Distractible - You Ever Feel A Feel?

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

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Wise Wade gets the gents to dig deeper than ever before. And Beaming Bob admits how Futurama helped his heart and soul to grow. From the meaning of inner space to the hell of immortality, yes, it's time for You Ever Feel a Feel? Now sit back and prepare to be distracted, and enjoy the show. distracted, and enjoy the show. Hello!

And welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I am today's host. This is Doubtfire. Hello! Hello, dude! I just wanted to throw you all off. I'm not going to join in on this. This is nonsense.

Hello! I come here for a serious podcasting experience and not to throw people off from the very beginning you think they're gonna go from the smooth dulcet tones of baltimore to i did it but i didn't know well put that right at the start oh it's mark's idea well extend the o perfect seamless fine you got me well welcome back welcome back how are you guys i'll describe the podcast in a minute we're already talking so good we're already talking oh man don't sound so disappointed about it i don't know why i'm doing this talking through my smile thing today but that's where i'm at apparently i'm great i believe you i'm much better now i was unhealthy last week yeah you okay yeah i am um i came down with a very mysterious illness that i didn't talk about at all uh it's a very

very very serious it can be it can be it can be if not caught early uh so same thing but be more mysterious one night i woke up with a shooting stabbing burning pain arcing down my arm spiraled up and bounced from the tips of my fingers up to my shoulder and then down my side i woke in agony screaming at the top of my lungs looking around the darkness of a room trying to perceive what demon could possibly be causing this pain at this hour of the night. I don't believe in illnesses. But I can't explain what I saw. Is that mysterious enough for you? You're making me sick, man.

We're just missing a quote the raven. Never more. And then I think we got it. Yes, yes, yes. And then came a knock, knock, knocking on my chamber door. Uh, shingles. I'm sorry, what? It came a knock, knock, knocking on my chamber door. Uh, shingles. Uh, I'm sorry, what? It came a knock, knock, knocking.

You opened the door. I just picture a roof just standing there. It's not shingles. I just, no. I mean, is it, isn't that like, doesn't that sound like something that's, oh, that's a funny, that's a funny illness. Yeah, it does. It has a silly name. That's just something that old people get

oh man it's those silly olds it's so hilarious those goofy elderly you know we here at distractible are not sponsored by us it's it's something that i actually when i was looking up what it was because i didn't even really know what shingles was was like it's it's prevalence amongst uh people uh below 50 is actually going up but uh it's it's a resurgence of chicken pox so if you got chicken pox as a kid bob you have frozen in a creepy smile i apparently it's my internet i i you guys have been in and it's fine it's fine uh so I got shingles and it's a resurgence of the chicken pox virus and at first I was like oh that's weird because it starts as nerve pain that's actually how I noticed it first and I was

very in tune and I got like Bob are you doing that on purpose? sorry sorry sorry just goofing around goofing around you were very still for me I was like man that was really good Drax would think he's invisible nerve pain nerve pain continue your hilarious illness so I had like nerve

pain down my arm just cause it's super weird the way the chicken pox virus lays dormant in your system is it's only on one side of your body so if you get shingles it will only affect one side of your body in terms of the physical like actually having a rash up here um but it's full body like tiredness and sickness um it was so bad like i couldn't sit at my computer and look at my computer screen i had to like lay on the couch like every once in a while it would come in waves so like an hour i'd

be fine and then an hour later i'd just be like i lay down and i don't do anything besides laying down right now so very strange and it lasted for like a week um and it can last for up to a month and it can cause extremely serious complications if you don't catch it early enough. Mandy actually had shingles when we were in undergrad and it was she had it on her back was where like the rash was and it was super painful because it was she couldn't like sit and lean against anything. Very, very painful.

And it lasted, I think, for almost a month for her. And it can make you go blind because it does affect your nerves. If you get it in your face area, it can like make you lose motor function in sensitive parts of your face or make you go blind. It's crazy. So funny thing about that, it actually spread to my eye. That's where it started to get serious. So one day after I first got the antivirals, you take those.

And then like the second day i noticed this weird burning in my eye and my right eye wasn't focusing correctly and so my whole head felt warm and i was like am i having a stroke or something this is this is weird and then um i went to the doctor and like yeah you got you you caught this really early man like and i was like thank you am i going to die i'm totally fine now yeah uh they they got me hooked up with all kinds of meds and then i took my entire round of antivirals and so yeah that's just a thing and it's apparently purely caused by stress which is such a weird disease where it's like just don't get too stressed or that can happen and it's that's what shingles is because

if you've had chicken pox i don't i don't know if you've had like the chicken pox vaccine i don't know if it can come up from there i think if you've been infected with chicken pox but i don't know if the vaccine works because it doesn't you don't have the same dormant stuff in your body if you don't i had the family that was like oh one of you has chicken pox let's introduce all of you to it so you get it out of the way so we had that happen when i was like four neat that was very much what happened to me that was you've got shingles in you yep yay so the damage could that have been permanent like to your eye if you hadn't treated it early enough with that oh yeah oh absolutely yeah that's permanent blindness or okay yeah it can cause permanent nerve damage and if it damages any around your

eye and whatever it can be really serious i think was i think david letterman had shingles pretty bad on his in his like face area that was a long time ago but it's like it could be pretty dangerous i'm trying really hard to be relaxed about this right now yeah just don't stress yeah we'll calm down wait god you really don't want to get stressed man that's like the worst thing to tell someone it's like don't stress about this or you might die it's like okay i'm calm i'm so calm i'll never stress about anything the more afraid you are of it the worse it's gonna be man calm down calm down yeah great man what happy times i'm glad you're good don't stress thanks i'm not i'm fine are you stressed i'm not stressed at all i hope not you look a little stressed around your uh your neck there on one side of your body it's like whenever you're like

freaking out about something someone's like oh just calm down it's like i feel less calm at being told to calm like i don't know just oh that works a hundred percent of the time for me that's all i need if i ever get if i ever start to freak out just look at me and be like hey calm down and i'm immediately just like oh shit okay yeah when people grab me by the shoulders and shake me really violently like calm down calm and slap you across the face yeah slap me yeah that really calms me right down i love sarcasm sarcasm i'm not being sarcastic that's you gotta be clear for some people out there that that actually just works for me i'm just that kind of person oh not me don't do that anywho uh mark good small talk you earned uh three that all my shingles suffering was worth it was worth three mark isn't that worth it you earned three it's like part of building a roof

with your shingles why is it called the same thing as roofing shingles? Because I always thought that maybe the rash looked like roofing shingle or something. It's because in English, there are what are known as homophones. The more you know. Or something. Yeah, that's pretty close. Yeah. Every time you guys stand still, I think you're freezing again.

Well, see, I can't do it because my background also uh also i've made i don't know why but i put in a moving light like a i i have a moving light literally right here on the edge of my so when i do that but if this is still glowy it's it it it's the same it yeah i was with my boar spear i wanted it to i wanted to have like an ominous glow to the boar spear why do your lights move it's a fire yeah it's like a little fire guy it's just a little warmth it used to be in a much better spot over here but your background's great too i love the gray no yeah it's very cool well it comes off please peeled out a square right in the middle of your background and leave it perfect don't put it back these command strips have done wonders they've held up for like six years man that's great man don't put it back don't don't do it

leave it back the wrong way oh yes i love that actually that's perfect and everyone that's not watching the podcast you're missing the most thrilling the most thrilling video content this is your punishment for oh he just he just ignored he put it back it didn't stick because the command strips i kind of forgot those are a crucial element holding it up it's not really in there good though like you can see it's crooked now the one next to it's a little it's a little crooked i don't know it's it's not as funny as it could have been bob great small talk have two my nothing was worth almost as much as your shingles mark hey i'll take it i'll take it out that's the hustle that's what the hustle is all about you know what mark have

an extra one because you gave me a day off last week thanks for that but what about my grind set wade i've got such a grind set that must be worth i don't know what that means but sure have two more but i'm wait a minute i'm getting that bread though oh it's true have one oh come on gamer don't take that bag for me oh you know what have six uh welcome to the podcast where one of us hosts and the other two compete for points i probably should mention that like an hour ago but uh we're here and uh today we've got a topic and i will tell them what it is by the way all the points i've given you out so far are worth nothing and they're eliminated as of now oh wow mark wow. Mark, your shingles is worth nothing. My shingles is worth nothing.

Your suffering is just for our enjoyment, you fool. I've spent the last however much time moving and it's been awful. Me too, except across the whole country instead of 15 minutes away. So shut up. Have you been moving? We currently are staging our house to sell it. Yes, we have a move date schedule over the next month and a half i will continuously be moving did you not see the chair

in my background this is to tell to sell the house people will look at the chair and be like oh cool a chair fits there i'm just gonna show empty house because i don't feel like putting in the effort to stage wow unbelievable yeah doesn't it cost money to buy stuff to stage a house we're staging it with our own furniture we're just like packing up and decluttering and then moving our own furniture around so that the room's oh mine's already gone so okay well yeah so you're done moving already and you're complaining about it still wow we have one bed and a couch left and so i could like just move those around to each room the kitchen is just a bed i mean

oh the dining room a bed family room a bed i do love that i think that would be i think you should do that for the photos you should just have the same bed and couch in every room and michael myers peering in from the back corner of the room i should hide elmo i should have elmo in every photo how many points do i get oh five all right mark you want any points wait are those valid points or are they are we have we have the points started has it happened yeah i actually typed these out so those counted mark you want some i would love some i suffered so greatly at the hands of shingles no you already got points and lost them for that. You can't get more points. That's double jeopardy. Oh, he's right. No, he's right.

I don't deserve any. Okay, zero. You got it. Now it's five to zero officially. Good call. I guess I'm supposed to tell you guys the topic. I figured we would talk about something that we've talked about, but we haven't talked about specifically this aspect of it.

We're all gamers here and playing through some games recently and watching some playthroughs of different games and stuff. I remembered like the feelings that certain games and characters from games and shows and movies and stuff can kind of like have. And I want to talk about some of like the biggest moments that like shows or characters and shows, movies, games, how they've impacted us, like how they've made you feel or changed you over the years. There was one, for example, for me, playing the game Summoner was like the first RPG I ever played.

It's a PS2 launch title. It was the first real RPG I ever really spent much time on that was like long, drawn out story. And there's like a big, spoilers, there's a big plot twist in the middle where you think like you're done with the game. If you're me, I was like,

oh my God, I'm finished with the game. And then you find out that instead of collecting four rings, they're supposed to be eight. And then like the main character's hand like burns off and he loses his power. And then he's like locked away. And your party's divided up and you take over just one character. And this character has to go and like reunite people and stuff. Bro, spoilers. Spoilers, man.

I said spoilers before it's fine she said she say spoiler you're allowed to spoil but the cut scene that happened and then the ensuing quest stuff like blew my mind i was like this is one of the most mind-blowing things i've ever experienced in game like it changed my perspective of what like gaming can be and it was just such a cool unique experience to have that and then like you know certain characters you go you meet throughout games the last of us last of us part two those are games that have still stuck with me emotionally over the years i just want to talk about things like that they don't have to be like sad or whatever just things that have like impacted your perception on either gaming shows movies or even life that have occurred in that kind of media oh man um it's heavy it takes a

moment if you guys need a moment to think about it like no no no no with his dumb topic i can think of some it's so easy to come up with things his his silly silly topics that he picks that we never take seriously how shall we ruin wade's day today bob you know if my topics are so bad why did you both rip me off for weird? Is this weird five? Is it time? There's nothing weird about this one. It's not weird Normal part one. Let us really embody the name of distractible and be distracted very normal part one i have one that's great go ahead sir oh okay all right i guess i'll go um so this one i i don't know why this affected me so much i may have alluded to this or mentioned it in the past but when mass effect 3 came out i was actually legitimately emotionally devastated and not for good reasons.

At this point, like Mass Effect had been was probably one of my favorite games of all time at this point. I don't think I could look back and say it still is, but I was so invested in it. I played Mass Effect one a ton and then I won Mass Effect two came out. That was the first game that I did a completionist run. I did everything you could possibly do in that game. I played every style. I played every quest. I got every DLC. And then after I was done with Mass Effect 2, I went back and did the same for Mass Effect 1 because I had fallen so much in love with it. And I completionist Mass Effect 1 for all of its like flaws, which definitely in the greater galactic exploration part of it was definitely

flawed and a lot of repeat stuff everywhere so you can imagine mass effect 3 i was so excited mass effect 3 was finally coming out it was going to conclude the story it was going to be so big there was going to be so many things and for the majority of me playing through it it was that experience it was everything i was just like oh you know the there's a this gif of like you know one of the the fucking meme faces just like at the couch like yeah yeah yeah that was is there a more anticipated sequel than mass effect 3 after two after two very few very few definitely and i was i was in it and then i got to the ending and it's never been such a calamitous shift in how I viewed a game than the ending of Mass Effect 3.

And I remember when I got to it and I had played it up and I think I didn't do something right and I didn't get the green ending unlocked. And I, when I got there and I had all that happen, and it was because, I don't know why it was like it was an ending and it's it's not so much that I I was worried spoilers about Shepard sacrificing himself or dying or whatever that's I was I expected that it was just how bitter and unsatisfying it felt I remember watching through the credits and just kind of crying I think i actually cried because i'm like this is not what it should be this is not no no like no after all this this is what it is yeah no i was in tears put context around it they did a patch like however long later to like change it up a little bit but the

original thing was literally like the entire point of the mass effect trilogy most of you probably know this some of you that aren't gamers, maybe not, is it's all about choice and your choices impacting the story. The first game's choices impacting the second game, those choices impacting the third game. And it's all about all of these things that you do, the companions you make and lose along the way, getting to the end.

And the end of Mass Effect 3 spat on all of that. It threw out all of your companion stuff out of the out the window none of that mattered and then you were presented with like three non-choices i think it was three three or four non-choices really and it was like do you do one of these things which one great this is how he dies uh this probably happens the end and it is it's like so that thing i did didn't none of nothing made any difference? I get that there couldn't be 10 million endings, but it was so...

There's your companions! Here's a quick shot. They're over there by the ship. Alright, credits roll! And it's like, that was my love interest, and that was my buddy, and I am still a believer, to this day, in the indoctrination theory i am still that was

the best theory to come from it and that's what i'm like if that's so clearly what they were going for the visions for shepherd threat wait what is that you don't know about the indoctrinate oh man i'm not i played mass effect but i'm not like a huge fan or anything so i remember being really disappointed in the ending not to the extent you were but i don't know what the indoctrination theory the indoctrination theory to give it in broad strokes is the idea that shepherd up until this point had been so in contact with the reapers he was rebuilt in mass effect 2 with reaper tech um that he had been exposed to it so much and the entire series has showcased that any character any character in the game that gets too close to the reapers for too long starts to be controlled by them it literally

rebuilds them from the inside out um just by being near them uh and shepherd had been near them for so long had been fighting them and in mass effect 3 it showcased he was having visions nightmares he was getting paranoid the whole whole world, like the stress. Yeah, I got shingles from stress. He probably got super Reaper shingles. Space shingles. Reaper shingles. And then, so he, the theory was that throughout the game,

he was actually being influenced by the Reapers and that the ending was something where he was being subconsciously affected by it and his judgment was being thrown off and him communicating with the so-called star child whatever that was called was just another way for the reapers to try to convince shepherd to get on their side because that's what happens to all of these uh people that get indoctrinated they eventually get convinced that helping the reapers is the right move they think they're destroying the reapers but they're really just playing into their hands and so the only canon ending is the destroy ending because that's the

only one that actually has the original intended goal which is to destroy the reapers because there is no goodness in this synthesis is not the correct thing because that is just what the reapers wanted it wanted everyone to be synthesized into uh reaper tech that is what the reapers wanted it wanted everyone to be synthesized into uh reaper tech that is what the reapers want um the whole other one whatever the blue one i never did the blue one that was dumb uh it was what control uh blend destroy but destroy was the only one that was correct and the only one that had a cut scene where shepherd took a breath afterwards and survived. And so even with him and Anderson and somehow getting up to the Citadel with all of this, it didn't make any sense

unless you think of it from the indoctrination angle. And so I am still, to this day, a big believer in the indoctrination theory. Mass Effect 3 gets a bad rap because of the ending. It was a good game up until- It really was. I loved a lot of the things they did for the gameplay I liked a lot of the

It was very rich, very deep Even though I knew that they couldn't do everything Because obviously it would take so much to wrap up everything perfectly And I knew there was always going to be concessions But at the same time It just felt so wrong And it felt so cheap Considering there was this brilliant Brilliant twist they could have had with the indoctrination angle if they had gone more into in depth with this, because it was always going to be like a hopeless struggle.

No race had ever succeeded against the the Reapers up until this point. And it's like, man, it could have been it could have been something really like the last hour of the game. It's like maybe not even an hour. It might even be shorter than that. But it was a whole lot of like awesomeness. And then you get to like Mass Effect 2 is still probably one of the best games of all time. Yeah, I love that game. But I can't go back and play.

It's like with, you know, Game of Thrones is like the ending got tainted. I like the whole rest of it. I got the legendary edition. I started playing through it. I was just like, my heart's not in it because I know where this how this journey ends that being said there is another mass effect in the works and i am getting a little bit excited about it i am i am i am cautiously excited about andromeda i didn't get into because i was still left over and i couldn't get into this new character it wasn't as bad as the its reputation it was fine the gameplay was fine

but it's like i couldn't get into the characters. It was like just because, yeah, that was it. Mass Effect, that's a good one. That's one I should have thought of, but I didn't put on my list. Bob, have you got a moment, a character, a show, something? I do. It is not a video game. It is from a show.

One of my favorite TV series in existence. And it's a character, but it's also sort of just an episode i am a huge futurama fan i have watched the entire futurama series end to end all of the uh mid cancellation you know like mega episode type things that they did and like i love it i generally love all of futurama everything that it has to offer i'm genuinely excited for the reboot that is coming from hulu potentially it's it's yeah it's not like it's like the original cast right they they locked down there was some trouble we talked about this i think they were having trouble getting john dimaggio the voice of bender well the voice of like everybody isn't isn't he well yeah i mean he was one of the guys who filled he did a lot of voices on the show for like background

we did talk about this because i thought they tried to recast him right and people were very upset about it well yeah he he asked he he had some asks or he asked for more money because he's bender and it's kind of a core component of the show and they were trying not to pay him and i think they ended up agreeing to something but yeah like i have a huge futurama fan but there's one episode that literally if i hear the first notes of the song that's sort of like the the end song of the episode or even if i see the beginning of the episode which is unrelated to the part it makes me sad to the point where i i like start crying uncontrollably to the point where right now, just to think about it, to remember it, to tell you guys about it, I'm holding it

in because it is one of the most, for me, for whatever reason, personally impactful things I've ever seen. And it is the episode of Futurama where it starts with them going to a museum of 21st century or 20th century artifacts or whatever. Fry's dog is petrified and is in the museum. His dog's name is Seymour and the

episode is sort of like a partial flashback. Fry is trying to get his dog back and there's a whole thing but it shows their relationship and it shows what happens at the actual start of the tv show futurama is in the year 2000 fry is accidentally maybe not accidentally frozen and sent a thousand years into the future and that's why where he is during the tv show is the year 3000 and forward jurassic bark might be the name of it i think that sounds right but

anyway his they show his dog and the when fry gets frozen there's a scene where seymour just like lays outside the pizzeria where fry works and waits for him and there's a song that plays called i will wait for you by connie francis um it's gonna make me cry i was gonna read the lyrics but i can't look it up it's a very sweet song it's like an old song so it's not it's not the song itself but it's the whole episode it's the the you know it's it's a oh man that is and it's so sad because uh you you heard that like the original one was going the original idea was going to be his mom was actually like there and

honestly I think like Jurassic Park was sadder because of how it did but then they did an episode with his mom later and then they did an episode with his brother and it's like there's so many moments in Futurama that had like just like man just so sad and heartfelt yeah no the one with his mom too that one gets me too that so

Futurama if you don't know it you should absolutely check it out it's ridiculous yeah it's like it's in the same vein of shows as like the Simpsons Family Guy it's an animated show it's not at all the same kind of humor they're actually their humor is incredibly smart and and like hilariously deep a lot of the time there's there's a language they invented for the show and they have like phds people who have phds in like math and science check the math and science stuff that they do on the show it's all nonsense but it's all like kind of true or kind of accurate or whatever like it's very funny very smart but that the the seymour episode is the one that hits me the hardest but the one with his mom where they're exploring his dreams is also just like it is one of them futurama is simultaneously

the stupidest show one of the stupidest shows in like a funny way that i appreciate i've ever watched and one of the shows that has most effectively emotionally just destroys me on certain episodes and it's i think that is crazy because i'm i've never been like a snob or it's like oh well animated shows are just for kids we've talked about that before like i think animated shows are very legitimate and i think they could do a lot of serious stuff and have very serious themes but also be silly but the way futurama did that and like the one of the I think it's the last episode with the time travel button yeah where Fry's waiting for Leela on the top of the vampire state building there's a time travel loop where he's falling off the building to his death like this there are just

so many moments in that show that are like emotionally so poignant and just absolutely stabbed me right in the heart that was the beginning of like some of my emotional development as an adult because I would watch that show and it would make me so sad and feel so strongly about things that I was like, whoa, what is this? Nothing has made me feel quite this way. And this is a stupid animated show that airs Sunday nights on Fox right after The Simpsons.

Like it's just I think it's an interesting piece of like it's absolutely brilliant storytelling wrapped in a really stupid, really dumbed, you know, rapper of lowbrow animated humor type stuff. Yeah, I completely agree with that. And actually, it's that final episode about the idea of like, let's go around and do it again because it was worth doing it again. That was one of the inspirations for the way I designed in space with Markiplier to be a constant loop that you can experience again. And the only idea is like a meta analysis of like watching content in general. The only idea to truly escape the loop is to say goodbye to the show in general, because that's what people do when they're done watching but the idea with the space was like you choose when you're done watching and it's like if

it's good enough and you want to do it again you can go through it again and it's like that's the idea behind it it was also supposed to offer an antithesis and a a cleanser a palette cleanser to unis honest which was like things also end when you don't want them to right so space was in a way intended to be a thing where it's like no you can choose when you end it i could totally see that and that's very interesting because yeah that that at the end of that episode where fry and lila have lived their whole lives and then they the professor shows up or whatever and i forget i think lila says it right she looks at him and she just goes you want to go around again yeah and then it's just like a hard reset on everything which is fascinating because the show is coming

back. They're making more episodes of it, right? And that's how the series ended. So I'm hoping they start back at the year 3000 and it's like a whole reboot where it's literally just continuing in that timeline where they go around again, but who knows? Yeah. I mean, that show and the writing and the storytelling in general, it's just like, it has taught me a lot about emotions and processing stuff and the complexities of life, even though it's an absolutely silly nonsense show.

I feel like those kinds of shows, though, whenever they do make an emotional impact, they're even bigger because you're not expecting it. It's not like a drama where it's always tugging at you and like, oh, what's going to happen now? It's like a silly show that starts to take itself seriously in those moments. It's like it makes you take it that much more seriously, if that makes sense. It's a really, really good one. And there's a lot of shows like that. And it's one of those shows that kind of I love the idea that the show can be anything. The show is just a vehicle for a story and a story can have anything. It could be incredibly stupid. And a lot of my things are incredibly stupid, but also like incredibly incredibly meaningful so it's like in a weird way even i i knew that it was inspired a little bit by futurama but i think like in space mark blower is also very much inspired by the way

that futurama tells stories and that is extremely silly at times and extremely ridiculous and then extremely serious and because that's what the story demands and it's like the story above all else and the vehicle for the story is something else i got a couple i won't go too deep into them just for the sake of time but there's an episode of star trek next generation i think it's called the inner light where they find like i think it's like a box out in space or something and picard finds like a device a flute or something i forget exactly how it happens but he ends up on a planet that's basically dying and he lives out like an entire lifetime as a member of this planet.

But it's like part of some kind of like fancy simulation thing they have, but it's like this emotional journey of him, like growing up, having a family and all this other stuff happening. And then like at the end of it, when the simulation ends, he comes back to, but he has like this lifetime of memories of living on the planet.

That was one that stuck with me. This one, I don't want to go too deep into because it's still relatively new. I don't want to spoil things. But The Last of Us show, they changed up things from the game to some extent. The third episode, I think it is, or one of the earlier episodes of The Last of Us show. Like it was such a 180 departure from what I was expecting. The Bill episode, right? The Bill and Kevin.

Long, long time. I think it's called. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Bill episode was so different than any expectation I ever could have had. And it's probably one of the best episodes of any show I've ever seen in my lifetime. I don't want to go too deep because it's still relatively new.

Like I said, not if you both have watched it, but it's worth the whole series is worth watching. But I have to agree that episode is one where the theme of the episode is very dramatic like you said some things are meant that way and like the show is dramatic right it's post-apocalyptic sort of thing but that episode is very beautiful the the way the story is told and the way everything lays out and the the moment that happens later in the series that ties back to that episode to where Joel and Ellie visit that location to try not to spoil too much. It's just like brings it all back very poignantly. I 100% agree.

It's a fantastic episode. That's one. I don't watch a lot of reaction type content. That's one. I went and I watched everyone who reacted to it just to see. Like, I don't know. I had to. I was like, don't know i i had to i was like i must know i must share the pain with someone else please someone else watch this

but wait that's piracy no it's it's transformative content you're goddamn right it is yeah legally projected fair use it's it's excellent, excellent television. I highly recommend. I'd love to talk about it more, but again, it was... But it's not your episode. We're the contestants here, and we decide what our emotional responses are. Not you. That's true.

There was a... I don't know why. And you guys know that I like Frostpunk. You guys know this, right? Yeah. Do you know how many hours I have put into that game? I can't imagine because even games that you only kind of like, you will sometimes put hundreds of hours in over the course of a couple of weeks.

Yeah. So if you add up like the gameplay just to beat it once for Frostpunk, even with all the DLC, it's like maybe 10 hours to if you because you got to learn it and you got to get better at it and you know if you want to play a couple hard modes i've put 423 hours into frostpunk three hours too many but go on and i really really fell in love with the despair and i don't why, but I got so incredibly addicted to the feeling of desperation that it brings about. And so what caused me to spend so much time with it is that I had to play every scenario at the absolute hardest difficulty with no deaths. I made it

through every single scenario of every single challenge at the hardest level, and no one died because that's for some reason I set that as my goal. I would make it. And for some of them, it's really difficult. There are like planned deaths in certain scenarios, but there are workarounds for almost every single one of those. But you have to do it in really specific ways. And I got obscenely good at the game like absurdly good at the micromanagement and uh it's just because i love a game whose soundtrack whose theming whose like uh stylization even in the the user interface of it was just it oozes despair it oozes one note of a feeling and i am a very feeling based like creator i i make my

projects with the idea that there is a specific feeling that i want people to have an experience when they when they watch it um and this game is just like such a good example of what hits that one feeling and i respect the hell out of one like that's why doom is such a good game because it it when the remake came out and it really embodied one feeling of you're not locked in hell hell is locked in with you and that feeling of badassness like it really really comes through in that game but for this one it's like you are up against nature and there is no more powerful enemy than nature and it's trying to kill you at every turn that but it's that feeling and this it is the music it's the music it's the sound it's the theming it's the interface it's everything it's the way the ice and you hear the crackling the deep rumbling the sound effect and so much that

so many people don't understand is it's not just like the writing has to be great that's a good part of it but in all honesty like the writing of frostbunk isn't like it's super strong see it's great and it's it's terrible and everything happens but it's the sound it's the music it's the emotions that come through in every note of it in every little detail of it it's the attention to detail and that's oh man it's something you can't teach oh that's fair i i think a big reason why that last of us episode is part of the music and stuff that they use and that is just like so good yeah it's just right. And when it's right, it's it's something you can't you can't physically like write in words the description of exactly why it is. I couldn't even talk about in the right way.

It's something that when you feel it, you know, it's right. And that's how I kind of guide myself in the content that I make is like when I feel it, when I feel the feeling that I want to feel and I watch it back and it's like okay that's giving that feeling that's how i know it's right bob you got another uh i do this one this one is old i saw this for the first time when i was like maybe middle school i want to say uh and the song so it's a song and it's an animation to a song and it's a little cliche. So I'm, I was a white kid in suburbia growing up. So the song is creep by radio head, which I think a lot of, you know,

a lot of people who are like me probably relate to. And like, I like the song. I like radio head, especially when I was younger, but there specifically is this animation. It's a flash animation. I think it's called low morale and I don't remember who made it. It animation it's a flash animation i think it's called low morale and i

don't remember who made it it's it's i found it on a youtube channel called buscues me um but i i don't know if this is a re-upload or what i i'm in my quick searching while you guys were talking about mark's thing i i couldn't find for sure what is like the original one but it's a flash animation and it's not a particularly complex visual it's sort of a concept from beginning to end of the song the first time i saw this animation to this song which i already knew the song and i like the song it made it has such a visceral emotional response for me and like the animation is basically mostly this guy standing and like a scene develops around him very slowly like an office things fill in people fill in and it goes

it eventually like the outside wall of the building fills in and it he moves at some point and then everything fades away as the song ends i don don't know. I can't even today put exactly what it is into words. But this was one of the first things I ever saw where it was. I've always been emotionally most attracted to like music. I've been a musician and like music is one of the strongest things for me that can trigger responses, emotional responses. But this was the first time I saw a song i knew with a new visual that like changed how i felt about the song and it's still in a way i can't have struggled to

describe it still like speaks to me very clearly it has a very concise message and it makes me feel like just real despair like in a way that I haven't really experienced in my own life. It's not something where I'm drawing on like some event that I am sad about, but it makes me feel super, like just pure despair is the way I would describe it in a very emotionally pure sort of way. And it's worth watching.'s four minutes 22 seconds it's i think it's basically as long as the song is and if you don't know the song creep by radiohead it's

a it's kind of a sad emotional song to begin with but just this i first encountered it in like rock band or guitar hero i think and yeah that was one of the ones that stuck out when i was playing i remember because the best music and stuff is the one that you emotionally attach to for whatever reason yeah well it's just this relatively like simple concept and simply done animation added so much to the song and it it it's not it doesn't connect to my life it i have no personal connection to the lyrics or the animation but it was it's one of those things where it has stuck with me i saw this probably in like 2001 or something the first time and i think about it a lot it comes up a lot whenever i think about radiohead whenever i think about flash animation this is one of the things that like defines a successful execution of something that's just very emotional and raw and engaging to me yeah i'd say

that like it's it's so it's so, it's so funny because I remember in the new grounds day, um, there were so many little flash animations that you would watch and it was just a pure showcase of individuals creating something. And I think like even before YouTube was there, that was like my first experience with people being able to make some things. And there were some really, really profound experiences that you would get out of those creations. I can't think of too many specifically off the top of my head because most of what I was watching was like supposed to be funny or silly. But there were definitely moments when things just like hit me really, really, really impacted me in terms of a beautiful art standpoint. And I wish that I could think of some like super specific example the

only one that comes up is is actually a scary one um because it's that game that i can never remember what it was called but i i talk about you know not a lot but on occasion where it was something based off of the idea that the rapture happened it adds like some religious theming to it but it's like it was the end of the world. And now if you were stuck on Earth, you couldn't die ever. And it was like the concept at the beginning of the game was like, oh, it's just like a little point and click puzzle adventure. But towards the end of it, you realize just how horrible it was when you had like people around you that had died that you thought were dead, dead. dead um but then you come back and there's a pile of meat on the ground and it's just quivering and it's like and you're like wait a minute oh you can't oh god so and then there's like different things and towards the end of it you have like i don't know a friend or a boyfriend i can't remember what he played like a female character and then and then you shoot them because they're suffering and even after you shoot them in the head they are still moving and twitching and still alive.

And it was so horrific that it stuck with... I still remember it to this day. And I played it so long ago. And I can't remember what the name of it was. But I remember so many parts of that game. Like I can recall it specifically. Certain frames like the stupid RC minigame trying to navigate this minefield that was for some reason there to get some item that you needed for some other thing i remember the ending frames i remember the quivering piles of

meat outside of some industrial comp it's like it's stuck in my brain it impacted so hard and i can't remember the name i guess they should have worked the name in more should have had more characters saying the name yeah maybe it was for some reason i think it was based on like uh stephen king's like the fog or something like that or the mist or something you could see that stephen king was pretty creepy that guy pretty creepy yeah he's a creepy guy yeah creepy guy bill scars guard is it is so good his lip control i wish i wish i had the muscle control in my face like jim carrey and uh and scars guard man the way

they can control facial muscle muscles I'm so jealous of that I want to go I want to like trace where this train of thought is going through Wade's head I want to trace how creepy to talented because that they can do creepy things because they're so talented and it's just such a creepy thing like being able to manipulate yourself that way and be that creepy go back one more i'll connect back connect and that's why the stephen king's the movies and books maybe inspired creepy things like the game you were talking about connect connects 10 points to me i just want to point that none of the things that you tangented to three times i didn't say any of them it was like you i just marveled at the fact that you bounced you like a creepy to stephen king to it to bill to bill scars to it and then to jim carrey you did the stephen king you said stephen king's the fog

no yeah you said stephen king yeah i did that's true that's true five more points to me and then you said stephen king was creepy and then went, other creepy people are Bill Skarsgård. It, Jim Carrey, facial expressions. He's so good. Well, it is a Jim, Jim Carrey. It is a Stephen King. It's a Jim Carrey book, right? No, no, you're weird.

You're weird. Got it, Mark. Good one. All right, well, I'm going to wrap this up unless you guys have any final ones you want to mention before we do. I guess it just strikes me that all my stuff i'm thinking of is all sad it's all like painful sad those stick with you maybe i have that thing where i'm you know i'm a privileged kid who grew up with no serious strife and so i'm a i'm attracted to stuff where it's like oh yeah i

feel that's pain i feel that. That's real pain. I don't know. But like, I don't have happy stuff. This is true pain. This is not as big of a deal. There is a song that literally got me through law school where I would put it on on my drive from school back to home and like sing. It has no words.

It's an instrumental. It's called, it's a song. It's called VIP by Youngblood Brass Band. But I would literally sing along every note of it and cry it out on my way home from law school. And then by the time I got home, I was like, oh, okay, I can do this. But it's just the happiest song ever. You need a joyful song, VIP by Youngblood Brass Band. But I do have happy ones.

Plifts of Doveric johnson is one of those songs where i can just listen to it like uplifts me and it's like by the end of i'm like okay i'm feeling better rock band ruined that for me but yes i love playing on rock band what do you mean ruined it that was my favorite i played it too many times on rock band whenever i no that's jessica is that jessica i think i don't know if i don't remember that particular they all blend together. Rock band ruins so much stuff for me. It all blends together.

What's the other one? It was the one that was like. Oh, yeah. No, yeah. Too much rock band or guitar hero, whatever game that was in. Yeah. I think sad stuff sticks with us a lot. I internalized a lot of emotions growing up, like losing my dad and such. Like a lot of that stuff was Yeah, I think sad stuff sticks with us a lot. I internalize a lot of emotions

growing up, like losing my dad and such like a lot of that stuff which is a internalized it. It's like my family was going through a hard time and I felt like I would be strong enough to deal with it and help them get through it rather than

worrying about myself. And I think whenever you encounter sad shows or songs or things, that's like a moment where it's like I finally let it out, which is probably why they stick with me some because a lot of the things

that I think of are also like sad or usually sad or despair type moments too any more final examples before i wrap this puppy up no no that's all the good art in the world i think we covered it we covered all of the best moment man worst moments toughest that's the only those are the only good arts okay we got we touched on all the important ones i'm sure i i can't wait to see what people say i'm curious what examples they'll have that we didn't mention i'm sure we'll think of more later i know i post your post your stuff at the subreddit i want to go through and watch everything that people post because i'm sure at least some of it i will appreciate and yeah what has touched your soul give me the content um you go to a museum it's like i want your best content give me the content. You go to a museum and it's like, I want your best content.

Give me your content. What kind of content have you got here? Well, sir, we actually do have the Picasso exhibit on right now. Is that good content? What's this drama? What kind of horrible things has he done? I can't enjoy a content creator like Picasso unless I know their history. A content creator. Dude, DaVinci is my favorite content creator like Picasso unless I know I know their history a content creator

dude DaVinci is my favorite content creator god telling content creators knew what's up man dang you know I'm adding up the points here and it looks like Mark has one more point than Bob and it's golf score so Bob

wins was it the shingles coin flip no coin flips we've banned coin flips they are no longer valid mark has to take his boar spear and throw it straight up in the air and if he can survive he wins uh well there's not much air to go up and i also disagree not my problem i don't want to most emotionally impactful distractible watching markiplier swallow a spear I say no all right whatever well mark wins mark you winterspeech sounds sad what god damn it mark one I'm sad any time that I don't win I have to give it over to one of you you, well, all right, I guess. I love you, and I love me, and all of us make the distractible three,

and we won't be beat ever in the street, because people love the size of our meat. Eat your meat everyone yay Bob you have a loser speech do they have to rhyme or you get bonus points if it rhymes it feels so sad to be a loser but you know what they say

beggars scampi choosers maybe someday I'll redeem myself but for now I shall put my mind upon the shelf. I could never match Mark's wit and charm, and also his ability to commit bodily harm. I concede this victory. He earned it indeed. And now I retreat on my trusty steed.

Man, we're on fire today. 16 bonus points, but you still lose. I win! I was only down by one! How many bonus points were there? Bonus points that are worth basically nothing, but they're here for moral support. Well, that's a moral victory for Bob! Very

valid. Very valid. Thank you all for being here for the journey. If you haven't already go follow mark markiplier bob my skirm i'm wade lord minion 777 or minion 777 store.distractablepodcast.com there's at least one thing in stock confirmed huh okay well there you go and i guess stay tuned for the next one remarkable host until, podcast out.