Burnout

Good evening, gentle listeners, or watchers, and welcome to the Stractable! This episode, Melifluent Mark finally gets his just rewards, has a blue bucket for blood, and has supply issues, brainy bob, cleanly cooks, land-cultivation, and experiences excruciatingly harrowing, explosive eruptions. White whiskered wade gets befuddled, like Strake demands lube and opens up about his truly terrible trials, from cold opens to heartfelt hard truths. Yes, it's time for burnout. Now sit back, I'm prepared to be distracted, and enjoy the show. All right, ready? Art noise. That was my mouth sound. I was making a fart noise as a sound of acquiescence. So I communicate with James, sorry, I'm ready. That's how I show your dominance. I assert your toughness. Welcome to the Stractable. Oh no, no, no, no, no. This is the show where we have a very concise clean intro every time, and cold opens are a thing that are relegated to a bald amort, who is way better at them than us, as we are. Did you emphasize bald more than usual in that name this time? Do you, are you just sensitive to it? I really thought you were calling me a name. I feel like you were calling me his name, and I don't like that. Call me by my name, bald. All right, I'm going to give you a bald point. Sincerely sensitive about that today, apparently. That's all right, man. That's what this episode is going to be all about. Spoiler warning. What? Spoiler? I was trying to think of what the spoiler was, but then I realized it was a bit. Why don't we say to us what the episode's going to be before, you know, because the audience knows. Well, they don't know. Maybe they don't. Maybe the titles confusing. No, bald amort gives a complete description of what's going to happen in really elegant ways, yeah. Well, he says it in British words, which is confusing. You're right. You're right. What a weirdo. Am I right, guys? Yeah, it's like a different language. So who knows? All right. I'm giving you a bald amort point. Bald, make sure you emphasize the bald part, bald amort. I feel dirty. Spend his name the whole time, dude. He must always feel dirty. What the hell? What the hell? His name's bald amort. Please don't quit. Please, you see, please, please, bald amort. Don't listen to way. He doesn't speak for us. Look, we both have bald going on. Does that mean you feel dirty all the time? What are you getting at? Kind of. Yeah, sometimes like you have no hair to absorb the grease. It just kind of sits there and then let's like you go to fry dinner on your head. It's like, all right. Well, at least the grease is already in place, you know? You have to get like your little coffee can to like scrape it in because you don't want it to get in the sink or whatever you. I don't want a yes and you. I do not want to yes and you. No, you have to yes and that's the rules of the show. I have an abstaining from this yes and. He's just highlighting one of the advantages that bald people have. When I cooked dinner on my head, there's so many hairs and it's gross. Imagine scrambled eggs with this. And how? Welcome to Distractable. We are the triumvirate of men of a very unique perspective in the world of podcasting, uh, three dudes on a podcast. That's what my mom keeps telling me. But did you know also we like to play games? That's a unique thing about us. What is jigsaw? Actually, there was never really any game. No, I don't want to get into this. He's never been, okay, there was that red scheme. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. It's a game. He's like, you want to play a game? Yeah, well too bad. There's a key in your liver. Get it. Yeah, that one's called operation. Do this or die. If you don't hit the right spot, you go, and then you die. This one's called, there's a shotgun pointed at your face. Ha ha. That one's actually called duck, ironically. I think it's called peek-a-boo. There was the pit of needles. It's a very modern take on the, the children's game peek-a-boo. Shotgun peek-a-boo. Dude, that sounds like a crazy ass indie film or something. A-24 presents Shotgun peek-a-boo. Today's episode kind of rolls small talk all into one. We're going to be doing a yield fireside chat. We're going to be talking, yapping up a storm. Life has been getting us. Wade mentioned something about burnout for this. I just finally am in the final, final stretch. Final stretch, is that it? Yeah. I'm in the final stretch. It's been three years, the final stretch. It's basically done now. It came out on YouTube digitally. I've got a few things left of getting last translations for the other countries. There's still the Blu-ray and the DVD. But once that's done, it'll be like, well, that's iron lung. It's not like I'm going to make a theme park deal out of it and have iron lung the ride. Or anything like that. I kind of forget about it at this point, you know? Dude, that'd be such an easy ride to make though. You just see all Pylon and it's like a motion thing, right? But there's no visuals. It's just like, yyyy. *gibberish* And you're like, "Oh, what's that?" "We'll never know!" Then a tooth comes through at the top and you get your fire extinguisher and you, "Hah-ha-ha!" Spoiler. I zoned out for like one second at the beginning. And then I have no idea what the hell's happening. What do you mean? Are you zoned out before conversation happens? Well, because Mark mentioned it coming out in more countries and I was like, "What's a funny joke? It's out in USA's dad. It's out in USA. It's out to be soon to be USA. It's out right now and down under USA. And hobbit town USA. Is that funny?" And then I tune back in and you're like, "Meep!" It's like a tooth coming in the top and I was like, "What the fuck?" Alright, I'll give you a, uh, hey, what was it? Like, uh, hobbit USA? I think that one made me laugh. It's all USA. It's so funny. It's why I didn't want to make the joke, but then I had to explain it because my brain does that. But, you know, I think it's time for us to all just kind of talk, talk about the world maybe a little bit, talk about, you know, everything going on in life, where it is. But before we do that, oh, they sent you one. Yeah, you finally got sent one. You had a meeting and they were like, "Yeah, we love you, Mark. Here's where there's a thing you wanted." No, well, you know, I, I hope, I hope now because I'm showing it, I'm showing my brand loyalty. I have my GoPro for everyone who's listening at home. You can hear the, hear the quality of the camera. Slime it on the desk. Don't you have a spinning, uh, stage for it? Yeah, I do. Yeah. On this, on this, uh, I should get this. So this is the, the, the editing wheel someone gave to me, uh, or, uh, or I think I bought it actually. And I have never used it for editing, but I am using it as a fruity display for my GoPro. Dude, look how, we look at your lighting though. Elite level lighting. Look at this. Oh, yeah. That's pretty good flashing. It's catching. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No flies off. You hear the cartoony glass breaking sound as it leaves frame. It wouldn't do that. It's tough. It's meant to be thrown around. Well, I mean, I know they're not, they're not calling it an action cam, but it's like, it's GoPro. I would certainly believe it's still tough. What did it take for them to finally send you on, uh, me paying money and then the release date happening. This transaction is what took place. So they, they sent you one because they legally had to because of money. I see, I see. Even then, they were like, uh, do we have a worse point? I can get them like the prototype of the shitty one. Can we ship this guy like an open box, sir? Do we have any returns yet? Uh, we just released no returns. Ah, shit. All right. Well, open one up banging around a little bit and put it back in the box. Click one and then put it in the packaging and see if he notices. Oh, good. Anyway, I got it. Uh, not many people know or remember I used GoPro's a lot on the van vlogs. Dude, I love the van. The barrel. Yeah. And I use it. So I am very familiar with using GoPro's and it was funny because I just Googled barrel as if that was going to get me anywhere. What the fuck's wrong, Nate? Top hits, crack real barrel barrels in general, Markiplier's van. Yeah. Uh, it's entirely filmed with like a GoPro Hero 8 or whatever the one from that year would have been. Uh, and I am, I'm written damn, I look different. Fuck, I've gotten old. Yeah, man. Your jeans are terrible. Anyway, I, I really like the, uh, the, I've always liked the convenience of it and is really nice and I'm not sponsored obviously because I'm trying so desperately to be. But this, this, this new one is fucking awesome. It is so cool. This is the one that has the static lens, right? The one with the interchangeable lenses, the fancier one is not. Yeah, no, it's not out yet. I wish they would just open up the pre-orders because I was out for everyone else. Well, I was just a teller, man. There's a gigantic conspiracy that it's just not me. You're gonna get kicked out of the GoPro club. Uh, but it's, it's just, uh, I, I've always liked it 'cause versus big cinema cameras and even big DSLRs. There's something so, there's something so much being like, I'm filming something and it being usable is anyway. I filmed Chica's tail and slow motion because I realized like when I got it, I was like, oh, I got to film some cool shit and slow motion. What, what's cool in my life? Uh, my dog's ass. Yeah, well, hey, look, it's chicken's tail. It was really pretty in slow motion. But come on, man, it was very pretty and people liked it. But, you know, I realized I actually don't have that much cool things to film in slow motion, but I'll find them. I filmed the faucet 'cause I didn't know what else to film and it was like, wow, nine or 60 frames. - Did you get the shot of like the drops coming across frame and everything? - Man, I would. It's, this one doesn't do macro yet, even though, although I didn't experiment where I held one of my other lenses like my manultas in front of it like this, and I got actually a pretty cool shot out of it. So, there's, I'm going to fake it until it happens. I don't care if I have to have 3D print like a mount to get other optical things on there. I'll figure out a way. I could do it. I could do it. I was almost an engineer. Yeah, 'cause I know it's going to have like adapt, anyway. I don't need to talk, but I'm very excited about this. It's truly, it's going to have like the Hero 13 had where it's like interchangeable lenses when you can have the macro and the things like that 'cause this comes off for in case it breaks. - That's why it won't break 'cause it'll just break this lens cover and then you can just put it to a little cheaper place when you put it right back on. - But they'll have adaptable lenses and then I can probably get a macro thing in here, but I still want the actual micro 4/3 one. - And then you're going to film your next movie on it. - I would, I actually would, not the whole thing. - No, no one take that quote and run. - I would, I actually would. - Hey look, if GoPro wants to fund my adventures and then sponsor me and I'll film a movie on it. I'll film a movie on it. Well you're on the final stretch of this one so you can start a new and anytime. - Yeah, you're almost free for a new one. - I would love to be involved in it. Please, I could make really pretty footage. I could make things happen. - Wait, I see you shaking your head. I literally can see that. - That was edited in by Sam. Got a live edit. - I have this video idea where it's like, 'cause I was trying to think like, I don't, I keep saying I could be the next tech review channel but I'm like, man, how do you make a tech review video? What do I test? And I thought, hey, how about I just do a video where I compare it to every camera I can find in my house. And I've got like a trail cam over there. I've got like an endoscope camera. I've got like some random bullshit, but I've got also a Nikon ZR. I've got like a black magic hat. It could be like, ooh, that might be fun comparison. You've also got a few lenses I hear so you could have every lens. Every video you have to use every lens. - Oh, I'll try, I guess, but I got a lot of lenses. You don't know, man. You don't know how many lenses I have. No one really knows. - It's a totally normal and countable number, I'm sure. - Yes, I did. I definitely know the count. - 'Cause it's not very high. - One thing's, ah, ah, ah. - That was the count. - I might, sorry, you're just so bad. I'm gonna leave. - Well, you guys are smart, you're entrenched in tech and knowledge, and I, I'm fart choked. I'm off in the corner, I got a word with you to share. - Look, if I was gonna blow you down to one bit, I'd say that you're Dracula impression guy. If anything, okay. - So it comes to my stream, I can't verify this, but they told me they legally changed their name. Like their legal name to Drake Eulice's law. - I believe them. - And I didn't have the heart to tell them this, but the way they spelled it out in my chat, I was like, think they spelled it wrong. - Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. - Maybe it's Mabling. (all laughing) - I hope they're not watching right now, but also they changed their name to Drake Eulice's law. Can you imagine getting the application like someone applying for a job? You're like, all right, we got Tim Robbins, we got Michael Bowman, we got Drake, Drake. Is this a joke, Drake? You list these law? - I don't think if you're not saying it with a voice especially, I don't know if that reads. I feel like the person would look at it and be like, Drake Eulice's law. If it's spelled D-R-A-K-E, maybe, but if it's D-R-E-C, I feel like I would immediately go drag. - Drag Eulice's law, maybe. We could not tell what you were going for when you were saying it to us, so I wouldn't be so sure. - I'm rooting for you out there, I'm rooting for you. Also, I might think you're absolutely insane for doing it. - Don't mind me, I'm taking selfies. - The next episode without either of our inputs is just gonna be like sponsored by Girl Pro. Filled entirely on GoPro, it's just Mark's camera at the whole time, but it's him on GoPro. - Can you livestream? Can I use this to a webcam? - Yes, you can. You can do it wired for sure, and I believe some of, I only have a 10, so I don't know what the newest ones are. Believe you can do it wirelessly if you, 'cause I have looked into using those as like the camera in the corner of my room, or for like, when Mandy and I did cooking streams for a long time. We did stream, we used to GoPro for that, but we had it wired into a laptop, it's very good. - Oh, I will look into that. - Yeah, I mean, I'm looking for a stream, Kim. Hey GoPro, I know how much you love working with Mark, and how much you're supporting him. There's any splash off. (laughs) You know, this camera could be a GoPro, it's just some webcam right now. You're looking for an upgrade. - Please, please, GoPro. I'm so, I will sell my soul and my audience. I've volunteered to sacrifice my audience for this, and my audience has been like, "Yeah, yeah, sacrifice me." - I don't want it that bad, but if you send me one, I'll probably use it. - You've heard of Jonestown. Have you heard of Markiplier Town? - Markville. - I say that joke again, but in a Dracula voice. - You've heard of Jonestown, but have you heard of Markiplier Town? Take this GoPro, and decide not to be you. Put them together, and swallow it. - No, what I fucking just realized, you sound like, then we might be about to say the same thing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Have you heard, oh no, now I can't remember what's it called, Dungeonsuit? - I don't know the name, yeah, but it's like the vampires and the normal guy. - You're talking about like the Dingo Meyer, yes. - Dingo Meyer, is that fucking holy water? - I'm sorry, mister. - Stupid, stupid Dingo Meyer. - Oh, I was thinking of there's some TV show with like the vampires, and then there's one guy that's like their butler. I don't know the show because I only see clips of it on YouTube shorts. - Are you talking about the show with Matt Berry, what we do in the shadows? - Yes, yes, that's what we do in the shadows, yeah. That would also very funny show. - No, but I'll pretty much, I don't have many unique voices. Pretty much all of the ones I do are impressions of something I've heard in the past. I mean, Dracula's got a kind of a baseline, right? - It just really hit this time that that's that voice 'cause it's pretty dead on. - We still have not contacted adventurers. I want that tour back. - No, no, I'm emailing with Andy. I'm emailing with Andy. - Oh, how are you? - Andy mail with Andy? - Whoa! - Andy, Andy reached out and was like, "Hey, thanks for the shout out. I will definitely, I'll be happy to teach you the tour back voice." And I was like, dude, that sounds sick. I am in emails with Andy from the voices tour back on legend. Well, that voices plays a tour back. - We have cool jobs. We get to kind of cool people. - We do cool things. - Cool jobs, very good. - Do you think the reason go, sir? - I'm not gonna talk about it, where I'm done. All right, I'm done talking about it. I have no idea what you were just starting to ask. Do you think ghosts are real, is that what you said? - No, I was just saying, like, you know, I look at the promo video of GoPro and they're so good at making those promo videos 'cause they have so many talented people that are real filming them and helping support it. And you think the reason they don't want to support me is because I don't even know how to make cool shit like that. I don't go outside, because I don't go outside. - It's because you don't snowboard, Mark. - But imagine like, you know, going through, I don't want to spoil anything in your movie, but imagine all of the blood, but like, GoPro vision going through it. That's the thing I have. I would have used it. We had the fuck it bucket. I haven't even talked about the fuck it bucket on set. - We had the fuck it bucket, right? - I might have, I mean, everyone, I guess gets in the mood sometimes I'm glad you had some stress relief on set. - No, come on, man. - Is that why we saw the white edit of "Iron Long"? - No! - No! - Mark actually made that, that's just him. - No, we have a, well, because, okay, I don't know if I should. - Mr. Fuckit, you put your balls in my throat. - It's a very professional, very insurance company safe way of putting a red camera into a waterproof home depot bucket. - Sure. - And so you have a home depot bucket and you put the camera in there with some kind of platform and then you get an acrylic dome and you glue it all up and you put it in the bin, what? (laughing) - And so we had that. - Sounds awesome. - It was awesome. I was super doubtful when it happened, but the problem was, 'cause the camera's in the bucket and it's like sealed in there. So to redo anything or get it out of there, it's like a whole process, 30 minutes just to get it in and out even with like quick drying glue and stuff. But once it's in there, it's like, let's go. So difficult to do. If I just had this for that shot specifically, it was like under the crawl space and like going there, again, I don't talk to spoilers now. I can talk about the movie and I'm gonna talk about the movie. - It's out, it's available. If you haven't seen it at this point, that's on you. Or if you live in a country where it's not available, 'cause it's whatever. - And so it would have been so nice to have something like this, which is of a quality where it's like, okay, we can get this and this didn't exist then, but it's like put this in the blood. Go through, have a bunch of just these covers because cleaning the blood off of this, it's so sticky, it leaves residue. So it's like you just pop one of these off, pop another like back on here. Or you just have another GoPro off to the side, ready to go and you, and I even had like, behind the scenes with GoPro on that movie, where there were some angles that it was getting where I was like, Oh, if this. footage was oh my god I was really debating using the footage for that. I it would take a ton of cleanup for painting out the other people and the camera men and all the other people standing behind the main camera but it was a very good. I just want to reiterate for our audience we are not sponsored by GoPro despite how hard it feels like we are. I don't even have like a coupon I realize that I don't even have like a hey get 10% off by using my code. I don't even have a code. I think Bob and I even have GoPro codes. You've got codes how do you get codes? I just like us I guess. I don't know if we're allowed to tell him about that but yeah it's fine. Yeah everyone's in your boat Mark no one no one's more left out than you are that's for sure. Well we have GoPro's in our boat he's got go amateurs and his got them. No that's not what you said I'd like you to stick to what you said the first time around. But remember you have to remind me. No I'm pretty sure you remember you remember. Oh no. Jesus if I have a super power it's that I can't remember much. Anything I require you to refer to them as come amateurs from now on. I said it already today come amateur. No not from today from previous episodes it was a whole thing we talked about. I thought it was today. Oh man that's a pretty good one I should have remembered that. Yeah audience loved it they were they thought it was very funny. Yeah. What were you saying? Yeah we're not sponsored but Mark wants us to be or he wants him to be. And if there's some splash down if there's some trickle down sponsorship that drips on to you guys that's fine I'm okay with that. Trickle on me GoPro. Well cross down so we can get trickled on because you're short. Linus one. Shit I forgot your hosting because your average can't be mad about that can't be mad. I'm done talking now it'll be you guys's turn and because Sam sitting in the live edit control room just like I missed one. I need my transparent head weighed head shaking gift to put over is all right since Wade is mean Bobby get to go first on how many different names that you think of that you didn't want to call me out. I'm the nice one anyway it's not a very fair competition for you Wade. We get him a little stepping stool so we get to my level yeah it's gonna be a close game except for Wade's negative 13 short joke points Mark it's a really tall above average stepping stool. Isn't that worse? Shut up Bob. All right minus one more might keep it up man. Extra tall stool. All right I get to go first. Well it's hard for multiple reasons it's hard for me to think of anything right now except for the evening not last evening with the night before that I spent obviously probably the second most worried I've ever been about a person which not for good reason he was fine but James was sick we put James to bed Sunday night we always turn the monitor on right it's with video monitor so we can watch him and he always just sort of sleeps. Sometimes it gets up and gets a drink or whatever he's very independent now I know I moaned a lot about how he had trouble sleeping when he was younger he's great now it's sleeping he sleeps on his own he'll wake up and he'll like put it he'll sue themself and get back to sleep it's awesome with the monitor on as like a normal Sunday and we were kind of like whoo like got through the weekend had some fun times now we got to get ready Monday Tuesday we got a pack because we're going on this big trip lots to do we were putting it off over the weekend and like half an hour after James went down I heard like a weird noise which happens but usually if I hear something I'm not 100% sure what it is like it's just you know sounds he makes every night when he sleeps I look and I pulled up the monitor and looked and it was like oh that's a weird sick really shadowy that looks fine and then he sort of just looks up because and I was like oh fuck oh my god he had thrown up but we get up there and James watches this in the future I mean this in the nicest way possible oh god the smell man you just never get used to it like there I always was like man how do parents deal with that and the for me at least the truth is you don't get used to it poops always smell bad throw up always smells bad it really gets me but you don't have a choice he he threw up in his bed and he had it on himself and on his jammies and so I like I had to grab him and touch the throw up and brought get him to the bathroom and man like it was rough but was like okay that's weird this out of nowhere he wasn't sick today was totally happy and we put him in the bath and got him cleaned up and after a while of like oh god okay let's like air it out let's change the sheets he's in the bath and everything's great he seems happy he seems chill I stand him up get him out of the bath start drying him off and he's standing there in the bathroom with his towel around him and he just looks up at me and goes like into the towel into my hands onto the floor he proceeded to throw up about every 15 minutes for the next four hours of the evening which is a long time for that pattern to go on the first the first couple obviously we had just had dinner and then had to ice cream as a little treat and then gone to bed eventually he was empty but for several hours he was totally empty there was no food left and still he would like I was holding him in the chair sitting with him and he would like lay down and just be like oh he's fucking exhausted because it's horrific to throw up constantly and he's like passing out just like I'm sitting there watching I'm making sure he's still breathing everything's good in every 15 minutes he just sits up and goes nothing comes out like just like bile like nothing is coming out misery and every time he throws up it's like I'm just holding him like so that whole night like I held him until he stopped throwing up which was like a little more than four hours maybe and actually many swapped out for for like the second half that's not fair but we were like crazy we were considering going to the ER because and we were watching him like okay if he doesn't stop we're gonna have to go but it's the middle of the night right now it's gonna be traumatic experience for him if we have to take him especially if he's fine right when we were like okay we should go stopped he just chilled out and finally was like done but I I basically laid we put him in bed and I laid next to him the whole night just staring at him just being like because he likes to sleep on his back so I'm staring at him like don't sleep on your back and throw up in your sleep but like that's horrific don't you know if you do get sick I need to be here to help or try and catch it like I'm just laying there just staring at me and then at some point I fell asleep at like six or seven in the morning for a bit and Mandy had gone and got tried to get some sleep in the bed so that at least one of us had some sleep for the next day she got like three hours of sleep and then he was fine yesterday the whole day we were like what's happening is he sick is it a virus is it a what he's fine he woke up and was like I'm thirsty I'm hungry given we were like you know let's go slow let's see what happens early fine didn't throw up again he did have some like dummy troubles but that's pretty normal otherwise he was like energetic and fine and confused why we weren't letting him eat food basically but Jesus Christ laying up all nights staring at him wondering if he was okay trying to figure out what the fuck to do in the middle of the night that's the I have not felt that kind of worry since James was born and Mandy's was C section and everything that happened in the hospital was more stressful for me than her thankfully but like it's awful and like this is not the point but the whole time I kept my mind kept going back to like okay but imagine this but like you have a child who has like a terminal illness or a child who has like a chronic illness or something I don't know what people do not the point and not my experience but thanks to TikTok I see a lot of videos about kids who you know have different disorders diseases whatever I can't imagine it was one night for me and I felt like I was going to pass out from stress and he's fine and I shouldn't have been so worried because it was a long time throwing up but he was fine but like god damn that now when TikTok shows me those videos even more than before I'm immediately just like okay then I have to scroll or close TikTok or whatever because I don't know what people do I don't know that kind of I don't know if it's a particular button for me that I don't handle very well or if that's just how it feels for everyone but it's an actual nightmare to just be laying and it doesn't have to be kid either I'm sure if you have a parent or sibling or anyone you know who's ill who you care that much about I cannot fucking imagine and it's exhausting and the punchline of my story is he's totally fine he possibly had a stomach virus or maybe he's like lactose intolerant because he's never really liked milk or ice cream any eight more ice cream than he ever has before which was like a small scoop of ice cream on Sunday like so we put him to bed last night and it felt like we finally got him to bed after Sunday night because all day we were like watching him and it was whatever put him bed last night and was like okay well there's 24 hours gone in 24 hours from now we'll be on a plane to England better start packing and stuff I guess that's that's intense man good news is you got two points for that story was it worth it again how much Saturn doesn't need to be to get another point out of it I don't know okay I emphasize how much he was crying about how upset he was okay you get in a little you get a little uppity about this whole milk in it thing so I'm like I'm just saying two points is pretty generous so you're already in the lead so maybe don't push your luck come on Yeah, man. Two points for a vomit story. You got plenty. I'll just let Wade beat himself. That's fun. Actually, you know, one one funny thing that kept happening that was really funny in the moment compared to everything else. He was every time when I was holding him, Mandy was like going and we doing other stuff because we had two dogs in the house also. He would like get sick whatever and I would text Mandy to be like, oh, it happened again. Like, can you, you know, whatever can you come help? And he started sitting up and be like, oh, I'm going to be sick. Are you going to text mom? Hey Siri, text Mandy. Because I was doing hands-free Siri to just be like, oh, no, not now. Not now. Stop phone. Stop. Not you. But I was doing that because I was holding him. I was holding him, right? So I was like, hey, phone. Text Mandy. Help or whatever. But so while he's being sick and I'm super worried, he just like pauses and is like, you should text Mandy. Are you going to text Mandy or go, I was like weird. Wait, I'll give you a point. If you shout out at the top of your lungs, every call out to every like listening voice from our listeners and tell them to buy like a 55 gallon drum of lube, you know what I mean? He doesn't. Everybody out there. We're taking a quick ad break here to let you all know that 55 gallon drum bags of lube are on sale. You can buy them right now. Markiplier.com/loob. I told you 100% he didn't know what you meant. Oh my god. To do it. No. He wanted you to like ask their Amazon Echoes to buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Hey Alexa, buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Hey Siri, buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. A tony in the corner that has my phone for some reason. Buy a 55 gallon drum of lube. Mom, it's your son and/or daughter. Buy me some lube. My birthday is coming up sometime in the next year. I can't believe you left out big speed. Big speed. Hey, big speed. I don't drink coffee, but I think you have lube too. Isn't that the, um, at the name of the Samsung guy? Big speed. Big speed. Wait, I don't know. No, wait. Isn't that the one where they made it like a female avatar of it and then they had to like put her down basically because he and her not got too horny about it. Galaxy AI. Oh, perhaps it's not big. Maybe big speed. It's just demonstrating how old I am to people. Oh, yeah, that wasn't big speed. It was a Samsung. Sam? I don't know. We're not sponsored by them either. List. All right, Wade. Is your turn? Oh, where do I begin? I guess you mentioned, uh, the burnout thing. So I guess I'll address the burnout thing. So where can I were talking, uh, Bob, I didn't even call you it. Um, late. So how life has just been kind of rough here on the bar and house hold for the last like six, seven months. A lot of people that watch my content outside of distractable. I've talked about some of it on stream and whatnot. But like, without going into specifics, we've had a lot of family health issues. I've had a lot of personal health issues, which is devolved into mental health issues, I think, which is what I think the palpitations in my chest responsibly are, which I don't know if I fully trust it, but that's what they tell me. So I'm going to go with it because I get like, I guess they're panic attacks. I don't know. For me, it's just like randomly. My heart goes like from zero to a thousand beats per second, especially if I'm laying down at night. I'm like, oh, man. Time for sleep. And it's really fucking terrible. It's an awful feeling. But that's rolled over into my professional life where like, you know, I have fun making YouTube videos. I have fun streaming. I fund on the podcast, but right right now everything in life just feels like, I don't really don't want to do that. I don't have any motivation to do that. And I'm guessing that, I mean, you know, I've gone through some phases of burnout throughout my career. But just there's just been a big culmination of just being really tired. My sleep hasn't been great. The days are very just full. And there's a lot of crap. And I don't know. I just, Marker said, maybe I needed a vacation. I think maybe that's true. Every vacation I've taken since our honeymoon has had some work component to it. I just haven't had like a, I'm actually not working or doing anything. Like, you know, Molly and I are just getting away. It's like, you know, I love hanging out with friends and family and stuff. But we've not had a trip just the two of us actually getting away since our honeymoon. And I feel like a lot of people probably do that. But I don't even feel like I take days off. Like I won't stream for three or four days. But those days are still filled with like meetings or, you know, tax conversations or going through emails, going through DMs and stuff. Because I work with like a management company for ads and sponsors and stuff for my stuff. And there's always something. There's always something work related. I never turn it off. And I really feel like more than ever for the first time in a long time. It's just really impacting me. My focus is off. There've been some highlights. I mean, there's still games I enjoy playing. I recorded Blueprints again last night for a few hours, which is a game I still absolutely love. I've gone back to Diablo 2 for the first time in like 10 years, which I absolutely love. Dungeon Crawler Carl, you guys getting me to start reading that series. I just finished Parade of Horables last night finishing that. Those are all everything sucks. And I'm like the press or you know, whatever. It's just physical health issues and then having people you care about going through physical health issues. And a lot of that is really just mentally taxing. Like you were talking about the caregiver type stuff. You know, we were just raising money for St. Jude. May, St. Jude does their play live every year. So Molly had a campaign and I was joining her. We did some different campaigns to raise money for St. Jude, which get not sponsored, but shout out to them. Because whenever you're talking about someone like with a terminally ill child or people going through cancer stuff like that. Like I've gotten to go down and tour St. Jude's facilities a couple of times and seeing. It feels like you're in a school more than a hospital. I know people like, ew, school, but like school so much better than the feeling of being in a hospital. And the kids down there genuinely seem like, you know, they're happy. They're enjoying life. They're living it to the fullest. And they're well taken care of. There are moves a lot of the burdens from families and stuff. So people that are going through that kind of thing. I employ you looking to St. Jude or organizations like that. And I'm really happy to help fundraise for stuff like that. I'll be doing something for the American Heart Association here soon too. We have a lot of heart stuff in my family. So personal connections. Everyone's gone through cancer and their family or friends. There's someone knows someone, right? Everyone knows someone that's gone through stuff like that. So it's nice being able to do things like that. It's nice being able to do have the careers that we have. I think we all go through burnout and I'm just, I'm just going through some phase of it right now, which sucks. But I've got this knee brace I was showing off earlier because I messed up my knee playing basketball with my nephew like a month and a half ago. You all know I've got the slap tear in my shoulder. I've not had surgery on apparently. I've got a DVA to set them and I started developing like panic attacks this year. It's like those are all relatively minor health issues in the great. Maybe down to palpitations if they're more than stressed, but I think they're just stressed. I can live with it. The slap tear don't have to have surgery. The knee, it'll heal probably. I'm on prednisone for 10 days and got the knee brace, whatever. So it's all minor for me, but some of the stuff in my family is a little bit more severe. No, no, it's just it's been taxing and it's been really hard to find motivation. And I know people have it a lot worse than I do and that's not an excuse. Like you're allowed to be depressed even or you know, have burnout even if you're not going through it as bad as someone else. But it's still they're still an added pressure about it that feels like I shouldn't for some reason, which makes things even worse whenever you're like someone. So it's got so much worse than I needed to buck up and then you can't buck up and it's like, oh God, I'm so pathetic. I'm so weak. I'm so like and you start beating yourself up even more about it. It just exacerbates the situation and I've been going through cycles of that for about seven or eight months on and off. Just like since about October of last year, it's just been like every week. Every week at something and I was so out the end of the year, I was like, oh God, thank God 2026 is almost here. I am so dumb with 2025. And now hindsight, I'm like 2025. Come back. We had so good you and I I didn't know what I had. I took you for granted. I love you 2025. That's not good. But I'll get over it. I'll be fine. It's just a thing I'm going through right now and I don't go into stuff like that too often. I don't know why I've always looked at my job as like, I'm here to entertain, but like more so it's whatever people kind of view my content as some people probably put stuff on that we do or I do to go to sleep. Some people turn it on for a laugh. Some people turn it on for community. Some people turned on just to see specific games whatsoever. It doesn't matter if you enjoy the content. If you lurk, if you chat, if you comment, whatever, but my job is, hey, you're getting home from work. You have your own problems. You've had your own long day. If you're looking for something to watch or you know, listen to and that's what I'm supposed to provide, not sit here and bitch and moan about my own personal shit, which I do occasionally sometimes. But typically I try to keep all that separate and just give people something to enjoy during their free time because there's a lot of content to consume. So for people to choose anything that we do, like, well, I want you to enjoy it. But however you enjoy it, whatever you enjoy it for, I want to enjoy it. But it's been a struggle. It's been a struggle lately. And again, there's been some highs. I went foaling. Have you guys heard of foaling? Bob, have you ever been foaling? I have not. I know what it is. Yeah. So friends, mutual friends of ours invited us out to go foaling over the weekend, which is basically like you take. Okay, what's the game called? You throw the goddamn bean bags at the boards. Cornhole? Cornhole. It's like a flat cornhole board, which is just rectangle of wood on the ground. You set up bowling pins on it. You stand on opposite. You've got two of these across from each other. I can cornhole. You have teams on opposite sides and you throw a football and try to knock over the bowling pins. It was a lot of fun. I shouldn't have done it. My doctor literally two days before gave me an e-brake. He told me to take two weeks, not do anything. And then I went in through football for an hour. I know I was going pretty easy on it, but they were plans I had in progress and I don't like canceling plans on people. I was telling Mark another problem of mine is I'm way too like people pleaser. I have people pleaser running through my veins where I go out of my way for everyone no matter what at my own expense quite often. Again, I had fun, I enjoyed it, I'd love to do it again, but I really shouldn't have done it while my knees messed up. I don't know, not to be depressing derailing, I hate being a downer, but it's been a time. Some of the health issues I think are going to resolve themselves and be fine both for myself and people around me. But some of them I don't know, I just genuinely don't know how it's going to play out. I've got a couple of people in my life that are just getting up there in years and starting to show signs of, I've got concerns. And I think just mortality itself has been a lot more present on my mind in the last half a year or so. I've just had a lot more concerns and a lot of people around me are struggling. And whenever you were struggling and people around you were struggling and you're trying to lift them up, often what you end up doing is pushing yourself down further. And I think that's what I've been doing if I'm being honest. I mean, that's that's a lot to dump out and you keep saying like, oh, I'll get over it. Like, oh, I'll be fine. And but you were also saying like, oh, you shouldn't have the buck up, you know, man, pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. Because I mean, it's not nothing. The things you got going on, even if the job is to be an entertainer, I've definitely had plenty of times on this podcast where in the midst of all of it, that people have not and probably won't see of me blowing up for one reason or another and storming out of a recording session only to come back and be like, oh, man, it's real tough. You know, when that's the truth, like, it's just like, man, it's just really tough. And I don't know how to deal with it. And it'll blow up in some way or some form. And that's not fair to the people around me, you know, it's a, but still it's like it's real, you know, I don't think you should be ashamed of that. I don't think anybody should. Well, and that's a funny thing about this job. I don't think we're going to edit that out of this episode. But like this, you know, part of the thing about being entertaining is like, you don't, you don't have to exclusively be like that your entire life to make sure that what you're offering people when they're trying to like be entertained by your content is like that. And it's probably actually good not to Mark's point about just being the, the lie of just be like, oh, I'll be fine. That works right until it doesn't, right? Like, I believe that you probably will be fine because you're pretty resilient and like things are going okay for you outside of this stressful stuff as far as I know. But you can't just say that and brush it away. I don't know if you specifically, but like maybe you need to talk to someone. I've certainly lately been feeling like maybe I need to talk to somebody and I put that as like the lowest possible priority just because like everything else that everything around me is important. What other people that I care about have going on is important having a kid. He's pretty much top importance 24/7 regardless of how I feel or what's going on with me, but like that doesn't mean that you never should take care of it. And like, again, I'm not accusing you of anything. It's a weird way to put it, but I believe you probably do have it handled because it's just stuff that you're going through. And I think I think most of it will resolve because I know some of what you're going through. Don't just assume that it's easy to just be like, I'll be fine and then push it down, but that's not always necessarily true. And it's fine to go and talk to someone. It's healthy to do that. Talk to a friend or family or talk to someone professionally for whatever, like truth is I've done both last fall. I actually preemptively started going in and talking to, um, I guess counselors, a proper term. I went in for just some counseling. It was more preemptive than anything because I felt I felt the start of this even before the things that actually caused me to like kind of fall off the cliff of the burnout feeling. We've been very fortunate that we've had success, you know, the podcast, you know, our own channels and stuff like that over the years. Success is great. But success also comes at different costs. I've talked to my community about how like I miss. It's really nice having like hundreds of people come and watch, you know, a live stream, right? I'm never going to complain about having people come hundreds or thousands or whatever it is. But like there was also something nice about like that. There's 10 people and we can I can chat with each of them get to know them. Like it's kind of a friend field. Like hang out with friends and that vibe from content creation. It's pretty much gone now, right? Cause we just we've blown up to that point. In personal lives, too, though, people see success and you know, a lot of them are happy for you and you know, you know, or nice about it. But some people see it and they get jealous or they have their own things going on and they feel like they reach a point of desperation. They have to reach out like you're doing well. Can you help me with this? Can you help me with that? And that's kind of happened a lot lately. You know, the first time's one thing and then the 10th time one person does. It's like, okay, you're not wanting help. You're wanting me to be your like sugar whatever relationship it is. Sugar friend sugar. Sugar friends definitely the thing. It's not just, you know, friends family, whatever it people have done it. And feeling some of my personal relationships change was bothering me. So I actually went in and I started talking about that last fall with somebody and we ended up working through some other stuff too. I actually just finished a couple of months ago, you know, like this four to six months, like once a week chat council session. What do you want to call it? And it was helpful. But a lot of my life. I mean, I harken back to when I was four years old and my parents first split up and I don't think anyone meant to put me under pressure. But my grandparents, my mom, my dad, they would ask like, Hey, who do you want to go spend time with this weekend? Do you want to go to your mom's? You want to go to your dad's like your grandparents were never going to make you go anywhere you don't want to go? Where do you want to go? And I guess I had an ego even as a kid because I was like, well, everyone loves spending time with me. So however, I don't choose is going to be so sad that I didn't pick them. No one wants a break from the kid, but like, you know, as a kid, it was like, why don't want to let them down? So I'm going to I'll choose you this weekend. You that weekend and then the weekend after I'll rotate. I want to go here and hang out with my friends, but I'm going to choose this way because I want to make everybody happy. And my people pleasing was just like instituted then. And then I lost my dad when I was 11. My grandpa died three months later. And then we had like 20 some odd more deaths in the family and close friends over like the next five or six years. After my dad died was the first time I ever got straight A's and I did it because I knew my grandparents always seemed really happy when I did both in school. They would want me to have a good future. So when my dad died and my grandma was very obviously torn up about it was her son. I was like, okay, I'm going to work harder in school. I'm going to get good grades. I'm going to try to give them something to some beacon of light. I will be the beacon of light. And so I've just always had this pressure of like even before making content that I'm responsible for people's happiness. And with the platform we have sometimes there's a pressure of like, am I doing enough? Am I am I am I saying all the things I should say like there's a lot of issues we don't touch on and I don't know that I want to touch on. But sometimes my brain's like, should we go into all these things? Should we share a really uninformed opinion? At least my opinion would be uninformed. Should I do this? Am I doing enough? Am I entertaining enough? Am I helping people enough? And I've never taken time to really consider what life would be like if I just took a break from trying to uplift all those around me. And for whatever reason, like I said, health wise people around me the last six months, it's just that pressure is finally just hit me to the point where it's like, I can't I can't lift up everyone else because I'm I'm really kind of at a point of burnout. That's pretty strong, but I have been talking about it. I've been open about the South, you know, Molly and some friends and family. We've talked about it a little bit, you know, before show here on this episode, but I do generally try to just probably unhealthy but I do try to just shove it down sometimes. I'm like, you know, I've gotten my entire life. I have gone through a lot of stuff. I've lost a lot of people. I've dealt with a lot of shit. I'm sure we, you know, we all I know you guys have. I know everyone has, but I've always handled it one way and it's like, well, that must be the perfect way to handle it because it's always worked so far. It hasn't this past six months, so I'm adapting, but it has been a challenge and it's new waters for me to be like, my walls are down and I can't put them back up. I'm out of that wall material concrete mortar bricks, wall material, I think is adequate drywall. I was like, not dry rope. It's something like that. Dry rope. That's that's my long winded spiel about the burnout and stuff. I really appreciate you sharing that. It's important for a lot of people to know and just say in general, I'll give you one point. I've been up a little short there on the points, aren't you? Just let him have one. I'm not going to take away a point for that because I think you're just lashing out because you're shuffling things too far down and they always just erupt and you're, you're just lashing out. And I can understand that as a friend, right? Friends, right? You nodding. That's Sam doing it. I know that's alive at nod. That's alive. Yeah, I'm saving it right there. I'm nodding with six fingers. What? I don't know why I thought editing it. I have the same thing for a minute there. I'm fine. We've been talking a lot about it. A lot of our our issues that we're dealing with. And I think we sick baby depression or burnout and a GoPro. We all got problems. They've all equivalent here. I can't get a GoPro sponsorship. A sick kid, you know, general depression and burnout. We're all unfulfilled in life. I think we can only create on that. I don't know. For once, I think actually for the first time I don't have the the main complaints of the era. I'm everything is coming up roses with the movie and it's it's a weirdly good time for you YouTube movies in general or YouTuber movies. Content creation is is booming and I'm very excited to go into the future about that. So I'm kind of grateful that the thing that I have to complain about is as funny as I want more I want silly camera. I want to I want to think like that. You had your share of stresses over the last few years. I think you deserve a little break. That's fair. I appreciate that. All right. Shall we tally the points? Well, hold on now. I feel pretty strong about maybe we should go a little longer. All right. Bob, you got a ball the ball to more point emphasis on the ball. You got a GoPro sympathy point. You got a point for the second biggest worry ever. And then future James trauma. Prama, you got another point for that. It's a low scoring game, but it's like four points. I was mostly just listening. - I feel even better about it now. I think Wade lost more points than I had right there. - Now hold on, I think if I lost points, there is something on the wheel that makes negative points positive, right? - That is true. - It's technically true, right? Yeah, so you got a bald point. I gave you a point for Hobbit Town, USA. You got a point for Dracula Impression Guy. You lost a point for a short joke. You lost a point for a stool short joke. You lost a point for the extra tall stool joke. - That's really funny. - I gave you a half a point for your barely understanding the lube joke I was going for. You did it, you did it, so I gave you a half a point for that. And then one point for burnout, for you talking about that. And I think that's very impressive of you. You have one and a half points. - If I pull this off, it might be the lowest score in a way that distracts a little history. All right, let's see if that happens, 'cause yes, those three points would put you half a point above a bomb. If you can just get three points out of this. - Not lie points, the other is negative points positive. - It's absolute value, yeah. We're golf rolls, that's true. Well, let's see how many spins you get to try and make this up. - I only need one to beat you. - Okay, well, I'll agree to one, or we'll just do three again. - Oh, three! - We got three on the wheel. - Okay, fine. - I'm just gonna call it now. It's gonna somehow be host wins. - I think we already have smallest violin, so we can't do anything like that of the saddest story. - That would be such a kick in the dick to get that after what we talked about. - Sickest child. - Sickest child. - No, we know some of us don't have children. - Well, who's fault is that? - That we know of, I guess. I don't know what are you talking about. - I just realized that I never mentioned the fact Molly and I celebrate our eight year wedding anniversary this week and our dogs both had birthdays. - Whoops. - Yeah, no points, yeah, no points for that. - Oh, closest to a sponsorship or currently sponsored. Point for who is currently sponsored. - And general podcast. - It has to be like, one of us has a sponsorship. Kind of deal, okay. - Okay, define sponsorship. 'Cause I recorded a sponsored video last night that hasn't come out yet. - That would count, I think that would count, yeah. And it's like, we could put this on the bounty board too. Just be like, go get a sponsor for a sponsored point. - It has to be a spite sponsor. The sponsorship has to be about how you were getting it and you're not sharing it with us. And then you have, you show it, yeah. - Perfect. - Oh, what we should do. Actually, after we spend the wheel, we decide who the winner is. We'll do a quick, like, few minutes talking about the subreddit and the bounty board conversations, the coin flip thing when we meet fans, all that yadda yadda's. It's been really cool seeing people's responses and I wanna acknowledge it, but yeah. - Okay, let's finish the spins and then yeah, we should talk about that. - Currently sponsored. - We have 110 options on the wheel and several of them will save Wade. - All I needed to hear. - 10-voil hat point. - I think that would go for me for, like, the go-prose. - Yeah, honestly, yeah. - That's true. - Yeah, I'm gonna give myself a point for that. - That's the most 10-voil hat you think we've had all day. - It's not that they're ignoring me on purpose, right? They wouldn't do that. - Oh, no, no. - Mark is gonna finish second place. I could feel it. - He just needs to get to one more point, the best way. - And then surprise golf rules. - That does also mean if we get golf rules now, Mark is winning. - That's true, I didn't think about that. - Yeah, I didn't think about that. - So that took away one of Wade's avenues to actually succeed. It'll be fine. I'm sure Wade will end it. - Unless I get a point and then it's golf rules and then you could still be the lost. - Got the flatest. - Got the flatest. - You know what I mean. - I don't know, got. - Past tense, you did this last time too. You're trying to get flat. - Gets the flatest. It's who got the flatest. - Isn't it dead best Scottish accent too? We still do that current. - Well, that will help person that next time we get to that. - It's written into the rules of the rule. Okay, calm down. - All right, so I don't think any of us got flat actually. I think unless you count all my short jokes that Wade was making for me, I got pretty flattened by now. - Respet. - All right, spin number two again. - That would give me another chance to win if we counted it. - Coolest illness since last episode. - James? - I mean, James gets that point. So James gets a point and by proxy, is he ready to host Bob? - He's probably ready to host an episode. He's pretty funny. - All right, James gets a point there and by proxy is kind of Bob's point, but you know, technically James was until James turns 18. - James points or Bob's points? - I don't even need it. - Yep, that's true. He doesn't need it. He's well in the lead. - All right. - Because here comes golf rules. - Well, then it would be a tie between me and James, yeah. - Send number three, man. I hope one of these just says Wade wins. - Lifepoints don't count. - That's not what he needs. - I didn't have any lifepoints, I don't think. - All right, no lifepoints, but it's not a respawn. That is what that is. All right, so with Wade remaining at one and a half points, those short jokes didn't feel very worth it now, did they? - They were funny. - I don't regret it. - Minus one, future point. - You won't remember that. - Every episode for the next year that Mark hosts. There's gonna be an entire subreddit panic about like, "Did he do the point?" "Wade minus one, Wade point. "Did he do it? "It's still out there." - All right, speaking of the subreddit, the subreddit has been a buzzing with activity. There's been so many people that are excited since the last time we did a constitution update, which is the first time people have ever been excited about a constitutional update. - I'm not gonna lie. - In the world in general? - Yeah, yeah, something like that, I think so. Oh my God, I like how the top post of the subreddit is Mark asking for referral code for GoPro. - I know, I just saw that and I'm just fucking. - I'm not asking for a referral code. I'm just saying I don't have one. But there's a lot of people talking, there's an official bounty board point posting thing. There's a lot of bounties on here. I'm actually afraid there are too many bounties. - Yeah, well, I do think while some of these are funny, I feel like they sort of don't work and could be taken off the board. I don't wanna over complicate things 'cause none of the three of us made this happen. This is all courtesy of the mods of the subreddit. - Yeah. - But it links together. But yeah, like some of these are very funny. - And some are easier than others, but only one person can claim it. So I guess the first person to do it claims it. It's up to us to pay attention to these. If the bounty boards can just absolutely devastate the landscape, then so be it. - This is not clear, I think, in the constitution. How many points are these worth? Is that like an on the fly thing? Like when you cash in the bounty, we'll debate between ourselves, how many? But 'cause some of them, I know the person who posted it was like, this should be worth 10 points or whatever. And I think the mods kind of took the ideas and sort of disregarded the points 'cause the points were all over the place. And that's not really, that's not a balanced approach to just let whomever comes up with it. - There should be a one point bounty for easier things, maybe a two point three point or maybe only one and a two point thing. It feels like easy. - I don't think any more than three. I think one or two sounds, 'cause you want it to be able to help, but you don't want it to be the entire episode. I like either one or two or maybe one or three, but then to be a three, it needs to be way above and beyond. So there's basically regular bounties and special bounties. - Yeah, so we need to coordinate that, that would be. - I think we can do it on the fly. I think we should leave that to her like, when someone cashes a bounty in. - It's up to the judge. - Part of that process is, okay, that counts as well as getting that bounty. Now is that a normal or an extra special? - I feel like we're all on board with the bounties seem really fun, so we're gonna play along, right? And be relatively fair with the point, the point, bartering. Plus, if you're a total bitch about it, then you're never getting any bounty points. You know, you gotta play your card, right? - I'm fucked. I'm always a total bitch. - Can we play this, like, immunity, you know, charms where it's like, at the right before the point counting, we're like, wait a minute. God, I was on a farm. - I do think that that should, like, 'cause then you could hold it in your pocket too, right? If you have one, and it gets to a thing where it's like, it's you're down by one, or it's tied, you can just be like, ah! - God! - You know, with that noise and-- - Your Honor, my approach to the bench, I have a bounty to turn in. - Perhaps the rule should be just for clarity, before any wheels spin. So, like, as soon as the wheel determining how many, as soon as the first wheel spins, how many spins wheel, no more bounties. But up until a wheel spin is initiated, you can interrupt with a bounty. And then the budget, there's, I don't think there's any solid decision on how the hell the audience's budget even can work or does work, but we're still working on that. - I was just gonna read the Reddit and do the ones I thought were funny. - I don't remember a budget. - Remember, we were like, we talked about this, at $600 a month, we're gonna allow the subreddit to pick things for us to spend money on. It's like 200 each, or 600 total, and we're going to, they have some sort of vote, they have to coalesce around an idea enough that we feel like it's endorsed by the subreddit, and then we will spend the money on the thing. - Okay, why are we buying things? What are we doing with them? - For fun, for fun, for fun, for fun, for the podcast. - We need a flair for that, so that if we're looking for budget for money, budget stuff, we can just like go on the Reddit and be like, the flair for spending money or whatever the hell it's called, budget committee or something. Yeah, but the thing it was like it was gonna be something they're autonomous about so it's like if they vote They only have so much budget and they have to vote on what the budget is spent on so they all have to agree on what is spent on I think is generally the idea. All right fair enough. I'm sure I will forget and you guys will remind me next time We'll just do it all you just show up. It's fine. It's fine And if you guys end up spending the money I'll just send you the money that I don't have things in my house We'll just take it out of your cup before it goes your way it'll be fine. It's even easier. I'll just take out whatever amount I think it's fair out of your It'll be fine. It'll be fine. All in favor of taking it out of Wade's portion. Say aye. Aye All right, it passed. Sam edited the fourth member. Aye Fuck I think this is a constitution episode. It says somehow it's an edited of Wade saying aye. You know that video We're the guys like breaking into someone's house and they're like I'm gonna find them and the person's like hiding in the Clause and they like they go red robbing in the closet here Like ha gotcha would be like that. But you guys be like are you ready kids? I'll go aye. I can fuck. That's it. We're done There is is there merch right now. There is something If you were wondering why Quantities are limited on these drops. It's people that people want to both ways But it's because we're desperately scrambling to fulfill all the iron lung things Of which there are we're un it's like you can't even imagine you can't even imagine You can't even imagine I'm gonna take my GoPro and I'm gonna go film what we've had to do to do it It's and people are just gonna third party logistics for filming company. Oh, it's so fucking easy, isn't it? I'll go next door to my third party logistics and I was just like no, no, hey, let's get a contract going And I'm gonna give you 50,000 fucking items and you just you get going Oh, what you didn't have the system integrated before it. We got a handover fucking god damn it. All right We're working on it. Hey look you guys doing a great job. I got my iron lung stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah, there's still like There's still like 15,000 orders left to fill. What's that three days work? Those would be done like tomorrow. Yeah We didn't even have regular pickups from the post office and from the shipping companies The setting that up and giving them getting them to even believe us that we had 5,000 orders that we needed to ship out We tried to show up at the the place with the orders We got turned away It's like you can't do this. Whatever we can't do this I just picked this really tiny post office one guy working behind the car and you walk in you're like I have a 5,000 boxes. I need shipped like okay, sure and they look outside you have like four semi trucks Just side by side with all the bags open. You're like the guy just pulls the window down It's like we are closed for the day. You have no idea man. You have no idea. You have no idea And also we don't order enough shirts just to make you mad. No, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's true It's on purpose marks just lying to cover it, but I think it's fun. No, even my family's got there like are you intentionally trying to keep me from getting your - It's like no, I'm not this way. - No dude. - Play moves assholes online, they keep buying it, it's not my fault. - And it's also like we did a restock of certain custom things and we said like this whole long lead time to get this restock in. And then the whole world's shipping industry kind of exploded. (laughs) - So to like have an umbrella like, anyway, there's no one. - No, I'm gonna complain, that's what this episode's all about. It's like talking about struggles, right? - My struggles are just valid, your guys are struggles even though it's after we've declared the winner inside the points. - Sure, sure. - Patty who's been helping coordinate everything has us really smart because we have manufacturers in America and not just China at all. It's like we have manufacturers in all kinds of different places so that we can have a redundancy if anything happens to one or if one can't meet the quality, things like that, we have we source from a lot of different places and try to source responsibly from different places. And it's like, okay, we got a wide net. It doesn't help when the whole fucking world's shipping industry explodes. - And it's only a bit of a few months there. And I know that sounds like a long time but when it working in business stuff, like business takes a long time to get things going. - Dude, it takes an agonizingly long time for anything to happen if you're doing like, enterprise level, anything, it's fucking inferior. When you're used to what we do and it's like, you show up, and either you do it or you pay this is one person that you know to do the thing that you work and then you're like, you're emailing chains and you're emailing groups and they're like, oh, afford this onto the right person and just a person you've never heard of and you're like, oh, what they don't know this, oh, no. This is like starting over, but we've been doing this for a week. It's great, it's lovely. Businesses are very efficient and great and there's nothing that could be streamlined about this entire process. And I don't even know what all the shit you're dealing with is just my experience. - Well, Mark's currently writing a new book is called All Work and No Go Pro makes Mark a Sad Boy. It's just that line over and over again for 600 pages. - Yeah, yeah, weird, huh? - A year from now when Mark finally does get a go pro, just gonna be him filming himself sitting on a computer, violently sending emails trying to make one thing happen. - We're ending the episode. Thank you so much for being a listener and/or viewer of this episode. We are in entering our best season yet, I think, probably, hopefully. Or most disastrous, which would be equally as cool. Anything but average is gonna be the theme of this season. Wait, do you? - No, what would I have to say? - Oh, my quality of, my quality will be below average. - All right, okay, good, good, that's it. - Like Mark's hike. (laughing) - He actually cut out. - You actually cut out. - That was so fucking funny. - That was so good. - Whoa, that was great. I hope that got captured. - God, oh my God. - A whole of my shit just crashed. - I thought you just left. - I just, my computer gave me an error by going so hard crashed. - Yeah, you've got like your webcam mic right now. It's all fucked. - All right, we're gonna end it. That's what wave gets. Thank you. - Follow the bug cats, follow these guys. My guest out before it blows up. - Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. - Meet new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York. Deltamist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin. That still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York. - Maybe it's Mabelie.