Hoopst Was First?

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1:24That's W-A-Y-F-A-I-R dot com. Way fair, every style, every home. Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Bummer Bob laughs at blubbering, burns with a black stone, and propounds a game of provenance. White Wade forgets Mark's lung, barely avoids surgery bros, then supports Sputnik, Dooku, and Flammables. Anti-Monarchist Mark, Witnesses Universal's Mogging, Parachute Pandemonium, The Baghdad Battery, and Balls. From Cocoa Millennials to Cocaine. Yes! It's time for Hoopst was first. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Distractable, the show that many have called Cocoa Melon for Millennials.

2:26Yes, no one's ever said that. What is that? You know what Cocoa Melon is? It's a thing on YouTube for kids. It's like lots of fast motion and it's brain rot. Great stuff if you want to slowly go insane and hate what's happening around you. I thought it was like chocolate covered watermelon or something. But kids love it, just like everyone else loves this show. That's the main takeaway. I am your host, Bob, because that's my name. The way the show works is the host does some sort of thing, game maybe, topic, discussion. The other two fellers compete, and the winner between those two hosts the next one.

3:04So I won the last one. I am hosting this one, and my competitors for today are Mark and Wade. Hello, it's me! Yeah! It's Mark and apparently a statue of Wade. Welcome to the show, everybody. Everybody's looking really alive and definitely human, especially Wade. I have what I think is going to be a real stinker. It's not good. I was going to say a real stinker of a game. No, it's not going to be stinky at all. This game smells great. This game is going to be the best smelling game we've ever played. I could never be. Sam, zoom in on my face. You see this face? I could never be sad. I'm so excited to be here.

3:41Can't wait for this episode, Bob. I'm gonna give Wade a preemptive pity point because I have a good feeling about Mark for today Yeah Before we get to my absolutely shitty useless piece of crap game apparently Uh, how are we let's do small talk? How's everybody doing? How was your time since we last spoke which was not quite a week this time, but boy was it a not busy not quite a week everything is coming up markiplier i think which is an expression that people had to explain on the subreddit or not this i can't remember it was this subreddit or or my subreddit um but i i i said that in a stream like everything's coming up markiplier and someone was very concerned made a post that was just like what the fuck is this a reference to what what does this mean is this some cryptic hint for a future project and someone would be like no i'm not saying shit i'll guess it right yeah wait what does it mean okay coming up markiplier you've done heist you've done space what if you're coming up by going down into the ocean his favorite place go on air comes up in the ocean because density and so well maybe air maybe i'm gonna make a movie about a submarine or something and in an ocean ah wait you're so close nothing tremendously exciting has happened which is kind of a good thing there was fourth of july where we watched the universal fireworks from outside of the park which was so funny because it was the universal fireworks and we were there it was going to be like nine o 'clock we were watching it from a building across the way and it was like oh it's going and then they got absolutely mugged by this like it was a country club or a golf course or something where a bunch of like golf dads got a bunch of fireworks together the universal one was over in like 10 minutes it was supposed to be 20 and then it was just like 10 minutes and then this other one went on for like 40 minutes like and the finale was like everywhere it was awesome that's pretty silly i'll take credit for the 4th of july uh wade cannot use that anymore for his small talk um i the america's 250th did you guys see the video of the the paraglider coming in or the parachuter coming into that one country fair i don't know if he got hurt horribly but it's like he's trailing a big american flag and it's like and then but there's a lead weight at the bottom of the flag to keep it like taut and it gets caught on a tree and he's just coming into the stadium for like a football stadium or something or a small one like a high school one it catches just like straight down and like fulcrum right into this like uh pop-up tent it's uh i hope he's not hurt horribly but it is comedic how fast it was like better like a simpsons moment or a family guy cut away that's the second incident this year or was it last year that the guy was going to like the college football stadium or whatever it was and like got stuck on the scoreboard that was i think this past college football season but that was just normal parachute shenanigans that wasn't i I have the video if you want to see it.

6:52Only if you just hold up your phone to the camera, and that's how we have to watch it. I don't have any more apps like that on my phone. That was another thing I did is I deleted all. Oh, Lord. What do you do when you poop? Just sit there? You sit to poop? What the hell? I don't poop in the urinals. No, yeah. So this describes it as horrifying. So I'm hoping that he's okay. But you be the judge of whether it's horrifying. I mean, that's a really epic shot. And. Pish. Oh. He's not coming away completely unscathed from that. Oh, he's up. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several many broken things, but he seemed to be moving.

7:31I'm going to say he survived, so it's okay that we could kind of laugh about it a little bit. He's got a helmet and a big pack in front of him, so that probably took most of the impact. It really is like it hooks on the tree. There's a moment of like, and then an animator could not make it funnier than what actually happened. He was standing, so I'm sure he's fine. 250, baby! 250 years! We did it, and everything's going great. Got a good soccer team. They're doing great. I don't care about soccer, so I've checked. I assume we're going to win that. I have been enjoying seeing all the international people enjoying America for the first time.

8:12That's always a fun thing. There's a German guy who started to cry on camera like a little baby. about what like food or something or was it the beauty just they were like interviewing him like it was it was like a local news and they're like oh you're having a good time he's like yeah yeah no i hang on no he's like it's okay it's okay with it he's like i just really love this country america i thought i was gonna get shot i thought there was gonna be lots of crime i thought it was terrible it's the best america's i love america i can't believe it he's like tearing up and the news guy was kind of like okay you're not in like a cool part of america you're this is like kansas or something like i don't it was somewhere like in the midwest no specific shots of kansas you're fine kansas um but yeah it's been it's been good to see all that it's really embarrassing that universal got dunked on by a bunch of golf guys at their country club that might be what it would have been but i looked on the map and that was the only place yeah It could have been an official thing, but I was like, man, Universal really needed to step it up.

9:16Universal only had one plan, and the golf guys put a hole in one. I'm on three hours of sleep. Saying it's not going to get you any more pity points, but I do appreciate that. Do you have any small talk you want to talk about? So Mark claimed 4th of July. I just throw out 4th of July. It was great. Went over to Bob and Mandy's not once, but twice that day. Had a great time. Swam in the largest hot tub in the Midwest. But we all know the real news. Tay Tay and Tratrat got married. Oh my God. Oh my God. I don't really know anything about it though. That's not my real small talk. Wait, Mark, were you not invited to that?

9:51How embarrassing for you. Is that why you went to Bob's twice? Because they got married over at Bob's and you were there for the... Yeah, I had to go for the reception ceremony. That was where the real ceremony was. All the Madison Square Garden stuff was a distraction. Gave away bags and apparently they gave away cakes outside. But there's still, there's a lot of people are mad they got married because they have money. Rich people are supposed to get married, I think. I don't know. I didn't get the gist of the argument, but it was something like that. Now, my real news is x-ray, MRI, lots of doctor's visits, cortisone shot, physical therapy.

10:25But mayhaps I'm dodging surgery. My knee, no torn ligaments, no torn meniscus, just a defect in the cartilage, whatever that means. That's causing a lot of inflammation and pain pain. I got a cortisone shot yesterday And I start physical therapy next Monday When this airs I will be going to physical therapy Isn't it a mystical realm? I don't know where it is Because I don't even know where I am I shall be secreted away If that doesn't work after 4-6 weeks We're going to revisit Is the term labroscopic surgery Where they just go and clean things up? Laproscopic Yeah they're pros Not amateur scopic Labroscopic surgery Surgery.

11:07This ain't no cum amateur surgery. Can I just add some context to this? You've had your shoulder thing for a while, and I know that that hurts you sometimes, but you're pretty much fine. If something happened, it's not like you would be. That would stop you from fighting for your life or something. He came over. We did hang out, and when he got to the house, he really wobbled very slowly in. I assumed he would just walk in and be like, ah, my knee's jacked up. He was like, you seem like you need surgery. I really thought it was a torn meniscus. I'm not going to lie. I really expected that. But it seems like your knee is way worse than you have been selling it as.

11:46Because we do these sitting down. So presumably, you know, like that doesn't really affect your ability to sit. But I hope it actually gets better because it seems way, way worse than I sort of was thinking it was. Dude, I am so used to. I did not realize how much I just flew around the house like a psychopath, like skipping steps, running up and down the stairs and stuff, jumping over things, having to move like this. I feel 90 years old. I'm like, here's a step one foot, two foot, breathe one foot to like clinging onto the handrail. Yeah, it's not good. Yeah. No, it seems pretty serious. I really thought there was some kind of tear, so I'm really glad there's not.

12:24But apparently whatever this cartilage defect is, is causing that area to be inflamed, pushing things outward, which is causing other areas to inflame, which I guess is why I'm feeling all the extra pain. But we're hoping that PT, the anti, I'm getting some kind of strong anti-inflammatory. I've been on prednisone a couple of times, but now we're doing something else. The physical therapy, I got the cortisone shot and hopefully that'll do it. If not, they'll have to go in and do something surgically to clean it up. But even if they do, it's still not as bad as a hair. So any luck, I'll be back to backing up Joe Burrow soon.

12:54What position on the bench are you like fifth or sixth? what's the line of succession to get to bangles qb for everybody i ever heard term 54th man wait how many are there supposed to be on a team 53 oh okay i see i see i'm right there i'm next in line like yeah i'm basically next in line after practice squad it's me there's an equipment guy sitting in the corner with a blank jersey and the letters to spell your name and a bunch of like needles and thread just like oh oh say the word oh i'm ready put me in coach i don't think i really have we hosted a party oh i got to use my blackstone i'm a blackstone guy now so that's pretty fun if you know what a blackstone is it's a griddle a cast iron flat top griddle and i made burgers and beer brats and hot dogs and bacon yesterday for dinner james was like i want a grilled cheese and i was like i could just make it on the stove like i always do or we could do the whole song and dance of going to the backyard and turn it on the blackstone and it was about the same as if I cooked it on the stove.

13:55But man, did I cook it outside. Thank God it's been great weather here, not ridiculously hot and humid. Yeah, I didn't sweat at all right onto his grilled cheese while I was slaving over the Blackstone. Just like I didn't sweat on any of the burgers or anything that I cooked on Saturday either. That did not happen. Is that why they had extra flavor? It all burns off. It just adds salt, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's basically just salt. Sam, screenshot Wade's face i want that just i want it it's tasty for my own reasons you can stop they they can take the screenshot you wait you can stop it i'm just contemplating how much of his food i ate i did i sweated elsewhere and then cooked the food we're basically twins now there's enough of your dna in me where we could just be brothers even chica didn't like that did you hear her barking at that.

14:49Stop, stop, stop. Hey, stop. I hate to tell you, but in kitchens, in like, you know, restaurants, it's hot in kitchens. And yeah, the chefs are sweating. That's why they wear those fancy hats. I don't wear hats anymore. It's not cool. Sweat on their heads only. You think you think they're not just going like this all the time? I figured the hats are just full of ice packs like the Wug costume, you know? Well, that's even worse. That's the ice that they have in the ice machine, they actually put that on their head first and then put it in your drink. Yeah. So, uh, and Wade never enjoyed a restaurant again.

15:21I'll forget about it in five minutes. Thanks. I've got a terrible memory. Uh, anyway, you guys want to play a fun game about dates and years and inventions. And I'm pretty sure we haven't done this before. This episode is brought to you by chat GPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons podcast. Have you guys heard about chat GPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports. Get started at ChatGPT.com by selecting work mode available on Plus and Pro plans.

16:03I'm going to pretend like it's new, even if it is something we've done before, because I love you. I won't remember what the hell we did if we did. so it won't matter to me it will be new to me we're just going to talk about some stuff that we're all that we're all familiar with none of this is super technical or anything those are all going to be things in the world that we're familiar with but i'm going to give you two options and you're going to have to guess which one was invented first and it's as easy as it sounds there's no trick to this it's as easy as it sounds i'm going to flip a coin to see who gets to go first.

16:37Wadey is the lady and Mark is the lion. It hurts! It's painful! Oh, what are they doing to me? Hey! Lady. That's Wadey. Alright, Wade gets to go first. Wade, which one of these was invented first? I really feel like who goes second has a good chance if it's two options and I get it wrong. There's no, like, stealing on this one. You're right. It would be a pretty easy... I was like, man, that's a hell of a disadvantage going first, actually. Only Wade could get that wrong in one or the other choice competition where he gets to go second and doesn't pay attention to know what the first guess was.

17:16I'd be mad, but you're not wrong. Wade, which of these was invented first? Cell phone or GPS, like your Garmin that you stick in your car? Did you guys have those? I definitely had one of those at some point in my life. I don't know too much about when GPS came around. GPS typically I mean they both were like satellite right satellite phones satellite GPS so that is not how cell phones work no I thought the old ones that were in your car were like satellite based were they not it's not a cell phone that's not what we're talking about we're talking about cellular telephones I'm gonna go with GPS then because there have been satellites for a long time as ever here of Sputnik just to be clear I'm talking about commercially available consumer GPS units, not any satellites in space.

18:04But you locked your guess in, so we're going to go with GPS. Yeah, in that case, I'd like to lock in. Which is, of course, wrong. What about Sputnik? The first ever mobile cell phone prototype was invented in 1973. The first GPS satellite launched in 1978. Well, not with that attitude. Also, I don't know if you guys knew this, GPS is a U.S. technology. In other countries, they have different positional systems like the Kama Sutra it was like a DARPA program right it was like a yeah it's like a military funded thing then they were like wow this is really useful and then they let everyone use the satellites because we have that now good try Wade I'll take the point no Mark which one was invented first you're you you you've played one of these you're gonna be very familiar with this all right okay the piano or the guitar oh are we talking like the original Like as we know it version Are we talking like the harpsichord And the sitar You know the lute You know where we talking Is it one of those half horse half man Yes yes yes half horse half man half goat Half guitar as we all know Satire He's just raking up the points here Man how can I compete It's somewhere in the middle mark It's not like oh the first ever instance Of an instrument with strings But it's not like when did Fender start their business or anything like it's like when was the first recorded instance of the thing that basically looks like what we would know as a piano and what we would know as a guitar even though there are definitely some some differences as much as i want to say the piano it's probably the guitar just because it's easier so i imagine if there was something that was going to be made first unless it's the opposite because royalty and all the fucking kings and shit you know i've always said no kings i've always believed this you know i don't like monarchies in general i think that but they did fund the arts and the rich did fund the arts back in the day just to look cool though not for good reasons yeah but which art did they fund i'm gonna go with guitar just because and of course that is correct sweet i'll take the point the earliest version of what we would pretty much recognized as a guitar dates to somewhere in 16th century spain the piano dates back to around the turn of the 18th century somewhere around 1700 obviously there have been a lot of iterations and there are certainly things on the that before those specific instances where it's like if you looked at it you might be like wow that's basically a piano but uh this is look This isn't science.

20:44Okay, this is distractible. If you're making a bow and arrow and you actually tie two strings to it, you've made a guitar. Whereas a piano is a lot more intricate, you know? You should try that. You should do that and then learn to play Stairway to Heaven on it. And she's buying a stairway. Dong, dong. Wade, these next ones are something I think you're going to be very personally familiar with. I know that you're really into it. All right. Which was invented first? Sudoku or crossword puzzles? And just to translate it for you in case you're one of those people This is also the thing that's commonly Called Sudoku But that is not what it's called It's called Sudoku I have heard lots of people be like Oh I was doing one of those Sudokus Sudokus?

21:27Sudoku? Sudoku? Sudoku? You know people that just don't even try to pronounce things right You know that I think that makes everybody mad People that habitually just like say the wrong thing all the time Who would do yeah, you know what I mean? Nothing pisses off people more than that. I agree Bob That's a strong agreement no room for error All right, wait now that you've had time to Google it. Which one of these things came first? Do I look like the kind of guy smart enough to Google? No, you look like a duck duck go guy You're right. You look like an ass Jeeves guy not gonna lie. Look I'm bald Yeah I'm gonna put this in this kind of context where I'm thinking about it crossword puzzles you know or letters you put letters you make words and they have other words math is universal everyone needs math numbers in germany there are words that are like 500 letters long probably there's a lot of long words their crosswords puzzles be really hard other you know places do things with like i can't think of the term is it kanji like symbols and stuff i don't know if they do crosswords or not i don't know if that works yeah is kanji kanji is uh japanese symbols i don't know if that written language works the same because i've never studied it so i don't know if that works as for crossword type things.

22:36But numbers, everyone does numbers. Sudoku definitely came first. Locking that in? Locked. I don't do this with Mark. I don't know why, but with you, I feel obligated to have you lock it in. It must be a big hint that I'm wrong, but I'll take it. You said Sudoku was definitely invented first. No doubt. And of course, that is wrong. Okay. The first published crossword puzzle appeared in the New York world, Which I assume is a paper In 1913 Created by journalist Arthur Wynn Another puzzle inventor Howard Garns Published the first game of Sudoku In 1979 Wait Howard? Tell me Howard? Garns I always hated my great uncle Wait did he just steal the Japanese game or I have always wondered how How exactly Sudoku got its name I have to be honest I'm pulling most of these from a thing, so I'm trusting someone else to have done this research.

23:37I've been around on both my answers, then I stand by them. You guys are like, GPS is American. You know what GPS stands for? Global positioning. It was originally called Number Place. I don't know. It probably just sounded better. Maybe someone said, you go, dude. You missed under a hood. It was like Sudoku? That's a much better name than Number Box. It's just a bunch of people misinterpreting everybody. Yeah, even Wikipedia, which is the most trusted source I have on the internet these days Says it was Howard Garns, who was a retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor from Indiana A freelance puzzle constructor?

24:10Do you put an ad in the newspaper like, I can do puzzles, trust me He's out here puzzling for the love of the game, alright? He doesn't puzzle for money That's like Marcus, you know, he's just like, please let me put a code in here Please, I'm begging you, let me put a code in the DVD please i'll create a whole password input menu and i'm like i just people just want the movie man people just people just want the movie please so howard invented or maybe invented this version of it the puzzle was introduced in japan by maki kaji in 1984 uh and it was originally called in their publication i'm gonna pronounce this very wrong but something approximately like suji wa dokushin ni agiru, which was shortened to Sudoku, which the original name in Japanese meant the digits must be single.

25:04Mark, you have no reason to be offended. He was speaking Japanese and you're Hawaiian. The Japanese name actually came way later, but it was so fire that everyone was like, yeah, number play sucks ass, Howard. We're going to call it Sudoku. I call it you put the numbers in the box correctly. Number fun time game. Wade was wrong. Shocker. I'll take my point Mark you love science sure you know lots of things which came first vaccines or Batteries, I don't know why but I got a horrible flashback and I was just like ask the team the answer is asked to team It's a trick. It's all come full circle the treaty of Winnebago whose wall was it?

25:48Oh, hey Hadricks. Fuck. Hadricks. Hadricks. I don't know what the real answer from the joke answer is anymore. It's Hadrian, and it is Westphalia. Oh, I said Winnebago again. Winnebago is the joke answer that's wrong. Fuck! Oh, my God. Okay, what were you trying to say to me? Which one came first? Chicken. Vaccines or batteries? I'm thinking batteries, because I remember some bullshit about there being an ancient Egyptian urn that they had somehow rigged up with electric eels, but I don't know if that was just a joke or something, but I remember that being a thing. So I'm going to go with batteries because I believe in an archaeological excavation of some type.

26:32They did that. I think you're right. I think Cleopatra got bit on her boob by a snake, but she thought it was an eel, and she thought she was supercharging herself to get a real good amount of work done that day. Yeah, that's what people used to do with radium. They used to have, like, these radium devices that they would put in their water to be like, Radioactivize your water to energize you through your day. Do you want to lock that answer in, Mark? I'm going to log it in, yeah. I really, I thought, anyway, that's incorrect. I'm sorry. This one is very close. I feel like this one is, I would be curious about more detail on this one because what I have here is that in 19, nope, not 19, In 1796, Edward Jenner used cowpox material to create a vaccine for smallpox.

27:171796. And then, great name, Alessandro Volta, obviously, invented the battery, which was originally called for some reason an artificial electric organ. Very concerning name. In 1800. So those were very close together. But I don't know. I'm curious what you what you read about the archaeological thing I'm sure that there's something there because I'm sure you read it or it was in like a you know YouTube video or something And you were like wow, that's crazy. Yeah, it's probably not real Well, they built those really dark pyramids They probably had battery-powered flashlights where they just tossed an eel in a metal vase.

27:55We're like we could see Oh, I thought I thought dark pyramids like on the outside like pure black pyramids I'm like what alternate reality pyramids have you seen man? Baghdad battery or Parthian battery is a 2000 year old artifact consisting of a clay jar a copper cylinder and an iron rod on earth near the ancient ruins of Tessiphan this primitive galvanic cell can generate a small electric current when filled with acidic liquid is that real that is a wikipedia entry for a thing called the quote Baghdad battery uh but like there's no way that they were generating electricity with it on purpose because they didn't would not have known what electricity was or was it was probably something where it was like well if we put all this shit in a jar and fill it with with water and lemon juice it's tingly when you drink it yeah that's probably what it was it's just like it's very tingly oh that's how they made surge so so you're not crazy you didn't hallucinate that it's just like there's no way it was being used as a battery For battery purposes Yeah I'll leave it up to some audience member Who knows way too much about this To be like no Mark's vindicated And then we'll forget about it but they'll be all like He deserves his point Oh there are theories that it was possibly An electroplating setup Which would be fucking crazy Whoa Apparently a researcher Or historian in the 1930s Working in the Iraq museum Observed a number of very fine objects from ancient Iraq that were plated with very thin layers of gold.

29:28And there was speculation that something like this, this pot with the, with the galvanic cell that they found was potentially used for electroplating, which is a thing I could totally see you discovering sort of like accidentally, you need to understand what electricity is to be like, well, if we do this, it plates shit in gold because that's pretty sick. Did they use Capri Suns for cooling? I mean, almost definitely. They grabbed a Capri Sun out of the crafty cooler and slapped that bad boy on there to make sure that their Galvanic cell could adequately gold plate their statue. I can't wait to tell you about my next crazy build project that I have, but I can't talk about it yet.

30:09It's going to be psychotic on another level. People don't know my crazy yet. I'm going to give you half a point for fascinating knowledge, Mark. Okay. All right, cool. Hey, Baghdad battery. Well, I don't know if they had capris over there. What was the headdress called? Animes or something? N-E-M-E-S? What's that called? The headdress that they wore in Egypt? I can see the word. I don't remember how it's pronounced. I think. I'm way wrong. Maybe it's a nemesis. A nemesis son? Nemesis son? A nemesis son? You alright? I'm fine. How are you? Talking about your nemesis son? Yeah, my nemesis son. What a bitch.

30:41Hate that guy. What a bitch. What a bitch. Harsh. It's just a son, man. He didn't do anything to you. You don't know that. He's my nemesis's son. What a bitch. Are you Quackerjack? Quackerjack, that bitch. Is this because Quackerjack? Fucking Quackerjack. Yeah, he hated his son, too, but they're still both my nemesis. Honestly, yeah, that seems like a villain nemesis. I could get that. It's like a villain from Darkwing Duck. Always putting the peanuts where they don't belong. Wade, you are using one of these things right now, and I would wager that you've never used the other one of these things in your entire life.

31:18Testicles wait you've never used your testicles or maybe I'm using them right now. You don't know which one it is I hope it's not that second one you said okay wait which came first microphones or Dishwasher I feel like microphone. I think people have been using some variation of microphones for a while Unless unless you count people as dishwashers man people probably wash dishes for a while but I know not this is a thing where you don't have to wash the dishes because the dishwasher washes the voice a device so that feels like a 40s 50s type of thing right like the dishwasher microphone probably older microphone locking it I'm so locking that in microphone I am locked no doubt this is my vindication how many coin flips can a person lose in a row I can tell you something about that alright this is another one that's surprisingly close But I'll start by saying you're correct, Wade.

32:18Microphones were invented first. Yes! Shortly after the invention of the telephone, Emil Berliner created a transmitter amplifying the noise and thus created the first microphone based on the technology that was involved in the first telephone in 1876, while Josephine Garris Cochran submitted her patent for the dishwasher a mere 10 years later. 1940, I was right. In 1886 was the first patent for the first dishwasher. But it doesn't matter because you were right. Microphones came first. I mean, I want to be all the way right, but I'll take my answer being right. Mark, you use both of these things.

32:56I'm fairly certain. Not anymore because you fixed your eyeballs. But I think you have used both things. Which came first? Contact lenses or escalators. And I don't know why I said it like that. It had to have been a hint. There had to have been a hint in there. Escalators. You said later. He emphasized later, which means that it came later. Or he doesn't mean the stairs. He means people that escalate things. No, no. Esca from the root Latin word Eskimo, meaning cold as in you're cold, you're cold, you're not hot if you're picking this one. Yep. Cold and later, he's giving me subtle hints that this one not later is in farther away.

33:34It's farther from the right answer, which is contact lenses. And also that'd be more surprising. So I'm going to go with that one. Mark has finally discovered the real game here. Mark finally properly interpreted the clues I have been leaving in each presented question. And of course, contact lenses were the first invention. Mark is the only one who understands what's happening here. Can I have a fresco? Contact lenses. The first ones were made entirely of glass, which sounds just awful. Yeah. were invented in 1887 and four years later Jesse Reno hell of a name invented and showed off the first prototype of an escalator at Coney Island what a time to be alive when you go to an amusement park you're like you guys want to ride to sit sit there or do you want to go up the escalator so much fun shit at this place there were a few like early roller coaster or amusement park things where like the spinning discs on the floor where you just you lay down and it kind of just moves you at random god help you if your clothes get caught in one of those and no matter how stupid it is because i'm an adult and i i know how to get off an escalator every single time i'm on an escalator i'm like oh but what if i what if i move my foot too late and what if my foot gets sucked in at the end of the escalator and what if i get shredded into spaghetti on the escalator and then i'll be spaghetti for the rest of my life which won't be very long the spinning discs on the ground thing looks like a fucking nightmare it looks like an on-purpose meat grinder for humans there was an incident a few years ago where a lady i think it was another country that was like china or something but she stepped on like one of the metal plates past the escalator but the walking path and i think like her leg got caught because it wasn't actually where the things meant to be it was like the plate collapsed i think her leg got pretty fucked up she might have even died i don't remember but no matter how many escalators i go on every single time i'm like god don't get sucked in don't get sucked in pull your pants up don't have saggy pants this is not a good place for that wait this one is tricky which came first matches or lighters it's a tricky one