A Harrowing Journey

Before Wade hosts a game of "Would You Rather," Mark proves that the journey from Ohio isn't always a happy one. Learn more at uber.com/onourway A Spotify Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 1:00Speaker 02

  Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible. This episode: Warning Wade criticizes curry, skips H and skiing, then challenges the chaps with Freaky Fridays. Mountaineering Mark has a Colorado-created potential catastrophe, talks dick and sees the downsides. Billions Bob has a brilliant meal, witnesses a winter apocalypse, has déjà vu and chooses thaw. From separation angst to worst days. Yes! It's time for... A Harrowing Journey.

• 1:45Speaker 02

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

• 1:55Speaker 03

  Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractible. If you can't tell because you're just using your ears. We're back to our normal places of recording. We are at our home basis. We're apart again, and that's kinda sad. But I'm joined as always by Mark and Bob.

• 2:13Speaker 04

  Or have we been right next to each other the whole time?

• 2:17Speaker 03

  Come here, buddy.

• 2:18Speaker 04

  Ahhh.

• 2:18Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Hey, I don't see a hand in my-

• 2:22Speaker 04

  Put, make all three of us hug each other at the same time, editors.

• 2:26Speaker 03

  Uh, so welcome to the show. We're one of us hosts who compete for points. Whoever wins is the host the next episode. And as you can tell, I won the last episode, so I'm here hosting. We usually start by just catching up. Though I did just see you, boys, not too long ago, but-

• 2:39Speaker 05

  I have a harrowing journey, the likes of which I've never experienced.

• 2:45Speaker 03

  That's great. Bob, go first.

• 2:47Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 2:48Speaker 04

  Hahahaha.

• 2:50Speaker 05

  Man.

• 2:51Speaker 03

  Well, if you have a harrowing journey, he doesn't wanna follow that up?

• 2:54Speaker 04

  No, yeah, mine's, mine's not interesting. Mine's not interesting. We've, um, it's, uh, Jame, we had hot pot. Uh, that's pretty good. Haven't had hot pot in a minute. Had really good. You ever, I, you ever, do you have a certain restaurant or anything where you go? And like, it's usually good, like this hot pot place we go to, and it's always like, good. But something hit just right this time where it was like, every bite was like, oh. Oh my God, it's the best it's ever been. I had one of those at the hot pot and like everyone, the whole table did. And so like, everyone was like, this is the best. The, the vibes were high. Even James, he can be quite the terror at a dinner like that where it's like, stuff he can't touch and dangerous thing.

• 3:38Speaker 04

  He was chilling. He had, he felt the vibes and he was like, alright, I'll be cool.

• 3:42Speaker 03

  That is amazing. I was so close to that moment and then it was snatched away from me by the tiniest of things. We went to melting pot. Love melting pot. One of my favorite things is to do shrimp in their coca van or their mojo. I don't know if it's the moho or mojo. But anyway, and then dip it in their yellow curry. I did that. Something was just slightly off. So at the end of the night, uh, this guy who's been working there for forever. Uh, somehow we always run into each other. So like, we know each other by like, he's like a manager there now. He was like, hey, great to see you guys. How was everything? I was like, everything was great, but they changed the recipe of the curry like so slightly.

• 4:22Speaker 03

  And he went, you're the first one who's noticed. I was like, no, no, no.

• 4:30Speaker 03

  He did it for you, when? It was just the slightest, like, I was like, something's off of my taste buds. Like, this curry is just so slightly not right. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't right. It's pretty funny. It was almost the exact same experience you were describing, but then the curry was, I don't know, 1% different. Now it'll never be good again, because they changed it. Melting pot, if you're watching this, and I know you are, we gotta go back, Kate. We gotta go back. That's a lost reference. Therefore, you know I mean it.

• 5:00Speaker 05

  No, I wasn't sure what that meant.

• 5:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, I didn't get that one. Was this the hot pot place that we went to you with, by the way? Yes. Yeah. Okay. It's KBBQ slash hot pot. They do both. Both are good. Good stuff. I don't think I did hot pot when I was there. I just did the barbecue side, but it was very good.

• 5:16Speaker 05

  This makes me remember, I gotta talk to you guys about a business idea. Not right now, because I don't want the, the, a great idea to go out to everybody. I want us to capitalize on this before the secret gets out. It's gonna change dining forever.

• 5:31Speaker 03

  This is the one, guys.

• 5:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I'm not gonna tell you right now. It's the greatest idea that anyone has ever experienced or had in their lives when it comes to restaurant touring. But we are going to get into the food service business and we are going to make, well, I'm going to make billions. You guys, hundreds of thousands.

• 5:47Speaker 03

  We could balance that out a little bit. You make hundreds of thousands. I'm only gonna make one billion. Okay, yeah. You're only gonna make one? You're gonna make hundreds? As the host, I want an equal split. What if Bob makes hundreds of thousands and you and I make hundreds of millions? We're gonna make half a billion? Ew. Each. But then one of us could die and the other could take it. Ew.

• 6:10Speaker 05

  So it's a kind of a, if, if the other dies, they get it, but only one way. If you die, I get it. If I die.

• 6:16Speaker 03

  We get the money, then we fight to the death. Yeah, can you get it if you kill the other person cuz? You'll likely win. I mean, I'm taller, but I'm really lazy and out of shape. It's true. I.

• 6:26Speaker 05

  True.

• 6:26Speaker 03

  Just go for the ankles of the dick and you got me. Mark would outwork you so hard, you would stand no chance. I don't know why I'm offering this up and giving you strat tips, but like.

• 6:35Speaker 05

  Well, I'm not going to talk about that now. Can I talk about my harrowing journey?

• 6:38Speaker 03

  Bob, are you done with your small talk? Oh, yeah. No, I just want to hear about Mark's thing. All right. So for me, the past. Mark, you go.

• 6:45Speaker 05

  No, it's fine. You can talk. You can talk.

• 6:49Speaker 03

  He doesn't have anything. I really don't. It's time for your harrowing journey.

• 6:53Speaker 05

  Where do I even begin? I say, as I'm finishing my Amazon order. Where do?

• 7:01Speaker 03

  Probably with the H in harrowing. I can't have harrowing journeys because you can't have harrowing without hair. Is that also why you don't do heroin? Yeah, the only reason.

• 7:10Speaker 05

  All right, and done. Okay, all right. Do you have my undivided attention now? All right. So harrowing journey. I was driving through the Colorado Mountains, which I don't know if you guys have ever driven through there.

• 7:24Speaker 03

  I have. I have not.

• 7:26Speaker 05

  So Bob, you have. Wade, you haven't. Wade, to paint a picture, it is gorgeous. It is this beautiful, uh, narrow mountain valley. So imagine giant mountains left and right, and you're cutting this pass. It's called the I-70. If anyone goes on Google Maps and they want to just like get on the road and go through there, you'll see that it is a beautiful place. I was not driving through it during the day. I was driving through it during the night. So funny thing about that pass is it's number one, always under construction. Number two, they don't have any streetlights. Number three, they don't have any street reflectors. Uh, because of all the snowplows going through, apparently they can't put reflectors down because they have to scrape the road all the time, which is another reason why it's always under construction because it always gets damaged.

• 8:09Speaker 05

  Now, that being said, uh, it is ordinarily okay to drive through this at night. Um, because you know, it's saying, we were driving through it in the rain at night.

• 8:22Speaker 03

  Two bads cancel out. That'll make stuff reflective for you.

• 8:25Speaker 05

  It sure will. Um, so I was driving through and the rain hit suddenly as we go through the first tunnel to get into this pass. Rain hits suddenly and it is black sky, black mountains. You can't even see like the shape of mountains coming through there. And then it's a black road, but when it's wet. Everything disappears. I can't tell you how little I saw of the road. I was hunched over like this across my steering wheel, just eyeballing. And you'd be like, oh yeah, be safe, pull over. There is no over. There's no, there's no sides. It's barriers left and right. Like you have that much of a gap between you and the barrier when you're in your lane. And I'm trying to stay in

• 9:07Speaker 05

  the right. And people are flying by me on the left. And I'm going like 55, which is the speed limit in these work zones. And it's like, and they're zooming by me. There's, there's semi trucks going here. So the worst part was there was a ton of traffic coming from the other side. And I don't know, all of them had their high beams on. Every single one of them was just blasting us with light. And the window was fogging up. Inside and outside was fogging up. And again, rain. The, and, and every time someone plows past me, there's a cloud of, of mist that gets kicked up and splashes all over the windshield. So my wipers are going full speed. The air like defroster fogger is going

• 9:50Speaker 05

  off full blast, like max fan, max everything. I'm, I'm locked in like this. And it's downhill going this way. And as we go downhill, the brakes start acting up. And when I hit the brakes, the car is going like side to side wobble. So I am engine braking, manually dropping gears to try to maintain speed because I don't trust that brake because if it was just like a wheel was gonna fall off or something. So I'm, I'm trying my best to see road that was not there, to see lines that disappeared every few feet while cars are blowing past me that way. I am blinded from the

• 10:31Speaker 05

  glare of everybody on the left, fogged up. I, Amy is literally with a paper towel every few seconds wiping the front of my windshield. And I was on this road for 30 minutes. 30 minutes of this. It was the most intense 30 minutes of my goddamn life. And this mountain pass, it's not like it's, you're in the valley. of it. So you're down below. So it's not like if I hit the side, I'd go off. But if I

• 10:58Speaker 04

  Oh, you'd be so, you'd be so fucked if you got in any kind of accident in that situation. Who's gonna come help you in the blackest of black nights and downpouring rain on a road with no shoulders?

• 11:08Speaker 05

  I cannot describe this enough. It was darkness, pure darkness and also pure light because light was just blasting into my eyes.

• 11:16Speaker 04

  Well, they couldn't see. They had to have their brights on.

• 11:19Speaker 05

  Of course, of course.

• 11:20Speaker 04

  Obviously.

• 11:22Speaker 05

  And so we eventually made it to the hotel. We were, it was our last stops. We were like pushing through to try to get into the veil is the town. So we're going to veil. Cause there was a hotel there that was dog friendly and we're like, okay, we make it. But it's like 30 minutes in. Once you start into the mountains. But we get there and we wake up in the morning. It's like, oh man, it must not have been that bad. So as we start driving in the morning, we realize, no, it's not just that it was dark. Those lines are like eroded. All of the road lines are completely gone. Like halfway through that whole thing. Uh, we were driving the rest of the way out of the mountains. Like, oh no, there's no paint on the ground here. We wouldn't have been able to see it anyway. Like I, I was, it was terrifying. So don't go through the I 70 of Colorado in the mountains at night in the rain.

• 12:07Speaker 04

  I did that actually at night, but there was no rain and conditions were perfect. And I still thought it was pretty rough. That was, I was driving west to east and that was where I was ending, uh, in that area. And yeah, those that I 70 pass in the map is awful. I was, it was just dark and I thought it was rough.

• 12:29Speaker 03

  Wait, there's a bald mountain?

• 12:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, you could spend a night on it for a fee.

• 12:33Speaker 03

  Five stars out of five ratings for Bald Mountain. It's a Colorado right near a place called Vale.

• 12:40Speaker 05

  Oh, oh, right. Summit County, Colorado. Look, I, I'm not looking at a map. I don't know my mountains.

• 12:46Speaker 04

  I don't know if it's as treacherous as yours was, but I have a couple of stories of like insanely treacherous driving escapades that that just happens, right? Everybody kind of hits that from time to time.

• 12:58Speaker 03

  You remember one, I think we were all still in college at UC at the time. It had to have been our sophomore, junior year in college. My ex and I were driving back to Milford from UC. But school actually closed, like we'd started school then around like 10, eight, nine or 10 a.m. The school closed because the snowstorm was so crazy. And we were like, what if we just drive 45 minutes to Milford? But whenever the snow is so bad, a college campus shuts down. You know, it's kind of a crazy snowstorm.

• 13:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:28Speaker 03

  And that drive with all of the cars and traffic and just, I mean, our defrost like couldn't keep up. So the windshield was still freezing despite having like heat blasting as much as we could. So that was a little scary, uh, because the roads were just increasingly getting worse. And people were in a hurry, but also nobody could see and things were slick. And I remember being super stressed out during that drive.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  I think my favorite personal story of that nature is it was actually totally fine for me. But it's really funny to me what everyone else's experience was. And I lived in North Carolina for grad school and in the winter of like 2013, it's, it snowed in North Carolina like a couple inches. But for North Carolina, that's pretty wild. And, uh, we were in, we were in a, not a front wheel drive car, not like an all wheel drive. And it, and it was snowing and I was casually just driving. We were out somewhere and I was like, ah, let's just, we're driving back home. Do, do, do, do, do. And it was like a battle zone around us. It was so, there's this picture on the internet that's kind of infamous of a snowy road and a bunch of cars in the ditches.

• 14:37Speaker 04

  And there's one on fire in the background. That's from the city Raleigh, the city that we were living in at the time, from that snowstorm. And everyone else was like dying, like literally people were like driving their pickups off the road, spinning out drum, and I was just like casually driving home and in two inches of snow. We got all the way back and then it was like, the state shut down. Keep your kids inside. We're gonna fucking die. We're like. Dude, what the, what's happening? Jesus Christ. And it was bad, like they don't know what to do with snow. It's not really their fault, but it's just so funny to me that we were on like a casual drive and everyone around us was having that moment of like, yeah, and then it snowed an inch. And I was like, ah, barely on the road, but it's like, that's tough.

• 15:22Speaker 03

  Snow is famous for causing fires. I found the image you're talking about. There is a car just.

• 15:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, there's just a car on fire and there's a bunch of cars. Those cars are abandoned because people lost control, went into the ditch and then were like, well, I guess I need a new car and just walked away until the snow was all melted.

• 15:39Speaker 03

  Some of them just have doors open where like someone fled for their life.

• 15:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, literally it's like a zombie. It's like a zombie movie. Like it looks like everyone was like, ah, run, leave, don't, don't grab anything, get out of here.

• 15:53Speaker 05

  I was just like, did they light the car on fire for warmth? Like, what were they doing?

• 15:57Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 15:59Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah, that picture was taken on the road. That was like 20 minutes from our apartment that we were living in at that point in time, right next to the big mall in town. That's like, I hope nobody got hurt and I don't, I don't remember like it's not, it's not their fault that nobody knew what to do with snow, but I literally, we were in a Ford Focus and I was just driving because it was two inches of snow and the whole world. Anyway.

• 16:23Speaker 05

  I, you know, that scene from SpongeBob where Squidward falls down the mountain and goes, ah, eh, ah, uh. Nuclear explosion at the bottom. I just, I hope no one got hurt, but I, I just feel like that's what happened.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Blows up a few seconds.

• 16:41Speaker 03

  The worst I can remember recently, the last couple of years, like it was one of those, it was, it was dark and it was rainy, but it was one of those rainstorms where like occasionally it would rain so hard, you had zero visibility, you kind of had to pull over for a second. But the real problem wasn't even the rain or the darkness.

• 16:56Speaker 04

  It's the humidity that gets you?

• 16:57Speaker 03

  No, it was, it was the road. I-75, I-75 was a bitch.

• 17:02Speaker 04

  It still is. It's a terrible highway. I hate I-75. It's awful.

• 17:06Speaker 03

  It feels okay when you're just driving it normally, but with the rain, it is paved so fucking unevenly.

• 17:14Speaker 03

  That every few seconds you would just hit a puddle that would completely make you feel like you were getting derailed. And like you were going to go flying the wrong direction and we weren't going particularly fast. We were probably going like thirty miles per hour. Uh, on this highway at the best moments.

• 17:31Speaker 04

  Called hydroplaning.

• 17:32Speaker 03

  But the moment we would hit like what the tiniest looking puddle would be. It felt like I was driving into the ocean and just like hit all of the resistance in the world. And I've driven in bad rain on like two seventy-five and seventy-one and other backroads and stuff. They have never felt like the roller coaster seventy-five felt like where it feels like the road is paved like hill.

• 17:54Speaker 04

  Cincinnati is the city of seven hills. So is it seven or nine hills? Seven, right?

• 17:59Speaker 03

  Seven hills, I think.

• 18:00Speaker 05

  I've never heard of this. This is what it's called.

• 18:02Speaker 04

  I mean, it's not like it's the queen city is the main nickname, but I've heard that from multiple sources that that's another nickname for Cincinnati. Anyway.

• 18:11Speaker 03

  And then somehow there's always people that drive twice your speed and you feel like you're going too fast and it's like how.

• 18:16Speaker 04

  And I'm sure they always survive and nothing bad happens.

• 18:19Speaker 05

  That was, that was in the drive over from like Colorado. I was, I was shocked at the speeds people were going like the trust that they must have in their tires. Uh, it was, it was stunning, honestly, because there were also puddles going through there, not, not many. So it wasn't as harrowing, but occasionally it would just be like, especially in a tunnel, uh, cause it's cutting through the mountains like, oh, just suddenly I'm like splashing through water and I didn't see it coming because everything's dark anyway. But, uh, thankfully that was few and far between, but people trust their tires. People really trust their tires.

• 18:47Speaker 04

  Is it trust or is it a lack of understanding just how on the absolute edge of, of existence they're currently living?

• 18:55Speaker 05

  I wish there was a meter, like, you know, one of those like G meters, but it's like you were this close to death, that close. Every time.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  The best sanity test we can have for people is putting them behind the wheel of a car and seeing what kind of absolute fucking psychopaths they drive like.

• 19:10Speaker 04

  Apparently.

• 19:11Speaker 03

  I'm sure there are people I know that drive like psychopaths, but I don't know who they are. Some of the drivers, if they were my friends and I saw them drive like that, I don't think we could be friends.

• 19:20Speaker 04

  Jesse.

• 19:21Speaker 03

  Now he drives like a grandpa now. He's, he's very slow.

• 19:24Speaker 04

  Is this the episode? Are we just talking about car stuff? Cause I got more driving stories, but.

• 19:28Speaker 03

  I've got an episode. I was just enjoying chatting, but I guess fuck that. No enjoyment. Let's get to the episode.

• 19:35Speaker 00

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• 20:48Speaker 05

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  Yep. When it really matters, whatever it is, you show up. Or there's a will, we're on our way. Uber. On our way. Download the app today. All right, so I just, I found, I don't know, some interesting questions there of the Would You Rather variety, which I know we've done Would You Rathers before, but I just kind of liked these, so I kind of bookmarked this and I figured I'd save it for a rainy day. No, no pun intended.

• 21:25Speaker 05

  Come on, man. You could amp it up. You gotta sell this. You gotta sell this.

• 21:29Speaker 03

  I've got the greatest idea that no one's ever done in history forever. This is gonna change your lives. Would you rather? I'm glad you have that, but I don't.

• 21:38Speaker 05

  Hit the lights and then cue the music. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 21:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, there we go, there we go. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. You want me like a whole sound thing for that? I turned around and there was a Would You Rather. I don't believe in Would You Rathers. Uh, Mark, you want heads or tails?

• 21:55Speaker 05

  Let me flip mine to see which one I want. Heads, please.

• 22:04Speaker 05

  Heads it is.

• 22:06Speaker 04

  Let me flip my coin to see if I concur.

• 22:11Speaker 04

  I got heads, ladies heads, I got heads. I guess that means I agree.

• 22:14Speaker 03

  Mark. Start with you here. Would you rather have a perfect memory or be able to forget anything you wanted at will?

• 22:22Speaker 04

  I swear to God, we've done this one.

• 22:24Speaker 05

  Have we? I don't remember this one.

• 22:26Speaker 04

  Didn't we have, don't we have a debate about wouldn't having perfect memory be a curse? I think it wasn't the same.

• 22:33Speaker 03

  We've talked about perfect memory, but not versus being able to forget anything at will, I don't think.

• 22:36Speaker 04

  Just got that, I just got that tingle, you know, when you get older, how you get that tingle.

• 22:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, we've definitely debated perfect memory before, but I think you can weigh it against different things.

• 22:46Speaker 05

  One of the benefits that now people probably would think is like, yeah, you could forget traumatic experiences. But you know, all of us have that game that we played and we wished we could play again. You know, for the first time, it's like, oh, if I could forget. However, something sunshine of the something mind, I forget, what's the movie?

• 23:06Speaker 04

  Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Yes.

• 23:08Speaker 05

  That's it.

• 23:09Speaker 03

  I have chrome at 20%. No wonder I can't hear you guys.

• 23:13Speaker 05

  What?

• 23:14Speaker 03

  Nothing, you guys are fine. Go on.

• 23:16Speaker 04

  He's just troubleshooting audio issues 30 minutes into the recording.

• 23:21Speaker 03

  I've been trying to, I've been troubleshooting this whole time, let's be honest. I just suck at it.

• 23:24Speaker 05

  That's fine. That's understandable. I think that having that ability to forget would make you overuse it. Cause as we know from the movie Click, which has nothing to do with memory at all. And it's a far superior movie.

• 23:38Speaker 04

  No, no, it's a good lesson.

• 23:40Speaker 05

  If you have that power, you're gonna abuse it or something, I think, is what happened in Click. Could he not rewind?

• 23:48Speaker 04

  There was, there was no rewind function, I don't believe.

• 23:52Speaker 05

  Okay, all right. Yeah, that makes sense.

• 23:54Speaker 03

  It was like pause, play, fast forward and skip maybe?

• 23:58Speaker 05

  Which, you know, in all honesty, if there's a super powerful remote, I feel like they just, they left that one out intentionally. Either way, abusing that power is bad or something. So I'm gonna go with, nah, nah, I'll go with the, the forgetting thing. Cause uh, just reliving those games would be great.

• 24:15Speaker 03

  That's such a niche use and yet it feels so strong to me because there's so many things I'm like, oh man, getting to re-watch a couple of like movies for the first time over again.

• 24:25Speaker 05

  But I'd have to write myself a really long note because I know how hard it was to get into those games in the first place. Like just trust me, man. This is me from you, from the past, please.

• 24:34Speaker 03

  It's like that Adam Sandler movie, Fifty First Dates.

• 24:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to make a videotape for yourself that you watch every time you forget stuff.

• 24:43Speaker 03

  Mark, it's Mark. No matter what, don't play this game.

• 24:47Speaker 05

  It's, do you remember the parody of Memento? It's a dick. I've forgotten what dicks look like. Whatever you do, don't suck. It's not a mouth-based video game. It's a dick. Like you wrote all over his arms.

• 25:00Speaker 05

  Don't suck that. It's a dick.

• 25:02Speaker 03

  No, I never saw that. It's weird that Memento has come up like three times this weekend for me.

• 25:07Speaker 05

  I've never seen Memento. I only saw that parody.

• 25:09Speaker 03

  Is it the one that's like, kind of like Pulp Fiction-y out of order?

• 25:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's out of order and he gets tattoos because he's trying to, he has no memories. I figure out what's happening.

• 25:16Speaker 03

  Okay, I did see it once, but I don't remember it.

• 25:19Speaker 04

  You need some tattoos.

• 25:21Speaker 03

  I've seen Memento and a dick.

• 25:23Speaker 04

  I think Mark is right and not in the second thing he said, no, in, not in the first thing he said or the third thing he said, but he's, the second thing he said is right, that you would definitely abuse that power. And as much as I totally get Mark's argument for it, you would absolutely end up in situations where you just like obliterated a memory and someone will be like, the fuck do you mean you don't remember that? You would end up in situations, maybe not all the time, but sometimes where you were like, oh, that was awful, delete. And then there would be repercussions because everyone around you would be like, you ran over my dog. What do you mean? You don't fucking remember that? What kind of sociopath are you?

• 26:06Speaker 05

  It's a meme. You burned my house to the ground. My whole family's dead. What do I do? I remember, man.

• 26:14Speaker 04

  So I would take perfect memory cuz there's probably no bad consequences to that.

• 26:19Speaker 03

  Oh, no, no, no, nowhere.

• 26:21Speaker 04

  Who was right?

• 26:22Speaker 03

  Nobody?

• 26:23Speaker 04

  What is this philosophy?

• 26:24Speaker 03

  What is right?

• 26:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 26:28Speaker 04

  Forget, forget, forget.

• 26:29Speaker 03

  Tell you what, Bob, I won't tell you who was right, but you win the opportunity to go first on the next one.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  Ah, good.

• 26:36Speaker 03

  Would you rather always feel understood or always feel appreciated?

• 26:41Speaker 04

  That's an interesting one. Do I ever get to feel appreciated and or vice versa? Do I ever get to feel understood? Or is it like an always or never?

• 26:49Speaker 03

  It's kind of, I'm assuming it's how it is now, but one of them you can just always be.

• 26:54Speaker 04

  I would take, just as an experiment, I would have to take always be understood cuz I would just love to have that as a superpower or just an innate thing and then just jump into conversations with the most out of pocket, completely inappropriate, non sequitur stuff, but with a specific like meaning or point that I'm trying to make. And everyone's, everyone initial reaction is like, oh, but by the end they understand completely. And I haven't, I could just say whatever I want as long as I, as long as I mean what I say and I say what I mean.

• 27:30Speaker 03

  An elephant's memory, 100% green. No, that's not the thing.

• 27:34Speaker 04

  What?

• 27:35Speaker 03

  Uh, Bark? What's your name? Mark?

• 27:37Speaker 04

  Orf, orf, orf, orf, orf. How many points is this worth? Orf, orf?

• 27:42Speaker 03

  None.

• 27:43Speaker 05

  Okay, so what was the alternative solution?

• 27:46Speaker 03

  Always understood, always feel appreciated. I should say always feel understood, always feel appreciated.

• 27:51Speaker 05

  Okay, but that doesn't mean necessarily understood?

• 27:54Speaker 04

  That's kind of true, based on his phrasing.

• 27:56Speaker 03

  I would put it as you are, like feeling understood. I feel like you feel that way because it's genuine. I'm gonna say you're always understood or always appreciated. Like, it's worded as feel, but whatever you ask me to clarify, it's like, it does feel like a cheap way of like getting out of it. So we'll just say always understood or always appreciated.

• 28:12Speaker 05

  Man, is, I feel like this is kind of a monkey's puppy cuz like understood, is that understood correctly? But I mean, like, I guess it would have to be, they understand your true meaning, right?

• 28:23Speaker 03

  It doesn't mean that you are right, but it means you are understood for what you're trying to convey.

• 28:28Speaker 05

  So if it's sarcastic, it's still like, they know you're being sarcastic. They're not gonna take the literal meaning of everything.

• 28:34Speaker 03

  I would imagine, yes.

• 28:35Speaker 05

  Okay. And appreciated, would that mean if I killed somebody?

• 28:39Speaker 04

  They must have been terrible.

• 28:42Speaker 05

  I must have been, oh, I, you know, I'm glad, I'm glad. Maybe they don't understand why you did it, but they appreciate that you did.

• 28:50Speaker 05

  All right. See, now that's why I'll take the appreciation because I'll, I'll use that. I'll use that to my benefit.

• 28:56Speaker 04

  Bank manager, give me the keys to the vault. I can't do that. I, you're gonna give me the keys to the vault or I'm gonna shoot you. I love your enthusiasm. You know what? I just really appreciate that you're sticking to, you're not succeeding at all, but like, God, you're trying hard.

• 29:12Speaker 03

  Maybe you're just appreciated for being the best person that's robbed him yet.

• 29:15Speaker 04

  Oh, look, we have a hero. Why don't you tell your daughter Stephanie how much of a hero you are like, oh, did you guys pick Stephanie up from school? Ah, you know what? That's great. You know, we were having trouble with that.

• 29:27Speaker 03

  Who's Stephanie? What happened just now?

• 29:29Speaker 04

  Is it, is our daughter Stephanie? Kid kidnapped because dad's gonna be a hero at the bank. Don't you know how this works?

• 29:38Speaker 03

  No.

• 29:39Speaker 05

  Don't you know how your own prompt works?

• 29:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is your game.

• 29:43Speaker 03

  Thank Wondermind, the article on Wondermind that I'm getting this from. He's stealing again. I can't believe it. But, yeah. Uh, Mark, you're first. Would you rather live through a Freaky Friday scenario or Groundhog Day?

• 29:59Speaker 05

  Okay, Freaky Friday, was that where you switched with?

• 30:01Speaker 04

  It's where the daughter and the mom switched bodies.

• 30:03Speaker 05

  Okay, but parents specifically, right?

• 30:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, if it's, if it's Freaky Fridays, that is pretty specific, yes. Uh, Freaky or Friday siblings also switched between it. Yeah, it's whatever.

• 30:17Speaker 03

  I think this is more so, it's less specific with who you switch with. It's just, are you, would you rather live someone else's experience or relive the same day over and over again?

• 30:28Speaker 05

  Okay, that's different because I was gonna say the Freaky Friday situation, I feel like there would be some repercussions to that beyond just what the movie, I haven't actually seen it, but I, I know the premise.

• 30:37Speaker 03

  It's kind of like, would you rather experience someone else's at random life or your own day on repeat?

• 30:44Speaker 05

  But in both of these, there's an out, right? It's not perpetual.

• 30:47Speaker 04

  It ends. Yeah.

• 30:48Speaker 03

  It ends.

• 30:49Speaker 05

  I believe, yes. I think. The Groundhog Day one would be more interesting because if you're living someone else's life, it's still just an ordinary person's life. The Groundhog Day situation is extraordinary, and you can, you can really go full on do anything and it will reset unless there's, we never discovered if there was a bad scenario of the reset in Groundhog Day where all of the horrible things that he probably did came to fruition afterwards. But, you know, I think I would still pick the Groundhog Day because you could dick around for infinite loops.

• 31:26Speaker 03

  So you're more interested in toying around with your own existence on repeat than someone else?

• 31:30Speaker 05

  I mean, I made a whole show about this within space. So it's like.

• 31:34Speaker 04

  It's true. He did kind of do that. So I'd rather do that.

• 31:37Speaker 03

  Bob?

• 31:38Speaker 04

  I think probably the Groundhog Day one is the more correct answer or would be more com- like more frequently selected. I'm too curious. One of the core issues that I feel like we as humans face is empathy. And it wouldn't mean that I could magically heal the world or anything, but I'm too curious about what it would be like to experience existence through, through the like body, mind, whatever of another actual person. And let's ignore the complexities of is it my mind in their physical brain? Does the physiology

• 32:20Speaker 04

  of the brain change? So like, just like I am that person, but I also have all of my memories and experiences. The combination of getting to be, but you get to be two different people. That's a thing that like, isn't possible. And I think would be fascinating to, to see how that changes my perspective on what it means to exist and what it means to be alive. Cause I feel like that's one of the biggest issues in general that humanity faces is people can't do that. People have no way to do that. And it's, it's difficult and it's more difficult for some people than others to have the empathy required to be like, well, what if I imagine I'm in your situation?

• 33:01Speaker 04

  How would I feel about whatever political issues, geopolitical issues, economic issues? How would I feel about the world if I was in your life and you were in my life? That's difficult. I don't think it's as difficult as some people make it out to be, but like, I think that would, that perspective would be fat. I couldn't turn that down as much as Groundhog Day is like the correct answer.

• 33:25Speaker 05

  If there were multiple chances to do the swap, the freaky Fridays happened every Friday for the rest of your life, right? So every Friday, you're someone else. I feel like that would be more interesting. That'd be crazy. If you die in the other person's body, do you die?

• 33:40Speaker 04

  If you die in the matrix, you die in real life. So I assume so. But then your body dies and they become a ghost at midnight on Saturday.

• 33:48Speaker 05

  Oh no, that's a freaky Friday. All right.

• 33:52Speaker 04

  That's how ghosts are made.

• 33:53Speaker 03

  Yeah. And the freaky Friday example, though, you're also volunteering that whoever you swap with is getting to live your life.

• 33:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, presumably, right? That's how that, that's how that works.

• 34:02Speaker 05

  Your life would be fucked up after a while. Everyone's just jumping in your body. I didn't think about that part of it. My life would be gone. It would be devastation.

• 34:12Speaker 04

  But they would have so much empathy, I assume, after seeing perspective. All right, maybe that was a terrible answer, but I just, I'm too curious. I'd have to do it.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  That's fair. Okay. Bob, you win the next one. Would you?

• 34:26Speaker 04

  I heard he win.

• 34:27Speaker 05

  He's already won.

• 34:29Speaker 04

  Let's move on to the next, next one. I already win this one.

• 34:31Speaker 05

  All right.

• 34:32Speaker 03

  He won the opportunity to go first for this one. Would you rather be recognized for your intelligence or for your kindness?

• 34:39Speaker 04

  Just recognized. Not to say that I would not be kind or have intelligence.

• 34:44Speaker 03

  It's kind of more so how you're like perceived by other people.

• 34:47Speaker 04

  I would want to, I would choose kindness. No questions asked. I would choose kindness. As long as I get to still be myself and I am, I have all the intelligence and whatever I'm currently equipped with. Not even close. Kindness. Boom. Final answer. Lock it in.

• 35:03Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 35:04Speaker 05

  Okay, so Einstein's probably the example of this that where it's like he's known for his intelligence, right? And maybe Mr. Rogers is the kindness current example of that.

• 35:13Speaker 03

  It's a good example.

• 35:14Speaker 04

  That's a good example, yeah.

• 35:15Speaker 05

  Am I intelligent? Am I kind? Am I actually these things?

• 35:19Speaker 03

  He wants to answer you or you're just thinking it's through?

• 35:22Speaker 05

  No, I'm just like, if I'm known for my intelligence, what if, what if it's just all a ruse? And I've tricked everyone into thinking that I'm super intelligent, but I'm not.

• 35:30Speaker 04

  Like Neil deGrasse Tyson.

• 35:33Speaker 05

  That sounded so fake. I actually started that reel and then I realized like, ah, it's too big of a laugh. And then I dipped it in fake, but I laughed. That was realist version.

• 35:42Speaker 04

  That was your real laugh? Oh, all right. I did it.

• 35:45Speaker 03

  Is it Iron Man two or three with the Mandarin? I'm imagining Einstein as like the movie Mandarin, where he's just like an actor.

• 35:52Speaker 05

  Anyway, if I could be that, I'll be that, the intelligent one. But people think I'm really smart.

• 35:56Speaker 03

  So you'd rather be recognized for your intelligence?

• 35:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's idiocracy, right? Everyone's like, you're the smartest man alive.

• 36:01Speaker 04

  It has what plants crave.

• 36:03Speaker 05

  He really was the smartest guy alive there, so, eh, but it got him all the power in the world.

• 36:09Speaker 03

  This one to me is the trickiest one so far. I struggle with how I'm going to answer this one. But Mark, you get to go first. I think I know how you'll answer. I'm curious to see if I'm right. Would you rather know when or how you're going to die?

• 36:24Speaker 05

  When? That was probably what you thought I was gonna do.

• 36:27Speaker 03

  It is.

• 36:28Speaker 05

  How? Well, that's where the fun begins.

• 36:33Speaker 03

  And it could mean that this is where the fun begins.

• 36:36Speaker 04

  You die, you die of old age in your bed. All right, let's go fucking skydiving right now.

• 36:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, see, I, I, like I said, I think I've said this before, when is useful because then you can plan your life around then, you know? It's like, all right, I got, I got an expiration date.

• 36:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, but even if you knew when, like if you knew you weren't gonna die, you could still fucking really maim or torture yourself and be like barely alive.

• 36:58Speaker 05

  Well, I won't do, I'm not gonna go out and actively try to get killed because I'm like, I'm immune, I'm immune. I can't be killed.

• 37:06Speaker 03

  Guys, I've got 10 years left. I can fight this bear and nothing will happen.

• 37:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, I'm not gonna do that, but it's like, I know. Oh, I wouldn't tell anybody. That's for goddamn sure. I'm not gonna tell the world like I'm going to die on this date.

• 37:20Speaker 03

  Do you think if you knew how you could possibly change it, or do you think it would be like inevitable at that point? Like it would have to be inevitable?

• 37:26Speaker 05

  No, no, it'd be one of those things where it's pointless to try to change it because it would happen regardless, you know?

• 37:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, if if you could know how it would have to me, the world, the universe is like deterministic in some way.

• 37:37Speaker 03

  Oh, Bob, when or how?

• 37:40Speaker 04

  Neither. Is that an option?

• 37:42Speaker 03

  No.

• 37:43Speaker 04

  All right, now I'll kill myself, so I don't have to know.

• 37:45Speaker 03

  Still gotta find out before.

• 37:46Speaker 04

  Wouldn't I know? Wouldn't I already know? Wouldn't I just sort of short circuit that one? I wouldn't want to know either. I think I would go with how, because I would have things to be afraid of or or concerned about, but at least I wouldn't have a timeline. I know Mark, Mark, if you had to, you would, you would pick the timeline because you feel like it would give you drive and like you wouldn't, you would know. Oh, I don't think I would like to. I think that would ruin it for me. I think it would turn into a countdown. It's like that thing where you're like dreading a thing that's gonna happen and you're just like, oh, yeah. I I don't want to know those. I don't want to know any of that shit.

• 38:26Speaker 05

  If I know anything from Unisonus, it's everyone knew it was gonna die. And there was that first few weeks where everyone was like, oh, and then there was nine months of complacency, ten actually. And then those last two months were full of panic. So I think you'll be fine. It'll be like the years. If you're dying in 12 years, it's like the first year you're gonna be like, and then you get bored of that. And then 10 years you'll be like, ah, maybe it's wrong. And then as it gets closer, you'll panic again. So I think you're, you'll be fine. Unless it's tomorrow and then that's.

• 38:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, I guess depends.

• 38:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, dude, that would be tough. You're doing a, you're doing a psych, a philosophical question with your friends and then like you, you make a choice and then genie pops up and is like, here you go, 18 minutes. Whoa, whoa, hey, whoa. I want the other one.

• 39:12Speaker 03

  What if it told you you died in the past? How would that fuck with your mind?

• 39:15Speaker 05

  A negative, oh, man.

• 39:17Speaker 03

  But it's like, will I experience time travel? Like, how do I get back to the past? Am I dead now? Like, am I in purgatory? Like, wouldn't that fuck with you?

• 39:24Speaker 04

  That would just prove the possibility of time travel, right? Like, if you were, if you were not a ghost, if you were alive and corporeal, but you had died in the past, that would just, you would have proven time travel is possible. So then you just have to figure it out. And when you do figure it out, that's probably when you die. So just don't think.

• 39:42Speaker 03

  I think we've discussed this one before. We can skip. I'll ask it just in case, but I'm pretty sure we've covered it. Would you rather time travel to the past or future?

• 39:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm pretty sure we've done this one before.

• 39:51Speaker 03

  I guess you can just give a quick answer.

• 39:53Speaker 04

  Is it like, go anywhere I want, anytime I want, or is it like, one trip?

• 39:57Speaker 03

  Let's say you get three uses, back and forth, three round trips.

• 40:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, gotta go future. If I get, if I get a couple tries at it, I feel like gotta go future. Just to, not, not necessarily to even check in on myself or anything, but, you know, see who wins the World Series. Just important stuff like that, you know? Maybe pick up a farmer's almanac, go home, go back to my time, place some bets.

• 40:19Speaker 03

  If eggs are any cheaper.

• 40:21Speaker 04

  That's never gonna happen.

• 40:22Speaker 03

  You go to the past just to buy groceries?

• 40:24Speaker 04

  Go back to when gas was a dollar eighteen a gallon.

• 40:27Speaker 05

  Really stock up, not realizing gas expires.

• 40:34Speaker 03

  All right, Mark, past or future?

• 40:36Speaker 05

  I do a future, yeah, I think future. It'd be cool. The, the, the past is boring. They had like, diseases back then. You had to churn a lot more butter than today. And I want that future butter. This is literally, my choice is only based on the butter of the time, and I think future butter is gonna be crazy.

• 40:51Speaker 04

  You just buy a little tray that, that materializes butter as you need it.

• 40:56Speaker 05

  I like that. It sucks butter out of the air. Like, collects it.

• 41:00Speaker 03

  Uh, Mark, is it interesting? Would you rather always tell the truth, or always be able to tell when someone is lying? Always the lying thing.

• 41:10Speaker 05

  What do I care about telling the truth? I'm lying right now. Nothing I say is true.

• 41:15Speaker 03

  So wait, you would rather?

• 41:17Speaker 05

  I want to be able to lie, but I want to know when everyone else is like, "What would be the value in me?" Oh, you always gotta be truthful. I could do that now.

• 41:24Speaker 03

  I find this to be a weird one.

• 41:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:26Speaker 04

  I feel like this is not even close. And my evidence in favor of the always knowing people are lying thing is the the TV show Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne, which if you haven't seen it is is a pretty good show. She can always tell when people are lying. Boy, does she get into some shenanigans.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, I feel like that's a weird question. I thought it was gonna be more interesting, but it's just you can control whether you tell the truth or not. Like you already have that.

• 41:51Speaker 04

  I guess there's a thing about like, it's implied that like, everyone knows you can't lie, right? So it changes the nature of your your relationships to everyone in the world theoretically. But like, it would have, that one would only have value if it included the fact that like, everyone believes you, that you can't lie, and they know that about you. And that changes like, changes the, I would still pick the knowing if someone's lying though.

• 42:18Speaker 05

  Now, if it was everyone believes you at all times that you're telling the truth, that's useful.

• 42:23Speaker 04

  Whatever you say is true, like that, what's it, that Simon Pegg movie where he just waves his hand.

• 42:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, maybe not that far, but I mean, if that's on the table, well.

• 42:32Speaker 03

  A little dangerous, yeah.

• 42:34Speaker 05

  None of these other ones are dangerous at all.

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• 43:39Speaker 05

  Uh, Bob, would you rather have more time or more energy?

• 43:44Speaker 04

  I think I would have more energy. This is another one where I feel like that's objectively the wrong choice. I think if I could use more of my time more efficiently and like, I'm not a very in shape person. I could do a lot of work to get physically fit, but my thing is like mentally, I, I can only, I'm like a sprinter. Mentally, I can be very smart and I can have very, like I can, I can have, do good complex analysis and, but I run out of juice so fast. If I could use my brain more of the time, if I had more energy and I could be at top, like peak performance mentally, I feel like I would be a different person. I would have a lot more, I would just, just accomplish a lot more.

• 44:27Speaker 05

  No, I get that. How much more energy are we talking here? How much more time are we talking here? I mean, either way, it's hard to. Well, you're the judge. You tell me. What do you mean? Don't philosophicalize my question. Enough to where you feel like it makes a difference. Where it feels like it makes a difference. Okay. And how much time are we talking here? Enough where it feels like it makes a difference. All right. I feel like I need 20 times more energy to feel a difference. I want to be hopped up on every amphetamine possible. That's the level of energy that I want at all times. I feel like we would notice if we were even twice as energetic as we currently are. 20 times is nuts. 20 times. My mitochondria count goes up 20 times. My cells just all go boom.

• 45:12Speaker 03

  That's the powerhouse of the cell.

• 45:14Speaker 05

  Cause the, actually it's the mitochondria just grows 20 times as big in each of my cells. I will take whatever repercussion comes with that. I will accept it. Or my telomeres on all of my DNA goes

• 45:28Speaker 05

  like it's one or the other. This is a biological change, right? My God, you'd be six feet tall.

• 45:33Speaker 04

  Oh, wait, we've been translating everything to movies. This is like limitless or time. What's that Justin Timberlake movie about the time? Where he gets someone, guy gives him a hundred years or something?

• 45:43Speaker 05

  Clock or um, Tik Tok.

• 45:46Speaker 04

  Tik Tok, yeah.

• 45:48Speaker 05

  Justin Timberlake in.

• 45:54Speaker 05

  In time, those are in time. Okay, if, given that I'm tired right now, I would love more energy, I think, I think, even if it's like a doubling, is this a doubling? Or is this like a 10% boost?

• 46:09Speaker 03

  If that's what it takes to feel like it makes a difference.

• 46:13Speaker 03

  It's just more. Would you rather feel more energetic or feel like you have more time?

• 46:16Speaker 05

  I, energy, yeah, I think energy.

• 46:21Speaker 03

  That's crazy. I thought you would take the time one. With how productive you are, I 100% felt like you would take it.

• 46:25Speaker 05

  I, I, I think that, given that I'm already productive, I think I could maximize my buff here by hitting, because if my attack speed's already high, you know, you wanted the multiples on your higher stat. If you're getting a 10% boost, you gotta.

• 46:40Speaker 03

  That's true.

• 46:41Speaker 05

  10% your highest stat, so.

• 46:43Speaker 03

  What if it's not a percentage increase? What if it's just a flat increase, therefore it's less significant?

• 46:47Speaker 05

  Then that's actually, you know, it depends. If we're talking wow stats, that could be more beneficial still for the energy.

• 46:53Speaker 03

  Because if it's like a plus 10 and Bob and I are already at 10, it's a double. But for you, if you're at a 90, a plus 10 is less significant.

• 47:00Speaker 05

  But maybe if he gets it up to 100, he unlocks the next ability? Is that the situation? Oh, judge.

• 47:06Speaker 03

  No, but I like how much we just nerded this question. It was already a nerdy question and we're like. What if it's our wow stats?

• 47:12Speaker 05

  I didn't say it like that. Did Mark's voice just come out of your mouth? Hey, come on, guys.

• 47:19Speaker 03

  Okay, last one here. Would you rather have unlimited knowledge or unlimited creativity?

• 47:25Speaker 05

  Who goes first? Me?

• 47:26Speaker 03

  You.

• 47:27Speaker 05

  Oh, shit. Oh, man, if I had unlimited creativity, I'd be able to come up with a really funny answer to this.

• 47:33Speaker 03

  Imagine the perfectest crime.

• 47:35Speaker 05

  Man, I can't, I can't. Unlimited knowledge, does that mean I have all the knowledge that there is to know? Wouldn't mean that you're omnipotent.

• 47:42Speaker 04

  Theoretically.

• 47:43Speaker 03

  It's a tricky one, because like, it depends what your priority is, your priority knowing or being able to make something unique and, you know.

• 47:50Speaker 05

  I already have too many ideas to make. So I don't think additional creativity is going to help a lot. Whereas like, unlimited knowledge would be useful in terms of capacity, even if it's not automatically, I'm like, I think my brain would explode if I had that. But if infinite capacity for knowledge or something like that, maybe we already have that. I don't know. I'm gonna go knowledge.

• 48:15Speaker 04

  We definitely don't have infinite capacity for knowledge. There's a definite like, it's not a one for one, but there's a, there are, each individual has the different individual limit of like, there's a point at which stuff starts falling out, basically.

• 48:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:28Speaker 04

  If you continue to learn and learn and learn. Some people are geniuses and maybe don't reach their limit, but I was getting ready to laugh and say how stupid Mark is and yell at him for being wrong, but he chose the correct choice. I would also choose knowledge. I, I could honestly benefit a lot from creativity. I feel like that's one of my struggles is I'm, I'm kind of, not that I can't be creative, but I lack inspiration a lot and I find it really, sometimes I just can't do it. Like I get writer's block, super easy kind of thing.

• 48:55Speaker 03

  Pairing energy, more energy with more creativity would be such a, oh.

• 48:59Speaker 04

  But the knowledge thing, there's an every single part of everyday life, there's so much stuff that comes up where if I could just, if I just had that piece of knowledge and I didn't have to like, Google how long you have to hard boil an egg or what, you know, like little things. It would, it would make everything smoother. It's the correct choice. Plus my knowledge of, uh, like movie quotes and comedians and things, I feel like it's kind of the encyclopedia on which I base my humor. So I could theoretically have a much broader humor base instead of quoting like two, two TV shows and a Brian Regan a lot.

• 49:33Speaker 03

  I also lied to you guys, I'm gonna do two more. The last two, that, that there's a few more here, but that I really like these two. I just want to see what you guys want to answer to them, so I'm gonna go with two more. Quick, Bob, you're first. Would you rather give up all of the memories or money you made this year?

• 49:49Speaker 04

  Probably money. I don't know why I'm acting like this is tough. It's not really that close. I was just, I think I'm trying to make the case for anything other than giving up the money in my head, but really not succeeding.

• 50:00Speaker 05

  Me?

• 50:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:02Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 50:04Speaker 05

  Silence there, so I assume.

• 50:05Speaker 03

  That's how this goes, man.

• 50:06Speaker 05

  All right. Well, you didn't say anything. You didn't go like, mm, good words, Bob. This would be a hell of a year to get rid of those pesky memories.

• 50:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, I feel like it would be a particularly heinous one to pick that for the sake of money. Um, so I'm gonna go with giving up the money.

• 50:28Speaker 03

  This is the first one that you two, neither one of you have agreed with me. I would give up the memories this year.

• 50:33Speaker 04

  Oh, I think there definitely are some years, if I could pick the year, there are definitely some years where I would have gone that way. But also those years didn't really have very much money in them, so that makes the choice even easier.

• 50:45Speaker 03

  I've had some good moments and good memories this year, but I've also had a lot of mediocre or bad ones. And I feel like overall, this is one of those forgettable years that I probably will forget a lot anyway.

• 50:57Speaker 04

  I just feel like it's dangerous to declare that about things. Like, I definitely feel that in, in, when you're in it and when you're, when things are happening. But there are so many, like, if you had a play-by-play recap, there's definitely, in almost every year of my life, there's definitely something where I'd be like, "Oh, I wouldn't want to lose that. That's one of my favorite memories. I hold on to that dearly." Even though it's in the middle of law school, which I hated basically every single second of. But like, other stuff happened, other than the part that made the majority of my life completely miserable during law school.

• 51:29Speaker 03

  Nope, I'm content with my answer.

• 51:30Speaker 05

  All right.

• 51:31Speaker 03

  Not for most years, but this year's been an overall forgettable one for me.

• 51:36Speaker 04

  Tough year.

• 51:37Speaker 03

  Uh, Mark? I guess this is kind of in a similar vein, but would you rather know what the happiest day of your life is or was? Or the worst day of your life is or was? So you may have already lived it. You're going to get one of these two knowledges either way. Would you rather know the happiest or the worst?

• 51:54Speaker 04

  Do you know the date? Or do you know the story of why it's the worst day of your life?

• 52:00Speaker 03

  I'm assuming you will at least know whether it's already happened or is coming up. So maybe you will know the date.

• 52:05Speaker 05

  I would probably pick knowing what the happiest day is, because I'm pretty sure I might be able to identify with the worst. And oh, God, if it's coming up in the future, uh-oh.

• 52:19Speaker 05

  They don't take the happiest because at least then even if it happened in the past, it could be like, that's a benchmark that could be like, holy hell. That was awesome. If that's the happiest moment of my life, great. Yeah, that's awesome. And then I can compare everything and it's all downhill from there and I can let that spiral me into a nightmare.

• 52:34Speaker 03

  So you choose happiest?

• 52:35Speaker 05

  At least I wouldn't risk knowing that the worst day of my life is just around the corner.

• 52:41Speaker 04

  Bob? I would gamble on worst day, I think. I, it's impossible for me to say right now, if I really truly believe that it's already happened, I'm unsure about that, but. I guess I would rather have a floor than a ceiling. Cause my argument is basically the same as Mark's, but it's like, whatever the worst day is. If it's, if it's determined to happen anyway, it's happening either way. And like, you're gonna have to deal with that, but I don't wanna know like, ah, I've already had the happiest day of my life, so fuck the rest of this, I guess. This will be a fine, okay day.

• 53:14Speaker 03

  This particular one, I would also go with worst. Cause like, I don't know, I feel like if I knew my best ever day was already behind me. I feel like it'd make it harder to look forward to things, whereas if I know the worst is ahead of me, it's like, okay, well, I've weathered pretty bad. If something slightly worse is coming up, I guess so be it. I'll weather that too, but like, the thought of having like something really great on the horizon, that hope, that optimism, I kinda probably need or want. I guess the dread is also kinda bad, but like, I already have, I would say I have a kind of a realistic outlook where I know some good things and I know some really bad things are ahead. Do I know specifically what or when? No, but bad isn't ever, if you live long enough, you're gonna live through some bad shit. So if my worst day is ahead of me, it's like, I guess at least it means I'm living a while, unless it's tomorrow, like you find out it's like, mm, tomorrow, mm-mm. Might as well stay in bed.

• 54:00Speaker 04

  The same genie appears. Wait, you actually have 18 minutes too? Weird.

• 54:05Speaker 03

  To what? Oh, gotta go.

• 54:07Speaker 04

  I don't know, I guess you guys will find out together.

• 54:11Speaker 03

  Alright, I just gotta calculate some points here. Mark, you got points for Dining Secret, I70 Journey, and number 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. We agreed.

• 54:26Speaker 04

  Alright, cool.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  Bob, you got points for Best Dinner, Drug Jokes, and 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10.

• 54:36Speaker 04

  That's a lot of them.

• 54:38Speaker 03

  Bringing the score right now, 10 for Bob, 8 for Mark.

• 54:41Speaker 04

  I'm starting to realize that in the, in the small talk, I gotta crank out numerical numbers more than anything.

• 54:50Speaker 05

  My, my harrowing adventure story was equivalent to Bob's drug jokes. Okay, alright, I'll strategize next time, guys.

• 54:57Speaker 03

  Well, he had some harrowing contributions. We kinda made a discussion about it. And I was very, I was very stringent with points today, where I'm usually a little bit more liberal with them. Today, I was like, nah, points hard to get. No, I thought we were in a, I thought you were in a little bit of trouble, cuz the first three things immediately, like Bob and I, I think, agreed on right away. No, the first two, then you and I agreed on the third one. But there were a lot early where I was like, oh, man, I'm not gonna agree with Mark on any of this shit. And then it like, it balanced out later on. We didn't all agree on anything until the sixth one. You two were complete opposites for the first five. The first one, yeah, the first one that you two agreed on, we all three agreed on. And then the second to last one was the only one that no one agreed with me.

• 55:41Speaker 03

  I was the forget the year, take the money. Anyway, yeah, that's where we're at right now, so I guess we can go to our wheels.

• 55:48Speaker 04

  Guys, I was just extorted by a piece of software. I've been using this wheel the whole time. Well, actually, that's not true, but we switched over to this wheel a long time ago. We've been using it. I just opened it up, and the wheel that normally has 60, whatever, seven things on it, was just like, there were seven of them. And then a thing popped up, and it was like,

• 56:09Speaker 06

  You have to buy the pro version if you would like to unlock more than seven slices in a wheel.

• 56:16Speaker 04

  And I was, I was like, if you fucking deleted all of my entries.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  Oh, man. That would be why.

• 56:23Speaker 04

  Anyway, they got, they got my $7, but it's, it seems to be fine. Um, anyway, how many bonus points, eh?

• 56:33Speaker 03

  Uh, the more, the better for Mark.

• 56:35Speaker 04

  Well, it's almost always three, nevermind.

• 56:37Speaker 05

  Damn it.

• 56:40Speaker 03

  There's still a chance.

• 56:42Speaker 05

  There's still a chance. There's still a chance.

• 56:44Speaker 03

  What I'm gonna add to the wheel, uh, had the most harrowing small talk. It just really means best small talk, but I put it, word it that way for Mark, cuz he, you know what? He had a crazy journey. I sure did. A crazy one-point journey. That looks like a $7 wheel right there.

• 57:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, it better be worth it. There's no way it surprised golf rules again.

• 57:06Speaker 03

  Unless.

• 57:07Speaker 04

  Nah, it's literally mathematically impossible for... It was almost sudden death, though.

• 57:15Speaker 03

  We gotta re-spin cuz there's no lost points today.

• 57:18Speaker 04

  It was one away from sudden death.

• 57:21Speaker 03

  Very close.

• 57:23Speaker 04

  Alright, another spin here. Do something funny. Do something, actually, just let me win. Jeff, oh.

• 57:30Speaker 03

  Okay. Happiest contributions. I gotta say, Mark's journey was definitely the most harrowing. Dining secret he hasn't shared with us yet, but Bob had the point for the best dinner. That was pretty happy. He was in pure bliss with that dinner. He was, yeah, that's true. That's true. Any arguments against that being the happiest contribution? No, it's fine. Alright, final score, Bob 11, Mark 8. Bob, would you like to start us off with a winner, a winner's page?

• 58:00Speaker 04

  Okay, I'll try and do whatever that is. It's been a minute since I won one fairly and squarely. It's kinda my own fault, um, what with the coin flipping and wheel spinning shenanigans that had happened. But, no, I did it, you know? I did it. I did this. It was me and me alone. Nobody else gets any credit. I take full responsibility. And, I honestly, I'm still hung up on some of the questions that you asked. You made me get real existential this episode, and I was trying to keep it light and be cool, but I'm gonna go have a good cry after this and think about what you made me think about. So I hope you're happy with yourself.

• 58:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, I am. Congrats on winning.

• 58:37Speaker 04

  Thanks.

• 58:38Speaker 03

  Uh, Mark, happier losers peeped.

• 58:41Speaker 05

  Uh-huh. I wish I had crashed on that highway. I wish I had never had to come home to, to suffer this loss. My only other regret besides surviving that, uh, is not getting breakfast before this, because at least I could have vomited from all of this nonsense.

• 58:58Speaker 03

  Did you know Skyline does breakfast? I did not know this, but they have like a hash brown breakfast or chili.

• 59:02Speaker 04

  They only do it at certain look, it's like in the airport location. It's so sad. I would totally get Skyline breakfast.

• 59:08Speaker 03

  There's a couple of other ones that do it, but uh, yeah, it's not, it's all of them.

• 59:12Speaker 04

  My only hope is that I wake up in the hospital three months from now, from my coma, from the crash.

• 59:18Speaker 03

  I mean, I'm just trying to get through this year too. So I kind of feel that very forgettable year, but congrats on losing, Bob. Congrats on winning. Glad you guys seem to have fun. You're happy and you enjoyed it. Everyone out there watching, I hope you all enjoyed this. The strike for that shop, there's merch or there was, or there will be.

• 59:36Speaker 04

  It was sold out, but it's restocking. It might be restocked right now. You'd better hurry up.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  I'm going to hurry up and go check. Uh, if you haven't already, go follow these guys. Market, Mark, Bob at Meisker, me at minion77 or Lord minion777. Stay tuned for the next one where Bob will do something.

• 59:51Speaker 04

  If I'm here.

• 59:53Speaker 03

  Until then, podcast out.

• 59:57Speaker 02

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