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Please Be Nice

In this episode of Distractible, host Bob and guest Mark explore engaging, low-impact hobbies to help Bob entertain himself during a foot injury recovery. The conversation begins with humorous reflections on gaming-related physical strain, such as gamer cramps and the intense focus required in competitive games. Bob shares his deep dive into Pokémon card collecting, including fan-made games like *Pokémon Rogue* and *Pokémon Rejuvenation*, which have sparked renewed appreciation for older Pokémon cards. Mark suggests a Batman movie marathon to relive nostalgic memories, while Wade offers more grounded ideas like knitting, crocheting, and jigsaw puzzles. The group also explores retro gaming on vintage devices like the TI-83, and creative, satirical hobbies such as prank deliveries via DoorDash or building a luxury float. A playful debate over recreating old games on calculators adds to the comedic tone. The episode balances humor, personal nostalgia, and practicality, emphasizing that entertainment doesn’t require physical movement or high risk. Ultimately, the hosts illustrate how even small, accessible hobbies can provide meaningful distraction and emotional relief—perfectly in line with the show’s spirit of lighthearted, creative distraction.

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode. Banger Builder Bob gets cramped claws, explains e-sports, and asks for assistance. Walker Wade raid pops, learns the lexicon of his deep deck dalliance, then touts going rogue and Mr. Wayne. Matching Mark returns to FNAF, rubs his meat, then talks clicks and keybinds, analysis and needles. From gaming groans to doomsday ha-ha-ha-has, it's time for Please Be Nice. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Your Favorite Podcast. Right. That's right, it's Distractible. I'm your host because I won the last one. My name is Mark. My name's Bob. Welcome. This is my episode. It's going to be great. Practically guaranteed. I only host bangers, I'm pretty sure, as I recall. And I'm joined, as always, by the two competitors for today's episode. Mark, sipping his fancy coffee mug, and Wade. Something about a tapered coffee mug, it's just very elegant. And it's from the DMZ. I, too, have a beverage. It's mandarin orange. That is not what that looks like to me. Is that flavored water? And orange. Trust me, the GE is there. It is orange. Anyway, great. I have a drink, too. We're all doing it, guys. If you've never seen this show before, it's a show where the points are all made up and matter an incredible amount. There's also coin flips. It'll be funny unless it's not. It's all kind of, it's everything. This show is all things to all people and also nothing to nobody. Before we get into the topic for today's episode, how are you doing? You guys got any small talk? I have a small talk. I've been doing quite a bit of Five Nights at Freddy's. It is so weird to play it again, and it is so embarrassing how little strength I have anymore in my gamer hands. Dude, getting old, tell. I've gotten better. Even over the past week, I've gotten stronger. But when I was first trying to do it, because doing the custom night 1020 modes in this, you have to have really fast, you know, controlled motion, which requires. You to basically be tense, you know, with your grip and press buttons very quickly and responsibly. After even an hour of playing, trying to practice and doing the things, I was moving like an old man. Just a pound of meat in a tube, you know, the tube of meat. And I've learned that that's a great, like, roller for, you know, for forearms. I put it on the countertop and I just. Imagine, like, between nights, you're, like, wiping the brow, rubbing the meat. And so it's, it's been really, really telling, but, you know, kind of fun. And also, I have a little, not much more, but a little more respect for, like, streamers that play high competitive FPSs all day, every day. Because it's like, yeah, it's actually a workout. Or is it really? There was a time where I was playing for, like, an hour and a half straight. And because I was so tense up in my arms and shoulders, like, I was, I was, I started sweating. It's 70 degrees. I have an air conditioner. I just, like, what the fuck? Holy, I've never had this ever in my life. Dude, you, I, I literally got the slap tear playing a healer in an MMO, Lost Ark. Like, I, I, that's, I, it popped while I was playing as a healer. We were doing this raid on repeat. We couldn't beat it. So, like, two hours of running this raid, I'm trying to heal everybody. And there's just this loud pop. And I'm just in excruciating pain. And people are like, need a heal, need a heal. I was like, yeah, I'm trying. God, just a lot of pain. One second. And I'm getting yelled at because I'm not healing as well. And that's, that's when I got the slap. Slap tear. Yeah, gaming's no joke. When you're a teenager, early 20s, you got a mini fridge with, like, energy drinks. Our age, you got the freezer with a roll of meat next to your desk. I want to get, like, those, you can have, like, ice packs that you can wrap around. And I kind of will use them as wrist rests because they've got beads in them. So, it's like, they're kind of perfect beaded wrist rests. I've had to use one for my knee. You get one of those big ones, you put it in a pillowcase. Yeah, just wrap that sucker. Have you gotten gamer hands, gamer cramp hands yet, Mark? That's the thing that I don't get injuries, but that's the thing my body likes to do. I'll be playing something super casual. Like, I'll stream for a few hours and something really casual. I'm not even playing, like, fast-paced. And then I feel fine. I'm, like, playing, playing. And then I stop playing. Like, I take a break or the stream ends. And I lift my hands up and my hands just go. And I, like, can't move them for a minute. And I'm like, ah, fuck. God. I forgot to drink water for the last month. Fuck. That's, like, how I was when I burnt my hands. I haven't had that from playing games. But definitely when I burnt my hands, that would happen where periodically they would see, right after the burn, of course. It was on the way to the hospital. So I'd be in the car and I would just be like, oh, it's not so bad. Burn's like, oh, my God. Oh, man. I was glad that's over. So it was this weird thing. That, I can't imagine going through that. That sounds absolutely miserable. What do you even, like, if you try to pass the time, you can, like, browse your phone. That's the part of you you would use to do that. So you're, like, slamming your head into your lap, like, next. I mean, honestly, it wasn't. I mean, it was a long time ago now. But, like, it was kind of before scrolling on your phone was the thing to do. I feel like that was still in the era where it was, like, oh, I'm going to go get on Dig It and click around the Internet. And you could kind of, like, I'm going to go on Reddit. But it's old Reddit. It's different. It's not like it is now. But you probably just, like, watch shows or something, right? I mean, it was a while ago. Yeah, it wasn't the worst thing. I think that as soon as I got to the hospital, they made the mistake of putting the cuff on my arm for blood pressure, which all it does is it does a squeeze blood down there. So they put that first. And I didn't question it. So I was just like, the machine goes, and I'm like, oh, no. Here it comes. Oh, no. Until the doctor comes and takes one looks. And, you know, it's bad when the doctor goes, yipes, you know, eyes bulge out like, you know, I've never seen the Scooby Doo doctor. She ripped off, put on my leg, which I didn't realize was a possibility. But you could just put the blood pressure thing on your leg. So, yeah, I imagine it's more accurate on your arm, but good enough on the leg or something. I don't know. Yeah, probably. I've never seen that either. My blood pressure probably isn't the biggest issue for me when I burn my hands. Doctor comes in, like, shakes your hand. It's like, oh, whoopsies. Looking great. High five. Oh, no. Right. Sorry. Sorry. You want to do a Tootsie Tickler? I'll just give him a clap on the shoulder. What do you got going on? Mandarin orange guy. Pretty chill, actually. We had a nice, chill weekend. Minimized social obligations for once, but doing a lot of Pokemon card hunting and opening. I don't know, man. The hobby is, it's nice having a hobby, but my personality does not allow me to, like, dabble. I'm either all in on something or not in at all. And I know I'm like that. The gotcha era of my life taught me that. It's like, oh, I could just go for this one new unit and use some, like, SRs or rares. I'm like, nah, there's other banners. There's other super rares. I could have a better team. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Where is it? 1% drop rate. More like.76. I'm below the average. Dude, I go ham. And the Pokemon cards, I'm learning. Someone messaged me the other day. They're like, hey, is this a good set to get? Chaos Rising? I was like, yeah, Chaos Rising's okay. And they're like, what about Ascended Heroes or Prismatic? No, the pull rates are abysmal. Trust me, I've opened 10 million packs. And I'm like, dude, I went from not knowing anything about this to, like, advising people on the pull rates. I've gotten way too into this in two months. I'm glad I'm not like that as a person. I'm still, I'm definitely getting into Pokemon. I've decided I'm going to get into Pokemon. I've decided I'm collecting Pitch Black because it's the newest one. It's the newest set that just came out. And you can still get it on shelves. But my whole shtick, which I think I've told you guys, is retail only. I've been looking and I've like, oh, Amazon sells Pokemon cards. No, it's like resellers. And even the ones that are through Amazon are, like, clearly marked up. Like, I'm buying two packs at a time every time I happen to be at a store that carries them. The ETB that I got was an accident. I went into a store, a Walmart, to get, like, washer fluid. And, like, random house sht, right? And I just happened to see a guy in line and wandered over. I was like, I'll take one of the four ETBs you have today that you're just putting out and you have a security guard next to. Cool. ETB stands for Elite Trainer Box. It's a box of cards. Yeah, it's just a box. It has, oh, sorry. Yeah, sorry, Mark. Sorry, Mark. I'm just laughing along, you know. He said something. Honestly, I only know what that one means. I swear to God, there's just a bunch of acronyms. And anyone who talks about Pokemon who does it. Like, Wade does it. It's just like, oh, yeah, I got the Ascended Heroes GRS and I got the three triple 10. And I'm like, what the fuck? What is all this shit? Like, it's packs of cards, right? What am I missing? But there's a bunch of different ways that they're. Yeah, I know, like, SIR is, like, the rarest ones or something. And then I know conditions like NM is near mint. LP, lightly played. MP, moderately played. HP, heavily played. It's like the condition. The more played it is, the worse the condition is. I know that lingo. After that, I don't know all the lingo either. I will say it's not new. I don't think if you want to be disillusioned about your collection of Pokemon cards, you should watch Ludwig's video where he let chat buy a bunch like there's like $10,000 worth of cards. They like let it pick, helped him pick stuff and they bought a bunch and they were some of them. Most of them were graded. Some of them were not, I think, or actually, I think they were all graded, but then he broke the case, sent them to tag to get graded, got a grade, broke the case, sent them to another place. place to get great at. And then sent them back to PSA because a lot of them started out as PSA. And I don't know what the statistical breakdown is, but they're all over the fucking place. Like, it's just arbitrary. He had one, like he had ones where it was like, this was a PSA nine. And then this, these people gave it a six. And then these people gave it a seven and a half. And then it went back to PSA and they gave it a seven. It's like, so I just lost a thousand dollars and I paid them all for the privilege. Man, that's not a great investment, is it? If you get a good grade, don't do that. Leave it alone. I've never, I've not sent any cards in for grading. I kind of want to do it just to see how it works. But I have, I've only opened 20 packs, a couple dozen packs total. I don't have anything that would be interesting to grade yet. I doubt that's going to happen. If I don't go and buy from the card shops, like, and whatever, indulge all the scalpers and people. The card shops are all right. The scalping is rough. I'm glad you have a new, I was going to call it an addiction, but that feels mean. It kind of, I mean, you know. A new hobby diction. I had old sets from the nineties. Like I had the original. So it was called Base, then Jungle, then Fossil, Base 2, Rocket, and then there were a couple other sets. I've got almost all of those complete because I just had them almost complete as a kid. So I've been trying to, like, find the few cards here and there missing to complete those sets. And then I was working on Jim Heroes and Jim Challenge series, which is the end of the first era, I guess, of Pokemon cards. And there's like another, it's divided into like eras for some reason. I don't know. But all my old sets, I'm like, I kind of want to complete these. And then, you know, new sets, I'm kind of like, I don't know that I want to complete them all. I'll just go for the cards I like. Yeah. And usually that ends up being the full arts cards, which means the whole card is artwork. So, yeah, I've gotten, I've gotten, I've gotten pretty deep. That sounds like it's good for you. Yeah. Well, it's something to do. Rehab for my knees has been going well. Did you walk yet? Yeah, actually pretty well. I'm even doing stairs without having to like, I was walking like I was, you know, 99 years old and on my deathbed for a little bit. It seemed pretty bad. It seemed worse than, than just need some physical therapy. But I've gone about a week and a half with no brace, no knee brace and moving pretty well. Inclines and stairs. And sometimes still give me issue. The physical therapy started off with some of the easiest stuff. They're like, all right, lay your leg down. Now, straighten it. Do that 10 times. I was like, oh, hell yeah. Now we're at the point where they're like, all right, do 15 sets of 15 squats in the next 30 seconds. Wait, what? All right, cool. Now do 30 leg lifts. Do it on your side. Do 30 more. Sean T from Insanity comes out. All right, five. Four, three, two, one. Yes, man. I started off, I was like, Molly, this is so much easier. We're going to do physical therapy. For my shoulder, it really hurt because I had a tear. My knee's not torn. So this has actually been pretty good. And then the last time I went, dude, my hip. I'm like, my knee's feeling better. But now my hip hurts from the physical therapy. I need more physical therapy for that. So I've been watching because other people that come in for physical therapy at the same time as me have had like hip replacements. So I'm watching their stretches and I've been going home doing those because I'm like, my hips hurt so bad from the PT. Maybe I need to PT my hip too. So I've been doing exercises for kind of both things, but other than physical therapy and card collecting, not a whole lot here. Power Wash 2. Have you played the Star Wars DLC? No, I have not. I've only been playing Five Nights at Freddy's. The sprays make like blaster noises. Like constantly or just like every time? When you first click, if you're holding it, it does it. But if you like click, it's like. Just the whole time you're holding it down. It's like a space battle. Just like fucking chaos. Like, man, that's so relaxing. Oh, it's so good. It's actually. So good. Anyway, I think that's it for me. If there's more, I don't remember it. I got a little more and then I'll let it go. It's, you know, nothing too crazy. Only GoPro is now dead to me again. No, they were never dead to me. Oh, oh, OK. No, this is this is only moderately moderately something. It's only moderate death. Really moderately dead to me. Only mostly dead. I've been enjoying the the mission one. It's been nice. Code Marble. Sorry. Code Distractable. I apologize. Oh, do we actually have that? That's a real thing. Yeah, you've had that for weeks. OK, good. OK. Oh, we've done so much good advertising for. That's the thing. It's like eventually I'll record an actual review. So they're dead to me, right? Because the ILS has been something I've been craving. I went to NAB just to, like, try to get my hands on that. I have lenses I've already bought for that specifically. I'm so ready. I got adapters and everything. I'm so eager. I open my Instagram and there's someone named. Oh, God, that already has it and has been given to it by GoPro. And I feel betrayed. Four days ago, four days ago. Watch it be like the CEO of GoPro. I can't believe this guy got it before me. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. Who is this lead engineer on the ILS model of the GoPro mission? This guy named GoPro owner got this GoPro. Before me. Unbelievable. The betrayal. No, no, I don't think that's him. I don't think so. No, no, no way. No way. It's not Mr. Pro. I feel like, you know, I'm right here. I got my GoPro shirt. I've got a GoPro shirt on. You've worn that like the last couple episodes. You've been consistent. Have I? Oops. This one shirt. Well, no, you had a different one. I feel like last time we recorded, you had a different GoPro shirt. I just remember being like, oh, he's wearing the shirt. Yeah, I do. But not anymore. Until I get an ILS. Is there a release date for it? Is it eminent? Or is it one of those where they're not giving a hard date for it? They've nebulously said Q3. So they just like got the last of the accessories for the baseline out. They just got the media mod out finally. And they got the. Oh, there is going to have a media mod. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's nice and all. That's nice. But really, I want the lenses. I want to be able to do the lenses. I love my little 3D printed macro adapter, but it's like, I have a dedicated macro lens waiting, multiple actually, macro lenses waiting to go on to the GoPro. I have them just, I've talked about that for a while. I'll be right back. So I forbid anyone from using my promo code or distractibles. We are a united front in boycotting until we get, I. Until we, you get the thing you want. We want comrades. Yeah, the Royal, we, me of it all, you know, the, me. I feel like that's very fair. I feel like that's, that's on them. The solution is clear. Uh, there's, there's another thing that's been a funny thing. There's when I've been doing five nights of Freddy's with this, um, you know, trying to beat it, I've actually had to do math, done, done, done. Oh, no, there is a certain amount of flashlight battery you have, which amounts to 50 seconds in the whole night, which, you know, average. It's out to a little over nine seconds per minute of game to use it. But the smaller you press the button, the less battery you use, right? So I use the 960 frames per second mode to burst me pressing control, to learn how bad I am at pressing this throughout the game, it can only do like 10 seconds at a time, but I'll play and I'll do kind of the pattern that I do for flashing. And I'm like, holy shit. I am holding that down so much more than I think. I think I press it three times. I looked at. I looked at myself in slow motion. I was just holding it for three times and you see my knuckle go like, but my finger is down on the button the whole time and I'm like, I had no idea. Holy shit. So for, for a sign, you're gonna need a, you're gonna need a hall effect keyboard to get this shit under control. Oh, that's the Van Gogh Pikachu. I've seen that one. I've seen that fancy one. Wait, cause I've been looking for a keyboard that has a lighter touch. Cause the problem with this one is it's. I thought it being clickier would be better, but there's a lot of force needed to press it down and once it's down, it doesn't really spring back up with a lot of. I'm not like a keyboard expert, but I do know, I think it's hall effect switches, but it may be some other technology. There's a kind of keyboard where you can literally calibrate the moment in the travel where it triggers and where the rebound is because with mechanical switches, like it's a switch, right? You push it down and it goes click and it doesn't unclick until it travels back a certain amount. You can't adjust that. There are. Keyboards where that is calibrated, where it's literally like you could set it to the lightest touch triggers it, but then the rebound is like at a specific height. So you could have, you could absolutely min max your like flashlight. That would be so nice. And I know it's a bit kind of like it's try hard to do it. But the thing is like this keyboard is I imagine every crazy FPS person has that and the mouse. It is. I do know of that because of the Valorant and CS2 competitive scenes is where it's like. I've heard about this. So it's definitely like an e-sports thing. The annoying thing about it is you can't rebind the key. So in Five Nights at Freddy's two, the flashlight is control. You can't change that to anything else, or I would change it to the other mouse button, which is not used. Right? Click is not used. Wait, but you can rebind the keys through your keyboard mouse software. It through, I use Logitech for everything. So, well, except for this keyboard, but I generally use Logitech still on my gaming computer, you can set any button you want to be any input you want, and you can set buttons on your mouse. To be keyboard inputs. So you can't rebind it in game, but you could set it. So your right click is a left control input while you're playing Five Nights. So you could switch that to, uh, an optimal because, because you can click so much faster than you can ever press a button. Like clicking is it's, it's the last little, it's so fast. You wait, Mark, I have a theory that I would love you to try. You can bind key presses to your scroll wheel, so if you just flick the scroll wheel, like you Just go like, it'll be like, like every little. notch will be a press so you could literally just be like look i'm not beating the cheating allegations if i if i do that on this is this is just rebinding things this is just using what's available this is not hacking the game file okay we're gonna go back and they'll be like oh well this person beat 2020 2020 mode using the legit controls mark rebound his flashlight or you could do you could do the the mouse technique that i think a lot of rts players do there's a certain kind of tape you can put on your fingers and then you like when you're using your mouse instead of clicking you like flick and drag and the stickiness of the tape makes it like bounce and that's how rts players get like several hundred inputs a minute of like constant just like fucking clicking at a thousand clicks a second kind of bullshit also not cheating totally allowed in esports i feel like that's pretty legit in the game if you the thing is you don't need to click a lot you need to click so you're not clicking all the time you're just like when you're going through the cameras you got to go and click at the same time that you're left clicking so if i could have it to my mouse then it would be at the same speed i could basically just go you know one after another and be really quick but you know look i can help you i'll be your coach i don't know anything about five nights at freddy's but i know all kinds of stuff about competitive video games that i've never been able to do myself we're gonna have torbet coaching fnaf coaching can i get coached on bald or something i don't know what do i do if my esports coach had put me in in the championship in high school we would have won state and i've never been able to let that go i've i've gotten to 5 a.m multiple times the problem is my power right now so it's like if i can quick and speed up my flashlight press by like 15 that's all i need i would make it to the end of the night even 10 might get me there rebinding right play to control might totally save your ass you could totally do it it's probably native to what you use corsair or i don't know it's a razor mouse it's been so long since i've played is it start at 10 p.m or midnight midnight to 6 a.m so it's like i'm in the last hour and i run out of power that's happened about 10 times now and i've gotten better at it but it's still it's so hard in the panicky moments to not you know flash hard that's i cannot wait for mark to redo his bathroom he's like i had to rebuild the 2015 computer i'm using my toilet for power i have to have amy flush it in order to get the cooling going so that the perfect refresh rate from 2015 is back there's a quirk in the game where if you flush your toilet it creates a magnetic spiral that will affect your computer to give you perfect rng each time um yeah can't wait i'm excited for that video upload this is unrelated uh except for the conspiracy theory part on tick tock i keep getting served videos from this person and i can't tell if it's completely serious or if it's just a bit and it's going over my head but it's the videos are all called like quantum lattice hoverboard attempt number 13 great success and then it's a guy with like a little tech deck skateboard on a desk it's just a close-up video and it has a bunch of taped on it and he just keeps going oh that was a really good one like he's trying to get it to be a hoverboard and i keep showing up and every time i see it i get a little bit more paranoid about if our existence is real or if the timelines are overlapping or something but i hope it's a bit in my heart of hearts i i'm i feel like it's gonna be a lot of fun but it's gonna be a lot of fun and it's gonna be like it's a bit but also what if he's on to something or on something might be it might be anyway if you need esports tips mark oh god you're back man i got we can do this i'll help you with your pokemon card collection mark if i help you can i be can i be like the jester of five nights at freddy to your king can i be the duke of five nights at freddy can you can you like give me a lordship you'll have a fiefdom you'll have a fiefdom perhaps a manor yeah i guess you need a duke can't have not have a manor should i be a cattle just in general or yeah just you can be one of my cattle i'll make you a cattle all right i'm not going to do anything to help you guys with fnaf but like i'll just be a cow if that's cool at the end of the season we'll quarter you up and put mosty in the freezer and then you'll be delicious oh cow version of oats i know what that means oh you mean the big bit yeah uh i'm really banging on all cylinders today i will get the segway point wade could get the segway point and maybe i'll give it to you because feel stupid to give it to myself but can i just say my foot is messed up i complained about this last time it's still messed up it's potentially going to take a couple months to heal all the way up months what'd you do i have a big open wound on the bottom of my foot well yeah i know i don't know if you ever told us what caused it poor foot care or foot care poor poor i thought you said broke ass foot it's not that crazy it sounded like what he said yeah i hired a hooker she really messed up my foot maybe i was insulting the brand of products i was using those horrors messed up my foot goddamn cerave i would never talk bad about you cerave you the best i love you guys how is that is there i know sarah b that's a pokemon so i don't know cerave or cerave people say which i think is wrong anyway it's just a brand of like skin care products but uh they're very good they're very good unscented lotion my foot's all up at a point in time where what i want to do most in my free time is drive to all the stores in my area and see if they have any of the pokemon cards on the shelf for retail that i can buy because i can't order them if i could order them online i would but anyway my foot's messed up i'm not supposed to be walking so stay off as much as possible and that is the topic of today's episode i need your help and i know we've done this a lot in the past but the premise on this one is a little bit different i need your help each of you is going to suggest to me things that are going to help me get my foot back i'm going to suggest to me things that i can do to entertain myself without having to use my foot but i'm going to pick the top thing that each of you ends up offering me and i'm going to do them in the next week and who whom's ever's thing i prefer in actually and i'm going to record myself on my gopro mission one even though they're dead to mark uh i'm going to record myself doing them and then give you feedback and whoever's i like the most that's a bounty the bounty is give bob hobbies that will keep him entertained because i try i was like i can't really give you a point whoever wins because i'm keeping points whoever wins this i can't give someone points next week when i'm not the host presumably i won't be but i feel like i can create a bounty right is this okay is this within the guidelines is everyone okay with that so i want to i want to create this bounty and i am going to do whatever it is we come up with i'm going to do it both of your ideas for the next week and then as fair and honestly as possible pick who gets the bounty points in the next episode i have this titled in my notes as please be nice because i i immediately was like we could we always do like ass things to each other and it's always like oh well i need to i need to wash my car help and we're like well piss on it and then rub some in there i'll polish it up i'm gonna do this please i have mark this is our chance we could go real hard on him remember that sour challenge he was too sick to do we could that's not a hobby your hobby is eating sour oh god just eat sour candy for three straight hours uh but anyway it the floor is open i feel like you guys know me pretty well you know i like you know what i like i like tech i'm recently into all these things but i would like suggestions it could be stuff that you enjoy it could be things that you feel like i might enjoy could be anything it could be something none of us know anything about i will try it as long as it conforms to i'm supposed to walk as little as possible i can go places if it's like i need to go somewhere and walk inside and sit down i can totally do that but wade you look pregnant with an idea oh thanks man i've been working on that well you don't look pregnant with a baby so i feel like that was obvious what do you got help me out so this one's more of something i've really enjoyed i've been getting more into uh you're getting into the pokemon cards so whenever i started looking into the cards whenever i started get back into pokemon in general even i so i played every mainline pokemon game except for like gen 3 when it first came out because it was just a phase of my life where i thought it was too cool for pokemon or something and after gen 5 like black white black two white two i kind of like eh i'm not really enjoying the games quite as much anymore and then looking at the cards and stuff it's like i don't have a connection to any of the new pokemon because i didn't really give a about any of their games one of the ways i've really gotten a feel for enjoying more variety of pokemon and getting more appreciation is through some fan-made pokemon games there's been some really crazy fan games and like uh rom hacks that have been a lot of fun there's one called emerald rogue which turns pokemon into like a roguelike and it's really difficult if you like challenges it's really hard poke rogue i think i've told you poke rogues like a web browser game you can play it on your phone you can play it on your tablet computer whatever it's just a web browser that one's also challenging but it gets easier over time because every time you catch something you have a chance of starting with it the next time you can lower cost to have more things on your team like it'll make sense as you get into it i still play poke rogue i've been dabbling in it for forever and out of 1025 pokemon i'm missing four total in my decks like i've almost completed the full decks at this point good gravy but i mean i i play half hour to an hour increments and it's like okay and i'll come back can you play that on mobile i feel like i've seen you play it on like your phone or your ipad or something yeah yeah poke it rogue you can and uh some of the fan games you can't like the rom hacks you can as well i still recommend owning the game right like i own i don't i don't download games i don't own so like i'll own pokemon emerald before i'll do something like that some of the fan games are also really good there's pokemon unbound and i just started one called pokemon rejuvenation uh rejuvenation increases the shiny rate so you can shiny hunt it's like a one in 100 chance of getting a shiny instead of one in 5 000 you could just restart for 20 minutes and get a shiny starter if you want i just started streaming that one recently i've been having a lot of fun with it interesting different pokemon fan games and stuff i think one are more fun than a lot of the mainline games have been lately and you can play them a lot of them on mobile some of the fan games you can't because they're not you can do it on android maybe you're an android guy i can't do it on ios but those give me a new appreciation for a lot of the pokemons whenever i see the cards i'm like oh here's this pokemon i didn't give a fuck about but like now i do because it helped me in poke rogue a lot and stuff like that so i think it makes it more fun i could do that i like video games and they're they're really fun and interesting games some of them have like their own versions of pokemon they're called fake them on like they'll make their own regional variants for their own pokemon which i was kind of on at first but i'm also like oh those are kind of cool now good suggestion bark you look like you're pregnant too yes i am bye have you ever considered day trading i have actually yes but now i'm not saying it's for everybody only for the bravest among you right you you don't even need to understand what you're buying you don't need to do any research you just need to look at charts right yeah there's something i forgot the name of it but it's like the the study of the chart is all you need to do you need to know about the future just like you know you take a bunch of animal bones and you shake them in your hand you go and you're like oh i see the future is that what witches do among other people not just witches but you know i'm just saying in general which is small children lots of people do it with where do you think pickup sticks came from it used to be pickup bones and then people started learning the truth and not picking them up because you have to be able to see to understand exactly so all you need to do is get some fancy lines get a marker get a get an erasable monitor right or something like that or you could have your phone you could do on your phone too i was like what so you mean a whiteboard no you mean like a monitor i could draw on i guess you could just get a dry erase marker you know but like a zoomer being like that should make something like an erasable monitor like you could write on it but then you wipe it does that is it erasable erasable monitor is that what that's called remember pencils and paper in the old days man no you got to see it on the chart what are you going to have it all your chart on the paper you got to draw the chart each time but no you got to just start drawing lines and stuff yeah you're just trying to scrape that little bit of profit every time boom boom boom boom is this the kind of thing we need to wear a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and unbuttoned on the top and you look a little sweaty and disheveled and you have like the tie on that's also partially undone i'll make my charlie from it's always sunny room with the red yarn on the board and yeah actually i forgot i forgot one crucial detail you need six monitors or nine depending like six or nine oh no i know you're surrounded by charts buy here sell here buy here sell here buy buy buy sell don't even need your feet does day trading include forex i'm gonna say yes i don't know what that means well because mark got kind of into forex a little bit when we were in college and i was always really jealous because i didn't have any money but you were like showing me the charts and stuff and be like look this is a this is a j hook and this is this one's gonna be a rebound and i was like god that does sound fun i would do that if i had any dollars at all for everyone at home this was a long time ago when i was very dumb don't do this this is a joke it was in a period when you were also like hunting for to care about because like you're it was in college like everyone does stuff in college no i this was before any of my health stuff it was it was like software or something like junior i can't remember but i do remember one trade going bad and me sitting in like a public bathroom looking at my phone just hyperventilating like oh oh oh oh oh go back up oh no so i learned my lesson uh and i don't do that but you could yeah i think i think you're saying that i should but uh my grandpa used to delve into like whenever i turned 11 he was like all right son you're too old to get toys so we're going to give you a stock and i was like okay grandpa but like this new video game sounds really no nude video game eh we're going to buy stock in chiquita and we put like a hundred dollars in chiquita banana and like it boomed and we went from a hundred to like a thousand and he was like all right now we're gonna take that out we're gonna dump it all into ford motor company and then ford like crashed and we lost it all we're gonna let it ride uh so i i went from like oh god grandpa i got a thousand i can buy like a new bicycle he's like no we're putting it into ford and ford just tanked i mean he's like sometimes you lose son i was like i just i just wanted the new boy it couldn't have gone to zero though right because ford's still around so no i i might it might even still exist i might need to do one of those recovery things where like oh yeah i've got stock and something from like you never sold so you never lost yeah that that worth that's still worth the exact same amount that it was when you put it in because it's you know you don't have to you don't have to convert that you have to do the new value until you transfer it again yeah i got like one share of stock a year for like three years i'm sure i'm rich now if i look at it what was this like 1942. well how old do you think i am you know i have suspicions i have suspicions what's a stock market invented i'm assuming it was soon after that were these physical pieces of paper handwritten or were they printed with a printing press okay i see where it went down uh if it was like 2001 or something and then it went down it has not recovered since then so you probably had the same amount all right i still got my three shares at one dollar a piece but if there's dividends if there's dividends you might actually have a good amount of money i remember back when i was alive during the dust bowl and uh the great depression and things were rock bottom i was like oh buyer's market everyone and they were begging for bread good times good times was this an online thing though or did you like literally did you like have a paper thing or something like that yeah i don't know i don't know i don't know yeah i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know oh my grandpa would we the good old windows like xp computer we'd go to like some website i think and we get uh the letters in the mail from i don't know whoever it's been years i mean honestly you should look just because i'm curious but i don't know i don't know how that works i don't know if have you ever looked at unclaimed property no because i don't know if that works for stocks but like you know there's like there'll be cash in your name and the unclaimed property thing if you like search on the state records or something i've got a few rich uncles somewhere in the middle east that i've gotten emails from over the years but uh i've not looked at unclaimed cash uncle prince yeah you have the same one yeah we all have uncle prince that's my uncle he's king now he was formerly known as prince oh i see anyway that's my idea i like that and wade if you don't find those shares of stock i will never forgive you yeah it says their dividend is like four percent i don't know if it's always been that but if that was like 20 years ago that's a lot of money wait i'm gonna go back to the story of king ford and the people at ford are like oh i'm gonna go back to the story of king ford and the people at ford are like oh fuck shit i did we thought he died god damn it he actually owns the company now i come back in here i'm just wearing a higher crown boys it's me king ford god he really understands the companies you should be in charge you're the guy man they get this is what they get for getting doing away with the tire crown i have my axelrod scepter my tire crown look i'm still mad at four because they're gonna discontinue the f-150 lightning so you get over there and you give them up four i'll tell them man i'm gonna go over and i'm gonna give them the what four i own that company now two strong suggestions we might just end the episode there and i'll just pick those because those both sound very good uh but let's not though wait what else should i do to fill my sad sad time when my foot doesn't i mean it hurts a little it's sore you know it's like ah god come on foot it doesn't hurt that bad but i'm so sad about it and i'm stuck stuck in here i don't know how you feel about these but this is something i personally want to do because i've not watched these in forever i want to do a batman movie marathon where i go back and i watch even like the old like like all the way adam west i i've never watched those i might go back that far but at least like you know the 80s 90s like batman batman forever arnold schwarzenegger freeze and up through the nolens and then uh uh pattinson's batman i've also never watched the penguin series but anyway i used to love batman as a kid that was like my favorite superhero so i got super into it and my dad and i used to watch so uh i kind of just want to go back and re-watch all those to see how they all hold up because i've got memories of like christopher walken in one of the batman movies and i've not seen it since i was a kid so i'm like who was he but i feel like whenever i picture him i combine him with like what was it marv from home alone like this but he gets shocked i feel like they're the same like those images are blurred my mind i'm like i must see this movie and sort out the memories i want to do a batman movie marathon so maybe maybe you'd enjoy like a movie marathon but i'm not sure what you're talking about but i'm not sure what you're talking about but maybe you'd enjoy like a movie marathon of one of your old favorite franchises or batman or something oh it doesn't have doesn't have to be batman necessarily well that's the one i'm suggesting specifically but like i don't know if batman's for you i mean i do love generally love the dark knight trilogy and i like batman as far as for someone who doesn't care that much for superheroes in general batman's definitely near the top of the list where i'm like yeah i'll watch batman knitting you might genuinely enjoy knitting you boring piece of shit oh man way to earn points i had to commit to it you just look like you need the thrill of two knitting needles and constant movement i wonder how many people that watch this knit and they're just so angry right now threatening you with their needles dude a lot a lot of them are probably crocheting but a lot there's so many times i'm sure you guys know at this podcast where you'll start a sentence and you go you'll be like it'll be really funny if you say this instead it's gonna cost you dearly it's gonna cost you but anyway but knitting knitting uh it's you know it's a very relaxing and you can do it while watching other things it's something where you're working with your hands and you do need to pay attention a little bit but it's more forgiving than say like crocheting or um there's a i think there's a meme between like knitting and sewing or knitting and something else where it's like you could just accidentally whip up an entire sweater i'm not sure if it is knitting or which one's easier i'm not sure which one's easier but honestly mandy has crochet stuff and has crocheted things so i don't i i could i could maybe order some knitting needles or something but like i think we have like some yarn and shit i could use oh yeah crocheting is one hooked needle knitting is two sticks knit one purl two whatever the fuck that means and crocheting is just crochet crochet that's the you have to say it out loud every time crochet it's like bingo it doesn't count if you don't say it out loud don't do that you didn't say crochet well you do specifically mean that knitting yeah knitting i think knitting could be fun you could get into it and it's just a repeatable pattern as far as i know and you can kind of aimlessly do it while watching your movie marathon i could get all this out of the way all at once and not have to do any of the stupid shit you guys are telling me to do and you could day trade at the same time with my one good foot i'm over here day trading like a madman yeah exactly you just time the trades to when you get to the end of a line it's like you buy or sell at the end of it and so you just leave it up to fate because honestly random chance would be better is it ding like a typewriter when you get to the end of the line we're gonna be rich we're gonna make smart needles with a speaker in it that know when it's at the end of the line it just brings back all the classic like 90s noises like you've got mail why why that one yeah you can customize your needles to give you whatever noises you want you're so right you started that so confidently like it would be related oh yeah i relate to what i said don't you you know how we sell a thousand dollars in product in the first six months ai powered knitting needles oh my god to tell when it's time for you to move to the next row boom everybody loves ai everybody wants it in everything if ai was real we didn't have some really shitty versions of vi you know ai's not real it's real in the way that language works well we call it ai but like in the technical historical definition of artificial intelligence we've not really reached that yet we have just really shitty virtual intelligence i agree with him i really i like the mass effect definition of like virtual intelligence better than what it currently is i like that a lot well do you have any more ideas that you want to throw out so another thing from my childhood i used to love doing jigsaw puzzles but not only are there normal jigsaw puzzles right the 100 piece thousand piece whatever there was a puzzle i did as a kid it was like four different puzzles that was like jungle canopy jungle like floor bottom like the planes and i figured though they're like a river or something and once you built each one of these you could take off the outside lines and put them together and it was one big puzzle that made one image it was just really cool on top of that there were like the 3d puzzles so my grandpa and i built like a house one time where it was just little foam puzzle pieces and you put it together and ultimately it was like this little house and stuff i got a lot of satisfaction out of doing puzzles as a kid i've not done one in a while but i kind of had the itch to do one and i guess if i was off of my feet for a while that'd be another thing i'd want to do is some kind of combo of jigsaw puzzles if i get a puzzle and then invite you over and have you do it for me does that count as me doing it it's like watching a let's play like did you did you have a gaming experience by watching someone else play the game for you i mean i guess so yes i've i've played many games that way but yeah i mean i guess it would count uh to clarify there's absolutely no feet at all possible like i can walk i can walk short distances i can i it's not like i can't stand up i can walk around the house and i can go as a grocery store i can walk like this is perfect no no this is perfect okay all right so you couch you go to your cupboard you grab a box of kleenex right and you bring over you go to your wherever your laptop is you grab that you go to your bathroom or whatever grab a bottle of lotion okay you're gonna need all these you put one on the other one side one the other open up your laptop type in b-o-o-b-i-e-s hit enter just start clicking it's the most fun you can have with your laptop so if you're watching this video and you're like oh i'm gonna see this redeem happen but like i guess it's true put it on the bounty bar it's on there it's on the list for consideration i forgot these are going on the bounty bar oh here's a video of me looking at porn guys uh hey that'll be a hell of a bounty if we very desperate need points to win like nail biter end of the season that's a bounty to pull i never thought we would top the piss yourself for a win but here we are listen if this podcast ever gets that high stakes it will be there exactly as described i didn't i didn't say i'm gonna say anything else i just said you were just saying to watch porn and have those things within reach some laptops are real dry so you got to keep your hands moisturized to use your mouse and keyboard i get you absolutely i've been you know my it's been real dry around here too and you ever just see b-o-o-b-i-e-s that just bring a tear to your eyes you need a kleenex to dab the tears like that's the only word i ever spelled on calculators so i'm assuming i'll come across some interesting uh you know like retro collectible calculators potentially as well which i have another idea too is it wade's turn or should i just go straight up there aren't any turns go mark okay all right so you go on ebay you get yourself a classic ti83 plus silver edition you go to wherever the hell there's the drug trader game you go to get the dragon ball z rpg game get those installed on ti83 you'll have the best time of your life games on ti83 just hit different somehow they they they weren't the most graphically intense but they were the most satisfying to play they're playing games in math class on the ti83 plus it was like snake and i forget one other game those guys it was like if you were in class it was like the most fun thing you could ever do looking back like those games fucking suck man instead of doing work those games weren't the study hall oh god yeah play a video game and then you got the cable you could share with someone like dude i got that mafia game you gotta find the person who has the cable so you could share the files across because you gotta you gotta make sure you have all the coolest shit man you do you imagine do you think you guys if if i told you i'm gonna pay you like ten thousand dollars if by tomorrow you can have a programmed version of those games without using any kind of ai or anything like that do you think you could do it like you could you could learn the programming and search up the commands to create like the mafia drug trader game or something like that well probably because like if there's things like rpg maker and stuff out there there's got to be something some template you could use but on the ti83 like i don't even know what language is programmed in what is language no my brain would not work that way i would try but i think realistically i could not make that happen no even go back and turn one of those things on would be an achievement for me today much less there's a big button labeled on that's a start you didn't have one of the pull cord ti83s teacher wait so i had one of the hand crank ones like the weather radios see their clashes like you don't get tested everyone like just cranking it you can't stop because if you stop everything falls out of memory if you want to see what you're working on you gotta you gotta crank endlessly i was always jealous of the kids who had the chest harness where you only needed one hand to crank and you could use your other hand for stuff this is like one of those one hand band where the harmonica is but they got it yeah yeah i think on crank they got a little monkey actually cranked their ti83 to hit enter on the calculator you're like take kick your leg enter ah but you can't use your leg i can't use my feet i could use my leg all right another idea one man band get a big drum on your back get cymbals get a harmonica get whatever else hell he had he had the one guy that one man what did he have in his band go back re-listen to old albums like cds from the 90s 2000s like actually pop out the old cd player i thought you were just gonna let mark rack up the points with no he was starting to i'm like no i can't let this happen old gaming consoles go play like nintendo try to beat like super mario again i do have an n64 right there i was thinking even older i was thinking like sega genesis or super nintendo but okay if if uh if you know those automatic bread makers i have one of those i think how long do you think it would take you to make one like the loaf to prepare to put in there uh it's pretty easy actually you pretty much just dump the shit in it doesn't take very long at all like 10 minutes right like yeah like less than 10 minutes easy all right cool by 12 you start one put it in start the other put it in start the other put it in by the time you get to the end the first one's done put that out set it aside make another one put it in you have a bread making empire you start your own business of making bread artisanal bread opposite you get a bunch of people's addresses and you go find random stuff on like different shipping apps like doordash or whatever and you find things that don't work really make sense and you ship it to different people and whenever they give you reactions you laugh you get to watch the things be delivered so you know when the reaction's coming from whatever you're sending them. What'd you call that? Prank deliveries? Yeah, prank deliveries. Even better. You become a DoorDash middleman. You find people that want to make a DoorDash order. They order with you instead. You then order through DoorDash for them to their house. You make a cut and you're just crushing business. You could scale this up to thousands. No, I like that because I think there are people, specific people from maybe from older generations who are like, I wish I could just call someone on the phone. I could be the DoorDash phone service where they could just call me. They'll talk to me, real person. And then, yeah. You become a DoorDash bottom man where you find things you want on DoorDash and have them delivered to you. Well, I already do that. That's not really a new hobby. Well, it could be if you go ham and buy things you haven't bought before. Hey, look, I've bought some silly stuff on DoorDash, okay? Not crazy, but I did buy a hedge trimmer on DoorDash one time. I bought an umbrella for a wedding on DoorDash once for the bride. Doomsday device. You do a lot of research into nuclear bombs and you figure out a way to get fissile material to your house, start assembling it into an implosion device, and then you have a nuke. The journey is the reward. No, it's not about the end goal. You get the most luxurious flotation device. What's the word I'm looking for? Like float? And you spend your day. Floating around a pool, just like sipping on drinks and browsing your phone. I like the most just elaborate, comfy float you can find. I like that. There's an aspect of danger to that because I can't get my leg wet because it's fully wrapped up to my knee and stuff. I'm not supposed to get wet. So it'd have to be, I have to just actually get a boat. I love boat. If I get a boat, you come over, you hang out in the boat with me in the pool. Even crazier, we open some really expensive Pokemon cards while floating on the water where the cards nor you can get wet. We could call it drippy rips. I don't like that name, but I love the idea. Just call me Captain Drippy Rip. I got it. You impersonate Reddit comment bots. You start commenting on random subreddits in the same cadence that the bot replies do also say in, but in your official account. So you start really confusing people. Everyone thinks you're a bot, but you know in your heart of hearts that you're a human and therefore you get enjoyment out of it because you're tricking everybody. It's the ultimate rule. You can really freak some people out too. Because they think I'm a bot and I can just respond and be like. Get a camera and like a little microphone you can strap to your shirt and start filming yourself pretending to be like a news anchor and you just make up whatever news stories you want, but you post them to a new news, a new YouTube channel and you post them as if they are completely real and see how many people think that you're a legit news organization and start buying into whatever stories you make up. Probably a lot. World's first internal live stream. You. Swallow a camera that is live stream capable. You have a feeding tube placed in. Use that not for feeding, but for having the power wire to go through and then it's a con. Nevermind. This is going to be some fetish bullshit. We'll call it the go. No, I retract my statement. It's written down. You can't retract it now. That guy's got his tissues in his lube. What's he? It's about to hit the small intestine. We're in boys. I'll call it magic school bus live. Be like nostalgia. The sound to the sound is just my guts gurgling and the faint muffled me just singing the song like. And Lizzie's there. It's great. Oh yeah, Lizzie. Yeah. I think that's enough. Which option are you going to pick? Yeah, I think I have things to pick from and I have to do these things and they'll probably be great. Probably. Question before we start doing points. Do we do this? Do we do bounties now? Or do we do bounties after you tabulate points? I actually did one for once. You did a bounty? What the fuck? Yeah, I just don't remember when we turn them in. I was about to jump to points, so now is fine. On the official bounty board. Number eight. Change shirts mid-episode without anyone noticing. I started off with this. And now I'm here. That's very impressive. I didn't notice at all. I did that. I was like, I literally would look at this. I was like, what is the laziest, possible bounty I could pick? And I was like, change shirts. I wasn't even thinking to defend from a U bounty because I assumed you would never do one. I had to. You guys both have done one. I was like, I got to get at least one on the board. So I'm at least say I've done it. That's good. That's good. I did it, guys. That's completely legit. I don't know if it's worth anything other than like a point, but like I did it. I ask this every time it comes up. Is it one point or two points? It's one point. I think it's host discretion. It's like one to three or two to three. One point for changing a shirt is adequate for me. I think we were supposed to separate out the difficult ones and rank them as like, it should be like based on difficulty. But I feel like he did well because it's a completely different colored shirt and we really should have noticed. I tried to make it where it like, it wasn't like, oh, okay, you went from like dark red. I was like, okay, let me do something that would actually. Wait, so did you have that Pokemon card already or was that just part of the ruse? Oh, that was part of the ruse, baby. So you didn't just get that though? So that's some of my excitement about. Well, I did just get it, but not today. But it's really cool, isn't it? It does look cool. Yeah. I can't believe they got Van Gogh to make a Pokemon card. It's the only thing he ever did in his life, right? I don't know. What else was he known for other than Pokemon cards? Dying, I guess. I showed this to Molly and her response was, why does it have two ears? It's not him as Pikachu. Jeez. Anyway, that's it. That's my, that's my bounty. I know it's a crazy, amazing one, but I did it. Well, wait, wait, gets an extra bounty point. Yeah, I gotta tell you my thought. You guys were talking about like, Mark was talking about lenses and stuff. I was like, okay, this is something he's really passionate about. He'll be really focused. I'm going to leave. They're not going to give an absolute fuck. I'll come back. I'll have something to distract him with. And they'll have no idea. It's true. I'm shocked. I assumed Wade would just never engage with that at all. Me too. That's the only one you're ever going to do. I'm pretty sure. But you've officially done as many as both Mark and myself. You've only done one, right, Mark? Two, I think. Oh, well, it wasn't me. I've definitely only done one. Yeah, I got, I got the picture of Chica in a shirt. And then I did play the games during, uh, that's right. You did the, yeah, the games in the background. Sorry. I just realized I'm insane. And I skipped a bunch of pages in my score notebook for no reason whatsoever. I mean, three, four pages, but still anyway, points in no particular order. Wade, you earned points for injuring yourself while playing an MMO, becoming fully addicted to Pokemon, injuring yourself during physical therapy to heal your other injury. Cow version of oats reference. You got the segue points for Pokemon. Oh, you also got a point for being, alive during the dust bowl. And then your recommendations were Pokemon fan games, Batman or other movie marathon puzzles. Relisten to old albums, play old video games, which I feel like it's kind of the same as the Pokemon one, but I guess those are fan. Those are new fan games, whatever prank delivery service. Just order myself stuff on DoorDash. Drippy rips, fake news, leaving you with a total of 15 plus one bounty point. Yeah. You got the bounty for changing your shirt, giving you 16. Mark, you earn points for your gamer hands, your tube meet medical treatment, GoPro being dead to you, but only kind of dead, grinding FNAF like a true gamer, being receptive to my e-sports knowledge and coaching. You recommended that I do day trading or knitting. You insulted me, which did lose you a point for calling me a boring piece of shit. Worth it. You said that I should try gooning TI 83 plus. You said I should be a one man band. You said that I should be a one man band. You said I should make bread, kind of. You said I should make a DoorDash middleman business, doomsday device, internal live stream, and become a Reddit bot. You got 15 points, minus one for boring piece of shit, leaving you a total of 14 points to Wade's 16 points. Man, if you hadn't insulted him, that bounty would have really just given me a little edge. It was so worth it, though. I really can't overstate. You had to do it. I know exactly how that feels. We haven't spun the tie wheel in a while. That's what I'm really aiming for right now. Why would you manifest that for me? My foot hurts, Mark. How could you possibly do this to me? So if he wins, we're making him do one-legged hops, right? It's not a one man show. It's just run a marathon. It could happen. It's a two. It's a two. I had a great callback earlier, remember? Yeah, I had that. Wade had the callback earlier, but that's fine. No, I had a cool callback to like, it was an old joke, but it checks. No, five, four, three, two, one. Oh, that's true. It's the oldest callback probably ever on the show. I think we already have one that's like, was in the hospital or was injured or something. I think we do, yeah. I most recently adopted hobby. So whoever has most recently begun a hobby, like I would say right now, Pokemon for me is probably the most recent thing that we're sort of talking. I mean, you got me into it, Wade, but I'm newer than you. You've done it most recently. Something like that. Two spins. Two spins. 118 options on the wheel. What could go wrong? Come on. Not best looking. I'm a little ratty, if I'm going to be honest. I kind of need to shave. It's definitely Mark today. Sorry. All right. Cool. Good. He has a certain glow about him. I've been swimming in the pool a lot with the GoPro, so I've been getting a nice bit of sun. I've not been able to be active for a few months and I need to shave. I don't know. Yeah. I wouldn't have accepted even if I do deserve it. Look, you might deserve it, but that doesn't mean that you actually deserve it. get it. All right. One more point. Come on. come on yeah i agree come on come on i'm so close to winning kiss judge's ass the most oh come on man mark didn't have a documented lost point i like how we were one away from the host wins too i i knew it was gonna cost me god damn if i hadn't done that well and mark just handed it away couldn't just let the opportunity to hurl out some out-of-pocket insults i now have the knitting community hating me i have been guilty of so many times and i totally get it but that does mean that officially because he did a bounty shocking the entire universe wade is the winner mark please give us a loser speech this loser speech is brought to you by gopro code distractible sure distractible yeah you can get your gopro 10% off with distractible d-i-s-t-r-a-c-t-i-b-l-e uh i feel like this was not fate this was my own actions i've never been more certain in a in a deterministic universe no wait the opposite in a uh undeterministic universe where we make our own choices and our destiny is made by our own actions and everything is an echo from uh our thoughts to our physical form and extending out and rippling of waves of energy to everyone else that's around us um i feel one with the universe i am so connected and i am hated i know that even though i'm as connected as i've ever been to the universe it is against me and it does not want me to succeed but it's all my own fault because i am the universe and we are all i we are all me we are all we are all me and it's terrible uh well uh thank you mark uh wade winner speech this might be the first time i've won back-to-back's not the right word because you know i didn't win my own episode but like without giving myself a win back-to-back in a long time it feels good it feels good to succeed i put in a little bit of effort and the universe smiled upon me mark put in the opposite today and you know was oh look i think he tried pretty hard he just tried to do the wrong things uh he insulted a lot of people and you know that the universe did not give him as big of a smile as it gave me you know it's nice to do good try even just a little bit just a little bit of effort just a little effort and it won't change me and i'll be right back to my old ways soon but for today man it felt nice and i should put an effort more often i won't but man i should and we'll hold you to that thank you wade congratulations on winning i do the so the episode is over but i have one more thing i have to announce and that's what the actual things are that i'm going to do this week you've been talking about them for a long time and i've sort of been putting them off because i'm like i don't know if i really like that the bread makers maybe uh wade i'm going to do the pokemon fan games i'm going to try out emerald rogue and poke rogue and and just like dip my toes a little bit and maybe i'll get maybe i'll have a fresh addiction those two are very different than normal pokemon i would say like unbound or rejuvenations more like pokemon games but if you want completely random and different those those are two that's the thing i'm kind of interested in i do too i do like like rogue lights and stuff so i'm curious i'm curious about how that will work and then mark suggested a bunch of stuff oh good stuff what are we hoping for a gooning so it's only one week it's only one week can i take make bread and just leave it at that or does it have to be the empire of bread because if i like it it could lead to that but i feel like me successfully making maybe maybe like a couple loaves of bread maybe i'll try some stuff would be pretty pretty good for one week's time to give it a try and if i like it i'll build the evil empire what would your business be called if you go into the bread business would it be like big bob's bread baking bonanza bob's banging bread and our branding will look exactly like dave's killer bread but it'll be legally distinct blowing bread bubbles llc it's just like a bread they're all hollow bread shells i mean bread is just bubbles so like i see i see the angle i understand anyway so this week i will film myself playing pokemon fan games possibly get some more input from you wait if i try a couple and i'm interested in other stuff and baking i'm gonna say at least two different kinds of bread i don't have a sourdough starter and i don't know how difficult it is to just get one of those but like i can definitely find a couple different varieties of bread to try and i will also film that on my where the did it go on my gopro edition one oh wow co-distractable how distractible d-i-s-t-r-c-t wow it has been a while anyway that's the end of the episode uh check out our merch store distractible dot shop uh check out our social media and channels and whatnot lord minion 777 or minion 777 markiplier or a mice curb we're out there on the internet make sure you follow the show so that you get notifications because in case you forget then it'll tell you that you're supposed to watch and or listen to us every time an episode comes out and i'll see you in the next one bye and uh wade will host the next one shocker to us all i know but he won so he gets to do it regardless of what that means for the rest of us thank you for watching thank you even more for listening no i hate listeners i messed it all up that's the end of the episode see you on the next one podcast out

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Bob and Mark discuss gaming-related injuries like gamer cramp hands and the physical toll of long gaming sessions.
  2. Wade shares his experience with a severe foot injury and seeks entertainment recommendations to stay engaged during recovery.
  3. The hosts suggest a variety of low-physical-hobby ideas, including Pokémon card collecting, fan-made Pokémon games, and day trading.
  4. Mark suggests a Batman movie marathon to relive childhood memories, while Wade proposes knitting and crocheting as relaxing, hands-on activities.
  5. Both suggest creative, nostalgic hobbies like jigsaw puzzles, retro gaming on old devices, and prank deliveries through DoorDash.
  6. A playful debate arises over the feasibility of recreating classic games on a TI-83 calculator using programming.
  7. The team jokes about absurd or dangerous hobbies like building a nuclear device or floating in a luxury boat, highlighting the humor in their suggestions.
  8. The episode emphasizes lightheartedness, creativity, and the importance of finding joy in low-impact, accessible activities.

Summary:

In this episode of Distractible, host Bob and guest Mark explore engaging, low-impact hobbies to help Bob entertain himself during a foot injury recovery. The conversation begins with humorous reflections on gaming-related physical strain, such as gamer cramps and the intense focus required in competitive games. Bob shares his deep dive into Pokémon card collecting, including fan-made games like *Pokémon Rogue* and *Pokémon Rejuvenation*, which have sparked renewed appreciation for older Pokémon cards.

Mark suggests a Batman movie marathon to relive nostalgic memories, while Wade offers more grounded ideas like knitting, crocheting, and jigsaw puzzles. The group also explores retro gaming on vintage devices like the TI-83, and creative, satirical hobbies such as prank deliveries via DoorDash or building a luxury float. A playful debate over recreating old games on calculators adds to the comedic tone.

The episode balances humor, personal nostalgia, and practicality, emphasizing that entertainment doesn’t require physical movement or high risk. Ultimately, the hosts illustrate how even small, accessible hobbies can provide meaningful distraction and emotional relief—perfectly in line with the show’s spirit of lighthearted, creative distraction.

FAQs

Bob can enjoy activities like watching a Batman movie marathon, playing fan-made Pokémon games like PokéRogue or Pokémon Rejuvenation, knitting or crocheting, or doing jigsaw puzzles. These options require minimal movement and can be done seated.

Engaging with Pokémon cards helps Bob stay mentally active and entertained. Playing fan-made games like PokéRogue gives him a new appreciation for different Pokémon and provides a fun, accessible way to enjoy the hobby without needing to play mainline games.

A hall effect keyboard allows precise control over button triggers and rebound, which can help reduce strain when playing games like Five Nights at Freddy's. This is especially useful for players needing fine motor control to manage flashlight use efficiently.

Yes, players can rebind keys through keyboard or mouse software (like Logitech) to use actions like right-click as a flashlight press. This can improve performance, especially when clicks are faster than button presses.

Day trading could be a low-movement hobby, but it involves financial risk and requires chart analysis skills. While it's not recommended for beginners, it’s a suggestion made in the context of entertainment and minimal physical activity.

The episode promotes positive, respectful behavior, especially when offering suggestions to help Bob. It emphasizes kindness and humor over harmful or extreme ideas, setting a tone of mutual support and fun.

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