My Body Betrayed Me

Mark Fischbach
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Bob Muyskens
Pitchable Bob questions his facial accoutrements but defends his manly form and love of kin. Medically augmented Mark find speculum suspect adores the idea of farming and masters his own mentality, from laser crushers to the best Batman. Yes, it's time for my body betrayed me. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey, everyone.

Wade Barnes
Welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm today's host, Wade. Why? Because I won last episode where Bob and I competed, Mark hosted, and this one, those two are competing, and I'm hosting. That's the way things work here.

There was a bit of a ending to the last episode that I hope you all got to see. And if you didn't, I guess I won't say anymore. But if you did, you know, you know, if you know, you. I y K. Y k.

Today I've got a fun topic. I guess I call it a topic. I guess I got a fun discussion to be had. But, uh, traditionally, before we get to that, I open the floor for the contestants to talk about what's going on in their lives and how they're doing. So how you doing?

Mark Fischbach
Pretty good. Hi. Yeah, hey, what's up? I'm feeling antagonized. You should.

Wade Barnes
This episode's called Mark's never fucking winning. I host again, so, like, you should. Are you kidding? Wait, where's the title? Where am I looking?

I am, but Bob's definitely winning this episode. Ah, hooray. But, like, it's gonna be fair, and you have an equal chance to win. Mark, I just predicting. Is there, like, a bet on this?

Yeah, you want to bet me? I want you to put down. Do I have my wallet? No, I don't have my wallet on me. Not technically in the constitution.

Mark Fischbach
Hang on. We could probably do this. No, I have a question, and I don't. You guys both have some insight into this that I'm curious about. I'm still wearing these glasses.

Yes. And I'm not a huge fan of them. They're heavy. I'm thinking about getting contacts. Mark, you've lived with contacts, and you still wear contacts, right, Wade?

Wade Barnes
Yeah, I've worn contacts since, like, junior high. Because then I could just wear whatever gas station sunglasses I want. I don't have to have prescriptions. Blah, blah, blah. And I can still wear those.

Mark Fischbach
My purple glasses that I miss, I could just get those with non prescription lenses. And then they're just be like, that's my look. It's my aesthetic. Should I. Should I get contacts or not?

Tell me. Sell me on it or don't tell me. It's bad. I really like wearing contacts. However, like, in my downtime, I still just wear glasses.

Wade Barnes
Like, if I'm just, like, chilling around the house, I'll usually wear glasses. Cause they're more comfortable and my eyes dry out a little bit if I'm doing certain chores. Like, I was scrubbing the house not too long ago. We had to just deep clean. Scrubbing toilets, scrubbing shower floors, shower walls.

Like, you know, just the deep clean you have to do every once in a while. I had my glasses on, and just, like, I've got no hair. I wasn't wearing a headband, so my sweat was just running, dripping, covering my glasses, making it hard to see so I was like. So I put my contacts, and it was like, oh, this is much better. Or, like, you know, playing sports, stuff like that.

Like, there's just times where wearing contacts is so much preferred. Wearing headphones like these. Sometimes, like, the sides of your glasses push into your temples a little bit. It's uncomfortable. Where's contacts?

You don't deal with that. I definitely like wearing contacts, but I also like wearing glasses, depending on the situation. But it's nice to be able to do both. Aren't you, like, squeamd out by eye stuff? Me?

Mark Fischbach
No. Oh, God. Don't do that. You want to see it closer? No, his fingers are definitely clean.

Wade Barnes
That's definitely a good thing to be doing right now. No, what does he doing? Wait, you worked at an eye clinic. Eyes naturally clean themselves. It's totally fine.

Mark Fischbach
I licked my hands clean after I used the toilet before this. Typically, you only want to do that for touching, like, a lot of splintered up wood so that we have a high chance of, like, penetrating your eye with some wood splinters. Okay. So if you can do that, then you should be fine putting in contacts, I suppose. However, I will say this as someone who has had a laser eye surgery.

Bob Muyskens
Put, like, lightning behind.

There's nothing greater than waking up and being able to see immediately there. I have had, you know, poor vision all my life, and I have had weather glasses or contacts. Some form of corrective lens in front. It is so divine, so divine to be able to just see and see perfectly. I see perfectly.

I see incredibly well. My vision is. Is better than it was with context. It's not like a, like a comparative. You'll.

You can get context that are really, really good. I see perfectly, and I love it, and it's great. So if you were going to look into a no glasses thing, there's. But you can ask anybody that's gotten laser surgery, except for people that it's gone horrifically wrong for. No one's apparently ever gone blind from, you know, laser eye surgery.

So there's that. But it's like, it has an extremely high level of success. More than contacts, if you go by statistics, more people, like, about 200 people go blind from contacts a year. If you have an issue with contact lenses, I imagine, like, 99.9% of it is user error, like sleeping in your contacts or putting in your contacts when they're dirty. I know when I was a teenager and I stood over at a friend's house and I didn't want to sleep in my contacts, I was like, oh, I'll just get a glass of, like, tap water, put my contacts, and then they'll stay nice and moist for the next day because, you know, tap water has nothing bad that you can put in your eyes, so dumb stuff like that is probably a good portion of it.

Wade Barnes
Or if you get something in your eyes and you don't take out your. Contacts, you did that and you survived. I shouldn't have. Probably should've given myself, like, a brain worm or something. There was someone who had contacts and apparently didn't realize you needed to take them out, so basically they just kept putting in more contacts.

Mark Fischbach
Oh, I've seen that. Yeah. And then some old contacts get, like, shoved up into the inner eye area. Yeah. So, uh, is this.

Bob Muyskens
This reassuring you? I'm not ice squeamish, but that one made me real hard. That is just horrific. The worst thing I ever had happen with a contact lens is whenever one starts to, like, rip. Because whenever it rips on your eye, you just feel like the jagged edge, and it's, like, the most painful thing.

Wade Barnes
It's like having the hair in your eye, but much worse. I've been wearing them, like I said, since junior high, which was what, like, 2001, 2002? Like, 22 years ago. I've had maybe four or five issues in that amount of time where I'm like, oh, God. That's usually, like I said, like, a ripped one.

Getting a hair under your contact lens can happen. That kind of sucks. But, like, you literally can have solution that. You just rinse it off and put it back in. Yeah, well, that's the thing, too, Mark.

Mark Fischbach
I know you got the. What's yours called? The smiles. The smile. I don't think there's anyone around here that does that.

Or if they do, it's not called that because I was looking. I can't find a place in Cincinnati that does that, which is shocking to me because I thought that was more. That was more widely. Let's just fly to LA, have Mark's doctor do it for us. We'll stay for, like, three days and fly home.

Yeah, Mark, you pay for that, right? What? Yeah, the flights and the surgery. Thanks, dude. Thanks, bud.

Bob Muyskens
I'll pay for the flights. I'll do the flight. I'll do the flight. You do the surgery. I'll do the flight.

I'll get you out here. You'll do the surgery? You'll do the surgery. I want the doctor to the surgery. I'll do the surgery.

Wade Barnes
I'll do the surgery. I'll fly you. I'll surge you. I got some tarps. We'll put some tarps up.

Mark Fischbach
We'll do a little surge. Yeah, you need a lot of tarps. Lot of tarps. You know what, Mark? I'm gonna give you bonus points for paying for our eye surgeries.

Well, you sold me well. See, so this is the thing where I met the idea of the eye surgery. Cause you showed us, like, that video thing of it as well, that schemes me out way worse than just putting contacts in my eye every day, and I don't know why. Well, start with that then. But it sounds really nice to just be able to see.

Bob Muyskens
Oh, it's so nice. Do you still have to, like, wear readers probably in, like, your mid forties. That's what they said, like, but that's probably everybody down the road. You'll either have to adjust your prescription or even if you do that, you know, might need bifocals or something like that, because everyone's eyes start to degrade. So I think even if I was born with perfect eyes, I would probably, by that age, start to need something else.

Wade Barnes
I don't know this weird, because I actually don't know this even worked at an eye clinic. But I do know people that have eye surgery, usually in, like, your mid forties or so, like, you do need to have reading readers, reading glasses. And also having Lasik does not stop you from getting cataracts. So you might still have to have cataract surgery. Nothing stops that.

That's just your lens fogging up. Over time. You'll eventually probably have to have cataract surgery if you live longer enough. So those two things would still probably be necessary regardless of what you do. But contacts are good.

Eye surgery is probably good, just if you have really dry eyes. I know eye surgery can be a pain sometimes because your eyes do get a bit drier afterwards. But, no, not for me. I've never experienced that. I haven't had any of the side effects that they said would happen.

Bob Muyskens
All the starburst pattern stuff, which I had when I had contacts, really went away. Um, after the first few months, and it. I didn't really have any dryness. I put a lot of drops in afterwards. I put a lot of drops in during the recovery process.

For the first month, I was like. I was choking through eye drops. But then after it healed up fully, I haven't put eye drops in forever. Sometimes late night, you know, gets dry, but I think that's just through the day. You just.

Wade Barnes
I want to take away a point for you. Flexing your perfect body on. Mark's eyes are so strong, it's unbelievable. I. When they measured it, like, a week after I got it, I had 2015 vision.

Bob Muyskens
I have a sneaking suspicion it's either that or more nowadays, because I can just. I can see forever and spot tiny details. Basically firing lasers out of those shits right now. Yeah. The ability to zoom.

Zoom in on things is. I can't overstate how cool that is. Can barely do that with my glasses on. Oh, no, no. I can.

I get, like, ten x. Like, well, I'm sold. Surge me, Mark. Yeah. I would say, like, contacts aren't a bad idea, but also, like, I've thought about getting the eye surgery, too.

Wade Barnes
I just. The longer I wait, the less it feels like it's gonna be worth it, but. So I should just do it. It's great. It's.

Bob Muyskens
It's expensive, but it's great. I don't know if that counts as small talk, but that's my small talk. That's good. And it's not expensive if Mark pays for it. So we're good.

Mark Fischbach
Yeah. If Mark's gonna cover all my expenses and my recovery and feed me and let me live with him for, you know, x amount of time, maybe they. Can put me under and fix my deviated septum, my eyes, and my shoulder all at once. They just take a big cartoon mallet, and as soon as you go out, actually, they use it to knock you out and do the surgery at the same time. It's really convenient.

Wade Barnes
That's how they do the smile surgery. A mallet. That smile. There's a laser that comes out of the mallet when they swing it. You know what it felt like, actually, when I was doing the surgery?

Bob Muyskens
Because, you know, you got a. You're in a bed, and they raise you up in the machine, and you're looking at the light, and it's, like, coming closer. I had this, like, brief moment. You know those hydraulic press videos where it's like. I was like, they're gonna.

Mark Fischbach
They're gonna squish me like a bug. Because you're going up towards the singing, you lose all perspective. It's so close, it gets blurry, and you hear the same sound because the bed needs to be raised. Like, this is where I die. Just that, guys.

But welcome to the hydraulic compress channel. Today, we're going to see what happens to Markiplier's eye when we apply 35 tons of pressure to it. Wow. He went everywhere. How was it like being awake during the surgery and stuff and watching them.

Bob Muyskens
It was fine. Surgery was fine. A little scary, but whatever. They gave me Xanax beforehand, so it's. Got, like, I've seen it done from, like, the outside perspective.

Wade Barnes
But I do wonder what it's like to, like, watch those things go toward your eyes and stuff. It's scary. And then you're like, I have to look at this green dot and not move or else my eyes will be horrible forever. I feel like my add would make me terrified of that, too. Cause they'd be like, look at the thing.

Mark Fischbach
And I'd be like, oh, God, you're fine. They suction your eye to it. Ah, it's getting worse. Jesus Christ. What if they suck all the juice out of my eye?

I need my jelly in there. That's the point. Yeah, no, I thought about that, too, because I'm like, oh, man. I really. I started practicing before the surgery.

Bob Muyskens
Like, I really gotta make sure I can focus. Looking at things. Just practicing. Mark's sitting in his room. Like, that's really what I was doing.

I was like, I would look at a light and I'd go like, oh. And then my eyes would start watering. Oh, no, don't move or you'll get bad vision. Puts on his superman t shirt and is just like, I got this. They didn't even tell me that they sucked you in the eye.

I didn't know that happened until they raise it up and it goes. And I go, like, my eye just got sucked. They put, like, the crazy saw looking clamp on there, too. No, they didn't do the clamp. They didn't need to do that.

Cause they sucked your eye to it. When they were doing cataract surgery here in Cincinnati. They had, like, this crazy contraption to hold your eyelids open that looked like something out of song. It just like. It was fine.

Wade Barnes
But it looks so barbaric. It's just this big metal thing that sits on your eye, like, peels your eyelid up. It's like that film. What's that film called? Clockwork Orange.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah. I've never seen that. I've heard of that, but I've never seen it. I've never seen it, but, yeah, that's exactly. It's like some medical devices are still from the 18th century or something, like a speculum.

Mark Fischbach
Those things look positively unpleasant. They apparently are. Not that I've ever experienced one, but everything I've heard about them is that they are really, really strangely old school for what they do. Why update the design? It's very human.

Bob Muyskens
It's very for everyone to know. Speculum is used in gynecological appointments to observe the cervix. It spreads and holds things open. It sure does. It's like a little duck bill.

And when you press it, it goes. It looks really unpleasant, apparently. Very unpleasant. So I'm sure any, any woman out there could probably attest to that. I think anyone who wants to do that should have to get speculumed, men, gynecologists included.

Wade Barnes
Yeah. How do you think you get your prostate checked? Do they go in through the tip? Through the tip?

My God. Wait, you got the best delayed jokes. Looks like a time bomb. It just takes. No, I love.

Mark Fischbach
Was that futurama. Whenever I think about, like, colonoscopies or whenever. When that comes up, but I always think of futurama. It's fry sitting there on, like, an exam table. And zoid holds up this huge, like, really thick camera cable.

And fry's like, uh huh. And he's like, mm, mm. I can tell you the one they use in my nostril was pretty small, but it still had an impact, so I'm glad they didn't have a thicker one. Oh, yeah, man, I can't imagine a camera through the nose, because that must have been, like, whenever I had a ng tube in, where they shove it through your nose into your stomach. Like, it's got to be the similar width, and that's not pleasant.

Wade Barnes
The worst part wasn't even, like, the. The going in. So I don't know if you remember, whenever we were recording in space, we had to have the COVID test, like, weekly, three times or whatever it was. And then there was the one day where it was, like, the higher probe, one that was like, oh, yeah. So it was like, that sensation, and then they kept going, which was awful.

But then, like, once it got past that, I didn't feel it, like, in my throat or anything. The thing I didn't like was the spray. The numbing spray made it feel like the only part of my esophagus I could feel was, like, the very bottom of it. So I was, like, had the swallowing sensation. It kind of reminded me of the swollen uvula a bit because it's just like, I kept, like, feeling I had to swallow.

Like, my swallowing felt wrong, like I wasn't breathing properly or something. I don't know. It was. It was uncomfortable. The ng tube is.

Bob Muyskens
Is that for hours? It sucks. It's like something on their throat. Oh, but beginning of that COVID test. Did I ever tell you guys about when I went to Korea to film my mom's documentary.

They were still doing Covid tests at the. The airport in Seoul. And I had done, you know, all of space. Every. Almost every day, I think was every other day we had a COVID test, and it was like.

And then, you know, on Friday, it was like what you said, the deep one. So I took a lot of COVID tests, and then, you know, when I was swimming edge asleep, I did a lot of COVID tests. Like, I got really used to it to the point where they could jam it in my. And then I had the Ng tubes. They jam it in my nose, and I wasn't even really blinking.

And so I freaked the guy out at the Seoul airport because they. They don't give a shit. They're doing thousands of passengers. They, like, jam right in. But I'm looking at him and I'm like, he's got through the glass with the rubber gloves, like, sticking through the glass to.

To get at you. Fun. And he jams it way up there, and I don't even blink. I look him dead in the eye and don't even flinch when it's happening. And he's just.

And usually because everyone going up there, like, because you just had a shove in your. In your nose. But I've had so many shoved in my nose that I just, like, dead stare at him. And I'm not trying to stare him down, but after it goes in, he's like, literally one of those. What?

And then he pulls it back out and shoves it deeper. And then I go, ah, fuck. Why?

Almost bashed into my brain. And I'm like, jeez. That's the calibration for the test. When the person flinches. You're far enough.

Mark Fischbach
And you didn't flinch. And he was like, I think that's what it was. I really do think you stared him in the eye, and he's like, this son of a bitch. I'll show him. He thinks he's gonna beat me.

Wade Barnes
No one makes eye contact with me. While I don't swap him, so that sucked. But I have small talk. That wasn't my small talk. Oh, okay.

All right. Yeah, I do. If there's still time. So I have a new hobby. A new expensive hobby.

Mark Fischbach
Yeah, we know about the lenses. No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand. All right, who's our next guest gonna be? Who, like, breaks a house trying to get you your thing?

Bob Muyskens
No, it's not like that at all. Is it mobile games? They can be expensive. They can be. But it's not mobile games.

I want to build a render farm. That's not as exciting as you're trying to make it seem. Well, come on. I am. Personally, I do think that's interesting, because I'm interested exactly at what the infrastructure for that is and how you said that.

Mark Fischbach
But, like, to normal people, that's an even tougher sell than lenses. I'm gonna be honest. I'm gonna be honest. Oh, come on. I'm gonna let you cook here.

Wade Barnes
Only because I filled up my synology the other day. I've had it for, I don't know, ten years. I've had it for a very long time. And it's got 30 terabytes of storage. Last night, I went to transfer some files.

It's full up. Damn. So if you've got space for me, Mark, I'm in. Yeah. So I.

Bob Muyskens
I think, Wade, you'll like this, because, you know, when I was doing that whole hard drive stint, which people forgot about when the lenses took over, but I was doing a hard drive thing there for a bit. Yeah, when you were thunderstruck. Whatever it was called. Yes, exactly. Thunderbolt.

So I built a server that has 400 terabytes of storage. Right. Because I was like, I'm going to future proof this. I want a whole hard drive. I got some refurbished hard drives.

If there's one thing I love, is that doing these hobbies and trying to find a good deal for them, even because it's so expensive, a lot of these things. So I always try to find, like, the good deal for it. So I bought refurbished hard drives and in every way, that's a big no, no, no. Don't do that. But it just so happened in a specific situation that I did this.

There was some cryptocurrency that was based on hard drives. Based I talked about before. Yada, yada, yada. But render farm is different because it's extremely difficult to get server infrastructure at a cheap price. Unless.

Unless you just so happen to be in an era where everyone with a data center is replacing their hardware with this new fancy AI bullshit hardware, and they're throwing everything out at incredible discounts. And you can find the most amazing server hardware ever on eBay for steep discounts. Okay. How much is a steep discounted. 400 terabyte?

Mark Fischbach
Oh, you're not gonna like this. I'm talking like 50% plus discounts, right. How much is a 40? 90 right now? Right.

Bob Muyskens
49. Couple grand. Isn't it? 2200 bucks or something? 40.

90S right now is like two grand. Like around that. It's still very expensive. You can get some things with a 4090 in it, an entire cpu, ram like power supply, motherboard case, all this shit for $2,400. So 400 more than the card and a 4090 in there.

400 more than the card itself. For the entire fucking computer. With an NVM two terabyte NVme, it's got 64. Look at. Even my camera agrees.

Mark Fischbach
What the shit is. Why is that happening? Why is there a thumbs up on your phone? It's just so positive you can get all that for $2,400. And that's, that's, that's still a lot of money.

Bob Muyskens
But you talk about getting the computer with the 4090 in it for that. Now here's the real kicker. That's just keep talking. That's just domestic level computer hardware, right? At steep discounts.

Because now is a better time than ever in the history of forever to get a computer because there so many companies are trying to clear shit out to get this new shit in. What do I search for on eBay for this? Give me some keywords. What you want to look up on eBay is you want to find, you want to find the specific server grade processor that you want. Because what's happening is all these companies realize they need GPU's right now.

So actually GPU deals are hard to come by for work. Workstation level graphics. But you can still get good deals because people are still trading out computers. But you can get like 64, 96, 128 core processors in their server chassis with all, with like a terabyte of ram. I don't even know what you would do with a terabyte of ram for like 80% off of the cost.

And they are perfectly functional, very modern, like only a year or two old. But because every company in existence is trying to get rid of what they have and replace it with these bigger GPU based servers with like eight gpu's in them. You can get, you can do crazy. You can get the craziest shit for so much less. There's processors out there that are like $12,000.

You can get. You can get two of them. You can get two of them for like 25% of the price, which is a lot. I haven't bought these, but this is why I'm like, now is the greatest time in the history forever, to build a render farm. I want to see your half a million dollar server setup.

You don't need to spend half a million dollars. What was I just telling you? I don't know I had left. Oh, yeah, you weren't here. Where did you go?

Wade Barnes
I had important business to take care of. I'm with you, Mark. I see where you're laying down. Yeah, you see what I'm laying down? You see what?

Mark Fischbach
So, what, you're gonna buy, what, you're gonna lease space and just buy a bunch of secondhand servers and set up a render farm thing for cheap for people to use? No, just do it in my garage. If I have to lease space, that's gonna cost more money, but if I do in my garage, where's the car go? I don't. My car hasn't been in my garage for a year, man.

Yeah, I mean, you know, he had movies set in there and stuff or whatever. Yeah, I have a whole set in there, but once that's gone, now the movie's done, I have space for everything. And I put. I put air conditioning in there because filming in there in the summer was such a pain because it wasn't air conditioned. So I put an oversized air conditioner in my garage so I can have a server rack in my garage.

Wade Barnes
I can't believe you filmed a whole movie in your garage. I didn't realize that. I picked up a lot of shots in my garage. I was basically talking about it for the past year, wasn't it? He did talk a lot about that.

Mark Fischbach
Yeah. I feel like. Huh? That's crazy. You know what Mark points to?

Wade Barnes
I don't know. Someone. So I want to build a render farm. I want to get some sweet deals on some sweet computers and put them into my garage. And I'm sure that buying this shit off of eBay is definitely reliable.

Mark Fischbach
Well, so you're saying eBay, these companies aren't going out of business, but they still probably, like, offload these to just, like, wholesalers or something, right? Can you go to, like, in person auctions where this stuff would be even cheaper? Probably. For sure. Sure.

Bob Muyskens
I haven't scratched the surface of where these sales are. I've only really just started looking and finding, like, incredible deals. If anybody knows the secret ends of where to get this shit for the cheapest prices, put it on the subreddit, let me know about it. I'm about to start a rendering revolution because online render services cost way too much. And if I can do it from home, because I got solar panels, so I don't even need to pay for the electricity.

Wade Barnes
Okay, man, if we have a zombie apocalypse, you're gonna be able to film movies from your house. Mark's never gonna have to stop making content. Yeah. One can only hope. One can only hope.

Bob Muyskens
Anyway, that's my small talk. All right, good small talk. I have other small talk. Okay. I have more small talk if there's an opportunity for it.

Wade Barnes
Yeah, I mean, make it quick. Cause I'm on a. I'm on a timer now. I haven't talked about b twelve since we were talking about it before. Yeah, I was gonna say we talked about that before.

Is that a plane or a vitamin or something else? It's a vitamin. It's a band. I'm familiar with bgs. Me too.

Bob Muyskens
Anyway, b twelve is a vitamin. It's actually the most complex, chemically complex vitamin that humans need. I didn't know that. Did you know that? I didn't know that.

Mark Fischbach
No, I didn't know that. One of the few ones with cobalt in them, which is why it's called cobalamin. Is it a re. Is it a reaction chemical? Fuck.

Wade Barnes
What was that episode we just did? Research chemicals. Research. Not reaction. Reaction chemicals.

Bob Muyskens
No. But this is a vitamin. It's b twelve. Everybody needs it. And for some people, there's starting to be researched.

There's some people with ADHD, or maybe everyone in general can have a deficiency in b twelve because it is not available in nearly any plant source at all, except for seaweed. Can you just buy like a b twelve supplement at the store? Like, how hard is this? You can. But there's actually a new version of it called methylcobalamin, which is methylated cobalamin.

And the previous version, as we talked about before, was cyanocobalamin, which is bound to cyanide. Oh, right. That's not great. It's fine. You're never gonna take it in quantities enough that it would be a problem.

But the problem is people think that the quantities with which the body needs, like cobalamin or b twelve, is higher than necessary. Anyway, all I'm gonna say is anecdotally, this is all anecdotally. I started taking b twelve. Cause I take ADHD medication. I switch from Adderall to a stars.

And then I started, like when I was working on the last leg of the movie, I started taking b twelve every day. And I gotta say, completely anecdotally, completely anecdotally, it did help. It was actually a significant improvement in my ability to concentrate. There was also all the pressure of it. So I can't say for sure it was exactly that.

You know, I was still taking, obviously, a, what is known as a controlled subject substance for my ADHD but it was still like, I think there was a market improvement in my ability to like, go through the day, concentrate, focus, have energy. It was really nice. So there's a little evidence to that. And I felt pretty good about it. B twelve plus, like crack or whatever it is you take for your ADHD.

Mark Fischbach
Yeah, take some meth. Take some. B twelve really helped. It's not meth. And you guys are perpetuating a stigma.

Bob Muyskens
You guys are perpetuating a stigma. No, I was, I was not commenting on your, your add medicine. I was commenting on the, the methyl. Methylcobalamin. Methylcobalamin is just a fancy name for beat.

A form of b twelve. It's readily available. I might order some. It's, it's nice. I do.

I do think it's good. And, and I don't know about taking too much of it. I haven't noticed my body exploding in any capacity, so I have no idea. But I seem to be okay. Markiplier B leaves in b twelve.

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Where's the b? I don't know. I needed a b word. I gave you bold instead of bitch. Points for bitchness.

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Wade Barnes
And, uh, this episode is about how our bodies are betraying us. Not necessarily because we're getting older. That is an episode topic we could have, but I mean, even when we were younger, our bodies have betrayed us. We can talk about this more in depth. But the thoughts I had, Mark, obviously you can't drink.

That's been a thing you've dealt with. I have an allergy to a specific medication that made me break out into hives. And then my like, near passing out thing that just happened. We've all needed to wear glasses and stuff over the years because our eyes just aren't good enough. I want to talk about our bodies and how they're betraying us and how we're going to get back at them.

Mark Fischbach
I get back at mine every day. You kidding me? Yeah, I mean, I should. I did have a good segue for that with the methyl cobalamin. I mean, Bob started this off talking about eyes and wanting to talk about like eye surgery and stuff, which was a great, I was like, dude, what a great segue.

Wade Barnes
And then, uh, yeah, mark, you were coming back with the eyes. And then you start about server stuff. It's like, ah, that's less body. But then you went to b twelve, as I'll be twelve. So yeah, let's talk about the horrible things our bodies have done to us and how they've betrayed us and failed us over the years.

So, like I said, for me, I was playing lost ark as a healer and heard the horrible popping noise that athletes describe. And in my very athletic mouse movement as a healer, I felt the pop of my slap tear, my horrible astigmatism and vision. My stupid reaction to having some spray in a camera down my nostrils yesterday or whenever it was where I was just, like, turning pale and falling over. This body has failed me. Look bald.

Mark Fischbach
I thought that was a choice. Choice on the sides. Are you looking for us to be antagonistic towards our body? I feel like they don't necessarily have to be. I was.

Wade Barnes
But you can be nice about it. I was just gonna say I don't really blame my body for, you know, what we're dealing with over here. On my end, the eyes thing is not great, to at least some extent. The rest of my issues, I feel like, you know, I have my hand in that I don't work out. Feels like I don't ever work out, but I do.

Mark Fischbach
Sometimes. It's just not nearly enough. I don't eat very healthy. I give. My body fights pretty hard, considering the odds that I've given it.

I'm not a particularly healthy person. I smoked tobacco when I was younger. I don't drink alcohol anymore. That's one thing I do. But I don't know.

Bob Muyskens
I feel like. I feel like he's doing his best, you know? Like, trying his best. You know, I'm ready to talk about how my body betrayed me, specifically my brain. Let me tell you something.

I know I've talked about this endlessly. I was talking about it before, but I do think. Think. Imagine how unstoppable I'd be without add. Would you?

Mark Fischbach
Do you feel like it would stifle your creative side if you didn't have that or something? Do you feel like it would change you in a way that would affect how. How you see things and, like, what you make or how you go about things? Cause I do feel like I don't like that I have that. I'm so unfocused and that it's a struggle, and I'm still trying to work out, like, how to.

Ways to help myself deal with that and be more consistent with stuff. But I don't think I'd be the same person if I wasn't as completely all over the place and, like, add as I am. I don't know. I feel like it'd be a whole different person. For sure.

Bob Muyskens
For sure. Which is why I don't actually want to, like, blame my body. There is a thing, like I always say, when I got diagnosed for ADHD, my. My life only improved for the better. But also, I think a lot of what I am and who I am comes from, you know, this, uh, this mentality of just like, oh, I think the way I do, therefore I am the way that I am.

Even if I trying to be more focused, that's like, it's a fun goal to have, I guess. Not fun, but, you know, it's a goal to have. I just. I do think, though, that medication has helped in a significant capacity. All supplementation aside, um, I don't think that I would be able to do the things that I want to do without it.

Not that I. That's a. That's. I always hate saying that, but it's. There's.

There are certain reliance on medication that is difficult, which is why I wanted to switch off of Adderall for so long. I knew that it was getting, like, in the way more than it was actually helping, and there was a kind of a. Almost an unhealthy reliance on it. I wondered about that when I was, um. When I was on Adderall.

And I was wondering, like, is it. Is it me that's actually, like, pushing to do these things, or is it this medication? Not that it's like a magic bullet, but, you know, it's. It's the fact that when you first get diagnosed and you first are, like, on something, you're like, yes, this is great. Answers all my problems.

And then you realize, like, it's not an answer to all your problems, and you still have to do a lot of things in supplementation to it, which is why I. When I found this new medication, that's why I like it so much, is because not only does it not feel like I'm not myself, it actually feels like I'm more myself and I'm able to actually sleep and. And work at it. But it also feels like all it does and all I've ever wanted it to do is just kind of clear the sandpaper feeling when I'm doing something I don't want to do. Like, so long as I can get that actual physical pain and magnetic.

Magnetic repulsion from doing the things I want to do, that's what I want to do. So I never like to blame it too much or also praise it too much, but. But I, at the same time, finding that balance is. Is a lifelong pursuit. So what was the question.

I forget. Wade's Wade. I'm just ignoring Wade's talking topic at this point, I guess. But you know what I watched recently? There was a smart everyday YouTube channel put out a video recently about his experience in, uh, photographing the eclipse that recently happened.

Mark Fischbach
He was, he had a friend who's all about totality who's like a, I don't assume he's an astronomer or something, but he's like huge on totality eclipses and has seen and was like really hype for the totality that happened during the previous, the most recent one, they took a physical, they took a film camera picture of the stages of the eclipse on one exposure. And it's very cool. The picture is unbelievable because it's literally one piece of film that they just repeatedly exposed with a, they timed it very particularly and they perfectly have this perfectly spaced phases of the eclipse and then totality. And it like, it looks like a photoshop thing, right? Where you accumulate, you aggregate a bunch of pictures together, but it's literally just one piece of film.

They just did it, captured it perfectly. The whole episode is about how in depth that his, his colleague was excited about this and they worked together and they set up all this stuff. And the only thing that it made me think is, God, I wish I liked anything as much as this guy is excited about this one photograph he's taking. And I always, I have this internal thing where I'm like, well, I can't stay focused. It's my, I like, I have passion for things, but my add ruins it.

And I can't tell if that's just me making excuses or if it's really just that. It's a different kind of, because it's not, it's not like a hyper fixation for him. It was a genuine, like, joy of joys, tears welling in his eyes. Like, I don't feel like I get that in life. Do you feel like when you're now that I don't know how you feel about where you are, but you have, like, treatment, pretty balanced.

And obviously you just did the movie, which is a whole stretch. Do you feel like that has changed when you have your ADHD better managed or do you feel like that's not related to that? I've just always been curious because I've always felt this, like I can't, I don't stay, I don't stay focused on one thing for long enough to get just like deeply, passionately into it for like weeks, months, years at a time. I just keep moving from thing to thing. I think that definitely it helps to have that longer term relationship with the thing that you are obsessed with.

Bob Muyskens
Because before, like, before I got in any kind of medication, it was very much just like, I wasn't able to latch on to anything besides World of Warcraft, maybe, but even that felt more like an addiction than like, a passion. Like, one of my biggest concerns on Adderall was that I didn't feel that kind of passion. I felt like I could do things, but not that. Not that I was actually interested in it. It was just like, okay, I can do things, but I don't know why.

I lost a lot of that, like, really connection to things. But now that I'm on a star and I'm able to actually manage it better, I'm aware of myself and my body and my brain and, like, the habits that I have, I feel like I can get more of an attachment to things and feel more passionate about things. Like, I mean, you've seen it probably with, like, hard drives. Hard drives are probably the most boring shit than anybody could imagine. I got genuine joy and excitement every time I read something new about or figured something out, or I puzzled something out.

Same with lenses. Once I had it in front of me and I could really chase it. These are all, like four month cycles, or four to six month cycles, so they're longer term. And now when I was looking at it, and it's all in relation to the problems that revolve around. The main thing that I like, which is the filmmaking.

All of this, all those things are just side effects of the main pillar that I like, which is filmmaking. And I didn't choose to be like, I'm going to really love hard drives. It's just like, hard drive was a problem, but in answering the problem was what was really rewarding and really felt good about it. And so that passion getting into it is just a result of the main passion that I had that I've been keeping on for a very long time. I don't know if that answers your question, but it.

It very much is like, there has to be that core pillar, I think, because, you know, the eclipse might be what that guy really, really, really loves, and that's, like, the core of it. And then that leads to the obsession of, like, how can I capture this in a way that no one else has with a film camera and re exposing it, and then seeing the result of that work enhances your main goal of the eclipse. It just like. And that's what can lead to like, it being so beautiful that you're crying or, like you said, and. Yeah, so everything is just, like, comboing together, I suppose.

Wade Barnes
That's our reporter in the field, Mark. Thanks, Mark. And thank you. And it's all thanks to drugs. Back to you.

Bob Muyskens
I got a lot of methylcobalamin to take. A lot of research chemicals over here, guys. Anyway, I'm still not mad at my body, Wade. I feel like I don't share your antagonism towards my body, even though my body as causing this thing that we're just talking about, but I want to feel that about something. And it sounds really bad because I have, like, a family and a kid and a wife, and I'm not saying I don't feel a very deep and serious love towards them and for them, but, like, yeah, the passion for something that I'm choosing to do or, like, a hobby is different for me than, like, family.

Mark Fischbach
Family is constant, and it's always there, and that is not. I was confused because you said, like, I don't hate my body, but I do want to feel that about something. I have a family. No. Yeah.

Well, I just said this. When I think about this and bring this up, I always feel awkward, because it's like, I'm not trying to say I don't love my family. I'm looking for something to actually care about. But, like, I. As far as hobbies and stuff go, I feel like I just go from thing to thing.

It feels like it's hard to stick with anything because the initial thing, once the initial excitement wears off of, like, oh, this is new. I've never had a thing where I was so passionate that I was like, I'll stay. I keep staying excited about this for years and years. I don't know either. For me, it's video.

Wade Barnes
Video games, and I don't even stick with those. Like, I switch video games a lot. It's like, I'll really enjoy a game, I'll play the heck out of it. And then I get tired of that game, and it's kind of like I'm gonna funk till the next one comes around. It's like, I've really been in a lull of video games, so I'm trying to get back to playing basketball a little bit.

I got, like, some Lego sets to build. I don't really care about collecting. I do, like, building, like, legos and stuff like that. Like, I enjoy the building process. Then, like, once it's done, it's like, I don't care to look at my finished products, like, whatever, just give it away.

I don't at that point. I like Mark's solution. I think you're right, Mark. I need more drugs in my life. Yeah, I think you need more drugs.

If you guys learned a lot about me in the last episode that I like to complain and be mad, that's a very me thing. So being mad and complaining about my body is definitely on brand. Well, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry I don't share your sentiment. I'm trying to participate in your topic, but I feel like I'm just a.

Mark Fischbach
Just an excuse. Making you only get mad at fridge deliveries, not yourself. Hey, listen, they just. They did. They knew something that I didn't know about how wide gates can be.

Okay. So I think growing up, I had, like, a low self esteem for no particular reason. It's not like I was an ugly kid or anything. Like, I feel like I was, like, looking back, I was like, okay, you sure? You sure about that?

Bob Muyskens
You sure you weren't an ugly kid? Are you sure? I had a phase where, like, my ears looked huge. I was wearing, like, I got my first pair of glasses, and they were like, some horrible looking glasses combined with my ears. I look.

Mark Fischbach
It sounds like he knows the truth, Mark. I did look terrible for a couple years. I don't know. Looking back, I was like, you know, it wasn't that bad. But at the time, it's like, oh, God, I hate myself.

Wade Barnes
Maybe it's just a teenager thing. Getting the receding hairline early on was definitely painful. Like, that was tough. Like, high school, college, having, like, the receding hairline in the back and everything. Did not like that.

But, you know, I just think about stuff like being really sick on vacation, taking my medicine. And then I started curing my illness. This one teaspoon of medicine broke me out into hives for five days. And hives, if you've never had them, are one of the worst things you can experience. I feel like.

Like I have had multiple illnesses and injuries, but hives were pretty bad. I don't know, worse things. Worse things you could experience, I'm sure. Like, you know, cancer, there are worse things, but of, like, non life threatening. Horrible things, of relatively harmless things that you can experience, maybe they are pretty unpleasant.

I won't compare it to, like, cancer I've never been through, but of, like, of, like, non life threatening, horrible things. Like, I fractured my wrist, the slap tear. I would take those over the hives. I probably wouldn't take concussions over the hives. Even though they didn't bother me as much.

But long term effects can be worse for concussions. But concussions bad. Like, just in my mind of the torturous, horrible things my body's been through over the years, hives is, like, always the first one I think of, or whatever that's worth. It was just four days of non stop everything. Itching, can't sleep, can't do anything.

Because all I want to do is scratch. All day, all night. All I can think of is how itchy my whole body is from head to toe. I don't know. Like, the worst part of a bug bite.

Like, when it's at its itchiest. It was that sensation all over for four straight days. That suck. This episode is brought to you by rocket money. Guys, I found another subscription.

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Yes. Maybe someone can diagnose me. I love it when people on the Internet to diagnose me for things that I have. So I have this thing where the front muscle on my right calf, like my shin, but it's the muscle that goes along the right, if my right leg along the right side of it going down towards the foot. So that muscle, whatever that muscle, I can't remember in anatomy what it was.

Bob Muyskens
Every single time that I do any kind of exercise where I have to lift my front of my foot on that leg and that muscle gets used, like, to pull up my toes or something like that. If I do it too much or in any, like, excessive capacity, it will hurt for a week. For a week straight. That muscle, I don't. It's not running.

It's not like I'm doing a lot. It's if I'm driving and I lift my foot to go from gas to brake, if I drive for too long in a car that doesn't have cruise control, I will be in agony for a week because that muscle really, really sucks. According to WebwebMd, you're dying. This might gross people out, but I used to have, ew, a wart here, and I took a pair of tweezers and toenail clippers, and I cut it and tore it and ripped it out. What the fuck?

Mark Fischbach
That's not what you're supposed to do with that. No, but I was. I was, like, in high school, and I, for some reason, here was my thought process. I was like, listen, I'm pre law. I want to shake a lot of important hands one day.

Wade Barnes
And what if they're left handed and they touch my wart and they're grossed out and I ruin a relationship? So I've got to get rid of this. I better do it now. I could probably just cut, cut it off. And so I did.

Wouldn't recommend anyone do that. I'm sorry for the uneasiness I probably just caused, but I did literally just. This is a horrible, horrible. I did literally do that to myself. Did you have any bad fallout from that?

Mark Fischbach
And also, did it hurt? No. I ran the tweezers under the tap before I started digging in, so it was very clean. Oh, perfect. All right, cool.

Bob Muyskens
Good. I made sure it was sanitary. Okay. Whoo. I wanted a sterile environment for my surgery.

Mark Fischbach
Dodge that cannonball. It was very painful. I will say it was very painful to do. That was maybe a sign from your body about what you were doing. Your body was all, whoa, whoa, hey.

Well. And you were like, shut up. Wasn't taking no for an answer for my body on that one. I was like, it's going. And there's nothing you could say or do.

Bob Muyskens
I think you betrayed your body at that point. I'm pretty sure you're the traitor. Yeah, no, that's. That's. That's you.

Mark Fischbach
That's definitely a betrayal on your part. That's right. Yeah, I did that, and I feel kind of bad about it. I've never been very flexible, and I know that's a thing you can improve, but I feel like I have. I have.

I have low points in that stat, and it's really unfortunate. I could probably get better, but there's definitely a limit on how flexible I could be. I don't think that really hurts me in my day to day life or anything, but I just wish I was, you know, am I overlooking things? Is my body doing stuff to me that I'm not even considering right now? Probably get a doctor to look at you.

I see a doctor regularly. Then they're always like, ah, you're fat, but that's all right. Maybe lose some of that. And I'm always like, I'm trying, man. Not trying that hard.

But I am trying, Bob. I envy your forgiveness of your body, Mark. And I understand the self hatred of our body's failures. Ever since I discovered the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. We were wondering what would break first.

Wade Barnes
Our body or our spirit? Is our spirit or our body? I think he says, I order. Which orders? Bane say, before he breaks Batman's back, is it spirit or body?

Or body or spirit? No one cares. Is that important why you keep quoting the worst Batman? What? No.

Mark Fischbach
In no universe is Christian Bale the worst Batman. No, that movie. Of those three. The worst of the Dark Knight trilogy, maybe. Sure.

Okay. Okay. So an a tier movie. That's not a plus, like the first two. You know what I would say?

Wade Barnes
I would say that the first one in three are a's, and Dark Knight is an a. You mean dark knight rises? No, no. Dark Knight is the Joker one. That's the a.

Dark Knight rises is the third movie, right? It's Batman begins. Dark Knight. Dark Knight rises. Yeah.

I like. I like Christopher Nolan the movies to some degree. All three of those, I think, are fantastic movies. I think the third one is a very underrated movie. All right.

Bob Muyskens
I was about to shit on the first one, but. Okay, you shit on the first one, but I still think it's a good movie. Yeah, never mind. I withdraw. Here's a weird question.

Wade Barnes
Did the actress who played. Oh, God, what's her name? Rachel. Did the actress who played Rachel change between one and two, or is my memory failing me right now? It did.

Mark Fischbach
It's. It's Maggie Gyllenhaal in the first one. Right. In the second one, that's Maggie Gyllenhaal. Okay.

That's it. Yeah. I can't remember the name of the actress in the first one, but. Katie Holmes, I think that's right. Yeah.

Bob Muyskens
Cause she was married to Tom Cruise at the time, and I believe that there was some personal issues that were going on. I love my wife. I love my wife. Yes. Yes.

And then they got divorced. Wait, what does that have to do with the Batman movies? She wasn't. That's why she wasn't in the second. One, because she got divorced from Tom Cruise.

Mark Fischbach
And he'd be. It'd be going into gossip to, like, exactly say, I know for certain. This is why. Oh, I see what you're saying. I know.

I see. I believe that there were some. Many personal issues going on, on behind the scenes. Such a gossip. Mark.

Goodness me. Mark's our celebrity insider. That's me. Yeah, actually, sure. He's even got the microphone.

It's me. I know. I'm inside their house. M exclamation point tonight with Markiplier. Could be in a few years if things go real downhill.

No, I. It doesn't. You don't even have to change it. It's just e. It's perfect.

Wade Barnes
I'm going to wrap up this catastrophe of an episode. It's a catastrophe because of me, not you guys. For those who don't know out there, I've got someone in my house working on things right now, and they showed up 40 minutes early. 30 minutes early. I got.

I got. I literally said, step away to take a call. They're like, they'll be there in 30 minutes. I was like, oh, perfect. And they showed up five minutes later.

No, that wasn't great. I kind of have to rap for that reason, but also, like, I don't know. I feel like we've covered some of our bodies things, and this will also leave stuff open for. For more discussion later on. Small talk was great today.

I have a lot of small talk points. Any final things you all want to say about bodies before I wrap it? If there's one thing I know for sure, about bodies. It's that they love to hit the. Floor and you should let them.

According to that one song, bob, you've got points for eyes. It looks like it says adhesive, but I think it says advice. I complain. That's gonna be the thing. You said you were never gonna be.

Able to read Segway. Body. Unfair. Idk, ADhd. Not mad mark.

I wrote down free eye surgery. That's right. You're giving us free eye surgery? Yes. You know it.

So you got points for paying for our eye surgery? Yep. Stronger eyes. Something that looks like it says, you. Guys need some goddamn handwriting books or something.

Mark Fischbach
Like, this is a. This is an outrage. Bold points. Hold the mic. Points.

Wade Barnes
B twelve. I can hold my mic. Look. ADhd. Adr.

Oh. Advice. Drugs in all caps. And then someone got three points for Morik. Garage.

Bob Muyskens
I talked about my garage. I guess it's a good thing you wrote all that down. I think I said. I think I said at one point, I'm gonna give someone three points. So I wrote down someone and give him three points.

Mark Fischbach
So not Mark, but not me also. That's fine, I guess. Like, you wrote down a lot more things for Mark still than you did for me. You know, it's funny you say that. Let me count the points.

Wade Barnes
Mark, you got 510. Twelve points from all those things I said. That's his. Like, a lot more. Bob, you actually have 13 points.

Mark Fischbach
Oh, never mind. Fuck. Wow. That's how you do that? Well, I can understand why you have such a hard time reading it now, man.

Wade Barnes
It's really hard to fit the description by the points there, but that's the way I do it. I can even go back. That's how I've been doing it for a while. And, you know, I believe you just. You can use, like, the whole page.

Mark Fischbach
My. My episode notes are like pages. You can. You can turn the page. I like counting my points real nice and quick.

Wade Barnes
Hey, we didn't say our systems had to be good. We had to have written systems. I mean, if you could read what you just wrote in the last 15 minutes, that would be. You should be very careful complaining, Bob. You are winning.

Mark Fischbach
I just. I'm always blown away by how much of a hard time you have with reading, because it's not like. Like hard words. Sure, but you'll read things and be like, ragwen constant. It's not me.

Wade Barnes
It's this pen. This pen just writes real sloppy, like. Oh, you need some better pens, dude. Yeah, I got the sloppy pen. Well, we taught.

We. I talked about pens on an episode. You gotta get. Get some of these. These cool ones.

I want to go back to when gel pens were the cool thing. I'm gonna get some gel pens. This is a gel pen. This is just one of those pens that writes. And look.

Look how bad it writes. Look at that. This is the. The uniball one. Handwriting that this pen did.

I left all that space for more points. You guys could have earned so many points today. All I know is I said at the beginning that mark wasn't gonna win this episode. That turned out to be true. So, Mark, how much did you bet against me?

Mark Fischbach
I think he bet you one eye surgery, plus expenses. I actually bet on myself to lose lose. So I'm coming out big. I owe myself twice the money. I bet myself.

Wade Barnes
Wow, that's good math. Well, congrats on that, Mark. Congrats on winning your bet and not winning the episode. Do you want to tell us a speech about that? Sure.

Bob Muyskens
Absolutely. I'll say it in a sentence. I was about to say a song, and I don't want to do that. A song that you have to rhyme. Oh, you can sing a song, buddy.

Mark Fischbach
Go ahead. I am so grateful for the opportunity to participate today, even though I did not come out on top, it was very fair, and there was no bias in any way, shape, or form. How'd you wink its shape? I didn't wink. Okay.

Wade Barnes
I mean, you're right. There was no bias. I didn't have time for bias today, man. I was only half here for the episode. Bob, you won spectacularly, deservedly, never more fairly in the history of the.

This episode. Every point you got, honestly, you probably deserved an extra one for. But it was fair. There was definitely no bias shown, and you won, so you don't give a winner speech. I feel like that's the same thing you were saying that I was saying about Bob in the last episode.

Oh, was it? It sucks, man. It feels good to win. Thank you, Wade, for doing that handshake deal. Mark, I just want to let you know you have been saying repeatedly since the.

Mark Fischbach
Since the council of distractable that handshake deals are outlawed. I checked. Handshake deals are outlawed during council episodes and during boat episodes. But in normal episodes, we are 100% still allowed to execute any kind of handshake deals. We.

So, please, there is no reason that we can't continue to make and honor them. And I appreciate you, Wade. I gave you literally nothing, and you gave me a win just for asking. And, Mark, that's what you get for leave the room, I guess. Yep.

Bob Muyskens
Somehow I should never have gone to where I did go. Ed Wade was gone for a long time today. I still find time to shake like a wet dog. I shake. Amen.

Mark Fischbach
Anyway, I felt like Mark really up classed me today in a lot of. Ways, but if I was here for it, he might have won. But apparently I was. I earned the win in my own special way, not with skill or talent. I did write down a lot of things.

Wade Barnes
I must have given you more points for some of the things, things you said and just him. One point for everything I wrote. I didn't have a lot of notes for him. Yeah, like a lot of Mark notes and like several of mine that were way less than him. But fair is fair.

I did give you a lot of points early on, though. I gave you like four points to start with for the segue, for. I was like, dude, body stuff right off the bat. Eyes, what a great topic, like for today. So you did get like a good head start there, Bob.

Mark Fischbach
Take that, Mark. And someone, congrats on your third place finish. Whichever one of you it was out there, congratulations. Whoever you think you are on the subreddit, you can put your third place peach if you'd like, for now. That's Bob.

Wade Barnes
You can find him at my skirm. That's Mark. You can find him at Markiplier. I'm Wade. You can find me at Lord Minion 777 or minion 777, depending on where you look.

Mark Fischbach
We have merch@distractiblestore.com interesting way to say it, very creative. Distractiblestore.com. there's stuff and things you can get. Stay tuned for the next one where Bob, who won this episode fairly and squarely, probably the most fair win of all time. Time, honestly.

Wade Barnes
We'll host the next one. Thank you all for joining us. Stay tuned for that one. Until then, podcast out.

My Body Betrayed Me

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1: Opening Banter

2: Vision Troubles

3: Personal Stories

4: Reflecting on Body and Health

5: Conclusions and Musings

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