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Doing Too Much

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Doing Too Much

The episode of Distractible blends personal anecdotes with satirical commentary on over-engineered products. Hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share chaotic life events, including travel disruptions, health issues, and a surprise GoPro package sent to the show. Mark’s visit to Apple is highlighted as a memorable moment when his unconventional use of Max Studios in a bathroom impresses Tim Cook, leading to a heartfelt exchange. The core theme revolves around the idea of products doing “too much”—from Frank’s Red Hot being claimed to work on everything to the Ronin 4D camera offering excessive features without real-world usability. The hosts critique how such over-ambition in product design leads to confusion, inefficiency, and overcomplication. Duct tape is celebrated as a versatile, essential tool, yet the conversation questions whether society's overreliance on it signals a deeper vulnerability. The episode uses humor and absurdity to explore how modern technology often fails to deliver on its promises, instead overwhelming users with unnecessary features. Ultimately, the show embraces randomness and improvisation, turning mundane experiences into entertaining, insightful, and self-aware storytelling that critiques consumer culture through laughter and shared chaos.

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode. Booming Bob couldn't fly, gets a GoPro, tastes ass, and goes into the long and short of things. Weirdling Wade looms in limos, flips himself off, gets hammered, then 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, 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 Distractible, 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 I 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 esophagus? 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? Couldn't fucking tell ya. Anyway, Wade's bald, welcome to Distractible. 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. Medicine. Anyway, if you've never seen the show before, this is a great warm-up for what you can expect for the entire time. It's an improvised show. I have a topic. We might not even get to it. It really depends how things go. Today, we- we- we poured our hearts out last time, so I'm sure we'll get to the- the game today. Sure, it'll 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/co-hosts, 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. Hey, hey, hey. 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 kinda suspected that. Actually, yeah, Mark did know that, 'cause we were- yeah. From your text. 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. Wait, neither one of you made it to England? Nobody made it to England. No, no, neither. No one made it. Is 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 don't even care if he was sick anymore. God, I was sick. It's awful. Me. If you don't laugh, it's really awkward, guys. Take a laugh from another episode, put it here. I just have spent a hell of a week. How are you guys doing? Well, to echo on that, I also was supposed to be in- I've 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. 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. We all bought it! Wait, what? 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 meant 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. Well, not anymore, apparently you are Mr. Distractable. 'Cause I knew Mark had bought one, so I thought, like, "Oh, well, he's not gonna be, you know, he's not gonna be, like, hyped as I am about that." But yeah, the- They sent the- and they sent the- the ri- the cage that goes with it, that'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, "Huh, that's weird, 'cause 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 gonna do a sponsorship for-" 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 a- here's the new- here's that camera you were talking about so much. Go shoot your movies with it." Do they think they're funny? Do they think they're funny? I think they're funny. I was sad 'til I realized Mark didn't get one, too. Now I feel a lot better. Do they- I have one, I have actually multiple, 'cause I've bought multiple of them. If Wade didn't- if Wade didn't get one, I'm happier. I didn't get one, so you can be happier. I didn't realize I was so impor- 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, 'cause they were like, "Oh, Mark's a big Cincinnati guy. He must be one of- he must be the Cincinnati address, and-" We all live in the same house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it's- Mean house. It's gotta be an honest mistake, right? 'Cause 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- 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 ChatGPT, like, "Where does Bob live?" and- "Where does Distractable live?" and your address came up. I bet yours is in the mail. I mean, this came almost a week ago, but- Like, I think that 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, uh, Fisher-Price train set." It's a Brio train. It's a Brio train with custom 3D-printed accessories, okay. I don't even insist. Calm down. I'm just- I'm just going to see if there's a Distractable, uh, code that works on the site, 'cause that would be fucking funny. Mark is going into ChatGPT 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, one- one- tenth the size. I will say, uh, uh, it's very good. Maybe not that good. Maybe it's not that good. Why did your voice crack during that? Are you okay? Just shut the fuck up. I'm doing an anti-pitch now. I- I actually- okay, I was at Apple, um, for the event, uh, and I- I felt afraid to pull this out of my pocket, 'cause, you know, them and their phones, they're all, like, you know, talking- 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- Were you gonna get another MS Paint saga? No, it was the lead photo esthetician. Esthetician? Aesthetic person. The lead pho- the person who's in charge of defining the aesthetics of photos, uh, and so I- I was talking to them about, like, it was like, "Oh, yo, what do you use?" It was like, "Oh, in the movie, you know, we use REDs for my main YouTube, we got, like, an a7S III, uh, and I have a Nikon Z. And then I have a GoPro." And then 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, "Uh, I use my phone." I use my- I use my phone. I- I- I use it. But they all have to say, like, "iPhone 17 Pro Max." I- I legitimately had a great time at the Apple trip, and I 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. I was like, "And then I got this in my other pocket." I was like, "What i- what is that?" I was like, "Oh, I 3D-printed this." This, uh, little macro thing. It was made by, uh. What kind of camera do you keep in your front pocket? And I could just see, like, the color drain from her face. And I was like, "Oh, God." I'm just like, "Hiya! Hiya! Hiya!" "Hold on! Wait!" Hey, look, uh, episodes of- an episode of this podcast was filmed on iPhones. iPhone. Mark's iPhone. Can I tell you why I was invited? We now know why you won't be invited back, but yeah, sure. No, no, I was. i have to shout out the uh the subreddit uh home lab because legitimately the reason i was invited is because apple heard that i had 54 max studios in my bathroom as a runner 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 was i almost wept because it's like oh my god it's so nice oh my god i just put it in a bathroom i met john turnus i i shook hands with him i showed him the picture of it and he went wow wow 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 it didn't it didn't come up did you tell them the next they should make it an adapter so it's like a free sun holder heat sink situation mark pulls out his phone he pulls out his phone and he's like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry 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 it 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 and 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 building is actually legitimately incredible um 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 all that stuff and they're like oh my god there's 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 legitimately it's great so i i'm really painting it in a bad light my trip was wonderful and the missing employees wall is 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 i kept going like i 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 all because like uh mkbhd goes and stuff and they he has some yeah 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 when you were done did you did you call did you call the guy who got you hooked up and be like oh yeah i almost went to the main part i was somewhere else and he's like oh it would have been great if you would have been to the oh i wish uh did you take any pictures no you wouldn't get your camera out oh okay good good okay good good good i'm glad we called that favor in i swear i was in the 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 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 that homelab reddit post is so good good though like i i found that organically i mean i'm gonna i'm connected to a bunch of you shit so it wasn't that organic but it's the 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 were like why the fuck would you need any of this like yeah yeah what is this for it was really cool to talk to them about why i did the max food 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 uh and i i feel like there was an aha moment with that and i it was so cool i was talking i was in this uh group with someone from ilm which is a lucasfilm uh who does a lot of vfx 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 well i mean he uses all of the softwares but he also knows how to use it so i was able to talk about houdini with this guy because like it was houdini and he's used it for a long time and talking about like yeah i was using for like tops and it was perfect for the artists to be able to kick out little tasks to all the studios um 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 sold as 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 an 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 very funny so it was but i i was able to talk to you know some people at apple specifically about that because they were very curious because it was like a lot of people were like oh my god i'm not going to be able to talk to you and they really like to hear about niche use cases and so i didn't mention glabrasolts 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 lid to lid that i would kill 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 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 know fit together better and you know they were really they actually listened to me so ha take that everyone at home lab i 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 not the summary that is not and then he looked at a picture on my phone and said wow that'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 creamers right you've seen coffee creamers you can stack them i thought laptops are like coffee creamers not even a laptop you get the capri sun and you put in the middle of them he doesn't know what he's saying don't listen to him actually if i probably did use used capri sun packets in between them that would have been even funnier like i said stack one drink a capri sun put it down stack one other you wait till you smash it in the middle and you really get it out of there just i don't drink through the straw i slam it between two max studios and open my mouth that's why it's in the bathroom you stacked 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 markiplier behavior is just like i don't know what to do with all my movie money let me just slam me you guys zoom in on the picture you'll see all the straws still in the wrapper on the floor of the bathroom i 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 uh he looks back on his long history at apple and remembers my picture his last words he's like don't let markiplier own this company why would he say that because the last thing he thinks of is that picture your takeaway is that 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 ruin all of my sponsorships forever and forever whoops well that sounds fun and i honestly uh not that i have any reason to go to any of those but i am pretty jealous because that that's just one of those things where it's like i just would like to go to any of those because that's just one of those things where it's like i just would like to go see you know like the the apple campus seems cool the event seems super cool the it's like it's 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 oh 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 just keep building servers in their bathrooms i know what you guys aren't doing it right uh why don't we get a po for what's listed as 600 bathroom iphones oh i'm working on something uh it's you know dispersed computing uh 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 donut so how did don't go in the bathroom on the left don't uh how would how do you describe which way a donut is 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 want perkins i want a donut 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've 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 uh in cincinnati it says cincinnati i know that place great episode i'm gonna go get some perkins well you didn't even do your small talk mark had a couple that's right mark had a couple thing or did you do small talk i haven't even i haven't even finished my small talk i've got oh mark's not even done shut up wade i'm sorry my 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 cine gear expo i don't know why i call it gear expo yeah skinny gear it's for skinny guys it's like uh nab 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 um 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 what the height of of an f-150 lightning is it's probably just about six six six five so there's no bump yeah i hope that's a really accurate and consistent six six so i get in there and my antenna goes off of the bar and i'm me and sam sam is actually in the truck with me he was on this journey so he could attest we're looking up at the sunroof watching this pillar pass within like a hair's breath and i'm like hope you're okay 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 it's like oh whoa as we're about to go through so i'm like i figured as much so i'm doing a 20-point like austin powers turn and i drive out i get to the outside i'm just like hey you have any parking for like big vehicles 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 u-turn up ahead but i see another sign that's like cinegear parking right here it's another parking right and i i'm like oh it i'll risk it i go over there hey do you what's 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'm parked that's my story nice nice that's it i harassed the people at the gopro booth that's what else do you want to know about sake or we followed that our small talk is guys i got to park my truck and i found a place to park l.a everyone shut up i talked to the gopro people i showed them this and they were really i said like a 3d printed thing that must be why they sent us one yeah so like let's send bob something we'll use it responsibly i filmed stuff while i'm the 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 like that's actually what i got oh man and then there's like a 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 it's like footage from my first ever pax vlog i forgot to film anything while i was there well thank god you had your gopro so cine gears it was really good this thing is so good please please 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 is a full-size suv but it's like six two or something like it's it's big but most cars are are under six six unless it's a truck yeah the f-150 lightning is particularly large like all the honda crvs 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 wade you'll understand yeah we'll teach you probably be i mean i barely have clearance in that garage i feel like i'd want it to be taller you get to sit down and i don't know if he knows mark you get to sit down and 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 it's like a segway 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 oh 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 oh come on man you're such a you're such a fun 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 out i did i did i got footage while i was at apple i did i got footage i got some stuff while i was at gears but it's i i don't want to come across as incompetent because 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 leak us mark oh every important person they invite there gets to go to that room yeah wait hold on they have a secret room wait what do you mean they have that room oh yes i saw that room oh i'm going to leak everything oh they got they got everything in there it's so cool i was in the special group he's in the group called paid guided tour i don't know why i just have this extensive vision of you talking to the to the photo aesthetic person and you pull your gopro and then you're just frantically like i i i never used that i don't even know how that got in there i i have a vision pro i look listen i have like oh yeah how'd you like the latest update oh well my dog borrowed it so uh chick is addicted to it not that it's addictive i mean it's so fun but uh and i got to meet tom cook it said no relation under 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'm saying his name is i'm making fun of both yes both you met the wrong person it's funny see this is the thing where 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 isn't that the truth so does wade get to talk now or do 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 and then you know gear expo was i i saw a lot of oh man i gotta tell you guys i went to the mall yesterday because molly uh 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 uh 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 everyone's kind of like zigzag but i finally found a place where i could pull through and i parked and then went to the mall and did stuff 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 hibachi for lunch it was really good what else have i done i went to uh i went to my mom's house she has like a pool so i went to her house 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 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 which is a little bit harder than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit easier than you'd want to throw but it was a little bit last week i met up with jesse our friend jesse we went out we had uh 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 got together since iron lung 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 jesse ever again you gotta keep that alive we got a blu-ray release i guess and then i 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 he only manifests when iron lung is mentioned like a chant you know a demon you just gotta like iron lung and he 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 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 face sounds like this that face sounds like this that's actually pretty accurate yeah that's pretty good he 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 uh 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 so 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 six percent alcohol so i had one cider and i about knocked me on 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 know i don't i don't do fancy things there's no fancy stores or things i go to so just uh normal human behavior for me is a big deal play diablo 2 again resurrected the old 1999 game and uh 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 had lunch with my mom and i poured alcohol on her on accident that happened like pouring one out for your homies kind of no uh we had lunch and she had uh 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 at south by so we'll do a makeup stream at some point in the future it'll be even better yeah i guess 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 but the 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 uh 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 how'd she get there she has to visa like the rest of us right i don't know 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 can i call you michelle let's know how you got it i'm i do 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 cut the whole bit cut the whole bit cut it bail bail sam hit the emergency button well i'm sorry you guys didn't 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 well now you can't make it you can go to the airport and you can go to the airport and you can go to the airport yeah yeah exactly all right small talk done all right bob we did 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 i don't know i'm saying it's a game like it's not a game is it called long or short oh 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 uh has nothing to do with the game and doesn't describe it in any meaningful way but i'm gonna 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 do rose bushes fight back god damn yeah yes yeah i'm at that age where i get like the cuts and bruises i'm like i remember getting this giant scrape what happened to me you're 73 years old what do you mean by that i know what happened i'm not confused by it i'm not confused i have a scab down there no i literally get like beat up and i have no idea yeah i don't know how this gap happened so i'm i'm in that same boat and i'm you guys need to be more careful don't 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 so 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 uh 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 canyons 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 lather it could be bath soap which to me is not different from 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 i was gonna say it kills things but you could use this toothpaste this product is due to one of the reasons that i'm 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 is the toothpaste it does specifically say like you could use it as toothpaste it just tastes like soap so don't do that but you could use it for toothpaste like well why no you couldn't then like if 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 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 something about me doing too much for a certain company that won't be 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 then i guess it really didn't work out technically it was the distractible so we have a gopro 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 2 000 uses holy shit and i have some quibbles with the nature of the list that this company has put together but the product wd-40 which is if you never used it or seen it wd-40 is like the most expensive product in the world and it's like the most expensive thing in the world and it's 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 i've always heard of wd-40 used in the context of like oh if you you can clean cleaning greasy things with it clean it off and then you apply fresh you know whatever but wd-40 is advertised it's having over 2 000 uses but their list is just a bunch it has more than that because the list is it lubricates ashtrays 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 wd-40 not even a lubricant this is a common misconception wd-40 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 is 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 with like a word problem what was the last time it was like please solve you can't have solvent without solve therefore it's a solution therefore it's the answer so wd-40 is just the answer well he's definitely not gonna get points for this game because it's about doing too much not defending it dude well wd-40 is not you know what does do too much you know here's a point frank's red hot what do you put that shit on oh that's right everything hey i will not tolerate the frank's red hot slander uh 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 crying frank's red hot out of lube in the bedroom breaks red hot squeaky door breaks red hot out of windshield wiper fluid breaks red hot i put that shit on everything you can't tolerate the frank's red hot slander 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 crying frank's red hot out of lube in the bedroom breaks red hot squeaky door breaks red hot out of windshield wiper fluid breaks red hot i put that shit on everything 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 ready 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 wayne all it took was four years for me to get one right uh every point friend in the past has been illegitimate i hear it i 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 um 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 uh it tried it brought forward this everyone excited because like oh it'll have two nozzles whoa you could do so much with two print nozzles this will be great you could put sport film it but then it was like the same thing with 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 who didn't ask for that i just got a laser 10 watt 41 you know you could get your lasers in here it's like i wanted a 3d printer and it's like it's not that 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 the laser cutter and we laser cut the laser things all the time but it's a separate machine because when you laser cut things there's a lot of fumes and things uh because it's burning pretty much uh 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 two or so like lasers you can't mess around with lasers 3d printing you you need some stuff but lasers you need like properly rated shit or you will burn your eyes out potentially right like so they have like different glass for the laser version of it to enclose it because there are these laser cutters and they're not the same thing they're not the same thing they're not the same thing they're not the same thing they're not the same thing they're not the same thing closures and they usually have it x tool is like the example of the laser cutter uh company manufacturer that makes the laser cutter that we have it's not that this is a bad idea to have it it's just like why because 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 everyone would have been like but they were like and also it can do laser it doesn't have to have a laser cutter but it's also just like i 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 because if you're 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 3d printer you could be a 3d printer and you could be a 3d printer or a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you could be a 3d printer you know it's like a made-for-tv product where it's like it slices it dices it feels it julienne's it but and it's like well it does all of those things kind of shitty doesn't it like because because it's not any one of those things doesn't it 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 that's a good pandering answer because you know i love that shit and you know i have bamboo labs products big fan let's talk about the big one duct tape duct tape is used to build tools duct tape and dungeon crawler carls used to build bombs duct tape can fix your car duct tape can build your house duct tape can patch your wounds duct tape is the glue that holds the earth itself together i'm convinced if another meteor hits we'll patch up the hole with duct tape that's what will keep us all around because duct 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 duct tape i'm trying not to let my personal feelings about duct tape get in the way here because i love duct tape yeah same but like it's 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's good though 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 duct tape use is like yeah you can use duct tape for that that would work like you you know it might not be as good as what you're supposed to use but that would work fine duct tape would work fine for our purposes duct tape always works i can't think of a situation where i'm like oh well i wouldn't want to use duct tape for that but we become too reliant on it no but that's not the problem ever goes away we're it won't if duck if we lose all of human history duct tape will be one of the first things that we reinvent because that's how we'll invent every other thing well let's hope but duct tape itself as the brand trademark c circle tm we we rely way too much okay well if we're going to talk about brands that gets really complicated okay are you talking about the brand of duct tape that is put out by like 3m or are you talking about the brand oh i'm talking about mr duct himself duck tape the brand whose mascot is a duck this is don't get me started on brands of don't even get me started on gorilla tape which some might argue is a superior version of duct tape are gorillas superior to ducks i don't know i think that that's a complicated issue duct tape's uses i agree are great but i think it is useful for too much and we are too reliant on duct tape because if duct tape ever becomes like intelligent and leaves the planet and we have no more duct tape then what are we going to do mark you're unbiased does he get a point for that one ah man i can see it both ways because yeah it's it because i bet the manufacturer is like hey this is for ducts we made it's duct tape but everyone in the world is like you can use it for repairing your boat waterproofing you can put up your walls broken nose duct tape annoying kid duct tape it's it's one of those things where it's like is it really the fault of the manufacturer or is it are they complicit i think they're complicit i think they have adopted it i think it's fair to say that that clearly they originally didn't but they are obviously now duct 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 duct tape frank's red duct 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 here all right i'm confused how exactly to spell it when i write it down uh p-d-u-c-k-t the p is silent all right i got i got another one it's a bit niche but you know mine are always going to be tech based because of tech tech guy so uh there's there's a camera out there not not talking about gopro i swear to fuck you gotta do it there's something called a ronin 4d right so the ronin 4d 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 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 uh uh uh 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 uh 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 um 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 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 too i don't need a perfectly smooth yada yada 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 all 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 it 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 yeah it 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 is kind of like this gopro it's bigger but the lens is a little bit bigger and it's a little bit bigger and it's 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 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 gimbal 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 lighter 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 anyway 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 uh one i like that well and when i didn't realize this was a camera isn't ronan also a line of dji gimbals in general yes isn't that just like they make us is 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 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 um but they haven't updated that in like 10 years they don't there's no ronin 3 uh there's an rs 5 now i think but i don't know it's uh 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 gonna 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 good smelling sprays 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 what liquids could be is it acidic is it base 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 if 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 besides all the murderous residue that lies inside waiting for the right moment to escape when you can i counter point 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'm like it's got two it's well three maybe it's got on narrow and wide and i'm like i could see uses for and off and it's got i could see uses for all those well some of them have like the 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 the garden hose i have thumb or no thumb man's man's never owned a sprayer the garden hose sprayer some of the deluxe version have like 40 settings and i gotta click all the way through all of them meanwhile my petunias are being doused by every form of water there is and before i get to the one i need because the the the one i need is on the 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 mist the harder mist shower uh laser lasers laser and then uh open the damn gates for the garden hose sprayer and then uh open the damn gates for the garden hose sprayer 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 gusher 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 there really like three tops 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 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 maybe you're not a person who's supposed to be multi-purposing these things maybe once the windex is gone wade 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 bottle's 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 oh 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're not windex is not like and when you're done fill it with hyaluronic acid and use it to spray your skincare regimen onto your what about the non-labeled bottle 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 i don't have like 30 spray bottles with rent 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 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 well i don't have like 30 spray bottles with rent i don't go to the cabinet and i'm like oh my god i have a lot of stuff in there and i don't have a lot of stuff in there i don't have a lot of stuff in there i don't have a lot of stuff in there i don't have a lot of stuff in there hedge trimmer a toaster a kilomatic 9000 i i would be a fork i could eat a fork i could plug it right in it's doing too much i agree wade it's you 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 uh 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 and then you've got the adapters like oh i've got to plug in my australia plug my germany plug my u.s plug my antarctica plug you're winning me over you're winning me over if we can entertain one more you know you know what else it is doing the 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 into 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 honk 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 man 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 earwax 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 a little it just dies so 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 in orbitals oh it's in ours gets excited i don't want to know about that swiss army knife one thought you were neutral why do you have an army two are you 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 you're a bop it 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 ridiculous it was already hard enough you had infinite difficulty escalation with speed going up on the original bop but 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 mane of wood tell me about these condoms not bringing you distractible condoms ever wanted to 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 distractible band condoms and it's okay you can just poke a hole so you can pee wait don't you hate it 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 old it's the round curly one that's the one you want penises do too much you you got your 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 why do you know about that we covered everything we covered everything that's everything man yeah i think that was i didn't know if we were going to be able to get through all of it but i think we pretty much covered everything that is uh doing too much don't do anything with this information uh you know keep keep using you know whatever products you normally use it's fine uh now that we've solved that problem that everyone in the world was so concerned about uh let's let's see who got points for what i don't know what some of these things mean wade in no particular order you got points for not caring about james won't be won't be invited back which i think you said to mark which made him sad uh apple jam jokes very uh having a car still is this this episode i don't remember anything yeah yeah uh iron lung jesse getting cider drunk off of one cider uh frank's red hot duct tape uh 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 yeah uh mark you earned points for commanding sam in a firm but respectful way uh being sad about gopro for no apparent reason can't remember what that was about lying about your trip to apple being wonderful so that you could stay friends with tim apple uh showing your cool picture from reddit to tim apple making me jealous because the apple stuff uh 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 uh you got a point for pointing out that the bamboo lab h2d was doing too much uh ronin 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 uh 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 trying of having a lot of things happen in life is that wade can earn points on on small talk too so if 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 uh let's see how many spins we're going to spin man the bar in the wheel man my my horrible streak continues all right there's a chance two two is a good number for you one goes to bob one goes to me and we have a tie uh 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 want it to be one that actually hits so just to just to make the small talk a little bit more uh 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 tie it up right here live points absolute hey that's still good for me that's still good for me so that counts as a spin and nobody had any live points yeah yep yeah all right all right all right tie it up right here all right let's not don't do that looks 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 uh reading comprehension the y and the top was cut off i was like sav my ass what does that mean i'll save i'll save your ass i 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 by the minute it was too late so i just accepted the l but uh i'm just trying to figure out why my brain thought the first y 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 i was part of the rule i don't think it was but just if if some obscure redditor 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 that they want to cash in any any bounty actions today we have one of those now 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 uh yeah i've got so many to turn in i'm gonna save them though i i honestly i have plans already to execute on a few of these but i have i don't have one today i'm the host so it's kind of a waste anyway but i'm excited by the bounty board keep putting stuff out there check out the thread on the subreddit because i probably have some also no one has taken the initiative if you want us to spend the budget the six hundred dollars a month allocation we're gonna need to see some democracy in the subreddit okay i would like 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 we're not just gonna we're not gonna willy-nilly do stuff though i'm gonna i don't need to see some consensus building all right i want to see some uh let's see some allies out there making stuff happen because 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'm trying 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 whatever uh wait loser 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 subreddit 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 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 in 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 reign 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 a filmmaker and so I'm on another level entirely and 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 herald using the funds appropriated by our congress to buy me a herald 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 herald yeah it's my speech I'm not done excuse you uh Sam please expunge him from the universe Sam you're sponging me he's an expunge all right okay so uh I'm done he's ascended beyond youtuber he's now super tuber now he's a me tuber uh congratulations Mark you will be the host of the next episode uh everyone make sure you follow all of us but possibly most importantly the show on like platforms and stuff Marcus Mark Plyer weight is Lord minion 777 I am my skirm the show is distractible uh 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 distractible shop.shop store distractible shop.shop store comma distractible.store no it's shop I was wrong if you want to get merch you have to remove really quickly because it comes and goes fast thank you everyone for buying all the merch thank you for listening to this episode Mark 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 you

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts share personal, chaotic stories from the past week, including travel mishaps, health issues, and unexpected events like a GoPro camera package arriving for the show.
  2. Mark recounts a visit to Apple where he impresses staff with his bathroom-based Max Studios setup, leading to a meeting with Tim Cook, who praises his unconventional use of technology.
  3. The episode highlights the absurdity of products doing "too much," such as GoPro, WD-40, Frank’s Red Hot, and a Ronin 4D camera, which overpromise on versatility and functionality.
  4. Duct tape is celebrated as a universally useful tool, but the hosts debate whether its overuse reflects a dangerous reliance on a single, simple solution.
  5. The hosts explore how product design trends—like multi-functional devices—may overwhelm users by trying to serve too many roles without true expertise or necessity.
  6. A humorous subplot involves Mark’s failed attempt to get a visa, which coincides with the broader global travel disruption, adding to the theme of unpredictability.
  7. The hosts mock exaggerated product claims, using satire to critique how companies market overambitious uses of everyday items.
  8. The episode concludes with a self-aware commentary on the show’s improvisational nature and the joy found in absurd, unstructured storytelling.

Summary:

The episode of Distractible blends personal anecdotes with satirical commentary on over-engineered products. Hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade share chaotic life events, including travel disruptions, health issues, and a surprise GoPro package sent to the show. Mark’s visit to Apple is highlighted as a memorable moment when his unconventional use of Max Studios in a bathroom impresses Tim Cook, leading to a heartfelt exchange.

The core theme revolves around the idea of products doing “too much”—from Frank’s Red Hot being claimed to work on everything to the Ronin 4D camera offering excessive features without real-world usability. The hosts critique how such over-ambition in product design leads to confusion, inefficiency, and overcomplication. Duct tape is celebrated as a versatile, essential tool, yet the conversation questions whether society's overreliance on it signals a deeper vulnerability.

The episode uses humor and absurdity to explore how modern technology often fails to deliver on its promises, instead overwhelming users with unnecessary features. Ultimately, the show embraces randomness and improvisation, turning mundane experiences into entertaining, insightful, and self-aware storytelling that critiques consumer culture through laughter and shared chaos.

FAQs

The main theme is 'Doing Too Much,' where the hosts discuss products and technologies that attempt to do too many things, often leading to overcomplication or unnecessary features.

Markiplier criticizes Frank's Red Hot for being advertised as having hundreds of uses, including things like lubricating doors or windshield wiper fluid, when its primary use is as a hot sauce.

The GoPro gift was sent to Distractible by a sponsor as a thank you for the hosts' enthusiasm, symbolizing how products are often promoted with exaggerated capabilities, like a GoPro being used for many different purposes.

The host argues that WD-40 is advertised as having over 2,000 uses, including lubrication, when it is primarily a solvent and not a true lubricant, making it an example of a product overextending its functionality.

The host describes the RONIN 4D as an example of 'doing too much' due to its complex features like built-in gimbal, lidar, and multiple settings, making it overly complicated for simple or static shots.

The podcast acknowledges duct tape's many uses but argues it's doing too much and that society is overly reliant on it, potentially leading to problems if it were to disappear or become unavailable.

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