Distractible - We Forgot To Stretch

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

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Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm this year's host, or this week's host, I guess we've already had one episode this year. This year's host, every episode in 2024, brought to you by Wade. I'm joined as always, if you couldn't tell already by mark and bob hey guys hello i'm bob i'm mark i'm the host uh welcome to another episode if you haven't watched before this is the show where one of us hosts say the two compete for points the winner hosts the next episode and we talk about whatever we want our points dished out also however we want it's completely unfair and arbitrary system that's the one. Uh, how's the new year been treating you guys? Uh, good, good.

Are we talking about resolutions? Is it another year, another episode of that? It's small talk, but yeah, sure. I have a resolution of, I tried to keep it very simple. All I want to do, and this is something that I've been trying to do for a very long time, is schedule. So I've just been trying to schedule my day the day before that's my only resolution is that before i go to bed i have to schedule what i'm going to do the next day it doesn't

have to be to the hour but it has to be a list of things that i need to do and rough estimates of time when i need to do it and so i did the first night of that it was a really really helpful same sees oh no way look it says it's got 2024 embossed on it real small for whatever reason. So I got, I bought a tiny calendar, but I went with a tiny notebook. So I have this, you know, it's, it's just a one I got from like Daiso for like two bucks, but I figured if I could keep it on my person and in my pocket, then I would be able to consult it. And I wanted something physical which is like the book is like writing it down is better than putting it in your phone because for

some reason i've done that before and i can't keep up with it but the ritualistic nature dude shit just disappears into my phone i made this whole system i made a sequence a series of to-do lists and like i subscribed to like a special calendar thing that was like even more. I type it in my phone and it might as well fucking not exist anymore. I don't understand what happens. Well, my resolution is to get you two to get on a schedule so you don't keep fucking up mine. I started carving your names with a knife into a death note and Molly stopped me. And she's like, maybe just make a New Year's resolution to be better.

And I was like, you know what? I will make them be better. You're right. Make them be better. And I was like, you know what? I will make them be better. You're right. Make them be better. That's your resolution. I put the carving knife down. The Death Note only has an M and a B. I stopped.

So you guys are good for now. I was only like seven minutes late today. No, no, you're good today. New Year, new us. What's the maximum amount of lateness that you'll put up with before you start reconsidering the death note situation? I'm slow moving in the morning and early afternoon. So when you guys are running late, it's actually nice for me on Tuesdays. It's whenever we move something to a different day.

That's when it's awful because I schedule everything for us around Tuesday. So whenever you guys are like, how about Wednesday morning? And I'm like, okay, the car shopping until my family would do. I'll just move that. The dentist appointment, the eye appointment. Okay, cancel those. I just remembered i'm busy right now do you guys want to put you guys want to put this off till like friday no god please no minus 10 points are you busy wait wednesday at 9 p.m eastern are you busy then thursday at midnight when are you busy then i actually you know thursday at midnight would be a time I'm free.

If you're going to complain about we get together at noon, East Coast time, everyone watching. We talk about this frequently. If you're going to complain about noon being too early. I got no complaints with noon Tuesday. Only noon on Tuesday. The rest of the week, noon early. The holidays were so nuts. Just having company, getting ready for company and then like getting up early like mornings.

You'd think I would have adjusted, become more of a morning person but for some reason when i'm tired i stay up later like i have more trouble falling asleep so i was falling asleep at like four or five a.m and getting up at like eight or nine for a little while what you do that once doesn't that help you adjust what you do that once and then you're exhausted for the next you don't sleep no yeah i've got two different kinds of melatonin i've got one that's also got like um like a tums type stuff to it antacid and i've got one that's just normal melatonin so depending on the stomach that night i try one or the other and sometimes it helps a lot i pass that right away like last night i was like dude i cannot sleep till two or three tomorrow the boys will be like he's dead he's actually dead i popped two melatonin like 2 a.m

last night at 2 a.m you take melatonin like way before you want to go to bed that was when i wanted to go to bed no before you take it like an hour or two okay you know what i figured 3 a.m get up at 11 that's eight hours so take a bit too i mean you're not wrong yeah i don't mean to well i wasn't but i don't mean to be hypercritical about your life choices i think that you're doing great. And just because it's a new year and good habits should flow from this day onward doesn't mean that you can't stick to your old habits like glue. Wait, wait.

It's exactly the guy whose New Year's resolution is keep being exactly as awesome as I already was. OK, you're also not wrong about that. I would love to exercise a little bit more, but my physicals, I had to have three physicals last year, and all of them came back, like, perfect. And my doctor was like, other than needing to lose, like, 20, 30 pounds,

keep doing what you're doing. And I was like, keep doing what I'm doing. You got it, doc. I heard you loud and clear. No changing things. Gotcha. Other than your blood pressure, your skin sloughing off, and you need to lose some pounds

keep doing exactly what i just said we got seven or eight things here on this checklist all very crucially important to your long-term health but you know otherwise keep stay the course stay the course doc what wade heard is if you keep doing what you're doing you're gonna die just keep doing it. All right. Look, I am a creature of habit. I'm the person who's like, the phone says there's a faster way to go by like five minutes, but I know this other way. I'm just gonna stick with the way I know.

Why would I shave off five minutes whenever I just already know this way? If it's possible, I'm the opposite of that. I don't know exactly know what the opposite of that is, but I would rather drive a different way to go to the exact same place every time I get in the car and go somewhere. Weird. Which one of those is weirder? Am I weird? That's weird.

That's weird. I know how to get to where I want to go in like, because we live in Cincy now, but like I know this area. I knew this area before we lived here. So I know a little bit about where I'm going. Every time I get in the car, I'm like, hmm, I've never gone this direction to go to this place. Let's go that way.

See how we get there. So if you had like four or five kids and Mandy went into labor, you'd be like, oh, sorry, we're taking the nosebleed route this time. I, well, no. The nosebleed route? Which way is that? That's when you go the opposite direction of the hospital. You go the other way around the earth to get there.

What causes the nosebleed i don't know i think of nosebleed section being the furthest from like the field whenever you're in a stadium this is almost exclusively if i'm in the car by myself because even if it's not a time sensitive thing if i do this and manny's in the car she gives me endless shit about it she's like just go the normal way i'm like i don't this seemed interesting you drive on a random road in a back uh part of the woods and you just start you look over the passenger and their nose is bleeding you're like oh no oh no there's that road that you took us on somewhere in la that is like that the second steepest hill in the world or whatever the shit where you go to the top and it's like where's the road go and you're like oh it's beneath us it's like well yeah that makes sense you're like oh it's beneath

us you come over the crest and and as you aim down back at the earth satan comes up out of the pit belief you it is like and as and everything lights on fire and your nose bleeds yeah exactly that's it so uh so i'm weird on that one no one else subreddit back me up go a different way every time like a normal person no i literally will go the same direction but what if there is what if you always go the same way to like someplace you go all the time like buffalo brothers if it still existed but there is a faster way that exists that you could go would you never switch even if you knew it was faster even if it was just like oh well i should go this more optimal way no i would go on the faster yeah if it was reasonably faster and like you know like let's say we're going during rush hour i'm like

okay let's see if there's a faster way because you know there's an accident or something like i don't want to be stuck in the road for an hour and a half just because i'm committed to one way you have a car yet wayne no i thought you were we talked about that i thought you were doing that i'm i'm taking like a bit of a staycation this week. So minus like doing the podcast and like a couple other just commitments I have to do. I'm taking the week off and we are going car shopping this week. I was like, okay, if nothing gets moved around like Thursday or Friday, those days are car shopping days.

When is that? Because I'd like to record some more podcast episodes on that time and day. I'm done with small talk. Oh, OK, well, that's great. Two points for boldness. I think somehow we started about, well, how's the new year been? It turned into like,

you guys, whenever you have lives and shit, it's the worst for me. How dare you? Anyway, when are you planning your trip to go see the Shakira statue? Wait, because I know that's important to you.

I don't know much about Columbia, but like, you know, it's on the list of things I'd like to see. That's where Encanto took place, I believe. That's something. Because in the song, the guy's all, Columbia! I never saw Encanto. Really? It's good. I mean, you don't have a kid, I guess. That's also true.

So I've seen it like 90 times, but it's good. I'd like to see it. There's a a bunch of good like animated movies i've not seen a lot of the more recent ones up is one i've never seen i'd like to see that is not recent uh tragedy struck when we realized that up is 15 years old up is from 2009 we were juniors in college sophomores in college seven to eight eight to nine nine to ten we could have been sophomores or juniors may of 2009 sophomores yep that's how it works and now we're old so that's a long time ago and that brings me to this episode i don't want to talk about resolutions specifically but i figured we would just take an episode to reflect on the highs and lows of 2023 and uh what we're looking forward to this year.

It doesn't have to be a resolution, but it can be. But this is just the episode of, man, last year happened. You're assuming a lot about how much I remember about the last year. I mean, there's a lot that happened. You had a very eventful life. Yeah, it mostly involved never sleeping and always feeling exhausted. Hey, take a moment to think about that uh so one of the things that like a book ended this year was the fact that i went home because

the only time that i went back home to cincinnati was at the very beginning of 2023 and at the very end of 2023 uh so that was kind of uh made me realize just how little i was home because i was so busy with everything else biggest takeaway from last year is guess who's diamond medallion in Delta's reward program. Not sponsored, but I'll take a sponsored. I'm not going to lie. When you said diamond, I thought you were going to say guess who's diamond lenses came in. Listen, listen. listen listen i'm just saying guess whose diamond honing wheel came in for his tiny machine shop for his new lenses yes yes exactly well i can just i say that because that's how

much i've flown this year not that we're sponsored by delta i would take a delta sponsorship i would not i can only imagine how many flights you took dozens like over a hundred i don't even not over a hundred for sure but i think it was in the range of like probably like 40 40 something that's a lot yeah just just for the movie and bouncing around and then to korea quite a few times um just because my grandma passed away last year you know i i just went back for uh chuseok which is korean thanksgiving and then uh i went to korea more than i went to cincinnati like which is fine because i've got family out there so it's good well if you fold the world in half you're closer i uh that's the first thought i have is just like man this next year i need to be home more because it's funny because I'm still not done with the movie.

And everyone, everyone keeps thinking every time I'm like, man, that last. It's all done, baby. Every time I get through a sprint, everyone's like, oh, thank goodness that's done. And I'm like, is the movie out? It's not. It's not done. You remember when your movie released, Mark? Thank God that's over.

I feel like it's kind of like you, you're working on disarming like a nuclear warhead and like you finish disarming we're all like yes he did it he's like guys there's five more oh mark's movie making experience is actually a roguelite it's like hades he just keeps going back in getting slightly farther each time that's very much what it is it it feels a lot like that uh i'll have some very very profound post reflections on this process afterwards and i have some very strong opinions for the sassiest among you i look forward to your journal where we open it up but it's just all work and no play makes mark adult boy what kind of memoir is this opening credits keep scrolling all work and no work a new play. Director's commentary is just you, like, staring at the wall, like, muttering to your breath.

It's fucking overblown. It's blinded. You seem so happy about it. Bob, tell us about your 2023. What do you remember now? Being a dad is definitely the main thing that happened in 2023 for me, I think. And it is not what I expected. That sounds bad, I guess. Not in a And it is not what I expected. That sounds bad, I guess.

Not in a bad way, not what I expected. But in a very, I don't think I'm like a good authority to talk about parenting advice or give anyone like, what I, you know, like, oh, this is what you should do. There's a lot of shit about being a parent that no one talks about. And I can't tell if it's on purpose or if it's just that once you get through it,

you're so tired, you forget all of it or what. There's a lot of stuff that is involved in being a parent that does not come up in any of the like books you read to get ready for the baby or when you talk to other people. Like I swear to God, once your baby is born, all the people, like all your friends who already had kids in your life are like,

ha, it's too late now i could award you are you gonna tell us those things or can you also not speak about it now you know i actually signed a non-disclosure the baby pulls out a contract is like like mandy and i had talked about like we should do a podcast or some like some series of videos something just record stuff where we talk about all the things that we were completely blindsided by because and i think we've had a kind of a unique experience because our james is not a stereotypical baby the common wisdom that you always hear from people does generally didn't apply to him very consistently he was just like different which i think all babies are different and i would say that's maybe the biggest one right if you if you like you guys if you if you just went and tried

to research like parenting stuff you would find all kinds of blogs and books and everyone has all these things they're like if you want your baby to do to start eating solid foods you do this this this this there's like lists and there's all this stuff bullshit means nothing it literally you might every book on babies might as well say, well, yours is different. And some of this probably won't apply to your baby at all. Maybe one or two of these things might be helpful, but not in the way that I think they were helpful. So just try anything. And if it works for you, good. There's such a morass of everyone has opinions. And also there's, you can go on the internet and find basically an opinion that says one thing and then the exact opposite opinion from sources that look

equally reputable. It turns out babies are just unique little individual human people. And each one is as different as adult humans are. Being a parent is crazy. Manny and I are constantly asking our parents like, oh's doing this is happening what did you guys do when we were and our parents are kind of like we did we did this but that i don't i don't think that's very helpful for you guys so you know like i think our parents are the realest people about it because every time we ask for advice they're like i could tell you what we did but i don't think that what james wants or needs so yeah just try some stuff you know just to and it's like it we i think we're figuring it out. We're adjusting, but man, it is not the joyful cuteness filled explosion of little snuggles.

And there's a lot of other stuff that happens in there. That's not just like the pictures on Instagram and the books about being a parent, but that's very defining for my 2023. That's for sure. So let's be clear when it comes to shipping internationally, can I provide trade documents electronically? Mm-hmm. The answer is FedEx. Okay.

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what got me in the mindset of just like, I can't do it, but I fell out of it. I have not progressed my Korean at all this past year. Besides that first two months, I have not progressed. And that sucks because I was getting to a point where I was starting to be able to understand it, hear it. I could hear conversation. I can still do this. Like I can hear conversations in Korean and pick up most of what they're talking about. And I can form very broken sentences and my pronunciation is getting better, but that has paused since February. And the biggest lesson I learned about all those things, especially like language learning, but it applies to working out too, is it takes dedicated, consistent effort and it's beating a constant diminishing of your ability. So you have to

increase every day or consistently, or else it's going to start to degrade, you know, use it or lose it. And so to know that I could have made another 10 months, 10 months of progress, or at least nine, if maybe the filming of it got in the way and then I could pick it back up again, nine months of progress, I would be so much further. And now I have to look at this next year and be like, this next year has got to be consistent effort. And it's just like, that's my biggest takeaway is like, I got so swept up in other things that were important that I believed the excuse that there wasn't time. And even if it's because my previous resolution was only five minutes a day, that was it started five. I can do more, but five, five minutes. And it was the small goal that helped me get farther. And I should have just applied that again. Just been like, okay, forget the new year this month, five minutes a day. That's it.

I don't have time for much else, but I can do five minutes and then I can do more if I need to. It's like, yeah, that's what I regret not keeping up with. That's tough. I don't know. I guess it's human or maybe it's something, a thing that we learn, but like that, the difference between the excuse of like oh i don't have time because i'm in that same boat right with the baby it's like oh he's always there he always needs

stuff he's at the point right now where he's eating so much he started to eat solid foods in the last month and so he it feels like he eats every moment he's awake he's eating now it's like i never have time but there is time the problem is just that there's all those times in between where i'm like oh i'm exhausted i'm just gonna sit on my phone for an hour or whatever half an hour hour however much i have that's it half an hour an hour of time that could be used for those sorts of things where it's like it and it's hard why is it so easy to fall into that because it's not even a question of like oh i don't want to work out i don't even think about it because i just fall directly into what

you're saying of like there's no time i don't even think about it because I just fall directly into what you're saying of like, there's no time. I don't even have to consider. I'm not doing anything. There is time. It's just busy. Yeah, it really is. Because even if you're of the mind where you're like, oh, man, how I can't work out and like, I don't want to get a shower is like you can at least get your heart rate up really high,

really fast in two minutes. Just do some whatever you can. You may not be able to do burpees or anything, but just like just sprint really fast in two minutes just do some whatever you can you may not be able to do burpees or anything but just like just sprint across the room two minutes you could do the sexies i don't want to engage with that yeah keep going don't touch that one keep going i'm trapped you could do the sexies which i'll never get again for calling it that. That's not a, that's not a thing you do with Molly. That's a private activity. It just sounds fun.

But yeah, no, it's, and I'm not trying to give life advice here. That's that we do enough of that, or at least we try to do enough of that. It's literally this. I'm talking to myself here.

Like I know if I did 10 burpees, my heart rate would skyrocket because I'm out of shape and it would be good exercise and I could do that. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't start sweating because I haven't done enough to get my body to the point where I would sweat and it'd be good for me. I could do that. Then relax. Honestly, even if you just do stretches.

Yes. The value of stretching and general like joint mobility is I think undervalued widely and like you don't have to get sweaty to just do stretches for five minutes and it's extremely good for you to stretch regularly it feels good to do that but i i never i never do it consistently and then when i do stretch i just stretch for like five ten minutes or whatever and i stand up and i'm like oh man that feels so and then i never do it again for like two weeks and then in two weeks I'm like, oh man, that feels so, and then I never do it again for like two weeks. And then in two weeks I'm like, ah, everything's sore. Shit. Why am I so unstretched?

Why are we not doing this podcast while we're stretching? Can we do it on the floor? Can I stretch while we do this podcast? Uh, you can. My mic doesn't really permit that, but we can in the future. I don't have as much space behind me as it might look. We should, yeah. No, I'm doing it. Screw this. I don't have as much space behind me as it might look. We should. Yeah. No, I'm doing it.

Screw this. I can do this. Wow. The close focus on this lens is. Whoa. What the frick? What kind of lens is that? Why is it focusing on your hand?

It's so. Wait, what? What? That's not how cameras work. I didn't know this lens had such close. What the hell? If you're not watching the video, Marcus adjusting his camera. So the palm of his hand is like inches from his camera lens and it's focusing on it lenses have like a very you this is a zoom

lens too my the focus limit on my lens is like it's like a macro it's like a macro lens eight or ten inches in front of my my lens that i use on my camera which is a totally look at decent lens am i in focus mostly yeah you're pretty much in focus. What the frick? I didn't know I could focus. Anyway. Anyway, I'm doing it. I'm stretching. You can't stop me.

Okay. I'm going to do stretches in my chair because that is a thing you can do. It's way less disruptive than what Marcus got going on. No, this isn't disruptive. How is this disruptive? How is this disruptive? Ow. Did you hear my neck crack?

Did you hear that god dang my 2023 was very social we went to disney we went to minnesota a couple times like we traveled a bit forget where else we went did we go to la last year was that last year year before that was october of 22 was the last time i was in la is that the one you're talking about probably the one where we were out there but i traveled a decent amount at least the first half of last year but after we moved we moved in like june or july or something we had we have had 12 different groups of guests come to stay with us since then we moved in and the first thing we did because we got guest rooms ready we were like we don't need a kitchen we need to get the guest rooms ready we got company coming man your priorities man you just know the entourage

is coming relatable relatable that was fun but also kind of exhausting there was literally a day during the holidays where uh molly's parents were here and we drove them to the airport at like noon and then three hours later we were expecting my aunt to show up like the same day so it was like a hotel we were like all right checkouts at noon if you want to do late checkout if you want to check in bedrooms will be ready till four so how much did you charge them nothing because we're fools but god we could have made some bank this year if we did but our social if this was a sims game our social would be maxed out we we capped that stat out my social works inverse like my social starts high when i'm alone and it goes. So does Molly's.

Yeah, no, she had some days where she would just like she would get plenty of sleep, but she was so socialed out that like she would just go upstairs and just lay down for like hours at a time just to probably because, yeah, her energy and social were drained from being around people because she's very introverted to exercise. Not so great this year, but I also didn't have my shoulder surgery, so I still am supposed to have that, but you know, I've been busy. You've just been living with your broken shoulder?

It's a slap tear, so it's an optional surgery. It's really dependent on discomfort. And it got to the point where like, I'm only uncomfortable like once every few days. Have you tried a Theragun, Wade? Because I bet you could massage that right out. No, I thought about a 9 mil, but I don't think that would help my shoulder. Dude, I was just stretching, just barely, like sitting in my chair.

I feel better already. Why don't I do this more? That felt really good. I just stretched my ankles. I just stretched my shoulder. It feels good. It's not even like a shower where you don't want to do it because you have to get wet to even start the process, and then it feels good.

It's like you could you could do it naked, I guess, but you could do it fully closed. There's no problem. Dude, naked stretching is an interesting and liberating thing. I got to say. Hot yoga. Oh, I don't I don't know about that. I'm not opposed to the hot part. It's the yoga part I can't do.

I am down for refrigerated yogurt. I don't know about hot yoga i'm really angry that i laughed at that but god damn it i don't know why everyone gets so even i get mad when i laugh at puns i don't know why i don't hate puns it's the way people treat puns that makes us hateable you know every every pun instead of just being something that's said everyone who makes a pun have to like stop at it did you notice it wink wonka you know that's that's what makes it terrible did i do all that i just said refrigerated yogurt i moved on you hang a little but you don't do it as bad as as some people do i hang because i want your reaction i feed off of pain i do appreciate when a pun is just in a bunch of you

know it's in a sentence or whatever and you just blow right past it because then you have to keep listening but in the back of your mind you're're like, wait, he refrigerated yogurt. Oh, he said, oh, but you're also like, oh, what's he saying now? Is this a pun? How many puns is he going to sneak in? No, the guests thing, though. Dude, we've have had, we moved into this house. We moved to Ohio and into this house in August.

And we've had people at our house like a couple times a month or more every month we've lived here so far. It's a lot. Everyone wants to come visit when you have, I mean, we have a baby. So that's like a good attraction. But like- Are they staying the night too

or just like visiting and then leaving? A lot of them stayed the night. My parents live like less than two hours away. So they've come a couple of times and just gone home after like dinner or whatever. We've had a lot of people stay the night. And around the holidays in our house we had 10 adults plus three dogs plus a baby and i don't know why the baby is below the dogs on the list they're all in the house at the same time

for like the christmas around the christmas holiday it was just it's a lot of people we did that for one day for christmas day we hosted my family and so we had um between my mom siblings nieces and nephews and such insignificant others we had 12 people and six dogs because we have six wiener dogs in the family we've got two my mom and my sister have four between them then my brother has one so they all came over that makes seven wiener party i don't know math very well but six plus two plus four yes that's seven oh my god seven dogs and a cat and then 12 people just for Christmas day for like five hours but that was a lot and then again it was right after we had like the 10 days of people staying with us I think this year when

people are like dude can we hang out we're like no we've decided we don't like you anymore I do know you do have trouble saying that to people because you don't want to disappoint um but it's also something you know i need to get better at because i i also am of the type where it's like i try to go out of my way to make things work um not that people are coming over i have a different problem you know it's like i i just need to learn to say no and then extremely hard no except for us never say no to us mark come on come on i'm almost i don't know if we should talk about the podcast but i almost want to like bring up you know wait like us going to uh like fogo to chow and suddenly it'd be turning into a 20 person table you're not wrong man that's why we got burned out of conventions was because like conventions were a funny thing and people were

like you're gonna go to more conventions and i'm like i don't know because it became a thing where like it became a friend hangout. But we kept getting more and more friends that would come. And then like friends of friends. And then significant others. Like it was always this bigger thing. And then we were like, all right, Molly and I are going to go do this thing. You guys just do whatever and we'll meet up later.

And then we'd take a step away. And we'd look back and they're all staring. They take a step forward like the direction we went. No, no, no. You guys, literally anywhere else. You guys go do your thing. And they're like, uh-huh. Great. What's your thing? Oh went we're like no no no you guys literally anywhere else you guys go do your thing and they're like uh-huh great what's your thing oh we're just gonna do whatever you do that's no that's not it kind of became that for a while so we got a little done with the convention thing because yeah it got a little bit too nuts if we

do a convention again we're not gonna tell anybody we're just gonna go now you tell a soul i don't know i i like meeting fans at conventions i like getting to see some like the industry stuff but like eventually i felt like we'd kind of been there done that it was kind of similar every year and it's like going and seeing a game like a few weeks early it seems cool in theory but i feel like it doesn't really mean much in practice like i don't really care about early access to a game like preview five minutes of gameplay i'd rather just experience it completely fresh when it first comes out than have a taste of it ahead of time i'd rather not know what i'm expecting really get my expectations built up. I don't look at

game trailers. I don't look at all that stuff. So the whole point of conventions kind of became like see friends and meet fans. And then just like too many of both started being a thing as we got bigger. Too many friends, too many fans. I've been thinking of a purge. Of fans or friends? Whatever. Life was simplest when I had like three or four close friends and i feel like i've got like 30 or 40 people i keep up with now and it's just a lot of people you know what the solution to that is you just gotta be more like me and just absolutely ghost just ghost people on and off i have this inner part of my brain that like tells me it's like it's been like two weeks since i've talked to this person or made content with this person i've got to go out of

my way to do something with them now and like i can't there's just some like stupid tumor on my guilt part of my brain that's like somebody thump thump you better be good and it's like fucking leave me alone i don't want to talk to him please they want to play this game i hate i don't want to play it oh you gotta be nice to him it's been like two weeks i don't like two weeks is my clock it's like don't talk to someone for two weeks they'll never talk to me again man i'm lucky if i respond to a text in two weeks i i don't i don't know about that whoa what are you listening to this for wait who's talking you know you're driving a 2024 ford escape with available alexa built in so you can change the music oh yeah alexa change station to 99.2. See? Purchase a 2024 Escape ST-Line all-wheel drive with Tech Pack at 3.49% APR for 72 months with down payment.

That's just $267 bi-weekly. Cash value of $40,294. Plus, eligible Ford owners get a $1,000 bonus. For details, visit your local Ford store or Ford.ca. Bob, what else did you do in 2023? I drove across the country, which I know you've done, Mark, but I've always wanted to do that. It was very interesting. You didn't have to come back. That was the bonus.

No, I did it one way trip, got here and was like, all right, that's done. But I also, I did it in three days. How long did you take the last time you? I've done it in four or three days. I've never done it in three days. How long did you take the last time you... I've done it in four or three days. I've never done it in two. Yeah, it was... I averaged like 11 hours of driving a day or something. And it was very cool.

And a lot of the country like west of like Nebraska is pretty fun and interesting to drive through. And then a lot of the stuff closer to Ohio was pretty boring. It was interesting. It was me and the dog and we just got in the car and drove. And I guess I had a more romantic vision of it in my head because it was a thing I always wanted to do. But I am glad I did it because it was very cool.

I mostly was just trying to get to Ohio because Mandy was here with the baby and she was like, ah, help, help the baby help. And I was like, I'm coming. No time to have fun. Also, we moved to Ohio. That's why I did that. That's the best thing I think you guys have done in the last few years is move to Ohio not the having my son

that doesn't really affect me so much right now that was the previous year that was the previous year don't even question that that's the previous year I did say last few years so I did put a qualifier on it no you didn't oh Mark's right because he said it loud I give myself five more points

who am I other than the host new year new us I guess Mark's right, because he said it loud. I give myself five more points. Who am I other than the host? New year, new us, I guess. New us? Exact same us. Are you kidding me? No, new year, new us. Is that loud enough to mean that it's... It was somehow loud, but less confident, which is a confusing mix.

And as we wind this down, thoughts on what you're hoping to do, not necessarily resolution wise, but it can be a resolution. What's your 2024? What's the outlook on 2024? What do you want to do? What you're hoping to do not necessarily resolution wise but it can be resolution what's your 2024 what's the outlook on 2024 what do you want to do what do you hope to do i mean movies coming out that's obvious i'm excited though i'm actually really excited to see it yeah yeah it's it's almost there people people are itching for it i know but it's like as far as the timeline goes of me making projects is probably the one that's taking the longest but uh for reasons that i will discuss in the future and then korean no more big projects for a bit just planning for the next one do a lot of pre-production to spend this year kind of just like settling down and learning korean and getting back to the core so if we get one year ahead on the podcast we'll be

great we can do it we can do it can you imagine if we were if we recorded an episode in december of this year for december of next year if we did 10 episodes a day yep for 10 days straight we'd be good and they'd all be good it would be the craziest year of episodes no you know what i you know what i think would be an interesting experiment because this is basically just live streaming but i would i would want to try and do a podcast episode where we do it like non-stop for as long as we could and then and then cut that into episodes if it makes any sense to cut it anywhere just to see how unhinged it could get because i feel like this this if there's anything this podcast is a little safe you know we follow the rules we got a formula i want to see how crazy we can get this year i'll see how weird it can be yeah more audio bits more video bits more visual only gags everyone loves when we do that yeah

yeah maybe we'll go to reddit's competitor maybe we'll maybe we'll switch out so that one guy on reddit can't follow us what's reddit's competitor my? Is Dig still around? If you Google Dig, yeah, dig.com comes up. I mean, I guess it's basically Discord is like you just have your own Discord, but we have a Discord that we probably haven't talked about all year last year. Man, we really have ignored the Discord. I check in there. I read stuff. Not a lot, but sometimes.

I feel like you're using the word we a little strongly. Have you checked in, Wade? No. It's called the Distractico Discord. And it's out there. And we all look at it. And by we all, I mean I look at it. I use Discord like I imagine a dog might.

I don't think I do it very uh very smartly there's at least nine discords i probably haven't even clicked on in three to four years so what we're saying is we're gonna use just join the discord because we're gonna totally we'll be we're gonna use that more well even if we don't though you all can one thing that's come up in my discord at least i hope it has i've been telling people this people want to play lethal company that's like the game right now and they're like i don't want to play alone it's like five people the community to play with one thing that's nice is you can link up and talk about similar interests because you know you at least have one thing in common the discords are useful for communication and meeting people that like have similar interests all right here's the thing

everybody if you go on the distract to go discord and you want to play lethal company there's a chance we'll play with you but there's There's a chance? What the hell? Why are you shaking your head? There's a chance in the same way that there's a chance Mark might materialize in front of your house and autograph whatever piece of merchandise you would like him to. I feel like a discord. I would pop in a game. You guys have never done that? I, so years ago I did.

I have not done it in a while. Not recently. Well, you guys are all playing with your your friend groups and so i don't i don't have anyone to play those usually so i i gotta i sometimes gotta find people so i they would have to there would have to be like a way for them to post the code for their mods or they'd have to play vanilla for you to pop in because you can't pop in if your mods don't mix well i didn't get mods until you infected my game with them not infected it's fine. You just don't use that.

You can launch it through Steam and it's still vanilla. You have to use the mods for them to work. Plus, the mods are outstanding and totally worth doing. I've got a new list. Do you guys want to play? I would love to play. I would love to play, yeah. Well, we should get out of here and go do that.

That's fun. All right. 2024, the year of we might play Lethal Company in the Discord. I think that was our one thing we said right I said it was possible but also go join the community find some cool people you know what I did in 2023 I didn't do a lot before I started using the word y'all which one of us

y'all we y'all wall wheel us ussens are you trying to say ussens ussens which one of ussens oneses hey me money mo catch a tiger by the toe bonus points to Bob Awsons? Awsons. Which one of Awsons ones is? Amy, Mighty Moe, Catch the Tiger, but... Oh, bonus points to Bob. Wait, that's a new subject.

That's a new declarative statement. Well, he didn't ask me a question that put me on edge there at the end, so he got bonus points for it. So Mark gave himself five points. I think Bob lost ten points early on for mocking me or saying something, and I was like, ooh, minus ten points. What? No, honestly, that does sound like a thing that happened. Actually, I'm not

really gonna... I'm not gonna fight that one too hard. Mark, how many points did you give yourself? Was it just five? Yes. Yes, I made it. Might have been more. Might have been more. Might have been just enough more. Mark, you went by two. Yay! Yes! This was fair, balanced, and everything

about it went according to plan. I had a strategy going into this game. I really took it to Bob there, and I crafted my relationship with the host to exploit the weaknesses I needed to and seek that victory. I acknowledge your victory with the triangle of fairness. Any speeches? Did you guys already give them? I kind of wasn't paying attention.

I literally gave up the whole list. I mean... It was beautiful, Mark. Bonus points for your speech. Bob, you have a loser speech. I literally gave up the whole list. I mean... It was beautiful, Mark. Bonus points for your speech. Bob, you have a loser speech. I don't want to do that. My resolution for 2024 is not to give any more loser speeches, because I don't want to lose. Well, starting

now, Bob is going to be a winner. Unfortunately, for the next one, I guess you'll at least have a chance to compete for another win. But congratulations to Mark, everybody out there. Thank you for tuning in, giving us your time. Hope you all enjoyed a year of video here on Spotify, or if you're still listening somewhere else,

hopefully you've enjoyed the podcast, despite us pumping up the video, which is superior. We still care about all of our listeners and viewers. Hope you all had a good, safe, fun holiday, and look forward to another year of us and our shenanigans, starting with Mark next week. So congrats again. You can find us, Mark at Markiplier, Bob at MyS skirm me at minion 777 or lord minion 777 until next time podcast out