Distractible - Wade Has An Interest

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

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Yes, it's time for, Wade has an interest. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. I think we've officially run out of conversation topics. long week. I was very busy. Played D&D last night until like four in the morning. Why didn't you say that? I do it every week. It's not really news. You never talk about it.

It's really great. We've got like 200 hours in this campaign. I'd be playing for 2018. I mean, I do know that you do that, but you literally like rarely ever, if ever talking. We just started season five of this campaign. It's like this great curse. We're trying to like cure this curse in this country. Then we're eventually going to hopefully be rulers of it and stuff. I'm playing up good barbarian

Which is kind of crazy It's a unique kind of It wasn't intentional Just happened that way See this is the thing You're the busiest person I know Because you're always doing something And yet you come here and say like

Ooh I don't know that that feels like self-promotions I don't want to be that I don't know that interesting You're just talking about what Talk about what you do It's what you do I self promote all it

Okay well I'm playing an invulnerable rager Which means I get more damage reduction So I'm like I go in I get the shit beat out of me but I actually take slightly less damage and I have this big sword and I just fucking cleave in cheating if you come into the game

I'm gonna be invulnerable Well yes if you say that I'm gonna be invulnerable region Just made you get more damage reduction early Because we're going to what's called Epic 6 So we cap at level 6 And we just got to level 4 So it's like you only get so many powers

So many feet so many ability scores So if you have damage reduction And everything caps at level 6 It's like actually damage reduction of two or three is pretty strong So I was like, okay, I'll go with that. People have been wanting us to play D&D for a long time. I love these.

We just don't have enough people. I have an idea that I want to do. I want to find a DM who I like get along with who will give us one shots where it's like they come up with the story. They come up with, we use, there are a lot of really simple structures where all you need is like you roll one die and you can do, you could figure anything out that needs to happen. But they give us a bunch of different, like a series of one shots. and then we take turns being the host

but also the host like doesn't have all the info so one of us is running so there's not a fourth person on the show running the game but they would like they would be in the background and the DM would be in the ear of whoever of us is running the show and be like actually

suddenly this happened like then we get to take turns running it so it's not just like I'm the one who does the D&D or something and we all get take turns playing and it could be different characters I kind of think it'd be cool if we had like set characters and they just jumped from universe to universe like it was in space

yeah and we kept like looping around going to different i want to do this but i have not done the first step of i need to find someone who is on board with this idea who i like i think it's our humor and would be good at this sort of because it's not a thing most dms are like it's a grand campaign or or it's a small campaign but it's like it's for our group because they have a group that they play with or whatever so i know my dean doesn't really like Like, he'll do one shots. He's not really big fan of them because he said it's like hard to tell a good story and Yeah.

That amount of time. It's a lot of cliche kind of stories. But if I wasn't doing gaming stuff, I 100% could see myself. I could, I don't think I'm critical role worthy, but like having a really awesome setup where you have like the table everyone gets around that critical role does and like having like a full D&D thing. Why do you say, why do you say you're not critical role worthy? Their voice acting capabilities I think is above like I can do some different voices. but, like, I think theirs are truly, like,

I'm not a voice actor as far as talent goes. Now, making a character and getting immersed and playing my character, I can do that like they can, but I think that they are more talented voice actors than I am. Matt Mercer, you're a bitch. I'm throwing down the gauntlet here. I've been trying for years. No, no, call me.

Call me. Please. So much better than you at voice acting and everyone on critical role. And there's put my phone number on the screen. Matt, call me. We're going to do what? Yeah, you call him right now, set this up

1V5, 1V1V1, 1V1, 1V1, he'll take them all on at the same time. Voice to voice, he's got this. My money's on them. My too. I don't want this. Very funny. No, I watched, they did a campaign

on Critical Roe recently. They have a new system, I think it's called Daggerfall that, like, they came up with they invented this new, like, D&D system. Daggerfall is the name of the first Elder Scrolls game or the second.

I might be wrong about that. I thought it was Daggerfall. But they didn't, They've released a whole system that's a lot more RP intensive and a little bit less dice But it seemed pretty brutal I watched their campaign

It's pretty brutal Pretty like they died It's a very like easy to die In system and the way they played it at least Like in person they die Well if your character dies Don't you have to follow their lead Your role playing right

You have to play the role I hope not Because one of my characters died By being burned it as a flamethrowers And I really don't want to follow that Roll that sounds terrible I've been super into D&D I really enjoy it

And it's like I kind of wish I could play more than I do. So like having like a really cool in person set up where everyone's like focused and paying attention doesn't have like distractions of screens and phones like sounds like a really fun. If everyone's immersed and buys in, it's so much fun. Build it. Well, I want to, but there's not a lot of people locally I know that play. I would, this is the problem I run into is I love the, I have not played a lot, but every experience I've had with D&D, I really love it. Yeah. It's really fun. And every group that I, because I have been invited or I've had opportunities, Every group is full of people who are normal people who have jobs.

And I'm like, I do my stuff during, this is my job. So I had to do like nine to five during the day is my availability. And like after five, I have a son. And I'm not trying to play D&D for four hours one of the nights of the week when I'm supposed to be like cooking dinner and playing with Jane. Like I do want to do it, but that's a hard decision to make. And every D and D group I've ever talked to, they're like, yeah, we go from like 9 p.m. to four in the morning on Thursday nights.

And I'm like, ours is 8 p.m. It used to 8 p.m. to midnight on Wednesdays. Right. Now it's 8 p.m. to like two or three. Yeah. And like, if I didn't have James,

like I would be way down for that. But I'm like, I'm lucky that a lot of people who have to work more hours than I do, but I really try and reserve family time. And it's like I don't, I don't have four or six or 10 hours a week to do nighttime D&D when I work during the day. Anyway,

it's fine. First world problem. I would be fine if it was like a seven hour or second. I am fine. But most of the D&D that I've played in or been a part of has been spending four of those hours in town trying to buy some things, just walking around sometimes. Our current campaign is very RP heavy, so there's a lot more of like talking than there is action. But I'm like, it's more than it would be in real life. If I went to go get potions from a fucking town, I'm not going to be there for four hours.

I don't go to the grocery store for four hours. How are they talking to everybody? We did an hour of furniture shopping once. We got it like, we got like at a house and we had to go furniture shopping. We spent an hour of furniture shopping. In R.B.? Yeah.

What? That's a long time. We had, going to IKEA for an hour. Dude, one of the campaigns, we were doing, it's not vampire that were masquerade, but it's like that universe.

It's like, it was called Hunter, I think. We played like Sam and Dean Winchester type characters, but weaker. Okay. My character went in and he was like a rich content creator. I was playing like kind of a douchey content creator. because I was like, that's fun.

But he had a lot of money. What was that like? Oh, it was really difficult for me. I had to know how I channeled it. He bought this property they were going to use for their base. They were like set up, like get all their guns and have this like thing. And I had to RP with like a tax accountant and attorney. And I was like, that was the worst thing that I did.

It was like, ah, let me negotiate my loan. I was like, you say have to. why who said you had to i wasn't the one running the game man i was just a player oh my god see that's the kind of stuff is like no offense to that your dm or any dm that does like that people like that people who i mean all of the people there are so many different it was relatively well received critical rule is not the only d and d that you can watch as a series on the internet and there are plenty of dn ds series that i have or like podcasts where i was like oh, I'll see what this is about.

And it's like an hour and a half of role playing of them doing almost nothing. And to me, I'm like, oh, do it, do anything, do something. Is Critical Role more action-based? Are they more RP-based? I'm not watched, like, their longer-form campaigns too much. Yeah, I've legitimately not watched. Honestly, that's probably, I know them, but I have probably watched almost zero actual critical material other than clips.

I mean, it's a hard balance. It depends what you're doing. There are definitely, like, times and games that you play that are more action-focused. and there's other systems that are definitely more RP focused. Yeah, if we were going to do something and we were going to take part, I would want it to be almost exclusively action. I want it to be very one-shoddy, very action-focused. Because the point is it's just an improv game, right?

Like for our purposes, it's a fun, structured improv game where you can have a goal that we don't all have to make up in our heads and agree upon because that doesn't always work out very well in our groups. Short form, especially you want to be more action. If you're in town out of combat, do you still take turns? Okay, good. No. Because I was about to say, if you're taking turns RP and with people in a davern.

You only earn initiative and take turns typically when you're fighting or like a fight is about to break out or something. Like if you're just role playing, it's just letting you do your thing. That was good because I was about to say like, I'm not saying it should be all fighting all the time, but it's like, man, if you had to wait. You go to my potion. Unfortunately, Mark Hold Higher initiative, he bought the potion. What do you do? You bitching him, I guess. That's a two-round action.

You've only cut... Oh, damn it. No, it's not like that. Okay, good. Also, everyone's going to ask, Twitch.tv slash Lost Initiatives where I play. I did a system, though, on a show called a role for it. Tyler was a part of, like, this bigger camp.

It was a Warhammer campaign. They wanted to do, like, not a one shot, but like a four-episode series where it was like... Tyler was like a general sending an army down to, like, a planet to do something. And they're like, what if we zoom in and we do like a mini-campaign of that battle? That's pretty cool. I got to join in as like one of the soldiers and the guy who

DMed was named Sheepie. I forget his actual one the wandering in I think is his at but he DMed us a warhammer game that was very action oriented and he had just make like four character sheets that were pretty quick to make but he's like there will probably be death in this game your character is expendable so we kind of made some silly characters but was very action oriented it was just constantly like we were at war

somehow we were great at war but we had to like cook meals in our downtime to eat we sucked at that so We kept poisoning ourselves. And there was a point where we rolled like the, it was like a D100 system where one is great. A 100 is terrible. And our cook rolled, I think, a one or a two on cooking our meal. And he was like, hmm, interesting. So we started hallucinating and we were like trying to stealth into this like combat situation.

And my character was seeing a bunch of like monkeys that were like shooting lasers. I thought one was good. I thought one was good. I'm sorry. He rolled high. He rolled the bad one. Okay. He rolled very bad.

very bad got so I started hallucinating seeing like space monkeys shooting lasers one of our characters actually just believed they were dead so they just laid down and thought they were dead and I forget what the other hallucination was but we're like hallucinating in the woods while we were trying to like sneak into this combat zone everything that went bad was from the fucking cooking because we were getting to combat it's like oh dude one crit one crit awesome but that was a really fun system very action oriented it was just like the pace of being like a band of brother style where it's just like war scene, war,

seeing moving, trying to fight the action, getting pushed back. That was a really cool one. It's so weird to hear you talk passionately and have a bunch of knowledge about a thing that you really like. I know that you like things in life, but you don't ever share this stuff.

I don't know. I felt like I talked about D&D before. Like you've definitely talked about it, but you'd be like, I play D&D this week. I've got a cigar. Well, I figure if people care, they'll come watch us play.

Like, they're not going to, they don't hear me just talk about like three hats. No, that's not how that works. No, you have to bother the shit out of someone to get them to go click on something that they've never watched before and they don't know if they like it or not. I mean, I super enjoy roleplay, like being different characters. I've loved a lot of my character.

I did GTRP, you did that for a little bit. I had a normal guy. I really looked playing him. I get too addicted to it. I will never do GTRP again because there was a time where I got on at like 4 p.m. And I was on until 7 a.m. And I did that for like three weeks. Just all, because the FOMO, the fear of missing out was crazy.

If I logged off, I was like, What if something crazy happens while I'm offline? Got to be on the server. Who do you turn into when you pick cameras around? I got to be on a server. I'm not going to hear you talk about something. I really enjoy it, yeah. I would love to do more D&D's oriented stuff.

But unfortunately, a lot of people I play with, nighttime is the time. Yeah, well, it makes sense, right? Like, if your job isn't content creation, what the fuck would you play D&D during the sunlight hours? You have, like, shit you're supposed to be doing. You have kids you're taking care of. you have the work you're supposed to be doing.

Like, it just is tough because I really do want, I have had several opportunities where I could have been, like you where I could have like gotten into a group, but it was always like lots of nights. Maybe multi nights a week if we're, it's like, I can't do that. I'm also the rare exclusive night owl. Like, even right now I'm feeling like slightly out of it.

I hit my peak around like eight or nine o'clock. I'm like, oh, I'm so awake. Let's do whatever. It's three in the afternoon just for context. Yeah. Right now where we are. So like, I don't get. Mark level of drive, but the closest I get to your level of drive to work is definitely

evening and night. During the day, I'm just dragging along existing. This is basically your 4 a.m. No, not quite that bad. Like, I'm awake after noon, usually, but like the first four or five hours of being awake, I'm just kind of like, like, how people feel when they don't have their coffee yet, because I don't drink coffee. So I'm all, I'm just perennially in that until I hit my, like, you should try coffee. You should try coffee. I don't really want to start adding. I don't know. It's not really good for you. No, actually, they say it's pretty good. like and multiple energy drinks a day levels of caffeine

like hundreds and hundreds of milligrams of caffeine probably not very good for you so that's the guy with an energy drinks to him but like one coffee in the morning to like get going actually not bad and coffee is a lot of antioxidants yeah they say you do have acid reflux so I know people with bad acid reflux can have

you might have to get like low acidity coffee to enjoy it more because you might have a bad reflux from it but they make that and like it works I have a friend and I knew who had like the worst reflux i have like everything gave him reflux he just eats like plain rice because of but low acid coffee also worked and he could enjoy his coffee. Interesting. I don't know that I'll be a coffee drinker but maybe I'll try it. We also just get like decaf because that has a tiny tiny amount of caffeine in it

and it might give you a boost. If I'm not shaking violently from the amount of caffeine I had, I don't even feel like I'm alive. I've cut back on pop too quite a bit though. Oh pop soda whatever. You've been watching a lot of K-pop demon hunters? That's like James' Golden is

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I know, right? Can I unleash this upon you? So I've been playing that stupid mobile camera. Yeah. Did I tell you any more about it since I started talking about it? The last update, your group clan, whatever, had folded into another one and you had been folded into the leadership structure. Yeah. Okay, anyway, so I started on a new server because I was like, I bet I can run things better than these assholes ever could.

I'm going to show them. I'll start my own guild. I'll start my own guild with my own rules. I'll do it my way. fucking instantly number one on the server. Like from day one, our guild has been number one on the server, because I'm the fucking best, and I am

giving them lots of titles. It's a play, right, buddy? So it turns out, all you need to do to get people to call you king and boss and Chad, just give them lots of diamonds. And, boy, do they love the dollars. That's so fucking funny. We're number one, baby.

We're number one. But at what cost? About $150. I'm going to say that's not per day. It's per day. Hey, running, running your own kingdom is expensive. I get it. Don't worry, soon the profit will turn it around.

You'll start making it back. Oh, yeah, man, it's going to get back on me. Anyway, I don't know what's wrong with me. I need to. Dude, I get it. Listen, I was the mobile game guy for a while. I get it's easy to get sucked in and like, oh, man, that streak of, like, that streak of, like, wanting to be at the top or be the best is definitely there.

That's why they work. That's why they work, yeah. Yeah. And so with this one, like, they're all such helpless sheep. then I need to leave them like the great herder, herder, shepherd that I am. I heard them, Mark. I heard them. I've heard them all right.

No, I, uh. Oh, he poor bastard. But additionally, I have charisma, and they definitely follow me for that. Yeah, it's definitely charisma. Yeah, that makes sense. You get a bonus to your charisma by giving out diamonds. Yeah, it turns out money. You get a plus two on the roll.

That's so funny. Anyway, yeah, that's my, I really need to stop playing that game because I really need to. need to get back to learning. I was there with Raid. Raid Shadow Legends Guilds, man. You know, I had a campaign for that, and I never played it. I got super into it,

but a very big money pit. Very easy to fall into that way. I've been trying to find a thing to get addicted to that I could give money to, because I had mine. I'm not above it, but I don't, I haven't played Valorant in a long time. My thing for a long time was I played Counterstrike

and then I got into Valerant because of, like, competitive 5B5 shooters, and I would buy skins. I must have, oh, I've never actually quantified. It's probably an embarrassing amount of money in Valorant skins. Easily $600 or $700 total, probably. Because, like, I would generally, I would not, and maybe I'd buy one single one off the shop for, like, a few bucks when they went on sale. But then they had a few sets in a row where it was like,

for $100, you get this whole set. And I'm, man, all of those are fucking great. And this will be the one time. But I haven't had anything. Like, I've been trying to get addicted to something. Dude, the sun cost fallacy is real. As soon as you put, like, your first two bucks in, you're in. I've even been trying sports gambling.

This sounds, this is a terrible take. But, like, I like sports. And I feel like I would like, like, I know you just lose money. I know that it's not. But I'm like, I feel like I would enjoy sports gambling. Like, it's fun. You think about the game. You could make ridiculous, you know, prop bets or whatever they call them, parlays.

You bet on anything you want. It's really, and you just, you'll just always lose because the more complicated at your parlay, the more guaranteed to lose it is. I don't even like that. Even when I win a sports bet, I'm like, eh, well, I don't need, like, I don't know. I need a vice. I need a vice, man. The vice that for me is in these games, it's not so much about me buying for me.

It's, they, in this game has a gifting mechanic. That's what gets me, because I really like, you know, other people getting things, other people. So there was an event that just happened on the main server than I'm on. And it's like, suddenly there's nine more things I can get. I'm like, maxed them all out immediately. Yeah, they were cheaper, but it was like, yeah. We just didn't Mark shopping with us or something. I love, I love gifts.

Oh, yeah. All of a sudden, I do too. I would, I would. I buy you guys dinner all the time. Yeah, no, that's true. Like a Tim's Auto Mall? You want to go car? My rentals look at a little.

Yeah, you don't have a car. You know, we gotta get you a car. Yeah, that sounds great. I'll get you both e-bikes. I wouldn't, well, I do have an e-bike, but I would enjoy one that was a little more casual. I have an e-bike that's just a bike

that also has that. And I, it's not, it's like really tall because I'm huge, but I really want like a super seven. I want one that looks like a motorcycle. I've not been on a bike of any kind in probably 10 years. It's a good way to get a, in shape. Even if it's an e-back, so long as you paddle,

like, you're still getting some kind of workout, then yeah, you can do that. They are fun, though. I recently tuned mine up and ruined it for the first time in a while. We don't live in a great spot here to, like, ride it anywhere useful, but it's really fun. Oh, you know, they're always me. Like, Amy showed

me Alt Park. I didn't know about Alt. It's a great place. Is that where the hobos went to sex? What? No. What are you talking about? Wasn't there a whole bit like 10 years ago when we were in L.A. It was like, that's where the whole most people go to fuck.

Alt Park is in Cincinnati. Oh. That place you never leave. See, this is why when we did the Cincinnati episode, we did such a terrible job because I didn't know about Alt Park. I guess I still, I've never been there. Cincinnati is probably one of the best park cities in the world. It has incredibly maintained and beautiful parks.

everywhere. I just never know they existed. Yeah, I never really did park stuff until James, but pretty much everywhere we've gone anywhere in the city or in the suburbs is like, wow, this is beautiful. The related note, isn't there also like a, there's a really beautiful cemetery here. I forget the name of it. That's not Alt Park, but it's, uh. Is that Spring Grove? That's not, no, that's down by, you see, I don't know if that would be beautiful. That one's, there's, there's. There's one that's apparently really big and beautiful. I think I've been there once, but it's been since like 2010. I don't remember the name of it. It might be Spring Grove. I went to this, right, we were taking Chica and Henry out to random parks all over the place.

There's one of the biggest dog parks I've ever seen in my life by these huge soccer fields that is just like by Lunkin. And then there's another one that this park behind a gold star. Just randomly on this background behind a gold star. I'm sure that it has a name and everyone knows about it. But it was like, it's one of the prettiest park is like a circle in the front and two things in there. And a huge nature trail going through the whole woods there. And then on that road, the main road is like, I'm looking down in. There's, it's like this amphitheater style, but grass.

Like, it's a grass that's been cut, but then it goes to tall, like, wildflowers, and it's just the trees funneled out. It looks like an amphitheater. It looks like intentionally. It's one of the most beautiful things ever seen. And I'm like, this is just behind a gold star. There's a lot of people. I mean, the nature center where Mal and I got married, that's a beautiful place.

They've got beautiful walking paths. There's all kinds of parks. I'm sure there's some of them I've even missed. There's parks behind churches. I swear they hide some of them intentionally to people don't know about them. Cincinnati has incredible features. Why didn't we name any of them in the episode where we're talking about Cincinnati?

That's not what we do. We don't even the ones everyone talks about Kings Island and that's it. Did you know Cincinnati used to, they sold it recently, own a railroad that stretched from Cincinnati down to Louisiana? No, they don't know. The entire railroad.

The city did? The city did, yeah. And they just sold it a couple years ago. It was on a vote. I wasn't here for it. You guys probably voted for it. We could have been well-low people. A couple years.

That was, yeah, I just got it. Yeah, right. Right, right. You might have voted for it or against it. It might have. Yeah. Anyway, it was one of the propositions that you're supposed to read up. Anyway, they sold it for $1.5 billion. Billion dollars.

We could have been railroad folk. We could have bought that. I've always dreamed of running a railroad. Well, they sold it. It was controversial because they'd owned it since like the 1800s, and it had been making Cincinnati money. Yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to get rid of that. Well, and I'm a little, I mean, I know that railroads can be privately owned,

but I'm a little surprised that they could because that sort of thing, part of the problem modernly with railroads is that to make them, the government has to seize land, right? Like, they use eminent domain to just take people's property or get huge easements on people's property.

That doesn't work so well in the modern world where everything is pretty, especially around cities at least, everything's pretty jammed up. There's not like, it's just empty space and no one is using it. but yeah so that they had a bunch of property tied up in that as well which is why it was so valuable but it's crazy that they could just convey that to a private party yeah for 1.5 billion dollars you can do a lot of things i feel like they could have got more yeah that's what a lot of people

were saying but it went into a trust that has since appreciated in value it's like 1.6 billion though and already there's been tens of millions that it's allocated to like road uh repair bridge repair um public services things like that so it's actually, I'm not sure 100% of the fence, but it was working out for Cincinnati. Road repair this year has been kind of brutal. We had a really tough winter last year, and the roads got really decimated this

over that course. I feel like this year, I've seen so much more road construction and so much more that needs it. They were working on a thing years ago. I don't know anything ever came over it. Did we talk about in the podcast where they had like the self-repairing road somewhere in Europe they were trying to work on? Maybe. This sounds like technology. Are you sure? You want to bring this up? Yeah, because I was like, that sounds great. Why don't

we have those? I don't know how expensive they are to make, but the road apparently, like, somehow defaults back to its original shape whenever it's done or something. Whenever it's done, done what? It could be bullshit. It could have been snake oil. I assume it must be heat related or something, where it's like, if it gets good direct sunlight and warms up, it will reform, re-deform, it will shape itself back to something. I think the roads that I wish worked out that I think they just didn't work out technologically. Have you guys ever seen roads that are also photovoltaic cells?

So the road generates electricity? I have seen that. Solar electricity. You've ever seen the paved, the sidewalks that are little pressure generators, so they, like, they're little moving plates. Oh, that's cool. It's cool. Apparently horrible maintenance on those things, because people, people not only walk on them, they spit, they drop gum down there, you know. So it's like, if anyone's been anywhere where humans walk, they realize, like, ah, no, they're not perfectly clean.

They got dog poop on their boots, you know. So, I don't think that was a good. In Germany, near Cologne, the Durham. Fast test road was opened D-U-R-A capital B capital A capital S Lowercase T again Test Rove was open

Which uses an experimental asphalt Make sure that can repair itself When micro-cracks appear Repairs cracks and potholes On their own using various technologies Like microcapsules, steel fibers and induction heating Sounds pretty fancy for a road

Not gonna lie Yeah, but like how much money is wasted Just redoing roads Wasted? You mean go into the pockets of those respectable construction... Well, sure, were they going to be constructing other things rather than just the same road they already built, probably? I'm not saying take their jobs,

I'm just saying there's a lot of things that need maintenance that probably don't get it. I think the thing that's annoying to me is the efficiency of road. Because the thing about roads is they're kind of, without knowing any of the science of it, roads are like consumables, right? There's no such thing as a road that never needs to be repaired.

Roads are beat to shit inherently. they have like some of the heaviest stuff on them all the time going really fast putting really weird loads and moving loads and all kinds of stuff engineering wise onto them it's not like if we just made all roads out of like concrete or some like really hard metal or some mystical material that doesn't exist that they would still just never be repaired it would just be a matter of like oh well this one doesn't need to be repaired for several years longer but it's ten times more expensive to put put in and you can't repair it, you have to rip it out and replace it. The thing about asphalt is, it's not very hardy, needs a lot of repairs, but it's super fucking easy to put down fresh asphalt, it's not as much of a, like installing roads with technologies, installing roads with induction heating in them, anything that involves little intricate stuff you have to install and needs to go the whole length of whatever, like, however fucking long roads are, the cost is outrageous. And just dumping down some fresh

asphalt and squishing it into place is if there was a better way to do it that made financial sense they would because they would make more money if they did it in a more efficient way but it sucks that it's like in Cincinnati at least it feels like there's no major roads that I use that aren't partially totally fucked by some construction where it's like yeah even like getting here a path that was like why did I go here road closed you go 18 miles this way to go around did you use navigation i did let me right to the road construction oh that's not very good navigation maybe you should switch your navigation yeah it's that stupid rental navigation is it apple is it you doing the built-in car navigation i tried it today i don't know that i'll go back the built

in car one yeah oh well no oh honestly those are those are interesting but they're still just never going to be as good as the live ones but like my my car has really fancy it has live traffic. It has live learning. It tries to do all the stuff that like Google Maps does, but it just doesn't do it as well. Because it turns out it's made by a car company and not a Maps company.

Yeah. Oh, well. What were we talking about? Oh, ways to improve the show. Right. D&D. Okay, that was one. You know how we improve the show? Yeah? Shows like late night shows have staffs of like hundreds of

people. We don't have enough hundreds of people feeding us things to talk about. You know where we could get hundreds of people really quickly. Gobert's staff once the show goes off the air? Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I laughed because it was dark, not because I'm like, yeah. The fans. Oh.

Well, we're not going to pay them or anything like that. No, yeah, yeah. It's a, we'll pay an exposure. There are no fan labor laws as far as I know. I like that. I like that. What does staff do at those shows? Honestly, I'm not sure what a hundred,

150 people do on a show it's a show that airs five nights a week so probably like some number of them like write

like the interview questions oh for that show specifically I'm not gonna say skim off the top that sounds like I'm making an accusation

yeah what you're like my staff in general so you're one of those types that wants Jimmy Kimmel off the air wow

no it's fine he's fine oh so you support for I go into it I'll go into it I'll go into it

no I do not think people should be taken off the air for that oh really yeah Tell me more.

Nope. Look, I've met Mr. Kimmel. I'll tell you about him. I didn't really talk to him. I never met him. He's fine. I was a Craig Ferguson guy. I love Craig Ferguson.

You don't know Craig Ferguson? He's that Scash guy. He had the skeleton. Jeff was his sidekick? Jeffrey Peterson. Jeffrey Peterson. The late late, late show with Craig Ferguson. He had Jordan Peterson on this.

Jeffrey. Jeffrey. the skeleton yeah not ah I don't know what the fuck you're talking about he had the harmonica at his desk the little snake mug I think

they're talking about they're bits he's got lots of bits it sounds like you're making it up because he always did the CBS cares but one of his like studio was leaking water just actively so he had like a fucking bucket next to his desk

catching water leaks from the ceiling it was like a really high budget show oh it was better than it was like that honestly it was just so it was very funny he was my favorite late house by phone anyway whatever he did We should get some of his people.

Okay, yeah. His staff probably got nothing going on now. We can probably get some of them. Colbert is off? He's got to be off the air, like in the spring or something. It's canceled, but he's through the end of his contract or however it works. So why don't we get his writers? Yeah, well.

We just get him. Get him to our show? Yeah, he's probably not busy. All right, cool. Stephen Colbert is going to fix distractible. Yeah. Okay, so that's idea too. Okay.

I hire Stephen Colbert. I like that. Idea? I don't improve the podcast. More boats. That was your idea last time we tried. Still my boat. Still my, I said more D&D.

How quickly we forget. No, that's true. That's true. That was one. Yeah. He won and two. What's your ideas, Mr. I'm the host?

His idea is to make it better. He's tired of this. I have it all up here, man. Let me tell you, you are weirdly ahead. I don't know how. Well, I definitely don't have any ideas. Okay, but you're strangely ahead. All right.

This is how we fix the podcast. We may sex self. Get Mark Stilt. Naked, still smart? It's not your turn yet. Oh, okay. You just point at me and say... He was pointing, like, rhetorically.

Yeah, I don't care about that. You were just saying to me, roll back. He was like, well, you come up with an idea, Dumbo, your stupid ears and your dumb face. Make him say those things at me. Hey, Dumbo, your stupid ears and your stupid face. How'd you do that? Holy shit, what the fuck. And it was crazy good.

They make my mouth match That made your mouth moving everything Anyway, sex We need more sex appeal All right I'm not gonna lie I haven't been working out I have been working out

It just doesn't do anything I got years and years of working out To catch up We need more Like this game than I'm playing Boobes Isn't there none in the game? Editors give us all

Big anime titties Whoa We'd do them Yeah, we don't have to do anything. There's need to be on screen. Yeah, that's all that matters. Like old school. Like old school?

Old school. Which school did you go to? New. I assume it's old school because I do it differently and I do new stuff. Back in the day. Back in the day, it showed a lot more clearly. Before we had hot tub streams, we just had super high angle down shirt stream angles. That was a big thing.

Is hot tub streaming still a big deal? Listen, there's no demonetization on Spotify, so we can do it if we want. Really? Yeah. Here's some nipples. They're male nipples. Whoa. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Whoa. Well, so what else sells? Drugs? I don't really want to do drugs. Ballpark Franks, that's this in Brack. Ballpark Franks, that sells. Yep. That's what they sex drugs in ballpark Franks.

That's what Led Zeppelin was famous for. Did any of us go to marketing school? No. No. No. That's philosophy. What is marketing? Uh,

uh, uh, yeah, shouldn't your answer be, well, I said philosophy, so I basically understand how marketing works.

I understand the nature of things, so that includes marketing. JP was in marketing. I know someone was in marketing. He did marketing for the Tampa Bay Lightning. That's real marketing. Call him up. Like,

actually? He's not going to, well, he might answer. He's probably like playing soccer or whatever he does. Yeah, he's probably busy. He's young too.

26. he's got a whole lot of marketing ahead of him straight up we could pay him less because he's so young or none pay him in fun sposure so is the show fixed yet or do we need more ideas we need more ideas were you saying about stilts

some stilts for you so you could be the same high as bob and I think what's really popular right now is very current and up with the trends travel vlogs we need to get some big backpacks and take this show on the road okay all right that sounds good. I'll do that virtually

from my house. No, no, we have to go trek around and climb mountains. Yeah. Yeah. People love that. Especially the cold places. Lots of snow. We should do this podcast in the snow. Have you guys seen Outdoor Boys? Yes, of course I have. Even though he retired.

Distractable, but it's minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit and windy. We have to dig into the 15-foot snowbank and craft our own cave system so we can survive the night. And then we do a podcast. And then we talk about the same inane bullshit we always talk about. Probably they will have so many more views.

Are you in? My cardboard cutout agency will be with you shortly. You don't have a choice. You're going. Yeah, you're outvoted, so we're doing that. Listen, you'll hate it, but that's even better for content. Great. More miserable, we gotta be more miserable.

People like it when people are miserable. Yeah, but we have to have the whole spectrum, right? Wade will be the absolutely miserable one. One of us needs to be kind of upbeat. I don't know who would be better for them. that. How upbeat can you get? I'm the upbeat one and the miserable one. Yeah. I like that. Just ask you can do both.

You can do both. You know. All right, cool. You're pretty unhinged. You could definitely do both of those. I can be on hinge. Yeah. All right. Well, that's good. And Mark and I are just there. Yeah, we're there. Okay. So I'm the upbeat one, the unhinged one, and the miserable one. Then you guys are just there. Probably in your trailers the whole time, having a good time. No, we're going to be there with you. That was so convincing. Okay. All right, man. I think we're doomed. We see a better promotion. That's what we need. It's better promotion. I have something

could go anywhere in the podcast to fill that gap. Did you see the video of the sinkhole in China? I did. You did. That was crazy as shit. Playing this video. It looks fake. It looks, yeah, it looks super fake. Like, when I first saw it, I was like, oh, is that like really good AI video? Is it? No, it's real. Because there's like multiple angles of all the fucking crazy. And it just terrified me, because sinkholes in general, terrify me. But that shit just kept going down. Yeah. And meanwhile, all these people, what is this about people? Just standing there. Oh, yeah, I'm five feet away from this 50-foot chasm. Jesus. I'll be, exactly, right? It's just going. It's just going. It just goes. Yeah, it just

that's the thing that makes it look fake, too, is, because I've, I've seen videos of that happening in other places, and it's always like, oh, oh, no. Oh, no. there's a sick. This one is just like, it's getting sucked into nothing. Yeah. And like the foundation pillars of the buildings around it, the dirt is getting sucked out from around them. And it's like, if I was anywhere near there, I would have got the fuck out of there so fast. I don't know how you fixed that. Because what people were saying, what people were theorizing, there was no concrete answer to what it was, is that there might be an underground river there. Yeah, it had to be, something was getting washed away, right? There was so much material missing. Which I know.

conceptually I know underground rivers exist because in heist we filmed in a cave with an underground river in it and it was running water there but conceptually in my head I don't I can't fathom the idea that below us right now could be an underground river that we just don't

know about and that in this city there was just either this big empty space that no one knew about why don't we know about that why don't we know well and that's the thing too in the city you can see in the in some of the videos the pillars holding up the tall buildings are in there they clearly did some kind of surveying when they built that stuff probably they dug they drilled down and put those in they back filled that

yeah at least some of that material was something that they put they put back in or they brought in to like make the foundation of the building and then something deeper underneath that they somehow had no notion of existing was just like removing huge amounts of material so it gave way and it's crazy. Well, blows my mind is like, I think people when they hear bedrock, they think of like Minecraft, Bedrock being,

can't get through it. Can't get through it. There's no need to think about what's below it, it's the bottom. But when bedrock, in terms of Earth terms, it could just be a big arch or a dome over something,

or nothing, you know? There are underground caves everywhere, everywhere. And so the idea that there's just, we could fall into a sinkhole right now. We should do an episode where we just dig down

until we find a sinkhole. Ooh, it could be a whole series. We try and go find sinkholes in very populated areas. We go to the houses of other famous creators, and we just dig holes in their yard until we find a sinkhole. Okay. To show them it's not safe to be that. Do you understand how you don't find a sinkhole?

Make a sinkhole. We would. Yeah, we'll make one. Oh. I don't know if digging is going to make... We'll bring hoses to make rivers. Yeah, I've ever seen those guys where they dig holes with a pressure washer. So they have like a big vacuum,

and then they have a pressure washer, and the pressure washer, like, just turns the dirt into mud, and then they just, like, suck the mud out. But the pressure washer also cuts really clean lines. So they're, like, and they, like, they can make, like, pretty big, very precise whole. Basically that, but we sneak in beforehand, do that underneath, you know. And then when we come in, we're like, oh, let's dig here.

Okay. And then, oh, okay. What happened? And then their house sinks into it. Hopefully we all survive. Yeah. Will we be down there when it sinks? Well, we all will be wearing harnesses.

And hard hats. Walk into the house with a harness and a rope leading back out the door. Everyone else is like, we're like, don't worry, we're here if I'm distractible. It's just insurance for the show. Like, they make us do this. I'm surely fine. And then as soon as one of us starts digging, the rest of us are just like,

pull me out, pull me out, pull me out. Oh, okay. This is going to help the show for sure. That would be some content. Yeah, that would be good. Anyway, so yeah, it's the video, I don't know if you saw towards the end of it, where that silver truck was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It made it. That silver truck lasted. Everything else is collapsing. How did the truck?

I don't know. There's a truck that's sitting with like two wheels in the hole, just like barely holding on for dear life. And literally, like the concrete around the truck, like, you know, divine protection of this truck. but I don't know That was a while ago I thought for sure I was like that truck is so gone That truck was not gone

That truck was absolutely not Is this like when did this happen It was this morning No yesterday ago? Yeah It was very recently It was very busy It's like the

Yeah Like day ago That's okay I mean it's just It's just world news It's not You don't need to keep up with world news You don't know what's happening in the world

I live in the world's tiniest bubble Do I have some things to tell you I know a thing that you know about something that happened that's outside your house. Joe Burroughs hurt again. Okay. He had to have toe surgery on his little toes.

Careers have ended over this particular injury. Like it says, it's very severe. It is like a really particular and crazy injury because the hit that hurt him looked totally fine. He was being tackled and one guy had his leg. The other leg that nobody was touching is the one that got hurt. And it's like a ligaments that hold your foot together basically, right? Yeah.

He like popped a ligament in his legament in his legament. foot that affects your ability to like use your toes and have balance or walk or run and he has to have a surgery to repair he had the surgery now yeah yeah he did have the surgery but like he's basically out for several months at least possibly until next season at this point i wouldn't put even if we were winning it's like that's a potentially career ending injury it's like you don't rush back from that yeah but at least hey in the last game they did no no no i know you mean the franchise is worst yeah loss ever even when it's pain it's records i only saw the first quarter of it and i was like they could turn it around so the bear cats the you see bear cats they two weeks ago had the

craziest game i'd ever seen they put up like 50 points in the first quarter didn't they play shorter quarters on the second half to get it over with they might they should have it was they won 70 to nothing against northwestern and 56 of their points were in the first half i was like oh six that he football's back and then the bengals had the worst loss in franchise system Oh, since that football's gone forever. This might be rumor or something, but I swear I heard that in the Bearcats game, at halftime, the refs went into the other team's locker room

and were like, do you guys want to play like shorter quarters in the second half and just like, I don't know if they're allowed to do that, but like if they're good with it. Yeah, I don't know if that happened or if that was just remembered. I thought there was a mercy roll kind of thing. It was high school.

That's tough. I remember Milford losing. like 98 to 2 when we went there it was pretty rough there were definitely like 70 to 7 games we were not a good football team that's not the best we had a couple of good years

and I think we're back to being terrible again well they put all that money into the new sporting football this past weekend was a hell of a thing though there were possibly more blocked field goals in this past weekend alone that I've actually watched in the rest of my like football. I've never seen a block game. There were two in two different games

blocked and then returned for a touchdown. One of them swung the entire fortune of the whole game. It was, one team was up by like six and they were about to kick a field goal to go up by nine. So it was like two score. The field goal was blocked, returned for a touchdown,

and it went from them being up by two scores to the other team being up like 27, 26, with like a minute left in that. But then I don't remember what happened. They still won. I think they hung on. Yeah, I think they, didn't they block another one? Yeah, that's what happened, right? That was the Jets game, maybe? Was it the Jets? There was, we were literally watching the game and I, and they, also had one. There was like, they blocked a field goal, return it for a touchdown, and the other team was

pushing, and they just needed a field goal, and I was like, what if they block it again? Or if they block another one, and they fucking did. Wow. Yeah. It was a crazy, crazy weekend in football. It might have been the Browns game, because didn't the Browns beat? They blocked one, and then the Green Bay Packers. Oh, yeah, they beat the Packers. God, that's embarrassing. 13 to 10. The Packers are supposed to be

like one of the best teams in the league and the Browns are the Browns. The Browns defense is great. Their offense is the opposite. Yeah, well, I can't believe Joe Flacco is still alive, but good for him.

He's still alive. He's like 40 years. I know, but he's playing in the NFL and he's like middle aged. That's true, yeah. He's, he was a good quarterback and clearly he's still good enough to do it because he got them the win,

but like, man, he's been doing it forever. I feel like I, I watched Joe Flacko when I was a kid. We did, basically, yeah. Like, it's a long career. Anyway, crazy football. Not the Pengles, though. And we play on Monday night this week.

So everyone's going to watch. Yeah, go Mangles. Yeah. Set more records. An even bigger loss. Yeah. How many interceptions can Browning throw? Yeah.

How many interceptions do you throw? I think he threw two in this last one. They had a bunch of turnovers. I think two of them were interceptions. When I was watching, not to keep the sports I going up, but when I was watching, I noticed in the, because I don't know what it was the first quarter and some change, every single snap, it was like someone from the other team was just right towards them every single time. Yeah. Every single place. We have invested so much time and capital into trying to improve the O line, and they're the exact same as they were like five years ago.

Turns out it might be a coaching issue or also it turns out we just have no idea how to pick a whole. Like, we have O-Lyman who are objectively good because of their track record and their careers, but are now in Cincinnati and can't do anything ever to save their lives. And I don't know enough about football to know what the problem is. Something happens to corners and O-Linman. If they come to Cincinnati, they can no longer perform. So, chilly, they're allergic to it, just like me. Yeah, they're all eating too much skyline.

That could do it. Maybe. Maybe it was a jet propulsive. We probably should wrap it up because I'm in, maybe that. camera died a long time I would never know. We're now to like

just Wade's camera filming and we're like we can't use any of this all right anyway all right so there was probably

an episode out of this maybe three two okay I'm gonna flip this it's the only thing I have coin does it have markings on it

yeah it says DJI one DJ DJA all right DJI I win DJI Wade

It's a, yeah, it's slightly different. See, it's like, one's just pure black, one's this, okay? Okay, okay, cool. All right, okay, so you got this one. I got the fancy side. Yeah, because it's like, it's like, you have, like lots of dots, like here, and this one has nothing. It's bald. It's bald.

Perfect. All right. Uh, ready? That's a hell of a flip. No! Bald! All right, wait, you win. All right. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Distractive. Well, wait, that's not how we do it.

Thanks. What the fuck? I was ready to start. I got an episode ready. Do you? Fuck, no. Luce he's on. Did you?

No. I didn't even know what I was hosting today. I thought it was coming over to be a little. What do you? I was hosting right now? Once he told you, yeah, I think you knew. That's fair. Anyway, Bob loses.

It was nice to just, does this count as a podcast? Because I would like to just hang out and talk about random stuff. Yeah, same. It's really fun to just do this. We don't get this very much. But, like, it's fun in person. I always underestimate how different it is in person. It's nice to just, like, sit in the same room and talk.

Yeah. Well, you've got to build that D&D chamber. Yeah, it would be great for a lot of things. You build it, I will bring myself. That's great. That's a heck of a deal. Oh, man. Yeah.

Just what I want. Yeah, okay. All right, we're wrapping this up because we've been recording for way too long, and probably most of it doesn't make it in. So thank you, everybody, so much for being a part of this podcast. experience, be sure to follow it or we'll kill you. Have a good day. Bye, I guess now.