Distractible - Worth It

Episode Date: October 16, 2023

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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractible. This week, it's a fun ride as the boys are on form. Washroom Wade, the one for center, sells half of his restroom empire. Every man mark touts the benefits of Tinder's new premium option to be ignored by non-matches. Ambiguous Bob gives phenomenal blowing tips and, um, huge lenses. From memories of cringy pasts to Mitsubishis made of gum, yes, it's time for Worth It. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to Distractible.

My name is Markiplier and I'm going to be your host today for this wonderful journey into the minds of us three. Who is we three? Me and me and these are Thee, Bob and Wade. I'm a Thee? Thee, yeah. Oh. Hi. Hello. Hey. What? Wade, why do you look so scared? I'm always scared, you know?

Wade, you have to put on your normal human smile. Oh. I know people listening can't see it, but you all know what Wade looks like. And imagine the face that he's pulling right now. And that's it. That's the one. This reminds me of that video you posted, like, to be like 2014 2015 the markiplier's magic touch i don't know if you remember that oh god i blocked that video out of my mind that's like a

formative memory for me by the way real oh yeah because it was your first time that was the first time i ever went to la and you picked me up from the airport and you were like would you walk in can everyone inside this apartment touch your face for like a couple minutes and then that happened you know how i've always said i look back on all of my videos fondly i don't look back on that one fondly at all you guys were all like had these like orgasmic faces and then you were like wait we're gonna change the lighting and you just make the worst faces you can and we're gonna change the shooting angle like you guys are all like oh and then my face like with my shaved face just like that that video is pro and i've done a lot of cringy things most

of it intentional that one kind of intentional that one might be the worst and no one ever brings it up it lives rent rent-free in my head. Man, I somehow expunged it from my memory. The next person who interviews you really needs to bring that up as a point to talk about. Yeah, I remember why. Because I bought a camera that could do slow motion, and I was just like, I'm going to use it in everything because I fucking love it. Just like everyone ever gets a slow motion camera. And it's just like, yeah, what can we do i don't know make dumb faces and it's just like jesus christ well and i learned from that that having a beard really reduces people's ability to see your like facial maneuverability so like the different ways i can like with my cheeks and like make the wrinkles

really just look awful the beard really hides a lot of it if you go and watch markiplier's magic touch and you see like the horrible why are you telling people to do this youtube.com slash the mark markiplier's magic touch reviews man all right well we don't need to subject uh the new generation to such cringe you know i don't think they can handle it we may have grown up like sweltering in the millennial cringe but you know they're seeing just the after effects of it the echoes of but you know they're seeing just the after effects of it the echoes of it you know they're living beyond that they're creating new cringe as it goes on our thousand cringe stare this is what's left man you gotta coin that you gotta put that on a shirt that's a great phrase yeah that is a good description anyway today's episode is going to be about the fun stuff that you want to talk about

and all the other things that you whatever shut up hey how are you guys doing uh shut up or yeah no them the oh okay uh good doing pretty good the magic box is gone i don't know if that's in the most recent episode but remember i had a box next to me that was moving i killed it i burned it in ritual sacrifice it's gone oh that's good um it doesn't happen to never mind what the joke i was gonna make wouldn't make sense yet because the reference i don't think would be out what are you predicting the few what yes wade's actually a multi-dimensional being and he just let it slip. Okay, good. Well, now that everyone is thoroughly confused, Bob, how's your life going?

He's the one that answered, man. Damn. Oh, yeah, that's right. I got a, look, I got a book. Tell us fucking more, I guess, man. Whatever. I got more, I got more stuff to talk about, okay? I was at Costco.

Yeah, Wade, shut up. I want to hear this. And I was like, man, I'm really out of ideas for podcast stuff. So I got this book called History's Worst Decisions and Inventions. And this is going to be the basis of some kind of episode. Also, it

cost me $18, so you know it's a good book. I mean, it looks thick and it looks like it has some interesting subjects and good. It's got a lot of pictures. Wow. Look at that. I can't see it. Good neither.

It's Nikola Tesla doing electricity things. See? I love when he played Palpatine. Unlimited. Will, when you edit this, make that full screen, but blur it out. Just how we were seeing it, like really pixelated and low res. So even the watchers get frustrated just like because because if the listeners can't see properly and are like showing things that I can't see, then the viewers must be equally

frustrated. We want to make the viewing experience as bad as possible. Make it so blurry the listeners see it better. It's actually worse than listening to watch the video. That's what we want. to watch the video that's what we want i don't want that actually i want to point that it's out that i actually very much care which is the perfect segue into my subject for today i'm great man thanks a fucking good for asking go on great segue please go for it i'll just be here bob do you have more to add oh yeah you know what I was out in the car

the other day great you weren't being serious I see well I was in the car in the park I don't care which just say your words I installed I installed a camera in the car so now we can see James in his little car seat while we're driving

that's cute anyway the topic should we start the episode uh you know what i'm i you know i don't want to give way to any more ammo to think that i'm against him it literally just happens this way i don't know why i legitimately thought he brought up that first one and then i legitimately forgot that he didn't give his say so wait i've i'm gonna here now's your chance i want to hear he's not gonna he's not gonna participate he's gonna be salty about it i'm so serious wait i did it was all not intentional i want to know how your day was i i he's glaring at me he's squinting at me

but it's just like i really truly did not mean for this intro to go this way or every other intro that i've ever hosted that has somehow ignored you it's not a bit it just happens it's just a coincidence that it always happens the same way oh like bob with the coin flip remember remember wait remember you lost the coin flip of life i lost the coin flip of friendship bob lost an actual coin flip oh but things are actually pretty good we uh got rid of our old house so i'm no longer a man with 10 toilets i'm only a man with five you have five toilets dude i feel like every house we've ever looked at in cincinnati for some reason it's like one bedroom five toilets you know what i just i say that but i we do have four toilets in my house i forgot i mean for cincinnati man i don't know

it's because we have chili or what it is but they're like you need toilets you need so many toilets you gotta have the capacity to dump out on every floor of your house at least one location okay you gotta have a master bathroom uh if you have if you have a two-story house in a basement which i i feel like a basement's pretty standard here but you have a basement toilet a main floor toilet a master toilet and then like one upstairs guest toilet you have to have at least four toilets. Otherwise, it's not really a house. It's a weird warehouse.

You've been set up. You're on like Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd. Was he the one that hosted Punk'd? I think so, actually. So if you don't have four toilets or more in Cincinnati, you're on an episode of Punk'd. I've lived here all my life. It's been a 20-year buildup. He's coming.

Ashton is coming. All right. so that's doing well for you well having five less toilets is great yeah that's the take away from alright thank you for the time wait no can I I don't so I don't want to get into the details of the transaction cause

I don't want to dox you or anyone but how was the disclosures on your old house in regards to all the water damage stuff i was very transparent did you write like a five page paper of like and then this toilet leak and it came through this ceiling and there's pictures in the in the appendix for every issue we had we spent so much money trying to fix everything correctly and we redid so many like pipes that like on the form i was

like look somewhere along the ownership lines there were a lot of like do-it-yourselfers that really sucked and we spent whatever five years redoing they're doing and this happened this happened this happened and this happened but we did everything we can to fix it right and we did this we did that we replaced this like i was very upfront because honestly i am proud of the work we had done in that house because we thought it would be our forever home so we were fixing it up to like be done correctly for that so i i had just i fully disclosed every even things i probably didn't have to disclose i was like this happened we fixed it you're welcome buy my house you should uh you should burn the drowned man saga onto dvd and just like stick that in their mailbox at some point. I should go burn

the house down. No, no, no. Burn a DVD of the Drowned Man saga and just anonymously stick it in their mailbox. No, what you do is you get like a time biodegradable bag. You fill it with water and put the disc inside it and hide that in the wall so that eventually

in nine months it'll start to leak and then the wall will get a water stand that they'll they'll chip away and peel away it in a frantic like and then they'll rip it open and there'll be like a dvd in a sopping bag and they'll be like what no and they'll put it in and they'll see how haunted their house really is i'll put the wig for like pretending to be jp in there so it's just like a wig of hair, like a slopping wet wig and a DVD. Maybe a pair of gloves just to really sell it. All right.

Anyway, so Wade having 10 toilets and now five, plus I guess the money from the house being sold, which is good. We still had a mortgage. And apparently when you sell the house, the house being sold which is good we still had a mortgage and apparently when you sell the house the realtors take out of what you get not what the buyers pay so there were some yeah that's how it works but anyway go on put him in the one percent how dare you use scum wait losing five toilets put me up a percent. No. Yeah. Yeah and getting the money from the sale Yeah, this son of a bitch doesn't speak for the people doesn't speak for the the Everyman thanks for the time. I appreciate you letting me talk

Go on go back to being a dick to me I am gonna bring something that is probably relevant to you Wade to your attention Definitely relevant to you. I left your attention definitely relevant to you i left my monocle upstairs i could go get it go on fucking pleb tinder is launching a new five married what the hell this is relevant to you you one percent they're long people wondering why i was wearing the headband it's because literally every time i breathe in my hair goes in my mouth they're launching a new 500 per month option for elite users like yourself oh my god my mistresses are gonna love this hang on i know anyway i just

thought this was hilarious that it was even possible that this could go over. You pay $500 a month to just have access to Tinder but only see other rich people? No. That would be more logical. Susie, Susie 2, and Susie 3. You're going to love. I only date Susie, so don't get me confused. So there might be that feature. But the main feature that draw my attention to this is that if you pay this money, you'll be able to send messages to people you haven't matched with.

Neat. I'm seeing that. You just get direct access to whoever's DMs you want without any consent or invitation or anything. Yep. Neat. want without any consent or invitation or anything yep neat if you pay your way to success you too can be a creep showing up in people's inboxes uninvited you also get a badge you can also set it so you only see other people who have the expensive subscription and also your profile has an unblurred photo that gets prioritized in whatever the likes you grid is for one week

this is even better than whenever you go to shadysville ohio and you pay the blacksmith the blacksmith the locksmith five hundred dollars a month to get those skeleton keys so you can let yourself in anyone's house you want what era are you from again we've kind of touched on this before where you may be much older than what do you mean this eldritch time traveling god that you are dude the witch trials were like last week i'm not that old they just happened anyway this kind of brought up me to think about this concept of being tone deaf right and this is a company that like has a subscription that completely destroys their entire business model right because it's just going to make

people leave because they're like why the fuck are people able to message me unless oh they're like you can afford 500 a month to talk to me when i don't want to talk to you you must be rich i love you all of a sudden isn't it obvious yep that's the one that's like seeing an uncensored million dollar check in your dms and it's like it's so big you know uh that's definitely one that's like seeing an uncensored million dollar check in your dms and it's like it's so big you know uh that's definitely what's gonna happen no way it's right don't question it man the visual journey you take my imagination on is just so profound and i love it and i love that about you wade five points thank you sorry i kind of zoned out i was picturing how big that check would be same size as any other check, I think.

No, it's one of those big novelty ones. I'm sorry, do rich people get extra large checks just so that when they write checks, it's more impressive? They never know when they open a package if it's like the original Mona Lisa or just their checks arriving for the month. One percent of one percenter has an electrician at the door and he's like, yeah, be 178 dollars uh for the service today and they're like i'll just round it up to 180 178 dollars let me just buy your business you should be charging more than that let me see if i have any hundreds rolling around the floor of my mercedes bin do you take millions of dollars i can't go lower than that i can't be bothered with change here's just take 10 million i can't believe they don't have coins for a hundred yet sir million dollar bills don't exist not for the poor people they don't now break this

i just love the idea of a guy just decides that's his that's his scam and he gets a million dollar bills and everyone is like that's not a real, that doesn't exist. He's like, you wouldn't know about this but when you reach a certain threshold of income, you do get access to million dollar bills. I'm really not supposed to give this to someone like

you. But it's all I've got. Can you give me change? It's the same size bill but it's just longer to incorporate the zeros? No, it's like a spreadsheet. Instead of doing like one line, they did wrap text. So it's just like 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0. It's the thick of it.

It's an unrollable scroll to hand them their bill. It's real. Mark, this is a weird topic. Oh, no. So i'm circling back around to it so right like that is an exorbitant stupid expenditure that people with way too much money have and i recently came to the realization that i am looked down upon by certain characters on the subreddit for oftentimes bringing up let let's say, pieces of technology that are somewhat expensive. Sometimes, sometimes insanely expensive. It can seem superfluous, right? And I recently,

you know, have I want to just like say to the subreddit, you're welcome. I recently brought to the fold the funniest episode we've ever had beating bob's fridge illegal advice and i just like you're welcome everybody i'm so glad i could bring you so many laughs in that episode i'm so glad that you guys enjoyed it so much as the host of that episode i take full credit and responsibility for all enjoyment of that episode and i think that now it's really turning for me on the subreddit i'm now the hero of the subreddit and the audience in general way too quick for the hero arc mark sorry you're not there yet no no this is this is mark blower's hero arc i had my villain arc and i think that that was really undeserved but now it's my hero arc so i wanna i wanna become a human i wanna lara i wanna i wanna show my

humanity i am so glad to hear that because during your villain arc, whenever we hosted Bob Wade and friend, there was a point where like the true statement was you had to give us like a percentage of your YouTube earnings and villain mark would have never done that. But hero mark definitely will. So Bob and I are super glad to hear that you're on your hero arc. Now we look forward. Absolutely. And I'm true to my word. All the revenue from Markiplier 2 is coming your way baby what is 2 you know markiplier 2 oh anyway i'm a man of my word and given that that

was like such a hilarious episode i'm so glad i could provide the laughs i want to make an episode that everyone can relate to i want to know what is the thing that you would spend a lot of money on. And I know this is kind of like crazy, but I wanted to talk about it because there was there was a conversation I was having with Phil, the DP for you guys know Phil. He did with DP on space and heist. And he was talking about the lenses that we used on the movie that we were filming. And I knew they were good lenses. I didn't know what they were when he got them. He was just like him and him and Matt. Matt had someone that had this set and it was like these are really great lenses. There's only six sets of this in the world. We should use this for the movie. And I'm like, sure, it was expensive to rent. But it

was like, if if if it's what you say is good, you're you're the cinematographer. I know that you know a lot more about visual stuff than I do. I didn't know how good these lenses were until like last week. He came over to my house. He was helping me like look through the movie and like reviewing some stuff. But he was talking about this and what the lenses are. This is not going to mean anything, but this was so fascinating because I think I think the the the topics that we've talked about before and the things that I talk about and I'm really excited about that a lot of people can't relate to and they only see the price tag. But I want to talk

about something that has a high price tag, but it has a rich history behind it. And there's a reason that it's expensive. And there's a reason that you would pay a premium for it because of the quality and the artistic value that it has, or at least the personal value of some things. It doesn't have to be an artistic. But what these are, they they're called minolta rocor cinema lenses and that doesn't exist minolta the company of lens lens manufacturer in japan in the 1960s and 70s made lenses called rocor lenses which was named after mount roco in japan yeah i was say, I think my parents have an old film camera that was a Minolta that had Rokor branding on it. But that was like just like a normal like film camera.

If they have leftover lenses, those are incredibly valuable. Even if it's just like a junk kit lens that came with a whatever kit? Maybe. Like it's hard to say. There's resources to look it up. But the reason these are very special lenses because they like i said minolta real core cinema lenses didn't exist a few years ago you have to take their lenses get something that has survived all this time that hasn't like had any scratches dust gotten in it like exposure to too much light fungus growing

inside of it no dirt like got inside of it pristine glass which after all this time because of the coatings that were on the lenses themselves they've aged in a very specific way that has created this warm tone to the image when light goes in there it gets an amber like little tint to it it creates a softness and like a special quality of the image that is so intangible. Like if you did a, if you just saw a movie and you're like, that looked good because it was large format camera, whatever, it looked good. But if you saw something that was with a, like a pristine, beautiful lens that gave richness to the image, you would be like, that was actually

different if you did an AB comparison. It might be hard to discern, but there is like a discernible quality comparative to this lens. Now, what he was saying to me is he was talking about the process because the lenses themselves you can get and you buy, they're like maybe $500 a lens, but then to rehouse them in a cinema housing takes thousands of dollars and like a year of effort just to transfer it over from its old casing into a new casing get them all lined up get them all calibrated get them all good lord they have to reinvent the entire lens while still maintaining the aesthetic and the performance of the original lens it's a very difficult process i don't even know the half of it wouldn't it be cheaper just to pay someone to lay on the camera

and hold the lens in place for you while you film i mean You're saying it gives a warmth to the image. And I'm pretty sure there's like a TikTok filter that does that. Right. Yeah, there is definitely just a TikTok. But can't you just do that with like AI or something now? Maybe someday soon, actually. But honestly, it is crazy the difference of these lenses. And now, OK, so let me give you numbers.

I bought a lens kit recently that I love very much, and it has eight lenses in it. And it was fourteen thousand dollars out for the entire set. And these are cinema lenses. They're high quality and they'll they you could film any movie you want on them. And that'd be great. I bought this because I invested in it and I was like, I'm going to use this for like almost all my projects from here on till forever this lens set i think if you bought it would cost about 120 000 so why don't you own that one are you poor or something

well the thing is phil told me about phil told me like because he was doing this thing where it's like man if only someone just bought this set and then we could use it on any project ever man someone just put the money in to own this so we wouldn't have to wait and see if it's available for rent he was really giving me the side eye hard on that i'm like dude i don't know who i need to learn to like become a glass blower so i can make 120 000 selling lenses yeah that's how they do it that's you run over to the furnace and you heat it up and then you run over to the rack and you're all you actually have to scream minolta through the pipe what every every breath you're all

that's how that's what gives it the ripple that gives it the warp guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars just for doing that yeah if you could breathe minolta lenses into existence you would be worth any amount of money but it's a god it's like that's a 21 all right that's a 50 i'll bet people who play harmonica could make some hella lenses oh my god what does harmonica have to do with it just the way you can like control your like amount of breath and stuff your your airflow look i don't know enough about harmonica so i'm gonna assume he knows just about as much about harmonica so i'm gonna assume he knows just about as much about harmonica as he does glass blowing lenses enough uh apparently more than you know about glass blowing lenses he knows enough mark you're right i apologize i

apologize i just imagine your guys group like get together to solve this was like all right what can we watch from like the 1970s 80s uh oh look at these porn man look at the high quality lenses you can look at the warmth because everything that was still in the 70s i think was a porn right these are photography i should have mentioned these are photography lenses oh you can take photos of porn they didn't have you know just handheld video cameras back then but no of course they did i mean you can still like now the video cameras are anyway that's that's a point wade god so what i wanted to talk about is because when phil told me about that price even i once he started to explain why these lenses were special what the history was what the efforts it took to even get that lens there to that moment on set that we could have it and the

quality with which it put out i was just like oh i see i see why there's value here even though it's an exorbitant price an ungodly price for a hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a 10 10 or 11 lens set that's like ten thousand dollars a lens And that's not even the cheapest lens. There are lenses out there that a whole set would be $400,000. Yeah, no, I was going to say, this is reminding me when we were on, we did our tour, our live show tour. One of the stops, we had it filmed in the Vegas show. We had it filmed professionally. And I remember the crew that showed up had all this crazy stuff all this gear they set this whole thing up and i remember there was just this huge lens sitting on a table and i don't

remember it was you or ethan i think it was ethan maybe we were sitting there and we were just looking at it like wow that's cool i wonder and ethan like asked the guy and it was a sixty thousand dollar lens and i it like it was enormous and had all kinds of twisty bits and i don't know what all it did but it was like you know the fanciest whatever lens i'm sure you could buy a whole set of those if you really wanted to but god damn 60 000 for one lens that probably does not have that wide of a of a range of focal distance if it's not fixed anywhere it's not a prime lens to begin with like I don't know that's so expensive that

Elon Musk can only afford like 700 of those a day with his daily salary yeah so this episode is kind of about like instead of focusing on what wealthy people can buy it's about what poor people dream about buying it's about what poor people dream about buying it's about what poor

people will never get to own in their entire lives i never know when you're joking or just being dumb i just i can't discern so i always assume that you're being talent and i abuse it anyway no what i'm saying is what i want to know is things that you guys have like a deep appreciation for that you think would be worth the price that if someone saved up for like years to be able to buy something that's not a house, maybe a car, I guess. But like I want I want to know like these niche things, these small things where if someone at a casual glance saw these lenses and we're just like, oh, it's like it's the size of a briefcase, the whole lens set. How could it be worth that much? And then you hear the history of it and then you hear the journey it's taken and then you hear the craft that's

gone into it. And then you hear the human hours that have been put into this thing. And you're like, wow, this is really might actually be worth the price. It's like you do need to learn the whole story behind it. And even someone else might be like, I don't have a use for lenses, but at least I can appreciate the art that goes into it. And I think me talking about a hard drive doesn't no one can appreciate the art that goes into a hard drive. There's not really art. There's pure function. I would only buy that for business. This is kind of like and of course, like movie making can be a business, but it's also it's an art form. It's creative. Yeah, well, you don't spend that much money on those lenses because you can't achieve your business

goals without them it's it's an artistic choice that where it's like uh i see i bet i knew this was i picked up on this when you started going on about the lenses this whole time i've been trying to think if there's a thing that that like is like that for me it's tough i don't know if wade you have anything that came directly to your head i think i don't value stuff that highly and certainly not to say that i don't have expensive stuff but that's really honestly more just like i don't greed is not the right word but like i covet things right i've grown up and i've always well i always wanted to have like a macbook pro but it was always so expensive i own one now because it's a business expense and like we're doing well enough.

I was like, I'm just going to splurge and get it. I think the only kind of thing where I would spend an inordinate amount of money, like a completely undeserved, unreasonable amount of money would be if there was a car or something or a boat, there was a thing that my grandfather had owned and worked on. And part of him was in that. And there isn't. I wish that there was, but I don't know of a thing.

It's really stupid. It was an awful little car, but I learned how to drive stick, drive manual transmission in my grandfather's Geo's geo tracker which is a little two-seater suv it's like a and then his was a particularly beat-up example because they used to like tow it behind the motor home when they would go traveling so it was like a crap car it didn't run right it would stall all the time if i could find that car i would probably pay an embarrassing amount of money it's not worth very it's probably worth like a thousand dollars now but i would pay way more than is even remotely reasonable to get

that just because i know it was his but there's nothing there's nothing like that that exists but theoretically like i would totally go for that i also know my dad when he was young he had a volkswagen beetle it's the car that he drove when he met my mom and he drove back and forth to visit her uh from college and stuff I could find his Beetle which when he owned it in like the 70s already the floorboards were rusted out and it was absolute piece of shit if I could find that I would pay you know some unbelievable amount of money for a rusted out piece of crap nothing just to buy it and try and like restore it just hold on to that but i don't i don't think anything like that actually exists for me outside of completely theoretical things and i can't i'm just struggling i don't know no that's totally

fun because that's also like part of it like it's either collectibles it could it doesn't have to be like an artistic creation it could be like you you have a very niche hobby. You have a very niche thing. I would love for people on the subreddit to talk about like the unique like art supply or the paint that is just like it's made out of like seashells, but only from oysters at this certain depth on this Atlantic shelf or something like this. Or it's like I love hearing about such nice things, but it could be like sentimental things like the car me of, of my stepdad had a car that he always said he was going to, uh, like fix up, fix up store. Yeah.

Yeah. And then he, like, he had his accident when I was like 13. Um, and so he never got the chance and it just rusted and it sat in the driveway. And eventually like it had like we were just donated to whatever the the charity that takes cars now that i like actually have money i kind of thought about that because my my stepdad finally passed away about a year ago um and it was one of those things where i realized that i had a thought i was like oh that car would never be fixed up i would pay and i know it's like it was crushed into like a cube and it's

like it's super recycled there's no way it'd ever be it's like it's crushed into like a cube and it's like super recycled there's no way it'd ever be it's in someone's iphone right now yeah exactly something like that but you just made me realize like man if i could if i found that if i found that if i was driving down the street and i i saw it on the road and it was just like it had an exorbitant price but i knew it was that car i would i would buy it like right then and there and then i would fix it up just kind of like in honor of like his dream that never was fulfilled um and that would be worth it to me like in a heartbeat and i know that can't happen because it's like it's a cube somewhere or a phone but it's like yeah that just made me think of that i'm like yeah i would pay for that similar vein

my grandparents had a pontoon surprise surprise wade like boat but it's actually still in the family like my my um aunt has it right now so I don't have to like worry about it because we still have that pontoon. And it's in rough shape. Probably needs a new motor. Needs to have like all of the wood boards replaced. Carpet read. Like it needs a lot of work. I wouldn't want it to be sold.

I would want to fix it because it's like all my memories growing up. Like a lot of my like best memories growing up are on that boat. Randomly, I don't want to collect these. But I would love to go to a place and see it. like when i was younger i used to have a fascination with pocket watches and like clocks and stuff not owning them myself but going and seeing like just an evolution of clocks and watches and like being able to like see the innards and how they all function from like whenever they were first invented to like modern day just seeing that i think that would be fascinating i don't know why but i would just love to see that personal collections the

only things i still own from when i was like younger and collected things i have some star wars toys that were like my brothers or whatever from like the 1970s 80s like some of the original star wars toys and i think having like a full collection of that would be really neat i personally collected pokemon cards when I was younger and I see people now, there's like 500 Pokemon decks that have come out. Some of the like original deck first editions, some of those Charizards goes for like tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's nuts. I don't know if I would want to pay that much for a piece of cardboard, but it'd be cool to have like first editions of all the ones that used to exist. And oddly enough, Beanie Babies were a huge part of my childhood. And I still have two tubs. I can go show you all right now. I can go grab a tub. I have two of those like whatever size container tubs of Beanie Babies.

And they've all got tag protectors on their tags. Oh, and on top of that, they're in sealed Ziploc bags to protect them. So they've got like two layers of protection. i've got like the princess diana bear so many bears everyone the bears they're gonna be so valuable you need to collect the bears the bears i was like 10 years old collecting beanie babies and i played with them for a little while and like some of my tags got ruined because they were toys and then at one point my brain swapped i was like these are collector's items and i had my grandparents buy me like a book that showed me guess guesstimate valuations of what beanie babies were worth and which ones were the rare valuable ones and this and that i think i still have that book in the

tub too there were some beanie babies that were just like i need to get that one i don't have that one how do i get peanut the royal blue elephant versus peanut just the blue elephant how do i get the derby horse with the the velvet tail instead of the yarn tail that was worth like ten thousand dollars why don't i have that one that would be a weird one to kind of want to complete but i remember like childhood me was obsessed like every time i went to a store that had beanie babies and i think it was like does this have one of the rare only printed one in a billion ones in there no why not why isn't that in a random tub i have no idea man but i think there are still beanie babies over at my

my family's house uh but that okay if you can't think of something that you would buy unless you don't want to say it what is the most expensive thing you have bought just for fun like like i'm not talking a business expense i'm not talking like a functional thing like a house i'm talking like car not a functional thing not a car it's not functional i did not buy it because it's functional okay all right i i bought this car a year and a half ago when i knew that we were already just we had already decided we were going to try and have a baby and have a family it has four doors but it's a compact sports car with hard suspension it's not a practical car i was considering getting a two-seater but i was like no if we're gonna have a kid i have to at least be able to like have three humans in a car together but it's not practical it's this is the

car i grew up coveting and i bought it because i wanted it even though i should have probably got a family car that would be way more convenient to use and comfortable to drive but if you want to disqualify a car that's fine i can think of other stuff no it's fine it's fine i totally get that i totally get that but i feel like i feel like what i'm looking for is that thing that has almost no function i guess not because the lenses i'm just trying to like help you guys again mine is pseudo functional but it was more so like i wanted it and then i found an excuse to use it so i could get it i do uh like a dnd campaigns or tabletop campaigns over on lost initiative shout out which.tv slash lost initiative uh every wednesday and we did a star wars game a little while back that took place

during the old republic and i was a huge fan of like coder 2 uh and reven i like a reven obsession i don't know if you guys are familiar with reven but, but that was a big coder one, coder two thing. You can look up Revan, see like the iconic mask. Oh, Knights. I KOTOR. It didn't ring. It didn't ring a bell for me,

but yeah, I get you. When we were doing this campaign, I played a character who had like an obsession with Revan. Like he was part of a Sith cult and their cult, like worshiped Revan and whatever. And I was like, what if this cult war,

like Revan replica armor and stuff so that way i can go to like etsy and buy a really expensive reven cosplay to wear on the stream so i can own a really cool reven cosplay and one of the things i want to spend i don't know how much these cost but i would love to get like a case like a plastic or glass case with like a mannequin inside and put like this reven cosplay on just display it somewhere because right now i just have a box with like this full reven cosplay that i spent i spent like 1200 bucks on this reven cosplay like it was an expensive cosplay damn but i wanted it so badly you know because i don't i just love the old republic and reven stuff so much so you have it you have i do yeah still in your house yeah you've never worn it no i have i wore

it on the on the oh okay campaign i wore it like during the campaign i don't just wear it around for fun you should wear it to cons man you so the mask the way it's designed is like revan has this one little line and that's what you see through so you see and it's like this one line and it's so hot because all the air comes up and like into your head so when you see and it's like this one line and it's so hot because all the air comes up and like into your head so when you're breathing it's just like and you feel the hot air splash against your face and you're trying to see and it's this one little line of like stuff and there's like a spray you can use that apparently helps stop it from fogging but it doesn't really work that well so you have this one little line of visuals you can see you breathe

and it's like fuck where is the world i can't see anything man that was that was all the training you got for wug so you were able to actually function in there i yeah very similar actually very similar though i think wug was even tougher because it was two masks two masks one with smaller holes in that eye slit and the other one just big giant sunglass that fogged up with every breath yeah couldn't have made it worse for you yeah but i had some practice for wug with the revin cosplay but i don't know that i also got um showed you guys the uh n7 mass effect rifle i've actually got like a full n7 armor cosplay too with like the helmet and everything i think i've showed you guys the helmet no yeah maybe so you do have this this is exactly what i was talking about

arts and craftsmanship in in like a a purchase that most people would find like uh not thing but i could totally say like there's a lot of craft that goes into it and it's like a one-time use kind of thing that's cool i've got like a full armor set i didn't know you had a full armor set wow and i don't have batteries in it but like it lights up as like blue lighting or whatever too like it doesn't uh That's pretty cool. That's really cool. I feel like I'm misunderstanding your thing, Mark. I thought of something else, but I feel like it's still wrong.

But I want to talk about it. No, no, there's no wrong. I'm trying to just open it broader so that there can be more categories here. Because if you don't have one, then it's like we got nothing to talk about. Yeah, well, so this is a category of things that i have had and it's something that um as like when i was a kid i was kind of confused why my parents spent a lot of money on vacations and i always thought that was funny both my parents grew up in blue collar families like they were i think they were both the first person in their family to go to college so like their parents were like more blue collar jobs and and like my dad's dad worked like

at the at the uh electric the power plant i was like man i think that was the main thing he did where he just like was a you know he fixed things with his hands and did stuff at the power plant and um my parents were generally like i don't say cheap but pretty frugal because like they did well my mom had a had a good career she was incredibly successful and like they did well but they were still just like always frugal we always bought everything second hand uh like new sports equipment or whatever we always would go to like play it again sports and get second hand stuff because why do you need to get a kid new stuff they're going to use for maybe a couple of years at tops, whatever.

But they would spend a ton of money on vacations. And when I was a kid, I never really thought about it. But I was like, oh, that's kind of weird. I guess they just like vacations. Now that I'm like more my own person and I look back on that, those things, those trips, those times with people where you're like, because it was like we went on trips where it was me and my parents and my dad's parents or me and my parents and my grandmother and my mom's side. We have several trips. Those are like some of my most formative, most cherished memories. And we've done that more recently. Mandy and I in like 2018, instead of getting people christmas presents we like booked a trip to orlando and we

went to universal with like mandy's family like part of mandy's family and um i would pay almost any amount of money to keep those memories like if i had to go back and do it again i get why my parents would would shell out for such a like and it wasn't like an extravagant vacation or something it's not like we stayed in villas or something but it was expensive because you take the whole family with you and like that's all i want to do now i don't really have things that i want to buy that like i would spend any amount of money for in terms of like collections or like wade's cool armor stuff but trips i would spend every dollar i had to have another fantastic trip where my family gets to get together and we're go somewhere and it becomes one of those

like cornerstone memories where for the rest of my life i will remember the trip we took with my maternal grandmother we went on a caribbean cruise and we went and saw a cameo factory and like when i was there as i was relatively young, I was in like high school. I was kind of for some of it. I was kind of like boring. It was boring. But I look back and like that is one of my best memories because we were together as family and we were removed from like the everyday life, the grind of working in school and everything.

All we did was spend time together for like five straight days. And all we did was like talk and do things and be with each other in a way that you don't really do when you're like on a normal day to day. Even when you visit grandparents, if you just like go for the holidays, it's busy.

Everyone's cooking food. You're doing stuff. You know, like it was just such a unique way to like get to know my family and have memories with family members who have since passed. And it's like, I would pay any amount almost, probably any amount of money that I had to keep those memories and to make more.

I want to book more trips. I want James to have those kind of trips for like his memories so that he gets to know his grandparents and stuff like that's not what you were describing. But if I think about like the vibe of what you're getting at those are the things for me where it's like the time with people that's so hard to get and that's so precious that's what i would spend every dollar in my bank account to to keep and to make more of yeah i actually am gonna just to preface the the the subject i'm gonna recontextualize it to what is worth the money.

I think that is the distillation of what I'm trying to get at is I want to know whatever, anything, anything you've bought it, you've never bought it, you don't want to buy it, but you think it, what's worth the money? Because those memories, yeah, absolutely. They're worth the money. They're absolutely worth it. You would pay any price for it because it just holds a value beyond the dollar that it costs. I like to know just like what is in your mind worth the money like you you it doesn't have to be anything like and i'm it could be anything at this point just so long as you you fully believe and can explain this is worth the money and this is why to bounce off bob's point i mean what he said those trips memories like that like I'm trying to

get something like that organized too with my family just because it's like I've not actually had a vacation with my mom since I was like either single digits or a teenager probably so like having a trip or two with her to have in the memory banks that's like more than two decades ago but oddly enough this isn't to like cheat for points or to suck up every project that we've done. And like you've invited us to be a part of. I've tried to get like posters and memorabilia and shirts and stuff for because it's just like meant so much to me that you've invited us to be a part of it. Because it's something like we would just never have gotten to do. So like I have like a stack of posters.

I just paid like twelve hundred dollars to have framed heist in space so on and so forth i still have like some of the shirts like we did a charity stream back in like 2012 2013 you put our faces like we each had a shirt and we had like a quote underneath of it and it's like me with my hair clean shaven like thumbs up and so on and so forth i would love to get you guys each to sign one of those and get those framed but just like the cool stuff we've gotten to do over the years i have a terrible memory and i sincerely like honestly worry about like how bad it is sometimes where it's like as i get older i'm gonna forget some of the cool shit we've gotten to do so having things like the posters behind me or having like my big dumb wug character and our characters and stuff all on here and the other poster i've got the other ones too this is the

one i have right next to me having this stuff like framed and like around to remind me of like we've done some pretty fucking cool stuff over the years and obviously like you know bob and i probably wouldn't have gotten to do any of it without you inviting us to be a part of it so thank you but that's something that means a lot to me i would never want to give like even if this stuff like if someone tells me like oh my god those three shirts you guys and those shirts those are so rare because only like a thousand of them were sold. I will give you a million dollars if you will give me all three of those shirts. I probably wouldn't take it because the memory is more important to me than that money. I have found in the highs and lows of financial success, because we've had horrible

years like 2019, we've had great years like the past past couple like honestly with the people i have in my life and with my hobbies having my phone a tv and a computer is honestly really all i need to be happy like i don't need to have a ton of stuff it's like a million dollars really wouldn't whatever money would be great living like being able to retire would be great but like i would rather have those memories so having like those shirts and stuff seeing uh the things we've done like i don't know getting to walk around just be like see a history of like dude i can't believe 2012 we did that charity stream i can't believe whatever year heist was 2017 or whatever those memories mean a lot to me uh just because it's like easy to kind of overlook sometimes some of the things we've gotten to do that like childhood me would have never even

dreamed of like my biggest dreams and aspirations growing up of being like a successful lawyer or judge pale in comparison to the stuff we've gotten to do over the last 10 years it really does that's very nice and for completely un-kiss ass related reasons i'm gonna give you five points weird weird how that worked out can you sign those points so i can sell i frame them but it was bob who brought up that so bob actually wins the round of memories i'm gonna give him 10 points because he brought it up first and he won i'm giving you five because it was so it was very heartfelt and meaningful he brought up what he brought up memories yeah you were bouncing off of his idea. That was very actually his idea. So fuck you. I brought up Beanie Babies. Those are memories. What about Beanie Mems?

Everything I talked about, I remember. I brought up memories. All right. But this is all well and good in the lovely memories that we shared. Mark, I thought of a materialistic thing. That's what I want. I don't want shitty memories. I mean good memories way i paid for those posters man you overcharge i do not what are your profit margins on these things you said you paid 1200 that's how much the poster cost you just framed it that

cost money well that's true you should have sold them frames you cheap it would have cost that much money actually i think this one came afraid the other ones didn't okay anyway well uh bob you have a materialistic thing that's the topic of today i do yes what's worth it uh so this is this is a stupid one it's it's completely frivolous and i don't actually always spend the money on it but i like a cool guy oh crap, crap. Hang on. I thought I would have this done by now. So cool. God, he's cool. Look how cool he is.

Yeah, no, it's the cool grunting noises that I make. I have a material follow-up. No, no, too late. I have an iPhone 15 Pro, baby, in the cool titanium color. You bitch. I think I've talked about before, when I got my first smartphone i had like a panic attack i was so excited that i like hyperventilated and made myself sick i it's completely frivolous because i didn't really need a new phone i had an iphone 13 pro that was perfectly functional but i the mobile technology and the place that cell phones have

gotten to and i know i have an iphone so it's not even like i have all the android users out there are like we had that five years ago yeah i know i know okay in general i love phones phone technology cases developments and all kinds i buy the phone every couple years because i want it and i think it's worth it because even though it's i it's there's no functional reason that I got rid of any of my previous phones, it just makes me happy to play with the features and to see where tech is. I'm not really a good power user.

I suck at technology, and I don't really take advantage of all the cool new features. But it's like a thing I marvel at. I just look at my phone, I'm like, look at what this can do. I remember when NFC first got put into cell phones and everyone was like, what would you even use that for? And now Apple Pay is everywhere and it's like a thing. And like, just the development of technology over, even though that's a waste of thousands of dollars, because I'm lucky enough that I can, and because I marvel at it. Because I just want to look, I want to see and touch it, and use the features.

It's very stupid. I get that it's stupid. And I get that there's a lot of people who think I'm basic, and I suck, because I have an iPhone and some some trendy, not trendy, some niche Android phone and I have a whatever. I don't do that. But I do think it's Marvel. It's a Marvel of technology and it's very cool, even though Apple is way behind and they're just adding features.

They just switched to USB-C, which is a huge pain in the ass, honestly, because I just got in Mandy's car and she was like, oh, I forgot my phone. Can you plug your phone in to play music? And I was like, no, no, because we don't have that in this car we have lightning cables everywhere because we had iphones not to interrupt you but i got zombie cat from the story this is keeters from the story from when he died almost or whatever all right that story i thought you just told a story today apparently you came down to yell at me anyway all right bob that's pretty good but i wasn't convinced that that cell phone was worth it so i'm only going to give you one point for that

because this cell phone what it has a look it has a pop socket on the mag safe that was from a 1994 movie i don't think so you'd have to have pitched it like apple does but i do appreciate that's closer to the mark but i want i want i want something that you convince the audience that it's worth it that because i believe that when i described the minolta brook or set even though it's exorbitantly priced i believe that over its 50 year history and the amount of hands it had to transfer and the amount of time it had to survive that justifies its price i have something probably affordable that i think the audience will want that i want that i don't currently have okay we on this podcast have a history that history i feel like you guys felt a little bit betrayed by Probably affordable that I think the audience will want that I want that I don't currently have. Okay.

We on this podcast have a history that history. I feel like you guys felt a little bit betrayed by me at one point because I unknowingly kind of failed you. I would love a flat lens cap to flip because mine has that a little side gaps. Mine's better than lens cap. And honestly, getting a flat lens cap that you can flip fairly triangle of fairness is just something i really want to find and invest in because i want to be able to utilize that on this show and in life so as an appeal to the audience out there i know you guys all want one too and just to prove me correct on the subreddit who cares about which version of the iphone you

have when you can have a flat lens any lens cap because i think mine just broke would be good i can't believe that neither of you can say one fucking thing that you would think is fucking worth the money you don't know of anything that you think didn't i say beanie babies and cards and shit? I would buy beanie babies. That was all about memories. I'm talking about something that people- You don't have to have bought it. I don't own that lens set.

Didn't you say you don't use, you just want? Yes! You broke your own rule of the fucking lens that you'd use. I'm trying to adopt any rule! I think it's interesting that you assume that we would have that when i i sincerely don't there's not like i'm something i'm embarrassed about that i'm not saying that i obsess over i don't think i know as much about anything that i like as you know about the things that you really like and really dive deep into i would

agree with that is that unusual am i actually unusual for that into. I would agree with that. Is that unusual? Am I actually unusual for that? I don't think it's that unusual, but I don't think it's completely ubiquitous. There's nothing in the world where I'm like, I get obsessed and I learn everything about it and I would pay any amount of money. They're just things. There's nothing that I've ever seen that's more than like,

yeah, I mean, I'd like to own that maybe because it's cool, but also it's just a thing. Fascinating that you assume that we have that is the most interesting part of this to me i think yeah i think now i'm discovering that this is more interesting is the fact that you guys don't have that that's the closest i can relate is like a fucking character in a mobile game what what as far as like things i want that i don't have i've gotten very into mobile games i played raid shadow legends like non-ironically for like i don't know however many years and there was a character on there who's very hard to get because they don't do side tangent i guess no this is exactly the topic what the fuck are you saying side tangent well

because i'm going more in depth with it a lot lot of gotcha games do banners, right? And these banners feature specific units. So if you want a specific unit, you summon on that banner hoping to pull it. Raid and some gotchas don't do that. They have just a plethora of units and they might have two different types of currency used to pull them.

One being harder to get than the other or whatever, but it's a rarer currency. Raid literally stops you from being able to buy just infinite summoning currency you cannot spend a million dollars summoning on raid if you want to you have to like pace it out because they literally only sell so many so trying to get this one specific unit over like however many years and it's not like i bought every pack or anything either but like trying to earn free currency to summon and buying packs sometimes i'm not i i paid uh i never was able to pull that unit and i quit playing a while ago but like it's always bothered me because i still see raid advertisements i still get like raid sponsorship opportunities and all this other

stuff deep in my soul i still see sifu i think her name was sifu the lost bride was a void legendary and i still see her in my nightmares and dreams and it's like i wanted that unit so badly and i don't i've not even played the game for like a year and a half but like whenever i see gotchas talk about gotchas see anything mentioned with raid there's a part of me that just like burns with like uh i don't even want to play the fucking game i just want to summon that goddamn unit so i can rest in peace like if i'm on my deathbed one day i might say my one regret is quitting before i pulled that unit because for like two years i was like i just want that one unit that'd be cool to have and I pulled almost everything else

it feels like like I pulled characters that are better I pulled characters that are worse and I was like I don't give a fuck I just want this unit and it never came it's so dumb because eventually the game will shut that it'll be gone you can't be able to access it but I want to have owned that goddamn unit and I don't care if someone offers me their account and they have it that's not the same i want to see the fucking shard crackle the gold pour out and her to step out of the void and be right there baby and it's so dumb but god i wanted that i want that dopamine feeling of that character so badly what so am i weird that I really don't have stuff like that? Because I will say you dismiss my car and I get that car is utilitarian thing, but like

the car that I bought is completely frivolous and I've already spent like several thousand dollars on different upgrades for it as well. Like purely aesthetic upgrades that mean nothing that are for my own enjoyment. But outside of that, I don't have anything that I obsess about or covet or anything like that. I think what I, what I maybe was, was wanting is like, I want to know why that car's worth it. Because that's, that's what I think gets, the reason I brought this subject up is because I always find it fascinating that people look at the things that we talk about and like, I say, I talk about a hard drive and even if I can explain it, I explain it casually. Like I

can't explain the, the reason I would pay $4 thousand dollars for a hard drive is because of the pain that I went through to even get storage working for me and to know that the other options for storage of that magnitude at that speed is ten times that price if you go another route. So 4,000 is worth it because it not only I had to go through the trials and tribulations of it, but also it was by comparison. And then my personal motion, I guess what I'm waiting for is less about the money and more why personally it was worth it. Well, that's an easy answer for me. The car, and this is the thing too, I had a motorcycle in college and I feel the same way about both of these things. They make me look like an ass. They make me look like an absolute dickweed. Like, I, because in college, I had a motorcycle, right?

It was a 1978 Honda that I bought for $700 that barely worked. It was like a piece of crap. And I wore the nerdiest gear you could. I had a black Kevlar jacket and a black heavy helmet. And I didn't ride around in a t-shirt and jeans like some cool guy. I wore full body armor every time I rode it, even if I was only going 10 minutes. I looked like an absolute dweeb on that bike. And in my car, too.

It's a little blue sports car that 20-year-olds are supposed to drive. You wear full black Kevlar in your car? No, but I wear flapper and hats and I drive around with sunglasses on and the sunroof open with my NPR podcast playing on the stereo. I understand that anyone else who sees me driving it looks and is like, look at that sad fat guy driving that stupid Japanese sports car. But when I'm driving my subaru i feel like i'm driving a formula one car i don't give a shit what anyone else thinks about how i look

because i know i look like a moron and when i pull up and i drop james off at elementary school in my car that rumbles like like i like i didn't even do anything to the muffler but it's just a loud car right like it's that kind of car where i pull up and it's all and everyone around you is kind of like oh jesus please get hydraulics and heavy bass when you pull up you have npr like bass but when i drive it i feel cool it makes me feel the way that I want to feel. And when I put the paint match fenders on that I spent $1,200 on for a part on my car that was not broken, it was perfectly fine. It's just a different color than the part that came on the car.

There are people online in the community who are like, oh, that's a waste of money. It's stupid. It looks worse. I don't care. I did it because I think it looks better that way. And it makes me feel even cooler in my own head when I drive it. I put a carbon fiber knob on the stick shift, even though that doesn't mean anything and barely makes sense. Cause why does that need to be carbon fiber? And actually it's a lighter weight knob, which is not what you want. You want a heavier knob because that makes the shifting smoother. I like the way it

looks and it feels cool. Cause it means I get to touch carbon fiber when I drive my car. I understand that it's slow. I understand that it's bumpy and it's not comfortable. It's both slow and uncomfortable and pointless, but it makes me feel cool. God damn it. That's why I got the car. It's not even an expensive car. Like it's, it's a's a forty thousand dollar car which is a very expensive car if you're trying to buy one that's just like a to b like you could get a super cheap car that's perfectly good but it's not like it's a hundred thousand dollar car or a two hundred thousand it's a forty thousand dollar affordable compact japanese car that is known for being unreliable and blowing up engines after twenty thousand miles miles. Is it a 3000 GT?

I got it because it makes me feel cool. No, it's a Subaru WRX. They're notorious for... The boxer engine is notorious for basically being an unreliable piece of shit a lot of the times. I think it's because people don't take care of them and change the oil. But if you guys ever see me in my car, tell me if you think it makes me look bad, because I think it makes me look bad because i think it makes me look like an absolute moron but that's not why i got it and i don't care

because i like the way it feels when i'm driving it i'm just picturing you with like the i don't know if this meme still relevant don't you guys remember like whenever fnaf was like it's heyday and like fuck boys five nights at fuck boys came out and it was like freddy with the sunglasses and like the weed i picture you with like those sunglasses a backwards hat gold chains npr blasting and you're like hydraulicking your car to npr my car is a very like vape god car it's like subaru wrx drivers like vape a lot and you know play loud music and have loud exhaust like that's the thing i get where you're coming from though as a person who's only ever owned two cars and they were both sporty my first car was like an old relatively beat up mitsubishi 3000 gt your first car was awesome

looked amazing under the hood it was made of plastic and gum i'm pretty sure it was awful the thing broke down it cost so much to keep that thing fixed and running it was just of plastic and gum i'm pretty sure it was awful the thing broke down it cost so much to keep that thing fixed and running it was just a piece of shit and i tried to take good care of it no matter what i did something went horribly wrong all the time with that car but on the outside beautiful and there's no better feeling this is so dumb but i remember i was having a bad day and i went to wendy's and i was buying food I went through the drive-thru and the dude went to take my car and he was like, nice car, man. And I was like...

And my whole day turned around from that interaction. And I was like, it is a nice car and I am driving it. I'm amazing. Bow before me, mortals. Give me my nugs and pray to me your god did you get in that car accident right after that like you were driving home from that restaurant boom that wasn't that

wasn't even the car accident car his second car was the one that got destroyed by a semi no that was the car so the 3000 i was driving when i first met molly and i was um working and there was a day where i was driving home and i made a turn and i was like listening to music and like someone looked at me and i like gave him a look like yeah pretty cool car and i swear to god the moment i did that my car stalled and died and like it just came to a stop in a busy rush hour road right in front of like a walgreens and i had to get out and i was working at um cincinnati institute at the time so i was wearing like scrubs like black scrubs so i had to get out of my car and my scrubs and push it into the parking lot and call a tow company cool cool

cool so i remember that moment no it was my i had a scion frs was the one that got hit by a semi but i also got some like nice nice car, dude, cool car. And it happened like, what, maybe once every few months, somebody would make a comment. But those moments, it was like, yes, yes, they noticed, they see, they see me. I don't know, I'm an attention whore, so I love attention any way I can get it.

But someone complimenting your car just feels good. It's so dumb, but man, it feels good. It's like, i would rather someone compliment my car than me like wait you're looking great it's like shut the fuck up wait nice car dude i love you all right so bob i get it i relate to you then i'll say that it was my bad for trying to exclude cars in the first place because i sometimes forget that is it was minus 10 points all right i'll take 10 points off myself i love the power I have to remove points when someone else hosts. I don't know how that works, but it- I don't either, but

it always does. Do I have that power? Try. Uh, fuck you. So, I'm wrapping up this episode, and I was adding points, so I really actually in a stunning sweep! And I will say, like, I guess this was a nebulous subject. Uh,

I appreciate you guys trying your best for it. I apparently have obsessions that apparently people don't understand. But what I thought was going to open up more conversation because I didn't know about the Minolta's until it was told to me. So it's actually wasn't even my obsession or like I don't have an obsession with lenses. And that's why it was so fascinating hearing about the lens every step of this episode we've talked about so many different things and the only thing you ever relate to is these lenses you're like i'm not even obsessed with them i like other things we're like cars beanie babies boats memories you're like this lens man i don't love it but like i don't know lenses that's the

thing i don't know lenses and it was just one conversation that suddenly made me go that 120 000 set was worth it like it was worth the money because of what i was told from someone else do you own it are we getting like bob and i have one for christmas how many times have i said i don't own it is this actually being filmed on those lenses you don't own right now mark is ashton kutcher gonna step out is he filming us on those lenses i totally understand why people listening at home will assume so many random things because they'll hear me say the words like someone else is telling me about these lenses and i didn't buy them but they'll hear the words like i bought lens set so you just admitted it yeah you said it you said it your own self with your own mouth you talk weird

but i bought those lenses it's what you said i swear that's what people hear. Anyway, so I'm going to wrap it up. Today's big, big winner. Huge congratulations to... Now, the thing about the MC Real Course is that there's actually a few different varieties of it. Wade! Me? Yeah. I don't know why I'm so stunned, but I am.

Thank you. Yeah, you had 20 points exactly to Bob's 16 points. That's pretty good. How many of those were suck up points for when he... Five. Ah, he did get five not suck up points. Oh, okay. Interesting.

I guess if you were to hyperanalyze like that, even though I did give you 10 when I gave him those five. Sure, sure. You did get credit for an entire genre, Bob. Anything that I want that's associated with a memory, I apparently got you points. That was a pretty vague, you know, I feel pretty good about your amount of points from that

because that felt a little unfair at the time. Anytime anyone brings up memory, the word memory, it'll actually give Bob a point. So that's a rule from going here on out. That's the most ironic rule on this podcast. Someone in the subreddit is going to keep track and be pissed when we don't that guy is like right now he's like oh are they gonna actually fucking do that i guess i'll know all right we are gonna do this because bob you cannot spam memory

and say that you cannot capture our voice on your uh recorder and play it and convince us if you can play it and we don't catch it then maybe but I'm gonna go ahead and say that's against the rules you can't say it anytime I or Wade say the word memory or bring up a memory it has to give you a one

point but only one point per memory the word memory or bring up a memory okay perfect I've got that for later next episode is going to be called memories i'm going to host it it'll be a very fair episode we're talking about some of our favorite memories it's weird i don't have any i'll just let mark talk i guess interesting i i had amnesia 23 years ago. So you remember everything for the last 23 years? 35 years ago, I had amnesia.

Do you remember your whole life? I guess we've all had amnesia from before we were born. Can you forget what you never knew? Okay, alt-rock song from the 90s. Can't forget what I never knew. That I'd meant so much to you. That's Wade's winner's speech. Congratulations, Wade.

Bob, here's your loser's speech. I'm not going to sing it. I'm sad that I lost. I feel like Wade really stole a lot of topics from me. He really jumped in on mine, and I feel like I got given plenty of points, but somehow it was still unfair. Sad that you lost and Wade won, but this episode's almost done. Can he lose points for that still? Or is that...

Um, I can. How many do you want me to deduct? Two. Alright, two. Okay, sorry, but Wade, you lose two, but that still makes you win, so thank you everybody for listening. I would like to know if any of you have hyperfixations or just knowledge. It doesn't have to be a fixation

or an obsession, or it doesn't even have to be something you care about. You could have just an appreciation for it and be like, oh, I know that this thing is worth it. I know that the telescope in Chile is worth it. The money. And here's why. How many points would it have been worth if you asked me that? And I opened up my wall and I just had like a statue of you. And I'm like, Mark, you've always been my fixation.

Good thing this episode wasn't about fixations, was it? Keep guessing. You'll get there. It's been you all along, buddy. Anyway, thank you. If you have any knowledge at all out there, please provide it to us. So thank you. Have a good day.

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