Oxford 3000 AND TOO

Summary

Distractible Podcast: "Oxford 3000 AND TOO"

Date: April 6, 2026
Hosts: Mark Fischbach, Wade Barnes, Bob Muyskens

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Episode Overview

This episode of Distractible reunites Mark, Wade, and Bob for a game-filled session centered around the Oxford 3000—the list of 3,000 most important English words. The hosts spiral into hilarious, unpredictable directions, oscillating between witty banter, story swapping, health horror tales, candid mental health chats, and a custom word association game that tests their vocabularies, patience, and ability to understand each other. As always, the trio punctuates the conversation with playful jabs, memorable quotes, and a shared sense of self-deprecating humor.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. Superman, Listeners, and Podcast Rules

Timestamps: 01:48–03:45

• Bob opens by joking that this is "Superman's favorite podcast" and riffs about being buddies with Superman.
• Mark and Wade play along, questioning the lore and introducing early 20th-century radio show humor (“Takis”, “ear man”).
• The show’s premise is reiterated: whoever wins is the next host, and there are no official rules beyond that.

“I love the listeners because I love ears.” – Mark [03:06]

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2. Mark’s Medical Misadventure

Timestamps: 04:06–09:48

• Mark shares an intense story about receiving multiple travel vaccines before an upcoming honeymoon, leading to severe fever and chills during an LA heatwave.
• Details include using a heating blanket despite 95-degree weather and lacking a thermometer until his wife, Amy, returns with one.
• Wade and Bob empathize and riff on the ordeal with vaccination jokes.

“I was laying out on my driveway. I felt comfortable. Like, I could feel my body starting to cook.” – Mark [06:44]
“I go whole. I go urethral actually, is what I have for my thermometer.” – Mark [09:20]

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3. Wade’s Hot Dog Marathon & Book/Movie Recommendations

Timestamps: 11:46–13:55

• Wade regales a “near-death” experience: accidentally eating five hot dogs in a day—three Coneys for lunch, two more at a birthday party.
• Quickly pivoting, he recommends Project Hail Mary (both book and film), calling the movie a faithful adaptation.
• Wade also begins reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, referencing the podcast’s fan engagement when books are mentioned.

“I don't know what else I could have done. I had five hot dogs.” – Wade [11:48]

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4. Book Talk & Warhammer Flex

Timestamps: 13:28–15:00

• Wade’s reading habits spark a meta-commentary on podcast book talk and Mark’s extensive Warhammer 40K reading.
• Bob points out Mark may have read more Warhammer books than Bob has read books in total.

“I mean, probably not with Worm, because there, there are only so many. But I read a lot in my life. I like reading. It's how I got such a big vocabulary.” – Mark [14:34]

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5. Anxiety, Insomnia, and Health Fears

Timestamps: 15:54–22:24

• Wade describes difficulties sleeping due to chest pounding and minor panic attacks, referencing heart attack fears (family history).
• Mark relates, mentioning similar symptoms. Bob, the resident “legal case reader,” advises getting checked for atrial fibrillation. He explains panic could be physiological, not just psychological.

“You can have like a physiologically induced feeling of like a panic attack because what's happening to your heart is making your heart race and then that triggers a bunch of other stuff... It's probably fine. But maybe ask your doctor.” – Bob [21:16]

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6. Classic Distractible Jabs: Stupidity, Doctors & Self Deprecation

Timestamps: 22:24–23:40

• The trio pokes fun at themselves with fake advice, offering to “tell you you’re stupid” for free vs. a doctor charging for it.

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7. Book Addiction & "Dungeon Crawler Carl"

Timestamps: 23:29–23:58

• Discussion on how certain books (like Dungeon Crawler Carl) provoke marathon reading sessions, with Bob relating a “read till 5am” episode.

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8. The “Easy 3000” Game: Rules & Round One

Timestamps: 24:07–44:43

• Bob introduces the word association game, inspired by Whose Line’s “Director” game and their previous Oxford 3000 episode.
• Game structure: One gives a word; the other must “direct” the guesser toward it using single-word clues or modifiers (e.g., “French-er”, “higher”).
• Chaos and confusion ensue as Wade and Mark both overthink their clues:
  • Notable exchanges involve getting from “bathroom” to “weakness” via “sphincter,” and a journey from “mountain”/“valley” through yin-yang metaphysics to “minimum.”

“Shit gets nuts and more nuts. And then nuts are. And somehow nuts here.” – Mark on Dungeon Crawler Carl [23:29]
“The sphincter of the ego.” – Mark [31:16]

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9. Word Game Rounds Continue

Timestamps: 44:43–56:00

• More rounds, including:
  • “Pillow” leading to “apple” (through fruit logic, with Wade’s over-complicated clues).
  • “Bear” reached by size comparisons from “corgi” to “buffalo.”
  • The game oscillates between accidental brilliance and hilarious miscommunication.

“I could tell you were stuck in Africa. I could tell you were just like, in this…savannah.” – Mark on Wade’s animal logic [48:26]

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10. Aspect Ratios & Abstract Words

Timestamps: 49:07–54:39

• Mark and Wade struggle on getting from “ratio” to “aspect,” with an endless loop of display/monitor terminology and numbers.
• Bob laughs at their pain, noting, “It can be easy, but Wade says can it though?” [47:06]

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11. Fast Wins, Jokes, and Game Debrief

Timestamps: 56:00–58:59

• Lightning round win for “wherever” (Mark: “care less,” Wade: “wherever?”).
• Bob tallies points with his usual tongue-in-cheek, rewarding “short joke points,” “sphincter,” and health disasters.
• Tension is repeatedly around “games designed to be fun for me but not so much for you.”

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12. Bonus Spinning & Winner Announcement

Timestamps: 59:06–62:03

• The bonus “spinny wheel” for extra points
• Mark wins, edging out Wade due to his “crazy fever” illness and fast puzzle-solving.
• Wade is ready with a loser speech, Mark with a winner’s speech.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “I go urethral actually, is what I have for my thermometer.” – Mark [09:20]
• “You can have sphincter weakness.” – Mark [32:19]
• “Our brains work very differently. I’m sorry.” – Wade [37:22]
• “I want to say aspect and weakness. Very difficult words.” – Wade [62:44]
• “I have no idea what you think.” – Colin (the ever-present producer, voice of confusion, throughout the game)
• “As you can see, I read a lot of books and I know a lot of words, and I use them sparingly, which is a word I read in a book.” – Mark [63:50]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:48] – Superman’s Favorite Podcast & Rules
• [04:06] – Mark’s Vaccine Fever from Hell
• [11:48] – Wade’s Hot Dog Saga & Book/Movie Recs
• [15:54] – Anxiety, Insomnia & Heart Fears
• [24:07] – “Easy 3000” Game begins
• [31:04] – "The sphincter of the ego" & Game confusion
• [44:43] – Transition to next game rounds
• [52:27] – Aspect Ratio Struggle
• [56:00] – “Wherever” Lightning Round
• [58:45] – Points Tally & Spin
• [62:03] – Winner/Loser Speeches

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Closing

In signature Distractible style, the episode weaves together hilarious misadventures, candid health chat, genuine support, and chaos-laden wordplay, all wrapped in relentless self-mockery (“I can tell you’re stuck in Africa… in the savannah.”) and brotherly camaraderie. Mark triumphs (and gets the next host spot), Wade laments the struggle with super-abstract words, and Bob, ever the agent of chaos, promises bigger, wilder challenges the next time around.

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This summary is intended for both Distractible diehards and newcomers—capturing memorable stories, choice moments, and the infectious, unfiltered chemistry that keeps the show as relatable as it is ridiculous.

Transcript

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[Narrator/Intro Voice]

Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode Booing Bob doesn't know Kryptonian lore, Loves rectal and starts semantic situations. Midden making Mark gets poisoned by pricks wits himself goes urethral lords Warhammer and maniacally directs Wade's bottom. Witty Wade swallows sausage Goes crawling fears myocardial infarctions, then sphincter as his yang hole Frightening from superfan Superman to caring less. Yes, it's time for Oxford3002. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

[Bob]

Hello everybody, and welcome to Superman's favorite podcast. You can't prove that it's not. Unless is. Does he canonically have a favorite?

[Wade]

Yeah.

[Bob]

Distractible Suit Super D Duper man. Oh, I don't know enough about comic books to make this joke. I asked him and he told me we're his favorite. Superman's favorite. That's us. That's right. It's distractible.

[Mark]

You talk to Superman?

[Bob]

Yeah, we're buddies on the reg. I go to his fortress of quietude and I hang out with him and his cat and we talk about podcasts and. Is this all true?

[Mark]

That sounds like Superman kinda.

[Bob]

It's made of dry ice.

[Mark]

The cat.

[Bob]

The cat, yeah. Anyway, if you've never seen Distractible before, my name's Bob and I'm the host because I won the last one. There's two other guys here. They're competing to win this one because then that means they host the next one. That's it. That's all the rules. There's no constitution or any other bullshit it's just those three rules. Three, two, one. That one rule really is what matters. The people who will be competing today, as always, as only ever, are Mark and Wade.

[Mark]

Hi.

[Wade]

Hello.

[Bob]

I thought we were just leaning into the viewers today. You don't have to address the listeners. You can just. We could just do a sign language episode.

[Mark]

I love the listeners because I love ears.

[Wade]

He's an ear man. We got an ear man over here.

[Mark]

I'm an ear man. Everyone knows this.

[Wade]

I don't know what my voice had to change to call you an ear man, but now you're an ear man.

[Mark]

Last year, man was in 1920,

[Bob]

before

[Mark]

Takis came on the scene.

[Wade]

No, it is those talkies. They need the earband in one ear,

[Mark]

out the other, and you'll know what I'm saying.

[Wade]

I'd like to go in both.

[Bob]

Whoa. I don't like what just crashed into your 1920s, and I'm not a fan of it. Whatever that was, I hate it.

[Mark]

The penguin got in there, you know, a little bit.

[Bob]

The old transatlantic Kentucky accent there. Anyway, welcome to the episode. How's it going, fellas? I have a game. I do have a game. I know everyone expects me to be unprepared because I'm always unprepared. But I'm prepared. And the more I say it, the more true it becomes. But before we do that, how's it going? You guys got any small talk? Anything going on in your cool lives?

[Mark]

Yeah, I do. So I went through some of the most devastating bowel exploding, body shaking adverse reactions you've ever experienced. You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying?

[Wade]

Kind of. There's been a few times I'm familiar.

[Colin]

What happened?

[Mark]

I went. You hear that, guys? Look at the ghost. All right. Amy and I were going to travel soon, both for our honeymoon and for other reasons. So it's like, oh, we need to get some travel vaccines, right? To go to certain places, you need certain vaccines. I go to this travel vaccine place, right? Won't name it, but it was fine. First one was fine there. And I went there because they're like, I don't know what's recommended to go to these places. So it's like, we're going here, here, here, and here. What do we need? And it's like, well, let me pull up your vaccine records. And it's like, oh, you haven't had your tetanus in fucking forever. You haven't gotten a boost. Do you go to the doctor? And I'm like, well, I swear, I go to the hospital a lot, but, you know, I don't usually. Don't usually. I guess I haven't really checked in on that. So I needed four. Four vaccines, two new. Two boosters. Well, three new. One booster or something like that.

[Bob]

I don't know.

[Mark]

They got the super syringe, you know, for the everything.

[Wade]

Oh, the big juicer.

[Mark]

Yeah, the every 10 year kind of mega one. They.

[Wade]

It's normal size for Bob and I, but for you it would look like that.

[Mark]

Okay.

[Colin]

Come on, come on.

[Mark]

Come on, man.

[Wade]

Sorry, sorry.

[Colin]

I got.

[Wade]

Hope that wheel spin doesn't come back to bite me later.

[Colin]

Come on, man.

[Mark]

Come on.

[Bob]

Yeah, I'm. I'm making note of the short joke,

[Wade]

but it was really funny.

[Mark]

Come on, man.

[Bob]

All right.

[Mark]

Yeah, it was funny. So I get all mine.

[Bob]

I take it like a champ.

[Mark]

You know, I didn't even cry, you know, four band aids, bam, bam, bam, bam. Two on each arm, right? Get home, I'm like, okay, I'll probably feel a little. Little funky because when I. When I got the COVID vaccine, you know, that was the last time I took one. And I fel.

[Wade]

Oh, yeah, that one always hits me too.

[Mark]

Yeah, Usually I can take the flu vaccine. I don't feel that bad, but I started feeling a little queasy. And then my stomach started rumbling, and then I had the worst chills I've ever had in my life. I was under three blankets, one of which was a heating blanket, and I couldn't stop shivering. It was a heat wave here in Los angeles. It was 95 degrees outside, sun blaring. I was laying out on my driveway. I felt comfortable. Like, I could feel my body starting to cook. Like on the, the.

[Wade]

The.

[Mark]

I don't have blacktop driveway, but it's like darker. And I was just like, oh, wow, this is kind of nice. And then I saw I was going to throw up. I couldn't tell if it was from the sickness or from, you know, just being in the sun like that. So I go in, draw a hot bath, lay in that, and I'm just like, I can't get warm no matter what. The second, the second, like I'm. I'm out of the heat, I just start shivering. So I go into a fugue state for about six, eight hours. I have no idea. Just on the couch under the heated blankets after the bath. And I was like. And we didn't have a thermometer. I wanted to know what my temperature was.

[Wade]

Yeah, you might have been running a fever of some kind. That's a good call.

[Mark]

Well, I bet I was like, I must be hitting a record, right?

[Wade]

122 Celsius.

[Mark]

I got to hit the high score here. I really, that was my only thought because I know if you get too high of a fever, you know, you should go to the hospital. Yeah. You.

[Bob]

Yeah, no hospital first probably.

[Wade]

Yeah, yeah, but you should see if your body could take it first.

[Mark]

Yeah, yeah. So what was unfortunate is I was sleeping it off and usually you notice if I sleep it off. But Amy started to get worried because it was going on for so long as I was starting woke up and I started feeling a little better. The chills finally went away. And it was funny because three blankets, heated blanket felt comfortable.

[Colin]

Oh my God, I'm dying from heat.

[Wade]

Like it was boom.

[Mark]

Instantly I woke up like, ah, sweat. Like just, just the entire couch was just soaked because I was napping on the couch. Just like sweat everywhere instantly. So I must have been very, very warm. And so she gets, she goes to, you know, the pharmacy to get me some Gatorade because I'm like dying of thirst. I need some electrolytes. She comes back and we get the thermometer and I'm like, I feel fine now at this point I feel fine. So I'm like, it's probably going to be normal. Let's just check to make sure. I feel fine. I feel way less chills than I did before. Hundred degrees. And that's when I felt fine. So I really must have had a high fever.

[Bob]

Yeah, if you hit like 104, you're like, you're close to the dying part and you're supposed to really get to the hospital part.

[Mark]

Yeah, we probably should.

[Bob]

We have a thermometer now. I probably should have.

[Mark]

Probably should have kept that around.

[Bob]

Did you go rectal or you one ear out.

[Mark]

The other I go whole. I go urethral actually, is what I have for my thermometer.

[Bob]

That's the other. Yeah, that's the good way.

[Mark]

Yeah. It's the only way to get an accurate reading. Yeah.

[Bob]

Plus when you're done, you just pee it back out. It's self ejecting. You don't have to have to do anything. It's convenient.

[Mark]

So that was my weekend.

[Bob]

That's not great. Dude, I'm glad you have a thermometer now. You might have set some kind of record.

[Mark]

I might have, yeah. But this is the thing is like I've actually had time to have like weekends to myself. So for some reason the past few weekends I just haven't been able to relax. And so last weekend was kind of the. What do they call it? The cream on the cake.

[Bob]

The icing on the cake.

[Colin]

The cream, you know, it's the cream.

[Wade]

He did it a high temperature for a little bit.

[Bob]

Marcus, Mark is broke. He don't work no more.

[Mark]

So I'm better now. I feel great. I've had an upload schedule, which is nice. Everything else is going great. The minor heat induced brain damage, you know, I can shrug that off and I'm. I'm good, man. I feel like I lost a few pounds in that time when I was going through that, man.

[Wade]

Hold on, I need to go get these vaccine. Can you send me what you got?

[Mark]

Yeah, just go to the doctor, say like, give me the big one. Get the big one.

[Bob]

Oh, I haven't had any.

[Wade]

I need that big syringe.

[Mark]

I think it might have been the typhoid one that got me.

[Wade]

I think it's a Pokemon.

[Mark]

Typhoid.

[Colin]

Typhoid. Typhoid go.

[Mark]

Typhoid Mary go. Well, that was tasteless.

[Wade]

Yeah, man, a little bit.

[Mark]

Oh, I'm sorry, we can't make Typhoid Mary jokes.

[Bob]

Honestly, I barely, barely registered because I was trying to think of my own joke. And then when you said that I was like, I don't know if mine's going to beat that.

[Wade]

I thought, oh, it evolves into typhlosion. That's a real Pokemon. Is that funny? Is it not funny?

[Bob]

Typhlosion.

[Wade]

Yeah, typhlosion.

[Mark]

Really?

[Wade]

Gen 2 starters. Cinderquill quilava. Typhlosion. It's real. It's real. It's real. Mark, you smash your past this typhlosion at one point.

[Mark]

Did I?

[Wade]

It's like a fire ferret.

[Mark]

I don't think I ever got its name. I think I just saw pictures.

[Wade]

You looked at one, you know, you've seen it. It's real.

[Bob]

You don't need to know a name to smash or pass, I guess.

[Wade]

But we're glad you're alive.

[Bob]

Yeah, we're talking about how you apparently almost died in the last week.

[Mark]

Apparently. Yeah. Yeah, man.

[Bob]

Yeah. That's an adventure of its own kind.

[Mark]

Good job surviving.

[Wade]

Thank you.

[Mark]

Thank you. I tried.

[Bob]

Wait, how did you almost die this past week?

[Wade]

I had five hot dogs.

[Bob]

In the week or in the one one day?

[Mark]

Fuck yeah, man.

[Bob]

Over the course of a whole day or four hours.

[Mark]

Okay, this is. This is either a really, you know, normal day, sad day, or were you in a competition?

[Wade]

So I had three Coneys. I had three Coneys from Skyline.

[Bob]

Oh, those are tiny, but they have chili and cheese on them.

[Mark]

Sure, sure.

[Wade]

And then we went to My nephew, had a birthday get together, and they were grilling out. Molly and I didn't have a lot of time because we were going to go see Project Hail Mary. So they were grilling out and they made the. Whatever. People were grabbing food and there were just a few hot dogs. I was like, I'll just grab a couple hot dogs. And as I was eating them, I was like, wait, that's what I had for lunch too. Oh, God, it's like, I'm 15 again. I'm going to die later. We ended up being fine. Transition, though. Project Hail Mary was a fantastic movie. Really fantastic movie. Loved the book. Movie also fantastic.

[Bob]

So you've read the book?

[Mark]

I have.

[Wade]

And the movie. I didn't get pissed off watching the movie. I actually really enjoyed it. And usually whenever you read a book and immediately see a movie afterward, you're

[Mark]

like, I can't believe they cut out my favorite thing.

[Wade]

But it was a really good, faithful adaptation. I really, really enjoyed it. So highly recommend. I won't say anything else about it. I want to spoil. I recommend reading the book and then seeing the movie, but whatever. Very good. I have another update. What was it? It's right there. It's gone. Oh, I told Bob this, but, Mark, you don't know this. I finally, finally, last night, I was laying in bed, Holly was asleep. I finally got my hands on it.

[Mark]

What? Where is this going?

[Wade]

I started Dungeon Crawler Carl.

[Mark]

Oh, why is it me as Bob sing? But thank you for the attribution.

[Wade]

Well, I told him already, so I gotta tell you.

[Mark]

Wait, that's fun. Did you see the Reddit post? It was like, I get excited every time they mention books and it's like, yay, Bob, for mentioning. Don't you, Crawler Carl. Yay, Wade for reading Animorphs.

[Wade]

Mark, you're there.

[Mark]

I guess.

[Colin]

And I'm like, I write books all the time. What the fuck? I'm talking about. What the fuck? Oh, come on. I was also excited about Dungeon Crawler Carl.

[Bob]

Mark clearly doesn't read like the other two educated ones just because all I

[Mark]

read is Warhammer 40K.

[Colin]

You know what I mean?

[Bob]

Yeah. No, not. Not the man on the same podcast who's bragged about reading what must be several hundred Warhammer books.

[Mark]

Oh, my God. At least.

[Wade]

Yeah. It's got to be a lot.

[Bob]

I think you've read more Warhammer books than I've read all books in the World, probably.

[Mark]

I've read so fucking many.

[Bob]

I think that's probably true because I have it. I've read mostly law, legal cases, if I'm honest. I don't know how to count those. But in terms of books, you're definitely kicking my ass.

[Mark]

I mean, probably not with Worm, because like there, there are only so many. But I read a lot in my life. I like reading. It's how I got such a big vocabulary.

[Bob]

That's how I know so many words and use them for talking. You like my words? My out loud words?

[Mark]

Yes, yes. I make them with my mouth.

[Bob]

That's a good word. Mouth. Good job reading, Wade. I'm glad someone here is finally reading a goddamn book.

[Wade]

Yeah, me too. My last and final, which is the same word twice. Update.

[Bob]

I don't know how you read such a small amount. Like this is not a judgy thing, because I do that. But the first time I started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, it was like I was getting ready for bed. So it was like late at night, maybe it was 11 o'. Clock. I was like, I'll read for a little bit and then I'll get tired and I'll go to sleep and I fucking read possibly the entire book before I slept. But I read all the way through like easily 3/4 of the book, possibly the entire thing in one sitting. Because I started and I just got into it and got into it and like I'm like this. And maybe you're not like this the same way, but like I couldn't stop.

[Wade]

No, I get that way.

[Bob]

I literally, I read until like five in the morning and then I was like, oh shit, the baby wakes up in a couple hours. I guess I should pass out.

[Wade]

Well, it's a lot less fun of a reason, but I've had trouble sleeping more than usual the last few weeks. I don't know if it's something actually going on or like mini panic attacks or what it is, but like I'll lay down and then all of a sudden like, you know, if you like are sitting still for a while and then you get up and like you run up a flight of stairs or something, you feel even more out of breath, like your heart's pounding more than usual. I've had a thing a few different nights, including night before last, where I'll go to lay down and all of a sudden it's like almost like my chest is burping or something. But like I'll start to feel like a weird sensation. And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, man. Is my heart like. What's my heart rate right now? Is it 9 million? Over 500,000. Because it's. It's pretty. Why am I panicking? I'm fine. I just need to. Let's just focus on something else. Wait, you're dying? Oh, okay. I'm dying. I. Stop thinking about. Just think about anything else. Can't think about anything else. Focus. Chest pound.

[Mark]

Hard, fast.

[Wade]

That kept me up till 8 in the morning two nights ago. So I was very tired last night, so I fell asleep easily. Because of that, I've had this exact

[Mark]

same thing, not even exaggerating. It's like as soon as I lay down, specifically, all of a sudden, I can feel my heart. And I've had an apple watch when I was doing it back before they were sued out of their ability to do such things.

[Bob]

It was only blood oxygen that they got sued about. The ECG thing still works, but.

[Mark]

Okay, cool. Well, I would do that, and I would look at my heart rate, and it would be like, it doesn't feel that crazy. And it was only reading ever, like, 105, 110, which is barely elevated. And it's like, the EKG look good. As much as I can read one of those, and it said I was fine. But, yeah, no, I don't know what that's about. I lay down, and then some nights, it's just boom, boom. It's like. It's like someone's banging a drum in my chest. It doesn't hurt or anything. It's just kind of like, well, that's weird and concerning, not fun.

[Wade]

And I've got. There's been a lot of things going on in life. I don't want to bring all of it up here, but I've had reasons to be, like, stressed about stuff. But at least on the conscious level, I feel like I'm okay. You know, I've had my moments. I've had moments of happiness. I've shed tears. I've dealt with some of the things that we're dealing with. Maybe it's my subconscious or I don't know. But the heart is just the one thing I. It scares me probably the most because I've had some family history of, like, heart attacks and stuff. So I'm like, man, hope my heart's okay. So the heart pounding just really compounds. It becomes a vicious cycle of, like, now I really can't calm myself down.

[Bob]

So do you have an apple watch, Wade? Because I don't know if it would help you, but I would recommend that.

[Wade]

Yeah, I do. I haven't used it. I should probably use it again.

[Bob]

But for both of you, what you're describing sounds like a thing I'm familiar with. It sounds like atrial fibrillations, which is not necessarily even a thing that would manifest on an ekg, especially on the apple watch, because it's not exactly like a diodes all over your body type of one. But that is not necessarily a bad thing that can happen. But also, if you're concerned about it, the doctor can check it out pretty easily. They will give you, like a full diodes all over your body ekg. Get the full readings. Like, it's real easy.

[Wade]

I think I'm going to. I think I'm gonna do that.

[Bob]

If it is that, and I'm familiar with it, it feels fucking crazy. It kind of feels like you're like, oh, is this a heart attack? My left arm isn't numb, so it must not be a heart attack. Yeah, yeah.

[Wade]

So I would say two weeks ago, a week ago, last week sometime. I don't remember exactly how long ago. I had this happen, like two nights in a row. I, like, went downstairs for a little bit, ate something, just kind of like changed my location, changed the way I was sitting and stuff, and it went away. I went back upstairs, was fine, able to fall asleep, but for whatever reason, night before last, nothing I did could make that go away. And so from like 1:30 in the morning till a little after 8, just had that sensation. So I think I'm gonna have to call and go in and make sure there's nothing else going on. But I've never. I've never dealt with, like, extreme, Extreme anxiety except for, like, in specific scenarios. You know, some people just have anxiety. The closest I could relate is how people have described, like, panic attacks. This felt like a mini panic attack almost, but, like, I didn't think those lasted for hours, I guess. I don't know. I never really experienced it.

[Bob]

Yes. Mark is raising his hand.

[Mark]

Teacher, teacher, I have your diagnosis. I've looked up online. I've put in all your symptom. You have paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

[Wade]

That sounds like a lot of bad things grouped together like that.

[Mark]

Yes. You don't want to be paroxysmal.

[Wade]

Oh, good.

[Mark]

You don't want to be supraventricular Paroxysmal. Yeah. P A R O X Y S mol Paroxys parc.

[Bob]

Wow. What a word.

[Mark]

The heart's natural pacemaker and Sinoatrial node generates electrical impulses that tell the heart to beat. But in a person with psv,

[Wade]

the

[Mark]

heart steady rhythm undergoes sudden periodic paroxysmal. Oh, that's what disruptions an errant electrical signal from above the ventricle. Super ventricular overrides the sinoatrial nodes normal signal and creates a series of very fast heartbeats. Tachycardia. The vast majority of psvts are not life threatening, although in rare circumstances they can be dangerous. Which is why people who experience repeated bouts of a racing heart should tell their doctor. Practically already done that now, I guess.

[Wade]

So I'm good. I don't need to go in now.

[Bob]

Except for telling your doctor.

[Mark]

Yeah, what web doctor has been told.

[Bob]

Oh, that's true. That's true. Internet, save him. I will also say the pan, the feeling like it's a panic attack thing. It can feel like, oh, I'm panicking. Oh, my heart is racing. But it can actually be an inverse connection. You can have like a physiologically induced feeling of like a panic attack because what's happening to your heart is making your heart race and then that triggers a bunch of other stuff that leads you. So it's not necessarily like, oh, I'm so anxious it's making my heart race. It could literally be like, oh, I'm iron deficient or oh, something else is happening, it's making my heart race that is causing me to have these associated emotional physiological reactions. That feels like a panic attack or feels like anxiety or whatever. It's probably fine. But maybe ask your doctor and get it scanned. Maybe that will help. Maybe that will help you feel less worried about it at least.

[Wade]

I'll go get checked out. There was a particular family event that occurred and then it happened shortly thereafter. So I figured it was probably like subconsciously stress induced, but maybe it's just coincidence. Either way, I should probably get it looked at. But it's been not fun.

[Bob]

They'll tell you you're stupid and take your money. Don't worry about it.

[Mark]

I'll tell you you're stupid and take less money.

[Bob]

I'll tell you you're stupid for free.

[Colin]

Am I in an ad? Can I pay you to tell you you're stupid?

[Wade]

Is this guru and then whatever Mark'

[Bob]

oh, stupid are we?

[Wade]

That's why. That's why I didn't read as much Dungeon Crawler Carl, because last night I was finally tired enough to sleep.

[Bob]

I mean, that's fair, I guess. Whatever. As the literate one of the podcast, I expect more from you.

[Mark]

But it could have been that the book was so exciting. You just couldn't. Your body was just.

[Wade]

I was only going to read the first chapter, and I ended up reading, I think, six. So, like, I did read more than I anticipated because I didn't want to put it down. But sometimes you get, like, especially early, late in a book, it's impossible to stop because, like, just everything. The stakes are always so high. But, like, early on, every now and then, you reach a point in a book where you're like, okay, I really want to know what's next. But I feel like things are only going to escalate, get harder. I've got to stop here, or else I really won't be able to stop. And that's where I was with the book. I was like, okay, this is. I've gotten through the intro tutorial phase. Now whatever happens is probably going to get crazy. Let's stop here.

[Mark]

Dude. Shit gets nuts, especially the later books. Shit just gets nuts and more nuts. And then nuts are. And somehow nuts here.

[Bob]

Yeah, I can tell you that feeling of like, oh, I'm finally through the tutorial phase. You keep having that. And it's one of the things I like about the series is I feel like there's a constant thing of like, okay, now we're through. Like, the prologue. Now we know what's happening. And then you'll read a few chapters and you're like, fucking, no, this is still prologue. There's like, how is it getting crazy? Anyway? Yeah, it's fun. You guys want to play a game?

[Wade]

Sure.

[Bob]

It's easy.

[Mark]

Yeah, I'll play. Easy game.

[Bob]

We've played it before.

[Mark]

Oh, no, wait, no, hold on, hold on.

[Bob]

There's no questions. It's not like that. This is a different kind of easy game.

[Wade]

20 easy. Remember this paragraphs and recite it by memory. Close while singing and rhyming. Oh, God, no.

[Bob]

Not that close.

[Wade]

Oh, okay.

[Bob]

Honestly, I had several titles written down, but I kind of want to call this one the Easy 3000. Do you guys remember when we played the game with the Oxford 3000? The words and the saying, the backwards.

[Mark]

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah.

[Wade]

Say, say. You see? See, that's not. That's just Spanish. Say yes backwards. Yes, backwards.

[Bob]

Say, say. Say adios mios, but backwards,

[Wade]

say yeah. Say yeah.

[Bob]

This is the Easy 3000. How well do you guys remember that game?

[Mark]

Pretty good.

[Bob]

Remember the words that you had to say backwards during that game?

[Mark]

Do we get points if we do?

[Bob]

It was in October, so I'd be really fucking surprised. If you did anyway, don't worry, you pro. You probably don't have to say most of them backwards, because I did come up with a new thing.

[Wade]

Can we say sideways instead of backwards? That doesn't make sense.

[Mark]

Say it sideways. Say it sideways.

[Bob]

Now say a word. Say any word. Sideways, and I'll give you a point.

[Wade]

Yeah, that's it. Any. That's the word. Any. Sideways.

[Mark]

I got it. I got. I got each other.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Bob]

For the listeners. Mark just stood up and physically turned his head sideways.

[Wade]

Ah, damn it.

[Bob]

You know what? That's a point. I said what I said.

[Wade]

Creative genius.

[Bob]

This is kind of like a mix of a bunch of games, because that's all I do is look at what I've already done and try and find ways to rehash that. So it's kind of like the Oxford 3000. If you happen to remember those words. If anything sparks, maybe that will be helpful to you. The game that we're going to play today with this is not dissimilar to a game they used to play.

[Wade]

Friendship.

[Bob]

No.

[Wade]

Okay.

[Mark]

I think it was. I think it was.

[Bob]

Yeah, well. And I'm allowed to lie to you. The game we're going to play today with the words. Yeah, okay. It was. It was. But I'm not gonna tell you whose word it was, so there. You're ruining stuff already.

[Wade]

I'm so sad.

[Colin]

You had told me to tell you.

[Bob]

I did not. I was not.

[Colin]

Not then. Not right at the moment. Okay. I can get higher pitch, too.

[Bob]

Whose line is it anyway? They used to play a thing called direct director. Anyway, they would do a scene, and then one. One of the cast members was a director, and they'd come out and be like, do it French. And this is kind of like that. But if you had to guess a word, there's going to be a word. The person giving the clues is going to be allowed to offer one word at a time as a direction. So it's kind of like hot or colder. But if Mark has a word and Wade starts and Wade is like friendship, Mark can be like science Ier, or French er, or, I don't know, higher. Whatever. You say any word you want if you think it will help.

[Mark]

And we have to say it like that, not more French.

[Bob]

I mean, that's my idea. It's not. I'm not going to like docu points if you get creative with it. But the. The notion is it's like the direction, right? And they're always like, do it more like a noir film or whatever. Like the Idea is for it to be kind of like that. You're supposed to give clues, but they have to be short. And you can't just be like. The word is this. Say this word like, you will get in trouble if you do that. Anyway, every time I explain my game idea lately, the more I say about it, the more I'm like, man, this is a stupid idea. Oh, I shouldn't have committed to this. But it's too late now. I'm going to flip a coin to see who goes first.

[Wade]

Okay? And whoever goes first, they say a word, and the other person has to guide them to the correct word by the friendsher type. Clues. That's it?

[Bob]

Yes. Whoever goes first guesses any word that they want. And the other player has to give them direction, one word, direction at a time to try and basically hot and cold their way toward the correct word. Lady is Wade. Lion is Mark. It doesn't mean anything about who you are. That's just how I decided in the moment.

[Mark]

Editors make me a lion.

[Bob]

Mark's a lion. Lion goes first.

[Colin]

It hurts.

[Mark]

It's painful.

[Colin]

Oh, what are they doing to me? It's too bad.

[Wade]

The bit of the cowardly lion.

[Bob]

So Mark is guessing first. Wade, I'm gonna give you your first word to play with.

[Wade]

Okay?

[Bob]

That's not the piece. I just looked at my paper and saw a bunch of other words and was like, what did I write down? Oh, no, that's a different word.

[Mark]

So I'm not acting any of these, am I?

[Colin]

Or.

[Bob]

No, you're just guessing. You're trying to guess the word, and Wade wants you to guess the word.

[Mark]

So I start with a word, and he'll guide me if you.

[Bob]

If it helps. These are all words from the Oxford 3000 list of words.

[Mark]

That does not help.

[Bob]

There's approximately 3,000 options that it has to be from. But wait. I sent you a chat with your first word. And Mark, when you're ready.

[Mark]

Avalanche.

[Colin]

People.

[Wade]

Er.

[Colin]

Sure.

[Mark]

Stampede.

[Bob]

I like this already. This is gonna be fun for me.

[Wade]

Antonymia.

[Mark]

Standing room only.

[Colin]

What words? You heard me. You heard me.

[Bob]

It's hyphenated. Standing room only.

[Mark]

Yeah, standing room only.

[Wade]

People ear. They give the same clue twice.

[Mark]

Sure.

[Bob]

Do you think it will help? Yeah.

[Wade]

Theater. Individualer.

[Colin]

Bathroom.

[Bob]

Ooh.

[Wade]

Sphincterer.

[Colin]

No.

[Mark]

You sure? You sure about that?

[Colin]

No, Colin, that's wrong. Are you sure? I have no idea what you think.

[Bob]

That's good.

[Colin]

I don't know, man.

[Bob]

Your clue is sphincter ear. Maybe it will help you. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Mark]

Diarrhea Musclier butt. Ah.

[Wade]

Armor arm.

[Colin]

Er, army armier.

[Mark]

Arm.

[Colin]

What are you doing? I don't know, man. I'm panicking.

[Wade]

I. I'm just. I'm going to. I'm gonna find a way to get here.

[Mark]

Bodybuilder.

[Bob]

Oh, interesting. Interesting.

[Mark]

Traits.

[Bob]

Er. It doesn't have to have the ER on it if it doesn't make sense. We could try. That's already not working. I accept that.

[Wade]

Traits.

[Mark]

Ego.

[Wade]

Different.

[Mark]

The sphincter of the ego.

[Wade]

Uh, rewind.

[Mark]

Okay.

[Wade]

Ego. Physicaler.

[Mark]

Mogging.

[Wade]

One second.

[Bob]

Wait, it. Well, actually, I don't know if I have an accurate definition.

[Colin]

All right.

[Wade]

Is that more?

[Colin]

No.

[Bob]

Ah, fuck.

[Mark]

Okay. It's a physical of ego.

[Wade]

Weights, purpose, strength. Opposite weakness.

[Colin]

Oh, my God.

[Mark]

That's.

[Colin]

I knew I'd get us there, buddy.

[Wade]

I got.

[Colin]

I. Listen, Victor. Well, you said bathroom, and I was

[Wade]

like, how do I get from bathroom to our body? It's a muscle. The sphincter's a muscle.

[Colin]

You can have muscle weakness. Can you have sphincter weakness?

[Mark]

You sure can.

[Colin]

Yes, you can have sphincter weakness. That just doesn't.

[Bob]

Doesn't make any sense.

[Colin]

Well, I didn't know how to get there, man.

[Mark]

Get a sphincter surgery.

[Wade]

Sphincter spasms. Listen, we could judge. But I did. I drove the car, parked the directions, and he drove the car there.

[Bob]

If. If sitting in the back seat while the accelerator is stuck to the floor and just ending. Ending up accidentally crashing into the correct answ counts as driving the car. You drove it there, baby.

[Wade]

I did. I'm gonna be so much worse at the other side of this.

[Mark]

Have you ever seen that video, the Rally Car Driver, where the assistant's like, you have to listen to my calls.

[Colin]

Left.

[Mark]

Left.

[Colin]

Sooner. Turn left. Left, right, turn right.

[Mark]

It's very funny.

[Wade]

I have not.

[Mark]

I don't know which one's which here in that one, but that's what it felt like.

[Bob]

Well, Mark, now, wait. It's your turn to guess. And, Mark, I'm gonna send you a word.

[Mark]

Mm.

[Bob]

I'm ready on your guess, Wade.

[Narrator/Intro Voice]

Apple.

[Mark]

Les Schmeagle.

[Wade]

Apple.

[Bob]

The word is apple. Like Patrick Warburton. How did you get that?

[Colin]

That's so specific.

[Wade]

All right, let's.

[Mark]

Let's.

[Wade]

Smeagol Mountain.

[Mark]

I see how this is gonna be difficult. All right, okay. Opposite Valley. Good, good. Okay. I'm gonna talk to you like a director.

[Bob]

Oh, yeah? You know how to do that? Where's your hat? Does your hat help?

[Mark]

Hat.

[Colin]

Hat.

[Wade]

Damn. Not that hat.

[Mark]

So we're at Valley, right? Okay, lower crust. More ethereal.

[Wade]

I'm gonna look up ethereal.

[Bob]

So it's just Wade endlessly Googling everything Mark says.

[Wade]

I didn't know mog. Moga.

[Bob]

Whatever you said before mogging, we've talked about mogging.

[Wade]

Lower than the valley. More ethereal.

[Mark]

Or esoteric might be a better word for you. More esoteric.

[Bob]

Now, Wade's a philosophy major. He knows what, esoteric.

[Wade]

I know esoteric. Of course I know esoteric.

[Mark]

Tunnels, back up a step.

[Wade]

Valley, crust. Valley, crust. Back up another step. Mountain. Oh, wait. Valley.

[Colin]

Yes.

[Mark]

Yes, sir. All right, Yin and Yang. I don't like that word.

[Wade]

Forest.

[Mark]

Okay, back up a step.

[Wade]

Valley.

[Mark]

One, earth.

[Wade]

Mountain.

[Bob]

Forward.

[Wade]

Crust.

[Colin]

No, valley.

[Wade]

Mountain. Valley. Crust. Valley. Valley. Stay. Valley.

[Mark]

Now, back up. Back.

[Wade]

Just. Just.

[Mark]

Just listen to me. I'm your director. Just listen to me. Listen to me.

[Wade]

Don't listen to the rules.

[Mark]

Listen. Back.

[Wade]

Valley.

[Colin]

For the listeners. I just scooted away from his microphone.

[Bob]

Guess Mark told him to back up.

[Wade]

I got you, boss.

[Colin]

Trust. Trust. Trust.

[Mark]

Trust. Trust. Trust her. Trust her. Back.

[Wade]

Valley. Back. Back up. Up. Valley. Back up. Mount. Not Mountain. So back up.

[Colin]

What? What do you mean? What do you mean, not? I think he wants you to say mountain, buddy. I did. He said no before. Mountain. Mountain.

[Mark]

You said valley. And I said good. Go back. Just, please.

[Wade]

Mountain.

[Colin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mark]

All right. Forward.

[Wade]

Valley.

[Mark]

Yes.

[Wade]

Okay. Back up Mountain. Go down valley.

[Mark]

Good. Now, yin and yang.

[Bob]

Mark, I see exactly what you're getting at. And I can tell you, I think we both know that's not gonna work here.

[Colin]

Come on, it's my best chance.

[Mark]

He can do it. He can do this.

[Bob]

I'll give Mark. I'll give Mark an assist because I'm talking so much. Anyway, he's having you go backward and then forward.

[Wade]

Yeah, I see that. The mountain, the valley. The mountain, the valley. They're yin and yang. They go together.

[Bob]

Conceptualize it. Go from mountain to valley, from mountain to valley. Conceptualize it.

[Wade]

Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out if it's an area in between, if it's the concept of the hole. Hole. The yin and yang, they come together to form a whole. A whole circle. Our brains work very differently. I'm sorry.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. All right, let's. More differentially.

[Wade]

To her horror.

[Bob]

Oh, I believe in you. Weird.

[Wade]

Mountain. Valley. Mountain, Valley. Yin and Yang. Altitude.

[Mark]

All right, let's shake it up. More

[Wade]

neg.

[Mark]

No, not.

[Bob]

Oh, no, he's already hitting you with the you.

[Colin]

I got you.

[Mark]

I got you. I got you. I got you.

[Colin]

I got you.

[Wade]

I'm scared.

[Mark]

Try something different.

[Colin]

Any.

[Mark]

Anything. Er. Any. Anything. Er.

[Wade]

Darkness. Love it.

[Mark]

Beautiful. That's great.

[Wade]

Is that my clue?

[Mark]

No, I'm complimenting you. This is not your clue.

[Wade]

Oh, thank you.

[Mark]

Such a good choice. That's a great choice.

[Bob]

He's not patronizing you. It's a good choice. It's just how Mark is.

[Wade]

Okay.

[Bob]

Luminen.

[Wade]

Gray.

[Bob]

Good, good.

[Mark]

This is good. I don't know how I'm gonna get there. We're gonna get there. We gotta believe there's genius in that, Gray. There's genius.

[Wade]

Not easy being on either side of this. I'm learning.

[Mark]

Pot of gold.

[Bob]

Er.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Bob]

Yeah. Huh?

[Mark]

I'm trying to think, like, wait here.

[Wade]

Supernatural

[Mark]

afterlife. Er. Ghost.

[Colin]

Let's back up. Let's back up.

[Wade]

Mountain.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Okay, good.

[Bob]

All right.

[Colin]

Now go forward.

[Wade]

Gray.

[Mark]

Fuck.

[Colin]

Whoa, whoa.

[Mark]

I got you on the wrong track.

[Wade]

Let's just.

[Mark]

Let's go back to what we were doing before, okay? I swear we can get there.

[Wade]

Okay. How far back am I going? Mountain or like mountain?

[Mark]

Just mountain.

[Wade]

Mountain. Valley.

[Mark]

Right. Okay.

[Wade]

All right.

[Mark]

So I want to explain so badly, but I won't because I would betray it.

[Bob]

Lower.

[Wade]

Hell.

[Mark]

Good, good. Very yin Yang. Very yin yang. Love that Lower devil. Okay, you're getting it, right? You're getting it. You're getting it. Bottomer.

[Wade]

Cavern. Cavern.

[Mark]

Feel it. I want you to feel that. Feel that.

[Wade]

Orchard.

[Bob]

No. Oh, no.

[Mark]

Oh, God. Okay.

[Wade]

Lower than hell.

[Bob]

Bottom.

[Mark]

Great, great, great, great.

[Bob]

Staying right there.

[Mark]

But mixing it up.

[Colin]

Er. Rock bottom.

[Mark]

Mix it up. Yeah.

[Wade]

Oh, man. Base.

[Mark]

Conceptualizer.

[Bob]

No, don't give up. You're right there.

[Mark]

You're right there. You're right there.

[Wade]

You're Dickelin.

[Bob]

I believe in you.

[Wade]

Hell.

[Mark]

Bottom.

[Wade]

Bottom of hell. Base. Every word I'm thinking of takes us further away. Creation.

[Colin]

Wait.

[Mark]

Yes. Architecture.

[Wade]

Architecture.

[Mark]

Yeah, Architecture.

[Wade]

God. Building.

[Mark]

A rerur.

[Wade]

Are we naming specific buildings in hell? Because I don't know the answer to that.

[Colin]

Get out of hell.

[Mark]

Oh, get the fuck out of hell.

[Wade]

Okay. I'm leaving hell. Leaving hell.

[Bob]

Base.

[Wade]

Foundation.

[Mark]

Foundation's good. I like that. Foundation's good. Okay. All right. Houseier.

[Bob]

Basement.

[Mark]

Description.

[Wade]

Ear to story. With a pool and a nice fence.

[Mark]

Good, but succinctier.

[Wade]

Suburban.

[Mark]

Trendier. Trends.

[Wade]

Here.

[Mark]

Stook.

[Wade]

Stucco.

[Colin]

Taco.

[Wade]

Stucco.

[Bob]

Wade's not exactly up on his architecture trends, I guess.

[Wade]

Frank Lloyd Wright.

[Mark]

Oh, well, that's okay. Okay.

[Wade]

Frank Lloyd Wright.

[Mark]

I'll take that.

[Colin]

Opposite. Opposite.

[Wade]

Skyscraper.

[Mark]

No. No, no, no.

[Bob]

Frank Lloyd Wright got a lot of cantilevered, whatcha call it and doohickeys and it's got many, many details and things.

[Wade]

Modern.

[Bob]

Okay.

[Mark]

Yes, yes. Oh my God. Continue.

[Wade]

Er, future.

[Mark]

Morer. Or not morer, but you know, continue

[Wade]

Yer again or what's the term for like the simple empty bullshit? I don't know why it's so funny.

[Colin]

What is the term for the. Oh man, it's right there. Oh man, I don't know, she's blacked out a little bit.

[Wade]

Minimalist.

[Colin]

Ok, okay. This is great. It's great. I mean minimal, I would love that.

[Wade]

But minimalism. Oh, I'm really good at this.

[Mark]

Abstractor.

[Wade]

Abstractor.

[Mark]

Oh no.

[Bob]

Oh no.

[Wade]

Hold on, hold on. I'm feeling you. Mountain. No, hold on. Abstractor. Than minimalism.

[Mark]

Less conjugation.

[Wade]

Mini.

[Mark]

What'd you say?

[Wade]

Mini. Miniature men. Miniature. Mini. Minimal. Minimize. Minimize. Minimizing. Minimalist. Minimum. Minimalizing.

[Colin]

I don't know what you guys want from me. Am I that close? You sure?

[Mark]

Yo.

[Colin]

Oh my God, you have no idea.

[Wade]

Minimum.

[Colin]

Minimum. It's minimum. Minimum.

[Bob]

Minimum. I think the game here is how many of these can you do before you just die?

[Wade]

I would have never gone there. From mountain and valley. Yin and yang. I understand where you're going now, but I don't think I would have ever connected that.

[Mark]

What's that architecture style where it's real plain.

[Colin]

That was so cute. What is that?

[Bob]

What's that word for that?

[Wade]

You know the sad thing is, is whenever you do some architecture, I thought of it. I was like, there's that one where you don't own like anything. It's real simple. I can't think. Well, that's called. Let's move on to a different one. Frank Lloyd Wright.

[Colin]

Oh my God.

[Mark]

Oh man.

[Wade]

I just couldn't think of the word for it.

[Mark]

That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. I was really? Yeah, because I was like, okay, mountain opposite valley. All right, let's start down feeling this positive negative thing.

[Wade]

Good job, buddy. You did good. You got me there. It's an easy game. Probably is if our brains work the same.

[Bob]

That's why it's the easy 3,000, man. All you have to do.

[Wade]

All right, I'll get him to the next one. I'll get him on the next one.

[Bob]

Oh yeah, Mark, you have to start it. That's right.

[Wade]

I also need to look at the word.

[Bob]

Okay. Any words you want, buddy.

[Mark]

Does he have it?

[Wade]

I got it.

[Mark]

Pillow.

[Bob]

I see one path here. That is so Easy. Please don't fumble this.

[Wade]

I will. I will fumble this. But like, in a way that I think is great.

[Bob]

Okay, good.

[Mark]

More face.

[Bob]

Did I send you the right word? Hang on.

[Colin]

He did.

[Wade]

Just trust me. Trust me.

[Bob]

I don't trust you. Continue.

[Mark]

Face pillow.

[Wade]

I don't want to give it away too much. Like, I feel like there's a word I could say that would really give it away.

[Bob]

You're allowed to succeed quickly. It doesn't have to be painful. The joke is not that it has to be painful, it's that it is painful. Sometimes it's allowed to be as easy as it seems. That's okay.

[Wade]

Oh, edibleer.

[Colin]

Huh?

[Wade]

Edibleer.

[Bob]

I mean, fine.

[Wade]

Marshmallow healthier. Macron healthier.

[Mark]

More yogurt.

[Wade]

More organic.

[Mark]

Organic yogurt.

[Wade]

More natural milk. More vegetation.

[Bob]

Do you know words?

[Wade]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Man Cotton or edible carrot.

[Bob]

Oh, okay.

[Wade]

Sweeter.

[Colin]

Rhubarb.

[Wade]

More tree.

[Colin]

Fruit.

[Wade]

More exact.

[Mark]

Apple.

[Wade]

Boom. What a great run.

[Bob]

More face. More face.

[Colin]

This pillow you lay on the back of your head. You need to get to the face and then.

[Wade]

Then what goes in it? I can't help the way my brain works.

[Bob]

Wait, the word that you wanted for a thing that was edible, sweeter and more vegetation is called fruit. Word is fruit. You have gone pillow fruitier. He might have just said apple. Cuz the top three fruit you guess is like apple, banana and strawberry.

[Mark]

That's like cheating. And we don't want that.

[Wade]

I guess that's fair. I just thought. I thought fruit was just too big of a jump from pillow.

[Bob]

See, this is the thing though. I'm like, it can be easier. And Wade says can it though?

[Wade]

Yeah, I guess. Okay. I guess in my brain, like I'm trying to play off the word he used to like get there rather than just like fuck. Whatever you said, it's a fruit like that. I don't know. That felt. I felt like I had to guide him from pillow more than just.

[Mark]

And I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I do.

[Bob]

I mean, you can do that.

[Wade]

Okay, well, we've been playing wrong. I think at least I have.

[Bob]

Well, look, that's. This is the glory of these games that I make you guys play and don't ever let force myself to participate in. You can play it however you want.

[Wade]

Oh, just wait. Mark and I will remember one day and we'll make you play.

[Bob]

God, I doubt it.

[Wade]

You're probably right. But we'll think about remembering.

[Bob]

Wait. Guess a word.

[Wade]

Oh, okay. Mark, you ready? Yeah. Car aliver. Giraffe.

[Mark]

Shorter. Corgi Bigger. Sheep, bigger. Buffalo, smaller.

[Wade]

German Shepherd.

[Mark]

Actually, I retract my smaller for some reason. I thought of a rhino when you said buffalo.

[Wade]

Buffalo are pretty big. I don't know. I don't know how they compare size wise.

[Mark]

More aggressive. I'm thinking of buffalo.

[Wade]

Hippo.

[Mark]

More aggressive. Lion. American ear.

[Bob]

Bear.

[Colin]

Oh, bear.

[Mark]

I knew. I could tell you were stuck in Africa. I could tell you were just like in this. In the savannah.

[Wade]

Just except for sheep and corgi.

[Colin]

Yeah, that's true.

[Wade]

But if it's bigger than that, it's in Africa.

[Bob]

I did intend to do another round, but I. I don't know.

[Wade]

Oh, we're so quick now we're on a roll.

[Bob]

Yeah, well, I sort of. I didn't realize the one would be the longest round and then everything else would be so easy.

[Wade]

It turns out getting me to minimal was a problem. Minimum. Fuck.

[Bob]

Are you guys up for one more? Do you have the energy to do us another round?

[Mark]

I can do another round.

[Bob]

Wade, I am sending you your word now. You get to be on this side of one of these. No, no, don't have fun.

[Wade]

Cloud.

[Mark]

More man made smog.

[Wade]

More technological.

[Mark]

Power plant.

[Wade]

More personal home Generator. More entertainment.

[Mark]

Tv.

[Wade]

More screen.

[Mark]

Theater.

[Wade]

More resolution.

[Mark]

VR.

[Wade]

More ratio.

[Mark]

More.

[Bob]

More ratio.

[Colin]

Is that what you said? You sure? I did. I did.

[Mark]

Okay.

[Bob]

All right.

[Wade]

Camera. More.

[Mark]

Viewing window.

[Wade]

More display.

[Mark]

Monitor.

[Wade]

More options.

[Mark]

Microscope.

[Bob]

That was more than one word.

[Mark]

More monitor.

[Bob]

I want so desperately to help you, Wade. I could see. I could see it.

[Mark]

Display.

[Wade]

More specific.

[Mark]

LG 4K.

[Bob]

OLED.

[Mark]

Display. Monitor.

[Wade]

More 4K.

[Colin]

8K.

[Wade]

More specific. More options. I'm trying to think of words I've not used. I think I used both of those.

[Colin]

Inax.

[Mark]

More.

[Wade]

Changing

[Mark]

2, 3, 5. Widescreen.

[Colin]

More. What the fuck? What do you mean more? More.

[Mark]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Bob]

All right.

[Mark]

Every. Every film and display term. I know. I'm just gonna start rattling them off.

[Bob]

Okay.

[Mark]

Viewfinder.

[Wade]

Did I say the same thing twice, Bob?

[Bob]

Yeah. Give the direction you want, man.

[Wade]

More ratio.

[Mark]

What do you mean more ratio?

[Colin]

The one way how to get here?

[Wade]

I don't know.

[Bob]

Aside from the fact that it's not working, I think that's actually not a bad direction, Wade. And I'm gonna laugh at you either way. But I. I can see the vision.

[Wade]

Our brains just work so different.

[Mark]

Split screen.

[Wade]

More 1080.

[Mark]

High definition.

[Wade]

More colon.

[Bob]

Oh, fuck, that's so. How does that seem? So stupid, but actually makes sense.

[Wade]

I don't know if you know if

[Bob]

you know the answer, but not if you don't.

[Mark]

It's so hard okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm getting it.

[Wade]

It.

[Mark]

I got it.

[Bob]

Uh huh. 16 by 9.

[Wade]

More term.

[Mark]

19. 20 by 10.

[Colin]

80.

[Wade]

Less number.

[Mark]

4 by 3.

[Wade]

More relationship. More.

[Mark]

25. 60 by 14.

[Bob]

40.

[Wade]

All right, we're gonna try this a third time. More ratio.

[Colin]

That'll do it.

[Bob]

Yeah, there you go. Get him right to it, Mark. Use everything that you know about those things you were saying.

[Mark]

Everything I know about those things I was saying.

[Bob]

Especially some of the numbers.

[Mark]

Some of the numbers.

[Bob]

But maybe only the shorter numbers.

[Mark]

Shorter numbers.

[Bob]

Okay.

[Wade]

All right, one to one. More perspective.

[Mark]

That's.

[Bob]

Oh, God, I feel like I have the one that will get him there. Just say what I'm thinking. Say the words I'm thinking quick.

[Wade]

I don't know what word you're thinking. Less specific. Four words.

[Mark]

Is it in the room with me? Is it in my room?

[Wade]

Less crazy.

[Mark]

Is it in my room?

[Wade]

I don't know if this is the kind of game where I can answer those kinds of questions.

[Bob]

You know what, man? Just play. Play the game however you want. I believe in you.

[Wade]

I feel like I'm leading him in the wrong. Rewind.

[Mark]

All right, rewinding one to one.

[Wade]

More general.

[Mark]

Square.

[Wade]

Different term.

[Mark]

Aspect. Ratio.

[Wade]

First word.

[Mark]

Aspect.

[Wade]

Aspect.

[Bob]

Yeah, it's aspect.

[Wade]

I've been trying to get you to aspect from ratio for a long time.

[Mark]

More ratio. More specific.

[Colin]

More numbers. I thought that was a good clue. You were giving me ratios. I just couldn't get you to tell me that they were ratios. Wait, you said more ratios. Oh, I gave you more ratios. I know. How else do I tell you? What's the term to get you just to tell me the term?

[Mark]

More ratios.

[Wade]

Bob, what was the word you had

[Bob]

in mind when he was like 16 by 9, 4 by 3, 1 to 1? I would have been like the more word. And he might have said square, but that was where you had to work from. Take him directly from the aspect ratios he's listing because you kept pushing him to be like more ratios. And then he kept going from aspect ratios to resolutions.

[Wade]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to stop you there. I said more ratio. There was never a plural.

[Bob]

Whatever, whatever. Once he got away from the ratios, then you were like, describe it. And he was like, like the shapes, the. The resolute. You needed to catch him on the ratios and then be like that. But words.

[Wade]

Aspect is just such a hard word to get someone to.

[Mark]

That. That is a tough one. Yeah, that. I can see why that's tough.

[Wade]

Whenever you were listing off like all the aspect ratios. I was like, we just need to get from specific to general.

[Mark]

I get it. I get it. I see. I see.

[Bob]

Yeah.

[Wade]

I don't. That's. That was tough.

[Mark]

That was tough.

[Bob]

I was sort of forget. To keep in mind that I design these games to be fun for me because that's my main motivation. But I don't want you guys to kill each other. And I feel like I'm creating attention.

[Wade]

I don't feel any kind of tension. I more so feel like I'm failing to describe accurately. I'm like, we're right there. I just don't know how to. I don't know how to slide him sideways. I bet. Listen, we. Mark and I have been on both sides of this. We understand the hard parts of describing and guessing.

[Mark]

Okay. He's given me my word.

[Wade]

Oh, okay.

[Mark]

I think we can get this.

[Wade]

All right. Pizza.

[Mark]

More location.

[Wade]

Restaurant.

[Mark]

More vague.

[Wade]

City.

[Mark]

More vague.

[Wade]

I wish that my brain was functional so I could think of the term I'm trying to think of. I'm just gonna say country. That's not what I'm hoping to go for.

[Mark]

More vague.

[Wade]

Land.

[Mark]

Care less place. Care less there.

[Wade]

Care less somewhere.

[Mark]

More options.

[Wade]

Someplace.

[Mark]

More options.

[Wade]

Wherever.

[Colin]

Holy, man. Oh, my God.

[Wade]

I don't know how, but like that I was with you. I don't know.

[Colin]

I don't know.

[Bob]

You guys just locked in so hard on that one.

[Colin]

That was great. That was great.

[Bob]

I think Mark has had to give clues about 10% as much of the time as he has had to be guessing. You got bear and wherever so fast.

[Mark]

I was just saying I think you gave us an easy one with bear and apple. But, you know, minimum and wherever are such other concepts.

[Wade]

What were the ones I had?

[Mark]

I've had.

[Bob]

You had weakness, apple and aspect. Sphincter.

[Wade]

Weakness, weakness and aspect. Those are tough to get to.

[Mark]

Those are tough. Yeah.

[Bob]

Mark had minimum and wherever, which I feel like I thought would be comparably tough, to be honest.

[Wade]

I don't know how we got to wherever. I just didn't. I ran out of terms. I was like, what else?

[Bob]

See, that was a strategy I thought was going to happen a lot more. Mark got you headed with some momentum and then he was just like, care less. Even less. Less carry. And that like drove you so far in the right direction that he got you. It just made a lot of progress really quickly.

[Wade]

I can't deny I was. I was out there and I was like, I can't care too much more. He told me to care less. And I'm not gonna lie. You both lighting up at somewhere had me thinking some or where we're part of the word.

[Mark]

It was amazing. It was.

[Wade]

You guys look like the sloth in that one was Zootopia. Where he was like slowly smiling.

[Bob]

I hope other people than me enjoy that. But I love. That was a good time.

[Wade]

Oh, I'm sure they. I'm sure they will.

[Bob]

Wade, you earned points for what happened. Tossing out a short joke, which we'll see if that comes back to bite you. See if your body can take it. About Mark not taking care of himself when he probably almost died from a fever. You're a wiener man sphincter. Er. You got a point for weakness, apple and aspect. But you also got points during the gameplay for. Oh, what's that architecture style where you're. There's nothing. And it's.

[Colin]

I was like, what are the odds?

[Wade]

That's the word. I just can't think of it.

[Bob]

And also you got points for more face, more ratio, which gives you a total of 10 points. But one of those is a short point. So we'll see what happens with that. Mark, you earn points for super syringe cooking yourself in the heat wave. You survived. Just impressive. You're an illiterate loser. Because Wade and I both read books. You said a word sideways, which I didn't think was possible. You also got points for minimum bear and wherever. And I gave you point for. Let's go back a step. Take it back a step forward.

[Mark]

Good, good, good.

[Bob]

That gives Mark a total of nine points off the rip. Which I gotta be honest, I felt like I was giving Mark more points. But I think it was just more painful to give Wade points because most of his were from.

[Wade]

Thank you.

[Bob]

I was laughing. I was laughing so much that it hurt. And also my brain hurt. Anyway, let's see how many bonus spins we have today.

[Wade]

I always get to feel so good about my success on this show.

[Bob]

Two spinnerinos. Well, that couldn't possibly be bad for me.

[Mark]

Couldn't be. No way.

[Bob]

I am going to add coolest illness since last episode.

[Wade]

Who are you going to give it to? Mark's crazy fever or my crazy heart hurt?

[Bob]

It's probably the fever this time. Almost dying is pretty cool.

[Wade]

We'll see if I make it back for next week. Otherwise, I hope I get that point.

[Bob]

Hey, if you actually die, I feel like that point's yours by default for the rest of eternity.

[Mark]

So that makes sense. Too bad, Bob. You can't die. You're immortal.

[Bob]

I know. I put a Point on the board I'll never get. Unbelievable spin number one of two and the words are so small I can't really tell what it's gonna be.

[Wade]

Well, to live.

[Bob]

I mean, I can't tell if Mark surviving a very serious illness is a demonstration of his will to live or the fact that you did not seek out any medical attention or even take your temperature when you were thought you had a severe fever is a demonstration of your lack of will to live.

[Mark]

I would have.

[Wade]

I would have really feel like we're just writing off my heart issues here, but yeah, that's fair.

[Bob]

I don't think there's a question of your will to live, though. You clearly you wanted to live, you were concerned about living. If Mark's thing was a demonstration of his will to live, I think he survived a potentially more serious situation and had more will to live.

[Wade]

I don't know.

[Bob]

That feels like a stretch. If that's too close, we can spin again.

[Wade]

But I feel like you're the judge.

[Bob]

My heart wants to give it to Mark because I'm heavily biased towards him.

[Wade]

Hey, is that an insult to me because you said your heart?

[Bob]

Yeah, take that.

[Wade]

Okay. I mean, that just ties us up. So honestly, that makes it worse for you in the long run. I'll take it.

[Bob]

Nothing bad can happen. There's still another spin. Someone has to get a point. It certainly won't be me or the listeners or viewers. Amy has a point potentially on here or something.

[Wade]

What about minus 7% to one man show?

[Bob]

Let's not do that. Oh, oh.

[Wade]

None of us lied though.

[Bob]

A short joke point is not a lie point, is it?

[Wade]

No, it's a separate thing.

[Bob]

Is this. It's a re spin or no point.

[Wade]

Well, usually it's the judge's choice, but

[Bob]

I know which one I would prefer it to be. I can tell you that.

[Wade]

Oh, Mark, hold on. Yeah, Mark, we want to talk about this so we could.

[Bob]

It's only a 23 chance of a one man show right now.

[Mark]

That's not that huge.

[Bob]

Yeah, it's only basically a 1 in 4 almost.

[Wade]

I mean, I would 100 respin if it were me.

[Bob]

I'm gonna respin. Yeah. I don't know why I was leaving my faith up to you guys. I don't want to do that.

[Colin]

It's the one.

[Wade]

I think it's probably Mark today, isn't it?

[Bob]

Oh, wait, yeah. Actually, yeah.

[Mark]

I think it's already a gimme actually.

[Bob]

Yeah, you. You do kind of just blend into your.

[Wade]

Oh, but wait. Distractible poster.

[Mark]

Oh, but by quantity, I think. I think. I think I've got this.

[Bob]

Yeah, I think Mark has that. Actually, I don't think we.

[Mark]

Oh, those are, like, tonally identical. Those are tonally identical.

[Wade]

Yeah, it's definitely.

[Bob]

Okay, well point to Mark, which means Mark wins.

[Colin]

Yay.

[Bob]

Come the. Come from behind. Victory.

[Wade]

He deserves it.

[Mark]

Oh, I didn't even see you pull.

[Bob]

Hold up the coin. I didn't recognize any of us saying that word. We're not supposed to say unless we mean it during this episode, but I'm sure it happened.

[Wade]

You should have made it one of the words we have to get to. That'd been really funny.

[Mark]

Oh, that's a good idea.

[Bob]

Is way funnier than anything I put in my game. I'll forget to do that when we do Oxford 3002. Anyway, congratulations. But, Mark, Wade, would you like to give your loser speech?

[Wade]

I want to say aspect and weakness. Very difficult words. But, you know, Mark and I got there minimum. And whatever the other words are. I had to get to with Mark bear. And then that third one. Tough. But we did it. We did it wherever. And I just. I'm proud of us for succeeding in a very difficult challenge with some really difficult words that have at least two syllables. So I leave today with my head held. Hung my. I'm hung and high.

[Mark]

You sure are, man. You sure are.

[Bob]

Oh, I meant to throw this in before Mark, before your winner speech, your glorious winter speech. I did want to give the context of. Those were all words from the original Oxford 3000 video, but I switched whose words were whomst. I think all the words that I had Mark guessing, guessing Wade previously had to guess, and vice versa. So those were all words we had previously dealt with.

[Wade]

Not a single one of those came back to mind at all as I saw them.

[Bob]

Yeah, well, I. I thought on the long shot that one of you could remember. Free point for you, because you deserve it, Mark. Winner's speech.

[Mark]

I am very happy to claim this win more for myself and less for my opponent, because I, as the winner, I naturally would be happy for myself. And honestly, that's the natural order of things. As you can see, I read a lot of books and I know a lot of words, and I use them sparingly, which is a word I read in a book. Thank you for the win.

[Bob]

Congratulations to Mark. You will thusly be Hosting the next one. 1. Make sure you check out Distractible Shop. There might be merch there. There's probably merch there. Make sure you check out Wade at Lordminion7.077 or Minion777 Marcus Markiplier I am My Skirm. Follow the show and remember it's one episode a week on Monday for a little bit here because Mark's gonna have a nice honeymoon and Wade and I are gonna sleep more or whatever we have going on. Till next time. Thanks so much for watching. That's the end of the episode. Look forward to Mark's episode the Next One Podcast out.

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