, yeah.

Oh, wrong. It's a hell of, I know it's a hell of an accusation, but like... There's one thing that microwaves don't do. It's make anything in the known universe crispy. And that's the only thing I want with my pizza rolls is a little bit of crispiness. If you overcook them in the microwave, they do come out crispy, and I feel like they're better than when they're in the oven. I haven't had pizza rolls since I've gotten an air fryer, but I bet an air fryer would do it really well. Dude, air fryer is the way. Airfire is the truth when it comes to pizza rolls.

Air fire is basically just an oven with a fan. It's a convection oven, yeah. But it's small, so you could put only the amount of food you actually want to eat inside of it. Which is problematic if what you want to eat is 20 chicken wings. 20 chicken wings would fit in my air friar. You just have to have the right air friar. I'm hungry, so still don't eat in lunch. Nuclear. We've really gone nuclear. We've gone microwave.

We've gone Kings Island. We've gone plastics. I will say, I think that modern nuclear technology probably is pretty safe. And if it's made not cheaply and correctly, it probably is. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. But like, I guess long-term ramifications are like, is it safe 500 years from now? Like, does the, how do they replace all the infrastructure?

I'm sure there's probably a plan, hopefully in place. Also, there is nuclear waste. And the way that the half-life of nuclear material works is it radiation and shit, like that sticks around a while. So eventually you're going to have a lot of waste. That's what I was going to say is I'm not an expert. My understanding is that nuclear power is actually the just as safe as current standards and also like the most environmentally effective version of generating electricity, except it does generate nuclear waste. And our current solution for that is put in that big fucking mountain.

and nobody go over there. And we'll just hope that never fills all the way up so we keep putting it in that big mountain that we made. But like, yeah, assume that at some point in the future, someone will invent the whatever device and it will remanufacture nuclear waste into probably puppy food or diapers for babies. Who knows?

My baby's ass is glowing. Is that normal doctor? Oh. So you can change it in the dark without having to turn on the lights and wake your poor baby. Well, I mean, okay, the thing about nuclear waste is it really doesn't generate that much compared to other energy mediums because nuclear power is so dense compared to any other form of it. So either we put it in one spot in the ground and don't touch it, which, you know, someone could, I guess, sabotage it. Or we do what we currently do, which is shoot it all in the air.

Like, all the byproducts just up. Why can't we just launch our nuclear waste to the moon? Oh, I thought you said, son. You almost had a smart idea. Yeah, see. I guess it would be expensive to put it in a thing that's safe to get through the atmosphere and then also its job is to go explode on the sun. It's like restaurants in the 90s.

We just need to make sure that we're in the non-smoking section of the Earth and everyone else can have the nuclear fallout when that happens, right? Maybe, yeah, actually. We just put a big non-nuclear sign over America and that'll keep all the nuclear dust out of our atmosphere. We just designate some parts of the world. world as being the ewe zone and we'll put all of our ewe there. Don't we already have that?

Isn't it called the ewe? We could. I had an idea. You can say it. I'll just take my points. I don't know. I forgot what it was. Is that how this episode works?

You just asked for points? He didn't ask. He told. Yeah. Yeah, I'll just take them. That's true. All right. Well, that's nuclear power, everyone.

We've done it. We've gone nuclear. The waste, we're just going to launch it into a mountain. And if you guys finally want housing, to be affordable. Just buy it near the nuclear waste site. I remember. Why can't we throw it in a volcano? That thing you said about it going in the atmosphere, I think a volcano would just be a much cooler version of that, wouldn't it? Oh, you throw it in there, it'll melt down. See, we're putting all of our waist up. And then you take a big cork and you go, and now it stays in there

till it's all gone. See, this is why science works in teams. You got the ideas all build. And then you're pressure cooking it so you can use it again. Yeah, yeah. Well, What if I put it in a can crusher and I put that in my microwave and I turn it into something else? It will become a plasma, which I've heard is a good thing to donate to blood banks, so I assume is a good thing. I've got nuclear-powered plasma running through my veins. I have at least three days to live.

That'd be a long time. You kind of don't want that at that point if you got nuclear plasma in your blood. No, one thing I learned is how awful radiation sickness and death is. From when you were a problem in the airport and the police interrupted your Chernobyl watching? Yeah, I was talking. I was like, guys, listen, what if we all just go to Chernobyl as one? We could all be a cult. And the police came up and they're like, hey, we want your photograph.

Like, sure, that seems normal. This reminds me of a story that I don't think I told. Did I tell when I went from Poland to back to America and we were in line for the security? and then someone walked through these two little pylons and one of them started beeping, right? And it was one of those beeps where it was like, that's a new one. Haven't heard that one before and everyone goes quiet.

And it's quiet for like a minute before this guy, security guard, comes out and he's got a hand detector for something and he's waving it like this. Okay. And it's not like clicking like a Geiger counter. It's beeping. And he's just sweeping around, looking around.

Everyone's dead silent looking at this guy. And he's just, baby, baby, and he goes up to someone. There's a woman who I thought was like holding a baby. And he's holding the thing

right up to what I think is a baby. And it's going, and he just was like, just gestures with his finger. I'm not hearing any words exchange. And it's like, they're slowly meandering. And what'll happen is this guy

keeps waving it as he's going, but he's like, follow me. They go through the pylons. It goes beep again. And every once in a while he'll stop, turn around, to the people that are following him.

And it's like taking a couple steps in a time. He sweep around. Come with me. And then they left. No announcement. Nothing was said. Everyone just resumed back into security. No clue what it was.

I have no idea. It was at the Poland airport. Anybody know what that was? It's actually just a system they used to keep order. He gets all those people back to the back and they're all terrified. And he's like, it's okay. We're just going to look at your passports so that you could go.

We just use that to keep the crowds jilled out. Yeah, everyone out there is going to be freaked out for the whole rest of the time they're here. It's great. It's actually a detector for full arts, really valuable Pokemon cards. And whenever that went off, the guy knew that she had one, he's like, I got to confiscate this. Kept it in a baby papoose just like, it's just cards all the way down. I had to buy a little, like, carry-on bag to bring the cards back because our suitcase was already so full going there. I was like, you stuffed a carry-on full of Pokemon cards.

You have a problem. Sounds like a federal crime or something. Cross state lines. Did you pay taxes on that? It went through their scanner. They let me through. I guess I could have driven it across state lines and it would have been fine too. That's weird.

I hope someone tells us what that meant because now I'm curious. I want to know what that was. I'll take some points for Mark's story. Thanks. Can I get the same? You guys are certainly getting something. Well, it's points, I assume. Any final thoughts on nuclear?

I'm going to wrap this one up. I don't know if I had any original thoughts on nuclear, but you're welcome. Great. That's how this show works. I bring up a topic and you just don't give a fuck. Yeah, pretty much. Bounty! Bounty!

Bounty! Oh, what is that? It's a picture of my dog in a distractible merch. Oh, shit. How do we confirm this? Is there, or is it to look at the bounty list? What do you mean? How do we confirm this?

I'm showing you what? Oh, you mean how do we confirm it's a bounty? Yeah, it's on the list. That is on the official list on the subreddit. That is a bounty. I had a picture of the moon and I for some reason couldn't find it. I was like I had a picture that I managed to take with my GoPro of like it through a telephoto lens and I got a good picture of it and I can't find it. So I ran out and I put the shirt on Cheetah.

Number four on the May list of bounty additions. Recent Persimmon 4148 get a picture of their dog and distractible merch. shirt, specifically shirt, which he did do. All right. Bounty confirmed. Oldredeen, that's our first bounty. That's what I'm talking about. I forgot to get the coin flip right after I walked away from those fans. I was like, fuck.

Ah, shit. I completely forgot. Yeah, now that you say it, I had a hell of a way to bookend that story of me holding up the entire roller coaster ride if I had just done the coin flip thing then and there, but it didn't fucking occur to me. I wish I'd pull out a coin, turn to the cops and been like, I want to play a game. Well, that's why when we have this thing,

People will, Sam, don't put this in. When we have this, you know, when it's ready, we'll have this always on us. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I think you should leave that, but just Sam, blur it to death, so they have no idea what's happening. You'll, you'll love that when you get to know what it is. I guarantee it. I'm like the men's warehouse guy. We go through the points.

Bob, you got points for... Like a dog biting a mailman. Nuclear. Pello, room, Peter, slash not Mark jab. Mark-sized human. Not an insult. Called me a coward? Yes, insult.

Fan in the worst way at King's Island. And you got some points for wanting points. Mark, you got points for a thick cedar picture. Thorium salt reactor. If people are saying nuclear, societies in a good place, if we're fighting over the way to say words. Learning about the Franklin Expedition in Norway,

I asked what would be the thing in 200 years we look back on our era and be like, bad idea. You said plastic very quickly. You met some very tall fans. You had a tangential nuclear story. You brought up the macro microwave stuff. You asked for points a couple times.

You got a couple points for asking for them. And then you got the, I gave you three points for the bounty because it's the first bounty we've ever done. We said two to three points. It's our first ever bounty, so I gave out the three. Our totals, it was 11 to 7 mark, and then Mark got three for the bounty. So you didn't really need to use that bounty here.

So he's 14 to 7. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Three? I thought regular bounties were one. I thought we said two to three judges. I only gave three. I would say something that's as low effort as getting your dog picture in a shirt is,

doesn't rise to the level of like, oh, that's an extraordinary bounty. That's not a super hard one. I would agree that it's a two-pointer, but I gave a point for it being the first ever bounty redeem. Oh, Jesus. Wow. All right. Well, so. And I figured if he was going to use it on an episode he was already dominating,

might as well give him the point now for it, right? Come on, golf rules. Let's do this. All right. Oh, and I have four points, one of which is a Mark insult because I thought Bob insulted Mark, but it was really just me insulting him on the inside or something. It's your own prejudice shining through, you jerk.

Oh, great, we'll, we ask you, how many spins will we do today? Two it is, thank you. We need to pick me up. Sometimes people just have a bad time or a bad week, so I'm going to add the worst time since we last spoke. Because you know what? A point for that At least means you're getting something out of it. That's good. That's good. I hope I get that one.

I had a great week, but you know. Got 113 options. Like one of them will save me in this situation. I got two spins to find it. What are the odds? Let's go, baby. It's only between you two, right? Since I'm on the board with four, it wouldn't go to me, right?

I don't know. I don't think we've ever had that precedence. Post interruptions of the other guy. Which other guy? I don't remember what that means. means. I think whenever one of the competitors is talking, the other person interrupts a bunch, because it's kind of what I do. Yeah, but we have a separate rule where if none of us can remember what the rules, we delete it, but I think we know what that one is. Is that a re-spin, or do you want to call that way? Because we probably interrupted each other, but it wasn't aggressive

this episode or anything. It doesn't stand out. I'd say re-spin. Spin number one, part two. Mentioned their significant other the most. I said, Amy. Both of you mentioned your significant get others and I did not mention Mandy a single time, I don't think. I would have if I had done small talk. I will be honest. My small talk included Mandy. I had it prepared. We'll never know.

Yeah, probably forget it by the time we record the next one. Anyway, come on, golf rules. Come on. Okay. It's minus one decurrent loser. Is that me or you? Because I'm on the board. If you can't win, it's me.

because you're not the winner or the loser, you're the host, so that means I'm the current loser. That's hilarious. You get a bad day, you just need to make it worse. Back to my old ways with the random chance games. I love this for me. Let's flip some coins. I'm feeling it, guys.

Final score is me with five. Oh, no. Bob with six. Okay, I beat Wade, thank God. Mark with 15. Holy shit. That might be one of the biggest points. differentials we've had, at least in recent memory.

Mark really went off at the end there, and then he had the bounty on top of it. So yeah. Bob, loser's speech. Sometimes the universe speaks to you, and who am I to question the wisdom of the universe? I suck, and I deserve to lose. So says the wheel, so says the universe, so it must be true. Today, it's just the truth of everything. I suck. I should not have won, and I should not have won, and I just

not have won and I did not win. And the one who should have won clearly did. So thank you, Universe, for your infinite wisdom. Thank you, Wade, for not giving me any points for most of what I said. And congratulations to Mark, clearly the better competitor and person on today's episode. Uh, Mark, our liege, our king, our leader, our most dominant winner. Would you like to give a winner's speech? My goodness, I can barely be humble with all these accolades being heaped upon me, but I will humbly accept them all. I did it. Whatever I did, whenever I was saying the random stuff, and we were both saying pretty random things the entire time, I said it better somehow. Which just shows that fate aligned with me on this day.

What Bob said was right, it was purely the gods above smiling down upon us. And I think that that is something you can just let happen. You don't need to mention it a lot. You don't need to look it in the eye. It's just happening. I'm not going to say I did anything about it because that will keep it going. So long as I don't acknowledge it ever happened, my winning streak will continue and the good luck will shower upon me. For the moment that I look at in the eye, it will turn on me and it will rip me from twain to twain. Both twains? Both my twains are going to be ripped straight out.

From Mark all the way to Shania. Yeah, your host speech. Both of them don't like the way I did points, even though Mark won with them. So I won't be winning again anytime soon. So enjoy this while at last. I'll see you all next season whenever I host again. congratulations. If I've already go follow Bob at MySker, Mark at Markiplier.

Don't follow me. Stay here for the next one. We're Mark will host, and we'll probably definitely not do the perfectest crime, unless. Podcast. Out.