Distractible - Top 10 Things

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

Mark, Wade, and the Mysterious Ghost of Muyskerm climb the ranks by guessing the "Top Ten Things" in Bob's categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Bellatristic Bob lost his pants to Craig, needs an exorcist, orders a new fridge, then gets the guys to guess the blanks. Waistful Wade misses on creams, but gets his socials and 3D. Monetized Mark forks Jason, goats on the devil and knows Gnosis Cones and Echidies, from eBay Escapades to Raunchy Robots.

Yes! It's time for Top 10 Things. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the World's Favorite- I've done that bit Prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the world's favorite, I've done that bit before, of the most mid podcast you have ever heard, Distractable. Is that a title we want?

No! We're not actually very mid, but some of them are mid. We have an episode called an Emmy losing episode, and I think also the worst piece of shit episode ever. So those can't be that good We're like a top 30 ish podcast like in the I'll give you a spoiler for later on this episode is called top 10 things Or something like that We're doing a tier list. Yeah, it's like a tier list kind of anyway. Welcome back to distractable

I'm the host cuz I won the last episode I'm joined as usual by my two competitors for today One of them will win and become the host Mark and Wade. They already talked. They don't get to don't talk don't talk Don't talk don't talk. They're competing for points over wins host the next one. That's the way the show works I Am Drew Carey or Aisha Tyler depends which version you like better. Anyway, we usually start with small talk How's it going, fellas? How you doing? How's it been?

Hey, we good? I give you permission to speak now. Okay, all right. I'm doing well, man. So we're doing a President tier list is what we're doing today? Pretty much. I think Van Buren should at least be B tier.

Overrated, too high, D tier. Okay. I don't have an entry until the episode begins. I'm doing anything for with for no points a point for boldness mark I'm also giving way to point for baldness because boldness made me think of baldness. Thank you president bald's I'm a genius Go on my mind Knows no limits the scope of my psyche No, no limits the scope of my psyche Expands every day. Did you know you can buy a forklift on eBay? No

You sure as shit can I am currently embroiled in a bidding war on a Forklift with no reserve pricing on it. Does it work? How much do we know about this forklift? Apparently there's some pictures of it and the guy says oh, there's a video actually. Why didn't I see this before? You're sure this is not just a poster of a forklift, right? No, there's a video of orbiting around the forklift He's looking at the serial numbers. He's raising the fork up and down. It's not just a 1-16th scale model RC forklift. No, this is a 5,000 pound telescoping forklift with tilt control in it. Oh, hell yeah. 2015. Is it a Scheister? It's a Toyota.

Oh, good brand, quality brand. The reason I'm looking for a forklift is because Jason, who I think you guys know, is forklift certified. Is that a real thing? I thought that was a bit that people did. Is that a real actual thing? Yeah, absolutely. Forklifts are dangerous things. They're extremely dangerous. Let me double check your logic here. Someone you know is forklift certified, therefore you need a forklift. You don't actually have anything you need to move with a forklift. No, I do. I do have things that I need to move with.

I was like, dude, I don't know if I can get like airplane certified, will Mark buy me a jet? I can't leave Jason lift-less. He got certified, I gotta get him a forklift. I am going to need a forklift for reasons that I shall not get into at this moment. They're my reasons, I don't need to explain it to you listeners, you viewers. How many lenses, Mark?

Mark is actually buying an entire observatory telescope system so that he can film the rest of his movie from LA in Texas. Hubble plier? If you rehouse a telescope, but like an actual observatory, the image quality is just,

ooh, ah. No, I'm just always and forever tickled by the random shit that you can think of, and it's on eBay. There is a listing of it. I unironically love eBay. I am so excited every day when I wake up and I go to eBay and I check some of my bids

And I look around and I get a new notification for like oh, oh one of these hard drives came on sale I have it set for like threshold. I like I I want all of the sponsorships for eBay You're an eBay super user over here I'm not sure that they're gonna sponsor us because you can't really give much more of a glowing review than what you just gave. I just, I've never been an eBay person before I started the lens path because I've always been scared of it for some reason. I was like, ugh, eBay. You can lose on eBay. It's not common, but like if you're not careful you totally can lose on eBay. You can get scammed or whatever. Get some crap. I actually, I bought a pre-built server through eBay that was a good price. And since then, I've actually communicated

with that company, I've communicated with that company about like, hey, I saw that you had a listing for this server, but in a different chassis with more NVMebays. Do you think you could do something where you upgrade my computer if I send it back to you? I don't want to refund, you know, and I don't want to buy the other one.

I don't want to do a swap. I'm like, if you have a chassis and they're like, yeah, we'll work with you. We'll absolutely work with you. So there are like reputable sellers that you can work with regularly. Anyway, I'm going to shut up because this does sound like I'm selling out about eBay, but I just fucking love it. No, well, I, it's not exactly the same, but I, I get why you like that. I was huge. It was when I didn't have any money when I was a college student, but one of my favorite hobbies earlier in life was just Craigslist in general. Just go on Craigslist and scan, browse through and just see like what are people selling or trading for or whatever. I rarely ever got anything

off of Craigslist and one of the couple times I actually did, I got absolutely scammed out of my pants and like literally got home and was so deflated about it that I it was like a formative memory from that era of my life. I hated. But I love I get why you like that about eBay because they have everything and you can just look if there's anything you want, you can just go and look and it is fun. I've got the craziest deals on 25 gigabit ethernet add-in cards and I see is network interface cards those things if you buy them from anywhere else they're like 200 bucks like 250 300 bucks but on eBay because there's so many cells on eBay that take old bulk all these data centers when they when they try to upgrade they don't know what the fuck to do with the rest of their shit so they sell it to a wholesale rip apart person company and they take all the parts and they list them on eBay or it goes out to China and they do the same thing

and all these parts that are still good and working end up on these sites I get it for 50 bucks! What was and is like 200 bucks and is 50 as perfectly good and I'm just like, YES! I don't know, it just tickles me. I just, I feel great about it. I oddly just found myself on eBay last night. I don't, I go on there maybe like once a year. I really do not do this very often. Molly and I were talking about like Pokemon cards.

I used to collect them when I was young but I haven't for years. Like when they first came out there was the regular set, then there was the jungle set, the fossil set, the rocket set, and then there's been like a thousand different Pokemon sets since then. But we're talking about it and I was like, man, I wonder what like some of the old cards are worth. Like I know people talk about Charizard and stuff, so I'll look up Charizard cards and there were a few on there. There was like a German first edition PSA 10 Charizard for $26,000. There was a Shadowless first edition English Charizard for $254,000 there was a shadowless first edition English Charizard for $254,000 good Lord and then there was another was like first edition Charizard $15 PSA 10 I was like what and this was when I clicked on it to look I was like what's wrong with it something

it's a poster of a Yeah That's not immediately clear other than like the price is like it's one of those things where it gets you to click because it Seems like it's like okay. This is a scam, but how is this a scam? Let's look into it Yeah, I love trying to figure out what's the deal with that no I that is funny Like did I click on the two hundred fifty four thousand dollar card no because if I accidentally was anywhere near the bid button I'd be in trouble Whereas the poster it's like well. got to know what the scam is. Like, come on, how are you hustling me? Let's see.

The only time I've ever actually been felt like I've been scammed, because I've actually been pretty good. There have been very rare times where I bought something and the thing that I bought didn't show up. There's one time where it took way too long for it to show up. Months and months I had to like hound the seller to sell it, but it actually didn't show up eventually. But there was this other time where I won an auction. I was the only bidder on that auction and the minimum of the bid was way low, really, really low for what that product was. Not so low, not like dollars, but it was like, like the seller would be disappointed. And so I was the only bidder

and I won. And so I was like, yeah, I paid, I waited, the seller would be disappointed and so I was the only bidder and I won and so I was like Yeah, I paid I waited the seller Canceled my order and they said something was wrong with my payment processor or some shit like that or my shipping address Yeah, incomplete and then they wouldn't respond to any of my messages But I reached out to you man They they actually close that guy's an entire account because you cannot do that It's a huge problem for eBay because they're sort of subject to your experience with eBay is subject to whoever the fuck that other person is on the other end of any given transaction.

And if it's not a reputable seller like you were talking about, yeah, like some people just do some shit like that. Well, it's funny is that guy actually had a lot of reviews and he'd sold a lot of products on that account. So, and then it's gone because he was like, like, I don't want to lose it for too low. I bought some stuff on there earlier this year too. We had a friend in town who helped me refurbish an old PS2. They've got all kinds of cool stuff out there now

to like plug your PlayStation 2 in and it'll like up the graphics to look like they fit better on like. Yeah, like an upscaler. Yeah, upscaler. And then they've got like controllers and stuff that have been refurbished to work. So it's like still the PS2 feel,

but you can have the Wireless and stuff like that. I bought some stuff like that on eBay too. It's really good stuff. There's some really reputable companies that do that kind of thing that are just like, here, have this. There's really cool stuff on there. Shitty people, but there's a lot of great people

doing great things too. I totally believe you could start your business and operate it completely from eBay and it would be a great method to do it, 100%. I wonder what their cut is of things I've never sold on eBay. It's funny, because that was like, it's in the movie, 40 year old Virgin,

but that was like a huge thing in like the late 90s, early 2000s. My dad actually did that. My dad in my youth, because my dad was our stay at home parent in our family. My mom was very successful. And so we were, my dad was able to be just a stay at home parent, raise my brother and I. He's like a very smart, intelligent guy.

Like he's always trying to find stuff to do because he needs things to keep his mind active. In the early days of eBay he got into buying stuff specifically you could buy things from Sharper Image and or Brookstone wholesale. Like you could buy last year's things and you buy them wholesale, you buy them from like a bulk retailer. So you buy like 500 waterproof shower radios, right? That was kind of a big one he did. He had a ton of those and then sell them on eBay and the margin is fine.

Like it was a decent margin. All he had to do is buy them, store them at the house and then pack them up and ship them up and whenever he sold one on eBay, it was cool. He ran a little shop out of our house back in the days before that was now it's like buy them, store them at the house and then pack them up and ship them up whenever he sold one on eBay. It was cool. He ran a little shop out of our house back in the days before that was now it's like super easy and not that uncommon. But he was a pioneer of the internet. But you could I think you're right.

I think you could totally do that. Meanwhile, my grandpa bought 12 dozen eggs one time because they were on sale. We just ate eggs for three straight weeks. Eggs. He bought two liters when they were on sale and gave them away for Christmas. Dude, all you got if you got too many eggs, make deviled eggs. I can only eat so many eggs in a row. I can pound a dozen deviled eggs by myself.

Some kind of magical shit happens when you make eggs into deviled eggs. They take up less volume or something. Or if you sat down for breakfast and someone was like, here's six whole eggs. You'd be like, what the fuck? But if someone put a dozen dev, here's six whole eggs, you'd be like, what the fuck? But if someone put a dozen deviled eggs in front of you, you'd be like, I might be able to finish that off. So do you mean a dozen deviled eggs, like you're meaning six whole eggs still, right?

Cause you mean the half. The same amount of total eggs. Some kind of magic shit happens. I don't know what it is. Okay, to make deviled eggs, you don't use the yolk, do you? You'd replace it? Yeah, you hard boil the eggs, cut them in half, scoop the yolks out

Mix those into the mayonnaise mixture put pipe them back in okay There are still part of the mayonnaise mixture okay, so you use the whole egg and you add stuff to it also This is such a weird small talk is turning into do you guys have that it's changed my life with boiling eggs It's a little egg shaped thing that's flat on the bottom. You drop it into the water with the eggs with you. It has a visible cooking indicator so that the plastic piece will cook and there's lines in it that say soft, medium, hard. No. What the fuck? Where the line is, is exactly what the other eggs are cooked at. It's exact. I mean,'s interesting but timing works very consistently. I know for a fact if I bring water to a boil, put eggs in and set a timer for six minutes and 15 seconds I get

jammy. Seven minutes I get hard, pretty hard. You know like it is but you have to learn like whenever like we moved right and we went from an electric stove to a gas stove. I don't know I feel like gas stoves work differently. Well when you put in the cold eggs it does change the temperature of the water for a little bit and that can fluctuate it if you put that thing in there I don't know how much it costs but it's changed my I feel like water looks different when it boils on a gas stove versus an Electric stove. It's less bubbly on the gas stove gas stove suck Okay, I'll say it take him away Biden take everyone's gas stoves liberals They suck. Your final act in office, take away gas stoves.

Ban gas stoves. I like a gas stove, but I will admit I'd probably be better if I just had an induction. I want induction so badly. I'm not saying like the coils are better, but honestly, I feel like the coils heat faster than a gas stove. They do, but then they're like, if you turn them too high, then they're that hot temperature for like 20 minutes. If you can overheat and then you have fucking apocalyptically hot glass stovetop for ever. It's annoying.

But induction is magic. I've only had it for a very short amount of time. I think it was at an Airbnb I had once and it was just like, it's magic. It boils so fast. I don't get why some people are like, try to make things political when it's just like it's magic it boils so fast I don't get why some people are like try to make things political when it's just like this is literally better Oh, that sounds like some a libertarian would say oh you got me. I want small No, it just is the thing that always gets me is don't do this But generally like my parents have an induction cooktop

You can literally have a pan on there and be boiling water and then you can take the pan off and put your hand on and it's like warm, but you don't even get burnt. It's so incredibly, like it's so much safer. It's so much more effective at heating. It's crazy. You do have to have the right kind of pans because like aluminum is not inductive or what you have, but most pans work. You just have to like have, it's not or what you have but most pans work you just have to like have it's not it's not a big of a thing to have the right pans if you have an induction it's so good does it work with copper is it doesn't work with copper it doesn't work with copper but most copper pans have a sandwiched stainless copper bottom anyway you some pans

won't work but like generally it's as long as you aren't like really particular about having the exact type of pan that doesn't work on an induction cooktop for some reason It's fine induction plate you can buy that and put it on your induction stove put a copper thing on there and it'd be fine What about one of for us super rich people who have diamond pans and pots and stuff Can you boil water in a diamond pot? You got that diamond stone? Whatever? Whatever got my diamond pot button Yeah for my diamond subscribers. Was there ever a conclusion of how bad Teflon actually is for the human body? It's not good. Isn't it a PFOS? Isn't it one of those forever chemicals and that what it's made from? I know the old Teflon was one of like one of the most horrendous ones, but then they have new Teflon But it's similarly bad in that if you have a nonstick pan even if

it's a modern one and it starts to scratch at all you're supposed to throw it away because ingesting that stuff is super bad for you. There is a new type of nonstick that is not a coating it's actually like how the pan is made the micro texturing of it does there's something about it it's nonstick and it's better. The pan excretes butter while you cook it makes things slippery. Oh there's a butter button just butter.. Oh, god. Every time you cook, you just inject some liquid butter into the side. Actually, that's what people say about cast iron is like you season it because you want that to come out. Not necessarily like a butter button, but it's like it's coated with the

flavors of everything that you've used to season with it. But I can tell you country style gravy made in cast iron does taste different than gravy made elsewhere. Now cast iron is like magic because what happens when you the reason cast iron pans get seasoned quote unquote you're literally polymerizing the fats that you have on the surface into a new polymer. I don't know the science of it but like it is mystical and magical because a perfectly seasoned cast iron is like as slick and glossy as a non-stick pan, which is wild. Literally started this episode I was finishing lunch and now I'm hungry again for like breakfast foods. You know

what is crazy? Every single crazy asinine thing I've put into my server room has worked and I know I'm jinxing myself, but I can't believe that that does seem like a lot of luck Have you filled it with the what's that liquid called if you put the liquid gel in the whole room yet? The lab or salt do you you talking about the l'auber salt? Yeah everyone's favorite I think it's so funny that people fundamentally Misunderstood how I was gonna use it everyone's just like like, don't put GlauberSalt in your server. I'm an electrical engineer ring student. And I believe that if you do that,

it will blow up everything. And I was just like, how dumb do people think? Someone just caught us straight. I'm an electrical engineer ring student. I'm an electrical engineer hobbyist. I have a bachelor's degree. I think it's perfectly safe mark. Thank you. I don't I have two degrees I think you're a genius mark Bob. Do you have ghosts in front of you in front of me? Is there a window in front of you? All right, are you referring to this yeah, I saw a shadowy figure. What is, what is going on?

It looks like a window and someone's walking by it. What is that? I'm in a basement. Let's be, let's be very clear about this. I'm in a basement. This is a TV that's off that is reflective, but what it usually reflects is my monitors. And I just saw that.

Yeah, you saw that too. Someone walked by. You can see my hand in the monitor, right? You could see like right here when I- Yeah, I can't but I believe you I swear something walked by I saw That cuz you made me look at it right with that. It looked like Well, I saw it what is it I'm in a basement you got ghost man My monitors are all static except for your images right now. Good luck putting that in a YouTube short editors.

Man, Bob, if this is a prank, it's a good one. Dude, if this is a prank, I'm pranking my own self here too. What the fuck is happening? Hey, I'll give you 20 bucks to stand in front of this light while I'm recording an episode and just walk back and forth. I'm in a basement. There are like basement windows, but there's no way that they're reflect. That's what's reflecting because they're covered by horizontal slats.

It keeps happening. That didn't mean to derail your episode, but yeah. No fucking idea what that is. What's reflecting right now in that top part? Like what is that green line? I don't know. Watch right here, right? You can see my hand shadow right there That's my hand in front of my monitors. What is up? Wait, I can obstruct that. Yeah, it's a I Don't have an explanation for that. I think there's someone hiding behind your monitor I think that's the only thing the only other thing in my office that emits light is I have a over there up high I have a computer but it's purple. It's all purple lighting inside my computer it's not

green. All the listeners are shaking their steering wheel. Listeners there's a TV that looks like someone's moving in front of a reflection in it. There you go. You're welcome It honestly looks like someone is walking back and forth in front of the reflection. I'm alone in a basement I don't know what to tell you. Are you okay? I hope so. I don't know Oh, they walked the other way. It did go the other way I saw that if a face appears and stays there, maybe we'll talk to it. Maybe that'll be the episode I don't like that. I don't like that Oh, this is not a big thing, but it's preparation. I am getting a fridge

Delivered this week. Yes. Oh god. So this is a different we live in Ohio now This is a totally different house We have an upstairs fridge and a basement fridge because we live in the Midwest and they always have a basement fridge in the Midwest For whatever reason basement fridge because we live in the Midwest and they always have a basement fridge in the Midwest for whatever reason. Basement fridge stopped fridging. It's only moderately cool and not cold enough to be food safe anymore. Are you doing the Midwest thing where you take kitchen fridge, move it to basement, get new kitchen fridge?

Oh yeah. No, no. Yeah, we're a hundred percent doing that. We're getting, we're getting new upstairs fridge and we're putting upstairs fridge into downstairs area there are three fridges that are about to be moved up and downstairs through this house because they're taking the old one away they're moving the one upstairs down and then they're putting a new one it's not from Lowe's last time it was Lowe's you mean woes yeah well

that it was them I can't help but feel like the shadow in that monitor looks like smegle leaning over looking at you Am I in trouble or what? Maybe there's two of them. There's two of what? What do you mean? I'm too walked by in quick succession. I think waves just making shit up now I don't could be legs that could just be legs Bob's legs No, his legs are below the camera. My legs reach under the desk and then up the backside And I'm just doing that with my legs way 12 feet away from my body Just fair warning next time we record this show. I will have had a lot of Refrigerators moving around my house. What condition is your side yard in?

They shouldn't even have to use the side yard in this house The fridge should come in the front door and straight through to the kitchen and the basement stairs. They do have like a U-turn, but they're pretty wide. They're fairly wide. Should be fine. I can't wait. I'm so sorry for your future pain. Joe Rogan. Your days are numbered. We're coming back, baby. We're surging to the top. All the viewers, listeners, tell your your friends tell your family It's time to come back to distract them because Bob's fridge part two

It's coming if something bad happens and I have to do I don't know I feel like that'll be confirmation that we live in The simulation because it's just there's no reason anyway. We have ghosts and soon. We'll have refrigerators It's just that's why it's your favorite podcast. It's the only reason Anyway you guys want to do my my episode idea top 10 is That's why it's your favorite podcast. It's the only reason. Anyway, you guys want to do my episode idea? Top 10 is accurate, but you're not making a top 10 list. What we're doing is you're guessing what are on these top 10 lists. I have a series of top 10 lists that I compiled from Googling things, so they are not definitive and or even correct necessarily, but this

is the best I could find. So this is like Harvey Feud or Harvey Feud. Harvey Feud. Yep. Wow. Family Steve? Family Steve. I love that show. Okay, man. I'm ready. This is like Harvey Feud basically, but these these rankings are I don't know internet bullshit. Who knows? But we're're gonna start easy Okay, I'm gonna give you the like the title of the list and then I'm gonna want you're just gonna try and fill it in And we're gonna start with a super easy one I'm gonna flip a lens cap to see who goes fucking first I just almost threw the lens cap. This is mark. This is Wade

I can't tell the difference, but I can't wait to see. I can't tell the difference, but. Mark is the outside. This is like the front. This is like the side that faces the lens. Here we go. Eh. Mark goes first.

Oh! Triangle of fairness. It's not a triangle. It's a small lens cap, sorry. The first list we're gonna do is the top 10 ice cream flavors in America. Ooh, so I gotta guess which ones are in points based on how high?

Not based on how high. It's gonna be like a you win the list type of deal. So I'm gonna keep track of who gets which ones and you wanna get more of the correct answers. We don't have to get all 10 of every list, but also I'll try and give you hints. But this one should be easy. I think that my answer,

because it's really like if you think of like most popular one, there's really only two choices that spring up because you know, people are very basic. I'm going to go with vanilla. I was hoping you were going to pull some weird ass flavor out of your ass after all that, like the build up. Macaroni and cheese! No, vanilla was number one. Vanilla is number one.

That's what I thought because it'd be the most basic thing, but also it is a flavor. It's not just nothing. It is not just milk flavored. I'm gonna skip some of the basics. I'll leave those to Mark and I'm gonna go cookies and cream, which has basically become a basic flavor.

Number four on our list is cookies and cream. That's about where I would have expected it to be. This is my favorite. I really just wanna know if it's on the list butter pecan butter pecan is number seven on Alright, gaining in popularity Apparently it ranks as high as fourth in some things, but it's a seven on this list So it depends who you ask where you ask them probably it's a fantastic flavor I'm gonna do another

Exploratory one. Like the Cincinnati Cincinnati enemy wants to say black raspberry chip because graders, I don't know if that's a national or worldwide flavor, but I'm going to say cotton candy and see if cotton candy is on the list. That was a very popular flavor when I worked at ice cream. Not on the list. I think that's a very UDF Midwest flavor, but not necessarily a national thing. Mint chocolate chip. As much as I would love black raspberry chip to be there, if anyone likes mint chocolate chip,

black raspberry chip isn't like a substitute because you either like the mint or you don't. But I'm like black raspberry chip is great, but mint chocolate chip is probably the most. Mint chocolate chip is number five. All right, yeah. Well, this one's probably on there then, cookie dough. Chocolate chip cookie dough is number six. Have we said chocolate? No All right, yeah. Well, this one's probably on there then, cookie dough. Chocolate chip cookie dough is number six.

Have we said chocolate? No. Oh, chocolate. Chocolate's number two. We also haven't said strawberry. Strawberry's number three. You guys really did just skip right over all of the basics. Well, I thought Mark would give us the basic ones,

so I wouldn't go crazy. I guess you can't say Neapolitan because that's just those, right? Is that your guess? No, no No, is it on the list? Wait, I was just asking. I was just asking. Is that your guess? Yeah, sure Neapolitan Neapolitan is Number nine Even though is it me a Paul and just vanilla chocolate and strawberry together

Apparently that's very popular in the older generation, specifically Gen Xers and especially baby boomers really like Neapolitan. What about just boring chocolate chip? Need the cookie dough, but chocolate chip itself is probably on there. That did not make the list. Really? Good, honestly good.

We have two left and I do think they're very guessable, but we are definitely getting away from the most obvious flavors with these ones. Rocky Road. Rocky Road is number 10 on this list. Meaning that we have one left. So I'm going through my brain here. There's another very popular combination at least at UDF but there's multiple of them. Peanut butter, peanut butter chocolate chip some version of peanut butter peanut butter Not on this list. I'm surprised. I'm gonna go with American dream That's my favorite of the Ben and Jerry's like no that is a good flavor of the Ben and Jerry's special ones

But that is not on the list Superman Also, yes the bar not on the list that was a cut that was a udf flavor Yeah, it's got to be some cup of caramel or caramel or however I say do you want a hint? No, I've got two more guesses before I want a hint. Let me go sea salt caramel something like that. That's not it. Sorry Turkish coffee What no no and bad. No. I don't know if a sherbert would count. This is specifically ice cream?

Yeah, that's not, that's a different type of thing. Uh, brownie something. Unless that isn't that rocky road, that's technically. There would be like a brownie chunk thing would be, that's not it though. Birthday cake. Birthday cake is number seven. Hey! Interesting.

It's more widely probably known as like confetti cake or just like cake but that is, that's been one that really has exploded in popularity I feel like in our lifetimes It is very good, probably terrible for you but god is it good Is that just like vanilla with sprinkles or is there something else in there? It's like vanilla with sprinkles and usually it either has like cake bits or like crunchy bits that are supposed to be the cake mixed into it so it's kind of like cake and ice cream all in one scoop. I see. Or like if you get like a cold stone they literally just take some cake and just fuck it in there with everything else in your cold. I hope they don't. I hope they don't fuck it in there. You guys did very well on that. This I think this is another low ball one. Oh my knee

Oh, okay. Uh, Wade you get to go first on this one. Give me the top 10 most popular restaurant brands in the US. So this includes fast food, sit down places, this includes anywhere you can get food or drinks so like smoothie places or any kind of like restaurant store Wendy's Wendy's is number five McDonald's Donald's is number one mark out here getting all the number one answers Yeah, that's what it's all about baby. I want to do I want to explore I want to see if rally slash checkers is on there not because they're like one of the greater ones But because they literally have two different names because they're everywhere

I love that guess and I see what you're going for. They did not make the cut. Is Chipotle on the list? Well, I see we're getting that they have actually fallen off Notably regarded as previously would have been on this list, but no longer regarded as well by people Interesting interesting is Burger King somehow still on this list I feel like they've also fallen off since like the late 90s but they're still everywhere burger king somehow is number six on this list that is dubiously high to my eyes but yes their chicken in the late the late 90s man was so good no they they do have they have very specific things that just you can't

you can't get other places uh whopper wh whopper, whopper, whopper. They advertise like crazy. And I know I think of the jingle. Jack in the Box? That's a good one, but no, not on this list. Really? Would something like Starbucks count? Starbucks is number two on this list.

Oh, okay, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I was trying to give you that at the beginning. This includes all food establishments, so like. And Dunkin' Donuts has also gotta be up there. I think it's offensively low, but Dunkin' Donuts is at number nine on this list. And technically, I guess it's just called Dunkin' now.

Yeah, whatever you want, company that everyone knows the name of. Yeah, change. Change your iconic name, good job. By that executive that walked into the name of? Yeah, change. Change your iconic name. Good job. By that executive that walked into the building really made that decision. I don't know if this is gonna make the list,

but I feel like they're everywhere. Waffle House. I, they are everywhere. I feel like they really lose it at most popular brands in the US. They've gotta be to be as so everywhere that they are. I don't know how there are so many Waffle Houses and I don't know a single soul who goes to one for any purpose regularly. In Milford

we're like we went to high school well Mark and I went to high school they literally popped one up in the middle of a grocery store parking lot it just appeared one day. I don't know it does seem like they there are too many of those that there... People have to eat there for them to keep opening, right? Maybe people who eat at Waffle House don't respond to surveys. Maybe it's a bias in the surveys. Subway. Subway. That comes in at number six. Did I say six already? Subway is actually number six.

Okay, I think he said Burger King was number six. Yeah, Burger King I think is five actually. I think I just don't count so good. So we're missing number three right now? We're missing three, four, eight, and ten. I don't know if I want to keep trusting breakfast places. I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones. Definitely missing some obvious ones. Try IHOP.

Ooh, IHOP is not on this list. Taco Bell. That's a pretty obvious one. Taco Bell is number four. I don't think a Taco Bell because I don't eat there. Damn. Okay, well if IHOP and Waffle House aren't there, I don't think like a Bob Evans or anything else is gonna make it. So. Oh, that's like an Ohio thing. See, I don't know. I've always been in Ohio. I don't know these things. I mean like in and out, but that's only West Coast. So like what would be? Big national brands here. Big conglomerated national brands.

Arby's? Good guess, but no, Arby's didn't make the cut. Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is number three on this list. That high? It's huge. Insanely. Have you ever seen the lines at Chick-fil-A? Chick-fil-A disrupts traffic a mile away, depending on how their driveways are designed. People go ape shit for that.

Not here. But here it's one of the, like even if they have a long line, it goes quickly and they do like the double thing I guess. Yeah, but it's still like, they're good at getting people through. Where I lived in the Bay, there would be, they had a special parking lot built at the New Chick-fil-A where the line went all the way around the perimeter

of the property. It was literally like a 50 car line they had built and that was not enough to contain the lunch rush line it still backed up into the street and fucked up traffic in the whole area Chick-fil-a is crazy I don't know how they keep enough chicken in that building to feed all the people going through there meat Canyon's probably right I don't know they have an underground chicken lab anyway we are now missing number eight and number ten and I have hints if you want them. Is Hardee's on the list for some reason? It's not that popular here but maybe it is overall.

Nah, nah. This is an oddball one. I don't know if this qualifies but I'm gonna throw out 7-Eleven because they do sell food and they're very popular. I really liked that guess. 7-Eleven is not on the list, but that's a very good guess. What about KFC? KFC is number 10. Bam, okay. I'm missing the number eight restaurant on this list. I'll give a hint that's very vague. It is a type of place we haven't guessed any of yet.

We haven't guessed this type of, the type of like cuisine they serve, type of food they serve. Oh, is it Panda Express? That is an excellent guess, but no, Panda is not on our list. You would think those are, those do very well. Pizza Hut? Pizza Hut is not on the list. What is it Domino's?

Domino's is number eight on our list. Really? Domino's is more popular than Pizza Hut now. I was also surprised by that. Domino's internationally is way more successful than any other large pizza trade. And so I think I actually think Domino's very mediocre, but it's like always consistent. So I think that's part of the appeal. Whereas like Papa John's is probably one of my favorite. I actually like that. I still can't get over there's a a one pizza place by UC Adriaticos, Adriaticos. Like that's probably been my favorite pizza place I've ever gone to. But Pop John swings wildly.

Do they do they're either one of the best or if their cheese is wrong, it makes you feel nauseous with every bite. It really depends on the quality of what you get. Domino's wings and pasta, though, has actually been slapping. So I their pizza, I'm kind of in. Tasta Hut. Pasta Hut. I like their fettuccine Alfredo. It just, the way it comes, I enjoy it.

Their pastas are so greasy to me. I can't, I like them, but they like, they like make me sick. I've always found Domino's to be one of the lesser pizza chains. I always preferred like Pizza Hut. Marco's was really good. I don't know how big Marco's is, but it's a big. Little Caesar's is one I love

that I think it doesn't get in the- Dude, Hot and Ready's? Dude, Hot and Ready's, Little Caesar's were so good. $5 Hot and Ready, just walk in and grab yourself a pep. I got food here, speaking of. All right, let's pretend to do a handshake the other when Mark comes back. Wait, I forget which side you're on.

What did you do? Nothing. We pretended to make a deal, Mark. Don't worry about it. Bob, I curse the ghost in your TV to kill you. That is all 10. I'm surprised Arby's didn't make the cut. There are a few that I'm surprised weren't on that and Arby's is definitely one of them. They have the meats. I still would have thought Chipotle had this staying power, but I guess not. I will say the thing about Chipotle is the world has moved towards ordering everything for like delivery or whatever.

Chipotle is almost as good as it used to be if you go to the store and get your order in person, but they make the online orders so fucking terribly. They give you like half a scoop and they skimp out on stuff and it's gross. You go and watch them make it. The people that work in the store are great and they give you lots of fillings and it's delicious. Yep, every time I've ordered double when it's gross. If you go and watch and make it, the people that work in the store are great and they give you lots of fillings and it's delicious.

Yep. Every time I've ordered double when it's online, it's never double. Yeah. Never. Absolutely is not double. Editors mute my microphone. Oh, whoa. You could just not make that noise.

I think if you just. Glad that no one can hear me. All right, we're gonna move on to a list that I think is harder, but I think is also more interesting. I did surprisingly bad on that one, so I can't wait to see what this one is. You came off to a really hot start, and then Mark really clawed his way back. I thought you were gonna walk away with that one. Give me the top 10 inventions of the 21st century. So this one is kind of more vague.

This is not on there But a good example would be if it was top 10 inventions of like the last 25 years or 30 years or whatever it is the internet that'd be more like 40 years technically, but dude, I'm so dumb I was like so from 1900 to 2000 no of the 21st century would be post millennium post 2000 and that doesn't strictly mean that no version of this existed previously because some of these really skirt that, I'll be honest. Modern, very modern inventions of the modern age. Now you can go first again, Wade. Oh, sorry. All right. Well,

you're eating. I thought you were busy. No, I agree. I'll go first because I think I only know of one. I don't even know if it counts. That's very generous of you, Wade. Go ahead. Social media. Social media is number three. All right, that's it. I'm tapping out. That's all I have for this.

You know, come on. You, you're, this is your job. You know stuff. Invention based on like metrics of users, sales. My understanding is this is sort of a combination. A lot of these are things that are, have become widely adopted, widely used, but some of them are more like just such a revolution

that even though it's still in a growth, in the growth phase, it's just like a remarkable invention of modern technology kind of thing. Well, up there's gotta be smartphone. I just typed that out as the one I was like, I'm gonna try smartphones, god damn it. Smartphones is number two. Fuck. It just typed that out as the one I was like, I'm gonna try Smartphones, god damn it. Smartphones is number two.

Fuck. It's very exemplified by the iPhone, which released in 2007. Good work, Mark. What else you got, Wade? There is a hundred percent chance that one of these is a thing that you know unquestionably. How about 3D printing?

3D printing is listed at number one. Damn! Mark. It's recent, but machine learning probably is up there. Yeah, at number six, artificial intelligence slash machine learning. I feel like calling it AI is generous, but machine learning,

advancements in various fields in computing technology. Crypto. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are number four on this list. Okay. The man who thinks he doesn't know anything still hasn't missed. I'm just pulling stuff out of my ass. Just think about modern things in your ass and they'll probably be pretty close. Okay.

Okay. This one, I believe, is within the 21st century, but I might be wrong. I'm going to say lithium ion batteries. That is a very good guess, but actually not on the list. That was one I was a little surprised did not make this. It probably actually was invented before also, like lithium ion specifically probably was beforehand, but... I will say a couple of these that exist also were not strictly, they definitely existed pre 2000 in like unheard of niche circles that no one discovered until after it was invented in the, you know, in the 21st century. Wade, your chance to take a commanding lead on this list. Non dial up internet.

You mean like what's the light fiber optic internet you mean in particular? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Whenever it quit being a dial-up service and they started using the other whatever. Nah. Okay. Decent guess, I think that existed in the 90s.

Like, technically DSL existed for a while before the year 2000, I think. I got one. Oculus Rift, the VR. Oh, VR, okay. That's a very good guess. VR, virtual reality, is not on this list The thing that makes hybrid cars hybrid the plug-in stuff the battery

Electric the car things. Yeah I'm gonna give it to you wait because I think this one is sort of mislabeled. That is number seven on this list. It's listed as electric and self-driving cars. I think it means like modern EVs that have self-driving features and things, but that is on here. That's one of the ones where I think that's kind of crazy because there was GM made an electric car in the eighties.

There have been electric cars, not mass produced by any stretch, but there have been electric cars for a couple decades prior to the year 2000. Wasn't there one that used corn or something? I mean, are you talking about ethanol? Because ethanol has been added to gas for a long time. No, someone just really just, I think just literally tried to use corn. Are you talking about biodiesel? No, corn. Are you talking about like biodiesel? No, corn.

Hey, Uncle Jab Down the Street doesn't count as a worldwide invention that's changed up the entire. I feel like you mean ethanol, but corn is not on the list. If you'll give me a point, then yes. No, well, you got this one anyway, but no, corn is not one on here, no. We need 10, nine ten nine eight and five We have specifically talked about number seven as a topic on this show here

And we have definitely talked about the rest of the ones in passing like these are things that that we are aware of and Obersol, it's not my turn but Mark I'm helping you, buddy. Popular, popular, big, successful inventions, not Mark's inventions. No. Ooh. All right, it's not one of the meme topics

we've discussed on this show. Ah, the James Webb telescope. I don't think that one has come to fruition enough quite yet to guarantee that it's a modern Marvel, but I think it probably is. It has been generating science, the likes of which we have not believed. But it has a lifetime of imagery to collect still,

but no, that's not on here. Ah. Space is not a bad place to think about. One of these connected to space, the rest of these very earthy. I'm gonna ignore that hint and go with Fitbits and smartwatches. That's an interesting one. But I feel like that probably gets wrapped into smartphones because it is not specifically separate on this list. A space phone. How about Starlink? That is like a better version of a thing that Wade guessed earlier about non dial-up internet, but it's also not Starlink. Sorry.

I'm batting 0 for 17 here. The MCU. Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss think of streaming services it's it's kind of a plague but also kind of influential right? Oh fuck! Streaming services is number five! Wooo! Damn it! Why did I give you that? That was my clue! I should get that! Specifically I think this one's funny because it specifically says YouTube and other streaming services. Oh YouTube we're kind of on that! Yeah we are that's that's kind of a big thing in our lives that we're probably pretty familiar with.

So we're currently missing seven, eight, and nine. I might disagree with it, but number nine, I'm calling specifically, has got to be Fortnite. I fucking wish it was. That would be so, all the rest of these are like inventions and science and number like, yeah, Fortnite. I mean, Fortnite, right? Do you guys see the marshmallow concert and fortnight oh man crazy I would say digital

cameras but I know for a fact the digital cameras were way prior to the 21st century yeah those predate the 21st century by quite a lot so why would you say that what a dumb thing I'll say the one that we spend a lot of time talking about in an in an episode is still on here urine I'm sorry urine is one of the top inventions of all time 21st century invention. All right, how about like flat-screen TVs or something like that? No, sorry Do you want a hint, Wade? Medical stuff.

Growing ears on mice and lasers. Lasix better. Medical stuff? If that's on there, but I can name, if I can name the specific thing, can I steal it? Yes. No. Wade, what you said is not on there,

but medical stuff is an interesting direction to go in. CRISPR Yeah number seven is CRISPR gene editing. You're welcome for another softball mark. Thanks. Wait I got the battery and you get the car. You didn't even say self-driving and he gave it to you so I think I think we're even. I said electric car.

You didn't say self-driving. It's electric boogie woogie woogie woogie. I'm being very generous here. I said electric car. You didn't say self-driving. It's electric boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie. I'm being very generous here. CRISPR, medical stuff, they're the same thing. Antigram, rearrange the letter medical stuff, you get CRISPR. Honestly, CRISPR is hardly medical at all. It's really more like experimental, if anything.

That's what I was trying to say. Yeah, sure, right. No, you were close. You were very close-ish. Wade, what's your next guess? You must have something just on the tip of your tongue Um that room room on mars Rover survey says no, of course not. I was thinking space

Do you like all space is a good place to think one of the two we have left is definitely Space you want more hints? I have hints. No, no, no. Oh, no, no. The space station? I don't know if that previous 21st century. I don't either, but it's what else is in space that we invented. What else is this? Says the guy who loves space.

No, that we invented. It's not the space station. That was launched in 1998. I just looked it up. You want a space hint, Wade? Oh, yeah, please. I don't know if it's going to help you, but launched in 1998. I just looked it up. You want a space hint, Wade? Oh, yeah, please. I don't know if it's gonna help you but it might help mark. It won't this is not something that stays in space Even though it goes to space. It's not one of Newton's laws No, those stay in space Let's stay right up there. Those orbit great. Oh god

Those orbit great. Oh god the the the the the astronaut As long as you discount everything that's happened since the 60s up until the year 2000 Astronauts may have been invented in the 21st century. No, clearly what you're referring to is Oh wait, what was that? It's Morse code. Did you understand? I didn't want Mark to take my hint in case. I did, but you're incorrect I think. Damn it! That's close though, right? Are you talking about the Falcon 9 reusable rocket? Reusable commercial rockets.

That's what I, basically, you misread my lips. The first time I watched a Falcon 9 land and then just still be standing there, my whole brain was like, I thought that was just gonna fucking explode or something. Like, I didn't think this would actually work. Holy fuck. And it was it was also just as crazy seeing the the what is it the Starship or get land on the little forky do that was wild. Just to know how big that thing is because the Falcon 9 they had one in LA like as a

standing structure and I stood next to it and I was just looking up, I was like, that is so much bigger than you could ever imagine from the video. How the fuck did that land by itself? And the Starship is way bigger than that. Starship is crazy. They caught a building. That's what it literally is. Yeah, it's like a medium small building that can land within like a, I don't even know, a precisely accurate point basically.

And it had like failing engines and it still did it. Two of the engines blew up and it was still like, I got this, wham! It was like half on fire, it was crazy. I know what the last one is. Well, it's your turn, so that's perfect. It's so obvious. Memes.

Those are definitely invented pre 21st century. I didn't see him before that. Oh, you're right. By the rules of you, they were invented when you first saw them. I'm going to go to clarify. No, we're still missing number 10. I don't particularly like this one, but it is an invention of the 21st century. Reus reusable condoms

That's the original condom was reusable. You kidding me get the old sheep's intestine out. We're getting lucky tonight kill the sheep I'm feeling it markiplier. Sorry. I was invented in 89 Get with it mark was markiplier didn't come out till 2012. That's true. You did invent markiplier I've been watching Markplier since 2008 so. Wait 2008? That's in the 21st century what do you mean? I didn't start 2008. Mark I've been watching on YouTube for 28 years what are you talking about? Oh you're right I'm sorry my apologies. I was still in the womb the first time I watched one of your videos. I'm dying of old age now. My great grandchildren will never know the joys of Mark blire. God. I think I know what it is

No, it wouldn't be this. No, that wouldn't make any sense I was gonna say GMOs, but I don't think that's I think the crisper takes that one over I think GMOs probably technically predate the 21st century as well Anyways, GMOs even if they're bred that way, right and so they've been selectively breeding commercial crop I don't know. That's not it. That is a good guess. All right, Wade I know you have a whole bunch of things here which is desperate to get out. You see a full of ideas chip chop Let's go steam or whatever those like steam and epic launchers are. Oh, I think it meant water vapor Steam engines I'm gonna choose to go back to the

1900 to 2000 date range and I'm gonna go with Steam engines. Which is still be wrong because I'm pretty sure that steam engines predate the 20th century but no it's not video games. It's unrelated to video games but I appreciate the sentiment. MP3 player? Like iPod? Honestly that's one that I did think would be on here but that's not it either.

Sex robots. That was a huge thing. With the jump from CDs to MP3s and then the iPod like standardizing kind of how that worked and stuff. It was a big. The iPod was incredibly influenced and that was 2001 or something. 2003, 2001?

2001, November 10th, 2001. And that was huge. Do you want a hint, Wade? I don't know if it'll save you. Yes. iPod is the correct company for this thing. It wasn't the watches. We've already covered phones, earbuds or wireless headphones. Nah. Oh really? Wireless headphones existed before the 21st century. I believe they would have been

more like RF wireless headphones or infrared wireless headphones or something, I think. But that aside from the technology getting way more better and usable and worthwhile I don't think that's actually new. The first truly wireless earbuds were in 2015 but there's been wireless headphones since even like 1960 there was a type. Is it the AirTag? I said another really interesting one that the very underrated technology but it's not the AirTag.

Wow what else have they made? This might give it away it's not the air tag. Wow what else have they made? This might give it away it's not hardware. Software. Apple invented software in 2012! You're right Wade! It's not Siri is it? Yeah it's Siri. Why is this Siri up there? Siri is garbage! Technically what this says is Siri slash voice assistance and smart home technology, which is just an unbelievably broad spectrum of things to count as one entry and what a piece of shit Technology tree there was a point where I even thought of like Alexa and that stuff I was like well smart, that's just smartphone stuff, so I didn't even think that. The fucking internet of things is the plagiarist of plagues to ever grace technology.

No, that's definitely the one on this list that I was like, ugh, what a terrible thing. I liked my answer of sex robots that got ignored even more than that. Didn't get ignored, I heard it, I nodded my head in approval. No, I'm glad it got ignored because I would have just gotten it wrong sooner.

I don't know if that was as fun for you and everyone listening and watching as I hoped it would be, but it's fun for me. It was super fun. It's interesting, it's very- And that's my main metric for these episodes. I had a bunch of other lists we didn't even get to, but I think those were some of the more interesting ones.

And I really didn't think all the way through the fact that the tech one was skewed heavily against Wade. So I'm just gonna chuck on a fairness point for you there buddy. He started out strong. I did, I had a lot of good early tech. On almost all those lists, you started getting nailing the first few and then really struggled. We're gonna call that, that's the end of the episode. Thank you for participating. I'm gonna read your scores now.

And the person whose name I read first is the loser. Wade, you scored points for baldness, lifeless Jason, Pokemon poster, the pan excretes butter, woes, Harvey feud or family Steve, good guess, bad guess, and fairness. Mark, you earned points for boldness, eBay forklift, 50 bucks, takeaway gas stove, Biden, electrical engineering student, ghosts, ice cream, restaurants, and tech. Mark really dominated the list. You won all three of the lists that we did. Ultimately, Mark, that earned you a total of nine points. Yes.

And Wade, did I lie? No, I didn't lie. Wade, you got eight points, making you the loser. I was really excited because I was like, oh man, I know he's going to pull the rug out from under me. I'm going to pull it off from under someone, probably the loser. I know I lied last time, but I promised I would never lie again today.

At least for today You're safe or any way you lost mark winter speech. This was surprising to me I thought Wade with his udf experience would have a much broader knowledge But that might have hindered him because he had too many flavors in his mind I only had the most popular it did udf has such a wide variety of flavors. It did hinder asking who But I came back, my persistence and my perseverance got me to the finish line and to victory. And I only owe that to myself.

Thank you, me, for supporting me through all of my troubles, me. You're welcome, me. This is the, I've talked to my audience over the years and that's the kind of acceptance speech I want people to give when they win awards is to go and like I couldn't have done this without my talent my work my Preparedness and my dedication. I'd like to thank me above all I don't think the man upstairs had anything to do with it. Why would he care family?

Don't call me when I'm working me great job to my beautiful wife Susan stop fucking calling me when I'm on set Okay, I'm on set, okay? I'm busy. Overcooked pork chops didn't help me during that interview. See this? This means I was right and you need to make, you need to get a hobby.

I'll be home later, hon. Thanks, me. Great speech, Mark. Congratulations to you. Wait, loser speech. I'd like to thank you guys for being a part of this and allowing me the chance to participate. I'd like to thank you guys for being a part of this and allowing me the chance to participate. I'd like to thank nobody else because they clearly didn't fucking help me.

I lost. I'm a loser. I suck. 13 lashes for me later on today. That's it. I don't know why. I just like to imagine that modernly 13 lashes means that someone plucks out 13 of your eyelashes, the tweezers.

I don't want things near my eyes. Leave my eyes alone. No, 13 lashes. You said it don't want things near my eyes. Leave my eyes alone. No, 13 lashes. You said it. Fun times all around. Thanks for participating in my list-a-soad. Lep-sis-ist?

Lep-sis-ist? Yeah, doesn't work. Thanks for participating in my thing I did. We have a merch, distractablesword.com. I am myskirmwait, is lordminion777 or minion777. Mark is Mark Plyer. You already knew that. Mark will host the next one, and we are outta here.

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