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Doing Too Much

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Doing Too Much

The podcast episode blends personal anecdotes with satirical commentary on over-engineered consumer products. Hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share a chaotic week filled with travel mishaps, including visa disruptions and a surprise GoPro gift from a sponsor. Central to the discussion is the idea that modern products—like WD40, Dr. Bronner’s soap, Duck Tape, and the Ronin 4D camera—advertise an overwhelming number of uses, often exceeding practical need. The hosts argue that such products reflect a broader trend of technological overreach, where devices attempt to do too much and fail to deliver reliable, focused functionality. The Ronin 4D camera is highlighted as a prime example: packed with features like a gimbal, lidar, and auto-focus, it's complex and restrictive, especially for simple shots. Humor arises from absurd product applications, such as using Frank’s Red Hot on wounds or spray bottles for everything from watering plants to melting people. Ultimately, the episode critiques the culture of over-promising in product design, urging listeners to question whether convenience justifies complexity. The tone remains lighthearted, using exaggerated stories and jokes to underscore a meaningful point about consumerism and innovation.

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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. Like a plier up top, mole rat below. Why did I introduce this podcast that way? 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. Edison. Anyway, if you've ever 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 pour our hearts out last time, so I'm sure we'll get to the, the game today. It 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 joined, as always, by my two competitors, slash co-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. 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, yeah, no, I didn't, I didn't go, didn't end up going to England. Was supposed to go to England? Didn't happen. Crazy. Either one of you made it to England. No, no one 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 was 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 don't care. You were 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, 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, I got a lot of small talk to talk about. 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, horrifying things happening. Mine was pretty on par with normal. No. 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 said 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, they were, 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, 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. We're going to do a sponsorship for this." 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." Billy, they think they're funny. Did 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 they? I have one. I have actually multiple because I've bought multiple of them. If we didn't, if we didn't get one, I'm happier. I didn't get one. You'd be happier. I didn't realize I was so important, I didn't realize I was the figurehead of the 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 were like, "Oh, Mark's big Cincinnati guy. He must be the Cincinnati address." We all live in the same house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it's a. Teen 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 have been. They definitely don't have Mark's address from the purchase he actually made through them to get one. So, yeah, odds are. I'm not even. 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 Chachy PT, like, where does Bob live and. Where does Distractable live and your address came up? I mean, yours isn't the mail. I mean, this came almost a week ago, but. I think. 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 trains. 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, uh, Fisher Price train set." That's a trio train. It's a trio train with custom 3D printed accessories. Okay. Calm down. I'm just. I'm just going to see if there's a Distractable, uh, code that works on the 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 own. Well, it's old, but I do have a Sony A7. Uh, R2. So that's probably. But that's not fair, because this is like 1/10th 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 your voice corrector in that, are you okay? Just y'all to fuck up. To an anti-pitch, now. Maybe shit. I. I actually. Okay, I was at Apple, um, for the event, uh, and I felt afraid to pull this out of my pocket, because, you know, them and their phones, they're 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, uh, small talk portion of this, but I was talking to the. You're going to get another MS Paint saga. No, it was the lead photo esthetician. Esthetician? Esthetic person, the lead photo. Oh. The person who's in charge of defining the esthetics of photos, uh, and so I, I was talking to the belly. It was like, oh, yeah, what do you use? It was like, oh, in the movie, you know, we use reds for my main YouTube. We got, like, an A7S3, uh, and I have an icon, ZR, and then I have a GoPro, and they're like, whoo, 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. I use it. I use it. But they all have to say, like, the iPhone, 17 Pro Mac. I, I legitimately had a great time at the Avel Trip, and they didn't mean to do it, but I was like, yeah, I use my phone, and I pulled this out, and then I pulled out this monstrosity next to it. And I was like, yeah, and then I got this and my other pocket, and I was like, what is that? I was like, oh, I 3D printed this, this, uh, this. Little macro thing is 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 Hey, look episodes of an episode of this podcast was filmed on iPhones Phone Mark's 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 the subreddit Home lab 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 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 as opposed I was wept as it's like Oh my god, I just put it in a bathroom. I met John Ternas. I I shook hands with him I showed him the picture of it, and he went wow Wow cool cool cool cool cool marks 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 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 is 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 gonna say like it was such a wonderful experience Which it was I'm not saying I wasn't gonna say oh fuck oh god I was gonna lie say was a great time. It was such a wonderful experience I the the entire architecture of the the Apple one campus is mind blowing it looks fake like 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 every single inch of it has like this polish to it and 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 buildings actually legitimately incredible And I said to them like oh I get it like it's you want your employees to be inspired 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 used to to to make jam for their own cafeterias and it's like is it all Apple jam then 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 in a bad light my trip was wonderful and I missing employees was a little concerning of people that Wandered in 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. I was a couple like I don't know if you were in like a separate thing But it's never when they're filming with like their big their camera cameras. It's not like every all because like MKB HD goes and stuff and they had he has some yes fucking 8k cinema thing. It's a really big iPhone It's just an iPhone with like so many attachments is like Yeah, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 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 call did you call the guy who got you hooked up and be like ah yeah, I almost went to the main part I was somewhere else. He's like Take any pictures. No, you wouldn't get your camera. Oh, okay God, I glad we called that favorite. I saw I was in this special group Good time. They showed you the missing person area. They showed you their phone He 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 Reddit post is so good though like I found that organically. I mean I'm can 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 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 that? Yeah 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 a like Lucasfilm Who does a lot of the 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 is like, you know, I mean he uses all of the software's But he also knows Houdini is easy 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 max 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 used max studio location my bathroom So there's is not poopy Bathroom pickup only I will be on toilet when you arrive don't look Here's a photo of the max studios. There's just a 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 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 knee shoes case and they really like to hear about knee shoes cases And so I didn't mention glob results at all. That was probably good. I mentioned how I stacked him 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 Lid to lid did I would kill for Perkins right now lid to bottom bottom to lid like that And I told him like if you put a thermal sheet in between him 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 in 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 ha take that everyone at home lab I went apple I have an apple shirt I met the owner of apple and I told him how I used to stick No, that is not I've only looked at a picture on my phone and said wow There's a misrepresentation of my story Just the whole time it's feral feral mid-episode of distractible mark wandering around be like you know coffee creepers, right? You seem coffee creepers You can stack them. I thought laptops are like coffee creepers. Don't even allow them You just get the Capri's son and 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 use used Capri's son packets in between them that would have been even funnier like a stack one Drink a Capri's son put it down stack one other you wait till you smash it in the middle and you You really can't get it out of there I don't drink through the straw. I slam it between two max studios and Open my mouth So I said the bathroom you stack them in the tub and then you just And the tub collects the Capri's sons and then you have like a whole tub of Capri's sons This is endgame market player behavior is just like I don't know what to do with all my movie money Let me just slamming 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 like don't let market player. Oh, and this company Why would he say that because it's the last thing you think so obviously that picture your takeaways at Tim Cook hates mark now and is dying soon The hell, that's a rumor I guess we could start. - Don't, I'm never gonna be invited again. You ruined all of my sponsorships ever and 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 'cause 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, 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 awesome, like no joke. Whatever you think about the company is 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, so you just keep building servers in their bathrooms. - I don't know what you're being like. You guys aren't doing it right. - Why do we get a PO for what's listed as 600 bathroom iPhones? Oh, I'm working on something. I, it's, you know, dispersed computing, it's complicated. I'll let you guys know how it works out. Don't go in the bathroom on the East Wing for a while. Well, 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? - One through eight, it's like they have numbers, sections one through eight and everything inside. It is subnumbered, yeah. - Whatever you do, stay out of the jelly. Stay out of the jelly. - I could go for it. I want Perkins, I want a doughnut, 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 know I've seen one pretty recently. - Everyone out there, go to a Perkins right now. Let's go support Perkins and keep them around. There's one in Fairfield. There's one in Cincinnati, it says. - Cincinnati, I know that, please. - Great episode, I'm gonna go get some Perkins. - Well, you can even do your small talk. Mark had a couple thing, or did you do a small talk? - I haven't even finished my small talk, I've got, Mark's not even done, shut up, wait. - I'm sorry, man. - Oh no, go, please. - Oh no, man, how can I live up to it? - Mark's life is so fascinating, I want to hear about it. - I went to Gear Expo. - Oh, sorry, Sinny Gear Expo. I don't know why I call it Gear Expo. - Sinny Gear Expo. - Yeah, Skinny Gear, first skinny guys. - It's like a NAB, and it's for cinema equipment manufacturers. It was really cool, it was on the universal lot, and 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 6-6. And if I look up what the height of an F-150 Lightning is, it's probably just about 6-6. - 6-5, so there's no bump. - Yeah, that's a really accurate and consistent 6-6. - So I get in there, and my antenna goes, "Between you, were you ring off of the bar?" And me and Sam, Sam is actually in the truck with me. He was on this journey, so he could attend. We're looking up at the sunroof, watching this pillar pass within like a hair's breadth. And I'm like, "Hope this road is perfectly smooth "and doesn't bump us up at all." 'Cause it was like that, and then we get in there, and no one stops us until we're already in. And he's like, "Oh, whoa!" I said, "We're about to go through this," and I'm like, "I figured you're just much, "so I'm doing a 20-point Austin-Power's turn." (laughing) And I drive out, I get to the outside, and I'm just like, "Hey, you have any parking "for like big vehicles?" I'm just like, "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 have to make a ride out here "and then make a U turn up ahead." But I see another sign that's like, "Sinny gear parking right here." And it's another parking right there, and I'm like, "Oh, fuck it, I'll risk it." I go over there, "Hey, what's the clearance in there?" And they're like, "Oh, nine feet." "Hmm, they lied to me." They said there was no big vehicle parking. Anyway, I've parked. That's my story. - Nice, nice. - That's it. - I harass the people of the GoPro booth. What else do you want to know if I'll say? How far have we followed that our small talk is? Guys, I got to park my truck. - I got to park my truck. - And I found a place to park. LA, everyone. - Sure. - I talked to the GoPro people. I showed them this, and they were like, "Oh, three different things." - I must be why they sent us one. - Yeah, so like, let's send Bob something. They'll use it responsibly. - I filmed stuff while I was at the worst YouTuber of the world. I filmed stuff while I was there. And 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 (laughs) into the camera. I'll send Sam the clip of that because it's not exactly what I got. 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 'cause there's no way I could ever actually show what this thing could do. - I was like, footage for my first ever Pax vlog. (laughs) - I forgot to film anything while I was there. - Oh, thank God, you had your GoPro. - So, synagogues, it was really good. Let's see, so good, please, please, please. (laughs) - Can 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 gonna build a parking garage, you'd want it to hold more than cars. - My car is a full size SUV, but it's like 6'2" or something, like it's big, but most cars are under 6'6", 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 big vehicles that just aren't trucks, all fit in there pretty much. - When you get a car, where 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 when your car, 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 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 out. - I did, I did. I got footage while I was at Apple, I did. I got footage, I got some stuff all as a gear, but I don't wanna come across as incompetent, 'cause then. - Were you in the secret room where they showed you the unrelaced hardware? And can you tell us about it? You wanna be a leaker? - I, I wasn't. Is that something that leaker's marked? - Oh, every important person they invite there gets to go to that room, yeah. - Wait, hold on, they have a secret room. Where are they? Wait, what do you mean? They have that room? Oh, yes, I saw that room. Oh, I'm gonna leak everything. It was, oh, they got, they got everything in there. It's so cool. I was in the special group. (laughing) - He's in the special group. - He's in the group called Paid Guided Tour. - I don't know why I just have, this is an extensive vision of you talking to the, to the photo aesthetic person and you pull your GoPro and then you're just frantically like, no, I, I never used that. I don't even know how that got in there. I had to look, I have a vision pro. I look, let's have a, I have like, oh yeah, how'd you like to lay a sub date? - Oh, well, (laughing) my dog barnet. So, chicken's a dick to do it. - No, that is addictive. I mean, it's so fun. (laughing) But, hey, I got to meet Tom Cook. He 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, no, I was saying his name is, I'm making fun of both, yes. - Both? (laughing) I said you met the wrong person, it's funny. - See, this is the thing when 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 'cause 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 to you? - Yeah, now my small dog is done. - 38 minutes in. 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. That was such a quick anecdote. It was just, and then you know, gear exposed. I saw a lot of, oh, man. (laughing) - I gotta tell you guys, I went to the mall yesterday 'cause Molly had cracked her, not her screen on her phone, but the like screen protector had cracked. So 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, "Oh, I kind of want to pull straight through," but all of a sudden it was kind of like zigzagged by finally found 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 my mom's house. She has like a pool so I went to her house. And I went swimming-ish. I have to be careful with my legs. So I wasn't going too crazy. But I got to get in water and move around and try 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 Jessie, our friend Jessie. We went out and we had a- - Oh, Jessie! We had dinner. I hadn't talked to him since. We went and 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. And I guess we were celebrating since iron lungs out on YouTube. We're like, let's get together again. - I hope more iron lung stuff happens. So you could see Jessie ever again. - I had no work. You got to keep that alive. - We got a blueberry 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 got to figure out something fancy to do. - It's only manifest when iron lung is mentioned. - It's like a chant, you know, a demon you just go like, "Oh, I don't know any sort of fades in existence." - That's the way it's been this year. - It's creepy 'cause 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 a whole time for the listeners. I made this face. (laughing) - Oh, listen. - That face sounds like this. - Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all-day comfy grip. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. - Maybe it's Mavily. (groaning) - Yeah. (laughing) - That's actually pretty accurate, yeah. That's pretty good, mm-hmm. You 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 in Blue Ash, there was an airport at some point, I don't know when, but they converted it into a bar grill slash a big park area. So we went over there and we had dinner, which was pretty good, but it was a beautiful spot and the old air traffic control towers covered in pretty lights and stuff. Now, so it's just a really beautiful spot. That was nice. I'm not catching up with him for a few hours 'cause we hadn't talked like I said in months. But getting out of the house, kind of breaking the routine a little bit, it'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 about knocked me out of my ass, so I'm definitely not a drinker. I'm very lightweight. Ah, I'm just getting out of the house, breaking the routine a little bit. I don't know. 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 II 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. Oh, 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 homie is coming. 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 were with 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 leave and better. Yeah, I guess. 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 what 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 Talkie. 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-- No, like tons of shit. Michelle Obama was there. It was-- they did not notice that we did that. How'd she get there? She has to visa like the rest of it. I don't know. Oh, I don't know. 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 bit. Got the whole bit. Couldn't bail. bail. Sam in the emergency button. Hey, hey, hey. Well, I'm sorry you guys did good 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. Do you guys miss your flight? Then it was like, all right, well, now 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 OK. That's OK, this game-- this game can be as long or short as we want it to be. And by the way, 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 I'll be disappointed if it's not. This game is called long or short. Oh, 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. Hey, 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. Goddamn. Yeah. Yeah. I'm at the age where I get like the cuts and bruises. I'm like, I remember getting this giant scraper. What happened to me? 73 years old? What do you mean by that? I know what happened. I'm not confused why I have a scab down there. No, I literally get like beat up, but I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know how the scab happened. 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, you'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, long or 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. Ken and Tina. 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 bath 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, but 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, well, why the, no, you couldn't then. Like if you, 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, every new product that comes out is like, well, what if it just does everything? 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 that won't be the kind of thing. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to take offense to that. Look, it worked out. You got me a GoPro. Does that not what you wanted to have happen? Because if it's not what you wanted to have happened, then I guess it really didn't work out. Secondly, it was to distractible, so we have a GoPro. - We got exactly what Mark wanted. I thought that was going great. I was not gonna 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 2,000 decreases. 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, we've seen a WD40 is like a spritzy can thing of it's, 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, if you can clean, cleaning 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 could 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 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 the points for this game because it's about doing too much. - 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 gone. - Okay, 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. 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 it, I've heard it confirmed here. 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 is saying, he's like, oh, it'll have two nozzles. Well, you could do so much with two print nozzles. This will be great, you could put support 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. Huh, like, no one, we didn't ask for that. - I got a laser, ten one, forty one. You know, you can get lasers in here is like, I wanted a 3D printer. And it's like, it's not 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 kind of want to 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. Three 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 like 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 have 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. Everyone would have been 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 in a 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 is like, this gives the vibes of that thing. You know, it's like I made for a TV product. Where it's like, it's laces, it dices, it feels, it julians, it puts, and it's like, well, it does all of those things kind of shitty, doesn't it? Like, because it's not any one of those things, doesn't it do all of them pretty half-ass 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. I was just saying, 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. But it is, until it goes away. The problem with all this stuff is like, well 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 the 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 gonna 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? - I want to 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. 'Cause if duck tape ever becomes like intelligent and leaves the planet and we have no more duck tape, then what are we gonna do? - Mark, you're unbiased. Does he get a point for that one? - Man, I can see it both ways because yeah, it's, 'cause 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 it could put up your wall?" - 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. Doctor, don't put it on your skin. Don't put it on your skin anything else, but don't fuck don't put on your all right I'm confused how exactly to spell it when I write it down a PD you see KT the P a silent I got I got another one. It's a bit niche, but you know minor are always gonna be tech-based because of tech tech guy So there's there's a camera out there not Not talking about GoPro. I swear to fuck 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 the oh 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 Like hand grips from focus wheels and it can auto focus with the lidar and it can have all this it transmission out and it Seems like it seems like on on its surfaces. Wow. This is really great But the more and more I've 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 the shots that I sometimes prefer are just on a tripod I 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 on to a car Right where it's fixed stuck there not moving it even gets a little shake from the car to 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 every ball the bells and whistles working and You know, I often find myself just not using it because of that But it's useful. There's a need for but it's like 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's like It has to be light enough to fit on there So it's doing all this stuff and you still can't really use that has interchangeable lenses But the for people who don't have pictures in front of you or our listeners This is basically a camera. Imagine a camera as like I don't know like this right but bigger a cinema camera It's kind of like this GoPro it's bigger, but the lens is a 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. Yeah, 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 Ronin also in line of DJI Gimbals in general. Yes, it's just like a did they make us is I don't know if it's a set or or whatever like a series Products, but it's a different thing right? Yes, so they have their Ronin series of gimbals This is the Ronin 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 Ronin 2 is like for most productions They're like the Ronin 2 is the stabilizer to use for smaller productions or whatever But they haven't updated that in like 10 years. They don't there's no Ronin 3 There's an RS 5 now, I think, but I don't know it's a weird 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 it's just like I do not use it enough to justify it Wait, give me something weird spray bottles Expound yeah, I made this expression listeners 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 goods and I'll express good smelling sprays make your house smell good You put in I don't know acid and spray someone to 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 let 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 helped 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 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 oh 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'm talking 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 a meaning while 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 one missed shower 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 the goosher It does feel like someone was given that assignment and the guy who ever 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 the 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 Multi-purposing 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 fault. 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 Hyalurotic acid and use it to spray your skincare regimen onto your what about the non-labeled bottles you buy that are just empty bottles You rip you rip off the bottles of a more 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 red. I don't go to the cabinet and 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 if you can also entertain another in this. Okay, keep expounding. Yes. Yes. I think electrical sockets are doing too much. You can plug anything into it. I can plug a head trimmer, a toaster, a kilomatic 9,000. 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. The overload the nuclear reactor nearby plug that I have. Don't ask me where I got it. But 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. 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. And then you've got the adaptor. It's 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? Troops in the battle, oversized load on the highway, carry an actual another vehicle, carry 10 other vehicles. Some people sleep in them. Can you imagine me, me, me, me, me in a car? Cars think that their house is now. Hold all those dirty ass soccer kids that 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. 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 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 earwax. It spits. The appendix. Like, can we talk about that? What the fuck? Yeah, I know. 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. Oh, it's an arm. It gets excited. I don't want to 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 wine opener. You're whittling. You're cutting. You're stabbing. You're twisting. You're pulling. You're a, 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. Ridiculous. It was already hard enough. You had infinite difficulty escalation with speed going up on the original. Bop it. You do not need five. I don't need twisted. 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 because 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. Ever wanted 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 and just hit it with the little, 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 know about duck penises, Mark? I know. I know. I just, you know, why do you know about that? We covered everything. That's everything, man. Yeah. I think that was guided. No, if we were going to 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, keep using, you know, 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, 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, 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. Yeah. Yeah. This is a very iron lung Jesse getting citer drunk off of one citer. Frank's red hot duck tape, spray bottles. James Webb telescope human bodies. Bop it 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. Yeah. Mark, you weren't points for commanding Sam in a firm, but respectful way. Be sad about GoPro for no apparent reasons. You can't remember what that was about. Lying about your trip to Apple being wonderful, so 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, I, 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 Bop it extreme, which somehow the Bop it of murder came up first about the Swiss Army knife and that led to marketing a point for the Bop it extreme. But anyway, in a real shocker, Mark, you weren't 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 flow of trying, of having a lot of things happen in life is that Wade can earn points on, on small talk too. So if I, 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, the, are in the wheel, man, my, my horrible street continues. All right, there's chance to do 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, 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 going to 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, just to make the small talk a little bit more meaningful on the points point for whoever had the most small talk. Just have 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, tie it up right here. Wow. Live points. Absolute. That's still good for me. So that counts as a spin and nobody had any live points. Yep. All right. All right. Tie it up right here. All right. Let's not. Don't do that. Woo-hoo. It's bald. My ass. My ass. My ass. 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 why and the top was cut off. And I was like, Saved my ass. What does that mean? Oh, save. I'll save your ass. It was like, save my ass. Oh, say. Mark going, my ass, my ass, my ass. My ass didn't give you any hints. Well, it did, but then it was too late. So I just accepted the L, but I'm just trying to figure out why my brain thought the first why it was a V and the second one was a Y when they looked exactly the same. I'll say look at my ass. Just in case that was part of the rule. I don't think it was. But to say, if some obscure read it out there is like, it was supposed to be about say, look at my, 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 want to take a look at the bounty board or anything? Did anyone have a bounty? Did they want to cash in any 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 okay. I'll take a look at that. - Yeah, I've got so many to turn in. - That's stable, 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 it kind of a waste anyway, but I'm excited by the voucher 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, the $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 really nearly 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 gonna cash in a bounty and steal the episode, that feels like the moment where it's like, "Gah, 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, whatever. Wait, bluser speech. - I want to throw out, I think we forgot to do speeches last episode, but I think that's 'cause we were just having, we were having a real talkie episode, so it's fine. - People were mentioning that on the subreddit. It's fine, I think it's fine. The 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 nice getting outside. It was nice having the last episode where we got to open up a bit. It was nice hearing about Mark's crazy life again. In some ways, I'm like, "Oh man, I'm jealous. I'd 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 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, winner speech. - Well, well, well. This is completely unexpected. Who would have thought that me would rein 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, 'cause I've ascended beyond being just a YouTuber. I am now a filmmaker. And so, I'm on another level entirely. And this victory solidifies all of that. I will use my judicial 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 a king, but, you know. You can 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 sponging me, he's a nice bunch. (laughing) - 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, just learned many in 777. I am MySkirm. The show is Distractable. We have a YouTube channel. We're on all your podcast platforms. He's to subscribe, hit the plus, whatever. Follow the show, make sure you check out the merch. Distractable shop.shop store. Distractable shop.shop store.coma. Distractable.store. No, it's shop. I was wrong. Fuck, that was though. If you want to get merch, you have to move really quickly because it comes and goes fast. Thank you, everyone, for buying all the merch. Thank you for listening to this episode. Marcus is going to host the next one, so make sure you come back for that. Anyway, we're out of here. See you on the next one. Podcast out. Imagine setting your makeup. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin. That still feels like your skin. Maybe it's Mavily.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Mavily New York launches a new grippy setting mist with gel-to-mist technology that provides up to 24 hours of hydration without stickiness or residue.
  2. The podcast features a humorous, improvised narrative centered around real-life events, including travel mishaps, tech product reviews, and personal anecdotes.
  3. Mark, Bob, and Wade share exaggerated but relatable stories about their chaotic week, including visa issues, a surprise GoPro gift, and visits to Apple and gear expos.
  4. A central theme emerges
  5. The Ronin 4D camera is cited as a prime example of "doing too much," combining cinematic features with a gimbal, lidar, and auto-focus, while limiting lens versatility and usability.
  6. Audience humor is fueled by absurd product uses, such as Frank’s Red Hot being applied to everything from wounds to windshield wipers.
  7. The hosts critique the trend of tech products attempting to do too many functions, suggesting it overwhelms practical needs and increases complexity.
  8. The episode ends with a playful call to action, encouraging listeners to reflect on which products in their lives are over-engineered or over-promised.

Summary:

The podcast episode blends personal anecdotes with satirical commentary on over-engineered consumer products. Hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share a chaotic week filled with travel mishaps, including visa disruptions and a surprise GoPro gift from a sponsor. Central to the discussion is the idea that modern products—like WD40, Dr.

Bronner’s soap, Duck Tape, and the Ronin 4D camera—advertise an overwhelming number of uses, often exceeding practical need. The hosts argue that such products reflect a broader trend of technological overreach, where devices attempt to do too much and fail to deliver reliable, focused functionality. The Ronin 4D camera is highlighted as a prime example: packed with features like a gimbal, lidar, and auto-focus, it's complex and restrictive, especially for simple shots.

Humor arises from absurd product applications, such as using Frank’s Red Hot on wounds or spray bottles for everything from watering plants to melting people. Ultimately, the episode critiques the culture of over-promising in product design, urging listeners to question whether convenience justifies complexity. The tone remains lighthearted, using exaggerated stories and jokes to underscore a meaningful point about consumerism and innovation.

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