Distractible - Ohio Stuff

Episode Date: April 28, 2023

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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This week, the gents deride a great state, the home of pro football, rock and roll, and the hot dog. Yummy. Wade has a dishwasher delivery debacle, but knows his sausages. Mark admits he doesn't know what a escurus glabra is. And sleepless barbed soldiers on, and states Virginians love this place. From Cedar Point to roller coasters, yes, it's time for Ohio Stuff.

Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to another episode of Distractible. I am your host, Bob. Because I won last time. I was the only competitor, so a win seemed pretty inevitable. But here we are anyway. Technically, I'm a winner, which makes these other two losers my co-hosts and or today's competitors. As always, they will be.

Mark and Wade. They will be. They are. Are you currently Mark and Wade. They will be. They are. Are you currently Mark and Wade? We will be. We will be. You will be when the time is right. Yeah, if you're new to this show, podcast that we do, every week there's a competition

and whoever wins competition hosts the next episode. So that's why I'm all smug and whatnot, because I'm a winner. And yeah, these guys are going to compete in a contest of my own creation for points that are meaningless and may or may not even exist but before we get to that we sort of skipped over one of the usual two segments we do last week was small talk we didn't do small talk everything was all rhymy and riddly well here there's two of us here can you tell us apart one speaks in rhymes the other's riddles quite smart our wordsman oh jesus christ wait i'm the host does that mean i have to speak in rhymes and riddles is that the new rule i have a tale that hasn't been told yet and it involves an

appliance that can make things wet you have another new one that you didn't tell i think you told us about this well i told you we were replacing our dishwasher i didn't tell you how the lovely people handled our order did you get it from lowes oh why because i had to see for myself what would happen and what did happen so everything was going pretty smoothly we went in we looked at dishwashers and we found one that we were like okay this is this is nice i will say our house we had black appliances and apparently that's being phased out so we had to go over to stainless steel because it's hard to find black appliances now we found one we liked we ordered it we went through like i tried to make sure all the boxes were checked i was like all right when can somebody bring it and install it in the house

uh will they haul away the old one? And they're like, yes. And on top of that, do you want these cables, these new cables and hookups? I was like, you know what? Why not be safe? If we don't need them, we don't need them. I can always return them, put them on, whatever. I want to make sure we have everything we need.

They were like, OK, well, it's probably about a week out before they can come and do this. And I was like, all right. I mean, if that's what it is, that's what it is. And she looked and she was like, oh, actually actually two days from now 8 a.m and i was like wednesday you can do afternoon me being the lazy man that i am i took the tuesday wednesday afternoon so wednesday afternoon didn't quite make it there because Wednesday at like 9 to 30 in the morning knock knock knock Hi, we're here with your dishwasher. This is like two and a half hours early Yep They just kind of blew past me brought it in set it down didn't ask me to sign anything and they're like, all right

See ya Time out and they're like all right uh see ya time out put in oh that's a different team where that's the installation team we just drop off oh oh when's the installation team coming i don't know you probably set that up whenever you ordered it well i today great and they left did they take your old dishwasher or do they just leave it sitting like on the floor that's the installation team's job so they brought in a new fully packaged styrofoam wrapped up they didn't unbox it they left it sitting like that in front of our garbage can right in the middle of everything in our way and then they were just like peace so thinking about you and your fridge woes i was like you know what i'm gonna call and make sure that we're good so i called and someone to look at our order and they're like oh man uh looks like they didn't put

installation on it you didn't pay for installation i was like but i paid for you guys to take away the old one and only the installers do that yep so if i don't get installation who's coming to get the old one oh man it's a good question it's the one i'm asking because i said i wanted a dishwasher installed and i even got the hookups and had the old one hauled away after installation and as i've been told by three two or three different people now because two people delivered it literally only the installers will haul away the old one uh it's quite interesting that's quite interesting uh but it's not on here and you didn't pay for it uh hold on a second let me give you a call right back no that's a trap an hour later they didn't call back so i called again and got a different person who looked into

it and i was like yeah i was supposed to get a call back over an hour ago and no one ever called back and they said uh oh okay let me get over there one second uh and they went over and thankfully it didn't go much further than that. They were like, all right, this looks like it's a mistake. And they definitely should have had installation put on here if they had you go through all this blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're going to make this right. We'll do the installation for free. So the installers will give you a call within the next 24 hours.

24 hours. All right. Yeah, that's fine. So I got a call later that day actually i was expecting the next day i could call you that day from an automated voice thing that was like your installation is scheduled for friday between 7 30 a.m and 9 30 a.m if this is okay press one if you'd like to change i didn't even want them to deliver it before 9 o'clock was too early. 7.30 a.m.

Change, change, change. If you'd like to change, then you will have to delay at least 7 full business days from your initial installation date. Neat. So guess who today was up at 7.30 a.m. for an installation. Ah, I can't imagine what it must be like to wake up that early. It sucked because I was up till 4 a.m. for an installation. I can't imagine what it must be like to wake up that early. It sucked because I was up till 4 a.m. And whose choice was that? Up till 4.

I can't imagine anything in your life that would keep you up to 4 whether you wanted to or not. Very challenging. Not having a baby or real responsibilities made it to where I had no choice. But we have a new dishwasher that has sort of been run and tested and might work stay tuned for the update it hasn't even exploded or anything i'm pretty sure they're supposed to do that when they install it before they leave water went into it and then he stopped it from running and left it sounds like he tested it if water went into it it didn't come out outside of

it it's probably fine look if a if a story doesn't have at least three bushes murdered brutally in cold blood i don't want to hear it however he did leave broken glass on my floor and all of the garbage because he said yeah this styrofoam is a real bitch to transport my van you got this right i was like i would rather you take it he's like you got this and then he left it so he did he did the old finger guns yeah he yeah i prefer not to he's like oh i can take it to your garbage for you and i was like that's not what i meant hey i forgot the flush when i shat in your toilet you got this right all right cool he left broken glass on the floor he was like i don't know where this came from must have been under the old one it's like why would there be broken glass under the old one well so if it was your broken glass

it's really not his responsibility i don't know if it was he could have planted it he pulled it out of his pockets bloody hands and all went from the very start of this i have to say i feel like none of us should shop at lowe's ever again. They don't even have one team now. It's them, their delivery team, and their installation team. It's not even delivery. They've compartmentalized their compartmentalized compartments. They heard all the shit that we talked, and they were like, let them shop here, but give them even worse service somehow. By the way, this episode of Distractible is sponsored by Lowe's.

If you need screwdrivers drills anything that's not home appliances lowes is fine it is but i know how in the world they let me schedule the removal when only the installation team can do it so did it ever cross your mind to be to think like i feel like I know something about this exact store that might affect whether I should buy. I literally did it because, one, I have a better relationship with some employees there, unfortunately, that weren't working there, than I do with other competitors. But, two, I had to know. I had to follow in your footsteps and see if I could have a similar experience. I had to know if it was a one-off or if it was truly repeatable and it was only slightly repeatable i mean by by any normal standards

that's a pretty messed up story because they really jerked you around and you know if you were a normal person delivering on a friday between 7 30 and 9 you probably have work you know on a friday morning i don't know. You probably have work, you know, on a Friday morning. I don't know. And you probably would have had to take off already the first day that you told them to deliver and install. I don't know if people are taking off work so they can get a dishwasher installed, but that sounds like a real waste of time to me.

It's shocking to me that we went through all of those steps, went through all these things on the checklist. Mark, when are you going to buy something big from Lowe's? Do you need a chest freezer in your garage, Mark? Lowe's has great chest freezers, I'm sure. Get a washer and dryer. It's a strange I have two

delivery anecdotes that only can supplement to this. I once ordered a hard drive and I got a mini fridge which was a very strange occurrence. How much could you store in that? Was it also a hard drive or was it just a mini how much could you store in that was it also a hard drive or was it just a mini inconveniently was not it wasn't even like a gamer mini for how many terabytes could your mini fridge hold none well actually many if i put hard drives into it a lot

yeah yeah but the weird thing was that the drive the delivery driver was very surprised to see me and and that doesn't usually happen when you see a delivery man. And I'm like, oh, thanks. What do you got for me today? They don't usually go. Which is what he did. Did you disgust him? Did he recognize you or something else or all three?

I don't think he recognized me because I've had that before. And that's fine. Usually pretty cool. I don't know. i got a sneaking suspicion like did he steal my hard drive and try to pass off a mini fridge he's like i have this extra fridge at home but i really need a hard drive i'll make a swap and they'll never know did the mini fridge come in a box or was it wrapped in a trash bag or full box like that's like a hard drive box is this big usually comes in a little envelope but it was just like how big of a hard drive did you order mr mark e plier here you go i don't even know how that got mixed up at the factory or the

delivery place because it's like you know usually there's weight consistency. I went to 3D print a hard drive and I fat fingered and I hit the fridge button. Hit the fridge button. It's right next to it. Far drive, fridge, they're right next to each other. It's easier than you'd think. But my other appointment anecdote is like, it's so freaking hard to get a doctor's appointment these days. I'm sure everyone understands that. a doctor's appointment these days i'm sure everyone understands that um especially for getting uh such a sinful prescription as an adhd medication and it's especially sinful when you've

got something new like a staris and you're trying to get it and they're like i've never written a prescription of those words before and i'm sure it must be hell for doctors with all these new medications coming out with all their bizarre names and whatnot. But it was like everywhere I called was like, we can't do a new patient. Not even like it'll take a while. They were just like, absolutely not. One of you, you ADHD person. Absolutely not. And it was even to the point where I was like, I'll pay like extra.

I think if, if I can just get it, there's kind of like a time limit on how many pills I got. And, you know, usually with medications, it's not good to suddenly not have it. Um, so can you help me? No, never. Not for you. Not ever. I think it was like, was the Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget was the one who was like answering the phone for you not ever i think it was like was the doctor claw from inspector gadget was the one who was like answering the phone for you you'll never get it gotcha that was a terrible claw thankfully

thankfully someone very nice uh actually did like a did like a office visit while i was on set it was it was actually very lovely so they they came straight to me and it was well taken care of and i had no bushes destroyed nothing exploded he did not leave glass behind him um and uh like my life was only better for the experience funny your your small talk sparked a thing that i realized i haven't talked about and it's related to our own podcast too so you remember we did that episode on self uh self-actualization where we talked to and mark you specifically talked a lot about ADHD and dealing with that, and people seem to

connect to that a lot on the subreddit and stuff. Also, people from hearing what I talked about, a bunch of people online were like, Bob, I'm pretty sure you also might have ADHD. I did get checked out. And a quick summary of the doctor's

visit, as I did all the pre-tests and stuff, and then when I actually saw the doctor, they were basically like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I got diagnosed, and I started my medicine today, and it's going to take almost a month for it to really saturate my system or whatever. Have you noticed a change? No no i'm not doing stimulants so as i'm doing the the other it's basically it's like an antidepressant i think it's actually what the medicine originally was but it's also prescribed for adhd now i just started today and in a couple weeks i should start to see

how it's how it affects me and what the difference is but so i actually am as a result of that episode i got checked out and i'm like getting treatment now and we'll see how that impacts me if it helps it's going to be dramatically different because i mean a hell of a time with the baby remembering stuff and not feeling like i'm scatterbrained so yeah yeah that's a positive outcome i've heard stories about i think there was like a news reporter someone i should look this up rather than just talk out of my ass but there was like a news reporter or someone who was like doing a story and there was like something on their face that like the audience noticed and like a doctor or something called in and was like hey i think this you have like a cancer or something you should go get this checked out and they went and

it turns out that they did but they caught it early and they just noticed like from a blemish or something on this person's face you guys could save our lives is mark frozen or oh he his power his power i thought he was really deep in pondering hello how's it going man back i was afraid your power went out completely it did for a second there are storms but it seems to be back i might dip again but then my computer was like oh no we're gonna update perfect excellent we thought i i was talking and you just had this expression so for like a good minute i kept talking thinking you were just really not interested in what i was saying yeah we before we both noticed your text it was just stuck like that and we were like mark i was like dude i'm done you can talk now mark yeah the last thing i i remember saying was like ah that's great bob i'm so proud of you boom all the power went up we talked for a couple minutes about other stuff i told like a

story and i was like man mark looks interested and i was like no he's not he doesn't care at all anyway great outcome that episode was fun to film and then uh hopefully if this medicine works i will have a whole other i'll have a whole other life i'll be like a new man like bob nokio who doesn't just forget everything the moment it goes into my ears and out the other side that still happens yeah that'll that'll still i know it's not yeah it's not going to be that dramatic but i do hope that it helps me feel less i so lately i've been so tired with the baby right the baby is a lot i feel every time i like walk into a new room i have that feeling of like i just woke up and i don't know what's going on but it's constant i'll walk from from one form one womb from one room to the next and be like why did i why am i in here what's happening

and then i'll just be like ah never mind and walk into the next room same shit it's like constant i'm hoping it helps i just got three texts from mark it looks like he was having computer issues yeah that was me my computer signed update i just got the text i was very confused i was like oh god he's gone again but he's moving this time i'm here i'm always here this is where i just get the soundboard and me just like the ship of theses yeah if i just did that and then put a few rhymes in here you'd never know i wasn't here you'd never know good small talk we skipped a week so we had a we had a lot saved up there but good small talk guys should we move on to the topic of the episode oh i guess if we have it's a fun one it's something we all talk about a lot in our

own individual context and together and people make fun of us for dicks i don't talk about dicks a lot i gotta be honest i mean either well i mean we did have a whole podcast about that before yeah oh that had that podcast we did with uh jock jock jock our friend jock jock septic eye well three peens was technically involved peens i mean that's kind of dicky uh i never saw that as as a penis related at all i thought that was uh that changes how i feel about that completely it's like vegetables is what that was about like i thought i thought yeah i just i had schlong on the mind every time but all right anyway go on with your topic today's topic is ohio and why we're allowed to make fun of it for being a hellscape and a shithole but you're probably not unless you're from ohio because that's the rules right

everybody isn't that the the established rule is people from ohio are always like oh yeah cleveland the river lights on fire and whatever all this stuff it's a total total hell escape but if someone who's not from ohio tries to talk shit about our state that's not cool they need to check themselves before we wreck them yeah exactly so today we're going to talk about all the stuff in ohio i'm not going to say that's good but it's mostly good but all the stuff in Ohio. I'm not going to say that's good, but it's mostly good. But all the stuff in Ohio that is, I have a list and it's not, I mean, I made it. I compiled it from sources, but it's not like comprehensive. It's like between 30 and 40 things that I would consider to be Ohio things.

Things that are quintessentially Ohio-y. From Ohio, about Ohio, all kinds of stuff. from Ohio, about Ohio, all kinds of stuff. And I want you guys to basically take turns trying to guess all the things that are on my list. I will give you a point for every thing that's on my list that you successfully guessed, but I will also give you points if you come up with something I don't have on my list

and you can convince me that it is something quintessentially ohioan because there's probably stuff i'm missing there's probably stuff that's a little bit more regional that maybe i'm not aware of that maybe you guys are because i grew up in columbus you guys grew up in the cincinnati area there's probably something i don't know but anyway ohio stuff and we'll take turns because there's a lot of there's a lot of low-hanging fruit here um so i don't want one person to just like blurt out a whole bunch of shit all at once. Does anyone want to volunteer to go first or to not go first?

Do you guys care what the order is? It doesn't matter. I'm happy to go first, but Mark, you want to go? Me! I'll go first! All right! Mark, give me something that is Ohio. Skyline! Boom.

Point for Mark. Yes! Yes! It's the only city with a skyline none of the others touch the sky i should probably track these hang on i uh that's a good one mark fun fact skyline and my family are probably the two main reasons i haven't left ohio i don't want to leave skyline chili behind i love skyline chili are they equal yeah which one of those two things do you like more skyline or your family do i have to be honest yes always on this podcast of course skyline might mean slightly more to me wow that's kind of messed up because i can always come back and see my family but i crave skyline every week i've thought about opening a skyline franchise in LA just so I could eat at it. That's good.

That's a bold step. You should. And I mean, like, I feel like I could do it and like I'd promote it on my channel and I'd show up there and be like, hey, it's my Skyline. Eat here so it can stay in business, please. From what I know, there's one Skyline Chili in Orlando, Florida now. What? Wow.

It opened near the Disney Resort because somebody here trained, went down there and wanted to open a franchise. Yeah, you can. It's like any other franchise, right? It's just like whether or not people will eat. I would not and what any Ohioan would not or but what others might considered watered down chili, which is not what it is. No, it's correct chili. It's not watered down just because it's not the is no it's correct chili it's not watered down just because it's not the chili it's just not texas style chili it's just a different style of chili exactly it's a different type of chili it's perfectly acceptable it's greek in origin i

believe actually you know how stunned by with skyline is how much protein is in skyline meals really like you would think that being mostly spaghetti it wouldn't have but if you get it well if you get a regular it's like around 45 to 55 grams of protein really what about like a coney with the hot dog i don't even have a bun but like same deal same deal it's like a very even split of uh carbs protein that's a very protein dense chili yeah it is it was shocking i was and i think it's like probably even protein enriched pasta or something like that there's a lot of protein in it a couple of my in-laws came to stay with us recently and we took them there they'd never had it before and they'd heard

about there being cinnamon in the chili and as they ate they were just like i feel the cinnamon i can't get over the fact that there is cinnamon in this which is weird to me i don't know why cinnamon is such like an interest like why is that such a stopper i'm sure there's all kinds of weird things and like food people just never know about but the fact that there's like rumored to be it might be i don't know chocolate and cinnamon and skyline chocolate and gold star right i thought that was a thing maybe that's what it is i don't know which i like both actually maybe i'm a sinner but i like both scotland and gold star i like gold star chili cheese fries more i don't dislike gold Gold Star. Their fries are good. Their fries are good. Their fries, the crinkle fries are superior to Skyline's shoestring fries because they stay crisp longer.

Mark, you should start West Coast Skyline. You should. Please. I feel like if there's a thing I've learned about Ohioans, it's that people who are from Ohio are just desperate to get the absolute hell out of there. And I've lived in North Carolina, and now we live in northern california there's a lot of ohio people in both of the places that we've lived and we are they're not close to ohio or connected to ohio in any meaningful way well everyone is ohio always have been there's just a lot of people from ohio who were like oh i got out of that shithole thank god i live here now

but like ohio state stickers bumper stickers and stuff were like common when we lived in north carolina it's a big ohio state fan population it's just weird about ohio is like it just there are a lot of people which is strange because it's like just one of those midwest even though it's not even near the midwest states but there's 12 million people that live in roughly 12 million people that live in Ohio. And for comparison, California has 40 million and that's a lot, but Ohio still has 12, which is a meaningful percentage of that. It's just like, it's the seventh most populous state in the country. Yeah. Well, so Ohio has 12 million compared to California with 40 million million how many major cities does

california have i mean the big ones san diego la uh san francisco but then also you've got like sacramento oh god the one in central valley fergan ferguson no um femflis what the hell fresno fresno fresno fresno right fresno! Fresno! Right! Fresno! You guys ever been to Femflis, California? Like, California has, I don't know, maybe upwards of ten cities that would be like pretty big cities, compared to Ohio having three

and Dayton and Toledo? And Orange County, is that a city? It's a... it's a county. Orange County City, my favorite city county. Why is, why is the county so, well, anyway, we're talking about five days. Orange County is like the county surrounding LA, right? So if you live in LA, that's like the city.

But if you live in Orange County, that's like a much bigger area that's still incredibly dense, right? I grew up a Hamilton County, Claremont County boy in my school boy days. The real state, Ohio. No one knows what you're talking about until we have formed them of it. What do you mean? If Orange County's famous, can't Hamilton be? It's agreed. Mark's going to open a skyline somewhere and that'll be fun.

And then, uh. What? And wait, it's your, it's your turn. If he does, I award him a win. He can have one of my wins if he does this. Name, name some ohio well an ohio thing start with one ohio thing okay i'm gonna name two but i think they're one i don't know if they're i don't know if there'll be two on your list cedar point and by extension king's

island i think cedar point's the more well known it's a theme it's the theme park tons of roller coasters well-known roller coasters and whenever i mention ohio to people that aren't ohio people like oh yeah you guys have cedar point that's one of the first things people name they've heard of skyline chile and they know about cedar point i did have those as separate but i i think that's one cedar point bought king's island so i feel like yeah yeah i mean they're not like super tightly related because what's the upper sandusky where cedar point is this way the hell north and king's islands in cincinnati but amusement parks because they're pretty good amusement parks considering that they're not like somewhere like you know like california or somewhere with a big dense population cedar point is a very good

like roller coaster amusement park and king's island is a very good like park the midway is really good that has a lot of really like they're good amusement parks i think king's island has 14 to 16 roller coasters right now that is a lot that's more than i would guess yeah yeah last time i was over there there was even another i don't know the name of there's a one that's even bigger than diamond back it looks like a diamond back was huge those are that's definitely an ohio thing to be known for the for the amusement parks that's a point good one good one mark i've got something that confused the hell out of me for way too long as an ohio resident and that's buckeyes okay i didn't know what the fuck a buckeye was because i never seen like this

the seed the actual like or whatever is it a nut it's a nut but it's like poisonous or something i don't know yeah i don't know and then but all i knew was that it was a candy because there's also the chocolate and peanut butter Buckeyes. And those were delicious. And I was like, that's great. That's great. And then people kept telling me like it grows on a tree. And I was like, there's no way that's possible.

There's a chocolate tree. Where? I've got a weird story about Buckeyes. Like, well, it's not that weird, but it's an interesting one. Our family reunions, like for my dad's side of the family always took place in indiana and this family reunion place in indiana was like all buckeye trees so i learned about buckeyes from going to indiana family reunions where there were buckeye trees and my cousin my brother and i would run around and collect them and buckeyes start off like the

tree drops and it's like a spiky little shell that they drop in and if you found like a pristine shell we would just like toss it that's what they come in yeah like a weird little shell and if you pry it open there's a smooth buckeye inside no and we have buckeye candies and there were buckeyes we would collect we'd have like plastic bags of buckeyes as kids would run around with some in the spiky shells some that were just the smooth buckeyes but i learned all about buckeyes at a very young age but not when i was in ohio you're kidding me you're telling me those spiky seeds which i had almost forgotten about are buckeyes like google was it buckeye seed buckeye shell seed pod buckeye seed pod this one doesn't look very spiky this one looks more like a cantaloupe but there were some like spikier ones too. Okay. Okay. That was different. I was thinking of the other seed that is like more like a flail on a little stick.

I'm thinking of a different type of thing that was more ubiquitous. I was like, okay, I found one here. There's a weird, wonderful Buckeye seed pod that looks like a deep angler fish, a deep sea angler fish. It's spiky and it's got like a little dangly thing at the end, but it's very spiky. I hated this one that had like weird holes in it. And it's, uh, it's a sweet gum tree.

Apparently is the other one that I'm thinking about. It's a slightly different one. So there are some smooth looking Buckeye seas, but the ones I remember were prickly ones that we had. I was about to yield a point to Wade for blowing my mind, but it's not quite as blown as I thought it was. Well, you did end up saying those words out loud anyway. Wade also yields all of his points to me.

Well, I will say, Mark, in your answer and the way you delivered it, I wasn't able to cut you off. So you did actually earn two points there. Because you mentioned both Buckeyes and Buckeye Candy more specifically. Take that, Wade. You got two roller coaster parks. You only got one point. I got two. I found the double. The daily double. But you did cede a point to Wade for blowing your mind, which I

am going to count. No, I said almost. I said almost. I didn't cede to you, Mark. It seems blown. I said almost! I appreciate your generosity, Mark. I said almost! I also said he yielded all his points to me. No, I stopped listening to you guys. I was already typing point stuff. Sorry.

That would have counted if I had been listening. But I will say for anyone listening, the Buckeye tree is weird and the nuts are weird and poisonous as far as I know and whatever. The Buckeye candy, I don't dislike Buckeye candy. It's delicious. But tell me if I'm off base here.

How is a Buckeye candy meaningfully different from a Reese's peanut butter cup? I understand that the filling is not exactly the same, that the Reese's are more manufactured. But a Buckeye candy is essentially peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar to make the inside and then dipped in milk chocolate. It's a peanut butter cup, right? I guess. I could not tell you because I've never made them. I think the way it's made, or at least the chocolate always tastes different.

But then again, I'm sure Reese's has their own chocolate recipe. So they always taste different. It would be like if you homemade a peanut butter cup, because Buckeyes usually are made with nicer chocolate and are tasty. And they're not as like waxy as the chocolate is in like manufactured peanut butter cups. But like, there's not a difference, right? To me, it was a less delicious peanut butter cup. So I didn't eat a whole lot of Buckeyes growing up.

Less delicious? I liked Reese's Cups more. Oh. I'm sorry. Well, that might cost you a point right there, but... I haven't had a Buckeye in so long, I wouldn't even know how to compare it. Okay, well, and I'm sure there's a bunch of Ohioans

already in the comments or on the subreddit or something, and we're like, no, it's different! It's basically a peanut butter cup for anyone who's never had one. And they're very good. Good points. Good points, everybody. Wade. The NFL Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio.

Yes. Good one. What a weird place. It is. It's a, I don't know why. There's no football there, but there is the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Canton, Ohio. In effectively the middle of nowhere so cleveland's football team was established before cincinnati's team and cleveland's

team left i think they went to baltimore after baltimore went to i believe that's right indianapolis and then cleveland reformed a team i think like in the 90s but cleveland's uh owner paul brown was actually the one who came down and formed Cincinnati's team, the Bengals. And I have no idea if he has anything to do with why Canton, Ohio. I don't know why the NFL Hall of Fame is here, but it is. I think we have all of one player in it. I'm sure the Browns probably have a few. In our lifetimes until the last couple seasons, Ohio is a bastion of mediocre football at best in terms of professional stuff.

It's not been good. It's been a hard place to be a football fan. Not for the last couple years. No, yeah, for the last couple years. Still some heartache in the last couple of years, but better. Hey, getting all the way to the Super Bowl is pretty fun, even if you lose compared to being, say, I don't know, a Lions fan. They've been there three times ever, the Bengals have.

I'll take it. But, yeah, no, why are all the best football players in American football history forced to go to Canton, Ohio to get their gold jacket when they're inducted into the Hall of Fame? Who could tell you? I'm sure there's a reason, but we don't know. And I'm not going to Google it. I'm just going to give Wade a point and offer Mark the next opportunity

to give me some more Ohio stuff. I bet this one isn't on your list but i'm willing to like make an argument all right not on the list as bonus points jerry springer former mayor of cincinnati jerry springer jerry springer is indeed on my list because he is a cincinnati man former mayor of cincinnati like you were saying. And indeed, I associate Jerry Springer with Ohio, despite the fact that the Springer show turned into the icon of people shouting at each other over pregnancy tests. What? What? He actually, what?

Did you know early on in the years of the Jerry Springer show, he tried to make it more of like a hard-hitting talk show? He addressed serious social issues in a much more like respectful way and had serious like experts on but then the producers realized that the ratings were way better the more dramatic the show was and so it was you know steered slowly away from really serious talk show about serious issues toward the reality show that people are familiar with with the jerry springer show i didn't know that but that that does make sense that usually is how it toward the reality show that people are familiar with with the Jerry Springer show. I didn't know that, but that does make sense. That usually is how it goes.

Because that makes a lot of sense because he was the mayor of Cincinnati. He was kind of a serious political figure. He's kind of an Ohio guy. And then the show is mostly known for the ridiculous era. I mean, in our lifetimes, I don't know him as the mayor. I know him as the Jerry Springer show guy. Everyone here knows of him as being the mayor. It's just like it's hard for me to connect because I was so young that it's like I don't know him as the mayor. I know him as the Jerry Springer show guy. Everyone here knows of him as being the mayor. It's just like, it's hard for me to connect it

because I was so young that it's like, I don't even know if he was a mayor in our lifetimes. I don't know when he was the mayor, but I'd like, in my memory, it's the Jerry Springer show. Oh yeah, that guy who watches fights on his show used to run our city. Interesting.

The world has Ohio to thank for the legacy of the Jerry Springer show. You're welcome. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. Mayor from 1977 to 1978. So not a long time. That was before our time, though, so I feel better about not remembering it. Good one, Mark.

There you go. Wade. I think this one might be a contentious one, but the birthplace of aviation. The Wright brothers. That's third on my list because i love that one i think they were born in like one of the carolinas or something but the actual first like flight test or whatever took place in dayton so that both i think states try to claim it i think it's the inverse of what you're saying north carolina's license plates say first in flight because the

first actual flights of the wright brothers aircraft took place in kitty hawk north carolina but the wright brothers are from dayton ohio yeah that's where they designed the first plane ohio license plates say the birthplace of aviation but they designed it in dayton they just must have flown it there yeah that no yeah, yeah. They like lived and worked in Ohio, but then they went down to North Carolina because of, I'm not sure why, but there was some reason, money or facilities or something.

I don't know. Yeah, it was something like they wanted some unregulated backwater wasteland to test their plane. They were looking for a hillbilly hellscape to do whatever they wanted to, and they were looking for a hillbilly hellscape to do whatever they wanted to and they were like north carolina it was something about ideal wind conditions or some shit like that and then they did their first like mud skipper hop in north carolina and then they

went back to dayton and did the real flight uh but yeah okay north carolina can claim yeah yeah so that is a that is a contentious thing because North Carolina is their, their default plate says first in flight. And they claim that very, very much for me. It's like, all right, North Carolina,

whatever you say, you can have, they, they did that. Yeah. But it's like, cause, cause me as a kid,

my dad always took me up to, uh, Oh, I forgot what the name is. Right. Patterson, the air force base, right.

Patterson air force. And the fantastic show that they have, the air show they have at Wright-Patt every year. Super fun show. So I read up a lot about aviation history I think when I was there. I don't remember. I know that I learned. I don't know what I learned,

but I learned something. Airplane stuff, you know, aviation. Yeah, airplane stuff. Was Wright-Patterson on the list? You know what? Yes. One of the last things that I put on my list right before the Football Hall of Fame was the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Uh, Mark, wait, you know what? Technically, though, it's on there for a different reason. Do you know why Wright-Patt is nationally significant? I have no idea! It might be related to how and why you learned so much while you were there. A place where you might learn about the history of something. One of us speaks in riddles, the other in rhymes. Is it a museum?

The National Museum of the Air Force is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. That's probably where I learned all my things that I definitely remember. I'm going to give Mark half a point. You give him as much as you want. I just want you guys to be happy talking about Ohio with me. I was waiting for... I'm going to give Wade that point. All right.

I'm going to give Wade another point. No! You said you were giving him what you had. I'm giving Wade the half a point to Wade and half a point to Mark. Okay, out of fairness. Out of fairness. One half to Mark, one half to Wade for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. There you go. Fair is fair, fair is fair. Okay.

So it's Mark's turn to talk about Ohio stuff. I don't even know if this is like something Ohio is known for. How Dayton is apparently, the more I've learned about Dayton, the more I learned about these horrible, horrible things that occur from Dayton. And it was like number one in human trafficking at some point. And I was like, Dayton? Oh, Ohio. Literally.

No, this is what I associate with Ohio sometimes. It's like, Dayton? How? And I would just think about that, and it blew my mind. And I don't know if it was just Cincinnati shitting on Dayton, or if Dayton actually was the hub of this stuff. What a fucked up way. Dayton is like the unlike step-sibincinnati like two cincinnatians

no that's that's yeah that's i don't know what's true what's just like a shit talking dayton but maybe that's true but i think that's what ohio is known for shit talking dayton people in cincinnati just sit around answer and are just like what's what sort of rumor should we start about dayton do we talk more shit about dayton or cleveland being in cincinnati since i would say statewide cleveland is the city that gets dunked on if you're in cincinnati specifically dayton is the city that gets done unless you're a football fan i don't know there's a lot of shit talking about cleveland if you're a football person but in general maybe it is dayton until the last like two or three years i find it hilarious that anyone from cincinnati would be

like the bangles are last in their division perennially but at least we're not no browns right right guys i think we've been better than the browns even like at our worst most of the time yeah but that's a pretty low bar that's like saying that you're better than the lions it is a low bar but it's the one that we had which is why we shit on cleveland because we're like we suck but at least we're not cleveland like that was my life as a football fan because your actual rival you can't talk shit about because the steelers used to always just trounce the bangles no matter what happened yes forever they have until like the last three years which is too short of a time span to really judge no you know what mark i'm i'm gonna that's definitely that was not on my list

but i'm definitely gonna give you a point. Talking shit about Dayton, especially in the Cincinnati area, is definitely a thing. Because people in Ohio are like, oh, we have three cities, right? The big C's, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, those are the cities. They're not big cities. I hate to break it to everyone who thinks those are big cities. They're tiny, tiny cities compared to actual big cities in the U.S. and around the world. But everyone's like, but Dayton thinks they're a city like us.

Dayton! Or Toledo, right? Like, Toledo's kind of like a steel town. Like, it's a city, but people kind of make fun of Toledo. Also, Toledo University's mascot is a silver penis, but we don't have to talk about that. What? Hold on. The Toledo Rockets mascot, it's a chrome dildo.

Oh, there it is. I found an old image. There it is. The history of Rocky and Roxy. It's a smiling, happy chrome tip. I forget that Toledo exists. I forget that Toledo exists. I forget that Toledo's in Ohio.

That's an Ohio thing. Forgetting Toledo. Yeah, all right. I mean, everyone, do we agree on that? Are we having a way to point for that? Is that way it's not fun? I just want to make the joke. Wait, wait, no. Mark thought it was funny. I think he thinks

it's true. I don't know if forgetting Toledo exists counts. It's definitely not on my list. You don't have to go with that one, Wade. It's your turn next. You can pick anything else you want if you don't want to run with that. If I may be so bold,

hot dogs were invented here. Really? Is that true? Is that true? Hot dogs, oatmeal, and Thomas Edison were all Ohio things. Man, you should have saved up. Well, we're running low on time, so I figured I'd splurge some of my knowledge. I'm pretty sure oatmeal, like Quaker oats.

Two German towns vie to be the original birthplace of the modern hot dog, Frankfurt and... Oh, but the people of vienna also claim to have invented wienerwurst i guess wiener first but that i wonder if that's why that ohio's been linked with inventing the hot dog because we're very german especially since that is very german cincinnati is a very german city it has i believe still true i believe cincinnati has the largest october fest in the united states shuts down the entire what is it fourth street downtown the whole length of the city it's crazy i i my band i was in in college we played because they had like music on every cross street they had tons

of stages it was dope and thomas edison was born here too i believe he was born in i think it's pronounced milan but in ohio it's probably pronounced mylan mylan that sounds like how we pronounce that's definitely how it's pronounced in ohio harry mosley stevens a niles ohio native first sold what would be called a red hot dachshund sausage well you know what that makes sense red hots then red hots were invented in ohio so maybe not all hot dogs universally but red hots is like a big thing in a lot of ohio they're like bright red like food coloring red hot dogs i'll give you that i like that that's interesting oh yeah sure i'm gonna i'm just gonna put hot dogs invented here i don't know i mean i guess the german towns could claim it

it's like i don't know where it was invented first but i know ohio at least claims lays claim to it clearly germany has a lot of claim to sausages more broadly because like Wurst is kind of very German. But I actually, when I was in college, before I switched, I was in music education. So I was doing like teaching courses and stuff. I taught a part of a class in a German language school in downtown Cincinnatiincinnati which i thought was very interesting very german i only took german in high school so i speak this much german which is not enough to talk to students in a school where they're teaching them german but it was fun interesting fact wade you got me mark rebuttal rebuttal i don't i uh uh we're coming we're coming to the end and i will say the points

are tight so i'm gonna increase the amount of points based on how fascinating important or other arbitrary criteria that i'm not going to explain or lay out for you i think your last your last couple answers are so if you were sitting on anything that's fantastical or cool or grandiose, the craziest shit you can think of about Ohio, hit me with it and I'll give you bonus points. I don't know why you look so

pressured. Didn't I tell you this was going to happen? We're all Ohio boys. You know our state, Mark. It's known for most recently for a train derailment. God. Is what I was going to say everyone was very concerned about me and all of ohio for that but it's so close to pittsburgh and pennsylvania that it actually had very little impact on cincinnati yeah it was i discovered a new town in in ohio what was it called you didn't discover very well what was the town that it occurred in

east palestine ohio that was what it was and so like uh this was a horrible train derailment that for some reason seemingly kept getting swept under the rug and then brought back out because it was another horrifying chemical that was spilling all over the town um and then like the repercussions of it were being seen and like everyone else was like, it was just like this kind of horror show that was occurring. And it was just like, as if it was a completely normal thing. And it opened up my eyes to all these different like train infrastructure problems that have been occurring for years and years and building up over time.

And how it's like, even though the vast, vast majority of all of our shipments run on rail, they're just poorly maintained. There's a lot of things like that here. I have to say, I'm pretty sure when we were in high school or elementary school, whatever, throughout school, so many teachers had talked about how like the education system in Ohio was deemed unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court or United States Supreme Court or something, and nothing has ever been done to fix it, but they would always just bring it up. Trains and education. I don't know. It is interesting, isn't it, Mark?

Because that train derailment and the way they handled the chemicals, what they decided to do was release the chemicals into the air and ignite them for some reason, and that was the best way to deal with it. So it released this huge plume of very toxic-looking, not very healthy-looking stuff.

It was so crazy, because for a couple weeks there, suddenly there were tons of train derailments in the news and come to find out across america there are literally hundreds if not thousands of train derailments every year because our relatively shitty poorly maintained rail system and or vehicles that travel on the rails just sort of this happens and it's not always like some horrendous chemical that's causing major environmental damage. But it's crazy, isn't it?

Suddenly no one's talking about that. Even though the ecological fallout in East Palestine and surrounding areas is almost definitely not over. And, you know, probably drinking water will be issued for an extended period of time and all this stuff. It's kind of just got swept away, isn't it? That's weird how that happened. Yeah, it's very strange. I don't know if cover-ups are exclusively an ohio thing but it definitely seems like it's trying to occur to some extent well that's true but definitely i would say

if you're if we're talking current events yeah i think that's probably one of the things ohio is most known for right now is big train chemical derailment and fire explosion situation well way to bring up the mood mark so hence why i didn't want to go into the bonus round with that one but it was well it was the one i had i'm going to give you an extra point for that for being topical and bringing up important issues that literally no major media outlet had any interest in covering for any amount of time and is mostly, from what I've seen, if you want information about it, it's basically available only on social media from people whose lives it's directly impacting or who are doing on-the-ground

journalism. And that's just interesting. Yeah, and you can still help out the people of East Palestine. I'm sure there are fundraisers that can help the cleanup effort, or more specifically, it should be, there should be agencies that are in place and the company responsible taking care of the cleanup effort. Some sort of environmental protection agency maybe should be doing something more to help or some sort of liability sort of thing should be placed on maybe the company whose train it was, whose tracks it was to maintain, whose chemicals it was. Yeah, I what yeah i don't know but you know it's only the people that are being affected so it's only not the profits tens of thousands of humans who might be poisoned or have long-term health effects or who for generations might have to deal with their surrounding ecological systems being irreparably damaged who knows i mean even as far down here they were talking about like the different water companies and stuff we're sending out like memos to all of us like hey this is how

things might be affected this is how we're treating it it shouldn't be an issue as long as the chemicals show below this number you'll be fine and we're adding an extra layer of this to try to remove the chemical so like even though i'm not that close i think we're too like cincinnati's like 200 probably like three and a half, four hour drive away, right? Probably pretty. Yeah, but the roads here aren't like straight lines. I figure more like it matters. So I try to figure out, I think we're like 200, Cincinnati as a whole is like 200, 250

miles away from East Palestine. But like the Ohio River runs all the way down to Cincinnati and people that get their drinking water from the Ohio River obviously are going to be affected by it. So they were like, here, this is what we're going to do it shouldn't be an issue because it's going to be less than this number and yada yada so yeah they just sent out the whole like ah you'll be fine was kind of the memo we all got which we will that chemical dissipates in a few dozen years yeah in a generation or two it won't be a problem yeah it almost definitely won't have any lasting effects probably don't uh don't hold us to that though anyway interesting one mun mun mun interesting

one mun interesting one mun mun getting points for that uh yes mun mun got an extra point unfortunately that's neither of you uh but you did get two points for that mark so good if we really screw this up mun gets to host the next one mark we gotta be careful yeah no mun's in the race now so don't let this happen all right wade what earth-shattering ohio thing are you gonna bring up it's gonna blow my face off and earn you so many points this one's also not that uplifting but i'm pretty sure alcoholics anonymous was founded in ohio really that is that is interesting but certainly more solemn of a thing i guess i believe it was back in like the 20s 30s 1920s 1930s two guys formed like the 12-step program and it's spread and grown from there 1935 akron ohio akron that's

the birthplace of lebron james the akron hammer but it was like you're saying it's the beginning of the international peer-led mutual aid fellowship a meeting uh in person and now online of abstinence-based recovery based on the 12-step program. Interesting. My family has some familiarity with AA, so therefore I'm kind of aware of it. So it is great. It's not an uplifting subject matter in the fact that talking about alcoholism isn't,

but AA itself is a good thing that exists. Yeah, I mean, this is the kind of thing where I'm not well-versed on AA, so I don't know anything if there's been any serious like problems with the organization or whatever but as far as i know the program is pretty effective i mean i as far as i know it's one of the more effective big international programs that in terms of helping people who are alcoholics live with their you know their alcoholism i that is a serious topic but aa i think is a good thing in the world i hope i'm sure there will be comments

where it's like oh actually there were funds that were misappropriated from what we know right now it's it's had a good reputation and whenever someone's going through that you think about them going to aa i hope that that's mostly if not exclusively a good thing in the world i hope so too because it's what you think about when you to AA. I hope that that's mostly, if not exclusively, a good thing in the world. I hope so too. Because it's what you think about when you think about treatment for someone that's struggling with addiction. And I wonder how related, I mean, there's tons of other programs, you know, like Narcotics Anonymous and other sort of programs to treat other types of addiction. I wonder how, if Alcoholics Anonymous spawned those or if they're related, but interesting.

I'm trying to decide how... Let me quantify with the number of points how good Alcoholics Anonymous is. Hang on. Be very careful. I mean, is it really three points worth of good, or... I don't know. I couldn't tell you. You're the host. I'm going to say that's two and a half points.

I'll take it. On a scale of meaningless amounts of points for things. Anyway, yeah, unless anyone has any burning desires to say anything else, do we want to call it? I'm just going to shout a few out. This one probably isn't the most well-known, but it's my favorite ice cream place because I've had a lot of ice cream. And Grater's, which is a cincinnati chain oh yeah graters united dairy farmers i worked at for a while yeah their ice cream sucks and you know it they're not as high quality as graters but there's a wider variety and if i wanted a milkshake of like a specific flavor i would go

to udf if i want an ice cream like in a cup or something i could definitely go to graters yeah udf is great for milkshakes and just like quick stuff but it's like graders when i i crave black raspberry chip all the time like just because it's like i've never had another place that gets that kind of ice cream the fact that ohio is known for corn even though soybeans are the number one crop but ohio is known for corn i think a lot of the midwest is known for corn right like we're all because that's what you see when you drive through is the corn fields you know corn when you see it is a lot of the Midwest is known for corn, right? Because that's what you see when you drive through is the corn fields. You know corn when you see it. It is a lot of corn. I would say farm

land and corn specifically is sort of more of a general Midwest. Do I get to yell some out too or does Mark get all of them? Yeah, yell about it. Amish country. We're known for the Amish. We have a big Amish president. That's true. Neil Armstrong was born here.

A lot of astronauts from Ohio, yeah. A lot of presidents were born in Ohio. Most presidents, I think, were born here. The fact that the southeast of Ohio, no Ohioans ever been to. Yep. Nope. That is actually a scientific fact. I believe that. You know what?

I concede. I'm pretty sure no one's ever been there. Nothing exists in southeast Ohio. I have that on my list. Nothing exists in Southeast Ohio. There is nothing there. Bob, you mentioned this, so I didn't shout it out, but one of the most well-known things about Ohio is the football team, Ohio State Buckeyes, or the Ohio State University, because they're nationally relevant pretty much every year. Bengals and Browns, I guess you could argue, too, the football teams. But I would say Ohio State University, with their success, is probably more known, respected than our other football teams. I'm going to say that technically what I have on my list

is that Ohio State University fans are nationally, if not internationally, known for being insufferable a-holes. But I will accept that. Generally, the Ohio State University, it's the Ohio State University. It's the Ohio State University. Cool. Cool. You sound really cool when you say it like that.

There's the Obelisk of Torment. The what now? Ohio is very known for that. The what? The one we all pay homage to every four years. We make a blood sacrifice to. Oh, that's what that's called? Yeah, yeah.

Oh. But it has many names and it's known by many many names over many many eras we have the um the mansfield ohio um haunted place the reformatory or the whatever it is asylum i'm gonna call it that the reformatory is that what it is it's the ohio state reformatory i think it's called a reformatory i think it is i think that's what it's called i don't know what it's called a reformatory. I think it is. I think that's what it's called. I don't know what it's called, but I'm just going to call it that. Because there's a few haunted places in Ohio.

I know that's one of them. I can't think of the other one. There's that weird bottomless pit in Sandusky. Sandusky bottomless pit. Was it man-made or is it just a thing that opened up? Well, no one knows, right? They just found it. LeBron James.

I mentioned him earlier, but he's pretty known for being the Akron Hammer was a nickname given to him by i think it was michelle beetle on one of the sports programs years ago called him the akron hammer i think i think she coined it i could be wrong and he brought cleveland i think their only nba championship or at least the only one in a long time i don't know much about nba to be honest yeah the only thing i'll say i can think of is like the the lake of blood well they call it the lake of blood but it's more like a little pond of blood where is that one i don't know i don't know what that is i don't know if the obelisk of torment sandusky bottomless pit and lake of blood that mark are bringing to the table really give ohio a very positive image i gotta be honest

oh come on all the rest of this we're bearing the brunt of those train wrecks in the lake of blood you know everything you need to know about ohio all right well it feels a little bit like we're bearing the brunt of those train wrecks in the lake of blood you know everything you need to know about ohio all right well it feels a little bit like we're winding down any last any last second ones it's hard to differentiate ohio for me from cincinnati things like if i say like la roses but that's a cincinnati thing like skyline yeah it's more ohio it's ohio but it's cincinnati like so i'm trying to think of things that aren't just cincinnati and that i'm struggling there so i'll concede at this point because i feel like we've named pretty good amount all right do you want to hear a couple that i had that i'm surprised didn't come up yes all right uh hating the state of michigan is a big ohio thing oh yeah it never really crosses my mind i guess pittsburgh too but like that's i felt it was more

of a sports thing hating pittsburgh also on the list a lot of hate in ohio making fun of kentucky is that on there cincinnati is like half kentucky so i know but they make a lot of fun of kentucky a lot you're like you're in cincinnati to thank god we're not in kentucky like that's a thing wendy's is a very ohio thing the wendy's headquarters is in columbus it is actually wendy's originates from ohio oh god kroger kroger owns every grocery is's a very euchre is euchre on your list at all the card game euchre no i don't know the answer to that but i remember mentioning it to someone i remember mentioning to someone they were like i've never heard of that that must be like a midwest thing i don't know the origins of euchre but like very few people outside

of here have ever like known what i'm talking about when i mention it i feel like euchre is midwest because i definitely i don't know yeah but i don't know where the origin is oh also ohio is the home of b-dubs buffalo wild wings and hey it uh first b-dubs opened in columbus and uh is ohio is the home of that the ohio chant that ohio people do all of that goes along with being buckeyes fans and whatever that's what i yeah i pieced those two together ohio and i the only other thing i had that you guys didn't really touch on is cardinals are a very ohio image except none of the like school mascots or anything of the universe the bigger universities and the sports teams and stuff are cardinals in ohio but that's the state bird it is the state

bird i didn't realize it was that big of a deal and the the red cardinal is like a very ohio iconic sort of image sort of thing but also it's not very tightly related to a lot of ohio stuff so i don't know why the ohio flag's kind of unique i do think ohio has a one of the cooler state flags i'm not a big flag nerd but it's the it's not a rectangle it's a sort of an angle in and then it's got a cutout thing it's pretty cool anyway ohio sucks but we're the only ones who are allowed to say that, okay? Me more than anyone else, because I've never left it. We lived with Ohio's problems, and we know the reality of it. Still do.

Still here. And we all got out, because we're smart people, you know? No, this has been a great episode talking about Ohio. I was so happy as you gave Mark points, because I want you two to be happy and come back to me, please. Yeah, we all realize that there are much better places to live, and we all... I love Ohio, man. I do miss Ohio. I feel like I liked growing up in Ohio.

I have mixed feelings about some of it, but there's lots of cool stuff about Ohio. It's a cool place. Yes, there's definitely stuff. No, I've still got family there. They're okay. Anyway, if we're looking at the points total, it was very tight coming into the end of the turn-based rounds. Wade ended up ahead by half a point, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. But then if you look at the lightning round, you guys were very close.

But Wade actually came up with two more lightning round answers than Mark did. And while some of them were collaborative and some of Mark's were more interesting, Wade included the state of presidents, which is kind of a big Ohio thing. Wade got Ohio State University, which is a big thing that a lot of people dislike about Ohio. The LeBron James, very famous. I think Wade. LeBron James. Just nosed it out in the lightning round points to maintain his half a point lead.

And because he lives there, Wade is the king of the Ohio episode. He's the king of Ohio. The king of meat and the king of Ohio. Coincidence? I think so. As a successful podcast

on the national scene, we have enough authority to override the entire government of Ohio and install Wade as king of ohio and that's what we're doing oh h nope all right never in my never in my life will i ever do that i'm a uc guy so i feel it felt dirty doing that i got that no i i've had people do that when we lived in north carolina we still had ohio license plates and so i have had that experience where you're at the gas station and across the way someone's like, OH! And I'm just like, mm-mm.

I wonder if people find Alabama's Roll Tide more annoying or the OH thing more annoying. If you're not a fan of either of those teams, which one's more annoying? Roll Tide or OHIO? At least Roll Tide's shorter. OHIO gets multiple groups involved. There's a call and a response. It's a whole...

And if you do it once, it's a good chance it might happen again. Because the first time, it's always like, OHIO! And then they're like, OHIO! And it's like, no. Who cares about all that sports stuff anyway? Don't you host a sports podcast well mark you're today's loser what do you think about that then uh i'm just so glad that uh me and bob two california residents have the authority to supersede the entire government of ohio i think

everyone in ohio will be very happy about that honestly maybe any any repercussions from this action shall be heaped upon the king of Ohio that we have declared. He is the one there. His address will be written in a text scroll right here below. And so you can find him there with all of your objections. But we sayeth though. We sayeth though. We sayeth though.

Mark, we got you. Don't you like how we make fun of that when you do that? Ohio, home of the lisp. got you don't you like how we make fun of that when you do that ohio home of the lisp anyway wade winner speech please come back i miss you guys no okay i'm shutting that down right now wade's the winner that's the end he doesn't have a speech uh we'll come back if and when we want to not because you asked uh yeah make sure you check out the merch that we have store.detractablepodcast.com make sure you check out the merch that we have, store.distractablepodcast.com. Make sure you check out

Markiplier, Wade, at lordminion777 or minion777. My username is myskerm on all of those places where you can watch videos and whatnot. That's going to be it.

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