The episode begins with a shift in format, as The Stratable announces it will now release one episode per week due to Spotify’s departure, marking a break from its previous frequency. Host Bob, Mark, and Wade engage in a mix of personal storytelling and lighthearted small talk, with Mark detailing his progress in learning Korean through the Kimchi Reader app, which excels at parsing idioms and slang. Wade shares his excitement about 3D printing, including printing functional parts and a custom train bridge, and introduces a visit to a French-Asian bakery where he tries a "strawberry cloud cake." A game called "Reckon Siler" follows, where each host rolls a die and responds to questions—like naming a preferred name or favorite Mario Kart character—while the others guess their roll. The game is filled with humor, misdirection, and clever wordplay, culminating in Wade winning with a final score of 4 to 2. The episode also touches on a potential "million-dollar idea" in holographic 3D printing, though it's noted to not be original. The hosts reflect on the season's competitive dynamics, with Wade emerging as the episode winner and set to host the next episode. The tone remains playful, chaotic, and self-aware, blending absurdity with heartfelt personal reflections, reinforcing the show’s unique blend of humor, technology, and human connection.
Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to The Stratable, the Sipso. Blissily Barced Bar blavs Alexa, produces wood, then reboots a fan-frave-it-rolling game, walkable wage, nipple-and-milky-man extraordinaire, tongues-frog clouds, and Texan goes deep, and vines. Multilingual remark kills it at Korean, goes down and rams while getting erect, and deploys numerology, from eyeball faithfulness, to birthday proposals. It's time for Dice Breakers 2. Now sit back, and prepare to be distracted, and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of a year or favorite podcast. It better be your favorite podcast. I don't want to hear any shit about you listening to any other podcast. This is the only one. We are the only one for your ears and your eyes, and if we're not for your eyes, I don't know what to do with you. I have nothing to tell you. I have nothing for you. Welcome back, that's right, it's distractable. Everyone knows from these intros which podcast I'm talking about, it's always obvious. It's always self-evident. If you've never seen the show before, I'm hosting because I won the last one, and I have my other two go hosts here who are going to be competing to win this one, and then they'll host the next one. I give them points, and I write them down in a book that totally makes sense, and is not at all going to be a documentation of my slow descent into madness. Anyway, my name's Bob, I'll be your host, and I'm joined as always by my competitors, Mark and Wade. Hello! I'm ready to win. Are you doing like boxing stuff, Wade? Or what is that? Oh yeah, I'm big into it. You seem like you know what you're doing. Oh yeah. And Mark was already triumphant, and let's be honest, I'm heavily biased towards Mark, so he's got a great shot today. I'm going to give you a bias point, Mark. All right, didn't even have to pay for that one. I like being the underdog. Wade, I'm going to give you minus one underdog point, just to really spice it up a little bit. Excellent. Call me Rocky Boa constrictor, because I'm ready. Anyway, I have an episode prepared for today, Desperuge, but before we do that, we always do small talk. How you doing? Oh, man is so good. There's so many things happening. Good. Wade, how are you? It's been not great. It's been not great, but you know, we're getting through it. All right, back to Mark. Back to Mark. We can't have any of that. Tell us about all the good things that are happening. No, no, no, yeah, I'm not here for that. I'm not here for that. By the time that this episode comes out, I will have been at the Oscars and that horribly embarrassing thing that happened to me occurred. You know, honestly, I'm just going to own it. I did that intentionally. I don't care what people think. That was all me 100% intended. There might be people that say they represent me that say that I didn't know what I was saying in those moments, or what I was doing with my arms and legs and head and whatnot intentional. I meant it and I meant everything I did. Justin Timberlake's going to reveal his nipple, but that was a super halftime shit on the Oscars. Yeah, and this is already happened. It's not that I'm going to do something. This is already occurred. He's going to have had to reveal this nipple. Oh, yeah, but I'm always a week behind. So I'll watch it next week. And I can't believe you pulled that outfit off. Thank you. It was tough. Very stylish. It was great being there by your side. Thanks for making me your plus one. Damn it. He's really affecting the types. He went from not knowing what's going on to knowing exactly how to exploit it. Wait, our timeline. I forgot. My memory is so bad. In other news, I've had more time to get back into learning Korean. I've started doing that. There's a cool app that I'm going to shout out that I might regret because you never know when these apps and companies can turn into horrible cesspools like dual engulf. Sure. Really, really tanked everything they had. Well, not really. I think they're still number one app, but you know, they won't be. Anyway, kimchi reader. The website for it is like kimchi dash reader. And so kimchi readers great because it does exactly what I was doing with the other ones, not sponsored. I don't think that they have enough money to sponsor because they got like nine reviews on the Chrome extension store. They can't afford us. Well, they couldn't afford me. That's for sure. Anyway, by extension us. It's great because there's a lot of apps that allow you to watch Netflix and it can parse the words and it can show a language list. But none of them really work perfectly for Korean. And this one is purpose built just for Korean, right? So it can parse the words better. It is better dictionaries for the idioms and the slang. And so when when I'm using it, I actually find myself really going through marking the words that I have a saving out sentences, which is where I need to be for learning because I'm past the point of just doing vocab, whereas like I can kind of have a general understanding if I'm hearing it. But now I need to really understand the nuances of in the different variations that they use the words in because there's all kinds of colloquialisms in any language. And so that you can have the same words. It means something and then the translation will be something completely different that you wouldn't expect. But in context, it makes sense because it's just slang and things like that. So it's a really good app. And I've started back into it. I had a six day streak. I lost it last night. But hey, I did some of it. Yeah. That's fun. It's good to have a thing you're excited about. I have to say when you were like I'd diving back into learning Korean in my head. I was like, Oh, that's really great. How do I say? Oh, you don't say in Korean. I don't speak Korean. All right. I'll let him talk. I sincerely for a moment was like, Oh, how do I say that? I'll surprise Mark with my Korean. I know in your joke hardware is like you haven't unlocked that DLC. You haven't. Korean is a subscription service on Alexa plus. Oh, Alexa plus. Wow. Yeah. So much better and not at all exactly the same as anyway. Do you have anything you want to talk about or should I do my small talk? Oh, I got something. I thought finally remember something. Uh-huh. Whether peak, me starting a nice trend of walking again, trying to get my walks back in, which will be broken today. But man, did it happen up to yesterday? What? It's the middle of that you don't, you're not going to get a walk in for 10 hours between now and midnight. Probably not because I go straight from this to streaming to recording with like maybe an hour break for food. You don't need a whole hour for food. Eat and walk or eat then walk. Walk then eat. I suppose it's possible, but it's unlikely. You can do it as a man who's walked one mile every day so far this year and is still not fallen behind and still keeping up. I can tell you you can do it. That settles it. It's time to stand. I've been saying that I was going to do this for all because I've had this one way to easily make it healthier and I'm going for it. I just saw a tick-tock of this exact clip where Mark was like, can you believe we could choose to be different people? I'm going to choose right now and then eat. Oh, fuck. My desk's broken. Just stand. You just have to stand but crouch down so you're in the right. Wait, that's what are you taller when you stand? I've always been taller when I stand. Every time I stood up on my head, it's gone out of camera. Oh no, there's a I could lose a point for that. I forgot. Oh, that's true. Might just be unplugged. Hold on. I'm going down. Here I go. He's going down to his real height. Look out. He's jumping down off his chair of tallness. What's this unplugged USB down here? I don't know. Far away, Mark. Oh wow, it's like a cave down here. Oh, can we come in if we can cave? Do we come hang out? No, no, no, no. Did you guys see the the discussion? Because in when I was playing Resident Evil in the opening video, I go to the settings and it shows I have 192 gigs of VRAM and it was very, very confused as to why I had that much VRAM. It's for the movie. This is the computer that got bass around when doing the movies and I switched over to it because I was like, I deserve the best. I mean, you do. I don't know why I'm going back down now. Okay, bye. Have fun on your cave, buddy. Thank you. I hope you meet your. No, no, no. Nothing. I hope you meet nobody. It's due to your desk. I hope there's no one down there. There better not be anyone down here. They're so and down here. That's concerning. Brother, he knows he's coming. What? Huh? I'm not talking to the secret fourth person on the call. Uh-huh. Change is upon me. It disconnects right now. That was so taught. It was so taught. I was right. He just saved it. I was 100% right. Yeah, I got to adjust. I got to. How do I? What the? This is the same thing I've seen all day. Okay, man. You live a more exciting life then. Come on. Well, I woke up and came straight here, so I don't really see much. There we go. Hey, I made it. It's a miracle. Editors freeze it in horrible ways. Guamify. Guamim. Make Guam shoot out of my mouth. That's going to be one hell of a fluid simulation, since as we know, Guam is just the ocean. I did not know that. Look at this guy. That's tall guy. It's real. Whoa. It's so nice up here. Do you remember we learned there's a window in your office, too? We could relearn all these lessons and re-change your life back again. I had closed it. You're from your God never. I closed it for some reason. Why did? Oh, that's so nice. Look at all. Mark, have you ever had water? You should dry stuff. Oh my God. You're right. I don't know my water bottle here. Oh, man.
- If I could just have any consistency in my life ever, I'd be such a good human. - Just wait 'til you drink some water, I'm blowing mine. - Or a chocolate milk. - Is that just a big glass of chocolate milk? - It's a big Dutch bros cup. It's literally like a 30 ounce of chocolate milk, that's pretty wild. - I've just got really small hands, actually. It's a normal sized cup. - I don't know, you were really into the president? - Oh fuck, never mind, I got giant hands. This is the biggest cup you've ever seen. - I didn't mean to do that to you, that's my bad. I'll give you a pity point. - Thank you, I need it. - Anyway, all my dreams came true, and I am now the proud owner of a 3D printer. That's my small talk. - Congratulations. - You might think I would have something 3D printed at hand, but it's gone. It was previously sitting right here, but I printed a holder, so now the AMS, which holds the spools of plastic is mounted on top, and I printed so much stuff. I set it up Friday afternoon, and it's been operating all but like eight hours, since I've had it put together, and mostly what I've been printing as parts for the printer itself, which is so fucking fun. I love when you get a thing, and then you make things for the thing, with the thing to improve the thing. Also, I've printed a new piece for James's trains. He has those wooden train tracks that the Ikea ones, and I printed a curved bridge. - It's cool, it's so cool. Damn, that is cool. Guys, I'm a 3D printer guy now. I have a print going right now. I'm watching it on my phone. - I'm proud of you, man. - Welcome to the club. We all know what those are. Therefore, we're all part of the club. - Yeah, we all love it equally. - You know what they are. - Yeah, no, that's why I'm part of the club. - Yeah, what are they? - They're printers that print things that are 3D. - Yeah, that's true. - Did you see the new advancement in 3D printing technology with the holograms? - Yeah, the Bob got one. - No, the holograms, that's old news. - Of course, I'm in the club. Why wouldn't I have seen it? - Yeah, he gets the emails. - It's actually a really interesting advancement where they have a gel medium. It's kind of like Disney had something where they had a gel medium and they would print in there and it would suspend it and it would print faster. This actually uses reflective mirrors to have light, concentrate in where a hologram would normally be. So you can get like little glass things and you can have a hologram in there and it's like, oh, it's a 3D shape. That's been available for a while. But in 3D printing terms, if they use UV light and they have projected hologram inside there that's consistent, it will cure the resin in the shape of the hologram thereby 3D printing the entire object that once inside the gel medium and it takes like in 10 seconds, it prints like a tiny thing like this. So it's very small scale, but it's interesting technology because this is like something where it's like, oh, I could see this actually being-- - Using UV light. - Yeah, well, they use UV light in resin printing right now. And I'm not a herb sensor if it's exactly UV light, but I would guess it was because that's usually what they would use. Power of the sun in the palm of my printer. - That's really interesting that it's so quick though 'cause I was assuming there are a limit because you're focusing the light through the medium. Yeah, obviously it cures most quickly where it converges or whatever, but so you're partially curing all of it or something. But like if you could just be like, "Kiss" 3D print a whole thing all at once with basically in the form of like a big UV X-ray flash type thing. That'd be really sick. I could see the really, really interesting potential for that. - It would be cool. - I'd probably take many years before it scales up, but the fact that happens at all is it makes a lot of sense. - You know who else takes things that aren't 3D and makes them 3D? Bakers. Found a really cool French Asian bakery. - That does sound cool. - What's it called? - All right, here we go. (laughs) - "To Lizzy." - I hope it's how it's pronounced, but it sounds good, that sounded good, right? It sounded like a real word. - That sounded really good, man. - Yeah. - W-U-S-L-E-S-J-O-U-R-S. It's so good. They've got some really good stuff. - Oh, "Toos Les Joux." What's your favorite thing to get from there? I assume you've been there. You didn't just find it and not eat there. What did you get? - Oh God, it's like a slice of strawberry something cake. They also have like a Belgian waffle, like half dipped in chocolate. Molly got, it's not strawberry shortcake, but it's kind of tasted like strawberry shortcake. Strawberry cloud cake. I had a slice of strawberry cloud cake that was fantastic. - Oh, cloud cake. - Yeah, but they've got fruit pastries. They've got breakfast pastries. They've got all kinds of stuff. - French pastries, I'm familiar with. I'm completely unfamiliar with Asian baked goods. Is the cloud cake like an Asian baked good thing? 'Cause I've not really heard of that before. - I couldn't tell you what comes from where and I couldn't tell you the name of most things. I just looked and I was like, "That look like bread with chocolate." Wade like. - French I've seen croissants, whatever. But I'm just completely ignorant of like, I'm sure that there's plenty of very cool, very interesting Asian baked goods that I'm unaware of. Anyway, that sounds delicious. Do they door dash? Can I door dash some of that? - I haven't looked, but it's kind of fun to go. I know not a person who goes, but it's fun to go. You grab a tray and you put some like a paper sheet things over the tray. - Liner? - No, it's like the wax paper kind of thing. You put on the tray and then you grab some tongs and you go around and you actually put the stuff you want on your tray. - Oh, that sounds fun. - And then they've got nice little sitting areas. You can sit in there or you can get it to go and they'll bundle it up for you and stuff. Like it's just a nice cute little place. But for you, you have to order a cab every time you want to go there. - Yes. - Unless it's walking distance. - I hitchhike. It's not walking distance. - Oh, that's a bold move. - Then you have to buy twice as much so that you have pastries to share on the ride home. - Well, and it's easy to get the ride 'cause all you do is you go to leisure amongst you and people are like, "Ah cultured, get in." And then they take me there. - I'm not gonna question that. - I think it means mister. I couldn't probably be wrong. (laughing) - Look, I don't speak French, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it's pronounced. - I took Spanish and it's nothing like what I just said. - Pronounced it like Spanish. - House lace. - Yowers. - Yowers. (laughing) - That's in German. That's Spanish. - No, like a Texan Spanish, you know. Well, no, Texas Spanish might be even better than that. - Ah, that's right, buddy. Remember the Alamo? Signor? - Kentucky Spanish. - What's Virginians Spanish? - Required as Alamo? - Yes. - That's in Texan, right Alamo? That's in Texan? - That's located in Texan, yes. - That's French Asian bakeries, really good. - Yeah, no, that sounds delicious. I wrote that down. I actually scribbled that in the little side margin, so I can remember maybe, probably not. - Special announcement, everybody. We're interrupting whatever this is interrupting. I don't know if it's right in the middle, ball, the more it's intro or something. Whatever this is the most jarring and the most frightening, I want you to be afraid. Here, make my face all spooky. (dinging) - Guam, guam, guam, guam, guam, guam, guam. - We, as you know, had to deal with Spotify, but unfortunately, is now ended. Man, say thank you to Spotify for allowing us to do this on the platform. And as the end of that era, we're not ending the show. - It's over. - Cut to black. - So we're gonna go down to one episode a week on Mondays for a little bit. We don't know exactly how long, 'cause the way these podcast things work now that we're no longer in that deal. We are wandering free and alone and lost like little lambs, and we have no home, and we have no peace. Also, I need to go on honeymoon. - There's no hard date, but we're gonna take some time to like have a little bit of an easier schedule, and hopefully Mark and Amy have a really nice trip, and actually get to celebrate that you're married now, and not just get married, and then dive immediately back into the movie thing, 'cause you were right in the heat of it right then when all that went down. But it'll be nice. We'll have a little break, but we'll be back, and we'll probably make some sort of announcement, and depending on if we get some new contractor, whatever like, well, you'll be able to tell. - Or if the filming for the sequel Steel Blatter starts. - So that's why we're going down to one a week, but we will be back, that's the end of it. That's the whole announcement. Just scary transition. - Bald. - Anyway, unless anyone else has any other small talk. - You wanna play a game? - Yes. - I talk about on this show how there's a, I don't know if it's Christian, but like a religious knockoff of Saul. Have I talked about that here? - A religious knockoff of Saul. - God, let me see if I still have the image. I just made this really stupid pun when I saw a video. I didn't watch the video, but I saw that they'll know about it. And I turned them all, I was like, - You wanna play a game? (laughing) - Maybe, like you say that before. It's called the Reckon Siler. - The Reckon Siler? What a terrifyingly long name. - I don't know if I like the Reckon Siler. - Redemption is the only way out. - This is a game we've played before, kind of. I have to be honest. I saw someone talking about this on the subreddit. - It's my idea, but I definitely stole it directly from someone else's brain. You guys remember when we played dice breakers? Which was a thing where I gave you a prompt or I asked you a question and then you rolled a die and you had to answer at the appropriate level of whatever you rolled. So you had to try and if you rolled a net one, you had to give me a net one answer, so on, so forth. Well, same premise except this time, each of you is gonna have your own die in your own hands in front of you, that neither of the other two of us will be able to see. I will give you a question, a sort of classic ice breakery question, something really stupid. You will roll your die and then you will have to give an answer that gets us to correctly guess what you rolled for your answer and you gain or mostly lose points depending on how far
off. I'm going to say my guess is the one that counts for points. Whoever's going week the other two, we can talk about it. But whatever my final guess is, you will win a point if it's correct, if it's within one, you get no points. But if it's two away, you lose a point, three away, you lose two points, so on and so forth. So the score today might be interesting. So we want you to guess our number. You want to give an answer that gets us to guess what you rolled as accurately as possible. Got it. Okay. Yes. I got it. Now that I'm thinking it all the way throughout loud, I think I'm going to expand the points a little bit. If I guess it exactly, you get a point. If I'm within plus or minus two, you don't gain or lose any points. No, you gain one point. If I give it exactly, you get two points. If I'm more than two away, you lose a point. I just realized we were going to have a, like, if someone rolled a 20 and gave an answer, I guess like six. You couldn't lose 13 points. That would be kind of fucked the whole thing. Which one are we rolling? Because I have options now. I have the 20, 10, 8, 12, 6, and 4. I've only got the 20th of my death. I think we should do 20s. I think the 20 is a nice range. You have a five number range where, as long as you get it within there, there's no damage or, well, whatever, you get one point, or whatever. But if I'm more than plus or minus two from your actual role, you lose a point. You get tanked. And I will flip the coin of confusion to see who goes first. Wait, you're the lion today. And Mark, you're the lady. Because that's the two sides of the coin that I, who have, that I didn't just drop. Why am goes first? Right. Okay, I need an example. So. Hey, you good? I was trying. It's everything's fine. Everything's fine. He has a ceiling. Everything is fine. I just want it. Well, now it's. Oh, man. Is that not how it used to be? Wait a minute. No. Hold on. Oh, no. Did it get out of alignment with your teleprompter? Is that what that is? No, it's fine. Oh, that's what it is. What it is. Okay. There we go. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. I stand here. Okay. All right. All right. You got this. Still a teleprompter thing on the subway. I know. I got it. But I fixed one thing. Then the other. Hey, wait. You didn't fix the other thing. Pickable. Pickable. I'm scared. But come back. I don't have object permanence yet, man. You can't do that to me. I got it. When do you get that? Oh, the 32. I'm young. The 32. Hey, that's good. That's a camera. Wait, go first. I'm going to give you the first prompt. You're going to roll your dice. Don't tell or show anyone. But then once you have your number, give us your answer. And we will have to guess from one to 20 what we think you rolled. And by way, I mostly mean me, but Mark can help. We can talk about it. We can debate. So, wait. If you got to choose your name, what would it be and why? All right. If I got to choose my name, I would probably do a lot of research and do other cultures and languages and find something fun, kind of unique that blends together some like significant meaning to who I am as a person and like what outlooks and morals and values I have in life. And that way, my name, whenever I say that, that would be not just something that reflects who I am by the word itself, but also by the deeper meaning that it reflects. It's really boring. It's got to be like a one or a two or something, right? Clearly, you're going for thoughtful, smart. I don't know, I'm getting, I'm getting something fairly high. There's no way he rolled in that 20 already. Is there? I don't know. I mean, who knows if that dice is loaded, I would be the least shocked person in the world, it's literally made of beads. It's the most unfair hand. It walks into a casino with that dice, you know, it doesn't get stopped by security. I love to bring your own dice, casinos. This is my favorite. Do you know what's inside that thing? I know it has it's covered in beads, but Mark has a point. I don't know what that's made of. God, no. I imagine it's pure poison and terrible pox and that had to be high. I'm in a guess. You're all the 19. Do I wait for Mark to guess two or do I? Oh, I have to guess. I mean, you can guess minus the one that determines the points, but I would go with like all the meaning and importance being he rolled a seven and his name already has sevens in it. So I'm like, I bet seven or something. That bobs my judge. It's a 16, a 16. Well, that's, what does that have to do with what you were saying? That's silliness. What did I guess 19? You did. So you lose one point. Yeah, I guess that went pretty high there. I was like, okay, what's a good above average answer? I don't know what would have been better than that. Now that I think about it, I did give it pretty 20 vibes. That was that was you really went for it. You kind of went all out for the answer there. I feel like 16 is like just verging on like, yeah, that's a good answer territory, not like. Well, I thought that was kind of like 10, 10's average, 15 is above average, like, you know, I mean, maybe I'm, I don't know, but when you're actually playing like tabletop, if you have to roll a D 20, don't you usually need to roll pretty high to succeed at things? Is it usually like a 50, 50? In the system we're playing in past finder, it's kind of like usually an 11 or higher is what you need to succeed. Oh, okay. Well, and then weapons can crit anywhere from like 18 to 20, typically, they don't kind of weapon. Well, I was wrong, but Mark was wrong. It's okay. I'll pay the price for that. All right, Mark, your turn. Yep. What item do you hope will be obsolete in 20 years? Now roll an answer. It's, it's like on a line, I think, okay, thinking of walkers for old people, you know, the big ones, because I'm like cane or nothing, buddy. You know, that's what I'm about, but walkers, you know, the big ones, like when I, in the unisonous when I was the old guy, I hope that medicine advances to the point where old people don't need them, because they're so strong, they don't need those walkers, the big ones. Oh, no. Yeah, but we got all the scale of this one. Wait, do you go first? Help, help me. I'm thinking it's somewhere between a three and an 18. I'm going to go with, uh, go with an eight when we were getting really low previously. Everyone defaulted to like dumbing down, like talking with short words and dumbing down that he used pretty good language. He did do any crazy shenanigans. Like, you can't say it was a wrong answer or a bad answer, but he just really struggled with it. I don't know if that was a bit or if that was part of the you got me with the walkers, the big one part of the big one. Yeah. That's where I'm like, okay, it was a good answer, but the walker, the big one, maybe feel like I was five. So I'm trying to the objective. No, I get it. I get it. Hey, you got seven for mine, man. I feel like he was trying to temper. Hey, you said important number. I was like, that's important. You seven's important. You that is important number to me. You love eight probably. I feel like we just talked about this and I hope this is not super wrong because I think it was really funny answer, but I feel like that was aimed to be like right down the middle. I feel like that was like a 10. No, no, no, no, no, because a walker, the big ones have four legs. So I was hoping that they, that's why I said, I canes, okay, but the walker, the big one, I'm hoping. No, that's totally on me. That's totally on me. I didn't know we were dropping clues in the answers. I thought we were supposed to drop clues in the answers. No, look, I had no preconceived notions. I was just curious how you guys would play this. So, so you say it was four. It was four, four was the, I got the age part, right? Honestly, Mark, that was on me. I think I'm going to be saying that a lot today. How, how obvious are we supposed to make these things as obvious as possible? Oh, you play the game. How you like? This is like the one where you were saying the word backwards. So let's, we're on the same page. Play the game. How you want to play it? All right, cool, cool, good, good. I've got 16 names that come to mind, but Dr. Archibald Reginald. All right, wait, for, for ease of thinking, I think maybe roll first and then I'll ask you the question so you can get in the frame of mind because I've realized with Mark that was kind of backwards. All right, you got your number. Which tastes better? Round or square pizza? I've not had that many square pizzas. So I had to say round by default. I don't do jets a whole lot. Round is what I think of when I eat pizza. So I'm going to go with round. Really, I just made it how much I was putting myself on the spot with this game. I'm like, oh, this will be so funny. They'll just have to, all right. And there could be, there could be some funny answers. If we're giving number hints, I didn't. Let me be honest. I did not. Zeroes are round. So it could be a zero, a 10 or a 20. Could be anywhere in that. No, I know what it is. I know what it is. You want me to just do your job for you? Yes, please. Here's what it was. It was a very middle of the road.
answer, but he still had favoritism, and he had favoritism towards what his default was. So it's got to be nine because it's not 10, he's just one to the, he made a choice, right? He didn't go, oh, both it could be, he made a choice, but it was so close to, I mean, it's got to be nine, it could be 11, but I think it's nine. I was with you right up until the actual conclusion, and in, and tell you said it in my head, I was like, oh, that makes sense. He's going to say it was 11 because it was clearly 11, huh? 11? Well, oh, so what's that kind of the things like you're a little choicey in one direction? I was like, let me just give a very bland average, not interesting answer. Like I will answer the question, therefore being at least better than average. Yeah, that was, that was right down the, right down the pipe there. Yeah, like it's hard, with that role, it was like, I'd love to be funny and interesting, but that's like as close, I could roll a 10, but that's, that's pretty average. Just answer the question boringly. All right, that earned you a point, Wade. Oh, I'm back to zero. Mark, roll first. Give a number. Okay, go. Which Mario Kart character are you? Can I look up a list of Mario Kart characters? Yes. Yeah. Okay, pass, pass, pass, smash, pass, smash, pass, smash, pass, definitely smash bird out somewhere in there. That's exactly what I'm thinking. You're going to know exactly what I'm thinking when I say this because I'm not sure what it is about. Tall, you know, not always in the limelight, but I'm thinking Luigi. Interesting. What numbers are associated with Luigi? Let me think. Hang on. Luigi's got two eyes, which is the Roman numeral for two. A U sideways is just a three missing the middle. Oh, you, oh, you're spelling his name. Okay. Luigi's six letters. I'm trying to, I'm trying to figure out Mark's thinking here. Walker still only has four legs. You know what else has four legs? A go kart except for the ones that don't because they have motorcycles and other nonsense. Whether to go with his answers, there's hidden meaning. Okay. Well, Bob, you're a guess is the one that matters anyway. That felt that also felt very down the middle. He said Luigi's tall, which is true. He gave facts. He wasn't wrong. He picked a character. He picked one that's actually in the game as far as I know. Mark has established a gameplay mechanic. How many words did Mark say? It's 23. There's a lot of contractions if that was only 23 words. No, he looked. There's a range of things. He smashed burdo. It made sense. It was a very, he smashed. He got kind of distracted. And there are five letters in Luigi's name. I thought it was L-O-U-I-G-I. Is it L-O-I-G-I-L-O-U? What the fuck? That's how it's for Luigi. It's not for Luigi's. It's for Luigi's. Oh my god, there's no, oh, Luigi's, oh, listen. Yeah, there's no, oh, it all. That's true. I've got to read to all my calculations. I'm going to just say 10 and move on. I think that was a five because of the pre-established rules. I'm picking up. I got nailed it. Wait, what was your guess then? All right. So Wade's logic was right there. He actually got the exact logic that I had except he went. There's two eyes in it. And if he went Roman numeral instead of the number, which was 11. Because I was like, he's tall. Never really number one. I'm getting there, Mark. I'm getting there, man. I'm slow. He's got it, man. You just went Roman instead of, you know, Arabic numerals. Average answer to eyes 11. Okay, you know, he's not number one. He's always, you know, he's middle of the road. He's always, you know, honestly, Wade scared me away from it. Because last time we did a thing like this, Wade kept thinking, like, reacting to your clues like you were a crazy person. And I kept being like, I see what Mark's doing. I understand. I'm with you. Yeah. Yeah. There may not be consistency in any of this that I give you. When Wade threw his thing out there, I was like, well, it can't be that. That's a good ground rule. It's going to be something other than whatever Wade just said. I should feel upset by this, but you might usually be right. You might be right. Listen, my cadence might be a little off. Wade, roll your number. All right, baby. Oh, snake eyes. I can't do that with one dice. What is the weirdest item that you keep by your bed? Uh, frogs. I like to keep frogs around. This in case, uh, you know, you get thirsty. What about frogs quenches your thirst? Oh, the, the vines. Oh, okay. You drink them. Is that a drink? I'm not just kind of like the frog vine. And then all of a sudden, it's sunny. I think I know what this is. It's clearly a net 20. It's just transcending to another plane of existence. That's why it seems so crazy. I don't know, Mark. Do you want to throw me off the scent? Or do you have? Okay. So we said frog knot toad. That's very important because it's the moisture that's really a part of this. And so when you have a frog, wait, if you're thirsty, and he mentioned vines, which is not associated with frogs ever. I don't think anyone's ever been like vines frogs. So he's thinking a specific type of frog. He's thinking a tree frog, not necessarily a water frog on lilies, right? So tree three. I believe you completely. And I think Mark has nailed it. It's a three. Oh, man, close though. Yeah, I was thinking of the two frog. The fucking what? The two frog, not the three frog. The two frog. Mark, who do you look at her out for? I don't know. God do it. Take me away from this place. I think why am I still here? Just to suffer. We already know that one. All right, Mark. Roll your number. And then get ready to party. All right. Love that. What's the first thing you notice about someone when you first meet them? Face four letters in the word face. Mark, Mark gets immediately. No eyes. Seven holes. Face. If you're original letters in face, you get afic, afic. Uh-huh. Yep. Or ecaf. Tafe. Cafe. Cafe. Yes. Okay. We're yep. Keep going. Drive me there. Cafe. Coffee. Where's coffee go? Orifice. How many orifices in the face? Face doesn't include ears. Does it? Or does it? Because it could be five. It could be seven. Face. Four letters in face. Yeah. We do cover it. See upside down. It could be a smile. E. E. A smile behind bars. A smile behind bars. Fa. A long, long way to go. Mark, if it makes you feel better, I'm not going to rely on ways and put on the school. I think it's a 37. He must have a hell of a modify. Face. Face. Face. Makes sense. But it's not much. All right. That felt down the middle correct answer to me. It wasn't like offensive or crazy. It wasn't ridiculous. That is probably the first thing you do notice every time you meet a person because you're probably looking at their face when you just say you introduce yourself. I feel like that was that it's tightly simple. That it had to be a 10. It had to be a 10. No. I mean, it's a six. Man, I thought I was so sure I had because you you said the first thing you think when you get the first C. Someone's face and I went, oh, the first thing you get when you see someone's face. And I was like, I'll just say one word. Face. I got a one. I even emphasize the first thing you say. The first thing in the face. That's a good answer though. Yeah, it is. It's the best. It's number one. It's what everyone would say first unless gigantic moves. I guess maybe. Am I wrong in thinking that one is like the worst answer you could possibly give? I don't know, but you keep this, but this strategy in your mind was like, it's been a middle of the road answer. It's like, I've never done that. That's a waste thing. Wait, does the middle of the road answers? I am very specific first thing that the first time first. Hey, there's a one in what I said. Does that give me points? I guess we'll find out. Mark, even if you don't get points, that was fun. And I enjoyed the journey we got to go on together. Thank you. Thank you. I don't know where that journey went for you, but it was it was good to watch. Oh, man, I had smiles behind bars in their 30s. I don't know. I had all kinds of stuff going on. It was kind of crazy, but you know, not that crazy. I feel like every time you give an answer, I'm the meme of like the guy with all of like the stuff written behind him trying to draw the comparisons. I keep the word F. It is in the word first. First one, but it's also in four and 14. One more. And all I'm concerned about is I'm going to understand the clues that Mark leaves for me. I don't even give a shit. I'm pre-guessing Wade is a 13 and I'm skipping straight to focusing on Mark. I'm not. I'm not losing eye contact.
Wait, it doesn't matter what you say, your question is, what's the corneas to pick up line you know? "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love you!" Back in the day, we used to go to this place called Village Tavern, and Wade would always somehow pick up the supermodels, right? So he was so busy with all of the women that were throwing himself at him, that it must be a massive number, because this is a blast person in line. He would often clear, like, 12, 13, 14 women at a time. They'd just line up like a cue to give him a smack or a roux. He'd be sipping his Texas T. You have all these T's, which stands for 20, 'cause tomorrow tomorrow, he said it twice, which is two tens, and therefore, this married man used to go to a bar and pick up chicks, and then he'd say, "They'll see you tomorrow." And Mark would just sit there and be like, "Wow, you really got that dog, and you don't you." I'm trying to stick up with Mark. "I'm gonna choose to believe you, Mark. It was definitely a 20." Unless it was a two, 'cause of the two tomorrow. But he already had a two. What are the odds you can get two twos in a row? I know, that would never happen. "Well, oh two tomorrow, tomorrow." "Oh no." "What was it when?" "What the fuck was it?" "What the fuck was it?" "What the fuck was it?" "What the fuck?" "What the shit the fuck?" "Is it because I did the three for the frog that was two, and you were like two tomorrow, so I'll think three, 'cause it was the void that was filled from the other one that was there before?" "I just went off the rails, man. Mine aren't number really." I just was like, "What would not work?" "How are you winning, man?" "How are you winning?" "No, you're not winning. Wait, no, that's sorry. I'm stupid. That was it." "Well, not anymore." "I just thought there was more cosmic injustice." "I think I just lost 19 points, man." "I thought it was all lining against me, but that's just good for me." "You're not the only one who could not get Bob on your side." "I don't worry about it." "All right, back to our regularly scheduled program of Trenanturpert Mark." "All right, Mark, I'm gonna find you. I'm lost in the universe, and I'm gonna find you, and I'm gonna feel it. Are you ready?" "Magic carpet sound dampening, ovulation. All the things you could say are going through my mind." "It's a very possible word he knows, going through my mind right now." "What is your ideal way to spend your birthday is getting there? Is doing it." "Wait, this is the answer. Hold on, pants, it's. " "You're old as zero." "Burth day, birthday, right, birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday." "Well, you know, I wasn't one for birthday parties." The celebrate didn't invite people over that much. Even nowadays, I don't often do birthdays very big, last year, you know, birthday, I ended up proposing. So, really, you know, that might have been the best present I have, but I can't repeat that one. So, you know, it would have to be something that, you know, I could, you know, that was a TV series, about killing yourself. "Okay, I'm sorry, just came from what?" Anyway, sorry. Anyway, I don't, you know, I think it's always I'm around friends. Then we celebrate together, maybe a good meal at an extra restaurant. That's how it's all that matters to me. That was a lot more words than face. He did say one in the nothing at one point, which brought me to ten, and then he mentioned proposal. You know, we made it together like a little over ten years. That's two references to ten, which could be two tens making it a twenty. There was a lot of us in ramblings, so it could be a two. It's either a two or ten or a twenty. Oh, okay. I see what you're getting at. No friends. One birthday, no friends. One mark, no friends. That's the one zero. It's ten. He said the word birthday nine times, and he said that he focused on friends a lot. There's ten seasons of friends. There's a definite clustering. If Mark's answers might be because of that, that would be fucking nuts. No, this. It had to be. You talked about how you didn't invite people into your birthday. You sped it alone. It had to be something about that, and then the proposal, and then you talked about the show about killing yourself. I just feel like that can't be a very high number. Wait, how many different topics did he talk about? Maybe that's the answer. Okay. Yeah. That's good. I'll keep counting different parts. Birthday. Friends. Death. Television. What channel was friends on? Is it CBS? What channel is that? Ten? Oh, CBS. C would be three. B would be two. Ass. Ass. What a number that number letter is. He talked about killing himself. It has to be low. Who's as low as could be? Seventeen. No, I'm not going to hedge. I'm going to be bold because I'm exactly on the right wavelength. I know this in my heart of hearts. It was a one. It was. Was it a one? What was it? He's thirteen. Oh, no. I'm going to kill about killing yourself. How many candles run his cake? Thirty candles? That was terrible. I was like, "I can do something about how, like, oh, it's so nice when I had this birthday party when I became finally a teenager." I was like, "Maybe." And then I was like, "I couldn't even remember if it was actually thirteen reasons why." Or if it was. Oh. I didn't know. I didn't know. It was right there. It was right there. It was right there. The television shows you were all on it. It was all I was leaving towards it. You know. This episode is going to be our 37th reason. Yeah. I've never seen that. I didn't. I actually, when you said there was a TV show about killing yourself, I was like, "Oh, that's weird. I don't know that one." Yeah. I said a lot of reasons. Did you say thirteen reasons, though? No, no. I just said the show about killing yourself and then, you know, there were reasons. I love whenever I left the point of physical tears. Oh, man. Woof. What's it like on your end watching us try to figure it out? Oh, it's, you know, it's in between pain and funny and a lot of pain, swinging wildly, averaging into a very neutral state. I rolled a three and you guys guessed it. So I feel- We didn't guess twenty. You know the classic pickup line tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you. 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 plum. Dewey hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Have any of these been close? I was one off for Wade twice. The closest I was for Mark was was six away. The first two guesses. Shit. You know what, Mark? I have to say, it's probably my fault. Honestly, I think that you put a lot out there and I think I let Wade throw me off on some of them. And then when I tried to do it myself, I think I am an idiot. Oh, no, no, no. As the judge, you're correct at all times. It's fine. It's fine. I don't see that as a bad thing. I see that as- I see that as a boon if anything. Anyway, let's go for the points. Remarkably close. I don't write love. Mark did dominate the small talk. Mark, you earned positive points for me being biased towards you. Learning Korean. The longest stand-up sequence I've ever seen, hologram 3D print small talk which was awesome. Your camera fell over, which made me laugh and was very funny. And then you also got a dismay point because of the general sense of dismay that you have felt for the entire second half of this episode. And then you lost points for every round of the game itself which totals out to two points. Oh, I'm positive. Wade, you have a tentative lost point for making a short joke in the opening. You gained positive points for being an underdog, collapsing our timeline with chaos about the Oscars, walking like a good boy. I gave you a pity point, I gave you a doula juice point and then you gained points for two of the rounds but you lost points in two of the rounds leaving you with a total of three. With a tentative lost point for the short joke depending on how the wheel is feeling today. I honestly thought Wade was going to run away with it but Mark had a pretty strong first half there. Does that make it less painful? No. No. We still experienced, do we have the scars from the game itself, you know? I just want to know how many people go out to the bars and they try tomorrow, tomorrow I love you as a pickup line and have success. We better get some stories from the sub or anyway, how many spins will there be? I'm sure it won't be a number that will cause me problems. Ah, it's two. Is two to three? Would that have been the lowest scoring game ever and we had lower than that? Didn't we have negatives at one point, I'm not sure. I don't know. We used out a lot of crazy shit happened. Yeah, this show's gotten out of control. I think we should probably kill it before it gets any wilder. I want to add a point for being the worst participant in an episode.
worst participant as in didn't play the game right or was not paying attention or just didn't understand the rules and through their inadvertent. Kind of all around not understanding the rules, not playing the game very well. Because you can get a lot of points outside of the game. So I get this, I understand, yeah, this makes sense. We currently have, hey, we're at 100, we have a hundred options on the wheel. Great, I hope we see more than the usual four. That's crazy. That means when we get sudden death again, it will be a 1% chance of that actually landing. Spin number one is half point for Bob. Ah shit. All right, okay, we got time potential here. Come on. Oh, that's right. Let's do it. That's million dollar idea. I don't know that I contributed anything anywhere close to this. Talked about the hologram 3 printing, but that's already a thing. The holy. Wait, yes, the hologram! I brought the hologram! That is definitely a million dollar idea. But that's not your idea. That's someone else already had that idea. Well, I mean, it doesn't say, it doesn't say that. It's a million dollar. I'm really all right. Oh wait, for no reason other than I just looked down and thought of it, I'm gonna say it has to be an idea that you contributed it to get to be someone else's idea. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, damn host powers. Well, listen, wait, can it be an idea that is not the person's idea and they still get credit for it? Is it too late to get points? Because if not, I agree with you, Bob. You're the host. All right, but the next one, next one. I don't think I got a point for that, even though that was the whole point. Oh, there's no lies. Are there lies? I need to make a judgment call. Wade has a tentative point lost for the short joke. That is a different category of points than a live point, right? Yeah, that's different. Yeah, because I mean, look at yeah, pile it up while you're immune. Come on. I'm already gonna lose the point. If it comes up, I'm gonna double dip the fourth wheel spin of the day certainly wouldn't do it to me like that. Oh, no sneezes. All right, no one stays good. All right, fun, fun wheel. Come on. We're gonna go through all the options. We should land and all the ones we never hit before. It was almost baldest, but it's well to live. I want to live. Well, do you remember your last, uh, remember your 13? That's not my idea. It's not my million. That's not my idea. I will say this is very against me, but I will admit that I did scream to the heavens. Why am I still here? Actually do that. So I don't know if I can get the point, uh, as much as I want and where there's a will, there's a way. Well as much as that makes me not want to give it to you. I think that made you guys have less of a will to live therefore giving more to me. You're right. He's right. Oh god, I want to live. Oh please. Wade has the most will to live. Yes. All right, fine. Congratulations. Wade, that means that with the score of four to two, possibly the lowest score we've had definitely close. Wade is today's winner. God, I've had the hell of a losing streak. I think it's cost me the season. There's no way. That was me winning. Oh, Wade, no, Wade won the last one. I hosted, but it's because it went to sudden death. You actually were winning that one. Oh, yeah, Bob's won the last two. I posted, but you won the space tier list. Bob's won the last three. I posted. I'm, wait, go keep looking back. Wait, four. I posted. Okay, hold a second. Five. I posted. Wait, wait. Oh, what is that? Ah, there's Mark. Keep going. Keep going. Wait, keep going. Now you won. You will resolute. You won that one. Yeah, keep going. Okay, what's the fuck? Wait, that was a tie. Who won it? I didn't circle. I don't know. But you won the one before that 20 to 17. Mark, I think your problem is that I don't win enough because Wade ended up winning this one and the last one, but they were very close, but then you won space tier list. How do you pan snow days? Wade won one, but then you won half life by 10 point. Anyway, it's me. You got to impress, buddy. I'm the one ruining your win streak. And guess who hosts the next episode? Bob, hope you have one in their bags for no reason. Oh, man, yeah, I'll be ready to host Don't worry. Mark, do you want to give a speech? No, is acceptable answer? No, I got it. All right, listen, there comes a time when it's like me never winning the the Streamy for Gamer of the year. I've never won it. I probably never will. And you know, I have to come to terms with that. We all have to come to terms with that. And sometimes if I don't win the year of the year thing, I will flip the ultimate unfair coin and we will look through Wade's book of wins and I've never calculated how often I lose his games. And we will see if there is bias. Then I will accept the answers. That is, it's fine. And you know, I hope only that the Streamy's also has a big coin to flip for its own unfairness. I'm sure that they do. Wade, would you like to give your winner speech? Yeah, hold on one second. I'll give it no particular reason. I won big surprise. 17. I hate this game. Wait, can I just say I'm looking at the season stats right now? Wade is dominating in wheelspin points. Wade has 155 wheelspin points. Mark is 46 and a half and I have 146. But points without wheelspins. I'm dominating 648 to mark 626 to wait 542. And the wheels the only one that loves me. The total episode wins as of the last episode, the smell you can lick, was Mark with 33 episode wins, me with 33 episode wins, and Wade with 29 episode wins on the season. So actually, Mark, you're tied for the lead if anything. Does it come down to this next one? Is the next episode the decider? Oh, that pressure on me. Yeah, I guess this is kind of this next one that Wade hosts is kind of like the one V1 face off for champion of season 5. If you want to frame it like that, that could be true. Could be the way. I'm also just assuming that this post I found on this is a comment from far right or 6952 on subred. I hope it's accurate. I don't want to have to come back and relitigate these numbers. If this is wrong, that's on the subreddit right now. But I think this person keeps pretty careful track of that stuff. So actually, it's probably correct. Anyway, congrats Wade. My apologies to Mark. You've tried your hardest and boy, was that just not worth it? Make sure you check out. Make sure you check out the merge shop distractable.shop. Make sure you follow the show on wherever you listen and or watch it because then you'll know when the episodes come out and make sure that you tune in next time because Wade will be hosting and Mark and I are playing for the championship. Thanks everybody for being here. This has been distractable. Wade's going to host the next one. See the ultimate champion is. Until then, podcast out.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts discuss a new episode format with reduced frequency due to Spotify's departure, shifting to one episode per week on Mondays.
Mark dominates the small talk with deep dives into learning Korean using the Kimchi Reader app, relearning the nuances of language, and personal reflections on cultural experiences.
Wade shares his 3D printing journey, printing parts for his printer and a custom bridge for James’s trains, while also exploring a new French-Asian bakery and its unique "cloud cake" offerings.
A game called "Reckon Siler" is played involving dice rolls and clue-based guessing, where participants give answers to questions and the host guesses the correct roll, earning points based on proximity.
The game results in Wade winning with a score of 4 to 2, despite close calls, due to a mix of strategic guesses, misread clues, and humorous misdirections.
Host Bob reveals a new "million-dollar idea" – 3D hologram printing via UV light in gel – though it is not his original idea, and the team debates its potential and originality.
The episode ends with Wade officially winning the game and hosting the next episode, while the hosts acknowledge a season-long competitive balance and mutual respect.
A humorous and chaotic tone dominates, blending absurdity, personal anecdotes, and self-deprecating humor that reflects the show’s signature style.
Summary:
The episode begins with a shift in format, as The Stratable announces it will now release one episode per week due to Spotify’s departure, marking a break from its previous frequency. Host Bob, Mark, and Wade engage in a mix of personal storytelling and lighthearted small talk, with Mark detailing his progress in learning Korean through the Kimchi Reader app, which excels at parsing idioms and slang. " A game called "Reckon Siler" follows, where each host rolls a die and responds to questions—like naming a preferred name or favorite Mario Kart character—while the others guess their roll.
The game is filled with humor, misdirection, and clever wordplay, culminating in Wade winning with a final score of 4 to 2. The episode also touches on a potential "million-dollar idea" in holographic 3D printing, though it's noted to not be original. The hosts reflect on the season's competitive dynamics, with Wade emerging as the episode winner and set to host the next episode.
The tone remains playful, chaotic, and self-aware, blending absurdity with heartfelt personal reflections, reinforcing the show’s unique blend of humor, technology, and human connection.
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The podcast will reduce to one episode per week on Mondays, with no set end date. This change is due to the end of their partnership with Spotify and a desire to simplify the schedule while maintaining the show's presence.
Wade will be hosting the next episode, following the current episode where Bob hosted and Mark and Wade competed.
Bob discussed a new 3D printing technology that uses UV light and reflective mirrors to project holograms into a gel medium, curing the resin in the shape of the hologram, allowing for very fast, small-scale 3D printing.
Wade mentioned a bakery called 'Toos Les Joux' that offers unique pastries like a strawberry cloud cake, which he found delicious and enjoyable.
Mark recommended 'Kimchi Reader,' a Chrome extension specifically designed for Korean language learning. It parses words well, handles idioms and slang effectively, and helps users save and review sentences for deeper understanding.
Wade won the game with a score of 4 to 2, despite close calls. The game involved rolling a die and giving an answer that the host had to guess, with points awarded based on how accurate the guess was.
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