In this episode of "Distractable," the hosts Wade, Mark, and Bob start with casual small talk, quickly diving into personal anecdotes. Mark shares his experience filming with a GoPro in his pool, nearly drowning repeatedly due to poor breath-holding, while Bob reveals he was hospitalized for three days after a foot infection worsened, requiring antibiotics and a wrapped leg. The conversation shifts to lighter topics, including Pokemon card collecting, where Mark discusses scalping frustrations and his friend Logan's quest to get a poorly conditioned card graded as a "1 out of 10." They also joke about family séances, with Bob recalling his grandpa's fake spirit tricks involving wires and a ghost named Aunt Fanny. The trio then critiques corporate greed, focusing on PlayStation's decision to phase out physical game copies and EA's controversial microtransactions in Madden, proposing creative but absurd solutions to scalping, like a national registry. They highlight positive moments from 2026, including the World Cup's unifying vibe, the Artemis II mission's achievements, and "Spogomy," a Japanese-inspired litter-collecting sport. After awarding points for jokes and stories, Bob wins with 10 points, thanks to hospital pity points, while Mark gets 7. Bob will host the next episode, and the show ends with playful farewells.
Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers and welcome to "Destractable" this episode. Winningway, the torso teller has a Pokemon Manage, pseudo-seances, then slam scalpers. Broken Barbner rates nuances for the listeners, gets infested by evil and rates curses. Manulous Mark wants flipping fans, drowns in the deep, has 9 inches, and endorses Big Brother. From prognostications, to solving scamming. Hey everyone, welcome back to "Destractable" line today's host. Those are words I don't get to say often enough anymore, but today, I do. I may already declare myself the winner today just so I can host again, but I guess we'll see what happens in the end. Spoilers, I don't even know yet. Join us on a co-host, Mark and Bob, hi guys. I'm glad you don't know the future, that makes me feel much better about all of this. This episode is not rigged, believe it or not. We'll see if I believe that. I just realized something, we have a problem, I'm in trouble, I'm looking around my desk, and I'm noticing that there's one thing missing from my undisclosed location. You don't have any lens caps? Oh, I got lens caps, but I don't have a coin. And I think the Constitution specifically dictates that it must be a coin. I'm sure that won't come up. I don't know the exact qualification with which of that is going to be a problem for me, but it's currently problem, but I have a lens cap. I would allow a substitute lens cap. I'm not going to be a hard-ass about this. The Constitution says either a coin or specifically a lens cap, and it has to be a lens cap. Look, if there's one person that loves all the rules we've said, there's a die-hard followers today's host. I want one of our fans who really love statistics and numbers to go get a lens cap and flip it a thousand times and measure how often it lands on heads and tails to see how fair a lens cap is. And then do that with like five other brands of lens cap to find the most fair lens cap. Yeah, you got to cover across brands because what is that one? That's not a cannon that you have in front of you, is it? This is a Tamron. No, it's a lens cap. A cannon fires balls. This is a new camera for my usual, and so we'll see how it's going to close focus. Oh, nice and slow. Oh, that's pretty grisby. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, yeah, but it's there. Takes a sweet time with that focus, Paul. But I can zoom. Me too. Wait, can you do it? I like how your face gets creepy or whatever you do the zoom feature. That's just my face. Why do you tilt? You should just lean forward and down like me. It's more or less creepy. I wish I could reach my zoom ring without having to fucking cover my whole camera. I also have a zoom feature. Wow, I got a lot of torso. You're a leany man. Like leany boob. Leany boob. I even pronounced it hard. Leany, what did you pronounce hard? I'm not saying it again. I heard leany boob. I wasn't paying very close attention. I'm not playing these games. I'm downloading steam and I'm gonna, I'm playing Power Wash Simulator. That's good dude. Did you play the Star Wars DLC? I was sponsored for it, but like, regardless. You as well as me, why did I get sponsored? Wait, what the fuck? Oh, I'm so sorry. Everybody knows Wade as the guy who plays Power Wash Simulator. I don't know what you're so mad about. Okay, one of that feels like an insult to me. You should be insulted. I'm insulting you. They wanted someone, you know, a little bit more, you know, it's got what I got and you got. What do you got that I don't, I don't got. I can name like a million things that I got that you don't got. Right? Umbleness? One, two, three, four, five, six. For the listeners, Mark was counting his hairs on his head. Okay, we don't have to tell the listeners everything. Something's going to just die. I just want to make sure they're up to speed. I don't want them to feel left out. No, I wasn't though. I got to do the DLC for it. It was really cool. Where are people trying to talk to me? That's what I wonder because like, they must have, they must have tried to talk to me, right? They must have. Hey, Hula, who is? If we got this, I should. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm just saying. I literally am the power wash guy. I'm the power wash guy. There's no other guy besides me, right? That's what I call him. If you're good at something, never do it for free. I did give GoPro a lot of free publicity before I got this. Oh, you did a whole power wash series. I don't think that was sponsored, was it? No, no, it wasn't. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Man, you're so right. Ah, man, enhance them. Just give Bob like a free ten points for not questioning the fact that I got a sponsorship. You're so handsome. But I said, you're right. I'm so. Man, I never felt so slapped and beat up from just words before. I didn't question it because I just assume that you're lying. I will show you all the contracts right now in Minecraft. Wait, I don't have to lie to that. That's true. I could just show you. Prove to me the amount of money they sponsored you for by sending me that exact amount. And I will believe you. You know, I was starting to go for it and then you kept talking. So now's, now's, now's not going to us. Oh, no. I can give you any points. You know what, fuck you guys. What are we doing here? Concuss. I'm Mark's playing power wash instead of participating at the moment, which is probably good for his points. I'm sending a five. I forgot I have to send a contract along. You know, business stuff. That means he forgot the download power wash. Seven, he's down. What did he get? Then he'll play. Well, he's buying the DLC currently. He's like, oh, so where's DLC? Oh, shit. Oh, god. Why do I always have to put the security code in? I just use this every-- I'm Markiplier. I forgot what it was like to buy a game. I buy all my games. And frankly, when I even want to play indie games, I still tip the developer most of the time. Good boy. I'm not on a high horse about this. But as content creators, we kind of should. Like, there's such an ethical gray area of people where it's like this. Because I get why devs are like, oh, here's a key. Play the game. But if you get that for free and you don't disclose that, even though it's just the dev sharing-- that's a huge issue. You know, lots of streamers and YouTubers get in big trouble. Have gotten in big trouble with that. It's a big thing. And I feel like lots of people-- I have no proof of anyone specifically. But I just feel like you get so many emails when you're on the lists as a content creator type person. I know there are people out there who are like, oh, freaky. And they play the game. And then whatever. And they never ever disclose that shit. I always buy the game just because I'm like, stay away, FTC. I'm cool. Yeah, I don't want to do with any of that. I feel like we're pretty good. Whenever we get keys, we don't do it with us three. But I know the recording group I do. We have other recording groups. Don't listen, Mark. He's still lying. He doesn't have any other friends. It's just us. That's why he comes back despite the way we treat him. But Kyle would not be depressing if you guys were my only friends. It is. I know. That's why I'm bold and sad. I know. I didn't introduce you all. You all were assholes. Is that a small talk or a small talk? Well, since we didn't have small talk last week, am I allowed to talk about the fact that I was hospitalized for three days? No, Mark, you got any small talk? Yeah, I'll go ahead. Thanks, Bob. Just kidding, Bob. It's floor yours. No, I was interested to hear what Mark was going to say. Yeah, I know, but he's so busy with power and watch him and not trusting my brand deals that I think you should go first. Unless Mark wants to go first. I'll go first. We can start a coin. I see who goes first. Do you guys have coins? No, that's good. I think unless something specific is triggered, only Wade really needs to flip a coin for this one. If we're going to do that, I don't think. Bob, you're such a good storyteller. Maybe you should let Mark go first just so he has a chance at anything. It's honestly not that crazy, but it was miserable. So they've got that going for me. Okay, Mark, you still go first. 'Cause if he's miserable, we're going to Bob's fruit part three. I, as you know, am sponsored by GoPro. Co-Markiplier, M.A.R.K.I.B.L.I.E.R. I check out for 10% off. Also, this podcast is side long. Also, sponsored. Did you know that? Do we have our own code or is our code also Markiplier? No, actually, they gave us distractable as well. D-I-S-D-R-H-D-I-B-L-E. It's been so long since we've spelled out our name like that in Adreads. I know, we used to do that all the time. It is weird. Anyway, I went in the pool. This guy did. I did because I got the GoPro and it's waterproof, right? So I was like, I think I'll try to film some stuff. I'll do somewhere. I do a big punch like I did before. It'll be fun. And I enjoyed swimming. Also, I almost drowned so many times. 'Cause I'm incredibly out of shape and I cannot hold my breath for nearly as long as I think I can. I kept dropping the GoPro down, 'cause I don't know why. My brain was like, it's going to float, right? And my pool's not like, incredibly deep. But I think it's like, I don't know. It has a deep spot that's about eight feet or something, maybe more. That's like 10 markipliers. You think I'm nine inches tall or two eight and some fractions tall? Is that what you think of me? We got here by the little tinkerbell. I was talking, I took it in my pocket. Eight divided by, how about you say, like 10 to 10 point eight point, oh man, I'm point eight. I'm point eight of a foot. What's point eight times 12? I'm 9.6 inches. That's what you think of me, friend? Hey, a lot of people had killed to be 9.6 inches. That's true, you're right. You think I'm 9.6 inches. All right, you're welcome. You're welcome, buddy. Yeah, all right, I get you. I get you, man. Okay, all right. Around. Holy shit. Wait, no, is that, no, okay, that's not that crazy. Well, I mean, no, do you meet circumference or diameter? What do we talk of here?
- Nicky means circumference. - Well, that's a perfectly average circumference. So we, I go down and I kept going down to the bottom and grabbing it and then panicking very quickly. And every time I don't know what this is, I have the reverse mammalian breath reflex. Whereas right before I reach the surface, I go with water and I don't know why. (laughing) - I got the drowning reflex, I love that reflex. - It sounds just, I'm not a pool guy. So I get, I'm like, I'm so close, I'm like, I'm there. - Was your uncle like a fish or something? You're like, oh, I'm gonna get some water before I make my jump. - Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what it is, but he wasn't working out for me. - I know it's not the same thing. Does the pool, especially swimming down to the deep end, does that trigger your like, your like ocean beer reflex thing? Or is that literally like, that's the ocean, this is a pool that's really obviously not the same. - If I'm in a pool alone, then yeah, there's suddenly going to be shark spawning in the pool when I'm not looking and I have to get out of it immediately, but Amy was there and you know, so that helped. - I want to swim alone either, and it's not 'cause of that, it's 'cause the, - Are you afraid of the dark episode? - So every time you came up, Amy just sees you, going out, coming up, almost to the surface and then dying a little bit, and it's just like, ah, ah, that is fine. (laughing) - Yeah, pretty much. I mean, she was just filming me from the side, you know. See, she put up a good insert of a story of just me with like the snorkel, the snorkel, that goes over the front for some reason, but it's just me like doing pirouettes in it. I get the top under the water, and I don't know. (laughing) Don't even think about it. God, you're so brave, gagging on water to see if you could take it. - I had this idea though. Wouldn't you guys agree on a stream? I talked about this 'cause GoPro doesn't make this, I don't know if any camera make this, make or make this, but they have, GoPro makes this thing that's a smaller version of it, it has built-in lights, right? Why don't they make a night vision one of those? Where the light isn't IR light, so that you have both a night vision camera and the built-in IR light, like the Sony camcorders that Ethan and I used for runes on us all the time for the night, that is, no one makes infrared cameras anymore. No one makes night vision cameras, but it's such a useful thing. - I don't know the physics of it, but like, does infrared, 'cause it's like a lower frequency, light wave, does it not travel through water as well? 'Cause clearly like light travels through water, like it's diffracted or whatever, it gets, it's different when it goes through water, right? It's darker, quicker, it's supposed to air, so. Like maybe infrared doesn't penetrate water adequately for that to be like a valuable thing. - Interesting, no, you're totally right. - Is there other night vision technology other than infrared that could work as an underwater? - I mean, maybe, but it probably costs like a $1,000,000 to. - Really powerful flashlights. - I mean ultraviolet, but I don't know if you can make a camera that does that. 'Cause most cameras can capture IR, naturally, they actually have built an IR filters to pull out the infrared. I don't know how many cameras can fill ultraviolet. Get on that GoPro. Hey GoPro, use code mark blur to buy your supplies. I think it'll still work. - There's the other night that's brilliant. - It was just GoPro's just a bunch of cigar smoking. - I don't know how it works. - I don't know, GoPro was what run by the epic rap battles of history guy. - That's how it works. - I hope you guys used our codes while they lasted. They're both gone now. - They're both, you're right. - Damn. - The CEO of GoPro City at home watching this F-O, like, I don't think no. - I'm never gonna call me time. - You know with your hospital nonsense. - Well now it's all hyped up. It's definitely, anyway, it's not good. And I have an open wound on the bottom of my foot currently. And it's very open, which is not great. The bigger, honestly, the wound, the cut or whatever, the hole in me is not the big problem. The big problem was that it got infected. I had had this for a while and I was sort of taking care of it and just living with it, but I wasn't taking particular care of it, but it seemed fine. I had been keeping it clean and just trying to keep off of it but not aggressively. And it got infected and it got infected. So on Thursday, I went to, oh, Thursday, two weeks ago now, but I went to an urgent care and they were like, oh, yeah, no, no, it doesn't look very good. Okay, and they gave me some antibiotics, but then literally the next day on Friday, it got worse and worse and felt like my leg was gonna explode. And my whole leg from the knee down was like bright red. It was like, okay, well, we should probably go to the ER, I guess I don't know if one pill a day of antibiotics is gonna do. And I went and the doctor at the ER, actually saw me very quickly. I was very impressed. It was very nice. We were in a room in the ER within like, God, I swear, it was like half an hour. But the doctor was like, okay, take your socks off, whatever, and sort of looked down at my foot and just went, oh, I don't like that. And like walked out in the room. It was like, oh, no. Oh, God, okay, wow. He handed in his medical license, was like, I quit. I don't like this. I'm out. But so I had it, had an infection, was pretty unpleasant, slept in the hospital for, well, I didn't sleep the first night. I didn't get, I went to the hospital late at night on Friday. I didn't get into a room until 7.30 in the morning, and I did not get to sleep for any of that. So I was just like sitting up in waiting rooms in the hospital, mostly waiting to get somewhere where they could start giving me like medicine and shit. I got to eat hospital food. Dude, I don't know if we just have a fancy hospital, and I haven't gotten the bill yet, so I may regret this, but it was like room service and shit. It wasn't just like, oh, here's your prison meal. I had to call every meal breakfast lunch dinner. I had to call and be like, oh, yeah, I'd like some bacon and eggs. You just order whatever the fuck you want. It's like being on a cruise ship. It's crazy. It's like all, all inclusive. Except I paid for it, I think. All exclusive. But like it wasn't bad. The hospital food was pretty good, and aside from being painfully boring, I'm fine. Infection is fine, but I do have, my leg is wrapped up from the knee down, and I have a huge puffy thing on my foot to try and alleviate the pressure, 'cause the problem is it's on the bottom of my foot, so when I walk on it, it sort of prevents it from healing properly. I'm going to be fine, but there was definitely a couple days where I was laying in the hospital bed by myself, just like bored out of my mind. Like, oh, they're probably gonna cut my foot off, I guess. Fuck, I don't know what to say. It doesn't feel very good. It's fine. It'd be fine. I do feel like I was hospitalized, so wait, if you give me a couple of pitty points, I feel like that's pretty fair. Well, I'm writing something down. And I'm not gonna say I'll judge you as a person and our friendship will be affected if you choose not to give me a couple points for that, but. So you're saying I haven't out? Depending on how this episode goes and the game the way this prepared goes, I think my only strategy to win is to land on witness protection three times in a row. I think that there's possibility. I think I still got the chance. So, really pulling for that. Based on the current score, I think you still have a chance. Can I get a pitty point for something? So I have these ergonomic bead wrist wrists for my keyboard and stuff. And I bought another one. And I've been practicing like five nights of Freddy's 2, 10, 20 mode. So my, you know, a lot of mouse movement, I needed a new one. And I was like, oh, it came, it arrived. I mean, it's here. And I get the scissors to go open it and cut right into it. It comes straight into it. It just, what have you done falling out? I bought it and it was just like, oh, my God. So, yeah, that didn't. Did you not see the small decal on the package that said no sharps? I have to use a big knife with non sharps, Mark, with non sharps. Well, I just opened this with my bare hands and sharps. So I think I'm arming. I've been buying a lot of Pokemon cards as I was talking about. And I've gotten some online like from eBay and stuff. And some of the way people seal cards is they tape it up in like bubble wrap. Inside the bubble wrap are two pieces of cardboard taped on all four sides. And then they'll tape the thing the card is in to the cardboard. And then that is also taped close. And then once you get that open, then there's the hard case that they tape over the top so the card doesn't slide out. And some of this tape was made by God. There is no, you have to cut it. Like, there's no other way. And I've got this card, you know, it's worth whatever. Anywhere from 10 bucks to a couple hundred bucks, whatever. And it's like, I've got my exacto. That was some loud thunder. I got my exacto knife. And I'm like, please don't cut this card. I've spent an hour trying to open. I'm going to have your experience with the Pokemon card. It's going to be very sad. But if you do do that, all the other cards in the world go up and value. So it's like a public service. Watching people that like do card openings and then cut the cards in half or light them on fire or eat them, after I own a copy of the card, those hurt me slightly less. I can't say I've watched for any length of time, but I have been, my interest has been peaked in the Pokemon stuff. So I have been buying a couple packs 'cause my target seems to always have packs of the completely unpopular sets just on the shelf at MSRP. But what I'm scrolling on socials at all those videos of people who open like 3,000 packs of Pokemon cards is a day in their stream, everything. And they just have like a utility knife or like a razor blade. And they just take, they're just like, blah, blah, blah, new pack, push with the blade and fuck it, you know, but I'm like, God damn, what if one of those is actually worth something? Like Jesus, the people who open them like it's a factory assembly lens, I couldn't watch it, it stresses me out. I know that the one pack I bought at Target that they had is not gonna have a $50,000 card in it, but I'm still like, I tear it and I, oh, I hope this basic energy is not crumpled. I hope I don't foul the corner of it. And then there's just people online who it's been $1,000.
$1.00 is a stream probably more probably $5,000 a stream on booster boxes and boxes and they're just God damn I Couldn't do that. I'm very slow. I open packs with Molly We've been kind of like opening them together because we both like to collect She's got a whole page of just like base set chances when she sees a chancey for like a good price or whatever She's just like I'm like don't you have chance? She's like I want more chancey so she's really fucking likes chancey I get it. If there are chances in the world. Watch out like a whole wall of chancey's just like from floor to ceiling I hope she does not watch this because she probably would she wants to build a whole tent made out of Laminated pages of chances. This is really random. There was a listing on eBay It was like the entire jungle set which is the second set of Pokemon cards to ever come out in the 90s and this giant frame And the listing said this is for Logan Paul only I guess I guess they made a listing hoping he would buy their framed Jungle set for some reason. No, no, it was a warning. It was a warning if you buy you will turn into Logan Paul It's a cursed set. That's the thing body get better mind to get worse. I could go for it That's that's a that's a crazy curse man But if you sell it to Logan Paul, you'll become Jake Paul so you're always a Paul once a Paul always a Paul Wait, you know what they say. Well, that's an appalling decision Like the like from that jungle book song something something prickly pair something use the pa pa pa something something It's like that movie it follows where if you have sex or someone you turn them into Jake Paul All right, that's funny Wait, you have to point at camera does account. That's funny. You want We're prickly pair and you pick a raw Paul next time beware don't pick up prickly pair by the ball If you pick a pair try to use the claw, but you don't need to use the claw when you pick a prick a pair of the big Paul Paul That's that's the song. Yes, that's the one I was accurately quoting if I was judging I would give that points Dude, I can't remember a person I spent 10 hours with two days ago like I don't remember their name, but it's me, dude Your name was uh smert smert it was smert. I don't know my my like short-term memory is terrible But like I can remember that I could still probably recite most of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet or the tomorrow tomorrow's speech Is that a fellow like I can just pull that shit out of straight out of ninth grade I'm like yes, I still know it, but the shit I need to remember from like yesterday. It's like it never happened It's I hate I hate the way my memory works. Me too, man. Everybody does. Oh, I thought you I started physical therapy I don't know if I've given because we didn't do the thing last week So I'm not having surgery on my knee. It's not a meniscus tear no ligament damage I have a cartilage defect on the cartilage right on my thigh bone under my knee cap There's like a big glowy spot on the MRI and there's just a lot of inflammation coming from that So I'm doing I'm taking it in anti-inflammatory and doing like six weeks of physical therapy trying to strengthen the muscle enjoying to whatever Hopefully I get to avoid surgery. I could maybe need laparoscopic to clean it up, but I'm hoping to avoid it But nonetheless. It's nothing major. It's just a cartilage defect that was maybe already even there And I just aggravated it. I'm not sure. I don't know how those work But I didn't find all of that out. I don't know if I'd given the knee update. Bob's leg update reminded me that between the two of us We have like two good legs. It's true. And they're approximately the same length. They got it. See you in me Imagine if I had to donate each of you one of my legs We're just walking around like this I apologize. You're gonna have to do some leg lengthening after the fact I'm coming for you. What a weirdly specific but evocative way to demonstrate the height difference between us and Mark Look look what I look like with one mark leg We told you I had this weird thing that they were looked in the mirror and I was trying to decide if I'm well proportioned Or if I'm too torso-y. It's like do I have short legs and a giant torso? It's not your torso. It's because you have a huge ass Oh So when I look in the mirror in the front all I see is my back at my front ass normally people's ass bridge a small zone between their legs and their torso. Yours actually goes from mid thigh to like lower back I like to call I like to call your build the snowman your three-ball snowman. No, I'm a tripod Yeah, torso ass and legs Explains why I never have any back pain because it's just ass. There's no back You're like aunt Fanny from robots. I've never actually seen robots So you haven't it's actually very good I've heard and I know all the memes and it's like that song You know that song fucking slap plus you like here come the mummies I would say that song is not unrelated to the vibe that here come the mummies gives I recently showed that to James for the first time and I hadn't washed it in like forever And I was just seeing there with him like oh I love this movie. I've never seen robots great performance from Rob Williams great cast great movie. Love it. The visuals are awesome Did you know that Fanny in the UK is slang for vagina? Yes, because I've ever seen Fanny pack and people were like And I was like what I think Fanny packs are kind of weird too and they're like I was like, what did you know how the UK people live? Classic classic British laugh yes and thongs or sandals that one's less great We call them thongs handles like in America. You could have I think we just say sandals a lot But like Americans distinguish between like those are slide sandals or slides and those are like thongs handles I feel like that's a thing here. I get it But aren't those kind of small to cover their whole foot? It's just like I'll band with us aren't thongs kind of small to cover your whole General speech in I think that's the idea. I think that's the notion. Wow He's blew my mind. The whole point is my aunt Fanny is a phrase my grandparents used We used to do like little sayances at the house where like my grandpa would get like he would set up a thing Where he'd like have like invisible string connected like plates and cups and stuff We would do a say-outs and he'd be like Spirit if you're in the room and like he would pull a string and a cup would like come sliding down toward us And his kids would blew my mind But the spirit we always tried to contact was named Aunt Fanny. That's the only time I'd ever heard that name It is blue straight through the craziest part of that whole scenario Insane way Your drop just happened shut up say ounces with fucking fishing wire and bullshit You're like yeah, and her name was aunt Fanny. Can you believe that? Your families didn't do a lot your families didn't do like fun little say-ons things No, I thought that was kind of like commonplace. I just Words family. They're all in a circle chanting And they start floating off the floor. Baby Mark and I are wrong Subreddit. I will come look at you if you all put it out there Is it normal to have family say-ons time with grampian grandpa? Okay, this happened like three times in my life It wasn't like we did we got together once a week That is an infinite amount of times more than it has ever happened in my life Yeah, we would uh, I'm trying to remember if they'd like my grandma always had tons of candles because she liked candles So I feel like probably let some candles we would just sit around like the kitchen table While we were playing my grandpa would set up this thing. Yeah, we'd have like little wires and stuff set up where he could like make things happen It was always like oh the cup would slide from the cabinet to the table It was they would just blow our minds his kids like oh my god aunt Fanny's talking to us now that I have a three-year-old I'm like yeah, I think James would probably think that was pretty fucking awesome I think he would go crazy for that But as a person who has never experienced such a thing the fact that you thought that was just like normal is awesome It was just one of those things. We did as a kid that you know you take for granted. I guess I don't know sure sure I wonder how many things I did that was like yeah, everyone probably does this that like no one does Was this the only ritual that occurred or were there other things with knives and blood How many goats did you sacrifice a year? Was your average uh six probably low Well, we only sacrifice goats. I think twice but it was about six times each Six sacrifices each Well, the fuck's going on with these goats. Yeah, six sacrifices per goat. It's slaughter them We'd stitch them back together CPR slaughter them again, you know Yes infinite food glitch. It's really weird, you know I don't know The salons is probably one of the weird ones, but like I don't know the aunt Fanny thing triggered it Because I was like I never even met Aunt Fanny. Why are we trying to talk to her? But my grandparents were always like no we're contacting Aunt Fanny. I was like okay I don't know who she is, but you guys must maybe she died a long time ago. Maybe I's never a matter It all makes sense when you say it all together And what you wait, what year was this when this occurred? It was the 90s. I don't know Like you were like a little ish kid 1890s. Wait, which which century? No 1990s 1990s. I was probably like between like six and 10 so what's the guy's name from 30 rock who's an immortal being Brendan Frazier. That's not it Kenneth Kenneth Kenneth, you know Kenneth, right? Kenneth. I think I saw one episode of 30 rock ever and it was probably when I was 10 No, he's canonically an immortal being in the show. No Yeah, he's actually been around forever Like legitimate. It's not exaggeration like there's like an end of the series episode where he's doing an episode from the year Like a thousand years in the future and he's still there and somehow 30 rock is still there anyway I was thinking third rock from the Sun. I never saw 30 rock I never always I never saw a lot of it, but yeah, did I act okay? I was like wait, 2006. That's in the sound right third rock from the Sun's what I'm thinking of with a John Litzko. I was thinking of John Litzko. Wait, who was the who was the kid in that show? Was that Joseph Gordon? Love it Joseph Gordon. Love it. He was in it. Yeah, he was like the he was like the young guy in that show, right? Yeah What are we talking about? Is this an episode of a podcast? It was well. Well, there's a whole thing I would have had prepared, but we're kind of we didn't do any small talk for marks per
This crime so we just been kind of catching up. I feel like every time this happens I believe less and less that you actually had an episode prepared Oh my come in you come in and you're like I'll just get them really going in small talk and then after about half an hour I'll be like oh I had a really great that I had a whole thing written out and I had all this stuff I could not plan for Mark to drown himself Betray go pro I didn't plan on you going to the hospital or breaking your foot That was like my thing was like three minutes. I don't know I don't know you talk about to separate it How many times is this in this exact scenario occurred next sub right here's what I was gonna talk about We're over half way now through 2026 good. This year's had some ups had some downs But overall it's been a kind of frustrating year for me at least But I have a list here of some things that I thought were good and bad from 2026 And I didn't know if you guys had anything particularly you want to talk about for the year Otherwise I was gonna go through we were gonna try to solve some of the bad not all of it's 2026 Specifically, but I think it's been could cop what's what I'm looking for? It's it's gotten worse this year or it's like a bigger thing the good stuff is all I think mostly this year at least it's still true is of this year So I'll just go through getting into Pokemon card collecting I've had a couple of different scam things happen where people one of them was expertly done where I got scammed That was just impressed with how thoroughly they did their job the big problem with Pokemon card Collecting right now and probably a lot of things is scalping They're the scalping people buy and shit and just buy in tons of it And then immediately relisting it for 10 times the price online is just the fucking worst my racial Original intent was for us to go through and so we're just gonna solve scalping But I don't have time I just want to talk about do you guys have things like you try to collect where scalping is a Problem guide no sports tickets and Pokemon cards are two things I've encountered it heavily in I don't do them Actively I don't like collect particular if I do collect stuff. It's old enough and be sure enough that like no one's fighting me for it Like I'm very proud of my collection of top gear DVDs and blu-rays because I think I literally own every episode and the Many series or whatever the special episode I think I own everything that you can own of top gear I don't think anyone's fighting me over that in the aisle at Target I do think the sport the sporting events and concert ticket situation is out of hand and I think it's I only do that very rarely, but it always sucks because it's like why do you even have prices on the website? Why what are we doing here because the the tickets go on sale for a game a concert in a specific location? Whatever they're gone in an instant and then there three times the price feels like I don't know what the exact numbers are But this is a known problem, but then like there was a whole thing. There was a whole like lawsuit There were there was stuff done and everyone in like government of the people the authorities were like all right guys We solved scalping so that's fixed now So just go back to buy in tickets and go in and join your concerts and your football games and stuff and it's not Nothing like it maybe it changed the dynamic of how it is to be a scalper, but didn't fix shit I don't understand why it's so hard like technically I understand it's hard to Prevent people especially if they're buying stuff online to be like well, you're clearly the same person even though you have a different IP a different account a different Credit card whatever like I get that's hard to discern that maybe for the Company selling stuff. Why can't we deal with this what needs to happen because it is awful I want to go to like one concert or football game a year maybe and every time I think about it I'm like I don't want to deal with like buying tickets and being worried I'm gonna get like scammed and they're not I'm actually selling tickets or paying like I just won't go like I'm gifts I don't care that much. I have the solution as always Markiplier's coming in with the big fix everyone's going to have Saw their problems of scalping solved first. We create a national registry of all online users They submit their ID their per certificate their passport and all of their necessary residential financial information and we house them in a ticket master only accessible database So that they run the gambit of everybody we can trust them right we can dress on so they have everyone's ID, right? They know everyone's age they they know who they are and they can see How many people are in your family so they know the limit they'll customize the limit based on you and your extended family You're not that extended. Let's say first cousins only dot com. Wait, what do we sell? Man, what a call back. I just remembered cousins only that comes up. Whoa. I'll get the call back point There we go. There are three peens call back. That's an old call back. That is a long time ago See if they know who everyone is then they will not be able to sell it to someone who's Deserving of that ticket right scalpers will all get exposed And I think the only publicly accessible information will be those who have scalped so it'll identify anyone who is in the past have bought more than 10 tickets or whatever Of their extended family God help them if they had more kids later in life But bought a bunch before they're done for right so it'll it'll I think public executions would be very fashionable in this They already have the stadiums for it. We can sell tickets to the public it and no scoppels who go there because if anyone tries to Scopp them right on stage that immediate sentence immediate execution Yes, I think we should put the judicial branch in two ticket master I believe that they are trustworthy enough to make those decisions We're just limiting accounts to like where they can only sell a certain thing like two times a year something because like If someone buys tickets to a sporting event and something comes up you have to cancel and you're like when I've got these five tickets I'm not going to use I guess I'll you know reset like that be fine But you know if you have to happen more than two to three times in a year than like Maybe like limiting things like that where it's like okay Well, it's less profitable for scalpers to do it because they're really limited how much they can do I don't know why with cards that would be the case like well I bought this Pokemon ETB. No, I don't want it. So I'll resell it for three times a price Maybe you'd do that like once a year. This might be controversial, but number one. I like Mark's idea the best and I have I have a follow-up on that. Yes, the number two I'm certainly not in favor of people who scalp Pokemon cards or other collectibles and ruin it But I do think there's kind of a difference between concert tickets or sporting event tickets and Collectibles sort of the purpose of which is maybe to collect it for personal Value like you just like something you collected, but also I think a large proportion of people who collect any sort of collectible Track the value of what they have, right? I don't mind individual cards. I'm about to steal products I mean that's that's true, but I do I just feel like there's some level of difference where it's like well It is sort of meant to be bought and then stole that higher price potentially, right? That's sort of the deal It still sucks, but I think Mark is right and I want to put on my conspiracy theory hat Which isn't visible and just say Mark is talking about it. We should implement a new system Can we just be so for real and say they're definitely already are Profiles of basically anyone who uses the internet for anything that the company's trade behind the scenes like little real-person trading cards. They know who we are. I'm Confident that these big companies with access to all of the metadata on a on a specific users like internet activity Can look at a transaction and be like oh Gary's buying 30 more Taylor Swift eras to our tickets Man that guy suck. They know if you're kind of keep records like that on us anyway Use them for good use that shit to shut scalpers out and be like look We know this is you. We know you've bought a hundred tickets in the last three years. You can hear there's a limit now You may buy two tickets. You are welcome like fuck if they're gonna keep the stupid fucking secret profiles No matter how carefully you are with your data. If you buy things online if you use social media They totally know they know they just do they have like a profile on every single person who's ever touched the internet I'm everyone knows this is something that they do and like Facebook Denied it for years, but then it was basically Admitted that they are listening in on conversations that are turning on the phones microphones. They know all that stuff I googled a new stove, right? Which is something that I've never really done because ours was like our our burners kind of like going going out a bit So I was like a Google new stove and then we're watching TV later and we're watching on an app where we have some ads Never have I had a stovat in my fucking life. I've never had a stovat ever Every ad in the ad break was a stov ad different brands to back You want to stov? Oh get this stove did I'm getting that like Facebook? I see Pokemon cards and stuff so I've been look at yeah, I've you know, it's crazy I know that like for legal reasons. They're not gonna admit this the corporations are never because they would potentially get in some sort of trouble But I think it would buy more goodwill for corporations Don't don't put shit on sale that you've already artificially jacked the prices up Don't lie to us if they were just like look you guys know in the heart of hearts. We do have that those those things You think we have we have those so as a form of repayment. We're gonna use these online profiles We keep basically without your consent, you know or without your knowing consent. We're gonna shut down scalpers No one's gonna be able to scalp shit like I if if a company did that one I would not be surprised as I'm like clearly I bought into that conspiracy or whatever you call it like I'm pretty sure that's what's happening if they were just honest and we're like and you know, we're gonna use that in from
to just do you a solid I feel like fuck well if I have to engage with you know heartless evil corporations I guess you're at the top of the list at least you guys are honest and I appreciate that you're like We're gonna fuck you, but also we'll give you a little something like fine great My one pushback to anything you said is the collectibles thing Pokemon cards for adults are definitely like that But like there was a value as a kid and getting Pokemon cards and just getting to fuck around with them Put one in like your bike spokes or actually like I played with them I would like lay them face down and pretend I was like ash and I was going around finding wild Pokemon I didn't counter one and then like I'd have my evolution cards like oh my god I get to evolve my charmander because we won three battles and like I fucked around with nowadays of like I feel like if you see a kid with Pokemon cards doing that. You're like oh god That could have been a PSA 10 we're thirty dollars. Oh these cards were a hundred dollars a pack Why are you playing with them put them in sleeves look at them for collectors. It's good But like I don't know Pokemon cards for kids should still be a thing This is why kids need to buy he kids need to get this shit and play with it aggressively Don't let there be PSA 10s have every charge art and existence be it all crumpled up and folded and torn from that one time You're you're a little sibling stole your binder. Fuck do shit. Come on kids. I know you listen to this go play with your toys Ruining them. I'm gonna do that friend that thing a lot of our friends like so I've been hanging out with the cat and Logan our friends here Cincinnati and going to like something's Pokemon things. We went to a card show of At Eastgate mall which is not far from where we went to school in Milford and Logan bought this ancient mu card I think overall it's like a hundred dollar card, but he got it for one dollar because it's in such bad condition And he was super excited. He's like I'm gonna send this in for grading and I hope I get a one out of ten He's hoping for the lowest possible grade on this real shitty card So one of the vendors is like I'll run it over for you if you want like people are like trying to help him We're in the car to make it worse because some people out there They want nines or tens or they want ones like nothing in between the ones have a value Then it drops down and then it like eight and a half nine that like goes up again or something So he's like I really want the shitty card to be a one and everyone's like, I'll help you make it a one It was a spin like I don't know. He's just really funny. He's been a dollar on this card was super excited about it So fucking terrible. It's all crinkled and awful. Oh God. It hurts my soul to look at it But that sounds great. I love that. Let me jump over to one of the positives of the year I thought so the world cups over a few four world cups over right? I never really paid attention to the world cup my entire life This year I kind of did I didn't watch the games, but like I checked on the scores of the different games I knew who was like in the gold boot competition like it was who was scoring points I was looking at people talking about like oh, which teams are favored. How's the US doing and stuff? I know we hosted it in the US And maybe there was just more press coverage because of that this year, but I thought at least in the United States a lot of people Were at least tangentially aware or talking about the world cup compared to my recollection of years past and seeing people come to the US I think we talked about this on the show people like ooh this city and Alabama is really cool. Oh my God I love the US. I went to this place like it's not as bad as I thought here in random town in Illinois or whatever like I don't know, but maybe it's like in bias because it was here and there was a lot more coverage of it But like I felt like there was a lot more positive vibes coming from the tournament and from just people's experience with soccer and with I don't know the event and the places it was held and stuff and I don't know that I thought that was a nice Positive heartwarming 2026 thing. It was a nice. Yeah. I mean, I saw a bunch of videos like that too Just really really nice. I usually you know, it makes our soft Yeah, our hard and hard school a little bit soft in terms of like you. Yeah, America America could be great. It is but I won't say that that phrase is here. No, it could be great Look, we're free. What are you talking? Oh But yeah, no, it's it's fun to see. I totally agree with you. Did you guys keep up? I know a thing I know I spent any games with you guys keep up with it at all or watching a game a little bit I knew who was playing in the final. I didn't watch a whole game the whole time And can I just say this is not exclusive to soccer, but and it's probably because I'm an outsider the Acting that goes into the fouls and the whole like Economy within the game of pretending you got hurt holding your knee riding around the whole like discourse I don't know what you call it the whole culture of it in soccer looks so silly to me It's like that in all sports. It's like that in the NBA It's like that in the NHL a fair amount got like it's like that in all professional sports This is not a soccer only thing, but to it's like it's just in soccer Something about it reads as extra hilarious to me because there'll be like two guys who run casually near each other and Clearly don't touch and one guy just like does a front flip and it's like Fight is holding his knee like he got shot and then the ref will come over and be like don't play out any stands up And it's like fuck I tried God it runs away. It's like that that like ruined sports for me when that shit happens in any sport I'm a me like God I fucking hate those like I hate that player that did that I understand it's part of the game, but the soccer ones are like because in hockey It's like at least you're pretending he hit you in the face with a hard wooden stick or even in the NBA There's a lot of flopping and bullshit, but it's like you're pretending you just got elbowed in the face Which would definitely hurt in soccer. It's like what do you pretend? You're pretending he bumped into you harder than it seemed like he did Oh, no, I know I know I'm under selling it. I'm not a sire fan. So this is all bullshit But like it just whatever that happens in sports it ruins it completely for me and every moment I watched soccer I'd watch for like five minutes and then some crazy bullshit would happen and I'd immediately be like Oh, okay, that's enough sports the one that drives me the most crazy is actually in basketball and I don't know if this still counts as a foul I think it does if someone goes to the three-point line and they fake a shot and the other guy jumps You then jump into the guy that jumped and the foul is on the guy in the air It's like oh you should have jumped you should have tried to go for the block this guy then jumped into you Which means you fouled him that pisses me off so much. It's like why can't he he jump go around him He's in the air your opportunity is to move around now. Why is jumping into him the thing that basketball is like Brilliant Jerry jump into him. We'll get the call I don't know why I'm turning into like sign filled that wasn't the Jerry was really going for but you got to go for the epic rap battle It was guy a bit more he actually has his fingers and everything But basketball fouls of history But yeah, like a lot of the rest of the world cup was was really great and it was fun to see Lopping's annoying. It's annoying every sport. I agree with you. It's in all sports and it always pisses me off But it's not that's not a soccer thing. It's weird because like a lot of the times you'll see like the foul That's definitely not a foul and then you'll see someone get absolutely fucking clobbered and no one does anything about it Someone's like tripped knocked down stopped on punched in the face. They're like play on play on and then someone Brushes past someone like you said someone goes flying back like they just got hit by Thanos and it's like definitely a foul That's how real human physics works red card get out. Yeah. No, there's so many I know they're all one off so there's so many examples of that where there's like a player if there's clips of soccer players Get it just fucking pummeled like there's a guy tackles them. There's a guy who like grabs it There's a he goes to like four dudes and he's getting just beaten the whole time and then it goes and keeps going and scores a goal Anyway, it's like I don't know that that counted, but okay, I mean he scored a goal. So good. He did really well I guess but soccer bringing us all together as we can tell I mean maybe maybe I'm under as I think most sports fans probably Fallen that camp. Is there anyone? Celebrate it answer my questions today. Is there anyone out there who watches sports and is like Oh, that was a great dive. He really earned that penalty for the team. I'm glad this is part of the sport. I enjoy I feel like every sports fan It's like just fucking just play just stand just don't fall out. Just keep playing. Come on guys. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm crazy But another bad okay playstation announced they were doing away with physical game copies in like two years physical game copies I still like I still have like two boxes of DVDs in the other room. I never watch them But I'm glad I own them and I feel like console players, especially like one of the things about console is you got a disc or a cartridge or Something and I don't know that there's something fun about that I get to take up space But also like if you ever want to put game it now the there's a whole thing to be said about like you must connect the Online services or else you can't play a game that's annoying but at least owning a physical game I don't know feels good giving taking away that choice and knowing that a lot of companies are like hey by the way all those games You owned on ps3. Well ps3 service is gone. So where's your game library? That's fucking bullshit man And the whole like do you actually own something if it can just be snapped away you do not you do not know it depends in what sense You want to talk about it because yeah Legally you do own a thing what you own is the right to a license as long as they permit it That's just not a valuable thing and you pay the same amount for that at least when it was an option You pay the same amount of that for that as you did when you bought a physical disk that you physically had in your Possession that you still didn't really own because they could probably remotely disable your ability to play their game If you had a disc on the modern consoles, but at least you own something that has like shit. It's physical better, but I guarantee The playstation move is it's it's one of those two steps forward is one step back thing or one step forward two steps back Whatever it will wherever you way you want to look at it where they say we're gonna discontinue all discs and then the outrage built up and they're going to like Okay, all right. Well, it's expensive So we're gonna charge more for discs and boom suddenly it's commonplace Because of course they want more money and of course there's going to be collector's editions and of course of course it's going to be enough.
option because they know, they know, they're not stupid. They're not that stupid. They're stupid sometimes. A lot of these companies are stupid, but they're not that stupid because they know that human psychology is like, you just have to show them something outrageous that they'll definitely reject and then pull it back, quote unquote, but you've moved the goalpost. And now instead of it just being about like, no, no, there's no this is like, okay, well, at least we have some disk. I'd be willing to pay however many dollars more for the disk edition. It's just like, it's just, it's a bunch of bullshit. It actually isn't. EA is doing something similar with micro transactions in the madden 20 or NCA football. I think it was madden 27. There's like it. So you can play like their card collecting edition where you go you buy online packs and you get cards for their ultimate team. And that was always like, you could spend real money to do. But then they've had like online online offline dynasty and then road to glory where you make like a single player and you only play as that player on the thing in 27. They added micro transactions for those where you can speed up progress or you can make it to where you earn more experience features that were actually just deep by default in the game last year and years prior. Yeah, weren't those just settings previously in large part? Now that now that you can slow it down or make it normal, but in order to speed it up, you have to pay for their micro transactions. So a lot of the football content creators have like united. And they are all like making videos about how they're protesting. They won't work with EA directly anymore. They're using sponsorships and stuff because they're pissed off about that because they feel like they were misled. And then apparently EA let out a statement like, Hey, we're rolling this back. We're going to take it out of the game. And then I think I think that that was also apparently a mislead where they were like, well, we're going to change it. But it's still there's still going to be some transactions. The whole thing seems like a fucking nightmare. But it's one of those things like Mark was saying with the we're going to make it outrageous. And then whenever we actually get to what we really want, you guys are going to accept it because it feels like a good compromise. Until we get to the point where people can push a button and materialize whatever they want like Star Trek, you know, I don't think we're ever going to get away from corporate greed. It turns out it's really hard to make infinitely increasing profits without somebody really getting fucked. And also turns out that the ones who are responsible for making the infinitely increasing profits get to choose who that is. Almost like there's a flaw inherent to that setup. Wait till they discover this concept where money isn't actually a real thing. Value is inherent to like how much it's worth. And it only works when it circulates. So all these goddamn gold hoarding dragons are actually hurting everything by not having the money flow back into the fuck. The only way it works. The three studious things were you owe me 10. I was 10. You owe me 10. That's how it works. That's the actual fundamental value about worse. Someone made money. Everyone paid everyone back. That is how the system works. But if there's just a money trap occurring at the bottom of it, it doesn't fucking work. The system will break. It's still a little rickety. I was moving a couple of quick positives and I'll wrap up. Have you guys heard of Spogomy? Nope. This better be a chef boy RD new invention or I'm out of here. I want to eat Spogomy is so bad. I already have it in my head. Apparently there was I don't remember where this took place at. The city was called Lothbaro L.O.U.G.H. B.O.R.O.U.G.H. Oh my god. Wait. No. Hold on. Wait. Pause. I've got the visual. Please don't ruin this for me. It's it's like little ravioli's but they look like canolies with little sausage inside in a little role. And it's a camouflage just like chef wear these Spogomies. I'm going to ruin this for you in just a moment. Oh no. No. No. No. Dude, I can't wait for the Super Mario Spogomies to come out. There was a competition for different groups in Lothbaro. I think it's pronounced Lothbaro to collect litter. So I think go me I'm not sure what language but go me is like litter and it's spow is sports with sport litter. So different groups went around like collecting litter in this town and whoever collected the most won. And that was like the competition. And I think the winning team collected like 28 kilograms of litter. But overall in one afternoon 281 kilograms of litter were just cleared from this place. I I don't know what the prizes and stuff were. But apparently like it was good. It was enjoyable. It was really good for the environment and stuff. And so that might be like a thing that's spreading around as these like Spogomie competition type thing. But like I'm seeing that this is Japanese that the word the word for trash in Japanese is go me and spow is like sport. I'm not sure where Lothbaro is. I don't think that's in Japan. Lothbaro sounds more like well. I'm seeing is that this has been taking off. And they have a Spogomie World Cup held in Japan that has qualifying teams from around the world. So yeah, I saw the one in Lothbaro and that's where I came up with it. But I did see that it was like apparently becoming more popular and kind of going global. I didn't see the exact origin. But that's the one I heard about. I thought that was a positive 2026 people getting rid of more litter seems like a good thing. Yeah, well as long as this isn't a thing where it's like, okay, we put out litter so that it's a fair playing field. So we we covered this whole area in equally spread out completely fair. This is not a Mr. Beast video. I hope I dropped 10 tons of litter. Now what does 500 contestants compete for $10 million to clean it up? We bought 50 sea turtles and a hundred tons of plastics. Last sea turtle standing wins $3 million and this Ford Fiesta. Like the turkey pardoning, but Mr. Beast sea turtle of it alleged. Let's see if it doesn't exist. I hope we're not giving him an idea. Oh, yeah, he watches this podcast. Where's inspiration? Another one. I think this was this year. Artemis too was this year, right? Going like further than humans had ever gone in space. It was. I don't I'm not an expert. But I believe the whole once once they were done with their launch and corrections, I believe they had no no thrust input. It was a fully gravity maneuver to get all the way out around the moon and back, which is pretty sick. I'm sure that any rocket scientist is like not that sick. It's pretty easy actually. It's just new calculations, but it's very cool. I know Mark, you know, big fan of the moon, but like overall think he likes space. Maybe they flicked it off when they went by. I love the moon, guys. Wait, we jump timelines. Wait, it's all different here. No, I've always liked the moon. No, no, no, no, no. I've always liked the moon and I like, I like, I like not having ownership of the moon, but no one should own the moon. No one owns the moon. I can't do that. I'll break my audio setup. I'd pound with you, but I can't. I'm sorry. I have a strict no chanting rule just in general. I just there's like the fifth chant. No one's joined me on the chant. Fifth chant today. I just did a row. You know, for any, all right, here we go. I'll count it down, guys. Three, two, one, no one owns the moon. Is that what you wanted? I had a bit more here, but we are getting a little on time because we do have a thing we got to do. So I'm going to wrap there. I'll do points and we'll do the wheels. I got through some of my topics. That was good. I had a topic for today. I had a topic. Sure. Sure. Yeah. You guys think Wade just knows Spagomy. I didn't know Spagomy. I had to look up Spagomy. I am kind of with Mark. I'm a little disappointed. It's not a thing I could eat. As of right now, Mark, you lost the point for being meet-em-up, but you get me getting a sponsor. You got a point for we all go pro. You got a point for breathing water reflex. I found that funny. You got a point for us turning into Pauls. We're all Pauls. Apparently they'll go with a Jake Paul Logan Paul thing. Oh, privacy gone, scalpers, two point. Bob said you were right at one point, but multiple times Bob said you were right, so you got a point for that. He was very right today. You like the moon point and the moon chant point. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight points, minus one. So you got seven points right now. Bob, you got a point for your foot being bad. Oh, you got three hospital pity points. All right. Yeah, that might that's going to I forgot that there were three points right there. Yeah. You got a point for being my Pokemon boy because you're also collecting like me and that made me happy. I don't I don't get to relate with you guys very often with the different hobbies we have. So it's exciting that I got one. I got one. It's a little guppy. I got one. You don't even like Riobe days. I feel like you were also appreciative of Riobe days. Riobe days is what's up. I love Riobe days. I enjoyed your guys' love of Riobe days. I've never bought a Riobe days thing. Are you are you are you invested in a battery system as far as power tools go or are you are you still on the market? Are you still like a free agent kind of thing? Are you asking me? Yes. I know. Mark has I have like a screwdriver and a hammer. Okay, so you're open. You're open. So you so you need to get Riobe then you need to be a one plus boy. It is still Riobe days right now. You still can get Riobe days. There aren't many days where I find that I need a power tool. The more power tools you have the more times you'll find that you need them. I guarantee it. I got to replace a couple lights, I guess. Like, but do I need a tool for that? I just yeah, why do it by hand? Even if you're not going to use it, just bring it and set it next to you, and it'll make everything go a little more smoothly. You got a point for too much ass concert game. No. There's the scalpers. You got the companies use data for good point sports flopping bad point, talking about how we own temporary licenses and explaining how that works versus us owning real games and actual copies point and explaining the science behind Artemis point. So you got a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 plus 2 more for the hospital. Pities, you have 10 points right now, just 10 to 7. All right, come on, witness protection. Come on, three with this protection points. We need number number of wheel spins. Today will be the day it will give us one spin because, of course, it will. Oh, damn. All right, two spins. You got two shots to find some magic.
- It's certainly not off the table. - Wait, what are we adding? - This is gonna be the Oprah Winfrey point. You don't have to write Oprah Winfrey, but this is that everybody gets a point. If you currently have a score, you get a point. - Interesting, but only if they have a score. - Only if you already have a score on here. - This way everybody in the world doesn't get a point, because that would make this friendship very hard. - Yeah, if you're on the list, you get a point. - There. - Everyone who currently has any points gets a point. - To be careful, if we talk about Hitler, don't actually give Hitler negative points for sucking, 'cause this might give him a point. And then reverse golf rules and stuff, it'd be like, I mean, yeah. - A poshumous Hitler win would be crazy for this podcast. - That would be shocking. - We would blow up on social media, if Hitler just wanted a podcast episode. You guys heard it distracted. - There's 117 things. - Even maximized on my monitor, it's hard to read these damn slices. - I have it on a huge monitor, and I still can't really read it. Stuff, go problem. - Why couldn't I think of things them? I know so many things Mark likes. - I was trying, I was like, wait, I'm not competing. I'm not, this isn't out for me to compete for once. - It took me a second to even realize that it was something in it, was it quicks? - I overcommitted and could not remember chicken and dumplings. That's what I was trying to get out. And my brain was like, dumpling, pot stickers, soup dumplings. - My luck, I would have said something the first came to mind, it would have been something I don't like. - But, thanks for your time to think of something you like. - As long as Mark doesn't get more than two points, nothing bad can happen to me. - We'll find out. - Hey, tallest, that would be me, even with my messed up foot. - Bob, you win, would you like to give us a winter speech? - Yeah, it feels like it's been a minute since I won, but because I know how many times I have won so far in the season, I know that's really not true. It's just 'cause we really do want a week now, so there's just more time in between, you know, so it's good. So it feels good to win, always does. I do it a lot, I've been here before, so I'm gonna act like I've been here before. Mark put up a good fight and I basically cheated by getting hospitalized and having an infection that threatened both my life and my foot. I'm not gonna not take points for that, so, you know. - I think trips to the hospital do typically earn points, so I lived. - Mark, you get the silver medal today. - I was really banking on that witness protection thing. I put all of my eggs in that basket, I set up this entire new area just so I could have that. You can even see the dolly still there with things loaded on there that haven't even hired. My little packet all up and I think it's best if I just announced my retirement from the pocket at this point. - In shame, I need, with prejudice, which way. - Disgracefully discharged. - Yeah, yeah, just disgracefully discharged. - All right, well, congrats on that. And I look forward to to being gone, I guess. So, I can't wait. - Joe, I can't get it. - Be really awkward, whatever there's one host and one competitor. I don't know how that's gonna work, but, you know, as they say, the show must go on. But contractually, I'll have to see you next week 'cause I think you're here for at least the next 10 lifetimes cordon to our deal. That we don't get paid for. Just our digital deal, our group deal. - This is more like our deal with the devil type deal, not our business deal. It's different. - All right, I'll congrats again, Bob. Bob will host next week where I'm sure something will happen, probably. So, these episodes work. In the meantime, go follow these guys, Mark a Markiplier, Bob at. Like some said, Bob a Plier. Bob at my skirm. Minion 777, Lord Minion 777. - I should have been Bob a Plier, you're right. Keep adding to the bounties, which all three of us are equally participating in working on. And we'll see you next time. Until then, podcast out.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts (Wade, Mark, and Bob) discuss various personal updates, including Mark's near-drowning pool incident with a GoPro and Bob's hospitalization for a foot infection that required three days of care.
They engage in humorous banter about topics like Pokemon card collecting, scalping issues, lens cap coin flips, and family séances with a spirit named "Aunt Fanny."
The group critiques corporate practices, including PlayStation's move to phase out physical game copies and EA's microtransactions in sports games, suggesting solutions to scalping.
They highlight positive 2026 events, such as the World Cup's reception in the US, the Artemis II space mission, and "Spogomy," a litter-collecting sport competition.
Points are awarded for jokes and stories, with Bob winning the episode due to hospital pity points, while Mark finishes second.
Summary:
In this episode of "Distractable," the hosts Wade, Mark, and Bob start with casual small talk, quickly diving into personal anecdotes. Mark shares his experience filming with a GoPro in his pool, nearly drowning repeatedly due to poor breath-holding, while Bob reveals he was hospitalized for three days after a foot infection worsened, requiring antibiotics and a wrapped leg. " They also joke about family séances, with Bob recalling his grandpa's fake spirit tricks involving wires and a ghost named Aunt Fanny.
The trio then critiques corporate greed, focusing on PlayStation's decision to phase out physical game copies and EA's controversial microtransactions in Madden, proposing creative but absurd solutions to scalping, like a national registry. They highlight positive moments from 2026, including the World Cup's unifying vibe, the Artemis II mission's achievements, and "Spogomy," a Japanese-inspired litter-collecting sport. After awarding points for jokes and stories, Bob wins with 10 points, thanks to hospital pity points, while Mark gets 7.
Bob will host the next episode, and the show ends with playful farewells.
FAQs
Markiplier was hospitalized after an infection developed in an open wound on the bottom of his foot. The infection spread, causing his leg to turn red and swell, leading to a three-day hospital stay.
The hosts discuss needing a coin for a flip, but Markiplier only has a lens cap. They debate whether a lens cap is a fair substitute and jokingly suggest fans test lens caps for fairness by flipping them thousands of times.
Markiplier got a GoPro sponsorship after doing a power washing series with their cameras. He jokes that he is 'the power wash guy' and that his free publicity led to the deal.
Spogomy is a sport where teams compete to collect litter. Wade highlighted a competition in Loughborough where 281 kilograms of litter were collected in one afternoon, and noted it has become a global event with a World Cup in Japan.
They criticize scalpers for buying items in bulk and reselling at inflated prices. Markiplier jokingly proposes a national registry and public executions as a solution, while Bob suggests limiting resale frequency to reduce profitability.
Wade recalls his grandfather setting up fake séances with invisible strings to move cups and plates, pretending to contact a spirit named Aunt Fanny. This happened a few times in the 1990s and was treated as a normal family activity.
Chat with AI
Loading...
Pro features
Go deeper with this episode
Unlock creator-grade tools that turn any transcript into show notes and subtitle files.