Distractible - Insider Gaming

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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I try to time that up for when it looked like you're about to start. Uh-huh, you tried, huh? Yeah, yeah. Don't try to cover your disgusting. habits with the beginning of this episode. Good evening and welcome to distractible. My name is Markiplier. I'm joined by the can opening man and the coffer. Oh, okay. I was like which one of us is the can open? Oh, okay. I don't know what you're talking about. Well, this is a disgusting start. We've had a record number of people click off the video immediately, but you know, some are sticking it out.

I'm joined by my effervescent guest Bob and my also effervescent guest Wade. Hello. Hi. Mark's already regretting showing up for this. They've opted to join me in this wonderful podcast so that they can compete for the luxury of points and the rights to be the host for the very next episode that you will listen to. Unless you don't listen to the next one, you know, if someone's listening to these randomly, like, I'll just pick and choose. They're going to be really confused.

I get that someone might come in with that approach, but I feel like after the first couple, you're just completely, you're doing it to yourself if you're not like, maybe I'll listen in order. You know what? These have an order. Maybe I'll follow it. I have no sympathy for you.

Yeah, we have no sympathy for you. Just like, we all have no sympathy for Wade. How's your life? Fine. Do you want details? I can give you details because I was in Minnesota recently. And I went to the Minnesota State Fair. I've never gone to a state fair.

Like there's the Ohio State Fair. I've been to county fairs before, but never a state fair. I didn't know what to expect. I was like, okay, there's probably like a few cows, maybe like two lemonade stands and dirt. Take that Minnesota Turns out there's a lot more I don't know how big the state fair was Like space wise

Like you know dimensions But we went And there were just surges of people Like I don't know that I've really been a part of Turns out we went on a record breaking day There was a there on a Friday And there had never been 200,000 some odd people on a Friday before

Well there was the day we went Our adventure started at like 930 or 10 in the morning We left our hotel and we're like Okay, well, I guess we'll go try to find parking. An hour and a half later, we found there was no parking within three miles. And the places, we found a list of places like, oh, park here. You can shuttle to the fair.

Okay, great. We found one that had space. And we went over there. We were like, oh, thank God. At least there was one. We finally get up there. And everyone that's getting on the bus is like in a wheelchair, using a cane or a walker. And we're like, huh, that's interesting.

I guess maybe the people that are, and then someone walked up right as we were like trying to finish this thought. They're like, can you guys read? This is Handicap Accessible Only. We're like, Oh, no. We don't qualify for that. I don't think we turned around.

You know, we turned the car around. The car was moping to it. It was like, oh, I don't want to drive anymore. We don't drive anymore. We ended up driving back to the hotel. So two hours of driving trying to find parking. We gave up, went back to the hotel and just got an Uber. So easy.

Taxis, Uber's lifts. Do you know how easy and convenient those things are? Oh, man. Pulled us right up to the. to the fair dropped us off. So we got to the fair like two hours later than everyone else or later than we wanted to. And we walked in and we spent the first 45 minutes

just trying to find our other group of friends that was there. They're like, yeah, we're at the entrance to the sky lift. And we looked out, there's a skylift right above us where people are just sitting like looking like they really want to get off the ride because it's a really hot cloudless day. I swear we get to the entrance of it. We're like, okay, well, this is the entrance and we look up. And then we see like in the distance, there's a second skylift.

And we're like, oh no. Oh, no. How big is this place? What have we done? I thought you were going to say you looked up and your friends were on the skylift just like, sorry, we thought you weren't coming. A second skylift was not even in the cards. That's where you go to the second one and they're like, what are you stupid? This is the handicapped skylift. Get the fuck out of here.

Well, one of them was covered. One of them was not. The people that were the covered one, I couldn't see their expression. The uncovered one, oh, I hope they were wearing sunscreen because it was just a very long, slow sitting in the sun baking ride. It's probably slightly breezier 30 feet in the air, right? They got windows cracked, right? I guess the ones inside probably were baking.

Maybe it actually goes faster than it looks like it does and you get the breeze from the movement. It's like being in a convertible. I love your optimism. I don't think so. But there's food vendors and drink vendors everywhere. And even though there's like hundreds of thousands of people, what the general vibe was was, okay, walk.

They've got one going one way, one going to the other. way, get to whatever stand you want to get, get food, get drink, and then beeline to the shade. There's just people grouped up standing still exactly where the shade is, and I swear as the sun would shift, they'd like take a step, make sure they're in the shade. And that was kind of the vibe. One of the buildings was literally called food building. So we're looking at all these food and drink vendors. And our friend, Texas, Bridgy, Texas.

She's like, yeah, we're by the food building. And we were like, the food building. This building's big and serves food That's gotta be the one That wasn't the one Turns out there actually was just a building Called food building Eventually we found each other

We learned what the food building was We learned where all the sky lifts were We got some food, got some drinks And some of the best salted caramel popcorn I've ever had in my life Not gonna lie, it was really good It was like it's some random root beer stay I can't remember the name of it

But it was just a place that was like known for root beer Like yeah you want a bag of our caramel popcorn I was like alright I took a bite of that and it was heavenly. They had weird shit like pickle pie and... Oh, that's what's what state fairs are for, man. Pickle pie. State fairs are for what's the weirdest thing we can invent and get idiots to try once?

Everything's on a stick too. Oh, yeah. Hot dog on a stick on a stick is my favorite on a stick food. It wasn't lasagna on a stick, but it was something like that didn't sound like it should go on a stick. They had spaghetti and meatballs on a stick. I didn't actually see that one, but it boggled my mind how you, would do that. Corn on the cob.

Everyone had a corn on the cob. We didn't get a corn on the cob because the lime was too long, but everyone was walking around with just corn on the cob. Must have been very good. You ever had a corner on the cob? It's pretty good. I haven't had it at the state fair. I don't know.

I lived in salt and butter. I've never put anything else on corn in the cob. Anyway, that was really fun, but we spent like two and a half hours trying to get there. And then after like two hours of being there, we were all kind of like, it's really hot. And it takes about 50 minutes to get anywhere in here because there's so many people.

and one of our friends Patrick and his fiance were pushing a stroller. They had their kid and people would not stop. There was no courtesy. There was no allowing the stroller to get through. They were like, a stroller, I said, it's weakness, cut them off. And then at one point, there's like a couple people, I don't know if they meant to be at the state fair. There was like an older lady who stepped in front of us while we were walking, like in front of the stroller and just stopped and looked at the sky and smiled. And we couldn't go around her.

So we just had to wait for this moment to pass of whatever holy moment. she was going through, but it was like, it was just immensely stressful, I guess, because it was just so busy. If it wasn't so busy, which apparently during the middle of the week, it's not so busy, it would have been a good time, but too many people, 200,000 people at a state fair all wanting stick on a stick was a bit much. Was it because it was because it was Labor Day or what? This was the, no, this was a week. Oh, this was last week. Labor Day. It was the Friday before the, Friday before the weekend before Labor Day? Sure. Yeah, because that was our first full day in Minnesota. We arrived like late Thursday night and we're like, oh man, sure we aren't jet lag tomorrow

when we get up in the morning and try to go to the state fair. And I got to tell you about our hotel. Oh, okay. Let me preface this with a question, though. What do you think the most consistent fast food chain is? Like the one that you think of here's like the quality of that one's always pretty good. Does it have to be good or consistent? Yeah, no. One that you would consider to be decent and is always consistent. McDonald's. Specifically for me, McDonald's nuggets. The burgers and sandwiches can vary. but if I'm in a strange place and I'm just like,

I need food that I know exactly what it's going to taste it, taste it feel like McDonald's Nuggets Meal. I'm a big fan. I usually prefer them too, but I've found their restaurants to be somewhat inconsistent. I've found bad. I've never been inside of McDonald's. I've never done to like a sketchy McDonald's.

It's just like you don't know, just something about it feels off to you. Yeah, but the food always is still pretty much the same. For me going in, it was the one that was Wendy's, was my thought. I was like,

Wendy's, I've never had to, like, Wendy's is not my favorite, but it's always been consistent. I've never had like a bad Wendy's. Wendy's always seems like it's pretty clean, pretty upkept and stuff like that. So there was a Wendy's in the area we were looking for food that had like, I don't know, a one star rating on Yelp.

It was very, very badly rated. And everyone had consistently the same claims about how bad it was. And we're like, well, that's weird. I thought Wendy's were always usually okay. We were looking through different food options because we hadn't really eaten. We got to the hotel and our hotel was weird. like it was it was fine there was nothing bad about it but it felt like the Truman show if they were starting to take the set apart while Truman was being filmed there you'd go in

you'd check in at the lobby and then you'd go you know one hallway leads to the elevators other hallways rooms and we get up to our room we're dropping stuff off we're texting our friends that are also at the same hotel they're like where you guys at where they're like oh we're in the courtyard we're like courtyard this hotel is a courtyard by marriott they're like we're in the courtyard but okay well well I guess we'll find the courtyard so we drop our stuff off unbeknownst me, Molly texts our friends are a room number, so I open the door to go to the courtyard, and one of our friends is just there and scares the absolute shit out of me, because they're standing outside the doors, I open it.

But they lead us to the courtyard, and the courtyard is literally a really nice green area with trees and, like, a wooden deck, a gazebo. People's rooms have balconies and, like, walkways facing out into the courtyard, where you can just hang out and look out into the courtyard. This is just a hotel of mine, you're like a normal hotel. The thing that's weird about it is the ceiling is just, stark black metal warehouse ceiling with like little metal hangs and like what looks like filming lights just hanging down pointing at the courtyard and all of the trees are fake they're just fake

trees and it's a cool hangout area but there was just something super unsettling about it did they give you a free tricycle that you had to ride around to get to place to place in the hotel so you're giving me I forget what it's called you're giving me like one of those false members like no but there was a tricycle but I'm like no what there wasn't it was there I don't know Actually now, there might have been. There was an abandoned coffee bar nearby. There was no one ever working there. There were like machines partially taken apart, but you could get water there.

So there was that under like a little overhang. It was strange. It was a very strange feeling. And it did feel like we were being filmed and watched at all times because every room except for ours apparently faced this courtyard. Interesting. And people were very loud and animated. I swear someone was doing like construction.

You know those neighbors that are like, like, oh man, everyone's trying to go to bed or whatever. It's four in the morning when my people are trying to sleep. We should pull out the power drill and work right now. I swear there was something like that going on in one of the rooms, which made no sense. That was the day and a half up in the Twin Cities before we went down and spent time with Molly's family, which was also very nice, but not as weird stories to come from just hanging out with family, thankfully. Well, weird hotel and then weird Minnesota.

So that sounds good for you, man. Bob, how's your life? Well, actually, this morning, I caught some away to. weirdness. I've been going to this doctor for my foot situation, which I've moaned about previously and which I could moan about endlessly because it's ongoing. But I've been going to this doctor. It's down in Clifton. It's actually a Good Samaritan Hospital down by the University of Cincinnati. Today, the power was just out generally in like the Clifton area. So I got off the highway on the Mitchell Avenue exit and sort of was cutting through down on Ludlow, like drove past the skyline

down there. All the traffic lights were just off, which is around UC's campus and generally in downtown Cincinnati, a fucking nightmare. And then all the power to the part of the hospital I was going to was just off. So I parked in the parking garage, which had opened to the outside, but then the rest of that building, I never noticed. It's just a cave. Like, I don't think there's a fucking window in the place. So I get there and I'm like, this was also at seven in the morning. I had to up real early today for my appointment. Half awake, I'm standing at the elevator, just like, hit the button, like, doesn't come.

Like, eventually I'm like, that's really fucking weird. Like, I've been waiting for way too long. I noticed something's weird. I go to the stairs, pitch black. Like, horror movie pitch black. And I'm, for a minute, I'm like, are there other stairs? I had to use my phone flashlight, like, just climbing up by myself in the parking garage through pitch black, get to the lot.

All the shit is off in the lobby. And you know in places like hospitals when the power goes out, there's always like that panel. It's like an alarm panel or something. When the power's out, somehow it has the energy to just make a constant high-pitched screeching noise. Because like, oh, the power's out. So all this, whatever is turned off.

And so you get to the lobby and it's just like, and it's like, ah, fuck, where's the fucking? And the inside stairs, same deal. Except there's a bunch of people who apparently don't know that you can. have flashlights on your phone in modern society. There's a bunch of people in the darkness just like, Oh, how do I do stairs? Oh, fire. It was just weird.

And then, of course, I get up to my doctor's office and the receptionist is just sort of hanging out like, don't know. Power's out. Like, yeah. It's a doctor here? It's a doctor work without power and they can't see you without power. It's like against policy or whatever. And they're like, yeah, I think they said it might be a couple hours.

And anyway, the power came back on like half an hour later. and that worked out. But it was like zombie apocalypse shit. Like I was phone flashlight. There were like empty offices that looked like people had abandoned mid-activity. Like it was like a nuclear bomb was going to go off. And they were like, fuck this and ran out. There's like shit all.

Super weird. I thought hospitals had like emergency power, backup power or something. Well, that was the thing too is it's not in the hospital. There's like, you know, a lot of hospitals will have different buildings that are all connected. But the place I go is in the thing that's called. Oh, these are the medical offices tower. It's not like the hospital tower. So I'm sure that the hospital where there were patients in rooms being, you know,

who needed machines or whatever, I'm sure that they had emergency backup. The place I was going was much more just like a regular doctor's office. There was no, it was fine. No one was dying because power was out. It was just creepy. I don't know if I would have gone the way in. I would be like, maybe the phones were. Let me call.

Are there human beings alive in there? Can we come in? I mean, I got, when I got to the lobby with the sound, instead of, I didn't go right to the next stairs. I went outside because there were people huddling outside. Like, we were afraid we were going to get murdered. And everyone was, you know, just when the power goes out, everyone like regresses. We're all huddling and everyone's like, oh, the power's out.

Oh, I don't even, God. Just, it's fine. It's just really fucking creepy. Like, I would have expected maybe battery backup lights in the stairwells or something. Just something where there's like some illumination. No, literal pitch black caves of nothing. filled with morons who don't know that your phone has a flashlight on it somehow. Including one of them was like a EMT who was around who was just like helping out or something.

Like I walked in with my phone flashlight and everyone who saw it was like, Oh yeah. Oh shit. Guys. I mean, I, I, it really does sound like a horror movie if they were all just like dozens of people standing in a remote darkness. Were they breathing heavily like like before you? showed up and then you... Yeah, like I am legend.

I come in and they're all in a circle. Yeah, exactly. Just like that, yeah. And then my dog gets them. Well, that's good because that gets you the segue point. Sam, hit the music. PlayStation sticks foot in mouth, then shoots foot. Xbox takes advantage of this opening by choosing death.

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That was a lot to take in, man. Yeah, yeah, it's a good song. It's a good song. Like a news beat, but, you know, kind of intense, sometimes scary, but kind of funny in ways. It took me longer than I'd like to admit for me to realize you were reading multiple headlines. I was like, that is a crazy headbook. That's all just one story. So, to start it off, I mean, you guys have your owns, but I'll kick off one.

I'll hand it to one of you guys. I'll take it over again. I'll kick it to another. Or maybe if you guys have one, you want to jump in, feel free. But those are the ones that I read. Oh, there's no, there's one of yours I really want to hear, so I can't wait. All right. Points will be divvied out by who makes me laugh or is interesting, as it always is.

I win. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm in trouble. So, PlayStation has doubled down on its stupidity by saying not only our physical DVDs and Blu-ray's not going to be sold in the future, but also ownership is a myth. and anyone that believed they actually owned the games and movies that they purchased are dumb. Pretty much word for word, what was argued in court by their lawyers. I have to hard agree with that one. That's a great take.

I love that future that we're headed towards. Tangential, I told you guys whenever I worked at the courthouse about Time Warner Cable, their lawsuit, their lawyer came in and was arguing. I figured what happened. But basically they were like, yes, everything you're accusing us of being bad about. We did. But if you find us guilty, oh, we're going to. going to do is raise the prices to make everyone that's good all of our consumers pay more so like do you really want to find us guilty for it that was their argument in court was yeah we did it but do you really

want to pay more for you want to make poor mrs cravitz pay more for her cable because that's what's going to happen if you find us guilty of doing the thing we're definitely guilt in fact we've done more than you've accused of to be honest to be fully transparent her list of transgressions that's huge i can't even fairly say that we don't think we did it we know we did we did more than that like you guys didn't even scratch the service of what we've done. By the way, we're going to leave this company go work for Sony next. I guess I understand it because anything to make more money, but like, I don't just broadly don't understand the seeming, I don't know, allergy, severe, deathly allergy that companies have to even pretending like they give a shit. Like it's, it's a low bar,

right? And I get that there's facilities. They need manufacturing. They need distribution. I get that there's an expense to making physical things, selling physical media. But even just to pretend in a small scale that they give a shit and that they're like, look, we're just scaling back physical media. You'll still be able to, we're going to make 500 copies of each game. You could totally buy it in a store probably. Even if it's a lie. I don't understand Sony's stone on this whole thing has been like, it's the exact same

thing as the Diablo immortal. Like, what? You guys don't have phones? Like, where are they coming from that they think anyone is going to be cool with this? I get that it's their decision, but fuck. Yeah. And it's like, even if they want it, they could be like, yeah, we'll put in physical, but we'll charge more, which is probably the strategy that they're doing.

They're like, we're not going to do it. And then they'll come back like, oh, okay, but it'll cost more. But even so, it's just like, wow, it is. What's going to be really scummies if they do that. And then it still ends up being a thing where like, yeah, you can get a disc, but there's still a download. and they can eventually make it to where the disc won't work. Oh, it absolutely.

That already is a thing. That's absolutely a thing, yeah. Pangentially related to this, I'll kind of segue into one of the things I had because it's very much part of the physical media thing. I saw a study. I don't think this is one of the things you mentioned, but the video game history foundation, along with another group, I forget the name of, did a study where they found that 87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered.

Like, you cannot find them or play them anymore. 87%. I was trying to figure out what they counted as classic, and it looks like 1960 to 2009 is the period they're considering. So all games in that range, you just, you cannot find those games to play anymore. Either they've been taken offline or it's like they're out of print. It goes to show, like, I don't know, there's times where I want to go back and play like an old Sega game or an old, um, uh, PlayStation game or, you know, whatever have you in television, Atari. You got, I mean, do you think about it? Like, where do you go to get those things anymore. It's like retro game stores that have them. They refurbish them and stuff. And sometimes

you'll go and like you'll see an old Pokemon game that used to cost, you know, what, 30, 50 bucks. Like now it's like, oh, you want this in the box? It's used. But we got the box. We got the game. How about $500 for this? It's like, it works, right? No, we're pretty sure. And that's the only way you can access these things. And that's still getting physical media. The ones that like, what was the one that, the big one that just went offline, not too long ago, the Amazon Studios game? New World. New World? Yeah. Oh. Like, there's no way to like get that. play that anymore. A lot of the licensing games online and stuff, I guess, I'm assuming some of those are included, even though those types of games, I don't think were as big in 2009, were they?

Like, most 2009 games still, I feel like had discs of some kind. I'm trying to think about the specific time. But yeah, I mean, there were, obviously, there were like MoBA sort of purely online experiences, but it was not remotely as dominant as it is now, I feel it. Maybe that was just the games I was focusing on. It's hard to, I don't remember whenever I even started using Steam. I started Steam with Half-Life 2 because that's when it first launched. And so you needed to get Steam for Half-Life 2. And there was a bit of an uproar for that.

And they were like, but then they pitched it really well. It's like, it'll be better for managing your game. Since they were first, they kind of got some goodwill for that. But yeah, it is, there are many endangered games. But that's where I do feel like, you know, there's, you know, that one device you can buy this like a Game Boy, but it's like 20,000 games, 215,000 games. There's a bunch of those, but it's like, yeah, you know, in a way, that's kind of a weird thing, but it's, you know, and maybe probably illegal, but it's like, that's also how these games get preserved. There's no other way to do it, really, and just having people share it and be easier to share.

Because if a game's been abandoned by its developer, if it's, it's called abandonedware. And I believe that that's actually, there's a distinction for abandonware in technology. and it is something where if the developer's given up the thing, then other people can just take it. Maybe not sell it, but it's like, hey, you know, people should just be able to share, but I don't know what the legality of that is. Yeah, the 13% of availability was through legal commercial means.

So it's not saying you can't get it in other ways, but this was like legal commercial means of being able to acquire these things because I think you should be able to at that point. It's a very first world problem, but this is an internal debate I have with myself a lot. I'm not at all a physical media person. I own a few specific things on like Blu-ray or DVD that I very much just want to have that are not niche, very popular, but like things I care about.

But when people talk about like, oh, we got to preserve physical media, we got to, I like gloss over because it doesn't, as a hobby to me, it doesn't appeal. But as like a person who's invested in the game, the industry and who does care about games I've played over my lifetime and like the idea of preserving all of these things so that we have like a historical record of where gaming has come from and all the different things that have come out of the art of creating video games. I hope somebody does it, but it's a weird one, right? Because I feel like video games fall as ever into that weird category where it's like, is it really art? Is this

Picasso? Do we need to preserve this the same way? Is it really? literature, like the things that get more aggressively preserved and, you know, held as like the classics, there are our entire colleges where that's the whole business of that college or part of a university where we're preserving the classics, right? And gaming is just in this niche where like even now, what has popular is is, I feel like a lot of the mainstream is like, why would we preserve Fortnite? Like, who gives a shit? I remember Candy Crush. I don't think we need a museum for Candy Crush, right? It falls into that weird space.

And I feel like I contribute to that, but I do care. But I think it's tricky whenever you're in the moment. Like, we're living in the time periods, we don't really see it as significant. Whereas, like, in the age of Picasso, some guy walks, it was like, look at my painting. And there's a face with one eyeball up here and one down there. We're like, oh, cool. You did so good. Yeah, here.

I'll give you a. If you're thinking that Picasso wasn't popular. Most artists, I don't know about Picasso's, but don't most artists get more popular after they're dead than it is like in the moment of them making their... It's a common trope. I have no idea how prevalent that is. You picked the one that wasn't. Ah, he might have been.

I think we had some revisionist history because in the moment, who looked at that was like, I want that. I love that thing that you do, Wade, where you discover on your own a thing that's already a Brian Regan joke and then you just tell it completely novely. I really appreciate that. I still never seen Brian Regan. Brian Regan has a whole bit where he's like, hey, Pablo. Look at my face.

Do you see two eyes on one side of my face? No. Maybe take out photography. Was there photography back then? What, when do you, wait, when do you think, wait, what year do you think Picasso was painting? Oh, 1745. No, Colin, that's wrong. What did he, when did Picasso die the 60s?

No, 73, 19, 973. 19, 173. wait, just to be clear, since we're a couple centuries off there. He was born in 1881. That's close to 1745. That does sound like a long time ago, but Picasso was alive at the same time as my mom, for a lot of actually the same time as my mom. Well, that sounds really mean. But anyway, not like for one year. Like there's a bit overlap there. Picasso probably saw the moon landing. He's definitely the kind of guy is like, I don't even own a TV.

We don't do that in my house. Read a book. What's the moon? I don't know. This is Pablo Picasso's voice, right? What's the moon? That's exactly how we died. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm Picasso. Well, maybe I picked the wrong one. Let's go with a howler, a howler painting. I don't even know who that is. They're still not famous. I made the name up, see, but there could have been a purse that we would have given a shit about, you know? I mean, like that somehow on the exact opposite end of the spectrum of the examples you were trying to hunt for. I'm just saying my own, my gaming point was if we were living in the moment of these things and we're like, yeah, who cares?

But like 100 years from now, someone would be like, wow, why was there this five year period where Fortnite and dancing based on this video game were so popular? I wonder what the game itself was like. And everyone's like, oh, we'll never know. There's no way to play it at all whatsoever. I guess maybe our videos on YouTube, assuming that that's still a thing, maybe some videos will be preservative of it. But like, I don't want us as content creators to be the only way people could get to experience games in 100 years. That's terrible. You walk into the Smithsonian Museum of Video Games, you just hear,

Hello, everybody. So moving on from there, plenty of points assigned. Xbox similarly looks at PlayStation doing what they do and says, ha, in addition to all the other stuff they've been doing, good or bad, they've decided to sell all of their games, movie, and T, rewrites, as a package. Whether or not this has been sold or not is still up for debate. It hasn't been revealed, but they're trying to get $300 million for the rights to all of their games. I don't know what that list is comprehensively, but it seems like a relatively low number for what they could potentially get out of it by doing one-off deals for each of them.

But who knows if there's any profit sharing for it, if that's just an upfront cost. But yeah, they've been making some bad decisions too. Everything Xbox does feel like they are secretly trying to torpedo the company for. for reasons that are not clear if you're not inside, whatever insider thing is happening. I don't know what the fire, what's going on. But man, do I wish I had grown up a PlayStation fanboy? Because at least I would still have a console I could buy if I really wanted to. Or PC.

Man, I wish I'd just been a PC gamer living the life. Yeah, it is nice. Literally, my first Xbox was like my first big console. I was obsessed with it. I played my 360 until it red ring of death. and then I bought another 360. I love I love Xbox. But what the hell, man?

I grew up a PlayStation guy. My first console was a Sega. Then I got a PlayStation 1. And I was PlayStation from then on. I still get like chills whenever you hear like the original PlayStation game boot up. Like that little like the noise of like the PlayStation logo and all that. I cannot replicate it. You just have to look up the sound.

Sam, stay out of this one. Point two ever can replicate it from memory. Don't look it up. You know? Yeah, wasn't that the red, yellow, green PlayStation? Like, yeah, something like that. That was perfectly it. The PlayStation Twilight Zone co-lap.

I had like the 3D logo of the PlayStation. Why do you put it in quotes like that? Why 3D? It was 3D. Yeah, it was 3D. No, it's 3D. I'm unquoting it. 3D.

I don't know where we're saying. Sam, are there still quotes or not. Help us. But I don't know. I like to have in the physical dis. There is the thought of like, oh man, thank God I don't have to like keep all these discs in a box if I want to play them anymore. But then the thought of like never being able to boot up an old game sucks. But all the companies like the streaming companies to like Twitch.

I'm sure you guys remember, but like back in the 20 teens, I feel like it was YouTube. Every year there was like some giant thing YouTube was doing that like creators and everyone was just like, oh, why are you doing this? Come on. And then the next year would be like YouTube. All you have to do is not that. We don't want that. And then they probably are still doing shit people don't like,

but I swear the last six years, it's been Twitch. Every year Twitch, we're like, just don't do that. I'm going to do this. Don't do that. I'm going to do this. And even to the point, like, this year, one of the big things was like the creator who got banned of like two weeks later was given ambassador status.

And it's like, that's a weird choice, Twitch. Why are you doing that one? They're raising, like, prices of things. They made it where like you were opted in to AI. So if you made content, AI would use your stuff. to make generative content. You had to opt out. And then in an interview, one of the higher-ups was asked, like,

why did you guys make it opt-out instead of opt-in? Well, if we made it opt-in, no one would have done it. And we're like, yeah, no shit. So it was intentionally predatory. Cool. Good choices. Yeah. But Sony, Xbox, streaming, I mean, all these big companies, man.

I don't know, I don't know if it's because they're publicly traded and all this is because, oh, God, we've made billions of dollars. How are we going to make trillions this year? We've got to do something stupid. Like, I don't know if that's the, it's got to be the ultimate driving line, is whatever they think is going to cut costs and raise. income. It's got to be every decision being made ever in these companies, but at some point, the consumers are like, we're going to find something else. Another company will emerge that

does things right until they eventually sell and become the same thing in 20, 30 years. But it's just it's an exhausting ride. It's like drop so. You get raised up just to get dropped down, get raised up to get dropped down in every single company, man. It feels like you're converging right now to piss us off. This is only tangentially related. But you know what console I wish had really stuck around and had subsequent generations? Dreamcast, man. I didn't own a Dreamcast until like seven or eight years after its release, because I wasn't bougie like that.

I literally bought one secondhand at like Trading Zone. But man, what a console. The little memory cards with the little guy on it. I never played Dreamcast. That was the CDs, like the Sega CD stuff, right? Sega Dreamcast, CD Drive. It had a, it was, I think it was one of the first with an Ethernet port native to it. Or maybe it had a phone, phone jack native to it.

So you could get, you could do online. stuff without like eating an accessory to plug in. One of the biggest problems was Dreamcast did not support DVDs. That was kind of the death blow because PlayStation 2 did. So not only did PlayStation get bought because it did, but also like it was equivalent enough and game developers were like, oh, more people who are buying the PlayStation then PlayStation went on to be like the most record-breaking, you know, of all time. Yeah, it was pretty good, whatever.

Was PlayStation 2 the first one that stood on its side too? Yes, I think, maybe. I don't know why, but as a kid, that was like one of the coolest things. Whenever I got it, was like, dude, I could put the discs in. Sideways. Pretty cool, man. Because I feel like I quickly jumped from the cartridge to the PlayStation disc. You open the lid, put it in there, close the lid.

And then it was all of a sudden like, I press a button, and this shit comes to me. Set the disc in, press the button. It goes in on its own. And it stands on its side. This is what millennial childhood was like, everybody. It was really boring. there was really not much to get excited about. I felt like PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2,

Jump and Graphics was also, like, insane. Yeah, it was. It was significant. It really was. Moving on, speaking of Sideways, GoPro and Marka Bar in prison. Oops. This wasn't one of the ones I really cared about.

We don't talk about that one, do we? Right, you're right, you're right, you're right. I was only in Minnesota reading frantic messages, like, what the fuck is happening? What was a frantic messages? I would describe the tone of the messages as more like, like pissed. You guys assume I was YouTube talking.

I was getting text from other people like, hey, what's Mark into? Friends, family. I also would like open up social media. It's like, oh, Markiplier, blah, blah, blah, blah. GoPro. And I was like, y'all, I can't wear it now. Hopefully it's okay. I guess I'll hire him a lawyer if I have to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's really nothing here. I'm not going to prison. There was no insider training. It is, once again, the most hilarious. timing that ever will occur in my life. I've had multiple times where timing has not worked out for me, and this is another one of those times.

To recap last Sunday from where we're recording this, but it was like someday, an article came out that I had recorded an interview of almost a week prior, and it came out saying like, Margarbler owns 8.5% of GoPro, and was the largest shareholder. I didn't know it was the largest shareholder. Like, I filed that. I served the filing process in July 23rd, and then it only got to, filed August 20th. And so that was filed.

And so that was the public disclosure as required by the SEC. And then there was an artist. Bloomberg saw that filing. It was like, hey, we want to talk to you about that. So I said, I'll talk about that. And then two days later, less than 48 hours later, GoPro accepts to be sold to Starman Optics, who works in optical connectors for data centers,

specifically for AI and also possibly defense contracts. I can't believe you invested knowing that was going to happen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, no, no, no, SEC, please, please. That's a no. No, our conversation, we were like, Mark, did you know any of this? He's like, no, this is probably why I couldn't even talk to the CEO.

So, like, you had no. I had been trying to talk to the CEO just for other reasons because I was like, hey, I have ideas. This camera's cool. Maybe I could help out. Oh, you're busy. Okay. See you.

See you. Yeah, man. What a thing to have happen. Yeah, that was. that was wild. And who they decided to sell to. I could tell by the tone of the text conversation. You were not so thrilled about. Nope, not really. Couldn't have been another camera because like red sold to Nikon, a camera company. And it was like, okay, you know, all right, I get that. They're going to sell. I wasn't really like in love with red, but you know,

seeing them you sold, whatever. It's fine. So I was like, GoPro, even if they're doing bad, you know, the name's good enough that someone would probably buy it. Some camera company. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, oh, okay. Oh, this makes sense. Yeah, sure. Okay. All right.

Great. I had no idea. And also it's just one of those things where it's like, of course, of course it does. But the camera's good. That whole discourse, this is a thing that is not the first time this has happened to you because you've been very successful at like with the movie and stuff where suddenly you're in the spotlight outside of like the normal parts of the internet that you sort of exist within. and the whole discourse around this is insane because there are people who come out and are just like just out of nowhere just suddenly he likes GoPro

the guy who's been begging GoPro for months who's been talking about the like who was making a movie talking about like oh if only there was at all and like people who know people who are fans on the internet in the comments replying I mean like this guy won't shut up I got GoPro like he's been this is not new All of us knew about this already

People who absorbed none of our content Well, we didn't know how we should have known too You appeared on R slash all And it's always terrible Of the coincidences that have occurred to you This is probably the most At least from where how I see it Like the funniest thing of

These are two things that do not just happen Because a lot of times things like this I mean not that this has ever happened But things of this level of coincidence happened because one thing is happening. And then one day, something else, like someone makes a snap decision and something and they just happen to collide, right? Both of these things, like you've been talking about, had a lot of lead time.

You don't just decide one day to merge with another company or to sell to another company. That doesn't just happen. That's like negotiations, lawyers back and forth. And you had to fight, like you didn't just decide one day to go on Robin Hood and buy some stock on your phone. Like, there are filings happening. There are lawyers talking. There's all this shit. There's an interview that you did about this before it was even really in the public eye, even though it was public record, because you had all this shit. And they were within, literally within 48 hours. Less than 48 hours between each other. What a combination

of shit to all happen all at once. I've got another coincidence that I can almost predict. So I had a jury duty letter earlier this year and I postponed it because I was in the midst of doing like it was like March or something and I postponed it to September. I was like September 7th. That sounds great and that's I think it was like Labor Day so it's like okay it'll be a shorter week the way it works in LA you're on call right so I forgetting this scheduled a trip out where I'm out only the 8th only the 8th, right? I have to check to see if I'm on call today at 6 p.m. I get on a plane today at 5 p.m. I garen't fucking T.U. When I land in Austin, it'll be come to the courthouse motherfucker. You're up. I guarantee fucking T you. It'll be like Wednesday, you better be there.

You're going to end up in jail for something unrelated to go pro and everyone's going to I think it's GoPro related. I swear to God, that's what's going to happen. I'm going to land. What happened to market players investing in AI and skipping jury duty? We used to love this guy. I don't even know what the punishment is for missing it, but I'm like, if I get there, I'm going to call and be like, I'm at Austin.

He's like, you should have known. You should have known. You're going, we're coming to get you. And it's like, oh, God. So I don't know what I'll have to do, but I imagine it's a fine of some kind. I actually don't know. It can't be that bad because I'm pretty sure I had a, I've had a couple jury duties in all of the moving around that I've done going to school and grad school and the cross country moves and stuff. I've definitely had, I think, two jury duties where like the notice got sent to my previous place or sent to the wrong place and it got forwarded.

And, you know, sometimes mail forwarding shit shows up like weeks later. And I got it. And it was like, you have jury duty two weeks ago. I guess they didn't call me because nothing happened, but So I might be in trouble for that, but I don't know how much trouble, so we'll find out soon. Next on Insider Gaming. All right, what else are news you guys got? Have you seen the images of the Ocarina of Time remake?

I think I've seen something. So I wasn't a Zelda person or I wasn't a Nintendo person growing up. I had like the Game Boy, so I played the Pokemon games, but that was about it. But I watched a kid that lived nearby whenever I was, I think he was in like third. He was like a year younger than me. I was in fourth grade. He was in like third grade and went over to his house and he was playing through Ocreen of Time.

I really liked watching him play through it. It was one of my earlier, I guess, Let's plays. I got to see it was him playing through it. It was cool. I was like, man, that's a cool game. It looks too stressful for me to play. I'm glad I'm watching you play it. But like growing up, that's one of those games that you hear people talk about.

Like, Ocary of Time is their childhood and like, you know, is one of their big games. I've seen a lot of like clips of people that are just really emotional seeing like the reveal of the remake for it because it's just such an important game to them. So I don't know that I'll play it, but I'm excited for everyone who it means something to who wants to play it. I mean, same for me. I, me and my brother, we played the crap out of that one because we had Nintendo 64 and it was just like that was the game to play. You know, there really, it really weren't that many games actually we played on 64. But it was it was probably everyone's first experience with like having this big grand world and an adventure and. just like discovering things like that.

It's, I don't know. Yeah, I can see it being special. I hadn't seen the images. This looks cool. It's one of those where, again, I'm kind of near Camp Wade. I like the game, not that invested in it. I guess you're saying people liked it, but this is such an update because it was such an old game that I wouldn't be surprised if fans were like, it's all ruined.

It's all different. And they're using the font from the Breath of the Wild. They're ruining our game. but if people like it, that's good. My brother got me a Switch 2 for my birthday, late birthday present, but I got it. It's like, I've been really enjoying it because there's Factorio on it. The new Eldon Ring just came out on it and looks and plays great. I couldn't play that on the Steam Deck because I just found the Steam Deck too big.

Like it was hard to hold and it didn't feel worth it for the screen to control a ratio. But now the Switch 2 has it, it's like bigger screen than the Switch 1. I mean, I'm, I'm, Nintendo also has done some shady shit, but I'm like, hey, at least, you No, the gaming experience is good. As long as you're not online. I don't remember their Mario Maker 2 online experience of one frame per three minutes. That was rough.

But yeah, otherwise, yeah. Stuff, man, you latch on a one bad experience and it's like a tanger. Well, I even did like some raids like Scarlett and Violet. Their online experience has just always felt a few years behind other consoles online experience. It's like two decades behind, but yes.

That's not what Nintendo is for. The immersion experience of playing an old game, I guess it was the only thing we had to do. But looking at the graphics of the original Ocarina and then looking at the new one, it's like, how did we get immersed? Look at this bloggy, polygonal bitch ass. Like, what is the shit?

See, that's why comparison is the death of art. When you don't have any comparison, you know, it is the best. And you're just like, this is incredible. But then as soon as a comparison comes by, you know? I have one. Oh, yeah. All right. Hell yeah.

Well, so are we sticking strictly to video game stuff? Because this is not video game stuff. this is just a thing that's happening that's not a sign of good things, maybe in the bigger picture, but I think it's really interesting. In Rome, that's in Italy, in the Tiber River near St. Peter's Basilica, near the Vatican, I guess, it would be a more accurate way to phrase that. But anyway, in the heart of Rome, Mero's bridge is re-emerging from the waters of the Tiber because the water level is so historically low that this bridge that,

I have actually unclear if it's collapsed and this is like the ruins of it or if this is just where the bridge was but the river has gotten much higher in the sense this was originally built. Anyway, this bridge is reemerging. So literally like the water level is getting so low that this bridge is again or the ruins of this bridge are on the surface. It's just fascinating. This is one of those like Roman Empire type things for me where I don't know anything about this. I didn't know anything about it until the new story came out. but to just look and see the bridge and the waters are revealing it

and it's very mysterious. I want to go, I just want to go look at it. It's cool. It inspires awe in me for no apparent reason that I can understand, but it's very fascinating. That is fascinating.

I love when stuff, I mean, again, water level being that low, sign of, you know, perhaps larger issues. But I love when things like this happen because you get to little glimpses

of stuff that was otherwise just completely lost to time and water. and it's neat. Speaking of the end times, have you guys seen Chatchy, PT, Astra? No, only a bit. It's an advancement in there. It can take over your computer.

It can open blender and it can make the backcrums. It's also made, and this relates to gaming, it has made a clone of Rocket League that is very difficult to distinguish from Rocket League. Not a video of it. Like a playable game? A playable Rocket League, yeah. Did it study Rocket League and just copy it and do it,

Did it do it without having? Yes, of course. Yeah, it copied from what was already there, but it exists, and it has the ability to do this. And it's just, here, I'll show you guys actually the footage of it. Wait, this is the clone?

This is the clone that it made. Like, I'm not a Rocket League player, but I can still tell, like, oh, this is weird. Like, the sizing and spacing of things is weird. The dimension of the goal seems weird. I'm not played Rocket League in a long time. If you had showed me this, I would have just thought it was Rocket League. It does it have, I don't know if you know this, does it have online capability?

I'm not exactly sure what it has. This is obviously not playable. Someone could have faked this. I have no idea, but also I've seen other demos saying like it has pretty, pretty intense capabilities. Now, how is this the death of all of us? Going to our resident AI expert, Bob. Oh yeah, I guess I'm sort of behind the news on this Astros stuff. I had heard the hype.

I had not seen that or I'm sure the other examples, like you said, it could do shit in Blender and whatever. This is the first example of, I think, what a lot of people thought or hoped this technology would be like three to five years ago. Like when chat GPT was first publicly available and you would hear hype out of Silicon Valley if people would be like, just going to revolutionize your life.

It could do everything and then you use it and it's like a chat bot that gives you really inane bullshit back and you're like, okay, well, this isn't, this isn't revolutionizing my life. I assumed it was going to control my computer for me or schedule things or whatever. This is, I think, a big leap towards that. I assume they have done nothing to address the existing concerns about the nature of how they accomplish this in training up the model and in how it works and how efficient it is and all of those sorts of things.

But like, the fact that it can do that is well beyond what I would expect, agentic AI to really be able to accomplish on its own. I would also assume that if that is not faked, if that's a real running piece of software that you could play the Rocket League clone thing, it's probably pretty buggy, but I don't know. Like the thing I've heard from people who use AI chatbots encoding is like, yeah, it's really useful, right? It's like if you can, because it used to be you'd have to like Google through whatever.

You'd have to Google through repositories or for certain functions you're trying to do. tweak it. It's like if you could Google, but also Google fixed it to work for exactly whatever application you try to use, it's great for remembering snippets or building something simple that you're going to integrate. But you still have to know out of code because it'll just do crazy bullshit. It'll just break your entire code base. If you let it play with too many things, it'll forget what it's doing and put nonsense in or do all kinds of crazy shit. If it literally did this without human intervention, whether, however well it works, that's a crazy jump forward in like ability of an agentic AI to stay on a task and to complete it without wandering away from

what the original task was or just ending up, you know, getting into a loop where it's, you know, it stops working, goes down a rabbit hole of shit that breaks the whole project. That seems crazy to me. I have no understanding of coding or the back end of this. But as far as I understand how AI works, I imagine if a coder, a real game developer, looked at that at the back end, at the code of whatever that is and looked at, would they would be like, ah, like, I can't believe this functions at all. What the fuck? That is kind of crazy. I would assume that was not possible if what I woke up today. I wouldn't think

that was possible. For the benefit of the doubt, it's using a program, I'm assuming Unreal Engine to build it. It's going into that and putting it together. What I'm seeing is it, it didn't use an existing engine. It wrote it, oh, what was it called? Wrote it in JS3 or so. It wrote in its own language and it wrote the engine that it's using for the whole thing. It did not just like use unity or something is what I've seen. Again, this is all just internet research. So I'm not vetting these facts or anything. Who knows if that's the reality, but you know, it's...

But if that's true, like, God damn, that's crazy. Uh, wait, as Norm L man. How do you feel about this development? You know, I had an RP character named Norm L guy, right? Like that was... I think that's what he was... I was trying to go for it. I forgot it was Norm L. Guy.

Well, I don't know too much about Internet and games stuff but if I had to give you some kind of interpretation I'd say we're all kind of fucked how soon before they make their own streaming or gaming platform where there's videos and stuff and then they just have us there and I guess we're all out of the job right yep that's the conclusion we're all doomed or are we all right and swoop in mysterious hero to give us the good side we're fucking cooked the only saving grace I possibly see before everyone gives up their jobs in schooling, is that this still is inflated by billions and trillions of dollars, the likes of which we cannot even comprehend.

I cannot imagine the amount of money it costs to run this thing, especially to do that. It definitely doesn't cost the company what the guy claims it costs, which is about $100 in tokens. There's no fucking way that costs that much. This is still completely unattainable for someone on their own computer to do. It is entirely reliant on gigantic data centers with 100. hundreds, if not thousands of DPUs. I don't know how many to run that,

but I have a moderate experience or moderate knowledge of how much RAM you need to run something. And it's got to be astronomical what these things cost to do. So I don't know what the long-term ability for everyone to be able to use this is. But that probably doesn't bode well because that just means the big companies, who can pay the bill will be the ones using it. So, you know, it's just a few thousand. Yeah, exactly. Very cheap.

All right, so now that we're all in nightmare town, do you guys have more? I got one more. I have one more nightmare town related thing. Oh, cool. Mine's also a nightmare town. I'm ready. All right. Speaking of nightmares, you know what people are, a lot of people are afraid of is death.

So in Hungary, they're trying to counter that. They had a grave digging competition where they had 19 teams of two race to see who could dig the most stylish and well dog grave. I don't know what wording they used, but, the quickest dug and most stylish grave and one team of two managed to accomplish the specific dimensions they had to reach and one team of two did it in an hour and 20 minutes

their grand prize 640 bucks All right, that's 640 bucks to dig for an hour and 20 minutes That's a lot of digging Hopefully they were wearing gloves I don't if you guys have ever dug a lot but God that tears your fucking hands up

if you're not wearing gloves Yeah I guess they got 19 graves dug in Hungary So yay Yay. That's good, I think. Yeah, there's a video of it, and these graves are like in a line that looks like side by side by side, and there's like fences up and people are there like, I don't know they're cheering, like, Woo, go top, dig it! Grandpa needs his hole! I assumed it would be crowds of pallbearers just holding their caskets waiting.

The test is they solemnly go over there and see if it fits. You save your dead for the grave digging, like, hey, you want to bury Grandpa for free? If you wait three months, we're going to have a... grave ticket competition. Look, prices are going up across the board. You know what? You got to be frugal where you can. I think on top of it being a competition,

it looks like there's like a thing where it's like confronting death. And like there's a bigger overall theme to like make it less terrifying to confront things like that. Like, oh, look, we're all getting together and celebrating being together and blah, blah, blah, and also digging graves. I think there's more to it. But from the outside, it's kind of strange feeling, you know? You know what else feels strange on the outside? Hoh-Hoh-Hiborg roaches with hypodermic needles

Undo my laugh, Sam, can you undo my laugh? Nope, nope, double it. This is a real thing. I said it in the intro, but it's a real thing. Australian giant burrowing cockroaches are being transformed into cybernetic paraborgs, which can be remote controlled while delivering specialized rescue and medical equipment in disaster areas. I don't know about the medical equipment, but as far as I know, they have tiny cameras and possibly a needle.

And I don't know about you, but I know that medicine is not to the point where we can just inject someone with heel juice and suddenly they feel better. But the general concept is that they're in two pairs. You have an observer, cyborg cockroach, and you have a drug delivery, cyborg cockroach. Why would they pick cockroaches of all things? They're small and they can go into disaster zones. And they saw that one episode of Rick and Morty where, you know, he controlled the cockroaches. And they were like, yeah, that sounds good.

Yeah. I hope that was not the only route. They were like, actually, that is the way we should do it. Cockroaches. Man, Rick, he's the smartest man alive. I'm going to interview this. We got to bring this guy in. All right.

So anyway, yeah, that's actually a thing. I don't know how far it will actually go. But apparently you can stick a bunch of electrodes to a cockroach's head and send electricity and it will do things. Well, it will move. That's basically the end. it's, it will go in a direction that you shock it to go. Until we lose control and there's just thousands of indestructible atomic surviving roaches

armed with needles and who knows what kind of cocktails that deliver. Yeah. While the paraborgs can be steered remotely, the cockroaches themselves are still very much alive and able to use their skills as bugs to navigate through complex terrain. I don't know how I'd feel if I was, I guess maybe if you're going through a whole bunch of shit in your trap somewhere, you're already not thinking too much about it. But like, the rescue team I want to see is not a herd of cockroaches coming over the rocks with needles at me. It's funny you say that because the researchers acknowledge that, quote,

for someone who is already trapped or injured, seeing a cyborg insect approaching could understandably be a little surprising or unsettling at first. Perhaps we could have flashing lights, recognizable emergency markings, or, quote, a tiny speaker delivering a simple message such as help is on the way. making people feel comfortable with that technology is just as important as making it work. I would probably feel pretty freaked out, but my initial thought was, how am I supposed to tell that that thing is here to help me? I would not, whether or not it has shit on it, like if I saw a cockroach that had a needle sticking out of it or whatever, I'd be like, oh, what the hell's up with that cockroach?

Anyway, like, I would not be in a situation look and be like, oh, it has a syringe or it has a kicker. camera. I'm here. Save me. Come on, Cockrow. Like, how are you supposed to know that that is something you engage with in order to get assistance? It needs lights. I think that's the good solution. Highvis jacket, some lights. I hope they each have their own individual tracking so you can tell if someone didn't implant their own version of killer roaches that look the same, but they replace the juice and the needle. They're like, I'm thinking about the worst of humanity, man. Yeah, this company's going to get sold to Starman injectors and they're just going to have

their cockroach they were working on defense cockroaches at the same time we're going to invest right now the next thing you know yeah it's going to be a lethal injection company ah damn you know and then you know the time any speaker is saying help is on the way it'll get corrupted and damage and it'll just they'll charge going help help help just an army of cockroaches coming down hell is on the way wait it must be help i have a feel good story in a world we're all cling to literally anything to make me feel better about all this stuff we were just talking about honestly the company He doesn't really deserve that much recognition. But I'll say the name anyway.

The staff at this restaurant really made one person's day, which you know what is sometimes all it takes. This is apparently an influencer. I don't know this person. The story is that this woman was having a date at Fogo de Chow. Brazilian steakhouse, Fogo de Chow. We have been to several of those. This woman got stood up. She was at a table for two and clearly like expecting a date of some sort.

and after too much time had passed, like she sort of realized, uh, being stood up, but also the server at the restaurant or the staff at the restaurant realized. And apparently they like took the time to come over and be like, look, we're all your date tonight.

Watch you go to drink at the bar. And they like encouraged her to like party and we're super chill. And just like for no reason other than they saw what was happening, the staff of this restaurant on this evening, like took care of this person. and made her night. And she made a post about it because, sure, and maybe someone on staff knew that this was an influencer,

and maybe it's not as good as I feel like it is. But this is the kind of thing that at least allows me to pretend like I still have faith in humanity, because that's just nice. Good on you, staff at Fogo to Chow. And I think this was in Washington, D.C. area. I don't know if there's multiple. And of course, the CEO chimed in to be like,

I told them to do that. We could still be good to each other, guys. We can still, us humans, The robots don't care. We could just ignore the clankers. We can all just be good to each other. We'd be nice to each other. Remember that?

When you're not just typing on a keyboard, but you talk to someone face to face like this, but when you can smell their breath, we can be nice to each other. It's possible. We can do it. Anyway, I'm just trying to cope because, yikes. As of the time we've recorded this,

we're a week away from 50% of all fans of NFL teams being disappointed when they're, team loses because the season hasn't started yet. All right. But soon, pain will sweep over the nation. Good, good. What an optimistic way to look at the upcoming football season. I'm a Bengals fan.

It's the only way. All right, that wraps it up. We have gone through the glorious news, and it has been wonderful. Let's read out the points. Wade, you went to the Minnesota State Fair. You discovered Uber. That was very brave of you. You went to a weird hotel.

Time Warner court case was funny. Uh, the endangered games, you're a PlayStation guy. All companies are bad. What a bold, brave statement. Ocarine of Time. All kind of fucked. I don't know why I wrote that down, but it feels pertinent. Uh, and then grave digging competition.

Bob, you caught Wade's weirdness. You saw some scary stares. The people breathing. Uh, segue point. You love no ownership. You hate Fortnite. And you chose Xbox for better or for worse. The Tiber River with Nero's Bridge.

AI scares you and you're kind of skeptical, but also like if that's true, there's woe. Then the staff at Fogo were very nice. If you calculated that, that was actually 10 points a piece. It is actually tied. Strong in sync to say the word I'm not supposed to say. I don't know why. That all seemed fine to me. I just want to say it now.

Apparently we missed it in the last one. Oh yeah. Oh, let me take a second to address the subreddit. Shut up. Don't tell us about the rules of the show if you don't know the rules of the show. The rules are if we don't notice it, it doesn't count. Nobody noticed it. We didn't leave it out on purpose.

We just don't pay attention. This is why I don't come out there. Can't stand you people. Anyway, what's up? Subbreddit. Wheel entry is going to be who's the closest to prison. And you better not say that's me. You better not say.

Do I put that on this wheel? No, that ain't right. It'd be a weird one to land on. How many spins are they going to be? Who's the closest to prison? There is. Ah, just one. That's all we're going to need.

So it in death. So it's in death. I know I always like put it at the bottom and then scramble them. Why don't I just? And then I'm going to shuffle them anyway. And this could be either location-wise or going to prison. I'll leave it up to the judge. We're definitely going to remember that.

Wordplay counts in all of these. Huh? Fly points are absolute. We don't have any light. points, do we? Yeah. Well, it's either a re-spin or it's that's it, and we go to the winner's wheel.

I'm fine with that being a re-spin. I feel like if it doesn't actually apply, a re-spin makes sense to me. Hit it again. And live points absolute number two. At 10% just, oh shit. And it's going to go to the wheel.

At 10% chance for one-man show, and we're going to the wheel. Oh, there's not a good week for that. That means we're at 22%. one-man show. I liked it better when it was like eight. It was already 12, but yeah. How awkwardly can I mess this up today? I got to put my name on there,

and then I got to turn the weight on, and then, oh, I didn't do the math yet, 22% of 360, because I'm sure I could find a better way to do the 79 degrees. Oh, that looks fine. That's fine. That's not bad at all.

That looks terrifying. Nah, that's fine. That's fine. Let me make sure this math is right. 22, yeah, that's 22% of 360 degrees. Okay, that's fine. It's going to be fine. Spin that wheel.

Why am I nervous? I'll probably be fine either way. Probably fine. Probably fine. I'm not nervous. Oh, right, that's what I'm talking about. Bob, congratulations. By the Clutchist of Clutch.

We'll add 2% to that spin next time, bringing it up to 24%. I believe. All right, congratulations Bob, but first loser's speech from Wade for the concession. I was a well-traveled man. I saw the world. I went outside. I experienced things and I'm just, I really thought all of those experiences would come back to give me a win today. Had a tie, had a not 50, but equal chance to win is Bob there at the end and the universe still said. Ha ha! Nope! I'll get him next time. Fair enough. You might, but also. So you might not. That is fate. Bob, winner speech. It feels good to win.

And that sounds very convincing when I say it with that inflection. I know it does. But it feels pretty good to win. I'm definitely looking forward to hosting the next episode. I'm working on my sincere delivery. And so if this sounds extra sincere compared to how I usually speak, it's good it is. Goer from a sincere place.

I'm better than Wade, so I should have won. And I did. The universe is fair and balanced. Look forward to another banger, as always, for the next episode, because I'm going to host it, which means it's going to be good, even if it's bad. That's just science. Well said. Well said, Bob. And congratulations on the big, big win.

That'll really change up the standings, even those you guys tied both points. I think that your skill won you out in this day. And thank you to all of our listeners and watchers, I suppose, for joining us on another episode of Distractable. It's been great to have you. And you can follow our podcast on wherever the hell you're listening to it on to make sure you know, when a new episode's coming by. Missed an episode, it's your own fault. Thank you to Bob and Wade.

You can find them at Micegroom, Lord Minion 777 or Minion 777. My name is Ben Markiplier. This has been distractible. Podcast out. Nope you like prison, dude. I hope it's good time. Well, you know, I hear the food's good. I was talking to Bob.

Why would you be going to prison? I was telling him, I hear the food's good. I've heard that too.