Distractible - Red 40, Set Hut!

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Mandatory Mark tells tales of the Tamiyas, has havoc on his farm, and clears out all of the colors. Winging it Wade has a killer kitty, wants water witchery, and loves A.I.T. Rawny Bob has backyard bunnies, marks his matrimonial, then giggles at gallons and and Mcmishaps. From thirsty vids, to chundering clowns. Heheheheeeees.
Starting point is 00:00:31 It's time for Red Forty Sit Hot. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted. And enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to Distractable. You made a great choice today. I know I've said that in a lot of the episodes that I've hosted but it's been a while and I just wanted to reinforce All the good things that are coming in your life I'm shooting all my good energy into the radio waves for you. Are we broadcast on radio?
Starting point is 00:00:56 Yeah, actually I was just thinking about that. It'd be cool. Do you think that there's like a pirate radio for distractable? That would mean we're in space. Ooh Be fun. That'd be cool. Yeah. Well that'd be fun. If you're doing that, we're gonna sue you out of existence unless you give us 95% of the revenue you're making. Oh, 80. 91. That's fair. We gotta split the remainder three ways between us. Wait, no, they get it. We get 9%. If our cut could be divisible by three, that would be ideal. Yeah, that's it. Wait, we get nine percent. If our cut could be divisible by three, that would be ideal.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Yeah, that's it. Anyway, I'm your host, Markiplier, here to give you the best quality entertainment you've ever asked for or ever not asked for. And I'm joined today by the two competitors in today's big, big game, Bob and Wade. Hello. I'm a competitor?
Starting point is 00:01:40 Yeah, maybe. I don't know, we'll see. News to me, wasn't prepared for that role, but okay, that's fine. Just because he calls you a competitor doesn't mean you stand a chance. Relax. I love it. And we know who the real winner is in this podcast. Oh, God. Is it more music? Please no. Love the confidence. Love the confidence. If anyone's watching this on video, ignore the stains on my shirt until later. It's part of the until later it's part of the game it's part of the game you play your cards right i'll tell you what my stains are later yeah exactly
Starting point is 00:02:12 anyway how are you guys stainless we don't know that for sure how's your underwear yeah it's a bold claim he's wearing we'd see about 12 percent of your overall clothing volume oh yeah do you want to see 17 percent huh how's that someone's not very good at math. I would love someone please do the math. Yeah, he's six foot four His nips up 17% is that really true? I got a good feeling that that actually was a pretty accurate estimation, but I don't know it might have gone over I don't know that's actually 17% of me But I probably did increase by about 5% of what I was showing.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Is this actually 12%? That seems low. Don't question that, that part's assumed. Oh, okay. We know that's true, because I said it, so don't do anything on that. I want that guy on TikTok who finds where people are. Yuval?
Starting point is 00:02:57 Yeah, is that his name? I think so. I mean, some random piece of roadie's like, nice try, asshole. This is where I triangulated your position, judging by the types of trees in your background. Great voice for it. There's a lot of guys who do that.
Starting point is 00:03:09 The one I'm thinking of only finds the one woman who he's having a, I don't know if it's real or fake. Have you guys seen this, Yuval and Ayame? I have, yeah, yeah. But he keeps, this lady keeps posting herself being like, I'm in this hotel. And then Yuval will just be like, found you. I Googled the paintings on the wall and I looked at you were eating scrambled
Starting point is 00:03:26 eggs with salsa and only two. And now they're like in person hanging out, like taking relationship quizzes and stuff. It's funny because like we've only seen a couple of them, but they are very, very thirsty videos with them together, like incredibly. And I don't know what the situation is, but I mean, well, if they had a hotel, why don't they just get a drink? Maybe, I don't know. Anyway, it's great content, very entertaining, good stuff.
Starting point is 00:03:50 How are you guys doing? What's new? What's the happy haps? I've had many happy haps. Not happy haps, unhappy haps. James was sick, and he was healthy yesterday. Now he's sick again. Apparently this is just how babies are.
Starting point is 00:04:03 It's not that bad, but it's nicer when he's not sick. Yeah. Outside of that, are. It's not that bad, but nicer when he's not sick Yeah outside of that things are good. That's good. That's good. I thought I had a story I was setting that up to be like oh and this thing Oh, oh, no, I told you guys about the sprinkler system. That's not resolved still It's just a mystery everyone I tell that story to including like people who do work on sprinklers is like that's not sketchy That's weird. Somebody's lying. Somebody. Probably a coverup.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Search a property for dead bodies. Wade, anything new while Bob thinks about his life a little bit and, you know, rethink some choices that he's made. I'll tell you guys that our cat is still a hunter and he tried to bring a chipmunk into the house. Nice. Alive or dead chipmunk?
Starting point is 00:04:42 Oh, it was still alive, which. Which I think I'm thankful for, but I was on the phone. There was like an important call. The dogs were outside doing their business and the cat came outside with us, which he usually does. And he ran around the back of the house and I was like, oh boy, well, he'll come back in a few minutes.
Starting point is 00:04:55 And I was going to the front door to let the dogs in. I was like, oh, there's the cat. Oh, there's something in his mouth. It's moving. And he ran to the front door, like cutting me off and just looked up at me like, let me in. I brought dinner. And I had to, front door like cutting me off and just looked up at me like let me in I brought dinner And I had to while on the phone try to pry a living chipmunk from my cat's mouth
Starting point is 00:05:10 And it was not a fun time, but chipmunks. Okay, I think at least it's not anywhere close by so either something else Got it or got away wandered far enough away before it died, so I'm happy It's sad though the chipmunk was I don't know if chipmunks They're probably bad to have her on your property, but there were two chipmunks just playing in the backyard. It was really cute. And I'm pretty sure one of those is the one he snagged. I don't think they're bad for you.
Starting point is 00:05:31 They're just, they just chill. They just hang out. That reminds me, this is so strange. I was talking to Amy and there was something out in the yard that we were both looking at and I was like, oh, it's a chipmunk. And then Amy was like, no, it's a bird, you idiot. And we're looking at it and it hops out from the bushes.
Starting point is 00:05:46 The sun was glaring across, so I couldn't see it. And it's clearly a bird. And I go, no, no, Amy, it's a chipmunk. It's definitely a chipmunk. And she's laughing at me and I'm leaning into it. And this bird hops here and then it hops behind a bush. She's like, the bird's gone. I'm like, no, the chipmunk's gone.
Starting point is 00:06:01 And I swear to fuck, immediately after it goes behind a bush, a literal chipmunk pops out from behind the bush Not joking I so wish I had it recorded a fucking chipmunk pops out from the bush and runs Towards us like runs towards the cars like closer to us So it's clearly a chipmunk and we could not fathom how this magic trick occurred where a bird turned into a chipmunk That's so good. It's from the same spot. Dude, the simulation was in on the gas lighting.
Starting point is 00:06:31 It's the same spot too. It came out from the same spot in the bush. Like I could see the tiles in the pavement of where it was coming out. Like it was three tiles down. Bird pops out. It's a chipmunk. It's a bird, you idiot. It pops back.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Same fucking spot a chipmunk pops out and runs out of here. It was so great You imagine if you have one chance in life to just imagine something so hard that it comes true And that's when you use yours for I turned a bird into a chipmunk I Manifested a bird into a chipmunk I was just fantasizing that it was like a wizard or some like a wizard was like oh I'll disguise myself as a bird and then they heard you and they're like oh fuck do I look like a fucking chipmunk? What did I mess up? And they're like wet in the bush and we're like chipmunk and then came back in
Starting point is 00:07:16 That man with the deep voice was so sure I was a chip I don't understand You know I appreciate them. I think it would more just be, that wizard was fucking with me, but it's okay, I get it. That was a Waverly Place kind of wizard. Yeah. Bob, what's new with you? Again. Well, he didn't say anything.
Starting point is 00:07:33 I was trying to get back to him. Oh. Did I tell you guys we have bunnies living in the backyard? Mm-hmm. I think so, because I think we, well, you and I talked about it at least, because we do too.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Maybe it was just you and me, it might not have been on the show. No, I got nothing then, and nothing interesting happened. We had an anniversary party this past weekend, way to us there. Ah, you already talked about that. I already knew about that one too. Did we talk about that?
Starting point is 00:07:50 Yeah. Did we? Yesterday, we talked about it a bit. I don't think so. Well, it was mentioned, I knew that it occurred. I don't think that was officially mentioned, that was unofficially mentioned. Editors, cut around all that. Nothing happened.
Starting point is 00:08:00 My life is boring and sucks. I'm tired, so I can't remember exactly what we've talked about recently. I don't know what we're talking about, the party. But that was a thing. That was fun. It was a great time. All right. So I got a mystery. This isn't the episode. This is just a random aside that I want to talk about. So as you know, I've bought some refurbished computers, right?
Starting point is 00:08:18 From Dell. And I had them running. I was running, you know, a little render farm. And I've been doing small scale experiments with these computers as I try to build out what I'm gonna do. So I had five computers running and for weeks now they've been running fine, they've been working perfectly. I've actually done some experimentation with underclocking, you know, or undervolting the graphics cards, yada yada, it doesn't matter. Two nights ago, or yesterday morning rather, I woke up all five computers that I had running were offline. All five of them. And I'm like, well, that's strange. Not a one of them. I load up each one of them.
Starting point is 00:08:47 I load up the first one and I discover, oh, the boot drive is corrupted. It cannot boot. Can't boot Windows. It does it self diagnostics. All the hardware is fine. It can't boot Windows. Can't boot at all.
Starting point is 00:08:58 It can't even find the boot drive. So I load up the next one. Two of five, same thing. Boot drive corrupted. And here's the thing. I don't know if me even talking about this is painting a big target on my back. Oh, it definitely is.
Starting point is 00:09:09 But I'm gonna keep talking about it because it's just fascinating. All offline at this point. Third one, same deal, same exact problem. Boot drive corrupted. Fourth one, boot drive corrupted. Fifth one, boot drive is corrupted. What time was this that you found this?
Starting point is 00:09:22 I don't know what time they all went offline because I couldn't find any logs or anything like that. I didn't have anything robust to set them up. These were just render notes. They didn't have anything on them. They were just running two pieces of software. Basically is all they were running. So they were technically connected to the internet. I didn't even have monitors connected to them. So I had, you know, I was remoting into them just to even get there. But I had to like I have a little like clamshell KVM so I can plug into them and see what's going on. And I'm like, that's super weird.
Starting point is 00:09:47 What are the odds that five computers in different parts of my house, all running the same software, but also other computers in my house were running this software as well. All of the only the Dell ones shut down and got corrupted. Can I pose a positive theory here? Yeah, what's up?
Starting point is 00:10:04 Okay, do you remember the story we just told the bird and the chipmunk wizard theory? Okay? What did we talk about yesterday on this podcast? We're recording talked about Adele and boots go on and now your Adele's won't boots Oh, okay, I'm just saying Put the tinfoil hats on because what day did that issue occur? Oh, yeah, during the Adele boots day. Bob gave one hint all day. You know what that hint was? Boots. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That didn't imply that this is my fault somehow. Remember that song, Never Mind I Will Find, a render farm like you? Adele. Alright, so this is very strange, right? So I contact Adele customer service and I've got a customer service gripe to pick because All right
Starting point is 00:10:47 Clearly this isn't normal right? No, that's pretty weird It's very strange my only guess is that it was some type of malware that somehow got into the computers and Again, this like maybe painting a big target on my back I have no idea but something got into the computers and corrupted the boot drive. It's very easy to cause these things to become unstable if you delete system 32 or something like that. You can basically render a whole computer by doing that
Starting point is 00:11:19 and it would just cause a bunch of problems. It would not be able to boot anymore, it wouldn't be able to repair itself. I'm not saying doing that would do that, but a lot of things. It wouldn't- it would not be able to boot anymore, it wouldn't be able to repair itself. I'm not saying doing that would do that, but you know, a lot of things can be done. That just doesn't have a lot of value to the malicious... party. Other than fucking your shit up, I guess. Yeah, I- I have no idea either. So I reach out to, like, Dell customer service, and I knew something was wrong when I was being answered by the Dell Social Media
Starting point is 00:11:41 team, which was a little strange, but I'm hoping that that's Dell's customer service on the social media team. And I go through this all day. I'm like, this is weird, right? Can you help me find- figure out why this is happening? I was like, okay, let's troubleshoot it. So they run me around for hours and hours doing all these troubleshooting tasks that I keep saying like, yeah, I've done the basics, I've done your diagnostics, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. And then it goes on and on, they keep leading my way, like, you're gonna find out why this happened, right? And they're like like no, let's just do the next step. You're gonna find out why this happens, right? Let's just do the next step We're gonna find out what happens, right? All right create a thumb drive with a Windows installation on it and I'm thinking in my head I'm doing anything to not do this because if I format that drive any evidence that
Starting point is 00:12:18 Of what happened on that computer is going to be erased or become much harder to find if I do a fresh install of Windows on it. And I keep asking them like this and they're like, Please just do the next step. We are going through this. This is the process we need to get it. I'm like, okay. And so I reinstall it, do that, and then I tell them like, okay, I'm in Windows, now what? And they're like, great! Let us know if there's any problem. Keep an eye on it. Have a good day. And I'm like, you motherfuckers you sons of bitches you had no intention of finding out what went wrong with it at all I was like just take this computer back and look at have have computer there's such a thing as
Starting point is 00:12:54 computer forensics you can look into the hard drive and find out some logs you can dig in there and you can but they had no desire to do any of that they were never going to do it and they strung me along the entire time. Did you do all five or did you say, do you have any that are still? No, I only did one. Okay. I only did one because I have all five
Starting point is 00:13:12 with the same problem, but they would not admit, they would not admit that five going offline for the same reason, all independently of each other, wasn't weird, right? And they kept saying like, it's just like a random software corruption. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. The odds of random software corruption occurring across five machines at the same time
Starting point is 00:13:32 is statistically most likely improbable. Or not impossible, and nothing's impossible, but whatever. It seems much more likely that this is some kind of security vulnerability that was exploited or something like that. And it's only these. It's, my other computers are fine. Only these. What's up with that? It was kind of brilliant. Now they've got you as a complicit party in covering up the evidence. So if you do get a forensics specialist, they're gonna see that you covered up one of the five.
Starting point is 00:14:01 What crime is being... I don't know, man, but it's pretty bad if Dell's getting you involved in the cover-up You're right They got the social media team involved so that way the moment you try to say anything they're like they've already got the posts ready Markiplier covers up corruption at Dell. You're right inside job. That's it. That's it. That's the one that's it and look It's like I know what can they do All I wanted was them to just escalate it to the next level of being like, yeah, this is weird enough.
Starting point is 00:14:28 Maybe you should look into this. It's probably nothing. It's probably something like, as I was running them, like it was some port was not forwarded correctly in the computers. It allowed someone to get in or a virus to get in. I'm not saying this was like a specific attack. It just seems like this is malware riding across
Starting point is 00:14:44 the software for the render farm thing that I was using That allowed like some piece of malware to get in deleted a system thing and boop all the thing go Yeah, it's more likely that that happened, but it's also worth exploring I can't use these computers if that's possible That was my point to them is like I can't rely on these to do what I need them to do if there is Something like that in them. I don't rely on these to do what I need them to do if there is something like that in them. I don't think it's the software I'm using because I'm using it across my other computers but maybe again it might be. I mean it might be I like a driver compatibility where it's the software and
Starting point is 00:15:14 some specific thing in the Dell machines and they all have it because they're all the same machine or something but yeah exactly. No it's weird to corrupt the boot disk like that is like not what would normally happen is they would just blue screen and then you could you could get it to post and maybe you would continue to have an issue you have to do drivers or reinstall or whatever but like yeah I'm not an expert but as far as I know that's a much weirder outcome. Yes. Yeah. That's not something where it's like whoopsie doodles and then your whole boot drive is just corrupted. That's a different kind of issue. It's very strange. You guys are basing too much stuff on facts here. I think Bob's earlier theory about the wizard chipmunk,
Starting point is 00:15:48 he's trying to get his revenge because you caught him like practicing his bird, which wasn't perfect, so he was like half chipmunk. And then he fully went chipmunk and he's like, fine, I just won't even be a bird, fuck this guy. It is strange. And then he followed you home as a chipmunk and attacked your computers to get back at you.
Starting point is 00:16:01 I did think, I was almost positive that when I first saw that bird it was a chipmunk first. That's what I saw in my mind. I might have seen a shape-shifting chipmunk. I think Bob was originally right. Just a glitch in the matrix. Here, let me give you a Wade solution here. Hang on. Okay, I'm ready. All right, Mark, I know how to solve this problem. It's not the Dell computers themselves. What you need is a Costco sized jug of lighter fluid and then a lighter to light the lighter fluid. And then what you do is you take all of your computers and you set them in a smaller area, small enough where you could draw a circle on the ground around them in
Starting point is 00:16:34 lighter fluid. And you want to use like the whole bottle, like as much as you can. You might need multiple bottles, I don't even know. But you basically want all of the wires, all of the networking stuff, all of the computers, all inside this circle. And before you turn them on to do anything, you light the lighter fluid. So you've got a wall of fire around all of your computers. Those are important to protect you. I know this about technology. Mmm.
Starting point is 00:16:59 The firewall will keep you safe, Mark. I've heard of this mythical firewall. I've got an alternate. Okay. We'll keep you safe mark. I've heard of this mythical firewall. I've got an alternate Okay, wizards are sometimes like the male equivalent of witches and we know from even dating back to like the 1940s or even earlier Which is don't like water. So if you pour water on each machine, you'll melt the witch out of them. Oh Okay, I have a pool. Can I just throw them in the pool? Yeah Okay. All right, cool. No, you know what mark Mark? You were telling us about how you wanted to do water computers in water, right? You were talking about that? We talked about that?
Starting point is 00:17:29 What you do is, because you said the water needed to be a special kind, it needed to be thick or something, get a bunch of the leftover thicket that you have from Redacted, get a bathtub filled with thick water, and then just submerge all the computers in there. That'll melt the out and keep it out plus then they'll be real cool because of what you were saying about water cooling yeah you you listened or get a snake big enough to eat a chipmunk or a small bird because clearly the wizard can turn into mm-hmm release a snake into each computers that way if the wizard comes back it's ready to be gobbled up. Mm-hmm. That's good defense That's great. If you could find a species of snake that can survive underwater you could combine some of these solutions. That's true
Starting point is 00:18:12 If you can find a fire that can burn underwater, are you jotting these down for later? Yeah. Yeah I'm really keeping track of everything that we're doing today. I appreciate that Well, that's I really appreciate you guys helping me out and I appreciate being able to rip about something else. Someone out there is like, oh my god, Mark is under attack. I need to get him a message. Don't totally happen. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:18:34 So I'm going to move on to the main topic today. As you may have noticed, my shirt is very stylish. Is our main topic helping you clean your shirt? No, it's not. I don't want to clean this. This is more evidence, right? Thank God. This is all episodes all about evidence. I was thinking this looks like chipmunk feet patterns. Yes I was thinking so too. So essentially I don't know if you know this but I have actually not been consuming any type of food coloring
Starting point is 00:19:00 Intentionally for about three or four weeks probably like a month now. I've been abstaining from anything, I've been checking all the ingredients, I've been not doing anything with food coloring in it, because I've heard rumors and rumblings, I don't have any actual hard evidence that it's bad for you, but I've heard that maybe it might affect you negatively. I've talked about the spree incident in the Appalachian Mountains, and I need not go into further detail about such spree incident in the Appalachian Mountains. Sure, sure. But from that moment on, I have not had any contact with any food coloring. Until...
Starting point is 00:19:29 two days ago. ... Coincidentally, this was the same night that the computers went kaput. Weirdly coincidental. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo They might be related they might not be I might have in a red 40 fugue state gone nuts on my computer The man has that food coloring in four weeks. We don't know how to control them Well the thing was this so I had some Takis right not Takis like Original Takis I had Takis hot nuts which I can oh rarely have if Ethan's around is there peanut coated talking stuff either way I hadn't had Red 40 in a while. They have Red 40 in them.
Starting point is 00:20:07 They also have like Yellow 5, maybe Yellow 6, I can't remember which one. They're kind of a control group. I was like, okay, I wonder what will happen if I have this. Will I feel anything different? Will I be any weirder? And that night, I had them at about 8 o'clock, and this is just evidence, because when I ate them with my left hand and I was playing Elden Ring with my right, so I would like eat the hot nuts and then But that night at about eight o'clock I was eating him I couldn't sleep that night I was up until 2 a.m.
Starting point is 00:20:43 And I've been I've been very very regular with my sleep kind of actually sleeping in a little bit But I don't go to bed late at all I don't do that and also I had to get out of bed because I was Ravenously hungry and I noticed that with the spree incident in the Appalachian Mountains that I was ravenously hungry and I had to get Up out of bed I just kept snacking until it hurt and I had to get up out of bed and I made like two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I ate them and I was like really uncomfortably full and then I went to bed. And I'm not saying necessarily that Red 40 causes you to like binge eat and stay
Starting point is 00:21:13 up late. It might have been placebo but it was such an instantaneous effect that I couldn't possibly ignore how they might be related, right? So you're saying Red 40 is the inverse of a ozempic. Yes. Got it. Probably. I think we can definitively make statements here such as that. Science tells us, probably.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Mr. Red 40 is gonna sue us now. So what I want to do today is I want to find the food with the most food coloring in it. Oh God. Oh God. Oh damn. Cause have you seen the, the TikToks or the videos that it's like people put as much red 40 products together in one batch.
Starting point is 00:21:53 It's horrifying to look at because you get like a red food coloring dyed like spicy pickle in like the fun dip things, but it's a huge big brick of red candy into red powder. And then they mix the red Kool-Aid in it It's not good because we had a surprise where we were looking at a bag of Fritos And it's a bag of Fritos that was like nacho dusted Fritos. It had every food coloring in it We had no idea why this was not a colorful food it had red 40 yellow 5 6 blue Lake 1 2 it had all of them good lord
Starting point is 00:22:22 It was like the the infinity stones of color and we just didn't know why so I want to find what is the most red fortied or most food coloring food out there how can we get the most of this in our bodies I mean Taki seems like a strong contender you'd think that the the red that those get is concerning yeah but your your point about the Cheetos is interesting I don't I wonder if that's what you know when people make takis duds takis dust at home Uh-huh, and it's never quite the same It doesn't taste quite as good even though if you follow the ingredients doesn't have enough red 40 in it
Starting point is 00:22:55 I'm thinking people just don't put as much for you because really that's that's that's the kicker right there. That's that's a good So well, so that's listed as an ingredient in stuff Mm-hmm, but there's no like amounts in the ingredient section, is there? Oh man. Do you have any experience with food coloring foods in your day? Anything that sparked joy in your hearts? Basically all chips.
Starting point is 00:23:16 Literally before we started recording, I just showed you guys that I just ate the little crumbs that I had left of a bag of, I think, Chinese Lay's Italian red meat flavored, it's supposed to be like Bolognese flavored chips, I think. They were very Takis red. Okay. They had the vibe of enough food coloring that they kind of glowed in the dark. Now I'll make this episode, here's what it'll be. You can talk about your favorite childhood foods that had a lot of food coloring in them and then discover how bad they were for you. You can talk about your favorite current foods, how much food coloring is in them. If you find any articles or evidence that talk about Red 40 as if there's actual evidence or any food coloring that's actually bad, I would love to know that. Everything about food coloring is on the table today. So would this count as
Starting point is 00:23:57 are artificial dyes the same term as food coloring? I believe so, yes. I assume they are. Yeah, yeah, artificial food coloring, yeah., okay from a very brief search I found sunny D orange strawberry as 41.5 milligrams of artificial dyes 41.5 milligrams. How do I how do I contextualize how much that is? Okay 41 Where are you finding this? Is there someplace that reports how much is in things? I'm trying to confirm it because this is like I Google search and then like the AI overview said this. I don't trust that at all. So I'm trying to confirm where they find the numbers.
Starting point is 00:24:29 So I was looking at the ingredients list for Sunny D, orange strawberry, and I don't actually see listed on the ingredients. It says it has yellow 6 and red 40. I don't see the amounts of that. I'm trying to figure out how you see the amounts of food coloring in a substance. That's the thing. It sometimes doesn't have to be reported or actually most of the time I think it doesn't have to be reported this claims. It's according to a 2014 Purdue study, so maybe we can find the study We're going deep. Okay go deep for context 45 milligrams would be about a pinch
Starting point is 00:24:58 It's equivalent to roughly a little pinch of spice if you were to put that in there, so that's not a terrible amount Depends on per unit. I don't know if you were to put that in there. So that's not a terrible amount. Depends on per unit. I don't know if the whole box has that or... Okay, here you go. I will link this to you boys. Okay. Sorry, I just, you said,
Starting point is 00:25:14 how do I contextualize 41.5 milligrams? And I went to, I just like, I wonder if AI image generation can help. I found the answer boys That's so so just to just for full context here I put it give me an image that contextualizes how much 41.5 milligrams is in a gallon Why does this say 41 gallons one gal gone? It's helpful I like the heaping spoonful of 41.5 human head size
Starting point is 00:25:59 Spoonful of maybe it's really lightweight also. I love in the bottom left corner of maybe it's really lightweight. Also, I love in the bottom left corner, there's like an eight ounce bottle of water that says gallon on it, but then there's a width across the bottom that says one gallon and the height of it says. 41.5 I think. I don't know what it's supposed to be, right?
Starting point is 00:26:19 It does look funky, but. Yeah, that's great. AI never lets you down. I love this article you got, Wade. It's terrifying because some of the highlights here are general mills tricks cereal lists yellow 6 blue 1 and red 40 on its ingredients but no one would have known that tricks had 36.4 milligrams of those chemicals fruity Cheerios has 31 combination of red 40 yellow 6 and blue 1 of all cereals tested the one with most artificial dyes was cap'n crunch oops all berries
Starting point is 00:26:48 Uh oh with 41 that makes perfect I you know I thought of that because I remembered the cap'n crunch it's pure red green blue like it's pure color Well isn't that what fruit loops is? Fruit loops? Isn't oops all berries just fruit loops, but they're not loops, they're chunks? No, there's something different about Cap'n Crunch and Fruit Loops.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Like, Fruit Loops does have, like, a different flavor profile. I don't know what you would call Cap'n Crunch. I love Cap'n Crunch, but it's clear there's something artificial going on. It ain't right. The way it also, like, shreds your upper mouth is also not great. Oh, that's part of the joy of... That's how you get it in your bloodstream directly Cuts up your mouth a little and then you absorb it. Oh, here you go
Starting point is 00:27:31 52.3 milligrams per serving in Kool-Aid burst cherry. Oh Holy jeez, that's Here's a funny thing when I stopped doing when I stopped doing food coloring, I noticed that for the past few weeks, I've even been saying it, I've been weirdly tired. I was weirdly tired for the past few weeks and it's only started to just get better. And then, you know, two days ago, I go into my red 40 fugue state and what happens today? I'm so tired. I'm so tired.
Starting point is 00:27:59 I slept in. I slept until like 8.15. That's not normal for me. That's not normal. Actually it was like 8.30 That's not normal for me. That's not normal actually was like 8 30 before I got out of bed But the last few paragraphs of this cover FDA acknowledging that these cause behavioral problems in children or some children They acknowledge that it does apparently in 2011 the FDA acknowledged that food dyes and other ingredients cause behavioral problems in some children Fascinating and also to be very clear. We're not scientists. Oh no. And we're not making
Starting point is 00:28:26 any definitive statement, but we are prepared to make anecdotal connections that have no basis in reality. We reserve the right to do that. This was a 2014 study by I think students at Purdue University. So if you guys want to look this up yourselves, we are just reading what they said in their research. This is just one article. This is the first thing I found a reference to. It's actually funny because the confectionery industry has a rather controversial past with food coloring. Because before the FDA was established, and back when the FDA actually did things that were good to people, there was a common practice for foods, drugs, and cosmetics available in the US to be artificially colored with agents that were definitely not harmless.
Starting point is 00:29:04 More specifically, they contained lead, arsenic, and mercury and various combinations of them because man, did they produce some vibrant colors. And back in the day when they were making candy, they wanted vibrant colors above all else, especially for children's candy. Yeah, well that makes it fun. I don't know if anything beats Kool-Aid on this list.
Starting point is 00:29:23 Oh wait, no, here we go, hold on. Target mini green cupcake at 55.3 milligrams per serving. Cupcakes? Betty Crocker's black decorating cake icing contains 80 milligrams of dye per serving. Ah, okay. That's higher than all of this. Yep. That one's winning so far. Oh, here we go. Clinical trials have shown that modest percentages of children are affected by doses up to 35 milligrams of mixtures of synthetic coloring with a larger percentage being generally being affected by doses of a hundred milligrams or more. And you know, like people don't usually just limit themselves to one serving, right? Like that's the recommended, but who stops at one serving when it's like three M&Ms. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Okay. So yeah, toxic metals were used for food color back in the early 1900s, late 1800s. Lead chromate was dyed for dying candy in pickles yellow. Copper sulfate gave a bright green color to canapes. You know when you burn copper and it's such a vibrant green. Oh, it's so pretty, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Colpar dyes. Hmm. Sounds very edible. Yeah, exactly. Uh, coal tar dyes! Mmm. Sounds very edible. Uh, arsenic-laced candy.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Oh yeah, peppermint lozenges colored with arsenic-laced dyes caused more than 200 people to be poisoned in Bradford, England in the mid-1800s. Red lead and cheese from lead oxide was used to color cheese and enhance its appearance. What's red cheese? No, no, it's because a little red in there makes it a nice orange, you know? Uh, punches up the yellowy... okay, sure. Yeah, so it caused lead to severe lead poisoning, affecting the nervous system and causing long-term health issues.
Starting point is 00:30:56 Good thing we don't have to worry about lead anymore. And then unregulated mixes, you know? They would just go wild with random mixes and stuff like that. But I heard that if you take mercury pills, it's good for your digestion. So yeah, I believe it That sounds like something the chipmunk would've told you. Wow. So what foods do you enjoy? What foods do you enjoy as a child? I was big into gogurt as a child, which I'm guessing is not great Was gogurt mentioned in one of these? It might have been. I don't know if it was. Oh, yeah, actually it is right here General Mills has removed dyes from T tricks and yo play gogurt's
Starting point is 00:31:26 Yogurts oh this study is ten years old so things might have changed following this study. Do you think it's gotten better? I mean if company got called out for having you know all this stuff in there They might be like we should don't doubt a notch. Mm-hmm. Maybe they didn't maybe one of them did I think it got better to the extent that it was either required by law or that they felt like people would shut up about it because it seemed like they had done enough. I don't think it got better to the extent of like they realized, oh, these might have negative health effects. Let's just get rid of all of this and find some other way to color our foods. No, because that costs more money. So you don't want to do that. Yeah, true. True enough. I was pretty partial to Dunkaroos. Dunkaroos?
Starting point is 00:32:06 Is every Dunkaroos. Oh, I love Dunkaroos. Yeah, I had them recently. I had them recently. They had them maybe at jungle gyms, but like the cookie was one of the worst cookies I've ever had my entire life. But man, the icing still slapped. No, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:22 I mean, that was what you're there for. I just fingered the icing out and I was like, fuck the cookies, dude. Oh. This is maybe more gross, but I also really liked those. Remember those packs where it was like crackers and then cheese and then you got a little stick? Yeah. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:34 You got a little red stick to spread the cheese on the crackers. Those smacked. Oh yeah. Yeah, those sticks were great. I hope you didn't eat the sticks, buddy. What about like fruit roll-ups or fruit by the foot or gushers? Those have to have a lot of dyes, right?
Starting point is 00:32:46 I would imagine. Oh, I'm sure they do. Oh, they're swimming in it. But delicious. Yeah. But so good. Oh, super good. Do you guys remember?
Starting point is 00:32:53 This is not actually healthy, but it's faux healthy. McSalad shakers. Mcwhat? McDonald's had salads that like it came in like a cup, like a drink cup, and you put like a dome lid on it. Oh yeah, actually. And then you would get the salad, you'd open it, put your dressing on, close it,
Starting point is 00:33:11 and then you shake the salad to like disperse the dressing into it. Yeah, I do remember that actually, now you mentioned it. Mixed salad shakers. That's such a good idea. I know, they were fantastic. And I would always just, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:23 I would get like a salad that came with like a bunch of cheese and ham and stuff It's not it was healthy But then I would drown it in ranch and shake it up in the back seat of the car and it was delicious McSpaghetti sorry, there's something else here. That's Yeah, that's also a thing. Are you looking at the cracked article? No, I am NOT but I remember McSpaghetti. There was apparently a McHotdog. I prefer to be referred to as McWeener. McStuffins! I'm sorry, what? What are McStuffins? Sorry, I'm reading an article by McFaber from Cracked. There's a list of seven items on McDonald's menu that used to exist and don't anymore. And what's funny about the McHotdog,
Starting point is 00:33:59 just to go back to that, is it's got what seems to look suspiciously like relish, but it's horrifically yellow. I don't know what the fuck that is. Oh, McStuffins! They're like McDonald's branded Hot Pockets. They had chicken teriyaki? Oh! Honestly, that probably doesn't sound too bad. Though McStuffins were likely discontinued because they're a stupid idea. It could also be that the agonizing howl that follows every first bite into a molten hot pocket is meant to be unleashed alone in one's home.
Starting point is 00:34:29 And they weren't ready for a cacophony that made your average McPlayPlay sound like a baton death march. I know that that's just how McDonald's names things, but I thought the person writing the article was just really leading into it. Made the average McDonald's McPlayPlay sound like a McWar zone. The children McWailed and McAgony. It was a McAfrica, apparently. Is that really the name of it? Is this a sandwich? Released in Norway in 2002, the McAfrica
Starting point is 00:34:52 dropped right alongside a horrific famine in southern Africa. Immediately slammed for its insensitive naming, McDonald's kept the product up, name intact for its entire run. Their offer? They'd put up some materials in stores where people could donate to help. The dude who came up with this pita burger clearly had a moment of reckoning with his ideation board. Sadly, the McTsunami, the McButt Cancer, and the Mc100CarPiwayPileUp would have to go. They're just sitting on the McBigOne for the next time a nuclear weapon's detonated. Oh man, you got the McHoola Burger, which is just a slice of pineapple in between two slices of cheese and on a bun.
Starting point is 00:35:26 Wait, that's not a burger. It's the Hoola Burger. But burgers have meat? Nope, not this one. It's just a filet-o-fish, but with pineapple. Someone here said, when they make McDonald's sweet tea, they put an entire pound of sugar per gallon. They make what?
Starting point is 00:35:42 A sweet tea. A pound of sugar? I'll get AI to give me an- Yeah contextualize that. An infographic contextualizing a pound of sugar and a gallon of tea. That explains why their sweet tea has been my coffee for some days. Oh man. That's like yeah with uh who was it that had the charged lemonades? Oh yeah I remember the charged- Panera right? Yeah I think so. Yeah Panera. The lemonades that had so much caffeine but and then but didn't warn people or whatever it was. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm. Yeah, only a couple people died. All right contextualize a pound of sugar added to a gallon of tea. Your answer is coming boys See this is what AI is for guys, yeah
Starting point is 00:36:22 dumb useless shit like this is what we need for, guys. Yeah, yeah. Dumb useless shit like this is what we need to keep it around for. You're a- Err. Err. Err. Err. Err.
Starting point is 00:36:33 I love that it can do text now. It's helped so much. Do you see the little sugar thing on the side? What is this bag of foamy piss that he's pouring? Oh, I know! It's like a big measuring cup full of tea. Above it it says, one gallon tea with an arrow, but it says one gallon of tea under it.
Starting point is 00:36:54 There's a tea bag stuck to the handle that says sugar. I like the ghost tea in the back. The gallon of tea who doesn't get the sugar who's fading away And then there's just a big bag But also it's like a jug cuz he's got a handle on it is pouring it like it's a liquid that just says one pound of sugar Like the sugar tea bag Yeah, the sugar tea bag hanging out of the tea and then on the right side of the screen It just says one gallon of
Starting point is 00:37:34 of of of suga of suga oh man god damn i think this is exploring another avenue that maybe food coloring isn't the worst thing possible but also sugar but before we get to that i just want to talk about the mccrab cake i'm here for it Which is number one on this list and it's just it's just a crab cake on a bun and I think it's supposed to be some associate of the fillet of fish but honestly I feel like it's not nearly as bad as the other things on this menu. Oh I really like this headline. The McDonald's crab cake wasn't delicious but it was cheap. That's good to know because nothing there is cheap anymore. They just don't make snacks like these anymore. Possibly for good reason. What with all the chemicals. But man, do you remember those Doritos 3D mini things where it was like a
Starting point is 00:38:14 cup, like a little plastic thing of Doritos and you could take the lid off and then pour some in the lid. You just don't see it. What are you talking about? Search Doritos minis 3D. There's a whole thing. 3D Doritos, mini. Oh, I vaguely remember this. I don't think I ever got it myself though. I didn't get it like a lot, because that Doritos was kind of a thing my dad was not interested in getting for us. But occasionally, and man were those the best.
Starting point is 00:38:35 I never actually ate them. I remember them being a thing. They kind of, one of them looked like bugles almost. Huh. Yeah, they were very much like closed over bugles with Doritos dust on them. More mini foods, tiny itty bitty food Oh, those are the best mini M&Ms
Starting point is 00:38:49 You're talking about those ways many anything is probably just a better form of the food that are giant the mini M&Ms that come In the tube, especially yes, are they different the tube just changes the whole experience Yeah, that's true or giant for some reason, you know, you don't like standard size They make giant chewy sweet tarts. Have you guys see the giant cheese? It's no So it's a Taco Bell thing They currently have giant cheat like four inch by four inch cheese it to Stata's and I think it's in a crunch wrap or whatever It's the it's the crunchy part of the oh, yes You can just buy the cheese it apparently you can go and just be like I want several of your big cheese
Starting point is 00:39:23 It's and they'll just sell them to you for like way too much like a couple bucks each or something like way too much but I want that I just want a giant cheat like I would buy that at the store regularly if you could buy like here's a pack of four giant Cheez-Its enjoy mm-hmm they just send those the Taco Bell for all because they put them on the thing yeah marketing departments are always doing these puzzles like how can we sell more of this thing make it small make it giant. It's that simple. You'll sell a whole bunch of them. I don't know why people don't get this. I would tend to go small.
Starting point is 00:39:51 I don't know if you guys remember the giant Hershey kisses like I always used to get a giant Hershey kiss for like Easter and sometimes instead of a bunny I'd get the Hershey kiss. Were those hollow or were those just chocolate all the way through? No as far as I know that thing was solid man, but I would like eat around the entire outside till I had this horrible tooth gnawed ball that was left. Yuck. And then like, I couldn't eat it often enough to where I could actually ever finish one.
Starting point is 00:40:15 So after like four months after Easter, I'd have this horrible, like probably ecosystem growing saliva covered partially melted ball of Hershey. Oh, you weren't you weren't licking it the whole time. Were you? You were just just chomping. Oh, no, I'd bite off a chunk. I'd be like, it's all I need for now. I'll come back later next day.
Starting point is 00:40:36 One bite. If only they had knives when we were children. Damn them. What are you talking about, children? This was last year. It's true. It's true. I used to be terrible with Halloween candy and Easter candy, dude. Like I didn't want to finish. I was like, I need to save this. So I would like eat bits and I tried to save my favorite parts for the end. But by the time the end was there, it would be like eight
Starting point is 00:40:54 months later and it would all probably be bad. Why enjoy them? I couldn't. It was just the way I was. Oh yeah. What if, what if they made in, you know, some houses, you know, they do full-size candy bars What if you had the mega size candy bar and you only give it to one kid? So you cause them to become hated by their entire friend group, but you just like slam it into their pillowcase They hit the ground from the weight. There's cool, dude. No, that would be great It's a wheel spin every kid gets to spin a wheel with like a 1% chance and you just have the mega the ton 20 pound chocolate bar and you're like each he gets one spin Good luck. Is there also a 1% chance of trick?
Starting point is 00:41:34 Yo, yeah, that's the trap door underneath the you know, the wheel spin that they don't know that would be like super illegal But if you had a front deck that you could do that in, that'd be so funny. Oh man, that's the greatest prank because you have like a little mannequin, like kid-sized mannequin, and you see a group of kids approaching and you spin the wheel for them and you hear big red lights,
Starting point is 00:41:55 but they're at a distance, right? So they're still walking up. Then the trap door opens and this kid mannequin goes, shooom! And just you hear screaming and crunching. Oh man. I want all the ways to traumatize children in Halloween. I want all of them.
Starting point is 00:42:09 I'll give so many points if you guys come up with ideas for how to traumatize children. Alright, next episode. We're going to do a Halloween episode in Jack's Notes. July or August. And we're going to try out some of these things. We're taking the wheel to the next level. Well, you need to prepare. This is something that's going to take a lot of prep, so.
Starting point is 00:42:25 You need to get ready for it. Yeah, I kinda have to dig a moat and build a front deck, I guess. Just a really conspicuous deck in front of your house that goes up and then down. You have like a front gallows entrance. Like, man, that's weird. Like, I like decks, one of the view.
Starting point is 00:42:42 Also, peanut butter crunch is the superior crunch. I don't know if I put that. Okay, what about small skeletons clutching what looks like bags of candy on the kids walk up to your door? I don't think that strikes a fear because their tiny brains may not connect. What you need is skeletons holding mega chocolate bars, but like they die trying to get away with them. And then when they get up there, you could just just be like you may have one fun size or if you're feeling bold you can try and take this mega chocolate bar to see if anyone goes for it. Do you just fill it with lead like it's a Hershey wrapper on the outside but it's a solid lead brick. It's like a Thor's hammer trick where you pick it up and
Starting point is 00:43:19 you're like all you have to do is pick it up and take it and then you set it down and it like locks in with electromagnets like is pick it up and take it and then you set it down and it like locks in with electromagnets Just pick it up That's funny I'd like to think you got a catapult on your front porch and then you've got like the legs of your child mannequin sticking out at a giant Hershey bar Just like crammed into the ground so it's like come on come closer children Yeah, these are all really good ideas. We should do some these yeah, all right all right anyway back food 40 food 40 red 40 What what? Oh? 40 red 20 red 20 food 40
Starting point is 00:43:56 blue six First I've said this before but can we can we agree and tell me if I'm crazy Can we agree that food should be colors that look edible at least normally I have a real problem with the had you guys remember those easy squirt ketchup's where there was like neon pink I do and neon green ketchup's I remember the green I do Burger King had like purple ketchup for a while bad oh no a lot of places but like skyline around St. Patty's day does like the green spaghetti.
Starting point is 00:44:27 No, don't, don't do that. Don't, green is not even a bad, green is a food color, veggies are green. Green's okay, but it's the kind of green, still like neon green, the like, it's that same color when it comes out your body on the other end type of green. Don't, stop.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Believe in. No, that was the last episode. Damn it. This one is just don't and stop also separately. Man, the purple ketchup just looks like someone threw up, like a clown threw up on your french fries. That's unpleasant. Ugh. What if you're a clown on Halloween and you down a bunch of food coloring and you make yourself throw up in front of the kids and it's all horrible colors? I don't think that's what clowns do. But what about Halloween clowns? I think clowns have a lot of a lot of things they can do and might do and I don't think that's on the list. But Halloween clowns? You're saying like an evil
Starting point is 00:45:13 clown like not like a professionally trained real clown? Yeah evil evil clown not like the good clowns. Oh that's day two of clown college is no using clowning for evil. Yeah I'm talking about the clown the wicked clown of the west not like Glinda the good clown. Using using clowning for evil. Yeah, I'm talking about the clown, the wicked clown of the West, not like Glinda the good clown. Using your clown powers for evil instead of good. Didn't you listen to clown uncle Ben? With great power, Uncle Hunk, comes great responsibility.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Is there a clown superhero? Oh God, okay, well, that's the new thing I have to search for now. Yeah, same, I need to find the, my searches are new thing. I have to search for now. Yeah My searches are so weird if you type it in clowns to cloud superheroes the first thing that comes up captain clown I don't know if that's real. Oh Captain clown. Let's check this captain clown. Oh, that doesn't look like a superhero. It's not a superhero Well, is that a robot captain clown holding bowling pins in a mallet? Is that the one? Yes, that's the one that came up for me. That's a Deviantart creation. Oh, why do I have memories of Captain Clown?
Starting point is 00:46:11 Why do I have very distinct memories of Captain Clown from the Batman show? Also, there's apparently a Marvel comic called Slapstick, the awesome Slapstick, a superhero that was published in America who resembles an animated clown and has the abilities of a slapstick cartoon character including warping reality to match that of an animated cartoon There's a cover on the Wikipedia that shows Slapstick with his arm around Ghost Rider Image Comics world of Astro City. There's Jack in the Box, superhero who has a harlequin jumpsuit with huge pom-pom button You all right? Okay, you sound like you cut off because you were throwing up or crying or something I thought really seriously you were about to throw up. That was honestly the last part of my thing
Starting point is 00:46:55 I think I just ended it weird That was it. That was the description You know all right fair enough, okay'll give you a point for weird finish. Thank you. Alright, but Red40! Uh... What's the conclusion? What have we learned?
Starting point is 00:47:10 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, probably good. Probably just misunderstood. There's no way all of this general evidence could really draw you to a conclusion that it's bad for you, right? We should just keep eating it. Lots of it. Uh, probably. We haven't found any.
Starting point is 00:47:24 I'm dying for lots of it. Probably we haven't found any I'm dying for more of it God I hope he disconnected and it's not just holding that position right now I'm back. Oh Okay, thank God your internet came back. I should have just left the call on that to make you guys think that You know what? I am I do find confusing how difficult it is to know for sure if dyes or other things are in food I get the idea of like food is Manufactured in industrial ways and there there are gonna be things that sound scary There are things that sound like scary chemicals that are just like stuff that's naturally occurring in food and that's part of the whole thing
Starting point is 00:47:58 About labeling ingredients, but why is it so hard to know for sure which and how much of each of food dyes are in food? Why is that a thing that's not required to be labeled? And is that just an America thing? Like I know it is generally, but also some, like you said, some stuff it's not included in the ingredients label or whatever. It's like there's a minimal amount or something and it's just ways it's crazy. Yeah. It's one of those things where if people weren't required to do it by regulation, they wouldn't
Starting point is 00:48:22 because it's extra work and that costs money and it's like, it's why should we bother? And then all we gotta change our ingredients. Oh, people are gonna know pretty much anything that a corporation could get away with. They will try to, because if there's no one stopping them, they will, so yeah. The only reason we don't still have arsenic in our food now
Starting point is 00:48:39 is because regulation tried to be like, hey, don't do that. And you know the companies, they went, oh, fine. But I'm gonna fight you forever on it. Fight you literally forever. Arsenic's only killed like a few people. The rest are fine. The meeting starts and the FDA is like,
Starting point is 00:48:56 no more arsenic in food guys. Arsenic kills humans. And the corporations are like, how about three? Three, two and a half? What's the minimum? The FDA is like, no, zero zero you guys don't negotiate very well zero zero How hard did you find it to avoid food does not that hard?
Starting point is 00:49:15 But you would be shocked at how much it is there because it's really the the artificial food dies You know the spectrum of colors that are in there. I believe it's like what are all the colors? What are all the colors that are of the food rainbow? We got blue one, blue two, citrus red two, green three, orange B. Orange isn't cool enough for numbers. Red three, red 40, yellow five and yellow six. And that's them. Red three is apparently even worse than red 40.
Starting point is 00:49:43 How do you know that? Every day health scientific research thing here is as even worse than red 40. How do you know that? Every day health scientific research thing here says uh there was a review done i'm trying to find the review that states that red 3 was found to cause cancer in animals red 40 yellow 5 yellow 6 have been found to be contaminated with benzidine or other carcinogens. Lisa Rapaport wrote this article in 2023. Oh good oh that's great well i'm glad that we talked about this with our expertise. I think we really set a lot of people's minds at ease here today. I want to do your experiment. It sounds like it would take some work and like I'd have to give up some stuff I
Starting point is 00:50:13 probably eat regularly because everything has that stuff in it. But I do think it's interesting that you felt a physical change of some sort. There definitely was. It might be anecdotal but for me I definitely noticed something. There are certain stores that don't stock artificial food dyes. I believe Whole Foods does not have any. They don't sell anything with artificial dyes. I don't know if that's still the case, but I'm pretty sure that's kind of the whole idea. And then there's probably some other stores that do the same thing. So if you want to make these choices at home, you can do so. I want some trick cereal now, though. Reach my inner kid. These tricks are for kids. You can still have it. You don't have to stop man. I don't know if you could stop at this point. What does that mean? I don't know. Just seems like him. That was accusatory. No I just just wait you know. All right do you want to know what's in these M&Ms? Yeah. Small stuff? Includes blue one
Starting point is 00:50:57 lake, red 40, yellow six, yellow five, blue one, red 40 lake, yellow six lake, yellow five lake, blue two lake, blue two 2 hot hot hike I don't know what the lake part is what the shit was Lake mean. I don't know literally the word Lake. I don't know Lakes are a type of color additive that are made by chemically reacting straight colors with metallic salts and other substances Oh metallic salts good what I gotta avoid, metallic salts, good. What? I gotta avoid any magnets so my innards don't explode later. Great. Precipitating a dye with an inert binder
Starting point is 00:51:30 more than usually a metallic salt. Unlike Vermilion, Ultramarine, and other pigments made from ground minerals, lake pigments are organic. Manufacturers and suppliers to artists and industry frequently omit the lake designation in the name. Okay. So hardly any in these at all.
Starting point is 00:51:43 I don't know what that means, but probably fine you might across come across the name red 40 Lake or red 40 aluminum Lake Anyway, that's it for this episode this very informative episode on red 40. We reached a lot of conclusions We came up with a lot of solutions for tormenting children, which is great And we now equip you all with the ways to go forward with your daily lives Bob you get a point for firewall water-cooled which mixed salad the pound of sugar in a bag and colored ketchup Wait, you got points for Alvin rest in peace Adele plus boot sequel death article of doom Food 40 hike you were the first one to do that and then weird finish which puts you at six to Bob's five What was Alvin the chipmunk? Oh wow okay cool. It's a real low-scoring affair
Starting point is 00:52:29 Yeah, it was red 40 will do better next time yeah Yeah, there wasn't a lot of informative stuff coming out of red 40, but them's the brakes alright. That's it I think Wade should lose two points for being bald No, actually Unfortunately, that's not the case. I can give him two points. They said no, I actually should lose more every episode I start with a negative five modifier All right, wait, what's your winning speech? Thank you for a great episode. I missed a lot of old foods I guess they weren't great for me, but I turned out great. I'm sure I will have no health complications at all in the future and
Starting point is 00:53:02 Burger King bring back those 90s chicken tenders because right now I'm craving them that's it. Target speech Bob. Food shouldn't be purple. Purple food makes me sad. Unless it came out of the earth being purple then I guess that's allowed but I still struggle with it. Purple is my favorite color. It's a good color for a lot of things. Eggplant. Yeah only the skin of eggplant is purple that's really not representative of most of it. Also the main way I eat eggplant is coated in breadcrumbs and smothered in marinara. So you could barely tell sorry It hardly even counts. But um, I want to try to eat less food die I don't have good feelings about it. We gave it a bad shake with our non scientific expertise
Starting point is 00:53:39 But I have a bad it gives me it gives me bad feelings. I know avoid it Maybe that'll make me more of a winner in the future. Okay, maybe it will. Maybe it will to all of us. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This has been Distractable. You can find our merch at distractablestore.com. And you can find us at our various social medias. Thank you. Have a good day. Podcast out. Woo! Yeah, yeah, woo! Woo woo!

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