Distractible - Try New Things

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

The dude's reminisce about the good, the bad, and straight up weird experiences they've had with trying new things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

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Starting point is 00:00:51 It's time for Try New Things. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Distracted and enjoy the show Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of distractable I'm today's host Wade joined as always with my co-host Mark and Bob and the show where one of us hosts the two compete For points and the person with the most points usually at the end gets to host the next episode Usually I'm not ready. It's too late. I'm double ready. I'm not I'll take marks readiness points. Thank you Alright readiness point for Bob? Oh god, no!
Starting point is 00:01:28 Red... Wait, wait, wait, wait! Oh, I might have to mark a second ready point. How long you need, man? Uh, so long. Oh man, I need so long. Alright, well I guess that's the second readiness point. That was not the correct answer, believe it or not.
Starting point is 00:01:44 They're going to me, right? No. I can give you a negative readiness point. That was not the correct answer believe it or not. They're going to me right? No. I can give you a negative readiness point. Oh but that would make me unready. I'm so ready. Are you sure? No ready. Great. Hold on. We're holding. I have to make a mission critical purchase. It's mission critical. Oh he said mission critical's, that does mean something. For what? I don't know what, I just know that it means. It's mission critical. Is it food?
Starting point is 00:02:12 It's food, isn't it? It's mission critical. Almost. Almost there. Yep. What mission? Hold on to your ass. I feel like you're R2-D2 and I'm Luke trying to figure out what message you're hiding about Princess Leia.
Starting point is 00:02:30 BAM! Done. Wasn't that easy? Already? Man, oh man, am I gonna have to say your name first on the points at the end? Pfft. Hahahaha! Oh boy, not a great start. Don't worry. You'll be saying my name last I'll be saying my own name last don't you worry We'll see if you remember to do that at the end when I'm screaming my own name at the end of this episode
Starting point is 00:02:57 You're gonna see you're gonna see we just slowly watch you devolve as the episode goes on into more slowly watch you devolve as the episode goes on and you're like, MARK WHY MARK but before we get to that point how are you? me? I'm good the both of you? I'm good I am great
Starting point is 00:03:15 good and great great and good that's so convincing I'm good! I am good! are you good or great? both! okay Bob how are you doing?
Starting point is 00:03:24 I'm good I have a new or great? Both. Okay. Bob, how are you doing? I'm good. I have a new Apple watch band. You wanna see it? Good. It's magnetic. Wow. Look how low profile it is. I thought you meant the way it stuck to your wrist
Starting point is 00:03:35 was because it was magnetic and you had a metal wrist. But dude, if I could get an implant where the watch just stuck to my wrist on it, I would consider it. Ah, no, I wouldn't do that. Ah, maybe. Metal's good for you. I'd consider it.
Starting point is 00:03:48 As much as I have a thing about phone cases, I have a thing about Apple watch bands, I hate how thick they all are. Watch bands in general are very thick. Yeah. I don't like a thick band. And this is like the most low profile watch band. Like it's just, it's thin.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Look how thin it is. And floppy and magnetic. It's lovely. That does look nice. I can't do the Apple Watches anymore because for some reason they cut off some kind of circulation in my wrist and it just ends up hurting after a while. Oh really? I have yet to be able to get used to it. I mean I wore it for a long period of time. It took like a month or two to get really used to but then ever since I lost one for a while and tried to get back into it I just wasn't able to.
Starting point is 00:04:26 I think it's just because they're getting too big and I always get the big one and I really should just go for a small one. And now they can't even measure your heart anymore. No, they maybe can. I think they fixed that on the new generation. Can they? I don't- I don't actually know that for sure. I think they fixed that? I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, that's how good I'm doing.
Starting point is 00:04:47 I- We can jump right in if you guys have nothing interesting to talk about though. No, no, no, no. I got stuff. What would you like to know? I guess I'd like to know what stuff you got. You need to ask the right questions.
Starting point is 00:04:59 What are the right questions? That's not the right question. I felt like the right question. I figure out what the right questions are. I gotta be honest. Yeah, I thought that was pretty direct. It's really close to the right question, but it's not quite the right question What am the right questions? How is the right question? You got to ask the question in the form of a question. What's stuck to your right hand? Is that the right question? Nothing. Oh, okay. Uh, what is, what are the right questions for 500?
Starting point is 00:05:27 It's the Daily Devil! Woo! Yeah! Ah, true Daily Devil! True Daily Devil! Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I've obviously been only focused on entirely movie stuff forever and ever, but in other not movie stuff, I have nothing. I really wish, you know, every time I start a sentence like that, hoping that my brain conjures up something to answer- I think that's something we'll buy.
Starting point is 00:05:52 It doesn't work. I really- I stall and I stall. I'm like, there's gotta be something, there's gotta be something. There really is nothing. I was making a mission critical purchase just because I was buying something very boring, which is a networking switch. And then it's just like oh Yeah, oh, yeah, like everyone cares about a switch. Oh, yeah, it's got it's got 2410 gigabit ports Oh, it's really good. Listen, I like technology and two 25 gigabit aggregating ports Oh, isn't that nice? You know what's one of my current most fascinating series on YouTube? Linus Tech Tips. Linus has purchased and is outfitting a Badminton Center slash LAN party gaming center and they have a series where they keep going
Starting point is 00:06:38 every once in a while they'll go back to the Badminton Center and be like look we put in new networking this is twin fiber optics run up and down the whole core. And look, we got these security camera. It's fascinating. I love a new piece of technology, even if I'm never going to own it and it means nothing to me. Just to watch someone else be like,
Starting point is 00:06:57 oh, and that means we can do this now. You know, what's funny is I actually reached out because I was going to have him help me with some of the networking for my render farm That was supposed to happen, but then I ran off to Texas and I bet they think I'm just ignoring them which happens a lot Some people are like why don't you collab with a bunch of other people? It's like sometimes I try and then I get swept up and I've run away and disappear and don't talk to them ever again But that was supposed to happen. It might still happen. Is it gonna be a video? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:26 Ah, that would be my favorite CoLab ever. They were very curious about, you know, the render farm when I was talking about it, and they asked like what I was doing with them, the kind of hardware I was putting in, and when I told them that I had as much power as I did, which was like, it's 12 9684Xs, which if you know what a processor is that's it's very high-end processor And having 12 of them is kind of ridiculous and so the networking part of it though I don't know that very well, so I was hoping someone could help at least connect them all so I got to get back to them I have a funny
Starting point is 00:08:00 They're not gonna find it funny. I have a really funny joke I'm gonna do when they get here. It's- I can't tell you the context just in case word gets to them, but you know, I got a real funny one. You know me and my funny jokes. Dude, you have the best goofs around. I can only imagine. Oh, yeah. Are you gonna tell them about, oh, what was that water that you were so hype about? No, it's Gla glower salts you can tell
Starting point is 00:08:25 them about glower salts i have mentioned this casually yes but that's not the joke the joke is so funny it's going to be so funny what is it i can't tell you you're asking the right questions here mister bob any conniving schemes you've got going on that we can't talk about? Oh, yeah. So sometimes when I'm playing with James, I'll pretend to throw something. And then actually I didn't throw it. And he hasn't figured out yet that I do that. And so I'll just mess with him and be like, Oh, let's throw the ball to you. Whoop. And then he freaks out for a second because he's like, what the fuck? And I'm pretty sure I convinced him I'm some kind of wizard. I do that with the dog sometimes. So I'm gonna see how long I can keep that going.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Lexi's worked that out. Lexi is no longer fooled by that one. I've done it too many times, but James is still figuring it out. So that's pretty conniving, right? That's very conniving. Nice, nice, nice. I would tell you all what's going on in my life,
Starting point is 00:09:23 but other than more plumbing issues, I do have more plumbing issues. You have new plumbing issues? Yeah, so we had the backflow thing removed, right? Then they wanted to come like check everything out. They're like, okay, we're just gonna come out, do like an inspection, make sure everything's working good. And they came out working good.
Starting point is 00:09:39 They're like, well, we'll hear it. Let's go ahead and just test. Like, we'll do your normal inspection. We'll test your faucets and things. The guest room shower, they went to turn on like the tub faucet thing and it was pouring out water and they're like all right they flip it to the shower shower like trickles out some water the tub part still pouring out and then behind the tub part water starts spraying
Starting point is 00:09:57 like where it connects to the wall which is not where it's supposed to be spraying so we went to replace that and uh plumber came back and was like okay you guys have the trim thing i mean yep got it is it the right one yep this looks like the right one great it didn't take long went to install it and i guess it comes with like an o-ring that helps seal it and somehow the plumber took this new o-ring and just fucking ripped it in half or something and was like ah well i can't finish installing it because you see this o-ring is damaged i accidentally ripped it whatever i was doing blah blah blah i was like okay he okay, he's like, don't worry. We got tons of these. I'll get one be back out tomorrow to fix it They have ghosted me since I've heard nothing. Oh, no This o-ring is lost in the void per usual
Starting point is 00:10:36 We've got company coming soon and I guess I've got to rule out that particular bedroom because well the bathroom If you try to use the shower also this is a more subtle thing that doesn't apply to everyone if you get a generator installed your generator comes with a set of keys that keeps it locked up so people can't just access it that are going by I highly recommend you don't lose the keys because man oh man can they not inspect the generator if you don't have the keys not saying I lost my keys I'm just telling you all out there, don't. You know what that axiom that I live by when you're talking about keys is, don't lose them.
Starting point is 00:11:13 Doesn't matter if it's for a bike lock, for a cabinet, maybe you got keys for some kind of deck box, generator. You know what I do is I just keep those. Yeah. Wade, I know the exact feeling. Did I tell you guys about when I lost the keys to my generator? No. And I had to get a locksmith out to open it?
Starting point is 00:11:36 Yeah. Now, the thing about those locks is you could put a spork in there and turn it and it would be fine. It would bust open in a second because they're not really that secure, but I didn't want to break it. Now, Locksmith comes out and he gets it open in two seconds. Literally, he doesn't even pick it. It's just like, crrk. Alright, that'll be $350. And I said, no fucking way. Your quote was 99.
Starting point is 00:12:04 You quoted 99 before you came out here I'm not paying a cent over there. I literally am looking at this guy, and I know he's ripping me off He's trying to rip me off because I tell him like that's not what you quoting is like. That's just a price man I don't set it. I was like yeah You know who did set it to ever quoted me $99 you're not like I don't care what you say He's like well. It was two locks man man It was like it was the same key for both locks you didn't even make a key is this like it was two locks man 350 it was two locks man. I was so mad Let's see $99 includes driving out there picking a lock and leaving second lock 99 goes to 350
Starting point is 00:12:41 Yes, that's what it was and as soon as that demo went through the guy ran the guy literally Ran to his car. I knew how pissed I was. He's not even the locksmith He just saw the locksmith pull up and he ran in instead. Well, that's the thing when I was calling him out on it He started to get like those adrenaline shakes Like he knew he was like, you know under pressure and I could tell like he was squirming He was gonna cave and he was gonna be like, Oh, fine, you know, but it was just that he ran. He fucking ran and I turned to have it like, what are you doing? I mean, it's fine.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I shouldn't have lost the keys. I know that, but still, it's a principle of the thing. I'm not going to let someone rip me off right to my face. All I'm thinking about right now is I set myself up so hard. The next time I need a key for something that I don't use daily, I'm gonna go and be like, oh, I'll go find the key where I left it. It's not gonna be there. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I put that key, I remember getting the keys. I have a vivid memory of being handed those keys and being told like, yeah, hang on to these. You'll get like an annual inspection. You'll need these to open it up. And I was like, cool, I'll put this in a place where I can't forget it, can't lose it. Where's that place?
Starting point is 00:13:43 That's a great question. Wait, I'm gonna come over and I'm gonna give you something that you're gonna really need to hold onto. You can need it once a year, it's extremely important. I'm just gonna need to put it somewhere secure. See where that leads you. We have a designated spot for keys. Every key to this house, including keys we've never used,
Starting point is 00:14:01 like the previous homeowners were like, here's a key to this thing, we never locked it, but if you want to, you can. Like a closet has like a lock that has like the radon thing, that you can lock this closet. I'm like, yeah, I expect so many people to want our radon mitigation plastic pipe. That's probably a really heavy demand.
Starting point is 00:14:16 There's not a single thing that's worth anything in there. They're like, yeah, you can lock it up if you like, maybe to keep a kid out or something, if you have like a child, I don't know. There's like a key for that, found it instantly. Keys for the Synology the old one. I don't even have anymore found those Everything oh man a key to the locket I had with my ex in high school found that where's the locket? Don't know got the key. Where's the keys to that generator? That's a heck of a plumbing problem you got there
Starting point is 00:14:43 Oh minus ten points to me I guess how plumbing problem you got there. Oh, minus 10 points to me, I guess. How many keys you got for that system? You're like the key master in the Matrix, just like key after key after key. One of these is for radon, the other is for uranium, the other is for poop. I want to get these mixed up. You said key master in the Matrix. I want you to know I pictured the Oracle from the Matrix, but then I also pictured the pageagemaster, like the childhood movie. No one talks about
Starting point is 00:15:09 the Pagemaster. Great movie dude. Wait, have we not talked about the Pagemaster? Because that movie is dramatically underrated. Exactly and traumatizing for children. A little bit. Yeah. The Pagemaster, like no one ever talks about anymore, but also- You know who that kid is is it's mostly animated so it may not be obvious Do you remember who the kid is who's this? It's McCauley Culkin, right? It's McCauley Culkin. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy I had a book You know those kids books where you push this thing on the side where you push the buttons and it makes the sounds thought I had one of those of the page master
Starting point is 00:15:38 But it was like from the movie all I remember is there was a horror button where you push it and he just went Follow me and that like sound echoes through my brain. Every moment I exist. Isn't the librarian in that movie someone famous to like Christopher Lloyd or something? Yeah. He's Chris. Yeah. He's yeah. Doc Brown. And one of the books is what's her name? My brain is going a Rosie O'Donnell, but that's not it. Isn't the fantasy book whoopee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh, and Patrick Stewart is adventure. I forgot about that. I never realized that.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Yeah, fantasy is whoopee Goldberg adventures, Patrick Stewart. I don't recognize Frank Welker, the voice of horror. And then Leonard Nimoy is Jekyll Hyde. Oh man, that scene, you just reminded me of the fucking terrifying. That scene was one of the most terrifying scenes. Yes. Yeah. Oh my god
Starting point is 00:16:30 Like I just remember that that scream and I was like as a kid I was Yes, it's wild they start off with horror Yeah, it really kind of like settles down a bit after that like, you know It's thrilling but like man is that like the most terrifying part of the movie as a kid it's like right off the bat yeah what a way to start what a way yeah great movie great movie great movie everyone gets page master point lovely movie this episode is brought to you by Coca-Cola creations what happens when the best drink and the best cookie in the world get together? The best become besties!
Starting point is 00:17:05 Let's taste the new Coke to Coke Oreos Zero Sugar Limited Edition. Mark, are you excited? They sent us these special and then we're gonna try them. I've been in an undisclosed location kind of in a- Sucks to be you! Cheers, Bob! Yeah! I actually haven't had like a tasty treat in a while.
Starting point is 00:17:21 It's been- Ooh! It's like if Oreos was a drink, honestly. It's kind of an unexpected flavor, but it's almost like kind of like the icing of an Oreo. What do you think, Mark? Editors, put in the sound of me glugging. That's great guys, so good.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Try the new Coca-Cola Oreo Zero Sugar, limited edition. Besties for a limited time. Taste it while it lasts. Copyright 2024, The Coca-Cola Company. Copyright 2024, Mondeliz International Group. That's kind of a good segue into our topic today. I want to encourage people to branch out and just try things.
Starting point is 00:18:01 You know, there's a lot of things I don't like, there's a lot of things I do like. But I think branching out and trying things is important because you don't really know if you like something until you try it. So we're going to talk about some things that we tried and liked, things that we tried and we didn't like. So we'll kind of go back and forth. We'll start off with tried it, loved it, and we'll go to tried it, didn't like it. So really it's pretty open. I've got some subtopics if we need it. But I assume you guys can think of things you tried that you were like kind of on the fence about trying, whether it's food or jobs or games or what have you. I want to talk about trying things because I think trying things is important.
Starting point is 00:18:35 And you might try something and absolutely hate it. But you know, you don't know you hate it till you try it. And maybe you're going to be like, see, I knew I'd hate it. But for every one of those, there's oftentimes something you try and you're like, I didn't expect to like that. But man oh man, was that good. So that's where we will begin. And I don't really care who goes first, but we'll alternate just to keep it fair. So if one of you has one right away, feel free to jump in and then we'll go from there. I'm afraid I've told this story before. When I was really little, like a like 10 and under, I did not care for like rides,
Starting point is 00:19:03 like carnival rides. I was terrified of roller coasters. Anything that might go upside down scared the absolute shit out of me. But there was a gap in there between there and like 10 years later, which was like the next time I end up going to a theme park that had like roller coasters and stuff. I didn't ever go on a roller coaster. I refused. It's not like I went on one and hated it. I just wouldn't. And then at some point I was like 18, 19, 20 years old and friends were going to Cedar Point and I was like, I'll come.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Like, oh, I wanna go. That's a fun trip and whatever. And we got there and they were like, there's nothing to do here except roller coasters. There's no way you're coming on a trip to Cedar Point with us and not riding roller coasters. And I was like, I might hate it guys. I never liked roller coasters.
Starting point is 00:19:47 And I was really freaked out about it. And I remember we went on Magnum, which was once the tallest roller coaster in the world or in the country or something, and then Millennium Force is also at Cedar Point. So they have a bunch of tall coasters, a big tall coaster. And I remember I got on and up the first hill, I was just like, oh God. Oh, I'm gonna be so
Starting point is 00:20:06 Like I was like panicking and then we got over the hill and got literally like as we crested the hill I went from panic to like slowly easing my arms up to just like It was the greatest thing ever I spent a whole decade of my life just assuming I didn't like roller coasters, because when I was a kid, I didn't like the motion was too much for me. I fucking love roller coasters. It's so exhilarating. Upside down doesn't bother me. Whatever. It's all the different kinds. Love them. And I was so shocked and my friends were like, why are you shocked? Everybody likes roller coasters. We came here to do roller coasters from like three hours away.'m like yeah i guess that makes sense but i like them guys that's so
Starting point is 00:20:50 crazy similar story to that i uh dated a girl for a few months in like seven third grade she tricked me to getting on adventure express at king's island which is like the most kiddie coaster for adults love it though and i was like all alright, there's all these kids that are like five, six years old getting on there and they're like, woo, let's do it again! And I was like, I don't know, I don't know if I'm gonna like this, do we have to? I was the one freaking out in the line, like, there's not much of a line for it. It usually goes pretty quick and I was, like, the kids are running behind me and I was like, yeah, you guys go ahead.
Starting point is 00:21:22 And she was like, no, no, it's gonna be fine, you're gonna enjoy it, it's like, trust me, there's no loops or anything. And she was like, no, no, it's gonna be fine. You're gonna enjoy it. It's like, trust me, there's no loops or anything. And I was like, oh, but are there big hills, big scary hills? I don't know if I like a big scary hill. Meanwhile, driving in a car, if you go up and down the big hill, like, yeah, that was fun! But something about not having a roof over my head, I was like, oh, I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna like it all of a sudden. She got me on that one, got me on the racer back whenever the racer was forward and backward.
Starting point is 00:21:44 And we kind of just went from there but like every time I enjoyed it and she was like all right let's go to one tiny step forward like I don't know if I like one tiny step forward I like that one but like if this one's a little bit scarier I don't know then I'd like it so same thing did you really find the adventure express that terrifying I remember it being bumpy I don't remember it that terrible though I had never ridden it so like looking at it it was bigger than the teacups this is total departure from roller coasters what I would recommend people trying is taking an improv class because this goes back to like us doing
Starting point is 00:22:16 the tour and stuff like that as a youtuber I had this like well actually even before I was a youtuber I loved whose line is it anyway I thought it was hilarious I still think it's hilarious I don't watch it as much as I did, but I watched it religiously back in the day, looping through, people know that. But taking an improv class is such a drastic difference from watching it because you won't realize how unfunny you are until you take that first improv class. 101 is just a bunch of people, everyone's nervous, no one's confident, and no one has any instincts, unless they're just there taking it again for fun. But I recommend it because it's kind of a safe space to suck. And it's not on stage, it's just with a bunch of other people that also don't know. And it is fun when you start to understand like that it is just supposed to be for fun I believe actors should take improv classes
Starting point is 00:23:09 I learned more about acting in an improv class than I ever did taking an actual acting class I don't recommend people try an acting class, especially if it's like an advertised one look good Are you school or so prestigious will teach you so much stuff. It's like I hated every acting class I ever went to It's just such a such such a smarmy, stupid area. But the improv classes were actually very fun, very educational and, and did help train that kind of openness and natural response. So if you ever wanted to get out of your comfort zone, I recommend taking an improv class. It's good times. I'm assuming you took one beyond what we did for the tour. Are you talking about the one
Starting point is 00:23:44 we did together? I took one before we started getting training from Rachel. I had that experience whenever we were doing that in front of Rachel and it was like this great idea I mean it's gonna really hit and with Rachel as our only audience member and she just sit there like stone-faced watching us and like you could just feel like oh god technically I did something wrong was it funny it wasn It wasn't funny. Am I funny? I'm not funny. No, like you have all those thoughts every scene you do You're like you go through like those catastrophic thoughts of like did what a great scene up. She's not laughing
Starting point is 00:24:14 Was it funny? It's just questioning everything but that's still one of my greatest joys in life. I made Rachel laugh Once was it the time she went? made Rachel laugh once. Was it the time she went, haha, dick? Is that it? Well, no, that wasn't to me or was it? That was to someone who just like, no butted the absolute fuck out of an absolute softball. It was like a conversation in three lines.
Starting point is 00:24:37 And so it was like, hey David. And they're like, I'm Jeremy. It was like, wow. No, I don't remember if that was it or not, but I just remember I made her laugh by being so inept at the game we're playing that I absolutely demolished every rule all in one sentence and action that I took. But still I made Rachel laugh.
Starting point is 00:24:57 So it was funny. She's tough audience though. And also so effortlessly funny that it's, I remember that feeling. I'll remember that for the rest of my life. I think when everyone buys in and accepts the rules of improv, if somebody does break the rules in the right circumstance, it can be really funny. Oh yeah. Being a musician, I know this well.
Starting point is 00:25:15 You have to earn your bones before you're allowed to just willy-nilly break rules and whatnot. But it's so easy to break the rules. I love whose line. I want to go back and rewatch the old seasons again. That Arctic turd bit has been in my head for a while now too, because it came up on social media recently. What sound does it make? Backstreet Boys? No, Colin.
Starting point is 00:25:34 That's wrong. I was thinking of an owl. The scene they do, I forget what the game is called, but basically they're like, they've got to like beat their spies and they have to break into like the... I forget if they even call them, I've called them some fucking crazy, it was like the Eber Fluss of something or another. And they're basically it's like the cat, the scene with the cat. Yeah. I don't remember much about the scene other than they're like breaking into some like Prince's apartment or something and they've got to like change out his uh- His Bernuus. Bernuus. The Bernuus of whatever.
Starting point is 00:26:12 They couldn't get the name either. And like you could tell Ryan and Colin don't know what a Bernuus is or at least one of them I don't think we did. They don't know who the hell this person is and the whole time Colin is just like fucking with Ryan and Ryan can't keep it together And it's so funny the Bernou scene I figured I don't remember all the specifics but god that every time that whole scene always gets me cuz we need something to agitate it Give me the beans The cat no, that's no good the cat's wet now God is so funny. That's opportunity with no but works the cat no the cat? God, it's so funny. That's an opportunity where no butt works. The cat, no, the cat's wet.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Cause this building is like, ah, come on, man. The cat's wet. No is different than we can't. That's true. Can I steal someone's story for a thing that people tried, but it was someone else, but they liked it? Sure. Karaoke.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Interesting. I am not a big singer. I am not a big singing in front of other people type person. I love music, but I play instruments. I don't sing. And I didn't do this, but this past weekend, Mandy was at her brother's birthday celebrations. And one of the things they did is they went to a karaoke bar. And this is not like the Korean style where it's like you get your own room and you're just your party kind of singing with each other or whatever is like the whole bar is watching. It's a stage. You go up on stage, you're just your party kind of singing with each other or whatever. It was like the whole bar is watching.
Starting point is 00:27:26 It's a stage. You go up on stage, you do a song in front of everybody. She was very reticent about it. And basically they all got there and everyone was like, well, we're here. You have to do it now. You have to do it. And she got pressured into doing it. She thought it was going to be awful.
Starting point is 00:27:40 She was really nervous about it. Mandy's honestly a pretty good singer. Like she's a good musician. She just didn't want to do awful. She was really nervous about it. Mandy's honestly a pretty good singer. Like she's a good musician. She just didn't want to do it. But then she got up on stage and the thing about at least good karaoke bars apparently is you just get unconditional hype when you do it. You go up there and even if you sing the absolute worst rendition of whatever thing you're singing, the whole fucking place is drunk and hype and everyone is just like cheering and screaming.
Starting point is 00:28:06 And it's like, no matter how terrified you might be or how bad of a singer you might be, whatever, it's just like a hard to experience that feeling because of what we do. And like, we've done the live show, but we also do it. We kind of get that where people cheer for us no matter how stupid or terrible we are or our jokes are whatever sometimes. We need it. Yeah, but like it's hard to get that if your job isn't being an idiot online in front of everybody all the time. And she said it was like just the best. Just it was that karaoke bar was fucking great.
Starting point is 00:28:38 And it was great to do. And it was like a big morale boost to just get that kind of unconditional hype and cheering. And so yeah, do karaoke, get out there. It's terrifying, but it's exciting. Here's the tip. If you're nervous, pick a song that is universally loved, like do like sweet Caroline or something, because then everyone's going to sing along with you anyway and clap along.
Starting point is 00:28:56 You can't go wrong with like a classic that everyone else wants to hear sing along to anyway. What you should really do is try and do rap God. Everyone loves rap god. Our VFX guy Wes, we had a rap party for Iron Lung and it's you know at the rooftop bar someplace. We've done it for Heist in Space. Rap like the end of the party or rap like everyone had to rap? Like wrap up Wade. Like wrapping up, yes. And Wes loves karaoke, like loves karaoke. So he brought his own karaoke setup, which he has to
Starting point is 00:29:30 the rap party. It wasn't there there. And what what is so amazing is some of the people that you would never expect are unbelievable karaoke experts, I would say one person, he was in the the makeup and like prosthetic design. He regularly wins competitions for performing karaoke. He is incredible and some of the people like in like the lighting department, Bailey was just like an unbelievable singer and there's so many other different talents that were getting up there and just yearning for it. Everyone loves karaoke.
Starting point is 00:30:05 It doesn't matter if you're good or bad. And then doing it in a group setting is just amazing because you'll see like these talents come out of nowhere and just like blow you away. It's super cool. Very fun. Cool. Do you have another one that you do like
Starting point is 00:30:17 that you want to go with Mark? Cause I was going to switch it up and go to things that we didn't like that we tried. I mean, there's a ton of a mind kind of overlap with what you guys have been doing. There's so many things that I've tried, I guess. What's something you tried and absolutely hated? Okay, we're switching to hate acting class.
Starting point is 00:30:31 I mean, I did mention that. That's fair. Here's why. In acting class, unlike with 101 improv, you have people that have been taking that class for years and years. And the problem with that is in each acting class They start to develop their own Inside language and their own inside jokes and their own inside
Starting point is 00:30:53 What is good and they develop a taste that is exclusive to that class and not necessarily even if the class is teaching a subset Of acting that people really believe and in all honesty like each subset of acting is just a different way to get to the same point, right? Believability or like truth in the moment or yada yada. It's what improv is, just like just being relaxed and in the moment. But then you get these people that are just so unbelievably pretentious and they almost teach through shame, right? They teach by going, when you go up and try to do something and you don't do it right, instead of everyone laughing it off and being like, ha ha, you know, no, not like that. They, no one laughs. No one does anything other than just being like,
Starting point is 00:31:37 wow, you're not doing it right. At least some of the acting classes that I've been to, but I've been to a few now and they're all the same. And so you have people that just don't want to give you any kind of leeway outside of the box that they believe is the right method and I'm not saying all of it's like that but I've had much better experience with one-on-one practice and coaching than I ever have in a class setting but obviously you know it's harder to get that because that's more expensive to pay for
Starting point is 00:32:03 one-on-one training but also at the same time I've learned more about acting just by doing than I ever did taking a class or learning Something you hate Bob. I'm gonna start with a big one Oh, it's gonna out me as a nerd and generally uncool loser person My first one I want to go with is alcohol. Can I just say once and for all, I understand that adults are supposed to have your palette develops and I do feel like mine has developed and I like more complex and bitter and whatever flavors than I used to. My scale for like what alcohol I want
Starting point is 00:32:39 if someone is like we're having drinks and they're like, what do you have is what do I find the least offensive thing I can drink from the bar that we're at or whatever and it's generally like a gin and tonic or some kind of really light beer not light beer but like wheat beers or something because they're generally they have pretty inoffensive tastes. I thought at some point like ever I don't know everyone a lot of people have that experience where you're in college or you're college-ish age, right? You reach drinking age, because I would never have drank before I turned 21.
Starting point is 00:33:10 I definitely waited. And you get that first opportunity and you're like, oh, I get to try this now. And the first time you try beer or whatever, you're kind of like, yeah, it's great. Ugh, ugh. But like, you're supposed to like it, right? It's a thing.
Starting point is 00:33:24 And especially it's your birthday party or whatever like fine, but I never got past that every time I've ever drank anything it was mainly because we were in a setting where everyone was like let's have a drink and I didn't be that want to be that one guy it was like oh give me a diet Coke with a lime on the rim. Oh hold me over really want to mix it up with this lime. It's just gross. You guys are not big drinkers either So maybe this is a weird group to have this conversation
Starting point is 00:33:49 Is there like an alcohol you really like like you drink it and you think mmm delicious Or is it like you drink it and you're like wow despite how burning that is in my mouth or whatever I can tolerate that are you talking beers or alcohol? It's been a while since I took a shot. Anything, I don't know. All of it. Even mixed drinks. I like non-alcoholic beers of certain types. I don't want the fancy
Starting point is 00:34:16 IPA with all the hops. I like a non-alcoholic light beer because I drank piss water even when I was in college and I enjoyed it because it didn't have a lot of flavor but it had just enough. So I do enjoy like my most recent one is called Athletic Light. Athletic makes a bunch of other ones that I don't give a shit about. They're all these upside down or whatever it's called with like, oh it's got so many notes of
Starting point is 00:34:44 yada yada and I don't care You can really taste the dirt it was grown in. I was like I don't care. Give me the light one So the light one is actually great. I like it a lot. Crazy expensive way too expensive. It's not even alcohol in it Why is it so expensive? It doesn't make any sense. That is kind of silly. Smirnoff's Mike's Hard Lemonades those kinds of drinks I enjoy there's like a New Year's Celebration Mike's Hard Lemonade that had like some different flavors that I actually really enjoyed.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Pina coladas, like fruity drinks like that. As long as they're lighter on the alcohol. I don't want a lot of alcohol. In fact, I would be happy with just like a virgin daiquiri or virgin pina colada, but sometimes like a little bit adds a little bit of a flavor without being like the burning grossness. But if they put too much in there, it's just kind of like,
Starting point is 00:35:24 oh man, the bartender was generous tonight yeah got a good one but like if your goal is to get intoxicated i guess that's what you want but for me it's like i don't if i get like when we were doing drunk minecraft back in the day man we'd record earlier in the afternoon and getting fucking hammered at like 2 p.m and then having the rest of the day to be like oh fuck good thing I don't work today my day off Dude have I ever told you about that time? I was a maker and we were doing an idea that involved drinking have I ever talked about this I don't think so. I don't remember this
Starting point is 00:35:55 This is one of the first time that I was coming out to LA So it was very early on and there was this idea to do a kind of mini series that was about you know Drunk history, right? It was a parody of mini-series that was about, you know, drunk history, right? It was a parody of that, but talking about video games. So I was, uh, get drunk, talk about a game from your childhood. It was actually not a bad idea, just like, you know, it doesn't have the same punch as drunk history because you're just recalling something from your- your childhood or trying to explain it to me. It's like a spinoff of that sort of thing, I could see that.
Starting point is 00:36:22 So I did that, and, you know, I don't tolerate tolerate alcohol very well but this is before I had my heart attack and I stopped drinking. So it's one o'clock right? I get there in the morning and we start drinking and start filming and so it's at a place that's like down the street from where Maker Studios used to be. For those who don't know Maker Studios was the MCN that I was a part of when I first started multi-channel network it was a big thing it's not a thing anymore there are some but I don't know why maybe for smaller channels do need it for like you know collective getting brand deals it does help to some extent but for the most part back then it was a Wild West and
Starting point is 00:36:55 there was a lot of like sometimes not cool sometimes very cool done man down the street filmed it walked back to the main studio and I drove there so I needed to like wait until I was good. I clearly was not in any shape to drive. So I was gonna just spend a few hours there hang out talk to people and maybe film another video. I was spending a lot of time at the office, but I walked in hammered right at 1 30 right so Everyone thought that I had a serious problem. No one told anyone else in the office what was happening.
Starting point is 00:37:29 And here I am being like, Hey man, how you doing? It's just, I had a whole bottle of wine or something, and it's just like, just breathing at everybody. And I heard later that people legitimately thought, Oh God, oh no, he's, oh fuck, what do we do? I guess ignore it. Oh, should we help him? Oh man, this is so- all these- oh, it sucks when a YouTuber just goes downhill, huh? It's just- people thought that for a long time before eventually, like, the story came around, like, oh, is that a show that never actually went out?
Starting point is 00:38:02 So, there's footage of that somewhere somewhere somewhere. There's footage of that recording I don't know where though. I never had it because it wasn't my show There's a lot of maker things that never quite came to fruition I filmed a couple of them that were like this might be good And we'll see and then like it just disappeared off the face of the earth Yeah, and then you did that Ellen Musk show. Yep Are you a robot or whatever the hell it was called something like that? Yeah. Really thought it was Ellen for a long time. That's really funny.
Starting point is 00:38:27 No one corrected me, dude. I just, knowing, knowing you personally and like how you, like who you are and how you choose to drink and just in general, even before you really stopped completely, it's so fucking funny to think there, there was some, like a small group of people out there was like, oh my God, is a raging alcoholic holy fuck there's probably like one or two people it's like left after that day they still think that is he okay I'm sure there are they're like Mark says he doesn't drink because of health reasons I'm sure it's because of rehab it's good for him guess, but he could at least be honest court ordered health reasons.
Starting point is 00:39:08 I don't know. I know. And explained it to there. How is there no crossover between the, whoever may have known you did that and that everyone else? Cause someone just had to like walk in and they were like, Oh, Mark's drunk guy. And one person had to be like, Oh, we just filmed the show, but like drunk gaming history. We just filmed that. He just drank like a whole bottle of wine for show, for the show we filmed. And they would have all been like, oh wow, that makes sense. This was at a time when there was like 200 people in that office. Like, oh lord. Packed with people. So I can totally understand where Word wouldn't get around far enough.
Starting point is 00:39:42 But it's a thing where it's like a whole pen of people working and you have to walk past all of them to get into the area where the gaming section was. So, and... I just imagine you bursting through the double doors, stumbling in like, hello everybody. They're like, oh God, Mark's here again. I probably was kind of annoying like that. So I wouldn't doubt that I did.
Starting point is 00:40:04 And frankly, I just went in and started blabbering and I took a nap on a couch somewhere and I don't even know whose couch. It was like couches around. Mark, you can have my couch, but I gotta go work over here for a while and you're, BYE BYE! God, don't remind me. Probably what it was. Drunk Mark sounds a lot like toddler Mark. James says bye to everything. Literally walking through a parking lot, he's like, hi car, bye bye car.
Starting point is 00:40:26 That's cute. It's cute, but it's silly. It's a little bit different of an image than Mark like hammers and be like, hey car, bye car. Toddlers are kind of like drunk adults. That's not unfair. What are we talking about?
Starting point is 00:40:40 Things we don't like. You said alcohol. Right, right, right. Does anyone drink alcohol because they think it's delicious or because you need a little buzz and also you'll tolerate whatever alcohol you drink? Some people say it's like coffee where it's an acquired taste
Starting point is 00:40:53 and they enjoy it more over time. But I feel like by the time I would enjoy it, I would have to have a problem because I've been drinking on and off for, you know, however many years now. I don't love it, but I'll have a social drink. I like the fruity, tasty drinks. But even those, like I said, like the lower alcohol content, the more I seem to enjoy it. So probably not weird.
Starting point is 00:41:10 I'm sure it is an acquired taste, but more likely it's just because there's that end result of alcohol in your system as opposed to the taste. Mark something else you tried and you didn't like it. Mark, something else? You tried and you didn't like it. I don't recommend... I did it for a very short amount of time, and I'm sure to some people it was very fulfilling. I did not like being a waiter. A waiter is a very, very tough job, and some people, you know, some people like do it all the time and they're very good at it. I did not like being a waiter because it's not that I couldn't do it, it's not that I couldn't be nice and I
Starting point is 00:41:47 you know it's very very charming. It's just like the heartbreak of you put everything into the service you provided. You made them laugh, everything was great and then the tip at the end of it is just abysmal. What really struck me and always remember because I like I did great I was trying to take care of this table It was like a family of four or five or something like that fairly large bill and I was like, okay this would be good tip like that and they they tipped about eight percent and They left a note being like great service here. You deserve this To an eight percent tip and I I'm not a big proponent of tipping culture in general
Starting point is 00:42:26 I feel like that probably should change someday but that was heartbreaking and I realized like it doesn't matter how much effort I put in this is just the way it is so I couldn't do it also that the terrible tables were just awful people don't give a shit and people get really mad for the smallest reasons and they just want to take their frustrations out on someone that they feel is Beneath them so yeah don't recommend that that is a tough job. Yeah, very tough job I don't ever like the economy sucks right now and people are struggling for money But like waiters and waitresses, I feel like I've always usually been undertook
Starting point is 00:42:56 I try to tip well whenever I get whenever I go out and have service or whatever But like this is not something a fun thing to have like that unpredictable of a income Yeah, I gave you a point and I wrote waiter and I drew a top hat on the W for no particular reason. I just wanted you to know that it's there. Thank you. He wasn't a fancy waiter. Okay, let's not get it twisted. It was for the sushi place I worked at.
Starting point is 00:43:16 I also worked at. So he's like, fuck you, Bob. I hated that job. Since we well, but you were not mostly a waiter there. That was right. Wasn't that right near the end? Yeah. So I went waiter and then I was like, uh, I hate this. Can I try a bartender? And then I, uh, I had the, the appendix tumor power duo and I lost my job got taken. So I didn't have a position there anymore. I should have just stuck with
Starting point is 00:43:38 busing. Bussing was so nice. Nah, dude, busing was where it was at. I was a busser at that place for a while. It was nice. Go clear a table, pour some water, drink some miso, eat some rice, clear a table. The endless supply of miso soup and rice in the back and spicy mayo. You could just like get a bowl of rice, put a little spicy mayo, have a little snack. And they always had family.
Starting point is 00:43:58 Did you ever get to have the family meal there? Yeah, that was so good. If you started right at open, you got to eat the meal that like all the real employees got to eat. You are there as a buster, you're like, I have what? Me? Yeah, oh, it's delicious. It was always good. That job was amazing.
Starting point is 00:44:12 That was a great place. I did not realize how good that job was until I lost it and had to like, I worked in Micro Center and oh. And the guy who managed it too, Leo was his name. Leo was awesome. I, after I worked there, but before we moved away at Mandy and I went to each of on a few times and every time we showed
Starting point is 00:44:29 up, Leo would be like, Hey, Bob, look at your special table. Have some appetizers. But that dude was awesome. He was super nice. His New York accent with it. But let me be honest, Leo was Chinese and he was an immigrant and I'm not going to try to emulate how he actually spoke. He was like just the best to best probably one of the best managers I ever had. Very awesome. He was really, really cool. He was cool to me to whenever I went back. I never saw him there. But man, yes, that was a really, really good job. Good place. I hope it's still in business. Is it? I
Starting point is 00:45:02 don't know. We've been we've been meaning to like have a look and go stop by if it was still open business. Is it I don't know we've been we've been meaning to like to have a look and go Stop by if it was still open, but I think I looked on like Google Maps And it's still there, but I have no idea if it was like sold the new ownership or what exactly. Okay Well, hopefully or if it's just not mark disclosed on Google who knows mark hated that place good point for mark It's funny that you brought up like a job This is what a thing I did as a job for a short time. Wouldn't recommend it. Driving rideshare and specifically rideshare because I also was a pizza guy. I did this before the time of like Uber Eats and DoorDash and things were big.
Starting point is 00:45:38 I would have probably really liked doing like food delivery. Driving a rides rideshare I drove for uber specifically but doing that it wasn't like always bad but the bad parts were so bad it was not worth the rest of it because it was just a string of people like some nights I would only meet nice people some nights every single fair they get in and you're like hey are you Melissa yeah we're going okay and you do the drive and they then they tip you and it's like cool and whatever. It was decent. But the bad ones, holy fuck are the bad ones
Starting point is 00:46:10 etched in my memory forever. I, the worst fare I ever had, I drove a Ford Fusion and I was just like an Uber driver and a midsize sedan. So I could accommodate four small adults. Like there could technically be three people in the back seat, but that was it. And one time I pulled up, we were living near North Carolina State University. And so I would do a lot of college fairs. I pulled up to like a sorority house and five completely trashed, like girls who were at
Starting point is 00:46:39 a sorority party walked up and we're like, this is our car. And I was like, there's at least one too many of you. I can't take like, you should order an XL or whatever. And they're like, we're getting in. And like I rolled the window down, but I hadn't unlocked the doors. They like reached in and opened the door. They literally just would not stop getting in the car.
Starting point is 00:47:01 At a certain point, I just resigned and I was like, okay, it's a short drive. I'll just fucking like, this is probably illegal a short drive. I'll just fucking, like, this is probably illegal and not great. We'll just go safely and quickly and I'll get rid of them. It was literally less than a 10 minute drive. And in this time, they almost got me pulled over twice because they were, one of them kept trying
Starting point is 00:47:18 to hang out the window and yell at people. But then another one of them was starting to get sick and they started hanging out the window so that they could be sick out the window. And it was four girls in the back seat and one in the front. The one in the front was, I don't know if asleep, I don't remember. Super nice. Didn't say anything.
Starting point is 00:47:36 Didn't bother me. Totally fine. But those girls, that was near the end. And that was one of the last nights where that like boiled the whole night, pissed me off. I also had a bunch of really angry people just in general Having to interact with people in that way in the ride share format as the driver was not worth it Didn't make enough nearly enough money at that job for that to be worth it sucked people suck did some random crazy shit or
Starting point is 00:47:59 Made fun of me a good number of people would be really mean to me make a lot of fat jokes Or just like poke fun at the car or like they were just in a bad mood and they took it out on me. It's like really weird. That's bizarre. I don't know some people are like that they just they're like okay this person I've hired status I need to build myself up and the only way I know is to put someone down. Some people are just like that. I've told you about the guy that I knew in college anytime a girl was around. He insulted every other guy around him just because he had to make himself feel, not look, it was not a good look, it never worked, but make himself feel like he was above everyone else and that would mark
Starting point is 00:48:39 him as like just a Sedanus of a man and that's real Sigma shit right there. Yeah absolutely, 100%. See I had the opposite thought whenever you talk about the is like just a Sedanus of a man and that's real Sigma shit right there yeah absolutely 100% see I had the opposite thought whenever you're talking about the rideshare thing do you remember Bob I don't know if you were there or not I can't remember there was a convention we went to I think it was in Boston it was I think I was there and we were going to a maker party and we called a cab and we were running late and we made the mistake of telling the cab driver we were running late and it was at least the three of us, I think it was the three of us, I was at least with you, Mark.
Starting point is 00:49:06 But like we told the cab driver we were running late and he proceeded to drive in like the middle of the road, rolled down both windows, had a middle finger hanging out of both sides and fucking just flew, cut down some sketchy back alleys, got us there and he wouldn't open the doors until we gave him a big tip for getting us there quickly.
Starting point is 00:49:24 Neat, I actually don't think I was in that one. He did what you asked, I guess. We, comrade. What we asked. What man. I thought you were going to talk about, it was, we had like a full SUV with like a bunch of us trying to just get to the convention and he couldn't fucking find his way out of a paper bag. And somehow we ended up like down by the water on a little one-way delivery road. And he did like a turnaround, awkwardly drove out the one way.
Starting point is 00:49:52 He was just hopelessly lost and sucked at driving and navigating in general. Yeah, Boston has some crazy Ubers. We had an Uber or I think it was Uber driver took us to the airport and wouldn't let us get our luggage out of the trunk until he saw us physically give him a five-star rating God out of the trunk our luggage. Oh, I thought you were trapped in the truck It's just I missed something key there. No, no our luggage was in the trunk
Starting point is 00:50:16 We were able to get out but we couldn't have our luggage until we gave him a five-star rating I've seen that in a comedy sketch on SNL, not in real life. Really happened. He was angry, kind of muscular guy, but uh, you know, would not let us have our shit till he saw the five star rating. It's like, dude, I would have just given you one, like if the ride was fine, why the fuck are you so scary now? Does he know that you can petition afterwards? Tell him that you were going, tell customer service. Tell them that that was a very bad experience actually, and you were just trying to avoid a mugging. A mugging, mugging, a mugging. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:53 Yeah, we were gonna get mugged. Don't know man, but it was, the whole ride was perfectly fine, he was nice, he didn't talk too much, like we kind of chatted among ourselves, it was great. Got there and then all of a sudden, his demeanor just fucking shifted as to like, I'll let you have your stuff once I see you give me a five-star rating and it's like you saw him up in the front Seat just like the shadow on the ceiling
Starting point is 00:51:18 So have you guys ever like some sometimes you get an uber black or whatever and they're like they'll have bottles of water And it's like they're trying to be fancy Have you ever had like a really low rent uber try and be fancy, but it is weird We had this one where it was like it was a fine car But it's like an old 90s Buick whatever not a very fancy new car But he had like plastic grocery bags tied on the back of the seat with like little fun size bags of chips in it. And then like a different bag on the floor, like a sack full of water bottles. And we got in and he was like, help yourself to some snacks guys. Check this out. I got chips.
Starting point is 00:51:54 We got cold drinks. I don't think they were cold. I think they're just on the floor. But like it was just super weird cause it was like trying to be a town car, but actually not like just not very nice guy. It's just weird I could see he's trying he's trying there. I get it. He wants those five stars I guess had a friend lent rental limo one time that drove us like an airport or whatever Which was cool. It had like a cooler with like I think I could bottle of wine some glasses and like sodas and stuff But the snacks were open bags of chips that were clipped closed but clearly had been
Starting point is 00:52:27 shared by the people before but like new bottles of wine and sodas on ice in the back and then previously opened big bags of like Doritos just like with a clip on it. Great. Alright guys we're at the we're at the airport can you roll those up and put those chip clips back on the bags for me? Just so I don't have to climb back there and do that, I appreciate it. Are you sure that wasn't someone else's snack that they had left behind? Did he say anything about them? It was in its own little basket, like three or four different bags of chips. One was unopened.
Starting point is 00:52:59 It was like sour cream or something, and then like three that were open in various amounts left with a clip on it. So if it was left, he was like, sweet, free food for the next ones and just put them in a basket but I don't know the clip is premeditated you don't just have chip clips in a car you have chip clips because you we expect to have leftover chips somewhere that guy knows what he did yeah that's a memory I thought that should have just been lost to the void but it's back well as we wind down here any more big likes or dislikes of things you try that you guys want to throw out there Before we wrap up we can do one more each you choose like or dislike whatever comes to mind. I didn't like Okay, I don't partake I have but bob like, you know perfectly legally, of course
Starting point is 00:53:43 Well, if if we're being totally honest, you just happened to come hang out with me at a point where other people also made that happen. I'm going to sell myself out as a total weenie again. I've never bought any weed except for one time in my life, which was I was in Amsterdam and I went to a cafe where it's completely legal to just like buy and then smoke upstairs in the cafe and then go hang out and do Amsterdam stuff I had friends, you know generous friends And then you you left to pick up someone from the airport and then I proceeded to pack two more bowls and smoke them
Starting point is 00:54:14 Myself, I don't think I ever told you that I did that when you arrived. I was just catatonic on the couch How many times did I go to the bathroom like constantly? Yeah, I kept getting up. We, Gotta go to the bathroom guys. And I would just sit on the floor, look at the ceiling, watch it melt, and be like, Come on, come on,
Starting point is 00:54:30 keep it together, come on, keep it together, he doesn't know a thing, he got this, you're so cool about this. And go back, lay on the couch, pretend to watch TV, because I didn't see a thing.
Starting point is 00:54:40 I think I was functionally blind when I was on that couch, staring at the lights on the TV. I'd be like, go to the bathroom again. And then I would go lay on the floor. Come on, Ben. Come on. Dude, that's so funny when that happens. I don't know if it's specific varieties of weed or whatever that they gave you different types of highs. I think that's a thing. But like there was one time I was in Vegas with some friends and it was after it was legalized there and we got some like gummies and we just like had what seemed like a reasonable amount
Starting point is 00:55:10 of dosage and then went and hung out in the pool for a while. It was totally fine and I was having a good time and then at one point it just like hit and I don't remember this but I apparently I stood straight up in a pool that was like three feet deep and I'm six and a half feet tall. So I stood up this huge dude and I looked over at friends and I was like, do you think they could tell I'm so high right now? Do you think anyone knows? Like I was so, it just like hit and I was just like, Oh, and lost all concept of anyone else being around. Apparently it was fucking hilarious. I don't really remember it that much. I, to this day, have never tried anything.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Alcohol is the one thing I've tried. I've tried nothing else. Not a puff of a cigarette, not a puff of a cigar, not weed, nothing. That's fair. I miss it much with tobacco. It is addictive, but... I still like the smell. Yeah, no, I still like
Starting point is 00:56:05 the smell of cigars. My dad smokes cigars and smoked them when I was a kid. And I'll have one from time to time, but I'm the same with cigars as I am with alcohol. I smoked the cigar that I find least offensive, but I still, every time I'm like, love this. I have a quick and easy one that was just really sad. Sure. Our summer vacations when I was a kid, we would always just go camping up in Northern Michigan. My mom became increasingly successful in her career as we grew up. So it sort of went from like camping until like we would get like a cottage or a rental or something.
Starting point is 00:56:36 But we would, there was one place, I don't remember exactly when it was, but we were camping somewhere and there was this place that was renting out recumbent bicycles. Recumbent meaning like you sit back and the pedals are kind of in front of you and it's like you're really low to the ground and you're kind of laying back and it's a bicycle. And everyone was fucking riding them. They were yellow, they were bright yellow and you saw them everywhere and then we were there for like a week camping and just hanging out and every day I was like, God, I want to do that so bad.
Starting point is 00:57:05 God, can we rent some of those bicycles? And my parents were like, that don't look very fun. I mean, we'll think about it, but like, I don't think you're gonna like it. And I was just obsessed. Please, please let me just ride. I'll ride it by myself and I'll just ride around by our campsite.
Starting point is 00:57:20 Finally, they relented and went through the whole thing and paid and it was kind of expensive blah blah blah finally I got my helmet I sat down I rode maybe 30 feet before I was like Oh no I'm a committed to doing this for like the rest of today now I made this such a big fucking deal I can't I never said a word about it to my parents or anyone I just rode around it was like I fucking hated that thing. God damn it. Some people need to ride or come a bike for Physical reasons posture reasons or whatever physical demands of their body. However, they're so fucking uncomfortable to me
Starting point is 00:58:03 Oh my god, I hated it so deeply anyway. That was very disappointing I never told my bear I pretended to like the shit out of that recumbent bike to this day They think you liked the bike that they probably were watching me ride around smiling but crying and we're like I knew he wouldn't like it Now he's just gonna have to ride that thing around all day Well good episode boys. I, good episode, boys. I'm gonna go through here and see how we all did. Mark, let's start with you. Ugh, come on, man.
Starting point is 00:58:31 Don't do me like this. I'm sure it means nothing. I have points for Good or Great, The Man Who Has Nothing, I Steal Lines, Funny Joke! Maybe it's supposed to be funny joke I don't know secret plot improv class rap party acting class bad raging alcoholic Mr.. Hyde callback lead Bob's fault. Oh you both got a page master point. I read off to the side, too Oh nice nice Bob you got points for ready, linus tip, watch band,
Starting point is 00:59:08 which led me to think about rock band, which led me to think I miss rock band. So your watch band got you a point. Nice. Wear ball in all caps. Oh, I think when you were James throwing the ball. Park rides, the roller coasters, made Rachel laugh, alcohol bad through
Starting point is 00:59:29 Craddick K. R. A. D. I see too bad, you know Bad is definitely what that probably says probably driving ride share sorority know Can they tell I'm high and campsite biking mark you finished with five 17 points. Oh, cool. I wonder who won. Unfortunately, because you didn't get the two bonus points at the start, you started off a little behind. Bob, you finished with 5, 10, 15, 16 points,
Starting point is 00:59:54 meaning Mark wins. What? No bullshitties? No bullshitties. And then I get the two extra points? And then Bob gets two extra points, but Mark does too cuz page master all right do the outro fellas I'll be right back you don't need me all right that's your loser speech right
Starting point is 01:00:10 oh wait loser speech yeah I mean I suck look I suck so bad I quit the podcast bye and there you have it all right sitting Bob wow uh high stakes here um I'm I'm proud to have won the last episode of Distractable. Just sad I won't be able to host another with this win. What a finish. Many crimes were admitted in this episode. If they were cut out, that's the editor's fault, and the bodies shall remain buried, I guess. But hopefully, you know, all will be as they are. Bob is currently running away from the police.
Starting point is 01:00:43 They're coming for him. We can only hope they catch him. He deserves it. Well, if you haven't already, go follow Bob. He's my skirm, wherever he is. Markiplier. He'll be hosting an episode with no one else there, cause he won.
Starting point is 01:00:55 And I'm Wade, Minion777 or LordMinion777. We have merch, distractablesstore.com. Stay tuned for whatever the three of us get into next. Prison life? Nothing. New friendships, cause this into next. Prison life? Nothing? New friendships because this one ended? Who knows? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:08 But until that time, I'm Casdow.

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