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1:27 Speaker 03 Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible. This face-to-face episode. Bemused Bob wants TM swinging, sacrifices saving throws for familial bonds, yet yearns for combat. Wearing Wade doesn't blow his own horn, questions his vocal dexterity, and poisons himself. Morale-raising Mark mauls Mr. Mercer, wants TPKs and bribes Guild membership. From canceling curses to sunsetting sportsmen. Heh heh heh heh heh. It's time for Wade Has an Interest. Now, sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
2:22 Speaker 04 I think we've officially run out of conversation topics.
2:25 Speaker 05 Been a really long week. I was very busy. Played D and D last night till like four in the morning.
2:29 Speaker 06 Why didn't you say that?
2:31 Speaker 05 I'm playing a good barbarian, which is kind of crazy. It's a unique kind of, it wasn't intentional, just happened that way.
2:36 Speaker 04 See, this is the thing. You're the busiest person I know, because you're always doing something. And yet you come here and say like, ooh.
2:43 Speaker 05 I don't know that that, it feels like self-promotions or something. I don't want to be, I don't thought that interesting.
2:47 Speaker 06 You're just talking about what, talk about what you do.
2:50 Speaker 05 It's what you do. I self-promote all. Okay. Well, I'm playing an invulnerable ranger, which means I get more damage reduction. So I'm like, I go in, I get the shit beat out of me, but I actually deal, take slightly less damage. And I have this big sword and I just.
3:02 Speaker 04 Cheating if you come into the game, you're like, I'm gonna be invulnerable.
3:07 Speaker 05 Well, yeah, since you say that. But invulnerable ranger just made you get more damage reduction early. Cause we're doing what's called epic six. So we cap at level six. And we just got to level four. Uh, so it's like, you only get so many powers, so many feats, so many ability scores. So if you have damage reduction and everything caps at level six, it's like, actually damage reduction of two or three is pretty strong. So I was like, okay, I'll go with that.
3:29 Speaker 04 People have been wanting us to play D and D for a long time. We just don't have enough people.
3:33 Speaker 06 I have an idea that I want to do. I want to find a DM who I like, get along with, who will give us one shots. Where it's like, they come up with the story, they come up with, we thought, we use, there are a lot of really simple structures where all you need is like, you roll one die. And the, and you could do, you could figure anything out that needs to happen. But they give us a bunch of different, like a series of one shots. And then we take turns being the host, but also the host like, doesn't have all the info. So one of us is running, so there's not a fourth person on the show running the game, but they would like, they would be in the background and the DM would be in the ear of whoever of us is running the show and be like,
4:15 Speaker 06 actually, suddenly this hap- like, then we get to take turns running it. So it's not just like, I'm the one who does the D and D or something. And we all get to take turns playing and it could be different characters. I kind of think it'd be cool if we had like set. Characters and they just jumped from universe to universe like it was in space.
4:32 Speaker 04 Yeah.
4:32 Speaker 06 And we kept like looping around going into different. I want to do this, but I have not done the first step of I need to find someone. Who is on board with this idea who I like, I think it's our. Humor and would be good at this sort of, cause it's not a thing. Most DMs are like. It's a grand campaign or, or it's a small campaign, but it's like. It's for our group because they have a group that they play with or whatever. So.
4:56 Speaker 05 I know my DM doesn't really like it. He'll do one shots. He's not really a big fan of them because he said it's like hard to tell a good story and.
5:01 Speaker 06 Yeah.
5:02 Speaker 05 That amount of time. It's a lot of cliche kind of stories, but if I wasn't doing gaming stuff. I a hundred percent could see myself. I could, I don't think I'm critical role. Worthy, but like having a really awesome setup where you have like the table. Everyone gets around that critical role does and like having like a full D and D thing.
5:18 Speaker 04 Why do you say, why do you say you're not critical role worthy?
5:22 Speaker 05 Their voice acting capabilities, I think is above, like I can do some different voices, but like, I think theirs are truly like. I'm not a voice actor as far as talent goes. Now making a character and getting immersed and playing my character. I can do that like they can. But I think that they are more talented voice actors than I am.
5:38 Speaker 04 Matt Mercer, you're a bitch. I'm throwing down the gauntlet here.
5:47 Speaker 04 Is so much better than you at voice acting and everyone on critical role.
5:53 Speaker 05 My phone number on the screen, Matt, call me.
5:54 Speaker 04 We're gonna do. Yeah, you call it right now. Set this up. One V five, one V one, V one, V one. He'll take them all on at the same time. Voice to voice. He's got this. My money's on him.
6:09 Speaker 04 Very fine.
6:10 Speaker 05 No, I watched, they did a campaign on critical role recently. Um, they have a new system. I think it's called dagger fall that. Like they came up with, they invented this new like D and D system.
6:19 Speaker 04 Dagger fall is the name of the first Elder Scrolls game or the second.
6:23 Speaker 05 I might be wrong about that. I thought it was daggerfall. But they did it. They've released a whole system that you play. It's a lot more RP intensive and a little bit less dice. But it seemed pretty brutal. I watched their campaign. It was pretty brutal.
6:33 Speaker 04 Pretty like they died?
6:34 Speaker 05 It's a very like easy to die in system and the way they played it at least.
6:38 Speaker 04 Like in person, they died?
6:40 Speaker 06 Well, if your character dies, don't you have to to follow their lead? You're role playing, right? You have to play the role.
6:46 Speaker 05 I hope not, because one of my characters died by being burned to death with flamethrowers and I really don't want to follow that role. That sounds terrible. But I've been I've been super into D and D. I really enjoy it. And it's like, I kind of wish I could play more than I do. So like having like a really cool in person setup where everyone's like focused and paying attention doesn't have like distractions of screens and phones like sounds like a really fun idea. If everyone's immersed and buys in, it's so much fun.
7:07 Speaker 04 Build it.
7:07 Speaker 05 Well, I'd want to, but there's not a lot of people locally I know that play.
7:11 Speaker 06 I I I would. This is the problem I run into is I love. The I have not played a lot, but every experience I've had with D and D, I really love it. It's really fun. And every group that I, because I have been invited or I've had opportunities, every group is full of people who are normal people who have jobs. And I'm like, I do my stuff during. This is my job. So I had to do like nine to five during the day is my availability. And like after five, I have a son and I'm not trying to play D and D for four hours. One of the nights of the week when I'm supposed to be like cooking dinner and playing with Jay. Like I do want to do it, but that's a hard decision to make. And every D and D group I've ever talked to, they're like,
7:53 Speaker 06 yeah, we go from like nine PM to four in the morning on Thursday nights. And I'm like,
7:57 Speaker 05 Ours is eight PM. It used to be eight PM to midnight on Wednesdays.
8:01 Speaker 06 Right.
8:01 Speaker 05 Now it's eight PM to like two or three AM.
8:03 Speaker 06 And like, it's cool. If I didn't have James, like I would be way down for that. But I'm like, I really, I'm lucky of the lot of people who have to work more hours than I do, but I really try and reserve family time. And it's like, I don't, I don't have four or six or 10 hours a week to do nighttime D and D when I work during the day. Anyway, it's fine. I'm first word problems.
8:25 Speaker 04 I would be fine if it was like a seven hour session. I am fine. But most of the D and D that I've played in or been a part of has been spending four of those hours in town. Trying to buy some things.
8:37 Speaker 06 Walking around.
8:38 Speaker 04 Walking around.
8:38 Speaker 05 Sometimes. Our current campaign is very RP heavy. So there's a lot more of like talking than there is action.
8:43 Speaker 04 But I'm like, it's more than it would be in real life. That if I went to go get potions from a fucking town, I'm not gonna be there for four hours. I don't go to the grocery store for four hours. All that talking to everybody.
8:56 Speaker 05 We did an hour of furniture shopping once. We got like, we got like in a house and we had to go furniture shopping. We spent an hour furniture shopping.
9:02 Speaker 04 In RP?
9:03 Speaker 05 Yeah.
9:03 Speaker 04 What?
9:04 Speaker 05 So.
9:05 Speaker 06 That's a long time.
9:06 Speaker 04 Going to Ikea for an hour.
9:08 Speaker 05 Did one of the campaigns, we were doing, um, it's not Vampire the Masquerade, but it's like that universe. It's like, it was called Hunter, I think. We played like Sam and Dean Winchester type characters, but weaker. My character went in, he was like a rich content creator. I was playing like kind of a douchey content creator. So I was like, ah, that's fun. But he had a lot of money.
9:27 Speaker 06 What is that like?
9:29 Speaker 05 Really difficult for me. Uh, I don't know how I channeled it. He bought like this property they were gonna use for their base. So like set up, like get all their guns and have this like thing. And I had to RP with like a tax accountant and attorney. And I was like.
9:42 Speaker 06 Oh.
9:43 Speaker 05 That was the worst.
9:46 Speaker 05 It was like, ah, let me negotiate my loan. I was like, this is not what I'm doing.
9:52 Speaker 04 You say have to. Why? Who said you had to?
9:55 Speaker 05 I wasn't the one running the game, man. I was just a player.
9:57 Speaker 04 Oh, my God. And see, that's the kind of stuff is like, no offense to that. You're a DM or any DM that does like that.
10:03 Speaker 06 People like that. There's probably people who like that.
10:05 Speaker 04 Oh.
10:06 Speaker 06 I mean, all of the people, there are so many different.
10:09 Speaker 05 It was relatively well received.
10:10 Speaker 06 Critical Role is not the only D and D that you can watch as a series on the internet. And there are plenty of D and D series that I have. Or like podcasts where I was like, oh, I'll see what this is about. And it's like, like an hour and a half of role playing of them doing almost nothing. And to me, I'm like. Oh, do, do anything. Do something.
10:31 Speaker 05 Is Critical Role more action based or are they more RP based? I'm not watched. I've not watched like their longer form campaigns too much, but.
10:37 Speaker 04 Yeah, I've legitimately not watched.
10:38 Speaker 06 Honestly, that's probably, I know them, but I have probably watched almost zero actual Critical Role, other than clips.
10:45 Speaker 05 I mean, it's a hard balance. It depends what you're doing. There are definitely like times in games that you play that are more action focused. And there's other systems that are definitely more RP focused.
10:52 Speaker 06 Yeah, if we were gonna do something and we were gonna take part, I would want it to be almost exclusively action. I want it to be one very one shotty, very action focused, because the point is, it's just an improv game, right? Like, for our purposes, it's a fun, structured improv game where you can have a goal that we don't all have to make up in our heads and agree upon because that doesn't always work out very well in our groups.
11:18 Speaker 05 Short form, especially you want to be more action.
11:20 Speaker 04 If you're in town out of combat, do you still take turns? Okay, good. Because I was about to say, if you're taking turns RPing with people.
11:28 Speaker 05 You only earn initiative and take turns typically when you're fighting or like, like a fight is about to break out or something. Like, if you're just role playing, it's just like you do your thing.
11:38 Speaker 04 That was good, because I was about to say, like, I'm not saying it should be all fighting all the time, but it's like, man, if you had to wait.
11:42 Speaker 05 You go to my potion. Unfortunately, Markold hired initiative. He bought the potion. What do you do? Bitching him, I guess. That's a two round action. You've only got, damn it. No, it's not like that.
11:54 Speaker 04 Okay, good.
11:55 Speaker 05 Also, everyone's gonna ask twitch.tv slash lost initiatives where I play. I did a system, though, on a show called, uh, Roll For It. Tyler was a part of like this bigger camp. It was a Warhammer campaign. They wanted to do like, not a one shot, but like a four episode series where it was like Tyler was like a general sending an army down to like a planet to do something. And they're like, what if we zoom in and we do like a mini campaign of that battle?
12:19 Speaker 06 That's pretty cool.
12:20 Speaker 05 So I got to join in as like one of the soldiers and the guy who DM'd was named Sheepy. I forget his actual wand, the wandering in, I think is his at. But he DM'd us on Warhammer game. It was very action oriented. He had us make like four character sheets that were pretty quick to make, but he's like, there will probably be death in this game. Your character is expendable. So we kind of made some silly characters, but it was very action oriented. It was just constantly like we were at war. Somehow we were great at war, but we had to like cook meals in our downtime to eat. We sucked at that, so we kept poisoning ourselves. And there was a point where we rolled like the, it was like a D100 system where one is great, a 100 is terrible. And our cook rolled, I think, a one or a two on cooking our meal. And he was like,
13:04 Speaker 05 Hmm, interesting. So we started hallucinating and we were like trying to stealth into this like combat situation. And my character was seeing a bunch of like monkeys that were like shooting lasers.
13:14 Speaker 06 I thought one was good.
13:16 Speaker 05 I thought one was good. I'm sorry, he rolled a high. He rolled the bad one.
13:19 Speaker 06 Okay, he rolled very, very bad. Got it.
13:21 Speaker 05 So I started hallucinating seeing like space monkeys shooting lasers. One of our characters actually just believed they were dead. So they just laid down and thought they were dead. And I forget what the other hallucination was, but we're like hallucinating in the woods while we were trying to like sneak into this combat zone. Everything that went bad was from the fucking cooking because we were getting into combat. It's like, oh dude, one crit, one crit, awesome. Uh, but that was a really fun system, very action oriented. It was just like the pace of being like a Band of Brothers style where it's just like war scene, war scene, moving, trying to fight the action, getting pushed back. That was a really cool one.
13:56 Speaker 06 It's so weird to hear you talk passionately and have a bunch of knowledge about a thing that you really like. I know that you like things in life, but you've never, you don't ever share this stuff.
14:07 Speaker 05 I don't know. I feel like I talked about D and D before and just didn't wanna.
14:10 Speaker 06 Like you've definitely talked about it, but you'd be like, I played D and D this week. I got a cigar.
14:15 Speaker 05 I figure if people care, they'll come watch us play. Like they're not gonna, they don't wanna hear me just talk about like rehashing.
14:20 Speaker 06 No, that's not how that works. No, you have to bother the shit out of someone to get them to go click on something that they've never watched before and they don't know if they like it or not.
14:28 Speaker 05 I mean, I super enjoy roleplay, like being different characters. I've, I've loved a lot of my characters. I did GTRP. You did that for a little bit. I had a normal guy. I really loved playing him. I got too addicted to it. I will never do GTRP again. Because there was a time where I got on at like 4pm and I was on till 7am and I did that for like three weeks. Just all, because the FOMO, the fear of missing out was crazy. If I logged off, I was like, what if something crazy happens while I'm offline? Gotta be on the server.
14:54 Speaker 04 Who do you turn into when the cameras are off?
14:56 Speaker 05 I gotta be on the server.
14:59 Speaker 04 Okay. Well, no, it's good to hear you talk about stuff.
15:02 Speaker 05 I really enjoy it. Yeah. I would love to do more D and D's oriented stuff, but unfortunately a lot of people I play with nighttime is the.
15:08 Speaker 06 Yeah, well, it makes sense, right? Like if, if your job isn't content creation, why the fuck would you play? D and D during the sunlight hours. You have like shit you're supposed to be doing. You have kids you're taking care of. You have the work you're supposed to be doing like. It just is tough because I really do want, I have had several opportunities where I could have been like you, where I could have like gotten into a group, but it was always like. Lots of nights, morning, maybe multi nights a week if we're.
15:34 Speaker 05 I'm also the rare exclusive night out like even right now I'm feeling like slightly out of it. I hit my peak around like eight or nine o'clock. I'm like, oh, I'm so awake. Let's do whatever.
15:44 Speaker 06 It's three in the afternoon, just for context.
15:46 Speaker 05 Yeah.
15:46 Speaker 06 Right now where we are. So.
15:48 Speaker 05 Like, I don't get mark level of drive, but the closest I get to your level of drive to work is definitely evening and night. During the day, I'm just dragging along existing.
15:56 Speaker 06 This is basically your four AM.
15:58 Speaker 05 No, not quite that bad. Like I'm awake after noon usually, but like the first four or five hours of being awake. I'm just kind of like, like how people feel when they don't have their coffee yet. Cause I don't drink coffee, so I'm all, I'm just perennially in that until I hit my like.
16:11 Speaker 06 You should try coffee. You should try coffee.
16:13 Speaker 05 Really want to start adding, I don't know. It's not really good for you.
16:17 Speaker 06 No, it's not bad for you. They say it's pretty good. Having like and multiple energy drinks a day, levels of caffeine, like hundreds and hundreds of milligrams of caffeine. Oh, probably not very good for you. So that's the guy with an energy drink. So, but like one coffee in the morning to like get going. Actually not bad. And coffee is a lot of antitoxins. Yeah. They say. You do have acid reflux. So I know people with bad acid reflux could have, you might have to get like low acidity coffee to enjoy it more because you might have a bad reflux from it. Uh, but they make that and like it works. I have a friend I knew who had like the worst reflux. I've like everything gave him reflux. He just eats like. Plain rice because of, but low acid coffee also worked and he could enjoy his coffee.
16:59 Speaker 05 Interesting. I know I'll be a coffee drinker, but maybe I'll try.
17:02 Speaker 06 You could also just get like decaf because that has a tiny, tiny amount of caffeine in it and it might give you a boost. If I'm not shaking violently from the amount of caffeine I had, I don't even feel like I'm alive.
17:12 Speaker 05 I've cut back on pop too quite a bit though.
17:14 Speaker 06 Oh, pop.
17:15 Speaker 05 Soda, whatever.
17:17 Speaker 06 My little chocolate pop.
17:19 Speaker 04 You been watching a lot of K-pop Demon Hunters?
17:21 Speaker 06 That's like James' favorite, Golden is James' current favorite song. So we have a lot of dance parties to the K-pop Demon Hunter soundtrack.
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19:33 Speaker 04 Can I talk to you about my unwavering natural charisma?
19:37 Speaker 06 I don't know if I'll be able to withstand your assault.
19:40 Speaker 04 I know, right? Can I unleash this upon you? So I've been playing that stupid mobile game, right?
19:48 Speaker 06 Yeah.
19:49 Speaker 04 Did I tell you anymore about it since I started talking?
19:52 Speaker 06 Uh, the last update, your group clan, whatever, had folded into another one and you had been folded into the leadership structure.
20:00 Speaker 04 Yeah. Okay. Anyway, so I started on a new server because I was like, I bet I can run things better than these assholes ever could. I'm going to show them. I'll start my own guild. I'll start my own guild with my own rules. I'll do it my way. Fucking instantly number one on the server, like from day one, our guild has been number one on the server because I'm the fucking best. And I am giving them lots of.
20:36 Speaker 04 Free play, right, buddy? Free play. So it turns out all you need to do to get people to call you king and boss and chat is give them lots of diamonds. And boy, do they love the.
20:53 Speaker 06 That's so fucking funny.
20:55 Speaker 04 We're number one, baby. But at what cost? About a hundred and fifty dollars.
21:05 Speaker 04 I'm gonna assume it's not per day.
21:07 Speaker 06 It's per.
21:15 Speaker 06 Hey, running, running your own kingdom is expensive. I get it.
21:20 Speaker 04 Don't worry. Soon the profit will turn around.
21:21 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, man. It's gonna get back.
21:26 Speaker 04 Anyway, I don't know what's wrong with me. I I need to.
21:28 Speaker 05 Did I get it? I was the mobile game guy for a while. I get it. It's easy to get sucked in and like.
21:34 Speaker 04 Oh, man.
21:35 Speaker 05 That that streak of like wanting to be at the top or be the best is definitely there. That's why they work.
21:40 Speaker 04 That's why they work, yeah.
21:41 Speaker 05 Yeah.
21:41 Speaker 04 And so with this one, like they're all such helpless sheep and I need to leave them like the great herder, herder, shepherd that I am.
21:49 Speaker 05 I heard him, Mark. Heard him.
21:50 Speaker 04 I heard him, all right. No, I uh.
21:53 Speaker 05 Oh, you poor bastard.
21:54 Speaker 04 But additionally, I have charisma and they definitely follow me for that.
21:57 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's definitely charisma.
22:00 Speaker 06 Yeah, that makes sense.
22:01 Speaker 05 You get a bonus to your charisma by giving out diamonds.
22:04 Speaker 04 Yeah, it turns out money.
22:07 Speaker 06 That's so funny.
22:09 Speaker 04 Anyway, yeah, that's that's my my I really need to stop playing that game because I really need to get back to learning.
22:15 Speaker 05 I was there with Raid, Raid Shadow Legends Guild, man.
22:18 Speaker 04 You know, I had a campaign for that and I've never played it.
22:22 Speaker 05 I got super into it, but uh.
22:25 Speaker 04 Very big money pit.
22:27 Speaker 05 Very easy to fall into that one.
22:30 Speaker 06 I've been trying to find a thing to get addicted to that I could give money to because I had mine. I'm not above it, but I don't. I haven't played Valorant in a long time. My thing for a long time was I played Counter-Strike and then I got into Valorant because it's like competitive five V five shooters and I would buy skins. I must have. Oh, I've never actually quantified. It's probably an embarrassing amount of money in Valorant skins. Easily six hundred or seven hundred bucks total, probably because like I would, I would generally, I would not and maybe I'd buy one single one off the shop for like a few bucks when they went on sale. But then they had a few sets in a row where it was like for a hundred bucks, you get this whole set and I was like,
23:13 Speaker 06 man, all of those are fucking great. This will be the one time. But I haven't had anything like I've been trying to get addicted to something then.
23:22 Speaker 05 The sun cause fallacy is real. As soon as you put like your first two bucks in, you're you're in.
23:27 Speaker 06 I've even been trying sports gambling. This sounds, this is a terrible take, but like I like sports and I feel like I would like, like, I know you just lose money. I know that's not and I but I'm like, I feel like I would enjoy sports gambling. Like it's fun. You think about the game. You could make ridiculous, you know, prop bets or whatever they call them parlays. You bet on anything you want. It's really like and you just, you'll just always lose because the more complicated your parlay, the more guaranteed to lose it is. I don't even like that. Even when I win a sports bet, I'm like, eh, well, I don't need like, I don't know. I need advice. I need advice, man.
24:05 Speaker 04 The vice for me is in these games, it's not so much about me buying for me. It's they in this game has a gifting mechanic. That's what gets me because I really like, you know, other people getting things, other people. So there was an event that just happened on the main server that I'm on. And it's like, suddenly there's nine more things I can give. I'm like, oh, max them all out immediately. Yeah, they were cheaper, but it was like.
24:28 Speaker 05 Yeah. We should take Mark shopping with us or something.
24:33 Speaker 06 I love, I love gifts.
24:37 Speaker 05 All of a sudden I do too. I would, I would. I buy you guys dinner all the time.
24:41 Speaker 06 Yeah, no, that's true.
24:41 Speaker 05 Like, uh, Kings Auto Mall, you want to go car shop? My rentals looking.
24:45 Speaker 04 Yeah, you don't have a car. Yeah, we got to get you a car.
24:47 Speaker 05 Yeah, that sounds great.
24:50 Speaker 04 I'll get you both e-bikes.
24:52 Speaker 06 I wouldn't. Well, I do have an e-bike, but I would enjoy one that was a little more casual. I have a bike, an e-bike that's just a bike that also has that. And I, it's not. It's like really tall because I'm huge, but I'd really want like a super seven. I want one that looks like a motorcycle.
25:08 Speaker 05 I've not been on a bike of any kind in probably 10 years.
25:11 Speaker 04 It's a good way to get in shape, even if it's an e-bike, so long as you paddle, like you're still getting some kind of workout then, yeah, you could do that.
25:17 Speaker 06 They are fun though. I, I recently tuned mine up and ruined it for the first time in a while. We don't live in a great spot here to like ride it anywhere useful, but it's really fun.
25:27 Speaker 04 Oh, you know, there were ladies like Amy showed me Alt Park. I didn't know about Alt.
25:32 Speaker 06 It's a great place.
25:33 Speaker 05 Is that where the hobos went to, to sex?
25:37 Speaker 06 What? The, no, what are you talking about?
25:41 Speaker 05 Didn't, wasn't there a whole bit like 10 years ago or like when we were in LA, it was like, that's where the homeless people go to fuck.
25:47 Speaker 06 Alt Park is in Cincinnati.
25:49 Speaker 05 Oh.
25:51 Speaker 06 That place you never leave.
25:53 Speaker 04 See, this is why when we did the Cincinnati episode, we did such a terrible job because I didn't know about Alt Park.
26:00 Speaker 05 I guess I still, I've never been there.
26:01 Speaker 04 Cincinnati is probably one of the best park cities in the world. It has incredibly maintained and beautiful parks everywhere.
26:13 Speaker 04 They existed.
26:14 Speaker 06 Yeah, I never really did park stuff until James, but pretty much everywhere we've gone, anywhere in the city or in the suburbs is like, wow, this is beautiful.
26:23 Speaker 05 A related note, isn't there also like a, there's a really beautiful cemetery here. I forget the name of it. That's not Alt Park, but it's a.
26:29 Speaker 06 Is that Spring Grove?
26:30 Speaker 05 That.
26:30 Speaker 06 That's not, no, that's down by, you see, I don't know if that would be beautiful. That one's.
26:35 Speaker 05 There's one that's apparently really big and beautiful. I think I've been there once, but it's been since like 2010. I don't remember the name of it. It might be Spring Grove.
26:41 Speaker 04 I went to this, right, we were taking Chica and Henry out to random parks all over the place. There's one of the biggest dog parks I've ever seen in my life by these huge soccer fields that is just like by Lunkin. And then there's another one that this park behind a gold star. Just randomly on this back row behind a gold star. I'm sure there's has a name and is everyone knows about it, but it was like, it's one of the pretty, this park is like a circle in the front, two things in there. And a huge nature trail going through the whole woods there. And then in on that road, the main road is like, I'm looking down and there's, it's like this amphitheater style, but grass, like it's a grass. That's been cut, but then it it goes to tall, like wildflowers and it's just the trees funnel that it looks like an amphitheater. It looks like intentionally, it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And I'm like, this is just behind a gold star.
27:26 Speaker 05 There's a lot of, I mean, the nature center where Molly and I got married, that's a beautiful place. They got beautiful walking paths. There's all kinds of parks. I'm sure there's some I've even missed. There's parks behind churches. There's. I swear they hide some of them intentionally so people don't know about them.
27:38 Speaker 04 Cincinnati has incredible features. Why didn't we name any of them in the episode where we talk about Cincinnati?
27:44 Speaker 06 That's not what we do.
27:45 Speaker 05 We didn't name the ones everyone talks about, Kings Island and that's it.
27:50 Speaker 04 Did you know Cincinnati used to, they sold it recently, own a railroad that stretched from Cincinnati down to Louisiana?
27:57 Speaker 05 No, I didn't know that.
27:58 Speaker 04 Entire railroad.
27:59 Speaker 06 The city did?
27:59 Speaker 04 The city did. Yeah. And they just sold it a couple of years ago. It was on a vote. I wasn't here for it. You guys probably voted for it.
28:07 Speaker 06 We could have been railroad people. Couple of years. I was, I just got here.
28:10 Speaker 04 Right, right. Did you, you might have voted for it or against it?
28:13 Speaker 05 I might have.
28:14 Speaker 04 Yeah. Anyway, it was, it was one of the propositions that you're supposed to bring up. Anyway, they sold it for 1.5 billion, billion dollars.
28:22 Speaker 05 We could have been railroad folk. We could have bought that.
28:24 Speaker 06 I've always dreamed of running a railroad.
28:27 Speaker 04 Well, they sold it. It was controversial because they'd owned it since like the 1800s and it had made been making Cincinnati money.
28:33 Speaker 05 Yeah, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have wanted to get rid of that.
28:35 Speaker 06 Well, and I'm a little, I mean, I know that railroads can be privately owned, but I'm a little surprised that they could because that sort of thing. Part of the problem modernly with railroads is that to make them, the government has to seize land. Right? Like they use eminent domain to just take people's property or get huge easements on people's property. That doesn't work so well in the modern world where everything is pretty, especially around cities at least. Everything's pretty jammed up. There's not like, it's not like there's just empty space and no one is using it. But um, yeah, so that they had a bunch of property tied up in that as well, which is why it was so valuable. But it's crazy that they could just convey that to a private party.
29:18 Speaker 04 Yeah, for 1.5 billion dollars, you can do a lot of things.
29:21 Speaker 06 I feel like they could have got more.
29:23 Speaker 04 Yeah, that's what a lot of people are saying, but it went into a trust that has since appreciated in value. It's like 1.6 billion now and already there's been tens of millions that it's allocated to like road repair. Bridge repair, public services, things like that. So it's actually, I'm not sure 100% of the finance, but it was working out for Cincinnati.
29:42 Speaker 05 Road repair this year has been kind of brutal. We had a really tough winter last year and the roads got really decimated this. Over that course, I feel like this year I've seen so much more road construction and so much more that needs it. They were working on a thing years ago. I don't know if it even came over. Did we talk about in the podcast where they had like the self repairing roads somewhere in Europe? They were trying to work on.
30:01 Speaker 06 Maybe this sounds like technology. Are you sure? You want to bring this up?
30:04 Speaker 05 Yeah, because I was like, that sounds great. Why don't we have those? I don't know how expensive they are to make, but the road apparently like somehow defaults back to its original shape whenever it's done or something.
30:13 Speaker 04 Whenever it's done, done what?
30:14 Speaker 05 It could be bullshit. It could have been snake oil.
30:16 Speaker 06 I assume it must be heat related or something where it's like if it gets good direct sunlight and warms up, it will reform, re deform. It will shape itself back to some, I think the roads that I wish worked out that I think they just didn't work out technologically. Have you guys ever seen roads that are also photovoltaic cells? So the road generates electricity.
30:36 Speaker 04 I have seen that.
30:37 Speaker 06 Solar electricity.
30:38 Speaker 04 Have you ever seen the pave, the sidewalks that are? Little pressure generators, so they like their little.
30:44 Speaker 06 No, that's cool.
30:45 Speaker 04 It's cool. Apparently horrible maintenance on those things because people, people not only walk on them, they spit, they drop gum down there, you know? So it's like, if anyone's been anywhere where humans walk, they realize like, ah, no, they're not perfectly clean. They got dog poop on their boots, you know? So I don't think that was.
31:04 Speaker 05 In Germany, near Cologne, the Durabast test road was opened. D U R A, capital B, capital A, capital S, lowercase T again. Test road was open, which uses experimental asphalt, makes sure it can repair itself when micro cracks appear. Repairs cracks and potholes on their own, using various technologies like microcapsules, steel fibers and induction heating.
31:27 Speaker 06 Sounds pretty fancy for a road. Not gonna lie.
31:31 Speaker 05 Yeah, but like, how much money is wasted just redoing roads?
31:34 Speaker 04 Wasted? You mean go into the pockets of those respectable construction?
31:40 Speaker 05 Well, sure, were they gonna be constructing other things rather than just the same road they already built, probably? I'm not saying take their jobs. I'm just saying there's a lot of things that need maintenance that probably don't get it.
31:49 Speaker 06 I think the thing that's annoying to me is the efficiency of road. Because the thing about roads is they're kind of, without knowing any of the science of it, roads are like consumables, right? There's no such thing as a road that never needs to be repaired. Roads are beat to shit inherently. They have like some of the heaviest stuff on them all the time, going really fast. Putting really weird loads and moving loads and all kinds of stuff engineering wise onto them. It's not like if we just made all roads out of like concrete or some like really hard metal or some mystical material that doesn't exist. That they would still just never be repaired. It would just be a matter of like, oh, well, this one doesn't need to be repaired for several years longer.
32:32 Speaker 06 But it's 10 times more expensive to put in and you can't repair it. You have to rip it out and replace it. Like the thing about asphalt is it's not very hardy, needs a lot of repairs, but it's super fucking easy to put down fresh asphalt. It's not as much of a. Like installing roads with technologies, installing roads with induction heating in them. Anything that involves little intricate stuff you have to install and needs to go the whole length of whatever, like however fucking long roads are. The cost is outrageous and just dumping down some fresh asphalt and squishing it into place is. If there was a better way to do it that made financial sense, they would because they would make more money if they did it in a more efficient way.
33:14 Speaker 06 But it sucks that it's like in Cincinnati, at least it feels like there's no major roads that I use that aren't partially totally fucked. By some construction where it's like, man.
33:26 Speaker 05 Even like getting here today, I got like, I went a path that was like, why did I go here? Road closed. You go eighteen miles this way to go around.
33:34 Speaker 04 Did you use navigation?
33:35 Speaker 05 I did. It led me right to the road construction.
33:38 Speaker 06 That's not very good navigation.
33:39 Speaker 04 Maybe you should switch your navigation.
33:40 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's that stupid rental navigation.
33:43 Speaker 04 Is it Apple Maps? Is it you doing the built in car navigation?
33:46 Speaker 05 I tried it today. I don't know that I'll go back.
33:48 Speaker 04 The built in car one?
33:50 Speaker 05 Yeah.
33:50 Speaker 04 Oh, well, no.
33:51 Speaker 06 Oh, honestly, those are, those are interesting, but they're still just never going to be as good as the live ones. But like my, my car has really fancy, it has live traffic, it has live learning. It tries to do all the stuff that like Google Maps does, but it just doesn't do it as well. Cause turns out it's made by a car company and not a maps company.
34:13 Speaker 05 Yeah.
34:13 Speaker 04 Oh, well.
34:14 Speaker 06 What were we talking about? Oh, ways to improve the show.
34:17 Speaker 05 Right. D and D.
34:19 Speaker 04 Okay, that was one.
34:21 Speaker 06 You know how we improve the show?
34:22 Speaker 04 Yeah.
34:23 Speaker 06 Shows like late night shows have staffs of like hundreds of people. We don't have enough hundreds of people feeding us things to talk about.
34:33 Speaker 04 You know where we could get hundreds of people really quickly?
34:36 Speaker 06 Go bear staff once a show goes off the air. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
34:40 Speaker 05 I laughed because it was dark, not because I'm like, ah, yeah.
34:44 Speaker 04 The fans.
34:45 Speaker 06 Oh.
34:46 Speaker 04 Well, we're not going to pay him or anything like.
34:48 Speaker 06 No, yeah, yeah, this is, it's a, we'll pay in exposure.
34:51 Speaker 05 There are no fan labor laws as far as I know.
34:53 Speaker 04 I like that. I like that. What does staff do at those shows?
34:58 Speaker 06 Honestly, I'm not sure what. A hundred and a hundred and fifty people do on a show. It's a show that airs five nights a week. So probably like some number of them like write like the interview questions.
35:09 Speaker 05 Oh, for that show specifically, I'm not gonna say skim off the top. That sounds like I'm making an accusation.
35:12 Speaker 04 Yeah.
35:13 Speaker 05 What are you saying about staff in general?
35:15 Speaker 04 So you're one of those types that wants Jimmy Kimmel off the off the air?
35:17 Speaker 05 Uh huh. No, he was fine.
35:20 Speaker 04 He's fine.
35:21 Speaker 05 Oh, so you support him now? No, I do not think people should be taken off the air for that.
35:28 Speaker 04 Oh, really?
35:29 Speaker 05 Yeah.
35:30 Speaker 04 Tell me more.
35:31 Speaker 05 Nope.
35:33 Speaker 04 Look, I've met Mr. Kimmel. Let me tell you about him. I didn't really talk to him.
35:40 Speaker 05 I've never met him. He's fine. I was a Craig Ferguson guy. I love Craig.
35:44 Speaker 06 That's Craig Ferguson. Yeah, I know Craig Ferguson. He's that scotch guy. He had the skeleton. Jeff was the sidekick.
35:50 Speaker 05 Jeffrey Peterson.
35:51 Speaker 06 Jeffrey Peterson. The late, late, late, the late, late show with Craig Ferguson.
35:57 Speaker 04 Jordan Peterson on this.
35:58 Speaker 05 Jeffrey.
35:59 Speaker 06 Jeffrey Peterson, the skeleton.
36:01 Speaker 05 Yeah, not.
36:02 Speaker 06 Ah.
36:03 Speaker 04 What the fuck you talking about?
36:05 Speaker 05 He had the harmonica at his desk, little snake mug, I think.
36:09 Speaker 06 The bits, he's got lots of bits.
36:10 Speaker 05 He's on CBS, because he always did the CBS cares, but one night his like studio was leaking water just actively. So he had like a fucking bucket next to his desk catching water leaks from the ceiling.
36:21 Speaker 04 Sounds like a really high budget show.
36:22 Speaker 05 Oh, it was better than it was like that. Honestly, it was, it was just so, it was very funny. He was my favorite late night host by far.
36:28 Speaker 06 Anyway, whatever he did, we should get some of his people. I bet his, his staff probably got nothing going on now. We might get some of them.
36:35 Speaker 04 Colbert is off?
36:36 Speaker 06 He's gotta be off the air like in the spring or something. It's, it's canceled, but he's through the end of his contract or however it works.
36:42 Speaker 04 Canceled. So when do we get his writers?
36:44 Speaker 06 Yeah, well.
36:45 Speaker 05 Just get him, get him to our show.
36:47 Speaker 06 Yeah, he's probably not busy.
36:48 Speaker 04 All right, cool.
36:49 Speaker 06 Stephen Colbert is gonna fix Distractible.
36:52 Speaker 04 Yeah. Okay, so that's idea two.
36:55 Speaker 06 Okay.
36:55 Speaker 04 Hire Stephen Colbert.
36:56 Speaker 06 I like that.
36:57 Speaker 04 Idea? Not an improved pocket.
36:59 Speaker 05 More boats.
37:00 Speaker 04 That was your idea last time.
37:01 Speaker 05 Still my boat, still my, I said more D and D, how quickly we forget.
37:06 Speaker 06 That's true, that's true.
37:07 Speaker 04 That was one, yeah. He won and two and I'm.
37:10 Speaker 05 What's your ideas, mister? I'm the host.
37:13 Speaker 06 His idea is to make it better.
37:14 Speaker 05 I don't see.
37:14 Speaker 06 He's tired of this.
37:16 Speaker 04 I have it all up here, man. Let me tell you, you are weirdly ahead. I don't know how.
37:22 Speaker 05 Well, I definitely don't have any ideas.
37:23 Speaker 04 Okay, but you're strangely ahead. All right, this is how we fix the podcast. We may sex.
37:28 Speaker 05 Get Mark Stilts.
37:30 Speaker 06 Naked stilts, Mark?
37:31 Speaker 04 It's not your turn yet.
37:32 Speaker 06 Oh, okay.
37:32 Speaker 04 It's not your turn.
37:33 Speaker 05 Can you just point at me and say?
37:34 Speaker 06 He's pointing like rhetorically.
37:36 Speaker 04 Talking.
37:37 Speaker 05 Yeah, I don't care about that.
37:38 Speaker 04 What are you, you were just saying to me? Roll back, he was like, well, you come up with an idea, Dumbo. With your stupid ears and your dumb face. Make him say those things at me.
37:51 Speaker 05 Hey, Dumbo, your stupid ears, your stupid face. How'd you do that?
37:55 Speaker 04 Holy shit, what the fuck? Yeah, and it was crazy good.
38:00 Speaker 05 They made my mouth match.
38:01 Speaker 04 I mean, you're moving everything, anyway. Sex. We need more sex appeal.
38:07 Speaker 06 All right.
38:07 Speaker 04 I'm not gonna lie, I haven't been working out.
38:11 Speaker 06 I have been working out, it just doesn't do anything. I got years and years of working out to catch up.
38:16 Speaker 04 We need more like this game that I'm playing. Boobs.
38:21 Speaker 06 Oh, got it.
38:22 Speaker 05 Isn't there none in the game?
38:23 Speaker 06 Editors, give us all big anime titties.
38:26 Speaker 05 Whoa, we do them.
38:29 Speaker 06 Yeah, we don't have to do anything, they just need to be on screen.
38:30 Speaker 04 Yeah, that's all that matters.
38:32 Speaker 06 Like old school.
38:33 Speaker 04 Like old school. Which school did you go to?
38:37 Speaker 06 New. I assume it's old school, cuz I do it differently and I do new stuff.
38:42 Speaker 04 Back in the day, back in the day, it showed a lot more.
38:44 Speaker 06 Before we had hot tub streams, we just had super high angle down shirt stream angles. That was a big thing. Is hot tub streaming still a big deal?
38:53 Speaker 04 Listen, there's no demonetization on Spotify, so we can do whatever we want.
38:57 Speaker 05 Really?
38:58 Speaker 04 Yeah, here's some nipples.
39:00 Speaker 06 They're male nipples.
39:01 Speaker 05 Whoa.
39:07 Speaker 04 Whoa.
39:12 Speaker 06 Well, so what else sells?
39:13 Speaker 04 What else sells?
39:14 Speaker 06 Drugs. I don't really want to do drugs.
39:16 Speaker 05 Ballpark Franks.
39:17 Speaker 06 Ballpark Franks, that sells.
39:19 Speaker 04 Yep.
39:20 Speaker 06 That's what they sex drugs in Ballpark Franks. That's what Led Zeppelin was famous for.
39:24 Speaker 04 Did any of us go to marketing school?
39:26 Speaker 05 No.
39:26 Speaker 06 No, no.
39:27 Speaker 05 That's philosophy. What is marketing?
39:29 Speaker 06 Uh, uh.
39:33 Speaker 06 Well, yeah, shouldn't your answer be, well, I studied philosophy, so I basically understand how marketing works. I understand the nature of things, so that includes marketing.
39:42 Speaker 05 JP was in marketing. I know someone who was in marketing. He did marketing for the Tampa Bay Lightning. That's real marketing.
39:47 Speaker 04 Call him up.
39:48 Speaker 05 Like, actually?
39:49 Speaker 06 He's not gonna. Well, he might answer. He's probably like playing soccer or whatever he does.
39:54 Speaker 05 Yeah, he's probably busy. He's young, too. Twenty-six. He's got a whole lot of marketing ahead of him.
39:59 Speaker 04 That's straight up.
40:00 Speaker 06 We could pay him less because he's so young. Or none. Pay him in fund exposure.
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41:06 Speaker 06 So is the show fixed yet or do we need more ideas?
41:08 Speaker 04 Need more ideas. What were you saying about stilts?
41:10 Speaker 05 Some stilts for you so you could be the same height as Bob and I.
41:13 Speaker 06 Think what's really popular right now is very current and up with the trends. Travel vlogs. We need to get some big backpacks.
41:22 Speaker 04 Okay.
41:22 Speaker 06 And take this show on the road.
41:24 Speaker 04 Okay, alright, that's.
41:25 Speaker 05 I'll do that virtually from my house.
41:27 Speaker 06 No, no, that we have to go trek around and climb mountains.
41:31 Speaker 04 Yeah.
41:32 Speaker 06 Yeah, people love that.
41:34 Speaker 04 Especially the cold places, lots of snow. We should do this podcast in the snow.
41:39 Speaker 06 Have you guys seen Outdoor Boys?
41:41 Speaker 04 Yes, of course I have, even though he retired.
41:43 Speaker 06 Distractible, but it's minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit and windy. We have to dig into the 15 foot snowbank and craft our own cave system so we can survive the night.
41:53 Speaker 04 And then we do a podcast.
41:54 Speaker 06 And then we talk about the same inane bullshit we always talk about.
41:57 Speaker 04 Probably it will have so many more views. You in?
42:00 Speaker 05 My cardboard cutout agent will be with you shortly.
42:03 Speaker 04 No, you don't have a choice. You're going.
42:04 Speaker 06 Yeah, you're outvoted, so we're doing that.
42:07 Speaker 04 Listen, you'll hate it, but that's even better for content.
42:10 Speaker 05 Great.
42:11 Speaker 04 More miserable. We gotta be more miserable. People like it when people are miserable.
42:15 Speaker 06 Yeah, but we have to have the whole spectrum, right? Wade will be the absolutely miserable one. One of us needs to be kind of upbeat. I don't know who would be better for that.
42:25 Speaker 04 How upbeat can you get?
42:26 Speaker 05 I'm the upbeat one and the miserable one?
42:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
42:28 Speaker 06 Okay, I like that. You can do both.
42:30 Speaker 05 Be like, you know.
42:32 Speaker 04 Alright, cool.
42:32 Speaker 06 You're pretty unhinged. You could definitely do both of those.
42:34 Speaker 05 I can be unhinged.
42:36 Speaker 04 Yeah, alright, well, that's good.
42:38 Speaker 06 And Mark and I are just there.
42:39 Speaker 04 Yeah, we're there.
42:40 Speaker 05 Okay, so I'm the upbeat one, the unhinged one, and the miserable one, and you guys are just there.
42:44 Speaker 04 We're there.
42:44 Speaker 05 Probably in your trailers the whole time, having a good time.
42:46 Speaker 04 No, we're gonna be there with you.
42:49 Speaker 05 That was so convincing.
42:52 Speaker 04 Okay, alright, man. I think we're doomed.
42:55 Speaker 05 We should see a better promotion. That's what we need.
42:57 Speaker 04 I have something. It could go anywhere in the podcast to fill that gap. Did you see the video of the sinkhole?
43:03 Speaker 06 I did.
43:05 Speaker 04 You did.
43:05 Speaker 06 That was crazy as shit.
43:07 Speaker 04 Play this video.
43:08 Speaker 06 It looks fake.
43:09 Speaker 04 It looks, yeah, it looks super.
43:10 Speaker 06 Like, when I first saw it, I was like, huh, is that like really good AI video? Is it? No, it's real. Cause there's like multiple angles of all this fucking crazy.
43:19 Speaker 04 And it just terrified me, because sinkholes in general terrify me. But that shit just kept going down.
43:25 Speaker 06 Yeah.
43:26 Speaker 04 And that and meanwhile, all these people, what is this about people?
43:30 Speaker 06 Just standing there.
43:31 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah, I'm five feet away from this fifty foot chasm.
43:37 Speaker 06 Jesus.
43:37 Speaker 04 I'll be exactly.
43:38 Speaker 06 Just like in the middle of the, it's just going.
43:40 Speaker 04 It just goes.
43:41 Speaker 06 Yeah, it just good that that's the thing that makes it look fake too is because what I've I've seen videos of that happening in other places and it's always like, oof, oh no, there's a sink. This one is just like it's getting sucked into nothing.
43:55 Speaker 04 Yeah.
43:55 Speaker 06 And like the foundation pillars of the buildings around it, the dirt is getting sucked out from around them. And it's like,
44:02 Speaker 04 it's crazy.
44:03 Speaker 06 If I was anywhere near there, I would have got the fuck out of there so fast.
44:07 Speaker 04 I don't know how you fix that because what people were sitting, what people were theorizing, there was no concrete answer. What it was is that there might be an underground river there.
44:16 Speaker 06 Yeah, it had to be something was getting washed away, right? There was so much material that missing.
44:20 Speaker 04 Which I know in conceptually, I know underground rivers exist because I in heist, we filmed in a cave with an underground river in it. And it was running water there, but conceptually in my head, I don't, I can't fathom the idea that below us right now could be an underground river that we just don't know about. And that in this city, there was just either this big empty space that no one knew about. Why don't we know about that? Why don't we know?
44:47 Speaker 06 Well, and that that's the thing too, is in the city, you could see in the in some of the videos, the pillars holding up the tall buildings are in there.
44:54 Speaker 04 Yeah.
44:55 Speaker 06 They clearly did some kind of surveying when they built that stuff, probably they dug, they drilled down and put those in, they backfilled that.
45:03 Speaker 04 Yeah.
45:03 Speaker 06 At least some of that material was something that they put, they put back in or they brought in to like make the foundation of the building. And then something deeper underneath that they somehow had no notion of existing was just like removing huge amounts of material. So it gave way and it's crazy.
45:21 Speaker 04 Well, blows my mind is like, I think people, when they hear bedrock, they think of like Minecraft bedrock being.
45:26 Speaker 06 Get through it.
45:26 Speaker 04 Can't get through it. There's no need to think about what's below it. It's the bottom. But when bedrock in terms of earth terms, it could just be a big arch or a dome over something that or nothing, you know? There are underground caves everywhere, everywhere. And so the idea that there's just, we could fall into a sinkhole. We do.
45:47 Speaker 05 We should do an episode where we just dig down till we find a sinkhole.
45:50 Speaker 06 Ooh, it could be a whole series. We trying to go find sinkholes in very populated areas.
45:55 Speaker 05 We go to the houses of other famous creators and we just dig holes in their yard till we find a sinkhole.
46:00 Speaker 04 Okay.
46:00 Speaker 05 To show them it's not safe to be there.
46:02 Speaker 04 Do you understand how you don't find a sinkhole?
46:05 Speaker 06 Make a sinkhole.
46:05 Speaker 05 We would. Yeah, we'll make one.
46:07 Speaker 04 Oh, I don't know if digging is gonna make.
46:10 Speaker 05 We'll bring hoses to make rivers.
46:11 Speaker 06 Yeah, I've ever seen those guys where they they dig holes with a pressure washer. So they like a big hu- a big vacuum and then they have a pressure washer and the pressure washer like just turns the dirt into mud. And then they just like suck the mud out, but the pressure washer also cuts really clean lines. So they're like.
46:30 Speaker 06 And they like, they can make like pretty big, very precise hole. Basically that, but we'd sneak in beforehand, do that underneath. You know, and then when we come in, we're like, oh, let's dig here.
46:41 Speaker 04 Okay.
46:41 Speaker 06 Dude, how and then.
46:44 Speaker 04 Okay.
46:44 Speaker 06 What happened? And then their house sinks into it. Hopefully we all survive.
46:49 Speaker 04 Yeah, will we be down there when it sinks?
46:51 Speaker 06 Well, we all will be wearing harnesses.
46:54 Speaker 05 And hard hats.
46:55 Speaker 06 We'll walk into the house with a harness and a rope leading back out the door. Everyone else is like.
47:04 Speaker 05 Don't worry, we're here from the trash.
47:06 Speaker 06 It's just insurance for the show. Like they make us do this. I'm sure we'll be fine. And then as soon as, as soon as one of us starts digging, the rest of us are just like.
47:18 Speaker 04 Oh, okay. This is gonna help the show for sure.
47:21 Speaker 06 That would be some content.
47:22 Speaker 04 Yeah, that would be good. Anyway, so yeah, it's uh, the video, I don't know if you saw towards the end of it, where that silver truck was.
47:29 Speaker 05 Yeah.
47:30 Speaker 04 It made it. That silver truck lasted.
47:32 Speaker 05 Everything else is collapsing. How did the truck?
47:35 Speaker 04 I don't know.
47:35 Speaker 05 There's a truck that's sitting with like two wheels in the hole, just like barely holding on for dear life.
47:41 Speaker 04 And literally like the concrete around the truck, like, you know, divine protection of this truck. Uh, but I don't know. That was a while ago.
47:49 Speaker 05 I thought for sure. I was like, that truck is so gone.
47:51 Speaker 04 That truck was not gone. That truck was absolutely not.
47:54 Speaker 05 Is this like, when did this happen?
47:55 Speaker 04 It was this morning. No, yesterday.
47:57 Speaker 06 A day ago. Yeah, it was very recent.
47:59 Speaker 05 I was very busy.
47:59 Speaker 06 It's like the. Yeah, like a day ago.
48:02 Speaker 05 About it.
48:03 Speaker 04 That's okay. I mean, it's just, it's just world news. It's not, you don't need to keep.
48:06 Speaker 05 I don't keep up with world news.
48:07 Speaker 04 You don't know what's happening in the world?
48:09 Speaker 05 I live in the world's tiniest bubble.
48:11 Speaker 04 Do I have some things to tell you?
48:14 Speaker 06 I know a thing that you know about something that happened that's outside your house. Joe Burrow is hurt again.
48:19 Speaker 05 Okay.
48:21 Speaker 06 He had to have toe surgery on his little toes.
48:24 Speaker 05 Careers have ended over this particular injury like it's this is very.
48:27 Speaker 06 It is like a really particular and crazy injury because it the hit that hurt him looked totally fine. He was being tackled and one guy had his leg. The other leg that nobody was touching is the one that got hurt. And it's like a ligaments that hold your foot together, basically, right?
48:44 Speaker 05 Yeah.
48:44 Speaker 06 He like popped a ligament in his foot that affects your ability like use your toes and have balance or walk or run. And he has to have a surgery to repair it.
48:54 Speaker 05 He had the surgery now.
48:55 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah, he did have the surgery, but like he's basically out for several months at least, possibly until next season at this point.
49:02 Speaker 05 I I wouldn't put even if we were winning, it's like that. That's a potentially career ending injury. It's like you don't rush back from that.
49:08 Speaker 04 Yeah, but hey, in the last game they did.
49:11 Speaker 06 No.
49:11 Speaker 04 I know.
49:12 Speaker 06 No.
49:13 Speaker 04 I know.
49:14 Speaker 05 You mean the franchise's worst?
49:16 Speaker 06 Yeah.
49:16 Speaker 05 Loss ever?
49:18 Speaker 06 Even when it's pain, it's records.
49:19 Speaker 04 I only saw the first quarter of it and I was like, they could turn it around.
49:24 Speaker 05 So the Bearcats, the UC Bearcats, they two weeks ago had the craziest game I'd ever seen. They put up like 50 points in the first quarter.
49:32 Speaker 06 Didn't they play shorter quarters in the second half to get it over with?
49:35 Speaker 05 They they should have. It was they won 70 to nothing against Northwestern and 56 of their points were in the first half.
49:41 Speaker 06 That's tough.
49:42 Speaker 05 I was like, oh, Cincinnati football's back. And then the Bengals had the worst loss in franchises. It was like, oh, Cincinnati football's gone forever.
49:47 Speaker 06 No, I this might be rumor or something, but I swear I heard that in the in the Bearcats game at halftime, the refs went into the other team's locker room and were like, do you guys want to play like shorter quarters in the second half and just like?
50:02 Speaker 05 I don't know if they're allowed to do that, but like if they're good with it.
50:04 Speaker 06 Yeah, I don't. I don't know if that happened or if that was just rumor.
50:08 Speaker 04 There was a mercy rule kind of thing.
50:10 Speaker 06 It's not that's.
50:11 Speaker 05 I remember.
50:12 Speaker 06 That's tough.
50:13 Speaker 04 I remember Milford losing like 98 to two.
50:19 Speaker 05 When we went there, it was pretty rough. There were definitely like 70 to seven games. We were not a good football team.
50:28 Speaker 06 No, no. That's that's.
50:30 Speaker 05 Apparently we had a couple of good years and I think we're back to being terrible again.
50:33 Speaker 04 Well, they put all that money into the new sporting.
50:36 Speaker 06 Football this past weekend was a hell of a thing, though. There were possibly more blocked field goals in this past weekend alone. That I've actually watched in the rest of my like football.
50:47 Speaker 04 I've never seen a block.
50:48 Speaker 06 There were two in two different games returned for blocked and then returned for a touchdown. One of them swung the entire fortune of the whole game. It was one team was up by like six. And they were about to kick a field goal to go up by nine. So like two score. The field goal was blocked, returned for a touchdown, and it went from them being up by two scores to the other team being up like twenty seven, twenty six.
51:12 Speaker 04 Yeah.
51:12 Speaker 06 With like a minute left in that, but then I I don't remember what happened.
51:15 Speaker 04 They still won. I think they hung on.
51:17 Speaker 06 Yeah, I think they didn't they block another one? Yeah, that's what happened, right? That was the Jets game, maybe?
51:22 Speaker 04 Was it the Jets?
51:23 Speaker 06 There was, we were literally watching the game and.
51:25 Speaker 04 The Rams also had one.
51:26 Speaker 06 There was like they blocked a field goal, returned it for a touchdown. And the other team was pushing and they just needed a field goal. And I was like, what if they block it again? Or if they block another one and they fucking did?
51:37 Speaker 04 Wow.
51:38 Speaker 06 Yeah. It was a I was crazy weekend in football. It might have been the Browns game because didn't the Browns beat?
51:44 Speaker 04 They blocked one and then the other, the Green Bay Packers.
51:46 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, they beat the Packers. God, that's embarrassing. Ah, the Packers are supposed to be like one of the best teams in the league and the Browns are the Browns.
51:54 Speaker 04 Defense is great. Their offense is the opposite.
51:57 Speaker 06 Yeah, well, I can't believe Joe Flacco is still alive, but good for him.
52:00 Speaker 04 He's still alive. He's like forty.
52:02 Speaker 06 I know, but he's playing, he's playing in the NFL and he's like middle aged.
52:05 Speaker 04 That's true, yeah.
52:06 Speaker 06 He's, he's, he was a good quarterback and clearly he's still good enough to do it because he he got them the win, but like. Man, he's been doing it forever. I feel like I watched Joe Flacco when I was a kid.
52:16 Speaker 04 We did, basically, yeah.
52:18 Speaker 06 Like, it's a long career. Anyway, crazy football.
52:21 Speaker 04 Yeah.
52:22 Speaker 06 Not the Bengals, though. Fucking, and we play on Monday night this week, so everyone's gonna watch. Yeah, go Bengals.
52:29 Speaker 04 Yeah.
52:30 Speaker 06 Set more records, an even bigger loss.
52:32 Speaker 04 Yeah.
52:34 Speaker 06 How many interceptions can Browning throw?
52:36 Speaker 04 Yeah. How many interceptions did he throw?
52:38 Speaker 06 I think he threw two in this last one. They had a bunch of turnovers. I think two of them were interceptions.
52:44 Speaker 04 When I was watching, not to keep the sport going up, but when I was watching. I noticed in the, because I only watched the first quarter and some change. Every single snap, it was like someone from the other team was just. Right towards them every single time, every single place.
53:01 Speaker 05 We have invested so much time and capital into trying to improve the O line. And they're the exact same as they were like five years ago.
53:09 Speaker 06 Turns out it might be a coaching issue, or also it turns out we just have no idea how to pick. Like we have O linemen who are objectively good because of their track record and their careers. But are now in Cincinnati and can't do anything ever to save their lives. And I don't, I don't know enough about football.
53:27 Speaker 05 Something happens to corners and O linemen. If they come to Cincinnati, they, they can no longer perform.
53:32 Speaker 04 So Chili, they're allergic to it, just like me.
53:34 Speaker 06 Yeah, they're all eating too much skyline. That could do it.
53:37 Speaker 04 Maybe.
53:38 Speaker 05 It'd be like jet propulsion.
53:39 Speaker 04 Uh, we probably should wrap it up because I, I mean, I, maybe that camera died.
53:46 Speaker 04 Never know.
53:47 Speaker 06 We're down to like just Wade's camera filming. And we're like, this, we can't use any of this.
53:52 Speaker 04 All right. Anyway, all right. So there was probably an episode out of this.
53:56 Speaker 05 Maybe three.
53:57 Speaker 04 Two.
53:58 Speaker 05 Okay.
53:59 Speaker 04 I'm gonna flip this. It's the only thing I have. A coin.
54:03 Speaker 06 Does it have markings on it?
54:04 Speaker 04 Yeah, it says DJI one.
54:10 Speaker 06 All right, DJI, I win. DJI, Wade loses.
54:14 Speaker 04 It's a, it's slightly different. See, it's like one's just pure black. One's this, okay?
54:19 Speaker 06 Okay, okay, cool.
54:20 Speaker 04 All right. Okay. So you got this one.
54:22 Speaker 06 I got the fancy side.
54:23 Speaker 04 Yeah, because it's like, it's like you have like lots of dots like here. And this one has nothing.
54:28 Speaker 06 It's bald.
54:29 Speaker 04 Bald, it's bald.
54:30 Speaker 05 Perfect.
54:31 Speaker 04 All right. Uh, ready?
54:35 Speaker 06 That's a hell of a flip.
54:39 Speaker 06 All right, Wade, you win.
54:40 Speaker 05 All right. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Distract and, oh wait, that's not how we do it. Thanks.
54:48 Speaker 05 I was ready to start. I got an episode ready.
54:50 Speaker 04 Do you?
54:51 Speaker 05 Fuck no.
54:53 Speaker 05 Did you? No, I didn't even know I was hosting it. I was coming over to be like You think I knew I was hosting right now?
54:59 Speaker 06 Once he told you, yeah, I think you knew.
55:01 Speaker 05 Yeah, that's fair.
55:03 Speaker 04 Anyway, Bob loses.
55:04 Speaker 06 I it was nice to just it's this does this count as a podcast? Because I would like to just hang out and talk about random stuff.
55:10 Speaker 05 Yeah, same.
55:11 Speaker 06 It's really fun to just do this. We don't get this very much, but like it's fun in person. And I always underestimate how different it is in person. It's nice to just like sit in the same room and talk.
55:21 Speaker 04 Yeah, well, you got to build that D and D chamber.
55:24 Speaker 05 Yeah, it'd be great for a lot of things.
55:25 Speaker 04 You build it. I will bring myself.
55:28 Speaker 05 That's great.
55:30 Speaker 06 That's a heck of a deal.
55:31 Speaker 05 Oh, man.
55:33 Speaker 04 Yeah.
55:33 Speaker 05 Just what I want.
55:34 Speaker 04 Yeah, okay. All right, we're wrapping this up because we've been recording for way too long and probably most of it doesn't make it in. So thank you, everybody, so much for being a part of this podcast experience. Be sure to follow it or we'll kill you. Uh, have a good day. Bye, guys, stuff.
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