The Cursed Man

Wade Barnes
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Bob Muyskens
Meddlesome Mark identifies auditory impairments, explains movie sound and micro monologues. Breezy Bob gets salty about skyline, thinks Wade could have familial calumny, and wants him to wash. Get naked. From human steaks to pirate nut bushes. Yes, it's time for the cursed man.

Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm today's host with the most. Wade.

Wade Barnes
God, I always nail these interests. Your intros are so tight. Man just draws people in. It's like a lid. A jar of pickles that you kind of put back on.

But the jar screws on sideways. You don't realize it. Sideways. Then you knock over, it's leaking juice, and it's like, how did this happen? Then you got juice everywhere.

This is Mark and Bob. Hi. Hi, guys. Welcome to distractible. So good to be here.

Bob Muyskens
Can't wait to compete. Ready to go? Oh, man. I've got a topic to you, assuming we get to it. We won't.

Wade Barnes
All right, let's be honest. Let's be honest. What's new? I think we did this recently, but I feel like I've not seen you guys in forever. I don't know.

Bob Muyskens
Why didn't we just play a video game together the other day? We did? Yeah, you and I did. This trio was not there. But you were there.

Wade Barnes
Why? You guys, you aren't invited Mark. I really was. Actually. I don't know about this at all.

Bob Muyskens
No, it was. It was organized by someone else who doesn't know you. I think I was invited after literally everyone else they knew said no. Someone who doesn't know me, Bob. I'm sorry.

Mark Fischbach
Someone who doesn't know me. I went to a steakhouse again. I called my boy Ethan at J Prime Steakhouse, and I was like, 30 minutes from rivalry. I know it's a Sunday. Prime steak time.

You got a table for me? He's like, yes, absolutely. Because I know you. And we got in there, me and the whole editing crew. Table of six, five.

Wade Barnes
What you didn't see is the camera footage of what they did to the people at that table prior to your arrival. As soon as Mark was like, hey. Can you see five? And then back, right? Just like, kick them out.

Bob Muyskens
I don't fucking care. Throw it away. The rats, cockroaches. We have an infestation, people. Everyone out.

Wade Barnes
Leave. Tell them if they don't leave, I will get the shotgun. Yeah, Mark. No, we can get you, Mark. We can get you in.

Bob Muyskens
Anyway, that's a. So that's very nice of them to get you in last minute. For a pretty big group. That's good. Yeah.

Mark Fischbach
So you and your gaming group could have gotten me in last minute to saying, you know what? Next time, Mark, if it makes you. Feel any better, it was kind of a half disaster. Cause one of the games really wasn't working very well. Yeah, we just ended up playing helldiver.

Bob Muyskens
We're trying to play. Have you seen content warning? Yes, I think we try to play. That, but one of us not gonna name any names. Bird 650.

Fucking Bird couldn't play the game for more than five minutes without it crashing. So we had to change plans. Anyway, if it works, that game seems fun. You would have loved it, Mark. Yeah, I know.

It would have been great videos. It would have been even better content if you were there, too. It would have been good for everybody. We need to make more gaming videos, dude. People come to my streams and they say, hey, are you playing with Mark and Bob?

Wade Barnes
And I say, no. And then they leave. My favorite is people who come in and they're like, hey, are you still friends with Mark and Wade? You guys don't play game? Like, well, we do this other thing.

Bob Muyskens
Have you seen. No. Okay, have you seen distracta? And then they vomit in their mouth and they're like, oh, podcast. Or people that come into your streams for me specifically.

Wade Barnes
And they're like, bob, I love your content, dude. And it's like, you must, you must really love my content. Clearly. If only there were a place where you could see my face and my voice at the same time. They could just be a really hard.

Mark Fischbach
Listener, you know, they could just be avid podcast fan. They've never separated it out. That's. That is true. I think they're hardly listening.

Bob Muyskens
Ooh, got them. I don't think Bob and I sound alike. Everyone else seems to think we do, and I don't hear it either. I don't think we sound that alike. I think some people are ear blind.

Mark Fischbach
I don't understand. There's plenty of people out there that just completely mishear things all the time. And I'll mishear if people mumble. But when there's a differentiation in tone, like, I don't have perfect pitch or anything like that, but I feel like I, I have a very normal sense of hearing. I can differentiate people's voices very easily, or I can discern thing if I, if I actually pay attention and listen to it.

But other people just like, abandon all reason. There's a whole thing about, like, Gen Alpha can't hear without subtitles or something. Was it Alpha or is it part of Gen Z? Like, younger people cannot watch content without subtitles because they can't understand it anymore. And I know there's a video that's breaking down.

It's like, that's the way movies are mixed nowadays. But it's with YouTube videos too, or any videos or TikToks, you know, they have to have captions on there. And I'm like, I feel like people's listening abilities are getting worse. I do think it probably is not helped by the fact that I know a lot of people scroll like TikTok and socials on mute, right? You're like, in public, if you don't have your headphones or for whatever reason you scroll on mute, you just read the auto captions.

Bob Muyskens
I wonder if that that's like, impacting people's ability. Like they're not worried about what the sounds like. Cause they're like, ah, just read the caption. And so that's like their, their go to form. I don't know.

That is weird. I mean, I feel that I felt that way about movies and tv for a while. I have kind of bad hearing sometimes. I've always felt like movies and tv. I'm like, why the fuck did you mix it?

So that their explosions make my entire house rattle. But then the conversations at normal human volume are like, it's like, I don't want my. I don't want the volume that loud. Like, have I told you why? Cause they mix it on, like, studio theater speaker setups or something.

I don't know. It's because there are standards with which the dialogue, the music and the sound effects must be mixed to. Must quote me. Must because of the law. No, this is because it's what idiots who have been doing this for a very long time are.

Mark Fischbach
Like, this is the only way. And it's the best way. Because I say it's the best way. And then everyone gets in agreement. Movies have dialogue mixed at either negative 18 or negative 21 decibels, but so low.

But explosions can go to negative two. That's awful. Exactly. And they call it. It's because of the dynamic range.

And I'm like, why can't you mix the dialogue higher sometimes? And they're like, whoa. You need to preserve the integrity of the di. The dynamic range. So people's expectations are there.

Bob Muyskens
And I'm like, I don't want my expectation to be lean in for the talk and then lean away for the explosion. That's not a good. Get blasted. I am not a concert goer. I do not like having my ears shattered by explosions.

Mark Fischbach
Explosive sound waves, which is literally what they are at that range, it's damaging. And just because so many of these sound mixers have blown their ears out through their careers and so many people who do music have literally damaged their hearing. So people don't understand that people have been doing music for a long time and conform these opinions. Their ears are significantly worse than people who have not been doing or younger people. No, that is a.

Bob Muyskens
That is a serious problem in the. I was at the classical music world, a lot of conduct. It was only, like, starting to be a thing. But a lot of conductors, I knew younger conductors especially, would. Where they make these, like, earplugs that only let certain frequencies through, but that prevent all sound from getting into your ears.

Cause if you're conducting, like, a full orchestra of, like, 80 people, 100 people, whatever, all of that sound is hitting you in the face. I would imagine that causes ear damage in people who do mixing at live shows. People who wear. Do studio mixing because they're listening to all this crazy high dynamic range, you know, nuclear explosions and whatever the shit. Yeah, that's interesting.

It's like how chefs, like, get numb to salt, right? Food cooked by, like, Michelin star chef is always going to taste kind of salt. Well, not always, but it's more likely to taste kind of salty to like a normal human. Because chefs eat so much rich, high salt, high acid stuff that they're getting numb to it, and they keep. They need more to feel it's either.

Mark Fischbach
Going to be extremely over salted or extremely under salted. But that might be because I'm salt blind, because I salt the shit out of everything. The man who literally eats salt licks like a horse. No, that was one time. He gets a cracker, puts on a pound of butter and a whole salt shaker.

Bob Muyskens
The man who's never owned a himalayan salt lamp for more than three months, because they keep breaking for some reason. Because they keep melting, they keep breaking. They keep melting down the middle. I don't know what happened. You have trail cam footage of, like, deer running away, then Mark running to someone's backyard.

Mark Fischbach
Like, I will say, don't do himalayan salt. Don't lick a can.

Don't do. It's not the same as table salt or edible salt. I think it gave me an ulcer. But I did lick. I did lick a himalayan salt lamp for about two weeks straight.

Bob Muyskens
That's probably. Yeah, that's not probably good. Like, 24 hours a day. No, no, just one of rose. Yeah.

No, that's probably not for eating. There's. I could go on a whole salt conversation, because I've learned a bit about different types of salt. But, mark, technical question. I've always wondered about this, and I think I know the answer.

But are there different audio mixes when, like, a movie or a tv show is produced? Is there one main mix that just gets pushed to everything? Or is there, like, a in theaters mix and then, like, a home television mix for broadcast? Or do you know this? Absolutely.

Well, then why are they still so bad? Because it might be the wrong mix in the wrong place. It might be the wrong format. There is a system called Dolby Atmos, and Dolby Atmos was made to solve the problem that you're talking about. Dolby Atmos is a 128 channel sound environment, which means you can have 128 speakers.

Mark Fischbach
Theoretically, very few situations happen. Not super necessary. Yeah, but what it does is it emulates the sound so that any sound system automatically reduces or compresses. Like, okay, these five channels have, you, channels will reduce those to one channel because we know where it is. And when you're in a theater, they can take the atmos, and then they can assign it to different speaker setups for across different theaters.

And you have send one package over, and so long as it's set up and tested correctly, they don't have to render out another one, because back before, especially in the early days of digital, they would send a digital package. It's called the DCP, a digital cinema package. And then that would have a specific mix for that theater environment. And each theater would have to get one for themselves, and they'd have to tell them what they get and then hope they get the right one. And it could get wrong all the time.

But with these other things, some. Now, DCB sometimes have more mixes where they have a five one, a seven two, you know, a 915. Whatever, dude, 15 subs. That guy's living. It's a sub under each chair.

You know, they don't think it's a moving theater, but it's like, when the. Explosions happen, it's like they had earthquake. Sure. But he gets 15 subs on YouTube, and everyone scoffs, acts like it's not a big deal. Dude, you guys didn't laugh at Elon Musk.

Wade Barnes
You didn't laugh at. I was literally laughing. I was in the middle of my guffaws. I was. I don't remember what we're talking about.

Bob Muyskens
I was. Wade, why are you looking suspiciously to the ghost on your right? There was. I was laughing. All right.

Who you sliding away from, Wade? Molly. Standing over there with a bat. He's getting his distraction paper towel ready to creep up on the other side. I'm hosting this episode according to my free will, I gotta tell you.

Mark Fischbach
Wait, that paper towel bit, when you're trying to, like, get the emotions of the movie killed Amy, like, she just happened to be watching it, and when the paper towel came in, she didn't know you're doing it in the paper towel. She was dying laughing for, like, a minute straight. So that really landed with some people. I peaked with my paper towel distraction. Anyway, thank you for answering.

Bob Muyskens
That's interesting. You know, I have to say, I knew Atmos existed. I had no idea that's what it was. That's very interesting. Yeah.

Mark Fischbach
The only problem is, at most, you know, it's a nice technology, but it costs money, so it's like, you have to license it and. Yeah, only I've noticed only expensive shit says atmos on it, too. You don't get the tv that you buy for $150 on sale does not come with Dolby Atmos. You got to get some kind of fancy shit to have that. Yes.

It's kind of a big deal. All right. I know Wade's the host, and I guess we kind of transitioned without saying it into small talk. But I've been saving this for my small talk so I'm going to talk about it. Something.

Bob Muyskens
It happened. Bad things happened, Wade. Bad. Go on. I went to get my usual Tuesday morning breakfast.

Skyline. Today. Skyline chili. I was going to get my seven cheese conies with mustard and extra onions on them so I could fart it up in here while we record. How early do they open?

Wade Barnes
I thought they didn't. They open at ten. Oh, okay. I went and I was like, give me my usual which is my cheese conies and a large diet mountain dew, please. And the person on the speaker was like, oh, I'm sorry.

Bob Muyskens
We have coke products. It happened. I didn't realize it was happening so soon. It happened. They don't have Mountain Dew at Skyline anymore and they have coke products now.

Wade Barnes
1015 years ago, I would have been a huge fan of if coke is. Fine, Diet Cokes, it's coke zero. Good drinks. I have grown in my brain to pair Pepsi and skyline. But you drink mountain Dew with skyline.

Bob Muyskens
God damn it. I am a coke person more than a Pepsi person 90% of the time. But skyline and gold star. I have grown up pairing Pepsi with which I actually get Pepsi there instead of Mountain Dew. But like same idea in my brain.

Wade Barnes
They go together. It's all wrong now. I'm so sorry. Everything is bad. I ate my bread, my fart breakfast like I usually do with no drink.

Bob Muyskens
And it's not the same and I miss it already. So I'm gonna just. I really hope we have a coke sponsor. Right? As you're like coke.

No. This episode brought to you by. No, look, that's the thing. I have nothing against coke. Coke is good, but Mountain Dew goes with cheese conies.

Okay? God damn it. That's just how it is. Since I was in my teens, I've been eating diet Mountain Dew with my cheese conies. Coke must be trying to make a big push again because I feel like for 15 years coke has been like disappearing from Cincinnati.

Wade Barnes
Pepsi's been taking more and more over. So coke must be like on a thing where they're trying to like reestablish a stronger foothold here because they've been, they've been slacking for like over a decade. I don't think coke needs to try that hard. Coke is the PlayStation of the soda wars right now. I don't.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah. Anyway, the skyline's ruined. I'm very upset about it. And I guess I'm going to have to bring my own diet Mountain Dew when I go eat at skyline now. Skyline.

Wade Barnes
They're expanding. There's like three or four locations at least in Florida. Now. Four or five years ago, they tried changing their oyster crackers and the entire city was like, in an uproar. It was wild.

Like, everyone was livid. They were like, bring back our oyster crackers. Skyline isn't the same. They're like, more of a buttery cracker. People were very upset.

Bob Muyskens
I was going to show you a pack of oyster crackers, but I ate it. It's gone now. So I'm kind of calling myself out here. They sell them in bulk at, like, jungle gym. So you can get a box of packets of oyster crackers.

Wade Barnes
I've got two of those boxes upstairs. Well, that's. That's not shameful. Why would you be ashamed of that? It's fine.

We. We got one of those. We had some of those. Oyster crackers are good, man. You put them in soup.

You can also buy, like, frozen versions of skyline and gold star and stuff. So, like. Yeah, well. What? We live in a place where we have actual normal skyline.

Bob Muyskens
So why would you do that? I like both, though sometimes I crave the frozen version versus the. That's weird. That's wrong. It doesn't come with the cheese.

You need. 80% of the goodness of skyline is that. He's writing down. He's writing down. Bob, stop talking.

Wade Barnes
You got a point for honesty. I know that it happened because of, like, the pandemic stuff and that it's probably more clean. But you know what I do miss? When you used to go into skyline, they used to take the little bowls that the oyster crackers come in and just scoop you an oyster cracker bowl out of the big. The big box of oyster crackers.

Bob Muyskens
Now they only have little individual plastic. Even when you go to the restaurant, they put those same little bowl on the table and then they're like, here's your pack of crackers. And, like, it was a post COVID change. I think it's fine, and they're the same crackers, but somehow it's not the same. It's, like, disappointing.

Wade Barnes
Having to open your packet and pour it in the bowl yourself really does feel like an extra. I agree with you. It's like a cleanliness thing. I get it. It's like, hygienic that way.

We're talking about the first of first world problem. I know, but, like, it's just not. It's not what I grew up with, you know? So I hate it. I have to drink coke zero with my crackers that come in a plastic bag.

Cincinnati stock is dropping fast. We're all looking to move now. You'll never be able to have the real skyline experience. Anyone who hasn't had it but has been looking forward to it, I know you're out there. It's gone.

Bob Muyskens
Unless you always, Mandy always gets doctor pepper. They still have that. That's no different, I guess. But if you were smart and you drank Mountain Dew. Well, Doctor Pepper is a coke product now.

Doctor Pepper is like, independent, but. Yeah, I think it's owned by Coke or something. Right. It's owned by a bigger company, but it's still, like. It's still sold independently.

So Pepsi or Coke places can both have Doctor pepper or whatever. They probably all are owned by the same company, to be perfectly honest. The mega conglomerate. Yeah. Have you seen that chart where, like, every company in the world is actually owned at some point, if you go high enough, by, like five companies, as.

Wade Barnes
Of August 2023, Doctor Pepper is owned by Coca Cola only in Europe and South Korea markets. Oh, weird. That is. I didn't know you could only own something in certain markets, but I guess that. Well, you know, they have Coca Cola America, Coca Cola Europe, different companies, different branches and stuff, so.

Bob Muyskens
Sure. So it is owned by Coke, but not everywhere. That's Mark's koreanness coming out. Thank you. You got that korean coke doctor pepper connection?

I have a coke. What kind? Doctor pepper. That will forever to me be the weirdest way. Like, pop soda wars.

Wade Barnes
But the coke. What kind of coke you want? Mountain Dew. What? Yeah, but, like, literally he's.

Bob Muyskens
What he's saying is totally true. People will sit down and be like, give me a coke. Like, oh, yeah, what do you want, a sprite? Coke just means give me a soda. Where was it that I ordered?

Wade Barnes
I ordered a lemonade somewhere and they gave me sprite and it totally messed with my head. Was that in Europe? That was somewhere we traveled. I do you mean, did you get like a. Like a weird, like, fanta lemon or something?

Bob Muyskens
Cause that happens in Europe sometimes. I literally ordered lemonade. They had lemonade listed, like, on their board. And I was like, oh, give me a lemonade. That sounds refreshing.

Wade Barnes
And I took a sip and I was like, sorry I missed it. How did you. What did you react again? That's pretty good. He couldn't do it a third time.

Bob Muyskens
That was pretty close. I couldn't recreate a noise of that type. Well, try, try. Nah, I'm good. No, I'll do it.

Mark Fischbach
So give me a lemonade. Was that close? Couple extra hookahs, I think. Ah, sorry. Damn.

Do it again. Let me see. I wanna. Give me one more practice. Give me, give me one more.

Bob Muyskens
That wasn't quite the same. Yeah. Lemonade, please. That's very ethany. That's very ethodesque.

Wade Barnes
It just seems like you lead the. Cup up to your lips and. What? Ah, it's good. That's not lemonade.

Bob Muyskens
Could I get a lemonade? That's good. It doesn't scream like lemonade at all. It's carbonated in there. Wait a minute.

Wade Barnes
I stay with life gives you lemons. You scream this and tell me what you think. See? One lemonade, please. It's a sprite.

Bob Muyskens
Take it back. They just hand you a can of sprite. What is this? This is a lemonade. Wow.

What the fuck is happening? Wait, so does. Does gold star still have the Pepsi products then? I think. I've not heard anything about them changing.

Wade Barnes
So I think they're still Pepsi. Yeah. Which I like both. So I'm not, I'm not like a. Hater, but I definitely prefer skyline.

If I want chili cheese fries specifically, I go gold star. They have good fries. They have the crinkly fries, cheese coneys. I like both. If you go like three, four or five way, it's definitely skyline for me.

Mark Fischbach
I like gold star, but I love skyline. Like, it's, it's. I'll take either. I've not gotten caught up in that war. Like, growing up, I was like, oh, of course I prefer skyline.

Wade Barnes
But then, like, I tried Goldstar, just like, damn. Actually it's pretty good. It is different. Like, I feel like gold stars. A bit spicier, meaty or whatever.

Mark Fischbach
But man, people are tuning out by the second. If we get into this conversation again. Oh, yeah, no, we're not done the wars. Not on the wars. We've already done coke, Pepsi and Skyline.

Wade Barnes
Gold star. We're going to wait. By the way, PlayStation, Xbox also brought us. Is that today's topic? Are we doing a tier list?

Bob Muyskens
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Mark Fischbach
Speed slower above 40gb on unlimited plan. Additional taxes, fees and restrictions apply. Seem in mobile for details. Okay, let me give my little bit of small talk, which does lead into our topic. So, Bob, as you know, we had a little bit of an issue with our radon mitigation system, if you heard about that, where we had to have that fixed a couple times.

Bob Muyskens
I remember being very sympathetic to that issue, if I recall correctly. Yes. Maple syrup. Maple syrup. I think I talked about on here how we had someone come look at our ac unit that smelled like maple syrup.

Wade Barnes
And then it turned out we needed a new furnace. Two days ago, I was upstairs, and I was watching tv or watching a show or something, and we have a gas fireplace, and the fireplace turned on. And I was like, oh, man. Of its own accord. Molly must have turned it on.

I looked over, and the remote's next to me. Keeter's is asleep on my lap. The puppies are asleep on my lap or next to me. And Molly's not even there. And I went, huh?

So no one turned it on. But that is a fire. I looked at the remote. The remote said, off. I am looking at a fire right now.

Bob Muyskens
Well, it was off, so clearly not, I guess. Let me go feel it. Yep, that's warm like fire. All right, way to he who walks over to his fireplace two weeks ago. Molly's like, yeah, the fireplace turned on by itself.

Wade Barnes
And I was like, okay, the cat stepped on the remote. Something happened to do this. Like, whatever fire just doesn't like what's. Gas just coming in and igniting on its own. That doesn't make any sense.

But now that I witnessed it, I'm like, man, my wife's not a liar. That's crazy. Looking into it. Apparently, after a while, gas fireplace got, like, wires or something. Things could go wrong where fireplaces go bad and have to be fixed or replaced.

But I'm starting to think, man, that there's a wade problem with homeownership. Are you about to be the burned man, the scorched man? Everything in the old house you guys, like, rarely tell me about shit going wrong in your houses. But every now and then, every week, I'm like, yeah, dude, had to replace this, had to replace that. Hey, guess what?

Apparently every, like, 1015 years, you to replace a gas fireplace. So, um, guess what? I'm calling soon. Gas fireplace company. Come look at our fireplace.

Because I feel like a gas fireplace turning on by itself is, um, bit sketch. No, that's not great. It's good that it did ignite itself or whatever. Yeah. Does it have like a pilot or is it like.

Bob Muyskens
Like we have gas fireplaces where it's a switch on the wall, you turn it on and it doesn't have a pilot light, but it has a little electric thing that ignites it. But if that doesn't work, you're just letting gas flow into your house. Couldn't tell you. I know how to shut the gas off to it. And I know where the button on the rope that says on is.

Fancy. Well, if there was a pilot light and it just lit, that means there's gas leaking in there, so it's probably not great. So I'd keep the fire on if I were you. Or just shut the entire line off. What are those things called?

Petcock? Turn. Turn. Cocks. Spin cock.

Yeah. Spinner and cock. Yeah. Apparently, though, one of the things I read was like, one of the. Whenever something goes bad, then it thinks it's getting a signal from the remote to turn it on, even when or not.

Wade Barnes
So I think that. I don't think it's just leaking gas, but I don't like that that happened, especially twice in like a two week period or at all. But like, how, how. How do I always find the houses that are like, needs a new sump pump, new ac unit, new furnace, new fireplace, new stove, new floors, new ceiling, new house, new bricks, new driveway, new grass, new. You should shop more carefully for your asses or something.

Bob Muyskens
I don't know. Yeah. Do you get inspectors in there? Yes. Do you have the same inspector?

No, different inspector. And they're like, man. Yeah, this unit sold, but looks like it's in great shape. Someone's taking really good care of it. Do I not take care of things properly?

Wade Barnes
Like, what do you do to a furnace other than clean out the filter, man? That's very possible. Yeah, that does seem likely. You clean and change the filter. You ever refill your furnace fluid?

Bob Muyskens
You change the. Do you change the igniter? Filament professionals come out and look at these things. What about the gas line filter? You ever swap the gas line filter?

Because, you know, if you don't swap that it'll get gunked up. You get all kinds of weird stuff. If the people that come look at it tell me to. I've even gotten my calendar. I'm like, alright, it's been three months.

Wade Barnes
Got to change the filter on this thing like I do these things. Doesn't sound like you do. I bet you couldn't even find your flame calibrator. I couldn't. I've got people for that.

Mark Fischbach
I don't think you should trust these people. These people seem to be not good people. Yeah. Whoever you're paying for this, they don't have any idea what they're doing. I guess.

Wade Barnes
Apparently the higher stars someone has online and the better the feedback and customer reviews, the worse they are for me. I need to get the mud guy back, I guess just need more mud. I'm starting to think I'm cursed. It's kind of sounds like it. Yeah, it does, actually.

Bob Muyskens
You're like. You have like the paranormal thing where the ghost follows you from. From house to house. What's that? Paranormal activity.

That franchise. Toby shouldn't have made fun. Toby. Some of my friends were skeptical. I went ghost hunting and I used the Ouija board.

Wade Barnes
And I was told by people that went with me, they're like, never use the Ouija board. I was like, ah, it's fake. What's gonna happen? But like, I don't think the Ouija board brought a new demon into my life. I think it just resumed the old one.

Bob Muyskens
It's just an excuse for the same old demon to just be an extra dick right now. Witchcraft and curses, are they real? Tell me about them. That's today's topic. Because I need to have a curse broken or I need a voodoo doll of a witch to like stab in the face so she'll leave me alone.

Wade Barnes
I need something here. Well, I'm glad you came to us. We are the foremost experts in this particular field of study. I knew you would be. That's why we have about 20 minutes free to solve my problem.

Bob Muyskens
That's your fault. That's your fault. I know I always let you guys blab. I just enjoy our camaraderie, Jim. Go on.

How do you enjoy our camaraderie? It's at least like a b on an s tier scale. That's pretty good. Pretty good. I don't just comrade around with anybody.

Wade Barnes
No, you don't, Bob. So you. So you want us to tell you if which if curses are real? Yeah, like, is this stuff real? Have you ever felt like you're cursed?

Do you think there's a bunch of women that sneak out at night and do naked laps around a campfire cursing people and need to. Why is it got to be. Okay, let's not drag. That's, that's the historical, like, salem witch trials, witchcraft. According to whose history?

Mark Fischbach
Come on now. However, in supernatural, I think it was witches were female and warlocks were male. And maybe that's the general consensus, but can you have male witches and female warlocks? Well, I don't know. Which universe do we live in?

Bob Muyskens
Because isn't it in Harry Potter? Aren't they witches and wizards or are you still a wizard if you're a female? It's. There are witches in Harry Potter, right? Yeah, witches and wizards.

Wade Barnes
I think you're right. It's Harry Potter. It's Hogwarts school of witchcraft and Wizardry. I don't know why supernatural arts need to be segmented by gender, but there you go. Okay, so supernatural's warlocks, warlock, wizard, witch.

Is there another term? I don't even care what they're called. I just need to get them off my back. Sorcerer. Like, do I owe someone money?

Like, what's the deal? I have a theory. Oftentimes people may feel cursed because actually what's happening is they have, I don't know what the correct term is. They have that thing where you have multiple personalities or split personalities, and like, one of your personalities. Dissociative identity disorder, I think it's did.

Bob Muyskens
Now that sounds correct. Personalities, doesn't like your other personality. And so you, like, you go in between states, and when you're, when you're the one person, they're like sabotaging your house, or you're. And it. And then when you're back to yourself, it feels like you're cursed because shit is happening that doesn't make any sense.

Like, with the fire, your hateful personality probably just snuck out for a second and used the remote that was sitting right next to you and turned the fire on, and then peaced, and then you sort of snapped back to your. This person and looked, and you were like, the fire? Oh, no. And internally, you're the one that doesn't like you. It's just like, got him.

What an idiot. Interesting. The remote I will throw out there, though, the remote did still say it was off. Well, you could choose that sort of. I will say I have one right in front of me.

This thing operates like my air conditioning thing in here for my hot ass computers. Steam my office up if I, like, cover it and push the button, the remote will toggle without actually activating the thing. So I could make this say on or off, regardless of what's happening with the device itself. You could totally accomplish that, as, you know, as a non supervisor, supernatural type. Mark, what you got for me?

Mark Fischbach
I think that it's not you in terms of the you. It's the overlapping multiverse that is having the parallel versions of you, one of which wants the fire on, because it's a universe where global warming has progressed to the point where we're all in an ice age and worse, they're super. Cold, and they're like, gas keeps going out, our fire keeps going out. And then you, in your comfortable home. Keep turning it off, killing them.

Who knows how many versions of you you've killed? Not enough, because they're still haunting me. I gotta kill more of me. Yeah, if you just kill them all, they'll stop. Not gonna lie, though.

Wade Barnes
I didn't think you were gonna go multiverse. Let your say. Maybe it's not you, maybe it's Molly. All right, that's too logical. Get out of here.

Mark Fischbach
Don't go away. What are you talking about? I have more theories. Everyone knows there are three basic types of curses. There's the generational curse, there's the cast curse, and then there's the.

Bob Muyskens
There's the sort of, like, karmic curse where you are cursed because of actions. As much as we brag on you, I doubt that you've done anything that has. Has karmically has earned you a curse. Not a bad person. No, I'm a great person.

You don't torture small animals or any. You know, you don't do it. You're good. You're a good person. I just torture people with my content.

Wade Barnes
That's about it. Yeah, but they choose that. They can turn that off. That's on them, really. So yours is either inherited from previous generations or someone casted on you.

Bob Muyskens
And I feel like we've been going in the direction of, like, having a curse cast on you. Do you know if you have any family members that have faced this kind of curse? Maybe it's not your fault at all. It's just generational. Yeah, maybe you.

Mark Fischbach
Do you have any family members that are, like, not as nice, generous as you? Nope. Can't think of any. Some misdeeds or, you know, might be otherwise sort of cosmically, you know, in trouble with the universe for something they've done? Here's the problem with that question.

Wade Barnes
That could lead me to generational or. Cast cursed so, I mean, you're kind of answering the question here. Sounds like you're getting there yourself. Usually. Usually, the responsibility for alleviating curses falls upon the family member who is most likely to be able to succeed in them.

Mark Fischbach
So all the other ones, you know, it may not apply to them. And you bear the burden because of your. The goodness of your soul. You have to bear the burden of all of these. Very challenging.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah. But you have to fix it. Okay, how? A good question. Excellent question, actually.

To answer your question. We suggest you take a large vacation. That sounds great.

There you go. Large vacation. Problem solved. Episode over. I really thought my topic would last more than seven minutes, but here we are.

Wade Barnes
This is why I allow small talk to go on for half an hour. My topics are just so short. Curses and witchcraft. There's not much to know. All right, Wade, I have two options for you, and I would like to know which route you want to go down before we commit too deeply into them.

Okay. I think you can break a curse by just changing your mindset. Lots of positive affirmations. Just try and. Try and change how you're seeing and receiving things, and that you'll slowly sort of work your way out of it or two by doing some sort of cleansing ritual and detach whatever curse has been cast upon you to be flown off into the ether and maybe attached to someone else.

Bob Muyskens
But that's not your problem. Okay. Um. I feel like we moved into the new house, and the old house on the way out was like, what if you need a new dishwasher? What if you need that?

Wade Barnes
I was like, oh, screw you, house. I'm out. We came here, and I was like, vection was clean. Everything's in great shape. Can't wait to not have all these house props.

Like, I feel like I had a pretty good mindset when we came in here, and for about, you know, four or five months, everything was fine. So I don't. I don't know if it's the mindset. So I guess what goes into the cleansing ritual? Okay, you want to do a ritual?

Bob Muyskens
Okay, there's some steps here, but we. Could do this naked and fire. Are those necessary? Naked and fire? Actually, yes.

Wade Barnes
Finally. You're gonna need sage or other herbs, whatever you got in the cabinet. So a bunch of salt, candles, or other type of fire, and a bowl of clean water. What you're gonna want to do is clean the house as deeply as you can. Every little speck of dust.

Bob Muyskens
Clean, clean it as if your life depends on it. And once you're done cleaning the house. Clean yourself. You want to take a nice long bath, really soak, maybe put some of those herbs and spices in there. And then once you're done with the bathroom, don't towel yourself off or anything.

Drip dry like nature intended. In the tub or just throughout the house? Throughout the house. If your drippings get around the house, that can only help the ritual. And then it's your basic stuff.

You're gonna wanna put salt at all the entry points. You're gonna wanna take some of those herbs and sort of smudge around, you know, especially if you have any problem areas, radon system, fireplace that turns itself on, maple syrup bush, any places like that. Just take. Burn some of those herbs and smudge and smudging of. Everyone knows.

Of course, when you burn herbs, and the smoke of those herbs cleanses the area where the smoke is. And then you're going to use the water when you're naked and dripping, if you're still dripping. But, you know, that's just a bonus. Once everything is smudged and salted and ready, you take care of that water in a bowl around with you, and you sort of like, dip your fingers in and flick it around as a way of, like, spiritually cleansing. And then once everything is all set up, you light whatever fire implement, candles, small pile of wood, whatever possessed fireplace, and you just light the fires around the house.

You got to make sure anywhere there were problems, make sure there's fire in that area. Am I still naked at this point? Always naked. Stay naked. And then once all that's done, you gotta.

You want to find the central room in your house and have a seat and really think about your intentions. Be positive. Think about how naked you are. And then once all that's done, put all the fires out, open all the doors and windows, and then run around your house still naked, screaming, be gone, be gone. Oh, the outside.

Mark Fischbach
The outside of your house, not run around inside. Yeah, you have to do a full, at least a full lap of your property. But then every room in your house, you need to run, frolic, even. Lots of leaping, and that'll do it. Okay, that seems easy enough.

Bob Muyskens
Lots of nudity. Well, pretty good amount of fire. And then salt and herbs. It's like Kentucky fried chicken. Would you say your ghost or spirit or demon manifests more in the radon mitigation system?

Mark Fischbach
Or is the radon mitigation system somehow connected to your fire place? Is it like. It's very important to know the origin point. I really hope that our sump pump and fireplace aren't connected. Okay, so you think it's a radon mitigation system that is essential.

It's like the what if the spirit manifests as radon and it's overpowering your system? It's not able to mitigate it, because who knows what Radon really is? That probably is ectoplasm. So it's not mitigating it. It just.

Wade Barnes
It went from, like, one part of the house, and it's kind of like sweeping across. We're talking about, like, radon furnace, ac unit, fireplace are kind of close, I guess. So it's kind of like sweeping across the house. So we've already agreed that this is real. I'm assuming no one's debating that it's not real.

Mark Fischbach
You are haunted, and it is a curse, and you are after, like, five. Straight years of this. It's hard to dispute at this point because that seems like every few months, and, like, I don't want to lose my friendship with Bob because I know every time I have a house problem, a part of our friendship dies, and I just want to make sure that doesn't happen. Sure. So, like, could I deal with this?

Wade Barnes
Yes, but, like, not at the cost. You know what? I just thought of another way that you could probably solve this. You know, it would help. So you've lived in two houses.

Bob Muyskens
They're not close together, but they're in, like, the Cincinnati area. Right. What you need to do is find a third house that creates an equilateral triangle with the other two houses. And if you move to that third house. You guys know I don't have the first house anymore, right?

Wade Barnes
We had to sell that. You don't have to own it. You did. Your. Your essence is still there.

Mark Fischbach
Your essence? Yeah, your essence is just baked into the walls of that place. Holy Jesus. Okay, hang on. I need to be right back.

Bob Muyskens
I'm sorry. That was quite the scream. Sorry. Well, he's not wearing his headphones and microphone this time, so we can't spy. This is terrible.

Wade Barnes
I've also got to go all of a sudden. Okay, I'll be here alone. It's just me now. In this episode of witches and wizards and warlocks and curses, you probably have been laughing to yourself and thinking that it's all a fun show joke and a fun time. Maybe you're driving.

Mark Fischbach
Maybe you've listened to all the other stories, and you couldn't be me. It's all just a bit. But let me tell you, distractible never actually existed. If you look, you'll see that you're not connected to anything at all. Your phone has been off this entire time.

Service abandoned. You'll notice you're on a stretch of road you've never seen before. Nothing's familiar, but. Oh, hi. Welcome back.

You just kind of materialized to me like it was an empty chair, and then suddenly you were putting on your headphones. I don't know. Oh, that's fun. How are you? I'm good.

Wade Barnes
Just, you know, I. In episode or not episode, it's a bit mind boggling that, like, everything always goes wrong at the same time in the house for us. Don't notice it. You ever had that many things crop up back to back to back? I mean, yeah, but I don't talk about it.

Mark Fischbach
We had a mold problem that we didn't talk about just because it was like, yeah, whatever. It happens. And then we had, like, multiple times. The AC leaks all the time. We have to get someone out, basically, to fill it up every time, and they can't find the leak.

So it's like, every year. Why don't you just replace the unit? Why don't you just get a new unit? Get a new home unit, Ac unit? No, it doesn't leak at the unit.

It leaks somewhere along the pipes to the h vac system. So we don't know where because it's in the attic, but you can't actually physically get up in the attic. Interesting. So we have many problems. Everything good, Bob?

Bob Muyskens
Yeah, sorry. Just cranky. Baby throwing heavy things. All good. No one hurt.

How. How strong is that? Baby is scarily strong. So this isn't gonna sound that impressive, but, um, so he's tidy, right? And there's this rug, play rug in his area.

And we were trying. He keeps, like, picking it up and folding it up, and just, like, generally it's a problem because he trips over it. And Mandy was like, well, let's just put these heavy weights on it, right? Like, there's no way he could pick up these heavy weights. We'll just weigh it down, and then he'll, you know, he'll leave it alone, hopefully.

Just picked it up. It wasn't, like, insane. I think it's like, ten or twelve pound things, like free weights. He did not give a shit. He just walked her over and was.

Wade Barnes
Like, how big is he now? Is he, like, he's 16 months. And so he's like, oh, I don't know. I want to say he's, like, 30, 30 to 34 inches long, and he weighs. I couldn't even guess he feels heavy.

Bob Muyskens
No, it feels like he weighs maybe, like, 30 pounds. So half of his body weight he just picked up and chucked. I guess we can do that. Yeah, but what. It's.

What's such a small, uncoordinated person? It's very frightening. Anyway, he's fine. Sorry. Mark has h vac problems or something.

Mark Fischbach
I had to miss fine. I don't want to complain about it. I was just like, man, do anyone else have house problems like me? And, like, do you guys just not mention them? And marks, like, oh, yeah, all the time.

Wade Barnes
Just don't mention them. Did I tell you guys about how our h vac system was leaking water onto the floor of our basement for a while? And it turns out it's because there's a. It has a humidifier built into it, and the little hose for the humidifier just, like, got tweaked and was just pissing water out onto the floor. That wasn't great.

I don't think you mentioned that one, but, no, that sucks. That happened. We took a while to figure that one out. That was weird. Our deck is falling apart.

Bob Muyskens
Our deck is on this house. It's not that old. The deck is literally crack. Like, the steps are literally cracking into pieces. And it's super dangerous, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I'm gonna have to come hire. Hire someone to come build some deck stairs or something. I never complained about that. No, you should. I need.

Wade Barnes
I need more people to complain about house issues so I know I'm not. Alone, because, like, the rest of it seems fine. It's just the steps are kind of. Crumbling, which is in my brain. All of you guys, like, never have to change a filter.

Your furnaces always work. Everything's always great. And then, like, I'm like, yeah, I want to change a filter, and the wall collapse. You guys, like, oh, can't believe that. What's so weird?

Because, like, it started to feel like home ownership is only a thing. That's a problem for me. The water pressure in our house is really bad, and we need a new hot water heater. And possibly our house is just totally fucked because our county has really hard water, and so there's build up in all the pipes. Ohio is a hard water thing.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah, I could complain, wade. I just choose not. I could choose what I complain about. I choose to complain. I need more people to do it.

I don't want to. I complain about funny stuff, not house stuff. Your house stuff is funny because you get shit like mud guy and toilets that leak for no apparent reason. My house stuff is, like, boring house crap. That's not funny.

And it gets fixed after I pay someone to fix it. Usually fireplace that turns itself on. It's always weird things. Okay. I feel like that's the least weird of the things.

That is weird, though. I mean, that's. That's not good. You don't want an appliance that could be leaking natural gas into your house to start behaving weirdly. That's concerning.

Wade Barnes
That's the freaky part. Yeah. It's like, for it to turn on, it means there is both gas and ignition happening. That I didn't tell it that. Doing well.

Bob Muyskens
As long as it does both, I guess it's better than one or the other. But true problems that make themselves known are way better than problems that sneak. Up on you in the middle of the night. Wade, I have thought of something else. Are either of the houses that you've had all these troubles in lake houses?

Lake houses are historically haunted. No, there's not really a lake. Is there a pond? Like a. Like a drainage ditch, anything?

Wade Barnes
I mean, so here in, like. Like, Cincinnati, and even, like, whenever we grew up in Milford, like, there's rivers and things that are nearby, so sure there's water, or there historically was water in a lot of these locations, so. Yes. Okay, well, that's not helping. I've got no boat, so, like, there's no boat capabilities.

Bob Muyskens
You don't have to have a boat for the. For the negative effects of a. I. Mean, I guess I could put it on the grass and pretend that there's. Still water, but, like, you know what you should get is a huge pirate ship place and set that into the ground and then get some laser tag kits, and then we can come over and play pirate laser tag.

Could call it, like, scallywag tag. I mean, I do feel like that is not a thing. No thing anymore. What happened to me? That is not a thing anymore.

Wade Barnes
Oh, my God. Turning into a pirate. That's how pirates talk, right? The ghost. The ghost is in your mouth right now.

Explains my sore throat today. Not a thing anymore. Oh, yeah. That's exactly how pirates talk. I thought a pirate got in the call.

Mark Fischbach
I was like, oh, man. Wow. The fourth member is a pirate. Ah, crazy. But, no, I guess not.

Bob Muyskens
R nar. It's a pirate. Oh, me too. I'm just gonna give you both r nar points. Mark didn't say our nar at all.

Mark Fischbach
Thanks, buddy. Remember what I made you do that to someone? Who is actually australian at your. At that wedding that we were at together. Yeah, but I'll never see them again.

Bob Muyskens
It was very funny. When did you do that? We were at a wedding, and there were some australian people there because one of the people getting married was australian. Real Australians. One of the people getting married was australian.

Yeah. I will see you talk to her again, but I probably won't see you talk to her family again. But I. At some point, I just went up to Wade, and I was like, hey, Wade, you know, instead of saying, oh, no, you know, Australia with an australian accent, australian people say, our nar. And I was like, you should just go up to one of them and be like, r n r.

There's a problem. And he did. And they were like, we don't talk like that. No, they did. They said, oh, no, we don't talk like that.

Oh, no. Oh, no, we don't talk like that. I felt justified in doing it for two reasons. One, you told me to. And two, they had us do that dance, whatever that dance was.

Do the australian dance. I didn't do it. What's it called? The nut bush. Yes.

It's a wedding dance, the nut bush. After they made me nut and push in public, I was like, you know, I will r nr them. That's only fair. It's a fair trade off. R nar.

The nut bush. Not my nut bush. I can't tell if you're australian or. If there's a pirate this go. Um, anyway, Wade, you're haunted.

You might be uncurable. I think that's the summary of where I coming from here. The end. You gave me all these solutions. Yeah, but clearly they're not gonna work.

This is terrible. Solutions. I don't know anything about this stuff. What do you expect? Yeah, if we know how to fix it, we would fix it.

As a good friend of yours, I would have already helped you if I could. And definitely we're not the cause. Also, can I get my empty maple syrup bottle back? I might have dropped it last time I was over there syruping your bushes. Dude, if you had somehow accidentally led to me realizing that our furnace was not safe by just pouring maple syrup in our yard, that would be the ultimate, like, whoopsie Daisy, that maybe saved our lives ever.

Whoopsie. You're welcome. Did you pour maple syrup in our yard? No, I don't recall saying that. Do I get maple syrup points?

Wade Barnes
If I did, I gave Mark a point for not being suspicious. Well, that doesn't seem very fair. I'm not suspicious at all. There you go. You know what song I'm singing in my head right now?

Bob Muyskens
Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. All right, well, that part is not suspicious, I guess.

Wade Barnes
Before we. Before we wrap up, though, I do want to. I would do want to offer something that we've never done here before. We always lead the episode off with, like, the intro and the small talk. So I want to see if we want to end on any big talk.

Any big talk you guys want to do before we wrap up. Big talk. Yeah. Here we start small into big. I have big talk.

Bob Muyskens
I've big. This is. This is partially about me, but also this is something I guess I just want to, like, manifest into the universe because it's been helping me a lot. Anyone out there who is a parent, if you want to do it on the subreddit, I'll probably see it there, but do it wherever. If you have any positive advice, any positive takeaways, just in, any encouragement whatsoever, even if you just have a thought that, like, you come back to that helps you feel good about your journey as a parent and how things are going, share it.

Share it with people. Share it with other friends you have who are parents. Share it online. I have been struggling with the idea internally that I'm just not a good enough parent. And it's not like a logical thing.

It just is a thing that won't go away way, that I'm constantly afraid I'm not doing enough or a good enough job, or I'm not doing the right things. And it's like, emotionally one of the most beaten down, beaten into me things I've dealt with, which is lucky for me, because I know a lot of people deal with hard stuff way harder than this. But just as someone who's trying to come to grips with being a parent, if you have anything, even if you're not a parent, if you have memories of your parents, if you have thoughts, share them, but share the positive ones, there's plenty of judgment, there's plenty of instructions. There's. If I wanted to go and find reasons that I'm a bad parent, there are infinite numbers of those online.

But what's been really helping me lately is finding people talking about their little wins, talking about them, getting perspective and realizing, like, you know what? I'm not perfect. But look at this kid. Look how awesome this kid is. Like, I must be doing something right.

Anything like that. Share it. Share it with people. Because that has been a huge help to me, and I I. It's not even for me.

It's for everyone else, because I'm not the only one who thinks these things and feel these things. I imagine anyone who's a parent probably feels this because it's. It's very stressful and complicated, and you feels like you have no idea what you're doing a lot of the time, so just share that. And I want to try and do this, too. I'm not in a very positive place right now, but I'm working on it.

I want to try and share any positivity I have, and I think you should do about how hard it is, but how, you know, those intrusive thoughts that parents have about how you're a terrible parent for whatever reason, it's probably not true and that you need to have some perspective on because kids are tough, and it's a tough. It's tough being a parent, but it's never as bad as. Well, hopefully it's not as bad as it feels. I know for me, it's not. And other people showing me and telling me that has helped a lot.

So that's my big talk. Share that pretty big mark. Follow that up and impress me. Um, well, the Nab expo is going on right now, which is the North American Broadcasters association, where new camera technology and new lenses are getting announced all the time. If there's one thing you can always count on, it's the forward progress of technology.

Mark Fischbach
And if there's one thing that we can all rest assured in, is that technology is only good and will only ever make our lives bigger and better. Yeah, I got. I got nothing. Was that what you were gonna talk about? I thought you had something.

Wade Barnes
I didn't know. I was, like, waiting for you to see what you had, and I was. Like, I really was hoping you'd come in here with, like, hey, if there's me, any editors, directors, writers, content creators, actors, musicians, youtubers, gamers out there, I need some good advice. No, no, I'm great. No, I'm solid rocks.

Mark Fischbach
I'm doing everything right. I have the confidence of success on my side, and my giant, huge brain is a problem solving monster, and I'm able to move forward with everything. I got no issues here. Living the dream. Have no qualms.

Actually, I will tell also this one thing, one thing that's wonderful about this particular phase of making this is Lixie and Marcus, Rachel, and now Molly and Amy. We're all in the same city, and we're all working on finishing this project, which is just a fantastic difference between me working alone in a dark room, not seeing the sun for a very long time. That's fun. Yeah, it's fun sometimes. Other times it's not.

And there is something very wonderful about, you know, everyone believing in what we're doing, you know, that that is difficult. I say a lot and you'll, how wonderful is that? How wonderful? We say that a lot where it's like, you know, we've talked about before where you can't make people believe in what you believe in or, you know, you can't expect other people to really take what you believe is important to. Heart, but it is wonderful to know.

And I hope you guys listening out there know that you can find those people and you can make them believe something you, I mean, you can't make them, but there are people that are willing to believe in something just as much. And obviously it won't be the most important thing in their life, but they can still care about something. And when you're working on something with people that really, really care, like, care on a level where they think about it so deeply and look at it from different angles, like, they're out there and it's, it's just about finding them and always challenging yourself and them to make something that's even bigger and better so that you can have this potentially really cool thing going on. And I very, very happy to be in this stage. Now.

They just came in like two days ago. Like, one of them I had to pick up from the airport at past midnight, but that's just because their flight got delayed. But it's like, now we're all here and it's working. So, like, working alone can be stressful and sometimes you have to do it. But working with people that care and have shown just an incredible drive and so much talent and it can make the process fun.

The process doesn't have to be a grind all the time. Sometimes you got to do it alone, and those times you got to dig deep. But other times, like, yeah, leaning on people is kind of the coolest thing about making these things. All right, that's pretty big. That's all I got.

Bob Muyskens
Whose was bigger? Who's got the biggest? I only counted the points here. Mark had 510. 15.

You gotta read the reasons. Okay. Mark. Dolby Atmos. Amy laughed.

Wade Barnes
Loans. Multiverse loads. Sorry, I just, I don't remember what that was. I'm trying to remember. I don't know either.

Multiverse none. Not cause, no help, not suspicious teamwork and then you both have a vacation. Large vacation. Bob? I have skyline honesty witch wizard.

I hate me. Naked fire. Big talk. Baby help. Baby help.

And then in the margins I have three curses, generational cast karma. And then I have solve ritual or mindset. And then what looks like Arar. Not sure what arar is, but that's what my handwriting seems to say. Sounds like something worth points.

Mark, I have 510 15 1617, 1819. Bob, I have 510, 1516, 1718. However, Mark, Bob and I made a rule a long time ago that whenever a certain topic is brought up, you have to lose a few points. Oh, but it was as a joke. So lenses lost you three points.

Bob Muyskens
But I said it as a joke. But it was like I wasn't even gonna really. I thought it was a joke. In the counterpoint, before the joke came. Up, I'd already written down lenses.

Wade Barnes
You can plead with Bob. If Bob chooses to let you win, you can. But like my right now, my hands are tied. Do you regret talking about lenses, Mark? Well, do you have any regrets?

Mark Fischbach
I don't regret that bit because I knew that it was a bit, I was using the disinterest in it as a counterpoint to be, be what is the most polar opposite thing I could talk about. Bob's selfless discussion and very heartwarming thing. I was like, how can I punctuate this in the the most antithetical way possible? So I stand by what I said because it had the effect that I desired. And therefore I don't regret the decisions I made.

And you can never regret the decisions you made because they're the decisions that led you to where you are and you can't go back. And if you ever try to go back and try to undo the past, that is, that is a exercise in futility. And I do not believe in that mantra. And I will not believe in that mantra. I stand by my actions and I own them completely.

Wade Barnes
You hear that, death row inmates? Be proud. See, he did what I did. He did the same thing I did. He did what I did.

Bob Muyskens
He did do what you did. Be proud, Lenzone. He mentioned it. He mentioned it. Lose points.

Wade Barnes
Minus three points for me. I said the word. Do I lose points just for having said lenses? That's the rule you mentioned, right? Should I?

Bob Muyskens
I don't know. Wait, let me look at the constitution. Wait, wait, wait. This was our ruling. We said we'd remove points.

Wade Barnes
How specific is it supposed to be? I don't know. You're in charge. I just didn't realize it was that. I'm looking at the bylaws.

Bob Muyskens
Wait, was this a handshake deal that we made before the constitution or after the constitution? Oh, it had to be before, because didn't. Didn't. Wasn't part of the constitution that all previous deals are hereby done. Done with and disposed of.

I don't know. I didn't pay attention. I'm having a. Not that I'm trying to give away my victory, I guess, but I'm having a memory that potentially, I feel like. There was a distinction made on past deals or null and void.

Wade Barnes
Yeah, that's just from that one constitution episode. Who really cares about that episode? So, I mean, I love that argument. That's a great. People will really like that.

Bob Muyskens
We're just going to toss that whole thing out the window. I like that. I mean, what did they expect from me? For me to pay attention? No, no, no.

Mark Fischbach
I have one flag left to throw this year. All right, well, you both have mentioned that previous handshake deals were canceled, and I don't feel like thinking anymore, so. You know what, Mark? You get your three points back, and you win. How's that?

Wade Barnes
I'll take it. Bob isn't really fighting for his victory, so you can have it. As much as I'm not a huge fan of that out, I'm more scared of other handshake deals that I'm either not aware of or don't remember. You think we remember at this point? We would have used them.

Bob Muyskens
I don't know. You could just. You could just start a bit and be like, so, Bob, do you remember six months ago, we made a handshake deal where you said I could claim a victory anytime you hosted? And I would be like, no, but I believe you. Okay, so about six months from now, I'll claim that, and then it'll be after the constitution.

Okay, well, all handshake. There are currently no handshake deals on the table. There aren't any. There are. They're all dead.

They're all disposed of. They're all gone. So there are no secret handshake deals. Except that one that we made, Mark. We'll hold on to that.

Wade Barnes
Wait, what? Wade, do I get any extra points for being so honest, even though it costs me my victory? Yes, but the problem. The problem is you already have honesty points on here. What about bravery points?

Bob Muyskens
Or possibly bob points? I feel like if bravery has got. I stood by my words. I was ready to accept my fate, and I made that big speech about going back in time. Remember that?

Mark Fischbach
Can't go. Can't go to the past. You both get an extra three points. Just shut the fuck up. And Mark wins.

Bob Muyskens
Well, that didn't accomplish what I was hoping for at all. I'm glad I got points, I guess. But, damn, we're richer. But our happiness has gone down, apparently. 19 plus three is 20 infinity, according to my handwriting.

Wade Barnes
And, Mark, you win with that. That's 20 infinity. The highest score ever. Yes. How many infinity did I end with?

121. Yes. Shit. Okay, now it's 22. I don't know how that two turned into an infinity sign.

Mark Fischbach
I appreciate everything that has gone under this incredible episode. What did we prove? There are curses. Wade is definitely cursed. Wade is cursed.

We gave him the steps to solve his problems. It's now in his hands to be done with the thing. My camera is about to die. And before that happens, thank you for this incredible victory. You're welcome, Bob.

Wade Barnes
Loser speech. Oh, look, I just say I feel like I was very honorable today. It was not all motivated by fear of handshake deals that I have. It was purely that I wanted to follow the rules as they have been set forth. And I wanted to make sure everything here was.

Bob Muyskens
Was, you know, meaningful and the points mattered and everything was not made up, but, in fact, follows a strict set of consistent rules. And I feel like, despite ending up with the loss, I feel good about my honorable actions today. And so I feel like a winner. That's fair. I won't even call it a loser speech.

Wade Barnes
You get the honorable mention speech. Perfect. Just honorable speech. That's me, baby. I myself ended with negative three or negative six points.

Nobody really laughed at my Elon Musk must joke at the very start. And then, uh, I mentioned lenses, which lost me three, but then I got them back because. Question mark. Uh, yeah, you guys explained, I just didn't listen. And, uh, that's it.

So thank you, boys, for joining. Congrats, Mark, on the victory. Congrats, Bob, on the honorable mention that you earned today. I hope everyone will go on the subreddit parents out there and do what Bob asked. I think that's a really cool idea.

Stay tuned for the next one where Mark will do who knows what. In the meantime, we do have merch distractable store. Yeah, say it like you mean it. Distractiblestore.com. It's out there, baby.

You can buy stuff. And you can find us at our respective sites. Market markiplier, bob at my scur, me at Minion seven seven or Lord mayonnaise 777. We'll see you next time. Until then, podcast out.

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