Going Nuclear

Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode. Whittling Wade cites his wanderlust, has a patellarized magenta, restarts an addiction that explains CCGs and Chernobyl. Moonsmashing Mark trashes his thonker, gets a cheesy hole, and discusses thorium and neutrons. Beatified Bob gives an infomercial, probes pronunciations, stabs Mark, and famously misses coasters. From brimstone beauty to Polish pylons, yes, it's time for Going Nuclear. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm today's host. I don't do this very often. Why? I've fallen off. But today I do. And I'm joined, as always, by my co-hosts, Mark and Bob. Hello. Hello. How are you doing, you handsome devil? I'm doing pretty good. I had a good week that I'll talk about later. You delightful demon. Stop. You smart spawn of Satan. I think that was still technically a compliment, maybe. I'm gonna write something down. It might be good. If it feels good, isn't it good? They say that, uh. Satan was the most beautiful of all the angels. They specify that, I think. That's Biblical? I'm pretty sure it's Biblical. I believe you. And on the fifth day, God looked at Satan and said, "Damn." I might be going to hell for that joke alone. Ah, to see Satan, right? For yourself. Just to know what it's all about. That's why he took the seventh day off, you know what I mean? It was a bad breakup, that's what caused the fall. It's, you know, it's like, you know, history by the victors. God's just writing, "Satan's such a. " "Satan's such an asshole. God. " "Got me. Damn him." God really wrote the first Taylor Swift album. "Me. Damn you, Satan." He's gonna be in hell, where evil people go. And I made that. It's not his choice. It's mine. Sounds like a Trump speech. And I made that. And that's how it's always been. "I have a blank cage, baby. And I'll put you in." That. was funny. Anyway, there's a show we host. We do game. We small talk. Small talk? I got small talk. You guys have small talk? I got small talk. I got small talk. Small talk. Who first? Small talk. You go first. Me? Yeah. If you use it up now, you won't get any points in the future. I've gotta be careful or else I might give myself the segue point. Well, I've been gone. We haven't seen each other in a couple weeks 'cause I was out of town. Molly and I went on a trip to Virginia, hung out with some friends. Uh, it was a really nice, needed break. However, we did a lot, which is also fun. But that's that thing where you go on vacation, you come back, and you're like, "Ugh, I'm so tired. I need like a week to recover from a vacation." Classic mistake. But it was really fun. We had a lot of good food. Had some pool time. I got to test my knee a little bit, which is better. I still have moments where it doesn't really hurt, but it just feels. Something is still weird about it. Tyler had some theories on that, 'cause we got to see Tyler, too. He's had some knee stuff going on, so I might go get some imaging done to see. I forget what he said, he was like, "Your magenta might be between your patellar bow flex." And I was like, "Oh, that sounds right." Tell your doctor exactly that. My magenta is between my patellar and my bow flex. You'll say it, and the doctor will be like, "Mmm." But then say, "No, no, Tyler told me that." And the doctor will be like, "Oh, Tyler? You know Tyler from Hit Podcast? Go, my favorite sports team?" That's the one, dog. Oh my god. And then he starts going cross-eyed and talking in an accent, and he's like, "Yeah, your magenta's real patellarized." I hate when my doctor goes, "Hill's a Tennessee accent." No, you love when your doctor does that. I love when my doctor goes, "Hill's a Tennessee accent." Accent? Accident. No, accent. Accent's different. "Hill's a Tennessee accident." Oh, what else? Oh! The real, horrible tragedy of what happened in Virginia. We went to some retro, like, game stores and stuff, where they have figurines and video games, and we were looking around at those kinds of things. They had cards, and Tyler and Bird, I guess, had been collecting different, like, collectible cards. There's all kinds now. There's, you know, there's Yu-Gi-Oh! Magic, Pokemon, One Piece, like, I guess everything has a card set now. I used to collect Pokemon cards back in, like, the '90s. I made the mistake of mentioning that, and the guys were like, "You wanna just, like, buy a pack for old time's sake?" I was like, "Guys, that's probably a bad idea." Listen, I don't dip my toe into things. If I go in, I dive in headfirst that I'm all in. They're like, "Oh, come on. One pack. It won't be that bad." Four thousand dollars later, Wade has a stack of valueless Pokemon cards. in his closet. Hold on. Only two. Two thousand? Yes. Holy shit! Whoa! What did you do? I bought a lot of cards. Oh, my God. Did you get a single good one that was worth anything? Yeah, actually. So, I started going in on Prismatic Evolution and Chaos Rising sets. What does that even mean? What does that mean? Mark doesn't know. Do you know what that means? Prismatic Evolution and Chaos Rising? Please. People who know, know. If you don't know, I'm not. Listen, every, like, six months, a new Pokemon set comes out, it feels like, or something. What the hell is this chaos? What am I looking at? So, back whenever I collected cards, there was the base set of Pokemon, right? Where you just had the. There was no symbols. There was no no. It was just. That was the only Pokemon cards that existed. The first six Pokemon, yes. Then came the Jungle, Fossil, and Rocket sets, and then I guess some, like, Gym Leader set came after. I don't know. I stopped sometime during the Rocket Pokemon card release that came after. I think Fossil was the third one. And that's the last I'd collected cards since whatever year that was. 2000? So, I've seen that cards exist and people collect them. I've seen that, like, if you have a pack of cards unopened from, like, the 90s, the first set, the pack itself, unopened, goes for, like, six, seven hundred dollars, because it could contain something crazy. If you have a box from back then, a box of packs, that can go for, like, forty thousand dollars. It's crazy what you can just. If you just buy something and you do the Wade version of just stash it away, my God, one day it might be worth something. Just imagine if nine-year-old me was enough of a sociopath to not open any Pokemon card packs I ever got while I was a child. So I do have a full base set, but mine are played, so mine aren't worth as much as a lot of them would be, whatever. But I do have a full base set, and maybe. I don't know. I'd have to look. But anyway, I've gotten. I've gone into the deep end of Pokemon cards, which is why you. I don't. I don't do hobbies. I. I don't just. I don't just, like, dabble. I'm like, mobile game? Must have every character. Pokemon cards? Must master set. What happened to, like, like, reading? Or, like, you could whittle? You seem like a guy who would whittle. You strike me as a whittler. He does got whittle vibes, don't he? I could see you on a porch in the Appalachians. Is it cedar that has, like, the purple center of the wood? I think that's, um, patchouli? No, what's that called? Pipipu. No, hang on. It's pipipu, wood! Yes, yes, yes. Uh, yeah, it's purple cedar. Purple cedar, yeah. Yeah, so I think whenever I was young, I had a pocket knife, and my whittling of cedar was literally just like, "Aha! I'll go in a circle for hours." It's smaller now. I did it! Grandpa, look! I thought whittling was distinct from carving because when you whittle, you kind of are just fucking up the wood. Like, you're kinda just like, "You know, get rid of this stupid wood. One tiny shred at a time. I'm whittling." I don't know, I was like ten, and that's what I did, and that's the last-- I was probably-- I don't know, I have no idea. I was somewhere between the ages of nine and thirteen, probably. I don't know. Wait, I'm gonna share you something on Discord, and, you know, we don't-- we don't have to talk about it further, but I think it's gonna earn me some points, so I'm just gonna share this with you. If you look up purple cedar, you know, there's a-- there's a video, and, um. I think that earns me some points, right? So, can I-- should I describe the image? No, you don't need to describe it! You don't need to describe it! We don't need to talk about it. Listeners and viewers alike will have to figure that one out for themselves. Um, what was I talking about? Whittling Pokemon cards? Yeah, so I've started collecting-- A little distracted. Feeling-- feeling distracted, man. Yeah, cedar. It was just like that, uh, whenever I whittled it. I won't describe the image, but it was just like that. Yeah, I've started collecting. There's so many cards, and it feels like-- So, each card will have a number, right? It'll be like, if there's eighty cards, it'll be like, "Oh, you have card 37 out of 80." But apparently now, it's a lie, because it goes past the number. If you get the rarer cards, it's like, "Oh, you have card 97 out of 80." And it's like-- What the hell is that? What's so good in that? I don't know. Just, like, just tell me! Numbers have meaning! I agree! Just tell me how many cards are total in the set so I know if I got 'em all, so I can put 'em in a nice order and know. Don't tell me I've got, like, "Oh, card 1 is this nice holo, but card 140 out of 80 is this full art rare gold--" I hate it so much. I hate it so much. God. Now that you're in that, I know you're not, like, an expert 'cause you just started doing it, can I-- can I just ask, do people do that? Do people get into Pokémon because it's like, "Oh, this specific set appeals to--" Or is it literally like, "Oh, the value on these packs is trending up, and there's a card you could get-- there's a pull you could get from this set that's worth, like, $800." Is it money? Or is it-- 'Cause when I look, I'm like, "It's cool, but how-- who-- how do you care about a thing where they just keep adding shit to it and they keep getting more complex?" Is it really sentimental for people? I don't know, just-- seems crazy to me i think the answer is both i think some people genuinely just enjoy collecting and like the cards and like pokemon i think the way that it's actually happening now is scalpers are running so rampant that the moment something launches a lot of places limit how much you can buy because people buy all of the stock up no matter the price they buy it all up eighty dollars a box i'll take a hundred boxes and then they immediately list it for 400 markup on ebay other sites so like hey this box that came out today for an 80 retail price 450 it's yours and that's how all of it is done now so a lot of places like i've gone to some local card shops around cincinnati mom and i went out yesterday and just had lunch and stopped by a couple and a lot of them had limits like you can only buy six packs you can only buy one box and it's like actually i respect that because that means like you know if kids come in and want to buy it at least there's a chance that they could get something but each set also has cards that are worth you know they call them balls they're like worthless cards i guess to me it's cool because that's like if i want a master set i want one of each card from a set right but people go for the chase cards which are ones they put in like the harder cases they're called top loaders i've learned i think all of them maybe there's other ones that aren't but they have like the sleeves are flimsy then you top load that for your really valuable cards we pulled one that was like a sylveon from the prismatic evolution that's apparently like a two to four hundred dollar card ungraded so that was a great pull i pulled that that was great technically bird pulled it but it was mine and that's cool to see stuff like that but for me it's just i don't plan on like selling them so for me it's like i'm gonna collect them and i want to have like a set i just want to have that set together like i did however long ago and i hope i don't try to get every set especially the old ones because my god the cost is insane there's like a latios latios if you guys know those two legendaries they're like jet plane looking birds from gen 3 uh there's a card where like they form a heart with like their heads and their neck the cheapest i could even see that card in existence i wasn't looking at it i was like oh my god i'm gonna buy it i'm gonna buy it i'm gonna buy it just someone who told me it was expensive like how expensive could it be the cheapest one i could find was two thousand dollars for one piece of cardboard i better start printing stuff on pieces of cardboard see what happens you guys want to make some distractible collectible cards and that's apparently a crazy industry might as well but yeah scalpers have the reason everything's so crazily priced is because people are like people want this what if i hoard this and raise price because they're fucking monsters scalpers are monsters but i mean it is just crazy how the the the way that i think about the money and it gets it just destroys anything but it's worse when the companies lean into it i feel like there's a lot from the pokemon company that's probably like very happy that a lot of people are trying to fight for the value of this and you know then they can raise their own prices and then they're gonna yeah well that's probably that's probably funny though because like they see this and they're like oh yeah oh people fucking love these things we gotta make more but it's like yeah well you're selling them for eighty dollars a box or whatever and then someone sells what's in that box for five thousand dollars and you don't see any of that shit yeah that's the thing is like a lot of the retail it's still high i don't know what a pack comes out to typically now maybe like six to eight dollars a pack or something maybe more but like whenever we were collecting i say we whenever i was collecting back in the 90s it was like literally 299 or 399 for a single pack yeah well i used to do magic when i was in like middle school high school magic the gathering and i it was like two or three bucks for a booster back then so you could go go to go to the local store grab a few boosters for like eight or ten bucks maybe have a good time open some packs get nothing now it's higher the base value but you're never gonna find base value anywhere uh gamestop just got uh in well i wouldn't say in trouble but there was a lot of controversy on gamestop because they themselves raised prices rather than waiting for scalpers they were like what if we just charge more i don't know how much they went up but people a lot of people were upset some people defended some people were upset about it whatever but like they were just like why let scalpers raise the price when we can it's the dynamics of the market you know we the straight of hormuz is closed immediately raise prices oh it's open let's hold off let's not lower them just yet can't push it back down you don't know if the prices are gonna go back down which we control in the end kept getting closed again so i guess i guess there may be some logic in that but no you know it's weird it's just a little weird uh i also had a really speaking of spending lots of money you guys god i'm ashamed to admit this what's going on with you all right i've used doordash a lot so for six years i've been using their subscription service for deliveries and they were like here's how much you've saved over the last six years by using doordash that's rude that's just rude do you have any idea what that number was five figure is this is this five year is this five figure number sixty thousand dollars jesus uh i don't know you eat a lot of food you've eaten a lot and that goes on back to covid where it was like there were periods during during lockdowns and shit where it was like if you didn't have groceries what are you supposed to do it was thirteen thousand nine hundred i knew it was five figures i knew it was five figures i saved thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars on deliveries over six years you shaved and listeners i'm doing air quotes and please put in a sound effect for my air quotes did it have the total that you've spent accompanying that or was it just like thank god if it did i didn't see it i only saw the savings what i've saved on fees delivery and what ever else that you know the eighteen thousand charges you get good lord in five years i would bet i don't think it's six figures i bet it's not over a hundred thousand but i bet it's pretty up there i mean if you think about having a meal delivered probably on average one to two times not two times a day but probably at least once a day part of that too is you feed a lot of people i feel like a lot of the times we do or door door dashing it's like well we have guests in town and we need food and we don't want to bring a party of 10 people to a restaurant necessarily or whatever and i'm not cooking for my friends all my money is going to pokemon cards and door dash so half of it is definitely wade eating freddy's while we're filming distractible i've never had that in a minute sounds good i've not had lunch yet thanks man he's gonna order now he's gonna order some freddy's for while we record yeah wait they have pokemon cards too you can door dash pokemon cars i don't know i don't please don't let me look at that i don't want to know all right that's my small talk i've taken a few and i had an episode too oh well we'll see how it goes you did it this time it wasn't even us i did i had a lot to talk about we we could skip it i also have a lot to talk about we could save it for the next episode if you just want to go straight on give yourself the small talk point and the segue point man you're in the lead you're doing so good i am all the small talk of my own episode i'm such a rude ass that's why i don't get to host anymore you're such a rude ass another thing i did while traveling because i didn't have a book with me is i watched i watched a show that i hadn't seen about it i've watched a fantastic show and segue i want to talk about us going nuclear today's episode's all about nuclear okay all right who would i nuke let's start with the countries that i hate the most i meant power but you can nuke if you look oh oh power oh what are we doing sports teams individuals institutions what are we nuking mark's like wait is sour patch kids a country i learned that the one episode i have it for you i say we nuke the moon take that a james what would he photograph then he would get the prettiest picture of like the nuke exploding the new calendar called the end of the moon that was just a sequence of mark nuking the moon to bits how many nukes would it take to destroy the moon i don't know mr owl why don't you show us a one a two a different commercial the way that for everyone out there nuclear stuff at least worked back then was you had like fuel rods nuclear fuel rods they would react and their reaction would produce heat heat would boil water water turns into steam steam creates power and that's how it was supposed to work and then you have these control rods that are supposed to go into the nuclear reactor that stop or slow down the reaction that was your emergency breaks this guy watches one miniseries knows how nukes work well it's a simple that that's a pretty it's a simple it's a simple science that's such a simple breakdown of a very complicated process like that's baby's description of nuclear power all right comrade the gas off and chernobyl a lot of things went wrong um for one they were supposed to be doing a test then someone was like hey actually we need more power for the day can you guys just so they'd gone into low power mode and they were like all right we're gonna run this test and someone made the call like actually can you put the test off for 12 hours and they're like yes because here we only say yes um so the nuclear power plant stayed in low power mode and they were like okay we're gonna do it all day which is not good for it it was beating building up like xenon gas and other stuff that wasn't great for the reactor because it wasn't running at full power it wasn't burning away as usual when they went to run the test they were like huh some of this doesn't look right and the guy running the test was like nah it's fine trust me i'm an expert night shift had never been prepared for the tests they'd never learned how to do them they hadn't studied them they were just like hey is this a good idea all these things say not to do it and the guy in charge is like yeah yeah but i'm the expert do it i want this promotion do it so they do all these things to run the test and then the nuclear reactor they're supposed to stop i think like 700 i don't know kilowatts or whatever it was a power and then the reactor's like oh i'm still going down i'm still going down power basically goes all the way down and the way that they decided to bring power back up was removing some of those safety rods they're like oh let's pull these control rods out that way they're not stopping the nuclear reaction nuclear reaction can go we'll get our power back and it did but all of a sudden I think it was down to like 18 out of what? 150 control rods only 18 were left inside and the nuclear reaction was like hey, there's nothing stopping me I'm fucking go crazy. Oh Ultimately as the number started shooting up there was a kill switch I figured it was called there was a name for it But they hit the kill switch like alright put all the new the rods back in we're shutting this down finally However, there was a flaw in the design of the nuclear control rods in order to save money They had graphite tipped control rods instead of whatever it was supposed to be I don't know what the alternative was, but the graphite itself whenever inserted into the core has a temporary moment of actually increasing the Reaction rather than decreasing so even though the rod itself is supposed to stop it the moment all those graphite tips went in It was basically like a bunch of lighters at a gas station Just like what if we just light a bunch of fires here real quick and then reactor go boom and meltdown happen radiation leaked Some disasters were actually prevented that could have been a lot worse at Chernobyl, but I think it's still Responsible for at least four to nine thousand deaths plus who knows how many cancers and so on and so forth But those are the basics of Chernobyl However, the kill switch in theory should have worked if government wasn't cheap and didn't say well What are the odds of the graphite tip things causing a problem all these things have to go wrong for it to be bad? And then it was and it did and so on so forth The only other nuclear two things of problems I know about there was a thing at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania In the 70s and then there was Fukushima back in like what was it 2011 those the only other ones I personally know about I don't know what caused the issues at Three Mile I'm not looked into that one Fukushima There was a like a magnitude 9 earthquake and then a tsunami went over the protective wall hit the power plant Brown the steam engines took away any ability for power to keep water cooling the reactors And since it was being hit with seawater all of the power was gone all they were doing all kinds of shit to try to get it out of the reactor To try to get power to these reactors They couldn't do it fast enough and then boom boom boom boom from hydrogen buildup and so on and so forth They called a Swiss cheese of failure. I didn't know that. Is that true? You don't know about the term Swiss cheese of failure I did not it's like if you line up slices of Swiss cheese from say a different cheese block There's not much chance that you're gonna get a hole that goes all the way through but every once in a while in rare circumstances You line up enough Swiss cheese slices. There's gonna be one that series of Swiss cheese that has a hole that goes all the way through And that's the Swiss cheese of failure. It's rare chances who need to overlap for it to happen That's why I only eat American cheese. I think we found our first country We need to nuke which is the subject of this episode and they're shitty cheese and any other country that has holes with holes with cheese and cheese with holes and holes with cheese around You deserve to be nuked I think I speak for everyone here. That's the official stance of distractible hosted by Wade He's the leader of this operation Oh god, keep cheese out of your holes keep holes out of your cheese everyone That's today's PSA and we're gonna have regular hole inspections to make sure those holes aren't cheesy Please don't ask me to inspect your hole. Wade's gonna do it. I don't want to I don't want a cavity search for cheese. No, no, no, no not cavity search hole search. What are we talking about nuclear nuclear power? Oh Those are what I know about you guys are welcome to describe a three-mile if you know what happened at three mile, but ultimately there's still a huge debate about whether or not nuclear power is safe from what I can tell Fukushima sounded like a pretty freak accident But there were still some cutting cost things that went into effect that led to it being a disaster Chernobyl if they'd had the right kind of control rods in place Yeah, the fucking idiot running the thing was going to cause a disaster But the shutoff button still should have shut off both of those things. I think should in theory still have been preventable Fukushima I'm a little bit less of a I'm a little bit less knowledgeable about other than The basics are described but a lot of people still argue that nuclear power is still safer and still has less of a death toll I've got it and I got the perfect company to do. I know what you're asking us. You don't even do explain anymore RYOBI nuclear batteries. I think the entire RYOBI line could be souped up if it's already green. It's already green It's our green nothing greener than nuke Lear Do I say I love the catchphrase like you bought you pick up the drill and it's like nothing greener then and it's just like a mushroom cloud I love it when my mushroom clouds are green. That's when you know, they're good. That's a RYOBI branding on there RYOBI Call me I'm gonna get so many sponsors by the end of this year I'm gonna be so sponsored nuclear power RYOBI go well no go press purchase and Bob already We'll get to go for nuclear GoPros would be also be awesome But I think if that RYOBI chainsaw that's nuclear powered instead of like revving or worrying It's like just the clicks from a Geiger counter and so you just like the radiation goes up Get your new RYOBI brushless nuclear drill RYOBI's new 1.21 gigawatt nuclear powered 4 amp hour battery It will be powered for slightly longer than on the old ones The best of the best right this is what you wanted out of this episode, right? Oh, yeah I mean imagine like do you guys ever had like a little flower bed outside and like weeds keep popping up and it's so annoying Like but imagine your nuclear spray that just keeps the Weeds gone forever. Well, that's just *cough* Cuz it'll kill you allegedly *laughter* Allegedly, there's nuclear Maybe yes, maybe Protect me protect me from myself Protect us from our brand slander Protect us RYOBI Come on I'm the Joker but with lawsuits Come on Sumi Sumi I want to do it I'm like a dog biting mailman I just keep getting more lawsuits I keep chasing sponsors I wouldn't know what if I actually got one What would I do? I would do what I did with Prusa Where I put my butts around and don't make a video For six god damn months Hey, they're cool, we're cool, right Prusa? You're cool I did have this revelation on like a stream yesterday Where I'm like, hey, I kind of have If everyone in my audience knows That I haven't done a brand video for Prusa Everyone I've done the job, right? It's kind of perfect viral marketing, really Cause then there's a bunch of people feeling Sympathy for Prusa And if any of them needs a 3D printer They're like, Mark's not gonna make a video I gotta buy one of those Gotta help these guys out I gotta reach out and see if I get more sponsorships Where I don't do what I agree to To see if, guys The sympathy you'll garnish over the next five years will be crazy Yeah, I know, right The sympathy Is gonna be through the roof It's the new generation Of pain exposure Thank you guys in sympathy, just wait I don't really want a 3D printer, but Mark didn't do the video So I guess I'll get one As an empath I really feel for Prusa Nuclear powered 3D printing would go hard What are we talking about? Nuclear, anything nuclear, we're going nuclear today Are we talking about power plants? Is nuclear power the way? I don't know, I don't know in thorium reactors uh i haven't checked up on it in thorium salt reactors i don't think before it was practical there was something about it that's practical it was safer but with thorium salts there's a much lower like power ratio you can get out of it in the current way that they make them i forget what the main problem is though it was there was something that was fundamentally a problem with it uh that needed more research to get further into it right thorium ironically also was the thing that was coating those minolta lenses that makes it radioactive so you know it's good. Yeah, so thorium, it looks like, still involves using fissile fuel, so nuclear material. Molten salts are highly corrosive at extreme temperatures, requiring advanced expensive alloys. There's not really a streamlined global framework for cooling and regulation because it's such a new technology, I guess. All right, so I think maybe the issue was that thorium, to become fissile, it needs to absorb a neutron to become uranium-233, but the problem is uranium-233 could quickly or fairly simply turn into plutonium? No. Protactinium 233? The fuck is that? Oh shit. What in the shit? Sounds like bad news. I've never heard of that one. Alright, okay, this is where we're starting to babble about things that we don't know about and we're making all the actual nuclear engineers mad which is my favorite thing to do. Somehow still better than our brander? Brand slander? Our brander? You've coined a term for our brander. I want you guys to settle something for me because i feel conflicted about this i've already said it once or twice but this is an honest to god debate and i think different crowds different people come down on different sides of this the word is nuclear as in nucleus nuclear right yes i don't think any of the three of us say sincerely say nuclear because of our accents or anything but that is a way that a large proportion of, uh, like native English speaking people say that word much the same way as people pronounce like pillow as pello or room as rum is someone in my room or weirdos would do that. We are experts in speaking out loud. So thus we are experts in language is nuclear isn't an acceptable way to pronounce the word, or is it unacceptable? Because I feel strongly conflicted about this. Because there are deep parts of me that find it very funny that, like, George W. Bush said nuclear, right? He was the president of our country. He was the leader of the free world, whatever. And he said that to me when I was a kid. I was like, he said it wrong. We're going to find her. We're going to nuclear. Read the word. It's nuclear, sir. I think a linguist would say, well, language is kind of a living thing, right? So if someone's colloquial pronunciation is accepted as nuclear. Nerd. Help me. Nerd. Man, language is a living thing. I've got a lot of, like, southernisms in my family, so I feel like I've heard nuclear a bunch. I mean, I say nuclear. If someone I'm talking to says nuclear, I'll just continue to say nuclear. Do you, like, say it more emphatically to try and tell them that you're smarter than them? I am. But, like, everyone knows I'm smarter than them. But, like, what a thing that they're out there. My cross to bear. So it's so to you, it's acceptable because, like, friends and family. Go there. Friends and family have that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to, like, make a big deal out of it. Yeah, I don't care. But for different reasons than Wade, I just want to differentiate myself from him a little bit. But I don't care just because it's not worth the fight. Like, there's so many. If we're as a society to the point where we can start fighting about that stuff again, we're in a good place. I think that that's a sign that, you know, society is progressing down to where we want to be. And until we get there again, I don't think that we. Any of us can complain too much. You know what I mean? You get what I'm saying here? You understand what I'm getting at, what I'm stabbing at. You're picking up what I'm stabbing. You stabbing what I'm stabbing? I'm stabbing it. I'll stab it with you. Okay, stab me. I'll stab you. Sam, where'd you even get that video of me stabbing Mark? Wow, look at all these different angles of him stabbing Mark. That's crazy. Whoa. We got a 4D Gaussian splat of me getting stabbed by Bob. Holy shit. Wait, we have a slow-mo angle from the knife's perspective. Oh my God. We've got the Minority Report psychic future view of Bob stabbing me. Dream sequence and everything? Wow, Sam, where'd you get that? That's crazy shit. That's production value right there. There's me as the dead wife under the bedsheets before I got stabbed. I don't know whose perspective we're looking at. I guess Amy's. What happened exactly? I thought it was just you and Bob. Where's the wife come from? No, no. It's from. Amy's perspective. So Amy's not in this. It's just me under the sheets. Ha ha ha ha ha. You know, the dead wife thing? Yeah. No, that's a thing. You can't act like I'm great. It doesn't seem like he knows. Everyone knows the dead wife thing. Everybody knows the dead wife thing. Yeah. I can't tell if you're doing that just to piss him off or if you actually sincerely have no idea. We'll never know. So back to nuclear or nuclear if you prefer. I don't. I don't either. I guess what we're saying is if you're a watcher or a listener and you say, hey, nuclear, but also good for you. The noise. But for those listening, Bob made a slight smirk as he gave that one light giggle. They know what that noise means. You don't have to explain my noises. It was so light. I barely even heard it. That's the sound my ass makes after I eat too much skyline. No, no, no. That's wetter. No. Anyway, let's get back to discussing how nuclear reactors function. Right, right, right. Wait, can I talk about. I meant to talk about this during small talk, but. Because there was something that was so funny that happened on my journeys, and it's not necessarily the main point of my small talk, but I met some fans, right? Gee, whoa, so many things happening. Someone spotted me through my mask, which I'm like, hey, if you manage to get me through that, it's totally fine. I usually do in the airport, both because I've never really. No one cared who you were until you took off the mask. Exactly. Just like that. That's what it was. So I say hi, I take a picture, and we go our separate ways. They were very nice. And they were even very nice afterwards. And they posted the picture on the subreddit, and it got tons of votes for some reason. But in the comments of this, it's really funny because it just shows some people's psychic perceptions, psychological perceptions of reality get distorted in some way. Because I don't know, it might be a joke, but someone's said a comment, it's like, he's surprisingly average in height, blah, blah, blah. And the person responded, I'm 5'9", and my friend is around the same height. He was shorter than us both. LOL. And I'm like, you posted the picture of us, and in the picture, I'm taller than both of you. Literally. That was so nice of them to bend down to make you look taller. I know, that's what someone said, like, oh, so kind of you to bend down so low for this photo. Like, literally, in the photo, you posted, I'm taller than both of you. Like, what the. Why? Why would you do this to me? Comments are coming. Our original poster comes back, and it's like, yeah, it's weird. Mark actually carries around his own Apple box to stand on for fan pictures. He's not as tall as he appears in this photograph. Gotta make sure you explain it accurately. It's happened more than once. And you guys know, I'm not a tall guy. I never claim to be a tall guy, but I am comfortably average in height. And it's just because you freaks make me look tiny, and no one understands how gigantic you both are. You both are, like, in the 99th. In the 99th percentile of height. And everyone's like, there's no way both of them can be that tall. He's got a beauty, beauty microscopic, and I'm like, no! I mean, it's pretty unlikely that you'd have two such freakishly tall friends. It is. Isn't that weird? Almost like it couldn't be so. And also, like, the other people in our friend group that are weirdly tall and above average. You know, I think Jesse is actually the same height as all of you guys. He's also 6'4", for some fucking reason. In Cincinnati, they put something in the chili that I didn't get. I don't know. Maybe. I was destined to be 5'1", but I ate the chili, and I grew 9 inches. It's just like, I feel. You didn't get the big boy three-way? Did you just get the normal one? Actually, I didn't start eating Skyline until later, so maybe that was my problem. That's the thing, yeah. That's the thing. That's your mistake. Ignore the fact that I grew up in a different city. Nuclear-powered dildos. Nuclear-powered, um. Side tangent. Mark's fan. So, okay. Whoa, whoa, what the fuck? Wait, your fan meetup triggered this memory in my head. Whoa, hold on a second. You can't go from nuclear-powered dildos to nuclear-powered dildos. Nuclear-powered dildos to. Oh, this reminds me of you, Mark. Well, no, no. Before we get to the dildos. This is before the dildos. Okay, all right. Okay. Nothing to do with the dildos. Uh-huh. Wink. Molly and I were flying back, and apparently there's no direct flights from Richmond to Cincinnati, so we had to fly to Atlanta there. We had to fly to Detroit on the way back here. While in Detroit, we decided we wanted to get food, and the food place Molly and I decided on was, like, we were in B Terminal. This was in, like, the very end of A Terminal, which I didn't know until I was getting there. It was a long walk. So, we walked. We walked to our gate. We'd drop off our bags. I was like, yeah, Molly said she'd sit with the bags while I go get food. And on the way, we're on one of those, like, little moving escalator platform sidewalk, whatever they call it, moving sidewalk. I don't know what the term is. Speedifiers. There's a guy on the phone looking out a window, and he is just yelling, and he's screaming, and he's cursing into his phone. And as we approach, like, people nearby are all watching this guy, and he's getting more and more just, like, animated, more and more angry. And we're like, oh, that's good. It's not going to be a problem. They're going to, someone's going to come do something about that, because, like, there's kids nearby. This guy's just dropping F-bombs, like, he's on this podcast. Get to the gate, set my stuff down, go back. Guy is still cursing. More people are kind of, like, watching, seeing, like, hey, something terrible about to happen. Don't want to miss it. Something horrible happened in his life. I don't know. But he's very angry at whoever he's on the phone with. I keep going. I get past him. I'm walking. It feels like a half an hour excursion to go get food. And Molly texts me updates. Like, hey, police came and talked to the guy. But now there's a lady who missed her flight. Very upset. She's like, I'm supposed to be first class. I blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you can't do this to me. Because they wouldn't let her board after the plane apparently had already left. I guess they were supposed to hold the whole plane up for her, and she was late or something. I don't know. That does make it tricky. So police calm the guy down. They're keeping an eye on him, but they've calmed him down. Now they're back talking to this lady. I get the food. I come all the way back. I get on one of the moving sidewalk things. And actually, there's the two police officers. With that lady going right by me. Like, oh, well, I guess at least whatever's happening, they're handling that. Get back. Start eating food. We eat. I put on my headphones. I go back to watching my regularly scheduled Chernobyl on my tablet. And Molly, like, taps me. And I look up. And there's the two police officers just standing there smiling, like, arms crossed, looking at me. And I'm like, hello? Hi? And they're like, are you Wade? And I was like, who's asking? Yes. And they're like, dude, we are such big fans. And I was like, oh, thank God. Oh, every because everyone in our, like, sitting areas, like, looking at me. They're like, these police officers have had to take care of two problematic people here already. Is this guy ground zero? Who is this mystery bald man? So, like, I get up. I take a picture with them. They're very nice. I'm like, I was like, oh, thank God. I didn't know what you guys was like. I didn't know. I don't know anything. I didn't see what happened. I take the picture and, you know, they head off and people are just there. I'm like, don't worry, just YouTube. I'm not actually important. And then I put my headphones back on and go back to watching. But, like, I was the center of attention for a moment. That's the first time that's happened. And I see, like, them, like, go down one of the employee only staircases. They get in their car because we're sitting in front of the window and they drive off. So I think they saw me on a camera and drove back over to come say hi, which is cool. But headphones on after all these events, looking up and just see, like, two cops staring at me. I was like, whatever it was, I just got food. I just got food. I'm watching. Watching shit. It's like Chernobyl scared the shit out of me. I was like, I don't know what I do. I didn't do anything wrong. I swear. Wait, you get the. segue point for my current story. oh great i can contribute to this fans recognizing us in places where it's a whole situation this was another one where it's really attention i didn't want but it was it's not a huge deal it's just funny now we went to king's island and anyone who is large in the way that i am large knows the uncertainty that comes with roller coasters we went to king's island and we were like all right let's go on a coaster and literally like was talking to mandy and her brother about like all right so which coasters are like comfortable would be okay for me as a very like large even if you're just tall those roller coasters are tough so we we debated and it was like okay we're gonna go on this one we're gonna go on the what used to be the uh italian job one and is now just called like stunt coaster or something uh and we wait in line and we get all the way up there i they don't have like a test seat so i have no idea if i'm gonna fit we get all the way to the front they we it's our turn we're going to get in and anyone who's a fat guy like me has had this experience where like i get in and i you pull it and it goes like click click click and i'm like okay it clicked a bunch and the guy comes over and he's like ah i can't see i have to see this line for and i'm like okay yeah yeah click one more is that good and he's like nah nah it needs like a few more still it's like step on it i'll suck in my gut you step on it and literally this guy's like all right man and just like and i'm like yeah do it do it this is gonna be great i'll survive and like they do it and it goes like this and then they do it a couple more times and finally he calls his buddy over and they look and they're like now we have to see the line clearly past this it's that's not enough but and i'm like all right i'm too fat and the way they build roller coasters of course they can't just unbuckle me and be like all right you off they're like all right everybody uh we're gonna have to unbuckle your seatbelts or just stay in your seats there's just a really big fat guy up at the front of the roller coaster is not gonna fit uh so just pull it right back down and uh we'll just make him leave while you do that and so it was like everything opens and everyone's kind of like oh what i climb out and as i'm like trying to climb out really awkward and feeling bad about myself the guy who was stepping on my lap bar to try and make me fit was like wait a minute are you bob like literally we were at the front of the train in front of everyone else and he's like are you bob for distractible guys this is bob cool yeah cool hey do you want to pick do you want to make these people wait while we take a picture really quickly you go to everybody you're like all right everybody bust out your coins time to start flipping uh suffice to say uh he didn't ask for a picture but we didn't take one i just like ran away like i'm not him ran and hid somewhere in my shame but uh what a moment for someone to just be like wait i know you look everybody another annoying ass thing about those roller coasters they do put them like super tight on you when you're big like it goes all like it's in your gut but a lot of the way that they release is they don't just pop up you have to push down more for it to release yeah oh god oh god i've seen like people have to have like the things fucking removed because they put it so tight on you and when they come around they push down they're like don't give a fuck if it's already tight on you and it's like and then you go to get off the thing that's like guys help they're like oh don't worry but sometimes they can't get it in far enough so they have to come and fucking like disassemble the goddamn thing to get you out it's the best it's the best yeah because those things are built for like you know i guess kids and if you have to be able to fit kids and people i don't have to really tall but they're built for mark-sized humans hey i was about to say yeah i never have these problem guys i i hate to say it but imagine being average i don't remember what the rule is for holding mark but bob you've got two points for mark insults already that wasn't an insult he's average i didn't call him short at all i said he's average insult man that's not a short joke yeah you freaks you freaks fuck does that mean i insulted him by thinking it was an insult i think yeah you did wait a minute yeah what the hell man all right i mean because you got one insult mark point then for the pillow rum thing because that was definitely was that targeted no that was i was specifically targeting my high school friend peter i don't know if you listen to the show peter but yes i remember that you say pillow wrong peter peter if you're listening to this you need to run peter this is you're in a coma you need to wake up this is your sign hey peter run hey peter all right well i gave myself one mark insult point those two combined had to be at least one mark insult right i wasn't targeting mark at all the word that mark says funny was not in part of my examples i mean i say room kind of funny apparently oh real it kind of is it's still it's not room it's room it's room the bedroom what are we talking about nuclear bombs nuclear icbms uh nuclear underpants radioactive you know they used to have radium things to make your water radioactive i just saw uh they're used to just straight up be the only thing about which is this has a shitload of radium in it drink this and you'll get your daily dose of radium which you want yeah between that and like lead products like um we were seeing a thing about the diatlov pass i don't know if you guys are familiar with that one where people went like hiking and ended up all being dead or whatever and then there was uh did they solve the diatlov pass mystery ultimately they concluded like five or six years ago there was like a a guy that went out and said yes they think what ended up happening was there was an avalanche like a minor a minor avalanche that came down and hit the tent which is like usually the precursor to a bigger avalanche so i think that the people burst out of the tent and they're like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die to run away thinking there was another avalanche but since there wasn't a bigger one they were just out there fucking freezing to death because they didn't get all their stuff in time because they were running thinking there's gonna be an avalanche they tried building like a little campfire or hiding under like some some rock structure that ended up collapsing ultimately hypothermia they for all froze to death or got crushed by shit to death thinking they were escaping an avalanche that never came couldn't be me i have this regular thought experiment i'm like okay what if i was transported into the siberian wilderness like boom i'm naked in the middle of the frozen tundra what do i do and the answer shockingly isn't die immediately i i i i figure away you figure away non-specifically i figure it out well i once i watch enough outdoor boys youtube channel videos i'll know exactly what to do nothing makes your brain move faster than the cold right you just yeah i absolutely have that same confidence i've never once started a fire without the aid of like a lighter and flammable shit i would definitely figure it out i would within the first few hours i would have camp set up i would have enough shelter with some kind of fire that i would survive that i'd have to work out food because you have to figure out the food situation but that's not as immediately pressing as dying of exposure so yeah i figured no i see what you're saying i figured out i was thinking of the franklin expedition which was uh like 160 odd years ago so 10 cans used to not be 10 cans they were lead cans and a lot of food so they had this long expedition where they were trying to find a trade route through like the arctic all of their meals they were like eating out of lead cans which you know how good lead is for you and then they got stuck in the ice and a bunch of shit went wrong and they all died whatever how have you but like yeah lead we used to eat lead we're just like oh lead paint lead cans lead i know about this because i went to norway and so you get it from the norwegian perspective of the people they were racing to find like an arctic path and then the first to the south pole is also another part of that and every time from the norwegian perspective was just like yeah and then the british really fucked up there they did not know what they were doing at all and it's like especially to the south pole one where it's like the norwegian expedition is like oh it's such a race it's very arduous you know they have to send people back all the time and they get there and their first plant their flag from the british perspective it's like and then 13 people died on the first leg and then they shot all their horses on the second leg and then they lost another person and there were four people left to climb the last ridge and one person went there and or uh maybe a few and then they lost another person and there were four people and then they get there and there's already a norwegian flag after all of their people died and their horses are dead they did not make it back they all died so yeah from the norwegian perspective uh these these franklin's lost expedition does not surprise me i'm curious what we're gonna find i'm sure something with fast food will come out in like 200 years where they're like these fuckers voluntarily went and spent their money eating this poison plastics it's definitely microplastics yeah at least we're aware you know but there's probably some we're not aware of right i'm already like 18 microplastic when i die i'm either gonna be buried or recycled i'm too much plastic to be cremated i'm bad for the environment that's true sadly you can't recycle plastic can't you well you can but they don't i i've been so disheartened because when i get my trash collected i see them pick up the garbage can throw it in the back and then i see them pick up the recycling can throw it in the same spot and i go oh man maybe there's a there's like a divide and i still i still separate my recyclable i still do it even though i know what's happening to it there i'm still like i i'm doing my part i i can't imagine not i know that it's not this is just like a privilege thing because i grew up in a in a better off neighborhood and whatever i grew up where i grew up i grew up we had recycling like my whole childhood as far as i remember so literally the way you take the trash out is you separate out the recycling and take it out and you have two bins and that it's It's always been like that, and I can't even imagine not Because I, like you, I'm sort of disillusioned about the state of industrial recycling and what they actually do with any of this stuff. And that I pay for the extra recycling service seems really stupid. But, like, it's a compulsion. How do you put out your trash if you're not separating the recycling and, like, making sure, like, oh, this is a number one. That can go in the recycling. That's good. Okay. I have neighbors in the neighborhood I live in now who just have just a trash can. And my brain is like, what, do you just keep your recycling? What, do you recycle it yourself? My grandparents did that. They would keep the recycling and take it in themselves. They got one of those, like, can crushers where they just put the cans in. Oh, I love that. I feel like I would be better off just trying, getting a smelter and melting all my aluminum cans down. Shmelting it? Shmelting it. And I could shmelt it into things. Dude, you could make your own custom heat sinks. Get some kind of mold. Well, you have 3D printers, right? So you could 3D print and then make a sand cast of your 3D print and then use the sand molding to make, like, perfect little shelves. You could make them with Capri Sun insert slots for cooling. I just melt down the Capri Suns. Do you ever watch Nighthawk in lights videos? They're the person that got me into Glauber's salt. I do not. They made a video about two weeks ago that had a, like, it's to make flow batteries. And it's not about flow batteries. It kind of tangentially nuclear. So I'll take some points for this. But it's like he's making. I don't know. That's how this one works. He's making a flow battery and he needs, like, this sort of graphite material to have, like, a lot of surface area for the anode and cathode, right? Of a battery. And it's like there's this extremely expensive material that you can buy in bulk, but it's expensive. But you can make your own using this carbon insulation material that then you strip with some fluid and then put in your microwave kiln and microwave till it's 2000 degrees. Or something like that. And I'm like, holy shit. This is why I think microwaves don't work the way people say they do, because it's just like he had it in this is that safe to go that high. He had it outside, so it's perfectly fine, but it's just like I, I know they say, like, oh, it heats up by water molecules vibrating and that's what heats your food. And I go like, well, then why, when you put aluminum foil into it, it turns into plasma. What water molecules are vibrating? And I'm like, there's I, I want to make a microwave smelter. Well, I don't know why that wouldn't work. I couldn't tell you why it would work either, but I definitely don't know why it wouldn't work in Los Angeles. This is probably the best thing I could do. Does not sound like the headline of the next fire that destroys a major residential area at all. What would you be smelting? Metal, aluminum cans. I'm recycling. I'm helping the environment. There's only so many things you could smelt at home. You don't want to be. You can't be doing high like high temperature. Complicated shit. Call me crazy here, but isn't isn't that the one thing you're not supposed to put in a microwave is metal. No, no. They just say that. So you don't discover it's. Yeah, it's dangerous if you don't. If you're not doing it on purpose, it's dangerous because you might do something you're not expecting. But isn't it dangerous if you do it on purpose? It just becomes a plasma. What about that one YouTuber who who created like a 20,000 watt microwave? And it is how about William William Osmond? No, styro pyro. Have you seen his 40 like 40? 400 car battery experiment? Yes. That literally melts and causes the magnet. It feels so strong. All the wires to the things. He made a microwave. That was unbelievable. He called it a macro wave. Do I get nervous just plugging things into the wall? I wouldn't fuck with that. Yeah. Well, he seems to not care about that. So maybe you should reevaluate your priorities. I'm a coward. You are a coward. I'll take some points for that. Can I just say as a. I would never insult Mark. First opportunity. Wait, you fucking bitch. That was an hour into recording. That was not the first opportunity. I know as a completely ignorant non-scientist myself. How the fuck do we have things that are so ubiquitous that we don't understand the technology? Do we sincerely not really understand how microwaves work? Because every house in America definitely has at least one of those bad boys. Sitting somewhere inside that makes popcorn once every two months at minimum. It's no there. It's understood how like the microwaves are generated the wave guide, putting them in there. The, the kind of, but like, it's not clear how it heats things up or why aluminum becomes plans. Like, I, I know that you've said that, but like, that's a thing, right? People are like, oh, we don't even know how it works completely. I think I don't know how it works completely. I'm sure there's plenty of scientists that could explain it better than I could. I think it probably does. I think it's a little bit more complicated than it is. complicated or hard for normies to understand you're not the first and or only person i've heard say that right it's a common like it's one of those things people just throw out we're like ah we don't even really know how microwaves work there has to be some amount of truth to that or like maybe we didn't for a long time or something obviously not that because they make them so they know how to make the thing that emits the microwaves to begin with and they contain them theoretically so that it's safe to be in your house but there's some mystery in it what's the mystery you got me but it makes things hot makes a hell of a good pizza roll if you do it right whoa whoa whoa are you are you telling me you microwave pizza rolls tell me you do this to yourself on purpose what's wrong with that i i find a way to make them better there than i feel like they come out in the oven yeah oh wrong it's a hell of i know it's a hell of an accusation but like there's one thing that microwaves don't do it's make anything in the known universe crispy and that's the only thing i want with my pizza rolls is a little bit of crispiness if you over cook them in the microwave they do come out crispy and i feel like they're better than when they're in the oven i haven't had uh pizza rolls since i've gotten an air fryer but i bet an air fryer would do it really well dude air fryer is the way air fryer is the truth when it comes to pizza rolls it's air fryer is basically just an oven with a fan it's a convection oven yeah but it's small so you can put only the amount of food you actually want to eat inside of it which is problematic if what you want to eat is 20 chicken wings how many chicken wings would fit in my air fryer you just have to have the right air fryer i'm hungry so i'm eating lunch nuclear we've really gone nuclear we've gone microwave we've gone king's island we've gone plastics i will say i think that modern nuclear technology probably is pretty safe and if it's made not cheaply and correctly it probably is oh absolutely yeah but like i guess long-term ramifications are like is it safe 500 years from now like does the how how do they replace all the infrastructure i'm sure there's probably a plan hopefully in place but i don't know if they're gonna do it in place also there is nuclear waste and the way that the half-life of nuclear material works is it radiation and shit like that sticks around a while so eventually you're gonna have a lot of waste that's what i was gonna say is i'm not an expert but my understanding is that nuclear power is actually the just as safe as current standards and also like the most environmentally effective version of generating electricity except it does generate nuclear waste and our current solution for that is to generate nuclear waste and that's what i'm talking about is putting that big fucking mountain and nobody go over there and we'll just hope that never fills all the way up so we keep putting it in that big mountain that we made um but like yeah assume that's at some point in the future someone will invent the whatever device and it will remanufacture nuclear waste into probably puppy food or diapers for babies who knows my baby's ass is glowing is that normal doctor oh so you could change it in the dark without the lights and wake your poor baby well i mean okay the thing about nuclear waste is it really doesn't generate that much compared to other energy mediums because nuclear power is so dense compared to other any other form of it so either we put it in one spot in the ground and don't touch it which you know someone could i guess sabotage it or we do what we currently do which is shoot it all in the air like all the byproducts just up why can't we just launch our nuclear waste to the moon oh i thought you were gonna say nuclear waste to the moon i don't know you said sun uh you almost had a smart idea yeah see i guess it would be expensive to put it in a thing that's safe to get through the atmosphere and then also its job is to go explode on the sun it's like restaurants in the 90s we just need to make sure that we're in the non-smoking section of the earth and everyone else can have the nuclear fallout when that happens right maybe yeah actually we just we just put a big non-nuclear sign over america and that'll keep all the nuclear dust out of our atmosphere we just designate some parts of the world as being the ew zone and we'll put all of our ew there don't we already have that isn't it called the ew we could i had an idea you can say it i'll look i'll just take my points i don't know i forgot what it was is that how this episode works you just asked for points you didn't ask he told yeah yeah i'll just take them true all right well that's nuclear power everyone we've done it we've gone nuclear the waste we're just gonna launch it into a mountain and if you guys finally want to do it we're gonna do it we're gonna do it we're gonna do it we're gonna do it just buy it near the nuclear waste site i remember why can't we throw it in a volcano that thing you said about it going in the atmosphere i think a volcano would just be a much cooler version of that wouldn't it oh you throw it in there it'll melt down see we're putting all of our waste up and then you take a big cork and you go and that way it stays in there till it's all gone see this is why science works in teams you got the ideas all build and then you're pressure cooking it so you can use it again yeah yeah what if i put it in a can crusher and i put that in my microwave and i turn it into something else it will become a plasma which i've heard is a good thing to donate to blood banks so i assume is a good thing but i got nuclear powered plasma running through my veins i have at least three days to live that'd be a long time you kind of don't want that at that point if you get nuclear plasma in your blood now uh one thing i learned is how awful radiation sickness and death is from when you were a problem in the airport and the police interrupted your chernobyl watching yeah i was talking i was like guys listen what if we all just go to chernobyl as one we could all be a cult and the police came up they're like hey we want your photograph like sure that seems normal this reminds me of a story uh that i don't think i did i tell when i went from poland to back to america and we were in line for the security and then someone walked through these these two little pylons and one of them started beeping right and it was one of those beeps where i was like that's a new one haven't heard that one before and everyone goes quiet and it's quiet for like a minute before this guy security guard comes out and he's got a hand detector for something and he's waving it like this and it's not like clicking like a geiger counter it's beeping and he's just sweeping around looking around everyone's dead silent looking at this guy and he's just and he goes up to someone there's a woman who i thought was like holding a baby and he's holding the thing right up to what i think is a baby and it's going and he just was like just gestures with his finger i'm not hearing any words exchange and it's like they're slowly changing and they're like they're like they're like they're really meandering and what'll happen is this guy keeps waving it as he's going but he's like follow me they go through the pylons it goes beep again and every once in a while he'll stop turn around go to the people that are following him and it's like taking a couple steps at a time he's swimming around come with me and then they left no announcement nothing was said everyone just resumed back into security no clue what it was i have no idea it was at the poland airport anybody know what that was it's actually just a system they used to keep order he gets all those people back to the back and they're all terrified and he's like uh it's okay we're just gonna look at your passport so that you could go we just used that to keep the crowds chilled out yeah everyone out there is gonna be freaked out for the whole rest of the time they're here it's great it's actually a detector for full arts really valuable pokemon cards and whenever that went off the guy knew that she had one he's like i gotta confiscate this kept it in a baby papoose just like it's just cards all the way down i had to buy a little like carry-on bag to bring the cards back because our suitcase was already so full going there i was like you stuffed a carry-on full of pokemon cards you have a problem sounds like a federal crime or something cross state lines did you pay taxes on that it went through their scanner they let me through i guess i could have driven it across state lines and it would have been fine too that's weird i hope someone tells us what that meant because now i'm curious i want to know what that was i'll take some points for mark's story thanks uh can i get the same you guys are certain i'll take some points for mark's story thanks uh can i get the same you guys are certain i'm getting something well it's points i assume any final thoughts on nuclear i'm gonna wrap this one up i don't know if i had any original thoughts on nuclear but you're welcome great that's how this show works i bring up a topic and you just don't give a yeah pretty much bounty bounty bounty oh what is that it's a picture of my dog in a distractible merch oh shit how do we confirm this is there or is it we look at the bounty what do you mean how do we confirm this i'm showing you what oh you mean how do we confirm it's a bounty yeah it's on the list that that is on the official list on the subreddit that is a bounty i had a picture of the moon and i for some reason couldn't find it i was like i had a picture that i managed to take with my gopro of like it through a telephoto lens and i got a good picture of it and i can't find it so i ran out and i put the shirt on chica and i put it on number four on the may list of bounty editions recent persimmon 4148 get a picture of their dog and distractible merch shirt specifically shirt which he did do all right bounty confirmed over dean that's our first bounty that's what i'm talking about i forgot to get the coin flip right after i walked away from those fans i was like ah i completely forgot yeah now that you say it i had a hell of a way to bookend that story of me holding up the entire roller coaster ride if i just done the coin flip thing then and there but it didn't occur to me i wish i'd pull out a coin turn to the cops and been like i want to play a game well that's why that's why when we have this thing and people will sam don't put this in when we have this you know when it's ready we'll have this always on us i think you should believe that but just sam blur to death so they have no idea what's happening you'll you'll love that when you get to know what it is i guarantee it i'm like the men's warehouse guy we go through the points bob you got points for like a dog biting a mailman nuclear pillow room peter slash not mark jab mark sized human not an insult called me a coward yes insult fan in the worst way at king's island and you got some points for wanting points mark you got points for a thick cedar picture thorium salt reactor if people are saying nuclear society's in a good place if we're fighting over the way to say words learning about the franklin expedition in north america if we're fighting over the way to say words learning about the franklin expedition in norway i asked what would be the thing in 200 years we look the thing in 200 years we look the thing in 200 years we look back on our era and be like bad idea back on our era and be like bad idea back on our era and be like bad idea you said plastic very quickly uh you met you said plastic very quickly uh you met you said plastic very quickly uh you met some very tall fans you had a tangential some very tall fans you had a tangential some very tall fans you had a tangential nuclear story you brought up the macro nuclear story you brought up the macro nuclear story you brought up the macro microwave stuff you asked for points a microwave stuff you asked for points a a couple times you got a couple points for asking for them uh and then you got the i gave you three points for the bounty because it's the first bounty we've ever done we said two to three points it's our first ever bounty so i gave out the three uh our totals it was 11 to 7 mark and then mark got three for the bounty so you didn't really need to use that bounty here so it's 14 wait a minute whoa whoa three i thought regular bounties were one i thought we said two to three judges i only gave three i would say something that's as low effort as getting your dog picture in a shirt is doesn't rise to the level of like oh that's an extraordinary bounty that's not a super hard one i would agree that it's a two-pointer but i gave a point for it being the first ever bounty redeem oh jesus wow all right well so and i figured if he was going to use it on an episode he was already dominating might as well give him the point now for it right come on golf rules let's do this all right oh and i have four points one of which is a mark insult because i thought bob insulted mark but it was really just me insulting him on the inside or something it's your own prejudice shining through you jerk oh great wheel we ask you how many spins will we do today two it is thank you we need to pick me up you know sometimes people just have a bad time or a bad week so i'm gonna add had the worst time since we last spoke because you know what a point for that at least means you're getting something right so i'm gonna add a point for that at least means you're getting something out of it that's good that's good i hope i get that one i had a great week but you know got 113 options like one of them will save me in this situation i got two spins to find it what are the odds let's go baby it's only between you two right so since i'm on the board with four it wouldn't go to me right i don't know i don't think we've ever had that precedence post interruptions of the other guy which other guy i don't remember what that means i think whenever like one of the competitors is talking the other person interrupts a bunch that's kind of what i do yeah but we have a separate rule where if none of us can remember what the rule is we delete it but i think we know what that one is is that a respin or do you want to call that way because we probably interrupted each other but it wasn't aggressive this episode or anything it doesn't stand out i would say respin spin number one part two mentioned their significant other the most i said amy i both of you mentioned your significant others and i did not mention mandy a single time i don't think i would say that's true i would have if i had done small talk i will be honest my small talk included mandy i had it prepared we'll never know i'll probably forget it by the time we record the next one anyway come on golf rules come on okay it's minus minus one to current loser is that me or you because i'm on the board if you can't win it's me because you're not the winner or the loser you're the host so that means i'm the current loser that's hilarious you get a bad day you just need to make it worse back to my old ways with the random chance games i love this for me let's flip some coins i'm feeling it guys final score is uh me with five oh no with six okay i beat wade thank god mark with 15 holy shit that might be one of the biggest point differentials we've had at least in recent memory mark really went off at the end there uh and then he had the bounty on top of it so yeah um bob loser speech sometimes the universe speaks to you and who am i to question the wisdom of the universe i suck and i deserve to lose so says the wheel so says the universe so it must be true today it's just the truth of everything i suck i should not have won and i did not win and the one who should have won clearly did so thank you universe for your infinite wisdom thank you wade for not giving me any points for most of what i said and congratulations to mark clearly the better competitor and person on today's episode uh mark our liege our king our leader our most dominant winner would you like to give a winner's speech my goodness i can barely be humble with all these accolades being heaped upon me but i will humbly accept them all i did it whatever i did whenever i was saying the random stuff and we were both saying pretty random things the entire time i said it better somehow which just shows that fate aligned with me on this day what bob said was right it was purely the gods above smiling down upon us and i think that is something you can just let happen you don't need to mention it a lot you don't need to look it in the eye it's just happening i'm not going to lie i'm not going to lie i'm not going to lie i'm not going to say i did anything about it because that will keep it going as long as i don't acknowledge it ever happened my winning streak will continue and the good luck will shower upon me for the moment that i look it in the eye it will turn on me and it will rip me from twain to twain both twains both my twains are gonna be ripped straight out from mark all the way to shania yeah your host speech uh both of them don't like the way i did points even though mark won with them uh so i won't be winning again anytime soon so enjoy this while it lasts i'll see all next season whenever i host again uh congratulations if you haven't already go follow bob at my skirt market markiplier don't follow me uh stay tuned for the next one where mark will host and we'll probably definitely not do the perfect describe unless podcast out