Distractible - Mark of Theseus

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:57 I'm talking about the... Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Marky Mark mentions a murder and upgrades a la Dr. Frankenstein. Brittle Bob gives a friendly fridge update, suggests slicers, manual mandolins, giving Logan head and nutrition ninjas. Well endowed Wade has citrusy canines, proposes power poses, gummy gonads, total tools and a Stark special. From listener lethality to poloiding a pals penis, yeah it's time for Mock of Theseus. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
Starting point is 00:01:46 Good evening everyone and welcome. I don't know if it caught the beginning of that. He said poopy everyone. Good evening everyone and welcome to Distractable my co-hosts are not in frame. We are the podcast that brings you weekly, bi-weekly, die weekly. Die weekly definitely. The threat you don't enjoy you don't fall you die die weekly deceased monthly Pass semi-annually. It's actually pronounced die Stractable people been getting it wrong this entire time finally. We're living on no other secret. There's many secrets many Easter eggs
Starting point is 00:02:20 No one found them or the prizes that are connected to them. I'm honestly surprised the subreddit is not just blowing up We overestimate them. They're ignorant, but it's okay I am markiplier I'm hosting today's episode because I won last time and that means I have to subject these two wonderful beautiful competitors to my whims I know you said nice things But I was fully prepared to be offended by your descriptors of us and I'm taking a little look back. You can be offended I don't I don't think that's appropriate. You were very nice.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Well, thank you. You get one nice point. I wasn't listening. Do I get a point for obliviousness? Yep, oblivion point. I'll give you that. Great game. Needs a remake.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I don't know if it needs a remake. I don't know if that was a great game. Not great game. Don't play it, but great game. Morrowind, I think, was a great game. Oblivion was just, oh man, he's the cousin at the family reunion you don't want to talk to, you know? Damn! Looks odd.
Starting point is 00:03:10 But there's so much funny shit if you're willing to put hundreds of hours into it. Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah. Also, I really should have brushed my teeth, man. I just ate orange chicken and I can still see it. My teeth are very orangey. Yum. I haven't eaten anything. I'll tell you what though, I've been doing like a high protein diet. Like the smile. I haven't eaten anything.
Starting point is 00:03:30 I haven't eaten anything. Not? Cause I've been cutting on carbs a lot. Not to talk about diet. Like, I'm sorry for everybody who doesn't like to talk about diet, but this is- Boo! I like it. Not eating carbs is really good for your teeth. Like my teeth feel healthier. It's something about how carbs and sugars just kind of ferment in your teeth. And if you're not super careful about flossing and brushing all the time, it can catch up to you. And so not having that has actually been
Starting point is 00:03:58 quite good for my teeth. I always speed on the highway so nothing catches me. You don't have a car. Yeah, man. I give you a lying point. I was just imagining you running. Ah, crank it up, ah! Funny story about that.
Starting point is 00:04:10 I think this is the first time we've chatted since Thanksgiving, it's been a minute. So apparently there was, I don't know if it's a TikTok thing or if it was just one-off, what it was, but my nephews over at Thanksgiving were, showed me something on their phone where there was like an uncle race, like the family uncle race.
Starting point is 00:04:24 The four old dudes got into a line and started running and like one of them stopped immediately. showed me something on their phone where there was like an uncle race like the family uncle race the four old dudes got into a line and started running and like one of them stopped immediately one of them like fell over one of them kind of just veered off to the left and one of them kind of like to the finish line my nephews were like we need an uncle race and my brother was like no i was like i'll uncle race and they're like well there's no one else to race like what if i race you they're like uncle wade we don't want to put you to shame. We lined up and I beat those little shits. I fucking outran every single one of them.
Starting point is 00:04:51 I still got it. That's because kids don't have any idea of what age really is. So you versus a 90 year old man is basically the same in their mind. So 35, I still got it, man. I'm still in my prime. There's people that go to the Olympics at that age. You are the only one who's trying to downplay our glorious age of 35. I'm up. I just said I want to race.
Starting point is 00:05:11 What do you mean downplay? I'm saying I'm awesome. Yeah, but you're saying it in a way. For our age, I'm awesome. There we go again. What? You're qualifying. Why are we qualifying? You have to qualify to go to the Olympics too, Marques. Some people go to the Olympics. It's okay for them.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Those words are technically related to each other, yes.'t you? Some people go to the Olympics. It's okay for them. Those words are technically related to each other, yes. Thank you. I rest my case, your honor. Bob, how's your life? Uh, good. Really good. I've been sick for a month and a half straight.
Starting point is 00:05:34 That's great, man. I've been sick. Manny's been sick. Baby's been sick. Uh, it turns out Baby's just bringing all kinds of little everything cause he has no immune system and then everyone passes it around because we all, you know, we hang out a lot. James got sick first, back in October.
Starting point is 00:05:49 And then I got sick and then Mandy got sick. And then Mandy kind of stayed sick. And then I kind of got better. And then James almost got better, but then he got more sick. And then he kind of got me sick again. And I think I just got Mandy sick again. We've all just had like a cough and a sore throat and a stuffy nose for like a month and a half. It's good. It's going good
Starting point is 00:06:06 Also, I think I shortened my life accidentally by about a decade because I installed a handrail on our front porch We have concrete steps up to the front of our house and there's no railing or anything on our porch It's like super dangerous. And so I was putting a handrail in and to do that I drilled into the concrete. After I did all this, you're supposed to wear like an N92 kind of mask for particulates because when you drill concrete, it makes like really fine mesothelioma type dust. And while I was doing it, I was like drilling, which hammer drilling concrete, very unpleasant. It's literally like for gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah,
Starting point is 00:06:45 for like millimeters at a time. And while I was doing it, I had that moment of like, ah, ah, hmm, oh well. And then I kept going and I did that for about four hours. I'll probably die soon of lung debris or whatever we get from concrete dust. That's good, going good. Everything's great over here.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Good, I wonder why you're sick for a month and a half. I have no idea. Can I ask for specific small talk from Bob? Huh? Yeah, it's called a question and conversations that usually, you know. Well, I'm not one in a long time, so the things I used to take for granted,
Starting point is 00:07:19 I don't know anymore. It's been a while since I've been on the winner's podium. I'll give you a pedantic point. All right. Bob, how was your Thanksgiving? It's been a while since I've been on the winners podium. I'll give you a pedantic point Bob how was your Thanksgiving because the last we talked your fridge situation was less than ideal That feels like it was so long ago now. It was last week Last week as of today, there's at least two or three weeks this episode there. There's at least three weeks ago I told the whole story. Best Buy totally screwed us over.
Starting point is 00:07:47 But we went to another local place on Tuesday afternoon. We went to this place, picked one out on Wednesday afternoon. They came. They installed that bad boy. It was cold that evening. That fridge made ice by the time guests were arriving the next day for Thanksgiving. Hell, yeah. Yeah. So that local store, arriving the next day for Thanksgiving. Hell yeah. Yeah, so that local store, which the name of which I can't remember, it's like Appliance Factory, Appliance Factory, Appliance Factory mattress outlet.
Starting point is 00:08:14 The guys that worked there were super nice. Literally when we got there, there was a truck loading that was about to leave and we talked to the guy, we were like, we need this like for tomorrow. Tomorrow's Thanksgiving or tomorrow's the day before Thanksgiving we have no fridge can you help us and he was like hey Gary like just wait a minute just like hang out in the back okay take a break I'll hold the truck here and if you guys decide to buy this fridge we'll put it on that truck and it will take it out to like the warehouse and then they'll deliver it to you guys
Starting point is 00:08:41 tomorrow and they did and it worked we We literally bought it, it was great. Great service, and the dude texted me every step of the way, he texted and was like, hey, did the delivery guys reach out to you? Yeah, okay, good, good. Hey, did they show up? Yeah, they're at your house now? Okay, great, great.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Couldn't be better. So you're saying the lesson here is that sometimes small operations are much better than giant corpos? Dude, every day for the rest of my life is gonna be Small Business Tuesday or whatever the hell that's called. I just thought, honestly, it was, they had a big showroom, it was a very nice store.
Starting point is 00:09:10 It's not like it was a mom and pop place, but it's a local place. I'm down to give my money to a local business 100% of the time from here on out because the big box stores have never done a good thing to me. Unless I'm going in and grabbing the product myself. They've always been terrible. If our ratings start to slip next year, though, you got to go back.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Oh, yeah. I'll totally recant all that. I'll do anything for a sponsor. Don't worry. Oh, I was thinking more for content, but sponsored to. Oh, yeah. No, whatever. I guess content, but I mean, we could stage all kinds of stuff content. Every time you pass an alley and someone goes, want to buy a fridge? You got to go in there for the content, man. You just got to.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Just have a basement with like eight fridges in it. Can't stop. That'd actually be really cool if a guy did that and like opened up his jacket and he said like little models of fridges. And he's like, yeah, which model do you like? What are you looking for? And he just opened the little tiny models
Starting point is 00:10:00 and they were just tucked in his jacket. I mean, it could work. And what it turned out, he's totally legit. You go into his dark alley and then you pick one and he pulls out like a clipboard with a bunch of work and he's like all right well we can get this delivered to you in about a week. I want to be alley trench coat fridge guy now. Do you want to sign up for the alley appliance store rewards program? It's free to sign up and you know there's just you'll get some emails it's helps you helps us. 20% off this fridge right now. Well, good, good.
Starting point is 00:10:26 I'm glad Wade, you asked Bob about that fridge update. I gave him the point for that. Thank you. That's fair. I totally forgot we hadn't resolved that. I can't believe that. It's been a while since we've talked a long time. Speaking of catching up,
Starting point is 00:10:38 did you guys see the news story about the UnitedHealthcare CEO? I did. Did you see simultaneously there was a story coming out where Blue Cross Blue Shield was gonna change their policy about covering anesthesia during procedures? What a coincidence. I did see that.
Starting point is 00:10:53 You know, interesting thing. Today, I saw that they decided not to go through with that. Yeah, they were gonna make it worse for people and today they're like, what if we don't do that? And it's like, what a weird coincidence. We live in wild, scary times, man. Yeah, and for those that don't do that? And it's like, what a weird coincidence. We live in wild, scary times, man. Yeah, and for those that don't know, there was someone that shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Starting point is 00:11:10 We do not condone that in any way, shape, or form, but at the same time, one of the commonalities that I see online is that no one seems to be surprised. A lot of people aren't even upset. It is interesting. You see a lot of stuff. I mean, even, we don't really talk politics, but even earlier this year, Trump during the campaign was shot at and grazed by Trapnol or a bullet
Starting point is 00:11:31 or whatever it was. He is possibly the most divisive person thing in our country. And even that people were like, well, guys, violence, come on now. Like this is not the way. Go vote, you know? And then the UnitedHealthcare CEO and literally I'm struggling to find online people being like, violence is not the answer. Everyone is kind of like, ooh, ah. The most common response I saw was how many people died to your policies? It's like, Jesus. No, I mean, it's really fucked up that he died and he's a person, but also the sentiment
Starting point is 00:12:05 online about it is telling, I think, to the state of things. The sentiment boils down to, from what I see as a, well, two plus two equals four in this scenario. You know, you can see where the math got to this point. And so that's basically the most even opinion I've seen. But this does bring me to another conversation that I've been thinking about because what better time to take advantage
Starting point is 00:12:35 of the probably new beneficial benefits that we're gonna get from our health insurance and have an opportunity to improve our lives forever are we selling distract assurance no welcome to the mark of theses I have here you look very derisive in your drawing dude, I'm seeing you guys in like 180p so that's not doing me any favors No, no, it's not you could see it. You could tell so I have a Blank slate because I want to do a top to bottom replacement of almost every part of me because I think it's just time to redo from the ground up. So how this is gonna work is I'm gonna propose
Starting point is 00:13:32 one of my many, many body parts, many body parts that I have for upgrade. And I want you two to propose what upgrade that part is going to have. And I will pick whoever is more enticing of an upgrade for the new me that is going to be me in the future. And then whoever gets that spot will get that point. And then at the end of it,
Starting point is 00:13:56 I will be a whole new me and will I be the same me? Do we have any like budgetary restrictions or anything, or is it just the sky's's the limit insurance will cover it now Things really are changing what an inspiring episode. Yeah, let's do it. What's this episode called? God bless health insurance Are you sure it's not called the body of Marquise now that doesn't that doesn't work. That's way worse actually. The ship of Marquee? Mark's Parts. Just abandoned Theseus altogether. Man, but people won't click on that.
Starting point is 00:14:31 No, yeah, we gotta click bait it a little bit. Mark's Parts, parentheses. Yeah, ship of Theseus stuff. All right, Wade, you're gonna go first. For reasons I can't explain, pick a part and we're gonna start with that and you're gonna present something. Or no, here we go.
Starting point is 00:14:43 You pick a part part Bob has to go Guess first or say what it is. All right. All right. Okay. I still I literally cannot see the drawing But are you familiar with the human body? I'm just telling you right now You guys have been kind of coming in a little rough for me. So, I don't know Let's go with is left shin. Is that marked specifically Is that a knee? It's a leg. Just the leg itself? It's just the leg, man. Listen, man, everyone watching this
Starting point is 00:15:09 is gonna see the drawing and understand. It's censored for me. The whole thing is like, it's behind a censor bar. So I'm doing my best. It is a few pixels short of PS3 era graphics for us, but specifically left leg. I did separate the body out. If we run out of time, I'll start smashing bodies together and we'll just assume it's the same one, but left leg.
Starting point is 00:15:29 All right. Left leg. I mean, this might be controversial and I'm going to have to sort of describe this for you. But I feel like you seem like a right leg guy to me. Like if you're kicking something, it's you need your right leg. That's that's the that's an that's a right leg activity. So left leg is really sort of second fiddle. And I feel like you could upgrade that substantially if you replace left leg with you know those Segway wheels where you stand on it and you can like it's
Starting point is 00:15:57 like a one wheel almost but it's like you replace your left leg with some kind of wheel based traversal instrument where it's like you could just pick your right leg up and you become you become like a Wheelie man, you know, you got to get the wheels. What's that guy? The duck guy who has the wheel legs? Oh Yeah, what is it? Yeah, I know who you're talking about the duck man space duck man space duck wheel space duck wheel duck wheel Duck wheels, you know, oh, yeah Yeah, and then he dives into the pile of coins, right? All right, so wheel I think At first I thought you're gonna say you're a right leg guy. So, you know what your left leg should be No, I just say you don't need it for as much. So the wheel, it takes away some of the functionality
Starting point is 00:16:45 that your left leg currently has, but your right leg really is the one you need for that. It's like a powered, like self-balancing, gyroscopically stabilized wheel system. It's like a whole thing. That's important. Okay, all right. Wade, what do you think counterpoint to that?
Starting point is 00:16:59 All right, left leg. So you, we know you're a right leg guy. You kick with your right leg. We accept that. So left leg is kind of a plant leg, but your plant legs important. So you need to be out of something sturdy I'm thinking a power line like a power pole that has electric wires going to it Okay, I'm just thinking ahead here. You might need some extra juice for the future or for future projects and endeavors You can never have enough power if there's one thing I've been maybe fighting with with these monitors is power.
Starting point is 00:17:27 You've got the server solar panels power. So why not have a leg that's already hooked up to juice some more power in? He's hooked by power cables into the power grid already and permanently or? Not necessarily hooked in yet, but he can hook in and he's got the cables ready to go He can be connected. It's like a big power strip But also it's a big metal or wooden like just power pole and it's strong Is it leg length or is it power pole length? I think that's gonna depend on what we do with the right leg
Starting point is 00:17:59 We'll have to plan out the right leg and figure out length accordingly because we want them probably to be even unless you and I Are really mean which we might be. Oh, know you know what I see what you're doing you're pandering here you're telling Mark in a backhanded way that he could be much taller with your power pole legs. Is that true Wade? Is that true kid I be? You could be. Love it take it I'll take it all right 100% no I like okay here. Here's what I'm thinking. He's got a point. I do need to plan for the future. I might as well start from a powerful stance, both in terms of stability and power-ability. For some reason, I'm going with Power-Pole.
Starting point is 00:18:36 That's fine. Despite the other suggestion being obviously superior in many listable ways. I could, the other one could be a wheel. I haven't decided. But you're a right leg guy! It's gonna be really funny if we go to right leg and I'm like wheel and that wins. I'm shocked that this I'm shocked this isn't just a battery but at the same time that could be dangerous for all I know so you
Starting point is 00:18:58 know power poles much safer. Yeah man you got a torso for that too. You're right. At Mazda, we craft cars for those who choose to do more, then simply move. So choose joy, choose the road, and choose to get out there. Choose your calling, choose to make memories and choose more of what moves you. Mazda. Move and be moved. Sure, I could tell you winter's coming or that it brings cold dry air, but you already knew that. What you might not know is that Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash is made with millions of moisturizing micro-moisture droplets to keep your skin silky soft
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Starting point is 00:20:11 Oh wait, I'm sorry. Is left nut and right nut separated out? Yes, they are separated, yeah. Let's go right nut. Right nut, okay, all right. Right nut. Wade, what do you got for my right nut? Oh man, well based on the fact
Starting point is 00:20:23 that's the first time I've seen the drawing that wasn't prepared for this, let me think. Don't you know what a human body is comprised of? I'm gonna be blown away with every part I learned about today. Where's the uh, where's the pee hole? Where's that come out? Anyway, talked about that once. That's true, that's true.
Starting point is 00:20:41 I'm gonna go with a gumball. Hmm, Expound? One, it maintains current shape, fits the form, doesn't result in children. Two, emergency snack. You get hungry, you're out and about, you need something to chew. You got a gumball.
Starting point is 00:21:01 And if there's one thing I've learned from being a fucking student, it's that gum under desks last forever. So that gum ball will be good and ready. So you could put it back. You could just keep chewing it and putting it back. You can mold it back into a circle. It might be a little bit misformed,
Starting point is 00:21:17 but yeah, you could put it disformed. You can put it back. I'm thinking a gum ball. Yeah, say no more. The amount of gum that I know Mark chews at a time, putting literal multiple packs into his mouth all at once to get the gum satisfaction that he seeks, it's not gonna, he's gonna need a big left nut to compensate for how big that gum ball is gonna have to be. Oh, you're saying Mark
Starting point is 00:21:37 doesn't have big gojones right now? I don't know if his nuts are currently big enough to satisfy his gum lusts, but I would be surprised. He also didn't eat today and he could have had gum. These are all mysteries that no one will ever know the answer to. So might as well just skate on past some of those questions and get down to the suggestion. Well, you can't, you didn't take the wheel, Bob. What am I doing here? Right nut? The one I picked? Right nut. The one you picked. I did that. This might be more niche than I'm thinking it is but it also just creates a lot of opportunities
Starting point is 00:22:10 You're not a big gambler which sort of helps with the setup for this It would be impossible for anyone to really challenge you because it'd be a kind of a weird thing to check It's it looks like a right nut But what it actually is is a card dispenser that dispenses royal flushes into your pants. And so whenever you're playing poker, if you go to the casino, you're playing with your buddies or whatever,
Starting point is 00:22:33 it's discreet, it's under the table. You just need to get like a special pair of pants or work on, you know, maybe wear shorts or something. You can develop your sleight of hand abilities and your right nut could help you win a lot of money at card games how good does your sleight of hand have to be? be like oh look over there! that's the thing is that you're you got to shimmy it down to your pant leg or you gotta it's not just a direct reach and pull. You gotta, is there a printer so you can match the back of the cards? Uh, it's quasi supernatural. The cards are always
Starting point is 00:23:11 the correct kind of cards. Wow. Okay. Wow. That's a 3d printer. Right? No, I wouldn't have expected. You said there were no limits. I'm assuming with enough time and money, such a testicle could be invented. And my health insurance will cover it. That is much more useful than a gum ball. It, you know, the subtlety of a printer in my pants going, grunt, grunt, grunt, grunt. You just have to like time a sneeze or something.
Starting point is 00:23:39 I don't know. Every time you play poker, you're just like, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Sorry guys. That cough like that, every hand it seems like. Every time you play poker, you're just like... Shhh! Shhh! Shhh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Starting point is 00:23:50 Sorry guys. That cough like that, every hand it seems like, it's crazy. And then they're gonna fold, so I can pick up on his tail. Every time you do that, you've had a great hand. I fold. Every time you do that, you have five of a kind. What the fuck even, what are we playing? I think that's, okay, if it doesn't help for gambling and I get banned from Vegas
Starting point is 00:24:05 It's a great magic trick. So I'm gonna go with the quasi Supernatural Filament mistakes card nut. Yeah, he already missed out on wheel so Making up for it. I got power pole, you know, I don't regret that yet. It's not even renewable energy mark You're just gonna wire yourself into the same coal choked grid that everyone else. You don't know what my head's gonna be. You don't know what it's gonna be.
Starting point is 00:24:29 That's true, that's true, that's true. There's a long way to go. All right, we're making blazing progress. All right, we're gonna go left arm. He loved the lefties, he's lefty-weighed. I didn't pick left the first, did I? Did I pick left leg? I did pick left leg.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah, you picked left leg to open this. There's only been one choice you've made, and it's left leg. Well, no, I made gumball, I made Powerpull. No. Left arm. All right, this might be controversial. We all know I really like TikTok,
Starting point is 00:24:58 and I've been watching a lot of TikTok. And if there's one thing that I know to be a fact of life, it's that sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber. And for that reason, I propose that your left arm be replaced with that thing you can buy on the TikTok shop where it's like a mandolin, but you crank it and you shove the cucumber in and it slices it into little slices.
Starting point is 00:25:19 It's also a cheese grater. It comes with different inserts. It's a multiple use tool. Okay. Left arm as seen on tik-tok Do you are you unfamiliar with the sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber? Let me show you how I've been off Tik-tok for a bit. I've been on YouTube shorts. Oh, you guys are missing out would recommend it was destroying my brain That's why I stopped. Well the cucumber guy he he he makes a lot of really good authentic Korean food I think he lives in Korea.
Starting point is 00:25:45 It's very, very cool. He's like an American kid who lives in Korea. It's fascinating. He makes delicious looking snacks. And he goes to 7-Eleven and Korean 7-Eleven looks fucking awesome. Oh, Korean convenience stores are awesome. It looks amazing. Okay, that's going to be tough to beat.
Starting point is 00:26:03 I probably, Wade, left arm. Like a long, normal arm sized electronic component that ends in a multi-tool, like a planet crafter style, where you can like put in an input and it will craft. It's almost like a 3D printer, almost like your nut will be, but the multi-tool is used also for like defense. It can shoot like lasers.
Starting point is 00:26:25 That way if you need to defend yourself. Don't worry about kicking your power pole leg or planting it. I don't know what your right leg is gonna be yet. So you know, you might have some defense there. I don't know. Think about the possibilities of just having the multi-tool built in.
Starting point is 00:26:36 You don't have to carry it on the way. Oh, where'd I put my multi-tool? And you've got the leg to power it right there, left arm. The leg doesn't generate power. Hang on, let's be clear. That's true. It can. The leg is a wooden pole with wires on it. Oh, there'll be a battery. I will stick that in there somewhere. We're getting a battery in this man. Okay. Well now we're just
Starting point is 00:26:53 writing checks. Our body can't cash here. Yeah. So don't leave me high and dry. This is a new me and you guys are responsible for. Well, how are we powering the cucumber slicer? You got to have some power somewhere. It's hand crank. it's not, it's old school. It's literally manually powered. This is 2024, we don't need to manually do anything, Mark. Yes we do, if you need to eat a whole cucumber, you just manually do it. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:27:14 Or you swallow it whole. What if we give him no gag reflex? I can only hope. All right, so Wade, your idea is very ambitious, but it's really non specific If you'd have said like inspector gadget arm, I might go for that Well, have you played planet craft or you know what the multi tools capable of? I don't remember what that game was about So unfortunately, I don't know that reference. I don't know what exactly it is I can't risk that but I love mandolin multi cooking tool
Starting point is 00:27:42 It's like a multi cooking tool with blades tool with blades, and I know blades work, versus obscure multi-tool, and I could always still just hold a multi-tool. So I'm going with the mandolin arm. It's your body, man. I won't fight you too hard, but you're wrong. Well, I'll fight, once I get my mandolin going, you better watch out about.
Starting point is 00:27:59 Yeah, you're not gonna wanna fight him here in another couple, 10, 15 minutes. We're gonna watch you out. All right, multi-mandolin. All right, we're gonna have to pick up the pace a little bit. I wanna go big. I know what I want. Yeah, what do you want? Head.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Head, okay. Head. Is it head or brain? It's kind of just head. I thought about doing brain, but head. Eyes, nose, and mouth are separate, and hair is separate, but head. Wave. I'm looking up the name, something. The head is where your mouth and your eyes are with You know where you don't have hair that's the head thanks man, okay replacing your whole head
Starting point is 00:28:34 I'm assuming we there's other small things on there to put on the head right so don't worry about your eyes and stuff Yeah, cuz eyes nose and mouth are separate So ideally your proposal allows for those to still, but does not encompass those. So do not include the eyes, nose, or mouth in your suggestion for the head. Head could include brain and whatever else is in there, who knows, mystery, but head.
Starting point is 00:28:56 All right, I got the answer. We're gonna replace it with a Lego block. One big one. Like one big Lego block that's got multiple holes and stuff on it, right? If Bob wasn't here to save your suggestions because I was thinking tiny little Lego block. Thank God he said big.
Starting point is 00:29:12 I was going to specify here. I don't know if you were gonna, I don't know. I am going to specify, but I had to let the moment, I had to let you guys hear the genius before I expounded. I won't talk, genius all over me, let's do it. So Lego block, right? And I don't really care if it's one big one. I was thinking one big one,
Starting point is 00:29:27 you can make it out of little ones, I guess. But what you need to have is you need to have room for the inputs so you can have the holes and stuff for your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, whatever. Also Lego block allows you to change out hair whenever you want. Cause there's just the, and you can have kind of whatever appearance you want.
Starting point is 00:29:41 You can even change Lego block heads out. Lego blocks allow you to have basically any appearance you want and you can put anything into those holes, whether they're Lego or not. So that way you can have the inputs for whatever we decided for eyes, nose, mouth. On top of that, if someone steps on your head, dude, they're not gonna want it.
Starting point is 00:29:58 They're gonna feel that pain. Your head impervious to damage. All it does is inflict pain. You're right. He's a hundred% correct about that. Rest my case. I guess that's hard to argue with. Okay, are you done? Is that it?
Starting point is 00:30:10 Is that it? Yeah, man, I'm done with my checkmate. Okay, get ready for this one. This is out there. I'm pushing the limits. Okay. We're going to replace your head... replace your head, your head made out of Wolverine style, self replenishing adamantium. You used to get the same head, same shape, same bits.
Starting point is 00:30:33 That's a lot of mid face, man. Hey, come on, man. Hey, come on, what the hell, man? Wait, what the hell? We can adjust, it can be tweaked. What the hell, man? It's just, you just, and it's not any of the rest of you, to be super clear, this is not a thing where I'm gonna build this, and it's just from the neck up.
Starting point is 00:30:48 You have Wolverine, Adamantium, skeleton, self-regenerating magic head. Now, I really gotta weigh these two suggestions against each other. You know, wait, that was a really good one. Lego block is pretty much the best you can have. If you're afraid of a lot of people stepping on your head I can't disagree. At that height I would be. By the skin of my head I think I'm gonna go with the Wolverine regenerating
Starting point is 00:31:11 element to you. So my skin regenerates too and... Yeah, you get full like Wolverine abilities but only in your head parts. It's gonna be really awkward when the rest of you dies. Yeah, no, it's gonna lead to some weird consequences, but like you'll deal with that. By the time that's a problem, they'll probably be able to like give you a new, you know, robotic body or something. It'll be solute. We'll just solve that later. Yeah, at least I got the power pole, you know. Alright, Wade, we're gonna do nose. Not left nose. I wanna be clear. Nose.
Starting point is 00:31:41 This was what I was trying to like think ahead a little bit This is what I didn't think of I'm formulating I can't see it in my mind, but like I kind of I'm trying to see it in my mind, you know, the aphantasia um I am going to go with The opposite of a nose and I'm going to replace your nose with an oil diffuser A scented oil diffuser It will make instead of you having to smell all the smells in the world,
Starting point is 00:32:07 you will emanate only good smells. You will be the thing that smells so good. And if you'd want to, you can leave it empty. You don't have to fill it up. It's not a magical oil diffuser. You can choose to not fill it up or whatever. My body creates the oils and exudes it. Maybe what you eat affects it.
Starting point is 00:32:26 Maybe it's like if you would you eat a lot of oranges, you know, you sort of that adds oranges into your oiliness. Don't eat ass. Yeah, careful. That's good advice for life, Wade. I don't know if I'm gonna be a boyfriend. Just saying man, you better be careful. Well, alright. So instead of a smeller, it's a smelly or a smell smell V. Yeah be a smelly wait How are you gonna beat that? All right, we're going I'm going the opposite of that
Starting point is 00:32:50 I'm going we're going back to nose, but we're going stronger nose We're gonna give you I don't remember what animal had the strongest sense of smell But we're gonna give you the outer appearance of your nose But on the inside we're going full like I can what was an elephant or wolf or fox or whatever the hell it was We're gonna give you a super sniffer. It's definitely elephant. I love your blanket sweep of possible nose based animals. Whatever the hell the animal, look man we can do the research later but we're doing the super sniffer because you've got Wolverine's head so you can just pound cocaine and you're
Starting point is 00:33:22 not gonna damage your fucking nostrils because It'll just heal right back up. Oh, strong like that. Oh, can I get jokes? You're going all in, baby. Wait, you know what, Mark, we laughed. African elephants have the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom. I remembered it being something weird, man. That's what I thought.
Starting point is 00:33:39 Sounded funny. I thought it would be like a bloodhound or something like that. That's what we thought when we were doing the little figurines on the cabinet in that episode that you hosted man. I remembered elephant it came to mind You know, it's a fairly basic answer But honestly, I'd rather if I lost my ability to smell at all, I would be very depressed So I'm gonna go with the super nose super sniffer. Is it an elephant nose though? We're gonna go into here You're not gonna have a long trunk. This. This is like a bag of holding nose. Like on the outside it's human sized but on the inside it's elephant sized.
Starting point is 00:34:09 I mean you've got Wolverine's fucking head so I feel like maybe I can give you the power to smell better. I don't know. You're like Hermione at the Quidditch World Cup but it's your nose. You're just like A whole tent. We can afford anything here, including magic. Insurance will cover it. So Super knows it is. I dipped us into the supernatural. I feel like that's totally fair.
Starting point is 00:34:31 All right. Fair. It has been declared fair, but Wade, you win the point. All right, Bob, pick a part. Where of where? I'm going to cut right to the important parts. Heart heart. Got it. Wade, what's my heart?
Starting point is 00:34:41 And you can't say super heart. Super duper heart. Oh, God. OK. I got to think here because we've got cucumber slicer arm We've got Wolverine's head super sniffer. You didn't go gumball So I feel like your testicle was useless and then power pole leg We got a couple things here that are gonna need some juice. So we're gonna soon to go with some kind of Fantastic battery. I'm not the technological expert here. We'll do some research, you guys obviously know, but your heart pumping out the important juice
Starting point is 00:35:11 to all the other parts. We need like a little mini nuclear fucking power plant, or we need something powerful in there producing because we're not gonna give you blood, man. We gotta give you power. Tony Stark built this in a cave for scraps. Something like Iron Man's fucking thing. That's what we're talking.
Starting point is 00:35:30 I'm gonna get, I'm gonna ask for specificity. It's a great avenue, but I need you. Time's up, Wade. You're done. No, wait, I want you to pick one. You have to land on one. You can't leave it open. There's a lot of good ideas in there. You just gotta land on one.
Starting point is 00:35:46 I mean, Bob pretty much just nailed it. What's better than Tony Hark's... Tony Hark? You know, the knockoff non-Marvel, we don't want to step on Disney's toes. So we have Donnie Hark's chest generator powered circle. Can you... You have to remember it, Wade. No, you have to remember what it's called, come on now. It's a publicity stunt, Wade, it's not supposed to work. It's the reactive arc, arc reactor. Yeah!
Starting point is 00:36:12 Arc reactor. Oh, no way, he stumbles into that. What a comeback. All right, it is Donnie Hark's arc reactor, but it's still an arc reactor. Donnie Hark's arc reactor. It's like an arc reactor Donnie Hark's arc reactor. It's like an ACME product We guided him there we got I saved I saved weights guess well, I have another bold take
Starting point is 00:36:34 Wicked came out recently very very popular I saw it live on stage in Columbus like a long time ago like 2008 or something It was very good good great show and if I learn anything from the lore of the Wizard of Oz world, only a fool tries to replace the heart. The Tin Man is one of the greatest characters, not only in all of fiction, but in all of existence. And he is desperate the whole time during their story for a heart. Isn't he the one looking for a heart? He's seeking out a heart. Tin Man, yeah. And they finally get to the wizard and he's like, oh, you don't need that.
Starting point is 00:37:09 And he immediately realizes that the wizard is correct and he doesn't get a heart and is awesome forever because he doesn't rely on a stupid sack of shit to pump blood through his body. He just lives. Thank you for the defense of my arc reactor, man. I appreciate that. And I'm not saying arc reactor, I'm saying be a man leave it as a gaping hole
Starting point is 00:37:35 That is a bold defense compelling very compelling Does it have to be gaping you heard him? It doesn't have to be a gaping hole it will be a hole inside you you can cover it over you can aesthetically but there is nothing there It's an empty space. Maybe you could store some gumballs Well, just if that comes up if you decide you need those and you change your mind on the on the nut thing This is a tough one. It's real toughy. Even though it'snie Hark's I think I'm gonna go with Donnie Hark's Don't forget in Iron Man 4 Donnie Hark needs to drink about nine gallons of cedametafil a day because the Dark reactor is poisoning him because of reasons. I forget why exactly but I think Wolverine can drink anything and be okay
Starting point is 00:38:21 No heart. Yeah, but but no heart, but you're fine. You're awesome. No heart, but you're even more awesome than you were before. I'm as awesome as the tin man, which is very awesome. Plus you know, the wizard of Oz theoretically. And who doesn't want to hang out with Jeff Goldblum? Oh, that wizard. I mean, it could, there's a lot of, it could be, that's just the latest one. I'm going to go with the arc reactor. All right. We only got time for a couple more. I pick left lung. Is that on there? No Listen man, I can't
Starting point is 00:38:53 Read out the options for you some options. Let's size penis there penis is here. Yes Is the what's the one above that belly button? That's like stomach gut belly Basically like I have one for this even though this is shoulder it's like this is chest and then belly because I have a lot of gut issues so like belly and guts and stuff everything. Oh let's fix your belly up let's fix your belly up I don't know what to do for belly because it's not on my list of things I was thinking of but let's do belly. All right Bob it's yours to lose I guess. Your belly everybody knows that the belly's job is to process the nutrients as efficiently as possible.
Starting point is 00:39:27 You know what? The stomach just isn't the most efficient way to do that. It's the most efficient way we could have evolved to do it, I guess, is how it worked out. But everybody knows the most efficient way to process nutrients down to their components is a Ninja Foodie blender. I propose that you have a hose from your mouth down into a Ninja foodie that you can power with your arc reactor heart Since we went that way and we have one of those infinitely powered ninja foodie blender and it's the one that has like the the dispenser like the margarita dispenser and then it dispenses the Processed nutrients and you still have like the lower GI you still have like your small intestine, large intestine. It's just perfectly processed in the Ninja Foodie. The five blades spin at over 26,000 RPMs, Mark. And it's so perfectly balanced that you won't even
Starting point is 00:40:15 feel a single vibration. Even though it's mounted at the very core of your being, you'd never know it's in there. So the dispenser with little margarita tab is that on the outside? No, no, it's just like zip tied onto your on your small intestine and you have like a muscle that just like Attach to a specific muscle that just opens and closes the little margarita dispenser The appendix can finally be useful again. Ah man, I don't even have one of those anymore. So all right, cool. Nah, we'll get you one.
Starting point is 00:40:49 We can afford that. We'll get you one. We'll get you one. All right, thank you, thank you. So in the vein of food, cause I got the mandolin arm, that's, I can- I'm very food focused tonight, apparently. Yeah, I can see that.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Wade's gonna be tough to beat. I don't know if you need food, man. You got an arc reactor in your chest. You are producing energy that may not require ingestion. So what if we get you a fucking tummy server farm? What if we get you some like extra bites of storage? Yes, now you're thinking you pandering son of a bitch Exabytes it is my body Bob. I would want it to be what I want. I had to look up things bigger than terabytes and gigabytes that I got. Exabytes? Holy shit!
Starting point is 00:41:33 No question. Dude, you win exabytes? Exabytes? If I was walking- no, actually, this is incredible because if I was able to walk around with all the storage I would ever need digital storage on my body powered by my butt. That's an incredible suggestion Exabytes, I'm just saying you've not even been eaten today. It seems like that kind of stuff. You're not concerned about it Your head's regenerating your hearts in our reactor. What do you I mean you can make food for other people You got the left arm for it, but like your tummy dude, you're the only person talking to want a tummy tuck. You're gonna want an expansion deck added You're right. You're right. He's right. Okay, we got time for like one more. Do I do I pick or you do? Can we do the eyes? Yes eyes are available and Wade you are picking eyes. Oh man
Starting point is 00:42:22 Dude video camera You have adjustable lenses you can still see, but also you can just film where you're looking. You are your own camera. No one would ever let Mark in anywhere for the rest of his life. They don't have to know. I feel like the attraction he might be with Wolverine's head, a powerful leg, and a server stomach. People might be curious enough to live in it. In all honesty, I don't look that weird. You can cover a power pole leg. I don't have to keep it extended. Wolverine head just means I have the skin healing
Starting point is 00:42:54 and the metal bones. I don't, and if I look like Hugh Jackman, that's not a bad- You have a blender for an arm. Yeah, well, I got sleeves for that. You know, there's nothing here. And your ball is 3D printing. Like, I feel like-
Starting point is 00:43:08 Especially that, no one needs to know about that. This is- That's like the most private part of all of this. This is fairly stealthy so far. You're not specifying what camera though, because there's a lot and many of them would be a downgrade from these bad boys. We want to make it to where it's upgradable.
Starting point is 00:43:24 So we want a part that you can, you know, upgrade over time. You can change out your lenses. You can pop in new lenses. What lenses could I use? Oh, how about... That's not remotely specific enough, please. Any of them, man. Camera, video, listen, he's got Wolverine's head and changing out the lens is where we're
Starting point is 00:43:48 drawing the line. If you're in a panda, do a better job. He's done a pretty good job pandering. Bob, do you think you can pander harder? Mark I would replace your eyes with a beautifully rehoused, professionally restored and refurbished Konica Minolta MD 135 millimeter f2 telephoto manual focus lens damn it's a good all-arounder it's beautiful lens you know this the top of your head fucking I listen when he talks this thing mark talked to us about for a year plus repeatedly yeah I recall dude I got Minolta and that was it it's very good lens
Starting point is 00:44:28 but that one is a telephoto I would live life zoomed in would you want the conica Minolta md 32 prime is that the one was it the 32 there's no 32 he's you're losing me no no it was a weird number wasn't it a weird number because it's a lot of them are 35s, but this one was like a weird number, wasn't it? No, he's losing me. Oh no. This is why I pander cheaply. I think you're thinking of the 58. Oh, why is it 58?
Starting point is 00:44:54 That's such a weird focal length. That's not a common one. It used to be a very common one. It used to be very common because there was 50s back in the day, but then 58 was like the way the formula for the lens, the certain configuration 58 landed at a really good spot where you could get a nice, the glass elements could work out nicely for that. So, okay. So, we got lenses versus lenses and one was only more specific.
Starting point is 00:45:18 I'm not gonna lie. My original thought was I wanted to give one of them just a normal magnifying glass so you could like be that bully who goes around like lighting people's paper on fire. I could be a bully. You know I have to put that up to the sun. It doesn't- doesn't come out of the eye. Well maybe you got the power of the sun in the palm of your right hand. We didn't get to that, I don't know. I've done this before where I hold the lens up and I was like looking to see if it was dusty and I did it into the sun and I went, ow! Burned your own eye.
Starting point is 00:45:43 No, that hurt, yeah I did. I did not for the sun and I went, ow! Burned your own eye. No, that hurt, yeah, I did. I did not for long, but I just. You're like, what does the ant experience? I don't know which one to go here, they're so similar. I think that that was really the only choice for you. We both knew lenses were the only options. All right, okay, I'll give it for both of you, but it washes out to nothing.
Starting point is 00:46:02 But I got a tiebreaker. I should've just, what made me angry about the lenses. I had a different one I was gonna go with, but honestly it was still a camera. Well, I know the rules of this thing. I didn't know there were rules that had to be specific. Penis. Penis.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Penis. How am I upgrading my penis? You can't really downgrade, it's all up to whatever you decide. All right, Wade wins. All right, no, I'm just kidding I Have a gambit and I will throw this down. It is it's not it's nothing. It's not convoluted I'm just gonna throw this out there. You will upgrade your penis to the only thing that could be an upgrade
Starting point is 00:46:40 Wade's penis Well, you're that little guy, you get a new roommate. What the hell, hold on, what do I get out of this? Because I feel like I might be losing something. I'm not even saying that he's stealing it necessarily. If you want him to steal it, I guess that's fine. Do you have a twin? Alright, you will if you don't come up with something better.
Starting point is 00:47:04 Or I'm going to steal your penis This one's kind of weird, but I don't know it was my first thought the lamp from Aladdin that the genie comes out Doesn't have a genie in it does it? Oh my god, Jesus Christ. What the fuck was that? The lamp is this lamp literally started freaking out. Lamp, lamp. I mean, the genie likes it when you rub his lamp and you know, the correlation there is kind of obvious. Who doesn't want to rub their lamp? Is there a genie in it?
Starting point is 00:47:34 Yes. Oh, okay. Well then yeah, fuck. But did you ask if there's a genie in my penis? You haven't yet. I don't want to know that. That is between you and you and the genie in your penis, if there is one. I wish he cared.
Starting point is 00:47:48 What's happening down there? I was rubbing the magic lamp. And you use one of your wishes on that? Oh, I have a lot of wishes. You can actually wish for more wishes sometimes. That's against the rules. Everyone knows that. Oh, the lamp Mark's getting. Yeah, but he that's what you know. He's giving you inferior lamps, Mark.
Starting point is 00:48:02 It's OK. I'll take the Aladdin lamp. It does. No, I'm taking it I kind of feel like this was set up to where no matter what if I lose either I lost or my penis lost isn't that what a gambit is? That's what isn't that a gambit? I don't know. I think of the guy in with the cards from x-men, but also you won Yeah, but what cost yeah, you have to admit that your penis is not as cool as Aladdin's lamp. That's true You're right All right, anyway, so that brings us to a close congratulations guys
Starting point is 00:48:33 I want to I don't know if I want to see fan art of this but You will to recap going from bottom up I have a power pole from my left leg the The surgery ran long, insurance decided to cancel the claim halfway through. So I have a power pole for my left leg. Right leg and feet are normal. My right nut is a quasi-supernatural card nut. I've got an Aladdin's lamp penis. I've got exabytes of storage in my tum tum.
Starting point is 00:49:02 I've got Donnie Hark's arc reactor. My left arm is a multi-mandolin. My nose is a supernose. Elephant style inside. My eyes are lenses. That was split between the two of you. And then I have a wolverine head with adamantium skull. So we didn't get to what? Ears?
Starting point is 00:49:20 Hair. Ears I forgot to put on here. So ears were never even in the question. Lips or mouth chest right arm left Nut right leg and feet were not upgraded. Am I still me after replacing all these pieces? Why don't you ask your penis genie? That's good, I bet he knows you better than anyone else will Good, I bet he knows you better than anyone else will never had a friend You're trying to sleep, but you just hear coming from your pants
Starting point is 00:50:05 I didn't wish for you my thighs rubbed the lamp. That's where you're at Mark goes for a dramatic dive on the racquetball court and the genie comes erupting out of his shorts Can you tell totally up the points? Wait, you got an oblivion point you lost the point for lying because you don't have a car Oblivion point, you lost the point for lying, because you don't have a car. Pedantic point, you got a point for being blown apart by every body part, which is just poetry. The point for don't eat ass. You got the nose, the heart, the stomach, the penis,
Starting point is 00:50:38 and my left leg. Bob, you got a nice point. You got a point for being sick. You got a point for a fridge update. Bonus point for quasi-supernatural, not. And also you got that point because I thought that it was funny and I just happened to write that point before I knew it was gonna be yours. You got the... Mandolin cooking arm and Wolverine head.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Someone's outside the window. Someone's outside the window. Someone's outside the window. In a funny way or in a breaking in way? Where's my penis? Now that's funny. The winner of today's episode with eight points to seven points and I was giving points out willy nilly. Wade. Oh, I actually made the, I knew I was behind.
Starting point is 00:51:18 You picked like all of his body parts. Meaning you were behind. Well, no, I was behind at the beginning because you had the fridge point and I lost a point. So I was at least like two points down to begin with. So I was- I do, I was confused. I thought you got a point for lying. I didn't realize you lost a point.
Starting point is 00:51:32 So it actually was a little closer than I thought. It's not a subtraction. You're right. I thought you lost a point. No, when you said that, you were like, I'm gonna give you a point for lying. And I was like, damn. I thought in my head, I was like, take away point, no.
Starting point is 00:51:44 I thought I lost the point too, but but you know I'm not gonna argue with what the paper says okay so it was not as close as I it was as not close as I thought because that took away a point that you have before now that doesn't wait did I just lose a point or am I still at eight did he just gain two points or one point you have ten points now somehow I feel like we get there that summary is wait wait wait somehow all right wait you win by ten points now, somehow. I feel like no matter how we get there, that summary is Wade wins somehow. Alright, Wade, you win by ten points instead of eight. I don't know how that happened. Do I throw a flag and challenge my own points as a winner?
Starting point is 00:52:14 I mean, literally, he's right. I did not write a subtraction. I wrote one. And I called it lying point. That's the way it goes. That's the game. Hey, listen, I think what we learned today is I clearly have Mark's best interests at heart. I need to learn more specific things, but I like being, I like knowing a little about a lot and not a lot about a little. Therefore, I'll stay ignorant. I won't learn a thing from this. Thank you, clerical heirs. You're welcome. Bob, what do you feel about this loss? I feel like I threw out some interesting options I think you I think you were drawn in by a little bit of aggressive Pandering I don't blame you because it is your body and you should have it to do the way that you want
Starting point is 00:52:54 But I feel good about the creativity that I brought to the to the battle today And I think some people out there are gonna be really into some of the ideas I had so I feel like a winner even though I am Objectively a loser congratulations. That's what really matters. I'm glad neither of you commented on my hands. I haven't seen this drawing yet It's a lot of parts is that how your hands actually look were you in some kind of horrific hand accident editor make this fucked up I want someone to just cut like one of them to walk into your office and just break your hand. Yeah just with like a hammer. It's just like oh yeah okay. This is what you want Mark.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Well thank you guys for participating and upgrading me. I feel a lot better and I am still me even though I have all these upgrades. Thank you everybody so much for listening on how to improve me. I'm glad you all know what my penis is going to look like that is wonderful I'm so glad have a good day everyone if you don't subscribe to the podcast we're gonna come after you and chase you I'm not very fast. Don't be don't be scared. We'll never catch you but like we're just gonna join the chase merch somewhere find it if you can They never they never catch on your clues Mark. They never do. Podcast out.

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