Best of Bob: Part 1 (Compilation)

Summary

Distractible Podcast – "Best of Bob: Part 1 (Compilation)"

Date: November 7, 2025
Hosts: Mark Fischbach, Wade Barnes, Bob Muyskens, frequent appearances by Tyler and AJ

Episode Overview

This special Best of Bob compilation highlights some of the funniest, strangest, and most memorable Bob-centric moments from the Distractible podcast’s archives. Expect absurd stories, wild hypotheticals, Bob’s inimitable storytelling, on-the-spot improv, and his trademark rants—all lovingly roasted and celebrated by co-hosts Mark and Wade, plus the usual supporting cast.

The episode skips from bit to bit, weaving through advice segments, hypothetical scenarios gone awry, Bob’s iconic rants, and comically surreal storytelling—all while reveling in the trio’s chemistry and relentless one-upmanship.

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Key Segments and Insights

1. Absurd Life Stories and Hypotheticals

• Bob's "Penthouse Forum" Farmer Escape [03:15]

  • Bob narrates an over-the-top epic about being a doomed animal escaping a farm by hijacking a tractor, culminating in fiery destruction:

    “Dear Penthouse Forum, I can't believe it happened to me. The farmer showed up and I know what he's up to. He's feeding me the good shit. And I know what that means. This is my last day on this planet unless I do something about it.” – Bob [03:15]

  • Babe-turned-action hero, a hay-bale girlfriend, botched revenge, and an existential reset in a museum.

• Road Trip Disaster: The Violent Diarrhea Story [04:44–11:29]

  • Tyler (with reactions from Bob, Wade, and Mark) tells of cooking and eating near-expired, freezer-burned ground beef, leading to a desperate, body-shakingly urgent bathroom hunt in rural Indiana.
  • Quote:

    “There's not enough one-ply gas station bathroom toilet paper in the entire universe to fix the problem that I have now created for myself.” – Tyler [10:02]

  • Comic high point: giving the restroom key back in silent shame.

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2. Bob's Insane "Solutions" for Everyday Problems

A recurring thread where Bob invents elaborate, surreal fixes to minor annoyances.

• Retrieving the Wrong Fast Food Order [11:35]

  • Donning a Ronald McDonald costume from his car, storming McDonald’s for a milkshake “clown inspection,” then changing into a Wendy’s outfit when challenged.
  • Quote:

    “You got the wig, all the stuff. You just march confidently into the store... 'I need to speak with your manager.'” – Bob [12:03]

  • Tag:

    “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.” – Wade [13:39]

• Olive Garden Service Nightmares [21:00–23:17]

  • Planting cocaine to get a new waiter, calling in Vin Diesel ("It's about family!"), eating cold Spaghettios from a pumpkin purse, and—most absurdly—sending a waiter into the airless vacuum of the moon for forgetting spaghetti.
  • Quote:

    “...you say, ‘Hey, excuse me, I think one of our party is outside trying to find the entrance,’ ...they go to the door and crack it open...they get sucked out into space.” – Bob [23:00]

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3. Classic Distractible Absurdity & Bob's Signature Rants

• Candy Uncle – Preventing Kids from Eating Too Much Candy [24:33–27:38]

  • Bob pitches a business where you “rent” a candy uncle who “dies horribly” if a child eats more than one candy, to traumatize them into moderation.
  • Memorable Line:

    “...as the chocolate is melting and running down their throat...dead uncle. That's a strong message, but that's harder to organize. It costs a bit more.” – Bob [27:31]

• Aquarium Shark Transformation (Maui’s Fish Hook) [28:13]

  • To punish a child for knocking on the glass, Bob transforms into a “top half shark, bottom half legs,” bites off the kid’s hand, and delivers a “don’t knock on my glass” warning.
  • Quote:

    “You take Maui's fishhook off your back, turn around, transform into top half shark, bottom half legs...and go, ‘Yes.’ ...Then you bite his fucking hand off. And before you turn back into a human, you swallow his hand.” – Bob [28:13]

• Funeral Rant [31:02–32:58]

  • Bob lambasts funerals and open casket ceremonies for their perceived narcissism and unnecessary demands.
  • Notable Quote:

    “Only the most narcissistic, selfish, unbelievably self centered people would possibly think that what they need after they have left their family mourning...is a party for them.” – Bob [31:42]

• Mining Trauma Monologue [42:46–44:38]

  • Bob recounts (in both sincerity and parody) the generational misery of growing up in a miner family, channeling every tragic mining cliché, dialect, and dramatic twist.
  • Quote:

    “Could you imagine that life? ...No one has invented clothing...And the mine took my father. The mine took all six of my brothers. Then the mine took my life away from me, even though it didn’t kill me, because I escaped by sheer luck and happenstance.” – Bob [43:10; 44:08]

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4. Improvisational and Rapid-Fire Challenges

• Bob's Fridge Story, NO VERBS Edition [33:14–35:54]

  • Retelling the infamous “Bob’s Fridge” saga using only nouns and fragments.
  • Transcript devolves into caveman-speak and increasingly broken storytelling.
  • Quote:

    “Three. Three inside the bush. The bush.” – Bob [34:21]
    “Fridge. The bush.” – Bob [34:28]

• How To Boil an Egg – Time Travel Edition [36:55–41:55]

  • Bob and others act out scenarios for boiling an egg: as a Vietnam vet, a Civil War vet, an ancient Egyptian archaeologist, and a Neanderthal.
  • Highlights include boiling eggs in helmets full of piss and deciphering hieroglyphics on egg boiling.
  • Memorable Exchange:

    “Back in Nam, what we used to do...you take your helmet...and you put your eggs in there...filled it with piss and you boiled your egg. Eggs and piss.” – Bob [37:39]
    “That was the tastiest boiled egg I ever ate in my life. Tasted like victory.” – AJ as Civil War vet [38:40]

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5. Running Gags, Improv Games, and Bob's Grievances

• Coin Toss Suffering [17:00–18:28]
  • Bob’s superstitious misery at repeatedly losing at coin flips, insisting, “I’ve never lost with heads.”
• Animal Impression Guess-Game [14:09–15:11]
  • Bob and others guessing at animal noises:

    “I also think it kind of sounds like a donkey who forgot how donkeys are supposed to sound.” – Bob [14:45]

• Chapstick as a Container Debate [29:14–30:59]
  • Firestorm over whether chapstick is considered “primarily a container,” to Bob’s growing frustration.
• The Piss Pants Rule, Wet Chair Saga [23:38–24:33]
  • Bob gamely reports on his "wet pants," declaring he'll continue through the next segment as punishment; everyone grossed out.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

| Timestamp | Who | Quote/Description | |-----------|--------|--------------------| | 03:15 | Bob | “Dear Penthouse Forum, I can't believe it happened to me...” | | 10:02 | Tyler | “There's not enough one ply gas station bathroom toilet paper in the entire universe to fix the problem that I have now created for myself.” | | 12:03 | Bob | “You just march confidently into the store...I need to speak with your manager.” | | 13:39 | Wade | “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.” | | 23:00 | Bob | “They go to the door and crack it open...they get sucked out into space.” | | 27:31 | Bob | “Dead uncle. That's a strong message, but that's harder to organize. It costs a bit more.” | | 31:42 | Bob | “Only the most narcissistic, selfish, unbelievably self centered people would possibly think that what they need after they have left their family mourning...is a party for them.” | | 34:21 | Bob | “Three. Three inside the bush. The bush.” | | 37:39 | Bob | “Back in Nam, what we used to do...filled it with piss and you boiled your egg. Eggs and piss.” | | 43:10 | Bob | “Could you imagine that life? ... The mine took my father. The mine took all six of my brothers. Then the mine took my life away from me, even though it didn’t kill me…” |

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Episode Structure: Segment Timestamps

• [03:15] Bob’s surreal animal-and-farmer story
• [04:44–11:29] The disastrous road trip diarrhea epic
• [11:35] Bob’s fast food “clown inspection”
• [21:00–23:17] Restaurant “problem solving” (Olive Garden moon adventure)
• [24:33–27:38] The “Candy Uncle” business model
• [28:13] Shark transformation at the aquarium
• [31:02–32:58] Bob's funeral rant
• [33:14–35:54] “Bob’s Fridge” story—No Verbs Edition
• [36:55–41:55] How to boil an egg—across time
• [42:46–44:38] Mining monologue and tragic family saga

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Tone and Style

The episode is chaotically funny, fast-paced, and leans heavily into improv comedy, inside jokes, and affectionate mockery. Every “solution” is a hyperbolic escalation; every everyday annoyance, an excuse for a Bob monologue or group riffing. The hosts’ camaraderie shines throughout.

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Takeaways

• Bob’s best moments live at the intersection of unhinged creativity and faux-earnest storytelling.
• The group’s quick wit, deep mutual history, and willingness to follow each other down any rabbit hole makes for consistently unpredictable, engaging banter.
• The “Best of Bob” delivers precisely what longtime fans love: wild hypotheticals, iconic story riffs, Bob’s cheery bitterness, and group laughter bordering on madness.

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For longtime listeners and newcomers alike, this episode is a rollicking tribute to Bob’s storytelling and the Distractible brand of chaos.

Transcript

[Mark]

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[Wade]

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[Bob]

But you know, it's even better than that things. Facebook Marketplace is my favorite, but it's even more fun when I have to go visit my stupid parents around the holidays and I can pull up Facebook Marketplace and see what's for sale around their house.

[Wade]

I caught up with a friend I hadn't talked to.

[Mark]

What'd you buy?

[Wade]

A few moments of their time.

[Mark]

You had to pay for that.

[Tyler]

Lame.

[Mark]

Let's reconnect this holiday season with.

[Wade]

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[Mark]

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[Bob]

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[Mark]

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[Wade]

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[Bob]

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[Tyler]

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[Bob]

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[Mark]

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[Bob]

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[Wade]

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[Bob]

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[AJ]

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[Mark]

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[AJ]

Up to the plate comes a bodacious man with a brilliant plan. It's time for Best of Bob Part 1.

[Bob]

Dear Penthouse Forum, I can't believe it happened to me. The farmer showed up and I know what he's up to. He's feeding me the good shit. And I know what that means. This is my last day on this planet unless I do something about it. Somehow I escape from my pen and I find the keys to a tractor. So I climb up in the tractor.

[AJ]

And I'm gonna run the farmer over.

[Bob]

For some reason, my girlfriend's there. She's just a stack of hay.

[AJ]

What the fuck?

[Bob]

I try and run the farmer down.

[AJ]

But he dodges it.

[Bob]

I crash into the barn. A lantern spills onto the ground. Oil goes everywhere. Flames. Fire. I fall out of the tractor. There's no way out. I watch as a huge timber framed thing falls down from the farm's rafters onto the farmer. He's dead, but so am I. I lay there inhaling smoke, knowing what's going to happen. And I'm back in the museum.

[AJ]

What the fuck?

[Bob]

God, I hate this disease. All right, let's continue, shall we?

[Mark]

I'm caught between these two, but I think I'm gonna go with this one. The life cycle of a butterfly.

[Bob]

Egg, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly.

[Mark]

I make it come back. It's gotta come back.

[Tyler]

Eggs. When I was a sophomore in college, I lived with some roommates in an apartment. And I lived very cheaply. And my favorite thing to do was to get ground beef that was like just about to expire. Because they mark that shit down, they basically give it away. When I was younger, I didn't understand the idea that stuff could spoil even if it was frozen.

[Bob]

So what I would.

[Tyler]

A lot of the times I'd get the almost, you know, almost out of date ground meat and I would freeze it. I'd be like, good, perfect. Frozen in time. I still have exactly. You know, I have two days left before it expires. And this one time I did that and I like forgot about it. You know, sometimes you just find stuff like way in the back underneath I found this pack of ground meat and I could not remember when it was from. It was all freezer burned real messed up and I was like, sweet, it's frozen, can't possibly have gone bad. I got a big road trip tomorrow, so I need a good dinner tonight. And they'll wake up bright and early and I'll drive over, see my buddies in Indiana at Purdue University. And so I made myself some delicious spaghetti bolognese with this ground meat. And as I was cooking it, I had a little bit of a thought where I was like, smells different. It doesn't, doesn't smell bad, but it smells different. That's weird. But that's not gonna stop me from enjoying my cheap dinner. And then I was eating it and I was like, tastes different.

[Bob]

But don't.

[Wade]

Like where this is going.

[Tyler]

I ate the whole thing because I needed some delicious hearty dinner for my big road trip in the morning. And woke up the next morning bright and early at like, I don't know, 10 o'. Clock, whatever was early for me when I was in college and hopp in my car and started on my way. It was like a few hour drive from Cincinnati over to where my buddies were at school and I started, you know, had some tunes on in the car, whatever, cruising on the highway. And if you've ever done that drive, there's nothing in Indiana. Like there's huge stretches where it's corn fields and nothing. No gas stations, no bush, nothing like flat fields and a road, which is kind of nice. Not a huge deal unless when you're right in the middle of one of the most desolate stretches of the drive, you start to get a little flippity floppity action going on in your lower stomach regions. I don't know if you guys have ever had body shakingly violent diarrhea, but have you ever, have you ever experienced the start of that?

[Mark]

Yeah, I'm sure we all have.

[Tyler]

You know, you're just sitting there and just send something inside of you is just kind of like. And you just start to get that feeling, right?

[Mark]

Mm, yeah.

[Wade]

Oh yeah.

[Tyler]

And I was trying to listen to my body, I was trying to let it tell me what it needed and be a responsible caretaker, but there was nothing. I swear to God, there weren't even exit ramps. It was a straight highway for hundreds of miles. That you could not get off of for any reason. I couldn't find a gas station. And I'm sitting here, time is passing. Half an hour passes. The flip flops in my stomach are getting more aggressive. It's feeling like it's wanting to go somewhere, right? It wants out. And I just can't find again. I can't find a gas station or anything. Rest stop, nothing. Beads of sweat start forming on my forehead. Finally, after I would say about an hour of not finding any place where I could stop, I pull off, I go, there's a little small town not far from the highway, and they have a gas station. And I'm like, yes, Fuck, yes. Made it. And it's one of those. I don't know if you guys have ever had this experience where. And I didn't realize this until I was already inside. The gas station's, like, around back. It's like an exterior door to the building, you know, and they have, like a key. You have to get the key from the guy at the gas station and then go. So it's the least convenient type of bathroom. So I go in and I'm frantically in this store, in this gas station, just like, where is it? Where is it, where is it? I don't see one. I go up to the guy and I'm like, do you have bathroom? And he must think I'm out of my mind on drugs or something. I don't know what he thinks because I'm drenched in sweat, panicked, clenching, just. I don't look good. I imagine he's like, yeah, we got a bath here. You need the key. Here's the key. You okay? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. Just give me the key. Take the key, scramble out around to the back. And this is where stuff really goes downhill. I'm fumbling with the key.

[Wade]

This is where it's been a great story so far.

[Tyler]

Happiness and joy, everything is contained up to this point. But at this. At this moment, I'm approaching the toilet. I'm almost there. The pain in my stomach is just really intense. I get the door open, I get it closed behind myself, and I start, like frantically grasping at my belt and everything. And there's. There's an almost beautiful, almost enjoyable moment of release that happens right then. My pants are still fully on and I'm trying to undo everything and get. Get onto the bath to toilet.

[Bob]

And it feels just.

[Tyler]

It feels joyous, right? Because finally the pain is. Is subsiding. Finally I get to do what I'VE been wanting to do for an hour, and it's really. It's relief until I realize that I'm standing in front of the door across the room from where the toilet is with my pants on.

[Bob]

And.

[Tyler]

And it's bad. The relief quickly turns into absolute horror and a realization that there's not enough one ply gas station bathroom toilet paper in the entire universe to fix the problem that I have now created for myself. That turns out I want to get this podcast, like, banned from, I don't know, platforms. What happened to that bathroom has got to be the most unholy shit that I have ever been a part of. I don't even want to describe it, but, like, I had to give the key back to that guy. Like, he's the only one working, right? It's a small town guest. I had to walk up to that dude after having been in the bathroom for 45 minutes because there was. I had to. There was cleaning. That was attempted. I had to. I had to get myself situated so I could be in public. I left my underwear. They were gone. I never saw those boxers again. They were sacrificed.

[Bob]

And I had to walk up to.

[Tyler]

That dude after being in the bathroom. And he knew I was in the bathroom because he gave me the key. And I'm sure he was sitting there just like, man, I hope that dude's not doing some crazy shit in our bathroom. I hope he's not doing, like, drugs or something terrible. God. And I just walked up to him on the way out and literally looked him in the eye and gave him the key and just sort of nodded. Couldn't bring myself to say anything, and fucking drove off.

[Bob]

Wow.

[Tyler]

I would love to know that reaction that that guy had. I can't imagine. All right.

[Mark]

Anyway, Bob, how would you give. What should I do?

[Bob]

So you've just got your order, you're sitting in the mobile, whatever, the spot where you wait where they bring you the wrong food, because that shit never works quite right. You always get the wrong something or they don't give you the sauce for your nuggets or whatever. It's always disappointing when you get delegated to those spots. What you do is you move to a normal parking spot so you're not inconveniencing the next people who are gonna have to use that spot. Go to the trunk of your car and you get out the Ronald McDonald costume and clown makeup that you keep tucked around the side of the spare tire in the well of the trunk of your car, and you get fully made up as Ronald McDonald. The face makeup. You did the whole thing. You got the wig, all of the stuff. And then you just march confidently into the store. And you walk up, you cut in front of anyone who might be in line. You walk up to the cashier, and you say, I need to speak with your manager.

[AJ]

This is a cloud inspection.

[Bob]

And then when they get the manager and the manager comes up and they're like, no, I. The regional. I know Dave. He's the regional manager. I don't.

[AJ]

And you say, whose clown name is on this clown restaurant? This is an inspection.

[Bob]

And you force your way back into the kitchen, and you find the meekest looking teenager who's working there so that you know that they'll listen to you.

[Tyler]

And you.

[Bob]

And you single them out, and you go.

[AJ]

You show me how you make chocolate milkshakes.

[Bob]

And they go, we're out of chocolate, actually, right now.

[AJ]

And you say, well, then you better drink some more. Ronald wants a Chucky shake.

[Bob]

And you scream at them until they make a new batch of chocolate milkshakes. You go through all this, and once they do it, you get. You're not trying to ruin this one Individual employee's day. So they do it, and you're like, good job. And you give them, like, a star on their name tag or something, whatever they do at McDonald's. And then you just storm out with your big clown shoes. Go back to the trunk of your car, wipe the makeup off, put your regular clothes back on, go back inside and order your chocolate shake. Because now they have a whole batch of chocolate shakes, and you get what you want. They got a little reality check from the clown himself, and nobody gets hurt.

[Wade]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[Mark]

It's really very specific.

[Tyler]

Okay?

[Bob]

You go back to your car, and you get the Wendy wig and the blue. Here we go. I didn't hear these.

[Wade]

I can't help but feel like that's a little bit more challenging than the cow. Why does he get cow and I get Mark stubbing his toe while falling down a flight of stairs?

[Tyler]

No.

[Bob]

You know what that was? That was Tyler six minutes into a hard laugh.

[Wade]

Here, I'll play it again because, please.

[Bob]

This is a real animal.

[Mark]

This is a real animal. I want to qualify. These are all animals. Okay?

[Bob]

I also think it kind of sounds like a donkey. Who forgot how donkeys are supposed to sound?

[Wade]

Is it weird? My first thing I thought was Mark stubbing his toe while falling down a flight of stairs.

[AJ]

Is that what the.

[Bob]

The second half is? Mark starts falling down the stairs.

[Mark]

Hold your Impressions. Because there's going to be another point on the board I want you guys to understand. Neither of you got what it was, but it's a camel.

[Wade]

Oh, there's a lot of stairs in camel land.

[Bob]

God. This one's done. If I really go over this, I feel like this is going to physically hurt me.

[Mark]

You both just did it together.

[Wade]

You both.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[AJ]

Is that it?

[Bob]

That'll do it. That felt good. Did it?

[Mark]

I don't think it looked. It didn't look like it felt good.

[Bob]

Oh, no. It actually felt better than I thought it would.

[Mark]

Next article. There's nothing about this article, really, but I wanted you to hear the title. Florida Senate Race. Randolph Bracey slams sister for running against him in Orange County.

[Wade]

Like, verbally, like they. Or like.

[Mark]

That'S it.

[Bob]

Okay. Randolph Bracey, huh?

[Mark]

Slam's sister for running against him.

[Bob]

What's her name? Lacy Bracey.

[Mark]

I don't know. I didn't read the article. I'm just looking at the title.

[Wade]

What was his name? Rudolph.

[Bob]

Randolph. Randolph.

[Mark]

Randolph.

[Wade]

There's nothing else about it.

[Mark]

It's the slams. Are you focusing on the names or.

[Wade]

Anything else in the title?

[Bob]

I've actually got a local citizen here, sir. What was your name? I go by St. Nicholas. Yeah, old Rudolph Bracey. I was actually gonna have him lead my sleigh tonight, but he told me just before we were about to take off. He's. He's. He's running for Senate, apparently. And he's on the naughty list, so that's. That's not likely. Not likely. His sister, though. I'd slam her. All right. Anyway, Santa Claus, everybody. Thanks so much for the interview, sir. Yeah. Santa Claus lives in Florida. He retired to Florida. That's where he spends off season. Did I do it right?

[Mark]

Yeah, you sure did.

[Bob]

I call for one more coin toss. No more topics. And if I win the coin toss, I. I will at least give you that this is a fair episode.

[Mark]

All right?

[Bob]

Okay. If I lose an eighth coin toss in a row, I'm not sure what's going to happen. I got to be honest, I don't know.

[Mark]

I will allow you to pick the method by which I flip, where I flip what I pick it up with.

[Bob]

I would like you to do what you've basically been doing. Start with your hand with it on top of your hand in camera and just do like a thumb flippy like you've been doing.

[Mark]

Okay.

[Bob]

And just have it land on the desk. Okay.

[Mark]

On the desk.

[Bob]

And then just. Just tell the honest to God truth what it comes up as I will.

[Mark]

Move my monitors out of the way and I will point my camera at it without touching it.

[Bob]

Okay, okay. Okay.

[Mark]

Okay. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna flip it in camera. It's gonna go straight up.

[Bob]

I'm sticking with heads.

[Mark]

Sticking with heads.

[Bob]

Heads. I've never lost with heads.

[Mark]

Are we ready? Three, two. No way.

[Wade]

Eight points to nothing. Mark, you might just need to call this before he comes back. He's really mad.

[Mark]

No, it can land the other way. I don't.

[Tyler]

I don't know. Wade.

[Bob]

Call it scared.

[Mark]

Oh.

[Wade]

Let's go.

[Tyler]

Heads.

[Bob]

Okay. It's not cursed for you. I don't know what's going on.

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[Tyler]

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[Bob]

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[Mark]

I thought you were.

[Bob]

All right, okay, all right, this Olive Garden is on the moon. You're inside where nobody has space suits on. You look at your waiter when you finally get her attention, and you say, hey, excuse me, I think one of our party is outside trying to find the entrance. Would you mind peeking out the door and letting them know how to enter the restaurant? And without thinking, they go to the door and crack it open, open to peek out, but they don't have a spacesuit on.

[AJ]

And they get sucked out into space.

[Bob]

And they freeze to death on the surface of the moon. And then you get spaghetti from someone else.

[Mark]

All right, well done.

[Wade]

I think that's pretty good.

[Bob]

Does any of that solve your problem? All of them solve it. All of them solve it. Problem solved forever.

[Wade]

I can't believe you did an entire episode about Olive Garden. All right, we got some more, Bob. Let's go back.

[Bob]

You're in the peach in the claymation movie, James and the Giant Peach. You're the spider. James is the waiter.

[Wade]

What you do is you kill him. That's it.

[Bob]

Before we get any further into this, can I just say I have bad news?

[Mark]

Huh? Why?

[Bob]

Can you see how wet my pants are, Mark? Can you see how wet they are? Oh, you know what's an even better illustration than my pants being wet?

[Wade]

Oh, no.

[Bob]

Look at the chair.

[Wade]

Wetness on the edge of the chair.

[Bob]

It's wet. I could not live with another episode of this. I couldn't do it. It's already cold. I enforce the piss pants rule.

[Wade]

Do you need a moment to clean up?

[Bob]

No, I'm not. I'm not cleaning anything. My punishment is that I will continue to sit here and do whatever needs to be done to move on.

[Wade]

Is it on your feet?

[Mark]

Floor?

[Wade]

Like, do you need to wipe up your chair?

[Bob]

Like, it's on the chair, but it's not on the floor. You know, maybe a little pet cleaner might be a good idea.

[Tyler]

I don't know.

[Wade]

It wouldn't hurt to do just a little bit.

[Tyler]

This is like an everyman's way to emotionally manipulate your kid into not eating too much candy.

[Bob]

It's a company called Candy Uncle.

[Mark]

Go on.

[Bob]

The entire service is based around the idea that you tell a kid if.

[Tyler]

You eat more than one piece of candy, something bad will happen. Keep it vague. The thing that's bad that happens, though, is turns out Uncle Jeremiah, who just randomly appeared shortly after the birth of whatever kid.

[Mark]

Right?

[Tyler]

Uncle Jeremiah's around a lot, stays over a lot.

[Bob]

When you create the situation where you.

[Tyler]

Tempt the kid into eating too many candies, Uncle Jeremiah mysteriously dies. That's the bad thing. You just rent Uncle Jeremiah from.

[Bob]

From Candy Uncle. Hangs around a little, they can make the rounds. Right? Uncles aren't always there.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Bob]

A candy unc can serve upwards of 8 to 10 families all at the same time. As long as they're in the same region.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Bob]

Candy uncles just drive from house to house, spend a little time, bring some, you know, small gifts, trinkets, toys, whatever. Kid stuff.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Bob]

And then at the Appropriate time.

[Tyler]

You just make sure you schedule it.

[Bob]

With your candy uncle.

[Tyler]

They're around, the kid eats the extra pieces of candy, and Uncle Jeremiah bites it.

[Bob]

Lesson, lesson learned. Simple, clean.

[Tyler]

Great business model.

[Mark]

You know, actually, that's so fantastic, because number one, it's just genius. And number two, they don't know that things are directly correlated one to the other, but they'll assume it is, you know, because they've always heard that something bad will happen if they eat too much candy. And then Uncle Candy, Candy uncle dies suddenly and tragically and violently, I hope.

[Tyler]

No. Yeah.

[Wade]

It's gross.

[Bob]

It's very graphic. It's a lot like what you described, Right? But you come upon the kid and you're like, wait, wait.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Did you.

[Bob]

Did you eat an extra piece? Did you eat an extra piece of candy? And they're like, I don't know, man. You're like, come with me. And you bring them into the room, the staged room with the candy uncle. There's blood vomiting, things like, they're super graphic, super moist.

[Tyler]

Death.

[Wade]

Oh, yeah.

[Mark]

I was assuming that it was like, you know, they ate the piece of candy.

[Bob]

You're like, oh, how could you?

[Mark]

I. I hope nothing bad happens. And then the next day they get a call.

[Bob]

What? No, to shreds. You say, you know, and then it's.

[Mark]

A closed casket funeral. Very sad.

[Bob]

It costs more to have a fully dressed candy uncle. Death live in house.

[Mark]

Yeah, that's more.

[Bob]

But that's the different levels of service.

[Tyler]

That you can offer. Right?

[Bob]

You can have a.

[Mark]

This is great.

[Bob]

A distant candy uncle. The kid gets to know them, establish.

[Tyler]

The connection, and then dies over the phone.

[Bob]

You can have.

[Tyler]

Dies in front of them.

[Bob]

You can have. As the kid swallows the piece of candy. Violent traumatic death. Like the kid is swallowing the candy uncle walks into the room. Boom. Chandelier. Direct correlation. Like as the chocolate is melting and running down their throat, they're swallowed.

[Tyler]

The kid is like, God, it's good.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Bob]

Dead uncle. That's a strong message, but that's harder to organize. It costs a bit more.

[Mark]

Yeah. You're at an aquarium having a lovely time. Best time. Look at all the fish. Oh, the jellyfish exhibit. It's all dark in here. You see them all?

[Bob]

They're glowing and so cool.

[Mark]

Walking through. All right, then you hear, ting, ting, ting, tink.

[Bob]

Well, that's an odd sound. Ting, ting, ting, ting. It's getting louder.

[Mark]

Ting, ting, ting.

[Bob]

You look behind you, there's someone. Could be a little kid. Just ding, ding, ding, ding, dink on the glass. Everywhere. Every single dink, dink tinking on the glass. That's illegal by itself, probably.

[Mark]

How do I solve this even more illegally?

[Bob]

Obviously, you were going to the aquarium, so you slung Maui's magical fish hook on your back before you headed out the door. It's not made of metal, and it looks decorative. So when you're entering the aquarium and you walk through the metal detectors, everyone's cool with it. They think you're just goofing around. The little shit behind you starts knocking on the glass. You take Maui's fishhook off your back, turn around, transform into top half shark, bottom half, legs, so you can still stand there, look at him with your weird shark face, and go, yes. And the kid is like, what? What? And you say, you knocked, right? And the kid goes, what? And then you bite his fucking hand off. And before you turn back into a human, you swallow his hand and you.

[AJ]

Say, don't knock on my glass.

[Bob]

And then you just turn back into a human and walk away. Kid will remember that lesson for the rest of their life. I feel like this is a thing I just either have never heard of or don't use is where I'm at right now.

[Wade]

I'd be shocked.

[Mark]

Yeah, you've heard of this.

[Wade]

You've heard of it. You've probably seen it used more recently than you think. Chapstick it is. And I put some on while you were.

[Bob]

How the actual fuck is chapstick related to lotion or sunscreen?

[AJ]

Those are liquids.

[Mark]

Well, I could see. I could see it being related to that also.

[AJ]

How is that not a container full of chapstick? You completely got me off of anything.

[Bob]

That was like lotion or deodorant or Chapstick.

[AJ]

When you said it wasn't a plastic.

[Bob]

Container filled with something, did he ask that question?

[AJ]

Yes. I asked if it was a container.

[Bob]

And his answer was, oh, not really. I don't think of it like that.

[Wade]

No, the primary part of it is not a container. The primary part of chapstick is the chapstick.

[AJ]

It is a container filled with a material we all.

[Wade]

I don't know. I went through it. Mark and I went through it. We did the best we could with that, man.

[Mark]

I didn't hear that question. I didn't hear that one.

[Bob]

I feel like the container one totally shut off the realm of a bottle of lotion. That's a.

[Wade]

It was a tough question. Like, you could see how it's a tough question to answer.

[AJ]

It's not. No, I don't, actually.

[Bob]

If you asked Me. If chapstick is a container, I would say yes, it's. It has a container because it has a lid.

[Wade]

I think my answer was it's not primarily a container because the primary part of chapstick is the stuff you use.

[Bob]

No, you said that about something else specifically. I wrote down that you said I. No, kind of. I don't think of it as a container.

[Wade]

I don't. I mean, it is a.

[Bob]

It is specifically plastic tube containing the chapstick. It kind of is.

[Mark]

Yeah, I get that. I get that.

[Bob]

Or a thing of lip balm in a little container which by the way could be made of metal. But that one's not that strong of an argument.

[Wade]

Okay. You know, I wasn't thinking of the little handheld lip balm.

[Bob]

That was a fair item. But I do feel like a couple of those questions really fucked me.

[Wade]

They were tough to answer. For my defense. They were tough to answer.

[Mark]

Bob. Funerals.

[Bob]

Oh, yeah. Oh, let me just stretch the anger out a little bit. Don't even get me started on funerals. Did I not give you enough while you were alive? Did you not take enough of my precious time while you could reciprocate anything? Let's not even get into whether you did or did not ever say thank you for the countless hours of my life I gave to you. Grandma. Coming to visit, spending the holidays with you, eating the food you made for me to make me eat.

[Tyler]

It's awful.

[Bob]

Don't get me started on funerals. Like those people need any more attention. Only the most narcissistic, selfish, unbelievably self centered people would possibly think that what they need after they have left their family mourning and, and just torn apart is a party for them. That's who's important at that moment in time. That's what everyone wants. And open casket funerals, please. Oh yeah, I'm gonna die. And then I want you to dress me up real nice. And I want you to do my makeup and I want you to pretend stuff my cheeks with cotton balls. Pretend like they're not. Not all sunken in. And then come look at me and talk to me like I'm there. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair to everyone. I need that in the afterlife. I'll really enjoy. I'll drink it up like a delicious salve on my soul.

[AJ]

That's fair. That's good.

[Tyler]

Miss you, grandma.

[Mark]

Oh, man.

[Wade]

Having been to like a hundred funerals. You know what, Bob, that was spot on.

[Mark]

I think.

[Wade]

I think he's selfish bastards.

[Bob]

Unbelievable behavior going on over here.

[Wade]

So one of the episodes of all time of Distractable was Bob's fridge. So we can't do a whole episode on it because this is one man show. We have other stuff to do. So I need you to do a super fast retelling of Bob's fridge, but without using any verbs.

[Bob]

Do I get a script or synopsis or anything?

[Mark]

No, no, no.

[Wade]

You get to have lived it and retell it from memory.

[Mark]

Yeah, but no verbs.

[Wade]

And what do you think, Mark? We should put like one minute on the clock for him.

[Mark]

Oh, you can have more than one minute.

[Wade]

We can give him.

[Mark]

It's a long story.

[Bob]

You know, we'll.

[Mark]

We'll just give him, like, if he runs on too long, like, it shouldn't last longer than three minutes, but we'll give him some time.

[Bob]

No verbs is gonna be hard, but I think I can do it. Maybe.

[Mark]

You got it.

[Bob]

Oh, hey, we're here to get. Oh, hang on.

[Tyler]

Huh?

[Bob]

Right now? Oh, never mind.

[Tyler]

I'll. Got it.

[Bob]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Oh.

[AJ]

Oh, fridge.

[Bob]

Two guys, front door. Me, the.

[AJ]

One guy. Oh, no. Oh, thank you.

[Bob]

Side yard.

[AJ]

You guys.

[Bob]

Fridge.

[AJ]

Yeah.

[Bob]

Perfect.

[AJ]

And in the bush.

[Bob]

Three. Three inside the bush. The bush.

[AJ]

The fridge.

[Bob]

The bush.

[AJ]

Oh, what's that? Oh, no. Oh, the water shut off.

[Bob]

That's a noun.

[Mark]

You're right, you're right, you're right. Okay, I got it. Okay, you're good.

[AJ]

New house. I don't know. Should be monitored off. Make this here.

[Bob]

Sorry. Bush. Did I that part? Yeah. Anyway, I don't think that's how you do the fridge House.

[AJ]

Right.

[Mark]

Thinks of her, isn't it?

[Bob]

I think not when I do it. Good answer. Anger.

[Tyler]

One.

[AJ]

Acceptable.

[Bob]

Two guys.

[Tyler]

Fridge.

[Mark]

That was beautiful. Oh, man.

[Bob]

I don't remember what. Not that much actually happened. I was just so mad I kept talking about it.

[Mark]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, it's amazing what verbs will do to pad time out. That was. That was good.

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[Mark]

You are going to explain how to boil an egg.

[Bob]

Mommy says I'm not allowed to use the stove. I boil an eg.

[AJ]

An egg out of the fridge and putting it in a plastic bowl, and then I fill the bowl with water.

[Bob]

And then if you microwave that for like 11 minutes, it's boiled.

[Mark]

Wow. Bob is. Bob is better at this game than.

[Bob]

I ever could have imagined. Ugh.

[AJ]

That was a.

[Bob]

That was a very generous. That was like a lob. First serve. There's so much old. You can go from there.

[Wade]

I'm just kidding, Bob.

[Mark]

Older.

[Bob]

Back in Nam, what we used to.

[AJ]

Do is you didn't have fire.

[Tyler]

You had.

[Bob]

You get bamboo everywhere. You chop down the driest bamboo you could find, you get a little fire going. You take your. You take your hat, your helmet because it's metal, right? And you put that over the fire. You put your eggs in there. And we didn't have clean water, so you filled it with piss and you boiled your egg. Eggs and piss. That's what happened in Nam.

[Wade]

Some kind of Jack Nicholson hyper admit.

[Bob]

I don't know, man. How do you. How does a Vietnam War better. And talk about boiling piss eggs. I don't know.

[Mark]

A great play. I immediately understood your age. Fantastic. All right, Bob, what's your play?

[AJ]

You know, I ate boiled eggs outside of the Appomattox courthouse when Ulysses S.

[Bob]

Grant surrendered to the bl.

[AJ]

And I didn't know what for cooking, but I saw the women folk take them eggs over to the fire, toss them in a pot of boiling water, then pluck them out one by one.

[Tyler]

What?

[AJ]

With their bare fingers? That was the tastiest spoiled egg I ever ate in my life. Tasted like victory.

[Bob]

It's a lot of vigor for a Civil War vet, but.

[Wade]

Wait. Civil War vet?

[Bob]

Oh, that's. Is that not. Ulysses S. Grant surrendered at Appomattox. Is that not.

[Wade]

No, you're right. I'm just thinking of how old a Civil War vet would be right now.

[Mark]

All right.

[Bob]

Okay. All right, Bob, what you got? Setting. Early 20th century. Like 19 teens. We're inside a newly discovered and. And recently opened pyramid. I'm a young doctoral candidate who studies ancient languages, and I have excitedly calling my professor over.

[AJ]

Doctor. Dr. Winthrop. Look, doctor, look, I think I've broken this one.

[Bob]

This right here, this These symbols, I.

[AJ]

Think, mean egg of a chicken.

[Tyler]

This.

[Bob]

This is the symbol for a vessel. And it appears to be filled with.

[AJ]

With water. I think water, wine is different.

[Bob]

This is water.

[AJ]

A vessel filled with water and the chicken's egg into the vessel. And then this, this over here, this.

[Bob]

Is a great fire.

[AJ]

They put the vessel with the egg and the water over the great fire. What could this mean, Doctor? Or what did the Egyptians know that the. We don't.

[Bob]

And that is the world's oldest recipe for boiling an egg.

[Mark]

Incredible.

[Bob]

Wow.

[Mark]

Astounding.

[Bob]

I have an idea. Okay, I have an idea. Are we ready?

[Mark]

Yes.

[Bob]

There's a fire and there's water boiling in a stove on. Oh, oh. Oh. It's been approximately seven minutes. Yeah. Full time to boil an egg.

[Tyler]

Oh.

[Bob]

Neanderthals were approximately on the earth something like 300, 400,000 years ago.

[Wade]

I concede.

[Bob]

Man, I'm on the hill. Boy, it's dark. Switch the sunglasses. A meteor. Say a prayer. Get naked. Butthole son. Feeling great. Celebration. Beans. Oh, wait. You know what? My friend Mark, he's kind of crazy.

[AJ]

I call Mark. I'm like, mark, me? What is it? He's like, nothing happens. I keep hitting. I keep eating beans and I fart and I poop on myself a little bit. I'm like, wait, the White House. I call the White House. I'm like, hey, where's the. Nothing happened. I was like, wait, Affleck in the game. I'm not a spaceman. I'm Bert Affleck. Alight. It's my job. That's why I call the Rabbi. One day down the hill to the launch pad where the shuttle is ready to take me up and meet the meteor in face.

[Mark]

I'll give you a point.

[Bob]

I'm on the hill. Dark sunglasses. Meteor, Prayer. Naked butthole. Beans. Time. Painting the beans. Beans don't work. Mark.

[AJ]

Mark.

[Bob]

Linear.

[AJ]

Oh, nothing happened.

[Bob]

White House and meteor.

[AJ]

Nothing happened with AJ Cross me. Affleck run out of health. Great officials. Nothing Having chainsaw. Nothing having more wing.

[Bob]

More wings. Anything. Oh, my God. How did I just get spit on my glasses? What is happening?

[Mark]

What are your thoughts on mining?

[Bob]

Yep. Analyzing.

[Wade]

It's irrelevant to our everyday life.

[Mark]

Look, it's a random topic.

[Bob]

Don't even get me started on mining. You know who mines? Miners. You know what miners talk like? Oh, cinnamon and gravy.

[AJ]

Oh, what happened, Gus?

[Wade]

Chickens.

[Bob]

Could you live with that? I grew up in a town of minors. Every fucking adult talked like that. Could you imagine that life? You know how hard it was for Me to learn how to talk normally like a human person. Like this. Don't even get me started. And the clothes. It's the 21st century. And miners still dress like it's 1863. And no one has invented clothing in the last look. It's not even about that. I just wish my dad had been around. Yes, he needed to provide for his family. Yes, mining is a job.

[AJ]

No.

[Bob]

Earning money at the company store is not the same as living the American dream. It was a hellhole, and we were all trapped together. The mine was. Was supposed to be your way out. But it turns out work will not set you free. Work will just keep you in the mine while your son's at basketball practice.

[AJ]

Wondering if his dad's gonna see him.

[Bob]

Make a free throw this weekend.

[AJ]

Spoilers. He's not. The mine took my father. The mine took all six of my brothers. Then the mine took my life away from me, even though it didn't kill.

[Bob]

Me, because I escaped by sheer luck and happenstance. A grifter picked me up on the side of the state road as I was wandering away from my father's funeral.

[AJ]

Don't even get me started on funerals.

[Bob]

And he happened to drop me off in the beautiful land of opportunity that is Cincinnati, Ohio. I made who I is. And, oh, I almost slipped back into miner speak. Don't you let me do it. If I talk like that ever again, I want you to slap me in the face and drive a pickaxe through my heart because I don't want any part of me to remember what mining is or what mining does to people or ever. Of how many brothers? I said I have six. I think it was. Why are we digging holes in the ground into a 2017? What's the point? I'd be more worried about lighters if I were you.

[Mark]

Thank you. I want to hear more about that story.

[Wade]

That's just.

[Mark]

I'm captivated by that life.

[Bob]

My dad didn't even dig in the mines. He was the canary.

[AJ]

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