Distractible - Hinged or Unhinged
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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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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,
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...
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?
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
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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?
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.