Distractible - Knives, Fire, and Pickup Trucks

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

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and calls for compassion. Wheezy Wade pawns bull, then playfully propagandizes and becomes Frozone. mammalian Mark solves the riddle of steel, lords watch duty, and relates the harrowing tale of man's deadliest foe, with hurricanes countering blamestorming and Cali pride. From storage sims to buying American. It's time for knives, fire, and pickup trucks. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

As Wade takes a huge drink, hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. This is Distractable and I am your host for today. I forgot my name. I blanked, furry was like half a second, but I did pull a blank. My name is Bob. Is that right? Yeah. If you've never seen the show before, I'm the host because I won the last one.

And the two other guys who are here will be competing to host the next one. Hello. Wait, it's too busy drinking. He didn't say hi to you. No, I actually hovered over that part of my screen that makes the news panel populate and it covered my entire screen with floating news panels. Makes the news panel populate and it covered my entire screen with loading news panels? Makes the news panel populate? What operating system do you use? Windows 11?

Eugh. Anyway, I'm the judge, I give points, usually I lie, the points don't really matter. It's all very arbitrary, but it's not though because we have a constitution, so there's rules and we follow them very strictly. You usually start with small talk. I think for no apparent reason Wade probably should do small talk first today before we get into whatever Mark has going on. Wade, how you doing? I'm doing great man. I've got a new game sweeping the nation that everyone needs to play.

I have a bad feeling about this. It's called Storage Hunter Simulator, where you go to different storage units and you get involved in an auction to buy whatever's in that unit. And then you go and you sell it to pawn shops and you eventually buy and own your own pawn shop and it just keeps escalating.

I'm 20 hours in after like three or four streams and I'm absolutely addicted to it. Path of Exile is still great, still love it by the way. I thought you were just go straight for Path of Exile, I'm shocked. And I'm even on top of that, I'm watching YouTube videos on it too, like I just, I cannot get enough of it.

I'm not gonna lie, that sounds really boring. It does. Out of my mouth, it sounds terrible, but like actually playing, you start with this really tiny crappy truck and you go to these storage auctions and you win and you have to somehow like Jenga your way. I don't know if Jenga is the right word,

but you've got to like throw all of this awkward crap on top of your truck, try to balance it and then hop into your truck quickly before it falls. Cause magically once you hop into your truck it glues in place and then you drive to like the pawn shop, try to sell it. So between like the auctions themselves, identifying what you got

and finding some weird, crazy, cool shit, it's so addicting. It's a lot like a supermarket simulator where, weirdly enough, that should be the most boring game ever. But I love playing it and people love watching it. I don't know if it's just I don't run a very good supermarket. Maybe that's why people watch it. But it is weirdly interesting. Our storage hunt with me.

It sounds judgy, but I'm a big fan of like, farm sim and games of that nature. I think specifically it's the storage unit thing. That like gives me anxiety. Both because it's a big pile of shit, which is just like a lot and kind of annoying and intimidating looking, but also because those things are so gross in real life and it's not the people's fault. Storage units just get gross, especially if they get left for a while. I get rats, water leaks in. It just like, I know it's a video game and so it's not,

but just the whole notion of that. Cause I would play supermarket sim. That does look fun. I've watched that. You should play Storage Hunter Sim. The storage one, it just makes me feel yucky. There's different tiers of items from like broken quality all the way up to like legendary quality. I found a riding mechanical bull in one the other day. Who do you sell that to?

Pawn shop? I don't feel like a real pawn shop would buy that. Well, this one did. And you know why? Cause I owned it. And I was like, we're listing this boys. Ha ha ha ha ha. All right.

I bought it for myself and then I bought it from me and then me is gonna sell it to someone. I wanna test something out here, Bob. May I, may I test something? Wade, I found this business for sale and I think we should all go in on it It's a pawn shop. No, that's a terrible idea Video game pawn shop dude. I am so in girlfriend

I found a business Wade it is a video game pawn shop We just all got a chip in evenly starts out at a cool four million dollars split for three ways Fourth with the mysterious fourth member. Yeah. Hey fourth person you want in on this? Yes. Yes, I'm in Oh, I'm busy that day, but I'll get you on the next business venture Oh, it's gonna comment on the fact that's the first time the fourth person ever talked I don't think that was actually the fourth member, but I I'm in Mark, you know me, I'm always in. All right, it was just a test, I don't have one for sale. But it would be cool business if we just had that.

I don't know that a pawn shop's the way I'd wanna go, because you have to like appraise and value. I'm more interested in the theater than I would be the pawn shop. Someone comes in with like a diamond, they're like, here, you want my diamond? We're like, yeah, we'll sell it. And then we find out like, it's plastic, it's green, it was never a diamond. How did you do this? You fool. You just get one of those

diamond testers that those... Don't they bite them in their teeth? Yeah they have real diamond grills on and that's how they're all beep. Just get that for every type of thing. Diamond tester, mechanical bull tester, replacement hip tester, because you know the pawn shots get a lot of those. I got a mechanical bull guy let me give him a call. Guys I need to sell my pacemaker. I got a pacemaker guy let me call him up. Weirdly and this isn't everyone those two are the same guy. I know that seems like a coincidence but he just has very specific and diverse interests. Next on MTV, Pimp my pacemaker.

All right, my turn? I don't really have anything new going on, so... Yeah, I guess you can go. Mark, you got some stuff? You know how in the last episode I was talking about a good knife, right? I was trying to get something that was like I could go out in the woods, hack a tree down. And you took my advice? Nope! Went straight to Amazon and I bought this! Ugh. It doesn't look very sharp. What, why does it have a phone holster attached to it?

What is that? Editors, blur that. Does it have a scope? Oh yeah. Really aim your stabbing. I'll get to this feature later. Let me walk you through. So I was trying to look up Steel, right?

And nothing is more enigmatic than going down that rabbit hole. Like the people that actually know Steel are very angry with everyone else that knows Steel. They, no group I think has more in fighting than the Steel community because there's so many different types and they all have like little benefits and not benefits. Some are really expensive, a bit very hard, some are hard to sharp, some don't retain their edge, but they're all just like steel with different amounts of different alloys and stuff like that. This is something, that's why I went back to, I was like, I'm never going to be able to answer. I went to Amazon and I was like this is a good Lee reviewed one So this is D to steal couldn't shell out for D one steel steel community get him

I can't believe it was D to I can't believe you'd buy anything made of D to steal Literally that is probably going to happen people are gonna be like Every minority or something like this. That's what people are gonna say. That's the most inhumane kind of steel there is. And I don't know why I'm a terrible person for having this other than it's an Amazon knife. But it just seems, it was well reviewed and everyone was like, Hey, it cuts things.

And I'm like, that's what I was looking for. Segway into my other topic. You don't want to know what this is? Isn't that a firesteel? It's a fire starter. Speaking of fire. Hey, wait a minute, show that to camera. Is that used?

What have you been doing over there? No, no, no. That looks a little blurry to me. They say firesteels get blurry when they get used. They self-censor when they get used, Yeah. Like the Sims going in a shower. No. So yeah, there was fires. It was a crazy time. So for those who don't know, we didn't have an episode yesterday because I was evacuated.

Actually, specifically that day, I didn't have power. Yeah, we were going to record. And then literally the morning of you were like, well, we don't take off our electricity You thought that was gonna be the worst thing that happened that week Also, we mean our yesterday not yours if this comes out today Wow what a turnaround So now I'm gonna take you back in time to last Tuesday for me, which was what day was that the seventh, right? So the seventh the power was out. So I was I was like, I'll go run some errands. And as I was driving out, I saw this plume of smoke in the distance.

And I was like, that's weird. I know that they said it was a red flag warning, so when the windstorm came in, which was really unprecedented, like that morning, the wind was gusting up to 80 miles an hour where we were, which was just really intense. And then there was a lull. It said there was going to be a lull in the wind for a few hours. So I was like, OK, I'll go out and run some errands, get some supplies. If our power is out, you know, make sure we have some water and whatnot. And I saw a plume of smoke in the distance and I called Amy.

I'm like, hey, what's going on? There's some smoke. And she said the palisades were on fire. So at this point, the palisades had already been burning all day. Someone reported a fire in the Pacific palisades at 10 15 a.m. At 10 33 firefighters started diverting resources. There were some other small fires going on in the area, but this was obviously the big one and so this was what I saw and I went out around like noon or one o'clock. And so what's weird is I didn't know about the fire until then. Probably because I wasn't tuned in to the right channels. I wasn't listening to

the right things. But I went out and I came back and I was like, oh, and as I was driving back the winds were picking up. So we kind of shelter up and I didn't realize how bad it was gonna be even for over there Until the day progressed, right? So as the day progressed we started to get notice of this app called watch duty, which I think I talked to you guys about Great app. I never knew about it before but it specifically is like user reported and also integrates official reporting of fires, locations, updates, evacuation zones, evacuation orders. You can check out Firewatch trail cams. You can see some of the trails that are coming up here, and I'm going to jump ahead in time a little bit because I want to show you a picture of one of the trail cams, right?

This one actually is not Pacific Palisades. This is the Eton one which was close to us. So there's, here's a, you see like this is a trail cam and then this shows like where the trail cam's pointing. And then it also has another camera on it. I don't know if you can see that. That's just fire. So this is an imagery from one of the trail cams and its last captured image is just roaring flames up on the camera. Which was just crazy to see. I couldn't even wrap my heads around what was going on there. But that's a little ahead of time and then I realized like, oh, it's on fire. So that evening, January 7th till Tuesday, we kind of prepped some things to go.

We're like, okay, we should probably be ready. Because there wasn't a fire near us just yet. We did not know about it. But when the Eden Fire broke out, I could see it from my window. Like I could legitimately, from the moment that it was starting to grow a little bit bigger, like on the hillside in the distance, like I might like have a circle about like my hands clasped together. But if you were looking at a mountain on the other side and you clasp your hands together

and you look through your hands like that a patch that big on the mountain is burning fire it's uh it was scary but we didn't evacuate just yet we kind of like prepped everything we left the house just out of precaution we were kind of like waiting to see what was going to happen because it was all about the wind blowing but then when we we gathered up with Ethan and we're just like hanging out and they were like, okay Let's go back and let's see. We don't know where it's going to end up. We don't know what's going on We started really following the the watch duty app and we had not been evacuated at that point We weren't even a warning because they do a a warning zone and then an evacuation that's closer and so they stagger it like that They do a warning Europe. You're on deck

You might need to go. And then it's like, this place needs to go, this place needs to go and go. So at 2 a.m., I just, I basically was like, I'll just stay up all night so I can keep watch of everything and I can report it. So at 2 a.m., I actually brought out my red camera and I put a 200 millimeter Minolta on that bad boy

and I got some really good footage of the fire that I haven't offloaded I would show you or but it's just a fire that's creeping but it was cool to see because I could see it progressing, right? So I took a 5 minute clip and reminder, the wind is blasting so I'm holding my camera outside hoping a branch doesn't hit the lens, pointed at this, the other hillside, and I'm just like trying to brace it for a steady shot, so it's a little shaky. Like, it's the kind of wind where Chica and Henry, their furs is like,

like all the way back, and they're just like, what's happening? Um, so, but with the, the smoke and the, the ash, we were trying to avoid getting them outside, so we're kind of sheltered up. Around 4am, two hours later, I'd still been staying up. I was just debating going to sleep, because I was like, I don't know if anything's gonna happen. Like all of our phones, like there was, Catherine was staying over as well, so it was like Amy, myself, and Catherine, and all of our phones were like, and it was, uh, you're on deck for evacuation. Our zone turned yellow and it's like, oh, holy shit. So we start throwing bags in the car,

piling everything up as best we can. And then by the time we were packed, it turned red. Like we were already gonna go. And so we're just like, fuck. And then we head out and we drove down. We stayed with some friends. But yeah, from 4 a.m. till about three days ago we weren't able to come home because we just didn't know

where this fire was gonna go there was it there was a distinct possibility that the fire would spread beyond containment if the woods kept up if the winds had kept up I don't think my house my house might not still be here despite their best efforts because they couldn't fly planes in the winds and that was the biggest problem They could not do any water drops from the air Which is like the main way that they're able to contain and control the spread and travel of the fire And so it kind of just swept through all of us of a place called Alta Dina Alta Dina is like north of Pasadena Alta Dina and

It's a very old neighborhood as I was saying in a video update that I made it's an extremely old neighborhood with a lot of very old houses Of families that have been there a very long time. It has a lot of history. There's there's huge amount of history there Fire just plowed right through there all along the ridgeline. There's a satellite image that shows the before and after of before the fire and after the fire. It's just gone. It's just gone. Looking at that, we just had no idea how far it was going to spread because it just seemed like they were not able to do anything. There's a lot of people that are talking about like, oh, it's like a mismanagement of resources, yada yada. When the winds are that strong, there is nothing that you can do. Amy showed me a clip. This puts it into perspective of just how, like this is what it was.

Yeah, I've seen other clips on of like close to the action and close to the fire type stuff and even further away It's insane how many embers were just getting absolutely blasted like way up into the air way far from the fire And then they they traveled so quickly that they were still like What the fuck? It's a gaming controller this was shared to me this is not my history AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Oh, Mark's history is kind of weird. That's a cool game, Mark. We're gonna have to, if you could share that with me later. I swear to God, that's what it auto-played to. What the fuck?

God, I know my next impossible let's play. The no hands challenge. Well, was I, Oh yeah, the wind. Anyway, yeah, there was just like ember, fire embers were just like falling from the sky in places where the fire was close, but like it wasn't like the front lines of the fire. People are just

like, like there's one that was going around that was like a McDonald's I think in Altadena. The McDonald's, like an ember had landed and the sign and part of the front of McDonald's was on fire and it was just like like it looked like it was a fake because it was It was like hurricane winds and the fire was like just chill out. I'm on fire already like fuck That's enough wind and the wind was like we're doing this it the videos of that that sort of stuff is like

Unreal because that's not what it usually looks like. I've seen a lot of when we lived in the Bay Area, we were in the yellow get ready to evacuate zone for like a week and so I saw a lot of clips of fires and people fighting wildfires never looked like that. None of the stuff that we experienced when we were up there looked like that at all. That's the important thing that people need to realize in this context. It is not an exaggeration to say that these were hurricane force winds. It was as if a hurricane rolled in and instead of rain, it was fire. That's legitimately what it was when these fires were cropping up and there's

there's some allegedly arson that was occurring, which I don't know exactly specifically what the circumstances of that is. Everything is still trying to be figured out. One of them seems to be an electrical fire. It seems like Eaton was, there's some video that came out that was Eaton was definitely starting around the base

of a large power transformer, which is for transfer across large distances, which was a definite risk of all this. That's what people were most worried about is that the wind was going to knock down power poles in random locations. And that was called causing a downed electrical line, which was going to spark, which obviously can start a fire. And that was the largest concern. The problem is you don't have eyes everywhere.

So the reporting of it had to be largely from citizens just being like there's a fire over there. So the sources of it are indeterminate to the result of it at this point, right now at this juncture down the road, you know, blame can be assigned and sources can be and be met. But it should be reiterated, just to combat anything out there, that there was nothing, nothing that could have been done in the moment. Preventative is another question, but even the best laid plans in the face of an unprecedented event like this

are really kinda go to shit. A lot of the firefighters were even saying as they were progressing through the Altadena fires, like we train for, you know, residential fires all the time, but for a house, a typical house fire, they need three engines, right? Three engines. There were 5,000 houses on fire. There aren't enough firefighters in the state to, there aren't enough fire trucks in the state, definitely to assign 15't enough fire trucks in the state definitely to assign

15,000 fire trucks to each house to contain that kind of fire that just is Unfeasible you can't prepare for that you can't train for that getting it beforehand is another thing But again with the winds no drops no air support at all is possible, and that's like the main drops. No air support at all is possible. And that's like the main objective and, and there are the main weapon against trying to fight these fires. And again, I'm not an expert, but I've learned a lot in the past few days about how these are done. And I've seen firsthand of, of what it was all about. It was ridiculous. The biggest difference between the spread of these fires, I think,

did you guys see the Hollywood Hills fire that started after the Eaton fire? A little bit, yeah. I've seen a lot of clips, but I don't know one from the other from what I've seen. So I watched this unfold live with the other people that we're sheltering up with. We watched it from the very beginning, the first moment, because the Watch Duty app said immediately there is a new fire within a certain mile radius of where you are. So we turned on the news and we could see there was a chopper on the scene looking at it being like, this fire is a problem. He was literally calling out

that street, because it was so close to everything else, that street right there, they need to evacuate. He was calling it and saying it with that urgency, but the difference being the winds were calm enough That air support could get in there and even though they did evacuate a lot of the area as a precautionary measure And again anyone that gets pissed off at an evacuation. It's an inconvenience where the worst-case scenario is you die So, you know it being delayed a little bit or in communities. No, no, no, Mark. We need to politicize this. That's the right way to handle any kind of catastrophe or tragedy is political. Yeah. And our political correspondent, Wade, will now take it over.

Yeah. I can't believe the propaganda, the fire voted wrong in the last election. And honestly, it's their fault. That fire would still be going if they voted correctly. I believe in fire rights. Fire 2026. Isn't that like the 29th amendment fire rights? Sure. They have their own festival that I hear is pretty successful.

Anyway, the difference being they could make airdrops on that fire. So I saw them and there are some, oh, there were some good drops. Have you guys seen any of the clips of like the water drops that just extinguish a whole hillside? Oh, those clips go so hot. Have you seen any of the like cockpit footage? I saw one.

Dude, the guys in the big, they're like DC tens, I think, or they're like big planes where they come in and from the cockpit, it looks like they're just flying at the ground. And the guy is just like, and at the last second, they're just like, yeah, they push them up. It looks fucking crazy. Like, I'm sure it's all very controlled because they're professionals. But the just even the video is like, holy shit. That's how I would do that in a video game.

That shit's crazy. It's that crazy, I'm sure, but they're very skilled at what they do. And what I was told that I never even considered is as they're dropping, they have to change their trajectory based on the different weight dropping out of the ship. So they gotta like, they gotta anticipate that,

know exactly what correction to make as the water is Leaving because the weight of the the plane is just like dropping like a rock or like a giant pile of water Yeah, no, they're very very good at what they do. It is incredible and just like again and again Just like boom boom boom scoop up more water boom boom boom like it is it is nuts And it's it's just weird to think about because with the Eden fire you had 5,000 houses that burned down Palisades was bigger is bigger still is happening right now as I'm speaking the Palisades is not contained it is in a better situation than it was before but it is

absolutely not contained same with the Eden fire it's not contained they report containment by literally going because they can contain it based on like controlling the spread, so that's when they create a perimeter that it can't cross and they're like this is contained. But they cannot declare it contained until they go around there and physically check to make sure there are no hot spots spreading past their containment line. So it takes a while to get the containment but even even now like the Palisades was more. It was bigger. So anyone that was like that's ever saying like oh man they they didn't have enough water or like Elon

making an ass out of himself in front of the LA Fire Chief. Oh I got a side tangent about that man. God that was so... and like he's still going even right now he's still yammering on just lie after lie and so many people are did you see? This is unrelated to the fires, but did you see his path of exile to drama? Oh? Yeah, I've been I've seen that I watched a path of exile to content creator like alright I'm gonna make Elan's build what you need to do is worry about item level and number of things Just watching him lose. Anyway, it was so funny watching him like very obviously take an account that someone else had boosted for him

and he had no idea what he was doing. He's like, I need this white crossbow in my inventory. His Elden Ring build should have been the most obvious of terrible, terrible terrible terrible skills in game He had a stash filled with Elon's things You don't know inside his tighty-whities band. It says Elon's underwear. I'm sure he's done lots of good but man he Anyway, it's it's what what needs to be reiterated over and over and over again is unprecedented that is the biggest thing to say about this entire situation.

The amount of trucks, the amount of hoses, the amount of water being drawn from the reservoirs is unprecedented. Water pressure obeys the laws of physics. And reservoirs are of a certain size. No matter what you can say or whatever have you, it is, there's a physical limitation, and when you're fighting something of this unprecedented amount, you can say for sure that there should have been more preparation, absolutely,

but to get to the level of preparation you would need to combat an unprecedented challenge is not within Six Sigma Declaration of Statistical Probability that you would account for normally. It just isn't there, or it wasn't there, and it's not something that is helpful right now when the most important thing is that the fires are still not out, and there is another wind event coming along and yet people are just like for no reason other than petty personal political gain. No no no the problem is we pay people a livable working minimum wage when we should be building lasers that shoot water at California and these kind of things. Cold lasers. I've always said it. We should figure that out. Moon lasers that shoot water but no instead

people gotta eat food or whatever they need to hire that ice to meet you guy from those movies where is he at these days what's he doing you mean the governor he used to be there if the governor was still in office none of this would be happening I assume I can't think of a good political name for mr. Freeze mr Spending freeze the governor. No, I don't know I'm sorry. Is he in a Christmas story? Who's governor? Neeser Scrooge God freeze you everyone This is the thing that made me laugh feels weird to find comedy in it But one of my favorite things I think I've seen is there's been a lot of shit online of people being completely lacking any empathy whatsoever for anyone,

especially people who are in the Palisades area because like people outside of the situation are just like, aren't they all just rich movie stars? Just shut up and buy another million dollar mansion. Like whatever. It's not like I don't understand why people feel that way, but no, everyone who lives in Pacific Palisades is not in the 1% can buy anything they want. It's not like I don't understand why people feel that way, but no, everyone who lives in Pacific Palisades is not in the 1% can buy anything they want. It's not like that. But there was this one guy, and I'm sorry, I don't remember your name, which is funny. But apparently he was on like a TV show like a while ago, like 15 years ago, he was on a successful TV show.

And since then, he hasn't like done too much. He's been laying low doing whatever, you know, sort of half retired celebrities do. And he posted a social media and he was like, for the last two decades, since I finished my role on TV show, everyone's been telling me I'm washed. I'm nobody. I'm a C Lister. And now, thanks to this fire, suddenly I'm a huge multimillionaire. I'm a douchebag who should just go buy another mansion. What a rebrand.

I did not expect Pacific Palisades Fire to be such a powerful rebrand for my persona, but man, am I somebody now. I can't, yeah, it's the cognitive dissonance to try to lump, lump this entire experience into one category that you can point people at and be lump, lump this entire experience into one category that you can point people at and be like, hate this thing, this is why this is bad. And it's, it's a strategy that's been employed for many, many years that is

just like, create an enemy so that people can focus their anger upon. When in reality that's not the situation. People lose sight of the fact that there is families that have lost everything. There are people that have lost their lives. That have all party affiliation of all political spectrum. Like you actually have an example of the Palisades, because even if you think of them as like a rich town with all the celebrities and millionaires and we shouldn't care about them, Then you have Altadena over here, which is historically family homes of lower income, of normal quote unquote everyday American lives, even if they live in LA because LA is so big, people don't have any context of what it is. These are on opposite ends of the city. Everyone in LA is a billionaire. We all know it. The

worker at McDonald's in LA clearly live in a mansion and they're like, I'm just so rich, I wanna go make burgers, I'm so rich, I want to go do X job, you know. Yeah, there's like a mom and pop small businesses over there in Alta Dena that are burned to the ground, that have been there for 40 something plus years. Many, probably more. Even if it was a 20 year business,

that doesn't discredit it from being like a historical piece of that community. And they're gone. Like they're just gone. And it doesn't matter who they believed in because there's people out there that are just like shouting at how they're wrong for what they've lost and not even focusing on any effort to help them rebuild. Meanwhile, here in California, it's like a battle of trying to fend off like, no, that's not, we're on fire. Hey, hold on, please. And then trying to like, you did this to you. Slap. Exactly. That's what it is. It doesn't matter. Look, I'm an Ohio native, but I've been here in California for like 10 years and One thing that I will say is like the people of this city Los Angeles specifically

I can't speak to other cities is like they really really love their city They really really are prideful of what they have and what they've lost and the beautiful thing is how many people have come together to and what they've lost. And the beautiful thing is how many people have come together to contribute to those who are actually affected. The actual physical help that is occurring, that's what people should focus on. Where, meanwhile, everyone else is playing a blame game while there's people suffering. Some people are still, they don't have a home, they don't have a place to go, they're in a shelter now. And for the indeterminate future, they're going to stay there. Like rebuilding is going to take years. Even if it doesn't rebuild in the exact same way,

trying to make sure that it rebuilds in a way that is actually conducive to the type of people that were living there. I mean, financially, you know, instead of becoming like big mega apartments or big, you know, huge mega mansions, which it wasn't. That's not what it was. This is a very background thing for me, but I can only imagine in terms of the kind of peril that LA and the real estate that was affected by the fires is in right now, because all of the huge development companies who like to turn everything into ugly, non-descript apartments and more parking lots and shopping centers and shit are looking at this and they're like

These these people who've owned this house since it was a two hundred thousand dollar house And now it's like a one point five million dollar house Or I don't know if that's accurate but like right that people these regular Americans who own these houses who are not millionaires Bought them well, they were still expensive, but they were in a big city. And they bought them back before they were million dollar houses. They still can't afford to just buy a million dollar house. There's a lot of people who, if they don't get some sort of assistance and if it doesn't coalesce in a way, companies are just going to swoop in, buy their valuable property and turn it into more corporately developed garbage that is, you know, is going to ruin some of these very old communities potentially.

That's very back burner because there's literally still fire on the ground consuming more people's businesses and houses and stuff. That's a serious threat. And that would be very sad in some of these places where it really was like family businesses, local stuff, communities that are now, you know, that hopefully they can rebuild and it'll still be a great community. It'll just have to be new. Well, it doesn't have to happen if people pay attention, especially to the local communities because cities, you know, they are in control of their zoning and they can shoot down and all these projects would have to be submitted for approval

And if they don't get approved, they don't get built there unless there's bribes going on But I think with this, you know There is a strong way to make sure that the people who are easily forgotten are actually taken care of Yeah, but that's only by holding that thought in your mind for a very long time that that's what needs to happen. And so that's something that I'm hopefully going to be a part of as much as I can. Otherwise, I'll just keep my chainsaw and I'll keep hacking at trees. Hey, you can snipe them now with your knife. Yeah, with my knife, with my scope. You see the scope on my chainsaw, that thing, woof.

In a related horrible note, here in Cincinnati, we had two feet plus of snow. What? While you guys were burning, we got dumped on with one of the bigger snows we've had in years. Two feet? I believe it was between 20 and 26 inches. Where we are on the way on the north, almost northwest,

it was more like eight inches to a foot. Even that though, that's, I can't tell you the last time I was in Cincinnati and there was that much snow. Three, four inches short, that happened. This was like in a 24 hour period, like this was a quick big dump. Holy shit. With our little dachshunds, with Presley and Ginger, I was out there shoveling, I think like seven times so they had a place to go potty. It's like we would shovel and there'd be half an inch

where I started because it was just coming down so quickly. I don't know that anything major happened because of it. I was kind of like, you know, in jest. We did get one of the bigger snows we've had in a very long time. And then four or five days later, we got like another three or four inches. So then it warmed up for a couple of days.

Then it kind of like condensed. Now it's kind of like that more compact snow I mean at the very least was 18 we had at least a foot and a half to two feet of snow on the ground And you know, it's the crazy thing where I'm like, okay, let's not be political about this But some of these things should not be political at all like climate change, right? I don't know man. Our snow was pretty communist It was working together in ways that I didn't like. I love you, Wade.

All right, anyway, go ahead. All of it centered on like, Oh man, they're just like, it's a conspiracy. They're just lying to you. And I just keep looking around and I'm like, what's the lie? What, what, what do they gain from the lying of this? Oh, at worst they're like, we want people to not die from increasing severity of natural disasters You know I exist it's it's and who is telling this the perspective of it It all comes from like the same group of people would you like you know coal and oil companies and it's like I wonder why they're Saying it's not real. Have you guys had an electric vehicle? They're fucking awesome. It's way better

had an electric vehicle they're fucking awesome it's way better man let me tell you I finally traded out my Tesla oh I did it specifically because all this was happening I've been meaning to do it forever I've hated that son of a bitch for years I hated it since the moment I got it didn't break immediately it broke immediately at least it was cheap to fix oh yeah yeah definitely well it was under warranty thankfully but getting into a proof shop to do that That was a different story. Man, the suspension broke within the first hundred miles. Their fancy suspension broke They installed the wrong part for the charging port so that the Tesla chargers didn't fit in it I had to crack it by physically pushing it so hard it split it and then it fit in and it worked perfectly

it by physically pushing it so hard it split it and then it fit in it worked perfectly because otherwise it would have been stranded in the middle of winter in the middle of nowhere at this four bay Tesla charger with nothing so I just shoved it in there I've hated it the suspension is broken like four times the last time was out of warranty and I had to be like I have to get rid of this piece of shit you know what I got instead tell me you didn't get a Mach-E. No, I didn't I did not get a Mach-E American car I did get an American car. Did you get a Cadillac Lyric? Nope, you're not gonna guess it because it doesn't seem like a vehicle I would get did you get a Rivian R1T? Ford F-250 Ford Lightning? Ford Lightning! Oh hell yeah. I never thought I'd be a truck guy.

I got a Ford F-150 Lightning because I looked at the specs of what it could do in terms of power delivery. The size of the battery is way bigger than the Teslas ever were. The range is not a lie. Those Teslas all lie about their range. It just blew my mind. I would watch it and I would go like I've traveled 10 miles well surely the oh it's dropped 30 miles all right

well that's fine it said I had like a 300 mile range on my Tesla I got 180 at best even when I was driving like this it's just lies but this one I drive 10 miles and it's like the range estimate only dropped eight and I'm like oh thank you oh thank you now hold on the Tesla wasn't lying. Someone took the road signs and spread them out further That wasn't the Tesla's fault. It's crazy because this truck has a 240 volt plug in the back of it. I could run my render farm off of this truck This truck has more power than all of my backup batteries that I put in my render farm by three times.

I want to see a Ford commercial with like a really nerdy dude driving his Ford Lightning with the render farm. He's like off-roading in the mud through the woods while like video game let's plays or like processing in the back. I could. That's the crazy thing. I could. And so this it's a weird segue from like climate change stuff, but it's like on the flip side of it is like the negative of clean energy stuff is that it's awesome. I've driven a regular Ford F-150 and it's a big beefy truck and I didn't like to

drive that for any other reason because it was just like it's it's not practical. Now I have to haul shit all the time because I've got desks that I'm moving all over the place and I've got like other big things and I was out there with my chainsaw, I had tools that I needed to bring. I was like this actually makes sense and if I'm evacuating I want a big bed so I can I can actually take my shit and go So I was like, I'm gonna do this. I got it that thing my god. I press on the panels inside of it. They don't squeak So bad, it's so bad. It's so bad I didn't have like the cheap version of it! You should have gone Cybertruck. Yeah, that's probably your problem right there. If you had just gotten to a Cybertruck, Mark, that's the ultimate Tesla experience. You know what I do every time I see we drive a Cybertruck?

We used to do this even before I had a F-150 Lightning. We go... La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Because it's in every metric in every single metric. It's a better vehicle Why would you do that even if you like the styling on specs? It's anyway, I'm segueing This is not important. God. I fucking love it. This is like the most political non-political episode we've ever done Yeah, it shouldn't be though. It shouldn't be Have you seen solar power? I just got a bunch of so It shouldn't be! Have you seen solar power? I just got a bunch of solar power! It's so much cheaper than-

Whoa, whoa, whoa, dude! Oh my god! You're crossing a line here! I just- it's- it's just better! It's instantly faster than any other F-150 out there. It's just better! It's- and now with fast charging, let me tell you, my- my Tesla,

you know, it can charge like 120 kilowatts. This thing can charge 320 kilowatts. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, it can charge fucking fast. Way faster than my Tesla did. Now, admittedly, my Tesla was older, so it probably didn't have the fast charging. But there's some stations out there

that have 320 kilowatt charging, or amp, I'm not sure which.'s just it's just better just better it can fill that bad boy up to 80 percent in like 15 minutes which I did that a bunch on international trips or national trips and it would take like 45 minutes to an hour every single time I wanted to charge just to 80 in my tesla good lord and so that was the road trip that's why I didn't do the road trips anymore that I our arm we have a Model Y because we got the financing and then we don't need to pick up truck because I was shopping for Rivians and F-150 Lightnings and whatnot. But the Fashtr goes from like 20 to 80 percent in like seven minutes on the top tier supercharger. It's probably the new ones that I couldn't get to. So maybe. But ours is a 24.

So your X being older, it probably had the shitty charging. It definitely did. And it had a bigger battery than ours has. But the range is still an issue because ours is a fucking liar too. Ours, we don't even leave the miles on. We leave the percentage because it's like,

it's more valuable for you to just know where we're at because it doesn't mean anything for how far that's going to get us. It means nothing. And I think you just keep track of like, when like we don't even, it's not like we road trip it or anything. So it's not a huge thing. But for around town, it's great. Wade, man, cannot recommend if you haul anything in your life

and you know what better way to get revenge on that truck that took out your car, your own truck. I need a semi lightning. That's a Tesla. You don't want, I don't know about that one. No, what you're, what you want to look up is Edison Motors. That's a nice high, it's, it's, it's a hybrid electric truck company, but it's a diesel.

It's a, so this is a thing I've always wondered why people didn't do this and they're starting to do it more. It has an engine. It has a diesel engine in the front that only generates electricity. Otherwise it's a fully electric drive train with fully electric motors. There's no diesel drive. But so the range on it is infinite because you just, the diesel just kicks on, generates power. It only costs like six grand to get a commercial driver's license.

Yeah, get a CDL and then talk to Edison Motors. They're not in production yet so you'd have to get a special pre-production. I'm sure they could slap something together for you. This is totally random and not related to anything we're talking about. Edison Motors seems like a great company. It's cool the way they're building their trucks too. Almost all of the main chassis components are bolt on so like if you bend a frame rail, if you have an accident something happens. Almost every part you bend a frame rail, if you have an accident, something happens. Almost every part you could probably unbolt it, buy the part you need from them, bolt it all back together, brand new truck. It's designed in a way where like they're very right to repair positive.

I don't know what the term is for that, but they want people to fix their own shit, they will sell you the part and they want you to be able to do it. Cool company. I have no need for an industrial semi truck hybrid electric. Seems awesome. I just want like an SUV of some kind. I want a little bit more cargo space. I want more people space. Yeah. Well, I mean my F-150, they make it as a dual four door. It's as big as a vehicle. The thing that's taking some getting used to with the truck is that it is longer.

I have driven an F-150 in LA before so I'm used to it a little bit But it does take so instance that you'd be fine You know what you've worried about like like 60% of the cars on the road in Cincinnati are either Ford F-150s or Chevy Silverados, so you know what's the Chevy Silverado now that you mentioned it. Hey, I'm brand agnostic. The Silverado EV, did you look at it? I didn't after I bought the Ford F-150. Cause I was gonna say that was my next guess for what EV you got honestly. The Chevy Silverado EV looks very cool.

I almost have a little bit of buyer's remorse because the Ford F-150 has 131 kilowatt battery. The Chevy has a 200 kilowatt hour battery with a 490 mile range and it has more power in its outlets. And I'm just like, Ooh, did you see the way the bed works on the Chevy too? No, God, did I buy the wrong truck? No, no, no. Listen, the F-150 Lightning is still awesome, but the way the Chevy works, the back of the

cab, it's a four, it's a four door, right? So it's a, there's a full bench in the back. the back of the cab, it's a four door, right? So there's a full bench in the back. The back of the cab folds in. So like the seats fold down, the back folds in, and you get like three or four extra feet of space. And also it's open out the back then. So it's like- Oh, like it's got a pass through.

The glass, no, like it goes away. It's not even like some of it opens. You pop the glass out, you fold fold the seats down you stow the glass And then you fold the bottom half down and it's like the whole back wall is gone of the cab And that's all just becomes bed space and it's open to the outside. It's cool as shit Chevy. Hey I know I just got a Ford blood. I've not had a car in five years Yeah, and you're never gonna get one. So no one's gonna believe you. Anyway, I've been trying man. Look wait I bought my truck. Okay, I bought it. All right, it took me I didn't I asked him to go quickly

It took still three hours, but I was like, hey, I was in and out of there. No time you can do it I don't know what kind of like picky shit we have but we've been trying to get a car Molly and I have been trying to get a car since June of last year you just go to drive you go do I like it yeah we were looking at the Alexis TX hybrid which is like a seven-seater SUV and they had a recall right after we were trying to get one because of an airbag issue and they were like hey we're gonna put you on this list. We're gonna call you. It'll be maybe like two or three months That was in June of last year. Then they had the recall we talked to them again in October like hey we fixed the issue Give us like two weeks. We'll be calling you up. That was in October and

I've called I've checked in and no updates. We'll call you when you're there in person talking about wanting a car the guys like call me once a day if you want you call me Whenever you want an update. I will let you know your top of the list. I call same dudes like I told you we call you There's no update. I'm not selling you car right now. Therefore. I don't care I feel like if you actually really wanted a car I know there are TX is rolling off of lots You could have found the TX of your dreams apparently not through the dealer Literally in not in our neighborhood. They go to our grocery store I noticed these things because I looked at the Lexus is I think Lexus hates me

There's a brand new TX hybrid that parks at our Kroger all the time. They just got that son of a bitch It's probably the guy at our dealership and the one that we wanted and he's like If they hate why are you going back there cuz I like their car there's a lot of Toyota dealers You know that right like Toyota Lexus there's like 19 of them in Cincinnati. My last car was an FR-S, I got it at the Toyota dealer, it was technically a Scion, which is now gone, but when I bought my first car, or the first car I could buy after like,

hey, YouTube's making money, and I don't have a car, I went to Hyundai dealership and I talked to the guy and he was like, hey, you buying a car today? I was like, Oh, I just want to check out, you know, what you got. He's like, Oh, I'm not going to sell you if you don't, if you're not going to say you're going to buy. And so I was like, all right, goodbye. And I walked right out and I went down the street to the dealer across the way and I bought a car from them because I said, fuck that guy.

And I was like a completely different car than I wanted, but I was just like, I don't have time to be talked down to by a salesman. It's even different now because the post-pandemic way that they do cars at least with Lexus is they don't like have just bulk orders of cars now they they order them in a different way so that way they don't get fucked by like production or something again so now apparently everyone has to wait like a year for a car because I was talking to another friend of ours about like a Chevrolet and he's like, oh yeah, well the Chevrolet is nine months out if you want to order one.

I just get a phrase it this way. I own very nice cars right now and I have owned, I'm a car guy. Why are you ordering one? I don't know. Just buy, there are, there's no way that there's not a spec out there that you could just buy off a lot. I need to take you with me next time I go car shopping, because maybe you know more than I do.

Ordering a car from the manufacturer is a terrible way to do it. I've not even intentionally tried to do it that way. They're just like, what are you looking for? I was like, seat that heats up is nice, car with motor, these seats. Oh, all right. You got, we're on a four month wait on that. And I was like, all right, well, okay. I feel like, I feel like he's gaslighting us mark. I feel like I'm not you have to be because I went there I went to the store and I said hey, do you have lightnings? He goes like I think is that one he didn't even know he pointed at it like lightning I was like, yeah that says lightning on the back. Can we check the specs? Sure

And we looked at the sticker together. It was like, that's a lightning. All right, it's got a big battery. And I went, bye. I'm being Truman showed when it comes to car shopping. I think you are. They all know, they all know. They want to keep the content going.

They just want to keep you upset. It is good content, but you know, the content doesn't put money in my pocket of bitching about cars. Bob, you put a bad thought in my head. Cause did I buy the, I'm gonna look at the Chevy's now. No, listen, Mark, don't, save the Chevy upgrade for when you move to a place where you really need a Chevy,

like Cincinnati. They both start with C. Where do I take my Ford? Columbia. Florida. Yeah, Florida is a real estate. What's Philadelphia? I'm never going to own a pickup truck

in my entire life, except maybe I will because I can't stop thinking about them. And the Chevy Silverado EV is fascinating. Also, the new Rivian's starting to roll out. The R2's out there. R3's coming. Those are not pickup trucks, but those are very... I just don't like how they look.

Oh, I think they look sick. Who makes Rivian what is a Rivian Rivian is the company they're a smaller market share EV company but they make some very cool trucks smaller market share that doesn't sound political enough for me like I'm not a truck guy I've never been about like I need a big truck but for what I'm doing nowadays with the amount of shit that I'm dragging around, it actually makes sense. And the amount of power, the power is the craziest part of that.

I can go to, I can load up my film equipment, go out to a random location in the middle of nowhere, never need a generator because I just plug it all into my truck. That's true. For filming out in literally anywhere you wanna be, that's pretty wild actually. Cause you could probably, you could probably plug a whole like studio grade power

distribution block up thing because they have those right where it's like yeah a 240 into a whole thing and you could probably run all that shit off of there for ever I mean for quite a while if the way it is in my f-150 it's a 7.2 kilowatts out of the 240 which is enough to power pretty much everything you would ever need plus charging a bunch of batteries it has a 131 kilowatt hour battery so it could run it for about 18 hours everything if you were at max which you're not going to be so you would be running it can run your house that was the big selling point if this Chevy has an even bigger

battery and more power out I might go take a look I don't know if the Chevy has the same generator output things that the lightning has because that was the big sales thing for the lightning is literally it's like power goes out plug that shit into your house bow your whole house like I don't know that the Chevy does that the Chevy is is is cool in different ways can I make a bitching I don't know what I just said can you make a bitching yeah can I please do halogen lights I don't know what I just said. Can you make a bitching? Yeah, can I? Please do. Halogen lights. I don't know if it's me. Maybe I'm getting early onset cataracts or something I don't know man, but driving at night in the rain

We went down so we've got friends that live down in like Northern, Kentucky We went down there for like a holiday party and we were driving back and it was nighttime It was raining and let me just say some of those roads also the highway with the fucking Divots that hold water when you're going like 60 miles an hour And you just out of nowhere hit a pocket of water that makes you feel like you're gonna go flying into the air fucking sucks But vehicles with those bright ass fucking halogen lights that you can't tell if they're brights are on or if they're just the bright fucking halogen lights that make it where you can't see anything as it approaches and can't see anything for 10 seconds after it leaves are the absolute worst.

And whoever thought those were a good idea to put into vehicles, there better be a place in hell just like fucking booked for them in advance, like a goddamn restaurant table. You know what's funny? It's potentially not even halogens. It was for a long time. Halogens were the big it's LED. Then those whatever it is can rot in hell. Because halogens were bright, but they were a similar type of source to the, I don't know if they're incandescent, technically the old school head light bulbs. LEDs, the way they work, the origin of the light

is so small that it makes it much more prone to like glare and lens flare effects and stuff. Dude, it's so bad, especially if it's wet at all. Dude, LED, LED, especially non diffused LED headlights, cause you can diffuse them and that changes the nature of it a little bit. Non diffused LED headlight arrays scourge on the roads. They are a problem. Everyone is using LED headlights now. It's really unpleasant. To be clear, I don't think I have, I'm getting cataracts at 35 years old, but God, I hate those fucking lights. It's also because I discovered this in my

truck is they all start with the auto high beam on by default and it will turn that shit on at every opportunity. And I'm like, these are houses I'm passing by. I am illuminating their entire bedroom with my truck. So I turn that shit off, but I guarantee you a lot of people don't. And that's also part of the problem is people just do not control their auto high beams. That is a scourge. They are so goddamn bright that if you shined up my asshole, I would open my mouth and spit out fucking beams of light like God himself was here. I hate those things.

Anyway, I just wanted to make a bitching. What was this episode about? Fire. Oh. We really just sort of went places. We haven't talked in a while. We're buds catching up. It's been it's been over an hour of recording.

I have a topic. I'm going to go ahead and, we'll save that one. Oh, can I add one more thing? Make a bitch, please. The place or places the direct people that want to help in the relief efforts. I don't know that we threw any of that out. Perhaps we should.

I don't know if saying it means much, but the link will definitely be in the description of this episode, I'm assuming, right? But Mark knows. I am not well versed enough to know exactly all of the resources. I do know that Tiltify one is vetted and we've worked with Tiltify before, so they're at least a reliable source and the organizations that they are supporting in that cause are good. So that I think is a good baseline to start with. It's like a unified Tiltify campaign

for the wildlife or wildlife the wildfire relief. That link will definitely be down there. As far as everything else, it's a very individual thing. So supplies, the beautiful thing is a lot of the donation places, they're stocked to the brim. They're just absolutely stuffed. So that's great. I do like that.

I'm happy about that. But as far as financial help for like the volunteers or the people working at these places, that does help too. And the the efforts towards the communities, that's also good. So, all that's very good. Well, I did give out points. It felt weird to give points for this one. But I gave out points and as is tradition, I guess I'm gonna read what points you got. In no particular order, Wade, you earned points for Storage Hunter Sim. Dude, so good. Political Fire.

Mmm, X job. I don't know what that's about. Totally going to get a car someday guys. Come on. Hey, don't talk like that. Hey, I'm going to get one. It's really hard. Come on guys. And Howlojen Lights. Hey, I'm gonna get one. It's really hard. Come on guys and

How low Jen lights mark you earn points for buy let's buy a pawn shop a knife a great segue to fire Airdrop action stars buying an f-150 lightning, but hey Chevy And also auto high beams. Wade, you earned a total of five points. Mark, you earned a total of seven points. Yay! It's not golf rules, Mark wins. Yay! How fucked up would it be to take the episode

where Mark mainly talked about his experience fleeing the fires and trying to help people. And I was like, well, but Wade wins though, cause he was fun he was funnier. So sorry mark your points were flammable Wade wins It would I wouldn't have you know, I wouldn't have been that upset because wouldn't it's precedent. There's precedent. That's true I'm not sure what the equivalent president is, but I bet it's there Everyone out there go back and rewatch all the episodes and tell us what the precedent was. Oh wait loser speech Uh, everyone out there, go back and rewatch all the episodes and tell us what the precedent was. Uh, wait, loser speech? Uh, look, I gave it my all.

I've been shoveling a lot of snow and I've been hunting a lot of storage auctions. I can see why, in the greater scheme of things, Mark might win this episode. He did, after all, buy a new vehicle. An easy task to accomplish. Anybody who's in the market for a car could almost definitely find one that they're looking for. It was very easy. It was very easy. I'm either gaslighting, being gaslit, or all of you, including my two co-hosts, are in some greater conspiracy to keep me from getting a vehicle, and I'm just being driven slowly insane by the madness that has ensued my attempt.

Calm down, Truman. Mark, winner speech? Yeah, so link is in the description for the Tiltify campaign. I'm very grateful to win this episode and you know, it was quite extenuating circumstances. There's still a lot to do. I'm hoping to carry this on and I'm grateful for this win

and to be here with my friends to talk about it. So that's what I'm grateful for. win and to be here with my friends to talk about it. So that's what I'm grateful for. All right. Well, congratulations. That's the end of the episode. I still don't remember everything that we talked about. I feel like we just had quite the journey. Thank you everyone for listening.

Thank you even more for watching. You know who you are. This has been Distractable. Make sure that you check us out on social media and YouTube and Twitch and stuff like that, because we all do that sort of stuff. And that's it. Thank you so much, everybody. In the next one, podcast out.