The Inaugural Boat Episode

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That's jerseymikes.com to learn more. Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to distractable. This is special episode. The gents gather again. Waterlogged Wade runs himself ragged with addiction, captures creatures, and commands smokeless fire.

Mark
Barefooted barb plays footy with Wade, and manscapes everywhere but his balls. Mariner Mark manages a wonderful wadster, plays pyromaniac, and seems to shrink over the episode from Hot Tub cams to formalized fart gags. Hey, it's time for the inaugural boat episode. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

Wade Barnes
Well, we've done it. We've satisfied the requirements. The boat is really trying not to hang out with us. Who's got the controller for the boat? It's over there.

Bob Muyskens
Over there. I can get it. You want it? Yeah, I'll take it. Zoom it around, baby.

Just move nice and slow. Just. It's the sitting down that you really gotta watch out for. I will say the hot tub feels pretty good on my back, actually. It's not waterproof, right?

Wade Barnes
This is. It's very much not waterproof. Huh? Ooh, nice. All right.

Wade
Nice. Get weighed. It's trickier than you. Oh.

Bob Muyskens
Glad you hit the chest. I was afraid of the sternum. This is sort of like a. Another council episode, too, right? So can we make, like.

This is where we throw out the constitution. Can we make amendments to the constitution? What's wrong with the constitution? It has rules.

That's very threatening. It's not how I thought that was. Gonna control it all. I'm stopping. This is as much stuff as I can manage.

Mark Fischbach
Are we deciding that? That's sort of the deal then? That was what we decided in the last one. We would have biannual twice a year. Which is what we meant.

Wade
We meant that. That's what we meant. That's what we meant. We had the first one. This is the second one of the year.

Wade Barnes
We will be back here again Christmas. That'll be a fun hunt. I thought it was every other year. We're doing it three times a year. Are we always reassembled?

You know what biannual means, dude, I. Didn'T even listen the last time we made rules. What? It makes you think I know what words mean? Where do you think?

Where did we make the rules. Do you remember? Oh, on paper. Oh, sorry, everybody. He's allergic to rules.

Wade
I don't have a cough button here. Or I would have mute. Next time. Sorry. Yeah, this is very different because we're.

Wade Barnes
We're in the same place. What was it? I don't want to do it again because it was supposed to be silent. Coughing but it just in the background of this shot. So yeah, we're here because we promise this.

You actually made this rule. I do like boats. So this checks out. I feel like when you wake up, you reboot as a human from the get go and you just access some memories and others get flushed into the trash. You're like Wally when he gets the new circuit board.

Yeah. Yeah. I've had to start using the calendar app on my phone to keep track of things. Cause I'm just very busy and it's like every day. I have no idea what to expect until that alarm goes off.

Bob Muyskens
It's like, reminder it. In 2 hours you have. It's like, oh, man, I gotta cancel this other thing I was gonna do. That's crazy. The thing about the calendar app, you could check that in the days prior to.

You think I remember that the day of when I wake up. Like, as you're falling asleep, you could just glance and be like, tomorrow. I don't sell times. I do, but sometimes it's just an adventure. How did you get through college?

I used to be a lot more. Well, I wouldn't say organized, but I used to be a lot more put together. And I didn't have as many, like, obligations. Like, I stream a lot. I do still to make YouTube videos separately and then the podcast.

Wade
You have a job and college. Yeah. That you're saying that that was less time somehow commitment than what you're doing now? I've got multitask brain now where it's like. It's hard for me just to do one thing I like.

Bob Muyskens
Typically, if I'm watching tv, I also have my phone in my tablet. I'm like playing a mobile game, looking through, like Twitter or something and also watching stuff. Thought you didn't browse Twitter. My brain is very. No, I do every now and then.

I've also got, like, smell all of discord. Groups. Groups. I'm in. I'll have ESPN app up.

Wade Barnes
Good Lord. That's a lot to do at once. I've heard that's not great. Yeah, I'm pretty evidence of that. I've become swiss cheese brain.

So what about cutting back? Yeah. Which of those things do you want to stop doing or do less? All of it. I don't have more time for, like, playing basketball and just, like, I want to live in life.

Wade
I feel like you control that. Yeah. There's really nothing stopping you. A really terrible boss who doesn't let me. I mean, are you calling us your boss?

Bob Muyskens
Me? Well, I'm putting off my ability to do it. You want to do an exercise, act like I'm your boss. You tell me all of your grievances about how I'm wronging you and what you want me to change as your boss. I'm gonna need to get back down next.

I don't remember. Well, you just said it. He just said all of it. He said all of his grievances just now. Okay, here's the thing.

I'm a people pleaser, so I overdo it because I'm always like. Someone's like, hey, you wanna do this thing? And I'm like, oh, I'm busy, but I could do that day. And I'm like, well, that was gonna be my day off this week. But I guess I just won't have a day off this week.

And then notoriously, like, other stuff in life comes up, you know, like, family's like, hey, we're going to dinner. It's like, well, I guess we could join you have a plumber. It's like, oh, I guess we need to get our fossil replace. They're showing up. So my schedule just gets full and full and full.

I have the best of intentions. Every week I go in, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do a lot less this week. Like, take this week, for example. Yesterday, I didn't stream till 08:00 wow. I've got the day to kind of do whatever.

530 in the afternoon. I'm like, man, I kind of feel like playing some diablo four. The new season came out. I'm giving it a try again. I could just stream it.

And so I went live at six instead of eight and just worked an extra 2 hours, which I enjoy doing, but, like, it's still 2 hours away from, like, doing other things I could be doing. Huh. My video game addiction is controlling my life. I mean, I know about that with, like, the feeling that you always have to do something, and I don't really have a recipe to fix it. But at the same time, you know, we do have the power to just make our own schedules.

Wade Barnes
And, you know, the obligations that we feel pressured upon us can be insurmountable sometimes. But at the very least, the relaxation, like, making it more profound or focused. You know, it's kind of weird. You kind of got a focus to relax properly as opposed to. It's an activity.

Yeah. You don't relax by doing nothing. You relax by planning to relax and then doing things that are relaxing. Yeah. I get heaped with immense amounts of guilt.

Bob Muyskens
Not externally, internally. Whenever I, like, turn someone down for something, and then, like, I end up doing nothing other than relaxing. I'm like, I guess I could have joined for that because, like, here I am just sitting, like, hanging out, watching tv or on the porch. This 100% won't help you because I know this is not the issue, but you always say you're a people pleaser. Yeah.

Mark Fischbach
Your people. Yeah. But when do you. When does you get pleased by your people pleasing? So I genuinely do have fun with what I do.

Bob Muyskens
It just becomes too much. It's easier said than done. Cause it's like, what do I cut out? Who do I say no to? Take our friend Ryan, for example.

I've not gamed with Ryan in, like, two or three weeks. And, like, every day, whenever I have some free moments, I'm like, I should really ping Ryan to do something because, like, I haven't talked to him in, like, two or three weeks, but my schedule's still been full because I've been playing games with other people or streaming with other people, recording, whatever. But, like, in the back of my mind, whenever I do put something off, it's always, like, really need to make up for that. And this is the way my brain works. I don't know.

It's always been like that. Does this come off disingenuous with the three of us talking in a nice hot tub on a lovely summer day in the middle of a week? Even this. Okay, so first time we've seen each other in a while, but the first thing we thought to do was like, dude, let's. Let's record another episode.

Like, our brains are just wired. At least my brain's wired. Like, I should be making content of. Some kind, because even when I was, like, for the past, obviously, year, I've been super busy, and it gets to the point where I'm not even able to make videos. And when things get that busy, that's how people.

Wade Barnes
My audience usually knows. Oh, there's literally no way because I've got to fight through other stuff anyway because I have ADHD, and so just getting organized in the first place. I'm kind of like you with, like, the scatterbrain. So even my downtime is my hobbies nowadays, everyone gets so tired of it. But that's how busy I am, is because my hobby becomes an accessory of my work.

The lenses aren't just because I'm crazy. No, it's because lenses are a natural extension of movie making. And to understand, like, the movie making process, the hard drives were not just a random thing I was in, it was because it was about the work. And like, lately, with the render farm idea that I've started to, like, look into again, that's just an association of work. None of them are actually things that I would randomly choose as a passion outside of it.

It's all work focused, but it's still kind of fun, I think. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is.

Bob Muyskens
I enjoy it. It's just too much. Sometimes, like Tuesdays for me, we get a call sometime between eleven and twelve, usually in the afternoon, eastern. We'll record podcasts for anywhere from like two to 5 hours, depending on the day. And then it's like, I'll take an hour break, have food, then I stream for like three to 5 hours, and then I record for three to 4 hours after that.

So I'm usually at my computer from like 1130 in the morning to like two or three in the morning. Why just the day that works for people. Whenever I'm doing stuff, I mean, I. Had a baby, so I sort of have a thing that's not work. Do you think there's a thing that you could pick, even if it feels arbitrary, that's like a non work thing?

Wade
Because for me, it was my car and I don't do a lot of car stuff, but, like, once every couple weeks or once a month, I spend like a good day or a good afternoon just in the garage, rolling around, swearing at my car, doing whatever. Do you feel like there's a thing that you would want to try and do that just to establish something where it's like. Because I don't even. Honestly, it's not like I'm obsessed with the car or I'm gonna, I don't want to go race or anything. It's just a thing where it's like, I like that enough that that's a good thing to establish, where there's no way I can make that.

I mean, I'm not gonna make that into content. Nobody's gonna watch me work on a car in a video because I don't know what I'm doing. And so, like, there's no way I can be like, well, I might as well stream this, because that's such a trap. Yeah, that's such a bad trap. Because you can play Diablo for fun.

Bob Muyskens
I do. You're allowed to. I do. And I tweeted, like, because I want the game to succeed. So I tweeted about it, and I was like, hey, rolling into season four, I've not played in a while.

Hoping it's a good time. So far, so good. And then some people replied. They were like, man, I'd love to see you play it again. And that's.

That was like, the. Well, I was doing it for fun, but see it, like, I guess I should, because maybe if I stream it more people want to play it again, and then they'll, like, keep going. Maybe they'll make it good. Like, three, because three, I thought, finished in a great spot. So, like, one, they wanted to see it, and two, I've got that other motivation of, like, well, if more people play it, they'll keep working on it, make it a good game.

Wade Barnes
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to think of it that way. It can be if it becomes detrimental to actual relaxing things you want to do. But I have a strange thing just recently that I realized where I think humans just kind of want to keep busy on something and feel satisfied. Like, it's a puzzle. People like puzzles.

That's why they like games. Because recently I was relaxing up in a cabin in the woods, and there was a, you know, there's a fireplace right there. It had stormed really badly the night before, so it was super wet. Everything was wet, very humid. All the wood was super damp.

But I wanted to make a fire. And there was that fire starter, like, log stuff that I could have used. That's not fun. Exactly. That was cheating in my mind.

Mind if I use that stuff? I was a quitter and I failed the challenge. So I took all of these really damp pieces of wood and I started, like, just puzzling how to get it to light. And so from 08:00 a.m. to about noon, I had been doing nothing but trying to get this fire going.

And it was the best way I could have spent a morning. I had so much fun just bashing my head against this. I started, like, getting, like, tiny twigs. I would go out and grab smaller and smaller twigs, and then eventually I don't tell the Airbnb that I stayed at that I did this, but I took one of their knives and I started, like, trying to shave really thin shavings of wood. And that worked because they were thin.

Enough that I could get a bunch of them together to start the sticks going, and then the sticks were able to actually start to dry out a log because I got these things to, like, light, and it would. The log would, like, kind of start to char a little bit, but only a little bit. It wouldn't catch, and it just wouldn't. Wouldn't catch. But only over the course of a few hours did it all kind of accumulate to be dry enough that it actually got going.

But once I got it going, I. Was like, oh, and I don't have. A passion for fire. I mean, maybe humans all have a passion for fire. Maybe that's, like, you know, maybe that's a very core thing of humanity and, like, us evolving.

Fire kind of, like, sidelong with. You don't have an extraordinary passion for. Exactly. Right. I've been covering Wade's face this entire time with my hands, so.

Bob Muyskens
Oh, hey, I'm still here. Hey, you're in that camera. Probably. Yeah, probably. But, I mean, it was so nice.

Wade Barnes
It was so nice. And it's meaningless because we didn't need the fire to survive. It's a cabin, but it had, like, air conditioning and heating. You know, we didn't need to do it, but it was something so interesting about the puzzling of it and the thinking about it and being like, how can I get this freaking damp wood dry? Ah.

Like, trying it. You know, put it in the oven. I should have. That would have. Really.

Man, our ancestors, whenever they had damp wood, just put it in the oven. The Airbnb comes. Owner comes to their smoldering leftovers of their cabin. They find the logbook with an entire distractable episode of points, and they're like, man, what the hell happened? That particular episode looks like such a manifesto because it's a.

It's a bunch of rectangles, and a few of them are colored in. And, like, they just have dub w and b and B. Parenthesis S in there for self. It's just like, it's. It looks really psychotic.

And a bunch of lightning bolts that really, really look alarmingly when I was looking at them thinking about. They look like the nazi double s symbol. It's not great, like, what's going on there, but I hope. I hope that people understand it's lightning bolts. Okay?

It's about a shotgun, but, you know, it's. Is there, like, a detailed drawing of the shotgun the next. No, no, no, no. Did you cut pictures out of magazines to. No.

So, anyway, fire. Yeah, maybe you should start firing. Okay, so our fireplace is a gas fireplace, but we do have a fire, like, a little fire pit area, and my family got us one of those. I think they're called solo stove, where it's, like, the smokeless fire pit for our deck. So I do want to set that up and, like, start using it.

Bob Muyskens
I just need to go out and clean off some of the deck cushions and stuff. We bought these, like, nice covers for our patio furniture. And then, like, you know me, they were in the box. So, like, this winter, I was like, man, I really should cover them. But, like, what do you do when the covers are in a box?

Wade Barnes
What? What do you do? I put them in the garage, in the box. That's so good for you, man. That's so good for you.

Bob Muyskens
Hey, I am me. It's weird. I used to be very hands on. Like, my grandpa, whenever I was growing up was very much like, hey, we're gonna go change this tire. We're gonna change brakes.

We're gonna work on the engine of this car. We're gonna go do this. And, like, everything he did is, like, we had to do it the hard way. And I think I just. I don't know.

Instead of adopting that, I went the opposite way. I was like, but what if I do nothing? I used to be very good at things. Like, my mom had me replace her kitchen faucet. I replaced, like, all the light fixtures and fans and stuff.

Wade
You're allowed to do that still. I know I could, but, like, oh, effort. My mom didn't ask me to do it, so I don't have. See, the thing is, I think you actually like effort because you put a lot of effort into what you do. I do.

Bob Muyskens
But it's like, I don't put a lot of effort into what I'm doing. I just do a lot of things. I put. I spend effort spending my time. I don't put effort into, like, making one good thing.

It's like a whole bunch of crap. Damn. Most of what we do is meaningless. Me building out fire didn't mean anything. It was just very satisfying in the grand scheme of things, you know, all the effort I put into a movie, it's.

Wade Barnes
It's really not meaningful. Maybe, hopefully, it could inspire someone to go make something. But at the end of the day, it's like, most of what we do isn't going to amount to anything. No, that's fair. And I wouldn't sound, like, unhappy.

Bob Muyskens
It's not like I'm miserable doing what I do. I'm pretty happy. It's just, I know that there are things I used to do or could do or should do that I still don't. Like. We've had a light bulb out in the garage.

I literally, like, have the bulb. I just got replaced it. But I don't think about it until I'm leaving the house, like, at night, man, you replace that, I get back completely out of my mind. Do you feel like there's stuff you want to do? I mean, so right now, I've been telling.

So I don't know if this is healthy or not, but I've been eating one meal a day. I eat one big meal a day. Hell, yeah. Omad. When I was at my healthiest, I was probably around 205 pounds, and I'm up to, like, 254 right now.

Wade Barnes
That's not how Omad works. That's not how it works. You go down on Omad. I think he's leading up to starting Omad. Oh, right, okay, so I've just started.

Yeah. So I was doing two big meals a day that I was snacking, doing, like, sugary stuff, starting about three days ago. Okay, I'm gonna do, like, one big meal a day. Eat whatever I want, try to make sure I get some fruits and vegetables in there. But ultimately, like, if I want a steak, I'll have a steak.

Bob Muyskens
If I want chicken, I'll have chicken. Whatever. And I'm trying to get more exercise into. So, like, my nephews that are now, like, in their early twenties have been coming over on, like, Mondays. We can play basketball.

Wade Barnes
Mm hmm. So it's kind of like, okay, I'm gonna cut back on eating a bit. I'm gonna have my one meal. I'm gonna try to get more activity and, like, more basketball stuff like that in. Now that ginger's, like, recovered her weights down, she actually doesn't mind going on walks as much.

Bob Muyskens
So it's like, we can take the dogs and some walks. There's some, like, parks and stuff we can drive to around. So it's kind of like, I want to go out and be a bit more active. I just have to get away from some of the gaming addiction, because, like, whenever I have any free time, it's like, dude, that's Diablo time. That's this time I need to read, like, focus my mind into.

Oh, okay. I can go to the gym. I can go to the park. I can go play basketball. I can go do that kind of stuff.

I just need to reorient my mind to go out and do physical activity rather than just sit around. I've always been kind of overweight since I stopped playing football in high school. So it's, like, always been an issue. But it's surprisingly hard when everything we do revolves around a computer and, like, a desk or a couch with a laptop or something to remember. Like, oh, yeah, I could just go out.

Wade
I just go for a walk. It's not like I have to go to the gym and do the hardest workout I've ever done. But it's either. It's either like, I'm going to the gym and I'm doing the program, or I'm like, nah, fuck it if I'm not going to go to the gym. I think that's.

Wade Barnes
That's where the trick is, because with the fire, that's a one and done thing. You build the fire and you're done. I win. I did it. And that's the problem with games.

You win the round and. Or you get the next thing and you're like, there's really distinct landmarks of progress happen. But in all the other boring shit, there's none of that. Like, yeah, you have a goal at the end of it, and you do this and you lose x amount of weight, or you can lift x amount of pounds, and some people can think of it that way most of the time. What me, and a lot of people like me crave is that instant satisfaction of, boom, I did it.

I crested the toughest mountain. You put, like, a huge challenge in front of me, and I'm just like, fuck, yeah. Let me add it. But doing that every day is a hard part. That's the impossible task.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah. Games also have changed. Like, when we were growing up, Sega Genesis games, like, there was a start, there was an end, and there wasn't, like, even earlier consoles, like, there wasn't always a save feature. So it's like, you start playing a game like frog or on Atari, when you turn it off, it's like, you have to start over again. How old are you?

Wade
We're not that old. Okay, well, I had one Atari, or I had intellivision, I guess. My grandparents had an intelligent. What the fuck is that? I know what intellivision is, but I didn't have one.

Bob Muyskens
My grandparents had one. So what is the intellivision? It's a very. You don't know, isn't it, Coleco? In television, I think something like that.

I spend. What words are you saying? It's one of those very. It was a competitor with, like, the early Atari consoles. The television was an early one, had a really goofy controller.

Wade
Wasn't it? In television, the one where the controller. Had, like, it looks like a big, thick remote, and there's a place where you slide. Yeah, you slide a piece of, like, plastic over this number pad. And that piece of plastic would have the controls for that game.

Wade Barnes
Oh, okay. So, like, if I was playing like a baseball game, I would slide it in. It's like, okay, this is to hit, this is to run, whatever. If I was playing, there's like a dungeons and dragons game where you'd, like, go to, like, different mountains and go and, like, fight rats and dragons and stuff. And that one had its own, like, control pad.

Bob Muyskens
But the way you do is you hold your controller, which is wired to the console, you slip out your old plastic for whatever game you were playing. You put in the dungeons and dragons one. And then it's like, okay, these are the buttons. Yeah, I mean, no, I mean, colecovision is not of our childhood. It is of like, almost our parent.

Wade
No, my dad was probably like in his twenties, thirties when that came out in my mind. Like, I grew up with that kind of thing. And I had the Sega too. But, like, even Sega, like, if you played the lion king on Sega, there was no save feature, as far as I know. You play, you either beat scar or else you start over the next time you turn it on.

I only ever played the lion keg on a Sega. When my dad would take me to the grocery store and they used to have the kids area where you could drop your kids off at the front of the store and then go shop in peace. They still got that at Walmart somewhere. Yeah, they still got that Ikea. It's like crazy at Ikea.

But it used, I used to just go in there and the, like, girl who worked would just be like, oh, you want to play the Sega, don't you? Yeah, turn it on. Turn on the Lion King. But even whenever games had saved, it's like games still had a starting and an ending point, whereas I don't know if wow was the first one, but, like, mmos were like one of the earlier things that made where like, okay, this is live service. We're gonna keep adding stuff so you can keep doing stuff and playing.

Bob Muyskens
I mean, Diablo two, I guess, to some extent did that. That was kind of all blizzard thing. EverQuest was the first one. I think for me it was shooters. Yeah.

Wade
The moment I could play, I played the first Call of Duty online. The first time I ever did that. I was like the original black Ops or Modern Warfare two was one of those were the first ones I ever played online of Call of Duty, which was probably, what, mid two thousands? But you remember I played. Played cod four in our dorm.

You were trying to sleep 4ft away. I was sitting playing cod four on the little tv in our dorm room. Somehow I don't ever remember that bothering me. Oh, I remember something I gotta bring up from our college days that Amy was wondering if you remembered this. When I was playing World of Warcraft back then, do you remember how I downloaded this bot that would play my character for me?

Yeah. And there was an alarm that would go off if it suspected, like, I was a GM, was watching me or something catastrophic. Do you remember ever, at, like, midnight or 02:00 a.m. just a giant alarm going. Okay, so you found that sound.

Wade Barnes
Yeah. And for several years after we lived together, that was my wake up. I found that and put it on every. Every phone that I had. I put it on as, like, a little.

Wade
What? Not mp3. What were they? Mini file. Oh, yeah.

Like, you know, that sound haunted my dreams for a long time. I remember waking up like the bombs were dropping, like it was nuclear apocalypse. And I was like, you gotta run. I really thought, like, I would go to jail if. If I got caught with this thing.

Bob Muyskens
I really thought. So when it went off and I get to my computer, I'm like, no, no, anything but this. I can dress. And my character was running into a rock. Like, it was like, straight up running in a rock.

Wade Barnes
And I was like, oh, oh, that's fine. And it didn't even do it well. It died half of the time. It was like, botting back then was just abysmally bad. So not worth it that we've got AI.

Yeah. Real live AI. Have you ever heard of the ship of theseus, man? People are craving the old ads. We used to do whole sessions, like, extended sessions of just bullshitting ads.

Bob Muyskens
We had a minute of ads, and we would spend half an hour on it. We'd spend longer than the recording session for the episode on ads. Yeah, yeah. And for those who are wondering, we want to get back to there. We really do.

I forgot we were recording. Just. Oh, yeah, yeah. You had a camera. Like, what are you doing?

Wade
That's kind of the five. Yeah, I'm here. I did not think that we peaked when we did that. Meteor falls. Like, dude, we're gonna, like, God, that meteor ads, I thought that was like.

Wade Barnes
Even when we're recording, I was like, we've had better bits than this. Yeah. No, I remember thinking like, oh, that's a little forced. Yeah. Okay.

Bob Muyskens
It works through thread, but, like, I was like, oh, we're gonna think of such better. Yeah, yeah. I was like, you were the spy in the vent. Yeah. I remember when we did that, you didn't have the effect on your voice because the editors did that.

Wade
But even when we recorded that, I was kind of like, oh, should we do a backup it? Like, that's kind of funny, but also, it's really strained. One of the companies we were with, I don't know if it was when the Spotify, if it was before or whatever, but I remember them saying, like, yeah, we were looking, and, like, you're the only podcast we know of where people go back to listen to the ads. Like, no one else does that. They don't skip your ads, and they go back and listen to them again.

Bob Muyskens
I do think that we know our audience and they enjoy our stupidity. There was that the video that Jen and Jenny Nicholson made? Oh, yeah, the five hour. Have you seen failure of the Disney Star Cruiser hotel? I'm aware of it.

I've not seen it. It's a great video, and it's a great breakdown, but it talks about it, because Disney does this, too, where everything seems disingenuous because they force all of their partners to speak in terms that no one would ever talk. And they go, have you been to Star wars galactic adventure Star tours? I can't wait to go on Star wars galactic Adventure Star tours or whatever it is. And it's like, no one would ever talk about.

Wade Barnes
They call it Star wars land. I did think that was really funny. The clips that she put together of the podcast that they have, where it's so tightly scripted, it's, like, tough to watch. And you can even see on their faces, they're like, yeah, I was walking around through Star Wars Galaxy's edge, and I went to. And they're just like, they don't believe it.

Like, the audience isn't stupid. They know what's going on. They know what the deal is. We get money. We hawk products.

All we want to do is make it worth their time. Yeah, well, there are some marketing teams out there that do it well, because there's commercials, like, from when I'm growing up that I still remember, like, the nutrigrain commercial. Like, nutrigrain. Let's be honest, there's no nutrition in that bar. It's a fancily hidden candy bar, but.

I still remember the. Ooh, yeah, I feel great. I don't even know if that's nutrigrain. But I still think I can quote that whole commercial because it was so memorable. I'm not even saying it was good.

Like starburst. Berries and cream. Berries and cream. Like, a lot of that had its own resurgence. I still know the mentos jail became.

What is it? I don't even know it. You don't know the mentos? Of the nineties mentos commercials, it was always like some weird circumstance people were getting into. I don't know the words.

Bob Muyskens
Doesn't matter. What comes fresh was better with life, with mentos fresh and full of life. Like, I don't think, oh, I don't know when I'm gonna get an annuity, but I know that JD Wentworth has got my back. JD Wentworth, you need cash. It's your money.

Use it when you need it. 877 cash. Now, look, I know that, and when I get an annuity, when I don't even know what an annuity is, but. What'S a form of settlement? He always reminded me of the lawyer from law and order, the way, like, he looked.

I always thought of, like, McCoy is at his name. I don't remember a commercial where he was in it. Is he still remember the ones with the people singing on the bus and the. Oh, yeah. Hell of a follow up for them commercials explaining what annuities are to people.

Wade
That would be so fucking funny that it's just like, hi, we're JG Wentworth. We've talked a lot about how it's your money and you should have it now, but we realize you might not know what an annuity is or how to get one. Then it's just like an infomercial. Is it JG Wentworth? JG Wentworth?

Wade Barnes
I thought it was JD Wentworth. Oh, no, I was JD Wentworth. You would have thought, yeah, you probably would. It's good enough. I don't know who thinks this episode.

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Wade Barnes
Like, if. Okay, if intel came back around, he. Wants to talk about nerd stuff. I do want to talk about nerd. You want to talk about nerd stuff?

Wade
Look, we're talking about capitalism here. There's something crazy with AMD's resurgence. It is. It's crazy because it applies for gamers, because Ryzen processors, I knew, I wish I'd have bought, like, stock or something when I was out because AMD stock was, like, super low. There's a whole Nvidia thing going on.

Wade Barnes
But it was like, when I heard about Ryzen, AmD stuff was like, at $2, and now it's at like $190, and I'm like, oh, fuck. Ah, man. But all that aside, their processors are actually really good. Like the threadripper for work stuff, like what I do with some visual effects and video editing. It's super good.

Intel doesn't even have a product that can compare. Like, it's crazy what they're doing. And I like intel what they're doing, but it's like. It's a company's company. You make them fight.

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Oh, wow. Well, if he likes it and he likes icy hot, I prefer Ceylon pass. Salon pass. No Ceylon pass. All I know is the best part of waking up is when there's Folgers.

In my cup, you know? And honestly, like, with. I haven't drink Folgers in a long time, but I still. My dad always did Folgers when he opened the giant tub. You know the worst way you could have coffee in a tub that's gonna last a year?

Yeah, but when he cracked it open, like, the smell of coffee. I didn't drink when I was a kid, but the smell of it, that man, as a kid, I could have taking them another path. Because I love the smell of coffee and cigarettes. Like, I was. I was.

I was, like, on the threshold of a different road for me. But I will say, like, not brewed coffee, but the coffee ground. Folgers coffee cans, like that. That would be a nostalgic coffee smell for me. Because the coffee cans, after they were emptied, my family hung onto them.

Bob Muyskens
They used some for, like, storing grease. Whatever the best. Yeah, but I used them. I used to be. I used to love the outdoors.

Like, I was always outside trying to catch, like, frogs and turtles and bugs and stuff. Those Folgers cans. I cannot tell you how many times I got to catch a creature, put it in a Folgers can for, like, an hour, poke a bunch of holes in the lid to, like, keep it in there, and then, like, peer in there, try to give it some food, and then, like, let it go, because whatever. But savior still, like, rusty Folgers tins in my parents garage, holding nails and stuff and sitting on a shelf somewhere. Actually having products with containers that you could reuse.

Wade Barnes
That is kind of less of a. Thing, though, dude, before everyone had, you could just buy batteries to recharge your electronics at everywhere. My buddy actually found this dude who was making home printed pcB's, where you could take a specific Altoids tin. It wasn't the big one. It was the Altoids mini tin.

Yeah. You could hot glue this PCB in and cut a hole in the side and then put two double A's in it. And it was a battery. It was a. It was a mobile battery where you could plug a usb into the pcB, would charge it from double a's and you could get like rechargeable double A's and just charge them at home, or you could just pop new ones in.

Wade
I had that way before I ever had like a self contained, you know, lithium ion or charging battery. He just. It was hot glued and cut with tin snips and it was an Altoids tin. I still have it. It's just I don't use it because I double as are not as practical.

But it lasted forever. I shouldn't mention this because, like, this leads to a lot of fires every ryobi days promotion, which is coming up nowadays. I got to check in on that. Not sponsored, but will be if you. Pay me money, depending on what you say next.

Yeah, we'll see. So there is. The 3d printing community has opened up so many doors because it's exactly what you're talking about. But with Ryobi Valley specifically, the batteries are so cheap that you can take them. Don't do this.

Wade Barnes
Crack them open hard, harvest the battery cells, but don't. And then there are so many 3d printable designs where you can have battery configurations for powering anything. You can convert batteries from one configuration to another with Home Depot supplies, you can have those batteries. You can assemble those batteries into a house sized backup generator. And we talked about this a little bit on the podcast because I was just scratching the surface of it.

You can do so much with the shit. The batteries are a loss leader so that they can sell their tools. Right? Man, there's so much. The DIY community is exploding, literally because of 3d printing.

And they have things. YouTube guy who always like, burns himself and lights things on fire with. Right, right. The indian guy, he just did a. Bunch of stuff with Linus because they did like an upgrade to a setup.

Yeah. In the boat gets there, we must reach out, grab it, and I. I've noticed the whole time, but I do like it. It's a boat episode. That's true.

Oh, shit. We gotta come up with rules. I don't know. Are there any rules you guys have been dying to implement or get rid of? Ooh, I have an idea.

This is crazy, right? Okay, but hear me out. Like that. No, no, it's. It's.

It's regarding the company that is distractible. What if we take distractable public? Ooh, right? Okay. We create shares of it and we sell it on the stock market.

I think that's how it works. Yeah. Basically, it's called an IPO. Yes. So if someone buys more of distractible than we have is just their podcast.

Wade
You don't let that happen. We don't sell that much, and we own, you know, 51%. So then. Then the listeners are incentivized for us to do more ads. Right.

Wade Barnes
This has never gone bad anywhere. Exclusively a good thing, only a good thing. Then all the people who own the company definitely want to listen. They want to support us, and they want us to succeed and also never do anything that doesn't make money. All in favor?

Wade
I feel like I'm torn between that and starting distract a coin, because I feel like we really have a lot to offer the crypto space as well. You're right. And they're about to go to the moon. Everybody get involved, because this is going to be huge. It's gonna be.

Wade Barnes
It could be huge. It's gonna be huge. We're involved. I know that, like, faze went public, right? What is that?

Wade
It's the face. Okay. Gaming. They did something and then it didn't. They were public, and then their stock price slowly died until they went un public.

Worth nothing. No. Whatever it videos doing, we need to do that. Right? They.

They're doing so well. They're about to do a stock split or something. Yeah. Their stock price so high, they're about to do some stuff. As long as I can still talk about, like, boobs and stuff, whatever.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah. We'll be like the Green Bay packers of podcasts. Are they a public NFL team? Oh, yeah. Do you not know that?

Wade Barnes
No, I didn't know that. That's the thing, that Green Bay packers are the only pro sports team that I know of and in America, and maybe in the world, but probably not where they sell shares. And so the packers are actually owned. I don't know if it's primarily, but they're owned in part by the fans. You buy it, you can buy a share of the Green Bay packers.

Wade
So you're personally invested in the team. Oh, well, that's nice. They're not, like, publicly traded on the stock market or something. Oh, I see. They are, because you don't actually have to do that to sell stock.

But privately selling stock is. I don't know how that's regulated. And it's not as popular because you want to be listed on, you know, on the New York stock so everyone. Can buy, buy and sell, sell. Never sell.

Wade Barnes
Diamond hands only. Only diamond hands can buy distractible. Okay, if we make a rule right now and put it in the constitution that you can't sell. You can't sell. This is a legally binding rule in our definitely legally binding constitution.

Bob Muyskens
How much is a distractible share? How many shares do we have? There's three of us, some more than that. Well, it's worth whatever people pay for it. So if we sell, like, one 1 million of the company that is distractible and someone pays a $1,000.

Wade Barnes
We're a trillion dollar company. We're a billion dollar. I can do math. We're a billion dollar company. That'd be good.

Bob Muyskens
Does that help us? Does that mean we're just kind of like Truman show? We're sitting in the hot tub. We're like, so, dude, I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you.

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Wade
Oh, Truman, why don't you just have some oval team delete chocolatey Ovaltine? And he would just sit there like. You know, it's funny you mentioned that word. Mark, why did you text me about Oval Teen? Why did I text you about Ovaltine?

When was this? Like, you weren't part of it. A week or two ago when I was streaming, I think I was doing something, and I was, like, busy. And Mark was just like, let me tell you about Ovaltine or something. I was like, why?

Bob Muyskens
What do you know? What did I text you? I don't even remember. I don't know. Whenever.

So it's funny, whenever I hear from you, I'm like, oh, no. Either something's horribly wrong, or it's a bit I'm on. I'm making content times I hear from Mark. So I texted him. This is May 20 at 619 pm.

Wade Barnes
Hey, do you like Oval teen? Idk what it even is. Lol. And I said, ha ha. Yeah.

Come on, man. When did you imbibe your first teen? And he said, lol. What? I still know what Oval teen.

Wade
I mean, what happened, Mark? Did you have a stroke? No. Why did you ask him about oval tea? I asked him when he imbibed his first teenager.

Wade Barnes
Okay. Cause me and Tyler were talking. We were talking about him. Maybe you're older than we think you are. And so I used it as a.

Bob Muyskens
Tyler's older than me. I used it as a test because Ovaltine was in, like, a Christmas story, and I didn't even know if it was still a thing. And I was wondering, if you had drank Ovaltine, it would show your age, but you didn't know it, so I didn't continue with it. So you must not go first. When you said Ovaltine.

I was like, is that an ovary product? An ovary product. I felt Ova in my first thought. Ovaries gotta be something for your ovaries or for your mouth. Why did I think mouth oral?

I think. I think, yeah, I think I saw the v. I was like, maybe it's supposed to be an r, but it's oral. Teen this episode is brought to you by rocket money. I feel like subscription prices keep going up.

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Wade Barnes
All rights reserved. Well, we gotta come up with one rule before it's over, or we gotta change your modifier. All the other rules. That's the rule. All of them.

Bob Muyskens
Which ones you like? Which ones you not like? I like the score. Keep it working. Good.

Wade Barnes
I want more wheel. I totally forgot about the wheel. The wheel was so fun. The wheel was terrifying. It almost got you.

Wade
I know. It almost sent you to the shadow realm wheels. And I think. I think that ever we. We may not have put it in as a rule, but I think every time the wheel is spun, we should add a percentage.

No, I like that. To the deadly one. Yeah. Every time the wheel is spun, we add a percent. Well, so we have to add two because you have to take away from the two others.

Bob Muyskens
Right. You have to add 2% to add. 2% to the good point. Or you could just have it where if you challenge and you lose, you have to spend the wheel. If you challenge and you win, the person you challenge has to spend the wheel.

Wade Barnes
That's fair. That would get. That would get. Do it willy nilly. More.

Wade
Wild card. What if we throw in a rule to where if you want to challenge the outcome of an episode. Mm hmm. You can, like, you can invoke the wheel rule, but the wheel is not always the same. You can invoke the wheel, but the host gets to make the wheel and spin the wheel.

Bob Muyskens
Wait, let's be a set percent. Right? Because if you're challenging, you want a fair. So, yeah, it's not fully fleshed out, but, like, if you challenge, it's like, you get a. You get a 10% chance that you just win this episode, but then the host gets to fill the rest of the wheel.

The whole challenged. Yeah. So it's. I'm assuming this is like, I'm hosting an episode. We've come to the end, and I'm like, and Mark is the winner because he has this.

Wade
And you can just be like, wheel. I challenge the outcome wheel. And so you get some set amount of chance of the win will be taken from Mark and given to you. The winner will be switched, but I get to fill in all of the rest of. Is this replacing the red flag?

No, I was just adding this as more of, like, a wild card. More wheel action, but it's a little more loosey goofy. See? Okay, well, what if we do this because it's been difficult to keep up with the polls and the red flags. Winning.

Wade Barnes
What if they win? They get, like, an uno reverse wheel kind of deal where they can. They can then have a usable item because they did. The. The audience was on their side, so the audience gifted them hunger game style.

Wade
Yeah. You get. You get sponsors. Maybe that's what we need. We need.

Wade Barnes
We need rich audience members to drones. While we're doing the episode. Yes. Yes. What.

Bob Muyskens
Can you build us a hunger game style arena to do the podcast? So this. This ties into this idea that I had, a really stupid idea that had. Maybe it's not my idea. It's like every.

Wade Barnes
Every citizen of the United States of America gets one of these per year where they get a. I'm in an emergency clock for their car, and they get a wee woo. So you get one wee woo a year where you get to put a thing on your roof and you get all the privileges of a normal, like, police car, ambulance. You get one a year. And so you use your wee woo when you really, really need it.

You can't gift it to anybody else. I use my wee woo a lot. But what if all the audience members have one? That would be too much. I just don't want the.

Bob Muyskens
I don't want the rules to get to the way of, like, us just having our conversational podcast episode in our normal games. That's something I don't want to interfere with. Yeah, well, that's what I was going for is keeping it simple, too. I was just trying to add more wheels without really adding any complexity to it. There would have to be a limit on the number of times, because then you would potentially just always challenge the outcome.

Wade
Unless the host just made the wheel really horrific. I think the wheel is horrific as it is because it incrementally gets no funny. That's. That's definitely. That's in the constant.

Bob Muyskens
What happens if the solo episode. Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah. One man show written by the other.

Wade
Shoe as a bonus. So it's like a fully scripted thing. Yeah, we can be scripted. You could put in, improvise this part. Yeah, wanted to.

Wade Barnes
Yeah. But with direction. And now Wade will improvise a song about his pants, and. Okay, it will be three minutes, and he will have to hum it to the tune. I don't want to be on either end of that.

Wade
Andy, the bad outcome for the wheel punishes everyone. It just punishes one person a little bit more than the other two. Yeah, exactly. It's bad for all of us. Yeah.

Wade Barnes
I wanted to. I wanted to go off at least once before this podcast inevitably crashes and burns because one of us does something. Terrible or cuz Wade and I can't stand each other anymore and we finally talk about it in the open. Yes, exactly. We disagree about Judge Judy once and now I don't know that I can stand you.

Do you even know her full name? Judith Steinbeck. That's. Wow ish. Judith Steinert.

Wade
Not. No, that's worse. Judge Judas. Stopping now. Do you get why I didn't give you the point?

Wade Barnes
Do you get why I side with him? No, you decided me. You ended up giving him the point. But it did. The thing was, it didn't matter.

Wade
Yeah, you won either way, so it really was pointless. We've got the adding 2% to the danger of the wheel. That's a good rule. Yeah, it's fine. I think the random, every episode could have a wheel.

Wade Barnes
Kind of interferes with the flag. We already have a system for that. That's true. I think that we should invoke our world government president thing where we randomly select one of the audience members. We send them a phone, a burner phone, and when we have a dispute, we call them and they have to answer and settle our dispute right then and there.

And when the calls over, it blows up. How are you rigging that? Yeah, the only part of that I don't like is I'm not sure how to rig a phone to blow up like that. That sounds tough. All right.

Okay. Figure that out. All right. Okay. Nevermind.

What if we. No, I really like that. Is there, is there a tool that exists? I mean, we could kind of do this with discord where it's like we have a dispute and we just put the call out and whoever shows up first, hop on a call, present our sides. They are the judge and the executioner.

Wade
We put our sides, they make a decision, and then that's. They've done their duty to the, to. The podcast, and then they're banned from listening forever. Yeah. Then they're banned from the discord.

We blocked them on, on social media. Yeah. Anything we can do to prevent them from listening. Yeah. Now everything that takes effort for how.

Fun I think this idea actually is, it would be doable. I think we would just need to make like, like you could make a discord channel and just put out a call and be like, hey, whoever's around, we got a dispute and then just pick someone. And the reason we can't just talk is because you couldn't let it go about Judge Judy, we were trying to talk. Judge, we need an arbiter. We need an arbiter.

Bob Muyskens
I'll be the arbiter. I know when I'm being treated fairly. But you have to blow up afterward. He would be banned. Well, actually, I'll blow.

Wade
Oh, yeah, no, I see what you're saying. That's a way to settle dispute permanently. I settle dispute that I'm gone as long as I get to stay in the shareholders. I mean, your estate would, I guess, theoretically. What if we put on the wheel?

Wade Barnes
1% chances the person is banned forever from the podcast. They have to be replaced. That would be devastating. That would be devastating. That would be tricky.

What if. What if, then they have to create a sister podcast on their own that. Exists alongside focusable reach, a certain number. Of listens or something before they're invited back? It's like banishing to the woods.

Wade
You have to do it yourself. You have to get your own podcast. Up to a hundred thousand listeners concurrent before you.

Wade Barnes
I love exile. God, that's really funny. Oh, man. How would the podcast go with just two of us? Would you guys?

Wade
I mean, we would just have to make do. And I always assume it's me that's gone. Is that fair? You volunteered to leave. I said blow up.

Bob Muyskens
Maybe I wear some of that gel and I cover myself in firecrackers or something. That should do it. Yeah. The gel is good for explosions. It's not just fire.

Yeah, I'm bald. It's like my hair will catch on fire. You got a lot of beard. I do. That's not hair.

Wade
That's fur. Thank you. How about you have to start a separate podcast that's all about stock picks. Since we're. We're here, give us a.

Wade Barnes
Give us your stock pick. What. What stock should people out there invest right now? Oh, man. Dude, people like trees, you know, buy some trees, you can treemee calm.

Wade
Know what I've heard is really hot right now? Eventbrite. People are really coming back around on Eventbrite. I don't know what that is. Is that the thing where you stuck?

That's light surface. Ooh.

Wade Barnes
All right, so we need more official. This is the boat, the biannual boat episode. You can remove a rule, whatever you want to remove. Like, exile. Exile is very fun.

Wade
Whoever does the challenge, there's a 1% chance that you get exiled. And you have to, like, start a YouTube channel or a podcast, something, and reach a certain milestone before you're invited back to the show. It could be more broad. You have to start a social media account or a YouTube channel or a TikTok or something and reach a certain milestone. And it could be something where the viewers have to.

If enough viewers would easily find it. And, you know, it's like, you have to get a thousand views, which is not anyone who's trying to make it. That's a lot of views. But we have enough listeners. I feel like they would make that happen.

Right? They would be like, we have to find it so Wade can come back to the podcast. But then. Then you have to make content on there, right? Yeah.

In order to get the. It is always me. That Spanish. You put it out there. I'm just playing along.

I don't know. It could be me. I'm the one who has bad luck with things like spinning wheels and things. Yeah. I like this way.

Bob Muyskens
This boat came to point at me, too, whenever I said that there needs. To be due process. Right? I feel like for something is this profound. Needs to be some due process.

You're losing me all this effort. Audio. I think we have a biannual fart joke you have to tell. That's my rule. I'm not opposed to that.

Wade Barnes
No, that's pretty good. Every. Every boat episode, one of us has to tell a fart joke. All in favor? Aye.

Aye. Okay. All right, cool. Let's officialize the every. Every wheel spin.

2% gets added to the bad thing. Yeah. All right. Okay. Those two things definitely added.

Wade
I think maybe we should not get too ahead of ourselves, because we do have to do this biannually. Yeah, that's true. Maybe we should pick the exile thing or maybe the listener as judge thing. I, like, go with one of those as, like, an added twist. I like the listener as judge.

I think that's funny. And then they go in exile, and they cannot return until they get a certain number of followers. And this will be great because we'll make a closet. We're like, we'll get 50% ownership of whatever they make. Sign this document, half of whatever you make.

Bob Muyskens
What's your job? Half of it ours. God, think of how far we could go if we could commit fraud. You can, just not legally. All right, so how many per quarter for the judge?

Wade Barnes
Audience? Judge. You know what? I want this to happen a lot. No more than once an episode.

Wade
But it can't be two episodes in a row. That's good. So there has to at least be a one episode gap. Yeah, that's when you. This is for smaller occurrences where it's like the judge Judy thing where I'm willing to arbitrate, but there seems to be no one that's willing to give ground.

It's not fair if one of us tries to arbitrate between the other. Exactly. Because we all have our bias. I'm biased. Yeah, our viewers probably have biases too.

Wade Barnes
That's okay. But because they're all. They're all people of integrity. That's not. Absolutely.

They know who they are and what they're willing to do. And this will prevent anyone. Because what we really want to prevent is anyone spiraling into a dictatorship and starting down a path. Why you mention that right now? Specifically?

Wade
Because we're talking about making a rule about it. Yeah, we're making a rule to prevent that. You're here because you're on the show. Yeah, but I was about to do that. Well, don't write this moment.

Bob Muyskens
No, like, next time I get the host, I was gonna, like, take over. Oh, that's right. Right. Forgot about that. Coincidental.

Wade Barnes
Coincidental. I feel like we need a person to come in and rule on that. Well, we haven't passed it in the law. We haven't passed it in law. Okay, all in favor of once, but not every note in a row.

Yeah. Non consecutive audience judge blowing up the phone thing. And we'll work out exactly how we're gonna figure out how to do that. But it'll probably involve some kind of. Social media and some kind of execution method.

Bob Muyskens
Yeah, because we also. To make sure it gets picked up. I don't know if our program would pick up a call around, like, another program or not. What? Work it out.

Wade
I should remember we talked to German. Jesus. Yeah, we did have. Our first guest was Mark's lens retriever. So belittling, man.

Wade Barnes
Why you gotta belittle now? The person's fine. It was like, the circumstance. The person, fine. Just everything he stands for.

Bob Muyskens
You getting the first guess to be someone who was running an errand you was kind of like. That's what it took to have a guest. Oh, God. I think there was a sign. Yeah, you guys are tipping things against me.

That's what the sign was. I don't. Look, I don't feel like it's against you. If anything, this is. Have you not learned that my whining, complaining means everything's against me?

Wade
We're talking about bringing the people into the show. Oh, that's fine. We love you and will defend you even when it doesn't make sense. Okay, rule. Whoever we bring in has to side with me.

No, see, but that kind of defeat. I mean, whoever we bring in has to do one of the ad reads. Whoever we bring in has to pay us and sponsor the episode. I like that. You got to be rich to be unbiased.

Wade Barnes
Yeah. All right. All in favor? Sure. Aye.

Except all the rich stuff I get. Oh, we. I didn't. Eh. Fuck no.

Wade
Anything that was for comedy value alone. Not doesn't count. But what if it's, like, comedy value? But unless. Have your bank statements ready, just in case we call you.

Bob Muyskens
Okay. Are we done making we get rid of a bunch of rules now, what. Rule do you want? I don't know. Any of them?

I don't know. That's all the time we have. Well, make a pocket constitution and a pocket bill of rights, and you'll have all of the. What we'll do is we'll send it. To you for free, buddy.

Wade Barnes
It's gonna have extra pages in the back so people can update their constitution. But when you make an amendment to the constitution in your pocket constitution, you have to date it, sign it, every change. And if you are removing a rule, if a rule gets removed, you have to remove it with red ink, pen, sign and date in red ink. Red ink is specific for removing requirements. Yes.

Bob Muyskens
Mark's favorite color is red. It's like he doesn't even know me. This was nice, though. Well, most of it. Then we had to talk about rules.

Wade Barnes
Well, if you remembered any of the rules, you could remove them. Anyone who's still with me on the subreddit, tell us about how much you hate Mark. I think we just need to use, like you do with toddlers. We use, like, code words. Okay.

Wade
We shouldn't bring up the rules of the show in front of. Okay, all right. We can talk. We could. We should invent a little code language, and then we can discuss what's happening.

And he won't have, because he only gets worked up when we talk about the rules. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Even if a rule is in his favor, he doesn't like it.

Bob Muyskens
That's more to think about after, remember? I just want to hang out with my friends and chat. What we'll do is when there's people that get on, we'll tell them they're a distant relative, and he won't know the difference. Yeah. We found your third cousin thrice removed or more.

You found splenda? Yeah. Here's splendor right now. Unable to deliver. Uh oh.

Would you like some toesy touching? Thanks, man. I heard some backup batteries because, uh, for my solar because my house has solar. But I had the sneaking suspicion that it wasn't working. I got confirmation that it wasn't working because my power bill.

Oh, yeah, we talked about that. You were like, I told you when I was paying for electricity, you're like, I don't think it's working. Did I tell you what my power bill was? No. 800 a month.

What are you running? No, it's because I put in the server, the storage server. That's what's really doing it. Because the storage servers by itself, it's like three computers running 24/7 all like over a thousand watt computers running 24/7 it's like if you had your microwave going. If you had three microwaves going constantly.

Wade Barnes
Because I have a computer that I run all the time, and that is bad enough. But you guys know about that. Yeah, but putting in a server in your house is unbelievable. So I had the suspicion that the solar wasn't helping because we're purpose. It's just more than most people's rent.

Mark Fischbach
I mean, it was exorbitant. We lived in California, we got close to that, and we didn't have a server. We were just trying not to die in the heat. Our house is poorly insulated, and so you had to run the ac at ridiculous levels to keep it. I don't think I've ever paid more.

Wade
Than like two high seventies, low eighties in. Inside the house. I feel like 230 is the most I ever paid for an electric bill. I mean, California is a bit pricier. For the real thing is it scales.

So you can go from like, last month's bill was 300. This month it's more than double because you. You reach the. The, like next tier and it goes from like this much per kilowatt hour to this much per kilowatt hour. And so the expense, it goes up exponent exponentially, but it goes up at an increasing rate.

Wade Barnes
I forgot to mention it's also the server. And because I had the set in my garage. And so I have a lot of lights that are going, and I'm bad about turning them off. We have a decent sized house and your electric bill is four times ours. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Wade
Really hope he's gonna move to Ohio. That's. Well, windmill put it. Oh, solar pierced me like I bled out. No, but that's what I say.

Wade Barnes
Like, I have solar. You heard that part, right? Yeah. Okay. And I don't think it's working because there's like 440 panels and they confirmed it wasn't working.

Yeah. So I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get a new battery back up with a new. Or just scrap and get a windmill, Bob. I'm gonna get.

Wade
I heard you should get a windmill. Yeah. Windmill. You think? Mmm.

Wade Barnes
I like it when you say. Anyway, that's it. That's about episode, I guess. All right. Thank you very much for participating.

Bob Muyskens
You're welcome, Bob. My scar. Mark Plier. I'm Wade Minion. Seven.

Seven or Lord May 777. We have merch distractible store, distrsdiblestore.com. why did a jet of water just touch me? Podcast out.

Wade Barnes
Podcast out.

Bob Muyskens
Podcast out.

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