Distractible - You Member?

Episode Date: January 9, 2023

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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractible, a Wood Elf production. This week, we congratulate Bob on the arrival of his son, James. Mark denies being pregnant, admits his second memory was of a pantsless birthday,

and reveals his incarceration for 20 days. Bob discovers the poop capacity of a mini- birthday and reveals his incarceration for 20 days. Bob discovers the poop capacity of a mini-me and thinks neurologists are wizards breaching boundaries. Ever left field Wade invents baby condoms,

denies premeditated plagiarism, and had a slice of brain on his mantelpiece. From silent passengers and dirty books to scary dicks. Yes. It's time for You Remember? Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

Hello, gentle listeners, and welcome to another episode of Distractible. I was going to say the first episode of the new year but that's not even true because today is like what is the date that yeah i knew it i knew it yes good job unless i know that that is today today is the and we recorded this episode on monday even though it released sunday at like 11 p.m it's uh fixed it in pre so we've never been this specific about the date before i don't know why we should start now wait this episode came out before we recorded it yep simulcast i don't know i love technology just bleep out all the date stuff and let them guess when we think today is and then they'll know oh no anyway welcome to

distractible uh it's been a minute since i've hosted an episode or maybe it hasn't i don't remember that was last year i can't remember either yeah that was like a whole year ago or whatever yeah i'm just confused i don't know what's real anymore uh if there's one thing we know for sure it's that neither mark nor myself will be moving back to ohio ever ever ever ever that is true that is 100 yeah i really missed you guys too we got that all sorted out before we started recording um but yeah hey what's up guys happy new year this is sort of the first not to spoil the illusion but this is sort of the first time we've talked in the new year i know there was an episode last week talking about the new

year but that was but we recorded that before sorry how is your how's your new year how is 2023 for you so far best year of your life everything going plan oh man i don't even know what the best year of my life would be that could be a whole episode by itself what was the best year of your life man everyone in your life really gonna be holding their breath on that one well it had nothing to do with them so yeah what are they getting upset about oh i'm texting molly right now oh yeah that oh oh yeah that whole wife thing oh god interesting i see i was even thinking about those years as the best years of my life it's hard yeah how could i pick one whenever every year with molly's the best year of my life oh yeah that's believable i'll go prepare the dog house

our our new year was early we hit the eastern time zone new year at at 9 p.m and looked at each other while one of us was probably holding the baby looking exhausted and the other one was half asleep and we're like happy new year it's bedtime you got a baby oh yeah that's right also there's a baby wow his name is james james i don't have to call him baby anymore he has a name now legally james that's a good name man what would you think if i said it wasn't a good name oh does james pay his taxes yet do you know tax season's only three months away little james listen daddy takes care of the taxes okay james doesn't have to worry about that james having a baby to pay your taxes for you and stuff?

I don't know what you've heard about babies, but no. No, don't even entertain him about this one. No, straight up no. I thought they change your diapers when they get old enough to get out of their own, and they pay your taxes for you, and I don't know, work so you can retire? All right, so you had the critical ideas of old enough on their own, but what is that age that you think it is? After they emerge? You think that of old enough on their own, but what is that age that you think it is? After they emerge?

You think that's old enough on their own? What's it called? The emergence. Emergening. That's why it's the emergency room. They got all these pregnant ladies, so they're doing their emergencings in the emergency room. I get it now.

Medical jargon is so lost on me. It's a stressful situation, childbirth. You have no idea what's going on, so it's understandable. So you used the birth detectors and you found that you're not in fact still pregnant? It's just the one? Are you talking to me or Bob? I'm almost pretty sure I'm not pregnant. Mark, do you have any birth detectors in your house? Birth detectors? Are you talking to me or Bob? I'm almost pretty sure I'm not pregnant.

Mark, do you have any birth detectors in your house? Birth detectors? I didn't replace the batteries on those. I knew that beeping was weird. Wasn't that on this show that I said birth detector? Was that a different thing? I don't recognize it, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen here. I like the idea of one of us is just recording like usual. I did the background.

You just hear that chirp, like the smoke detector chirp just like ah shit that birth i didn't change the battery in the birth detector damn it let me chirp it all day now i hate waking up to birth drills uh they're going out of my apartment you're in school you have to do your birth drill ah man third grade what a year i remember all the birth drills that'll be prepared for that this is weird yeah so we have a baby now babies are exhausting and cute but the main thing about them is poop i gotta be honest yeah is there a lot of it constant you know i don't even have a thing to compare it to you know if there was something you had to do every hour and a half 24 hours a day every day no matter what was happening it's that that's diapers how

does a human even a small one poop that often i poop like maybe twice a day every hour and a half there's poop i mean that's maybe an exaggeration it feels like every 10 minutes every 10 minutes there's poop that's canon every time you pick up the baby you have to look and the diapers have a magical strip on the outside that tell you if it's wet in there or not how does it do that if the strip is blue you gotta go peel that bad boy open and go through the whole process. You know how boys have penises. When you're a baby, it's sort of always aimed in the same direction because it's, you know,

you're a baby, you're growing. And that direction when they're on their back to change a diaper is up towards my face. And he thinks it's just the coolest thing ever to pee when there's no diaper on because then you can see what kind of range you can get on it and the minimum distance is my face maximum has yet to be discovered i hope you guys figure it out let us know what the record is dude change the baby upside down stupid come on oh i gotta get one of those baby swings where you hag them face down over a bucket and then you do the change why haven't they invented like a baby urine condom i'm sorry i'm gonna retract the statement the moment it came out of my mouth

well you know i was thinking about doing a whole episode where i told the story of james's birth and all the tribulations of that. But you reminded me just now why maybe I shouldn't talk about him around you. Uh-huh. Baby urine condom. You know, something to protect you from the baby. It's like an adult urine condom except for babies. protect you from the baby it's like an adult urine condom except for babies it's some kind of fabric or cloth that you put around the waist of the baby and covers the entire you'd think they'd

have some idea like when i became an uncle my very first nephew when he was born i was only like 10 years old and i remember my older brother going to change his diaper and like the moment you open the diaper and like for some reason when you're at least a baby boy and your nether regions are exposed to like cooler air, you just piss. And I remember him just like the fucking line of urine just like a fire hose gone awry. And my brother and the chair he was sitting on, which was my grandpa's favorite chair getting covered in that line of pee it's a rite of passage yeah you want to rear a baby man uh you have to you have to duel with the onslaught of piss and for everyone at home that is the correct usage of the word rear just so you know i thought you were about to question my use of onslaught but that's the correct use of piss onslaught the of many correct words were said

good words good words some sweet words coming out of my mouth less good words from wade but overall our record is good what do you mean i live in the midwest mine's good words here anyway look we're kind of getting off topic here how much have you been pissed on in 2023 that's the question we're all dying to hear the answer by babies or by like anyone any p zero be on yourself zero p no no drips no drips perfect record every time no accidental split streams uh self p um self p probably at least once wait 2023 nuns 2022 oh man i can't remember 2022 probably a couple times between dogs and myself you know we're getting older oh we are getting older that's a good point which brings me to the topic for today. Getting older? Yeah, no, we're getting older. That's the topic.

Usually I say what I'm about to say at the beginning of an episode when I host, but I forgot. So I'll just say that if you're new here, we don't exclusively talk about babies and how they like to pee on you. Normally what we do is a sort of like a show with like a game to it. Some kind of like gamey show. Hopefully there's a word for that i am the host which means that i uh won the last episode hooray for me right and that means that i get to be the host judge jury and executioner today while my friends mark and wade compete to earn points in a game of my own invention unluckily for them the points are made up and literally could not matter less

when i am the host but still we have points and uh the topic for today lads it's not technically that we're getting older but it is memory oh god ah yeah we're my worst attribute and i don't mean computer stuff ram or hard drives or whatever i mean human memory okay specifically there was an incident recently where one of us not me uh repeated a topic that we are well i think it was wayne who was host i don't remember that there's no topic for the episode we had already talked about before no no it was very different it was uh bad habits versus the worst habits it was not good bad habits no it's good bad habits yeah that was it it wasn't just bad habits good bad see i didn't remember what

they were wasn't bad it was good habits they were bad yeah it was like bad habits but they were nice guys yep no the subreddit was very clear wade we already talked about that topic okay and i know we hadn't talked about all of that it was different uh-huh yeah i know we're getting older okay and our memory is starting to go and this isn't what i want to talk about for the whole episode but do you guys know how human brain memory works do you have any like ideas about this do you i mean i don't but i look have you discovered something new i don't know how any memory works i looked up some information about how you know medical scientists and researchers think it works currently but i'm just curious do you guys know anything or have any like even if it's a totally

made-up theory about how our brains store specific memories like they're like they're little video clips or something ah does it mesmerize you as much as it does me i don't know off the top of my head any kind of specifics i know it has something to do with establishing neural pathways the hippocampus uh short-term long-term memories neurotransmitters buzzwords yeah i love buzzwords i don't think about these things too i have this weird thing i I just weird attribute where I feel like if I think about my heart beating like I'll take mental control over it I'll stop it or if I think about memory Then I'll access how my brain remembers stuff and like somehow accidentally shut it off think about your heart I'm gonna find the power about emptying your bowels. Your bowels are about to empty. You're gonna release all control of your bowels

Emptying your bowels. Your bowels are about to empty. You're going to release all control of your bowels. Stop it. I'm going to poo. Your bowels. Your bowels are as slack as the jaws of the yokels listening to you explain your mind control powers. You know how you don't think about swallowing your own saliva, but every now and then you

take a swallow and you be mentally aware that you swallowed, and then all of a sudden you feel like you have to keep doing it? Did you guys watch the movie Gamer oh good movie this is another wade stealing this is another wade stealing something right out of a movie that's how the end i'm going to spoil it for everybody but that's how the movie the gamer ended with what was it was his name gerard butler gerard bootler bootler making Bootler making Dexter think, don't think about stabbing yourself. That was literally it.

And I'd like to think that's how he controlled everyone. Don't poop your pants. Don't stab that guy. Don't shoot him. Don't do it. Literally, he was about to try to kill him, but he couldn't. And he's like, I'm thinking about just going into your neck.

And Dexter's all like, oh, no. And then he's dead. The name is like Castle in that movie into your neck and Dexter's all like, oh no! And then he's dead. The name's like Castle in that movie. It's not Dexter. It's Dexter, you know, Dexter. Like Simon Castle or something. How do you know that name? Because I liked that movie. I was one of the few people who actually enjoyed that movie. So you did steal it from that movie.

Not intentionally! Everything's from a stupid movie. We've gotten so meta that now you're even calling me out for stealing crap from movies. I did like the dance scene I'm sorry when Bob prompted a question my first thought wasn't oh, you know what I want to do Wanted to make sure it was the movie I was thinking of I was like Oh, you mean the movie with Gerard Butler? I forget the actor's name. You know, Dexter slash Castle.

I remember his show name. Wade slowly builds the case against himself that he actually is plagiarized. You mean 2009 movie Gamer? Gerard Butler written by Reed Salvatin? That movie? My friend from high school Reed Salvatin? Who I hung out friend from high school, Reed Salvatin.

Wow. Who I hung out with while he wrote the movie. Michael C. Hall plays Dexter in Ken Castle. Not Simon. It's Ken Castle, apparently. Right, right, right. Ken Castle. Simon's another character in the show.

I just combined them into one person. His name's Dexter Guy. Dexter Guy. Dexter Guy. Sorry. They rebooted that, didn't they? And I don't know if it was good. I don't know either because they didn't put it on normal people TV.

They put it on you have to pay to access TV. That's how it was before. What do you mean? Oh, well, how did I watch it? You pirated! You did meditate! Arrest that man! I don't think so.

I never pirate stuff. How'd you see it then? How'd you see it? They must have put it on a different thing for a little while. Maybe I... I don't think so. I never pirate stuff. How'd you see it then? How'd you see it? They must have put it on a different thing for a little while. I don't know. You know, that voice is actually from episode 38 of Gmod Prop Hunt with

Mark, Bob, and Wade. You're right. Plagiarizing there. Look, I posed the question initially how does memory work and wade was talking about how he poops his pants or something uh but i don't know how memory works either it's very complicated it has something to do with all those words you said mark big big chains of very specific uh uh neurons fire and when they fire again it like recalls the memory it sounds like wizard shit to me honestly like i know you know there's a bunch of smart neurologists and neurosurgeons researching

this but there was a new study and there's an article printed about it in march of last year 2022 now where they discovered there are two types of cells that are involved in memory there's one type called soft boundary cells, and the other type is called hard boundary. All of this stuff sounds made up. It sounds like a middle schooler has tried to explain his way out of a science quiz he didn't prepare for.

But suffice to say, it's complicated. But no one cares how little we know about science. The reason I'm interested in this for today's purposes is I wanna know what are some of your very earliest memories of your own life? Because you see online or in news stories where people will be like, I remember my own birth. But I don't know about that. Be to doubt. But I remember stuff from when I had to be three years old. And I don't know if that's impressively young or if I suck and you should remember stuff from when i was when i had to be three years old and i don't know if

that's like impressively young or if i suck and you should remember stuff from earlier than that but i have memories from a house that we lived in and moved out of before i turned four they're vague but they're there memories of me doing stuff me on my little scooter on the back patio thing and there was like a neighbor in the backyard that had dogs that I liked. And there was a big rock in front of the house you could like climb on, stuff like that. How far back do your guys' memories go? And do you need a moment to think about it?

Nope. No, I've got a couple of memories that come to mind. That was quick. Well, I mean, all I gotta do is think about it and be like, what do I remember? And I remember it. I just opened that drawer in my brain and there they are.

Well, we should talk about memory palaces as part of this episode as well but i want to hear some personal stories give the one you want to lead with a title and i'll pick who goes first oh man it's hard to title fragmented early onset memories but i'll try uh really sensationalize it i i i got it yeah i got one i guess the boy in the shadows at the top of the stairs oh spooky you're gonna have these one day oh don't like what that implies i'm i'm uh i'm more worried about wades and intrigued about mark so i guess you get to go first mark and you win the point yes all right always give out when we do titles you mentioned shadows and stairs we know bob always goes for those you know i love spooky stuff there's really nothing to it uh so i think i've talked about my first first memory just in casual passing i swear we didn't have an episode about it i swear i swear bob i We checked. There's no way.

But my first memory was me getting my fingers rolled up in a window. That was like my first memory. But my next memory is a time jump because it's all of a sudden in a different house. I knew we were like in a different place because the driveway where I got my fingers rolled up was a different place than the house that I was at later. It's driveway. I remember for some reason, I think it was my third birthday, but I was standing at the top of the stairs. And this is weird because it goes from me rolling my fingers in the window to this moment. That's what I can recall. And even like

when I was a kid, I was kind of like curious about the fact that I didn't remember anything before this. I kind of fixated on it in my head. But I was standing at the top of the stairs on my third birthday, or maybe fourth birthday, I can't quite remember. And I was wearing a Power Rangers shirt and no pants. And I was at the top of the stairs because I was eagerly waiting the moment that I could go downstairs and make excited noises that it was my birthday. Now, the fascinating thing about this is clearly I have memory before this because I know my birthday is an exciting time. Why do I know my birthday is an exciting time and yet I have and I like achieve consciousness in this moment and yet still have memories that apply to this moment of my excitement, my eagerness, and in fact it is my excitement probably that makes it one of the formative memories because I don't really remember much after that. You know it's kind of like loosey-goosey to my next few memories, but it's

just that defining moment. It's like how do I know? I hadn't had a birthday for a year. It must've either went when I was two years old and don't have any recollection of, and yet I'm more excited than I've ever been in my life at that point for my birthday, such that I remember standing at the top of the stairs in the shadows with my Power Rangers shirt, no pants. And I was just like, oh, can't wait to go down there. Is it possible at that time you remembered a birthday, but now you've forgotten it? No, because I remember remembering that memory as a kid when I was like four or five.

I thought back, you know, because you don't have many memories to look back on when you're young. But I remember looking back and I remember thinking about that. Like, how did I know? Little me. How the fuck did I know that? How the fuck? me how the fuck did i know that how the fuck and my in my very generously what i'll call my research preparing for this i learned a little bit actually about exactly what you're talking about which is the concept of neuroplasticity love that oh which sounds probably something that people

have heard it's kind of a big topic these days in like brain health like there's all these apps that are like play these mini games for 10 minutes a day it'll improve your neuroplasticity but basically when you're a kid like you even said this kids don't have a lot of reference right they don't have a lot of experience so as you're learning you know as you're learning language as you're learning vocabulary words, you're creating concepts in your brain. When you're that age, you probably had the concept of a birthday and you probably had the feeling of excitement, the emotion you clearly understood because kids get excited. Kids know what that feeling is. You had a bunch of simple concepts, probably more than just birthday that applied to the situation you were in, but you had never theoretically and maybe i'm

explaining it wrong but at that point you hadn't really connected them to the concept of your birthday like happening right yeah the more experience you get in life the older you get the less uh neuroplasticity your brain has meaning the less flexible your neural pathways become things become set your idea of what a idea of what a birthday is, what your birthday is and what it means is more set because, you know, maybe you had a really bad one when you were 12 years old or maybe you had a really, really good one. You remember from your early twenties where it was a crazy party, whatever. You have all these things that continue to connect to what was originally just sort of like one concept, limited set of neurons that, you know,

comprise the concept of a birthday for you. Yeah. But so you, that must've been a moment where your brain made a new connection, added some kind of, added a pathway to the cluster of neurons that is a birthday. And it was like a formative thing for you because you connected it to yourself. And, uh, that's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I, that is a thing right because all of us sort of have that you can have memories of things of like concepts without ever having a specific memory where you were doing the thing you're remembering and it is weird when that happens because you have all this stuff that will just connect in your brain completely outside of your

control yeah it it's like scary for some people to for most things of consciousness which you know who knows how many things of that are self-conscious in the world out there it's a debatable subject but there's a scary concept of like you as a conscious being having not full agency and i kind of want to talk about this later but i'll save it so we can tell his dumb stupid stories thanks and get some whatever points he's gonna not really earn or whatever. But this concept of like the not, it's not the bicameral

mind because it's a different concept, but just like are we really alone in our head? Are we really who we think we are in our head? You know, that whole concept. I want to talk about that, but I'll save it for later. Interesting. I'm into this. Good discussion. Good story. Thank you. i'm also a bit surprised you guys about neuroplasticity being in california you know plastic's not great for the

environment so we should change it to like neuro stainless steel city or neuro bambusity neural biodegradable hempicity yeah there we go our hempitude that is pretty prevalent in california i gotta admit yeah well you guys don't even give out bags at the store anymore so i figured you know at least you should probably change your terminology also get rid of plastic from that too there are bags at the store and i know for a fact that some of the kroger's in ohio also charge you money for the bags at the store we don't talk about them uh-huh so you're the same basically you're living in california except all you have is the bags at the grocery store and nothing else good uh so take that anyway good story mark you definitely earned some points and i'm definitely writing them down in my points journal thank you i know you are i appreciate that

my my password protected points diary yes but wade what was your title it was um you're gonna have these i'm gonna do you do you think you're gonna have these one day but i actually thought of an earlier memory while Mark was talking, so I can go back even further, I guess, by a little bit. I'll allow it. All right, I guess, should I come up with a new title

for the earlier memory, too? Give us some context. Yeah, it's good. Unless you just want to reuse the same title despite how disconnected it may be, I guess. Don't ever come back here. Your childhood sounds scary. Yeah, it was.

I don't know what happened to you, but I feel bad, I guess. Okay, the original one, the you're going to have these one day, was literally just adult teeth. I remember my dad brushing his teeth. I, like, lost the tooth. And I remember going into, like, the bathroom. I'd lost the tooth. My dad was brushing his teeth, and I, like, was like,

when do you lose your teeth? He's like, oh, you're going to have adult teeth one day that don't fall out that's it that's the memory it wasn't much fascinating but the older one i've probably talked about this on the show i don't remember but the first day i got my own bedroom i had like car water but it was like a race car water bed classic made for a kid iconic and i went to sleep in it the first night and i don't know what i had seen or read or whatever at this point in my life but i remember like laying down to sleep and i saw shadows on the wall of dracula the wolf man and uh frankenstein's monster and i got up from that bed and i bolted full speed down the stairs, jumped in the bed between my parents.

And I think until I was like four or five years old, I literally refused to sleep in that bed again. I just stayed in the bed with my parents or my mom after my parents had split. Because I was terrified of those shadows and the fact that they were coming to get me. I've had similar things where it's like dreams have chased me outside of the dream and I see them. Something about it like a kid's brain is it's easier for them to see those things or to almost hallucinate as a child because maybe you just don't have as much of a grip on your own reality as you think you do as a kid and everything is just like you haven't built in your filters to filter out all the the demons that show up in your dreams i just unlocked another memory thinking about this oh he's chaining i think

he's going back yeah i keep this keeps happening now it's like assassin's creed well i was thinking myself like how would i have known about those things like at such a young age but i remember my grandparents have well they had a cabin down in kentucky and we had all these like older books i guess like um they had one about like basically like movie monsters like the monster from the black lagoon and stuff i'm assuming that book i must have looked at it when i was young and like seen pictures and that's where i got the images for the silhouettes of these characters it had to have been from that particular book that's the only thing i could think of and my brain immediately took me there whenever i was like where would i've even seen

them and it was just like remember that book with the monster from the black lagoon so i guess i answered that question that's pretty interesting that's weird i have not thought about that book oh man i can't remember the last time i thought about you okay man you seem like you seem devastated at this news and i'm like you're right i don't want to go into all the chain of memories but like that reminded me of like my grandma tucking me in down there in the cabin, and we had these books. The Something House of Richard Scarry.

I don't remember what it was called. The Crazy Town of Richard Scarry. Wait, hang on. I'm going to Google that. Something House. The Downton House of Scarry Lane. The House of Richard Scarry. It was like a little...

Wow. I don't remember what Richard Scary is, but it's like a mouse hamster thing. I remember Richard Scary. Richard Scary's best house ever is in a YouTube video. The busy world of... Who is Richard Scary? Yeah, who is this man? It's some little hamster thing with a red hat, I think.

It looks like a worm. What? It looks like a worm what it looks like a worm driving an apple car wade no there's a hamster no bob are you talking about the book is this the house of mistress mouse oh wait richard scary is the author oh there's a thing called like the busy world of richard scary and like the character on the front's like a hamster thing that's who i picture when i think of richard scary as a hamster dude uh-huh see what i mean like my brain just went he had brought back richard scary out of nowhere and i remember like reading that with my grandma when i was a toddler all these images of this book series are like triggering things in my deep memory as well i

must have read these or something yeah what what what's happening to us? These are very memorable images, but I have no memory of. I'm not getting the same memory blast from these things. I apologize. Oh. I just wasn't as gifted as you. I feel bad for you.

Yeah, you should. Yeah, you had to be very gifted to have family that read you this particular child's novel. I was very poor as a young'un. Yeah, okay. Too poor for Richard Scarry. Couldn't afford books, let alone paper.

Uh-huh. Had to draw our own books in the dirt. They would entertain us for hours till the wind blew it over. This also brings back memories of random books I don't remember reading, but I know I did. I know I had, like, I read a book, like, something, Stellaluna. I um something with like a brown bear and a snake that eats itself

i don't i don't know all right i just love the library of children's books pull out one of those big cardboard picture books like something about a brown bear and a snake that eats itself i don't know see what's in me those are two separate books but my brain you talking the Ouroboros like you're talking the Ouroboros I didn't know Ouroboros as a kid no I think it eats itself yeah that'd be the Ouroboros it was a snake that kept eating like everyone it came across that eventually ate its own tail and like ate itself or something oh you're talking about the old lady that ate a frog to eat the fly in a hole in the wall in the bottom of the sea yeah okay yep well that very interesting memory chain wade i don't

have any scientific nuggets regarding what you've just done but it's funny how that works brown bear brown bear what do you see that's the book there you go look just look at brown bear brown bear what do you see that's the book there you go look just look at brown bear brown bear what do you see brown bear brown bear brown bear brown bear needs to see a chiropractor why what's wrong with this why is there a meme of this brown bear oh he does need to see a chiropractor oh man oh god something bad happened man brown bear brown bear what do you see i think it's a truck i can't remember it hit me head on though oh god i used to be like eight feet long i got double humpback and bottom head. God, poor bear. Oh, man, that's rough.

Bottom head? Yeah, his head's at the bottom. Yeah, I don't think the spine goes through the belly of the bear there. I'm not sure about that one. God, that's so hard. My spine moved to the front of me god front spine bottom head oh god but yeah you remember that book i don't know if that one rings any bells i remember reading that i definitely remember the picture and definitely probably read that book or had it read to me at the library in elementary school or something

yeah all right well that's my chain of memories you guys could take over before i think of something else weird i enjoyed that i have to say i sometimes find that on episodes of this podcast you can invent your own tangents and then go off on them and they you know they may be entertaining but they may or may not be related to anything that was a very topical entertaining uh chain of personal uh discovery and remembering i like that points probably more points than mark even got i deserve it probably okay yeah it's schrodinger's points we don't know how many they are or what that means until i oh god poke holes in the box i want to talk about splitting someone's brain in half uh yeah well so that's i was gonna say that good good story wade i appreciate that mark what was that thing you want to talk about

by the splitting of the brain that's not what i remember it sounding what did you want to talk about like the two people in the brain yeah yeah well that's the bike i said bicameral mind that's a different concept uh-huh slightly did i ever tell you that we used to have a slice of human brain in glass that we had in our house? What happened in your house? Who made it? Was it someone in your household that made that, or did you procure it from somewhere? I have no idea where it came from. Someone donated their brain to science, and somehow a slice of it ended up in our house.

It's like you were science. The science people were like, this laboratory gets a slice. The Mayo Clinic gets a slice. Wade's mom gets a slice. For science. My mom's parents had this table that had different coral and stuff on it, like model pirate ships. And then there was just this glass square that had a half-inch slice of human brain in it.

Great. It was on there with the coral and the pirate ships. It was your mantle piece. Honey, do you remember that road trip? We were at the morgue in Salem, Mississippi and they just had slices of brain in the gift shop.

And we were like, whoa! What a great trinket to bring home. I have got to ask and figure out the story of the brain slice. I don't know where it came from or why we had it. Anyway, go ahead. You didn't think to ask about that until now. was it was normal for me growing up we had one so i thought everyone did you got to grab a grass house you were like lighthouse statue statue of liberty a brain slice good stuff

collection when you're a kid you just take that stuff for like they're like oh yeah this is coral from the deep sea this is a slice of human brain this is a model pirate ship and you know it's like oh did you hear the song as a child one of these things is not like the other one of these things just doesn't belong you know the coral looks creepier than the brain like that stuff wasn't behind glass you could just touch it child way to like this is coral from the ocean ah get away from me this is a slice of a human's brain oh cool i mean yeah you can hold it it was in glass it was safe yeah fair enough all right so the split brain procedure was an actual thing that maybe still happens to this day i don't know

but i want to ask it does but go on i want go on. I believe it's potentially used as a very dramatic and sort of last-ditch effort as a treatment for certain types of seizure disorders, but that's kind of a guess that I kind of know is maybe true. Fascinating. But go on. Okay, so first off, I want to ask you guys, do you have a dominant eye? Yes. Okay, which one is it? Left.

Okay. Left for me as well. Because it's my left as well. Are you all right-handed? No. Yes. Okay, not right-handed. All right, so... Well, I'm mixed as well are you all right-handed no yes okay not right-handed all right so i well i'm mixed mixed mixed handedness i do pick one okay all right i'm not the point of this i want you guys to try to look out of your other eye and focus out of that other eye without closing your dominant eye like you're looking at something and then try to look out of your other eye don't like that yeah it's weird right it's uncomfortable right so there was an experiment done in 1978 michael i'm not going to pronounce that name because i'm going to get it wrong buble nope come on pronounce

it i kind of don't want to you want some points don't you michael c hall who plays dexter here all right i'll type it into the chat and you oh that's i don't i see what you're worried about but that's fine okay anyway discovered a unique phenomenon among split brain patients who were asked to perform a simultaneous concept task so this patient was shown two pictures one of a house in wintertime and one of a chicken's claw or foot the picture were positioned so that they would exclusively be seen in only one visual field of the brain, right? The Winterhouse was positioned so it would only be seen

in the patient's left visual field, which corresponds to the brain's right hemisphere. And the chicken's claw or foot was placed so it would be only seen in the patient's right visual field, which corresponds to the brain's left hemisphere. So there is like some switching that goes on in the brain. Everything's crisscrossed, whatever. A series of picture was placed in front of the patients, and then they asked the patient to choose a picture

with their right hand and a picture with their left hand. The paradigm was set up so the choices would be obvious for the patients. A snow shovel is used for shoveling a snowy driveway for the wintry house. So the series of pictures was associated with the pictures, but they were not the pictures themselves. So a chicken's head correlates to the chicken's claw, right? The other pictures do not in any way correlate to the two original pictures, right? So one is like, this is definitely related to one of these pictures. The other picture they show is not related to either of them.

Okay? Make sense? Yeah. There's a right and wrong answer. In the study, a patient chose the snow shovel with his left hand and in his right hand chose the chicken's head. Okay. So this is complicated to get. They're showing only one image to one side of the brain and one image to the other side of the brain. One side of the brain cannot know what is in the other picture because that side of the brain has been separated in this experiment

physically disconnected physically disconnected sliced apart so the left and right hemisphere cannot share information across the gap if there's a physical separation of the brain and the information is put into only one side of the hemisphere right so when the patient was asked why he had chosen the pictures he had chosen, the answer he gave was the chicken claw goes with the chicken head and you need a snow shovel to clean out the chicken shed. They saw in both eyes the chicken's claw and a snowy house. They came up with a justification of why the snow shovel was necessary for the chicken

shed instead of the wintry house. So the idea behind this is, wouldn't it be obvious that the shovel goes with the winter house? For people with an intact corpus callosum, the bridge, it would be obvious, but not for a split-brain patient. Both the winter house and the shovel are being projected to the patient from his left visual field, so his right hemisphere is receiving and processing the information, and this input is completely independent of what's going on in the right visual field, which is in the left hemisphere, which involves chicken claw and the head. The information is being processed in the left hemisphere. The brain's left hemisphere is primarily responsible for interpreting the meaning of the sensory input it receives from both fields.

However, the left hemisphere has no knowledge of the winter house. It has no knowledge at all. Because it has no knowledge of the winter house, it must invent a logical reason for why the shovel was chosen. Since the only object it works with are the chicken claw and the head, left hemisphere interprets the meaning as choosing the shovel as it is an object necessary to help the chicken which lives in a shed, therefore the shovel is used to clean. The right brain knew why. The left brain had to make up a reason why. They did another experiment where it was like the left side brain was told to give the right hand something else for a reason, a specific reason. The right hemisphere was given information that was different and it was said something else.

And when the patient was handed something from the left hand to the right hand or vice versa, I can't remember which one it was, he was asked why he did that. And he made up a reason that was not pertaining to the instruction given to the left side of the brain. Weird. Exactly. It is weird. All of this is kind of like this idea that there is a dual consciousness in your brain. The left and right side of the brain have different responsibilities, but they are mirrored in a way and they do share information. And one of this theory is that there is a conscious speaking thinking part of your head that is the voice in your head and is the, you know, speaking self and kind of like what you think is yourself. But there's another silent passenger inside your mind that is almost locked in, trapped trapped can only do some background thinking

is never acknowledged is never a part of anything may not even be aware of itself or you aware of it and it is riding along in your life and if you split your brain in half you can separate the two so that they stop sharing information with each other and you kind of reveal the existence of this dual consciousness inside your mind that's some real shiver down my spine get out kind of shit going on body aching all the time oh what sorry i thought i don't even know what that was referring to i know i know that's a song down my spine i thought you were going with your queen there but you weren't i wasn't okay uh i like the idea i mean i don't like the idea but that that gives me the idea of basically the opposite of what you were saying that there's

a there's another consciousness inside of you that is completely trapped and it is unless that brain surgery is done where it's severed from the part that gets to sense and interact with reality that it's it's just in there and there's a consciousness screaming into the void that no one listens to and that you just carry with you for the duration of your life. Uh-huh. Creepy. I hate that.

Yep. Happy times. There also is a theory that you as the voice in your head is the passenger and not the actual agent because there's kind of this idea where you can say in your head all the things you want to do. You can be like, I'm going to do X, Y, Z. I'm going to get up and exercise, but you don't have any control over doing it because you can not do those things. If you're on a diet, you can say like, I'm not going to eat this. And then you find out you're just stuffing it down your face because you didn't have any agency on it. You only gave suggestions. Therefore you are the silent passenger.

What you think is yourself is just the silent passenger, but it's such a cohesive system that you don't really know the difference i don't know that removes a lot of accountability for your decision making well you still have the ability to make decisions yes i didn't kill him i'm just the silent passenger that's not what i was saying no i have to tell them that we killed him i don't care if you want me to keep it a secret i don't care if you think i promised well you can't talk out loud i told him i wouldn't kill him this time you said behave the idea being that you still have morals across both sides of your brain but each one is a participant no no i'm the only moral one the other one's not moral at all why does one of them have an accent yeah why is one of them the the family that owns the pizzeria across the street from

starting a flat express ship in Futurama? Oh, I've got Dragon Ball Z abridged in my head from when I stole that voice. Oh, well, yeah, that's fair. No, I like that, though. I'm a very moral person. What do you mean? You only do shitty things. Well, the silent inside me

has a lot of morals, but he doesn't get to talk. Yeah, don't do that so uh yeah oh yeah and and also it's kind of like in that same vein is like the intrusive thoughts in your head which are those are those you the real you is this a silent passenger coming along and being like yeah kill him kill him do it now can i just say that this is deeply upsetting me and honestly giving me a bit of an existential crisis i don't know if anyone if you guys are feeling that or if any listeners will feel that but like this is the kind of you know philosophical discussion that i find really fascinating and also makes me question my

entire reality in real time that's what distractible is all about i feel like both my brains are in unison so if i'm screaming internally, I don't know it. I'm okay. But it does make me wonder. So it didn't prompt that dread in me, but it did prompt the question of, is there any truth to like, it matters which ear you hold a phone to when you're talking on the phone? You have a dominant ear, but it, because sound is- It's less about the hearing and more about like,

you're more like capable of, don't know listening and like being rational and sympathetic with one side versus like i don't know i remember like hearing that so something about it you're roughing like the left brain right brain sort of yeah like does it of how your brains processes things yeah like one side you're like oh you're really intently listening if you're holding your phone to this here, whereas the other one's like, oh, okay, you're multitasking, and that's the secondary thing is if it's in that ear. It's actually, it's an interesting train of thought, but it works a little differently. I'm not 100% sure about the ears, but I think they're less biased to one side or the other. But your eyes, so a lot of people think your left eye goes to

your left side brain or right side brain. What happens is your left eye has two visual fields in that one eye, a left visual field and a right visual field. And your right eye has the same thing. And it takes the right and left and it mixes them together outside of each eye when it goes to the thing. So each eye independently has two visual fields that get sent to the different sides of the brain, but one eye has both. So one ear gets sent to both sides of the brain, right? Does that make sense? Yeah, I didn't know you had dominant ears. I guess it makes sense. You do. You kind of just like you have a favorite ear that you kind of lean towards, but same as you have a favorite eye you default to. Hearing is less though because you kind of need to have hearing 360 degrees around you able to pick up locations anywhere. So your left ear can still pick up

sounds from the right side. It's just because it's attenuated differently based on the reverberations from the left side of your body and position to it. It uses that in the calculations to know where it is, just as it does your right ear, getting it closer. So it uses both to calculate where the sound is positioned and what the sound quality is. So it kind of uses both all the time. It's less of a favorite than it is your eyes. I'm paraphrasing stuff that I looked up a long time ago. I'm not 100% sure about that, but I think that's how it works. I believe you.

Thank you. We here at Distractible take everything we say as fact. That's some good existential crises. That's definitely a lot of points there. Good. I got an update, by the way. I got brain in the glass update. All right. Okay. I texted my mom and I was like by the way i got brain in the glass update all right okay i

texted my mom and i was like why did we have brain and glass and the answer my older brother and sister's dad had it question mark question mark question mark what is she questioning oh there we go uh because it was already in the family that's why we had it oh what a definitive answer that's down from generations great anyway well now i know why we had it because someone else in the family had it because we already did great that's the answer so that's your brain and glass update everyone i know you're all waiting with baited breath and now you can relax with masturbated breath huh ah huh i i appreciate that connection i guess but also very uneasy about it more uneasy about that or having a

person of you trapped inside your own brain? Different types of uneasiness if I'm honest. I don't want to have masturbated breath but also I'm terrified I have a trapped passenger who I'm torturing with my mere existence.

Those are kind of different things. Dude, the brain is crazy. Can I just say, I saw an article, this is not necessarily pertinent to anything we're talking about, but one of the, one of the problems with the brain, the human brain, and figuring out what the hell is going on with that is that it's really hard to image. My very rudimentary understanding is that it's really hard to image anything inside like the surface of the brain. It's hard to like 3D image. You know, you see all these graphical representations of like the brain filled with neurons and they're all zip zapping to each other. And that's an artist's made up imaginary brain. We can't actually do that very well but there was a team of researchers that apparently genetically modified

zebra fish to have a fluorescent material in their like neurons in the tissue of their neurons basically the way that fluorescent material is often used in imaging is it will be injected right so you could see people's arteries and veins and whatever. If you inject dye and then you take a scan, you can see where the dye goes and it will show you a more higher resolution image of stuff that's inside of them. But I guess probably injecting, you know, iodine goop into your brain is not great for it. But they genetically modified these fish so that the synapses have some kind of naturally fluorescent material on them.

And that has allowed them to get some more interesting sort of advanced scans. Unfortunately, zebrafish brains are not very similar to humans, mainly because they're tiny, I would imagine. But yeah, no, it's a tough thing. But the brain is so fascinating. How do we remember all this stuff? I don't know. Well, the brain's been developing for millions of years, whereas we've only been understanding

brain for years. Some years. But yeah, so that leads me sort of in a roundabout way to my next question. I really appreciate your earliest memories, but do you guys have any memories that feel like they're from like a past life do you have any memories that are incongruous with your own life where you feel like you know you remember something that you definitely have never done or you feel like you have a connection to you know to like music or something i don't know does this i don't you have to believe in past lives if you do i'd love to

talk about it but do you guys get what i'm saying do you have any memories that feel like this i feel like they're not yours somehow i had one but i was able to find out the explanation for it and then like it resolved in my brain where we're literally just i remembered having a family friend i think her name was melissa and she was like a pretty blonde woman and i remember like seeing her and whatever whenever i was a kid and then i watched like one of the batman like old batman movies and i was like oh my god that's melissa i can't believe she was in this movie oh no it turns out my brain just like changed the person i'd met and put in an actress from a movie that i'd watched with my family when she was visiting and my brain confused the two so in my memories this actress from like

a batman movie was melissa in my memory but that's not actually the truth once i saw a picture of like the actual melissa my brain like fixed itself and like all the memory like was just like restored it was very weird fascinating yeah i have no such memories like this oh i'm sorry that was kind of a long shot i my my where this comes from for me is i don't necessarily have any memories of like a vivid memory of something that definitely never happened to me that i feel like someone else's but i do get i guess it would be called deja vu a lot where i have like a the pain like it kills me inside because something happens i'll have a life experience and in my

head i'm like i remember it's happening but it's happening right now but i have this deep strong feeling like i've done this before something like that i have no idea what that brain phenomenon is called i'm sure it's very explainable by someone who you know knows more about the science of memory and brain and stuff like beyond deja vu beyond that yeah like i have a couple really vivid ones they're mainly attached to music for me because i i played tuba for a long time i went to school sport and stuff we've talked about that and there are a couple performances where during the performance when i was kind of in the zone you know performing the music whatever it. And they were in different contexts.

One of the memories is from like a band concert, like a classic, you know, classic playing marches and that sort of stuff on a stage concert. But a couple of them are from when I was in this funk band and we would play, you know, on the stage at outdoor festivals or in bars and stuff. Like, I still think about this because it was so vivid and so strong and I don't really have memories that way because we've also talked about I have a Fantasia, so I don't really have, like, strong visual memories of things.

I just remembered. Wait, I do have something like this. It happened just last week. Yes, finish. Oh, sick. I love that. Okay, well, I'm nearly at the end, but it's like while I'm performing a certain song

or something happens, like I see people dancing in the audience or one of my bandmates looks at me and we lock eyes and do the musician nod, something. Something like that happens and my brain is just like, we've been here before. And it feels like I'm remembering something that I know never happened

from someone else's life or something. It's like a strong sensation and I'm sure it's not a memory from someone else's life. I don't really believe that, but it feels crazy and hopefully good. Take a, take the floor, Mark. Yeah. Bring us home. It feels crazy because this involves you, Bob. Oh.

I have this a lot where I'll have a dream that it's, it's sometimes that the dream is so real that I was convinced that it happened. And, you know, you'll be in the dream. And usually if I'm in trouble in the dream, I'm like, oh, fuck, I'm done for. I'm dead. I'm going away forever. Ah, this is it. This is going to ruin me. And then I wake up.

I'm like, what happened? I don't even remember. But at the moment, it's like in the dream. It's so real. However, this one was very different. So, Bob, you and I dream. It's so real. However, this one was very different. So, Bob, you and I were going to prison. Sure.

And we were changing into these jumpsuits. I remember it was a very mustard yellow. You put it on. You were nervous about it. And I said to you, don't worry, because we were going away for 47 days. And I remember it very specifically. And I said, like, don't worry about it. We'll be in and out. It's not as bad. This is not a maximum security prison. I should know. I've been to

prison before for 20 days. And I remember this very specifically. But I don't remember a lot about the dream of going to prison with you. I know you were there and I know we were going there with a group of people. What I do remember is my 20 days in prison because in my dream, I didn't dream I was there for 20 days. I dreamed that I remembered I was there for 20 days. And so I remember being in prison for 20 days, extremely specifically the red jumpsuits going into the cafeteria. I remember all of it. It's not like I relived it. It's not like I even dreamed it. I simply, all of it. It's not like I relived it. It's not like I even dreamed it. I simply, in my dream, was like, yeah, I went to prison for 20 days. And it was so specific that I woke up and I asked Amy,

have I been to prison before for about maybe 20 days? And I asked her many, many times because it was so stuck in my head. The dream was already fading of us like, you nervous, the mustard yellow. That's all I remember about it i remember going to bed i remember the poster that was on my wall it was like that uh the evil dead 2 poster on my wall i remember tossing a ball in myself i remember like talking to people i remember going outside and like playing basketball i remember these things i didn't live them i didn't live them in my dream i just remember them so the memories are baked in that I did this thing. And it's so, it's like someone inceptioned me that I went to prison. So I'm extremely convinced that I was in prison for 20 days.

And this happened just last week. That's interesting. You were in prison for 20 days last week? No. No, he just remembered it last week. I can't believe it. I remember. That would have never happened if you'd never left Ohio. I'm in Ohio right now. Yeah, but you'd left. It was actually because I came back to Ohio that last week. I can't believe it. I remember. That would have never happened to you if you'd never left Ohio.

I'm in Ohio right now. Yeah, but you'd left. It was actually because I came back to Ohio that it seemed like I was going to prison. So I need to get out of Ohio as soon as possible. You know what? That makes sense. That makes sense. You do need to get out as soon as possible.

You're not welcome here anymore. I was just about to come back. I hate you. I was about to 93 acres. That's fascinating because it's, well, this is a thing we've kind of talked about i think before too was it the mandela effect that's somewhere you remember things like the berenstein bears that's you know where shaquille o'neal starred in a movie called alakaboom or whatever you know like that stuff kaboom kazam yeah like that i i wonder how related that would be because you it wasn't a

thing that you collectively happened at all the way the internet you know sort of works but you in your own dream yeah inception is a good word you inceptioned your own self and because it was in a dream and your your mind is free to just like be creative and flesh things out without having to search for you know what what reality was or whatever your brain can just fill in the details you like have these fully formed memories memories of essentially nothing i love that i mean that seems incredibly dangerous if anyone ever found a way to manipulate that because you really could in a much more you know nefarious way do what they do in inception to people and

control you know control people's life experience and personality in certain ways or whatever potentially but that's cool yeah very cool and i was there yeah you were there the dream one's slightly different but like the memory manipulation i looked it up it's kim basinger i don't know if you guys know who the actress kim basinger is bassinger bassinger bass. I don't know if you guys know who the actress Kim Basinger is. Basinger? Basinger, Basinger, I don't know how her name is pronounced. Basinger? Basinger? I'm pretty sure it's Basinger. Well, you can let us know in the subreddit, I guess. And if you're listening, Kim, apologies.

That's who you substituted for Melissa. When I see her, I always think Melissa first. Because of like that memory confusion, yeah. I imagine it's because like, I don't know that I saw them. Because like I said, my parents split when I was really young So I remember them coming over and watching literally they watched Batman and I remember watching that I hadn't really watched it since and I hadn't seen them since like that memory was like muddied and buried in my mind And somewhere like along the way like the file just swapped those two in my brain. So it's like oh melissa is kim

They're the same person. I can't believe she was in batman like it's really strange that even whenever i see like clips of that today it's like i see i'm like oh melissa or wait that's not her name what's her actual name but i just always think melissa it's very interesting i love it but that's a real memory mix-up that's not from a previous life that's when i can explain away which i guess is kind of like a mandela effect type thing right because like for me personally i remember melissa being in batman or kim being in our house watching batman with us whereas they're two separate people i could not tell you what melissa looks i i actually cannot remember what she actually looks like i just know i learned that it was not in fact her in batman but in my brain she always will be and if science allowed this is the moment where i would jump in with the

grand conclusion about how the mysteries of our brains are being slowly unraveled by the brilliant researchers easy will edit in the solution 25 thank you will appreciate it will not to disparage neurological research because honestly you know it's come a relatively long way in a relatively short amount of time as far as understanding something as complex as our brains goes but man do i wish we had a stronger understanding of how the human brain works and how memory specifically works uh not only because it's very fascinating and an important part of life remembering things kind of accurately but it would help a lot with uh treating and hopefully curing dementia diseases

alzheimer's which my grandmother had and passed away as a result of and uh you know it's i guess the thing about this episode for me is that's probably one of my deepest personal fears is to get alzheimer's or more generally to get dementia because i already we've covered this uh i have kind of a spotty memory oh i do too i'm getting older you know i'm getting older we all are and uh i was making fun of you at the beginning wade for repeating a topic i didn't do that i believe there was a discussion once or twice about uh me possibly also having done that previously not as bad as you did it but you know i don't remember anything like that and my memory is great some kind of thing you know it just sounds familiar i don't know maybe it didn't

never happen that up must have been a dream but yeah so i was like one of my strongest fears because i lived well i didn't live with but i lived through my grandmother going from completely normal herself for most of my life to, you know, the stages of her Alzheimer's and how that affected her. It's not a pleasant disease and it can be most unpleasant for the person who's suffering, but also the people in their lives who love them and know who they are. So I don't know. I hope that science figures this out. I don't know if there are any huge breakthroughs on the horizon or anything, but it's a fascinating topic. And I really like your dream, Mark,

where you formed memories in a dream that are now very vivid memories from you. And I would love to hear about memories from anyone on the internet. If you go to the subreddit, if you have memories from a past life, what your earliest memory is, any weird stuff, like if you have Mark's weird dream thing anything because it's fascinating our brains can do all kinds of weird stuff that has so little to do with reality sometimes it's very fascinating and thank you guys so much for your personal stories and contributing thank you of course and if you need to help understanding the brain just get a

slice of it and some glass and you can look at it anytime you want from any angle i borrow that brain slice oh it's lost and you guys got like a telescope or something i can look at it anytime you want from any angle i borrow that brain slice oh it's lost and you guys got like a telescope or something i can look at it with telescope yeah magnifying glass telescope whatever uh this is the point traditionally where the host which is me should pick a winner let me just take a peek see at my a totally real and very filled in points diary and put in the secret password if And if you were keeping track at home, let us know who you think the winner is. Yeah.

Make sure that you make a lot of posts and be very angry about it. Why the person who ultimately wins this episode is the wrong choice. That way we'll know in the future and definitely follow your advice. Looking at the points though, I have to, I have to, on merit, give this episode to Mark.

Woo! What? Woo! I did it! Ah, starting the year off weak. I did it! I know, I know all the Wade stans are going to be very upset about that. But honestly, I was in Mark's dream.

He was in my dream. No, hand her to your judge. That's tough competition, Wade. You had some good stories. Slice of brain all right well brown bear and richard scary are gonna just pack up their bags and leave your memory banks listen slice of brain had you solidly in the lead for quite a long time there that's fascinating revelation i feel like the good half of bob is the half that's trapped inside screaming yeah my my inner prisoner is just staring sadly through my eyeballs towards the

screen and listening in on our conversation knowing the truth is that wade should have won but ultimately i would mark put me in the i was in the story you know i was in batman oh wait that was wade's thing it is weird like it's, I did dream just, like, last week or maybe even sooner than that. Like, it passed a few, I can't remember when it was a dream, but I could ask Amy and you can ask Amy and confirm it. This is true. Very true story. Fascinating.

Well, Wade, valiant effort, lovely stories. You have a loser speech. Happy New Year. Hope you all had a good, safe holiday season. Hopefully your New Year's starting off strong and you're avoiding all those bad habits. Good bad habits or bad bad habits? The bad bad ones. That's it.

Do I get a winner's? Sorry, I think I just fell asleep for half a second. Oh. Unrelated to Wade, just because I haven't slept in three days. Yay, having a baby. Definitely. Don't look at me, Wade. Huh?

Congratulations. Thank you for pandering and including at me, Wade. Huh? Congratulations. Thank you for pandering and including me in your story. I appreciate that. I always love to be a guest star on the content that I'm judging. But yeah, winner's speech. Everyone,

all I was saying about that silent passenger inside your mind, definitely probably not true. Don't listen to anything, any whispers inside your own mind. Don't look too deeply inside of yourself.

If you stare into the pit of abyss, you might find that it stares back so don't look too deeply into that thanks me thanks for reminding me of that i am once again dreading existence and questioning my reality but you know in a cool way so i appreciate that uh like we always brains and glass cases yes probably true this is probably a simulation you're a meat shoot i got the new eye bone 13 case i can't wait till they make meat mech human replicas that you can build and paint to your own desires my meat mech is gonna be the biggest one eye bone no i got the android i i wanted to set this up somehow but i just thought mandroid also kind of works i just think it's supernatural mandroid anyway do your do your wrap-up thing i'm just gonna remember wade's gonna have memories and i'm gonna remind you

to remember to make sure that you follow this podcast. We are available on the places, you know, Spotify, Google Podcasts, so on and so forth. Places where this podcast is, you just hit the plus button or the check mark or whatever it is. I don't know. You know how it works, I hope. Make sure you check out our merch as well. Store.distractablepodcast.com. It's all there.

Everything you might want related to the podcast. And make sure you check out Mark at Markiplier on the places, YouTube, so forth. Wade at LordMinion777 on YouTube and Minion777 on Twitch. Myself, all you have to do is Google Mark's friend Bob and all my stuff comes up. It's fact-checked by the subreddit. 100% works.

Way easier than trying to spell my skirm. That's for sure. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you to my co-hosts for being such eager competitors on this episode. And thank you, just generally, you know, thank you. Thanks. Thank. Thank.

That's it. That's the end. We're out of here. Thank you, James, for allowing Bob to record with us. Oh, boy. Wish he allowed me to sleep more. Well, you go get Zimzi. Anyway, I can't complain about how tired I am because it's over.

Podcast out. As the stork flew through the air carrying the bundle of joy, he looked down into the cherubic face of the baby James. He saw the future of the Wee One anew. With a dad like Bob, and uncles like Mark and Wade, there was only one thing that could be rich in his fate. That it would be cool. So join us all in congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Bob

on the arrival of their new son, James. May his life be filled with the laughter and joy that his father has brought to us all over the years behind and those to come. See you next week on Distractible.