The Oxford 3000

Summary

Distractible Podcast: "The Oxford 3000" (October 20, 2025)

Overview

In this episode, the Distractible crew—Mark Fischbach (Markiplier), Wade Barnes, and Bob Muyskens—dive into language, friendship, and brain teasers with a custom game built around the Oxford 3000: the 3,000 most essential English words. Between the competitive mayhem, the guys share hilarious and heartfelt stories from their lives, including awkward wedding anecdotes, medical mishaps, and the hazards of aging. The main event is a wordplay challenge involving spelling and guessing words backwards, followed by a "hotter or colder" guessing game. As ever, the banter is sharp, silly, and deeply relatable.

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Episode Highlights & Key Discussion Points

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The Usual Banter: Status Updates and Life Stories

[03:36–04:44] - Above Average Podcasting

• The hosts playfully bicker over whether they are the "most above average" or the "least outstanding" podcast.
• Set up of the episode: Bob is today's host after winning last week; Mark and Wade will compete for points.

[04:47–06:39] - "And Friends": Convention Chaos

• Wade recalls being mistaken for a camera crew instead of a panelist at a PAX convention, denied access to the stage with Mark.
  • Wade [06:25]: “We’re the ‘and friends’ of the panel.”

[08:22–11:22] - Mark’s Big Personal News

• Mark announces he is now officially married and explains the story behind his engagement ring and how they accidentally hard-launched their marriage.
  • Mark [08:22]: “I’m married now, so I’m a husband like that.”
• Explains that wedding details will come in a separate video with Amy.

[11:44–12:15] - The Window 10 Demise & Social Media Victories

• Mark’s mom’s Instagram post about him surpassed his own social media in popularity.
• Windows 10 reaches end-of-support; joke exchange about computers exploding.

[12:19–13:04] - Wade & Keeping Secrets

• Wade jokes about almost leaking Mark’s wedding but managed to hold off for once.
  • Wade [12:59]: “I could have had the post leaking all the information. It could have been me.”

[13:41–15:20] - Dermatology, Bandages, and Molly’s Help

• Wade describes getting a troublesome mole removed and the awkwardness of Molly tending to his bandaged neck for weeks.

[18:01–19:39] - Bandage Science and Goopy Experiments

• Mark proposes a new type of gelatinous wound covering.
• Recalls his own experience healing burned hands and muses on the balance between sterility and airflow in wound healing.

[19:40–22:20] - The Pig Bladder Finger Tale

• The hosts realize they’ve discussed the myth of pig bladders helping fingers regrow before.
• Mark [22:12]: “The fact that I have zero recollection of this conversation and it’s so horrific and apparently there’s evidence...”

[22:32–23:35] - The Repetitive Nature of Adult Storytelling

• Discussion about how as friends age, they end up telling the same stories every time they meet.

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Falling Down, Getting Older, and Cuddling Trash

[23:41–26:30] - Couple Camouflage & Clumsy Aging

• Wade and Molly accidentally wore the same Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt.
• Both had recent mishaps falling down stairs.

[24:27–25:54] - Molly’s “Garbage Pillow” Fall

• Molly fell in the garage; Wade’s rescue was peppered with concern and post-incident humor.
  • Wade [25:01]: “I opened the garage door and Molly is just sprawled out on the garage floor laying on top of a bag of garbage, like it’s a pillow.”

[25:54–29:42] - The Ethics of Documenting Everything

• The group debates if people should film every moment, even distressing ones, with Mark reflecting on cultural differences around recording life events.

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The Oxford 3000 Games Begin

Game 1: Say It Backwards

[29:44–35:35] - The Setup

• Bob introduces the Oxford 3000, a set of essential English words.
• Players must say a word backwards for the other to guess. Points go to the clue-giver for a successful guess.

Memorable Exchanges

• Mark [32:18]: “Mominim.” (Minimum, backwards)
• Wade [32:22]: “Mumminym.”
• Instantly correct guesses for simple words, but confusion arises with longer ones like “friendship” and “psychologist.”

[36:07–38:40] - The Difficulty Escalates

• Longer words and unfamiliarities create chaotic phonetic messes.
  • Mark and Wade’s repeated struggles and near misses become a running joke.

[42:06–45:14] - Greatest Hits: “Meanwhile” Meltdown

• The word "meanwhile" causes a meltdown.
  • Mark [44:39]: “There’s no way. There’s no way. That’s—meanwhile.”
  • Wade’s backwards pronunciation ("elihuanaim") leaves Mark baffled.

[54:02–55:13] - "Psychologist" in Reverse

• Mark attempts “psychologist” backwards with exaggerated theatricality.
  • Wade: “Why are you like, French Dracula?”

Game Commentary

• The challenge reveals different guessing strategies—Mark focusing on phonetics, Wade on individual letters and structure.

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Game 2: "Hotter or Colder" Word Deduction

[55:34–61:18] - How It Works

• Wade receives a secret word, Mark guesses, and Wade says if guesses are “hotter” (closer in meaning) or “colder.”
• The process quickly devolves into confusion as Mark guesses words by sound similarity, while Wade clues based on semantic connections.

Play Highlights

• The chain: “Banana → Tree (warmer) → Dirt (colder) → Terror (warmer) → Tarantula (warmer) → … → Bear.”

  • Mark: “How does fuck play into all this?”

• Mark finally lands on the secret word, “bear”, after a meandering logic path involving bananas, trauma, and animals.

[62:24–65:50] - Wade’s Turn: Male Archetypes

• Wade gets “male” as the word; Mark lasers in: “People → Person → Adult → Man → Beard → Mustache → Male.”
  • Mark: “How can I keep getting warmer at this point without getting warmer?”

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Scoring, Wheel Spins, and Winner’s Speech

[66:36–69:08] - Results

• Bob tallies up the points live, giving credit for wordplay, storytelling, and even excellent word choices (“adhesed”).
• Final Score: Mark wins 12–10.

Memorable Winner’s Speech

• Mark [68:48]: “What a fucking day. My fucking vocabulary is fucking enormous, just like the rest of me except my height. Fuck that. And I hate that fucking son of a bitch up there that made me short, but I fucking won, so I’ll fucking take it.”

Wade’s Consolation

• Wade [69:10]: “I liked saying things backwards more than I liked trying to think what Mark was trying to say backwards. Overall, a good time. That’s a fun game. And it’s a hell of a brain teaser…”

[69:56] - Credit to Mandy

• The Oxford 3000 game originated from Mandy’s suggestion, with the hosts thanking her.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Mark [08:22]: “I’m married now, so I’m a husband like that.”
• Mark [19:49]: “It’s not Resident Evil, dude. You can’t just goop my hands.”
• Wade [24:48]: “Molly is just sprawled out on the garage floor laying on top of a bag of garbage, like it’s a pillow.”
• Bob [45:02]: “Meanwhile. You're right.”
• Wade [42:45]: “Where’d the hua go? ... It's gone.”
• Mark [68:48]: “My fucking vocabulary is fucking enormous, just like the rest of me except my height. Fuck that.”

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 03:36–08:00: Opening banter, podcast meta-jokes, and convention stories.
• 08:22–11:22: Mark’s marriage and internet speculation.
• 13:41–15:20: Wade’s medical updates (neck mole).
• 19:40–22:20: Pig bladder finger regrowth debate.
• 24:27–25:54: Molly’s “garbage pillow” incident.
• 29:44–54:02: Oxford 3000 backwards word game (multiple rounds).
• 55:34–65:50: Hotter or colder guessing game (bear/male).
• 66:36–69:08: Wheel spins, scoring, and winner’s speeches.

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Tone & Takeaway

Distractible is in full force here, blending gleeful chaos with genuine affection. Whether unraveling linguistic knots or reflecting on shared aging and friendship, the trio consistently delivers a mix of sharp wit, playful roasting, and oddball insight. The Oxford 3000 challenge is a brain-melting highlight, further proof that in the Distractible universe, brilliance and absurdity are never far apart.

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[C]

Hello and welcome back to the world's most average podcast man. That's down. Way to start. I feel better about us than that. Let's be honest. We're not the best, but we're pretty good. We're better than average. Huh?

[B]

We can be the most above average. Oh, someone's got to be number one. Most above average.

[C]

That's definitely where we would fall. We are the most above average.

[A]

Least outstanding. That doesn't sound good.

[C]

Least underwhelming podcast.

[B]

Most in standing. That's good.

[C]

You can guarantee at least a solid whelm from an episode of this show. And this show is called Distractible if you've never seen it before. I'm hosting today because I won the last episode and my two friends who are here with me are going to be competing to see who gets to host the next one. I'm going to give out points. The points are calculated very scientifically and not at all a bunch of random bullshit. There's also wheel SP spins, there's a coin situation which I'm sure will play a big part in today's episode or we'll forget about completely. But anyway, now that you understand the rules and all their explicit and wonderful details, let's say hello to Mark and Wade, today's competitors. Mark, you go first.

[B]

Okay. Hello, my name is mark of the YouTube channel Markiplier. Yes, that Markiplier. The merch is sold out. It's all gone again. So don't even bother looking. You are too late. If you're just listening to this and you don't get to the end of the episode. You always tune up beforehand. There was merch. It's gone now. So sorry about that.

[C]

You got to really want that stuff.

[B]

You got to be there.

[C]

You don't even have to get there on time. You have to already be There if you want merch. Yeah, pretty much. So this works?

[B]

Yep, pretty much.

[C]

And also Wade is here. It means nothing that you're second Wade. You're just as important.

[A]

I wasn't reading into it until you said that. Now I'm thinking about it a little bit. I'm Wade Anne Friends from that hit YouTube channel, Markiplier, you may have heard of. Hit.

[B]

I don't think I've used the and Friends moniker in ages. I think that you're being beautiful.

[A]

Thank you.

[C]

I mean, you did it, but it wasn't really a thing that I felt like you ascribed. It's everyone else.

[A]

No.

[B]

Yeah, it was the. It was the PAX panel people that called it the Mark and Friends.

[A]

The very first panel was just you and me, and it was called Mark and Friends. It was just two of us, and.

[B]

They were like, hey, you count as more than one friend. That has to be a compliment.

[C]

The friend. So nice. You friend did twice.

[A]

You remember one of the Paxes, Bob, where you and I were both there? It wasn't our first time doing a panel. It was like our second or third time, at least on a panel with Mark. And we went to go on stage, and, you know, Mark walked through, and then the two guys, like, immediately, out of nowhere, just stepped and stopped you and I. And they were like, yeah, we don't allow camera crew on stage. And we're like, we're on the panel.

[B]

Did that happen? I don't remember that.

[C]

Yeah, it did. Damn.

[A]

And the enforcers were like, these guys are not following him to the stage. And we were like, we're the and friends of the panel.

[C]

That was a while ago now, but that was pretty funny.

[B]

And I didn't notice.

[C]

Yeah, Mar. Mark is on stage just like, hey, what's up, everybody? We're standing off stage talking to enforcers like, Mark, help.

[B]

Next thing you know, you two are tossed out into a puddle. Oh, man.

[C]

These guys tried to get on stage with markiplier. Had to ban him for life.

[B]

Yeah, ban them from life, more like.

[A]

Oh, Bob, you want to go to Johnny Rockets again?

[B]

I want to go to Johnny Rockets.

[A]

I've not been in a long time.

[C]

When did we go to Johnny Rockets? Wasn't that at the hotel in Omaha when we were putting together the show?

[B]

Johnny Rockets? No, that's a little niner.

[A]

You mean Tulsa.

[C]

Tulsa. Omaha. Tulsa.

[A]

The only Johnny Rockets I remember going to was actually Indianapolis. Wounded Popcorn.

[B]

No, that's a Hard Rock. We were at a Hard Rock hotel.

[C]

No, but remember, we ate breakfast every day at, like, the diner. And then we ate lunch at Country Music Stars Roadhouse.

[A]

You're talking about me, so I probably wasn't awake for breakfast.

[B]

No, you were there. It was like Billy Bob Thornton's Roadhouse, something like that.

[A]

I remember the country place. I remember that one.

[B]

Anyway, it wasn't Johnny Rockets. I know.

[C]

That just reminded me of Johnny Rockets, I guess, because it's a diner. Yeah, Lots of funny stuff has happened.

[A]

Good episode.

[C]

I do have an episode planned out for today, but like I always do, for no real reason, I guess. How you doing? You guys got small talk? How you been? How's it going?

[B]

I do. I do. And if I don't talk about. People are going to explode.

[C]

Oh, I got.

[A]

I got a little bit.

[C]

I think Wade should go first.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Oh, no, no, no. You know, on that note. Mark, go ahead. How could I possibly.

[C]

No, get it out, Mark. You're practically bursting at the seams.

[B]

Yeah. So if you guys have been noticing this ring on my finger, who. Many people have justified the most egregiously random reasons why I would have a ring on this particular finger. I'm married now, so I'm a husband like that.

[A]

I'm married now.

[B]

I. Look, that's just the way I talk. Man 2 I believe her name is Amy. I'm pretty sure. God, I hope that's real. So I got. I gotta talk about the funny thing about this because, you know, I. I haven't been keeping this hidden at all. I gesticulate with my hands, so it's like I've been wearing it. And probably people are confused because I was confused as to why only the girl gets an engagement ring. So I said, amy, that's not very fair. So she got me this soon after I proposed. And then the first time in a video that we both. Or a picture that we were both accidentally had, this was a total accident. But it happened on the same exact day, right? So people, some people thought it was planned. Like, this is very niche. Very few people had noticed, but it was like it was there and it happened exact same day within, like an hour of each other. It was not intentional. It was not like a, ooh, we're so secretive. It was not a sneak peek. We both just happened to mess up on the same day. And it's not even really that big of a mess up. It's just like, oh, well, there it is. You know, instead of like, casually, you know. But anyway, so, yep, that's official, but I'm not going to talk about details of the wedding Here, because I want to save that. Because I'm going to do a video with Amy to talk about that selfish. Oh, yeah, that content's going to be. Oh, I'm going to be milking this. I'm going to be milking this for a long time.

[C]

No, I. Yeah, I do enjoy the theories that were being floated around. What people? Immediately, there were some people who were like, he's got a ring. Is that his left hand? Which hand is that? Is this picture reversed? Wait a minute.

[B]

Which finger?

[A]

Oh, this.

[B]

AI, look at his hands.

[A]

They're all fucked.

[C]

All of the theories and all of the stuff. It was very fun. Good job, Internet.

[B]

But, yes, it is true. I mean, I posted on Instagram if people were still like, I don't know. I think this just an anniversary post.

[C]

Yeah, that's a very cool anniversary party there. Clearly at.

[B]

Thank you. Yes, very true, very true. Yeah.

[C]

And they caught the anniversary cake together.

[B]

Oh, I got to also say there's been one post that my mom made of. Of me coming home when one of my aunts was there and they're talking to me in Korean. And that that post on her Instagram went crazy. Like, over 2 million likes. Like, more. At that time, it was more likes on any Instagram post than I had ever made on my Instagram account. And I finally beat it. Finally outdid that one on my mom's Instagram. Yes, I got more engagement. Yes. Yeah, so. So I've got it. I'm. I feel. I feel secure in my. My social media game now. Finally.

[A]

At least.

[B]

I don't know. That was a long time ago that it had over 2 million. It might actually be over there right now.

[A]

Don't look. Just take the win.

[B]

I don't know how you search for popularity on Instagram.

[A]

Just take the win. Don't even look.

[B]

You're right.

[C]

I'm not. I just.

[B]

Just assume.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Don't everybody go find Mama Plier's post and give it more likes.

[B]

Yeah, someone on distractable subreddit will burst my bubble for me, I'm sure. Anyway, that's it. Also today, when we're recording, this is when Windows 10 died.

[C]

That's not good.

[B]

Too bad.

[C]

Wait, is that actually true?

[B]

Is it time for that end of support? Yeah, it happened.

[C]

I'm pretty sure my other computer I use for everything else is Windows 10. Still.

[B]

It exploded.

[A]

Oh, F's in the chat.

[C]

You're saying the next time I turn it on, it's just gonna melt into a ball of lava?

[B]

Probably, Yeah. I would assume So I hope so.

[A]

Actually, that'd be kind of cool for not you, but everyone else.

[C]

I'll make sure I film it and send it to you so you can enjoy it.

[B]

That's all for me.

[C]

Wade, what monumental things do you have going on in your life?

[A]

I was at a wedding recently, and I have so much to talk about.

[B]

You know, everyone is shocked that you didn't leak it. You know, I can't believe Wade didn't leak this.

[A]

Well, this time I actually knew about it. Asshole. Last time I leaked something was a joke because I didn't know it was a thing.

[B]

I see. I see.

[A]

No, there was a post on Twitter by, like, dexterto or whatever the fuck, one of those things. And it was like, Mark must have a pretty good circle of people around him for no one to have leaked this information. I was thinking to myself, I could have had the post leaking all the information. It could have been me.

[B]

It could have been you. Yeah.

[A]

The amount of likes I could have generated. But, yeah, no, no one leaked it. It was pretty cool.

[B]

No, no one did. No one did. Despite some people's best efforts. Not intentional, but some people.

[C]

It's tough.

[A]

It's not because you want to share the secret, but, like, someone's asking me, like, hey, you gonna be streaming this week? It's like, no, I'm busy. Because, like, you just start to answer. It's like, wait, lie.

[C]

You don't have to lie. That's the thing. It's not.

[A]

I got going on nothing, but I'm doing stuff.

[B]

I'm gonna sit at home alone in the dark. Lights off, TV off, phone off.

[A]

What's going on this Thursday? Oh, nothing. Mark's not in town.

[B]

Every week. I mark my weeks by when he's in town and not in town.

[A]

But, no, I was glad no one leaked it for me. I've got a nice little bandit on my neck from going to the dermatologist, and they decided to cut me up a little bit.

[C]

Falling apart, man.

[B]

Yeah, funny mole.

[A]

Well, so it was actually me who requested they shave it off. So it's in a spot right at the base of my neck, like, where my hairline ends. And every time I shave my head or get my head shaved, it gets nicked by the razor and just bleeds and it hurts and so annoying. And I was like, I am really tired of dealing with this as someone who has to shave their head pretty much weekly at the very least. Really, really tired of dealing with that. So I had them remove it. And now I get Vaseline. Band aid on neck for two weeks. And it is not a pleasant place to keep bandage because apparently the neck is a part that connects your head to your torso. And when you want to look different directions, you don't just use your eyes. You turn your head and then you have a fucking bandage tugging at you.

[B]

You could just use your eyes. We could train ourselves to only use our eyes and never turn our head, probably. And then if you want to turn, you got to turn your whole body.

[A]

Even faster if you do both at the same time.

[B]

Good evening.

[C]

I don't feel limited at all.

[A]

Thought I had something else to add about it, but I can't remember.

[C]

At the top of my head, is it itchy?

[A]

No, not really. Whenever I shower, it, like, stings a little bit. Then I feel like my neck movement's a little constrained because it, like, feels irritated. But I've done a good job of keeping it clean. Molly's helped me keep it, the Vaseline and band aid on because I cannot for the life of me see that. It's like, in the one spot I cannot see unless I, like, held a mirror. But you need both hands to do bandage things. So she's had to help me. And it's a little scary having someone just, like, put stuff into your wound. But she's done a good job, hasn't hurt me.

[C]

Why is that scary? You think she's going to hurt you?

[A]

I've just never had someone really do that before where they've been like, hey, I've got this wound. Can you put your fingers in it for me?

[B]

Like, never had a nurse help you with something, I guess. Wait, no, You. You've had surgery?

[A]

Yeah, but whatever they did, I was unconscious for them coming out of it. I was able to do self care.

[C]

You were just healed by the time you woke up or.

[A]

Well, no, but, like, they didn't come home with me and heal me. I never had to stay in a hospital. It's always been outpatient stuff. Here's the other thought. Okay. In my brain, the. The part they cut off wasn't that big, right? So I was thinking, like, one of those little round band aids would probably fit perfectly on it. It wouldn't cover all that much space, so I'd have more movement and it wouldn't be as, like, likely to fall off. It's the opposite. The bigger band aids have stayed on. The smaller ones have been the ones that are like, you slightly twitched.

[B]

Goodbye.

[A]

And it's like, why is why. My brain told me small for small, less to be Tugging, but big for small, big for, I guess, more sticky.

[B]

Do I. Do we gotta explain surface area to you, man?

[C]

Yeah. Would you like an explanation of how that works or.

[A]

No, I get there's more sticky with the big, but there's also more area for tuggy.

[C]

I don't even think that's it. No, I. I have a theory. I have a theory.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

On a small band aid, it's small. A larger proportion of the total area of the bandage is sticky. The part that is adhesed directly to your skin doesn't have any give. Right. The only part that really stretches is the middle part that's not stuck to anything. A bigger bandage has more part that is not stuck directly onto your skin and only stretches. However much your skin moves, it has a center part that gives you a lot more elasticity in the bandage. So it's not even about how sticky it is. It's about how it moves with you when you move. That's my theory, because I've experienced that same thing.

[B]

I have two things to retort. Adhesed. Great word. I think I find that very fun. Word number two, why don't they make a bandage that is not a gauze pad, but is like a layer, a curved dome of gelatin. Right, Gelatin. It's like whatever. The Neosporin is made up, but a harder version of it, so that when you. You put it there, I always feel like gauze. That doesn't seem like a good wound thing. Every time I've ripped off a banded band aid, especially when I had burned my hands and I was ripping off the gauze, it just ripped skin every time because the gauze would heal into the skin as it was healing. And I think that happens to every banded. I know it's sterile, and technically, I don't know, it just seems like if you just made a gelatin little dome of the healing liquid, then wouldn't that be better? Would it? Am I crazy?

[C]

I have a theory about this.

[B]

Use adhesed.

[C]

As a person who's ignorant of all parts of this, including the mechanics of how band aids work and any medical knowledge whatsoever, don't you want airflow? Like, I know you want it to be covered in sterile, but don't you also basically want the ability for evaporation? And if you put a gel on a wound that traps in any, like, liquids or blood that could be drawn out and then, like, either dried up or, like, evaporated off so that it keeps the wound from getting, like, gunky and staying wet, isn't that kind of how that works.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know if there's a certain point at which you need to have a wound breathe or it can be entirely submerged. Because when I was healing my hands, I had a huge tub of bacitracin. So every day, multiple times a day, I would rip off my bandage and I would take a big handful of a blorp all over my. My wounds hurt like hell because I would rip off the skin every time. But over time, the under layer of the skin was what was growing. I think the ripping off of. Of the top layer and then applying that and then bandaging. The constant cycling made sure that there wasn't scar. Because I barely have any scars from burning my hands as bad as I did.

[C]

It is crazy how that healed. Because your hands were fogged.

[B]

They were fogged up. So I barely have any scars because of that cycle. Now, I don't know if that's the breathing or because it was more gooped than usual. I have a feeling. Here's an experiment, Wade. We're gonna cut off your hand. We'll cut off both hands. We need a control.

[C]

You need. You need one. You need both hands. You need one in the other.

[B]

Yeah, Your left hand, we're gonna tie a bucket of goop to, and you keep that in the goop bucket.

[A]

It's not resident evil, dude. You can't just goop my hands.

[B]

The other one. We're gonna put a blow dryer on. We're gonna dry that bad boy out.

[A]

It won't just grow back.

[B]

Yeah, well, you know, they might.

[A]

It won't.

[C]

How will we know until we try?

[A]

So I don't think my hand will adhese to my wrist if it' completely severed.

[C]

No, we'll adhese your hand. We'll implant your hand and your abdomen to keep it viable while we're doing the stump experiments.

[B]

So you'll have two hands where your nipples are.

[C]

Imagine having grabby nipples. Could do so much stuff.

[A]

If you're perky and you know it, clap your hands.

[B]

We'll put them on your butt cheeks so that when you're twerking, you can just clap, clap, clap, clap. Okay, I'm not saying it'll grow back, but you have heard stories of people like that get. Okay, I don't know. This is gonna sound weird, putting a pig bladder. Some guy cut his finger off or something. He put pig bladder on, it grew back.

[A]

Okay, I just heard that story for the first time now, so, no, I'm not.

[B]

I'm not lying. Wait, pig bladder finger grow back.

[C]

Pig bladder finger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Okay, there's some. It's not just pure pig bladder. It was derived from pig bladder, but I'm thinking it'll be the same.

[C]

Ooh, those are some pictures. Oh, man. Mark, why'd you make me Google that?

[A]

I did not Google, nor will I.

[C]

Don't. Okay, so it's like listeners and viewers don't.

[A]

So while they're looking at that, another note. It helped to turn my head slightly to the right and then apply the bandage. Because then whenever my head's looking straight, there's a bit more of a gap and some play. But then I can also move a little bit more back and forth without just immediately tugging the super tight bandage. So.

[B]

Alright, I got it. We're gonna cut off your left hand, stick it in a bucket of pig bladder. We're gonna cut off your right hand, we're gonna stick it in a bucket of pig liver, and we're gonna see which one grows back.

[A]

Plot twist. Neither.

[C]

Whoa.

[B]

We've talked about this before. Holy shit. I looked up pig bladder finger grow back. There's a post on the distractable subreddit four years ago.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Biomedical engineering. PhD here. Which was my degree. So you think you're better than me?

[A]

Yeah, because they actually got it and.

[B]

I wasn't even gonna get a PhD. So please don't chop off your finger and rub pig bladder powder on it. It won't grow back. But we're not chopping off the finger. We're chopping off Wade's hands.

[A]

The fact that I have zero recollection of this conversation and it's so horrific and apparently there's evidence of us having discussed it is wild to me.

[B]

Made four years ago.

[C]

I know. You never remember anything. I think Mark and I are actually on the same foot. You with this one. I have no recollection of that whatsoever. And that. That's definitely a thing it seems like you might remember.

[A]

Like, we have the games and the gimmick for the podcast, which is really cool and makes everything kind of unique. At the end of the day, like, we're just friends hanging out. And I don't know if you guys are. I'm at the point now where if I meet up with anybody who I've not seen in a minute, we are at the age where we tell the same fucking stories every time we see each other. Like, oh, I remember that basketball game in 08. It's like, next time I see him a year from now, we'll talk about that same exact game, make the same comments, laugh, and then like, quietly, like, mm. Now what do we talk about? We've relived our three memories.

[C]

Well, I usually try and talk about newer stuff, but I do. I do have stories I circle back to.

[A]

That's all I've got.

[B]

Well, you gotta make new stories, man. That's why I've got so many new stories.

[C]

Gotta keep living. L, I, V I N. Man, I.

[B]

Don'T know what that spells.

[C]

Living.

[B]

I learned whole word language. I don't know what you just said.

[A]

I had to think about it longer than I like to admit somehow.

[C]

That's the second time we've talked about pig bladder finger regrowth. So that's kind of impressive.

[A]

Four years later, guys, 2029. We'll circle back.

[B]

But. But, but I'm thinking this will work this time.

[C]

Well, I hope your neck heals up wonderfully.

[A]

Thank you. The only other thing I had to add was Molly and I are getting older. We accidentally wore the exact same shirt yesterday, which was like a red hot chili pepper shirt. Just coincidentally, both got dressed. We do that all the time. There's like once every two weeks we'll wear the exact same shirt. And another less fun thing, last week we both fell downstairs. I don't know why. I was walking down our staircase and for some reason I was just like, the last step no longer exists. And I went to skip it and just bam, right into a wall and was like, that sucks. Why'd I do that? I knew that step was there a few nights. Bob, were you in the call whenever I got the text from you?

[C]

Yeah, we were playing Battlefield because that has recently come out. And you got a very scary text that was like really ominous and concerning.

[A]

Yeah. We were getting ready to jump into a game and I looked at my phone and it just said help. And I was like, what? And then I fell in garage and I was like, okay. So I was like, guys, I'll be right back. And I flew up the stairs, walked outside. I feel bad describing what I saw, but it's really funn.

[C]

It's bad start that you're laughing. I'm just going to say that it's a bad start that you're already laughing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I opened the garage door and you know, it wasn't funny in the moment, but like, in hindsight it's a funny image because she turned out okay. I opened the garage door and Molly is just sprawled out on the garage floor laying on top of a bag of garbage. Like, it's a pillow. And in the moment, I was like, oh, God. Is she, like, conscious? She okay? She break a leg? Like, what happened? Did she fall and, like, slam into the car, then hit the ground? So I'm, like, checking on her, asking her questions. Like, before I help her up, I'm like, hey, does anything? Like, can you feel everything? Like, you know, I'm not a doctor, but I was trying to make sure I wasn't going to, like, hurt her back or her leg or whatever else. And she's like, I think I'm okay, so I hope they're stand up. And she was all right knowing that she's okay. I wish to God had gotten a picture of her laying on that garbage bag. But in the moment, I wasn't going to be the guy who's like, hang on, babe. Got to get this for pasta for the doctors, just so they know how you land. Like, you know, I couldn't do that. But I've been making fun of her for cuddling a bag of garbage. But thankfully, she's okay. Bruised her knee, bruised her foot. But we both just forgot how stairs work this past week. And we both like to wear the same clothes. We're both getting older, and apparently marriage has turned us into, like, the same person.

[B]

I am so glad that none of us are the type of Internet people that have to document everything. I do give thanks for that regularly, because I don't have the instinct to do that. If something's happening, I don't pull out my phone. I just go, oh, wow, look at that.

[A]

Hindsight. I thought about it in the moment. It was like, evaluate, make sure she's okay. Do I need an ambulance?

[B]

Yeah, blah, blah, blah.

[A]

But afterwards, I was like, man, I.

[C]

Go too far the other direction. Because there are definitely times where I'm like, oh, I wish I'd taken a picture while we were all together. Oh, well, yeah. Guess I'll never have pictures of anything. I won't remember this.

[A]

She was full Yamcha pose on a bag of garbage, and I don't have a picture. And it's just so sad to be in hindsight.

[B]

That's great. That's great.

[C]

Yeah. See that? For me, that's not one of the things I would not. It's more like our whole family was together for my birthday, and I never thought to take a single picture. If. If Mandy fel. I would not, after the fact, be like, gosh, snapped a picture, should have videoed the whole thing. That would have been great. Then we could relive it.

[A]

I'm a terrible person. In hindsight.

[C]

I don't know what people. Is it just an instinct to do that or is it just, like, attention seeking? I don't know what the deal is with that because it makes no sense to me.

[B]

It's habit. I'm sure it's. There's tons of people that just like, okay, my mom, she's pretty aggressive. My mom, very, very. On top of the whole documenting and uploading everything, we came over for that.

[A]

Like, in person, chicken and dumplings day recording. I remember, like, I just walked in the door and she was there with a camera, like, hey, how are you?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

If you accidentally ate baby carrots while you were visiting and suddenly needed to be rushed to the hospital, do you think she would record that or do you think she would, like, get you in the car and get you to the hospital and not. That would. That would skip her mind? I'm not asking for a judgment. I'm just curious because, like, it wouldn't occur to me, but I don't take any pictures of anything ever, which is.

[B]

I think it would. She would not film as I was in distress. But as soon as we get in that hospital and I'm either sitting in a chair in a bed and I'm not dying, I think she would bust out the phone and she has.

[A]

What if it wasn't you? What if it was, like, a neighbor?

[B]

Wait, a neighbor was joking?

[A]

Yeah, if a neighbor would. She would, like, the motherly instinct kick in. Or would the filming kick in? Because with you, it makes sense. Like, you're her kid. Right? But, like, if it's a stranger. Because there's. I'm not saying for her. Okay. I am saying her specifically in this scenario. But a lot of, like, videos you see of, like, a car wreck or someone wrecking their bike, people immediately, they don't go to help. They're like, oh, my God. And, like, pull out their phones.

[B]

Yeah, I don't know.

[C]

Not like a car wreck, though. It's just your mom in the yard and the neighbor is clearly, like, falling off the roof. And she's just like, oh, my God. And the guy's like, hey, hey. Can you. I don't think I can walk. Can you help? She's like, I think he broke his legs.

[A]

Can you turn more this way? The lighting perfect. I think she'd probably help go viral at all costs.

[B]

It's not even that. See, there's a. There's like, a different culture in some countries for. For recording things Like, I, I don't know if this is all Korea. This is definitely my family in Korea. They document everything. That's where my mom gets it, right? They're always taking video, they're always taking photos, even of sad scenarios. So it was like my grandma pretty much on her deathbed, they got video of that. Whereas, like, probably a lot of people wouldn't think to record it. You know, it's not for sure, but it wasn't for posting on the Internet. It's to show the people that weren't there to make them were in the room. And at first my American instinct was like, oh, no, this is sad. But then I was like, I was really appreciative that there was them in the room filming her last moments. Like, she didn't obviously pass on right there in the video, but it was like, you know, pretty, pretty close to it. So it was, it was one of those things where I was like, okay, I understand that instinct, but the majority of people nowadays are filming to upload on the Internet.

[A]

That's our small talk. Good episode.

[C]

When you guys want to play a game, Mark and Wayne, today we're going to be playing a game I like to call the Oxford 3000.

[B]

What is that?

[C]

Oxford 3000 is a list of 3000 words that Oxford Learner's Dictionary has put together that are the 3000 most important words that a person needs to know in order to be fluent. Fluent in a language. And this is the Oxford 3000 of American English. I sent the link in the chat. You can both pop open the list. It is 3,000American English words sorted alphabetically. And we're going to be playing a game that revolves around these 3,000 words.

[A]

So this is one 3,000 word sentence.

[C]

Horror Story, kind of. But no, Wayne, you're going to be going first. I'm going to take turns sending you each a word and then at the end of the round, you're going to get to pick whatever words you want. If you think there are words that might be easier for you to earn points with. And you are going to have to. I'm going to send one of you a word and then you're going to have to follow the rules. I give you to try and get your competitor slash, teammate to guess what word it is. So you have the whole list. You can look at the list as much as you want, but you have to. The round one is going to be. You have to say it backwards. So I'm going to send you the word, you have to say it backwards and Then the other person has to guess what word, and you get points if you successfully get them to guess the word. The guessers don't earn points. You earn points when you're the one who is trying to get the other person to guess. So you kind of have to play along and work together. But it should be funny, right? This will be fun.

[B]

I'm ready.

[C]

You guys love words.

[B]

Is it just you use it in a sentence, but that word is reversed?

[C]

You can try and do that. I sort of imagine this as just. You have to try to figure out a way to say the word backwards that will lead the person down the path.

[A]

But do you want them to get the word or not?

[C]

I just want to watch. You want them to get the word. You earn a point if you successfully get the other person to guess what word you're trying to get. The rules are you can't say the word except backwards. And I would like you to start by just trying to say the word backwards. But if that is not enough, you can do like Mark said. You can try and put it into a sentence or something. Or I want the word to succeed, but also, if you can't get it, you can't get it.

[A]

So just say the word backwards. That's all you want from me right.

[C]

Now, if you can.

[B]

Mominim Mumminym.

[A]

Mumminym.

[B]

Mumminym.

[A]

Mumminym.

[B]

Minimum.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

Am I allowed to tell him yes?

[C]

Yeah, once he actually gets it, yes, that's fine. Good work. I will say I tried to, like, ramp the difficulty, so I'm hoping this goes from easier to harder.

[A]

Oh, we're gonna be experts at this.

[C]

But we all know how good I am at that. So, Mark, I sent you your. Your first word.

[B]

Eel Ray.

[A]

Eel Ray.

[B]

Eel Ray.

[A]

Yarlie.

[B]

You know, you have to pick from actual words.

[A]

Eel Ray.

[B]

Eel Ray. Yarlie. Yeah, you got it, man.

[C]

Let's say you get three guesses, so don't waste them. But you couldn't. You couldn't. Couldn't have more than one. Work it out. Sound it out. Sound it out.

[A]

Okay, here's my brain. Eel Ray.

[C]

Honestly, I think Mark did a really good job on this one. I'm just gonna.

[A]

Ray. R A Y or eel Ray.

[C]

All right, maybe it just needs to be a time limit.

[A]

The rays get me. Ray's R A Y, right?

[C]

Oh, let's just say Ray is not always spelled R A Y. How about that? I'll give you that.

[A]

Early. Early.

[B]

Oh, should I say if it is? I sure. Should I not react Until.

[C]

No, no. You could react if he's. If he's right. That's. We know what we're. We know words. I trust you guys to know words.

[A]

I couldn't get Ray out of my head as being ra wide. I was like, ah. R a e would also be Ray, and then you'd have Earl. But I was like, no, Lynn. Eel. But I guess it kind of would be. It'd be yule or eel.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right. Wade, I sent. You sent your next word.

[A]

I'm sorry, Mark.

[B]

What do you mean? Why? Why are you sorry? One more time.

[C]

You sure? Yeah. Sa marinating.

[B]

PA tuck. No. Apukusha us Kepa aspect.

[C]

Yes. How did that get there?

[B]

Te capepsa. I was thinking it was like u t at the end, so I was like, okay, all right.

[A]

But like, ah makes it sound like it starts with an H. So I was like, I can't really do kept. Sa. So it's like to kept. How do I get you to the A?

[B]

All right. Okay. All right. Okay.

[C]

I really didn't anticipate. I thought saying them backwards would be kind of like. Yeah, we knew it. Like, how it's funny. But Wade. What Wade said sounded like a word. And then Mark was like Mark saying the actual word forward sounded like the backwards. Anyway, Mark, I sent you your second word, man.

[A]

I like my. I like. I like giving the word backwards more than the thinking.

[B]

Elpa.

[A]

Elpa.

[B]

Elpa.

[A]

Elpa. Apple.

[C]

You guys are so much better at this than I thought you would be. God damn.

[B]

Don't worry, man. We're great at it. See, I can visualize letters in my head and then flip them around. I've got a unique advantage in this.

[C]

Wait. I sent you your third word.

[A]

What the fuck?

[B]

I got this.

[A]

I don't.

[C]

You got it, buddy. I believe in you.

[A]

Pisdonirf.

[B]

Pisdonirf.

[A]

Pisdinerf. Pisdin. Pisdonairf.

[B]

Pisdonairf piz. Pisdinarf.

[A]

Pisdonairf. PisdoNirf.

[B]

Which one is it?

[A]

Both.

[B]

What do you mean? Pisdanerf. PIZ Den earf. Fear Ned.

[A]

Fear Ned.

[B]

PIZ den freeden. Gordon Frieden PIs denier PIs den air. Okay. Erf PIs dener pisdenir frain. Pisden. Fray Ned. Fray Ned. Brain dead brain.

[C]

Ed Zip.

[B]

Frey.

[C]

Ned Zip. Fuck. Piston Air.

[A]

Frey.

[C]

That's crazy. Oh, fuck.

[B]

Frey. What the fuck?

[A]

You're right there, man. You're right there.

[B]

Oh, am I?

[C]

No, Mark. Yes, I actually am considering whether I'm Gonna count that or.

[A]

It's crazy how he just.

[B]

No, no, he's got. Yeah, I got.

[C]

I got.

[B]

This is the game.

[A]

He.

[B]

He does it that way. That's. I. I say the first thing that he throws out is what I have to work with and I get.

[A]

There's no other.

[B]

No.

[A]

I think he was gonna give you credit for actually getting it right, Ray.

[B]

Is it a ph or pizz?

[C]

De.

[A]

Nir. Fres.

[B]

Fresnel. Fresnel.

[A]

Frenair.

[B]

Zip. Okay. Pizz, then neck.

[A]

Ned.

[C]

Zip.

[B]

Piz.

[C]

Den.

[B]

Ned. Zip. What was the last one? Ned.

[A]

Zip. Pizz.

[B]

Den. Nerf. No.

[C]

Do it. Do it. I believe in you.

[B]

Is then. Nerf. Friend.

[C]

Piston.

[B]

Air.

[C]

Piston.

[B]

Airf.

[A]

Dude, I swear to you, the third fucking thing you said.

[C]

PIs. Den. Air. Fray.

[B]

How'd you get air friend?

[C]

E I R, man.

[A]

E I R. You don't pronounce.

[B]

You don't have to pronounce.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Do whatever you want, man.

[C]

Literally mark like one of your earliest guesses. Like, your third guess was fre. Ner. Then we were both like.

[A]

You literally went friendiship.

[C]

Oh, that was so good.

[A]

It was crazy hearing you say Fredship.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[B]

Oh, fuck.

[C]

I can't believe you got there, but you did it, man. That was beautiful.

[A]

Look at that word backwards, man. Look at that word backwards.

[B]

I'm trying. I was thinking I was on ph. I think that was my issue. So.

[A]

Yeah, I really tried to get the, eh. The pissed in there.

[B]

Yeah, sure you did, man.

[A]

I tried it to pit.

[B]

I'm sure everyone at home was like, it's obvious.

[A]

It's.

[B]

It's photography. You idiot.

[C]

You loser.

[A]

I'm not saying I gave you like a perfect throw, but you literally said the word like your third guess. Frenette. Ship. And I was like, bam, he's got it.

[B]

I'm sure it will be as wild as this one.

[C]

You've got this guys to never.

[A]

What?

[B]

I did it better. That was a better one.

[A]

Okay, do it better again.

[B]

I don't know if I can. Nevni. That's as good as it gets, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Evni. N N V N To Nevni. N.

[B]

No, not thinevni. Tnevni. Novni.

[A]

Tinevni.

[B]

I'm doing it very intentionally. Tinevni.

[A]

It ends like a th.

[B]

No, I mean, maybe I can't say.

[A]

Tsinevni. Very intentional sound.

[B]

You're so focused on that. You gotta get the word.

[C]

Work on the other part of the word, man. Go somewhere else. Okay.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

N En in Nv. Nven. Invent.

[B]

Oh, oh, he got there. See?

[A]

Invent.

[B]

You got the T. Nevny. Invent. You know the. The accents on the T. In. Invent.

[C]

Invent.

[B]

You know, inventor dude, the T. I.

[A]

Was like, okay, either there's an H before or after the T. How do.

[B]

You pronounce TN.

[C]

To get the connection? It's like you're. What did you do for friendship?

[A]

His denier fist.

[C]

All right, wait. One more.

[A]

Oh, shit.

[C]

It's not that bad. It's not that bad.

[A]

Calm down.

[C]

Down.

[B]

Why does he get the hard ones? Why do I have to guess the hard ones?

[A]

Eli. Eli with name.

[B]

He has had two syllables for every one of these. I get Eli with name.

[C]

Eli. I'll give it to you, Mark. It's a two syllable word. Forward.

[B]

It's clearly for Eli. Hune.

[C]

Marijuana. I wish. I will say. Wait, I think you're throwing Mark under the bus a little bit with that.

[B]

Elihua.

[C]

Name.

[A]

Eliu Name.

[C]

What?

[A]

Eli Name.

[B]

Eliw. Do some Chinese words get snuck into the Top 3000American English Dictionary that I didn't know about?

[A]

Eliu name.

[B]

Are you sure?

[A]

Eliu name.

[B]

You're adding syllables to this? Man, that's only the second half of it.

[A]

I just can't not phlegm. Eliu Name.

[B]

Where'd the hua go?

[A]

It's gone.

[B]

What the fuck? Why is it there in the first place?

[A]

Because I'm trying my best, and my best isn't very good.

[B]

Try less hard. Eliu.

[A]

Eliu. Name.

[C]

Name.

[B]

Okay. Name.

[A]

Name.

[B]

Name. Emmanuel. Manuel.

[A]

Uh, no, you're in the ballpark, but.

[B]

No, it's a two syllable.

[C]

I know why he's doing it, but I think Wade is adding. Adding bits to this that are making it complicated.

[B]

Eliu.

[A]

Wali.

[B]

Wally.

[A]

Wally Illaou. Naim.

[B]

Naim.

[A]

Naim.

[B]

Naim.

[C]

Naim.

[A]

Naim.

[B]

Naim. Eliu. Naim.

[A]

Naim.

[B]

What do you want from me?

[C]

I'm gonna say Wade has failed this one. But before I say what the word is, Mark, can I give you what I would do and see what you think of it?

[B]

Yeah, sure.

[C]

Lyle Name. What? Lyle name.

[B]

One more time.

[C]

Nile. Main. No, wait. God, this is so hard. Lyle Name.

[A]

This is so hard. Thanks for acknowledging that.

[C]

Name.

[A]

Main.

[B]

Lyle.

[A]

Name.

[B]

Shut up.

[A]

Fuck you.

[B]

Hey. Got it.

[A]

Name. One more time.

[C]

Lyle Name. Liu.

[B]

Name. Lyle Manual.

[A]

Lyle.

[B]

That's what it is.

[C]

Lyle Name. At the hall of Justice.

[B]

What?

[C]

Lyle Name. At the hall of Justice.

[B]

There's no way. There's no way. That's. Meanwhile.

[C]

Meanwhile. All right. How would you say meanwhile. How would you say meanwhile? Genius.

[B]

Meanwhile. Fucking mean.

[C]

Manual is close. Literally, when you were shouting it out, you were all wildness. Name.

[B]

Meanwhile. You're right.

[A]

The difference between Bob Knives. I pronounced the e. Ah, yeah, okay, I.

[B]

All right, okay, I see. I see. Now I get it. All right, fine.

[C]

That was just throwing them off, I think.

[A]

But I had to let him know it was there.

[C]

No, it doesn't matter.

[B]

Where'd the hua come from? When you started that way? There was a hua in there, dude.

[A]

HW. So I was doing wh.

[C]

Your first one was like, elihuanm.

[B]

Elijuanam.

[C]

Mark, you wanted a longer one, so here you go.

[A]

Oh, no, no, no.

[C]

Yes, yes, yes.

[B]

Senku.

[A]

Senku.

[B]

Sen k.

[C]

Yeah, Mark Rice is a good point. How do you pronounce diphthongs? Who knows?

[B]

I love diphthongs.

[A]

Sen K. Oh, no. Okay. I had to look up what a diphthong was.

[C]

If that helps you, then you're a genius.

[A]

Sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable.

[C]

Oh, that's the thing.

[A]

Ka.

[C]

Hoo.

[A]

Kaou. Kaou.

[B]

Kaou.

[A]

Kaoo.

[B]

Sen. Kaou.

[A]

Ka.

[B]

Ou.

[A]

You. You acnes.

[B]

Getting the u from senkei senkayu.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

What the fuck do you mean from getting the U?

[B]

Where you getting the fucking you from? It's clearly senkei senkuyu.

[A]

Senku. Ku, Ku, Ku.

[C]

Yeah. Is that how you pronounce a U?

[A]

Agnes? Ooh, Agnes Sueng. You get so quiet, I can't hear the last part.

[B]

Sen.

[C]

He.

[B]

Well, you know what I'm saying, so I don't know what your problem is.

[A]

Sen. Q. Senku. Senkuyu.

[B]

Sen Q.

[C]

Just start saying it the other. You were working on it.

[A]

Sen, Q. Sen, Q, B, U, Q, u, Q.

[C]

Can you think of a word, Wade? Any word.

[B]

I'm giving you such a good clue. Senki.

[C]

I do feel like vark is pretty. Pretty on it for this one.

[A]

Yeah, you do. Every time, man.

[C]

I gotta say, Wade, you. When you were working on just getting it, saying it forward and trying stuff, there were one or two in there getting pretty close.

[A]

Quick. Quickness. Have to qu. The weakness. Witness.

[C]

I want to just count that. I want to just count that.

[B]

Come on, come on, come on.

[C]

Do you know any words that sound kind of like that or anything in the ballpark?

[A]

Wokeness.

[C]

No.

[B]

Ooh.

[A]

Ooh. Wokness. Wokness. Wickness.

[B]

What? Fuck you, man.

[C]

You.

[B]

What are you doing to me?

[C]

Q.

[B]

Where you getting wock.

[A]

Weakness.

[C]

Do you know what you Said weakness. He doesn't know what he said.

[B]

I don't know what he said.

[C]

You're saying. You're saying the word.

[B]

You're saying it.

[C]

All right, well, Mark definitely gets the point for weakness, which is apparently a thing that Wade has. When it comes to weakness, you are weak. You have a weakness.

[A]

Where did the oo come from?

[C]

Huge weak.

[B]

There wasn't an ooh.

[C]

Sang Q.

[A]

I got stuck on the ooh.

[C]

He did what Mark did the. The one time, except so much better. You were literally like weakness. Weakness. Weak.

[B]

Wick.

[C]

Wokeness.

[A]

I got wokeness instead of weakness.

[B]

Give him a huge one.

[A]

Give me.

[B]

I. I got it. Give him a big one.

[A]

I was stuck with the O's. I couldn't get off the O's.

[B]

I want four syllables. Come on, get ahead of me. I'm closing the list. I don't need the list of words. I don't need them. Revere.

[C]

It doesn't have to be fast, man.

[B]

You can famous historian.

[C]

Huhu. Revere. Ah.

[B]

I remember when he was walk. Riding his horse through town. The British are inoc. Ingm. The British are ingmar.

[C]

All right, one more time.

[A]

Hit me.

[B]

Revere hua. It changes every time. That doesn't help me, man. Revere hua.

[C]

Revere.

[B]

Ahua. You gonna change it?

[A]

Revere Hu.

[B]

It's east.

[C]

Changed.

[A]

He changed it.

[B]

He changed it. Of course he did.

[A]

It depends which. Which accent you prefer.

[B]

What do you mean it depends? That was completely different pronunciations. All right, pick one.

[A]

Revere hua.

[B]

Revere hua.

[A]

Not hua, hua, hua.

[C]

What did you. What was your first try?

[A]

River.

[C]

Uhuh. River.

[B]

Okay, one more time. River hua.

[A]

Or.

[B]

That was two different things. He just said two different things right there.

[A]

Revere hua.

[B]

Revere hua. Huh?

[A]

Huaw.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Revere.

[B]

That wasn't a fucking word.

[C]

What are you talking about? You didn't say it like a ghost.

[A]

When you're the one in the chair. It does not sound like it.

[B]

Rev. Uh.

[C]

Wah.

[B]

Rev. What the fuck am I just saying?

[A]

Okay, I'm saying hwa.

[C]

Hwah.

[A]

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

[B]

Ho woah.

[A]

Oh, so you should say the opposite of hwah.

[B]

Hwah. Oh, I am okay.

[C]

What do you mean? That is.

[B]

You go ho woah and hoah.

[A]

You're doing great. You're doing great.

[C]

Oh my God. The Iroh.

[B]

Revere hua.

[C]

Ho woah.

[B]

Oh, that's. That's. That's play in reverse editors. I'm saying the same thing. Ho wo ho.

[C]

Wo ho.

[B]

Ho ho. It's the same Word. Revere. Revere. Revere.

[C]

It's.

[B]

It's two palindromes inside the same word. It's river, Revere. River, river, River. Owa River.

[C]

Owa River.

[B]

Owa River.

[C]

That's not a word.

[B]

I know many words. This is not a word. Owa. River.

[A]

He's still like Johnny Provost.

[B]

Owa river. Owl. River.

[C]

Say the first part fat.

[A]

Faster.

[C]

But all in one thing. All in one go. Just say the first part faster.

[B]

Oh, a river.

[A]

Oh, a river.

[C]

Oh, a river.

[B]

Oh, a river. Oh, a river.

[A]

Lose the first.

[C]

Why? War. River. Wa.

[B]

River.

[A]

Huh?

[B]

Wherever.

[C]

It's wherever. Whoa.

[B]

There's no.

[C]

Why didn't you go ho? All right, all right, all right, all right. This is getting heated. Wait, did I have Wade go first on that one? I went first overall, so that means Mark does need to do one more where he's.

[A]

Okay, just give him the point.

[B]

Give me the biggest one.

[C]

You want the biggest one?

[A]

No, no, no.

[B]

Yeah, give me the biggest one.

[C]

I got you, Mark. Enjoy.

[B]

What the. Oh, no.

[C]

I will say this was on a part of my thing, a separate list I made called. Haha. What? Imagine, though.

[B]

Okay. This might be. It's so specific.

[C]

I think.

[B]

I think you can get away. Oh, wait. Oh, fuck. Wait, I can't change it. Zig. Zigolochs.

[A]

Zigolox. Why are you like, French Dracula?

[C]

Dude, what the fuck?

[B]

That's what it is.

[A]

Zigoloch. Isp.

[B]

Sorry, forget that. Ziggalokis.

[A]

Zigalokis.

[B]

Zigalokis.

[A]

Zigalokis.

[B]

Seagullochis.

[A]

Seagullochism.

[C]

Close enough. That could get you there. Now just reverse it.

[A]

Zigalokis.

[C]

You're just saying it backwards. So you need. You need to. You need to reverse it, Wade. You're the one who flips it.

[A]

Sickle. Logus. Sickologus.

[B]

I think you got it. I'll take the point.

[C]

Think about it. Work on it.

[A]

It. Psychologists. Sicko Psychologists. Sick psychologists. Sig. Sig. Come on, man. Psychologic. Psychological.

[B]

Psycho.

[C]

Case.

[B]

Come on, come on, come on.

[A]

Psycho. Psychology. Psychologist.

[C]

Yes. Oh, my God. It's psychology.

[B]

I read. I. I don't know why I read it with a P. Initially, I realized that that was very wrong, but.

[A]

Yeah. I just don't know why you sounded like French Dracula.

[B]

I don't know why you would question it. I was getting into character.

[C]

So. So that. That. That. Backwards is hard, right? Backwards is hard. So I'm going to give you more opportunities to communicate. We're just going to do one word each for one final Round. I call this one Hotter or Colder. I'm going to give you a word. Wade's going to go first. I'm going to give you a word.

[B]

Mark.

[C]

You have to pick a starting word, and then you have to guess another word, and Wade has to tell you if that second word is hotter or colder. And then you just continue on and on until eventually the hotness draws you to the correct word.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I'm ready. All right.

[C]

All right, Wade, you have your word.

[A]

I don't sound it out.

[C]

I don't do anything. Don't sound it out. Don't say the word. Nothing. Which starts with Mark. Pick a one word and then pick a second word. And Wade just gives you hotter or colder. And you keep guessing, and Wade keeps telling you hotter or colder.

[B]

Banana. Bicycle.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

I already like this. I'm just gonna enjoy. Go ahead.

[B]

Pineapple. Colder. Plutonium.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Tree.

[A]

Warmer.

[B]

Okay, what did I say before?

[C]

Banana. Tree.

[B]

Oh, it always. From the first word.

[A]

Oh, no, that's how I was doing it.

[C]

If it's colder, right? Then it's like, oh, don't go that way. So I'm assuming if he tells you colder, it's like, okay, back to banana.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I was doing.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Banana's my North Star.

[C]

So banana is your basis. Banana. Tree. Tree is Warmer.

[A]

Tree.

[B]

Tree.

[C]

So now, like, tree is home base. And now let's. Let's find a direction.

[B]

Dirt.

[A]

What?

[B]

Dirt.

[C]

Dirt.

[B]

Leaves.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Treat.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Terror.

[A]

Warmer.

[C]

Banana. Tree. Terror.

[B]

Terror. Tumor. Colder. Error.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Trauma.

[A]

Lukewarmer.

[B]

What the fuck does that mean?

[C]

Banana Tree. Terror. Trauma.

[B]

Trauma.

[A]

Okay, I think we're playing this two very different ways.

[C]

You can't talk about how you're playing it.

[B]

Tarantula.

[A]

Warmer.

[C]

Banana Tree. Terror Trauma. Tarantula.

[B]

Tantalizing.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Tactical.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Television.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Phobia.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Fuck.

[A]

Warmer.

[B]

All right.

[C]

Banana Tree. Terror. Trauma. Tarantula. Fuck.

[B]

Emotion.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Relationship.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Oh, man. Okay. Friend.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Oh, man. This is so hard. You guys definitely are approaching this in two very different ways.

[B]

Okay. All right.

[C]

Okay. All right.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah. All right. Right. Okay. All right.

[B]

Car.

[A]

Cold.

[B]

Sir.

[A]

Boat. Colder.

[C]

He just likes boats. Don't worry too much into that. He was just trying to see if he could say yes to Boat Trunk.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Apart. Colder. Luck.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Oh, my God. All right, I'm going back. I'm going back.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Xylophone. Colder. Appalachia.

[C]

Well, I think. I think you have to say warmer. Yeah.

[B]

All right. Appalachia.

[C]

Whoa, jeez. What even was it? Banana Tree. Terror. Trauma. Tarantula. Fuck Appalachia.

[B]

The fuck is throwing me? Avalanche.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Anniversary.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Mountain.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Geography.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Region.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Your mark's gonna be so mad.

[B]

Haunted.

[A]

Col.

[B]

Was it warmer or colder?

[A]

That tune.

[B]

Colder. Look through the list.

[C]

You'Ll find it in those 3,000 words.

[B]

Contemporary.

[A]

No, Colder.

[B]

Dangerous.

[A]

Former.

[C]

I will say Wade is. I think, Mark, you're approaching it from the size and similarity of the actual words. I think Wade is building on the themes. Yeah, I think Wade is thinking about the actual meaning of the words. So, like Appalachia. Dangerous.

[A]

That's what I said whenever I thought we were playing this very differently.

[B]

Volcano.

[A]

Colder. You know, Appalachian. Banana. Trauma.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, Mark, just think about how we got here. Banana. Tree Trauma. Tarantula. Fuck. Appalachia. Mountain.

[B]

Injury.

[A]

Danger.

[C]

Danger.

[A]

Sorry, what? Injury over. Danger. I'm gonna say colder. I don't know that one. That's a tough one.

[C]

Crisis.

[A]

Colder.

[B]

Extreme.

[A]

Colder.

[C]

Enemy.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Man, I'm having a tough one with this, Paul.

[B]

I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

[C]

It is supposed to be hard.

[B]

It's danger to enemy, Right? Enemy was a little warmer. All right. Basketball.

[C]

Colder.

[B]

Wrestling?

[A]

Warmer. Okay.

[B]

Grappling.

[A]

Colder. I guess.

[B]

Tussle?

[A]

Warmer.

[B]

Man. Engagement?

[A]

Colder. War. Colder.

[B]

How does fuck play into all this? The beast with two backs.

[A]

Warmer. I don't know what that is, but warmer.

[B]

Animal?

[A]

Warmer.

[B]

Buffalo. Colder. Mountain line?

[A]

Warmer.

[B]

I get one word, right? It's one word, okay.

[C]

Bear. That's it.

[B]

It's bear. Oh.

[A]

Early on, you start with bees. And I was like, man, I like.

[B]

The letter B, but, oh, I see the path where does play. I guess you see a bear, you.

[A]

Go, well, also bears, kind of. Whereas tarantulas didn't.

[B]

So I was like, well, no, tarantulas do. They pretty much everything fucks.

[A]

I don't know how they work.

[C]

They actually come out of their holes to fuck.

[B]

It's crazy, man. That was a journey.

[C]

Yeah. So what did we actually do there?

[A]

Because you were going like, sound, and I noticed that you were like, okay, these words sound similar. And I was like, yeah, I was.

[B]

Going for sound syllables, stuff like that.

[A]

And you were started off on the bees. I just. I decided earlier. I was like, bananas. A living thing. Maybe we can just stick with living things. And.

[B]

Okay, once. Once we were on the same page, maybe we should go with that. Like, it should be just the meaning. Because I believe that would have been quicker if it had been more meaning based.

[A]

We were like three words in before I realized you were going to. Going with sound. And I was like, fuck. I'VE already gone down the path of. It was too late for me to change strategies at that point.

[B]

I'm willing to try one for you. I will do it. I better be quick, and I'll do it based on meaning.

[A]

Watch me be so much worse still.

[C]

Now that I sent it, that feels mean. Is that too hard?

[A]

We'll try. Okay. Okay. I've got to come up with two words.

[C]

Yeah. Find a starting word and then start guessing.

[A]

First word will be spoon. Second word will be teaching.

[B]

People. Warmer.

[A]

Person.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Profession.

[B]

Neutral. Colder.

[A]

Email.

[B]

Colder.

[A]

Location.

[B]

Colder.

[A]

Parent.

[B]

Colder.

[A]

Mammal.

[B]

Technically, colder.

[A]

But just out of we're not. These aren't proper nouns. I'm not gonna start guessing specific people. Right? I don't know if we can answer that. Okay, relative.

[C]

For Wade. Guess. Colder.

[A]

Adult.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Couple.

[B]

Colder.

[A]

Person. Adult.

[C]

Spoon. People. Person. Adult.

[A]

Man.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Woman.

[B]

Colder.

[A]

Author.

[B]

Colder.

[C]

People. Person. Adult. Man.

[A]

Beard. Warmer.

[C]

Mustache.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Hair. Hairdo.

[B]

Colder. Just, you know.

[A]

Yeah, okay.

[C]

Beard.

[B]

Mustache.

[C]

Hair.

[A]

Follicle.

[B]

Colder. Shave.

[C]

Colder.

[A]

Pube.

[B]

Colder. I may have led you astray with one of these. I thought you were on a different.

[A]

Path, and I was like, sideburn.

[B]

Let me retroactively. Let me back you up a step. Let's go back a few.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I thought you were on a path that you weren't. Back up. Back to man.

[C]

People. Person. Adult. Man.

[A]

Okay. Penis.

[B]

Knowing where you're trying to go, I'm going say colder.

[A]

Okay. I don't even know where I'm trying to go. I'm just trying to hone in on something here.

[B]

Man, you were. You were so. It was like a laser coming right for it at first. And then man.

[A]

Muscle. Warmer.

[B]

If it helps you. Colder if it doesn't.

[A]

You know where I'm trying to go. I don't. Strength. Oh.

[B]

Swarmer.

[A]

Toughness.

[C]

Warmer.

[A]

Grit. Warmers are there for this. Gigachad.

[C]

Warmer.

[B]

On fire.

[A]

Warm.

[C]

Warm. Warm.

[A]

Oh, what's the word for it?

[C]

Oh, no.

[A]

Alpha. That word. That's higher than alph.

[C]

Sigma.

[B]

Oh, red hot.

[A]

Uh, asshole.

[B]

Oh, burning. You're burning up.

[C]

Surface of the sun.

[A]

Thick.

[B]

Warmer.

[A]

Thick.

[C]

Head.

[B]

Warmer. You're burning up a douche. Oh, so close. Douchebag. Warm. Oh, my God, you're just burning.

[A]

How can I keep getting warmer at this point without getting warmer?

[B]

Oh, you've got this, buddy.

[C]

What do all those things describe?

[A]

Oh, boy.

[B]

Oh, man. Oh, man.

[A]

Oh, I was trying to avoid the proper nouns.

[B]

I know, I know. I realized that. But you were just like, person.

[C]

People.

[B]

Person. Oh, shit.

[C]

Female.

[B]

I was like, oh, you gotta guess.

[C]

Male. Next. Male.

[A]

Okay, okay. When you said colder there, I was like, okay, it probably isn't a male female thing. I just kind of. I should have done the opposite. But I was like, maybe it's just not that path.

[C]

All right, gentlemen, how's the score shaking? Oh, there's so many scores. Mark, you earn points for. I believe her name is Amy. Beat your mom on social media. Pig Bladder, fingers. We're getting older. Early apple. Invent weakness. Psychologist. And, Mark, Wade, you earn points for. And friends, pity point didn't leak about Mark's words. Wedding. Lumpy neck. Laughing at Molly. Falling down. Minimum. Yeah. Minimum aspect. Friendship wherever. And bare. Leaving the current scores at Mark with 10 and Wade with nine.

[B]

I love it. Wheel. Wheel.

[C]

How many points? How many wheel spins are we doing? Oh, wheel that we have spun. Oh, let me guess.

[B]

Three. Three.

[C]

All right. Three. Three wheel spins. Oh, you know what? I didn't think about what I'm gonna add. Add to the mystical wheel points. Best word used, like adhesed.

[B]

Adhesed was a great word.

[C]

Best word used. There we go. We got three spins coming up. Spin number one. I swear to God, if it's sudden death or whatever, I'm gonna.

[B]

Well, I'm. I am so there.

[C]

Did you lose points? Points?

[B]

Oh, I thought it was most tabs open.

[A]

Did you lose a point for that?

[C]

Nobody lost any points. I'm so sorry, Mark.

[A]

I am so there.

[C]

I.

[B]

It looked like it was most unrelated. Tabs open. Yeah. All right.

[C]

Said. I said.

[B]

I said.

[A]

Yeah, that might not be me.

[B]

I got the words.

[A]

Dumb. I said it. Yeah.

[C]

All right. Mark gets the first bonus point for saying the most. All right.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Least points. That's me. Well, that'd be Wade.

[B]

Damn it.

[A]

Oh, Back down by one. Here comes the tie.

[C]

We don't have to do that.

[A]

Don't call it a backcomb.

[B]

I won't.

[C]

I would never call anything that. Except backup. No, no, no.

[A]

A double.

[C]

Oh, are we doing repeats?

[B]

Oh, you didn't. You didn't remove it.

[C]

It's just not so unlikely.

[B]

We have landed. Wade got, like. What did Wade get? 3 in the row of the same.

[A]

1/2 point, I think.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. We have done repeats. That's true.

[A]

It's on the wheel, man. I don't. Yeah, it's fine.

[C]

Mark gets two fuck points, and Wade gets one point for being the loser. And remains the loser. Mark wins with a score of 12 to 10. Good thing you swear so much, Mark.

[B]

Thank you. I know.

[C]

Uh, would you like to give us a fucking winner speech?

[B]

What a fucking day. My fucking vocabulary is fucking enormous. Just like the rest of me, except my height. Fuck that. And I hate that fucking son of a bitch up there. That made me short, but I fucking won, so I'll fucking take it.

[C]

Wade, would you like to give us a non loser speech?

[A]

You know, this was a lot of fun, actually. I. I liked saying things backwards more than I liked trying to think what Mark was trying to say backwards. Overall, a good time. That's a fun game. And it's a hell of a brain teaser because both games, you have to think about how you want to play it. Whether you pronounce every letter, you just try to say it in the way backwards with like, okay, if I flip it, I can say it immediately.

[C]

Get it?

[A]

Or if you pronounce each letter so they know the letters. That's the way I was going. I was pronouncing each letter like, okay, he knows it ends in an E because I. But while you don't pronounce the E, you just have to think about how you approach it. And I think we approach things a little bit differently.

[C]

Apparently, you have to do whatever Mark did.

[A]

I like my way. Next time, my way will be the right way.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Well, we could absolutely play this exact game again with. With new words, but maybe we'll space.

[B]

It out a little bit.

[C]

It was fun. This is fun. Anyway, no. No one will be surprised. This is another absolute banger from the mind of Mandy. That was Mandy's idea. Good job, Mandy, as usual, turned out really fun. Thank you, boys, for playing along. Mark, you will be hosting the next one because you are the master of words. Master of words. I w. Make sure that you're following the podcast on whatever platform you follow it on, because then you'll get notifications when the episodes come out on Mondays and Friday, Fridays. Make sure you check out the merch site and keep it up and check it regularly or you're never gonna get merch. If you want it and you still haven't got it, it's sold out again already. You just gotta watch because apparently it sells out really fast. I don't think anyone expected that, except I guess you people who are disappointed. Sorry about that. But there will be more. It will be coming. Check out Mark and Markflier. Wait at Lordminion777 or Minion777. I am Micekrm. That's the end of the show. Mark will host the next one because he's a big old winner. Until then, podcast out.

[B]

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