The Perfectest Crime

20 Jul 2026 · 1 h 14 min · 24 chapters

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In short

A “perfect crime” deduction game in a square room using blacklight clues, where two rival detectives (Bob and Wade) must build the correct heist/murder story in order.

Guests/backgrounds

Markiplier (YouTuber/streamer, plays “Markiplier” as a character/host of the game), Bob (Wade’s rival; “Bob” is one of the detectives), Wade (another detective/rival). The episode is presented as a Distractible-style interactive roleplay.

Key claims (final integrated solution)

The culprit breaks into the ambassador’s home with a crowbar, steals money and a blue crown, and uses a shovel and “perfect poison” to kill the target. The money is shrunk (shrink ray), stored in a freezer, and later expanded (growth ray). The culprit infiltrates a White House gala posing as the blue prince, kills the Red Queen, then uses the resolute chair/desk as part of the escape and hides evidence (including cash in the chair). Wade is implicated via glowing hands; the culprit is also framed as a pervert via glowing stains.

Notable examples

plastic-wrapped cash in the freezer; dirty shovel and battered crowbar; “From the White House” engraving on the resolute chair; burnt money in the fireplace; ledger signed “GWB”; employee IDs naming Wade/Bob; growth/shrink rays; “fart chair” red-herring explanation.

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Chapters

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Setting the Stage for the Perfect Crime

2:18 to 4:30

Markiplier introduces the concept of the perfect crime and the role of detectives.

The Perfect Crime Unfolds

4:30 to 6:44

Markiplier describes the setting and tasks for the detectives in the game.

“are you boys ready yes i want you to close your eyes mine Wait, wait, what the fuck?”

Detectives Search for Clues

6:44 to 10:05

Bob and Wade take turns looking for clues to solve the mystery.

“It is up to you to differentiate the method from the madness.”

Formulating Theories on the Crime

10:05 to 14:01

Bob and Wade develop theories based on the clues they find.

“You've got things that you can detect with, right?”

The Sapphire Crown Heist

14:01 to 15:15

Learn about a fictional heist involving a sapphire crown and an ambassador.

Unraveling the Mystery

15:16 to 17:18

Explore how the clues unfold in the narrative of the perfect crime.

“Okay, so am I repeating what Bob said about the ambassador?”

The Perfect Poison

17:19 to 20:04

Discover the concept of the perfect poison and its role in the crime.

“But Bob, I don't think that's the full story.”

A Conspiracy Unfolds

20:05 to 22:59

Delve into the conspiracy involving the White House and the perfect crime.

“where'd the ballpoint pen come from i would who doesn't have a ballpoint pen everybody's ball it just it's just he's in the ambassador's house he was like oh cash cash pen cash cash that's your first warning.”

Point Scoring in the Crime

23:00 to 23:49

Learn about the points awarded for uncovering clues in the storytelling game.

“his crimes, but the entire force of the U.S.”

The East Room Revelation

23:50 to 27:59

Experience the suspense of flipping the light switch and revealing clues.

“Yeah, I flip it really fast without looking at anything.”
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The Setup of the Perfect Crime

28:00 to 29:18

Learn about the amusing setup and motivations behind the blue prince's plot.

“This is like, this is apples to apples and that's the Cards Against Humanity version.”

The Comedic Execution of the Plan

29:18 to 31:29

Discover how the blue prince's chaotic actions led to unexpected outcomes.

“And so it wouldn't be weird at all for him to do it now as a fully grown adult man or woman.”

The Revelation of the Crime's Clues

31:29 to 34:55

Explore the various clues and their implications for unraveling the perfect crime.

“After all that, the criminal positioned our bodies for us to wake up in the chamber.”

Investigating the Scene

34:55 to 36:56

Follow the characters as they investigate the scene of the crime and uncover more clues.

“Poison, crowbar, shovel, money, crown, chair, glowing hands, Bob Stain.”

The Shrink Ray and its Implications

36:56 to 41:06

Delve into the discovery of the shrink ray and its role in the crime.

“Wade was actually one of the guards because Wade was already secretly stalking the criminal and has not revealed that yet.”

Final Investigation Under the Body

41:06 to 42:00

Conclude the investigation by exploring what lies beneath the body.

“My glowing hands, Bob's glowing chin, I thought a red herring.”

Investigating the Clue

42:00 to 44:30

The hosts explore a mystery involving a shovel, a ledger, and a crime scene.

“It's different than the concrete or the rest of the area.”

Crafting the Perfect Crime

44:30 to 47:38

Discussion about the elaborate details of a fictional crime involving former President Bush.

“It's a perfect cry All right, so I'm deducting a point because it was out of the time for your glowing mouth and Wade's glowing hands.”

The Theories Unfold

47:38 to 50:45

The hosts present their theories about the crime based on discovered clues.

“I have the hole, and now I have two pockets.”

The Perfectest Crime Explained

50:45 to 56:00

Final conclusions and explanations about the convoluted crime, tying up loose ends.

“I think the only other thing I haven't looked over here is the fireplace.”

The Perfect Crime Discussion

56:00 to 1:03:35

The hosts engage in a whimsical discussion about an elaborate and convoluted fictional crime story.

“My glowing hands or a red herring as initials that could point to me.”

Wrap-Up and Scoring

1:04:09 to 1:10:00

The hosts wrap up the episode, discuss scoring, and reflect on the game experience.

“So I was like, ah, what if they're both going nuts trying to come up with what the perfect crime must have been?”

The Perfectest Crime Result Discussion

1:10:00 to 1:12:19

The hosts discuss the results of the storytelling competition and Wade's victory.

“I will say, Wade, you had a very concise storytelling.”

Reflections on the Game Format

1:12:20 to 1:12:41

They reflect on the format of the game and potential improvements for future episodes.

“Even when you play a tabletop game with very strict rules, there's still times we have rules interpretations.”
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1:58sucking ass to extensive notes. Yes, it's finally time for the perfectest rhyme. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Welcome everybody to Distractable. You read the title correctly It is time For the perfectest crime I've been working on this For a very long time I actually Man, I can't spoil it You don't even know who I am I'm Markiplier Inventor If you're watching this in the future In some historical archive Of the greatest podcast episode ever made Which is only this episode It's me, the creator of the world changing it either brought world peace or it destroyed everything even more than it already is me markiplier legendary host of the future greatest episode of distractible that ever existed especially your podcast nickname in the future mark the creator apply the legend that's pretty good yep i'm gonna give you both point for uh for uh kiss ass sucker i'll give suck it ass his ass point you did wait you get a suck ass point oh hell yeah I'll take what I meant just sav just sav what the fuck I'll address it in small talk alright that's good uh well too bad you guys there is literally no time for small talk this is going to be such a dense episode that there will not be an opportunity to discuss your lives because your lives are now on the line oh also also it's bob and wade for anyone also the future historians that are watching this yes it's the legendary participants the legendary the legendary other two guys also known as and friends for all time it's bob middle name my skins what's your middle name martin wade wade barnes do you not want to reveal your true name no i don't want people know and george is my first name that'd be helpful i know the the audience has been excitedly waiting for this to happen but i think wade and i are at least 60 as percent as excited as the audience is to see what exactly this is about to be well bob i work in fractions but that probably adds up to the percent you were talking about six tenths sir yeah i don't like to condense are you boys ready yes i want you to close your eyes mine Wait, wait, what the fuck?

4:43Sorry, you can keep yours open The ones on the front of your face, yes Everyone at home, you don't have to close your eyes Especially if you're driving, like, please keep them open Unless you want to really see what excitement is You gradually wake up from a drug-induced sleep You can't see It's currently dark everywhere Even if you were to open your eyes You closing your eyes right now is not the same as in the room. You could open your eyes, but just you can't see right now Suddenly a speaker crackles overhead and you hear the following Rise and shine Rise and shine I have to ask you A question If a tree falls in the forest and no one is round to hear it Then does it really matter?

5:37Who is holding the axe? You see, I have a problem. My crimes have become too perfect. No one will ever know. I am. Surely I am not perfect. Is that even possible? I am a criminal. I have perpetuated chaos. But if no one knows, why then would I even do it in the first place? But that's why you're here. Look around the room. In this place. I had committed the perfect crime. You don't even know what you lost. But you will if you are as good as this. Say. If you're not. Then no one will ever know of my crimes. And I was too. Perfect. Solve the mystery with the clues I have left you detectives. Some of them may be true.

6:42Some of them may be false. It is up to you to differentiate the method from the madness. But look carefully. Trust nothing. Trust everything. Can you really even trust the man standing across from you? Perhaps only the most perfect detective could perpetrate the perfect crime. Good luck, detectives. And act quickly. Time is against you. You open your eyes. You're in a room. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. And across from you, you recognize each other. The two greatest detectives in this day and age. You both are rivals, V-ing for the top spot, always at each other's, you know, backs, you know, trying to solve the biggest mystery.

7:39You've got, oh, you can pick your own, I guess, detective names that didn't really come away. Schmenwash Malonk, you know, and then... Wade. Oh,

7:53it's I'm Schmenwash Blonk. You could be whoever you will. You could be Bob, I guess. I wasn't claiming that one. But you're the greatest detectives that ever lived. You find yourself in a square room. And how this is going to work is I'm not going to describe what's in the room. Right now, what you guys are doing is you are going to take turns looking around the room. I will tell you where you have to pick a direction to look. North, east, south, west, wherever. And I will tell you what's in that direction. And then you'll differentiate the room. It'll be like segmented off like that. There's north stuff in the north store from the east south and west And then in there you can then search in Something in that area or look somewhere in there and you'll find a clue And once you find that clue you will then weave that clue into the story of what the crime is You don't know what the crime is You don't know how it was made But you're gonna figure it out because you're the greatest detective to ever live in also You're trying to beat the other guy, right?

8:56You want to be better so each of you is gonna take turns the only rule is That you have to end your rant with don't you see? It's the perfect crime That's what you have to end it as right. I write that down. You're gonna write that Don't you see

9:18Okay Now here's the thing this guy the person who left you go or girl or whoever or thing or monster or entity has is so good at crime this is legitimately the perfect crime they have laid the clues out in the exact order that they knew you would find it in they knew you so well that they knew which clue you'd find before so you have to keep the clues in order and you will be using the other person's clues that they find you don't know who this is you don't know what the crime even is you You have to start from scratch, but assume that you are equipped with some basic detectiving things, magnifying glass.

10:02You've got a fingerprint kit for all the good that'll do you. You've got, you know, a notebook. You've got things that you can detect with, right? Okay. Does that all make sense? Yes. Yes. Now, I'm going to flip a coin, and I'm going to determine who's going to look and find the first clue. Heads is Wade. Dale Bob. Oh! Good job! Tail Bob! Okay. Alright, so Bob, once again, square room, northeast, south, and west. Look in a direction, and then you'll see something. I'll tell you what's in there, and then you can look for one clue. And you can keep going until you find one clue. Now my mama. Mama Spock.

10:44No, I'm not fucking committing to that for the whole episode. God, I do not have a southern accent that I can do for that long. I just don't. Yeah, I know, I know. That's very good. Anyway, I'll do what Chmenois would have done anyway. I feel like I have to look south. Everything always starts in the south. Along the south wall is a half kitchen. There's a fridge, a sink, a stove. Well, just a cooktop. And like, I guess you could call it like a kitchen countertop with drawers. You said there is a fridge, right? Yeah. I have to start in the fridge. Learn a lot about a person from the fridge. Okay.

11:22Gotcha. Fridge or freezer? Oh. Yeah, if it's a top and bottom, you gotta go freezer first on top. That's where the sketchy stuff goes. You open up the freezer and you find a plastic-wrapped bundle of cash. $100 bills in stacks. And now I have to formulate my version of what the crime was? Yes, yes. That's your first clue. It's all clear now. It's all coming into focus. Don't you see? the criminal stole this cash. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. I understand. All right, Wade, your turn. All right, so Bob and I are rivals. We are opposite of each other. I'm smart. He's stupid. I'm fat. He's bald.

12:11And Bob started in the South. So in order to be his polar opposite and be a true rival, I'm going to look at the West Wall. Wes That threw me for a second Okay, alright In the west, you see A small science Looking setup There's beakers and chemicals bubbling There's like a table there With drawers as well And then there's a standing wardrobe Cupboard looking thing And do I know Bob's clue? Am I allowed to use his clue? Yes, yeah, you're so good You see what he's doing. Okay. You know, you're both, you know, that Sherlock Holmes detective mode thing, you know, piecing it all together. Okay, so whenever I formulate my hypothesis, it has to include his clue, too.

13:00I understand. Um, I'm going to look in the wardrobe cupboard thing. Okay, wait, actually, you have to look left door or right door of the cupboard. Well, I read left to right, so let's go right. Okay, you see a dirty, used shovel. I, Detective Wade, know that the perfectest crime was committed. Money was taken from someone very well off and buried. But our criminal found himself in dire straits, needed to access that money, dug it up, laundered it, and put it in the freezer so we have access to some cold, hard cash. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. Did you really have to check? Yes.

13:42All right. All right. Bob, it's your turn. Well, I have to stay in the South because I'm lazy. let's progress to the refrigerator you open the refrigerator and you see on the top shelf a blue crown like lots of little sapphire gems it's very elaborate the fur lining around it is also blue it's just a weirdly blue crown yes it's all coming together the criminal of course broke into the home of the ambassador not from anywhere in particular just the ambassador it's a known person and went to safe number one expecting to find the sapphire crown of crowns uh but found just a big old box of cash which obviously they took uh they went to safe number two because they had contingencies got it open dirty shovel clearly had been used to hide a body as the ambassador is want to do took it who might need leverage you know only adds to the perfectness of the crime and then as they were on their way to safe number three tripped over the car the crown laying on the floor in the bedroom of the ambassador clearly had been used as part of some sort of role-playing game perhaps with a mistress maybe with who who knows hard to tell anyway that's what they were really there for they snatched the crown and they head in home it's perfect don't you see It's the perfect crime Okay, so am I repeating what Bob said about the ambassador?

15:20Or is that just his? No, no, no, no The clues are what's important Okay, got it How the web is weaved is up to you As the clues pile on You and your genius is gonna call him an idiot And you're gonna figure out what the real crime is I am going to open the other wardrobe Man, you guys are lazy He's just looking in the safe spots. I should who goes to loot something's like I better go across the room before I open the second I don't know. I thought you might have some All right, you know, it's fine You open up the other one and you find a crowbar a battered and used crowbar any any Debris on it or is it just like dinged up the paints chipped up?

16:02It's been it's to indicate it's been used What for who knows but it's clearly been used both ends are used up scuffed. It's old my dear Dawson's I have come up with another hypothesis. You what? Basil of Baker Street from Great Mouse Detective and his associate Dawson. Or Sherlock Holmes and, you know, his... I can't tell if it's a bit anymore. The guy with the creek, you know, Dawson. He had the creek. Yeah, no, I know that one. I'm familiar with that, Dawson. I do like my rival's idea about the ambassador. I'm going to use the ambassador. But the ambassador was visiting a trip to the palace of the monarchy where the blue prince resided.

16:43I'm all too familiar with blue crowns with my time with the blue prince. The ambassador caught our culprit in the act of stealing this crown. In haste, the crowbar used to break into the building was also used to dispatch of our poor ambassador who was loaded with pockets of money. The ambassador was taken, buried in a hole, money removed from his pockets, shoved into a freezer. So that way, whenever our culprit needed access to cold, hard cash, it would be cold. It would be hard and still cash. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. I do see. I do see. But Bob, I don't think that's the full story.

17:25No, no. I see something very different happening. I stand up from the refrigerator, slam it shut, gasp, and then run with my arms flailing over my head to the west to see what the hell Wade's looking at. There's a science table, lots of science stuff. There's chemicals in beakers. There's drawers, a stack of drawers. And then there's the cupboard. The cupboard is open. Wade is standing in front of it, holding a shovel and a crowbar. So I just start rummaging through the vials full of chemicals to see what's going on with those. What's being concocted, you have deduced with your detective's eye, is one of the most deadly poisons known to man.

18:07Silent, tasteless, odorless, almost the perfect poison, if not the perfect poison. What we're uncovering this far is only the pre-heist to set up the heist of all heists. We're not even talking about the real crime yet. So clearly, so I think I was generally right about the first part. The crowbar was used by the criminal to make entrance into the ambassador's home. The cash was just picked up. Ambassador is known to carry cash. The criminal just, like a video game, just went around picking up piles of cash and then wrapped it, put it in the freezer just in case. And the shovel was found in the safe as described, clearly leveraged over the ambassador.

18:52And the blue crown maybe was found in one of the safes. Maybe I misread that, but the blue crown is the key. The blue crown was taken and is going to be used or was used, I guess this is supposed to have been perpetrated, it was used by the criminal to gain entrance into the gala. The criminal posed as the blue prince, who we all know and have so much experience with, and I have just as much, if not more experience than Wade with, because he's a liar and he exaggerates. Criminal posed as the blue prince and bought a small pen, ballpoint pen filled with this tasteless uh odorless perfect poison so that he could sneak into the gala sneak up to the red queen blue prince's own mother jab her with the ballpoint pen unbeknowingly to her or anyone else and then slink away as the blue prince is known to do he's a slinker and our criminal slunk away back to his hideout and as perfection dictates the queen died sometime later where no one could even understand how it was she came to pass damn that's crazy where'd the ballpoint pen come from i would who doesn't have a ballpoint pen everybody's ball it just it's just he's in the ambassador's house he was like oh cash cash pen cash cash that's your first warning.

20:23You added a clue that wasn't there. I'm not going to deduct anything, but yeah, that's your first warning. Alright, maybe it wasn't a ballpoint pen. Am I allowed to say just that it's an implement? Maybe that will come up. I hope it's a fountain pen just to spite you. Oh, wait. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. Alright, very, very good. Wade, uh, Bob is in the west. Yeah, well, it's time for me to move. We're going to go north.

20:54I laughed because I thought that's where I was and then I thought for another second it was like nope that's not where I was I thought he was just trading spots with me but I'm just an idiot I'm going north on this wall and swapping with Bob to look at the poison In the north wall there's an elegant armchair there is a fireplace and there is a really really nice old wooden desk I'm the ballpoint pen. It's a really nice armchair too, I guess. And a really, really nice. They're all really, really nice. I'm going to start with the armchair. He just wants to sit down. I see. I know. You look closely at the armchair and you notice an engraving on it that says, From the White House.

21:42See, there's no name for the chair at the White House, but you know. The White House chair. The White House armchair everyone knows the White House armchair wait, I recognize that chair is that the chair that goes with the resolute desk? Yes, it is the chair that goes with the resolute desk. It must be called the resolute chair Yes, it's the resolute chair aka Ben Franklin's ass warmer Yes, yes, yes, you found the resolute chair this fits into my narrative so well our culprit went to break into the palace to steal the blue crown from the blue prince he was caught ambassador or other one grabbed a nearby shovel which is always all over the palaces as you know or crowbar i'm sorry crowbar is what he used also all over the houses when he broke into the palace hit the witness over the head had to drag him out bury him empty his pockets one thing he didn't count on was that his chair, the ambassador's chair, had an engraving from the White House.

22:45Our culprit in committing the perfectest crime was also unraveling a conspiracy involving the White House trying to get this crown for themselves. Fearing for his life, he took the money he had, stored it in his freezer, knowing that not only was he about to have the police after him for his crimes, but the entire force of the U.S. government to conceal their part in this. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime Alright If you haven't counted on I'm giving a point for every time You end it with don't you see It's the perfect crime and then I I would deduct a point if you've Missed any of the clues So I'm keeping track of it There are now six clues on the field And there was poison Oh fuck you missed the poison I called it out before you did There was poison He told it himself I caught it Nope, you'd already said Don't you see, it's the perfect crime But don't you see, it's the perfectest crime No, no, no, no, that's not it That's not it Okay, good, alright, delightful, Bob, your turn I'm gonna go to the only other place that we haven't checked out yet Just out of pure curiosity I go to the east Alright, in the east You see a door there is a keyhole and there's a light switch Well, I know if I go and peer into the keyhole so i'm just gonna stab me in the eye So i'm gonna check out the light switch All right, okay The only thing you can do this with the light switch is flip it.

24:15So are you flipping it? Yeah, I flip it really fast without looking at anything. I just start going Eventually my wrist gets tired and it's kind of like And then I give up what you're seeing is the lights go out But instead of being total darkness, you see a purple glow emanate in the room. And you see the fraction, for a fraction of a second, you see weird shapes. And like, you know, things glowing here and there, but you're like... And then eventually you settle with it off, and you hear the following message. Congratulations, detectives. I didn't expect to take you that long, but I would have been more disappointed if you didn't make it a whole.

24:55Like a baby, learning to walk. But now it's time to run. You didn't think it was just one step, did you? I'm afraid there are layers. And now you must weave the story of my crime together. Take the clues that you had and add them to what you see. But the real question is, which step came first? Did you start at the beginning? Or did you start at the end? The only way forward is to discover more clues. I've left you everything you need. More clues. More bloody hearing. I truly hope to see you. On the other side. But if I don't, then it only proves my point. Or maybe I'm already seeing you right now.

25:50So, in the darkness, there's suddenly these strange glowing spots around the room. In all the four cardinal directions, on the floor, ceiling. Are they moving? No, so they're just like static spots all around. No, they're not moving. Everything's still static. Nothing's changing. There's not like, you know, a baby mobile of lights going around. It's just everything's static. It's black light, so it would reveal certain things. I changed pants. That's true. You guys haven't looked at each other yet. Can I perceive anything or are they just purple spots? Are they like too far away or are they? You still have to look in a direction.

26:34So as soon as it goes off, wherever your head goes first, that's where you're going to. Oh, I immediately look towards Wade when the lights turn off because I panic and I'm pretty sure he's the criminal. He's just going to kill me. All right. So Wade is up north. Well, I guess that wouldn't matter. You're looking at Wade. I guess it wouldn't matter where he is. Yeah, I mean, like I start flipping the lights. And when I realize I'm like, Wade, and I stare at him. Yes. Wade's hands are glowing. Interesting. They just do that.

27:06My immediate suspicion is because I know that black light reveals bodily fluids. Wade must have been touching himself. But then I realized that's not what we're doing here. That's not what we're doing here. That's unrelated. He probably was, but this is something else entirely, obviously. So what happened was the criminal is not Wade. For$5, I'll show you the perfectest time. This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT 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.

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28:03That'll be a sequel to this game. That's like the adult version of it. This is like, this is apples to apples and that's the Cards Against Humanity version. Our criminal used the crowbar to pry open the safe in the ambassador's house to get the blue crown for the purposes of posing as the blue prince. The blue prince, fake blueprints, our criminal was planning to attend on that very same evening, the gala at the White House. As we all know, the White House has lots of galas. This is a totally normal thing for White Houses to do. And the blue prince had a plan to murder his mother, the Red Queen.

28:50And so he took his stealth shovel, the size of which we have not yet discussed, and coated the tip of it in the perfect poison that he had, hence brewed and brought with him in a tiny vial. And so the criminal, across his back, strapped his widely known tactical shovel that he was want to carry around, especially to galas blueprints with his blue crown and his tactical shovel made his way into the white house. He sauntered up casually to the red queen, made sure that he happened to just like be a little rowdy and turn and bump her and cut her right on the arm with the edge of his tactical shovel, which was the thing that he had done many times as a child.

29:34And so it wouldn't be weird at all for him to do it now as a fully grown adult man or woman. I guess it is Blueprints. I mean, probably whatever. So anyway, the poison was thus delivered. And it was at that point that the Blueprints needed to make an escape and needed to do so in character. And the Blueprints is known for stealing something from every party that he attends. And so the Blueprints just started rummaging around. and at one point picked up a crowbar. No, I used that already. Why did I do that? That's exactly not what I was leading towards. Rummaging around, had a seizure for a second, looked at a crowbar and changed his mind and then sat in a chair and declared loudly for the entire gala to hear, this is my chair now.

30:23I sat in it and I farted in it. And so it is mine. This is how we claim chairs in my kingdom. so it is mine and the blueprint snapped his fingers and two royal guards came in and without the blueprints getting out of the chair they picked up the chair and the prince and unceremoniously carried him out of the gala and everyone was kind of like god i fucking hate that guy and his mom was like i know i know but we have to invite him i'm john i did my best and everyone kind of looks at her and is like yeah yeah and anyway so that's how we got the chair but the chair having the criminals fart freshly upon it was placed in our chamber here and while we were unconscious purely as a red herring and because it was pretty funny the criminal farted a whole bunch more into the chair and then took wade's hands and just went and so the reason wade's hands are glowing is because they have misleading fart clue all over them.

31:26Do farts glow under blacklight? Oh, wait, sorry. You're not done. After all that, the criminal positioned our bodies for us to wake up in the chamber. And right as they were about to leave, and certainly not as an afterthought, they looked at the chair and thought, oh, that's weird. It felt a little pointy when I sat on it. And they sort of looked and there was like a cut in the edge of the upholstery and they peeled it up. And there was just a cube of cash in the chair. They didn't even expect that to happen and they're like oh shit Oh god and they just took the cash out of the chair and stuck that in the freezer because they were like who would look for clues in a freezer And so that's why the cash was in the freezer.

32:02Don't you see? Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. Alright there you go That's the stuff I think you got everything. I'd almost I gotta be have a better system of tracking the items And I'm gonna put in a time limit on your deductions because why would you do that? to make it harder on you yeah after my turn just you wait yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna put a two minute timer on this from here on out alright Wade Wade it's it's uh it's your turn is anything glowing in my area the north wall so you look there no there's nothing glowing I can tell you that but also I won't let that consume your clue I hadn't thought about that part of if you could look where there's something not glowing.

32:48Okay, I just wanted to see if there was something, I was going to investigate something if it was, but since I'm over here anyway, even though it's not glowing, I'm going to take a look at the desk. Take a look at the desk? Okay. It's too dark to see anything. Is that his clue? No. Well, I'm just letting you know. Blacklight mode is like a different mode for the room. Okay, so we can only investigate things that are glowing when it's in blacklight mode? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Would it help if I told you where, like, some general No, you'll figure it out. You keep looking. You stumble around in the dark.

33:20I am currently on the north wall. I'm going to move toward the nearest glow, whether it's up, down, or at another wall. They're all equidistant. I move toward the one on my left. If you're facing shelter. What is the second direction? East. Okay, all right. It's the fucking door and the light switch. Why are you following me? Get the fuck out of here. Is there any kind of glow from the keyhole? Can I look through the keyhole? Nothing. Is Bob glowing? You're looking at Bob? Is that your thing? Yeah, if I can see him, yeah. Bob has stains down his chin, corners of his mouth on his decolletage, top of his shirt a little bit.

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34:03So the clue is Bob's glowing mouth area. Our culprit broke into the White House with a crowbar, planted the crown of the blue prince, and stole money to send a message and to leave a mistrail of motive. The actual target in the White House was killed with an untraceable poison, then taken out, buried with a shovel. The money, then taken and put into the freezer. Kept his cold hard cash for later. I thought my glowing hands were going to be a red herring. But whenever I looked at my rival and saw that he had a glowing nasty face, I understood that not only was it not a red herring, but our glowing hands and mouth face were actually part of a bigger clue.

34:43Our culprit is not only committing the perfectest crime, but they're a pervert. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. Did you forget a whole bunch of shit? Are you done? I think you forgot a whole bunch. Poison, crowbar, shovel, money, crown, chair, glowing hands, Bob Stain. I didn't know all those things. Wait, was the shovel used? The target was killed with the poison, then buried with the shovel. I think yeah for some reason in my head I was trying to keep track of it but you're so quick so I only need to give you guys one minute perfect that's great I don't know we're gonna keep adding things to this okay Bob I head back to the kitchen to see if there's anything glowing to look at over there is the is there anything on like the stovetop that's glowing there because you've looked in the fridge the fridge is open and there is a glow in the fridge oh I peek back in there.

35:38It says look in the cupboard. Do I get to do that or is that the whole clue? That is that's the problem there. I see there the problem is In the same continuous motion. I don't stop at the fridge I see that it says that and I go oh and keep scooting right on over to the cupboard I think yeah you should be able to you should be able to you should be able to do something so I feel like that's like a special thing. Like, I'm not choosing to do that. I like triggered a trap card and now I'm like, oh, in the cupboard. It says, look on the ceiling because the cupboard is open. You guys conveniently did this in a way, I think.

36:18And then you obviously continue to look up at the ceiling and it says, look under the body. Oh, I look at the floor to see if there's a body? Too dark. We don't know where that is, do we? Do I get to take any additional actions? Okay, alright. I'm gonna go ahead and say you would turn the light on, because you're like if you're following the traces, like ping pong, ping look down, and you can't see it, so you would go turn the light on, right? Then you see on the floor in the center of the room, which has been there the whole time, is a body. We're not very good detectives. I knew that was a mislead.

37:03I disregarded it off the rip yeah me too both of you dismissed it as too obvious perfect crime wouldn't leave a body clearly it's a alright I'll give you one minute the criminal clearly brewed the poison coated the edge of the shovel broke into the ambassador's house stole the cube of money and the blue crown put on the blue crown and the shovel to pose as the blue prince got into the gala at the white house accidentally bumped into Red Queen with the poison thus killing her much later sat in the resolute chair to make the escape. Wade was actually one of the guards because Wade was already secretly stalking the criminal and has not revealed that yet.

37:41And that's why his hands are all colorful. And that's also why my mouth is colorful because once we were here, the chair was here, Wade was here, the criminal was here, the shovel was here, and the criminal had used a crowbar to knock me unconscious. And then when I was still unconscious in the room, they wiped my face all over the fart chair because they thought that would be really funny. which it was to be totally fair and then they took the body of the other guard and laid it in the middle of the room don't you see it's the perfect crime I'll give you that one just because I think I started a little late so I think you had a little extra time for that oh man can't wait to squeeze in more than that in one minute alright the story is really gonna have to get tighter I see I see I see okay does that mean just for clarification does that mean the body you investigated it there so or is there somewhere to see I have not looked under it we just learned that the body is there I'm counting the body is a clue and then there's something else watching Bob when the lights were turned off did it seem like he went to most of the lights I couldn't tell you that yeah but I will okay I'll say you've got vastly more things you haven't seen with the light on than with the light off alright you don't say I'm gonna go back to the north wall.

39:01There's only one thing left to look at there, right? I think I looked at the desk, right? There's a couple things. You looked at the chair. You look at the chair. You couldn't look at the desk because it was dark. You tried. It was dark. Okay, I want to look at the desk now that the lights are on. You'll notice that there are two drawers on the side of the desk. That's of the thing of note. The other thing of note, it's also the resolute desk. It's actually the resolute desk. I will pick the closest drawer. The one closest to the front. They're top or bottom. So it's like drawer one or drawer two.

39:33Closest to the front? What the fuck? Top drawer. Drawer one. Okay, one. Okay, drawer one. Okay. You open up drawer one and you see what appears to be a shrink ray. Okay. Don't laugh. Don't laugh. It's a clue. This is a very serious crime. Well, just the description of what appears to be a shrink ray has me. I'm not calling you an expert in metaphysics or whatever it would be that actually applies to a shrink ray. But in your eyes, you're like, huh, I've watched Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. That sure looks like a shrink ray. As a swift action, can I try to use it on myself?

40:16You know, my game didn't account for that. But, you know, I say why not, I guess. All right, boom you shrink it is in fact a shrink ray everything that was I guess previous height is now out of reach

40:33Yes, but you could see under the desk I guess Maybe there's nothing under there don't even bother looking our culprit broke into the White House with a crowbar Planted the blue crown on the resolute chair, but stole money to give motive Money that was in the Resolute desk. The actual target was killed with the poison, undetectable. The body, taken, buried with a shovel. This vast amounts of money were shrunk with the shrink ray in order to compact it down in order to get it back out. Then put into the freezer. My glowing hands, Bob's glowing chin, I thought a red herring. But culprit, also a pervert.

41:12Did he use the shrink ray for more? I think we're onto something. We're going to find out what's in that other drawer and to find out exactly what he shrunk other than the money itself. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. I love it, but I'm gonna give you one warning, because all you did was mention Bob's glowing mouth and insinuate something. Gotta tie that in. Gotta tie that in harder. But I'll give it to you this time. All right, Bob. I have to look under the body now, right? I did all of that. I have to look under the body now, so. You roll the body over. You notice multiple things. He is still wearing pants.

41:52You see two things that seem to be in his front left and front right pocket, but also underneath him, you see a hole with a mound of dirt that is clearly has been dug up. It's different than the concrete or the rest of the area. It's like a freshly dug pile or maybe freshly buried something. Which of those things is technically the clue I need to concern myself with in crafting my new story? I don't know. I think you can choose one to investigate if I had to guess. You can probably investigate the hole or one of the two pockets. Wade could then make a stretched out dive for the other thing, I guess, if he thinks it's going to be worth it.

42:34Is the shovel within arm's reach? I'd like to take the shovel and start carefully without touching the clearly poisoned edge. start digging up the whole the disturbed earth thing to see what the hell's going on in there you dig it around you shove it around and you go tink that's not right until you start digging out you pull out a uh a a ledger right like it's a ledger of documents that look like financial documents and as you start flipping through you notice that the numbers don't add up it's all nonsense and every single one of them is signed with the initials GWB. Okay. I know what happened.

43:203, 2, 1. Our criminal used the crowbar to break into the ambassador's house and break into safe number 1 and steal a cube of money and break into safe number 2 and steal the blue crown and then break into safe number 3 and steal the ledger. And the ledger was swapped out because GWB, of course, is Grace Whittingham-Bellworth, the name of the accountant for the ambassador. Then, posing as Blueprints with his poison shovel, he goes into the gala at the White House, bumps into a queen, red queen, kills red queen, realizes halfway in that one of the guards has realized his mistake, kills that guard with the shovel as well, but beats him to death really quickly, Uses the shrink ray he always keeps in his back pocket To shrink that guard down and hide him in the Drawer of the resolute desk Sits on the resolute chair and makes a whole stink about it And gets his guards to carry him out in the resolute chair on the way out And he's like, I need the desk too, the desk matches I get the chair and the desk, and he takes the resolute chair And the resolute desk with him as they leave And And he did the thing where he shoved my face Into the chair, I had that last time already Alright Almost, almost, almost Don't you see?

44:31It's a perfect cry All right, so I'm deducting a point because it was out of the time for your glowing mouth and Wade's glowing hands. I didn't catch either of those. He carried him in the chair. Does that not carry over? Okay. I was presuming it was the same story as last time, but I didn't say it that time. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't specifically called out, so I'm going to deduct a point for that. So you just lost two points on that one. All right. I like the sequential number of safes that just had all the valuables in it. There's a lot of ambassadors have lots of safes. Everybody knows this. All right.

45:07All right. Wade, your turn. Yeah, I'm starting to write a novel here. Trying to remember all these clues. Okay. I'm going to check drawer number two. Wait, you can't reach it. I climb up the leg. All right. Okay. This is actually going to work out really well for you. You open drawer number two. Man, you guys are so sequential in your things. You find what appears to be a growth ray. Oh, wow. Look at that. You're lucky I didn't make one of these a gun. You're like, I'll test this on myself. You go, oh, thank goodness. After struggling to open the drawer, you only opened it a sliver because obviously you couldn't have opened it all the way.

45:45You climbed into the drawer. You're like, oh, thank goodness. You somehow managed to, because there's probably a charge up sequence. I'm giving you this one. You press the trigger, runs over towards the barrel. Hit me, baby! Hits you. You're inside the drawer. You blast the resolute desk into pieces as you get splinters all over your body. But you're, hey, you're big again. Can I use a bonus to shrink the splinters so they hurt less? No. All right. Theory time. Oh, no, no, no. Not, hold on. Phone, not you. not you not phone lady theory with a ph hey theory three two one go former president george w bush broke into the white house where he used to live with a crowbar and planted a blue crown on the resolute chair near the resolute desk but stole a ledger that was there to cover up his crimes the accountants that had found the ledger was using it was then killed with an invisible poison body was taken and buried with a shovel the money was shrunk with the shrink ray put into the freezer where it was then expanded again with the growth ray because there's just so much money my glowing hands were a red herring as are the initials that could point to me gwb when in fact means president bush they were coded while i was unconscious to throw off my idiot rival who also was a victim himself because our culprit was also a pervert hence the nasty stains and glowing white all over his chin, mouth, neck area.

47:16It may be a bit disgusting and convoluted, but don't you see? It's the perfect crime. Nailed it. Nailed every facet of it. That's one beautiful point for you, man. The growth rate at least fit in with my, he shrunk the money. You know, it all ties in. It all ties in. I like it. It makes a lot of sense. All right, Bob, back to you. I'm still over the body. I have the hole, and now I have two pockets. I reach for the body's left pocket on my right. So like they would put their left hand in their left pocket. I wrote this specifically. In the left pocket, there is a fake ID, a fake employee ID or fake credentials for a man named Wade.

48:06Is it an ID, like just a driver's license or like an identification for a certain place? Uh, it's an employee ID. So all it has is a name. It doesn't have a picture. Okay, but we just don't know what is an employee for, like what business or anything. I didn't think that far through, man. Oh, okay. Sorry. I apologize. Wait, hang on. Let me reveal something to you. I didn't write the crime, guys. Oh. I didn't write the crime. Do you think that was a correct answer that we were building toward? Yeah, do you think that there's a... that I've got a right answer that you guys are going for? No. That's not the point of it.

48:41It's just a tag that says, My name is Wade. Yes, that's what it is. I work at business. Okay. Three, two, one, go. Criminal used the shrink ray to break into the ambassador's house, shrank the front door, but used the growth rate to grow it back up so it fit back in, shrank the door on the one very large safe out of which they withdrew a ledger signed by Grace Wittenham Bellinghaus and replaced with a forgery, the block of money and the blue crown they take the blue crown they put put coat the shovel and poison they friend they go as the blue prince into the gala at the white house kill red queen they realize while they're there that one of their two guards they brought with them is famous detective wade and realize they're gonna have to deal with that on the way out so they're in there they do the kill mom they do the whole thing they sit in the chair and they make a whole stink and they take the chair and the desk with them and on the way out uh as they're outside Finally alone he looks at the blueprints looks at his two compatriots and is like who are you and one of them has an ID that says wait on it So he kills that one and he shriek raised the body and then they get back here and he growth raised the body So that is the normal body and then he takes my unconscious face and wipes it all over the fart chair And then also wait hands are glowing because of the fart charity touched it a lot.

49:52Don't you see it's the perfect crime Oh God that's so hard to do fucking hell I don't know man I don't know I can't confer I need to Did you use the crowbar In your Cause that used to be the safe thing and you did The shrink ray on the safe door instead of The crowbar I think you missed the crowbar I have if I'm gonna be honest I was gonna have him kill Not Wade with the crowbar and then Use the shrink ray but I just said He killed him and didn't say That he killed him with the crowbar So I did intend that But I did not say it We gotta stop self-reporting, Bob. I'm here to play to win, but only if I can win fair and square, okay?

50:36I don't want a cheap win. I'm gonna give you the point for Don't You See It's a Perfect Crime because my timer's a little, you know, early for you guys, so, uh, but I'm gonna deduct a point for the crowbar. Back to Wade. I think the only other thing I haven't looked over here is the fireplace. The desk is done and gone. I'm gonna look at the fireplace with two reasons. One, it's not been investigated into to burn out the splinters inside of me because wood is flammable. You know what else is flammable? Hopefully not my glowing hands. No, to say the human body. Oh, well, I'm hairless, so I'm not too worried about that.

51:10Alright then. In the fireplace you see the remnants of burnt pieces of money. It's burnt all over. It's like someone shoved in a giant brick of cash into this fireplace. but burned it. Okay. This fits into my narrative. Just give me a moment to figure out how and where. There's so many elaborate steps to the perfect crime. It all fits together. You're the greatest detective. You can piece the puzzle. I understand. The pieces, I see the numbers around me, the equations, they're all starting to blend. I think I'm ready for this. All right. Three, two, one. The perfectest crime wasn't always intended to be the perfectest crime, but it was a response.

51:58For you see, former President George W. Bush's money was taken and burned by his former accountant as a warning that he knew what Bush had done. So, Bush broke into the White House with a crowbar, planted the blue crown on the chair, stole the ledger covering up his crimes. The accountant, both for knowing and for doing what he had done, was targeted and killed with a poison, his body taken and buried with a shovel. The only thing left other than the crown was the Wade name tag to lead away for Mr. Bush with another W name. The money was shrunk, the money not burned, the money taken from the White House, shrunk, put in the freezer, where it was then reversed with the growth ray because there was so much of it.

52:37My glowing hands, red herring, as are the initials that could point to me. They were coated while I was unconscious to throw off my idiot rival, but revealed our culprit was a pervert when I saw his glowing chin. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime. I think you got it. When Wade does it he's talking slowly And it feels like he has an hour and a half And when I do it I feel like I can barely Get three sentences out Before a minute is up what the fuck Okay so Wade Or no sorry Bob Well I have to look at what's in the right pocket I guess You're not gonna look it It's an employee ID With the name Bob Fuck I don't even need time to think I'm ready All right, here we go 3, 2, 1, go!

53:23The criminal was breaking into the ambassador's house They used the crowbar to break the front door They get inside to go to the one very large safe They used the shrink ray to shrink the door on the safe They steal the large pile of money, the ledger To make sure nobody knows how much money is missing And the blue crown, they return to their base They don their shovel coated in poison And their blue crown opposes the blue prince at the gala at the White House They go to the gala at the White House And on the way in, they realize that one of their bodyguards they've hired Is a notorious detective But he can't quite figure out which one it is on the way in, bumps into mom, poisons a red queen, red queen later dies.

53:52That's the real goal here. But then to get away, sits in the resolute chair, makes a whole stick and is like, I need this chair! And the guards carry him out and that's why Wade's hands are glowing. And then he's like, I need the desk too! And they take the desk with him. And as they get outside, when they're finally alone, he looks, he says, I know one of you is a great detective. Wade! And Wade takes one of the two IDs he has in his pockets. What's this, Bob? What's this, Wade? He puts it in the other guy's pocket and the other guy's like, wait, wait, that's not mine! And then the criminal kills the other person and that's the body, they shrink the body and they bring it back to the headquarters, it's the, don't you see, it's the perfect crime!

54:23Holy shit. I got bad news, Bob. I don't think you, I don't think you burned the cash. Oh, yeah, I forgot what I was gonna do about that. Wade did that. I, oh, what is even left to investigate? There's a lot of stuff left, dude, there's so many things we haven't looked at. Yeah, there's multiple drawers, there's multiple surfaces, uh, yeah, there's a, There's the rest of the kitchen. Yeah, that's where I'm going. I might have to throw out all these clues, everything but the kitchen sink. Perfect. In the kitchen sink, you notice there's something shiny in the garbage disposal. You fish your hand in there, brave as can be, and you pull out an expensive looking watch.

55:06Engraved with the initials. BMM. Got it. Three, two, one. go! Former President George W. Bush was taking care of Bob Mr. Marley's money and it was taken and burned by his former accountant as a warning that he knew what President Bush had done. So Bush broke into the White House with a crowbar, planted the blue crown on the resolute chair next to the resolute desk, but stole a ledger to cover up his crimes. He let the pocket watch, with the initials BMM on it, to betray his accomplice. The accountant was targeted and killed with poison his body taken, buried with a shovel for what he had done.

55:47The only thing left other than the crown was Wade and Bob name tags to call out us, the world's greatest detectives, to dare to try to solve this crime. The money was shrunk and put in the freezer where it was then re-enlarged with the growth ray and used with the shrink ray before. There's just so much money. My glowing hands or a red herring as initials that could point to me. They were coated while I was unconscious as was Bob's face covered in glowiness because the culprit is also a pervert. Don't you see? It's the perfect crime! Was the money burned? I think so, yeah. George Bush was watching Marley's money, then it was burned by the accountant.

56:16Oh, you're right, you're right. That's so true. That's so true. I apologize. That's on me. I don't know if my story makes any fucking sense anymore, but god damn, it's my story. Look, the crime is so convoluted, so deep, so multi-layered that it makes sense only when you see the full picture. Oh, you like Bob, Mr. Marley? I couldn't think of anyone with the initials BMM other than Bob. Oh, I can't think of one person with the initials BMM. I can't imagine why I asked Bob what his middle name was. God, I put so many clues to try to pit you against each other. In both of the messages, in both of the audio messages are like, how do you, can you trust the other person?

56:55You're guys like, nah. I don't. No, clearly you do. His mouth is dripping with blood. His hand, your hands are covered. Yes, blood. Yes, yes. It didn't have to be semen. It didn't have to be. It could have been blood. I didn't think about blood. All right, Bob. Last, last look. Okay. You've almost got it all. You've almost got it all. Am I allowed to go to the east and try and open the door? Yes, you could try, but it doesn't open. It is, in fact, locked. Can I peer through the keyhole or is it not that kind of keyhole? You can look through the keyhole, but all you see is just an empty hallway.

57:41I mean, there's stuff we have not explored in the kitchen, I think, possibly. But is there anything on the body I have yet to explore? You set up the two pockets and the hole. There was no other evidence of anything on the body. I didn't. Unfortunately, I didn't plan and everything for that. So what you have is the there's still drawers in the science area. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the stovetop is also not. Yeah, there's the cooktop and then there's the kitchen counter with like one. There's one drawer in the kitchen counter. Yeah. I want to go to the science and look at the drawer, like the top drawer.

58:20Do you open the top drawer? Oh, God. No, I mean, I'm just laughing because I don't know how the fuck you're going to do this. You find a green sultan's cap straight out of Agrabah, like sultan green. It all makes sense. It all makes sense. Got it. Three, two, one, go! The night before the perfect crime, Wade burns the money of the criminal in an attempt to stifle him, but the criminal would not be stopped. The criminal and Wade, as an accomplice, use the crowbar to break into the ambassador's house. They go up to the safe and use a shrink ray to shrink the door of the safe, removing the money, the ledger, so that the money is secret, and the blue crown.

59:01They then take the blue crown and the poison shovel to sneak into the gala at the White House. I sneak up next to mom boom poison mom's gonna die later but the prince has realized that one of his two accomplices is Wade but that's why Wade stuck a name tag with both his and his rival best detective in the world name in the pocket of the other guy then prince sits in the chair makes a big stink claims the chair has his guards carry him out in the chair and says also bring the desk so they bring the desk uh when they get outside he confronts his bodyguards and says one of you is a detective and looks to their pockets and no matter what he finds in the box of the one guy it says one of our names so he kills that guy and Wade helps him kill that guy that's why Wade's hands are glowy and then they shrink that body and they put it in the desk and they bring the desk and the chair back to the hideout and then they bun shrink the thing and oh something else oh yeah don't you see it's the perfect crime i definitely forgot something there fuck did you remember to fart your face yeah he didn't you didn't get your glowing mouth uh the expensive watch and i think the newest edition the green sultan's cap i just have the clues like listed out with little notes of what like i did that too but i can't i didn't write them in the order that i'm telling the story so the moment i have to jump around it's like okay well i've never fucking fighting my place back on the list of shit i have in front of me i just say we didn't do small talk but i was in the hospital for three days immediately preceding this can i just throw that out there with no context i'll give you a hospital point i was literally in the hospital friday night through yesterday afternoon.

1:00:30Oh, I didn't know that. You okay? I'm fine. I just can't remember this stuff in the lingo we're doing. I was in physical therapy literally yesterday. Does that count? No, no other small talk will be allowed. All right. Last clue. I'm going to look at the stove top. You're going to look at the stove top. Okay. So in a pan, there's a lidded pan. I'm just going to say you open you open it right i lift the lid in the pan is a burnt phone a burner phone but it's burnt i thought that was funny okay whatever fuck fuck i'm trying to make sure i don't lose any more points well bob you don't have to go again so you're you're you're okay so there's a burner phone that's been burned on the stovetop is that not why they're called that because they're not called to smash with your foot phone okay all right ready wade no let's do it three two one go former president george w bush had bob marley's money it was taken and burned by his former accountant as a warning to show that he knew what bush had done so bush broke into the white house with a crowbar planted the blue crown on the resolute chair and a green sultan's cap on the resolute desk trophies of the many crimes he committed as president but he stole a ledger to cover up his crimes which also left the pocket watch with bmm on it to betray his accomplice marley and point to him the accountant was targeted and killed with a poison uh his body then taken and buried with the shovel he then bush then burnt the burner phone he'd used to communicate with marley to cover up more evidence the only other thing other than the crown uh was wade and bob name tags left to call out the world's greatest detectives to dare them to try to come and solve this crime.

1:02:12A shrink ray was used to shrink the money. It was put in a freezer, then regrown with a growth ray. My glowing hands were a red herring to point to me. Bob's face was all gross and nasty because the culprit is a pervert. Don't you see it's the perfect crime? Wow. Every piece. Everything put together. So is George Bush the culprit? George W. Bush is the perfect criminal? George W. Bush is the perfect criminal. He's gonna think it. He's gonna do it. Is it senior or junior? I don't even know. I didn't expect you guys to narrow it down to an actual suspect, but I love it. So this last message might not make sense, but here we go.

1:02:51I know this isn't the outcome you wanted. But the crime was rigged from the start. There was never a world where you could actually solve my crime. It was perfect for me to give you anything less that perfection would be a disservice to your skills. I know this burns in your heart. I know you regret the mistakes you've made. And I know you strive for perfection to beat me. Just as I once did. But I warn you, the road to perfection is long and arduous. If you were to ever attain perfection, you would become just like. This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast.

1:03:41Have you guys heard about ChatGPT 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. I fucking love the image of George W. Bush sitting on a laptop in his ranch in Texas just like this is gonna make him so confused all right well done well done guys well done you have not quite solved the perfect crime but Wade you got really close I'm gonna he's gone well what thing my microphone oh no all right well the wind's almost oh the episode's almost over all right uh i guess uh that that'll wrap it up i'll say before we go to the wheels or anything um well done that was very experimental i tried to plan a lot that a few things obviously didn't quite work out but i think at the end the objective that i wanted was there which is you guys kind of going crazy with clues, I realized that I wasn't smart enough to come up with actually like a super well-written contrived perfect crime.

1:05:10So I was like, ah, what if they're both going nuts trying to come up with what the perfect crime must have been? I think what I should do in the future is, because it's kind of like all these things are just things that are kind of random and could point to anything. So why don't I just actually make it random? I'll have locations. I imagine it's like cards or like clues in the location it's like a different version of clue and then people are piecing it together and then people can play it it's like they have to make their clues make sense or everyone's clues make sense but anyway so it needs tweaking though but i did this this acts as a copyright for the perfect crime no one can take this idea from me i'm on this i'll see you it was a really fun time i know i sound like shit but it was a good time however the stress of trying to remember and get all that shit out under a minute fucking i gotta figure out an easier way for you guys to like get the get the items and all the different things but i i mean honestly it does need to be like cards that would really help if it was like i could have a hand of cards and i could put them in an order so that i could be like this one and then this one and then that because that was i was not able to remember that yeah yes no that would that would be huge yeah i have two and a half pages of notes i do too it didn't help well i had all the clues like kind it together with a little snippet of like what i wanted to put but i have a bunch of bullshit scribbles and what it goes on and on it's a bunch of nonsense uh but well done guys um yeah that was that was super fun so uh any any bounties i guess is being in the hospital a bounty that's not a thing is it you know what's really sad is i had one i was gonna do but i didn't actually accomplish it during the episode there's a wheel spin thing that's like most recently hospitalized i think is what I'm thinking of.

1:06:54That's not a bounty. Yeah, I don't know if we want to strive to be the most recent one in the hospital. Look, I want to get paid in distracted points if I'm going to have to do it either way. Well, alright, if there's no bounties, then we're going to go right to the score. So, each of you, basically, I gave you the point for doing the don't you see it's a perfect crime at the end. So, you both got seven points from that. You both got a suck-ass point. Wade, you got a point for write that down, which I thought was funny because you wrote down, but then both of you were running down uh blueprints i give you a point for that when i was first adding points for things like that and there was too much to keep track of i couldn't add points in the middle of everything that was a nod to blueprints right like yeah yeah it was it was kind of like the implication that made me happy yeah yeah so uh and then minus one for um you missed poison so that puts you in nine uh bob you had the eight mama schmlank made me laugh real hard then unfortunately you started losing a lot of points you uh you got a hospital point but you lost a total of seven points that sounds right for forgotten an item throughout so you you netted two points uh in this game going into the final round so really it's anybody's game anybody's game it is always anybody's game be really sad for me and really funny for the content if golf rules cropped up now.

1:08:16Alright, how many spins will we have? Just one. It wants us to do three. Alright, three it is. Okay, let's add in, um, uh, kissed the judge's ass the most. Literally or figuratively? I feel like if you did that literally, you get the, you win that one. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But I don't think that's likely to happen. It's figurative until literal. Spin number one of three, shall we?

1:08:48shortest wade congratulations you get that point all right it's just winding it up for golf rules on the third spin spin two of three come on baby give wade some more points doing best on new year's resolutions how you guys doing on those yeah wait not great for me because i have had the knee injury so i've not been walking yeah well i was hospitalized for a foot injury so the walking thing has been real hit and miss but i have i have walked 105 miles so far this year i think that beats mine i'm probably at like 20 something and that's only ones where i've officially tracked as a workout so that goes to bop so number three this is where golf rolls hits more viewers just give a point to viewers you know Oh, ah, TMI point.

1:09:41I don't think anyone's really done anything TMI this episode, so let's re-spin that one. Re-spin that. Oh, I need to pee and my balls itch. Is that TMI? That's a pretty normal amount of I for this setting here. Best mental image. Okay, so we have... I have to pee and my balls itch. No, no, no, no. I'll rank this by the other one. I will say, Wade, you had a very concise storytelling. Bob had the gala had like the the the shrinking and growing of the doors and there was there was a lot more I think Going on Bob is a better storyteller than me. I would say he probably created the best imagery So with that we have a final score of 10 to 4 Congratulations, Wade You are the winner of the perfectest crime.

1:10:34What do you have to say? I don't know what to say. Looking back, I don't know when I recorded the Going Nuclear episode, but since the middle of May, this is only the second time I've won. I've had a hell of a bad streak. But you know what? I'm bald, back on top, and I'm going to host the next episode. These things are facts. Couldn't have said it better myself. Bob? I think the actual perfectest crime that took place here was that Wade won this, and I still think there was something crazy happening with time and time dilation and some bullshit because I swear to God, I could not have talked faster.

1:11:12And Wade told his story like he was falling asleep the whole time. And I don't understand how you did that. It doesn't make sense metaphysically to me how you did that. It seems like there was something crazy happening and I am not going to say the word. It triggers the thing, but it just seems crazy. I will admit there was a point in Wade's stories where I only had like four boxes checked and he was halfway through his time And I'm just like there's no way he'll get this and then it was like and then he just said like one sentence where every word was a clue And then it was like oh, okay I buried the burned body while the money shrunk ray grow ray Fraser here are some things I saw while committing the crime drink ray growth ray desk chair body Anyway, that was very fun.

1:12:00I'm glad that worked at least somewhat there's some problems with that if I ever do this again for the perfect to stir crime and then obviously the perfect death to rest crime. I will improve upon the formula or do something completely different. Who knows? Maybe I'll maybe I'll abandon this completely. It's very tabletop. Even when you play a tabletop game with very strict rules, there's still times we have rules interpretations. That's all we had. It was well done. You did a good job. But I hope you all enjoyed it. I certainly did. It got I think it could get even crazier towards the end there if I tweak some things here.

1:12:34I don't want it too much. I gotta take Excedrin after this. But thank you all so much for listening and watching. Follow the podcast to stay up to date on all of our episodes and be sure to check out these guys on their various platforms wherever they may be. LordMinion777 Minion777 or my screen for Bob over there. Me, Markiplier, this has been Distractable. Podcast out.

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