The episode of Distractable blends absurd humor with improvised storytelling, where hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share wildly exaggerated and often ridiculous personal experiences. Mark recounts a trip to Apple, where he impresses staff with creative ideas like stacking coffee creamers for thermal efficiency, while also poking fun at Apple’s design and culture. The narrative pivots to a central theme: "doing too much" in product design. Guests critique over-engineered products like WD40 (advertised with over 2,000 uses), Dr. Bronner’s soap (used for everything from toothpaste to plant care), and the Ronin 4D camera (a complex cinema device that’s overkill for most users). Duck tape is both lauded for its versatility and criticized for creating dangerous overreliance. The humor is amplified by surreal product misuse—like Frank’s Red Hot being applied to cars, windshields, and even bedrooms. The episode ultimately questions whether technological innovation often outpaces practical need, resulting in tools that are more complicated than necessary. Through chaotic, over-the-top anecdotes and deadpan product critiques, the show delivers a satirical reflection on how modern products try to solve every problem, often failing to deliver real value. The tone remains playful and self-deprecating, celebrating the absurdity of everyday life and the strange things we invent to manage it.
Good evening, gentle listeners, or watchers, and welcome to the Stacked-A-Ball! This episode, booming Bob couldn't fly, get to go pro, taste ass, and goes into the long and short of things. Weirdling Wade looms in limos, flips himself off, gets hammered, that abuses Red Hot and duct tape. Modest Mark talks bathroom magic, advising Apple, capturing crap coverage, and blasting bamboo. From hyping hairlessness to expunging Wade, hehehehehehehehehehehe, it's time for doing too much. Now sit back, and prepare to be distracted, and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Distractable, the most hype, the most handsome, the most hairless podcast you're gonna find anywhere online. I was trying to, I could be handsome, or could be hype. Wait, do I have to be hairless? Pretty much, yeah. I guarantee I have more hair than you on every part of my body that has hair. Plus, I have hair where you don't. The Asophagus? I guess if we're counting body hair, I am quite a hairless individual. Markiplier up top, mole rat below. Why did I introduce this podcast that way? Hehehehehehe, couldn't fucking tell ya. Anyway, Wade's bald, welcome to Distractable. This is the show where, uh, the points are like apples to your doctor. They matter as much as you think they do, but your doctor doesn't really give a shit if you eat apples. You still have to go see him. I tried that. I told my doctor, I was eating like three apples a day, still made me come in. Didn't matter. Said I needed, innocent. Anyway, if you've never seen the show before, this is a great warm-up for what you can expect for the entire time. Uh, it's improvised show. I have a topic. We might not even get to it. It really depends how things go today. We, we, we, for our hearts out last time, so I'm sure we'll get to the, the game today. Sure will be fine. Uh, but I'm the host Bob because I won the last one, and I only am Bob because I won if I had lost. I'd be somebody else. I'm joined, as always, by my two competitors, Laschco host, Mark and Wade. Hello. Hey, hey, hey. It feels like it's been like a month and a half to me. The amount of shit that happened since the last time we were here doing this, which was only one week ago, is crazy to me. Do you guys know that five hours after we hung up the last recording session, I was doubled over a toilet vomiting so hard that I was pulling muscles on my ribs. No, I thought you were on a plane. I kind of suspected that. Actually, I marked it because we were doing. Yeah. No, I didn't, didn't go. Didn't end up going to England. We're supposed to go to England. Didn't happen. Crazy. Wait, neither one of you made it to England. Nobody made it to England. No one made it. Has anyone in England, England? Are you there? It wasn't just us. Nobody could go to England because their whole government system to get travel visas exploded. I don't know. I don't know what happened. It just stopped existing for a while. But you were sick, which is different than the problem I was having. I haven't been that sick in such a long time. Last time I was like, oh, James was sick. It was so bad. I never carried you sick anymore. God, I was sick. It's awful. Me. If you don't laugh, it's really awkward, guys. Sam, take a laugh from another episode. Put it here. I just, uh, it's been a hell of a week. How are you guys doing? Well, to echo on that, I also was supposed to be in line. I've got a lot of small talk to tell it. It was also one of the most eventful weeks of my entire existence. I think all three of us could probably agree this past week has been loaded with all kinds of incredible orifying things happening. Mine was pretty on par with normal. No. So, um, I don't know if we all three could agree, but it sounds like you two really. I know one thing that happened to all three of us that we can all be excited about. Wait, what's, wait, is that the ILM one? No, it's a 3D printed, no, wait, no, and you, I know you bought, they sent this to me with a handwritten note that said, hey, Distractable, thanks so much for being so hyped up about GoPro and our new products. And we thought we'd send you guys. They sent us one camera and by us, they met you. I assumed they sent it to each of us. Like we, I am not Distractable. It was, we are the three of us are Distractable. No, anymore. Apparently you are Mr. Distractable because I knew Mark had bought one. So I thought, like, oh, well, he's not going to be, you know, he's not going to be like hyped as I am about that. But yeah, they sent the, and they sent the, the, the cage that goes with it. It's pretty nothing. You got never mind. I mean, nothing happened to all three of us this week. We all had very different experiences. Did they actually, did they actually? Yes. Honest to God. A package showed up and it was addressed to Distractable. And I was like, oh, that's weird because we haven't had any sponsors lately. Previously, when we had lots of sponsors on the show, we would occasionally just get boxes that were like, here's a year's supply of gummies for some reason. You're going to do a sponsorship for that. But this, it was, it was a very nice note that was like, ah, you, you guys are such good fans. We love you Distractable. Here's the, here's the new, there's that camera you were talking about so much. It goes, shoot your movies with it. They think they're funny. Do they think they're funny? I think they're funny. I was sad till I realized Mark didn't get one too. Now I feel a lot better. Did I have one? I have actually multiple because I bought multiple of them. If we didn't, if we didn't get one, I'm happy. I didn't get one. So you can be happier. I didn't realize I was so important. I didn't realize I was the figurehead of this show. I represent all of Distractable. Look, you know, you, Mark, I'm sure that they meant to send it to you and there was just some mix up because they're like, oh, Mark's big Cincinnati guy. He must be one. He must be the Cincinnati address. We all live in the same house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, it's a scene house. It's going to be an honest mistake, right? Because you, you talked to somebody I thought or I have been, I have been, you know, I, I have been. Well, they definitely don't have Mark's address from the purchase. He actually made through them to get one. So yeah, odds are very easy mistake. I'm not even completely clear how they got my address. I've never worked with GoPro ever, directly. They work in tech. They have all of our addresses. They know us. I just asked chat GPT like where does Bob live and where does Distractable live and your address came up? I mean, yours isn't the male. I mean, this came almost a week ago, but I think the while I was sick the day after we recorded last, I think this showed up. So it's been here for a while. I've been using it for, um, trains. James, James likes me to film his trains, you know, so that's pretty important. Mark's like on the edge of a volcano. Like, man, I really hope I can film this with my new camera. Bob's like, I have this little official price train set. It's a Brio train. It's a Brio train with custom 3D printed accessories. Okay. It's just calm down. I'm just, I'm just going to see if there's a Distractable, uh, code that works on this site because that would be fucking funny. Mark is going into chat GPT to change the Distractable address. Well, you've been using it. So I can, I can tell you, you were right on, Mark. It's a great camera. Probably the nicest camera I actually know. Well, it's old, but I do have a Sony A7, R2. So that's probably, but that's not fair because this is like one tenth the size of that thing. I will say, uh, uh, it's very good. Maybe not that good. Maybe it's not that good. Why'd you your voice corrector? Are you okay? I actually, okay, I was at Apple, um, for the event, uh, and I, I felt afraid to pull this out of my pocket because, you know, them and their phones are all like, you know, I was talking to the, um, the, this is a whole other, I'm jumping into the middle of my, I went to Apple, a small talk portion of this, but I was talking to the, we're going to get another M.S. paint saga. No, it was the lead photo, a statistician, aesthetic person, the the person who's in charge of defining the aesthetics of photos. Uh, and so I, I was talking to that, but like, it was like, oh, yeah, what do you use? I was like, oh, in the movie, you know, we use reds for my main YouTube, we got like an A7S three, uh, and I have an icons, YAR, and then I have a GoPro, and they're like, how, how do you, how do you match all your stuff? I was like, oh, you know, I go, when do you use your phone? And I'm like, oh, you, I use my phone. I use my phone. I use it. But they all have to say, like, the iPhone 17 Pro Max, I, I legitimately had a great time at the Apple trip, and they didn't mean to do it, but I was like, yeah, it was my phone. And I pulled this out, and then I pulled out this monstrosity next to it. I was like, and then I got this, and my other pocket. I was like, what, what is that? I was like, oh, I 3D printed this, this, uh, little macro thing. It was made by a kind of camera to keep it in your front pocket. And I could just see like the color drain from her face. Oh, God, I'm so high. Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, wait. Hey, look, uh, episodes of, and episode of this podcast was filmed on iPhones. I phone marks iPhone. Can I tell you why I was invited? Well, we now know why you won't be invited back, but yeah, sure. No, no,
I have to shout out the, uh, the subreddit, uh, homelab because legitimately, the reason I was invited is because Apple heard that I had 54 max studios in my bathroom. And they legitimately told me, yeah, no one's ever done that before. And so I got an invite, I got to talk, I shook hands. I shook hands with Tim Cook himself, Mr. Tim Apple. I showed him the picture of my bathroom and he said, that makes my heart sing. And I legitimately was like, that is the most, I was wept. I just put it in a bathroom, I met John Ternis, I shook hands with him. I showed him the picture of it and he went, wow, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Mark's like, I went to Apple because I had a bunch of computers in my bathroom. Yeah, that is actually the reason. Did you tell them about your Capri Sun hack? You know, it didn't come up and didn't come up. Did you tell them the next, they should make it adaptor. So that's a Capri Sun holder heat sink situation. Mark pulls out his phone, he pulls out his GoPro, he pulls out a Capri Sun. He's like, guys, I have the next big thing for you. I think that BTUs are an outdated way to measure thermal capacity. I think it should be Capri Suns, you know, I had a whole thing where I was going to say, like, it was such a wonderful experience, which it was. I'm not saying I wasn't going to say, oh, fuck, oh, God, I was going to lie. It was a great time. It was such a wonderful experience. I, the entire architecture of the Apple One campus is mind blowing. It looks fake, but it looks like a, like a weird VR background when they do, because they do walk in talks in front of it and stuff. And I'm always kind of like, is that the really the thing? Or is that like a weird rendered? Because that looks ridiculous. It does, it looks insane. It's real, it's legitimate. It's every single inch of it has like this polish to it. And it's every, like, there's so much glass. I don't know how they made all the windows. I don't know how they did it. They have the largest moving glass doors in the world. Because and it takes seven minutes for them to open and they calculate it specifically of when they can maximize the temperature exchange. And it's, it's, it's a marvel of engineering. That, that, that building is actually legitimately incredible. Um, yeah, and I said to them, like, oh, I get it. Like it's, you want your employees to be inspired, but aren't you worried that they'll just kind of like wander in the park and never come back? Because the entire interior courtyard is like 80 acres of just like lovely landscaping with trees and gardens and fruit on art. There's orchards there that they use to, to, to make jam for their own cafeterias. And it's like, is it all apple jam? No, they have apples. They have fig, but that's, that's funny. That's funny right there. It's, it's legitimately, it's great. So I, I'm really painting it at a bad light. My trip was wonderful. And I missed the employees while it was a little concerning of people that wandered into the park and never returned. Well, that's at night. If they hear see pieces of paper on trees and they go out into the woods and hear a thumping in the background, you know, you shouldn't go out there then and there. But I felt afraid because I kept, I didn't, you know, I didn't film with my iPhone. There was a couple like, I don't know if you were in like a separate thing, but isn't everyone there filming with like their big, their camera cameras? It's not like every, because like MKB HD goes and stuff. And they had, he has some, just fucking 8K cinema thing. It's a really big iPhone. It's, it's just an iPhone with like so many attachments. It's like, yeah, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Captured on iPhone. Yeah. I, I wasn't with them. I was in a separate group. Yeah, I was in the red carpet. No, no, it was special. No, it was good. I was special. I was special. When you were done, did you, did you call, did you call the guy who got you hooked up? And we're like, ah, yeah, I almost went to the main part. I was somewhere else. He's like, what a man. Great, if you'd have been to this. Ah, I wish, uh, didn't take any pictures. No, you wouldn't get your camera out. Oh, okay, good. Good, good, good, good. God, I glad we called that favorite. I swear, I was in this special group. I was sure, buddy. It was so special. I had such a good time. They showed you the missing person area. They showed you their phone. They showed you some apples and other fruits. They gave you a Capri Sun. They looked at your photo. Like, that's a good photo. The home lab bread at post is so good, though. Like, I found that organically. I mean, I'm connected to much of you shit. So it wasn't that organic. But it's the discussion on that original post on Reddit. It was very funny because there were so many people who didn't understand the context at all. And we're like, what the fuck would you need any of this? Like, yeah, what is this for? It was really cool to talk to them about why I did the maximum. Because number one, it's in a bathroom. So it's like, I can only put so many air conditioners in there before the air conditioner insulation guy will report me to somebody. And I feel like there was an aha moment with that. And it was so cool. I was talking, I was in this group with someone from ILM, which is Lake Lucasfilm, who does a lot of effects for all the biggest movies you could imagine. And so I was able to talk about Houdini with this guy. Because like, that was one of his specialties. He was like, I mean, he uses all of the software. But he also knows Houdini is used for a long time and talking about like, yeah, I was using for like tops. And it was perfect for the artist to be able to kick out little tasks to all the studios. And a lot of people think it was overkill. But it's not overkill right now. Because right now, there's like a run on Mac Studios. And the price of them is actually more than I originally paid for them. So it's like, I could I could turn a profit on just the thing. It's like, so that was actually part of it. Because I knew he used Mac Studio location, my bathroom. So that is not poopy. Bathroom pickup only. I will be on toilet when you arrive. Don't look. Here's a photo of the Mac Studios. There's just the arrow pointing to each one in that one photo. Like, here's the one you're getting. Yeah, one listing just each one's. Yeah, that's perfect. So it was, but I was able to talk to, you know, some people at Apple, specifically about the, because they were very curious, because it was like a niche use case. And they really like to hear about niche use cases. And so I didn't mention Glover salts at all. That was probably good. I mentioned how I stacked them like upside down like that. And I, okay, I might have embarrassed. I referenced how when I was at Perkins as a kid, I would take the little creamer cups. And stack them lentil in. Did I be killed for Perkins right now? Lid to bottom bottom to lid like that. And I told them like, if you put a thermal sheet in between them, because it's a big block of aluminum, my theory was they could kind of share with each other. Because they're a big thermal block. And kind of if one's running and the other's not, it can act as a heat sink. And at worst, they could, you'll fit together better. And, you know, they were really, they actually listened to me. So, huh, take that everyone at home lab. Oh, he went to Apple. I have an Apple shirt. I met the owner of Apple and I told him how I used to stack coffee creamers. No, no, sorry. That is not. And then he looked at a picture on my phone and said, "Wow, it's a misrepresentation of my story." Just the whole time, it's feral, feral mid-episode of "Destractable Mark" wandering around. I'd be like, you know coffee creamers, right? You've seen coffee creamers? You can stack them. I thought laptops are like coffee creamers. Don't even allow them to. You just get the Capri Sun. Did you put in the middle of them? And don't he doesn't know what he's saying. I'll listen to him. Actually, if I probably did used Capri Sun packets in between them, that would have been even funnier. Like a stack one. Drink a Capri Sun, put it down. Stack one other. You wait till you smash it in the middle and you. You really got trapped. Get it out of there and just. I don't drink through the straw. I slam it between Tumex. Tumex, Tune doesn't know. Hoping my mouth. So I said the bathroom. You stack them in the tub and then you just. And the tub collects the Capri Suns. And then you have like a whole tub of Capri Suns. This is end-game marketplace behavior. It's just like, I don't know what to do with all my movie money. Let me just slam it. You guys zoom in on the pictures. See all the straws still in the wrapper on the floor of the bathroom? I hope at worst they got a good laugh out of me showing them the picture. But you know, I think when, you know, when Tim Cook retires, he looks back on his long history at Apple and remembers my picture. His last words, he like, "Don't let Markiplier own this company." Why would he say that? Because it's the last thing you think so. I'm actually in that picture. Your takeaway is that Tim Cook hates Mark now and is dying soon. Well, that's a rumor I guess we could start. Don't, I'm never going to be invited again. You ruined all of my sponsorships I ever had forever. Whoops. Well, that sounds fun. And I honestly, not that I have any reason to go to any of those, but I am pretty jealous because that's just one of those things where it's like, I just would like to go see, you know? Like the Apple campus seems cool. The event seems super cool. The
It's like it's it I mean they have tons of people there, but it's pretty exclusive You get like a cool like swag bag and they give you like it's just all kinds of really cool stuff. That's very fun Very jealous. It's it's awesome like no joke. Whatever you think about the company It that if you were to work anywhere. I'd be like man. I could quit YouTube and work here This is fucking awesome. This would be amazing. You could be their bathroom guy I'll be the bathroom guy mark. We're having some issue in this bathroom It seems like all the toilets have been ripped out and replaced with Capri Sun dispensers Why do we get a PO for what's listed as six hundred bathroom iPhones? Working on something. It's you know, it dispersed computing. It's complicated. I'll let you guys know how it works out I don't go in the bathroom on the east wing for a while That's a doughnut. So how to don't go in the bathroom on the left don't How do you describe which way a doughnut is? I don't want it one through eight. It's like they have numbers sections one through eight and everything inside It is sub numbered. Yeah, whatever you do stay out of the jelly stay out of the jelly I could go for it. I'm at Perkins. I want it. Don't I want all this stuff is Perkins still in business Yeah, they still exist. I can't think of the closest one to where we live But I I know I've seen one pretty recently everyone out there go to a Perkins right now Let's go support Perkins to keep them around There's one in Fairfield. There's one in Instance and Addy it says since an addy I know that please great episode. I'm gonna go get some Perkins Well, you can even do your small talk mark how to couple right mark how to couple thing or did you do small talk? I haven't even I haven't even finished my small talk. I've got marks on even done shut up. Wait Oh, no, go please. Oh, no, man. How can I live up to it? I marks life is so fascinating. I want to hear about it I went to gear expo. Oh, sorry. Sini gear expo. I don't know why I call it gear expo Yeah, skinny gear. It's first skinny guys. It's like an a b and it's for you know cinema Equipment manufacturers. It's it was really cool. It was on the universal lot and I don't I guess they didn't anticipate anyone would be driving a truck into this Because I go into the parking garage and I get there and I see a bar that says six six and if I look up with the height of An F-150 lightening is it's probably just about six six six five It was there's no bump. Yeah, that's a really accurate and consistent six six so I get in there and my antenna goes And I'm me and Sam Sam is actually in the truck with me. He was on this journey So he get it. We're looking up at the sunroof watching this pillar pass with like a hair is a breath and I'm like Hope this road is perfectly smooth and doesn't bump us up at all because it was like That and then we get in there and no one stops us until we're already in and it's like Oh, whoa, I swear about to go to the rest of like I figured as much so I'm doing a 20 point like Powers and I drive out I get to the outside of just like hey, you have any parking for like big vehicles I'm just a big vehicle right here and they're like oh, no, no, sorry You'll have to go across the street and I'm like, okay, that's fine I I have to make a right out here and then make a you turn up ahead but I see another sign that's like sinny gear parking right here It's another parking right now. I'm like, oh fuck it. I'll risk it. I go over there. Hey, do you what's the clearance in there? And they're like oh nine feet. They lied to me. They said there was no big vehicle parking. Anyway, I parked that's my story nice nice That's it. I harassed the people at the GoPro booth. What else do you want to know if I'll say are we falling that our small talk is Guys, I got the park my truck. I got to park my truck and I found a place to park L.A. everyone I talked to the GoPro people. I showed them this and I said like, I'm 3D printed thing. I must be why they sent us one. Yeah, I said like let's send Bob something I'll use it responsibly. I filmed stuff while I'm just worst YouTuber in the world. I filmed stuff while I was there and I I import all my footage and all I have is this pointed at the ground while I'm having a stupid conversation a nine-second clip A six-second clip of me in the bus with here going into the camera. I'll send Sam the clip of that because it's not And then there's like out the bus window kind of horribly reflections thing. It's like I think I know why they don't send it because there's no way I could ever actually show what this thing could do. I was like footage for my first ever packs vlog I forgot to film anything when it was there. Well, thank god you had your GoPro. So synagogues. It was really good. Let's say so good. Please I ask why they built a parking garage that can't hold any vehicles. I mean, trucks are pretty tall. How tall do you think most vehicles are? Well, I feel like if you're going to build a parking garage, you'd want it to hold more than cars. My car is a full is a full-size SUV, but it's like six two or something like it's it's big, but most cars are under six six unless it's a truck. Yeah, the F-150 Lightning is particularly large. Like all the Honda CR-Vs in the world, all the minivans, all the all the big vehicles that just aren't trucks all fit in there pretty much. When you get a car way, you'll understand that it'll probably be. I mean, I barely have clearance in that garage. I feel like I'd want it to be taller. It's good you get to sit down and I don't know if he knows, Mark, you get to sit in cars. Car, you don't stand on top of a car. You sit down in it. So the height of the car. You got the spirit airline standing seats in your car for your your to it's like a segue car. I only know those limousines where you stand sitting out the middle popping champagne and screaming with your arms in the air. That's how I go around. He stands sitting out the middle. He really doesn't know cars. Well, you must be done now, Mark. You can't possibly have had other stuff happen. I parked my truck. I went to Apple. Man, people really shouldn't invite me to things. Come on, man. You're such a fun person with fun things. And you've got all that footage recorded we get to see. I yeah. You are going to have had such a full week. I'm glad it all panned up. I did. I did. I got footage while I was at Apple. I did. I got footage. I got some stuff. I was a gears. But it's I don't want to come across as incompetent because I were you in the secret room where they showed you the unreleased hardware. And can you tell us about it? You want to be a leaker? I I wasn't. Is that something that leaker's mark? Oh, every important person they invite there gets to go to that room. Yeah. Wait, hold on. They have a secret room. Well, anyway, what do you mean? They have that room? Oh, yes. I saw that room. I'm going to leak everything. They got everything in there. It's so cool. I wasn't in the special group. He's in the group called paid guided tour. I don't know why I just have this is extensive vision of you talking to the to the photo aesthetic person. And you pull your GoPro. And then you're just friendically like, I don't I never used that. I don't even know how that got in there. I look. I have a vision pro. I look. I have like, oh, yeah, how'd you like to lay a sub date? Oh, well, my dog burn it. So, uh, chick is addicted to it. No, that it's addictive. I mean, it's so fun. But, uh, I guess to meet Tom Cook. It said no relation. I don't know what that meant. But Tom was a real nice guy. I don't know if you're making fun of me or if you actually think his name is Tom. No, I was saying his name is I'm making fun both. Yes, both. It's funny. See, this is the thing. Wait, you shoot yourself in the foot when people don't know if you're making a joke or if you just actually can't remember a person's name. It's okay. I still find it funny. And no one matters more to me than me when it comes to humor. If I make me laugh, I'm happy. And that's the truth. So does Wade get to talk now or do you? Yeah, now my small dog is 38 minutes. I swear, I meant to, these stories should have taken only like five minutes at most. I don't know how it got drawn out this far. How long was the segment about him parking his truck? That was a quick one. I was such a quick anecdote. And then, you know, gear expose. I saw a lot of pull, man. I got to tell you, guys, I went to the mall yesterday because Molly had cracked her, not her screen on her phone, but the like screen protector had cracks. We went and got that replaced. And we got to the mall. It was actually pretty busy for like a Monday afternoon. So it took me like 30 seconds. I was driving up and down like, I kind of want to pull straight through, but all of everyone's kind of like zigzagged by finally find a place where I could pull through and I parked and then went into the mall and did stuff. I got parking stories too. I drive, I car have and do. I believe you more every time you say it like that. And then I had Habbachi for lunch. It was really good. What else have I done? I went to one of my mom's house. She has like a pool swim into her house. I went swimming-ish. I have to be careful with my legs. I wasn't going too crazy, but I got to get in water and move around and tried to statically toss football with my nephew without using my legs, which is harder than you'd think. If you try to sit on a float and throw a football, weird things happen sometimes with your momentum. It turns out. So I flipped myself off the back a few times, but it was good. I'm looking at calendar. What else did I do?
last week. I met up with Jesse, our friend Jesse. We went out and we had a. Oh, Jesse. We had dinner. I hadn't talked to him since. We went, we saw Iron Lung when it came out and I hadn't seen him since. So it was the first time we'd gotten to the other since Iron Lung. I guess we were celebrating since Iron Lung's out on YouTube. We're like, let's get together again. I hope more Iron Lung stuff happens so you could see Jesse ever again. I know. You gotta keep that alive. We got a blu-ray release, I guess, and then I don't know, man. I don't think there's anything else. It might be the last time. I gotta figure out something fancy to do. It's only manifest when Iron Lung is mentioned. Like a chant. You know, a demon you just go like, "Oh, Iron Lung, are you sort of fades into existence?" That's the way it's been this year. It's creepy because he doesn't talk. No, he just sits there and wearing his Iron Lung shirt smiling. It's really creepy. And he's got this weird expression on his face just like the whole time for the listeners. I made this face. That face sounds like this. That's actually pretty accurate, yeah. That's pretty good. They made the face that you make when you make that noise. Which is not the face that I make when I make that noise, just to be clear. For the viewers who got confused by what he just said. So I guess over over in Blue Ash, there was an airport at some point. I don't know when, but they converted it into like a bar grill slash of like big park area. So we went over there and we had dinner, which was pretty good, but it was a beautiful spot and like the old air traffic control towers like covered in like pretty lights and stuff. Now it's just a really beautiful spot. That was nice. It was nice getting out catching up with him for a few hours because we hadn't talked like I said in months. But getting out of the house kind of breaking the routine a little bit's been nice. Just trying different things to get out of the supernatural funk that's been this year so far. So pool water and air bar. I drink, so I don't drink very much. You guys remember the drunk minecraft days? I used to be like, "Oh, it's a double long island and all that shit." I had one cider at this bar with food and still I was like, "Molly, we might need to sit here for like two hours or else you're driving home." Oh my god, this thing's like 6% outcome. So I had one cider and it about knocked me out of my ass. So I'm definitely not a drinker. I'm very lightweight. I'm just getting out of the house breaking the routine a little bit. I don't do fancy things. There's no fancy stores or things I go to. So just a normal human behavior for me is a big deal. I played Diablo 2. Again, resurrected, the old 1999 game and learning how hard that game can be still compared to the newer ones kicks my ass. I feel like there was something else I wanted to add, but I god, I'm boring. I should have gone first. I'm so boring. No, come on man, you're not boring. Don't be like that. Remember how Mark parked his truck? That was the good stuff. I lunch with my mom and I poured alcohol on her on accident. That happened. Like pouring one out for your home news camera. No, we had lunch and she had like a Prosecco or something and the waiter dropped off a check and I was like, "I'll get it." And as I went to get the check, I just threw the Prosecco on her on accident. So it's kind of rude. Man, the highlights of my week. Yeah, Mark didn't even talk about the visa thing. It's not that interesting. It's sort of just crazy that that happened because of course it did. Anyway, we didn't get to talk about real good AI on that South by so we'll do a makeup stream at some point in the future. It'll be even better. Yeah, I guess I so I don't know what the event was originally supposed to be. Was it all a conference about real good AI or was it like a segment as a part of another show or like what was the it was South by Southwest London, right? So it was not the main one in Austin, but it was it's like a I don't even know South by Southwest is. There's like a music festival. There's like movie premieres and like, but they have like talks that are kind of in the vein of like Ted talk kind of, but not really Ted talky, but like the theme this year was like talks focused around AI and how AI is intersecting with stuff. So we were going to talk about what real good is doing. Gotcha. So the event probably still happened. They just didn't have Oh, yeah. No, like tons of shit. Michelle Obama was there. It was they did not notice that we did not get there. She has to visa like the rest of us. I don't know. Oh, no, no, no. Her thing was actually a day earlier than ours. So she probably traveled right before that whole thing happened. Michelle, let us know how you got it. I call you Michelle. Let's know how you got it. I did not condone him addressing you that way whatsoever. This is on behalf of Mark and Bob. They really want to know. No, don't listen to him. Listen, this is Obama. Got the whole minute. Couldn't bail bail salmon the emergency button. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sorry. You guys did get to go. Hopefully, how long was the visa thing down? Is it still down? It was literally for like 48 hours right when Mark needed it. I got my notification that my visa was approved like that evening. You guys missed your flight. Then it was like, all right, you can't make it. You could go. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. All right. Small talk done. All right, Bob. We did it in a timely manner. Yeah. We got lots of time. That's okay. That's okay. This game. This game can be as long or short as we want it to be. And by the way, it's, I don't know, I'm saying it's a game like it's not a game. Is it called long or short? Whoa. What if it was? And now be disappointed if it's not. This game is called long or short. I'm not disappointed. I feel like you're lying, but I'm happy about it. The new name of the game that just popped up into my head has nothing to do with the game and doesn't describe it in any meaningful way, but I'm going to go ahead and call it long or short anyway. My legs bleeding. Dude, I took rose bushes out yesterday with a chainsaw. It is as fun as it sounds, but holy fuck, the rose bushes fight back. God damn. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I met that age where I get like the cuts and bruises. I'm like, I remember getting this giant scrape. What happened to me? 73 years old. What do you mean by that? I know what happened. I'm not confused by I have a scab down there. No, I literally get like beat up, but I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know how this gap happens. So I'm in that same boat and I'm you guys need to be more careful. No worry, Bob, you're like two months away from our age. You'll know. We'll know in two months what we're talking about. I think you're the youngest of us, right? Let's say our age at the same time. One, two, three, 36. Oh, I thought we were doing. He's young. Got him. Is that bad now? All right, longer short. Also known as doing too much. I have a list of some things I want to talk about because Mandy brought this to my attention and I looked into it and I have a problem. Have you guys ever heard of Dr. Bronner's soap? I'm familiar with this product. It's a product. No, I'm not. It's pure canine. So what the hell is it called? Pure something. Castile. Castile. Yeah, I don't know what that word means, but pure castile soap. Dr. Bronner's on their own website lists this soap, which is just a liquid soap as having 18 or more uses and it starts off completely sane and rational because they're like, it's a face wash. It's a body wash. It could be shampoo. It could be used for shaving leather. It could be bath soap, which to me is not different from the body wash or any of that other shit, but like it's a list of, and then it starts going downhill because they're like, it could be toothpaste. What? It could be aftershave. You could use it to clear congestion from your sinuses. Also, it's a window cleaner and a toilet bowl cleaner. You can use it for mopping. You can use it to wash your fruit and vegetables. It's a plant and pest spray. Yes, it's a thing that if you spray it on plants or on the ground, it will keep insects away from those things. Who is doing all this shit? I am not using that as a toothpaste. Yeah, so say it kills things, but you could use this toothpaste. This product is doing too much shit, okay? That's too many things. It's too bold. I do think it's worth noting that specifically the one that grosses me out among the ones that gross me out as the toothpaste. It does specifically say like, you could use it as toothpaste. It just tastes like soap, so don't do that. Well, you could use it for toothpaste and like, why not? No, you couldn't then. You would use lots of stuff for toothpaste if you don't care that it tastes like an ass. That's not what toothpaste is. toothpaste has like a minty or a cinnamony flavor. It's supposed to be like, good. This product is doing too much. And I want to talk about products that are out here doing too much because I feel like we live in a time where technology is going too far. And every new product that comes out is like, well, what if it just does everything? What if it's an air fryer and deodorant? Can we make that combination happen? I was afraid you were bringing this up because you're going to say some of me doing too much for a certain company. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to take offense to that. Look, it worked out. You got me a GoPro. Is that not what you wanted to have happen? Because if it's not what you wanted to have happen that I guess it really didn't work out. That didn't let it was to distractable. So we have a GoPro. And we got exactly what Mark wanted. I thought that was going great. I was not going to make fun of you for that. I want you guys to come up with products and it could be like genres of products or could be specific things that are out here doing too much. I have another one on my list that I wanted to talk about because this is a different product that is listed and advertised by the company that makes it as having over 2000 uses. Holy shit. And I have some quibbles with the nature of the list that this company has put together. But the product, a WD40, which is if you've never used it, or seen a WD40, it's like a spritzy can thing of, I don't even know what technically it's called. It's not really a lubricant, technically, it's for like cleaning.
I've always heard of WD40 used in the context of like, "Oh, you can clean and glue greasy things with it, "clean it off and then you apply fresh," you know, whatever. But WD40 is advertised as having over 2,000 uses, but their list is just a bunch. It has more than that because the list is, it lubricates ash trays for easy sliding. It lubricates auto hood latches. It lubricates automatic seat belt tracks. It lubricates automatic side view mirror. It can lubricate everything in the known universe. It has an infinite number of uses. If that's the list of shit it can do. Isn't WD40 not even a lubricant? This is a common misconception. WD40 is not a lubricating agent. You should not rely on it as a lubricant. It is a solvent, I think, technically. It's great for cleaning things. It can be used as sort of like a penetrating oil or on rusty thing. It does a lot, but the one thing I would say it's definitively not as a lubricant for anything. - Okay, but let's rewind, it's a solvent. Okay, and whenever we were in math class back in the day, they'd hand you a like a word problem. What was the last time was like, please solve. You can't have solvent without solve. Therefore, it's a solution. Therefore, it's the answer. So WD40 is just the answer. - Well, he's definitely not gonna get to points for this game because it's about doing too much. (laughs) - Not defending it, dude. - Well, WD40 is not, you know what does too too much? You know what, here's a point. Frank's red hot. What'd you put that shit on? Oh, that's right. Everything got-- - Hey. - I will not tolerate the Frank's red hot slander. It does one thing, which is hot sauce. It hot sauces things. - That's not what it says. You listen to the logo. I put that shit on everything. - Your kid cry? Frank's red hot. Out of lube in the bedroom. Frank's red hot. Squeaky door. Frank's red hot. Out of windshield wiper fluid. Frank's red hot. - I put that shit on everything. - All right, you know, okay, all right. - You know what, you actually just convinced me of something and I swear to God, that might be the first time ever. I was starting to jump all over you. I was going to interrupt you to be like, you're wrong. And you directly addressed my exact concerns and convinced me that you are, in fact, correct. That was an excellent argument, Wade. - All it took was four years for me to get one right. - Every point in the past has been illegitimate. - I hear a tie. I've heard it confirmed here. - Hey, I don't give points because I agree. Okay, I get points out of obligation. - All right, I got an example of this. I never had this, but I had a different Bamboo Lab printer. The Bamboo Lab H2D, I think, is the name of it when it came out, was an example of doing too much. It tried, it brought forward this, everyone has said, 'cause like, oh, it'll have two nozzles. Well, you could do so much with two print nozzles. This will be great, you could put your sport film in. But then it was like, the H2D multi-nozzle AMS. Also, it's a laser cutter. You get laser cutters in there. And it's just like, everyone's like, "Huh, what?" Like, no one, we didn't ask for that. - I got a laser 10-1, 41, you know? You can get your lasers in here, it's like, I wanted a 3D printer. And it's like, it's not that the laser, laser. It's not that the laser cutter is a bad thing. We actually have a laser cutter, or Jason has a laser cutter and we laser cut things all the time. But it's a separate machine because when you laser cut things, there's a lot of fumes and things. 'Cause it's burning pretty much woods and metals and plastics and you kinda wanna make sure that's a filtered solution. - Well, don't you need special glasses too, or so? Like, lasers, you can't mess around with lasers. 3 printing, you need some stuff, but lasers, you need like, properly rated shit, or you will burn your eyes out, potentially, right? So they have different glass for the laser version of it to enclose it because there are these laser cutter enclosures and they usually have it. X-Tools is like the example of the laser cutter company manufacturer that makes the laser cutter that we have. And it's not that this is a bad idea to have it. It's just like, why? 'Cause they only had the other, well, they had that and then the smaller, cheaper version of it. But it's like, two nozzles would have been great. It would have been perfect if it just jumped one nozzle. Two nozzles. No, no, they're like, ah! But they were like, and also it can do laser. It's not a half to have a laser cutter, but it's also just like, feel like it's doing too much. - I did, I did always think I've just only recently actually got into 3D printing, but I've always been a fan. And I always felt like, I get why they think the overlap of people who are into 3D printing and people who would use a laser cutter is probably pretty substantial, right? 'Cause if you're making stuff, if you're a maker, you probably would like both of those tools if you could have them. But if you're a maker who cares enough to have either a 3D printer or a laser cutter in your like arsenal of stuff, you probably want pretty specific things, I guess I thought. And this gives the vibes of that thing. It's like I've made for TV product where it's like, it's laces, it dices, it feels, it juliennes, it's like, well, it does all of those things kind of shitty, doesn't it? Because it's not any one of those things that doesn't do all of them pretty half-assed compared to like what a dedicated laser cutter would be doing, or I don't know, it just seems, it also just feels dangerous. I, 3D printing, I have no fears about, and I know there's fumes and you have to be, you have to be kind of careful and think about. But laser, lasers is just a whole other level of like, I would not invite that into my house because I don't think I'm careful enough to use laser shit. Sure, it's all safe and enclosed, but that's a good pandering answer. 'Cause you know I love that shit, and you know I have ampute abs products. Big fan. Let's talk about the big one. Duck tape. Duck tape is used to build tools. Duck tape and dungeon crawler cars use to build bombs. Duck tape can fix your car. Duck tape can build your house. Duck tape can patch your wounds. Duck tape is the glue that holds the earth itself together. I'm convinced if another meteor hits we'll patch up the hole with duck tape. That's what we'll keep us all around because duck tape, is there a more important, like if you think about getting stuck on an island, is there an item other than like food or water that you could think that we have more use than duck tape? I'm trying not to let my personal feelings about duck tape get in the way here because I love duck tape. That's the same, but like it's got infinite uses. I think the thing here is, this might be the one and only product in existence where I think you're right, it's doing a lot, but I don't think you could say it's doing too much because I think it does everything good enough. - But that's where it's scary. - It does do too much because we rely on it. - It's good though. - It is, until it goes away. - The problem with all this stuff is why I wouldn't want to use it for toothpaste. That's gross. Every duck tape uses like, "Yeah, you can use duck tape for that." I would work, like you know, it might not be as good as what you're supposed to use, but that would work fine. Duck tape would work fine for our purposes. Duck tape always work. I can't think of a situation where I'm like, "Oh, well, I wouldn't want to use duck tape for that." - But we become too reliant on it. - No, but that's not a problem. - If duck tape ever goes away, where? - It won't. If we lose all of human history, duck tape will be one of the first things that we reinvent because that's how we'll invent every other thing. - Let's hope, but duck tape itself as the brand trademark C circle TM, we rely way too much. - Okay, well, if we're going to talk about brands, that gets really complicated. Are you talking about the brand of duck tape that is put out by like 3M or are you talking about the brand? - Oh, I'm talking about Mr. Duck himself. Duck tape, the brand whose mascot is a duck. This is, don't give me start on brands of duck. Don't even give me start on gorilla tape, which some might argue is a superior version of duck tape. - Are gorilla superior to ducks? I don't know, I think that that's a complicated issue. Duck tapes uses, I agree, are great, but I think it is useful for too much and we are too reliant on duck tape. Because if duck tape ever becomes like intelligent and leaves the planet and we have no more duck tape, then what are we going to do? - Mark, you're on bias. Does he get a point for that one? - Ah, man, I can see it both ways because yeah, it's because I bet the manufacturer is like, "Hey, this is for ducks." We made it's duck tape, but everyone in the world is like, "You can use it for repairing your boat. "What are proofing you can put up your walls?" Broken nose duck tape, annoying kid duck tape. - It's one of those things where it's like, "Is it really the fault of the manufacturer?" Or are they complicit? I think they're complicit. - I think they have adopted it. I think it's fair to say that clearly, they originally didn't, but they are obviously now. Duck tape probably has a thing on their website that's like, "It has 500 uses or more." Stick it, I stick that shit on everything. - Frank's duck tape? - Frank's red duck tape. - Don't put it on your skin. Don't put it on your skin, anything else, but don't fuck, don't put it on your, all right. I'm confused how exactly to spell it when I write it down. - PDUCAT, the P.S. silent. - Podoo, P.D. - Huh. (laughing) - Podoo, cuckoo. - All right, I got another one. It's a bit niche, but you know, minor are always gonna be tech based because of tech guy. So there's a camera out there. It's not a good, it's not talking about GoPro. I swear to fuck, you can't do it. There's something called a Ronin 4D, right? So the Ronin 4D is probably the textbook definition of doing too much. It, I have it. I have it because I was like, this seems like super cool. Oh man, it could be the future. It could be the, "Oh, this is the perfect camera." It definitely is an example of doing,
too much. It's not only a cinema camera, it's a built-in gimbal with a Z-axis LiDAR with like hand grips from focus wheels and it can auto focus with the LiDAR and it can have all this transmission out and it seems like it seems like on on its surfaces. Wow, this is really great. But the more and more, I have gone down this cinema road. I have realized that there is a prohibitive nature to grabbing that camera when all I need is a shot. For most of film production or at least stuff that I do, the shots that I sometimes prefer are just on a tripod. It's bold that I just enter the movie sphere and I'm like I get to have opinions here but I feel like I do a little bit is like I feel like not every shot needs motion, not every shot needs to push in. I really like the POV where something is bolted onto a car, right? Where it's fixed, stuck there, not moving. It even gets a little shake from the car too. I don't need a perfectly smooth yachty out all the time. There are times when you need it. There are times when you definitely need it and the camera is like it shoots good. I haven't really shot and used that much from it because again, it's like really hard to get all set up and all the bells and whistles working and I often find myself just not using it because of that. But it's useful. There's a need for it but it's just doing too much. It's trying to do all the things and it's super limiting in the number of lenses that you can use on it because it has to be light enough to fit on there so it's doing all this stuff and you still can't really use it. It has interchangeable lenses but for people who don't have pictures in front of you or listeners, this is basically a camera, imagine a camera as like, I don't know, like this, right? But bigger, a cinema camera is kind of like this GoPro is bigger but the lens is a thing you can interchange on most nice cameras. But this camera would be like if this GoPro thing existed but then the lens was like up here and so there's like the main body of the camera but then the lens is maybe like a quarter of the size of the main camera body but it's like because it's gimbal. But so you can having an interchangeable lens on that would basically be like constantly, well every time you change it, you change the counterbalance of the thing that balancing gimbals is such a huge fucking pain in the ass when you're using gimbled stuff. I assumed it was like a fixed lens like a very. They have their own lenses but they only have like five and it's like it can auto calibrate to what it is but it's like I wouldn't want to use those lenses anyway because they're kind of on the cheaper side and the layer side and yes with gimbals you have to rebalance but these motors aren't strong enough to take the big lenses so it's like you would need a stronger gimbal any way to do a lot of this stuff. I feel like you're doing as much setup but with the limitations and yes for certain people this is like oh it's great like for them but also it is doing too much. That is a very niche but very interesting one I like that well and when I didn't realize this was a camera isn't Ronan also in line of DJI gimbals in general. Yes it's just like a idea they make us it's I don't know if it's a set or or whatever like a series of products but it's a different thing right. Yes so they have their Ronan series of gimbals this is the Ronan cinema camera they have the RS series which is the smaller form factor but they've kind of scaled it up but also they have the cinema standard is the Ronan 2 is like for most productions they're like the Ronan 2 is the stabilizer to use for smaller productions or whatever but they have an updated that in like 10 years they don't there's no Ronan 3 there's an RS 5 now I think but I don't know it's it's a whole thing it's like you know that particular camera and I can say this because I have it and I'm like I find myself I'm probably going to sell it because this is like I do not use it enough to justify it. Wait give me something weird spray bottles. Expound yeah I made this expression listener so you have a bottle you put liquid in it right you spray spray water water your plants you spray poison you can kill plants you put in good smell like sprays good smelling sprays make your house smell good you put in I don't know acid sprays on the melt them it sounds crazy but you could you know what's crazy about the spray bottle is liquid as long as it doesn't melt the bottle goes in it what's in the bottle hope it's labeled oh you're reusing it afterward guess it's not labeled now hope I remember five years from now what I put in there for the niche use that it had so spray bottles they can be used for too much because there's too many variances of what liquids could be is it acidic is it bass is it somewhere in between does it smell good does it smell bad does it keep things alive does it kill things I don't know really hope me with my really shit memory remembers what I was using this particular spray bottle for how thoroughly do I have to clean the bottle if I want to go from poison to live I think maybe just don't go that direction yeah I think maybe you just you just have one that's like that's the poison one maybe that's I see you're relying on someone with a good memory or the labels and again if you can reuse spray bottles then the labels don't mean anything because you can empty it out and then you just have an empty bottle empty quote unquote but sides all the murderous residue that lies inside waiting for the right moment to escape when you xx can I counterpoint this because I think like I you know I've kind of been on your side for the other ones I might I might say I have a better spray based thing that is actually doing too much garden hose sprays why they got all those other dial settings that I don't use because the spray bottle I mean it's got two it's well at three maybe it's got on narrow and wide and I'm like that I could see uses for all of and off and it's got I could see uses for all those well some of them have like the array of like little bigger as you go well that's that's what I like the garden hose spray has like I only use two the lot of liquid or the far liquid or the wide liquid that's all I need I need to I need to go this I need to go all the way over there or I need to garden hose I have thumb or no thumb man man's never own to sprayer the garden hose sprayer some of the deluxe version of like 40 settings and I got to click all the way through all of them meanwhile my petunias are getting doused by every form of water there is and but before I get to the one I need because the the the one I need is only opposite dial of the other one but see you have to hit some like plants with the real light spray but some of the trees that really just want to know if they can take it you have to hit with the harder spray so it makes sense that's what I'm saying those are the only ones I need I need I need missed the harder miss shower laser laser laser and then open the damn gates flood you know that's the four I need maybe there's one more but there's way too many dial setting don't forget the fire hose that's that's what I mean the the the goosher it does feel like someone was given that assignment and the guy whoever assigned it was like give me eight sprays and they were like well aren't they really like three pops like maybe four and the and his boss was like eight sprays tomorrow on my desk and the guy was like okay well you got the ones everyone knows and then what if there was cone but see this is tangential that because like the direction and shape of the spray versus what you're actually spraying are related but they're two different things yeah I guess I was jumping on marks because I I'm having a hard time with the spray bottle argument I feel like especially if you're talking about using up something that came in a spray bottle you use the bottle of Windex the Windex is gone and then you keep that and you're like well I put poison in this Windex bottle how am I supposed to room maybe you're not a person who's supposed to be multipurposing these things maybe once the Windex has gone wage should throw away the spray bottle I feel like this isn't about the personal use this is about the product and the product allows reuse at some point it's on you to know your limitations it's not the spray bottles fought the spray bottle is not trying to be everything does the bottle say get rid of after emptying I don't think it says that on there probably are you kidding me most I'm almost every product says please discard if damaged or when done using or whatever right because like for liability I'm sure not in the title it just says Windex oh so if you didn't read it it doesn't say it I forgot about that okay like the thing about spray bottles is they can do a lot but also that's that's on you they not Windex is not like and when you're done fill it with hyaluronic acid and use it to spray your skincare arrangement on your what about the non-label of bottles you buy that are just empty bottles you rip you rip off the bottles of them or they come empty well they sell they sell I own some of those they sell unlabeled bottles those are usually for a purpose you know what my unlabeled bottles are for I have one that I mix my like floor cleaning solution into because I have a big jug of floor cleaner that you're supposed to mix into a smaller thing and I have one that I mix dish soap into because dish soap is really inconvenient to use unless it's diluted with water and then you could spray it on the counter and clean whatever but I don't have like 30 spray bottles with rant I don't go to the cabinet be like let's pick a mystery spray and spray it on some stuff let's see what happens what about the spray bottle that is actually a nozzle you hook up to a hose in order to spray the water and the product at the same time combining the two things that Mark and I are talking about no I get I'm now on Wade's side if you can also entertain another in this in okay keep expounding yes yes I think electrical sockets are doing too much you can plug anything into it I can plug uh uh uh
Hedge trimmer, a toaster, a kilomatic 9000. I would be a fork, I could be a fork, I could plug it right in, it's doing too much. I agree, Wade, there's nothing on the plug that says don't plug in the nuclear explosion right into there, you know, the overload, the nuclear reactor nearby plug that I have. Don't ask me where I got it, but you know, that's not doing too much, very specific use for that. And then I plug it in and I'm dead and everyone's dead, you know, and don't even get me started on the fact that you go over to Europe and it's a different shaped outlet that does the same thing. - Who do they think this is? - And then you've got the adapters, like, oh, I've got to plug it in my Australia plug, my Germany plug, my US plug, my Antarctica plug. - You're winning me over, you're winning me over if we can entertain one more, you know what else it is doing these exact same kind of way too much. - Yeah, yeah, vehicles. - You can take vehicles anywhere in the known universe, excuse me, you could drive a car on the road, sure, on your driveway, in your garage, on the bottom of the ocean, what? - Roops in the battle, oversized load on the highway, carry an actual another vehicle, carry 10 other vehicles, some people sleeping 'em, can you imagine, me, me, honk me, me, me in a car? - Cars think that their house is now. - Hold all those dirty ass soccer kids are covered in mud? You know, who else is doing too much? The James Webb Telescope. It thinks it can look at anything in the universe, it can point anywhere. - Well, man, it's just looking. - It's not even just one light spectrum, it's multiple light spectrums. I think when you come to infinite, you are definitely doing too much, you know? You know what I'm saying? - You know what else? The human body does way too much. Reproduces, it eats, it poops, it pisses, it vomits, makes ear wax, it spits. The appendix, like, can we talk about that? What the fuck? - Yeah, I know, right. - What are you doing? What are you doing there? It just dies, that's all it does. You know what else is doing too much? Electrons. Those little bastards are everywhere. They're in pretty much everything. Like, I think, almost everything. Every element on the table, you're like, "Oh, they got different numbers, all electric." It's electrons, all the way through. It's doing all of it. It's trying to be everything. Not, they don't even know where it is. - It's an orbital. It blows, it gets excited, I don't wanna know about that. - Swiss Army knife, one, thought you were neutral. Why do you have an army? So, you're a bottle opener, you're a line opener, you're whittling, you're cutting, you're stabbing, you're twisting, you're pulling, you're a bobbit of murder for a country that's like, we love peace or whatever, and cheese, I don't know what you're doing over there, Swiss. - I'm so glad you brought it up. Bop it, not the three version, the five version. - The five version, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Ridiculous. - It was already hard enough. You had infinite difficulty escalation with speed going up on the original bobbit, you do not need five. I don't need to twist it. I definitely don't need to flick it. - Big enough twisted, I'm glad you brought that up. Condoms, are condoms there to stop pregnancy? Are they ribbed for her pleasure? Are they juiced for your pleasure? Are they liquefied for don't feel it? Are they extra solid for like, main of one? Tell me about these condoms. - Now bringing you distractible condoms, everyone did not feel it. Liquid, it's such a bottle. Comes in a spray bottle 'cause they can do anything. - Spray on condom. Why don't we just use duct tape? - Ah, the unremovable condom, I like that. No mistakes here. - Everyone to feel like you're a fucking, fucking an air duct. Get the distractible band condoms. - And it's okay, you could just poke a hole so you could pee. Wait, okay, when you're having sex and you're like, I gotta go to the bathroom. - Just use your Swiss army knife, penis hole poker. I just hit it with the old, it's the round curly one. That's the one you want. - Penises do do too much. You got your bladder evacuation and reproduction nonsense. - And speaking of the little curly, talk about ducks. Those things are terrifying. - All right, man. Well, no, everyone knows about duck penises. You don't know about duck penises, Mark? - I know, I know, I just don't know. - Why do you know about that? - We covered everything, we covered everything. - That's everything, man. - Yeah, I think that was guided. And know if we were gonna be able to get through all of it, but I think we pretty much covered everything that is doing too much. Don't do anything with this information. Keep using whatever products you normally use. It's fine. Now that we've solved that problem that everyone in the world was so concerned about, let's see who got points for what. I don't know what some of these things mean. Wait, in no particular order, you got points for not caring about James. - Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. It won't be invited back, which I think you said to Mark, which made him sad. Apple jam jokes, very funny. Not having a car still. - Is this this episode? I don't remember it yet. - Yeah, yeah. - This is a fun day. - Iron lung Jesse, getting cider drunk off of one cider. Frank's Red Hot, duck tape, spray bottles, James Webb Telescope, human bodies, boppet of murder. For a total of 11 points for Wade. - Mark, when did I not care about James? I don't remember that. I was so long ago, I don't remember, but it was in small talk. - I don't remember either, yeah. - Mark, you earned points for commanding Sam in a firm but respectful way. Big sad about GoPro for no apparent reason. You can't remember what that was about. Lying about your trip to Apple being wonderful so that you could stay friends with Tim Apple. Showing your cool picture from Reddit to Tim Apple. Making me jealous because of the Apple stuff. You, we didn't talk about this, but I gave you a point because I thought it was impressive. Your car was six foot six. You were too tall to go somewhere, Mark. That must have felt pretty good. - It felt awkward, actually. - You got a point for being a bad YouTuber. You got a point for pointing out that the Bamboo Lab H2D was doing too much. Ronan 4D, Electrons, and the Boppet Extreme, which somehow the Boppet of Murder came up first about the Swiss Army knife, and that led to marketing a point for the Boppet Extreme. But anyway, in a real shocker, Mark, you earned a total of 12 points. It's not at all because I was jealous that you got to do some really cool stuff this week. It's because you earned it, Mark. - I think that the flaw of having a lot of things happen in life is that Wade can earn points on small talk too. So if I don't come in with confident small talk, then if anyone makes a joke about it, I think that's an opportunity for points. So I'm strategizing for the future. - It's good to do that out loud in front of your opponents. - He'll forget, don't worry. - You're right. - Let's see how many spins we're going to spin. - Man, the bar in the wheel, man, my horrible street continues. All right, there's a chance. - Two, two is a good number for today. - One goes to Bob, one goes to me, and we have a tie. - I am adding to this wheel. - Oh, I didn't really come up with this. I will say, I had my notes like the person who did too much this episode, but that feels like one of those ones where every time it comes up, we're gonna be like, I don't really know if anyone did too much this time. I don't know if that counts. And I wanted to be one that actually hits. So just to make the small talk a little bit more meaningful on the points, point for whoever had the most small talk, just has to be voluminous. Most small, wait, that's confusing, small talk. There you go. - Most small. - Hello. So Mark is winning 12 to 11. We have two spins. - All right, tied it up right here. - Waboom. - Lie points, absolute. - All right, that's still good for me. - That's still good for me. - So that counts as a spin, and nobody had any lie points, yeah? - Yep. - All right, all right, all right. - Tie it up right here, all right. - Let's not. Don't do that. - Woohoo! - It's bald. - My ass, my ass, my ass. (laughing) - My ass! - That's why I always pay attention to what's coming up, my ass. - He still hasn't said it, so I feel like it has to go to Mark. My reading comprehension, the lie on the top was cut off, and I was like, "Sav, my ass, what is that making?" - Oh, save, I'll save your ass. - I was like, "Sav, my ass, what, oh, say." - Mark going, "My ass, my ass, my ass, my ass, my ass." Didn't give you any hints. - Well, it did, but but it was too late, so I just accepted the L button. I'm just trying to figure out why my brain thought the first lie was a V, and the second one was a lie, when they looked exactly the same. - I'll say look at my ass, just in case I was part of the rule, I don't think it was, but to say, if some obscure readitor out there is like, "It was supposed to be about, say, look at my ass." - You know what the thing about that is, Mark, is we don't give a shit. - Right, that's true. - Before we get into the loser speeches and wrap up the episode, did you guys wanna take a look at the bounty board or anything? Did anyone have a bounty, did they wanna cash in? Any bounty actions today? - We have one of those, no, we have a bounty board. - It's on the, oh, it's on the Reddit you don't go on, so I guess that's-- - Oh, okay, I'll take a look at that. Yeah, I've got so many to turn it. I'm gonna save them though. I honestly, I have plans already to execute on a few of these, but I don't have one today. I'm the host, so kind of a waste anyway, but I'm excited by the bounty board. Keep putting stuff out there. Check out the threat on the subreddit, because I probably have some. - Also, no one has taken the initiative. If you want us to spend the budget, a $600 a month allocation, we're gonna need to see some democracy in the subreddit, okay? I would like to see a discussion thread. I would like to see some proposals set forth. I would like to see maybe some votes taken. I don't know, we're not just gonna, we're not just gonna willy-nilly do stuff though. I don't need to see some consensus building, all right? I want to see some allies out there making stuff happen, 'cause I do want to do that. It's not just on us. Okay, this is our show, Comrades. - Yes. - All that stuff I said, I think we should build that in.
As like every episode we should do a little check in on the bounty stuff just to see also That's the point where if someone was going to cash in a bounty and steal the episode that feels like the moment where it's like Five points for me and then you or whatever. We decided last time it was like one point or two points, right? Yeah, I can't remember where the cutoff was no bounty stuff today tonight today Wait bluser speech. I want to throw out I think we forgot to do speeches last episode But I think that's because we were just having we were having a real talky episode. So it was it's fine people were mentioning that on the subway It's fine. I think it's fine acknowledging that it happened, but like I think we're all cool with that over here So therefore you're cool with it. You know, it's been it's been nice getting outside It was nice having the last episode where we got to open up a bit. It was nice hearing about marks crazy life again In some ways I'm like, oh man, I'm jealous. I love to do all that stuff at the same time I'm like, you know just getting outside and like going to the pool being I don't know just this simple things I'm getting some enjoyment out of trying to just break the monotony of being here at the computer all the time So honestly it might be a loss of an episode But it's been a win of a week and hopefully that continues and things are all on the ups for everybody Just you know my loser speech just pushing the good vibes and we all have some good vibes Thanks loser mark winter speech well Well, well, well. This is completely unexpected Who would have thought that me would rain victory over there with my interesting interesting life with all the things that I'm doing with The special groups that I'm part of when I go to these special events that is actually very special And just because I wasn't with all the other youtubers doesn't mean that I'm not special it makes me more special I think because I've ascended beyond being just a youtuber I am now filmmaker and so I'm on another level entirely in this victory solidifies all of that I will use my Judicial ability abilities to change the word abilities to abilities first second to Make sure that my titles are respected and I will have a Harold using the Funds appropriated by our Congress to buy me a Harold to announce my arrival in every action like much like a king Not saying I'm okay, but you know you just buy people named Harold. Yeah, it's my speech. I'm not done. Excuse you Sam please expunge him from the universe Sam you're spunging me All right, okay, so I'm done. He's ascended beyond youtuber. He's now super tuber now. He's a me tuber Congratulations, Spark. He will be the host of the next episode Everyone make sure you follow all of us, but possibly most importantly the show on like platforms and stuff Marcus Markiplier wait as Lord Minion 777 I am my skirm the show is distractable We have a YouTube channel. We're on all your podcast platforms is to subscribe Hit the plus whatever follow the show. Make sure you check out the merch. It's tractable shop.shop store Distractable shop.shop store comma Distractable dot store. No, it's shop. I was wrong. Fuck If you want to get merch you have to really move really quickly because it comes and goes fast Thank you ever one for buying all the merch. Thank you for listening to this episode. Mark is gonna host the next one So make sure you come back for that anyway. We're out here. See you on the next one podcast out (upbeat music)
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The podcast features improvised, chaotic storytelling centered on absurd and exaggerated personal experiences.
Host Bob and guests Mark and Wade share bizarre anecdotes about travel disruptions, Apple visits, and bathroom-related tech experiments.
A GoPro camera is humorously promoted as a gift from a sponsor, leading to playful debates about product overreach and usability.
Mark recounts a visit to Apple where he discusses niche uses of tech, such as stacking coffee creamers for thermal efficiency, impressing staff with unconventional ideas.
The group critiques products that "do too much," including WD40, Dr. Bronner’s soap, and the Ronin 4D camera, arguing they overcomplicate simple functions.
Duck tape is celebrated for its versatility but criticized for creating overreliance, especially in emergency scenarios.
The episode highlights absurd humor through surreal product uses, like Frank’s Red Hot being applied to everything from cars to windshields.
A recurring theme is the tension between technological advancement and practicality, with hosts questioning whether innovation leads to useful or overwhelming solutions.
Summary:
The episode of Distractable blends absurd humor with improvised storytelling, where hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share wildly exaggerated and often ridiculous personal experiences. Mark recounts a trip to Apple, where he impresses staff with creative ideas like stacking coffee creamers for thermal efficiency, while also poking fun at Apple’s design and culture. The narrative pivots to a central theme: "doing too much" in product design.
Guests critique over-engineered products like WD40 (advertised with over 2,000 uses), Dr. Bronner’s soap (used for everything from toothpaste to plant care), and the Ronin 4D camera (a complex cinema device that’s overkill for most users). Duck tape is both lauded for its versatility and criticized for creating dangerous overreliance.
The humor is amplified by surreal product misuse—like Frank’s Red Hot being applied to cars, windshields, and even bedrooms. The episode ultimately questions whether technological innovation often outpaces practical need, resulting in tools that are more complicated than necessary. Through chaotic, over-the-top anecdotes and deadpan product critiques, the show delivers a satirical reflection on how modern products try to solve every problem, often failing to deliver real value.
The tone remains playful and self-deprecating, celebrating the absurdity of everyday life and the strange things we invent to manage it.
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The main theme is improvisational humor and absurdity, where hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share exaggerated, surreal, and often ridiculous stories about their lives and experiences.
GoPro sent a camera to Distractable with a handwritten note, thanking them for being fans. Mark received it as a surprise, though he wasn’t sure if it was specifically for him or shared among all hosts.
Mark attended Apple's event, met Tim Cook, and shared stories about his bathroom setup, including stacking Mac Studios and using coffee creamers as a thermal solution.
It refers to products or technologies that claim or have an overwhelming number of uses, often crossing into impractical or absurd applications, like using duck tape for everything or WD40 for 2000+ tasks.
Wade argues that Frank's Red Hot is overused in absurd situations—like fixing a squeaky door or windshield wiper fluid—showing how it's applied in ways far beyond its original purpose as a hot sauce.
The Ronin 4D is criticized for being overly complex and feature-heavy, with a gimbal and LiDAR that make it difficult to use for simple shots, leading to overcomplication for basic filmmaking needs.
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