Distractible - Sometimes We Just Chat
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Good evening gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to
Distractable. This episode, Bop It Bob touts the drivers nirvana and denies the existence of Wade's visitors.
Mournful Mark hates aqua-assisted cops,
AI impersonators in a trench coat,
and stapled switches.
We're like Wade, finally gets his Atlantean automobile,
gets clear that, loves his treehouse, and DVDs.
From boating accidents to destructible ink
It's time for
Sometimes we just chat now sit back and prepare to be distracted and
Enjoy the show
Hello and welcome to another episode of a podcast
Nobody likes it. Oh. What?
My name is Bob and I will be your host because I won the last one.
Fairly and squarely and not at all by random chance because we outlawed random chance in
the constitution that we made and when we were in the hot tub with the boat.
You know, things that make sense.
My competitors for today oh we do
have to do the biennial yeah that's true oh no wait are we abiding by it because
it was biannual would be every two years and we meant every other no what it yeah
we did that was technically last summer we did the boat episode and we did
realize that we don't want it to be twice a year
We want it to be the other kind of biannual twice a month Wade
Oh boy, as soon as that car gets fished out from the bottom of the ocean
You should buy a boat to go get that and then we'll take we'll have that that'll be our boat
I got a funny story about Wade's car. I also have that same funny story. You mean
This my car?
Nice AI photo Wade. Nice job. Who photoshopped you into there cuz I know you don't know how to do that.
You're right I don't know how to do that. I have a real car. It looks terrible.
You look way balder than that. Yeah that makes you look really stupid. That's a real photo.
Keep telling yourself that and we'll believe you.
Okay.
I don't think I need to say it, but it was small talk.
We start with small talk.
Which will be mostly, I think, making fun of Wade for his stupid decision to buy a car
that already fell to the bottom of the ocean.
It certainly has.
And he's never gonna actually see in real life.
I want to confirm 100% that Wade's car was sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
He didn't even know where Germany was when he ordered it.
And so they sent it, and it's at the bottom of the ocean, aboard the...
Bob, you have the name?
The USS Enterprise.
It's a very official ship. No, you didn't see there actually there
was an article last night about a cargo ship that had cars on it that had
capsized and caught fire. The zodiac maritime ship carrying 3,000 cars, 800
EVs caught fire and had to be abandoned. The cars and EVs are burning on board as
we speak. That explains why Wade's are burning on board as we speak.
That explains why Wade's never gonna get his car, I guess.
Literally already have it.
Had it for a week now.
Your car's burning off the coast of Alaska right now, I'm sorry.
If you have your car, aim your camera at it right now.
Yeah, I thought so.
Huh?
Come on, show us.
Show us the car.
It's not in my office.
Oh, he doesn't want to pan around because of all the poop water he's like knee deep in.
Wade's existence is wading through his own feces and not owning any red BMWs.
I don't know how to respond to this.
Show us the car.
That's all you have to do. Show us the car.
You guys want to come over?
Can you even show us a real picture of the car?
Show you a different picture of the car?
I know I said a real picture of the car. That's not real.
I mean, they're-. That's not real.
I mean, that one's not real.
He needs time for it to generate. Hold on.
Let him generate his cars.
Oh, I'm trying to get the same color red.
So it looks the same.
Oh, that's the,
yeah.
See, it can't even produce a second picture.
He's just trying to distract us with dogs for some reason!
What?
Clearly fake.
That actually looks like the most photoshopped picture of a car I've ever seen.
It looks like a thumbnail I've made.
It's real.
Anyway, Mark, tell us something that's actually happening.
You know how a while ago I was like, water cooling is great and not that scary?
You know the bell curve that's like stupid people are like, water cooling is dumb, and
then it's like, water cooling is great, and then the smart people at the end are like,
water cooling was never a good idea.
Water cooling is not a good idea.
Oh no.
I hate that shit so hard.
I've had so many leaks, catastrophic shit.
I can't tell you how much that stuff sucks
You end up spending just about as much as you've been on the computer equipment
Robustly do it takes so many fucking hours to put it all together
And then I realize someone did this where they took like an old graphics cards like a 90
980 like this is from like eight years ago
And they stuck a CPU cooler on the top of it and it broke records for like the highest overclocked in terms of like that graphics cards on
One benchmark and it's like man air cooling just is better
It just is you don't have to deal with fucking water water and electronics were never meant to mix no immersion cooling
He's going back to clobber salt sweet
Oh, he's going back to Glauber salt. Sweet.
I'm gonna dunk it in Glauber's.
I have more, but I'll let Wade talk more about his fake car.
Yeah.
You got any other made up stuff you want to talk about when I like to drive it?
How was it to drive your car?
Was it fun?
Did you enjoy that?
Yes.
But the very first time I drove it, I don't buy many cars.
I've only ever bought two.
Oh, we know. Whenever you go to
purchase a car, you go through the whole process, right? Of like, wait, I don't know what your
process is of buying a car. So I don't know where the instructions are coming from here.
Cause you seem to have gone down some back alley from the dark web. I'm going to give you my
experience. My experience was fine up until the point where it's like, I went like you, you meet
the banker. It's like the dealer, no deal guy. You go into the room and the guy's like I went like you you meet the banker it's like the dealer no deal guy you go into the room and the guys like I take your
money do you want one of these 50,000 options? You mean the finance guy? They
had my car inside like it was inside their showroom or whatever type area and
someone moved it outside I finished up all of the signings and paying whatever
go outside some dude I've never seen before, talked to before,
and then the guy I originally talked to to buy the car.
Both walk me out, and then they just like,
look at me expectantly as I'm getting in the car.
And cars are very different now than they were back in 2015
when I bought my last one.
There's a lot more technology and stuff in them.
Like it used to be like, you literally just plugged
your phone into like the lighter conduit
if you wanted to listen to your music it was a bit more
old okay say what you just said again but dude in a voice like this and now
start every sentence with back in my day hey first car hit a tape cassette player
and you had to get the cassette with the little cord on it you put in there and
connected to your CD player listen to your CD cassette with the little cord on it you put in there and connected to your CD player to listen to your CDs
And then the next one you had a CD player and oh fancy putting your disc in where does it go?
Did you have to get the little CD with the little cord on it so you could put it in there?
But I did have the old lighter for smoking and you had a little charger you could plug
into the lighter there and ooo magic play music.
Yeah they still have that one.
That actually still exists.
Now they've got their Bluetooth and their USBs and their USB-Cs and their USB-DDs and
it's like I don't know what I'm playing with while I'm trying to drive.
I'm gonna look up USB double D
Definitely porn it's a hundred percent porn
Nah, it's not porn. Oh, maybe one of you guys's search histories are compromised enough, but I'm not getting anything
I'm not gonna try cuz mine might be anyway. I got outside
I was adjusted my seat and electronics and everything and I was then the two dudes are just standing next to me, and this is a convertible, so the top is down.
And I was like, I don't want you to watch me adjust my seat mirrors.
Please.
You could've slowly put the top up, you know?
Yeah, I didn't.
Maybe they were expecting a tip?
Do you tip these people traditionally? How does that work?
After what I paid for this car, they weren't getting a tip. God, no.
So instead of getting my stuff all where I wanted it to, I was tired of them
watching me. So I was like, all right, thanks. And I drove off.
And at this point I couldn't see cause I was sitting so high up at the top of
like the windshield was like where your son flap bar.
So you crash into a semi?
No, there was another parking lot across the street
So I just drove over there and then got all my stuff where I wanted to but I was driving through the parking lot
I was like Molly if there's anything I might hit tell me
She's like, what do you mean? You can't see
I was like I just had to get away
It's still true.
All you have to do is look at Wade and not talk to him.
And that is the most uncomfortable a person could be in the universe.
God, there were two of them doing it.
Like I could tell they both wanted to go inside.
I wanted them to go inside, but they were like, well, we got to stand here until he
leaves.
And I was like, I gotta, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
Well these guys did the whole transaction with you in theory, if it did in fact happen.
One of them did not.
I don't know what one of them was.
He appeared with a to-go bag that had like a BMW hat,
a little mini car, some stickers and stuff.
He was just like, here you go, pal, enjoy.
And I was like, thanks, guy I've never spoken to.
Who are you?
Did you talk to him?
Did you ask him?
No. Maybe he's like the manager
or i'm sure if you had talked to him he would have said something no he had glasses and like
some stubble oh some stubble right i know that guy get some glasses with stubble i was scared
i was scared i was a scared dude i was scared of him gordon freeman like scares the piss out of
this guy here god yeah you're, you know Gordon Freeman Gordon Freeman
Anyone getting that half life half life guy half life. Yeah, kind of go t stubble
Everything a half life. I don't think a Gordon Freeman first to think like the old scientist
It was like the first guy like Gordon get away from the beam
Anyway, that was my car buying experience. It was fine. It actually really smooth.
So we know this never happened. Okay.
Because that's not how you got your car. It was on a boat that sank. You swam down to
get it out and you drove it out from Atlantis. I thought it was on a boat that sank. Thankfully
it was not. And someone on the subreddit will provide a picture that is just as realistic as yours
of this occurrence that I'm describing. So we won't know what to believe.
Subreddit, get on that. Defend me. I've never said that before in my life.
I don't know if you have.
Specifically, subreddit, defend me. Maybe you haven't said, you know.
Subreddit, redrown me.
Subreddit, put put weights car in Guam
It's a convertible all the Guam's getting in
Isn't Guam a place I think a guacamole which one's which the same thing
Sorry Guam Guam's gonna be real pissed when they hear this. He called us guacamole.
Wade called you guacamole, just to be clear.
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So, yeah, no, I don't like the car buying experience either having actually bought vehicles in
my life.
So I think that there has to be a better way.
And I think we're not sponsored by them at all, but I've never bought from CarMax before
any kind of like service like that.
But from what I've heard, it's much more like you look at the price online, you go there, that's the price.
There's nothing else to it. You have a trade-in, you know, they tell you what they'll give you before you get there.
It's not the, hey, I can only give you half of what the actual estimate is. And I'm okay. You don't like that.
I'm gonna go stand around the corner and look at a wall for 15 minutes and then I'll be back with a slightly higher number and I swear that's all they're doing because I
don't hear any conversation yeah it's a big echoey room there's no doors on any
of the offices I can hear when people are talking they ain't talking anyway so
it's I don't want to ever buy a car like that ever again. And I don't think I will if there's another option.
I will say CarMax does basically work the way that you said, but the downside is that
they just really could not fucking care less about whatever is happening.
So if you buy a car and like it comes with some kind of warranty generally, right?
Like, but if you buy a car and Mandy had this experience where she bought her first car,
she bought from CarMax and it was a nice little car, very like simple, but it came with the radio
in it and the radio was functional but broken in a way where like it had this weird sound phasing
thing. It's like hard to describe even, but if you're listening to it for a while, you'll hear it and
it will drive you slowly insane. They were supposed, it was supposed to be covered and she did a whole song and dance with them
and they did not fix shit.
Like she even like took it in and they were like,
oh we'll fix it and then they looked at it and they were like,
that's fine, we didn't fix anything because it's not broken.
And that was it.
I don't know if it's worth it to go to a dealer that will try and address your issue,
especially if you're buying a nicer car, like Wade's car he bought.
I've always been curious about like the,
again, not sponsored or affiliated in any way,
but like Carvana and those sites where it's like,
you buy it online, site unseen,
and they deliver it to your house.
I don't think I could trust that.
I don't even like doing that with food,
and I don't really care that much about food.
A car that costs as much as cars cost
It just shows up at your house and the guys like well sign this paper, and it's yours
And I'm like what does it turn on or what?
How does it how do I know how do I trust you car door dash driver? I'm car dash car dash
Yeah, no I didn't even know that was a, but in a way it makes sense to do that.
Like they deliver the car. Why do I, if I need a car, how do I get to the car
place? You should get me the car cause it can go places.
I know, but then you didn't even like sit in it before you bought it.
It's like, that'd be like buying clothes without trying them on.
Couldn't do it.
You don't buy clothes. So it's not really an issue that comes up for you
Oh, I buy clothes like we buy cars. Sure. We're the same. That's what I was thinking
Mark bought new underwear if Wade bought a car you guys are the same thing
Let me tell you this is a brave year to get a convertible though because cicadas are nuts right now
You keep bringing that up
I was talking about that the other day with Mandy,
cause it's been nice out and we've been in the yard
or at the park with James like every day basically,
unless it's like thunderstorming.
We're outside.
I have not seen a single fucking cicada.
And I looked and I know that what you're saying is correct.
But how the shit are we who live 25 minutes away from you
not seeing any cicadas
at all I don't understand come on down man because all the trees around the base of the
tree is just covered in shells there's still shells all over each of the trees like even
part of our wall has shells on them you can't walk through the grass without seeing like
one crawling around Presley was trying to eat one the other day. Driving on like the highway, there's a big old splat in the middle of my new windshield
where one dove down.
But also like, I was watching the way that they're flying on the highway and I had the
top down and I was like, maybe I should put the top up because they were just dive bombing
everyone.
I was like, if one of these hits me in the eye while I'm driving, I'm going to freak
out and die.
It's not a good thing to have happen.
That happened to Jeremy Clarkson once on Top Gear.
Looked very unpleasant.
It's very loud too.
They are so loud.
That's so... I'm just so confused.
Because I told that to Mandy and she was like,
nah, there can't be. We don't have any.
Can't be a 17-year brood of cicadas.
Apparently there is.
Is she like, that doesn't exist or...
Well, she knows about that, right?
We grew up with that in Ohio, but she was like, well, there clearly isn't because there is not a single cicada anywhere to be seen.
And we've seen the 17 year brood of cicadas and it's crazy.
It's like we live in two different parts, like two different continents or something.
I don't understand.
It's just fucking weird.
I feel like a cicada truther.
Like I'm like, you're like, yeah, the cicadas are here.
And I'm like, there's not a single one.
It's full of shit.
I could go out and catch like 30 of them
in about 10 to 15 minutes pretty easily.
Also, they make a different noise in the trees
when they're just like up there,
like I don't know what they do, whatever that noise is.
When they fly by your head, like one flew right by my head,
I jumped.
It sounds like a banshee scream almost like they have a terrifying like as they pass by
your head really closely. I don't care. This guy's got gargoyles. I don't think he has
to keep it between the car story and now this about the demon cicadas that are attacking
his dogs. What's going on? Wade's just making
stuff up. Are you a pathological liar?
No, it's true.
Did you lose your hair and your sense of integrity?
I have hair.
Some.
Thank you. Just like he has some integrity.
But all of it's on your lower parts.
Those are integral. Which is not a good thing for integrity, tell you that.
All right.
I don't know where we're going with this,
I gotta be honest.
I have a tech update.
Oh.
Not for me, this is general.
Have you ever had $10,000 sitting in your pocket
that you just wanted not there anymore?
Oh, all the time, probably.
I like having that.
Would you rather have a graphics card instead?
Yes.
A graphics card?
One $10,000 graphics card?
Oh, the diamond one?
Oh no, it's uh...
No.
Okay.
No, it's uh...
No. Okay.
I gotta tell you, it's astonishing what Nvidia, I would say, thinks they could get away with,
but they're actively getting away with it, gets away with pricing their cards at just
because of the AI craze.
It's unbelievable.
They just released one called the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Edition. Oh sure. All right and what attracted
you to this? Nothing attracted me I'm not buying this. He said it's not about him, he did say that.
I just didn't believe that. We're saying the ridiculousness of it. This is an absurdity. Oh
okay. Is it as good as five graphics cards or what's the deal with this? No not at all. Okay so if
you have a four I I've said this before,
the 5090 generation was not worth the upgrade.
The 4090 was such a big leap from the 3090,
you could stick with the 4090.
It's the new 1080 Ti of this generation.
The 4090 is gonna live as like, this is the car,
you get it, if you can get it at a used price, get it.
It's a good car, and it's gonna last you years.
This one is 30% faster!
I'm not a numbers guy.
But I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say that it does not cost, in fact, 30% more.
No.
Oh, you're saying the 10k one is 30% faster?
Yeah, the 10k one is 30% faster than the 4090!
Or three or four times the price.
That's good!
If it was the subsequent generation and was basically at the same price point for a new
series of card...
Yeah, yeah.
Is there some other thing about this?
It has more VRAM.
Is it organic or something?
Why is it...
Oh, it's straight out of Jensen's ass.
He just like, he squatted down, shat out this car to like $10,000,
which is I think the equivalent of what he's doing nowadays
with the price.
There's a quote online where he's just like
at an actual conference being like,
saying these exact words,
the more you buy, the more you save.
That's the exact quote and he says it multiple times.
The more you buy, the more you save.
He thinks Nvidia is big lots?
What is this?
Admittedly, the 4090 has 24 gigs of RAM.
This card has 96.
That's a nice jump.
If you need that, and the only reason you would need that is AI.
They're targeting this at AI for AI enterprise applications where these companies have literal
millions and billions of dollars and are like,
how do we spend more money?
And so they'll buy anything, if it's even slightly better,
because they're desperate to compute whatever random crap their AI stuff is trying to do.
I have one... I know it's not broken news, I know this has gone along,
but I have to... I followed this up with one thing that I want to say,
because it's an article that I saw that is
Just so fucking funny in related news an AI company that was valued at
1.5 billion dollars backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after being exposed as
700 Indian engineers in a trench coat
700 Indian engineers in a trench coat
One trench coat Pretty much it's exactly that this company was just 700 Indian engineers probably answering prompts live as people
And so 1.5
Billion dollars put into a company that was never real.
They just wrote out AI on the billboard,
put it out front of their building.
It was like, any investors?
Honestly, I'm a little surprised that hasn't already come up
because in my head, that's definitely one of the positive.
That's one of the things that all these little AI firms
that keep popping up and making billions and millions
of dollars in investment has to be it has to be oh
My god this company it got 455 million from Microsoft so it led to a 1.5
Valuation it went on for eight years. What was it called? Wait? Have we heard of this? It's called
builder dot AI
Okay, I haven't actually heard of that, but.
I'm a finder, I'm a builder.
Yeah, they've been unable to recover
from historic challenges and past decisions
that placed significant strain on its financial position.
We party too hard.
We've got too many trench coats.
We couldn't do it.
Do you know how expensive it is to buy one trench coat
that 700 of us fit into?
You know what our trench coat budget is?
Look, there's some scary things about AI for sure.
There's some useful things about AI for sure,
but it's a bubble.
Let's not deny, $10,000 graphics cards
are not the solution to all of life's problems.
It's just the people in the gold rush
who made the most money are the ones selling the
tools and right now Nvidia's handing out gold plated shovels to everyone.
So yeah, don't buy that card.
You don't need it.
You don't need it.
You don't need it.
Let me just cancel that.
I don't know if people who actually listened to this were in any danger of accidentally
buying that card because they did think they needed it
But they might be in a purchasing department
I don't know if there are any AI executives who listen us get some more 4090s and call it good
That is my solution to life's problems. This is interesting. I this is not a
Mind-blowing thought and I'm sure lots of people are talking about this
I'm just an idiot and haven't seen it but but the internet, the dot-com bubble, that's
what it was called, right?
Around the turn of the millennium, the dot-com bubble was a huge thing.
And like, I think it's worth noting there is a separation between the technology that
AI is and what it represents, the dangers that it poses, the issues that it's causing,
the issues with what is possible because of
compute computation limitations and environmental limitations, blah, blah, that crap. All of that
is interesting, very sci-fi. Some of it's scary, some of it's concerning. All that is very real.
But they are spot on, I think, that the business side is, it's another like dot-com bubble type
thing where it's like, yeah, the technology is going to change fundamentally how like how jobs work, how life is for people in general going forward.
It's probably going to impact almost everything, if not everything that we experience.
But the businesses are there's not it's unsustainable.
There is going to be like a huge bubble burst on this shit, huh?
Because I'm willing to bet they're all borrowing. I guarantee you, they're all borrowing like
crazy leveraging the idea that they're going to make so much money on all of these AI investments.
They're going to make money hand over fist, just like Nvidia is the person selling us
the tools to make these things. We're going to be so rich. So I guarantee you there are
companies that are borrowing being like we have to keep up because there's no way all of these
companies just have that money sitting around because if I know how a company
in the average American business works they don't sit on money for some fucking
reason unless you're Apple and then they sit on like trillions of dollars but
companies don't do that they borrow everything and when they borrow things and it doesn't work out it blows up
And so it's gonna blow up calling it now. This is my honey prediction. This is my honey seven years from now
This is the new Markiplier honey clip that goes around. I'm telling you. It's so simple people want something
They can't get it because they don't have the money in their pockets
They go to someone who does have money and they go like come on. Let me borrow the money
I just watched uncut gems and so just last night
I'd never seen it before and no spoilers
But you know, there's a lot of money borrowing going on and not a lot of paying it back
And so for most of the time it's like that's what's going on a company goes to company B is like
And they're like why I was like I'll pay you back double and they're like,, here you go. Oh, I don't have enough money. Hey, hold on.
Come on, give me money. He's gonna give me double. I'll give you double!
And then it's a chain of doubling and that's double the debt all the way down.
And that's why money is infinite and everyone is wealthy. Thank you, Mark.
Woohoo! That's it.
Do you guys keep up with celebrities?
They're all pretty fast compared to me, I guess, but I don't know specifically.
There's been some drama between a couple of well-known celebrities.
Ellen and Trump have had a break-up, a public break-up recently.
I don't know if you guys have seen that. Fun news.
I've never heard of them called Trump before, but sure.
I don't know. I'm not going get like into the politics of it all,
but it's really funny.
There's politics in there?
It's just really funny to watch
because like Elon's saying all this crap about him
and it's like, doesn't that mean you knew this before
five days ago when you were fine with it?
It was fine back then.
It's not so fine now.
It's been really funny to watch.
I don't know about funny.
It was kind of kinda funny but yeah.
Funny in like a world is ending kinda way.
I'm trying to look at the memes more than the news around it, but...
I don't think it's as funny for everyone as it is for some people.
It's a very nasty breakup.
It's very reality TV.
It is.
Which makes sense given who these people are, but like...
And that it's reality, yeah.
Couldn't we just hit the reset on this and try again?
You may not like the reset.
What if they're both AI, meaning they're both just 700 people in a trench coat each?
That's all AI is, we've proved it.
My car is real, I've proved that.
Oh yeah, okay, all of this is AI but your car.
You showed us a picture of a dog and complained about the car buying process.
But you couldn't even tell us the name of the person that sold you the car.
Did it... Tim?
No.
Tim. Tim Solisman.
Just like Tim Apple sells you apples, Tim Carr sells you cars.
Tim W.
Tim W. Okay.
T-M-W. Tim W, okay.
TMW.
Tim W Bush, you know, we know him.
Car salesman.
Twitch 2 came out.
Twitch 2?
Twitch 2 came out.
New stream inside everybody.
Now you pay $30 to sub and the streamer gets $1.
Twitch 2.
We haven't covered gaming news in a while, so.
I mean, we can just do that. I have in a while. So I mean we can just do that
I have a topic today, but like we can just we have we need like reset episodes every once in a while
I don't know what it is
But there is like a cycle of we kind of just need to like shoot the shit completely randomly every once in a while for
An episode I kind of forgot we were even doing an episode. I was just talking. Yeah
Did you see the GameStop that had been stapling?
I was just talking. Yeah.
Did you see the GameStop that had been stapling receipts to the front of the box and going
right into the Switch 2 screen?
No!
Yeah, so they would print out when they had orders, like they were prepping for pick up
the day of, it was so humid that the tape wouldn't stick to the box.
They're like, well just staple it.
Ka-chunk!
Right in the front.
Ka-chunk!
So everyone would get home and there's a big staple in the front now
This is a swiss cheese of failure situation because usually when you get an electronic of the screen is facedown inside the box to protect
It the screen was in the box only face up and like just that front piece of cardboard was the only thing separating it
So it was like six millimeters from getting completely destroyed by whatever
happened to touch that box of a switch. Bold choice. Interesting choice. But yeah, so they
have to pull in inventory from other stores and that managers, the manager said, I think,
ah, man, I might get fired for this. Might. But he did a great promotion for Staples and
they might hire him on. Is Staples still around?
I don't know.
The one near me actually just shut down recently and I got a bunch of stuff at like 50% off
or more but now it doesn't exist.
Staples have avoided formal bankruptcy!
Alright!
Nice, nice.
There's a few of them around still.
I hadn't seen that story. That's really funny.
I hadn't either.
That hurts me in ways I didn't expect it to.
But as a non-gamer, I don't have a Switch 2 yet.
Do either of you have one?
No, I didn't get one.
I am not buying one.
No?
I don't ever, I never used the first one.
Nintendo's stinky.
Like I like Nintendo's games and I really want to play the new Mario Kart and all this
stuff but like, ehh, I really want to play the new Mario Kart and all this stuff, but like
I'll just buy other video game stuff
I mean, it's not exclusively them but the switch games are
$80 base now like we've talked about that before and like people don't like my game price opinion. Yeah, they don't like them. It's fine
I'm just not giving Nintendo my money. It's not worth that much to me. I think it stinks, but I'm sure it'll be good
I'm sure that the new Mario Kart is very good and I'm
probably gonna watch videos about it cuz I'm curious I just don't play it very
often I got a handheld Steam Deck I got the switch to the original switch and I
just don't use them enough to justify it hey look at this
Nintendo switch to shipping issues reports are emerging Nintendo switch to
screens being punctured and damaged in shipping because for some reason they're boxed the way that mark described them where the screen is facing the thin cardboard box exterior for some reason I don't know what's going on with Nintendo over the past few years because they've always been very flip-floppy about let's plays right they've always been like we hate them no it's good and no, instantly ban every one of them claim all of them take them down.
And so they've always been iffy about video content, but it just
feels like their entire organizational structure is shifting
over the years, because this would be a no brainer for anyone
who's ever done any kind of packaging for electronics,
right? If it's face up for the experience of looking at it, you
put something protective on top of it in the packaging, and you
make the packaging very sturdy.
This seems nonsensical. They do drop tests on packaging. They do that. They're supposed to do that.
Yeah, that had to come up, right?
Yeah, it would have come up, but it didn't. Why didn't it?
The original Game Boy, I think, came out in 89. So they've been doing handhelds for quite a while.
You'd think they'd know how to box them by now.
This isn't even... This is a main console release. I mean handheld for sure
It's definitely still handheld meant to be but it's like this is their flagship console like what the hell Nintendo's always been a weird company
They've got some of the best and most popular games
But like I remember when Super Mario maker I think two was came out and like they had the multiplayer featured
I was like, oh man
I went to record it and it was like dial-up internet but worse don't get me
started on Nintendo's online gaming stuff holy cow how does it so bad it's
still like playing online video games in 1993 when you play Nintendo stuff it's
unbelievable one of the list of many things I think is ridiculous is other
consoles Microsoft and
Sony, you can use, I believe you can use Discord on them now, right?
Nintendo invented their own voice chat over the network thing that just is just coming
out on the Switch 2 in 2025.
It's like, it's a whole litany of things, but holy crap, is it annoying to try and play
online crap on Nintendo and I don't understand.
Now I will say I looked up an unboxing video of the original Switch.
That also is face up.
So it's not that this hasn't happened before.
It might be that the screen is more delicate or something like that.
So it has been face up.
But for me, I'm like, why wouldn't that be face down?
I just feel like it should be.
I'm thinking through things on things I've unboxed like Apple products, iPads, iPhones
generally are screen up.
That's true.
That's true.
They still do it as there's like a phone screen up and then there's like the cardboard sleeve
that has like the manual whatever terms of service stuff and then there's the box.
But Apple boxes are fucking indestructible.
I don't know what they make them out of.
They're like plastic hard cardboard hybrid something.
I tried to cut one up recently because I was like, I'll get rid of this box.
I don't need to keep every box I own.
And it was like, I couldn't fucking cut it with a knife.
That's not how the Nintendo packaging is because I do remember how the Switch packaging was.
It's like normal cardboard.
Like it has that like thicker paper layer on the outside so it
feels a little nicer it's just cardboard I guess maybe they want the customer
experience to be opening it up and seeing the beautiful console facing them
seeing the beautiful staple sticking directly into the screen of your brand
new $500 console you just bought. Look at this web of cracks.
Like, oh, it's so beautiful.
I just wish, I don't want to know,
but I also do want to know how many staples
went through screens.
I would imagine dozens probably.
That manager's so fucking fired.
There are times when like managers getting fired
makes total sense.
There are also times when it doesn't make sense.
I used to work at Micro Center as Mike, people at Micro center like to remember at that specific micro center that I never go
Back to anymore, but one time there was a guy that
stole an iMac or something like that like a like an Apple desktop way back when and
Then the manager in charge of that area had to be walked out by security and I'm looking at that
I'm like, what was he supposed to tackle the guy?
Like I don't understand how this is.
No wait, he got walked out because the theft happened while he was in charge?
Yeah, and I believe the circumstances was he had brought out it because the guy was like,
I'm going to buy it. So he brought it out from the back and he like set it on the counter because
each one has their own zones, but the checkout's up front. So I think the way it's supposed to go is he's supposed to walk
that product to the front. And I think he turned his back for a second. The guy snatched
it and ran and I'm like, but you're walking the manager out with security as like, what
is he going to do? What is this? Like, what's, what's the point of this? That guy had worked
there for years. It's like the value of someone who's has that much experience in a role. I don't care if it's just selling things. Like he's been there for years. It's like the value of someone who has that much experience in a role. I don't care if
it's just selling things. Like he's been there for years. He's pretty good at what he does.
And you have to get someone new for that role. And like there's no accounting for mistakes.
The stapling thing is just dumb and that's negligent and should have thought through that
a little bit. I think that there was definitely some reason there. The stapling thing is funny
to me because it's like, I guess their point was
they needed to attach the receipt to the Switch,
and that was the way they were keeping track of stuff.
I would never ever, if I was selling
an expensive product to a customer, be like,
let me just fuck some holes in this brand new box
of this thing you spent a whole bunch of money on.
I wouldn't even want to tape shit to the box,
because if I'm getting something that I'm like collecting and I get
Home and I'm carefully peeling and then you peel the tape off and it goes and the Nintendo logo on your switch box is
fucked up and you're like what I
Would never ever staple into a thing like that, but gamers don't keep boxes. What are they crazy?
Only goofy ass Millennials keep boxes for electronics apparently.
We grew up with boxes.
We had to have our CDs.
Our CDs with the cords on them, you know,
so we could do a yo-yo of like, hey, wake up!
Oh man, I remember when I was a teenager,
I don't know if Blockbuster was still a thing,
but I remember going and buying DVDs.
And I was like, god,
I'm gonna have such a big DVD collection.
It's gonna be worth so much one day
whenever everyone's like,
wanting to watch this fancy new generation movie.
And then like two years later,
it was like all the different streaming services.
And very quickly, my DVD collection became obsolete.
It's not obsolete, it's very solid.
It's so solid.
Thank you.
It is, someday that'll be very useful because CDs do keep for there
They're one of the medias that actually does last a very long time. I'm not sure how long
Three thirty to a hundred years so not forever, but you know pretty good better than VHS for sure
So that and when all the streaming services take down all the movies you'll still have a copy of it
So the next like ten years I should start getting rid of them.
That's what he said basically, yeah.
30 years or so.
30 to 100, man!
Well, I gotta go on the mend just in case, you know?
I should staple some things to him
and make sure I know what year I got him.
I was totally reminded by something nostalgic just recently
that I had completely forgotten this part of my life about.
Amy and I, we were walking the dogs
and she mentioned Yo-yo at some point.
And I had entirely forgotten that in my childhood,
I became really good at yo-yo tricks.
I had completely wa- like, I could do, like, the cradle and all the way.
I had one of those action, like, spring-powered, uh, yo-yos.
Oh, those were the shit.
That was a thing for a while. Everyone wanted the cool yo-yo
But it was so long ago
I had forgotten that I had spent hours and hours practicing these yo-yo tricks and I think I still could do some of them now
But at this point that was like 20 plus years ago
It was just so washed out my mind and I just like unlocked an old core memory like fuck
I used to do that. I can do that
You know what came up recently this might be more of a me thing
And this is something that is still done in parts of the world that are not where I live
But did you guys ever have those it was it was a set of sticks
It was two short sticks and one long stick and you like toss the stick back and forth between the sticks
And you could do like tricks you could like spin this stick around or like toss the stick back and forth between the sticks and you could do like tricks.
You could like spin the stick around or like toss it in the air.
I know what you're talking about, but no, I didn't have that, but I know what you're
talking about.
I got some of those one year for like a birthday or Christmas.
I sticked it up.
You sticked it good.
I was tricking those sticks so hard.
Man, well, I got to order some of these to see if I still,
I'm gonna order a yo-yo.
If you order the sticks, maybe in an episode,
we'll see that.
There's like new yo-yo tech.
What the fuck?
Wade, we need to find a thing for you.
Wade, what's your childhood thing you got really good at?
Bop it.
Get a bop it.
They make a super bop it now with like 20 bops.
New bop it's are wild. Yeah, I was an OG bop it. I had the pull it, twist it bop it they make a super bop it now with like 20 bops new bop. It's a wild. Yeah, I was an OG bop
It I had to pull it twist it bop it. That was it
I swear to God I had the original bop it and then I had the I had the like expanded bop
It with like the main thing and four things on the outside and I used to be able to do like pretty like I'm not
A world record holder, but like I was pretty happy with it. I would do
Into the 40s into the 50s like pretty fast I got the new one I forget why we got it at some point and I
got it out I was like all right I remember bop it and I like started it
it was like bop it good twisted oh and I was like whoa what the fuck you gave me
like a quarter of a second to react. What the?
Turns out I'm just old now and slow apparently.
I swear to God, I used to be good at poppets.
Now I can't fucking pop it.
He's gotta do some training.
He'll get back.
He's gotta get back in poppet shape.
I got like six as my best on this thing.
It's fucking impossible.
This one called the Yo-Mega Fireball looks familiar,
but then there are these other ones that are like titanium
They look like just two cones going in fireball is definitely one of the ones where I was like
Oh, if only I could get a fireball that would be the one
Good. I'm gonna get one of those is that a is that a narrow channel one or is that the one where the inside is like?
Conical so it's like a wider channel sort of deal?
That's the other one, the other one's the conical ones. Those are like the ones I see
that are like titanium trick. They've got a bearing in the center.
Well that's just cheating. Half the skill of yoyo was tying the knot around the thing
in the middle of the yoyo so that it was correct and would spin adequately.
I'm also going to buy one called the cheat-yo, so I'm not really too. I
Don't have much honor at this point in my life
I'm just gonna get them you get one with has AI where it does the tricks for you a bearing in the middle makes
So much sense how some of these yo-yo
People do some of the shit that you can watch videos of where you're like how the fuck
Do they all have bearings in the middle is that the whole thing I don't know the
ones I had never did it said little metal middle little metal axle in there I haven't looked at a
yoyo in so long you had to grease the axle and you had to twist the strings so that was it's a whole
thing I will not be doing this now but the razor scooter craze where everyone had to have a razor
scooter and then you did really stupid things on them like try grinding on your like
Stone wall your mom has and destroying the rocks and causing a lot of damage or ramping off of
Staircases and stuff. I will not be trying that at my age now because I will die
But I remember doing a lot of stupid things on the razor scooters
I used to take my PlayStation or my PlayStation 2 whatever I had at the time
I used to put it like a plastic bag
you get from the grocery store,
ride it on my scooter to my friend's house
to set it up and play over there.
It's pretty cool, man.
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, that's pretty cool.
I was way late.
I got this when I was in high school,
which was way after Razor Scooters were cool,
but I remember I got one and it had a wheelie bar and a grinding plate on it
So it had like waxy grinding edges and it had low profile wheels
I fucking rode the wheels up. I put two new sets of wheels on that son bitch. Damn
I was that kid who was riding a scooter like a scooter six or seven years after it was cool
So everyone else's razor was like sitting in the garage collecting spiderwebs.
And I was like, it's still cool. Right guys. You want to come scoot? Yeah.
Yeah. I remember somebody, I don't know how they did it.
The wheels were like, I don't know if they were plastic, what they were made of.
But I remember someone, I don't know if they break too hard or what they did,
but one of their wheels just had a flat part of it. If you,
if you locked up your break, you could flat spot your wheels which was
really tough because there's nothing you could do about it once that material is
gone unless you're like shaving down the whole rest the wheel the whole thing.
Yeah I don't remember what the solution they did was probably had to get a whole new scooter
replaced the wheel or something but. Just got a bumpy ass scooter for the rest of
your life then. A Razor scooter cra. That was the same era whenever my friend and I tried to make a tree house in one of our neighbors yards and he didn't like that very much. That was that same time period.
Turns out if you drag a bunch of sticks and logs into someone else's yard and start building a mess in their trees.
Wait, we uh, what?
We had a neighbor who had like a line of pine trees on the street. We were like, we could put a pretty cool tree house in those pine trees.
So we brought all of the sticks and logs from our houses to their yard and just
started putting them in their trees. We didn't even know this neighbor.
This wasn't even like a neighbor that we were cool with.
Were you like hammering nails in and shit,
or were you just like leaning them up against the trees? Like, ah, yeah,
that'll hold. This was, we climbed up in the pine tree,
handed up a stick, laid it across,
but like, yeah, that's safe, that'll hold us.
God damn.
We got yelled at and banished from the yard
before we died to our shitty tree house.
This was, so this was the adult neighbor.
This wasn't like the neighbor's kid who was like,
I was gonna do that.
Oh yeah, yeah.
This was, this was, this was just someone who lived like
four or five houses down from each of us that none of us had ever met
or talked to.
We were just like, yep, there you are.
It is our tree house.
Kids.
Kids do smart stuff, man.
I feel like we have an episode about that.
All right, but seriously, I'm gonna buy those sticks,
whatever the fuck those things are called.
Mark's gonna buy a bunch of yo-yos.
We need something for you, Wade.
I ain't buying shit.
We need something for you.
What are you gonna do?
What were you good at?
And it can't be jerking off.
I was really good at eating
1998 Burger King's chicken tenders.
Okay, I'm gonna order you as many
1998 Burger King chicken tenders
as I can find online.
Dude, if there's a place that still sells them.
I don't think you wanna eat them.
They did them right back then.
They probably aren't toxic,
but I bet they're not very pleasant to consume. They did it right back then. Yeah, they probably aren't toxic, but I bet they're not very pleasant to consume
They did it right back then there's got to be a deposit somewhere
It's like a bag that hasn't been thrown away
Yeah
If you don't give us something that you're gonna do
I'm just gonna buy a raccoon and a tree and a stick and have you reenact the stick tree incident
I was good at putting a lot of cheap codes into PlayStation 1 games. That's pretty cool
Was there a game shark for that or was it just putting in the codes?
Some of them, there were,
but you didn't have to have them for like,
twist of the metal, I don't think you had to have it.
It was literally just like, at a menu,
you would do like the left, right, up, down, whatever,
and then press something to unlock a character.
I don't think you, there was, there were some characters
like, oh God, the memories I'm unlocking.
Like, I think it was Dark Tooth,
which was like the bigger, scarier, sweet tooth.
You had to have a GameShark to play as Dark Tooth.
But to play as Minion, where I got my username, no, you didn't have to have a game shark to play as dark tooth But to play as minion where I got my username now you didn't have to game shark for that
There used to be entire websites dedicated to just telling people cheat codes remember cheat CC cheat code central
Oh, yeah
You used to go print out sheets of codes and then just keep those in the basement by the game systems be like ah
Here's the codes for this game. Let's put some in. There was a time when I called my dad
to look up cheat codes for Duke Nukem 3D on the N64,
and he told us over the phone,
and we wrote them down really specifically,
and then when they worked, we were like,
oh no way it worked!
It was great.
I remember the computer lab at school,
and there was a printer in it,
but you weren't supposed to print anything that wasn't for school, obviously.
But we used to play the game of like, I need to print this thing for class, but what if
I insert a page of video game codes or something into that?
And then I go grab it off the printer and I'm like, see, this is my essay I'm gonna turn
in. I'm just gonna take it
back to my seat and shuffle through the papers for no reason and then ahem.
This is a whole thing that nobody like now can probably relate to.
Oh no they can relate to it. They can relate to it. I'm sure they could. Oh come on. Okay.
Uh oh. Is Bob gone?
Oh Bob! Come back!
What a frame though to leave on.
That's a great frame.
That's a great frame.
Hello?
Hey Bob!
There he is!
Oh, okay, there we go.
Hey man, welcome back!
Wasn't like Mark where my eyes were in different directions and that was all.
Hello?
What a joyous way to disappear from the internet for a minute.
So anyway, we were talking about how old we are, basically. Kinda, yeah.
Any other game news or anything?
You can now play a game within a game.
You can play Doom inside of Eve Frontier.
Ooh.
So you know Eve Online, Wade?
Yeah, I've never played it played but I'm aware of it. Okay, so apparently there's now new ways to build things inside the game.
I'm not exactly sure how this works, but you can customize some kind of chained data parameters
inside of it and they managed to program Doom inside of Eve so you can play Doom.
This is not video game news, but I got a very 21st century email recently that really pissed
me off.
Our thermostats aren't going to be thermostats anymore.
The thermostats came with the house that we moved into here.
Our first gen Google Nest thermostats.
So they're like fancy.
They're really cool and you can change them on your phone and they'll do schedules and all that stuff.
Google is deprecating that generation of Nest products. So I got an email from Google that was like,
Hey, those thermostats in your house that cost a lot of money and will be expensive to replace. We're not doing that anymore. So you should probably get
some other ones. So... sorry. Which is like, I think they'll still work as thermostats,
like they're on the wall physically, they will still like control the HVAC system, but none of
the reason you pay extra money for fancy smart thermostats will exist anymore. Isn't that fun? Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yippee. I look forward to having AI thermostats that tell you no when you set want to change the temperature. But I'm hot. You're not hot. But I feel hot. I have scanners. You're fine. This is the temperature.
Yeah, I seriously not to be super boomery about it, but I really do wonder why there is no longer.
I mean, I'm sure you can still buy it, but it's just like the technology to tell the temperature.
I feel like we had that down with thermometers and whatnot. And then the programming,
like I am not a programmer, but I know a little code and I go, if number above number, do air conditioning.
If number below number do heating.
I don't think that would be that complicated.
I don't know why I need to send a ping every four seconds back to a central server to know
exactly what to do in these cases.
They gotta make more money for the shareholders.
Hmm?
They gotta make more money for the shareholders.
We need new thermostats.
Right. Of course, of course. You're right. You're right.
What am I stupid? The distractible shareholders. We should go public.
Ooh, distractible IPO. When? Yes. When's the IPO? We need some,
we need a Wolf of wall street. This son of a bitch.
We could actually legitimately start selling shares
privately to our fan base of
Distractible they get equity we get their money
Then when we go public they can sell all their shares on the market make big monies
Distractible price crashes into the ground everything goes bankrupt, but we get rich. I think that's how IPOs work
It's like when you're standing on a bath mat
and somebody yoinks it out from under you.
We could call it a mat yoink.
A mat yoink.
You guys want to get in on the sweet mat yoink?
You guys want to yoink this mat with us?
There's a big syrup jar right now.
If you get in on the syrup jar,
you can get in before the mat yoink.
The syrup jar?
Are these landing?
I don't get syrup jar.
Here, help me out with this syrup jar.
Honey pot, honey pot.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh yeah, get on the mat, everyone.
Everyone on the mat.
You guys want to get out of the syrup jar?
Well, get on the mat, yoink.
We're going to divide Distractible
into like a billion shares, right?
We got a billion shares.
And then we're going to sell one share at $10,
$10 billion company. I saw that on shark tank. That's how that works.
Who wants to put in $10 into the syrup jar?
What naughty little masochist out there wants to be carpet yanked.
Matt yanked.
Carpet tickled. Bob say it again. Maybe he'll get it this time.
No, I'm not teaching him anything. He can learn if he wants toled. Bob, say it again. Maybe he'll get it this time. No, I'm not teaching him anything.
He can learn if he wants to learn.
Anyway, we should definitely do that, Mark.
That's a really good idea.
And I don't think anyone's had it before.
All right.
I want someone who has actually degrees in finance to tell us how legal and cool this
idea is and how we can all be really, really, really rich.
Everyone.
Everyone gets rich.
No one loses. no one loses.
No one loses. Money is an infinite sum game, especially in the land of Matt Yanks.
Matt Yanks for president. I would vote for Matt Yanks for president. Strong name. President Yanks.
That sounded like a name you can trust. I should have wrote down some points or something during
this episode. I mean I did, but this is like some Mark level points bullshit.
Well Mark and I were talking and we decided, you know what, you did so good you could host
another one and actually do your idea since we kind of hijacked it.
We have to have a winner.
It's you, you won.
You buddy!
No, that's against the constitution, we're not doing that.
Plus I had an idea for the wheel guys, and I stole it directly from the subreddit, but
I really like it, so I'm gonna call it my idea that I had for the bonus wheel.
Merch?
Smurch?
I'm sorry, wait, that was mean, I apologize.
Thank you.
Mark, you got points for fuck water.
Oh, same thing!
I don't remember what that was about, but you said that and it made me chuckle.
Uh, The Botcom Bubble, and...
Being a Yo-Yo God.
That was all the points I got.
Wade, I wrote down a lot of things for you, but I don't...
I might need to recount the points.
Wade, you got points for...
Getting your car...
Being so socially awkward that you dangerously drove away without being able to see,
having cicadas and then gaslighting me about cicadas existing.
DVDs are still very valuable and that's a great collection.
Razor Scooter and your really, really good treehouse idea that you tried to execute on your neighbor's pine trees.
This is a tough one.
I'm just gonna spin the wheel and see how many bonus points we're gonna get.
I hope it's three.
It's three!
It's three!
Alright.
This is gonna really make it interesting.
It's gonna really do something, that's for sure.
And then the bonus, the thing I'm going to add is surprise golf rules.
Ah, correct.
Oh, okay. is surprise golf rules. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uh the whole sudden death thing meant it ended there to force the wheel. Sudden death just means it was it was a way to even them when they're there.
I liked what we did.
That's fine if we want to agree to that. I'm okay with that.
But I'll never remember it. But I liked what we did.
Unless it's me, then I'm fine with it. If it's me, then I want another spin.
The next one man show is going to be a tough spin. That's all I got to say about that.
Anyway, three points for spin, let's get that viewer point
out of the way real quick.
Most locked in.
I feel like I was pretty locked in the whole time.
I feel like I was dialed in.
I would have argued until I got to Matt.
You know, Matt.
See, this is the thing.
You can't tell if it's a bit or if he just actually can't remember.
I really don't remember.
Was it not Matt? Matt Tugs?
That wasn't it.
It was Matt Yanks.
Yanks.
Also, I just want to point out on the wheel that this one is is best accent perform if necessary.
It goes across the whole middle of the wheel
I think it's specifically Scottish accent oh right best Scottish accent you're
right if we ever land on that one we'll know for sure
anyway spin number two
sudden death!
nooo!
what the hell?
well now we have to decide which rule we go with.
Look how many.
Oh man.
Sudden, sudden, sudden.
Wow.
What the fuck is happening?
I love it.
I love this universe.
We had a chance to change the rules.
We had to.
I brought it up.
This means we go immediately to the it's a tie wheel.
That's what we're committing to today.
Today. Yeah, we today today yeah we do
today until we change the rules next time man I should have fucking taken
marks offer to change that oh that's getting awfully big over there wow it's
about to get bigger yeah well so it's currently it 79. What was it? 22 right now, I think.
Whatever 79 out of 360 is.
That is 22.
So it needs to be 24%.
0.24 times 360, 86.4.
I'm gonna generously round that down to 86 for myself.
God damn, that looks very edging closer and closer to equal, which I love for
us. We edging bros. But hey, if you get one man show, it pops back down. Oh, good. Okay.
Well I'm excited for this. I'm glad I really stuck to my guns on the way that we're doing
the sudden death format. Cause one of the odds that's going gonna happen again, you know? Sudden death! Sudden death!
Come on!
Come on!
No!
Oh no!
Yes!
I am going to win that fucking trophy this year, I swear to God!
Can I just say, that was a hell of a come from behind victory.
How behind was I?
At the end of regulation it was 6 to 4.
Damn.
So you needed to get all three bonus points to beat Wade, but you drew the sudden death
and you won it in two spins of the wheel.
I guess that was the third wheel spin, it's just a different wheel.
Anyway, Mark wins! Fair is fair everybody, fair is fair.
I literally won my hosting of this episode on that exact same scenario last episode, didn't I?
What are the fucking chances of that? That means next time it's 26% chance, over one in four chance of
the one-man show coming up.
Sure hope it's not me.
There's just no way that you're going to get the sudden death thing again when you host again, Mark.
That's impossible.
Definitely not. Oh yeah, absolutely not.
Anyway, Mark, winner's speech?
Um, I don't know how I was so behind. I feel like I really pushed forward
But hey, this is just destiny falling in front of me
I open up my eagle eyes cuz I'm mr. Brightside is the eagle eyes or eager eyes evil eyes
I think it's evil eager eager eager eagle evil eager eagle
It's whatever you want mark you won you decide and as mr. Brightside
I would say that Wade put up a good fight,
but you know, when you start off with a lie that you don't have a car,
it's just never gonna go that way for you.
Liars never prosper. That's what Daddy always taught me.
I have a car.
Sure.
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It was a well-thought game.
We went through history.
As Bob said, I was winning.
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But one day my luck will turn around.
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Thank you competitors. Mark, I look forward to your episode next time. Make sure you follow us at our
the thingies. Our usernames are like in the on screen probably or whatever. The editors usually
do that. Make sure you follow the podcast because then you'll know every time we post an episode
But it is Mondays and Fridays pretty consistent Mondays and Fridays Easter wait that Eastern Standard Time Mondays and Fridays
It's actually it's actually Tuesday Sunday on the West Coast, but yeah, no we are out here Mark host the next one
Wait is a loser. Oh
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