Distractible - The Ick

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

Inspired by a r/Distractible subreddit post, the guys discuss things that give them the ever illusive, yet always unnerving "ick." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Find Secret at your nearest Walmart or Shoppers Drug Mart today. Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractible, a Wood Elf production. This week, Bob gives copious convincing head, but oddly doesn't like fluffers, sneeman, or ball bashing. Hello and or the ick. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to Distractible, the only podcast that you'd ever need in your life to get you through your sorry, sad, so sad, very sorry, sad days. I'm your host, Mark. I won last week, which means that I'm going to be the the judge and if you've never been here on distractible You know that me as the Joe you don't know wait. I'm assuming you don't know That me as the judge and judging my fellow not hosts Wow we used to have a script for this

Oh, man, these other two human beings that are not in the room with me But I'm hearing their voice in my head. And now you are too. Bob and Wade. Hello. Hey, that was very clear, concise, and I understood it perfectly. Everybody confused. If you've never been here, you know what's going on. Yeah, no, I love the idea of Mark as a teacher. Day one of the semester, he walks in and he's like, you've all never been here, so you should know my name is Mark. And if you definitely already don't know, this class is space. Space 106. Here's your final exam. We'll be taking the final today, and the rest of the semester we'll spend learning all the stuff you should have already known.

I'm handing out your syllabus. It's multiple choice. There you go. As you hand each student the syllabus, you got a B. Look, you got a C-. I am having been disappointed. I will am having been disappointed. You know what I mean.

Yes, yes, of course. Anyway, so how are you guys doing on this fine, lovely Tuesday? Monday, Monday. Quite good, quite good. I'm very tired. Wade's had a long night this non-baby life is exhausting i can only imagine man oh man you guys are never gonna guess what my small talk is about for today uh different types of beer you've had whenever

you've gone to local breweries in your area lately yeah for all the times i've gone outside of my house while the sun was up yes uh no actually though i have a one month old baby listeners so that's what's happening but also cold fusion oh i was wondering if mark would have heard about this that i did but that was unexpected is your baby involved in cold fusion somehow um well yeah the baby has stirred so much cold emptiness in his heart that he has caused cold fusion internally wow the baby will someday live in a world powered by cold fusion where the energy is unlimited and the problems are all different and socially what did we talk about this last week with the fusion thing what did we i thought we brought up never mind maybe i'm dreaming it go ahead

i meant to bring it up last week but i don't know if you've heard i've had a baby but no uh no the the uh lawrence livermore national laboratory achieved a positive net gain fusion react i don't know the words but they've essentially made a fusion reaction happen where more energy was created than they put into it. It's a scientific first and establishes the fundamental principle that cold fusion is actually possible and could be a harnessable

power source of almost infinite supply with basically no waste product as far as I understand it. That's probably not true. I swear we talked my chat, or chat, audience audience the viewer listeners whoever you are let us know in the comment red subreddit that if we did why don't you let me take over i know it feels like a long time for me but it's only been a week since we've been together doing this right sorry mark i forgot your intro was so much cleaner than what i just said you know i feel like it's only been a week since we've been together doing this, right? Sorry, Mark. I forgot your intro was so much cleaner than what I just said.

You know, I feel like it's just establishing the theme of the episode today. And I'm going to circle back into a perfect segue. Are we getting older? Well, it's something to that. Look, I just got to say, people have started to notice the quality is always good, but the content is inconsistent and circular. It's actually shaped like a full circle.

They've noticed that we've been repeating some topics these days. And, you know, we've been talking about the same thing over and over again. They're just complaining, which sounds like a bad habit. And we're going to do an episode about that one day. Someday. Someday we will. it and we're gonna do an episode about that one day someday someday we will and uh they've been so kind to provide a list of new video episode i'm so tired of her shit they're giving us topics now yeah so i i pulled i pulled up a list here of things that we could uh talk about and the various things that they've talked about is do an episode about getting older.

So that's pretty cool. I like that one. Talking about childhood stories. You know, there was that one. We could talk about our college days. Now, hear me out. Mark hosts and he could talk about his college days. Pretty sure Bob was there so he could help too.

Okay. Haven't done that before. However, there is one here that I'm going to steal that was not actually highly rated that i have confirmed we have never done before and this will be i hope that's accurate i god i really hope so i haven't i actually haven't double checked too hard but you confirmed it's confirmed yeah should i By experts. Should I bowl forward or should I ask if we've done this before? No, no, no. Keep going. Never ask. All right. We're going to...

Oh, God. Now I'm not sure. Oh, God. Today's topic is about phobias. Have we? Have we? Oh, no. Oh, no. No, not yet. No, well, how similar to a fear is a phobia oh you seem to recall there may be an episode of this podcast fears and fetishes fears and fetishes that's very different that's very i agree It's almost like a good bad habit versus just a regular bad habit.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Those are basically the same words. No, no, no. We're getting older despite we're not getting younger. No, no, no, no, no. There's, there's. Let's do phobia. Beautiful.

Let me just see what I said last time we didn't talk about this. There was something else that I discovered here that I wanted to address. There was something else that I discovered here that I wanted to address. There is another subreddit that I found in my process of doing intense, strenuous research for this topic episode. It's a subreddit called World Wade Supremacy. Excuse me? Wade, did you know this exists? Did you make this?

I don't remember. I'm getting older. It's actually just Wade with like a two dozen alternate accounts. It is strange because it is a subreddit that's entirely dedicated to you, Wade. I didn't know this existed. 251 members. That's 100 more people than there are Pokemon in the world, right? Wow.

Yes. I don't know that actually offhand. There's a lot more than 150 Pokemon. That was the original. Well, those are the only ones I count. Those are the only good ones. I agree because that's before the dark type came and ruined my psychics. I don't like Trashcan Dave.

I don't even know what that means. And Puddle of Water. I know you don't, buddy. I know you don't. Look, I looked at every single Pokemon, and I still couldn't tell you who's who, so I don't know what anything's going on down there. Do you at least remember the ones that you'd fuck? Uh, if I saw them again, I definitely would. I'm sure that if I went through all 800 and something,

I would be very consistent with my choice of again, I definitely would. I'm sure that if I went through all 800 and something, I would be very consistent with my choice of which one I would bone. I'm almost sure about that. I like that as an experiment. Once a week, every week for like half a year, do the same Smasher Pass Pokemon one. See how consistent you are with it. Yeah, exactly.

Perfection. Well, besides that... Is this what my brain is like? What this subreddit is like it is a little concerning some of those but at least it's not like a super super way over the top kind of adoration that you might see in other subreddits so very nice but that being said i do have some other part that's not particularly phobia related because as people who have been listening to this know no, that's not the name of this episode. The name of this episode is called The Ick. Wade, I'm going to play something for you. That is very uncomfortable. It's like someone's trying to squeak styrofoam in my ears, but it also sounds like someone's chasing a cat with a squirt bottle.

It is, in fact, styrofoam. Yeah, that's not the squeaky noise, but that's definitely like someone's trying to rub it together and it's not quite making the noise that kills me yet. It's the too crumbly styrofoam sound. Oh, God. It made me tense up. I really tensed up when I heard it there. Remember when we used to do in-person streams and I would always bring my monitor packed in styrofoam and it was so funny yeah so funny it was so funny everybody

loved it you know that's one of the worst things about growing up was everyone's so excited to like get their new toy or new thing and open it up and it's like the part i dread the most because if it's packed in styrofoam i either have to suffer through it or have someone else do it for me. It's just the dread. You got new technology for Christmas this past month and you had the box in front of you and you were like, Ollie. I do that sometimes. Can you open my toy?

There's a certain like, I don't know how to describe it, but even like the thicker styrofoam, sometimes it's like, okay, this is bad, but I can do it. And sometimes I just like, I lay a finger on it to see if i can pull that one out it's like no i can't do this one and i have to leave and let someone else do it well wait how about how about this it's not pleasant but it's not oh god i i don't have a thing about styrofoam but that was unpleasantly squeaky i'll give you that that. Yeah. Some of the squeaks were definitely close to the styrofoam squeak, and some of them just sounded like you were stepping on a squeaker toy.

What if I play both of them at once? Okay, I got you. I can't. I can't do that. I can't do that. I took my headphones off. I can't hear you guys. We're just actively trying not to throw up right now. Mark's not lit up anymore, so I think I'm safe. You're safe. I'm not doing doing it anymore so what this episode is about is about the ick it's very

different from a phobia so this is a patently different idea than just phobias and i do want to credit the person that said i just closed the tab control shift team are quick control oh you're right you're right you're right F4! You're right. Hold on. Oh, no. Oh, it uncollapsed all the topics. Where the hell? I meant to search for the ick. I just searched for Alt F4.

God damn it. Okay. Got it. So it's nothing and no one here on Reddit. This one did not get that many upvotes, but I think it's very good because the ick is different. Sometimes you can get the ick is different. Sometimes you can get the ick from a lot of different things.

It could be a singular source that repeats. For Wade, it's styrofoam. For me, it's the top felt of cars amongst many other things. Like if there's like an old car from the 90s, it's got those felt roofs. Some new cars have them too. But if I touch them. Oh, like the faux velour texture? Yeah, yeah. If I touch them with my finger, it's not even so much the sound but

the sound is bad but if i touch it myself it's even worse i imagine way that's the same with styrofoam like the sound's bad yeah touching it would be even worse i'm not afraid of styrofoam i'm not afraid of cotton balls but like pulling a cotton ball apart or yeah hearing styrofoam yeah those oh i love cotton balls coming apart no oh. It's like a worm is massaging my ear brain. I can hear it in my head. I can feel it in my teeth. You feel it in your teeth, right? Yeah, only if you bite it with your teeth.

That sounds like you're deep-throating their microphone. That doesn't sound like cotton balls. No, that sounds like this. Don't laugh at that.'s the cheapest dumbest shit as i was doing it i was like nah shouldn't have done that who was listening to this episode at work because now you're fired i hope someone's mom walked in the room right at that moment i don't know about those honey what are you about that caught me off guard i'll give you two points for that well done worth it yeah anyway uh wait i'll give you one just for making

you listen to the styrofoam using oh thanks i'm glad that my actual suffering is worth one point well why do you sound sarcastic about it but the whole microphone in my mouth oh god damn yeah well impressive yeah what bob just went through versus why i went through a very equal do you sound sarcastic about it? I had to put the whole microphone in my mouth. Oh, god damn. Yeah. Well, impressive. Yeah, what Bob just went through versus what I went through are very equal. Oh, take your point away. God damn it, Wade. Yeah, that's right. Take another one. Alright, negative one. Good. Thanks. I see we've circled back to

the beginning of the show, Wade. Yeah, bitter Wade is here all of a sudden. It's crazy how that happens. Classic Wade moment. Alright, well, Wade's at a rocking negative one and Bob's at plus two. We haven't even started the episode yet. We haven't? I thought we were being icky. No, no, no. He was just setting it up.

Yeah, I was setting it up. Now I'm kicking it off. Oh, ick-troduction. I'm not giving you a point for that. How do you feel if i tell you to visualize a cow hoof without the hoof part oh why are you doing that oh sorry does that make

you feel icky here and lose three points i guess you know that's true all right i'll take three points away from me yeah good all right glad we're on the same page all right the score is bob two way negative one me at negative three i am this is probably my worst performance yet on an episode good well you're not losing so that's pretty good that is true that is true uh but what i'm gonna pass it off is to you guys for this so it's not necessarily tryptophobia or phobias in general these are things that could be texture based food based feeling based clothing based like bad clothing on your skin things that give you the ick things if you eat too much of so there are certain things that give you the ick, things if you eat too much of. So there are certain things that give you the ick where you, if you eat too much of it, you suddenly realize like, I've never hated this more in my life.

If you get past a certain point, you know, a certain foods up to a certain point, the most delicious thing in the world, then suddenly I wish I was dead. You know, that kind of feel. Oh yeah. I've got an example right off the top of my head. Bob, do you have an example right off the top of your head? I've been thinking, I've been thinking I have a couple. Yeah. I've got an example right off the top of my head. Bob, do you have an example right off the top of your head? I've been thinking I have a couple, yeah. I've got some... I think I have a kind of controversial one, too. I'm interested to see what people think about it.

Do you guys think that you could put this in a title format to see who goes first? Then we'll just go back and forth from there so we don't do titles for all of them. Okay. Yeah, I have a title. Yeah, sure. I got one.

All right, I'm ready. It's ruined! I like it. I like it. Okay, Bob? Actually, I need a prop for this. Hang on. Oh my god. That's my title. I don't like it.

I pick Wade's. That microfiber cloth was very dusty. What did you do to it? I put it in my mouth! That microfiber cloth was very dusty. God damn. What did you do to it? I put it in my mouth. There's a lot of things going in your mouth this episode. I feel like we need to switch topics. Nope. What can we put in Bob's mouth?

We are not putting anything in my mouth. I'm putting things in my mouth. Well, we're a team. We should decide by a vote. You're right. Let's put it to a vote. I say aye. Aye. I say aye. Bob? I don't even know we're vote. You're right. Let's put it to a vote. I say aye. Aye.

I say aye. Bob? I don't even know we're voting. He said aye. I heard aye. He said aye. We're even close to having Bob's mouth. All right.

When we eventually move to video format, we will do that. You know, when we do that in the future. All right. I'll remember that for that. The subreddit will remember, unfortunately, too. They said they were going to push stuff in Bob's mouth. Where is it?

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and you just have a bite of like both, and it's so good, with like the gravy and everything else. both and it's so good with like the the gravy and everything else but i encountered that horrible feeling of okay this is some overcooked mushy food i can't wait to eat it and then you bite into something that you can't break with your teeth like your mouth it's that feeling it's like oh no it's like what is it what is in my mouth that isn't soft, chewy chicken or dumpling? Oh, no. And I pulled something out and there was a bone of some kind. I don't know what, but it was right in my food. I was almost relieved to see it was a bone, but then it still made me want to gag and throw up. That's kind of what you hope it is.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, no, depleted uranium. Oh, shit. The worst is for me is this will happen sometimes if it's something like soup or like chicken and dumplings something like that where it's kind of like you said kind of mushy you you like get that sense crunch in your mouth and i'll spit it in my hand just to like avoid you know making a whole yeah and then i look and it's all just mushy stuff and so i'm looking and i'm like there's nothing nothing crunchy in here. It's like, what the hell is it?

Yeah. This is all just like mushy chicken and dumpling. And then you want to break it apart to find it. But yeah. But you're at a table with other people or, you know, in public or whatever. Yeah. And they judge you or whatever. Way worse.

Because usually, eventually you're just like, throw it out, I guess. Put it in my napkin and then assume I'm fine. It's fine. Just that moment of unexpected texture in your mouth is like the biggest icky feeling. And then the rest of the meal, you're just sitting there waiting for something like that to happen again. And you just cannot enjoy the meal like you were. I see. I have an accompanying one to this.

All right. The overall wingman. We all enjoy a good chicken wing. Oh, right. Of course. We love a chicken wing. We all help each other chicken wing. Oh, right. Of course. We love a chicken wing. We all help each other get laid. Yeah.

This is not the same, but it's similar for me. I eat traditional wings. I like traditional wings on the bone. When you take a huge bite and you're trying to like get a chomp a bite off of a chicken wing, but the bone is like broken inside. So you get like a huge bite, but then the wing breaks in half and the like marrow of the bone kind of bloops out and i just don't know what to do with that it sort of ruins it for me it's not the same but it's not unsimilar yeah okay i kind of like i actually enjoy not i guess you can't

really eat the marrow out of that one so i guess it wouldn't really i've never looked at it that way because whenever i've seen wings and they break apart all the time because they're chickens that they're raised are unhealthy and too much meat and they're way too heavy elderly chicken wings. They've got osteoporosis Well, it's not because they're elderly that's for sure then I don't think those chickens make it to old age But that's another story for another depressing day But I do agree like some things can do that But I I do agree wade having something just like up here in your food That's not supposed to be there. Just a weird crunch.

A textural dissonance. Unexpected texture of any kind. Yeah. It's no good. So two points for that. Alright, Bob. What do you got? What's your ick? What ick? I'm leading with the one I think will be controversial because as far as I know, this is something that people generally really like. Okay.

This is a texture thing with food. But for me, there's something about this version of this food that's too like slimy and like, I don't know, chewy in a bad way, but also not chewy. It's marshmallow fluff. You know, you can buy a jar that's like gooey marshmallow. It's like the inside of a marshmallow, but you can scoop it and put it on,

you know, you make like a fluffernutter, which is like a sandwich with peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and I think bananas on it, or maybe just peanut butter and marshmallow. And it's weird because I like marshmallows normally. With the like coating on the, whatever, the sugary coating on the outside, totally fine. Even toasted marshmallows,

where they get all melty and gooey. That's like a whole different consistency from the weird like artificial kind of fluffy kind of slimy kind of goopy texture that like jars of marshmallow fluff has even touching it makes me kind of makes me ick i've never had it outside of mixed into hot chocolate or like into made into baked goods i've never just had marshmallow fluff by itself Okay, that's interesting because I know that would be like I personally am like that fantastic You get it between your fingers and you like rub it around you see stretch, and then you eat it

God no, I mean I mean like I understand that's fine. It's kind of like snot or semen no one or semen. No, what? Or sneemen. You guys ever mixed up some sneemen? No! I'm canceling this conversation. I'm averting it because I'm getting away. Get away, get away. So the...

Seamot. No, stop. Shut up. Shut up. Will, silence them again. Put in elevator music until it comes back to normal. All right, we're back. We've come back because I want to,

okay, shifting gears a little bit away from food ick, because food ick's one thing, but the current definition of the ick that is probably known for people is less about food and more about vibes, right? I'm going to read you

the Urban Dictionary entry for the ick. And it's got word here that I've never heard in my life. You could be on the chirpsy I don't know what that means with a guy C-H-I-R-P-S-E This entry was made in 2017.

This entry was made in 2017. It's apparently to flirt with someone. Some guy off the train was chirpsing me the other day was the example. That was made in 2005. So this is old. Oh, okay. Okay, some guy off the train was chirpsing me the other day was the example. That was made in 2005. So this is old. Oh, it's an English slang word. It's a London English slang word.

That's why we don't know it. Okay, gotcha. Okay, that, I guess that makes sense. This is just the top voted one. Anyway, you could be on the chirpsy with a guy or girl. Everything seems to be going fine. You think you like them, but then you suddenly catch the ick. From then on, you can't look at the person in the same way.

You just progressively get more and more turned off by them weirdly and maybe for no reason in particular grossed out by them you'll cringe at the thought of you and them together nothing will be the same you won't be able to do it any longer and eventually have to cut it off courtesy of olivia from love island apparently i don't know whatever so i want to know about like the icks beyond just like food so it could be like dating, which is the predominant, I think, definition of the ic. Have you ever been on a date and you like just discover like, oh, man, this is no bueno. There's no bueno at all. I actually don't think I have, but I think it's because I've dated so few people.

Yeah, I've not gone on many just regular dates. I've gone like on a handful, but I feel like in in my mind mostly it'll be dudes that would be ick i'm not in charge that many girls that give like that ick feeling i have a story about this if you guys need some time to you have a dating story or just a general oh no dating story yeah again i i don't want to say any names because i'm sure they're perfectly lovely and and whatever but at the time it was just like an instant like instant, this is done kind of thing. So this is college, like sometime in the middle of college. Bob, you never would have met this person.

I was going to say, Bob, you've never been to college. You've never been to college before, right, Bob? Yeah, you're not a college guy. No, no. No, no, no. I would remember. I would remember that. Yeah.

But it was like a few dates in and, you know, it was OK. But there was one time I remember very distinctly. I was I was on a call because she had gone on some trip like a cruise or something. And basically, you know, we weren't like official or anything. It was like a few dates. So it was like whatever trip. I'm very trusting guy. Yada, yada.

We are on a call. And, you know, she's telling me about the trip and like how it was and then she gets to this point where it's like yeah we're having a great time you know uh uh we're you know having drinks we have some food and then you know later on the people were doing body shots off me and it's like just said super casually like that and i was like wait wait what i was like yeah i was up on the table and you know like they're pouring uh shots on me and then people were just like taking body shots and for like i don't know about you guys but that instantly gave me the ick and i was just like the thought of like someone that i was dating just being like uh okay that seems interesting and i was completely instantly over it like very much

over it from that that moment and it was like almost immediately after i was like ah this is not gonna work out i don't know hold on hold on you'd save a lot of money on dishes you'd have some bonding experience with like some communal drinking i feel like this is a positive all right okay i didn't think of it that way you might be right about that and i got like i got no judgment against if you're the type you go out and party you want people do body shots off you that's totally fine uh i don't want other other applications if you can do body shots off them you could probably also do like milk and cereal you can make oatmeal you have a whole smorgasbord right in this person

yeah all right go on no i just think of the possibility no that's that's kind of it there's no going on from it oh Oh. They give more food. Yeah, go for it. I'll give you a point for every food. My God, what if the toilets are down and you could use them as a bathroom? There's all kinds of uses. No, I'm taking away a point. What?

That wasn't a point. Sorry, did that give you the ick? Yeah, so it gave me the ick. I don't think this is going to work out, Wade. Let's replace you with Bob Huku. What about my body shot? All right, but anyway, you guys understand that? That was, for me, the moment of the ick.

It wasn't even like, it was just over the phone, too. But it was just kind of like, okay, I guess that's not going to work. And I just couldn't approach the relationship the same way after that interesting yeah i've got one person example i can think of i remember in high school or junior high i think it was junior high i was like part of the basketball team and um there was a couple that everyone always thought was like a cute couple i was like oh yeah they seem like a good couple and uh the dude was like really sweet to her and she seemed happy and everything but like there was a day where they like said their goodbyes Like their sweet little kiss or whatever and separated and then like the dude joined the team and like the moment he came over

He just immediately started talking like this big douchebag like about the girl like oh man. Yeah, i'm tapping that it's fucking fantastic It was just like this huge shift in like how he acted. And it was like he had a complete facade with her. And then like the real creepy douchebag self came out like when he was away from her. And that made me feel super fucking icky. I don't know if you've ever encountered that guy that like acts like a sweet, normal dude or whatever.

I don't know if that's normal, dude. A sweet dude. And but then like whenever it's just the guys, like his actual like shitty personality comes out i don't know weird yeah yeah no i i definitely knew someone like that it was just like like outside of any social circumstance he was like fine but whenever there was other girls in the room he would just start shitting on every other guy as hard as possible like i don't know what his strategy was he was just the biggest

douchebag like he was i didn't like him i hate this guy but he's just like it's just in general just fucking i didn't understand he'd be talking to a girl and then feel the need to turn around to me or any other guy and just put them down insult them right then and there yeah that same kind of thing yeah just very strange maybe it was the same guy. I was wondering. Is this the same skull it might be? Let's say his name on three and tell everyone his name. I don't remember his name. I don't remember the name either. Well, maybe.

Okay, let's just say a random name. And if we say the same name, then subconsciously we've purged it out. Okay, ready? Yeah. Three, two, one. Grubbing. Jason. All right, well, I guess not. i guess it's all guys all right bob how about you uh mine is not i mean it is a specific person that i've encountered but it's more than one and it's more of like a archetype of person and this

is not so much a thing and as an adult i guess but growing up going all the way through college there was a certain vibe that people could give off where i would immediately get the ick very aggressively and like reconsider ever hanging around with them again and it was that friend or that group of friends where you're just hanging out like you're in you're in somebody's dorm room playing a game or whatever you're just hanging out totally normally nothing crazy is happening and then the guy or the group will begin doing something like smacking each other in the nuts really hard and then just laughing about it and the whole group laughs about it and it's just like a thing right at any moment hanging around this person or these people you have to be ready to get hit in the nuts

by something or have them like try and stick their finger up your butthole or all this like weird juvenile stuff even when i was young because like that sounds like middle school behavior to me i don't know how that strikes everyone else but that sounds like kids like being weird and you know douchebags to each other i experienced people like this all the way through college and a little bit after college and anytime that behavior came out i immediately went from like ah these guys are okay whatever we're friends or two like i need to leave this is the wrong vibe for me and i don't understand that vibe yeah no just like people that instantly show who they are like just small things can reveal what they are and you're just like okay i see this and i guess it's a thing for me too of like that specific behavior if you have a group of friends and you all want to do that like you know it's kind of

like the way the jackass guys were are maybe not as much anymore with each other like they're just like that right they're just they think it's funny to like get hurt and do stuff and shave each other's hair whatever just not for me yeah you can do that it's fine i might silently judge you but big ick yeah that's a tough part about growing up though is when you're around well i don't know what age you're referring to exactly because yeah that can happen any age i know people are still like that but when you're the friend that doesn't like it and like all your other friends want to be cool so then like yeah you get that peer pressure aspect of like i'll just be cool dude that's a joke and it's like yeah i don't like it yeah it always comes to that moment awful feeling where someone does something to me and i'm like stop like this is not funny stop i don't like that and the whole rest of the group exactly like what

you're saying is like oh come on man it's a joke it's just lighten up and i'm like don't kick me in the nuts that's not a joke it hurts yeah but yeah like i've definitely had several friend groups where that was kind of the vibe same reaction to all of them man hey i think that it can apply to definitely things outside of relation uh like romantic relationships it's just like any relationship you can you can just get a bad feeling i think i talked about oh no no no i was just gonna say i think i talked about like the in in that hotel this one time and i just got these like bad vibes from the person working the desk i couldn't explain it at all and this isn't me repeating a topic i'm addressing the fact that i probably talked about this before but it's just like that's yeah no no no it's

like that's it it was the ick i i couldn't explain it but just like instantly something about it unconscious what i mean it's not like there's even like a book to understand really body language or i don't know fucking pheromones maybe who knows just like bad vibes bad vibes or phobia moans no no no the episode wasn't even called phobias it's called fears and fetishes and they're very different fear mo Your dishes say what you say what you came to say so I remember going To indie popcon one year and I was walking around outside just like walking around the city Mm-hmm, and we like went to lunch or whatever actually I like downtown Indianapolis a lot

And I think I was wearing like a Bengals shirt or something or a UC. I think it was UC Bearcats shirt. And this guy's like, yo, UC Bearcats. Awesome. I, you know, I went to UC. He's like, oh, awesome. That's awesome, dude. He's like, yeah.

Did you like watching the Bob Huggett? Like, you know, we just, we small talk about the Bearcats. And I was like, oh, this is really cool. Running into a Cincinnati dude who's talking to me about sports. And then came the, by the way, can you loan me like, I don't know, 20 bucks or something? And it's like, oh no way, can you loan me like, I don't know, 20 bucks or something? And it's like, oh, no. Like, he buttered me up, started this conversation, was like talking about sports. I was like, oh, this is really cool.

It's just a random person having a nice conversation. And then it became like, can I have money? Or like salespeople, whenever they like you start to like, you're like, no, actually, we like the dude that came to my house trying to do the bug thing. I was like, actually, we just had it done because we had. And he's like, can I come in and see the receipt? Just I don't know There's a certain like moment salespeople or I guess people that are like looking for money

They get to where just like they cross a line where it goes from like, okay Well, you know, this is at least a normal conversation to like just ick That that gave me both of those situations gave me ick having like a five-minute conversation with somebody about sports turning into like Hey, can I have 20 bucks? Just like oh, come on. Yeah, I don't know Both of those situations gave me ick. Having like a five minute conversation with somebody about sports turning into like, hey, can I have 20 bucks? Just like, ugh, come on. Yeah. I don't know.

It just makes you feel used. Oh, yeah. You feel like a used tissue or something. Yeah. It was like, I think I talked about this story too. And we can tell other stories. I feel like we have to defend this every time. But I talked about like, I was at Chipotle and there was this guy who was like, asked

like if I could buy him a burrito. And I was like, yeah, absolutely. Like, sure, let's do it. I was decided to be generous that day and take him in. And then he orders three burritos. And I was like, I can't, I'm a college student. I can't afford this. I can barely afford, like I was just trying to be generous.

And then he like orders it. He gets them all. And then he gets to the cashier and just like, as soon as the food's in the back, he grabs the bag out of the cashier's hand he walks out the door and was it two my bet has been two but either way like it's more than the one that i agreed to purchase and then he walks away from and i'm just left there i had to pay for three burritos because i got one myself that was it yeah it was like man i'm just oh man i'm trying to help and i just get used at the end of it and it's like it's just unfortunate but anyway yeah all right more more x more x uh does it have to be people related no more x uh what about that feeling whenever you're just like

i don't know normally walking around doing stuff and then like you uh make your hand into a fist and then just all of a sudden two of your fingers are sticking together and you have no idea where the sticky came from like it could be from a door handle could be from touching like a wrapper a soda you don't like you don't you try to remember what it was you touched that might have been sticky and like that icky feeling of like what is on my hands what is on my finger i don't like keeping my hands dirty once they're like dirty it's fine but like the process of like having clean hands and then something gets on them that makes them dirty or sticky that gives me the ick like oh no is this sneemin oh god how'd that get on me it could be either one could be

schnitt the bag of sneemin i had in my pockets leaking ah what am i gonna eat later now oh no no no no no no no no well... Sneer wax? I need you to stop. Snoop. Well, he said schnit earlier, so I think that qualifies. Oh, but snoop is cuter. I don't know if any of it's cute. If someone came up to you and was like, hey, do you want some schnit? You would be like, no, I don't think so. But if someone came up and was like, hey, you want to share some snoop?

You'd be like, hmm? I think I would say no either way because it's still mucusy shit well you don't know that you don't get to see what it is it's the word you're assessing the word first yeah so the phrase mucusy shit i think just gave me the ick so yay good great yeah all of this is giving me the ick you ever just talking and then you say something out loud. Yes, I do. And you're just like, oh, ick. Yes, I do. Yeah, this podcast. Oh, God. Distractible, ick.

I don't know if we did this on purpose. I didn't. But specifically in the subreddit over the last couple weeks, people were really complaining about all the mucus talk we had going on. Oh, good. Well, thanks. A whole episode of that. Very very specifically we're like i'm fine with everything baby poop facials butt chugging but mucus too far guys really gross we circled

back to it just for you no that's not what it is because i i was i said food was like like a very or anything liquid whatever it's not my fault the ick has a definition that is most commonly known is due to relationships and people it's related to vibes it's not necessarily about goop

you know I mean this is not this is like the coldest take this is in the deep freeze as far as takes go but I would say the main place I experienced the ick my ick some ick and ick whatever is on social media i feel like there's a lot of ways on social media that it presents itself but i think the one that's been happening a lot over the last i don't know five to ten years however long twitter has really been blown up and being a thing is when someone that i follow celebrity expert journalists, whatever, someone that I follow who I was like, Oh, this person

posts really good stuff about this video game I like. So I'll follow them just to get the, you know, get the good updates on what's going on. And then they'll just post something that's like, not necessarily even related to their main thing, unrelated to their games journalism, but it's just like a really fucking out there personal take or like conspiracy theory stuff like something where they post it and it's not related to anything they've ever talked about and i read it and i'm like oh yeah i thought like i value your opinion and it doesn't necessarily make me stop following them but it it goes from this thing where i'm like i follow this person it'd be cool if i met them at like a convention someday or something like it so like god i hope

i have never run into you on the street yeah are you talking about a specific tweet that i'm i have pulled up right now no oh no this has happened to me with what that is no no this has happened to me with several several like personalities and and people that I have followed where my entire perception changed and it's very icky. No, no. What do you have? It's been making the rounds, a lot of quote tweets, a lot of people being like, oh my god. I'm not going to say who it is or the name or whatever, but this is the tweet in question, the content. Boys want arm candy.

Men want someone who isn't on birth control is loving graceful who wants to buy a farm start homesteading homeschool the kids who's obsessed with cows and is dying to make fresh breast milk ice cream i saw that oh yeah so it's like i'm fine you you can want a partner that's loving grace whatever the birth control thing is fine if you want to fail, that's fine. Dying to make fresh breast milk ice cream, that's such a finish. It's such a, like I think it stuck the landing, but only because it landed in such a mucusy

pile. You know what I mean? Like, I can't see the ick. Listen, that's exactly the right thing though. It landed in the same vibe range as the mucus stuff. It really did. It's the exact same problem. Yeah, there's exactly the right thing, though. It landed in the same vibe range as the mucus stuff. It really did. It's the exact same problem.

Yeah. There's other problems with this and the overall tone and probably the person themselves, but it's just like, whoa. Yeah, no, that's a very common one that gets me in this vein is just random hyper-misogyny stuff. And I'm of the opinion of, you know, you're allowed to prefer whatever traits and qualities you might want to have in a partner. If you're, you know, marrying someone or committing to someone, whatever, you're allowed

to like have that preferences. Yeah. Well, man, do some people have some crazy ass preferences and, or some really concerning sounding like just i don't know it doesn't it doesn't prove anything yeah and i and i'm not i don't like come after these people or block them or anything but like i might block them if i just don't want to hear this bullshit anymore but some people will just it's not people some dudes will just say some shit where it's like whoa whoa yeah i don't know if anyone wants that breast milk ice cream. I think that's just you. They'll say it with such confidence too. They will stand and people don't realize this.

Social media is the equivalent of standing on a rock and shouting as loud as you can. Most of the time people are going to ignore you, but a lot of the time you might get a crowd around you. And so they just stand on this rock and it's like, I love breast milk ice cream. I want someone to let me make it from them give me your like it's like holy shit man you don't need to scream it that's an inside thought how many of these are serious versus how many of these are you think like they posted

it like as a joke or just to get a rise out of people i know i think it's somewhat serious but at the same time is like well do you really want to unless you're you're like in the business of just trolling people in general which tons of people are it's like do you want people to get that misconception parody is a fine line on the internet when it's just text you could type slash srs all you want like it doesn't always mean that it's going to work out that way i could totally see people typing stuff like that and just like i'm going to post this as absolutely serious and see how many people think i'm serious just to get a laugh out of it i can totally see a lot of people doing

that oh so i don't even think a lot of it is meant to be like humor or parody of any kind cynical my cynical side of my brain sees that and you know it gets my gut reaction but i basically never engage with it either because that's that's what they want my cynical brain sees that and you know it gets my gut reaction but i basically never engage with it either because that's that's what they want my cynical brain sees that and it's like well this is just some dude who probably has some of the first like two-thirds of the list of things probably exactly what he wants he wants someone who's you know submissive to him calls him sir or whatever all this you know all the like classic stuff that the that the you know guys think happened well probably did happen in the 1950s and guys are like i want that that should be my life but then the last like two or three things on the list are just to get reactions it's just to catch

those people who will see that and have a similar reaction to like the way we feel about it or or a harsher reaction and they'll respond like they're going to debate with this person. And like, I get that urge and I've fallen into that trap before. It's bait. I think we did an episode on that. We should do another. I think it's literally just bait. The breast milk ice cream, bait, bait to get people responding to be like, Ooh, that's gross bait to set someone off. Who's like, well, all the rest of that is pretty classic, you know, misogynistic men's stuff. And I'm sure he'll find a girl that does what he wants you know there's plenty of women out there who want that kept life or whatever you know they want what they want it's perfectly fine but then the last one breast milk ice cream they're like god not only is that offensive that

is fucking gross and it's like it's bait it's bait and it's probably not sincere yeah but that's my cynical side is that all of that all the claims at the end of the tweet the last thing you read if it makes you outraged if it makes you ick if it sounds like horrific or disgusting or is way worse than the rest of the stuff that's in the tweet that's the bait yeah what if breast milk ice cream is good i don't it's not i'm okay there are certain experiences a lot of people like oh try everything it's like i'm okay not trying everything i mean i can't say people are like, oh, try everything. It's like, I'm okay. Not trying everything. I mean, I can't say I've had breast milk ice cream, but I don't know if we've talked about

this. I have a son now. He's a baby. Oh, I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I haven't. Mandy and I have a new baby. We're taking care of him. Unless you're too grossed out by it. And when you have a baby and you're especially because Mandy is breastfeeding him, you pump

the breast milk, you have bottles in the fridge, you freeze it, whatever. You eventually taste breast milk as a parent because you have to make sure that it's like the right temperature and it's, you know, you dab it on the back of your hand and then you're like, well, I don't want to wipe that on my shirt. I already have a bunch of spit up on my shirt. So I've tasted breast milk. It doesn't taste bad, but that is not a flavor that I think needs to be ice cream. I don't think ice creaming it will improve the flavor of breast milk very much at all.

Hmm. Interesting point. Maybe you just need to pasture it. Oh, sorry, Mark. No, what's wrong with me? I'm just trying to speak. I'm just going to say, that's an interesting point. That's it.

You can go ahead. It's just so hard to tell when you're talking because you cut out so much. No! Well, you didn't there, so that just sounded like you being upset. Will, make me cut out dramatically. Assuming your local recording is fine, so everyone listening is going to think that we're an idiot, but, you know. For us, you're cutting

out a lot. Alright, we are all three, one idiot. Yeah, true enough. Alright. Well, any other ickables here? What? No, sorry, man. Did you guys hear me yeah no that one was

any other ickables on your radars that almost didn't work but I got you I got it too mine all focus around food but I feel like the food ones are all similar for me too so that's you know and I'm not really a picky person about food, but there's some specific things. I just don't like unexpected things.

I don't like the unexpected sticky or stepping like in something wet. It's like, oh God, what did I step it? Like, I don't know. Things like that give me the icks. All right. This is a shitty take on my part. I love it. But it is a thing that gives me a little bit of ick.

And it's, I would never like tip a waiter less because this happened. But I find it off-putting. When you're in a restaurant or you're otherwise in any sort of setting where you're dealing with a waiter, a salesperson in the hospital, when Mandy was in the hospital after the baby came, we dealt with a ton of nurses coming and taking care of us. And they were all excellent. Some people talk about personal stuff way too loudly

and or in way too of a public location while they're like at work, especially around customers. This happened in the hospital. This nurse did not work our room or whatever. So I did not know this person and I'm sure she's perfectly nice and all the nurses were excellent at their jobs and did such a great job but they were like at the nurses station at like three in the morning and i came out of our room to just like get some

air walk around a little stretch my legs and the nurses are at the nurses station talking super loudly about like how much travel nurses get paid and how much they're getting paid and talking shit like, oh, I'm just going to quit then. This is some bullshit, blah, blah, blah. And like talking a bunch of totally reasonable shit. I'm sure they don't get paid enough. I know that the situation with travel nurses, especially since the pandemic began, is frustrating. Travel nurses will just go around and work, you know, at different hospitals for exorbitant pay because the hospital is desperately in need of any nurse to fill a shift, you know, that sort of thing. I'm not saying anything they were saying was untrue or unfair, but I was like dying, like two hours of sleep over three days, like trying to deal with a newborn baby,

trying to take care of Manny as she's recovering, all this stuff. And then they're out there like talking and laughing and being rowdy and talking shit about work at work, like 20 feet away from the door to my room where my new family is. And it's like, I don't begrudge you that at all. Work is a tough in America and around the world. Work is tough. Income is tough. People are getting absolutely screwed and fired and or, you know, working the job that should be like three people, all this stuff. I don't begrudge that at all. But in front of me when I'm like out of it and i was trying to you know just trying to get some air and get away from stuff it just gives me that like yeah really that loudly at three in the morning here on the on the maternity floor like come on like a break room or something i

don't know i think i can understand that i understand that. It's like keeping it professional when it needs to be professional versus like it's like bedside manner kind of extends because if you can hear it from where your bed is, I think it might apply for bedside manner. I don't begrudge like the medical industry is tough. And like you said, it's really, really hard, especially for overworked professionals. And it's not their fault that, you know, insurance companies are gouging prices and making it extremely difficult to get basic care. You know, they're, they're fighting that fight.

But at the same time, it's like, it's like professionalism anywhere. Yeah. If the, even if you were in Starbucks and all they were doing was like shitting about how terrible Starbucks was. It's like, I get what are you saying? But I'm uncomfy over here. I'm just, I feel like I'm part of the problem. And I ordered a coffee and it's my fault. you know it's i don't fault them for those thoughts

and i totally applaud their ability to think those and talk about them but it's also just like i'm suddenly part of this conversation i don't know what to do you're still supposed to have a professional demeanor in front of your customers or clients or whatever have you yeah yeah and like that's a thing that's gonna happen and i'm sure i've done that too i'm sure i worked the market i actually worked at the same restaurant for a while and i worked in restaurants and places and you know that that just happens because you work a lot and you're there and sometimes you have conversations there's just and i i like feel like it's a shitty take on my part like i'm just a judgy person but i've had it happen a lot more in the context of like waiters and restaurants and and sales people where it's like okay well you were just over here being all super sweet and nice and you're you know you're doing a fine job

as a waiter but also you're like talking shit about your ex-girlfriend where my entire table our whole section over here can clearly hear you that's a weird choice i don't need to be part of your personal stuff i just want some you know barbecue and again i don't begrudge them exes can be shitty life can be hard work is hard it's totally fair but it's just like in those settings i don't know gives me a little ick makes me feel bad about myself but it does give me a little ick yeah i hear you i thought of one that's not quite i i think it still qualifies as ick but it's like a combination of feelings when you're playing a video game or watching a movie or show and like there's a long-running character who like you've come to like really like like a spoiler

alert everybody but like in the new Star Wars trilogy you know Luke and it's like you get to an episode you get to one of the movies it's like just don't kill Luke just don't kill Luke come on don't be don't pull the trope of all we got to kill the old to bring in the new just don't do it don't do it and then they do that that makes me feel icky too whenever I know something like that's gonna happen It's like oh, it's so predictable They're gonna have to kill the old person that you really like because they got this new cast They want to focus on them

So they got to get rid of the old mentor that trope and some tropes like that Also give me the ick because one I feel them coming and two it just gives you a bad There's a lot of reasons to hate losing a character you like just because you feel like they feel like they have to do it i don't know if it fully qualifies but that makes me feel icky in a similar sense i would i would offer a counterpoint to that because i do get what you're saying and a lot of people are very divisive about that particular movie but what it what it could offer is like you know actors can't play those characters forever and oftentimes those those characters can have like this open ended thing um where they don't have a send-off and they don't have like a proper uh ending and

like i'm totally fine with characters having deaths in stories uh i think there it can go too far and in weird directions when like with game of thrones you just like do that for the wow factor of it all um but there are certain things and and the one thing i did like about last day is i kind of did like that death but this is getting completely off topic like i i did it is something even that one in particular if you liked that one just it happens so often where everyone feels like they have to kill the mentor yeah well so i'm just curious do you feel like it ics you because you feel like it's cliche, like the movie maker just did this because it's what you're supposed to do? And you're like, yeah, come on.

Yes. Or is it because like you love the character and then you feel angry, sad, icked because they killed off a good character and you don't like them? Yeah. Loving the character makes it hurt. But there's certain times where like, even if I'm not super attached to a character you just know it's coming like you start playing a video game and like there's someone mentoring you and it's like well they're gonna die might as well not get attached and then it happens it's like okay well i knew it was coming at least it just

be it's i don't know it happens so often and it becomes so predictable like even with like someone watching the last jedi it was like don't do it i know you're gonna do it There's no way you won't do it, but don't do it. Just don't do it And then like they give you the whole like aha. Oh, he's gonna die here. It's like okay Well, at least it's a cool last stand. He didn't die. He died. Okay Hmm like the the tease there was just like a slap I don't know that whole movie was kind of a slap to the face But I'll I wouldn't say there's so much an ick though It's more of a pet beef which I think is. That might be true. That might be true.

There's something about it where, I guess, whenever you're expecting it to happen and then it does happen, but you're hoping it won't happen, where you feel like that, I don't know, it's that same ick that comes out of my mouth when it does happen. Yeah, I believe that's spelled E-U-G-H, and we're looking for I-C-K. Unfortunately, that brings us to a close and a way does not get points for

that last one. Unfortunately. Can't believe it. Okay. Would you guys like believable? Would you guys like to know the tally? No. Yes.

Very much. All right. The eyes have it in last place. It's me with negative three points. I really did not do my best. I underperformed the whole time. I, I,

I right out of the gate, I kind of hamstrung myself. So, that's bad on my part. Uh, but the winner of this episode, with a glorious five points, mostly just because I stopped counting points halfway through there, uh, is Bob! I thought you were gonna say with one point because I stopped counting points when Wade was at negative one. Boo! Boo! Wade is the rightful winner. I can't believe this.

I don't actually think so. He got negative one point in the beginning. Wade should have won. I don't care what Mark's points were. Wade is the winner. Wade should always win. Thank you, subreddit Bob. I agree.

He got two and then he got negative one for whatever offended me. What gave me the ick. Which I guess to the episode, I should actually make that one point. Yeah, that seems like kind of a success. Yeah, but even with that point he wouldn't have it. Because you stopped cutting points halfway through?

No, I can't point the whole way through. It's Bob! Congratulations, Bob! Alright. Subreddit, help me! They can't help you now. They've all got the ick. They stopped listening. Worldweight supremacy subreddit. Help me. Alright. Ick subreddit. Help me. All right. Ick subreddit.

Help me. Bob, what is your winner speech? I feel really good about this. One of my biggest fears in life is that I am a person who gives someone else in the world the ick. I'm sure it happens because I'm sure everyone gives someone else the ick in some way because that's just how the world is. But if you think that about me, never tell me and stay away. And I can pretend like it doesn't happen. Fair enough.

Very fair. Wade, loser speech. I know I've given you the ick. You know who you are out there. And I'm glad I did it. Talk about sneemin' some more. Thanks for hosting a great episode, Mark. That's what I meant to say.

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sneemin', snot, snooze, snizz Schnit, snoop, schnit, snoop Yep, all the above Thank you everybody for listening, you can find us all at your various social media handles LordManion777, MySkrim, and myself Markiplier, be sure to follow this

podcast forever and ever and ever be our BFFs forever and we will never give you the ick again so long as you only follow us and no other podcast in the world. Thank you and podcast out. The unelicited Pornhub

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