Distractible - The Cursed Man

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Wiccan Wade craves frozen crackers, fears his fire, dabbles in the occult, and revolutionizes the format. Meddlesome Mark identifies auditory impairments, explains movie sound and micro-monologues. Breezy Bob gets salty about Skyline, thinks Wade could have familial calumny, and wants him to wash, then get naked.

From human steaks to pirate nutbushes. Yes! It's time for The Cursed Man. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host, with the most, est, Wade.

God, I always nail these intros. Your intros are so tight, man. Just draws people in. It's like a lid, a jar of pickles that you kind of put back on, but the jar screws on sideways, you don't realize it's sideways, then you knock it over and it's leaking juice, and it's like, how did this happen? And then you got juice everywhere.

This is Mark and Bob. Hi. Hi. Hi guys, welcome to Distractable. So good to be here. Can't wait to compete. Ready to go. Oh man, I've got a topic to you, assuming we get to it. We won't.

All right. Let's be honest, let's be honest. What's new? I think we did this recently, but I feel like I've not seen you guys in forever. I don't know why. Didn't we just play a video game together the other day? We did. Yeah, you and I did. This trio was not there, but you were there. Why you guys you weren't invited mark

Well, I really wasn't actually I don't know about this at all No, it was it was organized by someone else who doesn't know you I think I was invited after literally everyone else they knew said no someone who doesn't know me Bob I'm sorry someone who doesn't know me. I went to a steakhouse again I called my boy Ethan at J Prime steakhouse, and I was like 30 minutes from ravelly I know it's a Sunday prime steak time you got a table for me. He's like yes Absolutely because I know you and we got in there me and the whole editing crew table is six five What you didn't see is the camera footage of what they did to the people at that table prior to your arrival.

As soon as Mark was like, hey, can you see five in the background? Just like, kick them out. I don't fucking care. Throw it away. Oh rats, cockroaches. We have an infestation people. Everyone out. Leave. Tell them if they don't leave, I will get the shotgun. Yeah, Mark. No, we can get you. Mark, we can get you in. Anyway, that's a, so that's very nice of them to get you in last minute for a pretty big group. That's good. Yeah, so you and your gaming group could have gotten me in last minute, to saying.

You know what, next time, Mark. If it makes you feel any better, it was kind of a half disaster because one of the games really wasn't working very well. Yeah, we just ended up playing Helldiver. We're trying to play, have you seen content warning? Yes, I think. We tried to play that, but one of us, not gonna name any names. Bird 650. Fucking bird. Couldn't play the game for more than five minutes without it crashing so we had to

change plans anyway. If it works that game seems fun. You would have loved it Mark. Yeah I know it would have been great videos but you know. It would have been even better content if you were there too. It would have been good for everybody. We need to make more gaming videos, dude. People come to my streams and they say, hey, are you playing with Mark and Bob? And I say no. And then they leave. My favorite is people who come in and they're like, hey, are you still friends with Mark and Wade? You guys don't play a game like, well, we do this other thing. Have you seen? No. Okay. Have you seen Distracta? And then they vomit in their mouth and they're like, oh, podcast. Or people that come into your streams for me specifically they're like Bob. I love your do your content, dude It's like you must you must really love my cut

Clearly fully there were a place where you could see my face and my voice at the same time They could just be a really hard listener, you know, they could just be avid podcast fan They've never separated it out. That's that is true I think they're hardly listening. Oh got him. I don't think Bob and I sound alike Everyone else seems to think we do and I don't hear it either. I don't think we sound that alike I think some people are ear blind I don't understand like there's plenty of people out there that just completely miss Miss hear things all the time and I'll miss here if people mumble

But when there's a differentiation in tone, like I don't have perfect pitch or anything like that, but I feel like I- I have a very normal sense of hearing. I can differentiate people's voices very easily, or I can discern things if I li- if I actually pay attention and listen to it. But other people just like, abandon all reason. There's a whole thing about like, Gen Alpha, uh, can't hear without subtitles or something. It was Alpha or is it part of Gen Z? Like younger people cannot watch content without subtitles because they can't understand it anymore. And I know there's a video that's breaking down.

It's like that's the way movies are mixed nowadays, but it's with YouTube videos too, or any videos, or TikToks. You know, they have to have captions on there. And I'm like, I feel like people's listening disabilities are getting worse. I do think it probably is not helped by the fact that I know a lot of people scroll like TikTok and socials on mute, right? You're like in public if you don't have your headphones or for whatever reason, you scroll on mute, you just read the auto captions. I wonder if that's like impacting people's ability. Like they're not worried about what the sounds like because they're like, ah, just read the caption. And so that's like their go-to form. I don't know. That is weird. I mean, I feel that I felt that way

about movies and TV for a while. I've kind of bad hearing sometimes. I've always felt like movies and TV. I'm like, why the fuck did you mix it so that their explosions make my entire house rattle, but then the conversations at normal human volume are like, it's like, I don't want my book. I don't want the volume that loud. Like I told you why. Because they mix it on like studio theater speaker setups or something? I don't know. It's because there are standards with which the dialogue, the music, and the sound effects must be mixed to. Must, quote me.

Must because of the law? No, this- it's because it's what idiots who have been doing this for a very long time are like, This is the only way! And it's the best way because I SAY it's the best way. And then everyone gets in agreement. Movies have dialogue mixed at either negative 18 or negative 21 decibels. That's so low. But explosions can go to negative 2!

That's...awful. Exactly, and they call it- it's because of the dynamic range, and I'm like, why can't you mix the dialogue higher sometimes? And they're like, well, we- you need to preserve the integrity of the dynamic range so people's expectations are there. And I'm like, I don't want my expectation to be lean in for the talk and then lean away for the explosion. That's not a- That'd get blasted. I- I am not a concert goer.

I do not like having my ears shattered by explosive sound waves, which is literally what they are at that range. It's damaging and just because so many of these sound mixers have blown their ears out through their careers and so many people who do music have literally damaged their hearing so people don't understand that people have been doing music for a long time and can form these opinions. Their ears are significantly worse than people who have not been to an or younger people. No, that is a that is a serious problem in the I was at the classical music world. A lot of conduct it was only like starting to be a thing, but a lot of conductors I knew younger conductors, especially would wear they make these like earplugs that only let

certain frequencies through, but that prevent all sound from getting into your ears. Because if you're conducting like a full orchestra of like 80 people, 100 people, whatever, all of that sound is hitting you in the face. I would imagine that causes ear damage in people who do mixing at live shows, people who were new studio mixing, because they're listening to all this crazy high dynamic range, you know, nuclear explosions and whatever the shit. Yeah, that's interesting. It's like how

chefs like get numb to salt, right? Food, food cooked by like a Michelin star chef is always going to taste kind of salt. Well, not always, but it's more likely to taste kind of salty to like a normal human because chefs eat so much rich, high salt, high acid stuff that they're getting numb to it and they keep, they need more to feel. It's either going to be extremely over salted or extremely undersalted. But that might be because I'm salt blind because I salt the shit out of everything. The man who literally eats salt licks like a horse No, that was one time. He gets a cracker Puts on a pound of butter and a whole salt shaker. The man who's never owned a Himalayan salt lamp for more than three months Because they keep breaking for some reason because they keep melting

They keep breaking they keep melting down the middle. I don't know what happened you have trail cam footage of like deer running away then mark running to someone's backyard like I will say Don't do him a land salt. Don't lick a can Don't do it's not the same as table salt or edible salt. I think it gave me an ulcer. But I did lick a Himalayan salt lamp for about two weeks straight. That's probably, yeah, that's not probably good.

Like 24 hours a day? No, no, just whenever I was. Yeah, no, that's probably not for eating. I could go on a whole salt conversation because I've learned a bit about different types of salt. Mark, tactical question. I've always wondered about this and I think I know the answer, but are there different audio mixes when a movie or a TV show is produced?

Is there one main mix that just gets pushed to everything, or is there an in-theaters mix and then a home television mix for broadcast? Or do you know this? Absolutely. Well, then why are they still so bad? Because it might be the wrong mix in the wrong place It might be the wrong format

There is a system called Dolby Atmos and Dolby Atmos was made to solve the problem that you're talking about Dolby Atmos is a 128 channel sound Environment, which means you can have 128 speakers theoretically very few situations have that super necessary yeah but what it does is it emulates the sound so that any sound system automatically reduces or compresses like okay these five channels if you five channels will reduce those to one channel because we know where it is and when you're in a theater they can take the Atmos and then they can assign it to different speaker setups for across different theaters and you have send one package over, and so long as it's set up and tested correctly, they don't have to render out another one, because back before,

especially in the early days of digital, they would send a digital package, it's called the DCP, a Digital Cinema Package, and then that would have a specific mix for that theater environment, and each theater would have to get one for themselves, and they'd have to tell them what they get, and then hope they get the right one and it could get them wrong all the time. But with these other things, now DCP sometimes have more mixes where they have a five, one, a seven, two, you know, a nine, fifteen, whatever. Dude, fifteen subs? That guy's livin'. It's a sub under each chair, you know, they don't think it's a moving theater but it's like,

URGH! When the explosions happen it's like an earthquake. Sure, but it gets 15 subs on YouTube and everyone scoffs. That's like, it's not a big deal. Dude, you guys didn't laugh at Elon Musk. He didn't laugh at the fucking thing. He was literally laughing. I was in the middle of my guffaws. I was tortling. I don't remember what we're talking about.

I was, Wade. Why are you looking suspiciously to the ghost on your right? There was, I was laughing. All right. Who he slid away from? Wade, Molly standing you looking suspiciously to the ghost on your right? There was- I was laughing. Alright. Who he slid away from Wade? Molly standing over there with a bat? He's getting his distraction paper towel ready to creep up on the other side. I'm hosting this episode according to my free will. I gotta tell you Wade, that paper towel bit when you're trying to like get the emotions of it, we killed Amy. Like she just happened to be watching it and when the paper towel came in She didn't know what you're doing in the paper towel. She was dying laughing for like a minute straight

So that really landed with some people. I peaked with my paper towel distraction. Anyway, thank you for answering. That's interesting You know, I have to say I knew Atmos existed. I had no idea. That's what it was. That's very interesting Yeah, the only problem is Atmos, you know, it's a nice technology, but it costs money So it's like you have to license it and yeah only I've noticed only expensive shit says Atmos, you know, it's a nice technology, but it costs money. So it's like you have to license it and... Yeah, only... I've noticed only expensive shit says Atmos on it too. You don't get... The TV that you buy for 150 bucks on sale does not come with Dolby Atmos. You're gonna get some kind of fancy shit to have that. Yeah, it's just kind of a big deal.

All right. I know Wade's the host and I guess we kind of transitioned without saying it into small talk, but I've been saving this for my small talk. So I'm gonna talk about it. Something, it happened. Bad things happened, Wade. Bad. Go on. I went to get my usual Tuesday morning breakfast skyline today. Skyline chili. I was gonna get my seven cheese conies with mustard and extra onions on them so I could fart it up in here while we record. How early did they open? I thought they didn't- They open at 10. Oh, okay.

I went and I was like, give me my usual, which is my cheese conies and a large diet Mountain Dew please. And the person on the speaker was like, oh, I'm sorry, we have coke products! It happened! I didn't realize it was happening so soon. It happened. They don't have Mountain Dew at Skyline anymore and they have Coke products now.

10, 15 years ago, I would have been a huge fan of. Coke is fine. Diet Coke, Coke Zero, good drinks. I have grown in my brain to pair Pepsi and Skyline. But you drink Mountain Dew with Skyline, god damn it. I am a Coke person more than a Pepsi person 90% of the time, but Skyline and Goldstar I have grown up pairing Pepsi with, which I actually get Pepsi there instead of Mountain Dew, but like same idea.

In my brain they go together. It's all wrong now. I'm so sorry. Everything is bad. I ate my my fart breakfast like I usually do with no drink and it's not the same and I miss it already. So I'm gonna just- I really hope we have a Coke sponsor right as you're laying in it. We could have Coke- NOOOO!

This episode brought to you by- No, look, that's the thing. I have nothing against Coke. Coke is good. But Mountain Dew goes with cheese conies, okay? God damn it. That's just how it is. Since I was in my teens, I've been eating Diet Mountain Dew with my cheese conies. Coke must be trying to make a big push again because I feel like for 15 years Coke has

been like disappearing from Cincinnati and Pepsi has been taking more and more over. So Coke must be like on a thing where they're trying to like reestablish a stronger foothold here because they've been they've been slacking for like over a decade. I don't think Coke needs to try that hard. Coke is the PlayStation of the soda wars right now. I don't. Yeah, anyway, Skyline's ruined. I'm very upset about it. And I guess I'm going to have to bring my own diet Mountain Dew when I go eat at Skyline. Skyline, they're expanding. There's like three or four

locations, at least in Florida now. Four or five years ago, they tried changing their oyster crackers and the entire city was like in an uproar. It was wild. Like everyone was livid. They were like, bring back our oyster crackers. Skyline isn't the same. They were like more of a buttery cracker. People were very upset. I was going to show you a pack of oyster crackers, but I ate it. It's gone now. So I'm kind of calling myself out here. They sell them in bulk at like jungle gyms. You can get a box of packets of oyster crackers. I've got two of those boxes upstairs well that's that's not shameful why would you be ashamed of that it's fine we we got one of those

we had some of those oyster crackers are good man you put them in soup you can also buy like frozen versions of skyline and gold star and stuff so like yeah well but we live in a place where we have actual normal skylines so why would you do that I like both though sometimes I crave the frozen version versus the other that's weird that That's wrong. It doesn't come with the cheese. You need the 80% of the goodness of Skyline is that... He's writing down. He's writing down, Bob. You just stop talking. You got a point for honesty.

I know that it happened because of like the pandemic stuff and that it's probably more clean, but you know what I do miss? When you used to go into Skyline, they used to take the little bowls that the oyster crackers come in and just scoop you an oyster cracker bowl out of the big the big box of oyster crackers. Now they only have little individual

plastic but even when you go to the restaurant they put the same little bowl on the table and then they're like here's your pack of crackers and like it was a post-covid change I think it's it's fine and they're the same crackers but somehow it's not the same. It's like disappointing having to open your packet and pour it in the bowl. Yourself really does feel like an extra. I agree with you. It's like a cleanliness thing. I get it. It's like hygienic that way.

We're talking about the first of first world problems. I know, but like, it's just not, it's not what I grew up with, you know? So I hate it. I have to drink Coke zero with my crackers are coming a plastic bag. Cincinnati stock is dropping fast. We're all looking to move now. You'll never be able to have the real skyline experience. Anyone who hasn't had it but has been looking forward to it.

I know you're out there. It's gone. Unless you always Mandy always gets Dr. Pepper, they still have that. That's no different, I guess. But if you were smart and you drank Mountain Dew. Dr. Pepper is a Coke product now. Dr. Pepper is like independent. independent but yeah I think it's owned by Coke or something right so it's owned by a bigger company but it's still like it's still

sold independently so Pepsi or Coke places can both have Dr. Pepper or whatever. They probably all are owned by the same company to be perfectly honest like the mega conglomerate. Yeah you've seen that chart where like every company in the world is actually owned at some point, if you go high enough by like five companies. As of August, 2023, Dr. Pepper is owned by Coca-Cola only in Europe and South Korea markets. Oh, weird.

That is what I didn't know. You could only own something in certain markets, but I guess that, well, you know, they have Coca-Cola America, Coca-Cola Europe, different companies, different branches and stuff. So sure. So it is owned by Coke, but not everywhere. That's Mark's Korean-ness coming out. Thank you. You got that Korean Coke, Dr. Pepper connection. I have a Coke? What kind? Dr. Pepper?

That will forever to maybe the weirdest way like pop soda wars. But the Coke? What kind of Coke you want? Mountain Dew? What? Yeah, but like literally he's what he's saying is totally true. People will sit down and the coke, what kind of Coke you want Mountain Dew? What? Yeah. But like literally he's what he's saying is totally true. People will sit down and be like, give me a Coke. Like, Oh yeah. What do you want? A Sprite.

Coke just means give me a soda. Where was it that I ordered? I ordered a lemonade somewhere and they gave me Sprite and it totally messed with my head. Was that in Europe? That was somewhere we traveled. I, do you mean, did you get like a, like a weird, like F Fanta lemon or something cuz that happens in Europe sometimes I literally ordered lemonade They had lemonade listed like on their board and I was like, oh give me a lemonade

That sounds refreshing and I took a sip and I was like Sorry, I missed it. How did you what did you react again? That's pretty good. He couldn't do it a third time That's pretty close. I couldn't recreate a noise of that type. Well try, try, try. Nah, I'm good. No, I'll do it. Give me a lemonade. Was that close?

Couple extra hookahs I think. Damn, do it again. Let me see. Give me one more practice. That wasn't quite the same. Yeah, a lemonade please. That was very Ethan-y. That was very Ethan-y. That was very Ethan-esque. It just seems like you're leading the cup up to your lips when...

Ah! Ah, it's good! That's not lemonade! Could I get a lemonade? AHHHHH! That's good. It doesn't scream like lemonade at all! It's carbonated in there!

Wait a minute! I say when life gives you lemons. AHHHHH! You scream this and tell me what you think. See one lemonade please. It's a sprite. Take it back. They just hand you a can of sprite. What is this? This is a lemonade. What the fuck is happening? Wait, so does Gold Star still have the Pepsi products then? I think I've not heard anything about them changing so I think they're still Pepsi. Yeah, which I like both, so I'm not-

I'm not like a hater, but I definitely prefer Skyline. If I want chili cheese fries specifically, I go Gold Star. They have good fries, they have the crinkly fries. Cheese conies, I like both. If you go like three, four, or five away, it's definitely Skyline for me. I like Gold Star, but I love Skyline. Like it's, I'll take either.

I've not gotten caught up in that war. Like growing up, I was like, oh, of course I prefer Skyline, but then like I tried Gold Star, it's like, damn, actually it's pretty's I'll take either. I've not gotten cut up in that war like growing up I was like, oh, of course I prefer Skyline but then like I tried Gold Star is like damn actually It's pretty good. It is different Like I feel like Gold Star is a bit spicier meaty or whatever But like man people are tuning out by the second if we get into this conversation again. Oh, yeah No, we're not doing the wars. That's what the wars we've already done coke Pepsi and Skyline Gold Star We're gonna wait by the way PlayStation Xbox also brought up

Is that today's topic or what do we got? Tier lists? Everyone loves tier lists. No. Okay. Let me give my little bit of small talk, which does lead into our topic. So Bob, as you know, we had a little bit of an issue with our radon mitigation system. I don't know if you heard about that

where we had to have that fixed a couple of times. I remember being very sympathetic to that issue if I recall correctly. Yes. Maple syrup, maple syrup. I think I talked about on here, how we had someone come look at our AC unit that smelled like maple syrup and then it turned out we needed a new furnace. Two days ago I was upstairs and I was watching TV or watching a show or something and we have a gas fireplace and the fireplace turned on and I was like,

Oh man, of its own accord. Molly must've turned it on. I looked over and the remote's next to me. Keeters is asleep on my lap. The puppies are asleep on my lap or next to me. And Molly's not even there. And I went, huh. So no one turned it on, but that is a fire. I looked at the remote.

The remote said off. I am looking at a fire right now. Well, it was off. So clearly not, I guess. Ah, let me go feel it. Yep, that's warm like fire, all right. Way to he who walks over to his fireplace. Two weeks ago, Molly's like,

yeah, the fireplace turned on by itself. And I was like, okay, the cat stepped on the remote. Something happened to do this. Like, whatever, fire just doesn't, what, is gas just coming in and igniting on its own? That doesn't make any sense. But now that I witnessed it, I'm like, man, my wife's not a liar.'s crazy looking into it apparently after a while

gas fireplace got like wires or things could go wrong where fireplaces go bad and have to be fixed or replaced but I'm starting to think man that there's a Wade problem with home ownership are you about to be the burned man the scorchedched man. Everything in the old house. You guys like rarely tell me about shit going wrong in your houses, but every now and then, every week, I'm like, yeah, dude, had to replace this, had to replace that. Hey, guess what? Apparently every like 10, 15 years

you have to replace a gas fireplace. So guess what I'm calling soon? The gas fireplace company, come look at our fireplace. Because I feel like a gas fireplace turning on by itself is a bit sketch. No, that's not great. It's good that it did ignite itself or whatever. Yeah, does it have like a pilot or is it like, like we have gas fireplaces where it's a switch on the wall, you turn it on and it doesn't have a pilot light,

but it has a little electric thing that ignites it. But if that doesn't work, you're just letting gas flow into your house. Couldn't tell you. I know how to shut the gas off to it and I know where the button on the remote that says on is. Fancy. Well, if there was a pilot light and it just lit, that means there's gas leaking in there. So it's probably not great. So I'd keep the fire on if I were you.

Or just shut the entire line off. What are those things called? Petcock? Turn cocks. Spincock? Yeah, spinerncock. Yeah, apparently the one of the things I just read was like whenever something goes bad,

then it thinks it's getting a signal from the remote to turn it on even when you're not. So I don't think it's just leaking gas, but I don't like that that happened, especially twice in like a two week period or at all. But like how do I always find the houses that are like, ah, needs a new sump pump, new AC unit, new furnace, new fireplace, new stove, new floor,

new ceiling, new house, new bricks, new driveway, new grass. New grass. You should shop more carefully for your houses or something. I don't know. Yeah, do you get inspectors in there? Yes. Do you have the same inspector? No, it was a different inspector.

And they're like, man, yeah, this dude, it's old, but it looks like it's in great shape. Someone's taking really good care of it. Do I not take care of things properly? Like, what do you do to a furnace after they clean out the filter, man? That's very possible. Yeah, that does seem likely.

You clean and change the filter. You ever refill your furnace fluid? You change the igniter filament? Professionals come out and look at these things. What about the gas line filter? You ever swap the gas line filter? Cause you know, you don't swap that it'll get gunked up you get all kinds of weird stuff. if the people come look at it tell me to. i've even gotten my calendar i'm like all right it's been three months gotta change the filter on this thing like i do

these things. doesn't sound like you do. i bet you couldn't even find your flame calibrator. i couldn't i've got people for that. I don't think you should trust these people. These people seem to be not good people. Yeah, whoever you're paying for this, they don't have any idea what they're doing, I guess. Apparently the higher stars someone has online and the better the feedback and customer reviews, the worse they are for me. I need to get the mud guy back, I guess. Just need more mud. I'm starting to think I'm cursed. It kinda sounds like it. Yeah, it does actually.

You have like the paranormal thing where the ghost follows you from house to house. What's that? Paranormal activity, that franchise. Toby, shouldn't have made fun of Toby. Some of my friends were skeptical. I went ghost hunting and I used the Ouija board and I was told by people that went with me

they're like, never use the Ouija board. I was like, ah, it's fake, what's gonna happen? But like, I don't think the Ouija board and I was told by people that went with me that they're like never use the Ouija board. I was like ah it's fake what's gonna happen but like I don't think the Ouija board brought a new demon into my life I think it just re-summoned the old one. It's just an excuse for the same old demon to just be an extra dick right now. Witchcraft and curses are they real? Tell me about them. That's today's topic because I need to have a curse broken or I need a voodoo doll of a witch to like stab in the face so she'll leave me alone I need something here well I'm glad you came to us we are the foremost experts in this particular field of

stuff I knew you would be that's why we have about 20 minutes for you to solve my problem that's your fault that's your fault I know I always let you guys blab I just enjoy our camaraderie and go on. I just enjoy our camaraderie. Jin go on! How do you enjoy our camaraderie? It's at least like a B on an S tier scale. That's pretty good. Pretty good. I don't just comrade around with anybody. No you don't Bob. So you so you want us to tell you if which if curses are real? Yeah like is this stuff real? Have you ever felt like you're cursed? Do you think there's a bunch of women that sneak out at night and do naked laps around a campfire cursing people

and need to- Why's it gotta be women? Okay, let's not drag. That's the historical like Salem witch trials witchcraft. According to who's history, come on now. However, in Supernatural, I think it was witches were female and warlocks were male. And maybe that's the general consensus,

but can you have male witches and female warlocks? Well, I don't know which universe do we live in? Because isn't it in Harry Potter, aren't they witches and wizards? Or are you still a wizard if you're a female? There are witches in Harry Potter, right? Yeah, witches and wizards. I think you're right. It's Harry Potter. It's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I don't know why supernatural arts need to be segmented by gender, but there you go.

Okay, so supernatural is warlocks. Warlock, wizard, witch... Is there another term? I don't even care what they're called. I just need to get them off my back. Sorcerer. Like, do I owe someone money? Like, what's the deal? I have a theory. Oftentimes people may feel cursed because actually what's happening is they have... I don't know what the correct term is.

They have that thing where you have multiple personalities or split personalities and like one of your personalities... Oh dissociative identity disorder? I think it's DID now? That sounds correct. One of your personalities doesn't like your other personality and so you like you go in between states and when you're the one person they're like sabotaging your house or your... and then when you're back to yourself it feels like you're cursed because shit is happening that doesn't make any sense like with the fire your hateful personality probably just snuck out for a second and to use the remote though sitting right next to you and turn the fire on and then peaced and then you sort of snap back to your this person and looked and you were like the fire oh no and internally you're the one that

doesn't like you it's just like like, got it. What an idiot. Interesting. The remote, we'll throw out there that the remote did still say it was off. Well, you can you can choose that sort of I will say I have one right in front of me. This thing operates like my air conditioning thing in here for my hot ass computers, steam my office up. If I like cover it and push the button, the remote will toggle without actually activating the thing.

So I could make this say on or off regardless of what's happening with the device itself. You could totally accomplish that as, you know, as a non-super supernatural type beat. Mark, what you got for me? I think that it's not you in terms of the you it's the overlapping multiverse that is having the parallel versions of you One of which wants the fire on because it's a universe where global warming has progressed to the point where we're all in the nice And worse they're super cold and they're like our gas keeps going out Our fire keeps going out and then you in your comfortable home Keep turning it off. Killing them. Who knows how many versions of you you've killed. Not enough because they're still haunting me

I gotta kill more of me. Yeah, if you just kill them all they'll stop. Not gonna lie though I didn't think you were gonna go multiverse like you're saying. Maybe it's not you. Maybe it's Molly. Alright, that's too much Go get out of here. Don't go away. What are you talking about? I have more theories. Everyone knows there are three basic types of curses. There's the generational curse, there's the caste curse, and then there's the sort of like karmic curse, where you are cursed because of actions. As much as we brag on you, I doubt that you've done anything that has karmically has earned you a curse.

You're not a bad person. No, I'm a great person. You don't torture small animals or any, you know, you don't do it. You're a good person. I just torture people with my content, that's about it. Yeah, but they choose that. They can turn that off.

That's on them really. So yours is either inherited from previous generations or someone cast it on you. And I feel like we've been going in the direction of like having a curse cast on you. Do you know if you have any family members that have faced this kind of curse? Maybe it's not your fault at all. It's just generational. Yeah, maybe you do.

You have any family members that are like not as nice generous as you? No, can't think of any. Some misdeeds or, you know, might be otherwise sort of cosmically, you know, in trouble with the universe for something they've done. Here's the problem with that question. That could lead me to generational orcast curse. So, I mean, you're kind of answering the question here. Sounds like you're getting there yourself. Usually, usually the responsibility for alleviating curses falls upon the family member who is most likely to be able to succeed in them.

So all the other ones, you know, it may not apply to them and you bear the burden because of your- the goodness of your soul. You have to bear the burden of all of these. Very challenging. Yeah, but you have to fix it. Okay. Um, how? Mmm. A good question. Excellent question, actually. you take a large vacation. That sounds crazy.

There you go. Large vacation problem solved. Episode over. I really thought my topic would last more than seven minutes, but here we are. This is why I allow small talk to go on for half an hour. My topics are just so short. Curses and witchcraft, there's not much to know. All right Wade, I have two options for you and I would like to know which route you want to go down before we commit too deeply into them. Okay. I think you can break a curse by just changing your mindset. Lots of positive affirmations, just try and change how you're

seeing and receiving things and that you'll slowly sort of work your way out of it. Or two, by doing some sort of cleansing ritual and detach whatever curse has been cast upon you to be flown off into the ether and maybe attached to someone else. But that's not your problem. Okay. I feel like we moved into the new house and the old house on the way out was like, what if you need a new dishwasher? What if you need that? I was like, oh, screw you house. I'm out. We came here and I was like, oh, the section was clean. Everything's in great shape. Can't wait

to not have all these house problems. Like I feel like I had a pretty good mindset when we came in here and for about, you know, four or five months, everything was fine. So I don't know if it's the mindset. So I guess what goes into the cleansing ritual? Okay. You want to do a ritual. Okay. There's some steps here, but we can do this. Naked and fire.

Are those necessary? Naked and fire? Actually, yes. Finally, you're going to need sage or other herbs, whatever you've got in the cabinet. So a bunch of salt candles or other type of fire and a bowl of clean water water. What you're gonna want to do is clean the house as deeply as you can. Every little speck of dust clean it as if your life depends on it. And once you're done cleaning the house, clean yourself. You want to take a nice long bath, really soak, maybe put some of those herbs and spices in there and then once

you're done with the bath, don't towel yourself off or anything. Drip dry like nature intended. In the tub or just throughout the house? That's throughout the house. If your drippings get around the house, that can only help the ritual. And then it's your basic stuff. You're gonna wanna put salt at all the entry points. You're gonna wanna take some of those herbs

and sort of smudge around, you know, especially if you have any problem areas, radon system, fireplace that turns itself on, maple syrup bush, any places like that. Just take, burn some of those herbs and smudging of it, if everyone knows, of course, is when you burn herbs and the smoke of those herbs cleanses the area

where the smoke is. And then you're gonna use the water when you're naked and dripping, if you're still dripping, but you know, that's just a bonus. Once everything is smudged and salted and ready, you take care of that water in a bowl around with you and you sort of like dip your fingers in and flick it around as a way of like spiritually cleansing. And then once everything is all set up, you light whatever fire implement,

candles, small pile of wood, whatever. Possessed fireplace. And you just light the fires around the house. You got to make sure anywhere there were problems, make sure there's fire in that area. Am I still naked at this point? Always naked. Stay naked. And then once all that's done you gotta you want to find the central room in your house and have a seat and really think about your intentions. Be positive. Think about how naked you are and then once all that's done put all the fires out open all the doors and windows and then run around your house still naked screaming, BEGONE! BEGONE! Oh, the outside, the outside of your house, not run around inside. Yeah, you have to do a full,

at least a full lap of your property, but then every room in your house you need to run frolic even, lots of leaping and that'll do it. Okay, that seems easy enough. Lots of nudity, well, pretty good amount of fire and then salt and herbs. It's like Kentucky Fried Chicken. Would you say your ghost or spirit or demon manifests more in the radon mitigation system, or is the radon mitigation system somehow connected to your fireplace? Is it like, is it very important to know the origin point?

I really hope that our thumb pump and fireplace aren't connected. Okay, so you think it's a radon mitigation system that is essential. It's like the, what if the spirit manifests as Radon and it's overpowering your system. It's not able to mitigate it because who knows what radon really is that probably is ectoplasm So it's not mitigating it It just it went from like one part of the house and it's kind of like sweeping across

We're talking about like radon furnace, AC unit fireplace are kind of close I guess so it's kind of like sweeping across the house. So we've already agreed that this is real, I'm assuming. No one's debating that it's not real. You are haunted and it is a curse and you are. After like five straight years of this, it's hard to dispute at this point because it seems like every few months and like I don't want to lose my friendship with Bob because I know every time I have a house problem a part of our friendship dies and I just want to make sure that doesn't happen. Sure. So like could I deal with this? Yes, but like not at the cost. You know what? I just thought of another way that you could probably solve this.

You know it would help. So you've lived in two houses. They're not close together but they're in like the Cincinnati area right? What you need to do is find a third house that creates an equilateral triangle with the other two houses and if you move to that third house, you guys know I don't have the first house anymore right we had to sell that you don't have to own it you did your your essence is still there your essence yeah your essence is baked into the walls of that place holy Jesus okay hang on I'm sorry. That was quite the scream. Sorry. Well, he's not wearing his headphones and microphone this time so we

can't spy. This is terrible. I've also got to go all of a sudden. I'll be here alone. It's just me now in this episode of witches and wizards and warlocks and curses. You probably have been laughing to yourself and thinking that it's all a fun joke in a fun time. Maybe you're driving. Maybe you've listened to all the other stories and you couldn't beat me. It's all just a bit, but let me tell you, Distractable never actually existed. If you look, you'll see that you're not connected to anything at all. Your phone has been off this entire time.

Service abandoned. You'll notice you're on a stretch of road you've never seen before. Nothing's familiar but it- Oh, hi. Welcome back. You just kind of materialized to me. Like it was an empty chair and then suddenly you were putting on your headphone stuff. I don't know. Oh, that's fun. How are you?

I'm good. Just, you know, I- In episode or not episode, it's a bit mind-boggling that like, everything always goes wrong at the same time in the house for us. Don't notice it. You ever had that many things crop up back to back to back? I mean yeah but I don't talk about it. We had a mold problem that we didn't talk about just because it was like yeah whatever it happens and then we had like uh multiple times the AC leaks

all the time we have to get someone out basically to fill it up every time and they can't find the leak so it's like every year why don't just replace the unit why don't you just get a new unit get a new home? unit? ac unit? no it doesn't leak at the unit it leaks somewhere along the pipes to the hvac system so we don't know where because it's in the attic but you can't actually physically get up in the attic interesting yeah so we have many problems we just don't play everything good bob?

yeah sorry just cranky baby throwing heavy things all All good. No one hurt. How strong is that baby? It's scarily strong. So this doesn't get to sound that impressive, but so he's tidy, right? And there's this rug, play rug in his area. And we were trying, he keeps like picking it up and folding it up and just like generally it's a problem because he trips over it. And Mandy was like, well, let's just put these heavy weights on it Right, like there's no way he could pick up these heavy weights We'll just weigh it down and then he'll you know, maybe leave it alone. Hopefully just picked it up. You know, it wasn't like insane I think it's like 10 or 12 pound things like free weights. He did not give a shit He just walked her over and was like, oh, how big is he now? Is he like he's 16 months?

And so he's like, oh, I don't know. I want to say he's like 30, 30 to 34 inches long. And he weighs, I couldn't even guess. He feels heavy. Nah, it feels like he weighs maybe like 30 pounds. So half of his body weight he just picked up and chucked. I guess we can do that. Yeah, but what is what's such a small uncoordinated person is very frightening. Anyway, he's fine. Sorry. Mark has HVAC problems or something. I had to miss mine. I don't wanna complain about it. I was just like, man, do anyone else have house problems

like me and like, do you guys just not mention them? And Mark's like, oh yeah, all the time, just don't mention them. Did I tell you guys about how our HVAC system was leaking water onto the floor of our basement for a while? And it turns out it's because there's a, it has a humidifier built into it

and the little hose for the humidifier just like got tweaked and was just pissing water out onto the floor that wasn't great I don't think you mentioned that one but no that sucks that happened we took a while to figure that one out that was weird our deck is falling apart our deck is on this house it's not that old that the deck is literally crack like the steps are literally cracking into pieces and it's super dangerous and I don't know how to fix it so I'm gonna have to come hire hire someone come build deck stairs or something I never complained about that no you should I I need I need more people to complain about house issues so I know I'm not alone because like the rest of it seems fine it's

just the steps are kind of crumbling which is in my brain all of you guys like never have to change a filter your furnace has always worked everything's always great and then like I'm like yeah I want to change a filter in the wall collapse you guys like oh can't believe that what's so weird cuz like it's starting to feel like home ownership is only a thing that's a problem for me the water pressure in our house is really bad and we need a new hot water heater and possibly our house is just totally fucked cuz our county has really hard water and so so there's buildup in all the pipes. Ohio is a hard water thing. Yeah.

I could complain, Wade. I just choose not. I could, I could choose what I complain about. I choose to complain. I need more people to do it. I don't want to, I complain about funny stuff, not house stuff. Your house stuff is funny because you get shit like mud guy and toilets that leak for no apparent reason. My house stuff is like boring house crap. It's not funny and it gets fixed after I pay someone to fix it. Usually fireplace that turns itself on.

It's always weird things. Oh yeah, I feel like that's the least weird of the things that is weird, though. I mean, that's that's not good. You don't want to an appliance that could be leaking natural gas into your house to start behaving weirdly. That's concerning. That's the freaky part. Yeah. It's like for it to turn on. It means there is both gas and an ignition happening that I didn't tell it that do.

Well, as long as it does both, I guess that's better than one or the other. But true problems that make themselves known are way better than problems that sneak up on you in the middle of the night. Wade, I thought of something else. Are either of the houses that you've had all these troubles in lake houses? Lake houses are historically haunted. No, there's not really a lake. Is there a pond? Like a drainage ditch? Anything? I mean, so here in Cincinnati and even like

whenever we grew up in Milford, there's rivers and things that are nearby. So sure, there's water or there historically was water in a lot of these locations. So yes. OK. Well, that's not helping. I've got no boat. So like there's no boat capabilities. I don't have to have a boat for the for the negative effects of. Oh, I guess I could put it on the grass and pretend that there's still water. But like, you know, what you should get is a huge pirate ship

playset and set that into the ground and then get some laser tag kits and then we can come over and play pirate laser tag. Could call it like scallywag tag. I mean I do feel like that is not a thing. Not a thing anymore. What happened to me? That is not a thing anymore. Oh my god I'm turning into a pirate. That's how pirates talk right? The ghost the ghost is in your mouth right now.

Explains my sore throat today. Not a thing anymore. Oh yeah that's exactly how pirates talk, right? The ghost, the ghost is in your mouth right now. Explains my sore throat today. Not a thing anymore. Oh yeah, that's exactly how pirates talk. I thought a pirate got on the call. I was like, oh man, wow, the fourth member's a pirate. Ah, crazy. But no, I guess not. Arnar's a pirate.

Ah, me too. I'm just gonna give you both arnar points. Mark didn't say our NAR at all Thanks, buddy. Remember what I made you do that to someone who is actually Australian at your at that wedding that we were at together Yeah, but I'll never see them again. Oh, it was very funny. When did you do that? We were at a wedding and there were some Australian people there is one of the people getting married was Australian real Australians one of the people getting married was Australian Yeah, I will see you talk to her again, but I probably won't see you talk to her family again.

But I, at some point I just went up to Wade and I was like, hey, Wade, you know, instead of saying, oh no, you know, with an Australian accent, Australian people say, Arnar, and I was like, you should just go up to one of them and be like, Arnar, there's a problem, and he did. And they were like, we don't talk like that. No, they did, they and they were like we don't talk like that No they did they said Arnar we don't talk like that

Arnar Arnar we don't talk like that I felt justified in doing it for two reasons one you told me to and two they had us do that dance whatever that dance was Do the Australian dance I didn't do it was it called the nut bush? Yes the nut bush It's it's not the nut bush. It's a wedding dance. The nut bush.

After they made me nut and bush in public, I was like, you know, I will R&R them. That's only fair. It's a fair trade off. R&R the nut bush! Not my nut bush! I can't tell if you're Australian or if there's a pirate this cold. Um, anyway. Wade, you're haunted and you might be incurable. I think that's the summary of

where I'm coming from here. The end. You gave me all these solutions. Yeah, but clearly they're not gonna work. These are terrible solutions. I don't know anything about this stuff. What do you expect? Yeah, if we know how to fix it, we would fix it. As a good friend of yours, I would have already helped you if I could. And definitely we're not the cause. Also, can I get my empty maple syrup bottle back? I might've dropped it last time I was over there surping your bushes.

Dude, if you had somehow accidentally led to me realizing that our furnace was not safe by just pouring maple syrup in our yard, that would be the ultimate like whoopsie daisy that maybe saved our lives ever. Whoopsie, you're welcome. Did you pour maple syrup in our yard? No, I didn't recall saying that.

Do I get maple syrup points if I did? I gave Mark a point for not being suspicious. Well, that doesn't seem very fair. I'm not suspicious at all. There you go. You know what song I'm singing in my head right now? Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.

Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. All right, well that part is not suspicious, I guess. Before we wrap up though, I do wanna offer something that we've never done here before. We always lead the episode off with like the intro and the small talk.

So I wanna see if we wanna end on any big talk. Any big talk you guys wanna do before we wrap up? Big talk? Yeah, if we start small into big. I have big talk, I have big talk. This is partially about me, but also this is something I guess I just wanna like manifest into the universe cause it's been helping me a lot.

Anyone out there who is a parent, if you want to do it on the subreddit, I'll probably see it there, but do it wherever. If you have any positive advice, any positive takeaways, just any encouragement whatsoever, even if you just have a thought that like you come back to that helps you feel good about your journey as a parent and how things are going, share it. share it with people, share it with other friends that you have who are parents, share it online. I have been struggling with the idea internally

that I'm just not a good enough parent and it's not like a logical thing, it just is a thing that won't go away that I'm constantly afraid I'm not doing enough or a good enough job or I'm not doing the right things. And it's like emotionally one of the most beaten down, beaten into me things I've dealt with, which is lucky for me,

because I know a lot of people deal with hard stuff, way harder than this. But just as someone who's trying to come to grips with being a parent, if you have anything, even if you're not a parent, if you have memories of your parents, if you have thoughts, share them, but share the positive ones.

There's plenty of judgment, there's plenty of instructions. If I wanted to go and find reasons that I'm a bad parent, there are infinite numbers of those online, but what's been really helping me lately is finding people talking about their little wins, talking about them getting perspective and realizing like, you know what, I'm not perfect, but look at this kid, look how awesome this kid is.

Like, I must be doing something right. Anything like that, share what, I'm not perfect, but look at this kid, look how awesome this kid is. Like I must be doing something right. Anything like that, share it, share it with people because that has been a huge help to me. And it's not even for me, it's for everyone else because I'm not the only one who thinks these things and feel these things. I imagine anyone who's a parent probably feels this because it's very stressful and complicated

and it feels like you have no idea what you're doing a lot of the time. So just share that. And I wanna try and do this too. I'm not in a very positive place right now, but I'm working on it. I want to try and share any positivity I have and I think you should do about how hard it is, but how, you know, those intrusive thoughts that parents have about how you're a terrible parent for whatever reason, it's probably not true. And that you need to have some perspective on because kids are tough and it's tough being a a parent but it's never as bad as well

hopefully it's not as bad as it feels I know for me it's not and other people showing me and telling me that has helped a lot so that's my big talk share that pretty big mark follow that up and impress me um well the NAB expo is going on right now which is the North American Broadcasters Association where new camera technology and new lenses are getting announced all the time if there's one thing you can always count on see forward progress of Technology and if there's one thing that we can all rest assured in is that technology is only good and will only ever make our lives bigger and better Man, yeah, I got nothing. Was that what you were gonna talk about? I thought you had something

I didn't know I was like waiting for you to see what you had and I was like Well, I really was hoping you'd come in here with like hey, there's any editors directors writers content creators actors Musicians youtubers gamers out there. I need some good advice No, no, I'm great. No, I'm solid. Rox, I'm doing everything right. Um, I have the confidence of success on my side, and my giant huge brain is a problem solving monster, and I'm able to move forward with everything I got. No issues here. Living the dream, having no qualms. Actually, I will tell you, also this. One thing that's wonderful about this particular phase

of making this is, Lixi and Marcus, Rachel, and now Molly and Amy, we're all in the same city and we're all working on finishing this project, which is just a fantastic difference between me working alone in a dark room, not seeing the sun for a very long time. That was fun.

Yeah, it's fun sometimes. Other times it's not. Um, and there is something very wonderful about, you know, everyone, uh, believing in what we're doing. You know, that- that is difficult. I say a lot and you'll- How wonderful is that? How wonderful is that? We say that a lot, um, where it's like, you know, we've talked about before, where you can't make people believe in what you believe in or, you know, we've talked about before where you can't make people believe in what you believe in or you know, you can't expect other people to really take what you believe is important to heart, but it is wonderful to know and I hope you guys

listening out there know that you can find those people and you can make them believe in something. You know what I mean, you can't make them, but there are people that are willing to believe in something just as much. And obviously it won't be the most important thing in their life, but they can still care about something. And when you're working on something with people that really, really care, like care on a level where they think about it so deeply and look at it from different angles, like they're out there. And it's just about finding them and always challenging yourself in them to make something that's even bigger and better so that you can have this potentially really cool thing going on.

And I'm very, very happy to be in this stage now. They just came in like two days ago. Like one of them I had to pick up from the airport at past midnight, but that's just because their flight got delayed. But it's like now we're all here and it's working. So like working alone can be stressful and sometimes you have to do it But working with people that care and have shown just an incredible drive and and so much talent And it can make the process fun the process doesn't have to be a grind all the time Sometimes you gotta do it alone and those times you got dig deep But other times like yeah leaning on people is kind of the coolest thing about making these things. All right, that's pretty big

That's all I got. Whose was bigger? Who's got the biggest? All right. Let me count out the points here. Mark had five, 10, 15. You gotta read the reasons. Okay. Mark. Dolby Atmos.

Amy Laughed. Lone. Multiverse. Lone? Sorry, I just don't remember what that was. I'm trying to remember. I don't either. Multiverse. Not cause. No help. I'm trying to remember. I don't either multiverse not cause no help not suspicious

teamwork, uh, and then you both have Vacation large vacation Bob. I have skyline Honesty witch wizard. I hate me Naked fire big talk baby help And then in the margins I have three curses, generational, caste, karma, and then I have solve, ritual, or mindset. And then what looks like A-RAR. Not sure what A-RAR is, but that's what my handwriting seems to say.

Sounds like something worth points. Mark, I have five, ten, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. Bob, I have five, ten, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Bob I have 5, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18. However, Mark, Bob and I made a rule a long time ago that whenever a certain topic is brought up, you have to lose a few points. Oh, but it was as a joke. So lenses lost you three points. No, but I said it as a joke, but it was like, I wasn't even gonna really, I thought it was a joke and a counterpoint. But before the joke came up,

I'd already written down lenses. You can plead with Bob. If Bob chooses to let you win, you can, but like, right now my hands are tied. Do you regret talking about lenses, Mark? Well. Do you have any regrets? I don't regret that bit because I knew that it was a bit,

I was using the disinterest in it as a counterpoint to be what is the most polar opposite thing I could talk about Bob's selfless discussion and very heartwarming thing. I was like, how can I punctuate this in the the most Antithetical way possible so I stand by what I said because it had the effect that I desired and therefore I don't regret the decisions I made and you can never regret the decisions you made Because they're the decisions that led you to where you are and you can't go back And if you ever try to go back and try to undo the past that is that is a Exercise in futility and I do not believe in that mantra and I will not believe in that mantra I stand by my actions and I own them completely you hear that death row inmates be proud

See he did what I did. He did the same thing I did. He did what I did. He did do what you did. Be proud lens owners. He mentioned it. He mentioned it. Lose points. Minus three points for me. I said the word. Do I lose points just for having set lenses? That's the rule. You mentioned it, right? Should I? I don't know.

Wait, let me look at the Constitution. Wait, wait, wait, wait. This was our ruling. We said we'd remove points how specifics it's supposed to be I don't know you're in charge I just didn't realize it was that I'm looking at the bylaws wait was this a handshake deal that we made before the Constitution or after the Constitution oh had to be before cuz didn't didn't wasn't part of the Constitution that all previous deals are hereby done with and disposed of I don't know, I didn't pay attention I'm having a... not that I'm trying to give away my victory I guess, but I'm having a memory that potentially...

I feel like there was a distinction made on past deals or null and void yeah, but that's just from that one constitution episode, who really cares about that episode? I mean, I love that argument, that's a great people will really like that. We're just going to toss that whole thing out the window. I like that. I mean, what did they expect from me for me to pay attention? No, no, no, no, no. I have one flag left to throw this year. All right. Well, you both have mentioned that previous handshake deals were canceled and I don't feel like thinking anymore. So you know what, Mark, you get your three points back and you win. How's that?

I'll take it. Bob isn't really fighting for his victory so you can have it. As much as I'm not a huge fan of that outcome, I'm more scared of other handshake deals that I'm either not aware of or don't remember. You think we remember at this point? We would have used them.

I don't know. You could just start a bit and be like, so Bob, do you remember six months ago We made a handshake deal where you said I could claim a victory anytime you hosted and I would be like no But I believe you okay, so about six months from now. I'll claim that and it'll be after the Constitution Okay, well all handshake there are currently no handshake deals on the table. There aren't any there are they're all dead They're all disposed of they're all gone so there are no secret handshake deals except that one that we made mark uh we'll hold on to

that wait what wade do i get any extra points for being so honest even though it costs me my victory yes but the problem the problem is you already have uh honesty points on here. What about bravery points? Or possibly bob points? I feel like if bravery is go- I- I stood by my words. I was ready to accept my fate. And I made that big speech about going back in time, remember that? Can't go- can't go to the past. You both get an extra three points, just shut the fuck up and Mark wins.

Well that didn't accomplish what I was hoping for at all. I'm glad I got points I guess, but damn. We're richer, but damn. We're richer, but our happiness has gone down. Apparently 19 plus three is 20 infinity, according to my handwriting, and Mark, you win with that. Yes, 20 infinity, the highest score ever, yes! How many infinity did I end with?

One, 21. Just shit. Okay, now it's 22. I don't know how that 2 turned into an infinity sign. I appreciate everything that has gone on to this incredible episode. What did we prove? There are curses? Wade is definitely cursed. Wade is cursed? We gave him the steps to solve his problems.

It's now in his hands to be done with the thing. My camera is about to die and before that happens, thank you for this incredible victory. You're welcome. Bob, loser speech. Oh look, I should say I feel like I was very honorable today. It was not all motivated by fear of handshake deals that I have. It was purely that I wanted to follow the rules as they have been set forth and I wanted to make sure everything here was, was, you know, meaningful and the points mattered and everything was not made up. But in fact, follows a strict set of consistent rules.

And I feel like despite ending up with the loss, I feel good about my honorable actions today. And so I feel like a winner. That's fair. I won't even call it a loser speech. You get the honorable mentions speech. Perfect. Just honorable speech. That's fair. I won't even call it a loser speech. You get the honorable mention speech. Perfect. Just honorable speech. That's me, baby.

I myself ended with negative three or negative six points. Nobody really laughed at my Elon Musk joke at the very start. And then I mentioned lenses which lost me three, but then I got them back because... question mark? Yeah, you guys explained I just didn't listen. And that's it. So thank you boys for joining congrats mark on the victory congrats Bob on the honorable

mention that you earned today I hope everyone will go on the subreddit parents out there and do what Bob asked I think that's a really cool idea stay tuned for the next one where Mark will do who knows what in the meantime we do have merch distractible store yeah say it like you mean it. Distractable store dot com! It's out there baby! You can buy stuff. And you can find us at our respective sites, Mark and Markiplier, Bob at MySkr, me at Minion777, or LordMinion777. We'll see you next time. Until then, podcast out.

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