Distractible - Theater Of The Mind
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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable.
This episode, well-built Wade butt-sucks as the gents go to Imagination Land to design the perfect dormers.
Beta Bob drills the wrong holes and his inconvenient disability rears its head.
Mistrustful Mark has good girth in his slot, seizes up squatting and gets into his fog. From callbacks of callbacks to beating Logan.
Yes.
It's time for theater of the mind.
Now sit back and prepare to be distracted
and enjoy the show.
With no context or some contest, Tyler.
Hey man, how are you? No contest Tyler. There is porn podcast
Go my favorite porn team. Oh, no, you don't go come my favorite porn
Wow give yourself some points man. All right
I think I will oh, yeah. Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This might be the intro
You might have seen some other stuff. I have no idea
I'll leave that up to the gods that edit this.
They are gods.
Welcome to the show that's apparently
a goddamn disaster when I host it.
Where one of us hosts, the other two compete for points.
Today I'm the host, these two are competing for points.
Whoever has the most points at the end wins
and hosts the next one.
Do you think there's somebody that's like new
to the podcast just clicking on it
and if we didn't explain exactly how this work
They would be any differently confused than if we did there a hundred percent are people who who?
Have that experience. Yes. I actually just put Tyler on the points sheet. So I guess Tyler can earn points today
Okay. Well if Tyler wins he has to come host I guess I also just put me instead of Bob Bob
You're at the bottom of the points.. I'm sorry. Wow, man, I guess we all know where we stand now. Good lord.
I'm gonna give you a sad point for this.
Ah, but I'm so sad!
I'm just drowning in the reality of my life.
Wait, remember when you did this joke?
And I'm sad!
No, did I do that?
But you bald. You said bald though.
But I'm making it about the sad, right?
So it's a callback.
Actually me doing this bit right now is a callback to when you did this exact bit whenever you tell a joke and it doesn't land.
That's true.
Okay, I do remember that happening because that happens frequently.
Somehow it feels both like you're on Wade's team and you're mocking him.
Well, yeah, I'm playing both sides.
I always come out on top. That's how it feels to be us, Wade.
We don't even get to be on your team.
We're just on this side of it.
I'm always on my own team, I think.
No, I don't think so.
Remember back in the early days when you were like,
yeah, take points away from me.
Yeah, I want to lose.
Remember when you wanted to lose?
I was kind of hoping I'd lose the last one
because I didn't have an idea for today.
But I came up with the best idea,
but we'll get to that later.
According to my notes here, which I don't have, do small talk first. We do don't we how is small for you guys?
How's it been? You know how it be every day another failure every day. I rise grind fall flat on my ass
This render farm is never happening. I swear to God everything I've tried. I fuck you not it is not going good. Oh
I thought I knew computers. I've assembled three different computers
Let me just say don't buy cheap shit on eBay half of it doesn't fucking work
You don't have any backup you can't't have any backup, you can't return it, cause it's coming from a city I can't even pronounce.
And then the latest adventure was in my adventures with water cooling, right?
I've never built a water-cooled computer with a custom loop before.
But I was like, hey, I went to engineering school, I can do this.
And I set up everything. I made sure that I actually got parts that I could verify,
like accounts still on eBay, still discounted,
but there was like someone I could communicate with and I got parts and then I sourced all of my water cooling stuff from a company
that's actually here in LA who was very helpful.
I asked for the lot of advice and the gaming guidance and I put it all together and I
turned it on and I started filling the reservoir with liquid and I go through two bottles and I'm like, wow, the guy only said I need one.
This is a thirsty machine.
Oh no!
And when I get through the second bottle, this pump just keeps chugging this liquid.
I'm like, damn, it's going!
And then I finally notice it's a clear liquid.
So I know it's so dense with components that I didn't notice the entire
bottom of the case is
swimming in the fluid
Somewhere in the loop there was a catastrophic leak and it was just gushing so it would go through the pump
BOOSH
out
You think it had ever occurred to you that at no point did it start coming in the return
to the reservoir?
You didn't?
You know, now that I'm thinking about that,
it should have been obvious,
but I'd never built one before.
So I was like, wow, this is crazy.
So you doubled the amount it recommended,
you were just, man, this is thirsty.
That was your thought?
I don't know.
The server right now
I took all the electrical components out of it besides the power supply
I just so happened to grab the power supply that was makes a clicking sound with the fan like I don't know what kind of
Trailer all of my shit fell off of that. I bought don't buy
Discount shit on eBay. It's not worth it. It's not going to be worth it. It won't
It's so many nightmares. I've wasted so much money. I should just trust this company because holy shit
I just gave you points for the drowned farm also for listeners out there. He pointed to a shirt that says Steiger Dynamics
Yes, Steiger Dynamics. Oh, you like the listeners now. And what sucks also is like, I've been doing this.
I run into all these little problems.
So this is actually a 4090.
He's holding a 4090.
It's a 4090 graphics card that I have unmounted
from its previous cooler and put this nice thin
one slot cooler, right?
It's one slot. That's what it's- it says.
There's only one. It'll-
It's a little wide.
It's- no, it's one slot. This son of a bitch is not one slot. By two millimeters.
It was all- everyone said this was a one slot cooler. The company that made it then came out with another
Everyone said this was a one slot cooler. The company that made it then came out with another
for this exact board, the reference board
that this is a more expensive one
that is actually one slot.
And I contacted them and I said,
hey, is this available?
And they said, yes,
but you have to order a minimum of a hundred.
Jesus Christ.
A hundred?
I said, oh, I didn't respond, I haven't responded.
How expensive are these, if I may ask?
The 4090 themselves are fairly expensive, so this is-
I mean the one slot one.
The one slot thing I got for this thing was 100
and I believe 60 plus tax and something like that.
So 160 bucks for the cooling block itself.
But if you know a 4090, it goes from a three slot card down to one and I was like that which would be awesome
It would be awesome if it fucking did the thing that it said
Well, if you buy a hundred of them it will you're right
I sure will the solution is to buy more stuff mark
Then the new stuff you buy will work
Solution is to buy more stuff mark then the new stuff you buy will work probably and if it doesn't then you could just go Buy other new stuff and that'll be the stuff that works
And it's like all of this is an attempt to save money everything I've done is an attempt to save money. I have
Lost so much money
Well, I haven't lost it right because I could sell this again and that's fine
It's just work to do that the the other computers that all crashed at once Dell also
Extremely unhelpful and then the episode that where I talked about came out suddenly they wanted to help so badly
And I'm just like mmm interesting whatever guys
Hey, you can't have eggs without breaking a few bags
Yeah, so I can technically sell this and this is still useful to people.
It's still useful to me.
Like, it's still like, okay, you can put this in a loop.
This still works fine.
I-
Yeah, that's a normal 4090, right?
That's not like a workstation one or something weird where it won't do video games or normal
computer shit.
Perfectly normal 4090.
And actually, I could probably sell it for more than I paid for it because I've modified it in a way
That's valuable. Yeah with the water block. That's actually pretty sweet
Which is so, you know anybody if I sell it's not one slot only if your slots two millimeters too thin like mark slots
Right. Why don't you get girthy earth slots? You got the wrong slots mark
Why don't you just increase the gap a little bit?
slots, Mark. Why don't you just increase the gap a little bit?
I'll just stretch my motherboard out a little.
I have small talk that matches the vibes of Mark's infinite failures.
This is actually old, but your story reminded me of this, Mark.
I thought I would be really cool and hang a medicine cabinet in this house that we moved
into not long ago.
And I, cause I was like, I know how that works.
How hard can it be?
I'll start with
the, with the conclusion, which is it took me four attempts to get this thing on the
wall permanently. And there are seven holes in the wall that don't need to be there. And
no, that is an odd number, which is weird. You're right. One of those is a completely
extra erroneous hole. But so it took me a month and a half and four separate attempts and going back
to the hardware store. So it's not the same pain, but like I
feel the pain. But I will say, God, I hope Mandy never listens
to this. I finally got what I needed. I got some heavy duty
anchors and I got the thing up there and I got a laser level. I
got it all night. It's like perfectly level. And then I did
all this after a month and a half of trying
and failing and then putting it aside.
I did it all.
I got the last screw in and I got that satisfying,
you know, when you do the drill and it's all yee,
and it's like, that means it's in.
It starts clicking away and I stepped back
and it's not centered over the toilet.
Not by a lot, but when you step back and look at it,
by enough where your eye is immediately like, oh,
and no, I'm not taking it back off the wall
to make four additional holes, two inches to the left.
We just permanently have an off-center medicine cabinet.
So maybe that's where you're headed, Mark.
Maybe you're in the middle of the process right now,
and in a month and a half's time,
you'll have an off-center render farm in your garage.
The worst part about it is I didn't build it on a table
like a smart person.
I built it on the floor,
and this isn't a problem of the setup.
It's a problem for my back.
I was on the floor, just like squatted down on my heels,
just working on this hunched over
for seven hours.
And only when I was so frustrated and it failed, I stood up and we went to a Fourth of July
party afterwards and I literally couldn't stand at the party.
I was just weirdly sitting, everyone was standing around like talking and I was just looking
up to her by like, hey, how's it going?
Like crawling around like Smeegle at the party. Oh, I've never felt older
I have in that moment not my finest hour not my finest time not my finest decisions
Anyone want to buy some you slightly soggy server equipment look you put it in the biggest bag of rice
I've ever heard of and it'll be fine in a little while.
Well, I have a signed point.
I think our previous episode with all the talk of the Grubauer salts was very optimistic given that this is the state of things.
Yeah, it did go downhill fast. We thought you were grubbing.
I was assuming you were close to polishing things up. You're talking about cooling solutions and all kinds of stuff.
I don't have a single working computer, not one.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna,
I've sent all of the computer equipment to Steiger,
not all of it, but a lot of it.
I've sent it to Steiger Dynamics and be like,
please parse through this, tell me what's working,
what's not, see if you can build something
out of what I have.
Help, you just sent them a giant like box
and just like help written on the side.
Don't open dead inside
Well, I mean it's it's they should they I should know because they said that they didn't do custom loops anymore because they are
Unreliable and they end up getting a lot more returns from doing that and I was like, but I can do it
I can fucking wait to two liters of cooling fluid in a
Server and liquids not supposed to be in there.
I'm going to try immersion cooling next though.
That'll work out really good for me.
Yeah, no, you already did.
You just didn't quite do it on purpose.
Now you just need to aim for that and you're halfway there.
Yeah, just get your Epsom salts and you'll be good.
Any more small talk Bob?
Or I load us in?
James is counting now.
He could count the numbers one, two and five, but he does them correctly.
If you count one, two, three, four, five, he'll be all one, two, five.
So he knows.
Wow.
He really does.
He's just working on, he's working on getting the other ones in there in the
mouth situation can't quite do a three and a four those are tough it's getting closer though three
i can see being tough four seems like it'd be the same as five to me listen you wouldn't understand
how toddlers work and it's uh well actually of the three of us he might understand the most
toddlers actually function i think it's true's true. That's true. Four, five, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four.
Ours are hard too. One, two, three, I enjoy that. Give yourself some points. I'm giving
myself a point for four. Don't forget about Tyler. Give him some points. Give Tyler points for knowing
how to count to five. What happens if Tyler wins this? Sounds like Tyler's problem. Well he's not
winning right now but like he's not far off the lead. I have a new goal. Beat Tyler or make Tyler
win? Make Tyler win. I'm gonna have a really hard time at the end of this reading and saying what some of these points were for.
If only you were in control of your handwriting.
Well my pen is also dying so I keep having to write over my handwriting. It's gotten bad.
Not a valid excuse. Nope. It's you. It's your handwriting.
Well it's an us problem now because today's episode is all about the listeners.
We are opening up a theater.
You guys want theaters?
We're having a theater.
Theater of the mind,
where we are going to build the distractible dream house
all in our mind.
We already found the distractible dream house.
It was on Zillow.
It was in Cincinnati.
It had like 12 acres.
It was crazy.
Well, I don't remember that.
I'm getting older, so we're making one.
You stole this idea from Distractable in 2022.
That house sold, it's no longer available.
Now we gotta build our own.
You don't know that.
Hey, let me look.
You don't remember which house it was?
I just wanna toss this out there
This sounds like a really tough episode for anyone who might have a Fantasia great Disney movie if anyone might have that
Not that we've may have talked about that at any point
Well, don't worry they can watch our hand movements while not watching because this is a listener episode got it. Okay, man
I can't I got you listen. I'm I show something's bad.
I designed something that might just just just I don't know. Think have confidence
in yourself, man. What is what do you walk around your house and just pretend
you're in the room I'm talking about? I don't know. Okay. All right. Okay. All
right. We're going to think with our minds. Google a driveway or something.
We'll go through this. You guys have homework. If you have any fantasia, I'll just add more steps.
Listen, we've just established this pattern.
Wade doesn't care about the fans.
Whether you're a viewer, whether you're a listener,
he don't care about you.
Yeah, this is about me.
Are we just talking around it
or do you actually forget that I have that?
I forget that a lot, yeah.
It's hard for me to imagine having that.
Me, same, but more for me.
It's harder for me to imagine anything. So I'm way ahead of you on that one.
Alright, this is the episode where I eat my own foot a lot. I'm just gonna be ready for that, I suppose.
Wait, so wait, wait, wait. Let's talk shop for a second, though.
You know, we're just giving you shit because that's the bit, right? Yeah.
This is a good episode idea. The last one was, too.
I love Theater of the Mind. Yeah!'t back down don't let us push you
off your game. Oh we are doing this we are doing this. Where's the Wade I get so frustrated with
because he doesn't listen and just keeps news on because he knows he's right. Uh well Mark was
looking up the house that we were supposed to have apparently did you find? I couldn't it was on sale
it was sold long ago yeah there's nothing. Told you it was sold so we gotta build our own.
Bob you're not gonna do it you're just gonna leave me in the lurch there
We were all doing it and you just make me look like I'm mocking him. I wasn't I'm stuck over here
Trying to imagine what a house looks like in my brain
I'm gonna go with the assumption that you guys aren't mocking me at all today and it's all just adding and I'm just gonna accept
That you're all contributing. No, I was I was unless that's getting me points. I've not marked any more downs in small talk yet
All right, you guys to build our own! Build our own!
All right, you guys get build our own points.
Where do we start? Do we start with the outside?
Like how much land do we need? What's the mailbox look like? Type of driveway?
State? Where is this house?
Does it matter where?
Climate and stuff. Like, are we living? Are we living at this house?
Is that the idea or are we going to this house?
To do to do the podcast
I'm not living with you guys because if we're intended to live at the house
I have I would like it to not be too far from my family. Yeah, I'm not I'm not moving out to move in with you guys
Okay, so this is just work house this work house. I mean mark can live there. I guess well, then what's the point of it?
Being a house. Why can't it be a work like?
No, you know what?
You know what they have a lot of in Ohio
that we should invest in?
Empty warehouse space.
Newly constructed, never used, but empty warehouse space.
That's most, that's 80% of what Ohio's made up of,
I think, as far as I can tell.
How cheap are they?
Like 10, 15 bucks?
I love the idea of a big empty warehouse.
I've always wanted one. LA, you know, it's hard to get a big empty
warehouse. If you want space, Ohio is mostly space. How much is a big empty
warehouse? Six, seven dollars at least. I mean that would be cheaper than a big
house with house thing. Houses are tough. Houses need to have stuff. Big empty
warehouse. So we think in Midwest climate, like temperate climate, we don't want to
be like in the Arctic,
the ocean, mountains, desert.
Definitely not Arctic or ocean climate, whatever ocean climate is.
Yeah, what is ocean climate?
Is that like underwater base?
Yeah, it's like an underwater base in the middle of the ocean, which I think Mark would hate.
I don't know if I'm into that.
I mean, it sounds kind of cool as long as you're sure that it's not going to break.
Yeah, well, I don't know if you get to be that sure that it's not going to break.
I mean, we'll buy some cheap parts from Amazon
It'll be really yeah bought these glass tubes from China on the eBay
What we made it got a carbon fiber, it'll be fine
Whoa, these tubes just keep taking more and more water. I keep pouring it in and there's still space
more and more water. I keep pouring it in and there's still space. Don't know why.
Well, it's one of those things where you're doing it and in the moment you wouldn't think you're, you're filling it.
I'm not mocking you. I'm with you. I see you.
Yeah, I did mock you,
but I'm also with you because I've definitely done that with something in my
life before. It wasn't a water cooling loop, but it was something.
And the liquid was elsewhere.
When I was young, I thought I was a magician because I had a cup with a hole in it and I just watched it disappear.
I pick Cincinnati.
I pick Cincinnati.
Cincinnati is a great place for a business.
It is, it is. It's not great for a business necessarily. Who knows? I don't know that's how.
But it's going to survive the coming apocalypse.
Yeah, nobody's going to's see. There's nothing here
It's not even about the bombing but in terms of like climate they say that the Midwest is gonna run
Through any oceans rising changing weather patterns the Midwest near the Great Lakes are gonna be a real stability
And zombies go to Florida. So that kind of apocalypse could also be safe. Yes, absolutely
And Cincinnati yes
It's not big enough really to be a giant
target and it's spread out enough that they would have to cover it with a lot of
nukes and therefore most likely you're going to be fine.
So long as you're on the outskirts plus what meteor is going to hit Cincinnati?
No, I mean, here's going to cool, cool places, Miami, London. Oh yeah. London,
London for sure. Only if they name us a meteor, Chicago, that'd be the only one.
Barcelona. Oh no one. Barcelona.
Oh, no, not Barcelona.
That's cause it's like one of the coolest places
I've ever been.
Barcelona.
I've never been, but I know it's cool.
Not Barcelona.
I've been twice.
It's dope.
Smoked a cigar on the roof of a hotel, cause I'm cool.
Holy shit.
You didn't even know the lives I've lived.
You know, it's still problematic.
Is that smoking is still cool.
I watched the bike riders and you know,
that's just like all of them smoking cigarettes
and riding motorcycles.
That's the whole movie.
Motorcycle, okay.
I thought it was just like kids on bicycles with cigarettes.
Yeah, the Tour de France.
Those guys smoke a lot of cigarettes.
It's a good movie, but it's just like, it just reminds me.
Cause it's every character there is like, you know,
a motorcycle riding cool guy. And the main character is basically the reincarnation of James Dean or whatever
His name is Jimmy Dean's pure pork sausage. What's his name?
James Dean James Dean. Yeah, James Dean is an actor that smoked and it's just like man. Why is smoking gotta be cool?
Why is it gotta be cool even growing up like as a kid those candy cigarettes like had a little ah so cool why is it cool? why is it cool? because it's you know i mean
there's probably people out there who are more disgusted by it than they think it's cool it's fun
to suck on something is that it is that the thing i think so i suck on a lot of stuff that's not
nearly as cool feeling as smoking is.
I've tried to convince every girl I've ever been with it's fun to suck on something and she's like
Yeah, well you suck and then leave and she's right. I love candy cigarettes, man
I'll suck on those all day
but like I even I think they're cool and also I wouldn't do it still because of
Dying and not wanting to do that. But why is it still cool then? Like I don't, because I agree, but I don't know why.
I don't know why either. So are we going to have smoking in our dream house?
Smokeless smoking, just sticks to suck on.
No, because vaping is so uncool.
Oh no, no, not vaping, not vaping at all for any reason. Just sticks that look like little
cigarettes to just be like...
Oh, so it's the gum. It is the gum. Candy cigarette. Yeah.
Lots of candy cigarettes. It's gotta be a humidor.
It's gotta be a humidor of candy cigarettes.
A gas station wall of candy cigarettes and candy chewing tobacco with a,
you can go to the gas station and be like, give me two packs of reds.
What if they, what if they, do they have, uh, is there an equivalent of is there an equivalent of the, what's the, the, the, the packets, the
packets of pure nicotine? What are those called? Snus? Snooze? It's called a bag of sugar.
Zins. Nowadays zins. Don't do any of this. Anyone listening?
What you do is you, you go to Bob Evans and you get the little sugar packets and you roll it up.
You just tuck that in. Eventually the paper will dissolve away and you'll start getting that hit of sugar in your gums. Oh he's right, he's right.
Or you got a fruit roll up, put some sugar in it, roll it up. Get the white packets though or else
you'll stay in your gums, whatever color the packet is. Got to be white packets, not too much dye in
there. Do we need like a spittoon? Is that what they're called? Okay, so that's an important part of our
house. I think that's literally the first thing we've got is Cincinnati and Candy Cigarettes. Is that like the entryway,
is the candy cigarette stop so you can get your cigs before you go hang out? Maybe? Yeah, we gotta
be cool before we get together. You walk in, you put on a leather jacket, we have a leather jacket
rack, the candy cigarette rack, and then you get to enter. Plenty of motorcycle parking, it's gotta
have tons. It's gotta have tons.
It's like a 12 motorcycle garage.
You know what I mean?
The whole place is open enough
where you can ride a little mini motorcycle around
in your leather jacket with your candy cigarettes.
That's how you go from room to room.
Okay, this sounds horrible.
That actually is moving past cool and into horrifying.
I don't know why, but that's terrifying to me.
Kind of like the Shining, like the little tricycle thing.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Okay, what about a bathroom?
Does it have a bathroom?
Yeah.
I think we each get our own bathroom, both so that it can be what you want, but also
so that you can get some privacy.
I don't want a bathroom that Wade can stand outside of and listen to me while I do my
business on my own private area.
Mark, do you disagree with private bathrooms?
Why are you so hung up?
What do you got a problem with bathrooms?
I don't know, it just seems boring.
It is the perfect house.
This is the perfect house, the perfect distractible house.
I think that in the podcast booths,
we have a astronaut style urinal that suctions,
you love sucking with.
Imagine you had a suction tube that sucks
right when you're doing the podcast.
So like a butt suck?
No, well, I mean, yeah, but okay,
it's like a big diaper looking thing.
It's like an, you know the alien things
that grab your face in alien?
A dick hugger?
It's like that, but for your crotch, wham!
Oh yeah, the crotch hugger.
Don't mind the legs.
Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Maybe the chair is, oh, I'm not in a chair right now.
I'm doing the superior standing desk,
which I don't know if you guys have noticed,
but for weeks and weeks now, I've been standing.
You're so much better than me.
I am so much better, so much better.
All right, so we can have standing toilets
in the podcast room, astronaut style toilets
that really suck it out of you
so you make sure you're fully empty
before we start doing jokes.
What is the rest of the podcast room?
Is this like an amphitheater type place
or is this more like cozy?
Is there zero gravity here?
What?
Whoa, is that an option?
What setting are we funniest in?
We have astronaut toilets.
I feel like I would be really funny in zero gravity
just because.
Are we describing a space station right now?
Is this the distractible space station studio?
Whoa.
I mean, that would be pretty cool if we had an orbital,
an orbital house would be.
In Cincinnati.
Once a week, we just gotta take our rockets up
to the station to get our recording session in.
Hey, Elon, fire up the Starship!
Hey Jeff, you going up today?
I got, we got some, we gotta do a couple ad reads. Last minute thing.
I like Space Station.
Well we'd have to live there. We couldn't commute. We could not commute.
You know what, they're mad at Taylor Swift for doing the plane thing.
Imagine how, what our greenhouse effect would be. We open up with a fuck the environment campaign so we set the plane thing. Imagine how, what our greenhouse effect would be.
We open up with a fuck the environment campaign.
So we set the expectation low.
Assume in this future space elevator has been invented.
We have a space elevator,
the base of which is in Cincinnati
that can take us up to a near zero gravity environment
up in geosynchronous orbit
so that it's not the greenhouse gas, the burning the
fuel situation, not so much. And it could be probably could be solar powered. Imagine
how much solar energy you could get from an array in space above the atmosphere
and then just pipe that down through the space elevator setup. Probably very
efficient. It'd be really awful though if the elevator breaks down we're like halfway to
the space station. How long would it take a fireman to get up there to get us out?
That's a long ladder. Yeah, you just we're like halfway to the space station. How long would it take a fireman to get up there to get us out?
That's a long ladder.
Yeah, you just gotta like pry the door open
and there's a ladder on the outside.
You can climb up or down either way.
That's a long climb.
Yeah, oh, ah.
If it's down, you can do like firefighters do
where you put your hands on the outside
and you like slide down real fast.
You just catch yourself before you hit the bottom.
I have a question, and this is more of a physics question.
If there's a space elevator
and our thing's at the top of it, right?
Yes.
If, say for example, the strand was to break
or the tower was to break, would we come crashing to Earth
or go flying off into space because?
I mean, theoretically it's in geosynchronous orbit
because of being attached.
So I feel like it should stay, it would stay where it was but slowly degrade more than likely
I see I'm not sure because if it's a tether
Than equal and opposite reaction. It's maintaining where it is because there's a balance of forces going that way
But if suddenly the force that's you know, keeping it there this one pulling it back to earth goes away
Then it's only that and therefore it's in the moment it's momentum. I feel like that's not how that would work though,
you wouldn't want to have it in tension. You would want the elevator to be more like a loose
floating like an artery. Uh oh, bye. Like if I have, it wouldn't matter if it's this
or Earth, and if I were to just... Wait, aren't you supposed to be describing this for listeners?
Yeah
Okay
Mark is standing and swinging a cable as if he's trying to lasso you into his love circle if you spin it and then
You let go
It falls right back to earth. Yes. That's what we've been saying. It really it goes straight down guys
I didn't expect it falls. It falls right back to earth. I think you answered your own question
Yeah, mark spun his lasso of love it it dropped to earth, and now he's back
yeah, okay. Oh, my car key!
I'm looking for this
Mark found a car key
that doesn't seem like a good place for that, bud
I'm gonna be honest
that's a confusing location for that to end up
I have been looking for that for a very long time
so, uh, that's cool
it was literally in your walking path to your desk.
No, no, I was pulling the cable back out from it. It was on the floor.
So I pulled it with my foot away so I wouldn't step on it.
And then my car key came spilling out from wherever it was hiding.
Where could it hide on your floor?
Look man, don't ask about my floor. I was just assembling.
He's got two liters of liquid cooling liquid down there.
He's got-
He's splashing his way to his desk.
Mark is holding up empty bottles
of what was previously fluid.
Is that the computer that's filled with water?
Was that the one that's all filled with liquid?
No, no, that's one of the Alienware's.
Where's the wet one?
It's outside.
It's being punished.
It's chained up by the tree until it behaves. Mark finished putting the second leader in and noticed and was like, oh yeah?
Oh yeah.
And ran, Care picked it up, ran out to the pool, hucked it in the pool and just started
screaming, how about now?
Are you cool?
Are you still thirsty?
Computer drowned while he watched.
Bark bark bark?
That sounded angry.
Mark took off his headphones and is now leaving to investigate a strange noise.
He's looking around kind of John Travolta style through his door.
He's coming back.
Smile on his face.
Just describing what's going on for the listeners.
What's happening?
You solve your mystery?
Yeah.
They're- they're barking at the door.
Man, I'm glad we learned that.
Alright, barking at the door.
Inspector Crusoe over here, really, piecing it together. We heard dogs barking. What happened? Oh, they were barking. Okay, so we've got space
Cigarettes, so are we going with space station?
Elevator if it's a space elevator then yeah, sure. How long is the elevator ride eight seconds eight
Elevator then yeah sure how long is the elevator ride eight seconds eight?
seconds whatever physics Superman uses to catch Lois Lane as she's falling at terminal velocity
And he flies in at the speed of sound or light or whatever fast is that same physics applies to our elevator
Okay, and I'm asked at GPT something how fast would you be moving?
if you were able to go from from sea level to geosynchronous orbit in eight seconds? You'd be going four million four hundred and seventy three thousand two hundred and fifty meters per
second or two thousand seven hundred and eighty miles per second. Really?
That's not what my AI got at all.
My AI says you'd have to reach a speed
of 7,800 meters per second
or about 28,000 kilometers per hour
or 17 and a half thousand miles per hour.
Wait, it might be wrong about,
cause this is chat GPT, I was just hoping it would be funny.
No, wait, no, actually that is accurate.
Wait, how far, how high did it say yours was?
I just said to reach orbit. So it doesn't actually have like an orbitable orbital height
Yeah orbits different than geosynchronous orbit geosynchronous orbit is
35,786 kilometers according to the European Space Agency and then you just do divided by seconds
You get the meters per second. So, you know.
Oh no, I got the same answer actually. You're correct.
Oh, cool. Okay. That'd be 10 million miles an hour, which if you think about it, yeah,
that's, I mean, you're going, you're going 22,000 miles in the sky in eight seconds.
That's pretty fast.
So we need seat belts and airbags.
Sorry, I just realized what this actually is,
is you're going about 2% the speed of light
if you made it there in eight seconds.
So, you know.
That's a lot of, that's very slow.
There's a lot of-
But in, it's totally possible.
Well, that's also the average speed
because there has to be some acceleration in there.
So that would mean that the top speed would probably be much higher than that or the middle six seconds of this
experience the top speed would be probably 10% or more of speed of light so your acceleration
is on average 559 000 meters per second squared the g-forces 57000 G's how much can a human usually take be okay
nah 10 they pass out you know yeah maybe 10 12 is a passing out yeah so we likely
need some pillows pillows seatbelts vomit bags so just just to put in
comparison 57,000 G's of acceleration would be equivalent to standing on the surface of a neutron star.
Which I've heard is not recommended.
Okay, but what if you remove like the atmosphere and gravity from the inside of the elevator, then you wouldn't feel it.
Well, you won't. Trust me, you're not gonna feel a thing when this bad boy launches
But if you jump as it takes off, yeah, no, yeah, it's an elevator, right? So you just have to use the tricks
Man all right. Anyway, wait, I think you deserve points for that one actually give Tyler your points. Okay. Oh, okay
All right
So a neutron star is actually far above what this is, but the surface gravity of the sun, you know, is it's about 28 times that of Earth.
I have a good, I have a good context. I'm going to contextualize this for you, Mark.
I have a better one. The Falcon nine rocket. This is the rocket that SpaceX launches, right?
Yeah. There are, I believe there are nine Merlin engines on the bottom of this.
Are they manned or unmanned?
That's the booster that lands itself
where it lands back on the ground upright.
It's that one, right?
It's the SpaceX booster.
To generate approximately that amount of Gs in acceleration,
you would need 35,404 Falcon 9 rockets,
all firing at once creating your acceleration
What we're gonna make this like a hybrid or electrics? We don't use gas. Oh, yeah, those electric thrust generating engines
Well magnets are pretty strong. I don't know how many neodymium magnets. Oh you want to turn this bad boy into a rail gun
Oh, yeah, now we're talking. It's a it's a human rail gun. I mean, hey, whatever scrambles the eggs, I think it's fine.
Lulp.
Oh, the AI wants me to know that this is physically impossible,
because 35,000 Falcon 9 rockets don't exist,
and also it would be infeasible to attach them all together.
I've played Kerbal Space Program.
You can fit 35,000 rockets together. Hey, if you got the computer that can run the sim, I've played Kerbal space program
Hey, if you got the computer that can run the sim you can absolutely kid them all together
Whenever I get my render farm up here I'm gonna play the craziest game of Kerbal anybody's ever seen
No
What you need to do is get that up and then just give Scott Manley some time on it
So you could see what he could do because I would love to see that not no no shade to your skills and knowledge
But I just feel like Scott Manley probably knows some more
I've got such a good record of my things working. Yeah, everything works in time. All right, uh internet connection, Wade
It's gotta have bitchin internet. Yeah, okay. It's gotta have the fastest internet
I think there was recently a record-broken
Fastest internet there was I saw that I saw. You know if we're ever like struggling for money I wonder if we could just like sell
our point pads, auction off our point pads.
Are you struggling for money? You okay man?
I don't know. I mean if we're gonna buy this house we might be.
Alright so apparently 319 terabits per second was achieved in Japan back in January.
So you have to divide it by eight to get there terabytes.
I think I saw a news article that was like at that speed,
you could download all of like Baldur's Gate three in
milliseconds. Like you could download, you know,
relatively large games in literally unmeasurably short time spans.
That was the old record. Now it's 402 terabits per second.
Hot diggity.
Which equates to, uh, I believe terabits per second. Hot diggity. Which equates to, I believe, 50 terabytes per second.
So we gotta have that or faster.
Okay, how much does that cost on like a monthly plan?
Let me pull up the Comcast website, have a look here.
Yeah, I guess if we did a ratio of, you know,
if an internet connection for one gigabit.
This is where selling our point boards might be necessary because I don't know if we can afford 50 gigabit. This is where selling our point boards might be necessary
because I don't know if we can afford 50 per a bit.
So 402 times a thousand would be,
that's 402,000 gigabits per second.
A gigabit connection, if it's cheap,
probably costs what, 80 bucks a month?
So yeah, I was gonna say 60 to 100 depending where you live.
All right, let's say, they gotta go up to the space station,
let's say it's 80. So times 80 bucks, that's $32,160,000 a month.
A month in the internet bill.
How much is our rocket gonna cost?
Take us up and down.
It's not a rocket, it's an elevator.
How much is the electric bill to launch that?
Solar panels, man!
The solar, we got solar panel array in space
on the top of the station.
And Mark can go up and use a special mop to clean them.
Yeah, I will, absolutely, 100%.
I'm just picturing an astronaut in sandals
with a mop on a solar panel.
Mark in space, Amy back at home,
Mark out there on the solar panels just like,
Amy, Amy, Amy help. Okay, so we got internet, cigarettes, space station, elevator, Cincinnati.
Space is a premium in space.
So how big do we want to go with this?
I think a modest space station is nothing to scoff at.
You mean like 400 square foot house in space?
How many square feet is the ISS?
Oh, actually, that's pretty big. A livable
surface area of over 5,000 square feet is the ISS. That's pretty cool.
Comparable to a six-bedroom house. Includes seven sleeping births, two
bathrooms, a gym. Okay so yeah so modest. So yeah like they're gonna be
decommissioning it. It'll probably be on sale because they're just gonna throw it
in the ocean. Is that gonna come up on one of those option sites like where the movie theater was?
I think so, I think so, I think absolutely so.
They're foreclosing the ISA.
Fancy space words, okay? They're decommissioning.
Okay, well, and if, you know, it's old, so I bet we could get a good deal on it.
Okay, I mean, why not?
That sort of puts it, dashes the hopes of the space elevator type situation, but it could probably be attached.
I mean, that kind of limits. It's not in a geosynchronous orbit. Is it modular? Can we like... Oh, it's very modular.
I think it's pretty much fully expanded, but it's, it is very modular.
Can we just buy more modules like the Sims and just like add a room? Bring some Ryobi tools up there.
We'll just like tear down a wall, sledgehammer down a-
Ryobi space day?
No, I've always wanted to do, you know,
do sort of a bathroom remodel type thing.
How hard can that be?
I don't think it's very hard, but then again,
I don't think very hard about the problem.
Maybe Steiger will help.
We'll get some Steiger assistance.
How hard is it to get a few hundred pounds of tiles
up into a space station?
Oh, well if it...
What if we want like mahogany floors or something nice,
you know?
I mean, at the internet speed,
we could probably beam them up.
Oh, that's true.
We can download tiles.
You wouldn't download a tile, would you?
I want to get into metal 3D printing.
That's gotta be easy to get into, right?
What if we just print an elevator?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're gonna start recording in the ISS after they decommission it. We'll save a lot of money. What do we need to do
even? It's already there. It's made, it exists. We can basically just, we don't have to put in
any work here. This, you know, it is what it is. Bring some posters maybe, make it home it up a
little. Recording equipment? They have stuff up there. Haven't you seen the idea like broadcasts
from the ISS and stuff? Never watched any of it. You've never watched
anything from the ISS? It's not very interesting to watch humans in space doing things or demonstrating
scientific principles so you're in the you're right. I was talking to Mark or I'm talking
to you I watched Chris Hadfield do a space oddity in space that's basically like- Then
you have watched something! That's literally actually he was on the ISS when he did that.
Yes.
Oh, hey, I saw that.
Whoa, tornado, which kind?
Okay, watch my phone just in front of me popped up with a, like, you know, it does the alert
and it was like, yeah, yeah.
I got the text from Molly a few minutes ago.
My, I haven't got the alert yet, which is kind of terrifying.
The weather, the national weather service has issued a tornado W that's an important
W. I could go two very different ways.
I still get confused as to which is which I'm like warning.
Is that the better one or the worst one?
Whoa.
They have issued a tornado whoopsies.
All right.
Look, I'm looking at the weather map for you guys, man.
You got something coming your way. That's big.
Yeah, Bob just got warned about it.
It's old news, man.
I already done note.
Yeah, you ever look at the radar?
Cause, whoa, that's gonna get spicy.
Well, that is like a across the entire country
storm looking situation.
And it's prediction for later is dastardastardly well that'll be fun I
wonder what kind of W it will be in a few hours it's okay it's only like an
eight or nine hour warning or watch which one's the better one it's a watch
which is the better one well good luck with that in space you won't have to
deal with weather so that's pretty nice let's look at marks weather let's see
what you got going on whole lot of of nothing. That's what we got going on.
Not a cloud in the sky.
Great for solar.
If it was plugged into something.
Your solar panels are up there just like, oh God, yeah.
I hope he's putting this to good use.
Well, I might have someone that's able to at least consult on Thursday.
So hopefully very soon here. That'll be exciting. I'll be so excited.
I think is that our is that our house we're just the ISS? Did we solve it? We're just gonna
start doing the show from the International Space Station. Think of how our listens will go up.
You imagine the kind of response a show like ours would get recorded in space for no apparent reason the kind of ire that would draw from just people in general take that Seth
Rogan or Seth Rogan specifically you and your podcast when you said it again I was
like yeah that's the right name what's he what's he laughing about
my brain I was like don't say Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen!
You know, we were ahead of that guy in the charts for a minute.
That's true.
Twice.
Those were the days.
Well, when we're on the International Space Station, I think we will once again be the
top dog.
Well, let me go through points here, I suppose.
We solved our house.
We're just the International Space Station.
Let's start with me.
I got points for Faux, which is four.
Steiger 3D print, but I gave them all to Tyler.
We'll move to Tyler.
He got A, jump, some points, and then Wade points.
Tyler is sitting at six points.
That's more than I would have thought.
I gave, you kept telling me to give myself points,
so I did, but then you made me give them all to Tyler.
So I had four points and those all went to Tyler, so.
Mark, you got points for doesn't say
our cheddar but that's what it looks like I wrote. That's probably it. Render
fail. Getting older. The drowned farm. Steiger. Bathroom. Sin. Spelled CIN. Face
hugger but crotch. It wraps around. Bark. at door, Ryobi space days is correct,
402 terabits per second and bitchin' internet.
You are sitting at 13 points.
That's a lot of points.
Bob, you got points for medicine man, sad.
Eee, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Sonatiati candy cigarettes
podcast room space station
lots of rockets ISS
Go fast tornado. Oh, no, and then I wrote build by your name. So maybe you got a build point
You are sitting at
13 points you guys are tied and Tyler's at six points
It's a lot of points for someone not here.
Wade's really trying to put on a one man show I think.
Is that what a tie does?
When a tie happens organically the wheel is triggered.
What about Tyler's points?
Should those go to one of you to save me?
Not to save your ass.
Nope.
Should one of the, should your points all go to Tyler's?
So Tyler has to host.
So now the wheel is 8% one man show and and then what, 46 and 46? Is that the deal?
Oh, yep, that's it.
I guess let's figure out who wins this episode.
All right, fine.
Hey!
The next time it becomes a 10% chance, is that right?
That's correct! This is the world we created for ourselves. Oh, god. Does it reset at 10% chance, is that right? That's correct.
This is the world we created for ourselves.
Oh god, does it reset at the end of a season or something?
No.
It resets when it gets hit.
I don't like that that happened twice in a row.
I should have just made an arbitrary point.
You guys would have never known.
Yeah, it's almost like you have exact specific control over who gets how many points and
you can choose whether or not it does end in a tie.
I wanted Tyler to win.
You could have also made that happen
Well, I didn't. As usual I have proven that I am the best and that's why I won because I'm the best in general
No caveats. I'm the best at everything
period
Congratulations to me. Mark, what was your speech? I want to say that this was incredibly fair and balanced
Uh, I wanna say that this was incredibly fair and balanced, uh, but at the same time, I feel like the prejudice against the watchers needs to be noted. Um, there was no visual aids.
Here's one.
I can't read that.
Either way, I think the judging was fair, I think the host is very fair, but I think that there is an air of bias,
and the smellers are gonna be the ones that detect it.
Great. Well, uh, you guys can smell us at our respective social medias.
Mark of Markiplier, Bob of MySkirm, me at Minion777, or LordMinion777.
You can smell our merch if you buy it, I guess.
You would do that at DistractableStore.com.
That's D-I-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-B-L-E-S-T-O-R-E.com.
And stay tuned for the next one where Bob will host,
because fate has declared him the best of us.
Not fate, skill, mastery, expertise.
Podcast out.