Going Nuclear

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible. This episode, Whittling Wade cites his wanderlust, has a patellarized magenta, restarts an addiction that explains CCGs, and Chernobyl, moonsmashing Mark trashes his thonka, gets a cheesy hole, and discusses thorium and neutrons, beatified Bob gives an infomercial, probes pronunciations, stabs Mark, and famously misses Coasters, from brimstone beauty to Polish pylons. Ha ha ha ha ha. It's time for Going Nuclear.

• 0:43Speaker 00

  Now, sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

• 0:50Speaker 01

  Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm today's host. I don't do this very often anymore. Why? I've fallen off. But today I do, and I'm joined as always by my co-host, Mark and Bob. Hello.

• 1:02Speaker 02

  Hello.

• 1:03Speaker 03

  How are you doing, you handsome devil?

• 1:05Speaker 01

  I'm doing pretty good. Had a good week that I'll talk about later.

• 1:10Speaker 03

  You delightful demon.

• 1:11Speaker 01

  Stop.

• 1:14Speaker 03

  You smart spawn of Satan.

• 1:15Speaker 02

  I think that was still technically a compliment, maybe?

• 1:19Speaker 01

  I don't know. I'm gonna write something down, and it might be good.

• 1:22Speaker 02

  If it feels good, isn't it good?

• 1:24Speaker 03

  They say that Satan was the most beautiful of all the angels. They specify that, I think.

• 1:31Speaker 02

  That's biblical.

• 1:32Speaker 03

  I'm pretty sure it's biblical.

• 1:34Speaker 02

  I believe you.

• 1:35Speaker 04

  And on the fifth day, God looked at Satan and said, "Damn."

• 1:38Speaker 01

  I might be going to hell for that joke alone.

• 1:42Speaker 03

  Ah, to see Satan, right? For yourself, just to know what it's all about.

• 1:46Speaker 01

  That's why he took the seventh day off, if you know what I mean.

• 1:48Speaker 03

  It was a bad breakup, that's what caused the fall. It's, you know, it's like, you know, history by the victors. God just writing, "Satan's such an asshole. God, I got me, damn him."

• 1:59Speaker 01

  God really wrote the first Taylor Swift album.

• 2:02Speaker 02

  Me damn you, Satan.

• 2:04Speaker 03

  He's gonna be in hell, where evil people go, and I made that. It's not his choice, it's mine.

• 2:09Speaker 02

  Sounds like a Trump speech. And I made that, and that's how it's always been.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  I have a blank cage, baby, and I'll put you in.

• 2:23Speaker 02

  That was funny.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  Anyway, this is a show we host. We could do game. We small talk. Small talk. I got small talk. You guys have small talk?

• 2:32Speaker 02

  I got small talk.

• 2:33Speaker 03

  I got small talk.

• 2:34Speaker 01

  Small talk. Who first? Small talk.

• 2:36Speaker 02

  You go first.

• 2:38Speaker 01

  Me?

• 2:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:39Speaker 01

  If you use it up now, you won't get any points in the future. Where to be, I've got to be careful or else I might give myself the segue point. Well, I've been gone. We, we haven't seen each other in a couple of weeks because I was out of town. Molly and I went on a trip to Virginia, hung out with some friends. Uh, it was a really nice needed break. However, we did a lot, which is also fun. But that's that thing where you go on vacation, you come back, you're like, oh, I'm so tired. I need like a week to recover from a vacation.

• 3:06Speaker 02

  Classic mistake.

• 3:07Speaker 01

  Uh, but it was, it was really fun. We had a lot of good food, uh, had some pool time. I got to test my knee a little bit, which is better. I still have moments where it doesn't really hurt, but it just feels, something is still weird about it. And Tyler had some theories on that because we got to see Tyler too. He's had some knee stuff going on, so I might go get some imaging done to see. I forget what he said. He was like, your magenta might be between your patellar.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 3:30Speaker 01

  Bowflex. And I was like, oh, that sounds right.

• 3:32Speaker 03

  Tell your doctor exactly that.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  My magenter is between my patellar and my bowflex.

• 3:38Speaker 02

  You'll say it and the doctor will be like, hmm, and you, but then say, no, no, Tyler told me that. And the doctor will be like, oh, Tyler.

• 3:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, Tyler.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  From hit podcast. Go my favorite sports team.

• 3:51Speaker 01

  That's the one, dog.

• 3:52Speaker 02

  Oh, my God.

• 3:53Speaker 03

  And then he starts going cross-eyed and talking in inaction. He's like, yeah, you're magenta, real patellarized.

• 3:59Speaker 01

  I hate when my doctor goes Hills of Tennessee accent.

• 4:01Speaker 03

  No, you love when your doctor do that.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  I love when my doctor goes Hills of Tennessee accent. Accent? Accident. No, accent. Accident's different.

• 4:08Speaker 02

  Hills of Tennessee accident.

• 4:10Speaker 01

  Uh, what else? Oh, the real horrible tragedy of what happened in Virginia. We went to some retro like game stores and stuff where they have figurines and video games. And we were looking around at those kinds of things. They had cards and Tyler and Bird, I guess, have been collecting different like collectible cards. Uh, there's all kinds now. There's, you know, there's Yu-Gi-Oh! Magic, Pokemon, One Piece. Like, I guess everything has a card set now. I used to collect. Pokemon cards back in like the 90s. I made the mistake of mentioning that and the guys were like, do you want to just like buy a pack for old times sake? I was like, guys, that's probably a bad idea. When I, listen, I don't dip my toe into things. If I go in, I dive in headfirst and I'm, I'm all in. Like, oh, come on, one pack. It won't be that bad.

• 4:50Speaker 02

  $4,000 later, Wade has a stack of valueless Pokemon cards in his closet.

• 4:56Speaker 01

  Only two.

• 4:59Speaker 02

  2,000?

• 5:00Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Holy shit.

• 5:02Speaker 03

  Whoa.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  What did you do?

• 5:06Speaker 01

  I bought a lot of cards.

• 5:08Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 5:10Speaker 02

  Well, did you get a single good one that was worth anything?

• 5:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, actually. So, so I started going in on Prismatic Evolution and Chaos Rising sets.

• 5:19Speaker 03

  What does that even mean?

• 5:21Speaker 01

  What does that mean?

• 5:22Speaker 02

  Mark doesn't know. Prismatic Evolution and Chaos Rising? Please.

• 5:26Speaker 01

  People who know, know. If you don't know, I'm not, listen, every, every like six months, a new Pokemon set comes out, it feels like, or something.

• 5:32Speaker 03

  What the hell is this chaos? What am I looking at?

• 5:36Speaker 01

  So, back whenever I collected cards, there was the base set of Pokemon, right? Where you just had the, there's no symbols, there's no, no, it was just, that was the only Pokemon cards that existed.

• 5:45Speaker 02

  The first six Pokemon, yes.

• 5:47Speaker 01

  Then came the Jungle, Fossil and Rocket sets, and then I guess some like Gym Leader set came after. I don't know, I stopped sometime during the Rocket Pokemon card release that came after, I think Fossil was the third one. And that's, that's the last I'd collected cards since whatever year that was, 2000. So, I've seen that cards exist and people collect them. I've seen that like, if you have a pack of cards, unopened from like the 90s, the first set, the pack itself, unopened, goes for like six, $700, because it could contain something crazy. If you have a box from back then, a box of packs, that can go for like $40,000.

• 6:26Speaker 01

  It's crazy what you can just, if you just buy something and you do the Wade version of just stash it away, my god, one day it might be worth something.

• 6:33Speaker 02

  Just imagine if nine-year-old me was enough of a sociopath to not open any Pokemon card packs I ever got while I was a child.

• 6:41Speaker 01

  So I do have a full base set. But mine are played, so mine aren't worth as much as a lot of them would be, whatever. I do have a full base set and maybe, I don't know, I'd have to look, but anyway, I've gotten, I've gone into the deep end of Pokemon cards, which is why you, I don't, I don't do hobbies. I, if I don't just, I don't just like dabble. I'm like, mobile game, must have every character. Pokemon cards, must master set.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  What happened to like, like reading or like you could whittle? You seem like a guy who would whittle. You strike me as a whittler.

• 7:08Speaker 03

  He does got whittle vibes, don't he? I could see you on a porch in the Appalachians. Is it cedar that has like the purple center of the wood?

• 7:17Speaker 02

  I think that's, um, patchouli. No, what's that called? Pipipoo. No.

• 7:23Speaker 03

  It's the people would. Yes, yes, yes. Uh, yeah, it's purple cedar. Purple cedar. Yeah.

• 7:28Speaker 01

  Yeah. So I think whenever I was young, I had a pocket knife and my whittling of cedar was literally just like, aha, I'll go in a circle for hours.

• 7:37Speaker 02

  Smaller now.

• 7:39Speaker 01

  I did it. Grandpa, look.

• 7:41Speaker 02

  I thought whittling was distinct from carving because when you whittle, you kind of are just fucking up the wood. Like you're kind of just like, you know, get rid of this stupid wood, one tiny shred at a time. I'm whittling.

• 7:53Speaker 01

  I don't know. I was like 10 and that's what I did. And that's the last, I was probably, I don't, I have no idea. I was somewhere between the ages of nine and 13, probably. I don't know.

• 8:00Speaker 03

  Wait, I'm going to share you something on Discord and you know, we don't, we don't have to talk about further, but I think it's going to earn me some points. So I'm just going to share this with you. If, if you look up purple cedar, you know, there's a, there's a video and, um,

• 8:15Speaker 03

  I think that earns me some points, right?

• 8:19Speaker 01

  So should I describe the image?

• 8:21Speaker 03

  No, you don't need to describe it. You don't need to describe. We don't need to talk about it. We don't need to talk about it.

• 8:25Speaker 02

  Listeners and viewers alike will have to figure that one out for themselves.

• 8:30Speaker 01

  Um, what was I talking about? Whittling Pokemon cards? Yeah. So I've, I've started collecting.

• 8:34Speaker 03

  A little distracted, feeling, feeling distracted, man.

• 8:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, Cedar, it was just like that whenever I whittled it. I won't describe the image, but it was just like that. Yeah, I've started collecting. There's so many cards and it feels like, so each card will have a number, right? It'll be like, if there's 80 cards, it'll be like, oh, you have card 37 out of 80. But apparently now it's a lie because it goes past the number. If you get the rarer cards, like, oh, you have card 97 out of 80. And it's like,

• 9:02Speaker 02

  What the hell is that? What's so good in that?

• 9:04Speaker 01

  I don't know. Just like, just tell me.

• 9:06Speaker 02

  Numbers have meaning.

• 9:08Speaker 01

  I agree. Just tell me how many cards are total in the set. So I know if I got them also, I can put them in a nice order and know. Don't tell me I've got like, oh, card one is this nice hollow, but card 140 out of 80 is this full art rare gold.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  I hate it so much. I hate it so much. God.

• 9:24Speaker 02

  Now that you're in that, I know you're not like an expert because you just started doing it. Can I, can I just ask, do people do that? Do people get into Pokemon? Because it's like, oh, well, this specific set appeals. Or is it literally like, oh, the value on these packs is trending up and there's a card you could get, there's a pull you could get from this set that's worth like $800. Is it money? Or is it, because when I look, I'm like, it's cool, but how, how do you care about a thing where there's just keep adding shit to it and they keep getting more complex? Is it really sentimental for people? I don't know. It just seems crazy to me.

• 10:00Speaker 01

  I think the answer is both. I think some people genuinely just enjoy collecting and like the cards and like Pokemon. I think the way that it's actually happening now is scalpers are running so rampant that the moment something launches, a lot of places limit how much you can buy because people buy all of the stock up, no matter the price. They buy it all up. $80 a box, I'll take 100 boxes. And then they immediately list it for 400% markup on eBay other sites. So like, hey, this box that came out today for an $80 retail price, $450, it's yours. And that's how all of it is done now. So a lot of places, like I've gone to some local card shops around Cincinnati. Mal and I went out yesterday and just had lunches, stopped by a couple. And a lot of

• 10:43Speaker 01

  them had limits, like you can only buy six packs. You can only buy one box and it's Like, actually, I respect that because that means like, you know, if kids come in and want to buy it, at least there's a chance that they could get something. But each set also has cards that are worth, you know, they call them bulk. They're like worthless cards. I guess to me it's cool because that's like, if I want a master set, I want one of each card from a set.

• 11:02Speaker 02

  Right.

• 11:03Speaker 01

  But people go for the chase cards, which are ones they put in like the harder cases. They're called top loaders. I've learned, I think all of them. Maybe there's other ones that aren't, but they have like a sleeves or flimsy. Then you top load that for your really valuable cards. We pulled one that was like a Sylvian from the prismatic evolution. It's apparently like a two to $400 card ungraded. That was a great pull. I pulled that. That was great. Finally, Bird pulled it, but it's mine. And that's cool to see stuff like that. But for me, it's just, I don't plan on like selling them. So for me, it's like, I'm going to collect them and I want to have like a set. I just want to have that set together like I did however long ago. And I hope I don't try to get every set, especially the old ones because my God, the cost is insane.

• 11:45Speaker 01

  There's like a lot of us, lot of us, if you guys know those two legendaries, they're like jet plane looking birds from gen three. There's a card where they're like, they form a heart with like their heads and their neck. The cheapest I could even see that card in existence, I wasn't looking to buy, just someone had told me it was expensive. Like, oh, expensive could it be? The cheapest one I could find was $2,000 for one piece of cardboard.

• 12:04Speaker 02

  I better start printing stuff on pieces of cardboard too. It happens. You guys want to make some distractible, collectible cards?

• 12:10Speaker 01

  And it's apparently a crazy industry. Might as well. But yeah, scalpers have, the reason everything's so crazily priced is because people are like, people want this? What if I hoard this and raise price? Because they're fucking monsters. Scalpers are monsters.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  But I mean, it is just crazy how the, the, the way that people think about the money and it gets, it just destroys anything, but it's worse when the companies lean into it. I feel like there's a lot from the Pokemon company that's probably like very happy that a lot of people are trying to fight for the value of this and, you know, then they can raise their own prices and then they're gonna.

• 12:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, that's probably, that's probably funny though, because like they see this and they're like, oh, yeah, all people fucking love these things. We gotta make more. But it's like, yeah, you're selling them for $80 a box or whatever. And then someone sells, what's it, that box for $5,000? And you don't see any of that shit.

• 13:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's the thing is like a lot of the retail, it's still high. I don't know what a pack comes out to typically now. Maybe like six to eight dollars a pack or something, maybe more, but like whenever we were collecting, I say we, whenever I was collecting back in the nineties, it was like literally two ninety-nine or three ninety-nine for a single pack.

• 13:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, I used to do magic when I was in like middle school, high school, magic gathering and I, it was like two or three bucks for a booster back then. So you could go, go to, go to the local store, grab a few boosters for like eight or 10 bucks, maybe have a good time, open some packs, get nothing.

• 13:32Speaker 01

  Now it's higher, the base value, but you're never going to find base value anywhere. Uh, GameStop just got, uh, in, I wouldn't say in trouble, but there was a lot of controversy around GameStop, because they themselves raised prices rather than waiting for scalpers. They were like, what if we just charge more? I don't know how much they went up, but people, a lot of people were upset. Some people defended it. Some people were upset about it, whatever, but like they were just like, why let scalpers raise the price when we can?

• 13:55Speaker 03

  It's the dynamics of the market, you know, we, the straight of Hormuz is closed, immediately raised prices. Oh, it's open? Let's hold off. Let's not lower them just yet.

• 14:06Speaker 02

  Can't push it back down. You don't know if the prices are going to go back down, which we control.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  In the end, kept getting closed again. So I guess, I guess there may be some logic in that, but no, you know, it's weird. It's just a little weird.

• 14:18Speaker 01

  Uh, I also had a really, speaking of spending lots of money, you guys, God, I'm, I'm ashamed to admit this.

• 14:24Speaker 02

  What's going on with you? All right.

• 14:26Speaker 01

  DoorDash, I've, I've used DoorDash a lot. So for six years I've been using their subscription service for deliveries and they were like, here's how much you've saved over the last six years by using DoorDash.

• 14:37Speaker 02

  That's rude. That's just rude.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  Do you have any idea what that number was?

• 14:41Speaker 03

  Five figure, is this, is this five year, is this five figure number?

• 14:45Speaker 02

  Sixty thousand dollars.

• 14:47Speaker 01

  Jesus.

• 14:48Speaker 02

  Uh, I don't know. You eat a lot of food.

• 14:50Speaker 03

  You've eaten a lot.

• 14:51Speaker 02

  And that goes all back to COVID where it was like, there were periods during, during lockdowns and shit where it was like, if you didn't have groceries, what are you supposed to do?

• 14:59Speaker 01

  It was thirteen thousand nine hundred.

• 15:02Speaker 03

  I knew it was five figures. I knew it was five figures.

• 15:05Speaker 01

  I saved thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars on deliveries over six years.

• 15:09Speaker 03

  You shaved, listeners, I'm doing air quotes. Sam, please put in a sound effect for my air quotes.

• 15:16Speaker 02

  Did it have the total that you've spent accompanying that or was it just like?

• 15:20Speaker 03

  Thank God if it did, I didn't see it. I saw the savings.

• 15:25Speaker 01

  What I've saved on fees, delivery and whatever else that, you know, the 18,000 charges you get.

• 15:30Speaker 03

  Good lord, in five years, I would bet, I don't think it's six figures. I bet it's not over a hundred thousand, but I bet it's pretty up there.

• 15:39Speaker 01

  I mean, if you think about having a meal delivered, probably on average, one to two times, not two times a day, but probably at least once a day.

• 15:46Speaker 02

  Part of that too, is you feed a lot of people. I, I feel like a lot of the times, or Door, or DoorDash, it's like, well, we have guests in town and we need food and we don't want to bring a party of 10 people to a restaurant necessarily, and I'm not cooking for my friends.

• 16:00Speaker 01

  All my money is going to Pokemon cards and DoorDash, so.

• 16:03Speaker 02

  Half of it is definitely weight eating Freddy's while we're filming Distractible.

• 16:06Speaker 01

  I've not had that in a minute. That sounds good. I don't have lunch yet. Thanks, man.

• 16:09Speaker 03

  He's gonna order now.

• 16:10Speaker 02

  He's gonna order some Freddy's for while we record. Yeah.

• 16:13Speaker 01

  Wait, they have Pokemon cards too?

• 16:14Speaker 03

  You can DoorDash Pokemon cards?

• 16:16Speaker 01

  I don't know. I, I, please don't let me look at that. I don't want to know. All right, that's my small talk. I've taken a few, I had an episode too. Oh, well, we'll see how it goes.

• 16:23Speaker 02

  You did it this time. It wasn't even us.

• 16:25Speaker 01

  I did. I had a lot to talk about.

• 16:27Speaker 03

  We, we could skip it. I also have a lot to talk about. We could save it for the next episode if you just want to go straight on. Give yourself the small talk point and the segue point. Man, you're in the lead. You're, you're doing so good.

• 16:37Speaker 01

  I am all the small talk of my own episode. I'm such a rude ass. That's why I don't get to host anymore.

• 16:43Speaker 03

  You're such a rude ass. A rude ass?

• 16:45Speaker 01

  I, I did while traveling because I didn't have a book with me, is I watched, I watched a show that I hadn't seen, but I'd been interested in watching. I watched Chernobyl on HBO Max. Great show. Fantastic show. And segue, I want to talk about us going nuclear. Today's episode's all about nuclear.

• 17:07Speaker 03

  Okay, all right. Who would I nuke? Let's start with countries that I hate the most.

• 17:11Speaker 01

  I meant power, but you can nuke if you want.

• 17:14Speaker 03

  Oh, oh, power. Oh.

• 17:16Speaker 02

  What are we doing? Sports teams, individuals, institutions? What are we nuking?

• 17:19Speaker 01

  Mark's like, wait, is Sour Patch Kids a country?

• 17:25Speaker 01

  I learned that the one episode I haven't forgotten.

• 17:27Speaker 03

  I say we nuke. The moon. Take that, A. James.

• 17:32Speaker 02

  What would he photograph then?

• 17:35Speaker 03

  He would get the prettiest picture of like the nuke exploding.

• 17:39Speaker 02

  You have a new calendar called the end of the moon. It was just a sequence of Mark nuking the moon to bits.

• 17:46Speaker 01

  How many nukes would it take to destroy the moon?

• 17:47Speaker 02

  I don't know, Mr. Owl. Why don't you show us?

• 17:50Speaker 03

  A one, a two.

• 17:56Speaker 02

  A different commercial.

• 17:57Speaker 01

  The way that for everyone out there, nuclear stuff at least worked back then was you had like fuel rods, nuclear fuel rods, they would react and their reaction would produce heat, heat would boil water, water turns into steam, steam creates power, and that's how it was supposed to work. And then you have these control rods that are supposed to go into the nuclear reactor that stop or slow down the reaction. That was your emergency brakes.

• 18:20Speaker 03

  This guy watches one mini series, knows how nukes work.

• 18:24Speaker 01

  Well, it's a simple, that's a pretty.

• 18:26Speaker 03

  It's a simple, it's a simple science.

• 18:28Speaker 01

  That's such a simple breakdown of a very complicated process, like that's baby's description of nuclear power.

• 18:35Speaker 02

  All right, come run the gas off.

• 18:37Speaker 01

  And Chernobyl, a lot of things went wrong. For one, they were supposed to be doing a test. Then someone was like, hey, actually we need more power for the day. Can you guys just, so they'd gone into low power mode and they were like, all right, we're gonna run this test and someone made the call like, actually, can you put the test off for 12 hours? And they're like, yes, because here we only say yes. So the nuclear power plant stayed in low power mode all day, which is not good for it. It was beating, building up like xenon gas and other stuff that wasn't great for the reactor because it wasn't running at full power. It wasn't burning away as usual. When they went to run the test, they were like, huh, some of this shit doesn't look right. And the guy running the test was like, nah, it's fine. Trust me. I'm an expert. Night shift had never been prepared for the tests. They'd never learned how to do them. They hadn't studied them. They were just like, hey, is this a good idea?

• 19:22Speaker 01

  All these things say not to do it. And the guy in charge is like, yeah, yeah, but I'm the expert. Do it. I want this promotion. Do it. So they do all these things to run the test and then the nuclear reactor, they're supposed to stop. Like 700 kilowatts or whatever it was of power. And then reactors like, oh, I'm still going down. I'm still going down. Power basically goes all the way down. And the way that they decided to bring power back up was removing some of those safety rods. They're like, oh, let's pull these control rods out. That way they're not stopping the nuclear reaction. Nuclear reaction can go. We'll get our power back. And it did, but all of a sudden there were no. I think it was down to like 18 out of what 250 control rods. Only 18 were left inside and the nuclear reaction was like, hey, there's nothing stopping me.

• 20:06Speaker 01

  I'm let's fucking go crazy, yo. Ultimately, as the number started shooting up, there was a kill switch. I forget what it was called. There was a name for it, but they they hit the kill switch. Like, all right, put all the new the rods back in. We're shutting this down finally. However, there was a flaw in the design of the nuclear control rods. In order to save money, they had graphite tipped control rods instead of whatever it was supposed to be. I don't know what the alternative was, but the graphite itself, whenever inserted into the core, has a temporary moment of actually increasing the reaction rather than decreasing. So even though the rod itself is supposed to stop it, the moment all of those graphite tips went in, it was basically like a bunch of lighters at a gas station, just like, what if we just light a bunch of fires here real quick?

• 20:50Speaker 01

  And then reactor go boom and meltdown happened, radiation leaked. Some disasters were actually prevented that could have been a lot worse at Chernobyl, but I think it's still responsible for at least 49,000 deaths, plus who knows how many cancers and so on and so forth. But those are the basics of Chernobyl. However, the kill switch in theory should have worked if government wasn't cheap and didn't say, well, what are the odds of the graphite tipped things causing a problem? All these things have to go wrong for it to be bad. And then it was and it did and so on and so forth. The only other nuclear things of problems I know about, there was a thing at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in the 70s. And then there was Fukushima back in like, what was it, 2011? Those are the only other ones I personally know about.

• 21:35Speaker 01

  I don't know what caused the issues at Three Mile. I've not looked into that one. Fukushima, there was a like a magnitude nine earthquake and then a tsunami went over the. Protective wall, hit the power plant, drowned the steam engines, took away any ability for power to keep water cooling the reactors. And since it was being hit with seawater, all of the power was gone. All they were doing all kinds of shit to try to get power to these reactors. They couldn't do it fast enough. And then boom, boom, boom, boom, from hydrogen buildup and so on and so forth.

• 22:04Speaker 03

  They call it a Swiss cheese of failure.

• 22:07Speaker 01

  I didn't know that. Is that true?

• 22:08Speaker 03

  You don't know about the term Swiss cheese of failure?

• 22:10Speaker 01

  I did not.

• 22:11Speaker 03

  It's like if you line up slices of Swiss cheese from say a different cheese block. There's not much chance that you're gonna get a hole that goes all the way through. But every once in a while, in rare circumstances, we line up enough Swiss cheese slices. There's gonna be one that a series of Swiss cheese that has a hole that goes all the way through. And that's the Swiss cheese of failure. It's rare chances need to overlap for it to happen.

• 22:33Speaker 02

  It's why I only eat American cheese.

• 22:35Speaker 03

  I think we found our first country we need to nuke, which is the subject of this episode.

• 22:39Speaker 02

  And their shitty cheese.

• 22:41Speaker 03

  And any other country that has holes with holes with cheese in them, cheese with holes in them.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  Holes with cheese around them.

• 22:47Speaker 03

  Anyone that's got cheese in their holes, you deserve to be nuked. I think I speak for everyone here.

• 22:52Speaker 02

  That's the official stance of Distractible, hosted by Wade.

• 22:56Speaker 03

  He's the leader of this operation.

• 22:58Speaker 01

  Oh, God. Keep cheese out of your holes. Keep holes out of your cheese, everyone. That's today's PSA.

• 23:03Speaker 03

  And we're gonna have regular hole inspections to make sure those holes aren't cheesy.

• 23:07Speaker 01

  Please don't ask me to inspect your holes.

• 23:09Speaker 02

  Wade's gonna do it.

• 23:10Speaker 01

  I don't want to. I really don't. I don't want a cavity search for cheese.

• 23:15Speaker 03

  No, no, no, no, no. Not cavity search. Hole search.

• 23:18Speaker 01

  What are we talking about? Nuclear pa- nuclear power?

• 23:21Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 23:22Speaker 01

  Those are what I know about. You guys are welcome to describe a three mile if you know what happened at three mile. But ultimately, there's still a huge debate about whether or not nuclear power is safe. From what I can tell, Fukushima sounded like a pretty freak accident, but there were still some cutting cost things that went into effect that led to it being a disaster. Chernobyl, if they'd had the right kind of control rods in place, yeah, the fucking idiot running the thing was going to cause a disaster. But the shut off button still should have shut off. Both of those things I think should in theory still have been preventable. I'm a little bit less of a, I'm a little bit less knowledgeable about other than the basics I already described. But a lot of people still argue that nuclear power is still safer and still has less of a death toll.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  I've got it and I got the perfect company to do. I know what you're asking us. You don't even need to explain anymore. Ryobi nuclear batteries. I think the entire Ryobi line could be souped up if.

• 24:14Speaker 01

  It's already green.

• 24:15Speaker 03

  It's already green. It's already green. Nothing greener than nuke, Lear.

• 24:20Speaker 02

  That's what I say.

• 24:21Speaker 01

  I love the catchphrase like you bought, you pick up the drill and it's like nothing greener than, and it's just like a mushroom cloud.

• 24:29Speaker 03

  I love it when my mushroom clouds are green. That's when you know they're good. That's a Ryobi branding on there. Ryobi, call me. I'm gonna get so many sponsors by the end of this year. I'm gonna be so sponsored.

• 24:39Speaker 01

  Nuclear power, Ryobi, go, well, no, GoPros, probably just Bob already.

• 24:43Speaker 03

  We'll get to go for nuclear GoPros would be also be awesome. But I think if Ryobi chainsaw that's nuclear powered instead of like revving or whirring. It's like just the clicks from a Geiger counter. And so you just like the radiation goes up.

• 24:56Speaker 02

  Get your new Ryobi brushless nuclear drill with new Ryobi's new 1.21 gigawatt nuclear powered four amp hour battery. Your tool will be powered for slightly longer than on the old ones.

• 25:12Speaker 03

  The best of the best, right? This is what you wanted out of this episode, right?

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Oh yeah. I mean, imagine like, do you guys ever had like a little flower bed outside and like weeds keep popping up and it's so annoying? Like, but imagine your nuclear spray that just keeps the weeds gone forever.

• 25:27Speaker 03

  Well, that's a

• 25:30Speaker 03

  cuz it's, it'll kill you.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  Allegedly.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  Allegedly, there's nuclear.

• 25:38Speaker 03

  Maybe, yes, maybe. Protect me, protect me for myself.

• 25:42Speaker 01

  Protect us from our brand slander.

• 25:45Speaker 02

  Protect us, Ryobi. Go on.

• 25:48Speaker 03

  I'm the Joker, but with lawsuits. Come on, Stewie. Stewie, I want to do it.

• 25:53Speaker 02

  I'm like a dog biting mailmen. I just keep getting more lawsuits.

• 25:57Speaker 03

  I keep chasing sponsors. I wouldn't know what if I actually got one. What would I do? I would do what I did with Prusa. Putts around and don't make a video for six goddamn months.

• 26:08Speaker 02

  Hey, they're cool. We're cool, right, Prusa? You're cool.

• 26:11Speaker 03

  I, I did have this revelation on, on like a stream yesterday where I'm like, hey, I kinda have. If everyone in my audience knows that I haven't done a brand video for Prusa. Everyone, I've done the job, right?

• 26:25Speaker 02

  It's kind of perfect viral marketing, really. Cause then there's a bunch of people feeling sympathy for Pruso. And if any of them needs a 3D printer, they're like, Mark's not gonna make a video. I gotta buy one of those, I guess. Yeah, help these guys out.

• 26:40Speaker 01

  I gotta reach out and see if I get more sponsorships where I don't, don't do what I agree to. To see if, guys, the sympathy garnish over the next five years will be crazy.

• 26:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know, right?

• 26:49Speaker 01

  The sympathy, you get so many sympathy sales, you're gonna, it's gonna be through the roof.

• 26:54Speaker 02

  It's the new, it's the new generation of pain exposure. Thank you guys and sympathy, just wait.

• 27:00Speaker 01

  I don't really want a 3D printer, but Mark didn't do the video, so I guess I'll get one. As an empath.

• 27:08Speaker 01

  I really feel for Prusa. Nuclear powered 3D printing would go hard.

• 27:12Speaker 02

  What are we talking about?

• 27:13Speaker 01

  Nuclear. Nuclear, anything nuclear, there's just, we're going nuclear today. We're talking about power plants, is nuclear power the way?

• 27:19Speaker 03

  In a serious space, the, there's been developments, I don't know what it is, but there's been developments in thorium reactors. Uh, I haven't checked up on it, in thorium salt reactors. I don't think before it was practical, there was something about it that's practical. It was safer, but with thorium salts, there's a much lower like power ratio you can get out of it in the current way that they make them. I forget what the main problem is, though. It was, there was something that was fundamentally a problem with it, uh, that needed more research to get further into it, right? Thorium ironically also was the thing that was coating those Minolta lenses that makes it radioactive. So you know it's good.

• 28:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, so thorium, it looks like still involves using fissile fuel, so nuclear material. Molten salts are highly corrosive at extreme temperatures, requiring advanced expensive alloys. There's not really a streamlined global framework for cooling and regulation because it's such a new technology, I guess.

• 28:23Speaker 03

  All right, so I think maybe the issue was that thorium to become fissile, it needs to absorb a neutron to become uranium 233. But the problem is uranium 233. 233 could quickly or fairly simply turn into plutonium? No, protactinium 233? The fuck is that?

• 28:41Speaker 02

  Oh shit.

• 28:41Speaker 03

  What? Nah shit.

• 28:42Speaker 02

  Sounds like bad news.

• 28:44Speaker 01

  Never heard of that one.

• 28:45Speaker 03

  All right. Okay. This is where we're starting to babble about things that we don't know about. And we're making all the actual nuclear engineers mad, which is my favorite thing to do.

• 28:52Speaker 01

  Somehow still better than our brander, brand slander? Our brander? You've coined a term for our brander.

• 29:00Speaker 02

  I, I, I want you guys to settle something for me because I feel conflicted about this. I've already said it once or twice, but it is an honest to God debate. And I think different crowds, different people come down on different sides of this. The word is nuclear as in nucleus, nuclear, right?

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Yes, nuclear.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  I don't think any of the three of us say sincerely say nuclear because of our accents or anything. But that is a way that a large proportion of like native English speaking people say that word. Much the same way as people pronounce like pillow as pillow or room as rum.

• 29:42Speaker 04

  Is someone in my room? What weirdos would do that?

• 29:45Speaker 02

  We are experts in speaking out loud, so thus we are experts in language. Is nuclear is an acceptable way to pronounce the word or is it unacceptable? Because I feel strongly conflicted about this. Cause there are deep parts of me that find it very funny that like George W. Bush said nuclear, right? He was the president of our country. He was the leader of the free world, whatever. And he said that to me when I was a kid, I was like, he said it wrong.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  We're gonna find her. We're gonna nuclear her.

• 30:16Speaker 02

  Read the word. It's nuclear, sir. I think a linguist would say, well, language is kind of a living thing, right? So if someone's colloquial pronunciation is accepted as nu-

• 30:27Speaker 02

  Help me.

• 30:27Speaker 01

  Nerd, man. Oh, language is a living thing. I've got a lot of like southernisms in my family. So I feel like I've heard nuclear a bunch. I mean, I say nuclear. If someone I'm talking to says nuclear, I'll just continue to say nuclear.

• 30:42Speaker 02

  Do you like say it more emphatically to try and tell them that you're smarter than them?

• 30:47Speaker 01

  I am, but like, everyone knows I'm smarter than them, but like.

• 30:52Speaker 02

  Whoa, what a thing that they're out there.

• 30:54Speaker 01

  My cross to bear.

• 30:55Speaker 02

  So it's so to you, it's acceptable because like friends and family go there, friends and family have that.

• 31:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, I'm not gonna like make a big deal out of it.

• 31:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't care, but for different reasons than Wade, I just want to differentiate myself from him a little bit. Uh, but I don't care just because it's not worth the fight. Like there's so many. If we're as a society to the point where we can start fighting about that stuff again, we're in a good place. I think that that's, that's a sign that, you know, society is progressing down, uh, to where we want to be. Um, and until we get there, I don't think that we, any of us can complain too much. You know what I mean? You get what I'm saying here? You understand what I'm getting at, what I'm stabbing at? You're picking up what I'm, what I'm stabbing? You stabbing what I'm stabbing?

• 31:38Speaker 02

  I'm stabbing it. I'll stab it with you.

• 31:40Speaker 03

  Okay, stab, stab me.

• 31:41Speaker 02

  I'll stab you.

• 31:44Speaker 02

  Sam, where'd you even get that video of me stabbing Mark?

• 31:48Speaker 01

  Wow, look at all these different angles of him stabbing. That's crazy. Whoa.

• 31:54Speaker 03

  Oh, we got a 4D Gaussian splat of me getting stabbed by Bob. Holy shit.

• 31:59Speaker 01

  Wait, we have a slow mo angle from the knife's perspective.

• 32:02Speaker 03

  Oh my God, we've got the Minority Report psychic future view of Bob stabbing me.

• 32:08Speaker 01

  Dream sequence and everything? Wow, Sam, where'd you get that?

• 32:12Speaker 02

  It's crazy shit. That's production value right there.

• 32:15Speaker 03

  There's me as the dead wife under the bed sheets before I got stabbed. I don't know whose perspective we're looking at. I guess Amy's.

• 32:23Speaker 01

  What happened exactly? Hold on, where's the, I was just you and Bob. Where's the wife come from?

• 32:27Speaker 03

  No, no, it's from Amy's perspective. So Amy's not in this. It's just me under the sheets. You know, the dead wife thing.

• 32:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:36Speaker 03

  No, that's a thing. You can't act like I'm great.

• 32:38Speaker 02

  It doesn't seem like he knows.

• 32:40Speaker 03

  Everyone knows the dead wife thing. Everybody knows the dead wife thing.

• 32:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:45Speaker 02

  I can't tell if you're doing that just to piss him off, or if you actually sincerely have no idea.

• 32:49Speaker 01

  We'll never know. So back to nuclear, or nuclear if you prefer. I don't.

• 32:54Speaker 02

  I don't either. I guess what we're saying is if you're a watcher or a listener and you say nuclear. But also, good for you.

• 33:02Speaker 01

  The noise, but for those listening, Bob made a slight smirk as he gave that one light giggle.

• 33:08Speaker 02

  They know what that noise means. You don't have to explain my noises.

• 33:10Speaker 01

  It was so light, I barely even heard it. That's the sound my ass makes after eating too much skyline.

• 33:15Speaker 02

  No, no, that's wetter.

• 33:18Speaker 01

  No.

• 33:19Speaker 02

  Anyway, let's get back to discussing how nuclear reactors function.

• 33:22Speaker 03

  Right, right, right. Wait, can I talk about, I meant to talk about this during small talk, but because there was something that was so funny that happened on my journeys and it's not necessarily the main point of my small talk, but I met some fans, right?

• 33:36Speaker 02

  Gee, whoa, so many things happening.

• 33:39Speaker 03

  Someone spotted me through my, through my mask, which I'm like, hey, if you managed to get me through that, like it's totally fine. I usually do in the airport, both because I've never really. No one cared who you were till you took off the mask. Exactly, just like that. That's, that's what it was. So I say hi, I take a picture and we go our separate ways. They were very nice and they were even very nice afterwards. And they posted the picture on the subreddit and it got tons, tons of votes for some reason. But in, in the comments of this, it's really funny because it just shows like some people's psychic perceptions, psychological perceptions of reality get distorted in some way because I don't know, it might be a joke, but someone's like, said a comment is like,

• 34:19Speaker 03

  he's surprisingly average in height, blah, blah, blah. And the person responded, I'm 5'9" and my friend is around the same height. He was shorter than us both lol. And I'm like, you posted the picture of us and in the picture, I'm taller than both of you.

• 34:40Speaker 03

  That was so nice of them to bend down to make you look taller. I know, that's what someone said, like, oh, so kind of you to bend down so low for this photo. Like, literally, in the photo, you posted, "I'm taller than both of you." Like, what did, why, why would you do this to me?

• 34:57Speaker 02

  Commenter comes, or original poster comes back and is like, "Yeah, it's weird. Mark actually carries around his own apple box to stand on for fan pictures. He's not as tall as he appears in this photograph." Gotta make sure you explain it accurately.

• 35:11Speaker 03

  It's happened more than once, and I, you guys know, I'm not a tall guy. I don't, I never claimed to be a tall guy, but I am comfortably average in height. And it's just because you freaks make me look tiny and no one understands how gigantic you both are. You both are like in the 99th percentile of height. And everyone's like, "There's no way both of them can be that tall." He's got a beauty, beauty microscopic, and I'm like, "Oh."

• 35:35Speaker 02

  I mean, it's pretty unlikely that you'd have two such freakishly tall friends.

• 35:39Speaker 03

  It is, wasn't that weird?

• 35:41Speaker 02

  Almost like it couldn't be so.

• 35:43Speaker 03

  Also, and also like the other people in our friend group that are weirdly tall and above average. You know, I think Jesse is actually the same height as all of you guys. He's also six foot four for some fucking reason. In Cincinnati, they put something in the chili that I didn't get. I don't know, maybe I was destined to be 5'1", but I ate the chili and I grew nine inches. It's just like, I feel. You didn't get the big boy three-way, did you just get the normal one? Actually, I didn't start eating Skye until later, so maybe that was my problem.

• 36:09Speaker 02

  That's the thing, yeah.

• 36:10Speaker 03

  That's the thing.

• 36:12Speaker 02

  Ignore the fact that I grew up in a different city.

• 36:14Speaker 03

  Uh, nuclear powered dildos, nuclear powered, um... Side tangent, Mark's fan, so, okay. Whoa, whoa, what the fuck? Wait, you're fan, you're fan meat, I've triggered this memory in my head. Whoa, hold on a second. You can't go from nuclear powered dildo to, oh, this reminds me, you, Mark. Well, no, no, before we get to the dildos, before the dildos. Okay, all right, okay. Nothing to do with dildos.

• 36:37Speaker 01

  Uh, Molly and I were flying back and apparently there's no direct flights from Richmond to Cincinnati. So we had to fly to Atlanta there. We had to fly to Detroit on the way back here. While in Detroit, uh, we decided we wanted to get food and the food place Molly decided on was like, we were in B terminal. This was in like the very end of A terminal, which I didn't know till I was getting there. It was a long walk. So we walked to our gate and we're drop off our bags. Like, yeah, Molly, Molly said she'd sit with the bags while I go get food. And on the way, we're on one of those like little moving escalator plat- platform sidewalk, whatever they call moving sidewalk. I don't know what the term is.

• 37:09Speaker 02

  Speedifiers.

• 37:11Speaker 01

  There's a guy on the phone looking out a window and he is just yelling and he's screaming and he's cursing into his phone. And as we approached, like, people nearby are all watching this guy. And he's getting more and more just like animated, more and more angry. And we're like, oh, it's gonna be a problem. They're gonna, someone's gonna come do something about that. Cause like, there's kids nearby. This guy's just dropping F bombs like he's on this podcast. Get to the gate, set my stuff down, go back. Guy is still cursing. More people are kinda like watching, seeing like, hey, something terrible about to happen.

• 37:45Speaker 02

  Don't wanna miss it.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  Something horrible happened in his life. I don't know, but he, he's very angry to whoever he's on the phone with. I keep going. I get past them. I'm walking. It feels like a half an hour excursion to go get food. And Molly texts me updates like, hey, police came and talked to the guy. But now there's a lady who missed her flight. Very upset. She's like, I'm supposed to be first class. I blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you can't do this to me. Because they wouldn't let her board after the plane. Apparently it already left. I guess they were supposed to hold the whole plane up for her and she was late or some, I don't know.

• 38:13Speaker 02

  That does make it tricky.

• 38:15Speaker 01

  So police calmed the guy down. They're keeping an eye on him, but they've calmed him down. Now they're back talking to this lady. I get the food. I come all the way back. I get on one of the moving sidewalk things and actually there's the two police officers with that lady. Went right by me like, oh, well, I guess at least they, whatever's happening, they're handling that. Get back, start eating food. Uh, we eat. I put on my headphones. I go back to watching my regularly scheduled Chernobyl uh, on my tablet. And, uh, Molly like taps me and I look up and there's the two police officers just standing there smiling like arms crossed, looking at me. And I'm like.

• 38:52Speaker 01

  Hello, uh, hi. They're like, are you Wade? And I was like, who's asking? Yes. Like, dude, we are such big fans. And I was like, oh, thank God. Oh, every, because everyone in our like, sitting areas like looking at me. They're like, these police officers have had to take care of two problematic people here already. Is this guy ground zero? Who is this mystery bald man? So like, I get up, I take a picture with them. They're very nice. Uh, I'm like, I was like, oh, thank God. I didn't know what you guys were. I was like, I didn't know. I don't know anything. I didn't see what happened. Take the picture and you know, they head off and people are just staring like, don't worry, just YouTube. I'm not actually important. And I put my headphones back on and go back to watching, but like, I was the center of attention for a moment. That's the first time that's happened. And I see like them like go down one of the

• 39:35Speaker 01

  employee only staircases. They get in their car. Cause we're sitting in front of the window and they drive off. So I think they saw me on a camera and drove back over to come say hi, which is cool. But headphones on after all these events, looking up and just see like two cops staring at me. I was like, whatever it was, I just got food. I just got food. I'm watching, watching shit. You guys like Chernobyl. It scared the shit out of me. I was like, I don't, oh God, what'd I do? I didn't do anything wrong. I swear.

• 39:57Speaker 02

  Wade, you get the segue point for my current story.

• 40:00Speaker 01

  Oh, great.

• 40:00Speaker 02

  I can contribute to this fans recognizing us in places where it's a whole situation. This was another one where it's really attention. I didn't want, but it was, it's not a huge deal. It's just funny now. We went to King's Island and anyone who is large in the way that I am large knows the uncertainty that comes with roller coasters. We went to King's Island and we were like, all right, let's go on a coaster. And literally like was talking to Mandy and her brother about like, all right, so which coasters are like comfortable? Would be okay for me as a very like large.

• 40:32Speaker 01

  Even if you're just tall, those roller coasters are tough.

• 40:34Speaker 02

  So we, we debated and it was like, okay, we're going to go on this one. We're going to go on the, what used to be the Italian job one and is now just called like stunt coaster or something. Uh, and we wait in line and we get all the way up there. I, they don't have like a test seat, so I have no idea if I'm going to fit. We get all the way to the front. They, we, it's our turn. We're going to get in. And anyone who's a fat guy like me has had this experience where like I get in and I pull it and it goes like click, click, click, click. And I'm like, okay, it clicked a bunch. And the guy comes over and is like, ah, I can't see, I have to see this line for, and I'm like, okay.

• 41:07Speaker 02

  Click one more. Is that good? And he's like, nah, nah. And he's like a few more still. I was like, step on it. I'll suck in like you step on. And literally this guy's like, all right, man. And just like.

• 41:20Speaker 02

  And I'm like, yeah, do it, do it. This is gonna be great. I'll survive. And like they do it and it clicks a couple more times and finally he calls his buddy over and they look and they're like, now we have to see the line clearly past this. It's that's not enough. But and I'm like,

• 41:38Speaker 02

  all right, I'm too fat. And the way they build roller coasters, of course, they can't just unbuckle me and be like, all right, you off. They're like, All right, everybody. Uh, we're gonna have to unbuckle your seatbelts or just stay in your seats. There's just a really big fat guy up at the front of the roller coaster is not gonna fit. Uh, so just pull it right back down. And uh, we'll just make him leave while you do that. And so it was like, everything opens and everyone's kind of like, oh, what? I climb out and as I'm like trying to climb out really awkward and feeling bad about myself. The guy who was stepping on my lap bar to try and make me fit was like, wait a minute, are you Bob?

• 42:20Speaker 02

  Literally, we were at the front of the train in front of everyone else. And he's like, are you Bob from Distractible? Guys, this is Bob. Cool. Yeah, cool. Hey, do you want to pick? Do you want to make these people wait while we take a picture really quickly? You go to everybody. You're like, all right, everybody bust out your coins. Time to start flipping.

• 42:42Speaker 02

  Suffice to say, uh, he didn't ask for a picture, but we didn't take one. I just like ran away like, I'm not him, but I ran and hid somewhere in my shame. But uh, what a moment for someone to just be like, wait, I know you. Look, everybody.

• 42:59Speaker 01

  Another annoying ass thing about those roller coasters, they do put them like super tight on you. When you're big, like it goes all like, it's in your gut. But a lot of the way that they release is they don't just pop up. You're just a push down more for it to release.

• 43:13Speaker 04

  Oh, God. Oh, God.

• 43:15Speaker 01

  I've seen like people have to have like the things fucking removed because they put it so tight on you. And when they come around, they push down, they're like, don't give a fuck if it's already tight on you. And it's like, And then you go to get off the thing that's like, guys, help. They're like, oh, don't worry. But sometimes they can't get it in far enough. So they have to come and fucking like disassemble the goddamn thing to get you out.

• 43:37Speaker 02

  It's the best. It's the best.

• 43:39Speaker 01

  Yeah. Cause those things are built for like, you know, I guess kids and they have to be able to fit kids and people, I don't know, up to really tall, but.

• 43:46Speaker 02

  They're built for Mark sized humans.

• 43:48Speaker 03

  Hey, I was about to say, yeah, I never have these problems, guys. I hate to say it, but.

• 43:52Speaker 02

  Imagine being average.

• 43:54Speaker 01

  I don't remember what the rule is for insulting Mark, but Bob, you've got two points for Mark insults already.

• 43:59Speaker 02

  And that wasn't an insult. He's average. I didn't call him short at all. I said he's average.

• 44:03Speaker 01

  An insult, man.

• 44:04Speaker 02

  That's not a short joke.

• 44:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, you freaks, you freaks. Fuck. Does that mean I insulted it by thinking it was an insult?

• 44:09Speaker 02

  I think, yeah, you did. Wait, man. Yeah. What the hell, man?

• 44:13Speaker 01

  All right. I mean, cause you got one insult mark point then. For the pillow rum thing. Cause that was definitely.

• 44:20Speaker 02

  Was that targeted? No, that was, I was specifically targeting my high school friend, Peter. I don't know if you listen to the show, Peter, but yes, I remember that you say pillow wrong. Peter.

• 44:31Speaker 03

  Peter, if you're listening to this, you need to run. Peter, this is, you're in a coma. You need to wake up. This is your sign. Hey, Peter, run.

• 44:41Speaker 03

  Hey, Peter.

• 44:42Speaker 01

  All right. Well, I gave myself one mark insult point. Those two combined had to be at least one mark insult, right?

• 44:47Speaker 02

  I wasn't targeting Mark at all. The word that Mark says funny was not in part of my examples.

• 44:52Speaker 03

  I mean, I say room kind of funny, apparently. Oh, room. It kind of is. It's still, it's not room. It's room.

• 44:58Speaker 02

  It's room.

• 45:00Speaker 03

  The bedroom.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  What are we talking about? Nuclear bombs?

• 45:04Speaker 03

  Nuclear.

• 45:05Speaker 02

  ICBMs.

• 45:06Speaker 03

  Uh, nuclear underpants, radioactive. You know, they used to have radium things to make your water radioactive. I just saw.

• 45:15Speaker 02

  There used to just straight up be pictures. The only thing about which is this has a shitload of radium in it. Drink this and you'll get your daily dose of radium, which you want.

• 45:26Speaker 03

  Yep, that's it.

• 45:27Speaker 01

  Between that and like lead products, like um, we were seeing a thing about the Dyatlov Pass. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that one where people went like hiking and ended up all being dead or whatever. And then there was a

• 45:38Speaker 03

  Did they solve the Dyatlov Pass mystery?

• 45:40Speaker 01

  Ultimately, they concluded like five or six years ago, there was like a, a guy that went out and said, yes. They think what ended up happening was there was an avalanche, like a minor, a minor avalanche that came down and hit the tent, which is like usually the precursor to a bigger avalanche. So they think that the people burst out of the tent to run away, thinking there was another avalanche. But since there wasn't a bigger one, they were just out there fucking freezing to death because they didn't get all of their stuff in time. Cause they were running, thinking there was going to be an avalanche. They tried building like a little campfire or hiding under like some, some rock structure that ended up collapsing. Ultimately, hypothermia, they for all froze to death or got crushed by shit to death, thinking they were escaping an avalanche that never came.

• 46:17Speaker 03

  Couldn't be me. I have this regular thought experiment. I'm like, okay, what if I was transported into the Siberian wilderness? Like boom, I'm naked in the middle of the frozen tundra. What do I do? And the answer shockingly isn't die immediately. I, I, I, I figure a way.

• 46:34Speaker 02

  You figure a way? Non specifically, I figure it out.

• 46:37Speaker 03

  Well, I, once I watch enough Outdoor Boys YouTube channel videos, I'll know exactly what to do. Nothing makes your brain move faster than the cold, right? You just, yeah.

• 46:46Speaker 02

  I absolutely have that same confidence. I've never once started a fire without the aid of like a lighter and flammable shit. I would definitely figure it out. I would, within the first few hours, I would have camp set up. I would have enough shelter with some kind of fire that I would survive, that I'd have to work out food. Cause you have to figure out the food situation, but that's not as immediately pressing as dying of exposure. So yeah, I figured. No, I see what you're saying. I figured it out.

• 47:13Speaker 01

  I was thinking of the Franklin Expedition, which was like 160 odd years ago. So 10 cans, used to not be 10 cans. They were lead cans and a lot of food. So they had this long expedition where they were trying to find a trade route through like the Arctic. All of their meals, they were like eating out of lead cans, which you know how good lead is for you. And then they got stuck in the ice and a bunch of shit went wrong and they all died, whatever, have you, but like, yeah. Tin lead, we used to eat lead. We're just like, oh, lead paint, lead cans, lead.

• 47:41Speaker 03

  I know about this because I went to Norway and so you get it from the Norwegian perspective of the people they were racing to find like an Arctic path. And then the first to the South Pole is also another part of that. And every time from the Norwegian's perspective was just like, yeah, and then the British really fucked up. They they did not know what they were doing at all. And it's like, especially to the South Pole one where it's like the Norwegian expedition is like, oh, it's such a race. It's very arduous, you know, they have to send people back all the time and they get there and they're first they plant their flag. From the British perspective, it's like, and then 13 people died on the first leg. And then they shot all their horses on the second leg and then they lost another person. And there were four people left to climb the last ridge and one person went there and or maybe a few.

• 48:25Speaker 03

  And then they get there and there's already a Norwegian flag after all of their people died and their horses are dead. They did not make it back. They all died. So yeah, from the Norwegian perspective, these these Franklin's lost expedition does not surprise me.

• 48:41Speaker 01

  I'm curious what we're gonna find. I'm sure something with fast food will come out in like 200 years where they're like, these fuckers voluntarily went and spent their money eating this poison.

• 48:50Speaker 03

  Plastics.

• 48:51Speaker 02

  It's definitely microplastics. Yeah.

• 48:53Speaker 01

  At least we're aware, you know, but this is probably something we're not aware of, right?

• 48:56Speaker 02

  I'm already like 18% microplastic.

• 48:59Speaker 01

  When I die, I'm either gonna be buried or recycled. I'm too much plastic to be cremated. I'm bad for the environment.

• 49:04Speaker 03

  That's true. Sadly, you can't recycle plastic.

• 49:08Speaker 02

  Can't you?

• 49:09Speaker 03

  Well, you can, but they don't. I I've been so disheartened because when I get my trash collected, I see them pick up the garbage can, throw it in the back and then I see them pick up the recycling can, throw it in the same spot and I go, oh, man.

• 49:22Speaker 02

  Maybe there's a

• 49:25Speaker 02

  there's like a divider.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  Like Johnson. And I still, I still separate my recyclable. I still do it even though I know what's happening to it there. I'm still like, I I'm doing my part.

• 49:37Speaker 02

  I I can't imagine not. I know that it's not, this is just like a privilege thing because I grew up in a in a better off neighborhood and whatever I grew up where I grew up. I grew up, we Had recycling like my whole childhood as far as I remember. So literally the way you take the trash out is you separate out the recycling and take it out and you have two bins and that it's always been like that. And I can't, I can't even imagine not because, because I like you, I'm sort of disillusioned about state of industrial recycling. And what, what they actually do with any of the stuff and that I pay for the extra recycling service seems really stupid. But like, it's a compulsion. How do you put out your trash if you're not separating the recycling and like making sure like, oh, this is a number one.

• 50:19Speaker 02

  That can go in the recycling. That's good. Okay. I have neighbors in the neighborhood I live in now who just have just a trash can and my brain is like, what do you just keep your recycling? What do you recycle it yourself?

• 50:30Speaker 01

  My grandparents did that. They would keep the recycling and take it in themselves. They got one of those like can crushers where they just put the cans and.

• 50:36Speaker 03

  I love that. I feel like I would be better off just try and getting a schmelter and melting all my aluminum cans down and.

• 50:43Speaker 02

  Schmelting it.

• 50:44Speaker 03

  Schmelting it. And I could schmelte it into things.

• 50:47Speaker 02

  Dude, you could, you could make your own custom heat sinks. Get some kind of mold. Well, you have 3D printers, right? So you could 3D print and then make a sand cast of your 3D print and then use the sand, sand molding to make like perfect little shelves. You can make them with Capri Sun insert slots for cooling.

• 51:05Speaker 03

  I just melt down the Capri Suns. Do you ever watch, uh, Nighthawk in Lights videos? They're the person that got me into Glaber's salt.

• 51:14Speaker 02

  I do not.

• 51:15Speaker 03

  They made a video about two weeks ago that had a, like, it's to make flow batteries and it's not about flow batteries. It kind of tangentially nuclear, so I'll take some points for this. Uh, but it's like, he's making.

• 51:29Speaker 02

  I don't know. That's how this one works. Damn.

• 51:33Speaker 03

  He's making a flow battery and he needs like this sort of graphite material to have like a lot of surface area for the anode and cathode, right? Of a battery. And it's like, there's this extremely expensive material that you can buy in bulk, but it's expensive. But you can make your own using this carbon insulation material that then you strip with some fluid and then put in your microwave kiln and microwave till it's 2,000 degrees or something like that. And I'm like, holy shit. This is why I think microwaves don't work the way people say they do, because it's just like, he had it in the.

• 52:05Speaker 02

  Is that safe to go that high?

• 52:07Speaker 03

  He had it outside, so it's perfectly fine. Uh, but it's just like. I I know they say like, oh, it heats up by water molecules vibrating and that's what heats your food. And I go like, well, then why when you put aluminum foil into it, it turns into plasma? What water molecules are vibrating to do that? And I'm like, there's I, I, I want to make a microwave smelter.

• 52:31Speaker 02

  Well, I don't know why that wouldn't work. I couldn't tell you why it would work either, but I definitely don't know why it wouldn't work.

• 52:37Speaker 03

  In Los Angeles, this is probably the best thing I could do.

• 52:40Speaker 02

  Does not sound like the headline of the next fire that destroys a major residential area at all.

• 52:46Speaker 03

  What would you be smelting? Metal, aluminum cans, I'm recycling, I'm helping the environment.

• 52:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, there's only so many things you could smelt at home. You don't want to be, you can't be doing high, like, high temperature complicated shit.

• 52:58Speaker 03

  Call me crazy here, but isn't, isn't that the one thing you're not supposed to put in a microwave is metal? No, no, they just say that so you don't discover it's.

• 53:05Speaker 02

  It's dangerous if you don't, if you're not doing it on purpose, it's dangerous because you might do something you're not expecting, but.

• 53:11Speaker 03

  Isn't it dangerous if you do it on purpose?

• 53:13Speaker 02

  Oh, it just becomes a plasma.

• 53:15Speaker 03

  What about that one YouTuber who, who created like a 20,000 watt microwave and it.

• 53:21Speaker 02

  Sorry about William, William Osmond.

• 53:23Speaker 03

  No, Styro Pyro. Have you seen his 40, like 400 car battery experiment?

• 53:30Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 53:30Speaker 03

  That just literally melts and cause the magnetic field so strong, all the wires to the things. He made a microwave that was unbelievable. He called it a microwave. Dude, I get nervous just plugging things into the wall. I wouldn't fuck with that. Yeah, well, he seems to not care about that. So maybe you should reevaluate your priorities. I'm a coward.

• 53:50Speaker 02

  You are a coward. I'll take some points for that.

• 53:54Speaker 02

  Can I just say as a.

• 53:55Speaker 03

  I would never insult Mark. First opportunity, Wade, you fucking bitch.

• 53:59Speaker 02

  That was an hour into recording. That was not the first opportunity.

• 54:03Speaker 01

  Damn.

• 54:04Speaker 02

  Can I just say?

• 54:07Speaker 02

  I, I know as a completely, completely ignorant non-scientist myself, how the fuck do we have things that are so ubiquitous that we don't understand the technology? Do we sincerely not really understand how microwaves work? Cause every house in America definitely has at least one of those bad boys sitting somewhere inside that makes popcorn once every two months at minimum.

• 54:30Speaker 03

  It's no, there, it's understood how like the microwaves are generated, the wave guide, putting them in there, the, the kind of.

• 54:38Speaker 02

  But like, it's not clear how it heats things up or why aluminum becomes plasma. Like I, I know that you've said that, but like, that's a thing, right? People are like, oh, we don't even know how it works completely.

• 54:49Speaker 03

  I think I don't know how it works completely. I'm sure there's plenty of scientists that could explain it better than I could. I, it probably does make water molecules vibrate in food. And then it also does other things depending on the material, like it might.

• 55:02Speaker 02

  Scientists explain it to me like I'm a host on Distractible. Whatever intelligence level you think that represents. But that, that's a, that's maybe it's just complicated or hard for normies to understand. You're not the first and/or only person I've heard say that, right? It's a common, like, it's one of those things people just throw out, we're like, ah, we don't even really know how microwaves work. There has to be some amount of truth to that, or like, maybe we didn't for a long time or something. Obviously not that, cause they make them so they know how to make the thing that emits the microwaves to begin with, and they contain them theoretically so that it's safe to be in your house. But there's some mystery in it. What's the mystery?

• 55:40Speaker 03

  You got me, but it makes things hot.

• 55:43Speaker 01

  Makes a hell of a good pizza roll if you do it right.

• 55:46Speaker 02

  Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you, are you telling me you microwave pizza rolls? Tell me you do this to yourself on purpose?

• 55:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, what, what's wrong with that? I, I find a way to make them better there than I feel like they come out in the oven. Yeah.

• 55:58Speaker 02

  Whoa, wrong.

• 56:00Speaker 01

  It's a hell of, I know it's a hell of an accusation, but like.

• 56:03Speaker 02

  There's one thing that microwaves don't do, it's make anything in the known universe crispy. And that's the only thing I want with my pizza rolls is a little bit of crispiness.

• 56:12Speaker 01

  If you overcook them in the microwave, they do come out crispy and I feel like they're better than when they're in the oven.

• 56:17Speaker 03

  I haven't had pizza rolls since I've gotten an air fryer, but I bet an air fryer would do it really well.

• 56:22Speaker 02

  Dude, air fryer is the way. Air fryer is the truth when it comes to pizza rolls.

• 56:26Speaker 03

  It's, air fryer is basically just an oven with a fan. It's a convection oven. Yeah.

• 56:31Speaker 02

  But it's small, so you could put only the amount of food you actually want to eat inside of it.

• 56:35Speaker 01

  Which is problematic if what you want to eat is 20 chicken wings.

• 56:38Speaker 02

  20 chicken wings would fit in my air fryer. You just have to have the right air fryer.

• 56:41Speaker 01

  I'm hungry, so still haven't eaten lunch. Nuclear, we've really gone nuclear. We've gone microwave. We've gone King's Island. We've gone plastics. I will say, I think that modern nuclear technology probably is pretty safe. And if it's made not cheaply and correctly, it probably is.

• 56:58Speaker 03

  Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

• 56:59Speaker 01

  But like, I guess long-term ramifications are like, is it safe 500 years from now? Like, does the, how, how do they replace all the infrastructure? I'm sure there's probably a plan, hopefully in place. Also, there is nuclear waste. And the way that the half-life of nuclear material works is it, radiation and shit like that sticks around a while. So eventually you're gonna have a lot of waste.

• 57:19Speaker 02

  That's what I was gonna say is, I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that nuclear power is actually the, just as safe as current standards. And also like the most environmentally effective version of generating electricity. Except it does generate nuclear waste and our current solution for that is put in that big fucking mountain and nobody go over there. And we'll just hope that never fills all the way up. So we could keep putting it in that big mountain that we made. Um, but like, yeah, assume that's, at some point in the future, someone will invent the whatever device. And it will re-manufacture nuclear waste into probably puppy food or diapers for babies. Who knows?

• 58:01Speaker 01

  My baby's ass is glowing. Is that normal, doctor?

• 58:04Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 58:06Speaker 02

  So you could change it in the dark without having to turn on the lights and wake your poor baby.

• 58:10Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, okay, the thing about nuclear waste is it really doesn't generate that much compared to other energy mediums because nuclear power is so dense compared to other, any other form of it. So either we put it in one spot in the ground and don't touch it, which, you know, someone could, I guess, sabotage it, or we do what we currently do, which is shoot it all in the air, like all the byproducts just up.

• 58:34Speaker 01

  Why can't we just launch our nuclear waste to the moon?

• 58:37Speaker 03

  Oh, I thought you said sun. I see. You almost had a smart idea. Yeah. See.

• 58:42Speaker 01

  I guess it would be expensive to put it in a thing that's safe to get through the atmosphere. And then also its job is to go explode on the sun.

• 58:48Speaker 02

  It's like restaurants in the nineties. We just need to make sure that we're in the non-smoking section of the earth and everyone else can have the nuclear fallout when that happens, right?

• 58:58Speaker 03

  Maybe, yeah, actually.

• 59:00Speaker 02

  We just, we just put a big non-nuclear sign over America and that'll keep all the nuclear dust out of our atmosphere.

• 59:06Speaker 03

  We just designate some parts of the world as being the ew zone and we'll put all of our ew there.

• 59:13Speaker 02

  Don't we already have that? Isn't it called the ew?

• 59:17Speaker 03

  We could, I had an idea.

• 59:20Speaker 01

  You can say it.

• 59:20Speaker 03

  I'll, look, I'll just take my points. I forgot what it was.

• 59:24Speaker 01

  Is that how this episode works? You just ask for points?

• 59:26Speaker 02

  He didn't ask. He told.

• 59:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I'll just take them.

• 59:29Speaker 01

  That's true. All right. Well, that's nuclear power, everyone. We've, we've done it. We've gone nuclear. The waste, we're just gonna launch it to a mountain and if you guys finally want housing to be affordable, just buy it near the nuclear waste site.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  I remember. Why can't we throw it in a volcano?

• 59:44Speaker 02

  That thing you said about it going in the atmosphere, I think a volcano would just be a much cooler version of that, wouldn't it?

• 59:50Speaker 03

  Oh, you throw it in there, it'll melt down. See, we're putting all of our waste up.

• 59:54Speaker 02

  And then you take a big cork and you go, and that way it stays in there till it's all gone.

• 1:00:00Speaker 03

  See, this is why science works in teams. You got the ideas all build.

• 1:00:05Speaker 01

  And then you're pressure cooking it so you can use it again.

• 1:00:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. What if I put it in a can crusher and I put that in my microwave and I turn it into something else?

• 1:00:16Speaker 02

  It will become a plasma, which I've heard is a good thing to donate to blood banks. So I assume is a good thing.

• 1:00:23Speaker 01

  And I got nuclear powered plasma running through my veins. I have at least three days to live.

• 1:00:30Speaker 02

  That'd be a long time.

• 1:00:32Speaker 03

  You kind of don't want that at that point. If you get nuclear plasma in your blood.

• 1:00:36Speaker 01

  Well, one thing I learned is how awful radiation sickness and death is.

• 1:00:41Speaker 02

  From when you were a problem in the airport and the police interrupted your Chernobyl watching?

• 1:00:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, I was talking. I was like, guys, listen, what if we all just go to Chernobyl as one? We could all be a cult. And the police came up. They're like, hey, we want your photograph. Like, sure, that seems normal.

• 1:00:56Speaker 03

  This reminds me of a story that I don't think I told that I tell when I went from Poland to back to America. And we were in line for the security and then someone walked through these, these two little pylons. And one of them started beeping, right? And it was one of those beeps where it was like, that's a new one. Haven't heard that one before. And everyone goes quiet and it's quiet for like a minute. Before this guy, security guard comes out and he's got a hand detector for something and he's waving it like this.

• 1:01:27Speaker 03

  And it's not like clicking like a Geiger counter. It's beeping and he's just sweeping around, looking around. Everyone's dead silent, looking at this guy and he's just.

• 1:01:37Speaker 03

  And he goes up to someone. There's a woman who I thought was like holding a baby and he's holding the thing right up to what I think is a baby. And it's going.

• 1:01:46Speaker 03

  And he just was like, hmm, just gestures with his finger. I'm not hearing any words exchanged and it's like they're slowly meandering. And what will happen is this guy keeps waving it as he's going, but he's like, follow me. They go through the pylons. It goes beep again, and every once in a while he'll stop, turn around, go. Hmm. And to the people that are following him and it's like, it's taking a couple of steps at a time. He's sweeping around. Come with me. And then they left. No announcement. Nothing was said. Everyone just resumed back into security. No clue what it was. I have no idea. It was at the Poland airport. Anybody know what that was?

• 1:02:24Speaker 02

  It's actually just a system they use to keep order. He gets all those people back to the back and they're all terrified. And he's like, oh, it's okay. We're just gonna look at your passports and then you could go. We just use that to keep the crowds chilled out. Now, everyone out there is gonna be freaked out for the whole rest of the time they're here. It's great.

• 1:02:40Speaker 01

  It's actually a detector for full arts, really valuable Pokemon cards. And whenever that went off, the guy knew that she had one. He's like, I gotta confiscate this.

• 1:02:47Speaker 03

  Kept it in a baby papoose, just like, it's just cards.

• 1:02:53Speaker 01

  I had to buy a little like carry on bag to bring the cards back because our suitcase was already so full going there. I was like.

• 1:02:59Speaker 03

  You stuffed a carry on full of Pokemon cards. You have a problem.

• 1:03:03Speaker 02

  Sounds like a federal crime or something. Cross state lines. Did you pay taxes on that?

• 1:03:08Speaker 01

  It went through their scanner. They let me through. I guess I could have driven it across state lines and it would have been fine too. That's weird. I hope someone tells us what that meant because now I'm curious. I want to know what that was.

• 1:03:18Speaker 02

  I'll take some points for Mark's story. Thanks.

• 1:03:21Speaker 01

  Uh, can I get the same? You guys are certainly getting something.

• 1:03:24Speaker 02

  Well, it's points, I assume.

• 1:03:26Speaker 01

  Any final thoughts on nuclear? I'm going to wrap this one up.

• 1:03:29Speaker 02

  I don't know if I had any original thoughts on nuclear, but you're welcome.

• 1:03:32Speaker 01

  Great. That's how this show works. I bring up a topic and you just don't give a fuck.

• 1:03:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, pretty much. Bounty, bounty, bounty. Oh, what is that?

• 1:03:42Speaker 03

  It's a picture of my dog in a distractible merch. Oh shit.

• 1:03:47Speaker 01

  How do we confirm this? Is there, or is it, we have to look at the bounty?

• 1:03:50Speaker 02

  What do you mean? How do we confirm this?

• 1:03:52Speaker 01

  I'm showing you.

• 1:03:54Speaker 02

  Oh, you mean how do, how do we confirm it's a bounty?

• 1:03:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's on the list.

• 1:03:58Speaker 02

  That, that is on the official list on the subreddit. That is a bounty.

• 1:04:02Speaker 03

  I had a picture of the moon and I for some reason couldn't find it. I was like, I had a picture that I managed to take with my GoPro of like, it through a telephoto lens and I got a good picture of it and I can't find it. So I ran out and I put the shirt on.

• 1:04:20Speaker 02

  Number four on the May list of bounty additions. Recent persimmon four, one, four, eight. Get a picture of their dog in distractible merch. Shirt, specifically shirt, which he did do.

• 1:04:34Speaker 01

  All right. Bounty confirmed. Overdeemed. That's our first bounty. That's what I'm talking about. I forgot to get the coin flip right after I walked away from those fans. I was like, fuck, ah shit. I completely forgot.

• 1:04:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. Now that you say it, I had a hell of a way to bookend that story of me holding up the entire roller coaster ride. If I had just done the coin flip thing then and there, but it didn't fucking occur to me.

• 1:04:54Speaker 01

  I wish I'd pulled out a coin, turned to the cops and been like.

• 1:04:57Speaker 05

  I'm going to play a game.

• 1:04:58Speaker 03

  Well, that's why, that's why when we have this thing and people, well, Sam, don't put this in, when we have this, you know, when it's ready, we'll have this always on us.

• 1:05:05Speaker 05

  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 1:05:07Speaker 02

  I think you should leave that, but just Sam blur it to death. So they have no idea what's happening. You'll, you'll love that when you get to know what it is. I guarantee it. I'm like the men's warehouse guy.

• 1:05:19Speaker 01

  We'll go through the points. Bob, you got points for...

• 1:05:22Speaker 02

  Like a dog biting a mailman.

• 1:05:24Speaker 01

  Nuclear. Hello, room, Peter slash not Mark Jab, Mark-sized human.

• 1:05:31Speaker 02

  Not an insult.

• 1:05:32Speaker 01

  Called me a coward.

• 1:05:33Speaker 02

  Yes, insult.

• 1:05:34Speaker 01

  Fan in the worst way at King's Island. And you got some points for wanting points. Mark, you got points for a thick cedar picture, thorium salt reactor. If people are saying nuclear, society's in a good place if we're fighting over the way to say words. Learning about the Franklin Expedition in Norway. I asked what would be the thing in 200 years we look back on our era and be like, mm, bad idea? You said plastic very quickly. Uh, you met some very tall fans. You had a tangential nuclear story. You brought up the macro microwave stuff. You asked for points a couple of times. You had a couple of points for asking for them. Uh, and then you got the, I gave you three points for the bounty because it's the first bounty we've ever done. We said two to three points. It's our first ever bounty, so I gave out the three.

• 1:06:18Speaker 01

  Uh, our totals, it was 11 to 7, Mark, and then Mark got three for the bounty. So he didn't really need to use that bounty here, so he's 14 to 7.

• 1:06:28Speaker 02

  Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, three? I thought regular bounties were one.

• 1:06:33Speaker 01

  I thought we said two to three judges. I only gave three.

• 1:06:36Speaker 02

  I would say something that's as low effort as getting your dog picture in a shirt is, doesn't rise to the level of like, oh, that's an extraordinary bounty. That's not a super hard one.

• 1:06:46Speaker 01

  I, I would agree that it's a two pointer, but I gave a point for it being the first ever bounty redeemed.

• 1:06:51Speaker 02

  Oh, Jesus. Wow. All right. Well, so...

• 1:06:54Speaker 01

  And I figured if he was gonna use it on an episode, he was already dominating. Might as well give him the point now for it, right?

• 1:06:59Speaker 02

  Come on, golf rules. Let's do this.

• 1:07:02Speaker 01

  All right. Oh, and I have four points, one of which is a Mark insult because I thought Bob insulted Mark, but it was really just me insulting him on the inside or something.

• 1:07:11Speaker 02

  Is your own prejudice shining through, you jerk? Oh, great. We'll, we ask you, how many spins will we do today?

• 1:07:22Speaker 02

  Two it is. Thank you.

• 1:07:24Speaker 01

  We need to pick me up. You know, sometimes people just have a bad time or a bad week. So I'm gonna add had the worst time since we last spoke. Cause you know what? A point for that at least means you're getting something out of it.

• 1:07:35Speaker 03

  That's good. That's good. I hope I get that one. I had a great week, but you know.

• 1:07:38Speaker 02

  Got 113 options. Like, one of them will save me in this situation. I got two spins to find it.

• 1:07:46Speaker 03

  What are the odds?

• 1:07:47Speaker 02

  Let's go, baby.

• 1:07:49Speaker 01

  It's only between you two, right? So since I'm on the board with four, it wouldn't go to me, right?

• 1:07:53Speaker 03

  I don't know. I don't think we've ever had that precedence.

• 1:07:56Speaker 02

  Host interruptions of the other guy.

• 1:07:58Speaker 03

  Which other guy?

• 1:08:00Speaker 02

  I don't remember what that means.

• 1:08:02Speaker 01

  I think whenever like one of the competitors is talking, the other person interrupts a bunch. Cause that's kind of what I do.

• 1:08:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, but we have a separate rule where if none of us can remember what the rules, we delete it. But I think we know what that one is.

• 1:08:12Speaker 02

  Is that a re-spin or do you want to call that Wade? Cause we probably interrupted each other, but it wasn't aggressive this episode or anything.

• 1:08:19Speaker 01

  It doesn't stand out. I would say re-spin.

• 1:08:20Speaker 02

  Spin number one, part two. Mention their significant other the most.

• 1:08:26Speaker 01

  I said Amy. I-

• 1:08:27Speaker 02

  Both of you mentioned your significant others and I did not mention Mandy a single time, I don't think. I would have if I had done small talk. I will be, I'm honest, my small talk included Mandy. I had it prepared.

• 1:08:40Speaker 01

  We'll never know.

• 1:08:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, probably forget it by the time we record the next one. Anyway, come on, golf rules. Come on. Okay, it's minus, minus one to current loser.

• 1:08:56Speaker 01

  So is that me or you? Cause I'm on the board.

• 1:08:58Speaker 02

  If you can't win, it's me. Cause you're not the winner or the loser. You're the host. So that means I'm the current loser.

• 1:09:05Speaker 03

  That's hilarious. You get a bad day. You just need to make it worse.

• 1:09:11Speaker 02

  Back to my old ways with the random chance games. I love this for me. Let's flip some coins. I'm feeling it, guys.

• 1:09:17Speaker 01

  Final score is, uh, me with five.

• 1:09:21Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 1:09:21Speaker 01

  Bob with six.

• 1:09:23Speaker 02

  Okay, I beat Wade. Thank God.

• 1:09:24Speaker 01

  Mark with 15. Holy shit.

• 1:09:28Speaker 02

  That might be one of the biggest point differentials we've had, at least in recent memory.

• 1:09:33Speaker 01

  Mark really went off at the end there, and then he had the bounty on top of it. So, yeah, Bob, loser's speech.

• 1:09:41Speaker 02

  Sometimes the universe speaks to you, and who am I to question the wisdom of the universe? I suck, and I deserve to lose. So says the wheel, so says the universe, so it must be true. Today, it's just the truth of everything. I suck, I should not have won, and I did not win, and the one who should have won clearly did. So, thank you, universe, for your infinite wisdom. Thank you, Wade, for not giving me any points for most of what I said. And congratulations to Mark, clearly the better competitor and person on today's episode.

• 1:10:16Speaker 01

  Uh, Mark, our Lees, our king, our leader, our most dominant winner. Would you like to give a winner's speech?

• 1:10:22Speaker 03

  My goodness, I can barely be humble with all these accolades being heaped upon me, but I will humbly accept them all. I did it. Whatever I did, whenever I was saying the random stuff, and we were both saying pretty random things the entire time, I said it better somehow, which just shows that fate aligned with me on this day. What Bob said was right. It was purely the gods above smiling down upon us, and I think that that is something you can just let happen. You don't need to mention it a lot, you don't need to look it in the eye, it's just happening. I'm not going to say I did anything about it, because that will keep it going. So long as I don't acknowledge it ever happened, my winning streak will continue, and the good luck will shower upon me. For the moment that I look it in the eye, it will turn on me, and it will rip me from

• 1:11:06Speaker 03

  twain to twain.

• 1:11:08Speaker 02

  Both twains.

• 1:11:10Speaker 01

  Twains are gonna be ripped straight out. From Mark all the way to Shania. Yeah, your host speech. Both of them don't like the way I did points, even though Mark won with them, so I won't be winning again anytime soon. So, enjoy this while it lasts. I'll see you all next season, whenever I host again. Congratulations, if you haven't already, go follow Bob at MySkir, Mark at Mark. Don't follow me. Stay tuned for the next one, where Mark will host, and we'll probably definitely not do the perfectest crime, unless. Podcast.