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You mean Facebook Marketplace? Because all of my gifts that I got you guys are from other people that I found on Facebook Marketplace and the incredible deals that I got from them.
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Good evening, gentle listeners. Or watchers and welcome to Distractable. This episode, wickedness. Wade receives beautiful board support, loves blue pee and gets the gents to positively prognosticate. Blitzed Bob experiences oral excruciation, lacks a knob, and has pride in his progeny, Malefic. Mark manages his movie release, then shows love for his lads channel. Resurrection and lifting from oubliette issues to Harry Potter missiles. Yes, it's time for Will it into Existence. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
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Hey, everyone.
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Welcome back to another episode of Distractible. I'm today's host, Wade. That's my name.
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I thought you forgot it for a minute.
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It is not bald. It is Wade. W A D E Wade, making that clarification for no reason in particular, joined as always by my co hosts, Mark and Bob. Hey, guys. Hi. Hello. Usually start off with a bit of small talk, and I'm gonna jump right into it. I've been getting a lot of links from people about bald, about cures for bald, about other dudes who are bald, about the success rate of bald, what people think of bald. Just all of a sudden, there's a lot. There's a lot of information out there about bald, and I'm getting all of it. I am consuming bald. Like, there's no tomorrow.
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The success rate of being bald or the success rate of curing bald or.
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Your bald surgery or bald surgery.
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Yeah. Apparently there's now another treatment for bald out there, and people must not like bald because they keep sending me, like, buddy, try this. Okay?
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They're just concerned, probably.
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I.
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You know, if you suddenly grew hair, it'd be like when we filmed space and you had that wig on, it would look like you had hair, but it wouldn't look right. Not that the hair would look off. That wig actually look good. And you look good.
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If I get my hair back, I'm shaving the beard. It's going to be so back to 2015.
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Wade, wait. What if you. Is that what they do in Turkey?
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The gray would be gone? Because, you know, if they get my hair back, it's going to go back to, like, where it was when it started falling out. So all the color will be back.
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Right. It resumes.
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It's like. It's like the snap, and it's going to just blip, but it'll be right back and however many years have passed, but it's just the same.
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So I've been talking about just having some babies so we can get some umbilical cords and some of those stem cells and Stuff. I'm just going to start slapping it on every day. Can't wait. How are you guys?
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For. For once, I don't want to jump right into my stupid stuff because I know Bob has some. I don't know if he wants to.
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Talk about it, but I was busy being in the hospital.
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This might be the whole episode. Is this Bob's fridge? But like, hospital.
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I think I have a pretty funny story to tell today. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I went to the hospital. Okay. But it's. I. I was in the hospital. I ended up going to the er, which is mostly annoying because I should have just gone to the urgent care earlier in the day, but I have had the most painful ear infection of my entire life in this last week. And I didn't really know they could be that bad, which is why I assumed I had, like, something worse happening. I've had plenty of. I used to get ear infections semi regularly and like, lots of kids get that. And I. So I know what it feels like, but I literally. I think you could still see it in my face probably. My face is like, uneven. This side of my face is just. Has been super swollen and like, I couldn't close my mouth. I was. My jaw was hanging open crooked because of how utterly fucked my whole side of my face was. Yeah, it's apparently just an ear infection went to the error. It scared Mandy had to call the grandparents to watch James while he was sleeping. And they did a CAT scan and they did a bunch of blood tests, but. And the doctor's like, yeah, it's just an ear infection, you big baby. Just take. Put these drops in there and it'll fix it. Anyway, I'm a loser. But Mandy got trapped in a room in a house with no Internet. Isn't that funny?
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No Internet. Get that last part. Oh, man. I was like, that's a. No, it's a normal day until you said that. That's real scary.
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So we moved recently and we're getting the other. Our old place ready to. For new people to move into it to get rid of it to baby proof James. This room. I switched the doorknobs out because we are both of. Or that house had doorknobs where it was like a stick. I don't know how to describe it. It's not like a circle, you know, like a twisty one. It's like there's the paddle doorknob and you push it down. Those are really hard to baby proof because even a baby who can't grab things can like hook their hand on a doorknob and yank it down and open the door. So I switched the doorknobs to the round ones so we could baby proof it. And I had taken all the doorknobs that I had switched out of that house, but not put the old ones back in. So there were a couple rooms that just had doors with latches with no knobs. And Mandy was over there cleaning and was just like not paying close attention. And the door to the room closed and latched, but there was no knob or anything. And I was sick and passed out from medicine and she was like calling me and I was not answering. And so she, she was like, I was like trying to figure out how to call the non emergency police number because it was trapped in this house where no one was going to be. Luckily she had her phone with her, but like I wasn't answering the phone. And she's just in this room just like, ah, well. And like it was like she, it was, she was on the second story because she looked and she was like, maybe I'll climb out the window. Like just push. Nope, second story, no jumping out the window. Nothing. Eventually I did wake up and see that she was calling and freaking out.
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Luckily she had her phone. That would have really sucked if she didn't.
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If she had been like downstairs or something, she would have been. I don't know what she would have done. But the real, the real kicker is she realized right about the time I was arriving at the house, she realized there were these old command hooks on the wall that had just been hanging up whatever stuff on the wall. She took one of those off the wall and like used a little hooky part to jam it in the door. And literally I was like walking up the stairs and I just hear like click, squeak. And she walks out of the room and it's like, hey, so have I.
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Ever told you by the time I locked Amy out of the house way back when?
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No, I don't think so.
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She's coming home late for whatever reason, and I went to bed and so around, let's say like 11 or something because I go to bed early. So like 11 or something she gets home. But I've locked the doors, right, so she could get in the garage for some reason, but not the inside door. Like she had a garage opener, but not the inner door. The side door is locked. The front door is locked. She tried to call me. My phone was like dead or something. And so she's, she's she, she ended up sleeping in that van, the Barrel in the garage. So I wake up, I wake up, I look at my phone. It's just like texts and texts and calls. And I'm like, oh, my God. I sprint downstairs, open the door. Right as she's sliding open the van door, it's like, hi. I look at her, I'm like, oh, my God. He's like, yeah, your phone was off. I'm like, oh, why didn't you ring the doorbell? And she goes, oh.
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I was like, I'm pounding on the door, pounding on the window.
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I have entirely forgotten about the concept of a doorbell. Like, I don't even think where I am right now is a doorbell.
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Like, it's.
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So she says now that she rang the doorbell, but it's like, I think I would have woken up to the doorbell ringing, dude.
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I, I, if I'm going somewhere, I will go. I will wait extra time. Rather than ring the doorbell, I'll text and be like, hey, I'm here. Hey. Standing outside because they have dogs.
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The dogs start barking.
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It's a whole God fuck door Ring a doorbell is like calling someone. I don't want to do any of that. Just know that I'm there and let me in. Come on. Anyway, didn't the barrel stink or was that a later situation? I thought that, I thought that was a stinky van.
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No, I don't think it was ever that stinky. It just, it had an. It would smell because it really did have, like, all this wood lining. And I don't think it ever stank badly. Unless during one of the videos where we had, like, the haunted house going through theirs.
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I don't know. I just have a memory of you talking about it like it got, like it got water and then it got stinky or something bad or. I don't. Lots of stuff happened to that thing.
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Oh, wait, no, right. Later on, it was, it was in a driveway one time, and I think that it, it kind of just got water. It must have gotten water in or an animal got in it. I'm having this vague memory of something got in there and then that caught. That happened. But I'm not. No, I'm not. I don't know.
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Great small talk that I've definitely been keeping track of points on and didn't forget about that part of this job.
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We've only made almost 400 of these episodes.
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Yeah, I've not hosted a lot this year.
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You keep saying that, but that's just actually not true.
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He's climbing, though. He was actually, for a while there, he was not hosting for a while because I was. I had a dominating streak there for a bit. We were just like swapping dubs and.
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He was collecting Ls, but the actual numbers are not that far apart. Even still, like, you do trail and on the season as a whole, but not by like, you're not like 20 episodes behind or anything.
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Like 30 now.
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No, that's. He's.
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He's. Everything he says to the host is true. So it's like, just let him, let him do this.
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You have so much hair. If I told you how much hair you have recently, host daddy, no, I.
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Need to shave my feet.
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I'm gonna stop sending you emails about bald stuff. From random alt emails that I create lately.
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It was. I got sent a link to a bald subreddit where everyone's really supportive and nice to each other. They're like, oh, you don't need hair, man. Hair was never good to you.
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Bald.
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Bald will treat you right.
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There's a bunch of like, condescending. But all the bald guys are like, I'll take anything. Just be nice to me.
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It's.
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It's rough out there when you start losing your hair.
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It.
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It's a. It's really hard on the self esteem because, like, you see, every time you comb, you see that little bit of recession, that little bit of thinning, or you go to like scratch. It's like more scalp than I remember. And your first instinct, I mean, at least I can't speak for everyone, but my first instinct was always like, well, I can cover it up for a little while, but if it. Once it gets the comb over, then we're done. But like, you don't really realize you're inching up toward comb over until just like, I don't know, one day it hits you and you're like, no, we can't really ride in the convertible. Because then, like, when I get out, the ball will be showing.
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Like, wait a minute, I'm making.
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I'm like, I can't ride the car because I'm afraid of the bald showing.
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I gotta change something now it's iconic. I can't imagine any other way.
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Same. I don't know. I don't know what I would do if they cured baldness. Would I go back and try it?
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Yeah, maybe you could always. You can always go bold real quick if you wanted to.
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It would probably feel so itchy. I don't know.
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I don't know how I'd handle it. All right.
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I'LL be quick about my small talk.
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If it's all right.
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So movie theaters have been crazy. We. I did a stream just a couple of days ago from recording this.
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What's happening at them?
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Oh, man. Hi, Ren Long. It's a. It's really. It's really funny because for a while there, the theater started thinking that there was some kind of a bot campaign.
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I saw that.
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Yes.
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It was like, weirdly, because there was some copy and pasted templates, but I had. I actually was on a call this morning talking about that and being like, no, it's not that. I have a lot of fans that aren't used to emailing people. And so they ask other people that have emailed and they're like, I said this. And they're like, oh, thank God. Copy paste. And they won't change out the your city. And it really looks bad. It's one of those things where it's like, I really appreciate the effort, but. And I totally get how this looks like it because not many people in the real world has ever experienced, like, with an online audience that's actually actively engaging in doing something in the real world. But also, it's really cool for my fans to be able to see, wow, the things that I do have a tangible result on the real world. I asked for this movie, and now my local movie theater is showing this movie. That's really cool. That being said, shout out to Amy for making the website.
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Hey.
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She. She literally built the entire website. It's. It's working. It's beautiful. The map, if you go there, it's just my face on there. She did that. She made the Blood the Ocean. Blood red. Very cool stuff we're up to. As of this recording, 461theaters. By the time it comes out, it will be more. And I'm just really, really excited about this actually getting out to people. And I think that people need to understand, like I said on my live stream, it's just us. There is no distributor. There's a great misconception about how these things work, but I get it because that's how it's always worked for most every other movie. But we did not expect this to go beyond, like, the 50 to 100 theaters that we had. So even all the theaters that were like, I can't email Mark. It's like, he doesn't want this movie out there.
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That's not what it is at all.
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It's not what it is. We tried to ask you before. You said no.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, they're on the website, ironlung.com is the contact information to get the booking inquiries. So I just want to say that. Done. Oh, actually not done, man. People are tearing apart my render farm on. On, like the subreddit Home Lab. People are really not people. And I shared the picture because I know it's bad, guys. I know.
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Wait, that was real? That was a real picture?
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Yeah. You.
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Yeah, no, that's. It's just like, look, guys, it was a. I learned as I went. It's not pretty, but fuck, it works. Look, guys, it works.
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It.
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That shit fucking flies.
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And people need to understand it's not just for, like, rendering video or encoding video. That's not what it's for. It's not even just for rendering the CG scenes, which you can do very well. It's purpose built for distributed simulations. Simulations need a lot of compute power. And to do it efficiently, this is the best way that I've gotten so far to do it. It's not the best way ever. It's the best way I could manage myself. And let me tell you, all those people out there that were like, why didn't you hire a professional to do this? I tried. They came in and I said, yeah, I want to put a server in my bathroom. And then they go, fuck you, and they leave. They don't do it.
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They don't do it.
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So, yeah, that's it.
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Yeah, I knew. I mean, I had gotten through your stories of all your exploits. I knew generally, like, what had gone into it, and there had been iterations and that. But the picture was. Was more than I expected somehow. Like. Like, I looked at it and part of my brain was like, exactly. But also part of my brain was like, whoa. I think he undersold that a little bit.
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Now. You stole the set of Home Alone 2 for your vacuum cleaner there.
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I really did. And people seem to misunderstand that picture on Home Lab was the before picture and the first picture was me cleaned up. So all those. The floor, air conditioners was just, Look, I know it's not great. It's a bathroom. I did the best I could. You think the H vac guy didn't give me some raised eyebrows when I said, yeah, I want two.
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Two mini splits in this bathroom. Oh, I didn't think about that. That's so good.
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But he did it.
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You know, he did it.
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How many outlets could I put in my bathroom?
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Oh, yeah, the power. Yes. So, yeah, there's. For everyone whose questions. Yes, there's another. It's actually 180amps because it's two 90amp panels and it's. Yes, it's all 240 volt or 220 or whatever it is. I don't even know, man. I plug things in if it didn't.
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Plug in more power.
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But also it's not as reckless as it seems. I do have electrically related fire extinguishers. I do have. I pulled out all the water cooling because fuck that. And so yeah, it's all working very nicely.
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Holy shit.
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That's a lot of points. Hopefully Mark gets plum at some point.
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Yeah. Oh, we'll see. We'll see. I saw Bob's post where he was in the hospital recently for the ear. I had this really bad stomach bug. I did not sleep at all. Not last night, but night before last. Just like, the worst intestinal. I was just, like, miserable. All I could think of was like, this year's kind of been a pretty meh year, at least for me. I don't know if you guys remember, we did a thing a while back. I don't remember what episode it was, but it was like, would you rather take. Would you rather lose memories of 2025 or the money from 2025? And you guys are like, oh, the money. And I was like, let me forget the year. I'll take the money, forget this year. Still kind of feel that way. So I figured, today, let's go into 2026 with some positivity. What are we looking forward to in 2026? Years are kind of an arbitrary thing. Like, you know, a new year really just means it's another day, the sun rises, so on and so forth. But like, for us and calendars and everything else, years people look forward to. I'm going to exercise more. I'm going to do this more. You know, they've got their New Year's resolutions. So what are you looking forward to in 2026? I just want to go in with some positivity, give people some optimism for 2026.
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I think you guys know what I'll say straight off the bat. And it's not that the movie is coming out. It's that the movie's done. I don't have to think about it anymore. So I don't have to work on it anymore. I don't have to keep making my entire life revolve around it anymore. I can put it aside. It is. It will be done, and I will be able to shunt it away. So that's what I'm looking forward to very much.
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I'm looking forward to it coming out.
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I can't imagine the kind of shift that's going to be. I would say the only thing I feel like the comparison that I've done is like. Like law school was an endeavor for me, right. That dominated everything. It's very difficult. Law school is a hard thing. When I finished law school and went from having that on my mind, dominating my existence, to being free, at least relatively. I can't imagine what it's going to be like for you with the movie, because it's not even law school is one thing. And I was responsible for a lot of it. But it's still at school. I had professors, I had classmates. The movie was just like, if you didn't do it, it wasn't happening. No one was there to help you? No. Like, it's not even like you fail a class if you don't do it. It's just like. Well, I guess there just is no movie progress because Mark didn't think about it for five minutes today, and he.
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Did something else that is a reality. And I mean, you guys know it. I mean, you guys have made accommodations for it. And a lot of people don't realize how much these guys have put their schedules to the left and right. To me being like, I got a sprint this week. One more sprint, guys.
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I don't know if it was this year or last year where, like, we had to move stuff around a lot. And I was just like, I'm just gonna do everything I can to keep. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, no commitments. Not in the day, not in the evening. That was.
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And I. I truly, genuinely appreciate it, guys. I do. I. I can't say it enough how much you guys have been patient with it. I know. Like, it's been all over the place, but you guys have been very supportive. And I know I haven't always been the nicest about it, but I. I really, truly appreciate it. Like, honestly, it means a lot to be able to count on you guys.
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I think from my perspective, one, we get it. Like, we don't. Because we. We don't know what you go through on a daily basis. So it's hard to really fully know what all you're dealing with. But over the years, we went from Fall of Slenderman where we went to, like, Party City and bought the shittiest, like, three props. We could afford to make that. Then I put on your suit to. You guys did who Killed Markiplier? And we saw you editing that while we were on the tour. And then we got to be a part of Heist and in Space and seeing the sets and seeing all the cool shit, the costume department, makeup department, just all the stuff that went into that. So it was like, we've kind of seen an escalation of all the cool you've done over the years and how much goes into each of those things. And then on top of that, for the movie, at least. I can't speak for Boba from my perspective, like, hearing you talk about it and then just knowing how rigid certain industries can be and hearing and knowing how hard it is, like, when you're a YouTuber and you're known as being a YouTuber, it is to break into any kind of industry. So one just trying to get anyone to talk to you two coming up with a script writing, directing, acting, filming, finding people that'll, you know, do other voices or roles, things like that. And then that seemed like the easy part compared to everything you've dealt with over the last year. So from my perspective, it's like, sure, there are days where it's like, well, it took six months to get that dermatology appointment, but my skin will still be there in a year.
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Right?
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I can move that. But it's like, that's a relatively minor inconvenience compared to, like, what's at stake for you trying to get this stuff done. So, sure, it's been tough and whatnot, but even whenever we first agreed to start the podcast, I was like, the podcast will never be the problem. It's. Mark has so much shit going on in his life. Keeping either his schedule free enough to do it or moving my schedule around, that was always going to be the challenge because you've just. You've got so much crazy stuff going on all the time. So for me, it was kind of like, I didn't expect the movie necessarily, but kind of expected that we would have to move stuff around because, one, we've all got lives. Bob's got a child, and I am the child in this house. So we would have to be adaptable to some degree.
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But still, I appreciate it. It's not a given, and I never want it to seem like a given. I'll tell you what funny is about that dermatology appointment. Brad, the sound guy, he on the last time he was here in November, and we were mixing Warner Brothers. He went on a weekend trip out to Joshua Tree to go climbing because he's a big clim. Tore his acl, like, tore it up, apparently. Didn't know at the time. But he comes back from the weekend trip, and I feel so bad because, you know that that's when Henry passed. So we come in, and I'm coming in just like, oh, man, it's not okay. And he's there just mixing sound, like, just in agony. Just like.
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It's like, I'm sorry about your dog, man.
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He was so nice about it. I didn't even know about his hurt leg for a while.
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He's just like.
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And he was talking about, like, because. Because there's just some final things to wrap up for the MO before it gets fully pushed as of this recording, not as of when it comes out or when the movie comes up, but so. So he's like, I can push. I can push my ACL surgery down A bit if it needs to finish the movie.
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Doctors everywhere losing business because of Mark's movie.
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I think it's really funny, but I really stress to him, like, you do not have to.
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It's okay.
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He's like, no, I gotta finish this. That is also not how Brad talks at all. I'm doing a terrible Brad impression.
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But, yeah, no, it's like, Brad's in the room now. Yeah, I think I didn't deal with that. I don't know that I. Well, I got the slap tear, but that. That's optional surgery. ACL is pretty. You need to have that surgery.
B
I think it's supposed to be timely, isn't it? And it's supposed to.
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At least in sports. The only. The only time I've heard or dealt with ACL stuff is sport related. And then. Yeah, because you want to bounce back, recover, and be able to, like, have your full mobility and stuff. So I think it's better to be timely.
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I'm totally fine.
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So, yeah, iron lung done. Bob, I hope in the few seconds you've had to prepare an answer, you got one.
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It feels like a cop out, I guess, but I'm excited for more. James. I feel like, I mean, we have fun. He's been fun. It's not like he's been unfun up to this point, but it's been tough. We moved from California back to Ohio, and then we just moved again. And he's handled it like a trooper, but it just throws off all your routines, and it makes it really hard to really get in and do all the fun stuff because there's no time for shit. It's like, it gets to be evening time and we're like, okay, buddy, let's do something fun. You want to bring boxes back and forth between houses. You can hold the door open. You want to be a little helper.
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Be a little doorstop?
A
Hey, he likes it. But I'm excited for another year, like a new year where he's going to be older. He's talking a ton of. And we're like, we're gonna start doing stuff, I think, together this year that's a little more complicated and fun. And I'm also. I think, personally, I'm excited to put more tools on things. I got into a good stretch there when I had the Subaru where I was, like, working on the car and I was doing stuff with my hands, and that was really fun. And then I got rid of the Subaru and I lost that completely. I want to get back to, like, I'M excited to work on stuff. And one of the things on this new house that was such a big selling point for me is I have a huge garage and I have like a work. A dedicated, like, workshop area. It's just a little side part in the garage, but I have like a workbench and a toolbox and I can like have projects where I don't have to pull the cars out of the garage to work on them and then clean it back up and pull the cars back into the garage. Every time I'm. It's like I have an area, I can just have a little project. If I have a glue up, it can just sit somewhere and dry in clamps and I don't have to like, I'm excited. And James is getting to the age where he's going to be able to help me do that. Maybe we'll build a birdhouse or, you know, who knows what. But like, that's awesome. That sort of stuff. It's been a lot of moving and not that I don't like my computer because I still play a lot of video games. I spend too much time sitting at this thing. I need to spend more time, like, making stuff, working on things.
C
Yeah, you'll play Arc Raiders later.
A
I mean, I do. Oh, yeah. Really played very much that.
C
Yeah, we should get away from the computer. But like, if you want to play.
A
I'm also excited for video games. I'm still really into that. I think I told you guys about that hockey game.
B
Getting really into that.
A
I have custom. I have a fully custom keybind set for that now I'm getting into it, man. Practicing. I'm a mediocre goaltender, but I used to be a hopelessly awful goaltender.
C
Mediocre is an improvement.
A
It's way better than I was. I just still stink.
C
But would you say mediocre is less than average or right about average?
A
Mediocre falls just under average for me, I think.
B
Yeah. Mediocre has like a negative connotation to it.
A
It's like you might be average, but like, everyone sees you worse than average or you're a little like, you come in just a little low.
C
Well, hey, maybe in 2026 you'll be.
A
Average or better if I keep working on it. I should just spend more time on my computer, like I was saying.
C
Yes.
B
I'm actually looking forward to spending more time on my computer doing YouTube videos and just generally being back to how.
C
Many videos do you think you've released in the last year or two?
B
Dude, not enough. I'M stunned that people are still sticking around. I know that people have been very kind and patient. They understand what I'm doing. But I feel like I've. I've really pushed the limit of how patient an audience can be. I'm just so grateful that I've accrued any kind of loyalty through any of this to try to wait for me to be done with this. But I truly. Not for the sake of, like, oh, I got to keep up with being a YouTuber. I find it very cathartic to make videos. I find it extremely. The habit of it, the ritual of it, the completion. When you're done with a video and it's out, it's just like the cycle is a beautiful, fun thing for me. And it's. It's very low pressure at this point because I've never been the type of. Was like, I have to make this banger viral video. Thankfully, in my. My niche of YouTube, I don't have to do that. I've, however, channeled all that into the movie. But I just. I want to be able to just play video games, make random bullshit videos. I've got that Wharf Stash sequel that I've wanted to do forever. I've got tons of things that I've just had stupid ideas for. Yeah, I can't wait. Oh, it's going to be so fun.
A
Not to focus too much on the movie, but it just struck me. How do you think it compares the. This is obviously longer, but the movie and how that impacted your YouTube versus unus annus. Because when you guys were doing that, that was very consuming as well in its own sort of way. And that was also during the pandemic and a bunch of crazy. Like, that was a crazy timeline that that happened. But like, how. How do you compare those? Because I know that Unus Annus put a dent in your personal YouTube stuff as well.
B
I would actually say that was not so much a dent that actually reinvigorated my YouTube channel because it was still content that I was. Was a direct correlation. YouTube wise to be like, if it wasn't on my channel, people could check, you know, Unus Honest for that content. So they got that fix out of it. There were some people that were like, I wish you would play more games, but I was honestly doing more videos on my main channel than I am now with the movie and that. So it's honestly, that was probably way better time for it.
A
Well, now you can do Tunis on us. I know you've been waiting on that. Yay.
B
I'M shocked. We did the fucking five year stream. Like, I don't know how that was all Amy. And he's been pulling that together. Like, my God, I can't believe we did that. Yeah, that's just like in playing games with you guys. Oh, just.
C
We'll get back to it. We'll get there.
B
Time, time.
C
I'm getting off topic. You ever get to a point where we kind of like video games? I thought I'd be there by now and I was kind of there in college a little bit, but I've bounced back to the point where I'm like, I'm just always looking forward to or playing or enjoying so many games.
A
I think the thing for me is it's. If I stayed stuck on what I. I used to just play the same game. Like there was a period where for like a couple years where basically all I played was pubg. And then if other people invited me to play other stuff, I would do that. And I was like obsessed. I could just log on and play the same game day after day after day. And that was like what I looked forward to. I can't do that anymore as much. But there's so many. There's such a wide. There are so many different kinds of games. It's such a wide world. You don't just have to go play AAA games. And like, I play Fortnite. There's nothing wrong with going and playing a big popular game. But also I play indie physics simulation sports games and I play weird racing management games. And like, there's just. There's no end to the kind of you can find. I don't think I'll get tired of it. As long as I just keep. There's always new stuff. As long as I keep it. Keep finding new things. Like, people are making cool games. There's a lot of cool games.
C
People have been on me to go back to blueprints. I think. I think I might do it.
B
What's stopping you? I thought you loved that game.
A
You wouldn't shut up about it.
C
Okay, it's a bit. I thought I finished the game. I got to an ending and I was like, okay, I guess it's done. Like, it just. It goes from like, solve, solve, solve, figure it all out to like, what I thought was like, okay, I don't know if that's the ending I was hoping for, but it was an ending. I did it. And then apparently there was another thing I unlocked. I guess you guys probably don't care about spoilers at this point. Spoiler alert. You spend a lot of money, and you unlock this upgrade that allows you to find hints on row eight. So you have to build all the way up to row eight. And if you put blue rooms on that row, there's hidden hints in those rooms. There's, like, 40 blue rooms. So in order to move on to the next point, what I have to do is work my way up to row 8 and spawn each of these 40 rooms, find the hint, and then figure out which ones are important, which ones mean nothing. And that will apparently lead me into whatever the next puzzle is. And I'm not gonna lie, When I thought I was done and then I learned that that's the tedious thing I have to do next, I was kind of like, maybe I am done. You know, I feel pretty good. Good ending, happy. Don't know if that's. That's a hell of a grind, because it's not like the hints are obvious to find in the rooms either. And some of the rooms, they really want to spawn early, so it's hard to save them till later. So I just really wasn't looking forward to that amount of grind for what I don't imagine will be that big of a payoff. But enough people have asked where it's now. Like, I miss blueprints. They want it. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
B
I have no idea what you were even talking about. Half of that if row eight, I think I generally understand. But then the blue rooms.
C
So you build up, right? You start on row 1, 2, 3. You get to build all the way.
B
Up to where rooms and checking them. And I don't know. I didn't make it past row three, so I don't think there actually is any more mansion.
C
Okay. Different rooms have different colors. So, like, bad rooms are red. Bedrooms are purple. Garden rooms are green. Your standard. Like, your. The. The standard rooms are blue. So.
B
Okay, I see blue rooms are like the den.
C
The. Whatever that little corner room is called. It's been so long since I play. I'm gonna look so bad when I go back.
A
The parlor.
C
Parlor, probably. That's one. Yeah, I think so.
A
So what is this, like, a chess simulator? I literally have not ever watched this game for even a moment. I have no idea what you're talking about.
C
It's my game. I know this comes out after game awards, but it's my. I didn't play Claire Obscure Expedition 33, and I'm sure that one will probably win because I hear only great things, but blueprints like, it Was such a unique, interesting experience for me. It's my game of the decade so far.
B
Game of the decade.
A
Damn. We're only halfway through, man. Dang.
C
I said so far. But. But I mean it. Truly one of the best experiences I've had making YouTube videos was playing Blueprints 2026. I'm looking forward to maybe. Maybe giving people what they want with that. And the five people still holding out hope are be like. Like, yes. GTA 6 supposed to come out next year.
B
Yeah, right.
A
I know.
C
I think it's just gonna be. GTA 5's gonna release on the Soulja console or something. Did you guys ever go to LA Commedia in Cincinnati, like a dinner theater? I think Milford schools took us on, like, a trip there once for like a Christmas thing or something, like a play. But basically it's like a dinner theater. You go and you watch a play.
B
And someone's talked about this, I think maybe one of Amy's friends.
C
Okay. I've also mentioned it because I like on there there. I'm hoping I booked tickets to go see a show there next year. So I'm excited to go back there because I've not been in a while, and they have, like, of all things, cod and, like, chicken, ham. I'm looking forward to the meal. The show as well. The shows are always great, but.
B
Oh, I thought it was Call of Duty. I was like.
A
I thought you meant Call of Duty for a second.
C
Oh, yeah. They're playing cod on stage. No, like, actual fish. So I got things I'm excited about for next year. Yeah. I'm not trying to shoot that down. You should be excited about that.125 can suck it. 0.26 gonna be great. Gonna make it. I'm willing it to be great.
A
I appreciate the optimism.
B
There's every chance that it won't be great at all, actually.
A
It's just a long odds that it's actually going to be great. But I appreciate that your shit'll happen.
C
You know, always happens. But, like, overall, I'm gonna get the end of 2026. Be like, it's a year. Good year. I'm willing. It maybe been rambling a lot. Is there anything else you guys want to throw in there? I guess I can. Yeah.
B
Whose turn is it?
C
You?
B
Oh, I'm looking forward to learning Korean again and working out both of these things. So of the good habits that I had before I started filming Iron Lung, I was working out, like, I. You know, I was in some, like, probably the longest arc of Good Shape I've been in in my life. Right. Because it was since post doing this. Honest. I had been working out constantly. Like, almost every week. I had worked out with a few breaks in between, but it was, like, enough to maintain my ability. Like, I would bench two plates, which I know is not a lot for a lot of people, but it's like, I was benching two plates for a.
A
Little guy like you. That's a lot.
B
Okay. All right.
A
I didn't mean short. I meant scrawny.
B
I was inclined benching two plates.
A
Oh, shit. Okay. Well, that's harder. Yeah. Okay.
C
Thanksgiving. I cleared three.
B
I don't know if this is true. A lot of people that work out. I was told that bench press actually is a very bad exercise for you, and if you were wanting to do any actual real work, you had to do incline bench, because that's more practical and more. I don't know. Anyway, so we did incline bench instead of just regular bench all the time. And so that's just what we did. But I was in good shape. Now nothing. It's all gone. It's like, by only the grace of just the fact that I naturally carry more muscles, I have the illusion that I'm in shape. I went up a flight of stairs. I had to lay down. It was just so tired at the end of it. I can't exaggerate. I am so, like, I have a hill, and I go climb it to go get a package. I am done. I'm done for the day.
C
Climbing up that hill, eh.
A
It's just awful.
B
So.
C
Yeah. Hey, we are getting older, man. I feel. I'm glad you're finally catching up to me.
B
That's. That's the thing, though, is, like, I am getting older, so it's like I have to keep up with it now or I'm never gonna get anything back again.
C
That's the spirit. I want to pick up jump roping, of all things. I hear jump roping can be really good.
A
That's supposed to be so good for you.
C
If you jump the right way and don't, like, destroy your ankles and knees, like, there's a proper way to kind of do it. It. I've also. I don't know how good this one is. Probably not great for you, but I've heard another one that's decently good is. And. And quick is you sprint, like, 90% of your top speed. You sprint for, like, 10 to 15 seconds, walk for, like, a minute, minute and a half, sprint for 10, 15 seconds, walk for nine. Like, you do that like four or five times. It'd be incredibly difficult. That's actually a long time to try to run top speed and then multiple sets. But like, I hear that one's actually pretty good for you too.
B
Sprint training is very good for you, but also it's one of those things like, yeah, you can make it so efficient. You'll get your workout in no time. And then you do one sprint and I'm like, I'm never, ever, ever sprinting again.
A
Ever.
C
We have a weird Thanksgiving tradition. I know Thanksgiving was a while ago now, but we have a weird Thanksgiving tradition blooming where my nephews want to race me. Like they want to do like a hundred meter type dash.
A
Sure.
C
And I've won two years in a row. And they're, they go to the gym every day, they work out. They're not as tall as me, they're not like mark size or they're human sized people. So they really run. Fuck, man. I can't believe I'm still winning because there's just so much younger and healthier and stuff than me. But I still out sprint them. But the difference is I win the sprint. And they're like, ah, good one, Uncle Wade. We'll get you next year. And I'm like five minutes of. Yeah, still got it. And like 10 minutes later I'm like, all right, I'm okay. And they forgot we even ran because it was so long ago and I've still been out of breath. Breath. So still got the top speed. No endurance whatsoever.
B
Good for you. I'm still reeling over human sized people. What am I then?
C
Fun sized?
B
Okay, well that sounds, it's okay. I can deal with that. Human sized people Bob.
C
Optimism.
A
Oh, you know what happens next year? This is actually planned. It's, it's kind of a, a work trip, but not completely a work trip. And what's ultimately going to happen is we're going to get to take James to Disney. He's a little young and a little small, but he should be tall enough to be able to ride some of the kids rides. And we're going to be able to do I think one or two days in the Disney parks in Florida. So that's going to be pretty fun. And also Mandy has never been to Disney in Florida either. Disney World. She's done Disneyland out in California. But I'm kind of looking forward to that. I need to like get in shape for that. You guys were just sorry about this, but walking, walking around slash herding James around a theme park sounds exhausting. Just thinking about it and so that'll be fun. But I'm hoping he likes the rides. I'm pretty. I think there's a decent chance we're going to get on basically any ride we get on. We're going to sit down and he's going to be like, ooh. And then it's going to start moving or it's going to. There's going to be like a dark room and he's just going to be terrified and it's going to be like, it's okay, it's okay. Stop screaming. There's only five minutes left. It's okay. I'm. We'll find something. We'll find his ride.
B
There are some of those dark rides. Like, we went to Universal with my family. I've never been there, but they got the Harry Potter one and. And that one is just like, I don't do drugs. But if I did, I would say, don't do drugs and go on that. It's the most. It is the whiplash you get from what's happening. Like, you're in a cave, you're out of cave, and there's an explosion for some reason. I think a cruise Tomahawk missile goes by at some point. Like, then you're. You crash through the window of Hogwarts Harry Potter go. And then he said. I didn't know what he said. A snitch goes by.
C
I love when he said that in the movies.
A
I don't know.
B
Yeah, it's. It's just the most absurd thing. There's so much that they cram in because Universal in Hollywood or LA is much smaller than the one in Florida. So I think the Florida one is a normal experience and this one is the condensed tiny experience. But yeah, those ones would terrify a child, I imagine.
C
If you go down there, dude, I think it's the places called the, like S A N A A Sanaa Sana Sana. No, no. At Disney and Animal Kingdom, it was like some of the best butter chicken I ever had in my life.
A
They had like.
C
They had all kinds of flavored, like naan bread and stuff. It was so good.
A
Is this in the park?
C
No, it's actually at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, I think. But if I was going down there, I would go out of my way for it. It was really good. Also underrated Animal. Animal Kingdom was the best park we went to. Cause it was like, no, wait. And they had a roller coaster. They had like the safari thing. And like, you could go see all the animals while you were on the safari, there was a lot of cool stuff.
A
I' surprised at how overlooked the animal kingdom gets. I think it's the best park or at the very least one of the top parks at the in the whole place. It's fantastic, it's very fun. But there's never like, I've been a couple other times. There's never been lines. It's always like not as busy as the other ones. It's crazy.
C
Three hours for like the two minute Star wars ride or ride that yeti roller coaster on repeat because there's three people on in line for it. I had to look up the place like what is the name of that place that had the butter chicken? Because I've been craving it for, for six years or whatever it's been. I want it so bad. That's cool though. Going to Disney. James is going to be how old when you guys are there?
A
He turns 3 tomorrow as of this recording.
C
I don't know how much he'll remember eventually, but hopefully at least he enjoys it right now. I went when I was like five and I didn't remember a whole lot.
A
We're definitely still. We're at the point right now where we're like, is he going to remember this or should we? Is this a waste of effort? But like for his birthday, right? We're like, he's probably not going to remember this, but we still want to. Like it could be special for us and for pictures and stuff, but really.
C
Annoying for you guys. But something I really appreciated whenever I went to Disney, whenever I was a kid. My aunt came with my grandparents, my dad and stuff and she filmed. I don't, I don't know if you're still allowed to, but she filmed like everything. Just always had like a camcorder out and filmed the different experiences. So like I got to see myself react to like seeing the different mascots and meeting like Goofy and things like that.
A
I mean that's so much more doable now than it used to be. I'm sure that was the unbelievable pain in the ass back when you were a kid.
C
But yeah, she had the whole giant like VHS shoulder mounted camera. Yeah, it was a whole giant pain in the ass for her. But I really appreciated later in life getting to see that video and getting to watch that experience. So anyway, my two cents for whatever it's worth.
A
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C
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A
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B
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C
All right, any last minutes before I wrap up? I keep keep rambling, keep going off topic, but that's okay.
A
Nope.
C
All right, that's it. 2026 will be a great year. All of you guys out there. Be a great year. Will it into existence.
B
I think that's how it works. Yeah.
C
Let me go over points in no particular order. I gave Molly a point for dealing with me because I gave Mandy a point for being locked in a room and dealing with Bob not answering his phone. I gave Amy a point for being locked out by Mark and another point for making the Iron Lung website site. Bob, you got points for locking Mandy in a room. Your ear. Looking forward to James Garage projects. I can't read what this one says. And I'll figure out what that one says in a minute. Disney. Bringing you to a total of six points. Mark, you got points for locking out Amy Render Farm. Shame. Iron Lung is done. Iron Lung in theaters everywhere. Because it will be everywhere. Learning Korean again. Appreciating. Bob and I accommodating your schedule.
A
Oh, we're still reading Mark's points. Okay, that's not good for me.
B
Yeah, I'm crushing it closer than you'd think.
A
Oh, good.
C
I once again can't read that point. It looks like Mutt. And then working out again. Right now, the score is Mark with eight, Bob with six, Amy with two, Mandy with one, Molly with one.
B
Oh, I see the nine points distributed at the beginning. Four of those were to the significant others.
C
They put up with a lot.
A
Well, shall I spin the wheel?
B
No.
A
Oh, okay, then. That's the episode. Play the theme song, roll the credits. How many points will it be? If I was a betting man, I'd bet on three.
B
No.
A
Oh, well, I lost my bet. It's two.
C
Let's add put so through the most, which I don't know which one of you two put your. So through the most recently. I guess technically it would be. You would be the most recent because the Amy story was from a while ago, right?
B
Yeah, that was a while ago.
A
Yeah. All right, two spins coming in hot. Let's be prepared to land something on the wheel that we don't even remember exists. Most locked in.
C
Definitely not me.
B
Is this the one where we have to share how many tabs we have open?
C
Yes.
A
Do you have tabs open, Mark?
B
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
C
Bob gets a point.
B
19, 20, 21. And I had. Just before we started counting, I had done a control w spam of, like, closing a bunch.
A
I will say all I have open is our call and an empty Google tab because I hadn't really used it for much. But I did send a couple texts over the course of the episode responding to people, because I made a post on Twitter about how I was in the hospital and then didn't tell any family or friends anything. And so a bunch of people are like, hey, are you alive? Is that cool? Yeah.
C
I saw late last night that you were in the hospital because people were like, oh, man. Wade and Bob going through it. Because I can't. I didn't stream last night because of the stomach bug. And they're like, wade and Bob going through. It's like, what Bob going through. Then I see your post at a hospital. I was like, what the hell?
A
It's fine. I'm fine. It's fine.
C
Like, man, I wish I was that good of a Mark friend where I'd go to the hospital to promote his movie.
A
I meant to tell this during the small talk. I had the funniest eavesdropping last night in the hospital, or not last night, night before. But fuck, there was. There's this dude who walked in with his. It was clearly a college guy and two buddies, and his hand was all wrapped up and bloody, and he walked the ER and they got him into a room, like, down the hall, whatever. But the door was open and the doctor went in and was looking at it. And, like, you couldn't really hear, but you could kind of hear like, oh, no, no. Can you move it like this? Good. And the guy's like, no. And the doctor's like, okay, okay. Yeah. And it was a knife. Okay. Did you stab or was it more of a slice? Hmm. Okay. Okay. I don't know what those guys did. They were having a hell of a night. One of them or all of them was probably drunk. It was just really funny. Like, I wasn't trying to overhear, but clearly some crazy shit had happened. I hope that guy's hand is okay.
C
The people watching and listening can be op sometimes.
A
Let's get a tie. Let's get weighed. Oh, did either of us lose any points?
C
No. No lost points. That's a respin.
A
That's a respin. Spin number three of two. Three of two. Fastest response.
B
Me. I'm responding. What was it?
A
If that's a test, he does have me on that one. That was very nice. I would agree. I don't know if that really came up otherwise in this episode. So I kind of feel like Mark just absolutely jumped all over that one.
B
I totally did. Yes. Thank you.
C
You know what? I'll give it because it prevents me from having a tie. Yay. Well done.
B
Thank you.
C
And it's not because I don't want to host a one man show, but it's definitely because of that.
A
It would be a great one man show. You'd be fine.
C
Guys, you're so sweet, but no, it's okay. Congratulations, Mark. You had the fastest response. So with nine points, you want to give a winner speech?
B
Yes, I do. Hey, I want to give a shout out to you at home for being such loyal listeners and or viewers of this show. We've been going about six years strong.
C
Something like that.
B
Six years. If you count three peens.
C
Oh, if you count three peens. Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
We've been going six years strong doing this and it's gotten only funnier. Never less funny. Each episode better than the last. Never a stinker. Not here. Not with the guy that forgets the rules sometimes. Times of his own games that would never happen. But hey, you've stuck through every good episode and somehow survived the unending laughter we've provided to you. Kudos to you.
C
It is funny how the rules are the most arbitrary thing that we just came up with on a random episode or two. People get real into, like, Wade and Bob have that handshake deal they've had for eight months and they haven't redeemed it. And Mark owes Bob a point from 202024 that he hasn't redeemed. It's like, y', all, I don't know that we'll ever take it seriously enough to remember that.
B
Is there a handshake too? I kind of forgot about that.
C
No, no, no, there's not.
A
Bob.
C
Loser speech.
A
I feel pretty good considering that I. I'm down an ear and I'm sort of Zoed out right now. I feel like I did pretty well. I hung in there, you know, I put up a fight. I contributed. It's weird. Hair and everything. Only in my. Do you guys have a dominant ear? Not to get back into a topic. Do you have a dominant ear?
C
I definitely have a dominant eye. I've never noticed if I have a dominant ear.
A
I feel like my left ear is my good ear. Like, I hear. I hear in stereo, but I feel like my left ear is my good ear. And that's the one that's all screwed up and I can't hear out of right now. It's so weird for me to hear out of, like my secondary ear. Everything. It's all fucking. Anyway, considering everything, I'm happy with my performance. I feel good. Thanks for having me.
C
Well said. I don't know why I said that like that, but I did.
A
Were you just trying to make sure I could hear you?
C
Yeah. I want to make sure it came in the other ear. Yeah. Well said.
A
Thank you.
C
You're welcome.
A
What?
C
You're welcome.
A
Fucking. I swear to God. James learned how to whisper in the last 48 hours and he's been running up to me and whispering into my ear. I can't hear out of. So he just comes up and he just goes and then runs away. And I'm like, man, I hope that's not important. Important. All right, have fun, buddy.
C
You can play with knives.
A
I pooped in my pants.
C
Good episode, boys. I guess. Stay tuned for the next one where Bob will host. I'm sorry, Mark will host, and Bob and I will compete for points.
A
A surprise victory.
C
It's a human sized w. Oh, come on, man. If you haven't already, go follow us on our other their social medias and youtubes and whatnot. Mark at markiplier, Bob at mysker, me at Minion 777 or Lordminion 777. I guess we'll see what Mark has up his sleeves since he won the next one. And until then, podcast out. Merch. Breath of merch.
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Yeah, merch.
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Podcast out again. Re out. Repodcast. Re out.
Hosts: Mark Fischbach (Mark), Wade Barnes (Wade), Bob Muyskens (Bob)
Episode Summary by Theme, Highlights, and Timestamps
In “Will It Into Existence,” the Distractible trio—Mark, Wade, and Bob—dive into a reflective, goofy, and surprisingly heartfelt discussion about the past year’s struggles and the optimism they’re trying to summon for 2026. The conversation weaves together stories of personal hardships, support among friends, family milestones, and future ambitions. The core theme: How they’ll “will” the coming year to be great, embracing both small joys and the relief of putting big projects behind them.
Wade and "Bald":
Wade opens the show joking about how people keep sending him baldness cures and supportive bald communities. He discusses how losing hair has affected his self-esteem, poking fun at how quickly the “comb over” sneaks up on you.
Bob’s Medical Misadventure & Mandy’s Plight:
Bob recounts a severe ear infection that sent him to the ER and left his face swollen and jaw lopsided. Meanwhile, his wife Mandy got accidentally locked in a room without a doorknob at their old house—with no internet and a near-escape using Command hooks.
Mark Locks Out Amy:
Mark shares a story about accidentally locking Amy in the garage overnight—and how she forgot to just ring the doorbell.
Supportive Friendships:
The trio joke about hair, hosting the podcast, and their dynamic—underscoring long-lived banter but also mutual support.
Iron Lung Release & DIY Challenges:
Mark details the wild grassroots effort to get his movie "Iron Lung" into theaters: fans directly emailing theaters, confusion over possible bot-generated requests, and the logistical tangles of indie distribution. He gives a heartfelt shout-out to Amy for building the website coordinating showings.
Mark’s Homebrew Render Farm Fiasco:
Mark describes the slapdash (but effective!) cluster of computers powering the film’s simulations, which Reddit’s Home Lab roasted. He discusses learning as he went, defending his janky setup:
(Wade’s Prompt, 21:28)
(38:27)
Mark on Reclaiming Habits:
Wade’s Family “Sprint” Tradition:
On Support Networks:
On the “Year” Concept:
On Baldness:
Disney World Planning & Parenting Fears:
Bob discusses taking James to Disney for the first time, and both Mark and Wade share their own park and parenting memories, touching on food recs and attraction anxiety.
Podcast Rules & Points – Meta Banter:
The episode is quintessentially Distractible: self-deprecating, honest, and irreverent. The hosts’ camaraderie is front and center—balancing good-natured roasting, vulnerability, advice, and immature gags. There’s warmth in the way they acknowledge one another’s struggles and growth, with humor even in the darkest moments.
“The thing I’m looking forward to in 2026… it’s not that the movie is coming out. It’s that the movie’s done. I don’t have to think about it anymore.”
— Mark (21:43)
“I’m excited for more James… It’s been tough, but I’m excited for another year, a new year where he’s going to be older.”
— Bob (27:35)
“2026 gonna be great. Gonna make it—I’m willing it to be great.”
— Wade (38:04)
For new and returning listeners alike, this episode is a dose of relatable reflection, goofball energy, and real-life optimism—Distractible at its best.