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Cloth Off The Bone

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Cloth Off The Bone

In this episode of Distractable, hosts Wade, Mark, and Bob engage in a playful, competitive game where one acts as a psychic and the other as a guesser, using a 0–20 scale to rate subjective topics like optimism, ethical behavior, and first dates. The conversation ranges from humorously absurd to deeply personal, touching on health struggles such as a family member’s upcoming surgery, a foot injury recovery, and physical discomfort from tight clothing like corsets and back braces. A recurring scientific curiosity—lymph fluid volume—is humorously debated, blending science with satire. The hosts also promote Quince clothing as a breathable, comfortable alternative, with Wade praising its quality and comfort. The episode concludes with a lighthearted scoring breakdown, a joke about "whose cloth is more off the bone," and a humorous winner announcement, all wrapped in the show’s signature blend of absurdity, personal stories, and self-aware humor. The game mechanics add layers of tension and entertainment, with participants closely guessing values and reacting to each other’s choices, ultimately celebrating the joy of distraction and conversation.

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This episode of Distractable is brought to you by Quince, you know those pieces in your closet that you literally can't stop wearing, the sweater that you get dig off, fur pair of pants, t-shirt that's to one that you just reach for every time it's there, those are the pieces that make it address easy, and those are the pieces that Quince makes. Not me, I like the most restrictive clothing possible, which is why I'm wearing a back brace, because I don't like having any mobility at all. I like constant shaving, I'm a cool person, and you should follow in my footsteps. Wade, how do you like what you're wearing, and please say it's Quince. I told you guys before we even started doing this, this is probably the nicest shirt that I own, like actually. I am a person who has always lived in like cheap t-shirts, I still wear shirts from high school and college, and like they were oversized then, they fit perfect now. Now I understand when people say something is breathable, I was like, I don't know what that, what does that mean? I put this on, it's like oh man, it feels so nice and breathable, that's a good word, I get it now. I never understood, because I own cheap stuff, other than Quince, this is so nice. The first breathable piece of clothing you've ever had on your body, what an upgrade. Wade, right now you're literally the normal person at the Olympics running alongside the athletes, and you're like oh, they're really fast. I never understood what a 424 was until now. I thought a 6'5 was pretty quick. Well, okay, well that all sounds nice, but what about these? This is not helping my massacus thing, by the way. You can wear those as long as you can take it, Mark, I'll allow it. You can make it even more restrictive by taking the elastic bands and tightening them. This is bad for me. I shouldn't, I shouldn't. This is great, man, this is so comfortable. We're not telling everyone that they have to wear Quince. We're to say that if you want the most comfortable shirt, Wade's ever worn, possibly that you've ever worn. Quince makes that. Also, I will say I'm wearing the underwear. I'm a bigger guy. I have trouble sometimes with underwear, not fitting my legs or being kind of bungee. This is among the topest tier underwear I've ever worn, and it's definitely not as expensive as the most expensive underwear I've ever tried, because I'm not saying I did that once, but it was not worth it. I would much rather have these, the very comfortable. And breathable, yeah, I would say breathable. I can't breathe right now, and that just goes to show you don't need to have breathable clothing to get by. I think you can't breathe because your lungs are being crushed, which I think is a whole other issue from a shirt being ripped. Are you okay? No. This, I will wear this shirt in a lot of distractible episodes moving forward. This is the fanciest I have ever felt when I was clothing, and that includes like wearing suits and ties. Quince makes lots of stuff, not even just clothing, they make hotel quality bedding, bath kitchen essentials, baffling design furniture, they make lots of things, even pants, like way to say. Find your next fall favorites at Quince, download the Quince app for app exclusive offers, or go to quince.com/distractable. Get free shipping on your order and 365 day returns now available in Canada and the UK too. That's q-u-i-n-c-e.com/d-i-s-t-r-a-c-t-i-b-l-e. Quince.com/distractable. Good evening gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to Distractable this episode. Bombastic Bob and Tom makes live, heals his soul, then gets the guys to gaze into their crystal balls, when avoiding wage shares deeply, becomes Bruce Wayne, gives applause and gets a handy. Majestereal mark dodges duty, loves GP, braces for impact, discusses dumping and gets horny, from blood splatters to a pocklips survival. It's time for cloth off the bone, now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the show that just won't die. No matter how many times we try to kill it, I'm your host, Bob because I won the last one. No that's not my name, I just said it that way because I don't speak very well. Join today by my two competitors, and also co-hosts technically, even though Wade hasn't hosted one of these in months. Mark and Wade, welcome boys. I feel like he didn't catch a stray, that's why I was going to say he caught a direct hit. It was like straight between the eyes here, it was right to him. I didn't even feel in danger, but I feel bad for him. I gotta say you could think to subreddit for that because the the scorekeeper on subreddit for the last time they put the score up, their literal note was, uh, here's the score. Man, Mark and Bob just keep handing it back and forth, I can't even remember the last time Wade won. We were all tied at four, the last time I won I think. You know what's really funny is I'm now leading episode wins, and Wade, you're still leading points, and Mark is leading nothing, but somehow everyone agrees that Wade is the biggest loser regardless. Nothing like having the most points in the least wins, it's like the Cincinnati Bengals two years ago. Uh, it was almost like the Cincinnati Bengals this past week. Yeah, don't worry, I'm going to recruit and get a defense, and I'm going to keep scoring points, I'm going to hold you two off, and next year's no one cares about my sports strokes. Uh, someone will care, someone will get that. And you, you out there, Tom, thanks for laughing. From Bob and Tom. Yeah, Bob and Tom, that's a throwback. Bob and Tom. Here and there and down along across the square. That's not right. That's true. Yeah, huh? Uh-huh. Gummy bear. I think it's Gummy bear's Bob and Tom. This is it. This is the high quality content you get here at Distractable Industries. Uh, and I have a game for today, just like I always do usually, before we get into that, who wants to get him a gunny small puck? Do you want to earn some softball points? I didn't go to prison for evading jury duty. Astros. Oh, that's why I thought was the other day. I didn't. Why, what were you talking about? I would have bet a lot of money that you were going to get that message, like the second you had to leave for the airport, your phone was going to be like, it was scary because you get a text message also that reminds you to check to see if you are on call for jury duty or if you're going to be someone. So it was like, I saw the text and I was like, I was on the plane on the plane, why if I was like, Oh, God, oh, no. Oh, geez, I'm walking in with my jury card. Oh, shit, my number, my pincoed and I'm like, Oh, you don't have to show up. I was like, Oh, great. Check back tomorrow. It's a recurring nightmare. I had to call once a week for like a month, I think. A month. God, damn. It was once a week for a month. I think it's the same process when we lived in the San Francisco area. This is way different part of the state, but yeah, doing that every night for a week, checking the thing, seeing if you lost the, I mean, won the lottery. I was like, every Tuesday at six o'clock call because it's only for one week. So I mean, they're completely arbitrary systems. They just need a way to get a certain number of people per day, queued up in case they need them because they only use a small percentage of people who actually have to go to jury duty anyway, because then they do the jury selection. It's a whole thing. Lucky me. And I still love the GoPro. I'm invested, but I still love it. They can't take it from me. Wait, why does that GoPro have seven fingers? What the fuck? This is why I don't win. I still feel lightheaded from taking off the back brace. I had nothing major, everybody home. I'm just wearing the back brace because my back kind of hurt. Is it like the good kind of lightheaded? If that exists or no, okay. I don't know. I don't know that exists. I'm just checking. Really, but you, so if I throw up here, if I run out of the room real fast, you'll know it's because I did it to myself. If you pass out, can we call she car Amy? If she has a cell phone, I'm going to be very upset because she's not allowed. But, you know, I think call Amy. And she goes, she goes, she goes laying in the other room, just like, God, I love TikTok dog. Is that a thing? How do people wear corsets? I was talking about this as soon as I as soon as I took it off after tightening. I'm like, I bet I didn't even have it close to as tight as some people wear a corset. But it's like, how do you do that? I feel like I'm going to pass out. It's not even on anymore. Were those like actually physically debilitating when people wore them regularly? Yeah, I think so. I don't know about debilitating or not, but I would imagine. They reshaped people's bodies, right? Like body shape training is a thing where you just wear tighter and tighter corsets to like get a smaller waist. And I assume reshapes your organs? I don't know. With Sandy, she had this thing that we didn't even know about where a lot of her lower organs were actually after her accident. It was unknown to everybody. Was pushed up into her chest cavity through a forehead or like your diaphragm. And so we had to give a corrective surgery. And now they were able to pull it all back down. But even when they pulled it back down, they couldn't fit all of it. So they had to get rid of her spleen just to be able to fit it all back down. And I was like, holy shit. So how is everyone getting reshaped? That's got to cause some debilitating problems. Look, I have to imagine that's why they weren't terribly popular. I think some people will go through a lot to look however they want to look, to look when they think is attractive or hot or beautiful or whatever. But I don't think corsets were ever broadly popular. I think they were just broadly mandated. Johnny Bravo only lasted four seasons. And we all know he was wearing one. Yeah, he's got a hip to hip to chest ratio that is crazy. Maybe he just skips every muscle other than like packs and delts. His body shape is tornado on top of a staple. Like, there is nothing natural about that. Plus he calls me Mama when he shows up. Wait, I thought he just calls me. me mama. Oh, that's my special nickname with him. I thought that was my special nickname. It looks at me. It just goes, "Oh, then it looks away." Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Maybelline 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 Maybelline New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. No respect. That's already danger-feel. Now that's funny. That's funny. Mark's alive. Not in prison. Didn't pass out. Hasn't thrown up yet. Wait, what's new with you? Well, as you all know, we were in Minnesota, and we got back from Minnesota. We had less than a week, and then we hosted my family. My family came into the town. The Weekend effort Labor Day, whenever that is or was. We went to a family reunion in Indiana, which was cool. That's been a lot of fun family time. Catch up because I've not gotten to see everybody because we've had to kind of a crazy year. This is less fun, but upcoming. I don't know exactly when this episode airs versus when this is happening, but Molly is having a big surgery. It's fun. We've been telling people now that she's having a partial hysterectomy. You guys know that. We've been going to different appointments, and she's been doing some extra stuff. She has to do to get ready for that. Not a fun process, but ultimately it's preventative, which is good. So if you guys don't know what all is going on, basically she tested positive for a gene that makes it where she's some high percentage more likely to have ovarian cancer along the other few couple of forms of cancer. So we're having she's she's elected to have surgery. I have no input on. She's asked me my opinion, but we mean we come red. Well, we're married, so we, but it's her decisions. I've given input, but ultimately I have a group of all the inclinations she's had, but she's having some surgery to hopefully prevent having to deal with that in the future. And you know, cancer as we all say and feel her mom had been going through it, which is why she got tested in the first place and been a long year of health things, which is what led to my heart palpitations and not my knee. My knee was just me being an idiot, but we just had a lot of weird health things going on this year, but the most pervasive one has been her mom's battle of this cancer and then her with the braca trying to figure out what we're going to do about that. So a lot of my times been spent house cleaning and going to doctor's appointments and just mentally being drained, I guess. So that's our very fun September plans, what we've been doing and we'll be doing. So if all of my updates have been kind of like, oh, wait, it doesn't really do anything. Well, I wish I wish I could be out doing more. We wanted to be doing more traveling and hosting a friends and stuff this year, but life has just had a way of preventing that. Sounds great. Sounds really good. It's good to have the knowledge to be preventive. I think we'd rather be doing this than dealing with cancer, but it's not fun. Not a fun time. Well, hopefully that I mean, we'll talk before then, but for all of you watching and listening, hopefully that goes well. I'm sure everyone feels the same way. Good luck Molly, but yeah, appreciate it and I did mean to bring the mood down, but it's just one of those things. I was trying so hard to make a joke and I couldn't find anything that I felt comfortable saying out loud. Is a good thing we only give out points for funny things here, otherwise you get a lot of pity points there. Yeah, so no sad points for you. Wait, it's already winning though. So he didn't need any more points. Brought the mood down with his stupid surgery of his family. Hey, look, if we're gonna talk about health stuff that's been bumming everybody out, I got one. Guess how many holes I foot currently has in it. The normal two. The normal three zero. It was one for a long time, and then a week and a half ago, it was two, but now it's zero, and I get to take this stupid thing off my foot on Friday all by myself and wear two normal shoes for the first time since June to the wedding. I'm officiating this weekend. Why were there two? Wait, was it like, you guys seen Iron Long when it zooms in towards the end on the one light left on O2 and you're like, it's going to go down and then it mysteriously goes up to two. Was it like that with the holes? A little, I is annoying. They were, I had been getting a hard cast and the last hard cast I had was not put on correctly. And I got some rubbing and some blistering on my toe. And one of the spots was really heavily irritated. And it, the blister popped and turned into a new wound. So instead of the doctors trying to heal my wounds, healing them, they added one to it. But it, it healed up and scabbed over. I just totally healthy. So it's not a problem. But for like I, when that happened, I looked at my foot and saw it and was like, that's a different hole. Fuck! Like, I thought I was about to have months more of this shit. But then I saw the doctor yesterday morning and he was like, ah, that's fine. I was like, man, you were really torn up about the first hole I came in with. You have no concerns whatsoever. He's like, ah, what? But on Friday, just, just, just unwrap your leg and you're free to go. It's not a lot of instructions, but good. I guess I'm fine. I guess I don't understand footholds. I don't know how these work. Some seem bad, some are fine. Who knows? I get to be a normal person and I'm going to have really unevenly worn shoes for a minute. But I get to finally like, take a shower without having to have half my body wrapped in plastic in about a week. So very excited. And it's good news. Yeah, it is nice. I was something in my eye. It's not because it was so sad that crying. I have nothing in my eye. Oh, I'm glad you're crying. You're so happy for me that you're crying. I'll take that. I am so happy for your tools. The number of holes when it just goes up and down violently for me, that's kind of, it's kind of man I am. I'm glad you're a man of none holes. Good small talk all over the place. That's a good variety of small talk. Do I have it? This is where I think like, do I have hours yourself? Because my eyes are like, I feel like, or did it squeeze? Everything up and my eyes are like somehow got other juices from my body. It squeezed all your white blood cells out and now you have, you're allergic to everything. Maybe. We had milked all the histamines in your body up into one spot and they got so concentrated that now you have top allergies, but no bottom allergies. What is the thing where it's like, you know, they scrape on the face with the stone, right? You know, it's cold and they like, it's lymphatic drainage, but it's like, there's a, I was going to say, I do know what that is. Lymphatic, yes. But it's like, is that a thing? Because the lymphatic system is a mystery, I think to everybody, even scientists don't even understand that shit. But it's like, does that happen if you like squeeze like toothpaste up? Is lymph just up? I can tell you, even so like, everywhere, my leg has been under compression almost the whole time with my whole foot injury situation. But even if you don't have, like, I didn't have any inflammation, once the infection was gone and with my foot, it was fine. It was back to normal. Even if you have no noticeable inflammation, if you wear compression, especially really tight compression, it literally like drains so much juice. And I 100% believe you could have just like squeezed a bunch extra juice up out of your torso by squeezing it about, expressing it. How much lymph fluid is in the human body? Seven. No way. Don't you live, bro? Well, okay, that's an AI thing. So I'm like, okay, that's not right. How much does it have? Add the term volume to your query. And perhaps it will find the correct thing. Okay, interesting. No, that's blood. It's blood lymphatic liquid. Your heart's actually just for show. It's your lymphs that do all the blood stuff. Okay, about one to two liters, maybe a two liter of soda in your body. Yeah, of lymph. That's a lot of juice. I don't know if like you have plasma, but that's not that's in your blood still. That's in your blood. So there's this other juice that goes around in your body. And all the diagrams say it's green. So I believe that you it is gross. People are gross. I was a phantom plasma till their team stole my Pokemon. This is saying there's more lymph than blood in the human body. I don't know what to believe. I don't know if I believe that. That's that'd be a lot. I think how much blood do we have? How can I just type me out much lymph instead of how? Okay, super troopers calm down. Try to cover. He's actually a cat. Yeah, man, I'm not. Yeah, this is not a new thing, but I've talked about it before the the on tiktok count named husk who post jokes screw her out with AI chatbot things. One of his more recent ones. He's he opens up and it's like, hey, I have a friend over and I told him I have a cat. So I need you to pretend. Oh, that's actually wasn't him. I think it was only coming. Anyway, I said I friend over. I told him I have a cat. I need you to pretend to be a cat for me. And the chatbot's like, got it. Tell me when to start. And he like pauses and just goes, okay, they're here. And the AI goes, hey, hello, it's me just a normal cat. Yeah. Hey, I'm rubbing on your leg. Hey, yeah. Oh, I knew it's going to do something completely stupid and then unhinged, but it was like anyway, it was possibly because it was two in the morning, but maybe laugh a lot. God, those things are stupid. Yeah, they're stupid. Good thing they're never going to get smart. I've lost the plot. I don't know why I'm googling lymph fluid anymore. I forget what it's led me to this point. Mark gets the lymph point. We don't have to talk about it anymore. It's okay. Oh, but I said the lymph joke. I you already got a point for how much do you lymph? Anyway, I do have a game for today. And this is another situation where it's basically a board game. But I'm pretty excited about it because it's one that I always think is funny when I when I come across it on social media or see it advertised. And I think the game, the official game is sold as like wavelength or something, but basically you two are competing or you take terms. One of you is going to be the psychic, and one of you is going to be the guesser. And I'm going to send the psychic an image that has like a little, actually, it has numbers, I think, because I wanted to simplify a little bit. So it has a rating from like zero to 20 or one to 20. And then somewhere on there, it'll just have pegged like this one is 16. And then on both ends of the spectrum, it'll be like zero is a book that you would never want to read. And 20 is a book that you would love to read. And then the psychic gets their number 16, whatever. And they have to give the guesser an example, one example to get them to guess the correct point on the scale, right? So maybe maybe you get one and it's like zero is not stinky at all. And 20 is the stinkiest thing you've ever smelled. And you got a seven. How do you what can you give as an example to the other person that will make them say, oh, that's a seven out of 20 on the stinky scale, right? So every town, every round, the scale is going to be different and you're going to get a different value on it. And your job as the psychic is going to be to get it as accurate as possible. If you get the guess dead on, it's actually, it feels a counterintuitive. But if the psychic gets the person to guess exactly the right number, the person gets two points, but the psychic gets one point. But if the person looks, this coring doesn't matter, okay? It's it's convoluted and made up. I looked at, I thought about this for way too long and I still am not happy with it. You'll get points, but the psychic gets a bonus if you get them exactly there. But if the person guesses it, but it's not exactly right, the psychic is for some reason punished. This is how the game seemed to work. I'm not going to say I comprehend it. Oh, coin flip. We're going to see who goes first. I totally have my coin here because we have to have it in case someone says that word we're not supposed to say which word? Wait, is the lady and Mark is the lion? Okay. I got lady. All right. You can pick, does that, do you want to be the psychic first or the guesser first? Oh, psychic me up. All right. I am going to be texting you a photograph which will have all of the information that you require to do the game. Okay. What's our scale range for this? The scale ranges from zero to 20. Okay. And the one I just sent weighed zero would be the most pessimistic and 20 would be the most optimistic. What am I doing? Wait, is going to give you a thing? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And he's trying to get you to guess a specific point on that scale. He's trying to get you to pick a number between zero and 20, but you have to assess what he's saying and just pick where you think that falls on the scale of completely pessimistic to completely optimistic. Okay. Got it. Okay. I don't have a topic. I just have those two things to work with. You can give any example you want that does not involve telling Mark the number you want him to guess. I would suggest ones that relate to the scale so that he has a chance. Yeah. You can do whatever you want. So could I just say like a sentence? Yeah. I would say make the most of what you've got, but there's no point and there's no hope. So why bother? Pretty pessimistic, but I feel like there's still room to be more pessimistic, but it's very pessimistic. I'm going to say that's a two. If it was out of a 10, it would be a one which would be as close as possible, but not quite there, but it's out of 20. So I'm going to say to Mark. It's a point. One point. It was actually a one. Mark. It's one point. He said zero to 20. I was like, I don't know how I make it a zero. So I'm just going to I was afraid Mark was going to undershoot it and that was going to be a zero, but I think the assessment that there was more room to be more pessimistic. I think that is true. Yeah, so I didn't go with the Batman. Why is Batman pessimistic? He's pretty optimistic, I think. All right. Mark, you should have received your psychic clue. Wait, I will tell you while Mark is preparing, wait, this scale is a zero is a forgettable meme and a 20 is an absolutely iconic meme. So I can just say what the meme is, right? Yeah, you can just like give a meme. You could you might need to explain it because Wade doesn't really know a lot of memes. I don't know a lot of memes. So this is going to be really funny because he's going to that's okay. I'm going to tap in to the early 2010s. Good. That's the time I know zero of them. So I can't wait. Okay, I got you. Got you. Are you ready? Okay. Bad luck. Brian. I know that one. Yeah. Well, he knows what you know. Mark knows everything you know, plus some other stuff. So I know that one. Then it's going to be reasonably high, but it's not like one of the memes I still see around. So it did eventually kind of go away. Well, he grew up. So this is a zero out of 20 scale zero to 20 zero is totally forgettable meme. 20 is a totally iconic at the time. That was pretty that was pretty popular. But I don't know if it was ever the biggest one. I'm going to say a 17. That's pretty good. Mark was going for 16. Oh, okay. That was you were within the range. You get a point when we're both we're both right there, man. Well, I was thinking memes. I was like, I can't think of a meme that I know that Wade knows. I feel like this is a gamble, but you found you found the way. Yeah, because it was like I figured there are more popular memes like a overly attached girlfriend. They kind of had our little resurgence with obsession. The movie that came out. So it's like, I feel like and also I believe she was able to make a YouTube career out of it. So it's like, I don't know if the troll the troll face counts as one, but that one to me would be like a 20 because that one's still I see a harder one number for me would be like if it was like seven or so, I would have no idea what to go with memes on that. All right, Wade, I sent it, send it. Apparently, I sent you your next one. Mark, this scale is zero is completely unethical and 20 is 100% above board ethical. All right, cool. So during the pandemic, it was really hard to find toilet paper taking toilet paper from businesses and taking it home, you know, taking it just just taking it like, you know, you go to like a you go to like a grocery store bathroom and you take a roll of toilet paper on you don't you don't like take a whole pack, but you know, you take a roll from it's there for you to use it's offered. So I see what you're saying, it's different than like stealing a pack off the shelf is your point. I see. Yeah, you're not stealing a pack of toilet paper, but you're going and you're taking like a roll from a gas station bathroom. You know, I actually did I don't want to get in trouble, but I did that in college. Oh, get him, get him, get him, get him. I know where you're at on the scale of zero to 20. All right, so this is real middle of the road, I feel. So you put the COVID skew in there. So I think you could be like, okay, it's a minor crisis happening, but there's desperation in there and you know, you get you got to make do you got to go do do you got to make do for you do do and you got to you got to get the toilet paper wherever you can, but it's kind of still stealing it. So I guess I'm going to go nine. It's just just on the edge towards towards unethical. You guys are killing this game. I don't know if it's good for me that you're guessing so close, but man, I'm liking it. What was it? Hey, Wade was going for eight. I was going to say eight first I went and I was thinking eight. I figure like that seven to nine ranges. It's pretty hard to distinguish, but I was like, okay, you're still taking that's bad. From what you were saying, Mark, I was like, oh no, it's going to be above 10. Oh no, you were you were locked in. You you got it as soon as he went, but it's still stealing. I was like, no, he's got it. It's still unethical. He's going to go with the high single digits. I have to say we lived in California for like the all of the pandemic, basically, we never had I don't know where this did happen. I've seen so many memes about all the toilet paper stuff. And I know what happened. Did you guys experience that? Do you ever have like we certainly had to wear like, oh, the toilet paper shelves are like half empty. That's weird. I never went to the store and was unable to get toilet paper. We weirdly had bought like a pack, but right before they started becoming hard to get we bought like a 24 pack or something. So we were pretty well stocked for a little while, but there were definitely points where we were like, thank God, we already had that in the house because the shelves were empty. And then like here and there, when there was like a few eight packs or something, we was like grab one or grab a, you know, we grabbed something to hold us ever. So we never didn't have any. We definitely went to the store at points and saw none on the shelves. Yeah, I don't know how much toilet paper people are going through. And why? How many squares do you guys use? If I do business, I'll probably use four squares anywhere between like two to four groupings of white, like depending on if it's, if it's real bad, it might take a number of wipes, but like, I don't know, some in the range of eight to 12 squares, maybe total for a, for like a regular, had a good poop situation. The only reason we ever bought large quantities is we had so many damn bathrooms. The Midwestern houses have so many bathrooms. So we always like to have like two or three extra rolls per bathroom. Yeah, we buy, we buy Costco packs of toilet paper just because when you buy, it's like a bunch of six packs and we're like, this bathroom gets a six pack, this bathroom gets a six. And by the time you're done with that, you have like a few left over, but. Yeah. So we had just done that right before they became, it became hard to get toilet paper. And it was like, well, thank God, we did that. Yeah, one mega roll should last all human a month, right? One. And I feel like that, that kind of tracks for me. My other issue is though, there are times where I'll like take toilet paper to like blow my nose and stuff like that too. So yeah, see, I know people do that. And I really try not to, because sometimes you don't have Kleenex and you just like, especially if you get sick and you happen to not have a box Kleenex in the house or whatever, like, I just want something flushable, so I'm not contributing to garbage. Is that weird? Oh, you can flush anything. Loss, it goes through the toilet. Flushed no consequences after that. Oh, man Bob. That's a four. It's a four-bump. I could flush you Robert De Niro Mm-hmm. Hey you did the face. I have nipples. Can you flush me? It's crazy. Oh that movie. It's my favorite scene from that movie weren't they making a third one am I crazy? Are they making a yes? It was like announced I saw like a trailer for it or something man. Do I not need to see that? Mark, I have sent you your next assignment. Wade, I will tell you the scale for this one is zero is completely boring and 20 is completely exciting the most exciting man. We have such different tastes. I'm curious which way we'll go on this. A walk through a museum you have been to before. Do you like this museum? Yeah, you like it. Yeah, you like the music. Yeah, you like it. I've done this a lot. James loves the Cincinnati Museum Center. I've been there a bunch. So I've gone back to the museum. I'm walking through it. I like the museum. I've been there before so it's not like the most exciting thing ever but it's still I still be excited to do it. So I'm going to say this is a 13. That's the first one. That's the first one that's a little ways off. You know, I feel like Bob fished that out of me because he asked if he liked it and I'm like I was just going to leave that to that. So I was going to say like is that's fair if you hadn't said that I would have probably got more like a 10 but oh wait. So we're saying I spoiled the results. I think I think you spoiled the results there. Well, listen, I've while while we've been doing this, I have been rethinking the point situation for the psychics. If you sincerely would have guessed 10, which you set off handedly before I made the software and I'm the one who spoiled it, 10 was what he was going for. 10 would have been exactly correct. That was pretty middle of the road until it was like a museum I liked that did sway me more toward like the 10 to 15 11 to 15 range because that was pretty what that would mean if I'm going to give you credit for that is that you would get the point but the psychic who gets the exact correct guess gets two lie points and the face will decide what happens with the lie points. I'm fine with that because that is that is what I was going to go for. I said it. So like I'm not going to retract it. That's about where I was at was like an even 10. All right. I will try to shut my goddamn trap. I need to understand what lie points mean because I think there's a thing on the wheels of lie points are absolute lie points don't count unless you hit that thing on the wheel is what I thought that meant lie lie points because the points are a lie but then there are things on the wheel where the lie points then do count. Do we have negative points become positive on there? Well, that's what absolute means. Yeah, there's a point where lie points become absolute but I don't know if there's a thing where all negative points become absolute. I could add that. I could add that as my that's a good deal. Yeah, now I'm trying to remember what what the hell it means. But then there's incentive for the judges to give more negative points just to have some stuff out there because and we know that when as soon as we add something to the wheel it will be hit 10 times even more times than we spend it it will be hit. Man, remember whenever viewers and listeners used to get it all the time anyway. Do you think we deleted those? Show you the wheel. We didn't delete nothing. It's quite sucks but sometimes it's funny and we just need to hit the exact right scenario. White forever's cloth is more off the bone today. What does that mean? I don't remember that reference at all. That's like half the shit we see on there. I don't think it's that obscure but now I really want whose cloth is more off the bone. Yeah, stop giving me ideas. I already have two. I need to add to the wheel now. Listen, turn of the century mark. Calm down. Kill your jet. See? All right. Wait, I'll send you the next one. And Mark, you'll be great at this. This scale is zero is the most niche emoji and 20 is the most common popular emoji. So 20 would be like smiley face and zero would be like, I don't know, one I can't think of because I don't use it. Zero would be red car in traffic. Some shit. Is that an emoji? It's probably out there. Can I just say I'm I'm really proud to. No one has immediately looked at it and like mouthed the number or just said it instinctively because every I'm sending 74. Man, I'm trying. This is because I've got to I've got to think about how everyone else uses them. Not just. Yeah, you you kind of know what emojis I use. You do. Mark does have and Mark has an interesting library of emojis that he goes. He doesn't just stick. I only ever use the like suggested one. So I think I use thumbs up an happy face and that's about maybe the 100 once in a while. I'm going to say the like flapping your hands emoji. Okay, just the hands by themselves. Like the one that goes between words when you're like, he did not flinch. 20 is the most common, right? Yes. 20 is the most popular common. Zero is the most niche of the smiling faces emojis. Obviously like regular smile would be up there for most common. All happens all the time. And then there's actually a kind of a spread of the various smiles that go down in popularity from like the melty face to the, you know, the, the, the, the, the horny one, you know, that one. I also would say the horny one. I think that was funny. So there's there's all kinds of things with the hand ones. There's the pointings thumbs up the clapping and then prayer hands of those probably thumbs up being the most popular. If I'm trying to think of it like this, it's like thumbs up. Maybe this kind of up there too, at least for me, but I don't use this very much. And like what I was saying, it's kind of niche and it's utility. It's not like when people are saying, that was, that was a great video. They're going, yeah, that's not how they're using it. It's really only used for, yeah, period, but it's still used a good bit. I want to say like 13. Wow, you guys are still locked in. What was it? It was 14. Oh, that's also what I was thinking 14. Fuck. Man, the way you were talking through it was like, dude, he could say a six. He could say a 20. I have no idea. Okay, no, not 20. Everyone will, we're like the 15, six to 15 range. I literally was like 14. No, 14. No, 13. Fuck. Every time I do it to myself as far as the game, though, Mark, 13 is what you want because you still get the point. You don't get any more points for an exact guess, but then Wade didn't get his lie points. I'm just glad that I'm doing well enough to where you're like in the range. That makes me happy. So whatever the points are, whatever, man, I was thinking this one would be kind of weird because I couldn't play it with myself, you know, to sort of like see. So I wasn't sure if this was going to be a game that would be like impossible or what? You guys are killing it right now. Dude, I was going through it. I was like, okay, crying is popular. Kissing is popular. Hearts are popular. Cry laughing is popular. Thumbs up is popular. And then maybe that one is like six. That's how I got there. All right, Mark, I'll say you another one. Wade, the scale on this one is that zero is a bad first date, the worst first date even. And 20 is a great first date. Last one you could think of. I got it. I got it. Don't even need to think about it. You went on the date, you came home, dropping her off a nice firm handshake. Okay. That's below average. That's not great. I said nice firm handshake. A good handshake is what I heard. This is firm. It's firm. It's a firm handshake. Okay, but let me walk through the words that you said here. You went out no description of the date, but afterward you were still driving her. She didn't call for so much. She didn't lie to get out of it. You were still together. Though it's closer to probably an average below average date firm handshakes. That's not good. It's not good. Not a slap, but how much worse could it get, you know, what would be like a three versus like a seven on this? That's not, you know, three is pretty bad, isn't it? I mean, a three would be like a one out of 10, which I know it's just a different scale of numbers, but I feel like we have a much stronger frame of reference for you still drove them home and you had the firm handshake. Didn't go well. Didn't go poorly. That's a seven. That's close. It's close-ish. It's close-ish. Mark was going for a 10. I should have said a smile and a firm handshake. Honestly, just a little bit of affirmation, because like, yeah, but I mean, I figured it had to be below average. If you're ending in a handshake, that's not a negative interaction. It just means like, oh, we're not, we're not fit to date, you know, like we're cool. We had fun, but like, I guess in my brain, I was thinking average, you're probably going on a second date. Yeah, you're probably going on a second date. You might go on a second date here. If I end up with a handshake, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I don't want to be reaching back out. I'd say it's a coin flip, but whether you're going on a second date, if you get a handshake, which would put it right in the middle. I mean, like, if you get the handshake, but then you come back and you're like, look, I have a way cooler date. Let's do this. Like, if you come back with a nice, thoughtful proposition, I'm sort of like, how about this? You could get a shot. That's fair. I was anywhere between, honestly, I was between a seven, eight, nine, and I just just, I don't know, I felt so awful for this imaginary person. Wait, just doesn't think as much of handshakes as we do, Mark. Yeah, yeah. I said nice and firm. Nice and firm. If you're going inside, it's like, this was a crazy first date. If you're getting a kiss, it's like, okay, that's, that's pretty darn good. To me, a hug is maybe you're getting a second date. That's still like above average, though. I would say if you'd ends with a hug, that's a good sign you're getting a second date. That's a good sign. It went well, and it's just like, Okay, well maybe you just need more time to hang out. maybe the date did not involve a lot of talking, right? And it's like, well, we should hang out some. I don't think I've ever shaken a person's hand after a date. Well, maybe you're doing it wrong. Even the bad ones, I think, ended in like a hug, but it's been 15 years, I don't remember. So, oh, that's the other thing I forgot to mention during the small time. All that I've been dating for 14 years as of a day before this recording. So, that's crazy. And how many of those dates ended with a nice hand shake? Well, most of the date in period was spent on Minecraft. So, I don't think you could shake hands back then. I mean, servers, you need to hand shake to connect to them. So, I think, you know. Hop on Skype, turn the camera on. That was a fun time building that castle. What was that? Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Try new, grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Something about the hand shake being offered at face level. I was very like. I think the dating was a hard one. It's hard for me to think of like individual numbers in there. It's like, stormed out, hit. That's more personal, too, in a way. Maybe that made that more difficult, right? Because everyone kind of feels. I just don't differentiate the different numbers there. But that's a tough thing to differentiate. Wait, I just set you your next. Oh, man. All right, Mark, this scale is zero. Is a young person's name. And 20 is an old person's name. Young to old? Yes. For the listeners out there, Wade's thinking so hard that you can see the steam. I mean, off of his bald, bald head. I can, wow. I can hear it. You could hear a little sizzle. Sam, cook bacon on his head. Sam, cook a full English on there. Have the beans coming out of his mouth like a waterfall. I don't have many examples of something I think of for this. So. Well, you know people of all sorts of ages. Think about their names, if you remember them. I have a lot of ideas that I'm like, wait, that's Bofa. That's Bofa? Bova-neez-no? Yeah, it's names of like. Oh, that's a. That's a young name and an old name. I need to hit somewhere either in the middle or toward one of those extremes, you know? You do need to hit somewhere between zero and 20. That's for sure. I should. I didn't realize I was going to do a timer. I assume we don't have. God! I hate this one, Bob. I actually hate this one. I'm going to have to ask you to pick a name. Can I name one for each gender? If it gets an answer right now, yes. Liam and Maddie. Liam and Maddie. Weirdly enough, that doesn't help me at much at all. Uh, Liam feels relatively new-ish, younger-ish, I think. Maddie, that is short for Maddie's son, which even that isn't the oldest name. It's not like Margaret or, you know, uh. Meribeth or something like that. So it's on the younger side, which would be lower, right? Younger is lower, older is higher. So in the grand scheme of naming, it's skewing young, but I feel like there might be younger names out there, but it's pretty. It's pretty down there. And I've done this multiple times where I think of a number and then I skew at one number away. But go five. My number was three. Okay, all right, okay. That's gonna earn you a point. So the one of the first names I thought of, I was like, oh, I'll just say James. Because James is like actually basically like three right now. What a hit, and I was like, but James is kind of a name that could fit anywhere in the spectrum. And then I thought of Liam, but I was like, "Ah, what if you think Liam Neeson's like 900 years old?" That's what I thought. I did not think Liam sounded that young. When you said Liam, first, I was like, oh no. Yeah, I think it's a more common younger name. And then Maddie, I know some like Madison's and Maddie's that are young, but then I was like, but the name Madeline could be short for Mad, like Maddie could be short for Madeline. And Madeline doesn't sound like a younger name at this point, right? Like that's more of a middle of the road or higher name. So any of the names I thought of individually, I was like, "Ah, that could be skew." I was like, if I say two names that both kind of skew young, maybe. Yeah, I got it. I got you, man. Well, you got a markup point. So I was like, there's not that many wades, wades becoming a more popular name. But if I say wade, they're gonna say, oh, man, that's old. 'Cause me. Yeah, we would. So I mean, I was going through it. That was a really hard one for me to think of names. I also don't have no idea what like, the latest trends of names was so. I have no clue, but you hit close to my number, and I'm happy about that. That's all we need. This is gonna be the last one. 'Cause where did go first? Zero on this one is would not survive the apocalypse. Twenty is definitely would survive the apocalypse. 'Cause there's have to be real people or. It could be anything you want. I'm trying to put almost no limits on the clue. I will just say the number out loud again. That would help me immensely. You want a hint, Wade? Just watch my mouth. It might slip out. Joel from the last of us. Okay. He's great until he doesn't search spoilers. Okay. I want to rehash what you said. You said Joel from the last of us. Oh, please don't do this. Please don't do this. You didn't say part two, right? What are you getting at right now? He's trying to separate one from two, and don't do this. It's the same. I can tell you, Wade. It's the same guy. Okay, hold on. The apocalypse happens. Joel survives. He survives a while. He's a very good survivor. But then ultimately, he's not. My initial thought is somewhere right around a 15. Would I say Joel's higher than a 15? I don't know how these sheer explanations getting versus just picking a person that you thought. He said like seven words. He did not. There is not a lot of niche to it. I'm not trying to skew the results, but I do. I do just want to help mark out. He did keep it pretty simple. I don't think there's a lot of secret messaging built into that one unless there is which case I'm rooting everything. I'm going to go one up and say a 16. That's a really good guess. Mark was trying to get you to guess 17. Okay, so I was like, man, he's above, he's above a 15. He's got to be, but like he's got to be, right? Yeah, I would be like, he would be at 20 if he didn't, you know. So I was like, man, this could be as high as an 18, but like a 75th percentile. Maybe I don't know. So it could even be a 17. I went 16. I went once closer than what I was my original. No, you still, that was pretty much optimal for you, Wade. You didn't give out any free points for getting an exactly right, but you nailed it. Well, you guys did so much better at that than I thought I was worried. It was going to be like, no one ever gets it ever. I wasn't sure how hard it would be. That worked out great. Now he and I were locked in. We were locked in. You guys were like cheating or some shit. That was crazy. That's what we were doing. It took a while for us to text each other the other numbers. Thank God you had us using our phones. Mark say 16 right now. I think the one where Wade took forever to think he was like his phone froze or something. He was like, I got a text mark still. No particular order. Mark, you weren't points for avoiding prison. Passing out and or puking. Except you didn't. I was going to take that away if you did end up puking, but you didn't. Happy tears for my footholes, I think. You were in a lymph point. You got points in the game for correctly guessing past how pessimistic it was by the toilet paper, ethics, popularity of emojis and the youngness of the name Wade gave you. Wade, you weren't points for sports gummy bears. Well, Johnny Bravo. How much do you even lymph, bro? You guessed correctly on the freshness of the memes, the excitedness of the museum. You had a point for cloth off the bone and boatha, and you also guessed correctly on jewels from the last of us. Leaving Mark with eight points plus two lie points, which has of yet don't mean anything, but could swing the whole thing potentially. And Wade with nine points. So, Wade is winning. No, this is not. The cannot be another Wade has the most points, but loses. I can't go through it again. How would even that could happen? The real number for winning was actually eight, so you were close. I know, man. How many spins will there be? He, he, he, not just one. Okay. It's one. Okay, that's good for somebody. Bonus points. Well, I'm still do I add cloth off the bone, or do I add absolute value? I really like both of those. One of them will just be removed one day, when we're like, what, what even? I think you can do both. I'm not going to stop you. You're, you're the judge. So whose cloth was more off the bone this episode? It's going to come up in like nine months. That's going to come back up for the first time. And we're going to be like, I can delete that. Is this how all of our other stuff that makes no sense got on to you? We're just like, oh, this will be funny for us next year. I mean, honestly, I would love to say that, but it's not true. Usually we're like, yeah, this means something to us. It's real. It's real. And then it's not real. This is real, man. All right, one spin. Oh, please don't do that to me. Oh, please, great. We all, the predator who was born first, damn unless, if I call the thing on that, could it potentially make him? Oh, god, what the fuck? We make you older than him somehow. There's one way to find out. All right, I'm going to call it on fair, just because. So if it's heads, then it's unfair. If it's tails, I'm doubly the oldest. Unfair on way being born first if it's all heads mark wins and it needs to be made fair So I will be older than you and if it's all tails mark loses and I would say doublet doublet fair would be Wade was bored before everyone Yeah, oh boy He's I'm good to get old. I got heads. Oh shit. Oh, thank God because I got heads I can very flip if you guys want to game. All right, so Wade was born first and that's that remains the truth Which means that today's episode winner with 10 points is Wade I didn't mean to sound so disappointed. What it it's Wade everybody The comeback starts now. I have at least two more points than everyone else now based on what I think I was told earlier this episode I've at least got a bronze medal in wins. It's definitely true. This is definite Hey, break this meme. This is the meme where I'm on the podium biting the metal kiss of the lady and shooting off the champagne that I'm in third place Yeah, that would have still been in kind of the right zone for me I think that's a good that's a good like above average meme whoo. I did it. All right Mark loser speech Oh, well, you know, I tried my best I still don't understand what I could have done differently to get more points because I was unsure if me doing well Men, I got points or if me doing poorly meant I lost points didn't seem that way, but it didn't matter because I had fun And that's the end of the story for me my story ends now Sam and my story He should have kept his cloth more off the bone. There's anything we can take from the sub-shot It's definitely that someone's gonna say that shit to me on Twitter and person I'd be like to clap off the button What the fuck are you talking about? No recollection of this and about it can wait for me freak your cloth away from my bone. What's your name like Liam or Maddie? Go away. Oh, yeah, what a young stupid name. Anyway, thank you for listening and or watching to this to this episode Yeah, sure check out Wade or Mark or myself on socials Wait to learn many seven-some-some-some-some seven Markiplier or I am my scrim Check out the merch just directable.shop. There's some stuff on there. Maybe there will be some stuff on there Soon make sure you follow the podcast so you always know when there's new episodes and look forward to Wade hosting one Finally, that's the end. See you on the next one. Bye podcast out Imagine setting your makeup then forgetting it's even theirs meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, 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 grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York Maybe it's Maybelline

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Key Points:

  1. Wade and Mark engage in a humorous, competitive game where one acts as a "psychic" and the other as a "guesser," using metaphorical scales to evaluate topics like optimism, ethics, and names.
  2. The episode highlights the absurdity and fun of subjective judgments, with participants closely guessing numbers on a zero-to-20 scale for diverse topics such as memes, toilet paper ethics, and first dates.
  3. A major theme is the physical and emotional discomfort associated with tight clothing, including corsets and back braces, leading to discussions about bodily impact and health.
  4. Personal health updates, including a family member’s upcoming surgery and a humorous foot injury recovery, add emotional depth and relatability to the conversation.
  5. The hosts jokingly debate the existence and volume of lymph fluid in the human body, blending science with satire and humor.
  6. The game mechanics include a unique scoring system where exact matches earn points but also trigger "lie points," adding complexity and tension to the competition.
  7. The episode promotes Quince clothing as a comfortable, breathable, and high-quality alternative, with Wade expressing strong personal satisfaction with their products.
  8. The show concludes with a lighthearted, self-reflective winner announcement and a recurring joke about "whose cloth is more off the bone," which becomes a mysterious plot point for future episodes.

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In this episode of Distractable, hosts Wade, Mark, and Bob engage in a playful, competitive game where one acts as a psychic and the other as a guesser, using a 0–20 scale to rate subjective topics like optimism, ethical behavior, and first dates. The conversation ranges from humorously absurd to deeply personal, touching on health struggles such as a family member’s upcoming surgery, a foot injury recovery, and physical discomfort from tight clothing like corsets and back braces. A recurring scientific curiosity—lymph fluid volume—is humorously debated, blending science with satire.

The hosts also promote Quince clothing as a breathable, comfortable alternative, with Wade praising its quality and comfort. The episode concludes with a lighthearted scoring breakdown, a joke about "whose cloth is more off the bone," and a humorous winner announcement, all wrapped in the show’s signature blend of absurdity, personal stories, and self-aware humor. The game mechanics add layers of tension and entertainment, with participants closely guessing values and reacting to each other’s choices, ultimately celebrating the joy of distraction and conversation.

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One person acts as a psychic and receives a clue (like a number on a scale), then gives a real-life example to help the guesser determine the correct value on a scale from zero to 20.

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