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Oxford 3000 AND TOO

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Oxford 3000 AND TOO

The podcast features a mix of humor, personal storytelling, and intellectual games. Host Bob introduces a new product from Mavily New York: a setting mist with gel-to-mist technology that delivers long-lasting, residue-free hydration. The core of the episode is a playful, improvised word-guessing game inspired by the Oxford 3000, where Mark and Wade take turns guessing words with short, creative clues. The game highlights cognitive differences—the hosts struggle with abstract terms like “aspect ratio” or “minimalism,” leading to humorous missteps and breakthroughs. Alongside the game, Mark shares a personal story of nearly dying from a high fever, emphasizing his health concerns and the importance of medical attention. Wade contrasts this with his newfound habit of reading, including finishing a book in one sitting. The episode blends self-deprecating comedy with heartfelt moments, showcasing personal growth and vulnerability. The final game round ends with Mark winning after a tense, creative battle of wits, and the hosts celebrate their success with lighthearted banter and a nod to the shared difficulty of the word challenges. The episode concludes on a positive, reflective note, emphasizing humor, connection, and the value of both intellectual and physical well-being.

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Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all day-gum v-grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Buying Barb doesn't know Kryptonian law, loves rectal, and starts semantic situations. Midden making mark gets poisoned by pricks, which himself goes urethral, lords whore hammer, and maniacally directs Wade's bottom. Pretty Wade swallows sausage, goes crawling, fears myocardial infarctions, distincterers, his yanghole, from superfan superman to caring less. It's time for Oxford 3000 and two. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello everybody and welcome to Superman's Favorite Podcast. You can't prove that it's not. Unless is does he canonically have a favorite? Yeah, Distractable. Suit, super-de-duper man. Uh, oh, I don't know enough about comic books to make this joke. I asked him, and he told me, "Where's his favorite, Superman's favorite? That's us. That's right, it's Distractable." You talk to Superman? Yeah, we're buddies. On the rig. I go to his fortress of quietude and hang out with him in his cat, and we talk about podcasts, and it's just all true. That sounds like Superman, kinda. It's made of dry ice. The cat? The cat. Yeah, the cat. Anyway, if you never see Distractable before, my name's Bob and I'm the host because I won the last one. There's two other guys here. They're competing to win this one because then that means they host the next one. That's it. That's all the rules. It's just those three rules. Three, two. That one rule, really, is what matters. The people who will be competing today, as always, as only ever, are Mark and Wade. Hi. Hello. I thought we were just leading into the viewers today. You don't have to address the listeners. You can just, we could just do a sign language episode. I love the listeners, because I love ears. He said, "Ear man, we got a near man over here." I'm an ear man. I never know this. I don't know. When my voice had to change to call you an ear man, but now you're an ear man. Last year, man was in 1920. Before talkies came on the scene, when he's those talkies, they need the ear man. In one ear out the other and you don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like to go in balls. I don't know. I don't like what just crashed into your 1920s, and I'm not a fan of it. Whatever that was, I hated it. The penguin gun there, you know? The old transatlantic Kentucky accent there. Anyway, welcome to the episode. How's it going, fellas? I have a game. I do have a game. I know everyone expects me to be unprepared because I'm always unprepared, but I'm prepared. The more I say it, the more true it becomes. But before we do that, how's it going? You guys got any small talk? Anything going on in your cool lives? Yeah. Um, so I went through some of the most devastating, bowel exploding, body shaking, adverse reactions you've ever experienced. You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? I know. There's what a few times. I'm familiar. What happened? I went. You hear that, guys? Look at the ghost. Alright. Amy and I. We're going to travel soon. Um. Both for our honeymoon and for other reasons, uh, so it's like, oh, we need to get some travel vaccines, right? To go to certain places. You need certain vaccines. I go to this travel vaccine place, right? We'll name it, but it's like it was fine. Person was fine there. And I went there because of like, I don't know what's recommended to go to these places. So it's like, we're going here, here, here and here. What do we need? And it's like, well, let me pull up your vaccine. Vaccine records and it's like, oh, you haven't had your tetanus in fucking forever. You haven't gotten a boost. Yeah. Do you go to the doctor? And I'm like, well, I swear I go to the hospital a lot. But you know, I don't usually don't usually, uh, I guess I haven't really checked in on that. So I needed four for vaccines, two new, two boosters, well, three new one boosters, some like that. I don't know. They got the super syringe, you know, for the everything of the big juicer. Yeah. Every 10 year kind of mega one, they, it's normal size for Bob and I, but for you, it would look like that. Okay. Come on. Come on. Come on, man. Sorry. Sorry. I got that. I hope that will spin. Doesn't come back to bite me later. Come on, man. Come on. Yeah. I'm making note of the short joke when it was really funny. Come on, man. All right. Yeah. It was funny. Get all mine to take it like a champ, you know, I didn't even cry, you know, uh, four band dates, bam, bam, bam, two on each arm, right? Get home. I'm like, okay. I'll probably feel a little little funky because when I, when I got the COVID vaccine, you know, that was the last time I took one and I felt sick. Oh, yeah. That one always hits me too. Yeah. Usually I'll take the flu vaccine. I don't feel that bad, but I started feeling a little queasy and then my stomach started rumbling and then I had the worst chills I've ever had in my life. I was under three blankets, one of which was a heating blanket and I couldn't stop shivering. It was a heat wave here in Los Angeles. It was 95 degrees outside, sun blaring. I was laying out on my driveway. I felt comfortable like I could feel my body starting to cook like on the, the, the, the, well, I don't have a black top driveway, but it's like darker. And I was just like, oh, wow, this is kind of nice. And then I saw I was going to throw up. I couldn't tell if it was from the sickness or from, you know, just being in the sun like that. So I go in, draw a hot bath, just lay in that and I'm just like, I can't get warm no matter what. This, the second, the second like I'm out of the heat, I just start shivering violently. So I go into a few state for about six, eight hours. I have no idea. Just on the couch under the heated blankets after the bath and I was like, and we didn't have a thermometer. I wanted to know what my temperature was. Yeah, you might have been running a fever or some kind. That's a good, good call. Well, I bet I was like, I'm, I must be hitting a record, right? I wasn't getting one, 22 Celsius, I got a high score here. I really, well, that was my only thought because I know if you get to have a fever, you know, you, you should go to the high. Yeah, you did. Yeah. No hospital first probably. Yeah, but you should see if your body could take it first. Yeah, yeah. So, um, what was unfortunate is, um, I was sleeping it off and usually, you know, just if I sleep it off and but Amy started to get worried because it was going on for so long. As I was starting to woke up and I started feeling a little better, the chills finally went away and it was, it was funny because three blankets, heated blanket felt comfortable. Oh, my God, I'm dying from heat like it was boom instantly. I woke up like sweat, like just just the entire couch was just so because I was napping on the couch just like sweat everywhere instantly. So I must have been very, very warm. And so she gets it. She goes to, you know, the pharmacy to get me some gatorade because I'm like dying a thirst. I need some electrolytes. She comes back and we get the thermometer and I'm like, I feel fine now at this point. I feel fine. So I'm like, probably going to be normal. This is check to make sure I feel fine. I feel way less chills than I did before. 100 degrees. And that's what I felt fine. So I really must have had a high fever. Yeah. If you hit like 104, you're like, you're close to the dying part and you're supposed to really get to the hospital part. Yeah. I would probably, we'll have a thermometer now. I probably should probably should have kept that around. Did you go racked or would you be a, are you a wuss one ear out the other? I go a whole, I go with your rethral actually is what I have for my thermometer. Ah, that's the other. Yeah, that's the good way. Yes. The only way to get an accurate reading. Yeah. Plus when you're done, you just pee it back out. It's self-adjecting. You don't have to, you have to do anything. It's convenient. Uh, so that was my weekend. That's not great, dude. Ah, I'm glad you have a thermometer now. You might have set some kind of record. I might have, yeah, but this is the things like I've actually had time to have like weekends to myself. So for some reason, the past few weekends, I just haven't been able to relax and so last week and was kind of the, what do they call it, the cream on the cake, the icing on the cake. The cream. The cream. The cream. You did it a high temperature for a little bit. Mark is broke. He don't work no more. So I'm better now, I feel great. I've had an upload schedule, which is nice and everything else is going great. The minor heat induced brain damage, you know, I can shrug that off and I'm good, man. I feel like I lost a few pounds in that time when I was going through that man. - Hold on, I need to go get these Mexicans. He said me once you got-- - Yeah, just go to the doctor, say like, get me the big one. - Good, good, don't think one happened. Oh, I haven't had any. - I need that big syringe. - I think it might have been the Typhoid one that got me. - I think there's a Pokemon. - Typhoid. - Typhoid, Typhoid! - Go, Typhoid, Mary! Go! - Well, that was tasteless. - Yeah, man, I'm a little bit-- - Oh, I'm sorry, we can't make Typhoid Mary. - That joke. - Honestly, I barely registered 'cause I was trying to think of my own joke. And then when you said that, I was like, I don't know if mine's gonna beat that. - I thought, oh, it evolves into Typhlosia, but I was like, that's a real Pokemon. Is that funny? Is it not funny? - Typhlosian? - Typhlosian? Really? - 10-2 starters, send to Quill. Willava Typhlosian, it's real, it's real. It's real. Mark, you smashed your past to Typhlosia at one point. - Did I? - It's like a fire ferret. I don't think I ever got its name. I think I just saw pictures. - You looked at one, you've seen it, it's real. - You don't need to know a name, just smash your past, I guess. - Well, we're glad you're alive. - Yeah, we're talking about how you barely almost died in the last week. - Apparently, yeah, yeah, man, yeah. - That's an adventure of its own kind, good job, surviving. - Thank you, thank you, I tried. - Wait, how did you almost die this past week? - I had five hot dogs. - In the week or in the one-- - One day! - Fuck yeah, man. - Uh, over the course of a whole day or four hours. - Okay, this is either a really, you know, normal day, sad day, or were you in a competition? So I had three conies. I had three conies from Skyline. - Oh, those are tiny, but they have chili and cheese on them. - Sure, sure. - And then we went to my nephew at like a birthday, get together and they were grilling out. Molly and I didn't have a lot of time because we were gonna go see Project Hill Mary. So they were grilling out and they made the, whatever people are grabbing food and there were just a few hot dogs. I was like, I'll just grab a couple hot dogs. And as I was eating them, I was like, wait, that's what I had for lunch, too. Oh God, it's like I'm 15 again, I'm gonna die later. We ended up being fine. Transition though, Project Hill Mary was a fantastic movie. Really fantastic movie. Love the book, movie also fantastic. - So you've read the book? - I have, and the movie, I didn't get pissed off. Watch the movie, I actually really enjoyed it. And usually whenever you read a book and immediately see a movie afterward, you're like, I can't believe they cut out my favorite thing. - But it was a really good, faithful adaptation. I really, really enjoyed it. So I highly recommend I won't say anything else about it on a spoil. I recommend reading the book and then see the movie, but whatever, very good. I have another update, what was it? That's right there, it's gone. Oh, I told Bob this, but Mark, you don't know this. I finally, finally last night, laying in bed. Molly was asleep. I finally got my hands on it. - What, where is this going? - I started Dungeon Crawler Carl. - Oh, what is me is Bob singing. But thank you for the attribution. - Well, I told him already, so I gotta tell you. - Did you wait, that's fun. Did you see the Reddit post? I was like, I get excited every time they mentioned books. And it's like, yay, Bob, for mentioning Dungeon Crawler Carl, yay, wait for reading Anmore's. Mark, you're there I guess. And I'm like, I read books all the time. I was like, I'm talking about what you're talking about. Come on. I was also excited about Dungeon Crawler Carl. Mark clearly doesn't read like the other two educated ones. - Just 'cause all I read is Warhammer 40k, that's what I mean. - Yeah, no, not the man on the same podcast who's bragged about reading what must be several 100 Warhammer books. - Oh my God, at least. - It's the eye, it's gotta be a lot. - I think you've read more Warhammer books than I've read all books in the world. - Probably a friend so fucking many. - I think that's probably true because I've read mostly legal cases, if I'm honest. I don't know how to count those. But in terms of books, you're definitely kicking my ass. - I mean, probably not with Warhammer 'cause like there are only so many. But I read a lot in my life reading. It's how I got such a big vocabulary. So I know so many words and use them for talking. - You like my words? - My out loud words. - Yes, yes, I make them with my mouth. That's a good word, mouth. - Good job reading, Wade. I'm glad someone here is finally reading a goddamn book. - Yeah, me too. My last and final, which is the same word twice update. - I don't know how you read such a small amount. Like this is not a judgey thing 'cause I do that. But the first time I started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, it was like, I was getting ready for bed. So it was like late at night. Like maybe it was 11 o'clock and I was like, I'll read for a little bit and then I'll get tired and I'll go to sleep. And I fucking read possibly the entire book before I slept. But I read all the way through like, easily three quarters of the book, possibly the entire thing in one sitting 'cause I started and I just got into it and got into it. And like, I'm like this and maybe you're not like this the same way, but like I couldn't stop. - No, I get that way. - I could literally I read until like five in the morning and then I was like, ah shit, the baby wakes up at a couple hours. I guess I should pass out. - Well, it's a lot less fun of a reason, but I've had trouble sleeping more than usual the last few weeks. I don't know if it's something actually going on or like mini panic attacks or what it is, but like all lay down and then all of a sudden, like you know, if you like are sitting still for a while and then you get up and like you run up a flight of stairs or something, you feel even more out of breath like your heart's pounding more than usual. I've had a thing a few different nights, including night before last where I'll go to lay down and all of a sudden it's like almost like my chest is burping or something, but like I'll start to feel like a weird sensation and then all of a sudden it's like, oh man, it's my heart. Like, who was my heart rate right now? Is it nine million over 500,000? 'Cause it's pretty, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Why am I panicking? I'm fine. I just need to, let's just focus on something else. - Wait, you're dying. - Oh, okay, I'm dying. I stopped thinking about just thinking about anything else. I kept thinking about anything else. Focus just found hard fast. - That kept me up till eight in the morning two nights ago. So I was very tired last night. So I fell asleep easily because of that. - I've had this exact same thing. Not even exaggerating. It's like as soon as I lay down specifically all of a sudden I can feel my heart. And I've had an Apple Watch when I was doing it back before they were sued out of their ability to do such things. - It was only blood oxygen that they got sued about the ECG thing is still works. But, okay, cool. Well, I would do that and I would look at my heart rate and it would be like, it doesn't feel that crazy. And it was only reading ever like 105, 110, which is barely elevated. And it's like the EKG looked good as much as I can read one of those. And it said I was fine. But yeah, no, I don't know what that's about. I lay down and then some nights it's just, boom, boom. It's like someone's banging a drum in my chest here. Boom, boom, boom. It doesn't hurt or anything. It's just kind of like, well, that's weird and concerning. Not fun. And I've got, there's been a lot of things going on in life. I don't want to bring all of it up here. But I've had reasons to be like stressed about stuff. But like, at least on the conscious level, I feel like I'm okay. You know, I've had my moments. So I've had moments of happiness. I've shed tears. I've dealt with some of the things that we're dealing with. Maybe it's my subconscious or I don't know. But the heart is just the one thing. I, it scares me probably the most because I've had some family history of like, heart attacks and stuff. So I'm like, man, hope my heart's okay. So the heart pounding just really compounds. It becomes a vicious cycle of like, now I really can't calm myself down. So. Well, do you have an Apple watch wait? Because I, I don't know if it would help you, but I would recommend that. Yeah, I do. I haven't, I haven't used it. I should probably use it again. But for both of you, what you're describing sounds like a thing I'm familiar with, it sounds like atrial fibrillations, which is not necessarily even a thing that would manifest on an EKG, especially on the Apple watch, because it's not exactly like a diodes all over your body. It's a type of one. But that is not necessarily a bad thing that can happen. But also if you're concerned about it, the doctor can check it out pretty easily. They will give you like a full diodes all over your body, EKG, get the full readings, like it's really easy. I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to do that. If it is that, and I'm familiar with it, it feels fucking crazy. It kind of feels like you're like, "Oh, is this a heart attack?" My left arm isn't numb, so it must not be a heart attack. Yeah, yeah, no. - So I would say two weeks ago, a week ago. Last week sometime, I don't remember exactly how long ago. I had this happen like two nights in a row. I went downstairs for a little bit, ate something, just kind of like changed my location, changed the way I was sitting and stuff, and it went away and went back upstairs, it was fine, able to fall asleep. But for whatever reason, night before last, nothing I did could make that go away. And so from like one 30 in the morning till a little after eight, just had that sensation. So I think I'm going to have to call and go in and make sure there's nothing else going on. But I've never dealt with like extreme anxiety except for like in specific scenarios, people just have anxiety. The closest I could relate is how people have described like panic attacks. This felt like a mini panic attack almost. But like, I didn't think those lasted for hours. I guess I don't know, I never really experienced it. - Yes, Mark is raising his hand. - Teacher, teacher, I have your diagnosis. I've looked up online, I've put in all your symptoms. You have Paroxysmal Superventricular Tachycardia. - That sounds like a lot of bad things grouped together like that. - Yes, you don't want to be Paroxysmal. - Oh, good. You don't want to be Superventricular. - Paroxysmal? - Yeah, P-A-R-O-X-Y-S-M-A-L. - Paroxysmal? - Perk, wow, what a word. - The heart's natural pacemaker and Sinoatrial node generates electrical impulses that tell the heart to beat, but in a person with PSVT, you, the heart's steady rhythm undergoes sudden periodic perroxysmal. - Oh, that's what disruptions. An errant electrical signal from above the ventricle super ventricular overrides the Sinoatrial nodes normal signal and creates a series of very fast heartbeat's tachycardia. The vast majority of PSVT's are not life-threatening, although in rare circumstances they can be dangerous, which is why people who experience repeated bouts of a racing heart should tell their doctor, be practical error, done that now. - I guess so, I'm good, I'm gonna go in now. - Except for telling your doctor. - Yeah, what web doctor has been told? - Oh, that's true, that's true. - Internet, save him. I will also say the feeling like it's a panic attack thing. It can feel like, oh, I'm panicking, oh, my heart is racing, but it can actually be an inverse connection. You can have a physiologically-induced feeling of panic attack because what's happening to your heart is making your heart race and then that triggers a bunch of other stuff that leads you. So it's not necessarily like, oh, I'm so anxious it's making my heart race. It could literally be like, oh, I'm iron deficient or oh, oh, something else is happening. It's making my heart race. That is causing me to have this associated like emotional physiological reactions that feels like a panic attack or feels like anxiety or whatever. It's probably fine. Well, maybe ask your doctor and get it scanned. Maybe that will help. Maybe that'll help you feel less worried about it at least. - I'll go get checked out. There was a particular family event that occurred and then it happened shortly thereafter. So I figured it was probably like subconsciously stress-induced, but maybe it's just coincidence. Either way, I should probably get it looked at, but it's been not fun. They'll tell you you're stupid and take your money. Don't worry about it. - I'll tell you you're stupid and take less money. - I'll tell you you're stupid for free. - Am I in an ad? - God, I made you to tell you you're stupid. - It's just guru and then whatever Mark's title was again. - Oh, stupid, are we? - That's why I didn't read as much Dungeon Crawler Carl 'cause last night I was finally tired enough to sleep. - I mean, that's fair, I guess, whatever. As the literate one of the podcasts, I expect more from you, but it could have been that the book was so exciting, you just couldn't. Your body was just, ooh, ooh, ooh. I was only gonna read the first chapter, and I ended up reading, I think, six. So I did read more than I anticipated 'cause I didn't wanna put it down, but sometimes you get, especially late in a book, it's impossible to stop, 'cause just everything, the stakes are always so high, but early on, every now and then you reach a point in a book where you're like, okay, I really wanna know what's next, but I feel like things are only gonna escalate, get harder. I've got to stop here, or else I really won't be able to stop. And that's where I was with the book. I was like, okay, I've gotten through the intro tutorial phase, now whatever happens, it's probably gonna get crazy. Let's stop here. - Dude, shit gets nuts, especially the later book shit, just gets nuts and more nuts, and then nuts are and somehow nuts here. - Yeah, I can tell you that feeling of like, oh, I'm finally through the tutorial phase. You keep having that, and it's one of the things I like about the series is I feel like there's a constant thing of like, okay, now we're through the prologue. Now we know what's happening, and then you'll read a few chapters and you're like, I'm fucking, no, this is still prologue. There's still like, how is it getting crazy? Anyway, it's fun. You guys wanna play a game? - Sure. - It's easy. - Yeah, I'll play a easy game. - We've played it before. - Oh, no, wait, no, hold on. - No, no, no, no, no, listen, there's no questions, it's not like that. This is a different kind of easy game. - Funny, easy, remember this paragraph and recite it by memory. - Close. - While singing and rhyming, oh god, no. - Not that close. - Oh, okay. - Honestly, I had several titles written down, but I kinda wanna call this one the easy 3000. You guys remember when we played the game with the Oxford 3000, the words, and the saying the backwards. - Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. - Say, say, you see, see? That's not, that's just Spanish. Say, yes, backwards, yes, backwards. - Say, say, say, say. - Adios, bios, but backwards. - Say, yeah, say, say, say, yeah. - This is the easy 3000. How well do you guys remember that game? - Pretty good. - Remember the words that you had to say backwards during that game? - Well, do we get points if we do? - It was in October, so I'd be really fucking surprised if you did. Anyway, don't worry, you probably don't have to say most of them backwards, 'cause I did come up with a new thing. - Do we say sideways instead of backwards? That doesn't make sense. - Say it sideways, say it sideways, no. - Say a word, say any word sideways, and I'll give you a point. - Yeah, that's it, any, that's the word, any sideways. I got it, I got it, I got it. - Each other. (laughing) - For the listeners, Mark just stood up and physically turned his head sideways. - Oh, damn it. - You know what, that's a point. I said what I said. - Creative genius. - This is kinda like a mix of a bunch of games, 'cause that's all I do is look at what I've already done and try and find ways to rehash that. So it's kinda like the Oxford 3000. If you haven't a remember those words, if anything sparks, maybe that will be helpful to you. The game that we're gonna play today with this is, not dissimilar to a game they used to play. - Friendship? - No. - Okay, I think it was, I think it was. - Yeah, well, I'm a lot of delight to you. The game we're gonna play today with the words. - Yeah, okay, it was. It was, but I can tell you who's word it was. So there, if you're ruining stuff already. - I'm so sorry, I told you I don't mean to tell you. - I was not, not then, not right at the moment. - Okay, I can get on your pitch too. - Who's lines in any way? - I used to play a thing called direct director. Anyway, they would do a scene and then one of the cast members was a director and they'd come out and be like, - Do it French. - And this is kinda like that, but if you had to guess a word, there's gonna be a word you're, the person giving the clues is gonna be allowed to offer one word at a time as a direction. So it's kinda like hotter colder, but if Mark has a word and Wade starts and Wade is like, "Friendship" Mark can be like, "Science here" or "Frencher" or "Hire" whatever, you say anywhere do you want? If you think it will help. - And we have to say it like that, not more French. I mean, that's my idea. It's not, I'm not gonna like docky points if you get creative with it, but the notion is, it's like the direction, right? And they're always like, do it more like a noir film or whatever, like the idea is for it to be kinda like that. You're supposed to give clues, but they have to be short and you can't just be like, the word is this, say this word. You will get in trouble if you do that. Anyway, every time I explain my game idea lately, the more I say about it, the more I'm like, now that's a super idea. Oh, I shouldn't have committed to this. But it's too late now. I'm gonna flip a coin to see who goes first. - Okay, and whoever goes first, they say a word and the other person has to guide them to the correct word by the Frencher type clues, that's it. - Yes, whoever goes first guesses any word that they want and the other player has to give them direction, one word direction at a time to try and basically hot and cold their way toward the correct word. Lady is weighed, lion is Mark. It doesn't mean anything about who you are. That's just how I decided in the moment. - Editors, make me a lion. - Mark's a lion, lion goes first. - Ah, I heard this train fall, what are they doing to me? - Ah, it's too bad that I'm out of the cowardly lion. - So Mark is guessing first. Wade, I'm gonna give you your first word to play with. - Okay. - That's not the piece. I just looked at my paper and saw much of other words. It was like, what did I write down? Oh, no, no, that's a different word. So I'm not acting any of these, am I or? - No, you're just guessing, you're trying to guess the word. And Wade wants you to guess the word. - So I start with the word and he'll guide me. - If it helps, these are all words from the Oxford 3000 list of words. - That does not help. - There's approximately 3000 options that it has to be from. But Wade, I set you a chat with your first word and Mark when you're ready. - Avalanche. (laughs) - People here. - Sure. - Stampede. - Ah. - I like this already. That's gonna be fun for me. - Antenimiar. (laughs) - Standing room. - Olfley. - What was that? (laughs) - You heard me, you heard me. - It's hyphenated, standing room only. - Yeah, standing room only. - People here. - Think of the same clue twice. - Sure. - If you think it will help, yeah. - Theater. - Individuals. - Bathroom. - Oh. - Sfincter? (laughs) - No. - You sure, you sure about that? - No, Colin. That's wrong. (laughs) - You sure? - Well, I have no idea what you think that's good. - I don't know, man. Your clue is sphinctery. Maybe it will help you. Maybe I'm wrong. Diaria? Musclelier. But. Ah. Arm-er. Arm-er. Army. Arm-er. Arm. I don't know, man. I'm panicking. I'm just. I'm going to find a way to get here. Bodybuilder. Oh, interesting. Interesting. Trace-er. He doesn't have to have the-er-er on it. It doesn't make sense. We could try. That's already not working. I accept that. Trace. Ego. Different. The shfinkter of the ego. Rewind. Okay. Ego. Physicaler. Mogging. One second. Wait. Well, actually, I don't know if I have a gunna- Oh. Not here to finish. Ah, fuck. Physical of Ego. Wait. Purpose. Strength. Opposite. Weakness. No. Oh, my god. That's it. Oh. I knew I'd get us there, buddy. I got. Shfinkter. Shfinkter here. Well, you sent bathroom. I was like, "How do I get from bathroom to our body?" It's a muscle. The sphincter's a muscle. You can have muscle weakness. Can you have sphincter weakness? You sure can. Yes, you can have sphincter weakness. That just doesn't make any sense. Well, I didn't know how to get there, man. Get a shfinkter surgery. Shfinkter's bathrooms. Listen, we can judge. But I drove the car. He parked the directions and he drove the car there. If sitting in the back seat while the accelerator is stuck to the floor and just ending up accidentally crashing into the correct answer, counts as driving the car. You drove it there, maybe. I did. I'm going to be so much worse at the other side of this. Have you ever seen that video, the rally car driver, where the assistant's like, "You have to listen to my calls." Left, left, sooner, time left, right, turn right. It's very funny. I have not. I don't know which one's which here, in that one, but it's what it felt like. Well, Mark, you're now waiting. It's your turn to guess, and Mark, I'm going to send you a word. I'm ready. On your guess, Wade. Apple. Less schmigl. Apple. The word is Apple-like Patrick Warburden. How did you get that? That's so specific. All right, let's let's smigl mountain. I see how this is going to be difficult. All right, okay. Opposite. Valley. Good. Okay, I'm going to talk to you like a director. Oh, yeah, you know how to do that. Where's your hat? Does your hat help? Not that hat. So we're at Valley, right? Okay. Lower. Crust. More ethereal. Well, I'm going to look up ethereal. So it's just Wade endlessly googling everything Mark says. I didn't know Mog, Mog, whatever you said before. Mogging. We've talked about Mogging. Lower than the Valley. More ethereal. Or a esoteric might be a better word for you. More esoteric. Now, Wade's a philosopher. He knows what esoteric. I know esoteric. Of course it is. Teric. Uh, tunnels. Back up a step. Valley. Crust. Back up into the mountain. Oh, wait. Valley. Yes, sir. All right. Gene and Yang. I don't like that word. Forest. Quebec upstep. Valley. One or mountain. Forward. Crust. Valley. Valley. Valley. Stay. Valley. Now back up. Back. Just just just listen to me. I'm your director. Just listen to me. Don't listen to the rules. Listen. Back. Valley. I'm going to scoot away from his microphone. Get smart. Tell them the backup. I got you boss. Trust trust trust trust trust trust. Back. Valley. Back up. Valley. Back up. Mount. Not mount. So back up. Wait. What do we mean? I think you want you to say mountain, buddy. I did. He said no. Mountain mountain. Valley. And I said good. Go back. Just please. Please mountain. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Forward. Valley. Yes. Okay. Back up. Mountain. Go down. Valley. Good. Now. Yen and Yang. Mark, I see exactly what you're getting at. And I can tell you. I think we both know that's not going to work here. He could do it. He could do this. I'll give Mark. I'll give Mark an assist because I'm talking so much anyway. He's having you go backward and then forward. I see that the mountain, the valley, the mountain, the valley. They're getting the area in Yang. They go together. Conceptualize it. Go from mountain to valley. From mountain to valley. Conceptualize it. Yeah. I'm just trying to figure out if it's an area in between. If it's the concept of the whole hole. The Indian Yang. They come together to form a hole. A whole circle. Our brains work very differently. I'm sorry. Yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. All right. Let's let's, uh, uh, more differentially to her or her. Oh, I believe if you would, out in valley, mountain, valley in Yang, altitude. All right. Let's shake it up more. No, not. No, he's already hidden you with like you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I'm scared. I tried something different. Anything, anything or any anything or darkness. Love it. Beautiful. That's great. Is that my clue? No, I'm complimenting you. This is not your clue. Oh, thank you. It's such a good choice. That's great choice. He's not patronizing you. It's a good choice. It's just some work is okay. Lumin or gray. Good. It's good. This is good. I don't know how I'm going to get there. We're going to get there. We got to believe there's genius in that gray. There's genius either side of this. I'm learning. Pot of gold. Yeah. I'm trying to think like wait here. Super natural after life. Ghost. Let's back up. Let's back up mountain. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'll go forward. I got you on the road. Wrong track. Let's just let's go back to what we were doing before. Okay. I swear we can get there. Okay. How far back up I go and mountain or like mountain. Just mountain mountain valley. Right. Okay. All right. So I want to explain so badly. But I won't because I would betray it. Lower hell. Good. Very yin yang. Very yin yang. Love that. Lower devil. Okay. You getting it. Right. You're getting it. You're getting it. Bottom or. Ah, cavern. Cavern. Feel it. So I want you to feel that. Feel that. For sure. No. Oh, no. Oh, okay. Where's that hell? Uh, bottom. Great. Great. Great. Great. Staying right there. But mixing it up. Rock bottom. Mix it up. Yeah. Oh, man. Uh, base. Conceptualizer. No, don't give up. You're right there. You're right there. I believe in you how bottom bottom of hell base Everything where I'm thinking of takes us further away creation Ah, wait. Yes architecture were architecture. Yeah architecture were god Building the re-roar. I mean they make specific buildings in hell cuz I don't know the answer to that Get out of hell. Oh get the fuck out of hell. Okay, I'm leaving hell leave it hell base Foundation foundation's good. I like that foundation's good. Okay, all right. How seer basement Descript shinier those story with a pool and a nice fence good, but succinct here suburban Trendier trends here Stuk stucco stucco stucco Wait, it's not exactly up on his architecture trends I guess Frank Lloyd Wright. Huh, well, that's okay. Okay, Frank Lloyd Wright. I'll take that opposite opposite skyscraper No, no, no, no Frank Lloyd Wright got a lot of canna-leaver'd what's your call it's and do hikis and it's got many May details and things modern. Okay. Yes. Yes. Oh my god continue we are future Moror or not more, but you know continue with your again or what is what's the term for like the simple Empty bullshit I don't know. That's the funny Oh It's right there Oh, she splashed out a little bit Minimalist Okay, okay, who's this great? It's great. I mean Love that but minimalism. Oh, I'm really good at this Abstractor Abstractor. Oh, no. Oh, no. Hold on hold on. I'm feeling you Mountain. No, hold on. Abstractor then minimalism. Let's conjugation Min Mini Or say mini miniature Men Mini miniature mini minimal minimize minimize minimizing minimalists Minimalizing I don't know what you guys want from me. Am I that close? You show you oh my god. You have no idea minimum I think the game here is how many of these can you do before you just die I would have never gone there from mountain and valley Yein and Yang I understand where you were going now, but I don't think I would have ever connected that What's that architecture style where it's real plain What's that word for that? Yeah, the sad thing is is whenever we could do something architecture I thought of it. I was like, yeah, there's that one where you don't own like anything No, it's real simple. I can't think of that's called almost move on to a different one. Freak later, right? Oh I just couldn't think of the word for it. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair I was really yeah because I was like, okay mountain opposite valley. All right. Let's start down feel in this Positive negative thing. Good job, buddy. You did good. You got me there It's an easy game. Probably is if our brains works the same. That's why it's the easy 3,000 man. All you have to do All right, I'll get them to the next one. I'll get them on the next one Oh, yeah mark you have to start it. That's right. I also need to look at the word. Okay. Any words you want, buddy Does he have it? I got it. Pillow I see one path here that is so easy. Please don't fumble this. I will I will fumble this, but like in a way that I think is great. Okay. Good. More face Did I say you're the right word? Hang on You did just trust me. Trust me. I don't trust you. Continue Face pillow. I don't want to give it away too much like I feel like there's like we're like it's it would really give it away But you're allowed to succeed quickly It doesn't have to be painful. The joke is not that it has to be painful It's that it is painful sometimes. It's allowed to be as easy as it seems. That's okay. Oh Edabuller Edabuller. I mean fine marshmallow healthier Macron healthier more yogurt more organic Organic yogurt more natural milk more Vegetation do you know words? Yeah, man cotton or Edabull Care it. Oh, okay. Sweeter Rubarb more tree Fruit more exact apple What a great run more face More face Just pillow. He lay on the back of your head. You need to get to the face and then then what goes in it? Oh I can't help the way my brain works. Wait the word that you wanted for a thing though is Edabull sweeter and more vegetation is called fruit Word is fruit Good God pillow fruitier. He might have just said apple because the more the top three fruit you guess is like apple banana and strawberry That's like cheating and we don't want that. I guess that's fair. I just thought I thought fruit was just too big of a jump from pillow See, this is the thing though. I'm like it can be easier and Wade says can it though Yeah, I guess okay. I guess in my brain like I'm trying to play off the word He used to like get there rather than just like fuck whatever you said. It's a fruit like that. I don't know that felt I felt like I had to guide him from pillow more than just and I appreciate that I appreciate that I do I mean you can do that Okay, well, we've been playing wrong. I think at least I have look that's this is the glory of these games that I make you guys play and don't Ever let force myself to participate in you can play it however you want. Oh, just wait Mark and I will remember one day We'll make you play guess I doubt it. You're probably right. We'll think about remembering wait. Guess a word. Oh, okay, Mark. You ready? Yeah Car Giraffe shorter corgi bigger sheep bigger buffalo Smaller German shepherd actually I retract my smaller for some reason. I thought of a rhino when you said buffalo Buffalo are pretty big. I don't know how but I don't know how they compare size wise more aggressive I'm thinking of buffalo hippo more aggressive lion American ear bear Oh Bear I knew I could tell you were stuck in Africa. I could tell you were just like in this in the Savannah just except for sheep and corgi But this bigger than that is in Africa. I did intend to do another round But I don't know. Oh, we're so quick now. We're on a roll. Yeah, well I sort I didn't realize the one would be the longest round and then everything else would be so easy It turns out getting me to minimal was a problem minimum Fuck are you guys up for one more do you have the energy to do us another round? I can do no wait. I am sending you your word Now you get to be on this side of one of these no no don't have fun cloud more man-made smog more technological power plant more personal Home generator more entertainment TV more screen theater more resolution VR more ratio more ratio is that what you said you sure Okay, all right you know uh camera more viewing Window more display monitor more Options microscope. Oh, it's more than one word more monitor I want so desperately to help you wait. I could see I could see it Display more specific LG 4k OLED display monitor more 4k 8k more Specific more options. Well, I'm trying to think of words. I've not used I think I used both of those i max More changing Two three five widescreen More What the f*ck are you doing more? Okay, okay, okay, all right every every film and display term. I know I'm just gonna start rattling them off Okay, viewfinder. I say the same thing twice Bob. Yeah, give the direction you want man. More ratio Who do you mean more ratio? The one way to get here. I don't know a side true effect that it's not working I think that's actually not a bad direction way and I'm gonna laugh at you either way But I I can see the vision her brains just work so different split screen more 1080 high-definition more colon Oh fuck that's so how does that seem so stupid, but actually makes sense. I don't know If you know if you know the answer, but not in your top. Oh, no, it's so hard. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm getting it I got it. Uh-huh. 16 by nine. Uh more term 1920 by 1080 less number four by three More relationship 2560 by 1440. All right, we're gonna try this a third time more ratio To it mark he was everything that you know about those things you were saying Everything I know about those things. I would say especially some of the numbers Some of the numbers, but maybe only the shorter numbers shorter numbers. Okay. All right One to one more perspective God, I feel like I have the one that will get in there. Just say what I'm thinking say the words. I'm thinking quick I don't know what word you're thinking Less specific four words Imagine setting your makeup then forgetting it's even theirs Meet new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all-day comfy grip No tightness no stickiness no residue just plum Dewey hydrated skin that still feels like your skin try new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York Maybe it's Mabelie I Is it in the room with me is it in my room less crazy? Is it in my room? I don't know if this is the kind of game I can answer those kind of questions You know what man just play play the game however you want I believe in you I feel like I'm leading over the wrong rewind all right. Rewinding one to one more general square Different term aspect ratio First word aspect aspect. Yeah, it's aspect I've been trying to get you to aspect from ratio for a long time more ratio More specific more numbers. I thought it was a good clue You were giving me ratios. I just couldn't you tell me that they were ratios. Were you saying more ratios? Oh, I can't be more ratios. I know how else do I tell you? What's the term to get you just to tell me the term? Maratios Bob what was the word you had mine when he was like 16 by nine four by three Wonder what I would have been like the more word and he might have said square But that was where you had to work from take him directly from the aspect ratios He's listing because you kept pushing him to be like more ratios and then he kept going from aspect ratios to resolutions Whoa, I'm gonna stop you there. I said more ratio. That was never a plural. Whatever whatever once he got away from the ratios Then you were like describe it and he was like the shapes the the resolute you needed to catch him on the ratios and then be like that But words aspect is just such a hard word to get someone to that. That is a tough one Yeah, that I can see why that's tough whenever you were listing off like all the aspect ratios I was like we just need to get from specific to general I get it. I get it. I see I see yeah I don't that stuff that was tough. I was tough. I was sort of forget to keep in mind that I design these games to be fun for me Because that's my main motivation, but I don't want you guys to kill each other and I feel like I'm creating Attention, I don't feel any kind of tension. I more so feel like I'm failing to describe accurately I'm like we're right there. I just don't know how to I don't have to slide him sideways. I bet listen We mark and I've been on both sides of this we understand the hard parts of describing and guessing Okay, he's given me my word. Okay. I think we can get this all right Pizza more location restaurant more vague city more vague Wish that my brain was functional so I could think of the turn I'm trying to think I'm just gonna say country There's no one I'm hoping to go for more vague land care less place care less There care less somewhere more options some place More options wherever I don't know how but like that. I was with you. I don't know You guys just locked in so hard on that one. That was great. That was great I think mark has had to give clues about 10% as much of the time as he has had to be guessing You got bear and wherever so fast I think you gave us an easy one with bear and apple, but you know minimum and wherever are such Out there concepts. What were the ones I had I've had you had weakness apple and aspect Swink or weakness weakness and aspect are those are tough to get to those are tough Yeah, Mark had minimum and wherever which I feel like I thought would be comparably tough to be honest I don't know how we got to wherever I just didn't I ran out of terms. I was like what else see that was a strategy I thought was gonna happen a lot more mark got you headed with some momentum and then he was just like care less Even less Less care and that like drove you so far in the right direction that he got you It just made a lot of progress really quickly. I can't deny. I was I was out there and I was like I can't care too much more. He told me to care less and not not a lot you both lighting up at somewhere had me thinking some or where we're part of the word It was amazing it was you guys looks like the sloth and that one was zootopia where he was like slowly smiling I hope other people than me enjoy that, but I love that was a good time. Oh, I'm sure they I'm sure they will Wade you were in the points for what happened tossing out a short joke Which we'll see if that comes back to bite you see if your body can take it about mark Not taking care of himself what he probably almost died from a fever. You're a weiner man Sphinx derier you got a point for weakness apple and aspect, but you also got points during the gameplay for oh Well, what's that architecture style where you're there's nothing and it's I was like what are the odds that's the word I just can't think of And also you got points for more face more ratio Which gives you a total of 10 points, but one of those is a short point. So let's see what happens with that mark You are in points for Super syringe Cooking yourself in the heat wave you survived. Just impressive. You're in a literate loser because Wade and I both read books You said a word sideways, which I didn't think was possible You also got points for minimum bear and wherever and I gave you point for let's go back stuff. Take it back Forward That gave smart a total of nine points off the rip which I got to be honest I felt like I was giving mark more points But I think it was just more painful to give Wade points because most of his were from thank you Yeah, I was laughing. I was laughing so much that it hurt and also my brain hurt Anyway, let's see how many bonus spins we have today. I always get to feel so good about my success on this show Two spinner renos well that couldn't possibly be bad for me couldn't be no way I am going to add coolest illness since last episode You're gonna give it to marks crazy fever or my crazy art It's probably the fever this time it's almost dying. It's pretty cool We'll see if I make it back for next week otherwise I hope I get that point hey if you actually die I feel like that points yours by default for the rest of eternity. So that makes sense too bad Bob you can't die your immortal I know I put a point on the board. I'll never get unbelievable Spend number one of two and the words are so small. I can't really tell what it's going to be Never mind I mean, I can't tell if mark surviving a very serious illness is a demonstration of his will to live or the fact that you did not seek out any medical attention or even take your temperature when you were thought, yes, a severe fever is a demonstration of your lack of will to live. I would have. I would have. Really feeling we're just riding off my heart issues here, but yeah, that's fair. I don't think there's a question of your will to live though. You clearly you wanted to live. You were concerned about living. If Mark's thing was a demonstration of his will to live, I think he survived a potentially more serious situation and had more will to live. I don't know. That feels like a stretch. If that's too close, we can spit again, but I feel like you're the judge. My heart wants to give it to Mark because I'm heavily biased towards him. Hey, is that an insult to me because you said you're heart? Yeah, take that. Okay, I'm just ties us up. So honestly, that makes it worse for you in the long run. I'll take it. Nothing bad can happen. There's still another spin. Someone has to get a point. It certainly won't be me or the listeners or viewers. Amy has a point potentially on here or something. What about minus seven percent to one man show? Let's not do that. Oh, oh shit. None of us lied, though. A short joke point is not a live point. Is it not a separate thing? Is this me? It's a respin or no point. Usually it's the judge's choice, but I know which one I would prefer it to be. I could tell you that. Oh, Mark, hold on. Yeah, Mark, we're gonna talk about this so we can. It's only a 23% chance of a one-man show right now. That's not that huge. Yeah, it's only basically a one in four almost. I mean, I'm 100% respin if it were me. I'm gonna respin. I don't know, I was leaving my face. You guys don't want to do that. I think it's probably Mark today, isn't it? Oh, wait. Yeah, actually. Yeah, I think it's already a gimme. Actually, yeah, you do kind of just blend into your. Oh, but wait. Distractable poster blue. Oh, but by quantity. I think I think I think I've got this. Yeah, I think Mark has that. Actually, I don't think we. Oh, those are like tonally identical. Those are tonally identical. Yeah, it's definitely. Okay, well point to Mark. Which means Mark wins. Yay! The come from behind victory. He deserves it. Oh, I didn't even see you pull off the coin. I didn't recognize any of us saying that word were not supposed to say unless we mean it during this episode, but I'm sure it happened. You should have made it one of the words we have to get to. That'd been really funny. Oh, that's a good idea. It's way funnier than anything I put in my game. I'll forget to do that when we do Oxford 2002. Anyway, congratulations, Mark. Wade, would you like to give your loser speech? I want to say aspects and weakness. Very difficult words, but you know, Mark and I got there. Minimumum. And whatever the other words are, I had to get to with Mark bear. And then that third one, tough. But we did it. We did it. Wherever. And I just, I'm proud of us for succeeding in a very difficult challenge with some really difficult words that have at least two syllables. So, I leave today with my head held, held, hung, my, I'm hung and high. He sure are, man. Sure are. Oh, I meant to throw this in before Mark before your winner speech or glorious winner speech. I didn't want to give the context of those were all words from the original Oxford 3000 video, but I switched whose words were whomst. I think all the words that I had Mark guessing Wade previously had to guess and vice versa. So those were all words we had previously dealt with. Not a single one of those came back to mind at all as I saw them. Yeah, well, I thought on the long shot that one of you could remember free point for you because you deserve it. Mark winner speech. I am very happy to claim this win more for myself and less for my opponent. Because as the winner, I naturally would be happy for myself. And honestly, that's the natural order of things. As you can see, I read a lot of books and I know a lot of words. And I use them sparingly, which is a word I read in a book. Thank you for the win. I'll have a nice honeymoon and Wade and I are going to sleep more or whatever we have going on. Till next time, thanks so much for watching. That's the end of the episode. Look forward to Mark's episode of the next one. Podcast out!

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  1. Mavily New York launches a new setting mist with gel-to-mist technology that locks in makeup for up to 24 hours, offering a dewy, hydrated, residue-free finish.
  2. The podcast features a comedic, self-aware discussion about hosts Bob, Mark, and Wade, including absurd jokes, personal anecdotes, and a game of word clues inspired by the Oxford 3000.
  3. Mark shares a harrowing experience of nearly dying from a high fever caused by a combination of heat and illness, prompting him to seek medical advice.
  4. Wade reveals he read through a full book in one sitting, highlighting a personal shift toward reading, while Mark criticizes his own lack of literary engagement.
  5. The hosts play a creative word-guessing game called "Easy 3000," using directional clues to find words from the Oxford 3000 list, leading to humorous dead ends and breakthroughs.
  6. Mark’s illness and emotional vulnerability are contrasted with Wade’s intellectual engagement, showing different personal coping mechanisms.
  7. The game’s difficulty lies in the abstract nature of word associations, such as "aspect ratio" or "minimalism," which challenge participants’ thinking.
  8. The episode concludes with a lighthearted awarding of points, culminating in Mark winning due to his resilience and ability to navigate complex wordplay.

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The podcast features a mix of humor, personal storytelling, and intellectual games. Host Bob introduces a new product from Mavily New York: a setting mist with gel-to-mist technology that delivers long-lasting, residue-free hydration. The core of the episode is a playful, improvised word-guessing game inspired by the Oxford 3000, where Mark and Wade take turns guessing words with short, creative clues.

The game highlights cognitive differences—the hosts struggle with abstract terms like “aspect ratio” or “minimalism,” leading to humorous missteps and breakthroughs. Alongside the game, Mark shares a personal story of nearly dying from a high fever, emphasizing his health concerns and the importance of medical attention. Wade contrasts this with his newfound habit of reading, including finishing a book in one sitting.

The episode blends self-deprecating comedy with heartfelt moments, showcasing personal growth and vulnerability. The final game round ends with Mark winning after a tense, creative battle of wits, and the hosts celebrate their success with lighthearted banter and a nod to the shared difficulty of the word challenges. The episode concludes on a positive, reflective note, emphasizing humor, connection, and the value of both intellectual and physical well-being.

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