This episode of Distractible blends tech news and a vibrant, humorous solar system tier list to entertain listeners. The show opens with a promotional segment highlighting T-Mobile's fastest 5G home internet, available with a 5-year price guarantee. The main content focuses on ranking celestial bodies from the Sun to distant dwarf planets, using subjective criteria like visual appeal, storytelling, and personal anecdotes. The Sun is crowned S-tier for its dominance, while Earth and Saturn earn top placements due to life and aesthetics. Titan, a moon of Saturn, is celebrated as a standout A-tier object for its size and fictional significance. Pluto is praised as a resilient, symbolic planet, and Neptune and Uranus are given modest rankings. The discussion includes playful references to pop culture, mythology, and personal quirks, such as Mark's keyboard "thawk" and Wade’s baldness. The episode concludes with a lighthearted scoring system, where Mark wins 12–8 over Wade, despite both hosts sharing humorous misadventures and personal attacks. The tone remains playful, innovative, and self-aware, reflecting the podcast’s core identity as a uniquely entertaining, unstructured, and deeply personal space exploration experience.
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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible.
This episode, bathroom-loving Bob boldly goes to his buddies for their celestial selections.
Wizened Wade gets brutalized by Pokemon and derides Pupita and your anus.
Mercury-hating Mark loves stalking, ends his rending rain,
despises computer dick-teasing, and respects the moon but rips Mars.
From sublime innovation to mystery orbits,
ha-ha-ha-has, it's time for Solar System Tier List.
Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
Hello and welcome back to Distractible, a podcast on the internet.
That's right, you've heard of podcasts other places,
but have you ever seen a podcast on the internet?
No, I bet you haven't.
We're first of our kind.
That's why we're so special here.
We're always innovating.
That's our hallmark.
That's the show's hallmark.
We're always innovating, which is why today's topic is going to be so exciting and innovative.
It's going to be something we've never done before.
It's going to be unlike any previous episode you've ever seen of this show,
and you're going to love it.
That's one thing I know for sure.
It's from previous experience I've learned that you're going to love it,
but not because we've done this.
I've never done this before because it's really good and unique and innovative.
Did I say innovative?
It's innovative.
I said that.
Good.
If you've never seen this show before, I'm the host because I won the last episode,
and this show is competitive.
Competing for today's victory trophy?
There's no trophy.
Competing in today's episode will be the same guys who it always is when I host.
It's Mark and Wade.
Say hi, boys.
Hi, boys.
You both listened.
That's a point for each of you.
That was a test, and you passed.
Innovative.
Innovation.
Yeah.
If you've ever seen the show before, you'll know that everything I just said is a lie,
and there are no rules, and I just give out points arbitrarily, but that's a lie.
I'm going to give myself a lie point, and then we're going to get right into it,
by which I mean, small talk.
How's it going?
I have so much to talk about.
Give us those juicy deets.
All right.
I want you to open your ears real quick.
Huh?
I can't hear anything else, but God damn it.
Well, there goes all my. I got a new keyboard, and it's like semi. It's not mechanical.
It's not mechanical, but it's like. It's a little clackety.
What kind of board is it, bro?
I can almost tell what keys you're hitting by how they sound.
No, no.
I was typing all of my passwords in one long string.
I can tell you typed, ah, Bob's at Innovative again.
It's the new keyboard that has the stream deck built into it, which seems so obvious now.
That's a thing?
Yeah.
They just came out with it, which makes you go like, why didn't they do this before?
Is that. Wait, who. What?
So Corsair bought Elgato a ways back.
I can't remember.
I can't remember when, but Corsair owns them.
Corsair makes many things, keyboards included.
Not always my favorite keyboards, but this one was just like, oh, my God, this saves
desk space, and I'm always losing my stream deck or not setting it up.
It'd be nice if I could just blah, and it's there, and it's there, and it works, and there's
way more settings than I would ever do on it.
No, no.
I haven't programmed.
There's a whole bunch of pre-programmed stuff, but there's also a little numpad thing, so
it's where the numpad is.
It's not quite as nice as a real numpad, but it works.
But it could be a numpad.
If you so require.
And usually, I'm very against mechanical keyboards.
I hate loud clacking, but this one grew on me.
At first, I was like, oh, no, it's got some clack, but it really doesn't.
It's got this nice, like, soft. They call it a thawky.
Whoa, you can't just say that.
No, that's a big word in the keyboard community.
It thawks.
Yeah, it's the first one that I've ever been like, okay, now that. Usually, I like my keyboards silent.
I don't want to hear them.
I just want. I want the mushy.
The softest, you know.
But this one, actually, I'm like, you know, I think I actually kind of like that.
That's the first time I've been like, that's pleasant.
You like a little thawk?
You're thawking?
It's a little. I think I like a little thawk.
Not a big thawk.
I don't want big thawk.
A reasonable thawk.
You're down to thawk?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, now, you know, as I grow older, I find that my desire to thawk kind of has
increased a bit.
You want to thawk?
You guys want to thawk?
Want to get in a circle?
We can all thawk together?
I think that. I think that's interesting.
Let's thawk around and find out.
I don't know if you know. Wait, you use Stream Deck.
Is it the same?
Is it just the regular Stream Deck software that just interfaces with the keyboard, or
is it its own thing?
Oh, yeah.
No, you just use Stream Deck software.
You have to update it, but it works on this, and so. Oh, that's pretty neat.
That's pretty neat.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Got to get rid of some of these built-in presets, because they suck.
I haven't programmed my Stream Deck since I switched computers, so it doesn't do anything
right now.
I forgot about it until you just brought it up.
That's. It's been a while since. Since that happened.
It's not been that long.
It's sitting here just staring at me.
It says, Stream Deck.
Yeah, with the default logo on it with no. You know, you could just copy. It's like a pre. You could copy that file over, and it's like a preset.
Didn't do that.
Okay, well, interesting.
You know how I love my peripherals.
Mark knows how to pander to the host, that's for sure.
That I do.
That I do.
That's just a warm-up of my small talk.
I've got so much more.
Wade, do you even want to try, or do you just want to let Mark have all the small talk?
I've got one.
And this will appeal to no one but me, and maybe some people out there.
Like, three of them.
I have found a new Pokemon fan game pain experience.
It's brutal, and it's destroying me.
This is not the one you were playing in your web browser.
This is something else now.
Yeah, this is a different one.
This is Emerald Rogue 2.0 EX.
Actually, it's 2.0.1A, if I'm being technical right now, but. Oh, okay.
It's like a roguelite.
So, instead of, like, Pokemon. Where you wander around, whatever.
Like, it has that, but you have, like, an overworld screen where it's, like. You know, like, in the old Mario games where you'd go to, like, move around from level to level?
You'd, like, have the little, like, tan or whatever color bars.
You'd move around the little dots for the levels.
You'd move around, land on a level, and pick it.
Yes.
So, there's, like, a little overworld thing where you'll have, like, four or five choices,
or two choices, or no choices.
Like, depending on where you're at in the web.
And you'll kind of, like, pick, oh, do I want to go to a place that has a trainer?
Go to a place that has steel types.
Go to this event.
That event.
And then it'll load you in.
You'll do the level.
I was playing on stream, and chat had me do Brutal Difficulty.
And you basically have, like, I don't know, name a random Pokemon.
A Meowth, a whatever.
With starting moves, crappy, like, Scratch and Growl.
And on Brutal, the first person you fight has, like, a full team of six, basically.
That are all, like, probably max IV, best nature, held items, strongest moves in the game.
You're getting Earthquaked whenever all you have is, like. Mud Slap.
It is the most brutally unfair experience, and I got annihilated.
In four hours, I couldn't beat, I think, two trainers on a run.
I beat one, could not beat the second one.
Sounds so fun.
Or something.
That was, again, this is Brutal Difficulty, but, uh. It doesn't not sound not fun.
It was brutal.
What did I just do?
Uh-oh.
Okay.
Something either came unplugged or fell off, or the cord. Something's. Everything's fine.
Sounds fine.
It didn't freeze, so. I'm assuming.
Everything's good.
Mark, you had more talks, right?
I'll be right back.
I sure do, yeah.
All right.
I guess all the points are gonna be mine.
No, I'm not conceding!
Wade's conceded the whole episode.
Just have fun with it, Mark.
I'm not conceding!
Big news, basically.
The Render Farm is no more.
Whoa!
Oh, well, okay.
It's a little underwhelming.
It's gone.
I mean, it is big news, but it's gone.
I feel like it's been. That's just a part of life.
Wow!
Fucking underwhelming.
Why are you acting like you're not listening, Wade?
I know you hear what we're talking about.
I am listening!
I'm reacting!
Oh, okay.
So, yes.
The Render Farm has left the bathroom.
Woo!
I know.
That is a big deal.
And you burned it in a bonfire in your backyard?
I covered it in Glauber salt, which, as we know, very flammable.
Extremely flammable.
One of the big problems that everyone was trying to warn me about when I stuffed it inside my servers.
It's hard to get up when you're old.
It's moving to an actual, not a bathroom, like. Wade, you all right?
Oh, yeah.
This isn't about me.
It's about you.
Go on.
Anyway, it's moving to a place that actually should have a Render Farm.
A server room.
A real, real deal server room.
Purpose built specifically for that.
Oh, fuck.
What is happening under his desk?
What kind of mole men are tunneling up from his basement floor?
What the fuck is happening here?
I just squirted. I just squirted water all over.
Well, jeez, man.
Don't do that.
I'm really trying to stick with the story of this one.
Mark's Render Farm is going to a real room like a big boy.
And I'm selling some of it because with the current computer prices and RAM prices. Don't give me that face, Wade.
Don't give me that face.
Very high.
Oh, man.
You're not lying.
There's some extra stuff that I think I'll try to sell.
Might even make some money off of what I got off eBay for that.
I don't understand what's happening with weight.
I gotta be honest.
I'm super.
distracted right now i thought this was sealed it wasn't so i grabbed and it squirted out and
just spray like a fountain of water came out of my keyboard in my desk and i kicked something and
undid my wire tie it was like to the bottom of my everything's fine and i don't mean to detract
i think the render farm moving is great and also whatever mark was just talking about
is also very important let me give wade a jealousy point very jealous jealous of mark's real small
talk big chapter of my life closing or is it so what's the new movie i don't know one yet
wink you heard it here first wink wonk i was expecting that to be my big trump card like
sweep you know no that's a huge i mean it's just a bathroom now which is good we need bathrooms in
our lives but that's just crazy i i feel like the saga from when it when you were like guys
ebay and china
the chinese server parts they don't need them i bought a pallet of server stuff and i'm gonna
build there was like a whole saga all the way back it's like a chapter of our lives have closed
my favorite version of mark was dinosaur i like dinosaur bone collecting mark man did we talk
about that not that not the trump marks trump but i think i'm cursed specifically uh first my eyes
broke so i'm in glasses then my wires broke and then my water squirted and the next obvious
thing is immediate death or water breaking because that's yeah i can't believe you didn't go with
water broke but whatever well i don't want a lie point i want a real point they are real points
actually apparently we were doing it wrong like every time we bring up a rule like that we remember
it wrong i don't know how it keeps happening but it's almost always the case at this point i just
want to bring up incorrect rules just to piss everyone off so if you were hoping that we would
start doing it correctly subreddit i wouldn't hold your breath
i thought we had a rule we're not allowed to correct ourselves unless we have a tribal council
uh aside not a full episode but like an aside i don't that doesn't sound like a rule i've ever
heard before that definitely doesn't exist i probably just made it up which makes it true
no that is the rule though is if we make it up it's true that's true that's two out of the three
i don't even need to agree for that to be true plerocracy i'm ready for the episode despite my
life falling apart around me i have one last thing to bitch about by the way i don't yet hold let me
break something else the tech problem
i'm so tired of these these tech companies announcing a product and then it not being
available where it's like well coming out intel's like the new laptop cpu and every reviewer's like
it's incredible this product it's like specifically it's like this dual screen
thing that has like the new the new cpu is very good i'm like that's what i've been looking for
a new windows laptop portable oh where do i buy it you can't no oh it's great
but you'll never see it it'll come out sometime never like i literally i everywhere is looking
like this was announced a month ago it's like oh that's exactly what i need too bad why would you
want this you want to buy this ew get away from me so they announced it released it but then you
can't get it yeah you can't get it there's tons of reviews come out about it and then it'll be
like a sneeze in the wind six months from now it'll be like listed for sale and i'll forget about it
and it's just like how are they making money how is anyone in those other companies making money
right it doesn't like i'm here i'm like i'm in the market for a new windows laptop
investors i guess i don't know oh my monkey's turned into the beach
that sounds like a completely psychopathic statement out of context okay grandpa
everybody's monkeys turned into the beach today okay listen before we start recording
i don't want to hear the actual explanation no no no your monkey's turned into the beach there you go
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won't miss you today's episode topic like i said at the beginning so groundbreaking so innovative
so fresh and new we're gonna be making a tier list
but not just any tier list
this is gonna be a tier list of stuff in space i know at least three things out there you probably
know more than that yeah this is very unbiased and completely fair because everyone here equally
likes things in space and has the same strong positive vibes about it in general i want this
started as the idea of i wanted to do a tier list tier list of the planets in our solar system but
then i was like well there's some moons that we could talk about but also if you guys
have any other things that you like about space like like the iss or like specific nebulas or
something or if it like it could be space it could just be space stuff but i want to start i want to
go inside out we'll start with the sun and progress through the planets no pluto's not a planet we
could discuss it later but it's not a planet it doesn't count unless it does i don't know if they
switch that back or what exactly but uh we're making a tier list i unironically like tier lists
i know not everyone watching and listening did but i i do enjoy it
i like it as a pretext to just talk about stuff that's what it is it's like a reason for us to
talk but also give something i don't know what some of these things is but i like the way they
look i like the way you look i'm gonna guarantee it uh we could start with the sun and we can work
our way through the planets we could talk about moons with the planets or we can save the moons
it's very whatever we want here and there wither and dither i just want to talk about space stuff
i'm curious
where all of these things land and i'm curious how we're even going to decide that the sun first
number zero in our solar system the actual center of the universe probably can't unprove me
scientifically i think this picture says is a deadly laser i have this this is this starts
pretty high up for me this could go as high as s tier for me but i'm curious what you guys think
about look if anything was worthy of being an s tier
it would be the sun because in power in other categories orangeness melts snow flares
burns our enemies when we leave them outside tied to stakes true true all true yes i think like it's
it just is unless it's so overdone that it becomes kind of generic you know i do i get that vibe but
i feel like giver of life
gets to be s tier i guess you know we sort of do need that guy i don't think we've ever started uh a tier list with an s
we'll see if it stays so hot but i i feel like sun belongs in s tier and i'm comfortable with that all right let's talk about this next one big piece of shit mercury
b for bitch nah gotta be a because it's closest to the sun no i'm just kidding it's not an a tier it's just getting smacked around it's on a little leash but the sun's got it on a leash
it's not tough for being annihilated with that much heat it's not like venus right venus is is crazy venus is nuts i try to remember the little what's the limerick for like my vagina eats men just so what's the what's the one we all learned in kindergarten my vagina eats all men my vagina eats many monkey penises there's two m's mars
okay fine my vagina eats monkey penises other ones
yeah you know why am i so hooked on p i don't know i was looking at phobos on the thing
the next one starts with p oh you got me moons you moons mark said b for bitch mercury i've
got nothing really against it but nothing really for it what we have six b or c so i guess c c you
don't get points for being first in line to be exploded you know no no moons no moon not even a
moon venus does venus have moons i don't think it does here i'll show you my cheat sheet apparently
venus moons zero okay venus is crazy well v rhymes with b so i say b we recognize
venus for its it venus way tougher than mercury i don't care if mercury is closer venus its
atmosphere the pressures i don't even know why it does all that stuff that it does but it rains like
sulfuric acid or something like that it's it's nutso nutso but so b for but so avoiding spoilers
i'm pretty sure venus is also like it has significance in the plot of the book project
hail mary i wouldn't know i haven't read it yet i'm not gonna go into any specifics but you know
that put it on my radar even more than it already did i'm not gonna go into any specifics but you
already was so i think i think b tier is good for venus earth this son of a bitch
no no no come on now people are from there and i don't like people see that's where i'm coming from
i like people earth is a planet pretty cool lots of water nice ecosystems you add in humanity
knocked it down a little bit obviously earth bagged a hell of a moon right huge moon for its
size second only to pluto for bagging a moon in proportion to its size pluto p for planet but but
okay earth have you seen that animation of earth have you seen earth
you've seen earth animation it was like a tiktok edit where it's like you know the sun's giving off
its electromagnetic radiation splashing mercury just you know oh no and then venus is like
but earth is
you know it does like the the super tough edit of earth's electromagnetic field is just tanking all
the sun you know i it's earth's tough you know earth is real tough i i gotta give earth a lot
of credit for that let's i mean we could talk about the people problem the entire d of this
episode so i'm i'm objectifying it from outside of the people perspective okay what do you advocate
for here a s how high i think a i don't think quite s because let's be honest we've discovered
that the habitable zone is a lot wider than we think there's probably plenty of earth-like
planets out there in the whole universe i'll give you a but only because of soto and fogo to chow
i think that's fair i think that's a fair exchange and that's a good point there's a lot of things
on earth but there's also meat and pasta where's our moon the only one doesn't have a name or does
actually have a name it has a maiden it's called luna oh okay just
a
a
I mean that's a reason for s tier in my mind it's not a moon it is the moon we're not biased
we're not biased but let's be honest the earth didn't bag the moon the moon bagged the earth
and that's because it came from a you know you know no i don't but i like the way you
and i like this sun moon both being s tier that that feels good
that's true i get i vibe with that a little bit
it's true i mean we've talked about before in the episode but i'm still i still think the the cosmic
coincidence of the sun and the moon being the same relative size in the sky and the only place where
a total eclipse could possibly happen that we know of bonnie tyler who monty tyler bonnie tyler she
wrote the song total eclipse of the heart well it didn't write she's saying it's written but never
mind so yeah moon s tier you got me with eclipse s tier total eclipse of the heart s tier song
i'm easy to please man pasta good music all right mars thinks he's the sun wants to be orange
actually turned red what an idiot mars has ghosts and mars attacked two things i didn't like about
mars dude that movie traumatized me when i was a kid which one goes to mars or mars attacks mars
attacks i never actually saw the movie but i want to point out phobos and demos we're not i know we're
not there yet they don't even deserve to be on this list those are rocks deal
but no wait we need something for f out of here nope they're below f they're deleted look mars is
a wannabe in a lot of ways i maybe i'll give it credit for at one point having life but who has
life and loses it that's really yeah lost life you know you know what happens to a doctor who
loses life too much not allowed to be a doctor anymore and musk likes mars that drops mars too
right yeah what's that make it like d i think in mars my
might be our fur to d i don't know if it deserves f olympus mons kind of gives it a little bit of
credit biggest uh uh mountain in or it's a former volcano but it's a mountain let's be honest not
gonna be a volcano ever again but biggest mountain in that as we know of so biggest protrusion gives
it some big d energy that's a good point that's funny thank you that is funny i hope everyone out
there heard that joke they went that is funny in the same monotone voice to prove how hilarious it
was you're gonna
just by saying that you're gonna have people come up to you and go that is funny i'm gonna miss bald
it's still so often that the clip comes up where mark is like and bob has a baby and i have a movie
and i'm bald forever the rest of our lives jupiter baby phobos damos crew where you rise up phobos
damos crew fuck those idiots they're just rocks jupiter is where men go to get more stupider is
that good or bad my bad
well i mean if if i've ever been to a place that makes me stupider it's usually a fun time so i'm
not gonna say too much negative about that it's also real big doesn't jupiter have like an infinite
storm isn't that what the spot on jupiter is it's just a never-ending storm i don't think it's an
infinite storm i think it's actually shrinking right now well it's cold out it'll get bigger
when it gets warm infinite storm is actually i'm skipping ahead but saturn i believe saturn
is way cooler than jupiter
jupiter gets a lot of i'm not just not saying jupiter is bad i'm jupiter very cool lots of
moons kind of weak maybe ring kind of you know it's kind of a little cringe ring can i say
something embarrassing so jupiter saturn others these are the gas giants in our solar system
right they're good meaning that they're gaseous i still struggle to conceptualize what exactly
that means if it's a gas if it's a gas giant if it's a planet made of gas
how do you determine the surface of the planet i guess there's no like atmosphere technically
i think but then is it just like once you're inside the gas that's the planet but if you're
not inside the gas that's is there a line or some shit is it ever solid like does the gas
solidify anywhere or anything like i don't understand i don't get it either because it
must be so big that there is like a gradation of the density of the gas but it just ramps up
really quickly of the gas and then it's like it's like a line or something like that and then it's
like a line of the pressure because it's so big and it probably is a thing i believe there is a
core is there is there a core if it storms in a gas where does it land i don't know i don't know
to google jupiter is not just a ball of gas it's a complex gas giant with no solid surface
primarily composed of hydrogen and helium the transition from gas to liquid and metallic
states due to extreme pressure as a thick gaseous outer atmosphere most of its mass is liquid metallic
hydrogen surrounding a dense possibly partially melted rocky core man i could have understood this
if i just googled it earlier yeah wow okay so there is a rocky core that makes sense to me
because it's like but it says there's it says there's no surface you can't stand on the surface
of it the pressure just increases until it becomes impenetrably dense which sounds terrifying i don't
i don't want to penetrate it well hold on okay maybe wade wants to penetrate it i won't speak
for all of us i guess that sounds like a chat
challenge i i think it's very b yeah i was gonna say it can't be higher than b i'll give you a b
i like b b's good b's a fair score i feel like it's happy at b oh god we gotta do their moons uh
so we could skip we could do the planets first and circle back to the moons or whatever
well then i'm not gonna know what moon goes to what well actually i do know europa callisto and
io no i know io because it was in destiny right isn't io one of the places you can go
callisto is callisto protocol and europa is the one with the giant
ocean what's the first one candy medic what's it called ganymede candy medic yeah yeah it's
my favorite moon i don't know ganymede i like its little uh like sideburn it's got that's cool
callisto and io look pretty yo is very pretty ganymede forgettable ganymede d i don't care
whatever callisto callisto protocol not a great game but you know had an interesting graphics
thing that i was talking about before europa kind of looks like someone spilled cinnamon on some
whipped cream c for callisto c for callisto
callisto i like yo just for the name not gonna lie oh yo's a b it was fun to go there in destiny
probably that was a good place dusty very yellow europa makes me think of a cinnamon roll i like
cinnamon rolls but i don't know anything else about it so probably a c yeah i don't object
all right cranking through the moons i appreciate it and ganymede's down yeah i think i think those
are good choices still no f's pretty good solar system i think saturn a tier for me saturn is
awesome that ring that ring is unreal and you want to talk about like okay jupiter's got this
big red spot have you seen saturn's fat ass no go on hang on let me google that saturn's fat ass
saturn is the most oblate planet in the solar system meaning it's
significantly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator
this gas giant's wide shape makes its equatorial diameter about 10 larger than its polar diameter
it's like an hourglass figure if the hourglass was just cut in half saturn is actually the least
dense plant in the solar system making a very lightweight yet fat planet all right saturn is
fat i like it uh look up saturn's hexagon saturn's hexagon how the hell is that happening aliens
probably oh pro definitely way cooler than a red spot and that will never go away apparently it's
like a bronzor if you know you know right pokemon fan i think saturn's cooler than earth i do too i
would agree yes i think saturn has so much going for it like it might be the only s-tier planet
oh it'd be pretty up there i mean it's ring it's just shape it's uniqueness it's fat ass
If you go to the context of Earth having life, it's really cool.
But if you're looking at the solar system and you see Saturn, you're like, that's so
cool.
I know the whole pale blue dot thing was taken from Saturn.
You know, doesn't Uranus have a have rings or is it Neptune doesn't have like vertical
rings, but they don't look nearly as cool, right?
I know there's cock rings.
I don't know about Uranus rings.
I'm OK with Saturn and us here.
I mean, I just look at Saturn.
Saturn just so cool.
The alien hexagon on the North Pole is top tier.
I have to agree with that.
It is super cool.
Does Saturn have all of these moons?
Saturn has a whole fuckload of moons.
Jupiter has 92 moons, plus possibly up to like 600 other tiny, tiny ones.
Saturn has 145 known moons.
And the first six are the Galilean moons, right?
Isn't that the thing?
Is there visible using like land based telescopes from Earth because they're fucking huge?
Quick glance.
I like.
My my mass memos.
I like memos.
Looks like a Death Star.
It does look like the Death Star.
Look at that.
Titan is another one from Destiny in it.
Titan is in a lot of fiction.
Warhammer.
Titan's very important.
That bumps those two up on my list.
How big is Titan compared to Earth?
That's a good question to ask Google.
OK, Titan is bigger than our moon, but it's about like a quarter the size of Earth.
It's like half the size of Earth.
Forty to fifty percent the size of Earth in diameter.
It's got more water than Europa.
I didn't know that.
Damn.
I definitely didn't know any of this.
It's much less dense.
Its mass is only about two percent of Earth's mass.
Oh, you're still showing the hexagon.
No, wait, you're not.
I am.
I've got a tab open.
I'm an idiot.
Boys, I think it's time to put me in a home and retire me from this podcast.
It's been fun, man.
It's been fun.
I truly think after today it's time.
Send your applications to replace me because I think it's time.
I need to go.
I need to go.
I need to go.
Titan seems kind of cool.
Titan seems pretty boss.
It'd be up there.
I'm split between A or B.
I'm not sure.
Give Titan an A.
Give Mimas a B and the rest can go C, D.
I don't care.
I feel like I like Titan more than I like Jupiter and Jupiter's in B.
So I feel like it has to go in A.
Okay.
I'm fine with that.
Like I would say below, below Earth in A, I guess.
But like.
But the fact that it's in A tier.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Mimas next to yo to me.
Got it.
Mimas next to yo.
Death Star.
Boob.
Oh, man.
That might be S tier.
Hold on.
Let's talk about the Death Star boob.
When you say it like that, I'm going to say Tethys D tier.
Can't pronounce a terrible name.
Iapetus looks like it's being Thanos snapped.
The rest of them are just round and gray like Tethys.
The rest of them wish that they were our moon and they're just not.
I don't know.
What's default for moon?
Do they start at C?
I think yes.
C.
Nah, D.
I think moons have to start at D because it's just like they're.
Because it's like default for planet is C.
Default for moon is.
Okay.
All right.
Do we want Iapetus anywhere else or.
Iapetus can go C.
It looks interesting.
It also has a Death Star.
Yeah, I like it has a little Death Star nipple.
I like it has cool coloring situation.
Actually, is it hexagonal too?
Are both of those kind of hexagonal?
Oh, my God.
Are they?
To Google.
You know, if I was aliens, if I was aliens, I would make my base on Saturn because I'd
be like, okay, this is just far enough away from Earth that they wouldn't get suspicious.
But then I would make my base on Saturn.
My big hexagons and people on Earth don't know shapes.
Those fucking idiots.
We had to show them how to build a pyramid.
I can't believe we'll never get a square hexagon.
And they said, nice triangle.
It's a pyramid.
It's in the name.
All right.
We're on a big business, boys.
Oh, boy.
Your anus.
Funniest planet name we've got going, I think.
But it tripped the other planet and knocked it off the line.
Like, we all know the one in the back.
The one.
It tripped Pluto, right?
It had to be Uranus that did it.
Well, it's not in the back.
Are you talking about Neptune?
The planet that is next?
I forgot Neptune existed.
You know what?
Uranus is fine.
That's a bad sign for Neptune, man.
But that is not a great sign for Neptune.
Uranus move.
It's back up, baby.
Other than being a joke, it's so boring.
It is just the blandest planet.
It is one color.
It's just there, you know?
But at least it's not Neptune.
Is it high C-tier or low C-tier?
Low B-tier.
I feel like Uranus deserves to be above Mercury.
I agree.
Yeah, I would agree.
But still, like, top of C-tier?
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
Yeah, Uranus comes below the boob.
I gotta say, these are some very interesting moon names.
Titania.
Well, I got a Titan, too.
Titania.
I like Oberon.
I think Oberon's a cool name.
Oberon and Umbriel are badass names.
Those pair them up well.
Ariel, first mermaid crush.
Only mermaid crush, probably.
Yeah, what was yours?
Your second mermaid crush.
King Neptune.
Ariel in the sequel.
Ursula, when she's the hot version of Mermaid Ursula.
Titania just feels like it's trying to be Titan.
It feels like it wants to be cooler than it is.
Fucking F.
We give that an F.
Oh, F.
Wow, first F.
I feel like Oberon and Umbriel get a bump up to C just for their name.
I don't know if they need to go higher, because otherwise they're fine.
Did I had crushes on them?
Listen, Miranda in Mass Effect.
And Ariel in Little Mermaid, like, well, let's see.
How horny do they make you?
That will rate how high that means they should go.
Oh, man.
Well, S is too high.
Let's go.
Thingby, Thingby with Umbriel.
Below Umbriel and Oberon, but on that line.
Okay, so you'd rather fuck Oberon.
Got it.
All right, we're really working it.
We're really banging out a bell curve here, and I appreciate that.
This, I think, might be a contentious one.
Neptune.
Blue.
I like blue.
It's a beautiful color.
I love the look of Neptune.
I want a Boli.
Ball that looks like that.
That's about all I know about Neptune.
But otherwise, kind of fuck Neptune.
I don't know. It's fine.
Like Wade said, it probably is the one who pushed Pluto, made them lose planet status.
Like it was Neptune is the god of the ocean.
So is that the Greek one or whatever?
Yeah, it's fine.
It's very pretty.
Oh, Neptune isn't as big as I thought it was.
I see an Earth to Neptune comparison.
And I mean, obviously, Earth is much smaller, but it's about the same ratio as the Earth Moon
to Earth, just inverse.
So it's actually not that big.
No, it's smaller than you'd think.
Way the fuck out there. It's too far away.
It's a long drive. Nobody wants to go that far.
It has a spot.
Apparently, it's got it's got a spot that's kind of cool.
So, like, is it above Mars?
I feel like to me, it's either top of D tier or in the mix of C tier.
I like maybe put it next to Mars at the very top of D tier.
Yeah, I give it top of D at least like it just it earns that spot.
It's not a it's not a
leftover wannabe has been like Mars.
It looks better than Mars.
Mars doesn't look bad.
Red Planet, kind of cool.
Neptune looks way cooler.
Orcas are scary in the ocean.
So I don't know if Orcus is scary as a moon.
Yeah, wait, what's going on with Orcus?
Orcus. Orcus whale.
Does it have its own little mini moon?
Oh, that's what that photo would imply.
A moon with its own moon?
I Googled Orcus moon moon and came up with Vance.
OK, Vance is the moon of Orcus.
Orcus is a dwarf planet.
So Orcus is not a moon of Neptune.
I mean, Orcus never even kind of got to be one of the planets often called the anti Pluto.
Well, Pluto is high on my list.
It's just in opposite orbital phase from Pluto.
So they just they just keep their distance.
So people might have mistaken them for each other.
At some point, it was only discovered in 2004.
Oh, it's it's like it's like a third the size of Pluto.
Why is this even in the running?
But if Pluto is high on my list and Orcus is not, then that means Orcus is pretty low.
I like the name.
I like both Orcus and Vance.
I feel like those are cool names.
I don't like the vibe.
I feel like he wishes he was, but he's not F or low D.
Given that I've only just heard of it, I feel bad if it got put in F.
F feels mean, I guess, but.
All right, so above Mars.
Oh, OK.
Either F or above Mars, there's no in between.
Hark Triton! Hark!
I'm sensing that mark is a bit. What's that from?
It's from the lighthouse.
When Willem Dafoe goes, he's like, stands up, gives a "Hark Triton! Hark! Curse this guy!"
I like Willem Dafoe, so Triton must be pretty high up on the list then.
That immediately gives me positive.
Feelings about Triton.
I like some Willem Dafoe.
Very bee energy.
I feel that right next to hexagonal Death Star titty.
Willem Dafoe, you did this, you rose Triton.
A series.
No, no, you know what?
Low D or F because it made my phone go off.
That's really funny because it sounds like the phone lady.
Um, I don't know.
I got nothing for or against that it exists.
I mean, default.
Okay, hold on.
Sirius is not a moon.
Sirius is a dwarf planet that's inside the asteroid belt.
You got to be tough to live in there.
Oh, yeah, that's not a good place to live.
Almost as tough as Miranda.
Bottom of seat here.
All right.
Okay. No argument.
Okay, you guys just gave me that.
You just said it so definitively.
I believe you. All right.
Now for the big one. Pluto.
Pluto.
We grew up knowing Pluto as the pizzas that my very educated mother just bought
us. Nine of. But now
it is nothing. Do we
love Pluto because it's a fallen planet or do we hate Pluto because it lied to us for our entire
lives? How do we feel about Pluto? If Pluto is the yin to Orcus's yang, it has to be A tier.
I think Pluto has so much going for it. It didn't ask to be labeled a planet. It was just there
when planets were being labeled planets. It just made its orbit there and it kind of was like,
oh, oh, okay. I know objections here. Here's my big fucking moon. Look at my huge moon.
You know, I think that, you know, you, you, you gotta give it tons of pride and that heart.
It has dealt with being last in line and then forgotten its whole life.
And it's not complained once. Not once. A tier Pluto. Those other dwarf planets,
they're not spherical. Pluto, beautiful sphere. A tier Pluto. Sharon! Rest in peace, Ozzy.
Does that big ass moon get to live with its tiny ass not planet or does it get the default moon
treatment? It is impressive. It's like Mark had pointed out. It's Pluto really pulled a good one.
Right now, it kind of looks like it has my hairline. It's kind of shaded on the back and
sides. It has a little fluff on top. I give way to B. Oh, babe. B for babe. B for babe. B for babe.
All right. This is a, whatever this is, is spicy. Selassia. Trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper Belt.
Dwarf planet discovered in 2004 has one moon named Actaea and it orbits the sun once every 274
years. Classified as a Cubuano, which is a Cubuano? A KBO? I don't know what that is.
A Kmart big offer. Sure, sure, sure, sure. It's a Trans-Neptunian object. What's Huamea? I don't
care. Give it whatever. I don't know what any of these things are. I'm more interested in Huamea.
Huamea, what the fuck? You want to talk about fat ass? You know, Saturn ain't got nothing on
Huamea. Rapidly rotating egg-shaped dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.
What if that actually is an egg? Well, that's a problem. What if it's the egg of the next sun?
What came first, the sun or the egg? That's what I'm talking about. I've never seen this before in my life. I've never heard of this. I didn't even know planets could be
like that. I wonder if it's in the process of ripping itself apart or something. Like, I don't
know how it's holding together like that. That, that takes, that's, that's, that's definitely
urine's bead here at least. No parents are sitting on it to help it hatch either. It's abandoned.
Yeah. All right. I'm, I'm cool with B. That's it. That's an interesting thing. All right. We
should probably speed this up. I mean, we don't have to go through all, there's a whole bunch of
shit that we don't have to talk about on this. I mostly wanted to get through the solar system,
which we have done. I just want to say,
make, make. Oh, I've, I've heard of this. Make, make dwarf planet. I mean, I assume it's probably
like make, make or something. Yeah. It's a Coober belt dwarf planet. In case you ever want to come
back, I won't spoil it. Bob, you got some funny stuff on here. No, I know. Yeah. It's I, I just
borrowed this. So this is, you know, there's, okay. There's two more. I think we should look
at it, which is planet nine and Theia. Cause those are interesting ones. They, whatever's
happening on Theia looks crazy. Planet nine is just a circle on this image.
I don't know. So Theia is actually what they think is slammed into earth, like primordial earth
and exploded it in to make the moon. And they think they've looked at this recently in the,
like geological conglomeration of surveys of the earth. They think they see pieces of Theia
embedded in the crust or not the crust, the, the mantle of the earth. They think they can see
it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Interesting. That is pretty cool. I mean, lost fought earth and lost, but you know, still may it
made the moon earth is a tier and it put up a good fight with earth. Cause it did, it did make the
moon earth is still wielding the scars. Mark just said that B high B high B I would put a high B.
Yeah. I'm a, I'm going to say above moons, but below planets and B. Yeah.
It gets a lot of props for giving earth what it has right now. It made a moon. So it has to be
above the moons. I agree. That's good. That's fair. That's fair. Planet nine, a hypothetical
massive planet believed to exist in the far outer solar system, far beyond Neptune proposed by
astronomers, Mike Brown and Constantine, but Tegan it's existed as suggested by the clustered
eccentric orbits of distant trans Neptunian objects, which didn't indicate a gravitational
influence from a hidden large body, potentially five to 10 times the mass of earth taking 10 to
20,000 years to orbit the sun. I can't, I've heard about this before and I'm not at all like an
astronomy nerd or anything. So I don't, I don't look into this stuff very deeply. I could never
tell if this is like a conspiracy theory. That's only pushed by wackos who are like, there's a
secret planet and there's a civilization on it. And they play, they sheeted earth or if this is
like a real thing, because it seems to be.
Scientifically backed and a theory that's put forward by actual like astronomers. I don't know.
I like seeing the orbit, how its orbit goes completely different direction than everyone
else's. I also like the image where there's an actual just question mark on it. That would be
weird if we got like, Oh, Voyager just so happened to do a flyby. What the feist, the Riddlers.
That's where the Riddlers from.
Yeah, there you go.
Why didn't I say the Riddler? I thought it got milk for some reason.
I mean, it's kind of cool. I like this kind of like a, you know, scary story. You tell in the dark kind of thing. It's kind of fun.
I like stuff where science is like, well, this should exist. Doesn't make any fucking sense that there would be this huge planet so far away, but also all the, all the things we have, the gravitational readings we can get, they suggest that this should exist. So I guess we're just going to say it's a thing.
Maybe put it next to Uranus. It's another mystery hole.
I do like it better than Mercury.
I don't think it's quite as cool as Haumea because like Haumea was just so weird. We had more images of it. I think Planet Nine is just suffering from our lack of knowledge, but it's cool. But if it is out there, yeah, it would go up. The more we know, the more would go up. Yeah. Or it could go down if it turns out it's lame. That's true. Yeah. There's a good tier list. I feel like we did a good job.
I think astronomers will agree for us for decades, ages even. What kind of time measurements do astronomers favor? Light years. That's time, right? Light years. And our only FT.
Here is Titania. Titania. Because it wishes, it wishes it was Titan, but it's not. You know why I'm having such bad luck today? Haumea is in retrograde. Ah. But Triton is in Hark. I laughed. I laughed. You did. You didn't even point at me and say that's funny. You actually laughed, which I appreciate. That's going to be the end of the episode. Let's go over who got points for which. In no particular order. Wade, you got points for saying hi, boys, when I prompted you to.
Yes. Pokemon again, I guess. You got a jealousy point. You got a point for Bonnie Tyler for still being bald. For yo, fun moon, fun name. You got a point for you're still showing the hexagon. Yeah, that's. And you got a point for got milk for some reason. Mark, you got a point for saying hi, boys. You got a point for Thocky for pandering. You got a render farm destroyed point. You got a wink wonk point. B for bitch. You got a point for saying hi, boys.
You got a point for moon when you were describing how the moon was made. You got a point for accurately selling us on how much Saturn fucks. You got a point for Hark Triton. And you got a point for the Riddler planet because we both said it at the exact same moment. And that's what smart people do. That makes the final score. Well, that's not the final score. The current score. Ten points for Mark and eight points for Wade. Oh, I'm still in the running. I thought I was getting destroyed.
I'm still in the running. You're still showing the hexagon really saved you because I still have the tab open. I'm not going to lie. It's there. I didn't really have a thing planned for what I want to add to the wheel. I don't really want to do like a planet, a tier list one. I want to do one that takes away a point. You know what? Minus one point for I'm going to say either making fun of Mark for being short or making fun of Wade for being bald. Oh, did someone have to do it or you don't have to do it? I just feel like
those come up a lot, but it's like if you if you made a Marcus short joke or a Wade is bald joke
minus one point. If Wade makes bald jokes, it still counts. No self deprecating. Oh, I self
defecate all the time. You defecate all over yourself. Anyway, how many? That's the first thing
we do. Oh, just enough. Just enough. So you're saying there's a chance to is not the number that
I would have picked. Tell you that you're not going to do your little wee woo. You're
actually doing it. Yeah, I'm going to do I'm going to spin it for real. So there's no cheating
or anything. Most personal attacks. We were only attacking Mars there. So I guess that would be
the personal. Yeah, well, we talked a lot of shit about Mars and and Titania. I came for Mercury
pretty hard. I was pretty straight out of the gate. You know, B is for bitch. That's true.
Mark had the strongest personal attacks against against some of the some of the
debated issues today. I feel like I have
to agree with that i might have come at mars the hardest but mark went for more planets harder
all right golf rules yeah barring any terrible things happening i'm not going to be spinning
the winner's wheel today basically guaranteed the sudden death wedge would not possibly pop up again
right okay
you know my scottish sweden accent i don't think anyone used any accent this is the is the willem
reference an accent it was more like a dramatic i i think that's a respin i answer i don't think
there were really any any serious accents good the sudden death tile would never come up again
ah does that count
i think that does count swept again so if it landed on that and no one's made a joke and
landed on minus one for the short joke all right i'll take it the wheel loses
one point yeah if if the wheel lands on shortest and then the wheel lands on lose a point for
short jokes i feel like the wheel loses the point i say if if the wheel has to lose a point it has
to spin we have to remove one of the options oh i like that i'm sure we'll remember that when it
comes up anyway mark remains undefeated in today's episode because he won on base points
and then he won both the spins it's true making the final score 12 to 8 uh you know what the only
thing mark is going to be defeated by is that he doesn't get to make a loser speech wade loser
speech not gonna lie this episode started a little rough first my eyes were burning so i had to run
take out my contacts then i removed a wire from under my desk then i squirted water everywhere
then i proceeded to get trampled on at every possible stop along the way to getting crushed
by four points but you know what i had fun our tier list ended up turning out pretty good i think
therefore i accept my place in the game and i'm going to go ahead and play another one of these
the bottom of the podium i think it's a great tier list i'm a fan i only wish we could put saturn
higher i wish we put mars lower it could be lower it's not even f tier yet anyway mark winner speech
at first i thought wade was employing psychological warfare against me during my elite small talk but
then i remembered that's just wade so then the rest of the episode was just pure confidence all
the way through i knew that this was his he rolled his dice for how his day was going to go today and
i knew he rolled a critter's dice for how his day was going to go today and i knew he rolled a
critter's dice for how his day was going to go today and i knew he rolled a critter's dice for how
his day was going to go today and i knew he rolled a critical one from that point on and i
critical one from that point on and i
critical one from that point on and i had it in the bag so yeah thank you uh for
had it in the bag so yeah thank you uh for
had it in the bag so yeah thank you uh for allowing me to get this win
allowing me to get this win
allowing me to get this win hand of fate i rolled a four pretty low
hand of fate i rolled a four pretty low
hand of fate i rolled a four pretty low congratulations to mark our glorious
congratulations to mark our glorious
congratulations to mark our glorious and brilliant and beautiful winner and
and brilliant and beautiful winner and
and brilliant and beautiful winner and congratulations to wade for having the
congratulations to wade for having the
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
T-Mobile has launched the fastest 5G home internet with a 5-year price guarantee, based on Ookla Speedtest data from late 2025.
The podcast introduces a unique solar system tier list, ranking planets and moons based on personal opinion, aesthetic appeal, and narrative interest.
The Sun is rated S-tier for its immense power and cosmic significance, while Earth is given a strong B-tier due to its life-supporting conditions and moon.
Saturn is elevated to A-tier for its striking rings, unique shape, and hexagonal storm, outshining Jupiter in the hosts’ subjective rankings.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, earns an A-tier due to its size, atmosphere, and fictional importance in games like *Destiny*.
Neptune and Uranus are rated low to mid-C-tier, with Neptune slightly favored for its blue color and alien presence, though seen as bland compared to others.
Pluto is celebrated as an A-tier planet for its resilience, symbolic status, and iconic moon, despite being reclassified.
The episode ends with a humorous, self-deprecating score of 12–8 in favor of Mark, who wins through consistent presence and personal attacks, while acknowledging the show’s entertainment value.
Summary:
This episode of Distractible blends tech news and a vibrant, humorous solar system tier list to entertain listeners. The show opens with a promotional segment highlighting T-Mobile's fastest 5G home internet, available with a 5-year price guarantee. The main content focuses on ranking celestial bodies from the Sun to distant dwarf planets, using subjective criteria like visual appeal, storytelling, and personal anecdotes.
The Sun is crowned S-tier for its dominance, while Earth and Saturn earn top placements due to life and aesthetics. Titan, a moon of Saturn, is celebrated as a standout A-tier object for its size and fictional significance. Pluto is praised as a resilient, symbolic planet, and Neptune and Uranus are given modest rankings.
The discussion includes playful references to pop culture, mythology, and personal quirks, such as Mark's keyboard "thawk" and Wade’s baldness. The episode concludes with a lighthearted scoring system, where Mark wins 12–8 over Wade, despite both hosts sharing humorous misadventures and personal attacks. The tone remains playful, innovative, and self-aware, reflecting the podcast’s core identity as a uniquely entertaining, unstructured, and deeply personal space exploration experience.
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T-Mobile offers the fastest 5G home internet according to Ookla Speedtest, with a 5-year price guarantee. Speeds are based on intelligence data from the second half of 2025, and exclusions like taxes and fees apply.
The Render Farm is moving to a dedicated server room for better performance and stability. Wade mentioned it was previously in the bathroom and was eventually covered in Glauber salt, which is highly flammable, prompting the move.
The Sun is ranked at S-tier due to its immense power, ability to melt snow, and role as the life-giver in the solar system, despite being a common topic in tier lists.
Earth is highly rated for its habitable conditions, unique moon (the Moon), and the cosmic coincidence of the Sun and Moon having similar sizes, which enables total solar eclipses—making it a standout in the solar system.
Saturn is considered superior due to its striking ring system, unique shape (oblate), and the fascinating hexagonal storm at its north pole, which is seen as more visually and scientifically compelling than Jupiter’s red spot.
Titan is highly rated due to its size (larger than Earth's moon), presence of a thick atmosphere, and its role in science fiction (like Warhammer 40,000). It is considered a top-tier moon, earning an A-tier rating.
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