Distractible - Slice of Life

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:24 or contact your travel agent Air Canada. Nice travels. Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Warrior Wade gets wheels for his wife, then drives the dudes down Diagon Alley. Bishop Bob buys a mitre, manifests the meme, is scared of soccer, but not Brosnan. Motorist Mark gets his own storefront, solves swapiness, stares at Sol, wow, and the frigid wall.
Starting point is 00:00:55 From distracted babies to paradise lost. Yeah It's time for slice of life. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and Enjoy the show Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of distractible and you might have noticed I did give you all a hey guys Oh, yeah, you hit him with that
Starting point is 00:01:21 I don't even notice cuz that's how you enter the room every single time old YouTube intro, which I still Hold I get made fun of for doing it But I'm not making fun of you who's made fun of you Just cuz you feel like we're making fun of you when we point out that that's your intro doesn't mean that we're making fun Of you. There's an entire YouTube video on my channel making fun of me where hey guys turns into egg eyes And I can't unhear it now and it's my own intro and it has ruined it for me. That feels like your choice.
Starting point is 00:01:50 No it was Dana made it for a like an April Fool's video which was not my choice but brilliantly done and but anywho welcome back viewers listeners to the best podcast that you've probably heard of because you're here watching and or listening. I'm joined as always by my co-host Mark and Bob. Hello. Hi. Hi. One of us hosts, the other two compete for points, and we start off with some small talk. So, how's life?
Starting point is 00:02:14 I have a fun thing that I would like to complain about. God, this is a new one, right? I've said this before, I've had Macs, right? I've been doing that, because for editing the latest, you know. Macintosh computers, sure, sure. I thought you meant HBO Max, like the app, I was like, how does that help? Dude, we could talk about that,
Starting point is 00:02:33 of like HBO versus HBO Max, and now Macs, it doesn't make any sense, it's still HBO, I don't understand. Anyway, with this, I've started buying Macbooks and Mac computers for my editors, because it's just beneficial for that. So I run a business technically. And so I wanted to sign up for a business account with Apple because I heard that if you do enough business with them and you have a business account, you can get discounts over time.
Starting point is 00:02:59 They have a more official pipeline. They get like dedicated yada yada's, whatever. Okay, you know how Apple is all about their very catchy, streamlined branding and advertising and stuff like that? Their business site, I feel is made specifically to be as stupid and as boring and dull as every other like enterprise level nonsense that you could possibly see online. It just doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:03:31 It barely works. And I had to go contact Apple's business customer service several times because after I signed up for a business account because I was small business, I click here, I'll sign up. Perfect. business account because I was like small business I click here I'll sign up perfect I saw the store for two hours and then I went to bed because I signed up the night before and I went to bed I woke up and and let me let me see if I can if I go here and I click on shop online with a with a business account sign in wait for. Give us a call. There might be a problem.
Starting point is 00:04:06 So I called that number and I was on the phone for an hour and a half being raised to manager after manager after manager, each one of them being like, I don't know why this is a problem. So their solution, their solution was to create an entirely different e-commerce site, which is just the Apple front store, but it says Markiplier on it. It's like, this is your custom store. I'm like, I didn't need this. I did not need you to make my own store for me, because it doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Well, that's easier than making their base website work. I know right? So this isn't apple.com. You see at the top it says Apple Store for Rural. Welcome. Can we all go there and shop? No, this is mine. They made this for me.
Starting point is 00:04:58 And if you go to like any of the products, like I was looking at the new computers they have, and if you go to configure it, you can't't see it goddamn thing. It's just a white blur that website doesn't work at all. So this is now the dumbed-down version of the computer it auto brightnesses I don't know I it won't stay god I We saw it for a second. We saw it for a second. We understand. God the updates that they've been doing doing on their photos app and all the other crap. I know this is kind of an old person thing to complain about, but I'm fine with customizing
Starting point is 00:05:33 computers. I've been building computers for a very long time. I do Mac because it's efficient. Power efficiency when I'm editing on a laptop is more important than anything and being able to still have it, yada yada, doesn't matter. I went back to the email chain that I had with Apple and I was like okay the custom site is cool and all but I'm still running into this other problem with your regular business site and that's all I really want because if you go in here and you try to order something you don't get the
Starting point is 00:06:01 option of like oh you can get that same day courier delivery you have to have it shipped and you can only ship it to the address you provided to them when you set up the website maybe not i'm not sure but it doesn't seem to work as well like there and then the guy said like oh you can just go online go to the business site click shop with apple business sign in and you're there and i'm like that is the original problem I reached out to you for That is if you scroll up in our emails You'll see a picture that I sent of sorry there might be a problem call this number And I swear to God if he responds to me and being like oh you see it call that number Hahahaha
Starting point is 00:06:39 Hahahaha What they're gonna do is they're gonna give you a store page for your store page It's gonna be Markiplier's store of the store of Markiplier. It's just it's nonsense because I feel like somewhat like a bunch of these other corporations are just full of old people that don't understand things and they need it in one specific way the most boring way possible with all the part numbers so they can make their stupid invoices and it's like I'm not I'm not this company that you think I am I'm just I want to do the same thing I was doing when I was buying them before but potentially getting rewards and discounts for it because I'm a business I don't have a specific example but I I
Starting point is 00:07:17 too have a small business owner and running into that sort of enterprise shit is always exhausting they assume like no matter what it is if it's some big company like this that you're working with they have it set up and they're like, oh well send this to your accounting department and and you need a you need a lawyer to sign off on this and It's set up so that you have like a multi-billion dollar corporation and it's like I'm one guy I'm not interested in any of this I would like to buy one thing from your company please and like I get that they're that's not where their money comes from so they tailor the business
Starting point is 00:07:53 the enterprise stuff to you know the companies that are gonna spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with them or whatever but it's fucking awful the experience of that is so awful and it's consistent any company that has enterprise stuff it's probably just like that and it's consistent. Any company that has enterprise stuff, it's probably just like that and it doesn't work right. And they expect that you have like employees and employees and they're going to, it's a very first world problem, but it does always surprises me. They want you to really work for those rewards.
Starting point is 00:08:18 It's so regressive though, because one thing about, you know, it almost to an excessive degree is Apple tries to simplify things. That's not just me complimenting them. Sometimes it's overly simplified and really trying to pursue the ultimate, you know, simplification sometimes gets really in the way of everything else you're trying to do. This is intentionally dumbed down,
Starting point is 00:08:39 intentionally dumbed down so much that it has made it impossible to actually buy anything, which is the whole point of this store. Isn't that the whole point of Apple as a business, a big corporation, is they want... I need to buy something and I can't. I just can't. This feels like a catch-22. The store is so simple you can't buy anything, but you can't buy anything because it's too simple. So they need to simplify it. Well the actual store, if I go to the actual store, I can buy things too fast. You know, it's, it's problematic how quick I could buy something.
Starting point is 00:09:11 It is crazy. You can like accidentally buy shit in one click on the Apple store. If you do things wrong, or if you're like on your phone or something. Yeah. Suddenly scanning my face and I hear it. I'm like, oh shit. Anyway, this is again, yeah, weird thing to complain about, but I've never known this side of this company
Starting point is 00:09:28 and how broken it could possibly be that I need multiple employees contacting me for multiple different things. And I think that it's an extension of business as a whole is like it's dramatically too inefficient. I've seen this in small scale, but I think it might be everywhere. Sounds fun.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Bob, what's your apocalyptic end of the world life news? Oh, I know what I did since last time. I actually bought a miter saw. They cut mites. Yeah. Miter saw is, you know, that saw where it sits on a workbench and you put a piece of wood on it and you go mew and it like chops it in half? That's what that's called a miter saw because when you cut things on an angle that's called mitering and so a miter saw can cut on an angle like this away or you can turn it like this away. It's a whole thing. Anyway, I have a new hobby whenever I get
Starting point is 00:10:19 into a new thing like like I've been into woodworking stuff I always just like start skulking around on Facebook marketplace. One because like I when you into woodworking stuff, I always just like start skulking around on Facebook Marketplace. One, because like when you get into new hobby, you need things, but also I really like to get a sense of like that part of the hobby. I feel like you can learn a lot about a hobby based on like what sort of prices are you stuff going for? What does everyone sell on Facebook Marketplace,
Starting point is 00:10:42 which is a sign like maybe I don't actually need one of those. Everyone buys this one tool and then sells it and is like barely used it, like new. Like, well, I just won't, I'll skip that. But so part of that is I just like egregiously lowballing people on things just to see. And all of them ever have either just ignored me or been like, no, like five bucks less than what I listed it for. And I'd be like, no, like five bucks less than what I listed it for. And I'd be like, nah, nevermind. But I sent this guy a message. He had the mitre saw listed and it was like missing one piece, but it was basically fully functional. And
Starting point is 00:11:14 I sent him a message and I was literally like 30% of what he had it listed for. I think I said like, I'll give you 40 bucks for it. And a mitre saw, like a new one from the store is like a hundred, 200 five hundred bucks like they're inexpensive tool and he replied and was like 50 Well, well, I wasn't really planning on this happening But how am I not gonna buy a two hundred dollar miter saw for 50 bucks? I was planning on getting one of those so yeah, so literally like he messaged back and I was like, I guess I have to. And I looked, I literally looked at many.
Starting point is 00:11:49 I was like, I just actually bought a saw. So we're gonna, I'm gonna go pick that up, I guess. So I'll be back. Did you get the missing piece? You don't need it. It's got an upper fence piece that's missing, which can be important, but for 90% of what I'm gonna do, I don't even need it.
Starting point is 00:12:07 3D print that. You're good to go. My first experience with a miter saw was when I was building decks, and so I looked at a miter saw, and most of them are limited to like 45 degrees, right? And so I looked at it, and I was like, wait, what if I need to do a 60 degree cut? And my boss just laughed. And right now I get why he laughed, but he just laughed they're like Good one and walked away
Starting point is 00:12:32 16 years old my brain can't do the trigonometry to know that 90 minus 30 is 60 and just change the orientation of the board So I was sitting there for like hours, not hours, like he didn't wait hours for me to get this cut done. I was just sitting there like looking at it. Just, you had like a piece of wood in it though and you were just like, oh no. I was just sitting there with the wood there, I was like, oh, I can't, I can't fuck this up.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Measure twice, cut once. Measure twice, cut once, you know? Just, it comes over, doesn't say a word, just like turns the board 90 degrees, and I'm like, oh! Just, oh! Anyway, that was my first experience with a miter saw. If anyone's confused and doesn't know what I'm talking about,
Starting point is 00:13:22 ha ha ha, good one. And I'm gonna walk away now. Building, woodworking shit, like building things out of wood is filled with so much of that. Or I'll look at a thing and I'm like, I need it. I need the final width of this thing to be whatever, 24 inches. But each of the pieces of plywood I'm using is three quarters of an inch thick and blah and this and you and like a woodworking person will look at that and be like, okay, so I need to cut it to this. And I looked at and I'm like, well,
Starting point is 00:13:46 like it's the meme of like math flying through the air. And I'm like, oh fuck, what's 24 minus three quarters eight. No way. I get my phone calculator like, man, it's not that hard. Is it? It's just, I'm stupid. I, uh, I can't believe that some of the kids can do like the abacus method you've ever seen the videos of the kids doing like speed Addition and and subtraction and they're just I thought it was I didn't know what I was seeing when I first saw a video of a whole classroom of kids just like Not blinking the conducting orchestra a really small orchestra
Starting point is 00:14:24 But it's really impressive because they're able to do some extremely fast addition and subtraction. And I think basic multiplication is possible with that. I'm not sure because I don't know the method, but it's very impressive the speed at which they can do things and the tricks that you can do with numbers and how an abacus works in terms of like being able to do that is sometimes more efficient than actually having a calculator. So you're saying I need an abacus for the garage? I think so.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Yeah. Anyway, I also have some news. This might sound like Groundhog Day to you guys. I got a car! No, I don't believe it. Is it in your garage or driveway or how how got is it? Okay, there's an asterisk on this. He doesn't have a car. Yes, it's here and being driven right now because it's Molly's car.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Oh, did you get a TX? We did. So we'd given up and we were getting ready to go look somewhere else. And we were like, okay, we'll go in one more time. We'll see. And then we actually had like three more Lexus locations within like a four hour drive that were like claimed to have one for sale. And we're like, don't really wanna go to Louisville, Kentucky, but if we gotta.
Starting point is 00:15:33 So we went over and- The Louisville? No, no, no, we went over to Performance in Cincinnati. Then why did you mention Louisville? Because looking online, seeing where places actually physically had ones in stock for sale, there were like two. So we went over to the King's Auto Mall in Cincinnati, walked in and I saw the guy that we had talked to before and I was like, alright, I'm gonna give this guy one more chance to sell us a car
Starting point is 00:15:56 because it's been literally 10 months since he gave us a three-month window of like, three months, you'll have a car. That was June 2024. It is now April, 2025. So I waited, we were there, I'll skip the story, but we were there for six or seven hours. The first hour of which we were waiting for this guy to be free, because he was with another group and they had an appointment or whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:17 We did not have an appointment, we just showed up. He got free, we met with him and he was like, all right, I've got one that is nothing like what you wanted and we might have one That's like what you want and we were like might You I feel like when you're selling a car you either have a car to sell or you don't but they had one but apparently someone Was in the process of buying it they changed their minds and it was like on a hold or something But they don't really hold cars doing talk to his manager. The manager is like, yeah, it's for sale So we went out we looked at it and everything that Molly was looking for we wanted something, but they don't really hold cars. Doing talk to his manager, the manager was like, yeah, it's for sale.
Starting point is 00:16:45 So we went out, we looked at it, and everything that Molly was looking for, we wanted. So went through the process and we bought it. So we've got the car, we own it. My car, the asterisk is because my car is still being built. Yeah, so you don't have a car. I'm married, we have a car, comrade. The most communist thing you can do, get married.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Listen, if we didn't have a car before we didn't have a car now because Molly has had a car this entire time well now she has to I have zero no you didn't even trade hers in you just have no we don't know what we're gonna do with hers yet right now I have a car and Molly's got a brand new car. You know what? That's closer. I'd count that more than I'd count Molly's new car being your car for sure. She drove it home. We went out last night and did like a night drive. It was really nice.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And just kind of fiddled with it. You got to sit in it once? That was cool. I literally have only been in it once so far, yeah. Cause I had to drive her old car home from when we bought it. What was that like for you? Same as it's been the last 13 years of owning it. Cause we've had that car since 2013, that was like her college graduation present from her parents.
Starting point is 00:17:57 Like that's been her car since then. So I've driven it many times. So driving it home, I was just like. And it is 2026, so 13 beautiful years hey but hey our car shopping is done however I've been tempted to like get a temporary car just to hold over till the BMWs that you guys will all leave me alone I was like what if I just go and buy like a mustang for two months just get a lease what do you mean buy for two months aren't leases like always six months or a year or something?
Starting point is 00:18:26 I don't know man, you could do a long-term rental probably. It sounds like you could just use Molly's old car. Yeah, but I want you guys to leave me alone, so I feel like I need to own one. I feel like you know that the truth is not that it's not whether or not you have a car, it's all of the lies that you've told about having a car when you haven't had a car or about getting a car when you clearly have not been getting a car. We've tried, but success.
Starting point is 00:18:52 I've given my money to two different companies now. Molly had success. Good job, Molly. BMW took my money. That's more than anyone else has done so far. That's just a sucker not having a car. That's not a thing to be proud of. They took your money and gave you nothing.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I have a little tracking bar that shows that my car is ordered. As a person who spends a lot of time on BMW forums, I can tell you it doesn't mean as much as you might hope in BMW land. Man, do I see a lot of people being like, we ordered our car in June and he said it was on a truck and now it says it doesn't exist. What happened? And all the BMW owners are like, yeah, they do that.
Starting point is 00:19:33 No, no, this will be different for me. All right, that's all the small talk. No more questions. Great small talk, everyone. Small talk points all around, especially to, I guess Molly. You're not giving yourself points for still not having a car, are you? No No if I was gonna have to give it to anybody
Starting point is 00:19:48 Molly for getting her car but... Yeah great job Molly. She had a car way faster than you did. She didn't even have a gap where she didn't have a car. She went from having a car to having a new car. I've never owned two cars at the same time. Molly has. It's funny how that's doable and somehow you haven't. We've been trying to get that stupid TX for over a year, so I Have you ever considered a truck we're moving on immediately to this episode This episode uh, we're gonna do a little bit of a slice of life gonna be pretty easy I'm just gonna go through some years dates whatever and I just want you guys to tell me what was important, what life was like then,
Starting point is 00:20:26 and maybe some bonus points if you get the reason I have it marked. This one's an easy one. I'm not gonna even have you guys do it. I'm just gonna give it to everyone for free. 1989, the distracted babies were born. Beautiful. That's where our adventure begins. Is that us? We were in 1989, yeah. I'm sure we got together and had that distractable photo shoot as babies wearing our merch back when we had it.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Ah like it was yesterday. I'm going to assume we don't remember much of our like infant years so I'm gonna fast forward a little bit. Editors make it look like it was yesterday. Yeah give us a 1989 theme. I forget what what do you say we're doing? Just a little slice of life. You're gonna describe life as you remember it from the date and year I'm gonna go through. I'm about to give you your first one.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Mark your heads, Bob your tails. I'm gonna flip to see who goes first here. Mark goes first for this one, so we'll just rotate. I don't know what I'm doing. I'll give you some guidance. Best you can remember, remember mark December 10th 1993 life in general there is something that happened that day and if you get bonus points if you remember it But just describe what you remember from late
Starting point is 00:21:36 1993 if anything, what was what four-year-old four and a half year old mark? What was life like then? Okay. All right No, so I'm mauling it over. I know exactly what happened I know I know what you wrote down. I'm reading your mind right now. Okay I assume we're not supposed to Google these things The most important part about this is just to describe life as it was for you then and then I'll tell you the important Event if you guys don't guess it I was alive. I breathed a lot drinking water and milk much milk I breathed a lot drinking water and milk much milk
Starting point is 00:22:13 Bowl of cereal wake up no school cuz I'm for backyard grass Play place trees was cold out actually bundled up probably maybe snow not yet snow No, no snow yet, but cold cold look. Look at the sky. Can't see. Blurry. No glasses yet. Can't really see much. All very blurry. That's what I- that's my slice of my life. I was confusing dreams with reality a lot at this point, so it might have been one of the moments where I was in the backyard and I start floating up in the air and then rising over the tree line, but it's like the fog of war in a video game because my entire life had not Expanded beyond the domain of my house and yard. So it was just gray
Starting point is 00:22:51 I was descending into the past the simulation, you know, so that was that was my life a hazy gray Maybe snow and that's how 1993 were don't laugh at my life. Okay, December 8th, 1993 And that's how 1993 were. Don't laugh at my life. Okay, December 8th, 1993. My family is living in the Residence Inn in Dublin, Ohio. We're in the process of moving from Michigan to Ohio, to the place where I would grow up for most of the rest of all of the rest of my childhood. All I know is every day, dad and I wake up, mom's already at work, dad and I go down to the breakfast bar at the residence inn, which is like a long-term hotel.
Starting point is 00:23:30 We get microwave sausage biscuits. They come in a little two pack. It was the thing that you get to pop in the microwave. We take them back up to our room. We eat those and we pretty much just hang out the whole day. That's the whole thing. just waiting for something to happen I don't think dad did was doing much of anything I'm sure he wasn't like trying to find a house or doing any adult stuff
Starting point is 00:23:51 We're just hanging out eating sausage biscuits and hanging out oddly enough I ate a lot of sausage biscuits as a kid too but for McDonald's and then my dad also always had I don't know what brand They were but he always had like these big sleeves of like sausage biscuits that we would make in the microwave Yeah, those were the ones. Yeah, I don't know what brand they were, but he always had like these big sleeves of like sausage biscuits that we would make in the microwave. Yeah, those were the ones. Yeah. I don't know that one. Well, Mark, you might've had them. You just couldn't see them yet. Oh, also I couldn't see. I was with Mark. I didn't get my glasses until the following year because I got my glasses in preschool because I actually started preschool the next year because my birthday
Starting point is 00:24:19 is in the middle of October. So they didn't let me go to regular school. So I had to go to preschool. I didn't need glasses till fourth grade. I went till fourth grade before I got mine. I was an early bloomer. Preschool I was trying to read the Berenstein Bear books and they were like, oh, you can't read. I remember really confusing them on the hearing test because I didn't raise my hand once, and they're like, did you not hear anything? I was like, there was this really like, high-pitched annoying noise every now and then, but like, I didn't hear the beeps you were talking about. They're like, like no those were the beeps I remember that embarrassed me a lot so that I had to do it over again and then I
Starting point is 00:24:49 heard every beep all right well December 10th 1993 marked a major point in gaming history because doom launched on December 10th of 1993 I didn't know it launched that early I guess it makes sense but to me like I feel like cuz I was a little bit older when I first't know it launched that early. I guess it makes sense, but to me, I feel like, cause I was a little bit older when I first played it, it launched when I was older. I know why that is. Would you like to know why? Why it launched then, or why I feel that way?
Starting point is 00:25:14 Why you feel that way. So Doom originally came out and it was a DOS game, right? So DOS was the precursor to Windows and stuff like that. I played some DOS games. That is Star Wars DOS game. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But inherently, DOS is a less accessible computer than Windows. And so Bill Gates wanted Windows to become the gaming platform.
Starting point is 00:25:37 So when Windows 95 launched, Bill Gates had a huge campaign in which he starred in actual video ads saying Doom was coming to Windows And it was all a big it was a big thing. There was a lot of promotion behind it because doom was already It was an extremely popular game. I'm not saying it wasn't popular before this but for more people it became suddenly more accessible because it came Through Windows. Did you still have to launch your computer in DOS mode to play it back then or was that what I could You no longer had to do that when it came to Windows. You didn't have to launch your computer in DOS mode to play it back then? Or was that what I couldn't you no longer had to do that? When it came to Windows You didn't have to launch DOS mode. It could launch right from Windows. Interesting. Cool. Yeah, go into DOS mode on computers I forgot that that was even a thing. Yeah, you had to reboot in DOS mode to play certain games
Starting point is 00:26:17 Oh now the the terminal, you know comes up and I've actually had to do a lot more terminal stuff or command prompt stuff you know comes up and I've actually had to do a lot more terminal stuff or command prompt stuff lately especially with the server because like you got to do everything from like SSH commands into the server and all kinds of stuff like that so I've actually it's weird going back to it it's very bizarre having to cd into directories and this although Linux you know how I made fun of Linux people a while back I was saying like they had to do all kinds of stupid shit to make their shit work. Are you a Linux now? No, I've done it now and I want to make fun of it because I want to read you a command I had to type in to make this shit work because inherently in Linux there's a parameter called Swappiness,
Starting point is 00:27:05 which stands for how much the system has a proclivity to swap your memory out onto the hard drive, right? So the command to get the Swappiness down, I had to search a lot for this, to make this change, I had to go into the terminal, type sudo nano etc sysctl.d slash 99 dash swapiness dot conf and then I had to make a new variable inside this file called vm dot swapiness equals zero, save it with control x and then Y and then hit enter. And then I type in echo space zero line,
Starting point is 00:27:50 pseudo T proxies VM swapiness. And then I verify it with cat proxies VM swapiness. Oh, and then I changed one parameter in Linux, one God damn parameter. Woo, nice job. Guy thinks he's computer Jesus I changed one parameter in Linux one goddamn parameter Whoo nice job guy thinks he's computer Jesus cuz he turned swapiness off Just dude I felt like it when I had to I had to figure out how to do this shit And someone who does Linux is probably like this guy's an idiot. You should have type pseudo nano butthole type swap swapiness I don't even understand how anyone would know
Starting point is 00:28:25 what these commands were if someone else didn't tell me. Right? Well, you used to learn this kind of stuff in schools back before we got rid of them. Oh. You guys remember schools? That'll be on the test later. I mean, admittedly, computer science in school
Starting point is 00:28:42 was a little outdated even when it was happening. I remember because we had a visual basic class and I was like, oh boy, I can't wait to learn to be a programmer. The visual basics awesome as I copy and paste 20,000 nested functions. I think we learned how to code in C plus in my high school computer science class. Damn. Not even C plus plus, just C plus. Nah, just regular old C+. I just remember
Starting point is 00:29:06 typing class and then playing Oregon Trail. I did not know. I might be wrong about this, but it's C, then C++, and C sharp is actually C++++, but they're stacked into a symbol, because if you take four pluses and stack them it becomes the sharp symbol or the pound symbol. Isn't that just a number sign? C pound. C pound? C pound is way cooler. I programming C pound. Really pound the computer and doing what I want. C pound and a half. June June 26 1997 Bob we're moving forward a few years okay it's June 26 1997 in two days Markiplier turns eight that's true that must be what was happening I don't know what I'm in like fourth grade at this point yeah I think so there this is a weird thing that's coming back to me, but I'm pretty sure this was fourth grade. We used to go outside for recess and part of our school's recess, there was like the jungle gyms
Starting point is 00:30:14 and whatever and there was a soccer field and they had the big like competitive sized soccer goals because it was this was they would in the evenings the like rec league would play games at our school it was like a real soccer field and so we had these big goals and on that particular day I'm pretty sure it was real windy and we were outside just running around kind of playing soccer kind of just kicking the ball at each other and there was this girl and she was kind of playing around in the goal not paying attention and she'd like climbed up and was goofing around and the huge gust of wind came and actually blew the frame of the goal over and the top bar of
Starting point is 00:30:52 the because she had climbed up she fell with it and the top bar of the goal fell down directly across her face and she had just the crazy she fine ultimately, but it like broke some of the orbital bone around her because of the way she landed. She had just like the biggest craziest swelling called an ambulance. It hurt and she had some recovery after that. She's totally fine. I knew she graduated high school. I don't know what happened after high school, but like she had no serious long lasting things.
Starting point is 00:31:27 But that was some of the craziest shit I'd ever seen because I saw it happen and then I saw her laying there and I saw her face just start to go, whoop and it was like, oh no. It wasn't like Looney Tunes where it was like. No, it was bad. It was bad. But she was okay after a while and some recovery But that's like bird into my memory. That was some crazy shit
Starting point is 00:31:51 I'm still kind of scared of soccer goals just cuz I'm like is it is it pegged into the ground if it falls over? I swear to God. I thought that way about monkey bars I watched a kid break his arm in the monkey bars and I was like I'm never touching those ever was it me I don't remember probably this would have been at Cypelt did you go to Cypelt is that a place yeah it was called Pleasant Hill but then they renamed after the principal who retired who'd been there for like 30 40 years it was called like Charles L. Cypelt elementary it's gone now I think it's completely gone now but I believe that's where I saw it happen no I was
Starting point is 00:32:22 different because the two other kids we were with were of a fundamentally different skin color than you, so. Bald? All right, fair enough. Well, this was like during recess, so every kid was outside and like kind of got to witness. I'm sure that that's what you have written down on your piece of paper. Well, we'll find out after Mark tells me about June 26, 1997. Gray. Huh? Well, we'll find out after mark tells me about June 26 1997 gray Huh no wonder you left Ohio
Starting point is 00:32:51 Gray there might have been snow turns out I might be colorblind guys I just got I'd gotten glasses at that point, but I think the gray was from, oh, my parents are getting divorced. Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, two days before my birthday, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. I don't know, I don't remember when they had the talk that it was gonna happen, but. I was gonna say, what a terrible time to announce, it's like, happy birthday, buddy.
Starting point is 00:33:18 You get two birthdays this year. I think that at this point in my life, I had probably gone to Korea once, so I guess my horizon had expanded. But it's one of those things where when you're a kid, you hop in the magical tube and they say go to fly and you just wait here for 16 hours and you're going to be someplace else. And you know, that's all I can remember of traveling to anywhere there. And you know, I fall asleep in the car or whatever anyway so that but that's not slice of life at this point
Starting point is 00:33:48 I was doing a lot of staring at the Sun Trouble seeing what'd you do? I didn't have glasses when I did I just started the Sun Mark actually grew up in a Brian Regan joke. I forgot someone told me to look at the Sun I didn't look at the sky the rest of my eyes don't look if they're like I'm like I don't want to lose my sight. He got six seconds at the Sun. I didn't look at the sky the rest of my life So don't look if they're like I'm like, I don't want to lose my sight He got six seconds at the Sun stare new record, dude. I went way more than six seconds Let me tell you six seconds is chump numbers. I think I made it up to a minute at one point Everyone out there watching your list. This is not a challenge. Don't do it. No, don't do this
Starting point is 00:34:22 I think I turned out fine. I don't know who knows I've never I've never valued my eyes as being my strong suit until I got you know surgery to correct My vision and who knows like maybe I don't have perfect vision, but I feel like I do anyway That's neither here nor there definitely not there in June 22nd of 1980 No Who? not there in June 22nd of 1980 no oh seven June 26th 1997 that's what I said editors make it what I said June 26th 1980 Oh Bill Clinton did you meet him your best buds. Really weird if that's true.
Starting point is 00:35:08 I think I've answered your question. Damn it all the secret service going to like your elementary school so you guys could hang out and play some kickball or something. You walk out at the end of the school day, Bill Clinton's leaned up against the limo playing saxophone waiting for you. That's why all Mark could see is gray because it was just Bill Clinton's hair every time he looked up. Uh, no, so June 26th, 1997. This will be a fun one for everyone out there watching, cause most of you are gonna hate this. But for us, at the time, it was important, and it was a big deal, at least I think for most of us. The first Harry Potter book came out, which I didn't care about at all except for the next year my fifth
Starting point is 00:35:45 grade teacher read it to us in class and it was like one we didn't have to learn we didn't take tests we weren't getting homework and we were hearing this like cool story about like a wizard kid so it was like really enjoyable at the time and that's what got me into the books and movies and such and obviously now we know more about the author than we did back then but that came out in 97 yeah June 26, 1997. I don't know when it became like more popular, right? Because like she wasn't immediately like, I don't...
Starting point is 00:36:10 She was basically an overnight success with those books, but like it still probably took a little bit for them to gain traction. But yeah, at least according to my research, which could be wrong. Yeah, I would have guessed like five years after that. Because I, I, you know, just first when I got into reading those books was more like middle school age and it was for three, four, five years somewhere in there. This one's kind of a gimme. December 31st 1999. You know all those Zoomers, they don't understand. They'll never ever
Starting point is 00:36:40 experience two millennia. Two different millennia, let alone two different centuries. There's a reason they call us millennials because we are the bridge between these two eras of humanity. The definitely good, really cool future that we're in right now and headed towards and the past where it was just, ah, horrible. They knocked down that wall in Germany. Horrible. And all that big, that frigid war ended. That was cool. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:13 The frigid war. I remember that one very gray. Remember very great. Yeah. Probably panic in the streets for Y2K. Everything was gonna end. Everyone was gonna blow up spontaneously from their brain implants.
Starting point is 00:37:31 You had to rip it out before clock struck midnight or else your head would explode. I can't believe you cared so much about Ronald Reagan and brain implants in 1999. That's interesting. I didn't mention Ronald Reagan, not once. Yeah, why did he mention Ronald Reagan? He said the wall going down in Germany wasn't that mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall was that?
Starting point is 00:37:52 Shout that it knocked it down. He didn't like scream mr. Gorbachev paint this wall a different color No more gray in Germany I think there might have been a few other steps between you know I'm saying that in an actually toppling. Mr. Gorbachev foos throw All right, Bob tell me about December 31st 1999 I can't leave marks just gonna casually say a bunch of unrelated shit and then throw in Oh and y2k was happening Like that wasn't exactly what way that had written down on his piece of paper. This is not the year that it came out. I don't believe I'm going to commit to this, even though it might be
Starting point is 00:38:37 factually incorrect, but I think on December 31st, 1999, my brother and I were huddled in front of our Mitsubishi TV with our brand new N64 plugged into that son of a bitch. Oh, I think N64 launched in the U S in like Christmas of 96 or something. I'm not a hundred percent sure that Christmas 99 September 29th, 1996. Yeah. I'm not a hundred percent sure that Christmas 99. September 29th, 1996. Yeah. I'm not a hundred percent sure that 99 is the Christmas we got it. We didn't get it the like very first year it came though. We got, so I think we would have been sitting and we had Mario 64. I think we had Glover, which underrated game, uh,
Starting point is 00:39:21 modern classic. And I think we had Goldeneye. And I think we were just literally like huddled in front of our old Mitsubishi tube TV sitting on the floor of the basement and 64 plugged in just like having our whole lives changed by Nintendo Goldeneye was like the fortnight of our childhoods as far as like everyone had fortnight or Everyone had golden eye or wanted to play gold night or went to someone's house to play GoldenEye. Like GoldenEye was the shit. It was like Pokemon and GoldenEye.
Starting point is 00:39:50 It did have like the vibes of Fortnite too cause it was like, you're like, oh, let's turn on big head mode. Yeah, it was like goofy, you know. Everyone had like some goofy particular game mode where it was like, oh, we do this map and we turn on it, we do only this gun and that those were the days those are good references I don't know what year those came out. But yeah and 64 was 96
Starting point is 00:40:10 I don't think it really had anything else that came out. That was crazy until ps2 launch That was 2000 so in 64 kind of had the market for a little while as far as like the console everyone wanted and When did the GameCube come out that would have been like? 2004 I never had a GameCube. I don't remember that launch. New millennium, it was a weird time because it was like super exciting. I don't remember if it was like the Mayan calendar
Starting point is 00:40:31 was a big deal back then because everyone was like, the Mayans predicted the world would end. And then there was all the fear of like all electronics shutting down when we reached the new millennium. There were all kinds of like exciting things and like terrifying things. And I remember watching like the countdown to the ball drop at my grandparents house.
Starting point is 00:40:46 And it's like, what's going to happen? Like as the thing counted down, it's like, we're excited. But like you kind of got more nervous. Like, will the TV go off? Like, is all of the power going to just go off? Like what's going to happen? No, I actually think about this today, like a fair amount. For anyone who's too young or who doesn't remember,
Starting point is 00:41:03 Y2K was a fear that up to the year 2000, generally speaking, software was coded with the year as two digits, right? You don't need to put 1998, you just put 98. And everyone was like, wait a minute, when it hits the year 2000, it's gonna tick over from 99 to double zero. And maybe I don't understand part of the context or I don't understand part of the context or I don't remember it, but why did everyone think that was gonna make computers explode? Like they give a shit what year it is.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Like the computer was gonna be like 99 and zero zero. I can't exist. Boosh. What, well, I don't understand what the fear was. I wasn't invented yet! I get that it's like, if it was, if it was the thing where the date was important, like transactions or whatever, it might screw up the dates, but that's literally like a patch. Like you just patch a thing where it's like, double zero means two thousand, not nineteen
Starting point is 00:42:01 hundred. Okay. Like it's, but I just don't, people thought the world was gonna end and I don't think computers care what year it is. I don't think they're interested in that. I remember there was like something with them, like the Mayans had a prediction back then
Starting point is 00:42:15 that I think people interpreted as being like, right now the world will end, the Mayans called it as we switch over to the new millennium. I feel like that was the thing. And 2012 would be the next time the Mayans predicted everything would explode. Yeah, those guys were just worry warts. They were just thinking every so often
Starting point is 00:42:32 the world was just gonna be over with, but just like they weren't sure. They just want everyone to be aware. Maybe it's coming up. They're like, we're gonna have like six end of the world dates. And either one of them will be right, we'll look really smart,
Starting point is 00:42:44 or by the time they get to the sixth, no one will care anymore, so just be ignoring us. Six is the number of end world dates. And either one of them will be right, we'll look really smart, or by the time they get to the sixth, no one will care anymore, because they'll just be ignoring us. Six is the number of end world events, all right. All the minds talked when they made their plans. All right. They talked like wish.com, Patrick Warburton. Bob, I got a tough one for you.
Starting point is 00:43:00 I'm gonna try to give you some hints to help, like I did with Mark. September 11th 2001 hmm the reason I bring this date up is because I think Being alive before that date definitely our perspectives of the world shifted I think I don't know my instinct is to make a joke But I don't know it still feels like you can't write like where I joke about I don't even feel like I can't of all the things where I'm willing to joke about like politics and dumb stuff that has happened and historical things, I do think specifically being in school on September 11th, 2001 was
Starting point is 00:43:36 a particular type of experience. I think if you were so young, you weren't in school, you were also so young, you don't remember. And I think for like adults who may or may not have even gotten to go home from work depending on what you did and what was happening and how people were like getting the info. Being in school was wild. That's the one time in my life where we were in school in class. I was in sixth grade that year I think think. And literally like the teacher, it was like, because crazy stuff has happened. There were tragedies and things that happened where like the teachers got the news and I'm sure they were like, well, let's just finish school and I'll let their parents tell them or whatever. Like this is not that literally the moment the
Starting point is 00:44:19 teacher started to talk to each other and the message got around. The teacher was just like, I'm going to, I'm going to turn the news on the TV guys were just going to, and it wasn't a thing where they were like, well, let their parents tell them or the stuff that when that played out on, on that day started happening. And the teachers were just like, holy shit and turned the news on. And I think collectively, because they were just like, I don, and turned the news on. And I think collectively, because they were just like, I don't know if the world is gonna shut down, or if we're in some danger here, or what they were like,
Starting point is 00:44:51 we just need, like we need to know what's happening, and we need to see what we should do for the kids. And we ended up getting sent home. We ended up getting bussed home really early on in the day. As a kid, I didn't really even appreciate it to the same extent that I do now when, when things of that nature happen, tragedies and those huge losses of life and stuff. But it's burned into my memory because all the adults were, I was old enough to be like, Whoa, that's really bad.
Starting point is 00:45:18 But all the adults were just like, Totally and completely the facade was down, right? Teachers are always like, they always keep that sort of wall up and they're the teacher near the student, and they were just like, oh my, holy shit, what the fuck? And it was, it was super unsettling, that part of it, because you don't get that in school. Even when terrible shit is happening in school, even if the building was on fire, actively, the teacher would be like, alright everybody, alright we're gonna stand up, line up at the door, you know the thing. Like it's, there's a rapport, right? And so yeah, obviously the terrorist attack on September 11th. I do remember that, but it's a very particular experience I feel like for our generation,
Starting point is 00:46:02 being in, if you're in a school setting and the way that all happened at least in our The way our city handled it it was very very very etched into my my memory and like how I see the world Changed how I see the world for sure mark we went to the same school at that point mark pick something else that happened on that day Oh Gray Very gray. History through the eyes of Mark. I was in time out in the corner, staring at the gray, gray wall.
Starting point is 00:46:34 And everyone was weirdly quiet behind me. I heard they roll in the TV, but alas, I was in time out. I was going to bring that up. So I don't know that that's the most relatable thing for people anymore but back in the day I don't know where they were stored but we had like this cart where the TV sat on the cart like a big TV not like the little flat screens we have now and teachers had to roll these carts into their classroom. If you never saw the TV room you were not the right kind of nerd because there was just a room where all those motherfuckers lived in the library. I never saw the room it's just teachers would randomly just
Starting point is 00:47:10 roll a TV in from seemingly nowhere and we'd watch like Bill Nye or you know reading Rainbow whatever have you. It's a magical room there's TVs there's overhead projectors there's the if you were in a fancy school there's the carts with the laptops where you get the lot you take the laptops out It's all it's all in a room, man And if you learn where that room is you can sneak in there and watch the prices right during study hall Not that I ever did that it use your palm pilot that has an IR blaster and you get the app on your palm pilot And you figure out what brand the TV is and then you can use your palm pilot to control the TV, because the TVs are all, there's no buttons, right? Because the students are not supposed to-
Starting point is 00:47:47 What kind of rich school did you, we had like the TV, and if we had an outlet to plug it in, we were lucky. Cards completely on the table. I lived in an extremely wealthy district. My, I grew up in a city where there's a PGA golf course, and the memorial tournament happens every year. We grew up like Mike my parents live away from the golf course and it's still extremely nice but our school district was like money because all the houses around the golf courses multiple golf courses big big mansions
Starting point is 00:48:20 like yeah we had lots of fancy shit that okay most probably a lot of other people didn't have for we had the TVs on cards That I think that's the extent of our did you ever have the Elmo? Did you guys when did Elmo's come into existence for you? Instead of it being a projector where it was like a clear film and it was projected onto the Elmo was a camera a Camera that shot down on and just recorded it and projected that onto a thing. I am 99% sure that if you could have built for today, they still have the original screen projector with the little marker that the wipe off the top, which honestly they work.
Starting point is 00:48:57 It's fine. They're great. They're really good. Actually, we never got Elmo. We only had the other one. We only had Elmo. We have like one Elmo in the school. It was like a new kind of experimental, but it was cool. We only had the other one. We only had Elmo. We had like one Elmo in the school. It was like a new kind of experimental, but it was cool. We got to use it.
Starting point is 00:49:09 Elmo Palm pilots, flat screens, laptops. They did have the, the smart board, which even I remember like the, you know, the something, there was something digital about it that made it like a smart board and it never worked. Every teacher hated it. It was just not. They still have smart boards. Modern smart boards work it never worked. Every teacher hated it and it was just not. They still have smart boards. Modern smart boards work a little bit. Those ones back then didn't do shit ever. Yeah, they had to calibrate.
Starting point is 00:49:33 I remember they had to like touch four corners. Oh yeah, you would touch the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tap, tap, tap and then be like fucking tap, tap. Actually, you're unlocking a memory. I think maybe we did because I remember someone doing that. We went to the same school, so I'd assume yeah. I think maybe we did because I remember someone doing that we went to the same school
Starting point is 00:49:45 So I'd assume yeah That wasn't very commonplace because most people just had like the normal chalk or the marker But I do remember that particular event happening with the taps. Anyway, sorry mark. It was your turn The TV was rolling in great. I was staring at the wall They rolled it in and everyone was probably watching something really fun. Couldn't hear it. Couldn't see it. Don't know what happened. Then we got to go home. Which wasn't any different for you, cause it was still great. And I get back home and my dad's crying for some reason and I'm like, hmm, that's weird.
Starting point is 00:50:15 Anyway, time for video games. I'm gonna go play Doom. Bye. He said something about turning that place to glass and I went downstairs and was like, okay, cool. I like glass. God. God. It's gray, gray glass, you know? No, I legitimately remember.
Starting point is 00:50:33 I mean, my dad was like an army guy. He was a career army guy for like 21 or 23 years. I can't really remember right now, but yeah. So he was very much, very much angry. I feel like, so I remember going to school and then like, I don't remember what order my classes were in, but I had like literature, something literature was what it was called with, I remember the teacher.
Starting point is 00:50:55 Book literature, words literature. I remember the teacher, like someone coming in and talking to our teacher and then like the TV rolled in. And then back then we watched I think it was called like channel one news like even before this event even before 9-eleven we had like channel one news every day at like home room or whatever we'd watch channel one news which was like news designed for kids or whatever on this particular day we went and we watched it like we saw the stuff going on on TV then like it got turned off
Starting point is 00:51:20 because it was a bit too much I think for us so the teachers kind of had it on and they were just like watching in disbelief We went to homeroom and then they had like some of they already had like their version of it playing So it was kind of dumbed down for kids to see where it was a little bit less brutal But I feel like when the second tower was hit we were watching either we were home at that point Or we were watching on the tv when that happened. I was home I remember so you might have been home. I don't know prior to 9-eleven I remember like going to the neighbor's yard we would play in the neighbor's yard we'd run around down the street we kind of do whatever front
Starting point is 00:51:51 doors could be left unlocked like there was not really a lot of concern about the world and I feel like that day everything as far as like how we felt about being safe anywhere changed there was just like I don't know what if you call it innocence or just being naive whatever it. There was just like, I don't know what you call innocence or just being naive, whatever it was, that was completely different and everything felt scarier after that because it was just like a plane. No one ever thought anything about a plane other than just like planes get you from point A to point B, but like those being used and everything that happened, watching it, just living it, the panic, not knowing what was gonna happen, like
Starting point is 00:52:23 were we under attack, was an invasion coming, there was just so much uncertainty and fear, it was just such a different feeling for us compared to anything we've experienced before. Like you said, seeing teachers drop their facades and just being like scared people was one of the most unnerving things as a kid because you never saw a teacher kind of like publicly lose that facade or whatever you want to call it. Wild times. Kind of like publicly lose that the sod or whatever you want to call it wild times Mark I think you're first here. This is probably the last one for this one Then maybe we'll do this again because I didn't get through nearly as many as I thought we would June 26th 2003 I got this you know what else is gray a big beautiful
Starting point is 00:53:02 aircraft carrier where George W Bush was standing in front of a big banner that said mission accomplished Is that the right date for that? I'm gonna look that up. I Really that's close. I think it might I think the only thing is it might have happened the year before that You were so close to absolutely right. It was May 1st 2003. I knew it was somewhere in there But yeah, no we didn't we were riding the high of our success Stock market never been boomier Nothing can take down USA sorry not gray. I'm talking red white and blue, baby. What a callback to Wow. What a memory
Starting point is 00:53:44 I forgot about that entirely. I forgot about that entirely. I forgot about that entirely! You forgot about mission accomplished? I did, until you just mentioned it, I completely forgot about that. Yeah, what a time. Yeah, we were out of Iraq like, next day. We're done!
Starting point is 00:53:58 Something like that, yeah. Okay, that's not the event I had in mind, but that was very close. Bob, do you know what happened on June 26, 2003? That is when Pierce Brosnan starred in his final James Bond film. Never... don't say never... die again. Don't you dare say never to me, James Bond. Don't you wouldn't not never say never to Pierce Bond and everybody liked it, and especially
Starting point is 00:54:30 the scene where for some reason he's parasurfing on a giant wave caused by, I don't remember what, but that is as tall as a six story building somehow because of physics. What a memory, but still not right. That was November 22nd 2002 that was like six seven months prior. Might have still been in some theaters at that point. It was a good movie everybody loved that movie if I recall. I did. On June 26th 2003 the NBA began the era of LeBron James. What's that? Is that baseball? Someone out there might appreciate it that maybe does a sports or watches sports podcasts.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Listen, I actually do a lot of sports. I just very specifically don't know a single fucking thing about NBA anything. I picked some obscure dates on purpose for this. Actually, I do want to do one more because I think no, did Bob who did this one first? Mark did this one first, right? Yeah. I think Mark starts. I want to do one more to make sure you guys both get to start one evenly. Do you guys remember life in 2003? It was any different about the same. I generally remember like what my middle school looked like. And I was in,
Starting point is 00:55:39 I was hardcore in the nerd group with my Palm pilot and my, you know, what you call it. But actually, I think that was the summer before my last year of middle school. Oh no, that would have been the summer, the first summer of high school. I mean, it doesn't matter. I didn't, all about the same. I would have been in football two days more than likely at that point in the summer. Early ninth grade, I started dating a girl in high school that I was, I was in a relationship for four years, but we started dating in 2003.
Starting point is 00:56:05 That's like the one big memory I have of 2003 was that relationship because there was like a lot of build up to it because I was a coward and couldn't just ask people out. You guys remember, oh what were those called? Go-go's? Do you remember those little plastic guys? They were like little plastic figures and they were like collectible. You would like buy a pack and get random ones and they had like collectible you were like buy a pack and get a get random ones and they had like they had like different types of plastic some of them were like glittery and I think they were called gogos I don't remember that at all it's all I got but I do have a date for you Bob go goes crazy bones that's what they were called crazy bones go goes crazy bones I just called even looking at them I have no recollection of that. This is one I think you both will know. Bob, what happened November 23rd, 2004?
Starting point is 00:56:48 Is that when Barney the dinosaur Macy's day balloon escaped and wreaked havoc in downtown New York City and terrified and traumatized children everywhere cause giant- That was seven years prior. That was 1997, apparently, where Barney was torn apart on 51st street. Ah, that's so close.
Starting point is 00:57:11 So close. I almost got it. I mean, compared to where we're at now, 97 to 2004, are kind of close. I thought he was just joking. I didn't know that was actually a thing that happened. That was a thing that happened, but it was, my only other guess, which is wrong,
Starting point is 00:57:24 is that's not the release date of the Xbox 360 Is it I think the Xbox 360 released in the spring of the following year potentially that was November 22nd 2005 That was a year later. Okay. It was fall of the next year. Okay, you remember life in 2004 What was life like for you in 2000? Uh, I was still on the football team So I was still probably doing football practice. Mainly what I was worried about was football. That actually might have been, that was right around the time where I ruined my shoulder and actually probably made the decision to quit football.
Starting point is 00:57:56 But up to that point, up to that season, I had played football since I was like, ooh, 10 years old or something. And was pretty, like I wanted to go play football in college and I wanted to be a starting center. And, but then in practice, I like messed up. I fell on my arm real weird and tore some stuff on the front of my right shoulder. And, and then I spent the rest of that season not playing on the JV team and decided to quit football forever. So that was the main thing that was happening for me back then.
Starting point is 00:58:26 I considered having surgery. I never actually had surgery. My shoulder just sort of healed up over time because it wasn't that serious of an injury. But probably the best thing that's ever happened to me, the guys on the football team were not good people to me. They did not treat me nicely. I had that experience with my basketball team.
Starting point is 00:58:42 Dickweeds. So I quit football and started doing marching band, and that's where I met all of my friends. Any friends I still have from high school today were all in band, and none of them were on the football team. So that was a big turning point for me, but I think it was a positive one. Mark?
Starting point is 00:58:57 This seems familiar, this date, for some reason. I don't know what it is, and I don't know why it is, but something happened on this day something Huh? Now your turn. Tell me about your life We're having a conversation here talking to my friend about the past no you're talking to your host My to your host my host no something wasn't the iPod I feel like it was something launched on this day was this World of Warcraft was this World of Warcraft it was World of Warcraft the launch day of world holy shit it is isn't it
Starting point is 00:59:41 November 23rd 2004 Wow launches Wow I knew this day was important for some reason, I just didn't know why. That makes so much sense. Your lives were forever changed after the launch of this game, as well as your college roommate. Yeah, I know, right? If I'm honest, I didn't play WoW
Starting point is 01:00:01 until I lived with Mark freshman year of college, so that had almost no impact on me whatsoever. Yeah, I didn't start wow until I lived with mark freshman year of college so that had almost no impact on me whatsoever Yeah, I didn't start with the launch. I started slightly after the launch, but I don't remember when after it wasn't right away because I Remember talking to my dad about it was like this is like a subscription you have to pay And then you know a few months later I start playing it for some reason I don't remember if I paid this subscription or whatever that was the day that WoW launched I thought it was earlier than that 2004 I thought it
Starting point is 01:00:33 was somebody that thought WoW was closer like Diablo 2's launch no that game's been around for too long yeah but Diablo 2 came out like 99 I thought WoW was like right around that same time period I didn't realize Diablo 2 was so much older than WoW. So I guess maybe five years isn't so much older, but in my brain it is because we were very different places in 1999 versus 2004. I know I'm not supposed to look anything up, but I was like man, is it still going on? There's this website MMO champion that I used to check all the time for news on WoW. Like they're still doing it still have an update still patch notes still new items coming out man this is still here well
Starting point is 01:01:09 we got exactly halfway through the listed items I had so this is definitely gonna have to be like a future one and I pick up but looking at the time I've got a little bit over whoops I don't remember what order of operations are here I think I read off things then we add something to the wheel then we spend all right whatever you want man you're the host man yeah let here. I think I read off things then we add something to the wheel then we spin, is that right? It's whatever you want man. You're the host man, yeah let's listen. I think for the wheel, this might favor Mark in this particular episode, but for the wheel most callbacks there was a lot of gray today. It just it lived rent-free in my head that I was gonna figure out how why every date I
Starting point is 01:01:39 wanted to figure out how Mark would make it gray, which he didn't for a while, but every other one there was gray. That was the only time I saw color I just think most callbacks will go on the wheel as far as points go Let me start with mark for no particular reason mark you got points for Apple rewards DOS to Windows 1995 Y2k gray bush aircraft carrier and Wow, I was hoping you were gonna go gray gray gray Bob you
Starting point is 01:02:07 got points for accidental sol by mark birthday remember Reagan foos throw DA 9 11 98 99 boom and Molly got a point for I don't remember what getting a car probably and then I guess we do wheel I've got got to roll a D three and I am God at two. We need to migrate this wheel into a more official context because I think this one caps out at 25 inputs. We're reaching the end of this wheel's lifespan. We currently have 23 inputs. We'll just have multiple wheels going at the same time.
Starting point is 01:02:44 Yeah, I will say, I saw people talking on their subreddit and they were like, they should delete one every time they add one. Cause then, you know, then we won't have repeats. That's not the point. The point is by the end of this season, this wheel is going to have like a hundred fucking things on it and it's going to be amazing.
Starting point is 01:03:03 It'll have probably 365 things. All right, we've got two spins coming in. Yep, spin number one. Oh. Okay. Most callback, that's the one you just added. No. Have we ever had that happen?
Starting point is 01:03:20 I feel like that has happened with like the newest one being- No, we kept getting listener and viewer points But we actually don't we have we've maybe one other time. I think had had the new one get picked, but you're right I'm it's totally fair. I'm not protesting it at all cuz definitely me right yeah I mean it was made for your grace. Oh, yeah, all right spin number two the fairest spin of all Most distracted who was the most locked in today? Cause the other one would be the most distracted.
Starting point is 01:03:48 I mean, I was fairly distracted, but I tried to keep it chill. Cause I make a lot of noise sometimes. So I've been, I have multiple fidget spinners that I've been fidgeting with and things. And what, how many new web pages did I open? I opened about six new web pages. Three of them are unrelated things I Googled. One of them is about GoldenEye64.
Starting point is 01:04:09 Mark, can you top that or is Bob more distracted than you? No, actually, I was, cause I thought we weren't allowed to, you know, go on the internet. Yeah, well that's the thing is I wasn't, I wasn't Googling things about the episode. We were just talking and then I'd be like, huh, when did the GameCube release? And then I just Googled thatcube release and then I just googled that. I'll give you that one.
Starting point is 01:04:29 That's fair I didn't I didn't do that. And then I looked into the Gamecube and I was like oh I missed TimeSplitters so that I pulled up some stuff about the TimeSplitters series because of good games and then that led me to oh you know what I missed more than that is Perfect Dark Zero that was a good one and then I started and that connected back to GoldenE eye and I was also googling stuff about the Mayan calendar after we talked about that. Well prior to the wheel spins Mark had six points, Bob had five, you each got one from the wheels, Mark you end up with seven, Bob was six, Molly at one. was six, Molly at one. Mark you win. Hey! Winner speech! Memory, such a funny thing. Will people remember this victory that I claimed? Yes, yes they will. Just like they always
Starting point is 01:05:16 remember when I, Mark I. Plyer, doth win. And I doth win by getting more points. So thank you to me for performing so good in everything that I do. And also, also me, for my past self, for being there, for me. Uh, Bob, do you have a less gray loser speech? As a person with Aphantasia, I feel like this episode was relatively targeted against me. Mark got to rely on his very vivid visual memories, and that's why he had so many colors in what he was talking about. And I, you know, I did my best,
Starting point is 01:05:54 but when you're at such a disadvantage, and it's, you know, it's really outside my control, how my mind works, you know, it's hard to keep your head in the game, but I did what I could, and I only lost by one. So it's just bad as losing by a hundred. Go me. Well, thank you all for watching and I guess sort of thank you for listening if you didn't watch but you should have watched because you always should watch. See you all the next one. If you haven't already go follow Bob at MyScript, Mark at Markiplier, Minion777 or LordMinion777.
Starting point is 01:06:26 Until next time podcast out

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