Distractible - Serotonin

Episode Date: April 18, 2022

Completing "In Space with Markiplier,” bad auto-tune TikToks, nostalgic games by The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, today the guys dive into what gives them a serotonin boost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week, the juggernauts of Jockularity discuss their peculiar pastimes that provide serenity to their wayward souls. Yes, it's time for 5-Hydroxytryptamine, or to you and I, that's Serotonin. Please prepare thy hobby gear and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to another episode of Distractible. I will be your host for today. My name is Bob. I'm joined, as always, by Mark and Wade. Hello. Is that our time to say hello? I'm taking it now. I'm taking initiative and I'm confident about it. I was hesitant. I hesitated. Hello.

I appreciate your initiative, Mark. That's probably some points. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, hi. I appreciate your initiative, Mark. That's probably some points. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, hi. I appreciate whatever that was, Wade. Thank you. Those are probably some points, but less than what Mark got. Oh, regret.

That's what it was. That's what it continues to be. Well, welcome to the show. If you've never seen this before, I'm the host, which means I'm the judge. The other two guys are going to be competing to impress me. I'm going to pick a topic. I'm going to sort of set a stage and the guys are going to tell a story or find things online or whatever. And whoever wins, wins. I didn't say that right. Whoever wins gets to be the host next week. I guess that's the more important thing. Sounds fair. Sounds fair.

That sentence is true too. Whoever wins, wins. I mean, it's true. Truth is truth. You can't, can't get around that anyway we usually start with a little small talk how are you how are you fellers how's it going i'm doing fantastically oh yeah yeah because as of the day that we're recording this just the day prior to this day which i won't number the day or say what day the day is but people can figure that out for themselves uh-huh in space with markipl, part one came out. Oh, yeah. A late birthday present. All for you, buddy.

Which people can also figure out. Yeah, I was actually in that. And it was a lot of fun. Turned out really nice. You were in my birthday present? Too bad Wade wasn't in the show. Yeah, it's too bad. Yeah, there's a mixture of people that are like, dude, I love your character.

Dude, why aren't you in the show? Yeah, there were some people that sussed you out right away but a lot of people didn't i take it as a compliment when people don't it means like it's not just my voice it's like somewhat of a decent you know well i knew it was you right away so oh because mark told me oh good well we talked about it on the show i guess too so i guess that's true Your costume is really sick, though. Yeah. Yeah, I really wish it was something I could, like, use again.

I'm not even sure how we would put that costume together again. Maybe. I could tell you that it would be impossible because it's like a... Anyway, we'll cut this out. It's behind the scenes. So, shush. Oh, it's going to be in the documentary. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's pretty good, Mark. I think it's early. Oh, it's going to be in the documentary. Yeah, exactly.

Well, that's pretty good, Mark. I think it's early days, but it's fair to say big success, huh? Mm-hmm. That's cool. Pretty exactly what I wanted people's response to be, which is mostly just screaming and confusion. Excitement and confusion. And my dogs are great.

Thanks for asking. I was going to get to it. God. All right. Well, how are you? How are you, Wade? How are your dogs? What's going on with you?

Is it as cool as what Mark has going on? I'm good. Um, I guess we, well, Ginger had a couple trips to the vet in the last few weeks, but they're thinking it's still just a dachshund genetic back thing, and they're hoping that just some more anti-inflammatories and pain meds will help. So nothing new, nothing too crazy, which I guess is good news news so we'll take that uh i had a birthday i got older 53 congratulations man big one okay you look good for your age 22 many good for your age i'm not even for not even 35 yet i got you back down to 40 like come on man you're not old at all

that's the joke well i was i was like, I'm not even 40 yet. It's like, well, shit, I'm not even close. I'm closer to 30. He's 33, right? Oh, yeah. That sounds right. Oh. Don't that.

I'm like a month older than you. Shut up, Mark. That sounds right. That sounds about right. Hey, you guys are way older than me. So. Yeah. Look at this baby over here.

Uh-huh. Look at Bob the baby. Little child. You want your, I'm sorry, you're the judge and I should not be. No, I like it. I like it. All right. Treat me like that.

Yeah, baby want his bottle. Damn it. You want a binky, baby Bob? I do. Yeah. All right, I'm done. Oh. Well, sounds like I have a mixed bag, but I hope the puppy feels better.

I'm glad your dogs are fine. Yeah, she seems better on medicine already. So I think, I think definitely it's something to do with inflammation. So, well, good small talk, lads. Good small talk. Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

Well, so I'm the host. I picked the thing. Today we're going to be talking about, are you ready for it? Aye, aye, Bob. How different and scary the world is now that we're old and grown up i don't think we've talked about this before oh uh tell me if i'm wrong um well i never remember what we've talked about no no no no no that was your opportunity you're supposed to tell me that was a joke you're supposed to hop in and be like no bob don't do that wait i saw that this

this is related i swear but like that tweet uh that that said to you when you were like, I'm so happy to play WUG. And then someone was like, actually, WUG was a cartoon character from an 80s TV show. One of the most common things people do is everything that we're a part of, someone always references something else that it was. Which I don't even know if that's true or not i hope that's true that's really funny it's the worst meme to come from this show yeah i'm sorry until you're me and you've told a story about a refrigerator i don't know if you get to call worst meme to come from the show you know i don't know if you guys saw this i saw an animation about bob's fridge i haven't watched it yet but i saw

it i was gonna link it was it like the claymation looking one yeah i actually just watched that this morning it's pretty good yeah it's pretty funny i hope that they put it on the sub yeah there it is what is the youtube channel because i it was like mr something i don't remember i will post it here could just tell me it doesn't really matter i'm not gonna watch it now the youtube channel is sir walter underbridge there you go yeah no it's it's pretty good sir walter underbridge it's like a i don't know how they made it it's like a claymation style thing but it's i think it's digital animation yeah by the looks of it it's pretty neat the thumbnail looks like celebrity deathmatch. You guys remember that show? Yeah, I could see that I really so this is this is a while back now, I guess but the whole Oscars thing made me totally miss

Celebrity deathmatch. That was my first thought after it was the Oscars right? The Grammys which ones which the the Golden Globes are you talking about the Grammys when silk sonic one song of the year and Anderson's packs fly was down yeah and on stage he was like oh shit and turned around and zipped his fly up right before they walked off stage no i was talking about the slap oh yeah that's equally as big i guess i don't know yeah that just made me think of celebrity death match and i was like man i missed that show because anyway that's what the thumbnail made me think of too i just missed celebrity death match i guess it's a pretty funny show that was sort of too young for me a lot of the celebrities they would announce them and i was as a kid i was like i don't know who that is

sorry but my dad would watch it and be like yeah they were on a tv show together or something and they didn't like each other makes sense you'll get it when you're older i just watched it by myself at like my grandparents house in the night so if i didn't know something i didn't like each other. Makes sense. You'll get it when you're older. I just watched it by myself at like my grandparents' house in the night. So if I didn't know something, I didn't know I didn't know it. Anyway, there's an actual topic and it's not that. Today's actual topic. I want to, before I say what it is, I want to play you an audio clip that demonstrates for you what it is.

Okay. So enjoy this. This is from TikTok. I'll explain more after you hear the audio clip somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me i ate the sharpest tool in the shed she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and a thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead. There you go. Is there any video component?

And not that it needs it, because that's funny by itself. There is a video component, but it's not like, it doesn't add to it. It just sort of, mostly it shows the music track. So what this is from, this is from a TikTok account called There I Ruined It. They also have a YouTube account.

Oh, right. I thought it was the all Jurassic Park star. This is a TikTok account that is in like my current favorite genre of TikToks, where basically this guy just uses autotune software and cuts up songs and does exactly that, where he sort of just, I actually don't know if it's a man or a woman or what, but just kind of, you know, ruin stuff. I don't know about ruins. I mean, that was fantastic. I loved it, but it kind of just takes songs and makes them other songs and stuff like that.

This is my current favorite genre of TikTok. And this represents today's theme because today's theme is things that give us serotonin in this dark world that we live in what is the difference between serotonin and dopamine for the sake of like effects very big differences i'm glad you asked i was your dopamine being the one referenced but i think that's something different because like gotcha games apparently like if you get a good gamble like result it's like a dopamine thing i could attempt to explain it i'm not a neuroscientist i obviously know the answer for the viewers out there right right for the viewers so

maybe for them unless bob you wanted to take a swing at this one but i've no i'd love to hear i'd love to hear your explanation mark go for it okay so in uh baby brain terms not a baby's brain specifically, but for a brain for babies like people. Anyway, I'm going to explain it. So serotonin and dopamine are often conflated. Conflated is a big fancy word. That's a good word. I love that word. Conflated for the baby brains out there.

Yeah, it's conflated often for those baby brains. But they function differently because they are different parts of the motivation cycle and also i want to also make a disclaimer that people do not really fully know how the brain works this is all just theoretical stuff there's kind of like ideas of how drugs and chemicals interact with the brain and affect these neurotransmitters which these are but i do not know nearly as much as the experts and the experts don't know nearly everything about the brain but well we do know the brain is stored in the balls look at this baby brain over here anyway smooth as a baby's bottom brain yeah exactly um so dopamine

you can think of it as like the motivation chemical neurotransmitter anyway serotonin is kind of the other side of that it's kind of the reward chemical but it's not really it provides feeling like good feelings but also uh feelings of not it's like impossible to say that it's happiness or like contentness or stuff like that because that's not how it works necessarily i've heard and read it described as like a stabilizer yeah it's a positive thing but it gives you like stability yeah calmness not necessarily like elated happiness but like contentness it helps reduce depressive feelings it helps regulate and reduce anxiety in your systems. It's like a good positive balancing effect. Whereas dopamine, it's actually a neurotransmitter.

People associate it with feelings of like pleasure because they say that drugs give you a dopamine rush, where in actuality, dopamine is the chemical that your brain creates before you do the thing that is pleasurable, that needs a reward. It's what motivates you to do those things. So when you have a habit, say you smoke, as soon as you think about smoking or get the craving to smoke, you get a hit of dopamine. You don't get a hit of dopamine from actually smoking. I believe it's serotonin

and a couple other neurotransmitters that are the end result of that motivation cycle, right? Dopamine is the motivator. That's why with ADHD, the chemicals for ADHD medications are usually associated with dopamine because it's the motivation. It's like the focus. You want something, therefore your brain is able to like push out all the unnecessary stuff and be like, oh my God, I want sex or food or that cigarette or whatever. Does that make sense? Yeah. And we're, again, we're not scientists, but that generally jives with my understanding

of the difference, yes. Yeah. Did he answer your question, Wade? I realize he was probably talking to you now. I was, yes. Yeah, I was zoned out, but I think that was probably a good answer. God.

This baby brain over here. Not a fold in sight on that noggin. And if you Google this, as I like to do with things, the internet is all, oh, you know what gives you serotonin? Oh, go out in the sunlight. And oh, go exercise regularly. And oh, eat a healthy diet, I guess. Eat some vegetables or maybe

that's all boring shit i don't want to do that that's not what i'm here for i'm a cave dwelling pizza eating non-exercising gremlin and i want to get my serotonin from like my cell phone and my dog that's all i want in life so anyway we're not here to talk about what the doctors would recommend for increasing serotonin. We're talking about things that you love that, you know, maybe other people might find weird. I acknowledge that the music mashup genre of TikTok that I'm obsessed with that is like my favorite thing on the internet right now. Not for everybody, but it's something about it. It's just so satisfying to me the little moans and things and the perfect little moments of like uh i don't know it triggers something so you know sure what do you what do you guys where do you go in in the vein of tiktok and this is real quick

because i've been playing a lot of elden ring i've kind of burnt out i've been the game and you know new game plus isn't fun but i do love niche elden ring tiktoks and there's one specifically let me see if i can find it actually because i can play the audio for you um but without seeing it it doesn't give as much context but at least this will be something uh it's in my likes one second oh that's uh that's the oh yeah yeah this is it okay is this it no, is this it? No, this isn't it. God damn it. Hold on. Stop the show.

Cut this out. Don't do anything. Do something. What, what, describe it. Describe it. No, no, no, no. Well, I could say, uh, I googled my symptoms of, uh, serotonin. It looks like I'm dying of a rare Polynesian crab.

So. What? What? Uh, yeah, trying to med health your serotonin tells you like you're dying of something weird. Just be careful with that. You spelled serotonin wrong? S-A-R-A-H space P-A-L-I-N. Wow.

What the hell? All right. I'm going to have to describe it because I can't find it. But it's like a kid saying this line from Harry Potter to an extremely well-timed clip of someone just getting the shit rocked out of him in Elden Ring. And they're just, the boy who lived come to die.

And just like this big fucking laser blast comes through. Any kind of that sound clip. I love the, all the little people holding a stick and just going, the little ones are fantastic. The herbertic kadoober. Have you seen the one where it goes from like a tiny little twig

all the way up to like a tree trunk? Starts out, and by the end he's like, It's fucking fantastic. For some reason, I just love really stupid lowbrow humor like that. That gives me serotonin. Would it be serotonin whenever you're playing Elden Ring and you have a really annoying ass invader join

and they die in some stupid way? Has come to die. I think that was the one. Sorry, I forgot you guys could hear that. That was definitely the one, yeah. I thought you just recorded Mark's impression of it was actually a pretty good impression i guess mark yeah no that was it i mean it's just like you just talk like you got like a giant log in your mouth and then you scream the last line as long as you can ah yeah look this is an aside and uh

i'm glad i brought this up mark um people talk a lot of shit about tiktok people every time i i see or hear like discourse about tiktok on any other social media everyone is always like oh what a cesspool god tiktok should just not exist it's such garbage blah, blah. They spelled Twitter wrong. You okay, buddy? Yeah, I was just throwing out some sick burrs. Yeah, that was good. That was good. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. High fives all around me. Look, I just want to say all social media is garbage. You have to curate it, okay? You know what I've never, ever once seen on TikTok? A fucking dance video where all it is is a group of young kids or not so young people and a song playing and they're doing some stupid fucking dance. You don't have to watch that.

You don't have to watch the garbage. There's so much good stuff on TikTok. Yeah, that's a good point. I haven't seen just a dance video in so long. And like there's a lot of toxic shit there's a lot of negativity political tiktok is a nightmare and i've accidentally wandered over there on occasion and it's terrifying food talk is amazing dog talk woodworking talk music talk there's all these like areas of tiktok where if you're even mildly interested in anything you could probably find

a bunch of niche creators who are making amazing content and doing like live streams there's this guy i follow i can't remember his name but he basically cooks recipes from old cookbooks like depression era cookbooks like recently he posted one that was called like poor man's meatloaf that was mostly just bread with evaporated milk with like a little bit of meat there's all kinds of stuff you just gotta find it and just whenever you see shit that you don't want to see say you're not interested downvote it whatever that's true yeah it's great these uh algorithms are getting pretty good at understanding what you want so uh yeah as scary as that is and i'm sure there's legitimate criticisms about like the privacy problems with that whole app and everything about that that's totally fine valid extremely valid however for now hey it's not so bad at least there's some funny shit on

there yeah and i do like that uh it enables people to be like have the tools for creativity right at their fingertips even though a lot of it is just recycled content of course occasionally the thing that gives you serotonin is finding that one thing that's like interesting or or new or hilarious that's just so niche that it fits your sense of humor it's like oh it's like it was made for me oh it's it's for me and then you love it you know the first thing i thought of i guess i've got elden ring on the brain or like the dark souls games the made for me thing the the thing that came to mind was like the did you ever see like i think it was like dark souls 3 like a really short like one minute two minute video where like take on me is playing and it's like the do do do do do and they

have like the dark souls characters running with their arms in the air and at the very end they come like to the big bird and the bird also throws its arms oh yeah i do remember that that was a great video if that was a tiktok and i was watching it i would watch that like 10 000 times in a row because every time like it gets to the bird i like can't help but have like that dumb like goofy smile like i'm seeing it for the first time like well don't worry someone's ripped it and put it on TikTok, I'm sure. Oh, 100%, yeah. I'm sure they have. Oh, yeah.

I need to know if one of those has been made for Elden Ring, though. Oh, I'm sure. Listen, wait. I would love to introduce you to TikTok. I know that you don't really use that platform. I just, man, I don't need something else that sucks time away from me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my fear.

You gotta replace other stuff. You can't add more. You gotta replace. You gotta choose what you replace. Oh, family's the next thing on the list to replace. I was not looking forward to it. Yeah, you don to replace other stuff. You can't add more. You got to replace. You got to choose what you replace. Family's the next thing on the list to replace. I was not looking forward to it. Yeah, you don't need that. You don't need that.

But that's points for Mark. Oh, cool. Thank you. Solid points for Mark. Wait, what? Thank you. But I contributed. What do I get?

I don't know. What's your thing? Mark hopped onto my TikTok thing and described some stuff and got me a funny Huberto Cuderva meme. I'm into that and that's the that's points you're gonna earn your points wade what gives you serotonin answer i laughed at the bird i'm still laughing at it is that point i found that i found that video and it's currently playing on my screen and it's very enjoyable yeah but that's not enough for points

even though i just gave mark points for that exact same thing oh it's okay i'm just rewarded that you're watching it oh that's a reward enough it is your turn that way oh sorry i was no doubt thinking about the bird um yeah stuff and things um man i don't so there's random stuff usually it's like the satisfaction of like playing different games like games and uh uh i just lost my thought sometimes it's music i'm not a big music guy but every now and then like i just get a song stuck in my head and it's just so nice like whenever it's a song i like and i just want to go listen to it on repeat because i i can do that i don't know if you guys are the type that like go and you find a song you just listen to it like 10 times in a row but i definitely am and then even then for like a week straight it's like that song just lives rent free in my

head i had like oh god was like grand theft auto vice city like the flock of seagulls ran so far away song stuck in my head for a little while and then there was a song that came out a few years ago i can't think oh god it has a very similar sound it's got like the synthesizer and all that the music video is about a dude driving a car i can't think. Oh, God. It has a very similar sound. It's got like the synthesizer and all that. The music video is about a dude driving a car. I can't remember the name of the song. What are the words? Sing it. Sing it with your voice. I'm trying to get there. Just give me a minute. I'll get there. I believe in you. Yeah, we'll wait.

We'll wait. It's okay, man. No pressure. It's okay. Some pressure. I mean, I could jump in again if you need more time. Ooh, I'm blinded by the light. Blinded by the light. That's it. Blinded by the light. That song.

Okay, cool. It's got kind of that similar sound. Like, I don't know. Whenever I first heard the blinded by the light song, I thought of the Grand Theft Auto Vice City commercial. Was it the new version of it by The Weeknd? No, that's blinding lights. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The... but it's very similar to the flock of seagulls bit so like i thought i like my brain did that thing uh i kind of mandela effect type thing where it's like how in the world did the vice city trailer have this song in it that didn't even come out yet and i went back and listened i was like that's not the same but it still made me happy to listen to it so like weird shit like that but uh i don't know i don't know if i have as much interesting stuff i will say with the in space launch seeing all of the comments of people that really enjoyed it and enjoyed our characters because the distractible episode that came out the same day i think was the self-confidence episode where i had talked about like the stresses of like performing in front of like you know like

jumping in in the middle of a filming i don't know i don't know what it would have been like there to be there from the start but like after you guys had been doing it for a while because i think i came in right after you'd wrapped up bob i don't know if you were there at the very start obviously mark you were there for all of it but like jumping in in the middle after you guys kind of found your filming stride and it was like, okay You guys have been doing this for like a month now. Let me come in here and uh, oh god, don't screw this up Don't screw this up. By the way, this entire day is a log day And that that self-confidence thing that happened and then like oh god, I hope it turns out Well, I hope it turns out well and not knowing, you know Exactly how it's gonna look what's gonna be used not used because when you

film something like that too we don't film it in order so like i didn't know the script i didn't know how the pieces connected like the whole story until it came out and we all watched it you know individually whatever it's like i didn't know how all the things would look or fit together exactly but now that it came out it's like okay well i think it looks pretty good i think i sound all right that sounds good you guys did great and then like the audience reacts really well reading those comments that is addicting on its own just reading positive feedback on something you've been a part of i can't imagine mark for you having created the whole thing written and everything else i know i was just about to say boldest take on distractible is making your topics the launch of space which is what i was about to

talk about like the boldest move on distractible i think we've ever had yeah well it's my thing now so i took it as my topic uh thank you for making it so i could get serotonin and dopamine from it mark yeah no keep going with i mean it is fun well just after the self-confidence episode came out and i was looking at comments on the the youtube video for self-confidence and people like relating to that and stuff it was like man now now i don't care how nervous i was filming at the time now it just feels good to see the positive feedback more tell me more about how great wog is i'm gonna get a yoohoo from the fridge and drink it while i read these comments did you really do you have you who's in the fridge do you still drink yoo-hoo i didn't

grab a yoo-hoo from the fridge but i do have some in the fridge you do wow you know it's just like chocolatey water right you do better that's what everyone says but i thought it was chocolate milk is it not it is not a dairy product no it's not oh interesting who is a chocolate drink ah yeah it's like purple drink. You know, it's quote unquote chocolate. I don't know what it is other than hopefully actually chocolate, but it tastes good. And I don't ask questions. I'll look at the ingredients here. Yeah, what are the ingredients?

Uh-oh. All right, we got water, a high fructose corn syrup, whey for milk. So a little bit of milk. Okay, so dairy-ish. Yeah, contains less than 2% of cocoa. Oh. Non-fat dry milk. Natural and artificial flavors.

Sodium caseinate from milk. Corn syrup solids. What? Calcium phosphate. Di-potassium phosphate. Palm oil. Guar gum. Xanthan gum.

I mean, I guess. Gum, chocolate, phosphate, phosphate calcium sounds like chocolate milk to me everything the body needs i like corn solids that's good who doesn't who doesn't love corn all right that sounds like a milk thing corn solids yeah listen i i had drank you who as a kid and uh it's honestly a fine drink. Like, it's not amazing. Not as good as, like, chocolate milk, but it's a good chocolatey drink. I just crave it sometimes. Sometimes I don't want anything to do with it, and sometimes I'm like, I could drink a six-pack right now. It still baffles me how I've never heard another person, and I've never been brave enough to do it myself, refer to it as Yoohoo.

Because how is it named that, and that's not the way that it's pronounced yeah hey uh you work here right can you point me towards the yeah and the guy would be like ah sure it's in the cooler uh over on that wall right there you're gonna be looking for the it's next to the monster when there was the internet what was a website yahoo did you guys go all right i need to go search on yahoo yes like you said was it's technically still around is it really yeah yeah it does still exist it still exists what do you do with it you you know it's like an old sad version of google okay uh-huh it's the exact same thing it's still a search engine.

They got news and stuff. Do people still use Ask Jeeves? Like, that's a joke to me, too, but is it still real? Hey, don't insult Jeeves. I think Ask Jeeves was possibly shut down or folded into something. Ask.com? Ask.com. I see, I see, I see.

Ah. Man. Yeah. Yahoo. What? Man. That just opened up memory. For some reason, Ask Jeeves led me down like the oh what

about oregon trail like the game but did you guys ever play the amazon trail have we talked about that before what the hell i've played amazon trail yeah what yeah yeah it was a game kind of like it wasn't really like oregon trail but you would go down like the amazon river and you would like take pictures of like animals along the way but you could also fish by throwing spears into the water like fish silhouettes you could die what what arrow oh this looks like a whale but it'd be like an electric eel or something what the hell how do i get a meal what era of gaming is this what is this on what does this look like this is mid 90s right this was around the time of oregon trail like this was like you could play oregon trail you play amazon trail i'm gonna use ask.com to

figure out what's going on with this i'm gonna use y'all to figure it out myself ask.com is not performing very well i googled amazon trail and the first thing is amazon ppc management us.ingo search.com i don't think it was the original amazon trail i played i think there was actually like a sequel maybe it was the first one i can't remember was there a sequel to this game amazon trail 2 and third edition i just searched amazon trail game on ass.com and it auto corrected to amazon trail camera i think i might know why people stopped using the service uh yeah i have a guess oh yeah i forgot that it was like pseudo uh live action because it had like just pictures that were cut out in the game and placed everywhere yeah oh that's weird but i want another one of those made so badly i want to play amazon

trail like a kind of up-to-date version but i also don't want them to ruin the original formula i feel like i missed this because that's one thing about sequels that doesn't give me serotonin it was when they're like we gotta make it so different so we're talking about amazon trail that was created by the min Educational Computing Consortium. Whoa. I don't think it was the first one I played. I think I played two.

Looking at the cover, two is the one that jumps out at me. But like, it's just, I don't know. You know what? This gives me serotonin, I think. Looking back and just like, whenever you find a thread that opens up memories you haven't thought about in so long, all of a sudden, like all of these things you used to do because now think about amazon trail there was a game that was like the original uh not barotrauma what was that game we played where we were in the submarine subnautica we gotta go deeper yeah we must go deeper what was that called oh uh something deeper it was we

need to go deeper need to go deeper need to yeah so there was a game kind of like that but like educational called operation neptune i think where you were in a submarine and you had to like keep exploring and going deeper into the ocean with your submarine but along the way you had to solve like math puzzles and stuff that would get more and more difficult to start off with like basic addition and like at the time i was playing i would always get lost in multiplication and division because i was so young i hadn't learned those yet but like i don't just this brings up all these like 90s games that I remember playing that I hadn't thought about in forever oh that was a learning company game those are good stuff

yeah it wasn't that consortium like responsible for a lot of the where in the world is Carmen San Diego games and stuff like that I never played any of those actually I mean I'm familiar with them I never played any of this or watched the show that ended up coming out oh it, it's a great show. Very educational. I remember the theme song. I don't know. Was there multiple shows? I remember maybe there was like a game show or something called that, too. I remember like a where in time is Carmen Sandiego. And I think it's like a game show style or live action. The game show was called Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. OK. And I believe that was the first thing. Yeah. There's an interesting video documentary on YouTube. I forget who made it, but it talks about that show and how for just the first season they filmed like i think 50 or

60 episodes in like two months good god like they just sprinted through because that's the way that tv cycle worked for uh pbs shows which i believe it was and it was just like just the first season did well and you know but they were working on like a tiny limited budget and they were like no guarantee that would actually work and then it did and then it was like okay more of this and then the schedule got even more intense and like the filming requirements and i don't think that lasted very long is it the one that had the theme song of where in time is carmen san diego because one of them had like where in time is carmen san diego which is different than where in the world. That was like a different, that was like a game or a spinoff or an animated cartoon or

something. Okay. The game show one, I don't, well, I don't know if it was the cartoon or the game show that came first, but the game show is the one I remember the most of like kids competing and it was like a geographic trivia game show type thing. Dude. Okay. The Minnesota Educational Computing consortium made some of my favorite

video games of all time oh yeah yeah i thought they sounded oh my god they made the original oregon trail number munchers uh oregon trail 2 yukon trail amazon trail series storybook weaver did you guys have storybook weaver when you were kids i don't know that one no no i don't know what that is it was basically like a weird version of ms paint but it had like assets in it and you could write at the bottom you could write a text box and then at the top you could create like a picture book you could have there were backgrounds there were like you know images you could insert it's the coolest shit ever they did museum madness they did uh odell lake these guys did everything yeah at least for childhood. I feel like I've opened up some serotonin for you, Bob. You're welcome.

Yeah, like educational games in the 90s and very early 2000s. That was like very memorable for a lot of kids. And I bet not financially viable. But honestly, I feel like people would have played it. I played Math Blaster a ton as a kid. Oh, Math Blaster was kid oh math blaster was dope math blaster was dope i i don't remember even what the story is or anything like that but i just remember cleaning trash in like uh space i don't know why i have no idea why you're just blasting

it man you just blast i'm blasting math i just kept blasting yeah and just like man some good good times playing that game did you guys ever do operation neptune operation i have never seen or heard of that i've looked up some pictures it looks pretty cool but i had never actually done that one i see a war strategy what is this yeah operation neptune is also apparently something from like world war ii i don't know what that's about oh well search for the video game version not the i didn't play world war ii as a kid uh apparently it's about the normandy landings maybe it was the original name for the plan to land into this is this isn't giving me serotonin wait my serotonin is dropping i think you're looking at the wrong thing google operation neptune game okay okay oh it really does look like the the team who made we need to go deeper played this as kids and was like that for

like 30 year old oh my god you're totally right yeah very similar vibe it looks a lot like that game yeah what the hell wow which is cool i'm down for that yeah wow maybe it's just that any kind of like underwater 2d game can only be in such a format you know that's also. It is a submarine exploration game that takes place. Well, maybe that made me think of barrow trauma and Mark not being able to get inside all these memories. Glad to know his memory is still working. Oh, that's a very fond memory. Remember when we eviscerated you because we couldn't open the door?

I do remember. I do indeed. I do indeed. I did nothing to help. I just stood there laugh crying as Bob was like, Mark, I can't open the door. And you came back in the rescue shuttle and you found us and then you couldn't get in the door again. Okay, I'm full of serotonin right now.

You guys get talking again. Good. I guess you get credit for that, Wade. That was kind of your time. Some amount of points for that. I it's kind of your time some amount of points for that i'm i'm unsure i'm unsure i gotta be honest i didn't even care about the points i just liked i enjoyed the ride whatever that thread was so with serotonin like i don't know how these chemicals work to be perfectly honest but i do know that it generally in my life i am happy i

am content and i feel like i have purpose, which I think means that my neurotransmitters are in a good balance. A lot of other things in my life in terms of like social life and stuff like that, it's kind of skewed towards the work life thing. But when it comes to serotonin, nothing, I believe anyway, you can't just like feel and be like, oh, my serotonin is rising. But what makes me feel more happy and content than anything in my life is finishing a project that pushed myself a little farther than the one before. And so I'm going to talk about this now. I know Wade claimed this topic as his own. Yeah, these are my points, Bob. I claim them aren't. Yeah. If that's what the judge says, I guess that's what it has to be. But no,

just when it comes to the release of this show, or as people know now, part one of the show, it gives me this incredible sense of satisfaction. And it's not even, I can't even describe it as happiness purely because I am happy, of course, to see people enjoy the work and all my friends that were a part of it and everyone who worked hard on it. Those all bring me joy. But I think I have a sneaking suspicion that when it comes to what I do, what I feel more than just happiness is this almost like confirmation of purpose, like this deep sense of satisfaction of all the work that I put into it was worth it. And I think the difference between people getting small bursts of happiness, and again,

I can't tell you which chemical it is or anything like that. And this one that I get from this like year long lead up to this, it was similar with like the end of Unisonis is like this deep, calming sense of satisfaction with what I've done and that the work was worth it. It almost always is an exclusive feeling that end caps hard work, like really going deep into something standing back from something that i've worked on looking at it and being proud of what i've done and now that i read like the definitions of serotonin stuff like this kind of calming and mood stabilizer i think that's that's kind of like maybe what it is like it's not just this rush of

oh boy i'm happy i'm happy it's like it's almost indescribable i can't really put it into words because it is just a feeling but i think everyone has felt it at some point whether it was like when you were younger and you accomplished something that you didn't know you could do or when you're older and you've accomplished something in your work life or personal life or stuff like that it's just this like core deep feeling of satisfaction and contentment and purpose isn't it crazy to think about like the whole 10 year theme i guess because like all of us kind of started 10 years ago with drunk minecraft and you launched your channel i guess same day as uh in space came out right april 4th

was your 10 years exactly too uh yes and then mine is in november coming up but like just think like i don't know if 10 years ago we were presented with in space part one and we were watching that we were like yeah we're in that i don't man i don't know that we like did you know that everyone you were going to befriend could apparently be professional actor because like it's so weird seeing us and tyler and ethan and like you know everyone else that's a part of it obviously but like it's such a long way that we've come it's so weird to to think about, like, as a kid, or even like, as an adult 10 years ago, watching a movie or a show or something and seeing like people act and it's like, man, I could probably never do that. And now it's like, yeah, I could probably do that. Literally have we

did the tour. We did the heist. We did in space. We're decent. Can we act every role? No, but there's certain niches we can fill yeah no i mean this is what i always try to tell people when they ask me like oh how do i become a youtuber or a glorious podcaster or anything like that it's like well you can you just got to start like it's it's a skill you got to build it and you got to have an environment where you can build it with confidence and stuff like that time experience and luck yeah time experience luck but also i i've always been a lot of hard work a lot of like deep thinking ah it's luck yeah okay entirely luck uh i i'm not gonna lie there is an element of luck for some things in in what i have done in my career but there's no way that you bob or i have stumbled into making say In Space with Mark Blair. Like there's, that would never happen by pure luck alone.

It's the culmination of the chance to have a channel like that had success, but also just like the years of making things prior to that. And each year it gets a little better. And like, I just love that chase. It's the only thing that keeps me going in life. And that sounds probably sad now that I say that out loud, but it is. And I'm okay with that because it gives me purpose. And like, I'd be totally fine if I was just every day of my life till the day I die, just trying to push

myself and make new things and experiment and fail and succeed or whatever. I think you have to have hard work for the luck to mean anything, because if you're not putting in hard work then if you get lucky and you have discoverability you know people find you sure but if you're like not putting in any work they're not going to stick around and i think that that initial luck of getting discovered that combined with like your drive to create and always like one-up yourself and do better i think it was the perfect recipe for success but i i definitely think that you know i joke about luck being the main factor but it's really not i do think the hard work's what matters the most because like i don't know of anyone out there now i've not watched a lot of like youtube originals or other like content creator made series that aren't like you know done by i don't know uh

any of the well-known movie or film production companies but like i don't know of anything out there that's of the quality of like a heist or an in space. It's just such next level. Like it's, it is like a show. It's like a Netflix show or a TV show or something quality. And it's just insane that we're a part of it. And where we started as a group was drinking, playing Minecraft and being, well, at least for my sake, being very incoherent, not really remembering a whole lot of it.

Cause there's parts of drunk Minecraft. I was like, man, I was was so hammered i didn't know that happened i got married in real life what did i have how did i meet molly yeah that was in a drunk minecraft episode like it's just weird yeah it really is i mean what i've what i've discovered in terms of like there's so many comments leading up to it when i put out the trailer i was just like hey man this is pretty cool you should make a movie and i'm like what what's the difference what's the difference i was gonna say a movie's more limiting like it's like oh man he made a short film oh this is gonna be so cool i'm like short you have no fucking idea how long this thing is

like it's it's just kind of crazy because the difference is there are no differences like once you reach a certain level of a standard of quality, you can be proud of what you've done. But the line between, let's say, bad TV shows with really shitty effects and bad writing, they're still out there on TV. Bad movies with bad effects and bad writing. Oh, they get released all the time to theaters even. And it's just like the standard is storytelling, in my opinion.

And it's like, does the visuals fit your story are the visuals like of the level that you can do budget for whatever so long as it is a vehicle to deliver the story that's all that matters really truly i do have a couple questions about in space now that part one is out though okay what okay yes wade please ask me. It's related. So during Bob's Burt scenes, whenever he would come out and mumble, not mumble, but deliver those, whatever you call the sentences you said, Bob, like, ah, light is darkest before the day,

but if you eat hay... Poems? Are you not familiar with poetry? No, it's been too long. English was a long time ago. They're called poems. Were those mostly done first take or did everyone break down laughing and like you had to do multiple takes? Because like, I don't know if I could have kept a straight face as well as you all did whenever you pulled off those one liners or poems or whatever they were. The scenes where I was doing poems, unless I forgot the poem, the problem was generally not me.

Yeah. Most of them were fine. Most of it was camera. I don't know if you want to talk about this too much, Mark, but most of it was trying to work out so that it looked good. Okay, well, yeah, that makes sense. To get the camera in a good spot and to make everything look like Mark and Amy wanted it to look, you know. But like some of those, I had a real bitch of a time remembering. but like some of those i had a real bitch of a time remembering the one about the my vision being true and the the fishermen never found the storm sufficient reason to stay ashore that uh-huh that

one was really hard to remember because it was kind of just long enough that i couldn't quite remember it was generally i have trouble not laughing whenever you're like doing something silly bob that's why i asked the fishermen know that the sea's dangerous and the storm terrible i love that quote i love i've memorized every burt line just because it's so good burt as a uh we shouldn't talk about this anyway what are we talking about whoa hey whoa that's for that that didn't happen that didn't happen whatever nothing happened back to the topic i forget my other question so we can go on. I forgot what it was.

Anyway, this isn't the space episode, I'm sure. Listen, guys, space launch. So you should go watch it. That was my topic, I think. Okay, cool. I binged it for like six hours yesterday. Okay, give me a break. I don't know, man.

I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I've been really enjoying lately that could make the whole gives me serotonin list. It's a lot of TikTok list it's a lot of tiktok it's a lot of cooking on tiktok music on tiktok i think it's fun i think there's some really smart people out there is good food count oh my god good food oh absolutely okay that's a major one then yeah a good meal what what is it i mean we've sort of talked about this before but what what what is in that classification for you? Like chicken wings from your favorite dive place or like a fancy meal? Like what's those all do get like?

But honestly, the biggest one is like a meal I've not had in a while. It's like a home cooked meal, like something my mom or my grandparents would have made if I have something along those lines. Like for my birthday, for example, my mom made like fried pork chops, mashed potatoes, peas, a breakfast style gravy, and biscuits. And that is a meal my dad really liked. So I kind of grew up on it from a very young age. And my dad taught me the horrible habit of ripping apart the biscuits, cutting up the pork chops, putting the peas and the potatoes, the gravy on top of that, and then mixing it all together to where it's really not very pretty to look at.

But if you get a bite that's got potatoes, gravy a little bite of pork chop a little bite of biscuit you get all that in one bite it's just like the best feeling to have that bite in your mouth and it's not a meal i have very often but my god when i do it's just heavenly yeah that is nice it's those home-cooked meals that you've had like your whole life but you don't eat as often anymore like since you moved out of your parents house whenever you have like one of those meals. Yeah. Oh, sidebar going back to the chemistry of serotonin. I had my mind blown a while back about serotonin specifically.

So I never realized where melatonin comes from in the brain. I don't know any of the tonins or means. Melatonin, people probably know it nowadays don't know any of the tonins or means melatonin uh people probably know it nowadays more often because it's a sleep aid basically you can get it in a gummy and it helps you sleep because that is literally the chemical that your brain makes to help you fall asleep or make you fall asleep actually but melatonin is synthesized from serotonin really so when bob you were saying at the beginning of this episode about how the advice of like,

oh, go out in the sunlight, oh, eat right. That's correct. Because sunlight causes your brain to either synthesize or release serotonin. And the amount of serotonin that you get from sunlight exposure, especially through your eyes, literally through your eyes, correlates to how much melatonin you will make for that night's sleep cycle. Literally, the more you see sunlight and are in sunlight, because if you think about it, it's like biologically, it makes complete sense. Animals sleep mostly, not all of them, obviously, but animals sleep

at night. And the chemical signal pathway to do that is like in the daytime you have serotonin being made you're out active you're doing things you got your dopamine loops gotta find food gotta fuck gotta like do all your things and then when all that serotonin is done it's time to shut down it converts to melatonin and i'm simplifying the process obviously this is not exactly how it goes but this is the general idea and it gets converted to melatonin and that makes you sleepy at night and you're like oh man what a good day time for a good night's sleep boom walking in the sunlight sleeping in the moonlight having a wonderful time exactly that song was about serotonin don't go stare at the sun though pb or pbs psa yeah don't

stare at the sun this is like your eyes will see sunlight because you will see be outside and look oh everything's bright here because the sun is shining you don't need to look at the sun that's not what i'm saying don't yeah don't do that yeah but i am 95 sure what i just described is at least 50 close to the truth of the matter that's pretty good, I think. Thank you. Thank you. That's a lot of percentages. But it blew my mind because I was like, oh, serotonin, melatonin.

Oh, the tonins. I didn't piece that together either. That does kind of make sense. And if you look at the chemical composition there, you'd see it even more. You'd be like, oh, that makes sense. So people, this is, so i don't know if this is related but religion does that give like a serotonin feeling to the comfort of like your

religion if for religious people i'm sure it does honestly i'm guessing it would be serotonin that would be the chemical that would be a part of it because it's like a satisfaction kind of feeling i don't know i've got i've got to dive more in depth of like the differences what is what is octopamine topamine oh it's what you get in october specifically octopamine or we're gonna look uh closely related to norepinephrine which is uh adrenaline for those who don't know adrenaline's a crazy experience biologically by a homologous pathway octopamine is often considered the major fight or flight neurohormone of invertebrates. It's name derived... Wait, what does this have to do with humans, then?

It said something about humans. We're not invertebrates. You ever met a spineless coward? Oh, that's... It's a deep scientific burn. Is that some sort of new age neuroscientist form of burn? Ah, it probably is. Looks like you're flush with octopamine.

Mm-hmm. God, oh man. Oh man, that's hilarious. Yeah, but I mean, in all honesty, with a lot of these things, given that we don't necessarily know the chemicals and their direct correlations to organic systems in the brain, what the triggers are for causing them to be made,

what other side effects they have. Like when it comes down to like these medications that affects brain, a lot of it is just like a, it's a blunt force chemical that's like, okay, this mostly affects what we think is the right place. And I'm not calling medication bullshit because obviously I take medication on a daily basis and it helps me with my life. But there's a lot of mysteries in the brain.

And there's a lot of weird things like the placebo effect or just like thinking happy thoughts or that weird thing where if you stand in a Superman pose. Did we talk about that? I think we did. We did talk about that. If you stand in a Superman pose, your testosterone goes up. Like mind-body connection, mind over matter, all these different things.

Such an intricate web that our human brains and consciousness have kind of like thrown wrenches into everything but what i what i always like think about when i think about all these things like it doesn't really matter because i'll never really know what my my serotonin level is i just know feelings of contentment when i have them and i know the things that make me feel them. It's hard work. It's enjoying time doing what I love, whether that's games or just like relaxing, watching TikTok, reading a book like those. Those will like make me temporarily content. But true, pure happiness in my life so far has come from pushing myself and making things. Well, there you have it. Listeners,

if you need a little serotonin boost, having a rough day, all you have to do is spend a year and a half of your life making an enormous YouTube original series. Or go fuck in the sunlight. I mean, honestly, that would be your options. The one or the other. That's all you get. Choose wisely, I guess. It could be part of your creation while you eat a meal.

Combine all of it into one fun fuckfest. Yeah, exactly. God, I mean, you know, there probably will be a scientific study someday. If people look up all the things that give you serotonin. Wait, well, I should Google. What gives you serotonin? Why didn't we do this once? I told you that on the opening.

I told you. Sunlight, exercise, healthy food. No, uh exercise healthy food there's got to be more that's no that was all of it i give you the exhaustive list give and receive effective touch sounds that's the point for fucking in the sunlight oh that's true that's fair in the sunlight fucking in the moonlight having a fucking day uh keep a gratitude journal manage caffeine intake boo get ample sleep that comes from the fucking in the sunlight. Okay, another point for fucking in the sunlight. Yep, okay.

Okay, exercise regularly. Today's winner is going to be fucking in the sunlight with all the points it's getting. Fucking is exercise. We know this. Get a massage. That's part of fucking in the sunlight. That's part of it. That's what hands and boobs is for.

Try acupuncture. Fucking in the sunlight. Yep, yep, yep. Something's got to be punctured. Make meditation a regular practice. Fucking in the sunlight. Support gut health.

Anal in the sunlight. Maybe. Maybe. Practice positive thinking. Imagining fucking in the sunlight. And listen to music. make it yourself while you fuck in the sunlight you need a soundtrack for all that sun fucking and then uh the bottom line that's the other bold thing i think there's words underneath it but the 14th step is the bottom line fucking in the sunlight yeah the watch out because if you take

too long then you might have a sunburned ass yeah which we covered in oh god wait oh my god can you imagine having sunburned balls wait did we anyway continue did we talk we talked about that in a distractible episode or was that three beans uh which one butthole sunbathing i think we've talked about it in both i think that was a three peens but probably both i think we've referenced it on distractible but we had the full-on discussion on uh the stream oh my god well if i can just how did i forget that if i can bring people back to the present of this this was a a fad i don't i hesitate to call it a fad but if you google butthole sunbathing you'll see plenty of pictures of a few people spreading their legs towards the sun, getting sun on their butthole, which was a quote,

a mere 30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole allows you to absorb more vital energy than an entire day in the sun wearing your clothes and or prayer shawl. So for those of you who want all that vital energy within you, the best entrance is apparently your butthole. I'm putting an image in the discord it's weird to me that like the rectum is where like garbage waste is expelled and yet it seems so sensitive because people like don't do this but i'm telling viewers don't do

this but people like do like the whole like butt chugging of alcohol and now apparently butt sunning and stuff who people i said don't do it no you said people do it yeah he said not to do that you know some people do it but they're not good people they're bad people only bad people butt chug but why the question i have is why is the butthole good for absorbing things whenever it's where all the waste is expelled Why would it also be a good absorber of things? Well, it's because they tried standing in the Sun with their mouth open, but they just felt stupid So they turned to the only other hole in the body. Is it for ostriches? Is it an ostrich development that we are we ostriches what they put their head in their sand and butthole to the Sun?

Oh, I see what you do. I see right? Yeah. yeah no i'm gonna go ahead and say is that to absorb okay i think maybe it is i think they're butthole sun in what percentage of the population ostriches butthole sun that's a good question have butt chugged oh dude is that what that song is about wait i never thought about that before is that what that song is about what song what song butthole son won't you come wash away the brain butthole butthole so i never understood what that was about i think maybe oh my god is that not it is that wrong oh my god why is there an article called things i learned from butt chugging the insertion of foreign objects into the rectum intestinum of homo sapiens is nothing new. As you remember from history class.

Yeah, no, I mean, we did cover that, I guess, I think. Oh my god, the Maya administered tobacco and hallucinogenic enemas for religious purposes and also probably because they were bored. I never want to think about the phrase hallucinogenic enema again thank you oh my god that's hilarious do people smoke weed through their ass oh i'm sure they have and do don't do this out there chat or listen whoever you are live chat listeners you know who you are the latest round of anal centric tittering occurred in late September when University of Tennessee Pi Kappa Alpha member Alexander Zander Broughton. Broughton, yes, presumably pronounced Broughton, was treated for severe alcohol poisoning after allegedly, quote unquote, butt-chugging boxed wine. The proper bro-manclature, I believe, is tour de franzia.

This is a hilarious article. What thread have we pulled oh my god butt chugging in case you were blissfully unaware allows the alcohol to bypass the liver's filtering and metabolic processes so that the ethanol drains straight into the bloodstream via veins in the vena cava basically short-circuiting the body's poison defenses by putting liquor in your ass there you go win it's supposed to be an intense and near instant buzz i'm good i'm okay i'm all right sounds really healthy wait do we have a sunlight filter normally that the butthole doesn't have i mean probably you know that pesky liver getting in the way of the skin's beautiful sunlight we're injecting the sun directly into

our veins yeah just go ahead and stab a syringe up in the air towards the sun pull it real hard and put it right in your vein yeah i think that would be very bad no why would this be a bad idea no come on the whole reason doctors do the little squirt thing with syringes before they inject you that they could air out so that they don't blow you up are you a doctor are you a doctor yeah you're talking a lot, big game about doctor stuff. I met one once. Uh-huh. Sounds like you're not a doctor.

I live with a doctor, okay? Mm-hmm. Do not put air into your bloodstream. I think you explode. You think people are gonna go listen to this and go running? Yes! All right, well, you told them to.

I didn't say that. I told them not to. I said to get sunlight yeah you lose points for this topic wade tell you what we here at distractible incorporate do we have a thing probably no no no i guess not no i was wrong well we i hear it wade do not liability for you that sounds legally binding. Keep going. Bob, make it legal for me. I am not a lawyer. That is

not how that works. Palpatine it for me. Make it legal. I don't think that was a quote. Sign the bill into law. Good. He says I'll make it legal. I am the Senate. Make it legal. I'm just a bill.

Just a lonely bill. Sitting here on Capitol Hill. I think it's in episode one that everyone loves so much. Like one of the froggy dudes is like, my lord, is that legal? He's like, I'll make it legal. Sure, sure. Then he does the schoolhouse rock song. Someone else is like, wait, how do we make it legal. Sure, sure. Then he does the schoolhouse rock. Someone else is like, wait, how do we make it legal?

And he's like, oh, I'll tell you. I'm just a big love. And I'm sitting on Capitol Hill. And schoolhouse rock gives me serotonin. Way to bring it full circle, everybody. Hey, you're welcome. All right, look, this is going on way too long, okay? Okay.

Way too long. We're going to have to crash this into the end here. As ever, I kept very close and careful track of who earned points and when and what number of points it was, obviously. So let me just do some tabulations here. I'm going to calculator on my phone. That's me tapping my phone screen. Okay, math is complete. Today's winner for dragging us,

kicking and screaming, into the realm of educational video games is Wade. And all of the in-space points. points yeah lots of points for talking about that great job uh i had a good time talking about tiktok with you mark and wait honestly it's really funny to check it out you don't need family uh but i was sure i was surprised and and uh startled even to go back and relive all those games and learn all that stuff we did about those childhood games those are fun times, man. I like it.

It's one of the cool things about doing this show is some of the topics we go into either teach us a lot because we don't know a whole lot about a lot of the things we end up talking about. We end up going down these rabbit holes where we learn or the nostalgia trips are so fun. Like remembering shit like that, that we just like have lost. We've lost. Wait, whoa. Lost in the annals of our brain holes. are so fun like remembering shit like that that we just like have lost we've lost wait whoa lost in the what annals of our brain holes i don't know what else would have brought up operation

neptune in my brain like i don't know if that would have or amazon trail like no one ever talks about amazon trail all you hear about the oregon trail no one ever is like amazon trail like i don't want to come across as that guy but i no joke legitimately thought about amazon trail like i don't want to come across as that guy but i no joke legitimately thought about amazon trail like last week really because i remember being like oh yeah that game god i wish i would play that yeah because i was going through uh amy amy was playing um grim fandango uh and it was actually this was just like two days ago yeah amy was playing uh grim fandango and i just started thinking about all the old games that were kind of in that era yeah my brain does not go back there very often but every now and then we just open up a pathway that, like, my brain's like,

hey, I've got all this shit stored in here. Have it back. And it's such a good feeling. It's like, oh, my God, I didn't even know that I'd forgotten it, which is kind of scary, too. Anyway. But, yeah, thank you for the win. Thank you for InSpaceMark.

I appreciate all the points it's generated me over the day. You're welcome. You're welcome. Congratulations, win. And I can't wait to put you all through hell the day. You're welcome. You're welcome. Congratulations, Wade. And I can't wait to put you all through hell next week. Hooray. All right. Sounds good.

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