Burnout

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Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. All right, ready? Fart noise. That was my mouth sound. I was making a fart noise as a sound of acquiescence. That's how I communicate with you. James, sorry. I'm ready. That's how I show your dominance. I assert your dominance. Welcome to Distractible. 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 Baldemort who is way better at them than us as we are. Did you emphasize bald more than usual in that name this time? Are you just sensitive to it? I really thought you were calling me a name. I think you're just sensitive to it, man. 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. I'm particularly 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 title's confusing. No, Baldemort gives a complete description of what's going to happen in really elegant ways, yeah. But 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 Baldemort point. Make sure you emphasize the bald part. Baldemort. I feel dirty. Spent his name the whole time, dude. You must always feel dirty. What the hell? What the hell? His name's Baldemort. Please don't quit. Please. Yeah, please. Please. Baldemort. Please. Don't listen to Wade. 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, like, you go to fry dinner on your head, and 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. I don't want to 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 am abstaining from this yes-and. He's just highlighting one of the advantages that bald people have. When I cook dinner on my head, there's so many hairs in it, it's gross. Imagine scrambled eggs with this. And how. We are the triumvirate of men, a very unique perspective in the world of podcasting. 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. Put a jigsaw. Actually, there was never really any game. All right, I don't want to get into this. There was never really any game. Okay, there was never really any game. Hold on, let's go. What was the game? He was like, do 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. Okay. I think it's called Peekaboo. There was the Pit of Needles. It's a very modern take on the children's game, Peekaboo. Shotgun Peekaboo. Dude, that sounds like a crazy-ass indie film or something. A24 presents Shotgun Peekaboo. Today's episode kind of rolls small talk all into one. We're going to be doing a ye olde fireside chat. We're going to be talking. Yapping up a storm. Life has been getting at us. Wade mentioned something about burnout before 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. And 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. It's not like I'm going to make a theme park deal out of it and have iron lung the ride, you know, or anything like that. It's I kind of forget about it at this point. You know, that'd be such an easy ride to make, though. You just you all pile in and it's like a motion thing. Right. But there there's no visuals. It's just like. And you're like, oh, what's that? We'll never know. And then a tooth comes through the top and you get your fire extinguishers. And you. Oh, spoiler, but I zoned out for, like, one second at the beginning and then I have no idea what the hell is happening. What do you mean you sound out before a conversation happens? What? 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 down. 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. You're like me coming in the top. And I was like, all right, I'll give you a hey, was it like 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. 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's the thing you wanted. No. Well, you know, 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. Slam it on the desk. Let them hear it. There's the camera. Don't you have a spinning? Stage for it? Yeah, I do. Yeah. On this on this. I showed this. So this is the editing wheel someone gave to me or or I think I bought it, actually. And I have never used it for editing, but I am using it as a display for my GoPro. Do you like how we look at your lighting, though? Elite level lighting. Look at those. Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. Splashing. It's catching. Wow. 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 one? Me paying money. And then the release date happening transaction is what took place. So they they sent you one because they legally had to because of money. I see. I see. I see. Even then they were like, do we have a worse one we could give them like the prototype? Can we ship this guy like an open box or do we have any returns yet or? 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. Lick one and then put it in the packaging and see if he notices. Oh, good. Anyway, I got it. Not many people know or remember. I used GoPros. I put it out on the van vlogs. Dude, I love the van. The barrel. Yeah. And I use it. So I'm very familiar with using GoPros. And it was funny because I just Googled barrel as if that was going to get me anywhere. What the fuck's wrong with me? Top hits. Cracker Barrel. Barrels in general. Markiplier's van. Yeah. It's entirely filmed with like a GoPro Hero 8 or whatever the one from that year would have been. And I am. I'm rooting. Damn, I look different. Fuck. I've gotten old. Yeah, man. Your genes are terrible. Anyway, I really like the. I've always liked the convenience of it and it's really nice. And I'm not sponsored, obviously, because I'm trying so desperately to be. But 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 would. Well, it's out for everyone else. Come on, man. Come on. You're not supposed to tell them, man. There's a giant conspiracy that it's true. Yeah. You're not supposed to tell them. just not me you're gonna get kicked out of the group the gopro club uh but it's it's just uh i i've always liked it because versus big cinema cameras and even big dslrs there's something so nice about speaking like i'm filming something and it being usable is anyway i filmed chica's tail in slow motion because i realized like when i got it i was like oh i gotta film some cool shit in slow motion what what's cool in my life my dog's ass yeah well hey look it's chica'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 i realize i actually don't have that much uh cool things to film in slow-mo but i'll find them i filmed the faucet because i didn't know what else to film and it was like wow 960 frames did you get did you get the shot of like the you like the drops coming across frame and everything or man i would it's this one doesn't do macro yet even though although i did an experiment where i held one of my other lenses like my minotas in front of it like this and i gotta i gotta actually a pretty cool shot out of it um so there's i'm going to fake it until it happens i don't care if i have to 3d print like an amount to get other optical things on there i'll figure out a way i can do it i can do it i was an i was almost an engineer yeah because i know it's going to have like adapt anyway i don't need to talk about but i'm very excited about this i truly anyway it's going to have like the hero 13 had where it's like interchangeable lenses where you can have the macro and the things like that because this comes off for in case it breaks that's why it won't break because it'll just break this lens cover and then you can just it's a little cheap replacement 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 four thirds one and then you're going to film your next movie on it i would i i actually would um not the whole thing no no one take that quote and run i would i actually would hey look if if gopro wants to fund my my adventures and and and sponsor me and i'll film a movie on it i'll film an entire movie on it well you're on the final stretch of this one so you could start a new one anytime yeah you're almost free for a new one i would love to be involved in it please i could i could make really pretty footage i could i could make things happen wait i see you shaking your head i literally can see that was edited in by sam called a live edit i i have this video idea where it's like because i was trying to think like i don't you know 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 rail 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 i could be like oh that might be fun comparison you've also got a few lenses i hear so you could every lens every video you have to use every lens oh i'll try i guess but i don't 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 because it's not very high one lens i might i'm sorry you're just so bad i'm gonna leave look you guys are smart you're entrenched in tech and knowledge and i i'm fart joke i'm off in the corner i got a word or two 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 somebody comes to my stream i can't verify this but they told me they legally changed their name like they're like i don't know what they're doing i don't know what they're doing legal name to drake ulysses 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 i think they spelled it wrong when you shop kroger delivery you can expect the savings you love and fresh groceries delivered right to your door our refrigerated trucks keep your items fresh while our associates are committed to getting every detail right carefully selecting and packing your order with care because bringing you fresh quality groceries is what we do best and right now enjoy twenty dollars off your first online order of seventy five dollars or more restrictions apply see site for details kroger fresh for everyone i hope they're not watching right now but also they changed their name to drake ulysses law can you imagine getting the application like you know 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 ulysses law if 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 ulysses law if it's spelled d-r-a-k-e maybe but if it's d-r-a-c i feel like i would immediately go drac uh drac ulysses law uh 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 that don't mind me i'm taking selfies the next episode without either of our inputs is going to be a little bit more just gonna be like sponsored by gopro filmed entirely on gopro it's just mark's camera the whole time but it's him on can you live stream can i use this as 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 could do it wirelessly if you because 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 a gopro for that but we had it wired into a laptop it's very good oh i will look at it yeah i mean i'm i'm looking for a stream cam hey gopro i know how much you love working with mark and how much you're supporting him there's any splash off you know this camera could be a gopro it's just some webcam right now you could look 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 and my audience has been like yeah yeah sacrifice me and 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 this cyanide pill put them together and swallow you know what i fucking just realized you sound like 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 dungeon suit i don't know the name yeah but it's like the vampires and the normal guy you're talking about like the yeah yeah yeah yeah but it's like the vampires and the normal guy you're talking about like the dingelmeyer is that fucking holy father i'm sorry master stupid stupid dingelmeyer oh i was thinking of there's some tv show with like uh the 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 uh the show with uh matt barry uh what we do in the shadows yes yes yes that's what we that's what we do in the shadows yeah that would also very funny show no well i'll pretty much i don't have time to talk about it i don't have time to talk about it i don't have time to have many unique voices pretty much all 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 because it's pretty dead on we still have not contacted adventures i want that tour back no no i'm emailing with andy i'm emailing with andy 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 am in emails with andy from uh the voices tour back on legend of well not voices but plays as tour back we have cool jobs we get the people do cool things cool jobs it's very good you think the reason ghosts are i'm not gonna talk about it where i'm done all right i'm done talking about 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 because they have so many talented people that are all filming them and helping support it and you think that the reason they don't want to support me is because i don't i can't 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 of 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 no you have we had the fuck it bucket right i might have when 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 lung no no mark actually made that that's just him no we had to well because okay i don't know if i should mr fuck it you put your balls in my tub it's a very professional very uh insurance company safe way of putting a red camera into a waterproof home depot bucket and so you have a home depot bucket and you put it in the 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 blood and so we had that this sounds awesome it was awesome i was super doubtful when it happened but the problem was because the camera's in the bucket and it's like sealed in there so to redo anything or 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 uh drying glue and stuff but once it's in there it's like let's go so difficult to do uh if i just had this for that shot specifically was like under the crawl space and like going there again i'm talking spoilers now i can talk about the movie and i'm gonna talk about the movie it's out it's a veil 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 because 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 even it's so sticky it like 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 i it would take a ton of cleanup uh for painting out the other people and the cameramen and all the other people standing behind the main camera but oh it was a very good i just want to reiterate for 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'd 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 everyone's in your boat mark no one no one's more left out than you are that's for sure well we have gopros in our boat he's got go amateurs and his got him no that's not what you said i'd like you to stick to what you said the first time around couldn't remember you have to remind me no i'm pretty sure you remember you remember babe do you actually remember oh no jesus if i have a superpower it's that i can't remember much anything i require you to refer to them as come amateurs from now on did i say that already today come amateur no not from today from previous episodes it was a whole thing we talked about thank god it wasn't i thought it was today oh man that's a pretty good one i should have remembered that yeah the audience loved it they were they thought it was very funny yeah what were we 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 onto you guys that's fine i'm okay with that trickle on me gopro yeah we'll crouch down so we can get trickled on because you're short minus one shit i forgot you were hosting because you're 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's sitting in the live edit control room just like god i missed one i need my transparent head wade head shaking gift to put over his uh all right since uh wade is uh uh mean bob you get to go first on how many different names did you think of that you didn't want to call me out mean i'm the nice one anyway it's not a very fair competition for you win um let me get him his little stepping stool so we can get to my level yeah i knew it was i knew it was i knew there was something coming minus another minus another 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 uh 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 uh 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 but the night before that i spent honestly 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 and it's a we have video monitor so we can watch him and he always just sort of sleeps sometimes he 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 but i'm right now at sleeping he sleeps on his own he'll wake up and he'll like put it he'll soothe himself and get back to sleep it's awesome with the monitor on and it's 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 uh 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 you know sounds he makes every night when he sleeps and then i'm like oh my god i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so i look and i pulled up the monitor and looked and it was like oh that's a weird it's like really shadowy oh that looks funny and then he sort of just looks up and goes ah and i was like oh fuck oh my god uh he had thrown up but we get up there and if 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 you get used to it like i always was like man how do you get used to it parents deal with that and then 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 get him to the bathroom and man like it was rough but was like okay that's weird this is out of nowhere he wasn't sick today he was totally happy and we put him in the bath and 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 the 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 because he's fucking exhausted because it's horrific to throw up constantly and he's like passing out just like and i'm sitting there watching i'm making sure he's still breathing everything's good and 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 man he 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 have to go but it's the middle of the night right now it's going to be traumatic experience for him if we have to take him especially if he's fine and 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 him like 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 and 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 you know let's go slow let's see what happens totally fine didn't throw up again he did have some like dummy troubles uh 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 night 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 uh i have not felt that kind of worry since uh james was born and mandy's uh was c-sectioned and i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die 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 i can't imagine i can't imagine i can't imagine 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 of 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 and 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 a 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 and he ate 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 Cause all day we were like watching him and it was whatever put in bed last night and was like okay well there's 24 hours gone uh 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 do it again how much sadder does it need to be to get another point out of it well okay did i emphasize how much he was crying about how upset he was okay you're getting a little getting a little uppity about this whole uh milking it thing so i'm like i'm just saying two points is pretty generous you're already in the lead so maybe don't push your luck come on man yeah man two points for a vomit story you got plenty i'll just let wade beat himself that's fine actually you know one one funny thing that kept happening that was really funny in the moment compared to everything else he was i 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 gonna be sick are you gonna text mom hey siri text mandy because i because i was using hands-free siri to just be like uh no not now not now stop phone stop not you but i was doing 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 and but so while he's being sick and i'm super worried he just like pauses and is like uh text you should text mandy are you gonna text mandy or do i 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 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 going to be sold out and we're going to have them on sale you can buy them right now markiplier.com slash lube i told you 100 he didn't know what you meant oh my god did i 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 hey 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's coming up sometime in the next year i can't believe you left out bigsby bigsby hey bigsby i don't drink coffee but i think you have lube too isn't that the um that the name of the samsung guy bigsby bigsby 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 the internet got too horny about it galaxy ai oh perhaps it's not big maybe bigsby is just demonstrating how old i am to people oh yeah that wasn't bigsby it was a samsung sam i don't know we're not sponsored by them either lest all right wade it's your turn oh where do i begin well i guess you mentioned uh the burnout thing so i guess i'll address the burnout thing so mark and i were talking bob wouldn't even call yet um late somehow life has just been kind of i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know rough here on the barns household for the last like six seven months a lot of people that watch my content outside of distractible 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 has devolved into mental health issues i think which is what i think the palpitations in my chest were supposedly are which i don't know if i fully trust it but that's what they tell me so i'm gonna 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 whenever 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 like right now everything in life just feels like i really don't want to do that i don't have any motivation to do that and i'm guessing 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 uh mark would say 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 have 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 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 have 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 horribles last night finished reading that it wasn't like everything sucks and i'm like depressed 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 saint jude may saint jude does their play live every year so molly had a campaign and i was joining her and we did some different campaigns to raise money for saint jude which again not sponsored but shout out to them because whenever they're 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 saint 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 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 that removes a lot of the burdens from families and stuff so people that are going through that kind of thing i implore you to look into saint 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 friend if someone knows someone right everyone knows someone that's gone through stuff like that it's nice being able to 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 deviated septum and i started developing like panic attacks this year it's like those are all relatively minor health issues in the great maybe not palpitations if they're more than stress but i think they're just stress i can live with it the slap tear don't have 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 i don't know it's just it's been taxing and uh 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 there's still an added pressure about it though it feels like i shouldn't be depressed even if i'm not shouldn't for some reason which makes things even worse whenever you're like so-and-so's got it 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 it's something and i was so at the end of the year i was like oh god thank god 2026 is almost here i am so done with comeback we had it 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 the thing i'm going through right now and i don't go into stuff like that too often publicly 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 turn it 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 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 do something that you're not supposed to do and i'm going to show you how to do it i want you to enjoy it but however you enjoy it whatever you enjoy it for i want them 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 you guys heard of foaling bob did you have you ever been foaling i have not no 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 um oh god what's the game called we 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 like in 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 a knee brace told me to take two weeks not do anything and then i went and threw football for an hour and now 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 uh at my own expense quite often and i 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 uh i hate i hate being a downer but it's uh 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 uh 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 um 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 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 to dump out and you keep saying like oh i'll get over it like i'll be fine and but you also saying like yo you shouldn't have the buck up you know man uh pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality because i mean it's uh 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 uh 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 uh 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 the funny thing about this job i don't think we're going to edit that out of this episode but like the 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 entertaining you don't have to be like that your entire life to make sure that what you're offering people when they're trying to like be entertaining 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 entertaining you don't have to exclusively be like that 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 being like no 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 the 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 don't know if you need to talk to someone i don't know if you 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 everything around me uh 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 which is a weird way to put it but i'm not accusing you of anything which is a weird way to put it but i'm not accusing you of anything which is a weird way to put it but i'm not accusing you of anything which is a weird way to put it but i'm not accusing you of anything which is 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 um last fall i actually preemptively started going in and talking to um i guess counselor is a proper term um 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 feel it's like hang out with friends and that vibe from content creation it's pretty much gone now right because 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 are 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 friend's definitely the thing it's not 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 and i actually just finished a couple of months ago you know like this four to six month like once a week chat council session whatever you want to call it and it was helpful but a lot of my life i mean i hearken 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 you want to go to your mom's you want to go to your dad's like your grandparents we're 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 and whoever 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 i don't want to let them down so i'm gonna i'll choose you this weekend you that weekend and them 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 um 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 over like the next five or six years um after my dad died was the first time i ever got straight ace and i did it because i knew my grandparents always seemed really happy when i did well in school they really wanted me to have a good future so when my dad died my grandma was very obviously torn up about it was her son i was like okay i'm gonna work harder in school i'm gonna get good grades i'm gonna 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 um and with the platform we have sometimes there's a pressure of like am i doing enough 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 our 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 things i've been doing for whatever reason like i said health-wise people around me the last six months it's just that pressure has 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 this with um 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 um 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 gotten through a lot 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 that's that's my long-winded spiel about the burnout and stuff i really appreciate you sharing that um it's important for a lot of people to know and just say in general i'll give you one point fit up a little short there on the points aren't you just let him have one he can i'm not gonna yeah i'm not gonna take away a point for that because i think you're just lashing out because you're shoving 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 well friends right you're nodding that's sam doing it i know that's a live edit nod that's a live edit yeah i'm saving it right there i'm nodding with six fingers what i don't know why i thought editing and i were the same thing for a minute there i'm fine we we've been talking a lot about it a lot of our our issues that we're dealing with uh and i think we've 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 all agree on that i don't know for once i i think actually for the first time i don't have the the the main complaints of the era um 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 um content creation is is booming and and i'm i'm very excited to go into the future about that um 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 uh i want thing like that um you had your share of stresses over the last few years i think you deserve a little uh break that's fair that's fair i appreciate that all right shall we tally the points well hold on now i'm feeling pretty strong about maybe we should go a little longer all right bob uh you got a bald baldemort point emphasis on the bald you got a gopro sympathy point you got a point for the second biggest worry ever and then future james trauma uh you got another point for that so you're 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 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 uh you got a point for draconian acula 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 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 half a point for that and then one point for burnout for for you talking about that and i think that's very impressive you you have one and a half points if i pull this off it might be the lowest scoring win in distraction history all right let's see if that happens because yes those three points would put you half a point above bob if you can just get three points out of this live not live points the negative points positive and it's 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 three we got three on the wheel okay fine i'm just gonna call it now it's gonna somehow be host wins uh i think we already have like smallest violin so we can't do anything like that of like the saddest story that would be such a dick kicking the dick to get that after what we talked about sickest child sickest child no when some of us don't have children well whose 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 celebrated our eight-year wedding anniversary this week and our dogs both had birthdays whoops yeah no points yeah no points for that oh uh closest to a sponsorship or currently sponsored point for whoever's currently sponsored and general podcast uh uh has to be like one of us has a sponsorship kind of deal okay okay define sponsorship because i've recorded a sponsored video last night that hasn't come out yet so that would count i think that would count yeah and it's like this we could put this on the bounty board too just be like go get a sponsor for it has to be about how you are 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 spin the wheel we decide who the winner is we'll do a quick like few minutes talking about the the subreddit and the bounty board conversations the the the the coin flip thing when we meet fans all that yada yadas uh it's been really cool seeing people's responses and i want to acknowledge that but um yeah okay let's finish the spins and yeah we should talk about that currently sponsored we have a hundred and ten options on the wheel and several of them will save wade all i needed to hear now at kroger your points add up to more ways to save every trip use them your way to take dollars off groceries at checkout or save at the pump you can even save up to 35 on your next fill up same points more choices and with low prices on fresh quality food plus digital and personalized offers tailored to how you shop your dollar goes further redeem your points online or in the app kroger fresh for everyone restrictions apply c-site or store for details tinfoil hat point i think that would go for me for like the gopro yeah you know honestly yeah that's true yeah i'm gonna give myself a point for that that's the most tinfoil hatty thing we've had all day it's not that they're ignoring me on purpose right they wouldn't do that i'm oh no no mark is gonna finish second place i could feel it he just needs one more point to pass away and then surprise golf rules that does also mean if you get if we get golf rules now mark is winning that's true 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 unless i get a point and then it's golf rules and then you could still be the lowest got the flattest you know what i mean i don't know got past tense way you you did this last time too you tried to get flat gets the flattest it's who got the flattest wasn't isn't it did best scottish accent too we still do that current well that we'll approach 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 um unless you count all my short jokes that wade was making for me i got pretty flattened but no all right spin 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 points there and by proxy it's kind of bob's point but you know it 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 spin number three man i hope one of these just says wade wins lie points don't count close i didn't have any lie points i don't think all right no lie points but it's not a respin 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 know 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 you know wade minus one wade point did he do it it's still out there all right speaking of the subreddit the subreddit has been abusing with activity uh 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 um i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i don't know what to say about it i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i like how the top post on the subreddit is mark asking for a referral code for gopro i know i just saw that i'm just like 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 but 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 want to i don't want to over complicate things because no none of the three of us made this happen this is all courtesy of the mods of the subreddit yeah putting things together um 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 you know we it's up to us to pay attention to these if the bounty boards you know can just absolutely devastate you 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 because 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 because the points were all over the place and that's not really that's not a balanced approach yeah to just let whomever comes up there should be a one point bounty for easier things maybe a 2.3 point or maybe only one in a two point thing feels like easy i don't think any more than three i think one or two sounds because you want it to be able to like help you don't want it to be the entire episode i like either one or two or maybe like one or three but then it to be a three it needs to be like way above and beyond so there's basically like regular bounties and special bounties yeah so we need to we need to coordinate that that would be i think we can do it on the fly i think we should leave that to where 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 and be you know be relatively fair with the point the point bartering plus if you're a total about it then you're never you're never getting any bounty points so you need to be careful you gotta play your card check i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine i'm fucked i'm always a total bitch can we play this like immunity you know charms where it's like at right before the point counting we're like wait a minute god i was on a farm i do think that that should like because 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 or you can just be like ah you know with that noise and your honor may i approach 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 spins wheel no more bounties but up until a wheel spin is initiated you can interrupt with a bounty and then the budget uh 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 read the reddit and do the ones i thought were funny i don't remember a budget remember we were like it's we talked about this at six hundred dollars 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 they have some sort of vote they have to come around 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 to improve the podcast we need a flair for that so that if if we're looking for budget for money budget stuff you 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 is like it was going to 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 you guys 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 that's even easier i'll just pay you i'll just take out whatever amount i think is 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 this isn't a constitution episode it says somehow it's an edited of wade saying aye you know that video where uh the guy is like breaking into someone's house and they're like i'm gonna find him and the person's like hiding in the closet and they go red robin in the closet here like ha gotcha it'd be like that but you guys be like are you ready kids i'll go aye aye fuck that's it we're done uh 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 it 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 and people are like just get a third party logistics fulfillment company i'm like oh it's so fucking easy isn't it i'll just just like i'll go next door to my third party logistics and i'll just like knock knock 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 hand over fucking god damn it all right we're working on it hey look you guys are doing a great job i got my iron lung stuff yeah there's still like uh there's still like 15 000 orders left to fill what's that three days work those will be done like tomorrow yeah we we didn't even have regular pickups from the post office and from the shipping companies that 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 so it's like you can't do this what do you mean we can't do this i just picture this really tiny post office one guy working behind the counter and you walk in you're like i have uh 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 gotcha yeah that's it yeah that's true it's on purpose mark's just lying to cover it but i think it's fun no even my family's got they're like are you intentionally trying to keep me from getting your merch it's like no i swear no dude blame those assholes online they keep buying it's not my fault and it's also like we we did a restock of certain custom things and we said like this will the long lead time is going to be a long time and we're going to have to time to get this restock in and then the whole world's shipping industry kind of exploded yeah so so to to like have an umbrella like anyway no i'm going to complain that's what this episode is all about it's like talking about struggles right my struggles are just valid your guys's struggles even though it's after we've declared the winner and said the points sure sure patty who's been helping coordinate everything has us really smart you know because we have manufacturers in america and not just china at all it's like we have manufacturers in in all kinds of different places so that we can have a redundancy if if anything happens to one or if one can't meet the quality things like that we 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 doesn't help when the whole fucking world's shipping industry explodes and and it's only been a few months there and i know that sounds like a long time but when you're working in business stuff like business takes a long time dude it takes an agony to get things going dude it takes an agony to get things going dude it takes an agony 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 one person that you know to do the thing that you're and then you're like you're emailing chains and you're emailing groups and they're like oh afford this on to 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 it's just my experience well mark's currently writing a new book it's called all work and no gopro makes mark a sad boy and it's just that line over and over again for 600 pages yeah yeah weird a year from now when mark finally does get a gopro it's 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 uh i think probably hopefully or most disastrous which would be equally as cool anything but average is going to be the theme of this season no what would i have to say oh my quality of my quality will be below average all right okay good good that's like mark's hike oh my fuck 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 oh my god all of my shit just crashed i thought you just left i didn't my computer gave me an error my go xlr crashed yeah you've got the you've got like your webcam mic right now it's all fucked all right we're gonna end it that's what way it gets thank you uh follow the podcast follow these guys podcast out before it blows up when you shop kroger delivery you can expect the savings you love and fresh groceries delivered right to your door our refrigerated trucks keep your items fresh while our 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