Distractible - Hinged or Unhinged

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This episode of Distractable is presented to you by Amazon Prime. Whatever you're into, it's on Prime. And I'm into a lot. You can't look at my order history. I won't let anyone. A lot of the show, I think, comes directly off Amazon. I think we all got our coins of fairness on there. Where'd you get your stacks of paper, you scribble on, Wade?
Starting point is 00:00:21 Amazon. Whatever it is, Prime helps you get more out of whatever passions you're into or getting into. head to amazon.com slash prime and follow your obsession wherever it goes good evening gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to distractible this episode babbling bob corrects his calligraphy complains about rudeness and asked for moral judgments waving wades does physical comedy defends YouTube invents bred bracelets and surprisingly earned sanity points ministering mark explains his invulnerability to pitchforked mobs
Starting point is 00:00:59 Defends Double Butter Action and Security Guard Strangeness From tool hatred To locker logs Yeah It's time for Hinged or Unhinged Now sit back
Starting point is 00:01:16 And prepare to be distracted And enjoy the show Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the podcast that never ends That's right. It's time for more distractible. I will be your host. My name is Bob. I get the host, which rarely happens anymore because it means that I won the last episode. I don't deserve to win. I didn't deserve to win. And somehow I did anyway. Uh, joining me today as my competitors and losers from the previous episode, Mark and Wade. I, I, I, once again, the framing of it, you know, I feel is that word that I can't say. I guess that's not fair. Mark didn't. Mark didn't lose. He just didn't win. But you did, you were the host, I guess.
Starting point is 00:02:02 I did have points on the board, and I think I actually ended up with the lowest number. So in this one instance, you might be correct. Yeah, you lost to Mandy, I guess. Yeah, yeah, I think actually you are correct. Yeah. I still don't know that I need to be framed in such a way as that. All right, Wyd, Mark gets a loser point, and you don't. This is why Mark hosts every other episode.
Starting point is 00:02:23 It is. Because we can't stop in fighting. Ever seen the show? I'm the host I give points most points wins at the end probably but also the points are very arbitrary and we have coins and those might come into play uh anyway I do have a topic prepared for today which we will do and you will earn points for but before we get into that how are you guys doing how's life been Mark's thumb is up I hate pro tools just throwing that out there for random reasons. Nothing to say other than that. Like sledgehammers and stuff? What do you mean? What are
Starting point is 00:02:59 Pro Tools? Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Definitely not anything else. I don't want to say anything more than that because I recognize that Pro Tools is actually, it's a software for audio mixing. It's basically the industry standard. And as opposed to Adobe being the industry standard for things, they actually, you know, legitimately have extreme functionality. And there's a reason that, you know, Many audio engineers want to work in that. And it's hard to compete for other things. And I recognize that there's so much value in what that is. But I'm just like, I hate A-A-Fs.
Starting point is 00:03:31 I hate them. I also have extreme functionality. Yeah. Damn, he's so mobile for his age. For listeners, Wade just did the wave across both of his arms through his torso. He did the alternate version of the wave. Yeah, now he's in the wave as if he's in a large stadium. Oh, all right.
Starting point is 00:03:53 That's wave three. I know we need four through seven still to complete the set. I'm sorry, that's bobbing. That's going to call that one as a small wave. What do, man? I'm floating out here. This is the good stuff. You guys just earned so many points for the wave jokes.
Starting point is 00:04:12 I wasn't even doing anything, and I got points. Hell yeah. Mark, you're getting crushed right now from the wave joke points. Oh, I thought you're saying, Mark, you get. The most points are the wave, too. Oh, yeah, I thought you were flying points to me. No, Mark is earning points for being a loser. Wade is actually earning points for all of this wave comedy.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Yeah, I guess that checks out. When do you get wave comedy? Standups don't do it. Oh, he did another. He did another one. Please, how can I compete? Mark, make a joke. Come on, Mark.
Starting point is 00:04:43 You're dying out here. I only got complaints. This is why we're like number 69 on Torbs or whatever the different, websites are that still care about us? Torbs. What's Torbs? It's the rip-off Forbes, the one that actually talks about us. Well, I'm sure that
Starting point is 00:04:58 no one knows what Mark's complaining about, and I'm sure that it will be fine, and hasn't been a thing that's been haunting your dreams for years now. Everyone cares about pro tools. Pro Tools, yes. The words he said a minute ago.
Starting point is 00:05:14 I had to remember that. I remembered something. He did. He did remember. Don't give him a point for that. Don't, no, no. Come on. No. Come on, please. I remember stuff all the time. Well, female, pointies. I'm hungry for points. Oh, he's killing.
Starting point is 00:05:28 He's still killing, Mark. You're in deep trouble, Mark. You're in watch out. These are all going to be negative points. I will say we're not 69th right now. We're 34th. But, you know. I saw somebody who's 69.
Starting point is 00:05:43 They lied to me. If we keep tanking the popularity of this podcast by talking more about AI, I'm sure we can plummet those rankings. Did you say AI? That'll do it. It is funny because I really truly think that there was a big misunderstanding because people did see podcasts when they were reposted to the YouTube channel, which was all on December 20th. So if you looked up all those episodes from 2022 and 2003, they looked like they were more recent. So I think that is where a lot of the misconception came from because, you know, it's just like people now being like, you should have known.
Starting point is 00:06:29 It's like, well, we did. We did. And it's just like the arc of time for people on the internet is sometimes different. Also, the joke within Ethan's video, that was, I like, there's a very funny joke, like asking chat GPT about its own water usage. That's very funny. And critical of chatypT. that was the whole thing. It's funny and critical.
Starting point is 00:06:54 And Wade knows exactly what's happening. Don't you, Wade? I was at the stream, whenever that was. And I heard people say, AI. They said that a lot. He does remember words.
Starting point is 00:07:08 He's getting better picking out those words. So time in the next couple years, Wade's going to start to remember whole events all together. Oh, God, I hope not. I try my best to get rid of everything in the past. I live for the now. You're gonna have to live with what you've done once you start remembering stuff.
Starting point is 00:07:24 That might change your perception of who you are as a person. Oh, no, no, no. You know what? I was just thinking like, should we contextualize this? Should it? Do you want context?
Starting point is 00:07:34 Find it. Google is free. I don't know why I'm antagonistic today. I also kind of enjoy the like, things are cool now. I just, every time I picture like an internet mob, I just think of like Monty Python
Starting point is 00:07:46 with the witch where they all run up and like the lady's got the fake nose on and everything. They turned me into a new. A newt. I got better. That's the internet mob. Gareth, he loves AI. Actually, I don't.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Oh, he doesn't. Ah, over here! I'm totally fine with people being critical. I've never had a problem with anybody saying anything about me online. It's apparently that's uncommon, but I truly don't. and in this one it was a great opportunity to talk about real good AI for the first time because I think in the background Bob you and I've been like when do we introduce it'll come up naturally something like that and I didn't even know that donations were actually open at the time
Starting point is 00:08:29 that I said that or else I would have pushed people to donate towards it but even after that people were just like he's funding an AI company is like no and it's like oh they're just doing the same thing is like actually opposite the whole point of it's like there's no good AI models I was like well not yet research that's a funny uphill battle with because it wouldn't when when mandy was talking about what to call the organization was like well should it have a i in the name or but it's like that is like that is what they're working on that is the point but just it being called blah blah blah a i everyone it's even still after your live stream people came from your live stream listening to you talk
Starting point is 00:09:10 and came and we're like you're you're just building different a i model there's no ethical AI models and the whole conversation is like, I don't think you heard. There's not, no one here, none of us are building AI models. That's not what we're doing here. And even if you respond to calmly, it's, it's the internet. I mean, that's just how the internet works, but it's a fun, it's a weird position to be it because you get the first reaction of a lot of people is like, so where's your chatbot? What's your chatbot called?
Starting point is 00:09:38 You guys have like a real good bot or real good GPT? What are you going to call it? No, no, no. What are we releasing first? Merch or our new AI bot? Merch is always first, but then the AI chatbot comes out. They're like, you guys are building AI. It's like, dude, we can't even get a T-shirt.
Starting point is 00:09:55 That would have what do you mean? Well, actually, now that you say that, you have physically seen them, right? I have physically seen an image of them. But that was not an AI image. That was real. Well, the shirts did not have eight fingers. It's actually today's topic, shirts or AI. You cut the shirt and half and a robot comes out
Starting point is 00:10:17 Just someone stabbed it from off screen And instead of blood, it's oil starts spurting out And it's like up up, aye aye I love the clanker videos Because they were making that joke a while ago But now it's like having a resurgence Because I'm back on TikTok now Yes, it's just as bad as I thought I would be
Starting point is 00:10:35 My screen time on TikTok is up so high It's so much better than shorts It's so much better You can lock out apps. You should have Amy set the password for your like screen time lock and then lock them away so that you can't unlock it yourself. You need to go consult. I'm an adult. I don't need the child lock. It's not a child lock. Okay. It's for all of us. All right. Yeah. But the the clanker video is like everyone in 2050. You want to name my daughter. You fucking oil chugger.
Starting point is 00:11:10 This is tangential to this conversation. Did you guys see the YouTube extending their protections to teens or whatever it is? They're doing the age restriction stuff? The AI age determination. He's, yeah, Wade's already one of them. He's framing the conversation positively towards YouTube.
Starting point is 00:11:26 I can't believe this. No, no, do you see how YouTube is protecting the youth? I'm as anti- YouTube as they come, but do you see how they're doing good for the world with their ethical usage of... Sure, sure, sure. It's funny, like, I'm as pro-y-tube as they come and I feel like I can never say that
Starting point is 00:11:44 I'm not as pro YouTube as they go I'm super about YouTube still to this day and I'm angry that they're making bad choices and I'm not defending their things like that but I'm still every time I'm like god damn it YouTube I'm also like but you're still the best platform for people that I'm not gotten to shake my fist at them for a while
Starting point is 00:12:01 one because I don't pay enough attention and two I feel like Twitch is stolen the spotlight the last five years of dumb decision making so it's good to see YouTube back on but this is crazy what's going on The more I actually read about it because I had not known much about it, but it is a little insane. I love our AI podcast. And how positive Mark is about it all the time, regardless of what's going on.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Wade, do you have any small talk? I know none of this is coming from you. Actually, you just brought up the YouTube thing, but that's barely coming from. Tell us about some broken pipes or something. Come on. Did your house burn down? How much poop are you waddling in right now? How many squirrels got in this week?
Starting point is 00:12:37 Come on. You got some syrup piss in your bushes? Does your car still exist? Did it crash into the ocean? Nope, no, it still exists. Got a nice bird poo stain right in the place. I need to go clean or go clean it, but... Don't let that sit there. That'll burn right through your clear coat. Better watch out. Somehow an expensive BMW still has paint that can be destroyed by bird poop. No, biggest, biggest contributions I had were in the last conversation where I thought we were working as a team.
Starting point is 00:13:04 But that was clearly Mark Smalltalk, so I'll just... I'll give you a piggybacking off of Mark Point. I'm giving you another version of a wave Hey, that's seven I just want to throw this out there because I'm having a lot of trouble right now Now that I'm thinking of the sentence It sounds really fucking unhinged
Starting point is 00:13:18 But do you ever guys ever change the way you write Do you write like the same way all the time No matter what or do you ever Like right now I'm in a phase where I'm writing in all caps Which is not a thing that I normally do But I just I literally woke up one day and was like I'm gonna write I want to write in all caps some more
Starting point is 00:13:34 Keeps all my writing inside the lines You know you don't get those Ys and those Js He's swooping now. If I'm writing on a check or an envelope, I try to write more clearly, but like, no, not really. Mark was about to be on my side. Yeah, no, I have done that. Also with the all caps thing, I feel like when I started filling out a lot more forms that I inadvertently started doing old caps because I wanted it to be legible and sometimes
Starting point is 00:13:58 my regular penmanship is not the most legible. But yeah, there are occasions. Like, I think my blueprints notes are pretty much how my handwriting always looks. are they more legible than your podcast points taking notes they are there why don't you write podcast stuff like that that's so readable those look pretty readable to me what am i supposed to do give like a line per point no no no look at this beauty this is how points should be done look i my point my scorecard looks generally not too sore off from yours mine is completely legible ish except for the ones where the word is readable it just doesn't make sense which is not my handwriting's fault i can't help that you two are just so good at getting points, I have to scurry to keep up with my handwriting. Alright, you know what? When he puts it down, I'm pretty good at points. Not this episode, apparently, but, you know, I'm pretty good. Oh, I was lying, Mark. You're doing fine.
Starting point is 00:14:51 All right. I was just trying to make Wade feel better about his wave jokes. Thank you. Anyway, today's topic, it's mostly from Reddit, but it's not an idea from Reddit. I just did all my research on Reddit. And I've decided I decided to call it hinged or un. And it's kind of like, am I the asshole? But I basically just scoured around Reddit and looked for behaviors that people described as being very unhinged.
Starting point is 00:15:21 And I want your takes on whether or not they actually are unhinged. Because there's kind of a whole range of stuff in here. Some of it involves some violence and some crazy actions. And some of it, like this first one we're going to talk to, I think is pretty interesting to describe. abyss unhinged behavior, but I want your opinions on it. The first one I want you to tell me about is this was a post. Someone's significant other boyfriend, whatever, girlfriend,
Starting point is 00:15:47 buttered both sides of their toast and then just like held it by the edge and was eating a double-sided buttered piece of toast. And they made a whole ass Reddit post where they were like, am I overreacting here? Or is this the most unhinged shit you've ever seen? And I read the post and was like, I'm not sure. Tell me what I think, contestants. Okay, I don't do that with toast, but like sometimes if you get like a dinner roll of some kind,
Starting point is 00:16:16 I'll like split it in half and put butter in the middle, but then I'll also butter the top of the roll. Is that the same level of... Well, you still have one non-buttered side to hold it from. Yeah, but the toast, you can kind of hold the crust, right? But how do you can't set it down? No, no, you don't know. Unless you like balance it on the edge, I guess, or something, but... Are we going to go into a whole...
Starting point is 00:16:37 bread debacle again. Oh, is it a canola of butter? No, no, no. Both sides, right? That's where... Yeah, one piece of toasted bread, toasted both sides, buttered both sides, and then they just went at it. Here's where I say it might not be, okay?
Starting point is 00:16:56 And hear me out on this. Because usually people have more than one piece of toast. I think that's pretty acceptable, right? People usually have two slices of toast. Usually it's like a couple pieces of toast Sure When you have one piece of toast And you butter the top
Starting point is 00:17:11 The other toast is going to go right on top of there So technically In most cases Both sides are going to be buttered Because it's getting butter from the top of the bottom one And if you have more toast than that Then it's just like compounding Where the majority of the toast is buttered on both sides
Starting point is 00:17:28 So I'm thinking like this isn't as crazy As people think No matter what if I have a buttered piece of toast My hands are getting greasy anyway When I eat everything's getting greasy because you know it's just going everywhere anyway oh we've seen it unhinged would be buttering around the outside that would be uh that would be uh that would be uh that yeah so i don't think this is as crazy as if it was like jellied on both sides maybe that's
Starting point is 00:17:55 starting to stretch the truth a bit but the butter absorbs into the bread and i think i think it's valid oh jelly both sides is unhinged that should be dripping everywhere but someone butters the outside, folds it half, bites the middle, then, like, puts their hand in and wears it like a bracelet and eats it off, that's unhinged. What the fuck? What the fuck? Not that I've ever done that or would. Why could I picture all of that? Why could I
Starting point is 00:18:16 follow that? Like one of those smarties bracelet or not smart. What were the bracelets that you could eat the little case? Was it Smarties? Yeah. They were smart. Yeah, they were smarties, I think. Yeah. People in the UK are like, well, but it's our version smarties. Oh, sorry. Smatis bracelets. There you go.
Starting point is 00:18:33 No, that's not what I was going for. It's a chocolate kind of Mnep thing. I really thought I had you UK folk, I'm sorry. All right, so that's hinged. We're going to call, we're going to declare that hitched. Thank you for telling me what I think. I need your help telling me what I think about this next scenario. I'm going to tell these in the first person because I want to, and it's more fun that way.
Starting point is 00:18:54 My sister and I were at this, like, sort of mid-level, sort of like Applebee-Z sort of restaurant, very casual, whatever, normal place. But it was in a situation where it shared a bathroom with a fancy restaurant. It was in kind of a bigger building. And we ordered some food and I ordered some salmon. And the salmon smelled like an actual pile of shit. It smelled awful. I was not going to eat it.
Starting point is 00:19:20 And I thought it would be funny to just take the salmon into the bathroom and put it on the toilet because it smelled like it belonged in there anyway. I just thought that'd be funny. And I did. And like I said, this bathroom was shared with a bathroom. much fancier restaurant. So I went and I took my stammer in there and I thought it'd be funny. I'd just left out on the toilet for someone to find. And then this really like snooty, booby lady from the fancy restaurant came and used the bathroom after me. And she went in and then you just heard like from inside the bathroom. You're like, oh no. And she comes out and is like,
Starting point is 00:19:55 there's fish where there shouldn't be. And that was the funniest thing I've ever done in my life. So two things to assess here Is the salmon into the bathroom unhinged And is the fish where there shouldn't be unhinged? I need to know how it was transported Did she bring like a plate into the bathroom with her Just like a handful of fish? Yeah, just picked up the plate
Starting point is 00:20:18 Walked into the bathroom and just like Into the into the toilet area I think taking your plate of foods a little unhinged Oh absolutely this is patently unhinged behavior Never have I ever had this thought where like, this spells like poop, you know where I'm, oh, I know where poop goes. You know where poop goes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:39 That's absolutely unhinged. I feel like they were trying to frame it like it was normal. No, that's plain and simple. However, I was envisioning there's no way this could be funny. And yet, it did result in funny. So I think it's valid unhinged because a lot of comedy comes from unhinged situations or reactions, but that doesn't mean it's bad. valid unhinged is an interesting
Starting point is 00:21:02 take. The unhinged isn't necessarily equate with bad, right? Yeah, no, unhinged things can be totally like, totally acceptable or funny or whatever, just I don't know if we need to define it, but the transporting a fish and a plate into a bathroom is a bit unhinged. We don't even know if it was a plate. They might have palmed that
Starting point is 00:21:18 shit. They might have just... Or in their cheeks. Oh, like a squirrel. I don't know which one I would prefer, though. Is it better if they took their whole plate of food in and dumped it and then brought that whole plate out of the bathroom back to the table or is it better if they just took the salmon and we're just like the plate's better come on man is that a question that plate has bathroom air on it now that's not
Starting point is 00:21:41 you didn't wash the plate it has it has it has dust it's been dusted you carry the fish in your hand you put the fish in your purse or you have one of those little plastic bags with watering it like if you bought a fish at like the pet store and you put the salmon in there and carry it into the bathroom. Or, or you swallow it whole and then like a baby bird in the toilet, you hug on the... No, no. You regurgitate that on the
Starting point is 00:22:09 toilet. Well, I guess that's just someone throwing up in general, I guess that's fine. You bite the salmon in a half, store half in each cheek, and then go to the bathroom just pull it out. I already said that one. I already said that one. You spit it in half? You spit it out? Oh, I didn't say in halves. I said one cheek, so I guess
Starting point is 00:22:25 technically two would be different. Or, evenly spaced. This is the kind of hairs I thought we'd be splitting in this episode. I like this. Well, now I know how I feel about that. It's all unhinged.
Starting point is 00:22:37 There's no, there's no solution to getting that fish to the bathroom that's hinged. Yeah, this is completely on it. Absolutely. But funny. Completely out of pocket. Got it.
Starting point is 00:22:45 All right. This one actually happened to me in actual real life just the other day. And I know how I feel about it, but I need a judgment call to see if I'm overreacting or not. Family lunch, we went out and some family was in town. they were like passing through and so we like met up and had lunch just while while they were on their road trip and it was it was nice we just went to a casual place sitting there james was
Starting point is 00:23:09 there we're feeding james and hanging out and talking and having lunch and the next the table next to us was two like i don't know bit 20s like young adults but like youngish looking people sitting there eating their meals watching a television show on a phone propped up on the table on a full volume. Not like I could kind of hear it. Like they had something and they were trying to like listen to script. Like they had it sitting across the table from them behind all their food stuff and was so loud that me at the next table,
Starting point is 00:23:43 if it had been in English, which it was not, it was like Russian or some other language. I don't recognize. I would have just been watching the show with them. And they just sat there for the entire meal. It has a long show. It was like an hour long show. They just watched it.
Starting point is 00:23:57 And it was like a talk show. It was like a late night. night show kind of deal where it was like they had guests come on and they did like sketches and I wasn't angry like it was annoying but I wasn't I was just confused what the fuck kind of unhinged bullshit is that am I over am I out of line here or is that the most like unhinged ridiculous shit you could do in a restaurant I mean there are worse things you could do probably that's crazy right is it unhinged or is it just like rude and completely anti-social etiquette like are
Starting point is 00:24:29 Is there, do those things have to align? I mean, it is rude, and it's a normal thing to do, but it's the setting, right? It's like taking like a speakerphone call when you're like sitting in church or something. It's like, what are you thinking that this is okay in a restaurant to just like have your own private TV show that everyone else can hear? Was this someone, I forget, was this someone by themselves or were they in a group? It was a couple. It appeared to be like a boyfriend, girlfriend. They were like giggling at the show and having a lunch together.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Hear me out. this is an evolution of the times that we are in and like TV dinner being so prevalent and like people not separating the idea of eating and entertainment now in all of human history eating and entertainment did go together it has gone together and like that's kind of a very common thing for there to be dinner and a show you know that's always been a thing so with TV people are very used to that I don't think I have many meals where I'm not watching video or something like that. I don't typically have sit-down stuff.
Starting point is 00:25:31 So, but, but there should be a social understanding that bringing that into a space where there are other people that aren't enjoying the same entertainment shouldn't happen. So yes, but I think I get where it's coming from. If they had AirPods in or like shared audio. Yeah, well, that's the thing, right? In a world where headphones aren't even wired anymore, like if you just each take one air pod or you can have that exact experience except everyone around you also gets to enjoy the silence it just yeah the unchin part for me unhinged part for me was just that it was like they weren't like
Starting point is 00:26:08 there was no moment where they looked around and were like oh wait we're being loud or what they did not give a fuck for a minute i thought i thought i would be funny like i wasn't going to be a jerk about it but i thought i was like well if it's going to be that loud i'm just going to watch the show with them right so there was a minute where i was just kind of like I'm just gonna watch You should have pulled up a chair and just sat with them They noticed me watching They like looked at me and they were like
Starting point is 00:26:31 Oh hey Good show right And kept watching it I was like What? No no You're supposed to feel uncomfortable That someone's like
Starting point is 00:26:41 Watching your TV show with you And they were like oh thank God Another viewer See that's the thing I get I get where it's just a complete lack of social etiquette It's like people have their fucking phones out During a movie and stuff It's like
Starting point is 00:26:52 It's just incredibly rude and no self-awareness, carrying a plate of food to a bathroom's unhinged. Watching something on your phone in the setting. Yeah, we need a tier list of hinged. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Like, I agree with you that's completely wrong. I don't know if I would call it unhinged. It's kind of, like, it's at least borderline. It's a little bit... I'm the old man shaking my fist at a cloud. I get it.
Starting point is 00:27:15 I would also shake my fist. I just don't know if unhinged is the word... I don't know. I feel like maybe I'm just not understanding the full definition of unhinged. I'm thinking of something that's just like, why would a human being do... like rude things are, I feel like are different than just like fucking out of pocket weird shit.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Like if someone goes to pay for something at the store and they pull their hand in their pocket, they pull out jello and slap it on the counter, that's fucking unhinged. The unhinged thing is like, I thought that was universal, right? But it's not anymore. Clearly it's not anymore. But it's because like I said, the show wasn't in English and I have no idea. I don't know what the language was. And I have no idea if they were like visiting, you know, tourists, if they were like people
Starting point is 00:27:51 who were from elsewhere who live in America or whatever. No idea if it's a cultural thing But I would assume that's universal I would be surprised if I traveled somewhere to like Europe Or to the Pacification region And it was like oh in our country Everyone gets their phones out And you just watch whatever show you want on full blast
Starting point is 00:28:09 And if your neighbor shows too loud You just turn yours up That way you can hear it It's like I don't think they do that anywhere I don't think that's but maybe I don't know What if they're aliens And they just landed And they were watching the video
Starting point is 00:28:21 And how to pretend to be eating in a human restaurant. Well, they ate really good. They ate like very human people. Like dignified or like a lot? A good amount, but very, very clean and orderly. They seemed like they knew where the food went, you know? Did they have a car or a UFO in the parking lot?
Starting point is 00:28:39 We left before them. I didn't even need to see. Yeah, hard to say. That's the only one on this list that actually happened to me. The rest of these are fantastic. After the salmon, I was concerned as to what happened to you because I was like, oh no. They also, I'm hoping that they escalate, but we'll see if my assessment when I wrote these all down was accurate. Here's one I really like.
Starting point is 00:29:00 It's a longer story. I once dragged 10 full bags of garbage into the lobby of the bank that I live next to and tore them all open and dumped the garbage onto the floor of the bank. I used to live in an apartment building that like shared a parking lot with a retail space. And one of the things that was in this retail space was this bank. And our garbage day was like Monday morning. So the garbage trucks would come on Monday morning, take all the garbage. You're supposed to put it out like Sunday night or very early on Monday. And then, you know, that this bank regularly, like every time, would put out their garbage a shitload of garbage, like 10 or more bags of garbage.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Monday evening. They would come in to work after the, like whoever. worked on Mondays would come in, do their thing. And when they were, like, closing the bank, they would put their trash out. And then the fucking trash would just sit there and make the whole parking lot and the whole, my whole front door of my apartment area smell like trash for the whole week. So my home always smelled like trash outside. And so they did this.
Starting point is 00:30:11 And for a while, I was like, oh, maybe they don't understand. And I like went and I talked to someone who worked at the bank. And I said, hey, you guys put your trash out Monday nights. but they pick it up in the morning, and so it kind of, and they were like, oh, yeah, that's when we put our trash out. And I was like, it's like talking to a wall. They did not care. They did not understand. They were like, yeah, we put it in the alley behind the store.
Starting point is 00:30:29 That's where we're supposed to put it. We're allowed to put it there. We're not going to change what we're doing. And I was like, flabbergasted. So, obviously, the next time, the next week, they put their trash out Monday evening. And I just snapped. And the next, the Tuesday after they put their trash out, I just gathered up all the bags that were making my parking lot smelled like shit
Starting point is 00:30:49 dragged them back into the bank tore them open dump them on the floor and was promptly asked never to go inside the bank ever again I told them not to dump their trash in front of my house it was like a valid protest to be honest
Starting point is 00:31:05 but I feel like there's a step missing where they call and report this to someone like I feel like there's got to be someone you can call when this shit's happening and be like hey this is a tough one right on its surface unhinged usually means unjustified right it's like unwarranted behavior like not even just like about
Starting point is 00:31:25 social acceptance but it's like this reaction does not equate the situation you know that's what I think unhinged is as opposed to just being weird this is clearly it's not justified because it's meeting the already the bank's unhinged for putting their garbage out on the wrong day and being like, does what we do. We're a bank. We're not a trash scientist. You know, we don't know how trash is. Like, we don't know what these norms are.
Starting point is 00:31:56 We just take money. That's all it is. You know, clearly there's unhinged across the board, but sometimes you've got to match that energy, I think. But also, yeah, a phone call probably could have done something about this. Why the hell, don't they just put the trash out Saturday, end of day? So that's a couple of key parts from the Reddit posts. The person was in their early 20s, and they made this post well, like years after this happened.
Starting point is 00:32:23 And one of the things they said in the comments, they were like, I probably should have called this city. Like, they probably would have been fined for that because that's not, that's, you know, probably violates the coat. But I didn't think of that. I jumped straight from, I talked to the manager to, I'll just dump their trash in the lobby. But also, the thing was they had a janitorial surface and they didn't work. like banks are open usually six days a week right like they're close on sundays short hours on saturdays so the janitors were there like monday tuesday wednesday or something and they didn't work the full schedule so the janitors put the trash out when they got back into the
Starting point is 00:33:00 building on monday instead of putting it out on wednesday or whatever their last day of the week was that they worked in anticipation of monday so like there was a reason and that was also why they weren't going to change it because he was like well then you need to like reschedule your janitor service so that you can put the trash out on a day that makes sense and the bank was like we're not doing that or the manager of the bank take some fucking responsibility and take the bags out like we're talking 10 bags of trash that's not that hard to take outside you don't understand they're stinky they're stinky you know they're bank managers or trash they're just stinky you know stinky people make stinky trash it's just the way it is you know I guess they could have some
Starting point is 00:33:41 lunch things in there? Like, mostly it's what, fucking paper? Like, oh, God. That was part of the post, too, is they figured out it was the bank's trash because mostly what it was, was, like, deposit slips and shit from the bank. It was mostly, but there were some that were, like, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:58 had lunch from the... I understand that it would cause the stink. I just feel like this is entire, like, the dude overreacted, but, like, the bank has some fucking responsibility here to put their trash out at the right time. I mean, I know in my neighborhood, I get in trouble if I put my trash out too early.
Starting point is 00:34:12 Yeah, yeah. Or if you leave the cans out like a day later. Yeah, people don't like that shit. Yeah, our locality is rules are like, you can only put your trash out up to 12 hours before and you have to have them in after they're empty. You can't leave them out for an additional day or you could get a ticket or whatever. I have to follow rules. Why don't, why no bank follow rules?
Starting point is 00:34:31 It's a little unhinged to what the response, but also like Mark said, it's justified. So that might be hinged. That's a tough call. No, that's unhinged. It's clearly unhinged. But we're not judging justification today or judging hinged. That's true. So unhinged but cool.
Starting point is 00:34:49 Got it. Unhinged but justified. Unhinged, but I'm like, I'm glad they did that because it gives us something to talk about. Agreed. I have another one that doesn't hurt anybody, I don't think. This person was working as a security guard and a hospital. And then the area that their hospital was located, they had people in the area like unhoused people or people who were like addicts and had issues
Starting point is 00:35:13 that would cause problems around the property and like they this person was never trying to like call the cops and get them arrested but they had to you know keep them out of the hospital and keep the patients and what you know safe and like they had to deal with these people but they tried to do it politely
Starting point is 00:35:29 but there was this one person in particular who would just do a lot of drugs and would just do a lot of crazy shit and they always tried to be polite and deal with them but it's really difficult to deal with someone who is not of their right mind. And so this person was around again and trying to get in the main entrance. And the security guard was like, oh, please, just, okay.
Starting point is 00:35:51 And they were trying to talk to this person and calm them down and get them to continue on elsewhere. And the security guard noticed that there were cops, clearly coming on the road with their lights on. Somebody had called the cops. And the security guard was like, this guy does not need to be arrested. He just needs to cool off and come down from. whatever he's on like this that sucks i don't want him to get picked up by these cops but they
Starting point is 00:36:16 couldn't get this person to leave and the cops are coming they're turning into the hospital they're clearly coming this way and finally the security guard is like all right i'm going to get him out of here one way or another and this dude whatever was happening this dude was like talking about do you see the monkeys do you see the monkeys something like that that's what he was on so i was freaking out and the security guard had been trying to tell him it's all good you know take a breath and finally his security guard is just like, you know what? I do see the monkeys. I am the monkeys.
Starting point is 00:36:44 They're right here. And like freak the fuck out. And the guy who was afraid of the monkeys was just like, ah! And like fucking ran away and fleeed from the hospital and fleeed also from the cops. Because then the cops pull up and the security guard saying right there and like, oh, I don't know. But the security guard like fully like freaked out.
Starting point is 00:37:07 like everything and scared the shit out of this guy and ran away escaped no idea where they went but but if this was in the main entrance at the hospital so like there's like patients and doctors behind in the in the waiting there's a cameras this this this is in the middle of a public area in the main entrance of a hospital security guard just does that and after the guy leaves the security guard is just like all right yeah good say him. Hinged or unhinged? I think it's hinged. I don't know. I've been jumping in early on this all the time. So wait, you could start if you want, but, uh, man.
Starting point is 00:37:47 I get why he did it. And it worked. It was smart. Like, it was clever thinking. But just imagining the scenario where people are sitting around, like someone's sick, not feeling well, they're trying to get back. People are like, and then all of a sudden you look over and the guy who, like, you're expected to protect you is all like, like, that's fucking unhinged as hell to witness. I don't know. It's, if you think about it from, if you're matched up one to one, he's got one to one, this guy and him are in this own little world
Starting point is 00:38:16 of theirs, he's not exceeding anything that the guy was already bringing into the situation, right? So whereas like the trash is like unhinged and I think the response is unhinged because there was another solution. He chose the most human solution possible to the problem, right? Society aside, he is doing his job, getting, you know, making sure that, like, he's not
Starting point is 00:38:40 going to hurt anyone else with it. He's getting out of the area. He's moving on. He's moving on. Like, that's what security guards should do. It's like, move on out of this area. Like, you can't be here. So he had the right answer.
Starting point is 00:38:54 I think that because his answer was the correct response, that's the only thing that makes this hinged. If he did that and the other guy didn't respond in the way that got him to do what the security guard's job is there for, then probably at the end of it in hindsight, it would be like, yeah, it was a little crazy for me to try that. But I think he read the situation right. He didn't want this guy to get arrested. And it's just like, you just got to get out of here. So I don't know. It sounds extreme, but it is, I don't know. From that individual's perspective, it was hinged, from what's expected of a security guard's demeanor and from how everyone else would have seen that, it's unhinged as fuck. So I guess it really depends on the perspective.
Starting point is 00:39:39 I think they've got to introduce that into security guard training. I think they've got to bring that that into training. I think that's got to be put in the book. Dude, I'll switch careers right now. Page three. Someone walks up to you a bit drugged out of your mind. Do you get the cops involved? Shoot them away or act like a terrifying monkey monster.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Yeah, the handbook says, if they say, can you see the A, monkeys turn to page 64. If they say, B, elephants turn to page 69. Like, you know, I think that it should be all in there. It's like goosebumps, choose your own adventure manual for security guard training. I don't know. I'm probably in the wrong here, but I'll take that. Well, no, I agree with you. Like, I think it was the right thing to do, and I think it makes sense in context, everything else.
Starting point is 00:40:20 I think, like, if you're not, even for that dude, the dude was freaked out and fucking ran away. Like, it was the best solution. Yeah, well, he was just trying to escape the monkeys. But the best solution can still be unhinged, can't it? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, maybe if the best solution is something that we think is unhinged, I think we have to change our perspective of what hinged even is.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Damn you, Bob, for giving us ones that are debatable. Hinges are relative, I guess, is the point. Which makes doors really confusing. If time can be relative, why not hinged? Why not hinge? I think Einstein was thinking about this. Different lenses that lets you view the situation
Starting point is 00:40:57 It's hinged via the individual perspective Unhinged via the group It's Shrodinger's monkey Are there monkeys in the box? The only one way is to become the monkey yourself What if we find out there actually were monkeys in the hospital And the security guard just never looks behind him Yeah, what a is just really unobservant security guard
Starting point is 00:41:15 All the monkeys behind him in the hospital We're like, he's one of us, let's go No, I think what it was, a security guard It was a Planet of the Ape style monkey and he didn't want the guy to blow his cover. So he kind of lifted his mask a little bit like, I am the monkey, you're crazy. You're crazy. You're crazy.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Meanwhile, the lizard person behind the counter was like, oh, thank God, they're not under us. This is not a story. This is just a thing that happens. This is a subreddit that I'm on because it's interesting. There's a lot of subredits that are like, what is this blank, right? And the whole point is you find something,
Starting point is 00:41:47 what is this pipe? What is this car? Whatever. There's one that's just, what is this thing that's a very general, like, oh, I found this random thing. What the fuck is this? And it's fascinating because there, it's almost always there's one comment who comes in and is like,
Starting point is 00:42:02 oh, that's like the cap from this bottle for this specific toy that they sold in Eastern Europe in the like late 90s. And it's like, that's exactly the fucking, how did you know what that is? And how did you find this post that you have this random piece of knowledge? Well, one of these subreras I'm on is, what is this bug? Which is interesting, because there's a lot of crazy bugs out there. There's so many types of bugs and different variations, and it's fascinating. But, like, half the people who post on that subreddit post a picture of them holding a bug,
Starting point is 00:42:38 and they're like, hey, what's this cute bug? And inevitably, every single time someone posts something where they're holding it, the comments are like, you're holding that? Are you alive? That's the second most poisonous insect on the, in the, in the, continent of North America. Well, you should never touch it. People are fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Are you alive? Nope. Posted it from the grave. Yeah, well, like, that one, there are some that are, I mean, it's not funny, but it's kind of funny. There are some where the person like, they clearly held whatever and posted and then said it. And then they're like, yeah, two hours later, my whole left arm burst in the flames and I wanted
Starting point is 00:43:15 to die. You were right. I shouldn't have touched that. But that's on, am I, like, I'm not a bug person. I get that some people really like insects, and It's not at all creepy to pick up a thing that you like. Like you like tarantulas and you hold. I would never. I don't care for insects.
Starting point is 00:43:30 I find them generally creepy. And especially ones that look scary, I find them scary. I would never just pick them up. Is that unhinged or am I just a wimp about insects? It's unhinged. Just pick up a thing. You have no idea what it is, right? That could be poisonous or sting you or fucking who knows what.
Starting point is 00:43:46 Random aside, have you guys heard the song? It's like from, I don't even know, the 90s called Here's Your Sign. where people that do really stupid things like hands of size is I'm stupid or something Isn't that Was it Bill Ingvol's thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah I have not
Starting point is 00:44:00 I wouldn't do it I'm pretty, I'm pretty hinged You wouldn't, okay, is this picking the thing up Or calling people out like that? I wouldn't pick the thing up So we're debating about picking the thing up, okay So Wade's, wait, but Wade's entire point It's based around the idea that Wade is hinged, completely hinged
Starting point is 00:44:14 Yeah, I mean, you're the host, you decide what we Wade gets a hinged point, I guess. I don't know if I buy that, but... All right, okay. Look, if Mark's not going to put up a fight, I'm just... I can't say I'm perfectly hinged either, but, you know, so I'm not going to call the kettle black here. I'm going to just sit by the sidelines here.
Starting point is 00:44:36 Taking a photo or, like, getting a stick to pick up a bug or, like, you know, something from a distance and zooming in, that's one thing. If you are physically handling some living thing, you have no idea what... what it is, what it can do, what diseases it might carry or whatever else. And you're just like, look at this cute little snake. It's fangs are in my head. What is that? Like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:44:58 Yes, you're unhinged, you psychopath. I think, I don't know. I don't know. Because it's like, there's stupidity that's not necessarily unhinged. It's not unhinged to be stupid. There's ignorance, you know, because there's certain things like that that I've seen before where it's like a shell. but there's a certain shell
Starting point is 00:45:17 that's like the shell of the poison sea snail that'll explode your brain from the inside out or something like that but it looks just like a pretty shell people pick up shells all the time of the beach airing on the side of it looks like a horrifying bug monster or you know something like that
Starting point is 00:45:32 it's just kind of they're an idiot they're not unhinged I feel like unhinged needs a certain level of extreme like the monkey one the more I see these delineations the more I'm like yeah okay maybe that security guard was unhinged after all. I'm like, oh, maybe the toast is more unhinged than I thought.
Starting point is 00:45:50 Maybe, maybe I got to go back and, you know, reevaluate because this just seems stupid. This seems dumb, not unhinged because unhinged suggests like they're just really going all out there. It's blowing the door off the hinges, you know, kind of action, whereas picking something up is just you're dumb. I would say the shell is a mistake or dumb. If you pick up that shell, it's like you expect that it's empty, you expect that it's safe because people collect shells.
Starting point is 00:46:14 people don't generally go around picking up like look at this really colorful frog in this place I've never been before it's got to be fine I recognize but it's like what's the difference between that and stupid stupid is picking something up and throwing it at your friend thinking it's funny oh that's unhinged that's unhinged
Starting point is 00:46:30 unhinged is putting yourself in danger throwing up like both no one's an action you know to influence something else around you but it's like this is just picking it up and looking at it that's dumb Just a prank, bro. Maybe Unhinged is the wrong word.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Now that I'm thinking about it's like, that's stupid, that's foolhardy, and that's not thinking things through. Is that unhinged? I guess Unhinged would be like putting that thing on a platter and then like serving it to a customer you don't like. Putting it in the toilet, you know, yeah. Yeah. The more I think about the salmon one,
Starting point is 00:47:02 the more I skipped right over the first part of that story and was like, oh, the rich lady was really unhinged for screaming about salmon in the toilet, wasn't she? Oh, you thought the, really? No, yeah, I underestimated the first half of that story until we started talking about it here because it was told from the perspective of the person who put the fish in the bathroom. So clearly their story, they were like, yeah, well, I took the fish and I put it in the bathroom. And then this stupid rich lady came in.
Starting point is 00:47:30 Completely unhinged this fish, why are it shouldn't be? Or crazy. Anyway, all right. Picking up bugs, stupid but hinged. Ah, man, I guess. This one is clearly not about me because. because this is from a woman's perspective. But this was incredibly immature.
Starting point is 00:47:45 But luckily, it was over a decade ago. My boyfriend at the time cheated on me with another person. He desperately wanted me to forgive him, told me it was a mistake, and begged me to forget the whole thing and come, like, stay with him, and told me that he loved me. And this was just a huge mistake, and he regretted everything. And I was pretty dead set on dumping him and getting the hell out of there. but I told him if he would call this other girl on speakerphone
Starting point is 00:48:16 tell her he didn't love her and let me be in the room and hear the exchange I would maybe be able to forgive him and I was never going to forgive him but he did it and he called and he broke this other girl's heart because apparently he'd been telling her the same kind of sob story that he actually really loved her and he was going to leave me and he was just an asshole uh anyway he did that told her he didn't love her they had a huge fight. I just stood there and listened with a big smile on my face. He hung up the phone and looked at me expectantly, and I dumped him and walked out the door and never saw him again.
Starting point is 00:48:52 That's kind of awesome? It was kind of, I know that the other person, if they knew it was cheating, like, that's shitty on their part. It's kind of mean to the other third party a little bit. I have no idea the full context of if they knew they were home wrecking or what the deal was. But if they had no idea and this guy was just screwing both of them over it's kind of it's kind of unhinged till just like rain that down on this other girl when it's maybe it's not her fault maybe it was based on your description though it sounds like he was lying to her too like there was a mislead there as well right it that's what it is i summarized it but that's how it read was it this dude was kind of lying to both of them and just didn't want to get caught and it really wasn't like
Starting point is 00:49:34 one of them was knew she was the side chick or something and that they were both led on by this guy. Having a witness to that conversation and her heart being broken is a little unhinged and fucked up, but like in the long run it was probably good for her to know that that was happening. Yeah. So this, I imagine the gut reaction of a lot of people would be like, well, she can't, shouldn't say something if it's, you know, she's not going to keep a word.
Starting point is 00:49:55 I would hope that people would understand that she basically did what he did because cheating is about like emotional deception. And so when it came out, like it's like, oh, you weren't saying what you, what I thought you were saying. So this is kind of the same as the monkey security guard, okay? A little bit. It's matching.
Starting point is 00:50:15 It's matching the what was received. I think that it would be unhinged if it was excessive. There's a certain eye for an eye that, you know, you can have a moral philosophical discussion about. But this is like in the moment in the decision, it's like, yeah, she didn't tell him the truth or she went back on her word. But so did he for longer and for more time. And now he has some of the same feeling that she got. I'm not a big fan of I for an eye, but I don't think we can call this unhinged because it is equivalent behavior.
Starting point is 00:50:53 Probably not even equivalent, but it's like similar behavior. He feels like conflicted and brokenhearted for the situation that he created. Therefore, I don't know if it could be unhinged. She didn't go and like get him to break up. and stay with him while all the same time cheating on him to get back and like that way. That would be a bit more unhinged. This was just the like, I'm going to make sure that you're not with, you don't get either one of us.
Starting point is 00:51:17 Yeah. Or at least you feel brokenhearted as I do or something similar to that. I think that it's up to the individual person, whether it's valid. I don't think anyone, any of us can declare it to be unhinged given the circumstances. It's up to her or the individual whether or not they are willing to take someone back. you know that's a pretty severe break in trust some people have come back from it a lot of people have not that's up to the individual everyone on an outside perspective looking into like you can't make those decisions for you um no i can't say it's unhinged i mean okay if she had followed through
Starting point is 00:51:54 he made the phone call they had the fight they broke up and then she was like all right we're back together if that was the result would we call it unhinged that he had her do that like is the unhinged part the fact that that call happened in front of her or that she then and broke things off, too, if we're considering it. I think it's that she lied to him about whether or not she would take him back. I don't find that part. Yeah, I don't find it either. That part doesn't feel unhinged to me at all.
Starting point is 00:52:19 I think it's mean, but then again, it's mean matching what was already pretty mean. But, you know, just be, it's like anger is an emotion that I have tried to control and throughout my life. And it's something that also anger is useful. anger is useful because it helps you establish boundaries like it's i don't know probably inside out just explain this better than i could you know but it's like anger is one of the valid human emotions like you cannot anger can lead to invalid you know results if you let it go out of control but anger is a natural human response and me in my life i've discovered that trying to suppress it beyond
Starting point is 00:52:57 the point where you you let people walk all over you is a bad thing so it's like you do need some of that anger. Righteous indignation is is not only natural, I think in ways it can be healthy. There's a reason why rage rooms exist, but it can get out of control very quickly. The line is really thin on
Starting point is 00:53:17 that barrier between hinged anger and unhinged anger. You know, so. Interesting, fun fact about rage rooms. Studies are actually mixed on whether or not that is a positive way to deal with angry feelings. Some studies have shown that
Starting point is 00:53:32 Going to a rage room because you feel anger and you're trying to express it and get it out leads to a direct connection between feeling anger and acting physically, which leads some people to become more violent than they otherwise may have been. As a guy who punched a wall out of anger in the Huntersana stays, wait, I don't know if you saw the video, but I was angry and I punched a wall. You're so mad you could tell in that video how mad you were. So mad. I've had anger problems a lot of my life, and a lot of my life have been trying to suppress it. I've also been to a rage room. I don't feel any stronger connection. Now, this is one anecdote.
Starting point is 00:54:12 I think that if you look at it from a larger perspective of like someone every time that they get angry, they go to a raid room, that is, again, it's like establishing the pattern. How many times in this study were people going? What type of people? What age range? I don't know the details of the study. And there's a lot of, there's a lot of easy conclusions you can draw from things. And I'm not saying that rayrooms are generally. generally a good thing. But there is something about a cathartic safe release that we, we can't deny that we as living beings on this planet just fucking sometimes want to hit something. That's, that's, that's, that's, that is, I don't think that we can say that universally that is necessarily a bad thing. Because if someone has done you wrong to the point where they have done you harm and you have an instinct to hit them back, I can't say that.
Starting point is 00:55:02 That's a bad instinct. There are times and there are places. And having a physical connection between, you know, the impulse of anger and physical action, if you suppress that to nothingness, then it's like that's removing a part of what makes us human. And some people are more predisposed to it to others. But as someone who is, I would say, a bit more predisposed to it than others, it's, it does, there's an unhealthy level. So I can't necessarily say it's completely unhinged.
Starting point is 00:55:30 Yeah. I mean and your example of the rage room stuff I don't get angry often I get frustrated like I have my moments where I'm like ugh but actual anger is something for me that has to build up and then I get to a point where finally I kind of like snap and I'm really pissed off it doesn't happen very often and thankfully I've never like done really anything when it has happened but like I know to go isolate myself and cool down and whatever else in that sense I could see a rage room being a good thing like if you have just a build up and you need to get all release or of some kind. It's just like things have been building up in life and you do get a release. That's one thing. If you have to go to a rage room constantly, you need more help than a rage room. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like going once a year and just like getting something out of your
Starting point is 00:56:12 system is one thing. Like if you're a weekly or monthly visitor and it's like I can't believe the toast got overdone again. I better go break a car. Like, okay, you just, you have some rage issues. You need more than just... They buttered both side of my toast. My way of the bathroom found a fucking fish. They knew
Starting point is 00:56:28 how they knew my embarrassing time and fish trauma. That guy acted like a monkey to me. It's the same guy in every story. I don't know. I can see positives where it's like, okay, you just go and you have an outlet and it's like you go scream and you know, hit a, I don't know, piece of cardboard with a bat or something, whatever. Yeah, if you've got constant anger issues like that and you need to be there a lot, it's like, okay, maybe now you need more help in guidance or medication or something to help with your anger issues. There's always a line. I think there's always a line. It is relevant. Relative. Einstein was right. Time and anger are relative.
Starting point is 00:57:04 Smart guy. But if you're near a black hole, the anger grows in an experiment. Pretty much, yeah. I'd be pretty pissed. I guess if I was drifting into a black hole, where's my CRT TV and baseball bat? Give me that shit. So that's a very hinged breakup. Thank you. I feel like I know what I think now. Last one, one more. This one has a little explaining to it, but I think it's a really interesting series of events.
Starting point is 00:57:30 story is from a long time ago. I was in high school. There was this kid who was a bully to everyone, widely and generally regarded as a complete asshole. Really miserable dude. Always just took it out on everyone. Didn't have any friends because he bullied everyone, but that was this whole thing. And he would just like talk shit about people and beat people up and was like just the bulliest kind of bully you can imagine. It's a week before spring break. And he's been bragging about how he's going to spend two weeks in Europe that when we all leave for spring break he's going to leave and go on this big trip and be in Europe but they're staying a week like an extra week longer so his spring break is going to be two weeks when the rest of us only get a week off that we come back to school
Starting point is 00:58:13 and he won't shut up about it and I start thinking about it and I'm like so he'll be gone for two weeks interesting and my locker is close enough to his to where during that week before everyone leaves spring break I start watching him when he goes to his locker to learn his locker combination and eventually I figure it out I learn his locker combination and on the Friday before we all leave like on the way out the door I had brought a huge trash bag full of shit with me hidden it in a bush outside the school and then as before I went home for spring break or everyone left I went and retrieved my giant bag of shit and went and opened this bully's locker and dumped the shit into his locker and didn't just dump it in but like took all of
Starting point is 00:58:58 his books and his letterman jacket was in there and just like really mush it all in and the shot the locker and had the best spring break of my entire life came back to school and when we all go back to school that entire hallway smelled like shit because there was shit stewing in one of the lockers and it hadn't been open yet and when the bully finally got back he came into school two weeks later opened up his locker and just stood there and stared and started crying and started moaning about his his letterman jacket was ruined apparently that was one of his prize possessions and all this stuff and he freaked out and he was still a bully he was still a complete asshole for the rest of our time in school but no one knew that i did this no one no one would
Starting point is 00:59:45 have assumed that he bullied so many people that they asked me and they asked probably a dozen or more other kids questions about did you do this how did you get the shit in the whatever never got in trouble for it. No one ever knew it was me. Ruin this kid's jacket and his locker and everyone made fun of him relentlessly for being the shit kid, shit locker boy for the rest of the time we were all together in school and whatever. Eventually he, we all graduated, got out of school, he fucked off and moved away somewhere else, never seen him again my entire life. Is that hinged or unhinged behavior? First off, this never happened. This is a fake story. There's no. No way.
Starting point is 01:00:26 No way. Mark, everything that's posted on Reddit is true, okay? There's no way. A week, it would go a week. It's already been a week, so that stuff is pungent enough. It would go a week where not a teacher, not a superintendent, a principal, any of the cleaning staff for the school wouldn't be like, hey, this hallway smells like rotting. Wow, whatever. Just one of the kids, you know.
Starting point is 01:00:52 Kids are stinky, Mark. I don't know if you've been in high schools lately but kids smell okay it's seeping juices it would be seeping out on the bottom to the even if it was on the floor it'd be seeping out it's like I don't know if they've seen garbage before
Starting point is 01:01:07 but it oozes I don't know where the liquid comes from but it oozes it does feel like a fake story but assuming it happened that's kind of unhinged honestly like patently unhinged I don't know when this also allegedly took place but man I would I don't know I would not fuck with anyone in a school
Starting point is 01:01:23 these days. Yeah, wait, what year was this? And how are they not cameras? I mean, I don't have a specific year. This is someone reflecting, right? The story's them reflecting. Yeah, this is someone who's an adult now who's like, this was back in high school. I did this to get to get one over on this bully for being a piece of shit. So I shove shit. And he lives in another town now, so you know, you don't know him. Somebody could have pulled this off at Milford 20 years ago. Like, it could have been pulled off if someone really wanted to. I don't know 99% of the people I went to high school with. You would know who it was. That's true. You would know who it was, who it was to, you'd know, because they would brag or someone would tell.
Starting point is 01:02:00 And because he, he, he just held this story in all the way until Reddit. That's the perfect person to tell about this. It wouldn't tell his friends. I get retribution for someone who's been a bully, but like, it's still an unhinged fucking reaction to gather up a bunch of shit, put it in a bag, premeditatively bring it in, smear someone's stuff in there. And also it's like, you know, even bullies have friends, like, so it's not like everyone would turn on this guy for having shit. There's some people that probably wouldn't even know him and would still be like, oh shit, man, that's so, that's so bad. Even if he was a bully, you can't bully everybody in school.
Starting point is 01:02:32 You can be known as a bully in school, but you can't, you can't bully everybody. Just because you were not a very efficient bully, Mark. It doesn't mean that nobody can do that. Like the world's most productive bully. Mark, your bullying is only a 27%. Timmy over here is an 84. I can't keep up with him. He's going to get bulliedictorian.
Starting point is 01:02:51 I can't do it. Even the security guard is afraid of Timmy. It should have stuffed monkeys in that locker, that would really, really. For a week, everyone was hearing from the locker. Dude, I don't know if you know this. This is a little side tangent. Freshman year of high school, I remember the first day walking down one of the hallways, and there was a kid who I didn't recognize who got shoved into a locker
Starting point is 01:03:16 and had the locker slam shut on him. And I was like, oh my God, it's real. It turned out it was just like a really small dude Who was like a sophomore or junior And his friend did it to him to like scare the freshmen But it worked Yeah Like I was fucking like oh my god
Starting point is 01:03:30 And I was like six foot two at the time Like they're gonna do that to me I won't even fit very well They're gonna crush up my bones Just gotta stay away from the big lockers I remember here It was a prank that they pulled But it was a fish and it scared me
Starting point is 01:03:43 I was like oh my god they do do that But they bullied all the freshmen at once Anyway so what our verdict is completely unhinged and also zero percent chance this happened anywhere in the world? Yeah, probably, yeah. That's fair. I just thought it was a funny story. It is funny. It is like a
Starting point is 01:03:59 work of fiction. It's funny. I'm like, yeah, I got their comeuppance. Yeah. Garbage. Didn't affect anybody else in that hallway. Single target, single result. I just don't fuck with people. Like, even back in the day, man, I wouldn't have fucked with people in a school. I remember the kid trying to get on a bus with a baseball bat with nails in it and shit. Like, I would not
Starting point is 01:04:15 fuck with kids. What did you? What happened in your school? So he was one of the ones This is a whole side thing But like whenever we were in I think it was 8th grade or something There was a big drug bust at Milford That like made national headlines We had like an undercover cop
Starting point is 01:04:28 And like a whole bunch of seniors got arrested I think he was one of the seniors But there was a day where he tried to get on the school bus And he had a baseball bat that had fucking nails through it And the bus driver wouldn't let him on the bus So he didn't get to go to school that day But that was literally a thing that happened I could tell you where he lived too
Starting point is 01:04:43 But that seems fair Did he? The bus driver was like You can't get on here? Was he just like oh okay or did he like put up a fun kind of yeah he was he was like just trying to go on the bus driver was like you know I'm not letting you on with that thing
Starting point is 01:04:56 and he's like bus driver's like you're not getting on the bus like that and he just kind of like caved in and turned around like that's how it happened I was like he just didn't want to go to school he knew what was going to happen I mean maybe that's possible too but anyway now that we know what's unhinged and what's hinged uh I think we can wrap
Starting point is 01:05:11 the episode up thanks you guys really cleared a lot of stuff up for me I know I gave you some tough scenarios and we didn't actually answer some of them If I'm being honest, the toast is living rent-free in my brain. I will now read you what you got points for. Wade, you got points for. Wave jokes. That's multiple points, I think.
Starting point is 01:05:31 Having a memory of something. Piggybacking off mark point. Butter the outside edge of the bread point. You did all, you eventually completed all seven types of waves. Wade is forever hinged. You got the monkey breakup point. you got the guy acted like a monkey to me point
Starting point is 01:05:52 and you also got the school security guard acted like a monkey point got a lot of monkey points at the end there yeah he did do a lot callbacks Mark you earned points for being a loser mentioning real good AI uh real good AI check it out
Starting point is 01:06:07 hinged butter take valid but unhinged stinky trash unhinged hinged security monkey take and stupid does not equal unhinged. Mark was really deciding everything and Wade was just here making jokes. That sounds about on par. We'll see how that
Starting point is 01:06:24 turns out for me. Yeah. Anyway. Also, the over-the-shoulder wave. Whenever that wheel came up, I thought you guys had just hung up on me. I'm not going to laugh. I thought I just got kicked out of the call for a second. Wow, what do you know?
Starting point is 01:06:40 It's three again. Of course it's three. Who's winning right now? Oh, Wade, you have nine and Mark, you have seven. Well, I mean, honestly, Wade's lead, Wade's lead comes almost entirely from all of his wave comedy at the opening, though. You were, you were trying to talk about stuff. You were trying to share a part of your life with us very sincerely. And Wade was just making jokes and jokes and wave humor and just to...
Starting point is 01:07:02 My jokes are the sticky glue that holds us together. Is most unhinged already a thing? Oh, I thought so. That sounds like something we'd have. I mean, you could always add it a second time, I guess. There's no rules about having something twice, is there? I just feel like most unhinged, it has to be. what this is, that's the thing.
Starting point is 01:07:21 It feels like one we would have had. I know, doesn't it? Maybe not. Most angry is there, but we could have the distinction between most unhinged and most angry. If stupid and unhinged are different, angry and unhinged are definitely different. All right, yep. Most unhinged. That's what I'm at. And we got three spins of this bad, Larry. Let's do the dance. I'm calling background, shirt closest to backgrounds popping up.
Starting point is 01:07:42 We've not had Mark do those calculations in a while. Deserves the most sympathy. He called Mark a loser a second ago. in my anger issues, you know, I got a lot of anger issues, you know, good sympathize for me. That's true. You got the loser point and you have the anger issues. I do have the loser point. Mark deserves the most sympathy. There you go. You get a pity point so you can look like you were closer to me when I win. That's very big if you win, I think. All right. Mark gets the sympathy point.
Starting point is 01:08:09 Should have added monkey point. Best mental image point. You guys had some mental imagery around the salmon story, where you were sort of talking. about how would you put it in your mouth or i mean honestly i would give it to you bob because you painted all the situations but i don't know if that's yeah i don't know that marker i did more than the other because because you were providing the scenarios we were just living in the your world which reminds you i want to play that hide the hide the penny game again oh yeah no we'll get back to that that's on that's on the list the fact that i lost because bob and i chose the same spot still haunts me to this day that was so funny that's really good up in the wall
Starting point is 01:08:48 to get to that point. All right, we're going to read. I'm going to call it a re-spin. I'm going to call it re-spin. Witness protection. I don't remember what that means. This is where the person who looks the most like they're in an undisclosed location. Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 01:09:05 Okay. I don't think that any of us are all in our home bases. Now, we're all in our normal spots dressed in normal clothes. Though Mark's background's awfully blurry if it's real. I feel like you know that it's real, but. shirt closest to background. Yes! I was hoping for this one, Mark.
Starting point is 01:09:23 Get the calculator. Why are I going to get the... Man, why... Yeah, we all kind of... We have red, green, blue shirts. God, fuck. All right. God. Wait, I could try it.
Starting point is 01:09:37 I can try it. Do it, Mark. You just have to... No, I actually have Photoshop this time now, so I can make it make it a little easier than I could before. Why? I just love the... the number is flying around Mark's head when he's like,
Starting point is 01:09:51 oh, it's this, and then you subtract this, and then you, oh, and times it by six. Oh, negative I-66-434. Do I have to do all this? Can you just spin the other one while I do this? Okay, I'll do the third spin while Mark does its calculations. Oh, we should do more color math wheel ones. I like those.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Just one where it's like Mark has to solve an equation. Maybe, I'm just hoping I don't have to do this and it could all be. Minus one to cur a loser? See, I don't have to do this. Well, wait. The only way this one would apply is if Mark doesn't win. If he wins the other one, we're tied. Fucking Christ, God.
Starting point is 01:10:29 You're right, and I want that. Sorry, Mark, but either it's a tie and Bob has to spin the wheel or... All right, hold on. I got to get these color values. All right. The average of my shirt is right there. Bob, great spins the day. I love this.
Starting point is 01:10:45 I know. We finally got some, like, weird ones that haven't come up at a while. while instead of just three points for viewers. I've got some red. I've got some yellow. I'm trying to pick a little spot in between. It's kind of like an orangish brown. I couldn't have asked for a better ending to a great episode than Mark have to do shirt math. All right, I'm not picking the darkest dark of your spot. I'm picking that kind of gray one behind you. It's dark gray, but still it's dark gray. It's zero C, zero C, zero E is yours. So these are the RGB values. I got to Go convert them.
Starting point is 01:11:17 Convert Hex to R.J.B. Shut up! Don't worry, buddy. I'll take you to a rage room after this math is done. My shirt is 666-6242. My background is... Oh, way off. Okay, my background is 193-130-88.
Starting point is 01:11:38 Ooh. Your shirt is 2C-O-B-1-2, which is 44 1118. Wait, I'm sorry to say, we might not tie. I think you got this one because it's like, yeah, yeah. Your background is 12, 12, 14. Pretty dark. But your shirt also, if you take not the highlight of your shirt, it's a dark red portion,
Starting point is 01:12:00 which is very dark. Mine difference being 693 minus 66, 130 minus 62, 88 minus 40, 42, yours is 44 minus 12, 12 minus 11, 18 minus 4. Yours is almost identical to your background. By math, Wade. to do the math, not with your eyeballs, okay. That's why Mark does our numbers. He's our shirt accountant.
Starting point is 01:12:21 That's me. All right, so the second spin goes to Wade, which then means that the result of the third spin is that Mark, the current loser, loses another point, which by the power investive in me, Mark's bonus point is erased and Mark's final score is seven, well, Wade's final score is 10, making the winner of today's episode. Thank God, Wade. I thought you were going to get me into a wheel spin. Your shirt, to my eye,
Starting point is 01:12:52 yours is closer than Wade's, but I can see his red is really dark. Yeah, it's because all of his values are so close to the bottom. Meanwhile, this, if I was picking right about here, it is still bright, and I was picking right above my head where these colors meet, which is still bright, but they're green and orange are at opposite ends of the color wheel.
Starting point is 01:13:13 So that's why that does that. That makes Wade our champion. Mark, loser's speech? I might be wrong about green and orange being opposite of the color wheel. Some color scientist is also going to pick me apart there. I'm not going to question it. I just picked the numbers. I converted it to a hex.
Starting point is 01:13:30 That's what it was. It's what it is. And I don't know. This is what it was. So I wish it was any other way. We want that wheel beings, but we haven't spun that tie wheel in forever. I feel I let people down with my shirt choice because I had. I had a different shirt this.
Starting point is 01:13:46 morning, but I was like, ah, I wore that yesterday. I can't have the same one. And it was an orange like Wisconsin cheese shirt. It would have been identical to it, but I didn't do it. I let people down. I let my family down. I let myself down. And more importantly, I let Chika down. I think Chika will forgive you the rest of us, not so much. No, not at all. Yeah. Wade, victory speech. Yes, I think green and red aren't exactly opposites. I think orange and blue would be a bit more opposite or green and like red not green and orange so but it was you know well said well spoken and ultimately this shirt is black gray charcoal the science says it math says it some of you might see white and gold but in fact these are both charcoal gray maybe i should
Starting point is 01:14:29 sample colors again i feel like i should if you if you want to do more math mark you're welcome to but i think this is going to be the end of the episode make sure you follow the podcast that way you'll know when episodes go live make sure you follow us on our socials mark Flyer, Lord Minion 777, and My Skirm. The names are probably on the screen or whatever. Mine's over here in this sick-ass stained glass window that's up on my wall behind me. That's pretty sick. Anyway, thanks so much for watching and listening.
Starting point is 01:14:55 That's the end of the episode. We'll see you in the next one where Wade will host, because he is the winner. Podcast out.

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