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Mark
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Wade
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Bob
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Wade
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Mark
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Wade
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Wade
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Wade
Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractable. This episode befouled. Bob screws his printer, then challenges the boys to hide and seek maneuverable. Mark wants to shill bamboo tools up for a tantrum, manhandles a cashier and frees a naked freshman waist. Weakening Wade rips on toddler truckers, reports mark to the 5o and searches condoms from doggy drinks to Abraham Lincoln.
Bob
Yes.
Wade
It'S time for Hide the Penny. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. So anyway, I got these guns, right? Guns, guns, guns, guns, guns, guns, guns.
Bob
Get a bigger one, you pussy.
Wade
I'm putting on deodorant. For this one, boys.
Bob
While Mark's doing that. Hello and welcome to another episode of Distractible. Your favorite.
Mark
You go through the sleeves?
Wade
I did that time.
Bob
Yeah. Well, if you have a shirt on and you're in a situation, look. Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of Distractible. A special, extra special. Hello and welcome to the listeners. That's right, you thought I was going to make fun of you. But listeners. Hey, what's up? How's it going? We're not doing anything visually interesting at all, except for Mark's armpit stuff, but that's not that interesting.
Wade
It's not that cool.
Bob
Don't worry about it. You didn't miss anything.
Wade
It was a tactical reload of my deodorant. Okay.
Bob
You know, we can't smell you over the Internet, so it's really. I mean, that was for you. I guess. Maybe you smell all so bad you can't stand yourself.
Wade
Everything I do is for me.
Mark
Well, there are certainly days where you leave your computer and it's like, oh God, what happened? It's like, that's me.
Bob
Just channel James for a minute there. It's really got to me. Everything I do is for me.
Wade
Is that what he.
Bob
Oh, that's. I mean, he's a toddler. It's not his fault. But yeah, no, that's. That really lands for me right now. If you've ever seen the show before, I'm Drew Carrion. The points are all made up, they don't matter. And we have a constitution just like on Whose Line is It Anyway? And it's different now. Everyone got their coins. He says as he doesn't know where his coin is.
Mark
I got my coin.
Wade
I got it right here.
Mark
And let the record reflect, I ate one chocolate covered peanut coin.
Bob
Yeah, we do coin stuff now. And wheels. Do I have the wheels? I think I have the wheels.
Mark
You're the wheel man.
Bob
Ah, that'll be fine.
Wade
Hey, why doesn't this say E pluribus unum There it is, tiny on the back.
Bob
World's largest half dollar says E pluribus unum. Real tiny on it.
Mark
Oh, mine says it big on the back.
Wade
Uh huh, yeah, just right.
Bob
Look at the difference in image quality. Wade's looks like it's extreme. Like, is yours made of metal, Wade, or is it made of sad plastic?
Mark
It's metal, but it's sad metal.
Wade
It's like a real quarter in terms of its metal.
Mark
I mean, it's been around since 1972.
Bob
It's got the patina of being in.
Wade
Someone'S pocket and other places on that person.
Bob
Mark, you get the segue point. We're not gonna talk about that. What the fuck is happening?
Mark
I thought set my coin down, but it hit the lid of my chocolate covered nutties.
Bob
Jesus Christ. This is what happens when we record late, late at night. 7:30 o'.
Mark
Clock p. M. Not American time.
Bob
That's not how that works. But anyway, I have a topic. Mark already got the segue point. I should probably write that down or I'm never gonna remember it.
Mark
But you don't have to write that one down.
Bob
I know I do. We have a constitution. I have to do it or I'm gonna go to a distracted jail.
Wade
I recently started watching some videos about forging carbon fiber. Right, sure. Which is a. Not really what it is. It's not like you're in a furnace or anything.
Bob
It's just epoxy. Pouring a bunch of carbon fiber all fucked into a mold, right?
Wade
Yeah, exactly.
Mark
Some of those were real words.
Wade
And so. No, that's exactly what it was. He was 100% correct.
Bob
All of them are real words. I know what forged carbon is. I'm familiar.
Wade
But what's cool about it is if you get the right heat resistant epoxy and you get a heat resistant mold, you can get all your molds from 3D printing. So you can 3D print the negative of any part you could possibly want and then forge carbon fiber with it. But also, not only do you put the chopped carbon fiber in, but you can put long strands of reinforcing fiber along the length of your part.
Bob
And that.
Wade
That will make it twice, about twice as strong as aluminum in some cases. And this is with chopped fiber like pieces, not straight. Obviously carbon fiber by itself would be way stronger. But the idea of quickly, in a 24 hour period, turning around a custom part that is twice as strong as aluminum, having to CNC mill it, that appeals to me.
Bob
I never thought of that. That's interesting because that's the thing. The. There's. It's still a very technical thing, but like forging air quotes. Forging carbon fiber is not the same as laying up carbon fiber. It's. If you were pouring it into a mold and you have a. Like a good mold and you know how to set it up and stuff, you could make some really strong parts super fast, relatively speaking.
Wade
Yeah. And there's. There's some really interesting videos talking about that Bambu lab. I know everyone's kind of mad at you right now, but I'm willing to sell out for more 3D printers is that convincing?
Mark
Man, whenever you say it like that. How could they refuse?
Bob
You can't lose hitching yourself to that.
Wade
For more 3D printers. Bambu lab. I know you are looking for a silver lining. I'm your silver lining. I can bring goodness to any badness that you may be feeling from any terms of service changing catastrophically.
Bob
I literally have a 3D printer printer in my background and I've been trying to print on that. And I think I ruined the print bed. I'm not going to lie. I can't get anything to adhese to the print bed to save my fucking life. But that's also just about the cheapest 3D printer you can buy anywhere. And so it's not that surprising that I screwed it up because the print bed is not very high quality. But a Bamboo Lab printer.
Wade
Bamboo Lab.
Bob
Bamboo Lab. Bruh. Have you tried Kamboo Labs?
Wade
I love Chem.
Mark
Are those little Play Doh toys that allow you to make spaghetti? Are those 3D printers?
Wade
Basically, yes. Actually, technically, yeah.
Bob
Yeah, that's fancy stuff.
Mark
So I owned one at one point in life too.
Bob
Yeah.
Wade
So. But hey, in all honesty, Bamboo Labs, I will shill out for free. 3D printers. Yes. I could afford them. I want 20.
Mark
We're a team, so that's 60.
Wade
20 apiece.
Bob
Or else, Wade, you're going to need a bigger garage to keep that many things in boxes.
Mark
Wade, you wouldn't want to end up with a Bamboo Boo.
Bob
I have to give you a point for that. But I'm very disappointed in myself.
Wade
I thought it was. I thought it was very funny. I actually really enjoyed that one.
Bob
I thought, good to give Mark a point for Bamboo Labs. Bamboo Boo definitely gets a point.
Wade
Yeah, but I really. Except for every time it's clogged and I've hated it, which is multiple times.
Bob
Which is near constant.
Wade
The Bamboo Lab. I will say it's the greatest thing ever. Because actually, in all honesty, compared to the failure rates you have on other 3D printers, I imagine that it actually is pretty comparable. And it's okay. And I want to shill for it. Shill me. Shill me. Shill me. Shill me. Shill you. Shill me. Shill you.
Bob
Shill me.
Wade
Daddy.
Bob
Just a video of a guy in a Bamboo Labs costume standing over Mark in a dark room, just smacking him, going too close. Everybody will love that.
Wade
Level my bed for me.
Bob
I'm gonna extrude. I don't know if that's your small talk, Mark, but no, it Wasn't.
Wade
But, I mean, it's okay if that is.
Bob
Oh, I'm always down for some more 3D printing talk. Wade, it's your turn.
Wade
Oh, well, all right. I had. I had other ones.
Bob
Okay, we'll get back to you. Calm down. Okay. Wade, what. What glorious adventures have you been on of late?
Mark
Oh, man. Since the last time we spoke, a lot has happened. Had a tummy ache, didn't get much sleep, and here we are.
Bob
Well, I know it wasn't that long, but it was multiple days ago. At this point, more than that could have happened.
Mark
If I'm going to walk you through my typical Tuesday, we do our podcast recording. I usually go straight from this to, like, if I don't eat, eat something. And then it's like, okay, now I gotta stream. I stream for like three or four hours, and then I usually take another hour break from that to get dinner, and then I record till like three in the morning. So Tuesday night I was at my computer till 4am yesterday being Wednesday, was a zombie the first half the day. And then I have D and D on Wednesdays. I play D and D over at Lost Initiative, went to bed, had a weird dream about zero gravity, woke up in immense stomach pain, and I barely existed today.
Bob
Just want to say, you did exist enough on Wednesday to show up to Ryan's stream and just do like a scare donation to him for no apparent reason.
Mark
Oh, I usually like to fuck with Ryan.
Bob
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Mark
I came to your stream too, but you didn't read my resub.
Bob
I read it like 15 minutes after you did it, which is pretty quick for me, so.
Mark
Oh, okay, that's fair.
Bob
I feel pretty good about that.
Wade
In the past three days, I have installed a completely new drawer system in my truck. I have a new truck on the way. I've bought three guns.
Bob
You decked, bro?
Wade
I've shot two green launchers, 17 RPGs, a tank, cleaned all my bullets.
Mark
I'm starting to think the only thing of this was that was true was.
Wade
The drawer I got the drawers in.
Bob
No, I know some of that's true.
Wade
Yeah. Yeah. Which ones? I'll never tell, but yeah. I got the drawer system in there.
Bob
Is it decked? Are you decked? You got decked?
Wade
Yes, I'm decked. I'm decked from Ohio, apparently.
Mark
I didn't know that we have trucks. They all are terrible here.
Wade
Well, okay. I'm mad at them, actually.
Mark
Ok. The trucks, not terrible. Truck drivers are like the new minivan drivers in Ohio. Something happens, it's been years, man.
Bob
You're going to have to get over this at some point.
Mark
Every time, man. Every time I'm behind the wheel, there's a pickup truck that's just like, I own this road. It's like it's three lanes. There's no one else. Why are you swerving at me? Drugs, probably. And it's like, all right, fuck off, man.
Wade
Okay. This is slander to truck owners, of which I am one.
Mark
Ohio truck drivers. Apparently there's a club where it's like, you've got to be a dick and you probably got to be high and or drunk to get a truck pre fucking requisite.
Bob
Look, it's not their fault. When you lift. When you lift a Ford F150 as high as they do in Ohio, you can't see anything that's more or that's less than 30ft away from your vehicle. The sight angles are just not great. And it's really not their fault.
Mark
It used to just be minivans, man. But trucks are moving into first place in my hate list.
Wade
I have a bone to pick with deck, though. So I have this deck system, but I have a problem with it. Number one, your manual is the most cringy thing I've ever read in my entire life. It's. It's full of. All right, slow down there, champ. Hey, we'll kick up your feet, buddy. Wow. Do I do a spin kick in the air after you. It's just the dumbest. It's like, number one, it's instructions for babies, which I get it. Just so it's toddler level language so.
Mark
We admit that truck drivers are toddlers. Thank you.
Bob
That's what they're trying to say. That's what it's trying, like, it's just.
Wade
I read the manual and I'm just like, I hate reading it.
Mark
It's true.
Wade
Yeah, probably. Yeah, actually.
Bob
Then what you're gonna want to do is take.
Mark
You are such a big, strong man. You have such a nice truck. Do you need a drawer for your big man tool?
Wade
Zulu, get the big screws and then not the small screws.
Bob
Take the 72 inch extruded aluminum rails.
Wade
Also, the instructions were incomplete because it didn't actually men any of the weatherproofing. Besides the weather strip seals on the front of it.
Mark
They're not incomplete. It's just early access. The rest of the instructions are being worked on.
Bob
It's going to be patched.
Wade
I've got an even bigger bone to pick with them. So they have this puzzle fit Foam case, right, that they sell separately for supposedly the decked system, right? Maybe not, but I see it in drawers of people now. When I open mine, I pull it open and the fucking thing is this far under the lip, so I can't fucking open the goddamn Minuteman case. When I pull the drawer, I have to lift it up and out and then open it and I get it. I probably have a truck with a slightly below average bed length and it would be bigger if it was a different drawer system. But I see on the product page someone pulling the drawer all the way out and it opening perfectly and I'm wow, they got it. I'll have it too. I don't. And I'm mad because it's a $300 case that I would not have gotten if I thought even for a fucking moment it wouldn't have opened in the goddamn drawer.
Bob
Mark, it's a point for a big baby tantrum.
Mark
We are the most relatable podcast on the market. I'm pretty sure our problems are the ones everyone has.
Wade
I think this, this is an incredibly valid thing.
Bob
It' valid point. I really despise when that happens. When there's a product and they show you demo pictures of it doing something, but the version that you bought for your thing is different and that's not demonstrated in the. No, I've had that happen before.
Mark
Hey, if you ever get it out of the box, you can't be disappointed.
Wade
Wait, hold on a second. There's a. There's reviews here. Works great, but you fail to tell me it doesn't work in the older models of dect. Hey, Al, sorry for the confusion. We'll work on improving our communication about new decocation is not being compatible with legacy drawer systems. Did you send me a fucking old version of your deck system? Decked? Did you send me a fucking old version of it, you pieces of shit?
Bob
What?
Mark
I'll bet they're watching right now.
Bob
Have you turned it off and then on again?
Wade
Because I don't know, maybe it's not that, but it doesn't open.
Bob
Well, you do have a quad. I mean, the F150 lighting is quad cab, right? It's not. It's not necessarily a full length bed or whatever.
Wade
Yeah, it's not an elongated for sure. No. But if I find out that they've sent me an old version, I am going to be back here again and I'm going to chew them apart because I like what it is. It was easy to set up and it works great. Except that doesn't fit now.
Mark
Kick up your feet, partner. It's gonna work eventually.
Bob
Are we about to have beef with a company that makes truck bed accessories?
Wade
We might be wearing. We actually might be. I might be fucking pissed. But maybe it's just because my bed is five and a half feet and it's not a six foot bed, it's the Ford Lightning. Maybe it's not there, but I wish it would have said somewhere when I was all this was in the same cart at the same time. I wish it would have said that didn't fit.
Mark
Well, five and a half feet came and hold a normal sized human body. How do you expect it to hold drawers?
Wade
Okay, well, I'm bigger than that. Okay? Right.
Bob
Why do you assume that that's a slight at you?
Wade
It felt like it. You know, I was just saying I'm huge. I'm giant. I'm massive. I'm enormous. I'm gargantuan.
Mark
Me insults his truck. Him.
Wade
Me good tall, big man. Anyway, I really, really hope that I somehow didn't get an older version because I would. Maybe they saw I was going to California and they were like, pull this guy. Not an Ohioan like us.
Bob
Little did they know.
Wade
Little did they fucking know.
Bob
London is my city. Oh no. What does he say? England is my city. Whatever. Like I want to accurately quote a Paul brother.
Mark
Oh, is that what you were quoting? Why would you do that here?
Wade
I don't know what that is.
Bob
Isn't there a line in there where he's like, I'm a diamond la, but I'm an Ohio boy or some. And then his Nick Crompton is like, England is my city. Because that makes sense.
Mark
I don't know if it's a Paul brother thing. I usually avoid watching.
Bob
Actually, that's true. I don't know if I ever see the whole thing. But how could you?
Wade
How could you?
Mark
Very easily. I don't watch them fight, I don't watch them talk. I don't look at pictures of them. I'm not a drama guy. And they've. If there's like a smog cloud of drama, I think that they. Man, they wouldn't pass those old EPA checks.
Wade
EPA checks.
Mark
I was hoping none of you would question that.
Bob
Okay, well, it's funny because that's. That isn't a thing where you live, Wade. But that is a thing in other places, such as California.
Mark
It was when we were young here.
Bob
What?
Mark
I'm pretty sure in Ohio you used to have to go get your car checked for. I remember my grandma to take her car in to get it checked to make sure it was up to, like, whatever the code was.
Bob
I don't ever recall having to do emissions checks in Ohio, but I only had a car here.
Mark
No, no, it was. This was. This was like 90s, I think this was like before. It was way before we had cars. But I'm pretty sure that used to be a thing here because I do remember my grandma doing that and she lived in Ohio. Unless she was a secret agent and lied to me on my whole life, which is possible.
Bob
I hope that's true.
Mark
I kind of knew.
Wade
I know it's true. Anyway, that's what I'm mad about. And I can't wait to find out that the horrors that I imagined are even worse than I ever could have.
Bob
Was that your small talk, Mark? Did we circle?
Wade
Yeah, that was it. I'll say. That's my small talk.
Mark
Trucks, drawers, Bamboo.
Bob
Boo woo woo.
Mark
And I had a tummy ache. Good small talk.
Bob
Lots of fun stuff, you know.
Mark
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Bob
You turn into a cartoon dog. I'm sorry. Next time we hang out, I'm giving you a mint to see what happens.
Mark
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Wade
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Bob
I love this show. It's a great show. I'm excited for another season.
Wade
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Bob
Don't miss the allnew season of Futurama, returning September 15th at 8pm Watch it on FXX or stream it on Hulu. Shall we move on to the topic? Circling back to Mark Segue. He accidentally did right at the actual beginning of the episode, dropping coins and having them.
Wade
Oh, crypto, Crypto, Crypto, Crypto.
Mark
Oh, I got a text today about crypto. Someone texted me. They're like, you need to buy. Maybe it was yesterday like, you need to buy crypto right now. It's gonna go up like a scam.
Bob
Text or like a person, you know?
Mark
No, like a family member who I don't. Don't talk to all that often. Was just like, hey, I don't know what you're doing, but if you can buy Bitcoin today, it's gonna go over something, 100k or something. They're like, just buy now. Guaranteed you'll make $1,000. And I was like, oh, thank you. Ignore. Anyway, sorry. Coins.
Bob
Coins and having them. Today's episode is. I mean, it's always a competition, I guess, but it's a competition about having a penny and hiding the penny and then finding other pennies. You're gonna have to come with me on this one a little bit. But we're gonna play a game. It's an imaginary game. You have to use the theater of your mind. I'm going to give you a location. Going to be fairly vague location. It's going to have a lot of things in it or people or whatever. Each of you has an imaginary penny and I have an imaginary penny. And we will hide our three pennies somewhere within the imaginary location I have given you. And the goal is for one of you or both of you to find either my penny or your opponent's penny. And that's how you earn points.
Mark
What if we find our own?
Bob
That earns you no points.
Mark
But it would stop the opponent.
Bob
If you find your own and then your opponent sees where you looked, they get the points. Okay, it's all. This is a theory. There's a game in the mind. Theater of the mind.
Mark
Okay. This reminds me of the books where like, you'd have to find like, it would be like a little rhyme. It's like three soldiers sitting on a dock, a yellow bird and a really old clock. You just remember, were those I Spy books. What were those books called?
Bob
What's happening? I don't recall this. I have no memory of these things.
Wade
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Bob
I know what I Spy books are. And I don't remember them having rhymes of that sort. And then they just have a list of things and then the big ass picture of stuff. And you find the things on the list in the picture of stuff.
Mark
Yes, but I'm pretty sure that they would give you a list. But it was always like in a rhyme. Or some of the books at least were, if I remember.
Bob
I don't know. I honestly haven't seen an I Spy book. In person in such a long time that that might be true.
Mark
I haven't either. But when the penny talk for some reason made me think of I Spy Book, I got distractible.
Bob
That's the whole game. I can't tell if this is just a completely unhinged, insane thing to do or if this is going to be a funny game. But be creative. You can place objects in to the setting that we're in. You can place people, specific people if you care. You can do all kinds of stuff. And you're going to have to get creative to find the other two pennies that you're looking for.
Wade
Okay, so we have pennies. You give us an imaginary space, we hide the pennies, and then we look for the other pennies.
Bob
Yes, you're hiding your own penny wherever you can imagine. And then you're looking for the other two pennies hidden by myself and the other competitor.
Wade
But how will we know that we're imagining the same setting that you're imagining?
Bob
It's a constantly evolving thing that we're all three synthesizing at the same time. We're going to agree or disagree. If, if something. If we're like in a specific. If we're in a movie theater and you're like, oh, I hit it under the elephant, we're probably. That's not going to to fly. It has to be. But it can be crazy things. But there has to be a thing where it's like, there might be a reason that would be in there, aside from Jumanji Happened and there's elephants in the movie theater.
Mark
All right, so we're in a movie theater.
Bob
No. Okay, well, actually that might come up, but that's not where we're starting. Our first location is a busy coffee shop. It's a relatively finite space. You have to hide your penny somewhere within the coffee shop. It includes any area of the shop that you think you could get into. And you can imagine, however, wherever you might want to hide a penny. And I'll give you. So you think about it if you want you visualize a little bit. I think this is an interesting game too, because as having eight Fantasia, I have nothing. Mark is like walking around a coffee shop in his mind right now. And I'm like, what's in a coffee shop? Cups. Anyway, I already know where I'm hiding mine here. So I'm ready when you guys are ready. Just like give me a thumbs up or something.
Wade
I'm ready Just.
Bob
Just to lock it in. Will you guys separately message me where you've hidden yours. You can make it kind of a general description, but we have little chats where it's.
Mark
I almost just said it to everyone.
Bob
Yeah, no, don't send it to everyone. Send it in the one on one chats that we have just so that there's no tomfoolery. And I promise I will probably not change where I have mine hidden. Probably you'll never find it anyway because I'm wicked smart. Are you typing or constipated? Wade, what are we doing here?
Mark
I'm both, but I am typing.
Bob
All right, we have two locations. I don't think it super matters who goes first, but out of fairness, because I have a history of mistreating you, I'm going to say Wade gets to have first crack at looking.
Mark
All right, how does this work, Bob?
Bob
Ask me anything. I know where the pennies are. Ask me. You can ask like one question at a time, right? So you can basically have one look per turn. There's no like, oh, I rifle through the entire place. But, you know, it's. We're fudging here, so get creative, ask away.
Mark
So I would ask a question like, are there any pennies? And just name a place. Is that how I asked this?
Bob
You can ask about facts, about the location, if you'd like more information. You can ask if there's anything that you notice. And I'll get creative. Mark. You can ask Mark questions and he can answer and we'll find the penny. I don't know. Where's the penny? We're looking for pennies?
Mark
Are the pennies in the cash register?
Bob
There are pennies in the cash register, but neither mine nor Mark's pennies. It's in the cash register.
Wade
My turn.
Bob
Yeah, go ahead.
Mark
All right.
Wade
I go up to the handle for the espresso, I crack it open and I peer inside the cup. The part where the coffee grounds go.
Bob
That then lock in clean as a whistle.
Mark
It's funny, though, because that was my first thought. I was like, what if I put it in the coffee filter?
Bob
Yeah, well, that's the game, isn't it? We're trying to get in each other's heads right now.
Wade
Okay.
Mark
When I'm going to walk up to the counter and ask the person working the front, have you seen anyone acting strangely in here?
Bob
No stranger than you. I might have seen a guy climb up on a table, but that happens sometimes.
Wade
All right. Okay, now I'm going straight line for it. I know how Wade thinks.
Bob
I kind of hope you find it on this.
Wade
Guess I look at the orange juice carton. Because people wouldn't think about that. Unscrew that cap. Look in the cap.
Bob
Yeah, it says, aren't you glad I didn't say bananas?
Wade
Okay. Perfectly penny sized.
Bob
Yeah, it might be.
Wade
It was perfectly penny sized.
Bob
So I want you try and put a penny in there.
Wade
I am thinking of the most incredible places to hide a penny. The absolute best spots. If I was hiding. Oh man.
Bob
All right, Mark, you get to hide 13 pennies.
Wade
You got him.
Mark
All I got to do is find one of them for a point, right?
Wade
Uh oh.
Bob
Yep. Wade gets a chance to earn 13 points.
Wade
Unless they're all in the same spot.
Bob
There's just a stack of 13 pennies in the middle of the floor. He'll never think to look there.
Mark
In his imagination, I am in the coffee shop. I pat myself down and make sure there are no pennies hidden on my own person.
Bob
All you find is the statue of Shakira you keep in your left front pocket and the vape that you don't tell anyone about in your other pocket.
Mark
My hips don't lie. Neither do my lungs.
Wade
I stand on a table and I shout to everyone in the coffee shop, I will give $100 to the first person that points to where you saw someone hide a penny.
Mark
I raised my hand.
Bob
All right. Wade raises his hand.
Wade
Uh huh. Yeah. Good sir, good sir.
Mark
I saw a bunch of them in the cash register.
Wade
Here's your hundred dollars.
Mark
Thanks, man.
Bob
Oh, you thought it was gonna be a real hundred dollars?
Mark
Yeah, I he thought it was gonna be a real penny.
Bob
That was fruitless, Mark. But I appreciate the effort. Nobody saw nothing unless someone did see something. Convince me.
Wade
Did he take his turn by getting raising his hand? Feel like he took his turn?
Bob
Sure.
Wade
I check in the cash register.
Mark
Seems incredibly.
Wade
Register for any pennies that look unplaced. Cuz if it was, if they're pennies from the bank, they would be almost likely of the same year. I'm looking for a weird penny with snot on it and bald. Weird bald Lincoln penny.
Mark
How did you know? I sand down all my pennies to look like me.
Bob
What a calling card. Bald Lincoln pennies.
Mark
Wait, do I have snot on me? Wait, where's the snot going? Hold on.
Wade
Hey, how right am I? How right am I?
Bob
You are exactly 0% correct. Just normal pennies in there. No, Wade, bald pennies.
Wade
Okay. All right.
Mark
I do my best charisma roll to seduce and or befriend the manager so that I can get a look at the security cameras to See if I can see where anyone placed their penny.
Bob
You stand in front of the manager and roll a D20. And then when you roll a. A19 and you have a plus three in that skill, you look up at them expectantly. When the manager peers down at you and says, well, you seem really sad. I'll do you whatever favor you want, buddy.
Mark
I'll take pity.
Bob
What can I do for you? And you ask him. And he shows you the security footage.
Mark
I'm reviewing the footage. I'm looking for where people might be hiding pennies.
Bob
Oh, okay. You want to. You want to analyze that? Okay.
Wade
Seems like a lot for one turn. Seems like he'd need time for that.
Bob
You don't see anything. Mark walks into the coffee shop, disappears into a dead spot. You see a chair tip over on the edge of the screen. Mark reappears and sits down to drink his coffee at an unrelated location in the restaurant.
Wade
I know Wade's shoe size. I tell everyone in the coffee shop to lift their feet, and I dust the floor for footprints, and I find Wade's big dumb shoes. Because no one has feet as big as him in this shop, for sure. Statistically impossible for there to be another.
Mark
I don't know if that's true. Bob is in here, too.
Wade
I find his trail, and I follow it.
Bob
No, Wade is correct. I'm in here, too. Luckily for you, the only places Wade and I have gone is from the front door to the cash register to the bathroom, back to pick up our coffee, and then over to a table. We went to different tables because I'm not sitting with him, but why not? The snot man?
Mark
Did we at least play battleships in the bathroom together?
Wade
I've got it down to two spots. I know where this penny is.
Bob
All right, make your guess.
Wade
What? I'm not ready. It's his turn.
Bob
Okay, it's Wade's turn.
Mark
Chair tipped over. Mark is very short, so he tried to go somewhere I wouldn't think he could get to someplace high up. So the man that climbed on the table earlier, even before Mark's last climb on the table, must have been Mark. So I climb up on a chair and. Or table, which, if Mark can read something from that point of view, then I can. Can see it like an eagle. And I look around for low hanging lights or rafters or anything that a penny might be stored on her in. That's tall for Mark and, you know, average for you and I.
Bob
So you just stand up on a random chair in the middle of the.
Mark
Coffee shop as I was Told earlier that just happens sometimes.
Bob
So, yes, it does just happen sometimes. Okay. When you do that, the mind numbing soft jazz that's playing over the speakers gets a bit louder because you get a bit closer. The dusty, outdated Valentine's Day decorations that are still hanging up there touch your bald head and make you feel like you might want to sneeze.
Mark
It's my fly ring.
Bob
They touch your fly rink. And the weirdly out of season Christmas choo choo chugs around you at eye level.
Mark
Any of those things have pennies?
Bob
You don't see any pennies?
Wade
Game over. Sorry, Wade. You were one step too late. I go up to the. The checkout person clerk.
Mark
You wouldn't.
Bob
Sure.
Wade
And I go behind their ear and I grab out the penny and I go, is this your penny?
Bob
And she looks at you dead in your eyes and goes, yes, please don't touch me. Takes her penny back and tucks it back behind her ear.
Wade
Did anybody give you that penny?
Bob
My dead grandmother gave it to me 13 years ago today.
Wade
Can I see a picture of your grandma?
Mark
Mark's on to me. That's right. I went back in time in this coffee shop, Mark. I handed this to this lady's grandmother knowing that one day she'd pass it on.
Bob
Nobody asked about the hot tub time machine in the bathroom.
Mark
I take apart the speaker, I take apart the train. I rip down the outdated decorations. That penny's up here somewhere. I feel for hollow panels in the ceiling. I know he hit.
Wade
Hi.
Bob
So what, you're just like rifling through, Are you looking at stuff like, what are we doing here?
Mark
Looking for pennies. I'm knocking. I'm feeling for hollow spots on the ceiling anywhere that Mark might have hidden a penny up high.
Bob
There are no hollow spots in the ceiling. The speakers stop making sound when you take them apart for some reason. And the train makes a weird rattling sound when you pick up one of the cars off the track.
Mark
Like the rattling of a.
Bob
I don't know. The pennies rattle. Weird.
Wade
My turn. My game over. Game over, Wade. I sprinting towards the bathroom. Pass by the stereo, crank volume up to max as I'm sp First open the door, dive arm first into the toilet, reach up under the U bend, grab whatever I grab. Pull hard.
Mark
The man sitting there looks at you.
Bob
Mark. Mark emerges from the toilet victoriously clutching an enormous shit in his hand. The man whose crotch you just dove through looks surprisingly unfazed and a little bit turned on.
Mark
I fall on my back from the loud boom of Mark turning on the speaker. But now, being at Mark's eye level, I realize what he might have done. I scurry over toward one of the walls where they have the little.
Bob
The.
Mark
That little. Called the little decorative wood on the base of your walls.
Wade
Baseboard shelf.
Mark
Not a shelf. Just like the little decorative stuff on the edge of your floor.
Bob
Trim. Trim.
Mark
Trim. Trim is the word, yes. And I start removing the trim, knowing that Mark had to have hidden it behind the trim.
Bob
You just remove all of the trim around the entire.
Mark
No, it's more like if it's loose, like I'm pulling at it.
Bob
You don't find any loose trim. It's very buttoned up, it's cocked. It's very well built.
Mark
Damn it.
Bob
Okay.
Mark
I'll tear the whole thing down.
Wade
I turn on every faucet. I flush every toilet and listen and look.
Bob
Sounds like a lot of water is running and flushing very normally to you.
Wade
I see the negative space in the water. I use water as a catalyst for my negative space. Enhanced vision that I got from a surgery I was. When I was in the government.
Bob
I'm afraid you don't see anything. You're still short. Sorry.
Wade
Oh.
Mark
I open the bathroom door, see the mess Mark is making in there. Go to the manager, tell me, might want to call the police. A madman is ruining his restroom. I say, hey, do you see any pennies? But we're tired. I've already befriended him. He pities me.
Bob
He hasn't seen any pennies, though.
Wade
I go to the man whose shit I borrowed. I grab him by the scruff and I throw him on the ground. Tell him kneel. And I stand on his back to get higher and look around. Then.
Bob
Out of the corner of your eye on the wall next to the mirror where the sinks are, you see something almost copper colored glint in the shining lights of the bathroom.
Wade
Do I have to wait until next turn?
Bob
I don't know. Do you want to give it to him? Wade?
Mark
Yeah, sure. I'm having him removed soon by the police. Anyway.
Wade
I dive. I dive for it.
Bob
Mark lunges and grabs the penny that's just sitting out in the open on top of the paper towel holder.
Wade
Wait, that couldn't have been that high up. Wait a minute.
Bob
You see the tops of a lot of paper towel holders, Mark?
Wade
I'm trying to remember what they looked like. I must have seen it at some point.
Mark
They're like pink or.
Bob
Anyway, Mark gets a point.
Mark
Congratulations.
Bob
I'm going to give Wade one more chance to find a penny. Can I give him a clue? Mark? Yeah, sure.
Mark
No, I don't need it.
Bob
You do need it. You really do need it.
Mark
I'm so close.
Bob
You were close. In fact, I think you probably held it in your hand at one point.
Mark
Am I still holding the train?
Bob
No, you threw it on the floor.
Mark
All right. In my head, I greedily thought that maybe I had one in the train car, but I wanted to find the second one.
Bob
Oh, so you held. You held on to the train car that you heard the funny rattle from, but you just didn't mention that. That.
Mark
Well, I guess I didn't. Yeah, but in my head. My head cannon. I was holding on to this like. It's not even a train car. It's the whole train. And I hear a rattle, and I didn't know specifically which car it was, but the speaker. I really wanted to play to Mark speaker bit, and I kind of got distracted by that. Hey, is there a penny in the train car?
Bob
Yeah, that's where Mark put his penny.
Mark
So we didn't find Bob's penny.
Bob
You guys were really close to mine, too. Do you want to know?
Wade
Orange juice? Was it the orange juice?
Bob
It was in the other orange juice? No, it was in. I. I set it on top of the take a penny, leave a penny tray at the. It was the only penny in there, ironically enough.
Wade
Oddly enough, I had a take a penny, leave a penny thought. But I was like, no, that'd be a convenience store. It wouldn't be a coffee shop.
Bob
Look, this isn't a Starbucks, okay? This is like a Dunkin.
Wade
The model train actually was at a Starbucks. I remember there was a really fancy Starbucks, like, in Seattle or somewhere like that, that had a little model train.
Bob
There's a restaurant I grew up going to in Holland, Michigan, called Russ's that had a model train that went around the whole place, and that was the coolest. Shit it. I always thought it was awesome. Anyway, that was fun for me.
Wade
My new place.
Bob
I don't know if it's fun for listeners or watchers, but I don't honestly care.
Wade
I had a great time.
Bob
We're traveling back into the past for this one. We are in a messy college dorm room.
Wade
Nice.
Bob
Mark and I lived in a messy college dorm room together.
Wade
Is it the same one?
Bob
It is not our messy college dorm room. We just wandered into some student housing on campus, and there were lots of unlocked rooms, because that's what happens. So this is just some generic, messy college dorm room.
Wade
I'm typing to you, Bob.
Mark
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that part.
Bob
Pick your hiding spots. Out of fairness, I think Wade gets to guess first again. Let's do this.
Mark
That seems incredibly.
Bob
It does.
Wade
Makes me want to go to the fun fair.
Bob
Wait, the judges are saying that counts?
Wade
No.
Bob
No. All right, Wade, where are the pennies? I have hidden one. Marcus, hidden one.
Mark
I want to get a layout of the room. What are we looking at? Are we looking at like two bunk beds? Two separate beds, A desk?
Bob
This isn't our room, but it's very much like our room that we lived in freshman year in college.
Mark
I was never in it, so that's incredibly unhelpful.
Bob
It's a bunked bed, but the bed on top is clearly bunked by people who have no idea how to do it. And it looks like it might collapse at any moment. And the person who sleeps on the top bed has to sleep six and a half inches away from the ceiling of the room because for some reason they didn't think to lower the the height of the bed that they put on top of the other bed. There's a couple dressers underneath the beds there. And the other half of the room is just like empty. There's like a bean bag and like a mini fridge and like a small tv. It's like a college dorm room situation. There's a couple desks with some stuff on them. Very generic. Could be any random freshman, sophomore, dorm room anywhere on campus.
Mark
I checked the pillowcases. You maybe you guys lost a tooth. Maybe the tooth fairy came in, left a pen.
Wade
Penny.
Bob
Again, not our room. Not our room. Just some random room. No, the pillowcases have not been washed in three months, but there are no pennies.
Wade
I look in the pile of beer bottle caps that are in the mug of beer. The beer mug that they have to make it seem like they drink all the time. I look in there.
Bob
Nothing in there but a bunch of chicken cheap beer bottle caps and some used up condom wrappers for some reason. Why were they in there just the wrappers? I don't know. It's like basically a trash can. Whatever.
Mark
Yeah, it makes you wonder what happened to the condoms.
Bob
They got used, clearly.
Mark
I checked the posts where the bed is connected to make sure that a penny wasn't tucked between.
Bob
There are some pennies wedged in three of the four legs of the bunked beds, but they're not coming out. I think those pennies are holding the structure together. One of these people is definitely going to die.
Wade
I go to. Is there anyone in the room besides us?
Bob
Just us three and maybe a small creature, but it's hard to tell exactly what it is. It's under some stuff in the corner. It's fine. It's fine.
Wade
I nudge Wade in the ribs and I go, are you seeing something in the corner there? Do you see something?
Bob
Do you see something, Wayne?
Mark
I look over a bit, like, nonchalantly, and then I gain a look of concern as I notice that something might be living in the corner. And I wonder if it's an animal or just a trash monster. And I say, what the hell is that?
Bob
Wade talks different in this world. I like it.
Wade
I slowly approach the creature in the corner.
Bob
Doesn't seem to notice. It's just sort of generally making a concerning shuffling noise under the pile of whatever. What do you think it's gonna spit a penny into your hands? What are you looking for?
Wade
I hold out my hand.
Bob
That's not it. That's not a hint.
Mark
I look on top of the fridge and top of the desks without searching too specifically. Just look to see if I see anything shiny just easily standing out that I might have overlooked.
Bob
Look, I mean, there's stuff everywhere. A lot of empty energy drink cans, very large pile of condom wrappers, like, conspicuously large.
Mark
You keep specifying that.
Bob
Food court. Stolen food court dishes and silverware.
Mark
Just lots of crap, but no pennies hidden in plain sight.
Bob
No money whatsoever. This is a college dorm.
Mark
They took the pennies already. Whoever lives in this dorm took our pennies already and spent them.
Bob
Probably.
Mark
We need to leave and go check Penny man, the penny store. You know, the college penny man. The guy who comes and collects your pennies. Where's your penny, Mark?
Wade
Where's your penny?
Mark
In the room.
Wade
So is mine. Anyway, I go over to the creature in the corner, I lift whatever's on it off of it, and I go, hey, how's it going there?
Bob
Oh, aren't you cute?
Wade
Hey, what do you say?
Bob
Pennies.
Wade
What's in your mouth? What's in your. Open your mouth.
Mark
I hope it's one of the college students.
Bob
Looking up pile of trash and, I don't know, beanbags and whatever, is a naked, skinny college freshman boy. He appears to be very, very much out of it. He appears to be so hungover that he can barely function. And now that you've exposed the way for him to escape from the pile of trash, he sack taps you, yells, bruh. And then runs out of the room. That's probably not what kids these days would yell, but Cap, he didn't have any clothes or pennies.
Mark
A bit concerned by what just transpired I go and I kick over some of the bottles and condom wrappers to see if there's either a penny or another college student into the bottom of that.
Bob
You, for some reason, kick a bunch of stuff off of the top of the tables and stuff that it's on instead of using your hands like a human person.
Mark
I am not touching those cotton wrappers with my hands. I will use my foot.
Bob
Interesting.
Mark
I even wore slippers.
Bob
You hear what you think might have been a penny sound hitting the floor, but you're definitely gonna have to get in there with your hands if you want to find out. You think you'd think that, Mark, now that you've moved the pile of crap that the naked freshman was trapped underneath, you notice that the error is now circulating in the room a little bit better. And there's a really funky smell that is now dominating the part of the room that you're located in. Good funk, Crusty funk.
Wade
I also, hearing the sound of the. The what might have been a penny, dive into the filth. And I try to form the exact shape that the. I strip my clothes, and I try to get into the position that that person was just in to try to see from that level where a penny might be. It's my only hope.
Mark
You don't need to get any smaller, man. If anything, you should have gotten taller.
Wade
I shrink. I shrink.
Bob
You shrink down magically. You're becoming smaller and smaller. You're also naked. You're curled up on the floor in front of the air vent from which the weird, disgusting, crusty funk seems to be coming from. You shrink and you shrink, and you see no pennies anywhere in the area. But you are almost blown away by the crusty, funky air of the tiny.
Mark
Air venture, giving in to Bob's horrible requirements. I use my hands, my feet, my mouth, anything I can to look through these piles for that penny. I'm using every appendage I have, dick included, to find it.
Bob
Okay? So you come up for air every once in a while, and somehow every time you come up, you have an additional cold sore or, I don't know, boils or God knows what on different parts of your body that you're touching stuff. Also, it's sticky somehow. It's slippery, but it's sticky. And just all of you slowly becomes sticky, slippy. And when you finally stand up, feeling defeated, you notice that there's a penny stuck to the underside of your right arm.
Wade
Yes.
Bob
And somehow, by sheer coincidence, you seem to have dug the penny that Mark hid inside one of the Gratuitous number of condom wrappers in this dorm room. Room.
Mark
I knew kicking those off would work. Why would, why, why would there.
Bob
Because they guys, they weren't actually used. They just bought a big pack. And they wanted everyone who came into their room to think that they really. They really get fucked.
Wade
So do I grow now? Do I go back to my normal size or.
Bob
I don't know. Cast your spells, wizard man.
Wade
I. I press on into the wind. I will find the source of the stink no matter what. I go into the vent. I don't remember what Penny smelled like, but it must be a clue. It must.
Mark
I don't think pennies smell like muck.
Bob
Mark continues to shrink, eventually getting so small that he could sneak just barely through the grate of the. Of the air vent from which the crusty funkiness is. Is coming. As you wedge your way through. And you're afraid for a second. You get stuck and you're afraid for another second. Your dick just got sliced off by the old rusty air vent. But it didn't. You come upon quite the sight since you're so small now they're taller than you are. It's not a height joke. You're just a very, very shrunken down man. At this point, it's a stack of Playboy magazines. And laying next to it, a crusty, funky sock balled up in kind of a weird, awkward position, laying there in the air vent.
Wade
I press on. I enter the sock.
Bob
Mark continues to shrink.
Wade
Why do I keep shrinking?
Bob
I don't know. You're pressing on. You keep getting smaller and smaller. It's a race against time now. Mark is desperately crawling into the sock. Your body's starting to get scraped up because of how crusty and dry and terrifying it is in there. You're bleeding. You're barely able to breathe because the material doesn't even allow air to flow through it at this point in its life. And as you reach the horrifying toe of the gigantic tube sock, which everybody knows is just for show, you find a penny so big that if it fell over upon you, it would crush you to death in an instant.
Wade
Whose was it?
Bob
That's waste. Petty.
Wade
Oh, God. But I pressed on.
Mark
Why did you go condoms and I went crusty Sparksock?
Wade
The condoms at least weren't used. I specified that in my clue.
Bob
Yeah, the condom. Safe, man.
Mark
I was hoping you'd see the sock and turn around. I didn't expect you to go into it.
Wade
I. Bob's too good at hiding his penny. I don't Think we're ever going to find his?
Mark
Benny, I swear to God, if there's a take a penny, leave a penny on the desk, I'd be so upset.
Bob
You're sort of interrogating each other as this goes on, but no one's really thinking about me. I'm sort of getting away, but I. I did. Do you want to know where mine is or do you want to guess?
Wade
There. You said three of the four pillars had pennies. What did the fourth pillar have?
Bob
Paper towels for some reason. Cousin. Confusing choice.
Wade
Damn it.
Mark
The fridge. Is it in the fridge?
Bob
No. No pennies in the fridge.
Wade
Just sadness under the welcome mat.
Bob
Weirdly, there is a welcome mat, but the only thing under there is pieces of paper that appear to have girls names and phone numbers on them, but were clearly written by the boys who live in the dorm room, just in case anyone looks.
Mark
The drawers of the desks clearly contain a pen.
Bob
Nothing in there but vapes.
Wade
I pull, I rip one of the vapes. And I say to Wade, I. I've. It's been a year since I quit. I just need a little. I. I won't become addicted.
Mark
I say, mark, no. You're too small. The power of that vape will blow you away.
Bob
Somehow, Mark summons the strength to lift the vape to an angle where he could get his head in front of it. As he takes a drag, the heat from the coil nearly incinerates his entire being. And the water vapor he does manage to get into his lungs contains so much nicotine that he dies almost immediately of a heart attack. There's no pennies in there.
Mark
I check every left shoe.
Bob
There's a surprising number of left shoes. No pennies. All right, that's it. Yeah, we got five. I'm too smart. I frantically, before I let you guys come into the room, looked around for a place to hide it, and I didn't want to touch anything. And I got really grossed out because I was imagining what was happening with all the condoms and stuff. And so I just held the penny casually in my right hand while we stood there and watched you guys look for other pennies.
Mark
I thought I checked myself in the coffee shop. I never thought to check you.
Wade
I'm dead.
Bob
And tiny mark died at 3 inches tall of a nicotine ingestion.
Mark
I ripped off part of my tongue on the floor.
Bob
Yeah, it was your own choice, man.
Wade
Yeah, that was weird.
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Bob
All right Mark, I know you struggle with two sentence horror stories. I want to do one more.
Wade
What?
Bob
This has nothing to do with two sentence horror stories except that it's kind of a spooky setting so feel free to throw some in there if you feeling creative? We are in a grandmother's attic. It's surprisingly big for how like average size the house is, but it is just an attic. It's like one of those attics where there's, you know, there's trunks full of dress up clothes and mannequins for some reason. And you know the kind of attic that appears in a horror game that no actual human person ever has as an attic in their house? House.
Wade
Like there's a rocking chair for some reason that's still.
Bob
Yeah, there's a rocking chair that's constantly rocking for no apparent reason. And there's one light that has a pull string. It's like way the on the far end of the entire thing from where the stairs are for no reason. I've. I've hidden my penny.
Mark
I've hidden mine as well.
Wade
Hold on.
Bob
It doesn't have to be a $0.02 horror story.
Mark
Good thing I brought my spooky change.
Bob
Too bad I used the haunted coin purse.
Wade
Shut up. It's my turn, my turn.
Mark
Sure, man, you can. You can have it.
Wade
I turn to Wade. Rip his pants down, Rip his shirt up. Look all over. Turn to you, Bob. Rip your pants down, rip your shirt up. Look all around. Open your hands. Open your hands. Both of you open your hands. Spread your cheeks.
Mark
I open my hands.
Wade
Spread them.
Bob
Somehow your ass makes that noise.
Mark
Good thing I brought my scary ass.
Bob
You don't find anything, but for some reason I have nipple pasties on. And now Wade and I are both naked for the rest of this episode. Cuz you destroyed our clothes when removing them.
Mark
Mark, did you search yourself?
Bob
He did not.
Wade
I rip off my pants, I rip off my shirt, I spread all my cheeks.
Bob
Did you just genie Mark? Did you just get him to search his own self for your purposes?
Mark
Apparently I did. I'm glad he did for me. Thank you. You. So while he's doing that for me.
Bob
All right, we're all naked. Great, thanks.
Mark
Now that we're naked, I can see clearly what's going on around me, which is what's in this attic is very full of stuff. Is it kind of empty? The sparse.
Bob
It's kind of a mix. There's definite walkways. There's kind of. It's. Imagine it's like a level in a horror game. There's some definite pathing options, but it's pretty like crowded in with stuff. But the pathways are respected. You're not gonna get caught on any stray textures running around this attic.
Mark
If I'm following Mark's pattern, it went train condom wrappers.
Bob
I like this.
Mark
I'm thinking this time it's in a box of schoolwork that they've kept either their own or their children's schoolwork. Like art projects, report cards. It's the logical next thing. I for train in condom wrappers. I search for such a box.
Bob
There's only one box full of weirdly saved, pointlessly saved old school work. And it looks like it's definitely been recently shoveled through.
Mark
Yes.
Bob
Which is a strange thing for a box of useless schoolwork from 12 years ago.
Mark
Yes.
Bob
You can even tell exactly the point in the stack of crap to where the person dug into the box.
Mark
Yes.
Bob
So you rifle through the papers and you pull it and you see where they stop digging and you go right to that point. Yeah, there's nothing. There's just an old yearbook in there that they were trying to find. Oh, that's a fun guess, though. Thanks.
Wade
Yeah, you're welcome. I huff and I puff and I blow the dust off of every piece of furniture.
Bob
Okay.
Wade
I'm hoping that will turn something up.
Bob
You summon the magical Superman. The ability to blow like a tornado for some reason. And now it doesn't matter that we're naked because we're all caked in four decades of dust. It's awesome. And when you were looking in one of the directions and blowing superhumanly hard, nothing interesting happened. When you looked in the other direction and you blew super superhumanly hard, all the dust blew off the furniture, and there were no pennies on any of it. But you did hear kind of a deep rattle coming from that half of the attic.
Wade
How deep?
Bob
Oh, like large wooden rattle.
Wade
Give me the. Give me the note in the scale. Like a C2 or like in D2. Like the knife. Yeah, okay. It's a knife. It's a knife.
Bob
Probably.
Mark
I check the ladder and or stairs that lead up to this attic.
Bob
They're still there.
Mark
With a penny on them.
Bob
No, it's just some stairs so close.
Wade
That half where I might have heard a low D2ish rattling. I grab a giant magnet, throw it away because copper is not magnetic.
Mark
Hey, he's got one of those copper magnets.
Wade
I turn it off to see what happens.
Bob
Anyway, a bunch of really horrifying just comes flying at you, you waving around the room, and there's like, old knitting needles, all kinds of real dangerous final destination type. But you're fine. It's fine. You're fine. Magic. You got plot armor, so you don't think that happens, but when you aim it at one particular area, you hear kind of that same rattle again. There's Something trying to move but can't. Can't move. Just contained.
Mark
I am going now to find a penny. And the way I'm going to do it, I'm gonna look to see if there's a take a penny, leave a penny anywhere in this attic.
Bob
Funny enough, there is, but it's empty. It's just sitting next to an old cash register.
Mark
Next to you are such a tease, man.
Bob
Pile of signage from what seems to be a closed down family restaurant of some sort of sort.
Wade
I'm really honing in on this weird low rattling thingamabob and I want to kind of push aside anything as I'm pushing. I'm listening for the rattling and I'm getting closer and closer to it. I keep pushing, shaking, shoving, pushing, shove, push, shake, shake, push, shove, shove, touch, shake, push, shake.
Bob
Oh.
Mark
What are you touching?
Bob
Everything. He's waiting through the stuff. I can see it. I can see, see it.
Mark
Oh, that's quite the turn.
Wade
Yeah, well, I'm trying to find that rattling.
Bob
Nothing that you touch or push by is the thing that is rattling, but you still hear it coming from the same direction.
Mark
Mark used a big magnet and sucked up all the magnetic metals to his magnet. Right. So I'm going to pull out my handy dandy metal detector that I carry with me. And now that all of the non magnetic, now all the magnetic metal is gone on, I'm going to use the metal detector around to see if it can detect the non magnetic metals such as copper.
Wade
I'm just doing a quick google on how magnetic.
Bob
Yeah, hang on, I'm just googling something.
Mark
Metal detector can detect copper because it's a highly conductive metal.
Bob
Hang on, I'm just, I'm just doing a quick search. Huh.
Mark
I might have searched as well to find this out when we started.
Bob
Even though metal detectors do use an electromagnetic field, non ferrous metals can still interfere with that field in a way that would trigger the metal detector.
Mark
Which is why I'm thankful that Mark sucked a lot of them up.
Bob
I see, I see. So what did you do? I got so hung up on the whole metal detector. Got you moment. What did you do with it? You started waving it around or something?
Mark
Using it.
Bob
Was the plan in any more specific area than that or just.
Mark
Well, I mean he just searched through half the room in one turn. I thought maybe I'd get a little leeway but search throughout the room.
Wade
I was waiting through stuff in a line and a straight line. Pushing, shoving, touching, pushing.
Bob
Point me in a direction. Where are we sticking Your metal detector. Give me. Give me some vague guidance. You can even say you walk away from Mark in a straight line towards the opposite wall.
Mark
I'm going to the opposite side from where Mark has the magnet. And I'm going to search specifically around, like, the waist and lower level.
Bob
Okay, so waist height and below on.
Mark
The left half of the attic.
Bob
If Mark's on the right, you can search that entire. Yeah, you could search your entire half of the attic that way. Way. That's acceptable. You don't find any copper on the. Whatever waist height and below search that you do on that half of the basement. Okay.
Wade
Have I hit the wall yet?
Bob
You are standing with your arm outstretched and your fingers an inch away from the wall, like you're about to make contact right at the end of everything.
Wade
All right, I press my ear to the wall. See if. Do I hear anything?
Bob
Then we press here to the wall, take a deep breath, and from behind you, you hear, granny's not doing so well. She had Taco Bell for dinner. It's unrelated.
Mark
Wait, Granny's in the attic?
Bob
No, she's in the bathroom. The bathroom's just underneath where Mark is in the house. Look, I had a whole diagram in front of me. I'm not just making this up on the spot. Once the diarrhea sounds stop from the downstairs bathroom, you press your ear up and you hear, coming from inside the wall, you hear that same rattling noise. It's. It's louder now than it was because you seem to be closer to it almost.
Wade
I. I use the last of my turn to turn to Wade and smile like this. Does he see me?
Bob
Do you see him?
Mark
I rolled a five.
Bob
Shit. Got a what?
Mark
What? 20.
Bob
Oh. He doesn't notice anything. Wade doesn't even notice that he accidentally stepped in a loaded sprung bear trap a second ago. He's just bumbling around with his metal detector, scraping it on anything he can get his hands on.
Mark
I forgot I got a real D20 I could have grabbed.
Bob
No idea. All right, wait, you got your metal detector. What are we doing now?
Mark
Doing the same thing on the side marks on.
Bob
Aside from getting a lot of pinging from Mark's electromagnet and the huge clump of ferrous metal stuck to it that he's cling dragging around, you don't find any copper or get any pings of anything else in that area of the basement.
Mark
What have you two done?
Wade
All right, I step back from the wall. After pressing my ear, I go, it's in the walls. It's in the goddamn walls. And I start ripping the boards as hard as I could. Just rip and give them. Digging my fingers, ripping fingernails off, blood spewing every.
Mark
What an inefficient way to get into a. A wall.
Bob
It's an attic. So for some reason the walls are finished. But they're finished real shittily. And I'll allow you to call your way into them like a madman. You. Assuming you dig starting at the place where you were standing in front of where you were hearing the rattling. And as you start to expose, there seems to be kind of a cavity behind the wall. And in your crazed frenzy, you don't really notice what's in front of you that you're uncovering. But when. By the time you're done and the wall is fully destroyed Wolverine style, you're standing in front of a whole other room of the attic, like another third of the attic. It's a huge space that was separated off by this wall. And it's just piled up to about waist height with bodies. No floor space, no living things, nothing else. No furniture or anything in the room. It just. Someone kept continuously killing people, bringing bodies up here and hucking them into that part of the attic. I don't know. It's a solid 30 to 40 dead bodies.
Mark
I forgot this was a haunted house.
Wade
I go to Wade. I was like, this was a haunted house? I thought this was your grandma's house.
Mark
I shouldn't have searched the report card first. Now that Mark has pointed out that it's a haunted house house and my metal detector hasn't done. I pull out my spook o meter to detect some spooky where I think the penny might actually be.
Bob
It's pronounced spookometer, but go on.
Mark
I look for my. I use my spookometer to really point me in the direction of the spoops.
Bob
You're spinning around wildly, just trying to get any scary echoes you can on your device. And when you wave the thing around, there's something over there on the far end. There's something that's scary on the far end of the basement. And it's. It's maybe up as opposed to down. You're so far away, it's hard to tell, but they're getting something great.
Mark
So either it's the penny or death.
Bob
Well, all the dead bodies are over on Mark's side, so.
Mark
Yeah. But whatever it is, it's scary. Scary. It's my spookometer. My spoo. My spoo.
Bob
Boom.
Mark
Spoopy meter.
Bob
It's. It's a Little scary. It's a tiny, scary pig.
Wade
Maybe it's not scary. Maybe he's right. I wade through the bodies. I just start stone pumping. Just I. I push, touch, I shove, I push, I touch, I touch, shove, push. Checking all the pockets.
Bob
We're all naked still, by the way.
Wade
Are they naked or the body's naked? I check the pockets. I check their other pockets.
Bob
Everyone, living and dead, all naked.
Wade
Checking, checking, checking, pushing, checking.
Mark
What pockets are you checking?
Wade
Checking all the pockets. Checking, checking. All of them. Make my way to the center of.
Bob
This weird room after the 27th body. Body that you flip over and go through all of its crevices and dig your arm up into its butt nice and deep and give it the whole once over. The last thing you've been doing for some reason is flipping open the eyelids of these bodies. All of them have had eyes but the 27th one, you get to the end and you flip the eyelids up. And in the eye sockets of this dead body are two pennies, one in each socket, one with a piece big W on it and one with a big B on it.
Mark
Wait, you also had yours in the dark socket of a box.
Bob
I am not going to lie. That is exactly what I came up with.
Wade
What the fuck?
Bob
In my notes for this show, wrote down I. Technically, what I wrote was I had. It's on the eye, like how you put coins on for the ferryman kind of thing. But I had my penny hidden on the. In the eye area of a dead body. So when you said that, I felt like I had to audible on the fly to. Our two pennies are in the eye sockets of the same dead body.
Wade
What the fuck?
Mark
Oh, I was destined to fail. I would have never searched my own hiding spot for your penny.
Bob
It's patently imbalanced, I'm going to say.
Mark
So I guessed your spot before we even started, thereby guaranteeing my own defeat by not searching my spot because we were of the. That's incredibly awful for me.
Wade
This is devastating to my case.
Bob
You guessed my exact hiding spot. One phase too early in the game.
Mark
I want to find what's in the scary corner.
Bob
All right, so you're walk. Where. Where are you right now?
Mark
Beelining. He's searching 300 bodies. I'm going to where the scary thing in the corner is. That's higher up.
Bob
Yeah. You walk over to the far end of the basement and you're. It takes you a annoyingly long time to figure out that it's up in that corner to your left. Up above you is yeah. But eventually, after I stand there and glare at you for a while, you get there and you wander over into this corner, and you look up into the corner of the attic, and all you see is a bunch of cobwebs and what appears to be maybe a dead spider or something hanging in them.
Mark
I rip open the dead spider, flinging the cobwebs.
Bob
You grab the dead spider, expecting to rip it in half, and you realize it's actually the face of Abraham Lincoln with a smiley face scribbled on it in Sharpie and little pipe cleaner bits taped onto the edges so that it looks like it has eight spidery legs.
Mark
I rip it in half.
Bob
Anyway, you summon superhuman strength for no reason and of no benefit to anyone to rip a penny in half with your bare hands.
Mark
I found two pennies.
Bob
He found Mark's penny. It was a. It was a. Disguised as a spider in the cobwebs. He sharpied a little face on there. Some red eyes and stuff.
Mark
Why did we both think Grandma was a serial killer?
Wade
I didn't think Grandma was.
Bob
I'm a spooky addict. I don't know, man.
Mark
Yeah, the exact thing I sent to Bob Mark, was a hollow wall hides a body. One of the gr. One of Grandma' in its eye socket.
Bob
Is my Penny, if it's any consolation, does nothing for you in the actual competition of the episode. But that was great. Morally, you won big time.
Mark
Hey, moral victories are often the ones that count the most.
Bob
In no particular order, Mark scored points for Segway Bamboo Labs, Decked Drama, Big baby Tantrum, I'm massive paper towel Penny, I hold out my hand, Air vent sock Penny. And eye socket pennies. Wade, you earned points for play doh 3D printer bamboo, boo trucks drivers are drug addicts. Question Mark, early access instructions, Secret Grandma train Penny, condom wrapper Penny, roll the five for your perception and spider Penny.
Mark
That sounds pretty good.
Bob
Mark, you earned a total of 10 points. Yeah. And Wade, you earned a total of nine points.
Mark
Okay, it all comes down to the bonus point. So wait, if we roll one and I get it and it ends in a tie again, does that mean we go to the wheel with the One man show on it again?
Wade
Yep.
Mark
Oh, man.
Bob
Okay, I'm going to add an option for you win a bonus point if you had the. The scariest moment of the episode.
Wade
I got one of two. It's either me grabbing that turd and checking it, or room full of bodies.
Mark
You did go into the cum sock.
Wade
I went through hell in this episode.
Bob
I think Mark Might have the scariest moment of this episode.
Mark
Bob and I apparently high fived all. We hid coins and grandma's victims.
Bob
That's true. We had a heck of a time creating that whole setup. We actually killed all those people. So we get two wheel spins.
Mark
Oh, that means it can't be a tie.
Wade
So guaranteed not to be a tie.
Bob
Two spins of this bad boy.
Wade
Okay. No.
Bob
Yes.
Wade
I ate a nuts. I didn't eat shit.
Bob
That's true. Wade ate one chocolate covered peanut.
Mark
I announced it at the beginning.
Bob
Damn it.
Wade
I just always gotta get food in these episodes.
Bob
I can't believe that worked.
Mark
We're tied, baby.
Bob
The winner comes down to this spin. Paulist.
Mark
Paulist.
Wade
That's gotta be me. That's gotta be. Look how I'm so put together right now.
Bob
Wait. Bite your lower lip.
Mark
I am going to concede this to Mark for one reason. He put deodorant on at the start of the stream, which enhances his smell, which adds to his.
Bob
That's a very vain decision, Mark. Good for you.
Mark
That is the only reason I will concede. It has nothing to do with the fact I haven't shaved my head.
Bob
Fate tried to steal Mark's victory. But fate could not make it. So with 11 points when the poor. And the extra point for best looking, Mark takes the episode. Wade did get a bonus point for eating the most during the episode. But it wasn't enough.
Wade
Plus, I feel like I looked really good in this episode. I looked in a lot of places.
Bob
You spent the most time naked? Probably. Probably. So that's something. You were naked in two of three scenarios for almost the entire thing.
Wade
Weirdly enough. Yeah.
Mark
You were always the smallest.
Bob
Did you get naked in the coffee shop too? You didn't do that?
Mark
No, no. He was just standing on a naked man who was trying to take a shit.
Bob
Anyway, congratulations, Mark. Wade Loser speech.
Mark
For the first time in the history of this show, a moment happened tonight where I guessed the impossible. A made up supposed scenario that wasn't even a part of a normal scenario. That just happened to be the exact thing the host was thinking. And it didn't pay off for me. If there's anything equivalent to Bob losing 37 coin flips in a row. Whatever it was, it's gotta be this moment. So I think that I deserve all of the pity and feel good. I'll gilgit him next time Wade's in the world. But I don't deserve the win because it's still was fair.
Bob
That was big of you. Tall of you even. Thank you, Mark. Short speech. Sorry, Winter speech.
Wade
I plumbed the depths of my own perseverance to eek out the victory in this episode. I dug deeper and dug further than I. I pressed on. And I think that's a lesson. Perseverance will always, always pay out in the end. It doesn't matter how many bodies you uncover, doesn't how much you go through. Hey, if you keep trying, you're gonna get there. And sometimes you gotta look up. Keep looking up.
Mark
Gamers don't look up.
Bob
It's true.
Wade
I can't wait to be declared the victor in this upcoming season.
Bob
It's happening. Probably.
Wade
This is my year.
Bob
Thank you so much, everybody, for listening and watching. Make sure you follow Mark and Wade and me. And more importantly, follow the podcast. I'm not gonna say that word. We're not supposed to say merge. Kill him. Editors. Blow up. Wade. Thanks so much everybody for being here. We'll be back again with another episode real soon. That's not how we end this episode. Just fucking. God damn it. Just podcast out.
Mark
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Wade
Three dudes hanging out on a rooftop installing solar panels to provide a sustainable future.
Bob
Three dudes on a roof installing solar panels so that they can power their computers and record their brilliant idea for a podcast.
Wade
Pretty awesome consequences if you ask me. New Welch's Fusions are so good. Each one is a combination of two fruity floors, flavors in one juicy bite. One flavor on the outside, another on the inside.
Mark
It's an unbelievable taste sensation. So they are recommended for experienced taste buds only. You've been warned. New Welch's Fusions. Please use responsibly.
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Release Date: March 7, 2025
Hosts: Mark Fischbach, Wade Barnes, Bob Muyskens
In this delightfully unhinged episode, the Distractible crew—Mark, Wade, and Bob—turn hiding a coin into a multi-layered game of improv and deduction, using the “theater of the mind” to create elaborate, sometimes grotesque, imaginary scenarios. The main event: a competitive hide-and-seek game with imaginary pennies in increasingly bizarre locations, from a bustling coffee shop to a haunted attic. The banter also touches 3D printing, truck culture, customer complaints, and why Mark had such a rough week. Hijinks, bickering, and creative problem-solving abound.
Tone: Chaotic, playful, and self-deprecating, with plenty of classic Distractible tangents and inside jokes.
Bob introduces an imaginary game:
| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|-------------| | Opening small talk | 02:52–06:53 | | 3D printing & Bambu shilling | 05:30–09:10 | | Wade’s truck drawer rant | 09:30–16:54 | | Hide the Penny game explanation | 20:39–24:06 | | Coffee shop scenario | 24:06–38:22 | | College dorm room scenario | 38:22–50:50 | | Attic scenario (Grandma’s house) | 52:59–69:12 | | Finale, wheel spins, results | 70:17–74:12 |
"Hide The Penny" is classic Distractible: an imaginative, unpredictable romp where everyday annoyances morph into full-blown theater of the absurd, all fueled by the cast’s quick improvisation and willingness to push each other to ever-weirder heights. For fans, it’s a showcase of the trio’s chemistry and their commitment to the bit—even when the bit involves sock monsters, naked detective work, and hidden coins in a haunted attic.
Moral of the episode: Keep looking up. Keep playing along, no matter how sticky or absurd the penny-hunt gets.
Recommended for: Fans of chaotic, improv-heavy podcasts; anyone who wonders where three friends will go with too much imagination and too few boundaries.