Distractible - I Quit (Part 2)

Episode Date: July 21, 2023

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Starting point is 00:01:32 Bob probes deeply into AI ass, sorry, art, and quietly quits from a six-cent school. Omnitalented Mark is fired by Michael Scott due to a misdirecting dusty tome. And Wade quits the good life and didn't like the requirement to be strapped to take a census. From blood pact to secret napping spot.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Yes, it's time for I Quit Part Two. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I am your host for today and my name is Bob. I'm joined as ever, always, is there another way to say that? As, as if, by Mark and Wade. In perpetuity. I am haunted by the ghosts of friendships past i am forever
Starting point is 00:02:29 pestered by these two men who will never leave me be i love these guys it's mark and wade everybody and everyone else i guess look i just we've just we've made a good number of these now i was trying to spice it up i did not mean to insult you guys in the intro. It's fine. You're the host. It's just come so naturally for you. All right. Well, these fucks are here.
Starting point is 00:02:52 And if you've never watched this before, Distractable is a show where the winner from the previous episode hosts the episode, picks a topic, picks a scoring system, and or completely arbitrarily selects a winner at the end. And at the end, that winner hosts the next episode. It's an endless cycle. Until one of us accidentally dies in between recordings and there can be no host because the winner is no longer alive, then that's how the show ends. One of us dies.
Starting point is 00:03:19 That's how we all agreed. We made a blood pact. You were there. And until that happens, we we're gonna be making this and uh you know whether it's good or bad how to violate a blood pact i mean you can violate a blood pact super easily you just don't want to invite that kind of chaos into your life turns out it's a pact with a ct not a ck a blood pack a blood pack is a group of croagans and mass effect i think no you know what i knew about the p-a-c-t thing when i said it i should have we made a blood pack we all sat
Starting point is 00:03:54 down and drained about a pint each into this little package and then that's just we keep that in the special distractible fridge and that's our binding contract oh oh here we go i found the answer uh-huh this is specifically to break a blood oath you took with your girlfriend but i think it would work for us we're basically girlfriends you cut your pinky finger and say as follows uh i reneged the blood oath with my girlfriend mark and bob let the blood fall on something to burn like a tissue you then burn the tissue oh you don't say that you actually let your blood and then the blood oath is thus broken that's you could unilaterally terminate a blood
Starting point is 00:04:31 oath what the hell is the point of a blood oath that you might as well just make a normal promise and avoid all the blood stuff i thought a blood oath came with like you know soul consequences or something like like you cut your palm you do the blood to blood handshake and then your souls are intertwined and if you break it you you die or something like that yeah like some horrible shit happens if you put maybe that's just not in there maybe that article is like a prank like yeah no you could totally break a blood oath but then the person who writes it's like ah this will create so many tormented souls oh god i love it this is like an evolved form of a troll on the internet this will bamboozle them really well oh this will get so many of the
Starting point is 00:05:13 normies they don't even know about soul torment i've gone down a horrible rabbit hole now i'm learning about the origins of pinky promises and all kinds of things you guys should probably move on immediately what is the origin of pinky promises and all kinds of things. You guys should probably move on immediately. What is the origin of pinky promises? I actually really want to know that now. One possible origin of the promise is Japan, where it's known as... I'm sorry for the pronunciation in advance. You got this.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Yubikiri, meaning finger cut off. Supposedly people in Japan believed if you break a pinky promise, you have to cut off your pinky finger in return. Now that's consequences. I like that. Yeah, that's consequences. I like that. Yeah, that's good. I like that. What if a pinky promise is just where it ended up, but people could just make whatever promise they are.
Starting point is 00:05:52 A guy looks at you really seriously and he's like, I'm going to need you to make a dick promise with me. I'm going to need, this is serious, okay? Do you still have to like wrap them around each other? Yeah, no, you have to get them to, like, hook around, and you have to do the thing. Can you aid them, or do you need that much motor control? Motor control? How much motor control do you have? You can make a full candy cane.
Starting point is 00:06:16 The easiest way I can imagine involves some bendy straws and some tape. Hmm, interesting. The bendy straws as a brace? Yeah, no, it's like a form and then you gotta guide them together so that you just... And then you put your dicks
Starting point is 00:06:29 on the anvil and you take your blacksmith's anvil and it goes ting! A-king! Forge your promise, you dick!
Starting point is 00:06:39 It's the only way to be sure. That guy from the Thor movie who has no hands comes in and is like hammer them together then groot gives you his body to make an axe handle oh right i remember now no he needs the dick hammer he needs the dick hammer and that's where picky promises came from i'm so glad that we went there that's that's perfect for this Halloween episode. It's Halloween in July?
Starting point is 00:07:09 Is that what's happening? Yeah? No. Small talk. Before we get into the thing, and before we talk more about penis hammers or whatever, we usually do small talk. How's it going? Where's my breaking news bulletin?
Starting point is 00:07:26 Man, I could ask them to put in music. No, don't. Just all right. Maybe if you do just supplement Mark singing with like a little subtle music at the very end most. But Mark nailed it. Like, I don't think he needs anything else. I believe I did.
Starting point is 00:07:41 I believe I did. I know I did. Actually, I incredibly know i did uh so breaking news by the time this comes out it'll have taken the world by storm the newest release of stable diffusion is coming out oh everybody loves that except for some huge chunk of uh people who especially artists if you don't know what stable diffusion is, it is the open source and on your computer AI image generation thingamabob that allows you to steal the art of whoever you want anywhere in the world
Starting point is 00:08:14 at even bigger resolutions than before and more accurate. Yay. I love that for everyone, except maybe artists. I know. Anyway, that's an oversimplification of what it is but it is coming out it's coming out and there ain't no stopping it and it's indicative of the idea that
Starting point is 00:08:31 like once the cat is out of the ai bag it's it's just reaching its tentacles all over the place and it's fascinating because i haven't looked at stable diffusion for a while because when i was first doing it i was just like like, oh, this is interesting. And then it wasn't very good. And you had to train your own model. I tried to train it on my face because I was like, that would be interesting to be able to make concept art, not for like making a project, but for like ideating what my next project could be and seeing my face in these scenarios. I was like, that's pretty good. But it was really hard to train.
Starting point is 00:09:04 scenarios. I was like, that's pretty good. But it was really hard to train. Like I trained it and just like, it started out with just nightmare amalgamations of like multiple body parts coming out of my, my ears and just like my torso half cut off. And then my legs wrapped up around here. It was just like, it was a freak show and it was concerning to look at. So I stopped because I didn't like what I was seeing. Um, but now it's getting so good, you know, there really is coming a point where I don't know if I can actually like find any examples. If you'd like to see both an interesting example of stable diffusion and a good representation of the conflict around it and some of the issues
Starting point is 00:09:38 not maybe discussed in a very civil way, Corridor Digital on YouTube has some very interesting videos where they apply stable diffusion as part of a workflow not exclusively stable diffusion but they talk about the technical side of it and they implement it in stylizing some uh i think at least a couple videos that they've done but that is an interesting place to look to get it because the comment section on those videos is also a lot there's a lot of controversy about it um but the videos themselves are very interesting about the tech of it it It's getting better, whether or not you like that or not, but that is... While you're Googling, I feel like I doubt everyone who listens is aware of this. So if
Starting point is 00:10:15 you're interested, there's a big controversy surrounding stable diffusion and AI image generation in general. And I would encourage you to find someone who's way more knowledgeable than us about that. But the basic gist of it is these AI generation tools like MidJourney, like Stable Diffusion, where they're using fancy computer algorithmic stuff to create imagery. The controversy is around the fact that these require images to train off of. So far, they are trained in large part off of images that were not paid for or licensed or given permission in any way. The companies that are training these big models are going online and just finding pieces of art on the internet, which are posted but are not posted for free use for commercial purposes. And it basically equates to stealing artists' work. It's a complicated
Starting point is 00:11:02 thing. The laws around this are super unclear because it's a new technology. I don't think the ethics around it are super unclear. I'm one of those people where I think AI is very cool. I think it's fascinating how quickly it's getting better and what the tools will mean for the future. But there are some serious issues revolving around stealing of art, using art without permission to train a thing that then generates art that looks, in some cases, very much like the art that was used without permission. And as well as the creative issues around, you know, actual humans being completely replaced with AI. AI art, at least right now, has this kind of sheen to it. It's getting way better,
Starting point is 00:11:40 and it's good, but it doesn't have the same life that like human made art has. And you could kind of tell sometimes you could really tell sometimes there's a lot of issues. And if you don't know anything about this, if you're an artist, I'm sure you do. But if you don't know anything about there's a lot of better sources than us, you should absolutely check it out. And I hope I stalled long enough. Mark looks like he's getting stuff ready.
Starting point is 00:12:00 I got it. I got it. So this is it's like what what Bob was saying. It's it's not really too entirely valuable to know that like, oh, it's getting better. As Philip DeFranco constantly says, this is the worst it will ever be, but it's continuously getting better, which is fascinating to watch. So, yeah, this is the problem is this was like so large an image because if i zoom in it well that was not impressive i swear this image is very large so much bigger this is meaningless uh to anybody but it's like uh there's uh xy comparison between the old model and like new model and it's like this is horribly
Starting point is 00:12:45 Unvaluable to anybody I'm should I'm stopping my presentation. I was looking all right. Well, no, no, it's too tiny And it doesn't matter this wasn't even the right comparison That was a standard stable fusion 1.5 to 2.0 not too tiny for people using their projector screens No, it wasn't the right one. I I'm actually watching this on an iMac, so that was huge for me. I didn't get it right. Just let me be.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Okay, while you're looking, I got another little fun tidbit. No, I'm not looking anymore. I'm not going anywhere. All right, Mark, you keep doing the research. Wei's going to talk. I can't.
Starting point is 00:13:23 It's this thing where you get a Reddit post and it's like I want to see this image bigger Because Reddit doesn't Fucking work Ever, it's like Oh, I want to see this picture that someone posted Oh, I can't, and there's no way to zoom in Or actually see it full
Starting point is 00:13:39 Anyway While Mark pulls that up, go on Wade So, it's not AI art but something that we have used chat gpt have you guys heard that there's a lawsuit against meta and chat gpt those are not the same company two different things yeah but both for copyright infringement by sarah silverman the comedian open ai i guess specifically yeah open ai is the non-profit uh institution that that operates chat gpt and that created it. Yeah, I'm guessing it's for the same kind of thing, though.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Instead of images, though, it's like books and other things that's used for training. Using the companies of using the author's copyrighted books without their consent to quote unquote train their artificial intelligence software programs. I mean, it is. Yeah, like this is going to be a thing, right? All of this AI stuff, generative AI things, JAT-GBT where it generates text, things that generate images. There are AI things that are generating like music and voices.
Starting point is 00:14:37 There was a big controversy about a voice actor who actually took a break from Twitter, which is something this person has done in the past because they get sick of social media. But they took a break from Twitter, which is something this person has done in the past because they get sick of social media. But they took a break from Twitter because someone used an AI version of this voice actor's voice of a character they're famous for and made him sing a song that's just like a really meme-y song. I don't know that the song was particularly offensive or anything, but the voice actor was like, that's you're stealing my likeness you're using my voice and my character that i developed that is my you know it's part of them as like a
Starting point is 00:15:12 voice actor and there was a quite a row about that on the internet as well of people being like it's a meme it's just a character from a show and then so do people get upset at impressionists to do that kind of thing well but see but see, that's different. That's, yeah. When Frank Caliendo does an impression, you see Frank Caliendo doing an impression. And also, there are parts of him in that, right? He's not like extracting stuff from Obama and then just regurgitating. No, that's true.
Starting point is 00:15:41 I was just curious if imitation was also problematic i think that's part of the thing is when human artists imitate if they if a voice actor does the voice of a character that's not theirs but like represents them or something one i doubt a human voice actor would do that to another voice actor professionally that's not very cool but like there's a creative part to that right when an artist makes something in the style of an artist they look up to or that they respect or that they really like or whatever, there's still like humanity in it. There's something else other than the work of the person who they're emulating in the piece.
Starting point is 00:16:16 But when AI does it, it's literally just like copying in a way that's kind of complex and I can't explain very well. But it's not a one-to-one copy. I don't know. This is going to be an interesting issue because it's, I'm on the side of, I agree with Mark, the cat's out of the bag as far as AI goes. Like this stuff is going to exist.
Starting point is 00:16:35 You can't make it illegal or anything at this point. It's going to exist. How it's going to exist and like what's going to be allowed or disallowed or become illegal to do, it's going to be weird and interesting how going to be allowed or disallowed or become illegal to do, or it's going to be weird and interesting how it all plays out. Mark, you found something. I found something. Literally, this is the biggest that I can get it because I just had to like, it doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:16:56 I see you've zoomed into 3000% on Reddit. If I open it, if I try to open the image in another tab, it's just like, this isn't... Wait a minute. Wait a minute wait a minute whoa i knew you could do it i did it i did it anyway you can see the old version on the left new version on the right so you can see there's a distinct difference are these like the same prompts or the same characters or something yeah it's the same prompt you can see and this is kind of the heart of the problem prompt you can see and this is kind of the heart of the problem you see this name right here is a common prompt for like good artistic because that's just a really talented artist and so they put in a name for a style and then it like
Starting point is 00:17:34 spits out something with that style and then the styles are applied to like the same prompt with different like seeds but you can see this is the direction and it's just like this is to scare you is like the direction is uh oh uh it's getting really good and it's just this is like progress within a year of evolution of this particular generative model um and it is just it's getting better and the problem is it's not perfect but this is after a year oh my god the pixar one yeah that's the old model the right's not that much better but it's like the just the the pixar people on the left and the old model they look like one of those movies that shows up in the dollar bin at walmart that's like a knockoff of a knockoff of a pixar movie like and i think like some people might look at this and be like hey it's irresponsible for us to even
Starting point is 00:18:29 talk about this it's like there's nothing we can do or not do that would stop this uh and and in all honesty we totally get the uh the arguments that people have because in a few years our job someone we said this before someone could like recreate all our voices and they could make this podcast talk to each other there have been youtube channels that are just like ai spongebob where it just like constantly generates an ai episode oh no that endless spongebob is so funny it's not good but it's funny and you can see where that might go as things get better yeah so you see that and it's like what's on the left in this one the old version where it's real jank and you can see it
Starting point is 00:19:11 you laugh it's like that's so bad and then on the right here you're like oh wait a minute oh and that's a really short amount of time to make that hop yeah so we are obviously also on the chopping block in terms of like our, our job gone forever. Well, and even creatively, like someone is going to use a Markiplier AI voice at some point to like make a commercial for their company or say some, you know, make a, like a really trolly thing where you say some horrendous shit, something really that you would never say that's out of character that, and then people online will hear that and be like what yeah mark the thing is that's that can already happen even without ai because there's that green screen thing for munasana so like this is my favorite thing and
Starting point is 00:19:54 a bunch of companies use that to promote their product and then i was like oh boy i can sue for that and i have tried. Well, I haven't tried. I told my lawyers about it, and I'm sure that they sent some very scary letters. Yeah, I'm sure they wrote some letters and got in touch and were kind of like, hey, that's illegal. So what you doing over there? That's always fun. Whenever you see a random product, it's like, I didn't know Mark endorsed this.
Starting point is 00:20:22 I'm like, hey, buddy. Nice. He's like, can I contact mark endorsed this i'm like hey buddy nice he's like uh can i contact my lawyers again yeah pretty much oh so i shouldn't have bought their product damn it so there is legal recourse for this thing like yes there is a basis for artists and of like any kind of celebrity internet personality content creator to be upset and get like legal ramifications for it so these lawsuits depending on how they go in the courts, of course, like I think they do have a basis.
Starting point is 00:20:50 There is definitely something to be said about that. And there will be legal battles that go out with this. And then, you know, it's just it's we're just going to see it's going to see it is what society demands of it. Well, it's unfortunate that this sort of stuff gets sorted out in the legal sphere because, man, our lawyers and the law, just an awful place. Like all the music copyright cases
Starting point is 00:21:12 of the last couple decades, I mean, of a long time, but a lot of people became familiar because Ed Sheeran had a long-running case of copyright where someone basically accused him of stealing a chord progression, which, if you're a musician, is kind of a silly thing to think like, yeah, you played those chords in that order.
Starting point is 00:21:31 That's my song. It's really not. But like, and also the Robin Thicke case, Marvin Gaye's estate, like the people have become more aware of that. This is so much more complicated than that. And the law already does a really mediumly bad job of addressing musical copyright, where you're looking at, like, note for note, this note, and then this song has this note, and then this song, and, like, it needs to be sorted out, because you're right,
Starting point is 00:21:58 artists need to be protected, and, like, this is a serious issue. It has the potential to be such a terrible shit show in terms of the court trying to interpret existing laws there aren't laws on the books that address ai in a way that makes any sense or address ai at all like it's about to be a real sloppy couple decades trying to sort out who owns copyright rights in terms of AI training and all of this shit. And I got bad news for you. Having money helps you win court cases. And between artists and companies who want to exploit AI systems, I have an inkling about where the money might be in that face-off. Doesn't mean that that's the right side. It doesn't mean that the artists don't stand a chance.
Starting point is 00:22:42 But it makes me very wary because we might be headed down a road of a lot of litigation with a lot of really shitty outcomes and i'm not saying that a bunch of 70 year olds in our uh congressional seats and whatever in washington won't know how to make laws that address ai in a good way but they might struggle with such a technologically advanced issue. They're experts in every field. Now, you guys see that guy on TikTok who covered the TikTok hearings? And it's just like, now, does TikTok connect to the Wi-Fi in my home? Yes or no? He did like 200 parts of all the different...
Starting point is 00:23:20 I think they were mostly made up. I watched the Facebook hearings years ago and whatever the other one was. I forget what the second one was. The one where the guy tried to get Mark Zuckerberg to help him set up his Wi-Fi or something. Yeah. And then some of the questions were just like, sometimes he's having trouble with his phone. He's like, I could Facebook and fix the phone connection I have.
Starting point is 00:23:40 He's like, that would be your provider. No, no, no. It's like, oh, yes yes please make our laws the punch line is we're not experts on this so if you want to learn more you should find new sources with good information with experts but it's an issue and if you haven't heard about this uh it's an issue yeah and therefore i quit preemptively points to quitting. Wait, is that the topic? We don't even said that yet. Well, you read the episode title when you started playing it.
Starting point is 00:24:11 Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Absolutely, absolutely. This episode definitely wasn't recorded right after I quit part one. I mean, it wasn't right after. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm wearing a different shirt. I spilled on my shirt. I got a new shirt and spilled on it immediately look at that anyway you should look into this more info
Starting point is 00:24:29 on that it's a hot debate but that's not what we're here to talk about okay good small talk mark and you do get points for that i'm gonna even say how many points you get six thousand points mark whoa is that the most points we've ever given for one thing? I honestly don't know, but I'm, I just, I'm mixing it up. All right. It's currently 6,000 to zero. Good job, Mark. And, uh, yeah. Wait, did you have any? Does it matter if I do? All right. No points for Wade. Come on. It's fair. I brought up the chat gpt lost dude is that kind of i think it would be really funny if we went 40 minutes again without getting to the topic of the episode and then just ended it but sure people on the subreddit were pretty upset about that so i'm gonna just
Starting point is 00:25:16 introduce it they were upset they are upset about everything i tell a heartfelt story about how literally i had to go to my grandma's funeral oh god that again the people walk away from that episode being like i'm upset man actually no so there was one comment specifically that was upset at you mark because i brought up the topic and and we were cutting you but like as a group, we were like, oh, well, should we? And then you made a comment that was something like, no, we should milk the content. Push that off. They were mad that you... They literally made a comment on the Reddit and they were like, see, they don't even hide it anymore.
Starting point is 00:25:59 They're literally just dragging this out just to get more episodes. Mark just said they're gonna milk the content viewers hate that why would they do that viewers hate that so much because i quit it's like the hot search term right now we are pulling in the views everyone's looking for it yeah well if we pushed off such a trending topic for another time but i know we waited it's really you know why hide it at all it's definitely a thing where we wanted to give the topic more time to actually discuss about it and then oh look at that i'm exempt from any criticism on an episode where i talk about my grandmother's funeral they're like the broke your elbow vine guy they're like i don't even care that your grandma died i forget the exact quote from the vine about the broken elbow but
Starting point is 00:26:50 that's that guy they're like fucking i'm here for i quit i was searching for anything about i quit and i finally found it and what do you do don't talk about it what are you talking about oh grandma died boohoo where's the? We quit the episode early. Yeah. This is literally what the episode was about. We did the thing. Anyway, this one, we're going to talk about it, okay? So calm down, angry comment.
Starting point is 00:27:22 But yeah, no, I was going to start this one with a story because we're going to talk about I Quit. This is I Quit Part 2. And I have a story about when i quit a job but you can tell a story about quitting a job quitting a project quitting i don't know a friendship like whatever any sort of quitting and it doesn't have to be you you can google them this is like an old school episode you could tell a story of from the news of some hilarious thing but i i had a weird quitting experience and it was not in the way that quitting experiences tend to be like dramatized online i after college i graduated
Starting point is 00:27:51 from college and i was working at a pizza place and i was like trying to find like a like a big boy job like a desk job and i was interviewing at like insurance companies and all these places and i ended up getting this random interview to work in the office, like the administrative office of a public charter school, which if you don't know, is a publicly funded school, but is not part of a public school system. It's like a one standalone school. And we actually had two schools. But now that I'm older and I've learned a little more, not a thing I'm a big fan of, actually. But education funding issues aside, I got this job. And I had a degree in organizational leadership, which is basically like how to be a middle manager 101. So I had no training in how to work with kids or teach kids. I did study music education for a year, but I got out of that pretty quick. So this was a new
Starting point is 00:28:42 experience for me. I worked at this place for a couple of years. It was a crazy school. It was in Cincinnati. It was like, it was not downtown Cincinnati, but it was like in the city. It was a K through 12 school. So we had like little kids who were adorable, who were super cute. And then we had like high schoolers who would like bring a switchblade to school and threaten to kill each other in the hallways. We had a whole, the whole range of experience in this one building. And it was really, I learned a lot and it was really stressful, but it was also kind of like a weird school. The people who ran it were like weird. Eventually I decided to go to law school and Mandy and I were going to move to North Carolina to go to grad school. And so I had to quit, right? But it was
Starting point is 00:29:18 like over the summer, the kids were gone. School ended like at the, in the middle of May or something. And when school ended, all the teachers left. But I was supposed to keep coming in and sitting in the office. But I would just go into the school by myself, sit in an office by myself, and had no one giving me tasks. So like there was some stuff I was supposed to do. But I mostly just browsed Reddit for eight hours a day for five days a week. Like I didn't have the like principal and people didn't come in. It was, I was the one person in the entire building.
Starting point is 00:29:55 And I was there because like once a month, a parent would come in and be like, hey, I got to fill this paperwork out or something. And I would help them do stuff. But I just literally browsed reddit and I had a motorcycle at the time I would just browse this motorcycle forum about like how to do an oil change on your 1970 Honda motorcycle blah blah blah and when it came time to quit that was the situation I was in and I like sent some emails to the higher-ups and I was like hey guys I'm just giving you my notice like I gotta quit in month. I'm moving away for grad school.
Starting point is 00:30:25 So I won't be here for next school year, blah, whatever. Never got a response. No one ever came in. It came to the day where it was like, well, we're moving to North Carolina in like a week. And I told them this, I wanted this to be my last day. So I guess I'll just leave my keys on my desk and lock the door behind me on the way out today
Starting point is 00:30:47 and that's how i quit my job like i don't know what happened the school shut down before the next school year started if i if i remember correctly so something i don't know if something happened with the people where they got in trouble or fired or lost funding or what well they didn't have any keys they couldn't get in i only and i didn't have keys to lots of i couldn't get into classrooms i couldn't get in i could get into the front door my office in the bathroom those are the only keys i had but that's the only places you needed to go who needs to go anywhere else who was still paying you i don't know i got i but the payment stopped that's the thing too at some point i it was it was like a normal job right so we got paid every like two
Starting point is 00:31:29 weeks basically i got my last paycheck that i expected to get and then i didn't get any more paychecks so i didn't like steal from these people i saw steely if i didn't do it on purpose but like they didn't continue to pay me accidentally i don't know what happened i tried to like give notice and do that i was like do I need to do any paperwork or do you guys want to, can I help you with anything before I go? This can, I was sort of in charge of some stuff. And I was like, here's my, I emailed them the files. I was like, here's this, I keep track of here's this, this is how I do nothing. I just, I just left one day and I never went back. I don't know if we were cool or if they were mad at me or
Starting point is 00:32:06 some woman got arrested or what. But yeah, so I quit and then I just left. No, here's what I think what happened, Bob. This is what I think. You weren't actually working at a school that was currently functioning. You were contacted by a ghost you went into a haunted bill all because you were locked in your room you probably heard like students shouting and chatting it was an old building oh five days in elementary yeah you were you were they were always like footsteps down the hall but you never actually saw anyone you only went to the bathroom which like you had to unlock every time you go and then when you try to quit you know you shout out loud to the your boss or whoever and then you just leave and the door slammed shut behind you and locked itself
Starting point is 00:32:57 and you're just like well i guess it's all good you never questioned the chills down your spine i thought it was just cold in my office. No, no, no, no. Is that the lock of 87 you had to open? 1887, maybe. I will say, this was literally over a hundred-year-old building. It was a school in Cincinnati in the 19th century that had closed in the mid-20th century and then been reopened to operate when I worked there. So you thought.
Starting point is 00:33:26 So I thought. Dude, now I'm sad that I quit my ghost job. That was the easiest job I ever had. Ghosts don't give a shit. What if you were being paid by ghosts? That is impressive. They paid me ghost money, but it turned into real money once it touched my real bank account. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Well, ghosts can inhabit computers and network systems. That's where they like to hang out now on the internet. Yeah. You know, that means ghosts can technically have, I don't know if it counts as corporeal form, but if they can take the form of electronic current that affects electronics in that way, it means they do have a physical form and they're not just ethereal things you could see. Yeah, they don't call it the ghost in the machine for
Starting point is 00:34:05 nothing. Yeah, but that's cool. Yeah, that wasn't real. Or it was real, but you know, it was ghosts. That's pretty cool. You got to quit ghosts. I quit you ghosts. There's like, the principal's like watching on the camera, watching me not do work and is like, why is he yelling at the ceiling? And I'm just on the camera like
Starting point is 00:34:23 I quit! Hey, ghosts! I'm leaving! And I'm never coming back! Just like work and it's like was he yelling at the ceiling and i'm just on the camera like i quit hey ghost i'm leaving and i'm never coming back just like what's wrong i'm glad he's quitting holy shit we hired this guy to work in a school with children in a weird way you know wade made that joke but your job does sound a lot like the premise for five nights at freddy's and i think like probably even the movie coming up is just like you're just hired on this job you go in this abandoned building you just sit around all day it wasn't abandoned okay during the school year there were lots of people i think you think yeah i think i saw them usually one person would come to interact with you but otherwise you were there
Starting point is 00:35:00 alone i was always confused how they got in my office without opening the door but i just assumed i didn't notice yeah yeah well you're haunted probably no you know what i am haunted because we're we're trying to move right now right the moment we started trying to move lights in our house just started turning themselves on and off and i'm not even fucking exaggerating the the lamp in our living room started doing it we were just sitting there and the lamp just goes off on off on off on off on off on off and i was like it's on like a smart switch so i looked at my phone and i was like stop what i had to unplug it it just kept doing that i unplugged it the exterior light on my office like a like lights up for motion i unplugged that interior light that's. The exterior light on my office, like lights up for motion.
Starting point is 00:35:45 I unplugged that interior light that's doing that. The light on my office across the yard just started going off on, off on, off on, off on. Like I was standing in the house staring out there just like. The ghosts have found you. They want you back at school. Sorry to think you might be right about the haunting. I'm just glad it's not me this time. Can you be the lit man?
Starting point is 00:36:10 Yeah, how do you know that your fridge delivery was delivered by real people? How could real people be that incompetent? That is some ghost behavior. That's the kind of shit that you would do if you can't touch anything that's for sure yeah exactly yeah they just try to like drag like it just the fridge is floating you think they're behind it carrying it like this but the fridge is just like floating through the bushes and the sprinkler goes off you're like oh these incompetent guys that i definitely saw can you remember their faces do you can you recall faces? I just remember what they said, but...
Starting point is 00:36:47 I don't remember where the words came out of, you know? They came from everywhere, almost. They came out of the air. I want so badly for them to have seen Bob's fridge. The ghosts. At least someone at Lowe's has seen Bob's fridge because I got a hilarious prank call where someone knew my name and phone number and was like
Starting point is 00:37:10 oh it's your fridge and it was from a Lowe's corporate line. They didn't say is your refrigerator running? They had that whole thing lined up, teed up for the old joke. Mr. Lowe's is like prank calling Bob after that episode. I was live i was live
Starting point is 00:37:26 streaming games sometime right after that episode went out and i got a call on my phone and it said woes home improvement and i thought to myself oh i wonder if they're gonna finally like resolve something maybe they saw the episode and someone and so on stream i answered it and i was like hello and all i heard was like refrigerator click and that was it you think that these are hilarious pregs it's ghosts it was like a 14 year old boy who was like i'm just gonna say refrigerator when he answers no no man you you're justifying in your head this is ghosts that's ghost behavior why is that ghost that's not ghost behavior that's idiotic you don't think interference way too close mumbled words that's what people go ghost hunting for how did the ghost make a phone call from the
Starting point is 00:38:26 Lowe's line that's what I did a kid why is that the easier justification because he works at Lowe's he called from the store where he works I called back and it was a local Lowe's store but you called who answered I called I I called back and it was like i called a lowe's store it was like the main phone line right so someone who worked in a store called my phone from a phone in the lowe's store bob lowe's went out of business 10 years ago i don't i'm not listening to you mark no man no you can't do this to me, man. I don't believe. That's not true, man. I'm looking it up.
Starting point is 00:39:08 I'm looking it up. Blockbuster was around longer than Lowe's. That's not true. You can't lie to me like that. Maybe not all Lowe's, but the Lowe's in your area. Lowe's was closing 51 stores in 2018 including 4 in California ooooh ooooh
Starting point is 00:39:31 did you actually go to the Lo's? and California's a pretty tight knit close community so you know that it had to be the one close to you yeah well there were only 5 in California and I know one of them's down by Mark uh oh no I'm all about the Bob is haunted forever theory five in California and I know one of them's down by Mark. Uh oh.
Starting point is 00:39:45 No, I'm all about the Bob is haunted forever theory. As long as I get my docuseries The Haunted Man I'm here for it. The Lit Man. What does that have to do with the refrigerator saga? The Cold Man. But that's only part of the saga. What about the light stuff? The Coldly
Starting point is 00:40:02 Lit Man. Yeah, there's lights in fridges. The Electrified Man. Yeah. The Losed Man. the light stuff the coldly lit man yeah there's lights in fridges the electrified man yeah the lozed man you you got it you go back to the school you scrub off the dirty name plaque and it's like lowes charter school for gifted children i do that but i scrub it off and it's like oh the franklin delanor rosabelt school and i'm like god god and then there's another I scrub it off and it's like, oh, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School. And I'm like, oh, God. And then there's another part I scrub off and it's like funding graciously provided by the Lowe's family. No.
Starting point is 00:40:34 It's like you keep scrubbing. This is more to scrub. I keep like turning around and looking back and there's another area and I'm like death place of Terrence Williams Lowe's? This is where Mr. Lowe's died? Shit! Why is there a school here? And you keep scrubbing and it's the phone number of that Lowe's that called you.
Starting point is 00:40:57 You scrub more. It's like died tragically by a refrigerator accident. I walk around the corner to where I parked and there's a new brick on the exterior wall that looks really conspicuous and I go up to it and really small imprinted in the brick it just says
Starting point is 00:41:12 refrigerator. No! It's all because you quit. That's the problem. You gotta go back there and you gotta get your job back. We should quit this topic honestly. Points to Wade for suggesting that we quit. We should quit this topic, honestly. Points to Wade for suggesting that we quit.
Starting point is 00:41:27 We could probably do a quit part three. I can't. At the end of every I Quit episode, I just go, I can't quit you, and then we do it again. We should make our mission in our distractible life to make that one commenter
Starting point is 00:41:43 as mad and as justified as possible like they're right let's rename the podcast i quit i quit podcast you know what you know how last time we uh well not last time but in the last i quit i talked about how i did the blame wade thing for missing the episodes yeah and I somehow had no foresight in how that would impact you because people always glom onto that. I didn't think through the fact that having an episode titled I Quit would cause panic in
Starting point is 00:42:13 our very quick to jump to conclusions audience. Oh yeah. They've not posted for two weeks and now they're quitting? There were a good number of posts of people who were like, Who quit? Why did they quit? Is it over?
Starting point is 00:42:29 Yeah, it's over. That's the end of it. It's all done. We all hate each other. We flew too close to the sun and now we quit. Anyway, if you guys want to actually earn points, you could... What do you got?
Starting point is 00:42:40 You guys quit any jobs? You do any funny stuff? You got any ghost stories? I want to talk more about your hauntings. I'm not haunted. Stop saying it like that. Oh, sorry. Haunting.
Starting point is 00:42:49 I only ever quit one job, and I'm pretty sure I talked about it here. Oh, yeah. The Census Bureau in 2010, because it was just like, I was working in a really scary area. That was it. What? Wait, I don't remember this story. Wait, so do you still work at UDF? Well, just putting in your
Starting point is 00:43:05 two weeks counting as quitting i thought quitting was like i quit today because i guess i've quit a lot of jobs if that's the case pretty sure quitting a job involves no longer working there at some point okay i was thinking the extreme like i quit today whatever putting in my two weeks yeah i've done that a lot so census bureau mark in 2010 uh while we were in college, I worked for the Census Bureau and they offered me $17 an hour, which was a lot of money. But they had me working down in like parts of Cincinnati and Clifton that were like kind of like crime riddled, sketchy areas. And when you walk around saying you work from the government in a bunch of crime riddled, sketchy areas and asking people to give you their personal info. A lot of times they don't take that very well. And there were instances of like people having like shotguns and stuff.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Like people would answer the door with like guns aimed at them. Oh, that's not funny because you know, if you happen to knock on the door of someone cooking math or dealing drugs or whatever, have you, you said with guns aimed at them, did you ever have a gun
Starting point is 00:44:05 aimed at you i did not two of the people i trained with way less sympathy but you don't think that they were just trying to scare you were they ghosts they might have been but i didn't want to become one so i quit the some of the houses i knocked on were like they were definitely like they interrogated me more than i was able to ask them the few questions. It was like, how many people live here? Who lives here? What are your occupations? How long have you been here? And it's like, you know, whatever.
Starting point is 00:44:32 But they were like, why do you need to know this, kid? I just, my job is to come here and, oh, who hired you? The government, I guess? Did they give you, like, a badge or something? Or just a t-shirt that said census guy i'm pretty sure we had to have like a little credential thing like a little pinned thing i don't remember it all honestly but uh i i lasted all of like two or three weeks and some of the houses i went to i just got like a horrible feeling as i was talking to the person because
Starting point is 00:44:59 i could tell they were like not having it that i was there and i was like dude seventeen dollars an hour is great but i do not feel safe and this is like the better part of the area that i was there and i was like dude seventeen dollars an hour is great but i do not feel safe and this is like the better part of the area that i'm in if your job offers you seventeen dollars an hour and it comes with a free flak vest probably some concerns yeah that's fair it did not but it probably should have but that's the only job i quit quit i mean yeah i left udf the one that kind of hurt was where i left um cincinnati eye institute they renamed i don't know what they're called now but that was to start doing youtube and the person who hired me hired me to go to like their trainee program so i learned all the different parts of the eye i was working
Starting point is 00:45:33 in cornea retina glaucoma so on and so forth and the person who hired me was like so we put you through the trainee program and uh it's only been like a year or whatever and you're you're leaving i was like i wasn't planning on it but this youtube thing i don't know it's doing pretty well i feel like i could really like you told maybe pursue a dream they were like okay sure and look at me now gary so my mom worked for the same company and we would go to like fireworks at that company thing you'd have like a oh awkward yeah we went because it was like fireworks where we don't have to go deal with huge crowds of people that sounds nice and we showed up and there was the person who hired me and they were like hey my kid's actually a big
Starting point is 00:46:15 fan of what you do i see that why you left that i was like oh thank god i thought it was gonna be really awkward that's very nice though and then they watch some of your videos and they were like hey my kid watches this! What the hell? Oh, actually, you're kid-friendly. I'm the one who's not kid-friendly. Well, not anymore. I was back then. You used to be kid-friendly, but you changed. I'm the worst one now, dude. You changed, Wade.
Starting point is 00:46:38 I don't know if I've ever quit-quit, like, any... Oh, I quit! Didn't you, every two weeks, quit weeks quit like your new thing until you found youtube those weren't jobs though those were just like no not jobs well this isn't about job it's called i quit yeah well it doesn't have to be a job but the thing wasn't i didn't quit those either i gave up it's a big difference mark was like i'm not good at this in two weeks oh exactly yeah i gave up oh yeah so that'll be the next episode i gave up my jobs too i didn't quit the census bureau i just gave up on them actually there there is a whole topic and i give up but i i will say like if the
Starting point is 00:47:19 topic is just like getting uh not working anymore um i may have talked a little bit about my engineering job that i had did i tell you the reasons why i mean i told like i didn't like my boss you told a story about the hot cocoa incident and like stealing all the hot cocoa and putting it in your desk and like i did that i remember kind of i don't remember if you'd sell the story of your boss for sure. So my boss, I think I've mentioned is the living embodiment or was at least living embodiment of Michael Scott. And I had not seen the office at that point, but after seeing the office, I was just like, oh my God. And I've talked about how, uh, she had me, well, I didn't have a job there.
Starting point is 00:48:01 It was much like your ghost job is that like, I just sat at a desk and mostly did nothing. And then she she it was going through this period, the whole company where it was like firing everyone that was like an employee and then only hiring contractors, which is just I'm glad that era of employment is over for people in America. Yeah, I'm glad everyone didn't do that. Wow. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Imagine.
Starting point is 00:48:24 But, you know, so everyone was being fired and then everyone was like the contractors Yeah, I'm glad everyone didn't do that. Wow. Yeah, definitely. Imagine. But, you know, so everyone was being fired and then everyone was like the contractors were being hired for certain jobs. And it was like I was in there and I knew the jobs didn't even need to be there anyway, which was very strange. But, you know, the thing about offices, you have butts in seats, I guess, maintaining these contrast ejectors that don't matter. But she made me do this employee like appreciation thing. This is a side note to the whole I didn't work there anymore because I got fired. They quit you? Yeah, they quit me. They quit me.
Starting point is 00:48:56 That's how you know I'm not haunted is I didn't get I didn't quit. I got fired. But it was like some really, really stupid thing where it was like, show your appreciation. She had me make like superhero posters with like the Hulk and Scarlet Widow and Iron Man for all the other engineers in the office with just like a you're so great. You're so you're a hero. And she had me handed out like in the middle of this company lunch at a mexican restaurant that we were at and i got up and i opened my manila envelope and i just solely this is stupid as shit but literally it's as embarrassing as it sounds but that's what i mean
Starting point is 00:49:38 when it was like like michael scott and i don't know what this person is doing i hope they're not working there anymore they They got promoted. Oh, that's what happens. That's what happens. They now run low. Yeah. But I was, God, I was trying to do a job that they actually had me do, which was they made contrast injectors.
Starting point is 00:49:59 They also made little handheld contrast injectors when you don't need the big thing that's going at a thing. So they hadn't been selling them for a very long time so they wanted to sell them again so they were like okay bust out the old uh engineering documents on like assembly and like the make sure they're up to date do a new revision of them a lot of engineering is just documentation you make a new version of the document by making sure that nothing in the current safety standards has said oh everything you did before was terrible and then everything still works and then also i was supposed to you know it's like you pull out the tome and go
Starting point is 00:50:34 and dust that's how old this shit is and i get out the uh the uh the assembly uh thing for actually putting it together because i'm supposed to assemble them so that we can like send a demo set out so they can sell them. Right. The guy who made the documentation for assembling them, my boss was like, go check with him to make sure that it's still good. Guess what? That guy got fired a long time ago. He wasn't there anymore. So I pull up his documentation and I'm reading through it and he's like oh look it's made by some guy who didn't give a shit about what was going on in there and i'm like okay i guess i'm on my own so i read the instructions and i go to assemble them and i look i go to my boss and i'm like is this right and then she takes it and she goes click click click
Starting point is 00:51:21 and i'm like seems right to me. And then sends me off. I'm like, okay, I'm going to make a hundred of these. And I go make a hundred of them. I assemble a hundred of them. And then I go to my boss. I'm like, here they are. Like, is this right? Click, click.
Starting point is 00:51:35 Good. She never tested them on an actual like contrast thing. And they get sent off to the sales department or the client or wherever. I don't know where they went. to the sales department or the client or wherever the, I don't know where they went. And then a week later, I hear back, uh, that I messed up. Those were assembled incorrectly because one of the springs, instead of being like turned this way, it needed to be turned this way inside. So it's like when it pressed in the, the trigger, it's like a little handheld gun injector. When you pull it down it
Starting point is 00:52:05 didn't release uh automatically or smoothly or wasn't able to like give at a constant rate there was some flaw in it i never actually knew what it was because the only time i heard about it was when i got pulled into hr and been like so uh we got a problem here I'm just like, hmm, what's the problem? Oh, you cost us a lot of money? You cost us a lot of money? I was like, hmm, what? What do you mean? You assembled these wrong, and I'm like, no. Uh, well, my boss
Starting point is 00:52:36 checked out and, like, confirmed that it was right, and that was the wrong answer. That was the wrong answer. My boss doesn't get in trouble. No, the intern gets in trouble. And admittedly, yeah, I assembled them wrong. But I checked. I've never made them before.
Starting point is 00:52:52 I was, oof, I dusted off the tome. It's just like, so that was led to a very, my boss at this point hated me anyway, because my boss habitually came in late and texted me to turn the light on in her office. I think I've mentioned that before. and she got in trouble for that i got pulled into hr prior to that and more like you're not in trouble but um have you been turning on the light to your boss's office i go like yeah yeah i'm not gonna lie and that was the right answer at that point but she didn't get fired at that point she just got put on week leave and then when she came back she was really mad uh at me go figure so who knows like maybe she intentionally misled me yeah a lot of people there said the phrase yeah don't throw other people under the
Starting point is 00:53:37 bus man and i'm like i'm i'm just i'm just telling the truth you know i tell the truth that someone someone left early during christmas break because i was asked and it's like and i know it's like yeah i'm a snitch and that's like at this point i wouldn't i wouldn't rat out like a fellow employee at any moment but it's like i've never worked in an office environment why is it so cutthroat why aren't we just here to make contrast injectors and that's it make stuff and tell the truth yeah so i i dropped all those habits and i left that place because i think it was haunted so i left immediately sounds pretty haunted where did the haunting yeah you're right no never mind you're right no actually that place was so weird because i worked in one side of it this building was gigantic because it used to be a manufacturing hub where they would actually make this stuff before they outsourced it right everything
Starting point is 00:54:28 went out over like overseas to either china or everywhere else to manufacture so we worked in the engineering sector which was just like in this tiny like not tiny but it was like you know maybe 2 000 square foot office cubicle area the building was tens of thousands of square feet so there was huge parts of the building that were just empty empty just enormous spaces that's cool it was really cool actually yeah and it i would when i went to go get the tomes and build these things i would have to walk basically half a mile through all that like you know those amazon like you see the interiors of it it wasn't quite that big but it was a warehouse it was just like i would walk half a mile to go to the other side to get the parts and i was like i'm not gonna walk back i'll just assemble them here so on occasion my boss would come out whenever i was doing something
Starting point is 00:55:12 like that and be like i thought you were sleeping back here and i'm like knee deep in parts i'm like why would i be doing that you told me to do something and i'm doing your boss like rubbing their eyes because i just woke up from a nap. I thought you were napping over here. They crawled out from the boxes behind me. Just like, oh, you're here. I would not be surprised if people napped. Can you make sure the light to my office is off when you leave? Thanks.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Well, I didn't say it, but Wade, you earned points with your stories of giving up slash quitting. 60,000 points. But Mark, because you worked at a haunted place, and that relates to the story that I told. 60,005 points. I worked at a haunted place. Oh, okay. 20 more thousand points for Wade. Well, he hasn't said yet. Well, I just talk about it, Wade.
Starting point is 00:56:05 Wade was haunted about it. What do you do? What'd you do? I made a YouTube video at Bobby Mackey's. Therefore, I was working and the place was haunted that I was working at. Minus 10,000 points for kind of misleading me on that one. I'll take it. Anyway, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Good stories, everybody. Thanks. You should have taken more naps there, Mark. Apparently that was cool. I really wish I did. Because I looked back there and I'm like, there is no one here. Like, there's no one here. And no one cared that I was at my desk anyway.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Like, that was the first job where I just got an iPhone 3 or a 3G or whatever it was. And I would play those shitty games that are... Mobile games nowadays are no better than they were back then, but it was still just like the shitty games on my phone. In the world before the App Store even existed, you'd play the two games that came on the iPhone. Yeah, I'd do the thing where it's like the lighter. You turn the lighter
Starting point is 00:56:58 on and off and on and off and on. I saw something recently. Do you remember when that app where it was a beer? You'd open a beer and then you could be all. Yo. Yeah. You drink the beer on your phone. Look at this go.
Starting point is 00:57:11 Dude, the 2000s were such a fun time. Oh man. It was great. They were okay. I had a coin flip app on my phone. Here I am tossing and doing the triangle of fairness. I couldn't just pull up my phone from...
Starting point is 00:57:25 Could you select different coins to flip? Yeah, you could. Are we doing triangle of fairness merch? We gotta do it, right? How dare you bring up merch on this podcast? What are you doing to us? The ghost of merch pads.
Starting point is 00:57:41 It's probably out of stock already. I don't even know. You know our merch page is haunted. How dare you? Sorry, I didn't mean to. Well, I actually gave you points this time and if anyone's astute keeping track, you
Starting point is 00:57:57 might notice that Wade is winning. Wait, I was keeping track. Hold on, Mark. Now, hold on. Let the man speak. Wade is winning i gave you 6 000 points mark yeah yeah but then i gave each of you uh 30 000 or was it 60 000 60 000 but i gave you 60 000 and five for it being haunted but then i just gave wade 20 000 for working at a haunted place but then I took away 10,000 which leaves Wade at approximately
Starting point is 00:58:28 70,000 and Mark is at 66 and 5 well I don't know we should do this democratically as we always do Wade votes we end Mark what do you vote for how long we been going I want to really milk this
Starting point is 00:58:43 well we're over an hour On the recording already so Who else votes we quit? Oh look at that other hand in there Wait was that Mark? I vote quit What are you haunted? Look at this guy He's giving up his own victory Wait oh wait right
Starting point is 00:59:00 No how do I get points? I don't know you'll have to just take a stab at it it was another job i quit another job uh because no no oh mark it's 5 000 points but wade gets 2 000 points for voting that we quit first yes do you not even want to hear it but mark no yeah tell your story maybe there's more points. Continue, but keep it short. Okay, we need to milk the content. All right, okay. So I was doing deck building and I had to go to a doctor's appointment and I didn't like the job much
Starting point is 00:59:34 because of minimum wage and like really hard work. Have you told this story on here before or parts of it? I feel like I remember. He talked about the deck building thing, but you talked about the story where you trim the tree or something. No, yeah, I talked about that. This is different. different so i was like when i actually quit that job i had a doctor's appointment and my doctor he like listened to my heart he's like you might have a heart
Starting point is 00:59:53 murmur here put on this heart monitor and heart monitor is just a big thing that you wear that like straps up everywhere it looks like really intense because you carry a bag on you with a little battery and a data like analyzer or whatever recorder and then electrodes all over your body. And it's like you're supposed to track your heart over like a whole day. But it looks scary. So I went to my boss and I was like, sorry, I had a heart attack. Look, and I showed him the thing, which is really karma for me eventually actually having a heart attack later in life. But at this point i hadn't
Starting point is 01:00:25 had that yet so i was just like oh man sorry i have to quit i can't work anymore because i'm like perfect excuse perfect excuse and so i use this as like my elaborate ruse of being like i'm so sorry just health problems i can't do this job because i couldn't sack up and just be like i don't like this job anymore i quit so I had to make this elaborate ruse. And then they were like, okay, sure, whatever. Just return your shirts, which I thought was the strangest thing. Your nasty shirts you've been sweating in all summer? Exactly.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Exactly. The same. They gave me shirts. And I'm just like, geez, you pay me minimum wage. You want your freaking $10 shirts back? Your shitty raggedy. Was this someone else's shirt that you gave me? me minimum wage you want your freaking ten dollar shirts back your your shitty raggedy was this someone else's shirt that you gave me how many people sweated in this shirt before i got in it
Starting point is 01:01:10 so i didn't get back to the shirts on principle because i i broke the cycle the whole company shut down because they didn't have any more company shirts oh my god mark you're a madman i know i know first the coco now the shirt. 3,000 points to Mark. Would have been more if it was haunted. I'm pretty sure that puts you in the lead, Mark. I feel like this has been stacked. And since Wade already voted to quit, wait, do you vote to quit again?
Starting point is 01:01:36 Yes. 5,000 points, and the episode is over! What? I feel like I established a pretty clear pattern. Mark, you were free to jump in and vote to quit at any point in time you would have both ended the episode and earned points whatever whatever
Starting point is 01:01:50 I'm not going to double check the math and I was really doing that on the fly and I'm really bad with numbers but I'm fairly certain that I just gave Wade an arbitrarily high enough number of points that he should be winning this episode I quit winning oh Wade surrenders his win no Wade I no wait no it did win you more points but then you gave up the
Starting point is 01:02:13 win anyway which you're allowed to do if you want to so you give mark your win no if i say nothing am i cool yes does that mean you're quitting participating? He's quitting without... He's quiet quitting! He's quiet quitting! That's the coolest kind of quitting! I don't know what's happening anymore. Are we winning or losing? I don't know. The episode was technically over already. So Mark just earned like 8,000 points,
Starting point is 01:02:38 but they don't count. Because Bob quit counting them. Yeah, he quit, which earned me points. No, it has to end at some point, okay? I know that I'm not good at picking a winner, and I know that it's very fair the way that I do things. Didn't you two have a handshake deal? I appreciate you violating that.
Starting point is 01:02:56 I thought Mark had to ask for that. Is that a handshake? Was I just going to do that for him? I remembered that, but I remembered it as Mark having to ask, was I just going to give Mark? No, I was was just gonna give mark the win that's right yeah but the episode's over hey wait a minute the episode's over in terms of points earnings but if you recall i'm still the host what until i say the phrase that rhymes with sloncast pout i am the host of this episode and i can take backseas anything that i have said and done to this point i only brought that up
Starting point is 01:03:34 because i thought i was safe you fool okay you know what wayne i'm gonna give i'm gonna pay mark back in fool wayne you had a great episode today. You quit a lot. You earned a lot of points, way more points than Mark did. You earned them the right way by talking about quitting and not the wrong way like Mark did by talking about being haunted. You deserve this win, Wade.
Starting point is 01:03:57 I don't like this. Hold on. I don't like this. Because unfortunately, even though you earned the win fair and square, I have the deal with Mark, and he has to win, even though it's completely undeserved. It's fair because I didn't really deserve to win
Starting point is 01:04:17 from his grandma dying. So I just gave you the exact win that I gave Wade last time, Mark. Does it feel good? I paid my debt in full. I did it. There you go. You can talk again.
Starting point is 01:04:30 It doesn't count as unquitting if you talk. Okay. All right. Because you made that big statement about schmod, schmass, schpout, or whatever you said. No, yeah. I could absolutely go back on everything I just said, but I won't. Probably. Unless I pull out a trump card
Starting point is 01:04:46 that i've been do you have like one of the the higher and lower aces i have a trump card but i'm holding it i won't use it oh i thought you were actually about to do that tomorrow that would have been the most you wade can steal a win from a host an episode that i host at any point in time he has that really yes he is holding on to him being able to claim a win from me I host at any point in time. He has that. Really? Yes, he is holding on to him being able to claim a win from me as host at any point he wants. No questions asked. From a previous handshake, I should stop making handshake deals,
Starting point is 01:05:14 I think is the real lesson of this episode. Yeah, why didn't you give me the use any time card instead of just guaranteeing this win? Because then this guarantee means nothing if he takes it. Well, you better shut up and give your winner speech quick and just let this all come to an end before Wade does something horrific. Hold on, let me find my...
Starting point is 01:05:33 Hurry up, Mark! All right, I deserve this win. I love winning and Bob may be haunted, but if he is and I can prove it, I'll make a documentary about it. Deal, bet. Wade, quick, loser speech. You all suck. I'm great. Thanks for having me good good show bob we should quit three yep i quit part three
Starting point is 01:05:51 coming up next time i host don't worry about it make sure you check out store.stractablepodcast.com to get merch probably maybe no promises make sure you check out wade he's lord minion 777 or minion 777 mark is markiplier. I am MySkirm. Those things were probably on screen for about half a second each, so look them up if you're interested. And I'm not going to screw Mark over. That's the end of the episode. No, no, I'm not stealing the win.
Starting point is 01:06:14 I'm not stealing the win. I just got to point out, last episode that I quit, I did not choose to be in a fucking bathroom. That was the editors. I saw that. That's all. I forgot to bring that shit up. That was the editors. I saw that. That's all. I forgot to bring that shit up. That was not me.
Starting point is 01:06:30 Well, you know, it's pretty echoey in there. Like if you were in a tile bathroom, it sounds like you're in a tiled space. That's it. That's all I had to say. All right. Podcast out.

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