Distractible - Thank You

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

Today the guys celebrate Thanksgiving with genuine outpourings of gratitude, which host Mark of course converts to numerical point values. -- Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to nordvpn.com/d...istractible to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:13 Mark reminds us of the good in the world, and how each of us can expand it with the tiniest deeds. Bob discusses the light of his life, his wonderful wife, and how tiny things can calm all the strife. And Wade extols both healers and his friends, not just for their skill, but their very souls. Yes, it's time for Thank You. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to Distractible, the only show you'll ever need to listen to, because we ensure that your day will go on and be wonderful and full of joy guaranteed and also we've paid the people that filter your internet access to make sure we're the only one you actually can listen to yes all thanks to our sponsors for giving us complete and total control
Starting point is 00:01:57 of the internet which is the only reason you got here i bet you don't even remember how you probably just came up with some excuse like oh i guess i must have clicked this on my my listening app oh i guess i'll listen to it you i wonder how i got here every episode yeah we wonder that too actually yeah anyway i i no no no no no pass all right pass well i am your host this week and this, we are giving thanks because it is Thanksgiving here in America. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, thanks. You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:02:33 All right, I gave it. Now what? Well, I mean, that's kind of the thing. You don't just give it once. You are thankful and you're thankful for many things over your life. And I actually just today, just this very morning, had an experience where I was extremely thankful for something.
Starting point is 00:02:47 But it wasn't something very big. Oh, wait, no, small talk. I forgot about small talk. I'm getting into the meaning of the episode. Thanks. You're welcome. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:02:55 I'm joined by Bob and Wade, who are my friends. Hello. Thank me. This one's Bob. The normal one is Bob. I'm the same. I always am. So this is normal for me. That's good. No, this isn't new information. I'm the normal one's Bob. The normal one is Bob. I'm the same. I always am.
Starting point is 00:03:05 So this is normal for me. That's good. No, I was. This isn't new information. I'm the normal one. Yes, we all know this. And I am very thankful that you two are here joining me on this wonderful podcast and on this wonderful day.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Thanks. Can I think to be thankful for today? Thanks. You. Good. I'm glad that this topic has brought us to this type of Wade. It's a good Wade day. It's a really good Wade day, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:31 I got out of bed just like everyone else. Well, actually, if you think about it, not everyone got out of bed today. Whoa. Oh, well, then they're not people anymore. Did you mean they just got out of bed or they're dead? Oh my god. god yeah i thought you were saying that that people had passed today or something yeah that's what i was saying oh okay yeah oh they're not people anymore they're just husks that's what i was oh my god oh okay well
Starting point is 00:03:55 that makes sense sure sure i've lost people all right anyway i kind of want to start it over wait i have a good thing i have a good thing thanks uh-huh give me let me talk about a good thing okay all right bob what's your good i guess what time it is play the music will it's time for bob's tiktok updates oh i'd almost forgotten about it is that a segment we do we got a whole theme and everything probably oh i think that this is probably like the fifth time we've had a tiktok update so i think it's officially a segment. It's a segment. It's a thing now. All right, Bob, you have the floor.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Okay. So this thankful is a good thing for this one because I saw this originally way, way back in the day. And I'm now seeing a conclusion. You know, sometimes things happen online and a person is like, God, I'm going to do that. Do you tell me when the party is and I'll be there? You know, these sort of things where it's like happenstance and on social media someone's like god i wish duane the rock johnson would come to my birthday and then the rock is like you bet you just tell me where and when and
Starting point is 00:04:53 then like you know you see that and you're like well that's sweet but that's not gonna happen yeah this one is not a celebrity but there was a tiktok earlier this year or something is from quite a while ago of a an on TikTok called North Omaha Cat Lady, which is this, just this lady who's very funny. She starts a lot of her TikToks where she'll talk about like politics or whatever news stuff that's happening. And she'll just, she starts with, I'm just in here getting my fat bitch on or something like that. Like she has a catchphrase. Well, she saw a TikTok of a person who is, I'm not 100% clear on their story, but they are not a heterosexual individual. They are non-cis,
Starting point is 00:05:31 and they're queer. And I'm not going to label them because I don't remember, and I have not researched this. But basically, they were getting married to their significant other, and their parents are not supportive of who they are in terms of their identity and sexuality and it was a very sad tiktok of this person who's just like i asked my parents you know i invited my parents to my to our wedding and they are still not supportive they're not coming it's very sad and you can tell this person is very devastated and this uh north omaha cat lady responded to that original tiktok and was like tell me where I will gather all the aunties and mamas and everyone and we will come. And she just posted a couple of days ago a response now where the cat lady was like, I'm about to have dinner with this person and meet them for the first time.
Starting point is 00:06:21 And I'm going to walk them down the aisle and give them away. And I am now their mom because I love this person and their parents suck. They got a shit mom and shit parents and that is not their fault. It's very sweet. The lady is obviously sort of tearing up and there's not a lot of specifics because I'm assuming privacy, but basically Omaha, North Omaha cat lady was like, I'm doing it. It's happening and I'm going to do it. And I am now this person's mom forever. Wow. And I fucking love this person. And it's just like really sweet because you see a lot of stuff. I see a lot of
Starting point is 00:06:54 stuff like that. It seems like it never happens, but this one is happening. It's incredibly sweet. And I think the world needs more people who are like North Omaha cat lady and less like the parents of the person who couldn't even attend a wedding because of backwards personal beliefs that they hold for their own child yeah so it started very sad and it's very touching now i loved watching that and hearing about it that is a great tiktok update i really appreciate that one and also i'm thankful for people like that huh oh okay all right okay. All right. That's a point. That's a point.
Starting point is 00:07:26 Well, themed with the episode. Tick tock update. Not to try to compete with you, but I have a will cue the music. My own update. Soulja Boy update time. Oh God.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Can't compete with that. Okay. All right. Okay. Play the theme again. Woo. There it is. Wow.
Starting point is 00:07:43 That's a good theme. Yeah. Guess what, everyone? Soulja Boy's not happy with Elon Musk's handling of Twitter and has either threatened or promised, depending on how you feel about it, to create his own social media app. It's going to be a Soulja Boy boy. Maybe it'll be soldier boy Twitter.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Maybe it'll just be social boy. No, you know what it needs to be called? Soldier boy. Tell him. Oh, yeah. And you don't post tweets or toots or whatever you post. You tell him. Soldiergram.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Tell him. Soldier space. My soldier. When you retweet it, you tell him again. Say it louder. The like button is, oh, you told him. Oh, wow. You just
Starting point is 00:08:32 give him some hell yes. I don't know. If you can't tell listeners, I don't know a single thing about Soldier Boy beyond his tech empire and other exploits we've talked about. And it is truly an empire. That was a great... He tweeted and I quote, wow, I can't believe this. Fuck it. I'm going i'm gonna create my own app and man i can't wait to see what he makes apparently uh part of his career was helped by myspace so i guess he has had social media
Starting point is 00:08:54 boost him in the past so maybe maybe my boy it'll be instead of myspace be my boy yeah creating a myspace account definitely gives you the skills to build your own social media i think so i think he's prepared and and as have been proven is social media platforms are incredibly profitable oh yeah definitely always will return your investment in due time yeah so be prepared for the soldier boy tell him or the social boy or the soldier whatever he calls it i'm excited and i'm thankful that we have soldier boy to give us such interesting and fun updates. And to fix all the world's problems. Yeah, that's good.
Starting point is 00:09:32 All right. That's a point for Wade. He was very thankful for that. That's fair. That's a good update. All right. All right. So it's all tied up this early in the game.
Starting point is 00:09:40 It's still anybody's game today. I never performed this well early. This is great. is still anybody's game today. I never performed this well earlier. This is great. So today is going to be a little bit different in that it's going to be pretty much the same. We're both going to take turns.
Starting point is 00:09:52 But I want to start it off with a little story that I had. It happened to be just this morning. So I've been starting up in hot yoga. Do you guys know what hot yoga is? Yeah, it's where like everyone's topless. It's where when you show up to yoga class the guy at the door is like yeah you're hot enough get in here he hotter knots the door oh not not i show up and he's like get out of here fatty oh yeah go to sad yoga you
Starting point is 00:10:19 gotta go next door to not yoga that's you that's you over there this one's called yoga next door but you have to go next door if you're not welcome here you non-ten you have to go to yoga next door to not yoga that's you that's you over there this one's called yoga next door but you have to go next door if you're not welcome here you non-ten you have to go to yoga next door and do the not yoga class it's not a whole ours is just hot yoga but not yoga is only part of their business uh very confusing so we get it right no actually surprisingly uh hot yoga is simply what it sounds like you're in a room doing yoga, but it's very hot. So it's about 105 degrees on average, I think, is most of these. It is hot. It's like a sauna.
Starting point is 00:10:51 It's a lot less hot to picture. Yeah, it's a sauna. You're in a room. It's a group class and you're just sweating your ass off. But it's very therapeutic. I started up recently because Pam actually introduced me to the concept many years ago. And I was like, I'll try it again. And it was very, very, very hot in the room the first time I went back. And it had been years
Starting point is 00:11:09 since I'd done it since. This wasn't yesterday or this wasn't today. But I went there and I tried too hard and I sweat so much I start cramping up. And I walked out of the room with like a limp because my muscles were just completely dehydrated because I tried too hard. And you're not supposed to try hard at yoga. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be relaxing. Yeah. I'm good at not trying hard. This might be good for me. I mean, it might be. I think it's very nice. But once I got done today, it was extremely hot. I was able to do the poses better, but it was much faster paced. And at the end of it, like after 50 minutes, it's either an hour or an hour and a half. I was laying on the ground on my mat, just drenched in sweat on the border of overheating,
Starting point is 00:11:47 just being like, oh, maybe I should step out of the room. And I had my eyes closed. I was just trying to rest. It was after all the poses. And I was just like trying to deal and hold on. And then I felt like this cold thing hit my forehead. And I opened my eyes and the instructor had walked around very quietly and had been placing cool towels on people's foreheads.
Starting point is 00:12:06 And I remember in that moment, I was like, oh, my God, thank you so much. And I thought about it and I was like, that's kind of like the idea of hot yoga is that it's not entirely comfortable. You are obscenely hot. You're doing exercise and you're sweating and you're so focused on trying to stay in the moment while not focusing on the heat. And in that moment, the cool refreshing towel was the greatest gift I had received in a long time. I thought about it in this way, what I would have given to have that cool towel in that moment. I didn't even know I wanted it. I didn't even know it was great.
Starting point is 00:12:41 And it was just given to me. And I know it's probably just standard practice for that, but I'd been to other high yoga classes and I didn't get that at the end of it. But it was just in that moment, I thought about, I was like, man, this is better than food. This is better than a toy, any kind of like electronic or cool new gadget in this moment. I would prefer this right now. And it made me incredibly grateful and also made me incredibly self-conscious about the things that I take for granted in my life. And it made me think of like, oh my God, this is such a small token. I never would have asked for it. And yet it was given readily, probably standard procedure, but I have never been more grateful in my life for this small thing. And I almost cried. Like I literally was on
Starting point is 00:13:19 the ground breathing heavy sweating. I almost cried right there just because it was so meaningful. And I was thankful for the smallest thing I could have ever imagined. And the instructor is the one that put me through all that stuff, you know, like put me through all the poses and made it. But I mean, I pushed myself. So today I know it's Thanksgiving this week and usually it's like big things that you're thankful for. But I can think of many moments in my life where I was thankful for a very small token, not because, you know, it wasn't like a bigger thing would have meant more. It was in that moment, in a moment when I needed something, it was given to me, not necessarily a cool towel or, you know, just like a small gesture or a pat on the back or someone just saying you did a good job. Those small moments sometimes mean more than anything, anything, anything physical, or it could be physical, you know, like a small token or something, but those tiny things that you're thankful for that just put everything into perspective, you know, kind of like not,
Starting point is 00:14:16 not quite like this, but you know, the, what is it called? The overview effect when astronauts go into space and they see the world and they like, it puts everything in perspective for you. I want to hear stories of either that or tiny things that you have been incredibly thankful for or moments when you've been given something and it's really moved you or touched you in a very, very special way. That's what I want. I like that. Thanks. Did that touch you in a very special way, Wade? Oh yeah. Well, I'm glad you made a laugh because i can't i literally couldn't get this out of my head that was a very nice uh like opening and i am excited
Starting point is 00:14:52 to talk about this but also a specific phrase you said triggered a thing in my head you were like i went to this hot yoga this class and it was like a new place or whatever and it was faster paced it was like fast yoga into my brain i just imagine at the front of hot yoga there's a guy on a podium and he's like an auction an auctioneer guy and they're like all right begin hot yoga and he's like all right weird fucking... And rotate! Yeah. And downward dog, standing shavasana. No, it kind of was like that. Usually it's like, all right, now breathe, fold forward, hold that stretch. All right, rise up to like half fold.
Starting point is 00:15:37 It was literally like this. All right, fold over, half stretch, go down, flow into downward dog. All right, warrior two, reverse it. It was that fast. And I mean, it's not like breakneck speed, but for the yoga I was doing, it was fast. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's probably, there's lots of varieties of yoga
Starting point is 00:15:57 and that's probably not unusual, but all the yoga I've ever experienced is the first one you did. Just imagine a bunch of people all trying to play like just dance. All right, now warrior two, and now lean. And then people are like, oh, shit, is that left? Ah, no.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Legitimately, that was it. I can't remember what all the things are. Best I can relate is when they're like, all right, put on this gown, cough, bend over this table. That's different. And they charge you for a full medical visit. That's not yoga. That's not yoga. that's different they charge you for a full medical visit that's not yoga that's not yoga different entirely yeah well i still said thanks afterwards so maybe it counts are you making that your story thanks i've got i mean this is tough to make longer stories out of if they're the smaller things there's so many small things it's not longer
Starting point is 00:16:41 stories why do you think it needs to be Longersaurus? Okay, one of the most recent instances... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you jumping the gun here? Yes. You forget how this works? Yes. I want titles. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:16:51 I want compelling names. Oh, boy. Yeah. There's like five people listening to this and they're like, Oh, the titles are back! Oh, I'm so thankful for this! So you're really making someone's day. I feel weird
Starting point is 00:17:05 titling a bunch of little small ones but sure uh this one will be you're not dying today what do you mean you feel bad that's a great one that's so good well it's not it's very big title for a story that's about as long as the title all right cool but i think we're in the same boat way don't worry my good first title is going to be and that's why you're the love of my life oh oh that's oh that's so sweet i you know sweet i wasn't gonna think anything could beat you're not dying today but i really oh man bob i want to hear your story bob you get the point you get the point bob a point we haven't even called yet idiot all right thanks i mean sorry sorry sorry wrong wrong vibe sorry yeah well no don't worry wade because i i think
Starting point is 00:17:52 unless i think of something else i'm with you on the not so long on the stories and this one is really it's not so much a specific instance but and you may have guessed about whom it is about. Me. Could be. Could be. But it's not. Okay. This one is about Mandy.
Starting point is 00:18:12 The moment that you're describing, Mark, that moment of perspective and feeling things back and getting perspective on stuff and how it changes you instantly and lightens everything. It always makes me feel lighter like it lifts something off of me and i hopefully have other stories but the main way that i experienced that is that mandy will who's my wife for new listeners what do you what have you been doing with your life you're married just wait till i tell you the next thing oh my god but yeah mandy mandy will do this i don't know why but i'm the kind of person where my i guess what my love language is like acts of devotion i don't know
Starting point is 00:18:53 the that's a book and i don't know the language of the book but my love language is about doing things for the people that i really care about as much as i can. And so a lot of my relationship with Mandy for myself internally, I'm trying to think about, and I'm not very, despite the fact that we've been together for a decade as of four days ago, I'm not very good at it. Sometimes I struggle to relate to like what Mandy's dealing with, where she is mentally and what might help her or what, you know, what would be the really good thing to do. And so I spend a lot of effort sometimes like doing stuff that's like nice, but it's not something that she's worried about, or maybe it doesn't help her with what she's dealing with.
Starting point is 00:19:35 But I spend, I honestly spend a lot of time like thinking about what I should be doing and then kind of feeling bad if I miss the mark or if I feel like I wish I could help more or do something more meaningful. And I get up in my own head a lot because I feel like I feel almost guilty of like, God, there's got to be more. There's got to be something I can do. And anyone who's been in any sort of relationship, romantic or otherwise, probably understands that sometimes there's just not anything you can do to help. Sometimes a person just needs you to like sit there and listen to them or be next to them, give them a hug. They just need you to like be there. And I'm not good at that because I'm constantly wanting to do something, bring, you know, get them a snack or whatever. And so I get up in my head about this a lot. And so Mandy will sometimes just do like, it depends on where I am, but sometimes she'll just
Starting point is 00:20:29 do something really simple. We'll be sitting, you know, working, hanging out, whatever. And she'll go and get herself a drink, something, something from the kitchen. She'll bring me back something that she knows I like, you know, just give me a soda or give me chips or something totally small, not, not like some significant action. But if I'm in that bad space where I'm like feeling guilty or if I'm dealing with other stuff, stress or whatever, and she just brings me like an unsolicited little snack or whatever, a little treat of some sort, I get that rush. That thing that I think you're trying to, you're talking about, Mark, where it's like,
Starting point is 00:21:03 she'll hand me a soda and I'll look at it and my eyes will well up and my whole perspective on whatever is happening inside of my head changes. Yeah. And I get that feeling of like, that is so sweet. There's nothing in this moment that I could have wanted more than this to break me out of my bad thought process
Starting point is 00:21:22 or whatever's going on. And it's, you know, it's a small thing. It's not even a gesture. She did it because she was in the kitchen and saw it and was like, I'll get him a drink. Yeah. But it has that effect of like, it lightens everything. It makes me realize that whatever I was thinking about feeling internally is not so bad or not so dire or important. And it makes me, you know, not because it's a snack, but because of the gesture, it has that effect of making me really tear up and just feel like so grateful that I didn't even know I wanted this. I didn't say a word, but because Mandy thought about me or thought, you know, maybe I would need this. And she knows me that rush of gratefulness and
Starting point is 00:22:05 perspective I get from Mandy on a consistent basis. And it's like a big way that she can impact. She does impact my life really positively. And there are certainly other people that have a similar sort of effect, but something about our relationship. And I guess this is a good sign. We have a healthy bond and we're basically best friends and we're married and partners. Something about that gives her the power to just like fix my entire life, at least for the moment or in the moment with something so small as like, here's a little bag of chips or a can of soda or something. Just enjoy this.
Starting point is 00:22:40 And as I like drink or eat or whatever, play with whatever it is, it fixes the whole world and it might not fix it forever, but that feeling is overwhelming. And it's, you know, I feel like it's hard to describe the full extent of how positive it is, but I feel like I also really need that. And I think people in general really need that, but it's hard to get perspective sometimes, especially if you have like toxic people around you or, you know, whatever, whatever your situation is. So I guess I'm thankful for Mandy. And I hope that more people in the world find at least someone, if not as many people as they can, that can do that for them. Because I can't, I don't know what it is. It's never a big thing. It's not big gestures or anything. It's the smallest things that can do that. And it will dramatically change how I see everything,
Starting point is 00:23:28 whatever problems or stress I'm dealing with. I'm super thankful for Mandy and for that power that she has to do that to me, for me, whatever. That's very sweet. That's really cool. And I'm going to boil that entire beautiful story down to some points and I'm going to render its worth as thankfulness
Starting point is 00:23:47 in a numerical value it's incredibly as long as it's more points than wade gets that's all the reason i brought it up we'll see we'll see all right wait what do you got all right well i've got some molly things to save i was gonna save that for later so i'll go with the story i was telling okay i talked about everything that cuters went through recently maybe it was last episode i can't remember everything's kind of been a blur but i've got to reiterate how thankful molly and i both were that the vet all the technicians basically shut down their clinic and they gave us a room for two hours that we sat there basically morning waiting for keeters to pass but the vet never gave up I don't know how often that kind of thing happens but I imagine it's somewhat commonplace for a vet to either put
Starting point is 00:24:31 animals down or for things to go wrong and to lose patients pets whatever but for them to you know sit there manually pumping oxygen for 30 minutes before we arrived another 10 to 15 after we arrived for her to be making calls for two hours trying to find anything and everything she could for some hope of bringing him back there's just a level of gratitude there for that amount of caring because she kept trying to the point where molly and i were about to literally say if you need to humanely put him down go for it we don't think he's coming back we don't you know we don't we're not medical people we don't know so whenever they told us that he had probably didn't have any brain activity he wasn't showing any signs it was just his heart and lungs that were
Starting point is 00:25:12 still going it was a miserable two hours that we had him an hour and 45 minutes in that room but the thought of her being outside and not just being like you know probably those intrusive thoughts of like all right well they've been in this room for a while, we've got other stuff to do today, but like none of that seemed to have happened. She was out there just making calls, doing research, trying to find something maybe she didn't know to try, and that's on my mind, obviously, because it's still a very recent event, but in a time where there's so many people, especially on social media, that seem so short-tempered and angry, there's so much just anger in the world, it feels like.
Starting point is 00:25:44 People are just always screaming at each other angry there's so much just anger in the world it feels like people are just always screaming at each other there's no communication there's just it's easy to feel despair and like humanity's lost but when you see someone who truly cares and they put their heart and their soul into trying to make someone else's day better to save their pet's life to do what whether you know whatever the fault was whatever caused keeters to go through what he went through whether it was a fault of the clinic whatever it's irrelevant to me people like oh you should sue all they did it's like i don't want to i'm just glad i have my cat and that the vet did everything she could and things even she didn't know to do because she was calling around getting other people's advice and opinions and thoughts and you know he's upstairs sitting on
Starting point is 00:26:23 the couch cuddling our dogs napping whereas if she had cared just a little bit less or hadn't put that extra bit of effort in, we would have lost them. And we still have our little man because she did care. I don't know the last time that I was impacted that strongly and felt that grateful to somebody. I had no anger at all with them, with because it was just we were at the point of giving up and she walked in with the cure in her hands and I don't know I cannot remember the last time that Molly and I were that thankful that feeling of just from going from rock bottom to like that elation of he's gonna be okay was so such a severe swing I don't know it's one of the strongest emotional swings I've ever had in my life. And even though I've talked about it before,
Starting point is 00:27:07 I figured I wanted to bring it up again and just thank, from the off chance that that vet clinic listens, just how thankful we are that they didn't give up whenever even we were at the point of giving up. Yeah, that's beautiful. I think it all boils down to like people caring. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:21 And that's kind of like the human experience that people miss out on a lot. It's the old saying of, you don't know what someone's going through at any given moment. You look around in a crowd and, you know, someone could be having the worst day of their life and they would never show it outwardly. And that's why like even from big gestures to like not giving up, which is caring to small gestures of just being like giving a compliment to a stranger, you know, sometimes that can just make their entire day, can turn their entire life around. And you just don't know, you, you have no idea, uh, how much you can impact someone else around you. Even a total stranger
Starting point is 00:27:54 from, from the love of your life to total strangers, there's always something you can do to show other people that there's still some good out there and like, uh, give them what they need, even if they didn't even need it. Oh boy, I'm running your thankfulness through my calculation machine. My thank-traumator. 29,000. Heck yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Really crunching up the thanks here. A lot of data to get through. All right, I've allocated the points. Nice points. Good points. You're welcome. All right, well, that was a great first round. You guys said it
Starting point is 00:28:25 wasn't going to be long stories but uh that was those were very impactful and very sweet really had to draw it out to compete with bob uh-huh yeah yeah i could tell you really you really hammed it up there like come on let's bring it down a little bit um no all right that was a great first round i feel bad but can i inject something in between all of the mushy crap real quick yeah yes yes i um so this is circling back to but not a tiktok update this is more of a follow-up last time i did tiktok update i talked about the tiktoks of the guy in a public space farting near other people and getting laughs and stuff it's like a really good form of comedy apparently because we talked about that that person's uh followers uh messaged him a bunch and was like distractible talked about you they talked about
Starting point is 00:29:10 you and he emailed me and was like i can't believe you guys talked about me on the podcast that's really crazy and apparently he was just grateful and i felt bad because i didn't say his name in the episode i was just like i forget okay and didn't look it up in the episode. I was just like, I forget. Okay. And didn't look it up. The channel, the TikTok account I was mentioning was called Humor Bagel. He has a YouTube as well as a TikTok. And you should absolutely check it out if you were looking and trying to find it. Humor Bagel is the fart guy. I'm shocked that people found it and you never said the name. I think it actually cropped up on my For You page just recently.
Starting point is 00:29:41 And I remember I was laughing at it. At first I was like, ah, it's just a fart machine. But just like the levels that he went to was he the guy that went to all the porta potties and was like shaking the doors like oh god oh god i don't remember what is his and isn't because there are a lot of channels that steal his stuff and then also do their own versions of it uh but yes he escalates the fart to a lot of uh situations i love the sentence he escalates the fart it escalates man i hope that was him and not a copycat because i would feel very bad if i'm talking about something like oh yeah that definitely won i don't know if this specific guy gets credit for recording farts
Starting point is 00:30:16 on video as you know the first time but humor bagel is the one i was talking about because i looked it up and he's the guy that i see most frequently who's doing no it's it's the same guy okay i'm thinking of the same guy yeah perfect okay good whoo we're all safe everybody yeah no i just remember bagel just him running over to the porta potties as the people are walking by just oh no oh no oh no i don't know what kind of fart machine he has but it's incredible it's got some good ones and i i don't know if this was uh had happened yet on the last time we talked about this but my current favorite is he walks across a path he cuts across in front of people and there's a huge puddle pothole and he just goes oh watch out for that puddle as he
Starting point is 00:30:55 like addresses the group and then he jumps over it and while he's jumping the puddle and everyone in the group is looking at him he rips a a juicy one. That's good. That's, yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, no. I'm thankful for you, Humor Bagel. I'm glad to think that there's still some good that can come out of us just talking about things we like because there's so many occurrences like that where people would just like, you know, copy and whatever.
Starting point is 00:31:19 But just like sharing something you like is kind of this experience that I really do like about recent trends in, say, TikTok or YouTube and stuff. It's not that it never happened before, but it's so many times when, you know, Amy will just send me a funny meme or a TikTok and you'll kind of like, we kind of comb through TikTok sometimes and we like things and we're like, I got a new bash for you. And Amy will roll her eyes and be like, how many loud ones are there? And I'm like, for you and Amy will roll her eyes and be like, how many loud ones are there? And I'm like, there's only a few loud ones, but they're funny loud ones. I show her one loud one so long ago and she's just like, oh, you like are the loud ones. I'm like, no, no, it's not true.
Starting point is 00:31:56 All right. Second round coming up. If you guys haven't thought of it already, start your brains turning towards the next thing that you can be thankful for. I will buy you some time because I'm thankful for the opportunity to tell my mom's story in the documentary that I made for her. Because not only was it a good opportunity to transform my mom's story into a visual medium, which people could really enjoy and test my skill and make a cool documentary and all that. It really also just allowed me to boil down and get out some really, really interesting stories from my family and talk to them and get to know them and what they're thankful for, because it was. There's a similar holiday to Thanksgiving
Starting point is 00:32:35 called Chuseok, which is basically Korean Thanksgiving, where they gather around, eat a lot of food and try to remember their ancestors, honor their family and gather with friends and stuff like that. It's, it's a big deal, big, big deal in Korea. Probably a bigger deal than Thanksgiving is in America, which I know is hard to say, but it's like, it's huge over there. And so it is just an entire experience where I was able to be thankful. And my mom, you know, when she watched the documentary, she just like really, truly thanked me for making it. I'm just like all the, all the sleepless nights of working on that thing and the various other parts of filming that led up to it just were like instantly all the stress of that just like melted away because it was like any time, like that little thank you made it all worth
Starting point is 00:33:14 it. Just being grateful for it is all that really matters. Yeah. Well, and this is coming from kind of a place of ignorance. I am not educated about Korean culture or any other Asian culture, but I get the sense from mainly from pop culture, but from generally what I've seen in media and stuff that I know the holiday you just described sounds like exactly what I'm thinking about. But I know that this is kind of a characteristic of other Asian countries, like cultural things is honoring your ancestors and being like mindful about that. I think that's really interesting. I know that in America we we do not have like you know the same history that much older nations have in around the world but I I do wish that
Starting point is 00:33:57 there was more of a sense of like really having some celebration around which we could honor family or focus more on like our ancestry and our family and and where where we've come from it's definitely not a thing i ever considered when i was younger but as i'm you know getting ready to have my own kid and getting older in general i wish that i knew more about my extended family and more about sort of you know how we started where we came from, where we immigrated from and whatever. I know a little bit, but I think that that's a really, for me, it seems like that would be really meaningful to have more connection to that. And not that we don't, I'm sure a lot of American families, especially if you have ties to your,
Starting point is 00:34:38 your family back through the immigration process to, you know, there's a lot of heritage pride in like certain nationalities and stuff, but I feel like it's not a thing nationally where Americans spend a lot of time talking about and honoring, you know, ancestry necessarily. And maybe that's just my experience, but I wish I had more of that. Very interesting. That holiday sounds much more enjoyable and like a worthwhile time than a lot of American holidays do to me. Not that I don't love a good 4th of July or Thanksgiving or whatever, but I kind of, I guess I'm jealous is what I'm saying. Yeah. I mean, I get that. A lot of times, you know, American Thanksgiving growing up, especially all I knew of Thanksgiving was like,
Starting point is 00:35:20 oh, the pilgrims were grateful. And that was it. It didn't have any like family ties to it. There was a, you know, family traditions where you gather around the dinner table and you say what are we thankful for but it was always that kind of forced thing where you're like uh i'm thankful for this food yeah and then you know i'm thankful for you know my football team winning you know kind of like this yeah you didn't want to get mushy be a nerd yeah i know right no it's it it is very very cool um and i'm sure there's people in korea like native koreans that are like i don't really care about chuseok but you know i think i think as a whole it really does kind of put things in perspective and make you think and that is important yeah i will give you one point bob
Starting point is 00:35:59 but just one because that was a good uh interlude and good i like that and i also have my story ready i'm ready you're ready wade okay okay what's your time you want me to tell my title first yeah titles up uh my uh my title is huh what me okay all right wait the people Oh god You know Bob I'm sorry I got this sounds so Ominous I'm just curious how this turns around to Thank you know thanking someone I'm kind of with you I'm kind of with you
Starting point is 00:36:35 Alright Wade you get the title point Excellent it was total clickbait Oh no I can deduct points Because the truth Well the title's true just the tone of voice Was total clickbait I can't deduct points if your story doesn't. Well, the title's true. Just the tone of voice was total clickbait.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Okay. Glad it worked. All right. Fair enough. I guess I got to start kind of echoing what Bob had to say about Mandy. Like literally everything Molly does. I wrote out a list of things I wanted to talk about for this i cannot express how much literally everything she does has helped me get through the last decades all the ups the downs the in-betweens she has just
Starting point is 00:37:11 always been so steady and everything i would normally be stressing about i don't have to because she's either doing it or helping with it or there to listen to me whine about it i'm not going to go into as in-depth as bob digs. I feel like it's a very similar story, but I cannot help but say that I could not do what I do. And I probably wouldn't have gotten a lot through a lot of the things that have happened in the last 10 years if it weren't for Molly. All those little things add up to something much, much larger. But the next thing I want to echo is YouTube. God, it all boils down to you guys and Drunk Minecraft and inviting me to join. I've known of you, Mark. We've talked, we'd, whatever we associated prior to, you know, college. We'd probably had a couple of classes together, junior high, whatever. We did a Relay
Starting point is 00:37:59 for Life, the American Cancer Society, but we were in different groups in college. I came to a couple of your streams. We talked at our friend Dan's party about YouTube and whatnot. But to say that you and I were close friends prior to doing, you know, Drunk Minecraft and YouTube and whatnot would be an exaggeration. We really didn't know each other all that well. And you guys and all the people you knew or just doing YouTube, but deciding to invite me to that set my life on such a different path than I was on. I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing, but 2012, I was at my lowest I've been in my life. Losing my ex, losing my passion for wanting to be an attorney or a judge, being back home in my mom's basement, working at a gas station. Just, I was at the lowest of lows
Starting point is 00:38:47 in every way possible. My social life, my love life, my career, everything hit bottom at once. And that simple gesture of you guys inviting me to drink a Long Island with you while we played Minecraft, which is a game I didn't even know that well. That small gesture just, it completely changed the course of my life. It led to me meeting Molly very shortly thereafter. It led to us getting to go on tour together, to doing this podcast, all the videos with, you know, Sean, etc. Just all the different things that have happened. And it was all thanks to you guys being like,
Starting point is 00:39:22 yeah, I guess let's invite that Wade guy. Because I don't even think Bob and I had met prior to that i don't think so i think we literally met online in minecraft we met meeting that that episode one i think was the first time you and i interacted at all was it really i i think so i swear bob you were over at a party maybe maybe we might have been at faxton's once or something maybe before but i don't think i met or in any way really interacted with wade no i guess wade you weren't really over at faxton's too much huh no because um i think that we went over there once or twice for like parties when i was with my ex but no uh probably around the time that you guys were hanging out a bunch was either toward
Starting point is 00:40:02 the end of my relationship at that time or something else but that's what i mean i felt like i had very little business being there for that recording even the very first one and i battled for a long time with imposter syndrome i still do to some extent but you two were roommates and you got to know each other got to be friends that way and being there i just didn't know that i really belonged i didn't know that i was a good enough friend of either one of you to warrant the kindness and the hilarity that we got to share. And I don't know if I've ever truly expressed how grateful I am that you guys gave me a chance to come drink with you and play Minecraft and then continue along the way.
Starting point is 00:40:36 I wouldn't have even had a computer to do that with if Mark hadn't helped me literally buy and build my computer that all I wanted to be able to do was play Diablo 3. I don't know if you remember that way back then. Yeah, I do. That trip to Micro Center, I do remember it. Yeah. I think it wasn't Tyler with us too? It was just you and I that time, I believe. I've got a shit memory, so he might be able to tell me more honestly, but no, I don't know where my life was heading, but I was in the biggest divot I've ever been in in my life in every facet. And I wouldn't have done anything drastic, but I also don't know divot I've ever been in in my life in every facet and I Wouldn't have done anything drastic
Starting point is 00:41:07 but I also don't know how I would have righted it without you too and I don't know if I've truly expressed how grateful I Am that literally that one decision to let me join you for drunk minecraft reshape my life gave me one led me to my wife and Happiness and joy. I never even knew existed. I never thought I would enjoy my job. I was dedicated to getting something that I thought would pay well, that I'd be good at, and just accepting it. And that decision to let me join you completely changed everything. So thank you. Wow.
Starting point is 00:41:38 You are the people. Oh, we're the people. Okay. Well, thank you very much as well. I don't want to take up any time thanking back, you know, because I am very grateful that you guys believed that this crazy idea was even worth your time. But I guess at the end of the day, it was just like an opportunity to play games with people you like, and it's very special. So I'm going to put your thankful story in the thank-o-tron. Please do. Let me judge this for how sincere are you i don't think while
Starting point is 00:42:09 while mark computes i do want to say i think you're i think you're uh recoloring a lot of the early minecraft experience i'm sure it was fun for you but from the era of shut up wade being the main thing that you were known for and exposed to oh no and you describing it as sharing a lot of good times and fun i hope it was fun everyone else has always been more offended for me than me for you guys i mean sure you busted my balls a little hard a couple of times but like i've always been a person that gives shit gets shit and i typically tried my best to get under mark's skin my my goal in the early episodes was somehow piss mark off to the point where he would explode in rage because i found that
Starting point is 00:42:49 shit hilarious on rewatch so i earned a lot of my spankings but like the the bad part for me wasn't ever what you guys really did it was like you know sometimes you went a little far sure but sometimes i also poked you guys a little hard it was the fan experience of fans like meeting him for the first time be like shut, shut up, Wade! Like, you know, that part of people taking it out of context and doing it that way. That happened for a long time after we sort of stopped doing that so extremely. And, you know, there's still the occasional one out of the woodwork that'll be like, shut up, Wade!
Starting point is 00:43:18 It's like, man, that's a reference. But for you guys, I mean, that didn't matter. I enjoyed what we did. I had fun with it. I enjoyed prodding. You poked back. Sometimes we all overstepped. That's friendship.
Starting point is 00:43:29 The difference was our friendship was in the public eye, and I guess still is. But the crux of it was I had a place where I belonged and I was enjoying things. I met Molly and my life was writing. So despite bumps along the way, all of that was a million times better than where I was back in march of 2012 i guess well i appreciate it for all the bumps it's still very meaningful and i've calculated your points and allocated them accordingly oh god i hope it's at least one it's more than one i can tell you that it's a new wade record all right bob uh if you're ready i forget the name of your time uh what me yeah i i will say i uh i
Starting point is 00:44:08 thought wade was going to talk more specifically about molly so there may be some overlap but i do think that i have a different uh take on this okay uh my my story called uh what me really uh it basically in reference to what we were talking about in reference to the stuff we've gotten to do but i find that it it feels like luck obviously it's not all luck there's a lot of stuff that you made happen and we as a group made happen or you know worked on and and did and accomplished art as a group or on our own but i have, I always find this funny. There's a lot of stuff in my life I've gotten to do that was purely because I entertain people, I guess, and we have a good group dynamic. And the biggest example of this is the tour for me, but it's definitely not exclusively the tour.
Starting point is 00:45:00 And I guess I was trying to think of times in my life where that feeling you were describing in the opening was sort of captured for me. And it always sticks out for me that obviously doing the tour was incredibly cool, that people were willing to buy tickets and come out and support it and make it possible was like unbelievable and super awesome. And that we got to a place where we had a show that i think we all liked and i think was legitimately fun and entertaining to a variety of people one of the big things we got on the show that that seemed weird is the kids not kids but you know the fans some of them younger some of them older seem to like it but they enjoy us like we could have stood on stage and probably just done
Starting point is 00:45:43 what we do now with the podcast but just stood there awkwardly and talked to each other do our normal shenanigans and they may have still enjoyed that and i feel like we ended up putting on a really good show and what makes me feel confident in that is that we had so many reviews from people who were like i'm a parent i went to this show because my kid wanted to go and they're not old enough to go alone i don't know who these guys are but it was pretty good yeah and all like we got a good number of those reviews and those are just the reviews people felt they need to post right so we don't know how everyone who saw it felt but if that's representative then even the parents who were like oh yeah i'll take you to this stupid youtube show geez even they it, at least some of the time.
Starting point is 00:46:26 And that's incredible. And all of these things combined to really like, any time I think about that, the experiences of the tours, the legs of the tour that we did, I get that same rush of the gratefulness thing. I get that moment of like clarity and gratefulness. Because what we do,
Starting point is 00:46:43 it's hard to say that it's like a too hard of a job. You know, we're not exactly digging ditches or risking our lives with what we do or whatever else. You know, there's a lot of jobs that are very stressful and bad for your health. But the side of it that can be tough is keeping perspective. Remembering that for every negative comment, for every person who thinks whatever idea
Starting point is 00:47:03 that I had was stupid, or that I'm just a fat guy who laughs at idea that I had was stupid or that I'm just a fat guy who laughs at everything. And I'm not very funny. I'm overrated, whatever. All that stuff comes up online. It's hard to keep the perspective of like, those don't represent everyone's views that that's, that's a, you know, some amount of people are not going to like what we do. And that's perfectly fine. Some of them are going to express it in nice or really mean ways but the tour anytime i think about it even if i think about like the way the crew was we had such a good crew and every time we got to a venue and i saw like a dressing room with my name on it i had that feeling of like oh they put my name on this room it's just for me it's stupid because it's
Starting point is 00:47:42 their job that's part of how the show works it It's like a normal thing. It made me feel that feeling of gratefulness and perspective because it was like, well, I don't, I don't feel like I deserve this, but we're, you know, we're doing this. Everyone on the show is taking such great care of us. We were the talent. We were on stage, so we had to do our thing. But I feel like almost everyone who was on the tour with us, except for you, Mark, you worked as hard as the crew did. But like everyone but me on the tour worked so hard. The crew worked before we woke up until after we were already on the bus screwing around. Like they all worked incredibly hard,
Starting point is 00:48:13 but they treated us like we were the most important. And all of these things combine in my mind to give me that rush of like grateful perspective. Whenever I think about it, I think about a specific venue. I think about a specific show and a lot of other stuff we've gotten to do. I think about the times we've done panels at conventions or the times where like even just recently when we got together in LA and it was, you know, we were just basically getting together to do the podcast and promote it
Starting point is 00:48:40 together. But we got to stream in the corridor studio, which is incredibly cool. And we got to stream in the corridor studio which is incredibly cool and we got to you know just hang out all of this stuff it's easy to get bogged down in all of the negative comments and social media stuff and feel like i'm not as funny as i think i am and i my ideas aren't as good as i think they are it's easy to get bogged down in that but all the insane things and support from people fans and otherwise crew people and and people that we work with and help us, you know, plan and accomplish things. It gives me that same feeling. And it's what keeps me invested in, you know, this, I guess, because I really my goal was never and is still not to be like a celebrity. I don't know if I could hang in the world of acting and being a celebrity.
Starting point is 00:49:46 I don't know if I could hang in the world of acting and being a celebrity. I see doubting whatever we're doing, this or the show or other things we've done together. And I'm really grateful for anyone who's ever said a nice thing on the subreddit or on social media. I'm really grateful for you guys for always going along, even when we're trying to do something and I'm like, I have an idea. Stay with me. Pants. And you're just like, yeah, pants. All right, let's do this. You know, like all of these moments combined to make it so much more of a positive experience doing YouTube and this podcast and all the things we've done than the negativity. And that's like, that's the saving grace because I've seen a lot of people in similar positions doing YouTube or otherwise who get
Starting point is 00:50:26 absolutely dragged down and destroyed by the negativity because it's a lot. Depending on who you are as a person, it can be unbearable in terms of your mental well-being, your mental health and everything. So it's sort of a general gratefulness. But you guys, anyone who's ever supported us, bought anything, gone to a show, seen our live streams, whatever. It may not seem like it, but you impact my life like on a daily basis. Because the positivity that you've given us or me individually is the only thing that washes away the rest of it that can be very stressful and challenging.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Can I addendum here to add a story about a fan experience that sticks out to me? Sure. Sure. We did a... Man, It's been so long now We did a signing after a panel one of the packs is I think back in like 2014 2015 somewhere in that range and There was a girl who came up and I think she was a fan of all of us But she seemed particularly like interested in talking to me about like my content, which wasn't always the case It's fine. people are allowed to be
Starting point is 00:51:25 bigger fans of like you or uh mark or sean or whoever and it never really bothers me but it is cool whenever you have like the person who's just like a big fan of what you do and they talk about like your videos specifically like solo content it's just a cool feeling and uh she was talking to me about some of my stuff and she asked if i would sign something for it's like yeah sure of course that's what we're here for and she like rolled up her sleeves and she just had scars all over her arms. And I like kind of like hesitated. I looked up at her and she said that she used to self-harm and she was having a really hard time not doing it. But watching my content had helped her not for a while. And she was still battling those feelings. And she asked if I could sign her wrist. And she said she was
Starting point is 00:52:02 going to get that tattooed. And when she looked down, she would, you know, wouldn't do it again because she'd see my name and be reminded. And I, you know, that was one of the first times anyone had ever offered or threatened to tattoo something that we'd done on their body to me. And I was like, uh, sure, I'll sign it, but not really believing that she'd follow through and get it tattooed. Because who in their right mind would want my signature tattooed on their arm? What a weird thing. Like, I'm not important enough to be tattooed on someone's body in my mind. But I signed it and, you know, hugged a photo whatever she left and it was like two years later we were doing another uh signing and I think it was like a longer one we were doing a long
Starting point is 00:52:35 signing and I remember we were getting close to the end I think we were all tired lost our voices a little bit and I remember looking up like to see who was walking up to the thing next and I just I made eye contact and it was her and after like making eye contact like the memory of that signing came back to me I was like oh my god I remember her she's I've met her before and she's the one that had me sign her wrist and as she walked up her eyes were welling and she pulled up her sleeve and there was my name on her wrist and i started crying like my eyes started watering i got up and i just gave her a hug and she just said thank you like between the tears and she said she hadn't harmed since i'd signed her wrist that was the last time she'd done it was before that
Starting point is 00:53:14 and people tell us all the time how we impact and change their lives with what we do but i think from our perspective a lot of what we do seems like less important than that like we sit here and we just with each other because we're friends we play video games and laugh and scream at each other But for a lot of people that distraction means so much and that was the first time or one of the first times it really Hit me how much we impact people's lives and that impacted me the fan experience has always impacted me, but that one Specifically it's like because I made a dumb joke or you guys ragged on me but my super model ex-girlfriend international model it was just two dates but i i will never forget her or that that exchange of look we had in that moment of recognition and her just showing me that
Starting point is 00:53:57 signature and how much that apparently had changed her life and i i don't know that the general fan understands how much that impacts us to knowing that we've made a difference in their lives. It really gives weight to the dumb shit that we do and makes it feel a lot more important than what otherwise would be of just guys hanging out, having a good time. Well, thank you for that. That's very meaningful. You know, we haven't gotten around to too many individual stories, but you guys really suddenly it's an hour here listening to this and I could faff on for ages about how grateful I am to you guys and the people that gave us a chance. But I think you guys said it better than I ever could. So I will just do my due diligence and act
Starting point is 00:54:38 as judge. But I want to say before I render the judgment, I just want to say like you guys both are like incredibly sweet, talented people. I am grateful to be here 10 years later after starting my channel and you guys starting your channels and us working together. And we're still here. Like we're still here talking and we're still here having fun, sharing memories. And there are still more memories to be made. And I think that's just a wonderful thing and i'm lucky there really is no way to compare the the stories you you say in a quantifiable like which one was a better thank you than the other so i'm only gonna render judgment based on the the the criteria at the beginning because wait you like had tons of good stories bobby had tons of good stories and the criteria at the beginning was like the small thing to give thanks for these tiny moments to send that chill down your spine and just sheerly by that metric not saying anything about
Starting point is 00:55:33 the quality of the thanks that you guys have i believe bob had two small things that jumped out to me which was the snack being brought and the name tag on the door. Only two small things, Bob. Take the L. Uh-huh. All right. So hit me, baby. Therefore, therefore, I am awarding the win to Bob. Wait, what?
Starting point is 00:55:57 How many did I have? I won. Oh, God damn it. Why does this always happen to me? Subreddit. You know what to do. No, no. What I want from the subreddit is for people to write the small things or big things.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Like, it's really tough here to give a quantitative winner, and I kind of regret that there is. And I don't want to pull the move where you're both the winner here, and I don't want to just coin flip again. So I got to pick some arbitrary thing. here and I don't want to just coin flip again so I gotta pick some arbitrary thing but I do want from the subreddit for people to post things that they have been very very grateful for things that have touched their lives in a way that the person who uh offered whatever it was uh could never have known you know kind of like that it's extraordinary how uh these things bubble up and yes it is like you know big things can come from something that seems innocuous in the beginning, like us playing Minecraft and drinking. But, you know, there's so much to be grateful for.
Starting point is 00:56:49 And there's so many opportunities for people out there to see their friends and family or just like people around them and give them a small gesture that would mean the world to them. So spread a little joy and try to take some time to remember what you're thankful for. Because you may not have experienced someone being that generous to you, but you could always be generous to someone else. So Bob, you are the big winner according to the Thankotron 3000. It almost overloaded there, but I put out the fires and it has declared you the winner. Would you like a winner speech? Hell yeah. All right, go for it. I'm going to start my winner speech by issuing correction. I believe in my first story, I said that Mandy and I have been together for a decade it's actually 12 years and she's may or may not listen all the way to the winners so she might not hear that anyway dog house i do know
Starting point is 00:57:34 i do know that it's 12 years i just forgot how many years it is between 2010 and 2022 that's the thing i it's i so anyway uh it's been a long time and I still struggle to remember how to be a good husband sometimes. But this was a fun episode. I hope it was entertaining and enjoyable to listen to. And I also, I guess I hope that anyone listening reflects on this. And I hope that you can find those moments in your life. They don't have to be anything. They could be one word someone uttered near you one time. Thanks! Like that, except it would have the right effect.
Starting point is 00:58:12 And so yeah, like Mark said, it's an arbitrary time of year for this to be a theme, but it is a good theme. There's absolutely no reason not to spread small acts of kindness year round. It sounds really stupid, but even if you like the shoes that the cashier at the store is wearing or whatever, I can't tell you how few of these comments I've gotten, but the couple times where someone has been like, hey, cool shirt, it has a very similar impact where for no reason from a person
Starting point is 00:58:42 I know nothing about and whose opinion has no impact on me really them giving me a random compliment is such a boost and such a little thing and it's nothing for them and there's nothing for you as a person to give away you can compliment anyone you want all it costs is the air you breathe and the moment you pause to to give it so find any way you can to do that, because it certainly could impact people more than you would ever know. Well said. Well said. Good winner speech. Maybe the best winner speech we've had so far.
Starting point is 00:59:12 But Wade, now's your opportunity to give the best loser speech. Alright. Thanks. I will. This might have gotten me more points, but I do gotta say, some small things, you know, we keep saying, like, do small gestures, but honestly, just being kind to somebody on the phone. I've had to deal with health insurance recently, this is the month to do it, and the person I dealt with with health insurance was
Starting point is 00:59:32 so kind, and just so compassionate, and just, like, nice, helpful, friendly, and that made it a million times better than it's ever been before, just doing that. Someone holding the door for me whenever I'm, like, walking into a place,, like just that gesture that people still sometimes do, that makes me happy. I try to do the same. I try to thank people, be kind, give them a smile, like, you know, just show some kind of gratitude or kindness. And people do it in turn, and it just, it makes everything so much better. There's so much anger, like I said earlier, in the world, and just having that moment of like a smile here or there a bit of gratitude a bit of kindness it does mean a lot and if you all pass that forward a little bit maybe other people will pass it forward a little bit and we can make the world a little bit better of a place without really having
Starting point is 01:00:12 to put much effort into it thank you guys again for listening uh appreciate all of you guys thank you to mark bob for allowing me to be part of this podcast and their careers and lives uh molly it's so hard bob's words from andy were so good, and I've always had such a hard time formulating words to explain how grateful I am to Molly. And every time I look her in the eye, I hope she can feel, like, inside my own head, I'm saying to myself, like, I hope you understand how thankful I am to have you in my life. But as good as I am with words normally, I cannot come up with the right ones. That being said, buy our merch and stuff, I guess. I don't know. Fucking loser speech out.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Alright, and with that, he clinched the second best loser speech. Congratulations. You didn't quite make it. Damn it! But yeah, thank you everybody so much for listening. We'll wrap this up here. You can find Bob, MySkirm on Twitch again, WadeMinion777 on Twitch, and LordMinion777
Starting point is 01:01:02 on YouTube. You know who I am. You don't need to know anymore. Bob will be hosting and judging in the next episode and hopefully we are all worthy of his benevolence, but I have a funny feeling we'll be worthy of his ire. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be winning next
Starting point is 01:01:18 time, boys. I feel it. Alright, he feels it. We'll see. Bob, should he feel it? Yeah, feel it. Feel everything you want. Feel it. Feel it feel everything you want feel it feel it yeah all right as our forefathers said freedom to feel thank you thanks podcast out from mark bob and wade and from all of our support staff at distractible thank you gentle listener for joining the gents each and every week by merely listening and laughing, you put food on our Thanksgiving table.
Starting point is 01:01:47 Happy Thanksgiving!

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