Distractible - Wade Screws Up At 47 Minutes

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

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Massive Mark has a huge bump, vogue's to stop a truck, and knows his sing songs. From apple cock rings to absconding noses. Yes! It's time for Wade Screws Up at 47 Minutes. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show hello welcome back to another episode of America's favorite podcast are we doing the bit I didn't know I could do this on the Mac book I was like if you're not watching you have no idea the kind of motion sickness you're not watching, you have no idea the kind of motion sickness you're missing out on right now.

Whoa. My name is Bob, I'm gonna be the host for this episode, because the way the show works is one of us wins and they host the next episode. That means I won the last one. The competitors for today are Mark and Wade. Hello, I'm in a slightly different environment. But, shock though you may be, I have an episode all planned out. I did research and writing and I'm pretty excited about it.

This is a Mandy idea and then I took the idea and I made it slightly worse, but so it's still really good. I have to put my own spin on it and ruin it a little bit, but we'll get to that later. Before we get to that, we always do small talk. How's it going? I just had my birthday I'm older Thank you

I ate my one of my favorite meals and then we went and got some ice cream because Molly wanted my mom and my sister to get the ride in her new car She's like, what if we go get ice cream? Then we came back and we did like the cake and it was just so much sugar And I don't know I can't do sugar like I used to Or even eat as much as I used to I pounded a lot of food So I only had like one meal yesterday, but man oh man. It was a good one

But then I could not eat the rest of the day. I was so full getting used to new technology I got an Apple watch From my family so I had my phone in my pocket my Apple watch on we were driving in the car And this is not a thing that's surprising to anyone who's had a car since probably 2012 But Molly's car was not a 2012 it was a little bit older than that So someone called me this wish me happy birthday and my phone started vibrating my watch started screaming and the car switched for music To calling and I was like, I don't know which one to answer That's kind of like panicking like I didn't answer at all and completely ignored.

You just let it buzz until it was done and you were like, ah, I hate that. Yeah, did not know that her car would switch from like the primary phone to secondary if a call came through and then yeah, everything was vibrating. It was very bizarre. I feel like a grandpa talking about technology right now. You with an Apple wrist, Apple watch strapped on your wrist is a weird thing to me. I didn't put it on. I should have put it on. You are the epitome of not the kind of guy who wears an Apple watch. Thank you.

No, honestly, that's not even an install. It's just, you're not a techie guy. What are you going to use it for? You're going to use it to tell you how good you are at basketball or something? Or I don't know. What's it do? I have no idea. I like it. I just don't know how to use it. I've never looked into them. I had to stop. I couldn't do it. I had to stop. I had to stop. I couldn't do it. I have a very bony protrusion of my, whatever this is, you know? Okay. It looks really small right now in this. I'm like, I'm going to have to get a new watch. I'm going to have to get a new watch.

I'm going to have I couldn't do it. I have a very bony protrusion of my whatever this is, you know Okay, look, it looks really small right now in the camera, but I'm telling you it's huge. It's massive Oh, no, I got it right there. Yeah, it's bony the point there. There it is. Look look there it is That's where that's where the protrusion is. I don't I'm smooth. I got a smooth wrist apparently No, yeah, so I have this this mat. It's from I broke my My arm here on this bone. So they had a rod going in through this end here and I think it's made it A bit more prominent. You can't really see but there's a tiny scar right there where a rod was stuck all the way through So it's like I feel like something's not quite right up in here

so every time I wear the wristwatch, it either has to be forward of this bump or behind this bump. And if it's forward, it cuts off circulation in my hand. If it's behind, it doesn't read anything right for our reading stuff. So I think it's just not in the cards for me. You could switch to your other arm. I've tried that, but because I'm, I'm right-handed, if I'm typing or using a mouse, I can't deal with, uh, um, sliding a watch band all over the desk whenever I'm right handed, if I'm typing or using a mouse, I can't deal with

sliding a watch band all over the desk whenever I'm... Because I do everything on the computer with a mouse. So with the left hand and the keyboard, it's fine because I usually have a wrist rest. But for that, I can't deal with the balance shift. I've tried it though. It's just not for me. I want the Apple choker? When do they get the Apple shock collar? There's definitely, cause you could put other bands on it, there's definitely Apple watch bands that you could wear as a choker. I suppose you could. Yeah, you're right.

Even if you have to sort of daisy chain some together, you could make it happen. Do they have a garter belt size Apple watch band that I could wear up on my upper thigh? All right, so Mark's to get an Apple choker and then everyone around you will know what time it is. Hey Mark, what time is it? I whipped my neck really hard.

I think they're going to eventually come out with ones where you have a sensor in like the AirPods, because you can get a good heartbeat from your ears and temperature from your ears. So I imagine and if they conduct a current between your ears to get your heartbeat for your sinus rhythm, that will be really good. When you do an EKG or ECG or whatever on the watch, you have to touch the watch. If they just do it through your your head you don't even need to do anything you constant ec etg ekg electrocardiogram ecg the heartbeat

comes from the brain anyway it's all up here go to the source that's probably fine there's probably no no long-term effects from that like cockering I mean sure you have to pick the size carefully though or you really have to be good at putting it on and off at the correct times in your life. Elastic band. They'll send you a sample set so you know your size. I can't believe how expensive those sizing rings are though. I bought a used set off eBay. I washed them. It'd be like when you go to get fitted for a suit, but it's like, that'd be really awkward.

It's like nothing but cold water and ice to get you at your smallest, and they just make you watch all the porn to get max measurements. That doesn't feel necessary. I think you should go to a different suit shop if they do that at your suit shop. That doesn't feel like the way that you get fitted for a suit you see my dilemma bob where i was just adding subtracting adding subtracting points subtract add oh yeah this is good there's a lot of writing involved when with where wade is these days i don't know man i'm just here throwing out my ideas my My Gatlin gun approached a comedy. Mark, you go ahead. How's your, what's up with you, man? Okay, so have you guys ever had to guide a truck

backing in to something? Yeah, you're going like this, and then when you have a certain amount of space, you hold your hands out of the amount of space they have left and you do this, and then you eventually go like this, right? Sure, sure. Does that mean they crossed the threshold they went too far like this is speed stop as they are backing through the warehouse door it's just like oh you're

close that must be that must be what this guy thought because the prusa shipment arrived and i was this guy was backing up so i was like I was like this you have this and then I go alright this and he kept going and I go And he goes until he hears a clunk Push forward And I'm desperately just like I can't run to the front of the truck to try to tell him like what I'm doing I'm just looking in the mirror like I Think universally this is stopped.

They actually do that on purpose. I think though to bonk into it. Well, cause then, you know, there's no gap, right? Cause you got to roll like a pallet jack or something across that when you get delivery trucks have, I think they do that on purpose. I think he knew this one didn't need to because it's not a real loading dock and it's not a real like, right? So he, he's, he does this runs into it three times, pulls forward and I think he's coming out to talk to me, probably yell at me is for

my instructions or better something. But no, he goes like, I forgot. And then he lowers the actual lift gate because it's a box truck with a lift gate, right? I've been Drago. You're delivering. Yeah. He drops it down. He was not talking to me at all. He had AirPods in and he was talking to someone else the entire time. So he drops the lift gate and then lifts it back up and then backs up again, because he completely forgot that he needed to have that open and up so he could back in. So, cause it's not like, it's not a real, like an actual loading dock would be like full size truck. And this is, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is a, open and up so we could back in. So because it's not like it's not a real like an actual loading dock would be

like full size truck. And this is just like, it's just a knee high gap. So he's just and I'm just looking at like a little buff out. But I got the printers, so all 567 kilograms of the printers came in. It was not me that needed to pay the storage fees for the shipment after it arrived. I don't know why FedEx just ate that cost, but they haven't talked to me about it, so I'm assuming I'm in the clear. Seems like bad business on their part.

Yeah, only moderately. But as we were talking about delivery truck, a delivery truck pulled up to our house. I was otherwise distracted. What are you getting delivered, Wade? 500 kilograms of 3D printers? No, this was the world's smallest looking box. It's maybe big enough to hold one of these. Maybe I got another coin I didn't know about.

Or maybe Molly ordered something, I don't know. Very small box. And the FedEx guy backed all the way up, hit the garage and I was... You were in the basement going... What? What time does your mail come? Soon the mail carrier is gonna come up

in the little white truck and be like... Boop, boop, boop, boosh, boosh, boosh. not usually so late. Our mail gets delivered late. I feel like we're like the last stop on this dude's route. I don't know anything about it, but our mail gets delivered by a red normal looking Jeep and it's the same. It's an official employee of the USPS because they wear the uniform, but it's just a car. We don't get a mail truck for some reason. I don't know if that's a thing that happens anywhere else in the country or if our our mail person crashed one too many mail trucks so they don't get none no more or what. But literally our mail carrier, our mail carrier just drives a Jeep Cherokee around

and delivers everyone's mail in our neighborhood. I don't, it's weird. I'm sure it works fine and it's definitely not something to do with random budget cuts happening. Oh it's been like that since we moved here so that's not new but yeah I mean I don't know if it's they couldn't afford another one or I have no idea. I don't know I've never seen that. Maybe we have different mail carriers. How much area do they cover? We live half an hour away from each other. Think we think we have the same mail delivery person or is it ours has a white truck Oh, well, maybe the truck doesn't have enough gas to go all the way over here

So they have to switch into the anyway They have the truck stashed to get to you So they're gonna like pull over switch cars because your mails the illegal mail Did you see that the switch the switch to pre-orders got delayed because of the tariffs? Did you see that the Switch 2 pre-orders got largely turned off because of the Nintendo decisions? 80 bucks for a digital game, 90 bucks for a physical copy of a new video game for the Switch 2, and the console itself is fairly expensive, which I don't know why that's surprising, but people were like, the Switch was cheap!

Why isn't this cheap? I did see though that the physical $90, there was actually not any tangible evidence of that directly saying that that was what it was going to be. So... Oh, was that sort of an extrapolation? I think so. Yeah. But it could be, I just saw that it wasn't actually confirmed

Yeah, obviously I only saw this cuz but in like on reddit people are yelling about it But I feel like game price had been pretty consistent for a while. They were due to go up at some point That's what I say, but I get I get I've made this argument before about an inflation one But people like it when you say that no mark put words in my mouth. I would have never said that guy People like it when you say that no mark put words in my mouth. I would have never said that Like that move I want to keep that one I'm just ready to go people like it when you say that just in general just throw that out before I get any backlash It was bark bark made me do it. I don't know. Are you guys getting a switch to we've always been into a Nintendo house man He's a big Nintendo fan, but I'm pretty pretty lukewarm on it right

now I don't know I might get it to play like to do Pokemon games then I'll be disappointed by those two I don't know I've been disappointed by everything I played Nintendo for like the last 10 years what the last thing I enjoyed does I play that was Nintendo is Pokemon black and white too does that include Breath of the Wild it definitely includes tears of the kingdom which was not a disappointment I played Breath of the Wild for it definitely includes Tears of the Kingdom, which was not a disappointment. I played Breath of the Wild for like three hours and then I put it down and never picked it up again.

Look, I don't like Zelda games either, but those are objectively good games. I'm not saying they're bad. I just personally- You said you were disappointed. Me, individually, yeah. It means you thought they were bad. Individually, yeah. Objectively, I understand how good they are,

but I, myself, didn't get into it into it Wade the persona thinks that it's bad Yeah, the human that's trying to escape this shell Wade the relatable lovable host of distractible loves Nintendo Wild Wade the gamer shit game shit console I have less hours on that that I have my new car that I don't have yet. So yay. Oh I'm glad you brought that up. Still no car huh? It's in production. I got an email saying it's officially being made now. No car? They finally got around to it.

It was being produced this bond. I just bought it last week. I ordered it. It's a new month. What do you mean this month? It was a pre-order of this car. Where is this car from? Germany you're fucked. I know And you really should have bought a car a long time ago before there were eight hundred percent tariffs on everything from not here I know So not getting a car man. You're so not

No! You're so not getting a car, man. You're so not getting a car. I feel like we called this exactly. I feel like we have known the whole time this was never going to work out. Oh no, it's coming. It's coming. Do you know that's actually where it's being built though, or is it like assembled in America somewhere or something?

I don't know. According to the dealer and according to the website, it looks like it's being produced over there because they've got... Wow, fancy. They've got like 13 steps to when, when I'll get it. I'm on step three, but a couple of them are like shipping and that would have been so fun too. Cause when you get, I got to do this cause our, even though ours was used, it

was at, it was out of the big dealer and they have a special room where they give you your car and they put a big bow on it and they're all here's your BMW. It's very fun. You would have loved that yeah it'll be here it'll be in germany it will definitely be in germany it'll exist in germany guaranteed i guess gutentag moving forward i'm moving to germany that's probably worth it but then we've got how do i get molly's's car? You can probably find another one of those. How hard is it? Mark? I need you to buy big boat Why do I gotta buy it? Why am I being the big boat? Cuz I don't wanna do it. I'm cheap. Wade doesn't have big boat money You just bought 900 pounds of- or no, you got it for free. Mark. I need you to get a big boat for free

All right, listen up big boat companies You know who I am, Markiplier, send me a boat right now or I'll destroy your reputation forever. We need the Titanic without the stags, I mean space for car. Without the stags? Stacks, the big smoke stacks. Oh. I think a car, wasn't there a car that they had sex in with the stacks on the Titanic?

Yeah, that was below, there's a converter playing this on top deck. Gotta see the stars. I'm gonna enjoy the boat ride over in my car. We'll replace some of the lifeboats with more cars, so it's got more car space. That sounds good. Those are good slots for car storage, that's true. Then your car can get all the sun sudden needs to grow and be a healthy car It's okay, I know you guys are gonna be excited about the topic that I have ready for today

It's a thing we've talked about before it's a thing. We all know a lot about we're getting older No, we're gonna talk about operas oh boy everybody loves the opera yeah Brian Regan joke indeed you're not the Brian Regan one do you know that bit no apparently every joke I make Brian Regan did it first He's the Simpsons of my existence. That's the exact song where he's like someone sings it and then he's like, oh He kind of likes her But she's not really that into him I swear to you I, I have no knowledge. But yeah, we're gonna talk about operas, guys.

I know how much you love operas. So we're gonna play a game. We have a couple games lined up, but this first one, we're gonna play a game where I'm gonna set up the plot of some of the most iconic, well-known operas in existence. And then you're gonna have an opportunity to fill in the next plot point to earn points. So I'll tell you, I'll like set up a scene and be like and then whatever, the character does this, the character and then you just tell me what happens next. Operatic plots are notoriously simple, right? Because it's all about the drama. The story is, is whatever.

But a lot of them are very straightforward stories. It's about the singing and the drama. So I'm sure you guys know these stories. I didn't know they had plots other than the Phantom of the Opera. He kind of likes her, summarizes about 90% of all operas that exist. Anyway, Mark is heads, Wade is tails.

We're gonna take turns. So when he gets to go first, Mark is heads, Wade is tails, we're gonna take turns so when he gets to go first. If you happen to not know, maybe your opponent will have a chance to submit a steal. I'm sure that we're just gonna breeze right through this. I have a lot prepared because I think we're just gonna go go go and everyone's gonna know. Anyway, that is tails. Oh good. Wade gets to go first. We are to start with everyone's favorite, Carmen. You know, Carmen. I know the Hey Arnold version of it.

What's that one? I can't remember that. I can never remember the name of the song, but that's a very famous song. That's from Carmen. Everyone knows that. So I'm just going to set up, Wade, and then's a very famous song. That's from Carmen. Everyone knows that. So I'm just gonna set up, Wade, and then you tell me what happens next, okay? Yeah. Carmen, a free-spirited and flirtatious woman,

seduces Don Jose, a soldier. And then it's me? Yeah, what happens next? Don Jose, the godfather, talks to his underboss and is like, hey, kind of like this Carmen lady And so they go on a date But the rival families get involved because they also want Carmen in their family What if I told you that was exactly correct? I'd believe you. Yeah, it wasn't

Mark what about you? You must know Carmen You must know the famous first act of Carmen. Yeah, of course. So Carmen seduces... Don Jose. I was going to say Don Julio and I was like, oh, that's not right. I'll give you that one. I'll give you that one. It's Don Jose. He's a soldier. I gave you that too. Don Jose, who is obviously already married, because that's drama. And he's also at war, which is very dramatic, especially back in those days.

They have mad, incredible, unbelievable, raucous sex. Immediately. Immediately. Immediately. raucous sex immediately Immediately that actually is probably true, but that's not in the opera unfortunately. Oh You'll laugh you'll laugh. You'll remember obviously Don Jose was a soldier Captivated by Carmen who is a fiery factory worker and after a fight breaks out in the factory where Carmen works, Carmen gets arrested.

Don Jose, a infatuated young man, helps her escape from jail, leading to him being arrested and going away to prison for several months. And then are we doing this again? The next part? Yeah, that's act one. Also, if anyone out there is actually like an opera fan and knows these things, these are probably horrific summaries. It's a comedy show.

OK, so just leave your angry remarks in the subreddit and I won't go look at them. The desperation in your voice. Can I call the subreddit real quick? I've been to do this before. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah. Sorry to pause it. But there was something, you know We did animal noises too, right? There was a post on the subreddit of some being like they should do animal noises again

Here's a video of animal noises that they haven't done and I I swear to God people are so blind To what they want and the actions they're doing to prevent what they want because if one of you two was on the subreddit and just decided to watch this video you would have heard all these animal noises that you haven't heard and I wouldn't have been able to do it! I do go on the subreddit and occasionally I do watch the videos and things they post. So that's lucky. Some of the animals in that video were the ones I had queued up that- well, Lixian pulled them up, but they were the ones- if I hadn't just done that episode, if I hadn't just done it, they would have fucking ruined it.

They would have ruined it and it's what they wanted. How can people not think that far ahead into their actions you assume that they think at all? You're right. You're right. Anyway act one Don Jose loves Carmen Helps Carmen escape Don Jose in jail act two opens. It's a couple months later Are we love to know how many acts these plays have? Traditionally they have three to five. This one has four Thank you. So I didn't know if act two is the last act or okay got it act two of four This is just the next thing that happens. I'm just picking out plot points

This is I'm just gonna get me in so much trouble with Mandy's parents because they're singers and they they know operas and these are Just gonna be I'm a little worried about it, but it's gonna be funny. Hopefully, so it'll be worth it. Two months later, Carmen and her friends are at a tavern where Don Jose has been released from prison and they're all celebrating. And then renowned bullfighter Eskimeo arrives to the tavern. And... Mark?

Well, it's pronounced Eskchemia and he's a renowned Buell fit air translations it's yeah I understand your ignorance boy insulting those probably not a great way to start this turn huh anyway advice way don't do that what it's always worked out for me. I've forgotten everything you said about the actual At a tavern two months later Don Jose released they're celebrating and renowned bullfighter Escamillo Escamillo, what'd you say? Escamillo arrives at the tavern Eskimo. Yeah obviously

Eskimo Carmen had a previous thing and this Don Jose comes in or a thing in the interim or thing in between or before probably all of the above, you know what I'm saying? So then he's like, I'm going to use my bull fighting technique and he holds up a red cape to Don Jose, and he just like starts going in a rage. And he's like, you, you, why, why, why, why? And he charges at him, hands outstretched like this. Oh, I'm gonna get you.

And then obviously, you know, goes out of the way, goes right out the window, right off the cliff where the tavern is next to, plummets a thousand and eighty six feet into the beach not the ocean slams dead the scene where he's actually falling a thousand three hundred eight six feet but he's singing his final song while he falls to the air crazy scene what a moment. Just for fun. Wait, you want to throw something out there in case marks wrong? Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so Carmen Don

Tuchio Don Jose in a skimmy. Oh, yeah No, no, it's a skimmy Oh mark was probably right about that part. Not Esmerelda. What was it? Carmen and Don... Wait, just... This is the last sentence you said out loud. ...are celebrating in the tavern. A cold breeze hits them as the door opens and Eskimeo walks in. That's all the part I gave you, yep. Yes, it says, Carmen, I know I broke your heart,

but I was a fool, and I've always loved you. Come back to me. And he was the one that got away, and now she's divided between Don Lucci and Escobar, and the scene ends with her running out and being kidnapped while these two men are getting ready to get into a bar fight brawl over her love. I love the dramatic flair of just an unrelated kidnapping happening. It's act two of four.

So this is like the big climax. That's probably how that usually happens. Um, I'm going to ignore the fact that you couldn't remember the names despite repeatedly being reminded at all. I'll, I'll give you that. And that's okay. No idea who they are. If you offered me a million dollars right now, I could not tell you what Don's last name is. I'm gonna leave you on your own for the rest

of this then. I'm gonna tell you, you both earned points in that one, but neither of those was quite at all correct. What actually happens is they're in the tavern celebrating. Don Jose has been released. Fuck! And when Escamillo comes in, Carmen is immediately drawn to him. Carmen can't take her eyes off of him. He is enthralling. He is to Carmen as Carmen is to Don Jose. And this fills Don Jose with an unbelievable jealousy and rage. He's consumed by it. And he's now a deserter of the army

because he got arrested and then followed Carmen once he was released. He's deserted his army post, so he's a criminal. Oh, I was so right. I was so on there. You're so close. Her being infatuated with Bull man and the bar fight about to happen You both had her and

Escamillo Being a thing they just hadn't been yet. He was just so magnetic anyway. That was it. You know Wade is how Stories start to digress and bull man becomes the minotaur start to digress and Bullman becomes the Minotaur walked into this bar. Bullman! My children's children will be like, the Bullfrog loved Caramanda. Bullfrog tried to buy a car but it was in Germany being made. Oh man. My car, man.

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Goes after her but before he gets to her he's caught by his old military buddies and he's arrested and dragged off to military tribunal which is like the game show where you're on the island and they put out your torch yeah it's like survivor exactly yeah survivor they're about to put out his torch and Carmen's with the skit me oh and he starts to show his true colors and she's like I never really loved him he just had a pretty face and she runs back to find Don Jose but it's too late I like that very operatic definitely earned some points wildly incorrect in a lot of ways but I love the direction that you

went with that that was very interesting, what do you have? What happens after Carmen tells Don Jose that they're done? She's leaving. It's a real bummer. And I don't know this opera, but I have a funny feeling I'm going to be very correct on this one. Don Jose flying in a fit of rage lunges at Carmen, hands outstretched like this, and kills her. What's Act 4 gonna be? Carmen's dead, she lost her head. Jose's angry now he's in the bed. I'm just trying to think of what's the most dramatic thing possible in this situation. No you're right, you're right, you're right.

Carmen survives this scene, but you're right and you're on exactly the right track But obviously what happens is Carmen just leaves and Don Jose is real sad and then a new character Michaela Michaela I don't know how to pronounce that. Sorry everybody Michaela Arrives sent by Don Jose's mother to tell him in the middle of all of this turmoil that his mother is dying. Oh no. And so Don Jose decides he needs to return to her bedside, which he does.

And then he's there and his mother dies and it's very sad. Did he lunge at his mother's hands outstretched like this? Your timing was terrible, mom! I'm in love! Probably. I'm just gonna assume that was in there and give you a rage point. And then we're to the final conclusion of the entire opera, which has thus far been accurately summarized by at least one of us. Don José's mother is now dead. There is a big bullfight happening in place and Pablo Escobar is in fact fighting bulls at this bullfight and Carmen is there because she's

with him now because she was right. She ran away. She went to be with Escobar. Thank you. I think Wade said that but you can all have credit. You got all the victims right. I got the love right. Anyway, they're at the bullfight. Don Jose goes to this bullfight, because he figures they'll be there, and he was right. And Don Jose confronts Carmen, and is like, you're gonna get back together with me, or else. And then?

And then, using his bullfighting magic, Eskimo sees what's going on in the stands, because he's obviously fighting right now. And he, using a mixture of that big red cape and kung fu, diverts the bull to aim directly towards Don Jose, sending that bull flying 38 feet in the air in a parabolic arc to slam right into Don Jose sending that bull flying 38 feet in the air in a parabolic arc to slam right into Don Jose and Kill him instantly the bull has its hands Someone's gotta die in this someone mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I love that. I love that And thankfully Toriyama was a big fan of this opera, which is why I got the Kamehameha all the rage

Listen, let's not be ridiculous. I'm okay with a bull sprouting hands with full fingers, but you put a command man there It's good. That's this that's silly. This is an AI generated bull. So it has hands just bad ones All right, wait, what happens next? Tell me. I'm trying to remember where it actually stopped and where Mark's stuff began. There's a bullfight. Don Jose goes to the bullfight, confronts Carmen. Carmen and Escamillo are together and Don Jose goes there confronts Carmen and says, you're getting back with me. So Carmen being with a bullfighter is down like on the main level. Great seats to watch the fight. And Don Jose can't get there easily because he's got the bad seats.

So he has to hop into the arena with the bulls to run and profess his love. And Eskimeo, seeing this, is not confident in himself or his relationship, he's a bit of a jealous type. So he does in fact, go out there and try to show that he's more man than Don Jose. And does the whole bullfighting thing. Carmen freaks out and runs out there panicked. And at the last second, the bull is charging Carmen. And Esquimio decides he'd rather sacrifice himself than lose Carmen Carmen even if it means that he knows those two will be together So he jumps in front of Carmen and takes the horns to the chest

holding out his hand and saying he loves her one last time and wishes her and Don Jose a happy future and then he dies and Carmen hops into Don Jose's arms immediately forgetting Ischimio and they run off into the sunset with some bulls chasing them I love how fickle your version is I appreciate that very operatic very traumatic I just want to say in in your attempts to complete this part of the story both of you had the right vibe but were wildly wrong okay but one of you has already completed the story correctly and nailed it you brought it home you were just a little early. Because obviously, when Don Jose confronts Carmen and tells her,

you're getting back with me, she scoffs his advance and tells him, no, we are over, and I am with Escamillo now. And in a jealous jealous unbridled range Don Jose with his hands outstretched but one of them clenching a knife lunges at Carmen and stabs her to death and that's yeah you guys thought the guys would have like honor or be noble about it or no These are petty petty fickle dramatic characters

I had a feeling I had a feeling the south of France. She had no chance Now there's blood trickling down her pants Because she's dead stabbed in the head was that the song is that with the translation? Yeah I'm pretty sure Guys seems like a bummer. No, well, it's okay A lot of operas are actually super happy and they're definitely not all huge drags and Bummers, but I do have some more of these that I wanted to get through, but I had another game that I was honestly more excited about.

We're going to move on to the next game. This one is called... That's a real opera, right? I have summaries of operas here, and some of them are summaries of real operas, and they really exist and were written down by human people and some of them are not real. Some of them are complete fabrications. I feel like I wanted to warm you guys up running through at least one story so now you know the level of drama, the level of action that operas have. Horny and angry.

Pretty much. So now I'm just going to read you a quick summary and then you both have to pick real or not real and you can agree that's fine and we can discuss but then I'll reveal to you if it is in fact real or not real. Starting with a true classic, this opera is called The Nose. A bureaucrat wakes up to discover his nose is missing. The nose develops a life of its own, gets a better government job and refuses to return to the man's face. Is that a real

opera or is that some bullshit I made up? And yes it's a fully... if it's a real opera it's a fully staged opera. Multiple acts, big dramatic singing, an actor portrayed with no nose for most of the entire thing on stage. There is a picture of giant human person-sized noses dancing in one production that was put on that was actually had pictures and some video taken of it. This is a whole, this is a real thing. I'm trying, don't look into the fact I'm trying to convince you so aggressively. It's a real thing. Totally a thing, not just made up.

Is it real or am I lying to you? Well, I mean, all the extra convincing, I'm leaning towards real, but now I'm like, man, that would be a clever ploy. Yeah, I'm a good liar. Let's remember that. Somehow convince the entire audience that you're the nice one.

That's not a lie. I'm just, I just am the nice one. You would just tell that. This is obviously made up. Uh, I'm going real. No one wants to make a giant nose costume, that's terrible. The audio coming out of that, not good, not good. And of course, that is a real opera written by Shostakovich.

Thought he'd have a nosier name. Like if your whole life has been about I'm gonna, my dream, my dream is to make this nose opera. It's like that's got to have a deep-seated root in childhood. Funny fact about that, that's the first opera that guy ever wrote. But not the last. Not the last, no. Obviously not. The nasal saga continues. Where is my nostril? His next opera was actually called The Balls, and then he just kind of jumped around. He had a lot of opinions about anatomy.

Where are my testes? Balls dancing on stage. He also only has one song for all his operas. All operas are actually the exact same piece of music. I got my nose back. No, he didn't get his nose back. Is it like the book where the bear lost its hat and then finally he's like, where's my hat? And then there's that really scary part in the middle of the opera where he's like, I have seen my nose.

And then he goes kills a fish. That looks terrifying. Oh, there. Yeah, there it is. Wait, is this it? It's just a bear on the left that looks like he just got out of a POW camp. And then the other opposing page is just a black white page. It just says, I have seen my head. It is. Yeah. It is terrifying. That bear has been through so much shit. Oh my God. I think that's real.

That did actually happen. You're right. You're right. That's no, you earned a point. This one is called Die Soldaten, which is the soldier in German. A young woman's descent into social ruin is portrayed through fragmented time, military violence, and an extremely dense and unpleasant modernist score. Unpleasant is my own annotation. It includes a scene with 16

simultaneous onstage events that all happened during and over top of each other. This is just a really shitty modern adaptation of Carmen. This is fake. It's a wait. What is that? This is a real thing that happened and it exists. So it's fake. Yeah.

Got it. Okay. I think it's a really shitty modern adaptation of Mulan and it's fake. God, I hope it's based on Mulan. And of course, this is another real one because everybody knows what makes good opera. Soldiers. It's hard to even imagine that literally the scene was 16 things happening on stage. It's like 30 plus actors all on stage all just having their own separate. It's so unpleasant I'm sure if your house like 16 things have like someone's itching their nose someone's pushing a car or like 16 major No, it's like they're having like

Interactions, it's not all like major interact, but they're all having they're talking or they're doing something. It's like busy It's a lot that sounds horrible modernist is exactly correct. I don't care very much for modernist stuff That's not modern that's old can't you tell doesn't that sound old to you? We're all see You start with breath, right? Breh makes it modern This song is on fleek Can feel my subscribers oozing out of my channel right parts. Parts of me just cringed I didn't even know could. Bro, where we dropping?

It's just, it's... At this point he's actively harming this podcast. He's actively harming it. So what do we do? Kill me. He's actively harming it. So what do we do? The audience audience lunge at him Send your bulls send your best bulls my way. All right. All right real or fake I'm gonna get one of these right this opera is called glass

chapel in a remote mountain monastery made entirely of glass, a mute monk discovers a hidden score said to summon angels. He learns to sing through silent devotion and the more he sings of the song, the more the chapel begins to fracture and destroy itself. The climax is that knowing it will destroy the chapel and sacrificing his life, he finishes performance of this angelic music to summon the angels and destroys the glass chapel and kills himself. Fake. An opera with only one character? I don't think so. I don't think so. I have no idea. I mean, there are other characters, but no, there are no other characters. I'm likely losing. So I'm going to say real because I just need the points. I love this for you. That one's fake. Another the clockmaker of Dresden. A classic. Albrecht, a reclusive clockmaker whose inventions

are said to steal time from those who hear their chimes, has a fiancé. She dies mysteriously and he descends into madness and he builds his ultimate invention, which is just a giant clock that he's trying to have reverse time so he can get his fiance back. But on the final 13th forbidden chime, it freezes time forever. Oh, also the clock is an automaton shaped like his fiance

and as time freezes, he's hugging it. You know, if this is not real I want it to be real because that sounds awesome. Man. I don't know. Where'd you go? I'll say real again It says real. All right I'm covering the spread fake, but I wish it was real and of course The classic opera the clockmaker of Dresden is just some bullshit. I made up. It sounds really good though, right? Wait, did you not get one? You didn't get one did you? Thanks man for pointing that out. I appreciate that Do you want one more way? Do you want one more? Oh, no, but it could be a perfect failure

The odds of missing this many coin flips in a row has got to be minutes. All right I won't I won't offer any hints. will keep this simple also this title is in French I think so I can't pronounce it fake locking it in I love the confidence locked in this opera is entitled and font at least sort of legit clearly you titled L'enfant et les sortilégies. Clearly you made that up. You speak English. Google Translate certainly doesn't exist. Obviously it's real.

Come on. This is as fake as it gets. Do you want to hear the story? Cause the story will make you believe. A misbeh- this is my favorite story of the whole list. Actually, I like the clockmaker one, but this one's pretty good a Misbehaving child is scolded by his furniture

wallpaper and a rather saucy teapot After throwing a tantrum after descending a little bit into madness even though he's a child the child learns kindness and Humility and then everything forgives him and it's all chill Are we sticking with our locked in answers? Yeah, we're locked in. I'm doubling down Wade you couldn't have done a better job Because you are oh four. That is a real opera. 045 is unfair. Oh, fuck.

I don't have my coin with me. You better find a coin, Mark. Got any lens caps? Alright, I got a phone, I guess, but I don't want to flip it. Don't drop it. Alright. Hold on, what side of the phone is heads? I'm assuming the face is the heads. Mine is the lady in the dress is heads and the creature on the back side is tails. So wait what are the stakes of this unfair? No idea. No we don't that's not what we're doing

right now we don't have to commit to anything until we know what the outcome is Wade called unfair on him being oh for five In that game. We'll see what the coins say Yeah, I Got tails tails. I've totally flubbed it. I have to flip again Oh God it's on the floor right now dramatic reveal it's oh wait loses his unfair challenge when what you challenged was that you went 0 for 5 in that game that was unfair so to be made the coins have deemed that it is in fact fair and for that to be made doubly fair i guess means that you went 0 for 10 and Mark went 10 for 10 in the previous game now?

According to metaphysics? I... look, I only got one wrong so I'll take 8 instead of 10. Oh, that's true. Okay, okay. So Mark went 4 for 5 so Mark went 8 for 10. I hope I was really funny today. So mark went eight for Ted. I hope I was really funny today I don't think all the wheel spins in the world are gonna bring you back from that one. Can we roll a d30? The coins have spoken and that is now even more fair than it already was

Yeah, I will say Wade I respect it cuz I think you were you were in a tough spot there Even even with bonus bonus points and stuff. I had to try. That was our first three tails, wasn't it? Have we ever had three heads actually succeed? I don't think yet, no. Great, I'm glad the first one was a failure for me. On such a streak.

On such a streak. I love that for you. You just really... I knew you'd be good at the opera stuff, Wade. Thank you. Anyway, there we go. You just really I knew you'd be good at the opera stuff Wade. Thank you Anyway, there we go that and clearly we have demonstrated that we know many things about operas in no particular order. Here's what you earned points for

Wade you earned points for phone panic different Taylor probably Still no car mark by a big boat unrelated kidnapping goes to be with Escamillo Singing a lot. You know what? I'm gonna give you another point for all the singing that you did Don't push it red bear Bruh, we're singing bro. Where are we dropping? You earned a lot of points in that segment. Oh, hell yeah. Despite how poorly you performed. Oh, for 10, unbelievable.

Mark, you earned points for Apple Watch Choker, Drago Delivery, Don Julio, Eskimeo, killed Carmen a little too soon, but still point. Rage Point, getting the nose, diesel dotton, glass chapel, clockmaker of Dresden and the infant all correct. Wait did you miss one of those? I gave you all five of those. I did miss. He and I both said fake on one. The second one yeah the second one whatever that was. Alright that's that's I'm taking I'm gonna scratch that away. I'm gonna scratch it away.

So there we go. So that was, that was, four points, keep in mind, but I put a correction in there. So you lost that point. And now, oh, you guys excited for this? I did some off, off camera work. I've upgraded our wheels. New wheel, new wheel.

Did you add anything to it? I didn't add anything to it, no, but I've upgraded the wheels to a new system. Oh, oh, this is the d3. Yeah, so this is the d3 This is the bonus point wheel They've all been upgraded Good work Bob and they're all saved on my computer So if the website happens to break or something, they don't just go away for eternity. That's smart. I am going to add.

I had something else written down, but this feels only fair. I'm going to add most singing. So you're saying there's a chance. Yeah, well, I'm just trying to, you know, I'm just trying to help you out. Try to help you out. But first, we have to do the old. How many bonus points we'll three Yeah three bonus points. Oh this also shows the history which is really interesting. Ah That is handy. So we're gonna do three bonus points and we do three spins of this bad boy

most three spins of this bad boy most callbacks I did a lot of the hands out stretched did a lot of singing a lot of the same song callback Wade Wade did sing before the hands down stretch bit and continued to do that the entire time that is true I guess yeah we did have a lot more callbacks than usual today Wade gets most callbacks I like that that. I like that. Right, Mark. Disable this option for the next spin and spin number two. Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball. Drooled the most. I don't think I drooled at all.

Maybe we call that a re-spin. I don't think there was a lot of call to drool in this episode. Yeah, I guess there wasn't any. And it usually is obvious when one of us does, because usually it's Wade going, boop, boop. Yeah. All right, respin. Spin number two again.

Most locked in. Probably not me, since I forgot every name every time. That is true. That is true. Literally, we had several interactions where I was like, his name is Don Jose, and you would be like, all right, so Don... Ooh.

I gotta give that one to not me. All right, you could say it, you could say my name. He doesn't remember your name. And spin number three. Bald? I hope Bald comes up six times for you, Wade. Oh no! Shortest!

Yeah! Unless something crazy happened, I'm pretty sure that one goes to Mark. That no I just lit out was the most I've ever related to the T-Rex in Jurassic Park at the end when it screams. No! We got this bad boy. Oh, do we need that? Are we tied? No. Let me, I'll keep it up on screen and we'll just see if we're tied.

Mark did earn four bonus points, but um, so Wade, I read all your points. You earned eight points, Wade. That's gotta be enough. Great job. Great job. Great job. Mark, you started with minus one. Ah! Minus one, but then you earned... One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. So I think seventeen minus one is sixteen points. Double or nothing right now for my score. Double or nothing. If you hadn't already used the unfairness, the score wouldn't be as funny as it is, but

you could try... I don't know. Anyway, Mark, weren't literally twice as many points as Wade did thank you and you won today's episode the score of 16 to 8 it's not quite as crushing a victory in terms of proportion as you had of Wade in the last episode but that's only because he had two and you had five I think so actually it's only two and a half times more than he had so terrible birthday week Good job mark wait loser speech. You know guys I've really been putting my comedic cojones on the line

And I'm learning that apparently they're not as big and wonderful as I thought I have been crushed Humiliated and defeated multiple times in a row but from the ashes much like from the grave for Carmen we shall rise and become bigger than life probably you know what's funny Wade is even if Mark hadn't gotten four extra points for your coin flip and two bonus points you still be thanks man for letting me know that. Anyway, Mark, winner speech? Well, much like the Grinch, my balls grew three sizes this day. For my victory, I'm so grateful for literally just coasting my way to the finish line. My opponent was trying so hard every step of the way, but he was just driving his feet

deeper into the potholes every time, tripping himself up, shitting down his own pants, pissing on his own legs. Shouldn't have got the apple cock ring. The apple choker's the way to go. Thanks for this amazing victory. Great words. Great words, great speech, great man. You'll be a great host next week. Uh, thanks so much for watching and listening, but more for watching, I guess, is kind of the tone of this episode.

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