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The Smell You Can Lick

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The Smell You Can Lick

The transcript blends satire and deep personal reflection, centered on the long-standing dominance of lemon over lime in media and consumer goods—what the hosts call "The Lemonati agenda." 7UP counters with a new lime-lemon soda, symbolizing a shift in the industry’s balance. The show Distractible, hosted by Bob, features exaggerated, fictionalized controversies involving Markiplier, such as firing VFX teams and burning a tractor, which Markiplier denies, emphasizing how media can misrepresent reality. The discussion then shifts into a serious exploration of sensory imagination, with participants describing their ability to visualize music, voices, smells, tastes, and textures. While some individuals have vivid mental imagery, others—particularly the host—struggle with smell and taste, noting that these senses are weaker in imagination despite their strong role in memory. The episode concludes by highlighting how sensory perception varies between people, and how media narratives often amplify or distort personal experiences, turning reality into playful, exaggerated headlines. The underlying theme is both humorous and insightful: how perception shapes truth, and how human imagination—especially in the unseen senses—defines our inner worlds.

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- For decades, a shadowy organization called The Lemonati has kept lemon on top and lime in the shadows. Look around, lemon-forward sodas, even lemon-forward songs. We ran the tracks, slowed them down, reversed them, and squeezed out the truth. ♪ All hail the lemon ♪ - That's lemon propaganda right there. But now, 7UP is fighting back with their new lime-lemon soda. Join the 7up rising, flip the sip. - When you've got a job to do, Lowe's knows how to help you keep it moving. Milo's Pro Rewards members save more with member volume discounts on eligible orders through a quote of $2,000 or more. Plus, save time with job site delivery on select purchases. Not a member? Join for free today. Exclusions, more terms, and restrictions apply. Can't be combined with any other discount, including but not limited to contract and/or special pricing. Loyalty programs subject to terms and conditions. Details at lowes.com/terms. Subject to change. - Hank joined BJ's Wholesale Club the day he became a father of 30. - I coach football. - Now, Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, three cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. - And that's just pre-game. - He knows teamwork, and BJ's knows savings. This is your home, Coach, home of the save. Join for just $20 at bjs.com/mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months. Open soon. Limited time offer. New membership. Members only. BJ's, home of the save. - Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode. Bombshell Bob brings up bankruptcy, blows hard, and investigates sensory imagination. West Wing Wade becomes Slanderman, fixates on the Sahara, and steps on granny. Media mogul Mark catches more controversy, consumes Carl, pumps with fist, suffers a phrenosia, and tongues feet. From cutting to black to car symbiosis, yes. It's time for The Smell You Can Lick. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. - Hello and welcome back to Mindy St. Clair's favorite podcast. And if you don't know who that is, I'm not gonna explain it. My name is Bob, and I'm your host, and this is Distractible. I'm hosting 'cause I won the last one, 'cause the way this shit show works is, I mean, the way this show works, regular show works, two people compete and one person hosts, and whoever wins between the two competitors, they host the next one, unless they don't, which has happened before. But not a lot, but it can happen. But it won't. But it could. But I'm joined by today's competitors and future hosts, Mark and Wade. - Hello. - I'm Mark. - I'm the other one. - Hello, other one. I'm dad. - Hi, dad. Oh man, that's a sentence I've not gotten to utter in 25 years. - Yeah, hey, wait a minute. - Holy moly, man. - Quite the reveal in the last season here. - I can't believe that's the bombshell for the last episode ever. I've been doing that a lot with James lately. So, sorry, it just leaks out. - How do you cut the black in real life? Do you have like a curtain you carry around? - Yeah, it's just a big blanket. You know the trick with the birds where you're like, oh, oh, and then you throw it up and you run away? And then the bird is all, "What the fuck?" - I say it with dogs, not birds, but I know what you're talking about. - It's all the same. Babies, birds, dogs, it's all the same. - They're all the same. - Before we get into the main episode topic, we do small talk. How you guys doing? - I've reached a funny new level of fame. - What's so funny about it? - Where every sentence I speak can be misinterpreted to make a headline for an article. Not that this hasn't happened before. - Mark, why are you sparking so many controversies? What are you doing? - Oh man, I don't know. I don't know. I get a text from Wes, you know, of Burning Tractor, the VFX company for Iron Lung that did all of that. And he tells me, "Hey, I know what you're talking about here, but I'm getting a lot of messages asking why you fired us on Iron Lung." So for those that don't know, Wes is the owner of Burning Tractor, a company that I've worked with on VFX for all of the bigger projects I've done with Heist and Space and now Iron Lung. I was on a separate podcast called The Lemonade Stand with Doug Doug and his various friends of whose name I definitely remember. And this isn't a bad look. Here they are now. - Alien Atriarch. - Wait, Markiplier left Distractible to go to Lemonade Stand and then he burned a tractor and fired his VFX team? - Yeah, that's pretty much it. - That's the hard hitting news we report here. - Oh my God. - See, the headline of this article is Markiplier ditched the Iron Lung VFX company over budget and turned his own bath room into a render farm with old servers from eBay, which is not what I said at all. What I said was we were subcontracting a VFX company to do some of the simulations for the blood and the opening sequence of the movie. The problem was the iterations that I needed because there were some translation differences between hiring them and what I would say I want and what they would execute upon. The problem with simulations is they're incredibly computationally intense. They require a lot of hardware specialized for just doing simulations. It's not just about GPU power, it's about distributed CPU power. So the fidelity of the shot, it's like, this is all me and I'm reading my own quote, which is in this article here. - And I remember that, that was accurate. That was just a quote because I did actually watch that and somehow I'm remembering word for word what you said about that part. - He said he fired his blood company and forced his fans to donate blood for his movie. - Pretty much. - While you were saying it, I was thinking, man, Mark complained so much about how much he fucking hated Wes and he was so glad he fired those guys. Behind the scenes, it's so crazy, he's coming out. Yeah, no, I didn't see that that was being quoted like that. - I think this counts as libel. Is this libel? - Libel is when it done been written. - Yeah, so saying that I ditched the VFX company, not only over budget, it's just such a ditch ingenuous title is like, I feel my, you know how I always sue literally anyone at any opportunity. I'm like, nah, yeah. - I heard you fired Amy, slept with the director's wife. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, libel, I mean, slander. - Oh, that one's slander, get him. - Yeah, get me for the right one, man, come on. - I guess that one's true, so, oh my God. - I'm gonna grow a couple of extra arms, call me the slander man. - Why has no one done that yet? That seems obvious. Wait, that's so obvious. - Thanks, thanks man, that's how all my humor is. - No, no, I mean, like, it's such a good idea. I feel like it should have been done at this point. - Yeah, maybe it was, I don't know. - Sue me, whoever I stole it from. - This is, it's funny, I don't really mind because the benefit of having a YouTube channel is the ability to just, like, reach a lot more people than, say, an article ever could, but also the problem with that is that Lemonade Stand podcast, you know, all the words are there, but even if I say a big stream and say all the words, people can just pick apart the words and do whatever they want, which is fun. Anyway, I didn't fire Wes. - I wanna be famous like that, that sounds great. - Yeah, the main point was to get the hardware so that Wes and his team could use the hardware as many times as they needed, and all I would have to do is get the power, so it wasn't that VFX jobs were lost. - You know, I had that thought. I hadn't seen any of this, but I did watch most of the Lemonade Stand episode, and I was watching and I was like, this is, like, one of those things, they're gonna quote him, but they're gonna, like, cut it up or take, like, five words, and then there's gonna be, like, gossip YouTubers or, like, headlines or something of people be like, "Markiplier puts somebody on blast about their involvement "in Iron Log, some stupid shit." I mean, you don't say stuff that you're not, like, allowed to say, but you don't play the game that people play where, normally, in an interview like that, someone who's, like, a media-trained professional in the industry would be like, "Oh, it's great. "They're great to work with." Like, they don't say anything, right? They say, "Well," they were asking you questions, and you were like, "Oh, it's so expensive. "We ran into problems, but I learned a lot." Like, you just said, like, what happened. - Wait, Markiplier went broke and knew nothing about movie-making before he started? - Yeah, just that one, that one clip where you're talking about the money, and you're like, and the part that goes back to the budget, like, "Ah, man, I'm so broke." Wait for that to get quoted, like, "Markiplier goes bankrupt." - "Markiplier makes $24." "Oh, fuck, I'm so fucked. "He's got so much money, oh my God." - Well, congrats, man, for making it. - Thanks, thanks, thanks. It's only up from here. - That's fun. Hey, all press is good press, right, Wes? I don't know Wes, by the way. I've never talked to Wes. - Yeah, you have. - Oh, no, I have talked to Wes. - You've literally been on set with him. - But I don't know him like that. I don't know him to where I could be like, "Yeah, right, Wes, buddy?" - He did so good on "Space." I'm sorry you had to fire him for "Iron Lung." That's so tragic. - Yeah, you know, hey, he just got an ego, and he got more expensive, and, you know, I can't have that. - We already have a three-letter name on the podcast, too. We can't have more of them in our lives. - I think the next headline is, "Markiplier replaces VFX companies with real good AI." - Yes, that's the move. That's what it is. It's a secret plan for Mark to develop his own AI slop house. Think of how much money I can save/make/lose. - How do you cackle and rich? Yeah, everybody making AI stuff, only making money. It's great. They're all making huge profits, I think, as far as I have heard, probably. - Oh, yeah, they're spending money, that's for sure. - It's fine, it's gonna be fine. Huge profits. - I've been slightly distracted. I'm trying to think of a good pun for Sahara, but bald. Don't remember why, but that's what my brain's been working on in case you guys are curious. - What is Sahara from? - Don't remember. Something about when Mark mentioned hairline, like, an hour ago? Don't even know if we were recording at that point, but my-- - Yeah, that was before the episode, I think. - Brain got completely locked in, and I was like, "Hairline?" the sahara bald hold on and i've just been there this whole time so you're just not participating in any of the rest of this i've been participating i just want i'm slight i'm all my great slander remember slander man he came with slander man i do remember oh you did say slander man is that one of those random like you just a speaking spell and that just happened to come out like you get you take in information yeah you pulled the cord and it landed on slander man pun wait is our monkey with a typewriter i mean yeah that is a pretty fit description the monkey's still bald sorry wade well that's fun i don't have much to say about that i don't think i'm ever going to encounter that sort of issue in my life yeah but it's okay i don't mind at all i should just start saying more controversial shit just so i can get news outlets to misquote me markiplier co-host says mark that's your problem i'll never have to deal with it so you should distractible ended over spat over markiplier's newfound fame jealous co-hosts could not anyway feuds over whether or not markiplier should have fired wes dissolves distractible do you have any goofy headlines about your life wade no thankfully not i was at a vet or a doctor's office every day of the week last week and i've kind of just done with that it was exhausting and tiring and annoying were they trying to decide which one was supposed to treat you or oh well the only one that treated me was a dentist that went well i stubble my teeth went went pretty good i think no that's success success yeah i won't go into all the specifics because you know medical and hippos and whatnot not that i'm the doctor so i guess i could share but i won't anyway it was just a long bleh week pressy didn't do well with the anesthesia so we had like two days of misery with him and just a lot and then it's tax season it's been a lot of not fun stuff so in my free time i've been re-watching west wing for some reason reading john grisham still trying to finish that book i've only read periodically but i've tried to finish that book so i can start dungeon crawler carl about halfway through runaway jury now i was gonna read more last night but then my i have like one of those little neck lights that you could read with in the dark i didn't charge it so the battery died in the middle of like a really exciting chapter last night i just went to sleep angry if only you had a good night's sleep you lived in a house with lights yeah but i was comfortable in bed i wasn't gonna like turn on the bright light while molly's sleeping what did you do quietly in the pitch black room you just wait just wait i have done that noise before out of frustration at night and woken molly up so i do that sometimes actually that's very funny that's very funny that and playing a bunch of random pokemon games oh i 100 percented berry berry berry i went through an achievement hunted last night love that game i finished dungeon crawler carl at least all the books that are available oh you've officially passed me well you haven't finished where are you i'm on the i'm on the last book right now i'm like halfway through the last book that's currently out book seven or whatever i mean i am impressed by the author's ability to constantly make the stakes go it's fucking nuts considering where it started i'm just like oh i think my favorite version of that is the transition from the end of the butcher's masquerade into the beginning of the next because at the end of that book you're like holy shit oh my god and then you start the next one and you're just like oh oh my god holy fuck like it just keeps crazy i'll relate soon you'll get there buddy you wouldn't think that because like what the subject matter is i mean even if the setting is as apocalyptic as it sounds it's like he it just is a really smart way of of escalating and there's a lot of complexity in there and i think that's a really smart way of of escalating and there's a lot of complexity in there and i think that it's impressive i like when the dungeon crawls like star wars opening crawls or like crawls like creepy horror movie at you crawl it's more like when they're trapped in the trash compactor on the detention level and there's no 3po this time was it 3po or was it r2 is the one actually shutting down all the trash compactors on the detention level i think but 3po was there that's true but i think he was talking to 3po on the thing and then r2 was the microphone walkie-talkie whatever the fuck that was and we all lead fascinating lives don't we really on all the trash can packers on the detention level they're dying r2 yeah that's what we're talking about that's the one yeah i just he's talking to three people i just remember i want to make sure if my brain was like and now we're in legally troublesome waters you did too good of an impression of that scene wade you get a segue point one of us does yay wait i said wait yeah i did i did wait yeah sorry wait it was it was i oh no you know what you're right i misspoke mark you get a segue point wait hold on no me me me oh you're the one you're the one who couldn't listen to your own name being said in a sentence where i said five words i was so distracted by mark thrashing around i was trying to think of another headline for him wasn't thrashing this is this is just pumping my fist in victory but i'm sitting and i only have so much mobility yeah but i can't see your full cut out so it looks like you're just thrashing because you're just shoulders in the head i just got the sudden urge to convert to standing i'm not gonna do it it only ever goes well it's too dangerous i can't i can't do that to myself i would never i actually don't think i can do that anymore since i moved to offices i think if i did that i would actually just disappear from the call forever i've tried to tell molly i can't stand anymore but she still makes me go places yeah i don't know if that's gonna work i appreciate the effort though mark it's the segue point yes because wade was trying to recall and then accurately did recall a quote from a movie look we're in the area of uh rehashing right this is this is where we are as a show this there's nothing new under the sun anymore but i was talking to mandy recently and we were talking more about a fantasia which is the thing that we've talked about on the show great disney movie if you haven't seen the previous episodes a fantasia is you ever see that meme of where it's like there's a real apple and then there's like a real apple and then there's like a real nothing and there's versions of the apple in between a fantasia means that a person cannot visualize things in their head they have no mind's eye i have complete a fantasia i don't see shit if i close my eyes and try and imagine things i see like blackness and i got nothing i get no but we were talking about that because we've talked about that before and i find it really interesting because i think we cover the spectrum from me being completely nothing to mark having really pretty vivid realistic ability to picture things and mandy pointed out that that's one sense that your ability to see stuff and see things in your mind's eyes like interesting but we have a bunch of other senses sexes we have a lot of sex since on this show but i want to talk about our senses i wanted to just sort of like do some non-scientific tests and talk to you guys about what level of if at all a fantasia or not a fantasia you have with other things because i realized in talking about it with mandy like i i'm a musician not as a career but i went to school to be a musician and i played a lot of music in my life i don't hear shit either if i'm imagining like a piece of music that i know or like a song i like like it feels like i'm listening to it if i imagine the song i don't hear it it's not like i'm playing the cd in my head but i imagine both of you guys if you're trying to imagine a song that you know and like you just do you hear it in your mind's ear i mean we've seen it with wade of him bopping to shakira we know every time you've got shakira in your head we see the little oh dude i was just enter sand manning right now italic don't sue me yeah i can it's harder to hear the instrumental i guess i can hear the lyrics very clearly like now i'm gonna hold on i'm gonna shakira for a moment you guys talk we all know about your undying love for shakira but literally for me it's funny because like if i like you said enter sandman know that song i can't hear it i can't hear it i can't hear sing that song mostly probably if i try and like hear the opening guitar part where it's just the guitar and the and the hi-hat comes in i know the rhythm and i know how it sounds but in my head all i hear is my breath because i tend to like breathe in and out as i played a wind instrument right so when i'm playing music a lot of times i'm like i'm blowing on my instrument mentally in a way and all i'm hearing is like my breath so it literally sounds like the laminati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime comes first seven up flip the sip it's so weird it's fucking i've never thought about it until mandy brought this up it's crazy i feel like i'm listening to the song like i know how much i like that song and i feel like i feel the i feel all the part i can't fucking hear it i don't hear anything i hear my own stupid breath in my head i would love to hear the symphony of your breath in like a full orchestra and now the bass not even like the buzzing of the lips for like the tuba just this is my life man this is my experience that reminds me of the south park episode where they were doing the guitar hero thing and they just brought one of the guitars and it's like play buckethead without the game click click click click click click click no literally i appreciate why that joke is funny but i was always kind of like yeah that's what it sounds like but apparently other people could hear theoretically could hear the song okay so we're covering hearing first right yeah we were talking about whatever i have to do to hear the song and i'm like oh my god i'm gonna have i want to cover all of the senses but can you guys if you were imagining jeff goldblum saying something can you hear his voice say things like because that's a common thing is like oh if i'm i'm reading something it's like oh it's like i'm hearing it in his voice can you guys do that yeah nothing christopher walken yeah i just pictured him in the cowbell skit and i heard him talking yeah i physically feel christopher walken in that like i feel how i feel when i try and mimic his voice not that i do a very accurate impression right but what i think like if i was trying to have him talk in my head internally i'm like like i'm mouthing the words but it's dead silence i think repetition helps like i'm trying to think of like a conversation with my mom and i'm like i'm having a harder time listening to my mom like imagining her voice than i am like something i've heard multiple times over like a song or a skit like those kinds of things i can pull back very easily but just like a random sentence or something like that's harder for me to form i guess i think i can do it but it's harder to do than something i know i've heard and seen i have to like read words on that are on my screen to know exactly like oh there's that voice but what's weird is you guys know my impressions top notch yeah only the best sure sure that's in my head it's like perfect but if i tried to do this out loud i mean is that just me deluding myself am i not as good at hearing it in my head as i think i am is the subconscious just a complete liar i don't know if you've ever done this right but if you like if you imagined the jeff goldblum line or something right or if you imagine the like i need more cowbell sketch and you you hear in your head you hear christopher walken like i put my pants on one leg at a time whatever and then you play that exact clip i feel like you have a probably an accurate enough judgment to where you could be like yeah that's pretty like it sounded like i thought it would sound it sounded like it hurt i heard it in my head i think the problem is that doing an impression is not as straightforward as it seems yeah because we're physically constrained i don't think it's that you can't hear the voices i think it's just really hard to recreate someone else's voice because you're because of the physiological components of it and i think it's just really hard to recreate someone else's voice also the way we hear things in our head is different than how they come out of our mouths because some of the impressions i do that i think are some of my best sound terrible out loud but like the way i hear it i'm like oh that's so good and then the ones i'm like yeah that's okay people are like that's such a good impression i'm like is it i was driving just around i can't know where particular but i was driving and i was lost in thought and i had this strange thought that kind of gave me like shivers down my spine and i went like does the voice in my head sound like me like i i asked myself that and then i was talking to myself in my head and i was like oh my god i was hearing my own voice i'm like it doesn't sound like me like if i was speaking out loud sound like me i'm like then who is it then who who is who's in my head so i was like freaked myself on my drive because i'm just like but then after that i was like oh wait no it sounds like me but did it before you know like is that just it pretending now to sound like me the other person in your head was like oh wait uh yeah how do i sound like mark hello everybody is that what i sound like to you in your head always man you go back to that video that's not even what i sound like there hello everybody no in my head it's a perfect impersonation honest that little head bob that's exactly right yeah yeah with them with my not face cam hello everybody yeah well another one that i think is interesting and we're talking about dungeon crawler carl so this is a good thing to focus on i never thought about this until i started getting into this specific book series because the audiobooks for dungeon crawler carl are very popular and it's because the voice actor who performs the audiobooks does a crazy good job almost all the voices except for a couple exceptions are from the same guy and the voices are wildly varied and very good and i kept seeing people being like oh i love the audiobook that's not how i thought donut would sound i have a totally different voice for whatever and i'm like i didn't think they sounded like anything like what the fuck do you mean that's not how they sound to you they sound like they sound when he sounds them in my head i don't hear but apparently people when you're like reading or whatever you you make a voice do you guys do this this ties in with the character's voice in a way that i think is really really interesting thing uh that i think can finally relate some of this aphantasia to not and just made me realize i have two modes of reading right i have a mode of reading where i am sounding everything out and i am hearing the voices and i'm it's slower it is just more involved and and it's like i'm i'm you know i can't say that it's helping vividly imagine anything but sometimes i'm reading the words in my head as i'm doing it right and then when the characters get there it can be their voices the other mode of reading is there is nothing happening as i'm reading it is purely the character's voice in my head it can be their voices the other mode of reading is there is nothing happening as i'm reading it is purely just comprehension that's when i'm moving fast that i think paints the better picture of things happening but less about the voices it like turns into this different thing or sometimes it's just like i'm just comprehending because i'm like yeah i want to get through this section because it's like for some reason or another i like my attention lapses and i'm just like zoned out and i am understanding everything but it's not translating to everything there so i think actually i'm going to lump that middle one with the vividly just to the first one because it is slower and it's like taking your time and it's like oh i want to really savor every word here and then the other one is just pure comprehension i don't have any imaginations associated with it it is just word go in it does not get transcribed it is just the information of it goes into the ether and it's darkness you feel like you comprehend less when you're reading i don't know sort of creatively or whatever when you're enjoying it or is it just like slower i honestly don't know because i haven't taken a test between the two i think it's probably about the same but one is faster much faster which might explain why you're so quick-witted is because if you don't have to translate it into another like layer of imagination then it can go like so boom i think that there is something about that when when people are really good at what they do and really tuned in to to what they they they need to make you know happen it's it's unconscious it's instinctive and i think maybe passing through that like instinctive layer removes any of the conscious imagination front area this is a thing that we've done we have together the three of us have done improv comedy in a lot of different content we do it on this show but we've done it in a more traditional sense on in person on stage where we're building you know we're trying to build a scene we're trying to do a sort of traditional improv when we're doing that in person are you we're on stage and someone is like oh welcome to my ice cream shop in your head are you like here's the ice cream like this is the counter here's the shop the do you are you like crafting are you imagining that into reality and like merging whatever something you're imagining and then you're like oh my god you're imagining with what we're doing in the scene in a way yeah that's how i keep track of like physically where things are like if we use a broom then we set it down i'm like there's the broom that would be so helpful yeah it's not perfect you know it's not like i'm looking at a vr headset and seeing stuff lying around but it's like a quick sketch of like the area well yes but like if you look back over your like if we're doing something and you look back over your shoulder and you're like that's where the broom is or whatever you have to do that's where the have like some imagery of it or something not perfectly not always but like yes to some extent the important things in the scene that we need to keep track of like whenever i do a good there's obviously times where i'm like oh crap i just stepped on grandma i forgot that's where she was in the scene but like if i'm doing a good job on that particular scene then yeah i'm like yes that's the broom here's the ice cream stand there's the wood beams and there's the sign that says ice cream like i see those things in the scene while we're doing it they're like rough sketch layout versions of it i can see that that would be really beneficial oh immensely can't imagine not having it oh you do you do improv better than any of us yeah like you can't talk oh you you can't have all the benefits yeah but it's i it's like one line i'm just i might as well be standing in the middle of the space not interacting with anything and everyone else around me is doing shit and i'm just like ah i can't see so i don't know what we're doing right now like oh that would be that would really change how that feels to me i think i suspect but that's really interesting yeah we did a scene one time and i remember ethan was like mining and i was like picturing him mining something like i even saw a point where he like looked down like i saw the rock break and fall that he hit with the pickaxe and i was like oh that's cool like yeah there's moments where i get really into it then there's moments where i'm like kind of half there because my brain's not functioning i'm so worried about what i'm gonna say that i kind of miss what other people are putting down so there's definitely as a not professional at it i mean there's definitely moments of oh i'm fully in and there's moments where it's like i i can't keep up what's what's there yeah i think also it can be a detriment sometimes because if we're so caught up in the vivid imagination of things we're not focused on what's actually happening because we're trying to like juggle like okay the counter was over there and he wiped that and he's like what did he just do oh oh no yeah so uh it can slow things down much like with the reading it does slow things down and you know in the middle of a scene isn't it time to go around look oh i'm enjoying this i'm savoring this every word oh no oh no is it my turn to talk you go back to the books part i think i i don't consciously like make it or invent voices for people but there's like a movie adaptation or show adaptation of something i've read and it's not at all what like i guess i imagined i noticed that more if it's if it's close enough i'm like okay that's fine but there's been i can't think of an example off the top of my head but there's been certainly times where i've seen like a show or a movie and someone talks is like i don't imagine like the book of mice and men you know if christopher walken played lenny's like i tend the rabbits george it's like that is not what i imagine lenny sounding like i can't get into the movie because so not what my brain thought he would sound like i don't appreciate it whenever it's more like what i expect whenever it's the opposite or very different than my brain's like wrong wrong can't get into this movie can't get into this movie wrong voice bad voice bad voice you don't want the bad voice that's so funny i've always thought people were just being ridiculous when they see a movie and they're like that character's all wrong that's not how batman would talk and that's not how he's supposed and i'm like this is the one movie of this he looks like he looks in the movie i feel like but there's a movie that's not how he's supposed to talk and that's not how where, you know, they have the comic books they have read the non-comic regular books whatever they have these images i don't have that problem i'm easygoing i guess that's why i'm so casual i am vengeance well we wandered away a little bit but so you guys don't have any more or less a fantasia as applies to audio stuff i don't think so i could pretty well no yeah i can i can play pretty much whole songs and i have about the same i think it's hard to hear the instrumental in the lyrics at the same time i kind of have to focus on one a little bit more than the other there's some parts where they overlap but if i'm focused on the words it's harder to hear the music but then like as soon as like gripping your pillow tight and it's like then i hear like the drum drop what is it what song is it interesting man biting your pillow hard flipping your pillow to the cold side mr sland man well i don't know if any of these are going to be different then i guess i was curious if it was like all the so far we're all we're all the same no one's the avatar of senses in their heads i I don't know maybe mark is mark mark seems to be the strongest of us with the different types of bending we've discussed so far but all right next one smells nothing this is where i think i actually have a fan nausea no no fanta nose fantasia oil fact or asia i could not tell you what a thing smells like to save my life i don't have strong smell memories some things will be like smell and oh i've smelled that before i really truly don't have a smell smell genation i hate that word but it's very accurate a handful first i can go a rose and gasoline i can kind of get the scent of if i imagine but other things i'm like okay garlicky mashed potatoes i can kind of get the garlic like a really strong garlic but like i'm just trying to like a steak i'm like come on give me something like no nothing really coming there i sometimes wonder if i have a sense of smell and i go like no i can smell that okay well so so yeah so conjuring a smell is tough but what about if you i don't know you know gasoline is kind of what what if it's like the smell of your house growing up or the smell of a grandparent's particular cologne or perfume or something i'd have to actually smell it yeah i'd have to actually smell it shit but if i actually smell something it's like a smack in the face still like i do have a strong connection to it memory wise but i don't know if that changes whether i'm nose fantasia or not smells a tough one i i don't have a lot of smells that i'm like yes i can i can bring that out of nowhere so like if i smelled that smell yeah i'd remember it probably i'd be like oh man this reminds me of like bacon at my grandparents house when i'd wake up and it was cooking i smell it but like right now i'm like come on bacon smell bacon smell it's just not coming i can't conjure anything like even if it bad smells like just poop straight poop i can't smell and i'm grateful for that no that is nice that is nice i'm like give me food mark's like poop come on poop no i'm saying a strong smell like a bad one because you know negative memories are stronger than positive ones sometimes so it's like i don't think that i can conjure that smell in my imagination i wouldn't even know the capability of doing that i wonder if people can do that that crosses a barrier to me like where if you're trying to imagine a visual or if you're trying to hear something that's a thing where like it's not completely tangible i mean audio is sound wave so you are but like when you're trying to imagine a smell or a taste which we'll also talk about next it is a thing where it's like it's a chemical thing it's not like you your body conjures the correct chemicals and then you smell it it is like i don't know yeah i can't tell if i if it's like the sensation of the smell or the smell because sometimes like you know your nose gets a tickle if you smell something like like the gasoline it's like it's right there it's almost like we remember words at the tip of your tongue it's like the gasoline's right there but i can't quite smell it i can rotate the gasoline in my head i can hear the sound of it plugging into the into the car i can picture me pouring gas all over myself at the pump but i can't smell it now imagine that but all your other senses and then you're just like me i can't relate to you no i can't relate can't imagine that couldn't be me all right well this one's pretty closely related but then so let's also talk about taste is it any different for taste for you guys can you conjure up a taste of a thing and have that like i think this would be like there's a vague outline of it because if i imagine sour like if i imagine biting into a lemon i'll start salivating like so clearly there is it and and my tongue will start to feel weird like if i think of that warhead video that we did i'm like i already got it's already building up so there's something there i can vaguely be like i think i know what turkey tastes like i think i can kind of imagine that that flavor there's also texture to it which is a hard thing to separate out yes i'm with you on that one yeah texture i can picture vividly that that's no problem at all the taste though is is like vague theory but it's there but it's less concrete yeah the other senses are coalescing and making it hard like i like biting into an apple i can feel it i can feel the juice i can almost taste or smell it but like it's all the others like the sound of the crunch like all of that is there but like the taste and the smell both are kind of eluding me again garlic i mentioned like the garlic mashed potatoes i can feel them going into my mouth like even like an occasional lump in it where it wasn't fully mashed like all that's there and there is the sensation of garlic i can't tell if it's the taste the smell neither of them are the same i can't tell if it's the taste the smell neither both it's too lumped in with the other ones and the texture is a big part of that biting into like a skittle versus a steak versus a bread roll there was a place called uh grand finale in cincinnati that closed down and went to a handful of times in the past and they had these really great rolls like i loved their bread it's right there going into my mouth and tasting it's been gone for like five years but i just can't i stopped right short of being able to enjoy it in my imagination it's like it's going to my mouth but gone this is a random tangent and i i have only been to the grand finale once costco's in-house yeasted dinner rolls you have to buy them in like a huge fucking bag but those are close and they're insanely good i got them randomly this holiday season because we hosted a bunch of people tell me that name again like if you just go to costco and go to the bakery they just sell huge bags and i think they're just called dinner rolls it's just like the made at costco made in-house dinner rolls they're like yeasted dough they're fucking amazing we hosted a bunch of family over thanksgiving and christmas this year i swear every person who was here was where did you get these rolls did you make these no it's just huge fucking 10 pound bag of rolls from costco but they're really good anyway random thing and you have to buy a whole lot of them so it's kind of a like you can freeze them maybe or whatever but it's kind of a pain it's right there like the the ripping apart a little something in the center a little circle in the center i can see the butter melting on top i just want to taste it again try the costco ones you'll have to eat a lot of them they're real good there is the strange association that we've talked about this podcast before whereas like if you can imagine yourself licking something and you know exactly what it would feel like to lick it not so much the taste but just the texture i don't know why that is so strong because if the taste is not that strong but pure texture is like is that just tying into the whole body's ability to sense like touch mark you get another segue point my brain did something horrible where i i got hair like licking hair sensations no yeah that's the next one that's called tactile imagery and it is different from smelling and tasting it is specifically the texture and it's involved in eating because you can feel any part of you that has nerve endings you could feel a tactile sensation if you lick something or you touch it with your hands or whatever this is one where i think i actually am not a zero of all the things that i can't like you said wait it's like dramatic things like i'm not a zero of all the things that i can't like you said wait it's like if i imagine licking a basketball or hair i can almost taste the rubber it's right there with the basketball like i can feel this is the one where it's like it grosses me out this is why i'm sort of sensitive to textures and food this is the one thing where it will gross me out where it's like if i imagine the texture of a thing i really didn't like that i ate or that i had trouble i can summon that a little bit and it can i can get that reaction where it's like ugh queasy whatever but you brought me to styrofoam just now and i'm not happy about it yeah i'm really glad i don't hate styrofoam because i could totally probably summon the texture enough but i could kind of do it guys but it sounds like it's really vivid for you guys like it's crisp sharp texture is pretty strong it's pretty strong it's to the point where if i imagine all the textures that i really really don't like touching it just makes me physically uncomfortable like what you're saying especially like the felt roof of an old car i'm literally fidgeting with two little pieces of felt right here on my desk because i think it's it's fuzzy what is wrong with you what is wrong with you well look these are like they're like little feet you put on furniture right they're just like yeah i know i get it i'm licking them right now i i know what they are i'm not licking them wait i don't like that no that's not good yeah see see i love the listener's perspective of some of what we said oh that tastes so much worse than the texture is what is that it tastes like glue markiplier licks feet live on distractible i did not do that no it's not true slander slander man is there something wrong with felt you weirdo psychopath who doesn't like felt not as bad as cotton or styrofoam but it's not great like felt and velvety textures yeah cotton balls are a concern i hate it last night i sliced my hand open with one of those like reynolds wrap little serrated edge things like i can feel my thumb just running along the edge lightly and i can kind of feel the cut again and the cut part's not pleasant but like i can i can feel those textures i can feel the texture of the actual texture to me comes very easily in my imagination can any of us imagine positive textures or is it only the shitty textures that we hate that we can oh like ice cream i can imagine the like creamy delicious texture of ice cream that's a good one right we can all agree yeah i like uh shakes with chocolate chips in them sometimes like a chocolate shake with hot fudge and like chocolate chips i can feel the chocolate chips coming through the straw or like the first lick of like a sucker like you get your unwrap a tootsie pop and when it's all it's dry and you're like um the little edge the little lumpy edge that you go and hit yeah and sometimes there's like chunks out of that or there's it's a whole different again mashed potatoes or steak or apple like all those textures are there i think that's literally the only category where i feel like i'm not just a straight up zero so you qualify as human i think if you can do that if you're all zeros across the board you're not a human but if you have any imagination in any of your senses then you call oh thank god i made it because i don't think this next one counts for me either i don't even know if this is a sense pro appropriation pro anyway yeah proprioception motor imagery movement imagery i've always thought this silly when there are things right where it's like i'll teach you how to golf now envision your swing and your swing and i'm like i just fucking wagging my arms around how is this going to help me actually golf is that do you guys if you're imagining you're doing something especially if it's a thing you know how to do do you feel like you have a good vivid imagery of whatever chopping an onion it's not 30 fps you know if that makes any sense like i'm not getting full frames in my imagination there's like missing sections but like i can see a swing but like it's not a smooth just like ah yes there it is there's pieces missing but yes this ties into something that i experienced in my childhood when i was going to sleep oftentimes i would imagine my whole bed was swinging and i could feel the like myself swinging i could feel like my center of gravity shifting even if like i'm not moving so i think that ties into that because it's like the the body position thing i stopped doing it for a while and it got like i lost the ability to do it for a little bit but then you know a few years ago when i was trying to um when i was doing my my polyphasic sleep bullshit i'll be like okay i gotta i gotta force myself to take this 45 minute nap i only have 45 minutes to sleep i gotta get to sleep so i would start to do that again i'll be like i wonder if i can still do that and it was really weak right it was weak at first but the more i did it the more i practiced it the more i got better at it so it's one of those weird things where i think actually you can get better at that one because then eventually that evolved into something else i talked to you guys about which is where i was like trying to find these meditations what i would do is i was like i would imagine myself sitting in a chair i could feel my arm lift and there was this wooden bowl of like wooden spheres right so i'd pick up a ball and i'd put it in another bowl and i'd be counting as i did i could feel the tactile like less about the wood but more about my position in my trying to separate my clearly laying down body and me moving an imaginary arm and it was it was the stronger that that connection got the quicker i was able to just like slip into sleep weirdly enough i don't know why that's really funny i never connected that to that you were really imagining the motor i used that i specifically that scenario of like sitting at the table and moving a thing from a bowl to another bowl i used that that does help me like fall asleep and or sort of meditate and i'm like meditating when i'm trying to focus and like quiet everything in my mind but i don't at all it's not about the sensation of the motor skills part of it it's entirely about like using it as enough of a focal point to where it captures my attention but it's not enough of an activity that it requires any serious imagination or thought because it's you know it's equivalent to like counting sheep or other things that people you know do and that come up examples of that but part of it is that you feel the motor imagination and that's like what makes it calming yeah and because i think it's like you're stepping out of your physical form into your mind which is where you are when you sleep so it's kind of health set right and it's something you can get better at i do think that it weirdly is the more you practice that one you can improve that maybe you can improve the other ones but i don't know that was actually kind of my follow-up question on this one too that you can get better at the imagining do you feel like if you were trying to learn something if you were trying to learn how to chop an onion or how to cast a line with a fishing pole do you feel like if once you've done it a little bit and you're imagining it are you practicing that and does that help you get better at the actual activity if you're does it translate back and forth or is it just that you can get better at imagining the sensations there are scientific studies that actually have shown that this that that um shadow boxing improves boxers performance that if you're doing martial arts there's certain athletes that if they visualize the thing that they're trying to do their performance does increase like the the science study that i saw was set up in a way where it's like you had a control group of people that were actually practicing and you had a control group of people that weren't doing anything no preparation and you had a the the test group which was they were only imagining doing the task and so they had a control of nothing and a control of actual practice and where the imagination group was actually closer to the practice group not to the level of the physical practice but they were far away from the control do nothing group they just showed up and they did it they were still trained athletes to do the the task but it's like the certain metric that they were trying to improve did not get better or maybe they weren't i can't i'd have to look at the study but this this does exist that's weird because boxing as soon as you said boxing for whatever reason my i did a good job of like i almost fully zoned out to visualize it was like a full daydream moment but i was like okay i'm in a ring it's pure darkness and like ronda rousey's standing across trying to punch me in the face and i could see it and the swing went right left to the left of my head that was like oh i hear the like as she like that was close like i could hear that and feel like the almost breeze and it's like okay but i was like let me try to visualize more okay now there's a crowd there's camera flashes i'm adding a bit more to it now there's more noise and like i actually kept building and it went pretty well that was that was more frames in my imagination as i was moving and dodging and whatever i wasn't swinging back and her fists kind of became acme acre like the glove just kind of launched at me and she was still as far away so it wasn't perfect but like it was building into something more and more interesting and there were more sensations like the crowd making noise and the whooshing well yeah so i i was able to build upon it there which was cool trying to think about the senses i'm sure i've done that i've just never consciously thought about the process of building the scene in my mind i think that um to tie all that together like what you're saying is since i've started doing these like movies and stuff there's a big part of directing i think that is like visualizing the shot right getting better at imagining what that what that is i don't think that my imaginations are any more vivid or clear but there is a level of practice where it's like i've seen more camera angles i've seen more lens options i've seen more positions where it can be i know the difference between like a probe now so i can apply those to my imagination and at the very least i can hold it in my head longer because my biggest problem is i can imagine things are a song but i can't play it all the way through because i'll it it'll shunt to a different thought pretty quickly so concentration i think and that kind of meditation of the focus in that space and in that state is the practice that you can do and the way that you can improve besides just experiencing new things i think that the proprioception is one that you can actually tangibly get better at i don't know why that would be but i think because in my experience as a child i did a lot more and then i fell out of it i was worse at it and then i got better at it your out my ass conjecture would be it's because that's one you can immediately feel in real life like if you're trying to get better at that but it's with smell or it's with imagining objects that you're like seeing you might you'd have to have it in front of you right if you were trying to practice if i'm trying to get better at picturing an apple and i have an apple and so you're like don't look at the apple look at the apple don't but when it's your body when it's a physical motion like you can you maybe not even doing it but the the pathways in your brain of like and now i'm jumping now i'm moving in this way like it's a constant connection that you have you don't need a thing to look at or a thing that you're smelling or hearing to like practice you're constantly switching back and forth between like i'm imagining what it might feel like and now i'm i'm getting the real sensation of like trying to fire these nerves in this way or whatever like it's i imagine that has to do with it because almost all the other senses it's like you're sensing a thing that's outside of you in some fashion maybe i can get better at it it's interesting to me that smell and taste are definitely the weaker two of all the ones we've talked about which is funny because smell is supposed to be like the oh it's the your olfactory is your strongest side to memory is your strongest thing but i guess that doesn't mean that it's a thing you're good at imagining inherently in the same way i've seen some kind of like mri functional mri scans that um show the pathways of like smell compared to a dog's like a smell for dogs ties almost everywhere into their brain like the visual centers the the you know the memory centers stuff like that whereas for humans it really doesn't go very far it doesn't tie into all the other parts of the brain whereas like vision does it bounces through the entire like you you your eyes are in the front the vision processors are in the back and it transverses through the entirety of it i think similarly with audio like it there's there's much more brain activity in those senses than um smell i don't know about taste probably similar which is weird considering how much humans like food well yeah smell and taste are linked right so that makes sense that they would follow a similar path oh it was one more thing um for the proprietary session i wonder if this has to do with why people have a really interesting ability to kind of become the vehicle they're piloting because when you're driving you just kind of i don't know it's not like you become it but you you you get integrated in it where you subconsciously can feel the the the car's movement and you kind of like personality wise people have big trucks not me of course but people have big trucks are like yeah look how big i am you know is that what that's about wait is that a sensation that you both of you guys identify with where you feel like if you're in the driver's seat in some way you're like becoming the vehicle because i exclusively feel like i'm in the driver's seat and i'm piloting the thing and i have an accurate perception of my car because i know how big it is and how wide it is but not at all do i feel connected to it like you're describing it feels like i'm driving the thing and together we're a team and the car is always separate from me and it feels like a thing i'm using i wouldn't say specifically but i can't remember where i was really eating this is more just like other observations of other people for these like things but there also is that trance like state where you lose all perception and the car is still going in the right direction and not crashing and you have made exits oh yeah where you like zone out all of a sudden you're just five miles further specifically what you said that triggers it is like how connected people are to what their car is and how that makes them feel like the joke about oh he must have a small penis because he's got a huge truck or whatever i've always felt like the car i have or like i had a motorcycle in college i always thought the motorcycle was cool as shit and i knew that i looked like i i was huge like i'm this big tall fat dude on this motorcycle i looked like i'm a like a clown on a tiny motorcycle i did not give a shit because the thing was cool the car the motorcycle is cool right now i'm really like my car like i'm i miss my subaru uh but the car i have currently is a really nice car i think it looks awesome i do not think it makes me look cool i think i look like a huge dweeb when i'm driving along singing the system of a down in my bmw but the car is cool as shit but like if people feel like their identity merges with it somehow like that makes a lot of sense because people get obsessed with like how their car makes them look or feel and it like becomes a part of their personality like jeep people become jeep people when they get a jeep never understood that but it's a whole it's a whole phenomenon they get their ducks gotta give a duck away you see another jeep put a duck on it that makes a lot of sense but i've never felt that in that way or anything i wouldn't say i feel it too strong i'm curious what the subreddit's gonna say about all this this is the whole point of this episode is i just want to put this out there and then i'm gonna read all the comments that the subreddit leaves because i want to know what all these different people have to say about these things but that's really interesting i mean you can feel your like you get to know your car right so you can feel the bumps in the road you can tell when something's kind of off with the car because you get used to the way it's supposed to feel but i've never felt like the car and i have become one symbiotic being or anything i i can't feel like i've felt that merging plus the internet tells me i still don't have a car so i wouldn't know that feeling anyway yeah someday you'll get one and then you'll be able to talk about this one day feel bad for you walking everywhere all right don't mind it i see how that i see how that happened i see how that's a point buddy thanks bob hey i didn't do it and that's not fair to you that was funny see now i can picture the scene from where the pulp fiction where uh he's holding the pocket watch and talking to little bruce willis the lemonade has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime comes first seven up flip the sip oh this was fun i love when we do episodes where we're just talking about a thing that applies exclusively to me i did give you points though i don't think i felt like it applied more to us because we could visualize and experiment experience more no no it's all about bob i hope everyone finds it interesting but i found it very interesting which is all i care about no particular order wade you earned a segue point but it's crossed out you earned a mom point can't remember why you're at a point for your impressions you earned a point for bad voice you earned a point for not being able to smell at all you have medium taste you have medium tactile you can sort of imagine your motor stuff and then you're walking everywhere leaving you with a total of nine points mark you earned a point for being so famous you earned the real segue point you were in the voices in your head point you were in a reading comprehension point you were into also no smell medium taste another segue point and then a good tactile sense point and then you were to point for vivid motor imagery which leaves you at a total wait what i have also nine wait a minute hang on let me count this again why is that so outrageous but i should have been counting i don't know okay you both have nine points i don't know i just felt like i said a lot more stuff for mark yeah it seemed like it it seemed like he had more things listed under the point yeah man i feel like i'm being treated fairly here wait you just did not nearly as good as mark i can't believe you're tied i just felt like mark performed a lot better but actually it's tied great that we all feel that way congratulations you exceeded expectations isn't that what you want i don't feel as good about it as you think i should you should feel great you should be really proud of yourself buddy i think you just don't want to see an even number here i would love not to see an even number here how many wheel spins will there be oh look at that it's gonna be three again hey all right it all comes down to this who would have guessed that seriously though three three three two okay well there's four twos in a row but there's two threes and whatever yeah suspicious suspicious and not at all statistics i next constitution we will have a suspicious be a trigger word for something oh i got yelled at by someone on stream they were like you guys said unfair twice in this episode and no one noticed it and i was like oh well that's rules everybody if no one catches it you don't get mad i call unfair on the audience oh it's unfair that they keep forgetting how the rules work well i guess we have to get a meaningful head a meaningful coin toss before we have to decide what it means we're all looking for meaningful head i think that they uh they shouldn't be able to ever uh get mad if an unfair is not caught and if we go heads down it'll be they'll get mad if an unfair is not caught and if we go heads down it'll be they'll they are allowed to get double mad all right well i'm sure nothing bad will happen from this coin flip i got a heads no wait no no no no no no no no i got tails i got lion ass oh god wait so that means the audience is allowed to get double mad oh yeah mark wins if we get all heads but we got all tail am i sure this is tails yeah because the lady is heads why don't you get a coin with actual heads and tails on it because this one has a lion and he has a tail and that's tails enough but it's not because i'm i never remember so if we miss an unfair now i guess we have to be punished for it good thing this is the last episode i think the audience gets to decide what the punishment should be so if we miss an unfair and the audience catches it the moderators need to make a thread on the subreddit and maybe the top comment will be well let's hold on now let's not give them too much power must be some discretion no if i've learned anything about the internet it's that you should never use the top comment for anything of value how about we let it'll be the top two comments or three and we get to veto like we have to pick which one but you know that way if there's two options three seems not that's too loose two would be that way they can't just make a joke top one yeah what's the top two comments are the guys in the podcast are the guys do an episode completely naked like i don't want to do either of those because this is one one-off kind of thing maybe we could make three i don't know what if we each get a veto so we have three vetoes and we just keep going down or we do nothing and say status quo and say no the head the coins have spoken if we don't honor the coins none of this means anything next council distractible we're getting rid of the coin i don't think that's gonna i love the coin the coin is my favorite part of the whole thing i love the coin the coin's great we might need to change the word because apparently we say unfair a lot and then don't notice it but so we does that seem like a duo we each get one veto like the vetoes are emergency escape hatches we're not supposed to just all veto to get but if there's three things that are like they have sex and wade kills bob and whatever like we can it's up to the audience to come up with serious punishments this is a this has a ripple effect so wait does it punish all of us since we all would have missed the unfair it would be an arbitrary new rule i it's a straight punishment or something else but it's every time we would miss it well as long as we don't look at the subreddit that's not real but they can't defend you if you don't look at it what i'm gonna add to the bonus point wheel is you get a point if you are the one who claimed unfair in the episode oh sweet awesome it's completely unbiased it just so happens that mark is the one who did that in this episode hey but we all have the chance to claim unfair whatever we so choose it's so weird hearing the word now every time you oh you said it unfair unfair get out of your system boys unfair Unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair. unfair anyway we got three spins and i'm sure that the subreddit won't do anything that will make us regret this and inevitably have to stop following this procedure because they're going to ruin it because the internet's not allowed to have nice things makes you feel better i already regret it i regret nothing all right spin number one blue bald current record holder for most points someone posted a spreadsheet of of the points recently oh it was posted like yesterday yeah yeah wait a minute most points in a single episode current record holder is bob but whether or not you want to apply the host rules to that second place would be me this third place is wade for most points total at least i meddled i guess i'm gonna say i i don't get it i'm gonna give it to mark all right yes wade you have 572 i have 649 bob has 666 and a half you all right no more points for me leave it right there everybody i must be too generous with points that must be why i'm so far behind i give a lot more points you really are i would say that you give out more more points than mark and i do generally speaking mark is stingy mark will have episodes where it's like five five to seven oh yeah okay you're right you're right which isn't wrong mine are like 52 to 48 there's no established scale for that that's just how we've all wade will give out like 30 points an episode i used to give out way more than i do now earlier on in this book here i got episodes where it's like mark has 36 and wade has some other joke number i just have this whole bag of points i bought i guess i just felt like i should use them before they expire i expired points that's that's that date's a lie you have to listen to that oh no oh oh interesting why hey click view stats real quick you've had some really bad wheel luck lately bob gotta be fucking kidding me with this uh six for sudden death that's that's pretty sudden death has hit six times which makes it tied for third fourth all right okay that's so unlikely listeners are up seven to five of our viewers i have it scribbled on the back of my notebook it's not holy shit i just got a cramp in my hand yeah because we had two we had two add tens currently i have it written down that the winner's wheel is supposed to be at 28 mark wade or one man show no no no no no oh my god jesus god i mean i wasn't worried i could do it it's okay only a measly two percent gets added yeah what do we add is it two percent isn't it six i thought it was two percent which ended up being like six points i thought it was two because it used to hit a lot more and then now we've gone out of our way to make sure it never hits all right i'm gonna say two percent and i've documented march 3rd 2018 26 30 percent wade wins and nothing else needs to happen and that's the end and let's stop threatening me with one man shows congratulations wade mark would you like to give your loser speech listen the wheel speaks the truth but you know who speaks harder truth the coin so i know it was my fault for calling this on you guys out there but hey remember who i am if you don't remember check the headlines they always tell the truth about him yeah yeah yeah remember who i am remember me hello everybody hello everybody uh thanks mark uh wade winner speech thanks i'm glad that the uh coins and the wheels generally kind of give me a bit of a break because man it's tough to get points i even whenever i do get the right amount of points to tie your win they're surprised my co-hosts are surprised like i didn't think wade was even in this episode i'm surprised he tied with mark but the sad realization is that even whenever i do win i win with the same amount of points as somebody else i'm never going to catch up i will always be behind but maybe we'll get surprised least point golf rules added to the wheel someday so i'll have another chance you actually won this episode with less points than mark to be clear the score was 10-9 when it was declared a tie and we entered sudden death i feel even worse about my victory you you won from last place it's a miracle great congratulations well that's wade's winter speech i'm going to end it there make sure you follow the podcast and then you'll know when new episodes spend some extra ones you might have missed them if you're not subscribed to the podcast make sure you subscribe to the podcast and then you'll know when new episodes spend some extra ones you might have missed them if you're not subscribed to the podcast make sure you subscribe to the podcast and then you'll know 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The Lemonati organization has long maintained a dominance of lemon over lime in pop culture and products.
  2. 7UP is responding with a new lime-lemon soda that flips the script, positioning lime first to challenge the established lemon agenda.
  3. The show Distractible explores absurdity and media satire, featuring exaggerated headlines and fictional controversies involving Markiplier and other figures.
  4. Markiplier is accused of firing VFX teams and burning a tractor, but he clarifies these claims are misrepresentations of his actual actions.
  5. The discussion includes deep dives into sensory imagination, with participants sharing how they perceive sounds, smells, tastes, and textures in their minds.
  6. A key insight is that while some people can vividly imagine sensory experiences, others—like the host—struggle significantly, especially with smell and taste.
  7. Sensory imagination varies by individual, with proprioception and tactile sensations being more accessible than olfactory or gustatory ones.
  8. The episode highlights how media narratives can distort reality, and how personal experiences of imagination play into both humor and self-awareness.

Summary:

" 7UP counters with a new lime-lemon soda, symbolizing a shift in the industry’s balance. The show Distractible, hosted by Bob, features exaggerated, fictionalized controversies involving Markiplier, such as firing VFX teams and burning a tractor, which Markiplier denies, emphasizing how media can misrepresent reality. The discussion then shifts into a serious exploration of sensory imagination, with participants describing their ability to visualize music, voices, smells, tastes, and textures.

While some individuals have vivid mental imagery, others—particularly the host—struggle with smell and taste, noting that these senses are weaker in imagination despite their strong role in memory. The episode concludes by highlighting how sensory perception varies between people, and how media narratives often amplify or distort personal experiences, turning reality into playful, exaggerated headlines. The underlying theme is both humorous and insightful: how perception shapes truth, and how human imagination—especially in the unseen senses—defines our inner worlds.

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The Lemonati is described as a shadowy organization that has long kept lemon on top and lime in the shadows, influencing industries like soda and music through a 'lemon agenda'.

7UP launches a new lime-lemon soda where lime comes first, directly challenging the long-standing dominance of lemon in beverages and music.

The show uses exaggerated, often absurd scenarios and fictional headlines to satirize media, celebrity controversies, and public perception, as seen in the Markiplier and Wade segments.

A misrepresentation in media claims Markiplier fired his VFX team due to budget issues and turned his bathroom into a render farm, when in reality he subcontracted work and did not fire the team.

They explore how well individuals can imagine sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and movements, revealing that some people have strong sensory imaginations while others struggle with vivid mental imagery.

The hosts note that while some people vividly imagine sounds or textures, others rely on memory and experience, and that sensory imagination varies widely between individuals, especially for smell and taste.

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